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Issue May 2008 By Jennifer Rosinski
The Massachusetts Bar Association and its Lawyers Eco-Challenge partner, the Conservation Law Foundation, will honor four law firms for exemplary leadership in greening the practice of law at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, during a reception at the Salem Waterfront Hotel.
“It’s with great pleasure that the MBA honors those lawyers who took steps above and beyond those outlined in the MBA Green Guidelines and implemented their own unique ways of preserving the environment,” MBA President David W. White Jr. said. “These firms have taken it upon themselves to come up with new ways to practice with sustainability in mind. They are an example for all of us.”
The event, which will be held after the MBA’s House of Delegates meeting, will honor: Borchers, Ware & Guglielmo in Medway; Milton, Laurence & Dixon in Worcester; McRoberts, Roberts & Rainer LLP in Boston; and Modern Times Legal in Cambridge. All four firms have taken extraordinary steps to minimize their office’s impact on the environment.
More than 50 lawyers, firms and organizations from across the state that have signed the MBA Lawyers Environmental Pledge, which asks attorneys to implement the MBA Green Guidelines, will be recognized at the reception. The pledge was announced in January, four months after the MBA and the CLF launched the MBA Lawyers Eco-Challenge and established the Energy and Environment Task Force.
“It is energizing to see our state’s legal community, from the largest to the smallest firms, taking action to become better environmental stewards by adopting common sense changes that will protect our environment and help combat global warming,” said CLF President Philip Warburg. “I hope that other Massachusetts professions will follow this great example so that, together, we can build a cleaner, healthier environment for future generations.”
Lawyers who sign up become pledge partners and agree to adhere to the guidelines, which offer suggestions for altering behaviors and updating products in eight areas of sustainability: energy conservation, paper reduction, recycling, greenhouse gas reduction, environmentally conscious purchases, sustainable practices, education and support for environmental conservation.
The most recent participants signed the MBA Lawyers Environmental Pledge on Earth Day, which was April 22: the Boston firms of Brown, Rudnick, Berlack, Israels LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP. They join other major Boston firms, including Burns & Levinson, Holland Knight, Seyfarth Shaw and WilmerHale. The remaining signers include mid-sized and small firms as well as solo practitioners across the state.
According to Joseph F. Ryan, CEO of Brown Rudnick, “We are pleased to be a signature firm of the Lawyers Eco-Challenge. We applaud the MBA for raising awareness within the Massachusetts legal community of the need for environmental and energy conservation, and for taking definitive steps toward uniting local law firms against global warming.”
Brown Rudnick partner Nancy B. Reiner is co-chair of the MBA Energy and Environment Task Force, a group of more than one dozen attorneys working to further the MBA Lawyers Eco-Challenge.
“We are very pleased with the steps the Massachusetts Bar Association has taken to encourage all firms in the state to do their part to be more environmentally friendly,” said Jay Farraher, shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Boston office. “The attorneys and staff in our Boston office have been working hard to do their part to conserve resources.”
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Three bidders for Panamá metro airport extension
Thursday, October 4, 2018 11:03 AM - Panamá City, Panamá
Metro de Panamá announced that three companies presented their technical and economic proposals for the Line 2 Branch Project which will connect the Superior Technical Institute of the East (ITSE) and Tocumen International Airport (AIT).
The three bidders are the Consorcio Línea Aeropuerto (OHL-MOTA-ENGIL), Consorcio Línea 2 Ramal and Acciona Construcción.
The bidders presented their technical and economic proposals which must have 510 and 490 points respectively. The winner of the tender will be the bidder which will have the highest total score, formed by the technical and economic points. The technical aspects will be analysed by the Evaluation Commission, which has a period of 30 days to deliver the report, as well as the possibility of requesting an extension of up to 20 additional working days.
The winner will have 28 months to complete the 2-km Line 2 extension to the airport. The contract includes design, civil works, auxiliary line installations and stations and the integration system with the existing metro network. The integrating rail system will be contracted separately by Metro de Panamá to ensure they are fully compatible with the Line 2 systems.
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Review - A People's History of Christianity
The Other Side of the Story
by Diana Butler Bass
Harper Audio, 2011
Jul 5th 2011 (Volume 15, Issue 27)
Butler Bass says her inspiration for her book A People's History of Christianity is Howard Zinn's A People's History Of The United States, a work well known for giving a new perspective. Zinn gives a social history, focusing on the experience of those whose voice is not often heard. She is an advocate of a liberal Christianity, which she calls generative Christianity. She is disappointed by the official history of the Christian Church, which she calls "Big C" Christianity -- it is the story of a church that perpetuates gender division, promotes war, and helps those in power keep their power. That's a side of her religion that she has little time for, and she even agrees with Christopher Hitchens in his judgment that "religion poisons everything," when that's read as a description of the main church. However, she argues that there's another side of the story to be told, and this is much more palatable. She still supports Christianity, especially inspired by the words of Jesus, which focuses on love. She argues that there is a history to progressive Christianity, and this is what she attempts to give with this book.
Yet the comparison with Zinn is problematic, because there's not much that is alternative about her history. Most of the people she writes about are reasonably central in standard histories, and most of them are men with power or social status. It there is an alternative history of Christianity to be told, this is not it. At most, it's a fairly standard history with a slightly different slant, focusing on aspects of people's ideas that don't always get much attention.
It is a patchwork approach divided into five historical periods: Early Christianity, 100-500; Medieval Christianity, 500-1450; Reformation Christianity, 1450-1650; Modern Christianity, 1650-1945; and Contemporary Christianity, 1945-now. Butler Bass writes about her own experience, scholars she knows, and modern events, and the tone of the book is conversational. There are 28 pages of notes (not included with the audiobook) and there is a Study Guide that is also available online. The unabridged audiobook is performed by Karen Saltus, who keeps up a good level of energy throughout, although I was never able to warm to her voice: you can a sample of her reading on the publisher's webpage for the book.
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Christian Perring, Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, New York
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It's official: Foxconn will get $3 billion to build a plant in Wisconsin
by Julia Horowitz @juliakhorowitz September 19, 2017: 5:11 PM ET
Foxconn deals around the world haven't materialized
Wisconsin's Foxconn deal is a go.
On Monday, Gov. Scott Walker approved $3 billion in incentives for the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer to build a new plant in the state. The hefty gift, which was first announced in July, was hotly debated by state legislators before they gave their approval last week.
"We are honored Foxconn chose Wisconsin, and I'm grateful to [Foxconn CEO] Terry Gou and the members of both parties in the Legislature for all they have done to make this historic event a reality," Walker, a Republican, said in a statement.
Foxconn has pledged to invest $10 billion to build a factory that makes LCD screens. The facility is expected to create between 3,000 and 13,000 new jobs and should be up and running by 2020.
The deal has been touted by President Donald Trump, who has referred to Gou as "one of the great businessmen anywhere in the world."
But in Wisconsin, the agreement's price tag has made it controversial.
Related: Wisconsin's handout to lure Foxconn is contentious
The annual payout to Foxconn will be between $200 million and $250 million, according to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
That means the state will pay between $15,000 and $19,000 dollars per job per year, assuming 13,000 positions are actually created.
The incentives include up to $1.5 billion in state income tax credits for job creation, up to $1.35 billion in state income tax credits for capital investment and up $150 million for the sales and use tax exemption, according to the development agency.
The typical deal would be closer to $2,400 per job per year, according to Timothy Bartik, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
"[Foxconn is] looking to automate. They're looking to make money. Let's not get lost in the excitement of it," state Sen. Chris Larson, a Democrat, told fellow lawmakers last week.
Ultimately, the Republican-controlled legislature gave its okay. The deal even garnered support from some Democrats.
"Today Wisconsin is officially saying yes to a $10 billion development project, 13,000 careers and new opportunities throughout Wisconsin," Robin Vos, the state Assembly's top Republican, said in a press release. "This law allows the state to move forward on the largest economic development project in state history."
Up next: the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation will negotiate a final contract with Foxconn within the parameters set by the legislation. But the hardest work is done.
The agency hopes to have a contract in hand by the time its board of directors meets on Sept. 28.
In a statement, Foxconn said, "We greatly appreciate Governor Scott Walker's efforts to help us move forward with our plans to build the state-of-the-art advanced display manufacturing campus in Southeastern Wisconsin."
CNNMoney (New York) First published September 18, 2017: 7:12 PM ET
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Cream’s Debut Album to Be Reissued in Four-Disc Deluxe Edition
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Cream's 1966 debut album will celebrate its 50th anniversary a month late with a four-disc deluxe edition set for release in 2017.
The Fresh Cream reissue, which is due on Jan. 27, will include three CDs made up of mono and stereo mixes of the original LP, singles from the period, alternate takes, early EPs, outtakes and BBC sessions recorded around the time of the album's original release in December 1966.
A fourth disc includes Blu-ray audio versions of both the mono and stereo versions, as well as some bonus tracks. In all, the set includes almost 100 tracks.
The entire track listing for the box set can be found at Super Deluxe Edition. Some of the highlights include the A and B sides of Cream's first singles; early versions of the single "I Feel Free" and Ginger Baker's epic drum instrumental "Toad"; and a BBC interview with Eric Clapton from early 1967.
Fresh Cream was recorded mostly in the summer and fall of 1966 after Baker, Clapton and Jack Bruce formed the group. The U.K. and U.S. editions of the album differed slightly upon their release. The U.S. version included the single "I Feel Free" and omitted the band's studio cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful," a song that became more famous for the live version included on Cream's 1968 album Wheels of Fire.
The Fresh Cream: Deluxe Edition package also comes with a book that includes new essays and photos of the band. A six-LP vinyl version of the set reportedly will be released in April.
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The Remarkable History of the Rugged Carhartt Brand
Today, the name Carhartt is synonymous with rugged, durable work clothing. Carhartt has achieved lasting popularity among construction workers, farmers, hunters, and outdoorsmen because of the clothing’s reputation for heavy-duty wind resistance and flame-resistance. The Carhartt brand has proven as durable and long-lived as its clothing.
The Founding of Carhartt
In 1889 in Detroit, Michigan, Hamilton Carhartt set up two sewing machines and a half-horsepower electric motor in a small loft downtown. Hamilton Carhartt & Company was officially founded, but it didn’t see success right away. In fact, the brand was a failure—until “Ham” started chatting with railroad workers about what they expected from their work clothes. The Carhartt bib overall was born shortly afterward, and Ham marketed the label with the slogan “Honest value for an honest dollar.
The Role of Carhartt in the Military
By 1910, the Carhartt brand had expanded considerably. It moved out of the tiny loft in downtown Detroit and into multiple factories around the U.S. and internationally. Carhartt showed its patriotism during times of conflict, committing to “backing the attack.” Throughout World War I, Carhartt dedicated seven facilities to the purpose of creating U.S. military uniforms. During World War II, Carhartt created rugged jungle suits for Marines serving on the Pacific Front. They also produced coveralls for other soldiers and support workers.
Carhartt Finds Its Feminine Side
With so many men serving in the military during World War II, there was an urgent need for women to enter the workforce at home—and a woman’s everyday dresses weren’t necessarily suited to the factory. Carhartt stepped up to fill the void by creating workwear for women. Decades later, in 2007, Carhartt officially launched a complete line of women’s workwear.
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Camden candidates - vote for Green councillors on 3 May
Camden Green Party has announced its candidates for the 2018 council election. Aiming to hold Sian Berry's seat in Highgate and gain more Green councillors to hold the council to account.
The party's manifesto will be published soon, and will see candidates pledging to be a principled opposition on Camden Council, ensuring fairness and transparency, and standing up for council homes, clean air and youth services.
Sian Berry, Kirsten de Keyser and John Holmes, candidates for Highgate Ward, said today:
"We want to thank Camden residents for the many good wished we have been sent ahead of the council election on 3 May. Greens have proven to be the hardest working councillors, and a strong, principled opposition to the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition from 2006 and to Labour who have held power in Camden since 2010.
"Voting Green is even more important this year as we face the risk of a bigger Labour majority or even a one-party state council, which would be terrible for democracy and our citizens. Councils without strong opposition generally provide worse value for money and a study by the Electoral Reform Society showed this costs the public about £2.6 billion a year across the country.
'Your choice in Camden this year is hard work and accountability from Green councillors, or more Labour councillors to add to their huge majority."
To contact our Highgate ward team - email highgate@greenparty.org.uk
For any other questions or to be put in touch with any other candidates - email camden@greenparty.org.uk
Sian Berry
Sian Berry has been Highgate’s Green councillor since 2014. Sian also serves as a London Assembly Member where she focuses on better housing and policing, and worked as a transport campaigner and writer before being elected.
Kirsten de Keyser
For the past ten years Kirsten has been closely involved with political campaigning and civic management, helping to protect and improve Highgate's living environment for all of us.
She is also deeply concerned about the ticking time bomb waiting to obstruct the life choices of our senior citizens, and is campaigning for smart new thinking to be applied to this challenge.
John has lived in Camden since 2012 and – in turbulent times for private renters – is delighted to have been able to stay for so long and make it his home. He joined the Green Party in 2014 out of a sense of exasperation about housing, and is also passionate about the arts, sport and community facilities. John has been co-chair of Camden Green Party since 2015, and his career has involved work in journalism, the charity sector and, for the last seven years, in marketing for classical music organisations.
Dee Searle
Charity worker Dee Searle was a founder of Camden Air Action, which has been instrumental in pushing Camden council to take action on our borough’s filthy air. She helped create the Cottage Garden at Kentish Town Thameslink Station and is attempting to make our neighbourhood generally greener, healthier and safer through the Kentish Town Road Action Group. Dee is a Trustee of GOAL Youth Club, which runs free activities for underprivileged children and young people in nearby Queen’s Crescent, and is a former Trustee of Home-Start Camden. Her past working life includes spells at University of the Arts London, Unicef, Oxfam, Amnesty International and Channel 4 Television.
Kelly Pawlyn
Kelly Pawlyn is a photographer (Kelly Hill) based in Camden where she has lived and worked since 2011. As a Governor at Camden School for Girls she has a particular interest in student and staff wellbeing. Kelly is car free and campaigns for clean air around schools; she helps with the Acland Burghley School Trust; co-ordinates the DPNF website and supports the London National Park City movement.
Charley Greenwood
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Sara Katchi
Sara Katchi is a freelance Healthcare Delivery Consultant and has lived and worked in Camden for 30 years. Sara is an advisor for the NHS Camden Clinical Commissioning Group. She also works as a Public Service Interpreter for the NHS. She holds a masters degree in social policy from the London School of Economics and has done projects about health policy, homelessness and employment. Sara has a keen interest in health policy and housing.
Phyl Eyres
Juan Jimenez
After a rewarding career in academia as a university lecturer, Juan became a freelance web developer. Originally from Spain, he has lived and worked in Camden for over four years.
Robert McCracken
Robert McCracken QC is a leading planning and environmental lawyer and has lived in Camden for over 20 years. He is actively involved in local organisations and is a founder and currently Chair of the Friends of Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Jane-Eve Straughton
Jane-Eve Straughton has worked as an opera administrator for nearly 20 years and is now General Manager for a touring opera company. She has lived in Bloomsbury since moving to London from the Lake District in 1999, except for a 4-year period in Oslo, Norway from 2006-2010. She has a degree in languages (French & Russian), is a practicing Quaker and has served on the Board of Friends House Moscow.
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Rik Howard
Rik Howard is a consultant software engineer. He holds degrees in Mathematics with Computing and Advanced Information Systems from London. He has lived or worked in Camden for 30 years.
Mark Milaszkiewicz
CANTELOWES
Fran Bury
Fran Bury grew up in Cantelowes ward, attended Kentish Town C of E Primary School (where she was later a Governor) and still lives in Camden. She has a first class degree from Oxford, and worked for five years in local government and the voluntary sector before re-training in public health. She is also a director of We Own It, which campaigns for public services to be delivered for people not profit.
Trevor O’Farrell
Trevor O’Farrell has lived in Cantelowes Ward and co-managed South Camden Housing Cooperative for over 30 years. He has worked in independent charity sector for over 30 years in community project management, funding and development, training and as a counsellor for homeless people. His journalistic and filmwork has included: broadcast anti war films/ Irish politics/trade union communications and two Green Party election broadcasts. Interests include social exclusion and its consequences.
Catherine Keshishian
Catherine Keshishian has lived in Cantelowes for 13 years. She is currently a trainee biology and chemistry teacher at a local college - a new career after 10 years working as an environmental public health scientist. Particularly interested in green spaces and their benefits to health, Catherine also works part time for a homeless charity teaching horticulture.
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Helen Jack
FROGNAL AND FITZJOHNS
Charles Harris is a best-selling author and writer-director for cinema and TV, who has won international prizes for his work, including films campaigning for the environment and fair trade in food. He joined the Green Party when it was still the Ecology Party. He has lived and worked in Frognal and Fitzjohns Ward since 1983, taking a particular interest in local affairs and the quality of life in the neighbourhood.
Anton Humphrey
Anton was born in Camden and has lived here for the past 16 years. He has worked in IT for over 13 years, holds a masters in Sustainability and Adaptation and has actively followed environmental issues for over a decade.
Jane Walby
Jane Walby has lived in Camden since 1981 and joined the Green Party soon after. Now retired she worked in Special education and later for children’s mental health charities. She has continued her interest in education by being a governor of a local school. Jane has participated in Camden’s public consultations in mental health and adult social care. After living and working in Uganda and Malawi she is passionate about fairtrade and is chair of Camden Fairtrade Network.
Dominic Kendrick
Dominic was born in east London, and has lived in Camden for the past five years. Dominic is a keen environmentalist and has campaigned in many social justice movements including Camp for Climate Action, UK UNCUT and various cycling related actions. He worked for Amnesty International for five years, and is currently working for the Guardian.
HAMPSTEAD TOWN
Richard Bourn
Richard has lived in Camden for over 30 years and been involved in several local traffic, air quality and conservation campaigns. During much of that time he worked for national environmental lobby groups, most recently the Campaign for Better Transport, a proponent of traffic reduction and better provision for walking, cycling and public transport. Richard is familiar with planning policy and processes.
Michael Pawlyn
Michael is an architect and was part of the core team that designed the Eden Project. He is regarded as a thought leader in biomimicry and is a regular keynote speaker at innovation events. He has lived in Camden for the last seven years and joined the Green Party in 2016.
Ramsay Short
Journalist and writer Ramsay Short was born, raised and went to school in Hampstead, and remains living in Camden over 30 years later. He has worked throughout the world as both a conflict journalist and lifestyle editor, and is passionate about Green issues in particular alternative energy and future housing solutions.
HAVERSTOCK
Mike Sumner
Mike Sumner is a former senior journalist at The Guardian, Telegraph and Times, where he was one of 32 journalists sacked by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s for refusing to collude in his union-busting move to Wapping. He remains a committed trade unionist, which he combines with his love of nature and Green issues. He has lived in Camden for more than 30 years and has been a member of the Green Party since 2013.
Mike has lived in Belsize Park for the past 12 years. An ex investment banker, he made the move to journalism in the drinks trade, championing the burgeoning biodynamic movement across the world. Mike also runs wine tours in the UK and France to promote the inclusive nature of the trade and the collusion in best environmental practices in the fledgeling english wine scene. He also runs a restaurant in Primrose Hill, championing the use of seasonal, organic products.
Pam Walker
Pam has lived in Camden for 40 years and has always been involved in environmental groups . A member of the Green Party for 12 years and an active cycler, recycler, rambler and allotment holder. An artist and retired social worker by profession, Pam is currently involved with a food poverty charity.
HOLBORN AND COVENT GARDEN
Luke Dowding
Luke has lived in Camden for two years and is involved with both local and national issues regarding inclusion, diversity and sustainability. A Trustee of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church on Shaftesbury Avenue, and involved in leadership in a number of LGBT+ charities and faith groups, as well as being a campaigner and fundraiser for LGBT+ rights in Albania. He also carries a breadth of administrative and business management experience from his 8 years of working within the creative industry based in London.
KILBURN
Sarah Nicholl
Sarah was a co-founder of Transition Belsize, a local grassroots environmental group creating a variety of re-skilling projects including a community garden at the Royal Free Hospital. For seven years Sarah also co-ran energy efficiency and draught proofing workshops for residents in Camden and across the UK. She is a Trustee for the Restart Project – a social enterprise sharing repair skills to extend the life of electronics, and currently teaches English and works for a local post-adoption charity in Kentish Town.
Carmen Alcantara
Carmen is a British citizen of Spanish-Filipino heritage whose career has always been closely involved with social justice, improving minority wellbeing and welfare, and promoting equality in the workplace. As a Human Resources Consultant, she has worked in over 30 countries. Previous workplaces have included Save the Children, the NHS and The British Council. For the past 5 years, Carmen has worked as a consultant for an Immigration, Employment and HR Law firm in Kilburn. Carmen lives in North West London, where she ran as Parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in 2017.
Les Levidow
Les Levidow has been involved in campaigns for environmental justice and for Palestinian rights since the 1980s. He does academic research with civil society groups on agri-food issues such as alternative supply chains and agroecological methods.
Nicola Hart
Nicola Hart has lived and been educated in North London since childhood and has always been a strong supporter of green issues, especially since having children. She is a trustee of the health education charity, WiredChild, raising awareness of the effects of mobile phones and phone masts on children. As a documentary film maker she has made campaign films for WiredChild and STAG (Schools Travel Action Group) lobbying Camden council to provide a dedicated bus service for transport to schools. More recently initiated the Dartmouth Park Talks, a series of issue based informal discussions in the local pub and now making a new fermented live drink Agua De Madre.
Emma Barker
Emma Barker has lived in the Kings Cross area for nearly twenty years. She works for the Open University and joined the Green Party in 2015. She is particularly concerned about social justice, and access to higher education as well as the environment. As a keen cyclist, she is also concerned about cycling infrastructure.
ST PANCRAS AND SOMERS TOWN
Tina Swasey
Tina Swasey is a student nurse with a penchant for performing in her local band and is helping out with this year’s Somers Town street festival and volunteers with the charity Eating Together. Tina will focus on representing local interests on air quality and housing issues, addressing social isolation in the community, and getting the best job experiences for locals.
Mark Scantlebury
Mark Scantlebury has lived in Camden for 30 years, where he has brought up his three children. He has commuted by bike for 40 years. He’s always voted Green but now wants to get more involved. His particular interest is in how the money we save into our pensions is invested in things that benefit us all - schools, housing, transport, renewable energy and social enterprises.
SWISS COTTAGE
Sheila Hayman
Sheila Hayman has lived in Camden for 18 years and has been a committed Green for longer. She rides a bike, doesn't fly except when absolutely necessary, and writes and blogs about environmental issues. Her Quaker upbringing has given her a strong sense of social justice and egalitarianism. She also runs a creative writing group at Freedom from Torture where she sees at first hand the consequences of our broken asylum policy. Sheila is an active member of both Transition Kentish Town and the Kentish Town Road Association.
Brian Gascoigne
Brian Gascoigne was a professional keyboard player and arranger for 30 years until retiring in 2006. He has been a life member of the Greens and of Friends of the Earth for over 25 years, and has lived in Camden all his grown-up life.
WEST HAMPSTEAD
Jane Milton
Jane Milton has lived in West Hampstead for 27 years. Working as a psychiatrist has taught her much about social deprivation and injustice. Her passion for the natural world and fear for the fate of our planet began during her Dorset childhood. She supports Amnesty International and Compassion in World Farming, and is an active Greenpeace campaigner. She loves classical music, both as a listener and an amateur player.
David Stansell
David has lived in the West Hampstead area since the mid 1990s. From his early childhood and throughout his life, David has always been committed to environmental issues, particularly those relating to improving global biodiversity, preservation of woodlands and forests, and decarbonisation of our energy supplies. David is a management consultant and runs his own small firm supporting the transition of the energy sector to 100 percent renewables through smart technology. He is a keen cyclist, sports person and cat servant.
Helena Paul
Helena has lived in West Hampstead for many years. A member of the Fortune Green and West Hampstead Neighbourhood Development Forum, she led a project to monitor air quality in 2016. She works in theatre and is an environmental activist on issues ranging from indigenous land rights, tropical forests and oil exploration to genetic engineering old and new, geoengineering, biodiversity, agriculture, food sovereignty and bioenergy. She has written and edited books, papers and articles on a wide range of subjects.
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MSHS Prospector: 2016/2017 Editorial Policy
The MSHS Prospector is the online public forum of Manitou Springs High School. In an effort to maintain journalistic integrity, professionalism, and accurate reporting, the following policies are in place.
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Distribution/Publication: Stories on the Prospector are published on an as-ready basis, and each staff member is responsible for approximately one story per week. A print “Senior Edition” of the Prospector is published at the end of the school year in May and distributed to the student body.
Editorial Staff: The Editorial Staff of the Mass Media Class (which includes the Prospector as well as the Manitou’s annual yearbook, the Warhorse) will oversee operations of the publications and will work to maintain policies in accordance with state, district, and school publication policies. Additionally, the editorial staff will be responsible for choices regarding content, design, and art, as well as story priority.
Members of the editorial staff will include the Editor-in-Chief of the Prospector, Editor-in-Chief of the Warhorse, Photography Editor, Audio/Visual Editor, Chief Financial Officer, and the mass media advisor(s). Note: the advisors function in a strict guidance capacity only, and are not responsible for any published content.
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(1) The general assembly declares that students of the public schools shall have the right to exercise freedom of speech and of the press, and no expression contained in a student publication, whether or not such publication is school-sponsored, shall be subject to prior restraint except for the types of expression described in subsection (3) of this section. This section shall not prevent the advisor from encouraging expression which is consistent with high standards of English and journalism.
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(d) Expression which creates a clear and present danger of the commission of unlawful acts, the violation of lawful school regulations, or the material and substantial disruption of the orderly operation of the school or which violates the rights of others to privacy.
(4) The board of education of each school district shall adopt a written publications code, which shall be consistent with the terms of this section and shall include reasonable provisions for the time, place, and manner of conducting free expression within the school district’s jurisdiction. Said publications code shall be distributed, posted, or otherwise made available to all students and teachers at the beginning of the 1991-92 school year and at the beginning of each school year thereafter.
(5) (a) Student editors of school sponsored student publications shall be responsible for determining the news, opinion, and advertising content of their publications subject to the limitations of this section. It shall be the responsibility of the publications advisor of school-sponsored student publications within each school to supervise the production of such publications and to teach and encourage free and responsible expression and professional standards for English and journalism.
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(7) No expression made by students in the exercise of freedom of speech or freedom of the press shall be deemed to be an expression of school policy, and no school district employee, or parent, or legal guardian, or official of such school district shall be held liable in any civil or criminal action for any expression made or published by students.
(8) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the promulgation or enforcement of unlawful school regulations designed to control gangs. For this purpose of this section, the definition of “gang” shall be the definition found in section 19-2-1111(2)(d)(II), C.R.S.
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The Mint Museum acquires Russell Young Work ‘Nina Simone’
The Mint Museum > News > The Mint Museum acquires Russell Young Work ‘Nina Simone’
September 10, 2018 Leigh DyerNews0
Screen print painting depicts North Carolina native and Hall of Fame inductee.
The Mint Museum has acquired a painting of North Carolinian and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Nina Simone.
Nina Simone is by British artist Russell Young. “Having such a beautiful portrait of a N.C. native who was such a strong African-American woman, activist, and performer will add to our contemporary art collection here. Plus, I think it will be such a popular piece with our audiences,” said Dr. Jonathan Stuhlman, the Mint’s senior curator of American, Modern, & Contemporary Art. He made the choice with former Assistant Curator Adam Justice, now Director of Galleries at UNC Charlotte.
Russell Young was born in 1959 in Northern England. From an early age, he was drawn to the idea of the quintessential “American dream,” which he thought represented freedom and possibility. Known for his bold, iconic silkscreen paintings of pop imagery turned upon themselves to explore the nature of the American counter culture as seen through the eyes of his youth, his bold ground breaking screen print renditions present a visual journey that bears witness to both the excess and ambition that has helped shape the American Dream. His prints are a brooding and sometimes brutal celebration of the characters and events that glamorize and chastise in equal measure. Whether through direct visual reference or by title, the works set out to both assert and challenge our perception and understanding of what it is to be American in the 21st century.
His body of work includes paintings, screen prints, sculptures, installations and film. He has shown in galleries and museums in London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Detroit, Miami and Los Angeles. His work is included in the collections of Aby Rosen, The Qatari Royal Family, Kate Moss, David Bowie, Liz Taylor, Barack Obama, The Albertina Museum, The Saatchi Collection and Brad Pitt.
The screen print painting, embedded with diamond dust, is not yet on view but will go out in the coming months, following a grand re-opening celebration for Mint Museum Uptown this fall; watch mintmuseum.org for updates.
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Marble synonymous of distinction in luxury hotels
Marble in luxury hotels is an essential material.
The use of marble in the architecture has become in synonymous of distinction and elegance, so it is not surprising that all luxury hotels around the world make use of this material. Becoming an iconic and essential component for the hotel architecture.
What is special about this element is that it has an intrinsic characteristic which provides elegant and natural touch to all kind of constructions. The uses of natural stone minimize the damage in the environment, due to is a raw material and product itself.
Its transformation is reduced to process mostly mechanics. It is united to production advances and residue management which made it an ecofriendly product.
Versatility that is given by marble to luxury hotels symbolize a great quality to architects, because it allows to adapt to a thousand designs providing style solutions and techniques that satisfied different tastes and necessities.
Regardless region, culture or place in the world, thousands of luxury hotels structures are companied by this material. We show you some distinguish hotels that use it.
High tech architecture: a new aesthetic that strives for improving the world using technology as an ornament, but taking advantage of its functionality
in Architectural styles, Architecture, Hotels, Public Buildings, Public Espaces
The architectural movement known as high tech is known for incorporating technology into the architectural space, not only as a building element, but considering its aesthetic role, even though it must be pointed out that the technical elements are used not only for aesthetic purposes, but also for functional reasons.
But high-tech architecture, does not only aim at using technology with an aesthetic role, but also exhibits it and this ostentation of technology can be seen as an act of provocation, even of rebellion. In fact, is this ostentation one of the elements that differentiate this stream from the modern movement that precedes it: the “living machine” of Le Corbusier sought efficient design but without displaying the technological components. The high tech movement reinterprets the modern style, providing it with a strong technological image that makes it survive to the present times.
High tech architecture also feeds from the metabolism, a movement of the 60`s where Japanese architects like Kenzo Tange, Kiyonori Kikutake, Kisho Kurokawa and the Archigram group, proposed buildings with futuristic aspects, almost with a science fiction look, showcasing technology deliberately.
High tech takes its name from the book: “The Industrial Style and Source Book for The Home”, published in 1978 by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin, where they put in evidence the attitude of rebellion of the high tech architecture and raise a discussion about its aesthetics.
High-tech architecture reflects the enthusiasm of 70´s for the space race, and in general, for the scientific and technological innovations of the time. Philosophically speaking it happens to be positive and naive at the same time: confidence in this technological progress generates in the architects of this movement the idea that through the use of technology it is possible to improve the human habitat and thus human life on the planet.
In the 80´s high tech architecture evolves in parallel to the so-called postmodern architecture to the point that it becomes difficult to differentiate one trend from the other, but at the 90´s high tech architecture, reemerges with its own identity, with the founding in 1993 of the READ Group, aiming at incorporating the use of renewable energy in architecture. With this evolution, the high tech movement ends up by adopting new names such as eco-tech movement and sustainable architecture.
High tech architects often make use of prefabricated components. Preferred materials are the walls of glass and steel structures. In what has to do with interiors, all aesthetics has to do with industry appearance.
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Minimalism as key of luxury, acoustic poetry and fire
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The pureness of the shapes, a specific characteristic of minimalism, does not conflict neither with opulence nor with design. Indeed, pureness is the intrinsic spirit, which makes each building to be unique. At this opportunity we will be dealing about three more or less high sounding architectural projects, which take an innovative approach within the current architectural trend. The first project will lead us into a singular exuberance, in the heart of the Jordanian desert; the second project will delight our view and our ears by leading us to a unique tour; and the third project will show us that contemporary beauty and urban functionality may join together harmoniously.
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Sustainable Architecture or Eco-Architecture
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Let’s talk about Sustainability, about Sustainable Architecture or Eco-Architecture. We could say that our world it’s divided between those who respect the planet and try to protect it, and those who simply live in it. What makes the difference between them? The capacity of showing solidarity with the place we inhabit, our home. The hard part, as being said lately, it’s to believe in what isn’t obvious, in what we can’t see or prove. The denial of anthropogenic climate change belongs to a skeptical scientific trend that supports the theory of global warming not being the consequence of our behavior.
If we are able to interact with the digital world and to adapt ourselves to the new technologies, aren’t we able to see that each year our planet it’s warmer, or that the ecosystem has changed? At this inflection point, it seems clear that climate change is the result of centuries of biological changes of our planet. On the other hand, it remains difficult to accept that the whole world belongs to us. Many believe that “it doesn’t belong to anyone”, when it actually belongs to us all.
From ancient times, we have been building on this planet with basic materials such as soil, stone and mud. Industrialization came afterwards and now we are going back to the origins: we are building up modern structures as an ecological alternative to help the planet. In that sense, sustainable architecture as an architectural trend itself is leading the design and construction of modern and smart buildings through the new path of eco-architecture. Let’s contribute to build a better world by supporting the role of the architects in their quest to build sustainable projects.
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Natural light at the H10 Estepona Palace Hotel
Reflecting the legacy left behind by the various communities who settled in southern Spain, the H10 Estepona Palace Hotel is built in a uniquely Andalusian architectural style. Its attractive design, the fantastic location on the Costa del Sol and the prospect of an unforgettable holiday make it an essential destination for thousands of visitors every year.
This impressive whitewashed complex stands 90 kilometres from Málaga, in the town of Estepona, in one of the region’s most captivating areas, with endless views over the Mediterranean sea and the enigmatic mountain ranges behind the town. With its contrast between decorative luxury and structural simplicity, this hotel embodies hundreds of years of Andalusian architecture.
The hotel was officially opened in 2004 and has 237 bedrooms, each with its own terrace, two swimming pools, seven meeting rooms equipped with the latest technology and accommodating up to 300 people, a spa area covering more than 1,000 m2 and other facilities designed to offer a top quality service for guests.
Set in lush surroundings of green gardens and palm trees, with the deep blue sea only a few metres away, the grandeur of the H10 Estepona Palace Hotel, with its framework of towers, split levels and balconies, is an eye-catching combination of freedom and nature.
Arcosur Principe Hotel & Spa: where elegance and modernity merge
The Arcosur Principe Hotel & Spa in Benalmádena, in the heart of the Costa del Sol, is the perfect choice if you want to enjoy a holiday combining good weather, leisure and relaxation. From the main entrance, through to the corridors and the guest bedrooms, the hotel oozes sobriety and harmony, combining luxury design and modern architecture.
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Former Trail Blazer and Buck Joel Przybilla retires
By Dan FeldmanAug 25, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT
Joel Przybilla fit a stereotype when he entered the NBA.
A blue-chip recruit, he’d been suspended by his coach at the University of Minnesota. Then, with athleticism on his side, he turned pro early. Painting with a broad brush, he seemed like a high-maintenance and coddled player.
In the NBA, he proved anything but.
The No. 9 pick in the 2000 NBA draft, Przybilla scored fewer than 50 points in three of his first four seasons. In the outlier, he averaged just 2.7 points per game.
Really, that was just a sign of things to come. He never averaged more than 6.4 points per game.
But the 7-foot-1 center kept finding ways to contribute. He blocked shots. He rebounded. He finished near the rim, though in extremely limited usage.
All that dirty work gave Przybilla a 13-year-career, most of it with the Milwaukee Bucks and Portland Trail Blazers. He didn’t play last season, and now he’s ready to hang ‘em up for good.
Charley Walters of the Pioneer Press:
Ex-Gopher Joel Przybilla from Monticello retires after making nearly $45 million over 15 seasons in NBA, residing near Milwaukee.
— Charley Walters (@Charley_Walters) August 24, 2014
Przybilla signed a five-year, $32 million contract with the Trail Blazers in 2006 – a big payday, but a deal Przybilla struggled to justify on the court. Eventually, his contract was used to facilitate the ill-fated trade of Gerald Wallace to Portland from Charlotte.
After just five games with the Bobcats, Przybilla signed for a year with the Trail Blazers and then a year with Milwaukee, where he spent his first four seasons. He didn’t play anywhere last season.
Due to his contract and quiet contributions, Przybilla frequently popped up trade rumors. So, though he found on-court comfort in only two cities, fans all around the league were drawn to him – and we noticed his ability to positively impact game after game.
Przybilla didn’t fit the perception when he entered the NBA, and even once in the league, he didn’t fit the standard profile of a successful top-10 pick. But he was one.
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Damian Lillard on shot to beat Thunder: ‘That was for Seattle’
By Dan FeldmanJul 18, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
Damian Lillard is a legend in Portland. He’s a legend in Oakland.
And now he’ll be a legend in Seattle.
The Trail Blazers star’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer wave goodbye ended the season for the Thunder, who moved to Oklahoma City from Seattle 12 years ago.
Lillard on Sports Business Radio Podcast:
What can I say? That was for Seattle.
Just when I thought Lillard’s shot and celebration were as cold as could be.
Clippers executive Jerry West: ‘I’ve never been around any organization that is better than this one’
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Jerry West played 14 years for the Lakers, making the All-Star game every year and winning a championship in a Hall of Fame career. He coached the Lakers to a few playoff seasons. Then, he ran the Lakers’ front office for 18 years, winning five titles and setting the stage for several more by acquiring Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant.
Now, West works for Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.
West on The Dan Patrick Show:
Steve Ballmer has really put together an unbelievably terrific organization. He’s spared no expense. It’s a really fun place to be. There’s not ego-driven at all. It’s just a fun place to be, and he’s got an awful lot of basketball people over there.
He’s just a great owner and one of the nicest men I’ve ever been around in my life. I’ve never seen a person like this with his success. It’s just remarkable how even-keeled he is. If people knew how philanthropic he was. He keeps all that stuff quiet. I guess he’ll get mad at me for mentioning it. But he’s just a remarkable man himself.
People always ask me what he’s like. And I say he’s just like you and I, normal. I’ve never seen – he’s willing to spend on players. He’s willing to spend on personnel within the front office. And as I mentioned before, I’ve never been around any organization that is better than this one. That’s for sure.
Maybe West is bitter at the Lakers. Maybe West is just gushing about his current boss, because that’s who pays him now.
But the wider respect held for the Clippers is evident in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George picking them without the team first getting an incumbent star. That says a lot about the organization, one that Ballmer has put his stamp on.
This also feels like a shot at the Lakers, whether or not West intended it. Many consider them to be the NBA’s golden franchise.
But their operations have had no shortage of problems lately.
The Lakers would have a stronger relative case further back, when West worked for them. However, organizations generally run better now. The league is more advanced. Maybe West is considering that.
Biases aside, his endorsement of the Clippers might be accurate.
West also worked for the Grizzlies.
Tags: Kawhi Leonard, Paul George
Blake Griffin shows Jimmy Fallon why athletes sound stupid in post-game interviews (video)
Darn if Blake Griffin didn’t just nail this.
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Spencer Dinwiddie: Kyrie Irving tipped me off on his Nets interest in December
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In early December, Spencer Dinwiddie had yet to sign a contract extension with the Nets. Kyrie Irving had recently pledged to re-sign with the Celtics.
But groundwork was already being laid for those two to team up in Brooklyn.
Dinwiddie signed a three-year, $34 million extension later in December. Irving and Kevin Durant joined the Nets this summer.
How did it all come together?
Dinwiddie revealed details of his recruitment of Irving.
Dinwiddie, via The Athletic:
The first time he reached out was probably maybe like December, in terms of just loosely talking about it. Because he’s still obviously super focused on his season and everything. But you could just tell from his conversation that it was a little bit different. It was on his mind. Obviously, free agency was coming up. So, that’s kind of what it was. Just asking a friend about his current situation and what he thought.
Actually, no. It definitely was December. Because he made a comment to me. He was like, “New York might be real fun next year.” Because I hadn’t signed yet. And I was like, “Brother, I don’t know if they’re going to extend me or not.” He was like, “I think New York might be real fun next year.”
At the time, I was like, “You all going to the Knicks. That’s what’s happening. Are you and the monster going to the Knicks?”
That’s when I was first tipped off to the whole thing.
When he made the comment, that’s when I was like, “OK, things have changed.” Obviously at that point in time, it’s too early to be like he’s for sure leaving or he’s this, that or the third. But it’s just like, OK, something happened.
What happened in Boston? That’s the big question Irving has yet to answer.
Irving seemed checked out with the Celtics long before their season ended. It’s fair to question whether he was fully committed to winning with them.
There’s nothing wrong with Irving talking to Dinwiddie about New York as early as December. Irving faced a life-changing choice in free agency. Of course he was going to consider it throughout the season.
But in context of everything else that happened with Irving in Boston, this is more evidence he was pretty set on leaving for a long time.
Tags: Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Spencer Dinwiddie
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title Steve Jobs Theater entry description Looking out over the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino, California at the launch of the iPhone X. about the photographer James Martin is an American photojournalist and the Senior Photographer at CNET News. James began his career as a commercial photographer in California in the early 2000s before turing full-time to photojournalism first with newspapers and print publications, then to online media with CNET and CBS Interactive in San Francisco a few years later.
Over the past 15 years, James has worked up close with covering every major American technology company to emerge from Silicon Valley and beyond, including Apple, Google, Facebook,and Amazon, and the modern culture surrounding the adoption of these technologies and how they impact our world.
From photo features to intimate portraits, and behind-the-scenes looks at the people, companies, culture, and technology changing our world, James has traveled on assignment and worked throughout the United States, Europe, and Africa, including time inside documenting the refugee crisis on the shores of Greece in 2016, stories of landmine removal in Angola and healthcare in Rwanda.
Exhibited widely and syndicated and reprinted thousands of times, over the years, he has extensively explored the stories of the people and places behind our changing world.
A creative director, photo editor, and photojournalist, in addition to his 10 years at CNET and CBS Interactive shooting for publications including CNET, ZDNet, TechRepublic, GameSpot, MP3.com, Last.FM, and TV.com, James has been published in The New Yorker, CNN, CBS News, and Bloomberg. He is currently based in San Francisco, California.
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Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen and Stephen Biggs (eds.)
Perception and its Modalities
Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen and Stephen Biggs (eds.), Perception and its Modalities, Oxford University Press, 2015, 494pp., $35.00 (pbk), ISBN 9780199832811.
Reviewed by Louise Richardson, University of York
The philosophy of perception has in recent years taken a turn away from an almost exclusive focus on sight and also, to some extent, from consideration of the traditional theories of perception. The nineteen new essays in this greatly varied volume reflect -- and in one case reflect upon -- this turn. In 'The Dominance of the Visual' Dustin Stokes and Stephen Biggs seek to explain vision's specialness and thus the 'visuocentrism' of the study of perception. They argue that vision dominates the other senses in a number of ways and that this dominance is epistemically significant and good: vision dominates the other senses just in so far as it is epistemically advantageous for it do to so. Nevertheless they agree with the other contributors to the volume that 'traditional theorizing about the senses is hampered by a neglect of the senses other than vision' (p. 1). Whilst vision is not neglected in the volume (it gets its own section), perception that is either non-visual or not exclusively visual dominates here. Unusually, the theories of perception -- representationalism, sense-data theory, naïve realism, for example -- are barely mentioned.
Unlike Fiona Macpherson's The Senses: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, the theme of this anthology is not the nature and individuation of the senses, though two essays address this issue explicitly: Fiona Macpherson's 'The Space of Sensory Modalities' and Roberto Casati, Jérôme Dokic and François Le Corre's 'Distinguishing the Commonsense Senses'. H. P. Grice's criteria for distinguishing between the senses are also called upon in Ophelia Deroy and Malika Auvray's 'A Crossmodal Perspective on Sensory Substitution'. Deroy and Auvray argue, very plausibly, that the use of Sensory Substitution Devices 'leads to some novel ability, which does not, however, constitute a new sense properly speaking but a form of artificial crossmodal rewiring resting on pre-existing sensory capacities'. (p. 331) Though the ongoing debate about the nature of the senses is not central to the book, Macpherson's essay is an important contribution to that debate. She responds to Richard Gray's criticism (Gray 2012) of her suggestion (Macpherson 2011) that we can construct a space of sensory modalities within which we could plot the senses of humans, animals and even fictional creatures. The clustering of senses within the space might yield further information about them: information that we did not put in to the space in constructing it. In her contribution Macpherson argues, in response to Gray, that it is possible in principle to construct such a space. Furthermore, though the space we thus construct will be difficult to visualize, since it will have very many dimensions, we will be able to extract further information from the space by using Principle Component Analysis ('a mathematical procedure that is used to analyse high dimensional space in which data are plotted' (p. 455)).
The contributions to the volume are collected under six headings -- New Models of Perception; Multimodal Perception; The Nonvisual Senses; Sensing Ourselves; New Issues Concerning Vision; and Relating the Modalities -- and are, according to the anthology's introduction, united in their recognition of the 'shortcomings of tradition'. This is most obvious in, for instance, Andy Clark's 'Perceiving as Predicting', which introduces and summarises some evidence for the still-novel predictive coding model of perceptual processing, and in Nicholas Shea's 'Distinguishing Top-Down from Bottom-Up Effects', which -- though it begins with a discussion of how we should distinguish top-down effects from mere use of information stored in modules -- argues that there is no theoretically useful distinction between perception and cognition. Some challenges to tradition are less obvious. For instance Clare Batty considers the possibility that the 'object recognition model' of olfactory processing defended by Donald Wilson and Richard Stevenson (2006, 2007) 'makes available a view according to which object perception can involve something akin to object recognition without object individuation' (p. 223). If this view is correct, then the visual perception of objects is not a good model for the perception of objects more generally. The visual perception of objects involves, or is thought to involve, two stages. The first stage is that of object individuation, in which perceptual features such as colour and shape are grouped into representations of individuals. The second stage is that of object recognition, which 'draws on object individuation in achieving further object involving tasks' (p. 230). If it is traditional to take the visual perception of objects as a model for the perception of objects more generally, then Batty's essay can be seen as (at least) entertaining the possibility of a break with this tradition.
It may, however, be somewhat artificial to see the essays that make up this volume as unified by any common purpose, even one as encompassing as challenging tradition. And the strength of this anthology lies in any case in its diversity. Two of my favourite contributions are particularly difficult to categorise: Mohan Matthen's 'Active Perception and the Representation of Space' adds a historical dimension to the book. Matthen defends Kant's claim that space is an a priori intuition, where that is understood to mean that it is pre-modal, i.e., not specific to any sense and also not derived from the senses. In 'Inner Sense' Vincent Picciuto and Peter Carruthers consider whether introspection deserves to be thought a sense. Rather than defend an answer to this question they take the appropriately cautious approach of identifying features of prototypical senses and considering whether the mechanisms of introspection, on three different accounts of those mechanisms, have these features.
It is partly the diversity of this anthology that will make it a very useful read for someone looking for a topic on which to write a PhD thesis in the philosophy of perception. But it will also be useful for such a reader because Perception and its Modalities makes clear how much work there is left to do in this area of philosophy, not least on those topics about which its contributors do not agree. Take, for example, some of those essays that consider multimodal perception. That perception is multimodal is often cited as a reason for taking visuocentrism to be pernicious. It is widely accepted (see, for instance, Casey O'Callaghan's 'Not All Perceptual Experience is Modality Specific', p. 133) that perception is multimodal at least in the minimal sense that one is usually perceiving in more than one modality at a time -- seeing the flowers whilst smelling their odour and hearing the buzz of the bees, for instance. However, Charles Spence and Tim Bayne argue in 'Is Consciousness Multisensory?' that there is no convincing evidence for the claim that we ever have experiences in different modalities, simultaneously. All apparent evidence for this claim, they suggest, is consistent with the hypothesis that there is instead rapid switching between experiences in different modalities.
Matthew Fulkerson defends the claim that touch is a single sense, in that separate channels of information associated with perceiving tactually 'hang together in a special way' in which channels associated with perceiving in different senses -- sight and hearing, for example -- do not hang together (p. 191, see also Fulkerson 2013). What is present in the case of touch and absent in the case of sight and hearing is, according to Fulkerson, the co-assignment to external objects of features represented by the different channels, by sensory binding. But if Matthew Nudds is right in his contribution 'Is Audio-Visual Perception "Amodal" or "Crossmodal'?' there is reason to believe that channels associated with sight and hearing are related as Fulkerson argues that channels associated with touch are related:
the perceptual system represents objects amodally: a number of initially distinct processing streams combine to produce a single amodal representation of an object that represents it as having features -- such as spatial and temporal features -- that may have been perceived with more than one sense modality, as well as features -- such as colour -- that are modality specific. A single amodal object representation may represent an object as shaped, coloured, and as the source of a sound. (p. 173)
If Nudds is right then one might, for example, (a) look for some other way to explain the unity of touch, (b) conclude that since the components of what we usually think of as touch hang together no more than sight and hearing, touch is not a unified sense, or (c) conclude that since sight and touch hang together much as the components of touch do, we should think of them as components of a single sense. Determining the correct response will require both empirical and more straightforwardly philosophical work. Nudds points out that we can 'test the claim that there are amodal object representations' in a way that is analogous to the way in which scientists have tested the claim that 'visual information about different features is grouped into an object file' (p. 183). Evidence for the existence of object files comes from the 'object specific preview benefit' (p. 170). This is the name given to the fact that subjects are better at naming a letter displayed on the same object, before and after it has moved location, than they are at naming, for example, the same letter displayed before and after an interval of time on different objects. If there are amodal object representations -- or amodal object files -- 'we would expect there to be crossmodal object-specific preview benefits' (p. 183). Nudds found one experiment the results of which are 'difficult to explain' on the assumption that object representations are modality specific. However, he notes that more evidence (by which he means empirical evidence) is needed to support his suggestion that there are amodal representations of objects. (pp. 185-86)
What more straightforwardly philosophical work might we need to do in order to determine the correct response to the disagreement between Nudds and Fulkerson? One task is to work out what role, if any, unity (or disunity) in the processing or mechanisms that enable perception should have in deciding questions about the unity or disunity of our capacity to perceive, tactually, or any other perceptual capacity. For example, the following question will need to be answered: might it not be the case that perception in a single (unified) modality is enabled by diverse mechanisms and processes, and perhaps by mechanisms and processes that also enable perception in another modality?
Fulkerson, M. (2013). The First Sense. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gray, R. (2013). Is There a Space of Sensory Modalities? Erkenntnis. 78 (6), 1259-1273.
Macpherson, F. (2011). Taxonomising the Senses. Philosophical Studies. 153 (1), 123-142.
Wilson, D. A. and Stevenson, R. J. (2006). Learning to Smell: Olfactory Perception from Neurobiology to Behaviour. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Wilson, D. A. and Stevenson, R. J. (2007). Odour Perception: an Object Recognition Approach. Perception 36: 1821-1833.
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Group uses hip-hop as a tool for restorative justice
Selena Ponio | Wednesday, November 29, 2017
A group in Chicago has found a new tool for restorative justice: hip-hop.
Circles & Ciphers, a hip-hop youth leadership development organization, will perform at the Center for Social Concerns on Wednesday. Their performance is hosted by both the Center for Social Concerns and the Kroc Institute.
Jason Springs, associate professor in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, said he invited the group to his class last year. He said due to the success of their visit, he decided he should invite them to campus again, but this time to perform for a larger audience. Circles & Ciphers performed peacemaking circles — a restorative justice tool — for Springs’ class.
“I write and teach on restorative justice and I have currently a multi-year research initiative,” Springs said. “The peacemaking circle is one of the tools of restorative justice. It draws on aboriginal and indigenous forms of justice practice in which parties through a conflict or parties harmed by one another … they sit together in a circle and it’s facilitated by a circle keeper.”
Springs said these circles are meant to offer healing for groups affected by some kind of conflict or violence. According to their website, Circles & Ciphers infuses their peacemaking circles with improvisation and hip-hop to talk about difficult topics such as manhood, relationships with women and substance abuse.
“They’re young people from various neighborhoods in Chicago and [who], in various ways, have experienced violence,” Springs said. “Now [they] are integrating hip-hop and spoken word poetry with restorative justice in order to respond to violence in these neighborhoods.”
According to their website, Circles & Ciphers was started by two Project NIA volunteers to strengthen the relationship between group home residents and their surrounding community. It started as a bi-monthly peacemaking circle which helped group home residents with decision-making and self-expression. By 2011, Circles & Ciphers expanded to an organization that now executes peacemaking circles in schools, prisons, group homes and other communities.
“Circle processes can address the trauma that people experience, the harm, they can mediate conflict,” Springs said. “They’ve told me that when they do a conflict circle with various people it can go for two or three days.”
Springs said his motivation to bring the group back to campus was to expose the students to real-life advocacy.
“At the Center for Social Concerns and in Peace Studies students come to us because they are passionate about concerns over justice and peace,” he said.
In a field such as peace studies, Springs said learning in the classroom is not enough.
“The challenge for a professor in peace studies is you can’t just teach the concepts and the cases. You have to try to connect the students with the real world and how these things are practiced,” he said. “My primary purpose was to bring people who are working in the most violent neighborhoods in the country there in the south side of Chicago into the classroom to talk about their work.”
Springs said he thinks using hip-hop as a tool in peacemaking circles engages the youth and enables them to speak in more creative ways. Though his goal is to expose his students to restorative justice processes, he said he believes it is important to equip the Notre Dame community as a whole with these methods.
“We get students in our classes that come to our classes because they want to go out and change the world, make some difference,” he said. “We’re trying to make these living connections with these students to help them get engaged with what’s going on.”
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About Selena Ponio
Selena Ponio is from Dallas, Texas and is currently a senior at the University of Notre Dame. She is the Associate News Editor for The Observer. Selena lives in Breen-Phillips hall and is majoring in International Economics with a concentration in Spanish and is minoring in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy.
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Mexico, Bewildered and Contested
Calderón in Juárez
Last week, President Felipe Calderón spent two days in Ciudad Juárez, ostensibly to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the signing of Treaty of Ciudad Juárez, the pact that transferred power from the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz to the provisional Revolutionary government of Francisco Madero. Harking back to the city’s glory days, Calderón called Juárez a “heroic city,” and presided over a parade of 700 soldiers and a huge amount of sophisticated military equipment (and a contingent of university students dressed as Pancho Villa’s cavalry).
Fred Rosen
Set opposite El Paso on the Texas-Chihuahua border, the city is no stranger to bloodshed, not all of it heroic. Nowadays it is notorious both for its decades-long femicidios (apparently motiveless murders of young women) and its more recent string of juvenicidios (murders of young people who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time). And during Calderón’s term in office, it has become the scene of brutal confrontations between rival drug cartels, confrontations that have left scores of beheaded bodies by the roadside. Since Calderón took office at the end of 2006, the city has suffered some 7,000 deaths linked to organized crime and/or the seemingly fruitless War Against Organized Crime, AKA the Drug War.
In that context, not all the residents of the city greeted the president with open arms. The Workers’ Pastoral, a group that promotes the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, and a secular civic group called the Plural Citizens’ Front asked why Calderón did not have time to listen to the families of the multitudinous victims of the violence, which, the groups claimed, his military strategy had brought to the city. Why, they asked, did he refuse to take responsibility for those deaths. “His message is very clear,” read a joint statement of the two groups. “He also came to tell us that, seen from his office, there are fewer deaths and that the war — his war—is going well: that the violence is a matter of perception.”
The president has become a cheerleader of sorts for the story that he is winning the war against crime, and has likened his steadfast stand against drug trafficking to the stance of Winston Churchill in the global fight against fascism. On the one hand, he tells whoever will listen, civilization itself is at stake; on the other hand, we are gaining the upper hand. He recently told a convention of tourism entrepreneurs that since innocent people were not targeted by the spreading gang violence, the industry had nothing to fear. Tourism was increasing. The only shots that American spring breakers will receive, he told the industry gathering, are shots of tequila. (Not quite “We will fight them on the beaches…” but a distant echo of Churchillian inspiration? Raising hopes in dark times?)
But Calderón's insistence last week that everything was under control in Ciudad Juárez revealed a fundamental failure to grasp the day-to-day precariousness of existence in that chaotic city.
Throughout the 1990s, Juárez was Mexico's fastest growing center of industrial production. It expanded explosively over that decade with no warning and no planning. It generated jobs that were low paying and insecure, and it retained a set of urban services—from road maintenance to primary education—that were nowhere close to adequate for its burgeoning population. The city is now home to an estimated 1.5 million people and over 300 export-oriented assembly plants—maquilas. About 190,000 Juárez residents, down from 250,000 a few years ago, work in the maquilas. Over half of those workers are women, and some two-thirds are under the age of 30.
Despite the endemic violence, the city remains a magnet for impoverished campesinos and unemployed workers throughout north-central Mexico, as well as for transnational factory owners, attracted by the city's modern industrial parks and by its available, low-wage, non-union workforce. It has long been the home of over 10 percent of Mexico's maquila workers—the largest concentration in the country.
The city's location and loose social structure have also made it a magnet for transnational drug traffickers. The traffickers, like the maquila owners, are attracted by the low-wage work force and by the proximity of the lucrative U.S. market. They are also attracted by, and make profitable use of, the city's social disorganization.
This is nothing new. "If you see a neighbor building a nice extension to his house in this barrio," a former maquila worker told me on a visit to Juárez back in 2003, "you know that someone in the family has been carrying drugs across the border, and probably that someone in the family is in jail. No one else could afford it. And you know that whoever is in jail, if he is from this poor neighborhood, he will remain there for a long time. He can't accept a deal and denounce the drug capos because he knows that if he does, the capos will come and kill his children."
Some years ago a parish priest, Father Antonio Urrutia, with support from the Juárez Diocese, organized a shelter for the city's sex workers. The idea, he told me then, was to offer protection, rest and, most of all, alternatives to the city's prostitutes. "A small minority of the murdered women have been involved with prostitution," he told me, "and that's become the authorities' excuse for inaction. In fact, the killers seem to have links with the police. They know just how to dispose of the remains, and when and where."
At the time, Father Antonio's "rest house" took a small bite out of the extreme disorganization that has beset this city. "We are up against powerful opposition," he told me, in a way that, several years later has become prophetic. "The organizing forces of this city are the drug traffickers. On every street here, you're in the jaws of the wolf. It's a very dangerous city."
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Danone Floats New Unit to Develop Products for Masses
French dairy firm Danone today launched a new business unit in India dedicated for developing products for the masses, as it looks to expand its presence in smaller towns and cities.
The new unit, Danone BOP India will focus on development and marketing of products that will primarily target smaller towns, where disposable incomes are low.
“We have launched a new business unit dedicated to base of pyramid [BOP] consumers… There have been lot of initiatives within the group to create a separate business unit that will develop and market products that are meant for the masses,” Danone BOP India Director Eric Soubeiran said.
Announcing the launch of two diary products under the brand ’Fundooz’ priced at Rs 10 and Rs 5, the company said India is the first country where Danone has launched such a dedicated unit for the bottom of the pyramid by the group.
“BOP population in India is around 600 million people… and India is the largest producer of milk in the world. So we see that a potential,” he said.
Danone, which is currently present only in the metros like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore, said penetration of diary products in India is low due to cold chain and logistic issues.
Source: Moneycontrol.com (link opens in a new window)
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Gernant, Andrews claim Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Pitcher, Player of Week honors
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Calvin College’s Anna Gernant and Christopher Newport University’s Leah Andrews captured this week’s Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Pitcher and Player of the Week honors, respectively.
Junior right-hander Gernant pitched the (29-6) Knights past a pair of nationally-ranked opponents — Hope and Trine — and went 3-0 with a 0.00 earned-run average and 32 strikeouts over 28.2 innings in the circle. She held the nation’s second-best hitting team, Trine, to just two hits and fanned nine in a 7-0 victory on Saturday. The Valley High graduate also helped herself at the plate with a .421 average and six runs batted in.
Senior outfielder Andrews, meanwhile, is the second-straight Captain to be honored. She was 6-for-12 (.500) with nine runs, four walks, a double, three homers and 12 RBI. Menchville High product Andrews had a two-run homer, three-run homer and a grand slam, as regular-season champion and top seed Christopher Newport (33-7) went 3-1 against Frostburg State and Penn State-Harrisburg in one of two first-round pods of the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) playoffs. The Captains will host No. 2 seed Salisbury, who won the other pod, in the best-of-three CAC championship series starting Friday at Captains Park.
Other Top Performances
La Verne sophomore third baseman Justice Borden was 4-for-8 (.500) with six runs, a triple and two homers. … Calvin junior second baseman Maddie DeGroot hit .516 in the leadoff spot, with multiple hits against both nationally-ranked Hope and Trine. … St. John Fisher junior catcher Mary Claire Grosvenor hit .688 with an 1.313 slugging percentage and 45 putouts and three assists behind the plate. … Washington (Md.) College senior pitcher/utility player Taylor Harcum went 2-0 with a combined shutout, 0.44 ERA, one walk, and 11 strikeouts in 16 innings, while also going 7-for-15 (.467) with five runs, three doubles, and six RBI at the plate. … Otterbein junior pitcher Gabby Johnson was 2-0 with two complete games, three hits, no walks, and 13 strikeouts over 12 innings. … Washington (Mo.) University senior pitcher Anna McKee did not allow an earned run in 19 innings, with a pair of three-hit shutouts and five innings of relief, going 3-0 with 14 strikeouts. … Texas Lutheran senior pitcher Maitlin Raycroft pitched her fourth and fifth no-hitters of the season (she now has 13 in less than two years with the Bulldogs) in three appearances in the SCAC tournament. For the week, she yielded seven hits, and one earned run, with 24 strikeouts over 14 innings. … Otterbein junior shortstop Alyson Shaw was 11-for-15 (.733) with five runs, two doubles, two steals and three RBI. … Rowan senior outfielder Morgan Smith broke the school record for career doubles (58) with three in a twinbill against Ramapo, hitting .538 for the week. … Suffolk senior catcher Delaney Sylvester was 12-for-21 (.571) with eight runs, two doubles, three homers and 13 RBI, becoming the school’s career hits leader. … Suffolk freshman pitcher/utility player Payton Sylvester hit a go-ahead grand slam against Saint Joseph’s and tossed the first known no-hitter against Simmons. … St. John Fisher senior pitcher Lindsey Thayer tossed a perfect game (her third no-hitter and second perfect game this season), and went 3-0 with a 0.37 ERA, three hits, four walks and 34 strikeouts over 19 innings. … Keuka freshman pitcher Whitney Tyler went 3-0, with two shutouts, including the second perfect game in school history. … Grinnell freshman utility player Darice Wheeler batted .588 (10-for-17) with seven runs, two doubles, four homers and 12 RBI. … Saint Mary’s (Ind.) senior shortstop Jamie Young was 7-for-9 (.778) with five runs, a double, triple and three RBI, while breaking the MIAA single-season record for hits (32).
Winners are selected by the NFCA Division III Top 25 Committee, which has a representative for each of the eight NCAA regions.
2018 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Pitcher of the Week
May 2 — Anna Gernant, Calvin College, Jr., RHP, West Des Moines, Iowa
April 25 — Alanna Namit, The College of New Jersey, Fr., RHP, Mountainside, N.J.
April 18 — Jazmyn Rohrer, Westminster College (Pa.), Sr., RHP, Purcellville, Va.
April 11 — Jacqueline Spizizen, Emory University, Fr., RHP, West Bloomfield, Mich.
April 4 — Hanna Hull, Virginia Wesleyan University, So., LHP, Chesterfield, Va.
March 28 — Sydney Jones, Hope College, Sr., RHP, South Lyon, Mich.
March 21 — Jesse DeDomenico, Rowan University, So., RHP, East Windsor, N.J.
March 14 — Alanna Namit, The College of New Jersey, Fr., RHP, Mountainside, N.J.
March 7 — Hanna Hull, Virginia Wesleyan University, So., LHP, Chesterfield, Va.
Feb. 28 — Hanna Hull, Virginia Wesleyan University, So., LHP, Chesterfield, Va.
2018 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Player of the Week
May 2 — Leah Andrews, Christopher Newport University, Sr., OF, Newport News, Va.
April 25 — Rachael Payne, Christopher Newport University, Sr., SS, Stafford, Va.
April 18 — Anna Dunn, Centenary College (La.), Sr., RF, Shreveport, La.
April 11 — Madison East, University of Pittsburgh-Bradford, So., CF, Milton, Pa.
April 4 — Grace Stock, Calvin College, Fr., C, Vicksburg, Mich.
March 28 — Laurren Ladwig, Manchester University, Sr., 2B, Crown Point, Ind.
March 21 — Morgan Arst, East Texas Baptist University, So., LF, Marshall, Texas
March 14 — Vada Blue Sherrill, Pfeiffer University, Jr., SS, Hiddenite, N.C.
March 7 — Amy Large, Virginia Wesleyan University, Sr., OF, Kennett Square, Pa.
Feb. 28 — Vada Blue Sherrill, Pfeiffer University, Jr., SS, Hiddenite, N.C.
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I hope video of Miranda dying in school bus crash is never released (Opinion)
Jeff Deminski
This headline may sound blunt. That's by design. Because what this argument over the release of video showing the school bus crash on I-80 really comes down to is just that. You're talking about some journalistic integrity and supplying the public with information concerning public safety when really, stripping away the cliches, what you're really talking about is how many 'clicks' you're going to get by showing the very moment Miranda Vargas, 10, and teacher Jennifer Williamson died in a bloody wreck on the highway.
This is among the hardest things I've written. So hard because I truly respect my colleagues in the newsroom. I understand their position. Yet I'm not a journalist. I'm a talk show host. I give my opinion on things, right or wrong, but I'm always honest in how I feel. On this one, I feel this is nothing but sensationalism. I agree completely with the DOT, the State Police and other agencies who have denied OPRA requests by various media outlets including ours for the release of video.
In an article about the latest denials and a lawsuit filed by an unknown media outlet against the DOT, it's mentioned that the NJSP characterized the potential release of video as "cruel and unusual" for the family. That family's lawyer sent all agencies involved a stern letter asking not only to never release the video because of the emotional trauma it would cause but also asking to be informed if they plan to so that the family could consider legal options. So agencies are caught in a bind. Either way they're going to be sued. Media suing for the release of video, family suing for it not to be.
Dan Alexander: Releasing deadly I-80 school bus crash video would be 'cruel,' lawyer says
I think this all comes down to one line in the State Police response to our own newsroom's request for video.
"The Division of State Police maintains that you are not entitled to the requested police records in this case because the State's interest in protecting the integrity of the investigation and the privacy of victims, outweigh your interests in disclosure under the common law."
I bolded the 'and the privacy of victims' because I think that's crux of it. You can forget the protection of the integrity of the investigation. The bus driver has already been charged. There are witnesses. The release of video wouldn't change the arc of the case. But it's the concern for victims I truly believe indeed outweighs media's interest in having that video.
What happens if we do not publish it? The driver still will be punished. There's already legislation to require safer seat belts in new school buses. The scrutiny of school bus drivers' records is already in the spotlight. So the short answer is, nothing changes.
What happens if we DO publish it? Media outlets fall all over themselves to be the first to get the video out on their sites and enjoy their windfall of 'clicks' while millions of people who have zero vested interested in any of this will watch the moment a little girl died on a highway. Watch the moment a beloved teacher died too. Watch the moment children were thrown from a disintegrating bus while others were left hanging upside down by lap belts, many seriously injured, many in shock, many screaming. First responders who have been on their jobs for 30 years say this was the single most horrific scene they'd ever come across.
Which is exactly why media is suing to get their paws on it. It's not about public interest in matters of safety. It's about public interest in gore.
What else happens if media publishes it? It lives on forever on YouTube or whatever other outlets come along. It's seen by people who tell themselves they want to see it for the reasons of a concerned citizen. It's seen by millions of people who will seek that video out but who wouldn't even consider visiting Miranda Vargas' gravesite. It haunts the Vargas and Williams families. It's seen years later by accident. It's stumbled across ten years later by Miranda's sister who was on a different school bus that day. It's a video that will never go away placed beside the pain that will never go away on the shelf of broken hearts.
Is it technically legally available to media outlets under OPRA? Yes, probably. Whatever media outlet just filed a lawsuit to get that video may well win. Media has almost always been very good about not releasing the names of rape victims even though there is no law against it. It's a nearly universally accepted policy. How is this one any different? What will the public learn that it doesn't already know in this case? At the risk of alienating myself from colleagues and possibly being fired for saying this, can't we show some class and respect the wishes of a dead girl's family? Go ahead and fire me. I'll find work. But will you find a conscience?
Filed Under: I-80, Newsletter
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Synagogue Shoa project looks for answers
By NJJN Staff February 18, 2015, 12:00 am 0 Edit
A Jan. 18-19 trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington for 44 members of Congregation Adath Shalom in Morris Plains was the culmination of a months-long multigenerational exploration of how the Shoa happened. The community met with survivors of the Holocaust and of the Rwandan genocide, heard from a representative of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, watched several documentaries, and engaged in plenty of discussion.
They plan to continue their exploration and are planning a trip to Europe next spring that will tentatively include stops in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Cracow and sites of tragic events of the Holocaust, including Auschwitz.
“It has been 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, and humanity has not yet emerged from the shock of that awful revelation, not yet processed the meaning of the Holocaust,” wrote Adath Shalom’s Rabbi Moshe Rudin in a report about the congregation’s work. “As a community, across generations, we have begun our own journey of the search for meaning in the terrible catastrophe. Our community’s journey has led us into uncomfortable territory and difficult topics, but it has also brought us closer together.” He added, “To be a Jew is to engage in Jewish learning with the faith that even the darkest moments contain something that can inspire the future, nourish hope, affirm life.”
The study began in response to a talk survivor and synagogue member Edward Mosberg gave last spring during the community’s Holocaust Remembrance Day program. The ongoing resulting series was made possible by a Holocaust Education Fund created by Mosberg and his wife, Cecille, and through the leadership of congregation member Sam Varsano, son of a Holocaust survivor.
“Seeing the numbers on my father’s arm is what started this for me,” Varsano said. “There were no answers forthcoming to my questions — only tears. It wasn’t until my first son was born and my father would hold the baby in his arms for hours — walking all around the house until Josh fell asleep — that my father began to tell what had happened.
“Now,” said Varsano, “I want the young people especially to not only learn what happened but to understand; we cannot sit quietly ever again. We must always be ready to respond.”
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starting open relationship
boundaries, ask me anything, successful polyamory
What I Wish I Had Known...
I recently had a great conversation in my Opening Up Support Group I knew I had to share (with their permission of course). All the folks in the group are in the beginning stages of opening their relationships and after weeks and months of ups and downs and navigating big changes (mostly really smoothly) they've gathered a lot of great experience and perspective.
Because I work with so many greta folks considering opening their relationships, I wanted to gather their thoughts looking back- what (if anything) would they change about how they started out?
I was most surprised to learn how many of them wouldn't change a thing- ups and downs and all. Those folks said the long-term outcome was gaining priceless self-awareness and for many a deeper commitment and connection to their partners. Looking back, they wouldn't change anything.
But the majority had some thoughts to share. I did my best to preserve their words just as they said them (save any identifying information). I share these with the hope they may help you navigate new openness with greater ease.
"I wish I had realized earlier it's really okay to have feelings for more than one person at a time. I mean, I knew it in theory, but it took a long time to really sink in and own it. This led me to lots of second-guessing."
"Sometimes losing a partner is less painful than staying with them."
"Yeah, and you have to be ready to do a lot of emotional labor. Relationships take work."
"I wish we would have taken things much slower. I would have hired Gina sooner for support to get us through the parts where we just couldn't figure things out. We needed an outiside opinion."
"I got carried away too. It was like a drug. All that outside attention really caused problems between [my partner] and I. ...Never make life-changing decisions quickly."
"I wish I had kept my self-care in check in the beginning. I totally stopped going to the gym when I was in NRE [New Relationship Energy]."
"I'd have taken things slower too. I don't know why we were in such a rush. It got overwhelming quickly and I kind of lost myself in it. I mean, it was fun, but I was drained. I needed to learn balance."
"Non-monogamy is a valid choice. Pure and simple."
"I wish I would have figured out how to connect with all parties involved sooner. I found out months in my boyfriend's wife was not consenting and the whole situation imploded."
"There's no one right way to 'do' polyamory."
"Equal is not the same as fair."
"Jealousy is natural. I wish I had accepted that and stopped spending so much time beating myself up about it. It's a natural emotion and there's nothing wrong as long as I don't expect my partner to fix it for me."
"All your same old relationship patterns are still going to be there when you start practicing non-monogamy. So if you are terrible communicators before you start, you'll still be after you're seeing other people but you'll have even more you need to talk about."
"Yeah, I'm a people pleaser. So seeing more people just meant more people to try to please. It was exhausting."
"I wish I was better at asking for what I need."
"It's ok to not be ok with something that your partner is doing."
"I needed to learn more about how to be okay with being alone before we got started. Poly FOMO is terrible."
I hope that helps those of you considering opening your relationship somewhere to start a conversation or a little self-work. If you'd like some support (or you want to join our group) set up a free call with me. I'd love to help you sort out what's best for you.
Tagged: polyamory mistakes, polyamory regrets, open relationship regrets, open relationship mistakes, starting open relationship, starting nonmonogamy
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Home » WTF » Veterinarian accused of having Sex with more than 300 Dogs
Veterinarian accused of having Sex with more than 300 Dogs
A renowned veterinarian from Trenton in Missouri was arrested this morning after being filmed by a security camera while having sex with several dogs.
According to the Trenton Police Department, an investigation was launched on Dr. James Thompson in January, after several dog owners filed complaints about their dogs suffering from anal bleeding after visiting his clinic.
During the investigation, the police convinced the owners of the West Trenton Animal Hospital, where Dr. Thompson practiced, to install several new security cameras around the building.
The police and the owners were completely shocked when they saw the video footage a few weeks later.
Over a period of two weeks, Dr. Thompson was filmed sexually aggressing 19 different dogs, mostly smaller breeds like miniature poodles, bichons, and chihuahuas.
TPD spokesman Lt. Frank Simmons says the aggressions were rather violent and must have been traumatizing for the animals.
“He would put a cone-shaped collar around the animal’s neck so he wouldn’t get bit, then he’d grab it and have sex with it in various positions.”
According to Lt. Simmons, the veterinarian could have made a great number of victims.
“After interrogating the staff and customers, we collected evidence concerning at least 300 victims, but there could be thousands over his 17 years of practice.”
A total of 352 criminal charges have been filed against him, and the TPD says this number will probably double over the next few days.
Trenton Police Chief, Captain Tommy Wright, says the investigation was far from complete but the investigators decided to arrest Dr. Thompson before he assaulted other animals. According to him, the number of victims could be over 5000.
Dr. Thompson’s was released on bail a few hours after his arrest and immediately met reporters to claim his innocence.
He says he’s never sexually abused any animal, and that all animals with whom he’s had sex consented to the intercourse.
He is expected to appear in court in November for the beginning of his trial.
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June 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 11: Shihad Beautiful Machine
You should see this film. It’s the best music documentary that will ever come out of New Zealand. It has grit and heart and soul – and then there is the manipulation, the rewriting of history, the candidness that becomes a cover for what is tantamount to backstabbing. It’s all here. Shihad is New Zealand’s best live act. And the Wellington-born rock/metal band has been at it for some twenty-five years. That is reason for praise. Reason enough for this documentary.
There is not a lot of music to be seen – or heard – as part of the film Shihad: Beautiful Machine and though that might bug some fans it makes the film all the more appealing as a general documentary; a feature film about the lives of four Kiwis. They just happen to be in a band. Add to the story the death of a manager, a name-change that felt like betrayal, a singer prepared to think about selling out, a drummer who won’t let that happen on his watch, a guitarist who swaps alcohol for yoghurt so that the band can continue and a bass player who was the band’s biggest fan (that’s what got him the gig) and ends up being the most scathing about Jon Toogood’s botched joke-attempt on stage in America; the buzz-kill that contributed to Shihad-as-Pacifier’s failure stateside.
All of this is beautifully framed with the families of the band members providing touching moments of sincerity.
And the musicians know their roles off-stage.
Jon Toogood (vocals) plays the poet-fool; Tom Larkin (drums) is the defacto-manager and driving force; Karl Kippenberger (bass) is the fan-boy turned band-member, it went from being surreal to a little too real for him; Phil Knight (guitar) is the film’s reluctant star, daunted, drained, hen-pecked even, but proudly still there to serve the music.
For all the attempts to swerve the narrative towards Toogood’s lyrics, loved-up doggerel that doesn’t have the prescience that he and the film’s makers would have you believe, even when Jonny-Boy is happily hamming up a faux-troubadour gimmick, performing the songs to camera in solo acoustic renditions, it’s Knight that burns into the soul. Staring out with an intense introversion from the front lawn with his partner who he is sure would never have given him the time of day if he was still drinking. It’s Kippenberger helping his mum in the garden, still amazed he’s part of the band he used to go and see. And it’s Larkin at home with his partner and child, the band’s goalkeeper, always aware of the score.
Three musicians that are somehow just right for each other and their frontman – the best in the country by some distance. And this is everything that has happened around keeping them together. Shihad: Beautiful Machine is about so much more than just the music. And just as well.
I had an advance copy of this film – a screener-disc. I watched it three times in the first week, before the film was released. I loved the way this film was made, the story it told. I like a lot of Shihad’s music – but there’s plenty I don’t like and a fair bit I’ve never (really) heard. Maybe I’ve skimmed and scanned it, heard it once, moved on. Maybe it could reveal more with more time attached to it. But none of that matters here – this is an equal-opportunity film, you’ve as much chance enjoying this, I believe, if you’re a fan of the band or if you’ve never even heard their music. Because it manages to be the story of four people. Four mates. And then there’s a whole lot of other stuff to deal with on top of that – levels of fame, the hunger for (more) fame, tragedy and the usual insecurities around making music and being in a band – that marriage of convenience that often becomes (just a tad inconvenient).
I’ve gone back to this film recently – watched it again. And again. I keep coming away from it with the same feeling – the guys in the band were brave. They might have even been stupid. But they put themselves out there with this. And it succeeds because the filmmaker found a way to tell the story of the people as much as it was ever about the music.
Click here to watch the film’s trailer
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ANA Inspiration/Kelly Kline
Carli Lloyd on retirement plan, career milestones, more in Q&A
By Nick ZaccardiMar 28, 2018, 11:31 AM EDT
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Carli Lloyd, a double Olympic gold medalist and 2015 World Cup winner, shared her time while promoting female empowerment and motivating youth at the LPGA Tour’s ANA Inspiration on Tuesday (Golf Channel broadcast schedule). Highlights …
OlympicTalk: You said last year that the national team was still trying to find its identity (after a 2016 Olympic quarterfinal loss and last-place finish at the 2017 SheBelieves Cup). After winning the SheBelieves Cup this month, has the team found its identity and can you put it into words?
Lloyd: I think it has. Obviously, since the 2015 World Cup, we’ve gone through a bit of a transition period. We’ve got younger players. We’ve got players who came through the NWSL who don’t have a ton of experience. And then we also have veterans as well in myself. I think that we just need to mold all of that together. Now we’re starting to hone in on what this team’s about, how we want to play as a team, the identity. I do think we are an exciting team to watch. As we get closer and closer to World Cup qualifying [in October], obviously we’re still the U.S. team with that fight and that mentality, but we also have a lot of talented younger players to help bridge all that together. Great result, the SheBelieves. Now we can continue to push on. We know that we can continue to get better. We all just have to do our part to keep pushing on.
OlympicTalk: You’re at 250 caps. You’re almost at 100 goals (98). Which of those numbers means more to you and why?
Lloyd: I didn’t even [know I hit 250]. After the game, [coach] Jill [Ellis] said in front of the group, congrats on 250 caps. I had no idea where I was even at. It was a bit of surprise to me. It’s really not about those numbers. That’s entirely not my focus. I’m just mainly focused on getting myself back into the groove and continuing to be better and better every single day. I have a lot more that I still want to accomplish. I think the best is yet to come.
OlympicTalk: You said in 2015 that you plan to retire from the national team after the 2020 Olympics. Is that still the plan, and is there anything that could happen at the 2019 World Cup or 2020 Olympics that could change that?
Lloyd: I don’t live too far in the future. The goal is that I will be a part of 2019, 2020. Obviously, I have to continue to keep performing, first and foremost. But I know that the only person that would hold me back is myself. So, as long as I continue to keep working as hard as I can every single day, I know that I will be at those events. Yes, you have to account for injuries and things that happen, but that’s life.
Editor’s Note: Lloyd turns 38 in 2020, when she will be older than any previous U.S. Olympic soccer player. She came back from an MCL sprain for the Rio Olympics and missed time last summer with an ankle sprain. Still, she won FIFA Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016 and was runner-up to Dutch Lieke Martens in 2017.
OlympicTalk: So are you leaving the option open of playing beyond 2020?
Lloyd: Internationally, most likely not. I have no clue, to be quite honest. I’m not going to rule out potentially still playing in the NWSL. I really have to kind of figure that out after 2020 and see where I’m at. The challenging thing for women is starting a family. That is something that is important to my husband and I.
OlympicTalk: What are the chances you would play for Manchester City or another European club again, knowing that the next two years are major tournament years?
Lloyd: Anything’s possible, but as we’re gearing up for these two world events, most likely not. It’s just not really feasible to be flying back and forth from Europe. My time at Manchester City for those three months was merely just for those three months, at the moment. Enjoyed my experience, glad I did it. I’m not going to say never, but, most likely, probably, won’t be going overseas again.
OlympicTalk: Do you think Hope Solo will play for the national team again?
Lloyd: No idea. I know she’s had some major shoulder surgeries. I don’t know where she’s at on that. I honestly have no idea.
VIDEO: Olympic gold medalist pole vaults in Michelin Man costume
The wind wasn’t on my side today!💨⛳️🥅🏌🏽♀️☀️🤪 pic.twitter.com/9EZk6sU2zM
— Carli Lloyd (@CarliLloyd) March 28, 2018
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WATCH LIVE: Morgan, Team USA faces stiff test in France
Photo by Pedro Vilela/Getty Images
By Nicholas MendolaAug 6, 2016, 3:50 PM EDT
World No. 3 France takes its shot at the top-seeded United States women in a massive Group G game at the Mineirão in Belo Horizonte on Saturday.
The tilt will push a winner to the final after the Yanks beat New Zealand 2-0 on Wednesday and France hammered Colombia 4-0.
WATCH LIVE: United States vs. France — 4 p.m. EDT
Alex Morgan’s stoppage time winner lifted the USWNT past France the last time they matched up, a March meeting in the SheBelieves Cup.
France last beat the U.S. in a Feb. 2015 friendly in Lorient, though the Yanks avenged the defeat in the Algarve Cup final one month later.
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WATCH LIVE: United States/France highlights Saturday’s women’s soccer schedule
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By Raphielle JohnsonAug 6, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT
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Saturday marks the second day of competition in women’s soccer, and the showcase match includes the United States.
The reigning gold medalists (and World Cup champions) play their second group stage match Saturday afternoon, as they take on France in a Group G showdown in Belo Horizonte. The match kicks off at 4:00 p.m. Eastern, and it will be streamed on NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports app. This will be the second consecutive Olympics in which the two teams have met in the group stage, with the United States winning 4-2 in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. France grabbed a 2-0 lead in that match inside of 14 minutes before the Americans replied with four unanswered goals to grab the win.
WATCH: United States vs. France on NBCOlympics.com
While both teams had little trouble winning their opening matches Wednesday, France tallied four goals in their 4-0 thrashing of Colombia that was even more lopsided than the final margin would indicate. Mads Toppel’s own goal inside of two minutes got France going, and they were unrelenting in their pressing of a Colombian side that was ill-equipped to deal with them. The United States beat New Zealand 2-0, and while their final scoreline wasn’t as impressive as the one posted by France Jill Ellis’ team was in control for much of their match.
Alex Morgan, who scored twice in the win over France in the 2012 Summer Olympics, scored in the 46th minute with captain Carli Lloyd’s header in the ninth minute opening the American account Wednesday night. With both teams opening in Belo Horizonte travel won’t be an issue for either, as the teams did not make the trek to Rio for Friday’s Opening Ceremony.
That’s the second of six matches to be played in women’s soccer Saturday, with Canada taking on Zimbabwe in a Group F match in Sao Paulo. Canada beat Australia 2-0 in their opener, and they’ll be expected to grab all three points against a Zimbabwe side that fell 6-1 to Germany in their Olympic debut. With their loss to Canada, Australia enters Saturday’s matchup with Germany in Sao Paulo in need of a result as they look to advance into the knockout stage.
Playing in Rio Saturday will be hosts Brazil, who face Sweden in the second game of a doubleheader at the Olympic Stadium. Both teams are coming off of wins in their opening matches, with Brazil taking care of China and the Swedes beating South Africa. China and South Africa will meet in the first match at the Olympic Stadium.
All six matches will be available at NBCOlympics.com and on the NBC Sports app.
Saturday’s Olympic Women’s Soccer Schedule (all times Eastern):
2:00 p.m.: Canada vs. Zimbabwe – WATCH LIVE
4:00 p.m.: United States vs. France – WATCH HERE
5:00 p.m.: Germany vs. Australia – WATCH HERE
6:00 p.m.: South Africa vs. China – WATCH HERE
7:00 p.m.: Colombia vs. New Zealand – WATCH HERE
9:00 p.m.: Brazil vs. Sweden – WATCH HERE
Tags: Rio 2016 Olympics, women's soccer, Alex Morgan, carli lloyd
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Jack Canfield Net Worth 2019: Wiki Biography, Married, Family, Measurements, Height, Salary, Relationships
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Jack Canfield, born on the 19th August 1944, in Forth Worth, Texas, is an American author and world-renowned speaker who became popular for his books like the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.”
So how much is Canfield’s net worth? As of mid-2016, it is reported to be $25 million, acquired from the sales of his books and the many motivational messages he has given throughout his career.
Jack Canfield Net Worth$25 million
Canfield spent his younger educational years at Linsly Military Institute and matriculated in 1962. He later attended Harvard University from where he graduated with a degree in Chinese History. He also studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for his M.Ed. and at the University of Santa Monica for his PhD.
Canfield’s career started as a high school teacher, teaching students at a high school in Chicago, Illinois. He then transitioned to working in different corporate jobs like the Clinton Job Corps Center and W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. His early years working in the corporate world started his net worth, and became an inspiration for his next career move.
In 1976, Canfield co-authored his first book “100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in The Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents”. He also opened a center in 1978, called the New England Center for Personal and Organizational Development. The center became the start of a new career for Canfield, and son he became a motivational author and speaker, traveling in various states. This helped his net worth immensely and also became an inspiration for his next book.
In 1993, Canfield co-wrote the book “Chicken Soup for the Soul” with Mark Victor Hansen. The stories they gathered from the different audiences they encountered in their speaking, engagements became the basis of the book. At first, the book was ignored by many publishing houses, but once released to the public it became one of the best-selling books of the ’90’s. The success of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” led to a series of books, including “The Aladdin Factor”, “Dare to Win”, “The Power of Focus” and “The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”. The sales of the books tremendously increased his wealth and made him a very well-known author and speaker.
With his desire to inspire and train other people, especially in the corporate world, Canfield has created plenty of groups to reach out to different types of people. He founded The Canfield Training Group that motivates professionals to achieve success in their personal and professional lives. He also founded The Foundation for Self-Esteem that provides resources for self-esteem and motivation. He also helped to create the “Goals Program” a video and training program. The success of his many businesses also attributed to his net worth.
In terms of his personal life, Canfield has been married to Inga Marie Mahoney since 2001. He has five children who are the product of previous marriages to Georgia Lee Noble(m. 1978–1999), and Judith Ohlbaum (m. 1971–1976).
Full Name Jack Canfield
Net Worth $25 Million
Date Of Birth August 19, 1944
Place Of Birth Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Profession Author
Education Harvard University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Linsly School
Spouse Inga Marie Mahoney (m. 2001), Georgia Lee Noble (m. 1978–1999), Judith Ohlbaum (m. 1976–1971)
Children Oran Canfield, Travis Mahoney, Riley Jane Mahoney, Christopher N. Canfield, Kyle Dania Canfield
Nicknames Кэнфилд, Джек
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JackCanfieldFan
Twitter https://twitter.com/jackcanfield
Google+ https://plus.google.com/109858129967557681299
Awards Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Book
Movies Chicken Soup for the Soul Live
1 Inducted into the Martins Ferry [Ohio] Hall of Honor in 2014.
Beyond Belief 2010
Secret Law of Attraction 2007 TV Movie
Full Confidence: Overcoming Fear with the Power of Love 2008 Documentary very special thanks
The Soul of Success: The Jack Canfield Story 2017 Documentary post-production Himself
Live Your Quest 2017 Documentary post-production Himself
American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard 2016 Documentary post-production Himself
RiseUP the Movie 2016 Documentary post-production Himself
The Last Formula 2015 Documentary Himself
Wake Up! 2015 TV Series Himself
Rise of the Entrepreneur: The Search for a Better Way 2014 Documentary Himself - Expert
The Keeper of the Keys 2012 Video documentary Himself - Success Coach
The Truth: The Journey Within 2011 Documentary Himself
Discover the Gift 2010/I Documentary Jack Canfield
Tapping the Source 2010 Himself
The Opus 2008 Documentary Himself
Secret Law of Attraction 2007 TV Movie Himself
The Secret 2006 Video documentary Himself - Author
The Secret (2006)
as Himself - Author
The Keeper of the Keys (2012)
as Himself - Success Coach
Rise of the Entrepreneur: The Search for a Better Way (2014)
as Himself - Expert
Secret Law of Attraction (2007)
$25 Million 1944 American August 19 Author Authors Chicken Soup for the Soul Live Christopher N. Canfield Fort Worth Georgia Lee Noble Georgia Lee Noble (m. 1978–1999) Harvard University Inga Marie Mahoney Inga Marie Mahoney (m. 2001) Jack Canfield Jack Canfield Net Worth Judith Ohlbaum Judith Ohlbaum (m. 1976–1971) Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite Book Kyle Dania Canfield Linsly School Oran Canfield Riley Jane Mahoney Texas Travis Mahoney United States United States of America University of Massachusetts Amherst Writer Джек Кэнфилд1944-08-19
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Intro to speakers, Specialization & Exam
What is specialization? Requirements for specialization
Grading of the Exam
What the exam was like
How to prepare / study plans / strategies
Test taking tips, writing tips
Non-Immigrant Visas [Subject Area 2]
2.4 H-1B visas/status and Labor Condition Applications (LCAs)
2.5 L-1 visas/status
2.6 Other nonimmigrant categories, including B, E, F, J, K, O, R, S, T, TN, and U
2.7 Visa Waiver Program
2.8 Rules of chargeability
2.14 Waivers of inadmissibility: 212(e), 212(d)
Employment Based Immigrant Visas and Employment Enforcement [Subject Area 2 Continued]
2.2 Employment-based (EB 1-5) immigrant visa categories
2.3 Labor certifications
2.2 Employer compliance (INA 274A)
2.9 Priority Dates
1:30 – 2:45
Family Based Immigrant Visas [Subject Area 2 continued]
2.1 Family-based immigrant visa categories
2.15 Marriage fraud (including 204(c))
2.16 Adjustment of status (INA 245(a), (c), (k) and (i))
2.17 Conditional Permanent Resident status
2.18 Violence Against Women Act
2.19 Child Status Protection Act
3.3 Affidavits of support
Consular Processing and Procedures [Subject Area 3]
3.1 Consular processing v. Adjustment of Status
3.2 Arriving aliens and reentry doctrine
3.4 Reentry permits and abandonment of LPR status
2.21 Parole-in-place
3.7 Burden of proof
Removal, Relief and Bonds [Subject Area 4]
4.8 Removal Proceedings
4.1 Criminal grounds of removability
4.2 Other grounds of removability
Relief:
4.6 Cancellation of Removal (LPR & Non-LPR)
4.7 Asylum/Withholding/CAT
4.9 NACARA
4.10 212(c)
4.5 INA § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver
4.4 Voluntary Departure
4.14 Temporary Protected Status
Suspension of Deportation
4.12 Expedited removal (INA 235(b) and 238)
4.11 Executive actions and prosecutorial discretion
3.5 Bonds
Eligibility, Jurisdiction
Redeterminations and Conditions
Mandatory Detention
Rodriguez Hearing
4.13 Reinstatement of removal orders
Naturalization and Citizenship [Subject Area 6]
6.1 Good moral character
6.2 Residence and physical presence
6.3 Naturalization procedure (including administrative and court review)
6.4 Acquisition of citizenship (current law only)
6.5 Child Citizenship Act and pre-CCA derivative naturalization
Motions and Review [Subject Area 5]
5.1 In absentia hearings and orders
5.2 Motions to reopen/reconsider/remand/ terminate in removal proceedings
5.3 Other agency actions
5.4 Administrative Appeals (BIA, AAO, BALCA)
5.5 Judicial deference to administrative actions and orders (Chevron and Brand X)
5.6 Federal court jurisdiction
5.7 Federal District Court actions
5.8 Federal Court of Appeals review
Additional Test Prep / Study Tips
Ethics/Professional Responsibility [Subject Area 1]
1.1 Duties to clients
1.2 Duties to opposing counsel, administrative agencies, and courts
1.3 Attorney’s fees and fee agreements
1.4 Conflicts of interest
Bars to Admissibility& Waivers [Subject Matter 2 continued]
2.10 Criminal activity (INA 212(a)(2))
2.11 Misrepresentation (INA 212(a)(6)(C)
2.12 Unlawful presence (INA 212(a)(9))
2.13 Other inadmissibility grounds
2.14 Waivers of inadmissibility (212(h), 212(i),
212(a)(9)(B)(v), 212(e), 212(d))
3.6 Application to apply for admission after removal, I-212
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“I feel much more comfortable about the exam. We were also able to network with other practitioners.” – Beth Persky, Esq.
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“Very knowledgeable. Good presentation [by Carl Shusterman].”
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Agnieszka Dolinska, Esq.
Managing Attorney/Certified Legal Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law
Wilner & O’Reilly, APLC
Aggie Dolinska is the Managing Attorney at the Riverside Office of Wilner & O’Reilly. She is Board Certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California’s Bureau of Legal Specialization. Ms. Dolinska’s immigration practice involves all areas of Immigration and Nationality Law, including family and employment-based immigration, non-immigrant visas, removal defense, litigation, and asylum law. Ms. Dolinska is currently the head of the litigation and deportation department in our office. Her removal defense practice includes representing clients in proceedings before the Immigration Court and on appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Dolinska graduated magna cum laude from Boise State University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice Administration and minor emphasis on drug and alcohol studies. She earned her Juris Doctor degree in 2001 from Brigham Young University, where she was a senior editor of the BYU Education and Law Journal and a member of the International Moot Court and American Inn of Court No. 1. While in law school, Ms. Dolinska worked as a legal intern for the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Boise, Idaho, and completed a summer externship with Judge Daniel T. Eismann of the Idaho Fourth District Court in Boise. Ms. Dolinska also participated in the Woody Deem Trial Advocacy Competition and Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Prior to her practice in immigration law, Ms. Dolinska practiced civil ligation in Utah.
Ms. Dolinska is admitted to both the State Bar of California and the State Bar of Utah. She is also admitted to the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She is also a member of the Orange County Bar Association and J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Orange County Chapter.
As a native of Poland, Ms. Dolinska has had personal experiences with the immigration system in the United States. Because of those experiences, she offers a unique perspective and understanding to the clients of Wilner & O’Reilly. Ms. Dolinska is fluent in English and Polish.
Farnoush Farzad, Esq.
Certified Legal Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law
Law Offices of Farnoush Farzad
Farnoush Farzad is a California State Bar Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. He graduated from the University of California at Irvine with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Cum Laude), and earned his Juris Doctrate from Southwestern University School of Law. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1998, and has since devoted his practice exclusively to immigration and nationality law. After working as a Senior Associate at an AV rated immigration law firm for over seven years, he founded the firm where he currently serves as principal counsel.
Over the course of his practice, he has handled a large volume of diverse immigration cases ranging from large multinational accounts to deportation litigation, and has secured hundreds of approved cases on behalf of his clients. As an expert in immigration law, he has lectured at legal seminars and organizational events on various topics, from employment based visas to immigration reform. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Amnesty International, and the California State Bar.
Susan S. Han, Esq.
Founder/Certified Legal Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law
Han Law Group
Ms. Susan S. Han is the founder and owner of Han Law Group, Immigration Attorneys. She has been practicing immigration law since 1998 and has vast experience in handling all aspects of immigration law including family-based petitions, business immigration, deportation and removal, asylum, U-visas, TPS, citizenship and naturalization, and appeals at all levels.
In addition to her practice, Ms. Han has been an adjunct professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and is a frequent guest speaker on immigration topics for various bar organization such as the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
Ms. Han received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law where she earned the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law.
Amy Lenhert, Esq.
Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP
Amy Lenhert has expertise in a broad range immigration matters and is a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. She has successfully litigated cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts of California, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C.
In addition to her federal court practice, Amy has represented clients in removal proceedings throughout the United States; assisting her clients in obtaining cancellation of removal for lawful permanent residents, cancellation of removal for nonresidents, waivers for fraud and criminal convictions, and applications for asylum. She has successfully represented clients with administrative appeals to both the Board of Immigration Appeals and the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office.
Amy also regularly represents individuals in connection with family-based visa petitions, unlawful presence waivers, applications for naturalization, and complex citizenship claims.
Amy believes strongly in the importance of giving back, and regularly provides pro bono legal services through a variety of organizations. She serves on the advisory committee for the Los Angeles office of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization dedicated to ensuring that no child appears in immigration court without legal representation.
Amy received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in 2003.
She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Los Angeles Bar Association, and the Federal Bar Association.
Claribel Madueña, Esq.
Law Office of Claribel P. Madueña, P.C.
Claribel Palacios Madueña, Esq. earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. She became an immigration attorney shortly after she graduated from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in 2009. Ms. Madueña has gained extensive experience in a wide range of immigration cases and has successfully guided hundreds of individuals through the very complicated and stressful immigration process.
Throughout her legal career, Ms. Madueña has been fearless in her pursuit to achieve the best results for her clients. Ms. Madueña did not always know that she would practice immigration law, but she always knew that she wanted to be an attorney. From a very young age, she possessed a strong sense of justice and the desire to help others. Additionally, as the daughter of parents that immigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua and El Salvador, Attorney Madueña can relate to the immigrant community. Helping families remain together and giving them hope for the future is not only rewarding, but also fuels her drive to be an effective advocate.
Ms. Madueña generously donates her time to immigration legal clinics held by various non-profit organizations all over the Bay Area. In addition, she provides continuing education opportunities for the immigrant community, and conducts seminars/workshops for potential clients, employers, and third-party administrators on a regular basis.
During her free-time, Ms. Madueña enjoys spending time with her husband, Anthoney, and their dog, Lola. She also likes to read, stay active, go to the beach, and travel. As the daughter of a retired U.S. Navy Seabee, she has traveled the globe and speaks Spanish fluently and is proficient in Italian.
Alary E. Piibe, Esq.
Partner/Certified Legal Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law
Hill & Piibe, Immigration Attorneys
Alary E. Piibe is a long-time litigator and certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization who has developed keen and aggressive courtroom skills. Mr. Piibe prides himself as a formidable strategist who will make persuasive, effective presentations, and who represents his clients in a straightforward manner before US ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security), US CIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security) and the Immigration Court. This litigation style translates into a benefit for his clients, and helps cause the government to make a thorough and careful consideration of the cases during the adjudication process.
Mr. Piibe has considerable experience in applying for waivers for unlawful presence (otherwise known as “3/10 waivers” or “illegal presence” waivers). He treats each case as unique and devotes many firm resources in an “all-out” effort to obtain a successful conclusion that reunites a family. He is especially adept at criminal immigration issues, understanding the nuances that can mean the difference between success and deportation. Under his guidance, the firm has vacated numerous criminal convictions to cancel their effect on deportation and removal.
Mr. Piibe’s experience before the Asylum Office and the Immigration Court gives his clients additional protection, and he has won several asylum cases involving complicated and technical issues, which most immigration attorneys would have declared hopeless. Mr. Piibe is a member of both the California State Bar as well as the federal District Courts, enabling him great latitude to appear in any Court to pursue his clients’ needs.
Carl Shusterman, Esq.
Law Offices of Carl Shusterman
Mr. Shusterman is a 1973 graduate of the UCLA School of Law. He served as an attorney for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) until 1982 when he entered the private practice of law. He is authorized to practice before the Supreme Court of California, the Federal District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Shusterman is a former chairman of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Southern California Chapter and served as a member of AILA’s National Board of Governors (1988-97). He has chaired numerous AILA Committees, spoken at dozens of AILA Conferences and has contributed a number of scholarly articles to AILA’s publications.
Mr. Shusterman is a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law, State Bar of California. He has served as a member of the Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Commission for the State Bar. Each year since 2002, he has been voted as a Super Lawyer in Southern California by his colleagues in the bar. For each of the past 10 years, Mr. Shusterman has been voted as one of the Best Lawyers of America. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers.
Mr. Shusterman is a frequent writer and lecturer on immigration law. His articles, letters to the editor and quotes have appeared in such prestigious publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Canada’s Globe and Mail, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Lawyer, Journal of the American Medical Association, Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic Monthly, Computer World, Information Week, Issues in Science and Technology, Variety, and numerous other publications. He has written for, and been quoted extensively in, leading periodicals specializing in immigration law including Interpreter Releases, Immigration Law and Procedure, Immigration Briefings, Inside Immigration, Immigration Journal and U.S. Immigrant Magazine. In addition, he has appeared on various television programs including NBC’s Today Show, CNN’s Headline News, the Nightly News with Peter Jennings and on a wide variety of nationally syndicated radio shows.
Mr. Shusterman has testified as an expert witness before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee in Washington, D.C.
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Newborns after the earthquake: "For this kid, we must live our life!"
For most survivors of the disaster 10 years ago, it was like a permanent scar. Yet they are grateful for surviving.
For some of them, however, the aftermath still causes suffering. They are parents who lost their only child in the earthquake.
Photo courtesy of VCG
According to statistics, children of nearly 8,000 families were lost or maimed in the disaster.
That was what Wen Zhiquan and Chen Guifang experienced. The couple were ordinary farmers in Yangliuping, a village near Beichuan. In 2008, their nine-year-old daughter was in the third grade of primary school. She was the apple in the eye of the whole family.
When it happened, Wen went to look for his daughter immediately. He saved 10 people along the way, but saw no signs of his daughter.
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Nine days later, Wen was interviewed on the debris of his house. Beside the bonfire, he said: "I have no regrets."
"My daughter was in the third grade. Were she to write a composition, the title would be 'My Father'."
After Chen recovered from the injuries, the couple began to rebuild their home.
"We've got two things to do," says Wen, "A new house, and a new family." The house seems hollow, and there isn't much sense of purpose for the couple without a kid running about.
He much loved making money. But after that, money is not that important for him: "The key is confidence."
In 2009, Chen became pregnant again. In the examination room of the village clinic, Wen couldn't stop grinning: "The baby is fine. I only wish it to be healthy and lively."
Eventually, the couple fulfilled their wish. Their second daughter was born, and they named her Wen Yi. When she was only three-year- old, she loved to run and pull a cart in the courtyard, or to feed kittens with grass. Wen Zhiquan would take her everywhere.
She turned nine this year, the same age of her sister that she would never meet.
"We still miss her. Seeing other children of her age, we'd think that she would have been in college by now," says Wen, "For the sake of Yi, we have to go back to normal life as soon as possible."
"We shall raise her well, and let her grow up safe and sound," says Chen.
"Dear sister," Wen Yi writes in a letter, "Mom is the same as always, helping me with my homework after doing chores. Dad goes to work every day, and comes back to spray pesticide and trim the trees.”
The late girl loved Barbies. On her anniversary, the family picked a big Barbie doll for her.
"Dear sister, we come to see you. The whole family misses you so much. We are fine." They burn the letter together with paper money and the doll for her.
At the end of 2015, 3,542 children were born in the same situation as Wen Yi. They've brought new hope to over 3,000 broken families.
The story is one in The 1.3 Billion series exploring the diverse lives that make up China.
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A JPMorgan analyst's love story
Gers, where Antollini is now based
In two months, it will be a year since Isabella Antollini left JPMorgan. She wasn't there long - Antollini joined JPM as an equity research analyst in the summer of 2017 and left a year later. Now aged just 24 she's running a business employing 16 people. With her 23 year-old fiancé. In rural France.
"We are young," says Antollini. "And we're some of the youngest people to take over a company like this....It was always my partner's goal to come back to his native place and take over a business. It just happened very early on."
Antolllini's fiancé is Henry Soulhol, a former associate at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. The two met during their Masters course at the London School of Economics in 2017 and lived apart while they worked in finance in Singapore and London. Now they're together all the time, in a picturesque town called Condom in Southern France.
Antollini and Soulhol's new business is Aurian, a maker of fortified wines and spirits. Soulhol, whose family own a farm in region, is CEO. Antollini is a director focused on provisioning and exports. She plans to bring Aurian's artisanal liquors to the rest of Europe and Asia.
"When I went into banking, I thought I'd spent at least five years there," says Antollini. "My plan was to go into the buy-side or at least to become an associate. Everyone was surprised that I was leaving very early on, but my time at the bank was crucial to what I'm doing now. - I learned what a financial statement is and how it links to the underlying company and how the two financial statements work with each other."
Aurian has been in existence for over 40 years. - Soulhol's family helped buy the company from the founder when he retired late last year. Most of the employees are older than Antollini and Soulhol, but she says they keep a "respectful distance," and that winning over the trust and confidence of the existing staff might be perceived as a challenge.
Given the well-documented difficulties finding and sustaining a relationship when you're a junior finance professional, Antollini and Soulhol seem to be living the dream. Antollini says former colleagues from the JPMorgan analyst class have come to Condom and expressed a mixture of "jealousy and astonishment": "The lifestyle here is very different. The quality of life is different and the pace is different."
This doesn't mean it's easy. Antollini and Soulhol now run a large factory. "I am probably putting it in more hours now than I did in banking," says Antollini. "But every minute we put into this is really for the good of the company."
And despite the hard work, Antollini says staying in banking wasn't really an option. "I joined right at the time when MiFID II came into place and was seeing people leave in the morning and not come back in the afternoon because they'd been let go.
"I was very much aware of where equity research was going and of the risks I might encounter one or two years into the future."
"My banking technology job was all about innovating through bureaucracy"
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Sean Lennon tours his psychedelic new sound
Sean Lennon with Charlotte Kemp Muhl
Posted By: admin June 2, 2014
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, a collaboration with his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, makes two stops in Toronto this month, including Tuesday at the Hoxton.
By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Mon Jun 02 2014
Three albums deep into The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the musical venture he shares with Atlanta-born model and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Sean Lennon says the first two don’t count.
Lennon, 38, son of late Beatle John and avant-garde artist and musician Yoko Ono, and brother of Julian, says the duo’s recently released Midnight Sun on their own Chimera label is more representative of their artistry than the sweet pop vagaries and harmonies of 2010’s Acoustic Sessions and 2012’s La Carotte Bleue.
Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger’s Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl
Sporting an adventurous psychedelic pop feel worthy of Sgt. Pepper, with Kemp Muhl and Lennon imbuing Midnight Sun’s dozen songs with self-taught instruments that include vibraphone, kalimba and calliope, Lennon calls the album “a more accurate vision of GOASTT.” It’s a vision they’ll project in concert at the Hoxton on Tuesday and again when they return to Toronto opening for Beck at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on June 27.
“The first two things we published were never our intention of how we wanted to represent ourselves as a band,” Lennon said from an Omaha tour stop Thursday.
“They came about because of other reasons. For example, The Acoustic Sessions was a series of demos our manager thought we should put out as a barebones introduction to the band, a ‘meet the GOASTT’ type of thing.
“La Carotte Bleue, which we never really intended to release, was put together as something to sell for this arena tour as openers in France. Both of those albums felt like a parenthetical footnote leading to this one, the first proper album.
“They’re not fully realized ideas and I think it’s obvious. As long as people don’t think they are, then we’re fine.”
In fact, Lennon, who shares lead vocal duties on the road with Kemp Muhl while he plays guitar and she plays bass, says that even he is discovering further nuances in Midnight Sun as they tour as a six-piece.
“I think a lot of the reason we wind up playing everything ourselves is just out of habit,” he explains. “It can get a little insular and you wind up uninspired because you can only go as far as your hands can take you.
“When you bring in people as talented as our band, you bring in a lot of energy, ideas and excitement. So I would say I’d prefer playing our songs live to the album: not only because we’ve had more time to live with them, but also because these guys are so good and they bring a lot of magic.”
Lennon, who has released five albums as a solo artist and worked with Cibo Matto, also says he’s usually not comfortable with any batch of released songs until he’s deep into the tour schedule.
“Every record I’ve made, I know how the songs go after the second tour,” he admits. “It gets very frustrating because you put out the album, do one tour, and then by the end of the second tour, you start to feel like, ‘Oh, this is how the song should really go.’ So I’m always chasing my tail in that way.
“If you look at the ’60s and ’70s, bands would be trying out material on the road, and then go into the studio and play it when they’re really hot and the music is well-rehearsed. But I’ve never been in that situation.”
Nor is he likely to be, with today’s prevalence of cell phone video and instant YouTube posts.
“You can’t play all your new material live, or else it’ll be published each night on YouTube or cellphone videos or whatever. If you want to have an album of new material, you sort of have to keep it to yourself.”
Manhattan-based Lennon and Kemp Muhl first met at the Coachella festival in 2004, and he says the couple probably wouldn’t be together if they weren’t collaborating.
“Our romance and our creative relationship are really, really intertwined,” he explains. “In our case, I don’t think we would have had a relationship at all if we didn’t have the band, because I would have been off touring (2006’s) Friendly Fire and Charlotte would have been off modeling in some other country. We just wouldn’t have seen each other.
“So for us, it was a necessity. We didn’t have a choice. If we wanted to date, we had to start working professionally together on something. We don’t live in one city long enough to have the kind of relationship that happens between 5 p.m. and midnight.”
Lennon calls Kemp Muhl “lyrically far beyond me.”
“She has more lyrical ideas than anyone I’ve ever known. She’s a very good writing partner and has really opened up and inspired me, more than anyone ever has in my life.”
Almost everyone: Sean does admit that his famous father John played a defining role in his career choice.
“The only reason I play music is because my dad was a musician,” Lennon states. “I doubt I would have done it if he hadn’t been. I grew up immersed in music because of him. If he had been a plumber, I would have done something else.”
But since John was a musician, and mom Yoko an artist, Sean says music “has always been such an inherent part of every aspect of my life.”
“I grew up with music just everywhere, and it was sort of like a religion: music and art were above all things,” he says.
“In my family, familial and personal relationships are less important than art. That was the standard of morality I was raised with: that music and art were the only reasons to live. That’s how I was brought up.”
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Stanford trustees approve 2016-17 tuition and reaffirm the university’s financial aid commitment
Categories: Finances at Stanford
The Stanford University Board of Trustees has approved a 3.5 percent increase in undergraduate tuition for the 2016-17 school year and has reaffirmed its commitment to keeping a Stanford education accessible through need-blind admission and affordable through a generous, need-based financial aid program.
Total undergraduate charges will increase to $62,541 next year, including $47,331 for tuition, $14,601 for room and board, and $609 for a mandatory health fee.
Most students will pay far less, due to Stanford’s generous financial aid program, which bridges the gap between the total cost and a family’s ability to pay. The need-based aid program is designed to ensure that a family’s economic circumstances will not prevent qualified students from enrolling.
Steven A. Denning, chair of the Board of Trustees, said the financial aid program will help blunt the impact of the modest tuition increase, which is needed to maintain Stanford’s exceptional undergraduate academic programs.
“Since we instituted the financial aid program in 2008, the net price of a Stanford education, adjusted for inflation, has been flat,” Denning said. (The net price is the price that students pay, on average, after grants and scholarships are taken into account.)
“Two out of three students receive financial aid from Stanford and outside sources, and most students graduate debt-free. The university is doing everything it can to keep a Stanford education affordable.”
Under the financial aid program, which Stanford expanded in 2015, Stanford will continue to provide free tuition for typical parents with incomes below $125,000. Typical parents with incomes below $65,000 are not expected to pay tuition, mandatory fees, room or board.
Since 2008, Stanford’s need-based financial aid program has also benefited most families with higher incomes by reducing the amount the university expected parents and students to contribute toward education costs.
Freshmen who were awarded need-based aid are now receiving an average amount of $49,220 in scholarships and grants, including an average scholarship of $43,628 from Stanford.
Currently, 58 percent of undergraduates receive need-based or athletic scholarship aid from Stanford. A total of 69 percent receive financial aid from either Stanford or external sources.
When tuition rises, Stanford increases the financial aid it provides to students, depending on a family’s financial circumstances, to preserve affordability throughout their undergraduate years.
Stanford’s financial aid program also helps ensure that most Stanford undergraduate students graduate debt-free.
Nearly eight out of every 10 students in the Class of 2015 – 78 percent – graduated free of debt. Of the 22 percent who graduated with some debt, the median amount was $16,417.
Over the last decade, the amount that students chose to borrow, adjusted for inflation, has gone up only $1,000. Students are not expected to borrow to meet Stanford’s costs, so the decision to borrow is up to individual students and families.
Students are expected to contribute at least $5,000 per year from their earnings during the summer and part-time campus jobs during the school year. The student responsibility will remain constant in 2016-17 for the fifth year in a row.
At its Feb. 22-23 meeting, trustees also approved a 3.9 percent tuition increase in 2016-17 for first-year MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The tuition for general graduate tuition and other graduate and professional programs, which have different tuition prices, will all increase by 3.5 percent next year. Detailed information on graduate tuition will be posted on the registrar’s website.
Tuition provides half of Stanford’s $1.3 billion general funds budget, which finances many of the university’s core academic and administrative functions. The general funds budget helps fund, among other things, the undergraduate financial aid program, faculty and staff salaries, student services and the purchase of materials for Stanford’s two-dozen libraries.
The Campus Health Service Fee, a mandatory fee for all students on the main campus, will increase to $203 per quarter in 2016-17, compared with $197 per quarter this year.
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Princess Parrot, Bloedel Conservatory, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The Princess Parrot is native Central and West Australia but today is rarely seen in the wild. It's also known as a Princess of Wales Parrot, Queen Alexandra parakeet, Spinifex parrot, Rose-Throated Parrot, or Splendor Parrot. Bloedel Conservatory, Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Address: 4600 Cambie St. Bloedel Conservatory is a domed lush paradise where you can experience the colors and scents of the tropics year-round, within Queen Elizabeth Park, atop the City of Vancouver’s highest point. A former rock quarry has been converted into beautiful Queen Elizabeth Park with flower gardens, public art, grassy knolls. In Bloedel Conservatory, more than 200 free-flying exotic birds, 500 exotic plants and flowers thrive within a temperature-controlled environment. A donation from Prentice Bloedel built the domed structure, which was dedicated in 1969 "to a better appreciation and understanding of the world of plants," and is jointly operated by Vancouver Park Board and VanDusen Botanical Garden Association.
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664 F. 2d 936 - Mercury Construction Corporation Mercury Construction Corporation v. Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital
Federal Reporter, Second Series
664 F.2d.
664 F2d 936 Mercury Construction Corporation Mercury Construction Corporation v. Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital
In re MERCURY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Petitioner.
MERCURY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Appellant,
The MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Appellee.
Nos. 81-1009, 81-1042.
Fourth Circuit.
Argued June 1, 1981.
Decided Nov. 24, 1981.
DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.
Upon consideration of the petition for rehearing, and with the concurrence of the active Circuit Judges, except Judge WIDENER and Judge HALL, who dissent from the denial of the petition,
IT IS ORDERED, That the petition for rehearing be, and it is hereby denied.
WIDENER, Circuit Judge, dissenting:
I respectfully dissent to the denial of rehearing in this case.
As I have previously pointed out in dissent, the basic theme of the majority opinion, 4 Cir., 656 F.2d 933, is its lack of confidence in the North Carolina courts to enforce the Federal Arbitration Act. At the time the case was decided and the majority opinion was filed, I thought that lack of confidence was without foundation, and so expressed myself.
Unknown to us at the time the case was decided, but following argument, the Supreme Court of North Carolina had decided the case of Burke County Public Schools, etc. v. Shaver, etc., --- N.C. ----, 279 S.E.2d 816 (1981). Burke was a case on facts indistinguishable from those now before us and is one of the very cases1 relied on by the majority to illustrate why the North Carolina courts would not try this case under federal substantive law (the Federal Arbitration Act).
The gist of the majority decision here as shown by the opinion itself is as follows:
"This is a case where it can be fairly said to be doubtful whether the rights of Mercury as fixed by 'federal substantive law' will be recognized in the state court." P. 946.
Contrast that statement of North Carolina law as expressed in the majority opinion with North Carolina law as expressed by the North Carolina Supreme Court in Burke:
"This appeal presents two questions. First, whether the contract between plaintiff and defendant is 'a contract evidencing a transaction involving commerce' within the meaning of § 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act. (Footnote omitted) We conclude that it is. Second, whether the Federal Arbitration Act must be applied in state courts. We hold, for reasons given, that it must." 279 S.E.2d at p. 817.
Not only was the holding of the North Carolina Supreme Court that which I have just quoted, the opinion goes on in detail to provide as follows:
"... Parties in a state court to a contract evidencing an interstate transaction should not be permitted to avoid arbitration when, had the action been brought in federal court, they would have been compelled to arbitrate. This much flows from the denomination of compulsory arbitration as a matter of substantive, rather than procedural, law." 279 S.E.2d at 824-825, note 16.
Additionally, the court in Burke not only held, p. 825, that the contract in question "must be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the federal act," as one of the reasons therefor it gave that the application of the federal substantive law "discourages 'forum shopping' ". Burke, p. 824.
Thus, the recent decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court, coming as it did after argument in this case but before decision, although unbeknownst to us at that time, but known to us prior to the time this order is entered denying rehearing, should have disabused this court of any notions it may have had that the North Carolina courts would not follow the federal substantive law. To deny rehearing in this case, even without mention of the reversal of one of the cases on which it principally depends, I find inexplicable.
The upshot of this case is that our court is treating a cause of action concerning the Federal Arbitration Act in many respects as general federal question litigation, which it is not, rather than as diversity litigation, which it is.
I am authorized to state that Judge HALL joins in this dissent.
DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
The dissent to the denial of rehearing of the en banc opinion herein misconceives the real reason on which that opinion rests and, unfortunately, would find the rationale for such opinion to be a "lack of confidence in the North Carolina courts to enforce the Federal Arbitration Act." The apparent basis for this conclusion is the discussion in the opinion of an issue which, though of importance, was not the decisive point. This issue related to whether the contract in this case was in interstate commerce. At the time the majority opinion was distributed the only decisions from a North Carolina appellate court on this question were the two decisions of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina cited in the majority opinion.1 These decisions held that a contract such as that involved here was not in interstate commerce. We noted that fact and did suggest that such a construction of the contract was plainly erroneous. Fortunately, the North Carolina Supreme Court, in a decision which reviewed the issue with painstaking care has corrected the error of the Court of Appeals.2 But the dissent seems to assume by this decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court, the ratio decidendi of the majority opinion is completely undermined. This is in error, as a reading of the majority opinion will demonstrate.
The real issue in this case was: Under what circumstances is it appropriate for a federal court to stay its hand in favor of adjudication by a state court, where the point is the application of federal law. We concluded in the majority opinion "that," in the words of Will, "a federal court being seized of jurisdiction of a case, (is) not to stay its proceedings in deference to a state court action involving the same issues unless there (are) 'exceptional circumstances' justifying such stay ...."3 And, as Justice Blackmun pointed out in what was the prevailing opinion in Will,4 this requirement of "exceptional circumstances" is particularly rigorous if the "case turns on federal issues," as it does here. That was the controlling rule accepted by the majority in this case. Applying it to the facts of this case, we concluded:
"Unlike Judge Will in Calvert, the district court (in this case) found 'no exceptional circumstances' justifying a departure from the Colorado River (Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483) rule of 'unflagging obligation' of the federal court to maintain federal jurisdiction, despite the pendency in state court of a similar action between the parties. Without such finding of 'exceptional circumstances,' the district court had no right to stay the federal proceedings in this case."Such was the heart of our decision; such was the basis upon which it was decided. There was in this reasoning no expression of a "lack of confidence in North Carolina courts" faithfully to discharge their duty and we deplore any suggestion to that effect, especially because of the mutual respect that has always marked our relations with the North Carolina courts. It was, on the contrary, merely an application of what we conceived to be the prevailing opinion in Will.
The majority opinion relied on the decision in the North Carolina intermediate court of appeals which was reversed by the decision referred to in this paragraph
Burke Cty. Pub. Sch. Bd. of Ed. v. Shaver Partner., 46 N.C.App. 573, 265 S.E.2d 481 (1980); Bryant-Durham Elec. v. Durham County Hospital, 256 S.E.2d 529 (42 N.C.App. 351, 1979)
Burke County Public Schools, etc. v. Shaver, etc., 279 S.E.2d 816 (1981)
Pp. 943-44
Will v. Calvert Fire Ins. Co., 437 U.S. 655, 667-68, 98 S.Ct. 2552, 2559-60, 57 L.Ed.2d 504 (1978)
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It’s That Pesky Prisoner Abuse Scandal Again
by William Fisher Posted on August 03, 2005 August 7, 2009
As the U.S. Congress left town for its August vacation, the George W. Bush administration was congratulating itself on its legislative victories.
But when Congress returns in September aside from the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts to be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court it will be facing multiple political tsunamis: reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, immigration reform, and consideration of the $491 billion defense bill.
Picking up consideration of the defense bill which includes $50 billion for U.S. troops in Iraq is likely to cause widespread White House heartburn. Lively debate was already well underway when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican from Tennessee, abruptly pulled the bill from consideration.
The reason was White House hostility to amendments setting standards for the treatment of enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other military detention centers. The White House let it be known that the president would veto the defense-spending legislation if this provision was included in final legislation.
But White House angst about this amendment does not come from the usual suspects the Democrats. Its authors are leading Republicans, including Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, a former military judge, and Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
McCain had been working with Graham and with Sen. John Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, to respond to widely publicized cases of prisoner abuse. They proposed to set specific standards for the treatment of foreign detainees.
The McCain-Graham-Warner amendment would require that the U.S. Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation cover prisoners in military custody.
McCain said, "The Army Field Manual and its various editions have served America well, through wars against both regular and irregular foes. I think we all agree to fight terrorism we must obtain intelligence."
"But we have to ensure that it is reliable and acquired in a way that is humane. To do otherwise not only offends our national morals but undermines our efforts to protect the nation’s security."
Together with Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, they also introduced an amendment that would prohibit cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment of prisoners and would require the United States to abide by the Geneva Convention and other international agreements on the treatment of prisoners.
The two amendments would probably have received substantial Democratic support, giving them a strong chance of passing in the Republican-controlled Senate.
McCain, a leading sponsor of the interrogation-standard amendment, said, "We need to make sure that every member of the Department of Defense understands the procedures that are being used in interrogation and we don’t have a repetition of Abu Ghraib," referring to the prison in Iraq that became synonymous with detainee abuse.
Rachel Meeropol, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, told IPS, "The administration’s actions in authorizing and condoning torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment are clearly illegal, and contrary to American ideals."
"Continuing to ignore the abuses being carried out puts detainees, American soldiers, and even all of us at home in jeopardy. It is long past time to act, and the American people should demand a thorough inquiry, all the way up the chain of command. "
"These senators sent a message that until the Senate deals directly with the issues of interrogation and detainee treatment, the DOD bill will not get through the Senate," said Elisa Massimino, Washington director of Human Rights First, a group advocating stricter rules for handling prisoners.
Pressure on the senators to back off came from Vice President Dick Cheney, among others. The White House issued a policy statement saying, "The administration strongly opposes such amendments, which would interfere with the protection of Americans from terrorism by diverting resources from the war to answer unnecessary or duplicative inquiry or by restricting the president’s ability to conduct the war effectively under existing law."
In support of his amendment, McCain read from a July 22 letter signed by 14 retired military officers, including Marine Gen. Joseph Hoar, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, and Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, the Navy’s judge advocate general from 1997 to 2000.
"The abuse of prisoners hurts America’s cause in the war on terror, endangers U.S. service members who might be captured by the enemy and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations," the letter stated.
A third amendment was introduced by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, to set up an independent commission to study reports of abuse at military detention facilities. Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, said he was considering support for an independent investigation.
Sentiment favoring such an investigation has slowly been gathering steam in Congress, since legislation was introduced last January by Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Sen. Graham charged that the White House and the Pentagon had issued confusing and contradictory directives regarding detainee treatment.
"Our people are trained to do it one way; you’re confusing the heck out of them. And what have we learned in the last two years? If you know what the rules are about interrogating anybody, come tell me, because I can’t figure it out," he said.
The White House view was articulated by conservative Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who said, "I reject the idea that this Defense Department and our Army and our military is out of control, is confused about what their powers and duties and responsibilities are."
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Orsu Metals Corporation Announces Exclusive and Binding Heads of Agreement for the Proposed Acquisition of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project in Russia
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Highlights of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project
Transaction: Orsu Metals Corporation (“Orsu” or the “Company”) has agreed to acquire, subject to the conditions as described in this release, the Sergeevskoe Gold Project located in the Mogocha District of the Zabaikal’skiy Region of the Russian Federation.
The Russian style P1 to P3 categories: The most recent study conducted in July 2016, prior to discussions with Orsu, estimated a total of 29.736 million tonnes of mineralization in several prospects within the Sergeevskoe license area with a total of 59.31 tonnes (approximately 1.91 million ounces) of gold to a depth of 100 metres.
A long-established gold-mining province: the area around the Sergeevskoe Project is a known host to a cluster of producing gold deposits. The Sergeevskoe Gold Project has a common license border with the Klyuchevskoe gold mine immediately to the east of Sergeevskoe, which contains 4 million ounces in Russian-style A+B+C1 and C2 categories. To the west, it neighbours the recently commissioned Alexandrovskoe open-pit operating mine with Russian- style resources in excess of 2 million ounces of gold.
Excellent infrastructure: the Project is located in an economically developed area of Russia with ready access to all significant infrastructure: (1) federal highway M58 is approximately 8 kilometres away, (2) the Trans-Siberian railway is approximately 35 kilometres away; and (3) access to the national electricity grid. Water is readily available in the area, as is a local skilled labour force.
Analogous deposit nearby: the Klyuchevskoe mine has produced over 1.3 million ounces of gold in its history. The Klyuchevskoe mine hosts an analogous mineralization and historical information published about that mine greatly helps to evaluate the geological and metallurgical risks of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project. According to the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Agency, the Klyuchevskoe mine is in the advanced stages of being sold to China National Gold Group. (See footnote 4.)
The Sergeevskoe Gold Project has extensive historical exploration data: In Soviet times the project was extensively explored with, inter alia, approximately 8 500 meters of drilling performed and 16 200 meters of trenches excavated. Historical exploration works at the 7.6 km2 license area of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project identified intrusion-hosted gold mineralization over an area of 5x2.2 km (including a 1.1 km2 license area of the Klyuchevskoe gold deposit). In its eastern part, the historically identified mineralization forms a western continuation of the orebodies extending from the Klyuchevskoe deposit, with most prospective mineralization identified at the Zone 23 and Kozie occurrences.
At the Zone 23 occurrence, Soviet era drilling intercepted wide intervals of gold mineralization.
Historical hole C-222 intercepted mineralized intervals (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes per tonne of gold) of:
3 metres grading 0.63 grammes of gold per tonne (from 46 metres); and
38 metres grading 1.48 grammes of gold per tonne (from 58 metres), including:
6.5 m grading 2.23 grammes of gold per tonne (from 62 metres),
3.0 m grading 2.97 grammes of gold per tonne (from 84 metres).
Historical hole C-215 intercepted five mineralized intervals (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne) of:
3.5 metres grading 0.86 grammes of gold per tonne (from 16.5 metres); and
31.6 metres grading 1.2 grammes of gold per tonne (from 54.1 metres), including:
5.5 m grading 2.13 grammes of gold per tonne (from 63.1 metres),
2.0 m grading 1.30 grammes of gold per tonne (from 70.6 metres); and
44.8 metres grading 0.82 grammes of gold per tonne (from 95 metres), including:
4.0 m grading 1.73 grammes of gold per tonne (from 101.2 metres),
3.8 m grading 1.30 grammes of gold per tonne (from 135 metres); and
27.5 metres grading 0.71 grammes of gold per tonne (from 167.5 metres), including:
5.0 m grading 1.26 grammes of gold per tonne (from 176.5 metres).
At the Kozie occurrence, historical drillholes intercepted (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne):
7.5 metres (from 65 metres) grading 2.59 grammes of gold per tonne in hole C-140;
7.5 metres (from 125 metres) grading 1.53 grammes of gold per tonne in hole C-141.
At the Karamaevskoe occurrence, historical hole C-197 intercepted a mineralized interval (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne) of:
20.0 metres grading 1.55 grammes of gold per tonne (from 28 metres).
All potential quantities and grades referred to in this announcement are conceptual in nature; there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.
The results referred to are primarily based on historical data prepared between 40 and 60 years ago, and as such their relevance and reliability may be uncertain. Further analysis will be required, including confirmatory drilling and/or trenching and assays of the core plus updated analysis and assessment of the historical data in order to verify the historical estimates as current mineral resources or reserves.
A qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as current mineral resources or reserves. The Company is not treating the historical estimate as current mineral resources or reserves.
Orsu, the London-based TSX listed company (TSX: OSU), today announces that it has entered into Exclusive and Binding Heads of Agreement (“Heads of Agreement”) for the potential acquisition of 100% of Sibzoloto Investments Limited (“Sibzoloto”), a Cyprus registered company which is the sole owner of LLC GK Alexandrovskoe (“LLC GK Alexandrovskoe”), which in turn is the sole holder of the Sergeevskoe licence area in the Russian Federation (“Sergeevskoe Project”), from two arm’s length parties, (1) Metalsib Group (BVI) (“Metalsib”) and (2) OC Management Group (BVI) (“Olympia Capital”); (Metalsib and Olympia Capital, together defined as the “Sellers”).
Summary of the Heads of Agreement
The following sets out the key terms of the Heads of Agreement, which will be filed on the Company’s SEDAR profile:
Orsu has agreed to acquire:
100% of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project via the acquisition of Sibzoloto, and
100% of a nearby work camp via the acquisition of LLC Davenda, a company under effective control of the Sellers,
(the “Proposed Transaction”) conditional upon good faith negotiation of formal definitive sale and purchase documentation (including a formal sale and purchase agreement), and completion of due diligence, for the consideration set out below. The exclusivity period runs until January 31, 2017 (“Exclusivity Period”) and may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.
The consideration for Sibzoloto will be the issue of new common shares of Orsu as follows:
The Company will issue 146,605,683 new common shares in Orsu to the Sellers for the acquisition of 30% of the outstanding shares of Sibzoloto at closing such that, post-closing, the Sellers will own approximately 44.5% of the enlarged share capital of Orsu (or 42.5% of the total enlarged and fully diluted share capital of Orsu, assuming exercise of all issued and outstanding options). The Sellers shall transfer the remaining 70% of the outstanding shares of Sibzoloto at the time the Company completes the sale of its Karchiga Project (as announced on April 11, 2016).
In the event that the proceeds from the sale of the Karchiga Project are not received by June 30, 2017, the Company will issue a further 378,731,348 common shares of Orsu (the “Top-up Shares”) to the Sellers such that the Sellers will own in aggregate a combined total of 525,337,031 common shares of Orsu or, approximately, 74.2% of the enlarged share capital of Orsu (or 72.5% of the total enlarged and fully diluted outstanding common shares of Orsu, assuming exercise of all issued and outstanding options). The issuance of the Top-up Shares will be conditional upon the Sellers transferring the 700 remaining shares in Sibzoloto such that Orsu owns all 1,000 shares (100%) of Sibzoloto. Any subsequent receipt of proceeds from the sale of the Karchiga Project will inure to the benefit of all shareholders of Orsu as at a date to be established in the definitive sale and purchase documentation (excluding the Sellers).
Orsu will acquire 100% of LLC Davenda, a company under effective control of the Sellers, that owns the fully operational work camp located near the Sergeevskoe Gold Project area for aggregate cash consideration of US$600,000, with US$180,000 to be paid on closing of the Proposed Transaction and the balance of US$420,00 to be paid within ten days after completion of the sale of the Karchiga Project. In the event the sale of the Karchiga Project is not completed by June 30, 2017, the balance of US$420,000 within ten days after June 30, 2017. The acquisition by Orsu of LLC Davenda is inter-conditional with the acquisition by Orsu of Sibzoloto.
The Proposed Transaction will be subject to the completion of technical, legal and financial due diligence by each Party. Orsu’s due diligence requirements will also include the production of a technical report compatible with the requirements of Canadian National Instrument 43-101.
The Proposed Transaction is subject to the following Conditions Precedent:
Execution of a Sale and Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) and definitive documentation;
Necessary approvals, if any, from the Russian Federation for the transfer of ownership of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project to Orsu;
Approval of the Proposed Transaction (including the issue of new shares) by any applicable governmental, corporate and shareholder approvals that may be required for completion of the transaction, including, inter alia, the approval by the Orsu shareholders at a Shareholders’ Meeting;
TSX approval of the Proposed Transaction (including the issue of shares) and any other regulatory approvals required by the TSX or by the applicable securities commissions or regulatory authorities in Canada.
Pursuant to the Heads of Agreement, Orsu has been granted an exclusivity period expiring on January 31, 2017 in order to complete its due diligence and enter into definitive documentation to complete the Proposed Transaction. The Heads of Agreement will automatically terminate on the later of January 31, 2017 or any extension of the Exclusivity Period agreed by the parties. In addition, Orsu has the right to terminate the Heads of Agreement without any obligation at any time during the due diligence process in the event of material adverse finding during the course of such due diligence.
A representative of the Sellers will be granted the right to attend board meetings of Orsu as an observer prior to completion of the Proposed Transaction. Upon completion of the Proposed Transaction, the Sellers will have the right to appoint two directors in total to the Board of Directors of Orsu and the total number of directors of Orsu will be five. The appointment of such directors will be subject to any approvals required by the Toronto Stock Exchange or other applicable regulatory bodies for such individual appointee.
Orsu has agreed not to authorize any additional expenditure over and above current contractual obligations and those required for its ordinary course of business in excess of US$5,000 without the prior written consent of a Representative of the Sellers.
Shortly following completion of the Proposed Transaction, Orsu will make available no less than US$1,500,000 to fund the exploration of the Sergeevskoe Project.
Orsu intends to consolidate its common shares on a ratio of one post-consolidation common share for every ten common shares currently outstanding prior to completion of the Proposed Transaction. The number of common shares of Orsu to be issued as consideration pursuant to the Proposed Transaction will be adjusted according to the final ratio of such share consolidation.
Immediately prior to completion of the Proposed Transaction, Orsu will have a minimum of US$3,000,000 cash and cash equivalents on its books (including the initial payment of US$180,000 in respect of Orsu’s acquisition of Sibzoloto and the total consideration of US$600,000 in respect of Orsu’s acquisition of LLC Davenda).
The structure and form of the Proposed Transaction will be more particularly defined in a formal sale and purchase agreement to be negotiated in good faith and entered into by the parties.
About the Sergeevskoe licence area
The Sergeevskoe licence covers an area of 7.6 km2 and is located approximately 40 km to the southwest of the town of Mogocha, Zabaikal’skiy Region of the Russian Federation. Mogocha is an administrative centre of the Mogocha District and hosts a large railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway which runs within approximately 35 km of the licence area. The newly built Chita-Khabarovsk motorway (M58) is approximately 8 km to the south of the licence area. The distance to the Sergeevskoe Project area from the city of Chita, an administrative centre of the Zabaikal’skiy Region in eastern Siberia, is approximately 650 km.
The Sergeevskoe licence area is located immediately west of the Klyuchevskoe gold deposit (see image below), which is owned by Sun Gold Ltd (“Sun Gold”). According to Dr BI Benevolskiy, who published detailed accounts of historical production of gold in a monograph “Gold of Russia” (Benevolskiy, 2002; see footnote 3), the Klyuchevskoe deposit has historically produced over 1.3 million ounces of gold from an open pit, whose western wall is located 300 metres from the eastern margin of the Sergeevskoe license area. According to public information published by Vestnik Zolotopromyshlennika (Gold Miner Bulletin) on August 31, 2016 (see footnote 4), the Klyuchevskoe deposit has estimated mineral resources containing 47.8 tonnes of gold in Russian style A+B+C1 categories, 26.6 tonnes of gold in Russian style C2 category and 4 tonnes of gold in ‘out of balance’ category, complying with Russian Code for the Public Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, all grading up to 2 grammes of gold per tonne. According to the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Agency, the Klyuchevskoe mine is in the advanced stages of being sold to China National Gold Group (see footnote 4). The nearby Alexandrovskoe gold mine, which was commissioned in September 2013, lies to the west of the Sergeevskoe license area (see image below). Alexandrovskoe Gold Mining Limited has disclosed on its website that in the end of 2012, the Russian style reserves were approved by Protocol No.2853 of the Russian State Reserves Committee, amounting to 7.898 million tonnes in Russian-style С1+С2 categories (balance + off-balance) with 23.894 tonnes (715 381 ounces) of gold grading 2.9 grammes of gold per tonne. Alexandrovskoe Gold
Mining Limited also reported Russian-style resources at Alexandrovskoye ore field estimated to be more than 2 million ounces of gold (see footnote 4).
Orsu conducted a site visit in July 2016 and, based on this and a review of the technical information made available, believes that the geology of the Sergeevskoe Project area is principally similar to the Klyuchevskoe deposit area. Some orebodies from the Klyuchevskoe deposit extend into the Sergeevskoe license area. Granitoid intrusions are a principal host for 150 million years old mineralization.
The Sergeevskoe Project area hosts numerous gold occurrences, discovered and partially drill tested in the 1950s and 1960s, with geophysical and geochemical works performed in the 1970s. No field exploration activity was undertaken from the mid-1980s until 2013, when the Sellers acquired the Sergeevskoe Project via public auction from the Government of the Russian Federation. No approved historical Soviet-style or JORC compliant mineral resources exist for mineral prospects within the Sergeevskoe Project area. However, several reports estimated potential resources of the Sergeevskoe Project area in Russian-style “P” category. These historical estimates, combined for several prospects
within the license area, range from 2 to 4 million ounces of gold grading 1.67 to 1.77 grammes of gold per tonne, which is not compliant to the standards of the Canadian National Instrument 43-101, but can be possibly treated as an indication of exploration potential.
On July 7, 2016 the Technical Board for the Department of Subsoil Usage, Zabaikal’skiy Subsection, Central Siberian Region, Russian Federation has approved Protocol N81 with the Russian-style P1 to P3 categories, containing a total of 29.736 million tonnes of mineralization in several prospects within the Sergeevskoe license area with a total of 59.31 tonnes (approximately 1.91 million ounces) of gold, calculated to a depth of 100 metres. The mineralized system in all prospects remains open to depth.
Historical works included soil-geochemistry sampling at 1:10 000 scale as well as different ground and airborne geophysical surveys resulting in the delineation of a number of gold, copper and molybdenum anomalous areas. The most advanced occurrences include Zone 23, Koziy, Vodorazdelnoe (Peak Klyuchi) and Karamaevskoe (see image above). Gold mineralization is arranged along the 5 km long west-east trending quartz vein-veinlet system, which is often accompanied by alteration (tourmalinization, sericitization) together with primary sulphide mineralization. Judging from a visit to the nearby Klyuchevskoe open pit, primary sulphides are oxidized down to 180 meters, with drilling- confirmed vertical extent of gold mineralization at the Klyuchevskoe deposit to 600 meters.
Numerous trenches (totaling more than 16,200 metres at the Zone 23, Koziy and Vodorazdelnoe (Peak Klyuchi) occurrences) intercepted wide gold-mineralized intervals within a 1 000 x 600 metres west- east trending area in the eastern part of the Sergeevskoe license area, including Zone 23, Kozie and Vodorazdelnoe occurrences. The historically identified mineralized intervals range in width from 2 to 48 metres with grade variations from 1 to 5 grammes per tonne of gold. The 850 metres long historical trench K-679, cross-cutting both the Zone 23 and Kozie occurrences, intercepted several intervals separated by low grade or unmineralized material (from south to the north).
In the south, over 325 metres across Zone 23 occurrence:
2 metres grading 1.0 gramme of gold per tonne, and
24 metres grading 1.4 grammes of gold per tonne, and
2 metres grading 3.2 grammes of gold per tonne, and
48 meters grading 1.7 grammes of gold per tonne, and
4 metres grading 2.1 grammes of gold per tonne.
This was followed by approximately 200 metres of unmineralized interval before reaching the Kozie occurrence, where the same trench intercepted the following intervals over 200 metres across the latter:
1 metre grading 3.0 grammes of gold per tonne, and
Approximately 8 500 meters of drilling was historically completed at the Sergeevskoe Prospect in the 1950s and 1960s, with approximately 4900 metres drilled at Zone 23, Koziy and Vodorazdelnoe (Peak Klyuchi) occurrences and remaining balance drilled at the Karamaevskoe and other occurrences. No drill core from the historical holes is preserved. The reported historical core recoveries were approximately 50 percent. There were also some limited underground developments (shallow shafts and one adit with cross-cuts).
Historical drillholes at Zone 23 returned wide intercepts of gold mineralization. In particular, hole C-222 was drilled in the southern direction at 75 degrees to a depth of 160 metres and intercepted mineralized intervals (greater than 2 metres in thickness at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne) of:
3 metres grading 0.63 grammes of gold per tonne (from 46 metres);
38 metres grading 1.48 grammes of gold per tonne (from 58 metres), Including
Hole C-215, which was drilled to a depth of 200 metres in the southwestern direction at approximately 74 degrees to the surface. This hole intercepted five mineralized intervals (greater than 2 metres in thickness and above 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne cut-off):
The combined width of the mineralized intervals in hole C-215 is 102.4 metres, indicating that more than 50% of the total length of this hole is mineralized above the 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne cut- off.
Historical drillholes at the Kozie occurrence, located some 350 metres north from Zone 23, are also reported to intercept gold mineralization (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne). In particular, historical hole C-140, which was drilled to a depth of 110 metres in the southern direction at approximately 75 degrees to the surface, intercepted 7.5 metres (from 65 metres) grading 2.59 grammes of gold per tonne. Historical hole C-141, which was drilled to a depth of 170 metres in the southern direction at approximately 70 degrees to the surface, intercepted 7.5 metres (from 125 metres) grading 1.53 grammes of gold per tonne. The 15.8 metres deep shallow vertical shaft (N28) intercepted mineralization grading between 0.4 and 4.3 grammes of gold per tonne. Another 25 metres deep shaft (N29) intercepted mineralization grading between 2.4 and 15.2 grammes of gold per tonne.
At the Karamaevskoe occurrence, historical hole C-197 was drilled in the southwestern direction at 70 degrees to a depth of 104 metres and intercepted a wide mineralized interval (at a cut-off of 0.5 grammes of gold per tonne) of 20.0 metres grading 1.55 grammes of gold per tonne (from 28 metres).
Despite promising intercepts, none of the prospects has been systematically drilled.
Orsu collected 15 lump samples during its site visit and inspection of the historical trenches. These samples were submitted by Orsu to the SGS Vostok Limited laboratory (“SGS Vostok”) in Chita, which is a Russian subsidiary of SGS Societe Generale de Surveillance S.A. and member of SGS Group, the inspection, verification, testing and certification company, independent from both Orsu and the Sellers. SGS Vostok has assayed 15 samples, including one field duplicate, but no blanks or external standards were included by Orsu. SGS Vostok used a standard fire assay technique with detection limit of 0.03 grammes of gold per tonne. Of these, 13 assays returned between 0.18 to 5.69 grammes of gold per tonne for samples, generally collected randomly from the mineralized intervals shown on the historical maps for the above-mentioned trench K-679 at Zone 23 and Kozie occurrences. The duplicate samples Ser-003 returned 0.53 and 0.55 grammes of gold per tonne, indicating good correlation for this limited sampling programme.
Dr Sergey V Kurzin, Executive Chairman of Orsu, commented: “I am very excited by this opportunity. Gold is a commodity in which management and partners of Orsu have extensive experience, especially in the Former Soviet Union. We believe that the Sergeevskoe Gold Project has significant potential value to be added. I am looking forward to working with the group of new partners who are also very experienced in Russian gold geology, finance and the industry. The combination of the project’s potential, Orsu competencies and a strong local team will allow us to fast-track the exploration works to its fruition.”
Dr Alexander Yakubchuk, Chief Operating Officer for Orsu and a qualified person as such term is defined in National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the contents of this press release. Dr Alexander Yakubchuk has verified the data disclosed in this press release, including sampling, analytical and test data underlying the information or opinions contained in this news release.
All $ figures are United States Dollars unless otherwise indicated.
Benevolskiy BI, 2002. Gold of Russia: Problems of the Use and Replacement of Mineral Resources. 2nd Revised Edition. Moscow, ZAO Geoinformmark, 464 pp. In Russian.
4 Based on publicly available information, which was not prepared, or independently verified, by Orsu.
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws that reflect the Company’s current expectations regarding future events. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward- looking information. Forward-looking information contained in this press release includes, but may not be limited to, the anticipated completion of the Proposed Transaction or the completion of the Karchiga Transaction and the terms and timing related thereto, the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Karchiga Transaction, and the expected effect of the Proposed Transaction on the Company, including (but not limited to) management’s belief that the Sergeevskoe Gold Project could have significant value for the Company.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such forward- looking information include, but are not limited to, the inability of the parties to satisfy any conditions to the completion of the Proposed Transaction disclosed herein, which include the negotiation and execution of a definitive SPA before the end of the Exclusivity Period, unsatisfactory due diligence results, the failure to obtain the necessary approval of the Russian Federation for the transfer of ownership of the Sergeevskoe Gold Project, the failure to obtain approval of the Proposed Transaction by Orsu shareholders, the failure to obtain the required authorizations and/or approvals from the TSX. Other risks relating to the completion of the Proposed Transaction include the regulatory framework in Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, adverse changes in the laws or political environment in Kazakhstan or the Russian Federation, adverse changes in commodities prices, as well as certain other risks set out in the Company’s public documents, including its annual information form dated March 30, 2016, filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The forward-looking information in this press release reflects the current expectations, assumptions and/or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available to the Company. In connection with the forward-looking information contained in this press release, the Company has made assumptions about: the Company’s business, the economy and the mineral resources development and extraction industry in general; available historical information will be useful in the Company’s evaluation of the geological and metallurgical risks for the Sergeevskoe Gold Project; the Company’s ability to obtain the requisite regulatory approvals; and the seller’s ability to obtain the requisite governmental approvals. The Company has also assumed that no significant events occur outside of
the Company’s normal course of business. Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking information are reasonable, forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such information due to the inherent uncertainty therein.
Any Russian style “A, B, C1, C2 and P” category figures referred to in this press release are historical estimates and no assurances can be given that the indicated levels of minerals will be verified and/or produced. Such estimates made at a given time may significantly change when new information becomes available. By their nature such estimates are imprecise and depend, to a certain extent, upon statistical inferences which may ultimately prove unreliable. Due to the uncertainty that may be attached to such estimates, it cannot be assumed that all or any part of such estimates will be upgraded to mineral resource as a result of continued exploration.
Any forward-looking information speak only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise.
Alexander Yakubchuk, Chief Operating Officer, Orsu Metals Corporation Kevin Denham, Chief Financial Officer, Orsu Metals Corporation
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Parish Pilgrimage to Rome & Assisi
Written by Patrick Bolger
Parish Pilgrimage to Rome & Assisi 2th October to 2nd November 2014
Twenty-three intrepid pilgrims assembled in the church car park on Monday 27th of October at 6am and boarded the coach for Heathrow Airport. Our pilgrimage had begun!
We were blessed with excellent weather throughout with barely a drop of rain. Our hotel in Rome was close to St Peter’s and over the next four days we visited St Peter’s Basilica, St Paul Outside the Walls and many of the notable churches and places of interest including the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel.
On Wednesday morning we were in a very large crowd in St Peter’s Square for the Papal Audience. Pope Francis appeared in relaxed and friendly form and many of the pilgrims saw him close to hand in his Popemobile. Unfortunately he didn’t pass close by us but his presence was evident from the screens around the square. Our parish was formally welcomed over the public address system!
Every day Fr Tom celebrated Mass for the group mostly on a private basis which was a wonderful experience for us all. Among the churches where Mass was celebrated was the Irish Chapel in St Peter’s Basilica and St Anne's Church just inside the Vatican City, along with other local churches in Rome. While in Rome we also visited the church of San Clemente with its underground remains of previous churches and Roman dwellings.
On Friday the 31st of October we departed by coach to Assisi. When we last visited Assisi it was quiet and a contrast to the hustle and bustle of Rome. This time the town itself was lively with street markets and music, which was very atmospheric.
We visited the basilicas of St Francis and St Clare as well as the Franciscan monastery of St Damian, where we were given a most interesting talk by a monk from Northern Ireland about the history of the monastery still used by the Franciscan Friars today. He came as a tourist some seventeen years ago and stayed.
On our last day Sunday November 2nd we visited Orvieto and its wonderful Cathedral. Our visit coincided with the Eucharistic Jubilee year of the Diocese which finishes at the end of November 2014. We followed the pilgrim route and were able to see two chapels not normally open to the public, one of which displays a miraculous host from medieval times.
The pilgrimage involved a fair amount of walking up and down some fairly steep gradients. Most of us come back a little slimmer and fitter!
There were many other highlights and every day had something of interest to take in and appreciate. Mgr Tom Egan was a wonderful spiritual leader. We prayed for the parish intentions during the pilgrimage.
We were fortunate to have Sinead Howe as our guide. She was unfailingly helpful, cheerful and knowledgeable throughout. The pilgrimage group was a very harmonious one. New friendships were made and we hope to meet up gain to renew the experience of the pilgrimage together in the near future.
Patrick Bolger
Pilgrimage Organiser
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National Strategy for the Prevention and Countering of Terrorism for 2017-2021
The National Strategy for the Prevention and Countering of Terrorism for 2017–2021 defines the basic and lasting commitments, values and objectives of the policy of the Republic of Serbia in the field of prevention and countering of terrorism, and establishes a strategic-doctrinal framework of a comprehensive response to this threat, with an emphasis on the prevention of possible attacks with the support and participation of a wider social community.
Department of State & USAID Joint Strategy on Countering Violent Extremism
This strategy, which is consistent with USAID’s policy, provides a more explicit guide for how State and USAID will work jointly and will leverage the range of available diplomatic and development resources to have a demonstrable impact to prevent and counter the spread of violent extremism.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Action Plan for Preventing and Combating Terrorism
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What Went Wrong With Democratization In The Visegrad Countries?
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Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have all shown signs of populism taking a stronghold. Mira Sawiris examines the events and factors leading to the V4's shift away from democracy towards populism.
BY: MIRA SAWIRIS
Hungarian Prime Minister Orban openly strives to build an illiberal state, in Poland the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) Party undermines judicial independence, Czech Republic’s President Zeman jokes about murdering journalists, while former Communist Informant Andrej Babiš is elected as Prime Minister in the Czech Republic. In Slovakia, a journalist investigating links between organised crime and politics has been murdered along with his fiancé. This is hardly the scenario that Visegrad Four (V4) countries envisioned for themselves after the revolutions of 1989. What went wrong? Almost 30 years after democratization took place, the political and social landscape of V4 countries looks worse than ever.
If democracy consists of civil society, autonomous political society, the rule of law, a functional state bureaucracy and an economic society, it becomes clear that V4 states were never full-fledged democratic regimes. Some of these essential pillars –namely autonomous political society, rule of law, and to some extent the vibrant civil society, are clearly dysfunctional in all the V4 countries, calling their categorisation as democratic states into question.
Totalitarian heritage
The kind of regimes that preceded the present one and their transitions had a profound impact on the shape of the current political system. In these cases, legacies matter. Often the negotiated transitions to democracy are lauded as the ‘ideal’ transition type given its non-violent nature and relative stability. However, some have pointed out that this type of transition has an ‘unforeseen harmful effect on … efforts to create political institutions necessary for democratic consolidation’. Velvet revolutions might have ensured smooth transitions without bloodshed, but failing to hold former communist leaders accountable, and giving them the opportunity to partake in the political process following the regime change enables the former power structures to remain in place, despite their new ‘democratic’ image.
The exposure of a state to decades of Soviet totalitarianism has the propensity to cause deep-seated mistrust of association and political activism. Legacies of Soviet totalitarianism cripple political and civil society for decades like no other political regime. This is because the Soviet regime has shaped the political culture of V4 countries with its network of secret police informants operating with absolute control of the masses that permeate each facet of life.
It would be naïve to assume that these challenges suddenly disappeared after the revolutions in 1989 or with membership to the European Union. Optimists claim that change occurs once the first post-communist generation comes to exert real influence. However, this might not be reliable or fast enough as large numbers of young people in the V4 are prone to vote for populist or even neo-fascist parties. This was aptly demonstrated in the recent Slovak parliamentary elections of 2016 when 22 percent of first time voters ‘chose’ People’s Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS), a neo-fascist party.
The picture is even bleaker in the remaining V4 countries, with Freedom House asserting that in Hungary, since Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Alliance of Young Democrats–Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) took power in 2010, it has pushed through constitutional and legal changes that have allowed the party and PM Orbán to consolidate control over the country’s independent institutions. In Poland, the conservative PiS party enacted measures that will increase political influence over state institutions, also raising concerns about Poland’s democratic trajectory.
In the October 2017 parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, billionaire and media mogul Andrej Babiš, who is the prime example of the unchecked intermingling of elite economic and political interests, came out on top with a decisive victory. Wide inconsistencies in his tax record, his membership in the Communist Party between 1980-1989, as well as his activities of an Informant for the State Security Services, did not hinder his populist party ANO’s success in the elections, gaining 29.7 percent of votes. At the same time, it is extremely ironic that Czech voters perceive Babiš to be an anti-establishment figure.
Democracy as a cash cow for private gain
What we are witnessing in the V4 countries is not only weak institution building, but something much more sinister – ‘corporate state capture in which public power is exercised primarily for private gain’. Under such conditions of institutionalised systemic corruption, the democratic state only exists as a means to an end- for private economic profit. This became painfully obvious in the last few days in Slovakia, after the brutal murder of a journalist, Jan Kuciak, and his fiancé Martina Kusnirova. Before his murder, Kuciak was working on a story uncovering the extent of corruption reaching the highest echelons of power in Slovakia.
A large number of prominent politicians in V4 countries were members of the Communist Party, including Babiš, Czech President Miloš Zeman and the current Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico. This begs the question whether the political regime in these countries have really changed given that former members of the Communist Party still occupy positions of power.
Wake-up call for the EU
Two main regional factors that influence the state of democracy within the V4 countries are their membership in the EU, and the influence of Putin’s Russia. The EU’s influence on the regimes in the V4 nations is far from ideal for Russia, because the integration of the EU has strengthened democratic tendencies within these countries.
Less clear are the mechanisms the EU has or indeed, needs to develop quickly, to prevent its member states from backsliding into non-democratic regimes led by charismatic populists like Orbán and Babiš. The difficulty arises from the fact that the threat of populism and nationalism within the EU is unprecedented. Academics and politicians did not think that the trajectory of Central and Eastern European states to democracy, and by extension, the EU, might be something other than linear with the final destination of a consolidated modern democracy. Countries that experienced decades of totalitarian rule should not take the mass support for democratic ideals for granted.
As Putin laments the dissolution of the USSR while conducting military interventions in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere, many political leaders, as well as citizens of the V4 countries, look to Putin’s illiberal regime with a sense of admiration and nostalgia.
The power struggle between the two have resulted in increased EU efforts to keep the former Soviet satellites democratic to prevent its own further disintegration following Brexit. Additionally, Putin’s efforts to re-assert Russia as a regional and global realpolitik player by pulling former Soviet states into its renewed sphere of influence, is Orwellian doublethink with the V4 countries looking both East and West for leadership in this ideological Second Cold War. This curious attitude recently manifested itself when Slovak President Kiska delivered a pro-European, pro-democratic speech in the EU parliament, while simultaneously, the speaker of Slovak parliament, Andrej Danko, spoke in the Russian State Duma, calling for a ‘strong Russia’ to guarantee regional security.
The EU and Russia hinder democratisation in the region further through the refugee crisis. The EU’s inability to deal with the crisis in a fair and efficient way (not least because of V4 countries refusing to share the responsibility for refugee quotas) has fueled the resurgence of far right-wing politics and populism. The shift from dealing with the crisis as a humanitarian issue towards framing it as a security matter not only costs lives of asylum seekers, but it also undermines democratic and humanitarian credentials of the EU internationally.
Russia’s role in the refugee crisis is active. Kelly M. Greenhill in Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy demonstrates how forced migration is often used as an asymmetric foreign policy tactic, with liberal democratic states, in this case, the EU, often being the target. Putin’s long-standing military involvement in Syria serves at least two purposes. Russia has managed to carve out an influence for itself in the Middle East as the US influence has diminished, while the conflict in Syria causes a mass exodus of civilians destabilising the EU through the lack of resources to address the refugee crisis along with the growing popularity of nationalist and far right-wing movements.
The EU must develop an efficient, and enforceable policy to address the refugee crisis. The policy would de-escalate the polarisation of opinions on refugees and would limit the scope for exploitation of this issue by populists. Similarly, the EU must deploy efficient mechanisms for member states that fail to comply with its democratic principles. Most importantly, the EU needs to work with and support democratically-oriented civil organisations and citizens in individual member states to strengthen their voices in a struggle that will determine the future social and political make-up of V4 countries, and Europe more broadly.
Mira Sawiris is an experienced Communications Coordinator and Data Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in research as well as higher education industry. She has a BA in Arabic and Russian Civilisation from University of Leeds, and is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in International Relations at the University of York.
Please note that opinions expressed in this article are solely those of our contributors, not of Political Insights, which takes no institutional positions.
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HomeWritingUsing SourcesUnderstanding and Avoiding PlagiarismFair Paraphrase
Fair Paraphrase
One of the decisions you need to make when engaging with a source is whether to quote the source’s language directly or to paraphrase it in your own words. [See Why Cite? for advice about how to make this decision.] Restating a source’s idea in your own words may not seem too difficult, but offering a paraphrase that distinguishes your voice from the source’s voice and furthers your own argument is actually rather challenging. Below are three examples of an attempt to paraphrase the passage from Dennett’s Consciousness Explained.
The first and second are examples of plagiarism because they both blur the line between the writer’s voice and the source idea. The first alters the original without changing its form or content. The second retains long phrases verbatim from the original. Only the third example is an effective and fair paraphrase: The writer marks the boundaries between her voice and the source’s voice, and she puts the source’s idea to work in service of her own argument. Reading these examples should help you to see how to make paraphrase an effective strategy for building an argument grounded in sources.
Below is the original passage as it appears on page 39 of Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991).
Almost all researchers in cognitive science, whether they consider themselves neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers, tend to postpone questions about consciousness by restricting their attention to the “peripheral” and “subordinate” systems of the mind/brain, which are deemed to feed and service some dimly imagined “center” where “conscious thought” and “experience” take place. This tends to have the effect of leaving too much of the mind’s work to be done “in the center,” and this leads theorists to underestimate the “amount of understanding” that must be accomplished by the relatively peripheral systems of the brain.
For instance, theorists tend to think of perceptual systems as providing “input” to some central thinking arena, which in turn provides “control” or “direction” to some relatively peripheral systems governing bodily motion. This central arena is thought to avail itself of material held in various relatively subservient systems of memory. But the very idea that there are important theoretical divisions between such presumed subsystems as “long-term memory” and “reasoning,” (or “planning”) is more an artifact of the divide-and-conquer strategy than anything found in nature.
Paraphrase 1
Most cognitive scientists, whether they are neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers, tend to avoid questions about consciousness by focusing mainly on peripheral and subordinate systems of the mind/brain, which are thought to assist a mysterious center where consciousness and subjective experience happen. The effect of this is to leave too much of the mind’s work for the center, and this means that theorists understate how much understanding must be done by the outer systems of the brain (Dennett 39).
See discussion on Paraphrase 1
The problem with cognitive science today is that researchers focus on the peripheral and subordinate systems of the mind/brain without clarifying how these are connected to the brain’s center, the place where conscious thought and experience take place. The result is that they leave too much of the mind’s work to be done in some dimly imagined “center.” This fuzziness about whether there is a control center leads them to underplay the mind’s work that must be accomplished by the relatively peripheral systems of the brain (Dennett 39).
Dennett points out that when theorists take a “divide-and conquer” strategy by focusing narrowly on a given subsystem of the brain/mind, their theoretical models implicitly assume a center of consciousness that has not been proven to exist. By leaving in place the Cartesian notion of a control center, the models may underestimate the work that these supposedly “peripheral” systems perform (39).
Discussion Regarding Paraphrase 1
Cosmetic changes don’t cut it
The writer of this Paraphrase 1 has plagiarized from the original because she has simply replaced the words of the original with synonymous words and phrases, instead of rewriting the key ideas in her own words. She takes the structure of the original for her own, including the phrasing of the original’s sentences (the same introductory and main clause structures) and the overall movement from sentence to sentence. This kind of cosmetic changing that leaves the original intact is unacceptable.
Dennett: “Almost all researchers in cognitive science, whether they consider themselves neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers, tend to postpone questions about consciousness by restricting their attention to the “peripheral” and “subordinate” systems of the mind/brain, which are deemed to feed and service some dimly imagined “center” where “conscious thought” and “experience” take place.”
Paraphrase 1: “Most cognitive scientists, whether they are neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers, tend to avoid questions about consciousness by focusing mainly on peripheral and subordinate systems of the mind/brain, which are thought to assist a mysterious center where consciousness and subjective experience happen.”
Why (good) paraphrase is important
If you need to stay close to the original, then quote the passage directly. It is often the case, however, that you do not need to include all the information from the original in your own essay. If you do not need all the information in the original, do a fair paraphrase that represents the essence of the original’s idea, but leaves out what is unnecessary to your own project. For example, it is unlikely that, in your own argument, you need to include the list “neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers”; these titles are part of Dennett’s particular argument (he’s trying to say something about how widespread he thinks this phenomenon is in the sciences). A fair, careful paraphrase allows you to incorporate the essence of a source’s insight without also incorporating the author’s peripheral claims or comments that don’t relate to your argument.
Signal the shift from your own voice to the source’s
The reader assumes that any word or phrase that is not in quotation marks represents your own thinking, unless you signal otherwise. Imagine the faulty paraphrase dropped into a larger paragraph from the writer’s essay and you’ll see how the reader could move from the writer’s argument right into Dennett’s idea without even knowing that a transition in voice had taken place. This is because the writer has not signaled the shift to another’s voice. The only ways to signal this are: a) to quote directly, in which case the quotation marks signal the shift; or b) to announce through a signal phrase that the subsequent idea (though paraphrased in your own words) belongs to someone else: “Dennett points out that when theorists …” Always mark the boundary between your own voice and the voice/idea of the source with such a signal phrase. You should also give the page number from which your paraphrase came, but this doesn’t absolve you of the need to represent the idea in your own words and signal the shift in voice from your own to the source’s.
Using un-cited language from the original to create a patchwork is plagiarism
It may be more difficult to see why Paraphrase 2 is plagiarism. After all, the writer has indicated many of Dennett’s distinctive words and phrases with quotation marks. But as shown below, the writer of Paraphrase 2 has taken phrases verbatim from the original, rearranged them somewhat, and woven them into the fabric of her own writing—without attributing them to the source. This is called “mosaic” or “patchwork” plagiarism. It does not matter that more of this phrasing is her own than was the case in Paraphrase 1; she has still borrowed significant patches of direct language from Dennett without attribution. Remember that using more than two words in a row from a source without attribution is considered plagiarism.
Dennett: “Almost all researchers in cognitive science, whether they consider themselves neuroscientists or psychologists or artificial intelligence researchers, tend to postpone questions about consciousness by restricting their attention to the “peripheral” and “subordinate” systems of the mind/brain, which are deemed to feed and service some dimly imagined “center” where “conscious thought” and “experience” take place. This tends to have the effect of leaving too much of the mind’s work to be done “in the center,” and this leads theorists to underestimate the “amount of understanding” that must be accomplished by the relatively peripheral systems of the brain.”
Paraphrase 2: The problem with cognitive science today is that researchers focus on the peripheral and subordinate systems of the mind/brain without clarifying how these are connected to the brain’s center, the place where conscious thought and experience take place. The result is that they leave too much of the mind’s work to be done in some dimly imagined “center.” This fuzziness about whether there is a control center leads them to underplay the mind’s work that must be accomplished by the relatively peripheral systems of the brain (Dennett 39).
If you don’t use quotation marks, you imply that the language is your own
Although the writer’s rephrasing of the source’s idea suggests that she has a better understanding of it than did the writer of Paraphrase 1, she is still far too close to the original. In order for this to be a legitimate paraphrase, the writer would need to restate the core of the idea in her own words and to craft sentences with a new structure. Even though Paraphrase 2 cites Dennett, the fact that there are no quotation marks leads the reader to think that this is the writer’s own language. The key principle to remember is that where you do not use quotation marks, the reader assumes that you are the author of all the words in your paper.
Take the pith of the original
Paraphrase 3 is a strong and fair paraphrase because it captures the essence of Dennett’s idea—that scientists still assume a “control center” in their research—in the writer’s own words. The sentence structure and flow from sentence to sentence is unique to the writer, rather than following the original too closely. Paraphrase 3 is also shorter than the original—another good sign, since an effective paraphrase takes the pith of the original and leaves behind secondary commentary or asides in the original source.
Signal the boundaries between your voice and the source’s voice
In Paraphrase 3, the writer has carefully signaled the place where the source’s idea begins and ends, so that if we imagine this paraphrase in a larger paragraph of the writer’s own, we would have no doubt about the boundaries between the two voices.
Own the material
Paraphrase 3, through its analytical confidence, shows that the writer truly understands the original and is making use of it. Instead of slavishly following the original, she has assimilated the idea into her own thinking and transformed it through that understanding. The writer of Paraphrase 3 is using her restatement of Dennett’s idea as an occasion to further her own idea about how our conventional notion of consciousness needs to change. This paraphrase is pointed in a direction—the direction of the writer’s argument. We can see this in the way that the writer has distilled the original for her own purposes. And we can also see it in the heightened language of the phrase “supposedly ‘peripheral’ systems,” the dynamic signal phrase “Dennett points out,” and in the writer’s use of her own keyterms, all of which alert us to the writer’s point of view.
Use keyterms to translate the source’s idea into your essay’s idiom
The writer of Paraphrase 3 introduces a term (“divide-and-conquer”) that Dennett uses earlier in the book chapter as a useful metaphor to capture the idea for the reader. And she has introduced a term of her own—“Cartesian notion of a control center”—that is informed by, but not unique to, Dennett’s discussion. A strong paraphrase uses the writer’s own keyterms—keyterms that have appeared earlier in the essay and will reappear after the paraphrase—to summarize the core of the source so that the reader understands how Dennett’s idea contributes to the writer’s unfolding argument. These keyterms help the reader to line up the source idea alongside the other ideas the writer has already introduced into her argument. They contribute to the overall sense that the writer’s ideas are developing in relation to, not separately from, the source’s ideas.
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Posts Tagged ‘seven words’
Viral Video: George Carlin’s Seven Words
June 23, 2008 in Humor, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Pop Culture, Video
Tags: Carlin, comedian, comedy, FCC, funny, George Carlin, Humor, seven words
It was comedian George Carlin’s Seven Words routine (i.e. the seven words the FCC forbids to be said over the airwaves) that cemented Carlin’s counterculture genius. Foul-mouthed and unapologetic, he was one of the greats, and will be sorely missed. Check out the bit that got him famous…
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Counter-Culture Comedian George Carlin dies at 71
June 22, 2008 in Humor, News & Opinion, Pop Culture, Religion, Video
Tags: Carlin, dead, dies, funny, George Carlin, Humor, seven words, Video
Reuters: Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.
Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.” A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin’s routine were indecent, and that the government’s broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.
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Home > Printer-friendly > PSC turns out for House, State Senate wins
PSC turns out for House, State Senate wins [1]
By Ari Paul
Canvassing efforts in Staten Island, Brooklyn
PSC First Vice President Andrea Vásquez was among many PSC members canvassing at the Staten Island Ferry terminal for Max Rose’s ultimately successful congressional campaign.
Lisa Rose, a social sciences professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, was still feeling “so surreal” during a celebration at the PSC’s office two days after the midterm elections. For many in America seeking a political change, the shift of the House of Representatives to Democratic control was welcome news. For Rose, it was personal. Her son, Max Rose, was elected as a new Democratic congress member for the previously GOP-controlled district that covers Staten Island and South Brooklyn.
Describing her son as someone with a “strong moral compass” and who has long had political ambitions, Rose noted that friends and colleagues thought his chances of winning were slim.
“There’s a huge misconception about what Staten Island is,” Rose told Clarion, describing her days going door to door for her son’s campaign, noting that she met Asian, Latino and Haitian households while canvassing. “It is more diverse than people think. There’s this real sense of community that Max tapped into.”
UNION BACKING
Max Rose’s campaign was one of several that the PSC focused on this fall, and not just because of Rose’s union connection. More than 1,000 PSC members live in the district, and the union had the potential to get out the vote. “Knowing that my union was behind him was so important,” Rose said.
Max Rose will join several other new progressive Democrats in the state’s congressional delegation next year, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won a huge upset primary victory in the Bronx and Queens, and Antonio Delgado, who replaces a Republican in the Hudson Valley, where numerous PSC members were actively involved.
For the PSC, flipping the House is a significant victory. PSC legislative representative Mike Fabricant sees a Democratic lower house of Congress as a “goalkeeper” in federal government, thwarting potential challenges to the Affordable Care Act and other right-wing legislative actions.
“PSC members coming out in support was important for Max Rose. He had a lot of get-out-the-vote volunteers, because people in New York City wanted to participate in a red-to-blue seat and it was important that we were in that,” said John Jay College political scientist Susan Kang, who is active in the union’s political outreach work and was just named one of the top ten up-and-coming leaders from Manhattan by the City & State magazine.
Perhaps more momentous was the New York State Senate’s flip to Democratic control by a significant margin. The past Republican control of the State Legislature’s upper house – in part due to Democrats who caucused with Republicans, many of whom were ousted in the primaries – has frequently been a roadblock preventing ambitious progressive legislation, such as the DREAM Act, campaign finance reform, teacher evaluation reform and a statewide single-payer healthcare plan. PSC members made thousands of get-out-the-vote calls to members. Some, like Borough of Manhattan Community College counselor Justyna Jagielnicka and former PSC Secretary Cecelia McCall made more than 1,000 calls. In addition, many members canvassed door-to-door in districts the PSC Legislation Committee prioritized.
“Legislative work for me is highly personal – flipping the House, New York State Senate and a Staten Island seat was the ultimate goal,” Jagielnicka said. “As an immigrant woman who has experienced firsthand racism, xenophobia and lack of respect for human dignity, it is my duty to fight for all brothers and sisters.”
DEFYING EXPECTATION
One PSC electoral priority that resulted in a State Senate victory was the election of Andrew Gounardes, a pro-labor Democrat and Hunter College graduate who ousted longtime Republican incumbent Marty Golden.
Many observers thought that Golden, an entrenched local leader, would be impossible to beat. But for Reem Jaafar, a professor in LaGuardia Community College’s math, engineering and computer science department who lives in Golden’s district and is active in local politics, it seemed even a year ago there was enough ammunition against Golden.
‘INSTITUTIONAL OPENING’
“He has taken no responsibility for the lack of reliable transportation,” Jaafar said. “He voted against marriage equality and made egregious claims against Muslims in his community in an effort to defend the Muslim ban, including a lie stating that 9/11 hijackers came from Bay Ridge.”
The PSC support, Jaafar said, was integral to Golden’s defeat. “The union’s endorsement for Gounardes helped bring in more volunteers; we knocked on thousands of doors together,” she said. “One day, about 18 union members showed up for canvassing. We knocked on over 1,500 doors that day alone. Some members kept coming back for volunteering up until election day.”
PSC members canvassed in south Brooklyn for Democrat Andrew Gounardes, who will be a state senator after defeating incumbent Marty Golden.
What does the shift in the State Legislature mean for PSC members? “The change comes at a crucial time for the PSC,” said union president Barbara Bowen. “When we reach a contract settlement we will need to work with the legislature to demand that it be fully funded, and we will also need their support to end poverty pay for adjuncts.”
Of course, political change won’t happen instantly – newly elected state senators will take time to get their footing and create relationships within the chamber and the governor’s office. But with an entirely Democratic legislature, organized labor and public higher education advocates have new leverage when it comes to dealing with Governor Andrew Cuomo. “In the past, there have been institutional blocks to going forward – now there’s an institutional opening,” Kang said. “Cuomo is still a pro-austerity and pro-private corporation governor, so he needs to be pushed on fully funding CUNY and the state’s public schools. Now is the time to hold Cuomo accountable.”
Kang noted that PSC members and leaders must follow up on these election victories to advance the union agenda in the new State Senate. “It’s really important that the union leadership engage with elected officials,” Kang said. “But it is also really important for PSC members to go to senators as constituents and communicate to them directly what they think is important.”
Fabricant added, “Our work is to hold them accountable.”
Source URL: https://psc-cuny.org/clarion/december-2018/psc-turns-out-house-state-senate-wins
[1] https://psc-cuny.org/clarion/december-2018/psc-turns-out-house-state-senate-wins
[2] https://psc-cuny.org/clarion/december/2018-0
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Is Fire Emblem: Echoes a tough game?
August 17, 2017 Nintendo 3DS, Video GamesFamily, Fire Emblem, Gaming, life, Love, Love Triangle, Technology, violence, warLovely542
This is a game I never got around to playing until now. It was developed by Intelligent Systems and was made a while ago before I got my hands on it. The story revolves around two people Alm and Celica who were pretty much attached the hip when they were kids. But, after an attempted attack from a vicious knight named Slayde who tried to kidnap Celica after recognizing her as the lost princess of the country. Having being separated for years, they obviously take different paths in order to bring peace back into the world.
Warning: Possible spoilers ahead
Alm becomes a warrior and a leader to the rebellion force that calls itself the “Deliverance”. The rebellion’s goal is to take out King Rudolf who rules the opposing country that’s trying to take over theirs. They all hope that Alm can take out King Rudolf before things get too bad. On the other hand, Celica has become a warrior priestess who believes that using violence is wrong (even though she’s taking out people left and right herself) and that there is a peaceful solution to this crisis.
Her solution is to find Mila who is the goddess of their country that is supposed to be keeping their country, at least, nice and peaceful. Find her and ask her why is she letting everything go to shit lately? I think it’s painfully clear that something must have happened to her if she’s in charge of making sure nothing happens to the humans in her domain.
While I’m talking about Gods and such might, as well talk about Duma and Mila. Duma and Mila ancient gods that happen to be siblings, too. When it came time to rule over the humans they both disagreed about how they should be ruled. Duma thought that only the strong should be in control have all the wealth and power and rule over the weak. While Mila thought that everyone should be equal and share the wealth and prosperity. Since, they couldn’t agree they decided to split the world in half so each god had a place to rule and made a contract with each other that forbid the other from ever interfering with their side of the world.
Doing so would mean total war.
Personally, I understand their ruling styles, but the same time I see the flaws in it. Duma believes that as long as there is a strong leader then the weaker people will be led to prosperity. What actually happens is strong people becoming evil, angry and only thinking about themselves while the weaker people become poor and treated like dirt. During Mila’s rule, she’s the complete opposite of Duma, believing that as long as everyone is equal and share everything things will be just dandy. Problem with is the people became spoiled, weak and even when people were starving to death because they were too nice and gave away everything they had. So, its same to say that if they combined their ways then the world would end up just right.
Now would I consider Fire Emblem Echoes a hard game? It’s a bit of a challenge I will say that. Is it an impossible game to beat? No, but I do wish I could have lowered the difficulty a little bit because for one if one of your players dies they are permanently dead until you find a revival well (which doesn’t even allow you to revive all your characters). These wells are a bit hard to find, so you better be sure that you’ve searched every nook and cranny when you’re in a dungeon or could have missed it without knowing it.
Also, I didn’t even know about the revival wells until I did some digging in the internet about what to do about bringing dead players back into the game. It wasn’t even in the tutorial which I don’t even know why. I would like to think that would have been a nice little detail to tell the gamer playing this freaking game. Also, one other thing that you figure out, eventually, is that you need to talk to everyone just in case they want to join your group. For me, I like to have as many people in battle as I can, but it sucks when most of them have died and I haven’t gotten to a well yet.
I’m loving some of these characters though. One of my favorites is Gray who is that strong, confident and funny type that says things that just make you fall in love with him right away. Another favorite is Faye (even if I’m a little concerned about her) she’s another childhood friend of Alm and has been in love with him for as long as she can remember and that love as not only grown, but is bordering total obsession. During the talks they have during some of the battles, you can tell that she would do anything for Alm and makes it painfully clear that she’s into him, but he doesn’t seem to be taking the hint. It kind of makes you feel sorry for her.
The storyline is really good and the characters are really interesting. I’ve had several theories about Alm’s identity throughout playing this game, but I’m not going to tell you who he really is. But, if there is one thing we do know it’s that Alm and Celica do not end up together. No matter how much we want them to, they don’t. That’s not really a spoiler if you’ve watched the beginning cutscenes. I’ve enjoyed playing this game and if you like RPG/adventure games then you will, too.
Tanya the Evil
April 18, 2017 Anime, MangaCute, Dark, evil, mage, Magic, Sci-fi, Tanya the evil, Technology, warLovely542
Today, I’m going to be talking about this awesome anime called, “Tanya the Evil” by Carlo Zen and Shinobu Shinotsuki. I heard about this anime through a friend of mine who knows I have dark and twisted preferences when it comes to anime and video games. So, when I was told about this show, I knew I had to watch it and sure enough it did not disappoint me one bit.
It’s about a cruel and very logical businessman in the modern world who gets killed and when he does he has a conversation with God who he later calls ,”Being X”, about why he doesn’t believe in him. After their conversation, Being X decides to reincarnate him as a little girl named, “Tanya”, and into another world and tells him that if he doesn’t believe in him by the time he dies in his next life he will never be reincarnated again.
Let me tell you guys that Tanya is the most vicious little girl that I’ve ever seen and she’s super cute, too. Her cuteness puts everyone that she meets off guard until she does something crazy and dangerous. I think Erich is scared of her the most out of everybody, if he knew her story I don’t think he would surprised at this point. I think he’s expecting her to grow horns or something. Tanya’s job is a military mage who fights for the empire ,apparently, she becomes so good at her job that she quickly gets promoted to major ends up forming her own battalion.
Being X does everything in his power to mess with Tanya and when I say mess I mean kill horribly as fast as possible. Every time he decides to show up he stops time and posses something to talk through which is most of the time a person or a doll. Being X better hope that Tanya never finds a way to hurt him or he’ll be in big trouble, but I really doubt that he will anytime soon.
Anyway, I really like this anime for many reasons and one of them is obviously the characters, mainly Tanya’s evil self. The dark atmosphere of the entire show and the battle scenes. This show really needs a season 2 really, really badly. I hope one comes out real soon. If you like dark type anime, supernatural stuff and battle scenes then you really need to watch this.
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Colony Collapse Disorder
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a mysterious and potentially devastating phenomenon in which all or almost all of the adult honeybees in a colony suddenly disappear, leaving behind honey, pollen stores, and a queen and developing brood bees, but no dead bees.
Honeybees are vital to life on Earth. About 90% of all plants, including many crops, are pollinated by bees of various types. Honeybees are the most important insect pollinator. About one-third of the North American diet is directly or indirectly dependent on honeybee pollination.
A single honeybee colony can consist of one queen, a few hundred drones, and 80,000 worker bees. Humans have been raising honeybees as honey producers and pollinators for at least 5,000 years. Although not native to the Western Hemisphere, honeybees were brought over by early missionaries and settlers. Compared to native North American pollinators, honeybees live year-round, are more prolific, and are much easier to manage commercially for the pollination of a wide variety of crops. Professional beekeepers raise the bees to produce honey from nectar and also truck them to farms and orchards, where they pollinate fruit, vegetables, and nuts by transferring pollen from one flower to the next. The largest commercial pollination event on Earth occurs each February, when hundreds of beekeepers converge on California almond farms with 1.6 million hives—60% of all managed colonies in the United States—housing 48 billion bees to pollinate an area the size of Rhode Island.
In the winter of 2006–2007, commercial beekeepers in the United States and elsewhere began reporting unusually high losses—30–90% of their hives, depending on the region. Up to 50% of those losses were consistent with the syndrome that has become known as CCD: the queen and brood remain in the hive, along with honey and pollen stores, but the workers have disappeared, with few bodies anywhere near the hives. Without the workers, the hives are unable to sustain themselves.
Pollinators of all types have been in decline for at least a decade. Globally, some bee species having gone extinct, and some North American species are down to 4% of their previous populations. Feral (escaped) honeybees have been declining in the United States for the past 50 years and are almost gone. Most of this decline has been blamed on habitat loss and possibly on the use of pesticides. In addition, during the 1980s and 1990s, new pathogens began afflicting North American honeybee colonies. Although the loss of honeybee colonies, especially over the winter, is not unusual, the losses that began in 2006 were both extraordinarily high and shared the unique features of CCD.
There have been reports of honeybee disappearances in the past. In Cache Valley, Utah, in 1903, 2,000 colonies were lost to what was called disappearing disease after a hard winter and spring. Similar disappearances were reported in the 1880s, 1920s, and 1960s. In 1995–1996, 53% of Pennsylvanian colonies were lost to an unidentified cause. It is not clear whether these losses were due to CCD or, if they were CCD, whether they were caused by the same factors as CCD in the early 2000s.
CCD presents a serious threat to the planet's food supply. Large-scale agriculture cannot function without commercial beekeeping and pollination, and the precipitous drop in wild bee populations has increased dependency on commercial honeybee colonies. Many crops, including tree nuts, fruits, berries, and vegetables are dependent on honeybee pollination. California's $3-billion per year almond industry is almost completely dependent on honeybees. Because of CCD, commercial pollination costs have tripled, raising food prices.
Risk factors for CCD appear to include:
In 2012, there were about 2.5 million commercial honeybee colonies in the United States, down from five million in the 1940s. However, the need for pollination increased dramatically between 1960 and 2010, with the result that honeybee colonies were transported over much longer distances to pollinate crops. During the winters of 2006–2011, colony losses averaged about 33%, with about one-third of losses attributable to CCD. Before the advent of CCD, annual losses averaged 15–20%. During the winter of 2011–2012, honeybee colony losses in the United States totaled 22%. There were about 500,000 managed colonies in California, up from a 2007 low of 340,000–400,000.
What causes CCD has been the focus of much media attention and hype and a great deal of scientific controversy. Many scientists have come to believe that CCD results from combinations of factors. Even without CCD, management stresses and environmental stresses, malnutrition, and mites, fungi, and viruses can kill one-third of a hive every year.
Some researchers include the presence of pathogens in their definition of CCD. In particular, Varroa destructor mites and fungal pathogens in the genus Nosema, which live in the honeybee gut, have been identified as probable contributors to CCD. It is unclear whether it is Varroa mites themselves or the viruses that they transmit to bees that are directly associated with CCD. A number of different viruses have been identified in association with CCD-affected hives, including some novel strains. Studies have also identified changes in the gut bacteria of bees from affected hives. Thus far, CCD appears to be associated with a higher total burden of pathogenic viruses and microorganisms, rather than with any specific pathogen.
Among the prime suspects as causes of CCD are exposure to lethal or sub-lethal levels of pesticides that are applied to crops to protect them from insect damage. However, when bees, pollen, and beeswax from healthy and CCD-affected colonies were tested for 170 different pesticides, no consistent pattern emerged. The most commonly detected pesticide was coumaphos, which is used to rid the bees of Varroa.
Neonicotinoids, neonics—
A class of insect neurotoxins—including clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and imidacloprid—that are in widespread use, especially on staple crops such as corn, and that have been associated with colony collapse disorder.
Neurotoxin—
A poisonous substance that acts on the central nervous system.
A genus of fungal pathogens that live in the honeybee gut and may be associated with colony collapse disorder.
An organism that survives by living with, on, or in another organism, usually to the detriment of the host.
Pathogen—
A causative agent of disease, such as a bacteria, virus, fungus, or other parasite.
An agent used to destroy pests such as insects that feed on crops.
The process by which pollen is transferred during sexual reproduction in plants, often through the mediation of a pollinator such as honeybees.
Mites—small insect-like organisms—that parasitize honeybees; the mite or a virus that it transmits to honeybees may be associated with colony collapse disorder.
Studies of CCD have most often implicated a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids or “neonics”—clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and imidacloprid. Ironically, these pesticides were developed during the 1990s because they were less toxic to honeybees than organophosphate and carbamate insecticides. Like those older pesticides, neonics attack the central nervous system of insects. However, unlike older pesticides that affect insects during or immediately after spraying, neonics are usually applied directly to seeds. They are systemic neuro-toxins that spread throughout the growing plant and, thus, are toxic to insects feeding on all parts of the plant throughout the growing season. Neonics are present in pollen, nectar, and even the droplets of sap or water that form on plant leaves. Furthermore, neonics are very long-lasting and can persist in the soil for a decade or more.
Early evidence of neonic involvement in CCD was anecdotal. Some commercial beekeepers reported that CCD appeared to occur several months after their hives were first exposed to fields that had been treated with a neonic. This suggested that, rather than the immediately toxic effects of some traditional pesticides, the bees were returning to the hive with pollen and nectar contaminated with low levels of neonic that had progressive effects on the bees developing within the hive. It might be coincidental; however, CCD appeared in the United States after 2004, the year that seed companies began marketing corn seeds treated with five times the previous levels of neonics. These coatings are partially pulverized by air-powered seed planters and can be spread over the fields in plumes. However, CCD has not emerged in all regions of the world where neonics are used.
Studies published in 2012 strengthened the case for neonics as primary drivers of CCD. Research indicated that neonics at approved dosages and exposures have sub-lethal effects on honeybees, causing them to become disoriented and unable to return to their hives. Furthermore, neonics appear to reduce the weight and number of queens in bumblebee hives. One study suggested that there may be neonic residues in high-fructose corn syrup fed to commercial honeybees. Honeybees are requiring more supplemental feeding as urbanization and pollution degrade their environments. In addition, the life span of adult field bees is decreasing. This means that younger bees are forced out to gather nectar and pollen, and these younger bees require more care and feeding to maintain their strength.
Other contributing factors
If neonics are culprits in CCD, their effects may be indirect. There is evidence that neonics may make honeybees more susceptible to pathogens. Some evidence also suggests that a new class of fungicides that have been widely used on corn since 2006 may greatly increase the toxicity of neonics in bees. Other evidence suggests that fungicides may affect the microbiota in the bee gut, killing off the bacteria that bees need to convert pollen into bee bread or to fight infection. In addition, older pesticides that are toxic to bees continue to be used, and herbicides destroy bee habitat, leading to nutritional stress.
Management stresses and environmental stresses may contribute to CCD by making colonies more susceptible to disease. Overcrowded hives can lead to poor nutrition. Furthermore, colonies are stacked on tractor-trailers and transported thousands of miles each growing season. Since hive orientation is essential for honeybees, this frequent relocation increases stress, in addition to spreading pathogens to bees from other colonies. Environmental stresses include scarcity, lack of diversity, and low nutritional value of pollen and nectar, as well as limited access to uncontaminated water. Despite much media attention, neither cell phones nor cell phone towers have been shown to be associated with CCD or poor honeybee health.
Are there pesticides associated with colony collapse disorder that are present in human food?
Are these pesticides harmful to humans?
Are organically grown foods free of these pesticides?
Are there any ways that I can help prevent colony collapse disorder?
CCD usually occurs when worker bees first leave the hive to forage in winter or early spring. The bees fail to return to the hive. The telltale symptoms are a live queen, honey, and often immature bees in the hive, but no live or dead workers.
Incidents of acute pesticide poisoning of honeybee hives have sometimes been mistakenly identified in the media as CCD. However, acute pesticide poisoning is readily identifiable by piles of dead bees outside the hive entrance. Heavily diseased colonies also have large numbers of dead bees near the hive, in contrast to CCD.
There is no treatment for CCD. A solution is unlikely to be found until the cause of CCD is definitively identified.
CCD may be on the decline. It is possible that it is a cyclical syndrome that is undergoing a natural decline following a peak or that colonies are developing natural resistance. The U.S. Agricultural Research Service also introduced new management recommendations, including a new bee diet of supplemental nutrients for winter and times of drought, which may be benefiting the bees.
With the definitive causes of CCD unclear, prevention has focused on improving honeybee health and habitat and countering known risk factors. The public can help prevent CCD by avoiding the indiscriminate use of pesticides. If used, pesticides should not be applied during midday hours, when honeybees are most likely to be foraging for pollen and nectar. Planting pollinator-friendly plants—plants that are good sources of nectar and pollen—may also help prevent CCD.
See also Drought ; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) .
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Margaret Alic, PhD
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"A" is for "archive": a case study in the American long poem
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Nelson, Thomas J. ǂq (Thomas John)
Long poems like Ezra Pound's The Cantos, William Carlos Williams's Paterson, and Louis Zukofsky's "A" collect and preserve cultural documents, much in the manner of archives. Long poems of the so-called "Pound tradition" are arrangements of discrete passages, including direct citations from sources such as letters, historical texts, and other often "non-poetic" documents. Acting as an archivist, the poet selects material for preservation. Critics have used various frames, notably the epic, the sequence, and the collection, to interpret twentieth-century long poems. Though similarities to archives have been noted, an archival frame has not been fully developed. This dissertation draws on the disciplinary practices of the archivists as well as critical imaginings of archives to develop a frame for interpreting long poems as archives. After establishing the parameters of the archival frame, the bulk of the dissertation concentrates on Zukofsky's archival tendencies. Zukofsky worked as an archivist for the Work Projects Administration's Index of American Design project, where he developed strategies for using an archive as a communicative form. He crafted and marketed his own literary archive as a means of establishing a literary reputation and as an alternative means of publication. But not only did he develop pragmatic uses of archives, he also applied his understanding of archival principles to the construction of his long poem "A". The difficulties of reading "A" parallel those of working the Zukofsky archive. Readers are overwhelmed with hermetic details, documents of personal and public incidents, and records that we are unable to relate readily to surrounding material. Reading "A" as an archive, we must respond to the documents that are the component parts of the poem, to each document's situated context, and to the relationships among the parts that make up Zukofsky's "poem of a life."
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MPs and Peers: “Kris Maharaj is innocent, and must be freed.”
A cross-party group of more than one hundred MPs and Peers has filed a legal brief in support of Kris Maharaj, a British citizen who has spent more than thirty years in prison in Florida for two murders he did not commit, despite compelling evidence of his innocence.
Bizarrely, the State of Florida, relying on a Supreme Court precedent, is arguing: “the existence merely of newly discovered evidence relevant to the guilt of a state prisoner is not a ground for relief on federal habeas corpus.” The parliamentarians argue that such a rule violates fundamental norms of international law, particularly in Kris’ case when the evidence of innocence is so clear.
Kris was living in Florida when Derrick and Duane Moo Young were shot dead in a Miami hotel in October 1986. He had six alibi witnesses, none of whom was called to testify at his trial – indeed his lawyer did not submit a defence at all. Prosecutors, police and the state’s key witness have all been shown to have lied in court.
After years of investigation, Reprieve’s Clive Stafford Smith discovered that the Moo Youngs were laundering billions of dollars for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and that his cartel had Derrick and Duane killed after they lost or stole some of that money. Five members of the cartel have given statements admitting that they were responsible for the murders.
At a federal hearing later this year, this evidence should be presented in court, together with dramatic testimony from a government informant and a retired DEA agent that the police knew who the real culprits were all along. However, the prosecution argues that it is all irrelevant and no hearing should be held.
The MPs and Peers have filed what’s known as an amicus brief, prepared by global law firm Reed Smith, in support of Kris’s innocence claim, noting that: “There is a growing world-wide consensus around the rights of convicted persons to present evidence of their innocence even when such evidence emerges outside the normal channels of trial or post-conviction review.” This is in addition to an amicus brief filed by the UK Foreign Office last month, demanding the release of documents that may prove authorities knew the cartel was responsible for the murders.
Kris is 79 years old and in poor health, the victim of an appalling miscarriage of justice that has already stolen thirty years of his life and kept him apart from his loving wife, Marita. The demand from Britain’s politicians could not be more clear: it is time to bring this innocent man home.
Reprieve’s founder, Clive Stafford-Smith said: “The suggestion that innocence is not relevant is simply mad. The British government and politicians from all parties recognise that the evidence of Kris’s innocence is overwhelming. Police and prosecutors had evidence that he was not the killer in 1986, but are still fighting 31 years later to keep him in prison. It’s time for the US justice system to accept that if they get the wrong man, the very least they must do is set him free.”
Michael Skrein, a senior litigation partner at Reed Smith said: “Mr Maharaj is a British citizen convicted and previously sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. This application of over a hundred British parliamentarians, of various political persuasions and faiths, is to permit him to present evidence of his innocence in order to overturn that conviction.” A team at Reed Smith, led by Mr Skrein in London and senior appellate partner Raymond Cardozo in San Francisco, are working on the case pro bono.
Sir Peter Bottomley MP, said: “I have supported Kris and Marita Maharaj for over 20 years. We have met four times in his cells in court and in prisons. I believe the evidence shows he is innocent and that his conviction is unsafe. It is strange to the outsider that the Florida Attorney General argues, now that the evidence is clear, that innocence is not enough for a prisoner to be released. My motive in respectfully signing the Parliamentarians’ brief is to encourage our friends in America to clarify that innocence does justify release.”
Celebrities and politicians join Reprieve in condemning the killing of 37 people in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia executes 37 people in a single day – including three juveniles
Yorkshire Terriers, Menwith Hill and illegal lethal drone strikes
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Top 10 Most Sinister PSYOPS Mission Patches
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By VC | June 20th, 2011
Mission patches are used by military and space organizations to identify, symbolize and describe a mission’s objectives and its crew. This tradition is also observed in the shady world of PSYOPS where each secret mission of the Pentagon gets its patch. These patches offer a rare glimpse into the Pentagon’s secret operations and the symbolism on them is rather striking: ominous and cryptic phrases, dark occult symbolism, references to secret societies, and sometimes even a rather dark sense of humor. Here’s the top 10 most sinister PSYOPS patches.
In 1965, NASA began using cloth patches to identify each of its missions and to symbolize the missions’ objectives and their crew. Each rocket launch has therefore a patch designed by crew members and in collaboration with the official design team. The patches are then proudly displayed on equipment and worn by NASA astronauts and other personnel affiliated with a particular manned or unmanned space mission.
Various NASA mission patches
Since then, other organizations involved in space travel and secret operations began using mission patches, including those that specialize in PSYOPS (psychological warfare): the CIA, the Department of Defense and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). What does space travel have to do with psychological warfare? Spy satellites. Since 1960, the NRO (whose existence was only declassified in 1992) has launched dozens of secret spy satellites into space, collecting an incredible amount of information on the United States’ friends, enemies and citizens.
As it is nearly impossible to obtain information regarding these highly classified endeavours, mission patches offer a rare glimpse into the world of PSYOPS. Even if one is not well-versed in symbolism, it is easy to perceive a sinister “vibe” emanating from the patch designs. Laced with strange symbols, ominous creatures, obscure Latin phrases and even dark humor, these patches reflect the mindstate of those wearing the patches.
The trailblazer in this area of research is Trevor Paglen, who, in 2008, published the book “I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World”. By the means of hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, he obtained and analyzed forty mission patches. From the book reviews:
“The iconography of the United States military. Not the mainstream military, with its bars and ribbons and medals, but the secret or ‘black projects’ world, which may or may not involve contacting aliens, building undetectable spy aircraft, and experimenting with explosives that could make atomic bombs look like firecrackers. Here, mysterious characters and cryptic symbols hint at intrigue much deeper than rank, company, and unit.”
“Of course, issuing patches for a covert operation sounds like a joke … but truth be told, these days everything is branded. Military symbols are frequently replete with heraldic imagery—some rooted in history, others based on contemporary popular arts that feature comic characters—but these enigmatic dark-op images, in some cases probably designed by the participants themselves, are more personal, and also more disturbing, than most.”
—Steven Heller, The New York Times Book Review
Since the release of this book, new mission patches have been released that are as strange and cryptic as their predecessors. If these patches are meant to symbolize “the values of the crew and the objectives of the mission”, perhaps we should be a little concerned. Here are the top 10 most sinister mission patches:
#10 – Alien Face
TENCAP is an acronym for “Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities” and is a collection of programs involving the cutting edge of warfare.
“The purpose of the AF TENCAP program is to exploit the current and future potential of existing national, commercial, and civil space systems and national air-breathing systems, and to provide these capabilities to the warfighter as rapidly as possible.”
– Source
In PSYOPS, “Special” almost invariably means “black” or highly classified. Does the “highly classified part” of the mission have something to do with the fact that the badge bears the face of an alien? The saying at the bottom does not help: The phrase “Oderint Dum Metuant” is usually associated with Caligula, the first-century Roman emperor whose name became synonymous with depravity, madness, and tyranny. It translates as “Let them hate so long as they fear.” Right.
#9 All Your Base Are Belong to Us
A giant angry dragon clutching the planet, bringing destruction from space. That’s a nice way to symbolize space missions. In PSYOPS symbolism, dragons typically represent signals-intelligence satellite launches; the dragons’ wing patterns symbolize the satellites’ massive gold-foil dish antennae meant to collect all types of information from earth. The phrase “Omnis Vestri Substructio Es Servus Ad Nobis” can loosely be translated to “All your base are servant to us”. This phrase does not make much sense, except that it vaguely states that the world is owned by those who made that patch. But this phrase is also reminiscent of a geeky 2002 Internet meme based on a poor translation in an old-school Sega game.
The biggest internet meme of 2002, a badly translated Sega game.
This allusion to popular culture is quite funny yet disturbing … I’m pretty sure they truly believe that all our base are belong to them.
#8 Hymn to Pan
The PAN satellite was launched in September 2009 and is so top-secret that no military or governmental organization claimed to have built it.
“A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket has launched with PAN, a classified satellite which will be operated by the US Government. The launch was on time, at the start of a two hour, nine minute launch window which opened at 21:35 GMT (17:35 local time). Unusually for an American government satellite, the agency responsible for operating the spacecraft has not been disclosed.”
– Nasa Space Flight
According to the patch, PAN stands for “Palladium at Night”, Palladium being a silvery-white metallic element that is probably present in the satellite. The mission is so secret, however, that it is jokingly said that the name PAN actually stands for “Pick a Name” (notice the subtle question mark underneath the rocket on the patch).
PAN is also the name of an ancient horned god important in occultism and that has a strange link with the history of rocket science in the United States.
The ancient god Pan, a nature deity with phallic attributes. Is it me or is the PAN mission patch also rather phallic?
Jack Parsons, a pioneer in American space propulsion who is often credited for having “propelled” the United States into the space age (a crater of the moon is named in his honor), was also a notorious occultist. He was a prominent member of the Ordo Templi Orienti (the O.T.O.), an occult secret society popularized by Aleister Crowley. Seeing no separation between his professional and his occult work, Parsons was known to chant Crowley’s poem entitled Hymn to Pan before each test rocket launch.
“Parsons would dance and chant poetry—most notably Crowley’s “Hymn to Pan”—before rocket tests.”
– Goeffrey Landis, The Three Rocketeers
Is Pan still invoked during rocket launches?
#7 Supra Summus
This is a patch for a NRO spy-satellite launch. Those familiar with this site will probably recognize this Illuminati 101 symbolism: An unfinished pyramid topped by the All-Seeing Eye. This All-Seeing Eye requires help: it needs spy satellites to be even more all-seeing.
“LMA” at the bottom right most likely refers to Lockheed Martin Aerospace, which is the ultimate Big Brother mega-company working with the CIA, NRO, NSA and IRS.
Above the All-Seeing Eye is written “Supra Summus”, which can be translated to “Most Superior and Highest”, which, if nothing else, indicates a healthy level of self-esteem.
Other NRO spy-satellite launches have also used similar designs.
NROL-32 Patch.
#6 Two Faced Shadow Guy
The 23rd Space Operations Squadron (23 SOPS) is a United States Air Force unit located at New Boston Air Force Station in New Hampshire. The patch of this mission features a creepy-looking figure in a creepy hood looking over the earth with creepy eyes, staring creepily at the American continent. However, that is not the creepiest thing in this patch. If you look closely at the contour of the black face, you’ll see another face, with pointy nose and pointy ears, looking left. Who is this creepier dude within an already creepy dude? And what’s up with all the layers of creepy?
The saying “Semper Vigilans” means “Always Vigilant”. At least I can relate to that. But in the context of this patch, it is definitely creepy.
#5 The Grid
Are you thinking of selling your condo and your Prius in order to leave everything and “go off the grid”? Try it and this knight might slash your head off. It would probably be useless anyhow. Look closely at this patch: there is no “off the grid”. This patch actually depicts the “information grid” those crazy conspiracy theorists keep rambling about, complete with nodes at the intersections.
Defenders of the Domain is a subgroup of the NSA Information Assurance group and is comprised of individuals “who are on the front lines in developing the strategy, the concepts, the planning and the technical implementation in the Information Assurance domain. They are the true leaders in the world of Cybersecurity.” In other words, they monitor the cyberspace using the latest technologies.
The man with the sword is in the distinct dress of a Knight Templar, this ancient group of Crusaders that became an occult secret society. The Knight represents the descendants of the Templars, the modern Illuminatus.
#4 NRO Snakes
This is another mysterious patch of the NRO. The program associated with this patch is totally unknown. All we know is that it is represented by three menacing vipers wrapped around the the earth, making us all warm and fuzzy inside. The Latin inscription “Nunquam Ante Numquam Iterum” translates to “Never before, never again.” What never happened before and will never happen again? We may never know.
#3 I Could Tell You…
You know that a mission is top-secret when not even an obscure symbol can be used to represent it. This patch was designed as a generic insignia for “black” projects conducted by the Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four. The Latin phrase “Si Ego Certiorem Faciam … Mihi Tu Delendus Eris” is roughly translated to “I could tell you … but then I’d have to kill you”. That is cliché phrase, but considering these are the people who actually created it, they probably don’t think it is corny. In fact, they’re probably dead serious about it.
Furthermore, there is a twist on the phrase. According to Paglen, the Latin phrase is worded in a peculiar way in order to refer to Greek and Roman texts.
“The Latin phrase Si Ego Certiorem Faciam … Mihi Tu Delendus Eris roughly translates into a cliché commonly heard in the vicinity of “black” programs: “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”
But the phrasing here is unusual because it is written in the passive voice: a more accurate translation of the Latin would be “I could tell you, but then you would have to be destroyed by me.” By employing the passive voice, the patch’s designer makes two references that would not exist in other phrasings. The first reference is to the Greek god of Chaos, Eris, about whom Homer wrote in Book Four of the Iliad: “[Eris] whose wrath is relentless … is the sister and companion of murderous Ares, she who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven. She then hurled down bitterness equally between both sides as she walked through the onslaught making men’s pain heavier.”
The passive phrasing of the Latin also echoes the words of the second-century BCE Roman senator Cato the Elder, who roamed the Senate repeating the words Carthago delenda est—”Carthage must be destroyed.” In 149 BCE, Cato got his way and Rome attacked the North African city, located near present-day Tunis. Three years after beginning their assault, the Roman army overran Carthage, tore down its walls, and sold its inhabitants into slavery. After the Roman Senate declared that no one would ever again live where the city had stood, legend holds that Rome salted the earth around the city in order to ensure that Carthage would remain a wasteland.”
So the badge does not contain a simple death threat: it also alludes to a “wrath from above” of mythological proportions, turning your city into a wasteland for generations to come. Now that’s a threat.
#2 Get Your Kicks on 66
The Minotaur program is composed of top-secret NRO spy-satellite launching missions. Minotaurs are bull-headed creatures from Greek mythology that are always angry, violent and merciless. Minotaurs bear many resemblances to the Middle-Eastern deity Molech, a bull-headed god with the body of a man to whom child sacrifices were made.
Molech
In this patch for NROL-66, the red Minotaur (as if hailing directly from hell) is holding a street sign of the mythical route 66. It is rather difficult not to see an allusion to the devil (who is often portrayed in red) and the number 666.
Furthermore, according to some occult researchers, route 66 was originally laid out to become a sort of “occult pilgrimage”.
“The famous old American highway “Route 66″ was laid out by Freemasons with the apparent intention of sending masses of automobile riders into a self-processing occult “trip.”
Route 66 began at the Buckingham Fountain in Chicago, near the site of the University of Chicago’s collection of Aztec ritual incunabula. It ended in Barstow, California in the Mohave desert, which is for the Freemasons, the cosmic graveyard of the West, the final destiny of Anubis, the celestial jackal, otherwise known as Sirius (see Giorgio de Santillana andHertha Von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and th Frame of Time, p. 358).
If this version of Route 66 smacks of some medieval pilgrimage made more appropriately on a camel than by car, it is for good reason. Most of Route 66 was based on a road forged in 1857 by Lt. Edward Beale and his caravan of the U.S. Camel Corps.”
– Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
So who is really getting their kicks on Route 66?
#1 The Devil You Know
This patch for NROL-49 depicts a phoenix rising from the flames with the flag of the United States in the background. The Latin words “Melior Diabolus Quem Scies” roughly translates to mean “The Devil You Know,” as in the phrase “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know”. Cryptic. According to NASA, this saying refers to the return of the use of an old system after attempting to use a new one, which had resulted in failure.
“The mission patch for NRO L-49 shows a phoenix rising out of a fire, with the words “melior diabolus quem scies”, which translate into English as “better the devil you know”, indicating the return to the older system following the failure of the attempt to replace it.”
It is a rather odd choice of words for a governmental agency, but definitely on-par with this whole sinister, hellish theme going on with PSYOPS patches.
NROL-49 before its launch featuring its mission patch at the top.
Another patch related to NRO-49 depicts the satellite as a winged fiery being (referred to by NASA as a devil named Betty) who is holding a trident and a wrench.
“An image of a devil features on the launch patch. The old tradition of giving rockets personal names also appears to have been revived; Delta 352 seems to have been named “Betty”, and the Atlas V that launched from Vandenberg last year was named ‘Gladys’.”
– Ibid.
The patch shows the moon (or a comet?) partially covering the earth. If you look closely, there are letters in the detail of the grey astral body. What do they refer to? At the bottom of the patch, the Latin phrase is also enigmatic: “Primoris Gravis Ex Occasus”. Primoris means “First”, Gravis stands for “important, heavy or serious” and Occasus means “setting of the sun, the West, or fall”. In other words, I don’t know what it means. “First heavy setting of the sun”? “The most important thing after the sunset”? “First serious fall”? Regardless of the exact meaning, there seems to be an emphasis on the concept of darkness. Betty is pure darkness wrapped in flames and is partially covering the sun. There is a grey celestial body moving towards the earth … and we’re still talking about a spy-satellite. Okay.
There are many other patches giving a glimpse in the somehow twisted world of PSYOPS:
Wizards controlling the earth through magic is a recurring theme in PSYOPS patches. Is magick still a part of rocket launching like in the times of Jack Parsons and the O.T.O.?
What do the letters at the bottom mean? None of your f***ing business. No, I’m not being rude…that’s what the letters stand for.
Another NRO patch, one that pretty much sums up the meaning of all of the above. The spy-satellite is symbolized by an angry dragon clutching the entire planet with its four claws holding a diamond in its tail. It does not seem to preoccupied with our privacy and other petty things like that.
Although it isn’t possible to know exact meaning of the symbols found in these mission patches, they still provide a rare insider’s look at the philosophy, the mind state and the background of the organizations creating them. Sorcerers controlling the earth, vipers surrounding the earth, angry dragons clutching the earth … this is how they perceive themselves and their work. My question is: Should we maybe be a little concerned? One could argue that these patches are meant to be menacing to America’s enemies. This could be true, but most satellites launched by the NRO are meant to spy on North America, hence the emphasis on the continent in many of these patches.
One thing is certain, mission patches are the most honest descriptions we have of these secret missions. Since most of the patches were not intended for mass exposure, they are devoid of public relations sugar-coating. The patches do not talk about “bringing democracy and the light of freedom to the world”… they show the world in chains and in flames, controlled by dragons and sorcerers, and their words threaten death and destruction.
The occult symbolism illustrated in these patches is also reminder that these organizations have relations to secret societies and are “in the know”. And those who are not in the know, the uninitiated masses, the profane, are not welcome.
“Procul Este Profani”: “Keep your distance, you who are uninitiated.”
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US-Saudi arms deal ripples from Iran to Israel
By BRIAN MURPHY and ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press Writers – 52 mins ago
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – As American and Saudi officials spent months quietly hammering out a wish list for a mammoth sale of American warplanes and other weapons to the oil-rich kingdom, leaders in Iran were busy publicly displaying their advances in missiles, naval craft and air power.
In one memorable bit of political theater, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood under a cascade of glitter in August to unveil a drone bomber — dubbed the “ambassador of death” — that he claimed would keep foes in the region “paralyzed” on their bases.
The response by Washington and its cornerstone Arab ally, Saudi Arabia, moved a step ahead Wednesday. The Obama administrationnotified Congress of plans to sell as many as 84 new F-15 fighter jets, helicopters and other gear with an estimated $60 billion price tag.
The proposed deal — one of the biggest single U.S. arms sales — is clearly aimed at countering Iran’s rising military might and efforts to expand its influence.
But it ties together other significant narratives in the region, including an apparent retooling of Israeli policies to tacitly support a stronger, American-armed Saudi Arabia because of common worries about Iran.
It also reinforces the Gulf as the Pentagon’s front-line military network against Iran even as the U.S. sandwiches the Islamic republic with troops and bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“In this way, Saudi Arabia does become some sort of buffer between Israel and Iran,” said Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a Swedish think tank that tracks arms sales.
Israel has made no diplomatic rumblings over the proposed Saudi deal — a marked contrast to almost automatic objections decades ago to Pentagon pacts with Arab nations. It’s widely seen as an acknowledgment that Israel’s worries over Iran and its nuclear program far outweigh any small shifts in the Israel-Arab balance of power.
Israel is moving toward a policy of “pick your fights,” said Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
“After all,” he added, “Saudi Arabia is not such a big threat to us.”
And Israel does not come out of the current American arms bazaar empty handed. Earlier this month, it signed a deal to purchase 20 F-35 stealth fighters that could possibly reach Iran undetected by radar. Israel has an option for 75 more.
“This equipment is primarily to give (Israel) a better feeling facing the Iranian threat. It is not related to Israeli-Arab relations,” said Inbar. “Ironically, in the current situation, Saudi Arabia is in the same strategic boat as Israel is in facing the Iranian threat.”
Besides the new fighters for Saudi Arabia, the U.S. plans to upgrade an additional 70 of the kingdom’s existing F-15s. State Department and Pentagon officials told lawmakers the sales also will include 190 helicopters, including Apaches and Black Hawks, as well as an array of missiles, bombs, delivery systems and accessories such as night-vision goggles and radar warning systems.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal, which was first revealed in September but has been in negotiations for months. U.S. officials say they aren’t expecting significant opposition.
Iran, meanwhile, has concentrated on its missile arsenal overseen by the powerful Revolutionary Guard. Its solid-fuel Sajjil missile has a reported range of more than 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) — within range of Israel and all main U.S. bases in the region.
Iran’s navy has staged war games in the Gulf and announced major additions to its fleet, including three Iranian-built submarines designed to operate in the Gulf’s shallow waters.
It marks the Gulf as a buyer’s market for arms, led by the U.S. as the dominant Western military power from Kuwait to Oman. Throughout the Gulf, Washington counts on access to Arab allies’ air bases, logistics hubs and the Bahrain headquarters of America’s naval powerhouse in the region — the U.S. 5th Fleet.
A report last month by the U.S. General Accountability Office said Washington approved $22 billion worth of military equipment transfers to the six Gulf Arab states between fiscal 2005 and 2009 through a Pentagon-managed program.
More than half was earmarked for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, including a $6.5 billion deal in 2009 for the UAE to buy the Patriot missile defense system.
The UAE agreement was the largest single arms approval during the five-year period — but is dwarfed by the proposed Saudi deal.
The researcher Wezeman said Iran is clearly the top perceived threat for the Gulf Arabs, but there are background concerns about Iraq’s stability and the unrest in neighboring Yemen that includes Shiite Hawthi rebels and Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida. The Saudi military was drawn into rare fighting in northern Yemen starting late last year, using airstrikes and artillery to battle a Hawthi rebellion that was spilling across the border.
“Of course it’s against Iran. Of course it’s against Yemen,” said Wezeman. “You can read between the lines … but there are not any official statements about it.”
Wezeman’s group issued a report this month that estimates the eight nations ringing the Gulf — including rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia — accounted for 10 percent of all conventional weapons imports between 2005-2009.
The appetite was on display earlier this month when envoys from more than 50 U.S. defense and aerospace firms held talks in Abu Dhabi, where they were welcomed by the UAE’s minister of foreign trade at an opulent hotel on the shores of the Gulf.
As the American defense budget tightens, the Gulf’s deep pockets beckon.
“This is a critical time for our companies abroad as the U.S. defense budget continues to face pressures at home,” said a statement from Lawrence Farrell, head of the National Defense Industrial Association based outside Washington.
Jane Kinninmont, a Middle East and Africa specialist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, said concerns over Iran are the primary motivation for the Saudi arms expansion. But she wonders how much the untested Gulf forces rattle Iranian commanders who are almost all veterans of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
“I would not be surprised if the Iranians are pretty cynical about the armies here,” she said during an interview in Dubai. “To put it bluntly, they’ve fought a war.”
Associated Press Writers Mark Lavie and Aron Heller in Jerusalem, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
US-Saudi arms deal ripples from Iran to Israel (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
“US Announces $60 Billion Arms Sale For Saudi Arabia” and related posts (patdollard.com)
US confirms $60bn Saudi arms plan (bbc.co.uk)
U.S. Agrees to Sell Up to $60 Billion of Military Aircraft to Saudi Arabia (dailyfinance.com)
“US to sell $60 billion in advanced arms to Saudi Arabia” and related posts (online.worldmag.com)
US to sell $60 billion in advanced arms to Saudi Arabia (telegraph.co.uk)
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Mattis New Centcom Commander
Posted by Admin on July 15, 2010
I’m sure the appointment of Gen. James Mattis, previously head of U.S. Joint Forces Command, to succeed Gen. David Petraus at Centcom makes sense somehow but his gaffes in past commands dismay me. The video tells the story and the article below it amplifies.
“Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know it’s a helluva hoot. I’ll be right up front with you. I like brawling. You go into Afghanistan, you get guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil … guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”
Where is discernment here? Where is due process? How does a crime perpetrated by some people translate into a death sentence for all people?
The clip of his speech is being shown throughout the Muslim world. Gen. Mattis moves into a position that depends on trust. I can’t say I’m optimistic about his chances of success.
It’s fun to kill in Afghanistan, says top US commander
By Kim Sengupta, Defence Correspondent
http://tinyurl.com/3ae6svx
The US military, still recovering from the shock of the sacking of General Stanley McChrystal, its top commander in Afghanistan – is facing fresh problems over revelations that another top commander declared that it was “fun to shoot people” in Afghanistan.
A video of General James Mattis making his comments was yesterday spreading through the Muslim world at a fraught time in Afghanistan for the US and it’s Western allies. General Mattis has been named as successor to General David Petreaus as head of US Central Command. General Petraeus is moving to Afghanistan after McChrystal’s sacking over derogatory remarks made about President Obama to Rolling Stone magazine. But General Mattis has yet to be confirmed by the US Senate. The general led the controversial US military assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004.
The comments which have come back to haunt him were made at a leadership seminar in 2005. He said: “Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know it’s a helluva hoot. I’ll be right up front with you. I like brawling. You go into Afghanistan, you get guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil … guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”
Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, said that the remarks were made five years ago and General Mattis had learnt his lesson. But one senior American officer serving in Kabul, said: “This is not what we want to see happen after a very difficult time in the campaign. But we don’t think the Senate will block his appointment.
“The fact is people in the forces tend not to speak like bishops. We’ll have to make clear to Afghans that what he was talking about related to the Taliban, who oppress women, and certainly not Afghans and Muslims as a whole.”
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Supporters of President Donald Trump who did not wish to provide their names, walk on the National Mall in Washington as rain falls before Independence Day celebrations, Thursday, July 4, 2019.
AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Published 3:33 PDT, Thu July 4, 2019
WASHINGTON — A soggy crowd filed to the Lincoln Memorial grounds for President Donald Trump's "Salute to America" on Thursday as supporters praised his celebration of U.S. military clout and protesters assailed him for putting himself centre stage on a holiday devoted to unity.
Trump was calling on Americans to "stay true to our cause" and declaring "the future of American freedom rests on the shoulders of men and women willing to defend it," according to excerpts of his remarks released in advance by the White House.
A late afternoon downpour drenched the capital's Independence Day crowds and presaged an evening of possible on-and-off storms, raising some suspense about whether Trump's program of military flyovers and the city's annual July 4 fireworks would be interrupted. The rain chased off a steady stream of people while others arrived, using plastic bags, ponchos and the covers of baby strollers for shelter.
By adding his own, one-hour production to capital festivities that typically draw hundreds of thousands anyway, Trump set himself up to be the first president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall on Independence Day. "I will speak on behalf of our great Country!" he said in a morning tweet. "Perhaps even Air Force One will do a low & loud sprint over the crowd."
Protesters unimpressed by his "Salute to America" program inflated a roly-poly balloon depicting Trump as an angry, diaper-clad baby.
Trump set aside a historic piece of real estate — a stretch of the Mall from the Lincoln Monument to the midpoint of the reflecting pool — for a mix of invited military members, Republican and Trump campaign donors and other bigwigs. It's where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech, Barack Obama and Trump held inaugural concerts and protesters swarmed into the water when supporters of Richard Nixon put on a July 4, 1970, celebration, with the president sending taped remarks from California.
Aides to the crowd-obsessed Trump fretted about the prospect of empty seats at his event, said a person familiar with the planning who was not authorized to be identified. Aides scrambled in recent days to distribute tickets and mobilize the Trump and GOP social media accounts to encourage participation for an event hastily arranged and surrounded with confusion.
Outside the sprawling VIP section, a diverse mix of visitors, locals, veterans, tour groups, immigrant families and more milled about, some drawn by Trump, some by curiosity, some by the holiday's regular activities along the Mall.
Protesters earlier made their voices heard in sweltering heat by the Washington Monument, along the traditional parade route and elsewhere, while the VIP section at the reflecting pool served as something of a buffer for Trump's event.
In the shadow of the Washington Monument hours before Trump's speech, the anti-war organization Codepink erected a 20-foot tall "Trump baby" balloon to protest what it called the president's co-opting of Independence Day.
"We think that he is making this about himself and it's really a campaign rally," said Medea Benjamin, the organization's co-director. "We think that he's a big baby. ... He's erratic, he's prone to tantrums, he doesn't understand the consequences of his actions. And so this is a great symbol of how we feel about our president."
The balloon remained tied down at the Mall because park officials restricted the group's permission to move it or fill it with helium, Benjamin said.
Protesters also handed out small Trump-baby balloons on sticks. Molly King of La Porte, Indiana, a 13-year-old Trump supporter in sunglasses and a "Make America Great Again" hat, happily came away with one.
"They're making a big stink about it but it's actually pretty cute," she said. "I mean, why not love your president as you'd love a baby?"
A small crowd gathered to take pictures with the big balloon, which drew Trump supporters and detractors.
"Even though everybody has different opinions," said Kevin Malton, a Trump supporter from Middlesboro, Kentucky, "everybody's getting along."
But Daniela Guray, a 19-year-old from Chicago who held a "Dump Trump" sign, said she was subjected to a racial epithet while walking along the Constitution Avenue parade route and told to go home.
She said she did not come to the Mall to protest but ended up doing so. "I started seeing all the tanks with all the protests and that's when I said, 'Wait, this is not an actual Fourth of July,'" she said. "Trump is making it his day rather than the Fourth of July."
Weather permitting, Trump planned showcase flyovers by warplanes, aircraft in the presidential Air Force One and Marine One fleet and the Navy Blue Angels aerobatics team, as well as his remarks. A larger than usual fireworks display was assembled.
Trump had sounded a defensive note Wednesday, tweeting that the cost "will be very little compared to what it is worth."
"We own the planes, we have the pilots, the airport is right next door (Andrews), all we need is the fuel," he said, referring to Maryland's Joint Base Andrews, home for some of the planes expected for the holiday flyover. "We own the tanks and all. Fireworks are donated by two of the greats."
Trump glossed over the expense of shipping tanks and fighting vehicles to Washington by rail and guarding them for several days, and other costs.
Not since 1951, when President Harry Truman spoke before a large gathering on the Washington Monument grounds to mark the 175th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, has a commander in chief made an Independence Day speech to a sizable crowd on the Mall.
Pete Buttigieg, one of the Democrats running for president, said: "this business of diverting money and military assets to use them as a kind of prop, to prop up a presidential ego, is not reflecting well on our country." Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is a Navy Reserve veteran who served in Afghanistan in 2014.
Two groups, the National Parks Conservation Foundation and Democracy Forward, want the Interior Department's internal watchdog to investigate what they say may be a "potentially unlawful decision to divert" national parks money to Trump's "spectacle."
Trump and the event's organizers could be on the hook to reimburse the government millions of dollars if he goes into campaign mode, in violation of federal appropriations law and the Hatch Act, which bars politicking on government time, said Walter Shaub, who left the Office of Government Ethics in 2017 after clashing with the White House over ethics and disclosure issues.
Washington has held an Independence Day celebration for decades, featuring a parade along Constitution Avenue, a concert on the Capitol lawn with music by the National Symphony Orchestra and fireworks beginning at dusk near the Washington Monument.
Trump altered the lineup by adding his speech, moving the fireworks closer to the Lincoln Memorial and summoning the tanks and warplanes.
Associated Press writers Kali Robinson, Zeke Miller, Kevin Freking, Matthew Daly and Ellen Knickmeyer contributed to this report.
– Darlene Superville, Calvin Woodward and Lynn Berry, The Associated Press
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Databurst From the 501st
October 24, 2018 at 12:00 am | Posted in 501st, Charity, Conventions, Databurst From the 501st, Events, Star Wars | Leave a comment
Latest Databurst From the 501st covering 501st Legion events around the world from October 24 to 30th. As always, be sure to mark your calendars and support your local garrisons.
Garrison Carida will be in Mechanicsburg, PA for the Military and DOD Halloween Trunk-or-Treat from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Garrison Tyranus will be in Powhatan, VA for the PTO Fall Festival from 4:30 to 8:00 PM.
Great Lakes Garrison will be in Saline, MI for Saline Mainstreet Trunk or Treat/Scarecrow Contest.
Midsouth Garrison will be in Smyrna, TN for Star Wars Reads at the Motlow State Community College-Smyrna Campus from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Star Garrison will be in San Angelo, TX for the Meet Colin Cantwell event.
70th Explorers Garrison will be in Wichita, KS for Whovians of Wichita Trunk or Treat from 5:30 to 9:30 PM.
Alpine Garrison will be in Syracuse, UT for the Syracuse Pumpkin Walk at Founders Park from October 25 to 27th.
Carolina Garrison will be in Charleston, SC for Fish or Treat at South Carolina Aquarium from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Central Garrison will be in Bismarck, ND for the Mandan Red Ribbon Carnival at the National Guard Armory, and in Boone, IA for Boone Trunk or Treat.
Dune Sea Garrison will be in Phoenix, AZ for the Mountain View Precinct Halloween Festival from 5:30 to 8:30 PM.
Garrison Carida will be in Quarryville, PA for Halloween Hallways from 5:00 to 8:00 PM, in Montgomeryville, PA for PBGW Annual Halloween Bash from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, and in Bethlehem, PA for Autism Society Trick-or-Treat Practice Night from 7:00 to 8:00 PM.
Great Lakes Garrison will be in Garden City, WI for Spooktacular Trunk or Treat, and in Allendale, MI for the Pumpkin Walk.
Midsouth Garrison will be at the Spooky Science Spectacular from 5:00 to 7:00 PM.
Northeast Remnant Garrison will be in Augusta, NJ for the Growing Stage Theater Harvest Fest at Skylands Stadium Event Center from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.
Old Line Garrison will be in Manchester, MD for Pack 2671 Trunk or Treat at Kirkridge Presbyterian Church from 7:00 to 8:30 PM.
Timberline Garrison will be in Idaho Falls, ID for Boo at the Zoo at the Idaho Falls Zoo from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
Wisconsin Garrison will be in Manitowoc, WI for Miracle League Trick-or-Treat at Baymont Inn & Suites at 5:00 PM.
70th Explorers Garrison will be in Shawnee, KS for Hope Lutheran Trunk or Treat.
Badlands Garrison will be at Central Canada Comic Con from October 26 to 28th.
Bast Alpha Garrison will be in Lafayette, LA for the Spooktacular from October 26 to 28th, and in New Orleans, LA for Boo at the Zoo from October 26 to 28th.
Carolina Garrison will be in Greensboro, NC for Tossing for Tamarins at Greensboro Science Center from 5:30 to 9:00 PM, and in Charlotte, NC for the Pumpkin Charity Ball for Levine’s at The Ballantyne from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.
Central Garrison will be in Sioux Fall, SD for Zoo Boo at Great Plains Zoo from October 26 to 28th, in Lincoln, IA for Adams Elementary Fun Night, and in Bloomington, MN for Crypticon at Hilton Minneapolis.
Central California Garrison will be in Lodi, CA for Micke Grove Zoo’s Hallowild from October 26 to 27th.
Dune Sea Garrison will be in Tucson, AZ for Boo at the Zoo from October 27 to 28th.
Florida Garrison will be in Fort Walton Beach, FL for Silver Sands School Fall Festival from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM, in Fort Lauderdale, FL for Gilda’s Club South Florida Halloween Party from 5:30 to 8:00 PM, and in Pensacola, FL for Boo Dash 0.5K at Pensacola Blue Wahoos from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.
Garrison Excelsior will be at the Trick or Treating at Genesee Country Village & Museum.
Garrison Tyranus will be in Amherst, VA for Trunk or Treat at Virginia Select Auto from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Midsouth Garrison will be at the Chattanooga Boo in the Zoo from October 26 to 27th.
Northeast Remnant Garrison will be in Phillipsburg, NJ for Trunk or Treat at Saints Phillip and James School from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
Old Line Garrison will be in Baltimore, MD for Zoo Boo at the Maryland Zoo from October 26 to 28th, and in Bel Air, MD for Pack 313 Trunk or Treat at St. Matthews Lutheran Church from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
Polish Garrison will be in Poznań for Czad dla Michała Concert Charytatywny.
Star Garrison will be in El Paso, TX for the North Loop Christian Academy Fall Festival.
Timberline Garrison will be in Pocatello, ID for the Ghostly Gathering at the Mountain View Event Center from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
UK Garrison will be in Yeovil for the Bibic Footballathon at Huish Park from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, in Glasgow for the Halloween Party at the Glasgow Science Centre from 6:00 to 9:30 PM, in London for MCM Comic Con at the ExCeL from October 26 to 28th, and in Epsom for Satisfied Eye International Film Festival at The Derby Square from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
70th Explorers Garrison will be in Collinsville, IL for Gateway Comic Con from October 27 to 28th, in Wichita, KS for WSU Halloween ComicFest 2018 from 12:30 to 4:30 PM, and in Wichita, KS for Night of the Living Zoo from 5:30 to 9:30 PM.
Alaskan Garrison will be in Fairbanks, AK for Pioneer Park Trick or Treat Town from 11:30 AM to 7:00 PM.
Alpine Garrison will be in Salt Lake City, UT for This Is the Place Heritage Park Little Haunts from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, in South Weber, UT for South Weber Railroad Fright Train at Canyon Meadows Park from noon to 6:00 PM, and in Lehi, UT for Food Free Trunk or Treat at Mountain Point Medical Center from 2:30 to 4:00 PM.
Bast Alpha Garrison will be in Lafayette, LA for the DSAA Buddy Walk, and in Lafayette, LA for Halloweekend, in Baton Rouge, LA for Boo at the BREC Zoo from October 27 to 28th, and in Baton Rouge, LA for the Halloween Parade.
Carolina Garrison will be in Greenville, SC for Borderlands Halloween Comic Fest at Borderlands Comics and Games from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM, in Asheville, NC for Halloween Comic Fest from 11:30 AM to 5:00 PM, in Waxhaw, NC for Waxhaw Fall Bash at Dogwood Park at Wesley Chapel from noon to 4:00 PM, and in Greenville, SC for Boo at the Zoo at Greenville Zoo from 3:30 to 6:00 PM.
Central Garrison will be in Omaha, NE for the Omaha Zoo Spooctacular at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo, in Lincoln, NE for Star Wars Reads Day at Walt Library, in Cedar Falls, IA for CF AMVETS Trunk or Treat, and in Omaha, MN for the Anoka Halloween Parade.
Central California Garrison will be in Red Bluff, CA for 3rd Annual Kids’ Spooktacular at River Park from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, and in Sacramento Zoo, CA for Boo at the Zoo from October 27 to 28th.
Connecticut Garrison will be in Hartford, CT for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Does Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert from noon to 6:30 PM.
Czech Garrison will be in Výstaviště Letňany for For Toys.
Dune Sea Garrison will be in Tucson, AZ for the Walk for Apraxia from 8:00 AM to noon, and in Surprise, AZ for Getting Arizona Involved in Neighborhoods (GAIN) Night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Florida Garrison will be in Panama City Beach, FL for the Zoo Boo at Zooworld Panama City Beach from October 27 to 28th, in Tampa, FL for the Florida Aquarium Guppyween from 7:30 to 9:30 AM, and in Tampa, FL for the 3rd FDSWF Buddy Walk at Raymond James Stadium from 1:00 to 4:00 PM.
Garrison Carida will be in Norristown, PA at Elmwood Park Zoo from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, in Mechanicsburg, PA for Reads Day at Comix Connection from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and in Reading, PA for Reading Royals from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.
Garrison Excelsior will be in Ithaca, NY for Wizarding Weekend from October 27 to 28th.
Garrison Tyranus will be in Richmond, VA for VA ComicCon from October 27 to 28th, in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Science Festival at the Moss Arts Center from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, in Dublin, VA for NRCC Con at New River Community College from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, in Virginia Beach, VA for Step Up for Down Syndrome Awareness Walk at Mt. Trashmore from 10:00 AM to noon, in Vienna, VA for Lucas’ End of Chemo Treatment Celebration, and in Purcellville, VA for the Purcellville Halloween Black Party.
Great Lakes Garrison will be in Charlotte, MI for the Star Wars Destiny Benefit Tournament for Paws with a Cause.
Japanese Garrison will be in Fukuoka Prefecture for the Donald McDonald House Open House 2018, in Ibaraki Prefecture for the 4th Naka City Industrial Festival, and in Mishima-shi Shizuoka Prefecture for the Nihon University Faculty of International Relations and Culture Festival from October 27 to 28th.
Midsouth Garrison will be in Cordova, TN for Halloween Hollow at Heartsong Church from 2:00 to 5:00 PM.
Northeast Remnant Garrison will be in Pennsauken, NJ for the AHA Walk at Cooper River Park from 8:00 to 10:00 AM, in Woodbury Heights, NJ for South Jersey Geekfest from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and in Hamburg, NJ for Halloween Comic Fest at Bob’s Collectables from noon to 2:00 PM.
Oklahoma Garrison will be in Lawton, OK for Inkin Oklahoma at Apache Casino Hotel from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM.
Old Line Garrison will be in Arnold, MD for the STEM Parade at Anne Arundel Community College from 9:00 AM to noon, and in Ocean View, DE for Cops and Goblins at John West Park from 1:00 to 5:00 PM.
Spanish Garrison will be in Seville, Spain for X Training Day Sevilla from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
Star Garrison will be in Amarillo, TX for the Northwest Children’s Hospital visit, at the Festival of Abilities, at Star Wars Reads Tomball, in Lubbock, TX for the Roscoe Wilson Fall Festival, in Dallas, TX for the Dallas Zoo Halloweekend, in Dallas, TX for the Susan G. Komen Dallas Race for the Cure, in Odessa, TX for the 2nd Annual Bike or Treat, in Dallas, TX for Star Wars Day at the Museum, in Dallas, TX for Star Wars Day at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and in Southlake, TX for the PKD Walk and Run at Southlake Town Square.
UK Garrison will be in Falkirk for BGCP Falkirk Comic Con 2018 at Woodlands Games Hall from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM, in Chippenham for Supercar Saturday at Castle Combe from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and in Birmingham for Virtually Minded Comic Con 27 at North Birmingham Academy from noon to 3:00 PM.
Bast Alpha Garrison will be in Patterson, LA for Harvest of Heroes, and in Lake Arthur, LA for Boo on the Avenue.
Carolina Garrison will be in Greenville, SC for 2018 Spooktaculer at Take Heart Church from 3:00 to 7:00 PM, and in Winston-Salem, NC for Old Salem Trick or Treat at Old Salem Museums and Gardens from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.
Central Garrison will be in St. Paul, MN for the Hallie Q. Brown Halloween Party at the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, and in Minneapolis, MN for Trunk or Treat at Hennepin Ave. United Methodist Church.
Dune Sea Garrison will be in Tempe, AZ for Arizona Autism Speaks Walk from 7:30 to 11:00 AM, and in Tempe, AZ for the Walk for PKD from 8:00 to 11:00 AM.
Great Lakes Garrison will be in Saginaw, MI for the Saginaw Children’s Zoo Boo, in Bay City, MI for the Bay County Library Star Wars Party, and in Clawson, MI for Trick or Treat Trail.
Japanese Garrison will be in Miyagi Prefecture for the Hirose Municipal Center Festival & Miyagi Area Festival, and in Higashi-Totsuka for the 7th Higashi Totsuka Halloween Party.
Midsouth Garrison will be in Southaven, MS for Colonial Hills Church Fall Festival from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.
New England Garrison will be at the Woburn Halloween Parade from 11:00 AM to noon.
Old Line Garrison will be in Annapolis, MD for the Travis Manion 9/11 Heroes Run at US Naval Academy Stadium from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and in Newark, DE for the Newark Halloween Parade at George Read Park from 2:00 to 5:00 PM.
Redback Garrison will be in Townsville for FunFlight Day, and in Brisbane for the JDRF One Walk, and in Cedar Hill, TX for Unite for Bleeding Disorders DFW Walk and Bloody Fun Race.
Star Garrison will be in Lubbock, TX for Star Wars Reads Day at Josey Books.
UK Garrison will be in Glasgow for Date With the Darkside charity event at Central Hall from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, in Sunderland for Cosplosion at North East Land Sea & Air Museum from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and in Sutton-in-Ashfield for 100 Years of Family Fun and Football at Teversal Football Club from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.
Garrison Tyranus will be in Lynchburg, VA for Liberty College Con Trivia and Costume Event at Liberty University Bookstore from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Oklahoma Garrison will be in Oklahoma City, OK for the OU Children’s Hospital visit.
Next Databurst…October 31st.
*If you didn’t see the events listed for your garrison, send us an email at roqoodepot(at)gmail.com and let us know. We’re glad to add any we missed. For more info on the 501st Legion, be sure to check out their official website.
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Any effort to end substandard housing is worth it
Friday’s Free Lance story about substandard housing victims in
Hollister touches many people and has ramifications for us all.
Friday’s Free Lance story about substandard housing victims in Hollister touches many people and has ramifications for us all.
For more than a year, 18 people had lived in a house and its garage on East Street, and some of the 18 had lived there much longer. Seven of the residents were children between 2 and 11. The house was cluttered and was found to have many safety violations. It was condemned and its residents given 72 hours to find other places to live.
Although it seems easy to assign blame in this instance, it is much harder to arrive at answers that can prevent similar situations from arising. There is no magic wand that can be waved to dismiss the problem and it will be difficult to even alleviate it.
Some of the evicted residents did not feel the landlord had done anything wrong and were puzzled about why they were being forced to quit the premises. No matter how squalid their surroundings may seem to many of us, it represented home to them.
Almost all the evicted residents are from Mexico and most do not speak English. Their latest confrontation with authorities has made them even more distrustful of a society whose laws they must perceive as weighted against them.
If this was an isolated case it would be bad enough, but a church advocate estimated that as many as 25 percent of local residents – including unreported immigrants – are living in homes that are in violation of health and safety regulations, which is insupportable in any society.
There are some villains and even some heroes in this tragedy, but many more victims. Building Code Enforcement Officer Tim Burns said, “We’re not the bad guy in this thing. We had to do what’s necessary.” There is no argument about that because the premises were unhealthy and dangerous. Even so, Ray Proffitt, Hollister’s senior building official, and his aides were clearly uncomfortable in turning out the families.
Some landlords, those termed “slumlords,” exploit Mexican tenants because they know that most will not lodge complaints with officials. They charge exorbitant rents and are slow to make needed repairs because it would lower their profits. They deserve whatever penalty they get.
But there is a danger when righting wrongs to tar all landlords with the same brush. Some will turn their eyes aside, say, if a family of four who live in two rooms allow a cousin to stay there awhile until he finds a job to pay for a place of his own. In many cases, landlords would have had to spend thousands of dollars to bring a rental to utopian conditions but rented it without full compliance because a family sorely needed it. That is why it is vital to judge each case individually and to determine if the landlord was motivated by greed or by compassion.
Some observers shrug it off and say, “Let them go back to their own country.” Their ancestors had the same answer for the Irish, eastern Europeans, Chinese and other nationalities that sought an opportunity in the New World that they did not have in their native countries. Fortunately, no one listened to them and America profited from the infusion of new blood.
Some organizations such as LULAC and the California Rural Legal Assistance Association are looking for answers and a few private citizens are doing what they can to help the evicted residents. It is expected others learning the depth the plight will step forward.
But progress in this vast social problem will be measured by short steps rather than by long strides. It will take patience, compassion and the willingness to be resilient, and some people will have to review their assessments of “those people” learned at their grandfather’s knee.
Any effort given will be worth it. There are men, women and children out there who want to participate in their adopted country’s way of life, even as you and we and our families.
400 block deserves better
Avera’s departure overdue
Slower high-speed rail?
A new generation of leaders
Democracy takes a bow
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Post-show talk at the Theatre Royal, Bath for ‘While the Sun Shines’ (2016)
28 July 2016 Julie Leave a comment
I was delighted to be able to attend the post-show talk this evening, after another hilarious couple of hours with this play – this ‘farce with a heart’. All the cast attended, which was marvellous – very generous of them indeed. I am not sure who the host was, but I assume he was associated with the Theatre Royal. There were plenty of questions from the audience, who seemed really engaged with the whole thing.
Alexandra, Rupert, Tamla, Nicholas, Jonathan and Rob (with apologies to the host on the left, and Michael to the right).
The first topic raised was the fact that this play is so unfamiliar to us. It was very successful at the time it was first produced, but has virtually disappeared since. This production has been so successful, no one can quite explain why the play has been so neglected – unless it was seen as being too much ‘of its time’. We can’t even say that once the war was over, audiences didn’t want to revisit the subject, because Rattigan’s other war-related plays continued to be produced.
An audience member asked whether it was easy to slip into such ‘antique roles’. Michael Cochrane (the Duke) immediately explained that he was antique himself. Jonathan Dryden Taylor (the Butler) said, somewhat more seriously, that Rattigan was a great writer. The characters are well delineated, and there are clues to the characters throughout the play. It’s all in the writing.
Rob Heaps (the Englishman) said that they’d spent their first rehearsal day actually in The Flat in Albany, where Rattigan had written and set the play. The owner was moving out at the time, so the place was bare, but there were two bottles of wine awaiting them. This all seemed to kick-start the process nicely!
Another audience member said that Rattigan’s plays tend to be known for repressed emotions and sadness. Were these things to be found in this play as well, even if buried deep? It was agreed that there are genuinely touching moments, and given the war-time setting, it was understandable that the characters wanted to make hay while the sun was still shining. It was also suggested that the jokes only work because there is real emotion behind them.
The seven characters are all stereotypes (as I’m indicating, a little facetiously, with my designations), so how do the actors approach making them human? I think it was Nicholas Bishop (the Frenchman) who said that they attempted from the first to rehearse as if the characters were not stereotypes. He said that director Christopher Luscombe was particularly firm on this. However, Nicholas added that farce and satire works on stereotypes, so in some ways you just have to go with it.
Michael said that the Theatre Royal does a lot of the work for them, as it is such a beautiful, classic theatre. (Appreciative murmurs from the audience.) He feels the play wouldn’t work so well in a more modern setting. He also complimented the marvellous set, which was based on The Flat Itself. (Very appreciative murmurs!)
Rupert at the post-show talk.
Many of the situations in the play feel quite modern, and so the audience laughs in recognition. Rupert (the American) said that he didn’t think we’d really changed all that much. One of the funniest lines in the play is about how the English behave in trains (I won’t spoil it!) – and we still behave the same way. Alexandra Dowling (the Good Girl) said that ‘Brexit’ had happened during rehearsals, and that brought another kind of life into it, and brought home the issues of people united or divided. The whole English approach of ‘muddling through’ remains relevant!
The actors had laughed a lot during rehearsals, but the audience often laughed at completely different things. The overall reactions from the audience have been incredible, but they really vary from night to night.
Because the play was so obscure, audiences hadn’t known what to expect – however, they had enjoyed it right from the first night. During the rehearsals, the actors felt they had an undiscovered gem of a play – but they were worried they were ‘in a bubble’, and fooling themselves. Once it ‘tested’ so well in front of an audience, their confidence was reinforced.
Michael was asked how he manages to do his accent show after show. Rob (I think?) replied that Michael gargled with port every night.
The cast all obviously thought very highly of Christopher. He worked with them through the week of previews, and even gave them more notes after press night. He provided good advice right down to the details of nuances and stresses, to fine-tune their performances. Some of the staging resulted from lucky accidents, but otherwise there was a lot of thought put into it all.
Most of the time, once the director moves on after the previews, the actors enjoy feeling it is now ‘their’ play. However, it was a real testament to Chris that, in this instance, no one wanted him to leave. Tamla Kari (the Trollop) put on a beautiful woebegone face at the very thought of him going.
An audience member said that, while a comedy will generate laughs right from the start, a farce builds slowly while it sets up the characters and the situation. Is it difficult for the actors to wait through that relatively ‘flat’ time? The consensus seems to be that it’s a necessary part of the process, and in the early parts there are usually comic laughs to be had. Rob suggested (tongue firmly in cheek) that was why Rupert was asked to drop the eiderdown when we first meet his character – so that the audience would have something to laugh at.
Jonathan said that some parts of the audience will be ready to laugh, and will laugh at almost anything, while other parts are more resistant, and are determined to wait for something worth laughing at. Everyone agreed it was the end of the first act that was the highest point in having built up the laughs.
Having blessed us with twenty minutes of supplementary laughs as well as thoughts, the cast received an enthusiastic round of applause. Michael kindly stayed behind to answer an extra couple of questions from an audience member. And the night was done!
Thank you again to everyone involved for an awesome time of it. This show has brought me much joy!
c: himselfp: While the Sun Shinesy: 2016
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Category: a buck a chapter for an e-book?
Published Author Self-Publishes…An Experiment?
This is interesting on many different levels. But the main focus for me was how I think this author isn’t totally getting the concept of digital books…and the people who read them. I get the feeling he’s using self-publishing as a vehicle to promote his hardcover/print release. It’s more like an experiment than an author taking digital publishing seriously.
I could be wrong. But if I’m not, the author is underestimating people who read digital books. People like me. I don’t even consider buying hardcover books anymore. I only buy and read digital. I prefer the digital reading experience. And so far, I’ve never met anyone who has switched to digital books and said they can’t wait to go back to reading print books, especially not after they’ve spent so much on e-readers. They ain’t cheap!! Once you get used to your e-reader and find out how it improves the reading experience, it’s almost impossible to go back to print.
And the day I spend a buck per chapter for any e-book is going to be the day I stop reading altogether…or the day a book has no more than ten long chapters.
I applaud what the author is doing. But I can’t help wondering how it’s going to turn out.
Despite having publishing deals with four major houses, bestselling African-American novelist Omar Tyree is experimenting with technology, self-publishing his latest novel, Corrupted, a feverish portrayal of power and ambition in the book industry, as a serialized Kindle edition e-book, releasing a chapter every week. Since July 15 and each Friday thereafter, Tyree has posted a chapter for readers to download for $1 each on Amazon.com, on his website omartyree.com, or at other e-book retail sites.
If this author had been checking out online retail web sites where e-books are sold, he’d know that most offer entire chapters for free. People who read e-books read more often and shop more often, therefore they want to (expect to) spend less. And I see nothing wrong with publishers and authors making money in volume.
Corrupted examines what Tyree calls “the dark side of the publishing industry,” through the actions of his protagonist Vincent Biddle, a power-drunk African-American editor at a fictitious major New York City publishing house. The novel, he said, was inspired by the way both the current economy and new technology are affecting the publishing world.
This sounds interesting to me. I’d love to read it. I’m dying to read it. But not for a buck a chapter. I’ll pass until he lowers the price to at least 9.99 for the entire e-book. For e-books, that’s where I personally draw the line. And I think I’m being generous. I know people who draw the line far lower and complain about 9.99.
Hyping the novel as “raw and unedited”—the book has been proofread by Tyree but not yet professionally edited—he invites his readers to post critiques and comments to either his website or his Twitter account @OmarTyree. He said he is open to revising the work if he considers the critiques worthy. He told PW that he expects the book to contain between 23 and 27 chapters.
This worries me. As I’ve posted before, there are already too many unedited digital books out there filled with poor quality. Do we really need another, and for a buck a chapter?
“Authors with the old traditional contracts can’t make the numbers,” Tyree said referring to sales. “In one day, an editor can be fired and if you were signed by that editor, you get a new editor who does not necessarily understand your work. Here we have a black editor trying to keep his job and move up to become a senior editor, when African American [sales] numbers are not doing well,” he said. “So [the editor’s] African American authors are getting dropped. How is he going to navigate? Editors are in positions of power, but they are scared to death too because if they pick a book that doesn’t fly, they are out the door.”
Again, this sounds fascinating. I’d love to read it. But not at a buck a chapter. I can’t help wondering if it’s mentioned in the book that so many publishers still don’t “get” digital books…or how to price them.
Tyree has published more than 16 books and has book deals with four publishers. But he didn’t believe that Corrupted would have been an easy sell to any of them. “Most of my books are with Simon & Schuster,” Tyree said. “I have a business book with Wiley, two with Urban Books–a subsidiary of Kensington–and Scholastic is printing and distributing 12 Brown Boys,” a short story collection aimed at black pre-teen boys originally published by Just Us Books.
“I didn’t bring [Corrupted] to a publisher because it’s brand new and experimental—it’s my own individual project to connect with my readers,” he said, pointing out also that, “this book does not fit a genre.” Tyree explained that, “If I’m locked into a genre like African-American, or street, or crime, then I have to put certain things in it. A traditional publisher would [look at Corrupted and] warn, ‘Omar, you are getting away from your base!’ But this way, I can connect with a new set of readers.”
This sounds interesting, too. I’d buy it. But lower the price.
Tyree mentioned that another reason he’s self-publishing is that he didn’t come up with the idea until May, but still wanted to get the book out in the summer to catch the summer reading season. The project also works to fill in the gap until his next hardcover release, scheduled for 2012. “But I wouldn’t have been able to rush it, even as an e-book,” Tyree said, “So I thought, anyone who’s going to download it is someone who probably downloads all the time. So that’s an advantage to me–just give them a chapter a week.”
He’s on the right track. Anyone who’s going to download it is probably someone who reads digital books all the time. But not at that price. People who read e-books do, in fact, read a lot more these days, which is even more important to consider how a book is priced. People have reading budgets. They draw lines.
Tyree said Kindle Edition has a 90-day royalty period and he will not have sales figures for the book project until mid-October. Even then, he added, he isn’t planning to be affected by them. “Back in 2001 I was so focused on sales numbers–-but I learned the hard way that the numbers game can drive you crazy,” Tyree said. “So [for Corrupted] I decided I’m not even going to break down the numbers when the royalty statement comes. I’ve already learned: don’t think about the numbers; just think about the book.”
I could be wrong here. But I can’t help wondering how many books he would have sold if he’d priced the book like other e-books instead of at a dollar a chapter. I know that sounds cheap to some. But if the book has 27 chapters, or more, that’s going to add up.
Tyree promised lots of drama and intrigue in upcoming chapters, “You will see the behind-the-scenes action: the meetings at the publishing house, the bidding wars, the decisions about which authors the editors have to cut loose. It’s going to get vicious!”
Once again, for the last time, absolutely fascinating content. I’d love to read this book. But as my grandmother used to say, “He’ll die with his secret as far as I’m concerned.” I want a quality e-book at a fair price, not an experiment in publishing.
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November's Pick 2006
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals
What’s for dinner? Michael Pollan uses his incisive investigative and literary skills to elucidate the apparently infinite variety of foods available to early 21st century Americans. He takes the reader on several field-to-table journeys, delineating the elements which make up four different meals: industrially-produced “fast” food; organic or “alternate” food purchased from one of the major organic grocery chains; food grown and gathered on a small “sustainable” farm in Virginia; and “wild” foods (such as mushrooms and pig) which Pollan went hunting for himself.
One of the spicier exposés in the book involves the lowly husk of corn, which has evolved into one of the leading ingredients in industrial foods. Despite the notion of endless variety available to American consumers, a quarter of all supermarket foods are made from corn. Pollan “follows the money,” and much more, to show the ecological costs of putting this highly-versatile plant at the center of the food business. A liter of oil is necessary to produce each of the 10 billion bushels of corn produced a year. An insider’s glimpse of the beef, poultry and dairy industries brings readers to a much fuller, and perhaps life-altering, understanding of the basic building blocks of the American diet. Pollan reports that animals naturally evolved to live on grass have to be fed antibiotics when they are sickened by a diet of—you guessed it—corn. They also contain higher levels of saturated fat which feeds into, so to speak, the American trend toward obesity and diabetes. Even supposedly “free-range” chickens may never land on a blade of grass before they end up on a grocery shelf. Pollan buys a steer and follows it almost from cradle to grave. If it’s true that “you are what you eat,” readers may find themselves transformed by the time they finish this closely-researched and fascinating book.
For On the Same Page, the Library has purchased the 2006 Penguin Press hardcover edition of The Omnivore’s Dilemma . It is also available at the Library as an audiobook in CD format.
Born on Long Island, N.Y. in 1955, Michael Pollan received a bachelor’s degree from Bennington College in Vermont, attended Mansfield College in Oxford and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Now a journalism professor at U.C. Berkeley, where he is also the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, Pollan is a contributing editor and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and a former executive editor for Harper’s Magazine . His articles have appeared in such magazines as Gourmet, House and Garden, Mother Jones, and Vogue and have been included in the Norton Book of Nature Writing (1990); Best American Essays (1990 and 2003); and the Best American Science Writing (2004). In 1991, his book, Second Nature: a Gardener’s Education , won the Quality Paperback Book New Vision Award and was named by the American Horticultural Society as one of the “Best Gardening Books of the 20th Century.” In 1997, he received the John Burroughs Prize (for best natural history essay) and authored A Place of My Own: the Education of an Amateur Builder , a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In 2000, he won the Reuters Foundation/World Conservation Union Global Award for Environmental Journalism on the subject of genetically-modified crops. The following year, he wrote The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World . It received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of the year and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon. In 2003, he won the James Beard Award for best magazine series. Pollan lives in the Bay Area with his wife, painter Judith Belzer, and their son.
Frontline: Modern Meat; Interview with Michael Pollan
Golson, Blair. Michael Pollan: The Truthdig Interview
Ness, Carol. A consuming interest / Pollan puts his research where his mouth is. San Francisco Chronicle . Interview with Michael Pollan.
Jollimore, Troy. Anatomy of a meal - UC Berkeley's Michael Pollan examines what we eat, and how to decide what we should eat. San Francisco Chronicle . Book review.
Pollan, Michael.com (the author’s website)
November 30, 2006, at 6:30 p.m.
Author Appearance - Author and journalist Michael Pollan reads and discusses his latest book The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. A book sale and signing will follow.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)
Large Screen Videos – You Are What You Eat
Thursdays at Noon:
The Future of Food (2004, 88 min.) - This documentary offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade. Written and directed by Deborah Koons Garcia.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium, 12:00 n.
***Super Size Me (2004, 100 min.) - An irreverent look at obesity in America and one of its sources - fast food corporations.
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium, 2:00 p.m.
Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution (2003, 53 min.) - Documentary about the founder of Berkeley’s world famous restaurant Chez Panisse.
Closed for Turkey Day!
***Like Water for Chocolate (1992, 123 min.) - A romantic and poignant tale of love and family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
*** Film is captioned to provide access for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Sponsored by the Audiovisual Center and the Art & Music Center and supported by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. To receive monthly e-mail about upcoming Audiovisual Center programs, please send a request to: bwaterman@sfpl.org.
All programs at the Library are free.
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THE USA’S RED, WHITE AND BLUE GREEK
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1986 World Cup, 2012 European Championship, ABC, Alan Green, Alan Merrick, Alkis Panagoulias, Aris Thessaloniki, Arnie Mausser, Cosmos, Costa Rica, Dale Ervine, Dan Canter, Falls Church, Gdansk, Germany, Greece, Iraklis, Jeff Durgan, Jeff Hooker, Kevin Crow, Los Angeles Games, Mexico, Mike Fox, New York Greek Americans, New York Times, North American Soccer League, NYU, Olympiakos, Olympics, Paul Caligiuri, Perry Van der Beck, Steve Sharp, Team America, Ticos, Torrance, U.S. National Open Cup, U.S. National Team, U.S. Soccer Federation, Walter Chyzowych, Washington DC, World Cup
Alkis Panagoulias, coach of the U.S. National Team from 1983 to 19985, has died at his home in Falls Church, Virginia, at age 78.
The native of Greece and naturalized U.S. citizen posted a 6-5-7 record as the USA’s coach, second in wins at the time to Walter Chyzowych (8-14-10 from 1976 to 1980).
Greek players were to wear black armbands in his memory during their upcoming European Championship quarterfinal match with Germany in Gdansk. Panagoulias coached Greece from 1973 to 1981 and fom 1992 to 1994, guiding the Greeks to their first-ever World Cup appearance, in ’94. He guided Olympiakos to Greek titles in 1982, ’83 and ’87, and he also coached Aris Thessaloniki and Iraklis. [June 18]
Comment: Panagoulias had the misfortune of presiding over perhaps the most frustrating and fruitless period in U.S. National Team history. Worse still, it seemed as if no one cared–no one, that is, but Alketas “Alkis” Panagoulias.
A national team coach, of course, is paid to care. But Panagoulias gave the U.S. Soccer Federation far more than it’s money’s worth in that department. Chomping a cigar and sprinkling his brutally frank comments with profanities, the burly Greek battled with the federation and battled with the North American Soccer League, all the while leaving his players with no doubt as to who was in charge. (He once told me in an interview that the team had “all these goddam California surfers,” such as Mike Fox, Paul Caligiuri, Kevin Crow, Jeff Hooker, Dale Ervine and Steve Sharp.) Above all, he was unabashedly patriotic when it came to his adopted country and absolutely passionate as an advocate of the national team, trying with little success to explain to the media and public in general its importance in a country overwhelmingly indifferent to soccer.
A player for Aris before moving to America to earn a degree at NYU, Panagoulias turned to coaching and steered the New York Greek Americans to three straight U.S. National Open Cups beginning in 1967, back when that cup was more or less the championship for the country’s ethnic semipro clubs.
In 1983, with the U.S. having played only one match since a World Cup qualifier in 1980, Panagoulias was chosen by the USSF to succeed Chyzowych as coach of both the national and Olympic teams–a foreign-born coach with international experience and, presumably, an understanding of the American player. And in a unique twist, his players were to play in the NASL as Team America.
Panagoulias recalled in a 2006 interview with the New York Times, “It was very difficult. I first had to sell the league people and owners on the idea that the national team has to be the No. 1 team in the country. We needed their players. I was almost crying when I talked about the national team. They looked at me like I was crazy. They didn’t know from the national team.”
NASL club owners dragged their feet over what some regarded as a flawed grandstand play, most of the Cosmos players invited to join this grand experiment chose to stay in New York and Team America, based in Washington DC and featuring naturalized Americans like Alan Merrick and Alan Green and national team regulars Arnie Mausser, Perry Van der Beck, Dan Canter and Jeff Durgan, stumbled to a league-worst 10-20 record in their only season.
The following year, with Olympic soccer’s amateur restrictions rapidly crumbling, the U.S. was allowed to field its national team at the Los Angeles Games. The Americans went 1-1-1 but it wasn’t enough to get them into the quarterfinals, and a golden opportunity to put soccer on front pages across the nation–or at least get the sport some airtime on Olympic broadcaster ABC–was missed.
Then in 1985, the U.S., needing just a draw at home to advance to the final three-team round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, lost to Costa Rica, 1-0, before a small but overwhelmingly pro-Ticos crowd in Torrance, Calif.
That heartbreaking defeat ended Panagoulias’ run as U.S. coach, but he bowed out knowing that he was right. The sport desperately needed the rallying point of a successful national team, not yet another NASL championship by the Cosmos. And without one, soccer in America would remain largely rudderless, a game much more fun to play than to watch. Unfortunately for Panagoulias, it would take many years, other coaches and several generations of American players for the country to actually experience what this passionate Greek had been talking about.
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Tidal Wave of Former College Football Players Plan to File Lawsuits Against NCAA
Concussions Litigation NCAA
Reportedly, over 200 former NCAA college football players are planning to sue the NCAA. The lawsuits allege that the NCAA was negligent in failing to protect the former players from long-term brain damage, even though the NCAA knew about the dangers. The tip of the iceberg were several lawsuits filed on January 25, 2019. In one lawsuit, former Cameron University football player, Abe Mack IV, sued the NCAA for injuries sustained a result of NCAA’s “reckless disregard for [his and others similarly situated] health and safety of generations of Cameron University student-athletes.”
According to Mack’s lawsuit, for decades the NCAA “knew about the debilitating long-term dangers of concussions, concussion-related injuries, and sub-concussive injuries that resulted from playing college football, but recklessly disregarded this information to protect the very profitable business of ‘amateur’ college football.” The lawsuit continued, “[d]espite knowing for decades of a vast body of scientific research describing the danger of traumatic brain injuries [the NCAA ] failed to implement adequate procedures to protect [Mack]and other CU football players from the long-term dangers associated with them. They did so knowingly and for profit.”
Jeff Raizner, an attorney representing a former player in a lawsuit filed on January 25, 2019, told Law360 that more than 200 lawsuits are set to be filed in the coming days. Allegedly, these lawsuits will target various NCAA schools, in all three NCAA divisions, across the country. Most of the lawsuits will be filed in the Southern District of Indiana, where the NCAA is headquartered; however, it is expected that the various lawsuits will be pulled together into multidistrict litigation, in Chicago, under U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee. According to Raizner, the goal is for various former NCAA college players to file their individual lawsuits against the NCAA, but after the lawsuits are pulled together into multidistrict litigation, one player, would represent a class of players against the NCAA and a single school.
Of note, in July 2016, Judge Lee approved a $75 million settlement in another class action lawsuit against the NCAA. In that lawsuit, former Eastern Illinois player, Adrian Arrington, and three others, sued the NCAA because they suffered from seizures, which were found to be a byproduct of repeated head trauma. After several delays, Judge Lee approved the settlement in September 2018. Of the $75 million, $70 million of the settlement will go to a Medical Monitoring Program, which will help treat and monitor the estimated 4.4 million current and former NCAA student-athletes who took part in contact and non-contact sports. The remaining $5 million will go to concussion research, changes to the NCAA’s guidelines, and a limited release.
Similar to the Adrian Arrington lawsuit, the Mack lawsuit claims that as a result of the NCAA’s negligence, he, and other similarly situated players, now suffer from “memory loss, dementia, depression, chronic traumatic encephalopathy[,] and Parkinson’s disease.”
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Standard Library Updates — Behind the Redesign
Scott Gamble on Dec 12, 2018 // @threesided
Hey, Scott here with another update from the Standard Library team! If you've been checking out the Standard Library site over the last few months, you may have noticed that things have been looking pretty different. As our product evolves, our visual language has to evolve with it. Today we're launching the latest iteration of our design, so I thought I would take some time to talk about all the changes and the reasoning behind the look.
I usually like to start with some high-level, abstract ideas. These can be anything from a generic shape, a mood, an idea, or, (more often in my case) a cheesy one-liner or pun. From the shortlist I had, the ones that stood out were Connecting the Dots and Bits and Blobs. These are what would guide the visual flair of the page. In the case of this design, this translated into dots, lines, and square bits.
As a designer, I want to communicate the company and product visions through brand visuals. One of the primary goals of Standard Library is making connections, both literally and figuratively. We provide a solution for connecting APIs with one another, and in doing so, connecting your applications with your data, colleagues and customers quickly and easily. Some of our customers' most frequent use cases are building integrations with Stripe, Slack, GitHub, Typeform and more. This is the connective tissue that runs through the entire product, so it made sense to reflect this in the design.
Standard Library is all about simplifying complicated technical work and abstracting it into small, digestible pieces. A big part of working this design has been cutting away the fluff and working towards sticking with a core set of principles. The layout is uncomplicated, and all about getting to the meat of what we have to offer.
Design really is as much of an iterative process as engineering, and it's not often you get to peek behind the finished product or hear about why things end up looking the way they do. We're looking forward to continuing to deliver on the look and feel of our products as much as we do the technology behind them. If you're interested to hear more, feel free to reach out directly on Twitter — @threesided.
Be sure to take a look around and admire the new digs, even the revamped profile page... we'd love feedback around what you'd like to see next!
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St Marys Parish, Tacarigua
In the Anglican Diocese ot Trinidad and Tobago
The Parish of St.Mary, Tacarigua, comprises congregations at:
St. Mary – Tacarigua
St. Aidan – Arouca
St. Philip – Lopinot and
Maloney Mission – Maloney
The Parish of St. Mary, Tacarigua, began in 1826 with the formation of a congregation at Tacarigua through the combined effort of the Reverend Gentlemen J. H. Keston and John Pinder who established a small Missionary outpost at the village Police Station. From this outpost, pastoral advice and conversions as well as the sacraments of baptisms, marriages and burials were undertaken.
Plans for building the first parish church started around 1841 with the contributions from ex-slaves and Roman Catholics on six acres of land donated for the mission of the church by a wealthy planter – William H. Burnley, owner of the Orange Grove Estate. The foundation stone was laid in 1842. The church building was constructed in the same year by Reverend I. Hamilton and was consecrated in 1843 by Bishop Parry. The Feast of Title, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is observed on September 08.
The Church Building with a seating capacity of three hundred and fifty in the main is still as it was redesigned and rebuilt in 1901 by the Rev. W. M. Springer, making it the second oldest church building in this Diocese. Repairs to the roof were undertaken in 1968 and 2004, the stained glass windows were restored in 1998 and the belfry and steeple were renovated in 2001.
The Children’s Home originally called “The Orphan Asylum and Industrial School for Coolie Orphans” was established in 1837 as an Anglican Mission. The wooden Rectory, located on the Eastern Main Road, Tacarigua, was commissioned in 1844.
The Arouca (St. Aidan) congregation was established by the Reverend Ramsden in 1886. Initially, services were held in an abandoned cow pen before constructing a wooden building in 1890 at the comer of Davis Street and the Eastern Main Road on approximately three (3) acres of land donated by the Manager of the Orange Grove Estate. The cow pen also accommodated the primary school established in 1889. The Church building is now a modern concrete structure, erected during the tenure of Rev. S.K.Cumberbatch, with a seating capacity of approximately one hundred and fifty persons. The primary school like the church has been completely rebuilt and enlarged over time. The Feast of Title is observed on August 31.
St. Philip – Lopinot
Early in the 19th Century during the era of the plantation system, cocoa proprietor Brown, an Anglican of Lopinot, met with his estate workers in his “cocoa house” for Bible Study and prayer. The cocoa house was later regarded as proprietor Brown’s private chapel. This Bible Study grouping gave rise to the establishment of the Anglican community in Lopinot (St. Philip) as the Bible Study sessions developed to be worshiping sessions on Sundays. The cocoa house was donated to the Anglican Diocese in the 1950s by the Brown family for use as a church building. It serves as a tourist attraction in the area mainly on account of its structure – tapia walls plastered with concrete. Although seating capacity is approximately for forty persons, attendance remains relatively low, an average of ten on Sundays except on special occasions. The Feast of Title is observed on May 01.
Maloney Mission
Maloney Mission claims was established in 1987 when a core group of about 15 Anglicans began worshipping regularly on Sunday evenings at the Maloney Community Centre. This resulted from a pioneering stewardship effort of the parish in the Maloney area led by the late Rev. Fr. David Benjamin. Uncertainty of the use of the building for worship in 1998 forced the group to share the building used by the Roman Catholics while maintaining the evening service regime.
When the Roman Catholics began construction of their own building in the late 1990s, the Anglicans shifted venue to the nearby Red Hill Community Centre during the period 1996-1997 while still adhering to the evening service schedule. Attendance continued to increase modestly. However, since the noisy surroundings on Sunday afternoons were not conducive to the worshiping atmosphere, a change in the time of worship from evenings to mornings was introduced.
From 1997 the service venue again shifted from the Red Hill Community Centre to the Maloney Regional Complex building. Plans are underway for the erection of a church building in Maloney.
MINISTERS WHO SERVED AT ST. MARY’S PARISH, TACARIGUA
1825-1830 Rev J Keston and Rev J Pinder
1837 Rev Mort and Rev H Richards
1845 Rev I Hamilton (Built the Rectory)
1847-1885 Rev H Richards (Completed the Rectory Building)
1878-1889 Rev A Ramden (Built St Aidan ‘s Church)
1890-1895 Rev Farrel
1899-1919 Rev W M Springer
1920 Rev Elliot Ince
1920-1923 Rev Boodle
1923 Rev I Hamilton
1925-1931 Rev George McCarthy
1931-1947 Rev K Bhagan
1948-1954 Rev A W Parfitt
1955 Rev Albert Jones
1956 Rev Jessop
1959-1968 Rev S K Cumberbatch
1969-1977 Rerv R J Metivier
1977-1993 Rev D S Benjamin
1995-1998 Rev Duncan Clarke
1998 to 2014 Rev Jemmott Hazlewood
2000 to 2014 Rev Anderson Maxwell (Assistant Curate)
2015 to Present Rev Anderson Maxwell (Parish Priest)
2015 to Present Rev Titus Ackbarali Priest
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Women and folktales project in Laos
jigunma projects Laos, storytelling, women 1 Comment
Women are important storytellers and bearers of cultural heritage in Laos. However, their voices are rarely heard outside their communities, due to their traditional homebound responsibilities and their lack of confidence in participating in public forums. At the same time, traditional folktales and legends are in danger of dying out, as an older generation passes on and young people prefer entertainment from television and the internet.
With this in mind, the Luang Prabang Film Festival and the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre launched the Women and Folktales Project to empower ethnic minority women in Laos and document and disseminate traditional stories using film.
Funded by the US Embassy Vientiane, the project filmed seven women, from Hmong, Kmhmu, and Tai Lue villages around Luang Prabang Province, recounting 19 traditional folktales in their native languages. These films were translated into Lao and English, subtitled, and are now archived within the digital libraries of LPFF and the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre.
Three of these folktales, one from each ethnic group, were turned into animated shorts with the creative input of the storytellers. “The Dog and Her Three Daughters” (Hmong), “The Spider Man” (Kmhmu), and “What the Buffalo Told the Humans” (Tai Lue) are traditional, yet vibrant, cartoons that will be used by TAEC’s Education and Outreach Team in local primary schools and distributed to libraries and children’s organizations, exposing a whole new audience to the diverse cultural heritage of Laos.
All 21 films are now on TAEC’s YouTube page, and are grouped into films with English subtitles and films with Lao subtitles . Please enjoy and share within your networks!
(reported by Gabriel Kuperman, Founder & Director, Luang Prabang Film Festival www.lpfilmfest.org / www.facebook.com/lpfilmfest )
The Ramayana in Southeast Asia
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Originally composed in India in Sanskrit over two and half thousand years ago by Valmiki, the Ramayana is also one of the most popular masterworks throughout Southeast Asia. This is reflected not only in the literary traditions, but also in the performing and fine arts, as well as in architecture and modern design. The epic tells the story of Rama, his brother Lakshmana and Rama’s wife Sita, who was kidnapped by the demon king Ravana. The main part of the epic is about the fight between Ravana and Rama, who wants to get his wife back. In this battle, Rama is supported by his brother and a monkey chief, Hanuman, with his armies.
Hanuman facing Ravana asleep in his palace after having abducted Sita. From a 19th century album of drawings by an anonymous Thai artist. British Library, Or.14859, pp. 58-59
Knowledge of the Ramayana in Southeast Asia can be traced back to the 5th century in stone inscriptions from Funan, the first Hindu kingdom in mainland Southeast Asia. An outstanding series of reliefs of the Battle of Lanka from the 12th century still exists at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and Ramayana sculptures from the same period can be found at Pagan in Myanmar. Thailand’s old capital Ayutthya founded in 1347 is said to have been modelled on Ayodhya, Rama’s birthplace and setting of the Ramayana. New versions of the epic were written in poetry and prose and as dramas in Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Lao, Malay, Javanese and Balinese, and the story continues to be told in dance-dramas, music, puppet and shadow theatre throughout Southeast Asia. Most of these versions change parts of the story significantly to reflect the different natural environments, customs and cultures.
Serat Rama Keling, a modern Javanese version of the Ramayana, illuminated manuscript dated 1814. British Library, Add.12284, ff.1v-2r
When mainland Southeast Asian societies embraced Theravada Buddhism, Rama began to be regarded as a Bodhisatta, or Buddha-to-be, in a former life. In this context, the early episodes of the story were emphasized, symbolising Rama’s Buddhist virtues of filial obedience and willing renunciation. Throughout the region, Hanuman enjoys a greatly expanded role; he becomes the king of the monkeys and the most popular character in the story, and is a reflection of all the freer aspects of life. In a series of articles on the British Library’s Asian and African Studies blog, curators Annabel Gallop, San San May and Jana Igunma explore how the Ramayana epic has been rewritten and reimagined in the different parts of Southeast Asia.
To read the articles, go directly to the Asian and African Studies blog.
Buddhist Archive of Photography, Luang Prabang, Laos
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The Buddhist archive of photography, Luang Prabang, Laos, is most certainly the largest online photobase documenting the recent history of Buddhism in Laos.
The digitisation of the original photographs found in Luang Prabang was supported by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. Coming from more than 20 distinct monastery collections, this unique view from inside documents 120 years of monastic life and ritual, pilgrimage, monks’ portraits, history and social life. Important historic and political events of an agitated century in Laos at the same time appear as in a mirror: French colonialism, the Royal court, civil war, the Indochina and Vietnam wars, revolution and socialist rule. Quantity and quality of the material are as surprising as is the fact that it was produced in a city as isolated as Luang Prabang. It seems that there has been a particular inclination towards photography, which had been introduced very early by the French, was practised by the Royal court where young princes would learn about it, and take it with them when they were ordained as monks and became abbots of the various monasteries (there are 64 in town).
Work started in 2007 with Pilot Project EAP086, followed by Major Research Project EAP177 – since then 33,933 photographs have been discovered in 21 monasteries of Luang Prabang and have been digitised, identified and safely stored. Most of the original photographs (prints and negatives) are now stored in specially designed wooden archive cabinets at the Sala Thammiviharn, Vat Khili, Luang Prabang – an historic monastic building in one of the monasteries, now entirely used by the Archive. Some minor collections have been restituted to their respective owners.
Together with the 15,000 photographs treated in Major Research Project EAP177, the additional 18,933 photographs of this second project constitute the largest collection of historic photographs in Laos, and certainly the one that has been most thoroughly researched.
Digital copies of the material have been deposited at The National Library of Laos, Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Project, Vientiane Capital, Lao P.D.R. and the British Library, London, United Kingdom.
Read more about the Buddhist Archive of Photography…
View on the former Royal Palace, Luang Prabang
Digital “resurrection” of lost Lao Ramayana murals
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A groundbreaking project with the aim to digitally replicate the lost Phralak-Phralam (Lao version of the Ramayana) murals at Vat Oub Mong in Vientiane has been under way for several years. The project is being carried out by the Digital Conservation Facility, Laos (DCFL); affiliated since 2003 with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Northern Illinois University. DCFL founder Alan Potkin has recently been developing interactive visualization and virtual reality technologies in ecological and cultural conservation for applications in impact assessment, heritage management, museological and site interpretive materials, public participation; and accessible institutional memory for corporations, government agencies, and NGOs.
The historical temple hall at Vat Oub Mong that contained the original murals had been demolished in the year 2000. However, prior to the demolition, photographs were taken of the murals which had been created in 1938. Thanks to this initiative and newly emerging technologies, digital replication of the lost cultural heritage is now possible.
But digital replication is not the only goal of the project – equally important is the replication at Vat Oub Mong (Vientiane) of the demolished Phralak-Phralam murals which was completed in 2011. In addition to this, the original 2,100-page palm leaf manuscript containing the Pralak-Pralam text in Lao tham script has been digitised and is currently being transliterated into modern Lao by the monks at Vat Oub Mong.
Alan Potkin gave talks about this project and its progress at several conferences in the recent years.
An abridged translation of the Phalak-Phralam text together with some photographs of the original murals from the demolished temple can be found on the homepage of the Center for SEA Studies at Northern Illinois University.
Latest news from the project can be found on the Theravada Buddhist Civilizations website.
An English translation of a Phralak-Phralam text found in a manuscript at the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang, together with photographs of the murals at Vat Oub Mong are in Sachchidanand Sahai’s book “Ramayana in Laos. A study in the Gvay Dvorahbi” (published in 1976 by B.R. Publishing corporation, Delhi).
“Auguste Pavie, the barefoot explorer” – Online exhibition and research
jigunma archives Laos 1 Comment
Auguste Pavie (1847—1925) was the French explorer and diplomat, who is best known for his explorations of the Upper Mekong Valley and for playing a major role in bringing the kingdoms of Laos under French control.
Pavie went to Cochinchina (now part of southern Vietnam) as a sergeant in the marines in 1869 and subsequently worked in the Post and Telegraphic Department, directing construction of telegraph lines between Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, and Bangkok in 1879 and another between Phnom Penh and Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in 1882. While working on the telegraph lines, he travelled throughout Siam, Cambodia, and Vietnam and gained an intimate knowledge of each country’s customs and languages. The French government hoped to gain control of the Lao states of the Mekong River Valley and accredited Pavie to the Siamese government as vice consul in Luang Prabang in 1886. During the next five years he travelled throughout northern Laos, winning for France the friendship of local rulers and chiefs and frustrating Siamese attempts to bring the region under control, which was beset by bands of Chinese freebooters (Ho or Haw). From 1891 to 1893 Pavie served as consul general in Bangkok and helped bring about the Franco-Siamese Conflict of 1893, subsequently resulting in all Lao states east of the Mekong River coming under French protectorate.
Before returning to France, Pavie conducted an expedition, defining Laos’ borders with China, and with Upper Burma, which the British had annexed in 1886. Pavie’s works include “Indochine 1879–1895″ (Paris, 1898–1919) and “À la conquête des coeurs” (1921).
An amazing online exhibition and collection of researches by the Archives nationales d’outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence is dedicated to the life and work of Auguste Pavie.
Lao Oral History Archive
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This project of the Center for Lao Studies in San Francisco is the first of its kind with the aim to document the untold stories of Lao refugees in the US through audio and video media and create an on-line archive of interviews, videos, and historical documents. Currently, there are almost no existing oral history projects and little academic research that focus on the ethnic Lao refugees in the US. By creating a Lao Oral History archive, CLS aims to raise awareness within the Lao-American community and the greater population of the history, culture, and contemporary realities of Lao refugees in the US as well as the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Secret War in Laos in the 1960s and 70s. This project will disseminate the voices of underrepresented population, whose stories of immigration reflect unique moments in both Lao and American history, thereby building bridges between the past and present and between disparate cultures. The project started in 2009 and some first results are now available online through their homepage http://www.laostudies.org/loha .
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dc Michael Cohen Saga
Republicans Fret About Campaign Fallout From Trump’s Mounting Legal Woes
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By Cameron Joseph and Alice Ollstein
Michael Cohen’s implication that President Trump directed him to violate campaign finance laws continued to reverberate in Washington and around the country on Wednesday, with top Republicans admitting that the ongoing investigations could further damage their party’s shaky midterm election prospects.
“It doesn’t make things any easier, that’s for sure,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Others admitted that the news would prove another unwelcome distraction, at best, this November.
“I don’t think it helps any,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said. “It’s just one more narrative of people around the president doing bad things.”
“It will be one more problem we face in the midterms — it’s just another thing to talk about other than the economy and how well things are going,” Graham continued. “It’s just drama away from the agenda that most of us signed up for.”
It’s unclear how damaging Cohen’s under-oath admission to illegally paying off two alleged mistresses of President Trump’s, at the president’s request, will end up being in the near term — or in the midterms. But Republicans admit that it’s yet another distraction from what they want to talk about on the campaign trail.
“There’ll be a tremendous amount of press coverage on this situation, for obvious reasons, and there’s not as much coverage on the tax plan or the implications of it or our economy,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said. “It will be one of the topics that voters will focus on, I would imagine, among many others.”
Still, Democrats could risk overplaying their hand. Democrats are facing a brutal Senate map this fall, with ten incumbents running in states Trump won, five of them in deeply conservative territory — states where Trump’s popularity has proven resilient.
Those Democrats, many of whom are focused on avoiding the president’s ire, were loathe to talk about the big news.
“I think that there’s a respected professional prosecutor running an important investigation and everybody should leave him alone and let him finish his work,” Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told TPM when asked about her reaction to the Cohen news and other Democrats’ calls for the GOP to delay confirmation hearings on Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
“That’s all I’ve got to say about it,” she said emphatically, six times, when asked follow-up questions.
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) ducked even harder.
“I’ve got no comment on that,” he said when asked about other Democrats’ Supreme Court calls.
“If you could just give my office a call, thanks,” he said when asked about his reaction to Cohen.
“My position is that we should continue to allow the Mueller investigation to get the facts,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told reporters when asked if there was a political downside to talking about impeachment. “I do think that after yesterday the president needs to testify under oath.”
But not every Senate race is in a deep-red state — and there are plenty of House Republicans in Trump-averse districts who must be wincing at the latest news.
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, was with Trump at his Tuesday night rally in West Virginia immediately after the Cohen guilty pleas and Manafort guilty verdicts came in. He told TPM “no” when asked if he was aware of the news when he boarded Air Force One late Tuesday afternoon — and didn’t respond to a follow-up question about whether he still would have gone on the trip if he had known. Gardner will face his own reelection in a state Trump lost in 2020.
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Rubio Says He Won’t Run For President And Senate At Same Time
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday said that if he decides to run for President in 2016, he will not seek re-election as a senator at the same time.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 230 › Jackson v. United States
Jackson v. United States, 230 U.S. 1 (1913)
Jackson v. United States
Submitted January 10, 1913
Decided June 16, 1913
230 U.S. 1
This Court considers it a grave error for the court charged with the duty of making findings of fact to include mere conclusions of law.
Statements as to what the relation of the United States is to levee work on the Mississippi River and what the power of the Mississippi River Commission over all such work is by whomsoever performed are conclusions of law, and not of fact.
Congress did not, by the creation of the Mississippi River Commission, assume entire control of the levee work to the displacement of state or local authorities who continued to construct levees for protection from overflow which combined with those constructed by the United States for improvement of navigation, so that eventually a complete system would be evolved.
Damages, if any, by overflowing adjacent lands occasioned by the levee system of the Mississippi River Valley could only result from concurrent action of the United States, the states, and their subordinate agencies and individuals, all impelled by different considerations but all working towards the common end of having an efficient and continuous line of levees.
Page 230 U. S. 2
An individual owner has no right to insist that primitive conditions be suffered to remain, and thus all progress and development be rendered impossible.
An individual owner protecting his own property from a common natural danger acquires no right thereby to insist that other owners or the government shall adopt the same method, or that they shall not adopt different methods for the protection of their respective properties or for the public good.
The United States is not responsible for damages by overflow or for failure to construct additional levees along the Mississippi River Valley, so as to afford increased protection from increased overflow caused by the levees that were constructed by state and federal authority at other points; nor do such damages amount to taking the land overflowed for public use within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment.
The rule that the United States has plenary power to legislate for the benefit of navigation and is not liable for remote or consequential damages caused by works constructed to that end has already been directly applied to the work of the Mississippi River Commission. Bedford v. United States, 192 U. S. 225.
The facts, which involve the question of liability of the United States for damages alleged to have been sustained by the owner of a plantation in the Mississippi River Valley by reason of the improvement of the Mississippi River under direction of the federal Commission charged with that work, are stated in the opinion.
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.
This suit was brought to recover from the United States the value of property asserted to have been totally destroyed or rendered completely valueless as the result of
certain public work
"done in pursuance of the Acts of Congress authorizing it, for the public benefit, under the direction of the Mississippi River Commission and the Secretary of War and the United States engineers."
And it was charged that, under the circumstances stated and the facts alleged, the property had been taken by the United States for public use "within the meaning of the constitutional provision," and it was averred that there was consequently imposed "on the United States an implied obligation to make compensation for the property so taken and destroyed."
It becomes necessary to give a brief description of the topography of the country in which the property in question is situated in order to make clear its relation to the public work which it is asserted constituted a taking within the meaning of the Constitution.
The valley of the Mississippi River may in a broad sense be said to commence at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and to extend from there to the mouth of the river at the Gulf of Mexico. The river, however, in its course to the ocean, does not run through the center of the vast fertile and alluvial plains which, in a comprehensive and generic sense, constitute the delta of the Mississippi. On the contrary, the situation of the river in this respect varies, occasioned by the fact that, at divers places, the upland or hill country approaches to or constitutes the bank of the river. The difference in this regard is marked between the west and the east banks. The west bank is divided into four great basins -- the St. Francis Basin, which extends from Cape Girardeau to Helena; the White River Basin, which extends from Helena to the mouth of the Arkansas; the Tensas Basin, which extends from the mouth of the Arkansas to the mouth of the Red River, and the Atchafalaya Basin, extending from the mouth of the Red River to the Gulf. Practically, in the long sweep from Helena, where St. Francis Basin ends and the White River Basin
begins, to the ending of the Atchafalaya Basin at the Gulf, there is no real topographical distinction between the basins, the west bank of the river in that great distance consisting of alluvial country having generally a very wide though varying expanse. The division into basins, putting out of view the St. Francis Basin, is therefore merely the result of a consideration of the watershed of each basin, all the water, however, from each ultimately finding its way to the Gulf of Mexico, either through the Mississippi River, or in the lower basins in part at least, by the means of streams flowing independently of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. On the east bank, the situation is different. In the long stretch from Cairo, Illinois, to a point a short distance below Memphis, generally speaking, the hills and uplands border the river and constitute its bank. From the point below Memphis to which we have referred, to Vicksburg, Mississippi, this is not the case, and there is a great basin known as the Yazoo Basin, which, aside from peculiarities of its own, may be said to possess the same general characteristics as the basins on the west bank of the river. From Vicksburg, where the uplands come to the river and constitute its bank, down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where the hills or uplands permanently recede from the river, a different condition from that which exists on the west bank obtains. As we are concerned only with the situation below Natchez, we put out of view any statement concerning the east bank between Vicksburg and Natchez, and refer only to the conditions existing on the east bank between Natchez and Baton Rouge.
From Natchez, where the hills or uplands constitute the bank of the river, to Baton Rouge, the line of hill or upland does not follow the course of the river, but recedes therefrom for a certain distance and then again abuts on the river, this process being repeated from point to point until Baton Rouge is reached. Of necessity, therefore, between
the point of each departure of the uplands from the river to the point of reapproach, there is an area of alluvial country bounded on the west by the river and constituting its bank, on the east by the hills, which, as it were, like a festoon or semicircle enclose the alluvial area between the river, the base of the uplands or hills, and the points of departure from and approach to the river, as above stated.
These various areas constitute, in the nature of things, minor basins having their own watershed. And between Natchez and Baton Rouge there are five of these minor basins, one between Natchez and Ellis Cliffs, sixteen miles below Natchez, another between Ellis Cliffs and Fort Adams, thirty-nine miles below Ellis Cliffs, a third between Fort Adams and Tunica, seventeen miles below Fort Adams, and two others between Tunica and Bayou Sara, twenty-three miles below Tunica, and from Bayou Sara to Baton Rouge, a distance of thirty-five miles. These subordinate basins are included in a general local levee district known as the Homochitto District. A full and accurate statement concerning these basins, of their relation to levee building and overflow, will be found in Document No. 1010, House of Representatives, 63rd Congress, third session, being a letter of the Secretary of War transmitting to the House of Representatives a full report of a survey made by direction of Congress, by the Mississippi River Commission, of these basins. Of the basin between Ellis Cliff and Fort Adams, the report of the commission makes the following statement:
"Between Ellis Cliffs and Fort Adams, a distance of 39 miles by river, lies a basin whose protection from floods is greatly complicated by the presence of lakes, streams, and swamps."
"It has a total area of 59,412 acres, including 9,781 acres of cleared and 49,631 acres of wooded land, the assessed value of which is $204,739."
"The systematic protection of the basin as a whole is
impracticable without including drainage work of large proportions."
"It will be observed that there is a large amount of cleared land which is now being cultivated, although meagerly protected from floods by small private levees."
"Owing to the extent of swamplands, the cultivated area could not be greatly extended by the construction of a levee along the riverfront."
"The benefits to be derived from the construction of a levee are relatively small as compared with the cost, and the work cannot be recommended."
In February, 1894, the appellants or their predecessors in title, for whom they have been substituted on the record, filed their petition in the Court of Claims against the United States, alleging themselves to be the owners of various tracts of land in Adams County, Mississippi, composing three plantations. It was alleged as follows:
"2. That before and prior to the year 1890, said plantation, from its natural situation, was comparatively high and exempt from overflow from the waters of the Mississippi River except at long intervals, and the occurrence of such overflows did not materially affect its productive capacity or its value."
"That said plantation was highly improved, well stocked with laborers and tenants, yielded yearly large crops of cotton, corn, and other products, and was worth the sum of $50,000."
"3. That about the year 1883, the officers and agents of the United States, in pursuance of the Act of Congress creating the Mississippi River Commission, and of the subsequent acts for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River, adopting the so-called Eads' plan, projected, and have constructed, and are constructing, a system of public works for the purpose of so confining the waters of the river between lines of embankment, or levees, as to give increased elevation and velocity
and force to the current in order to scour and deepen the channel, and have thus caused an increased and abnormal elevation of at least four feet to the waters of the river at the high water or flood stage, and for said purposes have adopted and made use of systems of public and private levees, originally constructed for the reclamation of overflowed lands, on the west bank from the highlands of Arkansas to the mouth of the Red River, and from the mouth of the Red River to the Passes, and on the east bank from the highlands of Tennessee to the mouth of the Yazoo River, and from Baton Rouge to the Passes; but from the mouth of the Yazoo River to Baton Rouge, instead of adopting and constructing levees, have made use of the highlands skirting the river for said purpose, and have thus placed the plantations of petitioners, and others similarly situated, between the lines of embankment, and exposed to the full force of the currents of the river, with such increased and abnormal flood level."
"And are so raising, enlarging, strengthening, adding to, and constructing such levees as to cause the plantations of petitioners, and others so situated, to be flooded annually by the waters of the river, and to destroy the crops growing and grown thereon, and to drown the livestock, and to undermine and wash away the buildings, fences, and other improvements, and to fill up the drains and ditches, and to wash off the soil, and to cover the lands with sand and gravel, and to render them unfit for cultivation, and to entirely destroy their value."
"4. That, in pursuance of the said plan for the improvement of the navigation of the river, the said officers and agents of the United States have undertaken to close the Atchafalaya River, a natural outlet carrying off near one-third of the surplus waters of the Mississippi, and to force the waters of the Red River and its tributaries from their natural course through the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico, into the channel of the Mississippi River,
and have so obstructed, and are so obstructing, the passage of the surplus waters through the Atchafalaya as to cause the waters of the rivers at the flood stage to annually back up and overflow the lands of petitioners, and to destroy the crops growing and grown thereon, and to deposit thereon superinduced additions of water, earth, sand, and gravel, so as to render them unfit for cultivation, and to entirely destroy their value."
"5. That, by reason of the premises aforesaid, the lands of petitioners, which before, from their natural situation, were comparatively high and secure from overflow, have been flooded annually by the waters of the rivers thus confined in the years 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893, and the crops growing and grown thereon have been each year destroyed by said overflows, so caused, and the livestock drowned, and buildings and fences and other improvements undermined and washed away, and the ditches and drains filled up and the soil washed off, and covered with sand, and earth and gravel, so as to render them unfit for cultivation, and to entirely destroy their value, to the injury and damage of petitioners, as follows, to-wit: . . ."
Following an enumeration of loss of crops and personal property in the years 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893, and the fixing of the value of the land at $50,000, recovery was prayed of $107,275.50, asserted to be due because, under the facts alleged, there had been a taking of the property by the United States for public use.
A demurrer to this petition was overruled on June 1, 1896. The nature of the ruling is indicated by the following excerpt from the opinion, reported in 31 Ct.Clms. 318:
"The petition undoubtedly sets up losses which are in the nature of consequential damages, of which the court has not jurisdiction. The government may have increased the effect of the flood wrongfully or rightfully by the erection of its levees; but it did not in the constitutional
sense of the term take the claimant's cotton, mules, corn, cattle, and sheep for public use. Such a claim is not founded on an implied contract, and of it the court has not jurisdiction. But the petition does allege that 'the value of the land and the improvements destroyed was $50,000;' and that taking is presenting by allegations so closely resembling those in the Pumpelly v. Green Bay Company Case that this Court does not feel at liberty to say that they present no valid cause of action."
It is stated in the record that, during the year 1908, first, second, and third supplemental petitions were filed, although they are not reproduced, but the court below in its opinion declares the aggregate damages claimed was $569,702.50. To these petitions a demurrer seems to have been filed by the United States, which was passed upon in 1910, the order on the subject reading as follows:
"Within the former ruling in this case (31 Ct.Clms. 318), the demurrer to the original and supplemental petitions, insofar as they or either of them aver a taking of real estate -- within six years from the date of filing of said petitions -- by overflow proximately caused by the construction of levees or other public works in the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River pursuant to acts of Congress and within the ruling of the cases of Pumpelly v. Green Company, 13 Wall. 166, and United States v. Lynah, 188 U. S. 445, is overruled."
"But as to the alleged annual destruction of crops and personal property on said land so taken by overflow, the demurrer is sustained."
Besides the supplemental petitions just referred to and the action of the court thereon in the period of sixteen years which elapsed between the entry of the order overruling the first demurrer in 1896 and January 5, 1912, when what is styled a fourth supplemental petition was filed, many proceedings were had, such as a hearing, the making of findings of fact and conclusions of law,
Page 230 U. S. 10
filing of motions to set aside the same, to amend the findings, etc., etc., none of which we need particularly refer to because in the first place, although mentioned, they are not reproduced in the record, and in the second place, because we take it that the filing of the fourth supplemental petition was by permission of the court and with the consent of the United States, permitted for the purpose of restating the case of the claimants in its best possible aspect, so that, in the light of what had transpired, a final disposition of the controversy might be had. We so conclude because there is not the slightest indication in the record of any objection having been made to the filing of the fourth amended petition, and because obviously it had the significance which we attribute to it, since the findings of fact which the court made the basis of the decree which is here under review in most important particulars but copies and reproduces the allegations in the fourth supplemental petition. It becomes important, therefore, to exactly understand the issues presented by this petition before coming to consider and dispose of the case. And to this end, omitting all reference to averments relating to the mere description of the property involved or its value, we shall endeavor, not following the order of statement in the pleading, to accurately summarize its contents.
First. As to the situation of the lands, it was averred that said
"lands are situated at Jackson Point, in the Alluvial Valley of the Mississippi, on the left bank of the river, forty miles below Natchez and 25 miles above the mouth of Red River. That the basin in which the Jackson lands are situated commences at Ellis Cliffs, about 20 miles below Natchez, and extends to Fort Adams, about 50 miles below, with an average age width of 2 miles and a maximum width of 6 miles, and is one of six (6) small basins of the Homochitto Basin,"
a description which, beyond doubt, fixes the location of the lands as within
the minor basin lying between Ellis Cliffs and Fort Adams, the area and description of which, as given in the recent report of the Mississippi River Commission, we have before reproduced.
Second. As to the condition of the property prior to the doing of the acts complained of, it suffices to say that it was alleged that, by means of levee protection resulting from work done by the owners of the property along the river bank, the property had been protected, that crops of large value had been raised thereon, and that improvements had been put thereon, and that, as a result of this protection by the levees built by the owners, although the property was occasionally overflowed by breaks in the levee, the overflow when it came was not destructive or of such long duration as to prevent the making of a crop, and that the property was highly improved, stocked with implements, etc., as alleged in the original petition, and was of great productive capacity and of large value to the owners.
Third. The facts from which it was alleged the property had been so injured or destroyed by work done by officers of the United States as to constitute a taking of the property by the United States for which adequate compensation was due are stated under the following headings:
a. That, about the year 1883, the officers and agents of the United States,
"in pursuance of the Act of Congress creating the Mississippi River Commission, and of the subsequent acts for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River, adopted the so-called Eads plan, by Act of Congress approved March 3, 1881, in consequence whereof have projected, and have constructed, and are constructing, a continuous system of public works, for the purpose of so confining the flood waters of the river between lines of embankment, or levees, as to give increased elevation and velocity and force to the currents, in order to scour and deepen the channel,
and have thus caused an increased and abnormal elevation of at least nine feet to the waters of the river at the high water of flood stage, and for said purpose have adopted and made use of systems of public and private levees, originally constructed for the reclamation of overflowed lands, on the west bank, from the highlands of Arkansas to the mouth of the Red River, and from the mouth of the Red River to the Passes . . ."
b. That for time beyond the memory of man, the floodwaters of the Mississippi River, passing Helena, Arkansas, where the highlands about on the river, had escaped into the White river and Upper Tensas basins, and passed in part through various designated bayous, rivers, or streams which, as we have previously said in describing the White River and Tensas Basins on the west bank, carried to the Gulf, independently of the Mississippi, waters which enter into or overflow these great watersheds. It being moreover, however, alleged that, if they -- that is, the waters passing Helena, and which did not escape into the White River and Tensas Basins-"ever reached the lands of claimants in sufficient volume to flow them were speedily reduced by crevasses on the west bank, which allowed them to escape into the Atchafalaya basin, and thus relieved the lands of claimants."
That, in executing their plans as above described, the officers of the United States had by the levees which they had constructed or maintained along the front of the White river and Tensas Basins, prevented the flow of a large volume of water into those basins which would have found its way to the Gulf without returning to the Mississippi as above stated, and had thus increased largely the volume of water flowing past the claimants' land and which therefore, in time of flood, would rest against the levee which protected their lands from overflow.
c. That, for the purpose of carrying out their plans, the officers had built a levee to close a very extensive
break or crevasse in the levees on the west bank, opposite to, or nearly so, to the lands of the claimant on the east bank, known as the Bougere Crevasse, which carried off a great volume of water and relieved the pressure on the claimants' levee, and thus additionally, by retaining such water in the river, augmenting the risk of overflow by increasing the danger of a break in the levees of claimants.
d. Because, yet further to give effect to their plans, the officers of the United States had prevented large quantities of water which otherwise would have reached the Gulf through the Atchafalaya River from taking that course by works designed to retain water in the Mississippi, thus causing the water to back up against claimants' levee and greatly increasing the danger of overflow.
e. That the plantations of petitioners are located within the limits of a narrow strip of land lying between the low water bank of the Mississippi River and the highlands east of it, between Vicksburg and Baton Rouge, where the highlands skirt very closely to the river bank, and are not protected by levee construction other than that built by the claimants, which has been destroyed and washed away by the recent flood waters of said river after the levee system had practically reached a state of completion, and the United States had closed the Bougere Crevasse, as hereinafter alleged.
"That the United States has not attempted to connect the levee line on the east side of said river by the construction of levees on said irregular and narrow strip of land lying between Vicksburg and Baton Rouge for the reason that the cost of said levee construction, as shown by the Mississippi River Commission's Report for 1896, and the report and survey of the small basins in the Homochitto Levee District between Ellis Cliff and Fort Adams, made in 1895 by Col. Geo. B. McC. Derby, the engineer officer in charge of said district, would exceed the value of the land lying between the river and the foothills (of which
petitioners' lands are a part), to the amount to $206,500, it being more economical to use the foothills as levees, as now being done, and pay for the land destroyed, than to build levees on the east bank of said river between said City of Vicksburg and the City of Baton Rouge. That the Mississippi River Commission, in its report for the year 1910, in part says that the lands of petitioners are now subject to perpetual inundation."
The court below made elaborate findings of fact, contained in twenty-five numbered paragraphs. The first four relate to the title of the claimants to the land, and we need not review them. Findings 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 relate to the condition of the river prior to the work done by the government, to the escaping of water into the White River and Tensas Basins, as alleged, and to the increased pressure brought upon the levees protecting the lands of the claimants, to the greater frequency of overflow of such lands, etc., etc., some of these findings, as we have said, being in the very words of the allegations of the supplemental and amended petition of 1912. Concerning the work done by the officers of the United States, findings numbered 10, 11, and 15 contain the following:
"Prior to the year 1883, the states and local authorities had constructed unconnected lines of levees for the protection and reclamation of lands subject to overflow from the mouth of Red River to the mouth of Arkansas, and from the mouth of the Yazoo to the highlands below Memphis. The flood waters of 1882 destroyed miles of these levees."
"Beginning about the year 1883, and continuing to the present time, the officers and agents of the United States, pursuant to an act of Congress creating the Mississippi River Commission and the other acts amendatory thereof, and for the improvement of the Mississippi River for navigation, adopted a plan, the so-called Eads plan,
and in consequence thereof have projected and constructed and maintained, and are now engaged in constructing and maintaining, certain lines of levees on both sides of the river at various places for various distances from Cairo, Illinois, to near the Head of the passes, a distance of 1,050 miles by river from Cairo, and the local authorities or organizations of the states bordering along the river on both sides from Cairo to the Gulf have before and since 1883 constructed and are now constructing and maintaining certain lines of levees at various places and of various lengths, for the purpose of protecting and reclaiming lands within their respective districts from overflow in times of high water."
"The levee lines so constructed by the United States and local authorities have been joined, thus giving a continuous line of levees, as contemplated by the Eads plan, with the result that the flood waters of the Mississippi River to a great extent are confined within and between said levee lines, and encompassed within a narrower scope than heretofore, acquired an increased velocity and higher elevation, and the current thereof has become stronger and more forceful."
"The plan of the officers and agents of the United States so acting was to increase said velocity and scouring power of the water, and to scour and deepen the channel of the Mississippi River, and thereby improve it for navigation, and the purpose of the officers and agents of the state and local authorities constructing lines of levees at various points along and on both sides of the river was to reclaim and to protect land from overflow in times of high water. By so doing, the waters, being thus confined within a narrower compass, as above indicated, have attained a higher elevation of approximately 6 feet in times of high water."
"From Cairo, Illinois, to near the mouth of the Yazoo River, just north of Vicksburg, the Mississippi River is practically
leveed on both sides, except on the east side, where the highlands abut on or near the river in Kentucky and Tennessee (from Port Jefferson, Kentucky, to a short distance south of Memphis, Tennessee), and thence on the west side to near the Head of the Passes, or to a point 1,050 miles by the river from Cairo, and on the east side from Baton Rogue to the same point near the Head of the Passes, leaving a gap in the line of levees of 234 miles in length, from the mouth of the Yazoo River to Baton Rouge, unleveed, where the foothills in some places hug closely to the east bank of the river, and at other points are from 2 to 6 miles from the river, in which strip of territory the lands of claimants are located between the highlands and the river, as before stated."
"The extension of the general levee system by the United States and the local authorities since the United States adopted to its use and assumed 'permanent control' of the levees theretofore constructed by state and local authorities has resulted in an increased elevation of the general flood levels, which subjects the claimants' lands to deeper overflow than they were subject to formerly, or would be subject to now, if the levee system were not in existence, and consequently has destroyed its value for agricultural and grazing purposes, causing its abandonment for that purpose since the year 1908. The immediate cause of the deeper overflow of claimants' land is the increased elevation of flood heights, which is the result of the general confinement of the flood discharge by the levee system as a whole."
"Before the creation of the Mississippi River Commission by act of Congress, and the adoption of the Eads plan, as aforesaid, the levee lines along the Mississippi River theretofore constructed by state and local authorities consisted of a broken chain of levees of insufficient height and strength to confine the flood waters, and had
been built without regard to a uniform grade line. The United States then caused a survey and report to be made by its officers and agents showing the condition and location of levee lines theretofore constructed by state and local authorities as they then existed. This survey suggested a proposed continuous system of levees from Cairo to the Head of the Passes. In many instances, it was a blanket survey which encompassed and took in the lines of levees theretofore constructed by state and local authorities, as above stated. The project recommended by the Mississippi River Commission adopting the Eads plan for the systematic improvement of the river from Cairo to the Head of the Passes, was practically adopted by act of Congress approved March 3, 1881. The United States then undertook the projection and completion of a continuous line of levees from Cairo to the Head of the Passes, as suggested by this survey and the Eads plan and as recommended by the Mississippi River Commission, and, in furtherance of that plan and an part of and supplementary thereto, adopted to its use, and is now using, the levees theretofore constructed by state and local authorities, thereafter making them much larger and stronger. Since that time, levee construction, whether done by the United States or state and local authorities, has been in conformity with the grades and methods of construction adopted by the Mississippi River Commission, and the efficiency of the levee system has been largely due to this fact."
"The extension of this levee system by the United States from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to the Head of the Passes was authorized by Act of Congress in 1906."
34 Stat. p. 208, c. 2572.
The remainder of the findings are but cumulative, and we do not pause to state them.
The court concluded, in view of the authority of the United States over navigation, and its right to construct works for that purpose, that there was no liability on the
part of the United States, basing its views on this subject upon Bedford v. United States, 192 U. S. 225. The petition was therefore dismissed.
Before we take up the contentions advanced by the appellants to establish that the court below was wrong in deciding that there was no liability on the part of the United States, we consider it necessary, lest misconception otherwise might result, to refer to what we deem to be grave errors committed by the court in certain particulars, even although, in passing upon the merits, we shall consider the case in such an aspect as to cause it to be unnecessary to review the errors in question for the purpose of passing on the merits. In the first place, it is apparent that, in many important respects, matters which the court below has stated as findings of fact are mere conclusions of law. This is true, for instance, of the broad conclusion embodied in the findings of fact as to the relation of the United States to levee work, and the power of the Mississippi River Commission over all such work, by whomsoever performed. In the second place, treating it as a question of law, we think the error is apparent from a consideration of the statutes and the official reports relating to the subject, which we may judicially notice. It is true indeed, that when the Eads theory, illustrated by the successful jettying of the mouth of the river under a contract made with Captain Eads, came to be understood, and it also came to be appreciated that the most efficient way to improve the navigation of the river was to utilize the vast power of the river by confining its waters within its banks, thus directing its energies to cutting out a deeper channel, Congress legislated to the accomplishment of such result by the creation of the Mississippi River Commission and by conferring the power upon that body to improve the navigation of the river, and to build levees for that purpose with the appropriations which were made from time to time to carry out these great purposes. But nothing in
that legislation justifies the conclusion that, irrespective of navigation, Congress assumed control of the entire work of protection from overflow by levees, to the displacement of the state or local authorities. On the contrary, the reports of the Commission and the public documents and history connected with the same leave no room to doubt that, as necessarily the levees built by the United States in aid of navigation at the same time afforded protection from overflow, and thus served a two-fold purpose, that thereby renewed energy was stimulated in state and local authorities to undertake the work of building levees for protection, so that one continuous and complete system of protection would be evolved. It is, of course, true also that the intelligent work of the Mississippi River Commission furnished a standard which served in a sense to control and direct the cooperating energies of others. The gravity of the error, as expressed in the findings of the court below, is illustrated by the fact that it treated the injury alleged to have been suffered as arising alone from the acts of the United States, when in truth, if there was such injury, it could only have resulted from the concurrent action of the United States, the states, and their subordinate agencies, including individuals, all acting to the realization of a common end -- that is, an efficient and continuous line of levees, although action was impelled by different considerations. This is illustrated by the statement made by the Mississippi River Commission in its annual report for 1894, pp. 2713-2715, where, in referring either to the claim of damage made in this case or to one like it, it was said:
"The injury will not be traceable to levees built by the United States any more than to those built by the states and local organizations. Neither can it be attributed to the levees on any particular or limited portions of the river. It will be a result of the system as a whole."
But passing, for the sake of argument, these considerations,
let us look at the case in the light of the findings as made.
It is apparent, taking the broadest possible view in favor of the claimants, that the grievance which they allege they have suffered can only rest upon three grounds:
1st. The building by the officers of the United States of lines of levees along the bank of the river for the purpose of retaining the water in the river, treating, for the sake of the argument, all acts done by the local authorities in building levees or closing breaks as acts of the United States.
2nd. The failure of the United States to build, on the east bank of the river along the minor basins which we have fully described, a line of levees so as to afford means of protection from the increased danger of overflow arising from the fact that the lines of levees along the river on the west bank and elsewhere had been raised and strengthened and extended, thus at least, beyond doubt, temporarily increasing the level of the flood in times of high water.
3rd. The performance of work by the United States tending to diminish the outflow of water from the river through streams which flowed from it, to the end that a more efficient body of water might remain in the stream for the purpose of accomplishing the deepening of the channel, and thus more effectively improving the navigable capacity of the river.
Let us primarily test the merits of the first ground of complaint -- that is, the building of levees. It is not averred that the land of the claimants bordering on the east bank of the river, in the absence of all levees and in a State of nature, would not, in seasons of high water, be overflowed, and if it had been so alleged, it is certain there would be no right on the part of an individual to insist that primitive conditions be suffered to remain, and thus all progress and development be rendered impossible. When accurately
fixed, the complaint is but this, that because the claimants had built a levee for the purpose of protecting their lands, and which answered that purpose, if levees were not built by others to protect their lands, actionable injury would be occasioned claimants when anybody else sought to protect his land from overflow, since to so do would increase the volume of water in the river and raise the flood level, to the detriment of claimants. In its essence, however, this but amounts to saying that, because the claimants have built a levee along their property for the purpose of protecting it from overflow in times of high water, they have acquired the right to stereotype the conditions existing at the time they built their levee, even to the extent of preventing anyone from subsequently exerting his right to build a levee to protect his land. Nothing could more completely illustrate the accuracy of this statement than the averments in the supplemental petition concerning the closing of the Bougere Crevasse, since those averments, in their last analysis, but charge that there was a right on the part of the claimants to subject a vast area of country on the west bank to the devastation resulting from the existence of so extensive a crevasse simply because to close it would subject the levee of claimants across the river to a greater pressure consequent on the retaining of the flood water of the river within its banks. And indeed a like illustration is afforded by the averments as to the escape of water from the river on the west bank, and the spread of that water through the White River and Tensas Basins until it ultimately reached the Gulf, by emptying into remote streams. To make the demonstration, if possible, clearer, let us suppose that, by the acts of individuals for their own protection, sanctioned by the local laws, a complete line of levees had been built, accomplishing the very result which it is insisted brought about the injury here complained of. Would it be said that the claimants would have a resulting right of action in damages because
other owners had exerted the very right which the claimants had previously resorted to for the purpose of protecting their own land? If not, upon what imaginary ground can it be said that, because a work which was lawful in and of itself, was done by the United States, therefore responsibility in favor of the claimants was entailed?
Coming to the second contention, we think it is disposed of by the following considerations:
In the first place, by the report of the Commission to which we have referred, the impossibility was pointed out of building a levee along the line of the minor basin in which the land of claimants is situated without destroying said land, because of its peculiar situation, unless a permanent system of pumping to take out the water which would gather in the watershed. In the second place, looked at from the point of individual right and corresponding responsibility, it is impossible to conceive by what principle it can be said that, because an individual having a right to do so has built a levee to protect his land from overflow, and because his levee has accomplished that result by retaining the water in the river, that thereby there arose a duty on his part to build a levee to protect the land of another, or, in the alternative, to pay for such land.
Indeed, the propositions but assert, on the one hand, that the United States is liable because it did that which it had a right to do, and, on the other, that it is liable because it abstained from doing that which it was under no duty to do. Both the fundamental errors which the contentions involve are exemplified in the arguments used to sustain them, since it is urged that, because the levees constructed on the bank of the river operated to keep the water in the river from flowing out, that thereby they served to bring water into the river from without, and that the mere abstention from building levees at a particular place or on a particular line operated to transfer the bank of the river
over to the foot of the hills, or to move the hills over to the river, so as to cause them to become its banks.
The third consideration -- that is, the preventing of the outflow of water by work done in the tributaries, and the consequent increase in the volume of water in the river -- cannot be tested from the point of view of individual authority, as the power to so do involves necessarily the exercise of governmental power. We therefore come to consider the proposition in that aspect. In doing so, however, it is to be observed that, even if all the previous considerations which we have stated concerning the nonliability to result from building levees, measured by the right of an individual to build a levee to prevent the water of a river from overflowing its banks and destroying his property, be put out of view, and the case therefore in all its aspects be tested by the scope of the governmental authority possessed by the United States, the absence of merit in all the claims is too clear to require anything but statement. We say this because the plenary power of the United States to legislate for the benefit of navigation, and to construct such works as are appropriate to that end, without liability for remote or consequential damages, has been so often decided as to cause the subject not to be open. It was directly ruled as to work done by the Mississippi River Commission in Bedford v. United States, 192 U. S. 225, upon the authority of which case, as we have said, the court below placed its ruling, and as the underlying principles which controlled the decision in the Bedford case, and which govern the subject, were again at this term, with much elaboration, stated and applied, we think it unnecessary to do more than refer to that ruling (United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co., 229 U. S. 53), and to direct that the judgment below be
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College-Bound Students Choose CTE Pathways in High School
Assistant Secretary Brenda Dann-Messier has her blood pressure measured by Cassandra Eddy, a student at Union County Vocational-Technical School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey
– photo by Kathryn Forsyth, NJCCVTS
Rutgers University. Yale University. Northeastern University. Stevens University. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. These are among the colleges that seniors from Union County Vocational-Technical Schools in Scotch Plains, New Jersey are headed this fall.
As one parent of a Yale-bound senior put it, “This is what high school should be for every student.” The Administration agrees, having issued both its blueprint for Perkins reauthorization in April 2012 and proposed a $300 million High School Redesign in the FY 2014 budget. Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education Brenda Dann-Messier states, “Our students shouldn’t have to make a decision between college or a career; every student needs to be prepared for both.” Union County Vocational-Technical Schools has turned this vision into a reality and, at the same time, become a school of first choice for students in Union County. Assistant Secretary Dann-Messier had the opportunity to experience the vision first-hand during her recent visit on May 23.
It used to be that enrollment in career and technical education, much less a full-time area career center, would not be the best option for students preparing for college, particularly at one of the leading universities in the nation. Union County Vocational-Technical Schools has fundamentally changed this situation and now makes enrollment in career and technical education the “sought-after option” for high school students.
Union County Vocational-Technical Schools offers five academy schools on its campus, including The Academy for Allied Health Sciences, The Academy for Information Technology, and a Magnet High School which focuses on STEM-related programs. Students participate in rigorous academic courses that are integrated with their career and technical education courses, complete work-based learning, earn college credit for courses taken during high school, and earn industry-recognized certificates.
School administration officials attribute their schools’ success to ongoing partnerships with business/industry and postsecondary education to develop and implement their programs. Students credit the teaching staff and career guidance counselors who help them acquire work-based learning opportunities, complete FASFA forms, and submit college applications. Parents recognize the entire school team for helping students gain the academic, career-related, and employability skills that help them prepare for their future.
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Home News 2019 03 Kansas Teamsters Argue School Bus Driver Unemployment Insurance Senate Hearing
Kansas Teamsters Argue for School Bus Driver Unemployment Insurance at Senate Hearing
Union and Allies Make the Case for Unemployment Insurance
Galen Munroe
Email: [email protected] Phone: (202) 624-6911
(TOPEKA, Kan.) – Today members from Teamsters Locals 696, 795 and 838 attended a hearing at the Kansas State Capitol to support Senate Bill 38. They were joined by John Billigmeier, Central Region Vice President of First Student, the nation’s largest school bus company, and Kansas Department of Labor Deputy Secretary Brett Flachsbarth.
SB 38 would extend unemployment insurance (UI) in the summer months to school bus drivers employed by private companies. Currently Kansas is one of the only states in the region where privatized school bus drivers are not eligible to collect unemployment benefits in spite of their employers paying into the system. The legislation is currently being considered by the Kansas Senate Commerce Committee. Its companion legislation in the Kansas House of Representatives, HB 2148, has been referred to the Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development. Local 696 Secretary-Treasurer Matt Hall told the committee that SB 38 would improve safety and reduce turnover in the school bus industry.
“This is an industry that demands the highest safety and background check standards,” Hall said. “Retaining and recruiting safe, professional drivers is key to the well-being of our children and the public at large because they haul our most precious cargo. When companies lose experienced drivers because they can’t afford to work at this job anymore our schools, children and communities lose.”
First Student Driver and Local 838 Member Ray Alvarez also spoke at the hearing. He said that the inequities in the industry create hardships for drivers.
“When drivers don’t have economic security in the summer months it’s a real struggle to make ends meet – some of our best drivers are forced to take other jobs and many times they do not return to drive in the fall,” Alvarez said. “Workers in other industries are able to collect unemployment when they are laid off; even the bus monitors who work alongside us are able to collect unemployment when they are laid off. Why not us?”
The Teamsters Union represents more than 500 school bus workers across Kansas and workers in a wide variety of other industries throughout the state.
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IDrive Launches Long-Term Data Archival Service Via Shipped Hard Drives
Frederic Lardinois @fredericl / 6 years
Cloud storage and data backup service IDrive today announced the launch of a new long-term archival service that allows users to ship data to the company on physical drives.
IDrive Safe, as the company calls this feature, allows users to choose between plans to allow a single backup with up to 1TB of storage ($99.50/year), annual backups ($199.50/year) or monthly shipments ($999.50/year for up to 13TB of stored data per year). Just like with IDrive’s regular hard disk-based backups, the company ships the 1TB drives to customers who then only have to plug them in and start the backup process. Data on the drive is optionally encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption.
The company believes that the consistency of the hard drive shipments encourages its users to routinely make backups.
The difference between this new service and the company’s regular backup solution is that the data isn’t always available online, but will only be made available once a customer requests it. This allows the company to offer significantly lower prices for this feature than for its regular backup service, though users lose some of the flexibility when it comes to retrieving data.
For companies with a dedicated development staff, solutions like Amazon Glacier may be more attractive for long-term storage, especially given that Amazon also offers hard drive-based backups to augment its regular online cloud storage for continuous uploads. As an offsite backup solution that’s augmented by a more traditional service, however, IDrive Safe could come in handy for businesses and individuals who want to add some redundancy to their records storage systems, for example.
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The Report Amendments came in two sections, here and here. The Government has also provided supplementary documents which include ECHR Memos and an Impact Assessment, here.
Entering or remaining in a designated area. By this amendment, the Secretary of State may designate any area outside the United Kingdom, when satisfied that it is necessary for the purpose of protecting members of the public from a risk of terrorism. It becomes an offence punishable with up to ten years’ imprisonment to ‘enter or remain in’ an area so designated. The offence is expressed not to be retrospective, however, a person who remains in an area for more than one month after designation is caught by the new offence. The accompanying Impact Assessment states ‘due to the instability of these conflict zones, it can be a difficult challenge to gather sufficient admissible evidence that individuals have been involved in specific terrorist-related activity, which limits the Government’s ability to prosecute such individuals should they return to the United Kingdom’. The Government’s intentions here are understandable. Despite some media reports to the contrary, I have always argued that any person who commits terrorism offences here or abroad must be prosecuted (see here for my clear views on this topic, last year). However, this proposed new offence brings a number of complications.
Research demonstrates that a possible blueprint for the new offence can be found in Australia, namely sections 119.2 and 119.3 of the Criminal Code, the ‘declared area provisions’, in force since 2014. As here, Australia recognised the difficulty of gathering evidence in conflict zones, and wished to apply a deterrent to reduce travel to certain areas. Here the similarities end. The Australian test for designation is that the Foreign Affairs Minister ‘is satisfied that a listed terrorist organisation is engaging in hostile activity in that area of the foreign country’ (section 119.3(1)). Further, the Australian offence has a ‘sunset clause’ of three years. And further, the review that took place earlier this year by the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security included careful consideration of (a) the difficulty for those facing prosecution of gathering evidence sufficient to raise reasonable excuse as a defence, (b) the disruption to all travel which the new offence creates, and the chilling effect on legitimate travel, and (c) the need for pre-authorisation in certain circumstances.
As to the last, I gave evidence to the JCHR in January this year during scrutiny of the new Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill (now Act), drawing attention to humanitarian and other aid work which could be severely disrupted by new legislation of this kind. Finally, by section 119.2(3), the Australian offence recognises a defence of legitimate purpose, which is defined to include providing aid of a humanitarian nature and visiting family members. By contrast, the proposed new offence here carries a defence of reasonable excuse (new section 58B(2)), which is not defined or explained further, and the only statutory exemption is for those holding office under the Crown (58B(7)). Therefore, there is much to consider, and no doubt many or all of the arguments raised before the Australian Joint Committee will, and should, be raised here. I regret that this will come too late for my participation after leaving my post as Independent Reviewer on 12th October.
Clause 3 amendment to section 58 Terrorism Act 2000. By this amendment, the so-called ‘three clicks’ offence proposal has been altered by leaving out the words ‘on three or more different occasions’. Thus, three clicks are to become one. My first reaction is to recognise an element of consistency in the drafting. Since 2000, it has been an offence to collect information likely to be useful to terrorists, and section 58 does not require that such information be contained in multiple documents, so just one will do. So why not repeat that logic in the case of those who view material but do not download? However, that argument is in my view overridden by the twin objectives behind section 58 in its original form, neither of which is satisfied by this proposed new variant. The first objective behind section 58 is what in my earlier evidence to Parliament I called ‘anti-proliferation’. In other words, it is legitimate to bear down upon the copying and/or distribution of material likely to be useful to terrorists. But, as I have said before, mere access is not proliferation. Therefore neither the three clicks version nor the new one click variant satisfy this objective. The second objective, which was identified within the explanatory notes to the draft Bill as first presented to Parliament in June, is the identification of a ‘pattern of behaviour’, namely by isolating those who repeatedly access material likely to be useful to terrorists. In my view, this was a stronger argument in favour of the three clicks offence, which argument has now been lost by replacement with one click. There can be no pattern of behaviour here. On the contrary, a one click offence will further expose to investigation and prosecution many categories of internet users who access material for multiple purposes, none of which relate to terrorism.
The Member’s explanatory statement accompanying the clause 3 amendment foreshadows this concern and states ‘the circumstances in which a reasonable excuse defence will apply include those where the person did not know that the document would contain such information’. By way of expansion upon this theme, correspondence accompanying the report amendments (including a letter from the Minister of State for Security and Economic Crime dated 4 September 2018) states ‘the reasonable excuse defence includes circumstances to the effect that the person did not know, and had no reason to believe, that the document or video being viewed contained, or was likely to contain, information of a kind likely to be useful…’. The letter amplifies this guidance by referring to section 118 of the 2000 Act (placing the burden on the prosecution to disprove the defence of reasonable excuse once raised), by reciting the judgment of the House of Lords in R v G, R v J [2009]UKHL13, and refers to ‘the difficulties of defining legitimate activity in advance or in the abstract, and (on) the importance of juries determining whether an excuse is reasonable on the particular facts and circumstances of the individual case’. None of which answers evidence given to the Bill Committee in June to the effect that relying upon reasonable excuse is too late, and too expensive for individuals who may be caught by the new offence but who do indeed have a reasonable excuse, including those who are academic researchers or journalists. Further parliamentary scrutiny of clause 3 as amended comes too late for my participation after leaving my post as Independent Reviewer on 12th October, but I fear that this amendment does little if anything to answer the many concerns raised to date.
Clause 6 amendment to sentencing under section 38B Terrorism Act 2000. I have consistently suggested that there may be circumstances in which a discretionary maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment for withholding information about terrorist activity yet to happen, or which has just happened, is insufficient. I was surprised that the draft Bill did not increase the sentencing power in this area, and said so in my evidence to Parliament in June. In my opinion, the amendment to clause 6 puts this matter right. However, it does not follow that the remainder of clause 6 is without controversy. I and others have previously given evidence as to the danger of disproportionality in many cases.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Upcoming Events Valentine's Day - New York City Article
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Valentine's Day Weekend Upcoming Events, Jazz at Lincoln Center
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This weekend, the most romantic place in town is Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, where events include outstanding jazz vocalists from three distinct generations and styles offering just the right blend of swing and seduction to get you in the musical mood for Valentine’s Day. The headliner in Jazz at Lincoln Center's big Rose Theater is the sumptuously-voiced Dianne Reeves – one of the gold standard of contemporary jazz singers - whose current album, “Beautiful Life,” contains what might be my single favorite song by her, a lavishly-re-imagined and de-reggae’d version of Bob Marley’s “Waiting in Vain.” (Friday, February 10, and Saturday, February 11) Meanwhile in the more intimate space of Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, the man of the moment is the veteran Freddy Cole, who is the torchbearer for a dynasty of musicians (including his late brother Nat and niece Natalie) that has been serenading lovers for over 75 years. (Thursday, February 9, through Sunday, February 12) On V-Day itself, the exceptional young singer Brianna Thomas takes the stage at Dizzy’s. Like Ms. Reeves and Mr. Cole, her music is rife with rhythm, romance, and constant invention – not to mention a formidable sense of humor. (Tuesday, February 14) The only thing left for JALC to do is install a flowers and candy concession somewhere on the fifth floor of the Time-Warner Center – maybe it’s not a coincidence that they call it “rose” hall.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Dianne Reeves, Freddy Cole & Brianna Thomas
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Author: Will Friedwald
Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, VANITY FAIR and PLAYBOY magazine and reviews current shows for THE CITIVIEW NEW YORK. He also is the author of nine books, including the award-winning A BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP SINGERS, SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU, STARDUST MELODIES, TONY BENNETT: THE GOOD LIFE, LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES, and JAZZ SINGING. He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received ten Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and other documentaries. He is also a consultant and curator for Apple Music.
New Books:
THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP VOCAL ALBUMS (Pantheon Books / Random House, November 2017)
SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU - NEW REVISED EDITION (Chicago Review Press, May 2018)
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Ancient rituals to urban “high”: the rise and fall of Colombia’s intelligence plants
Jimmy Weiskopf
Photo: Richard Decaillet/ 4 Direcciones
If we were to tell you that “coke” is openly sold in Bogotá, you would probably say “so what” (thinking of Coca-Cola) or for the more cynical: “What do you expect of a cocaine republic.”
In fact, we are speaking of coca, once a minuscule ingredient of Coca-Cola, but specifically referencing the traditional use of that jungle plant as a ceremonial aid to sound health, right thought and right conduct, in the form of mambe, an ultra-fine, vivid green powder. “The softest substance he’s ever touched” remarked anthropologist Michael Taussig of a substance made from toasted coca leaves and mixed with the ash of the burnt leaves of the yarumo tree. When slowly absorbed through the mucus lining of the mouth – not swallowed – it produces wakefulness a slight numbness in the gums and a damping of appetite.
The nutty/sweet mambe is complemented by a bitter, black tobacco paste known as ambil, which also contains vegetal salts (usually from the ash of a burnt palm trunk) which are rich in health-giving minerals. Like other forms of tobacco (wrongly maligned when it is natural), ambil sharpens one’s concentration and short-term memory and intensifies the most notable property of mambe, a subtle “high”, the use or abuse of which is our subject.
For the indigenous communities who prepare mambe, principally the Huitotos of the Amazon (who call it jíibie) coca is a sacred plant, mainly used in a ritual context with the aim of clarifying awareness in order to harmonize man with man and men with Nature and the cosmos. The medicine is therefore comparable to the better-known ayahuasca (or yajé), but it is exempt of the latter’s visionary, purgative and traumatic effects: I would liken it to ingesting pure chlorophyll! The effect is gentle and meditative, and instead of an unsettling and sometimes violent confrontation with other-worlds, the ritual takes the form of a sort of Platonic dialogue among the participants, led by an elder who is part-healer, part myth-teller and part arbitrator of disputes.
The start of the urban school of ayahuasca roughly dates back to the early 1990’s, when a few adventurous taitas (the name of healers) first held sessions in Bogotá, with the sponsorship of anthropologists who had visited their communities and limited the access to them, to their colleagues and most trusted friends. Inevitably, however, outsiders crashed the party and from a slow start, ayahuasca has since become available to people from all over the industrialized world – not only New Agers, but rock stars, socialites and filmmakers.
While up to now, the use of mambe has mostly been limited to a few White pachamamistas* in Bogotá, it is now starting along the same imperiled path: from a secret to revelation, to therapy, to …business, losing most of its magic along the way. And witnessed in the cigar-store Indians who hawk ayahuasca to unwary tourists in Iquitos (a commerce which the Peruvian government promotes as a dollar-earner!). But whether it happens there, or when the same farceurs visit Europe, the medicine itself is a powerful purgative of bodily ailments and a self-psychoanalyst, so for better or worse, the ceremony is a psychodrama, a galvanic “life experience” for lives which are usually dull.
My point is to draw a contrast between the two. The former entails a collective therapy, structured and led by a guide, whereas a Westerner can take the latter as a recreational drug the fearsome ayahuasca never is (be it with his friends or alone). Further, Colombia wasn’t the only country where a few pioneering Westerners “discovered” ayahuasca: it was also happening around the same time in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.
Granted, indigenous coca is a venerable tradition in the southern Andean nations and is found in the Sierra Nevada and Cauca as well as the Amazon. Nevertheless, its preparations are different there and its uses, less hospitable: the Kogis, for example, do not like to share it with outsiders, whereas in the Amazon, it is often the equivalent of a cup of coffee offered to anyone who visits a maloca and may simply wish to engage in a serious conversation with his hosts without participating in a full-blown mambeadero, the nightly colloquium inspired by the substance.
And, to start with, about the only easy point of contact with it in the Amazon was Leticia, and especially, the campus of the Universidad Nacional. On the one hand, Leticia was – and still is – the most accessible part of the Amazon for city-dwellers with daily flights from Bogotá and riverboats linking it with Iquitos and Manaus; and on the other, the university which specializes in studies of societies and natural life of the Amazon was the de facto social club of indigenous persons from all over the region; students, informants, activists, and – the often displaced – members of the ethnically mixed and fast-growing native settlements on the outskirts of the city.
In the late 90’s, I entered a true academic community similar, in a way, to what the ancient universities of Europe must have been like centuries ago, at least in the sense that everyone knew each other, the atmosphere was informal and outsiders, welcome to the point where I crashed in the office of a professor I knew from Bogotá, and had access to the communal kitchen, library and lectures. I remember how astonished I was when I met the rector, and instead of an unapproachable tin god like the heads of universities in the States, found him warm and cordial. The same was true of the faculty’s treatment of their students and relationship between the two races, based on a mutual recognition of the value of indigenous wisdom and the sacred nature of coca, a plant whose benefits are proportional to your respect for it.
My maestro was the person who succeeded me on the floor of the same office, the Huitoto elder Oscár Román, the informant of my friend, who was taping more than 100 hours of his encyclopedic knowledge of the plants, myths and customs of his tribe, entirely oral but complemented by a wide reading of scientific manuals on botany, which had begun, decades before, when he was the guide for no less than the legendary Richard Evans Schultes.
When the two were not busy with that, the office was the mambeadero of the university, open to anyone who wanted a master class in mambe and ambil, practice and theory alike. With a packet of Pielroja on the desk alongside his Chocolisto canister of mambe and film canister of ambil (and a bottle of aguardiente beneath), Oscar’s approach to teaching was somewhat eccentric, but he was always in earnest. We learned that mambe is governed by a strict set of norms, starting with the way plants are grown, harvested and prepared. Then, a correct behavior in a ritual that includes a silent concentration on the inner voice as it awakens, letting each person speak in turn, without interruption and an attention to its totemic mirrors in plants, animals, the landscape, the real and mythical history of the tribe and so forth. When that is grasped, however feebly, you enter a strange realm of associative and non- sequential thinking where you see connections between all sorts of unlikely things: a tree and your cold, a flat tire and a quarrel with your parents.
It isn’t so much that your guide heals you of such troubles as that he helps you to dislodge your habitual thought, touch the unconscious or supra-conscious roots of your problems and ultimately, heal yourself, if health is your concern. If not, it serves to sharpen your senses, make your work more energetic or unleash hidden sources of inspiration for whatever your art is. So long as there is a right use of the “high.”
The world being what it is, however, it wasn’t long before a worm crawled into the apple. As the only jungle outpost of a national university, Leticia legitimately provided students of biology and the like from Bogotá with the opportunity to undertake field trips. Now, if I say that the ambit of its seat in Bogotá was rather druggy, I don’t mean to insult one of the highest-ranked universities in Latin America, nor deny the seriousness of most of its students, then as now, nor expect students with an urban mindset to assimilate indigenous values in a few weeks.
For some of them, in any case, mambe was no more than a novel, cheap and (in sufficient doses) intoxicating stone. And each who misconstrued it conveyed that discovery to a dozen friends in Bogotá, and as one group followed another over the years, the number multiplied.
As with ayahuasca, however, some of its indigenous practitioners were also at fault, victims (it must be said) of a hostile environment, where White colonizers now own most of the land, there are few opportunities of employment and the modern world is eroding their identity. Suddenly, in their cash-poor economy, coca became a commodity they could sell and not just to the uninachunos*, but the increasing number of foreign backpackers “doing the Amazon.”
Having already seen it happen with ayahuasca in Iquitos, where those cigar-store Indians are hawking it to unwary tourists – I could predict what it would happen with mambe, and remember the exact moment when that occurred to me. It was at the thatched rancho of a transplanted hippy from Bogotá who occasionally worked as a jungle guide and hosted a rumba for some European clients and students from the university that featured aguardiente and marijuana (as usual) plus mambe, debasing the latter to an auxiliary “high.”
Fast forward to the present: moto-taxi drivers who tout the stuff to the newly arrived; the theft of coca plants from another’s chagra by the same desperate and acculturated indigenas; the wholesale suction of the mambe from Leticia into Bogotá, which inflates its local price to the point where many of those who respect it (already the victims of theft or exhausted soils) can no longer use it; and in Bogotá, the center of our argument, an abundant sale of inferior mambe to Blancos who don’t know the difference – or even if they do – have no idea of how to take a spiritual advantage of the plant. (To be continued).
*Urban worshippers of Pachamama, the Incaic Earth Mother
*Students of the Universidad Nacional
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3-year-old Youngest DJ in the World Wins South Africa’s Got Talent ?!!
The EDM and DJ-ing world has been slapped in the face by a recent headline.
3-year-old DJ named winner of South Africa’s Got Talent.
Yes, you read that right, a 3-year-old DJ.
Most DJs put in blood, sweat and tears for more than 5-6 years before they gain any sort of popularity or success but this 3-year-old has already won South Africa’s Got Talent, gaining sponsors and compliments from people all over the world.
DJ Arch Jnr was named South Africa’s Got Talent, making him the youngest winner ever in the history of the TV series. His so called ‘talent act’ was DJ-ing.
During his first appearance on his audition for the talent show, he was given the “Golden Buzzer” which sent him straight to the semi-finals.
For those who don’t know what a “Golden Buzzer” is, it’s a buzzer that every judge of the panel in the show can hit once during the audition. This buzzer sends the contestant straight to the semi-finals.
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You would need an extremely good act to have a judge even consider using their only “Golden Buzzer” on you.
His parents tell that their son has been DJ-ing since a “very early age,” but at only three years old, that expression is barely relative.
Despite the good comments from the judges and the support the amount of support this ‘DJ’ has been getting, we think he is no good at all.
His performance is cringe-worthy, hardly worthy of being called a set. The music was nothing but a simple beat with a few dings and dongs here and there.
The performance was something more like a performance you would get from a man with Parkinson disease who has had 30 minutes worth of experience in DJ-ing from YouTube; barely a performance or ‘talent’ that could earn him a $35,000 USD prize.
The fact that he received endorsements from Guess Kids, Beats By Dre, Mini Cooper and Djay Software further insults aspiring DJs out there who worked hard on their craft for years.
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Traffic Stops Have ‘No Discernible Impact’ on Crime Prevention: Study
By TCR Staff | February 13, 2019
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Do traffic stops in high-crime areas deter crime and protect public safety?
For many police agencies, the answer is obvious. Making officers a “visible” pro-active presence on the streets has long been regarded as a valid law enforcement strategy.
But when a group of researchers decided to test that proposition, they came up with a different answer.
The researchers, in a paper for the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, analyzed traffic stops during 2017 in Nashville, Tenn., where police have the notable distinction of making more traffic stops per capita than anywhere else in the nation, and which was the subject of a 1999 report by the American Civil Liberties Union, “Driving While Black,” that noted the disproportional impact the strategy has on African-Americans.
They found, instead, that traffic stops “had no discernible effect on serious crime rates, and only infrequently resulted in the recovery of contraband of a custodial arrest.”
In the paper, commissioned by the city of Nashville, and formally presented this week as part of a series for the New York University School of Law’s Policing Colloquium, the researchers reported that the majority of the 246,000 traffic stops by Nashville police they reviewed were for “non-moving violations,” such as broken headlights, or expired driver’s registrations—and suggested these could be cut back sharply with no impact on public safety.
Nashville police, in fact, had already reduced the number of traffic stops by the time researchers begun studying them, but the number was still far higher proportionally than other U.S. cities—and officers overwhelmingly stopped more African Americans than whites, the researchers said.
Black drivers were stopped 44 percent more often overall than whites per driving age resident, but for non-moving violations the imbalance was as high as 68 per cent.
The researchers cautioned this did not necessarily imply racial basis. It was mostly because the stops were focused on high-crime areas where many African Americans reside, they said.
“This policy of concentrating stops in high-crime areas may be predicated on the belief that that traffic stops are an effective tactic for reducing burglaries, robberies and other criminal activity,” the paper said.
“We find, however, no immediate or long-term impact of traffic stops on serious crime.”
Only 1.6 percent of the stops, the researchers found, resulted in “custodial arrests”—usually for license violations or drugs.
They suggested Nashville could safely reduce the number of stops, in line with the strategies taken by other cities such as the New York Police Department, which reduced ‘stop, question and frisk” pedestrian stops from nearly 700,000 in 2011 to 11,000 in 2017.
Such a policy could also have beneficial consequences for police-community relations, the researchers added, noting that frequent stops can “create stress” as well as result in fines and fees that are a burden for low-income residents.
But they warned that Nashville cops would need to make significant cuts to bring them into line with practices of other cities that have already begun to rethink the strategy.
“A reduction of even 50 percent in non-moving violation stops would still leave the city’s overall stop rate twice as high (or higher) than other peer cities,” the paper said.
“A more substantial 90 percent reduction in such stops would put Nashville on par with peer cities with the highest stop rates..and would have significant impact on the day-to-day lives of Nashville residents.
The authors of the paper were Alex Chohlas-Wood, Sharad Goel, Amy Shoemaker, and Ravi Shroff.
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James C. Walker on February 14, 2019 at 9:27 pm said:
Overly strict use of traffic stops is about revenue or profiling, neither of which should be acceptable to any moral person.
James C. Walker, National Motorists Association
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Help wanted: ghost investigators in Ottawa
U of O’s haunted history part of paranormal hotspot
Photo: Courtesy of Michel Prévost
For those who aren’t kept up at night by scary stories, Canadian paranormal research group Cold Spot is now recruiting case managers from the Ottawa area.
It doesn’t have a sweet theme song like Ghostbusters, but the Toronto-based firm has investigated paranormal activity throughout North America since 2002.
Believers from the University of Ottawa might not have to look far to do some research. The school has a couple of ghost stories of its own. Michel Prévost, the university’s chief archivist, described the stories and how students had a great interest in the ghost tours he offered last year with Community Life Service across Lowertown for a haunted walk.
One of the ghost stories takes place right here in Tabaret Hall.
After a fire burned down the original Tabaret building in 1903, three people who were inside died, including one unknown woman. When the building was rebuilt, it included a residence, and students who stayed there claimed to see a woman’s ghost walking around late at night. After the residence was converted into offices in 1965, she has not reported to have been seen since.
In fact, most of the Ontario based reports that Cold Spot investigates come from Ottawa, says the group’s founder, Michelle McKay.
She says her interest in the paranormal began when she was only 10 years old, living in a house she believed to be haunted. After her friends asked her to investigate their homes, she said it never stopped.
McKay’s family has a background in paranormal research, with her great uncle Henry McKay being one of the former leading UFO researchers in Canada. However she says she never knew about her uncle’s research until after she began her own.
“I’ll never forget standing in his kitchen and telling him what I did and him telling me what he did,” she recalls. “We both stood there with our mouths dropped, just in shock.”
Now that her great uncle has passed away, McKay says she’s dedicating more of her time to continuing his research and wants to keep the busy Ottawa branch buzzing.
Of course, skeptics are aplenty. But she says she’s here for the believers.
“I don’t waste a minute on trying to convince the skeptics, because I don’t care about the skeptics. I have nothing to prove to them,” she says.
Prévost is not a believer himself, but he says there’s merit in learning about these stories.
“Is it true? We don’t know,” he says. “But it’s part of our history, so for me I find it very interesting.”
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Trump ‘seriously considering’ pardon for Sheriff Arpaio
President Donald Trump has repeatedly shown his commitment to combating illegal immigration, and just proved he will protect those that join him in the fight.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio was convicted of a misdemeanor crime for ignoring a U.S. court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. The decision was made by a judge appointed by none other than former president Bill Clinton.
But Trump is now considering a pardon for the 85-year-old, telling Fox News Sunday, “I am seriously considering a pardon for Sheriff Arpaio. He has done a lot in the fight against illegal immigration. He is a great American patriot and I hate to see what has happened to him.”
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According to Fox, Trump suggested the pardon could come in the next couple of days.
Arpaio brushed off his recent criminal conviction in U.S. court as a “petty crime” and insisted he won’t seek a pardon from President Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean Trump won’t follow through with it anyway.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the former sheriff of metro Phoenix said he was astonished he was found guilty of a crime after more than 50 years in law enforcement.
“S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E-D,” Arpaio said of the misdemeanor for defying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.
Unlike other local police leaders who left illegal immigration enforcement to politicians, Arpaio made hundreds of arrests in traffic patrols that sought out criminal illegals and business raids in which his officers targeted illegals who used fraudulent IDs to get jobs.
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He said he won’t rule out running for office again and remains steadfast in his support of Trump.
“I was with him since day one, and I am with him until the end. I don’t ask him for anything. He can throw me into the swamp and cover me up in garbage, and I’d still support him,” Arpaio said.
Arpaio showered Trump with support during the presidential campaign. Trump has invoked Arpaio’s name in his calls for tougher immigration enforcement and used some of the same immigration rhetoric and advocated for tactics that made the former Arizona lawman a national name a decade earlier.
He appeared for Trump at rallies in Iowa, Nevada and Arizona, including a huge gathering in the affluent Phoenix suburb where the sheriff lives. Arpaio also gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in which he said Trump would prevent immigrants from sneaking into the country.
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Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arizona by 3 percentage points.
In Arpaio’s case, his attorneys have vowed to appeal the verdict and the former sheriff said he isn’t surrendering. He said the worst legal trouble he had faced were two parking tickets.
“Here I am at the end of my career sitting at a defense table in a contempt-of-court case,” Arpaio said.
He took solace in the fact his conviction isn’t a felony.
“It’s only a misdemeanor. You can run for anything you want with a misdemeanor. It’s a petty crime,” Arpaio said.
But in the next couple days, Arpaio may have nothing to worry about.
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New York State May Get a $15 Minimum Wage. Ford Paid Workers That 100 Years Ago.
September 11 2015, 2:51 p.m.
This Thursday in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the state to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all workers. Cuomo can’t just do this by edict — as he essentially could using an industry-specific wage board when he raised the minimum pay for New York fast food workers to $15 an hour by 2021 — so any raise for everyone will have to pass the state legislature. Still, simply getting the endorsement of the governor of the third-biggest U.S. state is a huge victory for a national movement of low-wage workers.
What will come next is a series of hysterical warnings from conservative pundits that New York can’t meddle with the almighty power of supply and demand, and that this will cause massive unemployment and destroy the very people it’s supposed to help, etc.
So here’s some historical context: Adjusted for inflation, $15 an hour is exactly what Henry Ford paid his workers over 100 years ago.
Ford famously decided in 1914 to raise his workers’ wages to $5 a day while cutting the workday from nine hours to eight. Five dollars in 1914 has the same buying power as $119.32 in 2015. Divided by eight, that’s $14.92 an hour.
When Ford made his announcement, the New York Times proclaimed that “The theory of the management at Ford Motor Company is distinctly Utopian and runs dead against all experience.” According to the Wall Street Journal, Ford had “committed economic blunders, if not crimes” that would “get riddance to Henry Ford of his burdensome millions” and “may return to plague him and the industry he represents, as well as organized society.”
Instead, Ford had kicked off the age of mass consumption, a huge century-long economic expansion, and the creation of the first real middle class in world history. As Ford later wrote: “We increased the buying power of our own people, and they increased the buying power of other people, and so on and on. It is this thought of enlarging buying power by paying high wages and selling at low prices which is behind the prosperity of this country.” (Interestingly, someone making $5 dollars a day at Ford would have had to work a little more than 100 days to afford a Model T — and if New York workers get a raise to $15 an hour, they’ll have to work about the same period of time to afford a Ford Fiesta.)
It’s true, of course, that only Ford workers initially got $15 an hour, whereas if Cuomo succeeds every worker in New York will. On the other hand, the per capita U.S. gross domestic product is about eight times larger than it was in 1914, adjusting for inflation. If Americans could be paid decently then, there’s much, much more than enough money to pay us decently now.
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The Jones Boys
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Sam Sloan
Sam comes from a long line of Irish traditional musicians, and has been playing music since she was on her mother’s (and her grandmother’s!) knee. She has won over thirty All-Britain and All-Ireland titles as a junior and senior in accordion, melodeon, concertina and mouth organ. She is also a fine trumpet player. Sam has a degree in music and is a teacher and adjudicator for Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. In 2016 she was awarded the Diploma in Irish Traditional Music Performance by the London College of Music (DipLCM). Sam has been with The Jones Boys since 2009.
Gordon Jackson
Gordon has been playing traditional music for over forty years! Hailing from South East London, Gordon has played in a number of bands in folk clubs and festivals. He founded The Jones Boys in 2008. Gordon began playing mandolin and whistle, but these days prefers the larger versions: octave mandola and low whistle. He produces stunningly powerful yet sensitive accompaniments, and is also the band’s main singer. Gordon also teaches a number of instruments, traditional music, music theory and GCSE Music. In 2016 he was awarded the Diploma in Irish Traditional Music Performance by the London College of Music (DipLCM).
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The Third World War and Other Wars
The War of the Future in British Military Writing, 1945–1971
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This study was completed in the summer of 2007 and is based on the analysis of a wide variety of British military journals and selected Ministry of Defence records from the end of World War II in 1945 to the conclusion of Britain’s almost complete retreat from overseas commitments and withdrawal of troops in 1971. This work is an integral part of a larger ongoing research project on the relationship between armed forces, war, and societies in the Cold War within the Research Unit: History and Theory of Violence that was begun in 2001. The project also discusses the relevance of conflict patterns like colonial/small/asymmetric war for Western armed forces in the modern era and thus, ultimately, the importance of such phenomena for an overall history of violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Cold War (1945–1989) had two faces. For the states of the Northern Hemisphere, it was an era of stable peace, overshadowed but also secured by the threat of nuclear annihilation. For the peoples of the Third World, it was neither stable nor peaceful. Collectively, they witnessed over 150 “hot” wars during this era. Many of these wars were bloody, protracted, and directly or indirectly a consequence of the bloc confrontation.
During the Cold War, the United Kingdom had a foot in both camps. In Europe, it was at the forefront of deterrence that saw to it that the bloc confrontation remained cold. The British Isles were considered NATO’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for a possible strategic air offensive against the Warsaw Pact states. With the British Army of the Rhine and the 2nd Tactical Air Force stationed in Germany, Britain made a significant contribution to the defense of Western Europe.
In the Third World, Britain was involved in more “hot” wars between 1945 and 1989 than any other country in the world. London was the heart of the world’s largest colonial empire (which after 1945 became, step by step, the Commonwealth). As such, it had a legal and/or moral obligation to contribute to the external and internal security of dependencies, former dependencies, and allies all over the world. The main threats to this security were—aside from the ethnic, social, and territorial conflicts so typical for the Third World—perceived or actual attempts at infiltration or subversion on the part of the Communist bloc states.
Politically, coping with the two faces of the Cold War was not a complex task. Both Communism and the Cold War were global threats and thus the response had to be global as well. The strategy foresaw containment of Communism; determined resistance, externally and domestically, against any threat of subversion or aggression; and raising standards of living so as to reduce the attraction of the Communist model. For the armed forces of Britain and the Empire-Commonwealth, however, the two faces were a considerable challenge: they resulted in a multitude of contradictory tasks.
1. The strategic nuclear forces were the backbone of deterrence, considered by all post-war British governments as the ultimate guarantee of national survival. The nuclear forces—first manned bombers, later land-based, and finally seaborne missiles—were permanently held in a high state of readiness. However, in keeping with their deterrent function, they were never actually used, and in fact they were quite useless for any other role than deterrence.
2. The Rhine Army and Royal Air Force Germany also had the primary task of deterring war. They achieved deterrence, however, by credibly demonstrating their readiness and ability to fight a Third World War. The confrontation with their potential enemy—the dreaded conventional forces of the eastern bloc—was to occur on the Northern German plain. Thus the British troops in Germany had to prepare for a fast-moving, highly intense, mechanized war of armored forces, backed up by tactical nuclear weapons.
3. As a consequence of the colonial past, internal security in (former) dependent territories was a core competence of Britain’s armed forces. Internal security called for infantry and occasionally armored cars; more importantly, it required time, patience, and an intimate knowledge of the local situation. Ideal were overseas garrisons with experienced troops, for here, people counted more than weapons.
4. “Hot” wars overseas (referred to by contemporaries as “limited wars”) comprised all sorts of conflicts that were neither internal security operations nor World War III but something in between. Limited war could mean defending Hong Kong against a hypothetical Chinese attack, invading Egypt in the Suez Crisis of 1956, or conducting a protracted counter-insurgency campaign in Malaya from 1948 to 1960. The tasks for the armed forces were as varied as the potential battlefields and the intensity of the potential conflicts. Limited war could call for a company or an army corps, employ Special Forces or tactical nuclear weapons, and the soldiers as well as their equipment had to be prepared for the jungle as well as for the desert, high mountains, or the polar circle.
5. In addition to this wide range of classic and modern military tasks, the situation was further complicated by the fact that the British armed forces perceived themselves as at the forefront of the political and ideological struggle of the Cold War. Therefore, they also had to be prepared for seemingly unsoldierly tasks like propaganda and psychological warfare against both the enemy without and the enemy within.
As a consequence of Britain’s social and economic development after 1945, the armed forces were forced to prepare for this wide range of tasks and contingencies with less and less means at their disposal. During the Cold War period, the portion of the United Kingdom’s Gross National Product spent on defense declined (except for a brief period of hectic rearmament during the Korean War from 1950–53). The total strength of the armed forces dropped from over 800,000 in the late 1940s to little more than 300,000 in the 1970s. Each successive round of defense budget cuts made the necessity to define the priorities of national defense more pressing. Thus the issue of the most accurate image of the next war (Kriegsbild) became ever more urgent—a reliable and accurate estimate of the likelihood, nature, shape, duration, and course of a future armed conflict that would define how to structure, arm, equip, and train the armed forces. Not only apparently simple questions depended on the accuracy of this assessment. Should the personal gear for a rifleman be suitable for tropical or arctic conditions? Was an armored car squadron more useful in Aden or in Bielefeld? The appropriate image of the next war also helped decide fundamental issues like the following: Did the country need new aircraft carriers costing hundreds of millions of pounds (and aircraft to match)? Or a strategic bomber base on an Indian Ocean island instead? Even the crucial question of regular versus conscript army was—at least for the British defense community—directly determined by the perceived nature of the next war.
The search for the most accurate image of future conflict was therefore anything but academic. It was of vital importance for the armed forces and for Britain’s defense policy, a sphere of politics that consumed between five and seven percent of the Gross National Product. Furthermore, it was a fundamental issue for the difficult relationship between society and the military during the Cold War. Armed forces could only justify their claim to a significant share of the country’s financial and personal resources if they could plausibly demonstrate that the conflict they were preparing for was relevant to society as a whole. Over the years, the military was forced to supply increasingly detailed justifications as to why that Britain’s national survival in the Cold War required tanks in Northern Germany, Special Forces on Borneo, cruisers in the Caribbean, and aircraft in Oman.
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World Malaria Report 2012: Malaria still declining, but more resources needed fast
Significant gains against malaria could be lost because funding for insecticide-treated bednets has dropped, and malaria parasites appear to be developing resistance to the pharmaceuticals used to clear the disease from humans, while insects that transmit the parasites develop resistance to insecticides used to hold their populations down.
African bedroom equipped with LLINs (insecticidal bednets) Photo: YoHandy/Flickr
UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) published its annual report on the fight against malaria last month, December 2012. Accompanying the many page World Malaria Report 2012 were a press release and a FAQ; the fact-sheet appears unedited below.
Insecticidal bednets have proven to be a major, effective tool in reducing malaria infections. Careful studies of several different projects produced a consensus that distributing the nets for free works best; people in malaria-infected areas simply cannot afford to pay even for life-saving devices, but they use the devices wisely when they get them. Nets often get abbreviated in official documents to “LLINs,” an acronym for “long-lasting insecticidal nets.”
Generally, the report is good news.
Dramatic facts emerge from the report: The “million-a-year” death toll from malaria has been whacked to fewer than 700,000, the lowest level in recorded human history. More people may die, and soon, if aid does not come to replace worn bednets, distribute new ones, and if the drugs that cure the disease in humans, lose effectiveness. Many nations where the disease is endemic cannot afford to wage the fight on their own.
Links in the Fact Sheet were added here, and do not come from the original report — except for the link to the WHO site itself.
World Malaria Report 2012
Malaria is a preventable and treatable mosquito-borne disease, whose main victims are children under five years of age in Africa.
The World Malaria Report 2012 summarizes data received from 104 malaria-endemic countries and territories for 2011. Ninety-nine of these countries had on-going malaria transmission.
According to the latest WHO estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths. Africa is the most affected continent: about 90% of all malaria deaths occur there.
Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26% around the world. In the WHO African Region the decrease was 33%. During this period, an estimated 1.1 million malaria deaths were averted globally, primarily as a result of a scale-up of interventions.
Funding situation
International disbursements for malaria control rose steeply during the past eight years and were estimated to be US$ 1.66 billion in 2011 and US$ 1.84 billion in 2012. National government funding for malaria programmes has also been increasing in recent years, and stood at an estimated US$ 625 million in 2011.
However, the currently available funding for malaria prevention and control is far below the resources required to reach global malaria targets. An estimated US$ 5.1 billion is needed every year between 2011 and 2020 to achieve universal access to malaria interventions. In 2011, only US$ 2.3 billion was available, less than half of what is needed.
Disease burden
Malaria remains inextricably linked with poverty. The highest malaria mortality rates are being seen in countries that have the highest rates of extreme poverty (proportion of population living on less than US$1.25 per day).
International targets for reducing malaria cases and deaths will not be attained unless considerable progress can be made in the 17 most affected countries, which account for an estimated 80% of malaria cases.
The six highest burden countries in the WHO African region (in order of estimated number of cases) are: Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique and Cote d’Ivoire. These six countries account for an estimated 103 million (or 47%) of malaria cases.
In South East Asia, the second most affected region in the world, India has the highest malaria burden (with an estimated 24 million cases per year), followed by Indonesia and Myanmar. 50 countries are on track to reduce their malaria case incidence rates by 75%, in line with World Health Assembly and Roll Back Malaria targets for 2015. These 50 countries only account for 3% (7 million) of the total estimated malaria cases.
At present, malaria surveillance systems detect only around 10% of the estimated global number of cases. In 41 countries around the world, it is not possible to make a reliable assessment of malaria trends due to incompleteness or inconsistency of reporting over time.
This year, the World Malaria Report 2012 publishes country-based malaria case and mortality estimates (see Annex 6A). The next update on global and regional burden estimates will be issued in December 2013.
Malaria interventions
To achieve universal access to long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), 780 million people at risk would need to have access to LLINs in sub-Saharan Africa, and approximately 150 million bed nets would need to be delivered each year.
The number of LLINs delivered to endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa dropped from a peak of 145 million in 2010 to an estimated 66 million in 2012. This will not be enough to fully replace the LLINs delivered 3 years earlier, indicating that total bed net coverage will decrease unless there is a massive scale-up in 2013. A decrease in LLIN coverage is likely to lead to major resurgences in the disease.
In 2011, 153 million people were protected by indoor residual spraying (IRS) around the world, or 5% of the total global population at risk. In the WHO African Region, 77 million people, or 11% of the population at risk were protected through IRS in 2011.
The number of rapid diagnostic tests delivered to endemic countries increased dramatically from 88 million in 2010 to 155 million in 2011. This was complemented by a significant improvement in the quality of tests over time.
In 2011, 278 million courses of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) were procured by the public and private sectors in endemic countries – up from 182 million in 2010, and just 11 million in 2005. ACTs are recommended as the first-line treatment for malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly Plasmodium species that infects humans. This increase was largely driven by the scale-up of subsidized ACTs in the private sector through the AMFm initiative, managed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Drug and insecticide resistance
Antimalarial drug resistance is a major concern for the global effort to control malaria. P. falciparum resistance to artemisinins has been detected in four countries in South East Asia: in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. There is an urgent need to expand containment efforts in affected countries. For now, ACTs remain highly effective in almost all settings, so long as the partner drug in the combination is locally effective.
Mosquito resistance to at least one insecticide used for malaria control has been identified in 64 countries around the world. In May 2012, WHO and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership released the Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors, a five-pillar strategy for managing the threat of insecticide resistance.
www.who.int/malaria
You were perceptive. You noted there is no call from malaria fighters for more DDT, nor for any change in DDT policy. This is a report from medical personnel, from public health experts, the real malaria fighters. It’s not a political screed.
More, and related articles:
Malaria gains at risk, warns World Health Organisation (guardian.co.uk)
New report signals slowdown in the fight against malaria (yubanet.com)
Health Ministry poised to expand malaria fight in face of ‘gold rush’ (kaieteurnewsonline.com)
Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers (thinkprogress.org)
In The Americas, Malaria Cases Have Declined Nearly 60% Since 2000 (medicalnewstoday.com)
Malaria battle ‘hit by funding’ (bbc.co.uk)
Drug-resistant malaria in Thailand threatens deadly global ‘nightmare’ (aworldchaos.wordpress.com)
India to see decrease in malaria cases: WHO (thehindu.com) – India remains the world’s largest manufacturer and user of DDT; were DDT the panacea cynical critics and hoaxsters claim it is, India would not have 24 million malaria infections each year; India has the highest rate and highest total of malaria cases in Asia
Drug-resistant malaria in Thailand threatens deadly global ‘nightmare’ (worldnews.nbcnews.com)
Drug-resistant malaria threatens global ‘nightmare’ (worldnews.nbcnews.com)
“WHO warns of malaria resurgence,” VOA News; audio VOA report
At National Review Online, Corey Dean Hall plays fast and loose with the facts, and advocates the poisoning-Thailand-with-DDT hoax, instead of fighting malaria
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Derbyshire Record Office
A couple of weeks ago I made my first visit to the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock for my New Opportunities Award (NOA) project. The NOA is for a collaborative project with Strutt’s North Mill Belper to make a series of moving image works that respond to the early history of the site, that will be installed in the museum for Easter 2015.
This intriguing parcel above was part of a number of items described in the online catalogue as ‘Watches, trinkets and other items, belonging to deceased lunatics with no known next-of-kin. Also a snuff box presented to Belper Union by Jack Strutt esq.’.
It proved to be a sad little collection of poor broken pocket watches and rings, which were all individually wrapped and stored in the snuff box.
The objects are from the Belper Union Workhouse, now the Babington Hospital, and in 1946 they were handed to the local authority when the building was transfered to ‘the ministry of Health under the National Health Service Act 1946’.
I’m looking for materials that capture elements of the day to day working lives of the people who were employed by the Strutts and this is clearly at a bit of a tangent to the project, but there is so little material available that speaks of the lives of those people, that I wanted to look at it, even if I can’t use it.
Thank you to the Derbyshire Record Office for permission to publish these images. The document reference number for all items is D19/CW/12/16.
Tags Derbyshire Record Office, New Expressions 3, New Opportunities Award, Strutt's North Mill Belper
Categories NOA, Projects
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Glendon on SJC Gay Marriage Ruling
by Professor Mary Ann Glendon and Amherst College Professor Hadley Arkes
Reprinted from the January 8, 2004 edition of the Boston Herald
Professor Mary Ann Glendon
In the wake of the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in the Goodridge case, Governor Mitt Romney has proposed amending the Massachusetts state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Amending the constitution is a difficult and time-consuming process. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Senate has placed before the SJC a civil union bill providing same sex couples with the benefits and protections of marriage to see if it conforms with the Court’s opinion. Unfortunately, the Senate’s action seems to imply there is an “either-or” response to the Court’s ruling–full marriage rights or some civil union-type statute.
There is, however, an immediate alternative to legally recognizing “same-sex marriages”–an alternative that is provided for in the Goodridge decision.
The alternative, roughly stated, is this: Reaffirm and clarify the current marriage statute to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Include within the re-enactment express legislative findings, stating clearly the rational bases for reserving the status of marriage to one man and one woman. We believe that the SJC, by its own language and the limited nature of its reasoning in Goodridge, invites just this response as an alternative to recognizing same-sex marriages.
Here is why we think so:
Although some might read the Goodridge majority opinion to imply that the current marriage statute is, everything considered, irrational in excluding same-sex marriage, nowhere does the court say that the current statute cannot have a rational basis. The closest the Court comes is a one-sentence, guarded “suggest(ion),” near the end of the opinion, that without such a rationale the statute may be rooted in prejudice. But the Court’s considered position is quite different, conditional and limited: the Department of Public Health did not adequately justify the law, and the law itself does not set forth the grounds upon which it is based. The Court did not deny the adequacy, in principle, of those or other grounds. As a result, the Court left open the possibility that the statute could have been adequately supported by clearer evidence. Of course, we would never wish to accept the implication that Massachusetts’ marriage statute has been wanting in a rational foundation all these years. It is a matter, rather, of understanding that it can never be out of season for the law to justify itself.
As the SJC itself affirmed explicitly, there can be “appropriate government restrictions in the interests of public health, safety and welfare”” It is important to note in this context that the court read the existing statute to uphold marriage between one man and one woman, but found therein no rational explanation for the policy.
In sum, the Supreme Judicial Court has committed itself to the rational basis standard for constitutionality and, as a result, it has left open this approach as a response. At the very least, we believe that the Court would be bound to stay enforcement of its Goodridge judgment for as long as it takes to litigate the adequacy of the grounds for a re-enacted statute.
People: Mary Ann Glendon
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Liz Soltan, using law as a means to help people who need it most
By Lewis Rice, May 15, 2019
Credit: Lorin Granger Elizabeth Soltan ’19
Liz Soltan ’19 is not like some Harvard Law School students who have known for a long time that they wanted to be a lawyer. After college at Cornell University, she taught English in Malaysia and then worked at a nonprofit that connected clients to pro bono lawyers in her native Philadelphia. She interacted with public interest lawyers at the nonprofit, as well as lawyers practicing in big firms, small firms, and solo — all of whom wanted to serve their community. And she realized that the law could be a means to do exactly what she wants to do — help people who need it the most.
Now she is on the cusp on being a public interest lawyer herself, slated to begin a two-year Skadden Fellowship at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. But she has already gained experience as a legal practitioner through extensive work with the Tenant Advocacy Project during her 1L year and thereafter with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB), including arguing one case before the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
That case involved a practice area that Soltan immersed herself in — wage theft, a problem that particularly affects immigrant workers in low-paying jobs, she said. HLAB students worked on the case for several years, previously helping to secure a settlement for two workers at a dry cleaner whose employer did not compensate them for all the hours they worked, including overtime. But the employer refused to pay attorneys’ fees, arguing that it only was required to do so if it had lost the case in court. HLAB filed an application for Supreme Judicial Court review, which was granted. Soltan wrote the brief with Kenneth Parreno ’19, and she appeared before the Court in December 2018, ultimately winning the decision that gave the workers “prevailing party” status that entitled them to attorneys’ fees.
“The reason we thought this was important is that it will help more workers get competent representation and be able to pursue their rights,” she said. “Hopefully it will also have a deterrent effect on employers.”
In other cases she worked on, she represented people threatened with eviction and facing possible homelessness. One woman was in subsidized housing that failed inspection and, according to Soltan, the landlord maneuvered to evict the tenant rather than improve conditions. Another client was a survivor of domestic abuse whose path to apply for public housing was impeded by poor references from previous landlords based on the actions of her abuser.
Of course, it’s important to know the law in these cases, and Soltan credits HLS Clinical Instructor Patricio Rossi for guiding her through the process. But she also emphasizes the importance of knowing her clients as people with other concerns besides their case, who have histories and hardships. She makes it a point not only to talk to them about the facts of the case but about their lives.
“You’re coming to people at a really tough moment in their life and asking them about really sensitive personal subjects. And you’re a total stranger,” said Soltan. “I think a lot of it has been trying to be humble and listen to people and not assume that I know anything.”
She developed her focus on social justice growing up in Philadelphia, a place she loves but which also exposed her to problems in the city with injustice, racism, and educational inequities, she said. Her parents, devout churchgoers who still help prepare free meals for people in the community, influenced her as well. “My parents have always had the sense of there’s a lot of things that are wrong in the world, and it’s not good to do nothing about it,” Soltan said.
She hopes to improve conditions for people in her city on her fellowship, where she’ll be working with parents of newborns to ensure that they have needed resources during their child’s first year of life, including legal aid and access to benefits. HLS’s Office of Public Interest Advising helped her secure the fellowship and the law school has provided resources to help her fulfill her goal to pursue public interest work, she said.
Looking back at her HLS experience, Soltan said: “It’s been really hard but it’s also made it possible for me to develop the skills to do important work and get to interact with a lot of amazing people who’ve been my clients or have been organizers or lawyers doing work that is not evil. So it has expanded my view of what legal work can mean and hopefully given me the tools to keep expanding that view.”
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau gets landmark win in attorney’s fees case
Topics: Civil Rights, Public Service, Clinical Practice, Family, Gender & Children
Clinics: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau
Tags: Editor's Pick, Class Day 2019, Commencement 2019
Employees entitled to fees under Wage Act settlement
Harvard Law Student Gets Landmark Win At Mass. Top Court
Mass. Top Court Sets Standard For Attorney Fees In Wage Suits
Harvard Law students help young immigrants start anew
Memme Onwudiwe, making the most of a golden opportunity
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HMS Mahratta (G 23)
Destroyer of the M class
Type Destroyer
Pennant G 23
Built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland)
Laid down 18 Aug 1941
Launched 28 Jul 1942
Commissioned 8 Apr 1943
Lost 25 Feb 1944
Loss position 71° 12'N, 13° 30'E
HMS Mahratta (Lt.Cdr. Eric Arthur Forbes Drought, DSC, RN) was escorting convoy JW-57 when she was struck by a Gnat from U-990. The destroyer sank within minutes at position 71º12'N, 13º30'E. Only 16 men survived out of a crew of 236.
Hit by U-boat
Sunk on 25 Feb 1944 by U-990 (Nordheimer).
U-boat Attack See our U-boat attack entry for the HMS Mahratta
Former name HMS Marksman
Commands listed for HMS Mahratta (G 23)
1 Lt.Cdr. Eric Arthur Forbes Drought, DSC, RN 18 Feb 1943 25 Feb 1944 (+)
Notable events involving Mahratta include:
HrMs O 14 (Lt.Cdr. H.A.W. Goossens, RNN) conducted A/S exercises at / off Scapa Flow with HMCS Iroquois (Cdr. W.B.L. Holms, RCN), HMS Mahratta (Lt.Cdr. E.A.F. Drought, DSC, RN), HMS Harrier (Cdr. A.D.H. Jay, DSO, DSC, RN) and HMS Seagull (Lt.Cdr. C.H. Pollock, RN). (1)
HrMs O 15 (Lt.Cdr. A.J. Schouwenaar, RNN) conducted A/S exercises at / off Scapa Flow with HMS Musketeer (Cdr. E.N.V. Currey, DSC, RN), HMS Mahratta (Lt.Cdr. E.A.F. Drought, DSC, RN), HMS Oribi (Lt.Cdr. J.C.A. Ingram, RN) and HMS Hussar (Lt.Cdr. R.C. Biggs, DSO, DSC, RN). (2)
In the morning, HMS Tantivy (Cdr. M.G. Rimington, DSO, RN), conducted attack exercises at/off Scapa Flow for the C.O.Q.C. (Commanding Officers Qualifying Course) with HMS Duke of York (Capt. B.B. Schofield, RN) that was escorted by HMS Savage (Cdr. R.C. Gordon, DSO, RN) and HMS Mahratta (Lt.Cdr. E.A.F. Drought, DSC, RN).
During the afternoon attack exercises were carried out with HMS London (Capt. R.V. Symonds-Tayler, DSC, RN). (3)
HMS Storm (T/Lt. E.P. Young, DSC, RNVR) conducted A/S exercises with HMS Musketeer (Cdr. R.L. Fisher, OBE, RN), HMS Mahratta (Lt.Cdr. E.A.F. Drought, DSC, RN), USS Corry (Lt.Cdr. L.B. Ensey, USN) and HMS Brissenden (Lt. the Hon. D.D.E. Vivian, RN). (4)
U-Boat Attack Logs
Daniel Morgan and Bruce Taylor
(£ 36.00)
British destroyers & frigates
Norman Friedman
Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.
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School of Theatre to hold memorial celebration Sept. 29
September 24, 2018 by Campus Weekly Staff
The UNCG School of Theatre will hold a remembrance gathering to honor the lives of two storied theatre faculty members and an alumna on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 3 p.m. in the Sprinkle Theatre, Brown Building.
The gathering will celebrate the lives and careers of Marsha Paludan, Alan Cook and Marian Smith through shared memories, music and photographs. That evening’s performance of “Hair” will also be dedicated to them.
Marsha Paludan served the University for 17 years as a teacher, director, advisor and mentor. She coordinated the movement curriculum for the BFA and MFA actor training programs, bringing to her students an eclectic blend of the Alexander Technique, developmental technique, Yoga, Tai Chi, Viewpoints and contact improvisation. In 2001, she won the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award. Also an accomplished director, her UNCG productions included “Miss Julie,” “The Sound of Music,” “Equus,” Emily Mann’s “Greensboro: A Requiem,” “An Evening of Kyogen Plays” and Mark Adamo’s opera based on “Little Women.” She retired from UNCG at the end of the 2008-09 school year.
Alan Cook came to UNCG in 1991 and retired as head of the MFA directing program 2007. Cook directed more than 100 plays in venues across the globe, including the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco and the Jos Repertory Theatre in Nigeria.
Marian Smith graduated from Woman’s College (UNCG) in 1949 and received numerous awards for her work for the arts, including the UNCG Alumni Service Award, induction into the UNCG Theatre’s Hall of Fame and the North Carolina Theater Conference Distinguished Career Award, which was renamed in her honor.
See more in this News and Record article.
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Ep. 41: The Making of Scott Pruitt
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Scott Pruitt prays with members of his church before heading to Washington, DC to run the EPA. His long-time pastor, Nick Garland, is far right. Photo: First Baptist Church Broken Arrow / facebook
Before he was EPA administrator, before he was Oklahoma's attorney general, before he was even a state senator, Scott Pruitt was an unknown attorney in the suburbs of Tulsa, Oklahoma. What do Scott Pruitt's early days in public life tell us about his beliefs and motivations as he sets about dismantling EPA regulations?
On this episode, we talk to two reporters who dug into this question to find out more about the man President Donald Trump picked to lead the EPA. Joe Wertz is a reporter for State Impact Oklahoma and Tom Dreisbach is a producer for the NPR podcast Embedded.
For the Embedded podcast, Wertz and Dreisbach went to Pruitt’s hometown and visited the megachurch he’s belonged to for decades, First Baptist Broken Arrow. The church's goal, its website proclaims, “is to reach everyone that we can with the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, North America, and the Ends of the Earth.” Nick Garland is the pastor there, and Pruitt has developed a strong relationship with him over the years that continues to this day.
“They talk regularly. They pray together regularly,” Wertz says. “And it's clear that their interpretation of the Christian faith has a lot of influence on Pruitt's [interpretation] and how Pruitt sees government and the role of government, ranging on all sorts of issues from abortion to the environment.”
Throughout his career, Dreisbach and Wertz say, Pruitt has gotten both spiritual and political strength from the church. They argue that Pruitt’s environmental philosophy is shaped by a specific religious doctrine of the Southern Baptist church. They asked Pastor Garland about the role of the church and God in the environment.
“And what he said is that it’s man's responsibility to protect the environment and to conserve the environment, but also to use the environment,” Dreisbach says. “That God put the natural resources here for people to use, and to better their lives and the lives of others. And part of that message is conserving it and protecting it but also using it.”
One of the most interesting things that the two say they discovered in their reporting is that even though Scott Pruitt is now the head of the EPA, for many years his politics really had nothing to do with the environment. His platform for the 2010 attorney general's race, for example, included barely a mention of the environment. Instead, the focus was on faith-based issues like abortion and religious freedom, and also popular conservative ideology like immigration control and ending Obamacare.
“I think that gives us a sense that his goals were often to get a national platform for these broader conservative ideals of reducing regulation, cutting red tape, and supporting business in the country,” Wertz says. “And I think the open question now is what do all of these ethics scandals at the EPA mean for his ambitions more broadly.”
LISTEN to the entire episode to hear more about how Pruitt’s faith shapes his views on the environment, and how he dealt with a major pollution case when he was attorney general of Oklahoma.
You can also hear the entire excellent episode of Embedded that Joe Wertz and Tom Dreisbach produced HERE.
This episode was hosted by Reid Frazier and produced by Andy Kubis. Trump on Earth is produced by The Allegheny Front, a Pittsburgh-based environmental reporting project.
Our podcast is free to download, follow and listen, so if you find these episodes informative in a chaotic political environment, please consider donating or leaving a review on iTunes. We are actively listening to our reviewers, and each review helps our podcast reach more ears.
Trump on Earth May 30, 2018
Ep. 42: Read the Label: Chemical Safety Under the EPA
Trump on Earth June 13, 2018
Ep. 40: Pruitt's Transparency Problem (and it's not his ethics scandals)
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HomeConspiracyTupac Shakur Alive, Currently In Jail? Official Records Show…
Tupac Shakur Alive, Currently In Jail? Official Records Show…
April 15, 2017 admin Conspiracy, Unexplained 0
LOS ANGELES (INTELLIHUB) — Intellihub has discovered that the famous rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur may be alive and well after all and we have official police records to prove it but officials claim otherwise.
According to the Los Angeles County Sherriff’s Department’s official website Inmate Information Center, Shakur was arrested on Mar. 3, 2017, by the Los Angeles Police Department Hollywood Division at 5 p.m. local time and was taken in on a “felony charge” under booking no.: 4922098.
Shakur is currently being housed at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility which is located at 450 Bauchet Street in Los Angeles and is scheduled for court Friday, April 14, at 8:30 a.m.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Shakur is being held on $80,000 bail.
TMZ has reported that law enforcement sources told TMZ that the suspect’s real name is “Clarence Campbell” and that Campbell is not the real Tupac. However, conflicting information must be affirmed in order to be sure. Needless to say, the police may have planted a ruse on TMZ by telling them that the suspect in custody is Campbell when in actuality he could potentially be the real Tupac! Keep in mind that I am making no claims here that are 100%, I am only providing information in which I have come across.
TMZ reports: “Law enforcement tells us the suspect’s real name is Clarence Campbell, but he uses ‘Pac as an alias. He’s also used the name during multiple previous arrests — including one for battery — so cops are hip to the game. Docs show Campbell’s real name is attached to his arrest records.”
But Sheriff’s Department records show that Clarence Campbell is clearly a different person and is listed under an entirely different booking number altogether (no. 4583352). While it’s true that Campbell has indeed used the alias “Tupac Shakur” and various forms of the name — Campbell is not scheduled to appear in court Friday, April 14, like the other booked individual is.
Moreover, you can clearly see by looking at Campbell’s booking info below that he is born on Feb. 10, 1970 and is 46 years old and is not 45-years-old like Tupac would be. Not to mention his height is only 5′-9″, not 5′-10″ like the Tupac Shakur listed under booking no. 4922098.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
We need someone in the vicinity of L.A. to capture video footage or photographs of the suspect, just to see if the suspect booked under the number 4922098, under the name “Tupac Amaru Shakur,” looks even remotely close to the real Tupac, resembles the actual, late, Tupac in any way, shape, or form. That’s the only way we will put the story to rest.
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Clayton Louis Ferrera leading a session at the Hive.
If you have never been to Florida, one thing that might surprise you is the abundance of wildlife. It is not uncommon for residents to come across alligators, squirrels, or the occasional bear. While for most this can induce cartoon-like freak outs, for Clayton Louis Ferrara it is just a part of nature’s beauty and fuel for his work to educate the community about our most precious gift, the environment.
Ferrera spent most of his young life volunteering at research facilities in Stuart, Florida like the Marine Life Center of Juno Beach under Larry Wood and the Florida Oceanographic Society where the young naturalist was able to establish his scientific foundation. From that foundation, Ferrera deepened his knowledge with dual degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies at Rollins College. Upon graduation, Ferrera had planned to pursue a Master’s in Science Writing at MIT. While volunteering at the Oakland Nature Preserve the summer before he was to start at MIT in 2009, Ferrera’s efforts to fund a Head Curator and Director of Education position came through.
After two years of leading the nature preserve, a group of students from UCF presented at the Florida Wildlife Federation’s Board meeting that was being hosted there. Since then, Clayton Louis Ferrera has been actively involved with IDEAS for Us, a UN accredited NGO that educates and empowers people to advance sustainability through action. Starting as the National Science Director, he then became the South Eastern Regional Director and ultimately took on the role of Executive Director on January 1st of 2014. His passion for IDEAS has allowed the organization to gain momentum in truly empowering citizens for sustainability.
Using a chapter model, the all volunteer staff has been able to grow IDEAS beyond the borders of Central Florida with members all over the world. Ferrera’s passion for IDEAS is contagious and the natural teacher has inspired students of all ages to reconnect with nature.
Map of IDEAS Chapters and Partners
Although Ferrera has many accomplishments of which he could place his walking stick, like being the first American to be named a Darwin Scholar by the Field Studies Council of London, Ferrera is quick to recognize those who have supported him along the way. From his parents to his teachers and peers, Ferrera believes that every person has the capacity to accomplish something incredible, they just need the support to recognize what is within them. “If we are able to do that, we could end poverty, we could improve our environment, and we could live happier lives.”
To capture the whole of Ferrera’s insights couldn’t possibly be contained in this space so if you would like to learn more about IDEAS for Us, like them on Facebook to stay up to date.
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Facebook Offers: Why you could soon be buying from your favorite brands in your News Feed
by Matt Brian — in Social Media
In the past 24 hours, coverage has spread across the Internet of the launch of a new feature by Facebook, one that allows businesses and brands to utilise an ‘Offers’ feature that delivers daily deals to a brand’s Page and a user’s News Feed.
The new service is a twist on the traditional Daily Deals market, particularly because it allows Facebook users to remain in direct control over the offers they see. Instead of functioning as a dedicated website like Groupon, LivingSocial and AmazonOffers, Facebook has the ability to drop targeted deals into a user’s News Feed in line with status updates, photo posts, location checkins and other more social features.
To some, it may be puzzling as to why it has been reported that Facebook launched Offers over the past couple of days. The truth is, it didn’t. The company actually announced and rolled out the feature on February 29:
Offers are a free new way for businesses to share discounts and promotions directly from a Facebook Page. They can be distributed through the News Feed or promoted as Sponsored Stories. People can redeem Offers via email or on a mobile device.
The launch was somewhat understated, maybe because Facebook’s previous attempt at brand promotion ‘Facebook Deals’ didn’t gain much traction when it launched. However, we’ve already seen a select number of businesses have already been dropping offers into Page subscriber’s feeds.
One company is UK-based online supermarket delivery service Ocado, which offered free hot cross buns to its customers:
Ocado’s deal hit on March 20, offering the traditional baked Easter treat to people who had ‘Liked’ its page. To claim it, Facebook user’s simply had to hit ‘Claim Offer’ next to the advert (whilst it was live) and a small box would pop up, stating that details of the deal would be emailed to the user’s email inbox.
In this case, those who redeemed the offer were emailed a promotion code, which could then be entered into the company’s checkout page, ensuring they would remain free.
In operation, it works almost exactly the same as Groupon and LivingSocial, placing the responsibility on the advertiser or the brand to facilitate the remainder of the deal process. Facebook serves as the delivery medium, a large one with 850 million users, driving pageviews and interest to a brand’s promotion.
What makes it different from Groupon et al?
Whilst the redemption process is similar to that of more established daily deals websites, Facebook’s ace card is that Offers are already delivered in such a way that makes it easier for them to spread virally.
Let’s look at Groupon’s deal pages and sharing platform:
Groupon hopes that if a user signs up to its daily emails or subscribes via the application, they will be directed to the deal, allowing them to ‘Buy it Now’ and, in this case, save 77% or £60 on their day out.
However, take a look at Groupon’s recommendation system (bottom left of the image). There are three options to share the deal with friends, one is a Facebook sharing widget with the other two consisting of Twitter and Email. No doubt people will click on these buttons and share the deal with their Facebook and Twitter friends, but it’s another step in what could be an already lengthy redemption and sharing process.
On Facebook, you don’t need to visit an additional website. In fact, deals will be delivered in such a way that they will appear in between your existing News Feed updates. If a particular deal resonates with you, you hit ‘Get Offer’ and details of how to redeem your Offer are sent automatically to your email address.
Facebook’s sharing tools are seeing increased usage — we also use Facebook sharing widgets to help share articles — because no matter where you go across the web, more often than not there is an option to share a post or a webpage. The same can be said of Facebook’s own posts (which includes Offers); each post has a Share link which can be clicked to allow the quick sharing to a user’s own Timeline:
More interestingly, when a user claims an offer, a story about it will be added to their timeline. By default, the story is visible to that person’s friends, but they can change the audience of the story before they post it.
The bigger the brand, the wider the Offer can potentially spread.
Won’t it pollute the News Feed?
Facebook is a business, a company that has already successfully built a targeted advertising platform. When a service is free, users often have to expect that its owner will monetize its users or incorporate tools and services to boost its revenue streams.
Currently, Facebook Offers are only available to a select number of advertisers and they can be run at no charge to companies that are able to place them. You may argue that this could pollute the News Feed, turning you off your favourite brand.
Facebook has been clever to implement an ‘all or nothing’ scenario when it comes to viewing Offers.
The company notes:
You can hide a particular offer and all posts from a specific Page from your news feed, but there isn’t a setting that allows you to hide all offers from your news feed.
To hide an offer from your news feed, hover over the top-right corner, click the drop-down menu and choose what you’d like to hide:
Hide story will remove the offer you’re looking at
Hide all by will remove the offer you’re looking at, as well as all future stories from that Page
This could alarm users, because it means they have no way to mute promotions, other than to hide them individually. But what it does do is put the onus on the brand to market itself effectively and not spam its users, because if it goes all-out and posts a large number of deals in a short amount of time, fans of its Page are likely to unsubscribe and effectively drop support for that company.
Facebook isn’t only going to show Offers in the browser, they will also come to your mobile, giving it another edge over its rivals. The company has looked to make the process as simple as possible; all you do is hit the ‘Get Offer’ link and the details of the deal are sent to you via email. No lengthy terms, no bold advertising, it just merges with existing content.
Why aren’t I seeing Offers and when will I be able to redeem them?
Facebook’s official line on Offer availability is as follows:
Offers are available in beta to a limited number of local business Pages. We plan to launch offers more broadly soon.
That means that only a small number of companies are currently able to create an Offer on their official Facebook Page, at least until the company rolls the feature out to all accounts. Businesses are able to connect with their advertising managers at Facebook to request access, but the process has been intentionally limited for now.
However, given that the company recently posted the following video to its official Facebook account, it may signify that the company is ready to push ahead with its new promotional tool and roll it out to more accounts:
To ensure you see Offers from the brands you follow, you need to make sure that you are a fan of their Facebook Page. Facebook says this is the best way for you to keep updated on such deals, regardless of their plans.
This is the million-dollar question. Facebook users are generally somewhat resistant to change, but Offers display as normal updates and don’t appear unless the user has decided they want to follow that brand or business.
With the user in control over what he/she sees, Offers has huge potential to drive interaction between consumers and the brands they like, it’s not like Groupon which is forced to advertise any deal that is placed with it on that particular day.
If you love Nike, you can ‘Like’ the sports brand and maybe in time Offers will appear in your Timeline, giving you the chance to jump on a money-saving deal. If not, the company will still continue to post updates to its Page, driving interaction via different means.
Lots of businesses have taken to the Daily Deal market to increase sales, many have failed. Groupon is struggling to maintain its success but Facebook’s ability to display Offers in amongst existing updates means potentially millions of people will be able to see new promotions the minute they hit, spreading them wider when people redeem them.
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“Call Me By Your Name and I’ll Call You By Mine”
Several months ago while watching movie previews before a picture I was seeing, I saw the preview for a film that really piqued my interest. When that movie, Call Me By Your Name, came out on November 24th, I anticipated the time when I’d finally be able to see it in theaters. It was only released in major cities initially before making its way to this armpit of a place that I live in. I saw it about two weeks ago and it was one of the most beautiful films I’ve seen in a while.
Call Me By Your Name stars Timothée Chalamet as Elio, an artfully precocious 17 year old and Armie Hammer as Oliver, a 24 year old doctoral student who joins Elio’s family at their summer home in Italy for a 6 week period. The film was adapted from the novel of the same name by André Aciman. It depicts the love affair that develops that summer between Elio and Oliver. The screenplay was adapted by James Ivory and the film was directed by Luca Guadagnino.
The film begins at Elio’s family’s Italian countryside home in the summer of 1983 where Elio, his mother (Amira Casar), and father (Michael Stuhlbarg) anticipate the arrival of their summer guest, Oliver. Since Oliver is new in town, Elio takes Oliver on a tour of the area later that day. Elio also explains how he spends his summers. It’s not long before Oliver begins to partake in the summer activities of swimming in the river, hanging out with friends, and going out at night, and their love for each other begins to blossom.
Since being released in November, the film has received an assortment of critical acclaim and accolades. It was recently nominated for 4 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ivory), and Best Original Song (“Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens). It received nominations at the British Academy Film Awards (4), the Critics’ Choice Awards (8), the Independent Spirit Awards (6), the Golden Globe Awards (3), and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (1). James Ivory received a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Chalamet received Breakout Actor Awards from the National Board of Review, the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and the Hollywood Film Awards.
Like I said, I saw the film two weeks ago after anticipating seeing it for about two months. I was captivated by its beauty. Being set and filmed in Italy definitely adds to that. The story itself is special though. It’s almost a coming of age type of love for Elio as a teenager. He has such a strong infatuated love for Oliver throughout the film. Oliver subtly shows his interest for Elio as well, when finally they take the next step. Plus I wasn’t sure how that peach scene would play out, but now I totally get it! Since seeing the film, I’ve also begun to read the novel. My friend told me that there are many parts in the novel that were cut out of the film so I’m eager to compare them.
I highly recommend checking out this film. It’s such a great and powerful love story that isn’t a cliché romantic film or romantic comedy love story. It’s been in and out of theaters all over the country for the last 2 months. I’m sure it won’t be long before the film is released on streaming and DVD/Blu-ray too. If you wanted to see if before the Academy Awards airs though, I would make plans to see it as soon as possible because it seems to only stay in theaters for a few short weeks.
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Music Saved 2016
2016 can be defined as being a shit ass year for Americans (maybe for other countries too but I can only go by U.S. standards). There were a few good moments, like the Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years or the Pittsburgh Penguins winning their 4th Stanley Cup (It was good for me as a Pens fan), but for the most part many agree that 2016 sucked. We lost some truly great artists, story tellers, athletes, and human beings and it hasn’t stopped even in the days before the new year. As I sat down to write this, I found out that Hollywood legend Carrie Fisher passed away and then as I sat down to finish it two days later Carrie’s just as famous mother, Debbie Reynolds (her most substantial role, in my opinion, was Agatha Cromwell in the DCOM Halloweentown), had passed as well. Crazy. More importantly we lost progress, decency, and democracy from a shocking presidential election outcome. 2016 took so much from us and most of us are glad it’s almost over.
Last week I watched a YouTube video about the good in 2016 (because like I said there were a few good moments) and a statement was made that I agreed with wholeheartedly: “Music saved 2016.” It did, but for me especially. This year I embarked on an adventure into the music industry by working concerts, shows, and festivals all over the country. I learned new things, met amazing new people from all over the country, stepped outside my comfort zone, and had some incredible experiences especially over the summer. I’m entirely grateful for every single one and for the company that gave me a chance. This year I attended more live music events than ever. I saw some incredible bands and artists perform. I learned new music and fell in love all over again with bands I’ve listened to before. Music was everything to me this year. Because of that I wanted to share with you my favorite/most listened to music of 2016. Some of it might not have come out this year but I might have discovered it for the first time this year or rediscovered it, if you will. I’ll be including songs, artists, or albums as part of the list but each has a relevant meaning to my year of music.
1. “Holdin’ On” by Flume. This song was the song of the year for me. I discovered it shortly before I volunteered at the Sweetlife Festival in May, but the full impact of the song occurred the day of the festival. As you may already know from the post I did back in April, Flume is an electronic artist. This song is a hit from his first album which came out in 2012. He also released a new album this year, Skin, which had a few huge hits, like “Never Be Like You” ft. Kai and “Say It” ft. Tove Lo, earning Flume 2017 Grammy nominations. For me though, it was “Holdin’ On” that stood out the most. I feel like the song has more energy than his other stuff. Part of the song has this slowed down warp type of sound that leads into the refrain with a POW! At Sweetlife, my friend and I went to Flume’s set with no expectations. “Holdin’ On” stole the show that was marred by technical difficulties causing us to leave early (we were planning on leaving early anyway to not miss another set). After we left though, it was the song that played in my head the rest of the day. That day turned out to be one of, if not, the best day(s) of my whole year. The faulty set aided in our decision to buy tickets to see Flume perform 3 months later, which was also pretty sick but didn’t have the same impact as Sweetlife weekend and the first time I heard “Holdin’ On”.
2. LCD Soundsystem. 2016 saw the return of a band we thought was gone after 2011. Electronic dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem got back together in 2016 and played festivals all summer long. I was stoked by the news last year and jealous of everyone attending Coachella 2016 who would see them headline. After working at the Firefly Music Festival in mid-June, I rediscovered LCD Soundsystem because of the great people I worked with on the Dover Downs Speedway and Spotify Premium. We listened to LCD several times throughout the weekend and talked about the band, which earned my re-interest in the group who hails from NYC. Following Firefly, I started listening to LCD again. Then the universe came together and I was lucky enough to get a spot working at Lollapalooza in July, thus earning me the privilege of being able to see LCD Soundsystem perform on the final night of the Chicago festival. It was something else. I danced myself clean for the entirety of the set.
3. Sia. Sia’s been around for years, but she soared to the top of music charts with her 2014 album 1000 Forms of Fear. In the beginning of 2016, I fell in love with the 1000 Forms of Fear song “Elastic Heart”, only to hear the newly released single, “Cheap Thrills”, off Sia’s newest record This Is Acting a few weeks later. I loved “Cheap Thrills” even more than “Elastic Heart” and it became part of my nightly workout playlist. I even introduced the song to my then 4 year old cousin Hudson when he came to visit me in early March. He loved the song too. So much so that he corrected me for singing the wrong lyrics during a visit in May. “Cheap Thrills” progressively became a hit of 2016 and Sia’s newest album was a hit too (not as much as 1000 Forms of Fear, but still a good album nonetheless). She also played several music festivals including Coachella and Panorama (Coachella East) and toured the U.S. for the first time since 2011. Singing Sia songs with Hudson, “Cheap Thrills” in particular and now “The Greatest”, which was a newly released single in the fall and a track on the deluxe edition of This Is Acting, was a huge part of my year. Hudson and I live 3 hours apart but still managed to see each other at least once a month, so there was plenty of singing (we crush long distance relationship/friendship standards). I doubt we’re the only ones who were singing Sia a lot this year though. She slayed 2016.
4. “The Sound” by the 1975. Before 2016, I liked the 1975. I knew a few of their songs. Three to be exact. I liked each one. Then I heard “The Sound” and I forgot all my previous thoughts on the band. That song was it for me. The 1975 released a new record this year called I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It. “The Sound” was released as a single before the record. I thought at that time if “The Sound” is any indication, then the new record will be stellar. It turned out to be pretty good. “Somebody Else” is great. “She’s American” and “Love Me” aren’t too bad either. Some may argue I Like It When You Sleep… is not as good as the debut self-titled. I might argue that too, but “The Sound” is in a league of its own. That song made me want to see The 1975 live and I did. Twice (at Sweetlife and Lollapalooza). Both times The 1975 put on a great set, but I bet you can take a guess what my favorite song played was.
5. “Seeing Stars” by BØRNS. “Seeing Stars” became an instant favorite song of mine after listening to it a few times. It’s a happy, good feeling type of song. It was exactly what I needed in the spring after going through some disappointing and shocking moments. It was my positive jam for a while. I even played it a few times driving to Sweetlife. Then two weeks later my friend and I purchased last minute tickets to see BØRNS perform at the Electric Factory. It was a great decision and a fun show even though there were a few off moments that night like a 30 minute wait at Taco Bell and a speeding ticket. I loved hearing my song of the spring live regardless.
6. “Gold Rays” by Vinyl Pinups. In early 2016, this song was MY. JAM. The only downfall was that I liked it in the dead of winter and it’s the perfect spring/summer song. I did listen to it on my workout playlist for several months though well into the spring. However in the summer, I was listening to other things and I didn’t play it as much as I would have liked. It’s one of my favorite songs of the year by far. It’s also a great feel-good song by a smaller-name band.
7. “T-Shirt Weather” by Circa Waves. Like “Gold Rays”, this was another perfect summer song that I fell in love with during the winter. It made me long for warm days in late January, early February 2016. I constantly imagined listening to this song while driving in the summer on a road trip with friends. Then like “Gold Rays” it was rarely played during the summer months. It’s another favorite of the year for sure.
8. Tegan and Sara. I’ve liked Tegan and Sara since college. I rediscovered them again in 2014 when I purchased Heartthrob. If it wasn’t for bonds over women’s soccer, I probably wouldn’t have fell into their web of smooth, catchy rock tunes again this fall, but I’m so thankful it happened anyway. I went to see Tegan and Sara live in early November with a friend, her roommate, and her roommate’s girlfriend. It was another last minute decision that ended up being even better than BØRNS. It was a night where everything felt right. I was exactly where I was supposed to be and I wished it would never end. It was so much fun. We even saw two shows at the same venue. How epic right?! Tegan and Sara were great live and almost everyone there could sing along to every song. It was because of that night that I gained a new appreciation for the song “The Con”. I listened to it with a greater affinity afterwards. Because of how insanely amazing that night was, Tegan and Sara are high on my list for the year, but they deserve it regardless. They’re incredible talent that has been around for over 17 years.
9. Adele. Adele ended my 2015 with a bang. Her new album 25 was released in November of last year. Right before the new year I scored tickets to her sold out World Tour for a show in early September. That show became a huge anticipation of 2016. I loved bringing it up any time Adele came up. Adele came up often too. She had a few singles that came out in 2016 and her album earned her several Grammy nominations for the 2017 awards show. As for the concert I saw in September, it was well worth the almost 9 month wait. It was incredible seeing her perform live. She’s got a killer voice and sang for 2 hours straight with no openers. There was some stand-up comedy in between songs of course. She’s hilarious if you didn’t already know. It was an epic 2016 music event and one I won’t soon forget.
10. Wild World, Bastille. In September 2016, Bastille released his sophomore album Wild World. After hearing 2-3 songs off the new album (one during the summer months and the others post album release), I knew I needed the band’s newest compilation of music. I don’t even regret buying it for $4-5 more than what I would have paid if I waited to get it on Black Friday. I couldn’t wait. It’s actually that good. So good that it’s my favorite new album of 2016. Bad Blood put Bastille’s name into the music world, but Wild World is just as good. I actually believe it’s underrated considering it hasn’t received as much hype as their debut album. “Send Them Off” is currently (still!) one of my favorite songs to listen to. “Good Grief” is amazing. “Warmth” is a solid jam too. I can’t say enough good things about Wild World. It’s my album of the year for sure.
11. Hayley Kiyoko. Remember when I said I saw two shows in one night in early November? Yes, one of them was Tegan and Sara. The other was Hayley Kiyoko. I mentioned it in my Tegan and Sara blog post but didn’t talk about it further. I found out about Hayley Kiyoko while doing some reading online last winter. The referenced song in the reading fit the story so well. I obviously listened to it when I saw there was a song reference. I liked the song itself too. Throughout the year Hayley Kiyoko songs just kept wandering into my life here and there. I liked and downloaded every single one I listened to. The music is traditional pop but the themes are a little different. I’ll have to do a full blog post on Hayley some day and explain it further, but you know what I mean if you’ve heard her stuff. The fact that she’s not a mainstream artist despite the traditional pop sound makes her more appealing to me as well.
12. ARIZONA. I first heard ARIZONA last winter. It was a song called “Where I Want to Be”. It popped up on a twitter account I follow. I loved the song and it was a perfect fit for my workout playlist (I workout a lot if you couldn’t tell by how many times I’ve mentioned my workout playlist). Several times throughout the year I checked ARIZONA’s Spotify page for new music because of how much I liked “Where I Want to Be”. That lead to liking one or two more ARIZONA. Then the night I saw Tegan and Sara and Hayley Kiyoko in one night I was in for a surprise. My friend and I walked into the Hayley Kiyoko show shortly before it started. We got some drinks and the first band came on. While the band played their first song, I said to my friend that I liked the music but wasn’t a fan of the song’s melody. It reminded me of some electronic artists that I listened to. Then the second song started. I knew what song they were playing. I asked my friend who the opener was as I tried to remember what band played that song. Then it hit me. ARIZONA! I looked it up to double check. I was right and instantly stoked. I didn’t pay attention to who Hayley’s opener was, but it ended up being a band I liked. That moment was another reason for how epic that evening was.
13. Arctic Monkeys. It’s a shame I never heard of the Arctic Monkeys until 2013. It’s also I a shame that I didn’t appreciate them enough until 2016. I totally fell in love with them this year and began listening to more of their music. Hence writing a blog post about them just for the sake of writing about them. I’m also dying to see them live. So hey guys if you see this, please put out another record and tour again soon! Thanks! Cheers!
14. “Collide” by EVVY. This was another song of last winter. I really got into it during my trip to Baltimore/DC at the end of January/beginning of February. I took that trip because I worked at a Muse concert at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. It was the first music event I ever worked. I didn’t know what to expect for the show or for the rest of the year as far as my life choices were going. The song was calming and positive at the time. During my drive to my cousin’s apartment the night before the concert, to work the show the next day, and back to my cousin’s apartment after the concert, I listened to the song. A multitude of thoughts and feelings went through me during those drives. I was nervous, yet confident and then relieved, yet overjoyed. I reflected on my whole experience while listening to the song on the way home and knew that my choice to go after music was the right one.
15. “Capsize” by FRENSHIP. “Capsize” is another song I added to my workout playlist and my iPod in general after I heard it on my favorite soccer player’s monthly playlists. A large handful of my workout songs are electronic and this one was no exception. It also became the song that reminds me of the first multi-day festival I worked because I played it a lot at the time (it was Firefly, in case you were wondering). In fact, I introduced the song to a friend I made during the festival who is a huge electronic fan. She didn’t know the song at the time, but it apparently blew up afterwards. It ended up being a song I played throughout the summer months while driving, relaxing, and of course working out.
16. “Whole Heart” by Gryffin. The first time I heard this song was after a trip I took to see my favorite NWSL team in their first home playoff match. The team won the match and earned a spot in the Championship game. The week after the win, the club posted a “Thank You” video to the fans and this song played in the background along with highlights and video clips from the season. It made me amped for the final even though the song is a much slower electronic song than the norm. Then in another depressing 2016 moment for fans of the team I followed for 4 years (myself included), the opposing team scored a game tying goal in the final minute of stoppage time during the championship match. They opposing team went on to win in penalty kicks. I was heartbroken for the team. I hadn’t been as heartbroken over a sporting event since 2011. I didn’t even care as much when the USWNT got knocked out in the Olympic quarterfinal almost two months earlier (another bummer 2016 moment and I was working a festival at the time). It was a devastating blow. Listening to “Whole Heart” after the loss made me feel a tremendous amount of sadness because the song describes giving your whole heart to something, which the team did and came up short. I felt similar listening to this song after the 2016 Presidential Election especially with the hate that ensued post-results. With time, the song no longer feels as sad as it did in those moments and it still reminds me of the positive thoughts I had when I first heard it.
17. “home” by morgxn. Addicting. That’s the word that first comes to mind to describe this song. I heard it on Spotify in November and it’s been one of my favorites to listen to ever since. It’ll probably be one of my faves going into 2017 as well.
18. Sigala. At the same time I added “Capsize” to my music rotation, I added the song “Sweet Lovin'” by Sigala as well. It’s another song that I listened to on my way to Firefly. Sigala, in general, became part of a joke between me and a friend I met during the festival because she couldn’t pronounce the artist’s name correctly (it’s pronounced Sig-AH-lah not Sig-ah-LAH (stress on the second syllable) in case you were wondering). Sigala was the only artist she wanted to see perform during the festival since our schedules didn’t really allow for more than one performance each. She was able to attend Sigala’s set and I happened to catch “Sweet Lovin'” live too during the only time we both spent in the festival (I chose to see Florence and the Machine who played before Sigala though. Well worth it.). I would have just put the song “Sweet Lovin'” by Sigala on here, but that wasn’t the only Sigala song I got into this year. “Give Me Your Love” was another jam from the fall. It was the only Sigala song I heard since “Sweet Lovin'” that had the same kind of energy.
19. “Fever” by Roosevelt. I heard this song on the “Discover Weekly” Playlist on Spotify in mid-September. I liked it immediately upon hearing it. It reminded me of a nickname of a soccer player I like and got me pumped to attend that NWSL Playoff game that I mentioned before. It was my go-to song for several weeks in September and October.
20. “Starving” by Hailee Steinfeld ft. Zedd. I’m embarrassed this song is on my list, but it was a 2016 fave so I had to include it. It’s definitely been my biggest guilty pleasure song of the year even though I’ve only known it for the past few months. I can also do a mean cover of it on guitar. The Zedd version is by far better than the original. It adds electronic flare and more energy to an otherwise soft yet peppy love song.
21. “This Girl (Kungs vs. Cookin’ on 3 Burners) by Kungs & Cookin’ on 3 Burners. Last but not least, “This Girl”. My cousin played this song for me in late September on my trip to the soccer match. I stopped to visit Hudson for a day first. At dinner that day, my cousin played me this song. It was so familiar to me, but I couldn’t figure out where I heard it. It took me 20-30 minutes before I realized I heard it on an instagram video and that it was the song stuck in my head a few weeks prior. It’s such an interesting song, but yet so so good. When I returned home from the trip, I immediately added the song to my workout playlist and it has been a mainstay ever since.
Bonus Music: “Hand Clap” by Fitz and the Tantrums, Mac DeMarco, “I Am A Nightmare” by Brand New, “Better Off” by Haim, “Dancing on Glass” by St. Lucia, “Roses” by The Chainsmokers ft. ROZES, “Cake By the Ocean” by DNCE (Yep, guilty pleasure #2)
So you can see from this list, 2016 wasn’t too bad if you just look at it from a music perspective. Yes I know we lost Bowie, Prince, and Leonard Cohen, but just check out all the other amazing music we did have, whether it’s on this list or not. Music is the good thing from 2016. It’s usually a good thing most years. It saved 2016, but let’s be real music saves everything.
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How to Watch Sports
If you frequent my blog on any level, you’d know that most of my posts focus on one concrete subject and involve facts surrounding that subject. The subjects are related to music, television or film entertainment, or women’s soccer because let’s be real, I don’t often write about other sports. What I want to write about this week is more subjective than usual, but it pertains to all sports and specifically watching sports.
There are two ways to watch sports: in-person or on live stream via a television or the internet. If you’ve ever been to a sporting event, you’d know the experience is much different than watching from your couch, bed, a bar, etc. Seeing a game or match play out right in front of you while taking in the sights and sounds is an experience like no other. If you’re at a team sporting event and you’re rooting for the home team, you’re probably not alone. There are most likely thousands of others cheering on the team with you. You can usually be as loud as you want. At some sporting events, they even encourage fans to scream or be loud. You might be able to do that from your home too, but it doesn’t have the same effect.
Another important difference is the view you have. On a live stream of the match you can only see what the camera sees. You might not be getting a view of all the players or the whole field. You don’t get to watch pregame warmups or post-game interactions either. That being said sometimes the camera has a great view and can offer close-ups of plays and athletes you wouldn’t be able to see from your spot in the stands. It might be why some people prefer to watch games or matches from home.
Another reason why some people might prefer to watch from home is weather. Weather conditions can have a huge impact on outdoor sports. It also impacts the spectators. It can be extremely hot or extremely cold. It can snow or rain. It can even cause delays. In outdoor sports, it’s not always a perfect day or night for a game. You have to prepare accordingly if you attend and some people just enjoy the comfort of their own home better.
There’s also the money factor, which rules a lot of things in our lives. It can be expensive to see a live sporting event, especially championships or major tournaments and that’s if you can even get tickets at face value. It can be a big factor in whether someone watches from home or not. Add in your personal schedule and then you’ve got another dilemma. Sometimes people don’t have a choice in how they watch sports.
I’ve been fortunate enough to see many live sporting events. I’ve been to football, basketball, baseball, and hockey games. I’ve attended soccer matches, a golf tournament, and a skateboarding competition. I have my fair share of preferences on the way to watch sports. Sometimes I like watching from home, but sometimes I’m caught up in a sport that I just want to experience live.
On Friday night, I attended my second NWSL (National Women’s Soccer League) match. I decided to go because it was the first ever home playoff match for the team I’ve followed since the league’s inception in 2013, the Washington Spirit, and because I had available time in my schedule. I like the complex where the Spirit play. It’s a great venue to watch soccer (venue might be another reason people like to attend or not attend live sports too) and I wanted to make a trip there this season. Plus, it was a playoff match. As any sports fan knows, playoffs are the best and most exciting time of any season.
The weather last weekend was terrible throughout the mid-atlantic region. Thursday through Sunday brought tons of rain. I hate rain when I have to be out in it for an extended period of time. I was bummed when I saw what I would have to deal with at the match. Add in that the Spirit had a disappointing final two weeks of the regular season and I was wondering if I made the right call to attend the match. I already committed though so I knew I had to brave through the elements and whatever outcome the match brought.
Friday night’s semifinal match between the Washington Spirit and the Chicago Red Stars was the best soccer match I’ve ever attended in my time of being a soccer fan. It misted the entire game, but it was cool enough that I was able to comfortably wear a hoodie with a light rain jacket the whole night and stay dry. The Spirit won in extra time when Franny Ordega scored a beautiful goal that resulted from a pure team effort in the 111th minute. Most importantly I saw my favorite soccer player score a goal in-person, in front of my own eyes.
Okay, I get it. You’re thinking it’s not a rare feat to see your favorite soccer player score a goal. It is when your favorite player is a defender though. Defenders just don’t score often. When they do, doves sing, according to Becky Sauerbrunn at least. It’s not a big secret by any means, but I don’t think I’ve ever said it on here before. My favorite soccer player is Ali Krieger. She’s a defender. More specifically, she’s a right outside back for the Spirit and for the USWNT. In her national team career, she’s scored 1 goal and a pretty important PK that lead to one of the biggest surges in women’s soccer since 1999 (I didn’t even see this one on livestream). Since her career with the Spirit began in 2013, she’s scored about 1 goal per season. That’s about 4 professional goals since I started paying attention to her. Out of those 4 goals, I’ve never seen any in-person. I missed 3 of them totally because I wasn’t able to watch those matches. On the goal I did see, I didn’t even realize she was the one who scored until the replay happened. Seeing her put one in the back of the net Friday night was everything. I wasn’t even sure how the sequence was started until I saw the replay later that night (I was both watching and chatting to a friend who also attended). It was beautiful header off a ball into the box by fellow defender and CANWNT player, Shelina Zadorsky, that started from a play beginning with a corner kick taken by Krieger herself. I just remember seeing the ball float in off a kick from about halfway between the goal and mid-field, meet Krieger’s head, and careen into the back netting.
It was one of my favorite live sports moments that I’ve seen in-person in a while. I’ve seen plenty of good ones over the years too like a game winning triple overtime goal and ones that clinched series’ victories. I’ve never seen a team win a championship in front of my eyes however. That’ll be for another time. This one was special though. It was hard to come by given the situation and I won’t forget it. It made me realize how special it is to see a sporting event live. Standing in the mist or rain or whatever element was worth it, so was the travel distance, the price (it wasn’t too expensive), and the slight traffic. It all was. So I’m urging you. If you’re one of those people who like to watch from home, remember there are some irreplaceable moments in sports and seeing them in front of your own eyes every once in a while is what makes being a sports fan that more special. Put aside your preferences. Make time. Spend the money. It’s worth it to go to a game.
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The title of this post can be taken 2 different ways if you think about it. It could literally mean smashing vinyl records or it could mean surpassing a high achievement. With the whole theme of this blog though, you never know. For today, interpret it the second way.
Since Coachella 2016 has finally passed, it’s time to get back to the normal blog posts instead of just Coachella Band Previews (although I know how much everyone (me included) loves them). Over the weekend there was an epic achievement made by a new team in the women’s pro soccer league in this country, the NWSL (for more on the league check out my blog post from last year). This past year the NWSL announced the addition of a 10th team in the league, the Orlando Pride. The Pride, who are run by the same management as Orlando City SC of the MLS, had their inaugural home opener on Saturday night. The match attracted 23,403 fans to the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL, which broke the prior NWSL attendance record of 21,144 set by the Portland Thorns in 2015.The former record was set during a post-World Cup “welcome back” match for the 2015 World Cup Champion USWNT players. The only significance of the match in Orlando was that it was the first home match in the club’s history. Nonetheless numbers like that are incredible. I mean think about it, 23,000+ fans for a non-international women’s pro soccer match. Most NHL arenas hold less fans than that. It’s proof that soccer is growing in America, and not only soccer, but women’s soccer.
Two weeks ago I had a thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool if one day a women’s sport was more popular than a man’s?” (I, of course, meant a sport of the same nature i.e. women’s soccer vs. men’s soccer, not field hockey vs. football.) I even tweeted it. Wouldn’t it though? It would be an incredible feat for women. Since the dawn of time, women were always considered less than men, and that notion, although much more improved, is still a factor in many aspects of today’s society. It’s why the USWNT is currently in a legal battle with U.S. Soccer. It’s why many players in the NWSL have to live with host families or have second jobs. It’s why many businesses, corporations, etc. are managed by men. It’s why in the film industry many directors are men. It’s why women are objectified. It’s why in other cultures women are mistreated or abused, and none of it is fair or just. Sex or gender shouldn’t dictate a person being seen as less or making less money. It’s something we have no control over. Neither should sexual orientation or skin color because again we have no control over those things either, but I digress.
The point is even with the amount of progress made over time, inequality still exists, which means we, as a society, still need to grow. Growth is happening though. It’s happening slowly, but it’s happening. This is why we need to continue to support equality and growth. Remarkable things can happen. I truly believe that one day a women’s sport will be more popular than the same man’s sport. Hopefully by then women will be making the same amount of money too. Equal pay for equal play, ya feel me? At some point, seeing 23,000+ fans of all ages and genders attend a women’s pro soccer match will be the norm. It won’t have to be incredible because it already will be. Do you get what I’m saying? Until then, support the NWSL and women’s soccer any way you can. Get out to a game. Sponsor a team. Spread the word. Impact the conversation. Because each small action makes a difference in the much bigger picture. More growth will happen. More equality will exist and more records will be broken.
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The National Women’s Soccer League
When I started this blog, my very first post was about the NWSL championship last season between FC Kansas City and Seattle Reign FC. As you know, if you’ve been following since then, I’m pretty into women’s soccer, but I’ve never gone in depth about this league I’ve been following for the last 2 years, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). Since I started this blog at the end of last season though, I haven’t had the chance. It was the off-season. There have been other soccer things going on (like World Cup stuff with the USWNT..my first soccer love). You get the picture. While I was at Coachella two weeks ago (can’t believe it’s already been that long), the NWSL kicked off (no pun intended) it’s third season with a matchup between the Washington Spirit and the Houston Dash. With the start of a new season, it’s the perfect time to write about the league (since I finally settled down after my epic Coachella weekend of course).
The NWSL began in 2013 as the United States top professional soccer league for women. The Women’s Professional Soccer league (WPS) formerly held that title from 2007 until it folded in 2012. When developing the NWSL, the idea was to create a stable professional league for women in the U.S. that could withstand the factors that lead to the downfall of other top women’s pro leagues before it (WPS and the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA, 2000-2003)). With the involvement of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA), and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), the NWSL seemed to start with a better foundation than the other leagues.
At it’s start in 2013 the league was comprised of eight teams, the Boston Breakers, the Chicago Red Stars, FC Kansas City, Portland Thorns FC, Seattle Reign FC, Sky Blue FC, the Washington Spirit, and the Western New York Flash. National team players from the USSF, CSA, and FMF were allocated to all eight teams in an even distribution to prevent teams from being stacked with talent, and thus making the league more competitive and exciting to watch. Also, since players from the United States, Canadian, and Mexican national teams were required to play in the NWSL, their respective national team programs paid their salaries, which allowed for some breathing room in the money department for the league so to speak (it still works this way).
Like other professional sports markets, the NWSL has a draft every year giving teams an opportunity to add top college talent to their squads. USWNT mid-fielder Morgan Brian was number one overall at this year’s draft. She was drafted by the Houston Dash, who was added to the league last year as its first expansion team. There are currently other markets looking to join the NWSL, but I’m guessing with the World Cup this year it was difficult for more expansions to occur in the 2015 season. Also because of the World Cup this summer, the league will be taking a break during the World Cup group stage. Since the league is comprised of players from not only the United States, Canadian, and Mexican national teams, but national teams such as England, Germany, Australia, etc. many of the league’s players will be competing in the tournament (so the NWSL will be missing a bunch of players on their normal rosters). If a national team fails to make it past the group stage, players who play on that respective team will return to their NWSL teams. To compensate for the World Cup break, the league will finish in late September compared to the last week of August as it has done the past two seasons. I’m guessing it may follow a similar format for the Olympics next summer.
Around the time the league began is when I started to really follow women’s soccer, the USWNT in particular (got into it a bit in 2011 during the World Cup but after the 2012 Olympics is when my interest began to peak). When I read about the U.S. allocations in January of 2013 is when I first discovered the league and what they were trying to do. I had no idea which team I would end up rooting for or if I would even be into any team. I mean it obviously wasn’t going to be at the level of skill I was used to watching with the USWNT. After some other circumstances that occurred during that time though (which I may get into at another point), I decided to follow the Washington Spirit. I’ve been following them since.
With the 2015 season beginning a mere two weeks ago, it’s the perfect time to see what the league has to offer. It’s a fresh start. There’s been new off-season additions, trades, and draft prospects added to the rosters. New kits (uniforms for those who don’t speak soccer) have debuted for clubs (the Spirit’s are dope!). Currently the national team players are taking part in some games before they have to report for their respective pre-World Cup camps. At this time, it’s almost like a World Cup preview of players. If you’re wondering how you can watch the NWSL matches, you can check out almost all the games on Youtube (they’re streamed). If a game isn’t on Youtube, that’s probably because it’s being aired on television. Yes, some games air on TV. Tonight the Boston Breakers have their home opener vs. the Houston Dash at 5 p.m., and my beloved Washington Spirit visit Sky Blue FC at 6 p.m. If you’re reading this at another time, considering the Breakers-Dash match is about to start, check out the NWSL website for a list of the league schedule, teams, and other information. The interest for women’s soccer in the United States continues to grow. With the help of the NWSL, hopefully the growth will be lasting.
Posted in Sports and tagged 2015 fifa women's world cup, 2015 women's world cup, Boston Breakers, Canadian Soccer Association, Chicago Red Stars, CSA, fc kansas city, FIFA 2015 women's world cup, FMF, Houston Dash, Mexican Football Federation, morgan brian, National Women's Soccer League, NWSL, NWSL draft, nwsl youtube, Portland Thorns FC, Seattle Reign FC, Sky Blue FC, soccer, United States Soccer Federation, USSF, USWNT, Washington Spirit, Western New York Flash, women's football, women's pro soccer, Women's Professional Soccer, women's soccer, Women's United Soccer Association, women's world cup, World Cup, WPS, WUSA, youtube on April 26, 2015 by prostreetcross. 1 Comment
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Tarik Cohen and Darius Leonard take home MEAC’s top awards
Cohen is a finalist for the 2016 Walter Payton Award; Leonard is a finalist for the 2016 Buck Buchanan Award
North Carolina A&T Aggies running back Tarik Cohen (28) runs the ball for a touchdown against the Alcorn State Braves in the fourth quarter of the 2015 Celebration Bowl at the Georgia Dome. Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports
By Rhiannon Walker @InstantRHIplay
On Tuesday morning, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced that North Carolina A&T’s Tarik Cohen and South Carolina State’s Darius Leonard were the Offensive Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, respectively.
Tarik Cohen: By the Numbers
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Cohen became the first offensive player to win the offensive award in three consecutive years. The senior is now the MEAC’s all-time leading rusher with 5,619 yards, including 1,588 rushing yards this season. Cohen’s 7.49 average yards per carry, 18 touchdowns and 132.3 rushing yards per game were third in the college football.
He broke his own single-season rushing record from 2015 with four 200-yard rushing games, and he led the conference in rushing yards per game, scoring (9.5) and all-purpose yards (160.6) and is a finalist for the 2016 Walter Payton Award.
On the defensive side, Leonard had the sixth most tackles in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and led the MEAC with 124. Voters saw his potential in the preseason when he was selected All-MEAC Defensive Player of the Year. His 78 solo tackles were fourth in the FCS and his four forced fumbles were eighth. Overall, Leonard amassed 14.5 tackles for a loss, five pass breakups, 3.5 sacks and two blocked kicks. Against S.C. State’s toughest competition in Clemson, Leonard had his best game, recording a season-high 19 tackles. He is a finalist for the 2016 Buck Buchanan Award.
Courtesy of MEAC
The honors were announced in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel during the 59th National Football Foundation Awards Dinner.
Rhiannon Walker is an associate editor at The Undefeated. She is a drinker of Sassy Cow Creamery chocolate milk, an owner of an extensive Disney VHS collection, and she might have a heart attack if Frank Ocean doesn't drop his second album.
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The Caribbean reef shark has an interdorsal ridge from the rear of the first dorsal fin to the front of the second dorsal fin. The second dorsal fin has a very short free rear tip. The snout of C. perezi is moderately short and broadly rounded. It has poorly developed, low anterior nasal flaps and relatively large circular eyes. Caribbean reef sharks also have moderately long gill slits with the third gill slit lying above the origin of the pectoral fin. Comparison to similar sharks:
The Black-tip Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is a species of shark of the family Carcharhinidae, easily identified by the black tips of its fins, especially on the first dorsal fin and the caudal fin. It is one of the most abundant sharks in the tropical coral reefs of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. This species prefers shallow coastal waters and frequently exposes its first dorsal fin in these areas. Most Black-tipped Sharks live on reef margins and sandy bottoms, but they are also known to support brackish or freshwater environments. This species generally reaches a length of 1.6 m. Black-tip Sharks are sedentary and live in very small areas and may remain in the same area for several years. They are active predators of small bone fish, cephalopods and crustaceans, and are also known to feed on marine snakes and seabirds. The data collected concerning the life cycle of the Black-tip Shark are sometimes contradictory and there appear to be significant differences depending on the geographical location within the range of the species. Like other members of its family, this shark is viviparous and females give birth to between two and five young babies every two years, every year or sometimes twice a year. Indeed, according to its habitat the gestation period of this shark can be 7-9 months, 10-11 months or 16 months. Newborns live in coastal waters and in shallower waters than adults, often forming large groups in areas flooded by high tides. Shy and capricious, the Black-tip Shark is difficult to approach and rarely represents a danger to humans, unless it is excited by food. However, bathers in shallow waters can sometimes have their legs bitten by mistake. This shark is fished for its meat, fins and liver oil, but is not considered to be a commercially important species. The International Union for Conservation of Nature assessed the near threatened species. Although the species as a whole remains widespread and relatively common, overfishing of this shark and its slow rate of reproduction has led to its decline in a number of localities.
The Caribbean reef shark was originally described from off the coast of Cuba as Platypodon perezi by Poey in 1876. Bigelow and Schroeder later described the same species as Carcharhinus springeri in 1944 and the reef shark appears in much literature under this scientific name. The genus name Carcharhinus is derived from the Greek “karcharos” = sharpen and “rhinos” = nose. The currently accepted valid name is C. perezi (Poey 1876).
The menu is designed around healthy Mediterranean diet of southern Europe. The “no butter policy” takes top precedence as the extra virgin olive oil has completely substituted butter and other unhealthy fats in the kitchen. In addition, Reef’s priority is that fish, shellfish, meats and other ingredients are always fresh and of the highest quality. Dishes are prepared with healthy Mediterranean portions in mind, with quality and taste as priorities and always light enough to leave room for desserts.
Like all sharks, the blacktip reef shark has exceptional sensory systems. From there keen sense of smell to having the ability to see in low light condition, these adaptation have made them prestige at tracking down there prey. Sharks also have an additional sixth sense where they can sense electromagnetic fields in the water. The ampullae of Lorenzini, located in the snout region, enable a shark to detect its prey without physically seeing it.
Blacktip reef sharks are regularly caught by inshore fisheries and are vulnerable to depletion because of their small litter sizes and long gestation periods. Traumatogenic. May become aggressive to spear fishers and are reported to bite people wading in shallow water. Generally marketed fresh (as fillet), may be dried, salted, smoked or frozen. Fins are valued for shark-fin soup; a market that is decimating shark populations worldwide. They are also sought for their liver as source of oil.
Cyanobacteria do not have skeletons and individuals are microscopic. Cyanobacteria can encourage the precipitation or accumulation of calcium carbonate to produce distinct sediment bodies in composition that have relief on the seafloor. Cyanobacterial mounds were most abundant before the evolution of shelly macroscopic organisms, but they still exist today (stromatolites are microbial mounds with a laminated internal structure). Bryozoans and crinoids, common contributors to marine sediments during the Mississippian (for example), produced a very different kind of mound. Bryozoans are small and the skeletons of crinoids disintegrate. However, bryozoan and crinoid meadows can persist over time and produce compositionally distinct bodies of sediment with depositional relief.
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Games behind throne: the show's creators at creative war with HBO's producers
Game of Thrones' Season 6 Preview with David Benioff & D.B. Weiss ... - variety.com
David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are determined to end the series with season 8 despite pressures from executives and declined to work on a spin-off
by musicat
24 October 2016 09:22 Mon 24 Oct 2016 09:22:49 BST
game of thrones will not carry on just for the sake of money. Ignoring pleas from the producers of the show to extend the plot for more seasons, creators David Bienoff and D.B. Weiss are keen to preserve the consistency of the show and close as planned with season 8. The show runners declared to Deadline: "The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched to HBO is, it's not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it's trying to figure out new story lines.
We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it. We wanted something where, if people watched it end to end, it would make sense as one continuous story. We're definitely heading into the end game now". It has been announced that the final two seasons of GOT will be shorter, with only 7-8 episodes planned per each. HBO executives originally wanted 10 seasons of Game of Thrones but according to Michael Lombardo, HBO former programming president, they were forced to stick with the show runners' decision: "I trust the creators implicitly and trust that’s the right decision — as horrifying as that is to me".
HBO's new head planning a GOT spin-off
HBO’s new programming president Casey Bloys, who succeeded to Lombardo in March 2016, had a different opinion from his predecessor and first discussed a spin-off “is something I’m not opposed to, but it has to make sense creatively. I’m open to it. The guys aren’t opposed to it, but there’s no concrete plans.” Few months later, an even more resolute Bloys is back on the subject and details his vision for the future of the Game Of Thrones franchise: "We have so many opportunities, so many uncovered areas.
Now the main task – to find the right approach and screenwriter, who will be able to realise it". The claim is backed by author of the saga G.R. Martin who commented: “There is certainly no lack of material…if indeed HBO is interested”. D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have confirmed their disinterest in a spin-off of Game Of Thrones and that all future initiatives will not include their participation.
Bloys maintains there is no bad blood and the show's creators are leaving to concentrate on their personal lives and other projects, but admitted: "“In a perfect world, Game of Thrones would keep going, and we wouldn’t have to deal with any of this!". A dragon is not a slave, and apparently not even its creators.
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Nebraska Lesbians Attacked with Crowbar for “Shaming” Muslim Family
Tuma allegedly attacked his sister and her fiancée for bringing shame on the himself and his parents. Marks aided and abetted in the assault.
Lincoln, Nebraska – Two lesbians were attacked Thursday by a man wielding a crowbar for supposedly shaming his family. When the attack failed, he and his friend rammed the women’s car with a pickup truck, attempting to push the women’s vehicle into oncoming traffic. KLKN TV reports that Ahmed Tuma and his accomplice, Nathan Marks, both 20 years of age, took offense when Tuma’s sister announced she was a lesbian, and became engaged to her fiancée. Tuma allegedly believed his sister’s relationship with a woman shamed his family, enraging him to the point he enlisted Marks to accompany him on an ambush. Prior to the attack, Tuma had made death threats against his sister. Lincoln Police Department spokesperson Officer Katie Flood confirmed, “They were in fear for their lives, he had made some verbal threats to kill the sister.”
Gay Star News says that the lesbians had pulled their car near their home, and had just gotten out to enter the house at approximately 5 p.m. on Thursday when Tuma rushed them, brandishing a crowbar. The women escaped back to the safety of their car just as the brother swung the weapon. They frantically tried to start the car as Tuma hit the vehicle’s windows repeatedly, trying to smash them out. When the lesbians succeeded in starting their car, Tuma rushed back to Marks’s pickup, and the two men rammed their victims’ auto in an apparent attempt to push it into the traffic speeding by. The couple was able to get away from their assailants, and called police.
Police arrested Tuma for attempted 2nd degree assault, criminal mischief, two counts of terroristic threats and use of a weapon to commit a felony. All of the charges except use of a weapon carry a hate crime enhancement. Marks was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting a terroristic threat, and aiding and abetting the use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony. Both men have been arraigned, and will stand trial for the hate crimes in a Lincoln court.
November 11, 2013 Posted by unfinishedlives | Anti-LGBT hate crime, Bludgeoning, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, Lesbian women, LGBTQ, Muslims, Nebraska, religious intolerance | Bludgeoning, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, Lesbians, LGBTQ, Muslims, Nebraska, religious intolerance | 1 Comment
“Gender-Neutral” Teenager Set Afire While Sleeping in Horrific Hate Crime
Teen Sasha Fleischman, set on fire by homophobic 16-year-old attacker as he slept on a transit bus.
Oakland, California – An 18-year-old teen who identifies as “non-binary” or “gender-neutral” was set on fire Monday evening as he slept soundly in the rear of an AC Transit bus. Luke “Sasha” Fleischman, a popular student at Berkeley’s Maybeck High School, suffered second and third degree burns on his legs when a 16-year-old assailant set a skirt Fleischman was wearing alight. Passengers on board the bus aided Fleischman in extinguishing the stubborn flames. The attacker, Richard Thomas, who was arrested Tuesday on the campus of Oakland High School, now admits that his feelings of homophobia led him to try and burn the sleeping teen alive.
NBC Bay Area News reports that anger at the attacker and compassion for Fleischman emerged quickly as news of the attack spread throughout the East Bay area. Fleischman, whose mother told the Bay Area Newsgroup that her child felt comfortable wearing female-identified clothing such as a skirt, has long understood himself to be gender neutral. “My son considers himself agender,” Debbie Fleischman said. “He likes to wear a skirt. It’s his statement. That’s how he feels comfortable dressing.” The teenager’s cousin, 25-year-old Tara Young, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, said “I don’t care what he was wearing, You don’t light someone on fire.”
Rushed to the Burn Center at San Francisco’s St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Fleischman underwent surgery on his legs Wednesday. Donations have poured in to help defray the cost of his medical care, topping $20,000 in a matter of hours. Hospital officials confirmed that the teenager will need to undergo painful skin grafts and “several surgeries.”
Meanwhile, his attacker, 16-year-old Richard Thomas, who had been arrested and initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem, is now being fully charged for each count as a bias-motivated hate crime after admitting his intense homophobic feelings motivated him to set his victim’s clothing on fire. KQED News reports that Alameda County law enforcement officials, who acknowledge the attack on Fleischman was motivated by anti-queer hatred, are charging Thomas as an adult. The Oakland Tribune interviewed lead Police Investigator in the case, Anwawm Jones, who confirmed, “During (the) suspect interview, the suspect stated he did it because he was homophobic.” Oakland District Attorney Nancy O’Malley told The Tribune that Thomas’s “violent and senseless criminal conduct resulted in severe and traumatic injuries to a young and entirely innocent victim,” and went on to say, “The intentional and callous nature of the crime is shocking and will not be tolerated in our community. Our thoughts remain with the victim and the victim’s family in wishing for a full recovery from the extensive burns suffered as a result of this crime.”
Felony aggravated assault carries a possible life sentence with a possibility of parole, the assault charge has a maximum penalty of eight years in prison, and each count of hate crime enhancement adds a year in prison, according to the Alameda District Attorney’s Office.
“Sasha” Fleischman represents an emerging group of youth who do not fit into the male/female binary, some of whom consider themselves gender-neutral, agender, or genderqueer. According to his parents, Sasha came out as agender two years ago, and became politically active in order to carve out a place in American consciousness for youth like himself. He gathered over 27,000 signatures on a petition with which he attempt to draw President Obama’s attention to the issue, as reported by the San Jose Mercury News.
November 7, 2013 Posted by unfinishedlives | Anti-LGBT hate crime, California, gender-neutral youth, genderqueer youth, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, immolation, LGBTQ | Anti-LGBT hate crime, California, gender-neutral youth, genderqueer youth, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, immolation, LGBTQ | Comments Off on “Gender-Neutral” Teenager Set Afire While Sleeping in Horrific Hate Crime
3 Gay Oregon Men in Costume Attacked on Hallowe’en Night
Two of the costumes worn by gay bashing victims of Portland, Oregon hate crime attack on Hallowe’en night [KATU photo].
Portland, Oregon – Three gay men dressed in female costumes were savagely attacked in Portland on Hallowe’en, according to KATU News 2, the ABC news affiliate. The trio say that the assault was motivated by anti-gay bias, since it was proceeded by a flurry of homophobic epithets. Dustin Miller, Joey Malone, and Curtis Hughes, friends who were looking for Hallowe’en fun, took great care in their drag costumes for the evening, one portraying Snow White and another Anna Nicole Smith–but the fun turned violent when a gang of five men started hurling anti-gay slurs at them as they walked along the Portland waterfront.
The Advocate reports that the gay men were beaten, dragged by their hair, and threatened with a knife. Malone, who lost a tooth in the attack, said one of the assailants slashed at his stomach and his head with a knife, intending to stab him. “He swung it at my stomach and then swung it back up at my face,” Malone said. In a defensive move, Malone kicked off the stiletto heels he was wearing, and used them to back the attackers off.
In their interview with KATU, the three men vividly recalled the chaos and fear they felt as their assailants pressed their assault:
“I was on the ground and they reached over and punched him in the face.”
“All I saw was blood all over his mouth.”
“I was in shock. I felt my tooth go into my tongue and I spit it out onto the ground.”
“All I remember is hearing somebody yell there was a knife.”
“He swung it at my stomach and then swung it back up at my face.”
Hughes, Malone, and Miller recount their harrowing assault.
A passing cyclist aided the victims, and the gang of attackers ran from the scene, leaving the trio scarred, bruised, and shaken, but thankful they were not injured more seriously from the sudden, savage assault. Hundreds from the community have responded with messages of support and comfort to the victims, and have donated money to help with medical expenses. In one overwhelming expression of generosity, a local dentist replaced Malone’s broken tooth with a temporary replacement, and pledged to complete the permanent dental replacement later.
Hughes, Malone, and Miller reported the attack as an anti-gay hate crime, but they are not optimistic about anyone being apprehended and charged in the case. They understand that their costumes were provocative, and that some might not appreciate their taste, but they never imagined that irrational hatred could turn the evening so brutal. All three gay men are clear, however, that nothing they did provoked the attack, and they are determined to remain strong and proud in their gender presentations and identities. As Malone told EDGE Boston, they are not going to let this experience change who they are, “Not even for a second.”
November 7, 2013 Posted by unfinishedlives | Anglo Americans, Anti-LGBT hate crime, Beatings and battery, gay bashing, gay men, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, LGBTQ, Oregon, Slashing attacks, Slurs and epithets, Unsolved LGBT Crimes | Anglo Americans, Anti-LGBT hate crime, gay bashing, gay men, GLBTQ, Hate Crimes, Heterosexism and homophobia, LGBTQ, Oregon, Slurs and epithets, Unsolved anti-LGBT crimes | 1 Comment
Gays and Allies Defy Anti-Gay Activists at WCC in Korea
Pro-gay Christians rally in central Seoul to demand full equality under God for all Koreans. Rev. Daniel Payne, center in clergy collar, Jun-Young Lee translating. (Chungwook Park photo).
Busan and Seoul, South Korea – Gay Christians and their Affirming Allies from the World Council of Churches (WCC) took to the streets in Busan and Seoul to show their support for LGBTQ people this week, in open defiance of the large, well-funded conservative opponents of equality for the sexual minority. Declaring that “Gays are God’s Creation, Too!” dozens of gay affirming clergy and lay people from countries around the world joined local progressive Christians to push back against the ostracism the conservative Protestant establishment wants to maintain against any gay or lesbian who dares to come out openly in the Republic of Korea. The Korea Times covered the event, citing the Rev. Daniel Payne and Jun-Young Lee of Open Doors Community Church, a Seoul-based progressive Christian Church that welcomes gays and straights alike. In a statment to the press, the Affirming protesters decried harm and abuse condoned by the religious establishment in South Korea, declaring such oppression to be against the teachings of Jesus Christ: “We underscore once again that the violent bigotry against sexual minorities in the name of Christianity fully contradicts the Christian mandate to love thy neighbor. We declare as follows as we unite and pray together so that this social abuse in Korean society will be ended.” The gay-friendly protests took place in Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul.
A “Confucianized-Christian” establishment in South Korea continues to make this East Asian nation reject homosexuality on biblical and moral grounds, exalting patriarchal versions of faith and family to seal the deal. But progressive Christians, gay and straight, are emerging with their religious and secular allies to demand full equality and dignity for Korea’s sexual minority. Citing the Bible from an intelligent, informed interpretation that refutes the literalism customary in most Protestant churches in South Korea, these progressive Christians are making a growing case for the protection and inclusion of LGBTQ people throughout the Land of Morning Calm.
Establishment Protestant leaders who are embarrassed by the open hostility towards the World Council of Churches meeting in Busan this week are having to rethink their opposition to gay equality, rightly concerned about being lumped into a troubled fundamentalist power structure that bears little or no resemblance to the Christian teachings on the creation of all people in God’s image and likeness, and the Good News of God’s Love. Reports circulated in Seoul that religious zealots were transporting human excrement to Busan to spray on WCC delegates, much as they had at the same-sex wedding of gay filmmaker Kim Jho Gwang-soo in September.
November 4, 2013 Posted by unfinishedlives | GLBTQ, hate crimes prevention, Heterosexism and homophobia, Homosexuality and the Bible, Kim Jho Kwang-soo, LGBTQ, Open Doors Community Church Korea, Protests and Demonstrations, religious intolerance, Social Justice Advocacy, South Korea, World Council of Churches (WCC) | GLBTQ, hate crimes prevention, Heterosexism and homophobia, Homosexuality and the Bible, LGBTQ, Open Doors Community Church, Protests and Demonstrations, religious intolerance, Social Justice Advocacy, South Korea, World Council of Churches (WCC) | Comments Off on Gays and Allies Defy Anti-Gay Activists at WCC in Korea
'Cats' Is Coming With Hudson, Swift, Dench, McKellen and Digital Fur!
Pennsylvania Mayor Refuses to Fly Pride Flag at City Hall
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tags: DNSA, nonproliferation, nuclear history, Nuclear Nonproliferation, nuclear policy
by The Archive
The National Security Archive, working with our partners at ProQuest, is publishing a rich new compilation of documents on nuclear nonproliferation policy during the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The 2,301-document collection, Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part I: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968, covers an age of growing concern that the spread of nuclear power could lead to a proliferation of weapons capabilities with potentially negative implications for international stability and the U.S. position in world affairs. During this time the U.S. government supported a variety of nonproliferation initiatives, including export controls and international actions ranging from the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency, test ban treaties, and an international nonproliferation agreement.
The expertly curated document collection covers the creation of the major institutions and agreements that make up the international nonproliferation system, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, the first iteration of the IAEA safeguards system, and the negotiation of the Nonproliferation Treaty. It also details the U.S. government’s concern about emerging nuclear weapons states — the “Nth Country Problem”— and its efforts to monitor nuclear activities in China, France, India, Israel, and elsewhere. Another important topic covered is the diplomatic effort to find a nuclear role within NATO for West Germany to deter possible German interest in an independent weapons capability. Solving that problem was essential for the breakthrough in the NPT negotiations during 1966-1967.
Among the many interest areas covered in this set are:
The creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the development of Agency safeguards to deter the diversion of nuclear resources into weapons programs;
India’s acquisition of a Canadian nuclear reactor whose weak safeguards facilitated the production of plutonium, a development that U.S. government officials closely watched;
The U.S. and British discovery of the secret Israeli nuclear reactor project in late 1960, internal U.S. discussions of policy options, continuing debates with the Israeli government over U.S. requests for inspections of the reactor site, and the results of the inspections;
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s proposal for a fissile material production cut-off, seen as a method to prevent nuclear proliferation, and supported by successive administrations, although less eagerly later in the 1960s;
U.S. government checking of West German nuclear activity and U.S. initiatives to reduce any West German interest in nuclear options and to integrate Bonn more tightly into the NATO system;
John F. Kennedy’s initial search for a nuclear nonproliferation agreement, beginning during the 1961 Berlin Crisis, and continuing into 1963;
Efforts to control the dissemination of sensitive nuclear technology, including the gas centrifuge, beginning with State Department and other U.S. government attempts to prevent Brazil from purchasing a gas centrifuge from West Germany in 1954 and to establish secrecy for improved gas centrifuges during the 1960s.
Using U.S. government records declassified since the 1990s, this collection picks up from, and expands the coverage provided in, the Archive’s earlier, widely praised ProQuest publication, U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1945-1991. This collection also complements, and at point exceeds, the State Department’s Foreign Relations of the United States series. The editors of the FRUS have made an extraordinary contribution in producing several volumes on arms control policy, including nonproliferation, during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. Yet, as valuable as those volumes are, because of the complexity of documenting arms control issues in general, involving not only nonproliferation but also test bans, outer space, and strategic missiles, the coverage of the NPT sometimes skims on the surface and important nuances are overlooked.
Of the 2,301 records in this collection, well over 700 documents cover the NPT negotiations, especially the crucial period from August 1966 through January 1968, when the substance of the treaty was settled. The documents on the NPT talks and others in the set were produced by a wide variety of government agencies and offices. Many of them are from the State Department or from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), created by the Kennedy administration in 1961. The ACDA officials who played a prominent role in the NPT negotiations used State Department telegraphic communications to report on developments. The set also includes White House, CIA, and Pentagon documents.
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Colin Theodore
Born: Australia
Dr. Colin Theodore, Associate Project Manager, NASA Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology
In parallel with NASA’s ongoing Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project, Colin Theodore led about 20 investigators looking at new vehicles for new markets including air taxi and package delivery services. DELIVER — the Design Environment for Novel Vertical Lift Vehicles — harnessed the NASA Ames, Glenn and Langley Research Centers for their expertise in design and analysis, high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics, acoustics, propulsion, autonomy, and wind tunnel and flight testing. The Principal Investigator based at California’s NASA Ames explained, “We have tools that have been validated for larger vehicles — traditional helicopters and tilt rotors and the like — for decades. For some of these package delivery drones or urban air mobility-type vehicles that look very different from traditional rotorcraft and rely on electric propulsion, we don’t know how well our tools work.”
NASA’s in-house effort was aimed at helping non-traditional aerospace companies size their innovative platforms. Theodore summarized, “The goal of DELIVER was to demonstrate the applicability of our tools for these new concepts and new vehicles. What do these companies really need in terms of data, and how do they use it as part of their analysis process?” DELIVER formulated a flight test program for NASA’s GL-10 Greased Lightning unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and it teamed with San Diego-based Straight Up Imaging to test high-end quadcopters. “We definitely put an emphasis on going out there and testing,” said Theodore.
Researchers used test data to validate the common NDARC (NASA Design and Analysis for RotorCraft) sizing tool and ANOPP2 (Aircraft NOise Prediction Program 2) on unconventional configurations. NPSS — the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation code — is meanwhile being updated for electric motors and propulsion concepts. According to Theodore, “Electric propulsion is really a key enabler to a lot of these new vehicles, particularly as you get to multiple propellers in very different configurations. You can’t really do them with a gas turbine or internal combustion engine and shafts running to each of the props. Electric propulsion really opens up the design space. We need to make sure we’re accurately accounting for the performance, weight, and various aspects of various propulsion systems in our design tools,” He added, “This is also probably the first time that the FAA is looking to certify a vehicle with electric propulsion, so this is a new area. The failure modes, all the redundancies you need, and how the FAA would go about certifying these is kind of an unknown.”
DELIVER concluded at the end of fiscal 2017, one of the accelerated Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) activities under the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate. Theodore said, “Most of the work, or at least a significant part of it, will be transitioning to RVLT, taking what we’ve learned from DELIVER and rolling it into more of a research project in RVLT.”
Down Under to Out West
Colin Theodore grew up in Sunbury, Australia, about an hour from Melbourne, in a family without formal aerospace or engineering ties. He recalled, “My father, Barry Theodore, was a keen model airplane enthusiast in Australia and belonged to a local club. I was young but remember being fascinated by the aircraft that they were building and flying, and the passion that they put into it. I always wanted to figure out how the aircraft worked and what made them fly.” The DELIVER Principal Investigator observed, “I always knew that aviation was where I needed to be. I think for me, aviation seemed like one of those really challenging areas that would give me an opportunity to make a contribution to something that just seemed really difficult.”
A bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) provided the foundation. “I spent a year or so looking for an aerospace-related job, but there were not a lot of those types of jobs in Australia. I ended up getting a job at the Defence Science and Technology Organization [DSTO, now called the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group], working on fatigue analysis and testing of the F/A-18. That had the goal of extending the life of the fleet.”
The RMIT curriculum had little rotary-wing content, but Theodore remembered, “There was one professor who had an interest in helicopters, Lincoln Wood, who taught what could be called an Introduction to Helicopters. Based on his class, I joined the American Helicopter Society in the late ‘80s. When I was looking for schools to apply to in the United States, he was the one who recommended the University of Maryland. From an early age, I had always wanted to visit the US, probably because of all of the US TV shows that we got in Australia, plus all of the amazing airplanes that were made here.”
Theodore recalled, “It wasn’t until I actually got to the University of Maryland that I learned that my assistantship was in the area of helicopter flight dynamics and controls with Professor Roberto Celi as my advisor. My research focused on flight mechanics simulation and incorporating high-fidelity aerodynamics modeling using a free-wake. That’s been something simulation codes kind of get wrong — off-axis response most of the time is predicted in the opposite direction. I was able to show that if you use a free-wake model for the rotor wake, you’re able to get the off-axis response in the correct direction.”
A presentation based on his dissertation earned Theodore a contract job at the US Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD — now part of the Aviation Development Directorate, ADD) at Moffett Field, California. “I didn’t have a much background in flight or wind tunnel testing, and AFDD, particularly Mark Tischler’s group, had a lot of activities where flight testing was key.” Theodore recalled, “I was able to participate in a lot of projects with AFDD including fixed-wing and vertical flight, starting with some of the small ducted fans that DARPA [the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency] was looking at and including very large aircraft, in particular the Boeing 777.
“I am especially proud of the work that I did in development of flight dynamic and structural models of the Boeing 777 from flight tests. We were demonstrating the simultaneous identification of flight dynamics and aircraft structural modes. This work was also the first and only time that I’ve actually been on the aircraft during system identification flight testing, and also riding in the cockpit during landing is something that I will always remember.”
AFDD also conducted PALACE — the Precision Autonomous Landing Adaptive Control Experiment — to land a Yamaha R-MAX UAV in an obstacle-rich environment without GPS navigation. “This was really my first exposure to technology development for UAVs and UAV operations, and it gave me a really good appreciation for the real-world challenges that are involved.”
NASA Studies
Theodore joined NASA in 2007 in the flight dynamics and controls technical area. NASA and AFDD ran joint wind tunnel tests of Individual Blade Control (IBC) on a full-sized UH-60 main rotor in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC). Theodore explained, “One of the things they had problems with is when you change IBC inputs or turn IBC on and off, the rotor trim changes in terms of thrust and propulsive force. Is the benefit because of IBC or because the rotor trim was different? I developed an automatic trim control system, so regardless of what you’re doing with IBC, rotor trim stays exactly the same. You could really make an apples-to-apples comparison between what is the true effect of IBC in terms of performance, power required, things like that.” NASA’s Large Rotor Test Apparatus trim controller was used all through IBC tests in 2009 and UH-60A airloads tests in 2010.
NASA subsequently turned its rotary-wing focus on big civil tiltrotors. “What we did in the flight dynamics and control area was look at what are some of the specific challenges of flying these vehicles from a piloting and handling qualities perspective, and how can we mitigate those.” Theodore worked on piloted simulations in the Ames Vertical Motion Simulator to explore civil tiltrotor control strategies.
DELIVER targeted a new design community with a very non-government culture. “Almost all of the companies working urban air mobility or package delivery are not traditional aerospace companies,” said Theodore. “They have a completely different culture than NASA. They’re not used to working with the government. We have different goals, different timeframes, completely different ways of doing things.”
New vertical lift concepts also present different challenges. “Autonomy is really going to be a key enabler in a lot of these new markets, whether it be urban air taxi or drone package delivery. You’ve got a lot of components on the vehicle; you’ve got software; you’ve got communications equipment. All of these things that enable you to do your mission weigh something. They take power, and they take volume. You need to take that into account up front. As you get smaller vehicles, all this equipment may have a significant impact on the size and weight of the vehicle.”
Theodore noted, “Noise is probably the biggest barrier to increased use of helicopters and rotorcraft around urban areas. The biggest perception is drones — because they’re small and electric — are going to be quiet. For urban air taxis, the perception is the same. The reality is noise is going to be a big factor in any kind of urban operations. In DELIVER, what we really wanted to do was focus on small delivery vehicles; a lot of them are multicopters. We wanted to understand the characteristics of the noise; how well do our current tools predict noise. We also wanted to understand the level of annoyance, so we did some human-subject testing where we compared noise from multi-copters to noise from ground delivery vehicles like cars and panel trucks.”
Understanding operating costs is also key to new vehicle acceptance. Theodore offered, “Helicopters have traditionally been fairly expensive to operate, so if you want to use one of these new vehicles for urban air taxis, it has to be affordable. Reducing airframe costs and reducing maintenance and operating costs are key. I think that, ultimately, autonomy will be one of the key factors that removes the pilot or operator from the vehicle itself, so that reduces your costs and increases your payload. I don’t think autonomy is really there yet in terms of being used for these vehicles at least in the short term.”
Theodore has joined several aerospace professional associations over the years but noted, “AHS is really the only one that’s stuck. I was destined to be in the helicopter field even before I knew it.” He is currently the AHS Western US Region Vice President on the AHS International board of directors. “We have a San Francisco Specialists’ Meeting coming up in January, and I’m the technical chair,” said Theodore. “What I’m really excited about is that this conference will bring together the traditional aeromechanics and transformational flight technologies communities. I see some real synergy there that will benefit everyone.”
Vertiflite Leadership Profile: Vertiflite November/December 2017
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Although Lenny Abrahamson’s movie is named “Room,” that title could have just as easily gone to Tom McCarthy’s “Spotlight.” Both dramas are set in confined spaces. For “Spotlight,” that’s the Boston Globe newsroom in 2001 during the reporting of a story (by Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams) about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. “Room,” based on Emma Donoghue’s novel, centers on a mother (Brie Larson) and her 5-year-old son (Jacob Tremblay) held hostage in a shed. On a recent afternoon, Abrahamson and McCarthy grabbed lunch in downtown New York, where they both ordered roast beef sandwiches.
Both “Spotlight” and “Room” take place in restricted settings. Can you talk about those rooms?
Abrahamson: In my case, that’s the point. When we were designing the room, we had the dimensions as described in the novel. We built a mock-up first to see how it feels. It was a 10-by-14-foot space.
McCarthy: Did you have complete control of the walls?
Abrahamson: We never took out whole walls. Working with a kid, you had to be fast. It also felt if you took a wall out — just for Jake, we wanted it to be real for him. We shot in a stage in Toronto.
MOTHER AND CHILD: Lenny Abrahamson worked closely with Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson.
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McCarthy: Those Toronto crews are really good. That’s where we built the main newsroom and the Spotlight office. Our mood was pre-determined by the actual building. We shot a fair amount in the real Boston Globe. Newsrooms are like hospitals. They are ugly. We rebuilt the newsroom in an abandoned Sears building. We wanted natural light. My sound designer did a really cool thing. He went up and laid down microphones in the Globe offices for two weeks. He recorded these ambient sounds. We got the mix: newsroom, hallway, cafeteria. We had real voices, real phones.
Abrahamson: Even though the films are different, there’s a similar commitment in both cases to have the directorial voice be very delicate. It’s almost invisible. For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene. It’s not something as prevalent in movies now.
Abrahamson: There’s a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
McCarthy: I agree. That’s why Sidney Lumet was a great American director. He disappeared in his movie. It didn’t necessarily have his tag. Some guys want to tag their movies. Sometimes that overwhelms my connection to the movie. I feel like I’m being manipulated.
Can you talk about your process for casting? How do you find actors when your script depends so much on their performances?
McCarthy: It’s pretty straightforward. Get the right person for the role. I wish there was more to that. Having been an actor, I’ve come up with some of these people. Mark Ruffalo was the first actor I went out to. He read it and was like, “It’s really wonderful.” I said, “Maybe you should vet it with the people you work with.” Keaton was always on the shortlist. Rachel was one that didn’t spring to mind. Someone recommended her, and I met with her. You’re always looking for a certain quality and to have some room to move. When I was watching the cut, I remember halfway through I noticed she’s an amazing listener. I think the best actors are the best listeners.
Abrahamson: For me, because children change so quickly, we couldn’t start too early. You give yourself four to six months to find a child. It was pretty nerve-wracking. I was aware there was a reasonable risk we wouldn’t find a boy that would seem young enough to believe the myths his mother has created. There were hundreds of kids on tape. Jake was 7 when I met him. You want to see if you can direct him. How natural he is in terms of the camera. For Brie, I had a list of actresses of that age. Someone in the office said, “You should see this film ‘Short Term 12.’”
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McCarthy: How was their relationship?
Abrahamson: Fabulous. There was a scene early on, he had to get angry at her because she doesn’t have candles on his birthday cake. I couldn’t get him to bark at her. Eventually, he whispered to me, “Shouting is rude, and I really like her.” I thought, “Oh God — he’s only a kid.” That’s a point where I realized the boundaries between the drama and reality were blurring for him. I got the crew together and we had a shouting competition.
How do each of you like to watch movies? And what do you think of VOD?
Abrahamson: I love the cinema, but I’m not a fascist about it. I’ve had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.
McCarthy: I obviously favor the theater. Just being at the Angelika last night — even with the uncomfortable seats and the train rumbling below, it just feels good. What I don’t love is when people watch these types of movies on computer screens. You’re not having the same immersive experience on a lot of levels. I’ve noticed this thing with my wife, who loves movies. If we watch at home, occasionally she gets up. I’m like, “What are you doing?” She says, “I’m going to the bathroom.” It’s so alarming to me. She never goes to the bathroom in the movie theater.
Abrahamson: If somebody made the commitment to go to the movie theater, I think it buys you 10 minutes at the beginning of your movie to be slow. The terrifying thing about watching at home, there’s a hair trigger on that remote. They could decide to switch it off. Did you shoot digital?
McCarthy: Yeah.
Abrahamson: I did as well. I think digital is getting so much better. It’s harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film. It’s a strange analogy, but it’s like men who grew up during the Second World War in Britain. There were these gas mask fetish magazines for guys who were turned on by women in gas masks. I guarantee that the people who go to the cinema now and see things that mean something to them and it’s shot digitally, they are having the same experience.
We keep hearing stories about how impossible it is to finance a mid-budget movie now.
McCarthy: We had a strong script to start. We had momentum, but it was consistently stopped by no specific force. It was just the environment of the filmmaking world. Films that live outside the genre films are getting harder and harder to make. People want everything in place before greenlighting a movie. Filmmaking has never been like that. There’s always a leap of faith.
Abrahamson: Emma didn’t sign the rights to us in the usual way. We had a good faith agreement. We worked on the script together. I think the rights to the novel were formally assigned a couple weeks before we started shooting.
McCarthy: I can’t believe they let you get that far.
Abrahamson: She wanted to protect her baby. We respected that.
McCarthy: I’m not surprised that you had a healthy collaboration. I’m surprised they allowed you to do that.
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The games offered up are varied in genre, from action to horror to sports, showcasing the growing range of PS VR titles.
The first bundle includes the games “Blood & Truth” and “Everybody’s Golf VR,” The bundle costs $349.99 and it’s coming out on May 28 to coincide with the release of “Blood & Truth.”
The bundle includes the PS VR system, a PlayStation camera, a demo disc, two PlayStation Move controllers, a physical copy of “Blood & Truth,” and a digital code for “Everybody’s Golf VR.”
The next bundle up is for “Trover Saves the Universe!” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted.” The latter is a VR version of the horror game made famous with its jump scares and creepy animatronics.
“Trover Saves the Universe!” is a game from the mind of Justin Roiland, co-creator of “Rick and Morty.” The game is coming out May 31, the same day as the release of the bundle. Players have to do like the title says, and save the universe after Trover’s pups are kidnapped. The game is also coming to PC next month.
This bundle is priced at a more wallet-friendly $299.99. It also includes a PS VR system, a PlayStation camera, and a demo disc. Both games are digital vouchers, not physical copies.
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Why These M'sian Digital Developers Went Back To The Good Ole Days Of Print
Selena Thian
Sometimes new isn’t always better.
We now live in an era of Facebook pokes and Instagram likes. An era where everyone stares longer at a brightly lit screen than a book. An era where print is a dying art.
But now there’s a team that wants to change that.
We got in touch with a business that’s decided to make it all about traditional ink and paper and asked them frankly, what gives? Why move towards printed items when everyone’s talking about going digital?
The Inkredibles is a brand that houses products such as notebooks, stickers and cards.
It’s manned by the creative team under The Techy Hub, a company that specialises in web designs and development.
Although it seems ironic that a tech company is considering such an “outdated” industry to venture into, they are planning to turn the scene around.
As the director and founder of The Techy Hub, Ee Soon Seng was constantly involved with digital work throughout his career path.
It started out with being a web designer and front-end developer for 3 years to freelance programming for one and a half years.
And when the opportunity presented itself, he reeled it in. Collaborating with his former supervisor, the two started up The Techy Hub. But now, he’s trying to venture into a something that’s closer to home.
Image Credit: The Techy Hub
Raised from a family with background in the print industry, Soon Seng was constantly exposed to the idea of entrepreneurship and print business through his dad’s teaching.
“We had to do typewriting and database entries when we were young. We had a glimpse of how the printing business worked. Moreover, we had to be good in mathematics and calculations.”
“I did not understand why when I was a child, but the exposure of entrepreneurship definitely was there as I grew up,” he stated.
Even as he ventured into web development, he always knew he’d try print at least once in his career path.
The brand’s aim is a simple one: to “relive the print”.
And to do so, he initially decided to utilise our good ol’ friend—the printer.
The reason for that was also close to his heart as he reminisced about his childhood surrounded by printers that were constantly in use.
“I remembered the times when our machines used to run 24/7, being fully utilised. Hence, I decided to come out with the brand called ‘The Inkredibles’ solely to get the printers running again,” he said.
Image Credit: The Inkredibles
Soon Seng noticed the shift from traditional print design to the digital realm after working in the tech industry.
The printing business was becoming less important to the new generation and he figured it was time to change this method of thinking.
However, during the process, his design team—who consist of 2 art directors and 5 graphic designing interns— noticed that it wasn’t just the ink and paper that they should focus on but the never-ending and limitless possibilities that could’ve been created with just these two items.
Helping youth find the true meaning of connection.
In order to have real meaning to their motto, Soon Seng altered his original objective.
He decided to focus more on moulding the minds of our younger generations, making sure they understood that social media should never take over our lives completely.
“Primarily, get the younger generation to reuse notebooks, send out postcards, and doing paper crafts as their passion. Nowadays, everyone texts and uses social media one of the main forms of interaction. However, because of this, I really feel that the sense of connecting with each other has lost its original meaning,” he mentioned.
But much like any other new business, it’s hard to get the word out.
As for Soon Seng and his team, their biggest challenge thus far is to think of the next big move. Currently, they have an online store built by The Techy Hub team and they have held an event launch last month to create awareness for their theme.
They are already in preparation for future developments to enhance their brand.
“The upcoming plan is to come out with DIY decoration products, and speaking to schools about our latest launch. We had FCUC teachers coming to see our event and they were impressed by it,” he stated.
Their efforts might just play a part in revitalising a dying form of communication and repackaging it for a younger audience, who don’t fully know the beauty and power of the written word.
“We hope to grow into an established brand with a solid online store platform where people can purchase DIY decoration products from us. We also hope to grow a community of great designers who really want to get their artwork produced, showing their skills and talents to the world out there,” said Soon Seng.
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"Strength Through Honor"
Eddie Ray Routh: The Untold Story
In a response to the tragic events that occurred on February 2nd 2013; the Warfighter Foundation has conducted a comprehensive investigation that included interviews with U.S. Marines that knew and served with Eddie Ray Routh, the murderer of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. Additionally, there has been very little investigation into Routh’s military service and no inquiry regarding those who served with him. This is the first time Marines who knew and served with Eddie Ray Routh have been interviewed.
In order to understand the true significance of the subject matter, we must first provide an analytical assessment of Eddie Routh’s cognitive dissonance. What , if any , are the key implications that caused this individual to perform such a behavior. We can begin this assessment by breaking down Routh into several categories. The individual persona, the state / role and behavior within the United States, and finally his role as a Marine within the war in Iraq. This systematic breakdown allows for a precise characterization of not only his personality, but also allows for the identification of any “red flags” that might be claimed from Routh himself.
Our analysis begins with SSgt. Justin Webster, a former U.S. Marine that served honorably from 1998 – 2011. Webster was a Marine Corps recruiter that dealt directly with Routh for 11 months before heading off to Marine Corps boot camp. According to Routh’s mother Jodi, Routh left home during his junior year and moved in with his aunt and uncle who lived in a nearby town. She said that they had wanted to get away from their overprotective mother. Jodi doesn’t dispute this: “They were rebellious, and they wanted to drink and smoke pot and stuff, and that wasn’t gonna be allowed at our house.” The aunt admitted that she kept alcohol and marijuana around. Routh’s sister Laura, said that friends often passed out on the floor, and described the aunt’s house as “a squatter pad.” Meanwhile, in a house not far away, Routh and Laura’s grandfather was dying of cancer. The aunt was among those who had been entrusted to handle the grandfather’s prescriptions, including morphine; some of the morphine was stolen, and the aunt’s husband eventually overdosed on it. These initial conditions that Routh was exposed to may have been a contributing factor in the psylogical paranoia leading up to the murder.
“Eddie wanted to be a Marine forever, supposedly. He joined the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) his senior year and participated in the Recruiting Station’s pool functions (training events to prepare Marine candidates for Recruit Training) two to three times a week.” Webster said. “He was a dumb country kid. Good, but dumb.” Routh reportedly barely graduated High School and received an incredibly low score on the ASVAB (test that helps predict future academic and occupational success in the military). Jeff Diener, one of Routh’s classmates, said that he was “kinda hard to get along with.” Another classmate said that Routh was a “standard troublemaker” who “didn’t show a whole lot of respect” for the teachers. Kc Bernard, who was a security guard at the school for two of the years that Routh was there, said that Routh was “always ready to fight” and “had a chip on his shoulder.”
SSgt. Webster admitted, when Routh enlisted, it was during a time when the Marine Corps Recruiting Command was putting pressure on Marine Recruiters to fill quotas, no matter the cost. For example, in 2008, the Marine Corps recruited a man with autism. Over the last three fiscal years in 2009, 265 Marine recruiters have been relieved of duty for misconduct, most commonly for hiding negative background factors.
Later, Routh completed Marine Corps Recruit Training and headed home for leave. Webster said that “he [Routh] seemed motivated.” SSgt. Webster wouldn’t see Routh again until being stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, just a few miles away from Camp Lejeune where Routh was stationed. Webster ran into Routh at a bar in Jacksonville, NC. “It was late 2009 or early 2010, I went to a local Marine Corps bar, Lucky’s Tavern in Jacksonville, and there Routh was” said Webster. Routh’s grooming standards were out of Marine Corps regulation and he was “nasty looking, appeared disgruntled.” The two never spoke, due to circulating rumors of Routh’s drug use, but Webster was able to see that something was wrong. “Something had changed him. I just wrote it off as just a disgruntled Marine, you know, that typical first term Lance Corporal.”
We then spoke with Cpl. Ryker Pawloski who served Honorably between 2005 and 2009. Pawloski served directly with Routh before and during Iraq with 8th Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB-8), where Routh had been assigned after enlisting as a 2111 Small Arms Repairer/Technician, more commonly referred to as an armorer. “My first impression of Routh, was that he was a tall goofy bastard” Pawloski continued “prior to our work up, I never noticed anything odd.” The unit Routh and Pawloski were assigned to, was preparing for deployment to Iraq. As part of the preparation, the unit was sent to CAX (Combined Arms Exercise), the Marine Corps’ most advanced live-fire unit-level combined arms training program. It was during CAX, when the two Marines were spending every moment together as “Battle Buddies” that Pawloski finally noticed something was odd about Routh. “Eddie was easily pissy, he took everything too personal. I mean, I spent a lot of time with him, he really seemed like a good dude. But, he had that quirk.” Pawloski reported.
It is important to realize that Eddie Ray Routh never experienced combat. According to the American Psychology Association “There is now accumulating evidence that suggests that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is linked to combat experiences.”
Routh and Pawloski deployed together with CLB-8 in August 2007 to Camp Fallujah, Iraq. Pawloski said “We got mortared a couple times, that was the extent of our combat experience. Incoming was like hit and miss bullshit, for the most part there wasn’t a whole lot of hits. Routh was never near any incoming. Where he was located on the camp, he was rather safe and cozy.” Soon after CLB-8 arrived at Camp Fallujah, Routh was sent to Camp Balad in order to support the prison. Pawloski told us “Routh wasn’t needed. We had a few armorers and he was the only one we could spare.” After a couple months, Routh returned to CLB-8 at Camp Fallujah. “This is where I would like to set the record straight” Pawloski said ” Routh hated Muslims. He talked to me about his experiences at the prison and how he liked beating them with batons and didn’t sympathize with them. He really seemed like normal goofy Routh.” However, that same previously mentioned “quirk”, was about to be unleashed at full force.
According to the CAR/HSM Database, Eddie Ray Routh is not recipient of the Combat Action Ribbon; a personal award for combat service.
One day in the armory, Pawloski witnessed Routh almost beat another Marine to death. Pawloski said “Some of the guys were teasing Routh. They had posted ‘WANTED’ pictures of him with a rainbow flag. It was a harmless joke and he fucking snapped.” Routh selected one of the Marines in the armory and began pummeling his face until he was bleeding severely. Pawloski said “We had to break it up. He was out of control.” However, this was not an isolated incident. Routh had already shown a history of this “quirk” where he would snap. Pawloski reported “he would lash out like a fucking wild animal.” It was only a couple weeks later when Pawloski himself would become another victim of Routh’s uncontrollable rage. Pawloski reported “I was walking back into the armory and heard something funny, so I was laughing on my way in. Out of nowhere, Routh body slammed me. I was knocked unconscious because Routh hit my head on the steel work bench when he threw me down. I woke up convulsing.” Pawloski reported that the incident gave him a Traumatic Brain Injury, which can result in bruising, torn tissues, bleeding and other physical damage to the brain that can result in long-term complications or death.
“For him to be able to snap as bad as he did, says something.” Pawloski continued “I think something might have happened when he was young. He never really talked about his family. Routh seemed like he was a guy that was picked on.” According to the National Institute of Health, children who had been abused or neglected were 38% more likely to be arrested for a violent crime. Pawloski also reported that after Routh left the Marine Corps he “hit drugs hard, and I mean fucking hard. Hard shit and prescription.” About 50% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia meet criteria for substance abuse or dependence. While substance abuse does not cause schizophrenia, it can worsen the symptoms of the disorder. Patients may have particularly bad reactions to amphetamines , cocaine, PCP (“angel dust”) or marijuana. It is thought that patients with schizophrenia are attracted to drugs of abuse as self-medication for some of their symptoms.
CLB-8 returned from Iraq in March 2008. Pawloski said “When we returned, everything went back to normal for Routh. We both went home on leave, we talked all the time; he was normal.” Cpl. Pawloski stated, that PTSD is extremely unlikely and that a previous mental issue was already very prevalent in Routh.
In 2009, Routh was assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit command element, detached from CLB-8. Sgt. Andrew Stokes was right there with him, even sharing the same sleeping quarters. “Eddie was our armorer. If anyone needed to pull weapons out, that is all he did.” said Stokes. The Marines worked together for months on the USS Bataan throughout Spain, Greece, and Turkey among others. Stokes reported “Eddie was a cool guy. But he was a really wild guy. I never really hung out with him outside of work, I know he would drink, but not more than any other Marine.”
On January 18th 2010, Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) – joined under the Bataan Amphibious ready group (ARG) – began arriving in Haiti in order to conduct a Humanitarian-Assistance Disaster-Relief (HADR) mission. The ARG consisted of the USS Bataan, USS Carter Hall and USS Fort McHenry. Units within the MEU consisted of 1,600 Marines with the Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 461, and the MEU Command Element (Where Routh and Stokes were assigned). U.S. troops were also transported by helicopter onto the lawn of the Presidential Palace to help restore order and distribute aid.
The Marines that were sent to Haiti, were primarily for riot control and to distribute aid. Reports have circulated that Routh was part of a “body recovery” mission and that this is where his “PTSD” had developed, this however has been found to be false. Stokes reported “Routh never left the ship. He was the armorer, why would he leave the ship?” Furthermore, the ARG consisted of Marines from 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines (an infantry battalion). “The 03’s (Infantry Marines) were the ones on the ground in Haiti conducting operations.” Stokes continued “Based upon the time I spent with him, I don’t see the claim about PTSD adding up at all.”
AFTER THE CORPS
Upon separation from active duty, Routh struggled with drugs, alcohol, and mental instability. Routh’s father recalled, “We were down at the lake. We’d been going down there since he was nine years old, hunting and fishing. We would go there every weekend if we could get away with it. It was all good but I don’t know, something triggered him and he was telling me he was Dracula, that he was a vampire and wanted to suck people’s blood.” This incident (and Routh’s history of aggressive behavior) is an indication of a psychotic disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (also known as the DSM-IV-TR), the diagnostic standard for mental health professionals in the United States, describes several mental disorders that Routh could have been diagnosed with. Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia are at the top of the list, based on Routh’s behavior. It is important to realize that Routh’s behavior was not an indication of PTSD. It should be noted, that environmental stressors related to home and family life (parental death or divorce, family dysfunction) or to separation from the family of origin in late adolescence (going away to college or military training; marriage) may trigger the onset of schizophrenia in individuals with genetic or psychological vulnerabilities.
Schizophrenia often goes undetected for about two to three years after the onset of diagnosable symptoms, because the symptoms occur in the context of a previous history of cognitive and behavioral problems. The patient may have had panic attacks, social phobia , or substance abuse problems, any of which can complicate the process of diagnosis . In most cases, however, the patient’s first psychotic episode is preceded by a prodromal (warning) phase, with a variety of behaviors that may include angry outbursts, withdrawal from social activities, loss of attention to personal hygiene and grooming, anhedonia (loss of one’s capacity for enjoyment), and other unusual behaviors. The psychotic episode itself is typically characterized by delusions, which are false but strongly held beliefs that result from the patient’s inability to separate real from unreal events; and hallucinations, which are disturbances of sense perception. Hallucinations can affect any of the senses, although the most common form of hallucination in schizophrenia is auditory (“hearing voices”). Autobiographical accounts by people who have recovered from schizophrenia indicate that these hallucinations are experienced as frightening and confusing. Patients often find it difficult to concentrate on work, studies, or formerly pleasurable activities because of the constant “static” or “buzz” of hallucinated voices.
Routh met the criteria of risk factors for violence in a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia: male sex, age below 30, prediagnosis history of violence, paranoid subtype, nonadherence to medication regimen, and heavy substance abuse.
In July 2011, while working in Houston, Routh got heatstroke and fell ill. His sister drove to Houston to bring her brother home. On the way back, he told her that he had a tapeworm. He “kept obsessing over it,” Laura said. Raymond took him to the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Doctors there failed to find a tapeworm. Routh stayed in the hospital a few more days, for further tests, then checked himself out. This is a clear indication of somatic hallucinations. Somatic hallucinations refer to sensations or perceptions about one’s body organs that have no known medical cause, such as feeling that snakes are crawling around in one’s intestines or that one’s eyes are emitting radioactive rays.
Since May of 2012, Routh had been involved in at least three incidents involving police and pleaded guilty to a DWI charge in Johnson County. Additionally, Dallas police say a woman called them to an apartment complex in the 7600 block of Churchill Way in North Dallas because she feared for Routh’s safety. Routh was in distress and wanting to get help, so officers took him to Green Oaks for a mental health evaluation. Routh’s mother also called Lancaster police on the night of May 14th 2012 to report a burglary. The report listed Routh as the suspect and indicated that nine pill bottles were taken.
Routh’s mother, Jodi, reported a disturbance in September 2012 after Routh got into a fistfight with his father over nothing. Routh stomped toward the house, threatening to “blow his brains out” and “suck-start a rifle.” Jodi knew that he was going for the guns, and she grabbed one of Routh’s friends and told him to get the weapons out of the house. Routh fumed when he found the gun closet empty and shouted, “I’ll blow all your brains out!” Jodi called the police, telling the operator, “They need to admit him to the mental ward.” Routh was arrested and taken to Green Oaks Psychiatric Hospital.
In January 2013, Routh and his girlfriend Jen were hanging around her apartment when he fell into a state of paranoia. He began ranting to Jen and her roommate about government-surveillance activities. He once told a friend that the helicopters overhead were watching him. Outbursts of this nature had become more frequent. He made sure to cover the camera on his computer (“He felt very strongly about that,” Jodi said), and confided to family and friends, “They know what we’re doing.”
Inside the apartment, Routh began pacing in front of Jen’s door, clutching a knife. He said that he was prepared to defend her from government agents who were out to get them. For hours, she tried, unsuccessfully, to calm him. Finally, Jen’s roommate texted the police, who arrested Routh and took him to Green Oaks. He was transferred to the Dallas V.A. the next day.
The quality of care varies from one V.A. facility to the next. In 2004, the V.A. Inspector General called the Dallas facility the worst in the nation; a Dallas TV station interviewed veterans who alleged that the facility was so poor that it put “lives at risk.”
Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was a local in the same town as Routh. Routh’s mother Jodi worked on the special-ed program at the Midlothian, Texas school which Kyle’s children attended. On January 25th 2013, Jodi approached Kyle in the school parking lot and told him about her son Eddie. Routh’s father recalled “Chris said he had some work to do right then but he would think about it and he would do what he could.” A week later, Chris called and offered to help.
The morning of Saturday, February 2nd, Kyle and his wife went to their son’s ballgame. Afterward, a friend of Kyle’s, Chad Littlefield, met with Chris and they headed to pick up Routh.
Routh climbed into Kyle’s F-350, and they headed to Rough Creek Lodge, a resort ninety miles to the southwest. Kyle had helped design the thousand-yard rifle range there, and he was allowed to come and go as he pleased. The drive took a little more than an hour. According to Taya (the wife of Chris Kyle), Chris thought that the trip would “give someone who was hurting a chance to talk on the drive, spend a short bit of time shooting, and then give him a little more time to talk on the way home, to find some outlets and resources.”
Kyle parked in front of the main lodge around 3 P.M. Routh stayed in the truck while Kyle and Littlefield went inside to register. The property extends over eleven thousand acres; hunting grounds and the rifle range cover more than two-thirds of it, and a locked gate prevents golfers from straying into dangerous areas. At Kyle’s request, an employee radioed ahead to unlock the gate. Kyle and Littlefield got back in the truck, and they bumped along a dirt road for a few miles. They reached the shooting platform and raised a red Bravo flag, to warn others away. Kyle had reserved the range until four o’clock.
At 4:55 P.M., a guide noticed that the flag was still up. He drove toward the platform. He noticed several weapons set out, waiting to be fired, but he did not see Kyle’s truck. From a distance, the guide saw what appeared to be a sack. As he drew nearer, he realized that it was a dead body. Littlefield was on his back, with multiple gunshots in the chest; his pistol remained tucked in his jeans. Up close, the guide discerned grooves in the sand around Littlefield’s fingers, suggesting that he had clawed for life after hitting the ground.
Several feet away, Kyle was lying face down. He had been shot in the back and in the back of the head. Blood covered his baseball cap. His pistol lay in the sand, within reach. The guide called 911, then bent over Kyle to administer CPR. It was hopeless. He was dead.
Routh called his sister and brother-in-law from an apartment in Alvarado to see if they were home before driving to their house in Midlothian in Kyle’s black pickup truck, according to an affidavit. Around 5:45 P.M. he arrived at his brother-in-law, Gaines Blevins, house. Routh told Gaines and his sister, Laura, that he and two other people “were out shooting target practice and he couldn’t trust them so he killed them before they could kill him.” He asked them if the world was freezing over, then announced that he had a new truck. Laura asked if he had traded in his car, a Volkswagen Beetle; he said no, but added, “I sold my soul for a truck.” He went on, “We went up to the gun range. I killed them.” Laura asked her brother what he was talking about. “Chris and his friend. I killed them. I murdered them,” he said. “I didn’t really think he was telling the truth,” Laura said. “And he’s, like, ‘Are you and Gaines in Hell with me?’ And I was, like, ‘No, we’re not in Hell.’ And he was, like, ‘Well, do you think I can get to Oklahoma?’ And I was, like, ‘Oklahoma? What’s in Oklahoma?’ And he’s, like, ‘Well, if I can get to Oklahoma, I can get out of this.’ And I was, like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I think you’re telling me a story. Don’t lie to me. Tell me what happened.’ And at this point we’re almost to the front door, and so we walked outside, and when we walked outside I thought I was gonna throw up on myself, because here’s this truck that I know he could never afford. The tires alone were expensive. That’s the first thing I saw—these giant, big knobby tires on this pickup truck.”
Laura realized that Routh really must have killed two men. He offered to show Gaines the murder weapon, and began reaching into a tool chest in the truck. They told him to stop. Laura was afraid for herself and for Gaines, and she asked Routh to leave and turn himself in. Before he drove off, he said to her, “I love you.”
Laura Blevins told police her brother seemed “out of his mind saying people were sucking his soul and that he could smell the pigs. He said he was going to get their souls before they took his.”
In the 911 call to police, the brother-in-law of Eddie Ray Routh described a paranoid Routh who arrived to his home and said he’d murdered two people because “he couldn’t trust anyone anymore and everyone was out to get him,” according to a search warrant affidavit. Routh “admitted to killing Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield at Rough Creek Lodge Shooting Range” and “admitted to stealing Kyle’s pickup truck” in a statement to police.
As the call continued, Laura Blevins described him as being psychotic and said she did not know whether he was on drugs. “He’s all crazy,” Blevins said. Blevins’ husband told the 911 operator that Routh had told them he had two guns in the truck. He said he didn’t know where Routh was headed. “He was talking kind of babble,” Blevins’ husband said. He said that he did not make any threats toward them and that “He [Eddie Routh] just got out of a mental hospital last week.”
Routh then left their home driving the truck, saying he wanted to get to Oklahoma to avoid Texas authorities, the documents state. Authorities arrived at Routh’s home (where they found drug paraphernalia, Routh later admitted he’d been smoking marijuana that might have been laced with other drugs.) in Lancaster to arrest him and saw Kyle’s pickup truck at the home, Routh tried to flee in the pickup. The brief pursuit ended in an arrest near Interstate 35 and Camp Wisdom Road around 8:34 p.m.
Just hours after the murders of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, Eddie Ray Routh gave a long, strange, rambling confession. A Texas Ranger talked to Routh for about 45 minutes the night of the murders in February 2013. The Ranger read Routh his rights, and asked if he understood. Ranger Danny Briley said Routh nodded. Briley asked Routh why he did it. Routh responded in a deep drawl, “I knew if I didn’t take out his soul, he would take my soul next.” He added, “I got tons of people eating my soul,” and, “I can’t sleep.”
Routh also mentioned a wolf in the sky, warlords unhappy with him, and world counsels of men and women to solve problems. He was handcuffed, sitting inside an interview room at Lancaster police headquarters. He did not ask for an attorney, but did ask to see his mother.
Throughout the past few years, Eddie Ray Routh has shown clear signs of a severe psychological disorder. Routh meets the “positive symptoms” of schizophrenia (The positive symptoms of schizophrenia include four so-called “first-rank” or Schneiderian symptoms, named for a German psychiatrist who identified them in 1959), which include delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices, thought insertion or withdrawal (notion that other beings or forces are putting thoughts or ideas into one’s mind i.e. God, aliens, the CIA, etc.), disorganized speech and thinking, and disorganized behavior.
In contrast, you can’t ignore a woman that lived with a U.S. Navy SEAL that served five combat tours in Iraq. A woman who experienced PTSD from a man that undoubtedly carried a larger burden on his shoulders than Eddie Routh. Chris Kyle’s PTSD resulted in helping his fellow veterans, not murdering them. Taya Kyle said that people with PTSD “work through their struggles, just like we work through our struggles. They are phenomenal people and it doesn’t change their character,” Taya Kyle said. She also said that PTSD is not a justification for murder.
Psychologist Dr. Bret A. Moore, an expert in military psychology, said “In most cases, PTSD does not lead to criminal behavior. Much of what is seen on this issue in the media is a result of savvy lawyers conjuring up defenses for their clients that would have likely committed the crime regardless if they had PTSD or not. Lawyers know that the average citizen sitting on a jury will have a great deal of sympathy for the veteran, which they hope will result in a favorable outcome for their client.” – excerpt from Dr. Moore’s article in Psychology Today, titled Criminal Behavior is Not a Symptom of PTSD.
Approximately 80 percent of patients with PTSD have at least one comorbid (in medicine, comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional disorder) psychiatric disorder. Note, that a precipitating traumatic event is necessary, but not sufficient, to make the diagnosis of PTSD. Of all the “traumatic” events that Routh had described throughout his military history (i.e. shooting a child on patrol in Iraq, handling dead bodies in Haiti, etc.) none of them actually happened, according to the Marines he served with. Delusions (a false belief that is resistant to reason or to confrontation with actual facts) are very prevalent throughout Routh’s history and another clear symptom of schizophrenia.
According to retired U.S. Army Major, Dr. C. Alan Hopewell, Ph.D., MP, ABPP (former President of the Texas Psychological Association, former Senior Neuropsychologist for the Department of the Army, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UNTHSC, American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology) Eddie Routh’s behavior was not consistent with that of PTSD. Rather, Dr. Hopewell confirmed our findings, that Routh’s “symptoms are consistent with that of a paranoid schizophrenic.” It is important to note, that a major role of Dr. Hopewell’s career in the Army, was as the senior psychologist for evaluating and clearing Army Snipers and combat veterans. Additionally, Dr. Hopewell was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for courage and heroism beyond the call of duty for thwarting part of the attack of Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood, TX and for first responder actions. Note, these views are his alone and do not reflect the views of DOD or UNT.
While Routh’s mental condition will no doubt play a role in the upcoming trial, the claims of PTSD are without question, false. It is important to realize that there is still no excuse for the murders committed by Eddie Routh, because he knew what he was doing was wrong. However, partial blame rest with the Military Entrance Processing Station that allowed Routh to Enlist, with Routh’s Marine Corps command for ignoring Routh’s violent behavior, and with the blatant incompetence of the V.A.
Lastly, although Routh’s parents had struggled endlessly to get Routh admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the blame falls with them for allowing their son, that they knew was mentally ill and extremely violent, to go to a shooting range without disclosing Routh’s violent and erratic behavior.
Had Chris Kyle known what we know now, he would still be alive.
One of the unfortunate realities of waging long war in two countries, is meeting troop level requirements with an all volunteer military. Those who have served have witnessed or learned second hand, of enlistees who are way below the usual minimum accepted standards being shipped off to boot camp. The lowering of standards in all the categories that make a “good soldier” are helping to create future tragedies. These tragedies are being caused by individuals who are lacking psychologically,socially,spiritually, and behaviorally. The individual who is deficient in any or all of these areas is going to have a more difficult time coping in a peace-time, non-combat military enlistment. Everyday there are tragic stories about someone in the military or a veteran who has committed a violent crime. Usually the perpetrator, family members, or the media immediately place the blame it on Combat-Related PTSD. Then with further examination the PTSD alibi starts to quickly unravel. What the media, the witless, and violent psychopaths looking for vindication don’t realize, is that everyday we are all interacting with others who are suffering from PTSD, and we may never know it. Most PTSD symptoms are not recognizable to strangers, it would take knowing the PTSD sufferer intimately to view the signs and symptoms. PTSD symptoms vary widely but usually consist of at least these three categories ; recurring memories, avoidance, and hyperarousal. There may also be depression.
These symptoms don’t manifest all at one time, it is more of a cycle, a roller coaster, a merry-go-round. It is Ground Hog Day. The PTSD roller costar keeps going around and around. The ride isn’t all bad, it’s just not all good. There will be those sweet moments when those who are cursed with this affliction, resemble their former selves. When they re-find joy in all the activities that made them feel alive. When they make to do lists, get proactive and productive, and plan their amazing futures. Unfortunately that high, that joy for life is fleeting, just like the ability to feel true happiness. Imagine waking up and wishing it was night, so you could just go back to bed. Pretending to be sick to avoid interacting with other human beings. Not being capable of leaving your house. Driving to pick your child up from school, and getting lost. Even though you have been driving to the same place for four years. Looking in your rear view mirror, to see if the car behind you has been tailing you. Starting things, and never finishing them. Never finding any enjoyment in all the activities you used to love. Feeing like life is passing you by. Not being able to sleep unless medicated. Insomnia, with anxiety. Not being able to imagine your future or one that is better than the present. PTSD sufferers are not violent. Most PTSD sufferers, despite dealing with their challenging reality still try to help others who are in the same situation. Those with PTSD are more likely to cause harm to themselves instead others. Allowing criminals to abuse and implicate a valid disorder that so many service members, veterans, and family members endure, is abhorrent. I am not a Doctor and I don’t know everything about PTSD. The one thing I do know though, is that I have it.
– Surviving Spouse of U.S. Navy SEAL
Co-Authored by Spencer Walker and Daniel Racca
Spencer Walker (deployed twice to Afghanistan and five times to Iraq) and Daniel Racca (deployed three times to Iraq) are Honorably Discharged combat veteran U.S. Marines. Both serve on the Board of Directors of the Warfighter Foundation and are the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Warfighter News.
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is the collection of information from human sources.
HUMINT for this report was collected from:
Major. Dr. C. Alan Hopewell, U.S. Army 1976-2010
SSgt. Justin Webster, U.S. Marines 1998 – 2011
Sgt. Andrew Stokes, U.S. Marines 2006-2010
Cpl. Ryker Pawloski, U.S. Marines 2005-2009
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) refers to a broad array of information and sources that are generally available, including information obtained from the media (newspapers, radio, television, etc.), professional and academic records (papers, conferences, professional associations, etc.), and public data (government reports, demographics, hearings, speeches, etc.)
OSINT for this report was collected from:
Marine Corps Times
Texas Psychological Association
Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Psychiatry Online
Psychiatric Times
WFAA8 ABC
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First, we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and health, happiness and success in 2019. This past year was an eventful one for collectors of fish and game stamps, highlighted by the website’s Federal Home Page expansion and Will Csaplar’s Large Gold Medal in Bangkok. Now we may all look forward to what the new year has in store for us.
The purpose of today’s post is to introduce Killer Eleven. Highlighted by 42 different items that were chosen for their eye appeal and, yes, a bit of “wow” factor, it can be reached by clicking on Killer beneath the Home page banner, then clicking on “Killer Eleven”.
The Killer pages are collages that are intended to achieve an uncommon visual experience. For this reason, the text has been limited to captions that are only visible when hovering over each image. We recommend first taking in the entire collage at once, with the aid of the scroll bar located to the far right of your screen (or with the dial on your mouse, for those with that option).
If you click on an image it will expand in size (allowing the entire caption to be seen). From there, you can navigate through the collage using the forward and back arrows located at the right and left sides of your screen. The slide show function is especially effective with the Killer pages. It may be activated by clicking on the symbol located at the lower right of the enlarged image (it looks like a triangle facing right). Once the slide show is running, the same symbol then turns into a pause button (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Screenshot of a Dupont Powder advertising cover from Killer Eleven, enlarged image showing the command functions located at the sides and in three corners.
You may also choose to go full screen by clicking the symbol located at the the upper left of the image (it looks like arrows extending in four different directions). To get back to the collage, click the “x” symbol at the upper right of the image or click on the page outside of the image.
The First California BOY Hunting License
The very first Killer page, Killer One, featured E.L. Vanderford’s personal 1928 California Citizen [BOY] Hunting License, issued to Van when he was 15 years old. The only recorded unused example of this iconic license is included at the upper left of Killer Eleven (see Figure 2). The evocative BOY wording was only used for two years, in 1928 and 1929.
Figure 2. 1928 California BOY Hunting License, unused.
Starting with the 1929 license, the serial number included a “B” prefix and this practice continued after the word “BOY” was replaced by “JUNIOR” starting in 1930. For the 1934-35 license year, only, California issued celluloid-covered hunting license buttons for at least five classes of hunters: Resident, Junior, Non Resident, Alien and Declarant Alien. A “Declarant Alien” was an immigrant who was in the process of obtaining U.S. citizenship.
Duplicate and Sample buttons were also produced and I have heard from several old time collectors, including Van and Bill Oliver, that buttons were produced which were were inscribed “Indian” and provided to resident Native Americans at “NO FEE”. To my knowledge, no Indian license buttons have been recorded.
To see all of the California BOY and JUNIOR licenses issued through 1934-35, click here.
RW1 Small Die Proof
The only recorded example of a small die proof for the first federal waterfowl stamp (1934-35) can be seen at the upper center of the collage. Large and small die proofs represent an integral step in the federal waterfowl stamp production process and, as such, as avidly sought by advanced collectors and exhibitors.
After the stamp designer at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has taken the artist’s original artwork and incorporated it into the stamp’s design (the artwork serves as the basis for the central visual element or vignette), it is turned over to the Bureau’s Engraving Department. There, two or more engravers are assigned to produce die proofs. Die proofs differ from essays in that the image exactly matches the finished product – while essays do not.
In the case of die proofs, images are pulled to judge the quality of the die. Die proofs for engraved stamps are usually printed under great pressure onto a thin piece of paper (India) that is about the same size as the engravers die block. If the paper with the stamp image was mounted on a larger piece of card stock, these are known as large die proofs. Since the impressions are printed from the master die, they are normally of very high quality.
Alternatively, the paper which was originally the size of the engraver’s die block could be trimmed down to a much smaller size. These are known as small die proofs. All of the original small die proofs that I have examined have margins that are 5-6 mm. Small die proofs for 1934-35 through 1937-38 federal waterfowl stamps were mounted on card stock roughly the same size of the paper. Those for 1938-39 through 1945-46 were not mounted.
Small die proofs are known for their intense, vibrant color. Often small die proofs were created to mount in presentation albums for important government officials such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, an avid stamp collector.
This particular piece of waterfowl stamp history was formerly in the collection of Jeanette Cantrell Rudy and was exhibited in the Court of Honor at NAPEX in the late 1990s and was on display at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. for many years (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. RW1 Small Die Proof on Card, ex Rudy.
For more information on this part of the production process, visit the Proofs and Essays Page. To see the complete set of federal small die proofs (RW1 – RW12) that was assembled by Jeanette Rudy, click here.
1937 Pymatuning Waterfowl Stamp on License
The Ohio license shown at the upper right represents arguably the single most important stamp usage in the entire hobby. The Pymatuning Hunting stamps were required solely to hunt waterfowl on Pymatuning Lake (actually a reservoir). This series has the greatest overall difficulty of acquisition in the hobby, with the least difficult stamp, issued in 1945, having three confirmed examples recorded.
For over 50 years, the 1938 Pymatuning Hunting stamp was thought to be the first state-issued waterfowl stamp, and combined with the fact that it was unique, earned it the title of the “British Guiana” of the waterfowl stamp hobby. Starting in the 1990s, collectors became aware of the first of two recorded Pymatuning hunting stamps without a printed year date (both off-license).
My subsequent research showed Ohio did in fact authorize the Pymatuning stamps just prior to the waterfowl seasons of 1937. However, there was no evidence to confirm the undated stamps were from that year. The 1937 Ohio license in this montage, bearing both the undated Pymatuning and 1937-38 federal waterfowl stamps, provides confirmation that the stamps were indeed issued in 1937 and are, therefore, the first state waterfowl stamps.
This historic piece (see Figure 4) is currently one of the cornerstones of Will Csaplar’s outstanding exhibit, A License and Stamp System for Waterfowl Conservation in the 20th Century U.S. Just over a month ago, it became the first fish and game exhibit to be awarded an International Gold Medal, at the Thailand 2018 Wold Stamp Exhibition. For more on this event, click here.
Figure 4. 1937 Pymatuning Waterfowl Stamp used with a 1937-38 Federal Waterfowl Stamp on an Ohio license.
1941-42 Marion County Husband and Wife Fishing Licenses
Husband and wife licenses are fun to collect for two reasons. They are usually consecutively numbered which is kind of cool. In addition, they serve as a reminder that a husband and wife shared a passion for the same hobby and spent many meaningful hours together – presumably enjoying each other’s company and fortifying their relationship.
This particular pair of husband and wife licenses has special meaning for me, personally – and they are significant to our fish and game hobby as a whole – for not only are the husband and wife team Jerry and Verona Mullikin of Marion County fame – but the fishing stamps on their licenses are the only two examples that have ever been recorded (see Figure 5).
Figure 5. 1941-42 Marion County Fishing stamps used on Jerry and Verona Mullikin’s Licenses.
Marion County, Kansas, became the first local government in the U.S. to issue fish and game stamps with one required of county residents to fish on the newly constructed and stocked Marion County Lake, in May of 1940. During the fall and winter of 1940-41, thousands of migrating ducks stopped over at the lake.
As a direct result, one J.J. Siebert formally proposed that waterfowl hunting be allowed on the lake. On August 16, 1941, the County Board of Commissioners passed and adopted a resolution to allow waterfowl hunting during the 1941 season, “Provided that each person so hunting shall have a state license with Federal duck stamp attached, also a Marion County Duck stamp or permit as the case may be [my emphasis]”.
With this resolution, the first local waterfowl stamps in the U.S. were printed and issued. Overseeing this historic operation was the first Park and Lake Supervisor, Jerry E. Mullikin, a former peace officer who had a life long interest in fish and game conservation (see Figure 6).
Figure 6. Jerry Mullikin (left) talking with County Commisioner Karl Moshbacher in front of the lake.
Marion County issued both duck and fishing stamps through 1973. For decades after, the county held the record for the longest consecutively issued state or local waterfowl stamp series in the U.S. There have only been five supervisors since the lake’s completion. Jerry held the position until his death in February of 1956, after which time his wife Verona (see Figure 7) took over temporarily until John Waner could succeed Mullikin in April of that same year.
Figure 7. Verona Mullikin standing in front of the lake with a catch of fish, circa 1940s.
If you would like to read an in-depth article discussing Jerry and Verona and learn more about this fascinating story, see The Fish and Game Stamps of Marion County, Kansas. To see a galley containing images of all of the Marion County fishing stamps issued from 1940 – 1973, click here.
1934 California Alien Angling License Button
In addition to the 1934-35 hunting license buttons California issued for the 1934-35 fiscal year, the state produced a number of angling license buttons to cover the 1934 calendar year. Separate buttons were issued to Resident, Non Resident and Alien fishermen. Sample and Duplicate license buttons were also produced. For a gallery with all of the different California Angling License Buttons, click here.
Alien licenses have always captivated collectors. The wording is exotic and, in most cases, they are really hard to acquire – thus providing the ultimate “thrill of the hunt” experience. Many years ago, I completed a set of California paper Alien fishing licenses from their inception in 1914 through some time around WWII.
The early ones were produced by masters of chromolithography. To learn more about how these licenses came to be, see the six part series starting with California Hunting & Fishing Licenses – Part One. To see a gallery featuring images of the California Alien licenses, click here. However, the 1934 Alien Angling button always eluded me (six examples recorded).
This past year was notable for me in that not only was I finally able to acquire one example for my collection during the summer (see Figure 8) – I actually obtained a second at the end of the year! This is not the first time I have hunted for something rare for decades, only to come up with two in a relatively short space of time. That is one of the things that makes our hobby so exciting; you never know what lays around the next bend.
Figure 8. 1934 California Alien Angling License Button.
1955-56 Tennessee Big Game Partial Sheet
This is a rather startling find made by Cynthia Carnahan, a few months after she helped me with the popular blog series From Girly Pulps to Trout Stamps. The series tells the story of her father, Worth B. Carnahan, and his amazing career.
Worth was an artist, illustrator, magazine editor and publisher. He participated in the origins of two pop culture mainstays, girlie pulps and comic books, whose images today invoke two very different connotations.
We saw how the development of both industries was directly linked and, in so doing, revealed the remarkable background of an artist who would later design some of the most popular stamps in the fish and game hobby.
While growing up in Washington, Worth was an avid stamp collector and frequently visited the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to observe the production process. He was interested in art from an early age, liked to draw and envisioned a career as a commercial artist, a technical draftsman or an engraver.
Deeper down, below these practical aspirations, Worth yearned to design stamps and would revisit this desire many times throughout his life. Later in life, he came to live in Nashville where he initially worked as a freelance commercial illustrator. Some of his assignments were for the Tennessee Fish and Game Commission, who liked his work so much that they eventually employed him full time as an illustrator.
When the Commission began requiring sportsmen to purchase big game and trout stamps in the mid 1950s, it was Worth B. Carnahan who designed nearly all of them.
In Part Three, I included an extensive survey of the philatelic literature prior to discussing the stamps, themselves. As it regarded the 1955-56 Big Game stamps, I illustrated pages from the previous work of Frank B. Applegate, Joseph Janousek and E.L. Vanderford.
Applegate did not comment on the production format for the stamps, however, Janousek and Vanderford did. In his “State Game Hunting and Fishing Revenue Stamps” column which appeared in The American Revenuer, Janousek stated the 1955-56 Tennessee Big Game Stamps were “Issued in sheets of 15 stamps” (January, 1960).
Vanderford, in his “Tennessee Big Game” listings which appeared in the State Revenue Newsletter dated July, 1970, went a step further. Like Janousek, Van stated the stamps were “From sheets of 15” and then added “[The sheets were] (5 x 3), approx 135 x 185 mm and imperf all four sides. Sheets were serial numbered at top”.
As the descriptions made by Janousek and Vanderford roughly match up to the partial sheet discovered by Cynthia in boxes of her father’s things – one can safely deduce that both Janousek and Vanderford were in contact with Carnahan when they were producing their listings and it was Worth who provided the information about the format. Clearly, neither Janousek nor Vanderford ever examined the “sheet” and never even saw a xerox copy.
For, in fact, the “sheet” in Carnahan’s possession was not complete and only consisted of the top three rows of what was almost certainly a sheet of 25 (5 x 5) – the same format used to print all of the other Tennessee Big Game stamps. Why neither man questioned this odd format and why Vanderford stated that the (partial) sheet was “imperf all four sides” will always remain a mystery.
At any rate, prior to Cynthia’s find, there had been no multiples of any kind and only a very few unused examples recorded. Therefore, this qualifies as one of the most important finds in fish and game philately and the piece is truly “Killer” (see Figure 9).
Figure 9. 1955-56 Tennessee Big Game Upper Block of 15 with Plate Number, ex Carnahan Archive.
I resisted the temptation to publish this information for one year, in the expectation that Cynthia might make some additional noteworthy discoveries and I would report on all of them at once. Alas, no others were were to be made. Nevertheless, I find myself indebted to Cynthia once again for helping to bring another important item into the hands of collectors and, in so doing, shedding more light on the extraordinary work her father did for the Tennessee Fish and Game Commission.
RW5 Top Plate Number Single Signed by Artist Roland Clark
One of the popular ways to collect federal waterfowl stamps is signed by the artist who created the original artwork that was used for the vignette. In general, the signatures of those who designed the art for the earlier stamps are the most highly sought after and, as a result, can be difficult to acquire.
Such is the case with Roland Clark, who was selected by a special committee appointed within the Bureau of Biological Survey (now the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) to create the artwork for the fifth federal waterfowl stamp to be valid during the 1938-39 fiscal year.
Bob Dumaine commented in The Duck Stamp Story, “The most difficult signatures to obtain are those of Roland Clark (1938) and Francis Jaques (1940), both deceased. Clark disliked signing and usually made the person requesting the signature agree not to sell it. Any dealers who asked him to sign would have their stamps returned, often with a caustic note”.
Fortunately, this was not the case when the request came from Alvin Broholm. Alvin would become well known in the wildlife art community as a serious stamp collector with a very specific interest – Alvin collected artist signed federal waterfowl stamps.
Starting when he was young and living in Michigan, Alvin would find out the name and address of each artist, starting with Ding Darling in 1934, and then write to them asking if they would be willing to sign stamps for him. Over the years, Alvin sent singles, blocks and plate blocks to be signed. However, his real passion was for top plate number singles and he would later form an award-winning exhibit from his specialized collection of these.
In July of 1938, while still living in Detroit, Michigan, Alvin wrote to Roland Clark and made his yearly request. Thankfully, when replying to Broholm Clark stated “[I] am glad to autograph the block of stamps as requested” (see Figure 10).
Figure 10. Artist Roland Clark’s warm response to Alvin Broholm.
After receiving the signed block back from Clark, Broholm separated the top plate number single and added it to his nascent collection (see Figure 11). A few years later Alvin started to exhibit his artist signed plate number singles at stamp shows throughout the midwest. By 1953, his exhibit included the first twenty federal issues (see Figure 12) and then Alvin C. Broholm won the Grand Award at the 20th Anniversary of the Trans Mississippi Philatelic exhibition in Davenport, Iowa.
Figure 11. RW5 Top Plate Number Single Signed by Artist Roland Clark, ex Broholm.
Figure 12. By 1953, Broholm’s exhibit had expanded to include the first twenty artist signed top plate number singles. Clark’s stamp is located at the far left of the second row (click to enlarge).
For more on Alvin C. Broholm and his collecting interests, see My Favorite Federal Duck Stamp – Part Three. To see a gallery with images of Alvin Broholm’s RW1 – RW25 artist signed federal plate number singles, click here.
The1950 SD Waterfowl Complete Sheet
In the early 1990s, when I was in the early stages of exhibiting at national stamp shows, I ran a large number of ads in newspapers in states that had issued better fish and game stamps. The ads stated that I was looking to buy rare pieces that would enhance my exhibit.
One day I received a call from a man in South Dakota. He told me he had a complete sheet of the first South Dakota Waterfowl stamp and that he would sell it to me for $5,000.00, cash. This posed several challenges for me; not only did he live far from my home in California and wanted to be paid in cash because he did not know me from Adam – the biggest problem was that the sheet was very large and, therefore, would not fit on a standard exhibit page.
On the other hand, it was a mind-blowing rarity and an important part of the waterfowl stamp story in the U.S., so I was intrigued. I discussed it with a couple of philatelic judges and they told me I could have an oversized page made – the size of four regular pages – and place it in the frame that way. But then, how would I get it to the shows – or even back home from South Dakota safely? Shipping it seemed risky.
After deliberating for several months, I decided to go for it. Kay and I would drive to Minnesota and visit her family for a vacation – stopping by the guy’s house on the way. He lived in the north central part of the state, in the midst of endless fields of sunflowers. As we spent a considerable amount of time driving through the fields and it was a warm summer day – we were actually able to witness these thousands of sunflowers gradually turn their heads to follow the sun. It was an unforgettable experience.
We finally arrived at the guy’s house (I have forgotten his name) and he was actually a sunflower farmer. We had a nice chat wherein we learned the man was a lifelong hunter and had purchased a complete sheet when the stamps were issued in order to help out the state’s waterfowl habitat. I remember Kay and I thought that was pretty cool as that was the exact purpose of the stamps.
After a short period of time, he went in a back room and brought out the sheet. I immediately noticed two things – first, it was not the first issue from 1949 but the second from 1950 and second, the sheet had incredible eye appeal and would be killer in the exhibit!
When we arrived back in California, I set about getting the oversized page and mylar pocket made. Obviously, the page would not fit into my printer, so I printed all of the text on standard-sized pages (8.5 x 11) and carefully cut out and affixed them to the over-sized page with an acid free glue stick.
After successfully mounting the sheet I waited for an opportunity where I could drive the exhibit to a show. This finally happened a few years later, when a big international philatelic exhibition was held in San Fransisco – Pacific 97. After displaying the sheet as part of my exhibit there, it next appeared in my exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in 1998 (see Figure 13).
Figure 13. Panel Four from The National Postal Museum Exhibit in 1998. Note: This photo was taken subsequent to the exhibit and all the philatelic objects are color photocopies.
It seems hard to believe but It has now been over twenty years since the public has seen this sheet. It is currently owned by Will Csaplar and his plans are to show it at one or two national shows once he is done with international exhibiting, in a couple of years or so. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this great piece of waterfowl stamp history – and the rest of Killer Eleven!
Figure 14. 1950 South Dakota Waterfowl Complete Sheet of 50 (click to enlarge).
To be taken to Killer Eleven, click here.
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Tag Archives: Nelson
Two lions to guard me
Anyone walking past Westminster Council House on Marylebone Road a few weeks ago will have been horrified to see that the splendid art deco lions who have guarded it since it opened in 1914 had been brutally assaulted, with one losing a nose and the other an ear in the attack. Fortunately they have now been mended and thanks to an excellent cleaning job they look better than ever. Do give them a pat if you’re in the area.
But these fine fellows are not the only lions in Westminster – let’s have a look at some of the others. The most famous, of course, are the four guarding Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. These were designed by the noted animal painter Edwin Landseer after a competition set by Parliament, despite the fact that, as The Times said, “Sir Edwin never had a chisel in his hand in his life, and never yet, we believe, attempted to model anything.” Read more about Landseer and his family (he was the youngest of seven children, all talented artists) in Oxford Art Online (you will need to log in with your Westminster Library card). The lions, of course, feature in the famous music hall song I Live in Trafalgar Square, which inspired the title of this blog post. Skip the boring introduction and listen to Richard Thompson’s rather splendid version instead.
But not all London lions are quite as big as those guarding Trafalgar Square and the Council House. London Pride by Valerie Colin-Russ attempts to list all the London lions ‘visible from the streets and public footpaths’.
While our neighbours in Kensington and Chelsea have 365 lions and Hammersmith and Fulham an impressive 1,323 (to put this into perspective the much larger Croydon has a mere 17), Westminster, you will be proud to hear, has a staggering 3,766 lions for you to find. Let’s look at a few of them…
Rather different to the placid creatures guarding Nelson is the lioness found in Grosvenor Gardens which is chasing an antelope. This was commissioned by the Duke of Westminster to celebrate the opening of the gardens to the public – what sort of activities he was expecting shall remain a mystery!
Lions turn up in all sorts of expected (The Red Lion pub on Parliament Street if spotting MPs takes your fancy) and unexpected places (the are sixty lion heads around the top of The Albert pub in Victoria Street. And you might want to take a careful look at the statue of World War I heroine Edith Cavell next time you pass the National Portrait Gallery. See how many of the other 3,700 or so Westminster lions you can spot next time you walk around the city.
London Zoo, on the border of Westminster and Camden, was once the home of real African lions but now only plays host to the smaller Asian variety. These were the lions known in Biblical times and which fought in Roman arenas so you still don’t want to mess with them. Of course you could always buy a ticket to The Lion King or Wicked which feature very different theatrical lions. Sadly it’s no longer possible to round off a hard day’s lion hunting with tea at a Lyons Corner House (though you can read about their fascinating history by clicking on the link) so you’ll have to make do with a Lion Bar.
If this sculptural safari has whetted your appetite for more hidden (or not so hidden) animals, why not broaden your horizons and take a look at a wider range of species… ?
Posted in Books, Web Treasure Hunt
Tagged 24/7, animals, Edith Cavell, gateway, lions, London, London Zoo, Nelson, Oxford Art Online, reference, sculpture
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