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Right Worshipful
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They're Watching You!
Public Perception #1
Provo Visitation Oration
By Worshipful Brother Lorenzo E. Tibbitts, Grand Orator
Most Worshipful Grand Master, Most Worshipful, Right Worshipful and Worshipful Brothers, Ladies and Distinguished Guests, Brethren, Good Evening;
At the beginning of the popular CBS Crime Drama, Person of Interest, and in the voice of the character called "Finch," we hear, "They're watching you!" "They" is a government surveillance system, developed to watch out for terrorists which sees everything, and which has grown a mind of its own and uses its creator and a small circle of people recruited to protect regular citizens from harm. Now the idea of a government system that is more benevolently watching over ordinary citizens than the government itself may make good TV, but in some ways it's not too far from the world we live in.
On your way here this evening, you passed through the observation radius of many more video cameras than you noticed. In September 1968, Olean, New York became the first city in the US to install video cameras along its main business street in an effort to fight crime.1 In the decade following 9/11 more than 30 million security cameras were purchased and installed.2
But security cameras are not the only - or even the most important - eyes on you. It may be very hard for you to fathom, because you know and are known to hundreds and perhaps even thousands of Masons, but you may be the only Mason that some people may ever meet. The truth of the matter is that many of those we know nothing about The Craft, and many others know only what they have read on the internet, seen on TV, or learned from us.
In his address at the Grand Lodge Communication less than a month ago, our Grand Master, Most Worshipful Drew C. Sanders said, "Brethren, whether you think so or not as a general rule people around you know you are a Freemason… Therefore, each of us is someone's impression of Utah Freemasonry… I strongly urge each of you to uphold the ideals of the fraternity before the world, whether it be in our online presence, driving habits, or in our personal interactions with others."3
At the Conference of Grand Masters in 1966, Worshipful Brother Alexander Duff, Grand Master of Manitoba, said, "The Profane world has no criteria by which to judge Freemasonry other than the fruits produced by the Masonic lives of those who are members of our beloved craft."4
In his Oration at the 2008 Visitation in Tooele, MW Bro. Allen W. Record taught, "Ultimately, Masons and Non-Masons alike observe everything we do and say. They look to see if we 'practice what we preach'. Do we practice Brotherly Love, do we work with others on the Level, and do we square our actions toward all mankind. When we do these things, then it's seen that we not only speak, but also live the Truth of what Freemasonry Offers… This, Brethren is our Truth in Action."5
What Most Worshipful Brother Sanders calls "the ideals of the fraternity," Most Worshipful Brother Record refers to as "Truth in Action," and Most Worshipful Brother Duff calls the "fruit produced by… Masonic lives," are nothing more or less than the principles we agreed to uphold in our obligations.
I was a stranger who saw The Fraternity in the lives of Masons. As a child and teenager, I was a military brat and as my family traveled the world I got to see Freemasonry up close and personal. I came to see that many of the most professional, most successful and capable officers and NCOs were masons. I saw the rings. And I saw their behavior. They were the very definition of the title "gentleman." From these men I developed a favorable impression of The Craft.
Brethren, sometimes it's our family that is watching. My wife, Lana, did not grow up with a favorable opinion of Freemasonry. She was not that thrilled when I petitioned a lodge. She trusted me but remained worried for several months. All of that changed for her the night that we attended a Scottish Rite Open House at the Salt Lake Masonic Temple and heard Most Worshipful Brother Curtis N. Lancaster speak about the purpose and principles of Masonry. She relaxed and gave me her full - unworried - support from then on.
Later the same year she heard Brother Lancaster speak, Lana attended my lodge BBQ, where she witnessed some outrageous behavior from one of our members. He was boorish and obnoxious. She leaned over and whispered to me, "How do guys like that get into Masonry?" While I had an opportunity to address her question, sometimes those who see our behavior don't look any farther and don't ask any questions or give us an opportunity to respond.
Recently I sat in a meeting in my office with a circle of colleagues that I'd only worked with by phone. One of them noticed my ring and after the meeting and when we reached the hall, she asked me many questions. She told me that her Grandfather and Great-Grandfather were important Masons but her own Father had never joined. She told me she had always wanted to be a member of the Eastern Star.
When I asked her about her husband - whether he had an interest - she told me that her husband had no interest. She said he had been adopted as a young child and his step-father was a mason. She told me a little about his upbringing and without dwelling on the ugly details, let's just say his experiences with this mason were less than exemplary.
Many men in our jurisdiction fill the official position of Grand Representative to another Grand Jurisdiction. Well my brothers, you are the Grand Representative to your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, fellow congregants, and, as I have noted today, complete strangers we encounter.
As you can see, there are many people watching you. But Most Worshipful Brother Sanders also asked us to take a look at ourselves. I believe he did so for two reasons. First, he, like Plato, is well aware that the examined life is the only one worth living. Introspection and self-examination are necessary for personal growth. Second, we may be able to fool others, but we can't fool ourselves. Peter Wimbrow said this so well when he wrote:
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day,
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn't your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.
He's the fellow to please - never mind all the rest
For he's with you, clear to the end
And you've passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you've cheated the man in the glass.6
When I consider the men I've come to know in this fraternity, I find that the impression I had of the fraternity in my youth has been largely correct. I've been disappointed when I've seen otherwise, but I am wise enough to know that some slip through the West Gate without our knowledge, and it is rare. When I've seen the damage these men have done to our lodges, our brothers, and even the public perception, I'm dismayed. And when we fail to take action I am just confused.
Just as you have no idea how often you are being filmed by Closed Circuit TV (CCTV), you have no idea how often others are judging the fraternity through your behavior. Please join me tonight in recommitting ourselves to principles of brotherhood, relief and truth that would lead us to showing the world that masonry has made us better men.
Most Worshipful Grand Master, I thank you for the opportunity to share these few thoughts, and pray you will enjoy the rest of your visitation.
1 Robb, Gary C. (1979) "Police Use of CCTV Surveillance: Constitutional Implications and Proposed Regulations" University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, pg. 572
2"Post 9/11, surveillance cameras everywhere" by Allison Linn, MSNBC.com, September 11, 2011
3Remarks of the Deputy Grand Master, Rt. Worshipful Drew C. Sanders, Proceedings of the 142nd Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons in Utah.
4"What if anything can be done about the lack of interest in Masonry by non-masons?" Alexander Duff, Proceedings of the Conference of Grand Masters, 1966, Feb. 23-24, 1966 85-103.
5"Why Masonry Survives - The Truth," Tooele 2008 Visitation Oration by Allen W. Record, Grand Orator; http://www.utahgrandlodge.org/gl-orations/allen-record/oration-2008-12.html
6"The Man in the Glass," Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr., 1934
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Those expressing concerns over GST are tax evaders: Adi Godrej
Categories: GST Recent News
Veteran industrialist Adi B Godrej says those expressing concerns over GST and calling for postponement of its implementation are mainly tax evaders.
The Chairman of the Godrej Group termed as “ridiculous” suggestions in some industry and business quarters that the GST roll out be pushed to October one from July one.
“Every body has plenty of time to prepare (for the new tax regime). Earlier it was to be April first, now it’s July first. I saw the statement by P Chidambaram (former Finance Minister) to that effect (calling for pushing the GST rollout to October one). But I think it will be ridiculous,” Godrej told PTI in an interview.
“First of all, the constitutional amendment expires by September. So, we should not postpone it, and the various people who are asking for postponement are mainly the people who are evading taxes at present. So, they want to avoid getting into the net,” the former President of the Confederation of Indian Industry said.
As for whether there are any concerns or challenges vis-a-vis GST, Godrej said, “No major concerns. The only people who are expressing concerns, the only people who want postponement are the ones who are to my mind are involved in tax evasion.”
GST, Godrej stressed, would be very good for the country and its introduction from July one would lead to several advantages for the Indian economy.
“First of all, evasion of indirect taxes will become very difficult. So, people will be compliant, that means government revenue will go up because evasion will come down a lot,”, he said.
Godrej added, “I expect the (tax) rates to be lower than in the past. That will mean benefit for consumers and consumption will go up and therefore there will be growth. Overall, I expect the Indian GDP growth to improve by 1.5 to two percentage points.”
On GST proposing four rates of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent, he said it’s well-formulated
“I know that there are a lot of people who are complaining but some people don’t understand too well. Of course, we are still awaiting the final rates on each item that will come only in May,” Godrej added.
Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/58124684.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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Hastings Technology Metals Ltd
ASX:HAS ISIN:AU000000HAS0
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is a leading Australian rare earths company, with two rare earths projects hosting JORC-compliant resources in Western Australia.
- The Yangibana Project hosts Probable Reserves totaling 5.15 million tonnes at 1.12% TREO including 0.45% Nd2O3+Pr6O11 within JORC Resources totalling 21.0 million tonnes at 1.17% TREO (comprising Measured Resources of 3.9 million tonnes at 1.19% TREO, Indicated Resources of 8.6 million tonnes at 1.25% TREO and Inferred Resources of 8.4 million tonnes at 1.09% TREO), including 0.40% Nd2O3+Pr6O11.
- The Brockman deposit contains JORC Indicated and Inferred Resources totalling 41.4 million tonnes (comprising 32.3mt Indicated Resources and 9.1mt Inferred Resources) at 0.21% TREO, including 0.18% HREO, plus 0.36% Nb2O5 and 0.90% ZrO2.
- Rare earths are critical to a wide variety of current and new technologies, including smart phones, electric vehicles, wind turbines and energy efficient light bulbs.
- The Company aims to capitalise on the strong demand for rare earths permanent magnets created by expanding new technologies.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Share Placement Raises $12 million
🕔12/11/2019 9:39:55 AM 1121
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is pleased to advise that it has received firm commitments to raise A$12 million before costs in a share placement to institutional and sophisticated investors.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Investor Presentation
🕔12/2/2019 10:24:23 AM 1419
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) releases the latest investment presentation. The presentation outlines the key milestones of the company since 2014 and includes extensive detail on mine planning and construction. Additionally a detailed comparison of rare earth deposits of commercial relevance.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Progress Update on Debt Funding for the Yangibana Project
On 30 April 2019, Hastings received in principal eligibility for the UFK scheme for an indicative amount of up to USD140 million based on a planned off take from Schaeffler AG for 5,000 tonnes per annum of mixed rare earth carbonate from the Project's processing plant.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Bulk Ore Sorting Trial Shows Outstanding Results
🕔11/25/2019 1:37:23 PM 1202
Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is pleased to announce successful completion of bulk sample testing through an ore sorting circuit. These outstanding results confirm earlier results from smaller drill core derived samples, which were tested with two different ore sorter vendors.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) 18% Increase in Ore Reserves, Mine Life Extended to 13 Years
🕔11/4/2019 9:11:42 AM 1194
The Directors of Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) are pleased to announce an increase in the Probable Ore Reserves at the Yangibana Project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) 13% Increase in Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources
The Directors of Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) are pleased to announce a 13% increase in Measured plus Indicated Mineral Resources compared to the most recently announced Mineral Resource estimate in November 2018
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Quarterly Activities Report
Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is advancing its Yangibana Rare Earths Project in the Upper Gascoyne Region of Western Australia towards production.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) DRA Pacific Awarded EPCM Contract Yangibana Processing Plant
Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is pleased to advise that it has awarded the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Management (EPCM) contract for its rare earths processing plant.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Annual Report to Shareholders
Ore Reserves tonnages from the new estimate increased by 34% to 10.35 million tonnes at 1.22%TREO including 0.43%Nd2O3+Pr6O11. The updated Ore Reserve extends mine life by 3 years, supporting a +10 year operational life for the Project.
Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Director Appointment
Hastings Technology Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) (FRA:5AM) is pleased to advise that Guy Robertson has been re-appointed a Director of Hastings with effect from today's date.
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Appendix 3B Revised12/20/2019 9:05:31 AM
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Results of Meeting11/28/2019 10:38:57 AM
Notice of Annual General Meeting/Proxy Form10/30/2019 10:42:35 AM
Quarterly Cashflow Report10/22/2019 3:01:59 PM
Appendix 4G and Coporate Governance Statement9/25/2019 3:36:47 PM
Initial Director's Interest Notice8/27/2019 4:28:40 PM
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FINANCE VIDEO: Hastings Technology Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS) Interview with Executive Chairman Charles Lew
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Hastings Technology Metals (ASX:HAS) Great Thaw of the Rare Earth Ice Age
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The commercial deputy Chairman of ACCI met with Chinese Ambassador in Afghanistan
The commercial deputy Chairman of ACCI- Mr. Mohammad Yonus met with H.E Yao Jing- Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan at Chinese embassy in Kabul on Monday 13th March 2017 and conversed over joint trade and business relations.
Initially, Mr. Mohammad Yonus Mohmand greeted the cooperation conducted by Chinese Government in previous years and moreover briefed that: “ACCI is always ready to pave investment facilities to Chinese business people across the country and tries its best to provide these business persons investment and business updated information.”
Chinese Ambassador was explained about the new business programs which is planned to be implemented in 2017 in Kabul and Chinese republic government was called for further cooperation. The very less obstacles on the way of trade and business between the two countries has been keenly resolved by Chinese republic embassy in Kabul. He additionally added that: “fortunately, visa issuance problems has also been resolved and commitment on decreasing the current problem was subsequently announced.”
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Recent Match Report – Warwickshire vs Essex, County Championship Division One, 2nd Innings
Warwickshire 161 and 67 for 1 need a further 336 runs to beat Essex 245 and 316 for 9 (Cook 83, Lawrence 74, Rhodes 4-38)
Liam Banks dug in with great determination as Warwickshire set about batting out a minimum of 121 overs to prevent a heavy defeat at Chelmsford.
Banks was 36 not out as Warwickshire reached 67 for 1 in their pursuit of 401 to pull off a mission improbable and record a third victory of the season. More realistically, the capture of another nine wickets stand between Essex and the seventh victory in eight games that would take them to the top of the Specsavers County Championship by just four points, assuming Yorkshire do not let slip their stranglehold over Somerset at Headingley.
The Warwickshire openers took advantage of some wide open spaces in the field to pass fifty in the 13th over. But Aaron Beard’s arrival into the attack heralded the breakthrough Essex wanted with Will Rhodes lbw for 25. Warwickshire made it to the close without further alarm, still 334 runs from their target.
The match had essentially been put beyond Warwickshire’s reach during an eighth-wicket rampage between Dan Lawrence and Simon Harmer that extended Essex’s lead from 299 to nearly 400 in just 20 overs. Both batsmen fell straight after tea, but not before they had put 84 valuable runs on the board. Lawrence departed to the second ball of the final session, charging Rhodes and nicking to Tim Ambrose for 74.
That gave Rhodes his fourth wicket of the innings, and ninth of the match, at a combined personal cost of 55 runs. The part-time seamer’s first-innings 5 for 17 was a career-best; his 4 for 38 in the second constituted the next best.
Harmer followed without addition, attempting to hit Jeetan Patel over the top and being caught on the long-leg boundary by Banks.
Alastair Cook had laid the foundations in the morning towards the eventual declaration with a carefree 83 from 168 balls. He was the senior partner in a second-wicket stand of 63 off 26 overs with nightwatchman Matt Quinn that frustrated Warwickshire for an hour and a half. Quinn contributed nine to the partnership from 69 balls.
Cook hit 11 boundaries in his sixth Championship half-century of the season, and went on the attack once he had reached that milestone, hitting Patel for three of them in quick order.
The return of Rhodes accounted for Cook when he was pinned lbw. The Yorkshireman had another in the same over when Tom Westley was caught behind wafting outside off stump. Quinn finally departed next over, nicking behind as Essex collapsed from 135 for 1 to 139 for 4.
Rishi Patel fell to the first ball after lunch when he deflected a ball from pad on to bat to Banks at second slip. Brookes claimed a second wicket in the over when Ryan ten Doeschate lost his middle stump as he attempted to force the pace. Adam Wheater had scored 21 at almost a run-a-ball when he reverse-swept at Patel and Rhodes threw himself from first slip to where second slip would have been to take the catch.
Lawrence rattled along apace and clobbered Brookes off the back-foot for four to bring up his second fifty of the match from 101 balls.
Essex took the field in the evening without wicketkeeper Wheater, who had struggled in Warwickshire’s first innings after taking a blow to his thumb. Will Buttleman replaced him behind the stumps.
Sharing World Cup ‘something that should be considered’ – New Zealand coach
Recent Match Report – Gloucestershire vs Leicestershire, County Championship Division Two, 1st Innings
UAE Under-19s 232 for 2 (John 102*, Lakra 66) beat Canada Under-19s 231 for 8 (Patel 90, Sharma 2-42, Lakra 2-39) by eight wickets
UAE opener Figy John scored this Under-19 World Cup’s first century, a thoroughly smooth, 101-ball 102 that helped his side beat Canada by eight wickets in Bloemfontein. The 18-year old, who had last year played with the senior team in ODIs, was at the crease from start to finish as a chase of 232 proved quite straightforward. UAE benefited from an all-round performance from their captain as well, Aryan Lakra picked up 2 for 39 in 10 overs and returned as opener to score a half-century as well.
Canada had a solid performer in their top order as well – Mihir Patel scored 90 off 105 balls – but they couldn’t take advantage of it due to a couple of mini-collapses. Their score, after being put in, lurched from 133 for 1 to 137 for 4 in the middle overs and then from 220 for 5 to 226 for 8 at the end. Patel did his best, hitting nine fours in his innings and contributing nearly 40% of his team’s total, but it wasn’t enough.
Bangladesh Under-19s 132 for 1 (Emon 58*) beat Zimbabwe Under-19s 137 for 6 (Marumani 31, Shamim 1-23) by nine wickets
Bangladesh’s batsmen ran riot in Potchefstroom, Parvez Hossain Emon whacking an unbeaten 33-ball 58 and leading a nine-wicket victory over Zimbabwe.
Prior to their arrival in South Africa, Bangladesh had banked on their batting stars to perhaps go all the way to the final and they are certainly living up to their word. Having kept Zimbabwe to 137 for 6 in 28.1 overs – bad weather forced the first innings to end right there – Bangladesh came out with great purpose. Opener Tanzid Hasan hit six of the 10 balls he faced to the boundary, making 32 runs in the process and though he couldn’t carry on, his partner Emon ensured victory would be achieved in just the 12th over. Zimbabwe would rue their own batting performance with plenty of players getting starts but no-one making more than Tadiwanashe Marumani’s 31.
Match abandoned New Zealand Under-19s 195 for 2 (White 80, Mariu 51) v Japan Under-19s
New Zealand dominated the contest against Japan with openers Ollie White and Rhys Mariu scoring fairly quick half-centuries but the rain in Potchefstroom allowed for only 28.5 overs of play. The match was abandoned thereafter with both teams sharing a point each.
January 19: Hobart Hurricanes v Adelaide Strikers
Our XI: Mathew Wade, Jake Weatherald, George Bailey, Ben McDermott, Travis Head, Jonathan Wells, Rashid Khan (capt), Qais Ahmed (vice-capt), Nathan Ellis, Micheal Neser, Scott Boland
NOTE: We might not always be able to tip you off about a late injury (or other relevant updates)
Captain: Rashid Khan
The Hurricanes have struggled with the bat and have a weakened batting line up. Rashid Khan is coming up against this opposition for the first time this season and would be looking to display his skills. Hurricanes have been the worst team against spin this tournament and one can expect Rashid to add to his 16 wickets.
Vice-captain: Qais Ahmed
Similar to the Hurricanes, the Strikers have also been struggling with the bat in the last few games. Qais Ahmed has 11 wickets at an economy of 7.91 and a best of 4 for 12. He could control the middle overs, which has been a bit of a problem for the Strikers.
Mathew Wade
Hurricanes desperately need a win and Wade is key to that. Wade scored 61 runs against the Heat but has failed in the other two matches. Wade’s foundation is vital in ensuring the likes of David Miller, George Bailey and Ben McDermott can regain some form and help the Hurricanes get past the Strikers at home.
With 306 runs from 10 matches, Wells has been the best performer for the Strikers. In the absence of Alex Carey, it is up to Wells to take the Strikers to a good total. His average is 61.20, and his strike rate is 131.89. The strike rate could have been a bit higher, but is also a function of the situations he has come in to bat.
Value picks
Scott Boland
With Riley Meredith injured, the Hurricanes have struggled with the ball. Boland’s been the key for them having taken a wicket in every match he has played in. Boland has eight wickets from five matches at an impressive economy of 7.44.
Head is yet to start scoring in this season. The captain has played just two matches but has been dismissed cheaply on both occasions. One could take a punt on Head to lead by example, as the game against the lower ranked Hurricanes is key to the Strikers’ chances of qualifying.
Point to note The Match is being played at a venue that has not hosted too many games. Wait for the toss and pitch report before you choose your captain and vice-captain.
At the start of the third day’s play, there was an intriguing chat on commentary between Matt Prior and Kevin Pietersen – yes, TalkSPORT has bought the pair together; they’ll be pairing Ian Botham and Ian Chappell next – over the future of conventional off-spinners in Test cricket.
The conclusion, to paraphrase only a little, was they are an endangered breed. But, unlike the rhinoceros, Pietersen didn’t seem especially concerned with their preservation. Again, to paraphrase only a little, both he and Prior felt that, in the modern game, any off-spinner without some mystery or at least the ability to challenge both edges of the bat was likely to struggle.
But here, for the second Test in succession, Dom Bess supplied the case for the defence. Having admirably performed a holding role in Cape Town, he showed he could also perform a more attacking role here. Taking advantage of a dry surface, he showed the conventional skills – most of all control, but also subtle changes of angle and pace – still had a place in the modern game. Already he has become the first England spinner since Derek Underwood, in 1975, to claim the first five wickets in a Test innings and the third-youngest England spinner (after Pat Pocock and Underwood) to claim a five-for in Test history. If the rain relents, there is a good chance there will be more to come.
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It’s true, Bess does not possess the eye-catching skills of Rashid Khan, Sunil Narine or Saqlain Mushtaq. He cannot turn the ball both ways. There is no doosra. Analysts will not be glued to their screens working out how makes the ball fizz and dip and, the cynics have suggested, he could only take wickets on the helpful surfaces of Taunton where, until today, six of his eight five-wicket hauls in first-class cricket had come. Only a few months ago, he was unable to get into the Somerset team and went on loan to Yorkshire.
But what he can do, at this stage of his career, is maintain his line and length. He has conceded only seven boundaries – and an average of 1.64 runs per over – in his 31 overs to date. As a result, he has kept the batsmen under pressure. And what he can do, at this stage of his career, is apply a series of small variations to lure batsmen into errors and take advantage of helpful surfaces.
The wicket of Faf du Plessis provided a fine example of this. The South Africa captain had just driven him for a couple of fours. Bess responded by dropping his arm a little lower, gaining just a little drift away from the batsman to draw him into a forward prod, only to turn the ball sharply off the pitch and take the inside edge. Ollie Pope, who looks terrific at short-leg, did the rest. Any off-spinner would have been happy with that.
There were other moments which showcased those subtle skills. By changing the seam position – including bowling with a scrambled seam – he manages to gain variation from some balls skidding on and others gripping and turning. Dean Elgar, who was probably the one man in the top five to play Mark Wood with any confidence, was defeated by just such a delivery: coming forward to one he expected to turn, he was slightly late as the ball skidded through a little quicker, taking his inside edge before ballooning off his pad to short-leg. Again, that’s fine bowling.
The ECB deserve some credit for Bess’ development. At the end of the season, they and Somerset agreed he should be given an extended break to clear his head after a sometimes frustrating few months. As he has previously said, he “lost a lot of confidence within my game” after “falling off the [England] radar a bit” after his brief spell in the England side in 2018.
Having allowed him that time, they identified the ideal coaches or mentors he could learn from – they were after spinners who relied on subtle variations rather than extravagant natural ability – and invited him on a spin bowling camp in Mumbai. Those coaches were Rangana Herath, the Sri Lanka left-arm spinner, and Richard Dawson, who played seven Tests for England as an off-spinner in the early years of this century.
These were wise choices. Herath, in particular, enjoyed an outstanding career as a traditional spinner. And somewhere along the way, Bess has learned that by concentrating on building pressure and by embracing those little variations, he gives himself the best chance of success. In these two Tests, he has looked a better bowler than he did when the Championship season finished in September. He also credited Jeetan Patel, who is with England as a spin bowling consultant, for his advice in helping him gain more bounce and pace.
Faf du Plessis fell cheaply again Stu Forster/Getty Images
“That ball to Faf was something I’d been working on with Herath,” Bass said. “I started around the wicket and he came at me quite a lot, so I tried to change the angle. I dropped my arm a little and it bit off the surface. It’s really nice to work on something and see it work.
“Then with Elgar – who I played with at Somerset – I wanted to make sure I was always challenging him. I looked to go a little under the ball and luckily it kicked on a bit. Some spun and some didn’t and Ollie Pope held a great catch.
“I’ll cherish this for a long time because I’ve worked very hard for days like this. Technically I’m getting a lot stronger through repetition. There’s still a lot of work to do but hopefully there’s a lot more to come.”
But before giving the ECB too much praise for their wisdom, it should be acknowledged that Bess was not in the original tour party. And as time goes on the selection of Matt Parkinson, who played four Championship games for Lancashire in 2019, looks ever more odd. It must have been painful to see an injury replacement – called up for the ill Jack Leach – who had not enjoyed the benefit of any warm-up games come into the side ahead of him, but, suffice to say, at this stage of his career, Parkinson looks far better suited to the white-ball game.
“I’m gutted for Leachy, he’s had such a tough time these last six weeks,” Bess said. “I know he’ll be happy for me. He’ll be working really hard to get back for the Sri Lanka tour. I’d love to play together. That would be a really nice touch if we could take wickets together for England as well as Somerset.”
Equally, the ECB might do well to reflect on the apparent crackdown on the surfaces at Taunton. It is surely no coincidence that England’s two first-choice spin bowling options have been developed on turning pitches – just as they were in Northampton, not so long ago – which provide scope for lots of bowling. Yes, there is a distinction to be made between acceptably turning surfaces and ones which offer variable bounce and excessive assistance. But it is also no coincidence that Bess responded to this relatively helpful surface in a calm and constructive manner; something which had not always been the case with Moeen Ali, for example, who sometimes looked more comfortable when expectations were lower. Not for the first time, the thought occurred that Somerset deserve credit not censure for their spin-friendly pitches
Bess had a couple of other factors in his favour here. The first, as was the case in Cape Town, is that this South Africa side is, generally, oddly passive against spin. Other sides – better sides – will surely look to hit Bess off his length. The other factor is that he was bowling when his side had 499 runs on the board. That makes a huge difference in terms of the fields set, the mentality of the batsmen and the time the fielding captain can stick with plans. It won’t always be this straightforward.
But everything suggests Bess has the character to cope with adversity. He has shrugged off being unable to get into his own county team, after all, and being called into this tour party without a competitive game since the end of the English season. He made a half-century on Test debut and followed it with 49 as nightwatchman in his second Test. And he’s still just 22. Suddenly Moeen’s exile does not seem quite as urgent an issue.
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In a strong continuation of its campaign to produce more environmentally-friendly autos, Honda has produced a diesel engine that produces as much or less emissions as a gasoline engine of equal size.
While diesel engines in the past haven’t been an plausible standard due to excessive emission of Nitrogen, Honda has produced a system which cleans up the diesel engine substantially. A drive-train add-on in new vehicles will generate ammonia inside of a two-layer catalytic converter, turning nitrogen oxide from diesel exhaust in clean nitrogen before it’s sent into the atmosphere.
Diesel engines are becoming increasingly popular in Europe because they’re about thirty percent more fuel efficient than regular gasoline engines. However, as governments around the world impose stricter emission regulations, manufacturers have been forced to abandon the sales of diesel cars in some markets despite the fact that consumers prefer them for their MPG benefits. Honda’s new dual catalytic converter solution solves these emissions problems just a year before the US government will rolls out Tier II Bin 5, the world’s most rigorous emissions regulation policy.
Competitors Daimler-Chrysler and Volkswagen also have also co-developed a next-gen diesel engines, but Honda has criticized their methods as including heavy, costly add-ons compared to Hondas more easy-to-implement solution. Daimler-Chrysler, who already uses diesel and turbo-diesel engines in some Volkswagen models, plans to roll out their next-gen diesel engines in its 2008 Volkswagen lineup. Similarly, Honda says its cleaner diesel engine will be ready for production some time within the next three years.
Clean diesel hasn’t been Honda’s only significant contribution to cleaner commuting. Aside from a number of high-MPG hybrid engine models, Honda is developing a fuel-cell vehicle that uses vertical flow of hydrogen and water to produce electricity. The process allows the fuel-cell size to be minimized as much as 30 percent with a range of 354 miles, making a hydrogen-oxygen powered vehicle a much more viable alternative.
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On December 29th, 2009 the Dutch TROS
showed the special "André and Friends".
What is so "special" about this "special"?
Why is he dressed in an orange vest?
Why was this concert never in his agenda?
Why are there 30.000 people in the
stadium and not a single ticket was sold?
Why is there not a single familiar face in
the audience?
Why do some call this the "New Year
concert 2010, while that concert was on
Jan. 1st and 2nd, 2010 in Cologne?
This was the performance of September 6th, 2009 in the Amsterdam ArenA.
The concert of Sept. 5th was a public event. The concert of Sept. 6th was purchased by a Dutch lottery and the audience all won tickets. That's why André is wearing an orange vest, the spectators orange scarfs and the JSO members orange highlights. Orange is the color of this lottery. It was a very lively audience.
By now we all have seen the Schönbrunn decor and concert.
We have selected some of the special highlights of this show.
André is concerned and cares about the environment and nature. During the "Intermezzo Sinfonico" you see beautiful images of André leaving his house and walking up St. Peter's mountain behind his castle. Hoping that he will be able to walk in this environments with his grandchildren, like he did when he was a child himself.
In the second piece we see the comedian André van Duin. This time not as one of his characters, but as himself. Apart from being a comedian, André van Duin is a gifted singer. At the request of André, André sings a melancholic song "Het Dorp" (La Montagne from Jean Ferrat). It's about an old village where modernization has taken over the memories of the past.
During the last song "Adieu mein kleiner Garde Officier", André van Duin participates in his usual way...
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NFL Week 13 (Top 10) Power Rankings
Let me say this first, it's been 20 days since I put out the last Power Rankings. 20! It feels like 3 hours.
Life goes fast, and a lot of things can change in 20 days, yet the past 20 days in the NFL has remained pretty much status quo. Until now...
The next 5 weeks are gonna get loco, because the top teams play each other (a lot), and it starts this week.
Six of (my) top ten play each other, with #2 Eagles @ #10 Seahawks.. #4 Vikings @ #7 Falcons.. And #5 Saints v. #9 Panthers.
Buckle up!!
1. Patriots- Yes, I realize the Eagles have won 9 straight, and are arguably the most compete team in the league, but if your life depended on it, would you really bet against Tom Brady and Bill Belichick? I didn't think so.
2. Eagles- Not sure if there's enough accolades for Carson Wentz anymore, but the kid just keeps getting better. He basically saved Nelson Agolhor's career. Nelson Agolhor! And quick, name 3 Eagles defenders!! Exactly. Yet, they're killing it. Can't put them ahead of the Pats, but I'd sure like to see that Super Bowl.
3. Steelers- I could care less if the Steelers play down to their competition. They're 9-2, and look awesome on both sides of the ball when it matters. But something about the Steelers just screams to me they're an obvious #2 to the Pats (like usual).
4. Vikings- The next two weeks for the Vikings will tell us if they get the overall #1 seed or not. At the Falcons, followed by a trip to Charlotte to face the Panthers. The Vikes are for real screen if they lose them both, but win both of those, and they just might be the first team to play the Super Bowl in their hone stadium.
5. Saints- I'm giving the Saints a pass on their loss to the Rams on Sunday. Okafor was lost for the season last week, which they'll have to overcome, but they were down their two starting CB's, too. Kudos to the Rams for winning, but the Saints were handicapped. "Who dat" is still legit. And Alvin Kamara is ridiculous.
6. Rams- Really nice bounce-back win against the Saints after getting handled by the Vikings last week. Aaron Donald is back to being a f**king beast, and the defense is really humming under Wade Phillips. Keep an eye on the o-line, though. Goff has been sacked 10 times in the last 3 games.
7. Falcons- Julio Jones has 3 250+ yd games in his career- 2 more than anyone else. Physically, he may have the best WR body ever, along with T.O., and throw in some of the best ball skills ever, and he's on the fast track to Canton. Xavier Rhodes and the Vikings come to town this week.
8. Chargers- After an 0-4 start, the Chargers have won 5 of their last 7, and are looking more and more like they're the AFC West king. Unfortunately, season-ending injuries to Keenan Allen the last two seasons have deprived all of us of what we're seeing now; Philip Rivers and him are special.
9. Panthers- Cam Newton was 10 of 27 in their win against the Jets Sunday. I realize all quarterbacks can have an off day, but there's something about Cam that's a miss. It seems like he just doesn't give a shit at times, but luckily for him, he has a defense, led by Luke Kuechly, that is putting the hurt on folks. They travel to New Orleans this week in a throw-down for NFC South supremacy.
10a. Jaguars- Could you imagine if Blake Bortles was actually good? Throw Eli Manning at QB, and we're talking potential Super Bowl with the talent this team has. And who knows, maybe Tom Coughlin can acquire Eli Manning for a bag of chips, and throw him in there?
10b. Seahawks- There's nobody who means more to their team than Russell Wilson. The guy is an absolute joy to watch. Unfortunately, the lack of a running game, and the loss of Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor will be the ultimate undoing of this team that even Wilson himself can't overcome. Oh, and Philly comes to town this week.. Sheesh!
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Ryanair industrial action July
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costakid
Location: malaga este
Re: Ryanair industrial action July
Postby costakid » Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:55 am
The Botellones lasted about a year in Malaga city before the council and the Police got fed up with the mess and disruption.
Wicksey
Location: Axarquia coast
Postby Wicksey » Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:29 pm
It's not just big cities, but also market towns have a lot of anti social behaviour. I read the local press for where I used to live and it is a regular occurrence, not just the DM stuff. When I go out at night locally here I never see that sort of behaviour in the town centres.
Pamela1
Location: Co Durham/ Granada Province
Postby Pamela1 » Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:01 pm
Yes you are right Wicksey on many accounts but like katy i don't live in a large town or city so being a country bumpkin means im immuned from most of it..for now! It's the day and age of culture drinking and drugs, i do worry for my grandkids and hope when they grow up they mite just have enough sence to half behave.
Manchesteral
Postby Manchesteral » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:15 pm
1bassleft wrote: My wife nipped back to UK last week with Jet2 (who, in many ways pull the same stunts but get away with it) and flies back to AGP with Ryanair today. She was meant to travel light but had a last minute "I need" panic (including, bizarrely, a particular pair of tweezers) and is checking in a case and carrying her handbag. She hasn't gone for Priority + 2 bags because her seat is at the front and only her handbag's staying with her.
Get this: last night I got a Ryanair email (just in time to purchase the Priority +2, but still of no interest to me/her). I paraphrase as I can't locate it. "For the benefit of our customers" alcohol cannot be consumed... blah, blah standard stuff. Alcohol purchased elsewhere cannot be brought into the cabin, we shall be checking for this at boarding. If you have purchased alcohol, this must be placed in your cabin bag and the bag will be put in the hold at no charge. If the alcohol cannot be placed safely in the hold for example, it is in a plastic carrier bag, the alcohol will be removed and you cannot take it on board the plane.
So, people who buy a bottle of scotch and some wine at the airport shop and walk to the gate with it in a carrier bag will have it removed from them - even though it is the only bag they are carrying on board? Even Priority +2 passengers should be getting bags shoved in the hold at the last moment. My wife doesn't drink, but I've warned her to prepare for a near-riot that could take place at the gate. It's the red-eye midnight lander and some passengers will have to go without gin and cornflakes for breakfast if they push this one.
It reminds me of a few years back when they measured everyone's hand luggage while checking boarding passes. They packed it in a while later, but it was Dante's delays and arguments factory while it lasted. I wonder what the airport shops will make of the loss of business?
What's wrong with putting your booze in the hold luggage ?
markwilding
Location: Bilbao Spain
Postby markwilding » Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:10 pm
costakid wrote: The Botellones lasted about a year in Malaga city before the council and the Police got fed up with the mess and disruption.
Good on Malaga council. It Is a big problem here. I wish more were done.
1bassleft
Location: Benalmadena Costa
Postby 1bassleft » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:10 am
Back to the Ryanair flight, my wife told me that someone ahead of her was stopped and told that the alcohol meant that the cabin bag had to go in the hold. There wasn't any argument; she didn't see a situation where bottles had to be actually confiscated for lack of suitable baggage so boarding (late, but not because of the searching) wasn't aggro by any stretch. They can't confiscate people's stomachs; she complained of some loud and silly types on board but my wife's tolerance to that is even lower than her tolerance of alcohol (two wine gums and I carry her home) so, a pinch of salt there. There was a minor news item of a flight from M/C being diverted to East Midlands to dump off an abusive woman a few days previously but it's rare, really.
For UK cities/towns, my anecdotal evidence is that the worst is over. When extended openings and "happy hours" of 6-9 were new, I really had to develop spider-sense in the centres but, more recently, going around with my son in potential uni cities, the feeling that things might turn ugly just wasn't there compared to 15 years ago. Zero worries at night in France and Spain, but I don't go near the knobhead magnets.
Edit: One thing I have noticed is that spliffing is quite commonplace relative to previous years. I have semi-often smelled it from patio areas of some bars. Doesn't exactly encourage rowdiness, though.
Location: Poniente, Granada
Postby olive » Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:18 pm
Interesting that Italy is opening a probe into Ryanair hand luggage charges.
Ryanair spokesman Kenny Jacobs said: "We look forward to co-operating with this Italian inquiry. All Ryanair customers are free to bring one piece of carry-on bag onboard. But no airline customer has a right to unlimited carry-on bags."
Postby Pamela1 » Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:12 am
Booked our flights for next Easter however considering they are within the first 2 weeks after 29th March which is when we leave the Eu im expecting turmoil...Booked with Easyjet, been let down by Ryanair and fed up of their strike actions, i am not prepared to pay a few quid less to take a chance on them, if it's a difference of 20quid here and there id rather pay it than rely on Ryanair..
wollie
Postby wollie » Wed Dec 05, 2018 10:48 am
"Ryanair is facing enforcement action by the UK airline regulator over its refusal to compensate passengers for flight disruption caused by staff taking strike action.
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the low-cost airline has rejected compensation claims and has now ended its agreement with AviationADR - a CAA-approved body for alternative dispute resolution of passenger complaints.
The CAA said it does not believe the strikes are "extraordinary circumstances", as Ryanair has claimed, and are therefore not exempt, meaning its customers should be compensated."
Just seen this this morn, i am sure people here who were effected be interested.
It be interested to see how it goes? i never thought of the fact that they be liable for what happened in strike situation
Postby costakid » Wed Dec 05, 2018 12:23 pm
I use Ryanair purely on price and efficiency but they do stretch the code with things like compensation.
Postby 1bassleft » Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:21 pm
"Strikes are not Extraordinary Circumstances" - well, dur. Ryanair try it on every which way. Every time they delayed us >4hrs, they used to send me an email to claim three days after my flight but the webpage would be closed after 48hrs so no way I could claim. Have to say, EJ seem to be one of the better budgets at the mo. Jet2 pull some of the same stunts as Ryanair (eg hand luggage) but don't get the same bad press.
peteroldracer
Location: Los Alcázares, Murcia
Postby peteroldracer » Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:44 pm
Ryanair do have their PR disasters but are not all bad - my OH’s brother and wife were due to come and stay with us, but sadly their 14 year old grandson was killed whilst cycling with friends, this 4 days before they were due to fly out. Naturally they did not come, as they were devastated and also wanted to support their daughter. They contacted Ryanair who with no quibble sent them a cheque in full refund.
The saddest people are those that cannot laugh at themselves
Postby 1bassleft » Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:57 am
That's absolutely tragic, Peter; my Number 1 "please may that never happen to me" wish/prayer and I'm so sorry that you and your family suffered such a loss. It's difficult for me to articulate on a forum, having never met you, but it puts mundane moans into their proper context. I'm glad that they were treated with the sensitivity they deserved.
Postby peteroldracer » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:50 am
Thank you 1bassleft - what a nice comment.
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Postby Alcala Barry » Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:37 am
Peter, that's a very sad storey.
It is not the sort of story that is published in the major press about Ryanair. So beneath the gritty PR skin of Ryanair, there is some charity and warmth. Just a little.
A really touching post on your part.
Postby wollie » Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:16 am
I am guessing like me most people here not aware of this. It may not be all O'Leary's fault after all.
RYANAIR BOSS MICHAEL O’Leary wrote to the European Commission last year asking for its help in resolving a legal dispute with Irish officials over where it taxes European staff.
In November 2018, the airline launched legal action against Revenue and Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe over laws the company said require it to put European staff on Irish contracts.
The budget carrier has had a long-standing practice of putting some direct and agency staff on Irish contracts even if they live and work elsewhere.
This has been a source of frustration for pilot and cabin crew trade unions, which the airline has been in negotiations with since its shock decision to recognise unions in December 2017.
Ryanair sought to change a measure, introduced in 2011, that provides for the taxation of income earned by flight crew members who work on Irish-registered and -managed aircraft that operate in international traffic.
O’Leary – who will soon step away from the day-to-day running of the business – told the company’s annual general meeting in September 2018 that Ryanair was lobbying the State to change these laws.
Documents obtained by Fora show that O’Leary contacted EU Employment Commissioner Marianne Thyssen on 21 December asking her to “add your influential voice” to the dispute and write a letter of support for the company.
He asked the commissioner to call on the Irish government – specifically Paschal Donohoe – to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice “so that other European Governments can express an opinion on, or intervene in, this case”.
Michael O'Leary - Brussels, Belgium Michae O'Leary Source: Laurie Dieffembacq/PA Images
“Ryanair has committed in our negotiations with pilot and cabin crew unions across Europe to move to local contracts at the earliest possible date in 2019,” O’Leary wrote.
He told Thyssen the move was “subject only to reaching agreement with the Irish government that we may move these individuals to local income tax … in exactly the same way they currently pay local social taxes”.
“The Irish Government has refused this permission, and is insisting that these non-resident pilots and cabin crew continue to pay income tax,” he alleged, explaining that Ryanair had taken High Court action over the matter.
“We need the help and support of the EU Commission, and the other European Governments, to persuade the Irish Government to release this tax liability upon Ryanair crews who are based in other EU countries to pay their income taxes here in Ireland – solely because Ryanair is managed and controlled here in Ireland.”
Accompanying the letter was a copy of an Irish Examiner article reporting on the High Court proceedings.
The report stated that Ryanair claimed it could lose €5 million a year because of Ireland’s tax laws.
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Nyl River floodplain sewage spill
Objective of the flight:
The objective of the flight was to observe the extent of environmental damage caused by raw sewage being pumped out in close proximity of boreholes supplying water to Mookgophong/Naboomspruit as well as the Nyl River floodplain and wetlands and to take photos as evidence to be presented to the applicable authorities.
Vulture Nest Survey, Roedtan
Mission: Vulture Nest Survey, Roedtan
Requesting organisation: Dept Economic Development & Environment, Limpopo Provincial Government
Location: Nylstroom to the South East of Roedtan
Pilot: Hill van Schalkwyk
It was one of our newest and most enthusiastic pilots, Hill van Schalkwyk, who volunteered to fly for the survey of white backed vultures requested by Joseph Heymans of the Department of Economic Development & Environment, of the Limpopo Provincial Government. This is the report written by Hill:
“We did not exactly know what to expect from the survey as neither Mr Joseph Heymans nor myself had ever done a survey of this nature. Although it was obviously done before we had to plan it to the best of our individual experiences. The aircraft we used is a C182 , although Mr Heymans initially suggested a microlight for the survey. We logged some of the ground sightings into a GPS and set off from Nylstroom to the South East of Roedtan.”
The Springbok Flats
“This area is not called the Springbok Flats for nothing. The vegetation varies from developed commercial land to game and cattle farming, with a few guest lodges. The vegetation is mostly low growing with a few taller tress such as Maroela and Black Monkey Thorn. The weather was fine and we could get down to around 500 feet above the tree tops, maintaining a fairly slow speed with a 10% flaps setting.
For the first 15 minutes we both searched the area left and right of the aircraft with no success! I was almost at the point of suggesting that we abandon the survey when Joseph almost leapt out of the aircraft! He had spotted a nest with a female bird on the rim and a chick in the nest!
“Turn around, turn around please!” he shouted from the back. He was now moving from the left to right window at an amazing speed! But the C182 is not a wheelbarrow to turn on a penny, so I asked him to keep his eye on the nest while I turned back.
We were both very excited and happy to have spotted an active nest. As we passed over the nest again we could clearly identify the female and the chick and for the first time we had an idea of what to look for! Our eyes were now set for what was to come – we knew what to look for at last! We then tried to photograph the nest and plot it on GPS. Joseph had to handle a camera and a GPS and take notes all while keeping his eyes on the nest.
We then flew over more areas where nests had been spotted from the ground, but I must say the proverbial “seeking a needle in a haystack” achieved new meaning for me. We spotted more active nests as well as one that was “non-active”. I have to report that I spotted one myself and was more than proud of this achievement! But it became clear that Joseph’s eyes were much better adapted for spotting a 1m wide nest at 120km/hour, from 500 feet away!”
The Vulture Nest Survey Team
Joseph Heymans (left) and Bateleurs pilot, Hill van Schalkwyk.
“After approximately 100 minutes of flying and having covered a large area we had to turn back to Nylstroom. The temperature was increasing and the fuel levels were getting low. Of one thing I am very sure, Joseph does not suffer from air-sickness!! The tight turns left and right were a sure test of this finding.
Joseph will report on exactly how many nests we spotted, new and previously spotted, and on the value of the survey. I enjoyed it very much and loved the experience – what a privilege!!
The following are my remarks and suggestions for future surveys of this nature:
1. I suggest that in future we use two spotters plus the pilot, one to handle the GPS and the other to do the photography. One left and one right.
2. The C182 is an excellent platform for surveys of this kind.
3. We will have to plot an area beforehand and fly pre-designated swathes over the area in at least 500m strips.
4. Surveys should only be flown in the very early mornings and late afternoons. At this time of year the temperature starts to increase early.
5. Have a discussion with Mr Joe Holmes as suggested by Joan.
Thanks once more for the opportunity.”
Working for Wetands – Bushbuckridge
Mission: Identify Wetland Habitats Suitable for Rehabilitation
Requesting organisation: Working for Wetlands
Location: Bushbuckridge, Limpopo
One of our newest pilot members, Hill van Schalkwyk, volunteered to fly Craig Cowden and Anton Bothma to survey wetland habitat associated with the Sand River near Bushbuckridge in Limpopo. The photograph above shows the survey team, comprising (from the left): Hill van Schalkwyk – Bateleurs pilot, Craig Cowden – Area Manager for LRI, and Anton Bothma – the Project Implementor of the Eastern Wetland Rehabilitation project. The flight took place from Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport at the end of June, and this is the enthusiastic report from Hill:
“Flying my first mission for The Bateleurs was one of my flying highlights! It is possible that I over-planned the whole mission as Craig Cowden, the Area Manager, was calm and collected and knew exactly what needed to be done. He was familiar with the terrain and knew the area well from the air. We were accompanied by Anton Bothma who is responsible for the implementation of wetland rehabilitation in that area. He too knew the area well, and all their knowledge made my task of flying so much easier. We met at Kruger Mpumalanga airport which is an hour’s flight from my home base in Polokwane/Pietersburg. The day started slightly later than expected due to the poor visibility in the early morning and the heavy smog all the way to Nelspruit. When I was planning the operation I realised that the weather would have the final say, but in the end it turned out to be a brilliant flying day.
We departed Kruger Mpumalanga at 099h15 and arrived at our “site” – the Save the Sand project – 20 minutes later. All the points that I had carefully marked on my GPS were spotted in a flash by the two professionals. They discussed issues that did not make much sense to me, but obviously knew exactly what they were looking for. The stable weather made it possible to fly low and slow – very safely!
The area near Bushbuckridge is clearly seriously damaged as a result of erosion and it was heartwarming for an outsider to learn about the interventions being planned to save the wetlands. Unfortunately, as per anecdotes related by my passengers, some of the structures put in place to save the wetlands occasionally end up as walls in houses, or even as chicken pens!”
The escarpment near Mariepskop
“For me one of the highlights of the day came when we had to fly to the top of Mariepskop where the old radar station was built in the 1950s. It was launched to establish a chain of radar stations along the border of the then Transvaal in order to protect the Witwatersrand area from possible aerial attack. On the eastern side of the Drakensberg escarpment, facing away from the Blyde River Canyon, is the Mariepskop complex, a mountain enclave and centre of endemism of unsurpassed beauty. Mariepskop is the highest peak in the northern Drakensberg and from 1,945m above sea level, on a clear day, you can see the Indian Ocean and Maputo.
We returned by flying down a ravine back to the Lowveld and then straight on to Kruger Mpumalanga International.
Thanks a lot for the opportunity!”
Save the Sand surveyed by Craig Cowden
This photo illustrates several large erosion gullies in the centre of the picture.
And here are extracts from the report of this same flight, from Craig Cowden:
“The flight was carried out from the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport by Hill van Schalkwyk. This was Hill’s first flight for The Bateleurs, but he was more than capable of adjusting to the demanding requirements of the Working for Wetlands project team’s requests to “turn right – NOW”.
Nine wetland sites were identified with the project area, of which seven were prioritised as having ‘moderate’ to ‘high’ potential for rehabilitation. The majority of the problems associated with the wetlands related to headcut and gully erosion. Unfortunately, the wetelands within the project area have been severely impacted upon by over-grazing and erosion, with the majority of the valleys being seen as ‘lost causes’. Due to the small size of the catchment the team was able also to fly over the Mariepskop Nature Reserve, identified as an area with potential for rehabilitation, in addition to the X32A quaternary catchment.
As a whole the flight was highly effective in reducing the otherwise difficult and lengthy process of identifying problems by vehicle or on foot, as well as eliminating the need t identify and contact landowners (to request permission to enter onto their land) within the project areas.”
The sixth and final flight for Working for Wetlands in 2008 will be presented in our next Newsletter.
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Ask Dr. Anna » Procedures » Ageless Face » Dermapen
THE DERMAPEN TREATMENT IS SUCCESSFUL AT TREATING A VARIETY OF SKIN PRESENTATIONS.
The Dermapen fractional micro delivery provides unparalleled collagen induction via fragmented delivery of needles into the epidermis and dermis. These micro injuries to the skin encourage and harness the power of the body’s innate ability to re-grow and repair the skin through the physiology of collagen induction. The Dermapen’s controlled precision allows for the three phases of CIT mechanics of new collagen growth to occur. The first phase begins with the release of the bodies growth factors and the further cascade of new epidermal growth, fibroblast chemo-taxis, fibroblast proliferation and matrix production. This proliferation of the body’s tissue continues to release growth factors from fibroblasts, keratinocytes and monocytes culminating in the second of three phases of CIT mechanics where collagen III, IV and I, elastin, proteoglycans, GAG’s and angiogenesis occur. The last phase of CIT and the Dermapen treatment results in the tissue remodeling process where the skins vascular matrix matures and skin tightening as well as new collagen can be seen. The body’s ability to remodel and heal itself is at the heart of this amazing product and because the process never involves heat or thermal energy or other chemicals or unnecessary trauma, the skin can quickly heal with almost zero downtime.
ASER VS. DERMAPEN
What makes Dermapen Different:
The closest technology to the Dermapen is a fractional laser. A fractional laser “drills holes” in the skin to create a wound healing response and leaves normal tissue around the holes to be a reservoir for fibroblasts and stem cells to migrate into the holes. Fractional radio frequency devices work on a similar principle and have many of the same side effects as fractional lasers (Yeung et al., 2012). Dermapen also makes holes in the skin to create a wound healing response and leaves normal tissue around the holes. These technologies have similar results, but achieve them in very different ways, and result in very different side effects profiles. The laser uses light to char and obliterate epidermis to produce small pits which vary in diameter and depth, depending on the laser type (Erbium, YAG, CO2; nonablative vs ablative) and manufacturer. Dermapen produces reproducible and consistent holes in the skin.
Side effects differ between technologies. Most fractional lasers leave erythema and edema up to 48 hours after treatment. Resultant down time is approximately 3-4 days for fractional laser treatments (Gold, 2010). Dermapen treatments result in erythema without edema for about 24 hours. Dermapen has none of the side effects specific to fractional lasers, such as:
Pain (higher in dark skined patients (Mahmoud et al., 2010)
Persistent erythema (Gold 2010)
Infections (viral and bacterial). Facial herpes reported in 10.6% of patients in spite of antiviral prophylaxis (Naouri et al., 2011)
Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation in up to 18% (Vaiyavatjamai and Wattanakrai, 2011; Chan et al., 2010; Mahmoud et al., 2010; Yeung et al., 2012)
Postinflammatory hypopigmentation – seen in patients up to two years after a laser treatment. Occurs in up to 20% of patients with photo-aged skin (Gold 2001).
Light based therapy is not for all skin types. For example, the indications for use cleared by the FDA may put limits on the skin types that may be treated with a fractional laser. For example, the indications for use may prohibit the use of the laser on Fitzpatrick 4, 5 , and 6 (darker skin colors), for example: “The EXELO2 with the fractional scanning unit is indicated for ablative skin resurfacing in people with skin types 1, 2 or 3 based on Fitzpatrick skin type scale.” K090639. The fractional holes “drilled” by the laser are a function of skin type, skin thickness, and vascularity. Dermapen is not affected by skin type as it does not rely on skin color to turn light into heat.
A major complication from light based therapy includes Postinflamatory Hyperpigmentation (PIH) in Oriental, Mediterranean, and African skin types (Yeung et al., 2012; Metelitsa and Alster 2010; Chan et al., 2007). PIH presents as symmetric hyperpigmented macules and patches on the face. PIH is one of the most common and distressing pigmentary disorders seen in dermatology clinics. It is notably difficult to treat and may relapse. Of course, Dermapen has not reported PIH complications and thus is safe for darker skin (Fabbrocini et al., 2009).
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BMB Reports 2017; 50(11): 546-553 https://doi.org/10.5483/BMBRep.2017.50.11.175
DNA methylation-based age prediction from various tissues and body fluids
Sang-Eun Jung, Kyoung-Jin Shin, and Hwan Young Lee*
Department of Forensic Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Korea
Correspondence to: Tel: +82-2-2228-2482; Fax: +82-2-362-0860; E-mail: hylee192@yuhs.ac
Received: August 18, 2017; Published online: November 30, 2017.
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure Abstract
Aging is a natural and gradual process in human life. It is influenced by heredity, environment, lifestyle, and disease. DNA methylation varies with age, and the ability to predict the age of donor using DNA from evidence materials at a crime scene is of considerable value in forensic investigations. Recently, many studies have reported age prediction models based on DNA methylation from various tissues and body fluids. Those models seem to be very promising because of their high prediction accuracies. In this review, the changes of age-associated DNA methylation and the age prediction models for various tissues and body fluids were examined, and then the applicability of the DNA methylation-based age prediction method to the forensic investigations was discussed. This will improve the understandings about DNA methylation markers and their potential to be used as biomarkers in the forensic field, as well as the clinical field.
Keywords: Age prediction, DNA methylation, Forensic genetics
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure INTRODUCTION
Aging is a universal phenomenon that occurs in most living organisms and is one of humanity’s greatest concerns. Aging is defined as the time-dependent functional decline, which is thought to be associated with various molecular modifications in cells that accumulate over a person’s lifetime (1). Since the isolation of the first long-lived strains from Caenorhabditis elegans in 1983 (2), extensive aging studies have been conducted with a constantly expanding knowledge of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of life and disease (3). There have been many theories and doctrines to explain the cause and mechanism of aging, but the fact that there is no single theory that can explain aging clearly indicates the complexity and diversity of the aging process. As a step towards understanding the aging process, efforts have been made to identify and categorize the cellular and molecular features of aging. In 2013, nine hallmarks of aging were enumerated by Lopez-Otín et al., and the nine hallmarks are genomic instability, telomere attrition, epigenetic alterations, loss of proteostasis, deregulated nutrient sensing, mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, stem cell exhaustion, and altered intercellular communication (3). Since these features appear simultaneously during the aging process and are interconnected, identifying the precise causal relationship among them is an important challenge.
Epigenetic alteration is a change in the patterns of epigenetic modifications. Epigenetics is most commonly defined as the modification of DNA and DNA packaging without any change in DNA sequence (4), and plays an important role in various biological processes such as silencing of gene expression or maintaining of genomic stability, thereby implying that it may influence other hallmarks of aging. The epigenetic mark that has been most comprehensively studied is DNA methylation. DNA methylation involves the addition of a methyl group to the 5′ cytosine of CG dinucleotide, referred to as CpGs. DNA methylation is related to gene regulation and cell differentiation by affecting transcription factor binding sites, insulator components, and chromosome morphology (5, 6). In the human genome, 70–80% of the total CpG is methylated and most of the unmethylated CpG is clustered in the CpG island at the 5′ end of the genes (7). Factors underlying variable DNA methylation include cell differentiation, aging, genetic variation and environmental exposures such as diet, smoking, sunlight, UV radiation, pathogen infection, exercise, alcohol consumption, stress, etc. A pioneer study on DNA methylation and aging revealed that 5-methylcytosine (5mC) levels dramatically decreased during ontogenesis through the investigation of different organs and life stages of the humpback salmon (8). Such an age-related global DNA hypomethylation has been also observed in a variety of species, including rats (9), mice (10), and humans (11). However, some genes become hypermethylated with age, including Polycomb group protein target genes known to have roles in chromatin remodeling related with gene silencing (12). The advent of microarray and massive parallel sequencing technologies (MPS) in epigenetics enabled the detection of more specific age-associated DNA methylation changes at certain genes or genomic regions. Several recent studies used methylation measures at multiple CpG sites that are highly associated with age to predict chronological age in humans.
Age prediction based on DNA methylation is now attracting attention, especially in the field of forensic genetics because it has been known to be the most accurate method to predict age and can contribute to solving crimes by narrowing down the search range of unknown suspects or missing people. In this review, we would like to focus on DNA methylation-based age predictive models and their potential applicability to the forensic field. More specifically, we will discuss age predictive models that could be applied to the forensically relevant tissues and body fluids such as blood, saliva, semen and skeletal remains.
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure BIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGES
DNA methylation changes with aging
Early studies based on immune, colorimetric and HPLC analysis have shown that the global DNA methylation decreases with age (10, 13, 14). More recent studies reveal that the overall DNA methylation level of the genome increases throughout the first year of life and then stabilizes through adulthood to advanced age in blood (15–18). Postadulthood, median global DNA methylation decreases as the aging process progresses, and interindividual variability increases over time (10, 13, 14). However, the rate of aging depends mainly on the person, mostly appearing differently depending on the genetic, environment and lifestyle (19). Twin studies have indicated that variability in DNA methylation increases with age while showing that the genetic changes affecting human aging are only about 20 to 30% (20, 21). Other studies have shown that DNA methylation associated with age is dependent on gender, obesity index, and specific tissues or cells (17, 22–24). Recent studies, based on microarray and MPS analysis, confirm a global methylation decreases with age, but show age-associated increase or decrease in DNA methylation levels at specific loci (25).
Epigenetic drift and epigenetic clock
Age-related DNA methylation changes have been described as two phenomena: the epigenetic drift and the epigenetic clock (26). Epigenetic drift reflects the effects of environment in which a person ages, and explains the increase in discordance between human epigenomes with age. On the other hand, the sites of epigenetic clock show age-associated DNA methylation changes that are common across individuals, and can thus be used to predict an individual’s age (Fig. 1).
Since epigenetic drift comprises age-related changes that are acquired environmentally and stochastically (26–30), the specific site that undergoes epigenetic drift in one person does not likely show the same changes in another person. In contrast, epigenetic clock consistently occurs at the same site between individuals (26). The epigenetic clock sites have been identified both within a specific tissue and across various tissues. Several studies show that this characteristic can be tissue-specific (29). In effect, many age predictive models that are specific to a certain tissue or cell type have been reported and the model that can be applied across various tissues also shows different methylation age in different tissues (25).
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure DNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELS
Multi-tissue age predictive models
The advent of microarray technology in the field of epigenetics helped drive a revolution in aging research by paving the way to identify specific CpG sites that are highly associated with age. As more and more DNA methylation profiles were produced using this microarray technology, attempts to identify and use age-associated CpG sites that are not cell or tissue type dependent for construction of the age predictive model have been made, even though the majority of age-associated DNA methylation changes are tissue-specific.
Koch and Wagner (31) identified 19 CpG sites that are hypermethylated with aging from five public data sets produced from 20–30 samples each of dermis, epidermis, uterine cervical smear, T-lymphocyte, and monocyte using Illumina’s HumanMethylation27 BeadChip array (Illumina 27K). Four of these sites including CpGs in the NPTX2, TRIM58, GRIA2, and KCNQ1DN genes, and another hypomethylation site in the BIRC4BP gene were selected to implement an age prediction and the predictive model showed an accuracy with a mean absolute deviation from chronological age (MAD) of 12.7 years in eight validation sets. These sets were composed of 766 samples including peripheral blood (PB) leukocytes, saliva, PB lymphocytes, CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cell, cord blood monocytes, PB monocytes, breast tissue, and buccal epithelial cells. However, breast tissue showed considerably lower DNA methylation than other cell types at the CpG site of the BIRC4BP gene and the prediction accuracy increased to 11.4 years of MAD when age prediction was performed and focused on three most significant CpG sites in the KCNQ1DN, NPTX2, and GRIA2.
Horvath (25) also reported an age predictive model that can be applied across a broad spectrum of tissues and cells. The study developed a highly accurate model based on the analysis results of 7,840 non-cancer samples from 82 data sets produced using Illumina 27K or Illumina’s HumanMethylation450 BeadChip array (Illumina 450K), which encompass 51 different tissues and cell types. Among the 82 data sets, 39 were used to train the model using a penalized multivariate regression method known as Elastic Net, 32 were used to validate the model and the rest were used for other purposes. In this report, a total of 21,369 CpGs that are present on both Illumina 27K and 450K, and had less than 10 missing values across the data sets were studied. The 353 CpGs that were automatically selected from the elastic net allowed highly accurate age prediction with a MAD of 2.9 years in the training data and a MAD of 3.6 years in the test data. The model performed efficiently in heterogeneous tissues and individual cell types. However, the interesting part of the study was that the data showed significant differences in methylation age from several tissues. A high error, i.e. MAD values of more than 10 years, was observed in breast tissue, uterine endometrium, dermal fibroblasts, skeletal muscle tissue, heart tissue and sperm. Although such phenomenon might attribute to the hormonal effects, menstrual cycle, stem cell recruitment or different cell lineage, it implied that there might exist specific sites within a tissue that would allow for a more accurate prediction of chronological age for that tissue (26).
Age predictive models for blood
Many studies reported age-associated DNA methylation changes in blood, but there had been no age predictive model specific for blood until Hannum et al. (29) reported a quantitative model of aging using Illumina 450K data from the whole blood of 656 individuals aged 19 to 101. They proposed a new concept of age estimation by combining clinical variables such as sex and BMI with DNA methylation measures for better understanding of epigenetic drift underlying age-associated methylation changes. The model trained with both methylomic and clinical parameters from 482 individuals included 71 age-associated CpGs selected from elastic net regression. The prediction accuracy of the model was high with a MAD of 3.9 years in the training data and 4.9 years in the test data composed of 174 independent samples. It was interesting to note that most of the selected markers were in or near genes implicated in aging-related diseases or functional decreases. For example, six markers of this model laid within the transcription factor KLF14, known as a master regulator of obesity and other metabolic traits. In addition, the ELOVL2 gene was highlighted again as a promising age predictor for blood since the first report, using Illumina 450K to identify age-associated CpGs by Garagnani et al. (32).
Weidner et al. (18) was notable in terms of application because they demonstrated the possibility to predict an age with a high accuracy using only a few CpGs. They first selected 102 age-associated CpGs from Illumina 27K data of 575 blood samples, and constructed an age predictive model with a MAD of 3.3 years. They further reduced the number of CpGs to three for model construction, while keeping the age prediction accuracy considerably high. They finally selected three CpGs of the ITGA2B, ASPA, and PDE4C genes in consideration of age predictability and feasibility to design primers for the following pyrosequencing analysis. The model composed of these three CpGs showed high accuracy with a MAD of 5.4 years in 82 training samples and a MAD of 4.5 years in 69 test samples. The accuracy of age prediction of this model was lower than the models by Hovath (25) or Hannum et al. (29), but this approach had the merit of being cost effective and not requiring complicated bioinformatics.
Utilizing only a few CpG sites is also appealing to forensic geneticists, because most of the casework samples do not provide enough amount of DNA for epigenome-wide analysis such as a microarray analysis. In the field of forensics, Zbieć-Piekarska et al. (33) reported simple, but a highly effective age prediction method that requires the analysis of only a specific genomic region in the ELOVL2 gene. They analyzed seven adjacent CpG sites in one fragment of the ELOVL2 gene by pyrosequencing and constructed an age predictive model using two most highly age-associated CpGs. The model showed a relatively high prediction accuracy with a MAD of 5.0 years in the training set of 303 samples and a MAD of 5.8 years in the test set of 124 samples. A total of 68.5% of test samples were within the range of chronological age ± 7 years, which corresponded to ± 1.0 Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). Later, they reported another age prediction method that was more accurate and based on the DNA methylation measures from pyrosequencing at five CpG sites, one each from the ELOVL2, C1orf132, TRIM59, KLF14, and FHL2 genes (34). The model demonstrated improved prediction accuracy in blood with a MAD of 3.4 years in the training set of 300 samples and a MAD of 3.9 years in the test set of 120 samples. However, age prediction accuracy decreased in older age group, which reflected the increasing variation in DNA methylation from epigenetic drift with age. This model was further tested in another population of 100 Koreans and showed the very similar accuracy with a MAD of 4.2 years (35). This proved that the age prediction performance of the model was relatively consistent across different population groups.
Park et al. (36) also proposed a highly accurate model for age prediction in blood using only three CpGs, one from each of the genes, ELOVL2, ZNF423, and CCDC102B. They selected these three sites from Illumina 450K datasets of 1415 individuals in consideration of feasibility to design primers for pyrosequencing analysis. The model trained with the DNA methylation values measured from pyrosequencing of 535 blood samples was highly accurate with a MAD of 3.2 years, and produced prediction values with a MAD of 3.4 years from 230 test set samples. Several other models based on different combination of age-associated markers and different analysis platforms such as EpiTyper or MPS have been reported to have high age predictability (37–39). Up to now the CpGs in the ELOVL2 gene, however, have been commonly accepted as the most powerful age predictor in blood.
Age predictive models for saliva and buccal epithelial cells
The first DNA methylation-based age predictive model was proposed by Bocklandt et al. (22) using Illumina 27K data of saliva samples obtained from 34 twin pairs aged 21 to 55 years. The model was composed of three age-associated CpGs of the EDARADD, NPTX2, and TOM1L1 genes and showed an average accuracy of 5.2 years. However, the CpG site in the NPTX2 gene did not show significant age correlation in another data set composed of 29 unrelated females and the model’s precision was not fully validated using an independent set of samples.
Hong et al. (40) reported an age predictive model for saliva that is composed of six age-associated CpGs of the SST, CNGA3, KLF14, TSSK6, TBR1, and SLC12A5 genes and a cell type-specific CpG marker of the PTPN7 gene. They selected these six age-associated CpG markers from the Illumina 450K data for 52 saliva samples. A linear regression analysis with age information and the methylation measures obtained from multiplex SNaPshot reaction in an independent set of 113 training samples produced the model with an accuracy of 3.13 years (MAD = 3.13 years, RMSE = 4.3 years). In a subsequent validation with 113 test set samples, this model also showed high prediction accuracy with a MAD of 3.15 years. On average, 70% of samples had an error between −1.0 and +1.0 RMSEs, and 95% of samples had an error between −2.0 and +2.0 RMSEs.
Eipel et al. (41) also proposed to use cell type-specific CpGs for age prediction from buccal swab samples in combination with age-associated CpGs from blood (3 CpGs, one each in the genes PDE4C, ASPA, and ITGA2B). Their model was composed of two cell type-specific CpGs and three age-associated CpGs, and showed MADs of 5.09 years and 5.12 years in two independent validation sets. Intriguingly, the methylation measures of the cell-specific marker of the PTPN7 gene from Hong et al. (40) were highly correlated with the predicted epithelial cell compositions calculated using the “Buccal-Cell Signature” function from Eipel et al. (41). These two studies demonstrated the possibility to improve age prediction from tissues with a heterogeneous cell composition, by combining cell type-specific CpG markers and age-associated CpG markers.
Age predictive models for other forensically-relevant tissues or body fluids
Lee et al. (42) proposed an age predictive model based on semen DNA methylation for the first time. Semen can provide important clues for solving sex crimes and it is one of the most forensically relevant body fluids. Lee et al. identified three age-associated CpGs (cg12837463 and two CpGs of the TTC7B and NOX4 genes) from Illumina 450K data for 12 semen samples and an independent validation with methylation SNaPshot assay in 31 semen samples. Among these genes, the TTC7B gene demonstrated the highest association with age, and had been reported to show age-related DNA methylation changes in the longitudinal study of sperm methylome from 17 fertile males (43). The linear regression model composed of the three CpGs showed relatively high prediction accuracy with MADs of 4.2 years and 5.4 years in the 31 training samples and 37 test samples, respectively.
There were reports that applied age-associated CpGs from blood to age prediction in other forensically relevant tissues such as teeth (44, 45). Bekaert et al. (44) selected four CpGs of the ASPA, PDE4C, ELOVL2, and EDARADD genes from the list of age-associated CpGs from blood and demonstrated that the model constructed with DNA methylation measures at these four CpG sites from pyrosequencing analysis had a relatively high prediction accuracy with a MAD of 4.9 years in teeth samples from 29 individuals aged 19 to 70. Giuliani et al. (45) also analyzed the DNA methylation at the ELOVL2, FHL2, and PENK genes in the teeth using EpiTYPER system. They constructed age-predictive models separately for each teeth part, i.e., dental pulp, cimentum and dentin. Each model was composed of 5 to 13 CpGs from the ELOVL2, FHL2, and PENK genes, and produced MADs of 1.2 years when DNA was recovered from both cementum and pulp from the same tooth, 2.3 years when DNA was recovered from dental pulp, 2.5 years when DNA was extracted from cementum, and 7.1 years when DNA was recovered from dentin. Since each part of the teeth varied in the cell composition, these results could be expected. Dental pulp contains large nerve trunks and blood vessels, but dentin is a calcified tissue mostly composed of inorganic material.
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure POSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGE
Clinical application of DNA methylation age
There have been continued efforts to identify new risk factors that can improve the ability to predict disease and mortality. Because DNA methylation age, which is the predicted value from DNA methylation-based age prediction, has been expected to reflect biological age, Marioni et al. (46) tested whether the difference between DNA methylation age and chronological age (Δage) can predict mortality risk in later life. They calculated Δage in four longitudinal cohorts of older people using age predictive models by Hannum et al. (29) and Horvath (25). The correlations between chronological age and predicted age were 0.83 and 0.75 for the Hannum measure and the Horvath measure, respectively. The correlation between predicted ages for Hannum and Horvath was 0.77. In the meta-analyzed results, a 5-year higher Δage was associated with a 16% greater mortality risk after an adjustment for chronological age, sex, childhood IQ, education, social class, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and APOE e4 status. A pedigree-based analysis of Δage indicated that approximately 40% of inter-individual differences in Δage were due to genetic factors. In addition, another test to examine the relationship between the two DNA methylation measures and exceptional longevity also showed that the long-lived individuals have a young DNA methylation age compared with their chronological age (47). These studies demonstrate DNA methylation age as a measure for biological age that is not always parallel with chronological age, but instead may inform life expectancy predictions (46). DNA methylation age might therefore be useful in the research to identify age accelerator or decelerator for extended human life span.
Forensic application of DNA methylation age
Although DNA methylation age is not always parallel with chronological age, close prediction of age can provide an important investigative lead to narrow down the search range for unknown suspects or victims. Therefore, there have been many reports on DNA methylation-based age prediction in the field of forensics. However, the samples collected from the crime scene frequently contain only a small amount of DNA, and tissue or body fluid type, where the DNA has originated from should be identified in advance for accurate age prediction. Thereby, choosing the most appropriate analytical method for forensic application is more difficult than in clinical application. Thus, there are several key factors to consider when choosing a method to predict an age based on DNA methylation measures for forensic purpose: 1) availability of age predictive model that is specific for a certain type of tissue or body fluid; 2) amount and quality of the DNA required for analysis; 3) accuracy of the method; 4) robustness and simplicity of the method; 5) availability of statistics for interpretation; 6) availability of specialized equipment and reagents; and 7) the cost.
The two representative models by Hannum et al. (29) and Horvath (25) have high prediction accuracy, and the model by Horvath has merit that can be applied to a broad spectrum of tissues. However, it does not seem feasible to apply these methods to casework samples because of their array-based epigenome-wide analysis platform that requires considerable amount of high quality DNA and complicated bioinfomatics. In contrast, the models that were constructed specific for forensically-relevant body fluids using DNA methylation measures obtained from targeted bisulfite sequencing such as pyrosequencing, EpiTyper, methylation SNaPshot, or MPS seem more promising to be easily incorporated into forensic procedures. These methods require smaller amounts of DNA than epigenome-wide analysis and provide reproducible highly accurate DNA methylation measures.
Pyrosequencing provides accurate and detailed profiles of DNA methylation patterns within 100 bases from the pyrosequencing primer binding site. This method is based on the “sequencing by synthesis” principle, and the sequence is determined by the detection of known nucleotide incorporation. The incorporation of nucleotide by a DNA polymerase appears as the light emission from luciferase that is proportional to the amounts of pyrophosphate released upon nucleotide incorporation. The degree of methylation at each CpG site in a sequence is determined from the ratio of nucleotides T and C. This technique is quantitative, and can detect low methylation differences of up to 5%, but does not allow multiplex assay (48).
EpiTYPER is a mass spectrometer-based bisulfite sequencing method that enables regional-specific DNA methylation analysis (49). This technique uses base-specific enzymatic cleavage coupled to MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for analysis of bisulfite-converted DNA. Its fast, accurate analysis power and multichannel analysis capability are advantageous, but limited throughput and high cost restricts its wider application in the forensic field.
Methylation SNaPshot is based on the primer extension method that has been originally developed for SNP analysis. It is characterized by the analysis of bisulfite-converted DNA through single-nucleotide primer extension process, which uses a primer designed to be located up to 1 bp upstream of the CpG site (50). This method allows for multiplexed analysis, thereby saving DNA consumed for the assay. However, imbalance in intensities between the different fluorescent dyes of the SNaPshot® kit may require adjustment to obtain accurate absolute measures for DNA methylation.
MPS-based targeted bisulfite sequencing is also increasingly used in the field of forensics (38, 39, 51). PCR fragments obtained from bisulfite-converted DNA can be used in the library preparation for MPS analysis. Characteristics such as high throughput and high sensitivity ensure its application in the forensic field, but it is still required to simplify the data analysis procedure to help researchers who are not familiar with big size data.
In addition, since DNA methylation age in the forensic field should provide the information about unknown person’s unknown age, the possible range of prediction deviation needs to be considered when data is reported (39, 40). Although RMSE is not as clear as MAD, it has other implications from an interpretation standpoint. Many distributions of error were known to follow the normal distribution and in case of a normal distribution, 68% of errors fall between −1.0 and +1.0 RMSEs and 95% of errors fall between −1.96 and +1.96 RMSEs (22, 40). Recent papers on DNA methylation-based age prediction (33, 39, 40) prove that the use of the 1.0 RMSE and 2.0 RMSE range is informative to predict the possible range of prediction deviation: Around 70% samples fall into ± 1.0 RMSE range and 95% in the ± 2.0 RMSE range. These papers applied different analysis platforms to measure DNA methylation, i.e., pyrosequencing (33), methylation SNaPshot (40), and MPS (39) respectively.
Because the type of tissues and body fluids from the crime scene could be more diverse, the development of new models or the evaluation of a model specific for a certain type of tissue or body fluid in other types of tissues or body fluids would be beneficial for the future forensic applications of the DNA methylation-based age prediction method. Also, many casework samples could be present in a mixed form, so the method to isolate specific tissue or cell type needs to be considered for more accurate prediction of age.
Other SectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBIOLOGICAL BACKGOUND OF AGE-ASSOCIATED DNA METHYLATION CHANGESDNA METHYLATION-BASED AGE PREDICTIVE MODELSPOSSIBLE APPLICATION OF DNA METHYLATION AGECONCLUSIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSFigure CONCLUSION
The relationship between DNA methylation and aging has been described as the epigenetic drift and the epigenetic clock. Epigenetic drift increases the interindividual variation with age influenced by environmental factors. In contrast, epigenetic clock sites are highly associated with age across individuals, and thus can be used to predict chronological age. With an advent of microarray technology, more and more researchers reported age-associated DNA methylation markers and age predictive models. DNA methylation age predicted from DNA methylation measures at several to hundreds of CpG sites are expected to measure biological age that is not always parallel with chronological age but may provide information about life expectancy as well as unknown sample donor’s appearance.
There exist models that can be applied across broad spectrum of tissues, but the age prediction accuracy varies depending on the tissue type. In the field of forensics, models for age prediction in blood, saliva, semen, buccal swabs, and teeth have been reported using only a few age-associated CpGs. The prediction accuracy of these models is high, with a MAD of less than 5 years. However, for a better application of these models, pros and cons of related analysis methods should be considered. In addition, efforts should be made not only to identify more age-associated DNA methylation markers for various tissues and cells, but also to develop standards and software for an accurate interpretation of quantitative analysis results. To forecast the possible range of prediction deviation, the RMSE is an appropriate measurement: Around 70% samples fall into ± 1.0 RMSE range and 95% in the ± 2.0 RMSE range. In the future, it is expected that the age-associated DNA methylation markers and age predictive models will play an important role, not only in the forensic investigation, but also in clinical research to monitor health condition and to identify age decelerators for the longer life expectancy.
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This study was supported by the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (NRF-2014M3A9E1069992).
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Fig. 1. Schematic representation of epigenetic drift versus the epigenetic clock. If a specific CpG site is associated with age (top) within an individual, it may be undergoing either epigenetic drift (left) or an epigenetic clock site (right). Both phenomena have different characteristics when examined across a population or within a twin set. Reprinted from Jones et al. () with permission from John Wiley & Sons Ltd. and The Anatomical Society.
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Schlag den Brig 2 – LIVE from 8pm! #sdb
By Brig Bother | April 11, 2014
Saturday 8pm (UK time),
Youtube and viewable RIGHT HERE.
#sdb
#imbackingbrig
#teamdan
It’s time to choose a side.
We are too good to you. In January we provided four hours of live entertainment, the likes of which the Internet had never seen before – a hilarious low rent version of German event television show Schlag den Raab (Beat (the) Raab) played across Youtube on webcams with fun and inventive games from the devious mind of The Crystal Maze and Only Connect‘s David Bodycombe. Fifteen mystery challenges of mental agility, psychology, dexterity and skill bought to you LIVE. THE WORLD HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING. On the night Dan got lucky.
Almost three months has passed and I’ve been in training. I will prove once and for all Dan was a bit lucky first time round.
This Saturday night we’re back BIGGER, BETTER and MORE INTERACTIVE – play along at home, and in some cases influence the results in some of the games (so try to watch live!). A fresh fifteen games await us and me and Dan have no idea what’s about to hit us (except for the two proper You Bet!-esque games we’ve filmed outside a fortnight ago and have had video packages put together by proper TV person Michelle Martin, god knows she didn’t have much to work with but by all accounts they apparently look great). The only other person who knows is our referee and commentator for the night Lewis Murphy.
HQ link to Snooker Golf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncen8L5GGrE
HQ link to Merken Mercedes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMlzGPPyslQ
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We’d love to hear your comments – comment on the Youtube stream (or preferred) Twitter with #sdb and we’ll read them out during quiet bits. Or Lewis will at any rate, we’re not allowed to access Twitter during the recording.
Anything could happen – it’s an unrehearsed live show with lots of chains of technology involved and two people who are winging it completely, please bear with us if something goes wrong, follow me, Dan, David and Lewis on Twitter for updates.
If you miss it you should be able to watch the stream afterwards, for most fun we recommend watching live. We got great viewers last time, we want to smash that this time!
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39 thoughts on “Schlag den Brig 2 – LIVE from 8pm! #sdb”
Chris M. Dickson April 12, 2014
*chants* Schlag den Brig! Schlag den Brig! Schlag den Brig!
It occurs to me that there’s no reason why German game show fans couldn’t have got together to do exactly the same thing already, thus providing an early hint at all sorts of exciting possibilities of a pan-European EuroSchlag, or a Schlag den Champions’ League, or something. A quick search suggests that… well, if it’s happened, I haven’t been able to find it quickly. I’d like to think it must have done in a game-crazy country like Germany, though.
A search for "schlag den" -raab -star does point to lots of irrelevant tipping competitions, but also a reasonably serious-looking Schlag den Lehrer, which translates to “Beat The Teacher” (I like it already!) and seems to have been an annual event at a school 25 miles east of Frankfurt since 2010. They got a thousand viewers for the Internet stream of their event, so I guess that’s a target of a sort. It also looks like a diner had their own little Schlag, so to speak, as an event to attract custom.
Fingers crossed that the German Schlag fans find us and find out how much fun we’re having!
Three games in, and the imagination in the show thus far is freaking amazing. Brilliant stuff all round; I’m blown away.
Phil Hannay April 13, 2014
Fantastic show guys, I really wasn’t planning to watch all of it, but it was surprisingly compelling 🙂
JC April 13, 2014
Thoroughly enjoyed that! I think my favourites were playing along with the sketching game again, and attempting to decipher the charades. Thanks for all of the effort that went in to making tonight such a great show!
Andrew April 13, 2014
Wow, what an enthralling 5 hours+ viewing that was! Great variety of games, I’d certainly love to have a go at Snooker Golf sometime! The outside broadcast segments worked particularly well. Good mix of strategic, lateral thinking, quizzy, and just plain daft (Moose and Bunny game springs to mind!;) games. Audience participation games great idea, I was surprised how many speed charades I managed to get! 😀
Overall, a great night full of amusement, merriment and occasionally educational – well done guys, and I hope to see it again in the future! 😀
Sensationally good. Maybe it’s just because I feel so close to everyone involved, but I enjoyed this much more than the Raab version. I don’t know if the YouTube numbers matched up to the first episode but the quality was outstanding. Thank you very much to everyone involved: Nick, Dan, David, Lewis and Michelle. If you didn’t catch it live, it’s well worth five hours of your life to go back and see the recording.
This has been my single viewing highlight of the year so far, even including SdB 1, Sport Relief Only Connect and The Genius.
I will also repeat my contention from SdB 1 that I think I would really have been struggling to score points against either of you competitors. Maybe you were both showing a little fatigue in game 13 but you had been going at full throttle for hours and hours; overall, in context, the standard of competition was extremely high.
Other Andrew April 13, 2014
I felt an idiot for forgetting it was today until a while into it, but I came in starting on game six and was hooked for the rest of it. Very entertaining, and congratulations Brig!
David B April 13, 2014
If the first 90 minutes of the video are missing, it’s because it’s still in video recorder mode. It might take a day before the full archived version is put up there.
Thanks to everyone who tuned in. Full debrief to follow.
Chris Philpot April 13, 2014
Well done to everyone involved in Schlag den Brig. Nick, good job on pulling off the comeback. David, the games were so creative, Tetris Words was a personal favourite. Plus the OBs were a fantastic touch, so kudos to Michelle for her sterling efforts there.
I tuned in for the middle couple of hours (once Britain’s Got Talent finished, really – it would have been sooner but for the football). I hope that, as David says, the full version will appear on YouTube in due course. The much-lauded bibliographic treasure hunt sounds well worth watching.
Is it beyond geekiness to request a breakdown of some of the software and resources used to pull this off?
Lewis April 13, 2014
I can tell you what I was doing on my end (round scoreboard, timers, all associated noises, VTs):
A lot of the heavy lifting this time around was done by a piece of software called XSplit Broadcaster at http://www.xsplit.com – its primary use is broadcasting to services like Twitch but it also runs as a software webcam, and it allowed me to put layouts together showing both a scoreboard and a timer. Luckily I managed to scale everything so it was all pretty clear in the miniature view at the bottom of the screen.
The round scoreboard was made in microsoft office powerpoint – that one was done by David, I just had it running to change scores and occasionally provide a few sounds like the gun bang.
The main timer is XNote Stopwatch, at http://www.xnotestopwatch.com/ – I actually found this last time when Dan was using it to count down to when SdB would start. Pretty useful multipurpose timer, it does all sorts of things that I haven’t needed for either SdB.
The chess clock used for Nachahmer and Boku was Virtual Chess Clock, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchessclock/ – simple software that accepts keyboard commands and allows them to be customised.
The VTs were all just run in VLC media player. I shouldn’t need to link to that, you should already have it. There’s a minimal interface mode I used to avoid spoilers from the timer counting down, and also avoid spoilers on the toast VTs. The outside broadcast game VTs and the prize VT were run as a screenshare in hangouts, the toaster I decided to run through XSplit so I could easily switch between it and the scoreboard.
Much of the sound was run from my iPhone 3GS (yes really). The theme tune, the sting as each game was announced, the think music and the pieces for TV-Kisum were all run through a simple line-in out the headphone jack into my computer.
To mix the sounds coming from my computer, the sounds coming in my microphone, and the sound coming in the line-in all together was a piece of software called VB Audio Virtual Cable, at http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm – it acts as an output that redirects to an input, so I can have that output listen to everything and send the input into Hangouts.
Thanks Lewis, that’s several very handy webpages bookmarked!
David (AU) April 28, 2014
What was used to play the songs backwards in the TV theme round?
The songs were pre-edited by David, I’m not sure what software he used, but pretty much any decent sound editing software including Audacity will do a simple reverse. Then they were simply played as mp3s on my phone to the line-in I mentioned above.
Simon April 13, 2014
Thoroughly enjoyable 5 hours. Even though my PC was throwing a strop – managed to watch on my phone and used my tablet for tne interactivity.
Rob Francis April 13, 2014
Watched the first hour, then my laptop threw a wobbly and I gave up. Watched the rest this afternoon, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done to all involved!
Dave M April 14, 2014
Couldn’t watch live, unfortunately, but did just finish watching on catchup. Brilliant job to all involved. I didn’t think the games could get more clever after the ingenuity shown on the first episode of SDB, but Herr Bodycombe (and faithful dogsbody Lewis) has outdone himself. Loved the VTs, they were extremely impressive. Congrats Nick, commiserations Dan, and I can’t wait to see the rubber match whenever it goes off.
One suggestion for next time: In at least the treasure hunt round (and possibly others?) It would have been easier to follow if we’d had audio commentary that could have included spoilers the contestants shouldn’t hear. I appreciate that may have been technically impossible, but something to consider trying to find a way of doing for next time?
I did consider that but if that happened the contestants would have had to call our text for every clue. I thought that, even on a relatively simple hunt there’s always ways of getting stuck, it was more expeditious to do it with audio.
xr April 14, 2014
I belatedly watched the sequel, and it was great fun! Thanks to everyone involved. The editing was much improved, with more shots of the contestants and less of cards. I watched in two sittings, and it did feel overlong even so – maybe lop off a few of the games if you decide to go for it again?
Games were almost universally awesome, although a game of watching toast dry at the end of a long broadcast seemed a bit cruel. I was surprised Bunny bunny moose moose didn’t sit well with the players; it’s a great party game. Radar had great playalong, and I was susprised it didn’t go off in a tangent with maps of the night sky, Middle Earth, meteo or somesuch. I found the treasure hunt susprisingly easy to follow along, since most of the puzzles didn’t really depend on the particulars of the book for their a-ha moment; the slides were required though, since following with the cameras would have been imposible. I think the Gears jigsaw was the only one with nothing to commend it; we couldn’t really see the board or the contestants’ expressions.
I find the inspiration unwatchable due to blandness and padding. I’ve had great fun watching both your episodes. Maybe you need to translate your CV’s and have a go at working on the real thing.
Daniel Peake April 14, 2014
I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to anyone who watched, voted or even sent in a poem during the broadcast. It was a genuine pleasure to play, and I hope you guys enjoyed watching it as much as we did playing it.
A MASSIVE thank you to David – the time, organisation and creativity involved is quite something… to COLOSSAL thank you to Lewis for becoming part robot and dealing with the technical issues as well as filming and commentating too, and lastly a REASONABLY BIG thank you to my opponent Nick. I say reasonably big because, well, see game 15. 😉
When playing the treasure hunt game, whilst I knew David would be showing a play by play for viewers at home, I was a bit worried it wouldn’t translate well across the screen. So I’m very relieved to see that people loved that game!! I certainly did playing it, especially the ingenious ending.
Thanks once more – and here’s to hopefully seeing an SdB3.
I’m torn. On the one hand, I feel like the first SdB had more play-along value, and three of my four favourite games are from it (Bilderwurfel, Sortieren, and A Capella, with Radar filling up the top four), but I think this one was better overall? The lowpoint – probably Sortier Formen, though I loved the concept – wasn’t nearly as bad as Pipe Riders last time.
I’ve just now watched Snooker Golf and that looks SO FUN. I wonder if anything like that exists near me. (Although I hope to move to England at some point anyway, so it’ll be something to keep in mind if I achieve that life goal..)
If you are in the US then there’s a fair chance there’s one near you. The website is topgolf.com
The snooker game is one if about 6 modes you can play. The default game just requires you to whack the ball and win some points if it goes in a hole.
Alas, none are close enough to make it a singular reason to make a trip. Although it’ll be something to keep in mind when planning my next vacation and/or where I decide to move. Thanks!
Ben April 15, 2014
Pretty much a newcomer to all of this, but was pointed in the direction of the first SDB by a friend, and enjoyed it. Wasn’t planning to watch all of this, just dip in and out, but having watched the first hour live, I then watched all the rest on catchup yesterday – I was hooked! Some great games, and fantastic OBs! Particular favourites were Radar and the coloured dots on a hexagon where you had to make 5 in a row (apologies, forgot the title there). The only one I wasn’t too keen on was word Tetris. Partly because I was awful at it! It may have just been me, but seemed you really needed the physical shapes in front of you to have a good chance of following it.
Having lived in Austria for a while, I’ve watched a fair few SDRs (all in German obviously), and only watched the most recent with your commentary, but I enjoyed that as well.
All in all – brilliant production! Congratulations to everyone involved in it – the 5 hours flew by!
JamesW April 15, 2014
Just caught up, that was remarkable. Shame about Lewis’s PC doing the dirty through the music round, but all came together. Didn’t realise Top Golf was still open, to be quite honest.
Poochy.EXE April 16, 2014
I’ve caught up too, and I must say it was brilliant again. The highlights for me:
+ The atlas treasure hunt (sorry, I’m terrible with German and can’t remember most of the names) was particularly clever, and made me truly wish I could play along with the actual items in the envelopes. My hat’s off to David for creating such a clever series of puzzles.
+ Tetris Worte was also awesome. This time I did actually manage to play along in my head (with middling success) even though I didn’t have the pieces.
+ I quite liked the five-in-a-row game, especially once the sandwich rule started coming into play, and very especially Brig’s clever use of it to turn the match around starting on game 2. I think this was the game most reminiscent of a Death Match on The Genius.
+ Also found myself playing along with Das Toaster, which I discovered does in fact have a consistent pattern and was probably a lot more skillful than the rules led on, in a way reminiscent of some of my favorite Main Matches in The Genius. Specifically, I attempted to count at 150 BPM in my head (as I do when playing along with Time Freeze on The Cube). Turned out I was a bit slow — I timed myself after the game, and it turned out to be 140 BPM — but that happened to be in sync with the toaster. The first setting popped after almost exactly 18 measures, and each subsequent one popped after 2 measures longer than the last.
+ Bravo to Dan on that perfect guess on the car game. That was very impressive.
+ Quite liked the concept of Snooker Golf, although it was a shame the game became a runaway so quickly and ended in a bit of an anticlimax.
+ TV Kusim was pretty fun to watch although I was pretty clueless. It seemed like a missed opportunity to use some of the themes from the shows frequently covered on this site. I suppose that would’ve handed an advantage to Brig though.
I was sad that at least The Crystal Maze’s iconic theme wasn’t used.
There’s a pattern to the toaster settings because they were cut that way. My toaster, even on its lowest setting, takes 80 seconds to pop. I filmed it and then Lewis cut the videos down to 35, 38, 41, 44… seconds for each level. The relatively static image made it easy to edit.
We added the different settings as an extra element because I felt the original game was missing a trick. Otherwise you might as well just have an stopwatch alarm, frankly.
Daniel H April 16, 2014
Taken me a while to get round to it but I have to say what a triumph Saturday was!
As good if not better than the first time round. The poetry and charades games, albeit not traditional Raab fayre, really added something with the audience voting etc and made it feel like a proper “event.”
The OBs were excellent and were made even better by the editing – hat tip to Michelle for that.
The cogs game was probably my least favourite as it was a little tricky to see the “race” progression at times from the camera angles but it was a traditional Raab-style game so certainly still had a place.
The Moose/Bunny game, although I did understand the rules, I was as baffled as I think Nick was as to how you were meant to react so quickly to the cards so very well done Dan there!
As for the other rounds, the Toaster homage to Schlag was great and simply the fact that Nick looked well out of it, 3 match-lists down at about 11:45pm and yet somehow took it to a decider and won it at 1am was well worth staying up for!
Excellent job all of you. Deserves many times the viewership – Good luck for any future ones.
Matt Clemson April 16, 2014
You say the poetry and charades game aren’t traditional Raab fare, but I seem to remember hearing about an artwork game on SdR that pretty much used that system; Raab and the candidate had to produce a work of art in a given time, and then an audience vote determined which was the better work.
Brig Bother Post author April 16, 2014
Yes indeed, Christmas trees I think Lewis suggested.
To be honest I’m all for deviating a bit from the norm if the deviation is likely to provide a few more laughs.
A very memorable game too if you’ve seen it! It was indeed christmas trees, but even more memorable is the fact that it occurred during the episode when Raab had a wrist brace on and couldn’t use his right hand, so the kandidat was also disallowed from using their dominant hand during any of the games (yet one of them still managed to produce a pretty fine piece of art).
I’ll link the game on myspass in the morning when I can find it.
As promised: show 26 game 3, Malen http://www.myspass.de/myspass/shows/tvshows/schlag-den-raab/Spiel-3-Malen–/12865/
Of course, even though they were painting christmas trees this show had no christmas theme whatsoever.
Just a coincidence.
Ah OK – I must have missed that episode!
Yes – I agree Brig – a slight deviation definitely added to proceedings rather than detracted and made good use of the broadcast medium/technology.
There’s an exciting feedback form now. Do fill it in if you have the chance, it would help us out loads. Thanks!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HKVW7V6
Qusion April 18, 2014
Just stopped by to leave a massive thank you to David, Lewis, Nick and Dan for giving up so much of their free time to give us an evening of fine entertainment. I had a really good time and, felt that this time the production felt a lot more fluid, especially in the games. The games themselves were engaging and entertaining – it still intrigues me that the games that should be dull as dishwater on paper, are often the most fun to watch.
I have diligently filled in my form and supplied my game ideas and hope we can enjoy SDB – The Decider soon.
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Look What's In Large Print: December 2017
December 1, 2017 | madame librarian
Large print is not just a bigger font size that makes reading accessible for the visually impaired. It’s also proven to improve letter and word recognition, aid reading comprehension, and increase feelings of confidence and satisfaction when reading. That makes it perfect for beginning or reluctant readers and ESL/ELL students. Large print books are an essential resource for any literacy program.
A life well played [large print] : my stories by Arnold Palmer
The golfing master reevaluates his many life experiences, sharing details about familiar stories while offering new anecdotes and his time-tested insights into relationships, business success, and living a life of integrity.
Trajectory [large print] by Richard Russo
Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls --is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from many of his novels. In "Horseman," a professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday looms closer and closer: "And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward--or not. In "Voice," a semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along on a group tour of the Venice Biennale, fleeing a mortifying incident with a traumatized student back in Massachusetts but encountering further complications in the maze of Venice. And in "Milton and Marcus," a lapsed novelist struggles with his wife's illness and tries to rekindle his screenwriting career, only to be stymied by the pratfalls of that trade when he's called to an aging, iconic star's mountaintop retreat in Wyoming.
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What We're Reading: August 2017
August 5, 2017 | madame librarian
twentieth century authors
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." —James McCosh (1811-1894)
The unruly city : Paris, London, and New York in the Age of Revolution by Michael Rapport
In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century-Paris, London, and New York-all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War, to agitation for democracy in London and popular uprisings, and ultimately regicide in Paris, Rapport explores the relationship between city and revolution, asking why some cities engender upheaval and some suppress it. Why did Paris experience a devastating revolution while London avoided one? And how did American independence ignite activism in cities across the Atlantic? Rapport takes readers from the politically charged taverns and coffeehouses on Fleet Street, through a sea battle between the British and French in the New York Harbor, to the scaffold during the Terror in Paris. The Unruly City shows how the cities themselves became protagonists in the great drama of revolution.
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"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child"--.
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Teen Writers' Studio
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Do you love making up stories, poems or dreaming about writing a novel one day? Do you want to meet other teens who share the same passion? Join us for an informal session where you can meet other writers, do a few exercises, talk about how to improve your work and bounce ideas off each other. You will never be required to share your work, but if you'd like to, this is a safe space and judgment free zone. Your stories and poems produced during these sessions will also be bound together at the end of the school year, creating a book or zine of your work. Open to all middle and high school students.
Untitled by Elizabeth M is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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Looking for a Good Laugh
August 30, 2016 | madame librarian
middle-aged women
city and town life
Upper-class
Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
Lucia, recently widowed, is the newcomer to the village of Tilling and eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from the incumbant Miss Mapp and install herself as its benevolent dictator. In their polite acts of sabotage and ruthless jockeying for the position of cultural arbiter Mapp and Lucia tear up the conventions of drawing-room bridge evenings as their deadly weapons. Things finally come to a head with Miss Mapp's audacious attempt to steal her rival's celebrated Lobster a la Riseholme. E.F. Benson's charming satrical bent turns the pretensions and snobberies of English village life into a vicious comedy.
Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.
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Look What's In Large Print: August 2016
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The 14th colony [large print] by Steve Berry
Shot down over Siberia in what was to be a simple meet-and-greet-mission, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still imbedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Inauguration Day -- noon on January 20th -- is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to political chaos and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest. Armed with a weapon leftover from the Cold War, one long thought to be just a myth, Zorin plans to attack. He's aided by a shocking secret hidden in the archives of America's oldest fraternal organization, the Society of Cincinnati, a group that once lent out its military savvy to presidents, including helping to formulate three covert invasion plans of Canada. In a race against the clock that starts in the frozen extremes of Russia and ultimately ends at the White House itself, Malone must not only battle Zorin, he must also confront his deepest fear, a crippling weakness that he's long denied but one that now jeopardizes everything..
An Amish market : four novellas [large print]
Still mourning the loss of her brother, Ellie encourages the carving talents of his friend, Lloyd, while working at a gift shop in town. But his father disapproves. Every week, Hannah brings home-churned butter to market, and Ezra purchases some. Is he in the market for love? Embarassed by shattering a jar of beets at the Combination Store of Bee County, Texas, Isabella doesn't expect the handsome manager's frosty reaction. And, working together at the Old Amish Mill, Stella and David must find out what's behind strange happenings there..
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Murder Will Out: June 2016
June 13, 2016 | madame librarian
Looking for a good mystery and a way to earn the Connect Your Summer 2016 Super Bookworm: My Mitten badge? Check out this selection of mysteries set in Michigan.
Buckular dystrophy : a woods cop mystery by Joseph Heywood
The 10th installment of the beloved Woods Cop Mystery series! The traditional firearm deer season in Michigan lasts two weeks, a time in which the most hunters are afield during the year and the time when most things happen. Game wardens cannot count on having any life but work during this period, and in this case Grady Service, who takes longtime violator and archrival Limpy Allerdyce on as his partner for deer season runs into the most bizarre string of big cases involving deer that he has ever encountered. Buckular Dystrophy is the term coined by Conservation Officers to describe the condition whereby people cannot help killing deer, not for sport or food, but for other reasons - an addiction of sorts, and unlike other addictions, one not medically organized, but just as real.
Tracking the beast by Henry Kisor
When the remains of three little girls turn up inside railroad hopper cars, Sheriff Steve Martinez faces a troublesome case, for the cars had sat for years on a siding deep inside his beloved Porcupine County. After Steve and his comrades do the spadework, the FBI moves in, thinking their Unsub is both rapist and murderer. But Steve believes the killer--or killers--instead hired someone to dispose of the bodies. With the help of lawmen of all kinds, including the Ontario Provincial Police, and even Detroit mobsters, Steve doggedly tracks "the Beast." This intricate police procedural, set in the wilds of Upper Michigan, features not only an exciting high-tech chase around Lake Superior but also the revival of a clever World War II deception.
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Author Jim Harrison, 1937-2016
March 28, 2016 | Patton
Michigan native, author, and poet Jim Harrison passed on this weekend. Harrison's body of work included, "...21 volumes of fiction, including 'Legends of the Fall', a collection of three novellas whose title piece, about a Montana family ravaged by World War I, became a 1994 film starring Brad Pitt; 14 books of poetry; two books of essays; a memoir; and a children’s book." (New York Times) He was known for tales of outdoors and rural life in the U.P. and his rugged, masculine characters were often compared to those of Hemingway. Below we offer a selection of his works, many available on audio Book CD, in honor of his career. His 2016 release, The ancient minstrel : novellas, can be found on the New Book Shelf.
Legends of the fall [videodisc]
An epic Western saga about a woman and the three sons of a Montana rancher who love her, told against the backdrop of World War I.
Legends of the fall by Jim Harrison
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If You Like Paulo Coelho...
January 28, 2016 | madame librarian
The assassination of Margaret Thatcher : stories by Hilary Mantel
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Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way.
The end of everything : a novel by Megan E. Abbott
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie seeks out answers when her best friend and next-door neighbor Evie Verver goes missing after the two girls saw a dark car driving past earlier in the day, and throughout her efforts, Lizzie begins to question how well she knew Evie.
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel.
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Pick and Choose: Short Stories
January 25, 2016 | strande
Connect Your Summer
Can't Choose? Try a collection of short stories. Read one or read the whole book, either way it's an adventure. Don't forget to take advantage of the alternate formats listed. Titles available as audio or eBooks can be used to earn eLectrified versions of the You Choose badge.
One day, the end : short, very short, shorter-than-ever stories by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
A little girl tells very short stories about herself, but her full adventures are revealed in the artwork.
George and Martha, one fine day by James Marshall
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Five new episodes in the friendship of the two hippopotamuses. Find more short stories about George and Martha and their friendship in our catalog.
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Speedy Reading: Short Stories
Can't Choose? Try a collection of short stories. Read one or read the whole book, either way it's an adventure.
Breakfast on Mars and 37 other delectable essays
Present a collection of unconventional essays by leading writers to challenge how students think about essays using imaginative, rule-breaking, and unconventional examples.
Dorothy must die : stories by Danielle Paige
Whisked to Oz by a Kansas twister, Amy Gumm discovers that the magical land has been destroyed by Dorothy's tyrannical rule, a situation that compels Amy to join an order of deposed magic-wielders who seek to put an end to Dorothy's reign.
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Glossary of Common Terms
This section of the website has been created to help introduce lenders to the basic facts surrounding title insurance policies and related matters. You will find important information identifying the differences between policies, the most commonly used endorsements, types of deeds, and a glossary of frequently used industry terms.
Title insurance helps to protect lenders and homeowners against major losses. Fidelity National Title wants to make it easy for you to understand the various aspects of coverage involved in most transactions. While title insurance can be a very complex subject, an understanding of the basics can go a long way.
We hope that this website will aid you -- but if you have any specific questions, just call your local Fidelity National Title office. Our experts will be glad to answer your questions.
Legal Notification:
This website has been designed to be introductory and educational only. Because of the constant changes inherent in the title insurance industry, and particularly in regard to state and regional differences, it is not to be construed as a statement of duties, liabilities or coverages.
Title policies insure owners and lenders against possible losses from claims against real property ownership. The preliminary report or commitment provides advance information on matters which will be excepted from coverage. Lenders and owners are thereby given an opportunity to correct title flaws before purchasing or lending.
Title insurance originated in the 1870's to stem a series of land ownership problems that developed from inaccurate record searches, forgeries, and related problems. Today, it offers protection from certain items that cannot be determined from public records, such as forgeries of all types, undisclosed heirs, hidden marriages and divorces, clerical errors, and invalid legal procedures and interpretations.
Policies are written on the basis of a search of public records and other records which impart constructive notice. Remember, a deed does not prove that the seller is the owner of the property. Only title insurance can protect your interest in the property from unknown encumbrances, legal conflicts and unforeseen claims.
A policy of title insurance is like a pre-paid legal agreement. Your insurer will provide legal defense against challenges to your insured title (dependent, of course, upon the type of policy coverage ) and will reimburse you financially for losses due to the covered defects in your ownership rights.
It is important to remember that a lender's title policy does not insure a borrower against title risks. While certain types of policies pertain to both the owner and the lender, it makes good sense to help protect your borrowers by explaining the limitations of their particular coverage.
In the following sections, you will find an explanation of the most common policies and endorsements used today. If you have any questions regarding which would best suit the needs of any particular situation, contact your Fidelity National Title representative.
ALTA (American Land Title Association) Policy
In most jurisdictions, the ALTA Extended Coverage loan policy is the most common policy offering extended coverage for the lender's interest only. What this means is that the lender is protected from certain additional "off-record" matters such as encroachments, unrecorded easements, possessory interests, discrepancies in boundaries -- matters which may generally be determined by a land inspection or a proper survey. It insures the lender that they are receiving a lien which will take priority over various interest and claims to the subject property.
An ALTA Extended Coverage loan policy from the Standard Coverage Policy by offering insurance against matters which cannot be determined by an examination of public records.
REMEMBER: An ALTA Extended loan policy covers the lender only. Its advantage to the lender lies in its ability to include matters that are not generally public record.
ALTA: Coverage Specifics
ALTA Extended Coverage loan policy coverage varies from state to state, as each state places those standard exceptions in Part 1, Schedule B, that would be responsive to the statutes and laws of that particular state. In California, an ALTA loan policy will insure the lender against loss or damage if:
The vesting is other than as listed.
A defect, lien or encumbrance is not excluded and the underwriter failed to disclose it in the policy.
There is no right of access to a public street.
The title is unmarketable as insured.
The insured mortgage is invalid or unenforceable (unless a claim is based on usury or any consumer credit protection or truth-in-lending law.)
Mechanic's liens gain priority over the insured mortgage (unless those liens arise from contractual work started after the policy date and are not financed by the insured loan.)
An assignment of the insured mortgage is invalid or unenforceable by reason of an error against in the policy.
ALTA: Conditions and Stipulations
The conditions and stipulations of the ALTA policy contain important provisions of the coverage to both the insurer and the insured. The main points are:
That the principal terms used are defined.
The circumstances under which the policy will remain in force when the estate or interest in the insured property is acquired by another.
How and when the claimant must give notice of claim, and the provision for defense and prosecution of actions.
The insurer's options in paying or settling claims.
How losses are determined and the payment of loss.
Limitations and reductions of liability; noncumulative liability; subrogation on payment or settlement; policy limit liability.
Provisions for arbitration.
ONE MORE TIME: As with all title insurance policies, various endorsements will affect the coverage and limitations of an ALTA loan policy. See the section on Endorsements for further information -- or call your Fidelity National Title representative.
ALTA: Lender's Coverage Exclusions
Coverage under the ALTA policy is excluded for the following matters:
Any law, ordinance or governmental regulation or police power relating to building, zoning, occupancy, use or environmental protection except to the extent that a notice of defect has been recorded.
Rights of eminent domain.
Defects, liens, etc., if:
Created by the insured
Known to the insured, but not specified in writing to the underwriter by the specified date.
No loss or damage is suffered by the insured.
Created or attached after the policy date (with the exception of mechanic's lien insurance offered elsewhere in the policy.
If the lien of the insured mortgage is unenforceable because the insured does not comply with "doing business" laws in the state of the insured property.
Any claim, which arises out of the transaction creating the interest of the mortgagee insured by reason of the operation of federal bankruptcy, state insolvency, or similar creditors' rights laws.
Standard Coverage Policy
Although each state has individual policy differences and limitations, many of them use a Standard Coverage policy, which provides less coverage against off-record risks than the ALTA lender or owner extended coverage. This Standard Coverage Policy is the most widely used policy of title insurance. It is sometimes used as a loan policy to insured the validity of a mortgage or deed of trust on an interest or estate in real property.
However, a CLTA Standard Coverage policy is often used as an owner's policy or in some jurisdictions as a Joint Protection policy (JP) insuring both the owner and lender. The variety of endorsement that are used to modify a Standard Coverage Policy make this one of the most flexible policies available, and therefore the most popular.
NOTE: A Standard Coverage policy is not always referred to as such. Example: In California, it is called a CLTA (California Land Title Association) policy. In Washington, it is called a WLTA (Washington Land Title Association) policy -- etc., and, in some states, the owner's policy is an ALTA Standard Owner's policy. Your local Fidelity National Title office would be happy to discuss the policy forms in use in your state.
A Standard Coverage policy relies mostly upon matters of public record. However, some off-recorded items are covered under its provisions, including forgery, fraud, etc. The endorsements included, if any, as a part of the policy will affect coverage.
Standard Coverage Policy (Specifics):
A CLTA Standard Coverage policy will insure the lender and/or the owner against loss or damage if:
A defect in the execution of the insured instrument, or priority over such instrument of a lien or encumbrance, is not excluded or shown.
An assignment of the insured mortgage is invalid, provided it is listed in Schedule B.
Standard Coverage Policy (Conditions and Stipulations):
As with an ALTA loan policy, the conditions and stipulations of a Standard Coverage Policy contain important provisions of the coverage to both the insurer and the insured. The main points are:
The insurer's options in removing adverse interest, paying or settling claims.
Limitations and reductions of liability; subrogation on payment or settlement; policy limit liability.
Standard Coverage Exclusions
Coverage under the standard policy is excluded for the following matters:
Any law, ordinance, governmental regulation or police power relating to building, zoning, occupancy, use or environmental protection except to the extent that a notice of defect has been recorded.
Defects, liens, etc. if:
Created by the insured.
Created or attached after the policy date.
Any claim, which arises out of the transaction vesting in the insured the estate or interest insured or the transaction creating the interest of the insured lender, by reason of the operation of federal bankruptcy, state insolvency, or similar creditor's rights laws.
Please remember that endorsements will affect all or some items of coverage; that different states may have varying limitations, exclusions, or coverage; and that your Fidelity National Title representative will answer any specific questions you may have.
Continuation Endorsement
Similar to Update, it reflects changes in record ownership and additional liens recorded since the date of the PIRT, issued upon request, within six months of policy date, single endorsement.
PIRT Update
A reissued Schedule A which updates the policy reflecting ownership changes and lien additions or deletions of record. Update issued within six months of policy date.
Revolving Credit, Variable Rate (RCVE) Endorsement (GSP-138)
An endorsement that extends the coverage of the RCVE when you modify or increase existing credit lines. Issued in conjunction with PIRT Update or a new PIRT.
PIRT is a registered trademark.
TSG (Trustee's Sale Guarantee)
In some states, a lender is allowed to non-judicially foreclose a Mortgage or Deed of Trust securing an obligation if a trustor defaults in the performance of the obligation. The laws in these states prescribe how the foreclosure is conducted and the notices which must be given of the pendency of such proceeding. The Trustee's Sale Guarantee is responsive to the needs of a foreclosing trustee or mortgagee for public record information as to individuals and entities who, under state law, must receive notice of the pending foreclosure. The Guarantee supplies the following public record information:
The vesting of title to the estate or interest encumbered by the Mortgage or Deed of Trust
The encumbrances against the land
The names and addresses of individuals and entities who must, under state law, receive notice of the foreclosure proceedings
The newspaper qualified to public notice of the foreclosure proceedings
The City or Judicial District in which the land is located
As we have mentioned, the types of coverage offered by both ALTA Extended and Standard Coverage polices are greatly affected by the endorsements included. The following is a listing of the most commonly used endorsements.
FORM 100: This endorsement offers an explicit extension of coverage to an ALTA Extended Coverage Loan Policy by adding insurance for certain "off-record" matters. The coverage is extended to Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions; encroachments; and the rights to use the land surface for mineral development. Form 100 also assures a lender that existing Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions do not contain any enforceable reverter, right of re-entry or power of termination. This endorsement is not issued in conjunction with policies covering raw land or construction loans.
FORM 102.4: A Foundation Endorsement which insures the lender that the foundations of the structure under construction are within the boundaries of the insured land; and that the location of these foundations does not violate the Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions (CC&Rs) included in Schedule B.
FORM 102.5: The same as 102.4 with the addition of insurance that the foundations do not -- at the date of endorsement -- encroach upon any easements referred to in the policy.
FORM 100.12: Also used with ALTA policies, Form 100.12 assures a lender that existing Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions do not contain any enforceable reverter, right of re-entry or power of termination.
FORM 101: A Mechanic's Lien Endorsement issued only with a Standard Coverage policy insuring a construction loan deed of trust, it insures the lender against loss if a Mechanic's Lien establishes priority because of the prior commencement of the work on the improvement.
FORM 101.2: A Mechanic's Lien Endorsement used with either an ALTA Extended or Standard Coverage policy, issued after a Notice of Completion is recorded. Usually requested when a construction loan is exchanged for a permanent loan to the borrower or the loan is designed for sale to another lender.
FORM 103.1: An Encroachment Endorsement used with ALTA or Standard Coverage policies which expands the coverage provided by a Form 100. Issued when items listed in the preliminary report are "blanket" easements which cannot be precisely located.
FORM 108.7 & 108.8: Both are used to insure the priority of additional advances secured by a Deed of Trust or Mortgage. Form 108.7 is used with Standard Coverage policies. Form 108.8 is the ALTA version.
FORM 116: An Address Endorsement used with ALTA policies, designating the street address of the land insured and specifying the type of improvement on said land.
FORM 116.2: An Address Endorsement used with either an ALTA Extended or Standard Coverage policy which insures an interest in an condominium.
Title insurance is primarily based on records which include recorded documents, public records, files and the like. One of the most common of these documents is a deed -- a written instrument transferring the title or an interest in real property from one party to another. There are a variety of types of deeds currently in use for the conveyance of title. The list that follows briefly describes the most common currently used.
Quitclaim Deed: This deed conveys any possible interest of the grantor in said property at the date of the deed without representations of encumbrances on title arising from liens, easements, etc. It is usually used to release an estate or interest less than "fee" interest.
Grant Deed: The most commonly used deed in California. It conveys all the title that the grantor has and any title the grantor may acquire in the future. It includes by statue covenants as to prior conveyance and encumbrance.
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Local government deserves real power
The issue of local versus national interest has been a perennial theme surrounding local government ever since the first local clan chief came up against a king seeking more cash to pay for his next war, probably some time in the Dark Ages. After I spoke recently at the Association of London Government conference, several councillors wanted to discuss their particular problems. Many had only been elected for the first time in May and were still finding their feet, but a common theme of what they had to say was the desire for more power at a local level.
In their case, it was often fears about what the mayor or Transport for London might impose on their particular patch. So now, with the creation of regional government in London and soon elsewhere, there is another opportunity for conflict between layers of government. Indeed, this issue was tested in the courts recently when Westminster council, in true Nimby tradition, tried to prevent Ken Livingstone’s congestion charging scheme from going ahead, arguing that there had been insufficient consultation and that an environmental assessment study had not been carried out. No chance, said the judge finding so unequivocally in Livingstone’s favour that Westminster ratepayers might want to know exactly what their councillors had been up to in challenging the decision.
A few days earlier, Livingstone had lost equally convincingly in the High Court over the issue of government plans to push through the Public Private Partnership for the Tube. This time it was regional versus national government with again the lower tier being comprehensively defeated in court, to such an extent that Transport for London gave up the ghost half way through the hearing when it became clear that the judge was going to rule out most of its key arguments. The Greater London Authority Act 1999 was unequivocal. The government had the right to sign up to the PPP on behalf of Transport for London, whatever the protestations of the Mayor who would eventually be forced to live what was set out in the contracts.
These results are hardly surprising. The British constitution and, in particular, legislation on local government, has always tended to retain real power for the central government. Occasionally ministers have deigned to grant a few baubles to local authorities but have usually kept most of the power, especially the purse strings, themselves. Local government is a creature of statute derived from laws created by central government.
But will the new regional bodies which John Prescott is so keen to create be different? But these two court cases demonstrate central government’s Janus-like attitude on this question. The law seems to be saying, by all means tread over the local authorities below you because otherwise you will not be able to do anything that affects even small groups adversely, but don’t try to mess with us.
If that is the basis on which the regional bodies are created, they will fail. It is only by being allowed to part company with national policy that they will be able to carve out regional policies that are appropriate for local people.
But what if they make mistakes? There have been two classic examples recently of local authority blunders, both interestingly from the North East or thereabouts where the demand for a regional body has been the strongest. (As an aside, there is clearly an immutable law here that the further a region is away from the capital, the more it will seek autonomy.)
In Newcastle, the local authority made a grave error in publishing a report about two nursery nurses who had been acquitted in the criminal courts of abusing children in their care. Despite their acquittal in a trial at which the judge stressed there was no evidence against them, the council went ahead in publishing its review team’s report which baldly stated that the two were guilty of abuse irrespective of the result of the criminal proceedings. The two sued for libel and in July were awarded six figure damages after a ten week trial.
Hull’s mistake was to squander much of the £263m it had earned through the sale of its telecommunications company, Kingston, in 1999. The council had been canny in disposing of the company at just the right time in the telecommunications and internet boom of that year but they were less clever at spending the money, much of which went on refurbishing and fitting double glazing on council housing for which there is no demand.
There have been calls for central government to take over the running of Hull but local government minister resisted doing this, overriding the Audit Commission’s advice.
He was right to do so. In both these examples, the councils concerned have made fundamental errors. But, this does not mean to say that they should not have had the power to make those errors in the first place. The good decisions which local authorities make daily do not attract national attention like these cases. The whole point of devolving power is not to retain it! It will be interesting to see if John Prescott, for whom, of course, Hull is his backyard, will be brave enough to ensure that happens when his cherished regional assemblies finally see the light of day.
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Post by HERP.MX » July 20th, 2016, 5:46 am
Mexico's rattlesnake diversity spans from arguably the largest Crotalus, C. basiliscus, to one of the smallest, Crotalus pricei miquihuanus. The beautiful specimen shown here was born 10 days ago to parents from near where the first specimen of C. p. miquihuanus was collected over a century ago.
In 1898 on June 14th during the historic Nelson-Goldman expedition (herp.mx/pubs/1951-Goldman-Biological-In ... Mexico.pdf) a small rattlesnake was secured in the hills surounding the town of Miquihuana on the dry slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in the state of Tamaulipas. Four decades later, that specimen joined two others in the type series for Gloyd's description of Crotalus triseriatus miquihuanus in 1940 (herp.mx/pubs/1940-Gloyd-Crotalus-pricei-miquihuanus.pdf). Curiously, Miquihuana is not the type locality for C. p. miquihuanus since Gloyd designated a specimen from Cerro Potosi in neighboring Nuevo Leon as the holotype - presumably due to the poor condition of the preserved Tamaulipan snake. The subspecies was later assigned to C. pricei by Hobart Smith in 1946 (herp.mx/pubs/1946-Smith-Crotalus-triseriatus.pdf) and Klauber's careful analysis of additional Crotalus pricei specimens invalidated most of the characters Gloyd used to distinguish miquihuanus from pricei - though the eastern subspecies was still found to differ in ventral and prefrontal scale counts (herp.mx/pubs/1963-Axtell-Sabath-Crotalu ... ahuila.pdf)
A fourth specimen was collected on July 6, 1961 in extreme southeastern Coahuila, extending the range 30km to the north (herp.mx/…/1963-Axtell-Sabath-Crotalus-pricei-miquihuanus-Co…). Additional specimens were collected between known localities in the years that followed, and C. pricei is now known from several high elevation peaks in the the northern Sierra Madre Occidental.
Then in 2010, as part of an expedition in search of relictual populations of C. pricei, the HERP.MX Field Team located an isolated population on a remote mountain range in northern San Luis Potosi, adding a 4th state to the species distribution list. The following year, research by Robert Bryson on the entire intermedius group (Crotalus transversus, C. tancitarensis, C. pricei, and C. intermedius) suggested that the true relationships within C. pricei might vary considerably from what's currently accepted (herp.mx/pubs/2011-Bryson-Crotalus-intermedius-Group.pdf). Additional work on C. pricei is underway to help better understand those relationships.
Note: while neonate C. pricei miquihuanus are among the smallest Crotalus, the babies in some Sistrurus miliarius populations have been shown to be even smaller.
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Re: The World's Smallest Crotalus
Post by scottriv » July 20th, 2016, 6:28 am
How big is that Mexican coin in the pic compared to a US quarter?
MXN $10 measures 28.0 mm
USD $.25 measures 24.26 mm
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Post by Jeff » July 20th, 2016, 11:03 am
That is a very nice historical background on an interesting snake.
Your website looks potentially interesting, but does not seem to consist of anything more than an announcement that it will amount to something.
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Post by Richard F. Hoyer » July 20th, 2016, 12:34 pm
Herp.Mx,
Do you have a stretched, total length for the small neonate? And is there a range of lengths available for snakes considered to be adult males and adult females?
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Post by Paul Freed » July 20th, 2016, 2:17 pm
Back in 1997, at the Houston Zoo Herpetology Department, we had a long-term captive female Western Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius streckeri) give birth to six live and two stillborn neonates. The smallest live newborn was 78 mm (total length) and weighed 0.8 grams. It looked and behaved normally (locomotion, tongue flicking, etc.) however, it died six days later. I wrote a brief note on this observation and included a photo of the snake in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society newsletter (Freed, P.S. 1997. Record Small Size for the Western Pygmy Rattlesnake. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 32(2):27.) I would have included that photo here but unfortunately, I still can't figure out how to add images to posts on this website.
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Post by HERP.MX » July 21st, 2016, 4:14 am
Jeff wrote: That is a very nice historical background on an interesting snake.
Hi Jeff, the primary website is still in the works, but the bulk of our updates can be found on social media, specifically on facebook: [url="http://facebook.com/herpmx]facebook.com/herpmx[/url]
Richard F. Hoyer wrote: Do you have a stretched, total length for the small neonate? And is there a range of lengths available for snakes considered to be adult males and adult females?
Hi Richard, not of this particular specimen, no - however that information is available in the lit. Campbell & Lamar's 2004 Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere is a good place to start.
Paul Freed wrote: Back in 1997, at the Houston Zoo Herpetology Department, we had a long-term captive female Western Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius streckeri) give birth to six live and two stillborn neonates. The smallest live newborn was 78 mm (total length) and weighed 0.8 grams. It looked and behaved normally (locomotion, tongue flicking, etc.) however, it died six days later. I wrote a brief note on this observation and included a photo of the snake in the Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society newsletter (Freed, P.S. 1997. Record Small Size for the Western Pygmy Rattlesnake. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 32(2):27.) I would have included that photo here but unfortunately, I still can't figure out how to add images to posts on this website.
Fascinating! Unfortunately that does seem to be the fate of most "runts" - despite an outward appearance of being fully and perfectly developed, in most cases they seem to have some internal flaws that keep them from thriving.
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Post by chrish » July 21st, 2016, 4:44 pm
This comes as a surprise to me? Is miquihuana really smaller than pricei on average? I've seen a total of one wild one, but it didn't seem particularly smaller than the dozens of pricei I've seen?
I would have included that photo here but unfortunately, I still can't figure out how to add images to posts on this website.
All you need to do is have the image hosted online somewhere where you can generate the actual URL of the image. Herpmapper works fine for example or any of the online photo servers or even dropbox.
To find the image URL you can usually right clicking and choosing "Copy Image URL" or "Open Image in a New Tab" and copy the URL from the address bar there.
Then past the URL in your text here, select it and choose the Img link above.
So to see my image which is at address http://www.pbase.com/sandboa/image/112720168.jpg, I enter
and the forum shows -
You have way too many amazing herp images not to be able to share them here!
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Manchester United midfielder Fred blamed an alleged racial incident that marred Saturday's Manchester derby on "a backward society."
Television images circulating on social media showed a Manchester City fan making a gesture in front of United's Fred during the Premier League game. The player also appeared to have been struck by at least one object.
"Unfortunately, we are still in a backward society. [It is a shame] we still have to live with that in 2019. On the field, I didn't see anything. I saw it only in the locker room afterwards," Fred told ESPN Brazil after United's 2-1 win over City.
"The guys showed me. He even threw a lighter and it hit me. I try not to care about that. I try to look ahead.
"Unfortunately, this is happening in some stadiums. It happened here, it happened in Ukraine with some friends. It's sad, but we have to keep our heads up and forget about that. We can't give them any attention because that's all they want. I spoke to the referee after the match, they will do something about it and that's all.
"We are all the same regardless of skin color, hair and gender. We came from the same place and we all go to the same place when it's all said and done. Thank God I have a lot of friends here in the locker room who hugged me, like Lingard. I don't want to think about it. I just want to move on."
Fred was hit by an object and encountered alleged racial abuse by a supporter in the Etihad stands.
Manchester City said they were investigating a fan for the incident, releasing a statement saying: "Manchester City FC are aware of a video circulating on social media which appears to show a supporter making racial gestures during the second half of the match against Manchester United this evening," the club said.
"Officials from the club are working with Greater Manchester Police in order to help them identify any individuals concerned and assist with their enquiries.
"The club operates a zero tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life."
United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said midfielder Jesse Lingard had also been targeted.
"I've seen it on the video; it was Jesse and Fred and the fella must be ashamed of himself. It's unacceptable and I hope he will not be watching any football anymore."
Anti-racist campaign group Kick it Out said on Twitter that it had received a high number of complaints about incidents at the game.
"We have been inundated with reports of alleged racist abuse from a number of individuals during this evening's Manchester Derby," said the group.
"We will be contacting both clubs to offer our support and hope swift action is taken to identify the offenders."
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I distilled my thoughts on this alliance at "[The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace"; here follows new information and insights, starting with Jemima Khan reporting in the New Statesman (UK) that George Galloway, MP for Bradford West, has converted to Islam and is a Muslim.
George Galloway, MP for Bradford West, England.
He converted more than ten years ago in a ceremony at a hotel in Kilburn, north-west London, attended by members of the Muslim Association of Great Britain. Those close to him know this. The rest of the world, including his Muslim constituents, does not.
"So you converted?" I ask at the end of our lunch at the back of Akbar's café, on Bradford's main high street, where we have enjoyed a halal, alcohol-free meal of Pakistani staples. ...
"I can't answer that. God knows who is a Muslim ..." he answers breezily.
"I know someone who attended your shahadah [the Muslim conversion ceremony]."
He stares at me across the table, penetrating blue eyes squinted, pausing for the first time in an hour. ... The silence grows awkward. Galloway puts down his napkin, clears his throat and says, not impolitely, "How's that then? Are we finished?" and gets up from his leopard-print covered chair.
Oct. 28, 2012 update: In a surprisingly good article for the usually worthless New York Times opinion page, Colin Shindler (emeritus professor at the University of London asks "why do today's European socialists identify with Islamists whose worldview is light-years removed from their own?" He points to leftist anti-colonialism as the key, something I did not mention in "[The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace":
Colin Shindler of SOAS.
The old left in Europe was forged in the struggle against local fascists in the 1930s. Most of Europe experienced a brutal Nazi occupation and bore witness to the atrocities of the Holocaust. The European left strongly identified with Jewish suffering and therefore welcomed the birth of the state of Israel in 1948. Some viewed the struggle for Israel in the same light as the fight for freedom in the Spanish Civil War.
But the succeeding generation of the European left did not see things this way. Its frame of reference was the anticolonial struggle — in Vietnam, South Africa, Rhodesia and a host of other places. Its hallowed icon was not the soldier of the International Brigades who fought against Franco in Spain, but Che Guevara — whose image adorned countless student bedrooms. Anticolonialism further influenced myriad causes, from America's Black Panthers in the 1960s to Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela today.
It began with Israel's exclusion from the ranks of the nonaligned nations more than 50 years ago, when Arab states refused to attend a 1955 nonaligned conference in Indonesia if an Israeli delegate was present. The Jewish state was snubbed in favor of such feudal kingdoms as Saudi Arabia, Libya and Yemen. And Israel's collusion with imperial powers like Britain and France during the Suez crisis the following year cemented its ostracism.
Given the deep remorse for the misdeeds of colonialism, it was easier for the New Left of the 1960s to identify with the emerging Palestinian national movement than with the already established social democratic Israel. This deepening hostility toward Israel was present in Europe before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and before the rush to build settlements on the West Bank.
Apr. 16, 2013 update: Harris Interactive today published a survey, "Le regard des Français sur la religion musulmane" ("French views of the Islamic religion") that confirms in numbers the leftist-Islamist bond. Asked about Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and Islam "For each of these religions, do you have, overall, a very good, a fairly good, a fairly bad or a very bad image?" the replies look like this:
As Harris Interactive notes in its headline, "Islam is the only religion which the Left sees more positively than does the Right." Also of note is that the two non-Western religions, Buddhism and Islam, have, respectively, the best and worst images; so much for xenophobia driving fear of Islam and "the other."
Feb. 11, 2015 update: Stephen Schwartz provides historical context for this alliance in "Famous Communists and Islam," where he finds a pattern of "defend Muslim autocrats, blame the West." He proffers quotes from none less than Karl Marx, Lenin, and the Communist International of 1920. Marx, for example, had a soft spot for the Ottoman Empire. Schwartz concludes that "These declarations shouldn't surprise us. When anti-imperialism is the concept and purpose that defines a movement, it will naturally find allies in radical Islam, which presents itself precisely as a creation of colonial oppression."
Shannon Morris, aka Shahid King Bolsen.
Feb. 28 , 2015 update: An American convert to Islam living in Istanbul, born as Shannon Morris but going now by Shahid King Bolsen, has won himself a role directing Islamist violence in Egypt. In an article on the 43-year-old from Colorado, David D. Kirkpatrick calls him "the unlikely apostle for a distinctive blend of anti-globalization sloganeering and Islamist politics that is fueling a new wave of violence against businesses across the country":
he calls on Egyptians to start off-hour attacks against KFC restaurants, banks, mobile phone shops and other corporate outposts. He urges assaults on the military's commercial interests instead of its security checkpoints. ... Although the attacks have mainly hit empty banks, stores and restaurants, they have killed two Cairenes so far. On Thursday alone, six bombs set off around greater Cairo injured at least nine others, including four police officers. ...
Mixing Quranic verses with fusillades against "corporate crusaders," he argues that multinational corporations are both the real power behind the military takeover and also its greatest weak spot. "The army has occupied Egypt on behalf of multinationals and foreign investors," he declared in a recent Facebook post. "The revolutionaries can prove that collaboration with the coup is bad for business, " Mr. Bolsen wrote in another, urging "rebels" to prove they can "inflict serious disruption" to corporate profits.
"It makes more sense, in my opinion, to fight against the army's economic holdings than to fight against their security apparatus," he has often said. "This will be much more of a blow than targeting checkpoints or police stations." Islamist activists leaning toward violence circulate his statements approvingly, and militant groups like the Popular Resistance Movement have cited his arguments as inspiration and justification as they have carried out dozens of small attacks on business storefronts. ...
"When you strike KFC, or any of their companies, your message goes directly to the top of the pyramid," Mr. Bolsen wrote on Jan. 31. "If the investors who work through Vanguard alone are convinced that the coup cannot secure their capital, they easily have the power to demote Sisi from the presidency of Egypt, to washing dishes at KFC." Militants attacked more KFC locations the following week.
Comment: Note that he lives in Istanbul, perhaps the center for inciting violence against the Egypt authorities.
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The Boxing Club
Boxing For Confidence
“There was a time when I felt full of self-doubt. I had a lot of negative emotions and not a lot of happiness in my life. I wasn’t feeling good about myself. I didn’t have a lot of self-confidence. I felt worthless.”
Now 17-year-old Katie Woods wants to promote self-belief in other young people.
“I want them to know that having self-doubt is completely normal but it could be prohibiting your success in life,” she says.
“Our insecurities can stop us from crossing over the boundaries of our comfort zones. I personally have been stuck in a negative mental attitude in the past, that I used as an excuse to never push myself to experience all of life's opportunities.”
Fixers has helped Katie, from Deal in Kent, to make a short film, based on her own experience. showing a young woman struggling to decide whether joining a boxing club is a good idea.
“In my film the girl comes into the boxing club all nervous. There’s a load of self-doubt going through her head and she doesn’t know if she should be doing it or not.
"But then she thinks - just get on with it! So she signs up and ends up walking out feeling good about herself. I’m proud I took that step and persevered with it.”
Hear from others affe cted this issue. Click to read their stories.
Katie, who is studying for A levels and wants to be a sports psychologist, says another major turning point for her was making the decision to leave what she calls a bad friendship group.
She says: “I didn’t have the confidence to leave that group even though I knew they were bad for me. Then one day I decided that I didn’t need them. And since then I have just got better. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do but I’m glad I did it in the end.”
Katie’s advice?
“Take a step and try something,” she says. “You don’t know until you try. If you try it and you don’t like it, you can stop and do something else. But if you find something you really like, you will be happier. I believe success is there to be achieved by anyone, they just need to believe they can get there.”
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I have, at the moment, no true opinion on SSRI's for CFS, it will take some time to tell whether it's worth it or not.
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Testimony--Senate Budget Committee--Kenyon Kummings--3-19
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee
New Jersey State House P.O. Box 099
RE: Cuts to State Aid
Members of the Senate,
My name is Kenyon Kummings. I am currently the Superintendent for Wildwood Public Schools, the
president of the Cape May County Association of School Administrators, and the Assistant Chair of Support
Our Students (SOS). The SOS is a coalition of over 70 school districts that represent a portion of the 30% of
districts that are having a portion of their state aid transferred to other districts. Districts who do not have
the resources to thoroughly and efficiently educate their students do exist, and the member districts of SOS
acknowledge the need to fund them. However, now that we are living with these cuts and are able to model
the long term negative effects that result from them, we ask the legislature to identify a mechanism to stop
the state aid cuts until a thorough investigation of the School Funding Reform Act (SFRA) is completed, and
that the mechanisms that make up the formula are made available to the general public.
The multipliers that are utilized to determine community income and property value continue to
change within districts� aid notices. For example, Wildwood Public Schools local fair share increased 10.6%
this year which included a 2.4% increase in district wealth, and a 5% increase in equalized valuation (even
though ratables have been decreasing every year for the last 12 years). New Jersey Association of School
Business Officials recently determined that the multipliers for Equalized Valuations have increased 5.30%
and 7.93% respectively over the last two years, although budgets can only increase 2% annually on the local
levy. How can districts reach their fair share as the finish line is being moved further away with each budget
cycle?
Every district is unique, and different outcomes will be realized by each of the SOS districts, but they
will all negatively impact students. For example, Wildwood Public Schools will see its funding reduced by
approximately $2.4 million over the course of the next 6 years. This would represent over 10% of our total
operating expenses. If these cuts continue, we will be forced to make dramatic budget cuts each and every
year over the six-year term. As a result, our district will be severely crippled as we are forced to eliminate
invaluable programs and supports that our students require and deserve.
Our district is unique in that we continuously have one of the highest percentages of students living
below the poverty line in New Jersey (50%). We have a high special education population (24%) as well as a
large number of English Language Learners (35%). Currently we have 40 homeless students enrolled in our
district. We rent space for our early childhood program in order to educate 160 students who we are unable
to house within the buildings we own. Yet, we are considered �Overfunded.�
With that said, we continue to find innovative ways to address the needs of our students. We have
afterschool programs that assist students from grades 1-12, a Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) that
enables us to feed all of our students breakfast and lunch at no cost to the parents or community, and many
other programs that address the needs of our students. These important safety nets and programs coupled
with our incredibly committed, qualified, and compassionate faculty lead to the continued success of our
For over two years we have been collectively advocating with other districts in the county in an attempt
to maintain our funding levels. Cape May County school districts stand to lose approximately $26 million
over the course of seven years due to the modifications in the funding formula. The needs within our county
are unique when compared with the rest of New Jersey. Our schools are vital safety nets to the students in
our county especially given that Cape May County has:
� The highest unemployment rate in the state.
� A Median Household Income that is one of the lowest in the state.
� The highest percentage of Senior Citizen population in the state.
� The highest per capita substance abuse rates in the state.
� The highest percentage of homeless students in the state.
� The highest rate of child abuse/neglect in the state.
� The highest juvenile arrest rate in the state.
� The highest percentage of teens 16-19 not working and not in school.
� The highest percentage of Special Education Students in the state.
� Almost 50% of its students participating in the Free and Reduced lunch program.
However, Cape May County also:
� Has the highest percentage of second home ownership in the state.
� Generates a total of state and local tax receipts of $542 million or $1.48 million per day.
� Has the most taxes generated by a New Jersey county on a per capita basis.
The changes that have been made to the funding formula over the last two budget cycles are
robbing Peter to pay Paul, and causing negative outcomes for the districts that are losing aid. I recognize
and value that our Senate is an important advocate for the students of New Jersey, and we ask that you do
so on behalf of ALL of our public school students. Please support Senate bill S3625, its accompanying
Assembly bill A5209, and any other actions that will stop the schedule of state aid cuts before more
students are placed in harm�s way by the current public policy.
J. Kenyon Kummings
160 W. State Street, Trenton New Jersey 08608
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Barman discovers $500,000 lump of whale vomit on Thailand beach
A 44-year-old barman made an extremely unusual discovery on a beach in Thailand—a huge lump of whale vomit which is worth a whopping $500,000!
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Last June, Boonyos Tala-upara was strolling along a sandy beach in Koh Samui island, western Thailand, when he stumbled across a 22lbs wax-like lump.
He didn’t think much of it, but took it home anyway. He put it in his back yard and completely forgot about it.
It wasn’t until a friend visited him last month, that he found out it could be worth half a million dollars.
Boonyos’ friend told him the blob could actually be ambergris—or whale vomit—which is produced by sperm whales.
It’s extremely valuable because it’s in high demand from perfume makers.
The substance is one of the strangest natural occurrences in the world and is often described as “floating gold” or the “treasure of the sea”.
“The lump is large and golden with a waxy texture like melting candles. But it’s soft when I poke it, not like a candle.
“I tried burning some of it with a lighter, it changed into oil and then it went hard again. I have never seen anything like this before.
“This could be like a lucky lottery ticket for me. I want to sell it and retire,” Boonyos said.
The strange substance is made when whales can’t digest parts such as beaks, so they move into the whale’s intestines and slowly merge together.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Boonyos said his family now think it’s whale sick.
“Whale vomit was also known as ‘ambergris’ which is the decomposing food inside the whale stomach which has been inside for a long time. It has been used for fragrance in perfume, food, and cosmetics since the 13th century.
“Ambergris has been very highly valued. If the scientific result proved that it was the ambergris, Boonyos could get a lot of money selling it,” Assistant Professor Thon Thamrongnawasawat, Vice Chancellor of Faculty of Fisheries at Kasetsart University, said.
What a lucky man! We have our fingers crossed for him!
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Inkubator Građanske Inovacije > Aktualni događaji - Current Events > Povijest - History > Persecution of Croats in the First Yugoslavia and its Political Consequences
Pogledaj Full Version : Persecution of Croats in the First Yugoslavia and its Political Consequences
Željko Zidarić
9th-June-2012, 03:09 PM
Source: Dr. Ante Cuvalo (http://www.cuvalo.net/?p=43)
We [the Serbs] are masters of your [Croat] lives and your possessions. You have nothing but two choices: either to stay in this country and be obedient, or to move out of our state. We want to dominate. We want to rule. We want to control your body, your soul, and your possessions, because we are the guarantors and the foundation of this great Homeland of ours .1
High Hopes and Big Disappointments
Regardless of the social, economic, and political predicaments to be faced by individuals and peoples in Europe, the end of the First World War was greeted enthusiastically. It was seen as the beginning of a new and better future for the world. Peoples who lived under the oppressive and/or foreign rule of the collapsing empires were especially exhilarated: they thought that the bells of freedom were real. Their hopes and expectations were heightened by declarations such as those of the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, that the war was fought to make the world “safe for democracy” and by promises that national self-determination would be one of the guiding principles of peacemaking. Furthermore, important social and political changes were taking place. Revolutions were in the making; kaisers and tzars were gone; the newborn countries were promulgating democratic or what looked like democratic constitutions; peasants were becoming an organized political force; in older democracies, women were gaining the right to vote; and new laws promoting higher social justice, including the eight-hour workday, were being passed. These and similar positive changes were signs of a hopeful future.
The Croatian people, despite all the post-war economic hardships, also were caught up in the wave of enthusiasm. Woodrow Wilson’s portrait hung on the walls of numerous homes in Croatia. He was the man of their hopes. They believed that on the ruins of the Habsburg Monarchy they, along with other nations, finally would be able to achieve their dream of national and personal freedom. Even the small minority of Croatian politicians who rushed to unite Croatia with Serbia and Montenegro thought that their decisions would secure freedom and democracy not only for the Croats but for all in the newly formed country. Unfortunately, Croats soon realized that the post-war exhilaration was baseless. The reality was cruel and bloody.
Soon after the war, grave disappointments began to be felt in Croatia and the rest of Europe. The war years had hatched two opposing totalitarian ideologies that threatened the entire continent. Many of those who doubted the virtues of liberal democracy looked to the extreme Left or Right for answers. The result was that out of twenty-seven countries in Europe that professed democracy during the immediate post-war era only ten were able to preserve even a modicum of democracy by the end of the 1930s. It became obvious that the Great War and the post-war peace treaties did not lay the foundation for a better future but for another cataclysmic cycle.
The Croatian people did not have to wait very long for the new state to show its true face. Persecutions began even before the official unification of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (known as Yugoslavia after 1929) took place on December 1, 1918. In some official Serbian documents, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other former Habsburg regions united with Serbia were declared as “occupied lands” and the civilian population in these regions was subjected to Serbian military laws .2 Instead of a partnership an occupation began!
The persecution of the Croats in the period between the two World Wars has not been well- known or adequately researched. It was one of the taboo subjects in both monarchist and socialist Yugoslavia. Judicial, police, military, and other records in the country are still waiting for serious research on this important subject. This introductory survey and the partial list of persecutions that follow are based mainly on secondary sources and are intended to give the reader at least a taste of the bitter Croatian experience in monarchist Yugoslavia. However, for lack of available sources to the author, the survey is limited to persecutions from 1918 to 1936 only. We thought that a list and a short description of the main semi-official organizations involved in terrorizing all those who were considered enemies of the state would also be helpful; and, at the end, several political consequences of the persecutions will be mentioned.
Self-imposed Guardians of the State
The use of terror in monarchist Yugoslavia was applied against all those who were seen as enemies not only of the state but of the Serbian centralized and unitary regime. The real object of oppression, however, was not some aberrant individuals but an entire group, a political party, a whole people. In the old Byzantine tradition, the guardians of the state saw politics only as extremes: if one is not with us he must be against us. Politics of negotiations and compromises were not an option. For them that was seen as a defeat. Accordingly, there was no choice but to crush mercilessly all the “dark forces” in the country. Croats as a people were seen as the most dangerous state enemy, because they were not willing to give up their national identity and opposed the militant and Serbian-controlled state. It was necessary, therefore, to force the Croats into submission, to break their national will, to humiliate them, to prevent them from forming a unified, strong national political front, and to deprive their national struggle of sympathy support and legitimacy in the world.
The first anti-Croat terrorist acts were committed even before the official unification of the state took place. From October 29, when the Croatian Sabor (Parliament) severed Croatia’s ties with the Habsburg Monarchy till December 1, 1918, when the common state was proclaimed, all leading Croatian political, cultural, and religious persons who were seen as political opponents to the union, were either arrested, physically threatened, and/or lost their jobs. The man who assumed all powers in Croatia was Svetozar Pribicevic, the leading Serb politician in the land, and under his command all those who opposed unification with Serbia had to be silenced or crushed.
Only five days after the unification, a peaceful march at Zagreb’s main square was turned into a blood bath. Nine Croatian soldiers and five civilians were killed, and seventeen persons were wounded. A month later, the first post-war political trial in Zagreb was over and 23 Croats were sentenced from one and a half to ten years of prison. The harshest terror in the post-unification era, however, was exerted against the Croatian peasants, who made up the overwhelming majority of the people.
Towards the end and immediately after the war, the villages in Croatia, as in many other regions of Europe, were undergoing various political and social changes. The peasants had seen their sons sent off to the front from which many did not return. They were financially and physically exhaused by ever-increasing taxes and other war burdens, of war profiteering and the war itself. The Croatian peasants lost their traditional respect for state authority as well as monarchy. They became acutely aware of their precarious political, economic, social, and national position, and wanted change, some even a radical one.
In a number of places in Croatia the countryside was controlled by the “Green Cadres,” the rebellious bands of soldiers who had deserted and who were joined by various other social elements. Most of these were sons of peasants; and, it is estimated that the rebels’ numbers reached 200,000 at one point. The peasant population was, willingly or unwillingly, their main ally. This meant that many villages in Croatia were in near chaos toward the end of the war. Furthermore, the echoes of the revolutions in Russia and in neighboring Hungary were felt in Croatian villages too. Then, at the end of the war, they were pushed into a new state without being asked what they wanted. This new political arrangement did not ease the political, economic, and social tension in the villages. On the contrary, the new rulers and their harsh methods inflamed Croatian villages to the breaking point.
The peasants became well aware of political and social ideals, like personal and national freedoms, equality under the law, and social justice, but instead of getting closer to achieving such goals after 1918, they saw their situation in the new state getting worse. For example, Croatian peasants had to pay more kinds of taxes at higher rates than under the Habsburgs. Some taxes increased as much as eight hundred percent in comparison to the pre-1918 period. For example, the peasant had to pay tax on his home-made wine regardless if he sold it or had it only of his own use. The control over the tobacco production was so strict that persons had to pay fines, endure beatings, and even jail terms for smoking their own home- grown tobacco. Taxation easily turned into a national issue because a peasant in Croatia paid four times higher taxes than a peasant in Serbia. Even his vote was worth less than that of a citizen in Serbia. For example, the number of voters needed to elect a parliamentary representative were: Vojvodina 3,221; Montenegro 4,350; Serbia and Macedonia 5,657; Croatia and Slavonia 6,840; Bosnia and Herzegovina 7,478, and in Dalmatia (southern Croatia) 8,106 3 The peasant was especially offended by registration, stamping, and military mobilization of all large domestic animals (horses, mules, oxen). Most of the time, such animals and their owners were forced to participate in military maneuvers for long periods of time and quite often during planting or harvest seasons. These and similar pressures resulted in numerous peasant rebellions against the new regime in several parts of Croatia. Some independent peasant republics were proclaimed shortly after the new state was formed.
Among the most sensitive issues for the peasants in the immediate post-war era was the recruitment of their sons into military service. In many Croatian villages these efforts were marked by bloodshed. Everyone was weary and wary of war and militarism, especially the Croatian peasant who now had to serve a new state which behaved as a foreign power and oppressor from the outset. The problem of recruitment was also complicated by implementation of a Serbian law by which the village “zadrugas” (communes) and their leaders were responsible for bringing in the new recruits. But such village “zadrugas” did not exist in Croatia for very long. This resulted in military and gendarme expeditions into Croatian villages that apprehended, beat, and otherwise mistreated the recruits or, if they could not find them, their immediate family members, including mothers and sisters. Such raids would often result in killing, major destruction of property, and threats and insults of a national and religious nature. The relatives were kept in jail and most often maltreated till their sons or brothers surrendered to the military authorities.
Terror became the main means to pacify Croatia. In response, the peasants at first turned to rebellions and then accepted the political program of the brothers Antun and Stjepan Radic, who advocated a peaceful struggle for personal, national, and peasant rights. By embracing the program of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party, the peasantry became the backbone of the Croatian resistance during the 1920s. But peaceful politics did not bring desired results. On the contrary, the plan “to level off [Croatia] by the Serbian opanak [peasant footwear]” 4 continued. This culminated with the assassination of Stjepan Radic and his friends in Belgrade’s Parliament in 1928 and the King’s proclamation of a personal dictatorship a few months later. From that point on, more radical political forces in Croatia turned to violence as the only means of freeing themselves not only from the regime but from the Yugoslav state itself.
Statistical Indicators
Statistical data give a clear picture of the officially sanctioned bloodshed and oppression suffered by the Croats living in monarchist Yugoslavia. One source states that in the five years of 1929 to 1934, that is, from King Aleksandar’s assumption of dictatorial powers until his assassination in Marseilles, the following court sentences were imposed on the Croats for political “crimes” 5:
19 were condemned to death by hanging
16 were killed while serving a prison term
30 death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment
85 condemned to death but fled the country
146 were condemned to 20 years of hard labor
484 received penalties from 10 to 20 years jail terms
962 were condemned from 5 to 10 years
2,035 condemned from 1 to 5 years
15,000 condemned from one month to one year of prison
The evidence presented in the Appendix to this article, although partial and collected from secondary sources, strongly indicates the nature of the Yugoslav state and its predisposition toward the Croatian people. It includes over 4,700 cases that can be summarized in the following way.
Killings and imprisonments
231 killed by gendarmes and/or military forces
102 wounded
3,715 arrested
49 killed while in jail
40 condemned to death - out of that 22 executed
16 sentenced to life imprisonment
250 tried for verbal insult of the King’s name
14 condemned in absence
642 beaten and maltreated - out of which 27 children 48 groups of people maltreated and beaten (individual names not known)
Other persecutions
493 lost jobs or forced to retire 26 newspapers and organizations banned
7 killed
42 arrested
48 beaten and maltreated
Social and/or professional categories (if known)
1,445 peasants either jailed, tried and/or maltreated
450 workers
117 craftsmen and small business owners
68 state office holders
39 soldiers or policemen
According to regions (if known)
3,176 Northern Croatia
791 Dalmatia
355 Lika and the Littoral
203 Slavonija and Srijem
169 Bosnia and Herzegovina (the primary focus of this study was the Republic of Croatia and not Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Number of Cases according to years
1933 - 1,529
The above numbers and categories clearly indicate that the harshness of the persecutions was directed against Croats, regardless of profession, age, gender, or place, and that the intensity of the persecutions reflects the political “moods” in the country at the time.
The Art of Torturing
Because the guardians of the state were guided by their hatred of real or imaginary enemies, they implemented a vast variety of tortures against their victims. The purposes of torture were not only to break the spirit of the victims and to send a message to others, but in many cases to show by sadistic measures, their absolute disdain for the “enemy.”
A common practice for gendarmes was to burst into a village and for a minor incident, or even for no reason at all, beat anyone they encountered, destroy property, and jail people without any legal stipulations. In order to humiliate a Croatian peasant, gendarmes would often force him to genuflect three times in reverence for the Serbian traditional military cap (sajkaca) and impel him to acknowledge that “the Serb was his master and god.” It was also a common practice for the police to beat or even execute their victims in broad daylight on a city street. Verbal insults, swearing vulgarities, and blaspheming everything holy to the Croatians were a common practice. The gun-butt was a favorite weapon in beating the common people. Its use was so prevalent that one of the Ministers of the Interior was nicknamed “Kundak” (gun-butt).
Those who ended up in prison endured all sorts of humiliations and tortures, from being cursed to being tortured to death. The following were some of the more common means of torturing political prisoners: merciless beatings over the entire body especially the kidney area; pounding the soles till they crack; knocking out teeth, breaking ribs, finger joints, and other bones of the body; jumping on the stomach and groin; sticking needles under nails; crushing testes; tying one’s hands to hooks on the walls, so he could not sit down and then hanging bricks on the testes; sleep deprivation for a week at a time; and even placing live coals in the armpits and then tying the arms to the body until the coals cooled. Numerous prisoners were tortured to death and some were simply shot. The official explanations were that they committed suicide or were shot while trying to escape.
Those working in prisons were proud of their inventiveness in torturing inmates. One such ill-famed tormentor was Dragomir (Dragi) Jovanovic in Belgrade’s prison. He even received a state patent for “inventing” new and more horrific means of torture. One of his “inventions” was driving wooden pegs soaked in gasoline under the nails of an inmate and then setting the pegs on fire. (This same Jovanovic was one of the chief officials and executioners in Belgrade during the Second World War.) The Belgrade jail, Glavnjaca, became a symbol of the Karadjordjevic regime and of the Yugoslav state. (An emigrant paper named Protiv Glavanjace/Against the Glavnjaca was published in Belgium at that time.) The persecutions and humiliations went so far that the families of the victims would receive a bill to pay for the bullets by which their close relatives were shot.
Besides using visible means of torture all oppressive regimes have other ways to persecute their opponents. These are more silent and perfidious. For example, losing or fear of losing one’s job is often used as a major instrument of political punishment. The insecurity of one’s own and/or his family’s material existence can often be harder than physical punishment. This type of persecution was overwhelmingly used by the Yugoslav regime and it is hard to measure its impact on society, and on the Croatian national life in particular. State Watchdogs
The official guardians of the state and the main instruments of the Belgrade regime were the armed forces, gendarmes, police, and the state revenue police. Among them, the gendarmes were the main “sword of the regime.” This semi-military force was formed in January of 1919 to impose “order” in the country. But “order” was never achieved and the number of gendarmes increased from 10,000 to 60,000 by the early 1930s. The gendarmes were also often augmented by military forces on raiding missions. Besides the above mentioned forces, there were 15.000 secret police agents, plus military intelligence, and king’s “special agents.”6 In addition to the above official guardians, there were a number of semi-official watchdogs of the state who were more than eager to help the regime to crash, what they labeled, the “anti-state elements,” “dark forces,” and “defeatists”! The following were the best known such organizations.
Unification or Death ( The Black Hand)
This terrorist organization was officially established in 1911, with help and under the protection of Serbian miliary forces, but its real beginnings go back to 1903. A group of officers belonging to this organization assassinated King Aleksandar Obrenovic of Serbia and his wife Dara and secured the royal throne to the Karadjordjevic dynasty in 1903. It also attempted to assassinate King Nikola of Montenegro and his family in 1907. The Black Hand became the “unseen government” of Serbia. The organization modeled itself after the Italian Mafia, and the use of terror was the primary means to achieve its goal of Greater Serbia which, according to the Constitution of the organization consisted (besides of the Kingdom of Serbia) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Old Serbia and Macedonia, Croatia, Srijem, Vojvodina, and the Sea-coast. By 1914 the Black Hand had close to 150,000 members according to some estimates. Although the Black Hand was officially eliminated during World War I (1917), because King Aleksandar out of fear and/or personal revenge turned against the organization, its sympathizers, goals, and methods were still very much alive during the inter-war period.
The White Hand
It is believed that because Prince Aleksandar was prevented from taking full charge of the Black Hand, he founded his own conspiracy organization within the Serbian military forces and named it the White Hand. Lieutenant-Colonel Petar Zivkovic, who became Prime Minister and the symbol of royalist oppression in the early 1930s, became head of the new organization. The White Hand was an army within the army. Its purpose was to eliminate the Black Hand and to be a semi-official protector of the state and Karadjordjevic’s regime. Most of the political, judicial, economic, as well as military state decisions were made by such shadow forces in the country, first the Black Hand and then the White Hand.
The Chetniks (cheta means a cohort or a group)
The first written rules of Chetnik guerrilla type warfare were a translation of a Polish manual published in Belgrade in 1848.7 But the real beginning of the present-day Chetnik movement dates from 1903, when Serbian military officers organized a special training “school” for volunteers for the purpose of undertaking terrorist actions in Macedonia. At the time, Macedonia was a part of the ailing Ottoman empire and the main target of Serbian expansionism. The Chetniks became a useful instrument in executing special assignments (ethnic cleansing) of all who were not either Serbs nor ready to become Serbs in the regions that Serbia wanted to acquire. The Chetnik played a similar role during the two Balkan Wars and World War I, when they “cleared the land” of Turks, Albanians, Bulgarians, Macedonians and, toward the end of World War I, of Muslims in Sandzak and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Between the two world wars, although the Chetniks were split among themselves, they were united in guarding the state and in the struggle against “dark forces.” The Union of Chetniks for Freedom and Dignity of the Homeland became close to the Serbian Democratic Party, which was seen by many as not tough enough on the enemies of the state. This resulted into a split in 1924, when the Union of Serbian Chetniks - For the King and the Homeland was founded. This group became the tool of the Serbian Radical Party; the leader of this Chetnik faction, Punisa Racic, assassinated two and wounded three members of the Croatian political leadership in Belgrade’s Parliament in 1928. The regime rewarded the Chetniks by giving them arms and permission to use them, land grants, and money: in fact, they were not required to obey many state laws. Also in 1924, the Union of Serbian Chetniks - Petar Mrkonjic (Named after king Peter) was formed in Sarajevo. The last two Chetnik organizations were especially aggressive in establishing their chapters in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, with an openly expressed goal of establishing a Greater Serbia.
Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists (Organizacija Jugoslavenskih Nacionalista/ORJUNA)
The ORJUNA was formed in Split by the royal regional administrator in Croatia in 1921. Its roots are in an organization named Yugoslav Progressive Nationalist Youth (Jugoslavenska Napredna Nacionalisticka Omladina/JNNO). Its “heroic” baptism of fire came when its members burnt the first issue of a newly founded Croatian newspaper in Split, “Hrvatski List” (Croatian Gazette). The ORJUNA was under the patronage of the Serb Democratic Party in Croatia. It gathered militant youth who supported the unitary Yugoslav state. Its chapters were formed first in Dalmatia, then in other parts of former Habsburg regions. The real reason for its formation was to have a terrorist organization for “special assignments.” As such ORJUNA became the leading instrument of terror against Croatian “separatists,” “communists,” “defeatists,” and all other “dark elements” in the country.
In that spirit ORJUNA gave instructions to its members in Croatia (August 1921) that “in these days of our activities, develop as much energy and action as possible. Our organization has to be firm and disciplined and stand firmly and resolutely against the separatists. After the assassination of Minister Draskovic [July 21, 1921], there is a need to start a struggle till the elimination not only of the communists, but of all those who are sowing hate against unitarism, the state, and Yugoslavism.” 8
ORJUNA terrorist activities were committed quite openly and often with great pride. Its leadership emphasized that “its terrorist actions contributed more than anything else to its own legitimization in the entire country….In practice, ORJUNA will propagate its goals by all possible means. It does not renounce the use of force. On the contrary it emphasizes the need for such type of actions.”9
ORJUNA had special units known as Action Groups, which were organized in military fashion. According to one estimate, by 1925 the Action Groups had about 10.000 members.10 They had military style maneuvers on a regular basis, used military equipment, and usually the leading Chetnik figures were heading such Action Groups. Their holy principle “Victory or Death” was accompanied by yet another sacred declaration: “Whoever is not with us, is against us!” 11
Serbian National Youth (Srpska Nacionalna Omladina/SRNAO)
The SRNAO was formed in 1922 at Belgrade University as the antitheses of ORJUNA, which was seen as too much Yugoslav-oriented and as such was polluting the true Serbian spirit and watering down their political goals. The ideology and political program of the SRNAO was formulated in a slogan: “All the Serbs to Serbia, Serbia to all the Serbs!” The goals of its existence, therefore, were “guarding of the Homeland and the king, the spread of [Serbian] nationalism, and defense of Serbian accomplishments to the extermination of all anti-state and anti-national elements.”12
The SRNAO was very close to the royal regime, to the Radical Party, to Punisa Racic’s Chetniks and to the Union of Serbian Chetniks “Petar Mrkonjic” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For example, on the occasion of the consecration of the SRNAO flag in Sarajevo, there was a personal delegate of the king, the government representatives, and a Serbian Church delegation. Leading men from all centers of power in Serbia were members of SRNAO. Nikola Pasic, the prime mover of Greater Serbian policies and the symbol of Serbian unitarism, was SRNAO’s honorary president and its main financial supporter .13 The biggest obstacle to SRNAO’s expansion in Croatia was the split between Svetozar Pribicevic, the main Serb politician in Croatia, and his former allies in Belgrade. Real confusion entered the SRNAO ranks, however, when Stjepan Radic, the leading Croat politician, made a deal with Pasic and entered the Belgrade government in 1925. The SRNAO did recover to some extent after the assassination of Radic(1928). After the King assumed all the power in the country and proclaimed Yugoslavism as the state national ideology (1929), SRNAO continued to work for its well defined goals but now under the Yugoslav name.
Some other semi-official terrorist organizations Organization of the Reserve Officers and War Veterans - It emphasized its “readiness and availability” to defend the state and vowed to fight “against all anti-state elements.” 14
The Alliance of Volunteers - It constantly reminded the public that the state was not secure, its foundations were not firm, and that it was threatened by outside and inside enemies. It expressed readiness to continue the struggle for the security and stability of the state .15
Organized Youth - Its main mission was to destroy the Montenegrin Federalists and the followers of the exiled King Nikola of Montenegro.
People’s Defense - Its main purpose was “to defend the newly established state by organized actions” against all external and internal “anti-state destructive activities and defeatist elements.” 16
People’s Guard - It was organized in April of 1920. Its members proved themselves to be worthy of the regime’s support during the violent suppression of the railroad workers’ and miners’ strikes in 1920. The Guard members served as shock troopers against the workers and their families. After the proclamation of the ill-famed “Obznana” banning the Communist party (December 29, 1920), the Guard numbers increased rapidly. They put themselves in the “service of the state” in order to eliminate the “destructive elements which in these days [1920s] were ready to attack the state.” 17 These formations were armed by the military authorities and were tools in the hands of the regime to do its “dirty work.”
Patriotic Youth Front - This was a terrorist organization of the Bogoljub Jeftic’s fascist party.
Young Yugoslavia - This was an ORJUNA militant organization for secondary school students who because of their age could not become full members of political parties.
All of the above groups followed the fascist model of organization, or at least they tried to. Fascists in Italy and Germany were hailed for their zeal and organizing capabilities. Such admiration is expressed, for example, by “Jugoslovenska straza” (Yugoslav Guard) (June 23, 1935): “…[While] the fascist Italy is able to mobilize so many fascist formations and while Hitler’s Germany resounds by the marches of the German youth, the Yugoslav youth can and must steel its soul and its muscles by joining the Chetnik organizations, where it will prepare itself for tomorrow’s obligations that it must accept.”
But these groups admired not only the fascist organizational model, they admired also Hitler for his anti-Semitism. The paper “Jugoslovenska straza” (Yugoslav Guard) clearly expresses such feelings when on October 6, 1935 wrote: “Hitler was right when he went so far as to banish all of those who had even the smallest amount of Hebrew blood in their veins. Hitler was right when he pushed out such a vile sect from Germany.”
The Yugoslav regime and its official and unofficial guardians always looked at their opponents as mortal enemies that had to be no less than totally obliterated. Not only did they themselves believe this, they were also very active in promoting public acceptance of this malevolent belief and the means of implementing it. It is sufficient to quote just a few examples of Serbian national propaganda that express this fanatical hatred.
After a Communist sympathizer assassinated interior Minister Milorad Draskovic on July 21, 1921 (believed to be a setup by the regime), use of terror was legitimized by the Belgrade Parliament a few days later. A new wave of persecutions began. The Serb paper “Straza” (The Guard) (July 23, 1921) in the Croatian city of Osijek exhorted its readers: “Let us learn from the ill-reputed Horthy! [Miklos Horthy, the last commander of the Habsburg navy and the man who crushed in blood the Communist regime in post-World War I Hungary.] Under the knife all those who think Bolshevik thoughts! Under the knife even women and children so that even their names do not remain! The final encounter with the anti-state elements must start right now. Serb villages and all who are nationally aware must be constantly ready. In order to stop the Bolsheviks, we must organize National Guards everywhere. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We all must get ready in order to settle the score with them [Bolsheviks] once and for all. Anyone who is not with us, is their ally, and he should be dealt with accordingly. Let us sharpen our knives, load our guns, the enemy has declared war against us. Either we or they [must perish].”
This total struggle not only was meant to be waged against the Communists but also against all who were perceived as enemies. The paper “Pobeda” (Victory), the voice of ORJUNA urged on August 4, 1921 that “a struggle must be undertaken till the total elimination not only of the Communists, but also of all those who are sowing hatred against unitarism, the state, and Yugoslavism.” An ORJUNA leader in Vojvodina was even more explicit: “Communists, those who advocate the republic, and the Habsburg black sympathizers [Croatians], have found themselves at the same camp. Those heterogenous elements are united by the abominable hatred of our state” and therefore have to be eliminated.18 On December 14, 1924, the newspaper “Srbadija” expressed the deeply held, uncompromising principle of either we or they: “If we [Serbs] want to preserve ourselves we must struggle using all available means in order to crash and destroy every opponent because the Croat Bolsheviks, Magyars, Germans, and Turks will destroy us if we re not quicker than they. Forget the stupidity that we are one people with three names. Scorn the ‘brothers’ who are after our existence and our head. Deal with them quickly and decisively.”
Stjepan Radic, the leading Croat politician at the time, was a constant target of Serbian nationalist forces. A day after he was arrested in Zagreb and a month before national elections, the SRNAO voice in Novi Sad, “Srbadija”(January 7, 1925) stated: “The gallows must crackle under the weight of the infamy of Stjepan Radic. Mehmed Spaho [leading Bosnian Muslim politician] must be forced to feel the pains of a man impaled alive on the stake… The moment has to be utilized to finish up all important chores before the elections, so that afterwards it can be crystal clear who we are, what we are, what is our name, and who is the master in this Serbia of ours.” According to the Serbian nationalists “one can only master over people like Croats, but never cooperate and work with them in a common effort.” 19
Political consequences
Persecutions of Croats in the newly formed South Slavic state had the opposite effect from what the guardians of the state and of the regime intended. Instead of preserving the state, it undermined its very existence. The fact is that most of the Croats could not identify with the Yugoslav state from its beginning because the state itself and the Serbian centralist regime was imposed upon them. The persecutions that followed simply alienated them even further from the Serbs and the state. Those Croats (and even some Serbs from Croatia) who once worked for the unification of the South Slavs became quicky disillusioned with the state and joined the anti-centralists and even anti-Yugoslav elements. Influential individuals outside the country who promoted unification of the South Slavs before and during the First World War and used to raise their voices against mistreatment of the Serbs and others in the Habsburg empire suddenly fell silent. Instead of condemning the use of terror and pressuring the regime to reform the country, they often blamed the victims. As a result, Croats increasingly felt more isolated in their desperate need for human and national rights.
The persecutions also helped to politicize and homogenize the Croatian nation, especially the rural population. Terror became a catalyst in crystalizing Croatian goals for nationhood. If there was confusion toward the end of World War I about which road to take, it became clear that Yugoslavia was not the answer. Elections clearly indicated that the Croats wanted a federalist republic as a minimum and an independent state of their own as maximum. As the terror against Croats increased, so did their demands escalate along with increasingly radical means to achieve them.
Another important consequence of the terror was a break with Croatian political traditions and pluralism. The old institutions of Sabor (parliament) and Ban (viceroy) were abolished. The traditions of personal liberties, rule of law, and tolerance of religious and ethnic differences were greatly undermined. Reserves of national energy were used up in inevitably resisting the attempts at Serbianization. According to Serb expansionists, their need to crush any move toward Croatian national identity was necessary because Croats did not have a history or culture of their own, besides being of a servile nature meant to be obedient to others.
Croatians are usually depicted as the destroyers of both Yugoslavias. As a result, historians who would like to believe that Yugoslavia was a natural and positive historical development and the Serbs its true makers and defenders, ignore the persecutions of Croats and others,20 which in reality sealed the fate of the country from its very beginning. It is Serbian centralism, messianism, expansionism, and terrorism that eliminated even the possibility of a successful unification of the South Slavs.
The Yugoslav experiment tragically interrupted the historical continuity of the Croatian people. Experiences in that state had major negative effects on Croat political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The 1918-1990 period was another long and often bloody intermission in the centuries-long history of Croatia. However, the gap is bridged now, and the future of the Croats is in their own hands. It is up to them not to dwell in the past but to live up to the challenges of the present and the future.
1 Srbadija. The official organ of the Novi Sad Regional Committee of the SRNAO. February 7, 1925.
2 Narodne Novine. April 28, 1919. See also Rudolf Horvat, Hrvatska na mucilistu. Zagreb: Kulturno-Historijsko Drustvo “Hrvatski Rodoljub,” 1942, 81.
3 Vladimir Radic, Zlocin od 20. Lipnja i Medjunarodna Stampa. Paris: n.p., 1931, 22.
4 Dragoljub Jovanovic, Ljudi. Ljudi… Medaljoni 46 umrlih savremenika. Belgrade: D. Jovanovic, 1975, 65.
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7 Pravilo o cetnickoj vojni. Protolmacio iz’ pol’skoj sa n’kim prom’nama, izmetcima i dodasima Matija Ban. Belgrade, 1848.
8 Pobeda. August 4, 1921.
9 Vidovdan. May 30, 1925.
10 Politika. June 3, 1925.
11 Dobroslav Jevdjevic, Izabrani clanci. Novi Sad: Jovanovic & Bogdanov, 1925, 5.
12 Srpska rijec. December 13, 1924.
13 See Nusret Sehic, Cetnistvo u Bosni i Hercegovini (1918-1941). Sarajevo: ANUBiH, 1971, 68.
14 Ratnicki glasnik. 1922, 69. As in Berislav Gligorijevic, “Organizacija jugoslovenskih nacionalista (Orjuna).” Istorija XX veka. Vol. 5. Belgrade: Institute drustvenih nauka, 1963, 318.
15 Jugoslavija (Almanac of the Veterans’ Alliance). 1922, 153.
16 Narodna obrana. 1926, 10; Gligorijevic, Orjuna, 318.
17 T. Kazlerovic, Obznana. Beograd, 1952, 13; Statist. Beleske Ust. Skupstine, 1920-1921, I, 20; Gligorijevic, Orjuna, 320.
18 Jevdjevic, Izabrani clanci, 42.
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Ante Cuvalo (http://www.cuvalo.net/?p=44)
Sep. 9 About 100 Serbian soldiers arrived for the first time at the town of Vukovar and, among other misdeeds, confiscated boats loaded with grain on the Danube river.
Oct. 29 Croatian Sabor (Parliament) broke off all ties with the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria-Hungary). The Sabor declared the constitutional connection with Hungary terminated, and proclaimed Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia and independent state. The Sabor then went on to give executive authority in the new state to the National Council in Zagreb.
Oct 31 A-H Empire turned over the A-H fleet to the Croats on the quarter deck of the Viribus Unitis.
November A number of leading Croatian intellectuals in Zagreb receive letters threatening to hang them on light poles. Many people were afraid to walk the streets at night. Among the arrested in Zagreb were: Ivica dr. Frank (people’s representative), Aleksandar Horvat (people’s representative),Ante Matasic (general), Mirko dr. Puk (lawyer), Pavao Rauch (former ban/viceroy of Croatia), and Drago dr. Safar (lawyer).
Among the arrested and then forced to retire were the High Court Judges: Milan Accuti, Mirko dr. Kosutic, and Josip Tarabochia.
Among those forced from Zagreb into hiding were Ljudevit dr. Ivancic (priest in Zagreb) and Lovro dr. Radicevic (priest in Zagreb)
Nov.8 Franjo Sarkotic (general in Sarajevo) arrested.
Nov.9 Zvonimir Vukelic (newsman in Zagreb) arrested.
Nov.16 Mihovil Mihaljevic (field Marshall) forced to retire.
Nov. 17 Izidor dr. Krsnjavi (univ. prof. in Zagreb) forced to retire. Ivan Malus (school supervisor in Zagreb) forced to retire. Milan dr. Sufflay (a leading intellectual and univ. professor in Zagreb) forced to retire. ? Heim (judge in Zagreb) forced to retire.
Nov. 21 Lacko Labas (provincial governor in Bjelovar) forced to retire.
Nov. 22 Antun Liposcak (general) arrested.
Dec. 1 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formed (renamed Yugoslavia in 1929).
Dec. 4 Zagreb newspaper “Hrvatska” banned.
Dec. 5 The gov. officials in Zagreb were ordered to declare this day a holiday with public celebrations in honor of the Serbian king Peter’s “krsna slava.” After the morning parade in honor of the king, Croatian soldiers stationed in Zagreb began a parade of their own, with their marching band. They protested unification with Serbia and demanded a democratic republic of Croatia. The marchers were met by force. On that day 9 Croatian civilians and 5 soldiers were killed, and 7 civilians and 10 soldiers were wounded. (It is estimated that over 100 people were hurt or killed but the newspaper were forbidden to write the truth.)
Among the killed were: Mato Gasparovic, Nikola Ivsa, Stjepan Juresa, Viktor Kolombar, Dragutin Kostelac, Josip Lupinski, Andro Martinko, Milos Mrse, Slavko Scukanac, ? Sentmartoni, Mijo Stanicer, Miroslav Svoboda, Antun Tasner-Juricic, and Ferdo Versec.
Among the arrested was the general Ante Matasic. Jailed over two months and then retired. Arrested again in 1929. After his release, his movements were restricted to the city of Zagreb.
Gendarme forces maltreated large number of peasants in Zdala, Severin, Raca, Popovaca, Grubisno polje, and other places. Many of them were striped naked and beaten.
Jan. 6 The following Croatians were sentenced in Zagreb because of the Dec. 5, 1918 demonstrations: Ivica Percic (soldier) to 10 years,Rudolf Cecelja (soldier) to 7 years, Josip Simatovic (soldier) to 7 years, Ivan Babic (soldier) to 3 and a half years, Janko Herceg (soldier) to 3 and a half years, Franjo Kovacic (soldier) to 3 and a half years, Dragutin Mort (soldier) 3 and a half years, Adolf Schwartz (soldier) to 3 and a half years, Blaz Barac (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Stjepan Crncec (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Franjo Gasparac (soldier) 1 and half years, Marko Koren (soldier) 1 and a half years, Marko Majsl (soldier) 1 and a half years, Mirko Milosak (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Janko Pomjan (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Tomo Potlacek (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Josip Ruklic (soldier)to 1 and a half years, Konrad Skrebin (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Stjepan Tresoglavac (soldier) to 1 and half years, Mirko Vragovic (soldier) to 1 and a half years, Mustafa Basagic (soldier) ?, Mirko Drobac (soldier) ?, and Andrija Fijan (soldier) ?.
March Two elected parliamentary representatives from the Croatian Party of [State] Rights/HSP, dr. Prebeg (lawyer) and dr. Pazman (university professor) arrested.
Military censorship of the press imposed in Croatia.
Mar. 8Croatian Republican Peasant Party/HRSS/ sent memorandum to the U.S. President Wilson and to members of the Peace Conference in Paris asking for self-determination of the Croatian people.
Mar. 25 President of the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS), Stjepan Radic, and two of its board members arrested. Although no charges were filed against him, Radic was held in jail without a trial untill Feb. 19, 1920. He was arrested again on March 22, 1920 and finally, he was released on Nov. 28, 1920, the day general elections, in which he and his party won an overwhelming majority of votes in Croatia.
May Josip Zrnek (worker) died in jail under torture.
July 13 Three people (a restaurant owner in Zagreb, his wife and a waitress) arrested by military authorities and badly beaten because the man said “This is not a Greater Serbia.”
July 22 Spontaneous rebellion of soldiers in Varazdin.
August Army confiscated all the goods that Croat emigrants had brought with them returning from the USA.
Bartol Vukovic (peasant from Brodska Varos) killed by gendarmes.
September A Croat police officer in Zagreb beaten and maltreated by military authorities.
A “prominent citizen” in Zagreb 70 years old beaten, maltreated, and his dog killed on his own property by a military captain.
A group of “well-respected citizens” in Sisak arrested while eating in a restaurant, kept overnight in the local jail and maltreated because gendarme Lolic was drunk and he felt like doing it.
“Many peasants” beaten in the name of king Peter and forced to genuflect three times and give homage to the Serbian traditional military cap, known as “sajkaca.”
A veterinarian in Petrinja, after being asked to come to the office of the local commanding army officer, was maltreated and beaten by the officer. After escaping, the veterinarian was beaten again the next day by the same officer.
February A man was killed by soldiers in Sisak. While his wife was crying over his dead body, the commanding colonel swore at her and gave her two hard blows.
Feb. 20 Nine peasants in Delnice badly beaten by soldiers. Their money was also taken.
Mar. 22 ? Teslic, a Serb and a former Austrian Colonel, attempted to kill Stjepan Radic during a public gathering of the Croatian Peasant Party in Sisak. When Radic was about to begin his speech, Teslic fired four shots at him. After escaping the assassination, Radic was arrested and finally released on Nov. 28, 1920, the day of general elections.
Apr. 16 All public meetings banned in Croatia.
July A military colonel took a boat from a Croat citizen in Petrinja. After his complaint, four soldiers were sent to bring the man to the military compound. They were unsuccessful. But the next day, the citizen was found, beaten, and maltreated.
August Soldiers attack a number of civilians in Zagreb.
September A “large number” of peasants were killed during the attempts of the gendarmes and the military to put down peasant rebellions in northern Croatia. “Many peasants” were killed in Kutina county. Two peasants killed in Ivanjska.
Sep. 5 Forced branding of large domestic animals.
Peasants rebel in Veliki Grdjavac.
Josip Sulicek (peasant) killed by gendarmes.
Sep. 6 A peasant from Sveti Ivan Zeleni killed by gendarmes.
Sep. 8 Ivan Likoder (peasant from Repusnica) killed by gendarmes.? Pintaric (peasant from Repusnica) wounded by gendarmes. Ivan Vraznic (peasant from Repusnica) wounded by gendarmes. Gabor Uroic (peasant from Repusnica) wounded by gendarmes. ? Alapic (peasant from Gracanica) wounded by gendarmes.
Sep. 9 ? Gunjak (peasant) arrested and on the road from Osekova to Kutina killed by gendarmes. ? Pokaz (peasant) arrested and on the road from Osekova to Kutina killed by gendarmes.
Sep. 10 30 peasants in Petrinja badly beaten by the gendarmes in front of other citizens.
Sep. 16 3 peasant huts with all possessions burnt by gendarmes in Novoselce near Zagreb.
Filip Halic (79-year old peasant from Novoselce near Zagreb) killed by gendarmes in front of a hut in his vineyard.
Oct. 4 City Mayor of Vinkovci publically attacked by Serb military officer.
Nov. 28 Elections for the Constitutional Assembly. Croatian Republican Pleasant Party/HRSS/ received majority of votes in Croatia. Its leader, Stjepan Radic, released from jail on the election day.
Dec. 5 Croatian youth organization “Sokol” banned.
Dec. 12 Anti-Croatian demonstrations in Ruma/Srijem. Croatian businesses and homes attacked. All public signs written in Latin script demolished. Military authorities in the town were protecting the attackers.
Dec. 15 Mirko Marcinko arrested and severely tortured.
Dec. 20 Vinko Zugcic (peasant from Novoselce near. Zagreb) arrested and killed by gendarmes.
Vid Zavolic (peasant from Novoselce near Zagreb) wounded by gendarmes.
Dec. 22 A major strike by miners in Husino near Tuzla, Orasje, Breza, and other mining places in Bosnia. Gendarmes, “People’s Guards” (Serbian volunteers), and army unites put down the strike. 32 miners and peasants were killed and many more seriously wounded. Robbery, rape, and expulsion from homes followed. Croatian settlements were special targets because the desire was to portray the Croats as Communist sympathizers.
Dec. 29Government in Belgrade issued a document, “Obznana”, by which the Communist Party was banned in the country. Persecutions intensified.
Dec. 30 Stjepan Supanc (worker) killed in Vukovar.
Jan. 4 Anka N. (Postal clerk in Vukovar) attacked by soldiers, maltreated, and arrested.
Jan. 26 The following Croats arrested in Zagreb. Trial began on June 12, 1921. On August 6, 1921 sentenced to:Pavao See 12 years, Rudolf Vidak 4 years, Milan dr. Sufflay to 3 and a half years, Jakov Petric to 3 years, Franjo Skvorc to 3 years, Dragutin Taborsak to 3 years, Josip Spoljarec-Drenski to 2 years and 4 months, Ivan Havelka to 8 months, Milan Galovic to 6 months,Ivan Kovacic to 6 months, Gabrijel Kruhak to 6 months, Ivo dr. Pilar 2 months, Andrija Medar freed, Antun Pavicic freed, and Florijan Stromar ?. Feb. 16 18 mineworkers in Tuzla condemned to death by hanging.. One of the condemned miners was Jure Kerosevic.
June Vladimir Copic arrested and sentenced on Feb. 2, 1922 to 2 years.
June 29 Unsucccesful attempt to assassinate king Aleksandar in Belgrade. Excuse to attack sympathizers of the Left and other opponents of the regime. It is estimated that about 10.000 people were arrested in the country and maltreated.
June 28 Centralist Constitution for the newly unified country approved by 233 votes; 35 delegates voted against, and 161 representatives were absent in Belgrade Parliament. July 2 150 workers arrested and maltreated in Split and sentenced from 3 to 8 months.
July 21 ORJUNA (Organizacija Jugoslavenskih Nacionalista/ Organization of Yugoslav Nationalits) attacked and seriously injured four “communists” in Split.
ORJUNA attacked and damaged the house of Mr. Jelaska in Split. ORJUNA demolished the house of Mr. Pinto in Split.
ORJUNA attaked and demolished the house of dr. Vrankovic in Split. July 22 ORJUNA attacked offices of Zagreb papers “Obzor,” “Hrvat,” and “Jutarnji list.” It led violent anti-Croatian demonstration in Zagreb.
ORJUNA attaked “Radnicki dom” (Workers’ Hall) in Osijek.
July 24 Rudolf Horvatic (civil servant in Zagreb) wounded by a railroad police, Dusan Kruzica, while riding a train from Sesvete to Zagreb.
Ivan Kosanda wounded togather with Rudolf Horvatic.
Zlatko Arnold (bank clerk) killed by a railroad policeman, Dusan Kruzica, while riding on Sesvete-Zagreb train.
August Catholic religious congress in Split attacked by ORJUNA.
A Catholic religious procession in Sinj attacked by gendarmes.
Aug. 2The Law for the Protection of the State was approved by Belgrade Parliament. Persecutions intensified.
Aug. 9 Drago Gizdic (worker in Dubrovnik) killed by ORJUNA.
Aug. 16 King Peter died. Because the Zagreb’s city council did not send a special delegation to the funeral, it was dissolved.
Dec. 11 The “Croatian block” won the municipal elections in Zagreb. But the elected representatives were not allowed to govern. A special city Commissar was appointed be Belgrade.
Newspaper “Hrvatski Glas” banned.
Equipment belonging to youth organization “Croatian Sokol” in Ogulin confiscated and given to the “Yugoslav Sokol.” During a public gathering of the “Yugoslav Sokol” that followed in the same town, several leading Croats jailed.
About 400 Croat teachers and professors were dismissed from their jobs.
Jun. 8 King Aleksandar married Romanian princess Mariola. Croatians not welcomed at the wedding. The wedding costs were over 65 million dinars.
Jan. 29 A large number of peasants, including women and children, were attacked and mercilessly beaten by 14 gendarmes in the village near Topusko. Many were incapacitated for a long time because of the harsh beatings.
Feb. 21 ORJUNA attacked members of “Croatian workers union.” Army intervened on the side of ORJUNA.
Feb. 23 Ivan Colovic arrested and sentenced to 2 years. Spent 7 months in jail before the trial.
Djuro Salaj arrested and sentenced to 2 years. Spent 7 months in jail before the trial.
March A number of Croatians were attacked by ORJUNA members who were armed by pistols given to them by the military authorities.
? Snidarsic (Zagreb lawyer) shot by ORJUNA members. There was no investigation.
ORJUNA members attacked the house in Zagreb where retired Croatian military officers were having a private party.
June ORJUNA undertook major attacks throughout Zagreb.
June 4 A large number of the “Croatian Sokol” children and their escorts, mostly women, from Karlovac, Jastrebarsko, Ogulin and other towns attacked by local Serbs during the Sokol’s field trip to Plitvice Lakes. A number of people injured, investigation was not permitted and no one was punished.
June 14 All chapters of the organization “Croatian Woman” banned and its property comfiscated because they participated in organizing a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ante Starcevic three days earlier.
Women’s organization “Katarina Zrinski” also banned because of the pilgrimage to the grave of Ante Starcevic.
Zagreb chapter of the “Croatian Sokol” banned and posessions confiscated because they made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Ante Starcevic three days earlier.
July ? Rozic killed in Zagreb.
Dec. 9 Franjo Vrtat (Novigrad near Koprivnica) jailed for organizing HRSS meetings.
At an ORJUNA meeting attended by the Minister of the Interior an open discussion on assassinating Stjepan Radic (the leader of the Croats) too place.
January During the pre-election campaign, a young man in the village of Kras (Dobrinjstina) was killed after a HRSS public meeting. During the same period, a man was killed in each of the following places: Crikvenica, Otocac, and Vrginmost .
Three HRSS representatives from the region of Sibenik were jailed.
Four members of the HRSS Main Board were jailed.
Three HRSS representatives from Cepin (Osijek) were jailed.
ORJUNA attacked Croatian Sokol members in their hall in Gospic. Because of the attack, the local Sokol organization was deprived of the hall.
Armed ORJUNA members clashed with Croatian youth in a coffee shop in downtown Zagreb. Eight people were wounded.
Jan. 28 ORJUNA members broke up a Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS) gathering in Vinkovci.
February ORJUNA attacked political gatherings organized by Prof. Kerubin Segvic in Split.
ORJUNA attacked two followers of the HRSS in Drnis.
ORJUNA assaulted Dr. Vandekar, son in law of Stjepan Radic, in the town of Metkovic.
ORJUNA attacked a public meeting of the HRSS in Tuzla.
Feb. 3 Public meeting of the HRSS in Kostajnica broken up by ORJUNA members and their simpatizers. Those attending were attacked and more than 30 of homes were damaged.
Feb. 4 Six people seriously, and 18 lightly wounded by ORJUNA members in Crikvenica. One of the wounded died next day.
Feb. 5 Offices of the “Hrvatski list,” newspaper in Osijek, raided and vandalized by ORJUNA. A bomb was thrown into the main office.
Feb. 8 ORJUNA members placed a bomb in the hall of the Croatian workers union in Dubrovnik. Local government officials in the region of Dubrovnik banned public gatherings of Croatian political parties.
March Marko Grsic Filipovic wounded by a bullet in the head in the town of Senj.
A Zagreb Croat who stated that he would vote for Radic was forced by a gendarme to kiss the picture of Nikola Pasic, the leading Serbian politician at the time and a symbol of Greater Serbianism.
In Koprivnica, gendarmes opened gun fire on Croatian peasants.
In Split, any one who cried out “Long live Radic” received a 30- day jail sentence.
Gendarmes attacked a peasant from Cerje Tuzno and robbed him of his possessions.
Mar. 4 Peasants from the village of Cukovac (Ludbreg) were fired upon because they prepared a welcoming celebration for the HRSS leaders, including Stjepan Radic. Those who fired on the peasants were not punished. Instead, a peasant from Cukovac, a sympathizer of Radic, was sentenced to a one day jail term for not voting “properly.”
ORJUNA and its sympathizers attacked a public meeting of the HRSS in Otocac. Two peasants were wounded and a 14 year old boy was killed.
Mar. 18 After police attacked and dispersed a crowd gathered in Zagreb, OJUNA members opened fire on those running from police. A 16-year old boy was seriously wounded and a 20- year old man and a woman received lesser injuries.
Mar. 18 Second general elections held in the KSHS. The HRSS received an overwhelimg vote among the Croatians (420,000 votes and 69 Deputies).
April Jurije Soce (Sarajevo) killed by ORJUNA members.
June Kerubin Segvic on trial. He wrote in an article that ORJUNA was helped by the government.
Jul. 21 Stjepan Radic, President of the HRSS left the country and visited London, Vienna and Moscow looking for international understanding of the Croatian cause.
Mime Rosandic (forestry engineer) arrested and maltreated.
April ORJUNA member attacked Jewish properties in Zagreb.
Aug. 1 Stjepan Radic, leader of the HRSS returned from abroad to Zagreb. It became clear that the outside world did not want to hear about “the Croatian question.”
November A gendarme attempted to assassinate August Kosutic, a leading politician in Croatia in Kastel Stari. Treated for head wounds in gendarme station. Jailed right after his return to Zagreb. Soon after, he took a long trip to the USA in order to avoid physical attacks or even assassination.
The Minister of education, S. Pribicevic, retired 3 leading professors (supporters of HRSS) at the Zagreb University. One of the three was Dr. Ladislav Polic. Dec. 23 Declaration to ban the Croatian Republican Peasant Party/HRSS because it joined the Socialist International. Its public meeting and all its publications were banned. The law of public order and protection of state to be implemented against the HRSS, all its archives to be confiscated, and its leadership arrested.
January Police harassed leading Croatian politicians, among them Dr. Josip Lorkovic, Dr. Albert Bazala, Dr. Stjepan Skrulj, Dr. Stjepan Buc, Dr. Krajac, and others.
Seven peasants from Kustosija (near Zagreb) arrested because they displayed a Croatian flag.
The HRSS and Communist representatives in the Osijek city council were stripped off their political positions.
Jan. 1 The Law for the Protection of State, originally passed against the Communists, extended to the Croatian Republican Peasant Party/HRSS/. Criminal procedures were undertaken against its leadership.
Jan. 2 Police searched apartments and offices of all leading HRSS politicians in Zagreb and throughout the country. Many of them were arrested and released after a short detention. But the following were arrested and kept in jail for 6 months: Dr. Vladko Macek, Dr. Juraj Krnjevic, Dr. Stjepan Kosutic, Augustin Kosutic, Josip Predavec. A few days later, the secretary of the HRSS, Serif Kuzmic, was also arrested.
Offices of Osijek newspaper “Hrvatski list” raided and editors maltreated.
The house of Ivan dr. Loncarevic (lawyer in Mitrovica) raided and vandalized.
Jan. 3 600 peasants from Sibenik region arrested, taken to Sibenik, and about a half of them were jailed.
A number of Croats in Sibenik jailed. Among them were: Marko Berovic, Augustin Bujan (priest), Josip Drezga, Dr. Miho Jernic (dentists), Mate Kalmeta, Sime Zenic, Ivan dr. Krnic (former gov. high official). Next day, he was taken to Ogulin. Three Croatian homes in Susak/Rijeka raided.
Jan. 4 Ten members of the HSS in Imotski arrested.
Prof. Pavao Brkic arrested.Dr. ? Cuzzi (Split) arrested. Josip Paf (Sinj) arrested.Prof. Kerubin Segvic (editor of “Croatian Review” in Zagreb) arrested.Dr. ? Sokol (Split) arrested. Pavao Vucic (Sinj) arrested.Dr. Mile Vukovic (Imotski) arrested.
Jan. 5 Stjepan Radic, President of HRSS, arrested. Rudolf Bicanic (economist in Zagreb) - his apartment raided. Dragan Devcic (merchant in Djakovo) jailed for 14 days. Stjepan dr. Hefer (lawyer) jailed for 14 days. Ivo dr. Majcan (lawyer) arrested. ? Mirtejic (in Djakovo) jailed for 14 days.
Pavle Radic (leading man in the HRSS and Croatian representative in Belgrade parliament)- his apartment in Belgrade raided.
Viktor Tomlinovic (priest in Nasice) jailed.Djuro Turkalj (in Djakovo) jailed for 14 days.
All school teachers members of the Croatian Peasant Party dismissed from their jobs.
Jan. 6 Gendarmes opened fire on a crowd of Croats in Ozelj near Karlovac. One peasant killed and two wounded.
Jan. 7 “Croatian Sokol” youth organizations in Velika, Mihaljevac, and Brestovac near Pozega banned.
Jan. 8 Offices of the “Srijemski Hrvat,” Vukovar paper, raided and vandalized.
Seven peasants in Ceric near Vukovar arrested.
Dr. Ivan Majcen (Donji Miholjac) jailed for 6 days.Matijevic (president of the HSS in Bogdanovici) jailed with a number of other HSS members.
All HSS representatives and their secretaries in Donji Miholjac jailed for 5 days.
Jan. 9 In the village of Ladjevac, a local priest (Rev. Mikan) was arrested.
Jan. 13 “Hrvatski List,” Osijek newspaper, banned. After changing the name into “Hrvatska Zora” it was banned also. Jan. 13Rude Bacinic, a leading HRSS representative from Dalmatia, arrested in Belgrade.
Jan. (mid)The president of the local election committee and a member of the HRSS, Prof. Josip Hager, was arrested. He was accused of insulting the king and the regime. Besides being suspended from teaching, he was arrested again at the end of the month and sentenced to a 10 day jail term.
Jan. 25“Hrvatski Branik,” Vinkovci newspaper, banned.
Jan. 31 Djuro Zivic, a HRSS sympathizer, from Novo selo (Varazdin) was arrested, kept in jail till Feb. 8, 1925, and the case against him dragged on till 1927.
Jan. (end) Dr. Milovan Zanic was arrested.
The secretary of the HRSS Zagreb branch arrested
Police in Varazdin attempted to prevent the HRSS from handing to the local court the election lists and harassed the leading HRSS officials in the city, Dr. Ursic and others.
Nikola Separovic, a baker from Vela Luka living near Delnice, arrested. Accused of insulting the Belgrade regime. Feb. (beg.) Gendarmes beat up four peasants in the village of Lukavac. Two of them were seriously hurt.
Feb. 8 The day of elections, police, gendarmes, and even military forces were employed throughout Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to intimidate the non-Serb electorate. Many members of local election committees were harassed and/or arrested. There were numerous clashes between the voters and the gendarmes, and a number of people were injured and even killed.
In a clash between the gendarmes and the voters in Veliko Trgovisce a peasant was killed, and two gendarmes were wounded. Next day, 20 peasants were arrested and, after long tortures, 11 were released and 9 put on trial.
In the village of Stajnica (Lika) four peasants were killed (including an 80 year old woman) and many were wounded by the gendarmes. Stajnica was a stronghold of the HRSS party.
The mayor of the town of Susak (near Rijeka) was suspended from his functions and deprived of his salary because he was not supporting the Serbian Radical party.
In the village of Straznjevac (Varazdin) gendarmes arrested more than 10 peasants accused of displaying a flag with a slogan: “Faith in God and Peasant Solidarity” and of preventing the gendarmes from arresting the HRSS committee-men. After being maltreated and kept in jail for a while, they received from one to four months prison terms.
After the election results were announced, the HRSS supporters were prevented by police, gendarmes, and the military throughout Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina from celebrating the victory.
Feb. 8 General elections - HRSS gained total victory among the Croats.
Feb. 11 “Hrvatski List,” Osijek daily newspaper, banned again.
Feb. 17 “Hrvatski Glas,” Osijek daily newspaper and successor to “Hrvatski list” banned.
Mar. 22 Dr. Albert Bazala (leading intellectual and people’s representative) physically attacked by Serbian members of parliament.
May 25 “Novi List,” daily newspaper in Susak/Rijeka, banned.
July 18 Stjepan Radic was released from jail. He and his party joined the government in Belgrade. His party’s name from now on is simply Croatian Peasant Party /HSS/; the adjective Republican is abandoned.
May Attempt to assassinate Stjepan Radic (leader of the HSS) in Srijemska Mitrovica
January On the island of Krk, displaying of the Croatian flag was banned and civil servants and school teacher came under special pressure because the local elections were coming up. (Jan. 23, 1927). In Varazdin, the city council and the city mayor were removed, and a government official (a gendarme officer) took control of the city.
In Osijek, a communist election leaflet stating “Long live the Republic” was banned.
On the island of Korcula, the HSS candidates were arrested.
In the provinces of Backa and Baranja, the HSS candidates and supporters were under great pressure to abandon their loyalty to their political party. Jan. 4 The ban against the HSS activities (imposed at the end of 1924) was abolished.
Jan. 23 On the day of local elections, about 2000 HSS members were coming to greet Radic at his home in Zagreb. Police dispersed the crowd and injured a number of people.
Aug. A regional representative of the Serbian Democratic Party from Vrelo near Korenica was arrested and sentenced to a 14 day jail term. The Serbian Democratic Party in Croatia came under pressure because its leader, S. Pribicevic, abandoned his policy of Serbian unitarism and became a federalist.
Aug. 28 In Sv. Jakov (near Crikvenica) gendarmes dispersed a HSS meeting and arrested one participant.
Sep. (beg.) In the village Krivi Put (Lika) the president of the local HSS was arrested and sentenced to 14 days of prison.
In Ludbreg, two HSS members were sentenced to a 14 day jail term each. Spt. 11Parliamentary elections. During these election there were no major eruptions of violence but voting manipulation by the regime was worse than in previous elections.
June 20 Serbian Parliament representative, Punisa Racic, opened fire in Belgrade Parliament on Croatian deputies. Stjepan Radic mortally wounded (died on Aug. 8,1928), Dr. Djuro Basaricek killed, Pavle Radic killed, Dr. Ivan Pernar wounded, and Ivan Grandja wounded.
June 20-22 Massive demonstrations in Zagreb. 5 people killed; 50 wounded, more than a hundred arrested.
Dec. 4 Zagreb students demonstrated. Several killed and wounded by the gendarmes. 1929
Jan. 6 King Aleksandar assumed all power in the country, dismissed Parliament, suspended Constitutions, and banned all political parties.
April 30 Djuro Djakovic and Nikola Hecimovic, after being arrested and tortured, were led to the country border and shot.
May Dr. Milovan Zanic (lawyer and a former representative in parliament from Nova Gradiska) sentenced to 6 months for suggesting that king Aleksandar should be asked to return civil rights to the citizens. He had been arrested also in previous years.
June 28 The leader of the Serbs in Croatia, Svetozar Pribicevic, once right-hand man of the Belgrade regime, was confined to a small village in Serbia for his cooperation with the Croat political leaders. From 1931 till his death in 1936, he lived in exile.
July 17 Dr. Ante Pavelic (Zagreb lawyer and representative in Belgrade parliament) condemned to death in absence and his property is confiscated.
Gustav Percec condemned to death in absence and his property is confiscated.
Oct. 3 Displaying of Croatian flag is banned. Oct. 31 The following Croats were arrested and sentenced on June 30, 1931. Marko Hranilovic (student, 20 years old) condemned to death by hanging plus 20 years jail term!! Matija Soldin condemned to death by hanging plus 20 years jail term. Hung on November 25, 1931..
Stipe Javor (from Brinje/Zagreb merchant ) to 20 years. Because of beastly tortures he died in jail on March 27, 1936. Stipe Javor’s wife and two daughters were also arrested and maltreated in order to force him to talk. Antun Herceg (newsman) to 20 years. Dragutin Kriznjak (peasant) to 18 years. Stjepan Horvatek (merchant’s helper) to 15 years. Pavao Glad (hospital clerk) to 15 years. Milan Siladi (blacksmith from Busevac) to 6 years. Antun Vezmarovic (forest guard) to 5 years. Luka Markulin (peasant from Odra) to three years. Mijo Bizik (craftsman) to 18 months. Marija Hranilovic (Marko’s sister; secretary) to 18 months. Gabrijel Kruhak (office clerk in Zagreb) to 18 months. Janko Kruhak (craftsman) to 18 months. Mirko Kruhak (office clerk in Zagreb) to 18 months. Stjepan Markulin (peasant from Odra) to 18 months. Mile Starcevic (office clerk) to 18 months. Luka Cordasic freed. Josip Knoblehar freed. Stjepan Kopcinovic freed. Stjepan Novacic freed. Cvjetko Stahan freed. Mijo Babic escaped the country and condemned in absence. Zvonimir Pospisil condemned in absence. Mladen Lorkovic (Zagreb lawyer) avoided the arrest by escaping the country .
Dec. Blaz Djogic (peasant from Siroki Brijeg) killed by gendarmes
Dec. 5 King Aleksandar banned the “Croatian Sokol” that had over 40,000 members.
Dec. 19 Vilko Begic (military colonel) arrested. Freed on June 14, 1930.
Jaksa Jelasic (professor in Zagreb) arrested and sentenced to 3 years plus the loss of civil rights for 4 years.
52 Zagreb students arrested together with Begic and Jelasic.
Dec. 29 The following Croats were arrested, tried in Belgrade, and on June 14, 1930 sentenced: Ivan Bernardic (merchant’s assistant from Barilovic) to 15 years, expulsion from Zagreb for 3 years, and the loss of civil rights for life. Stjepan Matekovic (craftsman from Kostajnica) to 10 years. Filip Paver (state clerk in Zagreb) to 10 years. Martin Franekic to 8 years the loss of civil rights for life.Ivan Skrtak to 6 years and permanent loss of civil rights. Cvjetko Hadzija to 5 years and the loss of civil rights for 5 years. Ante Stefanac to 4 years and the loss of civil rights for 4 years. Velimir Mocnaj (book store owner in Karlovac) to 3 years and the loss of civil rights for 3 years. Ivan Prpic (lawyer from Jastrebarsko) to 2 years. Ivan Ban (merchant’s assistant from Kresevo) to 1 year and loss of civil rights for 3 years. Franjo Veselic to 1 year. Ljubomir Kremzir to 6 months. Pavao Margetic to 6 months. Bozo Arnsek freed. Mirko Debanic freed. Albin Gasparac freed. Franjo Kuntic (restaurant owner) freed. Ivan dr. Lebovic (lawyer) freed. Milan Levnajic freed. Antun Stefanic freed.
Ivan Rosic jailed 14 days for placing a wreath on the grave of Stjepan Radic. Jan. 4 Dr. Vladko Macek (leader of the HSS) arrested, tried in Belgrade and freed on June 14, 1930. Seven Croatian prisoners that were acquitted together with Macek at the trial in Belgrade and four of their lawyers were celebrating their release. That was considered a crime and all were sentenced to a 30 days prison term.
May Over 100 Croats arrested. Accused of planning to place an explosive under the train taking a delegation to see the king in Belgrade. Among them were: Antun Budrovac - later sentenced to a jail term. Franjo Canic - later sentenced to a jail term. Franjo Carevic - later sentenced to a jail term. Antun Herman (shoemaker in Djakovo) - later sentenced to a jail term. Zeljko Klemen - later sentenced to a jail term. Karlo Kovacevic - later sentenced to a jail term. Sime Mikic - later sentenced to a jail term. Ivan Ruskan - later sentenced to a jail term. Luka Stjevic - later sentenced to a jail term. Anka Sultajs (woman) - later sentenced to a jail term. Andrija Tilman (postal clerk in Djakovo) - later sentenced to a jail term.
June Josip Predavec (Vice President of the HSS) condemned to 2 and a half years of prison.
During the year “a number of Croats” killed by Chetniks and/or gendarme forces.
Zvonimir Topilnik (bank clerk in Livno) died in jail under torture.
Dr. Dragutin Toth arrested and tried with 13 more members of the HSS.
Ivan Jedlicka tortured and died in Virovitica prison.
Jan. 14 Obrad Pavlovic (Croat from Backa) killed near Italian border.
Feb. ? Bosnjakovic (craftsman in Djakovo) died in jail under gendarmes’ torture.
Josip Poropat (young man from Zagreb) killed by gendarmes and his body was thrown from the 3rd floor into the courtyard.
174 Croats arrested in Zagreb
Feb. 17Djuka Ilijanic (peasant) died in Zagreb under torture.
Feb. 18Dr. Milan Sufflaj (a leading Croat intellectual) assassinated.
April Ante Pavelic (peasant from Bosanski Brod) arrested and severely tortured. After his release, escaped to Austria and soon died of complications caused by tortures.
May Josip Nadj (merchant from Ferdinandovac) died in jail under torture
May 4 Trial of 22 Croats began in Zagreb. Among the 22 volunteer defending counsels was Dr. Vladko Macek, leader of the Croatian Peasant Party who a year earlier was himself tried and acquitted in Belgrade. (See Oct. 31, 1929)
May 23 In Belgrade, 3 Croats were sentenced to death, one of them in absence. 11 others received a total of 126 years jail terms. Two were sentenced to 20 and 15 years, but they escaped the country. One of the accused was acquitted.
June Milka Hranilovic (a woman) jailed because of her son’s activities.
June 31 Ante Crvic, Ignac Domitrovic, and Mijo Seletkovic were condemned in absence.
July 12About 12,000 people attending the Eucharistic Congress in Omis. Gendarmes opened fire on the masses. Two people killed and many wounded.
July 23 Six months after their arrests, a group of Croats tried in Belgrade and sentenced. Among them, Ivan Rosic (shoemaker’s assistant) to death by hanging (hung).
Aug. 1 man (peasant from Lencak near Lasinja) killed by gendarmes. Aug. 10Ilija Petrovic (Nova Gradiska) died under prison torture in Zagreb.
Aug. 11The following Croats were sentenced: Ivan Ljevakovic (father’s name Matin from Lipak; streetcar controller in Zagreb) to death. Later commuted to life imprisonment. Ivan Ljevakovic (father’s name Franjo; peasant from Lipak) to 15 years. Adolf Miler sentenced in Belgrade to 15 years. Ivan Saub to 10 years. Petar Nozaric to 2 years. Stjepan Papac to 2 years. Ignac Terihaj to 10 months. Milan Lukac (from Nova Gradiska) freed. Josip Miklausic - cooperated with prosecution. Martin Nagy - cooperated with prosecution. Hung himself in jail. Supposedly suicide.
Dec. 8 Chetniks in the country of Benkovac terrorized Croats who did not participate in the elections. Five peasants killed and many wounded. 1932
Villages in Lika region were terrorized and possessions confiscated after the Lika rebellion.
129 Croats were tried for verbal “insult of the king’s name” in the regions of Petrinja, Bjelovar, Zagreb, Ogulin, and Varazdin alone.
Pastor of the Catholic parish in Krasna/Lika arrested because of his “provocative” sermon. A number of Croats in Pazariste/Lika were severely beaten by gendarmes. Among them were: Joso Alivojdic, Petar Dasovic (75 years),
Ilka Hodak (24 year woman), Tomo Marinkovic (beaten daily for 10 days), Jerko Rukavina (70 year), ? Smiljcic (14 years), Manda Stimac (older woman), Jure Zivkovic - his skull was broken and the gendarmes left him for dead.
23 people (from 23 to 92 years of age) severely beaten by gendarmes force in Brusani/Lika. Among them were: Sule Devcic (92 years old) and Mican Lisac (73 year old)
Ivan Domitrovic (peasant from near Imotski) killed by the Chetniks in his home.
Jozo Olujic (Opanci/Imotski) killed by the Chetniks.
Towards the end of the year, a group of Croats were arrested and sentenced in Jan. 1933. Among them: Franjo Furlan to 7 years, Stjepan Tomljenovic 7 years, Sime Balen to 4 years, Nikola Busljeta to 2 years, Mile Sikic 6 months, Antun Balen freed, and Jakov Kubretovic freed.
Five Croats killed on the border to Italy and to Hungary.
Towards the end of the year, 121 people (mostly peasants from Prijedor region) brought to trial in Banja Luka.
Feb. 18 Ive Dusevic (20 years old man from Ljubac/Zadar) killed by Chetniks.
Feb. 20 A peasant in Bosanski Brod killed by gendarmes.
March Blaz Savic (peasant in Benkovac region) deprived of any assistance because of his nationality and political beliefs- died of hunger.
Mara Troskat (a woman in Banjevac/Benkovac) deprived of any assistance because of her nationality and political beliefs - died of hunger.
Nikola Zrilic (Sopoti/Benkovac) deprived of job and social assistance because of his nationality and political stands - died of hunger.
Mar. 4 Many peasants from Lisani/Tinja arrested and held in jail for a long time while their children had no food.
Mar. 6 Students at the University in Zagreb display 3 Croatian flags; many of them arrested and maltreated. Branko Buzjak (student in Zagreb) seriously wounded by police.
Mar. 25 ? Aljinovic (truck driver in Ston/Peljesac) killed by Chetniks
April 4 The Government led by General Petar Zivkovic, known for his harsh rule, forced to resign. Hops were high that the new Government would be less oppressive, but such hopes did not materialize.
April 24 About 200 peasants expressed their disatisfaction by marching to the city of Ludbreg. March crushed by gendarmes, leaders arrested and punished.
Apr. 30 Jakov Peraic (peasant in Polaca/Zadar) killed and robbed by a Serb border guard.
May A large number of people maletreated, beaten, arrested or punished by other means in Suska/Rijeka, Bjelovar, Ogulin and other places.
May 12-14 About 600 peasants peacefully demonstrated demanding removal of the local administration in Kosinj/Lika. Gendarmes crushed the protest in blood.
May 15 Gendarmes crushed spontaneous political demonstrations in Senj. Many people were injured, arrested, and punished.
May 26 Gendarmes used a brutal force to crash demonstrations in Split. A large number of people arrested and maltreated.
June Tomislav Corak (peasant from Brdari/Sanski Most) killed by gendarmes.
Ivan Eres (peasant) killed by gendarmes near Hungarian border.
June 7 An attempt to assassinated Dr. Mile Budak, a well known Croatian writer, takes place in Zagreb.
June 14 Attempted murder of two men in Zagreb by members of Young Yugoslavia.
June 20 Commemorations for the Croatian victims shot in Belgrade parliament in June 1928. Arrests, beatings, and shootings by gendarmes take place in many parts of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Secretary of HSS in Bosanski Brod arrested. Gendarmes open fire on the crowd gathered in front of the local jail.Twenty people wounded and many more arrested.
Stjepan Matkovic (Bosanski Brod) killed by gendarmes. A peasant (Bosanski Brod) killed by gendarmes. A peasant woman (Bosanski Brod) killed by gendarmes.
June 20-21 A large number of peasants from Draganic/Karlovac arrested and maltreated.
June 29Gendarmes opened fire on a Catholic religious procession in Stubica/Zagorje. One man and one woman were killed. Numerous people wounded. Many were maltreated and jailed after the event.
July Ivan Kajda and Pavao Lukac (peasants from Virovitica) killed by gendarmes. Aug. Two peasants in Donja Stubica/Zagorje killed by gendarmes.
Aug. 16 Gendarmes attacked the village of Braslovlje/Samobora. A few peasants were killed and several wounded.
Sept. After the “Lika Rebellion” many Croatians jailed and most of them, after being beaten and tortured, where released. Twelve of them taken to Glavnjaca jail near Belgrade where they were maltreated and spent 9 months before they were tried. Andrija Artukovic, Marko Dosen, Josip Tomljenovic, Ivan Saric, and Nikola Oreskovic escaped from the country.
“A few dead and several wounded peasants” (in Oroslavlje/Zagreb region). Gendarmes used violence because Croatian flag was hoisted.
Pasko Kaliterna (merchant in Split) and Fabijan Plazinic (Split) jailed, tried in Belgrade, and freed on March 14, 1933.
Sept. 14 Stipe Devcic (peasant in Jadovno, Lika) killed by gendarmes.
Sept. 21 Djuro Kemfelja (peasant from Stubica Gornja) jailed and sentenced to 18 months in Belgrade on March 14, 1933.
Petar Posaric jailed and sentenced to 8 months in Belgrade on March 14, 1933.
Oct. Viktor Kosutic jailed; sentenced to 10 months in Belgrade on March 14, 1933.
? Pecnikar (railroad official in Zagreb) died as a consequence of police tortures.
Oct. 5 Dr. Ivan Pernar (leading Croat politician) jailed and sentenced on March 14, 1933 to 1 year of jail term.
Oct. 17 Dr. Vladko Macek, leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, arrested on account of an interview printed in an English newspaper.
Nov. Luka Devcic (peasant from Lika) died in jail under gendarmes’ torture.
Nov. 20-28 Three peasants from Nin county killed by gendarmes.
Dec. ? Frkovic (craftsman in Benkovac) died under gendarmes’ torture. Sime Grgic (Nin) died in jail under gendarmes’ torture.
Mile Kordun (peasnat from Mumici/Nin) killed by gendarmes.
? Misura (tavern owner in Benkovac) died as a consequence of gendarmes’ tortures.
Dec. 5 “About 100 students and city people” arrested and tortured because of an explosion that took place in Zagreb on Dec. 1, 1932. Dec. 9 Miro Perkovic (peasant from Ljubac/Nin) killed by gendarmes.
98 people were tried for verbal “insult of the king’s name” in the regions of Petrinja, Bjelovar, Zagreb, Ogulin, and Varazdin alone.
“At the beginning of the year,” 8 people were jailed from 10 to 14 days in Podravina.
Ivan Borac (peasant from Razanci/Zemunik) mortally wounded by a Chetnik in front of the church right after the church service.
Ante Dobrila (post-office clerk in Senj) sentenceed to 14 years.
Marko Dosen (merchant from Lika) escaped from the country because of persecutions. His family was also persecuted and their business license suspended in May of 1933.
Sime Dusevic (peasant from Asin near Nin) killed by gendarmes Milivoj Cumic. He also killed P. Grgic and was decorated with the “Medal of St. Sava” for special merits.
Ivan Gabaj (peasant from Hlebine) is arrested, severely tortured and then shot to death by gendarmes.
Franjo Mraz (peasant from Hlebine) tortured and killed by gendarmes.
Pavle Perkovic (peasant from Perkovici near Sl. Brod) killed by Chetnik Rusic.
? Rasic (peasant from the region of Sl. Brod) killed at a public meeting by Chetniks.
? Rupcic (from Senj) sentenced to 3 years of jail.
Vladimir Secko (merchant’s helper in Senj) sentenced to 18 years of jail.
About 600 large animals were confiscated by gendarmes and 48 houses and barns were torched in northern Dalmatia and Lika, especially in Podgorje and Devcici.
? Stojilovic (peasant from Oreskovica) killed on the day of local elections by Zivot Radivojevic. Drago Vlahovic (clerk in Senj) sentenced to 8 years of jail.
Blaz Vukutin (peasant from Pakostani) died because of tortures suffered in jail.
Jan. 60 peasants from Djelkovac, Koprivnica, and other villages in the area were led barefoot to Prlog jail where they were maltreated and tortured.
The following peasants were jailed and gravely tortured: Antun Babat, ? Dretar, Josip Havajic (Tortured to the point of death. Last minute medical intervention kept him alive.), Josip Jurasin, Franjo Makar, ? Petkovic, ? Stancin, Pavao Turek, and Ignac Zlatar. Sandor Trajber killed by gendarmes near Donja Lendava.
Jan 21 Dr. Valdko Macek (Leader of the Croatian Peasant Party/HSS) jailed. Charges filed against him in March. He is transferred to state security jail in Belgrade. Sentenced to 3 years of jail term on April 29, 1933.
Feb. Vilko Begic jailed.
Vladimir Bogovic (clerk in Karlovac) commited suicide because of persecutions.
Feb. 15 Josip Silobrcic (pharmacist in Biograd near Zadar) jailed and tortured.
40 peasants from the region of Sibenik arrested and taken to the city. All accused of anti-state activities. After 185 days of solitary confinement, Silobrcic and 10 others were taken to Belgrade and declared innocent on December 20, 1933 because the charges were brought against them “arbitrarily.”
Mar. 11 Antun Ivanov (peasant from Preko/Zadar) tortured to death while in jail.
Mar. 14 Cvjetko Nizic (from Preko/Zadar) tortured to death while in jail.
April Ruzica Knezevic (peasant woman from Perusic) died because of the beatings she suffered at the hands of gendarmes.
April 18 A group of peasants from Recice were taken to Karlovac jail and tortured. One of them, Andrija Pavlic suffered terrible tortures.
April 24 Gendarmes used force to suppress students’ demonstrations in Zagreb.
April 29 Gendarmes used force to stop student demonstrations in Zagreb. May About 200 students in Zagreb jailed and terrorized for displaying Croatian flag.
Josip Kostelac (student in Zagreb) jailed and greatly tortured. Sentenced in December 1933.
? Bekavac (peasant from Prolozac/Benkovac) killed by a Serb member of the Sokol organization.
Sime Dijan (Lika) sentenced to 6 months because he did not report suspected nationalists to gendarmes.
Petar Grgic (Murvice/Zadar) killed by gendarme Milivoj Cumica.
Andrija Nadnicic (Lika) sentenced to life imprisonment.
Five others tried with Nadnicic received sentences from 3 to 8 years.
May 20 The following peasants and former HSS parliamentary representatives from the region of Garasnica were jailed: Tomo Madjeric, Misko Racan, TomoVojkovic, At the same time, many peasants from the region were terrorized by gendarmes and taken to Zagreb prison in order to reveal a presumed “great plot” against the state.
July A woman killed in an attack on a Catholic religious procession in Split.
More than 50 Croats accused of belonging to Ustasha movement were tried in three groups in Lika. Among them the following were sentenced: Josip Cacic to life imprisonment, Stjepan Mabasa to life imprisonment, Milan Silhovic 10 months, and others in the group received jail terms from 6 to 15 years.
July 10 After spending 9 months in the notorious Glavnjaca jail near Belgrade, the following Croats were sentenced: Jure Rukavina (forcefully retired officer) condemned to death. Tortured so much that he had to be carried on a stretcher to the court. It was expected that he would succumb to the tortures and die, the king commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. After the king’s assassination the sentence was commuted to 20 years. Jerko Sudar to “eternal servitude” (after king’s assassination the sentence was commuted to 20 years). Leopold Super (peasant from Brusani) to 20 years. Ivan Abramovic (a young craftsman) to 15 years. Jure Gazic to 15 years. Antun Super (shoemaker from Brusani) to 15 years. Josip Baric (peasant from Brusani) to 12 years. Josip Vukic (merchant’s helper from Tribalj/Crikvenica) 10 years. Ivan Rukavina (peasant from Pazariste Donje) to 3 years. Dane Babic (peasant from Brusani) to 9 months. Josip Super (from Brusani) freed. Pavao Baric (peasant from Brusani) freed. A week later, the third group of suspected “Ustashe” was tried in Lika.
July 14 J. Predavec murdered.
July 24 Mirko Neudorfer (former gov. minister and HSS representative) murdered at Ladislavac/Zlatara.
Aug. Augustin Franic (peasant from Sukosani/Dalmatia) killed by Chetniks.
Sept. 9 Ivo dr. Pilar (59 year old well known intellectual and opponent of the regime) officially committed suicide but it is believed that he was murdered.
Sept. 27-28 A large number of students in Zagreb jailed and/or terrorized.
Oct. A terrorizing expedition into the village of Vinice and the surrounding area takes place. This resulted into: Josip Krobot (peasant from Gornje Ladanje/Varazdin) killed. A few hundreds of peasants severely beaten and terrorized.
Dec. 1 Post-office clerk (Selska cesta) killed for singing Croatian patriotic songs.
Dec. 16 King Aleksander in Zagreb. Failed plot to assassinate him discovered.
Dec. Massive arrests (more than 1000 people) and maltreatments in Zagreb. Many of them highschool students. Others expelled from the city.
“Many peasants” arrested in Koprivnica region. Among them the following were sentenced to life inprisonment, later commuted to 15 years: ? Horvatinovic (from Gola), ? Novak (from Gola), ? Posezi (from Gola), ? Suboticanec (from Gola), Janko Varga (from Novacka Gola), ? Pavlic (from Djelkovac), ? Petak (from Djelkovac), ? Sabol (from Djelkovac), ? Vuljak 1 (from Djelkovac), ? Vuljak 2 (from Djelkovac), ? Vuljak 3 (from Djelkovac), ? Sijak (from Grbasevac), and ? Vutuc (from Grbasevac).
“About 100 peasants, workers and students” in Zagreb arrested and maltreated. About 20 people severely tortured.
Ivan Saric (peasant from Zemunik) beaten so badly by gendarmes that he died of the injuries received.
Jan. 11 Ivan Varga (peasant from Dubrave/Medjimurje) killed by gendarmes. In July 1934, his son received a bill to pay 13.15 dinars for the five bullets by which his father was killed.
Mar. 13 Trial of eight Croats begins in Belgrade. They are sentenced on March 21, 1934: Stjepan Pizeta (peasant from Gornje Ladanje/Varazdin) condemned to death. Franjo Zrinski (peasant from Gornje Ladanje/Varazdin) condemmned to death. Tomo Kelemen (mason from Gornje Ladanje/Varazdin) “perpetual servitude.” Mijo Kalaman 1 (mason from Gornje Ladanje/ Varazdina) to 1 year. Mijo Kelemen 2 (peasant from Gornje Ladanje/ Varazdina) to 1 year. Marko Krobot (peasant from Gornje Ladanje/Varazdin) to 5 months. Josip Petkovic freed. Milja Brodar (woman) freed.
Mar. 29 Josip Begovic (student in Zagreb) condemned to death by hanging. Petar Oreb (worker from Vela Luka/Korcula) condemned to death by hanging. Hung on May 12, 1934. Antun Podgorelec (masonary apprentice from Suhopolje/Vinkovci) condemned to death by hanging; later commuted to life. After spending three months in jail where they were tortured, a group of eighteen people were sentenced: Nikola Murkovic (lawyer from Gospic) to 2 years, Ante Vlajnic (merchant in Perusic) to 20 months, Martin, Dosen (Licki Osik) to 12 months, Dr. Fran Binicki (pastor in Licki Osik) to 10 months, Mile Butkovic (merchant from Perusic) to 10 months, Nikola Kolacevic (merchant from Kaniza) to 8 months, Mate Zalovic (peasant from village of Vuksice) jailed eight months, Nada Kolacevic (housewife from Gospic) to 6 months, Nikola Polic (pastor in Gospic) to 6 month, Andrija, Brkljacic (Gospic) to 5 months, Ante Brkljacic (Gospic) to 5 months, Mate, Brkljacic (peasant from Kaniza) to 5 months, Josip Matijevic (student from Kaniza) to 5 months, Nikola Matijevic (student) to 5 months, Ivan Stilinovic (peasant from Gopsic) to 4 moths, Marko Smolcic (student under age from Karlobag) sent to a home for delinquent youth, Ivica Murkovic (a retired military officer from Gospic) to ?, and Mime Rosandic (forestry engineer from Gospic) freed but kicked out from work.
Mar. 30 Mato Keselic - (peasant) ambushed and killed by gendarmes near Vrpolje.
Apr. Villagers in Sv. Kriz (Krapina) openly protested against terror of the local gendarmes. Repraisals followed and over 50 villagers were jailed and maltreted.
Apr. 12 About 100 Zagreb Croats arrested and maltreated.
Apr. 20 Two peasants in the village of Lanusa near the Italian border killed.
May 30 Trial of eight Croats began. They were sentenced on June 4, 1934: ? Zindric was aquited. Josip Katusic (permanent residence in the U.S.A.) to death. Ivan Barakovic (civil servant in Osijek) to 15 years of prison. Others received received from 6 month to 10 years jail terms, including Stjepan Crnicki (civil servant in Zagreb).
Aug. Valentin Rosulja - (peasant) killed by Chetnik brothers: Jovan, Milan and Nikola Djurcic.
Josip Sabov - killed by chetniks in Horgac, Backa.
Aug. 1 Ivan Kovacevic - (peasant) killed in Otocko near Bosanski Brod.
Sept. Four political trials: Two people condemnd to death, five received life sentences, and others received sentences from one to 15 years.
Ivan Lucic - (worker) died in Susak(Rijeka) jail while being tortured.
Sept. 11 The following were sentenced in Zagreb from 10 to 24 months of prison terms because of an “anti-state” leaflet: Vinko Begic, Juraj Horvat,Andrija Hrsak, Ljudevit Ivekovic, Dr. Ivan Pernar - lawyer (30 months), Andrija Raspor, Karlo Sejkot, Lenka Stimac (woman),
Sept. 20 The following were sentenced: Stjepan Sever (peasant from Podravina) to 12 years. Ivan Kraljic (people’s representative from Podravina till Jan. 6, 1929) to 8 years. Stjepan Prvcic (peasant from Podravina) to 8 years. Blaz Badalec (peasant from Podravina) to 6 years. Ivan Glavak (peasant from Podravina) to 3 years. Marija Glavak (peasant woman from Podravina) to 3 years. Ivan Ostriz to (peasant from Podravina) 2 years. Ivan Horvatinovic (peasant from Podravina) to 2 years. Marija Badalec (peasant from Podravina) to 1 year.
Oct. 9 King Aleksandar assassinated in Marseilles.
From January 1935 to January 1936, 96 people were killed by gendarme forces.
Members of the “Catholic action” maltreated throughout Croatia just because they belonged to a Catholic organization.
A number of the members of the Catholic organization “Zrinski” in Djurdjevac were arrested. They were severely beaten in Pitomaca, on the way to prison, and again while investigated in jail. Teenage boys in the village of Djurdjevac had their hands beaten by gendarmes so hard that they were disabled for a lengthy period.
A number of villagers were hid in the nearby woods out of fear of the gendarmes and they were afraid to come back home. The whole village lived in fear.
A number of peasants beaten up by gendarmes in Mala Erpenja, the region of Krapinske Toplice. Among them were: Stjepan August, Florijan Belin (60 years old), Makso Golubic, Rudolf Golubic, Slavko Golubic, Juraj Juranic, Makso Juranic, Mirko Juranic, Andro Kordej,Franjo Kos (50 years old), Janko Mihel (20 years old), Josip Mihel (70 years old), Vilim Mihel (40 years old), Franjo Rusek (35 years old),Otokar Sostaric, Viktor Sostaric (merchant), Vjekoslav Stengl (25 years old), Makso Svecnjak, and Stjepan Svecnjak.
A “multitude of peasants” beaten up by gendarmes in Zabok. Among them: ? Sepec (beaten by five gendarmes while plowing his land), Marko Bivol, and Ivan Borovcak.
Peaceful peasants terrorized by gendarmes in Vojni Kriz near Cazma. Among the most severely beaten were: Franjo Ciglencki, Franjo Krivacic, and Danijel Magdic.
14 peasants beaten up by gendarmes in Sesvete near Ludbreg.
In Bizovac (Valpovo) gendarme supervisor Vasilije Dinic, arbitrarily arrested Stjepan Kis and beat him severely while in jail. The same officer beat Andrija Perosevic, who ended up in the hospital because of the severe beating.
In Adolfovac near Osijek workers, Luka Vukovic, Antun Gurdel, and Milan Grgic, were arrested, and beaten to unconsciousness. Vukovic’s teeth knocked out; had to be taken to Osijek hospital; Grgic’s breast bone was broken. From the local gendarme station they were dragged to Osijek prison and beaten severely.
Janko Simatic (peasant from Adolfovac) severely beaten by gendarmes.
Ivan Krelo (peasant from Kravice near Osijek) on the way home from work arrested, taken to gendarme station, and severely beaten. As a consequence he lost hearing on one ear.
Ilija Kereman and Josip Gorzan (peasants from Laslovo) severely beaten by gendarmes.
20 peasants beaten up by gendarmes in Korodje near Osijek. The most severely beaten were: Tobi Arpadz, Marko Mihalj, Mihalj Miskolic, Danijel Pozar, Feri Sabo, and Janos Sosaj.
200 people from Zitnik and Klanac/Lika walked to Gospic to protest the stealing of voting registration lists. They were ambushed by gendarmes using military rifles. Bozo Markovic (76 years old) was first seriously wounded and then a gendarme used a bayonet to finish him off. Martin Starcevic (38 years) was also killed; first shot and then his skull was smashed by a gendarme. Joso Lulic (58 years) was seriously wounded. Stipe Markovic (36 years) was hit by four shots in the back. Also were wounded: Nikola Milinkovic ( 28 years), Ivan Snjaric (40 years), Ivan Zupan (30 years), and 28 other people.
Gendarmes attacked peasants in the village of Dobranje near Metkovic, maltreated them and killed Ivan Devija.
Group of peasants returning from Starigrad (island of Hvar) to the village of Vrbanj were attacked by gendarmes and severely beaten. A day after, gendarmes beat up 39 villagers.
Rev. Blaz Tomljenovic (pastor in Smiljan/Lika) sentenced to pay 500 dinars because of a Sunday sermon.
Rev. Ivan Ilijic (pastor in Dubasnica/Krk) sentenced to pay 500 dinars for having another well known priest from nearby Krk, Rev. Milan Defar, help him during the Easter holidays. He is charged with sheltering an “unknown person”!
Rev. Milan Defar (priest from Krk) arrested on false charges and later banned from teaching catechism in the local highs chool.
Rev. Janko Medved (priest in Novalja/Pag) chained and taken by boat to the town of Rob, publically humiliated, and sentenced to 8 days jail term.
Rev. Ivan Condic (pastor in Rascani/ Imotski) arrested while in Sinj, led to Zagvozd. While there, the local gendarme commander, Ilija Gajic, cursed his “Catholic God,” called him swine, criminal, and other names, and knocked him to the floor and maltreated him physically over two hours. A day after, Condic was sentenced to 12 days of jail and to pay a 1000 dinars fine.
? Pavlinovic (a merchant from Imotski region) arrested together with Rev. Ivan Condic, maltreated by gendarme commander in Zagvozd and sentenced to 12 days of jail and a 1000 dinars fine.
Gendarmes killed “several people” and injured many others in Primosten near Sibenik.
Feb. 19-20 Gendarmes killed 15 and injureed many Croatian peasants in Sibinj and Slavonski Brod.
May 4 Msgr. Ivan Mrakovcic, chancellor of the Krk diocese, arrested. In order to humiliate him, he is led through town by a group of gendarmes as the worset criminal.
May 5 General elections held.
In the village of Vid, near Metkovic, gendarmes maltreated peasants including children on election day, and positioned two machine guns in the village threatening the population.
On election day, Rev. Mate Rahelic, pastor in Hreljina, arrested at 11 P.M., taken to Susak/Rijeka jail, and held without being charged.
May 11 Franjo Sostaric (peasant from Selnice/Zlatar) shot and killed by gendarmes.
May 19 Gendarmes opened fire on a crowd of local peasants in Kravarsko near Zagreb after a Church celebration. As a result: Djuro Virek and Antonija Jambris (woman) were killed, and Franjo Kanceljak, Stjepan Cekovic, and Franjo Virek (Djuro’s son) were seriously wounded. A number of other peasants were injured.
June 23 Chetniks attack Croatian guests in a well-known restaurant in Zagreb.
Aug. 23 After 11 months of imprisonment and torture, trieal of 37 Croats started in Sarajevo. They were: Antun Alaupovic, Ivan Brcic, Jelisaveta Car (woman), Josip Car, Mate Coric, Stefica Erbic (woman), Tugomir Gelic (Franciscan priest), Mijo Grgic, Antun Hladnik, Leopoldina Hladnik (woman), Marija Hladnik (woman), Tereza Hladnik (woman), Nikola Jarak, Dragutin Juric, Vjekoslav Juric, Vjekoslava Juric (woman), Ante Kacic, Franjo Kolumbic, Augustina Korac (woman), Filip Korac, Miron Kozinovic (Franciscan priest), Blaz Lorkovic,Ela Lorkovic (woman), Josip Milinkovic, Ana Pecek (woman), Emil Pecek, Franjo Pecek, Rafo Prusina (Franciscan priest), Petar Puljic, Ana Sef (woman), Donko Surjan, Petar Surjan, Augustin Tomic (Franciscan priest), Ivanka Trampus (woman), Augustina Ungerman (woman), Franjo Ungerman, and Jozefina Ungerman (woman). Sentences were given on September 17, 1995.
Dec. 11 A few gendarmes were forcfully entering many houses in the village of Djurdjanci/Djakovo and empting them of all posseasions. The official excuse was tax collection. After the peasnts’ resitence to this terror, over 20 more policmen arived at 2:00 A.M. next morning and a large number of peasnats were taken to the local gendarme station. Half-naked, cold, and hungry they were severly beaten and maltreated for a few days. Among other tortures, they were forced to hit each other. Even those who came to village as visitors were beaten and arrested. Men from the village that were not arrested were in hiding in the woods for days. The real cause of the terror: some of the villagers participated in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Croatian anthem in Djakovo on December 8, 1935.
The leading gendarme torturer was Avdo Kujundzic (stationed in Djakovo) and the local acuser was an ill-reputed Chetnik Andrija Separac.
Among the arrested and/or tortured were: Adam Begovic, Anka Begovic (maltreated) (woman), Antun Begovic, Bozo Bosnjakoic, Ana Bosnjakovic (woman on the run), Ilija Bosnjakovic (10 year olf boy), Ivan Bosnjakovic, Marko Carevic, Andrija Djakovic, Pavao Kovacevic,Andro Kusic, Nikola Lett (merchant), Mijo Lett (merchant), Pero Lovrenovic, Ivo Majanovic (the village elder), Ivo Majanovic, Damjan Marinovic, Kuzman Marinovic, Franjo Merc, Fabo Nikolic, Ivan Perkovic, Martin Prokopec (visiting the village), Pero Salic, Mate Saric, Pavo Saric, Pero Saric, Martin Sners (old man), Manda Spanjovic (attempt of rape) (woman), Marko Stojkovic (53 year old; visiting the village), Stipe Trepsic, and Marko Vrtaric.
ADDITIONAL PARTIAL LIST OF CROATS WHO WERE IMPRISONED DURING MONARCHIST YUGOSLAVIA.
Asancaic, Nikola (merchant from Gospic) Bacic, ? (shoemaker from Senj) Bakovic, Pero (student in Zagreb) Balan, Sime (student from Jablanac) Baradic, Jako (peasant from Banjevci/Benkovca) Bedekovic, Vjekoslav (merchant’s helper in Gospic) Begovic, Vaso (restaurant owner in Begovici) Bernobic, Pavle (lawyer in Virovitica) Bicanic, Rudolf (lawyer in Zagreb) Biljan, Marijan (sailor from Kuklica/Preko) Biljan, Tomo (type-setter in Kosinj) Bizik, Mijo (merchant’s helper in Koprivnica) Bosnjakovic, Marija (peasant from Andijevci) (woman) Bozjak, Mate (peasant from Kraljev Vir) Bradic, Ante (peasant from Starigrad) Brcko, Franjo (peasant from Kraljev Vir) Brkljacic, Zivo (peasant from Kaniza) Budak, Ante (student in Zagreb) Budrovac, Antun (tailor in Budrovici) Bulat, Krizan (peasant from Banjevci/Benkovac) Busljeta, Nikola (worker from Starigrad) Buterin, Sime (peasant from Starigrad) Buterin, Vicko (restaurant owner from Starigrad) Butorac, Ivan (forest guard from Pazariste Donje) Butorac, Zorka (secretary from Senj) (woman) Cacic, Ivan (peasant from Klanc) Cacic, Josip (state employee from Gospic) Cacic, Martin (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Cacic, Nikola (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Cacic, Nikola Jr. (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Cacic, Vice (shoemaker from Buzina) Carevic, Franjo (office clerk from Djakovo) Cerovski, Bozo (office clerk from Zagreb) Cilovic, Djuka (electritian from Zagreb) Cudina, Marko (peasant from Pridraga) Dasovic, Stipe Peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Davidovski, Dragan (from Zagreb) Devcic, Dragica (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) (woman) Devcic, Ivan 1 (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Ivan 2 (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Ivan (called Jovo) (peasant from Likovo Sugarje) Devcic, Manda (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) (woman) Devcic, Marko (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Martin (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Nikola ((peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Nikolica (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Pavao I. (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Pavao S. (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Devcic, Zorka (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) (woman) Dian, Drago (peasant from Sukosani) Dobrila, Ante (post-office clerk from Senj) Dosen, Ante (peasant from Rizvanusa) Dosen, Ivica (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Dosen, Jadre (restaurant owner from Gosipic) Dosen, Lovro (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Dosen, Martin (peasant from Licki Osik) Dosen, Martin M. (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Dosen, Milka (peasant from Rizvanusa) (woman) Dosen, Misko (peasant from Rizvanusa) Dosen, Stipo (peasant from Rizvanusa) Drazic, Ante (peasant from Sukosani) Ersetic, Feliks (merchant’s helper from Vukovar) Faber, Stjepan (locksmith from Zagreb) Fehervari, Stjepan (bookstore clerk in Osijek) Ficke, Nijo (peasant from Imrovac) Filipovic, Ivan (tailor from Vinkovci) Fiocic, Franjo (worker from Gosipic) Francetic, N. (peasant from Licki Novi) Frkovic, Juraj (merchants helper from Gospic) Frkovic, Marko (harness-maker) Frkovic, Martin (harness-maker from Benkovo) Frkovic, Pero (peasant from Gospic) Frlen, Franjo (worker from Susak/Rijeka) Frlen, Senta (from Susak/Rijeka) (woman)? Furjan, Djuro (locksmith from Martinec/Cazma) Gajer, Mile (peasant from Udbine) Galovic, Josip (peasant from Desinec) Galovic, Mate (peasant from Perusic) Gasparovic, Josip (from Brod na Kupi) Gasparovic, Stjepan (mason’s helper from Crikvenica) Glavak, Ivo (peasant from Fercec) Glojnaric, Mirko (newsman??) Vidi Gmaz, Milan (peasant from Oroslavlje) Goric, Jure (peasant from Novigrad) Gradicek, Matija (merchant from Oroslavlje) Gradicek, Mijo (peasant from Oroslavlje) Gross, Aleksandar (cabinet-maker’shelper from Djakovo) Gruhek, Gabrijel (clerk from Zagreb) Grzan, Ivan (cabinet-maker from Pazariste Donje) Gutic, dr. Viktor (lawyer from Banja Luka) Gvozdic, Ivan (cabinet-maker from Soljani) Harapinac, Miso (peasant from Spisic/Bukovica) Hecimovic, Luka (lawyer from Perusic) Herceg, Antun (newsman from Zagreb) Horvat, Franjo (harness-maker from Zagreb) Horvat, Jurica (printer from Zagreb) Horvat, Vlado (printer from Zagreb) Horvatic, Vid (clerk from Zagreb) Hronic, Franjo (peasant from Trnik) Hronic, Mijo (peasant from Trnik) Hronic, Stjepan (peasant from Trnik) Ivanovic, Josip (peasant from Markovci) Jandric, Imbre (peasant from Trnik) Japundzic, Josip (clerk from Gospic) Jedvaj, Stjepan (restaurant owner from Bistra) Jelic, Ivan (clerk from Brezine) Jelic, Pasko (merchant’s helper from Knin) Jelkovic, Mijo (peasant from Recica) Juretic, Filip (peasant from Sibinj) Jurisic, Ivan (Peasant from Perusic) Jurisic, Ivan 2(Peasant from Perusic) Jut, Vjekoslav (shoemaker from Perusic) Kapovic, Mira (from Visi?) (woman) Karcic, dr. ? (lawyer from Ruma) Karlic, Stipe (peasant from Slatnik) Kartela, Andrija (peasant from Puticani) Katalinic, Vlado (student from Senj) Kirhmajer, Mile (barrel-maker from Djakovo) Klanac, Juko (peasant from Posedarje) Klemen, dr. Zeljko (lawyer from Osijek) Knez, Ferdo (clerk from Srijemska Mitrovica) Kolacevic, Ivan (bookshop owner from Gospic) Kozarcanin, Ivo (writer and poet from Zagreb) Kraljevic, Andrija (peasant from Banjevci/Benkovac) Kraljic, Ante (restaurant owner from Zagreb) Krekovic, Dane (peasant from Perusic) Kruhak, Mirko (shoemaker from Konjscina) Kugler, Bojan (clerk from Zagreb) Lamesic, dr. Marko (lawyer from Ruma) Lanec, Juliusk (locksmith’s helper from Senj) Lenac, Franjo (house-painter from Senj) Levacic, Mijo (peasant from Merhatovec) Levaic, Tomo (merchant from Sibenik) Ljevakovic, Ivan (policman from Lipik) Ljevakovic, Ivan (peasant from Lipik) Lucic, Kazimir (merchant from Slavonski Brod) Magus, Mato (restaurant owner from Senj) Malbasa, Stjepan (clerk from Dugopolje) Mandusic, Sime (worker from Rupe) Marinac, Antun (cabinet-maker from Pazariste Donje) Marinkovic, Marko (peasant from Banjevci/ Benkovac) Markovic, Ivan (peasant from Perusic) Markulin, Mara (peasant from Odra) (woman) Markulin, Petar (peasant from Odra) Markulin, Stjepan Jr. (Peasant from Odra) Martinovic, Josip (sailor from Kuklica) Martinovic, Tomo (peasant from Kuklica) Matijas, Josip (clerk from Trogir) Matonicki, Djuro (student from Virje) Menjaka, Ivan (peasant from Kosut) Micek, Ivan (worker from Batin) Micurin, Tomo (peasant from Trnik) Mihovilic, Ivan (truck-driver from Senj) Mikic, Jure (mechanic from Djakovo) Mikic, Simun (merchant from Djakovo) Miklauzic, Josip (worker from Zagreb) Miler, Adolf (peasant from Sirac/Daruvar) Milinkovic, Vinko (merchant from Gospic) Milkovic, Mijo (shoemaker from Drenovci Brodski) Mirkovic, N. (Student from Gospic) Miskulin, Mate (merchant from Gospic) Mokrovic, Franjo (from Zagreb) Muhar, Ivo (peasant from Klanac) Muhar, N. (Peasant from Pazariste Donje) Murkovic, Ivan (peasant from Gospic) Nadinic, Fudrija (peasant from Sukoisani) Nemec, Blaz (mason from Merhatovec) Nemerschmidt, Albin (upholster from Gospic) Niksic, Tomo (merchants helper from Gospic) Novak, Vinko (peasant from Novacka) Nozaric, Petar (shoemaker from Breznik) Oljica, Josip (peasant from Sukosani) Ozanic, Marko (waiter from Vrgin Most) Papac, Stjepan (printer from Krasno) Papista, Ivan (tailor from Zabok) Paricic, Roko (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pasaric, Pero (railroad clerk from Zagreb) Pavici, Roko (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Ivica (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Josip (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Lovro (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Marijan (sailor from Poljica) Pavicic, Martin (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Pavao (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Pavlica (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavicic, Vid (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Pavlic, Josip (peasant from Djelkovac) Perkovic, Pero (peasant from Brinje) Peter, Stjepan (carpenter from Djelkovac) Petrovic, Stjepan (merchant’s helper from Hlebine) Pill, Tomo (peasant from Ruma) Plese, Pavao (policeman from Ramljani) Pocrnic, Ivan (clerk from Perusic) Polegubic, Petar (peasant from Banjevci/ Benkovac) Polegubic, Tomo (peasant from Banjevci/ Benkovac) Poljak, Rok (peasant from Bistra) Prpic, Ivan (student from Senj) Prsa, Josip (post-office clerk from Oborovo Prvcic, Stjepan (peasant from Koprivnica) Pusic, Marija (house-maker from Zagreb) (woman) Radeljak, Stjepan (worker from Zagreb) Rajkovic, Nikola (clerk from Zagreb) Rancevic, N. (Court clerk from Senj) Reli, Franjo (barber from Osijek) Ribic, Ivan (sailor from Biograd) Rozman, Stjepan (peasant from Bistra) Rukavina, Juraj (retired officer from Perusic) Rupcic, Nikola (student from Licko Lesce) Ruskar, Ivan (merchant from Bernardovac) Rusko, Djuro (peasant from Gola) Sabic, Sime (mason from Sunja) Sabol, Stjepan (from Djelkovac) Saric, Karlo (peasant from Lukovo Sugarje) Saub, Ivan (merchant from Pakrac) Secke, Vlado (painter from Senj) Sepek, Franjo (butcher from Zagreb) Serzija, Marija (peasant from Banjevci/Benkovac) (woman) Sigecen, Misko (peasant from Martinec/Czama) Sijevic, Luka (peasant from Djakovo) Sikic, Mile Student from Jablanac) Siroki, Ivan (peasant from Novacka) Sjak, Rudolf (peasant from Grbasevac) Sjaus, Ivo (peasant from Tribalj) Sjaus, Mile (peasant from Tribalj) Skolic, Djuro (tailor from Zagreb) Skrlin, Josip (peasant from Bistra) Smolcic, Mato (peasant from Gospic) Smolic, Sime (peasant from Sukosani) Smolic, Slavo (peasant from Puticani) Sokac, Bartol (peasant from Stubica Donja) Sostaric, August (blacksmith from Zebovac) Spanic, Tom (peasant from Desinec) Spehanac, Ante (clerk from Karlovac) Starcevic, dr. Mile (professor from Zagreb) Starcevic, Ivan (peasant from Klanac) Starcevic, Josip (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Starcevic, M. (peasant from Klanac) Starcevic, Martin (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Starcevic, Mile (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Starcevic, N. (peasant from Pazariste Donje) Stilinovic, Milan (truck-driver from Kaniza) Stimac, Ivan (forest guardian from Perusic) Stimac, Lenka (peasant from Perusic) (woman) Stimac, Manda (peasant from Perusic) (woman) Strtan, Ivan (butcher from Zagreb) Subotinec, Babro (peasant from Novacka) Sucek, Djuro (peasant from Kraljev Vrh) Sucev, Valent (peasant from Kraljev Vrh) Sudar, Ljerko (peasant from Brusani) Suhan, Jakov (peasant from Knigora) Suletic, Grga (worker from Dubrovnik) Sultaj, Anka (secretary from Djakovo) (woman) Super, Dujo (peasant from Brusani) Svast, ? (clerk from Senj) Tomasic, Ivan (peasant from Djelkovac) Tomasic, Stjepan (peasant from Djelkovac) Tomljenovic, I. (from Novoselo) Tomljenovic, Ivan (student from Gospic) Tomljenovic, Stjepan (worker from Cavle) Tonkovic, Stjepan (peasant from Nebojane) Toret, Josip (merchant from Sisak) Troskat, Mate (peasant from Banjevci/Benkovac) Turk, Stjepan (peasant from Oroslavlje) Ujhari, Stjepan (worker from Sombor) Valic, Adam (merchant’s helpeer from Jelenje) Varga, Janko (peasant from Otocka) Vedric, Stjepan (peasant from Novacka) Vezmanovic, Stjepan (forest-guard from Busevac) Vidak, Sarlota (from Zagreb) Vlahovic, D. (proprietor from Senj) Vukic, Kuzman (sailor from Triblja) Vuljak, Antun (peasant from Djelkovac) Vuljak, Stjepan (peasant from Djelkovac) Vutuc, Rudolf (carpenter from Koprivnica) Zajec, Drago (truck-driver from Zagreb) Zalec, Djuro (peasant from Mokrice) Zarek, Jandre (peasant from Perusic) Zarek, Josip (harness-maker from Perusic) Zarek, Mile (peasant from Perusic) Zeleznik, Ivka (tailor from Zagreb) (woman) Zelnik, Ignac (from Nasice) Zignic, Ivan (tailor from Zabok) Zniderec, Mijo (mason from Cakovec)
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One of the most blatant terrorist acts of the Belgrade regime in Croatia took place in Senj on May 9, 1937. Gendarmes killed and wounded several young people just for displaying the Croatian flag and singing patriotic songs. The killed were: Katica Tonkovic (girl), Marko Smolcic, Franjo Jelaca, Nikola Bevandic, Tomo Niksic, and Petar Frkovic, and the wounded: Jakov Milkovic, Ante Dosen, Branko Milinkovic, Zlatko Vlahinic, Vladimir Nizija, and Mile Biljan. The above picture was taken during the funeral mass of the killed at St. John’s Church in Gospic.
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The picture on the right is a photocopy of the bill received by the son of Ivan Varga to pay 13.15 dinars for the five bullets by which his father was killed on January 11, 1934.
American intellectuals organized by Roger N. Baldwin, Chairman of the International Committee for Political Prisoners, sent the following letter to the Yugoslav representative in Washington on November 24, 1933.
Dr. Leonide Pitamic,
Minister of Yugoslavia,
Sir:
For some years past dispatches in the American and foreign press have indicated that political prisoners in Yugoslavia are suffering inhuman treatment. This committee has noted the reports and has on occasion intervened in behalf of some particular prisoner as have many associations and individuals throughout the world interested in checking persecution for political opinions and activities.
More recently, we have obtained documentary material form one of our associates, Louis Adamic, and American writer of Yugoslav birth, lately returned from a year’s stay in his native land as a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. Mr. Adamic’s standing as a writer of integrity and accuracy is above question. We have substantiated to our satisfaction the genuineness of the material he has brought corroborating previous information.
In the light of these reports, and Mr. Adamic’s specific information, we desire to protest, through you, to your government against the whole system of political persecution which marks the regime in Yugoslavia today and particularly against the incredible tortures inflicted on political prisoners under that system. These reports involve authentically reported tortures at police headquarters in Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Skoplye, Novi Sad and other cities, as well as in various state penitentiaries. They affect the various groups opposed to the policies of the present government: the Croat, Slovene, Moslem, and Macedonian nationalists; the Socialists, Agrarians, and Communists.
These reports make it evident beyond question that scores if not hundreds of these prisoners are beaten and tortured before being brought to trial. The records show about 120 known cases of persons either directly killed or so tortured that they died. Such cruel and revolting methods employed during the so-called examination of prisoners are described as sticking needles under prisoners’ fingernails, placing live coals between armpits and body, prolonged beating on the soles of the feet, driving sharp instruments into the heels and perpetrating outrages upon sexual organs. These methods are used in attempts to force confessions incriminating themselves and other men and women active in opposition movements.
But the tortures described are not confined to the period of preliminary examination. They continue after commitment to prison. Even those prisoners convicted of such trivial offenses as distributing opposition literature or belonging to opposition groups are systematically beaten and starved. Some are reliably reported as having been inoculated with disease germs, others have had iron bands clamped around their heads for months at a time. Conditions in the prisons are reported to be so inhuman that many prisoners must sleep on the bare floors of their unheated and wet cells. Against these unbearable conditions 248 men and women in the Sremska Mitrovica Prison are now said to be on a mass hunger strike.
Solitary confinement of political prisoners and for long periods of time is another method against which we direct our protest. A reliable report come to us that Dr. Yovanovitch, former professor at Belgrade University, a well know political economist and leader of the Yugoslav Peasant Movement, is, or until very recently, was for several months in solitary confinement. We are advised, too, that Dr. V. Machek, leader of Croat Peasant Party, in serious ill health, is incarcerated under unsanitary conditions which may lead to his death.
We learn, too, that scores of prisoners particularly among the intellectuals, are exiled to the malaria-infested regions of Macedonia where they are required to report to the local police every few hours day and night.
Your government must be aware that knowledge of brutalities such as these arouses the indignation of the civilized world. In the name of a section of the American public opposed to such severity against political opponents, we protest against the policies and methods of your government. So long as 2100 opponents remain in prison under conditions such as these they are a standing indictment of the claims of your government to recognition by the civilized world.
While we are aware that condition in prisons in our own country are not above reproach, that political persecutions sometimes take place here as elsewhere, we are just as quick to condemn them here. But of all the reports which have come to us in recent years these from Yugoslavia are among the most appalling and barbarous.
We are, Sir,
For the Committee: Roger N. Baldwin, Chairman.
Authorized Signatures William Allen White, Author, Editor-Publisher of Emporia (Kansas) Gazette
Theodore Dreiser, Novelist, Poet, Dramatist; New York
Arthur Garfield Hays, Author, Lawyer; New York
Oswald Garrison Villard, Editor, Author; New York
Mary Austin, Author; New Mexico
Sherwood Anderson, Novelist, Poet; New York
John Dos Passos, Novelist, Dramatist; New York
Norman Thomas, Author, Political and Civic Leader; New York
Harry Elmer Barnes, Historian, Publicist; New York
W. E. Woodward, Novelist, Biographer; New York
Burton Rascoe, Author, Critic; New York
Ernest Boyd, Author, Critic, Editor; New York
Kyle Crichton, Author, Editor; New York
Edmund Wilson, Author, Critic; New York
Upton Sinclair, Novelist, etc.; Los Angeles
Bruce Bliven, Author, Editor; New York
George Soule, Author, Editor; New York
Louis B. Boudin, Author, Historian, Lawyer; New York
Benjamin Stolberg, Author, Critic; New York
Mrs. Paxton Hibben, Author, widow of close personal friend of late King Peter of Yugoslavia
John Haynes Holmes, Minister, Publicist, Civic Leader; New York
Erskine Caldwell, Novelist; Maine
Horace Gregory, Poet, Critic; New York
Grace Lumpkin, Novelist; New York
Clifton Fadiman, Critic, Editor; New York
Richard L. Simon, Publisher; New York
Eliot White, Minister; New Jersey
Lenore G. Marshall, Editor; New York
Carleton Beals, Writer; New York
Newton Arvin, Critic, Professor; Northampton, Massachusetts
George Leighton, Author, Editor; New York
Carey McWilliams, Author, Critic, Lawyer; Los Angeles
V.F.Calverton, Author, Editor, Critic; New York
Alfred M. Bingham, Editor; New York
James Weldon Johnson, Author, Poet; Connecticut
Margaret Reese, Social Worker; New York
Nels Anderson, Sociologist; Columbia University
Edward J. Allen, Economist; Columbia University
Florence L. Voorhis, Librarian; Seth Low Jr. College
John M. Brewster, Professor; Seth Low Jr. College
Paul C. Clifford, Professor; Seth Low Jr. College
Matthew N. Chappell, Professor; Seth Low Jr. College
Einstein Accuses Yugoslavian Rulers in Savant’s Murder
The following article concerning the assassination of Dr. Milan Suffly appeared in the New York Times on May 6, 1931.
Charges the Slaying of Sufflay, Noted Croatian Leader, Was Inspired by Government. Links King to Terrorism
Protests With Heinrich Mann Virtually Lays Parliament Killing Monarch
Increase in Cruelty Seen
League for Rights of Man Is Urged to Take Action Against “Horrible Brutality” of Belgrade Regime.
Berlin, May 5.-Accusing the Yugoslav Government of the murder of a Croatian, Professor Milan Sufflay, who was struck down in the streets of Agram (Zagreb) on Feb. 18, Professor Albert Einstein and the novelist Heinrich Mann, the brother of Thomas Mann, have sent a joint letter to the international headquarters in Paris urging a protest against the “horrible brutality which is being practiced upon the Croatian people.” The letter also was signed by the German headquarters of the league.
The Paris headquarters, upon receipt of the communication, immediately undertook steps toward an effective protest to Belgrade.
”As the professor was walking home on the fatal day he was attacked from behind with an iron rod, according to our information, and felled,” the letter of protest reads. “On the next day, he died and he was buried on the twenty-second beside other Croatians.”
Professor Sufflay was noted for a long list of scientific books, the letter continues.
”Yet Agram newspapers were not allowed to report his activities, and the news of his death was suppressed,” the protest goes on. “Condolence telegrams were not delivered. The time of the funeral was not allowed to be made public and the raising of the mourning flag on the university was forbidden. The authorities went so far as to expel those school children who took part in the funeral and to remove wreaths which were bound with the Croatian national colors from the grave.
”The name of the murder was known. It was Nikola Jukitsh. His organization (Young Yugoslavia) likewise is known. It was even known that arrangements for the murder had been worked out on the night of the eleventh in the home of the military commandment of the city, General Beli Markowitsch, at a session in which members of the Young Yugoslavia organization, Brkitsh, Godler, Martschetz and the murderer Jukitsh, took part. Yet the Agram police officially stated the next day that the name of the murderer was not known.
Turning to the events leading up to the murder, Professor Einstein and the other signers charged that when the King visited the Croatian capital in January numerous leading Croats received letters, signed “For the King and Country,” in which their lives and those of their families were threatened if they uttered any protest while the King was there. Professor Sufflay received one of those letters, it is charged.
”The name of these terrorist organization was Young Yugoslavia, the protest continued. “The King, in an address to the organization, told how the Croatian representatives to the Parliament had been put out of the way at his request. An example of this was the shooting of a Croatian leader on the floor of the House on June 20, 1928.”
Following the King’s visit the murder of political and intellectual leaders of the Croatians was openly demanded in the government press, says the letter.
”The official organ, Nascha Sloga, in Suschak, on Feb.18 wrote,’Skulls will be spilt.’ The same evening Professor Sufflay was struck down,” the letter says.
In January the delegates to the Croatian National Assembly sent a memorandum to Geneva calling attention to the situation in Croatia.
”The facts show that the cruelty and the brutality practiced upon the Croatians only increases,” Professor Einstein’s letter says. “In view of this frightful situation, we urge the International League for the Rights of Man to do everything possible to suppress this unrestrained rule of might which prevails in Croatia.
”Murder as a political weapon must not be tolerated and political murderers must not be made national heroes. The league should muster all possible aid to protect this small, peaceful and highly civilized people.”
Sufflay a History Professor
Professor Milan Sufflay, who was murdered in Agram (Zagreb) on Feb.18, had been a Professor of History at Zagreb University for ten years. He had written many works on the history of Albania. In 1920, because of his connection with Croat extremists, he was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for lese-majeste and high treason. On his release he resumed his political activities.
Protest against the Yugoslav dictatorship of King Alexander have been frequent since the murder of Professor Sufflay and the many “suicides” of Croats and Macedonians in the prisons of Belgrade and Zagreb.
Three Serbs were arrested in Vienna recently who were alleged to have been sent there on a murder mission with the knowledge of the Zagreb Chief of Police.
The bitter feeling in Yugoslavia has resulted in numerous bombings and assassinations.
When King Alexander proclaimed the dictatorship two years ago his chief problem was the deadlock caused by the refusal of Croatia to be dominated by a parliamentary government recruited largely from extreme Serbian sources.
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Screening at Dokufest Film Festival 5-8 August
Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of langauge, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, death, water, desire and, throughout, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatised, censored and politicized, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility.
https://dokufest.com/2019/program/film-details/?id=492450
Screening at New Horizons International film festival 26-27 July
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Release the Mueller Report!
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With the release of the Mueller Report, pundits anxiously awaited William Barr's summary - only to find that it quotes partial sentences from Mueller's report and admits that Mueller has referred some actions to other prosecutors. It goes on to state Mueller could not exonerate the president from charges of Obstruction of Justice. In other words, Mueller (in accordance with DOJ policy), said he could not make a conclusion as to Obstruction and left it open for the Attorney General to act upon. True to form (since Barr got his job based upon a memo he sent Trump indicating he would never allow a sitting president to be indicted), Barr followed his beliefs and let Trump off the hook. Except, We the Public have not had access to the full Mueller Report. Questions still remain and the obvious ones are if there was no collusion between the campaign and Russia, why did so many Trump campaign officials lie about it and get themselves convicted for doing so if there was nothing to lie about? Logic escapes people sometimes. With the indictments and convictions, there sure was plenty of smoke from the campaign.
Lost on most is the fact that the Trump Organization and Inaugural Committee are both under investigation in the State of New York. Is it possible when writing his report, Mueller acknowledged that Double Jeopardy might come into play and by foregoing indictments on the Federal level, he was able to refer matters to New York State for additional prosecution? Is is possible, Mueller not only eliminated the issue of double jeopardy but also moved matters outside the reach of Trump's pardon powers? THIS alone should worry the Trump camp - and despite their positive spin relating to Barr's Summary, Trump, his entire family and business may be brought down for insurance, banking and tax fraud. If this is the case, then did Mueller do what was needed - create a path for State prosecutions clear of Trump's interference?
When asked how I feel about the Barr Report, I have put it plainly - if I was watching a sporting event broadcast by the home team with the home announcers we only hear how their team can do no wrong due to their "Homer Bias." As a result, I prefer to reserve judgment on Mueller's Report only when I can have full access to review it. I am willing to bet some of the conclusions Barr has made may not jive with the evidence produced by Mueller. This alone is enough of a reason to demand the full report be published to the public. After all, when Rudy Giuliani says he was surprised the Mueller's Report wasn't as bad as he thought it might be, then shouldn't we be demanding to see the report in its entirety? And who provided Giuliani with the Mueller Report when we are being told no one in the Administration has gained access to it? (See: news.yahoo.com/trump-lawyer-says-mueller-report-better-expected-202948646.html). NO one should base their final opinions on the (potentially partisan) Barr Summary.
The bottom line is clear. Trump claims he was "exonerated" when the actual report and Barr's Summary say he was not. Of course, Trump has lied about this as have his supporters in the media. Democrats will be labeled as nut jobs for pursing criminal investigations of the president - despite plenty of evidence warranting same. Please note - Obstruction of Justice may not be indictable in Barr's opinion, but the House of Representatives has the final say. Unfortunately, if they can prove Trump obstructed justice (and perhaps is a white collar criminal for various frauds), the GOP Senate will kill it in its tracks. Perhaps the GOP thinks it cannot stand to have another president in the form of Nixon? I guess we shall see. One thing is for sure - 2020 is the opportunity to rid America of Donald Trump and his divisive nonsense. I can only hope a majority of Americans (and those in States that move the Electoral College) agree. Try to have a great week!
Myths From The Far-Left
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Boy have times changed! Some years ago in the city where I used to live, an area hate group affiliated with the KKK petitioned to march right down the street where the entire Jewish Community was visibly present; The Jewish Federation, The Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Old-Age housing and nursing homes, the Jewish Historical Society, and...my Synagogue. The timing of the march? Specifically to coincide with the Jewish High Holy Days. Our Rabbi, a very respected man in both the community and elsewhere, advised many of us on the Synagogue's Board of Trustees, to be "armed" for the planned event. Back then, being "armed" meant "bring your cell phone!" For an Orthodox Rabbi to ask us to bring along our cell phones on a holy day was astounding! Why? Because this was an Orthodox group - no turning lights on or off, no television or radio, no driving, no phone use. Yet, the threat emphasized by local authorities and the FBI, made such an extraordinary request seem reasonable. Local police would be watching out for us as well - provided we PAY all of their overtime pay!
Well, the demonstration was not all that it was hyped to be, a few cars and trucks honking and yelling Jewish slurs and they passed by without incident - except the next morning we found a couple of bullet holes, one in the stone front and another in one of our beautiful front doors. So being prepared back then meant "have your cell phone with you and ready- just in case!" Yesterday, I was asked the same question by a different Rabbi in a different city, "Are you armed?" This time, the question was not about whether I was carrying my cell phone (which I always leave in my car), but whether I was carrying a concealed firearm. Now most of you would say that after the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the mass murder of Muslims at prayer in ChristChurch, New Zealand, we would naturally be on high alert - except that "alert" has been posted for years now, and even more so since Donald Trump has become president. Before you get into the "But being Anti-Israel isn't Anti-Semitic!" you might want to look deeper into the beliefs and commentary of these people claiming there is a difference. There seems to be a very, very fine line between their Anti-Israel rhetoric and their beliefs about Jews themselves.
How often does the Anti-Israeli group make outrageous claims that simply are not true? Genocide of Palestinians? Shooting innocent Palestinians from roving police and military vehicles? Random shooting of Palestinian children "for sport?" What? Every time I ask someone spewing this nonsense where they get their information, they simply come back that "you are uninformed and biased because you are a Jew!" Except I have been to Israel more than once. I've been to the West Bank. I have witnessed with my own eyes the freedoms Palestinians have in Israel. When one talks of Israeli Apartheid, explain why as an American Jew, I am unable to travel to Ramallah or other Palestinian Authority areas? Because Jews are not allowed to travel there. Why did I have to travel by armored bus to visit Jewish sites in the West Bank? Could it be that Palestinian snipers have shot and killed folks trying to tour places with ties to their religious heritage? How outraged would Americans be if they had to travel by armored bus with military protection just to make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem? Yes, Israeli policy when it comes to Palestinians can be heavy handed and should be criticized and hopefully ended! Demanding it does so is reasonable. It's okay to criticize Israel. It's not to okay vilify American Jews who both criticize and support her! Criticizing Israel is a valid exercise, but when some of the criticism is based upon nothing more than a dislike of Israel, ie. Jews, it should be called out. Claiming the Jewish State is a Pariah in the World because of their treatment of Palestinians is perplexing. Being blind to the human rights violations towards the Palestinians by Syria, Jordan, Egypt and the entire Arab World does not give one a free pass to repeatedly single out only Israel for policies that might from our eyes be viewed as unnecessary - but what if our views are skewed without recognizing we don't live in the Middle East where citizens of Israel have been slaughtered in bus bombs, concerts, birthday celebrations, at schools, or in their cribs! (See: mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/victims%20of%20palestinian%20violence%20and%20terrorism%20sinc.aspx). Then why do they? More often than not it's because it's easy to target Jews as having "dual loyalties!' Will this crazy circular nonsense ever end?
With the rise of hate facilitated on social media and the Internet, we are experiencing a time of extreme danger, one that unfortunately, may be the potential beginning of the end of domestic peace as we know it. Why so? Because we have a sitting president claiming if things get "rough", he has his military, police and biker support to take care of any opposition to him. (See: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/14/trump-you-wouldnt-like-my-supporters-military-if-they-got-angry/?utm_term=.fc1c4072c21c). And that was music to the ears of the "tough" guys on the Far Right (ie., Charlottesville) - their president is with them! We know elements on the Far-Right of the political spectrum are at home with those "very fine people" (including White Supremacists). As long as the GOP fails to acknowledge that they must separate and distinguish any connection with these groups, they will be shunned by those attacked. Unfortunately, the Far-Right is not the only group that we should be worried about. It seems, the Far Left is somehow competing with them to see who can be more Anti-Semitic in their rhetoric and objectives. So how will the Democratic Party deal with these elements within their coalition?
Freshman Congressperson Illan Oman stepped on a political "third rail" when she repeated a tired old canard of Jews having some kind of "Dual Loyalties" when it comes to support for Israel. When called out for her Anti-Semitic statement, the Far-Left went into massive hyperventilation of "AIPAC controls Congress" - ie., Jews own and control America and the world!" She did apologize and claimed ignorance that such a sentiment is a centuries-old slur against Jews. I know what's real and what isn't, so why get upset? I am upset because the fallout from the Far-Left has left me stunned. Jews are being portrayed by those on the political fringes as being loyal to two bosses, America and "Vast Jewish Conspiracy to Rule the World!" You might recall this same rhetoric was spewed about JFK being "loyal to the Pope" before being loyal to the Constitution! What type of outrage would be heard from the American public if Oman had accused Catholic Americans for having "dual allegiances" or loyalties with the Pope? (See: www.wbur.org/news/2017/05/25/kennedy-catholicism-presidential-campaign). We know the outrage when Muslims are publicly accused of supporting Jihad against the West.
Oman claims it was an ignorant statement and has apologized. Although her staff could not have been that ignorant. I accept that she made a mistake and am willing to move forward - except the Far-Left on social media simply isn't letting it go. Could it be that Oman anticipated the Far-Left would quickly come to her defense, knowing her apology was just for show? Can it be too late to put the "paste back into the tube?" Why do I ask? Because for the first time in ages, the Far-Left and the Far-Right have come into agreement - they openly claim Israel and Jews are bad for America! And this rhetoric (and any that stereotype any racial or religious group) are to be confronted in the public square. Social media is lost - it's over-run by folks hell-bent on agreeing with anyone that will accept them into their circle of "friends." We thought the lonely male that can't find a mate ("incel") was a Far-Right problem, but it seems to exist on the opposite side of the political spectrum as well. Oh, and please stop right here if you think I can't discern the differences between valid criticism of Israeli and Anti-Semitism.
Come on Rubin, you are being overly sensitive! But I am not. Take a look at outlets dealing with Oman and the fallout from her remarks. Look how Chelsea Clinton was verbally attacked for standing up to to Oman's ignorant rhetoric. Look how many on the Far-Left lay claim that the American Israel Political Action Committee ("AIPAC") "owns Congress and our political system all to benefit Jews!" Or my favorite, "Being Anti-Israel is not being Anti-Semitic." Once you engage in a discussion with these people, Anti-Semitic sentiment rises quickly to the forefront. The one that I can't understand is the notion the Far-Left seems to believe they have some moral high ground and authority to chastise the Far-Right for being "Racists" - all while they ignore their own deep-seeded Anti-Semitism. Case in point. Circulating amongst the Far Left is the notion that "AIPAC spends $100 Million annually to own our Congress!" and that alone proves their point. Except that is a lie. For claiming to be "smarter than everyone else", these folks sure seem stupid when they fail to check their own facts.
According to The Center For Responsible Politics, aka, Open Secrets, AIPAC in 2018 spent $3.5 Million lobbying Congress. You read that right, $3.5 Million. Yet, AARP, the lobbying group for "older" Americans spent $8.29 Million lobbying Congress last year. What? Open Secrets reveals the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers collectively spent a total of $8.220 Million on lobbying Congress. See where this heading? The obscene singling out of a JEWISH group that lobbies for financial and legislative support of Israel, somehow is destroying America all because the Jews want to control Congress? Where's the claim "old folks are bad for America?" (Lobbying does have too much influence over our politicians, but singling AIPAC out is, you guessed it, Anti-Semitic!). (See: www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2018&indexType=s).
Like most hate, there is no reasonable foundation in any facts. But this doesn't stop the Far-Left any more that it does the Far-Right. When they get together to identify and single out Israel (and Jews) for having 'Bought undue influence" with "Benjamins", we have a problem and I fear it may get worse before it gets better! Oh, and the group those two NYU students belong to that confronted Chelsea Clinton? Students for Justice in Palestine, states its main goal is dedicated to the destruction of Israel. "From the River to the Sea" is no veiled threat - it is their only mission - to wipe the only Jewish State in the World off the map in favor of the Palestinian "victims of genocide!" (That too, has never happened- unless you look at Syria, but you know, if Jews aren't involved, why bother?).
So far, I am "arming" myself with facts and a keyboard. But as a supporter of the Second Amendment, and as a Jew, I just may have to wake up to today's reality that my place of worship is now under daily threats of attack. Perhaps I will purchase a firearm specifically designed for concealed carry? Until then, real Americans should be calling out the Far-Left and the Far Right for engaging in rhetoric that is simply UnAmerican. As President John F. Kennedy once wrote; "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." Have a great week!
Terrible Walls...
(C) Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
After a disastrous week for Donald Trump, the Right Wing Media Machine is doing everything it can to insulate the president from the damage caused by the Cohen hearings, the sentencing of Paul Manafort and the failed "summit" with North Korea. How? By deflecting the president's damage by hyping the claim that there is a division within the Democratic Party over Anti-Semitism and Illan Omar's insensitive comment about Jews. Any look at history will reflect the dangerous and hateful use of the "Dual Allegiance" canard against (American) Jews.
Lost in the media is the fact that not only did Omar apologize for her insensitive remarks, she also voted in favor of the House Resolution calling for the end of hate against everyone, no matter their religion. (See: www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/72/text). Who could vote against such a positive measure? 23 Republicans of course! See, they want to claim that because the measure did not single out Jews for protection against hate, the measure was a sell-out to Muslims. What? Moreover, the Right Wing Media Machine not only will not let go of Omar's comments and the Resolution being "unfair to Jews," some Right Wing Media "personalities" have railed against Omar just for being a Muslim. What? As an aside, please note the Constitution in Article VI specifically states that one's religion does NOT bar them from being elected to Congress (or the presidency). (See: www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi ,
thehill.com/homenews/media/433446-fox-news-condemns-pirros-remarks-about-omar).
Ironically, I'm willing to bet most Jews themselves have no problem with the Resolution. But you wouldn't guess that, based upon the coverage Fox News has given to this "controversy." Ironically, this House measure got a lot more attention this past week than the alleged "National Emergency" (not) occurring on our Southern Border. Go figure?!
Yet, what does Trump do? What he always does. He lies! He panders not to Jews, but to the outraged Evangelicals "defending Jews" by publicly repeating a claim that the Democrats' Resolution condemning hate is really a vote against Jews. And, such action really proves Democrats "are the Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Party!!" (See:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/08/donald-trump-rips-democrats-passing-anti-hate-resolution/3102528002/). Ironic the president sees a political opening to attack Democrats for being insensitive to Jews when they actually passed an aspirational resolution calling for the safeguarding of freedom and liberty for all Americans (including Jews).
So we have elected officials opposed to an Anti-Hate Resolution because it included freedom for Muslims? This may fly with those Trump identified as "very fine people". Those who voice and practice overt racism and Anti-Semites on the Far Right, but Racism and Islamophobia as a Trump platform is really designed to tear some more of the rich fabric that ties our great nation together. You see, Trump and the GOP must divide us in order to maintain their hold on power - and it appears, power is more important that any real patriotism. Which not only is sad, but should be enough for Americans to wake up and move towards replacing this administration in the upcoming 2020 elections. Since his election, Donald Trump and the GOP have shown their true colors. They care about power - which comes from money and they willingly opt to leave behind Americans that have neither - until they can con them for their votes and then be tossed aside until the next election cycle.
As President Lyndon B. Johnson once wrote;"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men." We don't need more walls, we need equality, justice and integrity in our government! Have a great week!
A Culture of Lying
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Did the Cohen hearings provide you with your much needed "fix" in order to balance all of your anxiety and misgivings about President Donald J. Trump? There is the quantity of documented lies spewed by not only the president, but his entire family and what appears to be his entire administration. In what could only be labeled a partisan lay-down, the GOP members of the House Intelligence Committee seemed to forget that the inquiry before them was to determine if the president had engaged in illegal behavior, either as a businessman or as our sitting president. Instead, the GOP attacked the messenger, proclaiming him "unfit" to tell the honest truth to Congress. Except Micheal Cohen provided some important insight into the inner-workings of Trump World - and what we learned was not good. Republicans will claim Cohen "lied abut everything", except Fordham University has confirmed receiving a letter from Cohen demanding they safeguard Trump's education transcripts (See; www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fordham-university-confirms-cohen-warned-it-not-to-disclose-trumps-grades). The obvious irony is Trump's repeated claims to be "a very stable genius" and his frequent attacks on Former President Obama; claiming Obama's academic record was only embellished because of his favored "African American status" under "Affirmative Action." Yet, what type of affirmative action do they call it when your daddy pays for your seat in college and university? Trump still labels African America journalists and politicians as somehow "stupid or ignorant". It seems Mr. Trump might be a tad embarrassed if real evidence surfaces proving he was hardly a "successful student" and more likely "less capable academically than others". In other words, the only thing Trump could have been competitive in school was his father's ability to buy his way into admission. Sad!
So, one claim proven accurate. Another? The story behind the unlawful use of Non-Profit Foundation funds for personal gain - the purchase of Trump's portrait at auction through a straw man and paid for with donated funds. How do we know this to be true? The Trump Foundation is under indictment in the Southern District of New York (See: www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/politics/trump-foundation-new-york-state-lawsuit/index.html).
Starting to see a pattern? Cohen himself was emphatic that Trump and those around him engage in a culture or pattern of routine lying, even when lying isn't even necessary (size of inaugural crowd, unemployment, and most recently, security clearances) (See: www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/03/225759/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-security-clearance-lie).
Yet GOP sycophants continue to chant "There's NO COLLUSION(!)" by the campaign with Russia!" Then why have the Campaign's Chairman, Vice-Chair, and a number of pre and post transition advisors pled guilty for lying about their involvement with Russia? It might not be "collusion", but it very well could be "conspiracy" since they were indicted and convicted for attempting to cover up their ties with Russians during the campaign. This programmed denial has been witnessed not only from the President himself, but from his Press Secretary to his favored television outlet, Fox News. Instead of highlighting the Cohen hearings, Fox chose instead to highlight Trump's vaunted summit with Kim Jong-Un, while pushing a fake narrative that "the Democrats chose last week to hold its oversight hearings specifically to rattle a sitting president of the United States while he is overseas pursuing World Peace." Except the only result of the now failed summit is Trump's siding with Jung-Un over the family of former North Korean hostage and now dead, Otto Warmbier. Again, our "great negotiator" Trump failed to strike a deal with a man less than half his age. That says a lot about the hype surrounding Trump and how he conned so many with his fake claims of "wealth, superior mental capabilities and talents (to lie). (See: www.axios.com/trump-says-kim-felt-very-badly-about-1551346104-697ef3e2-ae88-40b0-99c8-3bf1a615d3f2.html).
With all of the evidence laying at our feet, how come so many amongst us still support Trump and his corrupt administration? Could it be that folks still supporting the man never think to check on facts as they arise, and only rely upon hyper-partisan outlets for their "news" (which is based upon lies and half-truths). How do I know this? Somehow I was subscribed to on-line conservative groups. Amazingly, they LIE daily. No wonder so many Americans are confused. Here are but a few examples just from this past week from right wing outlets.
From Judicial Watch: "Cohen’s testimony is not credible, and he has a demonstrated record of not only lying to Congress but violating his ethical duties as a lawyer. Cohen’s testimony not only abused Mr. Trump’s rights but Congress benefitted from this abuse and arguable obtained confidential documents belonging to Mr. Trump in violation of its own rules, President Trump’s rights, and the law." Or, "Judicial Watch sues Andrew McCabe for his coup documents!".
From the Tea Party.Org. "BREAKING NEWS! Lynne Patton: "Michael Cohen Flipped On Trump Because Mueller Threatened To Jail His Wife For 30 Years... Read the latest now on TeaParty.org." Or, "Hillary Confessed!" Or, "Confirmed, Campaign volunteer proves Russia claims are a set-up!" And my favorite, "BREAKING NEWS! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg caught on video being helped through Reagan airport!" Considering Justice Bader-Ginsberg is recovering from lung cancer surgery, such a statement can only be meant to stir negative emotions that either relish her poor health and/or death or resignation from the high court. Amazingly, the Right Wing has officially begun retiring Hillary Clinton as their official "poster child for hate". It seems Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is their newest demon (See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/why-conservatives-cant-stop-talking-about-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/579901/).
With additional hearings planned for this coming week with Michael Cohen's testimony, the Democrats are now on the investigatory path the Republicans forgot to follow when they wielded the levers of authority in the House. We have a lawless president with a lawless administration. Something drives them to habitually lie - even when it is not necessary. Perhaps it is the "culture of lies" Cohen tags Trump World with. Although Trump may not be removed from office within the next several months - Americans will see the evidence of this Con, and hopefully they will come to their senses and remove this cancer from our presidency, by electing a new president in 2020. And for the GOP? You reap what you sew. Good luck surviving on the constant diet of lies you spew, digest and repeat.
As President Harry S. Truman once wrote; "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in." It makes me wonder what Harry would have said about Donald J. Trump? Try to have a great week!
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Israeli reporters ‘shoved’ in Istanbul amid diplomatic rift
May 18 2018 12:57:00
Fırat Alkaç – ISTANBUL
Two Israeli journalists from the broadcaster Hadashot TV News have said they were “shoved” as they interviewed locals in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on May 15.
The journalists were in the square asking people their views about recent incidents in Gaza.
One woman, who was not identified in reports, approached the news crew as they were interviewing taxi drivers and confronted them.
“You are killing people in Palestine and you come here to do reports,” she allegedly yelled at the crew.
Other people started to gather around the news crew, after which the woman and two individuals reportedly shoved the Israeli journalists in the neck and shoulder.
Police intervened and detained the woman upon the Israeli journalists’ complaint.
The woman was taken to a nearby police station and released after being questioned.
The incident comes as tension between Turkey and Israel rises over the killing of scores of Palestinians by Israeli security forces in Gaza.
Turkey earlier this week recalled its ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations in connection with the Gaza killings.
The government also declared a three-day national mourning, while the Israeli ambassador to Ankara and the Israeli consul general were told to leave the country temporarily.
Earlier this week thousands of people around Turkey demonstrated in protest at the Gaza killings.
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Christian Patti
Christian Patti begins spinning records when he is 18. After proposing his exclusive tech-house sound on the stages of many clubs in his country, Italy, in 2001 he decides to move to Germany, playing in the main clubs of Westfalia (Phoenix, Monokel, Dee2, Grube, Kosmos) where he acquires influences from many German DJs.
In 2004 Chris finally follows his "tech" and "underground" roots to join the Italy-based Good Mood project. He starts to play at some of the best parties in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, where he delivers esome memorable performances. In this period, one of the most important techno clubs in Europe, the Ambasada Gavioli, in Isola, Slovenia, hosts Chris on the occasion of sold-out parties like Wodoo Love, Tech-Treading and more. In 2007 he returns to the Ambasada for its 12th Anniversary and plays with Digweed.
From 2010 he embarks on a new experience as DJ producer, working with Graziano Ruan, obtaining immediate success with the track Aftermath, played by Paul Oakenfold, and included by Straight Up label in the Miami Music Conference 2012 Compilation. In 2011 Chris is hosted for the first time at Topas Club in Zurich.
He currently collaborates with Big Alliance Deep, Straight Up and Bit Mexico Records.
Favorite artists: Jay Lumen, Desyn Masiello, Steve Porter, Umek, Stefano Noferini, Mr. Bizz.
Music influence: Techno, Minimal, Tech-house, Progressive, Balkan.
He has also played with Marco Carola, Chris Liebing, Eric Sneo, Marko Nastic, Ben Long, dj Lucca, Valentino Kanzyani, Markantonio, Rino Cerrone, Luke Slater, Ladida, Mauro Picotto, Mark Knight, Scarlett Etienne, Christopher Lawrence, Lexicon Avenue, Dean Rodell, Junior Jack and Stereo Palma, among many others.
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The UK has seen an increase in interest from prospective homebuyers for the second month in a row, according to RICS, with 10% more surveyors reporting a rise in demand from buyers during October than a fall.
RICS has also found evidence of a continued rise in house prices, with 23% more respondents seeing price growth rather than a decline, up from a net balance of +18 in September.
The main exception to this continues to be inner London, which has apparently recorded its eighth consecutive monthly decline, with 16% more respondents in the capital reporting a fall rather than a rise in prices.
Lack of Houses for Sale Pushes Prices Up
RICS says that the rise in prices is mainly the result of a continued fall in the number of new properties on the market. Its survey found that new instructions over the month have fallen slightly again, suggesting that tight supply conditions continue to be a very dominant feature of the market across the UK.
“The dire shortage of available housing across the UK is continuing to push prices upwards, regardless of the uncertainty linked to the ongoing discussions surrounding Brexit,” commented Simon Rubinsohn, RICS Chief Economist. “We are only weeks away from the Autumn Statement and it will be interesting to see what measures – if any - the Chancellor will put in place to increase housing supply and create a more affordable market.”
Future Projections
In the wake of the EU referendum, there has apparently been a slight rise in the number of agreed sales in the UK, with 5% more chartered surveyors seeing activity rise rather than fall in October. Sales predictions for the coming months are positive, with a net balance of 25% of respondents forecasting a rise in transaction levels across the UK as a whole.
RICS also found that projections for price growth over the next three months have increased, with 18% more respondents foreseeing a rise over the next three months rather than a fall. Price expectations are now positive in all areas of the UK over the near term except central London, where respondents predict prices will remain broadly flat in the near future.
Mortgage Arrears Remain Low
This positive picture continues with the announcement from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) that the overall mortgage arrears rate in the third quarter of the year remains unchanged and continues to represent the lowest arrears rate for over 20 years.
The overall repossession rate also remained the same in the third quarter as the second quarter, at 0.02%, representing 1,900 mortgages (of which 1,300 were owner-occupier, 600 buy-to-let).
“The latest arrears and repossession data still paints a reassuring picture of a market in which financial difficulties are relatively rare, and repossession rarer still,” said CML director general Paul Smee. “However, there is no denying that economic uncertainty for households is increasing. We would strongly urge all mortgage holders to consider whether there are ways that they can plan ahead for possible changes in the future - whether this relates to employment prospects, mortgage payments, or other spending.”
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Tasting India: Ayurveda & food, for pleasure and health.
The inauguration lunch of the Tasting India Symposium in Delhi, last December 2017, was at Roseate Farm; a venture into small-scale organic farming and the ‘heart project’ of Mrs. Radha Bhatia, Chairperson of the Bird Group that owns the family of Roseate hotels. The farm supplies the Roseate hotels in Delhi with organic produce. Tasting India is a platform and symposium founded by the Cultural Curator, Sanjoo Malhotra and Food Writer, Sourish Bhattacharyya.
Sanjoo and Sourish are on a roll, to say the least. Tasting India has the highest ambitions to create a sustainable food culture in India. It is actively connecting all types of stakeholders working within organic food production; from small-scale farming that builds local community resilience, to food distribution such as independent food brands, farmers markets, coops for local crafts and traditions, to experience promoting regional and cultural diversity, such as education, chefs working with seasonality, eco-tourism and environmental sustainability, and last but not least- NGOs working with human ecology, from gender and identity to food sharing.
A happy day for Roseate Hotel’s Chef Nishant Choubey.
The symposium’s launch meal was a tasting menu and journey into Ayurvedic thought, designed by Chef Nishant Choubey, as representative of the produce from the idyllic farm settings.
Renowned food expert Professor Pushpesh Pant explained: “The concept of the meal is from ‘farm to plate’ – in times gone by everyone in India ate like that. Whatever was grown in the kitchen garden came directly to the dinner table. But right now, it’s only the super-rich who seem to be able to eat completely organically grown, pesticide-free, fresh food, grown from a nearby farm, with all the nutrients that rich, clean soil gives.”
Everyone can still eat like this if they keep two things in mind, the professor says.
“Eat seasonally, and eat regionally. Eat what you get locally in that season, buy your produce and then explore your creativity to see what you can do with what is in season.”
The word Ayurveda is Sanskrit, meaning ‘life-knowledge’. It’s a complete system of how to maintain health and balance in life, the philosophy of health at the heart of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and permeates every aspect of life, not least of all, food.
Simple yet delicious Gobhi Keema Adraki, Cauliflower and minced ginger.
Food is at the centre of life. It is pleasure and it is nutrition. It is culture and identity. In the Ayurveda tradition, food functions to build a healthy metabolism, by moderating foods that can be harmful to the mind or body. When you consider the Ayurveda way of food, you will see an overlap with cultures from all over the world. Food is life, food is medicine. A nutritious and balanced diet can limit diseases stemming from internal inflammation.
The Professor concludes: “You do not have to choose between a healthy life and a pleasurable life; it is part of a healthy, balanced life to enjoy food! Life is meant to be enjoyed, and taking pleasure in life is part of finding balance.”
Ayurveda; 1000-year-old Systems Thinking
The Ayurveda approach to food is known as a ‘Sattvic’ diet or ‘yogic’ diet. It is supposed to be a conscious, holistic approach, from producing to consuming, that today we call ‘from farm to table.’ But from farm to table is nothing new- this is the way everyone used to eat and the way some rural communities still support themselves.
The diet itself has an innate awareness of the connectedness to nature and interconnectivity with community upon which we all rely. It places emphasis on nurturing the essential: using seasonal and local foods from your own kitchen garden or village farm. It’s about ethics and knowledge of where the food comes from and where the waste goes.
A Sattvic diet is, therefore, vegetarian, as there is no need to slaughter animals to maintain our health. Cows are an intrinsic part of the organic farm though; the bullocks are used for ploughing, the cows give milk, and both produce natural fertilizer from vegetable scraps. It’s the small-scale organic farming system that fed the whole of India until the 1960’s. It’s a system that could work today, if we value and support the work of our farmers, and create efficient systems and infrastructures that get their produce to market.
The pickles were amazing! To call them mere pickles feels like an injustice.
The Six Tastes of Ayurveda
Most of us who have heard about Ayurveda have heard about the three doshas, or three elements called Vata, Pitta and Kapha. When the doshas are in balance, a person can reach optimal health, while imbalance of the doshas provokes disease. Or as the saying goes: ‘You are what you eat.’ What was new to me were the 6 Rasas, or 6 tastes of Ayurveda, that balance the three elements in our bodies. These are Sweet, Sour, Salty, Pungent, Bitter, and Astringent.
A dish with humble origins; Khichra, a beautifully delicate and ‘more-ish’ porridge of lentils, rice and quinoa.
A chef working with Indian cuisine not only needs to know about the flavours of food, that make food pleasurable, but also the medicinal values of those foods and their effect on the body in combination. It’s a fundamental difference between traditional and modern eating habits all over the world. In the past, the person who prepares food is the guardian of our health. Mothers, daughters, sisters, wives.
Chef Nishant Choubey adds: “Today, as we eat out in a variety of places, the responsibility for our health and nutrition has shifted to the individual. More and more, food is designed to be enticing but not nutritional. Food has to be both, or it is empty of meaning.”
Christmas Pudding and Jelabis for dessert!
Roseate Hotels. http://www.roseatehotels.com/
The Bird Group. http://www.thebirdgroup.com/
Tasting India. http://www.tastingindiasymposium.com/
Incredible India: http://www.incredibleindia-tourism.org/
Mrs. Radha Bhatia, owner and founder of the Roseate Farm and Chairperson of The Bird Group.
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Grim's Dyke Hotel, London
I rarely leave central London and I mean stepping outside of zone 1. One Saturday, we took the metropolitan line to North London, Harrow-on-the-hill and then a taxi whizzed us to the historic grade II* listed country house on the London/Hertfordshire border. The urban side of London can really easily suck you in and forgetting there is still a greener side not so far away from you.
A glass of bubbly, a book to read, a sun beaming on you and maybe a few lips to chat to, wish that was life everyday that I can relax to. Minus the bubbly and the book, I was definitely here to relax for the afternoon.
Former home of W.S. Gilbert
We were given a tour to this remarkable grand building, Grim's Dyke Hotel. The building itself is best known as the home of W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan, who died on the grounds attempting to help a local girl who had got into difficulties swimming. Lady Gilbert continued to live at the house until she passed away. Since then, Grym's Dyke was used as a rehabilitation centre for tuberculosis sufferers and it was transferred as a hotel in 1970 and still is a hotel now. The hotel itself is a popular wedding and private function venue. It also played host for numerous well know films and TV shows. I am not surprised, it's not easy to find such beautiful surroundings in London.
Lady Gilbert's Room
The hotel is surrounded by stunning gardens and woods with hiking trails. If I did not remind myself, I would of have forgotten that I was still in London. It feels wonderful for once and awhile, to feel the fresh air of the countryside, hear the bird singing and enjoying the sun. The hotel's kitchen has it own little garden growing herbs, fruits and vegetables. Using seasonal ingredients to create the restaurant's menu.
We also had a peek of Mr and Lady Gilbert's rooms, now used as hotel suites but most features had remain from the original design.
Closing the tour was a sumptuous spread of afternoon tea delights in the formal dining room, thank you to the hotel's generosity. The portion size was something different to central London hotels, everything was so much bigger or just me used to seeing the fine dainty elegance. Nevertheless, it was hard to keep our mouth drooling and our hands away from the plate.
A selection of favourite sandwiches, home-smoked scotch salmon on walnut & raisin bread with cream cheese, free range egg mayonnaise with mustard cress on homemade bread and cream cheese & cucumber on a finger sandwich. I particularly liked the walnut and raisin bread, with a hint of sweetness.
Tomato and Pesto Tart
The tomato and pesto tart may not have the best look, but it was fantastic and the tart case was like paper thin.
What is afternoon tea without scones? Freshly baked fruit and plain scone with strawberry preserve and Cornish clotted cream. It is just how I like my scones, light and fluffy.
Fanciers
Swan Choux Buns
As tempting as getting a sugar rush from the fanciers (rich chocolate macaroon, strawberry tarts, raspberry shortbreads and swan choux buns), I only managed to disintegrate the swan choux bun, and the choux bun was light and thin. So good I ate a whole one. What I heard from the others was the macaroon was excellent too. I was already too full to finish the three tiers
Guess what, this is a fraction of the cost compared to central London prices and who does not like a bargain. It's perfect for a quiet weekend away, only 30 minutes from London immersing in the stunning serenity presence and rich history of Grim's Dyke.
Price: £15.95/head
I was invited to review the afternoon tea at Grim's Dyke Hotel.
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The Obvious Solution
In all the hubbub of the overtime Kansas legislative session, the obvious solution to crippling state financial problems gets little traction. In fact, the governor threatens a veto if it would pass.
Why not undo the tax policy that created the problem? Steep income tax cuts directly caused a massive revenue loss — $700 million in one year.
Before embarking on the infamous fiscal experiment in 2012, Kansas had a stable tax system that most people considered fair. If tax policy had been left alone, our state sales tax rate would now be 5.7 percent instead of 6.15 percent, and the state could easily pay expenses with adequate reserves left at the end of the year. Our state highway fund would be healthy, our bond rating up, and the legislative session long over.
Kansans hold contradictory notions. If given a choice, we prefer not to pay taxes. Yet we value good services — smooth roads, high-quality education, a social safety net — things that cost money. We are not unusual in that outlook. It’s normal. Human nature.
Our governor and lawmakers must find a reasonable, fiscally responsible balance between those competing desires. That’s their key task in every legislative session. For example, going on a spending spree without regard to available resources takes the state out of balance and upsets the citizenry. Likewise, a tax-cutting binge that fails to account for the costs of basic services and bills that must be paid also unhinges the system.
In Kansas, we currently suffer from the latter irresponsible affliction. Income tax cuts that disproportionally benefit the wealthiest Kansans have destabilized state finances.
What happens when income tax rates are cut, and many businesses are entirely exempted from paying? Revenue goes down! That should not come as a surprise, but it appears to have stunned the governor and many Kansas lawmakers. For two years they have tried to tell us everything is fine while they used up the state’s savings account and raided the highway fund to cover up the now-massive budget problem that the income tax cuts have created.
But it’s no surprise any more. Reality has arrived. The state budget imbalance has become so serious that either taxes have to go up sharply or spending on education and other state programs must drop to an unacceptably damaging level.
What to do? Lawmakers don’t know. They are mired in the longest legislative session in state history. The governor and legislative leaders have dithered and weakly allowed the budget process to drift into chaos. Many proposals have been flying. More tax on cigarettes and gasoline. Higher property tax. Raise the sales tax rate to one of the highest in the nation. Eliminate the sales tax exemption on Girl Scout cookies. One proposal would even have the government tax its own purchases, though exactly how that could realistically raise money is unclear.
Instead of doing the obvious thing, lawmakers have been whacking away at programs and trying to add taxes that hit average working Kansans the hardest.
Raising regressive taxes to cover up a past mistake isn’t going to be popular. Most Kansans would rather not pay any taxes, but are willing to pay for quality services if the system is fair. Kansans know by now that forking over higher sales and property taxes or enduring service cuts to pay for a failed policy experiment doesn’t pass muster.
— This column originally ran in a variety of Kansas newspapers over the weekend.
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GOP's Green New Deal vote fails to divide Senate Democrats
SENATE DEMOCRATS ON Tuesday largely resisted a GOP-led effort to force a vote on the Green New Deal, as Republicans seek to make the ambitious environmental proposal a political wedge heading into the 2020 election.
The GOP-controlled Senate pushed for a procedural vote to put Democrats on the record about the progressive-backed, non-binding resolution that seeks to cut all greenhouse gas emissions in a decade and create a government jobs program.
The motion to proceed failed, with every Republican voting against the resolution along with Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Doug Jones of Alabama, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats.
But Senate Democrats maintained a largely united front, with 43 voting present. That left the final vote at 57-0 against the resolution, with 43 members voting present. Some Democrats called the move to bring the proposal to the floor a "political stunt" and decried it as a "sham vote," urging their Republican colleagues to have legitimate discussions on the threats of climate change. And Democrats aren't likely to face any political backlash from progressive green groups, which supported the party voting present.
"The great irony here is that right after the bill goes down -- the McConnell stunt bill goes down -- we're going to vote on disaster relief," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday. "Do you know what's made disaster relief so much more necessary, so much more expensive? Climate change."
During another floor speech later Tuesday, Schumer said he welcomes the debate that, he says, has gotten some Republicans to "admit that climate change is real." The New York Democrat proposed creating a bipartisan select committee on climate change similar to the one in the House -- a proposal immediately opposed by Republicans.
The GOP, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, sought to divide Democrats and force them to take a position on the Green New Deal, which they believe is politically perilous in the 2020 presidential race as well as in tough down-ballot elections.
Republicans are working to protect the White House and their Senate majority in 2020 as well as fighting to win back the House after losing control in the 2018 midterm elections. While the effort to retake the House will be an uphill battle, Republicans are emboldened since their path largely runs through 31 Democratic districts carried by President Donald Trump in 2016.
"It's even more stunning to see my colleagues so angry and upset at the opportunity to back up their new philosophy with their votes. What an outrage," McConnell said Tuesday.
Republicans framed Democrats' resistance on the vote as the party dodging an "unaffordable and unworkable" plan. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Democrats are "trying to run away from things that they have embraced."
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., sponsored the Senate legislation on the Green New Deal, while freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., authored a companion House bill.
The six senators running for the Democratic presidential nomination are all cosponsors of Markey's measure including Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
"This isn't the first time America has faced a so-called impossible challenge," Warren said ahead of Tuesday's vote. "It's time for new ideas, not old ideology. It is time for ground-breaking science, not political stunts."
The issue of the Green New Deal has already become a litmus test for presidential candidates, with polling showing that the proposal is popular among the left-leaning Democratic base. Climate change has emerged as a prominent issue for voters, but Democrats will need to maneuver GOP attacks about the hefty price tag likely associated with the plan.
Republicans have been furiously working to label Democrats as socialists and have already made the Green New Deal a frequent part of attack ads against vulnerable Democrats up for re-election.
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OPENING | PUSH at Known Gallery L.A.
To mark the opening, PUSH will be painting larger than life feature installations both inside and outside on the façade of the gallery building.
A self-taught painter and sculptor, PUSH was inspired early on by skateboarding and the burgeoning west coast graffiti scene. He credits his friendship with fellow AWR/MSK crew member SABER as helping to define his path in life as well as shaping his art making work ethic.
In 2007, PUSH’s early work caught the eye of media sponsor, LA Weekly: “Trying to define Push’s work is unfair, and nearly impossible. It’s easier to say it’s like nothing else: informed by postmodern abstract splatter paintings, yet rigid, neon and precise. Introverted and quiet, he’s the thinking man’s graffiti artist.”
After his many years of global graffiti writing invitations and participation in numerous group exhibits, DividedAttention brings together PUSH’s latest paintings, debuting an evolved style and introducing a new, sophisticated color palette. When asked why it took so long for the Seventh Letter’s man of mystery to have his own show, he demurs. “I want to show something that is natural, balanced, and thought out. And timing is everything”
PUSH - DIVIDED ATTENTION
Opens to public: October 23rd, 2010
Runs: October 23rd - November 13th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, Oct 23rd, 2010 at 8-11pm
441 North Fairfax Avenue
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Monsoon toll rises across South Asia
Source: gulfnews.com
New Delhi: More than eight people were killed when a house collapsed in northern India following heavy monsoon rain which has left more than 85 dead across South Asia, officials said Monday.
Floods and landslides caused by torrential downpours have killed at least 67 people across Nepal while 30 more are missing, police said.
In overcrowded Rohingya refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh, 10 people have died and thousands of shanty homes have been destroyed since April.
In the latest monsoon-related tragedy, a four-storey building on a hillside in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh collapsed, killing 13 people.
The structure – located near popular tourist destination Shimla – came down on Sunday following days of heavy downpours.
Rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors, while heavy machinery removed heaps of mangled steel and wires from the muddied debris.
Earlier, local official K.C. Chaman said eight people had died in the collapse, adding that rescuers were looking “for at least seven other people” trapped in the debris.
One soldier – who was pulled out alive from the rubble – said they had gathered for a party in the building’s restaurant, “but suddenly the building shook and collapsed”.
Such incidents are common across the region during the monsoon because of dilapidated structures that buckle under the weight of continuous rain.
The June to September monsoon causes widespread death and destruction across South Asia each year.
Floods have devastated much of the northeastern Indian state of Assam where four people died on Sunday after being swept away by sudden torrents.
The state’s Kaziranga National Park, a UNESCO-recognised reserve and home to two-thirds of the world’s one-horned rhinos, has also been seriously affected by the weather.
In the eastern state of Bihar, five rivers were flowing over the danger levels with more rain forecast over the next few days.
The downpours have eased in Nepal but authorities still fear the death toll could rise, said police spokesman Bishwaraj Pokharel, who gave the latest number of dead and missing from floods and landslides.
“There are the challenges of resettlement of the displaced as many houses.. have been swept away. We are also cautious about the risk of epidemics due to polluted water,” Pokharel told AFP.
Author meraapnabiharPosted on July 16, 2019 Categories Bihar Tourist DestinationTags across, monsoon, rain, rises, South Asia
Weather across India: Bihar heatwave claims 61 lives, rain brings respite for Northern states | 12 points
Source: indiatoday.in
The weather in India has been difficult for the population of the country with the heatwaves dominating the weather for the past few weeks. According to reports, there have been 32 heatwaves this year in India, the second-longest spell of high temperatures in the country’s recorded history. The heatwave conditions prevailing in most parts of the country has claimed at least 44 lives in Bihar in a day, even as rain brought down the mercury in some western and northern states on Sunday.
Here are the weather conditions in various states
1. Rain and thunderstorm has been predicted on Monday in Uttar Pradesh, where sweltering heat continued unabated with Allahabad in the eastern part being the hottest at 45.3 degree Celsius, six notches above the normal. Sultanpur, Varanasi and Basti in the state recorded 45 degrees Celsius, 44.2 degrees Celsius and 44 degrees Celsius respectively.
2. Blistering heatwave condition continued unabated in Bihar, where at least 61 people died on Saturday. The state government has ordered closure of schools till June 19. According to officials, 22 people died in Aurangabad, 20 in Gaya and two in Nawada districts due to the heatwave. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has expressed grief over the deaths and announced an ex gratia of Rs four lakh for the next of kin of the victims.
3. In Delhi, traces of rain and strong wind reduced the daytime temperature which settled at 36.3 degrees Celsius, three notches below the normal. The weatherman has predicted overcast conditions and thunderstorm accompanied with light rains on Monday.
4. Parts of Rajasthan witnessed rain since Saturday, bringing respite from the sweltering conditions. The state capital recorded 9.2 mm of rains on Sunday, the meteorological department said. Bhim in Rajsamand gauged 7 cm of rains followed by 4 cm in Tibi of Hanumangarh and 3 cm each in Chirawa, Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh and Sangaria since Saturday.
5. Similarly, rainfall in Ahmedabad and rest of Gujarat brought respite from the scorching heat. The maximum temperature in Ahmedabad hovered around 37 degree Celsius, the IMD said. North Gujarat and Saurashtra-Kutch regions are likely to receive heavy rain on Monday under the influence of Cyclone Vayu, the MeT department said. On Sunday morning, the cyclone remained centred about 470 km west-southwest of Porbandar, 440 km southwest of Dwarka and 545 km southwest of Bhuj, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin.
Monsoon is expected to advance further up north as Cyclone Vayu loses intensity paving the way for the wind system to move towards the Arabian Sea, the weatherman said Sunday.
6. By now, monsoon should have reached the central India, including parts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, but it is yet to reach Maharashtra. It still remains over Mangalore, Mysore, Cuddalore over the southern peninsula and Passighat, Agartala in the northeast, according to the India Meteorological Department.
7. The western coast – from Maharashtra to Gujarat – has been receiving rainfall due to the cyclone. Only coastal Karnataka and Kerala have received rains due to monsoon.
8. Monsoon is likely to set in in Telangana around June 20 and in Andhra Pradesh by June 18, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
9. The public in Tamil Nadu has been advised not to expose themselves to direct sunlight between 11.00 am and 4.00 pm to avoid sunstroke, a Regional Meteorological Centre has said. Chennai and its neighbouring areas and several other northern districts in Tamil Nadu have been reeling under heatwave-like conditions for the past several days with the mercury hovering over 41 degree Celsius.
10. This year’s heatwave has not even spared the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu recorded a maximum temperature of 39.6 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the weatherman said.
11. The weather remained mainly dry in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday even as the maximum temperature fell by 3 to 4 degrees from normal, Shimla MeT Centre director Manmohan Singh said.
12. Some states experienced pleasant conditions with little to moderate rain. Sirsa, Fatehabad, Mahendergarh in Haryana and Amritsar, Gurdaspur and a few other areas in Punjab received welcome showers.
According to meteorological department forecast, light to moderate rain is likely at a few places on June 16, 17 and 18 in Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh. Meanwhile, four people, including two brothers, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during rain and thunderstorm in northern part of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, police said.
Author meraapnabiharPosted on June 18, 2019 Categories Bihar, Bihar News and UpdatesTags across, Bihar, claims, heatwave, india, lives, Northern, rain, states, Weather
Blood banks across Jharkhand struggle with severe shortage
Source: hindustantimes.com
An unprecedented crisis in blood banks of medical colleges and hospitals across Jharkhand has put patients in a spot and the lives of many are on line as doctors are not able to carry on with treatment due to lack of blood. In the last 72 hours, two patients have died at the Patliputra Medical College Hospital (PMCH) in Dhanbad and surgeries of over a dozen critical cases in different wards are on hold due to the blood crisis.
The crisis in blood banks has been attributed to several factors by authorities of hospitals such as PMCH, RIMS and MGMMCH. Many have cited the long duration of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, which meddled with the regular stocking up of blood at the blood banks.
PMCH authorities on Thursday held an emergency meeting and sent an SOS alert to donor clubs across the district for bailing out the institution immediately, as several critical patients continued to suffer.
On Thursday, relatives of three bullet-injury patients, Manoj, Nageswar and Sanjay, had to look for blood donors from their homes district of Giridih, so that the trio could be operated upon at PMCH. All three were admitted to PMCH in a critical condition on Wednesday night. Since the PMCH blood bank was nearly empty, doctors had to call for donors from Giridih.
Earlier on Tuesday, two gynaecology department patients Jyoti Kumari (20) and Shahjadi Khatoon ( 35) died allegedly due to lack of blood. However Dr AK Singh, an official at the PMCH blood bank said that both were severely complicated cases by the time they arrived from nursing homes. Under Janani Shishu Siraksha Yojana, both patients were entitled to get free blood from hospital. “The hospital had provided blood to them in time,” Dr AK Singh said.
PMCH Dhanbad requires 50 units of blood per day to cater to the requirement of patients. But on Thursday, the hospital’s blood bank was left with merely seven units of blood. “Of course there is an unprecedented crisis of blood as incoming flow is almost choked. However, we do not let the patients of hospital to suffer by linking them with donors”, said Dr AK Singh of PMCH.
Patients at hospitals Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) in Ranchi and Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Hospital (MGMMCH) in Jamshedpur are suffering from a similar crisis. Dr KK Singh, blood bank in-charge of RIMS Ranchi on Thursday said the crisis had aggravated badly but now the situation has improved. RIMS requires an average of 82 units of blood per day. On Thursday, the blood bank at RIMS had a stock of 200 units.
MGMMCH had 150 units of blood stocked on Thursday. The hospital requires 20 to 25 units of blood per day to cater to the requirement of patients. “We were facing a major crisis of blood for the past few days but now the stock has improved “, said Dr VVK Chaudhary, blood bank in-charge of MGMMCH Jamshedpur.
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Incredible Yellowstone National Park Wildlife [60 PICS]
Tagged animals, animals of Yellowstone, bison, environment, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem., grizzly bears, Yellowstone bears, Yellowstone bison, Yellowstone mammals, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone wildlife
Not only is Yellowstone National Park the place to go for geysers, NPS said, “A mountain wildland, home to grizzly bears, wolves, and herds of bison and elk, the park is the core of one of the last, nearly intact, natural ecosystems in the Earth’s temperate zone.” There is such huge animal diversity because of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Regarding the mammals in the park, the 2013 Yellowstone Trip Planner (.pdf) states: “Keep your distance. Federal regulation requires you to stay at least 100 yards (91 m) away from bears and wolves, and at least 25 yards (23 m) away from all other wild animals, such as bison, elk, bighorn sheep, deer, moose, and coyotes.” The Yellowstone National Park Service says of the wildlife, “Yellowstone is home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states. 67 different mammals live here.” These pictures show the diversity and a wide variety of magnificent animals of Yellowstone. [60 Photos]
Wild black bear close-up at Yellowstone National Park. The photographer wrote, “This big bear was grazing in the late evening near the road just east of Floating Island Lake. He grazed towards my car then gave me a quick look, so I was able to take this from about 20 yards away.” Yellowstone Park Service explained, “67 different mammals live here, including grizzly bears and black bears.” Photo #1 by Pat Gaines
Yellowstone Vista. The Yellowstone Photo Collection lists all of these animals: Badger, bat, beaver, bighorn sheep, bison, black bear, bobcat and lynx, chipmunk, cottontail rabbit, coyote, deer, domestic dog, elk, flying squirrels, fox, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, hare & jackrabbit, marmot, mice, moose, mountain goat, mountain lion, muskrat, other rodents, otter, pika, pine martin, pocket gopher, porcupine, prairie dog, pronghorn antelope, skunk, tree squirrels, voles, weasels, minks, ferrets, wolverines, wolves. Photo #2 by Susan Renee
Bison herd at mud pots across the river from Mud Volcano. According to the 2013 Yellowstone Trip Planner (.pdf), “Big as they are, bison can sprint three times faster than humans can run. No vacation picture is worth personal injury. Your best view may be from inside a hard-sided vehicle.” If you are interested, then here’s more about American Buffalo Traffic Jams: Bison of Yellowstone National Park. Photo #3 by Diane Renkin / Yellowstone National Park Service
Yellowstone Wolf in Woods. About Yellowstone mammals, NPS wrote, “Wild animals, especially females with young, are unpredictable and dangerous. Keep a safe distance from all wildlife.” Photo #4 by Jeremy Weber
Black bear cub digging into the old log for grubs and ants. Yellowstone Park Service explained, “Yellowstone is home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states. Sixty-seven different mammals live here, including grizzly bears and black bears. Seven native ungulate species—elk, mule deer, bison, moose, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, and white-tailed deer live here. Non-native mountain goats have colonized northern portions of the park and numerous small mammals are found throughout the park.” Photo #5 by Pat Gaines
Bull elk bugling in the Gibbon Meadow in the Yellowstone National Park. NPS stated, “Each year a number of park visitors are injured by wildlife when approaching too closely. Approaching on foot within 100 yards (91 m) of bears or wolves or within 25 yards (23 m) of other wildlife is prohibited. Please use roadside pullouts when viewing wildlife. Use binoculars or telephoto lenses for safe viewing and to avoid disturbing them.” Photo #6 by Erwin & Peggy Bauer / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Twenty five minute old elk calf in Mammoth Hot Springs. Bold print on NPS, It is illegal to willfully remain near or approach wildlife, including birds, within ANY distance that disturbs or displaces the animal. Photo #7 by Jim Peaco / Yellowstone National Park Service
Grizzly bear on Swan Lake Flats. Before you visit Yellowstone, please do read up on NPS advice first. For example, NPS states, “If The Bear Stands up on Two Legs: Some people mistakenly believe that when a bear rears up onto two legs that the bear is about to charge, that rearing up on two legs is an aggressive posture that means the bear is going to attack (people have learned this from Hollywood Movies), THIS IS NOT TRUE! When a bear stands up on two legs it is trying to gather more information about what you are and what your intentions are. Bears gather this information through a combination of scent, sight, and sound. Standing up on two legs improves the bears ability to gather sight and scent information. This is a good time to start backing away, talking to the bear in a calm voice, and letting the bear know that you are a person and that you mean no harm to the bear or its cubs.” Photo #8 by Jim Peaco / NPS
Leopold wolf following grizzly bear. Photo #9 by Doug Smith / Yellowstone National Park Service
Red fox in Lamar Valley. NPS History states, “The human history of the Yellowstone region goes back more than 11,000 years. From then until to the very recent past, many groups of Native Americans used the park as their homes, hunting grounds, and transportation routes. These traditional uses of Yellowstone lands continued until a little over 200 years ago when the first people of European descent found their way into the park. In 1872 a country that had not yet seen its first centennial, established Yellowstone as the first national park in the world. A new concept was born and with it a new way for people to preserve and protect the best of what they had for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations.” Photo #10 by Jim Peaco / Yellowstone NPS
Wolf in Lamar Valley. NPS Did you know? “There were no wolves in Yellowstone in 1994. The wolves that were reintroduced in 1995 and 1996 thrived and there are now over 300 of their descendants living in the Greater Yellowstone Area.” Photo #11 by Jim Peaco / Yellowstone National Park Service
The photographer said, “I took this photo in the wee hours of the morning.” Photo #12 by Steve Wall
Mountain lion climbing down rock. According to Wikipedia, “The mountain lion (Puma concolor), also called the cougar, is the largest member of the cat family living in Yellowstone. Mountain lions can weigh up to 200 pounds (~90 kg), although lions in Yellowstone are thought to range between 140 and 160 pounds (~65 and ~70 kg) for males and around 100 pounds (45 kg) for females. Two to three kittens may be born at any time of year, although most arrive in summer and fall. For reasons that are not clear, only about 50 percent of kittens survive their first year. The current population of lions in Yellowstone is estimated to be 18-24 animals and is thought to be increasing. Mountain lions live an average lifespan of about 12 years in the wild.” Photo #13 by K Fink / NPS
The other mammals of Yellowstone. The photographer called this “The Badgerazzi. There was over $100K in glass pointed at a badger hole just off the road up in the Lamar Valley. These guys were out at dawn and there until dusk, waiting for the poor badger to show up. I dropped by on 5 separate occasions hoping to see the badger, but would loose patience after about 30-45 minutes of staring at the dirt. I guess that’s what separates the great nature photographers from the rest of us! That, and about 10K in gear!” Photo #14 by Pat Gaines
Screeching mammoth ground squirrels. Uinta Ground Squirrels live only in the states surrounding Yellowstone National Park. The photographer stated, “If you stay at the cabins at Mammoth Hot Springs, you’ll be living in a colony.” Photo #15 by Carol Vinzant & #16 by Carol Vinzant
The photographer wrote, “I dont know why anyone would find this beautiful animal ‘scary’ or a nuisance. I have seen coyotes up close and they are beautiful, bold and independent animals. All qualities admired in humans but not in animals by the conventional mindset.” Photo #17 by numbphoto
Bald eagle along the Yellowstone River in Hayden Valley. Thus spake Wikipedia: “Since the creation of the park in 1872, 318 species of birds have been documented within its boundaries.[16] Although Yellowstone is not a birding mecca because of its high altitude and cold winters, it is home to a variety of interesting bird species that attract visitor attention every year. The park has a good resident population of Bald Eagles, Trumpeter Swans, Common Loons, Ospreys, American White Pelicans, and Sandhill Cranes.” Photo #18 by Jim Peaco / NPS
Trumpeter Swan with unfolded wings. Photo #19 by Alan Vernon
The photographer wrote, “A momma grizzly up near Mammoth Hot Springs has four cubs this year. It is rare for a grizz to have so many – this is only the 3rd time in park history that this has been documented. One of the other times was a case where one had adopted two cubs from a mother that had died. In this case, all four were from the same mother (not sure how they know this). The bears were hanging around a pond just North of Mammoth Hot Springs, but then headed West across the road towards Swan Flats. This is them crossing the road on Monday. Note that one of the bears is much lighter in color than the others. I wonder if it is a case of 3 identical twins with one fraternal?” Photo #20 by Pat Gaines
The quiet way to show, “I spent a few days in Yellowstone.” Yellowstone Park Service explained, “Seven native ungulate species—elk, mule deer, bison, moose, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, and white-tailed deer live here.” Photo #21 by NaturesFan1226
Plains bison in winter at Yellowstone National Park. NPS reported that “the bison population fluctuates from 2300 to 4500 animals.” Did you know? “There are more people hurt by bison than by bears each year in Yellowstone. Park regulations state that visitors must stay at least 25 yards away from bison or elk and 100 yards away from bears.” Photo #22 by Jim Peaco / NPS via USGS
130 pound wolf watches biologists in Yellowstone National Park after being captured and fitted with a radio collar on 1-9-03. Photo #23 by William Campbell / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Stampede of the Wild Horses. The photographer wrote, “After a long hike through the mountains of Yellowstone, I came across over 40 horses sprinting from one meadow to the next. I stepped behind a tree to get out of the way and shot this one.” Photo #24 by Trey Ratcliff
Yellowstone sign warning that wildlife in the park is not tame. In fact, NPS advises (pdf): “If any wild animal changes its behavior due to your presence, you are too close. Do not approach wildlife, no matter how tame or calm they may appear to you in the moment.” Photo #25 by NPS
Apparently when 2,000 pounds of buffalo wants to walk on the road, he or she makes the rules. There were dozens of images of buffalo sharing the road with Yellowstone tourists. This photographer’s story “Looking death in the eye” was rather amusing. “I rounded a corner near Gibbon Falls in Yellowstone Park early one morning and encountered about 10 buffalo blocking the road. I pulled off to the side – they started approaching my rental car and I wasn’t sure what to do as the car behind me blocked my exit. The lead buffalo, the one in the center, came to within 6 inches of the drivers side window, stopped for a bit, and snorted at me. The others gathered around, completely surrounding my car. The lead buffalo started moving – but 2 seconds later it was whump, whump, whump – he was hip-checking the back of the car! It felt like an earthquake. All I could think of was how to explain it to the rental car company – yes, my car was damaged by a hip-checking buffalo – but there was no damage, just a lot of dirt and buffalo hair – what a strange experience!” Photo #26 by Frank Kovalchek
Grizzly Bear in Field. The park service tells visitors: “Safe traveling in bear country begins before you get on the trail. Learning about bears before you come to the park can help you avoid a confrontation. Read about bear spray and what to do if you encounter a bear. When you arrive at the park, check at the nearest backcountry office or visitor center.” There is a plethora of bear information and videos that visitors should watch before they arrive at Yellowstone.” Photo #27 by Terry Tollefsbol / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Wolverine. Yellowstone Park Service explained, “Wolverine and lynx, which require large expanses of undisturbed habitat, are also found in the Yellowstone ecosystem.” Photo #28 by NPS
Mountain goat with Cutoff Peak in the background. Yellowstone Park Service explained, “Non-native mountain goats have colonized northern portions of the park and numerous small mammals are found throughout the park.” Photo #29 by Nathan Varley / NPS
Big horn sheep. NPS mammals explained, “Annual surveys of bighorn indicate that the resident herd on Yellowstone’s northern range consists of at least 150-225 animals. In 1997, a new study done by researchers at Montana State University began to investigate bighorn population status and behavior in northern Yellowstone. Of particular interest to these investigators is the effect of road use on the bighorns’ ability to use their summer and winter range. Sheep are commonly seen along the road through the Gardner River Canyon, where visitors should be alert for bighorns crossing between their preferred cliffs and the river where they drink.” Photo #30 by William S Keller / NPS
American Badgers. Photo #31 by Yathin
Buffalo Snort. Photo #32 by Matthew Paulson
Grizzly Bear: “Bears may be seen in Yellowstone March through November. Yellowstone is one of the only areas south of Canada that still has large grizzly bear populations.” Visitors to Yellowstone are required to keep food and garbage in a bear-proof manner. Visitors are also advised to stay in groups of three or more people and make a noise if you can’t see far ahead. You must be alert for bears. The 2013 Yellowstone Trip Planner (.pdf) states: “Do not run from a bear. Carry bear spray and take time to learn how to use it safely and effectively. If you have a surprise encounter with a bear, do not run. Slowly back away. If a bear charges, stand your ground and use your bear spray. It has been highly successful at stopping aggressive behavior in bears. If a bear charges and makes contact with you, fall to the ground onto your stomach and ‘play dead‘.” Photo #33 by Terry Tollefsbol / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Bull bison crossing Yellowstone River. Answer to the frequently asked NPS questions: “Yellowstone is the only place in the United States where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times. A number of Native American tribes especially revere Yellowstone’s bison as pure descendants of the vast herds that once roamed the grasslands of the United States. The largest bison population in the country on public land resides in Yellowstone. It is one of the few herds free of cattle genes.” Photo #34 by Jim Peaco / Yellowstone National Park Service
Pika in Yellowstone. Wikipedia says, “As they live in the high and cooler mountain regions, they are very sensitive to high temperatures, and are considered to be one of the best early warning systems for detecting global warming in the western United States. Temperature increases are suspected to be one cause cause of American pikas moving higher in elevation in an attempt to find suitable habitat, as well as cooler temperatures. American pikas, however, cannot easily migrate in response to climate change, as their habitat is currently restricted to small, disconnected habitat ‘islands’ in numerous mountain ranges. Pikas can die in six hours when exposed to temperatures above 25.5°C (77.9°F) if individuals cannot find refuge from heat.” Photo #35 by JR Douglass / NPS
Mule deer. “Both mule and white-tailed deer live an average lifespan of 10 to 15 years in the wild” at Yellowstone. For a coolness factor, you can watch Old Faithful Area Live-Streaming Video WebCam. Photo #36 by George Marler / NPS
Young moose walking. NPS states, Moose “were reportedly very rare in northwest Wyoming when Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872. Subsequent protection from hunting and wolf control programs may have contributed to increased numbers but suppression of forest fires probably was the most important factor, since moose here depend on mature fir forests for winter survival.” Also, “the moose calf crop has been declining since the fires of 1988.” Photo #37 by Ryan Hagerty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A female grizzly bear family rambles through the park. “USGS researchers study population dynamics of these bears, as well as hazards they face. This information is used by resource managers and decision makers.” Photo #38 by Kim Keating / U.S. Geological Survey
Cool USGS thermal image series of wolves at Yellowstone. Top: “A wolf howls in this thermal image of a captive wolf at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone. USGS scientists are examining thermal imagery of wolves as one step in assessing impacts of sarcoptic mange on the survival, reproduction and social behavior of this species in Yellowstone National Park. All research animals are handled by following the specific requirements of USGS Animal Care and Use policies.” Lower left: “Note the bright red patch on the wolf’s hindquarters in this thermal image of a captive wolf at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone. This is where fur was shaved to replicate the loss of fur associated with sarcoptic mange.” Lower right: “Adho mukha svanasana is the Sanskrit name for the downward facing dog yoga asana and this wolf shows how the pose got its name. The wolf’s eyes, muzzle and paw tips are warm and yellow in this thermal image of a captive wolf at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone.” Photo #39 by U.S. Geological Survey & #40 by U.S. Geological Survey & #41 by U.S. Geological Survey
Mountain lion in yellow aspens. “Mountain lions are rather secretive, consequently, most visitors are unaware of their existence in Yellowstone. Lions probably live throughout the park in summer.” Photo #42 by WL Miller / NPS
Mama and cubs stop traffic. Photo #43 by dylans mom
Porcupine, wildlife at Yellowstone. Photo #44 by NPS
Pine marten. According to Wikipedia, “There are at least 50 small mammal species known to occur in Yellowstone National Park, including four common species of bats: Big Brown Bat, Little Brown Bat, Long-legged Bat, and Silver-haired bat. Squirrel, Rabbit, vole, mice, and shrew species are common, but many are nocturnal and rarely seen by visitors. The Uinta ground squirrel, Least Chipmunk, Golden-mantled ground squirrel and American Red Squirrel are commonly encountered by park visitors.” Photo #45 by DL Coe / NPS
A Moose Hidden in the Snow. As you can see on the National Park Service map (.pdf), Yellowstone and Teton National Parks are neighbors. The photographer had this tagged as both, but explained, “A Shiras Bull Moose lays down in the sage brush of Antelope Flats during a light winter flurry. Taken in Grand Teton NP, WY.” Photo #46 by Chase Dekker
Otter pups in the water at Yellowstone. The photographer wrote, “Somebody’s tail is about to be chomped.” Photo #47 by Pat Gaines
Little Bighorn. The photographer added, “Big-ness and horns not included. This lamb was trotting up a mountain road in Yellowstone National Park with the rest of its family.” Photo #48 by Matt Hintsa
Gorgeous growling wolves. NPS has the history of wolves at Yellowstone. Photo #49 by Jeremy Weber
Pronghorn antelope in Gardiner, Montana Yellowstone’s Photo Collection. “Early accounts of pronghorn in Greater Yellowstone described herds of hundreds seen ranging through most major river valleys. These populations were decimated by 1900, and declines continued among remaining herds. On the park’s northern range, pronghorn declined from 500-700 in the 1930s to about 122 in 1968. By 1992 the herd had increased to 536.” Photo #50 by William S Keller / NPS
Yosemite Sam used to mutter about ‘yellow-bellied marmots;’ this one is in Yellowstone. Photo #51 by Miller / NPS
Meadow vole. “A vole is a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter, hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes. …The average life of the smaller vole species is three to six months,” according to Wikipedia. Photo #52 by Gillian Bowser / NPS
Muskrat in the Yellowstone River. “Muskrats are most active at night or near dawn and dusk.” Photo #53 by Harry Engels / NPS
Grizzly bear sow & cub with radio neckband. Photo #54 by John Good / NPS
Bighorn Sheep near Tower. Photo #55 by Eeekster
Elk near Roaring Mountain. “More than 30,000 elk from 7-8 different herds summer in Yellowstone and approximately 15,000 to 22,000 winter in the park,” wrote NPS. Photo #56 by NPS
Mule deer doe & fawn. Photo #57 by J Schmidt / NPS
Skunk near Geode Creek. Photo #58 by Kevin Topping
Grizzly sow with three cubs on carcass at Alum Creek.” Photo #59 by Jim Peaco / NPS
Stand off, wolves at Yellowstone. Photo #60 by Doug Smith NPS
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Yellowstone wildlife pics « Tom Simpson and the Raiders of the Lost Blog says:
[…] Incredible Yellowstone National Park Wildlife [60 PICS] Not only is Yellowstone National Park the place to go for geysers, NPS said, “A mountain wildland, home to grizzly bears, wolves, and herds of bison and elk, the park is the core of one of the last… […]
Bevan Larson says:
I have visited Yellowstone National Park several times. Both by pickup camper and motorcycle. I enjoyed it very much. I believe in the balance of nature. Man cannot improve on it. The Creator is an expert in these matters.
Barbara Carver says:
Amen ! Thanks for sharing.
Robert Perman says:
This would be my home if I could afford it!!!
walter valenzuela says:
Roberto: que tal estas? soy el papa de Walter Roland y fuimos vecinos en South City,saludes a tus papas. a tio Danny and tia Dulce los veo cada vez que vienen a Honduras. Have a nice day.
Hank Bahmer says:
I am not sure that Uncle Sugar even wants to sell it.
AnnMarie Arbo says:
It is really hard to believe that any of these animals would harm you except…….when the human race has to try and do something silly just because we are human. The eyes of these animals really say it all, they are kind except when hungry or challenged and will abide together. These pictures show the beauty of nature, thank you.
tom carney says:
Animals’ lives are more or less constant battles, peer against peer, generation against generation and species against species just to survive. Yellowstone is gorgeous and offers us the chance to see all these animals. But never forget, our presence modifys these animals’ behavior. And they all are to a degree dangerous to mankind. Except for the herbiverous animals, they are all deadly threats to or threatened by at least one or more species. There is nothing wrong with this; our Creator made it so. Just accept it and revel in seeing them. Please ignore my spelling.
Marianne youdowitch says:
Amazing pictures…hope to go there some day………..
My family and I visited Yellowstone in the 50s when I was a youngster. will always remember how different it was from where we lived (Kansas City) I would love to go again, butI live in Fl now and at age 72, just too far to drive.
Del Mineard Jr says:
Don’t drive, you fly to Jackson, rent a car and drive to Yellowstone NP. It’s about 2 hours. It’s the only way to see the park. Take your time and see the Grand Tetons NP too.
Leslie B says:
You can also fly into Cody. That town has a lot to offer.
Been there, it’s as awesome as these photos. If you haven’t been go, before mankind ruins it.
terry evans says:
i was born in powell wyoming near the east gate to yellowstone. i have always loved the park, and hope to return one day.
LA Pope says:
Such b.s. regarding the pika and it’s sensitivity to heat. Check the facts, THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING!
Wes Olsen says:
So,there isn’t any global warming. Makes one wonder why polar ice is diminishing and most glaciers have retreated significantly in a relatively short period of time.
Actually the polar bear is not diminishing. Here in Canada in the far north and especially in Ninavut we hardly ever saw a polar bear near the town but now they are all over the place.
More seal, more fish therefore more bear.
Hazardous to go outside of town without a rifle.
A bit south they are mixing with the griz and hybrids are the result and they are scary. Size of the polar and cunning of the griz.
Yes the bear are travelling further south but no evidence here that they are declining in numbers.
Thanks for the input, did you have to load your 44 when leaving your trailer to go to the outhouse where you read the only printed material you do read, the good old Sears catalog. Try to learn multisyllable words and grab a Time or Newsweek or even Nationla Weathe service bulletin sometime and learn something about reality, total number of polar bears by WWF is down 27% in ten years. Or do you not believe in any data that counters your n r a magazine material.
The Antartic ice has grown to second largest level on record. And please, warming and cooling is what our climate does. Greenland was called Greenland for a reason. The earth has not gotten warmer in the last decade. Go look it up, the ‘hocky stick’ people were caught scamming.
You obviously know nothing of things north of the border. For one thing, you misspelled “hockey”. Maybe take a few rounds of the rink yourself!
ginn says:
I AGREE.THE EARTH HAS GONE THROUGH MANY CLIMATE CHANGES IN ALL THE YEARS AND THAT IS WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. MAN’S CHARTS & GRAFTS GUESSING GAMES DON’T IMPRESS ME, REAL SCIENCE FROM PAST HAPPENINGS DOES.
Wes, You can’t talk sense to people who don’t want to see the truth. All I can do is shake my head in disbelief.
just sent a similar note to the polar bears are everywhere guy, cant reason with those who see rational data as biased unless it agrees with their skewed beliefs
Also makes you wonder why there has been a huge amount of new ice at the poles that has added miles to the cap.
Check out NOAA satellite photos taken in the last 20 years. Please tell me where you get your information (which is FALSE).
Tim Mayeaux says:
Like the glacier ice the “scientist” fools got caught in down Antarctica way. Nice ? NO bad try!
D.B Flanigan says:
Did you ask the Pika that moved up the mountain that? I’d believe it first.
Lou Nagel says:
So what makes you the Expert?? Just wondering
LA Pope you need to check your facts.. Science is not an imagined world, it is based on fact.
If you choose to believe otherwise I would suggest you keep it to yourself, because any person
who can think for them selves and reads the journals and reports on Global Warming, know it is occuring.. so if you don’t wish to sound like an uneducated ya hoo, I wouldn’t put those opinions
in print! Have a wonderful 2014!
James Holly says:
Global warming is a false accusation by individuals who either do not know the facts or manipulate the ones they do know. Now temperture change is a fact. And you’ll see both high and low temp records exceeded at the same time at different parts of the globe. Air pollution is another fact, and allthough we have done a great deal in reducing, and in some areas practically elliminating most air polution,i.e. smog, we still have more to do. One of the biggest pollution problems we have is the EPA. Now there’s some hot air B.S. we could do without.Now go ahead and rib me about my spelling but when it comes to “global warming” I’ve studied this quite extensively over several years and I’ve seen a lot B.S.(inconvenient trut by Gore, which should have been titled “very convenient falsehood)and I know that most temp changes are caused by mother nature and a lot of pollution is caused by volcanic eruption. So don’t get locked in to some byzantine conjecture which more than likely has some form of political manipulation,i.e taxation.
meadow says:
James, here is a fiddle. Rome is burning. Start playing.
phil tack says:
I DO HOPE TO GO THERE ONE DAY
Lorainne says:
You should go and spend a summer working there. My husband and I did that for 2 summers, and we got to see it all up close. You live in dorms near where you work, have your own dining room, and get to experience it all up close.We would love to do it again, but other things get in our way now. There are many kinds of jobs—they all even pay a little bit—from cook to drivers to gift shop employees. I worked in the gift shop beside Old Faithful, and we could see it erupting out our door. Everyone should have this opportunity; you come way with a new appreciation for the beauty of this planet!
Garold says:
Visited Yellowstone in 1965. Bears everywhere, campgrounds during the week days, nearly empty. Free firewood. Drive to a lot of the geysers and hot pools. Went a few times after that, seemed to slowly evolve a mass of people like a rock concert . I admit it, I’m selfish . Still an interesting and scenic place, but , more like Disney land with the mass’s . Great pictures ,enjoyed them . Planning another trip this fall, but now have to be quick on my feet to get a camp spot. Can’t walk well anymore, so I will have to settle for what I can see from the highways and parking spots. We are blessed to have such a beautiful place to visit
stevent222 says:
I was visiting Yellowstone park when I was about 13 years old and it was amazing, then at age 40 I had the chance to visit again one just cannot see everything and go everywhere if you only have one week. I think it would take a bit more like 5 years. Ha!
And now at age 62 I can’t wait to visit again just cannot afford another road trip again.
I was also told before I went if I saw a Bison outside of where the railroad tracks are to stay inside the car and don’t upset them for they are the really mean ones that the others kicked out of the heard. I was so happy to get this advice because wouldn’t you know it there was one walking right down the middle of the road when we left where they usually graze.
wow….stunning photos, thanks for sharing
They truly are incredible photos! I haven’t been to Yellowstone yet, but these photos inspire me to make getting there more of a priority.
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I couldn’t believe all the wonderful; wild life in Yellowstone, I would certainly like to go there someday. The animals are beautiful, I love the bears, they are so big and when standing they look amazing. I also like the small animals all kind.
The photos are incredibly well photographed.
Visited Yellowstone in 1989, after the fire. Was fortunate enough to have seen all the residents in these photos, except for the Pica. Can not wait to come again. These photos are fantastic!!
stunningly awesome! Thanks to all the talented photographers.
Except wolves of course, which were not there yet.
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Ask the people of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho how cute the wolves are. Remember, this park is an artificially produced ecosystem. And when the wolves’ impact on the rest of the fauna really takes hold, watch how quick the NPS takes these wolves out.
Balderdash! Wolves were taken out by people which created the artifice. They aren’t cute, they are essential to a functioning, healthy ecosystem. In removing them, humans broke that. Restoring wolves restores the integrity of nature. NPS is not taking them out. Only hysterical, fraidy and hateful hunters are doing that.
We lived in West Yellowstone for two summers to enjoy the park and it was wonderful. I am ready to go back after seeing these pictures. They make me homesick for the great place.
These are the most wonderful photos of Yellowstone animals I have seen. I was there during the fire in 1988. It was heart-wrenching. I was back several years later and thrilled to see so many animals & native plants thriving.
Love the pics…thanks for sharing. BUT let’s be realistic. There are NO WILD HORSES in Yellowstone. Closest wild horses are in the Pryor Mountain Range over 300 miles away. Yellowstone background of some probably tame horses running through a field. Disappointed in that one…makes me wonder how many of these other pics were REALLY taken there?
William Beech says:
Did you really sign this asanine comment as”naturalist”? I guess that you feel that you have more right to that elk than the wolves. Perhaps you could shoot and mount its head above your fireplace
as proof of your dubious manhood. If you were a”naturalist” you would know that the reintroduction of this apex predator is largely the reason for the present widely diversified wildlife in the park.
If you can read I would suggest you read the story of the reintroduction of the wolves and the
resultant improvement to the entire ecosystem. Every animal has its niche and each niche is vital nto the environment. The only animal that this is not true of is us, H. sapiens. We in fact,are the
destroyers and thos e such as yourself are the worst among us.
William Beech
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOUR COMMENT
In your intolerance, remember that the great conservationalists of American History, those who instituted the idea of these parks and saved all this territory from development were invariably hunters. And remember too, the hunters who target Elk make sure Elk survive for future generations. Wolves, at least up to now, haven’t quite yet bought into that notion. And as a closing thought, wolves as yet have not demonstrated they have any rights at all compared to any human being.
William, what is your “expertise” on the wolf problems in Wyoming and the surrounding states. I live in Wyoming and know that the elk, deer and moose populations, not to mention livestock in and around the Yellowstone area are in decline or greatly affected by the growing wolf populations due to poor management by the feds and interference by so called “naturalists” who do not live here but like to toot their own horn and don’t have the slightest clue as to what is really going on.
oooooo says:
I’ve been there many times and had never heard of “wild horses”
I do love it there.
gramma G says:
Do you think wild horses dont move around?? It should be noted however that 3 of the horses in that picture are wearing RFID collars,look very closely. The Palomino, the one directly behind her and the second from the end. Are they wildlife tracking collars or are they a ranchers tracking device to find his herd?
Naturalist says:
Instead of shooting those wolves with a camera someone should use a gun. All they do is destroy elk, deer, and bordering livestock populations and have no business being in the park. The last picture is pretty telling.
Did you realize that when the wolf was re-introduced to Yellowstone the following improvements to the park were just a very few years behind:
(1) Elk populations were controlled by the wolves and the over-browsing of willows, alders and other river and creek-side brush and trees would diminish.
(2)Then the return of that Flora has allowed beavers a source of material and food to re-establish their dams and lodges.
(3)This, in turn produced cooler, deeper and shaded water which was responsible for healthier populations of trout and muskrat in those waterways.
(4)While the wolves do predate on deer and elk, so do the bears and cougars. That is the way “it works” in Nature. No guns needed. As a purported “Naturalist” you must have been exposed to that kind of thinking at some time during your education. “Wake up and smell the coffee!” The wolf is part and parcel of the WHOLE eco-system.
Thankyou, very well said, wolves are just as much entitled to roam and live naturally as any other predator.. if more people realized this and understood nature in general there would be less hunting and more appreciation for this spectacular breed…. Cudos to you and for your education :]
P.S. Yes I have never been to yellowstone but with my heart believe it is a slice of heaven.. it doesn’t get much better than this along with our oceans & rainforests.. So yes thankyou very much to Parks whom manage responsibly….. :]…..
Feel free to call it a slice of heaven. I was there many years ago and it still is the most fantastic place I have ever been. I must go back at least one more time before I die.
Dennis Morgan says:
Absolutely the BEST animal pictures I have ever seen. Some in person myself Keep them coming. Thank thank you. These pictures mean more to me than any thing you would ever know.
I couldn’t agree with you more. Was there a few years back. Beautiful!
give the animals guns first
I will supply the guns… :]
Dear Friends…Let’s get REAL…Neither the animals nor Mother Nature need ANYTHING “Man Made”. That includes guns, of course. Think about it!!
Oh goodie…………another NRA post.
If you were to study the Adirondak Forest Preserve, an area bigger than Yellowstone that lies in upstate New York, you’d find that over the years, hunting has enhanced the variety of species and their numbers. If predators have a place in the ecosystem, why not human ones? At least these human predators, out of self-interest and out of a sense of serving the future generations, use their discernment and money to enhance the woods and its denizens. But you don’t have to go East; just look at all the BLM land and the National Forests; see how well they are working out; see how well the fauna is doing, and note that these areas are open to hunting.
And please, when someone presents a point of view you oppose or writes a note contradicting what you may have written, don’t just sling mud.
Wolves were a big mistake to reintroduce in that area. More animals have died to to the wolves than any other including my livestock. I want them gone and they are open season on my place anytime you see one. Bring your gun.
Question.. Do your livestock graze on federal lands? which the ranchers pay a pittance to use?
If the answer is yes, then, WE the taxpayers own that land and we get to say what lives there.
the perdition of livestock due to wolves is minimal.. As was the scare you all tried to perpetuate about the bison and the bucillious anthrax that they supposedly passed to the cattle in such large numbers.. Test proved this wrong.. As the proof of how many cattle are lost due to wolves..
Facts don’t support what you say.. And I hope one day you have a sniper with you the cross hairs..
See how you like it.
been in a large city lately ? The animals (thugs) run the criminal (in)justice system. A racist is in charge of the national office. He only deals with arresting the honest inhabitants. The criminal is a predator of the lowlands (hood)that is allow many chances to hone his skills on the distracted and ignorant. I plan on being the victor of natural selection. I’m the top of the food chain.
Marion Cavanagh says:
Dave White says:
What the park and especially the world needs is less people…a lot less people! If there is anything that has screwed up the balance of everything it is the holier-than-thou human beings with their warped sense of entitlement and ability to kill, dominate and generally trash the planet. Hopefully modern technology, the internet, social networks, smart phones and cameras will help educate the world and effect a change in the destiny of all living creatures before it is too late. Our goodness and humanity must succeed over our misguided primal arrogance.
TRU DAT!!
Keirdan says:
Interesting comment Dave. Actually, Yellowstone itself is going to insure a lot less people at some time in the near (a relative term) future. I’m surprised at the number of people who know nothing about the Yellowstone Caldera (a supervolcano) that lies beneath Yellowstone. It will erupt one day and will be catastrophic. It will reduce the number of people. It will also reduce the population of wildlife. However, with less humans to “manage” the area, nature will become natural once again and will take care of itself.
How can you label yourself “Naturalist” with your attitude toward wolves? Heaven only knows what you believe true of other species.
Rancher says:
These wolves are not even native to Wyoming- they are Canadian wolves!! Give them back to Canada!!!
George Durland says:
You are a total moron for thinking we should shoot the wolves, they were here before we were and hopefully in spite of idiots such as yourself will be here long after the greedy humans have died out, get real you fucking moron! I hope you die a slow and painful death!
I agree with you- shoot the wolves!! These are not even native to Wyoming or the United States. Perhaps when the wolves eat a few tree huggers we can shoot them.
I think I luv u!
What do you expect the wolves to eat? Bark and leaves? None of the humans should be in Yellowstone.
Leave it for the animals! They had it first! Great Pictures of some Awesome Animals.
No more people! Kodaks for the Kodiaks! Those opposed to human presence in the park line up to teach these brutes how to take the photo and then either mail the film or upload the image. But wear your leather britches because the bears lack patience.
Dr. B.W. Stephenson says:
Where did you receive your title as “Naturalist?” Your comment is completely in contrast with what any naturalist would say. You only demonstrate your ignorance of how a healthy ecological system operates. The herds you cite are better managed by nature and the interaction of animals in the food chain and disease for examples. Amazing how all these animals you list survived for thousands of years without the intervention of man. Only when man started killing species did management problems arise. As for “bordering livestock populations” they could be described as the element that is out of place in the ecological system of and near the park?? Again, please describe your credentials which you believe constitute authority for your title?
Instead of introducing wolves they should have just made an open hunting season in Yellowstone. Would have been easier to manage.
anftre says:
no there are to many aelk and deer and little wolfs there are balcing the population dummy
You have got to be kidding me ! That is the normal chain of events ! Humans are the worst at ruining everything, these wolves are only trying to survive ! Not trying to get money for the other’s pelt or hang it’s head on the wall or be a glutton and throw away the rest of the meat. They have a right to be here on this earth as much as you do !! Shame on you !!!
dw montana says:
go and be a little fawn in their zone… enough said.
I am L’ing OL. Do you think this guy is a man? No, he’s a chicken! Oh, wait! A chicken has more guts than he has. RIGHT ON, dw!!
Virginia Allgaier says:
Just last night there was a Natural Geographic show about Yellowstone & the animals in it. The wolves pick out the sick,old & weak animals,NOT the healthy ones! The main reason idjits like ‘Naturalist’ don’t want the wolves is so they can hunt,but they go for the biggest & healthiest animals. That’s why predators like the wolves are so useful.”Wildlife Management” with guns,like in many Northwestern states,are currently waging a war on wolves. It’s disgraceful-they were just removed from the Endangered Species list! Please-go to the Defenders of Wildlife website,sign petitions & donate what you can to stop this slaughter.
Forgot to say Thanks to the photographers for these magnificent photos!
My son and I went on a motorcycle trip to Yellowstone in 2001. Greatest trip of my life. I’m so glad I bought a bike just for that trip. My son died just 2 years later. God, keep him in the light. Love DAD.
Earnestine Bailey says:
Thanks for the pictures, they bring back many memories. We have been to yellow stone 3 times and just loved the beauty and the animals. It was such a beautiful place and the animals were such a big part of the experience. We would love to go back again but that will never happen we are now 80 and 86 years old, a little too old to make another trip.Our traveling days are over but yellow stone holds special memories for us.
I am not a huge church goer but if anyone doesn’t believe in god they need to see theses pics, absolutely amazing and just naturally breathtaking….. Thank you to the photographer, brilliant job…. And to dennis morgan whom lost his son,, My heart and prayers go out to you and your family, your son got the trip of a lifetime and be sure he is watching from heaven… :]
You have it right….In my humble estimation, Yellowstone IS a part of Heaven; so are parts of our oceans, rain-forests, and other eco-systems that have been left UNDISTURBED BY WE FOOLISH MORTALS. It is wonderful that we can still get a “peek” at Heaven through the efforts of responsible Parks Management.
Beautiful. I learned a lot. I have been to Yellowstone several times
Marv. Johnson says:
acording to the previus replies the good that wolves do, is the same as cancer and guns do to control
our population, we are always being told that man is distroying our world. Just treat the cancer
don’t cure it. (DID YOU KNOW) The water in the Red Sea in the middle east is dissapearing, It has
found a way to get into the open areas left from pumping oil,if water can go down, hot lava can come up this will result in tremendous steam explosions, in the mean time the oceon water is getting
warm this is causing bad storms and stronger earth quakes.
NOW THIS IS SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
What lovely pictures. Thanks to the photographers and the appropriate and funny captions to each picture, I enjoyed viewing this compilation. I have never been to Yellowstone and now I feel I am missing on something. I wonder how many animals I shall be able to view in one visit?! I stay in Florida and this means just Yellowstone park would be a week long trip. Need to get planning!
I worked in Yellowstone for one summer when I was in college — drove the truck at Roosevelt Lodge — and every morning I hauled many garbage cans filled with unused food to the local dump where a dozen bears were always waiting for the free breakfast. Soon, I had given them all names based on their unique physical and personality characteristics; and my fellow staff members who were also college students would often go with me on their days off to witness the close-up and personal Moocher Banquet. I experienced many fascinating interactions with wildlife, both here and elsewhere throughout those three months, by far my most exciting (and sometimes scary) summer job.Imagine walking around a corner in the dark and coming face to face with a mama bear and her cubs! Fortunately, the local bears were a lot more mellow than those in more remote areas.
As a visitor/camper at Yosemite many years ago was taking a nightly stroll when I came upon a black bear with its head and shoulders buried in a trashcan secured by a ‘pipe-fitted’rack. It was a great photo-op, with this big butt sticking up in the air. Equipped with only a pre-digital and inexpensive camera with limited flash range, I tried to get as close as possible. At some point, the bear became aware of my presence and expressed its displeasure by rearing up and waving its paws at me. Needless to say, I retreated VERY promptly, having learned to give wild critters their ‘space’. This happened over 50 years ago.
My favorite place in the world
Patricia Terry says:
I had the privilage of visiting Yellowstone twice….. first as a child of 7 and again, as an newly retired adult, with my husband.
These photgraphs brought back many, many wonderful memories!
How very nice to view!
Judy A says:
Wonderful pictures! Lucky me! I live a short days drive from Yellowstone and go there as often as I can. Never tire of the this park and find something new each trip.
Most wonderful place on earth. Beautiful photos.
Beautiful photos. Than you, Thank you. I may never get there but now I feel like I have. It sure is a peice of Heaven.
very beautiful pictures, great photography, enjoyed them immensely, keep up the great work and hope the Park stays this beautiful for all generations to come.
Conniep says:
I am now planning a trip to Yellowstone!
Blogengeezer says:
Have been highly fortunate to pass through Yellowstone several times in my lifetime. Best was ‘After’ the fires cleared away the detritus collected over the countless years of man’s desire to micromanage and control the environment, by suppressing all wild fires (a Big govt subsidized ‘Business’). Eventually the accumulation of highly flammable overgrown forests could no longer be sustained without extremely unnatural, intensely Hot, sterilizing fires.
Finally Nature took over and cleared the land by it’s own means, to the frustration of ignorance plentiful, ‘control’ obsessed mankind. The meadows re-opened and the Flora-Fauna once again had a natural environment. Do not repeat the errors, a recipe for disaster, followed repeatedly across the western states today. Allow natural wildfires to do their housekeeping. Allow for managed logging to clear away areas for reseeding and new growth. Despite an education system warped by ‘Save the Trees’ illogical dreams, Logging is NOT Evil and serves the same purpose as fires, with the added bonus of profitable incentive for assisting in park and National resource maintenance.
Eunice Geibel says:
Fantastic pictures…..I have been there two times but never saw many of these animals, what a treat! Would love to take one of those winter snow trips, say at Christmas, wonder if you see many animals then????
It is much easier to see moose in winter. You would drive South into the Grand Teton Park to see them. There is a huge elk migration into Jackson Hole in winter. I haven’t been there in winter in 30 years but they had horse drawn sleigh rides among the elk in winter at the Elk refuge. The bears will be hibernating but you will see Bison.
They are there because its a artificial feeding ground you nimcompoop. There is nothing natural about yellowstone except all the chinese tourists.
Hmmmm, Bret must be a certified “naturalist” also. At least in this case he gave us a name to
refer to.
Fabulous pictures and captions. I will never get there but I sure got a great deal of enjoyment
Please! How many campsites? How many roads? How many Lodges? How many ampitheaters? Yellowstone is a wonder but it is really ather artificial. Denali comes close to being a natural reservation than Yellowstone. But Yellowstone is what it is, and it is a wonder. I’d love to go back before I am too old or die.
Jim Nielsen state of Minnesota says:
Awesome photos, thanks to my email friends that send me photos like these.
Harvey M. Johnson says:
Genesis 1:31 says, “The God saw everything ,that He had made. and indeed, it was very Good.” And I think to myself, What a glorious God to make such a beautiful world.
Jane L in Paradise, CA says:
I usually want to go to “new” places. I have been to Yellowstone eight times. It is magnificent.
I have seen most of these animals there more than once.
I am saddened that the wolves are again threatened. I hope that good sense will prevail, but have my doubts. Thank you so much for the beautiful photographs.
Rich Wornath says:
Great pictures. I worked in Gardiner Mt a bit in 1957 and 58. Also worked in Gardiner in 1961. Those pictures bring back many pleasant memories. Did not ever see horses in the park back then. Also do not ever remember seeing any wolves. Did a lot of hiking and mt climbing at the time.
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Joni Boike says:
My husband and I went to Yellowstone in 1998 when we went to Alaska. We want to go back someday and spend more time. We have God’s beauty all around us, to bad we have to travel away to appreciate it. Keep looking around where you are and appreciate what we have around us.
Juan Carlos Pizarro Müller says:
Beautiful pictures of wildlife. In the next re-encarnation I´gone travel to this place.-
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Thelma from Arizona says:
I visited Yellowstone as a little girl and have visited there twice as an adult. I love every part of the park. It is a treasure and every effort should be made to protect the wildlife and terrain. Most of all I hope that people who view these icredible and beautiful pictures that have been taken by outstanding photographers will read the captions and heed the warnings. Although the animals are exciting to view, they are animals doing what animals do. Every visitor to the park needs to respect them and realize how dangerous they can become. Follow the rules of viewing from a distance and not attracting them with food.
Rex Fager says:
I have had the ultimate pleasure twice. Both visits were in May while there was some snow on the ground. A great time to see the young animals. My greatest memory is wading the black sands of Yellowstone Lake, fishing, and catching a 26 inch Cut Throat trout. It was great fun. Released it with thanks for the experience. This place is truly God’s Paradise. Even at 86, I’d go back tomorrow.
Barbara from Nevada City says:
My husband and I have been to Yellowstone six or seven times in the last 10 years; this year we took our 4 yr old grandson. It is our favorite place to visit (and Teton NP of course) and we had such fun showing it to our boy. I am not sure how much he will remember so I am putting a photo album together for him to look at when he gets older. It is truly a magnificent place and shows that God was doing his very best work that day. Every time we go we see something new and wonderful–it never ceases to amaze us. We have met some wonderful fellow campers, some from the US and others from Europe.
Jeanie Druebert says:
I have never been to Yellowstone, but it has been on my “bucket list” for a long, long time. These photos are all the encouragement I needed to move that trip to the top of the list.
Paula Bush, Wayne, New Jersey says:
These photos are exquisite, and the best I have seen. The verses of “America the Beautiful” rang through my ears as I viewed them. I am moving Yellowstone Park to the top of my travel list.
John Kidder says:
Hunting is still a must. It provides the most funds for wildlife management and helps to control the population explosions. In the midwest, we have no more mountain lions or wolves or bears to speak of so nothing controls the population of many species such as whitetailed deer or raccoon. With uncontrolled population they will experience disease, starvation, etc. which is Nature’s control.
Which is the kinder way to conservation, disease and starvation or hunting? I vote for hunting with the advice and recommendation of each states Division of Wildlife’s biologists.
mntnhiker says:
IF humans hadn’t killed off all the wolves and mountain lions, you would still have them in the midwest, and the deer population would be controlled in a natural manner. I am not anti-guns, I own several, but they are not for going out and killing innocent animals. The planet with all it’s wonders managed to survive naturally until the crazy white man came and started killing natives and their food and housing (bison) almost to extinction. Then they killed off the wolves. Wolves were native to many, many parts of our country, but were basically exterminated by ranchers. That’s why they say their “Canadian” wolves now, – because the only way the animals could escape was to move north. Ranchers are paid a fee for each head of cattle killed by wolves; they don’t need to be shooting or worse-yet, trapping the innocent animals who cross the unseen borderline that defines Yellowstone National Park from its boundaries in adjoining states. If you believe you are superior to animals, then use you brain and live-and-let-live, so that future generations of both humans and wildlife survive forever.
My husband and I took a “Yellowstone in winter” trip February 2012. What a beautiful place. Would like to go back during a different season.
Frank Congleton says:
Wy wife & I have visited this beautiful area on several occasions. We were fortunate to be on location at Old Faithful when there was a buffalo waiting for Old Faithful to erupt in order to wash off under the spray of water. The streams of water coming up from under ground… with algae growing there, are a colorful red going into green depending on how far the algae is from the hottest to coolest water. Thank you for maintaining this wonderful place for future generations to enjoy.
These are great, thank you so much for sending. It is a shame we humans cannot live together all get alone as they do. Love this.
Thank you for care taking this wonderful place for our grandkids… & their grandkids.
Anything for a dollar. Yellowstone is artificial like a zoo of chinese people.
D Blair says:
Brett:
I think perhaps you have never been or if so, did not spend the time to see the true beauty that is Yellowstone, and the hand of God in its creation, it is singularly one of the most beautiful, unusual and spiritually moving spots anyplace in all the world.
Sorry you missed seeing as it truly is, I have been going since my sixteenth year, when I went with four friends, I am now in my sixties and it will always be my Cathedral. I feel so sorry for you that you saw only the negative things, which if you look, you can always find anywhere, but why try? As brother Dave, an anonymous beat poet once said “Best ye look at things in the right light, lest ye be forever hung up in darkness”. Amen to that.
There may not be any wild horses in Yellowstone but there is a least one horses ass – Brett
Carol Stoner says:
AMEN – Thank you Bill!
Brett, where did you get your education!
AMEN to that Bill, thank you.
Brett needs get out of his cave and get an education!
Nancy M. Daniel says:
Can we please call the bison, a BISON and NOT a BUFFALO? We do NOT have ANY
buffalo’s living in the United States! We have BISON!
(as you all call tell this is a pet peeve of mine. Thanks for passing it on!)
Mike Harrell says:
Actually bison and buffalo are interchangeable and the use of either is correct
picky says:
Yosemite Sam muttered, Yellow-bellied ‘Varmints’
Dave and Judy says:
Great photos and I wish everyone could visit the Park but a few items are out of place:
Wild horses in Yellowstone, I think not.
The Elk population numbers quoted are a joke, never that high even pre wolf.
The Mountain Goat is referred to as ‘non native’, isn’t exactly true but no know Billy’s were in the park when it was established. It is believed that they once in habited much of the southern Rockies.
Moose are rare and nearly gone from Yellowstone because of the wolf. Photo shown is not from Yellowstone. Other species will probably suffer the same fate.
And to comment on the “hunting in Yellowstone” there is no hunting in Yellowstone by sportsmen or any NP, all killing is done by government contractors and the animals are left for “nature to take care of”. The buffalo (Bison) are infected with Brucellosis and have been killed when they leave the park in winter by state and federal contractors in the past.
Paul Streur, Sr. says:
Wife and I spent 6 weeks traveling Western National Parks after retirement in 1999. Spent a lot of time in Yellowstone, along with visits to many other National Parks. The animals are a real attraction that we enjoyed immensely! Even walked up on a cow moose feeding, with it’s butt up in the air, while it was getting underwater vegetation. Could only see the back half of her while she was eating!
BERNIE NEBE says:
DELIGHTFUL PICS!
Elizabeth Hutchings says:
Far away in Freshwater Bay Isle of Wight England this has made my day and I will send it to my many friends world-wide. Thank you and all that wild life and the clever and sometimes lucky photographers.
judy nicolson says:
Hi everyone, I really enjoyed the photos of Yellowstone National Park. I’ve never been to the USA and so have not been privileged to see any of these wonderful animals in their natural habitat. I am a great lover of wild life and in South Africa’s Kruger National Park we are spoilt with a tremendous variety of animals and really need tourists to come and appreciate them. Please do come – you won’t regret it.!
Grandpa says:
I grew up in Montana and Yellowstone was second nature to us. But we didn’t have the Grizzly or Wolf when I was a young man. At least I don’t remember them. Our family had many encounters with black bears and respected their right to be there.
My wife worked her college summers in Glacier and grew to hate the Grizzly. Having read many stories of tragedy for hikers in Glacier, it was easy for me to adopt that hatred. We both believe that the Grizzly would not be a loss if it went extinct. It is an impressive animal to behold but the finality of an encounter with a human is not something we accept.
Another scary thing is the Grizzly’s acceptance of human proximaty. In slide 43 there appears to be a Mama Grizz and cub crossing a paved road in heavy traffic. In our MT days the animal stayed far from civilization and would avoid encounters with humans, especially if cubs were involved.
Ricky Coppedge says:
These pictures were breath taking, and the comments under each picture really helped, for I didn’t know what some of the animals were. Thank-you for sharing these with the Internet. I have never been to Yellowstone, but after viewing the pictures, I feel like I was almost there. Thanks again for sharing.
Robert "Ski" Dombrowski says:
Great Pictures, keep it going so everyone understands why we are called AMERICA the BEAUTIFUL! I just hope everyone can see these majestic animals and locations in person…Thank you for sharing!
Barbara Hackett says:
What an imagination our God has. He takes pleasure in creating!!
Absolutely awesome. Exceptional photos.
W W Zimmer says:
I was in Yellowstone many years ago. It is a great place to visit.
bob Olson says:
Great pictures,we have most of these animals out the window of our cabin where we live 6 months out the year at Mallard creek ranch on the west slope of the Bitteroot Mtns 200 miles west of Yellowstone in Idaho county,ID.< one mile from the
Great pictures, we have most of these animals out the window of our cabin,where we live 5 months out of the the year at Mallard Creek Ranch 0n the western slope of the
Bitteroot Mtns 200 miles west of YellowStone in Idaho county,ID.
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Pat Johnson says:
Wonderful pictures. Brought back a lot of memories of when I worked there the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at college. In those days, the bears ruled the roads: bear “jams”, etc. Was in YP again in 1999; things had changed a lot but it was still a magical place. I worked at the tourist cabins at Old Faithful back when there were actual cabins! And the bands that played at night at the various venues were made up of college students who really knew how to play the kind of music popular in the ’50s.
Pat Johnson
Craig Bingham says:
Yellowstone is truly GOD’S country! my wife and I go in October every year and have seen many of these animals. sometimes I feel like we are watching a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC show while we are there. like watching a pack of wolves on their kill of a bison and a grizzly bear coming down to eat off the same kill and the wolves just hang around until the bear has had enough and leaves and then the wolves go back for more. We just stood in one area for four hrs while all this happened , and you meet the nicest people from all over the world. It’s great talking to all of them.
CANNOT WAIT FOR OCTOBER!
Mike Beaumont says:
Awesome pic’s. Have not been to Yellowstone yet. Thanks.
Kathleen Grooms says:
I have been to Yellowstone Park numerous times and love the wildlife and nature!! My favorite time to go is wintertime because then is when all the animals come out and about more (come down closer to see), like the sheep, wolves, bears, etc. The pictures were so georgous of the wildlife that I am going to frame some of them…gotta love nature & all it has to offer!
bill hagan says:
My grandson & I are going to Yellowstone next year. thank you for the wonderful photos they were great. I am ready to leave now!
Janet lamont says:
These pictures are breath-taking! I always think of Yellowstone in terms of geysers. How refreshing to see all the wonderful wildlife there. Thank you for sharing! I am very impressed.
Mrs. VJM says:
We took our Youngest child on this ultimate trip to Yellowstone. It did not disappoint,Yellowstone is a magical place filled with wonder. If you’ve not been, Start making plans for the ultamate trip of your Lifetime. If you live in the U.S. Be very Thankful its so close by.
Gates Kunkler says:
Been there several times, staying for a week or so. Always incredible!!
Jay Carter says:
My first visit to Yellowstone was about 1970. We went back in 1972, the 100th anniversary of the park. Since then, I’ve been back about every two or three years. It’s my favorite place in the world. The scenery, geology, animals, it’s all so special. I was there in late August / early September during the fires. It seemed as if the entire Park was on fire. Fire engines from all over the country drove to the Park and surrounded special places like Old Faithful Inn to protect them. I live in southern California, and recall seeing one fire engine from San Bernardino County. It is amazing to me how it’s come back from the devastation of 1988. If you have never been there, it truly is a place you should visit. And just south of the Park is Grand Teton National Park. It’s like getting two for one. The photos you have just seen are very nice, but they don’t capture the majesty of Yellowstone. Yes, it is worth a visit.
incredible photography
I worked in Yellowstone in 1964 at Canyon Village for the Yellowstone Park Co. I was between high school graduation and college freshman year. We lived in segregated dorms and worked in the cafeteria, coffee shop and dining room. All employees were college age and we would get a group of us with the same day off and hitch hike around the park. No one had a car. We were paid $50 a month but ate for free and the dorm was free also. We wore red or yellow uniforms (dresses, aprons and head decal). Got to keep tips which paid for all my college stuff for my dorm room. Looking back, it was a great experience and I hope it is still something available to young people.
Joe Ploch says:
God and His creations are unbelievable
Kay Smillie says:
Yes, Yellowstone is wonderful and unforgettable having been there also, but I’d like to comment on the comments made by so many wonderful, positive, loving people. It’s people like this who make the world a better place, though we don’t usually get opportunity to hear from them. The few who could not say anything nice …. I wonder what they are. They don’t behave like humans (made in the image of God) and the animals would not stoop that low. ?? Thank God, there are more wonderful people on our planet than — whatever those others are….
Joan West says:
Brought back many wonderful memories of trips to that wonderful park.
Clarence Mingee says:
Has to be one of the more beautiful places on earth, especially so considering the many animals who make their home there!
Early in my marriage, I took my children there! Later, just the wife and I spent five days within its boundaries, sleeping in cottages within the park. I regret not one second of Any of the visits!
Clarence Mingee
Jo Latham says:
What a delight to reminisce visits to Yellowstone Park thanks to these awesome photographs. The Park is truly a wonderful example of good management of the balance of nature.
Mark Carrillo says:
Great pictures , the wolves really got to me , I think there should be harsh penalties for hunting or trapping these intelligent animal
Reynaldo de Asis says:
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN MINGLING WITH ANIMALS IS PREFERABLE THAN COEXISTING WITH PHILIPPINE POLITICIANS OF THE PRESENT ILK.THESE ANIMAL ARE BEAUTIFUL,LOVABLE AND SEEM COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO APPRECIATE.
A. clermont says:
I kept reading that people went there on a …. motorcycle. I sure hope they don’t don’t allow noisy Harley motorcycles. Can we have peaceful and quiet areas? people PLEASE. respect nature and others. not a new concept.
Claude Blanchard says:
It’s a must for any resident of North-America to visit the Teuton and Yellowstone Parks.
Gary Jefferies says:
I will be with my grandkids in a few days and I can hardly wait to sit down and show them all these glorious photos. Man, what a treat for them….a true learning experience.
Jerry Sue Malone says:
These are the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen of animals! I have never been there but would give anything to go and see some of this, but guess I can’t so I will enjoy your pictures. Thank you so much!
f simon says:
Yes, amazing place… last time I was there… I saw Yogi and Boo Boo. Just a minute, hmmm… maybe that was Jellystone I’m thinking about.
Sylvia Ross says:
I just returned from 3 weeks in Tanzania and Kenya for what I thought was a trip of a lifetime. The herds of animals were incredible: the water buffalo, elephants, giraffes, zebras wildebeest, gazelles, monkeys etc. The lions were plentiful but the leopards and cheetahs and rhinos were the hardest to spot.
I was born 30 miles north of Yellowstone in Livingston, Montana but my family moved when I was five years old so I never got to see Yellowstone until I was almost 40 years old. And then it was only a day’s drive through the park so we didn’t get to see many animals. I was thrilled to see these gorgeous pictures and they made me proud to be a USA citizen and supporter of the rights of these fantastic animals. Thanks for making them available to us.
william i mcclure, jr says:
It is so nice to know that our wild life has somewhere to continue to expand. Thank you yellow stone.
Paul Noack says:
My parents had the love for me and the wisdom to take me to Yellowstone when I was a lad. They introduced me to the majesty of God and his love for mankind reflected in his beautiful creations. The impression that I received of Yellowstone has influenced me for a lifetime. God does reveal himself to us. Just travel to Yellowstone and while there listen with your heart and you will hear God. Look with your eyes and with your heart and you will see God. Love him and accept his gifts and you will be with God. Your choice. A gift. God will whisper to you and say, “Pause here for a moment and enjoy this that I have created for your pleasure.I am the way, the truth and the light. Follow me.”
Bob Callahan says:
I visited Yellowstone in Sept 1954. I got to see most of the animals pictured here. It truly was beautiful. I don’t remember the bear spray when we were there. We got charged by a mule deer and couldn’t get the bears off our car. We lost our camera lense. Discovered when we attempted to get the pic’s developed. Thanks a lot for bringing back some great memories.
walt spicer says:
At the turn of the 20th century my grandfather used to take pack trains into the park before they had cars or highways. Later, as a child, our family would drive thru the park with him and feed the bears as they approached the cars. Times have changed and feeding the bears is dangerous and not allowed. I have a great respect for the wild and give these animals all the space they need. Many a photographer has been killed or injured by trying to get too close for comfort.
John Barna says:
Wonderful pictures of an amazing place where scenery and animals compete for your attention and admiration. Was there in 2009 and hope to return for a longer stay.
Virginia Duerr says:
I have never been to any place like the ones in these pictures. I wouldn’t even try to question where they were taken…who cares..they are all so very beautiful and most enjoyable. Thank you for taking me on a journey I couldn’t possibly make in my lifetime. I will treasure this “trip” for a very long time because I plan to slip it into my “favorites. Thanks again.
Gregory L. Mitchell-W2MYA says:
Firstly,Geo.Durland you are a rude,obnoxious,ignoramous!!These photos are simply beautiful!We are so fortunate to have this wonderful park in this country..Respectfully,Gregory L. Mitchell,West Caldwell,New Jersey
L Sullivan says:
Why can’t we just enjoy it without labeling people or animals for that matter. There is usually some limited thinking on both sides of any issue. I have enjoyed it both with my children and my grandchildren. Beautiful! It is only one small dedicated space. Thanks for the pictures.
Gwynne says:
this is what God intended our planet to look like….pure and natural. Thank you for these wonderful
pictures. I can’t travel any more but thanks to you I feel I’ve been there, God Bless
Wunderbare Bilder. Einzigartig
Enola Neff says:
It has been years since we have travelled to Yellowstone or anywhere out West. It is more nbeautiful than I remember. These pictures are so wonderful. The scenery is so much different than the state we live in..That is why I love the USA. A person can always find a different scene just up the road!!!! Love them…Thank you for Sharing….
Lena BMW, Leesville, La. says:
A lovely documentary! Have motored several times to Alaska, Canada, and all over the good ole USA, including Yellowstone. Thanks for the wonderful memories! Plse ignore the poor souls who are so negative about any & everything. It is they, who are to be pitied!
lilibett says:
My Husband and myself have had he privilege to have visited this beautiful and natural place
We did not visit in the winter and so some of these photos in the snow are just spectacular.
Nature at its best. The photo of the Bison on the road was one we experienced. Those animals are
nothing to confront. Just enjoy them in nature.
Hoping to return to the park real soon.
Bob Phelps AA4SF says:
Had a encounter with a mtn goat. Met on trail I backed of and he passed, very close.
AA4SF Bob Phelps
Diana Houghton says:
Yellowstone is a wonderful park that I saw in 2011. Only the animals should have full range there.
That park does need management but not destruction by big enterprise. Anything taken out ie: lumber should be replanted for future growth. The pictures are wonderful and I have a few great shots myself.
What amazed me was the people who got out of their cars to get closer shoots of a grizzly or bison
who could turn in a second and kill them. Stupidity was very high. However, I do understand that they were so close and beautiful you almost felt as if they were a friend walking alongside of you..
Alois Hufschmid says:
Magnifique parc pour nos amis si proches de nous.Il faut à tout pris préservez notre planète.
Mes salutations amicales. A. Hufschmid
Pattie Wolf says:
I cannot believe the ignorance of people who want to “rid” wolves. They are beautiful animals and they balance Mother Nature. They were placed on earth for a purpose – the stupidity that I just read amazes me.
Sam Glorioso says:
I can understand the need to protect the animals. What a gift we are given.
bobbye lusk says:
Who made stupid killers and defilers masters over Gods greatest gift to man. Nature has been destroyed by man, habitat to longer viable, etc. How many animals and fish have been made extinct by mankind? I think we have misused the only earth we have to extend that one day the earth will kick us off, as a dog would a flea.
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Dave Grossman says:
I was first there in 1947 and have been back many times since then. The two biggest changes are (1) in the old days it was ok to feed bears, so bears were frequent moochers stopping traffic along the roads, and (2) because of the increase in tourists, the old narrow roads (e.g., at Old Faithful) have become the pedestrian paths.
Bears love sugar, so my Dad tried giving a bear saccharine instead of sugar. He wouldn’t touch it.
Jerry & Gayle Zavesky says:
We worked at Hamilton Store May-Aug, 2000. These beautiful pictures brought back many happy memories.
We lived in our RV on the bank of the Yellowstone River in Gardner, Montana. Thank you so much
for the wonderful memories you brought back for us in these pictures.
Jerry & Gayle Zavesky
Victoria, Texas USA
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Lynn Graves says:
My first trip to the park was in 1953. many changes have occurred but still a wondrous place. best fishing in the world. I hope that the public does not demand any more changes than necessary as most problems are just lack of common good judgment like putting food in your bed ect. the balance of nature will work out for the wildlife if left alone. am looking fwd to another trip soon. thanks for all the wonderful pictures
Walter Trauner says:
the planet is for us to enjoy, not to destroy,
The animals are the better stewards in this world and they are to be respected
I have worked with Animals most of my life, I love the wolf & the bears, it’s my only goal left that I would love to do is to see Yellowstone park with my own eyes….. It must be so amazing to see these beautiful wild animals in their own habitats. My love for wild animals will never cease to amaze me, these pictures are incredible.
Clyde says:
A grand collection of great photos ,however I agree I don’t believe there are wild horses in the park only in the pryor mountains and in addition I have experienced the wrath of a cow moose with calf 3 times and am much more wary of a moose that a bear, keep your distance no matter what.
Ken Young says:
Gorgeous pictures. I live in Anchorage, Alaska and we have about 90% of these animals and birds within 50 miles of the city, some within.
These photos are phenomenal. A side of Yellow Stone most tourists nerver fully see.
My husband and I packed up our camper and headed for Yellowstone a few years ago, his first visit my second. It was one of our best vacations ever. We saw a grizzly with her cub (at a distance) were lucky enough to see the white female wolf and until you have a buffalo looking at you through your car window you don’t realize how large they are. We even got to see a coyote have a face off with a buffalo, it was funny. That coyote held his ground for some time but the buffalo finally got tired of the whole thing and stumped his front hoof on the ground, that was all it took. My husband wanted to go back in the winter. If anyone is considering this trip stop thinking and go pack it is worth every penny and every mile!!!
Roger Baker says:
As a youngster of 8, my first visit to Yellowstone was made in 1939.I saw the upper and lower falls (an apparent misnomer) awed by the geysers, and informed by the park Rangers at nightly campfires as to the value and importance of nature and her creatures. We were gathered together in cages while the bears roamed free. Not a bad idea. I have returned several times since then and am always reminded of my size in the scheme of things.
Camil Dufort says:
THESE ARE TRULY MAGNIFICENT PHOTOS>>
HAVE NOT BEEN TO YELLOWSTONE FOR YEARS< BUT REINFORCES THE AWARENESS
OF NEEDING PROTECTIVE PARKS FOR THESE AWESOME ANIMALS
Steve Slatz says:
Unfortunately, researchers have reported that the super-volcano underneath the state of Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004. Its floor has gone up 3 inches per year for the last 3 years, indicating the fastest rate since records began in 1923. Predictions are catastrophic in nature, estimating that the supervolcano is 2,000 times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Just saying………….
Kantaji says:
I have just viewed all the photos & comments. What a wild ride that was. From recent things I have read, and viewed, I know the wolf has contributed greatly to the present and positive state of the eco-system of this park. Indirectly, their influence has even allowed waterways to go back to original courses which in turn has made it possible for more species to survive. You can discover this info on youtube etc. I am choosing to believe it is ignorance and not ill-will that has provoked some of the negative comments. Also, if people feel “threatened” economically, they can be quite caustic. Compassion for them, as much as we feel for animals (which sometimes feels much easier), seems the better way. I, too, am deeply saddened at how mankind has treated our incredibly beautiful planet. I have noticed that petitions really do work, I sign many, haha, and change IS happening. I thank God for the incredible work of EarthJustice, Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, to name just a few. We happily contribute to support their work. Yes, we EACH are blessed! My love to each of the contributors here. Thank you for sharing, caring, and being!
Thank you for this wonderful collection of photos. We Honeymooned at the Grand Tetons in 1952 and were in Yellowstone Park too. Many changes and would like to return…but at age 85 know it will never be. Thanks again for sharing these photos.
THank you for the lovely photographs. I have never had the privilege of visiting Yellowstone and I never will since I am in my 80’s. I so enjoyed looking at the photos.
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Joe Molinaro says:
Traveled to every State in the US several times by truck camper and 21 foot motor home. Love the States and lands north, south and west of Florida!!!
I am 82 now and traveled this year with a much younger friend whose children are involved in soccer.
While they were competing in soccer school we rented a car and did some touring of the mountains and volcanos,etc.
Sure hope to do at least another trip before meeting my creator!!!!!!!!!
Randy Love says:
Leaving the 21st of Jan 2015 can’t wait to get there
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Retrospective: Soundwave 2007 | Brisbane
Events, Music, Photo Essay
GALLERY: The first Soundwave to hit Brisbane, it was for sure a case of if you weren’t there you blew it.
2007 and it was the first international-acts metal and punk festival on such a scale to ever come to Queensland, and what a classic line-up to start what would be almost a decade of music debauchery and mental mosh pits.
Good times, can’t believe it’s 11 years ago now.
Were you there? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post.
Headlining was the mighty Deftones, and amongst the acts were a string of incredible pioneer, classic, powerhouse and stand-out acts including Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, MxPx, Thrice, Unwritten Law, Terror and The Bronx.
It wasn’t just the bands, it was the fact that it was the first of three big instalments meaning artists were fresh off the plane and as always, frothing on the fact that they were in Australia which always translates into the music and performance.
It’s always good to get the first or last show of a tour or festival run and it was evident this day.
Juliette Lewis, probably still far more famous as an actor than a singer with The Licks. Pretty mellow and non-striking start but in a way it set the tone; that if the day takes a path anything like some of her dark, disturbed and weird film characters it should be a worthy adventure.
MxPx always put on a classy show.
It was great to see this place getting rowdy for the first time in a long time. Riverstage is always a good venue even if you end up upside down.
This is Mike Herrera, bass and vocals. At one point I saw him change guitar mid song, he managed to unplug from his wireless, rip it off his shoulders and throw the thing to side of stage all the while the replacement guitar was already airborne and heading the other way towards him from side of stage. He let his go and caught the new one almost in the same action, plugging it in and strumming to the point where he probably only missed a couple of bars of the song. Was pretty rad.
Hill starting to get packed. Solid crowd for arvo punk bands for sure.
This was the first time I saw The Bronx, and yep they were pretty awesome. Thoroughly a stand out band to go see. Despite the namesake, they’re actually from L.A. They play a real gritty kind of crossover of punk and hardcore which gets the blood pumping.
The Bronx crowd was getting pretty frothy on the back hill.
The Bronx singer Matt Caughthran, loves to get amongst the crowd. I ended up seeing these guys from side of stage in Austin Texas three years later, loved it. Recommend to anyone, check these guys out if you haven’t yet.
So Cal band Unwritten Law set the arvo tone.
Scott Russo belts out ‘She Says’.
Flying through the air at Unwritten Law
I think he spotted his dropped wallet.
Hate Breed were …… whhooooaarrraaahhhh! Yep, as always, the Connecticut lads turned it up for the increasingly rowdy crowd at the back stage after the sun fell away fro the day. Just epic, if you missed it you blew it.
It was about at this point that the event became a little chaotic and proper loose. Fists flying and boots in the air at times, some good proper mosh at Hatebreed.
In their prime, Hatebreed in full effect!
“I will be heard!”
Hatebreed, fucking amazing. By this point of the day, everything was slipping sideways and energy levels were surging for most people. Soundwave had landed in Brisbane, and landed with a huge blasting impact. I remember frothing on how rad it was to have something like this and already my thoughts started touching on whether on not this thing could be coming back each year. And it did, much to a lot of people’s joy. Have to give it to AJ, this was the moment it all exploded from regular rock show into something special, right in the last few songs from Hatebreed and just as Suicidal was about to take to the stage, in Brisbane for the first time in many years.
BOOM! “What the fuck’s going on around here?” – and with that the back stage caught ablaze with the scorching riffs and lyrical onslaught of the legendary Venice Beach outfit, Suicidal Tendencies.
Cyco Miko, Mike Muir, was ripping apart the stage this night, unleashed after a long time on the bench and the energy was way up, even on the typical SxTx show.
Suicidal!
STephen Bruner… now one of the most sought-after bassists in the world as his alter-ego ‘Thundercat’ persona. Years later I recall a debate over bassists that had played in the band. Without any doubt, Stephen is way, way at the top of that list. Really smart guy too, really a top bloke.
Brother Clark, Mike Clark, showing frenetic speed on the stage, and on the fret. One of a kind in more ways than one.
Deftones erupted on the main stage, with the metronomic and powerful hits of Abe Cunningham on the skins shaking the earth we stood on. So good.
For a lot of people, this must have been a blur at times. Messy part of the day but a perfect way to cap off the froth and end it. Classic Deftones in every sense.
This was the last time we’d see Chi on bass with Deftones, as a year later he would be involved in that tragic car accident. He was thrashing, sweaty, involved and just outstanding as a bassist and performer.
Chino Moreno and the mass of people raging up front, sans cell phones. One of the last times you could get a shot like this without 173 phones all held up making it look like a weird dystopian parallax universe or something.
The site remained trashed well into the next day, as we drove past on the way home to see the morning sun cutting the trees to a sea of plastic bottles and cups covering the hill on the site.
Soundwave, 2007, what cracking and important notch on the timeline of shows and festivals to hit South East Queensland over the years. In later years the event moved to the RNA Showgrounds, capturing a little bit if the former Livid Festival’s feel and vibe, but none of the subsequent events ever captured what went down in 07. It’s always the way, first is best and it levels off at some point after that. The event first Soundwave was solid, riotous yet intimate, in your face and not widely publicised to the point of being saturated with too many fuckwit fringe hanger-oners. You had access to the stages, access to be right up there in front of the bands you loved. Music fans, core fans, that’s what this first event represented.
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Robbie Pierce had a good life. He was athletic, handsome, had a loving family and a great girlfriend. When his brother Ryan came home from a trip with his fiancée’s family and told... More > Robbie he got an early birthday present from his fiancée’s father, a brand new convertible, he decided to take Robbie for a joyride speeding on country roads. Then disaster strikes: they are in a terrible accident that flips the car. Robbie wakes up in the hospital a few days later, sore and groggy, only to find out Ryan died in the crash, and that they almost lost him too when his heart stopped. Everything is different to Robbie after the crash. He feels completely alone, somehow distant from those he cares about. And then Robbie starts seeing Ryan’s ghost, silent and bloody with an angry stare. Robbie begins to believe he crossed over to the other side in that brief time his heart stopped and that’s why he can see Ryan. But why is Ryan still here and what is he trying to tell Robbie?< Less
About Sarah J Dhue
Sarah J Dhue is a fiction author from Illinois and has been writing since she was in elementary school. In addition to books, she also writes poetry, short stories, and songs. She loves networking with other writers - and artists of other media - and runs a writing group that meets weekly at her local coffee shop. Some of her other interests include coffee, photography, graphic design, social media, animals, art, travel, music, and animation. Sarah currently resides with her family and cats in southern Illinois.
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Militant Islam Monitor > Satire > Cause of Arafat death by AIDS 'unknown' - speculation mentions bad dinner in Ramallah or 'infection'
Cause of Arafat death by AIDS 'unknown' - speculation mentions bad dinner in Ramallah or 'infection'
Joseph Farah of WND cites a book written by a former Romanian intelligience agent who was following Arafat
" In Red Horizons" by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the former head of Romanian intelligence. H... relates a conversation with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization operations in deception and influence designed to fool the West into granting the organization recognition.
"I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee,'" Arafat's code name, explained Munteaunu. "After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena." http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34717
Arafat was known to have had a proclivity for Germanic types and always hired young blonde bodyguards. This would explain his abject terror at being offered a human shield in the form of Gretta van Duisenberg the wife of the now deceased World Bank president, Wim, which was recounted in "Human Shield in Ramallah".
Arafat and Duisenberg
"...Suddenly the cot creaks and shakes and he feels the blankets being ripped from him.
Oh, Allah, help me, thinks Arafat, while Gretta's thighs hold him in their merciless grip.
This is the most horrific ordeal of my life. This is far worse then any Israeli retaliatory strike..." http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/8
"...According to Papacea and other authors, it was widely believed that he was a homosexual. Among other evidence, the Romanians claim they took survelliance videos of Arafat engaged in orgies with his male bodyguards.
Moveover, internationally famous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who has interviewed many foreign leaders including Arafat, revealed with evident disgust in a 1981 Playboy interview that Arafat had a marked preference for young boys. Perhaps this is the blackmail Arafat's wife, Sufa, with whom
he hadn't lived for years, used to garner herself a multi-million-dollar annual "death benefit." The proceeds of course, flow from his billions in ill-gotten gains.
Many speculate that the cause of his death was AIDS. Arafat's symptoms included blotchy skin, dementia, a depressed immune system and massive weight loss. The only other disease indicated by these symptoms, leukemia, was ruled out. The only ones who can release Arafat's medical records are his family, and they aren't talking.
The official line went from the ludicrous "he was poisoned by the Israelis" to the absurd: "A poor diet and gastrointestinal complications due to his long confinement in PLO headquarters imposed by the Israelis caused his health to deteriorate." Of course, it was the Israelis fault, one way or the other.
I vote AIDS.
Cause of Arafat death unknown
Cause of Arafat death 'unknown'
Many Palestinians believe Arafat was poisoned
Medical records of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat appear to show that doctors could not determine the underlying cause of his death.
The records, obtained by the New York Times newspaper, say that Arafat died from a stroke that stemmed from an unknown condition.
But Israeli newspaper Haaretz says the records point to him dying from poisoning, Aids or an infection.
Yasser Arafat died on 11 November 2004 at a French military hospital.
Both newspapers say the records, have been withheld by senior Palestinian officials and Mr Arafat's widow until now, show that doctors could not agree on the cause of the 75-year-old's death.
Conflicting reports
The New York Times says the records show that it was highly unlikely that Mr Arafat died from poisoning or Aids.
"There are three possible causes of death: infection from a germ that poisoned the blood, Aids or poisoning
Israeli author Avi Isacharov
It reported that the actual infection that led to the stroke that caused late Palestinian leaders death was still a mystery.
The Haaretz report cites an Israeli Aids experts as saying that many of Mr Arafat's symptoms were typical of the disease.
Another senior Israeli doctor quoted by Haaretz describes the death as "a classic case of food poisoning."
Mr Arafat's medical records are set to be published in an Israeli book next week.
"There are three possible causes of death: infection from a germ that poisoned the blood, Aids or poisoning from a dinner at his Ramallah headquarters on October 12, 2004," Avi Isacharov, one of the book's authors, told the AFP news agency.
Speculation on the cause of Arafat's death has continued with many Palestinians believing that he was poisoned by Israel.
Yasser Arafat's nephew, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser al-Kidwa, has said the late Palestinian leader's medical file does not allay suspicions that he may have died of "unnatural causes".
But senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said the French doctors should publish their report in full to put an end to the rumours.
MIM: One picture worth a thousand words:
The Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Mr. Yasser Arafat, meeting with Dr. Hans Koechler, President of the I.P.O. (right), for consultations on the International Conference on the Question of Palestine and Jerusalem (Beirut, February 1980).
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Cyber security for medium-sized companies
The cyber security summit from Messe München networks with start-ups
Crashtest Security offers prize of a free ticket for Command Control
Common goal: Making medium-sized companies ready for the digital transformation
Command Control is a new cyber security event from Messe München that will be held for the first time in September 2018. A main target group are top decision-makers at medium-sized companies that want to get their companies ready for digitalization. It’s all about clearly understanding the challenges and steering management in the right direction.
“Crashtest Security offers an innovative solution for medium-sized companies and is part of the cyber security ecosystem in Munich – both fit to the concept of our event”, explains Katharina Keupp, Exhibition Director of Command Control. The goal of the new cyber security summit in Munich: “We want to use clear formats to show top decision-makers at both medium-sized and large companies how they can safely manage the digital transformation at their companies and exploit the opportunities on offer”.
Embedding cyber security into business plans from the very beginning
“Command Control will increase awareness for the subject of cyber security throughout Europe and across all sectors – and we will also benefit from this as a start-up”, according to Thaddäus Schwab, Head of Sales and Marketing at Crashtest Security GmbH in Munich. The summit fills a gap in the market: “There are a lot of technology events. But this one deals with including cyber security in business plans from the very beginning, integrating it throughout the whole company – and assisting companies with this process”.
Crashtest Security offers a security check for web applications. Command Control and the technology company met at the Munich start-up summit MUST in February, which is supported by Command Control.
Strengthening the cyber security ecosystem in Munich
Just like Crashtest, Command Control is part of the cyber security ecosystem in Munich, which is already “Europe’s number 1 digitalization location”, according to Katharina Keupp. Messe München with its international platform will continue to strengthen this network. Command Control connects the fields of business, research and politics, is a partner for the Sicherheitsnetzwerk München and also participated in the Munich Cyber Security Conference (MSCS) on the day before the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in February.
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Beware of criminals this festive season
Durban cops seek man after body found shot dead in his hotel room
TMG Digital | 09 December, 2015 15:15
A gun and bullets.
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A 43-year-old man is being sought by Durban police after a male acquaintance was discovered dead in his hotel room.
During initial investigations it was believed that the victim was a guest who had booked into the hotel situated along Durban’s South Beach‚ but it was later discovered that the body was actually that of his 28-year-old acquaintance‚ police said.
The victim‚ identified as Jan Creamer‚ was found shot last Thursday. He had been reported as missing at the Brighton Beach police station.
“It is alleged that the guest booked into the hotel for two nights. On 30 November 2015 at about 15:00‚ he booked in and he went to his room alone. Later on the same day‚ he left the resort and returned to the resort later with his acquaintance‚ to his room.
“Around 19:30 the guest was seen leaving the resort alone and was never seen going back to his room‚ and his acquaintance was also not seen leaving the building‚” said police spokesman Major Thulani Zwane‚ who added that a ‘do not disturb’ notice had been placed on the hotel door.
“On 3 December 2015 a resort employee became suspicious that the room was still locked and the ‘do not disturb’ sign was still on the door. He opened the room only to find that there was a dead body inside. Police were called and a murder case was opened as the body had gunshot wounds.
“The man who was found dead was not booked in as a guest but was an acquaintance of the guest. Point police station with the assistance from the resort are working hard to trace the suspect‚” Maj Zwane added.
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Moonpod games on consoles survey
Would you like to see moonpod games on consoles?
I'd love to see Moonpod games on consoles!
I don't think they would be good on consoles.
Pod Team
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: Moonpod games on consoles survey
There's been some incredibly extensive threads on console conversions of Starscape, and lot's of enquiries regarding Mr. Robot's chances of turning up on consoles. What I'd really like to do though, is collate everyone's thought's here. That way, when we do talk to console manufacturers and publishers, we can point them at this thread and they can get a good picture of the audience that exists for our games.
One of the barriers we have always come accross, is that it's assumed, because the games were developed on PC, that they aren't suitable for consoles. Coming from a background of console development ourselves, we naturally believe the opposite - in fact, Starscape was originally designed with the idea of a console port in mind.
Another issue is that Starscape isn't part of the traditional casual gameplay crowd - I hope everyone would agree, that there's a lot more to it, but it's also designed to be accessible. Whilst I can completely understand that someone who hasn't played the games might think that way without playing the game, I think that the next gen console download service should also be pushing more variety. That's where Starscape and Mr. Robot come in.
So, please feel free to post your opinions (positive or negative) here as the definitive list of thoughts on the subject.
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Doom III
i vote yes but only want you to REMEMBER 1 issue::
ONLY if it doesnt delay your next games
if theres a choice i want xbox 360 too cause i have one
live arcade is cool but nothing there cool as starscape xcept mabe geometry wars and mutant storm> lots of other games are cool but no depth more like fun for 5 minutes like joust
starscape is more like geometry wars++ so dont know why they wouldnt want it
you should ask microsoft cause they must be desperate for starscape and mr robot
i hear PSIII is gonna have this too so mabe they will want some games like starscape to show it off
honestly you should just talk to them I know thed want the games
fingers crossed for 360!!!
Japlish
Location: France/Japan/UK
Doom III said it best. As long as you do not stop making new games. I would like Starscape and Robot on console but I would preference more new Moonpod games.
I have Nintendo ds, and gamecube and might buy revolution so I would like Nintendo support. Some people I force to play starscape when I can (I am your biggest PR!) and they have Xbox so they want on there.
Anticheese
I support a port to consoles for the moonpod games.
I do not think that War Angels or Battlescape are the best games for the job, But seeing as I managed to play an entire game of starscape with nothing more than a joystick, Console play would work just as well.
However, Also see porting, say, Starscape as an oppertunity to give it a bit of an overhaul, Y'know, The little features..
I am talking about such things as being able to throttle according to how far your thumbstick is going towards the "up" position, Stuff like being able to rotate modules, And perhaps a bit more in the way of technologies, enemy's or zones...
Also, I would most like to see Starscape on the Xbox 1, Or PSP.
Yes, The fact that I own the former has a bit of influence, But not everyone will have a 360 and I dont think that Starscape should be shunted into XLM (As a side note, When my Starscape CD arrived it was in an Xbox lime green case..Joked to myself for a moment what would it be like if it were an Xbox game. And I know why it was in green: You guys at Moonpod got a great deal on green cases.)
Also, Even though the '360 has some compatibility issues, It would be possible to have it working on both X-Brick platforms.
As for the PSP? Starscape IMHO would just work well on it, Its tidy, Well presented and has great gameplay that would not be hard to port to the PSP..
The PS2 as well would be a good option as well, But I would reccomend hitting multiple platforms at once.
Magnulus
Location: Bergen, Norway
As an "ambigamer", I have to say that Starscape, for one, always stood out in my mind as a console game. I'd be playing it and thinking "Hot dog, this game would rock on a 32" screen and with a proper controller in my mitts." There is the odd game that you play that you just think would be a whole lot more fun on another platform. While Starscape certainly was fun on PC, I get the gibblies thinking about how it would be on my PS2.
Another thing that should be taken into consideration is that games like Starscape, games that emphasise gameplay rather than astoundingly advanced graphic technology, need to be on the console market. Not only as Xbox Live arcade downloads, but in the stores, where people see them. Games like Starscape and Alien Hominid. I have no idea how well Hominid sold on the console market, but just the fact that it's out there ON the console market is doing a great deal of good for gamers.
It proves that a game doesn't need Pixel Shader generation Fifty and normal mapping and voluminous fog to be a good game and to be a game that people in general will want to play. It proves that gameplay in and of itself CAN be enough to sell a game, even in these technologically advanced days where teams of fifty work for years to complete a single game.
Of course, you can't de-evaluate the importance of great graphics. A game today needs to look good, no matter what. Alien Hominid looks good. It looks retro, but it looks retro in a modern fashion. Starscape looks, simply put, amazing. The visuals of Starscape make me instantly forget both that it's not 3D and that it's developed by a small team of three people (it was three, right?). It looks polished and by all means easily accessible by the general public.
In a game like Starscape, a game that isn't easy to pidgeon-hole, it's important to have something to reign you in until the gameplay value manages to catch you. Starscape manages really well. By the looks of it, so does Mr. Robot. I've made references to World of Warcraft when talking about the graphical style of Mr. Robot before, and I wouldn't hesitate to do this again. And again. etc.
Oh man, I'm just rambling again, aren't I?
My point is that Starscape HAS what it takes to reign in the "average console player" and to keep him/ her hooked. Since I haven't actually played Mr. Robot, I can't really say anything about the gameplay of it, but if you guys are to be trusted to keep your emphasis on gameplay, I'll say that I'm looking forward to play both games on my Playstation (or Xbox, if you're going to force me to buy one of those. 'Cause I will if you do.)
EDIT: Completely forgot about War Angels. Sorry about that, Hamish!
War Angels looks like it would be fantastic on a console from what I can see. Can you spell "dual shock controller"? In King Kong, you use both analogue sticks for moving around Jack Driscoll. This kind of movement could work on War Angels, too.
Another thing to be taken into consideration is this forum itself. There are active members here no older than 14 years of age. That's ten years younger than myself. And I'm sure there are some that are older than me as well. Broad appeal is important on consoles. I'd say we here in the forums are living proof of Moonpod's games' broad appeal.
Come to think of it, A War Angels port could work by having one thumbstick controlling movement and another controlling the crosshair...
Pod Developer
Location: Auckland, NZ
I don't know if War Angels would be ported to consoles, it's totally programmed in Blitz Basic. Unless porting involves completely reprogramming the game. How would it work for Starscape and Mr Robot?
I'm pretty sure that SS is done in C or similar..
There would be tons of ways to convert that..
But yeah, If WA is coded in BB, Then I think a complete recode would be needed...
Anticheese wrote:
You could try talking to the Blitz Basic folks. Especially if there are other Blitz Basic game devs interested, they might port the runtime over to the consoles and you'd basically be sorted.
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I've been a solid nintendo partisan since the n64 - I've got the cube, GBA, and I will have revolution and DS in the near future. Personally, I'd love to see a Moonpod game developed for the Revolution's controller.
Poo Bear
Location: Sheffield, UK
Hamish wrote:
It's quite involved:
1. x360 uses powerpc type chips instead of Intel so byte ordering is swapped (all your data is the wrong way round).
2. it uses something similar to DX9 so video startup and rendering all need changing to the new system.
3. file system and the way games are saved is different.
4. there are strict guidelines on everything that dictate how the frontend works, where the buttons can and can't go, etc, etc.
5. redo the control system
6. you have to fit everything on a 50MB game card and starscape is 120MB so everything needs to sit compressed and then be uncompressed into ram on demand.
Sick-Boy
Location: Bath
I'd love to see Moonpod games on a console.
I find I hardly ever play PC games these days, they just seem to be too much effort. I can't be bothered with all the installing and configuring and then the realisation that unless I buy more RAM and a new graphics card my PC isn't going to be up to the job
I realise that's not so much of a problem for Moonpod but it has meant I've stopped using my PC for games.
I much prefer to be able to buy a console for the fraction of the price of a top end PC that I know is going to last me a good few years, any game I get should run well, there are no compatability issues, just put the disc in and turn it on, happy days!
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:18 pm Post subject:
Yeah, that's another thought. I'm moving to a Mac in the not-too-distant future, which means that I won't be able to play Starscape or Mr. Robot other than on my girlfriend's computer unless A: There's a mac port, or B: There's a console version.
Rup wrote:
I think the Blitz team may have already talked about that. They'd have to become registered developers and get a dev kit of course, although they OGRE team appear to be getting along with that, so it is possible. the main problem is, they would only be able to sell to registered Xbox 360 developers - a pretty microscopic market I'd have thought. Obviously, there's a load of blitz users who would love some way to shoe horn their stuff onto a 360 somehow, but understandable, no console manufacturer is going to allow that as they make their money from the games sold on that plaform.
Anyway, I've strayed off topic really, War Angels would not be a possibility without a rewrite, but Starscape and Mr. Robot are both C++ and console friendly, so are a real possibilty. Mr. Robot is also uses the same shader system as the 360, so there's some options to play there
Flumpaphone
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:
I have always thought Starscape would be perfection on a console and wondered why you had not gone that route already?
I own an xbox (1), but I don't think the live arcade system works very easily on it and so for Xbox 1 it would be better on a DVD.
Perhaps it would be a better business plan to go straight for Xbox360. Dashboard integration of live arcade on the 360 makes it trivial to download and buy a game. Sometime we are all going to buy into the next generation of consoles. Currently the 360 is the only one out there, and has a great download system. Perhaps the only problem for Starscape would getting it to fit on a memory card. From reading your developer diaries, you seem to be the indie compression experts so I am sure you could figure it out
The Revolution and Playstation 3 both look like they will have download services, but we will all have to wait and see what becomes of them. so it looks like Xbox 360 could be the only console platform lucky enough to run Starscape for a while if you wanted to support consoles.
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New gates and winter closure at Sly Park Equestrian Staging to prevent vandalism
Facility to Remain Closed During Winter to Help Prevent Vandalism, Illegal Camping and Dumping of Garbage
Recently, Sly Park Recreation Area’s Equestrian Staging facility along Mormon Emigrant Trail had some illegal campers damage our natural resources by illegally dumping garbage and vandalizing the area. We have installed gates that will be closed during the winter season in an attempt to prevent this type of activity.
We plan to coordinate the seasonal closure with the U.S. Forest Service’s closure of Mormon Emigrant Trail. Depending upon weather conditions and staffing, we may have to do so earlier. The facility will be reopened in the spring when staffing and weather conditions permit.
Thank you for your understanding. Please call (530) 295-6824 or email us at recreation@eid.org if you have any questions.
To see the original El Dorado Irrigation District press release, click here:
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BCHA Update on Tahoe National Forest e-bike policy litigation
FROM BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF AMERICA:
"As Chairman, I want to communicate directly with you about litigation that BCHA and its partners filed last week in Federal District Court in order to protect our ongoing use and enjoyment of national forest trails. BCHA rarely enters into litigation. The last time we did so was in 2006, when the US Forest Service unilaterally, and without seeking public review and comment, proposed a change in its Trail Classification Standards that would have harmed the interests of BCHA and its membership. We ended up settling that lawsuit with the agency and, remarkably, our relationship ended up stronger as a result.
Tahoe National Forest Authorization of Electric Bikes on 132 Miles of Non-Motorized Trails
On October 23rd, 2019, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) filed a lawsuit with the Eastern California Federal District Court on behalf of BCHA, BCH California and its Mother Lode Unit, The Wilderness Society, and two local organizations over the Tahoe National Forest's stealth authorization of electric bike (e-Bike) use on 132 miles of non-motorized trails. The authorization happened early this summer and without any opportunity for public review, comment, and environmental analyses.
The text of the lawsuit can be found here.
<https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/BackCountryHorsemenofAmericaetalvUSForestServiceDocketNo219cv0214?1572564194>
For more background on this and the broader e-Bike issue, please refer to the Public Lands Report in BCHA's Fall 2019 newsletter.
<https://www.bcha.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BCHAfall2019.pdf>
BCHA has never been quick to support litigation. It can result in strained relationships and comes with several potential downsides, including not yielding the result we might want. But in this case, members of our co-plaintiff team were consistently rebuffed by personnel from the Tahoe National Forest when we inquired about this (unannounced) change in policy. In addition, our joint "demand letter" to the Forest Supervisor, which we submitted on September 9, 2019, went unanswered. Given the magnitude of pressure being exerted by e-Bike proponents on federal land management agencies, we felt compelled to take a stand.
Objectives of the Lawsuit
Our primary objectives for filing this lawsuit were to compel the Tahoe National Forest to rescind its approval of e-Bike use on non-motorized trails, close these trails to e-Bike use, and to cease advertising the new system of trails via the forest's website. <https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/tahoe/home/?cid=fseprd641773&width=full>
If the agency still felt compelled to re-designate trails for e-Bike use, we would insist on a public process where all stakeholders could review and provide formal comment. We further hope the lawsuit will act to place a freeze on any national forest that might be poised to authorize e-Bikes on non-motorized trails in the absence of a transparent and public process.
WELC has yet to be notified about which judge the District Court will assign to this case. Importantly, the filing of the lawsuit should not affect your day-to-day interactions with the US Forest Service. If anything, it might serve as a feather in our cap that demonstrates to agency personnel BCHA's commitment to, and support of, the need for a full public process when decisions are made that affect trail classification standards and trail management objectives. I would be interested to hear from you if, however, you receive any negative feedback from Forest Service personnel regarding the lawsuit. It never hurts to better understand any criticisms leveled at BCHA and our tactics in keeping pack and saddle stock trails open and enjoyable to our membership.
Should you or your chapter receive any inquiries from the press/media about this case, please convey that BCHA's spokesperson on this issue is Randy Rasmussen, BCHA's Director for Public Lands & Recreation. Please refrain from providing your personal opinion to the media, as BCHA wants to ensure our public message remains consistent with that of our fellow co-plaintiffs.
Working Proactively to Address Threats to Our Mission
I hope you'll agree that by taking this action, BCHA is being proactive on behalf of our membership in order to perpetuate the common sense use and enjoyment of horses (and mules!) in America's backcountry and wilderness. I believe this is yet another valuable role that BCHA serves our 31 states and nearly 200 chapters. Moreover, BCHA's exploration and implementation of this lawsuit was done in close coordination with, and with the unanimous support of, BCH California and its Mother Lode Unit. As Chairman, it's another example of the incredible value that is realized when all three elements of BCHA national, BCH state, and the local BCH chapter at work in unison to advance the interests of our membership.
Darrell Wallace
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Honoring the hard working trails groups
Mother Lode Trails wants to acknowledge the hard-working trails groups who keep our trails open and maintained. Please send Mother Lode Trails your mission statements and what your group does for our trails and we will post and THANK YOU for all you do!! Here is the first:
GOLD COUNTRY TRAILS COUNCIL in Nevada County.
With over 400 active equestrian members and growing, they are the largest local equestrian trails group in California. Established in 1981, they are a 501c3 nonprofit organization who is successful in their mission: "GCTC is an organization committed to develop, maintain, and advocate for safe integrated trails for equestrians and other non-motorized users." They are responsible for building the Pioneer Trail, the Skillman Horse Camp, Little Lasier Horse Camp, and much more, including raising funds for cooperative projects. To find out more about this group's work, visit their website www.GoldCountryTrailsCouncil.org
Click on Accomplishments under the About/History tab
If you would like to join or donate to their mission, click on the Join Us tab.
They also have an active Facebook page here: <https://www.facebook.com/groups/312816352475/>
Photo of the trail work crew on United Trails Day. Photo below of riders in Tahoe National Forest.
THANK YOU, GOLD COUNTRY TRAILS COUNCIL, FOR ALL YOU DO!
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Mother Lode Trails is YOUR local non-profit trail information and resource website. Here you can find
up-to-the minute information on trail alerts, links and trail news for Placer, Nevada, El Dorado, Yuba and
Sacramento counties.
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Will Men in Blue Continue Winning against England in ODI Series or Not?
New Delhi, Thursday, December 29 – It is true to say that the craze of cricket grips in India faster than any other sport provided it being a sport wherein nervousness over an apparent winner stays till the last delivery of an innings on more than a few occasions.
Things happen in a way in cricket that it is usually tough for people to predict what is going to happen next. This is the reason why a number of flawless blitzes of the cricketers make their team emerge as a true victor at the end, inflicting defeat by a bigger margin on the opponents when several balls remain to be bowled. T20 format has added to the momentum. Whether victory is logged early or on the dot, the thirst for watching good show on cricket pitch lies till the closing stages.
England Test cricket team was in India for nearly a span of one and a half month. The lately concluded Test series gained enormous popularity for entertaining viewers towards the end of the year. The five-match Test series was finished last week when India sealed series by defeating English players 4-0. Before the new year arrives and the two teams get ready to contest in One Day International and T20 matches, experts have no doubt in mind that the formats of cricket other that Test would not compel the audiences to turn up in the stadium to watch exciting contests between powerhouses.
Thanks to conclusion of the Test series that started early November, people are waiting for ODI series to begin. Even though Indian players outstandingly performed in the longest format, story could be different when they face England in 50-50 over and 20-20 over matches. It was good to see cricket lovers arriving in those stadiums where between India and England contested for being winner in the end. Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot, Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium inVisakhapatnam, Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai witnessed good crowd.
Though numerous seats were left vacant, it still looked better seeing kids contributing significant numbers in the audience since many believe that a few Test matches in the start usually get less attention. Each format of cricket is different and exciting. It is not necessary that a player who fits perfectly in Test puts impressive play forward in T20Is and ODIs too. Appreciation and criticism are parts of life and players also get both, depending on their performance. Virat Kohli and team selectors are getting praise for giving chance to the newcomers in Test as they waited for a platform to let the world be familiar with their potential. Karun Nair’s triple ton caught the eyes.
If talent of youngsters is capitalized well then future of Indian will carry on improving. Without a doubt that dynamic cricketers try their best to stand out in the midst of others, rising as reliable players who can pull off in tough situations. Pressure to earn a name and space enables young sportspersons to learn a lot from the players who are in the squad from last several years. There is no end to know about quite a few techniques which are necessary to keep the squad on front seat. Apart from Nair, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin did well too. Parthiv Patel also marked a sound comeback. His flabbergasting batting, wicket keeping and quickness to hit the stumps or take a catch behind the wickets imparted great role in letting India stay in the game.
Sooner or later, other players showcased their talent too. Good batting by Virat Kohli, Jayant Yadav, Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay and KL Rahul kept India robust. Indian cricket team will hope for excellent show from batsmen, bowlers and fielders in ODI matches to let England stay under the pump. English cricketers will be back in the country soon with the objective to win, which could help them forget embarrassing defeats in Tests at the hands of the Men in Blue. England fans will expect Eoin Morgan to achieve what Alastair Cook couldn’t in longest format. Keen viewers are fervent to notice how Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Liam Dawson and Alex Hales perform that make them win a spot in the squad for a bit long.
It would be a key point to notice India go with what options as openers, middle-order and tail-ender batsmen have distinct role but objective is same. Contribution from each player is important. After a certain span of time, ODI series will start. Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune is probable to see amazing crowd to cheer on outstanding innings from favorite cricketers, who also wish that their talent gets recognition. It is going to be difficult for the Morgan’s men to shine as soon as they land on their soil to play 3-match One Day International series.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be in action once again. He knows very well that any room to the opponents will let them gain traction. There shouldn’t be any hesitation to say that his side will leave no stone unturned to douse the strength and strong points of opponents in the approaching contest. This will be a real trouble for the visitors. The zeal to fight till last makes contest interesting. Great support from home crowd on their turf is going to be an asset for India. It would be important to notice who utilizes the experience gained in the past at the most. Indian team is full of talent. When people get to see a blend of experience and new skills at a similar platform, the level of excitement goes up. Thrashing England by a huge margin must be in the mind of Indian players. How England curb them from attaining their goal is to make competition interesting.
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South Africa Start Well in Opening Test against Sri Lanka in Port Elizabeth
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PACBI-South Africa’s CSVR Withdraws from Genocide Studies Conference in Israel
South Africa’s CSVR Withdraws from Genocide Studies Conference in Israel
Occupied Jerusalem --The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in South Africa for taking the principled decision to cancel its participation at the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) conference next week (26-29 June) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
CSVR has shown with this decision admirable consistency with its mission of social justice, sustainable peace and human rights. CSVR stated in a statement that it “cannot turn a blind eye to the nature of the location and the host institutions for the conference.” We warmly welcome CSVR’s courage and sense of moral responsibility to confront the facts about the Hebrew University’s complicity in the oppression of Palestinians and the subsequent refusal to legitimize this ongoing injustice.
We thank also our partner BDS South Africa for making CSVR aware of the Palestinian appeal for a boycott of the conference and the facts about the Hebrew University role in colonizing Palestinian land and entrenching the Israeli occupation and apartheid.
PACBI wrote to INoGS asking that it move its 2016 conference from the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus built partially on land violently taken from Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem, in violation of international law. INoGS ignored PACBI’s appeal and a similar appeal from 270 academics from 19 countries. PACBI also wrote to Rosa Luxemburg questioning its funding to a settlement-institution, but the Foundation refused to withdraw support, reciting German history to justify the exceptional and unethical German treatment of Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid as a state above international law.
We call on participants of the INoGS conference, speakers and attendees, to follow CSVR’s principled lead and to withdraw their participation from the conference. Academics traveling from abroad who have already purchased their tickets or traveled to the conference can still make good use of the trip to conduct field work and meet with human rights organizations.
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vintage photography... because life is better in black and white
I get all gooey over vintage photography. Especially fashion photography from the 1930s to 1960s. Something happened in those 30 years that I can't imagine happening again. Not with the same degree of elegance, sexiness, poise and style.
So transport yourselves, people, and revel in that mesmerising world of bygone eras.
I sure do.
There is nothing quite so charming, quite so evocative of the gorgeousness of 50s and 60s fashions, as vintage bathing costumes.
Tell me if you don't think these swimming costumes are far more beautiful and more sexy than anything you see on the beaches nowadays.
(Okay - with the exception of the billowing-nappy kinda ones).
And actually I think they were even cuter in the 30s and 40s.
Eat your heart out ladies.
the incomparable john french
John French was probably the most famous of all British fashion photographers.
His work really speaks for itself.
You can read more about him and see copies of his gorgeous photographs in this book (click on cover for more info):
Look at the amazing cut of these jackets! The hats and gloves and makeup - everything! - is just soooo stylish and gorgeous.
I especially love his group shots:
John French at work with a model:
Two sisters and their amazing photography
So Kathryn Abbe (born Kathryn McLaughlin) and her sister Frances McLaughlin-Gill were twin sisters and prodigious photographers through the 1940s - 1970s.
They both worked for Vogue and other esteemed publications at various times and did exceptionally well for two women in a male-dominated industry at that time.
There is a documentary about them both called "Twin Lenses" produced by Nina Rosenblum. Haven't seen it but would like to. They must have led fascinating lives.
Here are some of their photographs.
Frances McLaughlin-Gill - From my perspective she was by far the better of the two. She did a lot of fashion photography and her colours and composition are gorgeous. (It helps that the models and clothes and era were completely gorgeous too!)
I think this is my favourite one though - and the "making of" photos:
Kathryn Abbe - Her subjects are more varied, and it is harder to discern a particular style in her photography. But her photos are still worth posting!
Gentlemen preferred blondes - even before marilyn
People tend to think of Marilyn Monroe as the ultimate blonde bombshell that changed the course of blonde history. However, she really wasn't the first absolutely stunning, peroxide lady to enthrall the cinema going mobs. Not by a long shot. Being a blonde, myself, and a complete addict of old glam Hollywood, I thought I should start off my Vintage page by paying homage to some of these blonde vixens who came before Marilyn.
1. My all-time favourite would have to be Ginger Rogers.
Simply because not only was she damn sassy and sexy, she was also a SUPERB dancer.
Nobody could hold a candle to her on the dance floor.
As she says: "I did everything Fred could do, but backwards and in heels."
She was a prolific and very talented actress. She made a total of 73 films!
Check out her hair in the above photo!! OMG to die for.
Not to mention those dresses and that amazing dancer's body.
2. Second is Carole Lombard - an actress who is totally under-rated in my opinion.
She was gorgeous and funny and talented. And she also managed to marry the divine Rhett Butler.
Sadly she died in tragic circumstances, (in a plane crash at the height of her career)...leaving him and the world heartbroken.
3. But I'm getting ahead of myself. We should really start with the magnificent, marvellous and wonderfully mad Marlene Dietrich.
Not only was she a great actress, but also a superb cabaret and stage performer.
She would often perform the first part of her show in one of her body-hugging dresses and a swansdown coat, and change to top hat and tails for the second half of the performance. She was openly bisexual, loved to cross dress, and only married once. Throughout her career Dietrich had an unending string of affairs, some short-lived, some lasting decades; they often overlapped and were almost all known to her husband, to whom she was in the habit of passing the love letters of her men, sometimes with biting comments!
Favourite quote: "if God exists, he needs to review his plans."
I mean, seriously, has there ever been a cooler woman on the planet? (Falling in love again, what am I to do...)
4. But, I guess the first true blonde bombshell who totally seduced the world with the raw power of peroxide, was Jean Harlow.
Jean Harlow was the original blonde bombshell.
She is not one of my favourites. I think it's mostly because her eyebrows are terrifying, but also she kind of always looks unwell. Which makes sense when you think she died of kidney failure at the tragically young age of 26.
To give her her due, she really set a standard with that peroxide and created the classic bombshell look that still makes us all weak at the knees (think Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera).
5. And then there is Betty Grable. Something very doll-like about her. She was renowned for having the best legs in Hollywood and was the number one pin up girl in WWII. Her life was relatively sane and demure compared with some of the others.
Check out how sweet and round (and not overly long) her legs actually were. Times sure have changed!
6. Next up is Lana Turner. Extraordinary features and totally AMAZING skin. Hot, hot, hot.
But oh baby, Lana Turner had the most tumultuous life of all. She was well known inside Hollywood circles for dating often, changing partners often, and for never shying away from the topic of how many lovers she had in her lifetime.
She described her life as a "series of emergencies". She married 7 times and endured a lot of scandal... including having her daughter stab one of her lovers to death !
7. And lastly, but not leastly, there is the Queen of sultry, Veronica Lake. Tall, blonde and with cheekbones that could cut you.
The public loved her, but she was apparently renowned for being extremely difficult to work with.
She only married four times, but struggled with mental illness and alcoholism all her life, the poor thing.
And then there is Veronica Lake. Probably the most sultry of the lot.
Then came Marilyn. But she deserves a post all to herself.
(To be continued...)
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Music is the love of my life!
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Anthony Hamilton Is Coming to South Africa
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If you are a lover of gospel music on the African continent, you are most probably well acquainted with Joyous Celebration. One of the group’s many break out stars Mahalia…
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South Africa’s protest movements are unique in the way that we demonstrate said protest. No matter what we are protesting against, song forms a huge part of the action. We…
PLAYLIST: Diggy’s New York State of Mind, Beyoncé’s Formation and SWV’s new album
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South African musicians have really stepped their game up of late. I'm hearing so much good music from our artists and I am hearing a lot more local content on…
Melo talks about her Idols journey, working with Theo Kgosinkwe and what to expect from her upcoming album
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Empire debuts new original music from season 2
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Columbia Records, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX) have officially debuted two new original songs from the highly anticipated Season 2 of EMPIRE today. The upbeat party…
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Rwanda's Greatest Conservation Success Story
Akagera National Park is no exception to the remarkable success story of Rwanda, a once troubled country that is fast gaining global recognition as a world leader in conservation and sustainable tourism.
During the Rwandan civil war in the 1990’s, much of Akagera’s landscape was converted to farmland and a huge proportion of the wildlife was hunted to local extinction, including both lion and black rhino. This once-great landscape - occupying nearly 10% of Rwanda - was deemed to be of no further value until 2010, from when African Parks, the Rwandan Development Board and the Howard G Buffett Foundation undertook significant measures to restore Akagera National Park to its former glory. These efforts have very much paid off.
Today, Akagera National Park is the largest protected wetland in central Africa; it boasts some of the most bio diverse ecosystems on the African continent and the landscapes are amongst the most scenic on the greater African savannah. Poaching has almost been eradicated entirely, Lion and Black Rhino have been re-introduced - restoring the park’s Big 5 status - and wildlife is thriving. The area is also home to the rare and elusive Shoebill Stork, amongst over 500 species of birds.
Extensive conservation efforts in the region have restored local support for this national park, which has become a popular safari destination for local Rwandans and foreigners alike - a region that remains largely off the map, and truly special.
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1908-01-15 CLYDE IMPROVEMENTS
London Times, 15 January 1908, p. 5: CLYDE IMPROVEMENTS. Extract.
RUSSIAN CRUISER –The Russian cruiser Rurik, built by Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness, has come again to the Clyde to be docked by Messrs. William Beardmore and Co. for cleaning and painting. Afterwards she will complete her final trials, and will then sail for Libau. She has now a full navigating party of Russian officers and crew. The Rurik is the most powerful cruiser afloat as regards protection and guns. Her displacement is 15,000 tons, her indicated horse-power 19,700, her speed 21 knots, and her normal coal supply 1,200 tons. She has four 10in. 50-calibre guns, eight 8in. 50-calibre guns, 20 4.7in. 50-calibre guns, four 47mm. Hotchkiss guns, eight 3-line Maxims, two submerged torpedo tubes of 18in. belt armour of 6in., barbettes of 7¼in., conning towers of 8in., and protective deck of 1½in. She has three funnels and one mast abaft the funnels.
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September 01, 2013 | by Todd Deaton
Southern Baptists Respond to Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage
On our family vacation to St. Augustine, my daughter, Laura, and I mustered up the courage to climb 219 steps—about fourteen stories—to the precipice of the historic city's lighthouse. That, of course, was after we had drunk from the famed Fountain of Youth, and I was feeling young at heart. I apparently was mistaken. Nonetheless, the beautiful vista was worth the arduous ascent, and I descended with some timely reflections.
On our trek up the spiraling staircase, we saw a heavy oil bucket that lighthouse keepers once used to keep the powerful lamp atop shining. Later, in the caretaker's house, we saw cleaning supplies that were toted up those many steps to polish the lamp's lens so the bright beam would travel far out to sea to warn approaching ships. Inspectors came regularly, so the tedious chore had to be done frequently.
As we sat on a beach shore adjacent to St. Augustine on the eve of July 4, the city's streetlights were shut off for a fireworks di...
September 01, 2013 | Evangelism | by Rebecca Wolford
Celebrating 25 Years of Crossover
For the past twenty-five years, Southern Baptists have begun each annual meeting by celebrating hundreds—sometimes thousands—of new souls won for Christ.
September 01, 2013 | by SBC Staff
Soul-Winning Commitment Day
Most Christians understand the biblical imperative to tell others about Jesus, yet few regularly do so. A 2012 LifeWay Research study showed that 80 percent of Protestant churchgoers understand their evangelistic responsibility—but 61 percent haven’t shared their faith in Christ in the past six months.
The North American Mission Board hopes the upcoming "Soul-Winning Commitment Day" on October 6 can help Southern Baptist pastors raise the commitment level toward personal evangelism in their congregations.
"Soul-Winning Commitment Day, also called 'The Big Day,' is a customizable event churches can use to equip and mobilize every believer to make a commitment to share their faith," according to Al Gilbert, NAMB's vice president for evangelism.
Though the "Big Day" is set on the SBC calendar for the first Sunday in October, "churches...
September 01, 2013 | by Gary Frost
It's Time to Pray
Penetrating lostness in North America is a huge task. It will require thousands of church planters and tens of thousands of believers demonstrating and declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ with compassion and grace.
Where will those church planters come from? Jesus told His disciples to . . . pray to the Lord of the harvest . . . .
The North American Mission Board is inviting Southern Baptists to join together at 10:02 each day—morning or night—to pray that God will send workers into His harvest field:
He told them: 'The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest' (Luke 10:2, HCSB).
Why Pray at TenTwo?
Members of Circle Drive Baptist Church place their offerings in the World Hunger Fund box. Photo courtesy of Circle Drive Baptist Church.
Six-year-old Madeline Gillott loves giving to Southern Baptists' World Hunger Fund. In fact, she recently reminded her mother that they had not yet given "their dollars" for the month. Madeline said that giving is important "so kids don't starve and have lots to eat and can hear about Jesus."
Since February, Madeline and each member of her family—parents Josh and Lauren Gillott and three-year-old sister Aubrey—have been putting a dollar each month into a World Hunger Fund box hand-carved by fellow church member Ed McGee.
It's a new initiative at Circle Drive Baptist Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, birthed in the "creative mind and administrative skills" of Circle Drive's children's minister, Kathy Routt, said her husband and the church's pastor, Mike Routt. Each month the church...
September 01, 2013 | by Mark Kelly
Global Hunger Relief: Rebranding the World Hunger Fund
Worldwide, 870 million people don't have enough to eat—and the vast majority of them have no idea how much God loves them. A new initiative involving the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund aims to tackle both those problems. Global Hunger Relief, a new branding of the World Hunger Fund, takes the historic World Hunger Fund's unique "dollar in, dollar out" message to new and wider audiences—and challenges a new generation of believers to personally take Jesus' love to starving souls, in both word and deed.
"The Cooperative Program of Southern Baptists" Interesting (and Important) Facts about the CP
What's in a Name? Cooperation!
The name originally given to the Cooperative Program was "The Co-operative Program of Southern Baptists." The CP did not (and does not) belong to the SBC alone; nor does it belong to the cooperating state Baptist conventions alone. It is a joint venture that belongs to Southern Baptists, cooperating with and contributing to both their respective state Baptist convention and the SBC.
Put another way, the "Cooperative" of the Cooperative Program refers to the cooperation between the Southern Baptist Convention and state Baptist conventions to work together in such a way that a local church can financially support the missions and ministries of the Southern Baptist Convention and the church’s state Baptist convention through writing a single check each month.
The definition of Cooperative Program giving as adopted by the messengers to the SBC annual meeting is as follows:
"The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists' unified plan o...
On Mental Health Concerns and the Heart of God
Resolution Adopted by the SBC, Houston, Texas, June 12, 2013
WHEREAS, God made all things perfectly good in design for His glory and the good of humanity (Genesis 1–2); and
WHEREAS, Adam and Eve rebelled against Him, choosing their own way and the way of the Evil One, and consequently ushered sin and disorder into our world and the whole human race (Genesis 3; Romans 5:12–21; 8:22); and
WHEREAS, As a consequence of this Fall, humanity is subjected to many kinds of mental health problems including autism spectrum disorders; intellectual disability; mental health conditions like schizophrenia, clinical depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, and eating disorders; and diseases of the aged such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease; and
WHEREAS, God did not abandon fallen humanity but loved the world (John 3:16–17) and launched a plan of redemption—a restoration that is incomplete in this age but will be perfected in heaven (1 Peter 1:3–9); and
WHEREAS, Those with mental health concerns, like all people, are crowned with honor and dignity, being made in the image and likeness of God (Psalm 8:4...
September 01, 2013 | by Barbara Denman
SBC Addresses Mental Health Issues
During a year when mass shootings and suicides have stunned the nation, a resolution on "Mental Health Concerns and the Heart of God" was overwhelmingly approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s June 11-12 annual meeting in Houston.
The resolution offered by the SBC Committee on Resolutions sought to "affirm, support, and share God's love and redemption" while opposing "all stigmatization and prejudice" to those with mental health challenges.
The resolution identified mental health issues such as autism disorders and intellectual disability; mental health conditions like schizophrenia, clinical depression, anxiety orders and bipolar disorders; and diseases of the aged including dementia and Alzheimer's.
The resolution expressed support for "the wise use of medical interventions" and supported research and treatment "when undertaken in a manner consistent with a biblical worldview."
Specifically addressing suicide as "a tragedy, leaving heartache, pain, and unanswered questions in its wake," the res...
September 01, 2013 | Racial Reconciliation | by David Roach
Southern Baptists Discuss Racial Progress on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Birmingham Church Bombing
On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at Birmingham, Alabama's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four girls ages eleven to fourteen. Fifty years later, Southern Baptist leaders who remember the bombing say God used it to help inspire racial reconciliation even though the attackers intended only harm.
September 01, 2013 | Cooperating for the Gospel | by Karen L. Willoughby
Georgia Church Embraces Its Colorful Community
By the time Ken Hall was called as pastor in 2003, Lilburn First Baptist had determined its God-given responsibility was to reach out to whomever God brought to their community to build a strong home base of ministry.
September 01, 2013 | by Tom Strode
ERLC's "Church Equip": Customized Solutions for Equipping Churches
Russell Moore was one of the guest preachers during Saddleback Church's Summer 2013 "Follow Me" series. Photo by Tommy Huynh/Saddleback Church.
For Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, orphan care is no small issue. For Russell Moore, it is no small issue either.
That is why it made sense for Moore, the new president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, not only to preach on the Marietta, Georgia, church's Orphan Sunday in July but to speak afterward at an adoption and foster care luncheon.
Moore—who has written one of the leading books on adoption for evangelical Christians and, with his wife Maria, has adopted two sons—acted essentially as a "cheerleader" for those attending the luncheon, recalled Johnson Ferry ministry associate Jim Watterson. The luncheon for adoptive and foster parents, as well as those who had been adopted, proved not only to be "kind of a pep rally" for attendees, but it demonstrated the diversity of a new ERLC initiative known as Church Equip...
ETC: Ethics, Trends, and Culture
Religious Liberty Threatened by Gay Marriage
Doctors in California who were sued for refusing to perform artificial insemination on a woman in a homosexual relationship exemplify the religious liberty threat created by the legalization of gay marriage, the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson writes in National Review.
Other religious liberty infringements in recent years include a New Mexico photographer who was prosecuted by the state's Human Rights Commission for declining to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony, Illinois bed-and-breakfast owners who were sued for refusing to rent their facility for a gay civil union ceremony, and a Georgia wellness counselor who was fired for referring someone in a homosexual relationship to another counselor.
"We must insist that government not discriminate against those who hold to the hi...
September 01, 2013 | by Various Authors
SBC Entity News
Golden Gate Seminary’s Commencement at San Quentin
Golden Gate Seminary’s Commencement at San Quentin by Phyllis Evans; SBTS Press Publishes Evangelism Guide by BP staff; NOBTS Receives "Providential Gift" by Frank Michael McCormack; SWBTS Facilitates Global Network by Benjamin Hawkins; GuideStone Announces Three New Funds by Shelly Moon
September 01, 2013 | by Rhonda Rhea
Epic Flub
I'm so glad I never make stupid mistakes. I'm a pastor's wife, you know. We're not allowed to be stupid.
…Wow. You should be really proud of me. I typed that with a straight face. I'm laughing uproariously at myself now though. The truth is, I have fluff-brained moments all the time. I'm pretty sure I set my brain on top of my car the other day and then drove off with it still up there. Since then it's been all mad at me and giving me the silent treatment.
I wonder how many things I've left on top of the car over the years. I lose more coffee that way. I call it "road-spill." I'm thinking of putting a cup holder up there. Go ahead. Compliment me on the cool vinyl top on my car. We all know it's not vinyl. It's aged and weathered cappuccino. I may put this on Pinterest.
Coffee isn't the only thing flying off car roofs. So many cell phones dying so young. My husband gave his the double whammy. He didn't even need the car roof. He put his phone in...
2014 SBC Calendar
Click here to download the 2014 SBC Calendar.
Call to Prayer Month, January 1–31
January Bible Study, January 1–5
Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, January 19
True Love Waits Emphasis Month, February 1–28
Racial Reconciliation Sunday, February 9
Focus on WMU, February 10–16
Children's Ministry Day, February 15
Youth Week, March 2–8
Week of Prayer and Mission Study for North American Missions and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, March 2–9
Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday, March 16
Church Planting Emphasis Sunday, March 16
SBC Seminaries Sunday, April 6
Cooperative Program Sunday, April 13
Baptist Doctrine Study, April 13–18
Life Commitment Sunday, April 20
Senior Adult Sunday, May 4
Christian Home Week, May 11–17
Baptist Association Emphasis, May 18–24
2014 SBC Housing Reservation Form
Click here to download the hotel reservation form and rates for the 2014 Southern Baptist Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Sinlung / World
Turkey, Burma, Peru, Antarctica, France ... the most incredible spots on Earth not overrun by tourists
The spectacular Zhangye Danxia hills of China. Picture: rolando000 Source: Flickr
IT’S one thing to tick off seeing the iconic sites around the world, but to stumble across places so remote and untouched is even more exhilarating.
We’ve put together a list of the most incredible locations around the world that have managed to stay off the beaten track. We’re so glad they did.
Rock tombs in Myra, Lycia, Turkey
The preserved rock cut tombs in the ancient city of Myra were carved into cliffs and were a common form of burial for the wealthy.
Eerie but awesome at the same time. Picture: jiuguangw Source: Flickr
Hallstatt, Austria
One of the most picturesque villages in Europe, it lies tucked away between a lake and a spectacular mountain range. Breathtakingly beautiful, it became prosperous after making its wealth through the mining of salt.
Straight off a postcard. Hallstatt, Austria. Source: ThinkStock
Huacachina, Peruvian desert
This tiny oasis in the Peruvian desert is home to slightly more than 100 people showcasing rare life in the desert dunes.
Respite from the desert heat. Picture: Nouhailer. Source: Flickr
The Bastei Bridge in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany
The Bastei is a rock formation towering 194 metres above the Elbe River in Germany with one of the best lookout points in Europe. In 1851 the old wooden bridge was replaced by this more secure stone one.
Bastei bridge is camouflaged with the rock face. Source: ThinkStock
Zhangye Danxia Landform, Gansu, China
These incredibly rich coloured rock formations are made up of red sandstone and mineral deposits that were created over 24 million years.
The amazing shapes were formed by wind and rain that carved valleys, waterfalls, towers and ravines into the rock face.
This looks like a landscape painting. Picture: epherterson. Source: Flickr
Procida, Italy
One of the best-kept secrets in the Bay of Naples in Italy, Procida is a cluster of picturesque pastel houses and fishermen that has remained relatively hidden from the tourist beat.
Life hasn’t changed much in Procida. Picture: JJKDC. Source: Flickr
Chichilianne, Rhone Alpes, France
Towering above this French town lies Mont Aiguille, a 2000 metre high mountain made of limestone and surrounded by steep cliffs
The daunting mountain towers over the village. Picture: girolme. Source: Flickr
Deception Island, Antarctica
With a distinctive horseshoe shape, Deception Island is one of the most remote places on earth.
Offering sanctuary to animals including hundreds of penguins, its unique landscape is made up of barren volcanic slopes, steaming beaches and ash-layered glaciers.
It’s rare to see humans this far south. Picture: ravas51 Source: Flickr
Monument Valley is made up of a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 300 metres above the valley floor with access via dirt road or tour group only.
The impressive three sisters rock formations. Picture: Ron Cogswell Source: Flickr
Fès, Morocco
The ancient Leather Souq is the world’s oldest leather tannery. Numerous stone pots are filled with different coloured dyes, a practice that dates back to the 11th century.
Huge vats of dyes date back over 900 years. Picture: fr.zil. Source: Flickr
Bagan, Burma
The ancient city of Bagan is home to one of the world’s greatest archaeological sites. Thousands of incredible temples were built by the kings of Bagan between 1057 and 1287 and over 2000 survive today.
It’s not ancient without some King’s temples. Source: ThinkStock
Meghalaya, India
Looking like a movie set straight out of The Hobbit, the Meghalaya hills receive nearly 480 inches of rain every year. The valley floors of this remote rainforest are transformed into rivers meaning the only means of travel is via a series of bridges.
A series of man made bridges links the forest. Picture: fixing-shadows. Source: Flickr
Craco, Matera, Basilicata, Italy
The medieval village of Craco is now an abandoned ghost town after a series of landslides forced its residents out. Rumour has it that the ruins are now inhabited by ghosts.
Eerie ruins are now haunted by ghosts. Picture: Andrea Tomassi. Source: Flickr
Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal
This unique estate is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and features a series of wells that were used for ceremonial purposes including Tarot initiation rites.
Walk down ancient initiation wells. Source: ThinkStock
Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River, Arizona
Shaped like a horseshoe, this majestic natural bend in the Colorado river is only accessible by hikers.
Nature never ceases to amaze us. Picture: tailwindsphotography Source: Flickr
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For the sixth consecutive year, Garavel Subaru of Norwalk selects Mikey’s Way Foundation as their Share the Love Event hometown charity
Garavel Subaru’s longtime partnership with Mikey’s Way has raised nearly $200,000 to help pediatric cancer patients in treatment.
Paul and Jeremy Garavel of Garavel Subaru on a Mikey's Way Day at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital
"Garavel Subaru has taken their philosophy of giving and put it into action to help the most vulnerable among us."-Les Friedman, CEO of Mikey's Way Foundation
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (PRWEB) November 12, 2019
Garavel Subaru of Norwalk has once again chosen Mikey’s Way Foundation to be the hometown charity recipient for their annual Share the Love Event. From November 15, 2019 to January 2, 2020, Subaru of America will donate $250 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased at Garavel Subaru in Norwalk. In addition, every time Mikey’s Way Foundation is chosen as the charity of choice, Garavel Subaru will donate an additional $100 to Mikey’s Way for each sold or leased vehicle.
Since 2014, Garavel’s Share The Love Event has raised close to $200,000 for Mikey’s Way Foundation. That translates into more than 1,000 brand new electronic gifts such as laptop computers and tablets for pediatric cancer patients in treatment. In addition, Mikey’s Way was able to outfit each in-patient pediatric hematology/oncology room at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with an iPad for use during prolonged stays.
“We believe people will be remembered for what they do in the community, not for their individual accomplishments,” says Paul Garavel, President and owner of Garavel Subaru. “We are delighted to be partnering with Mikey’s Way once again this year, working to ease the strain of long-term treatment for pediatric cancer patients and their families.”
“We are honored and humbled to be chosen once again this year as the hometown charity for Garavel Subaru’s Share the Love event,” says Les Friedman, CEO of Mikey’s Way Foundation. “The Subaru organization, and Garavel Subaru in particular, genuinely cares about the people in need in our community. They’ve taken their philosophy of giving and put it into action to help the most vulnerable among us – and we are so grateful.”
Mikey’s Way Foundation was founded by Michael “Mikey” Friedman, who was diagnosed at 15 with a rare form of cancer. The Foundation gives laptop computers, tablets, and other Wi-Fi ready electronics to kids affected by the emotional and physical hardships of long-term debilitating treatment. They distribute these electronic gifts via their Mikey’s Way Day and Mikey’s Wish List programs to children all over the country with an emphasis in Connecticut and New York. The gifts provide diversion and connection with family and friends, helping them to cope with cancer… Mikey’s Way.
Garavel Subaru is located at 10 Tindall Avenue in Norwalk, CT. Everyday Garavel Subaru holds true to their motto: "Selling cars is what we do. Helping the community is who we are." For more information about Garavel Subaru visit http://www.garavelsubaru.com.
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Interview: FuturLab on How to Become a Licensed PSP Mini Developer
With the announcement of Coconut Dodge from FuturLab, I became aware that this studio was experienced Flash game makers. Being in the process of making my first Flash game myself I was very interested in how they made the jump from Flash to becoming licensed PSP mini developers.
Luckily James Marsden, FuturLab’s managing director, was just as interested in talking about their experience.
For a budding indie game developer planning to take the journey to becoming a published minis developer, what are the steps they need to take, and is there anything that can be done to increase the chances of a successful application?
James Marsden: Well, I can only speak from our experience, and we were licensed with Sony before minis were announced. However, I can give advice on how someone inexperienced can become licensed, not just for minis, but for regular PSP, PS3 and PS Home. However, the advice I can give only really applies to studios or individuals with new IP to offer, as Sony loves to foster new talent – LittleBigPlanet and Flower being recent examples.
To answer your question there is a way to radically improve your chances of a successful application. It’s not easy, but it is very simple: show your game to Sony in person.
If the ideas are good, Sony will listen, no matter how inexperienced you are. You do have to shout quite loudly to get their attention though – we had to dazzle them with an innovative pitch to capture their imagination. We felt it was essential to go the extra mile in presenting something in person, as it’s very hard to make an impact on a piece of paper when you have very few credentials. We had no game industry experience, and just one game demo built in Flash. It may not work for everyone, but if you have nothing in terms of a game industry CV, it’s by far the most effective way to be taken seriously.
Of course, if you do have some experience, then the submission process will likely be fine for you. My advice is to spend a couple of weeks preparing it – show it to friends to get their feedback, and then contact a local and established games company and politely ask for their advice on your proposal. All you’re asking for is advice, and most people will find that flattering, and be happy to help. If they think it’s particularly good they may even help you further.
This is how we got started in fact – a client we’d done some Flash work for knew Relentless Software (makers of Buzz! and Blue Toad Murder Files), and sent them the pitch on our behalf. The next thing we know we’re being given pitch advice from one of the most successful studios in the world, and the name and number of the right person to call at Sony.
Some people may call that luck, but it’s about looking for opportunities, and acting on them with confidence.
That’s quite a long answer, but it boils down to just two simple ingredients: having a good idea and a professional attitude. If you present yourself professionally, Sony will respond positively.
What sort of costs should an indie developer plan to incur from the very start of the journey to the end result of having a game live on the PSN.
JM: I can only speak from our experience in the UK, but indirect costs (those that are incurred separately to the cost of actually making the game), are probably around £1,400 (roughly £1100 for the development kit and £250 for the PEGI license). You can promote the game freely by being nice to people and asking politely for help
What programming language, development tools or engines should they be familiar with or consider learning.
JM: C or C++ definitely. I consider myself a heavyweight Flash programmer – I’ve been working with ActionScript for 7 years now, but I couldn’t touch what Robin (Jubber) does with C on the PSP. That’s just my experience – but programming and scripting are worlds apart.
However, if you have a good idea, and the professional attitude to be serious about making a game, then you can find a programmer to work with. I found Robin by chance encounters, and was lucky. It’s important to note that I only met Robin after we’d become licensed with SCE. They didn’t care that we were Flash developers with no prior C/C++ experience – they just liked our ideas.
Having almost completed this journey yourself is there any other advice or words of wisdom you would want to say to someone considering taking this journey?
JM: Start with something simple and relatively easy. I remember hearing those words a few years ago and thinking ‘pah’, I’m going to make my dream game straight away! – but after a couple of years slowly realising what’s actually involved in making a dream game, I now acknowledge the wisdom of going through the process on a small scale. We’ve learned so much doing Coconut Dodge, and it’s a really simple game – it could have been built in Flash in a couple of weeks, but on PSP it took several months.
To illustrate this point, you might be wondering how come this is our first game yet we’ve been licensed for PS3 and PSP for a while? The simple answer is that we’ve been too ambitious over the last couple of years – we have some awesome games in development, but they’re either too big or too original (yes, that is a problem unfortunately) for publishers to back them.
So, we’re starting small, with the plan to put all revenue we generate from Coconut Dodge back into our other game projects. Here’s hoping people like it! We still do and we’ve been playing it for years – it was our very first, very poorly produced Flash game
Posted by Chris on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 12:46 am
Filed under Interviews · Tagged with FuturLab, Minis Development
11 Responses to “Interview: FuturLab on How to Become a Licensed PSP Mini Developer”
prince caro 19 says:
thanks for that, really nice interview,
youre learning flash chris? nice.
i actually made a couple (psp compatible) flash games awhile ago with a trial of flash 5 a couple years ago.
one day i just decided to make a video game, then i did,
which is very much unlike me, being a procrastinator.
the main point of me doing this was to see if i’d like making games (video games being my passion), turns out it was very enjoyable, occasionally frustrating, but that just made it better when i succeeded.
so anyway i promised myself i would do this for a living when i was old enough (i just recently started trying to learn a introductory programming language called Turing),
so hearing a story like this is really inspiring.
i really am a sucker for developers who come over here and talk about what they do, and how they got to where they are,
so me buying this game when (if?) it comes out in Canada is inevitable (i’ll have to hope they can afford to get it rated by ESRB shortly after its release).
i wish you the best of luck, FuturLabs.
James Marsden says:
I just realised I forgot to mention that we paid £250 for the PEGI license because Coconut Dodge is in the 3+ category. If the game has adult themes then PEGI spend more time rating it and subsequently it costs more. I’ll post back with the maximum cost when I’m back in the office.
@prince caro 19
Thanks very much! To answer your question about releasing in Canada, we have just this week been assigned a SCEA account manager who is able to help us release the game over there, so hopefully soon!
Takao says:
Very cool to hear this story. As someone who has some experience in Flash (admitedly only in the animation portions), and always wanted to get in the video game industry, this interview gives me some hope. You’re right though James, starting simple is key. When I first started to use Flash I invisioned making an animated web-series that could be produced on a weekly basis. Soon after that idea was scrapped after realizing I got way too deep for a person who just learned how to swim.
Do you guys have to be mindful of what you put on the Minis? Considering the platform is cross-compatible with the PS3 and PSP with the prospect of even more platforms in the future, have you guys seen yourselves scrapping ideas because they wouldn’t mesh well with both platforms, or have you guys decided to focus gameplay ideas on one platform? Does SCE even require that games be playable on PSP and PS3 (we’ve seen plenty of SCE’s own Minis incompatible with the PS3)? Also, is SCE leniant on the 100MB rule? Or is that simply a guideline?
It’s also interesting to read how motherly SCEE seems to be. It appears to be in a stark contrast to SCEA, who seems some what unsupportive of the Minis program. The lack of North American indie support on the Minis platform seems to support that notion. For SCEJ, I can’t really blame them, as Minis are available solely through digital distribution via the PlayStation Store, and digital distribution doesn’t fly over there too well.
somedude2008 says:
Good luck with your flash game Chris
I’m looking forward to playing coconut dodge.
Zack says:
From my own experience, I find SCEA perfectly supportive for our minis development efforts, ready to help with any problem that arises, actually even more than SCEE.
As promised, the maximum cost to rate a minis game with PEGI is 500 EUR.
volcane says:
Thanks for an excellent interview – this was a very interesting read!
I’m fascinated about the game development process and I’m particularly keen to hear about the smaller and/or indie teams. We all want great innovative games to play and I think we all want to support the talented people working to create wonderful content. I think it adds a huge amount to our enjoyment & appreciation to learn about the folks behind the games we play.
There has been some superb support & contributions to this site so far by some of best Minis development teams, in interviews, giveaway codes and (importantly) forum participation and willingness to answer player questions and take feedback. This is awesome as it ultimately brings us closer to the game and helps us feel involved and part of the process.
In terms of the game Coconut Dodge, from the gameplay video it looks quite fun and additive! I shall definitely be picking up a copy
Thanks for the support! Happy to hear you liked the interview.
I’m doing a series of articles on PlayStation Blog over the next three weeks which you might find interesting. I’m going to be going into a lot of detail about how we became licensed with Sony, and how we evolved Coconut Dodge from a very poor Flash game to a level worthy of publishing on PlayStation Store
You can have a look here:
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/04/28/introducing-coconut-dodge/
We’ve also just launched the Facebook page: http://bit.ly/amzlVS
FuturLab says:
Here’s our second PlayStation Blog post, which goes into detail about how we became licensed with Sony:
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/05/06/futurlab-pitch-to-sony/
We would like to become licensed developers for PSP minis. Having looked at the licensing website the requirements (mandatory fields) seem a little strange e.g. VAT reg requirement – we dont make enough to be VAT registered, IP range – we are not big enough for an IP range to be allocated. We have a number of propositions for games we would like to bring to market. From reading your posts. Is there another way rather than going through the SCEE website to register as it seems this process is meant for the big boys rather than small independents (which I thought minis were aimed at)? We dont have a Sony account manager, but happy to make a pitch on our plans etc. Can you offer any guidance?
How to start development for PSN? Drija says:
[...] Answers Erick Robertson You have to put money down. Call Sony and ask them about it. They’ll tell you how to hook yourself up with the official developer’s kit. It will cost money. But of course, you’ll make that money in the back end. So the question really is, how confident are you that you can make something that will end up on PSN for sale? July 26, 2010 3:41 am coderanger Note that when he says “will cost money” he means $10k (~?7k I think). You also need to pay a yearly fee with Nintendo, not sure if Sony does something similar. July 26, 2010 4:29 am MrValdez I was afraid of that. I guess PSN is out for poor me. July 26, 2010 4:46 am coderanger As mentioned above, getting a real devkit and being setup as a licensed studio can take quite a bit of cash. A better bet might be to learn Unity since Unity3 (which is supposed to be out Real Soon Now) will support PS3. That said, Unity Pro is still not cheap, though they haven’t said if the free version will support targeting the PS3 last I looked. July 26, 2010 4:33 am Noctrine More than likely, like with the Wii, you will need the pro version in addition to a special secondary license. as well as the devkit. July 27, 2010 1:38 am Andrew Brockert Yes, this will be the case for both 360 and PS3, according to Tom Higgins. July 28, 2010 11:29 am Olly Here is an interesting article on becoming a developer of the “mini” titles that have recently come onto PSN. http://www.pspminis.com/2068/interview-futurlab-on-how-to-become-a-licensed-psp-mini-developer/ [...]
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Read from IMDb that David R Ellis has passed away.
Ellis was born on September 8 1952 and exactly fourteen year later Star Trek made its debut in 1966.
Ellis himself worked on Star Trek as a stunt man in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
Other stunt work included Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Beastmaster (1982), Flying High II: The Sequel, the world of V in the 1980s, Gorky Park, Burglar, Fatal Attraction, She’s Out of Control, Baywatch. Misery, The Addams Family (1991), Patriot Games & Harriet The Spy.
Ellis was also an actor and director.
As an actor his work included the Wonder Woman TV series & Rocky III.
Among his directing work included Snakes On A Plane.
Ellis was also a second unit director or assistant director and his work in this capacity included Fatal Attraction, Baywatch, Patriot Games, Forever Young, Beethoven’s 2nd, Clear and Present Danger, The Jungle Book (1994), Waterworld, Sphere, Soldier, Deep Blue Sea, The Kid, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Matrix Reloaded.
David R Ellis died on January 7 2013 at the age of 60.
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Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wr...the_Pirkinning
Saw it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uakx1DuaztE
Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning was not only a parody on Star Trek as indicated by the words Star Wreck but also Babylon 5 with In The Pirkinning undoubtedly a reference to the Babylon 5 TV movie In The Beginning.
The Pirk part of the name is in reference to James B PIrk an obvious parody on James T Kirk.
It was only after finished watching this movie that I discovered that it is the seventh in the Star Wreck series. It seems that whereas In The Pirkinning runs for 103 minutes the previous entries in the series have been of much shorter lengths.
Along with Pirk, the characters in In The Pirkinning is that of a parody of familiar Star Trek and Babylon 5 characters. Among the other familiar Star Trek characters that got spoofed were based on Worf and Data. The Worf-like and Data-like served under the Kirk-like Pirk. It was somewhat bizarre to look at considering the fact that Worf and Data had served under Picard not Kirk.
In The Pirkinning had a crossover with the Star Trek-like and Babylon 5-like universes something that is unthinkable to happen on the official Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes. Not only that but the crew of both universes are at war with each other. No doubt this fulfils the dreams of many Star Trek and Babylon 5 fans.
As spoofs goes this was not bad.
Robin Sachs has passed away.
Robin Sachs appeared in the Voyager episode The Void playing General Valen.
As well as Star Trek he also appeared in the Doctor Who, Babylon 5 and Buffy universes.
More on this at the Torchwood thread.
Star Trek Into Darkness Super Bowl Spot:
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Star Wreck 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qo3C_yIaw8
This is the first in the Star Wreck series of films and it only lasts for four minutes.
Completely made in computer animation and it is fun and amusing in a lot of places including the battle sequences.
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Russia’s Response to Sanctions: Reciprocal, Asymmetrical, or Orthogonal?
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Адам Сталберг,
Jonathan Darsey
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Western sanctions on Russia have failed demonstratively to secure Moscow’s formal compliance with stated objectives. Both sides seem worlds apart in their expectations and approaches; expert communities and policymakers have embraced fundamentally different understandings of the meaning, objectives, processes, and legitimacy of sanctions-related behavior. This reinforces asymmetrical preferences, muddles threats, rationalizes costs, and thwarts tailored initiatives, while affirming each side’s parochial assessments of its leverage over the other, stoking escalation. Applying data analytical techniques to examine respective discourses on the matter, we reveal that neither deadlock nor uncertainty are the likely prime drivers of the gap between the “high incidence and low effectiveness” of Western-Russian sanctions behavior. The best bets—given cross-domain responses and divergent worldviews—may lie with either closing ranks with Western allies to offer dramatic gestures for re-setting the broader strategic agenda with Russia, or building understanding of each side’s assumptions by engaging Moscow in the design and tactical applications of future sanctions directed at third parties of mutual concern.
Mutual Complacency in the Sanctions Tangle
There is a curious paradox between the escalation of sanctions between the United States/EU and Russia and their ineffectiveness at achieving explicit and tangible objectives. Despite doubling down on the frequency and intensity, Western sanctions on Russia have failed demonstratively to secure Russia’s formal compliance with such aims as restoring Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea, implementing fully the Minsk accords, admitting guilt in ordering the Skripal attack, withdrawing support for the Assad regime, and refraining from election meddling. While the volume of Russian gas exports to Europe has increased in the face of targeted sanctions on the energy sector, the promise of secondary sanctions—which historically have hit European firms harder than American ones—has excited transatlantic debate over energy security and burden-sharing in standing up to Russia.
Similarly, Moscow’s “reciprocal” ban on food imports from the United States, EU, Norway, Canada, and Australia, as well as attempts at monetary and trade diversification, have yielded paltry strategic results. This is confounded by ad hoc exemptions to the embargo on European agricultural imports, Belarus’ emergence as a willing re-exporter, Russia’s restricted trade footprint and dependence on Western financial systems, and the declining purchasing power of Russian consumers. Moscow also has failed outright to stem escalation—costing the Russian economy upwards of 1.5 percent GDP per annum and reducing the profitability of targeted firms—or to drive an effective political wedge between Western partners with different stakes and levels of hostility towards trade with Russia.
Despite no end in sight, there is mutual complacency about the increasingly costly, if not risky, U.S.-Russian sanctions tangle. It is widely accepted across Washington that sanctions are the “least bad option” to protest Russia’s malign behavior, and the escalating intensity of these sanctions is seen as a low cost approach to demonstrating resolve to both foreign and domestic audiences, even if they are not effective in softening up Russian targets or deterring more egregious offensives by the Kremlin. Similarly, Russian officials trumpet the resilience of the political economic system in the face of Western sanctions. They are strategically emboldened by seeming invulnerability to Western economic pressure and confidence at import substitution and “de-problematizing” sanctions to the Russian public. At the crux of respective postures are presumptions that the sides are either deadlocked with conflicting strategies pursued for domestic purposes, or that the respective sender needs to take more forceful action to convince the other ultimately to back down.
Applying both events and text-mining data analytical techniques to examine respective discourses, we discern that neither deadlock nor uncertainty are the likely prime reasons for the “high incidence-low effectiveness” gap in sanctions behavior. Instead, both sides appear to be “worlds apart” in their expectations and approaches to sanctions. Rather than pursuing “reciprocal sanctions” or simply being satisfied with domestic efforts to blunt the impact of Western trade restrictions, Moscow is prone to respond to Western economic sanctions by escalating broader forms of coercion across different policy areas. Furthermore, Western and Russian strategic communities embrace fundamentally different understandings of the meaning, objectives, processes, and legitimacy of sanctions-related behavior. Together, orthogonal behavior (meaning not being influenced by each other in the intended way and provoking a cross-domain rather than reciprocal response) and contending worldviews related to sanctions overshadow all plans and initiatives while affirming each side’s parochial assessments of its leverage over the other and stoking dangerous escalation that is otherwise masked by wishful thinking or a fixation on domestic audience costs.
The Sanctions Problematique
Economic sanctions are tools of statecraft aimed at withholding economic and financial exchange to advance foreign policy objectives. Typically, they are designed to impose pain on a target so that the costs of compliance outweigh the benefits of resistance, while presenting a cost-effective option for the “sender” (the sanctioning state). Sanctions can be directed toward different ends—deterring future action, punishing/forcing regime change, signaling discontent, upholding a norm—and come in different forms. Accordingly, sanctions are intrinsically dynamic, whereby the impact—costs imposed on a target—is shaped by the interaction among sending, target, and third parties to affect the ultimate success—the attainment of specific objectives of the states imposing sanctions.
This sanctions equation rests on three basic assumptions. First, senders and targets are presumed to rationally calculate costs, benefits, and probabilities in respective decisions to impose or comply with sanctions. Second, sanctions succeed when they impose significant costs on relevant targets; they fail when the link between economic impact and policy influence is disrupted. Third, they work when sanctions threats and the punishment imposed by senders are received as intended by targets. Given information asymmetries between international rivals, much attention is paid to a sender’s capacity to issue credible threats and demonstrate resolve to deliver painful punishment.
Yet, how pain is assessed and signals are received can be as much a function of how in tune a target is with a sender at processing them, cognitively or politically. Asymmetries in prior understandings concerning the legitimacy and efficacy of sanctions, for example, may lead targets to draw very different conclusions about the credibility or meaning of specific actions, irrespective of how transparent a sender may be at conveying the sincerity of threats or bluntness at imposing sanctions. Similarly, how a target perceives and chooses to respond to sanctions may vary; reciprocating with counter-sanctions is only one option. In the case of Russia, scholars are beginning to uncover not only contrasting cognitive frames that are used to evaluate respective interests and perceptions of threat posed by Western sanctions, but altogether different conceptualizations of the interplay between regional foreign policy priorities, the country’s position within global geo-economic structures, and prevailing business frames. The latter, in turn, shape the geographic scope, financial levers, and institutional features of Moscow’s sanctions-related behavior, as well as trigger divergent perceptions of threat from across economic sectors.
Cross-Domain Effects
The contemporary debate over the effectiveness of Western sanctions turns on assessment of Moscow’s behavioral response. As noted above, there is little tangible evidence of direct compliance with the specific sanctions regimes. However, more nuanced positions seek to evaluate the extent to which Moscow reciprocates or not with counter-sanctions, or otherwise responds asymmetrically to dampen the impact of Western sanctions. The latter can take the form of: diversifying non-Western trade ties; manipulating public support for the regime (rally around the flag effect); insulating targeted sectors and individuals from imposed costs; and/or bolstering the resilience of the national economy through import substitution, currency manipulation, and stimulation of domestic innovation.
A key feature relates to the diversity of Moscow’s international behavior surrounding the imposition of Western sanctions. GDELT and ICEWS1 datasets of millions of events from the mid-1990s make it possible to distinguish broad trends in Moscow’s sanctions-related international behavior. Using CAMEO taxonomy of sanctions-related codes associated with both datasets, our preliminary research reveals that since 2010 sanctions have not constituted a mainstay of Russia's foreign policy, especially in comparison to the United States.
The trends become more nuanced, however, as they relate to nationally targeted sanctions. As depicted in Figure 1 (see the Appendix), Russia’s sanctions-related activity as a percentage of its overall foreign attention to the United States tracks closely with the analogous U.S. sanctions-related activity as a sub-set of events directed at Russia. There is a clear pattern of mirroring by Russia, with upticks in Russian sanctions events following nearly all upturns in U.S. sanctions targeting Russia. However, Russia’s reciprocal sanctions response appears muted, as its sanctions activity is a much less prominent feature of the actions it takes targeting the United States than are sanctions within U.S. actions targeting Russia.
Moreover, this broader empirical pattern does not reflect a straightforward, binary action-reaction dynamic between United States-Russia sanctions behavior. Rather, to the extent that there may be a “reactive” dimension, the “main events” may be more across-strategy/domain, rather than reciprocal. Specifically, U.S. sanctions targeted at Russia tend to correspond with more frequent and intensive surges in Russia’s overall coercive behavior—including verbal threats and material actions—directed at the West. Figure 2 illustrates that Russia’s coercion directed at the United States increases significantly following the imposition of U.S. targeted sanctions, with the frequency of Russian coercive action against the US consistently exceeding the frequency of U.S. sanctions actions against Russia, especially since the onset of the Ukrainian crisis in 2014.
Closer qualitative analysis of the details of these spikes reveals several potential avenues for future research. For example, Russia seems to embrace a discriminatory coercive response to U.S. sanctions, varying both the type and intensity of policy action. Moscow often deploys both diplomatic and legal forms of coercion against the United States prior to and during periods of U.S. imposed sanctions, arguing that these sanctions violate international law as well as Russia’s sovereignty. At the same time, Russia appears to couple its muted sanctions behavior with an increase in malign financing directed at Europe and other geographically differentiated coercive activities, including more frequent use of limited military force in Ukraine and Syria, possibly as part of a concerted, orthogonal response to Western sanctions. Furthermore, Russia’s malign financial statecraft is both more prevalent than its economic sanctions and energy coercion and directed primarily at the United States, Western Europe, and the NIS and much less at Central & Eastern Europe. Such tailored statecraft, however, does not seem to be preceded by graduated threats of imposing sanctions on the West.
Western and Russian worldviews are seemingly further apart when it comes to how they understand and conceive of sanctions. A close qualitative review of the key works in respective sanctions literatures reveals that whereas Russian scholarship is almost categorically pessimistic about the success of sanctions at altering foreign policy behavior, Western commentary is generally marked by debate over alternative conditions for infrequent success.
These distinctions become more pronounced with systematic bibliometric and text analyses of a curated corpus of 2,060 research articles on sanctions published since 2010 by Russian- and Western-based scholars and culled from Web of Science and SCOPUS, two highly respected and globally accessible citation indexes. The former reveals that despite the growing volume of publications on sanctions among both Russian and Western scholars, especially since the 2014 Ukraine crisis, the respective communities operate in isolation of each other and have little in common—publishing in different journals, citing different sources, and studying different sanctions-related topics.
Substantively, there is even greater distance, as depicted in Figure 3, which captures the results of applying machine-learning-enabled keyword co-occurrence mapping to the titles of the articles in the corpus. This reveals that while Western scholarship focuses primarily on the strategic dimensions of sanctions, Russian scholarship clusters narrowly around their macroeconomic impact, as well as the utility of asymmetrical responses including import substitution, domestic regulation, national innovation, and strategic trade diversification away from the West and towards India and China.
This is underscored in Table 4, which compares the most prominent themes within the articles written by Russian researchers with those authors based outside of Russia. These were extracted by applying the machine learning technique of LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) topic modeling to the abstracts in the corpus, resulting in a set of topics represented by weighted clusters of frequently co-occurring terms. The LDA topic modeling highlights the Russian preoccupation with the domestic economic dimensions of blunting Western sanctions, as well as some overlap between the strategic communities in assessing the impact of sanctions in Russia and abroad.
The above events and text analyses reveal that the West and Russia may indeed be on very different planes when it comes to sanctions, with implications for refining U.S. policy. The events analyses suggest that Russia's response to U.S. sanctions may be more broad-based and cross-domain than reciprocal, resulting in an opportunistic (rather than a coherent and graduated) and multifaceted reactive posture. This, in turn, may be suggestive of a tactical, ad hoc approach to sanctions that is nevertheless part of a more strategic approach to cross-domain, dynamic coercion in response to United States/EU sanctions. Accordingly, Western sanctions are not cost-free, and perpetuation of the status quo risks escalating challenges on multiple policy fronts, including domains where the United States and Europe may not be on the same page or enjoy competitive advantages.
More fundamentally, our text analyses underscore how the two strategic communities are “worlds apart” in understanding and assessing sanctions-related activity. For Washington, this means that efforts at signaling greater commitment by escalating pain on select Russian sectoral and individual targets are likely falling on deaf ears. Discrete sanctions not only risk conveying a lower Western pain threshold for sanctions, but do not resonate as legitimate within the Russian strategic community. The latter risks perversely fueling the Kremlin’s efforts to blunt, divert, distract or manipulate Western trading practices to bolster its position at home and abroad. Furthermore, contending worldviews on sanctions suggest that the risky status quo derives from neither deadlock nor uncertainty. Consequently, incremental steps at direct confidence-building and extending reciprocal concessions with sanctions relief may be simply too little, too late. Instead, the most productive course may lie with engaging Moscow on multilateral tactical applications of sanctions (and possibly inducements) directed at common third-party targets (e.g. North Korea) that avoid core contradictory interpretations associated with bilateral sanctions. Beyond that, given the risks associated with the escalation of direct sanctions, Western allies should close ranks either to fashion a coherent cross-domain counter-strategy to buffer Moscow’s broad-based coercive responses or offer dramatic gestures for re-setting the strategic agenda with Russia.
Adam N. Stulberg is Sam Nunn Professor and Chair, and Jonathan Darsey is PhD Candidate, in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The authors are grateful for the data analytical support provided by the Project RuBase team (Hague Center for Strategic Studies and Georgia Tech) and the partial financial support provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
[1] Both ICEWS (Integrated Crisis Early Warning System) and GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone) are open-source, machine-coded datasets that seek to capture and characterize the international behavior and interactions of states. Each dataset is generated through the automated analysis of newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other online resources; similarly, each dataset utilizes the CAMEO event schema to characterize events. The datasets differ in the sources that they use, their size (GDELT is significantly larger), and the scraping and cleaning algorithms that they employ, and there is an active debate within the academic and policy communities about the relative strengths and weaknesses of each.
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Figure 1: Russia and United States Comparative Use of Sanction in Interactions with the Other State
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Figure 1 Notes: 1. *‘Reciprocal sanctions’ are sanction event counts for Russian sanctions targeting the United States and U.S. sanctions targeting Russia. 2. ‘Sanction events’ were those events coded as either ‘impose sanctions,’ ‘threaten sanctions,’ or ‘refuse to remove sanctions’ in the datasets.
Figure 2: U.S. Sanctions Targeting Russia and Russian Conflictual Events Targeting the United States
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Figure 3: Relationship between Frequently Co-Occurring Terms in the Abstracts of Academic Articles on Sanctions
Figure 3 Notes: 1. Terms were extracted automatically from abstracts, then a list of pairs of terms that both occurred in the same abstract was developed. The 30 most ‘distinctive’ pairs of these terms were identified using TF-IDF scores, a text mining statistic that emphasizes terms that appear multiple times in the same abstract. K-means clustering, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm similar to the one used by Google and other search engines, was then used to identify groups of these terms (‘clusters’) with statistically similar characteristics. 2. After reviewing these clusters, the authors developed the qualitative labels shown for each, such as ‘International Relations & Political Economy.’ 3. Terms that have bold are common across the co-occurrence diagrams generated from the Russian-authored and non-Russian authored abstracts. 4. The relative location of the different terms in each cluster conveys no additional meaning; they were arranged by the authors for readability.
Table 4: Topics Extracted from Abstracts of Russian and Non-Russian Academic Articles on Sanctions
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Table 4 Notes: Topic models were extracted using Bibliometrix natural language software (on R-package). Project team used the institutional affiliation of the author(s) of each article to attribute each as either ‘Russian’ (one or more authors with Russian institutional affiliation) or ‘Non-Russian.’ Articles written by Russian and by Non-Russian authors were grouped and analyzed separately, resulting in two different sets of topics, associated words, and themes for each. For each group, the topics and associated words were identified by using a statistical assessment of the frequency that words in the abstracts tended to co-occur (i.e., appear in the same abstract). The thematic labels for each topic are qualitative interpretations of the themes that the mathematical topic models likely represent. The team developed these thematic labels by reviewing the mathematical models and the underlying associated abstracts together.
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Adam Stulberg
Technology, and Policy, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs; Associate Director, Strategic Energy Institute
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Thu, Aug 13, 2009 - Page 8 News List
How can Ma appease the military?
By J. Michael Cole 寇謐將
When it comes to Washington, Ma has been forced to hedge against the possibility of abandonment while uncertainty remains in the Taiwan Strait.
Over the years, proof of political commitment and good relations with the US has largely come in the form of permission to purchase arms.
If Ma were to suddenly cut off the arms procurement spigot with the US, Washington could react either by increasing pressure on Taipei — especially through US constituents who fear a scenario in which Taiwan becomes part of the Chinese camp in East Asia — or abandoning it altogether, which would have serious ramifications for Taiwan’s ability to defend itself should cross-strait rapprochement derail.
Ma cannot disregard the interests of the military establishment. The key question is: As his powerbase grows and as the military is “cleansed” of what he sees as revisionist elements, will he become increasingly unresponsive to its appeals?
One way to assess this will be to see how the military is reorganized and what conclusions are reached following the corruption crackdown.
Another will be to look at Ma’s pronouncements on military expenditure, and whether words are turned into deeds — in other words, whether weapons are actually purchased and fielded.
J. Michael Cole is a writer based in Taipei.
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Sivanand Ashram
Sivanand Ashram caters to the cultural needs of all ranks of people, to whatever class they may belong. The holy river Ganges flows by the side of the Ashram, coming down from Himalayas. Just as there is a Government in all countries to maintain law and order, there is also an inner Government to maintain law and order within ourselves. The Sivanand Ashram has the same belief and conteously working on making visitors believe in their spirituality. The Ashram works on the creative aspect of the Divinity within man.
Ram Jhoola
Ram Jhula is an iron suspension bridge situated at Muni Ki Reti in Rishikesh. It is a connecting bridge between Swargadham, Gita Bhawan and other temples. Built in the 1980s, over the Ganges to cross the river and is also a landmark for city of Rishikesh. Ram jhula is located 3 kilometres north to Rishikesh where some of the Hindu ashrams and religious centers like The Gita Bhawan, and Swarg Ashram are located. Though similar in design, this bridge is bigger than its sibling bridge, Lakshman jhula. This bridge constructed above 59 feet from summer water level.
Geeta Ashram
Geeta Ashram is dedicated for the mythological awareness of the common people. Ashran encloses many paintings and statues of characters from Hindu Mythology. Ashra is neighbored by the banks of the holy river Ganges, amidst the Himalayan Mountains at Rishikesh. It consists of a very large complex. A large number of devotees visit and stay here for holy Ganges dip. During the summer months, day-long special programs are arranged for devotees.
Sacred bath at Harki-Pauri
On the banks of Ganga, Har Ki Pauri is the major pilgrimage attraction in Uttaranchal. This sacred ghat is extremely important as footprints of Lord Vishnu are found in here. Har Ki Pauri is a famous ghat on the banks of the Ganges and the major landmark of the holy city of Haridwar. Literally, "Har" means "Lord Shiva", "ki" means "of" and "pauri" means "steps". Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu are believed to have visited the Har ki Paudi in the Vedic times. The ghat is on the west bank of Ganges canal through which river Ganges is diverted to the north. Har ki pauri is where thousands of pilgrims during the Kumbha Mela.
Mansa Devi Temple
Mansa Devi Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi in the holy city of Hraidwar. The temple is located on the Sivalik Hills, the southernmost mountain chain of the Himalayas. The temple is the holy abode of Manasa, a form of Shakti and is said to have emerged from the mind of the sage Kashyapa. Devotees who want their wishes to be fulfilled by Mansa tie threads to the branches of a tree located in the same temple. Once their wishes are fulfilled, people come back to untie the thread from the tree. Godess Mansa is also offered coconuts, fruits, garlands and incense sticks by devotees. The Mansa Devi is a Siddh Peetha, a place of worship where desires get fulfilled.
Swarg Ashram
Swarg Ashram is a small township located 5 km away from Rishikesh, on the left bank of the Ganges. The ashram was built in the memory of Swami Vishudhanand. The township has many other ashrams, temples and caves, inhabited by saints, inside. Swargashram, which means Heavenly Adobe is a beautiful place situated in picturesque surroundings at the foot of Himalayas. The climate of the spots is splendid all the year. The chief aim in establishing this institution is to provide all facilities for spiritual benefit of all religious bent minds. The one who stay here, achieve a path of renunciation and devotion.
Laxman Jhoola
Lakshman Jhula is an iron suspension bridge situated in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. Made over river Ganges to cross the river,Lakshman Jhula is a landmark of Rishikesh near to Ram Jhula. It is believed that Lakshman crossed Ganges on jute ropes between the places where this bridge is built. Lakshman Jhula was built in 1939, offering spectacular views from the bridge. Many temples and ashrams around ends of the bridge attract visitors from different corners of India.
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on everything trucks
Steve Sturgess
From noise-cancelling headphones to vibration-cancelling truck seats
Premier audio manufacturer Bose has been a feature at trucking events for the last several years. But the company is not there to promote its highly superior automotive sound systems. Instead, it has a traveling exhibit that showcases the Bose Ride System, the ultimate truck seat suspension.
At first sight, it’s a curious diversification for the company famous for sound, but the seat suspension technology draws heavily on the basic math and design talent that have made noise-cancelling headphones such a popular product. Think of the seat suspension as a vibration-cancelling technology.
Instead of the usual air spring and shock absorber of the conventional air-ride suspension seat, the Bose Ride System uses a super fast acting, active electromechanical actuator to cancel out the vibrations that find their way to a truck driver even when a suspension seat is specified.
Specifically, Bose has identified and all but eliminated the vibrations frequencies that excite sympathetic vibrations in the human body. They are in the region of 1 to 30 cycles per second (Hz) and are responsible for some unpleasant whole-body vibrations that cause discomfort, fatigue and even loss of cognitive recognition.
Particularly distressing vibrations are at around 4Hz where the body’s main organs reside, causing that familiar discomfort in stomach, liver and kidneys and much of the flabby tissue. At 20Hz, the vibration excites the eyes causing a recently discovered phenomenon in which the loss of a continual steady image causes the brain to reconstruct the image many times a second, failing to recognize changes in the image that a steady image registers.
Most drivers – and managers – don’t even know this effect exists except that they may not recognize or read road signs or changing traffic patterns as readily as they could if they were not being subjected to the vibrations.
Also identified as problems from whole body vibration are back problems and stiff, sore necks from having to support the head as the body is pitched around by these relatively low-frequency but large-amplitude vibrations.
The end result of canceling these unpleasant vibrations is more comfortable, less fatigued and healthier drivers, says Bose Chief Engineer Mike Rosen.
But those wins didn’t come easily. At the launch in 2010, Principal Engineer Jim Parison said he had been working on the project for 15 years and had drawn heavily on the extensive research and development resources of Bose, resources that have brought products used by auto manufacturers and the military as well as those noise cancelling headsets and top-quality audio components. The common thread is the same basic math that underlines the R&D of the very different products.
The Bose Ride System uses extremely fast-acting actuator technology driven by a computer with a microprocessor of similar power to an engine’s ECU. To act fast and react to a driver who may be 350 pounds, the system draws 3500 Watts (around 50 hp) but the innovative design uses the actuator as both a forcing device and as a regenerative generator which, with some energy storage built into the assembly, means most of this energy stays within the seat base. The actual current draw in most circumstances is only around 4 amps or about the same as a 50W light bulb.
The system recognizes incoming input and then acts very quickly – in less than 1,000th of a second – to cancel out the frequencies at just above 1Hz to 30Hz while lower frequencies – which follow the profile of the road as it slowly rises and falls – are still fed to the driver in seat motion. The result is that only a fraction of the vibration spectrum from 1 to 30Hz – about 10% – finds its way through to the seat and driver.
The system has been refined and packaged so that the components, including an air spring that supports the driver’s weight and provides an air-spring fallback if the system should fail or lose power, fit within the seat skirt. The seat base and assembly bolt to the standard floor mountings. The seat looks extremely comfortable and stylish and is supplied by a conventional truck-seat manufacturer, though Bose doesn’t say who. Switches are mounted to the seat, which features all the premium features, including armrests.
In a demonstration at Bose headquarters in Framingham, Mass., the seat proved very effective in side-by-side comparisons on a vibration rig. The washboard-type road input could be distinctly felt in the air seat, and holding out an arm as one would, for example, to adjust the radio showed that familiar inability to control the motion of the hand and fingers.
In the Bose Ride System seat, however, I could barely feel the significant vibration and it all seemed supremely smooth until hands and feet were back on the pedals, when the extent of the vibration could be experienced and understood.
In fleet testing, 77 drivers texted the Bose Ride System for four months or more and overwhelmingly preferred the new seat. Only 16% said they didn’t like the seat, half of these being “low-rider” drivers who like to dump the air and lower the seat to the floor for that “cool” look. Only about 8% had real complaints about the motion of the seat with 84% strongly in favor of it.
The drivers said they were much less fatigued at the wheel. The decreased fatigue and back pain were noticed when driving the truck and at the end of a shift when drivers said they still felt fresh and less prone to making mistakes. Significantly, many said that at the end of a trip, although previously they needed a day or so to recover, they were ready to deal with family and chores much more readily.
At the Bose website (www.bose.com), there are testimonials from real drivers. One I like in particular quotes a fleet driver with 38 years of experience: “If you offer me a new truck with a 13-speed transmission or a three- or four-year-old truck with the Bose (Ride), give me the Bose (Ride).”
The seat assembly is premium priced at $5,995 installed. Rosen says some new truck buyers are ordering with the passenger seat deleted, and then apply the savings towards the Bose Ride Seat, remounting the driver’s seat on the passenger side.
Distribution can be direct from Bose or from a number of installers around the United States and Canada. A list is available at www.bose.com/controller?url=/bose_ride_system/index.jsp but new installers are being signed so a call to the Bose Ride toll-free number 800-721-2673 might be worthwhile.
There’s nothing particularly difficult in the installation as the system uses the standard air and 12V supply of a conventional seat. However, since seat belts are involved in the install, there are safety concerns that have to be addressed by qualified installers.
Bose believes there is a strong business case for the seat, but says it will take a leap of faith on the part of a fleet to establish realistic return-on-investment numbers. However, with the looming driver shortage, fleets that want to hang on to their best drivers would do well to consider specifying the Bose Ride. Owner-operators, who make their decision with different priorities, have been among the first adopters, investing in a more comfortable, safer seating option.
To understand more about the system and experience the quite remarkable ride quality, you can catch up with the exhibit at the spring 2012 Technology and Maintenance Council meeting mid-February in Tampa. The team will also be at the Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting in Orlando at the beginning of March and at the 2012 Mid-America Trucking Show at the end of the month. The end of April will see the exhibit at the National Private Truck Council meeting in Cincinnati.
As the driver shortage returns with improving business – as it inevitably must – this might be just the ticket to hold on to the good drivers. Even at nearly $6,000, if the seat can save one driver turn because of comfort or health benefits, it has paid for itself. And if a driver avoids a fatigue-related accident, the price is almost irrelevant.
Fleets can know one thing for sure. The quality for which Bose is known is built into the seats and million-mile, maintenance-free durability and reliability should be beyond question.
Posted by Steve Sturgess at 2:53 PM
guarantepass September 28, 2012 at 2:38 AM
Shortages were due driver with improving business - as must inevitably - and this may be just the ticket to stick to good drivers. Even at nearly $ 6,000, if one seat, in turn, could save the driver because of convenience or health benefits, and paid for itself.
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Generally speaking, the main purpose of running with others is to actually....talk to others. As such, during my 16 mile run this weekend I ditched the headphones to run with a running buddy, Ryan.Digital headphones
Nice days, huh Jow? ;-) Headphones
Nice. Bose was my favorite earbuds of choice. Me, Jowdjbrown and Ryan used to run along with these on in Detriot. Nice days. Headphones
Great article..thanks for shairing..
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Renée Zellweger Takes “Judy” Somewhere Over the Rainbow
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Photo credit: David Hindley Last week I went to a small screening of the new film "Judy" starring Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, and Michael Gambon. I was very excited about this film, as both a film buff and fan of Judy Garland herself. Her career was fascinating, and the end of her life so tragic, as she died at a young 47 years old (younger than me!). The film focuses on Winter 1969 when Garland's career in America was floundering. She was unable to care for her two young children and put a roof over their Read More
Review: “Mary Queen of Scots,” a Dynamic Dose of Gender Politics
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I was lucky to screen "Mary Queen of Scots," a film out in limited release now, last week right after returning from Israel. I was fearful I would fall asleep from a shot of jetlag that accompanied me back to America as the screening took place on an early Monday morning. I did not know much about Mary Stuart going into the screening, nor did I know much about her relationship with Queen Elizabeth. I was curious and quite excited to learn more about the supposed two rivals and real-life cousins, and I was also keen to watch two of the best actresses Read More
Amy Schumer on Why She Considers “I Feel Pretty” a Feminist Film
In the new movie, I Feel Pretty, Amy Schumer plays Renee, a woman like you and me who struggles with feelings of insecurity and inadequacy on a daily basis and one day, after experiencing a head injury, suddenly wakes up believing she's the most beautiful woman in the world. Armed with a newfound sense of confidence, her life changes overnight, until she comes to the realization that she is fine just the way she really is. I had the opportunity to recently join a group of other influencers in a discussion with Schumer about her new film, after having Read More
Netflix: My Year in Review and Shows I am Thankful For
Disclosure: As part of Netflix’s Stream Team, I get inside access to Netflix's programming and share my thoughts on their programming with my readers often. But as always, my thoughts are my own. Netflix just gets better and better. I've been a member since its humble start and am continuously impressed with its original and bold slate of programming, both original and acquired. It keeps my entire family occupied at various times of the day and night. My teenage daughter is obsessed with its offerings, many of which I used to watch at one point in Read More
Reflecting on Meeting Some of the Cast and Crew from “The Greatest Showman,” a Musical Feast
Disclosure: I attended a screening and press junket hosted by 20th Century Fox. I was not paid to write this post. It's so crazy that two weeks ago I knew very little about Phineas Taylor Barnum. I knew he started the circus I grew up with, but little more. Since seeing the upcoming Christmas motion picture "The Greatest Showman," I have thought little else but this man, his life, and the story that inspired this beautiful new movie, which is fortunately a musical but not just a musical. He was not ony a brilliant business man, but he was a family man Read More
Your Next Binge Must Be FX’s “Better Things”
Would my kids care if I died tomorrow? Would they eulogize me at my own funeral? I know that this sounds morbid, but the thought has crossed my mind more than once. Motherhood can be a thankless, grueling grind, and leave it to FX's "Better Things" for reminding me that I'm not alone in the most recent episode of the show called "Eulogy". In this episode, written by the show's co-creator, Louis K., Sam, a single mother of three played by my new shero, Pam Adlon, is watching TV with her girls after a long day at work. Her character is a very successful Read More
Film Review: “Goodbye Christopher Robin” About the Inspiration for Winnie the Pooh
The other night I had the opportunity to screen the new film Goodbye Christopher Robin at the Paris Theater in NYC, along with the director and several stars of the film. The film starts to roll out in theaters nationwide today. I felt very fortunate to be in the room with the creators of this special film, which was very reminiscent of Saving Mr. Banks, another recent tale about a famous figure in history that brought one of the most important stories into the world. In that case, it was about mogul Walt Disney who brought Mary Read More
Your Next Netflix Binge MUST Be Fauda
I'm very grateful to a good friend who suggested I watch Fauda, an Israeli TV show currently streaming on Netflix. I implore you to make this program your next binge. Every now and then, a show hits you, gets under your skin, and really rips you apart. But not very often, right? The last time it happened with me was probably with Six Feet Under or Breaking Bad, but I can't honestly remember anything hitting me as hard as Fauda. I think it's because I have very strong ties to the State of Israel. I've lived there and I'm a fervent Zionist. However, Read More
“Home Again” Brings Back the Rom-Com Genre
I grew up with Meg Ryan, Holly Hunter, Debra Winger, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn. These were the women I saw regularly on the screen. They were familiar and they represented something very important that you don't find on the screen often enough today....ordinary women with ordinary problems, much of what revolved around love and finding one's self. When Harry Met Sally, Broadcast News, Private Benjamin, Terms of Endearment, to name a few. It was the era of rom com's and these films had a deep impact on me. Whenever these women return to the screen, I Read More
Netflix’s “Atypical” Will Help a Parent of a Child on the Spectrum Feel Less Alone
Being atypical isn't easy. Trust me, I know from personal experience. Very personal experience, too personal to get too much into details here. So, when Netflix announced their new show Atypical, created by Robia Rashid (The Goldbergs, How I Met Your Mother) and Seth Gordon (also The Goldbergs, as well as the recent Baywatch movie), I was intrigued and eagerly awaited its arrival. As a mom with few outlets and connections to a world that is very personal and quite complicated, as well as incredibly lonely, I was eager to see how TV would portray a boy Read More
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'Skull World' Blu-ray/DVD full release details and special features
Justin McConnell's documentary, Skull World, has had a lot of coverage on these pages, and for good reason; it's a fucking blast! The film, which follows Skull Man aka Greg Sommer and his Box Wars exploits, will be coming to Blu-ray (in the Warrior Edition) and DVD on June 18th. The release will be through Indiecan Entertainment and Unstable Ground and will feature alternate artwork on the Blu and DVD version. Full details can be found below. You won't to check this movie out!
Toronto, ON – Releasing next month from Indiecan Entertainment and Unstable Ground, the comedic documentary SKULL WORLD is proud to announce the full specs and package art for the upcoming home video release.
The film “Follows several years in the life of Greg Sommer, aka Skull Man, as he builds the Canadian chapter of Box Wars, an international underground movement of cardboard-based combat.” Shot and directed by Justin McConnell (The Collapsed, The Eternal, Working Class Rock Star), SKULL WORLD will be available in North America on a region-free DVD & limited “Warrior Edition” Blu-Ray, each loaded with hours of bonus features. Both editions will include:
-Two feature commentaries: one with director Justin McConnell and Greg Sommer/Skull Man, and a second entitled ‘Skull Man’s Rockin’ Commentary Experience’.
-7 Extended segments and battles, including the full-length Australia trip
-16 deleted scenes
-Trailers, photo galleries, easter eggs
In addition, the “Warrior Edition” Blu-Ray will hold over an hour of exclusive content not found on the DVD:
-5 additional deleted scenes
-Full-length “Skull Man’s Box Wars” self-produced television pilot
-‘Skull World’ Premiere Q&A video (at the Canadian Film Festival 2013)
-Music video: The Overfiend “Maiden” w/ behind the scenes featuring Greg
-‘Skull Man’s Pit Files’ music video
The film will also be available through common VOD platforms in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. SKULL WORLD also continues its limited theatrical tour.
Labels: Artwork, Blu-ray, Documentary, DVD, Heavy Metal, Indiecan Entertainment, News, Skull World, Unstable Ground
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Belgian State Visit to the Netherlands – Day One
November 28, 2016 at 8:58 pm by Marika86
This morning, Monday November 28, Their Majesties King Philippe and Queen Mathilde began a three-day state visit to The Netherlands.
Upon their arrival the Royal Couple was officially welcomed by Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima with a welcoming ceremony held in the Dam Square outside the Royal Palace. King Willem-Alxeander and King Philippe inspected the guard of honour. The Belgian Royal Couple also laid a wreath at the National Monument on Dam Square.
Afterwards in the Royal Palace took place a reception for the Belgian delegation and the Dutch autorities and then was signed a border correction treaty between Belgium and The Netherlands in the presence of the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bert Koenders, and the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Didier Reynders.
In the early afternoon, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima along with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde visited the Flemish Cultural Centre de Brakke Grond. The cultural center provides cultural projects with photo exhibition, theater and musical performances focused on the three Communities of Belgium.
Later the Royal Couples continued with separate events: King Willem-Alexander and King Philippe partecipated in a conference titled ” Belgian-Dutch Innovative Entrepreneurs & Finance” held at the Euronext, an European stock exchange; meanwhile Queen Máxima and Queen Mathilde were at the Amsterdam Theater to attend a symposium about the urbanization and the importance of the cooperation between Belgian and Dutch cities in this field.
Koning Filip en Koning Willem-Alexander bezoeken de Belgian-Dutch Innovative Entrepreneurs & Finance Conference @euronext #BELNL2016 pic.twitter.com/Ioz0dbEMMc
— Koninklijk Huis (@koninklijkhuis) November 28, 2016
The first day ended with a State Banquet held at the Royal Palace. At the banquet were also present Princess Beatrix, Prince Constantijn, Princess Laurentien, Princess Margriet and Prof. Pieter Van Vollenhoven.
In their speeches, both King Willem-Alexander and King Philippe expressed their delight for the realization of the state visit. They stated that between the Netherlands and Belgium there are solid good neighborly relations. King Willem-Alexander said that both countries are proud to be partners in the field of championing peace, justice and development.
King Philippe stated that “the interconnection between our two countries is greater than ever” and stressed that what unite the countries is more than a history, and language, they both “share the same deep-rooted values”.
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Dr. Elena G. Kordikova says:
Super! We know more about Bilateral Cultural & Innovative Relations between Belgium and Netherlands, as well as about Royal state meeting of King Philippe, King Willem-Alexander, Prince Constantijn, Princess Beatrix, Princess Laurentien, Princess Margriet, Prof. Pieter van Vollenhoven, Queen Mathilde and Queen Máxima.
Marvellous jewelry! Masterpiece picture gallery in the Royal Palace!
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tv 7 News Today in New England NBC December 31, 2015 9:00am-10:00am EST
>> ready to ring in the new year here in boston. police stepping up security to make sure 2016 gets off without a hitch >> bruins are going to be shorthanded in the winter classic tomorrow. details on marchand. everybody. can you believe it's the last day of 2015? >> oh, man. >> all your top stories in a moment but i know a lot of you are going to be checking out first night festivities so how that? >> it's been a damp and dreary
we have some freezing rain overnight last night and we did have some areas of ice this morning. clouds are still with us with some areas of patchy fog as well and it's locally dense. visibilities under a mile. seven mile visibility in boston right now so not all that bad. it's more the low clouds just kind of keeping us socked in. current temperatures are either at freezing, bedford 32, or into the mid 30s. 36 for boston. however, i don't want to discount the potential for still seeing ice out there, at least for the early hours of today because you could get the sheets, take a little longer to melt and they can slide off rooftops and elevated surfaces so please keep an eye out for that today. milder temperatures for this afternoon and even some sunshine in store for us. we'll top out in the low to mid 40s for most spots. some very cool temperatures as we enter into the new year. the extended forecast to come in a bit. >> thank you. check on how the roads are right now. how are things going? >> things looking good out there, nancy. let's take a look outside.
let's go to the maps from the braintree split into boston, it's a short drive, just 10 minutes. south of town, no problems to tell you about. route 324, 95, all looking good so far this morning. the pike wide open to 495. it's real easy drive into boston. 93, fine from 495 to town. route one looking good as well. let's take a look at drive times. you won't be dealing with much traffic. on the expressway, just 10 minutes. on the pike into town from 138, 12 minutes. 93 southbound. 128 to the jakim bridge. 11 minutes and so far the t is on time. >> thanks. getting ready to ring in the new year, boston making the final preps before the big night. police promising added security all across the city. >> they say there's no reason to be on edge tonight but they are making sure the new year's starts off as safely as possible. so chris has the latest on first night preps.
in the new year, police are stepping up security to make sure the first night celebration in copley square is safe. >> we have a good plan in place. we'll have plenty of police visibility out there. i just really want to make it clear there's no threats out there. >> police commissioner says that officers will be out in full force to make sure everyone has a great night. >> we'll have plenty of officers out there. we'll have bomb dogs, everything possible. but i'm always a little weary of having an overpresence that we intimidate people. >> in new york city, preparations are underway for the famous ball drop. 6,000 nypd officers will be on patrol. people entering times square will be screened twice and more than 1,000 security cameras will be rolling all night. police say they're not aware of any threats but recent terrorist attacks around the world have them on alert. >> we are aware that our picture
it's changed significantly from what it was a year ago or two years ago. >> overseas, brussels cancelled fireworks and other festivities as a precaution after police arrested two suspected terrorists in turkey who they say plan to attack the event. meantime, back here in the hub, mayor says the night should be about having fun. >> we want to end the year on a great note here after the first night celebrations and we want to make sure we make lots of good, positive memories here. >> ice sculptures are in place for tonight's festivities and remember, the t is free from 8:00 tonight until 2:00 in the morning so you can avoid the hassle of trying to park and take the t down and enjoy all of the first night festivities. that's the story here in copley square. >> breaking overnight, belgium police arrested a 10th person in connection with last month's terror attacks in paris. 22-year-old is charged. police also found several cell
they're now examining them. 130 people were killed in the november 13 attacks. >> also breaking overnight, the mother of a texas affluenza teen evan couch back in the united states. tonya couch was escorted by u.s. arriving in los angeles. the 18-year-old remains in mexico. family attorneys were able to successfully fight his deportation. a judge will now decide when he has to go back. couch is accused of violating the probation he received after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. he avoided prison time because lawyers argued his wealthy him. >> the attorney for bill cosby speaking out on the comedian's behalf after he was criminally charged with sexual assault. cosby is out on bail this morning after appearing in court he's charged with three counts of aggravated, indecent assault 2004. this morning his defense team is
while his alleged victims say they're happy he's file finally been charged. >> my client is not guilty and there will be no consideration on our part of any sort of arrangement. >> andrea is within the statute of liltations and a prosecution is going to go forward and i'm very, very happy about that. >> allred said that many of her clients agreed to testify in the case. >> a federal grand jury has indicted a friend of the san bernardino shooters on terrorism charges. authorities say marquez bought two guns the couple used in the shooting rampage earlier this month. they believe he planned two other terrorist attacks in 2011 and 2012 but never carried them out. syed rizwan farook and tashfeen malik opened fire at a holiday party. 14 people were killed, 22 others injured. the two were killed in a
after the massacre. marquez will be arraigned next wednesday. >> 21 people taken to the hospital, including three children, after a burst of turbulence on board a flight from turkey. they were diverted to calgary on wednesday. those injured are expected to be okay. >> suddenly the flight is just going down and everything was scary. >> it was all normal. just bouncing and bouncing and it just shaking. >> investigators say they'll interview the crew and look at the digital flight recorder and the cockpit voice recorder to try to figure out what went wrong. >> the bruins are gearing up for the winter classic but they will have to face canadiens without brad marchand. now losing their leading goal scorer and meantime, the buzz
players and coaches getting a chance to test the ice with their families yesterday with even more events on the ice scheduled for today. john joins us now with more on the winter classic hype. >> good morning from gillette stadium, site of the nhl winter classic. today is the alumni game. a lot of people excited for this this arrive fternoon. you can see the zamboni going around. they'll be playing alums from the montreal canadiens. yesterday they were out here, so many favorites to take a turn around the ice yesterday for the family skate. we got to see a warm and fuzzy side to these guys on the ice. whether it's goalie wearing a patriots hat while carrying his daughter or people catching unforgettable moments with
classic family skate is a real favorite for bruins players and staffers alike. the center was sharing a moment with his little boy. >> i feel these family skates are so fun because, you know, my son is about two years old and it was the first time on skates and these are memories they'll cherish forever. >> this was fun. every twist and turn. >> stadium on the ice, it's just unbelievable. >> the team's strength and conditioning coach was busy trying to teach his 6-year-old twins how to skate. >> how is it going? >> it's awesome. it's better than what it was at fenway. i got my two kids now. i didn't have kids then. makes it special. >> what's better, the bruins or patriots? >> bruins. >> bruins. >> jimmy hayes was having a blast with his family and friends rather than watching out for big hits from a opponents. he's a huge patriots fan. >> it's cool to play out here and see where they won some big
we have a big game on our own. >> maybe he'll ask for an autograph. >> i'll trade him one. >> you can see some snow out here at the stadium. actually this is the cotton variety for television because, hey, we're a little bit winter challenged here in boston this time around but still the winter classic will be great. we're live at gillette stadium. >> spilling all the secrets. thanks, john. nicole is also at gillette where fans are ready for tomorrow's rivalry matchup. she joins us live from outside spectator plaza. you're getting busy there, too. >> i have been getting lessons in how to shoot a hockey puck so let me just show you around spectator plaza. today. you don't need a ticket to the game. out. this is the official winter classic bruins jersey so obviously the official merchandise tent is set up over here. if we swing around behind here,
nets set up. that will test your accuracy so you can score. there's also a sharp shooter competition and then this is what we've been working on here. so adam has been helping me learn how to shoot a hockey puck. by the way, this is the first time ever in my life that i've ever heard a hockey stick. net. get ready. it's supposed to hit these five targets here. and i've hit none at all this entire day. so what you're supposed to do here is if you can hit these five targets within 30 seconds, you'll get a prize. obviously you just have to play hockey before. okay. no points. my time is up. i didn't get any. at 9:30 we'll show you the rest of spectator plaza here for all the fans getting excited about the winter classic. anybody who wants to show off
tell you about everything else that's here. for now that's the latest live from gillette. >> that was good effort. thanks. >> i'm impressed. >> keep it here on 7 on new your year's eve. enjoy us after the game for complete post game coverage. it's harder than it looks. it looks like she was doing like a golf swing. >> she's an athlete. she's just trying to be humble. much more to come including wild weather in missouri. flood water reaching historic levels and causing historic damage. >> then firefighters are coming together to help a 4-year-old boy with cancer. >> and it seemed like that cold wouldn't leave us yesterday but temperatures in most spots above freezing and climbing in the 40s today. we'll get to the forecast up next. >> comedian to the rescue here. we'll have the details coming
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>> we're going to run out for coffee. we'll be right back. we're going nowhere. back it up. >> yes, sir. >> all right. president obama taking a drive on jerry seinfeld's popular show comedians and cars, getting coffee. as you can see, the two could not get very far. they ended up driving around the whole white house grounds instead. they chatted about day-to-day life, about being a president and what it's like living in the white house. >> it is so funny. i watched this in between our news casts. i did. i was cracking up driving everyone around me crazy because i was wearing head phones but it's so funny. he asked all the questions that you want to know but you would never think to ask the commander in chief.
asked him something along the lines, in your underwear drawer, is it one brand? one color? those kinds of questions. >> the things you want to know. >> yeah. one question to ask the president, that wouldn't be it but that's okay. milder temperatures for us today. we could not get rid of that cold yesterday. apt least not until the evening so we are melting as we make it into the afternoon and we're dry for new year's eve. all the festivities looking good for it, but you'll want to bundle up. cold blast as we get into the beginning of next week. it will really start to feel a whole lot more like winter. warm weather no longer. now we've had a damp and dreary start to the day. still some areas of drizzle out there and also some fog reducing visibilities in nashua, locally dense fog, out on the cape you'll run into some fog so something to pay attention to. visibility is okay. you shouldn't have any problems getting out of boston if you have a flight within the next couple of hours. current temperatures are close to freezing or just above it.
freezing. this is where the concern lies, when you have the temperatures that are right near freezing like 32 degrees. you can actually have colder temperatures at the surface, on the ground. that means that there's still the potential for ice to exist on sidewalks and driveways and those back roads so please pay attention to that. not much in southeastern mass but around 495, route two, there might be a concern as we get through the next few hours. now, we do have drier air that wants to work into place. so hopefully we'll see sunshine today but it will take a little bit for those clouds to erode and reveal the sunshine for us. nevertheless, those temperatures getting a boost today and above average for us once again we climb into the low to mid 40s for the afternoon for most spots with a light wind out of the west-northwest. you can see the highs here 38 for worcester, topping out at 43 for boston and first night forecast for us, looking dry but also looking cool. wind chill readings making it feel like it's in the mid 20s so
head out and we're heading into a new year so to give us a look back into 2015 -- >> thanks. our average temperature for this december, still 45 degrees. decembers in the past, even the warmest ones haven't been this warm so yes, we're still on track for this to be the warmest december that we've seen. below-average temperatures and our temperatures are running almost 11 degrees warmer than where they should be this time of year. so in the past, warm decembers have meant snowfall totals in the teens but we're not making any promises with that statement. and since we're looking back at the year, let's go back to february. it was the second coldest on record with only one day of above normal temperatures so quite the opposite from this december and it looks like we're staying cool as we head into the new year, huh? >> you know, people have been asking a lot, are we going to have to pay for the warmth we saw in december? well, i would say looking at february, we already prepaid for that warmth in december.
of 2016, off to a cold start certainly. not so bad for the winter classic tomorrow. i think this is really perfect for a good hockey game. 39 degrees. we get some sunshine as well and here's a look at the seven on seven forecast. as far as big snow makers go, it looks very quiet the next seven to 10 days but we could get some squalls, snow showers and/or flurries on monday. cold temperatures is what we need to prepare for. >> thank you. wild weather in the midwest. new video from missouri showing a raging river wash away a home, carrying it right down a river. it slammed into a bridge. yoef night that historic flooding shut down i-55, a major highway for the first time ever and today the mississippi river is expected to crest in st. louis, about 13 feet above flood stage. the flooding is being blamed for more than 20 deaths in missouri and illinois. that number is expected to rise. some neighborhoods are surrounded by water. hundreds of homes are flooded.
and the governor of missouri says the threat is far from over. >> this is going to be awhile. you don't have this much water or a population of businesses, public assets and you just -- the water goes down. it's not over. >> the coast guard and the national guard have been deployed. they're ready for rescues as officials monitor several levees in danger of breaching. okay. just ahead, a wild wreck in new hampshire, part of hillary clinton's secret service detail why the driver killed in the crash should not have been behind the wheel in the first place. coming together for one of their own. firefighters showing support for
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>> firefighters coming together to help the grandson of one of their own. >> the 4-year-old is battling the same rare cancer another firefighter's granddaughter once did. joey mc donahue was diagnosed with neuro blastoma. he lives across the street from a woman finishing her treatments for the very same disease. family and community members are floored with how this tragedy struck the department twice. >> we work together, we play together, we raise our kids together. >> two people in the same neighborhood just across the street from each other. it was unbelievable.
once you're in, you're in. their family is our family, vice versa. >> last year firefighter raised $20,000 to help brooklyn. now they've opened an account to help joey. if you would like to help, we have more information on our website, www.whdh.com. just ahead, the nbt not making the grade the federal review
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mid flight. some stayed in providence overnight and others took cars and buses to continue on with their trip. a new flight will take off this morning. >> we get a first taste of winter weather. state police are reminding you to remove snow and ice from your vehicle before you hit the road. they tweeted this picture of a smashed windshield in andover. ice came off a truck and driver suffered cuts on his face and eyes from the local glass. police cracking down on drivers who do not clear off cars. this extreme example, the driver of this car cleared just a small patch of the windshield. the rest of it covered. police pulled the car over and gave the driver a citation. >> i don't know how you would even be able to drive in that situation. >> i don't know, either. yesterday i was driving, though, and some ice and snow came off a car and i like -- went like this. what am i doing? i'm driving. it's so scary.
>> up next, more trouble. a federal report uncovering more problems and it could impact your commute. >> more melting in store for us this afternoon so sheets of ice coming off of rooftops and elevated surfaces. something else to watch out for as you're walking around town. we'll get to the forecast up next. >> plus we're heading back out to foxboro, gillette stadium ready to host some hockey but how did the patriots feel about the home turf being turned into an ice rink? why let someone else have all the fun? the sometimes haphazard, never boring fun. the why can't it smell like this all the time fun. the learning the virtue of sharing fun. why let someone else have all the fun? that's no fun.
>> our report from the feds finds problems with the nbta and it could lead to trouble for riders. >> learning more about a bad crash involving the secret service. why the driver in new hampshire should have never been behind the wheel. >> a young boy leaping into action, now called a hero.
>> welcome back on this thursday morning. hard to believe the last day of 2015. >> and it is just flying by. it's a chilly start to the day. you could see it's hockey weather which is just fine for the folks in foxboro. here's a live look at gillette stadium. a little more than 24 hours from now, the bruins will host the canadiens in the winter classic. we'll have a live report in a minute. first let's check on the forecast. >> we're getting some practice bundling up for the big game. rain reports from last night, even freezing rain. more significant as you got out onto the cape and also for the south coast. just a touch, under a tenth of an inch for boston and worcester. worcester county and in some areas metro west, we did get freezing rain last night. still sort of damp and drizzly and dreary through the day today with some areas seeing some locally dense fog. beverly, nashua, visibility less than a mile at this point and also walls of fog along cape cod
you're driving around the areas for the early hours of today. current temperatures just crawling past freezing so icy areas are still a very good likelihood in those spots that are near 32 degrees because it's going to take awhile for that ice to actually melt. we will see the clouds break apart as we head into the afternoon. for a little bit of sunshine, more melting in store as our temperatures climb in the low to mid 40s for most spots. but it is a cold start to the new year. we'll get to that extended forecast in a few minutes. >> breaking overnight, belgium police arrested a tenth person in connection with last month's terror attacks in paris. 22-year-old charged with terrorist murder and participation in a terrorist organization. police also found several cell phones with the suspect and are now expecting them. 130 people were killed in the november 13 attacks. >> also breaking overnight, the mother of texas affluenza teen, ethan couch, is back in the united states after being extradited from mexico.
u.s. marshals in handcuffs after arriving in los angeles. meantime, the 18-year-old does remain in mexico. family attorneys were able to successfully fight his deportation. a judge will now decide when he has to go back. couch is accused of violating the probation he received after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. lawyers argued his wealthy him. >> passengers aren't the only ones giving bad marks. federal review exposing real t trouble. the report is harshest when it comes to the maintenance efforts. it says the agency lacks a comprehensive maintenance plan for trains, buses and stations and finds while maintenance teams are somewhat effective, they work somewhat independently as well. passengers who use the ride system have long trips.
get up to compliance with federal require manies and points out the report doesn't question the quality of maintenance work. in the past they have estimated it would cost $7 billion to get all trains, tracks and stations into good working order. we now know the man who was killed in a crash involving secret service agents in wakefield, new hampshire should not have been behind the wheel. investigators say he did not have a driver's license. he swerved onto the wrong side of the road, crashing head-on into the car carrying four agents wednesday night. officials say the agents had just come from surveying a campaign site. >> they were working as part of the protection efforts for secretary clinton. >> hillary clinton later released a statement offering her condolences to all of the victims involved. and a young boy was putting fire
he saved his life. he woke up to the sound of beeping on wednesday. his older brother, also in bed heard it, too, but like a lot of people do, he ignored it. the mother told him to check out the carbon monoxide detector that was down stairs and when he realized that's where the sound was coming from, he knew ex acts kts cts -- exactly what to do. >> i got my brother, ran outside and called the fire department. >> we immediately got alarms of high carbon monoxide levels. >> it's a feeling of helplessness. i still have knots in my stomach thinking what could have happened. >> he saved my life, i guess you could say. i'm proud of him for doing that. >> the family believes the leak came from a furnace. it's now repaired and they also bought three new detectors. firefighters say they will nominate braden for a young hero award. three police officers risked
trapped inside a burning building. the officer was the first to run into the home on granite street monday once he learned someone was still inside. two other officers then joined him to make sure she made it out okay. >> we had to take turns going in, swapping out, getting air and we were able to finally free a leg from behind the door and drag her out. at that point you're not thinking. you're just acting. >> the officers say they don't consider themselves heros and say anyone at their department would have done the very same thing. >> we're ready for a frozen faceoff. bruins in the winter classic. gillette stadium going from a football stadium to outdoor hockey rink. it's not just hockey fans. patriots are excited to be sharing their field with another championship team. jonathan hall is live at
>> we all know this is tom brady's house normally but of course, there won't be another patriots game here at gillette stadium for a couple of weeks nfl. we take a live look at the ice, all set up on the field at gillette. patriots are taking in this spectacle just as we all are. football country. tongues. call it a friendly invasion. the patriots are welcoming their fellow pro athletes with open arms. >> we're going to be remembering the guys and looking forward to them beating the canadiens. we don't like them. >> he almost never misses a chance of three points and he loves hockey. he's friends with several former players. >> the bruins games are the best
you know, numerous games, all their big playoff runs. i saw a bunch of the stanley playoff games. >> for some guys like martin, this hockey stuff is all pretty new. skates in your life? >> no. no. never, never. never did know hockey. >> not ready to play with black and gold, are you? >> not yet. give me a little bit. >> back up q.b. is used to being in tom brady's shadow. how does he feel about sharing space with boston hockey heros? >> do they get to use your locker room? >> i don't know hob -- to be honest. whoever has it, take care of it for me. >> he does not have to worry a bit. patriots locker room will remain untouched. we're hearing that the bruins will be in the nfl visitors locker room and canadiens will have to use the revolution
locker will be just fine. today a big day. we have the spectator experience going on. they can test out slap shots and also we have the alumni game coming up at 3:30. terry o'reilly from way back in the day, lots of fun here. ?> so the patriots are excited, of course, so are the fans and the spectator plaza, we have more with the fun you can have before the game. hey, nicole. >> there is so much to do, whether you play hockey or just a hockey fan. so they are setting up. it will get underway at 11:30 this morning. there's music going and there will be a band on the stage there live. plenty of places to get the official merchandise and also this is the official jersey here of the bruins. so again for hockey fans, if you're into it, there's several different things that you can do to check out your accuracy, see if you can score.
old school shooting, i'm told this is what they did back in the day. crosby trying to shoot the hockey pucks in the drier. let's see if we can do this better here. nope. all right. let's try one more time. almost. almost. all right. we'll give it a few more go arounds. let's see. score! right in the dryer. how good i'm doing. all right. i have to be honest. that's not me shooting. that wasn't me that got it into the dryer. this is adam here who has been such a good sport and has been teaching me how to hold a hockey stick and for how to shoot a puck. sport. you can check out adam here at spectator plaza. he'll show you what to do so you can learn how to shoot pucks in
we'll keep you updated with all the things you can do here, whether you make your own hockey player, own card or social media that you can upload photos to twitter and facebook. again, practice your hockey skills. that's the latest live from gillette. >> great job. i'm proud of you. some creative camera work there. make sure to keep it here on 7 nbc on new year's day to catch the bruins take on the canadiens at gillette. coverage starts at 1:00. join us after the game for complete post game coverage. i didn't know people used to practice with washers and dryers. >> if i was nicole, i would have let everybody think that i was the one really doing it. okay. up next on 7 news, kobe bryant taking on the celtics and the garden for the last time in his career. how the fans and the team bid the star farewell and stories from far, far away right here. we're taking a look back at the year in entertainment just
>> what a year of weather it's been for us. we're going to wrap up december as the warmest on record and that follows the second coldest february so it all a balance?
seen the sunshine and it was hard crawling above the freezing line. but we're above the freezing mark in most spots and we're seeing low level moisture mix back out in the atmosphere. we'll get some sunshine in here, but there are some spots locally with dense fog. a couple of spots have seen reports in lowell as well. visibility reduced in plymouth and bedford at this time. it's sort of a damp and dreary start. temperatures in the low to mid 30s in most spots but there are a couple of spots that are right near the freezing mark. 33 degrees so still some potential to see some icy spots on the sidewalks and the driveways. not so much in southeast mass. we're already seeing temperatures climb closer to 40 degrees where they will be for highs this afternoon as drier air works in from the west-northwest. all those highs, 40 to 45 with a light breeze out of the west and that will be the case taking those wind chill readings closer to 35. high today low to mid 40s and then for tonight, we stay dry,
will be very chilly so make sure you bundle up with those layers and a look back at past months. >> thanks. this december our average temperature around 45 degrees so we're still on track for this to be the warmest december on record with temperatures almost 11 degrees above where they should be this time of year. now, our other three warmest decembers did have pretty low seasonal snowfall totals with totals in the teens so just pointing it out, not making any promises. let's not forget in february, it was the second coldest on record this year. we only had one day with above normal temperatures so quite the opposite from this december and the cold is staying with us as we head into next year. >> we paid for that warmth that we just saw in december in february. that month was tough to get through. we're in for a cold start to 2016 but i'll tell you what. it looks fairly quiet as far as big snow makers go and tomorrow looking fantastic as well.
degrees as you get down near gillette and here's a look at that seven on seven forecast. a chilly start to the beginning of next work week which means we'll have to get those kids really bundled up to get them to the bus stop. >> thank you. so 2015 was full of major headlines from the entertainment world, including caitlyn jenner and changes in late night >> and can't forget the return to a galaxy far, far away. we take a look back at the memorable moments in entertainment in today's seven top seven. >> 2015 was a year of transformation for bruce jenner. >> for all intents and purposes i am a woman. >> after months of speculation, he revealed he was transitioning and coming out to the world as indicate caitlyn jenner. his former son-in-law also made headlines. lamar odem was found unconscious at a brothel in nevada unconscious.
his health. >> i'm here to reclaim the fact i'm hiv positive. >> he was diagnosed four years ago and decided to make the announcement after paying out upwards of $10 million to keep it a secret. another year of loss for the family of whitney houston. almost three years after the pop icon drowned in a bathtub, her daughter, bobbi kristina brown, was also found face down and unresponsive in a tub. she underwent treatment but never regained consciousness and passed away six months later. >> i cannot leave without saying to you in all sincerity, good luck and prosper. >> world mourned the passing of the boston native who was best known for playing one of the most iconic characters in hollywood. >> that is quite logical. >> star trek mr. spock. he was 83. another galaxy far, far away made headlines this year as star wars proved it is still a force
the film stormed past injure as -- jurassic world. >> for the last time on a television program, thank you and good night. >> after 33 years on the air, david letterman signed off one last time. his departure leading the way for steven colbert. his counterpart jon stewart walked way from the daily show. >> thank you so much. >> after 16 years behind the desk. england birthed a princess in the spring of 2016. duchess of cambridge gave birth. her name honoring family members past and present. a simple picture of a cocktail dress divided the country. was it blue and black or white and gold? the company later confirmed its true colors. and unlikely star was born during the super bowl half-time
left shark quickly became popular after the backup dancer was seen dancing awkwardly behind half-time show performer katy perry. ben affleck and his wife jennifer garner calling it quits. it was later rumored he had an affair with the nanny. voice coaches split from their spouses. heartbreak didn't last too long. a few months later, singers confirmed they were dating. a new direction. zany left one direction to focus on a solo career. remaining four members released another album but announced they'll be taking an extended hiatus next year. adele came back stronger than ever, shattering records with the latest album "25."
tonight for the final seven top seven list as we take a look back at those we lost this past year. left shark. i forgot about him, or her. >> i knew it made headlines but we were both like, now, why? eminently off. or her. right shark. just ahead, a winter classic surprise from a bruins legend. a local hockey player getting a
>> kobe bryant's final game this boston turned out to be a victory for the lakers. fans of the garden cheered for the future hall of famer. bryant also received cheers after the game. he made sure to acknowledge the
he scored 15 points. after the game, bryant had nice words for boston fans. >> i wish i could do more to show my gratitude to them. i just try to say thank you as much as i possibly could. it's a weird feeling as you walk across the court and look at all of them. do you know what i mean? just trying to cherish it. >> before the game, the celtics game, got a retirement gift. hockey players received a special treat wednesday when they learned they will be at gillette tomorrow for the winter classic. bruins legend met with the players. one player who has overcome medical obstacles received free tickets to tomorrow's game and then he pulled out another surprise. >> we can't have you going to the game by yourself just with
how about the whole team joins you for the game tomorrow? >> all 19 kids also received a shopping spree at dick's sporting goods. >> 40s today with some sunshine on tap. one for look at the forecast
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>> 20:15. send it over to bri with a final check of the forecast. >> looking for sunshine this afternoon and we're dry for all of the festivities tonight. temperatures will wait until the wee hours of the morning to drop down to freezing again. it's melting this afternoon as well as tomorrow. maybe some flurries or snow showers on monday but at least for the next seven to 10 days, no big snow makers in the forecast. just some very frigid temperatures. we'll have to get the kids prepared for the bus stop. thank you for joining us.
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. his fate unknown. new developments in the search for an american woman missing in aruba. good morning, everyone. welcome to msnbc saturday. i'm alex witt. it's 8:00 a.m. out west. voting is now officially open at the iowa straw poll. it's a make or break day for the field of republican presidential hopefuls. the stakes could not be higher for michele bachmann and tim pawlenty. those two were busy working the crowds last night. >> we need to make that promise and send a message to washington, d.c. so loud that barack obama can't possibly miss the sound that we leave tomorrow in ames, iowa. that we are taking our country back. >> voting is from 10:00 to 4:00. swing by any time of the day. we would love to have you. it will make a big difference tor the outcome of the thing tomorrow. mark murray, joining me live from ames. good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> do you get a buzz or amoan men tum coalescing around one particular candidate? >> michele bachmann has had the buzz. she's had the buzz since she got in the race in the middle of june. the question is whether she h
. his fate unknown. new developments in the search for an american woman missing in aruba. good morning, everyone. welcome to msnbc saturday. i'm alex witt. it's 8:00 a.m. out west. voting is now officially open at the iowa straw poll. it's a make or break day for the field of republican presidential hopefuls. the stakes could not be higher for michele bachmann and tim pawlenty. those two were busy working the crowds last night. >> we need to make that promise and send a message to...
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much for joining me. >>> all right, it's the decision day now for the man held in aruba for the death of robyn gardner. >>> plus, a man catches a burglar in his own home. >>> markets up right now, dow up 77 points, s&p 9 and nasdaq up 10. we'll be right back. >>> first, breaking news out of washington right now, the justice department announced it's suing to block at&t's take over of t-mobile. it claims the combined companies would lead to higher prices and fewer choices for consumers. in response, at&t says it is surprised and disappointed by the lawsuit. more on that coming up after a break. (announcer) everything you need to stretch out on long trips. residence inn. there's another way litter box dust:e purina tidy cats. tidy cats premium line of litters now works harder on dust. and our improved formulas neutralize odors better than ever in multiple-cat homes. so it's easier to keep your house smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car and how much the people in your life count o
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. >> thanks. >>> she went to aruba to enjoy a nice vacation. now she is missing and police fear the worst. that's ahead. >> there's a judge's order that may put her life in jeopardy. also ahead, the call for help for britain's prime minister to a former top cop here in the u.s. is that call being answered? you're watching msnbc saturday. completing an atm deposit in record time... that's a step forward. go! go! with deposit friendly atms, you can make ultra fast, secure deposits with no slips or envelopes. take a step forward and chase what matters. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> well, robyn gardner is still missing in aruba this morning. authorit
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lake. there's no known treatment. >>> disturbing new details about an american woman missing in aruba. >>> plus, the fbi investigate a threat posted on an al qaeda message board about david letterman. this is my band from the 80's, looker. hair and mascara, a lethal combo. i'm jon haber of alto music. my business is all about getting music into people's hands. and the plum card from american express open helps me do that. you name it, i can buy it. and the savings that we get from the early pay discount has given us money to reinvest back into our business and help quadruple our floor space. how can the plum card's trade terms get your business booming? booming is putting more music in more people's hands. >>> welcome back to "news nation." million dollar insurance policy. authorities say the man last seen with a missing american woman in aruba reportedly tried to cash in on an accidental death insurance policy he took out on her before she disappeared. >>> fight obama, not each other. that's karl rove's advice to the republican presidential candidates who are attacking each other. >>
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a missing woman in aruba and why prosecutor wasn't to keep the man she was traveling with behind bars for a longer period of time. and this case is intriguing and thousandings of police are manning the streets of london as the uk faces the first weekend since the deadly outbreak of riots there. plus -- ♪ we could have had it all >> okay. that gives me goosebumps, and defending the country never sounded so good, and details of the video made by air force members and it has gone viral, and we will show you more of it, and you can't miss it. my cream is what makes stouffer's fettuccini alfredo so delicious. i think you'll find it's the vegetables. deliciously rich. flavorful! [ female announcer ] together at last. introducing new stouffer's farmers' harvest with sides of lightly sauteed farm-picked vegetables. find more ways to get to the table at letsfixdinner.com. >>> welcome back the "newsnation." right now authorities are trying to keep a man last seen with a missing american woman in aruba behind bars. investigators say that robyn gardner is no longer alive and they are looki
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the search for a maryland woman missing in aruba. a new witness could tear the main suspect's story right apart. >>> hi, everybody. great to see you today. i'm thomas roberts. it's nice to have you with me. and as i was telling you, we are watching this huge story, history really unfolding before our eyes in libya at this hour. this is new video this morning of rebels celebrating as they make their push against the last line of gadhafi forces in tripoli. four decades of gadhafi's rule are now close to coming to an end. the result of a rapid advance by rebel forces over the weekend and the culmination of months of fighting in cities and towns across the libyan coast. nbc news can confirm that two of gadhafi's sons are in custody, saif and mohammed. and al jazeera reporting a third has been captured. we're working on that confirmation. but sources close to gadhafi's inner circle say that saif did try to flee dressed as a woman. meanwhile, the search for gadhafi continues after south african officials denied that they were trying to help the colonel flee to that country. nbc chief fore
the search for a maryland woman missing in aruba. a new witness could tear the main suspect's story right apart. >>> hi, everybody. great to see you today. i'm thomas roberts. it's nice to have you with me. and as i was telling you, we are watching this huge story, history really unfolding before our eyes in libya at this hour. this is new video this morning of rebels celebrating as they make their push against the last line of gadhafi forces in tripoli. four decades of gadhafi's rule...
missing woman in aruba. a lot of people are bringing up the comparisons with natalie holloway. some six years later now. apparently disappearing from allegedly the same area that natalie holloway was last seen. i mean, it's very erie to say the least. what's the latest in this investigation? >> right now the suspect in this case is or the person of interest is being held. there will be another hearing this monday to determine if they can hold him a little bit longer. most likely eight more days. after that they have to be able to provide more evidence to hold him for 60 days. i can tell you that robyn's boyfriend called me yesterday afternoon. we talked for a little while on the phone, and he is distraught, and he doesn't want anyone to forget about this case, you know, because a lot of times there is a lot of missing person investigations and sometimes they do kind of go away until there's an update, and then it comes back again. is he really moving forward to be pro active to do everything that he can to keep his girlfriend's face out there, to keep her in the hearts and the minds of
missing woman in aruba. a lot of people are bringing up the comparisons with natalie holloway. some six years later now. apparently disappearing from allegedly the same area that natalie holloway was last seen. i mean, it's very erie to say the least. what's the latest in this investigation? >> right now the suspect in this case is or the person of interest is being held. there will be another hearing this monday to determine if they can hold him a little bit longer. most likely eight...
surfacing in the case of a missing american woman in aruba. the associated press reports the suspect in robyn gardner's disappearance tried to redeem an accidental death travel insurance policy on the missing woman. janet shanlian is live in aruba with the latest. what do you know? >> reporter: well, it's really interesting. that information you just reported from the a.p. has not been independently confirmed by nbc news but sends up all kinds of red flags to investigators. two days reportedly after his traveling companion, robyn gardner, went missing, gary giordano, instead of focusing on the search for her, was instead starting the process of redeeming the proceeds from an accidental death penalty that he took out on her, that he took out on both of them, through the form of travel insurance, ahead of their trip. that comes as word that authorities are also now looking at his digital camera which is said to contain very disturbing pornographic photos of robyn gardner. that camera, his cell phone and laptop has been sent to the curacao for analysis. yesterday, here in the prison wil
surfacing in the case of a missing american woman in aruba. the associated press reports the suspect in robyn gardner's disappearance tried to redeem an accidental death travel insurance policy on the missing woman. janet shanlian is live in aruba with the latest. what do you know? >> reporter: well, it's really interesting. that information you just reported from the a.p. has not been independently confirmed by nbc news but sends up all kinds of red flags to investigators. two days...
First Look : MSNBCW : August 19, 2011 2:00am-2:30am PDT
have been told that just two days after american tourist robin gardner was reported missing in aruba, her travel companion tried to cash in on a $1.5 million insurance policy he took out on her. gary giordano has denied any wrongdoing saying she went missing while they were snorkeling. >>> and in belgium, a scene reminiscent of last weekend's stage collapse tragedy in indiana. a storm buckled concert structures as it swept through a music festival featuring the foo fighters and eminem. at least five people were killed. >>> and now here's your "first look" at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,990, after sinking 419 points. the s&p went down 53 points and the nasdaq lost a whopping 131. looking at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 224 points while in hong kong, the hang seng tumbled 16. world markets have taken a beating as global recession fear rears its ugly head once again. the current bleak economic outlook fuelled more losses overseas this morning. markets were down as much as 2% in japan, hong kong, shanghai and australia. invest
have been told that just two days after american tourist robin gardner was reported missing in aruba, her travel companion tried to cash in on a $1.5 million insurance policy he took out on her. gary giordano has denied any wrongdoing saying she went missing while they were snorkeling. >>> and in belgium, a scene reminiscent of last weekend's stage collapse tragedy in indiana. a storm buckled concert structures as it swept through a music festival featuring the foo fighters and...
traveling with in aruba. 25-year-old robyn gardner has not been seen in five weeks. we have janet shamlyian with the latest on this. >> the judge said that gary giordano be held for another two weeks because he was somehow involved in the missing of robyn gardner as the two were snorkeling in an area called baby beach. yesterday after the hearing giordano was moved from the he had been held for ten days to aruba's prison which gives the prosecutors additional time to seek more evidence against him, because frankly, they admit, they don't have anything firm that ties him to the disappearance of robyn gardner, and beyond the fact that they say that his story does not make sense. he has said that they were snorkeling, and that the waters were becoming rough, and that he signaled her to come back to shore, and when he arrived at shore, he know longer saw her there. people in thatter a ya tell us that this is unusual place to go snorkeling and unusual time of day, sundown, so there are doubts on his story, but in 16 days prosecutors will have to find something solid to come back with or it is ve
traveling with in aruba. 25-year-old robyn gardner has not been seen in five weeks. we have janet shamlyian with the latest on this. >> the judge said that gary giordano be held for another two weeks because he was somehow involved in the missing of robyn gardner as the two were snorkeling in an area called baby beach. yesterday after the hearing giordano was moved from the he had been held for ten days to aruba's prison which gives the prosecutors additional time to seek more evidence...
for a missing woman in aruba. what we're learning now about the insurance policy the suspect took out. >>> hot on the web today and one of the top searches on google the unexpected death of russell armstrong, the estranged husband of taylor armstrong from "the real housewives of beverly hills." he was found hanging in a home. police believe it was suicide. the couple's marital and financial dramas were part of the drama on the first season of the reality show. taylor filed for divorce on july 15th. bravo's not saying what might happen to the second season of the show. >>> a british man was killed by a shark on his honeymoon. the 30-year-old teacher was attacked as his bride watched in horror from the beach. the two married 11 days ago. it is the second fatal shark attack in the area in two weeks. prince william and kate took their hon eye moon there. >>> stop wearing our clothes. abercrombie and fitch is offering money to the situation and his fellow "jersey show shore" cast mate if they'll stop wearing their clothes on their show. the company says seeing the situation in its clot
for a missing woman in aruba. what we're learning now about the insurance policy the suspect took out. >>> hot on the web today and one of the top searches on google the unexpected death of russell armstrong, the estranged husband of taylor armstrong from "the real housewives of beverly hills." he was found hanging in a home. police believe it was suicide. the couple's marital and financial dramas were part of the drama on the first season of the reality show. taylor filed...
suspected in the disappearance of his traveling companion in aruba tops the story around "newsnation." a judge in aruba is expected to decide whether there's enough evidence to hold gary giordano for another 60 days in the presumed death of robyn gardner. he claims farner disappeared during a snorkeling trip >>> an amusement park in westchester county, new york, is open for business today t.closed for about two hours after a scuffle between police and a group of muslims celebrating the end of ramadan. the fight happened when park officials told women in the group not to wear their scarves on certain winds because it violated safety codes. the safety codes prevent people from wearing baseball caps and things on rides. they called the incident an unfortunate misunderstanding. >>> and the ncaa has suspended eight football players from the from the miami hurricanes for accepting improper benefits from a university booster. all eight players must repay the value on everything they got for free, from meals to trips to the strip club. the hurricane season opener against maryland is monday night
suspected in the disappearance of his traveling companion in aruba tops the story around "newsnation." a judge in aruba is expected to decide whether there's enough evidence to hold gary giordano for another 60 days in the presumed death of robyn gardner. he claims farner disappeared during a snorkeling trip >>> an amusement park in westchester county, new york, is open for business today t.closed for about two hours after a scuffle between police and a group of muslims...
at large. >>> today a judge in aruba will decide if there's enough to keep this man held captive of the death of robin gardner. he claimed she disappeared during a snorkling trip. a chilling 911 call out of florida where a female murder victim begged police to send help to her home. she made several frantic calls to emergency operators after her husband attacks her in longwood. >> i could be dead right now. you wouldn't even know it. it's been 20 minutes. >> at one point, she stays on the line 15 minutes asking for help. hours later, she's found dead in a nearby parking lot. her husband is now under arrest. >>> the department of justice filed a civil lawsuit that blocks at&t's ak decision of t-mobile. the proposed $39 billion transaction would hurt competition for other mobile wireless services across the country. it would also result in higher prices and poor quality services. >>> congress gregsal black caucus wraps up a jobs issue to get americans back to work. they are continuing to push the president to pay attention to their issues and get help to struggling minority neighborho
at large. >>> today a judge in aruba will decide if there's enough to keep this man held captive of the death of robin gardner. he claimed she disappeared during a snorkling trip. a chilling 911 call out of florida where a female murder victim begged police to send help to her home. she made several frantic calls to emergency operators after her husband attacks her in longwood. >> i could be dead right now. you wouldn't even know it. it's been 20 minutes. >> at one point,...
gardner, who vanished while vacationing in aruba. police die tained the maryland woman's travel partner from the airport as he attempted to fly back to the u.s. the man denies any wrongdoing and she disappeared in strong currents while the two were snorkeling on august 2nd. >>> another nightmare unfolding for the family of a little missouri girl. bri breeann rodriguez was seen riding on a pink bike when she vanished. now a $45,000 reward is being offered. dennis baker is the special agent in charge of the fbi st. louis division and joins us by phone. agent baker, you put up digital billboards with her image. are there any new leads on her disappearance? >> yes, there are. we have several leads we are pursuing. we've had a lot of publicity about this. that has generated a ton of leads. i can say that -- i don't know that we're on a particular path right now, but we're on leads, and hopefully that leads you onto the right path. >> does the fact that maybe her bike disappeared with her point that this is an abduction? >> absolutely. this is a small child, 3 years old, she only weighs about
gardner, who vanished while vacationing in aruba. police die tained the maryland woman's travel partner from the airport as he attempted to fly back to the u.s. the man denies any wrongdoing and she disappeared in strong currents while the two were snorkeling on august 2nd. >>> another nightmare unfolding for the family of a little missouri girl. bri breeann rodriguez was seen riding on a pink bike when she vanished. now a $45,000 reward is being offered. dennis baker is the special...
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aruba. authorities believe she may have drowned and giordano was detained after a statement on the internet raised questions. >>> attorneys for lieuies sanchez and marvin norwood are expected to ask the judge to reduce their bail. charges against them include assault and battery. brian stowe remains hospitalized after the beating, having suffered severe brain injuries. >>> now to what's being called a miracle. a 12-year-old boy was caught in an undertow and declared clinically dead when rescuers found him. the story doesn't end there. here's natalie morales. >> reporter: 12-year-old dale ostrander, a non-swimmer was swept out to sea from a strong rip current off the coast of washington. rescuers crisscrossed the ocean, desperately searches for the boy for 20 long minutes. they found him under water and unconscious. he lifeless body rushed to the hospital where his pulse finally returned. his parents, chad and kirsten raced from their home three hours away with their faith in god, but a grim prognosis from doctors. >> they were very clear that he had been under water too long, been
aruba. authorities believe she may have drowned and giordano was detained after a statement on the internet raised questions. >>> attorneys for lieuies sanchez and marvin norwood are expected to ask the judge to reduce their bail. charges against them include assault and battery. brian stowe remains hospitalized after the beating, having suffered severe brain injuries. >>> now to what's being called a miracle. a 12-year-old boy was caught in an undertow and declared...
MSNBC News Live : MSNBCW : August 9, 2011 9:00am-10:00am PDT
minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> a maryland woman has disappeared in aruba. robin gardener went there last week. the man she was vacationing with said she was swept out to sea. authorities arrested him on suspicion of murder when he tried to leave the country. >>> the maid who filed sexual assault against dominique strauss-kahn. she is seeking unspecified damages for the may 14th attack she called violent and sadistic. strauss-kahn is due back in criminal court august 23rd. prosecutors are worried about the credibility of the story. >>> the mayor of philadelphia is cracking down on teen mobs randomly terrorizing neighborhoods, attacking people on the street. the mayor announced new curfews and increased police paroles for certain parts of the city, now parents could be held responsible. they risk jail time if their kids violate these new restriction. >>> police in florida have released dash cam video of a shocking high speed chase. there are three suspects in that fleeing car. two brothers and a sister all in their 20s. the police officer who chased them said the s
minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> a maryland woman has disappeared in aruba. robin gardener went there last week. the man she was vacationing with said she was swept out to sea. authorities arrested him on suspicion of murder when he tried to leave the country. >>> the maid who filed sexual assault against dominique strauss-kahn. she is seeking unspecified damages for the may 14th attack she called violent and sadistic. strauss-kahn is due back in...
well on an american woman missing in aruba. we're now learning an insurance policy was taken out on her life right before her trip to the island. and how much money is a handwritten letter from president obama worth? find out which letter sold for a record breaking price. sy dishes. we're facing some tough opposition today. i'm gonna need my biggest player. a change in the lineup? that little squirt? [ cheers and applause ] [ female announcer ] one bottle of ultra dawn has the grease-cleaning power of two of the leading non-concentrated brand, giving you double the cleaning ingredients in every drop. [ sponge ] way to go, kid. you really knocked the grease out of them. [ female announcer ] dawn does more... [ sponge ] so it's not a chore. as a managso i takeam one a day men's 50+ advantage. counts on me to stay focused. it's the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to support memory and concentration. plus vitamin d to help maintain healthy blood pressure. [ bat cracks ] that's a hit. one a day men's. >>> welcome back to "newsnation." unsafe armor. . a new pentagon report finding
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Andrea Mitchell Reports : MSNBCW : August 18, 2011 10:00am-11:00am PDT
about a missing american woman in aruba and the accidental death insurance policy the man traveling with her took out on her before their vacation. all of that and more 15 minutes away on "news nation." >>> we're keeping a close eye on the rough day on wall street. these are the numbers at this hour. the dow down about 464 points. the s & p also down 55. nasdaq down about 125 points in an afternoon of trading that has been mostly down. >>> the president certainly will be watching, is watching from washington and then will head off to vacation with his family to martha's vineyard, massachusetts. that's where we find nbc's kristen welker awaiting the first family's arrival. the president is not leaving a situation that is particularly positive as far as the markets are concerned. let's talk about this jobs plan that the president says he will announce upon his return after labor day. he's been talking about various jobs initiatives over the last couple of weeks. the white house promising something over and above the things the president has been talking about? >> reporter: we're getti
about a missing american woman in aruba and the accidental death insurance policy the man traveling with her took out on her before their vacation. all of that and more 15 minutes away on "news nation." >>> we're keeping a close eye on the rough day on wall street. these are the numbers at this hour. the dow down about 464 points. the s & p also down 55. nasdaq down about 125 points in an afternoon of trading that has been mostly down. >>> the president...
the child missing in a timely manner. >>> the fbi is now helping authorities in a aruba investigate the disappearance of a maryland woman. the fbi says it's conducting interviews and giving other assistance in the search for 35-year-old robin gardener. her 50-year-old travel companion told police garden her disappeared while the two were snorkling off the tip of the island. awe rubian authorities arrested that man because of growing doubts above and beyonding his story. >>> new york's former top cop says he may go in to show the british how to crack down on thugs, and hooligans. william bratten says he's in talks on becoming an advisor on calming the violence and changing the police force requested prnlly by the prime minister. jay gray is live in london. they do things very different in london than they do in new york city. but at this point the prime minister i think it's time to reconsider all options. rop absolutely. i talked briefly with bill bratten this morning. he has been watching the events unfold here in london. may be a bit keener after prime minister david cameron sukte
the child missing in a timely manner. >>> the fbi is now helping authorities in a aruba investigate the disappearance of a maryland woman. the fbi says it's conducting interviews and giving other assistance in the search for 35-year-old robin gardener. her 50-year-old travel companion told police garden her disappeared while the two were snorkling off the tip of the island. awe rubian authorities arrested that man because of growing doubts above and beyonding his story. >>>...
30-tablet free trial offer, go to cialis.com. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. authorities in aruba are planning a massive search for the remains of robyn gardner. they'll search the area where her traveling expand consays she disappeared. police believe she is dead. >>> the man accused of placing a fake collar bomb on a teenager in australia appeared in a kentucky federal courtroom today. he will remain in jail until an extra decision hearing in october. >>> sugarland says it would hold a private memorial for five people who died in that stage collapse. sugarland was about to perform when the accident occurred saturday night at the state fair. >>> in denver it was a bold smash-and-grab caught on tape. so far, no leads in the case. >>> and for people aged 25 or older, a new stud,says you lose about 22 minutes of your life by watching just one hour of ask you to leave. >> whoa. welcome back. that was congressman paul ryan in a town meeting in wisconsin back this april. during this august weekend, recess, rather, ryan will meet with many people in this district, including at a 15-per-pers
30-tablet free trial offer, go to cialis.com. >>> i'm milissa rehberger. authorities in aruba are planning a massive search for the remains of robyn gardner. they'll search the area where her traveling expand consays she disappeared. police believe she is dead. >>> the man accused of placing a fake collar bomb on a teenager in australia appeared in a kentucky federal courtroom today. he will remain in jail until an extra decision hearing in october. >>> sugarland...
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lilia louis ylouisia reporting. >>> and a boyfriend has reported a maryland woman missing in aruba. >>> and what was supposed to be a 60-hour feat, diane nyad had to abandon her feat where the 61-year-old was forced to end her marathon because of heavy winds and currents. you might remember that nyad tried before to make that swim way back in 1978. >>> time to look at the markets an hour into the trading day and the dow is up over 200 points and back up over the 11,000 mark, and brian sullivan, you have been watching this morning and what are you seeing? >> well, some buyers stepping into the market, chris. look. i'm not going the make light of it, it has been a brutal two weeks and gaining 200 points is nice, but we are still well below where we were and we are waiting for the federal reserve 2:15 eastern time to get a statement from the fed and that could determine the course of trading for the next couple of days, because there is talk that the fed might step in with a quantitative easing or discounted loan program and we have to wait, because it could be a big day. >> and mortg
lilia louis ylouisia reporting. >>> and a boyfriend has reported a maryland woman missing in aruba. >>> and what was supposed to be a 60-hour feat, diane nyad had to abandon her feat where the 61-year-old was forced to end her marathon because of heavy winds and currents. you might remember that nyad tried before to make that swim way back in 1978. >>> time to look at the markets an hour into the trading day and the dow is up over 200 points and back up over the...
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-year-old disappearance. gary giordano told police she never came back after snorkeling in aruba. >>> training wheels have turned up where a 3-year-old disappeared a week ago, the wheels were found near the home of breann rodriguez went missing. police are unsure whether they were from her bike but they've been sent to a crime lab for analysis. >>> a mississippi army wife got a major surprise at a minor league baseball game. darla harlow thought she was randomly selected to throw out the first pitch. turns out that's her husband in the catcher's mask, home from afghanistan, giving her the surprise of her life, it all went off without a hitch thanks to his support team on the ground, with daughters molly and casey. >>> minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann is crisscrossing iowa today straight off the heels from last night's republican debate, bachmann is getting major attention for an answer about being submissive to her husband. >> you described a moment in your life when your husband said you should study for a degree in tax law. you said you hated the idea, and then you expl
-year-old disappearance. gary giordano told police she never came back after snorkeling in aruba. >>> training wheels have turned up where a 3-year-old disappeared a week ago, the wheels were found near the home of breann rodriguez went missing. police are unsure whether they were from her bike but they've been sent to a crime lab for analysis. >>> a mississippi army wife got a major surprise at a minor league baseball game. darla harlow thought she was randomly selected to...
some other stories making headlines this hour. aruba police believe that robyn gardner is no longer alive. her travel companion reported her missing four days ago. the prosecutors are asking a judge to continue detaning him and police have searched his home in maryland. the search is on in eastern pakistan for an american contractor kidnapped from his home. police say between eight and ten people broke into his home and forced him to leave. kidnappings for ransom are common in pakistan, but most of those victims are pakistani. >>> and casey anthony must come back to florida to serve probation for writing bad checks, or at least sign in there. anthony was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee in july. judge perry, who presided over the murder trial, claimed they tried to use a clerical error to get her out of serving a probation period. that's going to do it for me this hour, chris jansing will pick up things here as the voting begins at the iowa straw poll and we'll be listening in to rick perry to make his announcement official. wake up with me tomorrow morning. i'll
some other stories making headlines this hour. aruba police believe that robyn gardner is no longer alive. her travel companion reported her missing four days ago. the prosecutors are asking a judge to continue detaning him and police have searched his home in maryland. the search is on in eastern pakistan for an american contractor kidnapped from his home. police say between eight and ten people broke into his home and forced him to leave. kidnappings for ransom are common in pakistan, but...
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Devarim (Deuteronomy)In this final book of Torah, Moses reviews much of the history and the laws given to the Jewish people: hence the Greek name, (taken from phrase 'Mishneh Torah', Deut. 17:18) meaning second telling. In Deuteronomy, the belief that following God's rules will bring blessing; while spurning God will result in calamity is stressed. Idolatry and other false practices are continually denounced. Many scholars identify Deuteronomy with the book of Teaching found by Hilkiah the High Priest (during the reign of King Josiah- II Kings 22:8) during the reforms the king was instituting to strengthen Israel and its religion. There are thirty-four chapters, divided into eleven parashiyot. The parashiyot of Devarim are: Devarim, Va'Etchanan, Ekev, Re'eh, Shoftim, Ki Tetze, Ki Tavo, Nitzavim, VaYelech, Ha'azinu, and Zot HaBrachah
Ki Tetze
Ki Tetze: God feels close when we nurture our relationship through prayer and mitzvot.
In Parashat Ki Tetze, our tradition identifies 74 different mitzvot , covering a wide assortment of rules related to ethical warfare, family life, burial of the deceased, property laws, the humane treatment of animals, fair labour practices, and proper economic transactions. Specific topics addressed in this week's portion include treatment of females captured in war, the rights of the first born, the ben soreir - the 'wayward and rebellious' son - who is put to death, followed by the treatment of the bodies of the executed. The portion then goes on to discuss our responsibility towards the property of others, men and women's clothing, guard rails, mixed agriculture, tzitzit, issues of marriage and adultery, slavery, sexual propriety, interest, vows, workers' rights, divorce, kidnapping, consideration for the orphan and the widow, support for the poor, Leverite marriage, the penalty for embarrassing another and honest weights and measures. Like I said, this portion covers a lot of territory. The parasha ends with the famous command to remember what Amalek did to the Israelites when they left Egypt.
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scottish writer and journalist
Demanding Democracy: The Case for a Scottish Media
Brexit, International, Scottish Politics
Independence will only happen if we’re prepared to break some rules
Posted on 22nd February 2017 2nd August 2017
It should come as no surprise that the UK Government has all but ruled out granting the Scottish Parliament the ability to hold a second binding referendum on independence.
It is worth being candid about the political realities that underpin this refusal. Events have swept across these isles and the world to the extent that the affairs of Scotland are easily overlooked. Scotland does not matter. It is still a nation that asks for permission.
But while we should expect no different – because there is almost no political scenario in which it would make sense for a Tory government to allow such a vote – we should also see this moment as an opportunity.
It may be tough for advocates of independence to stomach, but while the European question has decisively shifted the moral aspect of the debate away from the case for Union, in hard political terms, the ground is not shifting.
The collapse of British politics
Scotland’s constitutional status, as the Supreme Court helpfully reminded us recently, is governed by political conventions. In constitutional terms, the concept of “the Scottish people” is no more relevant than the concept of “the Warwickshire people”.
The conviction that Scotland is a nation and therefore ought to have its voice respected is just another political argument between two competing nationalisms.
As the Supreme Court justices pointed out, the lack of a solid constitutional foundation for devolution means that political concerns govern the relationship between Westminster and the devolved governments.
The Union has always operated on this basis. But this time, things are different: British politics has imploded and has largely ceased to function. A shift in the polls on independence might deliver a slew of concessions to Scotland on Brexit, but it would make a second binding referendum even less likely.
As a result, the only scenario through which a second referendum could be realistically enabled would be the 2020 election resulting in a hung parliament at Westminster. Given that the Tory’s new found British nationalism tethers them to preservation of the Union at all costs, and given the dire prospects for a divided and ineffectual Labour Party at the ballot box, such an outcome does not seem feasible.
At the same time, the risks associated with a non-binding Catalonia-style vote should not be underestimated: such plebiscites are easily boycotted and the results even more easily dismissed by intransigent central governments.
The Scottish Government may gain some minor concessions from the UK, but its demand for Single Market Access would undermine the Brexit project as effectively as independence. In all of this, the only power that it the SNP can call upon, in theory, is the notion that the Scottish people might clamour to man the lifeboats as the sinking hulk of HMS Britannia goes down.
This is a high risk strategy. Then again, it’s problematic to link any issue too closely to demands for a referendum: they are blunt instruments that aim to solve complex issues with a binary choice. Strategically, the focus on a second referendum remains a major weak point. But there is an alternative.
In political terms, Scotland, the UK, and the world have all changed beyond recognition since 2014. Only two years ago the events of 2016 would have seemed an absurd fantasy. Today, amidst the onrush of such frantic change, all the old rules are being broken and politics has to shift gear.
In Scotland, which has an old habit of working to its own time-signature regardless of what’s going on in the wider world, politicians are still nervously working out how to frame these events to fit the unresolved national question.
The one point of certainty is an understanding that this fundamentally different new political era makes most of the 2014 debate obsolete.
Better Together’s central strategy – to deny the entire premise of a binary choice between two nationalisms and two deeply contrasting narratives – is now dust.
But if we’re honest, another casualty is the Yes campaign’s breezy notion that all will be well once negotiations and economic realities kick in after independence. Such affirmations ring hollow as UK Government ministers repeat them ad infinitum in the context of Brexit and impending talks with the EU.
Alternative strategies
The point here is simple – independence has to be a self-conscious response to this new world we now inhabit, not a promise that it can somehow be escaped from.
This is why Scotland’s movement for self-determination desperately needs additional measures it can place on the table, other than a potential plebiscite.
The alternative to a referendum-centric approach is to take tangible steps to test the limits of union. To demonstrate, in the eyes of undecided Scots and a Europe that increasingly recognises our distinct politics, that certain Brexit measures will not stand.
In one sense this involves far more radical steps than focusing on calls for another referendum. Yet it is also precisely the inverse of what Brexit has become. It doesn’t retrofit a partisan agenda onto a vote that has already occurred, but instead builds a solution from the ground up.
Potential red lines on Brexit are fast approaching: next week, when the SNP’s amendment to the Article 50 Bill protecting the status EU nationals is voted down, Scotland’s resolve to remain European will face its first big test.
In response, the First Minister could offer her own commitment that all EU nationals resident in Scotland will have their rights to live, love and work here guaranteed. The hurdles to achieving such a measure would be immense, but not insurmountable. This would send a clear message to London and Brussels that a differential settlement for Scotland will happen regardless.
There are a range of other measures where Holyrood could vote in favour of non-cooperation with Brexit policy. For example, if Donald Trump’s government manages to strike some desperate UK trade-deal over the coming years, the Scottish Government could lead a boycott.
In America the “sanctuary cities” have offered an inspirational example of how sub-national government can be a bastion of resistance. Like the governors that turned out to push back against the Muslim ban last weekend, the mayors of several large cities have already made clear that the damage created by cooperating with the federal government on immigration is too great to justify. The Scottish Government, allied with other devolved administrators and the great English cities, should consider a similar approach.
Scotland has its own traditions in this regard, such as the local authorities who defied UK government policy on South Africa in the 1980s. Perhaps devolution has helped foster a mentality that waits for power to be handed down. But in an age of rule breaking, it becomes dangerous to always seem patient and well behaved.
A clear mandate
The idea that Scotland must hope instead for a moment of benevolence from a radical right-wing Tory government is an absurd proposition. They are intent on remaking the country in the image of their own toxic brand of nationalism. Awful as the intent might be, there is a boldness to it that cannot be denied. Britain is either great, or it is nothing: this is an existential moment for these people. If Scotland is not equally bold in turn, it may well be swallowed up in the wake of this insane project.
A full scale refusal across every autonomous Scottish institution to participate in the implementation of Brexit already has a clear mandate. It must now be openly considered. The threat of a constitutional crisis, and with it the entire viability of the devolution settlement itself, is a far more direct challenge to the UK Government’s authority than demands for an elusive second referendum.
If the approach seems too disruptive, just consider the backdrop: in both Britain and the USA new regimes and agendas seem intent on fragmenting their societies in a fit of nationalist self-regard. Trump and May’s governments were faced with looming constitutional crises the moment they gained power.
Their shrill, caustic, brand of nationalism is colliding with constitutional norms, a factor which just happens to threaten the viability of the unions that their me-first nationalisms cherish above all else.
Disruption is taking place regardless
These processes have thrown the equilibrium of mainstream politics dramatically off-balance. Old two-party systems are revealing themselves to be unfit for purpose in a new political era in which all rules are being rapidly re-written.
The pace of this change is daunting. But it does have one central advantage. The link between Brexit and Trump also provides a weak link – we’ve already seen Theresa May come under enormous pressure to distance herself from Trump, the great saviour who will scoop up the castaway UK in his clammy paws.
The state visit, if it goes ahead, looks set to be the biggest moment of anti-Government protest in the UK since Iraq.
When so many red-lines are crossed in politics there is no middle way to navigate. This is why Scotland will not matter until it takes a side in the wider struggle, by resolving to make its own rules. At a time when many of the norms that we’ve lived by may well be destroyed, this task could be a necessity, rather than an option.
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By Foster & Kimberly Gamble
A Response to the Praxis Peace Institute’s Pamphlet
Deconstructing Libertarianism:
A Critique Prompted by the Movie THRIVE
We welcome a civil public discourse on uncovering the fundamental operating principles from which to create a world where everyone can truly thrive. Rather than attempt to respond to all the slurs, misunderstandings and false accusations about the film THRIVE throughout Georgia Kelly’s new Praxis pamphlet “Deconstructing Libertarianism”, we will address a few exemplary ones to try to highlight what we believe are some key distinctions.
Before holding a magnifier over the apparently controversial core principle of non-violation, it is important to note that this pamphlet virtually ignored the 3 stage THRIVE solution strategy that acknowledges valuable contributions from left and right and then transcends them. THRIVE proposes a “business plan” for taking care of the disenfranchised millions who have been most damaged by our corrupt “state” while we are transitioning to a condition of optimal and global freedom for everyone.
Solutions Stages – Getting From Here to a Thriving World
The vision THRIVE presents is of flourishing in a condition of true liberty – thriving – and we propose an overlapping three stage strategy for achieving that. Not a tweak of this fundamentally flawed system, but a radical transformation that takes the best of what is often associated with Liberal compassion (Stage 1) with the best of traditional Conservative values – limiting government to the protection of individual rights and the ecosystems and infrastructure we hold in common (Stage 2) into Stage 3, a voluntary society that no longer relies on involuntary taxation to support authoritarian rule.
Never do we suggest that we instantaneously dismantle government and the support that it currently provides for those most in need – We clearly suggest that we use the taxes already taken now to fund wars of aggression and wasteful dysfunctional programs and redirect them into caring for people as we simultaneously empower everyone with the money and prosperity that is rightfully theirs through the dismantling of the Federal Reserve and eliminating the coercive mandatory taxation of their wages.
We believe that envisioning Stage 3 is critical because when we know where we are headed, we can then create strategies that get us there. It’s like transitioning from a pesticide-ridden field to an organic bio-dynamic farm – you have to know the end goal to implement the appropriate process and to assess the progress. And you certainly have to avoid adding any new pesticides along the way.
The Praxis Pamphlet reflects what it sounds like when we are mired in the swamp of relativistic morality, voting for the lesser of evils and wringing our hands in helpless hope as we turn our kids wistfully over to the police state that draws its nurturance from everyone willing to stay in this box. THRIVE is proposing a way out of the box of imposed government systems altogether!
The Moral Question
What we stand for wholeheartedly and unabashedly is protecting liberty itself - the freedom, privacy and rightfully gained property of every single person. “Rightfully gained” as applied to property is an issue we address in THRIVE as we acknowledge and support the need for indigenous reconciliation and care of the commons. Nonetheless, we can begin with the rightful ownership of our own bodies and work from this core principal as we navigate compassionate and effective resolutions for determining the rights of nature, the commons, indigenous reconciliation, etc.
We are liberty lovers, non-violent freedom fighters and anyone with integrity wanting to deconstruct that needs to stand up and clearly proclaim the answer to this most fundamental moral question:
1) Just exactly when, for you, is it OK for one human being to take the rightfully gained property of another under the threat of violence?
We have asked this question of Georgia Kelly, director of the Praxis Institute, three different times...with still no answer. We sent it to her recently suggesting it would save time in this dialogue if she would actually answer it in her pamphlet so that we could then proceed from there. We accompanied it with two other questions:
2) Do you think a “system” based on taking a substantial portion of people’s income, whether they are willing or not, is an ethical and sustainable basis for a civilization?
3) If there were a way to have accessible and good roads, education and healthcare, a respected system of justice etc. – without anyone being violated against their will - as in involuntary income tax - would you want that?
Her response was, “Your questions are framed from your perspective, which is not ours. Our focus is different...”
Transcending Political Duality
Georgia accuses me of wanting to “create a political center where the right and left can join together.” Again, our key point has been missed. We are wanting to invite people to rise above the old political polarity of right and left – all based on mandatory coercion – to meet newly in solutioning based on integrity and true freedom. And we are delighted to say that in previously divided families, antagonistic workplaces and polarized communities all over the world, people are responding to THRIVE with relief, excitement and creativity. In THRIVE solutions strategy, Stages 1 and 2, there will still be political parties, hopefully many new ones, engaged in the process of obsolescing themselves.
We are not seeking a political anything. We are seeking a universal morality. And for us that can only be based on universal freedom – protecting against violation. For Praxis it seems the key word is ‘fairness” – which sounds terrific, but who gets to decide what is fair? Whose rights are you willing to violate in the name of democracy or progressivism? Slaves, women, non land-owners and others were all thrown under the bus of majority rules, and it was not the state, but courageous individuals demanding their individual rights that evolved our society toward greater freedom in those areas.
We agree that democracy is the furthest and best system so far along the road from Kings to Dictators, to Church Rule, Feudal lords, to Fascism, Communism, Socialism and Democracy. But don’t miss the vector though this progression and think we are done. Isn’t it supposedly toward freedom and justice for us all? We can’t stop here at majority rule and still make it as a species. We need to fully eliminate the cancer of authorized coercion and theft and unleash human creativity and love through figuring out more each day how to build our enduring civilization on protecting the uncompromised wholeness of every individual. It will be very challenging. It already is. And it will be worlds easier to thrive in that joint commitment and discovery than it will be to even survive if we keep heading where we are going, with our heads in the sand.
So this is our message that Ben Boyce wants to “forcefully repudiate” in order to “expose its dark ideological underbelly.” So, Ben, would you be the guy to strap on your piece and go the door of the woman who is struggling to make the rent and feed her family and demand a percentage of the money she just worked all day for? You have a cartoon with some scientists at the blackboard covered with equations and the clause, “And then a miracle occurs.” It seems ironic, because you and Praxis seem to be promoting the forever tried and untrue notion that we can build a society of peace on fundamental violent coercion. Now that, it seems, would take more than a miracle. More practical and likely would be waking up from the insanity of empowering a small handful of bankers and bureaucrats with a monopoly on force and money. (How is that working our for us?)
It is the big government that Praxis favors that is undeniably based on violence or the threat thereof. The fear they seem to feel about THRIVE having a large impact in the world is palpable and we trust that it is the disenfranchised that they are struggling to protect, but that is exactly what our Stage 1 strategy addresses – with the added context of the goal of ridding our civilization of the cancer of coercion.
Rules without Rulers
Gus deZerega states that “many of us agree with the libertarian non-aggression principle...Aggression against peaceful people is never justified.” And we know from personal correspondence and from reading many of his articles that he has actually done some study of liberty principles. But then he goes on for pages that seem to justify violating the individual because we are all part of and dependent on groups.
He writes, “The fairest means to make these decisions is by democracy. There is no other alternative where those who disagree with the decision will be able to sincerely say it was made fairly.” We would ask, when slavery was legal, when women couldn’t vote, were those decisions made fairly because the majority of voter agreed? A lynch mob is majority rule.
He goes on to argue that there are areas of property that may be hard to agree on. We absolutely agree! If we’re talking about air and water and frequency bands, and noise or light pollution, this is where we can be creative with Stage 3 ideas like private Dispute Resolution Organizations that need to compete with each other for respect based on their trustworthiness and ability to protect human rights, and who need to stay free of violating others because they will be subject to prosecution themselves and to loss of their insurance. This would be much safer than putting all the power in the hands of a few who can and always have been coerced or bought off by monied interests. And it would be possible with the increased prosperity and empowerment that an honest money system and decreased taxation resulting from THRIVE-proposed Stages 1 and 2.
Georgia’s defense of Progressive compassion is measured by how many government programs can be established to take care of people (a perspective which we shared for decades). It is fundamentally predicated on the authorization of some people to take other’s hard earned income, at the point of a gun if necessary. (Not to mention how much of it then goes to killing innocent people in wars of aggression, subsidizing or bailing our corporate cronies or paying interest on fake money to the banksters etc...) This dynamic rarely appears in political discourse, either Democrat or Republican. We noticed that there were no books in the bibliographies backing up the pamphlet or any speakers in the Praxis annals that would be discussing this core moral dilemma. We know well the queasy feeling when one’s belief system is effectively challenged, when one’s stand appears to be on quicksand. We have devoted our lives to putting ourselves in those situations and then finding the deeper moral, logical and spiritual truth. That is when, we believe, we need to keep going in the dialogue rather than settle for old unworkable affiliations.
The Secret Seed of Tyranny
This core dynamic of violation does not go away. That first coercion, once allowed, always grows, throughout history, into tyrannical despotism – even if it takes a century or two as in the case of America. We believe that if we do not get rid of this cancer of coercion and base our civilization on the protection of each person we will not make it.
The authors kept repeating that we are against regulation. Not at all! But the regulations need to be about integrity and protection of freedom – not fashionable political leanings or telling people what they can eat or smoke or drink or who they can marry or who can have babies or what schooling they have to have or against whom they need to wage war etc.
Distinct and Unified
deZerega accuses us of ascribing to isolating “atomistic” libertarianism. First, if you look at our atom models on our website and in THRIVE, you will see that the models are of open toruses connected to one another, not isolated particles. Also, we talk extensively about our interconnectedness and the need for vibrant collaborative communities. The difference is that they are not used as excuses for authoritarian coercion of any individual. The key is the word VOLUNTARY.
The Key is VOLUNTARY Participation
Each writer brought up the Mondragon Cooperatives as an example of how things could work. I think they are an excellent and inspiring example of one alternative of what works as long as participation is optional and honest and there are other alternatives also available which don’t violate anyone in the process. If someone puts his savings into starting a shoe store and hires three college students to help sell the shoes, he doesn’t want them announcing the next day that they now own the store. Economic Freedom of the World research continually shows that voluntary collaboration by mutual agreement leads to the most prosperity and happiness – to the most thriving.
Compassion is not increased by taking people’s money. Giving is not giving if it is mandatory. Instead, under this guise, regimes get fueled from our pockets that destroy prosperity and usurp people’s ability to take care of one another, and then don’t deliver on their political promises.
We were stunned to learn in this pamphlet that we supposedly made the movie primarily for and initially targeted the Progressive community. First we’ve heard of that! Many people with traditionally left leanings have welcomed it with enthusiasm, most likely because it resonates with their compassionate ideals and then offers solutions that go deeper morally and have a better chance of succeeding than counting on Obama or praying for some other “enlightened leadership” of a fundamentally immoral and dishonest system. The fact is that the film has been welcomed by people on the right, on the left, in the middle and by those who shun those affiliations. To be clear, we actually made the movie for humans all over the world who want to be free and help one another and our planet to thrive. That’s why we released it dubbed in ten languages from the start.
And Your Solutions Would Be...?
We read all 54 pages very carefully and came away with little or no sense of what practical plans any of these passionate defenders of big government would actually propose, much less actually do, to get to the condition they are wanting. They still seem to be hoping for a 2nd level (government) solution to a 7th level problem (referring to the THRIVE Follow the Money Pyramid) where the ‘state” is still a puppet to all these levels of much greater power pulling its strings. The moneyed powers always have and presumably always would ally with and dominate any government group who gets the authority to take the people’s money against their will.
Ben Boyce clings to the observation that “no human group has lived without leaders and institutions as rudimentary government.” This seems reminiscent of the early American landowners distressing over how the economy would fail without slavery.
As it was then, it is time for morality first! The fact is that there are numerous thinkers who have described in detail how a society without coercive rulers could and would work far, far better than what we have now. Molyneux and Hoppe are among them, but we don’t see them in the Praxis reading list. The key for us, once again, is to ask ourselves, “Is this Voluntary? Did I choose to be led by this person? Can I change my mind if I don’t like the leadership? Is it optional to be a dues paying member of this institution? – Hint: When did you sign up to pay taxes for wars of aggression?...and guess where you would end up if you decided not to...” We would ask these writers... What is the authority structure in your marriage? Is it voluntary? Is it working without needing a coercive authority?
We agree that most of the thought leaders in the Liberty movement do not address the transition strategies effectively, which is why THRIVE plays a critical role in grounding their vital work and vision within a context that gets us from here to there. We could never have gleaned the coherence represented in THRIVE had we required complete agreement with the many people from whom we have learned. The point is to take what is of value, and we find brilliant and essential value in the Stage 3 thinking of these voluntaryist philosophers.
How To Collaborate?
Ms. Kelly has even written that she agrees with 97% of the content of THRIVE. So what is this mystifying other 3%? Best as we can tell, it is this pesky idea of TOTAL freedom for every individual as long as they are not violating any other. We are confident we can discover realms of collaborative possibility – especially in Stage 1, because if we are in 97% agreement and she is still feeling the need to “forcefully repudiate,” then the would-be controllers who are collapsing the economy, authorizing the police state, poisoning the planet and starting new wars are chuckling at the success of their next “divide and conquer” success.
We are grateful for the courage that Praxis represents in speaking out and at the same time feel that a fruitful public discourse will best be served if Georgia and her colleagues avoid slurs like 'thinly-veiled,' 'dark fantasy,' and 'dark underbelly,' that imply both deception and evil, when we are being totally transparent about our lives and our offering. We carry an unfailing commitment to justice and prosperity for everyone - through non-violent means.
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"Anti-social behaviour and criminal damage will not be tolerated and I am reassured to see that there have already been a number of arrests as the investigation continues. These were thoughtless attacks on our community and emergency services which I condemn in the strongest way.
"I have had an update from the Chief Constable and I want to place on record my thanks to the officers involved who contained and quickly dealt with the challenging situation in a professional manner, and we'll be working closely with Leeds Council and the wider Safer Leeds Partnership to fully understand what happened and deal with those responsible.
"High visibility patrols will continue in the area to provide reassurance and I would echo the call from West Yorkshire Police in that anyone with information as to those responsible please contact the non-emergency number 101 quoting reference 1932 of 05/11."
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Radius: “Millionth” by James Chinneck [ Ljubljana + online]
Radius Episode 60: Millionth by James Chinneck :: Duel-Site Broadcast: And Sometimes Gravity, Adds Donna, 88.9-FM, Chicago, US :: February 1, 2015, 1:00 – 4:00 pm (CST) + radioCONA:Zima FM, 88.8MHz, Ljubljana, Slovenia and streaming :: February 19, 2015, 7:00 pm (CET).
Millionth was constructed by simply using a telephone and audio recording equipment. James Chinneck systematically recorded individuals saying the word “hello” when they first answered their telephone. Chinneck charted his telephonic journeys through 227 different countries, working on condensing the world’s population at a ratio of 1:1000000 to generate a total of 6348 people. Each individual “hello” has been edited into a sequence, which includes every country in descending order of population size, one after the other, resulting in a 43 minute audio track. Continue reading
“Critical Network Mapping” by Burak Arikan
Eyeo 2014 – Burak Arikan from Eyeo Festival // INST-INT on Vimeo.
Live Stage: Anthropocene Observatory [ Utrecht]
[Image: COP19, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, 2013. Photo: Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke.] Anthropocene Observatory by Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog), Armin Linke, and Anselm Franke :: February 7 – April 26, 2015 :: Opening: February 6, 6:00 pm :: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst Lange Nieuwstraat 4, 3512 PH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Anthropocene Observatory is a research exhibition and discursive space that proposes to rethink the contemporary world through the prism of the “Anthropocene thesis.” The Anthropocene is understood as an epoch in geological chronology during which the global impact of human activities is inscribed onto planet Earth. Continue reading
How to Construct a Time Machine [ London]
[Image : Tehching Hseih, Punching the Time Clock, One Year Performance, 1980–1981. Photo: Michael Shen. © 1981 Tehching Hsieh. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.] How to Construct a Time Machine :: January 23 – March 22, 2015 :: MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 3QA.
What is time? How do we order the past, the present, and the future? Why are artists interested in time? How is art a machine, vehicle, or device for exploring time? How is art a means by which time “travels,” and how does art permit us to travel in time? These and other questions provide the rationale for How to Construct a Time Machine, an exhibition presented at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, of over 25 historical and contemporary works that explore how artists transform our experience of time, curated by Dr Marquard Smith of the Royal College of Art, London. Continue reading
Predicting In Augmented Space
Live Architectures: Predicting In Augmented Space by Chiara Passa:
Live Architectures is a series of digital and interactive artworks created over time in a wide-range production developed to reshape the indoor and the outdoor architecture and environmental places as well as the ‘digital environment’, transforming it into something alive and vibrant. This series of site-specific artworks is created and usable exclusively on Google Earth. Through the augmented reality technology, the artwork aims to create an extemporary-temporary virtual land-art, constructing a sort of “mise en abyme” or “droste effect”, in which an element shifts the other in depth, merging the Google earth environment with the augmented area in order to create a new space. Continue reading
Live Stage: COVER ME by Julian Oliver [online]
Julian Oliver: COVER ME :: January 14 – February 21, 2015 :: Opening: January 14, 2015 @ Link Cabinet.
COVER ME is a gallery of Creative Commons licensed photographs found on Flickr that the artist transformed into data containers for distributing Snowden files. Using a method known as as steganography, the artist embedded the volatile data into images matching the search queries ‘island getaway’ and ‘beach paradise’, without visibly changing their appearance. Continue reading
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The Route of Etna Castles
Every castle is linked to a fairy tale, full of poetry… a true trip back in time…Let’s start our own!
The Route of Etna Castles is a history, art, natural beauties and traditions itinerary. Its main attraction are ten castles around Mount Etna, the highest volcano in Europe.
From Castello Ursino in Catania, to the castles of Motta Sant’Anastasia, Paternò, Adrano, Aci Castello, Calatabiano, Castiglione di Sicilia, Randazzo, Bronte and Maletto; big and small villages that tell us their medieval past.
1. Castello Ursino Catania
It was built between 1239 and 1250 as per king Frederick II of Svevia will in a strategic place: a promontory overlooking the sea. The lava flow of 1669 covered the bastions and the bases of the Towers, but especially altered the coastline leading to loss of the strategic position of the fortress. Today we can admire the interesting civic collections, including archaelogical section and art gallery, and important exhibitions of contemporary art.
The imposing Castello Ursino in Catania – ph. IZI Travel
2. Norman Castle Motta S. Anastasia
It was built between 1070 and 1074 on a basal promontory 65 meters high, probably over the ruins of an Arab tower. It is an historical and educational museum devided in three floors: the multimedia room on the ground floor, the arms room on the first floor and the joyfull room on the second floor.
A detail of the Norman Castle of Motta Sant’Anastasia – ph. IZI Travel
3. Norman Castle Paternò
Built by Conte Ruggero D’Altavilla in 1072, it’s the largest of the three Towers of Simeto’s Valley. On the ground floor there is a chapel with the remains of mural paintings, on the first floor there is a big hall lighted by four mullioned windows in limestone and on the second floor there is the Lodge, characterized by two mullioned Windows.
A detail of a mural painting in Paternò Norman Castle – ph. IZI Travel
4. Norman Castle Adrano
It was built in the eleventh century on preexisting Greek and Roman fortifications. It is 33 meters high and it’s surrounded by bastioned walls with corner Towers. It was used also as a prison, that involved the readjustement of the salons in cells. Today it houses the archaelogical museum, a library and some historical and artistic collections.
The Norman Castle in Adrano – ph. IZI Travel
5. Castello Nelson Bronte
In the twelfth century the building was a benedectin abbey. The earthquake of 1693 destroyed it partially. After about two centuries it was donated to the English Admiral Horatio Nelson that gave it his name. Today, inside the castle you can visit its museum, the garden, the park and the ruines of the old abbey and the Church of Saint Mary of Maniace.
Entrance to the Nelson Castel Garden in Bronte – ph. buonastrada.eu
6. Castle Manfredi Maletto
The castle was built on a ridge of sandstone rock, in 1263 by Count Manfredi Maletta. From the sixteenth century it lost its role of habitation. It was partially destroyed by the 1693 earthquake and then abandoned. From the top of the castle you can enjoy the vision of an extraordinary panorama of the country, of Etna, Nebrodi and the valley below.
Manfredi Castle in Maletto – ph. buonastrada.eu
7. Castello Svevo Randazzo
Last of the eight towers of the old walls of Randazzo it was named “il Maschio”, because of its importance in the defensive system. The “Executioner of Valdemone” in the thirteenth century transformed the undergrounds in torture chambers for prisoners and for those condemned to death. Today the Castle houses the archaeological collection Vagliasindi.
Facade of the Catello Svevo in Randazzo – ph. buonastrada.eu
8. Castello di Lauria Castiglione di Sicilia
The core of the building belongs to the Byzanthine period. Witness of the ancient site are several round stones thrown by catapults. In the highest part of the building is located the Solecchia: that area was probably the place where the coins were minted. Today the castle houses the Regional Winhouse where various typical Sicilian wines are exposed.
Castello di Lauria in Castiglione di Sicilia – ph. buonastrada.eu
9. Arabic Norman Castle Calatabiano
The majestic castle is located 200 meters between Etna and the Ionian Sea. The recent renovation gave an extra value to the place, where you can also attend suggestive concerts and theatrical performances. One of the most valuable areas of the castle is the Cruyllas Hall, where – through the two Windows – you can have a wonderful view on Alcantara Valley. The inclined panoramic elevator, that reaches the top of the castle in two minutes and a half, allowing the visitors to simultaneously see the Etna, Taormina, the Alcantara’s Valley and the magnificent sea.
Overview of the Arabic Norman Castle of Calatabiano – ph. IZI Travel
10. Norman Castle Aci Castello
The castle, with a central square tower, stands on a headland of lava rock overlooking the sea. During the eruption of 1169 the lava connected the castel to the coast. The museum inside the Castle displays archaeological finds, expecially from the surrounding sea. One of its terraces also houses a botanical garden.
The Norman Castle of Aci Castello – ph. G. Gagliano
The Route of Etna Castles on buonastrada.eu e IZI Travel
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Lion King Show - Press Release
On the 7th and 8th March 2018 Vijay International School Praslin saw two incredible performances of 'The Lion King' by their Junior School section both held in the still new multipurpose Ellen Hall. The show, based on the Disney movie, was a technicolour wonder with all students performing in costume, headdress and face paint. Every student in year's 3 up to 6 were involved playing all manner of creatures from antelopes to bumble bees, and from lions to elephants. Between them they created a wonderful scene very reminiscent of the African Savannah.
Cousins, Emma and Isabelle Labuschagne shared the lead role duties, with each playing young and old Simba respectively. Meanwhile, Sean Watson gave an amazing star turn in the role of the evil Scar and Dean Jean-Louis played the good king Mufasa. Comedy relief was offered by Junia DC Lablache and Ethan Levy playing Timon and Pumba and by Emilie Bossy and Victoria Rouillon in the roles of Rafiki and Zazu. The three main hyenas were equally terrifying and hilarious, performed by Xara Hertel, Matteo Depaula and Mohammed Rose. Lishad Morgan played a mischievous Younger Nala whilst Emily Vanacore starred as Older Nala, in particular showcasing her amazing vocal talents.
Head of Key Stage 2, Martha Platt spoke after the show, congratulating the students for their hard work and amazing performances. She also thanked parents for their hours of hard work in putting together costumes and the team of staff and volunteers who worked hard to paint each child’s face ensuring every student looked perfect.
Headteacher, Mark Howell spoke of his delight at another successful VISP show. Speaking after the first night he said 'This school already has an outstanding reputation for serious drama and top quality musical performances. With this production, the quality of production at VISP has been taken to a new level and students and staff should be congratulated for all their amazing hard work in putting this together.'
Trishia is going to Mexico!
After the success of the robotics building and programming competition, Trisha Labiche has been selected to join the Seychelles national team to compete in a worldwide robotics competition that is being held in Mexico this August! We wish her all the luck in the world!
Inter-school robotics competition
To celebrate International Girls in ICT Day 2018, Trishia Labiche, Amadine Leste and Rasika Pillay from year 10 were invited to a robotics building and programming day. The girls spent a Saturday in April competing with students from Praslin and La Digue secondary schools. After some information and talks from women in ICT the girls were put to the test and had to compete in four rounds consisting of building, programming and displaying. After learning and figuring out how to programme their newly build robot the girls showed off their new talents and ended up winning the competition, taking home a trophy for the school and tablets and books for themselves. The students had a great day, learnt a lot and all came away empowered and motivated!
River Fieldwork
Primary and Secondary students from the Vallee de Mai club and Eco-friendly club had a trip to a local river to celebrate World Water day. After a briefing about the river the students were put into groups with students from other schools and sent away to investigate what species they could find. The students learnt so much and had a great time catching fish and eel hunting!
ISS concert at Vijay
VISP was delighted to welcome singers and musicians from the International School Seychelles for a Christmas concert on 1st December 2017. The ISS is well known nationally and led by their music teacher Mr Chitambo they performed an amazing range of classic and modern pop songs. The audience of VISP students, staff and parents was also treated to traditional African and Austrian dances as well as a recorder group and a drumming ensemble.
A highlight of the show was a performance by the VISP choir led by Miss Pettigrew who delivered a short set of songs to the delight of the crowd. A huge well done to the students for all their hard work in preparing for this performance.
A big finale saw the VISP choir and ISS choir team up for an original song and a final closing Christmas Carol.
We look forward to welcoming students from ISS to Praslin again in the future for another concert.
Beach Clean Up
Students and staff recently took part in the first beach clean up organised on Praslin by The Ocean Project! Helpers were invited to the CORAL building to hear all about coral reefs from the reef rescuers at Nature Seychelles before cleaning up Amite beach. Our beach cleaners were shocked at how much rubbish was being left on our beautiful island. Eco-Friendly club and Valle de Mai students will be organising many more events like this in the future! We hope everyone gets involved.
2017 exam results - press release
Students from Vijay International School, Praslin, celebrated their A-Level results this week as the outcomes of the June 2017 examinations were published. 100% of students sitting their second year post-secondary exams passed, with no student failing any subject. Having graduated, these students will now move on to university level education, both at UniSey but also in the UK, France, India and Malaysia. The best performing student was Alyssa Payet, who 2 years ago broke the national record for IGCSE performance.
This is the first time that A-Levels have been taken on Praslin, as students previously had to travel to Mahe for post-secondary studies, separating them from the vital support they receive at home. This additional support is an important component of post-secondary studies and this first batch of VISP A-Level results indicates the advantages which are to be gained through having this home support.
Headteacher Mark Howell commented 'It is a great achievement for A-Levels to be sat for the first time at any institution on Praslin. For the results to be so good is a major coup for the community and a credit to the hard work of the students. Delivering A-Level courses has been a major ambition of the VISP Board of Governors and the management team and to see this dream realised is amazing.'
IGCSE results at the school were again excellent, building on the success of previous years. Overall 99% of exams were passed with 70% at C grade or above, well above the UK average. 28% of grades at IGCSE were A or A* grade, again outstanding results when compared to school in the UK. These grades were well deserved by a hard working group of students. In particular, there were outstanding academic performances by Chloe Verlaque, Sumitha Pillay and Mandy Omath.
Many of these S5 students will now progress on to study A-Levels at VISP beginning in September. Post-secondary places are still available and enrolment for both IGCSE and A-Level classes is taking place now. Please email Head of Sixth Form Dan Cross at dcross@visp-sey.com for any further details.
sports report - june 2018
Secondary Basketball fixture vs ISS - At the beginning of May, twenty secondary students headed over to ISS Mahe to compete in a mixed boys and girls basketball tournament. The year 7s fought hard but unfortunately lost in hot, tough conditions. The year 9 and 10 basketball team worked well together in defence, allowing Perry Pointe to show his individual talent in attack. This lead to a comfortable win for VISP. We look forward to welcoming ISS to Praslin on June 6 th for a return Volleyball tournament.
SACOS National Swimming finals - Thirteen students represented VISP at the national swimming competition in Mahe. Everystudent was successful in gaining a medal in one or more of the races they competed in. Overall the students achieved 3 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 4 bronze medals; these included a gold medal for the 7-9 girls relay team and a silver medal for both the 12-13 girls relay team and 14-15 boys relay team. Every performer that qualified won a medal on the day. Congratulations to all the swimmers at VISP!
National Athletics Heats - After initially being cancelled due to a very wet and windy day, the La Digue National Athletics Championship Heats were rescheduled for 25 th May. Unfortunately, it was, yet again an extremely wet and windy day but it was decided that the heats must go on. Pupils battled through the rain to gain a place at the finals which will take place this month in Mahe. Seven of our students qualified for the finals: Grace Weaver, Ingrid Morel, Eric Jean-Louis, Perry Pointe, Kareen Cedras, Luke Burian and Isabelle Labushagne.
Thursday 29th March was the date for the annual VISP Sports Day with Aldabra house looking for the 3rd win in a row.
As is traditional, the long jump and high jump had been held earlier in the week and saw a new school record set by Ingrid Morel in Long Jump.
The main day programme began with the Early Childhood and then Year 1 and 2 track events alongside the shot putt for secondary students. Joshua Confait set a new school record in the Shot Putt and after these field events the scores showed Aldabra having a big lead.
However, as the day went by, Desroches and Fregate closed the gap as Aldabra performed poorly in the track events. New records were set by Grace Weaver, Lishad Morgan, Luke Burian, Eric Jean-Louis, Naida Stravens, Adrian Payet and Charlotte Vanacore.
With just the relays left, all was to play for with all 3 houses still in contention. 4 excellent relay performances by Aldabra meant that for the 3rd year in a row they took the victory but by the narrowest margin yet.
Thursday 1st March 2018 once again saw VISP celebrate World Book Day in some style with an amazing range of costumes of display throughout the school.
Each class had taken part in a story writing competition with the amazing winners announced in assembly. Jessica Drotsky won the Y2 prize, Emily Morel won Y3, Laurent Bossy Y4, Samuel Marie Y5 and Daniel Drotsky won the Y6 prize. Jessica's, Emily's and Daniel's story's were all read in assembly to an attentive and interested audience.
The star prizes, as in previous years, were the 2 Sarah Morgan Reading prizes. This year the junior prize went to Ishaan Cresswell-Alam and the Secondary prize to Anjali Grandcourt, both of whom have shown an amazing commitment to reading over the past 12 months.
In the evening the annual Books and Blankets evening saw some magical story telling sessions by staff. Miss Payet and Miss Danielle's rendition of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' was a real treat whilst Miss Platt's slime making challenge was a real crowd pleaser.
ISS vs VISP Volleyball
Last week ISS came over to VISP for a return Volleyball tournament. The day began with the year 10s playing a first strong match, winning easily. However, they then struggled to maintain this high standard and unfortunately ended up coming to a 2 game to 1 defeat. Despite this our year 10 girls performed particularly well in all three games, with notable performances from Rona Pirame and Lucie Saint Ange. Our year 7 team were dominant from start to finish, with Russell Payet’s skilled serving being a key factor in the winning result. We look forward to hosting ISS again for future fixtures.
Praslin heats of SACOS swimming championships
Saturday 16th February was the date for the annual Praslin and La Digue school swimming championships, an event usually dominated by students from VISP. This year was no different with Coach Paul and Mr Baker helping the team reach peak performance for this competition.
The Labuschagne swimming dynasty continued with Amber sweeping up wins in the 7-9 years category, Isabelle winning 3 events in the 9-11 category, Emma winning the 9-11 breaststroke, Abigail picking up wins in the 11-13 category and Noah claiming several wins in the 13-15 age group. There were also wins for Phin Samraj in the 11-13 boys, Daniel Drotsky in the 9-11 boys, Charlotte Vanacore in the 13-15 girls, Emily Vanacore in the 11-13 girls and Luke Burian in the 7-9 boys age group. Victoria Rouillion, Jessica Drotsky and Ron Pozzi also all swam well for the school and qualified for finals on Mahe.
VISP students will now move on to the national finals later in March and hopefully bring back individual and relay medals for the school.
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Russian plane crash likely caused by failure to de-ice
Date: Wednesday Apr. 4, 2012
MOSCOW — Russia's top investigative agency says that a Russian plane crash that killed 31 people most likely was caused by a failure to de-ice the aircraft.
The ATR-72 turboprop belonging to UTair slammed into a snowy field minutes after taking off Monday from the Siberian city of Tyumen with 43 people aboard. Twelve survivors remain in serious condition.
The state Investigative Committee said Wednesday the French-Italian-made aircraft hadn't been properly de-iced before takeoff, which appears to have been "the most likely reason of the crash." The agency said further analysis of technical data would be required before a final verdict.
Russia has seen a string of deadly crashes in recent years, which have been blamed on lax government controls and widespread neglect of safety.
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Date: 4/5/2012 9:28:37 AM
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Two Famous Monuments in India
July 24, 2015 admin 0 Comments Bijapur, Gol Gumbaz, Gurjari Mahal, Gwalior Fort, Historical Monuments
History- most of the time we consider this particular subject as the best medicine insomnia but is this subject really like that? I myself wonder the answer many times. In my school days, it was the single subject which scared me. Every time before the day of history exam I felt feverish; not only me, a few of my friends were also in that line. However, as I grew up, I started feeling that history was not as bad as I thought it was. The courtesy go to the historical novels. The more I read them, the more I fell in love with it, of course, not with the boring details, but with the stories behind the historical events.
Every historical monument, structures, battles has its own story of hatred, love, expectation, and every other emotion possible in the earthly world. The story of love of an emperor for his wife is behind one of the seven wonders of the world- Taj Mahal and the structure made their love world-famous. Here are two more historical monuments and the story of love behind them which make them possible.
Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur
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Gol Gumbaz was actually the mausoleum of Sultan Mohammed Adil Shah of Bijapur, currently located in Karnataka in India. The structure was completed in the year 1656. The main architect of the project was Yaqut of Dabul. The so-called simple design is actually a “structural triumph of Deccan architecture”. As per Wikipedia-“The structure is composed of a cube, 47.5 meters (156 ft) on each side, capped by a dome 44 m (144 ft) in external diameter. At each of the four corners of the cube, is a dome-capped octagonal tower seven stories high with a staircase inside. The upper floor of each opens on to a round gallery which surrounds the dome. Inside the mausoleum hall, is a square podium with steps on each side. In the middle of the podium, a cenotaph slab on the ground marks the actual grave below.” Running around the inside of the dome is the “Whispering Gallery” where even the softest sound can be heard on the other side of the mausoleum due to the acoustics of the space.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Gumbaz
The Behind Love Story
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Now it is the time for some story. The history tells us about the facts and figures, but there was an untold love story.
Sultan Adil Shah once fell in love with a girl named Rambhabati. Rambhabati was actually a dancer and came to the royal harem from a poor family. Though it was not a rare thing for a sultan of that period to fall for a dance girl, but their love story had something to mention. Adil Shah had many other begam and women in his harem as per the rule of that time. However, a true love is still missing. The first wife of Adil shah was a strong lady and had a unique personality. And probably it was her personality that kept the Sultan away from her. Adil Shah was a great admirer of dance and music and it is beyond doubt that it was music which brought them close. Moreover, Rambhabati had a heavenly beauty. The myth said that this beautiful girl actually inspired Adil shah to build this structure which would make him famous forever, even after his death. And with her inspiration Adil Shah actually made this impossible a possible. It is a legend now that the famous Sultan not only reciprocated the true love of a mere dance girl but also honored her last wish. Till her last moment of life Rambhabati wanted to stay beside her Sultan and her Sultan also respected her wish. After death, Rambhabati was cremated just beside her Sultan so that they can stay together even after their death. Though both Rambhabati and Adil shah were no more, but the structure Gol Gumbaz still stands tall and silently recites their story of love.
Gurjari Mahal, Gwalior Fort
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The history here is one liner. Maharaja Mansingh Tomar of Tomar dynasty built this palace for her beloved Gurjari queen Mriganayani. The mahal was built between 1486 and 1517 during the period of Maharaja Mansingh Tomar.
The Story of Love
Once while he was the king of Gwalior, Maharaja Mansingh Tomar went for a hunt one day in the forest. There he met a beautiful Gurjari tribe girl and was enchanted by her beauty and haunting skills. The king proposed the girl and she invited him to her village and told him to ask her hand from her elder brother and foster father, who was a priest of the village.
Few days later, the king went to her village and asked her hand in marriage. Her father and brother accepted the proposal happily and they both married.
In his royal palace, other queens of Mansingh Tomar didn’t accept a tribal girl as a queen and Mriganayani lived separately in the palace. Mriganayani was an avid singer and dancer and the king was a great admirer of music. Both of them enjoyed music together and Mriganayani get formal musical training from several masters of this field. She was also a good administrator and helped her king in making several decisions. With her assistance the king built many temples, buildings, structures inside Gwalior fort. Above all, the separate Gurjari Mahal was a signature of love between them. Upon his queen’s wish, the Maharaj brought the river Rai to this palace because this river brought back the memory of the queen’s girlhood; she grew up beside this river.
However, not all these things went smoothly. There were several attempts made on the life of Mriganayani. But the brave lady didn’t complain against anyone. Even she rejected the proposal of making her son the next king upon his father’s death. She happily left the thorn to the eldest son of Mansingh Tomar who is the legitimate owner of Gwalior thorn. It is said that she sent her sons back to her clan and personally moved back in Gurjar society after her king’s death. But there is Gurjari Mahal, stands till date and recites their story of love.
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4: Global case studies
InTraffic in Towns, Sir Colin Buchanan wrote accurately and with prescience of the potentially negative impact of increasing traffic levels on our towns and cities. Using contemporary case studies, this chapter explores what we have learned about urban mobility, and shows how hard-won experience and good practice can guide and inform cities around the world. The original Traffic in Towns revealed how transport and urban planning are locked in a complex network of interdependent effects. The issues faced by Buchanan in 1963 loom even larger today, particularly in the congestion-choked mega cities of the developing world. While car ownership and use may show signs of decline in some developed cities, emerging economies in China, Brazil, India and Africa are experiencing unprecedented traffic growth. Urgent and radical thinking is needed so that towns and cities can plan for and implement transport infrastructure to successfully support growth and aspiration. These key case studies bring together reflections and practical guidance from leading innovators, thinkers and strategists in the international urban transport field. Essential insight: A systematic overview and road map to must- have guidance and analytical toolkits that can improve appraisal, decision-making and policy formulation New policy directions: Radical thinking to inspire creativity and inform the difficult decisions that must be made about the long-term future of transport in affluent, post-industrial cities International focus: A collection of essential new case studies from major international cities to objectively explore how leading research and practice is being internationally applied
Wed 04 November 2015
4.1 Development status and trends of China’s urban rail transit
China’s rapid industrialisation, the rapid growth of its urban population and continually increasing levels of motor vehicle ownership have led to the rise of urban problems such as traffic jams, parking difficulties and environmental pollution across numerous megalopolis and big cities. In order to tackle these challenges the rapid development of urban public transport, especially urban rail transit, has become a top priority. This article summarises China’s urban rail transit development to date, and outlines future development plans for urban rail transit. By Derong Wang and Yuee Gao
by Derong Wang, and Yue’e Gao
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Category: US etc systems
Excellent Series By Doug Poppa On How Weak Systems Failed Las Vegas In Mass Shooting
If that link works for you, you should be seeing in real time as they go online all the media reports of the mass shooting in Las Vegas on October 1st.
Scroll down and see how many (if any) analyze which Vegas police and casino security systems failed all those who died.
Not so many, right? Much (rightly) reported on the victims and much (rightly) on the psychology of the shooter and much (rightly) on the future economy of Vegas and much (rightly) on violent deaths that have happened since elsewhere.
But on the precise weaknesses of the systems that failed the casinos and the cops and Vegas as a whole… not so much.
Part of the problem is that media rarely have the right expertise. Even if they do, it is deliberately made hard in these fields for outsiders to peer within.
We have often remarked on how hard it is for different jurisdictions and whole nations to learn from one another. The apex justice academy in the US, John Jay College, hosted a global conference where the keynote speaker blatantly lied without push-back about the justice system in Italy (see here and here and here)..
Amazingly, only a BALTIMORE newspaper (over 2,000 miles away) so far is carrying a professional’s detailed observations of which systems had gone wrong or fallen short - findings that could matter most in saving future lives.
Doug Poppa has some national fame (see bio at the end of each report below) and has been featured on Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and CBS News’ Street Stories. He told us he offered the series to national media outlets but did not yet hear back.
So media systems are at fault here as well - no great surprise to us.
These are the Poppa reports in the Baltimore Post-Examiner so far. Any more appearing will be added. If you only have time to tread one right now, it was the fifth (“Three weeks after the Las Vegas massacre and what do we know?”) that first caught our eye.
1. Las Vegas Police change timeline of shooting
2. Former Navy Seal: Las Vegas gunman’s room was not a contained situation
3. Las Vegas casinos are in bed with the police
4. Las Vegas Judge orders MGM Resorts International not to destroy evidence
5. Three weeks after the Las Vegas massacre and what do we know?
6. Paddock not first shooter on an MGM Resorts International property
7. Who is in charge of the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay shooting investigation?
8. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police under FBI public corruption probe
9. Why Las Vegas police opened fire in Paddock’s room still a mystery
10. Why trust anything Sheriff Lombardo or MGM Resorts International say
As many newspapers do eventually scroll reports out of sight here are the key parts of the extraordinary 22 October report.
Three weeks after the Las Vegas massacre and what do we know?
By Doug Poppa · October 22, 2017
Well, not much except the fact that 58 people are dead and more than 500 injured and domestic terrorist Stephen Paddock was the lone shooter, so we are told.
Paddock murdered 58 people, authorities claim. His act of violence upon the general population was responsible for not only their murders, but for the wounding and all other injuries caused by his actions to over 500 people, police say. As far as I am concerned he committed his crime in Clark County in the State of Nevada. Under the laws of Nevada, he is a domestic terrorist.
I guess it’s more politically correct to call him a mass murderer than a domestic terrorist at least in Las Vegas.
Anything else that we were told at this point is speculation, rumor and in the words of Clark County Sheriff, Joe Lombardo who runs the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, “unverified.”
Instead of giving facts to the public the sheriff decided that he would give us unverified information just to appease the public’s demand for information. He said that himself.
Las Vegas Police found 23 firearms in Paddock’s 32nd floor room at Mandalay Bay. (Police photo)
That was Lombardo’s excuse when he changed the timeline of when Mandalay Bay Security Officer Jesus Campos got shot. At first, Lombardo told us that happened at 9:59 p.m., a full six minutes before he said the gunman, Stephen Paddock, opened fire on the crowd. Then a week later Lombardo changed that timeline and said that Campos got shot around the same time that Paddock opened fire at 10:05 p.m.
That indeed may be true, but although Lombardo said that the police have evidence that can corroborate that, he provided the press with nothing to back up those assertions.
Then we heard when the LVMPD first interviewed Campos after the shooting something was wrong. The FBI had to bring Campos back in to re-interview him because the FBI realized that the original timeline didn’t purport to what Campos told the LVMPD.
Were the investigators that inexperienced that it took two weeks to come up with an entirely new timeline or is there another agenda here?
It doesn’t sound like the LVMPD detectives I worked with during my 20 years in the casino industry.
Was the FBI responsible for correcting one of the worst public relations nightmares in modern law enforcement history?
The FBI is not without criticism here either.
Less than 24 hours after the massacre the FBI told the media that so far there was no connection between Paddock and any group. Wow, that must be the fastest investigation in FBI history, especially when they said they recovered numerous electronic devices that were being analyzed by the FBI laboratory.
The new timeline if true, seems to favor MGM Resorts International, the owners of the Mandalay Bay, whose major worry right now is lawsuits and their bottom line.
They pulled off two publicity stunts by having the two employees who were on the 32nd floor and were shot at, with one being hit, speak on national television. All that did was lead to more questions.
The initial investigation might be nothing more than poor police work, still it should never have taken two weeks to get a definitive timeline.
The national media and local media did a horrible job covering this tragedy as far as the press conferences went.
The media did a poor job of scrutinizing the police radio traffic from Oct. 1, the night of the massacre, or if they did they didn’t raise questions about how the radio traffic contradicted statements made by the LVMPD and MGM Resorts International.
The media focused entirely only on the shooting at the concert venue and the shooter.
There was much more going on that night. Las Vegas was being attacked, at least that’s the what the police initially believed. For hours the police were responding to active shooter incidents all over the Las Vegas strip. That is a story in and of itself. Who was calling all those calls in and why? What’s the status of that investigation or is there one?
Could that have been done to see how the police would respond to active shooters at multiple properties?
Broadcasting every tactical move the police were making that night unencrypted, for all the world to hear was a major mistake. It could have gotten police officers and civilians killed had it been a genuine terrorist attack in Las Vegas. To add insult to injury those recordings are available on the internet for any nut case or terrorist to analyze and study.
Three weeks later we have heard nothing of why a SWAT officer discharged his weapon inside the gunman’s room when we were told that Paddock was already dead when they entered. The Baltimore Post-Examiner was the first to break that story.
Was it an accidental discharge and if so who was injured?
The SWAT officer told the dispatcher after they cleared the room that a SWAT officer discharged his weapon, and there were no other injuries. He also said that they had one suspect down at this point and that was the room they were firing from. Little things like that bother me, maybe nothing there, but I want answers.
Early on, the police told the media that Paddock was inside the room alone during his stay. There is no video surveillance in the hallway at Mandalay Bay, no video surveillance in the stairwells at Mandalay Bay. The only camera we are told is at the elevator core.
When I was still working in the industry I knew of only five properties that had video surveillance in the halls of the guest rooming areas, MGM Grand, Tropicana, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and the Stratosphere.
Anyone at any time could have come up or down from the stairwells and entered his room without ever being seen.
The lock interrogation on the door lock would only indicate that a key card was placed into the lock. It cannot tell you who put the key card in the door.
Did forensic analysis of the interior of the room lead the police to believe he was inside alone for his entire stay? And how could that have been completed so fast?
Fingerprints lifted from the room, DNA samples obtained from glasses, dishes, cigarettes, toilet, towels, etc. would be analyzed. But that is also a problem to because there would be fingerprints, and DNA left from prior occupants of the room and the hotel staff.
If Paddock is indeed the only suspect, then there will no criminal case, you can’t prosecute a dead body. The LVMPD should start releasing whatever evidence they have to corroborate the timeline to include all the 911 Communications Center telephone calls and dispatch recordings. We wouldn’t want anything getting deleted or altered.
Release Campos’ written voluntary statement to the police and his recorded interview with police investigators. That would be a good start.
Why did the LVMPD request additional armored vehicles from a private company the night of the shooting?
The Baltimore Post-Examiner was the first to break that story too. Does not the LVMPD have adequate armored vehicles to protect their police officers and the public and if not, why? Is it to protect the image of the city, so it doesn’t appear the police are militarized, after all that wouldn’t be politically correct?
I guess the hell with officer safety. Again, adding insult to injury they broadcasted over the police radio that night for all the world to hear that the LVMPD is short on armored vehicles.
Why is it that not all LVMPD police officers have AR-15 platform type rifles in their vehicles? Some do if they are assigned to special units. Others don’t, and I am told that they must purchase those rifles out of their own pocket. What’s going on here Lombardo? Are you more concerned with running a politically correct police department or one that should have available all the equipment needed?
Purchase additional armored vehicles and store them at each area command in the county so they would be available for a rapid response, to hell with being politically correct.
Initiate Hercules teams as they did in New York City and have them patrolling the strip every day.
If the police need armored vehicles, give it to them. If police officers need rifles and other gear, give it to them. A rich tourist city like Las Vegas and if the police officers don’t have the equipment they need to keep themselves and the public safe then that is a freaking disgrace.
Why the police waited for over an hour to enter Paddock’s room when they weren’t even sure he was still inside the room, evident by the radio traffic that night, is another question?
Let’s wait for SWAT my ass. Paddock could have been out ready to do more carnage. Nobody knew for sure until they went into the room.
Plenty of things bother me with this case. Why Paddock brought 23 rifles into the room seems like overkill for a one-man operation.
Why he stopped shooting after only ten minutes and then allegedly shot himself in the head, when he had enough ammunition and armament to hold off the police for hours and or keep firing bothers me.
The leaked crime scene photographs also raise some questions. I want to see the coroner’s report, estimated time of death, gunshot wound, etc. Also, the blood splatter patterns near the body.
Paddock was registered under his own name. Lombardo also changed Paddock’s check-in date more than a week after the shooting. First, Lombardo told us that Paddock checked in on the 28th then revised that to the 25th of September. His girlfriend was added to the registration. Why, if she wasn’t there?
Then the sheriff had the nerve to say that wasn’t breaking news.
I have some breaking news of my own for the sheriff.
Your department is investigating the worst mass shooting in United States history.
If you can foul up something so simple as when someone checked into a hotel room in Las Vegas why should we believe anything.
Here’s another thing that bugged me that night.
I knew well before midnight that Paddock was the suspect who had slaughtered all those people less than two hours before.
Not because I was involved with Paddock, but because the police told me. They even told me where he lived. Yes, they did. They didn’t only just tell me, they broadcasted it for anyone who was listening.
“Control, copy some information. Potential name, related with the suspect.” “Go ahead.” “There was a player’s card that was out on the countertop next to the wallet of the suspect who is 419 [dead]. Break. It is an M Life platinum players card with the name of Marilou Danley. Mary-adam-robert-ida-lincoln-ocean-union. Last name is Danley, david-adam-nora-lincoln-easy-yellow.” “Copy.”
“That radio traffic, what was that last radio traffic?” “It looks like that name I gave you shares an address with the suspect. We can give you that address if you need to send units there.” “OK, go ahead when you’re ready.” “That’s 1372 Babbling Brook Court, and that’s in Mesquite, Nevada. Babbling Brook Court. Send resident officers there.” “Copy, 1372 Babbling Brook Court in Mesquite. Units be advised.” “It’s his driver’s license address as well.”
The police didn’t know that night if the shooter was acting alone, if this was a terrorist attack and there were others involved, specifically since they were responding to calls for active shooters at other Strip properties.
That information should never have come over the radio.
I hope they were at Paddock’s home before this went out over the air. They should have had the guest’s information from hotel registration way before they entered the room and hopefully the house in Mesquite was covered way before the room entry.
Within five minutes of that radio traffic I had Paddock’s name. I went to the Clark County Assessor website, typed in that address, and I had his name, the date he purchased the house and the purchase price.
At least since 9/11, casino owners knew that Las Vegas was a target for a terrorist attack. We have had threats made against the city. Police and security personnel have known that.
Security directors at all strip properties are members of the Las Vegas Security Chief’s Association, which has monthly meetings where topics concerning terrorism have been discussed.
Security officers from many properties have attended training seminars conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies in active shooter response, suicide bomber response, improvised explosives devices, etc.
Guns, explosives and vehicles and any combination of those are used in terror attacks. You can’t have an active shooter incident without a firearm.
Considering all this, how was it that Paddock had a small arsenal, or as one Metro officer said on 60 Minutes, “it looked like a gun shop in there,” inside room 135 on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay.
People died, and people were wounded because there were no security measures in place that could have prevented Paddock from ever reaching a hotel rooming area with luggage that contained 23 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and accessories.
That fact cannot be denied.
In 2013, Adam Walker, an intelligence analyst with the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center was quoted as saying that “”¦. it’s not a question of “˜if,’ it’s a question of “˜when’ something happens on Las Vegas Boulevard.”
On October 1, 2017 something did happen on Las Vegas Boulevard. We are just being kept from the entire truth.
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Justice Systems Comparisons #7: Common Law (US Etc) V. Civil (Italian) On Self-Represented Litigants
Posted by Chimera
One Of Many Self-Help Videos Now Springing Up Online
1. The Series Context
Several posts since my previous one drew attention to an estimated 200,000 or more poor Americans wrongly sitting in prison.
They are there because trial outcomes differ widely according to how much those charged can afford to pay or can handle their defense on their own, and there are pressures (political and economic) to keep the partly privatised prisons full to capacity.
Oh, those who have been slamming Italian justice forgot to tell you that?!
Italian perps remain MUCH better off, but this post explains progress elsewhere now being made.
Here are my previous six posts. I use the Canadian system as the common law example. But as the posts explain, the US and UK systems are pretty close.
Click here for post: Justice System Comparisons #1: Had Meredith’s Murder Taken Place In Canada
Click here for post: Justice System Comparisons #2: Canada’s Tough Penalties For Slander, False Accusations, Perjury
Click here for post: Justice System Comparisons #3: Bail, Extradition, and More Crimes In Canadian Law
Click here for post: Justice System Comparisons #4: How Canada And Italy Shape Up Against The US
Click here for post: Justice Systems Comparisons #5: How Appeals Differ in Italy and Common Law Countries
Click here for post: Justice Systems Comparisons #6: Common Law (US Etc) V. Civil (Italian) On Double Jeopardy
2. Rights And Protections Of Self Represented Litigants
In 2006, the Canadian Judicial Counsel released their STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES ON SELF REPRESENTED LITIGANTS AND ACCUSED PERSONS. Here is a direct link to that article.
Among some of those well intentioned principles are:
(a) Self-represented persons should not be denied relief on the basis of a minor or easily rectified deficiency in their case.
(b) Judges should ensure that procedural and evidentiary rules are not used to unjustly hinder the legal interests of self-represented persons.
(c) Judges and court administrators should do whatever is possible to provide a fair and impartial process and prevent an unfair disadvantage to self-represented persons.
(d) Judges, the courts and other participants in the justice system have a responsibility to promote access to the justice system for all persons on an equal basis, regardless of representation.
The Alberta Court of Appeal (May 2, 2016) allowed the appeal.
Now, the Supreme Court of Canada has endorsed the document and from this point, all Judges/Justices/JP will be obligated to follow it when one or more parties before them is self-represented.
Pintea v. Johns, 2017 SCC 23 (CanLII)
Pintea v. Johns
Valentin Pintea v. Dale Johns, et al.
In laymen’s terms, the gross imbalance between represented/unrepresented litigants will shrink.
The Courts will now be obligated to go the extra mile to ensure that the proceedings are done fairly, and in the overall interests of justice. The ruling goes even further than what may be expected.
“Judges have a responsibility to inquire whether self-represented persons are aware of their procedural options, and to direct them to available information if they are not. Depending on the circumstances and nature of the case, judges may explain the relevant law in the case and its implications, before the self-represented person makes critical choices.”
So Canada, and to a degree the United States, is trending towards self representation.
Litigants already represent themselves in small claims court, family court, traffic, landlord/tenant disputes, and occasionally in criminal court.
To be fair though, routine self-representation in criminal court is a long ways off. However, the pattern seems to be moving away from using lawyers, which many people believe to be expensive and largely ineffectual.
Also noteworthy is that in the Canadian Provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, paralegals are becoming more common as an alternative to lawyers.
Again, the price involved deters most people from hiring lawyers. Why pay 10 times as much for the same service? Why pay for a lawyer when many farm their work out to paralegals? Other Provinces have something similar, as do many U.S. States.
Ontario: How Can a Paralegal Help?
British Columbia Paralegal Assoc
3. A Final Thought
Justice should be available to everyone, not just those who can dig deep for a lawyer. The options of lower cost legal help, and the new requirements of Judges to ensure fairness, will likely go a long way to seeing this happen.
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Netflixhoax 20 Omitted The Vital Context Of 200,000 In The US Wrongly Locked Up #3
Netflix enabled Knox to sustain her myth of how awful Italian prison life was for her.
First, do notice that Netflix ignored that Knox was in prison for three of her four years quite validly for a felony conviction: her attempt (sustained over several weeks) to try to frame Patrick for Meredith’s murder.
Even now, she still owes Patrick damages of around $100,000 irrevocably confirmed by the Supreme Court. Netflix ignored that also.
Second, do notice that Netflix ignored that that Knox quite provably made up a lot about her prison stay in Capanne and how she was actually treated.
In this post challenging all those claims, we observed that Knox did not have a single witness confirming her accounts.
In fact both the US Embassy which monitored her and the Italian MP Rocco Girlanda who “monitored” her confirmed her treatment was kindly, and her lawyers confirmed that she never ever asked that a complaint be filed.
And third, not only is no Italian prison the hellhole that Netflix watchers were led to believe. Though there has been temporary overcrowding due to immigrant crime, they are in general among the most humane prisons anywhere on the planet.
That post 18 months ago drew upon a New York Times report. Today the New York Times posts an editorial which shows the gap in humanity between Italian and American prisons is actually deliberately worsening.
Another contrast in Italy’s favor, ignored of course by Netflix.
Criminal justice officials across the country are struggling to break the recidivism cycle in which prisoners are released only to land right back behind bars. These prisoners are among the most poorly educated people in the country, and that fact holds the key to a solution. Decades of research has shown that inmates who participate in prison education programs “” even if they fail to earn degrees “” are far more likely to stay out of prison once they are freed.
That prison education programs are highly cost effective is confirmed by a 2013 RAND Corporation study that covered 30 years of prison education research. Among other things, the study found that every dollar spent on prison education translated into savings of $4 to $5 on imprisonment costs down the line.
Other studies suggest that prisons with education programs have fewer violent incidents, making it easier for officials to keep order, and that the children of people who complete college are more likely to do so themselves, disrupting the typical pattern of poverty and incarceration.
Findings like these have persuaded corrections officials in both Democratic and Republican states to embrace education as a cost-effective way of cutting recidivism. But Republican legislators in New York “” which spends about $60,000 per inmate per year “” remain mired in know-nothingism and argue that spending public money on inmates insults taxpayers. They have steadfastly resisted Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s common-sense proposal for making a modest investment in prison education programs that have already proved highly successful on a small scale in New York’s prisons.
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., stepped into the void left by the Legislature when he agreed l to pay for Governor Cuomo’s prison education plan with more than $7 million in criminal forfeiture money secured from banks. Lauding what he described as a public safety measure, Mr. Vance said, “It makes no sense to send someone to prison with no pathway for them to succeed.”
The goal of the program is to expand the number of inmates taking college courses to about 3,500 across much of the system from 1,000. The curriculum will be broad, covering science, math, philosophy, the social sciences and art. Among the schools that will participate are Cornell University, New York University, Mercy College and Bard College, which has run a highly regarded program since 2001. The recidivism rate is 4 percent for inmates who participate in the program and a mere 2 percent for those who earn degrees in prison, compared with about 40 percent for the New York State prison system as a whole.
Prison education programs were largely dismantled during the “tough on crime” 1990s, when Congress stripped inmates of the right to get the federal Pell grants that were used to pay tuition. The decision bankrupted many prison education programs across the country and left private donors and foundations to foot the bill for those that survived.
Despite limited and unreliable funding, these programs have more than proved their value. New York lawmakers who continue to block funding for them are putting ideology ahead of the public interest.
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Is the US actually worse than North Korea of all places? In one respect yes.
Our first post a couple of weeks ago on false incarcerations concluded this way:
The American prison population is proportionally six times the Italian prison population (why did Netflix omit that?). Mental illness among that population is rife, and few inmates have above average IQs.
Election-driven prosecutors plea-bargaining with threats may have wrongly put many of them there. Maybe 10 per cent.
That is over 200,000 Americans in the wrong place. Funny how Netflix (and the FOA fanatics) forgot to tell us about that.
“Over 200,000” could in fact be a considerable UNDER estimate. An estimated 177,624 innocent Americans pleaded guilty in one year (2013) alone.
Here is The New York Times on this subject this past Tuesday.
By Marc Morje Howard
The American criminal justice system is exceptional, in the worst way possible: It combines exceptionally coercive plea bargaining, exceptionally long sentences, exceptionally brutal prison conditions and exceptionally difficult obstacles to societal re-entry.
This punitiveness makes us stand out as uniquely inhumane in comparison with other industrialized countries…. There’s widespread agreement that current practices are unsustainable.
The United States is home to 5 percent of the world’s population, yet has 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. The grim reality of American justice is that there are 2.3 million people behind bars, five million on parole or probation, 20 million with felony convictions and over 70 million with a criminal record.
Though mafia-tool Netflix ignored them all in its crazed rush to defame the Italian system, every day in the US new reports on this world-beating iniquity are being televised or published.
Why does it happen? In large part because THERE IS PROFIT IN IT. Profits for private prisons and bail-sharks.
The video at top is a trailer for a new documentary just being released: A Deal With The Devil Devil’ Takes On Unjust Bail System
By Susie Madrak
A plea deal is an arrangement to resolve a case without going to trial. This is an option most often taken by those who cannot afford bail and want to go home instead of wait days, months, even years locked up in jail. An estimated 177,624 innocent Americans pleaded guilty in 2013 alone. Does this sound like a just system to you?
The money bail system is broken: private companies achieve exorbitant profits by scavenging off of communities (primarily of color) living in poverty. Low-income Americans are sitting in jails for days, months, and even years for the most minor of infractions simply because they can’t afford to pay high bond amounts. The reality is that the majority of people in jails ““ over 70% - are there for one simple reason: their income status. This is both morally and legally wrong.
And from now until August 21, 2017, Brave New Films will be campaigning to #EndMoneyBail this summer in the state of California.
Premiere events around the state are scheduled in key legislative districts, with audiences ranging from Bay Area activists and advocates to Los Angeles poets and politicians. Social media launches will coincide each week, with new videos from Brave New Films and other partners in the California Bail Coalition. People who can’t attend premiere events and screenings can host their own in-home events with all of our films before they’re released publicly and everybody should call their Assembly members demanding they #EndMoneyBail this summer.
This three-part series continues here.
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1. Series Overview
The 18 past posts can be read here. In the light of the Netflix report’s nomination for a major award we resume. Full speed ahead.
2. Italian Justice: What Netflix Left Out
In the United States outrage is, well, all the rage… A clear Netflix intent was to horrify and outrage viewers about the Italian justice system itself.
Read the numerous reviews and thousands of comments that imply the system is dangerous and corrupt. Including the very common “I would never send my kid to college there” and “I will never risk traveling there” and “we should boycott Italian goods”.
Show it as it really is - an extremely fair system from the perps’ point of view that allows ZERO wrongful convictions at the end of the day - and the whole Netflix thesis falls apart.
In Post 6 we described the almost unique carefulness of the Italian system.
How prosecutors can explain their case only in court. How the system allows perps two automatic appeals. How appeals often feature new juries - which never get to hear the full prosecution case.
How the same defense teams get to argue in court all the way up to the Supreme Court while the trial prosecution gets to present its full case just the once.
How the REAL justice system requires that many judgments should be written out at costly length. How prison time is almost never served for sentences under three years.
How most of the prisons are very nice and all perps receive mental treatment if prescribed, and taught a trade so they dont have to commit new crimes to pay their way when out.
The plea-bargain possibility does not exist in the uniquely open and transparent Italian system at all. No furtive shortcuts. No extreme pressure on suspected perps.
Judges, prosectors and especially police must go the extra mile, often over many years, to ever finally win a case.
3. American Justice: What Netflix Left Out
Netflix left out A LOT. See the numerous for-comparison posts here.
Sadly judges and lawyers in the American system can be among the eagerly gullible about both the Italian system and their own.
But there ARE American judges and lawyers who FULLY understand the Italian system and wish some of that could be applied in the US.
In the video at top Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is quoted as saying this.
“We treat poor people and minority people much worse in the United States by our criminal justice system than they do in Italy, so we really have no standing to tell other countries that their system is unfair.
And based on [the evidence against Knox], in America, if she were not an attractive young woman “” if she were an ordinary person “” charged on the basis of this evidence, she would be convicted and would be serving life imprisonment, or even worse, the death penalty in the United States.”
In the United States pervasive plea-bargaining is making juries obsolete.
Trial by jury has become so rare in modern American criminal jurisprudence that the chance of being convicted at trial is little more than one in one hundred.
That doesn’t mean that people are not getting convicted. They are””in record number. America’s prisons are literally filled to capacity.
In today’s criminal justice system, convictions come by agreement. The tradition of being tried by one’s peers, established centuries ago and affirmed by the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has all but disappeared.
The plea bargain has made jury trials obsolete.
The GOOD aspect is that it can get convictions fast. That is the BAD aspect too.
Very few cases end in acquittal - vastly fewer than in Italy. Tough sentences and even the death penalty are often used as a threat.
“We now have an incredible concentration of power in the hands of prosecutors,” said Richard E. Myers II, a former assistant United States attorney who is now an associate professor of law at the University of North Carolina. He said that so much influence now resides with prosecutors that “in the wrong hands, the criminal justice system can be held hostage.
In effect judges and juries are being sidelined and defense lawyers are faced with strong odds.
A case in Pennsylvania has suddenly put such plea-bargaining in the national news - not because the accused perp didnt do it, but actually because the threat of death penalty was said to have been too lightly used.
In so swiftly wrapping up the case, which transfixed the Philadelphia region, the district attorney of Bucks County, Matthew D. Weintraub, faced questions about whether he had made the right call in taking the most severe punishment for horrible crimes off the table.
Experts in death penalty law said the agreement was especially notable for its speed. But the father of one of the young men found dead said on Monday that family members of all of the victims supported it.
There was no judicial review. Oh and he was mentally deranged.
That is over 200,000 Americans in the wrong place. Funny how Netflix forgot to tell us about that.
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Justice Systems Comparisons #6: Common Law (US Etc) V. Civil (Italian) On Double Jeopardy
Palazzo Giustizia above in Reggio Calabria, below in Naples
You’d think there’d be lots of comparisons at national level between the two great justice systems of the world. But really there are not.
The dishonest Knox and Sollecito PR often uses disparities between the Italian and US/UK systems to confuse, and to try to make the excellent Italian system look bad.
The common-law lawyers from the US and UK who post here on Italy sometimes say they have to study quite a bit to get things straight. UK lawyer James Raper’s excellent book translates some of the key concepts that can be confused as he did here.
These are my previous five posts. I use the Canadian system as the common law example. But as the posts explain, the US and UK systems are pretty close.
Click here for post: Justice System Comparisons #4: How Canada And Italy Shape Up Against The USJustice System Comparisons #4: How Canada And Italy Shape Up Against The US
2. Double Jeopardy
Much angry noise has been made about the October 2011 “acquittal” of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito by the Hellmann appeal court in the murder of Meredith Kercher. The claim was been made that an acquittal at trial means that under American law, it would be “double jeopardy” and hence, illegal, under American law.
While the “appellate trial” differs considerably from appeals in Common Law countries, it is still an appeal. Portions of the case can be reopened, but the Trial Court’s original findings are the starting point. It is not meant to be a “new trial”, nor to re-try the case.
“If” an Appeals Court releases a defendant, it is not double jeopardy, as it is not a Trial Court. They do not try the case, but rather examine it for errors. Further if a 1st level appeal releases someone, the prosecution can still seek a higher level of appeal.
Read Harvard Law School’s Alan Dershowitz here.
3. Legal Outcomes 2007-09
November 6, 2007—AK and RS were charged for rape and murder of MK, alongside PL, whom Knox has accused as the actual killer
November 9, 2007—AK/RS faced Judge Claudia Matteini, to see if they could be released conditionally (their 1st Court hearing), and to get a brief assessment of the Prosecution case. While FoAK crow about there being no bail in Italy, this hearing seems eerily similar to a bail hearing.
November 30, 2007—AK/RS challenged Judge Matteini’s decisions (their 2nd Court hearing), and Judge Massimo Ricciarelli presided over a 3 Judge panel which confirmed the detention, but with Rudy Guede as the 3rd person, as opposed to PL.
April 1, 2008—AK/RS tried to get released again (their 3rd Court hearing on the matter), and the 5 Judge Cassation panel headed by Judge Torquato Gemelli denied the request, and even the lesser request of house arrest
September/October 2008—Pretrial (and Guede’s short form trial) presided over by Judge Paolo Micheli. Judge Micheli convicted RG, and sent AK/RS to trial.
December 2009—AK and RS were convicted at trial by the Court of Judge Giancarlo Massei.
In 2010 AK/RS then chose to APPEAL those convictions and filed such an appeal.
October 2011—AK/RS were “acquitted” of murder by the Appellate Court headed by Hellmann and Zanetti, though the Calunnia conviction was upheld.
The Prosecution then filed a SECONDARY APPEAL to the Court of Cassation
March 2013—AK/RS had their “acquittal” by H/Z annulled, while the calunnia conviction was upheld, with aggravating factors added back on.
AK/RS chose to file ANOTHER APPEAL of the 2009 Trial Conviction, this time it went to Florence. Not a new trial, but another appeal. Knox didn’t show up.
January 2014—AK/RS had their 2009 conviction “confirmed” by the Court of Judge Nencini, with a small sentence increase for AK.
AK/RS then filed a SECONDARY APPEAL to the Court of Cassation. The 5th Chambers took the case.
March 2015—AK/RS had their convictions thrown out by the panel of Bruno/Marasca. However, the report released in September 2015 didn’t actually say they were innocent. in fact, the report placed AK at the crime scene, and RS probably so. The Court found both had lied repeatedly.
5. These Damning Posts Relate
Click here for post: The Knox Interrogation Hoax #13: The First Two Opportunities Knox Flunked: Matteini & Ricciarelli
Click here for post: Tape ‘puts Knox at Meredith murder scene’
Click here for post: The Knox Interrogation Hoax #14: The Third Opportunity Knox Flunked: The Mignini Interview
Click here for post: The Knox Interrogation Hoax #15: Dr Mignini’s Account Of Formal Warning Session Ending 5:45 AM
Click here for post: The Knox Interrogation Hoax #16: The Fourth Opportunity Knox Flunked: The Supreme Court
Click here for post: The Knox Interrogation Hoax #18: The Final Pre-Trial Opportunities Which Knox Flunked
6. Two Constitutions Compared
(A) U.S. Constitution, 5th Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
(B) Canada Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part 11(h)
11. Any person charged with an offence has the right…. (h) if finally acquitted of the offence, not to be tried for it again and, if finally found guilty and punished for the offence, not to be tried or punished for it again;....
Notes: Both the U.S and Canadian Justice systems prohibit a person from being punished twice for the same offence. The main distinction is the word “finally” in the Canadian system. In the American system, an acquittal is the end of the matter, barring some obscene act, such as bribing a judge. Is the Canadian system, an acquittal “may” be appealed in extremely limited cases, such as gross misconduct, or clearly inappropriate handling by the Trial Court.
7. Standard for Review
(A) U.S. Appeals
Click here for post: Definitions: legal concepts for appeal
Matters of Fact—May be challenged if the they are reviewed in a clearly erroneous manner
Matters of Law—Must be considered “de novo” as if there was no finding before
Matters of Discretion—Judges are given wide discretion and it is usually accepted, unless there are clear errors, or the conclusion is illogical
(B) Canadian Appeals
The standard is set by Housen v. Nikolaisen
Click here for post: Housen v. Nikolaisen Supreme Court Judgment
Factual Findings—These are typically “given deference”, unless the Appellant can show “overriding, palpable error”.
Legal Findings—The Standard is whether the law was “correctly” applied.
In layman’s terms, Appeals Courts “defer” to the Trial Court on the fact findings. They assume that the Trial Court is in a better position to see and to examine the case. They will not interfere unless there is a clear, and provable error that effected the outcome. Surprisingly, it is a much higher standard than challenging the law.
Notes: In both US and Canadian appeals, the Courts tend to accept factual findings unless there is very clearly an error. Both also tend to view potential legal matters as needing to be consistently applied. Both Courts also tend to accept the Trial Court’s discretionary decisions unless something is obviously off. Although the language used varies, the standards quite similar.
8. Cases of “Double Jeopardy”
(A) “Double Jeopardy” U.S.A.
Harry Aleman
This involved a man who was “acquitted” in a murder case. However, it was later found that the trial judge, Frank Wilson had been bribed to the tune of $10,000, and that the trial had been rigged. Prosecutors appealed, successfully, that since the case had been pre-arranged, the defendant had never been in jeopardy, and hence there was no “double jeopardy”. Eventually this was confirmed by the US Supreme Court.
Click here for post: Wikipedia: Harry Aleman
Click here for post: Aleman v Cook County
Click here for post: Man Faces 2d Trial on Murder Charge
Click here for post: Exception To Double Jeopardy
(B) CANADA
Most of the cases which involved an acquittal being appealed were cases of sexual assault where the Trial Judge grossly mishandled the manner
Here is a particularly harsh appeal review:
Click here for post: Reasons for judgment: underage sexual attacker
Some media reports on the topic
Click here for post: Crown appealing sex assault acquittal of taxi driver
Click here for post: Judge asked complainant why she couldn’t just keep knees together
Click here for post: Chief judge launches review of Edmonton judge
Click here for post: Third Alberta judge faces review
Click here for post: 4 Alberta judges under scrutiny
Note: To a degree, this is comparing apples and oranges. The US case of Harry Aleman was a case where a defendant literally “bought” a murder acquittal for a mere $10,000. The Canadian cases listed were ones where the Trial Judge was grossly incompetent, and either unable or unwilling to handle a sexual assault case properly. However, in both sets of circumstances, justice is not served at the trial court level, so it has to be “redone”.
Note: Also, in the cases of mistrials, re-trials of defendants are often permitted, depending on the circumstances.
9. How This Compares to Italy
(Some additional input from knowledgeable people appreciated)
1. The trial (the one and only trial), took place throughout 2009—the Massei Court—and it was to try the facts, and to hear testimony.
2. The 1st level appeal, an appellate trial (requested by AK/RS) was to determine if any major errors had been committed that would have changed the outcome. And, unlike in the Common Law, the Defense could reopen portions of the case.
3. The 2nd level appeal—to the Court of Cassation—is to determine if there were any serious legal errors, or if the Lower Court rulings were based on illogical or contradictory thoughts. It is not to retry the case, or rehear the evidence.
4. The “Appellate Trial” doesn’t exist in the Common Law systems, rather there is a clear distinction between “trial” and “appeal”. Italy allows this step in a benefit to Defendants which would not otherwise be available.
5. Another benefit for Italian Defendants: those 2 appeals are available upon request. Under the Canadian/US laws, defendants can immediately file notice of appeal on the 1st instance, though it can be dismissed before the hearing. For 2nd level appeals, leave is required (“leave” is legalese for “permission”), which is difficult to get.
6. Acquittals in Italian Courts can be overturned if it was based on clear errors in law, or illogical conclusions, just as Canadian cases can. That is what happened with the Hellmann ruling.
7. Acquittals in Italian Courts can be overturned if there was clear misconduct or illegal action which altered the outcome.
10. Footnote
The Italian appeal standard seems to be closer to the Canadian model. The American system (so far) requires blatant criminal behaviour, not just incompetence.
Posted by Chimera on 07/13 at 08:22 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems • Comments here (9)
The West Memphis Three: Another Instance Where A Strong Pro-Guilt Case Is Being Garbled For Profit
Above: Still under a cloud: Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin, and Damien Echols
1. Overview of the series
In my last post on how media hype can badly tangle crime cases, I examined Sarah Koenig’s biased coverage of the Adnan Syed case for the Serial podcasts and her flawed approach to assessing the evidence against him.
In this post, I will analyse a critically acclaimed documentary about another alleged miscarriage of justice: West of Memphis and associated media hype.
The Peter Jackson documentary claims three men known as the West Memphis Three (the WM3) were wrongly convicted as child killers and points the finger at another man.
2. West Memphis 3 background
In May 1993, three eight-year-old boys - Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore - were found dead in a ditch in West Memphis in the US state of Arkansas. There is a crimescene video at the bottom here.
They had been stripped and bound. Steve Branch and Michael Moore had drowned and Christopher Byers had bled to death after his genitals had been mutilated and partially removed.
Three teenagers - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley - were arrested following a tip that Echols had been seen covered in mud the evening the boys disappeared and Misskelley gave a confession.
The WM3 were convicted of murder in 1994 (see the judge and courthouse below) and sent to prison.
However, they were freed in August 2011 after taking an Alford plea. This is a deal which allowed them to maintain their innocence while agreeing prosecutors had enough evidence to convict them.
Above: the three 8-year-old victims
3. The media campaigns
There have been high-profile campaigns to free the WM3 and cast doubt on their convictions. HBO Television made three films about the case: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Paradise Lost 2 Revelations and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. CBS News produced a documentary about the case entitled A Cry for Innocence.
A number of celebrities and musicians supported the WM3, including Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, James Hetfield from Metallica, Henry Rollins, actor Johnny Depp, Natalie Mains from The Dixie Chicks, and film director Peter Jackson. Do any of these celebrities put forward a compelling case for innocence?
In a word - no.
Johnny Depp and Henry Rollins basically say they could relate to Damian Echols.
“I immediately related to Damien and what he went through growing up. He comes from a small town from Arkansas. I come from a relatively small town in Kentucky. I can remember being kind of looked upon as a freak or, you know, different because I didn’t dress like everybody else. So I can empathize with being judged by how you look as opposed to who you are.” (Johnny Depp, A Cry for Innocence, CBS News).
“Damien liked to hang out alone and wrote he was depressed. Hello! He liked to listen to weird music. Check! He was a wise ass in the face of law enforcement. Are you kidding? It could have been me.” (Henry Rollins, West of Memphis)
After reading some of the comments in the media about the WM3 case, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Damien Echols was only a suspect because he wore black, listened to Metallica and read Stephen King books.
This comment by Guardian journalist Emma John is a typical comment by the supporters of the WM3
“At their subsequent trial, evidence introduced by the prosecution included the fact that Echols wore Metallica T-shirts and read Stephen King novels”
Several documentaries angled to exonerate the three have been widely promoted on HBO and Netflix including this one.
Above: one of the documentaries
Emma John and countless other journalists, as well as the producers of Paradise Lost and West of Memphis, completely ignore Echols’ startling mental health records - Exhibit 500 - that show he was a seriously disturbed and violent individual.
He was sent to a mental health hospital on three separate occasions. He threatened a number of people with violence and on occasion attacked others. For example, he threatened to kill his parents and to eat his father alive and he admitted trying to “claw the eyes of out” of a student. According to a report, Echols sucked the blood from the wound of one of the boys in Arkansas Juvenile Detention Center.
Damien Echols’ lawyers presented his mental health records as evidence in the sentencing phase of his trial, presumably to convince the jury he was mentally ill and not fully responsible for his actions, in order to spare him from the death penalty.
4. The West of Memphis production
West of Memphis is available to watch on the streaming for-pay movie site Netflix. Netflix flatly states that the West Memphis Three are innocent.
“They spent 18 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit—and the real killer is still out there.”
There’s no legal basis for such an unequivocal claim. The WM3 accepted the court’s judgement of guilt. They were not acquitted by a jury or exonerated by the Supreme Court of the United States.
West of Memphis doesn’t provide any credible exculpatory evidence to support Netflix’s categorial assertion that the WM3 are innocent. No-one should expect this to be the case because if there had been any exculpatory evidence, it would have been presented in court.
A couple of the prosecution’s witnesses recanted their testimony, but that doesn’t mean the entire case against the WM3 collapses. In the Perugia case Judge Massei didn’t find two of the prosecution’s witnesses to be credible, but he and the other judges still found Knox and Sollecito guilty of Meredith Kercher’s murder.
The Telegraph and Empire gave West of Memphis five stars out of five. The Guardian gave it four stars. Does the documentary deserve such high ratings from these mainstream media organisations?
If you compare West of Memphis to Andrea Vogt’s documentary about the Meredith Kercher case is Amanda Knox Guilty? (which is the gold standard for true crime documentaries because it’s balanced and factually accurate) you have to conclude that it’s light years away from being anywhere near as good as Andrea Vogt’s documentary.
The producers haven’t made a balanced and objective documentary that lets the audience make up their own minds. As with all documentaries about people who have been convicted of murders they allegedly didn’t commit, the cherrypicked story is told primarily from the defence point of view.
This isn’t surprising - Damian Echols and his wife were two of the producers.
I strongly suspect this is also the reason why most of the evidence that led to the convictions of the WM3 is completely ignored. When I found this out, I felt that the producers had been sly and dishonest. Their commitment is clearly to the WM3 - and not the truth.
If you want to have an informed opinion on the WM3 and to understand why they were convicted, you need to read the official court documents and witness statements, and then consider all the pieces of evidence as a whole.
When you research the case for yourself, you will discover that Damian Echols didn’t become a suspect because he wore black, was different, and a bit of an outsider.
When he was questioned in connection with the murder of the three boys, he failed a polygraph test.
A ten question polygraph test was formulated and three polygraph charts were conducted. The test contained the following relevant questions:
Q.#3. At any time wednesday or wednesday night, were you in robin hood hills? “No”
Q.#5. Were you present when those boys were killed? “No”
Q.#7. Did you kill any of those three boys? “No”
Q.#9. Do you know who killed those three boys? “No”
Q.#10.do you suspect anyone of having killed those three boys? “No”
It is the opinion of this polygraph examiner that this subject recorded significant responses indicative of deception when he answered the above listed relevant questions in the manner noted.
Conclusion: deception indicated.
By reading the official court documents, you will also discover that Echols knew specific details about the crime.
“Detective Bryn Ridge testified that Echols said he understood the victims had been mutilated, with one being cut up more than the others, and that they had drowned. Ridge testified that when Echols made the statement, the fact that Christopher Byers had been mutilated more than the other two victims was not known by the public. The jury could have reasonably concluded that Echols would not have known this fact unless he were involved in some manner.
“Echols took the witness stand, and his testimony contained additional evidence of guilt. When asked about his statement that one victim was mutilated more than the others, he said he learned the fact from newspaper accounts. His attorney showed him the newspaper articles about the murders. On cross-examination, Echols admitted that the articles did not mention one victim being mutilated more than the others, and he admitted that he did not read such a fact in a newspaper.”
(Damien Wayne ECHOLS and Charles Jason Baldwin v. STATE of Arkansas,Supreme Court of Arkansas)
Above: Judge (now State Senator) David Burnett
The police obtained further corroboration that Damian Echols had been involved in the murder of Steve Branch, Michael Moore and Chris Byers when his friend Jessie Misskelley told them that he, Echols and Jason Baldwin had attacked and killed the boys.
“On June 3, or almost one month after the murders, Detective Mike Allen asked Jessie Lloyd Misskelley, Jr., about the murders. Misskelley was not a suspect at the time, but Echols was, and it was thought that Misskelley might give some valuable information about Echols. Detective Allen had been told all three engaged in cult-like activities. Misskelley made two statements to the detective that implicated Echols and Baldwin, as well as himself. The statements can be found in Misskelley v. State, 323 Ark. 449, 459-61, 915 S.W.2d 702, 707-08 (1996).”
(Damien Wayne ECHOLS and Charles Jason Baldwin v. STATE of Arkansas,Supreme Court of Arkansas).
It should be noted that Jessie Misskelley repeatedly claimed that he, Echols and Baldwin had killed the boys before and after he was convicted. On one occasion, he confessed despite being warned not to by his lawyer.
This should trouble anyone who believes the WM3 are innocent because Misskelley wasn’t threatened or promised any deal by the investigators.
He may have a low IQ, but he wasn’t hallucinating when he made these confessions. In short, they were voluntary statements made over a significant period of time - from 3 June 1993 to 17 February 1994.
Furthermore, Misskelley also knew specific details about the crime. He told the police that Christopher Byers had been castrated in an interview on 3 June 1993.
RIDGES: Cutting him in the face. Alright, another boy was cut I understand. Where was he cut at?
JESSIE: At the bottom
RIDGE: On his bottom? Was he faced down and he was cutting on him, or
JESSIE: He was
GITCHELL: Now you’re talking about bottom, do you mean right here?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: In his groin area?
GITCHELL: Okay
RIDGE: Do you know what his penis is?
JESSIE: Yeah, that’s where he was cut at.
RIDGE: That’s where he was cut.
GITCHELL: Which boy was that?
JESSIE: That one right there.
GITCHELL: You’re talking about the Byers boy again?
RIDGE: Are you sure that he was the one that was cut?
JESSIE: That’s the one that I seen them cutting on.
RIDGE: Alright, you know what a penis is?
JESSIE: Yeah
RIDGE: Alright, is that where he was cutting?
JESSIE: That’s where I seen them going down at, and he was on his back. I seen them going down right there real close to his penis and stuff and I saw some blood and that’s when I took off.
Jessie Misskelley’s claim that Christopher Byers was castrated was corroborated by the autopsy report.
“The skin of the penis, scrotal sac and testes were missing. There was a large gaping defect measuring 2 3/4 inch by 1 1/2 inch. The shaft of the penis was present and measured 2 inches in length. The gaping defect was surrounded by multiple and extensive irregular punctate gouging type injuries measuring from 1/8 inch to 3/4 inch and had a depth of penetration of 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch.”
In West of Memphis, it’s claimed that turtles might be responsible for the missing genitals. I found this theory to be fanciful to say the least.
According to the medical examiner, Chris Byers bled to death because his genitals had been mutilated and partially removed. I believe Jessie Miskelley that this happened before he was thrown into the ditch.
Above: the courthouse about 100 miles north of West Memphis
In the same interview, Jessie Misskelley told the police officers that one of the boys was cut in his face.
RIDGE: Okay, now when this is going on, when this is taking place, you saw somebody with a knife. Who had a knife?
JESSIE: Jason
RIDGE: Jason had a knife, what did he cut with the knife. What did you see him cut or who did you see him cut?
JESSIE: I saw him cut one of the little boys
RIDGE: Alright, where did he cut him at?
JESSIE: He was cutting him in the face.
Prosecutor John Fogleman highlighted the fact that Jessie Misskelley knew facts that nobody else knew in his closing argument. He pointed out that Misskelley knew one of the boys had been cut in the fact and that this specific detail wasn’t mentioned in any of the newspapers.
Nothing in there [the newspapers] about a boy being cut in the face. Said they were beat up real bad, but nothing, nothing in there about somebody being cut in the face. He [Jessie Misskelley] says, “Yes, one of them was cut in the face.”
Jessie Misskelley also claimed that Damian Echols grabbed one of the boys by the ear and that the ear was discoloured as a result.
MISSKELLEY: He [Damian Echols] grabbed one of’m by the ear, I don’t know which one, he grabbed on of’m by the ear trying to pull his ear off or something. He grabbed’m pretty tight. It turned kind of red.
This was also corroborated by the autopsy report for Chris Byers. According to the report, he suffered injuries to his right ear:
“Head Injuries:
The right ear was abraded and contused. The inferior aspect of the right ear showed multiple linear abrasions measuring 1/2 inch to 1 1/4 inch.”
When you find out the three boys were stripped and two of them had injuries to their genitals, it’s natural to assume there must have been a sexual motive. Jessie Misskelley told the police that Damian Echols and Jason Baldwin sexually assaulted two of the boys.
JESSIE: Then they [Damian Echols and Jason Baldwin] tied them up, tied their hands up, they started screwing them and stuff, cutting them and stuff, and I saw it and turned around and looked, and then I took off running, I went home, then they called me and asked me, how come I didn’t stay, I told them, I just couldn’t.
John Fogleman also drew the jury’s attention to the fact that Jessie Misskelley knew that two of the boys had been sexually assaulted - something that was also corroborated by the autopsy reports. Chris Byers and Steve Branch had injuries to their genitals.
Finally, in talking about the boys being sexually abused, Inspector Gitchell says, “So they both did it to all three of the boys?” Jessie: “Just them two as far as I know.”
Above: bridge west from Memphis; crime scene is just one mile ahead
According to Lisa Sakevicius - a criminalist from the state lab - the three victims were tied with three different knots.
Her testimony would seem to rule out that the three boys were killed by a single attacker and indicate there were three attackers.
Jessie Misskelley didn’t just confess to the police. According to his friend Buddy Lucas, Misskelley also confessed to him.
Lucas - so we sit there, sit there, and I said, he said man me jason and damien we went walking last night in the town of west memphis, I said why didn’t you all come by and get me? we will we uh, we were in a hurry and everything go up there and come back home. I said alright I understand (inaudible) now since I found out I’m kinda glad he didn’t come by and get me
Ridge - okay, what did he tell you he do?
Lucas - we…. he told me that uh, that he got in a fight, that’s what he told me at first
Ridge - okay
Lucas - I said damien and jason they helped you? He said um-yea and everything so I said well did you all hurt anybody? And he said yea, I didn’t think it was those 8 year old kids or anything, so I turn around and come to found out that jason he was with jason and damien when they sacrificed them little kids. I was come and tell you all
Ridge - he tells you he’s in some trouble?
Lucas - uh-huh
Ridge - and what did he tell you he was in trouble over?
Lucas - that he really, he said um, we hurt, uh…. uh we hurt a couple of boys, that jason and damien killed
Lucas - couple, I said was you involved? He said yea, I said what did you do? I finally got it talked out of him what did he do, he said I hit uh, a couple in the back of the head
Ridge - okay, and
Lucas - and everything to keep them from running and everything
Ridge - and that’s what he told you?
Lucas - yes sir
Two witnesses claimed that Damian Echols admitted he had killing the three boys.
Twelve-year-old Christy VanVickle testified that she heard Echols say he “killed the three boys.” Fifteen-year-old Jackie Medford testified that she heard Echols say, “I killed the three little boys and before I turn myself in, I’m going to kill two more, and I already have one of them picked out.”
The testimony of these two independent witnesses was direct evidence of the statement by Echols. These witnesses were cross-examined by Echols counsel, and it was the jury’s province to weigh their credibility.
5. Alternative perp Terry Hobbs
The producers of West of Memphis make a case for Terry Hobbs - the stepfather of Steve Branch - being the killer and that his friend David Jacoby was a possible accomplice. However, Hamish McKenzie points out in an article for The Atlantic that the filmmakers are guilty of hypocrisy.
“But the rave reviews miss a dangerous hypocrisy at the heart of the film, which was paid for and produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, and directed by Amy Berg. In their quest to clear the names of the “West Memphis Three”“”Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. who were teenagers when they were convicted for the 1993 killings””the filmmakers decide that they have found the actual murderer: Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the murdered boys. And in publicly making the case against him, they perpetrate a similar sort of injustice to the one they originally set out to correct: relying on questionable evidence to prosecute in the court of public opinion.”
The producers of West of Memphis point the finger at Hobbs because he has a history of domestic violence, he gave inconistent alibis and they think two hairs found at the crime scene implicate him and his friend Jacoby. However, Thomas Fedor, one of the defence experts, called the hairs weak evidence.
“The two hairs that I know about ““ the one that could have in fact come from Mr. Hobbs and the one that could have in fact come from David Jacoby ““ constitute what I call weak evidence. Because there are other people it could have come from and there isn’t any way to really prove our selection of possible sources for that hair.
I don’t think ““ my personal opinion ““ I don’t think that that hair evidence would be enough to convict Mr. Hobbs or Mr. Jacoby or anyone that would be in a similar situation because it’s simply not strong enough.
The percentages I gave of people who could be the source of those hairs are 1.5% of the population in the respect to one hair and 7% in respect to the other hair. That’s not particularly strong evidence and especially in the context of what most people are accustomed to with DNA testing.” (Thomas Fedor, Forensic Serologist).
6. Some conclusions
Concluding the WM3 are innocent on the basis of watching West of Memphis would be like concluding Amanda Knox is innocent after reading Waiting to Be Heard. The documentary is clearly biased and one-sided.
The producers did not address most of the evidence that led to the convictions of the WM3 let alone refute it. This is not surprising when you consider the fact that Damian Echols is one of the producers.
The defence lawyers assessed the evidence and recommended that their clients accept a court judgement of guilt. Surely if there was no credible evidence against the WM3 they would have opted for a new trial. If they had been found not guilty, they would have been able to sue the state for millions of dollars.
The supposedly exculpatory evidence was that some DNA was recovered from the crime scene was not attributable to any of the victims or the WM3. Since it is not known to whom that DNA belongs, one cannot say what that person’s role, if any, was and whether the evidence would help the defendants.
Above: from freeway, crime scene is by a creek within trees in left background
7. Valuable Sources
Click: ‘West Memphis Three’ freed after 18 years in prison
Click: Damien Echols: Statements and Polygraph Reports (May 9-10, 1993)
Click: Supreme Court of Arkansas
Click: Closing Argument of John Fogleman
Click: Damien Echols - mental health records - Exhibit 500
Click: Peter Jackson’s West of Memphis: the tale of three wronged men
Click: Damien Echols: how I survived death row
Click: West Memphis Three Facts
Click: The Unsettling Recklessness of Peter Jackson’s ‘West of Memphis’
Click: Misskelley v. State
Click: Statement of Jessie L. Misskelley, Jr. (June 3, 1993 at 2:44 P.M.)
Click: Statement of Jessie Misskelley, Jr. February 17, 1994
Click: Autopsy report for Steven Branch
Click: Autopsy report for Chris Byers
Click: Autopsy report for Michael Moore
Click: Lisa Sakevicius’s testimony
Click: A Skeptic’s Guide To The West Memphis Three Documentaries
Click: Is Amanda Knox Guilty?
[Below: The crime scene about 1 mile west of Memphis - warning, images of the murdered boys are included]
Posted by The Machine on 08/25 at 06:32 AM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, US etc systems, Hoaxers: media groups, UK Guardian, News media & movies, Terrible reporting, Other legal processes, Those elsewhere, The wider contexts, N America context • Comments here (19)
So Where Would YOU Want To Go On Trial? In Italy Or In The U.S.?
One reason so many still follow Meredith’s case is because justice has not yet been SEEN to be done.
Maybe 9 out of 10 Italians think this.
Over the years the Italian justice system has become immensely tilted against prosecutors and victims at trial. Right now it is one of the toughest - or if you like, most lenient - anywhere in the world.
Read for example Nicki and Commissario Montalbano for two among our numerous posts on this.
We have still not seen even ONE American lawyer claim that after the first trial in 2009 which found RS and AK guilty that there were strong grounds for an appeal.
In the US, back in 2009, full prison terms would have been begun.
And in fact virtually nothing at the 2009 trial was challenged in the appeal. But the defenses subversively organized to get Civil Judge Hellmann instead of Criminal Judge Chiari to preside, and in 2011 a farcical “not guilty” outcome was the result.
Then there was a THIRD jury trial, in 2013-14, which (as so often in Italy) threw out the not guilty outcome of the previous appeal trial.
And finally, in 2015, due to more subversive defense machinations with a little mafia help, the final Supreme Court appeal was assigned to the FIFTH Chambers, for the first murder appeal that Chambers has ever heard.
A second farcical “not guilty” outcome was the result.
Say what you like about the American system, there is not remotely any parallel in its judicial history to all of that. Quite the opposite in fact. We have had various posts pointing to an increasingly hard line in the US.
This is one not necessarily sought or appreciated by prosecutors or judges, who usually like trials and want to see juries of peers call the final shots.
It is actually being imposed by Federal and State politicians, many of whom were prosecutors themselves. Bizarre jury outcomes as at the OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony trials contributed somewhat to this trend.
One result is a trend the exact opposite of Italy’s - the increasing elimination of juries and even of trials altogether. The New York Times explains.
The criminal trial ended more than two and a half years ago, but Judge Jesse M. Furman can still vividly recall the case. It stands out, not because of the defendant or the subject matter, but because of its rarity: In his four-plus years on the bench in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it was his only criminal jury trial…
The Southern District held only 50 criminal jury trials last year, the lowest since 2004, according to data provided by the court. The pace remains slow this year.
In 2005, records show, there were more than double the number of trials: 106. And decades ago, legal experts said, the numbers were much higher.
“It’s hugely disappointing,” said Judge Jed S. Rakoff, a 20-year veteran of the Manhattan federal bench. “A trial is the one place where the system really gets tested. Everything else is done behind closed doors.”
Legal experts attribute the decline primarily to the advent of the congressional sentencing guidelines and the increased use of mandatory minimum sentences, which transferred power to prosecutors, and discouraged defendants from going to trial, where, if convicted, they might face harsher sentences.
In 1997, according to federal courts data nationwide, 3,200 of 63,000 federal defendants were convicted in jury trials; in 2015, there were only 1,650 jury convictions, out of 81,000 defendants.
Former Judge John Gleeson, who in March stepped down from the federal bench in Brooklyn to enter private practice, noted in a 2013 court opinion that 81 percent of federal convictions in 1980 were the product of guilty pleas; in one recent year, the figure was 97 percent.
Judge Gleeson wrote that because most pleas are negotiated before a prosecutor prepares a case for trial, the “thin presentation” of evidence needed for indictment “is hardly ever subjected to closer scrutiny by prosecutors, defense counsel, judges or juries.”
“The entire system loses an edge,” he added, “and I have no doubt that the quality of justice in our courthouses has suffered as a result.”
The article lists a number of resulting ill effects. Will the Knox apologists be up in arms? Dont hold your breath.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 08/09 at 12:52 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems, The wider contexts, Italian context, N America context • Comments here (32)
Artificially Controversial Adnan Syed Case Adds To Tilt Against Victims Worldwide
Victim Hae Min Lee; bottom, podcaster Sarah Koenig basking in celebrity
1. The Media Overview
Doug Preston, John Douglas, Steve Moore and Bruce Fischer are by no means the only crackpots in America perpetrating innocence fraud.
Their main distinction was to perpetrate it in English against a victim and a police and court system of other countries, using ignorance and smears and a largely complicit American media to trample hard truths in the case.
But innocence fraud is still a tiny industry in Italy as compared with the godzilla it is becoming in America - often with politically vulnerable judges and usually with naive do-gooders in compliance.
2. The Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee serial podcast
Much of the public seems to have developed an insatiable appetite for documentaries about people who have been convicted of murders they allegedly didn’t commit. Faux TV documentaries title American Girl, Italian Nightmare, Paradise Lost, West of Memphis, and Making of a Murderer, have all been watched by millions of people.
Podcasts are another way of reaching them. Wikipedia defines a podcast as “a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.”
High school student Hae Min Lee was the victim in this 1999 Baltimore murder case and her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted in 2000 of her murder and is serving a life sentence plus 30 years.
The serial podcast about the Adnan Syed/Hae Min Lee case has been downloaded over 80 million times now. According to Apple, it’s the fastest podcast to reach five million downloads and streams in the history of iTunes.
In the light of public sentiment inflamed by it a retrial has been ordered, a ruling which Maryland’s attorney general will now seek to overturn.
Why was this serial podcast so popular?
Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Ken Silverstein made the following observation about the success of Serial in an article about the case for The Intercept:
“The reality is that “˜Serial’ only worked if it could demonstrate that there were serious doubts about the fairness of Syed’s trial and conviction. If he were guilty, there was no story. The storytelling device was to amplify claims that favored Syed’s defense and contrast that with a watered-down version of the state’s case”
TV producers and podcast makers know full well that an innocent person being railroaded by corrupt or incompetent cops is a far more melodramatic story than a run-of-the-mill domestic violence murder.
Paul Ciolino admitted in a question and answer session about the Meredith Kercher case at Seattle University that CBS News didn’t care whether someone was innocent. The only thing they care about is the story.
“I work for CBS News. I want to tell you one thing about CBS. We don’t care if you did it. We don’t care if you’re innocent. We like a story. We want to do a story. That’s all we care about.”
CBS News produced one of the most biased and factually inaccurate documentaries about the Meredith Kercher case “American Girl, Italian Nightmare”.
The CBS documentary is an archetypal example of innocence fraud. The story is told primarily from the defence point of view, incriminating pieces of evidence are ignored and the programme contains a number of significant factual errors.
3. Faults by podcast creator Sarah Koenig
The Serial is another example of innocence fraud. Sarah Koenig, the executive producer and host of Serial, tries to be partial and objective, but fails miserably.
Instead of maintaining a professional distance from Adnan Syed, she becomes emotionally attached to him, and it’s clear she desperately wants to believe he’s innocent.
She can barely hide her disappointment when she finds out things that show Syed in a bad light. Her comments that Syed doesn’t seem like a killer are just crass. She comes across as an unwordly academic who has been sheltered from the real world in her ivory tower.
She says she doesn’t buy the motive put forward by the prosecution i.e. Adnan Syed couldn’t deal with being dumped by Hae Min Lee and it erupted in violence.
In reality, people kill other people for the most banal and trivial reasons. She doesn’t seem to understand that there are seven billion on the planet and not everyone shares her logic and morals. There have been a number of high-profile murder cases where seemingly normal people have committed horrific and senseless murders with little or no motive.
And motive is not a required element in any common law jurisdiction.
She adopts a piecemeal cherrypicking approach to the evidence and analyses each piece of evidence in isolation from the other pieces of evidence. If there’s an alternative innocent explanation not matter how far-fetched it is, she wrongly assumes it nullifies that particular piece of evidence.
It’s no surprise she concludes there isn’t enough evidence to convict Adnan Syed of murder: “It’s not enough, to me, to send anyone to prison for life.”
She doesn’t understand the concept and application of the “beyond a reasonable doubt standard” and that all the pieces of evidence have to be considered wholly, not separately - by a jury actually present to size up all witnesses.
According to the Supreme Court of the United States in Victor. Nebraska (92-8894), 511 U.S. 1 (1994):
“...absolute or mathematical certainty is not required.”
“You may be convinced of the truth of a fact beyond a”¨reasonable doubt and yet be fully aware that possibly you may be mistaken.”
You put all the pieces of evidence together to see whether a picture of guilt emerges.
According to the Supreme Court of Canada in Stewart v. The Queen, [1977] 2 SCR 748:
“It may be, and such is often the case, that the facts proven by the Crown, examined separately have not a very strong probative value; but all the facts put in evidence have to be considered each one in relation to the whole, and it is all of them taken together, that may constitute a proper basis for a conviction.”
4. Main facts of the case against Adnan Syed
The key pieces of evidence in the case were the testimony of his friend Jay Wilds and the mobile phone records which destroyed Adnan Syed’s initial alibi that he was at the mosque on the evening of 13 January 1999 - the day Hae Min Lee disappeared- and corroborated Wilds’ claims that he and Adnan were in Leakin Park that evening.
This is significant because Hae Min Lee’s body was found in Leakin Park. There’s no question that Jay Wilds had inside knowledge about the murder - he led the police to Hae Min Lee’s car. He confessed to being an accessory to murder after the fact.
On 13 January 1999, Hae Min Lee was supposed to pick up her cousin from the Campfield Early Learning Center after school and take her home. She must have been abducted by her killer whilst on the way to the kindergarten.
This means the window of opportunity for her killer to abduct her was extremely narrow. It takes approximately 11 minutes to drive the 3.8 miles from Woodlawn High School to the kindergarten.
Jay Wilds told the police that Adnan Syed’s plan was to get a lift with Hae Min Lee. Becky and Krista, who were friends with Hae and Syed, claim they heard him asking Hae for a lift on 13 January 1999. Scott Adcock, a police officer, testified that Syed had told him he had asked Hae for a lift that day.
Syed would later deny that he had asked Hae for a lift. Adnan Syed had lent Wilds his mobile phone and car that day. However, it should be pointed out that it wasn’t the first time that Syed had done this.
Kevin Urick, one of the prosecutors, acknowledged in his interview with The Intercept that the two key pieces of evidence - the mobile records and Jay Wilds’ testimony - are of weaker probative value when considered separately, but pointed out that when you put them together, they are strong pieces of evidence.
“Jay’s testimony by itself, would that have been proof beyond a reasonable doubt?” Urick asked rhetorically. “Probably not. Cellphone evidence by itself? Probably not.”
But, he said, when you put together cellphone records and Jay’s testimony, “they corroborate and feed off each other”“it’s a very strong evidentiary case.”
He also pointed out that the mobile phone records destroyed Adnan Syed’s alibi that he was at the mosque on the evening of 13 January 1999. From The Intercept:
“Yes. Early on in the Syed case, the defense sent us a disclosure of about eighty names stating that these were witnesses that were going to testify that Syed was at the mosque because it was Ramadan. He was praying all evening and that’s where he was [Intercept ed’s. note: We have corrected this in the introduction].
If they called those eighty witnesses, they would’ve obviously been testifying falsely, because the cellphone records in conjunction with all the evidence we gathered about the cellphone towers, who made the calls, who received them, place him everywhere but at the mosque.
The best defense an attorney can put on is the defense the client is telling them. But attorneys still are not supposed to put on fabricated evidence. And that would’ve been fabricated evidence. And I think once Gutierrez recognized that fact, she did not put it on.”
Adnan Syed chose not to testify at both his trials. If he had, Kevin Urick would have asked him a pertinent question.
“And my very last question would be, what is your explanation for why you either received or made a call from Leakin Park the evening that Hae Min Lee disappeared, the very park that her body was found in five weeks later?”
The mobile phone records also showed there was a call from his mobile phone to his friend Nisha’s landline at 3:32pm on the day Hae disappeared. This is significant because Jay Wilds didn’t know Nisha and Adnan Syed claims he didn’t have his phone at this time as Jay Wilds had it. The phone call lasted more than two minutes.
Sarah Koening speculates that the Nisha call could have been a “butt dial”.
Dana Chivvis, one of the “Serial” producers, puts the pieces of evidence together in episode 12 and seems to have serious reservations about Adnan Syed’s innocence.
“Adnan has always said it was his idea to loan Jay the car because he wanted to get Stefanie a birthday present right. So that’s pretty crappy luck that you loaned this guy who ends up pointing the finger at you for the murder that you loaned him your car and cell phone the day you ex-girlfriend goes missing. The next thing is that it seems pretty clear to me that Adnan asked Hae for a ride after school because we’ve got at least two of their friends saying they overheard him ask for a ride from Hae.
Adnan himself tells the cop that day he asked Hae for a ride. And In Jay’s first interview with the detectives, he says to them Adnan’s plan was to get in Hae’s car by telling her that his car was broken down and asking her for a ride. Then the next piece of bad luck is the Nisha call. I mean even if the Nisha call could potentially be a butt dial… in the realm of possibility maybe it was a butt dial, but what are the chances? Like that sucks for for you that your phone butt dialled the girl that only you know and would call on this day your ex-girlfriend goes missing that you happen to loan your car and phone out to the guy who ends up pointing the finger at you. That sucks.
And the last thing that I think really sucks for him if he’s innocent is that Jay’s story and the cell phone records match up from about 6 o’clock to about 8 o’clock which is when Jay is saying that you’re burying the body and that’s the time of day when you have no memory of where you were…But you Adnan you don’t really remember where you were that evening and that blank spot in your memory that’s the window of time when Jay’s story actually does seem to be corroborated by the cell phone records.”
It’s important to put the evidence that Dana Chivvis outlines into the wider context of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee’s deteriorating relationship.
In November 1998, two months before Hae Min Lee was murdered, she wrote a break-up note to Syed telling him to move on, accept her decision to end their relationship, and to “hate me if you will.” On the back of the note Adnan Syed wrote: “I’m going to kill.”
Is it a coincidence that two months later that Hae Min Lee was killed?
Is it a coincidence that Adnan Syed can remember very little about this day even though it wasn’t an ordinary day because the police called him to tell that Hae was missing and asked him if he knew where she was?
Ann Brocklehurst wrote a blog article criticising Sarah Koenig for consistently minimising the warning signs of intimate partner violence and noted that she overlooked that fact that Hae had asked a teacher, Hope Schab, to help her hide from Syed.
5. Doubts Sarah Koenig tries to raise
Sarah Koenig seems to think that Asia McClain is a credible witness - she claims she saw Adan Syed in the library that afternoon. However, Kevin Urick points out why the judge in the post-conviction trial didn’t take her claim seriously.
“I think the judge in the post-conviction trial does a very good job of pointing out that in the letters to Syed, she is very vague and indifferent about what she’s doing. The difficulty comes from Syed. In all his statements about his whereabouts the day of the case he says that he was at the school from 2:15pm to 3:30pm.
He never once, in any statement, at any time, made any reference about being in the public library. His defense was that he was at the school from 2:30 to 3:30. So [Asia McClain’s] reporting seeing him at the public library contradicts what he says he was doing.”
Kevin Urick also stated that Asia McClain told him she was being put under a lot of pressure from Adnan Syed’s family.
“Asia contacted me before the post-conviction hearing, she got my number and called me and expressed to me a great deal of concern about whether or not she would have to testify at the post-conviction hearing. She told me she was under a lot of pressure from Adnan’s family and to get them off her back she wrote him a couple letters.
The implication was she was trying to appease them and she didn’t want to have to stick by it at that time. And I testified to that when I appeared in the post-conviction hearing.”
Sarah Koenig also seems to think that Jay Wilds’ testimony shouldn’t have been used to convict Adnan Syed because he gave conflicting accounts. Kevin Urick explained why these inconsistencies don’t discredit him as a witness.
“Like I said, people who are engaged in criminal activity, it’s like peeling an onion. The initial thing they say is, “˜I don’t know a thing about this.’ And then “˜Well, I sort of saw this.’ You get different stories as you go along. This is the real world. We don’t pick our witnesses, we have to put them on as they are. There were a lot of inconsistencies throughout Jay’s prior statements. Almost all of them involve what we would call collateral facts.
“A material fact is something directly related to the question of guilt or innocence. A material fact would have been, “˜I was with Adnan,’ and then you’ve got the cellphone corroborating that material fact. A collateral fact would be, We were at Joe’s Sub Shop,’ but then you find out actually they were at the auto repair store. That’s a collateral fact. It’s not necessarily material to the question of guilt or innocence. So, many of the material facts were corroborated through the cellphone records including being in Leakin Park.”
Sarah Koenig is not the only person who thinks Jay Wilds’ testimony shouldn’t have been used to convict Adnan Syed.
Civil lawyer Richard Dwyer says doesn’t believe Adnan Syed and thinks he might be guilty, but he states he shouldn’t have been convicted because Jay Wilds gave conflicting statements and the timeline wasn’t proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
There seems to be a widespread misconception that the prosecution must be able to prove with absolute certainty each and every element of a second-by-second comprehensive timeline and that witness testimony must be discounted if there are any contradictions.
The bottom line is the jury found Jay Wilds to be a credible witness and found Adnan Syed guilty of murder.
A biased and one-sided 12-part documentary presented by a partisan journalist doesn’t supercede a criminal trial where the jurors get to hear the defence and prosecution present their cases and watch witnesses being cross-examined in court.
Justice shouldn’t be a like a reality TV show where the public gets to decide whether someone convicted of murder should be allowed leave the big house. However, there’s no doubt that these types of documentaries do influence legal proceedings. A judge has recently ruled that Adnan Syed will be given another trial.
We can expect Adnan Syed’s supporters and a number of media organisations will try to influence the legal proceedings before and during the new trial. This couldn’t happen in the UK because of the sub judice rules which prevents the media from commenting on a case until a verdict is reached in order to prevent the jury from being swayed.
The Guardian recently published an article entitled “Adnan Syed is innocent. Now find Hae Min Lee’s real killer”, which was written by Adnan Syed’s chief advocate Rabia Chaudry. I hope the mainstream media provide balanced and factually accurate reports on the case - something they didn’t do when covering the Meredith Kercher case.
Journalists and the public should remember that a miscarriage of justices are not just cases where innocent people have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit. They include cases where people have literally got away with murder. I can’t think of one documentary about such a case.
7. The reactions of Hae Min Lee’s family
Hae Min Lee’s family sat through the trials along with the juries and have no doubts that Adnan Syed killed her.
“It remains hard to see so many run to defend someone who committed a horrible crime, who destroyed our family, who refuses to accept responsibility, when so few are willing to speak up for Hae.”
Unlike Sarah Koenig or any of the 80 million people who downloaded the Serial podcasts, they actually attended every day of both trials, heard the arguments put forward from the defence and prosecution and saw the witnesses being cross-examined on the stand.
“unlike those who learn about this case on the internet, we sat and watched every day of both trials ““ so many witnesses, so much evidence”.
Some Of The Main Sources
One: Serial Season One
Two: EXCLUSIVE: PROSECUTOR IN “˜SERIAL’ CASE GOES ON THE RECORD
Three: EXCLUSIVE: SERIAL PROSECUTOR DEFENDS GUILTY VERDICT IN ADNAN SYED CASE, PART II.
Four: Serial podcast rehabilitated a schoolgirl’s murderer, so where’s the feminist outrage?
Five: Serial case: victim’s family offers rare statement before hearing resumes
Six: Adnan Syed is innocent. Now find Hae Min Lee’s real killer
Seven: Syed Of ‘Serial’ Podcast Given Retrial
Eight: Serial Podcast Locations
Nine: “˜Serial’ takes the stand: How a podcast became a character in its own narrative
Ten: Serial Finale—Why I Don’t Believe Adnan Syed
Posted by The Machine on 07/27 at 01:46 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, US etc systems, Hoaxers from 2007, Paul Ciolino, Hoaxers: media groups, UK Guardian, Other legal processes, Those elsewhere • Comments here (38)
Italian Justice: Describing A Fine System And How To Improve It
Posted by Machiavelli (Yummi)
[Revered prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was assassinated 1992 with probable political connivance]
Trashing Of Justice System Gets Worse
Does this Reuters report capture Italian justice correctly?
We linked to it on 30 June and it seemed to have some key points missing. For example it omits, as English-language reports tend to:
(1) that the system as originally designed strove above all to be fair,
(2) that crime rates in Italy are low and murder rates lower and levels of incarceration and recidivism tiny by European standards.
(3) that the police and justice system remain more popular and trusted than other institutions in Italy.
More On The Hard Facts
If we look at the facts, we could say that while it is true that Italian Justice System is somewhat dysfunctional as far as prosecuting white collar crimes and corruption - that is, politicians like Verdini - in fact if we read carefully, the precise reasons are:
(1) It’s not the system itself but some of the laws, designed by politicians precisely in order to protect themselves, against the demands of the judiciaries;
(2) The system is slow because, among other things, there are these unreasonable guarantees in favour of defence rights, which entail the right to series of appeals even on minor charges; besides making trials too long this also leads to a multiplication in the number of trials and of lawyers that embark on time-buying strategies and technicalities;
(3) The main problems are the short statutes of limitations, which are designed in synergy with the aforementioned features. I would add another legal aspect:
(4) The lack of an aggressive anti-corruption law; in Italy, judiciaries are basically prevented not only to effectively try corruption charges but also to even investigate them, because the law binds their hands; they are heavily restricted in their possibility to collect evidence, such as searching homes or wiretapping phone calls; they can do this only under certain limited conditions and only for just a few types of crimes.
(5) Moreover, there are the political reasons: magistrates are under threat by the political system. The problem, here, is not the judiciary but the political system that has been trying to curb the independence of the judiciary for 25 years by various means, including laws and expedients, so that in fact there is an infiltration and an influence, as we know, and there is a chilling effect on magistrates that may have reasons to prosecute powerful people but naturally prefer to avoid problems.
A very important thing to point out: it is not true that all of the judicial system requires some big “reform” - in fact, it requires only modest reforms, and reforms not of the judiciary but to just to the criminal law, would suffice.
Such modifications should include reform of the statute of limitations, and better anti-corruption law that provide prosecutors with investigation tools.
As for the procedure code, a cut to the number of charges that can be appealed. And in the penal code, a cut to the number of irrelevant charges that need to be tried by criminal courts (which could be settled elsewhere) leading to the notorious overloading of the system.
One small, peripheral “reform” dealing with the political issue, could be simply a law that prevents judges from political activity in order to advance their career in the judiciary.
We saw the classical example of Fifth Chambers Judge Gennaro Marasca: a politician who came back working in the justice system after spending years exchanging political favours and getting involved in financial scandals as the minister of budget in his administration, and then was legally allowed to exploit his previous political career and make it count in his resume as if it was a judicial career, so he got onto the Supreme Court.
But the big problem in Italy, as Judge Piercamillo Davigo has put it, is not the Judicial system. It’s society. The problem is that no system actually works if the members of the society do not intend to make it work, if there is a lack of political ethics.
And also, there is no system or group that, in the long run, is not affected by the problems of the society it belongs to. When there is a regime, part of the judiciary always follows suit, because they don’t have real alternatives, individuals must comply with the system they are part of.
If a society is politically corrupt, part of the judiciary will become politically corrupt as a consequence, they have no alternative and it’s unavoidable. There is no law or reform itself that can change personal behaviours alone, we do not live under constant surveillance: an internalization of values is needed, the behaviour of citizens and people in power needs to be ethical, in order to have efficient justice.
As for the Five Star movement: I wouldn’t call it “pro-justice-reform”, as we can see, there is not really a political debate in Italy or in the Party about the need for any big reform, it’s attention to just some laws that are needed, among them that anti-corruption law.
The Five-Star movement has an anti-corruption stance and an anti-establishment stance. But rather than pro-reform, they are pro-justice, and generally pro-magistrates. This means they tend to side with the positions of judiciaries against the demands of the traditional political forces.
Judge Piercamillo Davigo is Director of Criminal Chambers II and the Penalties Joint Section at the Court of Cassation . Since April 2016 he has also been president of the National Magistrates Association (CSM). He is an idol of the Five Star movement’s voters - albeit he does not have a political position.
On a practical level this could be seen as if the Five Star movement would like to see more criminals in jail and the prosecutors prosecuting more, while the Democrats and their allies and the other traditional parties would like the power of justice to be limited (they are the ones who designed the “inefficient” features of the system to their advantage, after all).
Once again, the problems of inefficiency etc, in Italy does not come from the judicial system; they come from the political system. It’s the political system that has become inefficient, stuck and unstabile. There has been a lack of dynamic democracy for decades. Once the political establishment of Italy was related to mafia in many areas and there is still a murky system of power.
The “inefficiency” of the judicial system is only a mirror of this problem, that is the effect of the political establishment trying to take control of the system, or to block it or hinder it when control fails.
Both the political powers and organized crime have long also employed other methods when the previous failed, such as ad personam attacks against specific magistrates.
Former prosecutor Luigi De Magistris - the mayor of Naples - is an example of the political powers striking back against a magistrate who investigated them: they managed to ruin his career with the help of other complacent judges who waged war against him, and forced him out of the judiciary.
But they did not blow his popularity: the people supported him and he was elected mayor, antagonizing the national political powers.
It’s important to point out that what happened to Dr Mignini is exactly the same: he was prosecuted for alleged non-existent abuses because he disturbed powerful circles with “destabilizing” investigations into the Narducci case, then all charges were dropped, and the investigation proved illegitimate, but they managed to block the investigation on the Narducci case and hindered his career somewhat.
Other judges were less lucky: Paolo Borsellino for example was killed with the probable help of the Italian state. Many others died also.
Posted by Machiavelli (Yummi) on 07/10 at 06:56 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems, Hoaxes against Italy, 1 Ital justice hoax, 2 Italian mileu hoax, 9 Mignini v Knox hoax • Comments here (5)
How The Italian “Justice Tortoise” Is The Likely Winner Compared To For Example the US System
American prosecutor & jury - puzzle now over what system will make them share all evidence
Look around you.
The things you do to make a living. The running of your house and your garden. The education and general development of your children. The restaurants and metro railways and bus services. The police and military and football teams - and grand opera!
All are purposeful systems.
Purposeful systems have created all we have ever built on this planet - all wealth, all structures, all machines, all culture. Typically any educated adult has within them at least 200 significant systems AKA their skill-set: cooking a meal, riding a bicycle, driving a car, using a computer, playing basketball.
You probably dont have a manual for each of them but each time you exercise a skill you probably follow the same hard-learned steps each time you want the benefit obtained previously.
One of the world’s great problems now - starkly seen in the British argument over its future in Europe, and in slow growth in the Arab world (the world’s slowest), and in China’s economy slowing and in anyone without a college degree likely to be worse off going forward - is that we are locked into whole huge arrays of these systems at various levels (family, corporate, city, country, region) that are archaic and mostly quite wrong for our needs going forward.
And few are sure which of all of them add any real value. We are flying blind on a mammoth scale.
With regard to the US as the main economic locomotive, in the 90s two very significant things happened. The East Asia economies really rocketed - because they adopted good systems pioneered by Japan, which itself had started out with many invented in America.
And for a while at least, many Americans really began to “see” systems, and corporations started a huge push toward quality control. You can see one outcome in today’s automobile ads - cars largely sell on their reliability. Their drive systems and safety systems are what sells cars now.
Latest thinking which we often touch on here is that tweaking of any systems anywhere has a short half-life, and after that the only way to get any better is to totally replace them. Go down the road and start over. Jump to the next level through complete reinvention.
After WWII Germany and Japan and Italy of necessity all did that and for most of the time since they really benefited.
But right now, most systems in most countries are archaic and nobody - at least no political leader or candidate - seems to be able to arrive at the vision and technique vital to jumping to the next level. That in fact should really be done mostly bottom-up, with national politicians playing quite a minor role.
“Path dependencies” like the myriad systems of the common market, many very old now, are today at least as deadly to our long-term future as any aliens from other planets.
Italy is working to try to update its justice system right now and we will report on that shortly. At least in theory, it has one of the easiest tasks in the world, because post WWII its legal system was redesigned from the ground up. It had already junked bad aspects, some going back centuries.
Italy already has some of the world’s smartest juries - jury service is compulsory, so smart people cannot dodge them. And the system already has some other very positive things going for it.
Mainly what is needed is some weeding. And such reforms are made easier in Italy because (1) judges and prosecutors all follow career paths and so they are not politically competing with one another; and (2) there is the Council of Magistrates (CSM) which can be very progressive in the reforms it pushes at its level.
Overarching reform in the United States is way way more difficult because power is so diffused in the political system and the political system is so vast, and so split by ideologies, and there is no CSM.
Here is an editorial in the New York Times about curbing the massive damage being done by over-zealous prosecutors - something already taken care of in the Italian system, despite the busload of idiots claiming otherwise.
And here is a blog post calling the New York Times editorial a convoluted crackpot of a column and saying the Times should get real. At least in that way, reform aint ever going to happen.
Hop on a plane, guys. Go to Italy, and learn something.
Another Effective Innovation By New York Police Is Being Duplicated By Others
Police horses, up to a dozen stroked and photographed each evening in the Times Square area
In national US news any innovation of the New York police gets a lot of coverage.
Those crowd-calming police horses seen nightly in the Times Square area go way back, and their presence was never reduced back when some other cities did so - often to their later regret.
There is endemic pressure (especially after 9/11) to keep the city as safe as possible.
From that sustained effort at systems improvement, other American police forces, some very besieged at the moment, attempt to learn something.
New York police both themselves innovate and also adopt good ideas from elsewhere - not least from the brave, popular and effective police forces of Italy.
We posted in January 2013 on New York’s adoption of an Italian approach to policing.
One approach which seems a natural for Italy with all of its art is proving successful in New York now.
Described in the NY Times today is this ongoing exercise in staring at artworks. The point being to sharpen the perceptions of investigators, and to put them all on the same page objectively.
To teach people how to notice details they might otherwise miss, Amy E. Herman, an expert in visual perception, likes to take them to museums and get them to look at the art. Recently she escorted a group of New York City police officers to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and asked them to describe some of the things they saw.
They did their best. “This seems to be a painting of some males with horses,” one officer said of Rosa Bonheur’s mid-19th-century work “The Horse Fair,” a scene of semi-chaos as horses are driven to market. He tried to abide by Ms. Herman’s admonishment to avoid words like “obviously.” “It appears to be daytime, and the horses appear to be traveling from left to right.”
Another pair of officers tackled Picasso’s 1905 “At the Lapin Agile,” which depicts a wilted-looking couple sitting at a French bar after what might have been a long night out. “They appear to have had an altercation,” one observed. The other said, “The male and female look like they’re together, but the male looks like he’ll be sleeping on the couch.”
The officers asked that their names not be used because they were not authorized to speak to reporters. They said that they did not know much about art “” their jobs allow little opportunity for recreational museumgoing “” and Ms. Herman said she preferred it that way.
“I’ve had people say, “˜I hate art,’ and I say, “˜That’s not relevant,’” she said. “This is not a class about Pollock versus Picasso. I’m not teaching you about art today; I’m using art as a new set of data, to help you clear the slate and use the skills you use on the job. My goal when you walk out the door is that you’re thinking differently about the job.”
A painting has many functions. It’s a cultural artifact, an aesthetic object, an insight into a time and a place, a piece of commerce. To Ms. Herman, it’s also an invaluable repository of visual detail that can help shed light on, say, how to approach a murder scene. “It’s extremely evocative and perfect for critical inquiry,” she said in an interview. “What am I seeing here? How do I attach a narrative to it?”
One of the processes:
Before unleashing the officers in the galleries, she talked to them in a classroom in the Met’s basement. She put up a slide of “Mrs. John Winthrop,” a 1773 portrait by John Singleton Copley. The painting, showing a woman sitting at a table holding little pieces of fruit, is considered a masterpiece of fine detail “” the intricacy of the lace trim on the lady’s gown, the rich decorations on her hat. But there’s a detail that’s so obvious, or maybe so seemingly irrelevant, that most people fail to mention it in their description.
“Everyone sees that this is a woman with fruit, and 80 percent miss the mahogany table,” she said. (They also miss the woman’s reflection in the veneer.)
Ms. Herman also displayed a pair of slides featuring reclining nudes: Goya’s “The Nude Maja” (1797-1800) and Lucian Freud’s 1995 “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,” who is very fat. Ms. Herman asked the group to compare the pictures. “Most cops, when I ask this question, say it shows someone before and after marriage,” she said.
Several officers raised their hands.
“Uh, the woman at the bottom is more generously proportioned,” one said.
“She is morbidly obese,” said another.
“Right!” Ms. Herman said. “Don’t make poor word choices. Think about every word in your communication.”
Ms. Herman, who has a new book out, “Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life,” came to her vocation in a roundabout way. She worked first as a lawyer, did not like it, took a job in the development office at the Brooklyn Museum and then moved to the Frick Collection. Earning a master’s degree in art history at night at Hunter College, she eventually became head of the Frick’s education department.
There, inspired by a program in which Yale medical students studied works of art to better observe their patients, she helped devise a similar program for the Frick. Eventually she moved beyond medicine. She has been offering the courses full time as her own business since 2011; her clients include federal and local law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as medical students and business executives.
Also successful elsewhere:
Steve Dye, chief of police at the Grand Prairie Police Department in Texas, brought in Ms. Herman recently to talk to a group of officers from the region. He said her presentation was invaluable in showing the officers how to better observe and document their findings accurately and free from bias.
“Some of the works of art she showed us, we wouldn’t notice the finer details,” he said. “And we’re supposed to be professional observers.”
When forced to deconstruct paintings in group settings, people from different professions tend to respond differently.
For cops it’s a natural.
“The law enforcement community is much more forthcoming,” Ms. Herman said. “Cops will outtalk you every time. Doctors and medical students are much more inhibited. They don’t want to be wrong, and they never want to show that they are ignorant about anything.”
The New York Police Department is one of Ms. Herman’s most important clients. She tailors her presentations to her audiences, and they are on the regular training curriculum at the detective bureau and the training bureau at the Police Academy; other divisions use her services from time to time. In general, her program is voluntary rather than mandatory.
“Amy reminds officers to explore outside the box,” said Police Officer Heather Totoro, who added that the program helped officers in training because of its “uniqueness and power.”
“She taps into officers’ unique sixth sense, teaching them to tell her what they see, not what they think.”
Law enforcement officials tend to view the works through the lens of the job: Who has done what to whom? Where is the perp?
“Sometimes they’ll say, “˜We have an E.D.P. here’ “” an emotionally disturbed person,” Ms. Herman said. Once she showed some officers El Greco’s “The Purification of the Temple,” which depicts Jesus expelling the traders and money-changers amid turmoil and mayhem.
“One cop said, “˜I’d collar the guy in pink’” “” that would be Jesus “” “˜“because it’s clear that he’s causing all the trouble.’”
Among the works she finds most interesting as a learning tool is Vermeer’s exquisitely ambiguous “Mistress and Maid,” a 1666-7 portrait of a lady seated at a table, handing over (or being handed) a mysterious piece of paper. “There are so many different narratives,” she said. “The analysts come away asking more questions than answers “” “˜Who’s asking the question? Who’s doing the talking? Who’s listening?’ The cops will say, “˜It’s a servant asking for the day off.’”
She also likes “House of Fire,” a 1981 painting by James Rosenquist that has three absurdist parts: an upside-down bag of groceries, a bucket under a window shade, and a group of aggressively thrusting lipsticks. “It’s really conducive to good dialogue,” she said. “How many times do officers have to make order out of chaos? So many times in our work we come across things that don’t have a coherent narrative.”
The officers in the class seemed impressed, both by Ms. Herman and by their grand surroundings.
One officer said that she had learned “how to sit down with colleagues and deal with the fact that you can perceive things so differently from each other.” It was her first trip to the Met, or indeed to any art museum.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. “It’s very Thomas Crown-ish, isn’t it?”
Below: the Vermeer painting referred to, in the Frick Museum in New York
Posted by Peter Quennell on 04/25 at 10:52 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, US etc systems, The officially involved, Police and CSI, The wider contexts, N America context • Comments here (9)
Justice Systems Comparisons #5: How Appeals Differ in Italy and Common Law Countries
1 Series And Post Overview
Meredith’s case generated enormous amounts of legal confusion and false statements around the world.
This was particularly so in the United States, and some of the confusions were by American lawyers. We have Curt Knox and the now-defunct Marriott-Gogerty PR firm in part to thank for that. But also part of the misunderstanding comes from the differences in the Italian criminal procedures v.s. the US procedures which derive from English Common Law.
Of course, Knox/Mellas/Marriott have had a vested interested in ensuring that these differences are not made clear. Although it has antecedents in Roman law and French law, Common Law emerged distinctively in England back in 1215 when King John was made to sign the Magna Carta codifying a number of popular rights and of course reducing the king’s powers.
Note: I write this based on my experience in Appellate Court in Ontario (I’m Canadian). However, the process is similar throughout Canadian Provinces (with minor variations), and I imagine throughout UK and US. If anyone in other countries has some insight or experience to share, please do so.
Previously in this series: Part #1: An Overview. Part #2: Public Mischief and Perjury. Part #3: Bail, Extradition & Other Crimes. And Part #4: Canada and the U.S.A. (Part 1).
2. The Appeals Process in Common Law Countries
Appellant—The Party that initiates the Appeal, regardless of who was who at the trial
Respondent—The Party that receives the Appeal, again, regardless of who was who at the trial
Cross Appeal—The Respondent has the right to launch their own, think of it as a counter appeal
Leave to Appeal—Permission to appeal, in some cases it must be granted
Proof of Service—Means filing an Affidavit of Service (Form 16-B), with the Appellate Court
Back Cover—is a back page put in all submissions (Form 4C)
The decision is handed down by the Court. For minor criminal matters it is a Bench Trial (trial by Judge alone); for major crimes the Defendant has a choice of a Judge alone or Jury Trial. In criminal cases, even though the Jury may vote to convict, the Judge will impose the sentence—for every crime except 2nd degree murder, the jury votes on that. Afterwards ....
Option 1: If leave is needed, it must be granted in order to file. This is usually for (a) 2nd level appeals; (b) To get Court Orders put in hold; (c) To Appeal prior to a final decision [Rule 62.01]
Option 2: If leave is ‘‘NOT’’ required, then just file notice.
Within the time limit—usually 30 days from the Lower Court ruling—serve a Notice of Appeal (Form 61-A), and file with the Appeal Court. [Rule 61.04]
If the Appellant intends to submit evidence, then the Appellant’s Certificate Respecting Evidence (Form 61-C) must be served on the other side then filed with the Court. This is actually optional. [Rule 61.05]
[15 days after Notice of Appeal] If the Respondent intends to cross appeal, as in launch their own challenge, then Notice of Cross Appeal (Form 61-E) must be served then filed with the Court. [Rule 61.07]
[15 days after Notice of Appeal] If the Respondent has their own evidence to submit, then the Respondent’s Certificate Respecting Evidence (Form 61-D) must be served then filed with the Court.
[30 days after Notice of Appeal] If a transcript is required, a Certificate of Ordering (proof a transcript has been ordered) must be filed with the Appellate Court [Rule 61.05(5)]
Option 1: If no transcript is required—Appellant must file appeal books within 30 days of Notice of Appeal
Option 2: If a transcript ‘‘is’’ required—Appellant must file appeal books within 60 days of Transcript being completed
In either case, the Appellant must include a Certificate of Perfection
[60 days after Certificate of Perfection Filed] Respondent must submit all books (and cross appeal if one was filed) to the Appellant and the Court
BOOKS TO BE SUBMITTED
[Rule 61.09] and [Rule 61.12] (by Both Sides):
(Mandatory) Appeal Book and Compendium—a collection of various documents and decisions related to the case [Rule 61.10(1)]
(Mandatory) Factum—this is your ‘‘legal arguments’‘, and usually restricted in length, unless permission given [Rule 61.11(1)]
(Optional) Exhibit Book—If there was some evidence that the Appellate Court should consider, it gets included here [Rule 61.10.1]
(Optional) Transcript—If there was reversible error at trial, or in another hearing, it gets sent. It can be stand alone, or included in the exhibit book
(Optional) Book of Authorities—If there is an error of law, a collection of decisions, a case book, is sent
Note: Factum and Compendium are required by both Appellant and Respondent. The others may be included, depending on the type of appeal being argued
Note: There is flexibility with the formatting of the Authorities book, and the timing. It may be sent much later, and cases just downloaded from the internet.
Note: The Appellate Courts are even strict about the colours of the book covers. They are
(Buff)—Appellant’s Appeal Book and Compendium, Appellant’s Exhibit Book
(White)—Appellant’s Factum, Appellant’s Book of Authorities
(Buff)—Respondent’s Compendium, Respondent’s Exhibit Book
(Green)—Respondent’s Factum, Book of Authorities
(Red)—Transcript of Evidence
(Blue)—Motions filed in the matter
BEFORE THE APPEAL IS HEARD:
While everyone is entitled to ‘‘file’’ an appeal, there is no guarantee the appeal will actually be ‘‘heard’‘. If the appeal is truly without merit, it will be thrown out before it is fully heard.
One such option (at least in Ontario), is to invoke Rule 2.1.01(6) and ask that the Appeal be dismissed, or grounds it is frivolous, vexing, or an abuse of process.
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/900194
AT THE ACTUAL APPEAL:
Depending on the Court, it may be a single Judge, a Panel of 3, a Panel of 5, or a Panel of 9 Judges. These are actual Judges, with years of experience. In the Provincial High Courts (Ontario Court of Appeals, BC Court of Appeals, Alberta Court of Appeals ....) it is usually 3 Judges who will hear the case. The Supreme Courts (at least of Canada and the U.S.) are composed of 9 Judges.
The Appeal (and any Cross-Appeal) is restricted to the points raised in the Notice of Appeal/Cross Appeal. Nothing else may be argued.
The Appellant goes first, explaining what was wrong with the trial, with references to various books. The Judge (or panel of Judges) may interrupt at any time.
The Respondent goes second, countering the Appellant. Again, the Judges may interrupt at any time.
The Appellant gets a rebuttal, not a rehash, but to refute anything the Respondent said, or to being in new points.
The Judge (or Panel) may immediately rule, but more likely will reserve its decision, and rule later.
The parties themselves do not address the Court (except for those self-representing), and no witnesses are called.
If (in criminal appeals), the Defendant does not show up, an arrest warrant would be issued, and the appeal likely dismissed out of hand.
With rare exceptions, an appeal hearing takes only a few hours. Not weeks or months.
POSSIBLE OUTCOMES:
(1) The Appellate Court ‘‘corrects’’ the Lower Court ruling
(2) The Appellate Court ‘‘sends back down’’ the case to the Lower Court, with specific instructions
(3) The Appellate Court dismisses the Appeal
The Appellate Court has wide discretion in how long they make their ruling. It could be a single sentence confirming the Trial Court, or up to dozens of pages explaining a decision for either side.
http://ontariocourtforms.on.ca/en/rules-of-civil-procedure-forms/
https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/courts/divisional/Guide_to_Appeals_in_Divisional_Court_EN.html
http://www.ontariocourts.ca/coa/en/info/howto.htm
3. Contrast This with Criminal Appellate Trials in Italy
The Jury (composed of 2 Judges and 6 Lay Judges) hands down a verdict, and a sentence to go with it. By Contrast, in Common Law, a Defendant may be convicted but not sentenced for several months.
[90 days after sentence] The Trial Court hands down a ‘‘Motivation Report’’ explaining in great detail the decision. In serious cases, this may be hundreds of pages.
[45 days after Motivation Report] The ‘‘Losing Side’’ files an appeal with an Appellate Court
Even if the appeal grounds are extremely weak, the Appeal can still go ahead.
The Appellate Trial is then scheduled. Like the Trial Courts, it is a panel of 2 Judges and 6 lay Judges. Although it functions as a trial, it is not meant to be a ‘‘re-start’‘, but rather a ‘‘continuation’’ of the earlier proceedings.
The Judges decide how much (if any) of the evidence submitted by the Prosecution and Defence will be heard. If the Prosecution has thoroughly proven its case at trial, there may be no need to submit any new evidence. In the case of AK/RS, Prosecutors Mignini/Comodi had overwhelmingly convinced Judge Massei (2009) of guilt.
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/C443/
The Defendants may address the Court (Spontaneous Declarations), or they may agree to actual questioning (Cross Examination). In this case, AK/RS gave several speeches at the Hellmann Appeal (2011), but neither agreed to actually be questioned. At the Nencini Appeal (2013/2014) RS gave speeches but again refused to be questioned. AK didn’t show up at all.
To be fair, the reason AK/RS may have refused questioning at the Hellmann or Nencini appeals may have been due to the trainwreck with Judge Massei
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/italy_shrugs_why_the_defendants_testimony_seems_to_have_been_a_real_fl
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/this_testimony_does_not_seem_to_have_gained_much_traction_here_in_ital
Neither AK nor RS were obligated to attend the Florence Appeal in 2013/2014, but they should have. It is rude and contemptuous to skip out of the Court deciding your future. AK hit the media circuit claiming to be afraid, while also arguing that she couldn’t afford to go back (despite a $3.8 million book deal). RS showed up sometimes, but it interfered with his suntanning abroad.
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/questions_for_knox_how_do_you_explain
http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/multiple_ways_in_which_amanda_knoxs_email/
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/The_Nencini_Email_Why_This_May_Be
Although new evidence may be submitted, there are still restrictions about bringing in expert testimony, as it should properly be done at the trial level. Cassation (2013), was highly critical the Judge Hellmann let Conti and Vecchiotti appear. This is to say nothing of their actual reports.
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/the_hellmann_zanetti_appeal_courts_dna_consultancy_looks_even_worse
Both the Prosecution and Defence are then able to make a Summation of facts for the Appellate Court to consider.
What needs to be said is that the goal is not to ‘‘prove all over again’‘, but to determine if there were sufficient errors, and/or sufficient new evidence to overturn the trial verdict.
A verdict is handed down, either confirming or overturning the Trial Court ruling. The Appellate Court of Hellmann/Zanetti (2011) overturned the Massei Trial Conviction (2009), while the Appellate Court of Nencini (2014) confirmed Massei’s original ruling, but with a small sentence increase.
The actual Appellate Trial may take place over several months. With Judge Hellmann (2011) it was 20 sessions that took nearly a year, and with Judge Nencini (2014) it was 10 sessions, which took 4 months.
(90 days after verdict) The Appellate Court must submit their own Motivation Report, which will be scrutinized
4. Other TJMK Posts Of Relevance
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/first_italian_criticisms_of_the_hellmann_verdict_statement_now_startin
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/dissecting_the_hellmann_report_1
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/dissecting_the_hellmann_report_2_how_judges_zanetti_and_hellman_tilted_
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/reasonable_doubt_in_italian_law
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/weighing_the_ten_points
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/Perugias_excellent_umbria24_posts_details
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/appeal_session_1_more_results_
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/appeal_session_3_sollecito_in_court_with_family_lawyer
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/appeal_session_9_sollecito_team_concludes_prosecutor_crini_rebutts_def
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/what_we_might_read_into_sollecito_lawyer_giulia_bongiornos_final_arguments
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/defense_dirty_tricks_did_we_just_see
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/highlights_of_the_nencini_report_1_the_attention_directed1
5. Some Final Thoughts
The ‘‘Appellate Trial’’ as known in Italy, does not have an equivalent in the Common Law Countries. To be fair though, the Italian Supreme Court hearings (Corti di Cassazione) do resemble Common Law appeals in that they are fairly short hearings restricted to arguing various points of law.
The goal of the ‘‘Appellate Trial’’ is to give the Defendants a huge amount of rights (including re-opening the case) not afforded in Common Law Countries. Even after going through a full trial, it is an opportunity to re-examine much of the case.
The ‘‘jury’’ of Appellate Trials not the ‘‘Panel of Judges’’ that many would think out here.
http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/rogue_juror_genny_ballerini_a_sure_sign_oggi_sees_its_conviction
The option to testify (and especially to give Spontaneous Declarations) in an Appeal is unheard of in Common Law Appeals.
However, both in Italy and in the Common Law, it is illegal to make false accusations or to sabotage the Court process. AK doesn’t seem to have learned.
Weak appeals in the Common Law would be thrown out at the preliminary stages, in Italy the burden seems to be much lower.
The Trial and Appellate Trial Courts in Italy seem to go much more into detail about why they make their rulings.
While it is normal to have a Common Law Appeal in just 1 day, the decision may be reserved for months. Contrast this with an Italian Appellate Trial, which takes place over months, but the verdict is handed down at the end.
This article is not meant to knock Italy in any way. There are valid reasons for how things are done. But without living in both regions, or having lots of exposure to both, few would know about these differences.
Author’s Note: Pardon my lopsided detail when it comes to describing the process in Canada, as opposed to Italy. If someone would like to come up with a more detailed version for Italian Appeals, it would go nicely.
Posted by Chimera on 04/17 at 11:38 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems • Comments here (10)
The Case Of Russell Williams: What a ‘‘Set-Up’’ Police Interview Really Looks Like
Russell Williams’s “Compressed” Interview 2 Hours 40 Minutes Long
1. Post Overview
This contrast’s Knox’s claimed trick “interrogation” and “confession” with one known to be real.
Russell Williams, unbelievably, was a Colonel in the Canadian Air Force, and the Commanding Officer at Trenton Air Force Base.
(From Wikipedia) From July 2009 to his arrest in February 2010, he commanded CFB Trenton, a hub for air transport operations in Canada and abroad and the country’s largest and busiest military airbase. Williams was also a decorated military pilot who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and the Governor General and Prime Minister of Canada.
2. Williams First Association With Crimes
It is early February 2010. Ontario Provincial Police are investigating 4 incidents in a region of Southern Ontario, believing they are connected. They are, 2 unsolved sexual assaults, the sexual assault and murder a military flight commander, Marie-France Comeau, and the January 28 disappearance of a woman named Jessica Lloyd.
While Lloyd’s disappearance was still ongoing, a witness came forward and reported seeing an SUV-type vehicle nearby. Police follow up and find tire tracks in that location. They then go about trying to match those tracks to a particular vehicle. Roadchecks are set up along various roads.
Williams gets caught in the checkpoint, and the police notice that the tires on his Nissan Pathfinder are identical to those tracks near Jessica Lloyd’s home. Williams is let go, but under 24 hour surveillance at that point.
3. Narrative Of Williams Interview
It is Sunday, February 7, 2010. Williams is called into police headquarters to answer questions. He arrives at 3pm, and stunningly, he is wearing the same boots he wore to Jessica Lloyd’s house. Either moronic, or bold.
The interview starts off casually, though Williams is asked for evidence to prove he is not involved: DNA, fingerprints, and bootprints.
Watch the video above, Williams is in shock when the topic of bootprints comes up. At 6pm Det-Sergeant Smyth drops the bombshell:
(1) tire tracks near Jessica Lloyd’s home are from his vehicle;
(2) those are his bootprints behind her house;
(3) the DNA is about to be matched;
(4) the homes are being searched, and the vehicle seized.
Williams realizes at this point that he has been tricked, that it was a setup all along.
Confession “To Spare His Wife”
Williams did come clean about 5 hours into the interrogation. The reason: to spare his wife the added trauma and humiliation of the police tearing the homes apart.
He rationalized that if he simply told the police where to find evidence, they would take it and go. At that point, it was about all he could do.
(from Wikipedia) On October 21, 2010, Williams was sentenced to two life sentences for first-degree murder, two 10-year sentences for other sexual assaults, two 10-year sentences for forcible confinement, and 82 one-year sentences for breaking and entering, all to be served concurrently.
Civil Courts Follow-up
Williams’ wife, Mary Harriman did take control of the couple’s multiple properties in Ontario. She sought a divorce, which has dragged on for years, and did try to get the proceedings banned from publication.
The problem, according to the victims and the families is that this transfer from him to her amounts to FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE.
In plain English, the allegations are that Williams transferred everything to his wife in order to avoid having it seized by lawsuits. Williams claimed he sold it (cheaply) to his wife since he was serving a life sentence and not likely to ever need it again.
Ms. Harriman is now also being forced to testify about the true nature of their marriage for civil matters. The argument being advanced is that she either knew what was going on, and could not be that oblivious—in light of the shear volume of trophies Williams kept.
Wife of serial killer Russell Williams loses court battle
OPP detective used ‘Reid technique’ to get Russell Williams to confess
World’s Greatest Police Interrogator: Detective Jim Smyth
4. The Narrative Of Knox’s Interview
Knox showed up unexpectedly at the Questura the evening of November 5, 2007. Sollecito had been called in—alone— to clear up inconsistencies in his stories.
Knox went anyway, and remained even when told to leave. She was told by Inspector Ficarra that if she really wanted to help, she could put together a list of possible suspects who may have visited the house. She agreed.
Sollecito, when shown proof in his phone records that contradicted his story, threw Knox under the bus. He claimed that AK went out alone, he stayed inside and used the computer, and that Knox came back several hours later. RS claims AK asked him to lie, and that he didn’t think of the inconsistencies at the time.
Knox, on the other hand, thought that RS had actually accused her of murder, not just pulled her alibi. AK is shocked, and fakes a crying fit.
She then responds by throwing—someone else completely—under the bus. Not Sollecito. Not Guede.
Of course once it turns out that PL is completely innocent, police and prosecutors don’t believe anything she says at this point.
The Knox Interrogation Hoax
#1 Overview Of The Series - The Two Version of the 5-6 Nov 2007 Events
#2 Trial Testimony From Rita Ficcara On Realities 5-6 Nov
#3 More Defense Pussyfooting Toward Rita Ficcara, Key Witness
#4 More Hard Realities From Rita Ficcara, More Nervousness From Defense
#5 Key Witness Monica Napoleoni Confirms Knox Self-Imploded 5-6 Nov
#6 Sollecito Transcript & Actions Further Damage Knox Version
#7 Full Testimony Of Witness Lorena Zugarini To Knox Conniption 5-6 Nov
#8 Testimony Of Interpreter Donnino And Central Police Officer Giobbi
#9 Officer Moscatelli’s Recap/Summary Session With Sollecito 5-6 Nov
5. Contrasts And Similarities
1-A The Williams case above is a clear instance of police luring in a suspect under the pretense of a ‘‘background interview’‘. The Ontario Provincial Police spent days trying to put together a profile and work up a method of questioning such a suspect. And it took Det. Sergeant Jim Smyth just 3 hours to get Williams to crack.
1-B Knox, on the other hand, showed up uninvited to the police station, most likely to keep RS on a short leash. She not only wasn’t invited, but was told to leave. She cracked when RS revoked her alibi.
2-A Williams says his main motivation in confessing was to spare his wife extra humiliation, and destruction to the houses.
2-B Knox, on the other hand, threw a totally innocent person, Lumumba, to the wolves. She also has no qualms about protracting the publicity, and milking her ‘‘celebrity’‘.
3-A Williams wore the same boots to the police station
3-B Sollecito brought his knife to the police station, and had similar shoes to Guede
4-A Williams was nailed by his bootprints
4-B Knox was cast under suspicion by a shoeprint, and bare footprints nailed both AK and RS
5-A Williams wife illegally profited by taking the property in order to stave off having it seized
5-B AK and RS illegally profited by having other people (Kuhlman and Gumbel) write blood money books for them.
6. Analysis Of Williams Interview
This excellent analysis is one hour long.
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Italy Fights For Justice For A Murdered Student As The UK Government Never Did
Above: a minute’s silence in the Italian parliament for Giulio Regeni an Italian student found slain in Cairo a few days ago.
Hundreds of mourners have gathered in a village in northern Italy for the funeral of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge PhD student found tortured and dead in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo last week.
Flags were flying at half-mast in Fiumicello, where villagers offered spare rooms and couches for the 28-year-old’s friends and family, as the diplomatic fallout from his death continued in Rome.
The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, warned Egypt that the health of the relationship between the two countries rested on the quality of the investigation into Regeni’s killing.
Compare with how the UK government reacted after Meredith died. Basically it looked the other way. Many in Italian justice were amazed at how totally disinterested the UK government was in the case in all the years since Meredith’s death.
The US government sprang into action to help Knox and to make sure she was treated right, though there was no proof the Italians would do anything but. They found her a Rome lawyer with good English (Carlos Dalla Vedova) and monitored all her court sessions and her four years in Capanne.
This came at a probable cost of over half a million dollars. And that is just the public support. Nobody ever said “the Federal budget cannot stand this”.
The extent of the British government in pushing justice for Meredith and her family? Exactly zero over the years.
Nothing was ever paid toward the legal costs or the very high travel costs of the Kercher family to be in court as the family finances ran into the ground. Nobody from the Foreign Office in London or the UK Embassy in Rome observed in court except in Florence, just the once.
Appalling pro-Knox Italy-bashing in the UK media based on highly inaccurate accounts was never tamped down - presumably because the Foreign Office was itself in the dark, and did not have a clue what was going on.
The ugly message this sent to the world? If you are going to be a student in foreign trouble, be an American or Italian. Not a Brit.
However, years after four-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared in Portugal, the UK government is spending heavily to right a possible wrong there. Back in 2007 Meredith’s case and Madeleine’s case began just a few weeks apart.
Maybe to right a possible wrong in Italy, the UK government could do likewise here.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 02/13 at 10:13 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems, The officially involved, Victims family, Other legal processes, Those elsewhere, The wider contexts, Italian context, Europe context • Comments here (34)
A Stretch Inside Not Only Protects Society: For Perps It May Be Best Shot At Coming Right
Video 1: Very good analysis by psychologist Dr Drew Pinsky on Tuesday 5 January 2016
As we posted Ethan Couch killed four and maimed a fifth for life while drunk-driving in Texas two years ago.
He is now in a Mexico City lockup for illegal immigrants seeking to avoid extradition to the US where he has violated his highly controversial probation. Many or most think this was a travesty for the families of the victims. The judge retired early. Justice was not seen to be done.
Now he is reported to have run up a $1000 tab at a Mexican strip club which his mother paid. That $1000 apparently went in part toward drinks. He had skipped out of the US mid-December because he was videoed at a party with drinks.
Sources say Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya went to a strip club called Harem in Puerto Vallarta on the night of Dec. 23. According to club employees, the pair had drinks before Tonya Couch left the club. Ethan stayed at the club and employees told ABC News that he went off to a VIP room with two women who worked at Harem. Hotel and club employees said Couch was extremely drunk.
Few if any other criminal psychologists ever came out in support of Couch’s defense’s psychologist who convinced the judge two years ago that the affluence of the family was somehow a primary cause.
In the past few days there have been various psychology panels on cable TV discussing the case. Articles too.
From them Ethan Couch did not exactly get a lot of love. A term inside to remove him from his family and choke off his dependencies is what the psychologists incline towards, as Dr Drew in the top video highly recommends.
Video 2: Dr Drew two years ago (this video was previously at the top)
Posted by Peter Quennell on 01/07 at 06:12 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, Italian system, US etc systems, Crime hypotheses, The psychology, Hoaxes Knox & team, 21 Nasty prison hoax, Other legal processes, Those elsewhere • Comments here (12)
Worldwide In 20th Century, Maybe Half Of All Murders May Be Attributed In Part To Lead Poisoning
That lead damages brains has been known for many years. That it causes murders is more recently accepted.
The first graph below shows when the US began to move from leaded gasoline to unleaded gasoline in the mid 70s. Lead was removed altogether around 1990.
Some but not all countries followed a similar pattern.
The effects, though diminishing, are going to be with us for a long time. Maybe to mid-century? The pioneer researcher economist Nick Nevin wrote this about the murder-rate/lead correlation:
Lead exposure trends affect homicide trends with a 21-year time lag, reflecting the impact of early-childhood neurodevelopmental damage when those children reach the peak ages of homicide offending.
That suggests that anyone alive today over 25 may have had significant exposure. Roughly half the world’s population, some 3.5 billion.
Very few of those committed murders, but of those that did the research findings reflected in the second graph below suggest that half might have been lead-affected and there remain among us millions of time-bombs. This is from a recent BBC report:
Dr Bernard Gesch says the data now suggests that lead could account for as much as 90% of the changing crime rate during the 20th Century across all of the world.
Numerous cases like this one now use lead poisoning as a defense. It doesnt seem a get-out-of-jail-free card, but for some obviously mentally impaired it is proving helpful.
Posted by Peter Quennell on 01/05 at 08:49 PM • Permalink for this post • Archived in Justice systems, US etc systems, Crime hypotheses, The psychology, The wider contexts, N America context • Comments here (18)
How American Judges Can Be Made To Feel The Heat Over Controversial Verdicts
Why American judges can envy Italian judges part deux.
As we surely all know now, most Italian judges advance along a career path. Only a few are politically appointed and none are elected. All of the time their rulings are under minute scrutiny and (as we have seen with Judges Hellmann, Marasca and Bruno) the powerful Council of Magistrates can stop their advancement in a heartbeat if any of those rulings look suspect.
American judges are mostly elected with little training requirements or qualifications testing. If they seem to have stepped out of line some of them can face political hearings and discipline boards (as Judge Heavey did) but not all do.
But the worse reaction many fear more is the media and the public turning upon them, made vastly more possible because of the Internet and happening time and time again these days.
The American judge now much in the news - and not in a good way - is Jean Boyd of Texas.
In March 2012 Jean Boyd, then a Juvenile Court judge, sentenced a 14-year-old black boy to 10 years for killing a smaller boy with one powerful punch. She was criticised for being way too harsh then.
In December 2013 she veered sharply in the other direction.
She sentenced a now notorious teenager to mere probation and rehabilitation after he had killed four people and maimed a fifth for life when drunk-driving. The psychological defense she bought into was that his family was so rich that he grew up without the right parenting.
This was apparently a unique defense and one that has never been attempted for poorer people. Judge Boyd was widely criticised for being way too light then.
The two cases dropped out of the news for a while.
But now the notorious white teenager Ethan Couch is all over the news again. A few weeks ago he was caught on video drinking - which could lead to his serving time in prison - and a couple of weeks ago he disappeared along with his mother.
Considering that he has not yet even been charged with a transgression of his probation, the size and cost of the manhunt was extraordinary. Somehow the US Federal Marshall Service pinpointed his phone in a Mexican apartment, and the Mexican police arrested him along with his mother and locked them up.
Today he is being held in an Mexican prison with his mother. It is just reported that they are fighting extradition.
Good luck with that one.
Judge Boyd actually retired a year ago in face of a petition demanding she be fired. She was given some credit by the local newspaper.
But her verdict never convinced an angry public or the families of the four dead and one maimed victims, and both he and his irresponsible mother also now seem headed for prison.
And it seems Ms Boyd is not returning phone calls.
Below: Tonya Couch and Ethan Couch at the trial in 2013
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National Justice Systems Learning From One Another Tho Far From “International Standards”
Try searching for the “international standards” for DNA testing that Hellmann/Zanetti and Marasca/Bruno claimed Italian police labs dont follow.
In fact, not only are there no international standards or even Europe-wide standards, there are not even any central mechanisms for crime-fighting research and training and standard-setting.
Hellmann/Zanetti and Marasca/Bruno were irresponsibly myth-propagating - all suckered by a pair of dishonest DNA consultants on the defense payroll.
This absence of mechanisms contrasts sharply with all the other segments of national infrastructures, for which the UN agencies run conferences and team efforts for hundreds of nations to learn from. (In them the US and UK and Italy are big players.)
One reason we give the Italian justice system so much attention is that Italy has one of the lowest crime rates and incarceration rates among high-income countries.
There is very much to be learned bilaterally from it. Part of its core model is that it has a large and glamorous and much-liked police presence - Italian police are possibly the world’s most popular.
In contrast, stories of bad policing are pouring out daily in the US.
Most in the US news for bad policing is CHICAGO right in Bruce Fischer’s backyard, where he abysmally failed to comprehend that there was an epidemic of police shootings while he foolishly gunned for Italy. Numbers dead from police guns there are up in the hundreds, and there is to be a Federal investigation.
Meanwhile the effectiveness or even comprehension of Fischer’s pretentious “network” has been at zero (perhaps one reason why the Knoxes disinvited Fischer from Knox’s talk at a Chicago law school - also he had been panhandling them). Why do we doubt the Feds will consult him?
In the news right now in the US is an attempt by jurisdictions to learn from the highly effective Scottish police practices.
Scotland has an extremely low rate of police shootings, and the few police who do carry guns are trained to handle fraught situations to an extent most American police see only a fraction of. See the video.
Here is a Daily Telegraph story, and here is a New York Times story:
Forty minutes into a Scottish police commander’s lecture on the art of firearm-free policing, American law enforcement leaders took turns talking. One after another, their questions sounded like collective head-scratching.
“Do you have a large percentage of officers that get hurt with this policing model?” asked Theresa Shortell, an assistant chief of the New York Police Department and the commanding officer of its training academy, where several hundred officers graduate each year.
“How many officers in Scotland have been killed in the last year or two years?” Chief Shortell added.
Bernard Higgins, an assistant chief constable who is Scotland’s use-of-force expert, stood and answered. Yes, his officers routinely take punches, he said, but the last time one was killed on duty through criminal violence was 1994, in a stabbing.
There is poverty, crime and a “pathological hatred of officers wearing our uniform” in pockets of Scotland, he said, but constables live where they work and embrace their role as “guardians of the community,” not warriors from a policing subculture.
“The basic fundamental principle, even in the areas where there’s high levels of crime, high levels of social deprivation, is it’s community-based policing by unarmed officers,” Constable Higgins said. “We police from an absolute position of embracing democracy.”
That model is pretty close to the Italian one.
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Counterterrorism: Another Way Italian Law Enforcement Is An Effective Model For Everywhere Else
We have often mentioned these major justice-system pluses:
(1) That Italy has one of the industrialized world’s lowest crime rates and that US cities have been observing its model.
(2) That it has a very prominent and much admired police presence, and a small and much admired court and penal system.
Now Thomas Williams is reporting this third big plus from Rome in Breitbart Business News
A leading military analyst is citing Italy as a model of counterterrorism done right, pointing out that despite many factors going against it, Islamic terrorists have failed to kill a single person on Italian soil.
In the most recent issue of Nikkei Asian Review, Romanian born political scientist and military analyst Edward N. Luttwak lays out a persuasive theory explaining how Italy has been so successful in thwarting Islamic terror attempts. In a word: Italy is not afraid to deport those it considers to be a threat to national security.
In his essay titled “Doing Counterterrorism Right,” Luttwak contrasts Italy with France and Belgium, noting that although Italy is much more vulnerable than they are, it has been far more effective at stopping would-be terrorists before they strike.
So where France has been “caught by surprise again and again by terrorist attacks with many lives lost” and in Belgium “terrorists have been coming and going for years, buying military weapons with remarkable ease,” Italy has remained unscathed.
It would seem that Italy doesn’t have much going for it. It has porous borders and a Muslim population that exceeds 2 million and has played an active role in military expeditions in Islamic territories. Moreover, the Vatican is the “most iconic target in Europe,” and tops the list of objectives of the Islamic State, Luttwak observes. And yet, “nobody has been killed by Muslim terrorists in Italy.”
Italian counterterrorism has been on full alert since 9/11, Luttwak says, and its combined forces “have detected and interrupted hundreds of terrorist plots large and small, at every stage from mere verbal scheming to fully ready actions.”
So where terrorists have successfully attacked in Madrid, London, Paris, Toulouse, Copenhagen, Brussels and elsewhere, in Italy they have been foiled time after time.
Luttwak suggests that Italy’s success is all a question of method, based on the insight that the only thing that can be done to stop potential terrorists is to follow those who are suspected to be truly dangerous around the clock so that they can be arrested or killed at a moment’s notice. Since the numbers of probable suspects can be astronomical, Luttwak says, their numbers must be effectively reduced if this strategy is to bear fruit. And this is exactly what Italy has done.
State intelligence agencies throughout Europe monitor suspects, filling out reports and keeping files, but they often fail to take the action needed. The Italians, however, immediately conduct an interrogation on credible suspects, and many are sent home or arrested, if their situation merits it. Italy currently has more than 180 radical imams in prison, Luttwak notes.
Employing this method, Italian authorities are able to keep numbers of suspected potential terrorists within a reasonable range and thus are able to monitor them effectively.
Earlier this month, Franco Roberti, the head of Italy’s anti-mafia and counterterrorism task force, said he intended to protect citizens from the danger of terrorism “by adopting all the preventive measures necessary,” and noted that “we must be prepared to give up some of our personal freedoms, in particular in the area of communication.”
The fact that the Italians lump together anti-mafia operations with counterterrorism is also telling. Unlike other European states, with the exception perhaps of the UK, Italy has a long history fighting serious organized crime within its borders, coming from the different branches of the Italian mafia working in various parts of the peninsula.
The Italian interior ministry has reportedly also increased its “targeted expulsions” of persons considered to be a risk to national security. So far this year, 55 individuals have been deported and the ministry has said the numbers will only grow.
According to Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, intelligence and counterterrorism units are reevaluating information gathered in recent months on some 56,000 people, scouring case files to see whether anything could have been overlooked.
Given Italy’s impressive counterterrorism track record, it may be about time for other European nations to sit up and take note.
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Blog Tour: RAINY DAY FRIENDS, by Jill Shalvis — 5 Star Review & Giveaway
Jun 20th, 2018 by Liza Wiemer
RAINY DAY FRIENDS
By Jill Shalvis
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Rainy Day Friends by Jill Shalvis
This might be Jill Shavis’s best novel yet!
If you read my book reviews, then you know that I absolutely love Jill Shalvis and read everything she writes. I adored her Lucky Harbor series.
But this novel? As I said, it may very well be her absolute BEST yet! (FYI: It also received a starred review from PW)
Although it’s part of the Wildstone series, no need to read book one to love this. The setting is the same small town, but the characters are different.
Here’s what I loved:
1. Lanie is one strong, incredible woman! After she discovers that he deceased husband was married to other women, Lanie seeks a fresh start. She takes a temporary marketing job working at the Capriotti Winery. The Capriotti family is so warm and welcoming—they make you a part of their family!
2. The Capriotti’s,especially the matriarch, Cora, have hearts of gold. Thinking of Cora, I would have loved to have had her for a mom. Her love and kindness seem to know no boundaries.
3. Mark Capriotti – swoon. What a dad and I am a sucker for awesome dads. He has twin girls who are imperfectly perfect. I adore them. Mark has his own issues to deal with, but he figures them out. I love his relationship with Lanie.
4. THE BIG embarrassing moment! Hilarious! You have to read the novel to find out what it’s about.
5. River. Such an amazing young woman who faces life’s challenges with heart. She fits in beautifully with the Capriottis. Her connection with Lanie…this truly makes the novel heartbreaking and beautiful!
6. Realistic and sad portrayal of Lanie and her parents’ relationship. Heartbreaking. Lanie had a lot to overcome.
7. HEA! Oh man. Do I love a fabulous HEA! Go Lanie! You are awesome, girl!
So, if you read contemporary romance, don’t miss this!
ABOUT JILL SHALVIS
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling, award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website, www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-mountains adventures.
ABOUT RAINY DAY FRIENDS
Following the USA Today bestseller, Lost and Found Sisters, comes Rainy Day Friends, Jill Shalvis’ moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship.
Six months after Lanie Jacobs’ husband’s death, it’s hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn’t the only one grieving his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife. Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought she knew better than anyone? Will she ever be able to trust another person? Can she even trust herself?
Desperate to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run Capriotti Winery. At first, she feels like an outsider among the boisterous Capriottis. With no real family of her own, she’s bewildered by how quickly they all take her under their wing and make her feel like she belongs. Especially Mark Capriotti, a gruffly handsome Air Force veteran turned deputy sheriff who manages to wind his way into Lanie’s cold, broken heart—along with the rest of the clan. Everything is finally going well for her, but the arrival of River Green changes all that. The fresh-faced twenty-one-year old seems as sweet as they come…until her dark secrets come to light—secrets that could destroy the new life Lanie’s only just begun to build.
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May 25th, 2017 by Liza Wiemer
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by Barbara Dee
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About STAR-CROSSED:
Mattie is chosen to play Romeo opposite her crush in the eighth grade production of Shakespeare’s most beloved play in this Romeo and Juliet inspired novel from the author of Truth or Dare.
Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English teacher announces the eighth grade will be staging Romeo and Juliet. And she is even more excited when, after a series of events, she finds herself playing Romeo, opposite Gemma Braithwaite’s Juliet. Gemma, the new girl at school, is brilliant, pretty, outgoing—and, if all that wasn’t enough: British.
As the cast prepares for opening night, Mattie finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Gemma and confused, since, just days before, she had found herself crushing on a boy named Elijah. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls? If that wasn’t enough to deal with, things backstage at the production are starting to rival any Shakespearean drama! In this sweet and funny look at the complicated nature of middle school romance, Mattie learns how to be the lead player in her own life.
PRAISE FOR STAR-CROSSED:
“A sweet story of young love amid middle school theatrics. Mattie’s genuine inflections and stream-of-consciousness narrative resonate well with the early-adolescent experience. Readers cannot help but root for Mattie as she discovers bravery she never gave herself credit for, both onstage and in life.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A sweet coming-out story for jr. high readers. The clever Shakespeare content is a bonus…VERDICT: A fine choice for middle school libraries in need of accessible LGBTQ stories and a great option for students reading or performing Romeo and Juliet.”—School Library Journal
“A star student falls for the lead actress of her school play in this welcome addition to the middle grade LGBTQ bookshelf…Dee thoughtfully dramatizes the intricate social performance of middle school, with its secret crushes and fierce rivalries. The book benefits from a memorable cast…Mattie’s narration is intimate and believable, and readers will be pleased to watch her grow from spectator to star.”—Publishers Weekly
“A sweet look at unexpected first love. Recommended.”—School Library Connection
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About Barbara Dee:
Barbara Dee is the author of seven middle grade novels all published by Simon & Schuster, including TRUTH OR DARE (Sept. 2016) and STAR-CROSSED (March 2017). Her next middle grade novel, HALFWAY NORMAL, will publish September 5, 2017. Barbara is one of the founders and directors of the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival. She lives with her family in Westchester County, New York.
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You know those T-shirts and mugs that say “Be nice to me or I’ll put you in my novel”? I have a confession: I based a character in STAR-CROSSED on a real-life acquaintance whose name-dropping (particularly about famous authors) was driving me crazy. I couldn’t call her out on it, so I used her irritating behavior in the creation of Miss Bluestone, the teacher who “talked about authors as if they were her former boyfriends,” and referred to Emily Dickinson by her first name. It’s the first time I ever created a character to help me deal with a tricky person, but I highly recommend it as a coping mechanism.
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Blog Tour: THE YOU I’VE NEVER KNOWN by Ellen Hopkins 5 star review & #Giveaway
Jan 25th, 2017 by Liza Wiemer
THE YOU I’VE NEVER KNOWN
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About the novel:
How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? A new novel in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ellen Hopkins.
For as long as she can remember, it’s been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel’s mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments, new schools, and new faces, all she wants is to put down some roots. Complicating things are Monica and Gabe, both of whom have stirred a different kind of desire.
Maya’s a teenager who’s run from an abusive mother right into the arms of an older man she thinks she can trust. But now she’s isolated with a baby on the way, and life’s getting more complicated than Maya ever could have imagined.
Ariel and Maya’s lives collide unexpectedly when Ariel’s mother shows up out of the blue with wild accusations: Ariel wasn’t abandoned. Her father kidnapped her fourteen years ago.
What is Ariel supposed to believe? Is it possible Dad’s woven her entire history into a tapestry of lies? How can she choose between the mother she’s been taught to mistrust and the father who has taken care of her all these years?
In bestselling author Ellen Hopkins’s deft hands, Ariel’s emotionally charged journey to find out the truth of who she really is balances beautifully with Maya’s story of loss and redemption. This is a memorable portrait of two young women trying to make sense of their lives and coming face to face with themselves—for both the last and the very first time.
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ABOUT ELLEN HOPKINS:
Ellen Hopkins is the New York Times bestselling author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect, Triangles, Tilt, and Collateral. She lives in Carson City, Nevada, with her husband and son. Hopkin’s Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest pages get thousands of hits from teens who claim Hopkins is the “only one who understands me”, and she can be visited at ellenhopkins.com.
Like most of you here, books are my life. Reading is a passion, but writing is the biggest part of me. Balance is my greatest challenge, as I love my family, friends, animals and home, but also love traveling to meet my readers. Hope I meet many of you soon!
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My 5 star review:
The You I’ve Never Known by Ellen Hopkins
THE YOU I’VE NEVER KNOWN is filled with emotional punches, and it’s impossible not to be deeply effected by them in the best way. This story is brilliantly woven into a slow revelation of personal as well as sexual identity. Themes of friendship, love, loyalty, teen pregnancy, and family are key elements. Who am I? Who loves me? What does it mean to be loved? What IS love?
Abuse also comes into play, explored and revealed so that the victim comes to realize what she thought of as love was really anger, control, hate.
——Deep breath. This book. So much emotion. So many powerful messages. So important.
Once again, Ellen Hopkins pens characters who feel so real, it take imagination to believe that they don’t really exist, that you’re reading about them in a novel, not a journal of their life. Ariel is at the center of this story and readers will feel her confusion, her attraction, her sense of loyalty, friendships, love, fear. Her father is a despicable person. I have so many emotions wrapped up with him that I may need to amend this review later as I process my emotions.
From Monica to Zelda to Gabe to Hillary, I love each of these secondary characters for different reasons. Each one has a very special role in Ariel’s lives. They change her profoundly. You need to read this novel to understand each one’s impact.
And then there’s Maya’s story—at first separate, but then it converges into Ariel’s. PAINFUL! POWERFUL! DEEPLY MOVING! Sad. But then again, HOPEFUL.
Ellen Hopkins never shirks away from the tough topics. Be prepared to think. I highly, highly recommend this novel and all of her novels.
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2/3: Bookiemoki – Q&A
3 Finished Copies of THE YOU I’VE NEVER KNOWN (US Only)
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Blog Tour: LIFE IN A FISHBOWL by Len Vlahos, Novel Secret & #Giveaway
Buying Links: IndieBound | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository
About LIFE IN A FISHBOWL:
Fifteen-year-old Jackie Stone is a prisoner in her own house. Everything she says and does 24/7 is being taped and broadcast to every television in America. Why? Because her dad is dying of a brain tumor and he has auctioned his life on eBay to the highest bidder: a ruthless TV reality show executive at ATN.
Gone is her mom’s attention and cooking and parent-teacher conferences. Gone is her sister’s trust ever since she’s been dazzled by the cameras and new-found infamy. Gone is her privacy. Gone is the whole family’s dignity as ATN twists their words and makes a public mockery of their lives on Life and Death. But most of all, Jackie fears that one day very soon her father will just be . . . gone. Armed only with her ingenuity and the power of the internet, Jackie is determined to end the show and reclaim all of their lives, even in death.
About Len Vlahos:
I dropped out of NYU film school in the mid 80s to play guitar and write songs for Woofing Cookies. We were a punk-pop four piece — think R.E.M. meets the Ramones — that toured up and down the East Coast, and had two singles and one full-length LP on Midnight Records.
The band broke up in 1987 and I followed my other passion, books. I’ve worked in the book industry ever since. And, of course, I write. And I write, And I write, write, write.
My first novel, The Scar Boys — it’s labeled as Young Adult, but I’ve never really liked labels — published January 2014. It is, not surprisingly, a rock and roll coming of age story. No vampires or dystopian future, just a messed up boy and his guitar. (I have nothing against vampires or dystopian futures. I loved The Passage, The Hunger Games, and The Road.)
Scar Girl, the continuation of The Scar Boys’ story.
I live in Connecticut with my super awesome wife Kristen, and our six year old son Charlie, and three and a half year old son, Luke, and I spend my days working at a small book industry non profit.
Find Len on Goodreads | Twitter | Website
Listen to a song from Len’s former band: Woofing Cookies
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The Secret of How Books Get Named, and Why this Name Means So Much
One of the things people find most surprising about the process of getting published is that the publisher, not the author, chooses the title of the book. Not to say we authors don’t have titles for our manuscripts; we do. But publishers reject those titles as often as they accept them.
The original title for Life in a Fishbowl was House of Stone. It referred to Jackie’s family and the house in which they lived, the setting for most of the book. It was also a play on words, making the point that the love that held the family together was made of stone. I liked it. I really, really liked it.
“Yeah, okay,” my editor said, “but no.”
“Because no one will buy a book called House of Stone. Especially teens.”
“What do you mean? They buy The Catcher in the Rye. And Catch-22. Hey wait, maybe I should put catch in the title.”
“How about “Catching Stones?”
“Groan.”
While authors know how to write books, it is the folks who work in the publishing house that know how to sell books. You have to trust their expertise when it comes to things like titles, and I do.
After my plea to give House of Stone one final chance fell on deaf ears, my editor sent me several lists of choices. This was one of them:
LIFE OFF FOCUS
THE TERMINATION SHOCK
LIFE FOR SALE
THE MEMORY EATER
REZZING IN THE HOUSE OF STONE
LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL
THE WEAK-KNEED AND THE WOBBLY
THE STONE COLD TRUTH
My eye immediately zeroed in on Life in the Fishbowl, and not just because it was such a good fit for the book. It also had personal meaning to me.
When I was younger, I played guitar in a punk-pop band called Woofing Cookies. (If you like punk and stories about music, see my first book, The Scar Boys. But I digress.) After putting out two 45 RPM singles, Woofing Cookies was signed to record a full-length LP on a small label out of New York City by the name of Midnight Records.
I forget exactly how it happened, but I think the label rejected the working title for our record. Just like publishers, music labels, or at least this music label, have final say over album titles. To come up with something quick, we thought it would be funny if we each chose one word at random, and Horse Gum Tortilla Shoes, was born. (You can still find copies on eBay.)
What was the working title the label rejected? Have you guessed it? Are you ready?
Of course, it was Life in a Fishbowl.
Eerie coincidence? Fate? Or maybe my editor is a creepy stalker who somehow knew this obscure and arcane piece of knowledge about my life. I don’t know. Whatever the reason, I was ecstatic and I was on board. And, of course, any lingering fondness for House of Stone as a title evaporated when I saw the cover for the book. (I really, really love the Life in a Fishbowl cover. Thank you designers Jessie Gang and Donna Mark!)
So let this be a lesson to younger writers. Don’t obsess over the title of your book, because honestly, they’re probably just going to change it anyway. And you know what? That’s okay.
GIVEAWAY: 1 copy of LIFE IN A FISHBOWL (US/Canada)
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Mega Barnes & Noble Gift Card #Giveaway – $175 to spend on BOOKS!
Nov 29th, 2016 by Liza Wiemer
Does your elf love books? Well, guess what! Some of my favorite author-friends have banded together to giveaway a $175 e-gift card to Barnes & Noble.
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BLOG HOP: The Thanks U Give
Nov 22nd, 2016 by Liza Wiemer
I decided to participate in THE THANKS U GIVE because it’s a beautiful way to add goodness into this world. We need it right now. I’m so grateful to the authors and bloggers who have made a tremendous difference in my life, supporting my journey with HELLO?, and my other endeavors, including a new website, I Hope You Forgive Me, where people have the opportunity to share their stories from their teen years. Here’s the video explaining the project:
To show my appreciation, I will be giving away a copy of Hello? and Aftermath, a new novel by Clara Kensie. Find it on Goodreads
Charlotte survived four long years as a prisoner in the attic of her kidnapper, sustained only by dreams of her loving family. The chance to escape suddenly arrives, and Charlotte fights her way to freedom. But an answered prayer turns into heartbreak. Losing her has torn her family apart. Her parents have divorced: Dad’s a glutton for fame, Mom drinks too much, and Charlotte’s twin is a zoned-out druggie. Her father wants Charlotte write a book and go on a lecture tour, and her mom wants to keep her safe, a virtual prisoner in her own home. But Charlotte is obsessed with the other girl who was kidnapped, who never got a second chance at life–the girl who nobody but Charlotte believes really existed. Until she can get justice for that girl, even if she has to do it on her own, whatever the danger, Charlotte will never be free.
My thoughts: From all the reviews I have read, it’s a book that brings hope out of darkness. Given the state of the world right now, this seems so fitting! I have this book on order, but it hasn’t arrived yet. I can’t wait to read it and I’m thrilled to give a copy to some lucky winner!
About Clara Kensie:
Winner of the 2015 RITA Award for Best First Book!
Latest release: AFTERMATH (November 2016, Merit Press/Simon and Schuster), a story of hope, healing, and triumph over tragedy, for fans of Room and The Lovely Bones.
Clara Kensie grew up near Chicago, reading every book she could find and using her diary to write stories about a girl with psychic powers who solved mysteries. She purposely did not hide her diary, hoping someone would read it and assume she was writing about herself. Since then, she’s swapped her diary for a computer and admits her characters are fictional, but otherwise she hasn’t changed one bit.
Today, Clara is the author of dark fiction for young adults. Her debut, the super-romantic thriller RUN TO YOU Book One: DECEPTION SO DEADLY is the winner of the prestigious RITA Award for Best First Book.
The RUN TO YOU series (Book One: DECEPTION SO DEADLY and Book Two: DECEPTION SO DARK) was named to several Best Books lists, including RT Book Reviews Editors’ Pick for Best Books of 2014.
Her latest release is AFTERMATH, a dark, ripped-from-the-headlines contemporary about a girl who returns home four years after being kidnapped, only to find her family has fallen apart in her absence. To fix her broken family–and to prove the existence of her captor’s first victim–the traumatized girl must first heal herself.
Clara’s favorite foods are guacamole and cookie dough. But not together. That would be gross.
Find Clara:
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INTERNATIONAL (Wherever Book Depository delivers free) 1 copy of HELLO? and 1 copy of AFTERMATH
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Blog Tour: DIE FOR YOU by Amy Fellner Dominy – Review, Novel Secret & #Giveaway
ABOUT DIE FOR YOU:
Theirs was the perfect love story.
After Emma Lorde’s parents’ divorce forces her to move halfway across the state of Arizona to live with her father, Emma must face her senior year in a new school knowing absolutely no one.
Then she meets Dillon Hobbs and something just clicks.
Dillon introduces Emma to friends she can call her own. He provides a refuge from the chaos of her past and the security of a commitment that he promises will last forever. And because circumstances of her messy life forced Emma to put aside her dream of pursuing archaeology, Dillon creates a blueprint for a future together.
He saves her, over and over, by loving her more than she thought anyone ever would.
But just when everything seems picture-perfect, Emma is offered an opportunity that will upend the future they’ve planned. Uncertainty grows, and fear spirals into something darker.
Now Dillon is the one who needs saving.
But how much do you sacrifice for the one you love? What if saving Dillon means losing herself?
About Amy Fellner Dominy
Amy Fellner Dominy is a former advertising copywriter, MFA playwright and hula-hoop champion. Her novels for teens and tweens include Die For You (11/8/16); A Matter of Heart, Audition & Subtraction; and OyMG, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book. Amy’s first picture book, Cookiesaurus Rex, will be published by Disney, Fall 2017. Amy lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, various pets and two kids who occasionally stop by for free meals.
LINKS: Website | Twitter | Facebook
Die for You by Amy Fellner Dominy
Profound, painful, powerful. DIE FOR YOU is hard to put down.
Readers will get sucked into the lives of Dylan and Emma and watch what appears to be a beautiful relationship spiral out of control. Amy Fellner Dominy creates a story that could be going on at any high school. Yes, with different circumstances, but we’ve seen the headlines—teens so wrapped up in each other that one or both would be willing to die to keep the other or to make sure they stay together. Forever. In death. Not all relationships that are unhealthy take it that far, but here are some chilling statistics: One in three young people will be in an unsafe or unhealthy relationship. WOW!
Though this is a gut-wrenching, important topic, the story is gripping. The way Amy integrated Emma’s family history and Dylan’s family history brought an eye-opening understanding to the intensity of the relationship. Another very cool aspect was Emma’s love for archeology, which plays a central theme in the novel. I loved the story created around Pompeii.
Friendship is also explored. How loyal should a friend be? What constitutes disloyalty? And then there is family betrayal as well as loyalty to one’s family. What lines should or shouldn’t be crossed?
Without a doubt, DIE FOR YOU is the type of novel that will take you on a journey of reflection, and for some a mirror to look into and hopefully recognize before things get too out of hand. This kind of ugly love is not love at all. It needs to be revealed. It needs to be understood.
Brava, Amy! I highly recommend this novel!
Novel Secret by Amy Fellner Dominy
This book started with an innocent question: “How did you and your husband end up together?”
I asked a friend that question about twenty years ago. I’ve always been a romantic and there’s nothing I love as much as a good love story. But what I got instead was a reply that sent shivers up my spine. She told me her husband had said that if she ever left him, he’d kill himself.
And she believed him.
So she married him.
I never forgot that over the years. How could a smart, talented, beautiful woman let herself be manipulated that way? I would never fall for that kind of emotional blackmail…or would I?
What if I loved someone and what if I worried for his life? What if he convinced me his need was love? What if I thought it came down to his life or mine?
What would I be willing to sacrifice?
What should I be willing to sacrifice?
I always say it was the search for answers that led me to write Die for You. But really, it began with a question.
Thanks so much for hosting me!
(3 copies of DIE FOR YOU – USA only)
11/10: The Irish Banana Review – Review
11/11: Such A Novel Idea – Guest Post
11/12: Here’s to Happy Endings – Review
11/13: Ex Libris – Review
11/14: PaperTrailYA – Q&A
11/15: Novel Ink – Review
11/16: Who RU Blog – Novel Secrets
11/17: Arctic Books – Top 10
Friendship, Giveaway, Making Choices, Novel Secrets Blog Tour, Self-Esteem, Suicide Prevention
Amy Fellner Dominy, Die For You
Blog Tour: DIABOLIC by S.J. KINCAID, 5 Star Review, Novel Secret & #Giveaway
Nov 2nd, 2016 by Liza Wiemer
ABOUT THE DIABOLIC:
A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you’ve been created for.
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager created to protect a galactic senator’s daughter, Sidonia. The two have grown up side by side, but are in no way sisters. Nemesis is expected to give her life for Sidonia, and she would do so gladly. She would also take as many lives as necessary to keep Sidonia safe.
When the power-mad Emperor learns Sidonia’s father is participating in a rebellion, he summons Sidonia to the Galactic court. She is to serve as a hostage. Now, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Nemesis travels to the court disguised as Sidonia—a killing machine masquerading in a world of corrupt politicians and two-faced senators’ children. It’s a nest of vipers with threats on every side, but Nemesis must keep her true abilities a secret or risk everything.
As the Empire begins to fracture and rebellion looms closer, Nemesis learns there is something more to her than just deadly force. She finds a humanity truer than what she encounters from most humans. Amidst all the danger, action, and intrigue, her humanity just might be the thing that saves her life—and the empire.
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
This NOVEL! DO NOT MISS THIS ONE! My acrostic poem below. 🙂
GAH! I loved it. It’s definitely one of my top reads of 2016! Thank you so much to the publisher for providing an ARC
THE DIABOLIC.
Humans, humanoids and
Excesses.
Dive in!
It’ll hold your
Blow you away with fascinating characters and
Open up a universe filled with betrayal, murder,
Love, danger, humanity and
Inhumanity.
Cheers, S.J. Kincaid!
NOVEL SECRET by S.J. Kincaid
Note from Liza: I LOVE THIS! Yes, you know I read The Diabolic, so I totally get it! I wouldn’t want to imagine this male main character any other way! Read on…
A SECRET OF THE DIABOLIC:
My male main character went through several iterations. In the very first, seen-only-by-me draft, he was unquestionably a bad dude. A bad dude who quite enjoyed the main character, but he did bad stuff. He manipulated, he engineered an innocent person’s death without blinking, and there is a great crime in the book which he originally did.
But I never liked that. Never. And I wanted this to be a full stand-alone story arc and I couldn’t really end it on the note I was ending it on. I knew the ending I really wanted to write, so I decided to scale back the bad dude part, and maybe make him more of a manipulative, ambiguous product of his upbringing. That’s what I did originally, and even then, I scaled it back a bit more after my first reader (my sister) noted that a particular part seemed a bit sociopathic.
Then after the book was acquired, a few other things the character did were questioned as particularly douchey and wrong. I balked at first at the idea of removing these, because I knew as soon as I did, I had to reconceived of this character on a rather fundamental level. it meant seeing him through a new lens in my own mind, and then incorporating that in the text.
But I did it, and I’m really glad I did, because it gave me a new vision of the character that I feel better about… And surprisingly, some people still pick up on a few of those undertones I thought I’d removed.
You will have to read it to see who I am talking about.
(Okay, it’s Tyrus).
S.J. Kincaid
ABOUT S.J. KINCAID:
S.J. Kincaid was born in Alabama, grew up in California, and attended high school in New Hampshire, but it was while living beside a haunted graveyard in Scotland that she realized that she wanted to be a writer. Her debut, Insignia, came out in July of 2012. The second book in the series, Vortex was released in July of 2013. The final book in the trilogy, Catalyst, came out October 28, 2014. Her standalone novel The Diabolic will be released in fall 2016.
LINKS: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Instagram
10/24: YA Bibliophile – Review
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10/31: No BS Book Reviews – Q&A
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11/3: Lili’s Reflections – Review
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Mega $220 Amazon Gift Card #Giveaway Brought to You by 9 YA Authors!
Oct 10th, 2016 by Liza Wiemer
Wouldn’t it be wicked to win $220 to spend on books? This October I’ve banded together with nine authors to stir up a giveaway. In the cauldron is a $220 USD e-gift card to spend on Amazon.
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Would you like to find out more about the authors behind this giveaway? Explore their websites…if you dare. Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
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Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Donna Galanti
Caroline T. Patti
Meghan Rogers
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Novel Secret: BJORN’S GIFT by Sandy Brehl & International #Giveaway
Oct 6th, 2016 by Liza Wiemer
BJORN’S GIFT by Sandy Brehl
About BJORN’S GIFT:
BJORN’S GIFT is a sequel to Odin’s Promise, which was awarded the 2014 Midwest Book Award for Children’s Fiction. Set in Norway during World War II, Bjorn’s Gift continues the adventures of Mari, a young Norwegian girl who faces growing hardships and dangers in her small village in a western fjord. German occupation troops and local Nazi supporters move closer to her family’s daily life, and her classmate Leif becomes active in the Norwegian Nazi youth party. Mari struggles to live up to her brother Bjorn’s faith in her, as she becomes more involved in risky resistance activities, trusting only her family and a few close friends. Across Norway, oppressive laws are imposed in the months from Fall 1941 to early 1943, with dire local consequences. Difficult decisions force Mari to admit that many things in life are not easily sorted into good or bad, and she begins to wonder if Hitler will ever be defeated and . . . whether the occupation of Norway will ever end.
NOVEL SECRETS:
In the earliest pages of the original novel, ODIN’S PROMISE, eleven-year-old Mari became aware that the German occupation/invasion of Norway resulted in countless secrets. Kathleen Spale’s beautiful cover art for BJORN’S GIFT shows Mari using an attic space to put some of those secrets and worries on paper. Revealing more would require a spoiler alert, so instead I’ll share a story of my own about secrets in attic spaces.
I grew up in a three-story Tudor-style home. The staircase to that top level had a landing. There you could turn right and continue up a few steps to my brother’s bedroom, or turn left, facing a door. Behind that door was a storage space, always filled to bursting with the seasonal detritus of a large family. On one wall was a raised half-door we were told never to open or enter.
The reason wasn’t as sinister as that sounds. Behind the door was a small crawlspace with a plywood floor and beams only a few feet overhead, stuffed with pink insulation. I vividly remember being warned NOT to go into that space, that fiberglass was dangerous.
For most of the year the heat and prickly sensations that cramped space produced made rule-following easy. But winter weather, with its covered-up clothing, brought an instinct for hibernation. I’d lean against a wall, tug on the string attached to a low-watt bulb, and settle in to read, in private.
No, in secret.
But secrets can be dangerous.
On a weekend after Thanksgiving Mom and Dad took us kids to shop for winter coats. We each had the luxury of choosing our preferred styles, then learned the hard truth: the coats wouldn’t come home with us. Instead Mom had recorded all the details for us to include in our letters to Santa Claus.
One Saturday afternoon between that shopping trip and Christmas Eve I opened that little half-door to read for an hour or two. My tug on the light string showed that my space filled with bags and boxes.
Come on, now, you know what I did.
I looked inside.
Box after box revealed the exact coats we had selected. I stopped then, immediately certain that I didn’t want to see any more.
Christmas morning we found, as usual, that Santa had provided what Mom and Dad couldn’t afford. For the sake of my younger sister I didn’t say anything about my discovery, to her or to my parents. Instead, I scoured the faces of my older brother and sister, certain that they knew the truth, even while we stood in that store. They feigned surprise and excitement. They had written and mailed their own letters to Santa, including coat details. What other secrets were they keeping from me?
The stakes for me were drastically different from Mari’s, and yet I’m convinced that the confusion and distress I felt were similar to her reactions.
Who can you trust? Why so many secrets? What is the truth?
ABOUT SANDY BREHL
Sandy Brehl grew up in Ohio and has lived in Wisconsin for many years. As a longtime educator. Since retiring a few years ago she reads, writes and conducts literacy workshops for professionals. She’s been writing picture book text, poetry, professional articles, and longer works for years. She credits joining SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) after retiring as a major factor in developing her debut middle grade novel and this trilogy. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys gardening, art, and travel.
Email: sandy@sandybrehl.com
http://www.sandybrehl.com
Twitter: @SandyBrehl and @PBWorkshop | Facebook | Goodreads
Also blogs about picture books for all ages at
http://UnpackingPictureBookPower.blogspot.com
and shares a blog about middle grade historical books with three other authors:
http://thestoriedpast.org
Giveaway – 1 winner will get a copy of ODIN’S PROMISE & BJORN’S GIFT (International where Book Depository delivers)
Blog Tour stops:
September 1– Interview with Todd Burleson at http://groggorg.blogspot.com
Launch book giveaway raffle at
September 7 Review: Stephanie Lowden at golowd
September 11 Guest post Unleashing Readers at http://www.unleashingreaders.com
September 14 Review by Erik at This Kid Reviews Books, https://thiskidreviewsbooks.com
September 19` Review, Suzanne Warr, at Tales from the Raven: http://suzannewarr.com
September 20 Olivia and Oscar- review of ODIN’S PROMISE at Kid Book Reviewer: http://www.kidbookreviewer.com
September 27 Olivia and Oscar- review of BJORN’S GIFT at Kid Book Reviewer: http://www.kidbookreviewer.com (reminder- giveaway ends Sept. 30.
September 29 Alex Baugh review at Children’s War https://thechildrenswar.blogspot.com
October 3 Jenni Enzor MMGM with review and interview http://jennienzor.blogspot.com
October 5 MomReadIt- review https://momreadit.wordpress.com
October 7 Trisha Perry Mindjacked https://momreadit.wordpress.com
October 11 Guest post Rochelle Melander http://writenowcoach.com/blog/
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------------------------- The star of the football team h a s a b l i n d d a d who always comes to his games, even though he can't see him play. One day, the dad gets sick and dies before the night of his son's big game. The team is expecting him to slack off, mourning the death of his father. But he played the best game he EVER had, making the winning touchdown &+ many amazing plays. The couch is amazed, so he asked, "How did you play so well even after your father has passed? The boy stares right at him, and says "This is the first time he has ever seen me play." ♥ ------------------------- Not mine. I just love it
when i'm in the car and a sad song comes on the radio, i stare out the window and act like i'm in a movie♥
Today in my biology class we were talking about hurricane([ Katrina}. My teacher asked this really slutty girl what some of the effects of the hurricane were, and she replied, "well everything got all wet and dirty." Suddenly the quietest guy in class looks up and goes, "Kate, no one asked about your weekend." MILA.
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Today's Feature: Lyrikal Storm
Lyrikal Storm is a performance based spoken word/poetry group headquartered in Riverdale Maryland. Award winning teacher and Poet Neville Adams galvanizes students to serve as youth activists and champion humanity via the spoken word. Lyrikal Storm started out with just ten students and in eleven years has blossomed into the largest and most prolific teen poetry group in the Washington Metropolitan area. In 2011, the group was blessed to have Clint Smith, who ranks fifth in the world as a slam champion, coach and mentor students in slam poetry.
The primary objective of Lyrikal Storm is to hone poetry writing and spoken word skills through workshops, participation in poetry readings, and competition. Five core principals guide Lyrikal Storm: (1) Knowledge is essential. (2) Community/global awareness and involvement is a civic duty. (3) Strive for sophistication, mediocrity is not an option. (4) Critical thinking and speaking is key to mobility. (5) Once a member, always a member. Currently, Lyrikal Storm is scheduled to perform at the Remembrance Foundation Harlem Renaissance Festival and compete in two slam festivals: Louder Than A Bomb DMV and Brave New Voices.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101088_2.html
http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/011008/hyatnew180601_32358.shtml
http://ww2.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2004/200452/laurel/news/251974-1.html
http://ltabdmv.tumblr.com/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyrikalstorm?fref=ts
Today's Feature: Maryam S. Alikhani
Bio: Maryam Alikhani is a City College alumnus with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing for poetry and a doctoral student in English Education at Teachers College Columbia University. She is an English instructor, educator, translator, and poet. Maryam writes her poems in English, Persian and sometimes in Spanish. Her poetry has appeared in Esque Mag, Poetry in Performance, Promethean, the Poetry of Yoga as well as several periodicals in Tehran.
The Moroccan Curtain
I follow the rainbow beams of
Sunlight through the crystals of
My Moroccan curtain
And rise like the last
Woman on the earth
The window is lonely
A robin sits on the sill
With a message from Emily
To open my society
I unwrap the present
“Sobh be kheir, Aziz.”
“Good morning, dear.”
From conversations, music, trees, and light. Basically the world I live in is always material for my poetry. What I see, what I hear, and the conversations I have with people, friends or strangers, inspire me to write. Often I hear a phrase or a line and I go from there.
Threatened? Yes, I hear that a lot. Since when has poetry become a threat? There was a time when literature meant poetry. People knew hundreds of lines of poetry by heart and recited them. Then they passed those poems chest to chest from generation to the next. In addition to the aesthetic pleasure of poetry as a form of art, poetry preserved history, genealogy, culture, etc.; it flourished language, and had pedagogical or educational values. It still does, of course. And I personally know some poetry cultures that people read and recite poetry fearlessly.
However, poetry is not as much a form of writing in our routine academic and professional life. In other words, the fear of poetry mostly comes from not writing it. Therefore, I recommend those who are afraid of poetry to pick up a pen, or sit at their computers and write a poem. There are many techniques of poetry writing to learn from, but I emphasize on the content - not the structure. There are many poetry resources online that one can get help from and it does not matter how you write in the first place.
Do not be concerned about writing good or bad poems. Just pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write. Everybody has a story, a feeling or a thought that wishes to share. There are always people who you can share your poems with. Reach out for your inner sources and write with your own voice. What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Writing poetry makes us better readers of poetry, too. Once we experience how poetry is written, and how it works, we enjoy reading it more, and then we are no longer afraid of poetry.
I can cross one eye and not the other.
Where are you from / Where do you live?
I am from Tehran, and live in Manhattan.
There are many, but if I should mention just one poet that would be definitely Forough Farokhzad. In English poetry, my favorite is Emily Dickinson.
Links to poetry:
http://www.esquemag.org/2012/02/05/maryam-alikhani/
http://thepoetryofyoga.com/2012/08/the-child-inside/
www.poetrydivan.blogspot.com
Today's Feature: Henry Mills
Bio: Henry Mills is a poet and a musician. He has developed three multi-disciplinary performances: Helicopters and Vultures, a poetic exploration of his Salvadoran-Jewish heritage, Waterline, a homegoing for pre-Katrina New Orleans and Underwater Poems, a monument of sound erected in the wake of a friend’s suicide.
In 2007, while living at the Jiménez-Porter Writer’s House, Henry founded Terpoets, University Maryland’s student-led poetry organization where he hosted and performed alongside some of his favorite poets including Rachel McKibbens, Remi Kanazi and the Poemcees.
For the past six years Henry has worked with middle school students throughout the DC metro area helping them hone their voices, both on and off the page.
He has been featured at music and poetry festivals including Different Kind of Dude Fest (benefit for HIPS – a nonprofit helping individual prostitutes survive), Positive Youth Fest (a celebration of youth culture in the DC area benefit the DC Rape Crisis Center) and Split this Rock (a four day poetry festival where he performed with internationally acclaimed poet, Naomi Shihab Nye, for an audience of five and six year-olds.)
Henry considers his most notable performance to be opening for revolutionary Latin-American folk group, Los Guaraguao, on their debut tour of the U.S. where he performed his bilingual poetry in English and Spanish to packed crowds of guanaco/as.
Henry’s poems have appeared in, Stylus, Folio and Time You Let Us In.
For me the act of engaging with language is a way of reaffirming that life is worth living. In fact, in a world where I see no inherent meaning, writing is the practice of living. I picture a bottomless well. A void. Something about that void is what makes the universe lonely and beautiful. It is from that void that poetry springs forth. But I want to do more than just peer down the well, I want to rebel. Discovering and at the same time inventing my own existence.
When I transcend my life, I try to see it in the context of my family history.
My mother was a refugee from El Salvador during the U.S. sponsored civil war. The blood from that side of the family has found its way to my heart despite the genocide of El Salvador's indigenous and centuries of brutal feudalism. My father is an atheist-Jewish-American philosopher who grew up fighting racist bullies in New York. His ancestors where eradicated in Poland during the holocaust. Family is only one starting point for my poetry. The void can be seen in everything. Inspiration can come from anywhere.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever received was during my end of the year, one on one conference with Michael Collier at the University of Maryland where I was just beginning my undergrad. I was bracing myself for some grandiose revelation that would blow my mind. Instead what he told me was essentially to read. Read voraciously. Find a library with a lush poetry section and start digging. Grab a book, flip it open. Find poets that speak to you and queue a stack of books. Not every poet will connect with you. Some of them you'll grow out of and some of them you'll grow into. What is important is to expose yourself to different traditions and digest the ways in which they use language. When you return to the page, your writing will be fortified by your exposure to these other styles. Your voice will begin to grow.
I was a breech birth. People at the hospital called me Baryshnikov.
Currently I live in DC and work at Higher Achievement, a rigorous, year-round academic enrichment program for middle school scholars. Last summer I got to work with 5th graders and man! Their imagination is unbridled! We put together a show for the end of summer with live music and poetry. It ended in a mosh pit. Looked like a music video. No one was hurt.
It is hard to name just one! Can I quickly ramble about a few of my favorites?
Nick Flynn's book, Some Ether. This book haunts me. Sherry Fairchok's The Palace of Ashes. Anything by Li-Young Lee. Coleman Barks' translations of Rumi and Richard Siken's Crush.
Big thank you to Neville Adams from Lyrical Storm for nominating me. He was the first person I taught a poetry class with so it means a lot that he would think to nominate me as your feature.
If I were to have my own personal nominee for poetry month I would nominate Zein el-Amine. His poetry speaks truth to power and manages to be beautiful and optimistic without losing your trust. Here is a website I designed for him: http://zeinelamine.wordpress.com/
I'd also like to shout out the Poemees, Bernard Dolan and the Solillaquists of Sound. Three artists who I consider to be at the frontier of innovating hip-hop music.
Send me a message for almost any reason!
aristides.mills@gmail.com or henrymills.wordpress.com
Today's Feature: Curtis Tyrone Jones
Bio: Curtis Tyrone Jones began writing and performing poetry as a creative way of expressing himself to the Marines and Sailors he lived and worked amongst while serving as a Navy Corpsman. Nine years later he has now returned to Naval Training as a Navy Chaplain in order to continue to influence service members with his creative message of God's love. He is the published author of The Yawning Sun, who speaks and pastors at college retreats, youth groups, and various conferences. He loves his life, family, and using his creative gifts to speak boldly and encourage others with God's unconditional love. Please feel free to download his free CD "Refuel" at http://www.cdbaby.com/m/cd/curtistyronejones2.
I draw my inspiration from reading existentialism, theology, fantasy novels, classic literature and listening to every piece of music I can get my hands on.
Sometimes the thing that most threatens us today can turn out to be very thing that brings us the most comfort tomorrow. Every culture will find a way to express it's experience artistically and poetically. The soul of anyone or any people is most understood and most misunderstood through its poets.
I once ran the mile in 4minutes and 22 seconds.
I was born in Germany. I grew up in Springfield, VA. And I currently live in Studio City, CA.
Jay-Z, Eminem, Lil Wayne & Soren Kierkegaard.
curtis@loveflowz.com
www.loveflowz.com
Today's Feature: Clint Smith
Bio: Clint Smith is a poet and educator from New Orleans, Louisiana and following the 2012 Individual World Poetry Slam, is the 5th ranked poet in the world. He is a 2010 graduate of Davidson College where he majored in English and founded FreeWord, Davidson’s first slam poetry team. Upon graduating from Davidson, Clint lived in Soweto, South Africa working to educate youth in the township on HIV/AIDS by engaging them in soccer and spoken word. Currently teaching high school English in Prince George’s County, MD, he is the 2012 Graffiti DC Grand Slam Champion and is a member of the 2012 Beltway Poetry Team, representing DC at the National Poetry Slam. He has been featured on TVOne’s premier poetry and music show, Verses & Flow, and has served as a cultural ambassador to Swaziland on behalf of the U.S. State Department, conducting poetry workshops with youth throughout the country focused on HIV/AIDS prevention, cross-cultural understanding, and self-empowerment.
As someone who believes firmly in the role art can play in mobilizing communities and shaping policy, Clint has performed and spoken at events including the International AIDS Conference, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s ECET2 Conference, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ “Place Matters” Conference, the Teach For America Regional Institute, the African Leadership Academy, and the School for International Training.
Recently, Clint was named the 2013 Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council.
Aside from poetry, Clint loves his mom, scrabble, and the feeling you have right after you eat way too many barbeque ribs.
His work can be found at cwardsmith.tumblr.com and he can be followed on Twitter @ClintSmithIII.
When We Catch Up to Him
My grandmother asked me,
Do you remember the way he used to laugh?
We stood and watched my grandfather,
an effigy of a life once dreamed of living.
When we were growing up,
my grandfather was as strong
as one hundred horse-bound chariots
and as calm as a mountain range at midnight.
His voice was the Mississippi Delta after heavy rain.
So it kills me,
to watch the proudest man I have ever known
crumble at the shame
of being unable to say his own name.
Neurons disappearing faster
than Post-Katrina projects.
In the eye of this storm was my grandmother.
You have not seen love
until you have seen a woman
with the patience of an Artic spring
maintain a smile while she watches
the only man she has ever loved
revert into a state of infantile dependency.
Feeding a man who has forgotten
how to swallow his pride.
When he uses the bathroom
she holds his toilet paper in one hand,
her devotion in the other.
A fireball of a woman
in the form of a schoolteacher,
but there is nothing that can teach you
how to hold something so flammable.
I watch the rest of her life held hostage
by his needs. His forest fire condition
renders him unable to do or say the things
that had made him that inferno of a man.
I dreamt of a world where my grandmother
could hand him the phone--
Grandpa, this is Clint
and he would know who that was.
There is no cure for Alzheimer’s.
It is death in slow motion,
a cerebral implosion.
It is watching someone die,
and not being able to do anything about it.
My grandmother,
sensing the helplessness in my heart
took hold of my hand.
Held it as the soil
does the first root of a young sapling.
Baby, coming and going are just the same thing
and only depends on where you’re standing.
Everything will be fine,
His memory,
is just getting a head start to heaven,
simply waiting for the rest of us
to catch up.
I’m inspired by people, particularly those who live their lives in an effort to uplift others. I’m especially inspired by my students—their curiosity, their brilliance, and their unrelenting will to be more than this world expects them to be. In all honesty however, inspiration is everywhere, sometimes you just have to step back for a second and see what’s right in front of your face.
Poetry shouldn’t be something intimidating. Part of the beauty of the art form is how accessible it is regardless of who you are or what your background is. It provides a unique opportunity to tell the stories of those who are not given a voice. It can also give insight into our common humanity by contextualizing each of our lives relative to those around us. It’s a dynamic art form that challenges our perceptions and continuously allows us to think outside of ourselves. That’s what I love most about it --it is a medium that enhances our empathy.
I hate chocolate and I love really competitive games of Taboo.
I was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. Following Hurricane Katrina, during my senior year of high school, I moved to Houston, TX where I lived with my aunt and uncle until I finished school. I currently live in Washington DC and teach at Parkdale High School in Prince George’s County.
Most of the time it’s my students.
Contact: cwardsmith@gmail.com
Today's Feature: Gowri K.
Photographer Les Talusan 2013
Bio: Gowri K. is a Sri Lankan Tamil American poet and lawyer. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, and the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused. She has co-authored two peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and her poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, and Lantern Review. Gowri was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She hosts open mics at Busboys and Poets and BloomBars, where she serves as poetry coordinator. Gowri is a co-founder and communications consultant with Making It Slam and a poetry editor with Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal. She tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.
Video Performance
Poem (previously published in Bourgeon)--
http://bourgeononline.com/2010/07/poem-the-distance-from-here-to-there-by-gowri-koneswaran/
I represented the state of Connecticut in the national spelling bee when I was in eighth grade. I still remember the word that I lost on... "introuvable."
I was born and raised in Connecticut and have been calling DC home for the past 8 years.
I don't have a favorite poet or poem but, in honor of all the great poetry that exists, I like to periodically memorize another poet's poem and share it at open mics. One of my recent favorites in that regard is "Family Jewels" by DC poet Essex Hemphill.
Contact @gowricurry
Today's Feature: Drew Law
Bio: Drew Law is a teaching artist for the American Poetry Museum and the nonprofit organization Split This Rock. He is also a two time member of DC's National Poetry Slam team, the Beltway Slam ('11, '12) and a member of the exclusive "Graffiti DC" poets. Drew was a 2011 NUSPA (National Underground Spoken Word Poetry Awards) nominee for “Best Performance: Male.” Drew Law has opened up for artists ranging from Slick Rick and Biz Markie to Sunni Patterson, and Andrea Gibson. He's a host of the prestigious Busboys and Poets and BBE's ground breaking Graffiti DC slam series. Drew is also the host of the TV show "Dope Wordz and Life," a show completely dedicated to spoken word and slam poetry being broadcasted on public access television in DC, Maryland and New York. He's featured all over the country including the "Green Mill," the birthplace of modern slam. Drew Law has a background in working with at risk youth. He holds a deep passion for his American and Palestinian roots. Drew approaches every performance like it’s his last. He has a deep love for entertaining and serving his community.
Coalminer's Daughter
I Am the son of a coalminer's daughter
You can tell by the iron ore in my lungs and my affinity for saving sparrows that have wandered a little too far from home
We were both born in a town that you've never heard of
For the first 3 years of my life all I knew was her
and David the gnome
She woke me up on time
Even though that usually meant we were late
She had love in her veins and use to cut her wrists onto my forehead
Told me redemption looked like a Johnny Cash mug shot
Promised me I would never wipe my tears, because when they drop, it reminds you that even pain
Falls away
She had a heart that pumped red blood & blue collars in the back woods where we get drunk off the sky when the moonshines the hardest cause you gotta live this ware-wolf life with a little bit of howl
Son don't trace your footsteps, just paint your path free hand, because Lord knows you can't draw for shyt, and momma can't wait to see what abstract humanity you create for us
Those burdens you carried. 12 years old already addicted to the fire water. You grew up on the side of the holler that you just didn't get out of. But you found your renegade in a curly eyed man from a desert away
But when dad died
You lost your anchor, and was ship wrecked on a waterfall. Held us in your cabin until that current beat you down so bad, you were nothing but drift wood for me and your baby daughter to float to shore with
We didn't have money but, God dammit we had love.
You beautiful Loretta Lynn love sonnet you.
When we buried you, I could find no gravedigger with neither the skill nor courage to bury something so beautifully flammable. So I commissioned a pic axe gardener to build a flowerbed sized mine that can survive without sunlight. But rise when the moon shines at its peak to wave at fireflies & Goliaths that have nobody to lean on
She was use to getting leaned on
You let me go. Right when I was strong enough to hold you. Guess you were tired of the night terrors at 4 in the afternoon and didn't want to ruin my sunsets. I miss you every day and I wish I could have you back. But there's something about letting go of loved ones, you get a free hand to hold on to the better things they wanted for you
I am the son of a coalminers daughter
You can tell by the soot on my ring finger
and my ability to bury things
Deep in dark places
Where there is only the silhouette
Of sparrows
I pull a lot of inspiration from fiction as well as page poetry. Its really all about reading as much as possible to have a full grasp of what your potential is and getting out of your comfort zone.
Don't ever let applause affect you. People have this idea that good poetry is supposed to have great reactions. That's not always the case, the best poetry always hushes a room. And find a safe place that is comfortable to perform. It may be difficult, but its really worth it.
I battle rapped for years and was actually pretty successful. I was even a part of a league called Grind Time and I have opened up for artists like Method Man, Biz Markie and Slick Rick. I really fell into poetry by chance and haven't looked back since.
I was raised in the Maryland suburbs but my father is Palestinian so I really identify as a Palestinian (which may have been a much better interesting point).
Favorite poet of all time would be 2 time individual poetry champion Buddy Wakefield. He's been a huge inspiration.
Upcoming Event: Graffiti DC Featuring Drew Law and the Graffiti DC poets April 24th at Liv Nightclub 8pm
@DrewLawDMV
Graffitidc.tumblr.com
@GraffitiDC
Today's Feature: SANJO JENDAYI
Bio: Sanjo Jendayi born Deserie Johnson is a speaker, author and spoken word artist. Readers and listeners alike are mesmerized, challenged and inspired by her unique way of speaking directly into their soul. She merges her street edge with her spiritual grounding leaving everyone on the verge of change. Her transparent style chips away at the proverbial elephants in the room. Deserie transitioned into her purposed name, Sanjo Jenday (African for “One who appreciates her past and gives thanks”) because it speaks to whom she has evolved into today.
Sanjo was born and raised in Washington, DC and she now resides in MD. Her most important titles are Mom and Grandmom. Sanjo has dedicated her life to inspiring women and young girls to rise above their circumstances, take responsibility and turn mistakes into lessons. Sanjo began motivational speaking that touched on the very obstacles that she, herself overcame. God has turned her mess into HIS message!
She is more than a conqueror! A survivor of lung cancer while continuing to battle Sarcoidosis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and Fibromyalgia. Sanjo is passionate about tapping into the little girl within all women to reach that sheer innocent place where they once believed anything were possible and resurrecting that belief.
Sanjo’s perseverance is evident in her powerful personal testimony of trials and tribulations that’s translated through her poetry in Black Butterfly…Soaring on the Wings of Poetry and her debut of listen2myheartspeak spoken word CD. A hospital scare birthed her most recent work, Girl, Get Empty a power-packed compact read empowering women to release all that God has placed in them. Her process of emptying also included the subsequent release of NyAashia’s Freedom Ride a children’s bedtime story that teaches pride in their heritage and themselves.
Currently, she is preparing a memoir for publication. Sanjo has been the voice of several local radio and television commercials. She also records professional outgoing voice messages for local corporations.
As long as you have breath, you have a chance!
Here I am Lord...
Ears wide open
Soul exposed
Receptive
Ready for instruction
Eyes closed
Mind still
Ready to do your will
Asking to hear a word from you
I need to know what to do
Sometimes, I can’t hear anything from you
I find myself longing for you
Singing songs for you
Trying to usher your Spirit into my presence
To feel your very essence
To learn my every lesson
So I can move on…
Speak to my heart Lord!
I need to hear your voice
Your Word said ask and it is yours
So here I am Lord
I’m asking
For wisdom, knowledge and understanding
I know your word doesn’t come back void
So I begin clearing my head of this noise
When ….silence consumes me
I feel you in tune with me
Yes I’m ready to receive
Here I AM Lord!!!!!!
© 2001 Deserie Johnson
I draw inspiration from life experiences, the good, the bad and the ugly because there are lessons to be learned from everything. I like to write about it to release myself, it's freeing.
Poetry is nothing more than self-expression, it's an extension of you. Some write it in a journal for their own private release and others share it with the world and either way is entirely up to the writer. If you are a listener and you are threatened by poetry, I say just close your eyes and let it take you on a journey through your emotions. Poetry can be very seductive in that it draws the listener in...even when they say, "I don't like poetry".
I am shy. Believe it or not, I am as shy as they come. When I come off the stage, I am like a turtle climbing back in my shell.
I was born and raised in S.E. Washington, DC and I now reside in Maryland.
Maya Angelou, I love how she weaves words together.
Shout Out to all of the Earth Angels who hold me up when I don't have the energy to stand. Their wings give me flight!
Upcoming Event: May 18, 2013 8pm-12 Sassie Ladies Night Out Reflextionz Xclusive Lounge 7818 Parstons Dr. District Heights, Md 20747.
www.deeprootzinspirtainment.com
www.listen2myheartspeak.wordpress.com/
Today's Feature: Carlin Pierce
Bio: Carlin Pierce, an aspiring professional inspirator, lives in the quaint town of Herndon, Virginia with her family and friends. Painting, writing, and just crafting take up much of her time as does reading and school. Time is a scarcity in her life, as she balances her many and diverse interests.
Past: Growing, writing, love
Making friends and memories
Laughing, crying, time
Present: Learning, writing, live
School, persevering, helping
Smiling, frowning, time
Future: Striking, trying, now
Writing and changing the world,
One poem at a time
Uncertainty is the foundation of inspiration, and hope is the cement of the future. One of Carlin’s favorite sayings is: “Live freely, love much, laugh often.” And to add her own spark to that “Change what you can, make known what you can and never, ever give up.”
‘Twas light as a feather blown
Or a dandelion seed floating on a breeze
But as heavy as snow that falls
Like leaves falling from the top of autumnal trees
It feels divine and has a memory unknown
The invisible emotion like a lovely lift of love
Slides through the wall of criticism to reach your inner core
Takes its liberties with directions from above
A life not seen in years, but in light of what you become
A time not counted in numbers, but in the essence of what you do
A field of passing opportunities time means nothing, if you don’t use it
Many, many, lessons, please, please, take them with you
I literally get my inspiration from everything. I feel that the job of a poet is to take the commonly acknowledged "uninteresting" as well as the beautiful, special, and wonderful and turn it into something inspiring. Thus, I feel that everything from stop signs to history, to nature, to emotions, to ketchup, to a look from a stranger inspires me.
Besides the generic "don't be?" I would tell them that poetry is a perspective of one person. It's nothing greater than verbalized impressions, something for a person to agree with, disagree with, and add to. It shouldn't be threatening, it should be inviting. Poetry allows for expression rather than oppression, so if someone could look at it as an escape rather than the threat, it is the most wonderful release. I wrote a poem about it actually: Poetry Poetry is the open window When the door is closed and locked Poetry is the paint brush That you use to color life Poetry is the building block On which to create a thought Poetry is inspiring Whether you know it or not.
I am 17. I speak fluent french. I love to garden. I have a chicken. I adore making my own food--yogurt, bread, dinner, and of course growing my own vegetables. I love hats. My favorite place to read is up high.
I was born in Winston Salem, North Carolina on a farm, but moved to Herndon, Virginia when I was young. That is where I currently reside. As for where I'm from... Well, that's a bit more complicated.
Life. Although sometimes she lacks verbalization. I also enjoy Robert Frost, Kwame Alexander, and Deanna Nikaido.
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¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Available in a warehouse in Moscow for a series of carriages HG15 ÷ HG45, EG15, EG20.
Anti-corrosion coating
Surface: phosphate, nickel, chrome, ARMOLOY TDC, RAYDENT.
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Rails T-Race
Guideways LA
The system of linear guides series LA galvanized and stainless steel.
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Guides: LAZ26, LAZ40.
Carriages: PAZ26, PAZ40.
Guideways MR
Linear roller guide series MR is ideal for heavy-duty work.
Guideways ML
Linear guide systems ML series with a concave profile of the raceways.
Rollers T-Race
T-Race Rollers are used for high load capacity in the radial and axial directions.
Gudeways FXR
The multi-linear system of FLEXRACE with a large number configurations carriages and rails.
Guideways BSC
Curved rail Series BSC from cold drawn galvanized steel. They are produced on request.
Guideways TLR
Telescopic rail system Series TLR with the possibility of self-regulation.
Guideways TLA
Economical series of telescopic rails T-Race.
Gudeways TLQ
Telescopic slides TLQ series for applications with frequent cycles.
Polished shafts
Cylindrical guideways, polished shaft
Precision hardened, ground shafts. The hardness of 59-65 HRC. Length of 3000 mm. Diameters from 4 to 100 mm.
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The diameter of the shaft - ø08 ÷ 40.
Linear ball bushings with steel casing, plastic cage, circlip groove.
LME08UU ÷ LME40, LMF08 ÷ LMF40.
Linear displacement
Linear modules
Module series KK
6 sizes, depending on the load. Ease of installation and compact. The low weight and high stiffness.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Available in a warehouse in Moscow: KK40, KK60.
Module series SK
High-speed move. Low noise. Reduced friction due to the plastic cage balls.
Module series KA
Maximum speed: 100 mm to 3000 mm. Engine power: 30 watts to 750 watts. Drive Type: ball screw, timing belt.
Module series KS
High accuracy and speed of movement. Protection against dust. Complectation with a servomotor (optional).
Module series KU
High accuracy and efficiency. Easy installation and low weight. Protection from dust and dirt.
Module series KE
Closed design. Support any servomotors. Easy to install and compact.
Belt line modules
Module LMBD ECO
High performance and low cost of manufacture. Precise and simple linear movement.
Module LMBD and LMBD-R
High load characteristics and accuracy. The smooth movement of heavy loads at high speeds.
Module LMBD-D
High load characteristics and accuracy. High-speed movement and repeatability.
Module LMBD-Z
Moving along the axis Z. The high accuracy, speed and load characteristics.
Accessories LMBD
Fixing elements, centering rings and sensors for linear modules with toothed belt drive.
Linear actuators with loads from 600 to 12,000 H. Voltage 12 V, 24 V or 36 V.
Series TBB and TC. Various number of inputs power actuators. A set of additional functions.
Series TH, TNP, TDH and TFH. Various versions. A set of additional functions.
Series TP1-TP9. Various power and the number of inputs for connecting actuators. A set of built-in functions.
Various accessories for connecting actuators and power units with a set of additional functions.
Nursing bed‘s control unit
Equipped with a switching power supply. Reliable mechanical stability and high voltage characteristics.
Categories of goods
Worm motor reducers
Made from high quality aluminum alloy. Sizes from 25 to 130. The gear ratios from 7.5 to 100.
Apex planetary gearboxes
Precision planetary gearboxes used in modern industrial technology.
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Planetary gearbox ZPG
The accuracy of 2-5 arc. min. The gear ratio of 1: 1000. It can be fitted with a variety of servo motors.
Ball gearboxes ZBR
Backlash-free ball gearboxes with high precision positioning.
Servo technology
Estun’s servo-drive
ProNet servo-drivers
Servo ProNet with the possibility control the direct-feedback stroke, acceleration, speed and level of inertia.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Kits are available in stock in Moscow: ProNet-02EA-EC + EMJ-02ASA22WR
ProNet-04EA-EC + EMJ-04ASA22WR
ProNet-08EA-EC + EMJ-08ASB22WR
ProNet-E-02A + EMJ-02APA22WR
ProNet-E-04A + EMJ-04APB22WR
ProNet-E-10A + EMJ-10ABB22WR
EDB / EDC servo-drivers
Servo EDB / EDC capacity from 750 W to 5 kW and 200 kW to 1, respectively.
EHD servo-drivers
Servo EHD capacity from 2 kW to 34 kW. Used in conjunction with the servo motors series EMB, EMT and EMT2.
EDS servo-drivers
Servo EDS capacity from 200 W to 1000 kW. Used to drive the two servo motors simultaneously.
EMG servomotors
EMG servo power from 1 kW to 5 kW. Protection class - IP65. Is used to rotate the drive shaft of different mechanisms.
EML servomotors
EML servo power from 1 kW to 4 kW. Protection class - IP65. Is used to rotate the drive shaft of different mechanisms.
EMJ servomotors
EMJ servo power from 200 W to 1 kW. The maximum speed 4500 rpm.
EMB servomotors
Servo motors EMB capacity from 7.5 kW to 22 kW. Protection class - IP44. Actuators used in various machines.
EMT servomotors
Servo EMT capacity from 35 kW to 105 kW. Used in conjunction with the servo series EHD.
EMT2 servomotors
Servomotors EMT2 cover a wide range of capacities and are used in combination with servo series EHD.
Front panel F1000
F1000 panel has a high speed response, flexibility in use and easy to application interface service.
Stepper motors Fulling Motor
Fulling Motor stepper motors are characterized by high precision, stable performance, low noise levels and a variety of models.
Stepper motors ZK
ZK Stepper motors are easy to use, stable operation, high reliability and easy maintenance.
Spindles ELTE
Spindles ELTE standard series, liquid and air-cooled, with automatic tool change.
Screw and gear trains
Rolled ballscrews
Rolled ball screws without end machining with flange nuts DIN 69051. Accuracy class - C7 of ISO, DIN.
Винт ШВП - Ø8, шаг - 2.5, гайка - тип RSI
Винт ШВП - Ø10, шаг - 2.5, гайка - тип RSI
Винт ШВП - Ø10, шаг - 4, гайка - тип RSI
Винт ШВП - Ø16, шаг - 5, гайка - тип FSI
Винт ШВП - Ø16, шаг - 10, гайка - тип FSI
Винт ШВП - Ø20, шаг - 10, гайка - тип FSC
Винт ШВП - Ø25, шаг - 5, гайка - тип FSC
Винт ШВП - Ø40, шаг - 10, гайка - тип FSC.
Polished ballscrews
Ground ball screws high accuracy degree. They are used in the positioning of actuated assemblies CNC machine tools.
Supports for ballscrew
Bearing Supports different types. Series BK, BF for horizontal installation. Series FK, FF for vertical installation.
BF10 ÷ BF30
BK10 ÷ BK30
FF10 ÷ FF30
FK10 ÷ FK25
Ballscrew series R1
R1 Series ball screws with rotating nut. High positioning accuracy, ease of installation, stiffness.
Ballscrew series Super-T
Ball screw series Super-T for high speed and silent movement. Low vibration and noise, smooth operation.
Ballscrew series Cool Type
Series Cool Type ballscrew with the cooling system for high-speed motion with high dynamic loads.
Ballscrew for high loads
Ball screw for high loads. Accuracy class - C7 of ISO, DIN. High axial load and acceleration.
Ballscrews with dust protection
Ball screws with dust protection designed to prevent small particles and iron filings under the nut body.
Racks warehouse in Moscow. Pressure angle: 20 °. Material: Steel C45 - As1443.
M10L3000, M15L3000, M20L3000, M25L3000,
M30L3000, M40L3000
Cylindrical gears from a warehouse in Moscow. Pressure angle: 20 °. Material: Steel C45.
MZ1012, MZ1018, MZ1024, MZ1032, MZ1512,
MZ4018, MZ4024
Trapezoidal screws and nuts
Trapezoidal screws and nuts from a warehouse in Moscow. Material: Steel C15 (1.0401); Bronze RG7 GC-CuSn7ZnPb (DIN 2.1090).
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TR24x5x3000R, TR30x6x3000R,
TR36x6x3000R, TR40x7x3000R.
Гайки: BR12x3, BR16x4, BR20x4, BR24x5,
BR30x6, BR36x6, BR40x7.
Completing for machine tools
OV-31, OV-70
Prevent unwanted vibration during operation of industrial plants. Load range of 50 to 4500 kg.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Available in a warehouse in Moscow: OB 31, OB 70.
Vibroinsulators
Types A, B, C, D, E. Standard hardness - 55 Shore. Material - rubber NK.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Available in a warehouse in Moscow: 15.15, 20.15, 25.20, 25.30, 30.20, 30.30, 40.30, 40.40, 50.30, 50.40.
Vibration dampers GM
Designed for active / passive vibration isolation equipment. The load of 190 to 2000 kg.
Sizes 48/23, 62/30, 77/30, 92/45.
Vibration dampers BR
Designed for active / passive vibration isolation equipment. The load of 9 to 2500 kg.
BR 0025, BR 0050, BR 0100, BR 0200.
Vibration dampers NG
Designed for ceiling or wall mounting. Load range of 15 to 70 kg.
Vibration dampers BF
They are used to protect equipment from vibrations and collisions. V-shape. Material - rubber NK.
Industrial vibration dampers
They are used in the frequency range of 50 Hz alternating load. Material - rubber NK, neoprene, silicone, etc.
Flexible couplings ZTK
Backlash-free flexible couplings ZTK, have high reliability and torsional strength.
ZTK-025D10-L032-RD05x05,
ZTK-100D60-L140-RD20x20.
Aluminum profile for CNC machines
They are used in systems with a high degree of load and high reliability requirements. Have strengthened structure.
30x30x5800St, 30x60x5800St,
80х80x5800H, 45x45x5800St,
50x100x5800St, 100x100x5800St.
Accessories for aluminum machining profile. Material - nickel-plated steel.
T-nut 08-M6, M8-10.
T-bolt with flange nut:
groove - 8 mm, 10 mm.
Angle Connectors:
30/30, 30/60, 40/40, 40/80, 45/45, 45/90,
Rolling bearings
Imported radial bearings from world famous manufacturers: SKF, INA, SNR, KOYO, FAG, NSK, TIMKEN, etc.
Rod ends of PHS series
Made of steel with zinc coating. Large load capacity. Easy assembly / disassembly.
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Screws DIN 912
Screws DIN 7380
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Browsers on the Move: The Year in Review, the Year Ahead
Michael Smith from the W3C is talking about the changing browser landscape. Just in the last year we’ve had the release of the iPhone with WebKit, the Beta of IE8 and just yesterday, Opera’s Dragonfly technology.
In the mobile browser space, the great thing about the iPhone is that it has the same WebKit engine as Safari on the desktop. Opera Mini 4 — the proxy browser — is getting a lot better too. It even supports CSS3 selectors. Mozilla, having previously expressed no interest in Mobile, have started a project called Fennec. Then there’s Android which will use WebKit as the rendering engine for browsers.
Looking at the DOM/CSS space, there have been some interesting developments. The discovery of IE’s interesting quirk with generated elements was one. The support by other browsers for lots of CSS3 selectors is quite exciting. The selectors API is gaining ground. Michael says he’s not fond of using CSS syntax for DOM traversal but he’s definitely in the minority — this is a godsend.
Now for an interlude to look at Web developer tools in browsers. Firebug really started a trend. IE8 has copied it almost verbatim. WekKit has its pretty Web Inspector and now Opera has Dragonfly. Dragonfly has a remote debugging feature, like Fiddler, which Michael is very excited by.
On the Ajax front, things are looking up in HTML5 for cross-site requests. He pimps Anne’s talk tomorrow. Then there’s Doug’s proposal for JSONrequest. Browser vendors haven’t shown too much interest in that. Meanwhile, Microsoft comes out with XDR, its own implementation that nobody is happy about. The other exciting thing in HTML5 is the offline storage stuff which works like Google Gears.
XSLT is supported very well on the client side now. But apart from Michael, who cares? Give me the selectors API any day. SVG is still strong in Mozilla and Opera.
ARIA is the one I’m happiest with. It’s supported across the board now.
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Ah, here comes the version targetting “innovation”. The good news, as Micheal notes, is that is defaults now to the latest version. Damn straight!
Here are some Acid 3 measurements so that we can figure out which browser has the biggest willy.
Finally, look at all the CSS innovations that Dave Hyatt is putting in WebKit (and correctly prefixing with webkit-).
Looking to the year ahead, you’ll see more CSS innovations and HTML5 movement. Michael is rushing through this part because he’s running out of time. In fact, he’s out of time.
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During his tenure as an assistant coach with the Pioneers, Carle helped Denver to a 115-51-23 record, a 66-32-14-8 mark in the NCHC, one NCHC regular-season title, two NCHC Frozen Faceoff titles, five NCAA Tournament appearances, two Frozen Four appearances and the 2017 National Championship. While in Green Bay, Carle helped the Gamblers to a 37-23-4 record, a second-place finish in the USHL’s Eastern Conference and a franchise record 15-consecutive wins on home ice.
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Being there now, right where we expect him
Fifteen years ago, Birket Foster had an opening line for a history of the 3000 world. "It was a marketplace of names." Birket's is one of a group of well-known first-only names, along with Alfredo and Vladimir and Eugene. Earlier this spring he commemorated 42 years in the market. Every one has included a week of business serving HP's business server community.
In a few days he'll be doing what he's done, and in the same places, as he's done for years. There's a webinar that covers the promises and practices of application modernization and synchronization. Systems that look and behave like they're old are made new again. You can register for the June 12 event, to be held at 2 PM Eastern.
Right at the heart of the MB Foster business, though, pulses UDACentral. "We have completed its shakedown cruise at the Government of Canada in a BCIP program, and of course are moving another group of databases for customers that contract MBFoster to do the work using UDACentral."
Moving and managing data has always been at the center of MB Foster's competency. "We have been adding databases to the mix: Aurora (for AWS) and MongoDB are now part of what we are serving. We even did a paid Proof of Concept for UDASynch taking MongoDB back to Oracle."
The company's core team has been steady, but what's ahead is pushing UDACentral's wide array of improvements "to change them from a project to a product. That process will need additional sales talent and trainers, as well as more support and programming talent, so my hobby is expanding again." That's a hobby of assembling resources for new ideas.
In the meantime there is family life for Birket, the pleasures of two daughters and a son already old enough to be expanding and embracing lives in medicine and business, as well as building families of their own. Fishing the Ottawa River's massive muskies remains a passion, one he's pursuing this summer with HP 3000 tech guru Mark Ranft. Birket often has a hook in the water.
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Analysis: The Rise, Fall, and Eventual Resurgence of the Middle East’s Airline Giants – Part II
by Vinay Bhaskara
MIAMI — The biggest aviation story of the last four decades (basically since deregulation of airlines in the United States) has been the rise of the Middle Eastern airlines giants Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Etihad, as well as their rival to the north Turkish Airlines.
In Part II of our analysis of these carriers, we take a look at some of the headwinds that these carriers have faced in the last couple of years, and consider what the future may hold for them.
The MEB3 + 1 have run many shared headwinds
It’s no accident that the recent downturn in the fortunes of the MEB3+1 has coincided with a period of sharply lower oil prices and thus jet fuel prices.
Many of the factors above, whether related to political will or location, helped give the MEB3 an overarching cost advantage, and in the 2005-2014 run of seemingly never ending growth, one of the biggest reasons that passengers chose the MEB3+1 over European and Asian rivals was indeed price, along with the convenience (in certain markets) of clearing immigration at their destination airports.
The MEB3 + 1 could offer lower prices due to a mixture of economies of scale, strong cost discipline, and favorable regulatory regimes, particularly on cost-line items such as labor expenditure and maintenance (a benefit of their newer fleets). They also had a strong cost advantage based on fuel prices thanks to their younger fleets. And passengers chose them in droves based on pricing, often backtracking to fly the MEB3 on itineraries such as London – Dubai – Dakar.
The cost advantages for the MEB3 in an environment of high fuel prices were massive, enough to allow the MEB3 to discount their fares by several hundred dollars versus the market on many connecting itineraries. But with lower prices, the nominal fares in pretty much every market have come way down, which in turn has squeezed the ability of the MEB3 + 1 to compete on price.
On a percentage basis, the MEB3 + 1 offer just as much of a discount as they used to, but whereas a 20% discount might represent a $300 savings on a $1,500 fare, it is only a $150 savings on a $750 fare (this is an extreme example but illustrative). The percentage savings are the same, but since most consumers think nominally (i.e. in terms of absolute dollars) as opposed to marginally (in terms of percentages) the MEB3 + 1 options are much less attractive.
Flying via an MEB3 + 1 hub does present some inconveniences, whether longer flight times due to imperfect routings or discomfort flying 10-abreast economy class on the ubiquitous 777-300ERs.
While you might choose to fly Johannesburg – Doha – New York for a $500 savings over the one-stop via Atlanta, that much shorter travel time (10+ hours saved) with Delta looks a lot more appealing when the price difference is a couple hundred bucks. Across the board this puts the MEB3 + 1 in a quandary.
They can either offer deeper discounts to restore their nominal pricing advantage, or accept less full planes. Even during peak business periods, the MEB3 + 1 are volume businesses with margins in the low single digits (as compared to the high teen figures of the US carriers wrapped in the cocoon of their oligopoly), so they’ve largely opted for deeper discounts and full planes, hoping for pricing pressures to moderate. In the meantime, profitability has suffered.
Pricing is not the only headwind faced by the MEB3 + 1 on the demand side, as the threat of nonstop flights utilizing the newest generation aircraft technology and overflying the Middle East hubs continues to grow. More and more Boeing 787s and Airbus A350s ply the skies each day, and these are used increasingly for routes like Tokyo – Dusseldorf, San Francisco – Tel Aviv, and Toronto – Mumbai.
While the MEB3 + 1 are still competitive one stop options on these routes, the new nonstop options have siphoned away premium cabin and higher yielding economy class business travelers that would have previously flown via Doha or Istanbul. This has also cut into revenues, as has the lack of a true international premium economy product.
Moreover, three of the four carriers (excepting Etihad) offer at best 2-2-2 configurations for international business class (Emirates and Turkish have some planes configured in a shudder-inducing 2-3-2), save for Emirates in its A380s and Qatar Airways in its new jets (A380, A350, 787).
These are all comfortable and functional products to be sure, and Turkish Airlines is considered best in class by many for its business class catering through its supplier Do&Co. But the gold standard for international business class has shifted to the 1-2-1 configurations with each seat having aisle access, and the MEB3 + 1 do not meet that standard. This limits the revenue premium that they can generate over peers in the market.
One final headwind shared by the MEB3 + 1 is market access through bilateral air service agreements (ASAs). Despite years of lobbying and trade negotiations, the MEB3 + 1 remain blocked in several key developing and developed markets around the world, blocking them from some of the most lucrative and growing air travel markets around the globe.
For example, Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways are largely spectators in the Indian market despite years of negotiations, while Emirates cannot add service to more than a dozen Chinese airports that serve more than 20 million passengers a year. All four carriers are severely restricted in the Canadian market even as a resurgent Air Canada adds flights around the world including to MEB3 + 1 hubs like Dubai and Istanbul.
For the MEB3 + 1 to grow further, they need better access to both mature and fast-developing markets. Right now, they aren’t getting that access.
Each carrier has its own woes
In addition to a series of shared issues, the various MEB3 + 1 carriers do each face their own headwinds with varying degrees of severity. Starting with the runt of the litter (admittedly a pretty large runt), Etihad has unique challenges with its partnership and equity alliance strategy as we explored in an analysis and podcast last month (What’s Wrong with Etihad’s Business Model and Etihad’s Podcast Strategy [Deep Dive #8]).
Etihad also has by far the smallest base of O&D traffic to rely upon out of any of the MEB3 + 1 and has the region’s 800-pound gorilla an hour’s drive to the North in Dubai to compete for what O&D traffic it does enjoy. Etihad’s business model flaws have led some particularly “visionary” commentators to propose a joint airport or operation between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with Etihad’s business functionally being folded into that of Emirates.
On its own merits, this isn’t the worst idea in the world as the combined power of Abu Dhabi’s deep pockets and Dubai’s business savvy and O&D demand would make the combined carrier and hub the most fearsome power in the history of global aviation (that is not meant as hyperbole). Unfortunately, political reality and the sibling rivalry between Abu Dhabi and Dubai will likely prevent that from ever happening. Still, it’s an entertaining hypothetical.
Turkish Airlines, sadly, has been hit hard by the double whammy of political instability after the attempted coup of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a rise in terrorism, including the tragic attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport in June 2016 that killed 45 and injured 230.
The attacks and Turkey’s unfortunate geographical positioning on the border with Syria (and thus along the pathway to Europe for many refugees) have taken a huge bite out of tourism, which is reflected in the dismal airport traffic results for Turkey in 2016 (Turkish Airlines had not yet reported financials at the time of publication).
Istanbul Ataturk has slipped back to 5th place amongst Europe’s busiest airports, falling behind Amsterdam and Frankfurt in addition to Paris Charles de Gaulle and of course London Heathrow. Even more reflective of the overall market woes is Antalya, which lost just under 9 million passengers in calendar 2016, or a third of its 27.7 million total in 2015.
Emirates and Qatar are in relatively better shape, but Emirates has always been the closest of the core MEB3 to functioning as an independent business, and it has sent signals that it is pulling back some on growth.
The biggest issue for Emirates however, is the capacity constraints of the current airport as Dubai International is already bursting at the seams. Will Emirates choose to move up its shift to the now operational Dubai World Central super-hub (currently planned for 2025).
Qatar Airways doesn’t really have many unique headwinds per se, but the nation of Qatar more broadly is facing some backlash around its treatment of workers in advance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. That geopolitical pressure around human rights (regardless of veracity), if it elevates, may end up ensnaring Qatar Airways.
I’m a long run MEB3 + 1 bull
Despite spending more than a thousand words laying out all the headwinds facing the MEB3 + 1, in the long run I am still extremely bullish on the prospects of all four carriers (even Etihad). In fact, will go on record predicting that all four airlines will be amongst the 20 largest in the world by revenue passenger miles by 2025, and that at least three will be inside the top 10. Furthermore, at that time, Dubai World Central, Doha Hamad, and Istanbul’s new airport will all be amongst the top 15 busiest in the world, and Abu Dhabi will be amongst the top 30 busiest in the world.
This is not necessarily a popular opinion in the industry right now, as there are indeed several adverse short term indicators for all four carriers.
But in the long run, I believe that the market and situational fundamentals will win out. These are still airlines whose hubs sit within 6 hours’ flight distance of some 3 billion people, and that combined with the all-important political will allow the MEB3 + 1 to win. We’ve simply seen this work too many times before, whether with Singapore Airlines, Korean Air, or even KLM and Lufthansa in decades past. As long as Europe’s hubs keep shooting themselves in the foot with NIMBY-driven infrastructure constraints, the Middle East hubs will soak up much of the natural long run growth in global aviation.
Istanbul and Dubai increasingly justify the large flight banks purely on O&D volume, and Doha and Abu Dhabi are developing their own tourist and business O&D through a mix of forced stimulation (on the margin capacity can beget business activity and O&D demand) and natural economic growth.
The best analogy to use for the MEB3 + 1 is that of a technology startup – these carriers are still very much in their infancy as powers in global aviation. To present a specific example, back in 2014 around the time of its IPO, Facebook was in an uncertain place. It was still unprofitable and its cost of user acquisition had skyrocketed.
Investment analysts raised a furor over the IPO valuation of $104 billion, claiming that the value could never be realized for investors.
Today no one blinks at Facebook’s $395 billion valuation and along with Apple, Netflix, and Google, it is considered one of the pre-eminent forces in the new global economy. I’m willing to bet that the story of the MEB3 + 1 will play out in much the same manner, just over a longer time horizon.
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Vinay Bhaskara
Senior Business Analyst, Big Airline Enthusiast, Avid Airport Connoisseur, Frequent Flyer, Globetrotter. I Miss Northwest Airlines Every Day. vinay@airwaysmag.com @TheABVinay
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Excellent article. From my local (Manchester UK), we have 3 x 380s per day going to Dubai, and friends have gone so far as to fly via Dubai to Cape Town and Johannesburg – a big diversion, but, for the leisure traveller, it’s acceptable.
I would offer that Emirates Business Class, upstairs on the A380, is 1-2-1 (at least on the two flights I took recently). It’s an excellent layout, with great amenities (noise cancelling headsets, memory foam mattresses, separate bar).
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Episodes with guest stars
Episodes with songs
Elwood City Turns 100!
January 20, 2003[2]
Matthew Lane
Jeremy O'Neill
Robert Yap
"Waiting to Go" Next
"Elwood City Turns 100!" is the fifth episode in the seventh season of Arthur. It is a two-part episode. It is also the 100th episode of the series overall as well as the first 22-minute special.
The musical Mr. Ratburn’s class is staging for Elwood City's centennial turns into a drama of missed cues, inflated egos, and alien invasions — and all of that is going on behind the scenes.
The episode begins in 1903, at the ceremony where Elwood is made an official city. President Theodore Roosevelt, businessmen J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford, and town founder Jacob Katzenellenbogen, a wealthy lumber magnate, were all in attendance. Katzenellenbogen was not happy because he wanted the town to be named Elmwood, not Elwood, and he was even more displeased over the hideous statue of him that Morgan and Ford had donated to the city.
Then the episode moves into present where Mr. Ratburn announces to the class that Lakewood Elementary was chosen out of fifteen schools in the city to stage a musical production about the town's history, and then he has the class randomly pick roles for the show. Arthur is the narrator, Brain is the writer, and Buster is the director. After the parts were picked, Muffy talked to Mr. Ratburn about doing the publicity for the musical. However, chaos starts after Francine sings the narrator part, forcing Arthur to call her a show off. Matters then become worse after Muffy invited celebrities such as Michelle Kwan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Mr. Rogers. Then Mr. Ratburn asks Muffy if they would want to see this chaos. So Muffy gathers a speech about helping out.
Arthur was having trouble getting the narrator's singing part right, so he trades parts with Francine one week before the show. On opening night, everyone was there except for Francine, who was running late, so Arthur is forced to go onstage in her place as the Narrator. At first, everything was going okay until the UFO scene. Since the flying saucer that was going to be used was crushed in Mr. Frensky's garbage truck, Buster locked himself in the janitor's closet, upset, disappointed and tearful. Then Brain changes the scene last minute to write the flying saucer out of the show. When Buster realized that the show continued without him, he goes onstage as Dr. Ector, the alien, and sings a song about flossing teeth to the tune of Yankee Doodle. His hook tears a hole in the set, forcing an intermission. When everyone realizes that the show is ruined, Francine appears. She encourages her classmates by letting them know their audience loves the show, and the show ends well for everyone.
When the Reads are driving home, D.W. say that Arthur should play the alien. Arthur says that they won't do another centennial play for 100 years.
Nigel Ratburn
Jacob Katzenellenbogan (past)
Fern Walters
Jenna Morgan
Ms. Krasny
Timmy and Tommy Tibble
David Read
Thora Read
3rd Grade Male Rat
3rd Grade Male Dog
Maria Pappas
3rd Grade Female Aardvark (Number 2)
Beulah McInnerny
3rd Grade Male Rabbit
Neal Lundgren
Mr. Barnes
Prunella Deegan
Millicent Crosswire
3rd Grade Female Cat (Number 2)
Doria Walters
Mrs. Tibble
Mr. Armstrong
Mrs. Powers
Mr. Powers
Norman Hedgehog
3rd Grade Female Aardvark
3rd Grade Male Cat
3rd Grade Male Dog (Number 3)
Molly MacDonald
Michelle Kwan
Marc Brown
"Jacob Katzenellenbogan"
"The Long-Lost Green-Tailed Grebe"
"Dr. Ector"
"That's Elwood City"
This was the first episode that didn't show the "And now back to 'Arthur'." title card with the kids saying it. Instead, Larry King said "Thanks for tuning in, folks. And now back to Arthur."
In the beginning, Buster's excited comment "We won! We won!" could be referring to the line "Yee-hey, woo! We wiiiiin!" in the often-used "cheering" sound effect, which was in fact played a few seconds before he spoke.
Ducks appear in this episode three times, meaning that it's possible that in Arthur's universe, ducks are a descendant of grebes, which are said to be extinct in this episode.
This episode takes place in the year 2003. This is true because the 100th anniversary was celebrated in this episode, and Elwood City was founded in 1903. 100 years after 1903 is 2003, making that the year this episode takes place.
This is the second time that Mr. Ratburn uses a hat for the students to choose jobs at random. The first time is in "Citizen Frensky."
The song That's Elwood City mentions events from multiple episodes:
The substitute crossing guard from "Arthur vs. the Very Mean Crossing Guard".
The Baxter Comet from "The Boy Who Cried Comet".
The snowstorm from "The Blizzard".
The Father's Day picnic from "1001 Dads".
Mister Rogers, Michelle Kwan, Yo-Yo Ma, Alex Lebeck, and Joshua Redman, all of who were guest stars in previous episodes, were invited to the show by Muffy.
The man who drives Francine and her dad to the show is the same balding man seen in "Buster's Sweet Success", driving the same car sold to him by Ed Crosswire that features in the tow truck title card. Here however, the car has four functioning wheels and runs on its own power.
Jenna complains to Binky when he splits his pants again. This may be a reference to Arthur's Underwear, when Binky's pants ripped in the classroom.
The man giving Francine and her father a ride to the play appears in the audience even before they arrive.
Also, in the audience, Mr. Frensky can be seen in the crowd at the beginning of the musical before they arrived.
Arthur was wearing a pink sweater for a couple of seconds.[citation needed]
This is the first two-part episode.
Counting both halves of an episode as a single episode, this is the 100th episode.
Marc Brown made a cameo in this episode. He was not only on the guest list, he was seen in the row with the other celebrities while Arthur narrated after Fern's song. Jeremy O'Neill was also on the guest list.
Arthur: Sleepovers, Sports and More
Main article: Elwood City Turns 100!/Gallery
PBS Kids Share-a-Story Talent Show
↑ http://ww3.tvo.org/program/157024/arthur - Season 2002, Page 2
Cast Away / The Great Sock Mystery
Francine's Split Decision / Muffy Goes Metropolitan
Ants in Arthur's Pants / Don't Ask Muffy
To Tibble the Truth / Waiting to Go
Pick a Car, Any Car / Jenna's Bedtime Blues
D.W.'s Time Trouble / Buster's Amish Mismatch
The World of Tomorrow / Is There a Doctor in the House?
Prunella Sees the Light / Return of the Snowball
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Characters, Aardvarks, Babies,
Read family
Age 1[1][2]
Animal Aardvark[3]
Birthday During the introduction of "Arthur's Baby"
Hair color Light brown[4]
Red[5]
Complexion Pink (as a newborn baby)
Peach (s1-s15)
Beige (s16-present)
Favorite color Yellow[6]
Residence Arthur's House
Family Jane Read (mother)
David Read (father)
Arthur Read (brother)
D.W. Read (sister)
Thora Read (paternal grandmother)
Dave (maternal grandfather)
Gustav (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Bonnie (paternal aunt)
Sean (paternal uncle)
George (paternal cousin)
Bud (paternal uncle)
Loretta (paternal aunt)
Monique (paternal cousin)
Ricky (paternal cousin)
Loretta's daughter (paternal cousin
Ryder (cousin)
Jessica (maternal aunt)
Richard (maternal uncle)
Cora (maternal cousin)
Lucy (maternal aunt)
Lucy's husband (maternal uncle)
Fred (maternal uncle)
David's brother (paternal uncle)
Claudia (aunt)
Hilary (aunt)
Ruthie (aunt)
Theo (great-grand uncle)
Jane's great-grandfather (maternal great-great-grandfather)
Jane's great-grandmother (maternal great-great-grandmother)
Matthew (maternal great-great-great-uncle)
Thora's Brother 1 (paternal great-uncle)
Thora's father (paternal great-grandfather)
Thora's mother (paternal great-grandmother)
Thora's mother's great-uncle (paternal great-great-great-great-uncle)
Book debut Arthur's Baby
Cartoon debut "D.W. All Wet"
Voiced by Tracy Braunstein
Kate Read is the one year-old baby of Jane Read and David Read and the younger sister of Arthur Read and D.W. Read.
Kate as a newborn
Kate was first seen as a newborn in "Arthur's Baby" and "D.W.'s Baby".
On her first birthday, Kate puts her face in her birthday cake.[7]
Growing Up and Future Life
First revealed in "Paradise Lost", Kate is getting older and becoming less able to talk to Pal and other pets and more able to talk to other anthropomorphic animals. "Mei Lin Takes a Stand" also shows she is able to walk short distances.
During Arthur's dream in "D.W. and the Beastly Birthday", Kate is shown at approximately age 5. She wears D.W.'s hand-me-downs, including her iconic pink jumper. She has fuller, red hair now, in the same style as when she was an infant, with a bow pulled up at the top of her head. D.W. calls her by her new nickname "Katie Bug".
In the book Arthur's Reading Trick, written and illustrated by series creator Marc Brown, she is able recognize several objects by sight and say the words for them, such as "ball" and "diaper."
Kate is an aardvark like her parents and siblings. She wears a pink shirt, green pajama pants, white disposable diapers, and a light green bow with a hairclip on her hair. Her swimwear is swim diapers that are about the same color as regular ones, a red bathing shirt, and a white bathing cap with red polka dots. When she was a newborn, she was wearing pink footsie pajamas with green accents. She also has a pacifier in her mouth; but since she became a 1 year old, she has rarely had one. An early Kate can be seen in "Arthur's Baby" and "D.W.'s Baby".
Kate in a bathing shirt, swim diaper, and polka-dot bathing cap.
Kate playing the fly in Arthur's bug-week project.
A white jumpsuit with blue polka dots in D.W., Go to Your Room!
Kate Read, as she appears in Arthur's Missing Pal.
Kate in Arthur's Baby (1987)
Kate is able to communicate with Pal, Mei Lin, and other animals, toys, or babies. Anybody who is older than her and can speak English dismisses it as "baby talk" gibberish, and she and the animals interpret grownups' talk likewise. She enjoys playing in her sandbox and shows remarkable intelligence for her age, despite not being able to communicate with people older than herself. But in one episode she couldn't hear Pal correctly at times. Despite being a year old, she rarely stands up. On certain occasions, she is prone to crying. At one point, she threw a tantrum over wanting a balloon, and Pal ran off and brought her back one in order to cheer her up.
She can talk, but only to animals, toys, and other babies (similar to Rugrats). She also talks to the viewers when she's featured in an episode's intro.
She can say "D.W." by copying D.W.'s lip movements, but she says "D Double woo".[8]
On her Trading Card, her age is listed as "cute," even though she is one year old.
In material related to the series, she is commonly listed as "Baby Kate." This name is also used in "Buster's Second Chance" and "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone."
In "The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies," it revealed that she wants to go to Paris someday.
This list is incomplete. Please add to it if you know another appearance.
"Arthur's Spelling Trubble" (debut)
"D.W. All Wet"
"Arthur's Lost Library Book"
"Arthur's Pet Business"
"D.W. the Copycat"
"Arthur Goes to Camp"
"Arthur Babysits"
"Arthur's Cousin Catastrophe" (Cameo)
"Arthur's Birthday"
"Arthur's Baby"
"D.W.'s Baby"
"Arthur's Lost Dog"
"So Long, Spanky"
"Arthur's Family Vacation"
"Grandpa Dave's Old Country Farm"
"Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest"
"Arthur's Chicken Pox"
"Sick as a Dog"
"Arthur's Almost Boring Day"
"The Half-Baked Sale"
"Arthur's New Years Eve"
"D.W., the Picky Eater"
"Go to Your Room, D.W."
"Play it Again, D.W."
"Arthur's TV-Free Week"
"Lost!"
"D.W. Goes to Washington"
"D.W.'s Deer Friend"
"Grandma Thora Appreciation Day"
"D.W. Blows the Whistle"
"D.W.'s Very Bad Mood"
"How the Cookie Crumbles"
"D.W., All Fired Up"
"Dad's Dessert Dilemma"
"Revenge of the Chip"
"Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight"
"D.W.'s Perfect Wish"
"The Long, Dull Winter"
"Prove It!"
"The Blizzard"
"The Rat Who Came to Dinner"
"That's a Baby Show!"
"Nerves of Steal"
"You Are Arthur"
"The Secret Life of Dogs and Babies"
"Cast Away"
"The Great Sock Mystery"
"Is There a Doctor in the House?"
"April 9th"
"Postcards from Buster"
"Kiss and Tell"
"All Worked Up"
"Baby Kate and the Imaginary Mystery
"Big Brother Binky
"Baby Steps"
"Opposites Distract"
"Dog's Best Friend"
"Show Off"
"The Tattletale Frog"
"Staycation"
"Carried Away"
"D.W. and the Beastly Birthday"
"Pal and the Big Itch"
"Invasion of the Soccer Fans"
The full image gallery for Kate Read may be viewed at Kate Read/Gallery.
↑ "Happy first birthday, Kate." — Jane Read, "Arthur's Baby"
↑ "Baby Steps"
↑ http://www.pbs.org/parents/arthur/help/answers/faq_friends.html (archived page)
↑ "Paradise Lost"
↑ "D.W. and the Beastly Birthday"
↑ http://pbskids.org/arthur/print/tradingcards/cards.html#pg-kate2
↑ "Arthur's Baby"
Retrieved from "https://arthur.fandom.com/wiki/Kate_Read?oldid=394176"
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David Adjaye’s 800-foot, hand-cast concrete condo tower in NY's Financial District revealed
By Mackenzie Goldberg
Dec 15, '17 1:35 PM EST
Rendering courtesy of Lightstone.
Developer Lightstone has finally presented the first official reveal of 130 William, the highly anticipated condominium tower designed by British architect Sir David Adjaye. His first tower in city, Adjaye will be adding to Manhattan's iconic skyline with a 800-foot, 66-story residential tower in the Financial district.
The newly released design is a marked departure from early conceptual studies of the tower, which showed a gold prism against rigid rows of arched windows. The windows remain arched, but are varied in scheme and plans for the tower now include an additional 50 extra feet and an extra 5 stories. Adjaye's design has also traded gold for concrete, a refreshing break from the sleek steel and heavily glassed high rises that have become ubiquitous in this part of the city.
Featuring a façade of hand-cast concrete with bronze detailing, his design makes nods to the past and acknowledges the neighborhood’s history of craftsmanship. "The design for 130 William acknowledges the tower’s location on one of the city’s earliest streets. Understanding that rich history, I was inspired to craft a building that turns away from the commercial feel of glass and that instead celebrates New York’s heritage of masonry architecture with a distinctive presence in Manhattan’s skyline" the architect stated in a press release.
The building will offer studios to five-bedroom homes, along with a curated selection of lifestyle and wellness amenities counting a health club and spa, swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness studio, IMAX movie theater, golf simulator, and private dining area. With the list of luxuries even including a spa for pets, 130 William is certainly a far cry from Harlem’s Sugar Hill affordable housing development, the project that first brought Adjaye to New York and completed only four years ago.
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It's nice but heavy in a way that doesn't feel contemporary, but like another run at 1960s post modernism.
Dec 16, 17 2:55 pm
Nam Henderson
What exactly does "hand-cast concrete" mean?
voicefromwithin
Where will the dragons land? Really looks terribly heavy and unsightly.
Still I guess with NY money there are always enough fools to spend their dollars on the latest fad. They will sell the windows and the trendiest French windows in town and all the Ladies will fall for it, we know the wives buy. And yes I also want to know what the hand cast concrete is, made by Trump slaves? Just a last thought, it reminds me awfully sad left over from the tower fire in London.
Dec 17, 17 2:45 am
jla-x
I like the pool
Thayer-D
Absolute crap, but he's the flavor of the month, or is he past his due date?
Donna Sink
I love this. Gorgeous and different from all the floating transparent boxes. The pool space is wonderful.
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Cape Town International Convention Centre
Other Projects by Van der Merwe Miszewski Architects (VDMMA)
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University of Cape Town: Middle Campus
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Van der Merwe Miszewski Architects (VDMMA)
Commercial › Exhibition Center
Landscape + Planning › Masterplan
To fulfil its primary purpose, an international convention centre needs to be large enough to accommodate plenary sessions of thousands of delegates, as well as trade exhibitions such as motor shows, while providing all the attendant breakaway and meeting rooms, auditoria, banqueting halls, kitchens, bathrooms and so on. Yet to succeed on an operational level it must also have facilities that can comfortably cater for smaller functions such as weddings, product launches and cultural events.
Efforts were made to open up the design on this large, inhospitable and, in many ways, tricky site. As one example wide entrances were incorporated which have the effect of opening up to invite the city and its people into the space. Another inclusive aspect of the design was the creation of an encompassing new public space. Called Convention Square, this space brings focus on the comings and goings of the Roggebaai Canal, where both the main entrance of the CTICC and that of the Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel are situated. The Roggebaai Canal extends from Convention Square, the important public space where various modes of transport intersect, to the Victoria & Alfred (V&A Waterfront. As such, it serves as a visible umbilical link between the city and the sea.
Proximity of the adjacent Eastern Boulevard flyover presented an interesting challenge in terms of traffic noise. Yet it resulted in a positive attribute with regard to ease of access. The noise issue was overcome by relying on closed conservatories to exclude traffic sounds and the Cape's notoriously strong winds. These also provide the greening that gives visitors a sense of being in a living, breathing, natural environment. This greening of the interiors embraces the Cape's status as one of the seven botanical kingdoms of the world, with indigenous South African species strongly featured.
The space under-the flyover provides a natural access point for delivery vehicles, catering crew and exhibition infrastructure. Noise sensitive parts of the centre are blocked off from the highway while large sections of the buildings that face onto the city comprise glass curtaining, making the building transparent to the extent that commuters in the city are able to see through the centre to the harbour beyond.
This is a particularly spectacular sight when large cruise liners visit the port and are berthed in Duncan Dock beyond. The organisation of the building is logical and relatively simple. Large exhibition rooms are serviced from the hostile area under the freeways, transforming barren space into a marshalling yard.
A triple level gallery or spine is the cohesive element that extends the full length of the centre and links all elements of the building in a logical, unified system.
Practicalities also governed the design style and tone of the interiors. The design brief demanded that they should not only offer a clean, contemporary look as a foil to any style of event, but that they should also be extremely durable and easily maintained.
In association with Foreshore Architects: Revel Fox and Partners, Lucien Le Grange Architects, SV Architects, DHK Architects, ACG Architects and Macgqwaka Architects
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HomeFeaturedWhat Hath Trump Wrought?
What Hath Trump Wrought?
November 8, 2016 AFP Editor Featured 0
What will happen if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loses on Nov. 8? Will the majority of middle-class Americans—the so-called “deplorables” labelled by Hillary Clinton—unite behind the new president? According to this longtime advisor to past presidents, there’s no stopping the prairie fire that’s been lit by The Donald.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“If I don’t win, this will be the greatest waste of time, money and energy in my lifetime,” says Donald Trump. Herewith, a dissent. Whatever happens Tuesday, Trump has made history and has forever changed American politics.
Though a novice in politics, he captured the Party of Lincoln with the largest turnout of primary voters ever, and he has inflicted wounds on the nation’s ruling class from which it may not soon recover.
Bush I and II, Mitt Romney, the neocons and the GOP commentariat all denounced Trump as morally and temperamentally unfit. Yet, seven of eight Republicans are voting for Trump, and he drew the largest and most enthusiastic crowds of any GOP nominee.
Not only did he rout the Republican elites, he ash-canned their agenda and repudiated the wars into which they plunged the country.
Trump did not create the forces that propelled his candidacy. But he recognized them, tapped into them, and unleashed a gusher of nationalism and populism that will not soon dissipate.
Whatever happens Tuesday, there is no going back now.
How could the Republican establishment advance anew the trade and immigration policies that their base has so thunderously rejected?
How can the GOP establishment credibly claim to speak for a party that spent the last year cheering a candidate who repudiated the last two Republican presidents and the last two Republican nominees?
Do mainstream Republicans think that should Trump lose a Bush restoration lies ahead? The dynasty is as dead as the Romanovs.
The media, whose reputation has sunk to congressional depths, has also suffered a blow to its credibility.
Its hatred of Trump has been almost manic, and WikiLeaks revelations of the collusion between major media and Clintonites have convinced skeptics that the system is rigged and the referees of democracy are in the tank.
But it is the national establishment that has suffered most.
The Trump candidacy exposed what seems an unbridgeable gulf between this political class and the nation in whose name it purports to speak.
Consider the litany of horrors it has charged Trump with.
He said John McCain was no hero, that some Mexican illegals are “rapists.” He mocked a handicapped reporter. He called some women “pigs.” He wants a temporary ban to Muslim immigration. He fought with a Gold Star mother and father. He once engaged in “fat-shaming” a Miss Universe, calling her “Miss Piggy,” and telling her to stay out of Burger King. He allegedly made crude advances on a dozen women and starred in the “Access Hollywood” tape with Billy Bush.
While such “gaffes” are normally fatal for candidates, Trump’s followers stood by him through them all.
Why? asks an alarmed establishment. Why, in spite of all this, did Trump’s support endure? Why did the American people not react as they once would have? Why do these accusations not have the bite they once did?
Answer: We are another country now, an us-or-them country.
Middle America believes the establishment is not looking out for the nation but for retention of its power. And in attacking Trump it is not upholding some objective moral standard but seeking to destroy a leader who represents a grave threat to that power.
Trump’s followers see an American Spring as crucial, and they are not going to let past boorish behavior cause them to abandon the last best chance to preserve the country they grew up in.
These are the Middle American radicals, the MARs of whom my late friend Sam Francis wrote.
They recoil from the future the elites have mapped out for them and, realizing the stakes, will overlook the faults and failings of a candidate who holds out the real promise of avoiding that future.
They believe Trump alone will secure the borders and rid us of a trade regime that has led to the loss of 70,000 factories and 5 million manufacturing jobs since NAFTA. They believe Trump is the best hope for keeping us out of the wars the Beltway think tanks are already planning for the sons of the “deplorables” to fight.
Moreover, they see the establishment as the quintessence of hypocrisy.
Trump is instructed to stop using such toxic phrases as “America first” and “Make America great again” by elites who think 55 million abortions since Roe is a milestone of moral progress.
And what do they have in common with a woman who thinks partial-birth abortion, which her predecessor in the Senate, Pat Moynihan, called “infanticide,” is among the cherished “reproductive rights” of women?
While a Trump victory would create the possibility of a coalition of conservatives, populists, patriots, and nationalists governing America, should he lose, America’s future appears disunited and grim.
But, would the followers of Trump, whom Mrs. Clinton has called “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … bigots,” to the cheers of her media retainers, unite behind her should she win?
No. Win or lose, as Sen. Edward Kennedy said at the Democratic Convention of 1980, “The work goes on, the cause endures.”
Pat Buchanan is a writer, political commentator and presidential candidate. He is the author of The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?
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‘I Felt Very Powerful’: 10-Year-Old Boy Returns $900 To Woman Who Lost Envelope In Target
HOOVER, Ala. (CBS Local) — An Alabama woman who lost an envelope containing $900 cash at a local Target store recovered her money thanks to a 10-year-old boy who found it and decided to do the right thing.
Foster Dudley and his mother, Parisa, were shopping at Target in Hoover on Friday when they walked down an aisle near the pharmacy and discovered the envelope.
The envelope was filled with nine $100 bills and a bank receipt with the owner’s name on it.
“It would’ve been cool to keep, but if I did keep it that wouldn’t be good for the lady,” Foster told CBS affiliate WIAT.
10-year-old boy returns $900 to woman who lost envelope in Target.https://t.co/L8faNNRVJb pic.twitter.com/8sap0XhU4m
— CBS 42 (@CBS_42) January 9, 2020
Foster and Parisa held onto the money until they could return it to the bank. However, the bank was closed. So they reached out to the store’s manager, Jeremy Walker, and local police.
They eventually contacted Verdina Ball, the woman who had lost the money, and met up with her at the store on Sunday.
Target made the event a special occasion as Foster met Ball for the first time and gave her the envelope with the $900. The two shared a hug and a smile.
Parisa shared several images of the celebration on her Facebook page.
“Foster, my 10 year old son, learned a great lesson in integrity and empathy this past weekend,” Parisa wrote on Facebook.
“It was awesome to give her the money back,” Foster said. “I felt very proud of myself and happy that I gave it back and I felt very powerful after I did it.”
Target gifted Foster with a $100 gift card for showing good character and returning the money.
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Registros únicos, 43 resultados 43
Inglés, 43 resultados 43
Ronnie Tessler, 1 resultados 1
Evelyn Goddard, 1 resultados 1
Kuldip Gill, 1 resultados 1
Fred Ryckman, 1 resultados 1
Harlan Smith, 1 resultados 1
Lyle Wilson, 1 resultados 1
Anthony Carter, 1 resultados 1
Bill Reid, 3 resultados 3
Doug Cranmer, 1 resultados 1
Edward S. Curtis, 1 resultados 1
Audrey Hawthorn, 1 resultados 1
Michael Kew, 1 resultados 1
R.A. Brooks, 1 resultados 1
Robert Keziere, 1 resultados 1
Selig Kaplan, 1 resultados 1
Gloria Kaplan, 1 resultados 1
British Columbia, 33 resultados 33
Canada, 33 resultados 33
Vancouver, 12 resultados 12
Alert Bay, 4 resultados 4
Queen Charlotte, 3 resultados 3
North Vancouver, 2 resultados 2
First Nations, 43 resultados 43
Cultural groups, 43 resultados 43
Rites and ceremonies, 2 resultados 2
Carving, 2 resultados 2
Totem poles, 2 resultados 2
Masks, 1 resultados 1
Fundo, 28 resultados 28
Sólo las descripciones de nivel superior Cultural groups
Ronnie Tessler fonds
The fonds consists of photographs created by Ronnie Tessler between 1986 and 1987 documenting a canoe project by Nisga’a carver Norman Tait. The project was abandoned in the summer of 1987, and the canoe was left uncompleted. The photographs depict models for the canoe, transportation of the log for the canoe to the Museum of Anthropology, ceremonies performed throughout the project, and various stages of work on the canoe and model. Additional photographs from this period depict a totem pole-raising ceremony at Capilano Mall in North Vancouver, as well as portraits of Les Baker, a model Tait wanted to use for a “white man” mask. The fonds is arranged into a single series: Norman Tait canoe project and related materials.
Ronnie Tessler
Hilary Stewart fonds
Fonds consists of material related to the art, research, and writing of Hilary Stewart. The bulk of the material is related to the production of her books on the culture and art of the First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest. The remaining material relates to illustrations that she did for publications by other authors, a small amount of material done for personal use, and collected research and ephemera that does not appear to be related to one specific publication. Material includes original illustrations, collected research and notes, book drafts and pre-press materials, photographs, correspondence, and collected memorabilia.
The material has been arranged into three series:
1 - Books
2 - Illustrations and other artwork
3 - Collected research and ephemera
Hilary M. Stewart
X̄a’islak̓ala/X̌àh̓isl̩ak̓ala (Haisla language) collection
Collection consists of Haisla cultural documentation and X̄a’islak̓ala/X̌àh̓isl̩ak̓ala (Haisla language) learning material, including sound recordings, stories, a dictionary, and lessons/workbooks. The collection has been divided into two series:
Textual materials
George Szanto fonds
Fonds consists of eight slides of totem poles being raised in the Haida Village at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The slides are dated May, 1962. The photographs were taken by George Szanto, the son-in-law of Geoffrey Andrew who was the Dean and Deputy President of UBC from 1947 to 1962.
The totem poles represented in the images were carved by Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. They were originally situated at UBC's Totem Park. They are now located on the grounds behind the Museum of Anthropology, and modelled on a 19th century Haida village.
George Szanto
Paddling to Where I Stand collection
Collection illustrates the gathering of information and writing of the book “Paddling to Where I Stand.” Collection includes interviews to Agnes Alfred conducted by Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith between 1979 and 1985. Interviews are documented as audio and video recordings and their written transcriptions. Collection includes other materials gathered by Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith for the edition and publication of the book. Collection also contains the manuscripts and draft for the book; correspondence between Martine J. Reid, Daisy Sewid-Smith and other people; eulogies and funeral pamphlets; Agnes Alfred’s family information; historical notes; and miscellanea. Collection includes photographic materials with photographs included in the book and additional photographs gathered by Martine J. Reid and Daisy Sewid-Smith during their research. Collection includes portraits of Agnes Alfred’s parents.
Martine J. Reid
Minn Sjolseth fonds
The fonds reflects Minn Sjolseth's artistic career and travels to First Nations communities throughout British Columbia and Alaska with her husband Anthony Carter. Contents of the fonds depict First Nations cultures in British Columbia between 1960 and 1980, including Haida, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka'wakw, Gitsegukla, Kispiox, and Nisga'a. Several of the contents depict notable figures, including Chief Dan George and August Jacks.
The fonds includes textual records including correspondence, ephemera, newspaper clippings; graphic materials such as photographs, slides, negatives, and transparencies that depict Sjolseth’s travels and artworks; and artworks produced by Sjolseth including paintings, drawings, and prints.
The fonds is organized into the following series:
Artwork an Exhibition records
Minn Sjolseth
Nuu-chah-nulth Photograph collection
[192-?]
The collection consists of eight photographs likely taken in the Nuu-chah-nulth community in the 1920's. Some of the photographs may have been taken by Catherine, the daughter of an early Indian Agent named Augustus Cox. They include a number of images that appear to be a Samiilth or Saatlsaach ceremony, with K'aanaatla mimicking wolves. Some of these images are taken near a seaside village, which shows various types of structures and canoes. Other images taken on a beach show canoe runs, as well as two images of individuals in robes and headdresses. Another image shows a detailed view of two headdresses. There are also images of what seem to be preparations for a parade, with individuals dressed in costumes and decorated motorcars nearby.
Kyuquot: Village by the Sea collection
In 1976, a group of students from the Kyuquot Elementary, a First Nations elementary school on the West coast of Vancouver Island, decided to make a filmstrip that documented their lives in the fishing village. The children’s intention behind making these photographs was to raise money for a summer field trip to Victoria, Vancouver, and the Okanagan. As part of the fundraiser, the children made a visual map depicting their daily travel to school by boat and a hand-written order form for the film. Collection consists of documents created by the Kyuquot Elementary School and Mr. Moore, a former Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the 1970s. The collection consists of one correspondence letter written by Mr. Moore requesting a copy of their filmstrip, four pages of typewritten filmstrip descriptions, one handwritten map and flyer created by the Kyuquot Elementary School and one 70 frame color filmstrip that was digitized in 2017. [At the time of processing, it was unknown if the fundraiser was successful.]
Kyuquot Elementary Secondary School
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection
([192-] - [195-])
Collection consists of 48 glass lantern slides (29 of them tinted) and 2 negatives. The lantern slides include images related to four Residential Schools: Elkhorn (Manitoba), St. Michael’s (British Columbia), Shingwauk (Ontario), and Choutla (Yukon).
Collection includes images of the schools, classrooms, and different areas of the buildings (dining room, kitchen, etc.); the staff, students, and families engaged in different activities; and surroundings of the schools (cemeteries, churches, villages, etc.). Collection also includes images of landscapes and two images unidentified villages.
Collection might be similar to the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada fonds, at the Anglican Church of Canada Diocese of Rupert's Land, Manitoba.
Lantern slides shows were used during the 1920s and 1930s by the Church of England in Canada to promote the work of their missionaries and to raise funds. The slide shows took place during missionaries’ services, church services, Sunday school groups, and special church programs. Usually, the slide shows were complemented with a text with basic commentary on the mission and content of the slides.
Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada
Fred Ryckman fonds
The fonds consists of records created by Ryckman during his tenure with the Department of Indian Affairs, primarily from the 1920s and 30s. The fonds includes contact sheets made as copies of photographs that remain in possession of Ryckman’s heirs. Records in the fonds take the form of notes and correspondence. Also included in records is a ledger which contains census information. The fonds also includes photocopies of newspaper articles relating to members of the First Nations whom Ryckman came into contact with as a result of his work as well as materials relating to Ryckman himself.
The fonds consists of the following files:
1-1, Ledger Book [Original & Copies], c. 1920
1-2, Photographs [Negatives & Contact Sheets], c. 1920
1-3, Articles and Correspondence [Photocopies], 1922-1936
1-4, Kootenays [Typed & Handwritten transcipts], c. 1932
Fred Ryckman
Anthony Carter fonds
[194-]-2018, predominant 1966-1979
The fonds consists of photographs, transparencies, negatives, prints, slides, textual records and objects. Contents of the fonds primarily reflect First Nations cultures in British Columbia between 1960 and 1980, including the Haida, Coast Salish (formerly Burrard Reserve), Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Gitsegukla and Ans'pa yaxw (Kispiox) nations. Notable First Nations personalities and artists documented include Chief Dan George, Gerry Marks, Henry Hunt and Norman Tait. Contents also include: B.C. landscapes such as Gwayasdums (Gilford Island), Klemtu, Mamalilikulla and Uchucklesaht; First Nations children; First Nations exhibits, totem poles and installations at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and for the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan. The original accession was arranged in series according to Carter's published works which focus on specific localities, communities, individuals and subject matter, with additional series related to Carter's photojournalistic work and personal recordkeeping added in 2019 when an accrual was made to the fonds.
A.A. Kingscote Collection
The collection consists of postcards depicting First Nations from Western Canada.
Anthony A. Kingscote
Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds
The fonds consists of 7 photographs from a June 1958 centennial celebration in Alert Bay that Barwick described as having been ordered from a local cameraman. There are also 7 postcards that contain images of Alert Bay ca. 1949 or 1950 that were purchased by Barwick in the summer of 1958. Sixteen negatives were taken by Barwick at an excavation at Beach Grove in the Fraser River delta in June of 1957, likely done under the guidance of Charles Borden, a Lecturer and later Professor of Archaeology at UBC who studied the Beach Grove site from ca. 1955 to 1958. Notes on the envelope indicate these include images of D. N. Abbott, Colin McCafferty, and Nansi Swayze.
Diane Elizabeth Barwick
Douglas & McIntyre fonds
The fonds consists of 83 images associated with two books published by Douglas & McIntyre: Bill Reid by Doris Shadbolt and The Raven Steals the Light by Bill Reid. The photographers responsible for these images are R. Dereth, R. Keziere, R. Lum and B. McLemore.
Edward F. Meade fonds
The fonds consists predominantly of slides of various petroglyphs and pictographs, primarily from locations on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The fonds also contains location charts of petroglyphs and the creator’s typed notes about various sites.
Edward F. Meade
Edward Sheriff Curtis collection
Copied [ca. 197-?] (originally created 1897 - 1930)
The collection consists of slides, photographs and negatives, all copies of Curtis’s most extensive work, “The North American Indian.”
Ewen MacLeod collection
Digitized 2011 (originally created June 1927)
The collection consists of three photographs of St. George’s Residential School in Lytton, BC.
Ewen MacLeod
Gillian Darling Kovanic fonds
This fonds consists of textual records, photographs, negatives, slides, audio recordings, compact discs and video on DVD that relate to Kovanic’s academic and film career. The fonds relates especially to her work in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, but also captures her work with First Nations on the Northwest coast of British Columbia.
Gillian Darling Kovanic
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