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Portuguese Youth Activists Sue 33 Countries Over Climate Crisis
Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=56023"><span class="small">Holly Young, Deutsche Welle</span></a>
Young writes: "In what is being described as an unprecedented climate case, four children and two young adults from Portugal have filed a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg against 33 industrialized countries."
Portuguese students protest in front of the Portuguese Parliament on behalf of climate change on March 15, 2019, in Lisbon, Portugal. (photo: Horacio Villalobos/Getty)
By Holly Young, Deutsche Welle
n what is being described as an unprecedented climate case, four children and two young adults from Portugal have filed a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg against 33 industrialized countries.
The young people, supported by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), allege the countries — which include Germany, the UK, Russia and Portugal — have failed to enact the emission cuts needed to protect their futures.
The case focuses on countries whose policies lawyers argue are too weak to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius Paris Agreement goal. They cite the country ratings of the Climate Action Tracker.
The plaintiffs range from age 8 to 21 and come from Lisbon and Leiria in Portugal. The case states climate change poses a rising threat to the six young people's lives and physical and mental well-being. It invokes human rights arguments — including the right to life, a home and to family — as well as claiming discrimination.
"Our generation is living in an age of great danger and uncertainty, so our voice must be heard," said Andre Oliveira, 12, whose father is translating for him.
"It's clearly not the case that young people are the only people vulnerable to the effects of climate change," said Gerry Liston, legal officer at GLAN. "But because they stand to endure the worst impacts, we're saying the effects of failing to adequately address greenhouse gas emissions amounts to unlawful discrimination on the grounds of age."
"It's not about finger-pointing, but all about giving all these 33 governments a chance to act better and faster," said Andre. "It is a matter of human rights and that's why we're going all the way to Strasbourg."
A First at Strasbourg
While there are numerous recent and ongoing climate cases, many also involving young plaintiffs, it is the first of its kind to be brought to Strasbourg. The international court, set up in 1959, deals with alleged violations of civil and political rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights.
The pressing need for significant and wide-scale action among many large emitters warranted going directly to Strasbourg, rather than through domestic courts which is more common, explains Liston. "A decision from the European Court of Human Rights is urgently required in order to provide the legally binding decision that would then filter down and prompt the change that's required at the domestic level."
According to GLAN, if successful, the 33 countries would be legally bound to tackle overseas contributions to climate change, including that of multinational companies, as well as ramping up emissions cuts. While the timescale ahead and whether the court will decide if the case is admissible is not yet clear, Liston said they have applied for the case to be given priority.
Portuguese Wildfires
The plaintiffs belong to three families and became involved in the case after hearing about GLAN's climate work through a local contact.
Many cited seeing climate change hit their doorsteps as encouraging them to act, particularly the deadly Portuguese wildfires in 2017.
"I directly experienced the terror of the fires," said Catarina Mota, 20, one of the four that live in Leiria, one of the areas hardest hit. Rising sea levels, the constant threat of forest fires and increasingly abnormal temperatures are now part of her everyday reality. "These changes make me feel apprehensive," she said, adding sometimes the heat makes it hard to breathe or sleep. In July this year the hottest temperatures in 90 years were registered in the country.
"What motivated me to be involved in this case was the desire for a world where one can at least survive," said Catarina. "Because if nothing is done by our governments this will not happen."
Climate action, such as this case, is necessary "in order to have a future and a healthy life without fear" said plaintiff Claudia Agostinho, 21. "Our generation and all future generations deserve this."
Wave of Climate Litigation
The Strasbourg case is one of a growing wave of climate litigation around the world. According to the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment, while the majority happen in the U.S., over the last year climate cases were filed across six continents, 80% of them against governments.
It also noted a recent increase in litigation by activists and advocacy groups, and the use of human rights arguments.
While there are ongoing cases in many countries — including South Korea, Peru, and Canada — regarding states' human rights obligations to mitigate climate change, the most recent high-profile example is the Dutch Urgenda case.
In 2019 the country's Supreme Court became the first highest level domestic court to establish a state's duty to significantly and immediately reduce emissions in line with human rights obligations. This summer activists were also successful in taking the Irish government to court over climate action failures. Greta Thunberg is among 16 youth activists who also have an ongoing legal complaint to the UN committee on the rights of the child.
Politics, Protest and the Courts
"I think one case inspires the other," said Caroline Schroeder, from Germanwatch, an NGO supporting 9 young people with a constitutional climate complaint in Germany. She sees the Strasbourg case and growing trend of climate litigation as born of the same mounting frustration driving the Fridays for Future movement - namely, that "politics is not doing enough."
"I wish we wouldn't have to bring the cases," said Roda Verheyen, a climate lawyer working on the People's Climate Case filed against the EU institutions. "But it is essentially still the case that the level of protection afforded to our children by the legislators is too low. And that's why the courts will keep seeing these cases."
Verheyen points out that in emphasizing a general duty to protect rather than challenging a specific law, the Strasbourg case is less concrete than others she has worked on. Yet a win there could have wide-reaching implications for member states, she adds, and even a loss could potentially "reinforce the strength of the litigation both in national cases and on the EU level."
Its ultimate strength, Liston argues, is in bringing home the time perspective and imminence of the threat.
"This case shows that there are people who stand to suffer horrendous effects of climate change within their lifetime," said Liston.
The youngest plaintiff, now 8, will be 28, in 2040, the year in which the UN panel of scientists expect many of the most severe consequences of climate change to unfold.
Andre, 12, said he hopes the case will bring "acknowledgement of the voice of a generation that lives with high anxiety and increasing fear of incoming catastrophes, but also a generation that has all the hope that things will change."
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Rita Allen Foundation Peter Mombaerts
Peter Mombaerts
Peter Mombaerts obtained his M.D. from the Catholic University of Leuven. He then joined the laboratory of Susumu Tonegawa at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on immunodeficient mice generated by gene targeting. As a postdoc with Richard Axel at Columbia University, he developed a genetic approach to visualize axonal projections of mouse olfactory sensory neurons that express the same odorant receptor gene. From 1995 to 2007 he was a faculty member at The Rockefeller University. In 2008 he moved to Frankfurt, Germany, as director of the newly created Department of Molecular Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, and in 2013 he became the director of the independent Max Planck Research Unit of Neurogenetics. His research interests are the development and function of the mouse olfactory system, and his expertise is genetic manipulation of the mouse.
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Robb Read: Bruce McLaren’s Ultimate Legacy
Inside the Kiwi’s mark on the automotive industry – 50 years since his passing.
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About midday on June 2, 1970, the Goodwood circuit in south-east England fell silent. Bruce McLaren had been testing his latest Can-Am car and was squeezing in one more lap before lunch when the vehicle’s rear bodywork came adrift on the Levant Straight and he slammed into an abandoned marshal’s post at 290km/h. Motorsport had lost a true hero of the racetrack at the age of 32.
Fifty years on, Bruce McLaren is still revered in motoring circles around the world. And it’s no wonder. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 driving a Ford GT40, then the 12 Hours of Sebring the following year. Team McLaren also dominated Can-Am from 1967 to 1972—Bruce himself winning the series in 1967 and 1969—and his eponymous F1 team has gone on to claim eight World Constructors’ Championships and 12 World Drivers’ Championships.
Bruce McLaren at the 1968 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix in Riverside, Calif., a race he went on to win. Photo: Courtesy of the McLaren Group.
After his death, the team took the Indy 500 twice during the 1970s. To this day, McLaren is the only man to win an F1 Grand Prix in a car he designed, and with his name on the wing.
To say McLaren was a genius driver is to ignore his remarkable skills as an engineer and team leader. Not bad for an amateur who entered international motorsport on a scholarship, having spent years of his childhood confined to a hospital bed.
I recently travelled to New Zealand, where Bruce McLaren was born. My vehicle for exploration was the McLaren GT, the British marque’s 612 hp grand tourer that bears the hallmarks of the M6GT that Bruce designed as McLaren’s first road car in the 1960s. Alas, the latter never saw production.
Bruce McLaren in his prototype M6GT. Photo: Courtesy of the McLaren Group.
A mid-engined supercar, the new GT is McLaren Automotive’s most practical design ever, with a unique, side-hinged glass screen over the rear luggage space. The cabin is quieter and more luxurious than other McLarens, with a “comfortable” suspension set up for touring.
McLaren grew up in an apartment in Auckland, above the family garage in suburban Remuera. His father, Les, repaired vehicles, and the young Bruce was soon getting his hands oily.
The 456kW McLaren GT. Photo by Jeremy Taylor.
Today, the building is a clothing store, but in the late 1940s, Bruce would have been working the forecourt with his father. He also captained the rugby team at nearby Meadowbank Primary School before contracting a hip disorder that kept him in a children’s home for almost three years.
Bruce later taught himself to drive in the family’s backyard, and that first car is now on display at the Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, an hour south of the capital. There is where the Bruce McLaren Heritage Centre is located, a museum—run by enthusiast Zeta Panton—that boasts a treasure trove of memorabilia.
“Bruce became an absolute legend of motor racing, but it all began in this 1929 Austin 7,” she explained. “This is the car that fueled Bruce’s racing bug. It was used as a business car for the garage but Bruce learned how to drive in this car, before he passed his test at age 15.”
Behind the wheel of the 1929 Austin 7 that Bruce McLaren learned to drive in. Photo: Courtesy of the Bruce McLaren Heritage Centre.
Packed in around the seven McLaren-related cars on display are some other real gems. His overalls (pinned to the wall), trophies, keepsakes, as well as his first toolbox with a hand-painted lid. And upstairs, there’s an extensive collection of newspaper cuttings.
McLaren entered his first hill climb in an Austin 7 Ulster when he was 14 years old. At age 22, he was selected by New Zealand’s Grand Prix Association for its Driver To Europe program aimed at promising racers.
The Bruce McLaren Heritage Centre in New Zealand. Photo by Jeremy Taylor.
Not far from the Heritage Centre, off State Highway 1, is Pukekohe Park Raceway. Now a horse-racing venue, the circuit was opened in 1963 as the location for the New Zealand Grand Prix.
John Surtees won that first race, but McLaren returned home to take the title himself in 1964, driving a Cooper Climax. There’s little to mark the track’s illustrious motoring past, but later winners included Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and McLaren’s countryman, Chris Amon.
Bruce McLaren at home with his daughter Amanda. Photo: Courtesy of the McLaren Group.
New Zealanders love their cars, but you’d be lucky to spot a McLaren here. The GT gives me superstar status on the two-hour drive south to Taupo and the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. The racetrack was renamed in Bruce’s honour in 2007, despite the fact that he never competed there. More evidence of the island nation’s pride for its native son.
Although based in Surrey, England, the McLaren Group keeps the connection strong with its founder’s birthplace by sponsoring a new driver apprentice program for New Zealand’s aspiring racers to train in Europe, a way for the company to honour its namesake and his start in competition.
Bruce McLaren’s daughter, Amanda, discusses her famous father. Photo by Jeremy Taylor.
“He was a very proud Kiwi and went back home as often as he could,” says his only daughter, Amanda. “It’s 50 years since that fateful day, but his memory still lives on.”
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https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2020/10/18/daryl-morey-takes-out-full-page-newspaper-ad-to-thank-rockets-fans/
Daryl Morey takes out full-page newspaper ad to thank Rockets, fans
After more than 14 years in Houston, with the last 13 as GM and head of basketball operations, Daryl Morey is stepping away as of Nov. 1.
While the Rockets didn’t win an NBA title in that span, they were a clear success story by almost any measure. They ranked No. 2 in the league in overall wins, and they currently have the NBA’s longest streak at eight consecutive playoff berths. They never had a losing season.
His creative and analytics-driven approach changed the paradigm of team building not only in Houston, but around the entire NBA. For example, here’s how shot charts have changed since Morey’s hire:
how it started how it's going @dmorey edition pic.twitter.com/h4mxWFOUlR
— llewellyn jean (@owenlhjphillips) October 16, 2020
None of that would have been possible, however, without the Rockets choosing to hire Morey more than a decade ago, and continually trusting him to implement his unique vision over the years.
In Sunday’s Houston Chronicle, Morey took out a full-page advertisement to thank the organization, players, and fans for their role in that journey.
Here’s how the letter reads:
Dear Rockets fans,
Thank you for an amazing 14 years. Your love, support, and energy has meant the world to me.
My family and I came to Houston as yankees, nervous about how the city would welcome us and honored that [former owner] Leslie Alexander had trusted me to help run a legendary franchise. I came into an organization with Hall of Fame players Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady already in place and a championship legacy built by Houston legends like Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. Walking into work on the first day was exciting, daunting, and inspiring.
Soon enough, the nervousness washed away, and we came to feel like adopted Texans. What followed was the most amazing 14 years of my life. I could not imagine my good fortune to be surrounded by incredible people like Tad Brown, Carroll Dawson, Steve Clifford, Sam Hinkie, B.J. Johnson, Keith Jones, Dennis Lindsey, Tony Nila, Gersson Rosas, Rafael Stone, Tom Thibodeau, and Jeff Van Gundy. The bar was so high that when we added additional talent — such as Rick Adelman, Kenny Atkinson, JB Bickerstaff, Mike D’Antoni, Chris Finch, Sachin Gupta, Artūras Karnišovas, John Lucas, Kevin McHale, Monte McNair, Nick Nurse, Jimmy Paulis, and Eli Witus — it took forever to find them. It is a testament to the deep bench of talent the Rockets have always had that 11 of these people have gone on to become GMs or head coaches of their own teams. I am thankful to everyone I have worked with at the Rockets. There are far too many to list each of them by name. Our success was only because of you.
Thank you to Tilman, Paige, Michael, Patrick, Blayne, and Blake Fertitta. Your unwavering support and trust in me — from the moment you bought the team, and through both great and challenging times — is something I will never forget. With your leadership, and with the excellent people you have in place throughout the organization, there are championships in the Rockets’ future.
Thank you for the memories. I have so many. As a rookie GM, we started the season 15-17, and my nerves returned. We then went on a magical 22-game winning streak. The image of Rafer Alston going full Skip-2-My-Lou dribbling out the clock in front of Sasha Vujačić for win #22 will be etched forever in my memory. By 2009, we were able to add some of my all-time favorite players, such as Ron Artest, Shane Battier, Aaron Brooks, Chuck Hayes, Carl Landry, Kyle Lowry, Dikembe Mutombo, and Luis Scola, to the core of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. I can’t think of a better group of players and teammates. That team was unfortunately derailed by injuries. We remained a fun, hard-working group afterwards, but it did teach us what life was like without a superstar in the NBA. And then…
James Harden changed my life. An entire page could be dedicated just to James. He not only transformed my life, but he also revolutionized the game of basketball — and continues to do so — like almost no one has before. The game is played differently because of James, and on every playground in the world, the next generation of talent is studying and imitating his game. I can’t believe I won’t be able to have another strategy session with James. I loved working together on how to get his incredible Hall of Fame teammates Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, and Russell Westbrook to the Rockets. I will be rooting for James to win a championship for Houston. It’s how this story should end.
Finally, I want to say thank you again to the city of Houston and to all Rockets fans. Your support has kept me energized and inspired. You have been the driving force to our success. I am honored to have been a part of your story.
Morey is being replaced as GM of the Rockets by Rafael Stone, who is one of those aforementioned internal pieces.
Now 48 years old, Morey’s stated rationale for walking away includes spending more time with his family. However, Fertitta says wouldn’t be surprised if Morey eventually returns to an NBA team in the East, where he wouldn’t be in direct competition with the Rockets.
Morey’s advertisement includes a photo of himself and Harden from a press conference in October 2012, shortly after the blockbuster trade that brought the eventual MVP to Houston. That deal remains by far the most impactful of Morey’s storied basketball career to date.
Rockets finished No. 2 in NBA wins over Daryl Morey's 13 seasons
Daryl Morey to step down, Rockets to promote Rafael Stone to GM
Thank You 🚀 pic.twitter.com/oMlRwq2z8i
— Daryl Morey (@dmorey) October 18, 2020
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The moment we’ve all been waiting for. The epic unveiling of footage we never thought we’d live to see. The defining moment of our generation is here. The teaser trailer for Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers has arrived online! Kinda! OK, maybe we’re overselling it. Those who stayed after the credits of Captain America: The First […]
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Edward Norton might play villain in The Bourne Legacy
Edward Norton‘s already bright star was set to shoot into the stratosphere following Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk. Instead, the famously-difficult actor saw the opposite take place: his last three films performed dismally at the U.S. box office (and headed direct-to-DVD here in Australia) and Mark Ruffalo took his place as Hulk in The Avengers. Well, let […]
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Trailer Debut: Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The first teaser trailer for Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol has debuted online, featuring Tom Cruise once again doing the impossible. The question is: does ‘the impossible’ include resurrecting the M:I franchise? Although Mission Impossible 3 was far from a disappointment (it’s widely considered to be the best of the trilogy), the film hardly set […]
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Jeremy Renner is the new Bourne (kinda)
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Jeremy Renner has landed the lead role in The Bourne Legacy, Deadline reports. The long wait is over as Universal Pictures officially offered Renner the opportunity to star in the Tony Gilroy directed action thriller. The film is a spinoff of the highly successful Bourne Identity trilogy which starred Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. In […]
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You might remember our article from September 2010 announcing that Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming feature The Master had been put on hold. Well, some five months later, Vulture claims Mr Anderson has now got not just one, but two features on the way. Both Anderson’s Scientology drama The Master (still only a working title) and […]
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P.T. Anderson’s latest film delayed indefinitely
This is rather upsetting. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s upcoming project The Master has been delayed indefinitely, as confirmed by stars Jeremy Renner and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film was to feature Hoffman as the charismatic leader of a cult, whose rise to power would parallel that of Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard. Renner was to play a […]
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Published On: Thu, Dec 15th, 2016
Guanajuato placed third in remittance flow
Diego Sinuhe Rodríguez, Guanajuato’s Secretary of Social Development, stated: “Guanajuato ranks third among national remittance reception states in the country, receiving more than $ 1.8 billion USD annually from migrants living in the U.S.A; we’re talking 10 percent of the total remittances entering the country”.
According to data from the State Institute of Attention to the Migrants of Guanajuato, around 1,250,000 Guanajuato born migrants currently live in the United States.
In fact, a total of 1.5 billion USD was received from January to September 2016, according to data from the Economic Information System of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico). the state of Guanajuato is in third place at national level, just below Michoacán and Jalisco.
“According to the “Migration and Remittances Mexico 2016 Yearbook” Guanajuato’s families of migrants use these resources mostly to buy food, clothing, improve their housing and pay debts”, said the official.
Guanajuato’s migrants (Photo: Unión Guanajuato)
In León, the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Cámara Nacional de Comercio, Servicios y Turismo – CANACO) announced discounts and promotions to migrants and their families in the acquisition of goods or services in 500 businesses affiliated in this state, through the “Impulso Migrante card”.
“This card will allow them to obtain a discount whenever they pay for any kind of goods or services at participating businesses”, Rodríguez added.
According to Banxico, most citizens send their money through electronic transfer services such as Moneygram or Western Union; and for every 300 dollars that a migrant sends to Mexico, they must pay between 5 and 9 dollars depending on the money transfering company they are working with.
The Ministry of Social Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Social) reported that between 2009 and 2014, 8.8 percent of the migrants who returned to Mexico, came to Guanajuato.
Juan Manuel Rodríguez, a migrant from Texas, is going to spend the Christmas holidays with his family here in Guanajuato. He said that he and his family are afraid of the changes that might surge next year with the new president of the USA.
“Only in the company where I work in Texas, 70 percent of the employees are migrants, and 30 percent of them are Mexican”, the Mexican migrant said.
Source: http://www.20minutos.com.mx
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“Our regional policy is anchored on promoting our national as well as our collective security interests” President Isaias
President Isaias Afwerki gave a live Radio and TV interview to national media outlets on the 22nd and 23rd of January 2016 on a wide range of domestic and regional issues. Excerpts of the Interview, (4thpart), follows:
Q. Mr. President, the Eritrean Government recently issued a statement supporting the initiative sponsored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism. Could you tell us the backdrop of the statement and its significance?
President Isaias: Our foreign policy statements and positions should not be understood in isolation or seen as knee-jerk reactions to changing or burning issues in our region. It is critical to understand the fundamental principles and parameters that inform and dictate our foreign policy towards our neighbors. These take into account our appraisal of regional developments and above all, they are designed to enhance our national security interests as well as our collective regional interests. We do not adopt incoherent and inconsistent positions that shift constantly with unfolding events. That may be the norm in other places but this is not how we operate. We are essentially dealing with a continuum.
Our foreign policy is predicated on our analysis of global developments of the last twenty five years as well as the preceding period. Eritrea’s independence coincided with the end of the Cold War and the advent of a so-called new world order. There may be several perspectives and explanations on how the Cold War came to an end. What is relevant to us is what our aspirations are against the backdrop of the regional developments that have transpired in the last twenty five years; especially in the context of the escalation of conflicts and upheavals in our region that we see at this juncture. Every country, every people, cherish stability and development; they aspire for wealth, prosperity and collective well-being. These are resources that must be gleaned through hard work, sweat and toil. Peace and stability are likewise secured through hard work; they are not gifts that drop from Heaven like “Manna”. Global interdependence – as we do not live in insulated islands – also dictates that we secure these benefits taking into account our collective interests.
We can enumerate a number of influencing factors and players for the chaos prevailing in our region in the past twenty-five years. From a global perspective, the contour of the prevailing uni-polar world is distinctively discernible. Bipolarity was the defining characteristics or hallmark of the global power balance in the period of the Cold War. What is often termed as the “West” (I don’t want to call it the US or Europe; it is actually the world of corporations) has emerged in its sequel. The dominant logic at that time was that an unassailable uni-polar power that will dominate the world for the next 50 years without rivalry or competition in the technological, military, economic and other spheres has emerged and is here to stay. This new tendency replaced the philosophy that existed during the Cold War with ardent extremism. Many so-called philosophers, writers and politicians propagated the advent of this new uni-polar world order. The hallmark and driving force of this new entity is greed.
The primary causes for the litany of regional and global turmoil that have been unleashed in the past 25 years can only be attributed to this power. Before the fall of the Soviet Union the war zone was Afghanistan. We might think Afghanistan is located far away and it doesn’t affect us. In reality it is the cause for the prevailing turmoil we are witnessing in our region. Then came the Iraq and Iran war. That also has its own dynamics. That war continued for about eight years. After the end of the war the adventurous policy of Saddam Hussein resulted in the invasion of Kuwait and that witnessed the interference of external forces. The conflict prevails to this day. The existing situation in Iraq, the creation of ISIS and other terrorist forces cannot be looked at in isolation.
Recently, the world witnessed the so-called Arab Spring. No one stopped to ask what the real cause was? Where is it heading? What change would it bring in this region? The situations in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya followed. The chaos we are presently witnessing has been in the making for over 25 years. Some philosophers call it ‘creative chaos’. You create chaos and then you manage the chaos. This is the strategy of the uni-polar world system. You divide the world into different zones and sub-zones. There is one representative force in each zone and sub-zone. That was the main cause for the prevailing chaos in our region. The beneficiaries and players of the chaos at global level are many who perceive themselves as regional powers. There are different forces that instigate chaos and conflicts directly or indirectly with the support of some superpowers. If we look at the terrorist groups that surfaced in the name of Daish and Al-Qaida they are the forces responsible for the lack of stability, peace and the supremacy of international law in our region. And there are forces covertly working behind all this. There are a lot of propaganda and media campaigns being conducted to avert truth for the sake of prioritizing self-interest. We can mention the causes in terms of force, country, government and what have you.
All these events are documented. If we desire to have peace and stability in our region, it is of paramount importance that we work in cooperation and mobilize joint resources for our common interest. And for that it is important that we create understanding with the forces that we think have influence in the region. Working in isolation will not produce dividends. We should not expect foreign powers to work on our behalf for maintaining peace and stability in our region. Instead, we should create common understanding and work together for peace and stability by routing the elements that are creating instability in our region. In this case, the Saudi government is our partner. This partnership is not something that emerged after the so-called Arab Spring. We have a similar policy towards Egypt and other countries in the region.
The forces that pursue the support of the so-called superpowers in a bid to have influence in the region do not contribute to the peace and stability we aspire. Every country has its own priority and interests. We have the right to create relationships with any country but not at the expense of our common interest. We have to evaluate the contribution made in this region by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Libya and others in the past 25 years. Were they allowed to mind their own business or were they victims of the interference of external forces? We need to come together, identify the basic problems and chart out common strategy to mend the predicaments that have been created by external forces. And for that to happen, we need to have sustainable and continuous engagement. And that was how we were working with the Saudi government. And that is not temporary but part and parcel of our long-term strategy.
The Saudi government has declared to combat terrorism. And that is something that has to be supported without pre-conditions. The elements of instability in this region should be routed out. We could talk about the mechanism and the resources available to tackle the problem. The main agenda is to get rid of terrorism from the region. Similar and failed initiatives were taken by others. It is said that an alliance led by the US was established against terrorism. Russia also took an initiative to form an alliance to combat terrorism. The reasons for the formation of the differentalliances are numerous. The Red Sea region, the Nile basin, the East Africa region and the Arab peninsula are complimentary to one other. Especially the Bab-el- Mandeb and the Eden peninsula have attracted the interference of foreign forces in the name of protecting the ‘international water way’ and combating terrorism. This is one of the scenarios that emerged in the past 25 years. We are not opposing the existence of foreign forces in the area. What we mean is that the countries in the region, and especially those who have the influence and leverage, should take the responsibility of overseeing the peace and stability in the region. That is how terrorism and piracy could be eliminated. So far, no solution has been found with all the foreign interferences. But do the countries in the region have the capacity to assume the responsibility? Do they have a strategic plan to fight terrorism and piracy? What makes the Saudi initiative unique is that it is the initiative taken by countries in the region. And if properly handled, it could register progress and bring positive results. That is why we supported the initiative without reservation and pre-conditions. Will such initiative bring about timely solution is another issue. We have to contribute our capacity for the success of the initiative. The level of contribution might differ in terms of power and resources but the need for cooperation is timely. If we want to see the end of the prevailing chaos over the past 25 years, we have to strengthen cooperation among the countries in this region. There is no other alternative for creating peace and stability in this region. If the situation becomes beyond the capacity of the region, they could then ask assistance from foreign parties. Those who say the countries in the region are not capable of enforcing the desired peace and stability should be asked to forward their justification. No country should be allowed to meddle and create chaos in the region. Hence, the Saudi initiative is one piece of the larger plan to fight terrorism.
Q. Mr. President, we are hearing that the divergence between the followers of Sunni and Shia Islam is growing. There is also conflict of interest. Our policy has been neutrality throughout the years. Don’t you think that our support to the Saudi initiative is in variance with our long year’s policy of neutralism?
President Isaias: Let me revert back to the point I raised earlier. The core problem in the past 25 years was imparting religious connotation to compound the underlying societal problems. Religion, be it Catholic, Protestant, Shia or Sunni, has nothing to do with the objective situation in the region. Religion is to be left for individuals and not for institutions.
No excuse could be given to those who aggravate chaos after chaos in the name of ethnicity and religion. The people in this region have a long history of tolerance and living in harmony side by side in peace.
The chaos created and manufactured between different political forces and countries should not be associated with religion. This has opened room for the meddling of foreign forces in the internal affairs of countries. The worst thing is that modern information technology is playing its part in exacerbating the situation. Unexpected hatred has been witnessed among peoples and countries in a short span of time that did not exist in the history of the region. This is one of the anomalies that should be corrected through joint action and partnership. Differences have been there for long.
What use does it serve to stoke conflicts in the name of Christianity and Islam? It has nothing to do with the lives of the concerned people or future generations.
The genesis of the scourge is also associated with the sponsorship of Al-Qaeda presumably to put an end to the presence of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The misguided approach at the time was to use “Islam” as an instrument to change the situation there. What that has left in the past 25 years is obvious. In the same vein, the establishment of Shia Islamic State in Iran is the right of the Iranian people. To try to publicize such ideology for personal interest is the one that is creating problems.
A new phenomenon i.e. “our religion is the best” is emerging. With what religion or ideology could the killings of people and the conflicts among people be associated? This has to end through sustainable awareness-raising programs. We should not allow the forces with special interest exploit the situation for their vested interests. We are observing who is militarily and economically benefiting. The political forces and governments in this region should be aware of the prevailing situation and try to mend it through partnership.
Q. Mr. President, Eritrea’s longstanding political tradition has been against joining any sort of alliances. In this context, how is the current support to the Saudi-led coalition seen?
President Isaias: It is not that we support an alliance. This stance is clearly mentioned in the announcement. It is a timely and positive initiative taken by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And, it is an initial step that leads to better regional cooperation. It is not of a primary concern whether it is an alliance or not; or who has joined it and who has not. As unequivocally stated in the announcement, the initiative needs to be supported without any reservation.
What would be the emerging trends and what are the forthcoming plans is yet to be decided through active and joint engagements. At its initial stage, it might have been described as an Islamic Alliance. But we can also allude to different alliances consisting of forty, fifty, hundred or more members that have been announced in various places in past times. Leaving such minor controversies aside and irrespective of whether it is seen as a religious or a secular alliance, we believe that the initiative has to be supported for the broader context of bolstering mechanisms and architectures of regional security.
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Zionutva: A Hate Story
Posted on July 28, 2017 March 14, 2019 by pritigulaticox
Sandwiched between the months of June — which saw the 50th anniversary of Israel’s Palestine occupation — and August — the 70th anniversary of India’s Independence from British rule and India’s subsequent occupation of Kashmir — this July can perhaps be remembered as a month when two nationalist ideologies — Zionism and Hindutva — that have thrived on these two events came together, embraced, and merged into an occupying force that we might call, say, Zionutva.
July 4, 2017: a historic day, at least as far as occupiers’ histories go. The Ben Gurion International Airport air is suddenly enveloped in a megalomaniacal glow. Two exclusionary forces are about to come face-to-face and morph into one, as India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, disembarking from Air India One, becomes the first Indian prime minister to visit the “Holy Land” (minus Palestine.)
Modi plants a first hug on his counterpart Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, and the two-day occupier-fest is off to an auspicious start. Theirs is a shared history of atrocities that the Indian state and the state of Israel have committed on the lives, land, water and infrastructure of occupied Kashmiris and Palestinians, respectively. One more hug reinforces this injustice.
After the first hug, while they use all twenty fingers to shake hands, they look into each other’s eyes and say ugly somethings. At one point, Modi says, “What a great….” and then hesitates for a moment before finishing with “….honor.” Does he hesitate because what he really wanted to say was, “what a great day, meeting a fellow unpunished collective punisher!”?
The plot of this hate story revolves around portions of the speeches of the mis-leaders of India and Israel — Modi & Bibi — made on this historic occasion. Excerpts of those speeches follow, and below each hypocritical utterance, I have included real-world quotes with links to stories of the occupied.
Perpetual Occupiers of the Perpetually Occupied
Bibi:
Aapka swagat hai mere dost [Welcome, my friend]…. we’ve been waiting for you a long time…. almost seventy years, in fact.
Kashmir…. a country occupied mainly by India and partially by Pakistan since 1947…. where struggles have continued for a long, long time, with the Kashmiri people fighting for the right to self determination that they were promised long years ago — almost seventy years ago now by the then Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. A promise that has never been fulfilled, and in the mean time the face of Kashmir has changed…. the occupation by the Indian army has continued…. with horrific stories of the regular rape of women young and old; of young men being tortured; of disappeared bodies and disappeared people…. And, it’s virtually ignored by the world. I think one has to say that very bluntly…. Countries which are generally speaking in the good books of what is euphemistically called the International community — which is actually the United States of America and its International cronies — These countries and their atrocities are ignored.
— Tariq Ali in conversation with Journalist and Novelist Mirza Waheed, Global Empire – Kashmir: Blinding the People, 2016.
We receive you with open arms.
Defense, however, remained a key factor in the India-Israeli relationship. Israeli companies, led by government-owned aerospace giant Israel Aircraft Industries, have signed arms deals with India, totaling over $2.6 billion earlier this year.
— “India, Israel expand cooperation from defense to science, agriculture and technology,” CNBC, July 6, 2017.
We love India. We admire your culture, we admire your history….
“Barah sau saal ki gulami ki maansikta humein pareshan kar rahi hai [The slave mentality of 1,200 years is troubling us.]
(Narendra Modi said these words in his address to a joint session of Parliament on June 9, 2014, two weeks after he was sworn in as the prime minister of India. Here, instead of making the customary reference to India’s “years of slavery” under 200 years of British rule, Modi distorts history by taking it back by another thousand years when the country came under Muslim rule.)
…. your democracy, your commitment to progress. We view you as kindred spirits in our common quest….
Abbas is the darling of the so called International community. He is the Palestinian quisling…. who works closely with the Israeli occupation in the West Bank…. it’s almost as if they’re putting this in the face of people in Gaza and saying that, you will suffer…. you will be subjected to these inhuman conditions unless you collaborate with your occupiers the way Mahmoud Abbas does in the West Bank…. The idea is to prop up Abbas and to have a Western approved, Israeli backed Palestinian leadership in the form of Abbas. That’s what this is about.
— The Electronic Intifada, “Break the silence on Gaza with people power,” July 15, 2017.
State racism — the primacy of Hindu majoritarian will in state decisions — orders India’s rule in Kashmir. [It] merges neoliberal democracy with authoritarian practices. The government of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian armed forces neutralize the Independent functioning of the judiciary, educational institutions, and the media in the name of national security, continuing what is in effect military governance.
— Angana P. Chatterji, The Militarized Zone, Kashmir The Case for Freedom, 2011.
…. to provide a better future for our peoples and for our world. [On a visit to the Mediterranean seashore, Modi and Bibi rolled up their trousers and waded barefoot in the waters of the Mediterranean while sipping “purified” sea water freshly harvested from a desalination plant on wheels — the so-called GalMobile — and toasting “to life…. this is really life.”]
Gaza is perhaps in its worst situation, yet…. You are talking about two hours of electricity a day…. What does that mean? You know, try to imaging life without clean water, because the water in Gaza is polluted…. There is no waste treatment in Gaza and raw sewage is being dumped into the Mediterranean…. This is on top of the devastation of the siege [2007.]
— The Electronic Intifada, Break the silence
Prime Minister, when I first met you at the United Nation three years ago, we agreed to break down the remaining walls….
We know that from the [International Court of Justice] to the Red Cross, it [the wall] has been described as illegal. We know of its disastrous impact on Palestinian farmers, villages, cities, families, schoolchildren, students and many others. We know that from Jenin to Bethlehem, through the concrete-split streets of East Jerusalem, the wall has become another element of Israel’s colonization of Palestine, one more link in the apartheid chain. The propaganda myths about security are intended to hide this reality but, like the wall itself, they are arguments full of holes.
— The Electronic Intifada, “Did Israeli apartheid wall really stop suicide bombings?,” January 10, 2014.
…. between India and Israel…. I believe in the success of our partnership because of the great sympathy between our peoples. The natural camaraderie between Indians and Israelis…. prime minister Modi, you’re a great leader of India….Your visit to Israel is a testament to that. Our two peoples have deeply held values….
When I was growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, there was a full scale armed uprising against Indian troops…. Kashmir is also the most militarized region in the world…. Some estimates put that we have a soldier [indian regular army, para-military and police] to every 16 or 17 civilians.
— Journalist and Novelist Mirza Waheed in conversation with Tariq Ali, Global Empire – Kashmir: Blinding the People, 2016.
Eman, 9, was killed in an airstrike alongside her two brothers Ibrahim, aged 13, and Essam, aged 4. They were killed when Israeli aircraft bombarded an apartment building in Gaza City’s central Rimal neighborhood. The Ammar family were hosting friends from the Jumaa family. In the same attack, and her 2 sons, were also killed. In total, 11 people died in this one attack.
— People Beyond Numbers, Remembering the Victims of Israeli Operation ‘Protective Edge’ on Gaza (which began on July 7, 2014.)
…. rooted in ancient cultures, yet we both seek to realize the promise of a better future…. I know that we can do even more, even better.
When people lose their fear of death, normally in history, they can more or less achieve anything, sooner or later.
— Tariq Ali, Blinding the People
You know, you’ve only been here a few hours…. you paid your respect to the tomb of the founder of our national movement [Zionism], Theodor Herzl.
In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country…. The four great powers are committed to Zionism and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.
— Lord Arthur Balfour, author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration that promised to support “The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” Excerpted from the updated edition of Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky.
And, you’ve seen some of Israel’s cutting edge technology. We went to a greenhouse on a warm day, believe me it was a warm reception….
Omar Talib, a farmer who is seeing his source of livelihood threatened by the power crisis, told Al-Monitor, “I have been working in agriculture for more than 20 years. This is how I make ends meet. The power crisis has become a nightmare for farmers. We cannot operate our irrigation systems without electricity.”
— Al-Monitor, “Gaza’s power crisis cripples farmers,” June 28, 2017.
I have to confess to you that I’ve been inspired by prime minister Modi’s enthusiasm for yoga [Modi smiles]. To begin, he said to me you can start at a low level…. so, I’m starting at a low level [“Heh heh heh heh heh,” snickers Modi.] Here’s what we’re gonna do. When I do relaxing Talasana pose [“Heh heh heh” — a little softer snicker] and, in the morning I’ll turn my head to the right [“Heh heh” — even softer], India is the first democracy that I’ll see [“Heh ha ha ha ha ha” — now, full-blown laughter]. And when prime minister Modi does a relaxing pose of a Vasistha Asana [“Ah heh heh heh”], and he turns his head to the left, Israel is the first democracy that you can see…. India and Israel are two sister democracies.
Right now, as we speak, people have been coming on the streets since the 9th of July…. knowing they’re going to be shot at. That the para-military will shoot to kill. And yet, thousands have come on to the streets in defiance…. This is a very, very political statement, that we will not agree to this…. This is an indigenous mass uprising. Pakistan is not behind [it.] Yes, parts of the Pakistani security establishment have nursed…. terror groups, and there has been a blowback…. And some of these groups, their main currency is the jihad in Kashmir. But that does not take away anything from the fact that these are Kashmiri boys and girls and young men and women and old people [who are being targeted]…. they [Indian troops] raid villages at night just to harass people…. windows are broken… young men taken away, beaten up, tortured.…
— Mirza Waheed, Blinding the People
We have accomplished great things…. I have to say that we also face common challenges, and the first of it is to defeat the forces of terror that rampage through the world [Modi nods] and threaten both our counties. So, we must stand together in this battle…. prime minister we share a bond of democracy and creativity, a deep respect for the past, a boundless optimism for the future….
We live at a moment of great despair and also simultaneously great hope…. Right now from the darkened homes of Gaza…. the greatest hope of people there is the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement…. It’s much less than is needed but it’s growing and it’s something that gives people hope and is immune to the kind of Institutional complicity that has brought us to this point.… It’s up to us to challenge the Institutional complicity and silence.
@netanyahu: There’s nothing like going to the beach with friends! @narendramodi 5:00 AM – Jul 6, 2017
Modi:
My visit celebrates the strength of centuries-old links between our societies….
If the Zionists’ dreams are realized — if Palestine becomes a Jewish State and it will gladden us almost as much as our Jewish friends — they, like the Mohammedans [Look at the Mohammedans. Mecca to them is a sterner reality than Delhi or Agra] would naturally set the interests of their Holyland above those of their Motherland in America and Europe and in case of war between their adopted country and the Jewish State, would naturally sympathise with the latter…. So with the Hindus, they being the people, whose past, present and future are most closely bound with the soil of Hindustan as Pitribhu (ancestral land), as Punyabhu (the land of his religion), they constitute the foundation, the bedrock, the reserved forces of the Indian state. Therefore even from the point of Indian nationality, must ye, O Hindus, consolidate and strengthen Hindu nationality.
— V. D. Savarkar, author of HINDUTVA, What Is a Hindu,1923.
Friends, the people of Israel have built a nation on democratic principles….
While the Zionist project fulfilled its dream of creating “a Jewish homeland” in Palestine in 1948, the process of ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians never stopped. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, known as the Naksa, meaning “setback”, Israel occupied the remaining Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and continues to occupy them until today. While under the UN partition plan Israel was allocated 55 percent, today it controls more than 85 percent of historic Palestine.
—Al Jazeera, “The Naqba did not start or end in 1948,” May 23, 2017.
Your heroes are an inspiration for the younger generations….
Apparently, half a dozen of fantasy terror camps have popped up throughout Israel and the West Bank, offering tourists from across the globe a chance to pretend-kill terrorists, who look suspiciously like Palestinian Arabs, only for $115 per person.
— Carbonated.TV, “Anti-Terrorism Fantasy Camps Become Tourist Attraction In Israel,” July 2017.
I thank prime minister Netanyahu and Mrs Sara Netanyahu for opening their home to me today. The fullness of their warmth and affection has evoked a feeling of home away from home.
I Protest, Against The Things You Done!
I Protest, Fo’ A Mother Who Lost Her Son!
I Protest, I Will Throw Stones An’ Neva Run!
I Protest, Until My Freedom Has Come!
I Protest, Fo’ My Brother Who’s Dead!
I Protest, Against The Bullet In His Head!
— The chorus of the song ‘I Protest’ by Kashmiri rapper MC Kash.
It reminds me of our own ethos of hospitality and welcome.
India asks us, ‘Why do you throw stones?’ No one asks, Who burned your house down?’
— Kashmiri youth, tortured in detention, January 2011.
Yad Vashem is a reminder of the unspeakable evil inflicted generations ago. It is also a tribute to your unbreakable spirit to rise above the depths of drudgery, overcome hatred and forge ahead to build a vibrant democratic nation.
Israel…. has killed dozens of people in Gaza since the [2014] ceasefire. A majority of them have been unarmed Palestinians demonstrating near the boundary fence against the siege…. to show their humanity…. teenagers usually are shot dead in cold blood by Israeli soldiers…. sitting in watchtowers…. or, they have been fishermen at sea…. trying to feed their families, shot at by the Israeli navy. But somehow there’s no outcry about Israel’s relentless violations of the ceasefire.
Yad Vashem tells us that those who believe in humanity and civilized values….
The health system in Gaza which has been inadequate for decades…. has been in a deepening crisis for months…. In May, the Red Cross warned that the health system in Gaza was on the brink of systemic collapse…. Tara Ismail Bakhit…. a toddler, was the sixteenth person to die in recent weeks, because the Palestinian Authority had refused to approve a medical referral…. The Palestinian Authority and Israel are using sick children as a weapon against Hamas. Let’s remember, of course, if Abbas refuses to approve these treatments, Israel as the occupier is required under the Geneva Convention…. to provide medical care and life saving services to the people in Gaza.
….must come together and defeat it at all costs. As such we must resolutely oppose the evils of terrorism, radicalism and violence that plague our times.
In sections of the Indian press, every night they will broadcast these…. experts in demonizing the Kashmiri Muslim as a jihadist, as an Islamist…. more so since the election of Mr. Modi…. There has been violence against Indian muslims…. It is not a creation of the Modi government, but it has increased to very dangerous levels where people are literally lynched in broad daylight on mere suspicion of having eaten…. beef…. Kashmiris right now see the response of the Indian state. They can’t separate it from the dispensation in Delhi. They see it as a Hindutva government. As a Hindu nationalist government punishing Kashmiri muslims for rising up against it.
—Mirza Waheed, Blinding the People
I for I, I with I. Here, I’m not using the popular word eye for an eye, I mean India’s I, Israel’s I….
I do not remember reading or seeing an instance where a…. a modern nation-state has willfully, systematically shot at people to blind them. More that 500 people have these little lead pellets in their eyes…. that is not an accident. That is not a crowd control tactic gone wrong.
We also want to put in place a robust security partnership to respond to shared threats to our peace, stability and prosperity.
…. All indications are that in Kashmiri civil society dissent will not abate: it is not externally motivated but historically compelled. Repressive regimes tend to overlook that freedom struggles are not about the moralities of violence verses non-violence, but reflect a desire to be free. The oppressors forget that the greater the oppression, the more fervent the resistance. Violence is apt to reproduce itself in cycles.
I am very, very thankful to Bibi because vehicle which I saw today, particularly the natural calamities, when people are suffering from the drinking water this is the very unique type of vehicle which can provide drinking water and how to do the process….
Here’s the critical point. This is not a natural disaster [Gaza’s power crisis]. This is a policy choice by Israel to do this to two million people…. the so-called International community are supporting…. there is nothing about this in the New York Times…. on CNN…. on Democracy Now, for heaven’s sake. There is total silence….
@narendramodi Thank you my friend, PM @netanyahu for the signed photo, your kind words, amazing hospitality & passion towards #IndiaIsraelFriendship. 9:03 AM – Jul 6, 2017
In the bitter chill of winter shivers his naked body
Whose skill wraps the rich in royal shawls.
— Muslim poet and philosopher of Kashmiri origin, Iqbal, 1921.
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Officer-Involved Shooting (Non-Fatal) – San Bernardino PD: Joe Dockery
News Releases | Use of Force Reviews
The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has completed its review of the officer-involved shooting that occurred on July 6, 2019. This incident happened in the city of San Bernardino and involved the San Bernardino Police Department. The shooting was investigated by the San Bernardino Police Department.
On Saturday, July 6, 2019, at about 10:14 a.m., a female victim called the San Bernardino Police Department to report her boyfriend had assaulted her at the transit center located at 599 W. Rialto Avenue, in San Bernardino.
A police officer responded and spoke with the victim, who had an injury to her hand. The victim described her boyfriend as 5’07” to 5’08” in height and wearing a white “Raiders” shirt, blue jeans, and a black baseball-style cap. She identified her boyfriend as “Frankie Lucas.”
Using his police radio, the officer gave this information to other police officers in the area in case they see the boyfriend.
An officer in the area saw Mr. Joe Dockery walking in the parking lot of a nearby Food 4 Less Grocery Store. Mr. Dockery matched the description of the boyfriend, and he was walking with a different female.
The officer was wearing a police uniform when he exited his marked patrol car to contact Mr. Dockery.
While the officer was speaking with Mr. Dockery, he wanted to complete a “pat-down” search of Mr. Dockery to ensure he did not have anything in his possession, which could harm the officer while they spoke. As the officer tried to do this, Mr. Dockery took off running from the officer.
The officer ran after Mr. Dockery. During the foot pursuit, the officer saw Mr. Dockery had a gun in his right hand. The officer drew his gun from its holster and gave Mr. Dockery multiple commands to get him to stop running and put the gun down on the ground.
A witness saw Mr. Dockery holding the gun in his right hand while running from the police officer. This witness also heard the officer giving Mr. Dockery commands, yelling something to the effect of “stop,” or “stop reaching.”
Mr. Dockery continued to run from the officer and ran around to the passenger side of a parked Mazda. When he did this, he bent down and tossed the gun under the Mazda. The officer, who was still running after Mr. Dockery, did not see what Mr. Dockery had done with the gun.
The officer continued to give Mr. Dockery commands to get down, which he refused to do. As Mr. Dockery turned away to continue to run from the officer, he lowered his hands to his waistband area. Fearing that Mr. Dockery was reaching for a weapon, the officer fired his gun three times, striking Mr. Dockery and ending the foot pursuit.
The officer handcuffed Mr. Dockery and summoned medical assistance to begin treating him for his injuries. Mr. Dockery was transported to a local hospital, where he received further medical treatment.
During the investigation, a gun was found under the Mazda. Ten cartridges were loaded into an ammunition magazine, which was inserted into the gun, with one cartridge loaded in the chamber of the gun.
Criminal charges were filed against Mr. Dockery by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office (Court Case #FSB19002346). On December 17, 2019, Mr. Dockery pled “Nolo Contendere” for being a felon in possession of a gun, which is a violation of California Penal Code Section 29800(a)(1). That section specifies:
“Any person who has been convicted of, or has an outstanding warrant for, a felony under the laws of the United States, the State of California, or any other state, government, or country, or of an offense enumerated in subdivision (a), (b), or (d) of Section 23515, or who is addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, and who owns, purchases, receives, or has in possession or under custody or control any firearm is guilty of a felony.”
A plea of “Nolo Conendere” means Mr. Dockery did not admit he was guilty of the crime, but he accepted to be sentenced. Mr. Dockery was sentenced to two years and eight months in state prison.
The San Bernardino Police Department investigated this shooting. A review of the investigation, reports, evidence, and statements was completed by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office.
Based on the facts presented in the reports and the applicable law, our office concluded that the officers’ use of lethal force was a proper exercise of his rights of self-defense and defense of others, and his actions were legally justified.
WHAT THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW
By providing a thorough explanation to the community regarding the review of officer-involved shootings, it is the intention of District Attorney Jason Anderson and the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office to maintain the community’s confidence and trust in its law enforcement officers and district attorney’s office.
Key Points of This Incident
A victim had called the police department after becoming the victim of a violent crime.
The officers responded to initiate an investigation into a possible felony domestic violence incident and search the area for the suspect.
An officer located a person (Mr. Dockery) who matched the suspect’s description and was in the same general area where the crime had occurred.
The officer attempted to safely and legally detain Mr. Dockery to determine if Mr. Dockery was the suspect involved in this initial call for service.
Because Mr. Dockery was illegally in possession of a loaded gun, which was about to be found if the police officer searched him, Mr. Dockery ran away.
The officer ran after Mr. Dockery to legally detain him.
Mr. Dockery removed the gun from his clothing and held it in his right hand as he ran from the officer.
When the opportunity arose for Mr. Dockery to hide the gun, he placed it under a parked Mazda.
The officer did not see what Mr. Dockery had done with the gun, and when he continued to run from him, he saw Mr. Dockery’s hands near his waistband.
The officer fired his gun at Mr. Dockery for his safety, thus ending the foot pursuit.
Police officers are trained to respond to these types of situations, and they continually update their training as new situations and techniques are identified.
Additionally, police officers have equipment on their belts, vests, and vehicles, which they use to complete their duties.
Police officers are expected and authorized to use the equipment to protect themselves and others from suffering injuries or death. To some, watching a police officer using physical force against another person can be upsetting or disturbing.
Police officers prefer to use the least amount of force, whether it be their mere presence or verbal commands, to diffuse situations. However, there are situations, such as this incident, in which deadly force is necessary for the community’s safety and the police officers’ safety.
In rapidly tense situations, officers do not have a great deal of time planning, revising, or analyzing a crisis, such as readers of this article. When a situation evolves, officers must make the best decisions possible to protect and save lives in a condensed amount of time.
The community expects that the people they call upon to protect them, which is the police department in this situation, will not back down, be intimidated, or run scared when danger presents itself.
When law enforcement receives a call of a domestic violence incident, it is their obligation to respond to the scene and render immediate life-saving aid to the victims, ensure the location is safe from any further danger, and to initiate an investigation to determine the identity of the person responsible for the crime. If the situation presents itself, law enforcement will also arrest those responsible for the crime as quickly as possible. It is law enforcement’s goal to ensure the domestic violence immediately comes to an end, that the victim will be safe, and the suspect is removed from the situation.
Unfortunately, not every call is the same to the officers responding to the call. The officers may encounter different obstacles on each call and must quickly assess and render an immediate solution to overcome those obstacles.
When searching for people, the police will encounter several of these obstacles. Those wanted for questioning may be wearing clothing that does not precisely fit the description given by the victim but is similar. Since victims of crimes do not practice estimating the height, weight, and age of other people frequently, their description of a person’s physical characteristics may not be exactly as they tell the officer.
Officers consider the totality of circumstances when determining if they should contact a person they see who matches a wanted person’s description. The “totality of circumstances” means the officer is taking into account all the facts known to him or her at the time, which would lead a reasonable person to believe the person the officer wants to contact is involved in the crime the officer is investigating.
When people who are about to be contacted by the police are committing a crime the officer has not yet discovered, such as carrying a loaded, concealed gun, they know it is highly probable they will be arrested. No one can predict what action the person will take, but running is a frequent action taken by suspects.
Running from the police while holding a gun, in a parking lot frequented by innocent members of the community, on a weekend afternoon, is reminiscent of someone who is only concerned about not going to jail and not worried about how his actions may affect others.
In this particular case, Mr. Dockery hid the loaded gun he was illegally carrying under a parked Mazda during the foot pursuit. Did Mr. Dockery lower his hands down by his waist when resuming running in an attempt to scare the officer into believing he was still armed, or possibly had another weapon in his possession? Would this cause the officer to slow down or take extra precautions to allow Mr. Dockery to get away?
The loaded gun Mr. Dockery was carrying was ready to be used with little manipulation, or human physical action, to make it work. There were cartridges, which frequently and inaccurately are referred to as “bullets” by people unfamiliar with guns, in a magazine, which was in the gun. A magazine is a small part of the gun that holds the ammunition. It is inserted into the gun.
In order to fire the gun, a cartridge must be loaded into the chamber. In the case of a semiautomatic gun, this is done by a person physically pulling back on a portion of the gun known as a slide, which then “slides” the cartridge, or “round,” into the firing chamber. From this point, the person holding the gun merely needs to pull the trigger to shoot the gun.
Mr. Dockery’s gun was ready to be fired immediately, without pulling on the slide, should he have decided to use it against the officer, or a member of the public.
On Saturday, July 6, 2019, Mr. Dockery decided to illegally carry a loaded gun while walking in a shopping center parking lot. When being confronted by a police officer, Mr. Dockery decided to run away from the officer unlawfully.
While running, Mr. Dockery decided to remove the gun from his clothing and maintain control of the weapon by holding it in his right hand. The officer yelled at Mr. Dockery several commands, which a witness heard, and Mr. Dockery decided to ignore those commands.
Mr. Dockery made the decision to continue to hold onto the gun while he continued to elude the officer. Once Mr. Dockery felt he could hide the gun where the officer wouldn’t see it or find it, he decided to hide the gun under a parked Mazda.
Mr. Dockery could have placed his hands in the air, lay down on the ground, or stop running, which he chose not to do. Instead, Mr. Dockery decided to run from the officer again.
Based on Mr. Dockery’s actions, the officer needed to use his gun to end Mr. Dockery’s reckless and dangerous actions.
Mr. Dockery is solely responsible for the events which transpired on that Saturday in the parking lot of a grocery store in San Bernardino.
THE OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING REVIEW TEAM
The district attorney’s office has always reviewed Officer-involved shootings in San Bernardino County.
Upon taking office, District Attorney Jason Anderson wanted a dedicated team of trained and experienced deputy district attorneys and investigators to review these shootings and respond to the scene of shootings.
The review unit did not respond to this shooting scene as the new team’s design and development, and its protocols were still being developed.
Please visit SBCountyDA.org/ois to learn more about this team.
As the district attorney’s office, we realize the entire community is affected when force is used by the police, regardless of the situation or circumstances. Our responsibility is to ensure that all parties involved in cases such as the one involving Mr. Dockery acted lawfully.
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Short story with post apocalyptic setting, people forbidden to enter radiation zone
I read a science fiction short story a while ago and only remember fragments. It was a post apocalypse setting.
A group of people were forbidden to enter this area. High level of radiation. They see a sign saying "ashington". It turns out to be Washington DC after a nuke hit.
There's another part that says a man sits and stares out of a window. He turns out to be the president after the nuke strike.
Those are the only two things I can remember. Please help identify this story with title and author.
story-identification short-stories
edited Jun 9 '16 at 7:08
Not much to go on; please try to remember some more fragments. How long ago did you read this? "A while ago" is, like, last year? ten years ago? twenty? fifty? – user14111 Mar 24 '14 at 4:17
possible duplicate of scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181029/… (which is newer but has an accepted answer) – Otis Feb 16 '18 at 18:04
Maybe you're thinking of "By the Rivers of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet.
"Written in 1937, a character named John narrates the tale of his exploration of the forbidden "Place of the Gods" in a world that has nearly forgotten the existence of 20th century civilization. John is the son of a priest of a tribe of hunters, heirs to a global catastrophe, whose curiosity takes him on a journey of discovery and search for truth about his civilized ancestors and the statue of a god called ashington."
Though I don't think it has any mention of the President, so that might not be it.
I have the entire story on my site if you want to check it out. http://post-apocalyptic.com/by-the-waters-of-babylon-by-stephen-vincent-benet/
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‘Ready Player One’ First Reviews Give a Top Score to Steven Spielberg’s Adaptation
It was game on at the South by Southwest Film Festival last night, as Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the cult sci-fi novel Ready Player One made its world premiere. Austin, Texas’ Paramount Theatre was the site of the film’s first public screening anywhere and, despite a few quibbles (our own Britt Hayes was not a fan, as you’ll see from her tweet below) and at least one notable technical snafu during the climax (the sound went out for about a minute) the film played to a great reception. There was a standing ovation in the room, and as the tweets below largely indicate, the response was overwhelmingly positive, even among some critics that were not fans of Ernest Cline’s novel and were very skeptical going in.
I’ve read a lot of people writing this movie off before they even see it. Personally, I’m always inclined to see the movie first and then decide for myself, particularly when the filmmaker in charge is one of Spielberg’s caliber. It’s not like the dude’s been in the midst of a slump. His last really good movie came out literally two and a half months ago! And just in the last couple of years he’s produced some of the greatest works of his entire career. So I’m excited to see these early reviews, and excited to see the movie itself. Bring it on.
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Today Oscar Cullmann was Born (1902)
by Fred Sanders on February 25, 2009
Oscar Cullmann was born on February 25, 1902, and lived until 1999. His most influential work was the book Christ and Time, in which he presented the biblical view of time and contrasted it with other theological ideas about time. According to Cullmann, the flow of time really matters to God, and the only way to think properly as a theologian is to understand how salvation history unfolds down to our own time. Cullmann made much of the notion of kairos, or time that is fulfilled and prepared. Many of the major theologians of the mid 20th century were also conjuring with similar ideas of heilsgeschichte and kairos, but Cullmann was an incisive thinker who was quick to point out where their ideas were inadequate. For example, he did a lot to keep “holy history” from being a different kind of thing altogether form normal history. He wanted to make sure it kept the place it has in the Bible: not a thing apart, but the true meaning and purpose of all history. Another prevalent misunderstanding of salvation history was the Bultmannian option of seeing kairos as being any time you are existentially serious. Cullmann hammered against this notion and insisted on real history that really mattered to God and man.
Cullmann applied the same incisive thinking in his controversial book The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Dead, in which he teased apart the biblical hope in resurrection from the Greek idea that Soul is undying. There are some real problems with the book, but Cullmann’s virtuoso work with the New Testament and classical evidence makes it a powerful read. There is a big difference between Socrates’ proof that Soul exists after the body dies, and Paul’s confidence that the dead in Christ would rise and live again.
A final area in which Cullmann’s sharp mind made some necessary distinctions was in ecumenical thought. A Lutheran himself, he was an early participant in dialogue with other traditions of Christianity, and an invited guest observer at Vatican II. But as the decades of ecumenicism rolled along and talks of one giant unity church began to be heard, Cullmann started saying no a lot more often: He warned that such facile organizational unity was neither desirable nor faithful. You might say he was ecumenical when ecumenism wasn’t cool, and then stepped out of line with the movement as it became more established.
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Hon. Douglas Black: Honourable senators, as has been noted so many times before, as we know from our experience as senators, Canada is well served by the Senate and the dedication to Canada shown by us all.
Whether we have arrived here as appointees recognizing community, business or political accomplishments, or whether we have arrived here as elected senators, this chamber is dedicated to excellence, and the newest senators being sworn in underline this excellence.
Leading Canadians in the arts, business and community action — I am very proud to be able to call you all my colleagues.
Today I rise to publicly recognize and thank the permanent members of the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, the group who review all the Senate nominations and applications.
While we may choose to disagree with the process, we can all agree that the individuals who undertook this daunting and important task deserve our thanks. I acknowledge Huguette Labelle, Daniel Jutras and my friend Indira Samarasekera.
Let me quickly give the highlights of their significant careers.
Huguette Labelle holds a PhD in education from the University of Ottawa and has honorary degrees from 12 Canadian universities and the University of Notre Dame in the United States. She's a Companion of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Order of Ontario, the Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada and other distinguished awards.
Daniel Jutras is a distinguished legal scholar in Canada. He has been a professor of law at McGill for years, and he has served as the private secretary and personal legal adviser to the Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin.
Finally, Indira Samarasekera. She served as the twelfth president and vice-chancellor of the University of Alberta until 2015, a term of 10 years. She serves on the board of a major Canadian bank and other Canadian firms. She's on the board of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Rideau Hall Foundation, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Outstanding CEO of the Year program. She is one of Canada's most distinguished metallurgical engineers, and for this contribution to Canada she received the Order of Canada in 2002.
I would ask all senators to join me in offering our appreciation and our thanks for the dedication to this institution and to Canada shown by these three outstanding Canadians.
Hon. Salma Ataullahjan: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to you about the plight of the Rohingya minority living in Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Rohingya have been part of the Myanmar landscape for centuries, where they lived in peaceful coexistence with the Buddhist population until a citizenship law in 1982 made them stateless.
More than one million Rohingya Muslims live in Rakhine state, where tensions have been simmering yet again between the Buddhist and Muslim populations after an attack last month which killed nine police officers was blamed on the Rohingya.
Since then, soldiers have closed down parts of the state and have prohibited independent observers, aid workers and foreign reporters from entering the area. This is of great concern.
In recent weeks, hundreds of Rohingya, including children, have been attempting to flee the current military crackdown by crossing the border into Bangladesh.
On November 13, Human Rights Watch referenced a Reuters report which published interviews with Rohingya women who allege that Myanmar soldiers raped them.
Witnesses have reported that some of those attempting to escape have been shot and killed and that hundreds of Rohingya homes have been burnt to the ground.
Through satellite imaging, Human Rights Watch has been able to identify 430 destroyed buildings in three separate districts, but they believe that the number is higher, although they cannot confirm that due to trees obstructing the imaging in certain areas.
As you know, I have spoken about the plight of the Muslim population in Myanmar on several occasions. I recall just last year when haunting images surfaced of hundreds of Rohingya people on fishing boats, attempting to escape Myanmar by sea to Malaysia.
The ongoing persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar is a topic that is not spoken about enough on the global stage, notwithstanding that the United Nations has referred to the Rohingya as one of the most persecuted minorities in the world.
A vital part of our role as senators is to speak out against human rights violations both at home and abroad. It is imperative that we give a voice to those who are unable to speak for themselves.
It is for this reason that I remain committed to speaking out in this honourable chamber about the ongoing plight of the Rohingya. Moreover, I call on all parties to bring an immediate end to this current state of violence. Thank you.
Hon. Wilfred P. Moore: Honourable senators, I rise to pay tribute to William J. Roué, Canada's premier naval architect, late of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
On Thursday, October 26, 2016, I had the pleasure of attending the ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History for the announcement of its acquisition of the William J. Roué collection of artifacts, documents and designs and the establishment of an exhibit of the same. It was a proud day for his descendants.
William J. Roué was born in Halifax in 1879. At four years of age he was already building toy boats, and by 13 was an able skipper. At 16 years of age he had designed a motor boat, Plan Number 1.
In 1907, he was approached by the Vice-Commodore of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron in Halifax to design for him a larger boat. Thus Roué designed his first yacht, the Babette, which was launched in 1909 and was still sailing in 1970 out of Long Island, New York. Today she is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax.
After this success his career was under way, and over the next decade he would create 14 more yacht designs, doing so by blueprint, which was then a pioneering concept in North American naval architecture.
In 1920 Bill Roué was chosen to design a vessel for the Bluenose Schooner Company to compete for the International Fishermen's Trophy, which was awarded to the fastest fishing vessel in the North Atlantic. His first design was turned down, as it was longer than requested. With three weeks to go before the deadline to start building, his new design was accepted. It was Roué's Plan Number 17, which bore the name Bluenose.
This most famous and successful of all schooner designs not only went on to win the International Fishermen's Trophy five times but did so as a working schooner. She held the record for the largest catch of fish landed in Lunenburg, a true high liner.
We should keep in mind the fact that the Bluenose did not race for Lunenburg, nor did she race for Nova Scotia; she raced for Canada. That's why she was the subject of a Canadian stamp in 1929, commonly referred to as the most beautiful stamp by collectors, and that's why she has been on the reverse side of our 10-cent coin since 1937.
For Bill Roué, his career in naval architecture would span many years and over 200 designs, including a type of barge which was used to ferry troops and supplies into Normandy on D-Day.
According to his great granddaughter, Joan Roué, "It has been stated that naval architects must be 75 per cent artist and 25 per cent engineer, and every design, no matter how large or small, must be an inspiration and a labour of love. I wonder if they were describing my great-grandfather and his work when these comments were made."
So for all of this, William J. Roué and his legacy deserve the national recognition and the status which will come with the establishment of the exhibit in his name, which is scheduled to open at the Canadian Museum of History on July 1, 2017.
The Hon. the Speaker: I apologize. We are having problems with the interpretation system.
We could just suspend for a couple minutes. Is it agreed, honourable senators?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
(The sitting of the Senate was suspended.)
(The sitting of the Senate was resumed.)
The Hon. the Speaker: Honourable senators, I call us to order again. It appears that our technical difficulties have been dealt with, and we're back in business.
Hon. Diane Bellemare (Legislative Deputy to the Government Representative in the Senate): Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move:
That, in accordance with rule 10-11(1), the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to examine the subject matter of all of Bill C-29, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2016 and other measures, introduced in the House of Commons on October 25, 2016, in advance of the said bill coming before the Senate;
That the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be authorized to meet for the purposes of its study of the subject matter of Bill C-29 even though the Senate may then be sitting, with the application of rule 12-18(1) being suspended in relation thereto;
That, in addition, and notwithstanding any normal practice:
1. The following committees be separately authorized to examine the subject matter of the following elements contained in Bill C-29 in advance of it coming before the Senate:
(a) the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology: those elements contained in Divisions 1 and 2 of Part 4; and
(b) the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce: those elements contained in Divisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Part 4;
2. The various committees listed in point one that are authorized to examine the subject matter of particular elements of Bill C-29 be authorized to meet for the purposes of their studies of those elements even though the Senate may then be sitting, with the application of rule 12-18(1) being suspended in relation thereto;
3. The various committees listed in point one that are authorized to examine the subject matter of particular elements of Bill C-29 submit their final reports to the Senate no later than December 6, 2016;
4. As the reports from the various committees authorized to examine the subject matter of particular elements of Bill C-29 are tabled in the Senate, they be placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration at the next sitting; and
5. The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance be simultaneously authorized to take any reports tabled under point four into consideration during its study of the subject matter of all of Bill C-29.
That, in order to allow the Senate to receive a Minister of the Crown during Question Period as authorized by the Senate on December 10, 2015, and notwithstanding rule 4-7, when the Senate sits on Wednesday, November 23, 2016, Question Period shall begin at 3:30 p.m., with any proceedings then before the Senate being interrupted until the end of Question Period, which shall last a maximum of 40 minutes;
That, if a standing vote would conflict with the holding of Question Period at 3:30 p.m. on that day, the vote be postponed until immediately after the conclusion of Question Period;
That, if the bells are ringing for a vote at 3:30 p.m. on that day, they be interrupted for Question Period at that time, and resume thereafter for the balance of any time remaining; and
That, if the Senate concludes its business before 3:30 p.m. on that day, the sitting be suspended until that time for the purpose of holding Question Period.
Hon. Tobias C. Enverga, Jr.: Honourable senators, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the report of the Canadian parliamentary delegation of the ParlAmericas respecting its participation at the ParlAmericas' Annual Gathering on Climate Change, "Parliamentary Action to Stop Climate Change", held in Panama City, Panama, from August 3 to 5, 2016.
Hon. Claude Carignan (Leader of the Opposition): Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
I would like to talk again about NAFTA, an issue that was raised in Question Period yesterday by a few of our colleagues. Yesterday evening, a former senator for Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, gave a speech to the Canadian American Business Council here in Ottawa. Mr. Santorum ran against Trump for the Republican nomination but then endorsed him during the campaign. He spoke about trade matters with Mr. Trump this week. In an interview with the National Post, he confirmed that when Mr. Trump says he will rip up NAFTA, he is thinking of Mexico and not Canada. That was obvious, judging from some of the comments the president-elect has made in recent months.
The agreement's negotiator, Derek Burney, commented on the position of the Trudeau government, which said that it was open to negotiations even before receiving a request from the other parties. This is what Burney had to say: "Naive would be a polite term."
In this morning's La Presse, Lysiane Gagnon described Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's strategy in the following terms:
In other words, he is the poker play who shows his hand at the start of the game; the owner who says he is ready to lower his price even before receiving an offer; the little red riding hood who invites the big bad wolf to gobble her up; or the gentle Care Bear who gets lovey-dovey with the grizzly about to pounce.
Why was the Liberal government so quick to put Canada's largest trading relationship at risk by putting NAFTA on the table before anyone even asked?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): Again, I thank the honourable senator for his question and his ongoing interest in the NAFTA and, more broadly, trade agreements.
Let me repeat what I said yesterday: Notwithstanding the comments or advice from others, it is the view of the Government of Canada that we must engage with the new administration, once they take office, and do so in a fashion that advances Canada's interests with respect to the NAFTA, with respect to our ongoing defence, security and other relationships that are so crucial for our bilateral and our multilateral engagement, and that is the spirit in which the Prime Minister intends on preparing this administration for an administration that is yet to take office.
Senator Carignan: I would like to come back to a comment made by our ambassador in Washington, something that was also raised in Question Period yesterday regarding NAFTA. It was reported that Canada's Ambassador to the United States, David MacNaughton, said that he would like to see a free trade deal reached on softwood lumber. Is that the ambassador's personal opinion or is that the government's position?
Senator Harder: Our ambassador in Washington is an experienced official with a reputation that precedes him in this important role, and I would expect the ambassador to be making his comments in his role as ambassador.
Hon. Joan Fraser: Thank you, Your Honour. My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. My question has to do with federal funding on research for language minorities.
On Monday, the Official Languages Committee heard an interesting presentation from Professor Lorraine O'Donnell, who is the only full-time person employed by the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network.
That institute, which has, in addition to Professor O'Donnell, one part-time coordinator, is the only university-based unit devoted to research on Quebec's English-speaking communities.
Its funding from Canadian Heritage in the last package was a two-year grant of $190,000, which is not much money.
Professor O'Donnell mentioned that there are over 20 similar educational networking and research organizations serving francophone official language minority communities across Canada, and that at least one of these has more than a dozen staff members.
Twenty to one is an interesting ratio when one recalls that there are about as many English-speaking Quebecers as there are French-speaking Canadians outside Quebec.
So my question to the government is: Will you please provide for the Senate the amount of funding that Canadian Heritage provides for these more than 20 research institutes outside Quebec?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I thank the honourable senator for her question and her ongoing interest in this matter, and I would be happy to provide that information.
Senator Fraser: While you are at it, institutes of this nature also get project funding, sometimes from Canadian Heritage, sometimes from other departments. It may take longer to get the answer to this question, so two answers would be fine, first to my first question and then to my supplementary, but it would be very interesting to know what projects have been funded over the past three years in the various research institutions to which I have referred.
While I'm on my feet, let me thank the Leader of the Government in the Senate for his continuing dedication to obtaining answers to questions put by senators. The answers are not always as useful as one might wish, but that's not his fault. It's a phenomenon of government.
Senator Plett: He's giving the answers.
Senator Harder: I thank the honourable senator for what I think is her compliment. I suspect the oral answers are not much better.
I will be happy to seek that information and report.
Hon. Percy E. Downe: Honourable senators, Senator Harder's speedy answers to the written questions I've filed are very much appreciated.
Having said that, there are two or three outstanding. I'm just wondering, particularly on the sale of overseas official residences, does he have a time frame of when I could expect to receive those answers?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I will seek an answer to that and report back to the honourable senator privately, if not on the floor of the Senate, whatever is most efficient.
Hon. Yonah Martin (Deputy Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, I have a question for the Leader of the Government in the Senate, an urgent matter, leader, a matter of life and death.
People are dying across our country due to opioid overdosing, many linked to the painkiller fentanyl, which I know we are all aware of. Overnight Monday, there were 11 drug overdoses in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, with the painkilling opioid as the main suspect. In Delta, just a short drive from Vancouver, in September there were nine overdoses of young people in 20 minutes, and just yesterday three more lives were cut short in Winnipeg. Add to that 332 dead in B.C., 193 in Alberta, 21 in Saskatchewan, 162 in Ontario, 4 in P.E.I., 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, and those are just in the provinces that keep fentanyl-related death statistics. I'm sure there are many more.
Premier Christy Clark of B.C. has called on the federal government for support during this crisis. One of the immediate needs, something the premier has been calling for since July of this year, is support from the Canada Border Services Agency to stop the drug before it gets onto the streets.
Leader, obviously protecting Canadians and saving lives should be the top priority for any government, including this government that you represent here in this chamber. When will the Trudeau government authorize the CBSA to open all suspect packages, not just those that are more than 30 grams, and provide our agents with the proper safety equipment, like naloxone, to ensure they can effectively carry out their duties as our citizens' first line of defence to combat this crisis?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): Again, I want to thank the honourable senator for her question and for the work of many senators — particularly Senator White — with respect to opioids. I know that other senators are very involved in this as well.
This is a high priority for the Minister of Health, who has spoken publicly and in the other chamber about this. I hope this is a subject that we can address next week with ministerial questions, because this is an urgent matter, one that transcends any side in this chamber or otherwise.
The minister has undertaken a number of initiatives, including supporting an amendment to a private member's bill with respect to fentanyl. There are other measures that she and the government are contemplating, and I will, with respect to the specific question on the Canada Border Services Agency, inquire and report back.
Senator Martin: I know that the minister has stated that she's giving attention to this issue, but I guess my fear is that any repeal of an existing bill or an amendment to a bill, as we know, can take months. Sometimes it's very quick — it could be several months — but it is still months and not weeks or days. While we are facing these high numbers in the death toll, there is just a great urgency.
I am glad to know that Minister Philpott will be in our chamber next week, but I would urge the leader to also ask the minister and the government about the more immediate, short-term measures versus the long-term ones.
Senator Harder: I will indeed.
Hon. Donald Neil Plett: Honourable senators, if I could, let me take a quick moment. I wasn't in the chamber yesterday or the day before, and I would like to offer my congratulations and welcome to all of the new senators that have been appointed to this chamber, specifically my colleagues from Manitoba. I look forward to working with you. I notice by the seating chart that one of them is on our side of the chamber, so I certainly appreciate that.
My question, however, is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. Leader, as I said, I wasn't here yesterday and the day before, and the reason is because I was attending the annual general meeting of the Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada. At that annual meeting, the main topic was not being paid on time.
Now, leader, you have been very supportive of my initiative here, as have many others. This is a non-partisan issue, as was explained. There were 270 delegates. They unanimously said this was the number one issue for them. There were Liberal, NDP and Conservative members present.
Leader, this bill has been stalled in the Senate since April 19, a non-partisan piece of legislation that affects every contractor in our country. It is now again stalled. It is adjourned. The President of the Mechanical Contractors Association and the past president, Mr. Del Pawliuk from Ontario, and Mr. Gaetan Beaulieu from New Brunswick, along with 270 delegates, unanimously said, "Senator, please ask this question: When will this legislation go to committee?"
Leader, can you promise this chamber that you will do everything in your power to make sure this comes out of adjournment and is sent to the Banking Committee or to a committee where it can be studied in its entirety?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I thank the honourable senator for his question. As he well knows, I have worked as best I can to advance this bill. As all senators will know, this is not government legislation, and I would not want to aggrandize my role to appropriate responsibility for government legislation.
But I will use the offices that I have to encourage this bill and other bills to be considered appropriately and on their merits by the Senate in the process that advances our consideration. Even where we differ, we should at least advance our differences so that the full Senate can adjudicate the legislation as it moves forward.
Senator Plett: Well, let me echo at least in part what Senator Fraser said: You do give some good answers, and you give some other answers.
I would like something a little more affirmative than that, but, Senator Harder, I will count on you, and the contractors of our country will count on you and on this chamber to move this good piece of legislation through here as quickly as possible. Thank you.
Senator Harder: Let me just reiterate, particularly for new senators, that Senate public bills, which are sponsored by individual senators, are proceeded with and dealt with outside the ambit of the Government Representative.
I want to assure my honourable colleague across the way that I will seek to advance this bill, as other bills, appropriately and will work to see, where possible, how government support for Senate public bills can be achieved because that is advantageous in the consideration, particularly in the other place.
I don't mean to at all diminish my interest in this bill but simply to recognize that my authority, such as it is, deals with government legislation.
Senator Plett: Ask your whip.
Hon. Denise Batters: Honourable senators, my question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
Senator Harder, when Prime Minister Trudeau appointed you as Leader of the Government in the Senate, you were sworn in as a Privy Councillor. When you attended the Senate's Internal Economy Committee meeting on April 14 to request a significant budget increase for your office, you told us this about one of your important duties:
. . . I am invited, as appropriate, to cabinet committees. Obviously, "appropriate" would be interpreted as where the work of the Senate is important and the voices of the Senate's concerns are important to be conveyed directly. I have already attended such committees and look forward to continuing as appropriate and as invited.
So, Senator Harder, from April 14, 2016, to today, how many times have you attended cabinet committees?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): As appropriate and as invited.
Senator Plett: How many times? A number.
Senator Tkachuk: That's not an answer.
Senator Batters: Actually, Senator Harder, my question was from this past April 14 to today — so this is a question in the past, not in the future — how many times have you attended cabinet committees?
Senator Tkachuk: You brought it up. Answer the question.
Senator Harder: As appropriate and as invited.
Senator Tkachuk: Oh, come on.
Senator Batters: Senator Harder, that answer does not respond to the question.
Senator Plett: That's right.
Senator Batters: I'm talking about the last seven months in time. From April 14 to today, how many times have you attended cabinet committees? Can you please provide us with that information in a timely manner?
Senator Harder: I have already responded.
Senator Tkachuk: So he never attended any.
Hon. Don Meredith: The Minister of Employment appeared before us on Tuesday. I was on the list but wasn't able to ask my question of her, and I wonder if the Government Representative in the Senate would undertake to inquire of this information with respect to temporary foreign workers. We heard how important they are to Canada's various sectors with respect to the tourism sector. Senator Nancy Green Raine and I had a quick chat with the minister after. However, there are also issues with this program when it comes to the seasonal horticultural workers and their well-being.
Leader, are you aware of initiatives the government is undertaking to ensure the safety of those individuals who come to this country to work on our farms, to work in our hotels, to ensure that they have the proper accommodations, the proper health care, as well as in times of injury?
I relate, leader, to the situation of Sheldon McKenzie, someone from the Caribbean who was injured and wanted to be shipped back to the Caribbean. It was the intervention of his family that prevented him. Mr. McKenzie eventually died of a brain injury suffered from an injury on a farm that he was working on.
The well-being of these individuals is of great concern to me, as well as to members of this chamber. Could the representative let me know what the government is doing to ensure that they are safe and that they are protected while they are here working for us and supporting our industries?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I thank the honourable senator for this question and for his ongoing interest in this subject in particular. As he knows from our private conversations, it's a program that I have had some acquaintance with, coming from the Niagara Peninsula in the farming sector, which is celebrating 50 years of this program. I do know that the minister, in answering a question related to this earlier this week, spoke of the need to ensure the appropriate protections, both worker safety and environmental and living conditions for these workers. I would be happy to further advance the question that you've asked, which you were unable to ask when the minister was here, and provide a more fulsome response.
Senator Meredith: Could the leader undertake as well to inquire of the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship? A lot of these workers have been coming here for decades with respect to a pathway to citizenship or permanent residency. Perhaps the leader could undertake to see what the government is doing in that regard.
They pay taxes. They have been great contributors to this country, and I think it's a way to ensure that they remain contributors to this country by providing them permanent residency or a pathway to citizenship.
Senator Harder: I will do so.
Hon. Paul E. McIntyre: First of all, I want to congratulate all the new senators on their appointments.
My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate. In the past year, there have been more than 10,000 incidents of classified or secured documents left unsecured or improperly stored. Obviously this is proving to be a serious problem, not just within departments or agencies but also within ministers' offices.
Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell us if remedial security training for the proper handling of documents will be provided across these departments and agencies, and particularly for ministerial staff?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I would be happy to provide that assurance and take the question as an opportunity for me to ensure that that is the case. This is a serious matter of concern, obviously, to ministers and ministerial staff, and it's not out of our recent memory where that lesson has been hard learned.
Senator McIntyre: Thank you for the answer.
We do not know if any of these occurrences of unsecured or improperly stored documents led to any security or privacy breaches. Since the government leader is going to look into this, could you also let us know whether or not this was the case, and if so, how serious was the breach?
Senator Harder: I will add that to my inquiry.
Hon. Thanh Hai Ngo: In 2010, the previous Conservative government withdrew its permanent funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, because of serious concerns over reports that the agency had ties to Hamas, an organization that remains listed as a terrorist entity in Canada. Hamas has been known to use UNRWA schools to store weapons used to attack Israel. In fact, last year the United Nations suspended a number of the agency's staff who had promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence on social media.
The Minister of International Development announced this week that Canada had restored $25 million in funding to the agency. My question for the Leader of the Government in the Senate is this: what assurance can the Liberal government give us that Canada's contribution will not be handed over to Hamas, either directly or indirectly?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): Again, I thank the honourable senator for his question. I want to reiterate that UNRWA's work has been one that Canada over a number of years has contributed to. The issues that the honourable senator has raised have been important. It is the view of the Government of Canada that UNRWA has satisfied the Government of Canada and that it is appropriate for the federal government to contribute again to this important work, and I can assure the honourable senators that the announcement would have been made with appropriate consultation.
Senator Ngo: The press release yesterday from Minister Bibeau states:
A proportion of Canadian funding will also be used to expand training for staff on the proper and neutral use of social media.
It is shocking that the Government of Canada has to include such a provision in its funding. We are talking about the staff of United Nations agencies. The need to include such a requirement in its funding should have set off alarm bells within the Government of Canada. Why?
Senator Harder: It is the view of the Government of Canada that the training is entirely appropriate and one that can provide additional assurances to all Canadians that these funds are being appropriately expended.
Senator Ngo: Does the Leader of the Government have plans to remove Hamas from the list of terrorist entities as provided under the Anti-Terrorism Act?
Senator Harder: I will take that under advisement. I assume it's not a request that they do so.
Hon. Tobias C. Enverga, Jr.: My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
In 2012, the previous Conservative government designated the month of November as Financial Literacy Month. This month is an important tool to help promote financial literacy amongst Canadians so that they have the skills needed to make financial choices that will benefit them and their families.
Last year, the previous Conservative government introduced the National Strategy for Financial Literacy. This strategy states:
It sets out goals and priorities to help Canadians better manage their finances and make appropriate decisions as their needs and circumstances change.
Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate tell honourable senators if the Liberal government supports this strategy? If so, how has this government worked to implement the National Strategy for Financial Literacy over the past year?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I will inquire.
Senator Enverga: I have a supplementary question, if I may, please.
The National Strategy for Financial Literacy places a particular emphasis on financial literacy skills for seniors. The financial abuse of seniors is unfortunately one of the most common forms of elder abuse in Canada.
Could the Leader of the Government in the Senate also tell us what initiatives the Liberal government has taken to address financial literacy and fraud prevention among seniors in particular?
Senator Enverga: Thank you.
Hon. Claude Carignan (Leader of the Opposition): My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate and it has to do with Prime Minister Trudeau's visit to Cuba, where he met with students and activists, as well as President Raul Castro. In Cuba, a certain state of affairs and rule of law are still very present. There are still political prisoners and journalists who are imprisoned because of their opinions. The press is still state-controlled and Internet access is censored. Many activists groups have spoken out about the situation in Cuba.
Prime Minister Trudeau, unlike President Obama, did not speak out against these human rights violations at all. Why did Prime Minister Trudeau, unlike President Obama, fail to speak out about the current state of affairs and human rights violations in Cuba?
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): I thank the honourable senator for his question. The Prime Minister and the Government of Canada place great emphasis on this trip the Prime Minister is undertaking to our partners in the hemisphere. As the senator is aware, this involves two bilateral visits and then a third country, which is hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit. The visit to Cuba is at an interesting time in Cuba's evolution.
I would expect that the nature of the visit is similar to the one that former Ambassador Entwistle described as a shot in the arm for reform in Cuba, and the expectation of the Government of Canada is that Cuba's evolving entry into global economic and social systems will continue.
I have no particular insight into the private conversations that the Prime Minister had, but I can only imagine that they covered a wide range of issues of bilateral interest between Canada and Cuba.
The Hon. the Speaker: Honourable senators, I draw your attention to the presence in the gallery of our former colleague, the Honourable Maria Chaput.
On behalf of all honourable senators, I welcome you to the Senate of Canada.
Hon. Senators: Hear, hear!
On the Order:
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Lankin, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Petitclerc, for the second reading of Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration).
Hon. Dennis Glen Patterson: Honourable senators, having just arrived back from committee travel today, duty travel, I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome our new colleagues in the Senate. I look forward to working with you.
Honourable senators, I rise before you today to speak to Bill S-3, an Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration).
Colleagues, when I think about the various policies and legislation that led us to this bill, I think about the deep-rooted and complex inequities enshrined in the Indian Act that this bill begins to address, and I cannot help but reflect upon the famous lines from a poem called Marmion by Sir Walter Scott. "O, what a tangled web we weave . . . ."
As Senator Lankin quite correctly pointed out in introducing this bill, it seeks to undo the remaining gender-based inequities with regard to — and I too don't mean this in the pejorative sense — Indian registration. In principle, of course, this is the right thing to do. Who could be against gender equity?
This bill is a narrow and direct response to the decision passed down by the Quebec Superior Court on August 3, 2015. The Honourable Chantal Masse found that, despite efforts in 1985 and 2010 to address it, "sex discrimination, though more subtle than before, persists."
In that decision, the court ruled that paragraphs 6(1)(a), (c) and (f), as well as subsection 6(2) of the Indian Act, infringe upon the Charter of Rights and Freedoms section that pertains to equality, equal protection and benefit under the law. It suspended its decision until February 3, 2017, giving Parliament time to address the issues affecting grandchildren and cousins under the act.
Given that decision, the bill before us today does propose an amendment to the Indian Act that removes the discrimination facing matrilineal entitlement, ensuring that cousins would be equally entitled to have and pass on their status, regardless of the gender of their grandparent. It also seeks to address issues regarding siblings. An Indian woman born out of wedlock would not be able to pass on their status to their children unless the father of those children was also a status Indian. However, her brother, also born out of wedlock, would have no difficulty or caveats when passing his status on to his children.
In her decision, Justice Masse also encouraged the government to look beyond these two specific circumstances, which were brought to light by litigants Stéphane Descheneaux, Tammy Yantha, and Susan Yantha. In that spirit, the government has also introduced a clause that seeks to address the issue of omitted minors who lost their status between September 4, 1951, and April 17, 1985, due to their mother marrying a non-Indian.
Despite being reinstated under Bill C-31 in 1985, they are not able to pass their status on to their children. This bill would allow the children of an omitted minor to be eligible for status.
Should these changes be passed by Parliament, it is estimated that between 28,000 and 35,000 individuals will become newly eligible for Indian registration and, consequently, become entitled to programs such as INAC's post-secondary education program and Health Canada's non-insured health benefits, and it would entitle them to certain treaty rights such as treaty annuity payments, and Aboriginal rights such as hunting and fishing. Membership in a band or First Nation also provides entitlement to specific Aboriginal and treaty rights, such as the ability to vote or run in elections for chief and council, to vote in community referenda, to reside on-reserve, to share in band monies, to own or inherit property on-reserve, and to access reserve-based programs and services.
Despite some concerns for the First Nations' ability to administer this influx in citizenship and band membership, I am told that current trends based on the last 20 years of data collection show that there has not been a significant change in the on-reserve population following inclusive amendments like those passed in 1985 and 2010.
This data, referred to by department officials as "the churn," has revealed a natural and consistent ebb and flow to band membership living on-reserve. Growth in reserve populations arising from increased entitlements is possibly restrained, I think, by acute housing shortages in most reserves. However, this question of an individual First Nation's readiness and capacity to address this large change is something I would like to examine closely during the committee's study.
It also raises the question of the department's capacity to handle such an influx. There have been reports from stakeholders I have spoken with that there remains a backlog of those entitled to register, as their eligibility is vetted by the registrar's office.
Currently, the Government of Canada maintains exclusive authority over determining eligibility for Indian registration.
Band membership is a bit more complicated. There are three separate regimes: Section 10 First Nations that have control over their own membership, provided they meet certain statutory requirements and they are complicit with the Charter; Section 11 First Nations' band lists maintained by the Indian Registrar — this same office administers rules for entitlement to membership; and, finally, self-governing First Nations that exercise jurisdiction over citizenship outside of the Indian Act.
According to the department, "out of 618 First Nation communities, 229, or 37 per cent, determine their own membership and 350, or 57 per cent, remain under federal rules for membership pursuant to section 11 of the Indian Act." The additional 6 per cent, or 39 First Nations, are self-governing.
Now, I have a law degree, colleagues, from a fine law school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and I must admit that even I find this system convoluted. In examining this bill, the previous bills that have targeted sex-based discrimination, and the act itself, I am struck by the simplicity and the clarity afforded to Inuit in Canada. In the process established by Inuit land claim agreements, Inuit are in charge of defining their membership, administering their registers and coordinating their benefits. And all it takes is one parent to be a beneficiary for the child to be approved as a beneficiary. I myself have three children who are beneficiaries of the Nunavut land claim, based on that simple principle.
With Bill S-3, we have an attempt to address gender-based inequities, but I believe, honourable senators, it is important to note that many issues of discrimination remain. This bill serves to highlight one of them. Several of these clauses, such as those pertaining to siblings and omitted minors, include the express provision that these amendments only apply to those born before 1985.
Experts such as Stewart Clatworthy, a demographer who has studied the demographic implications of amendments to Indian registration since the 1985 amendments, has spoken of the issue of the "second generation cut-off rule." He has projected that, based on current legislation, in about 100 years no new child will be entitled to have their name added to the Indian Register. Justice Masse states in her ruling that "if more people registered under 6(1), this evolution would be slightly slower, but because of the nature of the mechanism in subsection 6(1), there will eventually be no more children born with an entitlement to be entered in the Register."
The government has said that these amendments, which do nothing to end the discrimination based on age, were introduced due to a two-staged approach: stage one will seek to amend the act in very specific ways, dealing only with the issues identified in the ruling and with the issue of omitted minors. This stage consisted of what government officials called "information sessions" with various organizations and First Nations, where officials explained the two-stage process and the amendments that we have before us today to groups ranging from 50 to 150 participants of varied demographics.
Stage two will build on the extensive work done by the previous government. In a similar fashion, the government responded directly to issues identified by the McIvor case in British Columbia, passing Bill C-3, Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act in 2010. After the bill received Royal Assent, the department, then Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, launched an Exploratory Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and Citizenship that lasted from 2011 to 2012.
Twenty national and regional indigenous organizations across the country were given proposal-based funding by the federal government to lead a variety of activities that took place in every province and territory, except Nunavut where, as I mentioned earlier, a comprehensive land claims agreement gives Inuit full control over their membership. That funding then flowed to affiliate organizations, for a total of 55 national, regional and local organizations leading activities under this initiative.
I am told that over 35,000 First Nations and Metis individuals participated. Seven themes emerged over the course of this initiative: First Nations' conceptual thinking on registration, membership, citizenship and its practical application; First Nations' views and perspectives on identity, belonging, citizenship and nationhood; the legal recognition and exercise of First Nations jurisdiction over citizenship; First Nations' criteria for citizenship determination; the impacts of the Indian Act on First Nations identity and citizenship; Metis perspectives on citizenship, nationhood, dual legal status and multiple identities; and, finally, impressions on the exploratory process and moving forward on reform.
Recommendations for the Government of Canada as well as for First Nations Governments, and First Nations and Metis leadership and constituencies were brought forward.
Despite such a worthwhile initiative being completed, and a promise by this new government to build upon that good work, First Nations do not stand on the cusp of enjoying the freedom to control their membership, and I would suggest that it would not be practical to expect that the complexities surrounding membership and citizenship will be solved in the near future.
Participants of the exploratory process made it quite clear that they did not consider the process to qualify as adequate consultation and that they saw it as part of a much larger, lengthier process.
Honourable senators, I do support this legislation. It will, of course, require scrutiny at committee. Justice Masse says in her decision that "it goes without saying that the issue of the costs that more inclusive provisions would incur is one element among many that Parliament may consider," and she is right. I believe that any responsible government at any level should know what the potential impacts of their policies would be — ethically, socially and financially. And I feel that consideration of this bill cannot occur without also contributing, to some extent, to the debate of the government's planned stage two that will have to answer challenging and complex questions such as: What is government's continued role in determining who is and who is not entitled to status?
Colleagues, we cannot here and now address the other inequities enshrined in the Indian Act, but we can take this step to remove the residual gender-based inequities. So I would respectfully ask you to support sending this bill to committee for further study.
Hon. Sandra Lovelace Nicholas: Will the senator answer a question?
Senator Patterson: Gladly.
Senator Lovelace Nicholas: Honourable senator, do you find it odd that the bill was introduced in the Senate where it is not a money bill? As you know, there will be about 30,000 people wanting to register as status Indians and there are poor communities so where is the funding going to come from to have these people get housing, education and other services?
Senator Patterson: I would like to thank the honourable senator for the question and repeat Senator Fraser's tribute to Senator Lovelace Nicholas for initiating the examination of gender-based inequity years ago in Canada, in New Brunswick, and the work is certainly still not done.
No longer being a part of the government caucus in the Senate, I hesitate to answer about why the bill was introduced in the Senate. Perhaps that's better left to the Government Representative in the Senate.
I would observe, as I said in my speech, we're all under a tight time frame imposed by the Quebec court to have Parliament address this inequity by February 3. I think that may be part of the government strategy in having this government bill and it's a government bill, not a private member's bill, introduced in the Senate.
We should move to address it expeditiously. As I said in my speech, we should examine the financial implications and we should not forget the other immense social issues that affect First Nations.
I agree with the honourable senator. Education and housing should not be overlooked just because we're tinkering with the gender-based inequities in the Indian Act.
Senator Lovelace Nicholas: I have been in contact with New Brunswick chiefs, and they haven't been consulted at all. They're not taking part in this process. It concerns me, because we're going to have people that want to register in our communities.
Why do they insist on not consulting and continuing with this bill?
Senator Patterson: Let's make sure that we ask the minister and the officials representing the department who will appear before our committee those very questions. I encourage the honourable senator to be the one to ask those questions, as she can do so with real legitimacy.
Hon. Frances Lankin: I also would like to pay tribute to Senator Lovelace Nicholas for her leadership role with respect to this file that goes back so long. It was so personal to her and created such an opportunity for so many other members of indigenous communities and for women and their children. We appreciate her role.
Senator Lankin: Before I ask my question, I want to say, Senator Patterson, that I appreciate your knowledge on this file as well, and, in particular, your bringing the perspective of what has happened with respect to Nunavut and a very different approach that has been taken.
The key question in phase two of this bill and what will follow is the question of why Canada still holds a responsibility for determining who obtains status or not, and what the possibility of devolution of that is right across this country. I appreciate your perspective there.
I do want to say that the Department of Health has an appropriation that's been set aside for Canada's obligation for health care with respect to new registrants that might come forward. With respect to education, it is a requirement under the legislation already.
The question still is very valid when it comes to on-reserve social supports and services, housing and provisions of support of that nature.
In asking the question of the department, I am told that they are going to be working with band leaderships, monitoring this situation and bringing forward a response. I think it is the exact kind of information we need to seek from the minister and her officials when we are at committee.
Senator, when you spoke about the result of the land claims process in Nunavut and the fact that there is complete control over the registration process, membership process, at this point in time, I wonder if you could expand for us how that has been welcomed and received within the communities and if there have been any administrative issues or issues of concern.
There are those who raise concerns about a similar devolution in other communities across Canada. I think we can look to the example that you are aware of and the example the peoples of Nunavut have set for us to understand what might be possible as we move forward.
Senator Patterson: I thank the honourable senator for the question.
I can speak only for the Nunavut land claim, with which I'm most familiar. There hasn't been a hiccup, an issue or a problem since 1993, since the land claim was finalized. I have not been aware, I should say, of any issues.
The responsibility of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated to enrol members is taken seriously by them. They reach out to members, beneficiaries, all across the country. They seek them out and find them.
On occasion, they have offered Inuit status, if we can call it that, to long-standing members of the community who may not have very much or any Inuit blood, which is their right to do and which is a great honour that has been conferred on very few people.
It is working great. The Inuit are keenly aware that recklessly expanding their membership would have financial implications for the money that they hold in trust on behalf of their members.
It is working out very well. Like many other things we do in the North, including how we deal with the environmental and regulatory approval of development projects, we have a lot to teach the rest of the country about how things could be done better.
The Hon. the Speaker: Are senators ready for the question?
Hon. Senators: Question.
The Hon. the Speaker: It was moved by the Honourable Senator Lankin, seconded by the Honourable Senator Petitclerc, that Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration), be read the second time.
Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion?
Some Hon. Senators: Yes.
Some Hon. Senators: No.
The Hon. the Speaker: All those in favour of the motion will signify by saying "yea."
Some Hon. Senators: Yea.
The Hon. the Speaker: Those opposed to the motion will signify by saying "nay."
Some Hon. Senators: Nay.
The Hon. the Speaker: In my opinion, the "yeas" have it.
And two honourable senators having risen:
The Hon. the Speaker: Is there an agreement on the bell?
Senator Plett: Fifteen minutes.
The Hon. the Speaker: It will be a 15-minute bell. Honourable senators, the vote will take place at 3:01.
Call in the senators.
The Hon. the Speaker: Honourable senators, the question is as follows:
It was moved by the Honourable Senator Lankin, seconded by the Honourable Senator Petitclerc, that Bill S-3 be read a second time.
All those in favour of the motion will please rise.
Motion agreed to and bill read second time on the following division:
THE HONOURABLE SENATORS
Andreychuk Manning
Ataullahjan Marshall
Baker Martin
Batters Marwah
Bellemare McCoy
Beyak McIntyre
Boisvenu Meredith
Boniface Mitchell
Bovey Moore
Campbell Nancy Ruth
Carignan Ngo
Cools Ogilvie
Cormier Oh
Dagenais Pate
Dean Patterson
Downe Petitclerc
Doyle Plett
Duffy Pratte
Enverga Raine
Fraser Ringuette
Frum Runciman
Gagné Seidman
Greene Sinclair
Griffin Smith
Harder Stewart Olsen
Hartling Tardif
Housakos Tkachuk
Joyal Wallace
Kenny Wallin
Lang Wells
Lankin Wetston
Lovelace Nicholas Woo—65
THE HONOURABLE SENATOR
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The Hon. the Speaker: When shall this bill be read a third time?
Hon. Frances Lankin: Honourable senators, I move that the bill be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples.
(On motion of Senator Lankin, bill referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples.)
On Government Business, Motions, Order No. 47, by the Honourable Diane Bellemare:
That, in order to allow the Senate to receive a Minister of the Crown during Question Period as authorized by the Senate on December 10, 2015, and notwithstanding rule 4-7, when the Senate sits on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Question Period shall begin at 3:30 p.m., with any proceedings then before the Senate being interrupted until the end of Question Period, which shall last a maximum of 40 minutes;
(Motion withdrawn.)
Hon. Diane Bellemare (Legislative Deputy to the Government Representative in the Senate), pursuant to notice of November 16, 2016, moved:
That, when the Senate next adjourns after the adoption of this motion, it do stand adjourned until Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 2 p.m.
She said: Honourable senators, I would like to take this opportunity to announce that, starting next week, the government does not expect to suspend the rules between now and December 23 except with respect to the timing of Monday sittings. As you know, the rules provide for Monday to Friday sittings. However, I want to assure you that we will do everything we can to accommodate committees on Mondays and deal with items on the agenda.
The Hon. the Speaker: Are honourable senators ready for the question?
Hon. Senators: Yes.
The Hon. the Speaker: Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to.)
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Chaput, seconded by the Honourable Senator Moore, for the second reading of Bill S-209, An Act to amend the Official Languages Act (communications with and services to the public).
(Motion agreed to and bill read second time.)
The Hon. the Speaker: Honourable senators, when shall this bill be read the third time?
(On motion of Senator Gagné, bill referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages.)
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Andreychuk, seconded by the Honourable Senator Tkachuk, for the second reading of Bill S-226, An Act to provide for the taking of restrictive measures in respect of foreign nationals responsible for gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and to make related amendments to the Special Economic Measures Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
(On motion of Senator Andreychuk, bill referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.)
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Joyal, P.C., seconded by the Honourable Senator Eggleton, P.C., for the second reading of Bill S-212, An Act for the advancement of the aboriginal languages of Canada and to recognize and respect aboriginal language rights.
Hon. Murray Sinclair: Honourable senators, I rise to add some comments with regard to Bill S-212, which calls upon the government to take steps to address the status and restoration of indigenous languages in Canada.
I want to first of all congratulate our colleague Senator Joyal for reintroducing this bill, as he has in the past, and for his comments at the beginning.
I want to begin my remarks by asking you to think of the answer to this question: "Who are you?" It's not a rhetorical question. It's a question which asks you to contemplate the fundamental question of your identity and character. To be able to answer that, you need to know where you and your ancestors came from, what you stood for, your personal and collective history, what your influences have been, what your ambitions have been and are, and what your purpose in life is.
It's not a tough call for most of us because we have been informed and educated about those things within our families and in our institutions since the day we were born. Our answers to those questions and the ambitions they have provided to us, combined with the opportunities and the choices we have faced and made, have led us to this very place. Yet, while we are all senators, that is not who we are. It is what we do. We are all unique from each other, but we are confident of one thing, though, that we each know who we are. We are strong in our sense of self. We have an identity we believe in and which we know will sustain us throughout all of our challenges. We are what and who we want to be.
Language and culture are keys to personal identity. Personal identity is key to a sense of self-worth, and spiritual and mental wellness hinge on one's sense of self-worth.
Everyone wants to feel worthy and to belong to something valid. Education is the key by which we make our society and our membership within it seem valid.
Identity also gives one a sense of being valued and worthy if one's language and culture are considered valuable and worthy. If the language you speak and the culture you follow are denigrated or otherwise portrayed as unworthy of respect from your neighbours, disrespect is reciprocated and tension between you is inevitable.
That has significant implications for indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada. From the time of Confederation until the end of the 20th century, a period of about 125 years, Canada did all that it could to eliminate Aboriginal cultures and Aboriginal languages. Through the use of law approved and passed by our senatorial ancestors, among others, cultural practices were outlawed and access to justice was denied to anyone who wanted to do anything about it.
Undoubtedly, residential schools were the single most significant attack on indigenous languages and cultures. One hundred and fifty thousand children were forcibly removed from their families under threat of prosecution for those parents who resisted and were placed in institutions for the sole purpose of indoctrinating them into Canadian society.
Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald not only believed that Aboriginal people who practised their culture and languages were savages but that they needed to have those cultures and languages stripped away. In 1883, in Parliament, he stated:
When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simple a savage who can read and write.
It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men.
He made this statement at a time when federal government representatives had already entered into treaties with First Nations leaders and would continue to enter into other treaties within which promises were made by the government, among other things, to build schools on reserves, such as the provision you find in Treaty 1. That treaty says:
And further, Her Majesty agrees to maintain a school on each reserve hereby made whenever the Indians of the reserve should desire it.
It would be fair to say that the federal government representatives were less than forthright and even deceptive in their dealings with First Nation leaders on the issue of schools and education during those treaty negotiations.
In a study of the impact of residential schools, the Assembly of First Nations noted in 1994 that:
. . . language is necessary to define and maintain a world view. For this reason, some First Nation elders to this day will say that knowing or learning the native language is basic to any deep understanding of a First Nation way of life, to being a First Nation person. For them, a First Nation world is quite simply not possible without its own language. For them, the impact of residential school silencing their language is equivalent to a residential school silencing their world.
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples in its report in 1996 similarly noted the connection between Aboriginal languages and what it called a "distinctive world view, rooted in the stories of ancestors and the environment." The royal commission added that Aboriginal languages are a "tangible emblem of group identity" that can provide "the individual a sense of security and continuity with the past. . . . maintenance of the language and group identity has both a social-emotional and a spiritual purpose."
Residential schools were a systematic, government—sponsored attempt to destroy Aboriginal cultures and languages and to assimilate Aboriginal peoples so that they no longer existed as distinct peoples.
English and, to a far lesser degree, French were the only languages permitted to be used in those schools. Students were physically punished, often severely, for speaking their own languages.
Rights to culture and language and the need for remedies for their loss have been recognized now in international law. They are specifically acknowledged in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which acknowledged the critical state of Aboriginal languages generally.
Article 8.1 of the declaration recognizes that:
Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.
Article 8.2 provides that:
States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of and redress for . . . Any form of forced assimilation or integration.
The declaration also includes specific recognition of the right to revitalize and transmit Aboriginal languages in Article 13.1, which recognizes that:
Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
We see further similar provisions in Articles 14.1, 14.3 and 16.
The attempt to assimilate students by denying them access to and respect for their languages and cultures often meant that the students became estranged from their families, from their communities and even from themselves. Some survivors refused to teach their own children their Aboriginal languages and cultures because of the negative stigma that had come to be associated with them during their school years.
My grandmother, for example, who raised me and my siblings from the time that I was an infant, could speak Ojibway and Cree, as well as French and English. She taught all of those languages to me as a young boy, but she insisted that we only speak English once I started school. I always wondered why she did that and came to some understanding when one survivor told us during our hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had a similar experience. When he asked his mother why she had never taught him the language, she told him simply, "Because I wanted to save your life."
In the Catholic school where she had been raised, she was taught that if she continued to practise her culture and to speak her language, she would end up in purgatory or in hell, places of eternal damnation. She simply wanted her children to have a chance at eternal life in heaven, so she refused to teach them their language.
This, I believe, was my deeply Catholic grandmother's motivation as well. But whatever the cause or motivation, the lack of transmission of language has contributed significantly to the fragile state of Aboriginal languages and culture in Canada today.
Many of the almost 90 surviving Aboriginal languages in Canada are under serious threat of extinction. In the 2011 Census, only 14.5 per cent of the Aboriginal population of Canada reported that their first language learned was an Aboriginal language. In the previous 2006 Census, 18 per cent of those who identified as Aboriginal reported an Aboriginal language as their first language learned. And a decade earlier, in the 1996 Census, the figure was 26 per cent. This indicates a drop in language use and transmission of nearly 50 per cent in the 15 years since the last residential schools were closed.
There are, however, variations among the Aboriginal populations: 63.7 per cent of Inuit speak their language compared to 22.4 per cent of First Nations people and only 2.5 per cent of Metis people.
Some languages are close to extinction because they have only a few remaining speakers of the great-grandparent generation. UNESCO says that 36 per cent of Canada's Aboriginal languages are being critically endangered in the sense that they are only used by the great-grandparent generation. They say 18 per cent are severely endangered in the sense that they are used by the grandparent generation, and 16 per cent are definitely endangered in the sense that they are used by the parental and the two previous generations combined.
The remaining languages are all vulnerable. If the preservation of Aboriginal languages does not become a priority both for governments and for Aboriginal communities, then what the residential schools failed to accomplish will come about through a process of systematic neglect.
In interpreting Aboriginal and treaty rights under section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Supreme Court of Canada has stressed the relation of those rights to the preservation of distinct Aboriginal cultures. The preservation of Aboriginal languages is essential to identity and, given its past treatment, must be recognized as a legal right in Canada.
In the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, various calls to action were put forward to establish that point. Call to Action 13, for example, reads:
We call upon the federal government to acknowledge that Aboriginal rights include Aboriginal language rights.
At a time when government funding is most needed to protect Aboriginal languages and culture, Canada has not upheld commitments it previously made to fund such programs.
In 2002, the federal government under Prime Minister Chrétien promised that $160 million would be set aside for the creation of a centre for Aboriginal languages and culture and a national language strategy. But in 2006, the government retreated from that commitment, pledging instead to spend only $5 million per year in permanent funding for the Aboriginal Languages Initiative, which had been started in 1998. The ALI is a program of government-administered heritage subsidies. It is not based on the notion of a respectful nation-to-nation relationship between Canada and Aboriginal peoples. Nor does it provide Aboriginal people with the opportunity to make decisions for themselves about how to allocate scarce resources and how to administer programs.
Other than ALI, the only significant programs for language preservation are the Canada Territorial Language Accords, with a $4.1 million budget, which support territorial government-directed Aboriginal language services, which support as well community projects in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. In Yukon, language revitalization and preservation projects there are supported through transfer agreements, with 10 of the 11 self-governing Yukon First Nations becoming eligible.
The combined total annual federal budget for those Aboriginal languages programs in Canada, therefore, was $9.1 million when that is factored in.
Compare that to the official languages program for English and French in Canada which has in recent years been allotted funding as follows: in 2012-13, $353.3 million; in 2013-14, $348.2 million; in 2014-15, $348.2 million.
The Hon. the Speaker: Excuse me, Senator Sinclair, your time has expired. Are you asking for more time?
Senator Sinclair: Five more minutes.
Senator Sinclair: The commitment to French language retention and services is commendable, and I do not want to be taken as criticizing the amount or suggesting it be reduced. Rather I point out for comparison that the resources committed to Aboriginal language programs are far less than what has been committed to French, even in areas where French speakers number less than Aboriginal language speakers. For example, the federal government provides support to the small minority of francophones in Nunavut in the amount of approximately $4,000 per individual annually. In contrast, the funding to support Inuit language initiatives in Nunavut is estimated at $44 per Inuk per year.
In the report of the TRC, we put forward a call to action dealing with the need for legislation. We also saw the need for an official with authority to promote Aboriginal languages and to monitor and report upon federal government funding support.
In addition to promoting the use of Aboriginal languages, that official, we felt, would also educate non-Aboriginal Canadians about the richness and value of Aboriginal languages and how strengthening those languages can enhance Canada's international reputation.
As I said at the outset, cultural and language revival are keys for Aboriginal youth in their search for identity, and it is a legitimate cause of complaint for survivors of residential schools and other forms of cultural suppression. Cultural and language revival are a binding force for the Aboriginal community. However, while there is a significant role for government to play in that revival, in the final analysis cultural and language revival are the responsibility of the communities that want them.
There is no getting away from the very simple fact that if you want your culture, you must live it; if you want your language, you must speak it.
I have some concerns about this bill, though I support it. In this respect I am not convinced it goes far enough. I don't think it goes as far as it could or should. I am nonetheless prepared to support the bill going on to committee in order to see if the committee members will support amendments to the bill, which I intend to propose, that I believe will make the bill stronger and consistent both with the TRC's calls to action as well as the principles espoused in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
I encourage all of you to show Canada, as well as the indigenous peoples in Canada living with the legacy of residential schools, that the Senate of Canada as an institution is prepared to support this bill as an act of reconciliation.
(On motion of Senator Patterson, debate adjourned.)
Hon. A. Raynell Andreychuk: Your Honour, with leave and indulgence of the honourable senators, I would ask that Motion No. 129 be brought forward at this time.
Hon. Joan Fraser: Why is this request being made?
Senator Andreychuk: For a very personal reason. I have to leave early today, and I don't want to stop other debate. The motion is time sensitive, so I wanted to ensure that we dealt with it. I appreciate that it is unusual, but I'm asking for the indulgence of the Senate.
The Hon. the Speaker: Is leave granted, honourable senators?
Leave having been given to proceed to Motions, Order No. 129:
Hon. A. Raynell Andreychuk, pursuant to notice of November 16, 2016, moved:
That the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade have the power to meet on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, at 4 p.m., even though the Senate may then be sitting, and that rule 12-18(1) be suspended in relation thereto.
Hon. Larry W. Campbell moved second reading of Bill C-224, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (assistance — drug overdose).
He said: Honourable senators, I would like to start out by commending Ron McKinnon, the Member of Parliament for Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, for bringing forward this bill in the other place. Quite simply, there is an opioid crisis in Canada. I don't think that I have to go into any great detail. We read it every day in the newspapers. We see it in our communities and we talk to our friends.
I have intimate knowledge of this area because I was a coroner for 20 years. For 20 years I investigated the deaths of people who were suffering from addiction. On a number of occasions I knew that this did not take place in isolation, that somebody was present when this overdose took place. Because of our law, usually the person who was injecting with the deceased would either have a criminal record, would be carrying their own personal drugs or would have shot up with them and been subject to arrest by the police.
This amendment will take care of that by changing the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to provide an exemption from prosecution for those who report a drug overdose.
I should stress that this does not give immunity to anyone for serious offences covered under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, such as possession for the purpose or production, just to name a couple.
According to a recent study by the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council, people experiencing or witnessing an overdose are often afraid to call 911 for fear of prosecution.
I was once in a place where people were injecting. I was actually giving a talk when somebody overdosed. They opened the back door, called 911, and put them outside in the alley and waited for the ambulance to arrive. This does not happen in isolation. This happens every single day where there are injections going on.
This is the biggest reason why people don't call, and it is the biggest reason why people die alone in every single city in this country.
This type of legislation is not a new concept. A number of other jurisdictions have versions of Good Samaritan laws — 37 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Last Monday, there were 28 overdoses at Insite in Vancouver. There were no deaths because medical help was immediate. But on that same day, there were 11 other overdoses in the Downtown Eastside that luckily were also saved.
Over 600 people have died in British Columbia this year and thousands across Canada. In the 1990s we called it an epidemic when 250 people died in British Columbia. This is way beyond an epidemic. It is staggering. In the other place, this bill received unanimous consent, and I'm hopeful it will have the same effect here.
Strides have been made in Canada in the area of addictions: removing naloxone from the list of prescription drugs. Naloxone, for those not familiar with it, is a drug that you inject into somebody who has overdosed, and it basically surrounds the opioid molecules. I have seen people I thought were dead come back to life. But it lasts about a half an hour, and you have to get them to hospital. Thanks to Senator White, six essential ingredients of fentanyl are now controlled substances. Tomorrow for the first time, to my knowledge, here in Ottawa there will be an opioid summit that will discuss all of these issues.
Obviously, these are all steps in the right direction, but this bill stands to garner immediate, positive results. It will save lives. I am hopeful we can send this bill to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee swiftly for rigorous and thorough study.
It is necessary to point out that, unlike every other bill that is before us, people's lives actually depend on this in the immediate and near future. Each day people are dying, and we can help stop that.
(On motion of Senator Plett, debate adjourned.)
Resuming debate on the consideration of the first report (interim) of the Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization, entitled: Senate Modernization: Moving Forward, deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on October 4, 2016.
Hon. George Baker: Honourable senators, I will be using just a short period of the 15 minutes, and I won't be speaking a second time, as I indicated to the committee that organized the speaking.
I will be very brief on this particular motion. I would like to put on the record — very briefly — my thoughts concerning what has been said by Senator Cowan and Senator Carignan regarding this particular matter in their motion.
First of all, before I address the subjects that I want to put on the record, I must say that Senator Cowan's statement that Senator Harder is "radical" and "slyly subversive" is, senators, to say the least, a bit of an overstatement. That's like me calling Senator Plett "a meek little lamb."
The two subjects, however, that I would like to address concern both Senator Carignan's and Senator Cowan's opinions concerning Senator Harder's opinion on what the Senate should be.
Let me quote what Senator Cowan said. He said Senator Harder. . . actually tried to rewrite history as he described bringing the Senate, in his words:
. . . closer to the non-partisan and complementary body that the framers had envisaged and the Supreme Court endorsed.
Senator Cowan said:
Quite simply, that's not true. We can certainly have a debate about what this chamber should be in the future, but let's have that debate without misrepresenting the Senate's origins or what the Supreme Court of Canada said.
The Leader of the Opposition, my friend Senator Carignan . . . .
And he went on to describe Senator Carignan's similar opinion.
Who is correct here? Is Senator Harder incorrect when he stated that he wanted to bring the Senate closer to the non-partisan and complementary body that the framers had envisioned and the Supreme Court endorsed? Is that correct?
Well, I have here the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada that they are quoting from. What does it say?
Let's go first of all to the headnote. The headnote brings out the most important part of the judgment first. Here is what the headnote says, under "Held":
The Constitution Act, 1867 contemplates a specific structure for the federal Parliament, "similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom."
It continues:
The framers sought to endow the Senate with independence from the electoral process to which members of the House of Commons were subject, in order to remove Senators from a partisan political arena that required unremitting consideration of short-term political objectives.
. . . the choice of executive appointment for Senators was also intended to ensure that the Senate would be a complementary legislative body, rather than a . . . rival of the House of Commons in the legislative process.
Now, that sounds to me that Senator Harder is absolutely correct, but let us go to the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada to see exactly what they said. When you read the headnote, it is usually written by an academic who describes — and I'm looking here. Somebody wishes to examine what the Supreme Court of Canada says about the Senate and the role of the Senate, if you go to paragraphs 57 and 58.
Here is what it says, just briefly:
As this court wrote in the Upper House Reference, "[i]n creating the Senate in the manner provided in the Act, it is clear that the intention was to make the Senate a thoroughly independent body which could canvass dispassionately the measures of the House of Commons." . . . The framers sought to endow the Senate with independence from the electoral process to which members of the House of Commons were subject, in order to remove Senators from a partisan political arena that required unremitting consideration of short-term political objectives.
. . . the choice of executive appointment for Senators was also intended to ensure that the Senate would be a complementary legislative body . . . .
That's what the Supreme Court of Canada said. That's the first issue.
Senator Tkachuk: Could they have been wrong?
Senator Baker: The senator asks, "Could they have been wrong?" Well, they are the highest court in the land as far as the law is concerned. This is the highest court in the land right here, because what the Senate decides is not appealable to a court.
Let us go to the second issue. The second issue concerns the secrecy of meetings. Senator Harder has invited us all to a meeting.
I was in the House of Commons for 29 years. I have been here for 14 years. The rules in the House of Commons provide for in camera meetings to decide things prior to something going public. I think the Senate rules also provide for that, and they do provide for that.
You go to a committee meeting and you are then to decide what your report is to the Senate and back to the government, in camera.
If you go to a committee of the Senate and you wish to attach observations — in private, each member, no matter who you are, expresses an opinion — it shouldn't be public; and you come to a resolution, a final decision, on behalf of everybody.
So an in camera meeting is important. After all, as has been pointed out, Senator Harder attends certain meetings of cabinet where legislation is involved. He's not a regular cabinet member. He doesn't attend all the committees of cabinet, as some of us have had the opportunity to do in past lives. But it is important that Senator Harder be able to discuss things with members of the Senate, and I will tell you why.
The most important, I would say, piece of legislation that is before the House of Commons today is in committee, and it's a Senate bill. It passed in this house. It went to the House of Commons with the support of Senator Harder, and the government turned around and said, "We totally support this legislation from the Senate." And you know whose bill it is; it's Senator Cowan's bill.
Much has been said about fentanyl here today. Senator Campbell is absolutely correct about fentanyl.
Some of you know Senator White. He was a big chief of police for Ottawa and a deputy commissioner of the RCMP, but I knew him as a street cop in Newfoundland. He served in all the northern territories of Canada and he knows the dangers of illegal drugs.
Honourable senators, the precursors for fentanyl — one of the most dangerous drugs that can be made — are legal in Canada. Imagine that. When the statistics on the deaths caused by fentanyl came out in May of this year, Senator White sat in his office, backed up by Senator Moore here, who seconded the bill. He created a list of three and he brought it to our committee in the form of a bill.
One day Senator Harder came to committee and sat down next to me. I asked what he was doing there. "Oh," he said, "I'm coordinating things with the Department of Health and the Department of Justice to get this through and to add three more substances as precursors," as Senator Campbell correctly pointed out. Imagine.
Then representatives of the Department of Health and the Department of Justice came to committee. Then just a week ago the minister made a public statement to say that those regulations can be done through order-in-council; in other words, to stop what's now legal, to make illegal the importation of the precursors and put it in Schedule 1 of the Precursor Control Regulations, part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which they should be.
And today, through order-in-council — and if the minister is going to attend the Senate the question should be asked because this was a Senate initiative — it will finally be made illegal so that people cannot make fentanyl in some basement somewhere and sell it on the street where it's killing people.
That was a Senate initiative; that was Senator White; that was Senator Moore; and that, more importantly, the work of the man who represents the government in the Senate — Senator Harder.
Let me say in conclusion, as senators who were presented with a very difficult job to do — in this case Senator Harder and Senator Bellemare — in uncharted waters, I believe they have done a magnificent job in their respective positions. And I want to assure Senator Harder that I for one will be attending his meeting when it's called next week.
Hon. Joan Fraser: Would Senator Baker take a question?
Senator Baker: Absolutely.
Senator Fraser: Could you explain your understanding of the purpose of this meeting?
I will have a follow-up question, depending on your answer.
Senator Baker: I read the email, which of course you read as well, and the purpose of the meeting was to discuss legislation that's facing the Senate. That's my understanding at present. I hope that was what you took away from the email; is that correct?
Senator Fraser: Yes. I had assumed that the purpose of the meeting was to have a discussion and reach some common agreement among senators about the best way forward. We all know we're getting close to the Christmas rush, and we're all familiar with the Christmas rush and all that entails.
I was, therefore, taken aback this afternoon when Senator Bellemare told us — that is before this meeting to discuss how we're going to do it — that the government was no longer going to give leave to suspend the rules about sittings and that we will be sitting for however long on Mondays and Fridays. That would have seemed to me to be one of the prime elements on which one would hope to have a broad discussion to reach some consensus.
What is your reaction to these two elements that to me seem contradictory?
Senator Baker: Let me answer that, honourable senators. Usually people complain when they're not invited to a meeting.
Senator Runciman is sitting there. He has an important bill that we passed in this chamber.
Senator Sinclair is a former judge, and I'm glad we have Senator Wetston here now — a remarkable man with over 200 judgments in the mid-1990s. I recall them well. He is a remarkable gentleman of a superior court, and Senator Andreychuk as well.
Our Speaker, as a trial lawyer at all levels, would know that superior court judges have — provincial court judges don't have — a certain power to make decisions that aren't in the rules. They have inherent jurisdiction. Senator Harder has assumed his new jurisdiction.
We've passed the bill of Senator Runciman, and we have other senators with bills, such as Senator Dyck. And I'm glad that Senator Sinclair, when the debate was on, raised the matter of prosecutorial discretion.
Senator Runciman's bill was brought into this chamber because the criminal record of a violent offender was not produced at his bail hearing. He was released and he killed a couple of cops. He killed two people, to my recollection. His bill would say, "Let's have the criminal record in." Senator Sinclair was absolutely correct. When this bill becomes law, people who would interpret the bill will look at whether it interferes in any way — and it shouldn't — with prosecutorial discretion, but it requires, as all judges know, the criminal record to be a normal part of the record prior to bail.
We should be encouraging meetings with Senator Harder to do due diligence with the Government of Canada and say, "What about these Senate bills?" Now, I am not an advocate of the Senate initiating legislation. We're not elected. But when the government does not do something, and it's badly needed, as Senator Runciman's bill points out, then we should be using every opportunity we can to impress upon the government leader in the Senate our views on senators' bills that are absolutely necessary. That's why, senators, I would encourage all senators to attend the meeting.
Hon. Anne C. Cools: I have a question, if the senator has time, which I would love to have answered.
The Hon. the Speaker: Senator Baker's time has expired. Senator Cools would like to ask a question. Is the honourable senator asking for more time?
Senator Baker: Yes.
The Hon. the Speaker: Is it agreed?
Senator Cools: Perhaps next time Senator Baker could make it clear to the house that the decision in the Supreme Court case in the instance of the Senate Reference was not a judgment or ruling; it was an opinion. As we know, a government can bring certain legal questions before the court according to the Supreme Court Act for opinions, but it remains an opinion. It is a good opinion, by the way, and a healthy opinion.
In respect of Senator Harder, I think it is fair to say that all of us here have great respect for Senator Harder. We have known him for many years. I certainly hold him in very high regard.
But like many, Senator Baker, I continue to be concerned that the government has not seen fit to make Senator Harder a member of the cabinet, a Crown minister. After all, the Senate is supposed to have a minister of the Crown leading in the houses. That is the system.
I am just wondering, Senator Baker, if I were to move a motion, an address to His Excellency the Governor General, to appoint Senator Harder to be a member of government so he can properly defend the government's business in this place, would you be prepared to second it?
Senator Baker: First of all, in answer to the first part of your question in which you said the Supreme Court of Canada offered an opinion, when you read paragraph 58 of the Supreme Court of Canada judgment — I've always liked this paragraph — it outlines what the duty of the Senate is.
Senator Cools: We know.
Senator Baker: It is not, as Senator Carignan suggested to those new members appointed, to defeat government legislation.
Senator Cools: We are agreed.
Senator Baker: Our function is never to go against the wishes of the people. We are an appointed body.
The Supreme Court of Canada judgment, it was an opinion, of course. It's a reference.
Senator Cools: It is a reference.
Senator Baker: It contains vital information to remind us exactly what our limit is, what the bar is on amendments.
I believe that we do have a responsibility in certain circumstances, such as where an individual senator feels that it would be against the conscience of the community, that a particular bill could not be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society, that they have a right and a duty, then, to speak against that bill.
That's on the first part of the question. My time has run out on the second part, but I hope you'll appreciate my comments on the first part.
Hon. André Pratte: Honourable senators, I am struck by the fact that Tuesday's debate, and again today, on this report is not really about the report itself but about Senator Harder's ideas relative to what the Senate should look like in the future, 10 or 20 years from now.
I don't intend to defend Senator Harder's views. He's perfectly capable of doing that himself. Besides, I disagree with him on some of the fundamental issues: the regional caucuses, for instance.
The point I want to make is that Senator Harder's proposals are not part of the Modernization Committee's first report, nor is there anything even barely resembling his ideas in the committee's recommendations. Those recommendations are short-term, practical suggestions that aim to adjust our practices to the new context in which we find ourselves today: a Canadian public that is deeply unsatisfied with our institution, and a Senate composition that is very different from what it was less than a year ago.
Unless we choose to remain immobile even when Canadians and circumstances urgently demand change, we have to act expeditiously on those recommendations. The worst we could do would be to let our disagreements on the long-term vision of the Senate delay the necessary immediate changes.
I would like to remind you that there is nothing radical and certainly nothing subversive about the recommendations set out in the first report of the Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization. The most important recommendations have to do with recognizing the principle of proportionality in committee membership and redefining the concept of "caucus". Whether we are for or against those changes, I can't imagine anyone would seriously claim that they are a threat to the institution.
The committee's report was released on October 4. That was a month and a half ago, and nothing has been done. If everyone agrees with the changes, which seek to allow non-affiliated senators to take their rightful place, what could possibly explain this inertia?
Senator Cowan said that his ". . . differences with the Government Representative in the Senate are not related to the issue of accommodating or providing resources to the independent senators." Senator Cowan won enthusiastic applause from a large part of this chamber on Tuesday.
So let's do it. Let's accommodate and provide resources to the independent senators.
As for the long-term vision of the Senate, I acknowledge the differences of opinion are profound. I, for one, cherish tradition. I'm not fond of drastic changes. I listen very carefully to the arguments of those who defend the continued presence of political parties in the Senate, in particular those who argue in favour of the necessity of an official opposition.
But history teaches us a lesson. Those who resist fair, moderate change often bring upon themselves more radical change.
We also know that difficult debates can degenerate, so let us undertake to discuss facts rather than ascribe intentions, debate arguments instead of imagining plots.
We wisely set up a process, a special committee to study the modernization of the Senate. After tabling its first report, the committee has now begun its study of the long-term changes to the Senate. There is no reason to think that the committee, which has shown much wisdom up until now, will abandon that virtue now.
I have every confidence that the committee will debate those difficult issues at length and come back to us in due time with thoughtful recommendations.
In the meantime, let us move forward swiftly with the recommendations that are in front of us now. Second, let's debate forcefully, as we should, and respectfully, as we must, so that in the end, we can all remain united, colleagues and proud members of the 21st century Senate of Canada.
(On motion of Senator Martin, for Senator McInnis, debate adjourned.)
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Ngo, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cowan:
That the Senate note with concern the escalating and hostile behaviour exhibited by the People's Republic of China in the South China Sea and consequently urge the Government of Canada to encourage all parties involved, and in particular the People's Republic of China, to:
(a) recognize and uphold the rights of freedom of navigation and overflight as enshrined in customary international law and in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;
(b) cease all activities that would complicate or escalate the disputes, such as the construction of artificial islands, land reclamation, and further militarization of the region;
(c) abide by all previous multilateral efforts to resolve the disputes and commit to the successful implementation of a binding Code of Conduct in the South China Sea;
(d) commit to finding a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the disputes in line with the provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and respect the settlements reached through international arbitration; and
(e) strengthen efforts to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of the disputes upon the fragile ecosystem of the South China Sea;
That the Senate also urge the Government of Canada to support its regional partners and allies and to take additional steps necessary to de-escalate tensions and restore the peace and stability of the region; and
That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint it with the foregoing.
Hon. Anne C. Cools: Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Senator Ngo's Motion No. 92 on the People's Republic of China and the South China Sea conflict. This odd motion speaks directly to three distinct groups, the Senate, the Government of Canada and the People's Republic of China. It asks the Senate to note with concern China's "escalating and hostile behaviour" in the South China Sea, but the Senate has no evidence of such alleged escalating hostile behaviour. Having no evidence or knowledge of such hostility, the Senate can neither note nor be concerned with it. This motion seeks the People's Republic of China's obedience, and orders this sovereign nation, China, to perform specific actions as dictated in its sections (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), which, if adopted, would become Senate orders, subject to the Senate's curial coercive powers, called contempt of Parliament. Let us understand, whenever we adopt a motion, it is an order of the Senate, and that means anybody who disobeys it can be called here and summoned under contempt of Parliament powers.
In fact, this motion is a Senate directive to the Government of Canada, whoever that is, to correct the People's Republic of China's "escalating and hostile behaviour" in the South China Sea. Colleagues, this motion is a serious motion and it demands our full attention and study.
This motion, however well intended, is inflammatory and provocative. It is also a slander and calumny against the People's Republic of China and its sovereign, President Xi Jingping, with whom Canada has strong and successful diplomatic and trade relations. Today I uphold Prime Minister Trudeau the elder's magnificent and fruitful efforts for lasting and cordial diplomatic relations with China. Trudeau the elder's memorable efforts towards healthy foreign relations and robust international dialogue were legendary. I note that calumny and slander of a sovereign foreign country is not a legitimate subject for a Senate motion. To disrespect or diminish foreign heads of state and foreign nations is unhealthy, and injurious to Canada's international and foreign relations, which relations are constitutionally the relations between sovereigns, in this case, between President Xi Jinping the sovereign of the People's Republic of China, and our sovereign Queen Elizabeth II, through the person of the Governor General of Canada.
Colleagues, the Senate knows little of the "escalating and hostile behaviour exhibited by the People's Republic of China in the South China Sea," and the motion's sponsor has presented absolutely no evidence here to support his sharp accusations against China's sovereign president. This is not helpful to the Senate's debate and decision. This motion urges, really commands, the Government of Canada, not a person capable of action, to encourage China to take specific actions "to de-escalate tensions and restore the peace and stability of the region," the South China Sea. These are complex actions that only human persons can perform, but the Government of Canada is not one. It's not a human person. I repeat, government actions are ever the actions of those members of the government called ministers of the Crown. These are the people with the proper credentials to do these things.
Senator Ngo's motion reads:
(a) recognize and uphold the rights of freedom of navigation and overflight as enshrined in customary international law and in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
(b) cease all activities that would complicate or escalate the disputes, such as the construction of artificial islands, lands reclamation, and further militarization of the region.
(c) abide by all previous multilateral efforts to resolve the disputes and commit to the successful implementation of a binding Code of Conduct in the South China Sea.
(d) commit to finding a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the disputes in line with the provisions of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea and respecting the settlements reached through international arbitration; and
That the Senate also urge the Government of Canada to support its regional partners and allies to take additional steps necessary to de-escalate tensions and restore the peace and stability of the region; and
Honourable senators, I repeat the Government of Canada only acts through the agency of Crown ministers. I also note that the Senate need not send a message to the House of Commons because, like the Senate, the commons has a domestic, but no foreign, jurisdiction. This motion's claim of China's "escalating and hostile behaviour" raises complex foreign matters, of which none is within the Senate constitutional ken to decide. The Constitution Act, 1867 section 91 grants to our sovereign, the Queen, with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Commons, the powers to make laws for the peace, order and good Government of Canada, but not for the world nor for the Government of China. Our Parliament houses have no constitutional powers in foreign affairs, other than the control of the public purse in foreign affairs spending. I have often noted here this fact of the Senate's lack of foreign jurisdiction. This motion before us is not about the peace, order and good government of Canada. It is about the Government of China and its foreign relations in the South China Sea. This motion refuses to accept the limits to our constitutional powers in foreign affairs. This refusal should concern us. We must debate such refusal that clearly trenches on the bailiwick of our Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister, and obstructs the minister's work, and the fair and just resolution to the South China Sea conflict.
Honourable senators, this motion will compel and propel the Senate into a foreign affairs role that is the exclusive ken of the Crown, the Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II, through her responsible Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, the Honourable Stéphane Dion. Foreign affairs and international relations are conducted largely under the Royal Prerogative law, the lex prerogativa, exercised in Her Majesty's name, by the Governor General. Joseph Chitty, an authority on this lex, wrote on the Crown's pre-eminence in foreign affairs. In his 1820 book, A Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown, he says at page 6:
With respect to foreign states and affairs, the whole majesty and power of his dominions are placed in the hands of the King, who as representative of his subjects possess discretionary and unlimited powers. And they are discretionary and unlimited. In this capacity His Majesty has the sole right to send ambassadors and other foreign ministers and officers abroad, to dictate their instructions, and prescribe rules of conduct and negotiation, (a) His Majesty alone can legally make treaties, leagues and alliances with foreign states; grant letters of marque and reprisals, and safe conduct; declare war or make peace. As a depository of the strength of his subjects, and as manager of their wars, the King is the generallismo of all land and naval forces: his Majesty alone can levy troops, equip fleets, and build fortresses.
This remains the state of the law today.
Honourable senators, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is both the enacting and actuating power in our constitution. All Senate advice for action by Her Majesty's Canadian ministers should proceed here in the proper parliamentary form, which is called the "address." The address is the long-established proceeding and form by which the houses communicate with their sovereign or her ministers, loosely called "the government." Parliament's two houses speak to each other by message, but they speak to Her Majesty, Her Majesty's ministers and the Governor General by "address." Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament explains the term "address." Headed "Communications to the Crown Originating in Parliament" meaning in the houses, May's 22nd edition states at page 606:
An address to Her Majesty is the form ordinarily employed by both Houses of Parliament for making their desires and opinions known to the Crown as well as for the purpose of acknowledging communications proceeding from the Crown. In the House of Commons the procedure upon a motion for an Address is the same as upon an ordinary substantive motion.
May adds, at page 607:
Addresses have comprised every matter of foreign or domestic policy; the administration of justice; the expression of congratulation or condolence; . . . and, in short, representations upon all points connected with the government and welfare of the country; . . .
Honourable senators, clearly the motion before us is not Senate advice on the government and welfare of the country, Canada. If adopted, this motion will become an order of this Senate to our foreign minister, described as the Government of Canada, asking them to judge and to correct:
. . . the escalating and hostile behaviour exhibited by the Peoples Republic of China in the South China Sea . . .
This is a hostile motion.
Foreign relations are the exclusive ken of Her Majesty's Canadian responsible foreign minister, Stéphane Dion. This motion would superintend, correct, and lead the minister in its direction. Minister Dion is the captain of the foreign affairs ship of state. Senators should not support this motion's attempt to reset the minister's course on the South China Sea conflict. I ask senators to think about this. This motion attempts to propel, to compel the minister in the motion's direction. That is not right.
As I said, senators should not support this motion because it is redirecting and resetting the minister's course.
Honourable senators, this motion seems to rely on the flawed notion that Minister Dion is incorrect and must be put right by this Senate motion, to compel and commit him to a better position and action. But Minister Dion is the lead on this file and he speaks for Canada, not this motion. We must be clear on that.
On April 11, 2016, at their Hiroshima, Japan meeting, Minister Dion and the G7 foreign ministers released a joint statement, titled "G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on Maritime Security." Paragraphs 1 and 5 read partly:
Free, open and stable seas are a cornerstone for peace, stability and prosperity of the international community. Recognizing the importance of the oceans, we, the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and High Representative of the European Union, reaffirm our commitment to further international cooperation on maritime security and safety. . . .
We are concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas, and emphasize the fundamental importance of peaceful management and settlement of disputes. We express our strong opposition to any intimidating, coercive or provocative unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions, . . .
Honourable senators, Minister Dion and the G7 foreign ministers were clear. Later, on July 21, 2016, in Ottawa, Minister Dion issued his Canadian statement on South China Sea Arbitration. It reads:
International law provides the foundation upon which peaceful relations among states are built, and promoting the development and use of international law to resolve difficult problems underpins Canadian foreign policy.
On July 12, 2016, the tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea rendered a decision in the matter of the South China Sea Arbitration, which is binding on the parties to it.
Whether one agrees or not with the ruling, Canada believes that the parties should comply with it. All parties should seize this opportunity as a stepping stone to renewed efforts to peacefully manage and resolve their disputes, in accordance with international law.
We are deeply concerned about regional tensions that have been escalating for a number of years and have the potential to undermine peace and stability.
It is essential that all states in the region exercise restraint and avoid coercion and actions that will escalate tension.
All claimants must refrain from land reclamation, militarization and other actions that can undermine regional security and stability. Actions that could jeopardize freedom of navigation and overflight exercised in accordance with international law, maritime security and international trade must also be avoided.
We urge all claimants to restore trust and confidence, including through the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in the South China Sea, and the expeditious negotiation of a binding Code of Conduct.
Canada is committed to the maintenance of international law and to an international rules-based order for the oceans and seas, as well as to the peaceful management and settlements of disputes. Canada therefore stands ready to contribute to initiatives that build confidence and help restore trust in the region.
The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Senator Cools, are you asking for more time?
Senator Cools: Yes, I am; thank you.
The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Agreed, honourable senators, five minutes?
Senator Cools: Honourable senators, this odd motion invokes a non-existent Senate power to supervise and direct Minister Dion in his duties that he has ably performed without Senate prompting. Diplomacy and foreign affairs are the exclusive ken of the foreign minister, who, speaking for Canada in two separate statements, has articulated Canada's position that the parties to the South China Sea dispute should settle their differences peacefully, while accepting each nation's sovereignty. I repeat Minister Dion's clear words of his July statement:
Canada therefore stands ready to contribute to initiatives that build confidence and help restore trust in the region.
Honourable senators, diplomacy and foreign relations are the foreign minister's constitutional purview. The upper house, the Senate, must uphold the Constitution and must entrust to his leadership the resolution of these weighty and difficult foreign affairs matters. The Senate may support, and even advise the minister, but it cannot displace or replace him. The Senate presently has no knowledge of the South China Sea dispute, nor has any evidence been put before it. This motion asks the Senate, absent evidence and study, to adopt a certain position on a certain foreign conflict. But the Senate has no knowledge or evidence before it, and only knows this motion's unstudied claims. Senators should take a serious and second look at the validity of this motion.
I thank you senators, very deeply, from the bottom of my heart for your attention.
I have been around here long enough to see certain motions come forward to this place that are adopted without proper study and with the terrible result of putting Canada's diplomatic relations with many countries at risk, and I think that the Senate should not put itself in that position.
I also urge senators to give this matter the attention it deserves. It is a very serious matter, and it could have terrible consequences for Canada's diplomatic relations with China.
Hon. Peter Harder (Government Representative in the Senate): Honourable senators, I rise as Government Representative to speak on Motion 92, which is in Senator Ngo's name, concerning the South China Sea.
The South China Sea, as we all know, is one of the world's busiest commercial shipping arteries with more than $5 trillion in trade passing through it annually. Much of Canada's trade with Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, India and the Middle East passes through those waters. Asia's rising economic power will increase the significance of the South China Sea as a trade route over time.
The Government of Canada is concerned by the tensions associated with territorial and maritime disputes in the South China Sea. In this context, Canada has also had an interest in promoting respect for international law and rules-based order. The government is monitoring the situation closely and regularly consults with our allies and international partners on developments in the South China Sea.
The Government of Canada has noted the actions of some of the South China Sea claimants as having raised tensions and eroded trust. These actions include large-scale land reclamation, the construction of artificial islands in disputed areas, the construction of military facilities and deployment of military assets on previously uninhabited features, as well as the use of coercion in attempts at settling maritime or territorial disputes.
All of these recent actions are in violation of the spirit of the Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, which was signed between member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, so-called ASEAN, and China in 2002.
Honourable senators, the Government of Canada followed closely the Philippines versus China arbitration case since it was initiated by the Philippines in early 2013.
Following the July 12, 2016, ruling, Canadian officials have conducted a careful analysis of the judgment. Subsequently, on July 21, 2016, the Minister of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the South China Sea arbitration.
The statement underlined several key principles, and I would like to list them: first, the importance of international law as providing the foundation upon which peaceful relations among states are built; second, the need to avoid actions that could jeopardize freedom of navigation and overflight exercised in accordance with international law, maritime security and international trade; third, that the ruling should be complied with, whether one agrees with it or not; and fourth, that all parties should seize this opportunity as a steppingstone to renewed efforts to peacefully manage and resolve their disputes in accordance with international law.
In a speech given by the Honourable Senator Martin on June 7 as part of the debate on this motion, Senator Martin suggested that Canada could urge compliance with international law in light of the important role that Canada played in building the rules-based international system.
I can report that the statement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs indeed reiterates Canada's commitment to the maintenance of a rules-based international order and respect for international law as the basis upon which peaceful relations amongst states is built.
Honourable senators, on September 20, Canada again expressed concern about the South China Sea dispute when the Minister of Foreign Affairs joined his G7 counterparts in issuing a G7 Foreign Ministers' Statement on Recent Developments in Asia. This statement expressed a unified G7 position on threats to the rules-based international order emanating from North Korea and expressed concern about the developments in East and Southeast China seas.
The People's Republic of China has maintained its long-held decision that it would not accept the legitimacy of the international tribunal and that it would not be bound by the ruling. Since the ruling, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have both raised the importance of the rule of law in international institutions with their Chinese counterparts.
Recently, and since this motion was first tabled, there have been a number of potentially positive developments with respect to the South China Sea. China and Philippines have mutually agreed to restart bilateral talks with respect to their maritime and territorial disputes. Two other claimants, Malaysia and Vietnam, have each engaged bilaterally with China with a view to managing their disputes peacefully. China and ASEAN have also reportedly restored positive momentum in negotiations aimed at developing a binding code of conduct in the South China Sea. Canada is supportive of bilateral dialogues in the region that contribute constructively toward a peaceful resolution.
Canada is committed to the maintenance of an international rules-based order for the oceans and seas, as well as to the peaceful management and settlement of disputes. Canada stands ready to contribute to initiatives that build confidence and help to restore trust in the region.
Throughout the 1990s and until 2006, the Government of Canada actively supported in funding Track II diplomacy, including participation by experts in informal, non-governmental and unofficial meetings on Asian security issues. For example, in the 1990s Canada co-funded and actively participated in the Indonesian-led informal process called "Managing Potential Conflicts in the South China Sea."
The Canadian Law of the Sea experts who were involved for 10 years in this process paved the way for ASEAN to initiate dialogue with China that culminated in the signing of the Declaration of Conduct between China and the ASEAN in 2002. Despite being non-binding, this declaration constitutes an important instrument between China and the ASEAN with respect to the South China Sea. It is considered the starting point from which a future binding South China Sea code of conduct could be developed.
Canadian officials are actively exploring ways that Canada could play a constructive role in initiatives that contribute to peace and security in the South China Sea and help to restore trust in the region. As announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the margins of the ASEAN-Canada Post-Ministerial Conference and the ASEAN Regional Forum, the so-called ARF, Canada will co-chair in Ottawa next year the ARF Inter-sessional Support Group Meeting on Confidence Building Measures and Preventive Diplomacy. This is yet another example of an initiative where Canada can play a leadership role in restoring eroded peace.
Honourable senators, Canada could contribute actively in regional fora in which high-level discussions on regional security issues take place. As an Asia-Pacific middle power committed to multilateralism, Canada will play a constructive role in international affairs, where our leadership can make a real difference in consultation with allies, partners and other interested states.
It is the view of the Government of Canada that international law provides the foundation upon which peaceful relations among states are built. Given the context of my remarks, I will therefore support the motion of Senator Ngo.
(On motion of Senator Oh, debate adjourned.)
Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Bellemare, seconded by the Honourable Senator Enverga:
That the Senate — in order to ensure transparency in the awarding of public funds and foster efficiency in infrastructure projects in the larger context of economic diversification and movement toward a greener economy, all while avoiding undue intervention in the federal-provincial division of powers — encourage the government to make provision in the budget for the creation of the Canadian Infrastructure Oversight and Best Practices Council, made up of experts in infrastructure projects from the provinces and territories, whose principal roles would be to:
1. collect information on federally funded infrastructure projects;
2. study the costs and benefits of federally funded infrastructure projects;
3. identify procurements best practices and of risk sharing;
4. promote these best practices among governments; and
5. promote project managers skills development; and
That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House with the above.
Hon. Salma Ataullahjan: Honourable senators, I wish to adjourn this item for the balance of my time.
(On motion of Senator Ataullahjan, debate adjourned.)
Resuming debate on the inquiry of the Honourable Senator Tardif, calling the attention of the Senate to the Trans Canada Trail — its history, benefits and the challenges it is faced with as it approaches its 25th anniversary.
Hon. Grant Mitchell: Honourable senators, I'm not prepared to speak yet, so I wish to adjourn for the balance of my time, please.
(On motion of Senator Mitchell, debate adjourned.)
Hon. Larry W. Smith, pursuant to notice of November 15, 2016, moved:
That, notwithstanding the order of the Senate adopted on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, the date for the final report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance in relation to its study on the design and delivery of the federal government's multi-billion dollar infrastructure program be extended from December 31, 2016 to June 30, 2018.
Hon. Joan Fraser: Question, your honour.
The Hon. the Speaker pro tempore: Senator Smith would you take a question?
Senator Smith: Certainly.
Senator Fraser: I have no problem with extending deadlines. We do it all the time. But this is quite a long extension. Could you explain why?
Senator Smith: That's an excellent question. When the infrastructure program was announced, it was announced that it would be X billions of dollars over a period of time. Since that time we have come up with an infrastructure bank, we have come up with a future forecast of up to $180 billion.
One thing we learned when we started the process, and we have had many witnesses in front of us, is that this is not going to be an in and out. This is going to be something over time. If we're going to do our jobs properly, we need to monitor it, we need to track it, and we need to see not only what goes out the door but a work-in-progress, what's completed, number of lapses and money that's redirected so that we can see the benefits.
The government is really dedicating their platform to the success of infrastructure and job creation. We would like to try to track it. We know it's going to be more than one or two reports. We would like to be able to have this. We may ask for more extensions so that we can track this over a long period.
Hon. Percy E. Downe: Would Senator Smith take another question?
Senator Smith: Certainly, Senator Downe.
Senator Downe: Would it be the intention of your committee to look at federal transportation infrastructure funding? I notice the chair of the Prime Minister's economic advisory committee spoke at some length on a number of things, but he particularly mentioned how tolls are required for private investment in various projects.
Of course you know my long-standing interest regarding the difference between the new bridge proposed for Montreal, the new replacement bridge up to $5 billion that the government has announced — and not only are they paying for the bridge, they're going to pay for ongoing maintenance — and Prince Edward Islanders who are paying $46 to cross a bridge that's constitutionally required in the terms of our joining the federation, and there's no relief for that.
Will that be part of your discussion in the extended terms of reference?
Senator Smith: I would suggest, Senator Downe, that when we look at infrastructure banks, infrastructure banks will have relationships with major pension funds and private investment. For individuals and corporations who expect to have a certain return on investment, those projects will probably be tied also to transport.
The focus would be through the infrastructure program tied to the infrastructure bank, and then if we shoot to study outside areas such as transportation, which will form part of these infrastructure programs, those issues will come up. I'm sure that we will report it and that you will have tremendous direct feedback as to the benefits and the negative elements of tolls and private equity being returned to some of these investments.
The Hon. the Speaker: Are senators ready for the question? Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
(The Senate adjourned until Tuesday, November 22, 2016, at 2 p.m.)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Psychological Warfare Disguised as a Pandemic Threat
Written by: John Whitehead
“Look! You fools! You’re in danger! Can’t you see? They’re after you! They’re after all of us! Our wives…our children…they’re here already! You’re next!”—Dr. Miles Bennell, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers all over again.
The nation is being overtaken by an alien threat that invades bodies, alters minds, and transforms freedom-loving people into a mindless, compliant, conforming mob intolerant of anyone who dares to be different, let alone think for themselves.
However, while Body Snatchers—the chilling 1956 film directed by Don Siegel—blames its woes on seed pods from outerspace, the seismic societal shift taking place in America owes less to biological warfare reliant on the COVID-19 virus than it does to psychological warfare disguised as a pandemic threat.
As science writer David Robson explains:
Fears of contagion lead us to become more conformist and tribalistic, and less accepting of eccentricity. Our moral judgements become harsher and our social attitudes more conservative when considering issues such as immigration or sexual freedom and equality. Daily reminders of disease may even sway our political affiliations… Various experiments have shown that we become more conformist and respectful of convention when we feel the threat of a disease… the evocative images of a pandemic led [participants in an experiment] to value conformity and obedience over eccentricity or rebellion.
This is how you persuade a populace to voluntarily march in lockstep with a police state and police themselves (and each other): by ratcheting up the fear-factor, meted out one carefully calibrated crisis at a time, and teaching them to distrust any who diverge from the norm.
This is not a new experiment in mind control.
The powers-that-be have been pushing our buttons and herding us along like so much cattle since World War II, at least, starting with the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, which not only propelled the U.S. into World War II but also unified the American people in their opposition to a common enemy.
That fear of attack by foreign threats, conveniently torqued by the growing military industrial complex, in turn gave rise to the Cold War era’s “Red Scare.” Promulgated through government propaganda, paranoia and manipulation, anti-Communist sentiments boiled over into a mass hysteria that viewed anyone and everyone as suspect: your friends, the next-door neighbor, even your family members could be a Communist subversive.
This hysteria, which culminated in hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where hundreds of Americans were called before Congress to testify about their so-called Communist affiliations and intimidated into making false confessions, also paved the way for the rise of an all-knowing, all-seeing governmental surveillance state.
The 9/11 attacks followed a similar script: a foreign invasion mounts an attack on an unsuspecting nation, the people unite in solidarity against a common foe, and the government gains greater war-time powers (read: surveillance powers) that, conveniently enough, become permanent once the threat has passed.
The government’s scripted response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been predictably consistent: once again, in order to fight this so-called “foreign” foe, the government insists it needs even greater surveillance powers.
As we’ve seen since 9/11 and more recently with the COVID lockdowns, those in power have always had a penchant for enacting extreme measures to combat perceived threats. However, unlike the modern America police state, the American government circa the 1950s did not have at its disposal the arsenal of invasive technologies that are such an intrinsic part of our modern surveillance state.
Today, we are watched and tracked 24/7; data is collected on us at an alarming rate by governmental and corporate entities; and with the help of powerful computer programs, American domestic intelligence agencies sweep our websites, listen in on our telephone calls and read our text messages at will.
Now with the COVID pandemic and its offshoots such as contact tracing and immunity passports, the governmental landscape is even more invasive.
Yet no matter the threat, the underlying principle remains the same: can we hold onto our basic freedoms and avoid succumbing to the soul-sucking dredge of conformity that threatens our very humanity?
This conundrum is at the heart of the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was based on a 1954 science fiction novel by Jack Finney (and later remade into an equally chilling 1978 film by Philip Kaufman).
Body Snatchers not only captured the ideology and politics of its post-war era but remains timely and relevant as it relates to the worries that plague us today. Filmed with only seven days of rehearsal and 23 days of actual shooting, Body Snatchers is considered one of the great science fiction classics.
v is set in a small California town which has been infiltrated by mysterious pods from outer space that replicate and take the place of humans who then become conforming non-individuals. Miles Bennell, the main character, is a local doctor who resists the invaders and their attempts to erase humanity from the face of the earth.
At the very least, the film conveys a double meaning, serving as both a mirror of a particular moment in history and a compass pointing to a growing societal illness. Following World War II with the emerging military empire, the atomic bomb and the Korean War, Americans were confused and neurotically preoccupied with domestic threats, the polio pandemic and international political events, not much different from today’s populace preoccupied with domestic and international political drama, terrorism and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet Siegel’s film delves beneath the surface to confront an even more sinister threat: the dehumanization of individuals and the horrifying possibility that humanity could become infused as part of the societal machine.
Central to the film is one key speech delivered by Bennell while hiding from the aliens:
In my practice, I see how people have allowed their humanity to drain away…only it happens slowly instead of all at once. They didn’t seem to mind…. All of us, a little bit. We harden our hearts…grow callous…only when we have to fight to stay human do we realize how precious it is.
As Siegel makes clear, it is not Communists or terrorists or even viral pandemics that threaten our well-being. The real enemy is invasive governmental measures—something we now see happening across the country—and, thus, totalitarian conformity. And resistance must be against all government measures that threaten our civil liberties and against all kinds of conformity, no matter the shape, size or color of the package it comes in.
When all is said and done, however, the real threat to freedom (in the fictional world of Body Snatchers and in our present-day America) is posed by an establishment—be it governmental, corporate or societal—that is hostile to individuality and those who dare to challenge the status quo.
The mob hysteria, sense of paranoia, fascist police and the witch hunt atmosphere of the film mirror the ills of a 1950s America that is frighteningly applicable to present American society.
Acknowledging that Body Snatchers portrayed the conflict between individuals and varied forms of mindless authority, Siegel stated, “I think the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them.” He explained:
People are pods. Many of my associates are certainly pods. They have no feelings. They exist, breathe, sleep. To be a pod means that you have no passion, no anger, the spark has left you…of course, there’s a very strong case for being a pod. These pods, who get rid of pain, ill-health and mental disturbances are, in a sense, doing good. It happens to leave you in a very dull world but that, by the way, is the world that most of us live in. It’s the same as people who welcome going into the army or prison. There’s regimentation, a lack of having to make up your mind, face decisions…. People are becoming vegetables. I don’t know what the answer is except an awareness of it.
All of the threats to freedom documented in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People came about because “we the people” stopped thinking for ourselves and relinquished control over our lives and our country to government operatives who care only for money and power.
While the specific game plan for turning things around is complicated by a police state that wants to keep us at a disadvantage, the solution is relatively simple: Don’t be a pod person. Pay attention. Question everything. Dare to be different. Don’t follow the mob. Don’t let yourself become numb to the world around you. Be compassionate. Be humane. Most of all, think for yourself.
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead
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About the Author: John Whitehead
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.
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Murry Salby - Confused About The Carbon Cycle
Posted on 13 August 2011 by Rob Painting
Every year humans release about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil. This is causing the Earth to warm by disrupting the biological (fast) carbon cycle, and is therefore increasing the Greenhouse Effect. Although there are large annual fluctuations in carbon dioxide, as it is exchanged back-and-forth between the atmosphere, oceans, soils, and forests, just under half of human emissions (the airborne fraction) remain in the air because the oceans, soils and forests are unable to absorb all of it. As a result, carbon dioxide has been steadily accumulating in the atmosphere.
Figure 1 - Fraction of the total human emissions (fossil fuel burning & land use change) that remain in the: a) atmosphere, b) land vegetation and soil, c) the oceans. From Canadell (2007)
Murry Salby, a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, has an upcoming paper that attempts to pin the current rise in carbon dioxide on rising temperatures. Having listened to a podcast of a talk Salby gave at the Sydney Institute earlier this week, he demonstrates a remarkably poor understanding of the carbon cycle, and his hypothesis seems to stem from this fundamental misunderstanding.
Salby's carbon cycle confusion
Professor Salby refers to a number of graphs in his talk, but I have been unable to track down copies of these, therefore we'll have to rely on what I'm able to glean from the podcast, and given it's length, I'll only address some of the more obvious mistakes. At the beginning of the talk Salby states:
"current CO2 values are 380pmmv"(parts per million by volume)
Not an encouraging start that he cites the atmospheric CO2 concentration as it was in 2005, rather than the 393 parts per million by volume (ppmv) it currently is in 2011. Not a fatal flaw of course, but not encouraging either.
"Net annual emission has an average increase of about 1.5ppmv per year. We're on the right planet. That's the annual average increase you just saw. But it varies between years, dramatically by over 100%. From nearly zero in some years to 3ppmv in others. Net global emission of CO2 changes independently of of the human contribution"
At this point the accentuation and drama in Salby's voice make it sound as though he has stumbled onto something momentous, something no one else has noticed before. On the face of it, it seems preposterous that the army of scientists that have worked on carbon cycling over the years could have missed something so glaringly obvious. No, of course they haven't.
As discussed in the first paragraph of this post (and evident in Figure 1), the natural flux of CO2 in and out of natural systems varies from year-to-year. This flux is 20-30 times larger than the annual contribution by humans, but this balances out in the long-term. This variability is driven largely by El Nino and La Nina in the tropical Pacific, which shifts rainfall patterns over much of the world and is associated with warming and cooling of equatorial waters in the Pacific. The change in seawater temperature, and episodic upwelling of carbon-rich deep water, significantly affects the uptake and outgassing of CO2 from the oceans, and of course rainfall variation greatly affects plant growth.
The upshot is that land vegetation takes up more CO2 during La Nina, and expels more CO2 during El Nino. In the ocean, the opposite trend occurs - El Nino leads to more CO2 absorption, and La Nina is when the oceans give up more CO2 (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - (a) time trend in the exchange of CO2 by land-based vegetation (& soil microbes) with the atmosphere. (b) same - but for exchange of CO2 by ocean with atmosphere. Red indicates El Nino and blue La Nina phase. See Keeling (1995).
There is simply no reason why the annual fluctuation should match the human contribution. At least Salby doesn't explain why he expects this to be the case.
Having now convinced himself that short-term net CO2 has nothing to do with the human contribution, Salby therefore deduces long-term net CO2 must also be unrelated to human emissions. He goes on to derive a formula for CO2 rise associated with temperature. Salby claims a good match back to 1960 but therefafter it deviates from actual CO2 measurements by 10ppmv. By 1880, prior to atmospheric CO2 sampling, he estimates atmospheric CO2 at 275ppmv with a whopping uncertainty of 220 to 330ppmv!
In order to explain the deviation between the surface temperature record and his calculated atmospheric CO2 level, Salby blames the surface temperature record as being unreliable. As for his calculated trend disagreeing with the ice core record for the year 1880 (i.e the CO2 in air, from that period, trapped in ice cores) he 'disses' the ice core record claiming it to be only a 'proxy'. Which is news, I'm sure, to respected ice core experts like Dr Richard Alley.
You will note that every time the data disagrees with Salby's 'model', he trusts his 'model' over the data. Which contravenes the 'skeptic lore' that models are worthless and must be bashed, and only data should be trusted.
Q&A time - try not to shoot yourself in the foot!
The question & answer session at the end of Salby's talk throws up a few more comments that just reinforce that he has strayed into a field of science which he just simply doesn't understand. Witness:
"I think it's a pitfall that people look at the ice proxy of CO2 and take it literally. It's not atmospheric CO2, and I don't believe it's CO2 that was even in the atmosphere when that piece of snow was layed down"
This is nonsense. Perhaps Professor Salby should have acquainted himself with glaciology research before making such comments, because CO2 from ancient air trapped in the ice cores is precisely what is measured, albeit with some uncertainty in dating some sections.
"CO2 after the turn of the (21st) century continued to increase, in fact if anything slightly faster, but global temperature didn't. If anything it decreased in the first decade of the 21st century. Now I'm confident the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) will come up with an explanation, in fact they've come up with several"
It's here we need to back the truck up a bit. Salby's entire premise is that CO2 in the air directly dependent upon temperature - increase temperature and you increase CO2. Yet here he argues that CO2 can increase without an accompanying increase in temperature. Which contradicts his 'model'. By this time Salby is too focused on 'dissing' the IPCC to notice his own incoherency, and none of the audience picks up on this either.
Note that SkS recently discussed the 'noughties slow-down' in global temperature here and here.
If the curve fits
Seasoned readers will notice similarities between this Salby claim and a Lon Hocker rebuttal here at SkS last year. But the whole premise seems to follow along the lines of other recent flawed works tendered by Roy Spencer and Craig Loehle & Nicola Scafetta. That is: find some tenuous statistical relationship between two sets of data, and use these to assert the mainstream scientific establishment is wrong. The fact that there is no physical basis for the statistical relationship, or it doesn't fit within the well-established scientific framework, or is contrary to numerous other sets of data, never seems to warrant attention by "skeptic" scientists. It should, because of the implications one can draw.
So what does this work by Salby imply, if it were true? From what I can gather from Salby's podcast, a 0.8°C change in average surface temperature is supposed to lead to about 120ppmv change in CO2. Therefore we can work backward in time to estimate what he reckons atmospheric CO2 would be at the time of the last Ice Age (glacial maximum), a time when global temperatures were about 4-6°C cooler than now . Today atmospheric CO2 is about 393ppm, so with 4°C cooling you already have a negative value for CO2 when we re-trace our steps back to the last ice age. Therefore all plant-based life on Earth must have died (and all the animals that depended on them) according to Professor Salby. And the Earth froze solid too.
Figure 3 - the last Ice Age according to Murry Salby? Fictional image from celestiamotherlode.net
Science - a description of reality, but YMMV
Without viewing Salby's calculations on the temperature/net global CO2 relationship, it's not possible to provide the 'killer blow' to his assertions; however, I don't believe that's necessary, considering the many flaws in Salby's work and fundamental reasoning.
The gradual increase in atmospheric CO2 is less than the total emissions of CO2 from human sources, so by elementary deduction, the excess must be going into the oceans, forests and soils, the other components of the fast carbon cycle.
A tell-tale signature of human fossil fuel emissions is the large fraction of CO2 being driven into the oceans. According to Henry's Law, we would expect the oceans to absorb more CO2 as the air above it becomes increasingly saturated with CO2. In other words the CO2 must be coming from a source external to the fast carbon cycle. This is supported by measurements showing that CO2 is accumulating in the ocean, and is reflected in the declining oceanic pH, showing the ocean is actually gaining CO2 over the long-term, not losing it, as Salby seems to believe.
We also know that the world's land vegetation has increased in mass - through re-growth in forests in the Northern Hemisphere, and CO2 fertilization of tropical forests. So that is gaining carbon too, and the areas affected are so large, we would expect them to have an effect on atmospheric CO2 levels at a global scale.
There are a host of other problems with Salby's 'model', such as the ice core record, and where the warming came from in the first place, but there's no need to go into these details when the fundamental premise of Salby's argument is so clearly wrong.
This blog post has been used as a rebuttal to the climate myth "Murry Salby finds CO2 rise is natural" which can be found at http://sks.to/salby
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LazyTeenager at 11:10 AM on 13 August, 2011
Love the paper showing the trend in ocean CO2 absorption. The article needs a graph though.
Kooiti Masuda at 15:45 PM on 13 August, 2011
Relationship between variation in the inter-annual time scale of atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature was discussed by C.D. Keeling and co-authors in 1989. They suspected that the correlation is related to ENSO cycles. They did not consider that multi-decadal trends of CO2 concentration is determined by the same logic. C.D. Keeling, R.B. Bacastow, A.F. Carter, S.C. Piper, T.P. . Whorf, and co-authors, 1989: A three-dimensional model of atmospheric CO2 transport based on observed winds: 1. Analysis of observational data. In: "Aspects of Climate Variability in the Pacific and the Western Americas" (Peterson D.H., ed., Geophysical Monograph, 55, American Geophysical Union), 165 - 236. In Japan, Junkichi Nemoto, a former long-range weather forecaster and a writer of popular essays about weather and climate, included the story of Keeling et al. (1989) in his book in 1994. He quoted a figure which shows that temperature leads CO2 concentration by about one year, or a 1/4 cycle period, of the ENSO cycles. Long-term trends have been removed before making the plot. Then, Atsushi Tsuchida, a staunch AGW denier, a former physicist, an anti-nuclear-power activist and a thinker who promoted the view of the environment in terms of concepts of non-equilibrium steady-state thermodynamics (I think that he should be praised for this achievement in the 1970s-80s) picked up the relationship and claimed that the growth of atmospheric CO2 content (since 1960s-70s till present) is a result and not a cause of global warming. Around 2006, he and Kuniaki Kondo, an engineer (by the way, there are many Kondos including able climate scientists), made some analysis. They found good simultaneous correlation between the annual increase of the atmospheric CO2 concentration (compilation by Scripps Institution of Oceanography via CDIAC, USA [link]) and the anomaly of global mean surface air temperature (compilation by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), a previous version of what is available [here], where the base period was 1971-2000). They extrapolate the linear relationship and claimed that the change of CO2 concentration would be zero if the global mean temperature anomaly were -0.6 deg. C (base 1971-2000). Kondo and Tsuchida wrote a paper (in Japanese) and submitted to "Tenki", the bulletin of the Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ). After peer reviews, the editorial board of Tenki rejected the manuscript. Their rejected paper and related materials can be found somewhere in a web site maintained by Kondo (Japanese only). Tsuchida sued MSJ claiming that rejection was politically motivated. The courts ruled against Tsuchida, but he tries again with modified claims. I think that MSJ would have passed their paper if they just mention interesting relationship between changes of CO2 concentration and temperature without making an egregious claim that the global warming is not anthropogenic. By the way, JMA has made more careful analysis. On one of their web pages, though the main text is Japanese only, there are figures with English captions. See "Fig. 2.1.2.3". The upper two panels are now well-known relationship between the CO2 increase and ENSO. The bottom panel shows simultaneous correlation between the CO2 increase and the mean surface air temperature over the tropical (30 S - 30 N) land area. The correlation broke down for a while after the volcanic eruption of Pinatubo in 1991.
MA Rodger at 18:09 PM on 13 August, 2011
I do like these folk who spot the wobbles which ENSO puts onto both the temperature & CO2 records, then conclude that CO2 wobbles are driven by temperature change. Such nonsense has wonderful implications - no global Mediaeval warm period for instance, or any other warm period for the last few million years!
Dale at 20:15 PM on 13 August, 2011
Bit presumptuous to try and refute an argument without seeing any of the data, working out or graphs.
Dale No, it isn't at all presumptious. The fact that the rise in atmospheric CO2 is essentially anthropogenic is readily established by existing observations. I listened to Salby's podcast and he made no attempt to refute any of the existing lines of evidence and the mistake he makes (temperature changes modulate the growth rate) has been made by others before him (e.g. by Roy Spencer) and have already been refuted. It will be insteresting to see what is in the paper, it is not unheard of for scientists to make a press release that draws conclusions not mentioned in (or strongly supported by) the paper.
Dale @4, to the extent that you find something presumptious in refuting an argument when we do not have access to the data, your chief concern should be with Salby. It is he who is trumpeting his "results" far and wide whilst with holding the data he used so as to prevent direct refutation. He has even gone to the extent of refusing to supply copies of his charts to interested persons on the basis that there is an "embargo" on their publication, while showing them to uncritical audiences, thus breaching the "embargo" himself. Frankly Salby's behaviour has been disgraceful. It's only merit has been showing, but the speed with which they have accepted his results as ground breaking and undoubtedly true without access to the supporting data, that the "skepticism" of many well known deniers is only a mask for refusing to deal with reality.
Salby hasn't even named the journal to which his paper was submitted, which given it apparently has already been accepted seems a little odd. So it isn't even possible to verify that his work actually has been subjected to peer review. Personally I think the journal will either be E&E or some non-climate journal where peer review is unlikely to include reviewers with a sound grasp of the workings of the carbon cycle.
John Brookes at 22:15 PM on 13 August, 2011
I wonder what Salby's motivation is? Why are some scientists in the twilight of their careers given to this sort of behaviour?
Robert Murphy at 23:02 PM on 13 August, 2011
"I wonder what Salby's motivation is?" Ask yourself this; had you ever heard of him before this brouhaha? I know I hadn't. Now he's being mentioned in lots and lots of blogs. He's a celebrity among the ill-informed and ignorati. Judith Curry thinks he's the Bee's Knees, and he may just be the David she's been looking for to kill the AGW Goliath. Look at the efforts that are being expended to counter him; surely this means the Team is scared, right? They must silence him now, and when his claims get torn apart and attract no favorable attention among climate scientists, he'll know he's a new Galileo. They laughed at him, remember? When they laugh at Salby it will be the same thing! He just knows it! JMTC
[DB] It would be best for everyone to refrain from such introspection into Salby's motivation.
Composer99 at 01:08 AM on 14 August, 2011
Further to: It is he who is trumpeting his "results" far and wide whilst with holding the data he used so as to prevent direct refutation. He has even gone to the extent of refusing to supply copies of his charts to interested persons on the basis that there is an "embargo" on their publication, while showing them to uncritical audiences, thus breaching the "embargo" himself. Haven't contrarians made an enormous fuss about actual climate scientists "refusing" to release their data? And here we find them cheering on an actual, obstinate refusal to share data which is at the heart of open scientific inquiry.
Salby's arguments are akin to claiming that the Sun revolves around the Earth. We know it's wrong, we know why it's wrong, and we've known this for ages. There's nothing presumptious about pointing this out.
I should also mention, with regards to Dale's comment, that there are at least two obvious (to this non-scientist) reasons to reject Salby's conclusions: (1) If CO2 in the atmosphere is controlled by natural factors and human emissions are not a factor, how does Salby account for the enormous amount of human-emitted fossil CO2 (30 Gt annually)? It has to go somewhere. If Salby cannot convincingly account for it (and show his working), there is no reason to accept his conclusions. Climatologists espousing the mainstream/consensus position can account for fossil fuel CO2 emissions as well as natural sources & sinks, and they can show their working. (2) It is my understanding that in the past, CO2 increases tracking temperatures were the result of oceanic CO2 outgassing following warming; it would follow in this case that the ocean pH would increase (alkalinization) as the oceans warmed. We find, however, that ocean pH is decreasing even as the oceans warm, which makes more sense in the context of warming following CO2 increase.
Ken E at 06:00 AM on 14 August, 2011
Also nothing presumptuous about pointing out the guy makes 2 completely contradictory arguments. Start with a model, ignore data that doesn't fit it, then argue something else that's incompatible with model you're holding above the data...and what are you left with? Certainly nothing of scientific merit.
hfranzen at 08:16 AM on 14 August, 2011
The question is, "is CO2 entering or leaving the ocean at the present time?" The answer to this can be found by looking at the data - Millero's review in Geochemica et Cosmochemica Acta in 1995 provides very accurate data for the temperature dependence of the constant relating the partial pressure of CO2 over seawater versus temperature, the Keeling curve provides the increase in CO2 partial pressure with time and the rate at which seawater is warming with time is quite accurately known. A "back of the envelope" calculation then shows that CO2 is presnetly entering and not leaving the ocean and that this will remain true for a long time to come unless some currently inoperative source of heating significantly increases the rate of temperature increase or the rate of production of CO2 is significanlty decreased.
I think we need to be very clear about an incredibly important point here. Anyone, and I mean anyone, peddling this hypothesis about the recent increase in CO2 being almost entirely attributable to the warming is a denier of the theory of AGW. What is telling is that for years some prominent "skeptics" have been lying to us-- for example, Anthony Watts proprietor of the pseudo-science site WUWT is now peddling Bastardi's nonsense which includes Salby's refuted hypothesis. What is odd is that very Watts takes strong exception to being labelled a "denier". It it is clear that his bluster (i.e., Anthony's) is just a facade to his denial and all these years he has been lying when he claims to be a "skeptic". That, or Watts has now finally jumped from being a "skeptic" to a full-blown denier of the theory of AGW. The underlying foundation of the theory of AGW, is as the name suggests that we are almost entirely responsible for increasing CO2 (and other GHGs), so to deny that or not accept that is to be a denier of AGW. So anyone who supports Watts or his site is now also by extension a denier of the theory of AGW. EOS. PS: Perhaps Salby can explain to us how we humans have managed to increase CFCs (measured in ppbv), N20, low-level O3 and other species that are not temperature dependent, while not managing to increase CO2?
Dale at 06:59 AM on 15 August, 2011
@Albatross If a "denier" does not accept the AGW argument, and an "advocate" preaches the AGW doctrine and does not accept any natural cause, and a "sceptic" is on-the-fence/unsure/undecided, then what do you call someone who accepts that humans can change the climate but not to the levels claimed? It IS possible to "deny" the mantra but not be a "denier".
[DB] Dale, denier in this context is being used for those who deny observable data and trends (indeed, to the point of saying blue is green and the sun orbits the Earth).
At this point, those who say that "this is what the science says" and back it up with links to peer-reviewed published literature are hardly preaching doctrine. That you phrase it in that context is revealing as to the ideology underlying your position. It is a false equivalency to say that in this scientific dialogue that there are "two sides", unless you mean one side that is backed by 200 years of science and physical observations and the other side which is basically saying "no it isn't" without anything to support their nay-saying.
In that regard and context, yes, they are deniers and denialists. QED.
Note further that the resident skeptics who regularly inhabit SkS are nowhere to be found on a thread like this and in the various ongoing discussions with Mr. Cotton; that would violate the "Skeptic's Code". Aargh.
DSL at 07:35 AM on 15 August, 2011
Dale, a true skeptic weighs the evidence and develops an ongoing theory that takes into account as much evidence as possible and a solid physical model. A skeptic can only be on the fence because he/she has yet to work through all of the evidence--or if he/she has done so and has relatively solid reasons for riding a fence. If you have relatively solid reasons for riding the fence, I'd like to hear them. Every day I hope someone presents evidence that throws doubt on the seriousness of this problem. Your reasons, however, can't be "just because." They have to be worked through critically, and the scientific community is the best place to do that work. "preach"? Come now, let's not wander down that bizarre road. After all, if I decided to be a skeptic (or, rather, a so-called skeptic) about the sun rising tomorrow, and you defended the idea of the sun rising tomorrow, you'd be on the same ground as your imagined "preacher." The theory that predicts a rotating Earth and the short-term continued active sun is the best fit for the physics and observations. So too is the theory of AGW for recent warming. Hardly a religion.
@Mod #16 The terms "preach" and "doctrine" do not specifically have religious definitions. To preach is to urge or publicly proclaim (which is exactly what the IPCC "Summary for Policy makers" does as well as scientists in front of Govt hearings), and a doctrine is a position in a branch of knowledge or belief. These terms fit very tightly with AGW, as the position of the branch of knowledge is proclaimed publicly through the urgings of scientists and the IPCC. Doctrine is also the term used for Govt agreements on an International level, which as far as I'm concerned what a lot of all this is about, how we deal with this at a global level. Also, Albatross wrote "The underlying foundation of the theory of AGW, is as the name suggests that we are almost entirely responsible for increasing CO2 (and other GHGs), so to deny that or not accept that is to be a denier of AGW." That humans alter the climate is no argument. That the Earth has warmed is no argument. The extent to which humans are responsible for the warming, IS the argument. The term "almost entirely responsible" is the real unknown in climate science. The system is so complex that our understanding of how climate inter-relates is still really just scratching the surface. To say that humans are "almost entirely responsible" for climate change is, IMO, a bit silly considering the power of nature to alter its own course, and the fact we still really don't know how each part of the system inter-relates and feeds back on itself. To not acknowledge these facts is a form of denial itself.
[DB] "the fact we still really don't know how each part of the system inter-relates and feeds back on itself"
When you say "we" you really mean "I". The people who've made a profession of studying climate science actually have a pretty good handle on all of the things you mention. That you characterize it as being (in large part) uncertain merely demonstrates that you haven't put much time and energy into its study.
Albatross, being a working scientist in the field, speaks from a point of strength of knowledge about the subject.
Per Dictionary.com:
[preech]
verb (used with object)
1. to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).
2. to deliver (a sermon).
3. to advocate or inculcate (religious or moral truth, right conduct, etc.) in speech or writing.
4. to deliver a sermon.
5. to give earnest advice, as on religious or moral subjects or the like.
6. to do this in an obtrusive or tedious way.
doc·trine
[dok-trin]
1. a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government: Catholic doctrines; the Monroe Doctrine.
2. something that is taught; teachings collectively: religious doctrine.
3. a body or system of teachings relating to a particular subject: the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Marcus at 09:14 AM on 15 August, 2011
Dale, there are very few advocates of AGW who are of the view that climate change has *no* natural component. The problem is that all the recent, natural climate change factors-like Sunspots-should have resulted in a modest cooling, if anything, yet we're currently encountering the most rapid warming we've ever seen in the historical records. Yet we have people like Watts denying that its even happening!
Dale#18: "to preach is to urge or publicly proclaim" Cherrypick! The full definition your cut from (google dictionary): Publicly proclaim or teach (a religious message or belief) -- emphasis added This is not how science is communicated.
Tom Curtis at 09:26 AM on 15 August, 2011
Dale @18, "to preach", according to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is to "pronounce a public discourse about sacred subjects", or "to utter an earnest exhortation, especially moral or religious". Consequently your claim that "preach" is not specifically religious is dubious, and to suggest that the IPCC "Summary for Policy Makers" or the various testimonies of scientists to Congress are preaching is an abuse of the word. It is also clearly suggests their evidence constitutes, at minimum, a moral exhortation rather that what it actually is, the presentation of scientific fact.
"The system is so complex that our understanding of how climate inter-relates is still really just scratching the surface." Not really, Dale. Atmospheric composition is well established. The physics of the components are well-established. Cyclical processes are well-understood. Long-term cycles are less well understood, but the range of possible basic mechanisms has been narrowed considerably. "To say that humans are 'almost entirely responsible' . . ." I believe the claim was that humans are responsible for the increase in CO2. Do you not find this to be likely with a very high level of confidence? If so, why not? " . . . for climate change is, IMO, a bit silly considering the power of nature to alter its own course," Yikes, talk about religion. If nature can alter its own course without recourse to its physical 'laws' then we can toss the entire project of science right now. This is why religion and science truly cannot co-exist, unless the deity/ies is/are constrained by their own initial laws. "and the fact we still really don't know how each part of the system inter-relates and feeds back on itself. To not acknowledge these facts is a form of denial itself." We have a very firm grip on this, Dale. Are you suggesting that we stop trying to learn more? Because if you're suggesting that 150 years of our best efforts have ended up fruitless, you truly have a lot to learn. Grab a textbook, dude.
Dale, seriously. Do you not understand how the economic activity of just ten billion human beings over the course of the last century has significantly altered the biosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere? The published evidence would take days to sort through, but the observable evidence is all around.
DSL at 12:47 PM on 15 August, 2011
Dale, I never stereotyped you. I responded to the odd logic of your comments and your quite deliberate word choice. I could go a bit further than DB's quite adequate reply, since it's one of my areas of study, but I won't. You've provided nothing resembling a defense of Salby. Your short initial comment was responded to by DM, and you've done nothing but hem-haw and dance around since. What do you think of Salby's work, Dale? Do you accept it?
I thought my initial comment was obvious that I'm not presuming anything about Salbys work till I've seen the data.
Moderator Response: (DB) Actually, you were calling out the SkS author as being presumptuous to do a takedown of Salby's work even though it isn't published yet (which reduces Salby to offering up unsupported handwaving blandishments in his public discoursing and also makes the "skeptic" community look quite foolish for buying the pig unseen).
Dale @18, "That humans alter the climate is no argument. " But that is the very point that Salby is denying. Salby is claiming that our CO2 emissions are not driving CO2 levels. So he is stating from the outset that we cannot affect global temperatures by emitting CO2, b/c he believes that we are not responsible for the increase in CO2 or the warming that he alleges has caused the increase in CO2. Therefore he is denying the reality that is the theory of AGW, and so is anyone (like Watts) who agrees with his hypothesis. With that all said, I gather from your odd posts (and the quote) that you agree that the theory of AGW is real. Good. This thread is about the fatal flaws Salby's hypothesis, so please do not try and drag us all off-topic by being argumentative or floating red herrings or making strawman arguments. And DSL @24 asked you a very pertinent question about Salby's work-- do you accept it? I'll add another, do you, trying to be truly skeptical, see any potential flaws in his reasoning? Answer those directly (no obfuscating or hand waving) and you'll be staying on topic.
Albatross, affecting the climate is not just limited to CO2. As to accepting what he says, without seeing his evidence that brought him to his conclusion I can't presume if he's right or wrong. But I do accept there are natural causes of CO2 which may lead to an imbalance. I can also entertain his claim about ice cores, though not without scepticism before I see his evidence.
Dale While the natural carbon cycle does contain sources as well as sinks, the mass balance argument (presented numerous times here on SkS, in the IPCC WG1 reports and numerous peer reviewed papers) rules out the possibility that sources exceed sinks over the past fifty years beyond reasonable doubt. I have heard his podcast and he presented no argument that would refute the mass balance argument.
Dale @27, it is mathematically possible that there exists a natural mechanism with two phases, in one of which all human emissions would have been absorbed without increase in atmospheric CO2; and in the other of which atmospheric CO2 would have increased by 100 ppm over 100 years regardless of human emissions, and that by pure coincidence the natural system switched from the first to the second phase approximately 100 years ago. If such a system existed, then indeed the rise in CO2 levels over the last one hundred years would not be anthropogenic, the mass balance argument not-with-standing. Therefore Salby should not be treated quite as we would treat somebody approaching us to show of their new perpetual motion machine. But I have listened to Salby's podcast. Not only does he not present evidence for such an extraordinary mechanism - he does not even argue for its existence. Rather he argues that the existence of a short term correlation between CO2 and temperature proves that the cause of the short term variation is also the cause of the long term trend. That is known to be a fallacious argument, and he presents nothing else. That leaves Salby not in the position of a discoverer of perpetual motion, but rather in the position of somebody purporting to disprove Special Relativity who has not bothered to adduce relevant evidence. It is certainly logically possible that he is correct. It is also logically possible that I should win 50 million dollars on the Lotto this weekend, and far more likely.
My understanding of what Salby was presenting was an argument that the natural carbon cycle balance is variable. He said that human emissions have risen at a steady state, yet yearly increase in ppmv ranges from 0 to 3 (averaging around 1.5). Since the human line has little variance this leaves the natural cycle causing the variance. Rightly or wrongly he says current models assume an assumed balanced natural carbon cycle, when the possibility exists that it can actually go one way or the other and affect long term trends. History supports this in that CO2 was able to naturally increase and decrease without any help from us. But as I've said above, I'll wait to see his data before hanging or lauding him.
Dale That the carbon cycle has natural variability is well known - and as I pointed out in my first post on this thread is something that has been used to make the same incorrect arguments before (e.g. by Roy Spencer). The mass balance argument demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that the natural environment has been a net sink and has opposed, not caused, the rising trend in atmospheric CO2 for at least the last fifty years. This point shows that natural variability of the carbon cycle cannot explain the long term trend. Unless you can address this point, your comments on Salby's paper have already been refuted, so please stop repeating them. p.s. sorry for the shouting, but Dale doesn't seem to be listening to this particular point.
Dale#30: "I'll wait to see his data... " That essentially means you disagree with the non-skeptic community who loudly proclaimed the alarming Blockbuster: Planetary temperature controls CO2 levels — not humans and the very insightful Wow. Have you expressed your skepticism (or at least your advice to withhold judgement until seeing the actual evidence) to cool off these hot-blooded alarmists? Or do you only express the cool logic of skepticism here? that humans are "almost entirely responsible" for climate change is, IMO, a bit silly, considering the power of nature to alter its own course To be a fair and balanced skeptic, one would have to withhold judgement on that until the data demonstrating a means by which nature alters its own course are presented. Did I miss it?
muoncounter wrote: "To be a fair and balanced skeptic, one would have to withhold judgement on that until the data demonstrating a means by which nature alters its own course are presented. Did I miss it?" Well Dale has missed the fact that the data unambiguously shows that even if such a mechanism existed, it clearly hasn't "altered its own course".
DM#33: There's an interesting chain of 'logic' here. A physical object altering its own course would seem to violate Newton's First Law, which requires an outside causal agent. One could speculate based on limited observation that a string pendulum, for example, alters its own course (it does not) and perhaps generalize to 'all oscillating systems alter their own course.' Hence, since weather patterns appear to oscillate, they must be altering their own course. But the natural tendency of such systems is to run down (a pendulum will stop, a spring-driven watch must be rewound); at least one Law of Thermodynamics guarantees this. So I have difficulty with an ongoing trend - especially one that may be increasing in magnitude rather than winding down - operating without some external forcing giving it a push. If nature alters its own course, wouldn't it therefore be in violation of its own laws?
muoncounter Absolutely, for the "natural variability" to be the answer then either it must be in response to an extrenal forcing (not much evidence for that) or a 400-year+ cycle in climate, that for some reason was not affecting the carbon cycle much until this particular cycle (good luck with that!). Either way it is difficult to argue that the carbon cycle can alter its own course any more than a pendulum can. However, in either case, the mass balance argument proves beyond reasonable doubt that the environment is anet sink and has been opposing the increase not causing it.
DM#35: "opposing the increase not causing it. " That's another vital point: Natural systems respond in a manner to oppose change (example - Lenz' Law). If increasing temperature produces CO2 and increased CO2 increases temperature, we must be living on Venus. And if you buy that, I have a perpetual motion machine for sale on eBay.
muoncounter @36, " Natural systems respond in a manner to oppose change" That is an over generalization. What can be said confidently is that natural systems do not typically have unstable feedback loops, where a feedback loop is unstable if it has a gain of <-1 or >1. However many natural systems do have feed backs with a gain >0 but <1. Mean Global Temperature is one of them, with increased temperature bringing about changes that tend to increase temperature, but by less than the initial increase. CO2 is another, with increased CO2 leading to increased temperature, which leads to increased CO2 in the atmosphere, which leads to increased temperature. In this case the gain is <<0.5, but >0. The importance of a gain less than 1 is that any feedback with a gain less than 1 will self damp so that the initial signal is amplified, but you do not get a run away feedback. Of course, I'm pretty sure you know all this, and just got carried away.
Dale @27, "Albatross, affecting the climate is not just limited to CO2" Really? I and climate scientists had no idea. Need remind you that here, in this post, we are concerned (or rather Salby is) with the what is driving the rapid increase in CO2 levels. Please stop playing games-- it is transparent and not constructive. You do not have to see Salby's data, or presume anything. Based on the information at that he has volunteered Salby is sunk. You know the premise of his hypothesis-- based on what we have long known about the carbon cycle, do his musings make you the least bit skeptical of his claims? It seems not. Now perhaps he is a lousy communicator (doubtful, he has published in reputable journals before) or has not volunteered some critical information, or perhaps he has just gone "emeritus"-- we will see. But a true skeptic should be raising his or her eyebrows when they hear something like what Salby is claiming. Not going "Wow!" like Judith Curry did, or posting it at WUWT as the the definitive death blow to the theory of AGW as Watts unskeptically and uncritically did (without caveats) when he gave Bastardi a platform and a megaphone-- well death blow is how "skeptics" and those in denial about AGW there are interpreting Bastardi's very, very confused diatribe in which he makes specific reference to Salby's hypothesis.
Dikran & muoncounter: If climate cannot alter its own course (according to you), then how do ice ages come and go? Climate can change either direction by itself, and HAS does this many times in the history of Earth. The possibility that some natural occurrence could cause the last 200 years of warming is real. Or is your argument only applicable where you see fit?
Albatross, there's no need to try to be insulting, considering it was you who made the mis-interpretation of what I said. So you are rejecting Salby's theory when you have not even seen the evidence? Isn't a sceptic (as is continuously said here over and over) one who analyses the body of evidence before making an informed decision? Thus if you're making up your mind before seeing Salby's evidence, ( -Snip- ) As for me, I want to see his data so I can analyse the full body of evidence to make an informed decision.
[DB] Please have a care with the inflammatory tone and rhetoric. The next comment constructed in this fashion will simply be deleted.
Dale Ice ages come and go not because of the internal variability of the carbon cycle but because of a change in external forcing due to variation in the orbit of the planet. It isn't climate choosing its own course, it is the climate being pushed in a different diretion by changes in forcings. As I have pointed out, the fact that the annual rise in atmospheric CO2 being greater than annual anthropogenic emissions proves that the natural environment is a net carbon sink, and hence is opposing the long term trend, not causing it. Of course the carbon cycle includes mechanisms that cause atmospheric CO2 to rise, the point is that we know this is not actually happening; if both man and the natural environment were net sources of CO2 then atmospheric CO2 levels would be rising faster than anthropogenic emissions, but this is observed not to be the case. As to your comment to Albatross, people are liable to get exasperated if you repeatedly ignore what they are telling you. Again you ignore the fact that the mass balance problem means that the rise in CO2 can only be anthropogenic. No other explaination can be reconciled with the data (unless UFOs are stealing CO2 from the atmosphere, which I would regard as somewhat unlikely). If you can't understand that very simply point, you are not in a position to make an informed decision.
pbjamm at 02:30 AM on 16 August, 2011
Dale@39 "Climate can change either direction by itself, and HAS does this many times in the history of Earth. The possibility that some natural occurrence could cause the last 200 years of warming is real. Or is your argument only applicable where you see fit?" Sure Dale, but what *caused* the climate to change and start/end those Ice Ages? Sure Dale, it is *possible* that "some natural occurrence could cause the last 200 years of warming" but unless you can explain what that natural occurrence is and why CO2 does not cause warming then you have nothing to back up your position.
Dale, I am happy to walk you step by step through the reason that we can be confident that Salby's conclusion must be wrong, without having to see the paper. Show you are a true skeptic by going through the exercise with me. Do you agree that conservation of mass applies to the carbon cycle, in other words the annual rise in atmospheric CO2 is equal to the emissions into the atmosphere from all anthropogenic and natural sources minus the CO2 taken out of the atmosphere by all natural carbon sinks (assuming anthropogenic sinks are not significant compared to other sources and sinks). Do you agree that is true? I'm taking my son swimming for half an hour or so, but I'll be back shortly for the next step.
Dale @40, I was being sarcastic when I said "I and climate scientists had no idea". And for someone who mused up thread that " an "advocate" preaches the AGW doctrine and does not accept any natural cause", you ought to develop a thicker skin, especially should you wish to engage in a rigorous scientific debate with scientists. Besides, I'm not sure what I misinterpreted, please elaborate. "So you are rejecting Salby's theory " It is not a theory, it is a hypothesis. Please note the very important difference. And it is not only me who is highly skeptical of his hypothesis, nothing fanatical there (please cease with the strawmen), and for the record he has provided (limited) evidence. It will be interesting to see whether or not Salby's results are reproducible or if he will share his data.
Dikran, I actually said "considering the power of nature to alter its own course". Milankovitch (sp?) cycles are a natural cycle. I didn't just limit it to CO2 or the climate. Please stop moving the goal posts. Also note, I'm not saying recent warming is due to Milankovitch cycles either. There could be some other cycle which we haven't found yet. Which Salby argued for in his podcast mind you. pbjamm, since we already know that warming and CO2 can change naturally, shouldn't the burden of proof lie on proving humans have caused all of the recent increase? I haven't seen that proof beyond a shadow of a doubt. We can say "some" is due to humans, but to say "all" or "almost entirely" is not totally proven as far as I can see. Not when new natural sources of CO2 keep being found such as all those underwater volcanoes not known about previously, or the recent finding that tropical forests which respond to increased CO2 by growing more are causing more CO2 to be released from the soil than originally thought.
Dikran, it's 3am here, so you'll excuse me if I skip your steps. If your steps are like the SkS explanation, then I can already predict you assume a limited or no natural variance in natural sources/sinks. That is where I disagree, and that I think there is more variance.
Dale @45, a) Re "shouldn't the burden of proof lie on proving humans have caused all of the recent increase?". Had you been familiar with the scientific literature on this subject, you would know that multiple, independent lines of evidence indicate that our emissions are responsible for the rapid increase CO2. There will be a post on this very topic in coming days. b) I find it off that you find Salby's hypothesis tenable, whereas the other "warmist" scientists have to prove (alas one cannot "prove" anything in science) "beyond a shadow of a doubt". Quite the double standard. c) You are now clearly trolling.
Dale#45: You had asked (Dale#39) "how do ice ages come and go?" In that context, Milankovitch cycles, together with the appropriate oceanic circulation pattern and the associated feedbacks (thank you,Tom Curtis -- I did overgeneralize) combine to provide a forcing mechanism. Science demands explanations. The way some folks use 'natural cycles' can be interpreted as if they are really saying 'I dunno.' ""all" or "almost entirely" is not totally proven as far as I can see." You do not get to use 'its not proven' as a block; if you expect anything to be 'totally proven,' you'd better go into a different line of work. And with that, we stray far from the topic at hand.
CBDunkerson at 03:02 AM on 16 August, 2011
Dale wrote: "If your steps are like the SkS explanation, then I can already predict you assume a limited or no natural variance in natural sources/sinks." SkS explanation: "As discussed in the first paragraph of this post (and evident in Figure 1), the natural flux of CO2 in and out of natural systems varies from year-to-year." Funny. Your objection to the 'SkS explanation' seems to be completely false.
I'll repeat what Muon has to say using different language, just in case one of the two of us is confusing. Dale: "That is where I disagree, and that I think there is more variance." What is the evidence that suggests more natural variance? Why do you think this? You keep saying this, in one form or another, but you never provide a theory and evidence to explain it. You just say it. If I held you to your own standards--"beyond a shadow of a doubt"--your baseless "I think" would fail miserably. Note: Keep in mind that what lies "beyond the shadow of a doubt" is the bludgeon of ideology. Science tries not to wander beyond the shadow. If you're looking for absolute truth, go to church, mosque, or temple (or the earlier Francis Fukuyama).
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Owen has been with the agency since 1997, most recently working as one of its senior strategists. She is taking over CEO duties from agency co-founder and partner Margaret Bateman, who is moving away from day-to-day operations at the agency and into more of a strategic advisory role.
Previously, the agency was run by Bateman with fellow founder and partner Frank Calder, as well as partner and strategist Ernie Pasemko. Owen will announce the members of her new leadership team, with whom she will develop the agency’s “second generation” business plan, in the coming weeks.
In addition to a refreshed brand image, website and business plan for its 25th anniversary, Owen says Calder Bateman is refreshing its positioning and the kind of work it does.
“We’ve been quite introspective over the last few months and when we looked at our practice over the last two-and-a-half decades, we realized what we’ve been very good at is addressing complicated social issues and prompting meaningful conversations about those issues,” Owen says. “When you’ve got 28 people in the organization, you need to be realistic about keeping the engine fuelled, so we’ll continue to do a broad range of work. But instead of waiting for that social good work to come to us, we’re focusing on going after that kind of work very deliberately.”
That work has included STI awareness campaigns for Alberta Public Health and anti-homophobia campaigns for the University of Alberta, earning recognition at awards shows including the Advertising Club of Edmonton, ADCC, AToMiC, ADC and the Clios in recent years. “Pride Tape,” an in-house initiative to promote inclusiveness in hockey by using rainbow-coloured stick tape, was recently used by the Edmonton Oilers during their annual Skills Challenge in January.
Owen says work like Pride Tape required Calder Bateman to utilize everything from PR and media relations to online fundraising methods to traditional advertising and marketing. She says the same media convergence and new digital platforms that have allowed these kinds of social conversations to flourish is also what makes it the right time for the agency to shift its focus to those kinds of projects, since they allow it to show its strength in fully integrated marketing solutions.
“We always had great strength on PR and public affairs and community engagement, as well as on the creative advertising and marketing side,” she says. “But we needed to get more deliberate about bringing those strengths together on more integrated projects and that’s what we’re focusing on.”
Calder Bateman, Catrin Owen, Margaret Bateman
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Canonicity.
Of course the picture of a cannon is a joke…
Is that a word you use?
Well Paul Little has written a book about attacks on Christianity and a common attack comes from folks who question the canon.
Maybe you thought a canon was something that soldiers used to propel artillery shells at the enemy.
Well it is a multiple use word and it also means a list of texts (or “books”) which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture.
The “sticking points” with doubters is who picked the canon? How did they decide which books went in and which books did not go in the canon? Aren’t there some books that got left out?
You know where the doubter is coming from. They think that mere humans made decisions that were inaccurate. Little says “How do we know the books in our Bible, and no others, are the ones that should be there?”
All Protestant Churches accept the same Old Testament that the Jewish people do. The Roman Catholic Church includes some of the books of the Apocrypha [more on that later]. The Christian era means the Scripture of the New Testament. When Jesus came, the writers of the New Testament contributed material to the Bible based on the time from Jesus onward, the second part of Scripture for the Protestant Church.
For the church, the issue of the canon is simple. The church did not create the canon; it did not determine which books would be called Scripture, the inspired Word of God. Josh McDowell says “the church recognized, or discovered, which books had been inspired from their inception.” The following five principles guided the recognition and collection of the books in the canon: 1. Was the book written by a prophet from God? If it was, then it was the Word of God. 2. Was the writer confirmed by acts of God? True prophets were able to perform miracles; false prophets could not. 3. Did the message of Scripture tell the truth about God? God does not contradict God. 4. Does the Word come with the power of God? The presence of God’s transforming power is a strong indicator that a given book has God’s stamp of approval. 5. Was the book accepted by the people of God? When a book was received, collected, read and used by the people of God, that was a factor in including it in the canon.
I have always thought the canon was determined by a group of “high church” officials gathering together to gerrymander the books of the Bible, maybe pushing their own political agenda. I had always heard about the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. and the Council of Trent in 1545 because I was a history major. But the canon was determined less by high church council members and more by common people who read and worshipped Scripture. Bart Ehrman says it best: “The historical reality [of the canon] is a good reminder that [it] is not just a man-made construct. It was not the result of a power play brokered by rich cultural elites in some smoke filled room. It was the result of many years of God’s people reading, using, and responding to these books. The same was true for the Old Testament canon. Jesus himself used and cited the Old Testament writings with no indication anywhere that there was uncertainty about which books belonged. Indeed, He held His audience accountable for knowing these books. But, in all of this, there was no Old Testament church council that officially picked them (not even Jamnia). They too were the result of ancient and widespread consensus. In the end, we can certainly acknowledge that humans played a role in the canonical process. But, not the role that is so commonly attributed to them. Humans did not determine the canon, they responded to it. In this sense, we can say that the canon really chose itself.”
Professor Ehrman’s ideas are echoed by Paul Little. Ehrman mentions Jamnia above, a church council in 90 A.D. that had discussion about the canon. “The discussion [at Jamnia] seemed to center not on whether certain books should be included in the canon, but whether certain ones should be excluded. In any case, those present recognized what already was accepted. They did not bring into being what had previously existed. In other words, they recognized but did not establish the canonicity of the Old Testament books as we have them.”
There’s that word again…canonicity.
A subject of concern that would shake a person’s faith?
Like the previous post about the King James Bible and the different translations of the Bible, the canon is a necessary way to get all of us “on the same page.”
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Jussie Smollett charged with a felony for allegedly filing a false police report
By swaggadigitalmagazine on 21 Feb 2019
Actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report. (Theo Wargo / Getty Images)
“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett has been charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report.
Chicago police announced late Wednesday that felony criminal charges against Smollett have been approved by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. He faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
“Detectives will make contact with [Smollett’s] legal team to negotiate a reasonable surrender for his arrest,” said Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi Wednesday evening on Twitter.
Smollett’s attorneys stated that they plan to “mount an aggressive defense.”
“Like any other citizen, Mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked,” said Smollet’s attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson in a statement to The Times. “Given these circumstances, we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and to mount an aggressive defense.”
The charges follow an earlier announcement that Smollett was “officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation … for filing a false police report” and that detectives were presenting evidence to a Cook County grand jury.
Police initially had been investigating the Jan. 29 attack as a possible hate crime. The incident allegedly involved two people approaching the 36-year-old actor and musician while yelling racist and homophobic slurs. Smollett is gay and plays gay musician Jamal Lyon on “Empire.”
But on Saturday, Guglielmi said the trajectory of the investigation had “shifted” due to information received from two brothers who were arrested and released without charges last week. He did not elaborate on what that meant.
The brothers were identified as persons of interest in the investigation after being seen in surveillance footage around the area where the alleged attack took place.
One of the brothers was revealed to be a personal trainer Smollett had hired to ready him for a music video. The pair reportedly claimed that Smollett had hired them to carry out the attack. Smollett’s attorneys have previously disputed that claim and said the actor is “angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with.”
On Tuesday, Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx recused herself from the case “out of an abundance of caution” in order to “address potential questions of impartiality based upon familiarity with potential witnesses in the case.”
According to reports, Foxx had spoken to one of Smollett’s relatives after the alleged attack was reported and “acted as a go-between with Chicago police.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Fox issued a statement of support confirming Smollett would remain a part of “Empire” despite reports that the actor’s scenes in upcoming episodes were being slashed due to the uncertainties surrounding the case, including claims that the attack was a hoax.
Categories: Law and Order, Legal Issues, LGBT
Tagged as: Chicago, criminal charges, Empire, Jussie Smollett, LGBT
The Chadwick Journals, Chapter Oren 2 Minute Sneak Peek
The Downfall of Jussie Smollett
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Cases & resources >
Morse v. Frederick, 06-278 (2007)
Board of Education of the Westside Community Schools v. Mergens, 496 U.S. 226 (1990)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988)
Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986)
Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
Calvert, Clay, “Free Speech and Public Schools in a Post Columbine World: Check Your Speech Rights at the Schoolhouse Metal Detector,” 77 Denv. U.L. Rev. 739 (2000)
Cary, Eve; Levine, Alan H., and Price, Janet, The Rights of Students (ACLU Handbook for Young Americans). New York: Puffin Books, 1997
Clarick, Gregory A., “Public School Teachers and the First Amendment: Protecting the Right to Teach,” 65 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 693 (1990)
Chemerinsky, Erwin, “Students Do Leave Their First Amendment Rights at the Schoolhouse Gates: What’s Left of Tinker?,” 48 Drake L. Rev. 527, 545 (2000)
Irons, Peter (ed.), May it Please the Court: Courts, Kids, and the Constitution. New York: New Press, 2000
Hudson, David L. Jr., The Silencing of Student Voices: Preserving Free Speech in American Schools, Nashville, Tenn.: First Amendment Center, 2004
Jacobs, Thomas A., What Are My Rights? 95 Questions and Answers About Teens and the Law.
Johnson, John W., The Struggle for Student Rights: Tinker v. Des Moines and the 1960s. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1997
Leviton, Stuart, “Is Anyone Listening To Our Students? A Plea For Respect and Inclusion,” 21 Fla. St. L. Rev. 35, 43 (1993)
Maring, Mary Muehlen, “‘Children Should Be Seen and Not Heard’: Do Children Shed Their Right to Free Speech at the Schoolhouse Gate?,” 74 N. Dak. L. Rev. 679 (1998)
Minneapolis: Free Spirit, 1997
Monk, Linda R., The Bill of Rights: A User’s Guide (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Va.: Close Up Publishing, 1995
Strossen, Nadine, “Students’ Rights and How They are Wronged,” 32 U. Rich. L. Rev. 457 (1998)
Zirkel, Perry A., “30th Anniversary of Tinker: A Courtside Interview.” Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 81 (no.1), Sept. 1, 1999, p. 34
Student Press Law Center reports
First Amendment Schools
First Amendment Rights in Education, newsletter edited and published by Kevin O'Shea
YALSA — Young Adult Library Services Association
K-12 newspapers & yearbooks
Chiras v. Miller, (3:03-CV-2651-M)(N.D. Tex.)(7/23/04)
Draudt v. Wooster City School District Board of Education, (No. 5:03-CV-62) (N.D. Ohio)(2/14/93)
Fleming v. Jefferson County Sch. Dist., 298 F.3d 918 (10th Cir. 2002)
Searcey v. Harris, 888 F.2d 1314 (11th Cir. 1989)
Stanton v. Brunswick School Department, 577 F.Supp. 1560 (D. Maine 1984)
Ark. Stat. Ann. § 6-18-1201 – 1204
Calif. Educ. Code § 48950
Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 22-1-120
Iowa Code § 280.22
Kan. Stat. Ann. § 72.1504 – 72.1506
Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. Ch. 71, Section 82
Annest, Janna J. “Only the News That’s Fit to Print: The Effect of Hazelwood on the First Amendment Viewpoint-Neutrality Requirement in Public School-Sponsored Forums,” 77 Wash. L. Rev. 1227 (2002)
Hudson, David L. Jr., "Cathy Cowan reflects on her high school journalism fight in Hazelwood case," First Amendment Center Online, 12/27/01
Leaming, Jeremy, Analysis of Hazelwood’s Impact on Student Press, First Amendment Center Online (1998)
Jordan, Samuel P., “Viewpoint Restrictions and School-Sponsored Student Speech: Avenues for Heightened Protection,” 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1555 (2003)
Law of the Student Press. (Washington, D.C.: Student Press Law Center, 1994)
American Society of Newspaper Editors' High School Journalism Project
JEA Press Rights
Clothing, dress codes & uniforms
U.S. v. O'Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968)
Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools, 286 F.Supp. 2d 847 (E.D. Mich. 2003)
Newsom v. Albemarle County School Board, Nos. 03-1125 (4th Cir.)(12/1/2003)
Hurt v. Boonville R-1 School District Case, No. 02-4267-CV-C-SOW (W.D. Mo. 2002)
Boroff v. Van Wert City Board of Education, 240 F.3d 465 (6th Cir. 2000)
Canady v. Bossier Parish School Board, 240 F.3d 437 (5th Cir. 2001)
Chambers v. Babbitt, 145 F.Supp. 2d 1068 (D. Minn. 2001)
Littlefield v. Forney Independent School District, 268 F.3d 275 (5th Cir. 2001)
Bivens v. Albuquerque Public Schools, 899 F.Supp. 556 (D. N.M. 1995)
Broussard v. School Board of Norfolk, 801 F.Supp. 1526 (E.D. Va. 1992)
Davenport v. Randolph County Board of Education, 730 F.2d 1395 (11th Cir. 1984)
Domico v. Rapides Parish School Board, 675 F.2d 100, 102 (5th Cir. 1982)
Zeller v. Donegal Sch. Dist., 517 F.2d 600 (3rd Cir. 1975)
Hatch v. Goerke, 502 F.2d 1189 (10th Cir. 1974)
Dwen v. Barry, 483 F.2d 1126 (2nd Cir. 1973)
Karr v. Schmidt, 460 F.2d 609 (5th Cir. 1972)
Massie v. Henry, 455 F.2d 779 (4th Cir. 1972)
Arnold v. Carpenter, 459 F.2d 939 (7th Cir. 1972)
Bishop v. Colaw, 450 F.2d 1069 (8th Cir. 1971)
Gfell v. Rickelman, 441 F.2d 444 (6th Cir. 1971)
King v. Saddleback Jr. College Dist., 445 F.2d 932 (9th Cir. 1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 979 (1971)
Richards v. Thurston, 424 F.2d 1281 (1st Cir. 1970)
Barbarosh, Alison M. “Undressing the First Amendment in Public Schools: Do Uniform Dress Codes Violate Students’ First Amendment Rights,” 28 Loyola L. Rev. 1415 (1995)
DeMitchell, Todd A., Richard Fossey and Casey Cobb. “Dress Codes in the Public Schools: Principals, Policies and Precepts,” 29 J.L. & Educ. 31 (2000)
Haynes, Charles C., et al., The First Amendment in Schools. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2003, p. 79
Mahling, Wendy. “Secondhand Codes: An Analysis of the Constitutionality of Dress Codes in Public Schools,” 80 Minn. L. Rev. 715 (1996)
Murphy, Paul D., “Restricting Gang Clothing in Public Schools: Does a Dress Code Violate A Student’s Right of Free Expression?” 64 U.S.C. L. Rev. 1321 (1991)
Sarke, Dena. “Coed Naked Constitutional Law: The Benefits and Harms of Uniform Dress Requirements in American Public Schools,” 78 B.U. L. Rev. 153 (1998)
Weisenberger, Clay, “Constitution or Conformity: When the Shirt Hits the Fan in Public Schools,” 29 J.L. & Educ. 51, 58, (2000)
Wilson, Amy Mitchell. “Public School Dress Codes: The Constitutional Debate,” 1998 B.Y.U. Educ. & L.J. 147
White, Kerry A. “Do School Uniforms Fit?” School Administrator (February 2000)
Zirkel, Perry A., “A Uniform Policy: Assessment of School Uniform Policies,” Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 79, no. 7 (March 1998), p. 550
Asserting Parental Rights — organization of parents opposed to school uniforms
Underground papers & off-campus speech
Woodcock v. South Lyon Community Schools (E.D. Mich. 2002) No. 02-72314
Pangle v. Bend-Lapine School District, 10 P.3d 275 (Or. App. 2000)
Boucher v. School Board of the School District of Greenfield, 134 F.3d 821 (7th Cir. 1998)
Burch v. Barker, 861 F.Supp. 1149 (9th Cir. 1988)
Klein v. Smith, 635 F.Supp. 1440 (D. Me. 1986)
Shanley v. Northeast Independent School District, 462 F.2d 960 (5th Cir. 1972)
Thomas v. Board of Education, Granville Central School District, 607 F.2d 1043 (2nd Cir. 1979)
Student Press Law Center, SPLC Guide to Surviving Underground: A Legal Manual for Publishers of Independent Student Newspapers (2001)
Student Press Law Center, Law of the Student Press (2nd ed.)(1994)
Cyberspeech
Beidler v. North Thurston School District, No. 99-2-00236-6 (Wash.Super.Ct.)(7/18/00)
Beussink v. Woodland R-IV School District, 30 F.Supp. 2d 1175 (E.D. Mo. 1998)
Coy v. Board of Education of North Canton Schools, 205 F.Supp. 2d 791 (N.D. Ohio 2002)
Emmett v. Kent School District No. 415, 92 F.Supp. 2d 1089 (W.D. Wash. 2000)
J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District, 807 A.2d 847 (Pa. 2002)
Mahaffey v. Aldrich, 236 F.Supp. 2d 779 (E.D. Mich. 2002)
O’Brien v. Westlake City Sch. Bd. of Educ., No. 1:98CV647 (E.D. Ohio 1998)
Thomas v. Board of Ed. Granville Central School District, 607 F.2d 1043 (2nd Cir. 1979)
Blumner, Robyn, “Censoring Students in Cyberspace.” St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Sept. 13, 1998, p. 4D
Calvert, Clay. “Off-Campus Speech, On-Campus Punishment: Censorship of the Emerging Internet Underground,” 7 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 243 (2001)
Caplan, Aaron. “Public School Discipline for Creating Uncensored Anonymous Internet Forums,” 39 Willamette L. Rev. 93 (2003)
Goulet, Mark C., “Schools Face A Discipline Dilemma: Proceed with Caution when Acting Against Students for Computer-Related Misconduct.” Texas Lawyer, vol. 17 (no. 23), Aug. 13, 2001, p.25
Harpaz, Leora, “Internet Speech and the First Amendment Rights of Public School Students,” B.Y.U. L. Rev. 123 (2000)
Hudson, David L. Jr., “Censorship of Student Internet Speech: The Effect of Diminishing Student Rights, Fear of the Internet and Columbine,” 2000 L. Rev. Mich. St. U. Det. C.L. 199 (2000)
Hudson, David L. Jr., "Student Online Expression: What Do the Internet and MySpace Mean for Students’ First Amendment Rights?"
Simpson, Robert E. “Limits on Students’ Speech in the Internet Age,” 105 Dick. L. Rev. 181 (2001)
Weng, K., “Type No Evil: The Proper Latitude of Public Educational Institutions in Restricting Expressions of Their Students on the Internet,” 20 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 751 (1998)
Rights Watch: Cyber Threats on the Rise NEAToday Online
Hate speech & speech codes
Marcus, Laurence R., Fighting words: the politics of hateful speech. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996
Stader, David L., “Responding to Student Threats: Legal and Procedural Guidelines for High School Principals.” The Clearing House, vol. 74 (no. 4), March 1, 2001, p. 221
Book censorship
American Library Association's Banned Books Web page
Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens 496 U.S. 226 (1990)
Boyd County High School Gay Straight Alliance v. Board of Education of Boyd County, Ky., 258 F.Supp.2d 667 (E.D. Kent. 2003)
Ceniceros v. Board of Trustees of the San Diego Unified School District, 106 F.3d 878 (9th Cir. 1997)
Colin v. Orange Unified School District, 83 F.Supp.2d 1135 (C.D. Cal. 2000)
Donovan v. Punxsutawney Area School Board, 336 F.3d 211 (3rd Cir. 2003)
East High Gay/Straight Alliance v. Board of Education of Salt Lake City School District, 81 F.Supp.2d 1166 (D.Utah 1999)
Pope v. East Brunswick Board of Education, 12 F.3d 1244 (3rd Cir. 1993)
Prince v. Jacoby, 303 F.3d 1074 (9th Cir. 2002)
Equal Access Act, 20 U.S.C. 4071-4074 (1984).
Hagins, Todd, “Mother Goose and Father God: Extending the Equal Access Act to Pre-High-School Students,” 15 Regent U.L. Rev. 93 (2002).
Haynes, Charles, Sam Chaltain, John E. Ferguson Jr., David L. Hudson Jr. & Oliver Thomas. The First Amendment in Schools (Alexandria, Virg: ASCD 2003), p. 47-50.
Mawdsley, Ralph D., “The Equal Access Act and Public Schools: What Are the Legal Issues Related to Recognizing Gay Student Groups,” 2001 BYU Educ. & L.J. 1.
Sherman v. Community Consolidated School District, 980 F.2d 437 (7th Cir. 1992)
Lipp v. Morris, 579 F.2d 834 (3rd Cir. 1978)
History and text of the Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge of Allegiance statutes, state by state
(See also cases & resources for “Pledge of Allegiance & religious liberty in public schools.”)
Speaking out in school
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969)
Farish, Leah, Tinker v. Des Moines: Student Protest. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow, 1997
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Year of settlement: 2001
Age on arrival: 31
City: den-haag
Language of the interview: Dutch
[i] Good day sir. [name]
[r] Good day.
Welcome to our interview. You have a… I see a newspaper downstairs… newspaper article. Could you please have that one…
[r] That’s what you mean?
Show it to me and… Yeah
[i] Yes, please. And tell me about it.
[i] Yeah. Go ahead.
[r] Yeah, this is sports newspaper [unintelligible] in Afghanistan. Year ’86.
[r] When I was on the national team. I went to… for practice and also to game in Russia… … Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Tashkent. That was all for boxing. Can you ask questions about this and I can give you answers.
In what capacity? As a team member of the Olympic…
[r]Well, so actually in Afghanistan. That sports committee there was called “Olympic”, “Afghanistan Olympic” for boxing or everywhere. That means sports federation and also comes through boxing so boxing federation and also through Olympic. There I participated through national team for those matches and also for training, in Russia. Then there was whole “Sovetski Souz”… All Russia was together.
[i]: Soviet Union.
[r] Soviet Union. Yeah. Then were Soviet Union. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tashkent were all together. Yes, they were.
[i] That was in the year 1986?
[r] ’86, yes.
[i] And how did that hobby come about? How did you end up in Russia?
If… Through sports, because this was after my interview. Then I came back… came from Russia. Then we get that whole, best and newest channel. It’s called “Kabul New Times,” which all write in English. I did this interview with Kabul New Times. This is for my interview.
[i] That’s a very old photo and newspaper article. Yeah.
[r] Coincidentally in this day and age, there was all… This is newspaper article. I copied this. Like newspapers all so white and black, you know?
But in my time in Afghanistan, there weren’t that many color photographs used. As well as… I have a lot of pictures back then all in black and white. Yeah. Boxing is my life. I did everything with boxing. When I was little, ten years old, I started boxing. And I’m still doing sports and since 2000 I fled to the Netherlands as an asylum seeker. I live here now, but I used to live in Alkmaar. Since five years I moved here in Zoetermeer. And now I live here. And I have kinds of activities here, sports activities. I always take part in the activities with sports and also with Zoetermeer. I also taught ‘Haagse Directe’, together with another boxing coach. And Haagse Directe who’s in The Hague. That’s a very big boxing school, where I also teach together with the other boxing teachers as a youth training. So in the age from 7 to 14 years. All of them, yes… This is just me taking part. Wednesdays and Saturdays, the classes are Wednesdays and Saturdays.
[i] What school did you say?
[i] “Haagse Directe
[r] Yeah. Yeah, I used to live here in Zoetermeer… I have karate boxing school with the Kai Sei, Zoetermeer. I taught boxing together. And also in Alkmaar. And also at some schools, high schools, high schools, I taught for the kids back then and I was in North Holland.
[r] Yes. I started my career, here when I came to Holland. When I was in Kampen.
When was it in Kampen?
Yes, in 2000. Yes, because I had to box as well, but then I didn’t have a permit to stay. I wasn’t allowed to compete, because competition was in Germany. I wasn’t allowed to go to Germany. I had very nice practice there. That was boxing. And I’m still busy. I do nothing more than sports. I’m busy here, so boxing is kind of my hobby. I always do boxing.
[i] Boxing.
[r] I live with sports, I can’t go on without sports. Yeah.
[i] You said you came to Holland in 2000. What was that like to come to Holland?
[r] Yes I also said, as an asylum seeker I fled from Afghanistan to the Netherlands.
[i] Yes. How was that? What… How did you experience that to come to another country? What was different?
[r] What do you mean?
[i] What was different? A different country, but, what…
The difference between Afghanistan and here?
Yes. People have a lot of difficult lives in Afghanistan. And so, too, you, you can’t guarantee your life, you know? Every moment you wait when you’re gonna die. So real war, you know? So you can’t guarantee it. You can live a month, a day or a year, you know. A lot of people have to run. I fled Afghanistan, too. Because there’s a life-threatening situation there. We can’t live there with your whole family. That’s the only way to flee, it wasn’t meant to come straight to the Netherlands. Just have to go to a safe place. That was just… first choice to come from Afghanistan, but I just happened to come here. Finally in the Netherlands, start with camps, OC, AZC and get a permit to stay. And then we get home in Alkmaar.
Was that your choice to go to Alkmaar, or…?
[r] No. Actually, it just was. Yeah. If you decide where I can live. Because when I didn’t know which parts of Holland I could live in. Because for me too was Den Ham… this is called Den Ham – Vroomshoop, this is close to Zwolle That is a small village, but was very quiet village. And yes, I thought it was a very good place at the time. Because there was a very large boxing school “DiVago”. The trainer was a nice person, [name]. I was always allowed to go to his boxing school. But I didn’t pay anything then. I was four, five days training there. Just, uh, they were very happy for me. Got to train there. They were. But then I moved, I got a permit to stay. I was allowed to stay in Holland. I got a house in Alkmaar. That’s also in a small village, near Alkmaar. That’s in Warmenhuizen, between Alkmaar, Schagen, in those parts of North Holland. That was a nice village too, and also… I had a lot of knowledge with a lot of Dutch people.
Do you know them?
Kennissen, yes.
Friends? Yes, friends and girlfriends. All nice people.
[i] Okay. What did you have with those people? What were you doing with those people?
Yeah. Just nice people. Yeah, often. That’s a small village. Those people are very nice. If you have any problems, they can come right over and help you, you know? You live in a village, you don’t make a difference where I live. It’s kind of like living in a family in a village, you know? Like coming to town. Town’s totally different from villages, you know? I’ve lived here in Zoetermeer for five years. I live in a flat. I just have “hello”, “hi” and “greetings” with the neighbors. I really don’t know about the neighbors, you know. Everyone’s doing their own work and doing their own thing. Doing what and leaving when? But if you live in a village in a single-family house, then you should know everyone. Every moment I go out and introduce myself and get to know the neighbours. But here it is… In big cities, it can’t be.
[i] To get back to life in the village. Did the Dutch come to your house? [R] Yes, of course. I still have friends. They come to visit me here. And I go there too. Because I find this piece of North Holland, this is a first life of mine. And kids were all friends and girlfriends there. And I still have contacts there. Better than here, you know, as neighbors. Because when I came here. Kids had to go to school too. But this problem was language. But I had to go to Dutch language school myself. But kids started going to school right away. My neighbours came to my house. They helped with everything, with arithmetic, with reading, with history, with mathematics, all of them. Those neighbours helped my children. They were very happy, everything. Helped me with school materials with my children. They just did.
[i] How did you think the Dutch came home and helped your children?
[r] Yes. Wonderful. Yeah, I always enjoy this kind of nice people. As for me it doesn’t matter, but when I say as human, yes. That’s life. How are we supposed to deal with other people, huh? Could teach you a lot. And that’s a kind of life, you can go with a lot of people, but which ones? You’re going to be the first to see and talk to each other, and this is who those people are. Can you get in touch with them? Yeah, yeah. I still have good contacts with them. I’ll never forget that.
[i] Friends for life?
Yes, of course. We’re Afghan. We have so. Yeah, some people. If friends or girlfriends with someone, if they’re going to move from one piece of land to another and then those people were there, they forget about you. Oh, yeah, yeah. I’m gonna go find a new friend. Yeah, but it’s different for us. If a friend is a good friend, he stays forever, always make friendly contact. That’s right, yeah. With dear Dutchmen, yes, you never complain about that. So life gets better for me, for my children. Then you don’t have to say: money everywhere doesn’t bring happiness, you know? But good life brings good luck. It does. I don’t go after money, I go after the good life. I’m very, very good. I want to be like this.
If I understand correctly, you’ve learned something from the Dutch, from your good friends. What impact has that had on you as a person? Have you changed?
[r] Yes, of course. It’s up to you, you know. People always think, yeah, how to change, you know. You’re just a human being, you know. You gotta learn the way of life, you know. You have to be so accepting of other people, you know. That’s important. Then you’re gonna be all right. Say, yeah, that’s black, that’s white, that’s different faith, that’s different faith. No we’re human, we always look human. We are human. Dealing with other people, then you don’t have to go behind the color, behind the faith, behind the otherwise. What are you, that’s you… To you. Let’s not say if I’m like that, you have to be like me too. No. You’re going to point out how to deal with other people. That’s what you need to learn. That’s what I do in Holland.
[i] Yeah. You say you’ve also changed by dealing with the Dutch, with good friends of yours. What does that look like? How does that translate into your life? Do you act differently than usual? Than you did normally, for example in Afghanistan or…
Yeah, that hasn’t changed for me, actually. Actually, I was already like that in Afghanistan. But I just love sports. Where there’s a place for sports. For me it doesn’t matter which sport: boxing, karate, kickboxing, freefighting, soccer, volleyball, tennis, I do everything. For me it doesn’t matter. But where’s sports? I go in there. Playing kickboxing, soccer, volleyball. I just went in there, you know. Otherwise you don’t do this, you’re nobody. You have to try to get along with the other people. That’s just life. I guess that’s it. And if you think, that’s up to you. What’s the difference between here and Afghanistan? The difference is nothing. Often the people. How do you raise them? Upbringing to know we’re human, we’re allowed to live as human beings. I’m going to go on like this… with other people. Yes, I thought it was very good. I can’t sort of think, oh yeah, I’m gonna be young again after a few years. I have to take a different situation, a different direction. Yeah, I’ve already chosen my direction, you know, when I was little. Now I’m still busy. I’m doing everything here, too, like I’ve done a lot. Thinking for myself, knowing that a lot of people live here. A lot of people live here, but only think about benefits, you know. Only thinking about benefits, but I wasn’t like that. I say I’m young. Yes, I still feel young. I can, even if you don’t have energy, you can work. But we shouldn’t make excuses for your life. Yeah, I can’t, because, yeah, that language, yeah. If you go inside people, you can learn a lot of things. Learn language, talk, like culture, learn everything. You go between people, yeah. If you stay at home, yeah, I’ll just go on welfare. This is Dutch, probably very difficult for me. Yeah, I couldn’t learn. But let’s try. Yeah. I tried. For example, I trained for a stonemasonry. I did work in a stonemasonry company. Six months of training in Utrecht. And then I worked in Dapper Harder. That’s a quarry in Hoorn. I had worked there a lot, you know. I was not only working out, I also worked there.
[i] What kind of work was it? What exactly did you do?
[r] Stonemasonry. You make a lot of stones for cemeteries, sills, all go sweetening, sawing, things like that. It’s all in stonemasonry. When were finally 2009 had come a kind of crisis. I don’t get the chance to work there much, you know. I did work for three years. Then after three years I wasn’t allowed to work there anymore. I don’t get a contract extension either. Then I become unemployed. And I get three months unemployment and then I start again with, yeah… I had to move here, too. That was the problem, my wife was alone in the village. Couldn’t be family, nobody was… Only contact with the Dutch, but not with family was different. Because of the advice of the family doctor I get priority here Zoetermeer house, you know, 2009. And right away I did another training for taxi driver. I got my pass. I had to work in Alkmaar. But at the same time I happened to get home in Zoetermeer. Then I moved to Zoetermeer.
[i] You moved to Zoetermeer, you say. What was the motivation, what was the reason? Did you choose because…
Yes. Actually, that was a small village. My children were already big. Have to go to another school, go to high school. And that was distance from my house to that school was 8 km. And they had to cycle there every day and come back. Because of that. Was that… The problem was with the buses, too. We had a bus until four o’clock, after four hours no buses to that town. And not early in the morning either. Only once in the morning we had to… If people had to go to Schagen. Just was bus, the rest was just once an hour until four o’clock was bus. I thought we’d go to big cities, then you could take care of the kids now. Yeah, they were all here, the high schools go on. But together at school, are close. I don’t have a problem with the school. And hobbies too, sports. I’m still busy in the Haagse Directe with sports, with boxing. That’s for me… and also working as a taxi driver at Connexxion in The Hague.
It was… The choice for Zoetermeer was more or less practical.
[r] Yes, practical.
Not so much that you said, oh, I have family there or…
[r] That was the reason, that was the reason.
[i] Yeah. Tell me more about that?
Yeah, there’s a lot of Afghans living here if you look in Zoetermeer. I think 1200 or 1500 Afghans live in Zoetermeer. Look, you’re going to meet those people. That’s just the way it is. I don’t feel like a foreigner anymore, you know. That’s another reason to come here in Zoetermeer.
[i] And with that network, already set up with the Afghans?
Yeah, actually, you can’t make the network here. My own network is just sports, you know? The network of those people as a sport. Yeah, Afghans do have acquaintances, if you’re gonna go out there, if you’re gonna visit those special days. And we also go to their house to visit. Sitting around talking, that’s different, like some kind of network you can [unintelligible]. But network of us is only sports. It’s just that.
[r] Interesting. You actually came here to network with the Afghans, but that’s not so… Yeah, not so close, actually.
No, actually that’s goal of mine was to make it easy for the kids to go to school, you know? That’s how you go to college or high school. There was only elementary school there. From elementary school, they have to go to high school. Now they all are, yeah. I have four kids. The youngest is ten.
[i] And the others? Others: eldest is 22 and 19 and 17. They were all well educated and well educated. The eldest has electrical engineering and the second son has economics, banking and insurance. That’s his second year and will be his third year. And my daughter is Zorg, the first year. They were all close, they could just be right… And there, too, they can easily find an internship. Around Zoetermeer and Rotterdam, The Hague, Delft and that side are all close by. That’s also solved from internship. There was also, was difficult to go for an internship, where do you go? They just had to go to Alkmaar or Amsterdam, that side to come. And now it’s just different from there. And still for me as a sport as my hobbies. I can always do here, but what I want, I can do.
[i] Tell me more about your kids. They’re studying now. Are they still working? The eldest…
Not yet. They’re all studying. Oh, good. Can you please tell me what you look like every day, like here in Zoetermeer?
Yeah. I don’t have to complain. I’m happy about everything. I have everything normal. I, uh… yeah. That’s what the person says. How’s he gonna choose to live? That’s important who you are. If you make difficult, if you’re going to live in the Queen’s palace, that’s difficult for you. If wanting to make yourself easy for you, that’s all. You can live easy. I can live easy. I can always cope. I have a job. I’ve got hobbies, and I’ve got kids, too, a good education. Then you don’t have to whine or complain. I’m very happy for my life. Here in the Netherlands. Yes, because as we always say, that’s in my own words. I always have to thank those people, you know. It’s not that important to me, but my kids can live. Have a good life. That’s, uh… ordinary. You can’t do that in your own country. You know the situation in your own country. And no one’s gonna interfere with your life here. If you’re good, other people aren’t gonna interfere with you. Say here live criminal, here live killer, here live thieves. No, they don’t. Leave it. You make it. You set an example for others. Always don’t think negative, I don’t think negative. Oh here live a lot in Palenstein, here live a lot of criminals. No, they don’t. No, I don’t. Never mind criminals. To their own ends. And you make an example for yourself to look at other people. Yeah, who are you? And don’t say, oh, this is criminal neighborhoods, everybody’s criminal. No, not everyone can be a criminal.
[i] Do you like your neighborhood? In the neighborhood where you live. Is it safe? How do you actually feel here?
Yeah. Then we came here, a lot of people say this is that Palenstein neighborhood. That’s a very criminal neighborhood. A lot of Antilleans, a lot of Arubans, a lot, yeah, thieves people. Who live like this and like this. Then I still live here, I don’t like anything, yeah, all good. This depends on the person. How are you going to react? Yeah. Never mind, as a criminal, there are criminals, police. You’re not the police. You have to deal with your own things. I’ll be right there. I don’t care. If I am. What I need to feel for myself here. That’s what I do for myself. Not for others. Because no one interferes here, no one interferes with me. So I go to work and I go to sports. That’s just… Every time maybe 6, 7 or 8 times a day, I go, I come home and I come out. Cause… I’m a taxi driver, I have a certain program. I go to work and I come home and back to work every day. That company car is at my house. And I just use it for work. And also when I go to sports and groceries. Every time I have to go downstairs and then I come upstairs. Nobody’s gonna interfere with me here. Nobody!
Haven’t you had any experiences… Bad experiences in the neighborhood?
No, no, no. I never found those people bothering me. No, they didn’t.
[i] Not bothered, not burgled?
Yeah, it happened here, with other neighbors. But not with me, fortunately. Burglary and robbery, it’ll come… …it will. Yeah. If it does, what can you do?
Yeah. You tell a very fascinating and interesting story, I must say. Because, I know a lot of people are actually dissatisfied with life in Holland. Because they can’t adapt, they can… They have culture shock or yes, the upbringing is not going well. Maybe you can tell me more, because you have four children, you told me. How’s parenting going? How do you do that, different or?
Yeah, but. I just told you. This depends on person. . . Yeah, what’s here? It’s a free country. Nobody’s going to interfere with your religion, your culture, your color. Yeah. People don’t have much time to go to you. I’m like a Muslim, I’m happy. I can go to mosque, pray. That’s, doesn’t matter, I’m going home to pray or I’m going to mosque. If I’m going to celebrate my own cultural days, we’ll have Sugar Festival or other parties. That’s what we do. Nobody’s gonna stand up to us and say, “Why do you do that?” Why then, I have to say yes those people’s culture isn’t good. Every culture, every country has a good culture and also a bad culture. But we don’t have to be people to always look at the negative, you know? Oh that’s, look at the negative culture here. Yeah, that’s better. That’s better. We’re gonna take good culture from this country and mix it with our own good culture. It’s all gonna be good. But don’t think about the negative culture.
[i] Yeah, I’m looking for what you say you’re gonna get the good out of that. But what’s the good stuff? Can you give me an example?
Yeah. Here, you’re… You’re entitled to everything good. You go outside, go shopping. Nobody’s gonna say to you, “Hey, where are you going? What time is this?” Yeah, nobody dares say that to you. That’s good culture. When you go to your own country, you’re in your own country. Everybody thinks that’s your dad, you know. When you go down, “Hey, where are you going? “I’m going to groceries. “What are you going to run errands for? What time is this? This is saying yes all depends on you. How are you gonna pick up the good culture and how are you gonna pick up the good culture and make your own culture mix, you know? And here’s all fine, you get to decide for yourself. You don’t go to criminals, you don’t go to black people, you don’t go to bad things. Nobody’s gonna interfere with you. If you want to, you’re really gonna live like a good person, you’re gonna set an example for other people. Say, those… Everybody doesn’t sit next to you and watch: “oh that boy is a criminal” or why does he go out every time. And one day he goes home ten times and also outside. Nobody stands for that. If someone’s going to investigate, it’s from the police. Nobody’s going to do police work here. And that’s why everybody goes… I’m so happy for that. Every person does their own job. I mean own job. What are you handy, where are you handy? You’re busy out there. If you’re not handy with something, you’re gonna be interfering with other people there. “Hey, that’s the way to do it, that’s the way to do it, no”. Say, buddy, go and work on your own. You don’t have to meddle with me. And here people ain’t gonna get mixed up in all kinds of things. One time with me, one time with others. No, everyone’s doing their own thing. Well, I think that’s really great, you know? That’s why you’re good at living. You have to adjust with people, you know? Adapt, how are you gonna live. How do you… for your life? Like bad people say bad things like you go out and do bad things… little bad things [unintelligible]. Then you’re bad yourself. And it gets worse. That’s what I’m talking about. Our kids go to work or school, too. They go their own way. Straight to school and come back home. Nobody says to them, “And why do you go to school? That’s why I’m so happy and that’s changed for my life.
That’s a bit of a mentality. Do I get it right? That mentality among Afghans is different from the mentality among the Dutch?
[i] Yes, that’s the only thing that mentality is… Every person has their own mentality. But security in the country is important, you know? That’s what I mean. I don’t go behind the mentality. But I’m going after security right now. Mentality that’s you, that’s with you. You can always use it. But if I don’t have security, that never happened. Here you can live peacefully. Go on. It’s all safe here, if you go out at night or during the day, no matter when. So your safety. That’s why everyone does their own job, in their own way. Police sit or staff or supermarkets, everyone, person carries on with their own tasks.
Could you please give me another example? You mentioned that you live here safely, that nobody interferes with you. But what else do you do? How do you look at your life, for example when you were in Afghanistan? What do you see when you look at yourself?
Look at yourself? I understand what you mean. Cause it’s kind of a messy life there, you know, in Afghanistan. It’s always so messy in the war, you know? Their being… Don’t know exactly when I’m gonna die. And they can’t make a good program for everyday life. So they can’t make a schedule for a day, a week or a month. Say those days I do that and those days do this. That’s completely impossible there. And here you can make your own [unintelligible] program for ten years, for five years.
[i] For your own life.
For your own life. Say schedule here, say, this month I do this, this month I do this. This just goes on and on. All that’s important is security. If I have security, you can live very well. Other side schedule for your life. For example, if I have a lot of busy life. I’m busy with work, I’m busy with sports, I’m busy with hobbies. For example, I have a small piece of land… As a garden, you know. When I go to work, when I come back, I have time right away, I go to the garden. Kind of hobbies. It’s not meant to be, we’re going to do something for business. No, but that’s hobbies. When I go to the garden, I get so happy. My life is gonna change. I’m gonna sit there, seeds, vegetables, you know? When I see it grow, it makes me so happy. And people have never thought about hobbies like that.
[i] You mean Afghanistan?
In Afghanistan… Yeah, in my own country. I always talk about my own country and here in Holland. Between two countries. Here I go to give seeds, vegetables and always water and watch every day… See how those vegetables grow. For me, I’m always happy when I see. I’m going to look at zucchini, paprika, pepper, lettuce, cucumber. All kinds of vegetables you can get here, you know? You can saddle it yourself and it grows and you can… So very tasty! If you ever had time, we can go together and you can see how I did at the garden.
I’d love to.
[r] That’s just sometimes, like now Ramadan. Around a quarter past ten you have to fast, ready and then you pray until half past ten you’re busy. Yeah, but anyway, I often… When I get off work at five o’clock, I go straight to the garden. Or water or bring vegetables. I’ll do that in a minute. So it’s kind of a hobby. For me, it’s kind of like a super hobby with that garden. I’m working on this, yeah.
[i] Are you doing anything with that harvest? It’s for my own use, I understand. But is there anything left, I guess, or not?
Yes, it is. We often make neighbors happy. We make neighbors happy. Because you can’t eat it all by yourself. Sharing for the neighbors, you know? In our culture, if you have an acquaintance, I have knowledge of Dutch people, foreigners, everything, my own compatriots, I’m going to share, you know. What do you do for extra. I say that’s a hobby, that’s not business. If I have more, I can give to the neighbors, acquaintances. I always do. Yeah, ’cause I think someday you’ll go to that garden, you’ll have time, you can go with me there and I’ll show you how I’m gonna build that garden. What I’ve done with my garden. What I’m doing.
[i] Fantastic. I’m curious to see how you’re doing with your upbringing, aren’t you? Because, it’s a different society with different values, freedom out there. And you’re a believer too, I understand. How did you do that? Yeah, when they say free country. That means everyone has the right to their own life, in their own way. Nobody’s going to interfere with your faith. I don’t care about that. I say in every country you have good people and bad people too. I don’t always go after the bad people. This is bad. I have a problem with that one. Yeah, yeah. I’m making my life free for myself. I see with the positive eyes. Not with the negative eyes. Yeah, yeah. What’s the other one doing? Let’s do it. That’s their problem. If I do… I’m a religious person myself. Yeah, I’m Muslims and I do everything for myself. Yeah. Never in Holland, come knocking behind my door [knocking]: ‘Hey, neighbor, why are you going to the mosque? Why are you going in the holidays, are you gonna walk like that?’. Nobody came to my door to clap [knocking] and say, “What are you doing? Yeah, yeah. That’s for me to decide. If I decide, I’m always gonna look at the positive things. Here, what do you do, but look between a… What do you call that? Don’t make the other abuse, you know? Life for you is all kinds of things ready. You can have your own place for those alive. Like is good or is bad. It’s up to you. If here has… For example, tips and penance. If you do a good job, that’s reward, tip. If you do bad things, you get fined. That’s right. You’re always trying to do good things, not bad ones. I’m very happy here with all kinds of people, from all kinds of countries, you know? I just… I go with a lot of people now, other foreigners, you know? Like Surinamese, Antillean, Curaçao, Turkish, Moroccan, Russian, Polish. Lots of people. Just friendly. I’m gonna go with them a couple of times, what can I take? All good things. For example, I can also talk Russian to Russian people. I can do a little Arabic, Urdu, Pashtu, Farsi, English, Dutch. I can interact with anyone. That’s just, you have to take it yourself. The good life and the good way doesn’t come to you. “I’m here, come and get me. It’s up to you. You live for yourself. If you live for yourself, you don’t get involved with other people. What do you live and go to the neighbors? “Hey neighbor, you have to live like this. Here in the Netherlands nobody does it like this.
Do you do more in the community? You say, you’re going to get in touch. You get in contact with all kinds of people of foreign origin. But apart from that, do you do anything with them? Organizing all kinds of projects, community activities…
Yeah, community activities. I used to be, but I am still busy with a lot of projects, that give for the municipality or for gyms. For example last year or a year at that King’s Day. I had given boxing lessons for the schoolchildren myself. That King’s Day, that’s what I did. You know the difference. A lot of people don’t know the difference. Everybody calls it Queen’s Day.
[r] Yeah. Now it’s Queen’s Day. Yeah, because that’s exactly what I did on Queen’s Day and on other days… Sports days, you know, sports days. I do sports, too. I have boxing apprentices here. I learned to box for them, didn’t I? That’s the program I’m going to call them. And we’re going to make a program like boxing. People watch boxing training. One more thing I’m doing here… Only, I’m still working on, Look, this is my own project. I got for that sports coach in Zoetermeer, I got… He’s also a good friend of mine. I’ve been in touch. I just want to make a project here in Zoetermeer. That’s my own idea. Bring those street kids to that gym. Bring street kids to sports and give them boxing lessons. I’m also thinking maybe this year… Yeah, I have a guy, he’s a sports manager…
[i] What’s his name?
[r] [name] As a sports manager. I did get an e-mail from him.
From the municipality?
Yes, from the municipality. We’re trying to do that [unintelligible]… We are… We’re going to ask the people together. How do you do? Cause they, council also agree with me to be able to make such a project and bring those street kids to the sport. So I think it’s better. Those kids go outside annoying often. And they come to athletes. Sports only way, those people can live a lot well. They don’t go to drugs, they don’t go to black stuff, and they don’t go to nasty jobs. When you’re into sports, believe me, you like a lot of bad things…
…crime.
Crime, everything. Yeah, I’d like that. That’s my hope, too. I can do it here. Yeah, little problem for me is, I’ve done a lot of sports from little to older. I’ve done everything. I’ve been a youth team, a national team, a sports coach, a boxing coach. But here’s the problem. Must have that Dutch paper, you know?
[i] Grant?
[r] No. Dutch paper boxing coach.
I’m still working on this one here… in order to be able to get Dutch… what’s that called?
Diploma?
[r] Diploma as a boxing coach. I’m still working on it… I’ve also explained with the municipality, if I can maybe start next year with this training as a boxing trainer. Different than in my own country. There’s a lot to do here. Until they get that diploma. But is, practically is not a problem, because all my life I’m busy with sports, boxing. Now I’m busy too. That’s my hope and dream. If I can get that boxing coach diploma as a Dutch trainer, yes, I’m still busy. Absolutely. I’m going for it. I’m not gonna stay. It’s enough, but I’m going for it.
[i] If I look at it this way, you have of course done a lot of things in the past, contributed to society by getting in touch with people, by learning language, by giving children a good upbringing and education. And I see that you are also preparing all kinds of projects. For example, there is a project to take those hanging youngsters off the street. What the… That’s all very nice, very much in itself. But see other things you think you have… contributed to society, to the city, to Zoetermeer? Except the boxing project. Do you do anything, anything else?
No. Actually, that’s too much. I’m into work, sports and hobbies. Yeah, it’s, sport’s my hobbies too, but sport is my life. I can’t do without sports. Gardening is also a small hobby. When I do it, it makes me very happy. But yes, sometimes I do like this. I love running, you know. I have a couple of boxing students in Zoetermeer, sometimes I make an appointment with them and we go for a run. But I often run twice or three times a week myself. Yeah. Starting with… Actually I myself can run up to 20, 22 or 24 kilometres because of my condition. But right now I’m running up to 10 kilometers. Twice or three times a week. So, so I find a kind of hobby, I can’t, you know. That’s also when somebody’s gonna say, like, “Are you crazy? “What are you doing? Twelve o’clock at night I’m going for a run. Once in a while, sometimes, often when I go to mosque after the tarabi. Tarabi finish at noon. I finish running too. When I am ready for mosque, I just go in the evening, I also go running. Say, ‘[name], what are you doing?’ I’ve got a lot of acquaintances here. Afghan people say, “What are you doing? I say, “Yeah, I can’t sleep. If I run for a while and then I go to sleep. I do the same thing with running.
[i] You go to mosque as a believer. And do you still do activities in there at the mosque?
[r] No. That’s just this mosque for praying. Those people who go there… Actually, that’s open. I say this is a free country. No one’s interfering with your religion or your beliefs. So mosque’s just open. Five times a day you can go there and pray. But me, often pray there on Fridays. And tarabi too, you know? Now ramadan, you can have tarabi. Tarabi’s late. And there I go.
[i] Tarabi. Namaze tarabi.
That’s for ramadan, only 30 days of ramadan this happens. People can pray extra. Except pray five times a day, this is pray of [unintelligible] extra pray ramadan. That’s how we do it. That’s why I say I’m glad. Many people meddle with themselves, say yes, these are either Dutch or foreigners. That’s not really the case. I think what are you, that’s what you hear. If you go, other people say: ‘Hey, Dutchmen, where are you going, what are you doing’. Sure, believe me, those other people will also come next to you and say: ‘Hey Muslim, what are you doing?’. And they’re also going to use other bad words about you. That’s why they say: here’s what you can do, that’s allowed. Yeah. But aren’t you going to go any further for… your neighbors or your neighborhood or your neighborhood kind of damage, you know? Don’t think like that. Do damage to the others. Nobody’s gonna hurt you. Just that’s… It’s you. To watch as they think, free land, we’re gonna use free land. How are we gonna do it? It’s up to you. The way of using free life or free land, you have to understand that. I’m not going to say: “I never get into trouble with the people here, with foreigners or Dutch or… … all kinds of people live here in the Netherlands. You never get in trouble. I’m just saying I’m gonna go out in the street at half past one, after praying, I’m gonna run. Nobody says, “Hey, what are you doing, why?”. That why doesn’t exist here. If making why means arguing. That’s our own expression, Afghan expression. Why, why means fight.
[i] Can you say in Afghan what that sounds like?
[r] ‘ Chro’. Why that means “chro”. And why has no end answer. Every answer after the end of an answer you get again why. You say I finished that school, you say why. Yeah. I did for this… to do this. Then you ask why. That means end comes end comes end comes end, huh. Are you always going to make why. Shouldn’t always think why.
[i] ‘Chro yone jang’ [Why means fight]. That’s right.
[r] End of why is arguing. That’s my life. I’m gonna go on like this. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I wonder if peace will come to my own country. People can live so free. And they can live safely. That’s the hardest part. I find them very difficult for the people have no security. Without security you can never live well. Because you get a lot of stress. We Afghan people are stressed anyway. They can’t take it away from our blood.
[i] What do you mean by stress? Yeah. Cause we always think… like you’re here, we’re not gonna think about ourselves. We think there too. Our family, our countrymen. A lot of Afghan people live there. But without security. We think there too. I am such a person. I’m not going to say if I’m safe here, but everyone there is going to die or be unsafe. I don’t care. That’s why I say I’m still under stress. I want my country and my countrymen to live safely in my own country. That fight has to go, that war has to go, that gun has to go. The people’s problem is gun. Only way if that weapon goes all the way away from Earth, then people can live a little bit safely. Here before, if problems you can explain with your mouth and solve these problems. But now if you have a little bit of a problem, it’s going to answer with the weapon. Because so many weapons, that weapon is going to destroy the people of Earth. That’s people’s problem to not be able to live safely anywhere.
Do you still see a role in that as far as your homeland is concerned? You worry about that, but do you also see your role in it to change that, to try to change it?
[r] Yes, of course. Of course. I am, stands for… I say, uh, anywhere if no bad and no good, they always stay side by side. Those good people, those smart people, always thinking something good, bringing good thinking into action. Bringing action. For example, we have a lot of problems with people. Some big cities in Afghanistan are 21 times bigger than the Netherlands. And that’s not more than 30 million inhabitants. And maybe 18 or 17 million people live here. And with such a large country, over 30 million people live here, but unsafe. I take care of that how can you bring security there too. Those other people can also live safely. Never had to hear the news of the war. If you look at the media like that, every day, every hour a new broadcast of Afghanistan, say: yes, there has been suicide, there has been an explosion, a roadside weapon or this kind of thing. You always get stress. Where were you born you’re never going to forget. You’ll always be there. Half your life, beats there too, yeah? I mean, I’m still standing there. I’ll take care of… I’ll see how I can help a little bit with the people there, with the countrymen or with my own country. How’s that? Yeah, first important one there I can bring security. With security you can bring in a lot of big projects there. Then you can do a lot of things. You can’t do without security. Now the majority of people in Afghanistan have guns. What happens to those guns? So many guns. Unsafe brings. That’s why I always think like this, how can I clean up that gun from those people. They can’t, uh… Ordinary civilians are dying. Citizens are citizens, our good people.
You say, “I’m sorry to interrupt,” you say… You’re thinking how to get rid of those guns.
Have you done any concrete things with that? Concrete proposals or approaches to people or… It’s an idea or is it more than that?
No, that’s my idea, because that’s my dream, too. Let’s stop that arms dealer from selling guns. That’s some kind of business, too. If they have anything to make, have to sell. Use it where? Can’t sell that gun in Holland for water. Say yes, there are five thousand or eight thousand people living in Zoetermeer, for example, and leave only ten thousand guns here, say, eight thousand people. No, two thousand should be kept. For extra and you can’t, you know? That’s why that gun always brings unsafe. People can’t live safely. That’s my dream. If they can ever take that gun away from Afghanistan. What’s in Afghanistan now? Believe me, if those guns clean up, how many roadside guns are on the ground in Afghanistan. If 30 million people live in Afghanistan, 60 million roadside weapons are on the ground. For one person two roadside guns are on the ground. That’s all because of the war…
land mines.
Landmines, yes. You often just see that away. Those people go down a street once in a while. That mine exploded. You see people get killed or hurt by these things. Still unsafe. I want to get them off the ground, too. Unnecessary. It’s all unnecessary. It is now. We’re not going to prepare weapons to fight with the other countries. Now is just the 21st century. We have to use our brains, talk orally, not with the weapon. We’re human beings. That’s why I’m always thinking about when in Afghanistan we can take that gun away. Because those people can’t go to school, those people can’t work properly. Unemployed, I think 100% people there are unemployed. Like war, where do you work? No work. Just those people fighting for life, to live too well. The rest is all done in Afghanistan. Everybody say that, that’s it, that’s it. No. Never happened in Afghanistan. In order to stop the guns. Weapon brings bad things all the way. And that’s why I don’t agree with the guns in Afghanistan, because now if looking like a ten-year-old kid, he can handle the gun very well, you know. Kind of a hobby with real guns. And here you can never see guns in the streets. There’s just, everybody’s got guns. How do you… I have an idea myself how to get those guns away from Afghanistan. In Afghanistan security has to come, and those other people can live safely, go to school safely, go safely to their own cultures, with their own beliefs, what do they want to do. They can also make good contact with other countries. That is just my idea. I can’t do anything there myself, but I hope that someday I can go there some kind of thing…
[i] That’s your biggest dream?
Of course it is. Yeah, everyone has a dream that has to do for their own countries. That’s my own dream too. Then I can do a little bit for goods for my own countrymen and countrywomen.
[i] From our project we are looking for people who… contribute to the city where they live. I have heard a lot of things that can of course be seen as a contribution. For example … that you do your job as a trainer, youth trainer, boxing youth trainer, as a taxi driver and used to be a stonemason …
Stonemasonry.
Stonemasonry… Yes, you also raised four wonderful children. You’ve done a lot of things. Is there… Can I take that as a contribution to the city you’ve told me? Is there? Do you see that as a contribution, too?
[i] You’ve told me about different activities: work, hobby, the sport, the youth coach that you are. Do you see that as a contribution to the city?
[r] Yes, of course. I think contribution is for me if I can relate to the project that brings children from the street to the gym. Yeah, kids from my neighborhood on Zoetermeer Street are walking. Why go to the street? Come in to the gym. If I can get this project ready or join this project. I’ll be very happy. This is a big contribution in my area and also in my municipality, municipality Zoetermeer, that is my … I’ve met a few times at the sports permission of the holder… alderman, I just…
Alderman of?
Van Zoetermeer. For a short time, I was at the sports permission office then, too. He also came to watch. But just I told him I have so many plans, I want to do this and he said: okay if you want you can make me an appointment. But so far I haven’t been able to make the appointment with him, to sit down, yeah. It’s hard here. First you have to bring your own project and paper everything ready and then bring it to alderman or mayor. Then say I’ve got plans. But I can explain everything verbally. For me it’s always oral. I speak up to make it clear, I want to. If you’re going to help me, but so far I haven’t been able to. It hasn’t worked. Yeah, I’m definitely gonna continue this project. And certainly municipality Zoetermeer is also going to help me with this project To bring street children to the gym. I think this is a good program if it works out in Zoetermeer. That’s a contribution. If you ask this is my contribution. If I can bring for my own municipality, and also for the children, the street children. This is contribution.
[i] You said, alderman of the municipality of Zoetermeer. Alderman of sports is that?
[r] No. Every municipality has mayor and also alderman. And alderman also goes like special days. At special then mayor can not, but he can go there see some special program. For example, here is Zoetermeer Days. In this program the people come from the municipality.
Do you know the name, do you remember the name of that alderman?
Sorry, sorry no.
[i] That’s the alderman who’s in charge of sports?
No, Alderman, I say this is about everything. Not just for sports.
[i] So he has a portfolio, too, sports?
[r] No. This goes for the some program in Zoetermeer. It’s aldermen, after the mayor, you know? It doesn’t matter, sports or activities or anything. Yeah, what belongs to Zoetermeer can a person come from the municipality. Like get invitations from these kinds of projects and then come and see them.
[i] So you intend to continue that project… and then when do you expect an appointment to come?
Yes, I don’t know, but first I have to… Yeah, I do have plans with that… person [name]. I’ve explained this to him as well. We’ll go, first I’ll go with him and he also works in town at the sports department, then he’ll make everything ready for me too. And we’ll make an appointment. We’re going to sit down together and we’re also going to talk about this project with alderman or mayor. First I have to make everything ready and with paper. He can’t go there alone without plans and without paper to make an appointment. First say: I have to give everything to them. That is my project, I want to go on like this. They are going to read and then I get advice whether it is allowed or not. They give it to me. But I’m still working on this.
[i] I understand that municipality is very interested in that project. There’s just enthusiasm for it…
I haven’t officially spoken to them about this, yes… But I do have plans to go with the mayor or pass it on to the alderman. Sit down together and with this projects. First I have to get everything ready and bring paper. Write and then they’re gonna read what I have for plans. And then you’ll get advice for them, from their…
[i] And for this you need a boxing coach diploma or other things?
[r] No, actually, boxing coach. You know, officially everything. I have a boxing coach diploma, a Dutch one. I say I’ve seen it with my pictures, all kinds of pictures. I have, I say from youth team to national team also as a boxing trainer I did everything in Afghanistan. But this is where the Dutch has to participate.
[i] And you have that diploma for that job, for that project you’re going to do, you need that diploma too?
[r] I don’t know. I don’t know, actually.
[i] Okay.
[r] I don’t know. Maybe you have ways out, but that’s… I’m a boxing coach myself, you know. I can do anything. For my own experience, 34 years I’ve been boxing and I still am. But the projects continue. I’m gonna explain a little bit and maybe… [Name] He’s with me, too. Might as well go on together. So, I don’t think this is necessary for this project, but if I want to start my own boxing school, own boxing school, then this is necessary. Dutch boxing… from Dutch Boxing Federation, you should have, you know, this diploma. Cause that’s about our own boxing school. But this is… I want to take this project with the municipality, together… That’s asked for municipality.
That’s your plan, too, to set up your own school, boxing school?
Yes, of course. I’ve done a lot for my own boxing school. I did, but together with the other trainer. That didn’t work out. I started here in Zoetermeer at the Kai Sei. I see… He’s… That school is karate. Of karate trains, so Kai Sei, but I talked to him. I’m gonna teach boxing here. Say, yes come and I have a year and a half, or yes … about a year and a half I taught here: boxing class. You’ve seen that picture. This was all those young people here. I was busy with that boy, but in the end, I can’t change my direction with him at all. Because he was all about his own things, not me. Used me as a self-weapon, for himself. I taught boxing, but he writes karate people, you know? And he doesn’t… I’ve been lately, I’m getting angry. I quit with him, because I’ve seen all kinds of sports in Zoetermeer: Karate at Kai Sei, boxing. But who hasn’t changed who’s going to give boxing lessons. He makes everything for himself. I say how is that possible? Yes, you can say that. I didn’t give him any money back then.
[i] You didn’t get a salary?
No, no money for this training. I did a year and a half. I mean, if I could get that boxing diploma through this school, you know? To get for those courses, but I can’t. That’s why I stopped training altogether. That was a problem. Cause I know here in Zoetermeer you can go with a lot of young people going to sports. But I stopped myself, in order not to be able to continue with these rights. I have seen for Zoetermeer’s annual newspaper, every year start the schedule of Zoetermeer’s sports activities. State at Kai Sei, state karate, judo, boxing. Who gives the judo lessons, who gives the karate lessons? But, the boxing stands the times, but not by whom. I also wanted to say please give me name. Who gives the boxing lesson? [name] I think that was kind of… What do you call that? That extra money comes from the boxing that goes with their business. And having that, not being with me. Yeah, I think that’s, uh… all for nothing. Then why do I have to keep going? I quit after a year and a half. A lot of these young people… I gave the lessons for them. They were totally sad. [Name] why, but and say, “Yeah, he’s right, too. Until when?” Yeah, that’s just it. That’s why I’d like to have a Dutch boxing diploma if I can and start my own boxing school. Then what I want, because I’m a Russian boxer myself. All my technique is Russian. In Afghanistan, we were in Afghanistan…
[i] Yeah, tell you something about that?
[r] Head coach, national trainer is Russian. And Afghanistan’s technique and tactics of boxing are all Russian. That’s the best technique and tactics of Russia, the boxing. I was raised in Russian training myself. I can go ahead with my own schedule, my own plans. But here’s different. And then if I have my own boxing school, I can start for myself. And what I want to teach. How I’m going to teach. Then I’ll go on. Here sometimes like you’re gonna teach somewhere that looks at you. And who’s gonna pick up, the rest is gonna say, “I’m doing this. For me, it makes me so sad. Always saying, “Yeah, why are you doing this? And don’t say this is from [name]’. Starting to use them for their own purposes. The same, that’s for me. Taking it like making Photoshop and using it for yourself. Therefore, I hope one day I can build my own boxing school here in Holland.
[i] [Name], we’ll be right at the end of the interview. You have of course told some very interesting stories. Do you have anything to add or do you think you’ve told it all?
[r] No. Actually, I told you everything. Yes, you did. If you sit with me, it doesn’t matter an hour or a day, I can tell you everything about my daily life. My daily life majority is about sports, you know? Because I’ve been through sports all my life. I say, when I was very young, ten years. So far, you know, my eldest son is 22 and I’m still working on this. That, this kind of, like, fixed hobbies for me. This is in my blood. I can’t take this away. How long are you gonna talk about sports, us here. It doesn’t matter to me. I know a lot about all kinds of sports… I’ve also… My specialty is boxing, but besides boxing I’ve done kung fu, played soccer, volleyball, table tennis, er… Yeah, fitness’s less, but besides you I’ve been through everything. For fitness, for everything. I’ve worked a little bit for all the sports, but here’s some person… I feel myself. I know a lot of stars, from Dutch stars of all kinds of sports: football, hockey, boxing, freefighting, kickboxing, hockey… Yes, because if you ask me what do you watch TV? I sometimes say a little bit of news and then… I don’t like movies, I like watching all the sports programs. Everything, so… I see which channel is sports program. Then I’m gonna watch it. But in the old days… I know a lot of people from boxing, kickboxing, soccer… Yeah, what’s it called? Because I see every day in this program of sports. Yeah, ’cause I say if you talk to the sports that long, I can keep going. What questions do you have, if I can, I can answer you. You can. It’s in my blood, sport. How are you gonna ask, I’m gonna answer with this sport. Because, I think all sport is sport. Doesn’t matter. Table tennis players, like freefighters, like boxing, like soccer, like sport. That sport gives you a whole different life. A lot of people think negative, but come to sports always think positive. I say, if you have positive and negative, that’s part of you. What are you going to think? Are you going to think negative or positive? If you come for example, I have this funny somewhere in Afghanistan, I was teaching a boy came to me. Who… like register, say, yes, I want to box. I say, okay boxing. Yeah, boxing’s okay. I say I’m a trainer of boxing, I’m gonna teach you. What I’m saying is, you have to do it like this and then you can learn well. And then right away he asks me, “Master, master?”, I say, “Yes?”. “I’ve learned boxing, can fight how many people?”. I say to him, “Boy, get your stuff and get out of here. So, I’m not teaching you as a street fighter. Boxing is hobbies, it’s sports. So come on in here and don’t think negatively. He was always thinking for the negative. If I learn boxing, I can fight with how many people, street fighting. I say, “No. I don’t learn for street fighters. For the people who want to learn boxing before the matches. I’ll never forget it. I say if you come here to learn boxing, you have to respect each other. And learn how to respect other people. You’re not gonna be a street fighter. Just people like think negatively, they fight their way out on the streets and they fight and fight with people. Can’t make you equal with the sports. With sports you can go very high. You have to respect yourself. If you have respect for others, you also get respect. That’s just my idea and my goal. I teach people boxing, as if they’re going to learn boxing. Don’t become a street fighter. That’s why I say those people bring in the gymnasium. That’s just gotta do it. That was… Is my story. If… That was your intent to hear from me. That’s just my story.
[i] No. That’s a great story. Gripping story. With a lot of passion. Your life is actually boxing, sport. In special boxing. I enjoyed your story. Thank you very much.
[r] Thank you from you.
[i] The interview is closed.
[r] I think that’s my contribution, too.
[i] Yes, it is. Thank you very much.
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Remembering Barbara Bush — and Robin
by Paul Kengor
Only two women were both wife to a president and mother to a president. One was Abigail Adams, who died 200 years ago, October 28, 1818; the other was Barbara Bush, who died yesterday, April 17, 2018. Mrs. Bush was 92 years old.
Barbara Bush will be remembered as simple and unpretentious, especially following Nancy Reagan as first lady. Mrs. Reagan was known for fancy clothes and fancy friends, as part of the Hollywood set. Mrs. Bush was known for being more homespun, more Texas, even though she was raised a blueblood with much fancier trappings than Nancy. She followed Nancy in many ways, including in death, as Nancy passed away in March 2016.
Still, Barbara humbly accepted the role of the older-looking and less-glamorous first lady. Her husband jokingly called her “The Silver Fox,” and she graciously smiled and accepted the ribbing. She was more Mamie Eisenhower than Jackie Kennedy.
We’ll hear all sorts of things about Mrs. Bush in the next few days. But there’s one story about her that I learned when researching and writing a biography of her oldest son — a story I think is well worth remembering. It’s probably the most human thing about this very human lady.
It was the fall of 1953. George W. Bush was seven years old. His parents’ green Oldsmobile pulled in front of Sam Houston Elementary School in Midland, Texas. George happened to be strolling down an outdoor corridor with his friend, carrying a Victrola record player to the principal’s office. The moment that he saw the car, he set down the phonograph and sprinted ahead to his teacher. “My mom, dad, and sister are home,” he shouted. “Can I go see them?”
The little sister was Robin. To this day, George W. Bush swears he saw her. He says he caught her small head barely rising above the backseat. His parents had been in New York, where they were tending to George’s little sister. He knew Robin was sick, but had no idea howsick. The three-year-old was dying from leukemia.
George’s parents returned with an empty back seat and emptier news. “I run over to the car,” said Bush almost half a century later, “and there’s no Robin.” She was not coming home. “I was sad, and stunned. I knew Robin had been sick, but death was hard for me to imagine. Minutes before, I had had a little sister, and now, suddenly, I did not.” Bush says that those minutes remain the “starkest memory” of his childhood. When asked about the incident in an interview, his eyes welled with tears. He stammered his response.
Pauline Robinson “Robin” Bush started to show symptoms in February 1953, just after the birth of her baby brother Jeb. She simply wanted to lie down all day. Mysterious bruises began appearing on her body. The Bushes took her to Dr. Dorothy Wyvell, renowned in West Texas pediatrics. Wyvell was shocked by the test results. She told the Bushes that the child’s white blood cell count was the highest she had ever seen, and the cancer was already too advanced. She recommended they simply take Robin home and allow nature to take its course, sparing all of them the agony of futile treatments.
The Bushes couldn’t do that. George H.W. Bush had an uncle in New York who was president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer center. They agreed to do everything they could in the hope of some breakthrough.
As for Barbara Bush, she was constantly at Robin’s side during the hospital stay. Her husband shuttled between New York and Midland. Each morning of Robin’s New York stay, her father dropped by the family’s Midland church at 6:30 a.m. to hold his own private prayer vigil. Only the custodian was there, and he let him in. One morning, Pastor Matthew Lynn joined him. They never talked; they just prayed.
Barbara was the strong one throughout the affair. When Robin received blood transfusions at the cancer center, her mother held her hand. Her father had to leave the room.
Robin never had a chance. Eventually, the medicine that labored to try to control the evil metastasizing in her frail frame quickly caused its own set of problems, and George H. W. was summoned from Texas immediately. He flew all night to get there, but by the time he arrived Robin had slipped into a coma. She died peacefully.
“One minute she was there, and the next she was gone,” remembered her mother. “I truly felt her soul go out of that beautiful little body. For one last time I combed her hair, and we held our precious little girl. I never felt the presence of God more strongly than at that moment.”
It all happened so fast. By October, Robin was dead, only weeks from her fourth birthday.
“We awakened night after night in great physical pain — it hurt that much,” Barbara recalled.
Alas, it is said that this was the reason Barbara Bush turned prematurely gray. There was a story — quite a story — behind that trademark hair of Barbara Bush. The story’s name was Robin.
May Barbara Bush rest in peace, reunited at long last with that little girl.
Follow Their Stories:
Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and senior academic fellow at the Center for Vision & Values. Dr. Kengor is author of over a dozen books, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Paranormal Activity 3 – Reviewed by Laura Grant
Date: November 1, 2011Author: splendidfred 0 Comments
Overview: If you want to enjoy the film, start a timer at the beginning. When it reaches 80 minutes, get up and leave.
Rating: 4/5 for first 80 minutes, 1/5 for the last five minutes.
Paranormal Activity 3 is the third instalment of the Paranormal Activity franchise, which began with a bang in 2007. The films follow the fate of one family who are all haunted by the same demonic presence. The first film featured couple Katie and Micah as they set up a camera in their bedroom to catch the paranormal occurrences that were happening around them; the second film then followed Katie’s sister Kristi, and her young family, as their surveillance cameras filmed similar activity; the third film is a prequel to the early films and looks at Katie and Kristi’s childhood and the first haunting that occurred.
Phew! With this very brief run through Paranormal history I think you can see that for the third film the premise was pretty well set up. We know what we are expecting when we go into the cinema. However, this film goes away from that a little and professes to explain all the answers behind the haunting. This wasn’t really what I was looking for, but finding out why these girls were targeted by a demon was not undesirable, because then I could avoid doing what they did! Oren Peli, director and creator of Paranormal Activity and producer of Paranormal Activity 2 was once again signed on to produce Paranormal Activity 3. The directors of the third instalment were Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman who were the directors of Catfish, another fly-on-the-wall documentary style film, and so it seemed that all the bases were covered.
With this promising start the film took off and there were lots of scares and lots of jumps. At one point I heard a slap beside me as my friend’s hands clapped onto her face, and at another I thought I heard a woman crying. There were also quite a few laughs, not at things that should have been scary, that wouldn’t have been good, but at actual moments of comedy. Although some people think this feature of the film was misplaced I though it was nice to lighten the tension. The actors were all good, including the child actors playing young Katie and Kristi who had to pull a lot of the film on their own. What was also dealt with nicely was the fact that PA3 was set in 1988 and so the technology had to be different. I personally felt this part of the film was very enjoyable, seeing the 80’s clothes and watching them take apart an oscillating fan so that they could get a moving shot was quaint, especially when someone had to go out and buy more tapes! Awwww!
One clever trick that the filmmakers used was that no footage from the trailer was used in the film. That way you never saw what was coming. As the film progressed I was thinking about this trailer footage and thought what a good idea it was. However, now that I am sat at home reflecting on the film I feel different. Where is the film from the trailer? The one that seemed to make sense with the story? I want to see that film. You see the problem was that the last five minutes of Paranormal Activity 3 ruined the previous eighty minutes that I had been really enjoying. I can’t tell you why because that would be a massive spoiler but trust me it doesn’t fit and it leaves you with so many questions. Maybe they’ve done this so they can make Paranormal Activity 4: The Explanation, but to me it seems as though the money has gone to their head and they just don’t feel the need to make sense anymore. Since I can’t tell you anything else about the terrible ending let me just say this; as soon as the lights went up in the theatre a man to my left said ‘Sh*t’ and I completely agreed.
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College Football News, Featured
SEC Pick 6: Tessitore’s Conference Players To Watch
By KOBY FRANZ | Staff Writer On August 19, 2015 No Comments
OKLAHOMA, Sporting Alert – Looking ahead of the start of the 2015-16 NCAA college football season, the SEC Networks’ Joe Tessitore selects his “Pick 6” for a breakout campaign.
Tessitore said the names on his list to watch for in the powerhouse conference are players no one is talking about too much at the moment, but he believes they are the up-and-coming stars in the SEC.
Opening the list is Arkansas linebacker Brooks Ellis, a junior from Fayetteville, who started 11 games last season – only missing the battles against Georgia and UAB because of an injury.
Ellis, who finished last term with 72 tackles, second among his teammates, is well set to take over from Martrell Spaight in leading the defensive line and he’s being backed as the “sleeper” to head the SEC in tackles this season.
Next on the list of players to watch out for in the conference is Kentucky’s wide receiver Dorian Baker, a sophomore from Cleveland Heights, who featured in 10 games last season.
During his freshman year in 2014, Baker collected 19 catches for 199 yards and had one touchdown, which came against the Ohio Bobcats, and Tessitore is backing the 6-3 and 208 lbs second-year man to not only be instrumental for the Wildcats, but to also be a major offensive threat in the Southeastern Conference.
Third up on the list is Georgia’s Keith Marshall, who is back from injuries and Tessitore thinks he will be an x-factor.
The running back who has tallied 1029 career yards on 185 carries and nine touchdowns thus far, has been bothered by injuries and only played in three games last season in which he had 24 yards rushing on 12 carries.
Marshall was impressive in his first term in 2012 when he rushed 117 times for 759 yards and eight touchdowns.
This is proof that he will be difficult to a handle for any defense and now that he is healthy again, the senior is projected to have a very good campaign.
Tessitore thinks Nick Chubb will also benefit with the return of Marshall on offense for Georgia.
Tessitore’s top six list also includes two freshmen he is expecting big things from.
Tennessee defensive tackle Kahlil McKenzie was the 26th overall recruit in 2015 ESPN 300.
The rookie has been impressive in preseason training and should play a vital part in protecting the line.
Completing the list of SEC players to watch are LSU’s new man Kevin Toliver, who was the 10th overall recruit in 2015 ESPN 300 and Alabama’s Calvin Ridley, the top wide receiver selected and the 23rd overall recruit in 2015 ESPN 300.
Ridley, who got offers from defending national champion Ohio State, Auburn, Florida State, Florida and LSU, is considered one of the best talents heading into the season.
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When Leonard Fournette suddenly found himself out of work, one of the first people who reached out to the former Jacksonville Jaguars running back was Tom Brady. The six-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback thought he'd be a nice addition to a talented group of playmakers being assembled around him in Tampa Bay. ''I knew I could come in and help the team out,'' Fournette said, reflecting on his surprise release by the Jaguars in early September and getting an opportunity to restart his career with a team with championship aspirations.
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Remember when I won the award for Headline of the Month for October?
Well, that headline was also nominated for Headline of the Year and last night, it won.
It beat The Straits Times headline "CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CH4MPIONS" about the Lions winning the Suzuki Cup for the fourth time.
Finally, I get to update the awards section in my CV.
The last time I did something that won an award was when the sitcom Daddy's Girls won the Asian TV Award for Best Comedy in 2005. Before that, it was Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd, which won the same award in 1999.
But winning the Headline of the Year is much better because it's a solo thing and I'm actually getting some cash for it.
I also put considerable less work into producing the headline than producing the two TV shows.
Once again, I would like to thank the amorous teacher who gave the book Eat Pray Love to a student and then had sex with the underage boy, thus inspiring my money-making headline: "Teach, prey, love?"
Once again, love conquers all. How appropriate for Valentine's Day yesterday.
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Interview: Ghostpoet talks about his latest album ‘I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep’
by Jo Dargie 06/07/2020
Resisting the temptation to sugarcoat the world around us, London-based artist Ghostpoet continues to tackle the pressures of the modern world with latest album I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep. The artist, real name Obaro Ejimiwe, has spent over a decade meticulously recording the challenging political and societal issues that we face.
The new album might just be his darkest piece yet. Melancholic tones guide the listener’s ear through ten tracks of ingenious songwriting and superbly crafted production. We caught up with the two-time Mercury Prize nominee for an in-depth chat about the album and more.
How are you doing today, Obaro?
I’m okay, thanks. I’m in the process of moving, so just trying to work out what I need to get rid of. In the process of lockdown, I’ve certainly come to the realisation that I need a lot less. It was a good opportunity for me to kickstart a declutter.
Speaking of lockdown, how did you find the whole experience?
It wasn’t easy. The first couple of weeks were a very unusual experience, to say the least. As a society, we’ve never had to deal with a situation like this, in recent history. For me, it was quite mentally taxing to start with. However, it became easier once I got an idea of the kind of daily routine I could put into place.
That time also saw the release of your latest album, I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep, which came out in May. How does it feel to have it out in the world?
It was really nice to put a record out. It’s there in the world now and it’s doing its own thing, really. People are starting to discover it, and only time will tell how far it will go.
Throughout the album you explore isolation, confusion, and intense feelings of being overwhelmed. Do you think that, with the timing of the release, perhaps listeners are connecting with it differently than they otherwise might have?
It’s a weird one. I love the fact that people are so connected to the record. Yet at the same time, it’s slightly painful that the connection is because of a global pandemic. It’s bittersweet.
Music, lyrics, art…it’s all down to interpretation. That’s how the album was taken by listeners at the time, which was great, but it wasn’t my intention. I was writing more from the perspective of the trials and tribulations that we’ve gone through as a society in recent years.
It just so happens that it seems to connect and tap into what was going on at the time. I’m always trying to do that. I guess this time around I’ve just never been so on the money.
Photo:Emma Dudlyke
You certainly were. For many, you’ve produced a record that sends a reaffirming message of not being alone in struggling with aspects of everyday life.
I always want to write music for people who don’t have a voice. For people who don’t have a platform to say how they feel. I think it’s important to make people understand that they are not alone in their fears of uncertainty and loneliness. We’ve all been feeling that way, the majority of us anyway, so I think it’s important to discuss these things or to at least put them out there.
It feels like a really personal album. As well as societal observations, you also share a lot of your own intimate emotional experiences. Where do you find the courage to be open and share such raw and personal thoughts? It must be daunting to put parts of yourself out there like that.
It’s partly down to not having the courage to do it in real life. I’m not as open as I’d like to be in everyday conversations. My music is an avenue to put my feelings on display and break down what’s going on in my own brain.
I’m not sure if it’s courage. I think it’s a necessity. You have to put yourself dead centre amongst people. I never want to be the artist who feels they’re more special than everyone else because they put words to paper. I’ve never felt like that and I think that it dictates the way that I write as well. I’ve never had the need to be a fantasist or write fiction. I want to talk about real life as much as possible, which I think comes through in this album.
Do you set out to record with the intention of covering certain issues, or is it more how you feel when you feel it?
I’d say that it’s very much the latter. For this latest record it’s a reflection of the experiences, conversations, things that I’ve read, listened to, watched and what I’ve felt over the last few years. They dictate what I write about. That’s how I’ve always written, because I’ve tried a couple of times to say ‘I want to write about this’ and it never ends up working well. So, I’ve given that up now. I prefer to capture that initial feeling and run with it.
You address the influence and pressures of social media in the album. It crops up in the lyrics of a few tracks, including ‘Rats In A Sack’ and ‘Social Laceration.’
I feel that there are different pressures that come from social media, depending on what you’re looking to get out of it. It’s set up for you to create this online personality that isn’t really a true reflection of yourself, and I get that it’s attractive to be able to do that, to be able to portray the best parts of your life or the best parts of your day.
Then there’s the ‘dopamine effect’ of the likes you get from putting across this perfect version of yourself. It’s really quite addictive and I feel that there’s something very dangerous about that. It’s taking us further away from imperfection and individuality.
I do use social media a lot myself. I just try to distribute it in a constructive way. I never falsify anything. It’s always just me being me. Like everything that I talk about in the album, I think that message is really important.
Photo: Emma Dudlyke
Another huge discussion point in recent weeks has been the Black Lives Matter movement. If we focus on its importance in the music industry alone for a second. From your experience, what advice would you give to young BAME artists starting out in a society where equality hasn’t been obtained yet?
That’s a good question. Racial equality is something that, at this point in history, shouldn’t even be something that we need to discuss. It should just be standard that the colour of your skin isn’t going to impact your prospects in life.
In terms of advice, I think I’d have to go with the same thing that I’d tell anyone of any race and that’s just to be yourself. Make music that you believe in. I can’t speak for all ethnicities. However, in terms of Black artists, the trouble that we’ve always had is the automatic assumption that you must be an urban artist.
Every Black artist will have had totally individual experiences, so I can only give my opinion from my experience. Which is that the perception of what genre of music a Black artist should produce is something that is not on us to fix. There’s nothing that we need to do to change that.
Relating it to my own music, I’ve been making left-field alternative, in my opinion, guitar music for a while now. Some people get it and some people don’t. However, I feel that if I was a white artist there still wouldn’t be as much of a confusion. That’s nothing to do with me. That’s down to other people’s perceptions.
Overall, I feel that initial perceptions of Black artists need to change for there to be a more level playing field. Ultimately, all I’m looking for is just to be myself and not let the colour of my skin dictate what people’s opinions of my music will be.
Looking ahead, how do you plan to focus your energy in the upcoming months?
It’s difficult with the effects of the pandemic ongoing to have any real solid plans in place. I guess the short-term plan is to promote the album in some more inventive ways. Ways that don’t involve live gigging. Which is something that I’d like to do, but currently can’t. So yeah, I’m going to start working out other ways to be creative from the confines of my flat.
I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep is out now on Play It Again Sam.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:54 pm
In his July 16 article, Father John A. Kiley spoke about the influence that the religious sisters had on his vocation to the priesthood. I could not agree more.
My experience with the Religious Venerini Sisters in middle school and the Sisters of Mercy in high school was a key factor in my entering religious life. These devoted women, through their positive attitude and religious demeanor, helped me to see the value in serving God and the Church.
They are to be commended for their dedication to the ministry of education.
They were an inspiration to me over the years and I continue to cherish the influence they had on me as a young man in middle and high school.
I would also like to point out that many of our religious brothers teaching in the Church today have also influenced many young men and women to consider a Church vocation, be it priesthood or religious life. These men, who are definitely in the minority, have also devoted many years of service to the Church through classroom instruction, coaching, serving as class moderators, etc. It is always heartwarming to see students return to our schools to visit their teachers and speak about their lives. I recently met a Mom whose son is entering the seminary and she mentioned her child's high school experience and the influence of the school community in helping to shape his future. Her eyes were filled with gratitude and pride as she spoke of her son's decision to begin studies for the priesthood.
Let us take the time this year to support and pray for our priests — during this year of the priesthood and also remember in prayer those religious women and men, religious sisters and brothers, who have helped to foster vocations to the priesthood and religious life. The future of our Church lies in the dedicated men and women who have been "formed" by the priests and religious of our dioceses.
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Poco X3 India sale today: Price, specifications and features
The Poco X3 is the successor to the company’s hugely popular Poco X2 that brings impressive hardware, including a 120Hz display, Snapdragon 732G SoC, and a four-camera setup. The phone was launched in India a few weeks ago and now the device will go on sale again today.
The phone will be available for purchase again in India starting at 12:00 today via the company’s partner platform, Flipkart. There will also be some sales offers, including attractive bank and card discounts. In terms of price, the phone will retail for a starting price of Rs 16,999 for the 6GB + 64GB entry-level variant.
The medium variant with 6GB + 128GB will be available for Rs 18,499. The high-end one with 6GB of RAM and 256GB of storage will retail for Rs 19,999. Just like the other Poco smartphones, this is also a Flipkart exclusive that will be available for purchase from 29 September.
As for the specs on offer, the Poco X3 arrives in India with a larger battery and no NFC than the global variant of the device. But aside from these additions, the rest of the features remain the same, as the Indian variant of the Poco X3 virtually features a spec sheet identical to the one found on the Poco X3’s international avatar.
As such, there’s a 6.67-inch display capable of churning out Full HD + resolution and running at a quick 120Hz refresh rate with a 240ms tactile sample rate while doing so. The panel here is an IPS LCD, with the company choosing not to use an AMOLED panel to keep costs in check.
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History Thread: A Brief History of Mobutu’s Zaire
On November 24th, 1965 General Joseph Mobutu formally seized power in the Republic of Congo. Mobutu was a member of the Ngbandi people, long looked down upon by Congolese as a backward agrarian people. During the ’50s, he served the personal secretary to Patrice Lumumba, the left-wing nationalist who became the Congo’s first president after Belgium’s sudden withdraw from the country. At the same time, he was also on the payroll of Belgian military intelligence and played an ignominious role in the downfall of his friend and patron.
In July 1960, an army mutiny triggered a civil war in the country. The turmoil triggered the secession of Katanga, a mineral-rich province heavily exploited by foreign capitalists, and an ill-timed intervention by UN peacekeepers. In turn, this triggered an internal power struggle which resulted in Lumumba’s downfall. Mobutu was reluctant to turn against his old friend, but encouragement from the CIA – and Lumumba’s efforts to rally his supporters – persuaded him to authorize the ex-President’s death. Lumumba’s execution in January 1961 was carried about by Katangan separatists, but there’s little doubt that Mobutu played a central role.
Lumumba and Mobutu
Afterwards, Mobutu initially deferred to President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, a vacillating figure who struggled to contain uprisings against his government, including both Katangan secessionists and the leftist Simba rebellion based in Stanleyville. But it became clear to all that Mobutu, once dubbed “the smiling soldier behind the glasses” was the power behind the thrown. Certainly Congo’s foreign benefactors thought so; in May 1963 he visited the White House at the behest of John F. Kennedy, who soon afterwards authorized a shipment of arms and military material to the Congo.
Finally, a power struggle between Kasa-Vubu and Prime Minister Moise Tshombe (former President of Katanga) drove Mobutu to act. Deploring what he called “the stupid struggle for influence in which political parties were engaged,” Mobutu dissolved the government and declared himself head of state. Mendaciously, Mobutu declared himself the heir to Lumumba’s legacy despite engineering his mentor’s death. He outlawed all political parties, offered privileged positions to his fellow Ngbandi, and turned the government into a massive cult of personality, dedicated less to ideology than ego.
Kennedy and Mobutu
“There are no opponents in Zaire,” Mobutu insisted, “because the notion of opposition has no place in our mental universe.” He made it so with a series of ghastly purges. Most spectacular was the public hanging of three cabinet ministers on May 30th, 1966 in Kinshasa before a crowd of 50,000. Even more gruesome was the fate of Pierre Mulele, a leader of the Simbas who was lured out of hiding by a promise of clemency. Instead, Mobutu’s soldiers had Mulele arrested, then “publicly tortured and executed: his eyes were pulled from their sockets, his genitals were ripped off, and his limbs were amputated one by one, all while he was alive.”
Like many despots, Mobutu used nationalism to legitimize his government. In 1971 he renamed the country Zaire and enforced a program of authenticitie, rendered as Zairianization in the West. Congolese were forced to address each other as Citizen, forbidden from giving their children Western names on pain of imprisonment, and subjected to strict dress codes. Men wore the abacost, a simple mono-colored tunic patterned after Mao Zedong’s outfits (which one unimpressed observer described as “nylon bibs held in place with Velcro”); women were required to wear traditional African outfits.
For his part, Mobutu shed his military uniform for a gray abacost with a leopard-spotted cap; in accordance with his edicts, he renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko. At first, these decisons afforded Zairians some national pride after a century of Belgian misrule, steeled by Mobutu’s charisma. One Congolese student, witnessing a rally held by the President, called Mobutu “a speaker of genius…as soon as he’d begin speaking, we’d be swept away.” He impressed foreign visitors with his ingratiating charm and puckish sense of humor. But Mobutu mated his charm with a nebulous ideology dubbed “Mobutism,” turning Zaire into a massive cult of personality.
What Mobutism meant in practice wasn’t entirely clear, beyond enrichment of Mobutu. “If you steal,” he advised, “do not steal too much at a time or you will be arrested.” Instead, “steal cleverly, little by little.” He skimmed aid from private donors and foreign governments, amassing a fortune estimated at $5 billion US by the 1980s. He also nationalized the country’s minerals (cobalt, copper, diamonds and uranium) which antagonized his Western backers but brought tens of millions into Mobutu’s treasury while his subjects starved and struggled with inadequate electricity, infrastructure and medical care. Mobutu’s control extended into his inner circle: he rotated ministers in and out of government (and sometimes prison), while demanding the right to sleep with their wives.
Mobutu’s avarice peaked in the construction of his “African Versailles,” a lavish palace built outside the remote village of Gbadolite complete with private restaurants, hotels, a collection of Mercedes and an airstrip for his personal Concorde Jet. This palace (destroyed by angry Congolese after his downfall) served as an ideal refuge during Mobutu’s occasional fits of Caligulan madness. In 1975, he accused his cabinet ministers of collaborating with the CIA, having eleven of them imprisoned and tortured. In characteristic fashion, Mobutu eventually released his victims and even invited several back into his government.
“His private palace…brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music,” one writer recalls. “It hosted countless gaudy nights with Taittinger champagne, salmon and other food served on moving conveyor belts by Congolese and European chefs.” Mobutu enticed no shortage of foreign dignitaries to visit, from Kings of Belgium and Presidents of France to Pope John Paul II, to American evangelist Pat Robertson and David Rockefeller.
Mobutu scored his greatest public relations coup in 1974. He invited boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for a boxing match dubbed the “Rumble in the Jungle.” Mobutu paid both men $5,000,000 for their participation, directly out of the government treasury, even inviting Ali to train at his compound. The result was an epic bout on October 30th, watched by 50 million people worldwide, in which Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round. Afterwards, Ali was philosophical about his role in burnishing a dictator’s image. “Some countries go to war to get their names out there,” the boxer said, “and wars cost a lot more than $10 million.”
Mobutu and Muhammad
Indeed, Mobutu’s gift for manipulating foreigners proved his greatest asset. He exploited the Angolan Civil War, sending troops to support the FNLA rebels against the leftist government in a disastrous 1975 expedition. Then came the Shaba Crisis, a rebellion in 1977-1978 of disaffected soldiers, mercenaries and Lunda peoples who formed the Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC). Fear that Shaba’s (formerly Kantanga) mineral reserves might fall into hostile hands concerned western powers, which seemed plausible. Because in the early fighting, Mobutu’s army (whose “level of professionalism and preparedness” the CIA judged “abysmal”) collapsed before FNLC’s onslaught.
So Mobutu claimed, without evidence, that Cuba and the USSR backed the rebels, recasting a failed uprising as a Cold War confrontation. The United States orchestrated an airlift of military supplies. French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a longtime friend of Mobutu, went further; he dispatched the Foreign Legion to crush the rebels (which they did, fighting the decisive Battle of Kolwezi in May 1978), along with selling him Mirage jets which Mobutu used to bomb the rebels. A grateful Mobutu reportedly repaid d’Estaing with diamonds from his private stash. By June 1978, the FNLC had been crushed, with thousands killed and up to 50,000 civilians displaced.
Foreign Legionnaires at Kolwezi, 1978
The Shaba Crisis strengthened Zaire’s alliance with the West, even as Western activists, from human rights groups to Erwin Blumenthal of the International Monetary Fund, denounced Mobutu’s atrocities. In the United States, Jimmy Carter initially distanced his administration from Mobutu, who exemplified for Carter the kind of dictator America shouldn’t deal with. At one point, the CIA even contemplated overthrowing Mobutu with Carter’s discreet blessing. Congress passed a resolution in 1980 blocking military aid to Zaire, inflamed by the story of an IMF official who was beaten, and his wife raped by Mobutu’s security forces.
By then, the Shaba Crisis changed everything: now Mobutu’s value as an anticommunist outweighed his amorality. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski insisted that “Mobutu is the only leader in Zaire who seems able to provide, leadership, no matter how imperfect, to the entire country.” So Carter invited Mobutu to the White House on September 11th, 1979 and satisfied himself that Mobutu was still America’s Man in Zaire. “We are determined to support Mobutu,” Carter assured President d’Estaing before vetoing Congress’s funding freeze. Whatever his conservative critics said, Nancy Miller notes, “when push came to shove…Jimmy Carter was a Cold Warrior.”
D’Estaing and Mobutu
Ronald Reagan lacked Carter’s qualms about supporting Mobutu. Reagan invited Mobutu to the White House three times, fulsomely praising him as “a voice of good sense and good will” and “a darn good leader and friend of the US.” Reagan viewed the dictator as a partner in his efforts to escalate the Angolan Civil War. He sent CIA Director William Casey to persuade Mobutu to grant the Agency use of a runway outside Kamina; Mobutu readily agreed, despite his country’s non-aggression pact with Angola. From here, American supply planes dropped arms and supplies to Joseph Savimbi’s FNLA, further prolonging Angola’s already decade-long civil war.
Reagan proved extremely pleased with the arrangement. He authorized Vernon Walters, a former CIA chief, to give Mobutu a personal message, president to president. “Our two countries have been steady, constructive and even courageous partners in Africa,” Reagan gushed, assuring the dictator that “I value your friendship greatly.” One intelligence official agreed, deeming Mobutu America’s “indispensable partner” in Africa. In return, Mobutu received not only praise but military hardware and trade deals, the proceeds of which he inevitably pocketed.
Mobutu meets the Gipper
Mobutu, like many Third World clients, only remained useful to the West until the Cold War ended. In April 1990, facing domestic protests and an army mutiny over poor pay, Mobutu reluctantly authorized the creation of opposition parties and free elections. Even as he granted these concessions, Mobutu unleashed the worst atrocities of his regime, besting even the grisly executions of his early years. In May 1990, loyal soldiers massacred dozens of students at the University of Lubumbashi; the following September, the so-called “Pillage” of Shaba by government troops resulted in over 200 deaths. The violence halted only when France and Belgium dispatched troops to restrain their ally.
As a coda to these atrocities, opposition leader Étienne Tshisekedi was elected Prime Minister in October 1991, soon after the Pillage subsided. Arriving at his office in Kinshasa, he found the doors were locked and security forces refused to let him in. Tshisekedi was forced the leave the capital; waiting until he departed, Mobutu then invited the loyal Nguza Karl-i-Bond to form a new government. Over the next few years, Tshisekedi’s Union for Democracy and Social Progress formed a separate government-in-exile, while Mobutu retained a sham regime in Kinshasa propped up by bayonets. Thus Mobutu demonstrated how seriously he took democracy.
Laurent-Desire Kabila with supporters
Still, a combination of protests, international pressure and rebellion rendered Mobutu’s position untenable. Attempts to burnish his reputation by aiding refugees from the Rwandan genocide availed Mobutu little; deeming the Army unreliable, he recruited European mercenaries (many veterans of Slobodan Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing in the Balkans) to sustain his regime, further eroding his support. He grew increasingly paranoid, spending more and more time at Gbadolite with his ever-shrinking circle of loyalists as an opposition army formed in the eastern provinces.
Finally, in October 1996 Mobutu ordered the expulsion of all ethnic Tutsis from Zaire. This triggered a full-scale revolution, led by Laurent-Desire Kabila and backed by the Angolan, Rwandan and Ugandese armies. Mobutu, despite appeals to France and Belgium for aid, watched his support evaporate; health weakened by prostate cancer, he lost the will to fight. In May 1997 Mobutu was forced to flee the country; he took up residence in Morocco, dying there in September. Kabila took over, vacillating between reform and repression until his assassination in 2001.
“No other [African] president,” biographer Michela Wong writes, “had been presented with a country of such potential, yet achieved so little.” Surely Mobutu, like all post-independence rulers, had many factors weighing against him; yet he used Zaire’s vast resources purely to enrich himself and leverage his global reputation. Large portions of his country starved while he constructed massive palaces; his favoritism inflamed ethnic tensions. While Mobutu deserves the principal blame, we must recall the support he received from America, France and other Western powers – ensuring that imperialism’s legacy reverberates in the Congo through the present.
Note: besides the linked articles, this piece relies on Piero Gleijeses, Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 (2013) and Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo (2001).
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Should The Parents Of The Child Who Fell Into Gorilla Enclosure Be Charged?
Written By: Michael H. Cottman, BlackAmericaWeb.com
Should the parents of the four-year-old boy who fell 15-feet into a gorilla exhibit in Cincinnati be charged with criminal negligence?
And it’s ridiculous that 300,000 people have signed a petition demanding that criminal charges be filed against the parents, Michelle Gregg, 32, and Deonne Dickerson, 36.
Animal rights groups blame Gregg and Dickerson, saying they are responsible for the shooting death of Harambee, a 17-year-old silverback gorilla. Gregg and Dickerson are African-American, as is their four-year-old son. Dickerson, who has a criminal record which was revealed by the media, was not even at the zoo at the time.
Race is only relevant because of all the controversy and reaction on social media. Some black folks are angry because they believe animal rights groups are more outraged over the shooting death of a gorilla than they are over the shooting deaths of unarmed Black men.
I understand that argument but I don’t understand why 300,000 people want the parents of the little boy charged with negligence.
Every parent has probably been guilty of taking their eyes off their child at one time or another and sadly, sometimes, tragic situations happen.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati police are now investigating.
“The Cincinnati Police Department is reviewing the circumstances surrounding the incident with the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo,” police spokeswoman Tiffaney Hardy said.
“After the review, we will determine if charges need to be brought forward. If it is determined charges need to be brought forward, we would then discuss it with the Hamilton County prosecutor’s office.”
I don’t believe these parents weren’t negligent and why should 300,000 people care if they are charged or not?
Michelle Gregg, the mother of the boy, posted this message on Facebook: “I want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers today. What started off as a wonderful day turned into a scary one.”
“For those of you that have seen the news or been on social media that was my son that fell in the gorilla exhibit at the zoo,” Gregg wrote. “God protected my child until the authorities were able to get to him.’ My son is safe and was able to walk away with a concussion and a few scrapes… no broken bones or internal injuries.”
“As a society we are quick to judge how a parent could take their eyes off of their child and if anyone knows me I keep a tight watch on my kids,” she wrote. “Accidents happen but I am thankful that the right people were in the right place today.”
Thane Maynard, the zoo’s director, said zoo staff made the right decision to shoot the gorilla, which saved the little boy’s life.
“The child was being dragged around,” Maynard said. “His head was banging on concrete. This was not a gentle thing. The child was at risk.”
Maynard said a tranquilizer would have taken too long to bring down the 420-pound gorilla who can crush a coconut with his hands.
“We are so thankful to the Lord that our child is safe. He is home and doing just fine,” Gregg wrote on Facebook. “We extend our heartfelt thanks for the quick action by the Cincinnati Zoo staff. ‘We know that this was a very difficult decision for them, and that they are grieving the loss of their gorilla.”
Gregg has experienced enough stress watching her little boy being dragged around by a huge gorilla. Imagine how horrified Gregg must have been; she has suffered enough.
Gregg and Dickerson shouldn’t be prosecuted for negligence and I wonder about this: If any of the 300,000 people who signed the petition had a child who fell into a gorilla exhibit, would they have called for saving the life of the gorilla and roll the dice on the safety of their child?
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From the Bahamas to the Seychelles, Island Nations Fight Climate Change with Better Buildings
By Rachel Belkin and Eric Mackres August 8, 2016
A Busy Saint John Street in the Small Island Nation of Grenada. Photo by Kayla Sawyer/ Flickr
Facing environmental vulnerabilities like increasingly high temperatures, more frequent storm surges and a rising sea level, small island states have long been on the front lines of the fight against climate change. This existential threat has made some of the world’s smallest countries big players on the global climate stage. Now they have new weapon: more efficient buildings.
Building efficiency is already a part of the strategies of many island states to curb climate change and adapt to a changing climate. Of 189 nations submitting Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to address climate change, only 57 of them mentioned building energy efficiency, according to a WRI review. However, 12 of the nations that did include building efficiency are small island states.
Building efficiency has big potential to deliver long-term, cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions, but it can also have adaption benefits, reducing the costs of achieving both mitigation and adaptation goals over the long haul. Research shows that every dollar spent on improving buildings saves an average of $2 in energy infrastructure costs—both in developed and in developing countries, like many small island states.
Building Right the First Time
Buildings are long-term investments—they last for generations. Therefore, it’s important to make the right choices when they are built. Building codes can help ensure high-quality buildings, and they are some of the most affordable policy tools that decision-makers can use to reduce operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions from new construction. In addition, these policies can make buildings more climate-resilient by requiring buildings to be elevated (to keep them above flood waters and storm surges) and better ventilated and insulated (to cut down on fossil fuel use, especially in areas where fossil fuels are imported).
For example, the Bahamas has developed an adaptation plan that includes energy-efficient buildings. In its building code, the Bahamas will require new and renovated buildings to use efficient lighting, cooling systems, building materials and construction methods. The country also uses financial incentives for efficient buildings with on-site energy production to discourage energy use from the national power grid and encourage local, renewable sources. These measures will make buildings and their occupants more resilient to extreme heat and energy disruptions that may result from storm surges or other extreme weather events.
Similarly, the Caribbean country of Dominica plans to adopt and provide training for a Green Building Code, and Grenada called for energy efficiency building codes in order to reach its national goal of a 30 percent reduction in emissions from 2010 levels by 2025.
Don’t Forget Existing Buildings
Because buildings last for 40 to 100 years or more, retrofitting the technology in existing buildings is an important opportunity for improving energy performance and resilience. For example, the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, is retrofitting buildings to incorporate rainwater harvesting, solar cells and other sustainable building features. Grenada, Palau and Saint Vincent and Grenadines also listed retrofits within their NDCs as ways they plan to mitigate climate change.
Reducing Emissions, Attracting Visitors
As climate change threatens beachfront resorts that provide a main source of revenue for many island nations, building efficiency strategies can encourage economic growth while also cutting emissions and resource use. The Bahamas plans to promote energy conservation, efficiency and renewable energy in hotels and other tourist destinations. According to the country’s national climate commitment, this will lead to a more sustainable tourism industry—a growing selling point for travelers. Grenada also encourages resorts to adopt energy-efficient infrastructure. In fact, the island nation plans to make hotels so energy-efficient that they will cut emissions by 20 percent. The plan includes a tax incentive for solar panels and solar water heaters at hotels.
Furthermore, the 32 national hotel associations in the Caribbean that participate in the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association have recognized the link between a successful island economy and climate change. The association created Caribbean Hotel Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action (CHENACT), which works to increase the competitiveness of hotels through lower operating costs and an environmentally-positive image. Participating hotels have generated energy savings of 20 – 30 percent with a 5 year payback period. As demonstrated through CHENACT, improving building efficiency in tourism simultaneously strengthens the backbone of island economies, reduces emissions and helps local industries adapt to the effects of climate change.
The Unfairness Factor
Climate change is a global problem, but its effects aren’t felt equally around the world, and small islands are among the most vulnerable places on Earth. There’s an unfairness factor here, since these islands generally have some of the lowest emissions on the planet, even as their citizens and leaders are taking some of the boldest climate action.
This is truly an example of leadership from which the rest of the world can learn. These small island states are demonstrating that, for building efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation are two sides of the same coin and that every nation, no matter how large or small, can contribute to solving climate change.
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Missoni for Target campaign to include interactive video
US retailer Target is set to push shoppable videos as part of a campaign surrounding the launch of its collaboration with Italian design house Missoni.
Created with ad agency Olson, the online videos will allow consumers to click on items shown to open a pop-up window that enables them to add to their shopping cart without leaving the stream.
Olson’s chief creative officer Dennis Ryan told The New York Times the interaction offers an experience that is “far less disruptive – you just follow your bliss”.
The products on offer in the Missoni for Target range include apparel, footwear, luggage and home accessories, for $3 to $600.
The campaign stars Margherita Missoni, the granddaughter of Missoni founders, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, and daughter of current creative director, Angela Missoni. It was directed by Alex Prager and inspired by Italian films of the 1960s.
In the videos, Margherita can be seen talking on a rotary telephone, having cappuccinos at a cafe and walking into a room featuring Missoni products. All the while she is carrying a postcard with a secret message revealed at the end saying: “Missoni for Target”.
“In the ’50s and ’60s, the Missoni brand really developed a voice that transported it out of Italy and into the United States, and that is what the aesthetic is inspired by in the campaign,” said Will Setliff, vice president of marketing at Target.
A further series of videos online will show Margherita demonstrating how to wear the Missoni brand’s bold prints. The campaign also extends to print with inclusion in numerous September magazines, as well as to mobile, with a dedicated site offering access to the video ads and the opportunity to download Missoni for Target prints to use as wallpaper.
The collection itself will launch in Target stores from September 13 through to October 22.
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I read Principles by Ray Dalio on October 27, 2018
Principles is an extraordinarily broad, ambitious book by Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates. Dalio is a billionaire (18, to be specific), and uses this fact to repeatedly remind you that he doesn’t need the money from this book. He doesn’t even really want the glory or fame: he just wants to share his vision and this efficient system of decisionmaking that will undoubtedly change your life.
The first section is Dalio’s autobiography, and I think it’s the highlight. He paints a clear, somewhat likeable portrait of himself with which I found some commonalities: he was also disinterested in school and instead loved to understand how things functioned, as applied in practice.
The principles, though: well, prepare to be disappointed. You can scan a PDF excerpt to get a feel for the style. Without cherry-picking an especially bad example, here’s a taste:
2.5 Push through to completion.
a. Great planners who don’t execute their plans go nowhere.
b. Good work habits are vastly underrated.
c. Establish clear metrics to make certain that you are
following your plan.
Dalio, in short, is a true believer in man’s ability to understand and reduce the world to technical details and programmatic actions, but an exceptional example of the limitations of that approach. He breezes through pop-neuroscience. He falls in love with MBTI personality types, the wildly inaccurate labels that try to distill everyone into four letters.
But in that way, Dalio’s true faith is only possible because of his distance from the technical. From how he portrays Bridgewater Associates’s (a hedge fund) computing division, it was doing what humans did but better - but unfortunately was constantly lagging behind the rest of the organization in culture. The idea that computational processes and human processes could be qualitatively different, that a computer arriving at a decision in a microsecond and a person in a day might be evidence of a different type of thinking rather than a different speed, well, all of this is irrelevant to Dalio’s very high-level thinking.
Which is also a bit ironic because Dalio attempts to create a program for thinking. He numbers the principles - not just with integers, but with sub-sections. He could interrupt a meeting and quote principle 2.5-a. In structure and aesthetic, what he’s building is a sort of like a decision tree, but in reality it’s more like a structured list of inspirational office poster quotes.
In short, Principles won’t make you Ray Dalio. His biggest accomplishment is predicting the 2009 stock market crash. This won’t help you predict the next crash.
It’s fair to ask why I even attempt this kind of book anymore: I didn’t like The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, either, and I just don’t get what people take from most self-help books. But to give a counterexample, I really enjoyed Non-Violent Communication. I liked it because it didn’t repeat its title in every paragraph, it proposed a new, different, and often effective technique that was concrete enough to actually try. I just can’t imagine someone sitting at their desk, stuck, and then remembering principle 2.5, Push through to completion., and then putting it into action. Few principles are surprising, and even fewer are specific enough to implement. And despite the three-level numbering system, they aren’t structured or additive in any way that would make them a true system.
Dalio can write, and he’s smart. His knowledge is strongest when it comes to economics. So if you want to read his brilliance, it’s best expressed when he’s summarizing economic principles, not speaking in generalities about life.
Principles by Ray Dalio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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AN EVENT IS NO ACCIDENT
Tuesday 12th September 2017, 12:14 pm
TM Law’s Hamish Cotton looks at an Australian decision with global significance, dealing with the interpretation of the Montreal Convention in claims for damage to cargo during air transport
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has recently handed down its decision in Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Limited v Principle International Pty Limited[1] in which it considered the provisions of the Montreal Convention 1999 as they relate to damaged cargo. Importantly, the Court considered the interpretation of Article 18 of the Convention and whether the phrase “the event which caused the damage” should be interpreted as analogous to the phrase “the accident which caused the death or injury”, which appears in Article 17 of the Convention and which has been the subject of extensive judicial consideration, both in Australia and abroad.
Background facts
Principle International Pty Limited (Principle) contracted with Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Limited (SIA Cargo) for the carriage of live cattle from Melbourne to Harbin, China, such carriage to occur over three separate flights, departing Melbourne on 23, 25 and 27 September 2013. Eighteen (18) cattle that were transported on the 27 September flight were found dead on arrival. The cattle had been loaded into crates consisting of nine cattle per crate and had been placed on the lower deck of the cargo hold. Other crates holding the same number of cattle were transported on both the upper and lower decks of the aircraft’s cargo hold.
Whilst there was some divergence of opinion as to the cause of death, with both heat stress and suffocation proposed by the various experts, each expert agreed that the relevant condition was caused by a lack of ventilation and therefore the exact cause of death was not an issue in the proceedings.
The Court of Appeal was required to consider various provisions of the Montreal Convention and in particular, Article 18 dealing with damaged cargo and Article 20, dealing with exoneration and contributory negligence. The consideration of Article 18 is of particular interest and focussed on the meaning of the term “event”.
Article 18(1) provides that:
“The carrier is liable for damage sustained in the event of the destruction or loss of, or damage to, cargo upon condition only that the event which caused the damage so sustained took place during the carriage by air.”
SIA Cargo contended that the “event” that caused the damage was the inadequate packing by Principle of the cattle into the crates, which occurred at a time when the cattle were not in the control of SIA Cargo and therefore no liability could attach to them. Anything that happened thereafter was, SIA Cargo contended, part of the ordinary carriage by air. Consequently, SIA Cargo argued that if the Court determined the event was in fact the lack of ventilation during the course of the transport, it should follow the previous judicial interpretations of Article 17 of the Convention. Article 17(1), which deals with death and injury of passengers, provides:
“The carrier is liable to damage sustained in the case of death or bodily injury of a passenger upon condition only that the accident which caused the death or bodily injury took place on board the aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking.”
The term “accident” in Article 17(1) has been widely held to mean an event external to the passenger and not the passenger’s own internal reaction to the usual, normal and expected operation of the aircraft. SIA Cargo argued that “event” in Article 18 should be construed in a similar manner.
The Court of Appeal looked at the language of each of the Articles and made a clear delineation between the language used in the Convention for damage to cargo, as opposed to the provisions related to personal injury and death. Ultimately, the Court determined that “the event must be identified in the context of an “event which caused the damage”. The inquiry is not directed to ascertaining whether there was something unusual or unexpected happening outside the normal incidence of the flight. That is relevant to determining whether there was an accident for the purposes of Article 17(1).”
The Court found that whilst the cause of death was as a result of the lack of ventilation to the cattle, the event for the purposes of Article 18(1) was the placement of the crates on the lower deck, the conditions of which were such that it amounted to an event which caused the damage.
The Court of Appeal has highlighted the difference between the tests required in respect of damage to cargo (Article 18) and death and injury of passengers (Article 17) which arguably and interestingly provides a greater scope for claims for cargo damage over those for death or injury to passengers.
Author: Hamish Cotton
hamish.cotton@tmlawltd.com
[1] Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Limited v Principle International Pty Limited [2017] NSWCA 216
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10 Most Weird World Records
The Guinness Book of World Records has been keeping a record of the most insane and awesome achievements from all over the world. Where there is a record for everything from the largest cake to the largest number of people singing in a group, it’s a never ending list. Where there are many people who have made some of the weirdest records. So,Top10 unknowns has compiled a list of 10 of the most weird world records
10 – Largest (Only) Airplane Eater
Unimaginable, how a person can eat a plane? It’s one of the most weird world records, isn’t it? With a knack for eating things that would make a grown man cringe, including razor blades, light bulbs, and glass bottles, Michel Lotito holds the world record for eating the largest airplane. To be fair, however, he also holds the world record for the ONLY person to eat an airplane. With a stomach lining twice as thick as the average man’s, Lotito spent two years dismantling and eating a Cessna 150 in the early 1990s. Although he had to take a lot of it apart with a sledgehammer and an acetylene torch, he bit most of the glass windows right off the plane, chewed them up, and swallowed them. So far, no one else has dared to top his record.
9 – Most Live Rattlesnakes Held In Mouth
Jackie Bibby has, since 2009, held the world record for the most live rattlesnakes held in his mouth. In front a live audience, Bibby held 11 fully grown rattlesnakes by the rattle for 10 seconds using nothing but his mouth. Unbelievably, he was not bitten at all.
8 – Longest Fingernails
This is an unbelievable and one of the most weird world records. Chris Walton, known to her fans as “The Duchess”, holds the world record for the longest fingernails. Currently 47, Walton just up and decided to stop cutting her nails 19 years ago. Claiming to have only lost a nail once while fixing her car, Walton’s nails now collectively measure 10 feet and 2 inches on her left hand and 9 feet and 7 inches on her right hand.
7 –Most Naked People On A Roller Coaster
This is an eye-catching and one of the most weird world records. When thrills and chills are at the top of the night’s agenda, it just doesn’t get much better than the world record for the most naked people on a roller coaster. 102 riders set this record on August 8th, 2010 in Southeast England. To this day, no group has been able to beat this record. To be fair, though, the biggest challenge, other than finding 103 people who WANT to be naked on a roller coaster, is finding a theme park that will let them do it.
6 – Longest Ear Hairs
Talk about being unhygienic but still manage to hold a world record and this one wins the title. Shridhar Chillal is known to have extraordinarily long fingernails, and his nails have a combined length of 909.6 centimeters (358.1 inches). Chillal’s longest single nail is his thumbnail, measuring 197.8 centimeters (77.87 inches). Well, how did he manage to grow his fingernails so long? That’s because he stopped cutting his nails in 1952.
5 –Most Worms Eaten In A Minute
What’s gross than super long fingernails, man eating worms. Yes, you read that right! John Peter looks like just another 20-something guy, until you realise what his mid-day snack is. His diet consists of a breakfast of dosa and earthworms, a dinner of Dal and dragonflies, and 10 or 20 lizards for a mid-day snack. He holds Guinness World Record for most earthworms eaten in a minute.
4 –T-shirts removed while heading a football
Yes, by football they mean soccer ball. Apparently this is what some people use their soccer skills for when they can’t make it professionally. Who knew? The record is 21 shirts and is held by Marcelo Ribeiro da Silva of Brazil. If you don’t have the soccer skills to break this record, or would rather put shirts on than take them off, you could go for the record of most T-shirts worn at once. The current record of 257 might be tough to surpass, though.
3 –Loudest purr by a domestic cat
If all of the cat lovers out there were feeling left out, don’t be. There’s also a record for your pet to break, as long as they don’t have a problem audibly expressing their love for you. The loudest purr recorded by a domestic cat is 67.7 dB, which is held by Smokey. According to the Guinness World Record website, “Smokey is a domestic cat and achieved its record in its home, where it felt relaxed and happy. Accessories used during the record attempt include a grooming brush, slices of ham and stroking by hand.”
2 –Longest distance pulled by a horse
This one may just take the cake for the most bizarre. Neither part of this record—being dragged by a horse or being set on fire—seems at all appealing. Maybe this just goes to show the lengths people will go to get their name in this book. The record distance is 472.8 meters (1151 feet 2 inches), achieved by Halapi Roland of Hungary.
1 – Full body ice contact endurance
No offense to this record setter or anyone else who may attempt this in the future, but anyone who has spent a winter somewhere with snow should know how stupid this idea is. I suppose if you can put all thoughts of frostbite and hypothermia aside … nope, it’s still pretty crazy! This record is held by Wim Hof of the Netherlands for spending 1 hour, 52 minutes, 42 seconds in direct, full body contact with ice. Hof (in the above video) was also featured in the Discovery Channel’s Extraordinary People series.
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By Caitlin Haynes, Transcription Center Coordinator
This month we're celebrating women who pushed boundaries, forced change, and paved the way for future generations. Help share their stories by transcribing historic materials from around the Smithsonian. Follow along with us on social media (and share your own discoveries!) by using #BecauseOfHerStory.
Sally Ride Papers, National Air and Space Museum Archives
Sally Ride (1951-2012) was the first American woman to enter space. In 1978, she was selected by NASA into the space program. Ride served as CapCom for Shuttle flights STS-2 and STS-3 before being the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7 on June 18, 1983. Ride was the first woman to use the Space Shuttle's robot arm and the first to use the arm to retrieve a satellite. Ride cofounded, along with her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy, Sally Ride Science which created science programs and publications for students, with a particular focus on girls' education. Also with O'Shaughnessy, she co-wrote books on space aimed at encouraging children to study science. Ride received numerous awards, including, posthumously, the Medal of Freedom. Find projects, here.
Olive Rush Diaries, Archives of American Arts
Illustrator, muralist, and art educator Olive Rush was born in Indiana in 1875. After several visits and exhibitions in New Mexico, Rush moved permanently to Santa Fe in 1920. She established a studio and home in an adobe house on Canyon Road, which became a main thoroughfare of the Santa Fe artists' community. Her professional and personal papers, including her childhood diaries from the 19th century, are held in the Archives of American Art. Help transcribe these diaries as part of our #BecauseOfHerStory Girlhood History campaign. Find projects: Diary 1886, Diary 1890, Diary Fragments circa 1890-1907.
Doris Holmes Blake Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Doris Holmes Blake (1892-1978) was an coleopterist who specialized in the study of Chrysomelidae (leaf beetles). Blake worked for the USDA Bureau of Entomology, and in 1928 began work at the USNM Department of Entomology. In 1933 her official employment came to an end with the institution of regulations prohibiting more than one member of a family from holding a government position (her husband Sidney Blake was then working for the USDA). Although no longer on the payroll, Blake continued her taxonomic work on the family Chrysomelides—unpaid—for almost 45 more years, first as a collaborator and then as a research associate of the Smithsonian. Blake’s professional correspondence with colleagues from around the world documents her entomological activities, as well as her professional struggles in the male-dominated scientific community. Find projects, here.
Women's Building Records, Archives of American Arts
New projects this month from the Archives of American Art include records of the Woman’s Building, a feminist art organization in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1972 and closed in 1991. Functioning as both an alternative arts education center and public gallery for women, it provided support for women artists. As part of its vision, it focused on the integration of art, the development of women’s experiences, and the women’s movement. Find Projects: here, here, and here.
Gertrude Farrington Diaries, Archives of American Gardens
Between 1978 and 1992, centenarian Gertrude Farrington kept three diaries logging her activities in the local garden club, the community park, and home life in general. These daily entries span five years and track national events, weather reports, and the prices of food, gas, and gardening supplies. Farrington’s diaries provide a personal glimpse into the life of one woman living in the United States during the late 20th century. Find projects, here.
Grace Thorpe Papers, National Museum of American Indian Archive Center
Grace Thorpe (1921-2008), Sac and Fox, was a WWII veteran and Native Rights activist. The daughter of famed athlete Jim Thorpe, Grace served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) from 1943-1945. She served as a recruiter for the WAC before being sent overseas to New Guinea, the Philippines and Japan. Grace was later awarded the Bronze star for her service in the Battle of New Guinea. Following the end of the war, Grace remained in Japan with her husband Lieutenant Fred W. Seeley and worked at General MacArthur Headquarters as Chief of the Recruitment Section, Department of Army Civilians. Find projects, here.
Madam C. J. Walker Collection, National Museum of African American History and Culture
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents and orphaned at a young age, Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove in 1867), found work as a young woman in St. Louis and Denver selling Poro beauty products. Eventually, she began making and selling her own hair and skin care products for African American women. In 1908, Walker relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and opened a factory and hair school called Lelia College, where she taught women to become "hair culturists." Through the vast growth and success of her beauty empire, Walker became one of America’s first recognized, self-made female millionaires. Help transcribe the documents and artifacts in this collection to uncover the fascinating history of Madam C. J. Walker, her company, and black beauty culture in early twentieth century America. Find projects, here.
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King Duncan II: kings of Scotland
Duncan II was the son of Malcolm III, and his first wife Ingibiorg and lived from c.1072-1094. He was King of Scotland, only briefly, from c. May 1094-November 1094.
Hostage in England
Much of his early childhood was spent in England as a hostage of William I. Following the death of Duncan’s father in 1093 he received the English king’s (William II) consent to seek the Scottish throne.
Was Duncan II buried on Iona?
With military support from William, Duncan came north and was successful in driving out the incumbent Donald III. There is some considerable debate over the date he took the throne; some scholars argue it was during the early months of 1094, others including historian A. A. Duncan writing in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography said he, “became king before the end of 1093.”
Brief and stormy reign
His reign was described as brief and stormy, with the English army that had supported him, driven out of Scotland.
However after only a few months conditions in Scotland saw the re-emergence of Donald who re-took the throne and Duncan was killed almost certainly at the behest of Donald. A.A. Duncan said, “Duncan was killed, apparently with some treachery by the local mormaer at Mondynes in the Mearns on 12 November 1094,” a date noted by the monks of Durham.
Although there is no evidence he may have been buried on Iona.
Discover more kings and queens of Scotland
The British Royal Family – more information
If your interest in British royalty goes beyond Scotland’s earliest kings and queens, see the official British Monarchy website for lots of additional information.
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Country, Pop Country
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Trisha Yearwood Biography
When you find your purpose, you just know it.
As such, Trisha Yearwood considers music to be “more like a calling than a choice.” That becomes instantly apparent on her 2019 solo album, Every Girl. The award-winning singer, artist, and performer approaches these fourteen songs with the same freedom and fire first ignited at the dawn of her storied career, yet further fueled by a few years of well-earned wisdom.
“I approached this album without any pressure or expectations,” she affirms. “You want people to recognize you as an artist, but you also want to take them somewhere they haven’t necessarily been with you before. With the freedom of no expectations, I got back to that feeling I felt on my first album, like I have to do this and put it out there. Over the years, I let go of worrying about perfection. I just wanted to have a good time. I realized maybe that’s when you do your best work.”
The record came to life during a prolific period for Trisha. She initially entered the studio with longtime producer and collaborator Garth Fundis during May 2018 before spending June in Los Angeles recording the Frank Sinatra homage Let’s Be Frank at the world-famous Capitol Records studio. Upon finishing the covers collection, she returned to Nashville and spent the remainder of the year working on what would become Every Girl alongside Fundis.
The album marked an important milestone. Other than the holiday duet album Christmas Together with husband Garth Brooks, Every Girl closed a 12-year gap since the release of her last original solo record, Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, in 2007. In between, she launched the EMMY® Award-winning Food Network smash Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, moved back to Music City, and joined Garth on a marathon three-year world tour.
“Right before I started the cooking show eight years ago, my mom passed away,” she recalls. “The show was like therapy, especially because my mom and dad were really good cooks. Cooking those recipes and telling our stories helped my sister Beth and I keep their memories alive. Then, I went on 400 shows with Garth. In order to do this right, I needed to be in a space where I could just breathe and listen to songs. One day, I looked up and thought, ‘I didn’t mean for eleven years to pass. As much as I love all of these other things I’m doing, music feeds my soul. I have to do this for me’. Making both records was so gratifying. It reminded me that I don’t want to ever let that much time pass again before I make more music.”
Abetted by this perspective and time, she dove into assembling Every Girl. The introductory single and title track, “Every Girl In This Town,” set the tone for the record. Pairing delicate clean guitar with Trisha’s dynamic delivery, it crescendos toward a vibrant and vivid refrain as it transmits an empowering reminder.
“I like songs that take me on a journey through a lot of different emotions,” she elaborates. “The theme of the album is it’s okay to be who you are no matter what. Sometimes, you’re playful. Sometimes, you’re frustrated. Sometimes, you’re sad. Sometimes, you’re happy. It’s okay. The record gave me permission to be all of those things.”
The opener “Workin’ On Whiskey” sips away sorrows under the drone of an electric guitar and a confessional chorus detailing, “a situation you want to change, but can’t,” as she explains. Showcasing her powerhouse vocals, she tackles “Home,” which was written by iconic songwriter Karla Bonoff and popularized by Bonnie Raitt in 1977.
“It was really amazing to do,” smiles Trisha. “Karla suggested ‘Home.’ Her version is one I’ve been singing since I was 15-years-old. I grew up on this. Now, I get excited I have Karla’s email,” she laughs.
She teams up with Kelly Clarkson on the “the very vulnerable and personal” ballad “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know.” Above sweeping keys, Trisha’s voice takes flight complemented by Kelly’s towering range before a soaring guitar solo. Meanwhile, she features Garth on “What Gave Me Away,” which captures “a sultry vibe.”
“I can’t imagine anyone else singing on that except for him,” she smiles.
Elsewhere, the stark and simple storytelling of “Bible And A .44” nods to classic country as Trisha dedicates the tune to the memory of her father. Between sparse piano chords, Don Henley joins her for a powerful final word on the conclusion “Love You Anyway,” reuniting the friends who have been collaborating since their 1992 Hearts In Armor standout “Walkaway Joe.”
“It harks back to the album Hearts In Armor,” she says. “It has to be a really special song for me to call Henley, and it is.”
Throughout the past three decades, Trisha has garnered numerous GRAMMY®, CMA®, and ACM® Awards, achieved countless multi-platinum certifications, and entertained millions of fans. The singer, actress, author, chef and entrepreneur permeates multiple facets of culture as well. Beyond twelve studio albums, she hosts the EMMY® Award-winning Food Network hit Trisha’s Southern Kitchen and her Facebook Live “pre-show,” T’s Coffee Talk. At the forefront of a veritable lifestyle empire, she penned three New York Times-bestselling cookbooks and has designed cookware, furniture, home accessories, and area rugs. Trisha has also collaborated with Williams-Sonoma on her signature best-selling cocktail mixes like “Summer in a Cup,” “Autumn in a Cup,” and “Christmas in a Cup” as well as a variety of food products ranging from a signature biscuit mix to a complete Thanksgiving Dinner.
Through fulfilling her calling again on Every Girl, Trisha’s voice resounds and resonates louder than ever.
“I’d love for people to be as moved by the songs as I was when I recorded them,” she says. “I’ve never experienced more joy in the studio. This is what I believe I was born to do. In my career, I’ve never once said or felt like, ‘I don’t want to sing tonight.’ When you’re given a gift from God and you get the opportunity to use it for a living, it’s the greatest match. I’m not sure what I’d be doing without music. I’m so grateful to be here.”
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Every Girl
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The Chinese Cinema
September 14, 2012 October 20, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a comment
The Laurel & Hardy Project #13: The Second Hundred Years
For only the second time in this series, the first since the fourth film (made a mere seven months earlier), Duck Soup, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy play co-protagonists. Usually Hardy either had a bit part or played the villain, but here they are on the same side. Despite the co-star billing though, Hardy is really still merely support for Laurel. They play prisoners in James Finlayson’s jail and the first reel follows a few of their escape attempts and subsequent punishments. Laurel goes all-out with his ‘weepy face’ in these scenes, in fact the film opens with a close-up of it, but rather than merely repeating himself, Laurel does continue to build on the face as he’s done in some of the earlier shorts. The longest sequence of the first reel, a jailor putting the prisoners through a series of calisthenics, finds Laurel beautifully out-of-sync with the others’ movements, an agent of chaos getting repeatedly smacked in the face which leads to his signature over-reaction. After thus setting up the face (as he has in every other scene of the film so far), he begins to occasionally break in and out of it with deadpan asides to the camera, slight eye rolls that indicate, as in With Love and Hisses, the phoniness behind the act: he’s a man acting like a child, not a man-child.
Hardy though, still doesn’t have much of a persona. There are hints of exasperation with Laurel, but while Laurel gets the big set piece in the calisthenics scene, Hardy pretty much is resigned to the straightish man role. Looking at the structure of the film reveals its true single-star nature. The first half of the first reel sets up their situation (prisoners) and their first escape attempt (they dig a tunnel but end up in the warden’s office) and the second half is the calisthenics and their second, successful escape attempt (they disguise themselves as painters and walk out the front gate). The first half of the second reel is a slow motion chase sequence, a wonderfully surreal vision of the two of them wandering the streets painting random objects white while under the suspicious eye of a passing cop (they apparently think that painting the hand rails, windows and cars they come across makes them look less suspicious – this is by far the best thing about the film, it’s the weirdness of conceits like this that keep drawing me back to these ancient comedies) and ending with the two displacing the very French dignitaries James Finlayson is hosting at his mansion within the prison (introduced like Chekov’s gun in the beginning of the first reel).
With a true pair of equals, the subsequent dinner scene in the mansion, which forms most of the second half of the second reel, would provide an opportunity for Hardy to take center stage, creating a nice formal balance: each reel would start with team action and end with the focus on one of the team members. But instead, it’s another showpiece for Laurel, who engages in a bit of low-key slapstick attempting to eat a grape with a fork (he keeps trying to scoop it up and it rolls away, around the plate, across the table, down a old lady’s dress, you know how it goes). It’s funny enough, but it reduces Hardy to bystander, rather than partner. And then film then ends all too abruptly. Finlayson takes them to their old cell block on a tour, they are recognized and give up. No chase, no comedy, just a shrug and it’s over. Hardy never has a chance to do anything interesting. But I suspect he will before too long.
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Osvaldo Oyola / 20 November 2013
Today’s post has been cross-posted over at The Hooded Utilitarian (special thanks to Noah Berlatsky)
Marvel Comics’ She-Hulk is perhaps the most high-profile of their many female characters that are derivative of successful pre-existing male characters. However, three decades since she first appeared in Savage She-Hulk #1, writers (especially John Byrne) have worked to develop the character into someone who is not merely a shadow of a male character with no defining personality or history of her own in titles like The Avengers, Fantastic Four and eventually her second solo book, The Sensational She-Hulk. In fact, by the time Dan Slott got around to writing her solo title in 2005, the character’s winking reference to her own status as a comic book character became one of her defining features, and Slott developed this into a knowing and charming run, that while not free of problems, represents some of Marvel’s best output in the 21st century.
At the heart of Dan Slott’s run on what are referred to as She-Hulk volumes 1 & 2 (despite being the 3rd and 4th volumes of She-Hulk titles) is a alternately critical and nostalgic concern with the subjects of continuity and rupture in serialized superhero comic book narratives. Slott uses the space of a marginal title that probably never sold very well to undertake a meta-narrative project that is as much enmeshed in the insularity of the mainstream comics world (what many people refer to as “continuity porn”) as it is a critique of such obsessions.
There is a sense of adult whimsy that really helps to keep this run afloat. Some comics critics, like Jeet Heer, may claim that “superheroes for adults is like porn for kids” (in other words, a bad idea) or that it is time to abandon superheroes altogether, but I think Slott’s work here proves that wrong, as it eschews the self-serious attitude of typical post-Watchmen/Dark Knight “adult” superhero comics in favor of embracing the ridiculousness of the genre that is best appreciated by long-time fans who have learned to have a sense of humor about their beloved Marvel comics stories. Aiding She-Hulk in this meta-project is Stu Cicero, who often seems to be a mouthpiece for Slott himself, though that kind of problematic direct voicing of the author’s position on the tradition of superhero comics is often skewered by the series’ afore-mentioned sense of humor.
Stu works in the law library at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, where the majority of the action in Slott’s two She-Hulk runs occurs. Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk begins working at this firm that specializes in “super-human law” after losing her job as an assistant D.A. (all the times she helped the saved world left all the cases she tried susceptible to appeal as owing her their lives effectively prejudices all juries) and then being kicked out of Avengers’ Mansion for her irresponsible hard-partying ways. Her new boss’s insistence that she work in her civilian guise of Jennifer Walters means her identity as She-Hulk won’t compromise her cases. Furthermore, her connections to the superhero community would be helpful in drawing new clients.
As a law firm that specializes in trying cases involving superhumans, one of its greatest assets is the comic book section of its law library. The conceit in these series is that Marvel Comics exist within the Marvel Universe (something that has been established since the very early days—Johnny Storm is shown reading a Hulk comic back in Fantastic Four #5 and the Marvel Bullpen has been depicted in various titles countless times), telling the “true” stories of the adventures of Marvel superheroes and then stamped by the Comics Code Authority, “a Federal Agency” and thus admissible as evidence in court. Now, this is of course ridiculous. The Comics Code Authority was never a federal agency, but even more absurd is the idea that comic books would ever be taken so seriously. How could anyone expect the stuff depicted in comics between 1961 and 2002 to be internally consistent? How can anyone expect that everything printed in a Marvel Comic, down to the most obscure detail be made to jive with every other thing as to be of value in a trial or lawsuit? But therein lies what makes this run of She-Hulk so great. It actually depicts a lot of respect and attention to the minute convolutions of Marvel Comic history—one might even go so far as saying showing a reverence for them—while never forgetting they are just funny books. The fun is in engaging with the stories to find ways as fans to make sense of it all (of just make fun of the fact that it doesn’t make sense), but not to take it all so seriously that you come off as if trying to argue a federal case from comic books.
Bobillo’s She-Hulk (from She-Hulk vol 1. #3)
It is with this conceit, tongue planted firmly in cheek and the ability to comment on the very kind of comics that She-Hulk is an example of firmly enmeshed into its narratives, that Slott is able to get away with a lot. Foremost, among these things is to examine the role of sex and She-Hulk’s sexuality in her past and the way it has shaped views of her character. This is not free of problems and I am conflicted about how it is depicted, but it does not wholly undermine the project. While I appreciate the frank discussion of She-Hulk’s sexual appetites and the effort later to directly address and rehabilitate the adolescent approach to sex common to this whole genre of comics, there is a bit of slut-shaming going on and more than one gratuitous scene that is in line with the sexualized objectification of the She-Hulk character and her Amazonian voluptuousness. In other words, like many attempts at satire, this comic sometimes crosses the line into being what it seems to want to be commenting on. (But this is not just a problem with mainstream superhero comics—as much as I love Love and Rockets, I sometimes get the same feeling from Gilbert Hernandez’s work). It is for this reason that Juan Bobillo’s pencils seems to serve Slott’s series the best. It has a kind of soft rounded cartoony look that makes She-Hulk look a little chubby and cute in both her incarnations (more Maggie Chascarillo than Penny Century) and that gives the series’ whimsy a visual resonance. The rest of the artists on the series vary in their skill and appropriateness to the material and sometimes fall into the questionable range of Heavy Metal-like cheesecake.
Fantastic Four #275 (written & drawn by John Byrne)
The meta-fictional aspect of this She-Hulk run is one that has its origins in the first printing of her story, as the only reason she even exists is that Stan Lee, worried that CBS would use the success of The Incredible Hulk TV show to create a female version of the character, rushed one to print first in order to claim the trademark on her. From her first appearance, she served a meta-purpose—not the purpose of a story that needed telling or that was even necessarily worth telling, but the purpose of protecting control of a brand. That first series—Savage She-Hulk (1980-82)—demonstrates that in its weakness. The Sensational She-Hulk, (1989-94) written and drawn in part by John Byrne is by most accounts a lot better. I have only ever read a handful of its issues (they are on what I call my “all-time pull list”), but one of the things that is notable about the series is She-Hulk’s tendency to directly address the reader, breaking the fourth wall, so to speak. She often acts as if she knows she is in a comic—but even more often than that she is frequently depicted in various forms of wardrobe distress. There is also a whole issue of Fantastic Four (#275—also written by Byrne) that centers around her efforts to stop a tabloid publisher (depicted, not coincidentally, to look like Stan Lee) from going to print with nude photos of the emerald giantess, taken from helicopter as she sunbathed on the roof of the Baxter Building.
While not part of her original conception, unlike her cousin Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk’s transformation seems to have a lot more to do with uninhibited sexuality and sexual appetite than with anger. Sure, She-Hulk gets mad and smashes stuff, but since for the most part she can control her transformation and even prefers her She-Hulk identity and remains in it most of the time (for months or years at a time), anger has less to do it with than her desire. Slott’s run on the title explores a key part of that desire—Jennifer Walters’s desire to escape her petite less assertive human form. Jennifer Walters has the typical social inhibitions, especially ones that are used to deny ourselves pleasure and immediate gratification (for good or ill), while for the most part, She-Hulk has no such compunctions.
As such, the fact that She-Hulk engages in lots of casual sex becomes a defining part of her character and a conflict within the comic (her bringing home a string of men without proper security clearance to the Avenger Mansion for one-night stands is part of what gets her kicked out). It is a problematic, but fascinating aspect—on the one hand, explicitly addressing sex and sexuality is something Marvel comics hardly ever do in a way that could be considered mature (and by mature, I don’t mean humorless—sex can and often is funny, absurd, irrational), but as I mentioned before it also falls into the trap letting sexuality overly define her character. At one point, she forced under oath to list all the people she’s slept with as She-Hulk (too many to actually list in the comic, instead the panels transition to the court reporter reading back a scrolling list) as opposed to how many she has slept with in her normal human identity (around three). It is this kind of stuff that undermines Slott’s work to establish her character as a formidable lawyer—not because we don’t see her solving cases and doing research, all the things trial lawyers do, but because her sexualization is always at the forefront no matter what else she is doing.
Yet, despite this short-coming, Slott’s She-Hulk series tells some interesting stories and uses its self-awareness to explore some of the very troubling notions of sex and sexuality in Marvel comics that plague the title. Foremost among these is a story revolving around a sexual assault case against the former Avenger, Starfox (not to be confused with the anthropomorphic fox video game character).
Even though Starfox was first introduced in the 1970s, he is definitely a character often associated with the 1980s. In addition to his super strength and vitality and his ability to fly, his main power makes him, in the words of Stu Cicero, “a walking roofie.” He has the power to calm people down, make them open to suggestion, “stimulate their pleasure centers” (whatever that means) and make them infatuated with him. Starfox is a character, at least in his hey-day as an Avenger, who was often played for a laugh. He was a libidinous lothario that the ladies drooled over and/or who constantly pursued them. However, the nature of his power puts his appeal into a questionable zone. What does it mean when your power influences people to want to sleep with you? How is that really different from a roofie or being a mind control rapist like the Purple Man? As a kid I never thought about it, but the adults who were writing the Avengers back in the mid-80s should have known better.
Slott clearly does know better and uses the plot arc of Starfox being accused of abusing his power to put this explanation into the mouth of Stu Cicero. Stu uses an example even folks not familiar with superhero comics should be able to understand: Pepe LePew—the horny skunk who is the Warner Bros. cartoon poster child for normalizing sexual assault through comedy.
Stu Cicero uses Avengers #232 to make his case (from She-Hulk vol.2 #xx)
Starfox’s dismissive attitudes to the allegation and his apparent lack of regret serves as a kind of stand-in for the stereotypical superhero comics reader, biding his time through “the boring parts” (women complaining about harassment and assault) and awaiting his eventual exoneration and/or escape to go on more salacious intergalactic adventures. The victim’s testimony, however, leads to She-Hulk realizing that her own past tryst with Starfox may have been influenced by his power. She tracks him down, and he gets his “exciting part”—a fight with She-Hulk wherein she kicks him in the nuts, but he is transported off-planet and out of reach by his influential and cosmically powered father (Mentor of the Titan Eternals – more ridiculous obscure continuity stuff). It seems that even in the comic book world the powerful and well-connected can escape the consequences of their actions. But beyond that, the story works to underscore how superhero comics have a history of not following up with the actual consequences of the puerile sexual behaviors and attitudes that have long permeated the genre. Later, it turns out that Starfox’s abuse of his power is a side effect of one his evil brother Thanos’s schemes. In that way, he is left off the hook for the ultimate consequences of his sexual violence. He is allowed to remain “a hero” to be used by some future writer. However, at the same time as a result of seeing the possible abuse of his powers first hand, he has Moondragon (a character with her own history of abusing her powers for sexual dominance) use her psychic powers to turn them off, so he could never do it again intentionally or inadvertently.
For some people, that last bit of retconning is what is wrong with superhero comes, but I love that kind of stuff. There is a certain pleasure in reading a story that allows the actions of the past to stand, but recasts them in a way that takes into account a broader consciousness of the societal meaning of those actions. In this way, those old Avengers issues with a skeevy Starfox still exist, but now we know that skeeviness was not “heroic.” It allows the reader to correct his or her interpretation of the past, not by convincing us that how he acted in the past was acceptable (or just part of the time in which it was produced and thus excusable), but by reinforcing that it wasn’t. Sure, ideally I may have liked Starfox to have turned out to be the kind of douchebag that he seems to be without any caveats (I never liked the character), but at least now some writer who insists on using him has an excuse for his powers not working the same way anymore.
Jennifer Walters’s meta-complaint
Of course, serialized superhero comics being what they are Starfox’s history remains in an ambiguous space. Everything that happens in these She-Hulk issues could be ignored by a future writer, and Slott seems to have written the series with the knowledge that he was toiling in a sort of bubble within the Marvel Universe. He puts words to that effect into Jennifer Walters’s mouth (and there is a new She-Hulk series starting in February, so we’ll see if that’s the case). But this willingness to grapple with comic book continuity (and an apparently frightening knowledge of it and its inconsistencies) is part of what makes the comic so compelling. Yes, on one level it appears to be more of the insular continuity obsessed dreck that weights down too many titles and definitely Marvel’s big “event” series, but rather than take it seriously, Slott brings the discrepancies and ethical slips to the fore as a way to invigorate his stories with pleasing ambiguity. The inclusion of material comics within the comic narratives lets those ambiguities exist as the seeds of possibility rather than mistakes to be fixed. Peter Parker profiting from his constant defrauding of Daily Bugle publisher, J. Jonah Jameson, the fact that half the beings in the universe were killed by Thanos (and later brought back), the existence of Duckworld, cosmic beings like the Living Tribunal, the contradictory fates of the Leader, and following up with undeveloped characters and stories that have their origins in crap like Jim Shooter’s Secret Wars—all of these things are explored in Slott’s She-Hulk series not with the pedantic obsession of the stereotypical comic nerd, but with good-natured humor and critical nostalgia.
Another aspect of the series that works in its favor (and that has often worked in the favor of some the best superhero titles) is its strong supporting cast—fellow lawyers Augustus “Pug” Pugliese and Mallory Book, “Awesome Andy” (formerly the Mad Thinker’s Awesome Android) as a general office worker, Two-Gun Kid (the time-displaced former Avenger cowboy) as a form of bounty-hunter/bailiff, Ditto the shape-shifting gopher, and Southpaw, the angsty teenaged super-villain granddaughter of one of the firm’s partners all serve as interesting companions and foils to She-Hulk. In addition there is a whole range of guest appearances ranging from Hercules to Damage Control to The Leader to a then dead (and later returned) Hawkeye. She-Hulk seeks to embrace, rather than obfuscate, the over-the-top and often incoherent mess of the Marvel Universe.
It is impossible to put myself in a position of someone unfamiliar with the history of the Marvel Universe to know if She-Hulk is the kind of series you can enjoy without that deep knowledge, but I think you can even if you have just some knowledge—even just a passing familiarity with the tropes of the superhero genre would be sufficient (in way that something like Alan Moore’s Top Ten plays with them). Like any other valuable work, from Shakespeare’s to Junot Diaz’s, knowledge of its many allusions and references improves and deepens comprehension, but is not wholly necessary. Ultimately, the crazy details, characters and events of past stories that Slott dredges up are so absurd and contradictory that for all we know as readers they could be made up on the spot.
Whatever the case, Dan Slott’s She-Hulk is the kind of series that is probably best for long-time fans of Marvel Comics, who still look back fondly on its stories and characters, but have grown up enough to admit their absurdity and their reflection of problematic attitudes. Yes, She-Hulk exists within the skein of the Marvel Universe, and thus may be an example of what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel optimism,” when ”the object/scene of desire is itself an obstacle to fulfilling the very wants that bring people to it”—the “scene of desire” in this case being an entertaining and adult superhero comic book immersed in its convoluted continuity—as what there is to work with often recapitulates the very problems the reworking is trying to overcome. And yes, there is not much creators can do within that skein to make lasting change to an editorial approach and historical context that reinforces the social attitudes that makes She-Hulk “a skank” while Tony Stark is a “playboy,” but Slott’s work does work to question those attitudes in an explicit and entertaining way, even if when it comes time to answer them (like in the panels above) suddenly Zzzax strikes again.
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21 thoughts on “Dan Slott’s She-Hulk: Derivative Character as Meta-Comic”
fnord12 says:
There’s probably an irony in me addressing a continuity concern on this post, but i wanted to stick up for Starfox and the main writer, Roger Stern, who used him in the mid-80s. Starfox was never depicted as using his powers to manipulate women at that time, and specifically says he wouldn’t use his powers on people without their consent or in battle (and even then it was always male foes and there was never anything sexual about it). It seems Slott’s interpretation of the character came from a 6 page back-up in a 1991 Silver Surfer annual that would have been better left ignored.
That was generally my problem with Dan Slott’s She-Hulk run, which i tried on a few times due to rave fan reviews: Slott took a lot of liberties with the stories he was using, and so the more you knew about them, the less fun they were.
All that said, i enjoyed your analysis of She-Hulk and especially how you tie her meta origins into her being a character used for meta commentary.
Osvaldo Oyola says:
Thanks for commenting! (I want more dialog here, so your concerns are welcome!)
I would love some issue #s for Starfox’s explicit claims about using his powers.
The thing is, Slott’s run doesn’t claim that he actually abused his powers back in the day (and actually makes sure that this abuse is covered by Thanos’s plan in their recent presence) – rather, I think he is pointing out how Starfox’s libidinous attitude and the nature of his power puts him in a space that makes it problematic and potentially untrustworthy, and that it plays into the adolescent (straight) male desire to have a bunch of women. He is a kind of ultimate superhero wish fulfillment character. Like I said, even as a young teen I foun something skeevy about Starfox.
Anyway, that back-ups story you mention – which I have never read – is just the kind of thing a pedantic reader obsessed with continuity would demand needs attention, so Slott does so in a way that I think takes the piss out of that demand.
Avengers #256 is the issue i was thinking about where he makes the specific claim. But the bigger point is that he just was never shown to be a womanizer during that mid-80s period. There was a scene with him flirting with a paramedic when he first joins the Avengers, but that’s really it in terms of any “romantic” endeavors.
(All that said, as originally conceived by Jim Starlin as Eros to his brother’s Thanos, he was libidinous, and based on that i understand why you and Dan Slott and even Ron Marz who wrote that back-up have that interpretation of him. I’m just defending his mid-80s appearances, dammit! In truth the character was barely used before Roger Stern added him ot the Avengers.)
I do recommend adding Roger Stern’s entire run to your all-time pull list; it’s where She-Hulk is really developed into a serious character, it’s the reason why a lot of us like Monica Rambeau, and it’s just a fun run.
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Dean Compton says:
I feel like Slott failed at the satire he was looking to get across in this series, and I also feel like he did She-Hulk a disservice as a character. I do agree that he tried to tackle sex and She-Hulk’s sexuality from a mature standpoint not usually seen in superhero comics, but all he really did was call She-Hulk slut without saying so over and over again.
If he had genuinely wanted to challenge the status quo, he never would have done the Starfox story where we had one of the most prominent female heroes of the MU questioning herself and her sexual encounters. What would have been truly revolutionary is if he had had She-Hulk just decide to hell with what the men of MU thought about her sexuality and told them off for it. That may have happened, but I don’t recall it if it did, which probably means it was relegated to a non-point.
I hear you, but the reality is, it is a lot easier to say “the hell with what people think” than to live with it and I think he did a good job of depicting her conflicted desires.
I thought the Starfox plotline was pretty damn brilliant despite it flaws for re-examining the assumptions about male sexual desire written into comics and what is consider not only okay but appealing and something to identify with, when it it (i.e. Starfox) is really creepy..
I do think you are right that there were points where she was slut-shamed and that was unfortunate (thus the problems with the series), but over all it was a lot of fun and did its best remain so while explicitly tackling issues that rarely get any attention at all.
Well, I think that’s the thing: I wanted to see her and the MU deal with the fallout of a lady saying she can have sex with whoever she likes and with as many folks as she likes and if you judge her-that’s your problem.
Granted, it prolly would not have been as fun, but it would have been a lot different and more poignant. I do agree that it was nice to see these issues bluntly explored, which is a rarity in the world of superheroes.
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Nathanael says:
FWIW, I recently went through the Savage She Hulk (collection, so B&W) Issue #1 is Stan Lee, but every subsequent issue is by David Anthony Kraft.
I was surprised to realize that She-Hulk as we know her was created by Kraft. She quickly develops the ability to be just as intelligent when “hulked out” as not, unlike Bruce Banner. Halfway through the run, she just chills out on the beach having fun in She-Hulk form, and a few issues later she decides she wants to be She-Hulk all the time. She isn’t promiscuous per se, but she gets a hell of a lot more open and uninhibited and even flirty, and this appears to be part of what she loves about being She-Hulk. By the end of the Kraft run on Savage She-Hulk, her character is established. Stern & Byrne & Slott are all writing true to that template.
I only have the first two issues of that run and only ever read one or two others over time (and a long time ago), but have always heard it was not very good. Looking at pre-Avenger/FF She-Hulk appearances in books like Dazzler and Marvel Two-in-One, her lack of inhibition (in MTIO she is constantly hitting on the Thing) and impulsiveness is her version of being “Hulked out” and she is definitely She-Hulk all the time. In fact, as a kid, my main way of distinguishing the difference btwn Hulk and She-Hulk (beside the obvious gender-presenting aspect) is that she was “always” She-Hulk.
Did you actually like the Savage She-Hulk run? Is it worth seeking out?
Oh, and thanks for commenting! How’d you find the blog?
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Leon Kpow says:
Hey Osvaldo, Slott’s She-Hulk run was my first interaction with the Jen Walters character and I also came to it with only a passing knowledge of the wider Marvel universe, which didn’t stop me from enjoying the series as a whole so I guess I fall into the category you mentioned of people who could appreciate Slott’s writing on its own terms without having an intimate knowledge of the material it references.
I read the series as it originally came out and, while I could tell that it was referencing a wide body of continuity, I never felt compelled to trace the references back to their source material, preferring instead to see them through the lens of Slott’s blending of the prosaic (life as Jen Walters) and the absurd (life as She-Hulk). I think my lack of interest in following the continuity trail was partly a matter of personal preference but also an aspect of the way that Slot utilised references in his writing. As you point out in your article, Slott took continuity as a generative starting point for a number of storytelling endeavours, none of which felt to me like they were overly invested in reframing continuity as an exercise of “rearranging story components and then putting things back in their proper place” that is a common complaint of those claiming that overt references in certain comics amount to “continuity porn”. In fact, while Slott’s use of continuity as a means to explore the implications of what comics history might mean for how characters perceived themselves in the present, and as a motivation for many of his run’s plot points, obviously describes the structure of his run in an important way, I found the imaginative pleasures of Slott’s referencing equally rewarding.
The components of Marvel comics history that Slott chose to sample from were odd in a way that I found captivating; they pointed at a wider Marvel universe that was obscure and weird, and all the more compelling because of it. There was a lack of self-seriousness to this presentation that made it easier to appreciate as a vision of a strange fantasy world, one where you don’t have to get caught up in the minutiae of how everything logically fits together to appreciate the existence of a larger interconnected whole. I agree with you that Bobillo’s art worked the best for the series, particularly for the way it set a humorously irreverent visual tone that best matched the content of Slott’s writing. I found the series was greatly diminished in its ability to sustain the strangeness of the Marvel Universe, which I had personally found so appealing, when its issues were rendered in a style that was more akin to conventional superheroics (and thus implicitly grounded in a generic comic book reality). I remember spotting Bobillo on a few issues of some other Marvel comics around that time too but then he disappeared and I haven’t seen any work from him since, which I think is a shame.
Anyway, I just wanted to chip in with my experiences of the series as an uninformed comics reader. I’ll probably go back and revisit it now after reading your thoughts here, so thanks for the reminder and the thoughtful analysis.
Hey Leon! Thanks for coming by, reading and commenting. I find your experience of reading the series compelling, and also find somewhat affirming of my view of the series and continuity.
I am loving Slott and Allred’s Silver Surfer series, are you reading it?
Also, out of curiosity, how’d you find us?
Yeah I was reading Slott and Allred’s Silver Surfer up until the reboot and am yet to catch up on what came after. What I read of the series was quite enjoyable. I liked that it took Marvel’s cosmic universe as a starting point but then added new concepts to it such as the Impericon (which comes in the very first issue) or the Primeans, fleshing out the quirkier regions of Marvel’s cosmology. I felt like it also doubled down on this focus on exploration and discovery by using the Dawn Greenwood character to play the part of the fish out of water who recontextualises what would be quotidian to the Silver Surfer as alternately wondrous to herself (and by extension to the reader since she’s clearly posed as a partial surrogate). Plus there’s also Allred’s art which I always love looking at, particularly when he’s paired with his wife, Laura, on colours (something that I think is an almost exclusive occurrence now); the pair are doing this thing where they make Allred’s character line art pop out from the backgrounds in a way that evokes, for me at least, a cel-based animation style, making the whole comic read as if it were an animated cartoon from the 1960s.
In terms of how I found your blog, I can trace it back to Ramzi Fawaz’s retweet of your article on the end of the Fantastic Four. I’ve just finished reading Fawaz’s book, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, and I found his mode of analysis to be mind-expanding with regards to the way I see popular comics working. From the handful of articles on your blog that I’ve read, I’ve gotten the impression that you’re coming at comics from a similar place to him and that’s something that I’m interested in reading more about.
Hope you’ll return, read and comment more! Welcome and thanks!
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Mark 14:66-72 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed. And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.” But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.” But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.” And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
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John 21:15-19 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.” (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
Jesus looks around at Peter’s fishing boat and tackle. Peter has gone back to the old life again, unsure what to do with himself next. Jesus says, “Simon, son of John, when I first met you, you were a fisherman, and I called you to be a fisher of humans. You were very happy then to come with me and work alongside me. Now you are back here again. Do you love me more than these?” Peter is a bit nonplused and doesn’t know where this is leading, but manages to say: “Yes, Lord – you know I love you.” “Well,” Jesus says, “I have a job for you. Feed my lambs.”
Peter doesn’t know what to say to this, but Jesus goes on: “And Peter, you remember how you said you would go with me even to death? How even if all the others left me you wouldn’t? It didn’t work out that like that, did it? I heard you that night, as you know. You told them you didn’t even know me. Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter hangs his head. There is no denying it now. “Yes, Lord,” he says, “you know that I love you.”
But Jesus isn’t finished yet. There is no point in getting someone to see themselves as they really are if you don’t show them where to go from there. “Don’t you see, Peter?” he says. “That’s not the end of the story. Peter, the next day they took me outside the city and they crucified me. They watched me die while you hid away somewhere. “But don’t you see what it means? I was despised and rejected by everybody. I had nothing but darkness and pain and death. But Peter, I bore all your griefs. I carried all your sorrows. I was wounded for your transgressions. I was bruised for your iniquities. Upon me was the punishment that made you whole. As they beat me, you were being healed. You were straying away like a lost sheep, Peter, but God laid on me the punishment for all your sin. Simon, son of John, do you love me?”
Peter, feeling that the tears in his eyes tell the truth anyway, says, “Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.” And Jesus goes on to tell him of the new life he must lead, a life of serving God, a life of suffering and death, a life of following the Master.
The story hardly needs applying further. Christian faith begins (or it may begin) with understanding what Peter understood that morning. It is as we see Jesus, dying so that his people need not die, completing on the cross the work of our salvation, wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities, that we see clearly the love that God has for us. It is also the point at which we begin to love God in return.
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Because of her confrontation with segregation laws, protesting the repression and detention of African National Congress (ANC) combatants, including her then husband, Nelson Mandela, Winnie was tortured, imprisoned and isolated, and was the victim of a defamatory campaign organized for the security of apartheid.
The release for the first time in South Africa of an award-winning documentary about her life, made by the Frenchman Pascale Lamche, presented in the very voices of the perpetrators details of the so-called intelligence operation of the racial segregation regime (Operation Romulus) to defame this courageous woman, a symbol of resistance.
The inclusion in the national and international press of negative stories about Winnie, the pressures on the legendary leader Mandela, who was married to Winnie for 37 years, and other ANC leaders to separate from this indomitable woman recognized as the Mother of the Nation are told with great audacity by agents involved in these actions.
Through Lamche’s film, South Africans learned from the very voice of the apartheid security services exaggerated Vic McPherson that in 1989 he was in charge of a media strategy operation against Winnie and the ANC, and that he had 40 journalists to whom he provided false information to be published on the front page.
A particular impact had on the citizens of this country was that McPherson narrated these events sitting comfortably in his garden and petting his dogs, who considered the most chilling images of this documentary.
These and other revelations by several of the regime’s exaggers, including former Chief of Intelligence Niel Barnard and former Chief of Police in Soweto Henk Heslinga, brought new admiration in the nation for this woman, considered the face of South Africa during the dark years of repression.
DESERVED HOMAGE Tributes to Winnie, who died on April 2 at the age of 81 after a long illness, began the day after her death with official mourning, flags at half-mast and tributes throughout the country, which had their highest expression in the memorial on April 11, held at the Orlando District Stadium in Soweto.
Songs and dances, part of the traditional liturgical ritual of South Africa’s black population, were a constant during the more than four hours of tributes led by Vice President David Mabuza.
In his words, the Vice President said that ‘we are here to mourn the death of a true revolutionary and leader of our liberation, to mourn the death of the Mother of the Nation because a tree that protected us has fallen’.
Mabuza, also vice president of the ANC, said Winnie remained relentless until the last years of her life and throughout her life’you reminded our daughters and mothers that women are powerful and can stand up to men’.
A similar ceremony, convened by Julius Malema’s opposition Economic Independence Fighters (EFF) party, took place on the same day in the Free State province.
TRIBUTES Analysts in South Africa consider that one of the most heartfelt tributes was that of Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, who dedicated a letter to’her elder sister’ where she says that’you have become one of the brightest stars in the sky, where you will remain forever radiant’.
The extraordinary life you led is an example of great strength and inexhaustible passion, a source of inspiration for all of us on how to face challenges with courage, firmness and unwavering determination…. Thank you for your brilliant wisdom, fierce challenge and elegant beauty’, Graca Machel’s message expressed.
Government and political leaders from various organizations, including the Communist Party, the EFF, the Inkatha Party, and the ANC youth and women’s leagues, among many other voices, expressed their admiration, respect and appreciation for Winnie Mandela’s years of selfless struggle for South Africa’s liberation from apartheid. In the final farewell to Winnie, President Ramaphosa said that her life was dedicated to the unity of the oppressed of all nations and in death ‘unites us all, those close to her and those from many nations and continents, to pay homage and remember her with affection’.
She has shown in her death that our many political and racial differences have been overshadowed by our shared desire to follow her example in building a just, equitable and caring society, she said. The president said Winnie’s conscience and convictions left her no choice but to resist because’she felt forced to join a noble struggle in her purposes, though dangerous to carry out, to speak out when others were silent, to organize, mobilize and lead when those who did were imprisoned or forced into exile.
He recognized that she lived, like many South Africans, with fear, pain, loss and disappointment, but each day she rose up with the nobility of the human spirit… They tried to denigrate her with bitter, twisted lies…. they wanted to destroy her so that she would lower her eyes and show weakness, but she always stood up.
President Ramaphosa admitted in his eulogy that’we are forced to acknowledge that she often stood up alone….too many times we were not there for her’.
All who appreciated her and recognized her dedication promised to follow her example and fulfill her legacy.
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Prensa Latina Correspondent in South Africa.
World Bids Farewell to Winnie Mandela
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World bids farewell to Winnie Mandela, Mother of the South African Nation
Leaders from around the world expressed their condolences after the death of the anti-apartheid fighter on Monday.
Author: International Editor | internacionales@granma.cu
April 3, 2018 20:04:36
A CubaNews translation.
Edited by Walter Lippmann.
The anti-apartheid fighter, Winnie Mandela, died at the age of 81. Photo: Prensa Latina
PRETORIA: Leaders from around the world expressed their condolences after the death on Monday of Winnie Mandela, a woman whom the current South African president described as “the voice of challenge and resistance in the face of exploitation and repression by the apartheid regime”.
In a message released yesterday in Pretoria, the head of state and government, Cyril Ramaphosas, further noted that “Winnie was a champion of justice and equality and that throughout her life she contributed to the struggle through sacrifice and persistent determination”.
The news of the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 81, on Monday, April 2, at the Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, was reported by family spokesman Victor Dlamini. He said that “we want to communicate with deep sadness that she has passed away,” he said.
The African Union (AU), in the words of its Commission Chairman, Moussa Faki Mahamat, also expressed shock and sadness at the death of Nelson Mandela’s second wife, reported Prensa Latina.
Also joining in the condolences was Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Yavad Zarif, who addressed his condolences to the South African people in general and to the supporters and all those who follow the thought and beliefs of the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.
Alluding to the four long decades of struggle against apartheid alongside Mandela, he noted that Winnie’s death had caused South Africa and the world pain.
From a closer latitude, Evo Morales, president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, expressed his solidarity with the South Africans for the loss of the one considered by many “mother of the nation” of South Africa.
Morales’ message on Twitter states that the second wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela “was and will be a symbol of the struggle for freedom and equality.
In 1994, after the first democratic elections, Madikizela-Mandela was appointed deputy and vice-minister of Art and Culture. Since then, she had been a member of parliament and remained a leading figure in the African National Congress (ANC), the governing body in South Africa since the first democratic elections after the end of apartheid, in which she won together with Mandela’s victory in 1994.
The South African government announced yesterday that on April 14 Winnie Mandela will be sent off by her people with state funerals, after President Cyril Ramaphosa visited her family in Soweto to express his condolences and support directly to them.
Winnie Mandela Passes On
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Winnie Mandela, A Symbol of the Anti-Imperialist Struggle in South Africa, Passes On
South African activist and politician Winnie Madizikela Mandela passed away on Monday at the age of 81, her personal assistant said on Monday.
Author: Digital Editor | internet@granma.cu
April 2, 2018 11:04:04:04
A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann.
Foto: abc.es
Veteran anti-apartheid fighter Winnie Mandela, who became a reflection of South African women during the years of repression against the majority black population, died Monday at 81, Prensa Latina reported.
Spokeswoman Zodwa Zwane confirmed that Winnie passed away this afternoon and that the family will issue a statement within a few hours.
Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela was born in 1936 in Bizana, Eastern Cape Province, and moved to Johannesburg in 1957 to study Social Work, when he met the legendary leader Nelson Mandela, whom he married the following year and had two daughters. The marriage ended in 1996.
Nelson and Winnie Mandela after the release of the first in February 1990. Photo: AFP
An icon of women’s struggle and resistance in this southern African country, Winnie is remembered for her confrontation with the racial segregation authorities in South Africa, her political harangues and her participation in black workers’ strikes when her then-husband was imprisoned with other leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) on Robben Island.
In 1993, she was elected president of the ANC Women’s League, Minister of Art, Culture, Science and Technology in the first government after the end of apartheid, and left her official position in 1996.
Until her death she was involved in community work at his residence in Soweto.
Cuba Mourns Winnie Mandela’s death
In the afternoon of Wednesday, the Vice President of the Council of State, Mercedes López Acea, signed the book of condolences at the South African Embassy on the island due to the death of the South African leader Winnie Mandela.
Author: Darcy Borrero Batista | darcy@granma.cu
April 11, 2018 15:04:35
In the afternoon of Wednesday afternoon, Mercedes López Acea, Vice President of the Council of State, signed the book of condolences at the South African Embassy on the island due to the death of the South African leader Winnie Mandela.
In front of Winnie’s image, surrounded by a vase of flowers, Acea, who is also the first secretary of the Party in Havana, wrote that “in view of the death of Winnie Mandela, a prominent defender of the rights of her people and an activist against the apartheid regime, we convey to the government and people of South Africa our deepest condolences on behalf of the people and the Government of Cuba, which we extend to them”.
Along with her words also appear the signatures of Vice-Chancellor Abelardo Moreno and Gisela García Rivera, Director for Sub-Saharan Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex).
The veteran anti-apartheid fighter who was the second wife of leader Nelson Mandela, became a reflection of South African women during the years of repression against the majority black population.
She died on Monday of the week before, at the age of 81.
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Mr. Pannill, a native of Houston, retired as a lawyer in 2005. He graduated from Rice University in 1962 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1970. He joined a large law firm in Houston. Mr. Pannill practised law for 25 years in his own firm, Pannill, Moser & Barnes. His father, Fitzhugh Hastings Pannill, and grandfather, Judge William Pannill, practised law as well. He also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he worked nights as a copy boy for The New York Times. He was a member of the staff of The Detroit Free Press that won the Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting for coverage of the Detroit riots of 1967.
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The Better Media: Radio or Television?
Few would dispute that television, with its dual audio and visual components, is the more capable media form when compared to radio, which only offers the first of these – except, perhaps, those who had no choice between the two during the early- and mid-20th century.
But as antiquated as it may seem today, radio itself was considered a technological advancement then. Hitherto forced to obtain information and entertainment from printed materials, such as books, newspapers, and magazines, those who were introduced to the new-fangled device felt it was the ultimate achievement. Just by turning a knob, they were able to connect with the world, bringing it into their very living rooms and hearing, as opposed to reading, whatever current programming offered, from sports to music to special events.
Although television later usurped radio's capability with pictures as well as sound, it initially offered poor quality and only served to highlight its artificial representation. Radio, on the other hand, engaged the listener, transforming him into an active part of the process.
Because it only offered sound, and therefore provided no visual cues, the listener needed to augment his experience with imagination, which, paradoxically, was more vivid and authentic to him than actual pictures could have been. Unable to enjoy a program if he remained in a passive mode, he was compelled to become involved with it, concentrating on the conversation and music to picture the people and events in his mind.
Initially more realistic than those received by primitive television sets, whose screens were tiny in relation to the huge cabinets that housed their actual picture tubes, radio programs were considered more realistic and dramatic, providing what was termed "theater of the mind."
Because television had still been in its early developmental stage during the 1950s and 1960s, and usually reflected staged sets, they were limited in creativity, but radio writers faced few of these restrictions with their scripts, enabling them to occur in whatever time and place they chose. Coupled with one or more narrators and appropriate background music, those scripts led the listener through the story and its events exactly the way they were intended, enabling him to imagine them unfolding in his mind, which, in essence, became his own personal "television screen. " Consequently, this human-radio interface equally earned this form of media the title "art of imagination."
Above all else, radio enabled the person to connect with others and numerous parts of the world, as if it served as a form of sensory travel. Although newspapers and periodicals brought stories and events to the reader that had already occurred, radio provided this link as they occurred, transforming him from passive to virtually active participant.
When the reporter urgently said, "Here we are on the corner of Preston and Elliot streets in front of the Third National Bank, where the robbery is unfolding right before our eyes," the listener believed that he was.
There was no limitation to the air waves' reach, whether they stretched across town or across the Atlantic. When Winston Churchill gave a speech in Buckingham Palace, for instance, the listener often felt as if he were standing there with him and imagined the gold face clock of Big Ben chiming behind his shoulder.
Radio, as perhaps the intermediary link between the printed page and the television screen, also demonstrated that there was a correlation between media technology and reader / listener / viewer involvement. Indeed, the more the former offered, the less active he became.
Devoid of any technology, newspapers and magazines only offered printed words and two-dimensional pictures, requiring full participant engagement for them to be effective. Through voices, sound, and music, radios subsequently permitted him to dispense with reading, but intensified his need for listening, connecting him with the world and honing the ability of his mind to imagine and create. Finally, television, offering both sound and images, replaced some of his sensory enhancement requirements, but reduced him to a mostly passive viewer. Additional television advancements, such as those with three- and four-dimensional capabilities, further reduced his need to access his mind's potential and created a virtual reality in which he was almost at the center of the experience.
While answers to which media can be considered superior vary according to the generation and the degree of technology to which it was introduced, those who had lived during the early- to mid-20th century would assuredly vote for radio.
Source by Robert Waldvogel
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Why are pop stars releasing less and less records?
From Rihanna to Adele and Bieber: music’s big names are not releasing new songs with their usual frequency, and the reason for this lies in the existence of more profitable activities.
December 11, 2020 | Dalk Newsroom
«Music’s biggest stars are not actually focused on music» the Wall Street Journal recently wrote: for years, the most famous contemporary singers have indeed tended to release increasingly fewer records than what they used to, and to devote themselves mainly to parallel activities – such as fashion, beauty products, or television.
Rihanna, for instance, has been one of the most successful artists of the last twenty years, and between 2005 and 2012 she practically published one album per year, but from 2016 onwards she did not release any songs. The same goes for Justin Bieber, who has not produced an album in five years, for Adele, whose last record dates from 2015, and for Lady Gaga, who, tellingly, published Chromatica (2020) four years after Joanne.
Music’s biggest stars are not actually focused on music.
We are therefore witnessing a sharp “scatter” of record releases by the most famous pop singers, who once published a new record every two years. Several artists have indeed set aside their most demanding projects, which define their musical careers; in some cases, popstars continue to perform on tour even if they do not have new songs, but sometimes they suspend their tours altogether.
Since music is mostly listened to in streaming, and digital records are rarely sold – not to mention CDs or LPs – concerts remain one of the main sources of income for artists, who consequently keep on organizing tours: but it is difficult to gather tens of thousands of people without new releases. Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic will lead de facto to the interruption of all the big concerts for a year, or likely more. Because of this, many albums have been delayed, and artists will probably be discouraged to release new ones in the short term.
According to various managers of the music industry, contacted by the Wall Street Journal, right now the share of the artists’ earnings that comes from things not directly associated with music is between the 20 and 50 per cent – ten years ago, it was between the 10 and 20 per cent, according to the estimates by artists themselves. Rihanna, for instance, has devoted herself mainly to her cosmetics line Fenty Beauty; West got himself into fashion, launching a successful line of clothing, while Katy Perry has acted as judge in the television talent American Idol in the last years.
To conclude, a visible, general tendency can be identified, strongly linked to the huge transformations brought to music by streaming, which has made records meaningless from a commercial point of view in just a few years. A single release that remains permanently on top of the charts and, above all, in the playlists’ rotations, can represent for an artist the equivalent of what once was a well-sold record, from an economic point of view.
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Violence in Haiti: Powell and Latortue blame Aristide
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Violence in Haiti: Colin Powell and Gerard Latortue Blame Aristide, When the Blame Lies With Them
On October 4, Haitians staged yet another in the country's growing number of street demonstrations, calling for the return of democratically-elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was ousted by a State Department-scripted coup last February 29. In recent days, these manifestations have cost 30 lives in the Port-au-Prince area alone, generating further popular anger against the U.S.-sanctioned local authorities. The latest protest pitted the island's ill-trained police and Brazilian-led U.N. peacekeepers against pro-Aristide supporters, resulting in fourteen dead, including three police officers, who were later beheaded. In comments to the Miami Herald, Interi
m Prime Minister Gerard Latortue blamed the violence on “The Aristide loyalists [who] were trying to intimidate and derail the municipal, legislative and presidential elections scheduled for next year.”
From Latortue's first days in office, members of Aristide's Lavalas Party—rather than renegade ex-police and military personnel, and members of the previous junta—were the interim president's enemy. But in recent days, Latortue has been stepping up his anti-Aristide rhetoric with the probable goal of building a case against the participation of the former Haitian president and his party in next year's elections. There is no doubt that Latortue will soon be using the perilous security situation to build support for reconstituting the brutal Haitian armed forces. He will also use the situation to advance the electoral prospects of Haiti's business-led rightwing political movement, in particular the Group of 184, led by the unscrupulous sweatshop l
abor king, Andy Apaid Jr., a U.S. national.
Rather than this far-fetched explanation of the alleged threat posed by Aristide, based on a ballot that might not happen (at least not by next year), Latortue instead should have traced part of the blame for the recent series of public protests to the gross incompetence that he and his government have displayed ever since he was raised up from obscurity by a State Department press release declaring the formation of his government. Latortue's appointment was announced shortly after Aristide had been hustled onto an airplane and flown into exile in the Central African Republic.
Team Members: Latortue and Powell
A recent example of Latortue's ineptitude was his hapless response to Tropical Storm Jeanne, the natural tragedy that took several thousand lives on the island and cost tens of millions of dollars in personal and public property loss. While the storm was raging, Latortue and his confederates were not even
competent enough to take the basic step of establishing an emergency national radio grid over which they could have broadcast calls to the population to go to high ground in order to escape from the flooding. This abdication of responsibility alone should have been enough to justify calling for his and his colleague's resignations.
In addition to Latortue, Secretary of State Colin Powell was quick to blame last week's street violence on supporters of Aristide's Lavalas Party, stating that “These are the old Aristide elements and some criminal elements who are trying to take advantage of the situation.” However, protesters present at the demonstration claim that it was the police who first opened fire on a crowd of, at that time, unarmed pro-Aristide militants.
What Powell refuses to acknowledge is that the recent violence and protests in Haiti are not random acts, but are the direct result of popular resentment against the U.S.-executed coup d'etat which he authored, and which brought about the
replacement of Aristide last February with someone whom the citizens view as an imposture. Haitians are also outraged over the manner in which Latortue has embraced rather than condemned the island's ex-military and rebel police who have persecuted thousands of Lavalas members, solely on the basis of their political beliefs. In Latortue's first public appearance as prime minister, he went so far as to acclaim Haiti's rebel leaders—many of whom are now highly regarded by the current government for their gun-slinging abilities. He also praised thugs and FRAPH paramilitary death squad members, whom he has since referred to as “freedom fighters.” This even sent his State Department godfathers into a free fall.
For and Against Aristide
For their part, rather than protecting Aristide and the principles of the constitutional government, U.S. Embassy officials, acting under the instructions of Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, with the approval of Powell, skil
lfully stage-managed the removal of Aristide from the country. There was no confusion over what Washington wanted; a number of inter-agency meetings in Washington established that Noriega, hiding behind the phrase, “a high State Department source,” had been lobbying to oust Aristide weeks before the president's eventual flight into exile.
The Bush administration's strategy was to rid itself once and for all of that meddlesome troublemaker, choosing to avail itself of Aristide's desperate situation, on the eve of his departure. Not only did Powell refuse to authorize peacekeepers to be sent to protect Aristide and Port-au-Prince, but he would not even authorize the shipment of tear gas and other riot control devices necessary to preserve law and order and control the security situation. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that the majority of Haitians today are alienated by and deeply suspicious of Washington's motives in imposing an unelected government of its own choosing upon them. They also
resent foreign troops being brought in to maintain discipline over the population while a jerry-rigged ballot is prepared, in which most likely neither Aristide nor his main political allies will be allowed to take part.
Public protests are one of the few mechanisms at hand for the poor to voice their discontent. Moreover, many Haitians are mystified over who Latortue actually is, aside from being a long-time resident of Boca Raton, Florida, and not having been a Haitian resident for decades. Most Haitians still consider Aristide to be their only legitimate leader. Alix Jean, a Lavalas supporter, captured the sentiment of many Haitians when he noted that, “We believe in democracy, and we have a democratically elected leader. His name is Jean-Bertrand Aristide.”
Moreover, Haitians are not alone in their refusal to acquiesce to the U.S. hybrid government. In spite of Washington's pressure on the leadership of Guyana, Dominica, St. Lucia, St
. Vincent and the Grenadines, as part of an overall strategy to reintegrate the now U.S. satellite into CARICOM's regional trade bloc activities, these doughty mini-nations have refused to interact with the Latortue government. At this point, CARICOM—although a number of its members are in favor of lifting Haiti's suspension—will not move to reintegrate Latortue's regime as a CARICOM member until the matter is brought up at its next scheduled meeting. Why then did Powell expect fiercely nationalist Haitians to meekly accept a U.S.-dependent government without displaying their fury in one of the few methods still available to them—street demonstrations?
Why They Protest
In fact, many patriotic Haitians consider it nothing less than their duty to manifest their chagrin over the shrouded departure of their lawful president. Despite the Bush administration's ultimate responsibility for Haiti's current morass, Powell has joined Latortue in blaming Aristide supporters
for the turmoil that is increasingly gripping the small Caribbean nation. The record, however, speaks differently. The Latortue government—and for that matter the U.S.-installed and led emergency peacekeeping unit and then the current U.N. interim peacekeepers— characteristically have stood idly by and watched as a rising tide of pro-Aristide Haitians have been harassed, arrested, tortured and, in many instances, killed for their political dissent and support of Aristide. In a San Francisco Bay View article, Haitian expert Anthony Fenton cited the July 19 publication of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti in which it was reported that, “Morgue employees from the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince have revealed that 800 bodies on Sunday, March 7, and another 200 bodies on Sunday, March 28, were dumped and buried in a mass grave at Titanyen. These figures are unusual for such a short period of time (100 is normal for a month).” The document continued to note that, “Interviewees have reported that
the victims were supporters of Aristide or Haiti's former constitutional government.”
Another example of the interim government's single-minded persecution of Lavalas supporters—much of it under the watch of one of Latortue's most diabolical cabinet figures, Justice Minister Bernard Gousse—was the detention of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune on July 27, 2004. After nearly three months in hiding, Neptune was detained and imprisoned in the national penitentiary on invented charges to ensure that he would not be able to participate in the upcoming 2005 elections. “There's no case against [Neptune],” charged U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in an interview with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. It was “unconscionable that he [Neptune] has been arrested—this is another attempt by the puppet government to cut off the head of Lavalas.”
Amnesty International echoed Congresswoman Waters' interpretation in a stinging indictment of the Latortue government's behavior last June. The organization clai
med that, “The interim government has swiftly moved to arrest members of former President Aristide's Lavalas Family Party suspected of acts of political violence or corruption. However, the government has failed to act against a number of convicted perpetrators of grave human rights violations who were freed from prison before or during the recent insurgency… None of them have been re-arrested, and a few are reportedly terrorizing their victims and others involved in their prosecution.”
This analysis was prepared by Jenna Michelle Liut and Larry Birns, respectively COHA Research Associate and Director.
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, founded in 1975, is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and information organization. It has been described on the Senate floor as being “one of the nation's most respected bodies of scholars and policy makers.” For
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Playing Smallball on Diversity: Dietrich Vollrath on Fractionalization
December 9, 2016 / Winter Tomato
Dietrich Vollrath, in a Sgt. Joe Friday throwback, has put up something unusual for the day: a quiet, just-the-research-ma’am post exploring the theorized impact of diversity on economic performance. He provides examples of major studies, summarizes the findings, and points out some ways in which those findings, because of research design, might be suspect. In a nod to the recently-ended baseball season, I’ll call this “smallball”: a practical, start-somewhere, move-the-runner approach to a hot issue.
Free-Swinging Cultural Critics
Of course, you might prefer “largeball” – and there is a lot of it out there in the form of post-election analysis and broad-brush, swing-for-the-fences cultural criticism. How is a national culture strengthened or weakened by self-conscious diversity? What does renascent nativism signify? On these questions, you can find some liberal soul-searching (“The End of Identity Liberalism”) by Michael Illa, a conservative told-you-so (“The Crisis for Liberalism”) by Ross Douthat, a shout of defiance from (“Democratic Politics have to be Identity Politics”) Michelle Goldberg, and a sounds-like-Newt post (“The Left needs to get over Multiculturalism”) by Michael Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, to pick the last mentioned, now says that conservatives have never been against a “multiethnic society”; it is “multiculturalism” that is not OK, and it is “assimilation” that makes the difference. While I would classify Gonzalez’s piece as something of a snide rant, he makes the valid point, perhaps unintentionally, that at least in the case of the United States there is a time dimension (call it “assimilation”, or the old term, “melting pot”) that converts raw ethnic heterogeneity into well-digested diversity.
Examples? St. Patrick’s Day, presumably, was once a multicultural affront to WASP America; now the WASPs (and seemingly everybody else) get drunk with the Irish. Bringing this forward, we might say that Cinco de Mayo is noticeably on the way to general inclusiveness and acceptance, while Ramadan and Diwali, even at the pure acceptance level, have a long way to go to catch up with Passover and Yom Kippur.
But might not all these cultural events be on some “balanced growth path” of assimilating (or being assimilated) into the common culture? The majority of Americans don’t celebrate Passover, but most at least know that’s it’s there, many realize that some Jewish families celebrate it in a language other than English, and very few Americans regard Passover as some kind of threatening foreign intrusion. Jews who keep kosher are not considered un-American for doing so. Is there any reason, apart from some parties’ Huntington-esque belief that Muslim culture is inherently incompatible with “western values”, to expect that Ramadan won’t, in time, come to be regarded in the same way as Passover, that veils won’t become as unremarkable as yarmulkes?
I think most people would grant that the passage of time does affect these things, but they would insist that the times affect them, too. Over time, the process of assimilation may be unstoppable, but at a given moment, it’s highly contingent. How it goes depends upon what’s going on.
Let’s set aside this observation and turn instead to how controversies around diversity can surface in economic growth theory.
To set the issue, let me draw a totally unfair parallel. Just, as in the past election, a certain candidate and his followers insisted that social solidarity (whether played out as bathroom politics or an immigration policy) was a requisite to making America great again, some economists, beginning with Easterly and Levine in 1997, have used aspects of growth theory to assert that ethnolinguistic diversity can tilt a society towards economic misery.
The statement I just made is unfair because virtually every economist involved would disavow any such use of their findings. But the parallel, unfortunately, is not pointless, because it is the nature of research of this type – cross-sectional regression studies – to get stood on its head, especially if the subject is politically charged. So, if one person seems to show that diversity vitiates, another will conclude that solidarity strengthens, and all too easily the diversity study becomes a weapon in a completely asymmetrical dispute. One example would be the aforementioned Huntington-esque “Clash of Civilizations” debate that has raged over the same period – another would be an election that revolves around issues of immigration or inclusion.
Diversity Smallball
So how does one weigh in on such a subject without simply adding to the noise? Smallball.
All the studies considered here essentially say that ethnic diversity increases the chance that countries will pursue suboptimal policies that in turn reduce economic growth. To quote from Easterly and Levine’s “Africa’s Growth Tragedy” (1997):
Do higher levels of ethnic diversity encourage poor policies, poor education, political instability, inadequate infrastructure, and other factors associated with slow growth? While debate persists, an assortment of political economy models suggest that polarized societies will be both prone to competitive rent-seeking by the different group and have difficulty agreeing on public goods like infrastructure, education and good polices… Ethnic diversity may increase polarization and thereby impede agreement about the provision of public goods and create positive incentives for growth-reducing policies, such as financial repression and overvalued exchange rates, that create rents for the groups in power at the expense of society at large.
Vollrath does two things in his post:
One, he points out that the causal chain (Diversity/Ethnic Tension à Bad Policies à Lower Growth) assumed by the studies is a matter of interpretation; there is nothing in the studies’ statistical results to rule out other causal chains, say, Bad Policies à Lower Growth à Ethnic Tension. Or, in Vollrath’s twist, Bad Regimes exploit and foster Ethnic Tension to distract critics from Poor Economic Performance.
Two, he deconstructs the “fractionalization” variable that has serves in these studies as the proxy for diversity.
Let’s explore that variable. Fractionalization, a number between zero and one, is simply the probability that, if you pick two individuals randomly from a population, they will come from different groups. The equation (taken from Alesina, et. al, 2003, but used across these studies) goes as follows:
but some numbers may help to show how the equation works. Consider the following two imaginary countries:
In Country 1, when we subtract the sum of the squares of the ethnic group shares from 1, we get a higher number than when we do the same operation for Country 2. Country 1 is more “fractionalized” along ethnic lines. We should care because, as Alesina, et. al. begin, “Ethnic conflict is an important determinant of the political economy of many nations and localities”.
Wait a minute, you say. How do you get from a numerical diversity (fractionalization) to “ethnic conflict”? Some high-fractionalization countries, obviously, do have histories of serious, even violent, ethnic strife; others don’t, and other low-fractionalization countries do. In my mind It’s a weakness of some of these studies that they jump from game-based behavioral evidence, which shows higher levels of distrust among multiethnic panels, to cross-country regressions, where diversity is taken to be indicative of conflict. The authors might respond that it is all in the numbers – for 190 countries, ethnic fractionalization (single, though not same year measurements) negatively correlated (-0.471) with per capita growth over the previous 30 years – but the question still arises as to what, exactly the fractionalization number is supposed to measure. I would observe that the variable does NOT tell us is a lot: it says nothing about whether groups are geographically segregated or intermingled, it says nothing about distribution of income among groups. And a single fractionalization measurement says nothing about how the relationship between diversity, income distribution, or “ethnic conflict” might change over time.
But Vollrath goes much smaller than I go above; he points to basic problems with the fractionalization measure itself. For one thing, it is biased; the more groups you have the higher the potential diversity score, so a high-conflict, highly polarized, black-versus-white situation would score lower on diversity than a country with many small ethnic groups. Or to put it another way, it we divvied up the United States by state, we would get a higher score of “regional” fractionalization than if we did by actual regions (say, Northeast, South, Midwest, West) – yet it’s the same country.
The first problem (sensitivity to the number of groups or components measured) points to a second, greater one with definitions, which are often arbitrary and/or heterogeneous. The US is measured along racial, but Africa along ethnolinguistic lines. And while the studies argue that fractionalization numbers are slow to change, expanding the time scale shows that definitions change even more than populations do. To go back to my St. Paddy’s Day example, Irish immigrants would have been considered a distinct US ethnic group in 1850; they don’t even register today, except as “white”. Finally, once you sort out whether you are measuring fractionalization based on languages spoken (US = 0.25) or religion (US = 0.82) or ethno-racial self-identification (US = 0.49), Vollrath points out that you may very different results depending on what you measure. And it goes on from there – Alesina’s more recent (2016) research adds “birthplace diversity” to the mix, and – did you guess? – it is positively correlated with economic prosperity. So, even if you are inclined to accept “fractionalization” as a valid variable indexing scheme, it’s incumbent upon you, on one side, to be very clear about what type of fractionalization is in play and not to let any one type become a stand-in for “diversity”. On the other side you can’t be content with any one measure of economic performance; per capita growth is not the only story.
But I never could bunt…
For some, Vollrath will have provided more than enough reasons to handle conclusions based on diversity studies with great care, but I, of course, can’t resist a few more comments. Where I might go farther is point to the literature that has questioned the validity of all the research that bases itself on cross-country regressions or growth theory-based convergence assumptions. Some of those questions have come from growth theory’s founding father. Robert Solow (1994, 2000, 2001), whose original specialty was econometrics, has frequently criticized the cross-country regression approach and has also questioned the assumption that the same production function could be valid for industrial and developing countries. Following on Solow, Steven Durlauf (2009) has noted the problems of exchangeability in regression studies. Solow (2001) referred to the probability “very different national economies are not to be explained as if they represent different ‘points’ on some well-defined surface.” Durlauf is more blunt: “Different countries do not represent draws from a common model.”
By this objection, you simply can’t compare, say, African countries that have struggled with border-imposed heterogeneity since statehood ,with the United States, which over its history has successfully integrated many waves of voluntary heterogeneous immigrants and whose economic and political success, without those waves, would be unimaginable. There is no no-heterogeneity-since-Jamestown counterfactual that leads to 325 million people cooperatively producing what remains, by some measures, the world’s largest economy.
Of course, the US national experience also includes plenty of racial and ethnic strife. Robert Fogel, in “The Fourth Great Awakening” (2000), linked populist (and religious) surges in American history to just those “waves” of immigrants. In all these periods, US workers came under wage pressure, and each period saw the emergence of “know nothing” factions with hot agendas around raising tariffs and limiting immigration. That immigrants don’t arrive in constant, optimal, easily-absorbed numbers, that changes in trade patterns create losers as well as winners, that diverse democracies must face and work through these issues is the same as saying that the US has a history. It is not some sign of fundamental economic inefficiency.
From Fogel, “The Fouth Great Awakening”, p. 6o
Just as changing ethnic composition need not be associated with growth failures, growth-inhibiting “bad” policies, such as skewed exchange or interest rates or insufficient provisioning of public goods, can show up for reasons that have nothing to with ethnic or racial diversity. China shows up in every fractionalization table as one of the least diverse places on earth, but in “The Making of Hinterland” (1993), Kenneth Pomeranz argued that, from 1850 to the 1930s, growth-oriented policies at the national level in China led to increased regional fractionalization and marginalization of rural areas. Under pressure to “modernize” from foreign powers, China focused its resources on the industries and new trading cities on its coasts, allowing public works to crumble in the old Grand Canal heartland and opening those provinces to financial exploitation by traditional urban and landowning elites. The virulently anti-foreign Boxer rebellion originated in these areas and the early state Communist revolution found now-backwater Shandong and Hebei to be fertile recruiting grounds.
Apologies if I have over-simplified Pomeranz’s detailed discussion; my point is only that Dietrich Vollrath is not clutching at straws when he states that the causal chains around anti-growth policies can work in a lot of different ways – the causes of (divergent regional) slow growth can even include seemingly pro-growth (national) policies! Cross-country regression studies are best viewed as means to discover interesting associations, not as ways to clinch a hypothesis.
Batting with Two Outs
Does the preceding discussion lead to the conclusion that racial or linguistics or other types of diversity are unimportant (or disallowed) inputs to economic or political analysis? Absolutely not. Questions of diversity and inclusion (or, framed the other way, questions of solidarity and exclusion) are inseparable from the problem of how to make our society and economy work best for most. But the question of how diversity relates to economic performance cannot ignore the dimension of time, which is another way of saying that economic history needs to have a say on this subject along with economic growth theory. In 1960, some thirty years before multitudinous cross-country regression studies began to seek out predictors for economic growth, John Hicks published a reflection on the famous 1958 IEA Corfu conference – the conference that gave us Kaldor’s “stylized facts” (1961) – with the following concluding words:
It is all very well for us to have theories of economic phenomena which constantly repeat themselves – like the formation of prices, the balancing on international payments, even the rise and decline of particular industries. But the long-run growth of an economy is not a thing that repeats itself: it does not repeat itself in different nations; their growth is all part of a single world story. One cannot argue from what did happen in the United States in a certain period so as to establish laws of economic development. All we ought to hope to get from our analysis is a better understanding of what happened in the United States at that time. It is worth our while to construct theoretical models in order to improve our understanding of such phenomena. But the theorist, as such, is only a toolmaker; the explanation of what happened is the historian’s business.
Few, certainly, would go as far as Hicks around the “nonexchangeability” of countries’ growth stories – I can imagine some “capitalism in one country” jokes got told in the wake of his article. For me, it’s his seemingly contrary point about long-run growth being one world story that really gets to the heart of things. First, on “long-run”, to take the case of China, it’s absurd to make economic growth object of an object of study for the thirty-to-fifty-year period for which we happen to have cross-sectional data; China was just as homogeneous in its basket-case years as it has been during its recent efflorescence. This isn’t saying that you have to play ultra-longball like an Oded Galor; it’s just saying that if you are going to look for the causes and inhibitors of China’s growth you need to look at the whole period where it was interacting with economies that were displaying modern growth. It’s this interaction that is the “single world story”, a story that shows old-style trade wars and imperial ambitions combining with new economic forces – and that story seems at least as relevant to “Africa’s Growth Tragedy” as ethnic or linguistics or religious or genetic diversity.
None of this implies that we don’t need economic theory. But we may need a different theory, especially if the thing to be explained is why growth does or doesn’t happen.
As I understand it, mainstream economic growth theory did not begin as an attempt to explain Kaldor’s sixth fact. Robert Solow’s interest, as he explains it, was in the “steady state”, in the question of how modern economic growth sustains itself, not how it began. His aggregate production function was designed to symbolize an aspect of the working of industrialized economies, not the process of industrialization itself. If Solow is correct (and Hicks and Durlauf, when they point to what the latter calls “nonexchangeability”, seem to be taking him seriously), then convergence theory is nonsense and there are no grounds for saying that new economies “should” be growing faster than mature economies. The mathematical properties of a developed-country production function, at the origin, don’t tell us anything about less-developed countries. Of course, when this “should” of less-developed countries growing faster is removed, there is no reason why diversity can’t be help or a hindrance to growth in different situations and at different times.
Was that a whiff or a long ball? In either case, I can’t think of a more important issue to take a swing at than the relationship between diversity and economic hope.
Note 1: References are provided for books and journal articles only. Please follow links in text for newspaper or web discussions.
Note 2: It’s difficult in a post that critiques a diversity measure not to convey a monolithic impression of the diversity literature. That impression would be wrong. The survey article of Alesina and La Ferrara (2005) is a strongly recommended corrective.
Note 3: Obviously, no claim is made that Dietrich Vollrath agrees with the thrust of this post or with my characterization of his comments on Fractionalization.
Alesina, Alberto, et al. “Fractionalization”, Journal of Economic Growth 8.2 (2003): 155-194.
Alesina, Alberto, and Eliana La Ferrara, “Ethnic diversity and economic performance”, Journal of Economic Literature, XLIII (2005), pp. 762-800.
Alesina, Alberto, Johann Harnoss, and Hillel Rapoport. “Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity.” Journal of Economic Growth 21.2 (2016): 101-138.
Durlauf, Steven N. “The rise and fall of cross-country growth regressions.” History of Political Economy 41.Suppl 1 (2009): 315-333.
Easterly, William, and Ross Levine. “Africa’s growth tragedy: policies and ethnic divisions.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1997): 1203-1250.
Fogel, Robert William. The fourth great awakening and the future of egalitarianism. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Hicks, John R. “Thoughts on the Theory of Capital-The Corfú Conference.” Oxford Economic Papers 12.2 (1960): 123-132. I found this reference in Toye, John. “Solow in the Tropics.” History of Political Economy 41.Suppl 1 (2009): 221-240.
Kaldor, Nicholas. “Capital accumulation and economic growth.” In Lutz, E.A., (Ed.), The theory of capital. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1961. 177-222.
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The making of a hinterland: State, society, and economy in inland North China, 1853-1937. Univ of California Press, 1993.
Solow, Robert M., Growth theory: an exposition, Oxford University Press (2000).
Solow, Robert M. “Perspectives on growth theory.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 8.1 (1994): 45-54.
Solow, Robert M. “Applying growth theory across countries.” The World Bank Economic Review 15.2 (2001): 283-288.
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Wis. Supreme Court says prior convictions count
By: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF December 8, 2010 1:14 pm
By Scott Bauer
Madison – Wisconsin law is tougher on drivers under age 21 who were busted for drinking and getting behind the wheel in other states than if they were convicted in Wisconsin, a divided state Supreme Court has made clear.
Wisconsin law is inconsistent on how it treats “zero tolerance” law convictions. The laws establish penalties for drivers under the legal drinking age of 21 who have anywhere from a trace of alcohol in their system up to the legal limit of .08 percent.
The court said Dec. 2 that “zero tolerance” convictions in Wisconsin don’t count as prior offenses, but they do count if the offenses happened in other states.
The 5-1 ruling came in the case of Gerard Carter, an Illinois man who was 26-years-old when arrested in East Troy, Wis., near the Illinois border in 2007. He had one prior drunken driving conviction in Wisconsin, so he was initially charged with a second offense.
But that charge was later upped to a fourth offense when prosecutors learned he had twice been found guilty of violating Illinois’ “zero tolerance” law for either refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test or for having any amount of alcohol in their system when he was under 21.
Wisconsin has a similar law, but it explicitly says that convictions for violating it do not count as prior offenses. However, Wisconsin law does call for treating similar convictions from other states as prior convictions, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wrote for the majority.
The Legislature could have carved out an exception for out-of-state “zero tolerance” license suspensions, but it did not, Abrahamson wrote in overturning a ruling of a Wisconsin appeals court.
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley dissented, arguing that the Legislature intended out-of-state “zero tolerance” convictions to apply only to commercial vehicle operators, not youthful drivers. Justice Patrick Crooks did not participate.
Carter’s attorney, Craig Kuhary, did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Carter pleaded guilty to the fourth offense charge in 2008 and was sentenced to eight months in jail, had his license suspended for 2 1/2 years and was fined $2,000. Had the charge been a second offense, the most jail time he would have faced was six months.
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Kraft Foods Group Inc. recalled 242,000 cases, that’s 6.5 million boxes, of the popular children’s original flavor Kraft Macaroni & Cheese because some of the boxes may contain small pieces of metal. Less than four years ago, Kraft recalled about 137,000 cases of Velveeta Shells & Cheese single-serve cups because of the possibility of small, thin wire bristle pieces in the product. Last year, Kraft recalled about 7,700 cases of some varieties of its Kraft American Singles after a supplier failed to store an ingredient correctly.
Joyce Hodel, a Kraft spokeswoman, said in a statement that, “We believe a piece of stainless steel got wedged in a metal piece of equipment, which may have generated friction that resulted in small pieces of metal potentially falling into the product.”.
The recall applies to 7.25 ounce boxes that were sold individually and in three, four and five multi-packs. The boxes have “best when used by” dates ranging from Sept. 18, 2015 through Oct. 11, 2015 and are marked with the manufacturing code “C2.” They were sold throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, and in some countries in the Caribbean and South America.
Kraft Foods Group Inc. says it is aware of eight incidents of consumers finding metal in the boxes, but hasn’t been informed of any injuries.
If you have purchased a box of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese that falls within these parameters, don’t use the product. You should return it to the store where it was purchased for a full refund. If you have any questions regarding this product recall, consumers can contact Kraft Foods Consumer Relations at 1-800-816-9432 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eastern time.
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The Lofton Files: Neck and neck at the close-out of the 2013 NFL season
I’m a big fan of old tried and true sporting phrases, terms like “toe to toe” in boxing and “neck and neck” in racing – whether that’s of the auto, horse or human variety. Baseball’s “full count” for the three-and-two pitch is another favorite. Basketball has a great one to describe a possible series-ending game, the so-called “close-out game” in their best-of-seven playoff series.
As the NFL season winds down and we try to figure out what type of seeding our favorite teams will earn, we should realize how tough it is to get a win when the opponent on the other side of the ball is looking at a “close-out game” of their own.
A recent and perfect example is the Cincinnati Bengals traveling to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers. The Steelers were clinging to about a 2% chance to somehow make the playoffs. Teams will go to extreme measures when faced with playoff extinction. As part of the NFL’s Homecoming celebration, the Steelers trotted out Hall of Famers Franco Harris and Mel Blount for the coin toss. When you fly into and out of the Pittsburgh airport you see a life-sized replica of Franco catching the ball inches off the turf for the Immaculate Reception as the Steelers got a playoff win over the Oakland Raiders. The victory pushed Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl titles with the core of that team. If Franco wasn’t enough, there was Mel Blount. At 6’4”, Mel was one of the biggest and meanest corners of all time. He likes to wear a ten-gallon hat that makes him look even more imposing. I still get nervous around him thinking he’s going to have a flashback and jam me right there. And what would homecoming be without the cheer squad? The Steelerettes from 1961-69 were invited back to participate in the Terrible Towel Twirl. Who knew there were Steelerettes?
Before long the Towels were waving again and again. The Bengals didn’t know what hit them. Three first-quarter special teams blunders put them “squarely behind the eight ball,” to use another great sports phrase. A dropped punt snap led to a Steelers 1-yard touchdown drive, later an inadvertent fair catch signal on a kickoff gave the Bengals poor field position. Finally, to cap off punter Kevin Huber’s evening, he had his jaw broken as Antonio Brown returned his effort 67 yards for a touchdown. The Steelers never looked back from a 21-0 first-quarter lead.
The Bengals came in looking at the possibility of moving up into the slot for the #2 seed in the AFC. Now they need to regroup before facing Minnesota and Baltimore at home the next two weeks. Likewise Denver, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Orleans Saints all need to check their mojo and figure out a way to get that winning touch back.
Have the playoffs started for the Dallas Cowboys? The ‘Boys were talking about a three-game run to head into the playoffs and they were cruising along with a 23-point halftime lead over the Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay Packers. All the Packers and Matt Flynn did after the break was mount the largest comeback in team history – matching a 1982 comeback against the Los Angeles Rams, a game in which I played. I had four catches for 59 yards and a touchdown in our 35-23 victory in the strike-shortened ‘82 season opener. That ’82 team was the first playoff team since the Lombardi era.
But back to the Cowboys. In the final three minutes of the game, Tony Romo threw two – yes, two – interceptions. The first came with Dallas on 2nd and 6 and ahead in the game 36-31! Funny thing is the Cowboys, like a lot of other teams that stubbed their toes this past weekend, still “control their own destiny.” Now that’s a great sports term. How come no one ever talks about a team controlling its own destiny coming out of training camp?
Hit me up on Twitter and give me your favorite sports phrase. And in honor of my good pal and fellow San Dieagan (San Diegoite?), you stay classy NFL fans! Thanks for stopping by!
– James Lofton
James Lofton is the analyst for WestwoodOne’s coverage of Sunday Night Football. This week, James will be in Pittsburgh where the Steelers host the Cincinnati Bengals. Coverage begins at 7:30 PM Eastern.
Tags: NFL
Categories: NFL, The Lofton Files
Announcers: James Lofton
Teams: Cincinnati Bengals, Dallas Cowboys
League: 2013-14 NFL
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Navy. So where in the beginning of april the black sea fleet and the operative connection of the Russian navy in the mediterranean sea? an interesting question, isn't it? it should be recalled that at that time in spm were: tfr pr. 11540 "Yaroslav the wise" (bf) and running the bbc collected all the fleets, except for toph, who participated in the "Syrian express". And it all means the operative connection of the Russian navy in the mediterranean sea? most likely, at that time it was, if not to take into account maple with cu and sic is on board, which is probably on a regular basis on duty in the mediterranean sea.
So what's with the black sea fleet, where was his combat unit at that time? let's go in order: - the only combat-ready frigate st. 11356 "Admiral grigorovich" conducted joint maneuvers with the turkish navy in the black sea. First serial frigate st. 11356 "Admiral essen" was in kronshtadt, waiting for inter-fleet transfer.
The second serial frigate st. 11356 "Admiral makarov" took place ghee and debugging of sam "Calm-1", or to be more precise, tested missiles with isn 9m317. - black sea fleet flagship pr. 1164 grkr "Moscow" after the last hike in spm with at 09. 15 01. 16 and the passage of the dock repair was point-based, at the moment, never played in the sea for testing of course objectives.
The ship has long been in need of major repairs and modernisation at srz "Zvezdochka", which lay every year. - t pr. 1135 and 1135m "Ok" and "Inquisitive" in march-april 2017 passed (pass) the dock repair and also was not able to go to sea. - pr.
1134b bpk "Kerch" after a fire in the engine compartment was laid up in location. -st. 61 tfr "Sharp-witted" in march, returned to the home and is still there. That is probably the whole composition of the bsc black sea fleet at the moment, not counting missile boats and small missile ships.
From the foregoing it can be concluded that the presence of Russian navy off the coast of ats in the first of april 2017 would significantly cool the hot heads of the ranks of the U.S. Navy and to influence the decision of the Pentagon strike of cu on the syrian air base. If the area was closed to our ships, perhaps, and there would be no impact on the sirat. After this incident, the high command of the navy of the Russian Federation gradually began to open eyes to the situation in the mediterranean sea.
In this region promptly sent the corvette pr. 20380 "Savvy" and "Courageous" of the baltic fleet. Also recently began a long-awaited transition of the frigate "Admiral essen" on the black sea fleet. Unfortunately, that's all it has at the moment navy to counter the U.S.
Navy in the region. For this there are a number of reasons, such as the current economic situation in the country, an acute shortage of combat surface ships of the 1st and 2nd grades. I want to believe that with time the situation will change radically for the better.
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That Lily King finger wag the other night? Turns out it was actually a prophecy, because she’s now certifiably Number 1.
The American swimmer, who made headlines over the weekend for publicly calling out Russian rival Yulia Efimova’s history of using performance-enhancing substances, had the definitive last word by nabbing first place in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Summer Olympics.
The win — which clocked in at 1:04.93, breaking an Olympic record — earned King a gold medal. Efimova’s 1:05.50 nabbed her the silver, while King’s teammate Katie Meili took bronze in 1.05.69.
Efimova previously served a 16-month doping suspension and tested positive earlier this year for meldonium, which is now banned in the sport.
The 19-year-old King was far from Efimova’s biggest critic at the games; the Rio crowd heartily booed the Russian swimmer whenever her name was announced.
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* Brazilian Rafaela Silva took home the gold in judo, earning her country’s first gold in the 2016 games.
* Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American athlete to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab, or traditional headscarf.
* The U.S. won gold in the men’s 100-meter backstroke — its sixth straight in the event — thanks to Ryan Murphy’s 51.97-second swim.
* Tennis player Novak Djokovic lost in doubles, a day after he lost in singles, meaning he’s now out of the 2016 games.
* American swimmer Missy Franklin had a disappointing semifinal heat in the 200-meter freestyle, coming in 13th out of 16 athletes and failing to qualify for the finals.
What was your favorite moment of this day of Olympic competition? What are you most looking forward to in the games? Let us know in the comments!
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The Best Degree for Data Analyst
Career Networking
By Shane Hall
List of Economics Jobs With a Bachelor's Degree
Jobs That Use Statistics
Salary With a Degree in Artificial Intelligence
Statistical Data Analyst Job Description
What Is an MIS Analyst?
The term "big data" has become one of the latest buzzwords as more companies, government agencies and other organizations find themselves awash in larger amounts of data. The proliferation of data has fueled a need for data analysts, who can process, summarize and bring order to raw data, transforming them into actionable information on which managers and leaders can make decisions and set policies. Becoming a data analyst begins with the right education, raising the question of the best college degree for this profession.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies data analysts as statisticians, people who employ statistical and mathematical techniques to analyze and interpret data. The BLS reported that many statistical data analysts begin their careers after completing a master's degree in statistics or mathematics. However, a bachelor's degree may be sufficient for some entry-level data analyst jobs.
"The New York Times" reported in 2009 on the benefits of a statistics education for data analysts, noting that the demand for people with statistical knowledge is a byproduct of the explosion in types of data. Surveillance tapes, website traffic, and social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook have created new sources of electronic data. However, data are only the raw material of knowledge. A background in statistics provides the tools necessary for analyzing and bringing order to the data.
Despite a growing demand for data analysts with statistical expertise, a degree in statistics or mathematics is not the only way to develop the knowledge needed to tackle the enormous data sets used by many companies and other organizations. "The New York Times" reported that computing and numerical skills are more important than the type of degree; many data analysts have degrees in such fields as computer science and economics.
Because data analysts can be found in any industry that collects large amounts of data, they often have specialized backgrounds in their specific industry. For example, the BLS reported that biostatisticians, who work in pharmaceutical and health care-related industries, may have undergraduate or graduate degrees in biology, chemistry or public health. Economic data analysts may have degrees in economics or econometrics. Data analysts working in quality control in manufacturing may have degrees in operations research or industrial engineering. A common link among these degrees, however, is statistical knowledge, making statistics an excellent choice for data analysts in any industry or business sector.
2016 Salary Information for Statisticians
Statisticians earned a median annual salary of $80,500 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On the low end, statisticians earned a 25th percentile salary of $60,760, meaning 75 percent earned more than this amount. The 75th percentile salary is $104,420, meaning 25 percent earn more. In 2016, 37,200 people were employed in the U.S. as statisticians.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Statisticians
The New York Times: For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: Statisticians
Career Trend: Statisticians
Icrunchdata.com: Data Analyst Jobs
What Degree Do You Need to Be an Analyst?
Mathematical Statistician Job Description
How to Get a Job With a Statistics Degree
Data Analyst Job Duties
Postdoc Salaries for Biostatistics
The Salary of a Survey Data Analyst
Job Description for Medical Record Analysis
Industry Analyst Job Description
1 What Degree Do You Need to Be an Analyst?
2 Mathematical Statistician Job Description
3 How to Get a Job With a Statistics Degree
4 Data Analyst Job Duties
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Eminem Apologizes to Rihanna for Controversial Leaked Chris Brown Lyric
Eminem has apologized to Rihanna for a previously leaked song in which he rapped that he sided with Chris Brown following Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna.
On Friday (December 18), Eminem dropped the surprise deluxe edition of his album, Music to Be Murdered By: Side B. The record features a new track, called "Zeus," in which Eminem apologizes to the Fenty Beauty owner for the leaked song featuring the Chris Brown lyric.
“But, me, long as I re-promise to be honest / And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna,” he raps on the new release. “For that song that leaked, I’m sorry, Ri / It wasn’t meant to cause you grief / Regardless, it was wrong of me.”
Listen to the explicit song, below.
Last year, a track demo was leaked which included lyrics about siding with Brown. At the time, Eminem's spokesperson said that the song was created more than a decade ago and that it was ultimately scrapped. The song was reportedly created for Em's 2009 album, Relapse, before he decided to scrap the hurtful lyrics and re-write the song.
“I’m not playing, Rihanna, where’d you get the V.D. at?” Eminem raps on the demo, according to Pitchfork. “Let me add my two cents / Of course I side with Chris Brown / I’d beat a b---h down, too / If she gave my d--k an itch now.”
Rihanna and Eminem have collaborated on numerous songs together, such as "Monster," "Love The Way You Lie" and "Numb." They also toured together back in 2014.
In 2009, Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault on Rihanna after an altercation during the Grammy Awards night on February 8.
Songs Artists Regret They Recorded
Source: Eminem Apologizes to Rihanna for Controversial Leaked Chris Brown Lyric
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Osiris Vase, ca. 1910
This is a Vase. It was designed by Peter Behrens and manufactured by Walter Scherf & Co. and distributed by Liberty & Company. It is dated ca. 1910. Its medium is cast and silver-plated metal. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This pair of Osiris vases illustrates a transitional period in Peter Behrens’s oeuvre. The architect-designer was a key proponent of modernism, creating works such as the AEG Turbine Factory, which established a standard for the industrial aesthetic that would be embraced by the next generation of modernists. Behrens worked closely with his successors, mentoring, among others, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius, all of whom would contribute canonical works and theories to modern design. Before embracing the austere functionalism that characterizes his later works, however, Behrens was an important early disseminator of the German art nouveau, or Jugendstil (“youth style”). Taking its inspiration from the English Arts & Crafts movement, the Jugendstil found expression in inventive forms, organic lines, and vegetal motifs. The Osiris vases are exemplars of Behren’s Jugendstil experiments; the mouth of the vases incorporates a gently undulating lip set atop a curved, pyramidal base. The highly polished pewter volume is punctuated by a rectangular grid of stamped squares towards its bottom, and by a similar grid of pierced squares near the lip. Although the volume seems alive with an organic character, the purity of form and gridded decoration indicate a shift towards the sober aesthetic Behrens would embrace after abandoning the Jugendstil and curving line entirely in 1904. The Osiris line and these vases in particular mark a transition from Behren’s earlier, more organic works to the aesthetic and character he would develop and perpetuate through the Deutscher Werkbund.
This object was donated by George R. Kravis II. It is credited Gift of George R. Kravis II.
Sidewall, Claudia
machine-printed paper.
Print, Bodenbelag: Phantasus (Phantasus Floor Covering), plate 28, in Die...
color lithograph on paper.
Gift of Jerrol E. Golden.
1999-41-1-29
Woman's Head (Two Faces) Salt Dish, 1919
gilt and enameled porcelain.
The Henry and Ludmilla Shapiro Collection; Partial gift and partial purchase....
Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
Print, Woman in a Garden, 1914
woodcut, brush and watercolor on thin paper.
Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Department Fund.
Tea Caddy (England), 1901
rolled, cast and chased silver.
Gift of Gerald G. Stiebel and Penelope Hunter-Stiebel.
The Cube Teapot, ca. 1915–16
silver-plated metal, wood, gilding (interior).
Gift of Nicholas Harris, London.
H x W x D: 14 × 6 × 5.5 cm (5 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
On underside: stamped “OSIRIS” 1018, with logo underneath
Osiris Vase, ca. 1910; Designed by Peter Behrens (German, 1868–1940); cast and silver-plated metal; H x W x D: 14 × 6 × 5.5 cm (5 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.); Gift of George R. Kravis II; 2018-22-137
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Energizing the Everyday: Gifts From the George R. Kravis II Collection.
Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/BLnrP/
Accession Number 2018-22-137
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100-year-old Columbus woman inspiring others to stay fit
“I want to be able to do things like walking and shopping and whatever there is to do. You have to be able to get around to do it,” Jean Pugh said.
Author: Molly Brewer
Published: 8:50 AM EST December 15, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the spirit of ending the year strong, 10TV talked with one tag-team proving that anyone can stay fit – even at 100 years young.
“I want to be able to do things like walking and shopping and whatever there is to do. You have to be able to get around to do it,” said Jean Pugh. “And so, exercising is one of the most important things you can do. And you need to do it for a long time.”
Jean Pugh turned 100 years old on September 22.
About three years ago, Pugh began working out with personal trainer, Natalie Lane, RN.
“When it’s nice out we usually go for a walk and we do things that are very functional that keep her going,” Lane said. “Things such as chair squats to keep up her leg strength, resistance with the weights.”
The pandemic kept the pair from working out together for a time but they have since found ways to safely continue.
“It’s one of those things you just have to accept,” Pugh said. “It’s here. We can’t do much about it, so just do what you always do and be glad you can do it.”
And while Pugh misses the social aspects of life, like playing cards and her book club, Lane tells 10TV that she hasn’t missed a beat.
“She’s such an inspiration, you know. It’s been such a big blessing to me – one of my favorite clients here,” Lane said. “But I really observed that she really hits all the areas to keep her sharp; not only the physical fitness but she’s a reader. She reads all day long. She does crossword puzzles. So, it’s really getting that mental piece; that mental exercise.”
10TV asked Pugh what the secret to her longevity is.
“You have to have a healthy lifestyle,” she said. “You have to be careful what you eat. You have to be careful mentally, what you think. And your attitude about things. You can’t be a grouch all your life, that’s for sure.”
As many look for ways to stay active during the pandemic, Lane explains that anyone can take steps to stay fit, even from home.
“You don’t have to have a lot of equipment. You can do things with just your body weight,” she said. “If you can’t get outside and walk, you can do the chair marches.”
Pugh’s best advice?
“Just keep on moving,” she said.
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This disappearing ice cave offers 'magical and unique' experiences while it lasts
Also nicknamed "the Mill," the natural ice cave of Glacier 3000 sits hidden below the snow-covered ground on a high-altitude glacier in the Swiss Alps.
Credit: Glacier 3000 / AccuWeather
The lights are reflected on the ice walls and give off a feeling from another galaxy. (Image via Glacier 3000)
Author: Chaffin Mitchell (AccuWeather)
Those who dare to climb down the steep, icy entrance into what is known as the "Ice Cathedral" are rewarded with a striking view that is visible for only a few short months out of the entire year. Light beams from the entrance are reflected on the cave's frozen ice walls, which illuminate the cave and offer those who enter an otherworldly view.
Also nicknamed "the Mill," the natural ice cave of Glacier 3000 sits hidden below the snow-covered ground on a high-altitude glacier in the Swiss Alps - and it disappears only to reappear for a time every year.
Glacier 3000 opened its first cable car to Tsanfleuron Glacier in the western Bernese Alps in 1959. Since then, the company has expanded, offering visitors ski slopes, dogsled rides, a glacier flight, a suspension bridge, access to the Ice Cathedral and more.
The cave has been off-limits for quite some time, but visitors got the chance to venture inside for the first time recently.
"It's magnificent, but even that isn't the right word. I've never seen anything like it. Almost as [if] it's not of this world in fact. It's magnificent, I can only recommend it if you have the chance to go," Helen Tromp, a resident who lives nearby, told Reuters after visiting the cave.
Previously, access had been too treacherous to grant to the general public, according to a spokesperson.
"We discovered [it] maybe four or five years ago, but its access was too steep and dangerous. This is the first time we can allow people to visit it, but under their own responsibility," Marketing Coordinator of Glacier 3000 Arnaud Magnin told AccuWeather in an interview.
The frozen spectacle was created by Mother Nature as a result of a siphon effect. In spring and summer, the cavity fills up with water from melting ice. The accumulation of the water and residue blocks the entrance. What was once an open cavern in the ice turns into a lake. In the fall when temperatures begin to drop, the plug disappears, and the water spills out as in a siphon and gives way to a cave. This unique process is where the name "Mill" originated, Glacier 3000 said.
"This cave is totally natural, the human has nothing to do with it and that is the reason why it is such a wonderful place," Magnin said.
The spectacular structure is about 20 meters long, however, due to the unique way in which the cave is formed, its size and shape vary every year. Frequent visitors could be treated to a new scene to explore and photograph each winter.
But the cave isn't always safe to enter, and Glacier 3000 checks on the ice integrity on a daily basis to ensure the safety of visitors, especially to ensure that there is no risk of the cave filling with water.
"Our team checks every day the ice, and we will condemn the access way before the ice melts," Magnin said.
Bernhard Tschannen, CEO of Glacier 3000, told Reuters that the cave was officially opened to the public for the first time in December 2020. He explained that while the cave has existed in previous years, it was more steep.
"And this year it looks like an Ice Cathedral, so it's really beautiful," Tschannen explained to Reuters, adding that the cave's interior is quite flat this season, making access easier.
Locals and visitors across the globe have been enjoying the newly granted access to such a one-of-a-kind natural wonder since its official opening in early December.
"People who enter feel the greatness of nature and its silence. The light is also very special and makes the cave very impressive. The photographers will take amazing pictures of another world, between earth and ice," Magnin said.
But people who enter to see the majestic views do so at their own risk, and the company's website spells that out clearly. "This ice cave delights lovers of atypical landscapes and photos, who can access it easily, but under their own responsibility," the company states on its website.
After following a signposted path, visitors reach the cave's opening -- which is alluring, according to Magnin. "The entrance is small and seems like a hidden door. That makes the experience more magical and unique," Magnin said.
Changeable weather during the winter and the accumulation of snow in front of its entrance do not guarantee the feature's accessibility during the season - making the experience even more elusive.
"It's very impressive. The vault is incredible. Standing beneath it, you can just imagine the weight above. It's beautiful," Brice Rozes told Reuters while touring the site.
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Man and woman lead police on chase, may be responsible for string of thefts
Posted: Nov 26, 2011 5:57 AM EST | Updated: Nov 6, 2014 1:29 PM EST
Mishawaka, Ind. -- A man and woman sent police on a chase through the streets of Mishawaka and South Bend for close to an hour Friday night.
The pursuit started after a St. Joesph County deputy tried to pull the pair over after the woman, who was driving the car, nearly hit a moped before running a red light. Police say the car was leaving the parking lot of the University Park Mall, in Mishawaka, when it happened.
Police used stop sticks, flatting all four tires, in an attempt to slow down the car. down.
However, the chase did not come to an end until the car ran a stop sign at the corner of Caroline and Calvert Streets, hitting another vehicle carrying two woman.
No one was injured in the crash, but police say the suspects in the pursuit were taken to the hospital to have minor injuries checked out.
Police say that thousands of dollars, of what looked to be stolen, merchandise was found inside the fleeing car.
Police say the pair could be behind a sting of thefts that happened at retail stores earlier in the night. The passenger on the car chase had three felony warrants for his arrest for past thefts.
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ROCHAT
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
“Refined like chamber music, with such subtle nuances of dynamics and tempo,
so miles away from the usual broadband sound, as much from the soloist as from the orchestral side,
we must say that we have rarely – let’s be courageous: never! – heard Elgar's concerto like that.”
Das Orchester, 11/2017
Through an exquisite nuance fresh to the classical music scene, Nadège Rochat enlivens stages worldwide, including Vienna’s Musikverein, Carnegie Hall in New York, KKL Luzern and Mariinsky Theater II St. Petersburg. As a soloist and in recitals, Nadège is equally adept at performing great pieces of the standard cello repertoire as she is at rediscovering forgotten composers and music from around the world. Rochat is a performer and recording artist, with several first prizes and three very different CDs. Her first recording (2012) featured the cello concertos of Edouard Lalo and Darius Milhaud, recorded with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen under Ola Rudner. In January 2015, together with Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre, she released “La Vida Breve,” comprised of her own arrangements of Spanish and South American pieces for cello and guitar. Her last CD, “Cello Abbey” with the Staatskapelle Weimar and conductor Paul Meyer features Elgar’s and Walton’s cello concertos, as well as shedding a light on the Irish composer Ina Boyle (1889-1967), largely unperformed during her lifetime: “It’s fallen to a Franco-Swiss cellist, a French conductor and a German orchestra on a partly crowd-funded CD on a German label to bring the world a first recording of Enniskerry composer Ina Boyle’s 1913 Elegy. “ Irish Times 2/2017.
2017, she recorded the “Psalm” by Ina Boyle as a soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Ronald Corp for a CD entirely dedicated to the composer which will be released in 2018.
Nadège Rochat is a Franco-Swiss cellist born in Geneva in 1991. She began learning cello at the age of 4 with her aunt Fabienne Diambrini, and later joined the Conservatoire of Geneva as a pupil of Daniel Haefliger. Moving to Cologne at the age of 15, she studied at the Musikhochschule under professor Maria Kliegel. In 2015, Nadège graduated from the Masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music under professor Robert Cohen.
Solo engagements with orchestras range from venues such as the Konzerthaus Dortmund to the Victoria Hall Geneva. Rochat has been featured with the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, and the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra), among others. These solo appearances complement recitals in the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Beethoven Haus Bonn, or the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Her duo project with guitar “La Vida Breve” took her to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Gasteig Munich, and Vienna’s Konzerthaus.
Nadège’s awards in national and international competitions include first prizes in Swiss and German national competitions for youth (2006, 2007, and 2009), the SUISA foundation Prize for the interpretation of contemporary music (2003 and 2006), and the Klassik Preis of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) for the interpretation of Beethoven 3rd Sonata for Cello and Piano (2009). More recently, Nadège has claimed second prize in the “Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI” international competition (2013), the First Prize, Jury Prize, and Public Prize in the ProCello competition of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne (2013), and the May Muckle Prize for Cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London (2015).
Always seeking a deeper understanding of her instrument and music in general, she has participated in numerous masterclasses by musical personalities such as Anner Bijlsma, Christoph Richter, Heinrich Schiff, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Itamar Golan, and Colin Carr.
Nadège Rochat is professor Maria Kliegel’s assistant at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln where she teaches her own cello class since 2016, and gives lectures at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
She plays the “Ex-Vatican” Stradivarius cello from 1703, on loan by a foundation.
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UCUT staff coordinates with member tribes to improve communication, share data, improve reporting, reduce costs, and educate the public about our important work.
DR Michel
A member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, DR has over 36 years of experience in forestry and natural resource management, as well as the technical and policy aspects of working for tribes. He served eight years on the Colville Business Council as both the Vice Chair and the Chair of the Natural Resource Committee. DR enjoys camping on the Columbia River.
dr@ucut-nsn.org
Lori Rothrock
A member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, Lori has over 20 years of experience working for UCUT. She keeps operations running smoothly and is responsible for office management and general administrative practices and techniques. She also spent four years working in an administrative position for the Spokane Tribal Business Council. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her grandkids, nieces and nephews.
lori@ucut-nsn.org
Marc Gauthier
Forest Practices Coordinator
Marc’s passion for protecting fish and wildlife started when he caught his first salmon as a child. He graduated from Evergreen State College with a double major in wildlife biology and film and video production. The need to protect endangered species drove Marc to work with tribes in forestry and habitat. Marc’s position at UCUT fulfills a life-long dream to ensure indigenous peoples and ecosystems survive, thrive and prosper.
marc@ucut-nsn.org
John Sirois
Committee Coordinator
A member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, John (say’ay’) served much of his career within the Colville Tribes’ government as both Council Chairman and Council Member. At UCUT, John facilitates the collaborative intertribal committee process. Though John earned a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington, he feels fortunate he learned traditional ways from his tribal elders.
john@ucut-nsn.org
Laura Robinson
Laura joined the UCUT team with over a decade of experience in fish and wildlife policy in the Columbia River Basin. Laura’s passions lie in collaborating with multiple entities on complex processes, strategically advancing goals through consensus and a solutions-driven approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities on environmental stewardship. Prior to joining UCUT, Laura worked at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council and earned her Executive Masters in Public Administration and Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies and Geography. As a native Oregonian, Laura enjoys being outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.
laura@ucut-nsn.org
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James Raiswell
A Musical Feast
Various contributors
If you ever wanted to know which foods drive major musicians’ creative passions, then this is the book for you. A Musical Feast offers more than 100 recipes from your favorite rockers and crooners.
Originally conceived as a charity venture, the book features culinary musings from the likes of the Grateful Dead (Smoked Corn Chowder — you’re kidding, right? Smoked?), Madonna, the Beach Boys, and this recipe from the mind of Randy Newman:
Cheddar cheese sandwich
3 slices English cheddar cheese
2 slices white bread
Place cheese between bread slices, stacking carefully.
One serving.
The man is a genius.
But seriously, recipes here range from the idiotic to the sublime. Frank Sinatra’s Blue Eyes' Italian Chicken, Potato and Onion Dish is worth a look, as are Mick Jagger’s Shrimp Curry and Melissa Etheridge's Red Bean and Rice Soup — with a few adjustments.
The Spin Doctors’ Chocolate Cream Pie, however, is about as unimaginative and poorly constructed as their music. Still, I suppose, a zenith is a zenith. No matter how low in the sky.
Liberace Cooks - A Cookbook!
Liberace’s cookbook was published in 2003 by the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, which has awarded more than $5 million in scholarships to deserving students.
It's a posthumous tribute to the popular entertainer, compiled, no doubt, by the hard-working staff of the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas. Its 59 pages offer a wide array of recipes that were popular in the '60s and '70s, like Boeuf à la Mode en Gelée, Coq au Vin and — hilariously — sticky buns.
Newman’s Own Cookbook
An actor, a director, a condiment manufacturer, and a philanthropist — is there anything that Paul Newman can’t do?
In 1982, Paul and friend Aaron Hotchner (himself a noted novelist and playwright) began making and bottling salad dressing as Christmas gifts for friends, and they soon reckoned that what was good enough for their pals was good enough for the general public.
On a start-up budget of $40,000, Newman’s Own grossed over $700 million in its first 15 years in business. The company has spawned a myriad of products, from dog treats to salsa, and has donated all of its profits — $200 million to date — to charity.
Newman’s Own Cookbook is one of many arms of the marketing monster that once was made up of only oil, vinegar and spices. The book extends through just about every meal option and style. Consider Matthew Broderick's Grilled T-Bone Steak with Sweet Onion Marmalade and Campfire Mustard Sauce, Tony Randall’s Grilled Veal Chop with Bourbon-Cracked Black Pepper Sauce, Julia Roberts’ Fresh Peach Crisp, Gene Shalit’s Spaghetti Carbonara, and Whoopi Goldberg’ Big Bad Ass Beef Ribs to name a few celebrity contributors and their fare.
Blatant marketing ploy that it is, Newman’s Own Cookbook at least accepts that you might not have Newman’s Own salsa on hand, and allows the (occasional) digression into other name-brand products.
The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook: Barbara, Frank & Friends
Frank Sinatra and friends
Published in 1986 and billed as the culinary event of the decade — where was I? — The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook: Barbara, Frank & Friends peeks into the culinary life of Ol' Blue Eyes and his friends.
Proceeds from the 270-page recipe book/photo album go to benefit the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center, and the book features more than 300 notables from the worlds of film, television, music, sports, and politics, as well as chefs from famous restaurants. The celebrity list includes Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Clint Eastwood, Jay Leno, Claudia Schiffer, Bono, and Wolfgang Puck. And let’s not forget Frank’s own personal favorite recipe: "The best recipe is a well-prepared meal, fine wine and good conversation with people you know. With these ingredients, you can't miss."
Hit or miss, there’s something to be said for the celebrity cookbook. They might not offer the most imaginative — or even particularly good — recipes, but at the very least, you’re in for a good laugh.
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Devin Funchess was a three-sport athlete in high school, helping lead Harrison High School's football team to a Division II State Championship while also playing basketball and competing in track & field. Coming out of high school, Devin Funchess was regarded as a four-star recruit by ESPN.com and Scout.com and was considered a top-five tight end recruit. Devin Funchess would commit to the University of Michigan, becoming one of the top recruits in the Wolverines' 2012 recruiting class.
It would not take long for Devin Funchess to become an immediate impact player for the Michigan Wolverines. Not redshirting like many freshman college football athletes, Devin Funchess was thrust into a starting role in just the second game of his first year at Michigan. Devin Funchess put up 106 receiving yards in his first career start, becoming the first Wolverines tight end to do so in 15 years. Devin Funchess went on to be a 2012 All-Big Ten honorable mention selection by media members and was named to the Football Writers Association of America Freshman All-America Team due to his success as a freshman for the prestigious University of Michigan football program.
He continued to find success in his sophomore season, becoming one of the Michigan Wolverines' top receiving threats. The Wolverines looked for wayts to utilize Devin Funchess' athleticism in full. Although built like a tight end, Devin Funchess had the athleticism of a wide receiver and the team lined him up in multiple positions. Similar to the way the New England Patriots utilized Rob Gronkowski, the Michigan Wolverines aimed to create matchup nightmares for defensive players by lining Devin Funchess up in multiple positions. Devin Funchess would set career highs in receiving yards and longest reception on the way to earning the Big Ten's Tight End of the Year Award in 2013.
Devin Funchess would move to wide receiver full time for his final season at the University of Michigan and finished with 62 receptions, 733 yards and 4 touchdowns. He would forego his final year of eligibility and entered the 2015 NFL Draft where he was selected with the 41st overall pick by the Carolina Panthers.
Similar to his freshman year at Michigan, an injury situation put Devin Funchess into a starting role almost immediately. Starting WR Kelvin Benjamin went down with a torn ACL in training camp, which immediately put the spotlight on the standout rookie. It would take a few weeks of acclimating to the NFL game but eventually, Devin Funchess finally broke out in Week 9 against the Green Bay Packers, scoring a touchdown on 71 receiving yards on 3 catches.
He would finish his rookie season with 473 receiving yards, the fifth most in franchise history by a rookie WR and five touchdowns, the second-most in franchise history by a rookie WR.
After a successful 4 year career with the Carolina Panthers, Devin Funchess signed a contract with the Indianapolis Colts. He joins one of the AFC's rising teams. He comes to the Indianapolis Colts with averages of 40 receptions, 549 yards and 5 TDs through his four seasons with the Carolina Panthers, immediately placing him among the top free-agent wide receiver signings in recent years by the Indianapolis Colts.
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Gentius, the last king of the Illyrians
Episode I: Gentius, A New Young King
Gentius was king of the Illyrians (Rex i Illyricorum) during 181-167 B.C.E. Gentius was a royal member of the Illyrian tribe of the Ardiaei, son of Pleuratus and Eurydice. Thus, his state is referred either as the kingdom of Illyria or as the kingdom of the Ardiaei. According to Livy, Gentius had one brother, Plator and one half-brother from his mother Eurydice, Caravantius. Gentius succeeded his father Pleuratus III (r. 200-181) on the Illyrian throne during a time when the Roman Republic had spread its control and influence over the Illyrian coast and Macedon. King Gentius is mostly known for leading an Illyrian resistance against the Roman Republic during 168-167 B.C.E. This stance is known as the Third Illyrian War. Also, Gentius represents one of the Illyrian kings for whom we have most classical literal information on. However, this evidence is still limited when compared with other figures of the Roman and Hellenic world.
During his reign, Pleuratus III had stayed loyal to the Roman Republic and had acted mostly as a vassal king. On the other hand, his son had other ambitions. He aimed at increasing his regional authority and gaining almost complete independence from Rome. Also, efforts were put into established a more centralized system of monterary, fiscal, and military authority along the Illyrian lands. These efforts and the inherited hostile view on the Illyrians may have incited Polybius to write that Gentius “treated his subjects with great cruelty”. On the same passage, Polybius writes the following:
“Genthius, king of Illyria, owing to his intemperate habits, was guilty of many licentious acts being constantly drunk night and day. Having killed his brother Plator, who was about to marry the daughter of Monunius, he married the girl himself…” (Polybius, XXIX)
Part of this passage may well be an exaggeration and as such we cannot determine if Gentius was responsible for the kill of his brother or if this is part of the Roman tendency to depict Illyrians as savages. However, the marriage mentioned above may in fact be accurate since the same event is mentioned in other classical sources. Accordingly, in 169 B.C.E., one year before the outbreak of the war against the Romans, Gentius married Etleva/Etuta, daughter of Monunius, the Dardanian king. This marital arrangement may have been part of Gentius efforts to ally himself with other regional powers. However, this was not the case at the beginning of his reign. Initially Gentius acted as an ally of the Roman Republic against the kingdom of Macedon but later showed sings of neutrality or autonomy. The Romans and the Roman propaganda did not welcome these signs. Although the king of the Ardiaei did not engage in hostilities against Rome before he allied with the Macedonians of Perseus, the Roman Republic had already put his actions under close observation and scrutiny.
Episode II: Roman-Illyrian relations
Rome was the one that began the hostilities with the Illyrian king after the later had just seized power over the Ardiaei. Thus, in 180, the Roman praetor L.Duronis confiscated 10 Illyrian ships owned by Gentius and brought them at Brundisium (Brindisi). Duronis then went in Roma and stated before the Roman Senate the Illyrian ships were caught committing piracy and abducting Italian merchants on the eastern waters of the Adriatic Sea. The Illyrian king was directly accused of instigating such actions. Furthermore, the Romans made the Illyrian king responsible for the capturing of Roman/Italian ships and imprisoning of their crew at the island of Corcyra Negra (Korcula).
The accusations for piracy against the Romans were clearly artificial constructs. In fact, the labeling of the Illyrians as leaders of piratical raids along the Adriatic and the Ionian Sea had been a recurrent theme of the Roman propaganda and had preceded all the Illyrian-Roman wars. Thus, the diplomatic aggressiveness of the Republic towards Gentius may indicate that the Romans were preparing for another military campaign against the Illyrians and against other various independent and semi-independent polities across the Balkans. The expansionist project of Rome towards eastern Adriatic would soon culminate with their victory over both the Illyrian kingdom of Gentius and the kingdom of Macedon by 167 B.C.E. Regarding the Illyrian king, Gentius cannot have been the instigator of piratical raids against Roman ships in the Adriatic at this time even if he wanted to achieve complete independence from the Romans. The Illyrian ruler had no interest in opening a conflict against the Romans after he had just sat on the throne of the Ardiaei. Thus, Gentius sent an Illyrian delegation before the Roman Senate in order to dismiss the accusations of piracy and abduction of Roman ships and merchants. The Illyrian delegation was apparently successful in their mission since no punitive action and/or penalty against Gentius is recorded. Thus, the Illyrian ruler could concentrate on securing his authority domestically.
Episode III: Internal Administration and Composition
When Gentius came into the Illyrian throne, the Dalmatian, an Illyrian tribe that occupied the Dalmatian coast and that had previously been under the control of Pleuratus III, established an independent state separate from that of Gentius. Their separation and the risk of losing control over other tribal lands must have encouraged Gentius into pursuing a new administrative strategy from his predecessors. Now, the boundaries of the kingdom of Gentius were as follows: in the northwest, it extended up to the lands of the Daorsi and the valley of river Naro (Neretva). In the north and northeast, the lands of other independent Illyrian entities were located, notably those of the Autariatae and the Dardanians. The eastern border went through the Mount Scardos (Sharr mountains) and the lower course of the Drin River up to Lychnidos (Ohrid). The southern line is the most difficult to determine because it may have represented a common Illyrian-Roman borderline. It can be assumed that this line started in Lissus, then it followed the upper course of river Ardaksan (Mati) until it reached the Mountains of Candavie (Mountain of Polis). The southern border would thus eventually join the eastern one around Lake Lychnidos (Lake Ohrid).
Under the rule of Gentius, the internal territories of the kingdom were divided into administrative units that were based around an important city. Also, around the main cities, several fortresses were in place or were constructed to protect the regional centers as well as the entire administrative unit. The main cities and their respective units were each administered by a principa illyriorum. They were appointed into their districts by the king himself. Meanwhile, along with the central areas of the kingdom, a regional ruler may have not been needed since the king exercised his authority directly.
Gentius established his royal seat in Scodra (Shkodra), turning this city into the capital of his kingdom and into the center of the Ardiaei. Prior to Gentius’ rule, Scodra was the center of the Labeatis, another Illyrian tribe included within the borders of the Illyrian kingdom. The establishment of the Illyrian royalty in Scodra forced the Labeatis to move their capital in Medeon (Medun). Apart from Scodra and Medeon, one of the most important units of that time was based around Rhizon (Risan, near Kotor). The city of Rhizon controlled the naturally protected bay of Kotor ensuring easy and safe access into the open waters of the eastern Adriatic. Furthermore, small fortresses were positioned around the bay to ensure additional security and control. Southeast of Scodra, the lands of the Penestae, another Illyrian tribe, presumably formed another administrative unit. The capital of the Penestae seems to have been Uscana, an Illyrian city the exact location of which remains unknown. However, based on the descriptions offered by classical sources, the location of Uscana should be searched somewhere in and around modern Kicevo. At the time, several fortresses surrounded Uscana, increasing the geostrategic importance of the settlement at the southeastern most part of the Illyrian kingdom. Located in between the Illyrians of Gentius and the Macedonians, the lands of the Penestae and Uscana provided a corridor of communication between the Illyrians and the Macedonians that would prove to be important for the establishment of an alliance between these two entities later on.
Map of the Illyrian region and tribes
The administrative reform of king Gentius was no spread into the mountainous regions of his country. In these remote locations, there was almost a complete lack of urban settlements thus making the establishment of an administrative authority inadequate. Across these highlands only small fortresses could be found as seats of local tribal chieftains. Overall, Hammond, based on Livy and other classical sources, makes this summary on the internal composition of the kingdom of Gentius:
“It included the Pirustae Dassaretiorum, the Rhizonitae, and the Olciniatae who rebelled while the king, Genthius was still secyre; the Daorsi who changed over to the Roman side; the Scodrenses, the Dassarenses, the Selepitani, and “ceteri Illyrii” who had paid tribute to the king. Of these tribes the Daorsi were near the river Naro opposite Pharos, the Pirustae lay north of the Ardiaei (if they are the Peirustae of Strabo); the Rhizonitae were round Gulf of Rhizon (now Kotor); the name of the Olciniatae survives in Ulcinj on the coast to the south-west of Scodra; the Scodrenses round Scodra are separate evidently from the Labeates of Pomponius Mela; and the Selepitani are otherwise unknown. This scatter of tribes subject to Genthius gives us some idea of the Ardiaean kingdom in the period of its decline.” (Hammond, Kingdoms in Illyria circa 400-167 B.C.)
Episode IV: The Monetary Reform
During his rule, Gentius tried to unify the monetary system across his kingdom. Thus, he decided to stop the old production of Scodra’s minting factory and put into production and circulation new coins. The new royal coins had in one side the portrait of the king and in the other side the symbol of the Illyrian ship. The title and the name of the king replaced the legend of the city. The old coin with a helmet and a shield on its sides that was issued since the rule of Pleuratus III continued to be produced. However, this coin was redesigned as well. The old legend was replaced with the title and the name of Gentius. Furthermore, putting the name of the king into the coins was clearly an efficient way to legitimize and strengthen the authority of Gentius over his subjects.
After taking control of the minting factory of Lissus, king Gentius decided to implement the same monetary measures as in Scodra. The king removed the monetary autonomy of the city of Lissus, integrating it into his royal monetary system. Now, a unified monetary system was formed across the central zones of the kingdom along the coast of Adriatic where Scodra and Lissus where the main cities with crucial minting capacities. This new unified system was comprised of three main coins: the coin with the portrait of the king and the Illyrian ship; the coin with the shield and the helmet; and the small old coin of Lissus that now was labeled by the title and the name of the king. The first two coins were produced in Scodra. Regarding their value, the coin with the portrait of the king and the ship had the highest value whereas the other two coins where denominators of the former.
The unification of the monetary system did not include the peripheral zones of the kingdom of Gentius. Thus, Rhizon (Kotor) continued to mint its own silver coins and Lychnidos (Ohrid) continued to mint its own bronze coins with a shield and part of a ship on its sides. These cities, although within the administrative boundaries of the kingdom, were allowed by king Gentius a monetary autonomy. This fact suggests that the authority of the king was not that strong in certain peripheral cities. Also, the northern tribes of Labeates and Daorsi continued to mint their own coins.
Although the production of the royal coins remained limited geographically, their usage spread over most parts of the kingdom, reaching even remote mountainous areas. This is supported by the discovery of these coins in several areas such as in northern, Montenegro, as well as in the areas of ancient Dyrrachium and Apolonia. This fact suggests for a high trading activity and confirms the integration of the most remote areas in the monetary and economic system of the kingdom. The facilitation of the trading exchanges through the spread of a single currency proved to be an important stimulus in the increase of trade volume.
The monetary reforms taken by king Gentius seem to have improved the finances of the kingdom. Tit Livius implies this when he states that the Romans, after defeating the Illyrians, found in the royal treasure of Gentius 19 pounds of silver, 27 pounds of gold, 13,000 denarii and 120,000 Illyrian drachmas. The Illyrian king might have collected this considerable amount through fees collected from large royal landowners and from high taxes imposed on his subjects. An important reason that had forced the king to concentrate this wealth can be connected with measures to cope with the Roman threat. It should be noted that since 178 B.C.E., only two years after Gentius came into power, the Roman Senate had appointed a fleet of 10 ships to patrol the waters from Ancona to Tarentum, along the Adriatic. Thus, in order to face this threat, great expenditure had to be made for maintaining a large military force. Spreading the royal coins among the army troops and shipyard constructors must have been one of the main ways through which these coins entered into the economy. At the beginning of the war against the Romans, the regular army of king Gentius numbered about 15,000 soldiers mostly concentrated around Lissus. Also, at the end of the war, the Romans captured 220 Illyrian ships confirming the efforts put on building this fleet by the king.
Reconstructed portrait of king Gentius of Illyria (r. 181-167) based on his portrait over the Illyrian coins. This same portrait is now printed over the Albanian currency banknote (LEK).
Episode V: Alliance between the Illyrians and Macedon
In 172 B.C.E. Gentius reenters into the focus of the Roman Republic. This time, the island of Issa, a Hellenic colony sent a delegation into the Roman Senate where they accused the Illyrian king of assaulting their lands in two different occasions. Furthermore, they accused the Illyrian ruler for conspiring with the Macedonian king against Rome. In fact, there is no reason to support such a claim made by the Issaeans since Gentius had not yet allied with the Macedonians at this time. Illyrian delegation was sent to dismiss such claims but the Romans did not consider their arguments and treated them with despise. Apparently, the Romans had already decided to intervene east of the Adriatic against the Illyrians and certainly against the Macedonians.
In 170 B.C.E. the Macedonian domains would approach those of Gentius when king Perseus conducted a successful campaign against the Romans in the region of the Penestae. Through effective military actions in the lands of the Penestae, Perseus temporarily pushed away the threat of a Roman invasion from the west and opened a direct road of communication with king Gentius of the Ardiaei. Thus, upon returning to Stuberra (Prilep) Perseus started to work for establishing an alliance with Gentius against the Roman Republic. Polybius describes the details that led to this alliance as follows:
“Perseus sent Pleuratus [not Pleuratus III] the Illyrian, who had taken refuge with him, and Adaeus of Beroea, as envoys to King Genthius, with instructions to announce to him what had happened in the war he was engaged in against the Romans and Dardanians, and for the present at least with the Epirots and Illyrians; and to solicit him to enter into an alliance with himself and the Macedonians. The envoys, crossing Mount Scardus [Sharr Mountain extending from current Kosovo to northwest of current FYROM and northeast of present Albania], journeyed through the so‑called Desert Illyria, which not many years previously had been depopulated by the Macedonians in order to make it difficult for the Dardanians to invade Illyria and Macedonia. Traversing this district, and enduring great hardships on the journey, they reached Scodra [Shkodra, current Albania]; and, learning that Genthius was staying in Lissus [Lezhë, current Albania], sent a message to him [in January 169 B.C.E.]. Genthius at once sent for them, and they conversed with him on the matters covered by their instructions. Genthius did not seem to be averse to making friendship with Perseus; but he excused himself from complying at once with their request on the ground of his want of resources and the impossibility of undertaking a war against Rome without money. Adaeus and his colleague, on receiving this answer, returned. Perseus, on arriving at Styberra [Prilep, current FYROM], sold the booty, and rested his army waiting for the return of the envoys. Upon their arrival, after hearing the answer of Genthius, he once more dispatched Adaeus, accompanied by Glaucias, one of his bodyguard, and again by Pleuratus owing to his knowledge of the Illyrian language, with the same instructions as before, just as if Genthius had not expressly indicated what he was in need of, and what must be done before he would consent to the request. Upon their departure the king [Perseus] left with his army and marched towards Hyscana [Uscana].” (Polybius, XXVIII)
“At this time the envoys sent to Genthius returned, having achieved nothing more than on their first visit, and having nothing further to report; as Genthius maintained the same attitude, being ready to join Perseus, but saying that he stood in need of money. Perseus, paying little heed to them, now sent Hippias to establish a definite agreement, but omitted the all-important matter, saying that if he . . . he would make Genthius well disposed.” (Polybius, XXVIII)
“On the return before winter of Hippias, who had been sent by Perseus to Genthius to treat for an alliance, and on his reporting that that prince was ready to enter upon war with Rome if he received three hundred talents and proper sureties all round, Perseus, on hearing this, in the judgment that the co-operation of Genthius was an urgent necessity, appointed Pantauchus, one of his “first friends,” his envoy, and dispatched him with instructions to consent in the first place to give the money, and then to exchange oaths of alliance. In the next place Genthius was to send at once such hostages as Pantauchus chose, while he was to receive from Perseus such hostages, as he should name in writing. Finally Pantauchus was to make arrangements for the conveyance of the three hundred talents. The envoys started at once, and, on arriving at Meteon [Medun, current Montenegro] in Labeatis [Illyrian region] where he met Genthius, very soon induced the young man to throw in his fortunes with Perseus.” (Polybius, XXIX)
The negations between Perseus and Gentius for establishment of an alliance continued for about one year. The classical authors explain this large period of time in part as an attempt of Gentius to gain as much as possible financially as well as in military weapons. However, the reluctance of Gentius to join Perseus could be related with different viewpoint on military tacticts and styles that these kings might have had. Accordingly, the goal of Perseus was to overcome Rome through force whereas Genthius of the Illyrians may have hoped in a peaceful solution that would enable him to remain king in the main parts of his kingdom.
Episode VI: Roman Triumph
In 168 B.C.E. the Romans turned their arms against Gentius, initiating the Third Illyrian War. Luc Anicius and App Claudius were sent to fight against the Illyrian ruler. The Illyrian ruled had mobilized 15,000 soldiers and had concentrated them around Lissus. Also, an Illyrian fleet raided the territories of Dyrrachium and Apollonia while the Romans were advancing towards Illyria inland from the south. A naval battle was conducted where the Roman fleet that was based at Apollonia defeated the Illyrian ships. Then, the desisive battle was conducted under the walls of Scodra where the Romans crushed the initial stance of the Illyrians until the Illyrian king with the rest of his army surrendered.
“…After taking possession of Scodra, he (Anicius) immediately dispatched Perperna to seize the king’s friends and relations, who, hastening to Medeon, a city of Labeatia, conducted to the camp at Scodra, Etleva, the king’s consort; his brother Caravantius; with his two sons, Scerdiletus and Pleuratus. Anicius, having brought the Illyrian war to a conclusion within thirty days, sent Perperna to Rome with the news of his success; and, in a few days after, king Gentius himself, with his mother, queen, children, and brother, and other Illyrians of distinction”. (Polybius, XLIV)
Gentius spent the rest of his life (until 146 B.C.E.) in exile, at Gubbio in the region of Perugia in Italy. Apart from the activities mentioned above, Gentius is also credited with first discovering the healing powers of the plant Gentiana lutea, accordingly named after him. This plant, which is now used into several beverages such as the Aperol Spritz, was used in the ancient times as an antidote for bites made by poisoning animals and for healing other wounds.
Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë. Instituti i Historisë. Historia e Popullit Shqiptar, I, p. 137. Botimet Toena, 2002.
Hammond, N.G.L. (1966). The Kingdoms in Illyria circa 400-167 B.C. The Annual British School at Athens, 61, 240-253.
The Genius of Gentius (2016). Retrieved from: https://bubblyprofessor.com/2016/07/15/the-genius-of-gentius/
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Human remains found off U.S. coast in 2009 identified as Penticton man
Jim Neufeld, 55, was last seen leaving his home in Penticton Jan. 21, 2009
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Jim (James) Neufeld was last seen leaving his Penticton home on Jan. 21, 2009.
Nearly 12 years later, U.S. officials in Washington State have now identified human remains found on the coast of San Juan County as belonging to Neufeld.
Neufeld was believed to be travelling in his green 1997 Plymouth Voyager passenger van, which was located under the Alexandria Bridge near the Fraser River on Feb. 3, 2009, by Hope RCMP. His vehicle was examined by RCMP forensic specialists at the time.
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On May 23, 2009, the remains of a deceased man were pulled from the waters of the Salish Sea off of Parker Reef, about one-half mile north of Orcas Island in San Juan County.
The remains were taken in for anthropological and forensic studies but went unidentified, despite efforts by U.S. officials to trace a number on a metal plate to hospitals, pull a DNA profile from the deceased, and develop and sketch what he might have looked like.
However, a renewed attempt to establish a DNA profile in September 2020 proved to be successful. In partnership with the BC Coroners Service Special Identifications Unit and the Snohomish County medical examiner’s office in Washington, the remains were positively identified as belonging to Neufeld.
“At first I was confident we would find his identity and family right away,” said San Juan country coroner Randall Gaylord. But when the case went cold coroners grew frustrated.
Jane Jorgensen of the Snohomish County medical examiner’s office was able to provide the fresh look that was ultimately successful
B.C. RCMP Southeast District Supt. Ray Carfantan said this case may bring hope to other families who have a missing loved one.
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019. Employment services. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 16 January 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/employment-services
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). Employment services. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/employment-services
Employment services. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 11 September 2019, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/employment-services
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Employment services [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2019 [cited 2021 Jan. 16]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/employment-services
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2019, Employment services, viewed 16 January 2021, https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/employment-services
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The purpose of employment services is to provide assistance to help people find employment and/or acquire the skills necessary to find and maintain work. Many also provide support services during the early stages of employment. In Australia, employment services may be delivered by for-profit or not-for-profit organisations (Nevile 2013).
Employment services primarily provide support to recipients of specific income support payments for unemployed individuals, such as the Newstart Allowance. For an individual to continue to receive income support payments, they may be required to meet ‘mutual obligation’ requirements. For more information on types of income support and eligibility, see Unemployment and parenting income support payments
Mutual obligation requirements
Income-support recipients subject to mutual obligation requirements include unemployed people on Newstart Allowance, Youth Allowance, and some receiving Parenting Payment and Special Benefit.
Mutual obligation requirements are tailored to an individual’s circumstance, but often involve:
agreeing to a job plan with a provider or the Australian Government Department of Human Services
applying for up to 20 jobs per month
attending regular appointments with a provider or periodic appointments with Human Services
undertaking activities to increase skills and employability, which may include part-time work, study, language training or voluntary work.
The Australian Government provides funding for participatory programs to help unemployed individuals meet these requirements, including Work for the Dole, Youth Jobs PaTH, and the National Work Experience Program. For more information, see the Australian Government Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business website.
The jobactive program funds employment services to support individuals receiving unemployment benefits. Under the program, service providers assist individuals to access relevant training needs, apply for and find employment in suitable jobs. The program also provides financial incentives for qualifying businesses that employ eligible individuals. In 2018, there were 1,700 jobactive service providers in Australia (DJB 2018b).
More than 364,000 job placements were recorded in jobactive during the period April 2017 and March 2018 (DJB 2018a). An individual generally leaves jobactive if they have reduced their reliance on income support to zero. In the 12 months to March 2018, 64% who exited the program during this time reported being employed 3 months after exiting, 21% were unemployed, and 16% had left the labour force (DJB 2018a). For all individuals who exited or remained in the program in the same period, 49% were employed 3 months after exiting, 34% were unemployed and 17% had left the labour force (DJB 2018a).
The Disability Employment Services (DES) program assists individuals with a disability, injury or health condition to prepare for, find and maintain employment. An individual may receive different services depending on their needs. Services can include resume development and employment-related training. They can also include in-workplace support for employers such as wage subsidies and workplace modifications (DSS 2018b). In 2016–17, 118 service providers were contracted or receiving funding under the program (DSS 2017).
Between 2014–15 and 2017–18, the number of people starting with DES dropped by approximately 6.6%, from around 96,900 to 90,500 (DSS 2017, 2018a). In 2017–18, 49,328 employment placements were recorded. Of these, 32% of individuals were in employment 3 months after DES participation (DSS 2018a).
The Community Development Program (CDP) is an employment and community development program operating in more than 60 remote regions and more than 1,000 communities across Australia since mid-2015 (PM&C 2018a). About 80% of participants identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australians (PM&C 2019). As of September 2018, participants had been supported into approximately 27,600 jobs since the CDP began (PM&C 2018b).
The Transition to Work program provides pre-employment support to improve the work-readiness of young people and help them into work (including apprenticeships and traineeships) or education (DJB 2018d). From February 2016, when the program was introduced, to 31 January 2019, a total of 74,856 young people have started and 31,253 have had a job placement (DJB 2019b).
The ParentsNext program provides parents of young children with services to enable them to plan and prepare for employment by the time their children reach school age (DJB 2019c). Eligible participants receive services including education, training, mentoring, work experience and job opportunities (DJB 2019c). ParentsNext aims to help break the cycle of intergenerational welfare dependency, increase female labour force participation and help Close the Gap in Indigenous employment.
ParentsNext initially operated in 10 Australian local government areas (between April 2016 and June 2018). It was implemented nationally in July 2018 (DJB 2019a). The program has two streams—intensive and targeted. The intensive stream operates in 30 locations identified as having a high level of disadvantage and/or a high proportion of Indigenous parents (DJB 2019a). It provides access to additional support including a Participation Fund, wage subsidies and relocation assistance. The targeted stream operates in all 51 employment regions across Australia (DJB 2019a). The program is expected to assist more than 68,000 parents each year (DJB 2018c).
For more information on employment services, see:
Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Jobs Homepage
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Community Development Program
Department of Social Services, Disability Employment Services
DJB (Department of Jobs and Small Business) 2018a. Employment Services Outcomes Report, April 2017 – March 2018. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business.
DJB 2018b. jobactive. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business. Viewed 16 November 2018.
DJB 2018c. Minister for Jobs and Innovation media release: ParentsNext helping parents secure employment. Department of Jobs and Small Business. Viewed 12 March 2019.
DJB 2018d. Transition to Work. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business. Viewed 16 November 2018.
DJB 2019a. Budget 2017-18. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business. Viewed 29 April 2019.
DJB 2019b. Custom data request. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business.
DJB 2019c. ParentsNext. Canberra: Department of Jobs and Small Business. Viewed 12 March 2019.
DSS (Department of Social Services) 2017. Annual Report 2016–17. Canberra: Department of Social Services.
DSS 2018a. Annual Report 2017–18. Canberra: Department of Social Services.
DSS 2018b. Disability Employment Services. Canberra: Department of Social Services. Viewed 16 November 2018.
Nevile A 2013. The curse of accountability: assessing relationships in the delivery of employment services. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 24(1): 64–79.
PM&C (Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet) 2018a. Community Development Program reforms. Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Viewed 16 November 2018.
PM&C 2018b. The Community Development Program. Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Viewed 16 November 2018.
PM&C 2019. An evaluation of the first two years of the Community Development Programme—Summary. Canberra: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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Aubameyang Beats Bayern’s Lewandowski to be Bundesliga’s Top Scorer
Aubameyang's strengths will continue to set him apart as one of the greatest players to grace Africa and the world of football.
By Naipanoi Lepapa.
Gabonese international player, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a brace against Werder Bremen on the final day of the season to beat Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski to the Torjagerkanone.
Lewandowski led the day with a goal while Aubameyang stood second in the charts with 29 goals. The Dortmund Gabonese player, in the final game against Werder Bremen, decided to turn the tables.
He scored twice at the Signal Iduna Park to topple Lewandowski and win the Bundesliga top scorer award. Aubameyang's first goal was a stunner putting him on level with Lewandowski with 30 goals.
But the Gabon international was still not done. On the 89th minute, he scored a penalty to take his season tally to 31 goals and made it 4-3 in favor of Dortmund on the day.
The 27 year old striker also made history after he leveled Dortmund's goal scoring record tally in a single season, which was set by Lother Emmerich in the 1965/1966 season campaign. This was also the second time in Bundesliga’s history that two players scored more than 30 goals in a single season.
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The former Saint-Etienne striker is the second African player to win the Torjagerkanone after Ghana’s Tony Yeboah did so twice with Eintracht Frankfurt between 1992 and 1994.
"The Torjagerkanone means a lot to me." Aubameyang said before adding, "It was a great effort made by the whole team. I am grateful to everybody. The training staff, my fellow players and everybody who works for the club. It is just great."
Denying Bayern’s Lewandowski the award which he had won in 2013-2014 with 20 goals and again in 2015-2016 with 30 strikes is not the only thing that sets him world apart from the other African players.
In 2016, Aubameyang was awarded as the African footballer of the year becoming the first Gabonese player and the first Bundesliga player to win the award. His vision and skills to execute are quite compelling. In December same year, he was named by the Guardian as the eighth-best footballer in the world.
The son of the former Gabonese captain, Pierre Aubameyang, started his career in AC Milan’s youth team in January 2007. He made a name for himself and attracted international scouts as he scored against every team Milan played against, finishing with seven goals in six games. This ambition saw him being awarded the Roberto Bettega Trophy for being the top scorer for the competition.
Upon joining Saint-Etienne in 2011 on a permanent deal, Aubameyang, continued to showcase his prowess. In February 2012, he scored his first hat-trick against Lorient. In that season, he scored half of the team’s away goals and went on to be Ligue 1 top goal scorer with 16 goals.
On 20th April he won his first major trophy as a professional player and finished the season with 18 goals and seven assists in all competitions.
2012-2013 was Aubameyang's break-through season. He ended as Ligue 1's second top goalscorer, scoring 19 goals in 37 appearances and finishing behind the great, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He also provided eight assists.
The player known for his speed and capacity to play both as a winger and a striker. He joined Borussia Dortmund in 4th July 2013 on a five year contract and continued to make history. In 2015-2016 season, Aubameyang became the first player in Bundesliga history to score in each of his team’s opening six matches of a season in August. He later extended his record to eight matches.
Although signed to Dortmund until 2020, Aubameyang is now on high demand. He has been linked to a move to other top clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester City. It is also reported the highly rated striker has been offered over $1.04 million a week for a Chinese Super League transfer deal. If he accepts to play for Tianjin Quanjin, he will become the highest paid footballer in the world.
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It remains to be seen if Aubameyang will accept the record breaking Chinese deal or move away from Dortmund to another club. But one thing remains clear about the Gabonese captain, he is not yet done.
Wherever he goes, the Gabonese goal-scorer is sure to be looking to etch his name into history and leave the biggest impact. Aubameyang's strengths will continue to set him apart as one of the greatest players to grace Africa and the world of football.
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Soldier Sailor and Airman Too: The Fighting Life of Group Captain A. B. "Woody" Woodhall
Military > New Zealand Miltary
Author: Woody Woodhall
Soldier, Sailor and Airman Too is a comprehensive history of the life and career of Group Captain A.B. Woodhall. His story provides a unique slice of British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Airforce history, spanning both World Wars and finishing in New Zealand. Not only can his story be read as a biography of an extremely accomplished and heroic figure, this book also provides an extensive historical insight into the myriad events he was involved in over this period of time. From beginnings that would be enough to deter most - being severely wounded to the point of paralysis as a sniper at Beaumont Hamel 1916 and subsequently evacuated back to England; Soldier, Sailor and Airman Too covers Woody's military career through both wars, touches on his flying with Douglas Bader and volunteering to make an emergency drop of an artificial leg to Bader when he was downed and taken prisoner in Germany. Working as a controller in the Great Battle of Britain, Woody was awarded the OBE and given investiture by the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace as well as being promoted to Group Captain. Woody encountered some strife in the bombings of Duxton and Tangmere, where he was Group Captain, but went on to establish a radio listening service in Malta resulting in foxing the German Controller! Woodhall writes extremely well and gives exceptional attention to detail. The book is filled with anecdotes, humour and is an extremely significant and detailed primary resource, making it ideal for historians, military buffs and people with an interest in flying.
Publisher : Willson Scott Publishing
Imprint : Willson Scott Publishing
Produced in : New Zealand
Author : Woody Woodhall
Illustrations : photographs
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Australia / Papua New Guinea: Immigration Dept.’s claims about shooting on Manus Island refuted
14 May 2017, 13:52 UTC
Digital verification of images and videos establishes that bullets were fired directly into the Manus refugee centre on 14 April, putting the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers there in danger, a new Amnesty International briefing says today.
The new briefing, In the Firing Line, directly contradicts initial claims made by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Papua New Guinea Police, suggesting that the soldiers only fired bullets into the air.
“Our investigation shows there is no doubt that on 14 April 2017 bullets were fired not only into the air but directly into the Manus refugee centre in a way that seriously endangered the lives of the people inside,” said Kate Schuetze, Amnesty International’s Pacific Researcher.
“This was not an isolated incident. Refugees trapped on Manus Island have faced several violent attacks in the past. They are the direct result of an inherently abusive system put in place by the Australian government. Until that system is dismantled and the refugees are brought to safety, the threat to their lives will remain.”
Amnesty International is calling for a prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigation into what exactly happened on 14 April, or ‘Good Friday’.
One month after the incident, the Australian government has failed to conduct an investigation, issue a formal statement, or release the CCTV footage of the shooting for independent verification and analysis.
Blaming the victims
Peter Dutton, Australia’s Immigration Minister, sought to diminish the seriousness of the shooting, drawing a link, on the basis of no evidence, to an incident weeks before, when a ten-year-old boy had entered the centre, implying that the child was at risk.
“Instead of waiting for the results of an investigation, Dutton has inflamed matters by making an irresponsible and unfounded claim about the shooting incident,” said Kate Schuetze.
Refugees at Manus have expressed shock and dismay at Dutton’s resort to innuendo and allegations on the basis of no proof. An Afghan refugee said that he and other friends only gave him some food after he found him asking for food and money.
The 34-year-old Afghan refugee told ABC: “I experienced hunger, I experienced being thirsty, I experienced poverty and I know how it feels for a child to be hungry. And when I see that I cannot just close my eyes and not help.”
Refugees at Manus have said that guards at the centre and CCTV footage could verify their account.
“For Dutton to make such a claim is outrageous behaviour unworthy of a senior government official. For him then to try and connect it, weeks later, to drunken soldiers shooting at a refugee centre is reckless in the extreme and will put the lives of people there at even greater risk,” said Kate Schuetze.
The refugees have now lodged a formal complaint with the Australian authorities about Dutton’s comments and are pleading for the authorities to release the CCTV footage which they say will exonerate them.
Shut down Manus, bring the refugees to safety
Following a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court ruling last year that said the Manus Island detention centre is operating illegally, the Australian government has said that it will be shut down later this year.
Amnesty International calls on the Australian government to take action immediately.
“Unless the detention centre on Manus Island is shut down and refugees and asylum seekers are brought to safety immediately, they will remain exposed to threats of violence,” said Kate Schuetze.
Background: Refugees at risk on Manus Island
On 18 October 2013, a fight broke out between PNG police officers and soldiers just outside the Manus refugee centre, leaving refugees fearful of their safety. Witnesses claimed two shots were fired, but the Australian government denied this.
On 16 and 17 February 2014, Reza Baerati was murdered and more than 60 asylum seekers were injured in an attack on the Manus refugee centre by Papua New Guineans living near and working at the centre.
On New Year’s Eve 2016, media reports said two men seeking asylum on Manus Island were beaten severely by PNG police officers.
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RIBA responds to the Hackitt Review
‘A major missed opportunity’ to make buildings safer today – RIBA responds to Hackitt Review
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 17 May) given an initial response to the publication of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.
The RIBA’s Expert Advisory Group on Fire Safety, set up following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower, had expressed serious concerns for some time that the Hackitt Review was not going to include the changes that are needed now, not tomorrow.
The RIBA welcomes some of the Review’s findings, including the proposal to establish a Joint Competent Authority, bringing in the expertise of the HSE and the fire brigades, to oversee a new fire safety regulatory framework for multiple occupancy high-rise residential buildings. However, the Institute is concerned by the absence of the clear baseline standards that, it argues, would deliver clarity for the industry and, most importantly, provide protection for the public.
Dame Judith’s recommendations relate only to residential buildings above 10 storeys, although she does recognise that the remit of the new fire safety regulatory framework could be widened to encompass a greater range of higher risk buildings in the future. There is no recommendation to ban combustible materials in external wall construction on high rise buildings nor for the provision of alternative means of escape, and desktop studies are simply re-branded as “assessments in lieu of test.”
RIBA President Ben Derbyshire says:
“This Review should have been a defining moment - a set of findings to bring real and meaningful change to the complexity and confusion surrounding core building regulations guidance. Whilst there are elements of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Review that we very much welcome, we are extremely concerned that it has failed to act on the urgent need to immediately protect life safety through a more detailed programme of simplified and improved regulations, standards and guidance. The Review recognises that the changes it recommends will require legislative change and take time to fully implement. In the meantime we are left with confusion and lack of clarity. We will be continuing to stress our detailed concerns to Government.”
Immediate Past President of RIBA and Chair of the RIBA’s Expert Advisory Group on Fire Safety, Jane Duncan says:
“This was supposed to be a Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower. It’s a thorough report on the current state of the regulatory system and construction industry, but it offers no changes whatsoever to the actual regulations or baseline guidance.
Focusing on just a small number of very high buildings is a major missed opportunity. By failing to ban the use of combustible materials and ‘desktop’ studies, or require use of sprinklers, the report’s recommendations will not deliver the immediate change that is needed to reassure and safeguard the public. We will be continuing to work with Government to ensure that our recommendations are re-considered.”
The RIBA Expert Group on Fire Safety set out four key recommendations for baseline prescriptive requirements:
Non-combustible cladding - external wall construction for existing or new buildings with a storey 18m or more above ground to be comprised of non-combustible (European class A1) materials only.
More than one means of escape - In all new multiple occupancy residential buildings, a requirement for at least two staircases, offering alternative means of escape, where the top floor is more than 11m above ground level or the top floor is more than three storeys above the ground level storey (as required for commercial buildings).
Sprinklers - retro-fitting of sprinklers / automatic fire suppression systems and centrally addressable fire alarm systems to existing residential buildings above 18m from ground level as “consequential improvements” where a building is subject to 'material alterations.'
Mandatory requirement for sprinklers/automatic fire suppression systems and addressable central fire alarms in all new and converted residential buildings, as already required in Wales.
For more information about how the RIBA has responded to the Grenfell Tower fire, see here.
For further press information contact Elise Neve elise.neve@riba.org +44 (0)20 7307 3761
Read the Government's Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: final report.
The RIBA will be hosting a fire safety conference, Protecting Lives: Design and Construction Post Grenfell, on 12 June, 9:30am to 5pm.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a global professional membership body that serves its members and society in order to deliver better buildings and places, stronger communities and a sustainable environment. www.architecture.com. Follow us on Twitter for regular RIBA updates www.twitter.com/RIBA.
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The Origins of Yang Style Taiji Quan
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history, Taiji, Taiji Quan, Yang Style
In old China, the different schools of martial arts were passed down from generation to generation within the family. So was Taiji Quan within Chenjiagou, or Chen Village, Henan Province, until Chen Changxing of the 14 generation broke this tradition in the 20-30’s of the 19th century by teaching the skills to Yang Luchan, who later created the most popular Yang-Style.
A Cynic
Yang Luchan was born into a poor family in 1799 in Guangping (present-day Yongnian) County, Hebei Province. He made a living by selling fine-grained yellowish soil used for making briquettes.
A man of sturdy build, with broad shoulders and powerful arms, he was known far and wide for his great strength. His wheelbarrow was always loaded with no less than 800 catties (400 kg) of soil, which was quite enough to meet the needs of half a street in the county seat.
Hence his nicknames of “800 Catties” and “Half the Seat.” Toiling and moiling in this way, he could earn just enough to support his family.
On the Western Street in the county seat, there was a traditional Chinese medicine store called Tai He Tang, owned and run by people from Chenjiagou.
It was said that they were good at a kind of slow-motion shadow boxing called Taiji Quan and they practiced it behind closed doors every day after opening hours. Thus no one knew exactly what it was.
One early morning Yang came to the county seat as usual, pushed his wheelbarrow to the door of the store and knocked. One of the attendants let him in without any suspicion. While taking his time to unload his harrow, Yang watched the shop attendants practicing Tuishou (Push Hands) in the courtyard.
It was quite different from the Hongquan Kungfu he had learnt. Their movements were gentle and slow, as if they were swimming leisurely or feeling for fish in a river.
“What kind of fighting art is this?” Yang said to himself with a sneer.
Unwilling to waste his time watching such nonsense, he left right after unloading, and thereafter he just laughed whenever people talked about Taiji Quan.
An Enthusiast
One day, he happened to see a crowd outside the medicine store. Hearing an exchange of angry words, he put his barrow by the roadside and edged his way through the crowd.
There were the Zhao brothers from the Northern Street shouting and swearing at the attendants. They wanted to return some herbs they had bought earlier and get a refund..
“All the herbs sold here are good”, one of the attendants said. “We can return the money if you insist. But as for the herbs, once they are sold we never take them back. You’ll have to take them away.”
“We mean business today,” one of the Zhaos roared.
“You’ve got to take the herbs back whether you like it or not!” With this he picked up the parcel of herbal medicine and hurled it at the attendant, who caught it in his hand with amazing dexterity and, with just a flick of his hand, threw it back, splashing the medicine all over the Zhao’s face.
All the Zhaos rushed at the attendant.
With seeming effortlessness, he threw them out one by one into the street.
It was only after quite a while they were able to get to their feet. The incident created a sensation in the town. Having seen it with his own eyes, Yang Luchan was convinced of the real power of Taiji Quan.
“It’s marvellous!” he remarked. “If this attendant is so skillful, his master must be even more terrific.”
From then on, Yang delivered soil to the store at a regular time every day and left without collecting any money. The manager had sent it to Yang’s home but it was returned intact.
To find out Yang’s intention, the manager invited him to a dinner on the eve of New Year’s Day. After three rounds of drinks, the manager asked, “There is an old saying when someone gives you a present he must have a request to make. If there is anything I can do for you please let me know.”
“I want to learn Taiji Quan.”
“That’s easy. But you had better learn it from really good masters. I’ll introduce you to Master Chen Changxing in Chenjiagou.”
Taking out a writing brush and a piece of paper, the manager immediately wrote a letter of introduction for him.
A few days later, Yang Luchan set out on his journey to Chenjiagou. It took him only four days to cover the 400km.
Chen Changxing treated him courteously with nice food and wine, but never mentioned anything about Taiji Quan. Yang became impatient with time and implored him to accept him as his pupil.
“I’ve stopped practising for years,” Chen said smiling. “You’d better learn from someone else.”
Yang’s heart sank when he heard Chen’s words which amounted to a flat refusal. No matter how much he pleaded, Chen was adamant.
Yang had no choice but to bow out.
Time went by and it was the depth of winter. Snow began to fall in big flakes and one afternoon did not stop until the next morning.
When the attendants in Chen Chanxiang’s house opened the door to sweep away the snow they saw someone lying on the ground. It was a beggar in tatters with a dirty dark face. He was shivering with cold and seemed to have lost consciousness.
They carried him into the house. When he came to, they found him to be a mute. Feeling sorry for the man Chen Changxing let him stay.
Being physically strong, the beggar did all kinds of work, carrying buckets of water from the nearby well, sweeping the floors and cleaning the house, making the fire and cooking. His diligence and thoroughness won the hearts of everyone.
Having successfully concealed his identity, Yang Luchan did household chores in the daytime, and in the evening when the family and Chen’s disciples started practicing Taiji Quan he would stand by and watch attentively, memorizing every movement.
On the fifteenth day of every lunar month when the moon was full, the Chen family held a contest at night, which was a special attraction to Yang. Since he was a mute, the Chens did not mind his presence.
Every night, when the whole family had gone to sleep, Yang would get up and practise all the parts he had memorised.
Three years passed without incident then one night when Yang was practising as usual, Chen Changxing happened to get up. When he saw someone in the courtyard, he called out, “Who’s there?!” “It’s me Luchan,” Yang blurted out in his unguarded moment.
Chen Changxing asked in great surprise: “You’re a mute. How can you speak now ?”.
Yang told Chen how he had disguised himself as a dumb beggar to get himself accepted and how he had learnt Taiji Quan by watching and practicing late at night for three years.
A Grandmaster
Deeply moved by Yang’s determination, Chen asked him to show him what he had learnt. Taking off his jacket, Yang demonstrated all the routines he had picked up. His performance, skillful and true to the Chen style, compared favourably with that of Chen Changxiang’s children and nephews.
“Since you’ve been working so hard at it,” Chen said, “you may stay here for another three years. I’ll teach you personally.”
Yang was overjoyed and kowtowed again and again. From then on, the two got along so well they looked like Father and son. Chen passed on to his new disciple all the essentials of Taiji Quan and combat skills with barehands and weapons and the ways of training inner strength.
When he returned to his home town, he was a proficient and versatile wushu master.
Knowing how to avoid and subdue forceful blows in fighting, he gained a reputation for his “Cotton Boxing”, also known as “Tender Boxing” or “Softening Boxing”.
In 1850, Yang Luchan helped the Desheng Armed Escort Bureau to get back a large amount of silver which had been entrusted to it by the Prince of Duan, a member of the imperial family, but had been robbed by highwaymen.
This won the Prince’s favour and Yang was invited to teach wushu in his mansion. In the meanwhile, he often took time off to teach the common people in Beijing.
He revised and rearranged the “old frame” of the Chen style, and created a new style of his own, based on a “small frame” and with the most difficult moves omitted. Further changes were made by his posteriors until it developed into the present Yang-style Taiji Quan.
Chen and Yang Taichi Quan
by Yang Gulfu
The Heirs to the Yang Tradition.
The banner of Yang-Style Taiji Quan is now in the hands of Yang Luchan’s two great-grandsons Yang Zhendou and his older brother Yang Zhenji. The pair were taught by their father Yang Chengfu (1883-1936) and worked very hard to master the essence of the an.
It has been said that both their movements closely resemble their
father’s and both are renowned for their skill at pushing hands.
Yang Zhenji is the president of the Handan Wushu Association, whilst Yang Zhendou is the president of the Shanxi Yang Style Taiji Quan Society.
Both work tirelessly to promote their family’s skill and today Yang Style Taiji Quan is one of the most widely practised of the five schools of Taiji Quan.
The Yang Style Taiji Quan is a legacy of our family and a precious gem of our nation’s culture.
by Yang Zhenji
The First Lesson of Taiji and All Martial Arts
Chen Taiji – Whirl Arms Application
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Ultra Low Emission Vehicle Sales Surge
by AutoVolt | 15 Oct, 2015 | News | 0 comments
The latest new car registration numbers from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) in partnership with Go Ultra Low shows booming demand for plug-in cars as motorists realise the cost saving potential and environmental benefits low-emission motoring offers.
Analysis by Go Ultra Low shows 20,992 motorists made the leap to plug-in power between January and September this year, a bumper growth of 138.5% when compared to 2014.
A greater choice of models, with more than 27 pure electric or plug-in hybrid cars now available for sale in the UK, is being principal amongst the identified reasons for the acceleration of adoption. High performance hybrid and electric sports cars and EV/PHEV family run-arounds alike have seen massive increases in demand from consumers. Demand for plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models particularly has seen the biggest increase, with a 226.5% rise against 2014 with 14,041 registrations.
Head of Go Ultra Low, Poppy Welch, said,
“The growth in plug-in car registrations is excellent news and in line with our expectations. This trend should continue over the course of this year as we know that motorists are keen to achieve maximum miles for the lowest cost, while minimising emissions and environmental impact.”
Shifting shares
In line with a trend seen throughout this year, registrations of ultra low emission vehicles continue to grow their share of the new car market, taking more than 1% share for the year so far. Up significantly from the same period in 2014 when just 0.44% of registrations were plug-ins, this move to new technology demonstrates the value motorists place in a variety of options, enabling them to pick the car that best-meets their needs.
Plug-in bestsellers
The newest statistics reveal that Mitsubishi leads the new registrations charge, with 9,303 of its flagship Outlander PHEV sold since the start of 2015. Nissan follows with its all-electric LEAF racking-up 4,285 registrations, and BMW’s i3 is the nation’s third most popular ultra low emission vehicle, also nearly doubling its tally with 1,564 registrations.
UK top ranked ultra low emission cars for year-to-date 2015
Ultra low emission vehicle
2015 year-to-date registrations
1 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV 9,303 2,731
2 Nissan LEAF 4,285 2,969
3 BMW i3 1,564 874
Future market
Government anticipates that 5% of new car registrations (around 100,000 units) will be ultra low emission by 2020 – an expectation that appears on track in light of recent rises. As more motorists look to manage running costs, a money-saving end goal could be providing the momentum for the surge in electric vehicle popularity.
Electric cars can be driven for as little as 2p per mile, compared with 10-12p for a conventionally powered car. Furthering their appeal, the variety of city, family, SUV and sports cars provides the practicality motorists crave, while boasting up to 700 miles range.
Go Ultra Low exists to help motorists understand the benefits, cost savings and capabilities of the raft of ultra low emission vehicles on the market. The collaborative campaign is the first of its kind, bringing together a consortium of seven leading vehicle manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Renault, Toyota and Volkswagen), Government and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Further details are available at www.GoUltraLow.com.
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Home Wind 101 Basics of Wind Energy
Wind energy (or wind power) refers to the process of creating electricity using the wind, or air flows that occur naturally in the earth’s atmosphere. Modern wind turbines are used to capture kinetic energy from the wind and generate electricity.
There are three main types of wind energy:
Utility-scale wind: Wind turbines that range in size from 100 kilowatts to several megawatts, where the electricity is delivered to the power grid and distributed to the end user by electric utilities or power system operators.
Distributed or "small" wind: Single small wind turbines below 100 kilowatts that are used to directly power a home, farm or small business and are not connected to the grid.
Offshore wind: Wind turbines that are erected in large bodies of water, usually on the continental shelf. Offshore wind turbines are larger than land-based turbines and can generate more power.
When the wind blows past a wind turbine, its blades capture the wind’s kinetic energy and rotate, turning it into mechanical energy. This rotation turns an internal shaft connected to a gearbox, which increases the speed of rotation by a factor of 100. That spins a generator that produces electricity.
Typically standing at least 80 meters (262 feet) tall, tubular steel towers support a hub with three attached blades and a “nacelle,” which houses the shaft, gearbox, generator, and controls. Wind measurements are collected, which direct the turbine to rotate and face the strongest wind, and the angle or "pitch" of its blades is optimized to capture energy.
A typical modern turbine will start to generate electricity when wind speeds reach six to nine miles per hour (mph), known as the cut-in speed. Turbines will shut down if the wind is blowing too hard (roughly 55 miles an hour) to prevent equipment damage.
Over the course of a year, modern turbines can generate usable amounts of electricity over 90 percent of the time. For example, if the wind at a turbine reaches the cut-in speed of six to nine mph, the turbine will start generating electricity. As wind speeds increase so does electricity production.
Another common measure of wind energy production is called capacity factor. This measures the amount of electricity a wind turbine produces in a given time period (typically a year) relative to its maximum potential.
For example, suppose the maximum theoretical output of a two megawatt wind turbine in a year is 17,520 megawatt-hours (two times 8,760 hours, the number of hours in a year). However, the turbine may only produce 7,884 megawatt-hours over the course of the year because the wind wasn’t always blowing hard enough to generate the maximum amount of electricity the turbine was capable of producing. In this case, the turbine has a 45 percent (7,884 divided by 17,520) capacity factor. Remember—this does not mean the turbine only generated electricity 45 percent of the time. Modern wind farms often have capacity factors greater than 40 percent, which is close to some types of coal or natural gas power plants.
Windmills vs. Wind Turbines
Sometimes people use the terms “windmill” and “wind turbine” interchangeably, but there are important differences. People have been using windmills for centuries to grind grain, pump water, and do other work. Windmills generate mechanical energy, but they do not generate electricity. In contrast, modern wind turbines are highly evolved machines with more than 8,000 parts that harness wind's kinetic energy and convert it into electricity.
What is a wind farm?
Oftentimes a large number of wind turbines are built close together, which is referred to as a wind project or wind farm. A wind farm functions as a single power plant and sends electricity to the grid.
How wind energy gets to you
The turbines in a wind farm are connected so the electricity they generate can travel from the wind farm to the power grid. Once wind energy is on the main power grid, electric utilities or power operators will send the electricity to where people need it.
Smaller transmission lines, called distribution lines, collect electricity generated at the wind project and transport it to larger "network" transmission lines, where the electricity can travel across long distances to the locations where it is needed. Finally, smaller distribution lines deliver electricity directly to your town, home or business. You can learn more about transmission here.
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Pac-12 basketball power rankings: Arizona, Arizona State still alive in conference race
Jeremy Cluff
We are just over halfway through the Pac-12 conference play and a couple of teams have established themselves as the favorites in a wide-open conference race.
Colorado and Oregon lead the Pac-12 standings at 8-3 and 7-4, respectively.
They also lead recent Pac-12 power rankings, with Colorado ranked No. 1 and Oregon No. 2 in all of them.
But the Arizona schools are hot on the Buffaloes' and Ducks' heels.
Arizona and Arizona State are tied for third in the Pac-12 at 6-4 in conference play entering this week's games.
Recent power rankings have the Wildcats and Sun Devils mainly ranked third or fourth in the conference.
Check out what they are saying about the Arizona schools in Pac-12 basketball power rankings as the final stretch of the season begins.
MORE:NCAA Tournament projections: Where should Arizona Wildcats be seeded?
Arizona Wildcats in Pac-12 basketball power rankings
SB Nation: Arizona No. 3
It writes: "Don’t look now but here come the Wildcats. Of course, Arizona ruined their three-game winning streak with a letdown loss to UCLA, yet I still think this group is finally hitting their stride and understanding what Sean Miller wants them to do out there. Are they a finished product? Far from it. So they’ll need to refocus quick for a key string of road games at California and Stanford."
Fansided: Arizona No. 4
Connor Gilbert writes: "Yikes. No one could really say they saw that loss to UCLA coming, regardless of how well the Bruins had been playing. To be fair, the blown lead against Arizona State was not a good look last week either, and neither was losing to Oregon State by double digits. But at this point in the season after seeing what we’ve seen, both are hardly disqualifiers. As stated before, it’s all about the big picture. Statistically, Zona is splendid. Most measures place the Wildcats above every other team in the conference, including Oregon. KenPom projects that they’ll win the PAC-12 regular-season crown by a game over Oregon and Colorado, and considering that they play only two top-50 opponents in their remaining schedule and play six out of 10 at home, that doesn’t sound unfeasible. Their defensive rebounding problems from earlier in the year have improved significantly too, as they’re now the No. 1 team in the conference in defensive rebounding percentage. They outrebounded USC and UCLA, the No. 2 and 1 offensive rebounding teams in the league, but went 1-1 regardless. In both wins last week, none of the Wildcats’ top three of Nico Mannion, Josh Green and Zeke Nnaji played exceptionally. Clearly, their services weren’t essential in either game (by virtue of playing Washington and Washington State), but when Mannion and Green were underwhelming against the Bruins it cost them."
The Daily Evergreen: Arizona No. 4
Cody Schoeler writes: "Arizona split their pair of games this weekend. They started it off with a high-scoring, five-point win over USC. The Wildcats took the lead about six minutes into the game and never gave it up, despite a late surge from the Trojans. They were led by at least 18 points from each member of their trio of starting freshman: forward Zeke Nnaji and guards Nico Mannion and Josh Green. The Wildcats could not keep it rolling against UCLA. Nnaji led the team in scoring with 14 points and Green was his only teammate to score in double-digits with 11 points."
azdesertswarm.com: Arizona No. 4
Brian J. Pedersen writes: "The worst shooting performance by Arizona in the 47-year history of McKale Center (25.4 percent) resulted in a third straight home loss to UCLA and kept it from being tied for first place. The Wildcats showed on their last road trip they can win without the offense clicking, which may need to be how they operate the rest of the way until they figure out how to score when not in transition."
MORE:Arizona State basketball moving up in latest NCAA Tournament projections
Arizona State Sun Devils in Pac-12 basketball power rankings
SB Nation: Arizona State No. 4
It writes: "If you spend any time in your day trying to comprehend what goes on in the Pac-12, then I suggest you get some new hobbies before you absolutely lose your mind from the league’s volatile nature. Arizona State has been quietly improving for a while now and have cemented their growth with five victories in their last six contests. Remy Martin is also securing his spot in Sun Devils’ history."
Fansided: Arizona State ranked No. 5
Connor Gilbert writes: "The Sun Devils have inserted themselves further into tournament discussion with some quality wins over USC and UCLA, but there are still plenty of questions to be asked. They lie firmly on the edge of the bubble, which is not new territory for this program but not the most reassuring place to be given the recent chaos in the conference. But if the solid defensive showings ASU has produced lately and the physicality that its entire roster has displayed continue to manifest, then they will be a hard out, even as an 11 or 12 seed. The press against USC was able to generate enough turnovers to compensate for an offense that was anemic at times. Rising to third place in the PAC-12 doesn’t hurt either, although they’re hardly alone. The vulnerable guard play of Cal and Stanford could be the Sun Devils’ next victims as they try to put some distance between themselves and their rivals."
The Daily Evergreen: Arizona State No. 3
Cody Schoeler writes: "The climb up the conference continued for the Sun Devils as they beat UCLA and USC this weekend. Their first win was a much easier contest; shooting over 50 percent on 3-pointers can do that sometime. They beat the Bruins by 18 points behind 26 points off the bench from junior guard Alonzo Verge Jr. They had to work harder for their win over the Trojans. Junior guard Remy Martin was the hero in that game. He led the team with 22 points and secured their two-point win with his jumper with 19 seconds left."
azdesertswarm.com: Arizona State No. 3
Brian J. Pedersen writes: "A home sweep of the Los Angeles schools—something Arizona hasn’t pulled off in four years—has ASU right in the hunt for the conference title. That is, if the Sun Devils can find a way to rally when down at halftime on the road like they do in Tempe (they trailed USC by eight on Saturday). More efficiency to go with that fast tempo couldn’t hurt, either."
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Written By: Seth Godin
Narrated By: Seth Godin
You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.
What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Manger have in common? How do they achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and-true brands to gasp their last? The old checklist of P's used by marketers - Pricing, Promotion, Publicity - aren't working anymore. The golden age of advertising is over. It's time to add a new P - the Purple Cow.
Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat-out unbelievable. In his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.
© Seth Godin 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
by Seth Godin
This title is due for release on November 24, 2020.
This title is due for release on November 24, 2020
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New Tech Economy
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Mortgage approvals rose in March, says Bank of England
duration 30 April 2013
image captionThe Bank of England argues that loan availability will improve
The number of people taking out new mortgages rose last month, according to figures from the Bank of England.
There were 53,504 mortgage approvals in the month of March, compared with fewer than 52,000 in February.
But the total was still below that reached in December 2012, when there were more than 55,000 approvals.
At the same time, the amount of lending to businesses was down by a further 3.6%, despite attempts by the Bank of England to boost such lending.
"The encouraging pointer is the rebound in mortgage approvals for house purchases," commented Philip Shaw, an economist with Investec.
"What isn't clear is whether approvals were depressed once again by cold weather conditions," he said.
'Slight' improvement
The Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) has been criticised for failing to boost lending since it began in August 2012.
The idea is that banks can borrow money at a discount from the Bank of England, providing they can show they have passed it on to customers in the form of loans.
The Bank has always argued that it will take some time to have an effect, particularly with lending to businesses.
Earlier this month, the Bank announced that the scheme would be extended by an extra year, to January 2015.
But economists are uncertain as to whether FLS is helping to boost the availability of mortgages.
"There's been a very slight underlying improvement since last summer in approvals," said Ross Walker of RBS. "Maybe in part you could cite the FLS."
The bigger effect has been on mortgage rates, some of which have fallen significantly in the past few months.
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Invasion of the CA2 Region
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How sprouting mossy fibers might contribute to epileptic activity
A previously undiscovered mechanism in the hippocampus might contribute to epileptic activity. In mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), as Ute Häussler and colleagues at the University Hospital Freiburg and the IMTEK Freiburg have discovered, a specific region in the hippocampus experiences a sprouting of mossy fibers while its neighboring regions are in retreat. In the healthy hippocampus, these mossy fibers make synaptic transmissions to one neighboring region. However, in MTLE, the destination of their synaptic output is still under investigation.
In the case of a loss of certain regions in the neuronal network, as most commonly seen in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and epilepsy, the human brain conveys its resilience in several mechanisms by trying to compensate for the loss of neuronal regions. This mechanism can be compared to a power grid, in which other power plants have to compensate for the loss of one power plant, and where a fallout in a whole area will sometimes have to be bypassed to save the grid as a whole. But as Ute Häussler hypothesizes in her publication “Mossy Fiber Sprouting and Pyramidal Cell Dispersion in the Hippocampal CA2 Region in a Mouse Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy”, it might just be one such mechanism that may contribute to some aspects of epileptic activity.
The CA2 region of the hippocampus, the region of the brain most frequently associated with inhibition, memory, and space, is extraordinary in many respects. In MTLE, its neighboring regions known as CA1 and CA3 experience a dramatic loss of their cells and which leaves behind only a handful of deformed cells, while the CA2 cells survive. “The pyramidal cells of the CA2 region have some extraordinary properties. They seem to be less excitable and are difficult to potentiate in the healthy hippocampus. But we do not really know yet why they survive in epilepsy”, Häussler says. “What we observed in our mouse model for temporal lobe epilepsy, however, was that the CA2 region was significantly elongated and that mossy fibers were heavily invading the cellular layers of the region instead of only projecting to the dendritic layers”, the neuroscientist adds. In a healthy state, the dendritic layer can be compared to a lightning arrester which helps to control incoming impulses, whereas this function seems compromised in MTLE. “Such a change from dendritic excitation, that leaves options for activity modulation, to direct somatic excitation, together with a decrease in inhibition might act like a flashpoint. This results in temporary explosions: the epileptic seizures.”
Unusual Properties of Mossy Fibers
Mossy fibers are a specific type of axon, the long, slender projection of a neuron, which, like an antenna, conduct electrical impulses away from the cell body of the neuron. In the hippocampus, these fibers are a crucial part of a relay that is known as the hippocampal loop. This loop processes activity from the entorhinal cortex. Mossy fibers have unusual properties that leave room for hypothesis: “These mossy fibers have different types of synapses depending on the target region”, Häussler adds.
Häussler and her team are now trying to find out how this activity transmission in CA2 is changed in epilepsy and which factors change in MTLE in such a way that mossy fibers start to sprout in this region. “We have not yet identified the underlying mechanism that can explain this sprouting. We only know that these mossy fibers tend to sprout as soon as they lose their target cells.” Häussler emphasizes that there is not only mossy fiber sprouting to CA2, but there is also an intrinsic mossy fiber sprouting within the dentate gyrus, the hippocampal region that contributes to the formation of memories. “Through their mossy fibers, granule cells couple themselves or to their immediate neighbors, and there is a recurrence in this dynamic, which also only develops in epilepsy.”
Potential Treatment in Stimulation of Altered Network
Häussler now wants to consider the altered structure of CA2 in higher resolution. “We know where the CA2 cells get their input from but we do not know where they send their output to. Normally CA2 projects to CA1 within the same level, but CA1 is gone in temporal lobe epilepsy. We also want to find out why these specific CA2 cells survive.” If some of the mechanisms behind this dynamic could be identified, this may lead to potential treatments for early stages of MTLE before all the other cells are lost. “We might even be able to preserve larger parts of the network and maintain a certain level of functionality”, Häussler adds.
Defining the integration of the CA2 region and where it projects to will also help the researchers to understand its network dynamic and how it changes in MTLE. In her research, Häussler sees specific potential for new treatments involving stimulation: “We can imagine ways to stimulate this region as one part of the altered network and to find stimulation parameters that block the propagation of epileptic activity within and outside the hippocampus.
Häussler U, Rinas K, Kilias A, Egert U, Haas CA. (2015) Mossy fiber sprouting and pyramidal cell dispersion in the hippocampal CA2 region in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy. Hippocampus doi:10.1002/hipo.22543.
A mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy conveys the sprouting of mossy fibers and dispersion of pyramidal cells in the CA2 region of the hippocampus
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With its dunes damaged, Surfside Beach needs more recycled Christmas trees than ever
Emily Foxhall, Staff writer
Jan. 6, 2021 Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 11:12 a.m.
Barbara Perk unloads Christmas trees Tuesday in Surfside Beach. They will be used to restore the dunes eroded by storms.
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Toni Capretta, president of Save Our Beach Association, takes photos of storm-damaged dunes to send to the GLO on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Terry Doyal, left, and her friend Barbara Perk unload Christmas trees Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach. The pair gathered trees from around Lake Jackson to drop off for dune restoration. "The dunes really got washed away this year, worse than I've ever see," Perk said.
Tami Ekstrand shows how high dunes near her beach house once stood Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach. Ekstrand and her husband moved from Minnesota into the home last summer, and she described how a series of storms in 2019 destroyed the dunes. "We realize there's wind hurricanes and there's water hurricanes," she said.
Christmas trees are piled at a drop-off location Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Suzy Mitchell, 84, walks down the steps of her beach house Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach. Mitchell and her husband moved into the beachfront home in 2012. "All this was green grass," she said of the sandy area in front of her home. She described how a series of storms in 2019 destroyed much of the dunes by her home. "We were lucky, we had good dunes," she said. "I'm hoping it'll grow back pretty fast," she said. "Nature is supposed to take care of it, but I'm afraid it's going to need a little help, and that's what the trees will do, and the fences will do."
A dog sniffs Christmas trees on a beach Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Tami Ekstrand shows pictures of the dunes near her house before and after a series of storms in 2019, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach. Ekstrand and her husband moved from Minnesota into the home last summer, and she described how the storms destroyed the dunes. "We realize there's wind hurricanes and there's water hurricanes," she said.
Eric Ekstrand built a short barrier to block water moving through the area during storms after the dunes in front of his Surfside Beach house were destroyed.
Christmas trees sit on a beach Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Terry Doyal unloads Christmas trees Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Storm-damaged dunes, photographed Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
People walk along the beach Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Surfside Beach.
Suzy Mitchell watched with growing concern last summer as storm after storm entered the Gulf of Mexico and neared Texas, their winds pushing water over the sand toward her Surfside Beach home.
Sand dunes, built up over years, protected her. But last year’s storm season saw more tropical cyclones form than ever. The seemingly ceaseless tidal surges eroded the dunes until some broke through.
Now, with their defenses weakened or gone, the 84-year-old Mitchell and other Surfside Beach residents know they need to start building their dunes back. How? They’re hoping for thousands of donated Christmas trees.
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Surfside Beach, Hwy 332 and Surf Drive
Brazoria County Precinct 1, 1432 Highland Park Dr., Clute
Precinct 2, 21017 CR 171, Angleton
Precinct 3, 2467 FM 528, Alvin
Precinct 4, 121 N. 10th St., West Columbia
Parks Department, 313 W Mulberry St., Angleton
Stella Roberts Recycling Center, 5800 Magnolia Pkwy, Pearland
Trees requested by Jan. 9 in Pearland, Jan. 11 in Surfside and Jan. 10 in all other locations.
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“We need trees,” Mitchell said. “We need trees terribly.”
The idea isn’t new to Surfside — or unique to Texas. For decades, local volunteers have used real Christmas trees, now staked down with biodegradable rope, to reinforce their dunes. Sand catches in the branches and builds up over time.
This year, they’re hoping to reconstruct dunes on a bigger scale than ever. The city and Brazoria County help on the project, too, and Brazoria County Parks Department Director Bryan Frazier said they have more need than any year in recent memory.
Though none of the tropical storms or hurricanes — Hannah, Laura, Delta and Beta, to name some — directly hit the area, their surges were pronounced, lingered and took their tolls, Frazier said.
Michelle Booth, tourism specialist for the Village of Surfside Beach, said she’d never seen Gulf waters come down their street in the six years she’s owned a home there. When Hurricane Laura approached, she did.
The dunes did their job, Booth said, but the damage was done. Usually, they hope for one or two thousand trees to bolster them. This year, they are wishing for nine or ten thousand — maybe five times what they’ve collected so far.
Donated pines or firs are piled up for yards past the one stoplight in town, where Texas 332 dead-ends at the beach, which is about 65 miles south of downtown Houston. Brazoria County is collecting them, too, at precinct offices and the parks department.
They hope to get most trees by Monday, before volunteers next week begin moving them to the beach. They will stake them down Jan. 16, known as “Dunes Day,” and need help with that, too.
Joanie Steinhaus, who lives in Galveston and is the Gulf program director for the Turtle Island Restoration Network, wishes they had such programs up and down the coast. She likes that the trees are natural and decompose; they’re not a detriment to wildlife.
It seemed to her a good way to keep them out of landfills — unlike the ones she sees dragged to the curb when she walks her dog.
In Surfside, the urgency makes for a different mood than in recent years, when the program had even reached a point where volunteers weren’t pushing so hard for trees, said Toni Capretta, president of the Save Our Beach Association. The dunes had grown large enough.
“This year’s just the opposite,” Capretta said. “We need every single Christmas tree we can get down here.”
Capretta had known they would have an issue from the first surge that hit, she said. Each time they began trying to repair what was damaged, another storm neared, requiring more fixes, she said.
The season also brought another unexpected issue: Retail stores in past years typically donated unsold trees, but this year, with so many stuck at home because of COVID-19, there were fewer of those to be had.
Mitchell, who is 5 feet 5, couldn’t see over the dunes in front of her home at the beginning of summer. Now she looks at a bunch of dead foliage. When renters of another home left a tree on the beach, she rushed to get it.
Tami Ekstrand, 54, spent Christmas in the Surfside home she recently bought and got a real Christmas tree precisely so she would have one to donate.
The summer had shown Ekstrand, who lives primarily in Minnesota, the strength of Gulf storms. When she bought her home in June, the dunes had been tall enough that they couldn’t see the cars on the beach.
“Now we have an unobstructed view of the surf,” she said. “It’s just, they’re gone.”
But she knows the plan to rebuild them has worked before: After one storm, she found the skeleton of a Christmas tree from the past in her yard.
Jon Shapley contributed to this report
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Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch: Week of January 11
By Anna Chan
Musicians are making their way back to livestream shows after the holidays, but the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc -- even on virtual events you were expecting to enjoy from home.
Not only was the Ashanti and Keyshia Cole Verzuz battle postponed again on Jan. 9, but 311 also hit pause on the live set that was supposed to feature their eponymous release (aka the Blue Album), originally scheduled for Monday.
But not all is lost for the week of Jan. 11-17. Country star Morgan Wallen is celebrating the release of Dangerous: The Double Album with a set on Jan. 12, while Jimmy Eat World are playing their first live show in a year when they hit the stage to play Surviving (how apt!) in its entirety on Jan. 15.
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See below what other livestreams and virtual events you can check out this week, and come back for more as we update this list as more events are announced.
Jan. 11: Jeff Tweedy's "The Tweedy" show continues on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on Instagram.
Jan. 12: Morgan Wallen is celebrating the release of his sophomore album, Dangerous: The Double Album, with a livestream from Nashville's The Ryman. The free show begins at 9 p.m. ET and streams on his Facebook and and YouTube channel.
O.A.R.'s Marc Roberge will be performing with special guests. The show begins at 8 p.m. ET.
Jan. 15: Jimmy Eat World are playing their first show in more than a year. For the set, the band will play the entirety of their 2019 album Surviving. The show is the first of three of the Phoenix Sessions series, with the latter two coming Jan. 29 and Feb. 12. The show begins at 5 p.m. ET; tickets start at $14.99.
Rufus Wainwright, who is playing all nine of his albums over the course of 18 shows, is playing the second half of his show for 2007's Release the Stars as part of his series A Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective. The show begins at 5 p.m. ET; tickets are $20.
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For other uses, see Iron (disambiguation). Fe redirects here; for other uses, see FE.
26 manganese ← iron → cobalt
Periodic table - Extended periodic table
Name, symbol, number iron, Fe, 26
Chemical series transition metals
Group, period, block 8, 4, d
Appearance lustrous metallic
with a grayish tinge
Standard atomic weight 55.845(2) g·mol−1
Electron configuration [Ar] 4s2 3d6
Electrons per shell 2, 8, 14, 2
Density (near r.t.) 7.86 g·cm−3
Liquid density at m.p. 6.98 g·cm−3
Melting point 1811 K
(1538 °C, 2800 °F)
Heat of fusion 13.81 kJ·mol−1
Heat of vaporization 340 kJ·mol−1
Heat capacity (25 °C) 25.10 J·mol−1·K−1
at T/K 1728 1890 2091 2346 2679 3132
Crystal structure body-centered cubic
a=286.65 pm;
face-centered cubic
between 1185–1667 K
Oxidation states 6, 5 [1], 4, 3, 2, 1 [2]
(amphoteric oxide)
(more) 1st: 762.5 kJ·mol−1
2nd: 1561.9 kJ·mol−1
3rd: 2957 kJ·mol−1
Magnetic ordering ferromagnetic
Thermal conductivity (300 K) 80.4 W·m−1·K−1
Thermal expansion (25 °C) 11.8 µm·m−1·K−1
Speed of sound (thin rod) (r.t.) (electrolytic)
5120 m·s−1
Young's modulus 211 GPa
Bulk modulus 170 GPa
Poisson ratio 0.29
Vickers hardness 608 MPa
Brinell hardness 490 MPa
Selected isotopes
Main article: Isotopes of iron
54Fe 5.8% >3.1×1022y 2ε capture ? 54Cr
55Fe syn 2.73 y ε capture 0.231 55Mn
56Fe 91.72% Fe is stable with 30 neutrons
57Fe 2.2% Fe is stable with 31 neutrons
58Fe 0.28% Fe is stable with 32 neutrons
59Fe syn 44.503 d β- 1.565 59Co
60Fe syn 1.5×106 y β- 3.978 60Co
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Iron (pronounced /ˈaɪɚn/) is a chemical element with the symbol Fe (Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26. Iron is a group 8 and period 4 element. Iron is a lustrous, silvery soft metal. Iron and nickel are notable for being the final elements produced by stellar nucleosynthesis, and thus are the heaviest elements which do not require a red giant or supernova for formation. Iron and nickel are therefore the most abundant metals in metallic meteorites and in the dense-metal cores of planets such as Earth. It is one of the few ferromagnetic elements.
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1 Occurrence
3.1 Iron compounds
4 Historical aspects
5 Production of iron from iron ore
6 Isotopes
7 Iron in organic synthesis
8 Iron in biology
8.1 Nutrition and dietary sources
8.2 Regulation of iron uptake
Iron is believed to be the sixth [3] most abundant element in the universe, formed as the final act of nucleosynthesis by carbon burning in massive stars. Iron is the most abundant element on Earth. While it makes up only about 5% of the Earth's crust, the earth's core is believed to consist largely of a metallic iron-nickel alloy comprising 35% of the mass of the Earth as a whole. Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust[4] and the second most abundant metal after aluminium. Most of the iron in the crust is found combined with oxygen as iron oxide minerals such as hematite, magnetite, and taconite. About 5% of the meteorites similarly consist of iron-nickel alloy. Although rare, these are the major form of natural metallic iron on the earth's surface.
The reason for Mars' red colour is thought to be an iron-oxide-rich soil.
See also .
Iron is a metal extracted mainly from the iron ore hematite. It oxidises readily in air and water and is rarely found as a free element. In order to obtain elemental iron, oxygen and other impurities must be removed by chemical reduction. Iron is the main constituent of steel, and it is used in the production of alloys or solid solutions of various metals, as well as some non-metals, particularly carbon. The many iron alloys, which have very different properties, are discussed in the article on steel.
Nuclei of iron have some of the highest binding energies per nucleon, surpassed only by the nickel isotope 62Ni. The universally most abundant of the highly stable nuclides is, however, 56Fe. This is formed by nuclear fusion in stars. Although a further tiny energy gain could be extracted by synthesizing 62Ni, conditions in stars are unsuitable for this process to be favoured, and iron abundance on Earth greatly favors iron over nickel, and also presumably in supernova element production.[1] When a very large star contracts at the end of its life, internal pressure and temperature rise, allowing the star to produce progressively heavier elements, despite these being less stable than the elements around mass number 60, known as the "iron group". This leads to a supernova.
Iron (as Fe2+, ferrous ion) is a necessary trace element used by almost all living organisms, the only exceptions are a few prokaryotic organisms which live in iron-poor conditions (such as the lactobacilli in iron-poor milk) which use manganese for catalysis instead as well as organisms which use hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin. Iron-containing enzymes, usually containing heme prosthetic groups, participate in catalysis of oxidation reactions in biology, and in transport of a number of soluble gases. See hemoglobin, cytochrome, and catalase.
Iron is the most used of all the metals, comprising 95% of all the metal tonnage produced worldwide. Its combination of low cost and high strength make it indispensable, especially in applications like automobiles, the hulls of large ships, and structural components for buildings. Steel is the best known alloy of iron, and some of the forms that iron can take include:
Pig iron has 3.5 - 4.5% carbon[2] and contains varying amounts of contaminants such as sulfur, silicon and phosphorus. Its only significance is that of an intermediate step on the way from iron ore to cast iron and steel.
Cast iron contains 2% – 4.0% carbon , 1% – 6% silicon , and small amounts of manganese. Contaminants present in pig iron that negatively affect material properties, such as sulfur and phosphorus, have been reduced to an acceptable level. It has a melting point in the range of 1420–1470 K, which is lower than either of its two main components, and makes it the first product to be melted when carbon and iron are heated together. Its mechanical properties vary greatly, dependent upon the form carbon takes in the alloy. 'White' cast irons contain their carbon in the form of cementite, or iron carbide. This hard, brittle compound dominates the mechanical properties of white cast irons, rendering them hard, but unresistant to shock. The broken surface of a white cast iron is full of fine facets of the broken carbide, a very pale, silvery, shiny material, hence the appellation. In grey iron the carbon exists free as fine flakes of graphite, and also renders the material brittle due to the stress-raising nature of the sharp edged flakes of graphite. A newer variant of grey iron, referred to as ductile iron is specially treated with trace amounts of magnesium to alter the shape of graphite to spheroids, or nodules, vastly increasing the toughness and strength of the material.
Carbon steel contains 2.0% carbon or less,[3] with small amounts of manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, and silicon.
Wrought iron contains less than 0.25% carbon.[2] It is a tough, malleable product, but not as fusible as pig iron. If honed to an edge, it loses it quickly.[citation needed] Wrought iron is characterised by the presence of fine fibers of slag entrapped in the metal. Wrought iron is more corrosion resistant than steel. It has been almost completely replaced by mild steel for traditional "wrought iron" products and blacksmithing. Mild steel does not have the same corrosion resistance but is cheaper and more widely available.
Alloy steels contain varying amounts of carbon as well as other metals, such as chromium, vanadium, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, etc. They are used for structural purposes, as their alloy content raises their cost and necessitates justification of their use. Recent developments in ferrous metallurgy have produced a growing range of microalloyed steels, also termed 'HSLA' or high-strength, low alloy steels, containing tiny additions to produce high strengths and often spectacular toughness at minimal cost.
Iron(III) oxides are used in the production of magnetic storage media in computers. They are often mixed with other compounds, and retain their magnetic properties in solution.
The main drawback to iron and steel is that pure iron, and most of its alloys, suffer badly from rust if not protected in some way. Painting, galvanization, plastic coating and bluing are some techniques used to protect iron from rust by excluding water and oxygen or by sacrificial protection.
Iron is believed to be the critical missing nutrient in the ocean that limits the growth of plankton. Experimental iron fertilization of areas of the ocean using iron(II) sulfate has proven successful in increasing plankton growth.[4][5][6] Larger scaled efforts are being attempted with the hope that iron seeding and ocean plankton growth can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, thereby counteracting the greenhouse effect that is generally agreed by climatologists to cause global warming.[7]
Main article: Iron compounds
Iron(III) acetate (Fe(C2H3O2)3 is used in the dyeing of cloth.
Iron(III) ammonium oxalate (Fe(NH4)3(C2O4)4) is used in blueprints.
Iron(III) arsenate (FeAsO4) is used in insecticide.
Iron(III) chloride (FeCl3) is used: in water purification and sewage treatment, in the dyeing of cloth, as a coloring agent in paints, as an additive in animal feed, and as an etching material for engravement, photography and printed circuits.
Iron(III) chromate (Fe2(CrO4)3) is used as a yellow pigment for paints and ceramic.
Iron(III) hydroxide (Fe(OH)3) is used as a brown pigment for rubber and in water purification systems.
Iron(III) phosphate (FePO4) is used in fertilizer and as an additive in human and animal food.
Iron(II) acetate (Fe(C2H3O2)2 is used in the dyeing of fabrics and leather, and as a wood preservative.
Iron(II) gluconate (Fe(C6H11O7)2) is used as a dietary supplement in iron pills.
Iron(II) oxalate (FeC2O4) is used as yellow pigment for paints, plastics, glass and ceramic, and in photography.
Iron(II) sulfate (FeSO4) is used in water purification and sewage treatment systems, as a catalyst in the production of ammonia, as an ingredient in fertilizer and herbicide, as an additive in animal feed, in wood preservative and as an additive to flour to increase iron levels.
Iron-Fluorine complex (FeF6)3- is found in solutions containing both Fe(III) ions and fluoride ions.
Historical aspects
Main article: History of ferrous metallurgy
The first iron used by mankind, far back in prehistory, came from meteors. The smelting of iron in bloomeries probably began in Anatolia or the Caucasus in the second millennium BC or the latter part of the preceding one. Cast iron was first produced in China about 550 BC, but not in Europe until the medieval period. During the medieval period, means were found in Europe of producing wrought iron from cast iron (in this context known as pig iron) using finery forges. For all these processes, charcoal was required as fuel.
Steel (with a smaller carbon content than pig iron but more than wrought iron) was first produced in antiquity. New methods of producing it by carburizing bars of iron in the cementation process were devised in the 17th century AD. In the Industrial Revolution, new methods of producing bar iron without charcoal were devised and these were later applied to produce steel. In the late 1850s, Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process, involving blowing air through molten pig iron, to produce mild steel. This and other 19th century and later processes have led to wrought iron no longer being produced.
Production of iron from iron ore
Main article: Blast furnace
Ninety percent of all mining of metallic ores is for the extraction of iron. Industrially, iron is produced starting from iron ores, principally haematite (nominally Fe2O3) and magnetite (Fe3O4) by a carbothermic reaction (reduction with carbon) in a blast furnace at temperatures of about 2000 °C. In a blast furnace, iron ore, carbon in the form of coke, and a flux such as limestone (which is used to remove impurities in the ore which would otherwise clog the furnace with solid material) are fed into the top of the furnace, while a blast of heated air is forced into the furnace at the bottom.
In the furnace,(hot/oven) the coke reacts with oxygen in the air blast to produce carbon monoxide:
2 C + O2 → 2 CO
The carbon monoxide reduces the iron ore (in the chemical equation below, hematite) to molten iron, becoming carbon dioxide in the process:
3 CO + Fe2O3 → 2 Fe + 3 CO2
The flux is present to melt impurities in the ore, principally silicon dioxide sand and other silicates. Common fluxes include limestone (principally calcium carbonate) and dolomite (calcium-magnesium carbonate). Other fluxes may be used depending on the impurities that need to be removed from the ore. In the heat of the furnace the limestone flux decomposes to calcium oxide (quicklime):
CaCO3 → CaO + CO2
Then calcium oxide combines with silicon dioxide to form a slag.
CaO + SiO2 → CaSiO3
The slag melts in the heat of the furnace, which silicon dioxide would not have. In the bottom of the furnace, the molten slag floats on top of the more dense molten iron, and apertures in the side of the furnace are opened to run off the iron and the slag separately. The iron once cooled, is called pig iron, while the slag can be used as a material in road construction or to improve mineral-poor soils for agriculture.
Pig iron is not pure iron, but has 4-5% carbon dissolved in it. This is subsequently reduced to steel or commercially pure iron, known as wrought iron, using other furnaces or converters.
In 2005, approximately 1,544 Mt (million metric tons) of iron ore was produced worldwide. China was the top producer of iron ore with at least one-fourth world share followed by Brazil, Australia and India, reports the British Geological Survey.
Naturally occurring iron consists of four isotopes: 5.845% of radioactive 54Fe (half-life: >3.1×1022 years), 91.754% of stable 56Fe, 2.119% of stable 57Fe and 0.282% of stable 58Fe. 60Fe is an extinct radionuclide of long half-life (1.5 million years).
Much of the past work on measuring the isotopic composition of Fe has centered on determining 60Fe variations due to processes accompanying nucleosynthesis (i.e., meteorite studies) and ore formation. In the last decade however, advances in mass spectrometry technology have allowed the detection and quantification of minute, naturally-occurring variations in the ratios of the stable isotopes of iron. Much of this work has been driven by the Earth and planetary science communities, although applications to biological and industrial systems are beginning to emerge.[8]
The isotope 56Fe is of particular interest to nuclear scientists. A common misconception is that this isotope represents the most stable nucleus possible, and that it thus would be impossible to perform fission or fusion on 56Fe and still liberate energy. This is not true, as both 62Ni and 58Fe are more stable, being the most stable nuclei. However, since 56Fe is much more easily produced from lighter nuclei in nuclear reactions, it is the endpoint of fusion chains inside extremely massive stars and is therefore common in the universe, relative to other metals.
In phases of the meteorites Semarkona and Chervony Kut a correlation between the concentration of 60Ni, the daughter product of 60Fe, and the abundance of the stable iron isotopes could be found which is evidence for the existence of 60Fe at the time of formation of the solar system. Possibly the energy released by the decay of 60Fe contributed, together with the energy released by decay of the radionuclide 26Al, to the remelting and differentiation of asteroids after their formation 4.6 billion years ago. The abundance of 60Ni present in extraterrestrial material may also provide further insight into the origin of the solar system and its early history. Of the stable isotopes, only 57Fe has a nuclear spin (−1/2).
Iron in organic synthesis
The usage of iron metal filings in organic synthesis is mainly for the reduction of nitro compounds.[9] Additionally, iron has been used for desulfurizations,[10] reduction of aldehydes,[11] and the deoxygenation of amine oxides.[12]
Iron in biology
Main article: Human iron metabolism
Iron is essential to nearly all known organisms. In cells, iron is generally stored in the centre of metalloproteins, because "free" iron -- which binds non-specifically to many cellular components -- can catalyse production of toxic free radicals.
In animals, plants, and fungi, iron is often incorporated into the heme complex. Heme is an essential component of cytochrome proteins, which mediate redox reactions, and of oxygen carrier proteins such as hemoglobin, myoglobin, and leghemoglobin. Inorganic iron also contributes to redox reactions in the iron-sulfur clusters of many enzymes, such as nitrogenase (involved in the synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen) and hydrogenase. Non-heme iron proteins include the enzymes methane monooxygenase (oxidizes methane to methanol), ribonucleotide reductase (reduces ribose to deoxyribose; DNA biosynthesis), hemerythrins (oxygen transport and fixation in marine invertebrates) and purple acid phosphatase (hydrolysis of phosphate esters).
Iron distribution is heavily regulated in mammals, partly because iron has a high potential for biological toxicity. Iron distribution is also regulated because many bacteria require iron, so restricting its availability to bacteria (generally by sequestering it inside cells) can help to prevent or limit infections. This is probably the reason for the relatively low amounts of iron in mammalian milk. A major component of this regulation is the protein transferrin, which binds iron absorbed from the duodenum and carries it in the blood to cells.[13]
Nutrition and dietary sources
Good sources of dietary iron include red meat, fish, poultry, lentils, beans, leaf vegetables, tofu, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, potatoes with skin, bread made from completely whole-grain flour, molasses, teff and farina. Iron in meat is more easily absorbed than iron in vegetables.[14]
Iron provided by dietary supplements is often found as iron (II) fumarate, although iron sulfate is cheaper and is absorbed equally well. Elemental iron, despite being absorbed to a much smaller extent (stomach acid is sufficient to convert some of it to ferrous iron), is often added to foods such as breakfast cereals or "enriched" wheat flour (where it is listed as "reduced iron" in the list of ingredients). Iron is most available to the body when chelated to amino acids - iron in this form is ten to fifteen times more bioavailable than any other, and is also available for use as a common iron supplement. Often the amino acid chosen for this purpose is the cheapest and most common amino acid, glycine, leading to "iron glycinate" supplements.[15] The RDA for iron varies considerably based on age, gender, and source of dietary iron (heme-based iron has higher bioavailability).[16] Infants will require iron supplements if they are not breast-fed. Blood donors are at special risk of low iron levels and are often advised to supplement their iron intake.
Regulation of iron uptake
Excessive iron can be toxic, because free ferrous iron reacts with peroxides to produce free radicals, which are highly reactive and can damage DNA, proteins, lipids, and other cellular components. Thus, iron toxicity occurs when there is free iron in the cell, which generally occurs when iron levels exceed the capacity of transferrin to bind the iron.
Iron uptake is tightly regulated by the human body, which has no physiological means of excreting iron, so controls iron levels solely by regulating uptake. Although uptake is regulated, large amounts of ingested iron can cause excessive levels of iron in the blood, because high iron levels can cause damage to the cells of the gastrointestinal tract that prevents them from regulating iron absorption. High blood concentrations of iron damage cells in the heart, liver and elsewhere, which can cause serious problems, including long-term organ damage and even death.
Humans experience iron toxicity above 20 milligrams of iron for every kilogram of mass, and 60 milligrams per kilogram is a lethal dose.[17] Over-consumption of iron, often the result of children eating large quantities of ferrous sulfate tablets intended for adult consumption, is one of the most common toxicological causes of death in children under six.[17] The DRI lists the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for adults as 45 mg/day. For children under fourteen years old the UL is 40 mg/day.
Regulation of iron uptake is impaired in some people as a result of a genetic defect that maps to the HLA-H gene region on chromosome 6. In these people, excessive iron intake can result in iron overload disorders, such as hemochromatosis. Many people have a genetic susceptibility to iron overload without realizing it or being aware of a family history of the problem. For this reason, it is advised that people should not take iron supplements unless they suffer from iron deficiency and have consulted a doctor. Hemochromatosis is estimated to cause disease in between 0.3 and 0.8% of Caucasians. [18]
The medical management of iron toxicity is complex, and can include use of a specific chelating agent called deferoxamine to bind and expel excess iron from the body.
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A Tradition of Recognition & Respect
Each year, during Homecoming & Family Weekend, the Bluefield College Alumni Association honors distinguished alumni for their professional and personal accomplishments as well as their service to the community. Those recognized are nominated by their peers.
Nominations must be made by April 30 to be considered for that year’s induction ceremony. Below, you’ll find information about each alumni award, including the BC Athletics Hall of Fame, and the nomination form. Please be sure to include as much information as possible about the nominee to ensure the selection committee has adequate information to make a determination.
Hall of Distinguished Graduates
The alumnus/alumna selected for this award must meet the following requirements:
The individual must be a Bluefield College graduate age fifty years or older.
Through their life they must have reached outstanding accomplishments in their profession, business, community, state, or nation.
They also must have displayed significant leadership to his/her community through service or profession and represent the values and mission of Bluefield College.
Recipients must not be a current sitting member on the Association Board of Directions. They must display significant service and contribution to the Alumni Association of Bluefield College.
All Bluefield College graduates are eligible for this award. Alumni that did not graduate from Bluefield College are not eligible for this award. This award will be given to only one recipient each year at Homecoming.
Honorary Alumni Award
This award was established to honor individuals who are not alumni of Bluefield College. However, they are to be commended and given honorary alumni status due to their significant contributions of service and support to the College and its mission and vision. This person must also be a representation of the values and mission of Bluefield College.
This award will be presented each year at Homecoming to no more than one individual or couple.
Alumnus/Alumna of the Year Award
The individual must be a Bluefield College alumnus/alumna, and at least forty years old.
Throughout their life, they must have reached outstanding accomplishments in their profession, business, community, state, or nation.
They also must have displayed significant leadership to his/her community through service or profession, and represent the values and mission of Bluefield College.
All Bluefield College Association members are eligible for this award. This award will be given to only one recipient each year at Homecoming.
Distinguished Young Alumnus/Alumna Award
The alumnus/alumna that is selected for this award must meet the following requirements:
The individual must be a Bluefield College graduate forty (40) years old or younger, and exhibit the values and mission of Bluefield College.
Outstanding accomplishments in their profession, business, community, state, or nation will be the criteria used to select individuals.
Other criteria will include the display of significant leadership to his/her community through service or profession, and the individual must also represent the value and mission of Bluefield College.
Recipients must not be a current sitting member on the Association Board of Directors. He/She must display significant service and contribution to the Alumni Association of Bluefield College.
This award is presented each year at Homecoming to an individual, alumnus/alumna or friend of Bluefield College, who displays service to the College through service. The measurement of service can be identified through fundraising, recruiting, support, or faithful service to the College, and the event should be a significant endeavor. This individual must also be a representative of the values and mission of Bluefield College.
Primitivo Delgado Christian Service Award
Bluefield College holds service as a core value. It is seen in student activities, the College’s academic programs, and is a way of life for the faculty, staff, and alumni of the College. Therefore in 2004, the Primitivo Delgado Christian Service Award was created.
This recipient should be either a Bluefield College graduate, alumni, faculty member, staff member, or student. The individual should display continual service and compassion in his/her ministry. He/She also must have displayed significant leadership to his/her community through service or profession, and represent the values and mission of Bluefield College. Recipients must not be a current sitting member on the Association Board of Directors. This award will be given to only one recipient or couple each year at Homecoming.
The Bluefield College Athletic Hall of Fame was established to pay tribute and give recognition to former athletes, coaches, and others of meritorious service who have made exceptional contributions to the athletic programs of the College. Membership shall consist of athletes, coaches, trainers, athletic administrators, and others of meritorious service who fulfilled the purpose of this established award. Inductees will be selected by a committee of the following individuals:
Bluefield College Director of Alumni Relations, Chair
Bluefield College Athletic Director
Two coaches from the active coaching staff at Bluefield College
The faculty representative to athletics at Bluefield College
The Bluefield College Alumni Association Vice President
A Bluefield College Alumni Association member
Athlete Criteria:
One must have been an athlete as documented in the College’s records.
The nominee must have graduated from Bluefield College.
At least two years of the nominee’s intercollegiate athletic competition must have been at Bluefield College.
Alumni Awards Reception 2017
Omar Reed (’10) – BC Athletics Hall of Fame
Amber Macdonald (’12) – Distinguished Young Alumna
Rod Hale (’60) – Primitivo Delgado Christian Service Award
Howard Mayo (’88), Mark Blevins, Lamont Woods (’92), Daniel Brown (’85)
Tim Sharp (’74) – Hall of Distinguished Graduates
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Your Week Ahead April 11-17
“SNL” alumni perform a star-studded comedy tour, one woman recreates six seasons of “Sex and the City,” and a surf-rock legend amps it up in Fort Lauderdale. Plus, Panic! at the Disco, “Marjorie Prime,” “Rams” and more in your week ahead.
What: Opening night of “Sex Tips For Straight Women From a Gay Man”
Where: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach
Contact: 561/832-7469, kravis.org
This being a family website, I can’t reveal too much of the plot of this decidedly R-rated comedic play, set in a university auditorium where a bookish moderator has welcomed an outspoken author and his hunky assistant, who turn what could have been a dry lecture into an interactive seminar. Their subject? It’s right there in the title: Tips for straight ladies to best satisfy their men, from guys well-versed in satisfying men. This touring production is based on a 2008 book of the same name by Dan Anderson and Maggie Berman, who condensed their lifelong study of male pleasure into a best-selling how-to guide on such positions as The Flying Wallenda and The Upstanding Citizen. Risqué stuff for the Kravis, eh? We must be reaching the end of Season. It runs through Sunday.
What: “One Woman Sex and the City: A Parody”
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday
The Kravis isn’t the only venue exploring libidinous humor this week. Co-written by and starring Kerry Ipema, this solo show resurrects the smash HBO comedy about unapologetic single women in Manhattan. She reduces its six seasons, four central characters, and most memorable plots and supporting characters into a single 90-minute whirlwind production. Ipema embodies 24 characters in all without the aid of costume changes; her carriage, voice and temperament will sell the transition—but, this being a “Sex and the City” homage, her shoes will make a killer statement. Parody, of course, is the highest form of flattery, and the show will likely come off as reverential as much as cheeky, appealing to “Sex and the City” acolytes and detractors alike.
What: “Rams”
Where: Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach
When: 2:30 p.m., 5:15 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Contact: 561/655-7226, fourarts.org
I know what you’re thinking. Just what we need: Yet another dialogue-starved movie about rival taciturn sheep-farming brothers in Iceland. In all seriousness, there’s nothing quite like “Rams,” a wintry, desolate and uncompromising portrait of disconnection and reconciliation that continues to stick with me a year and a half after I saw it. The winner of the Un Certain Regard award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, “Rams” captures a season of change for Gummi and Kiddi, elder siblings who raise competitive flocks on adjacent properties, but who haven’t spoken to each other in 40 years. This is about to change, thanks to an infection of scrapie that affects their sheep. The advertising materials for “Rams” play it up like an absurdist comedy, but don’t expect to laugh much; this is art-house austerity in the Bergman mold, and well worth seeing for adventurous moviegoers.
What: Dick Dale
Where: Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale
Contact: 954/564-1064, cultureroom.net
Not many living recording artists can say they performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in the early 1960s—or can justifiably say they invented a genre. But surf rock pioneer Dick Dale has accomplished both. Dale’s roiling, rocking axe rhythms, recorded on custom-made amplifiers that broke aural ground, inspired the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen, not to mention Quentin Tarantino, who turned Dale’s “Misirlou” into a surprise hit for a new generation when he used it in the credits of “Pulp Fiction.” Dale is now 79, and he’s still a road warrior, because even guitar legends have bills: In Dale’s case, it’s to pay for his challenges with rectal cancer. Unlike older-generation rockers who cultivate a facade of eternal youth, Dale might just address some of the vagaries of aging in his seemingly annual gig at the Culture Room.
What: Opening night of “Marjorie Prime”
Where: Main Street Playhouse, 6766 Main St., Miami Lakes
Contact: 305/558-3737, mainstreetplayers.com
Playwright Jordan Harrison made the shortlist for a recent Pulitzer Prize for this comic and poignant science-fiction narrative, which addresses weighty themes as comfortably as it traverses genre. “Marjorie Prime” imagines a not-implausible future in which lost loved ones can be resurrected in holographic form. That’s how Walter, the dead husband of the 85-year-old title character, remains in her life. But Marjorie herself is beginning to fade, both mentally and physically, presenting challenges for her daughter and son-in-law. A meditation on aging, dying and the power, promise and pitfalls of technology, this looks to be one of the must-see plays of the season. Let’s hope the Main Street Players are up to the task in the show’s South Florida premiere, which runs through May 7.
What: Panic! At the Disco
Where: BB&T Center, 1 Panther Parkway, Sunrise
Cost: $35 and up
Contact: 954/835-8000, thebbtcenter.com
Panic! at the Disco, the Las Vegas outfit fronted by charismatic vocalist Brandon Urie, has come a long way since its high school days, when it cut its teeth as a Blink-182 cover band. Influenced by future mentors Fall Out Boy, Panic! has successfully married that band’s arena bombast and cheeky lyrics with a restless attitude toward genre and a cinematic vision all its own—it’s one of the few modern bands that conjures vaudeville theatricality. The quartet’s 13-year career has been besot with tumultuous hiatuses and lineup changes, but Urie and company have emerged at the peak of their prowess: Their fifth album, 2016’s Death of a Bachelor, has bridged the gap between electro rock, top 40 earworms and self-effacing croonerism, earning the group a well-deserved 2017 Grammy nomination. Arrive early for performances by alternative hit-makers Saint Motel (“My Type”) and Misterwives (“Reflections”).
What: Adam Sandler and Friends
Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Cost: $89-$250
Typically, when you eclipse the level of fame Adam Sandler reached in the late 1990s, you no longer need standup comedy: Multimillion-dollar movie deals about man-children with anger issues preclude the need to pound the boards and memorize 90 minutes of material just to make a living. But I’ve heard tell, from sources no less trusted than Judd Apatow, that Sandler began his career as a gifted standup, writing in his book Sick in the Head that Sandler’s “first step was that he was asked to do standup on ‘David Letterman,’ and killed; then he was flying off to audition for ‘Saturday Night Live.’” We can fill in the rest; it’s his standup style that remains elusive. Find out for yourself at this all-star comedy tour, which also includes performances by more-familiar veterans of brick walls and mic stands: David Spade, Nick Swardson and Rob Schneider.
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Pianist Marcelle Zahra has been described as “naturally musical with a probing intelligence”. Marcelle has been heard in concert venues throughout the United Kingdom as well as USA, Italy and Malta. Past performances include a BBC broadcast of newly discovered folk song arrangements by Beethoven (Edinburgh) and solo performances at the Queens Hall (Edinburgh), Teatro Luigi Mercantini (Italy), Central Washington University Recital Hall (Seattle), Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), Blackheath Halls (London) Haydn Festival Trinity Laban (London) and Malta Arts Festival (Valletta).
Marcelle has graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London in 2009 with a Master of Music Degree. At Trinity, Marcelle studied with Philip Fowke and Alexander Ardakov. Previously she completed her BMus(Hons) Degree at Edinburgh Napier University and graduated with First Class Honors. Marcelle was awarded the University Class Award Medal from the Music Faculty as the year’s top representative and "in recognition of her outstanding achievements". At Napier Marcelle was under the tutelage of pianist Simon Coverdale and during her fourth year she was selected to study at Central Washington University in Seattle with Dr. John Pickett. Other acclaimed pianists who have been influential and from whom Marcelle received extensive coaching include Martino Tirimo and Gwenneth Pryor.
Throughout her studies Marcelle was awarded numerous scholarships and was generously supported by the Ian Tomlin Napier/Malta Scholarship, the Malta Government Scholarship Scheme, The Janatha Stubbs Foundation and Trinity Laban London Scholarship. Other prizes include first prize at the North London Music Festival 2011 Recital Class where Marcelle was also selected to compete for the President’s Prize and first prize at the Edinburgh Festival Competition 2007 Piano Recital Class.
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Reel Love by Julie Richman - ARC Review and Release Blitz
Is this Reel Love or Real Love?
The moment I laid eyes on Finn Parker’s headshot, I knew that if this guy could act, I wanted him for the hero role in the film being made from my book, Fleeing an August Moon.
The tall, blond, and ruggedly handsome actor looked exactly like the picture I’d seen in my head the entire time I was writing the book.
The studio, however, had different thoughts on a leading man.
Box Office crusher, Maverick Dailey, made it clear that he wanted the role. The producers, studio, and everyone involved were thrilled to score such a celebrity. Well, everyone except me.
And it’s my vote that counts since, according to my contract I get final say on casting. Maverick is amazing, yet I’m just not sure…
It certainly didn’t help that Finn Parker and I seemed destined to cross paths. We ran into each other all over Hollywood. And the more time we spent together, the more the sparks between us flew. We had an intense chemistry, something I’d only ever read about in books like mine.
Which made me wonder, was I really falling for Finn or just living out a fantasy with a red-blooded, live version of my hot hero character?
It’s easy to confuse fiction for reality in Hollywood. Everything is not as it seems in this town.
Not to mention, Finn’s life would forever change if he landed the role. Which made me question how good of an actor he really was? Was he interested in me, or the role I had the power to give him?
Is this Real Love or just Reel Love?
I enjoyed this title. I liked the relationship of the characters...and, I know, it sounds odd to say this about a book entirely about the relationship of characters, so let me explain.
Romances are, always, about the romance that develops, but they sometimes forget to show that the characters really like and enjoy one another...and, that came through clearly in the story. And, I enjoyed this aspect of it. You have certain expectations in a romance, and this one hit the points (some more cleanly than others) you expect from a romance.
I enjoyed this title overall and I recommend it.
USA Today Bestselling author Julie A. Richman is a native New Yorker living deep in the heart of Texas. A creative writing major in college, reading and writing fiction has always been a passion. Julie began her corporate career in publishing in NYC and writing played a major role throughout her career as she created and wrote marketing, advertising, direct mail and fundraising materials for Fortune 500 corporations, advertising agencies and non-profit organizations. She is an avid nature photographer plagued with insatiable wanderlust. Julie and her husband have one son and a white German Shepherd named Juneau.
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News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World (Hardcover)
By Alan Rusbridger
Nothing in life works without facts.
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates.
People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'.
News: And How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia as well as building a website which today attracts more than 100 million unique browsers a month. The paper's coverage of phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of Play It Again and Breaking News. He lives in London and Oxford, where he is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. @arusbridger - arusbridger.com
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication Date: March 2nd, 2021
Industries - Media & Communications
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Ghetto Amaretto
Waterford City, County Waterford
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Waterford-natives, Indie-Electronic band Ghetto Amaretto, formed in Oct. 2007. Described by Jackie Hayden of Hot Press as playing ‘with style, confidence and a sense of exuberant joy at the very idea that they can make such a terrific noise', the band was initially an effects-heavy, dance-rock outfit, employing the traditional instruments of guitar, bass, drums, and vocals, to untraditional ends - attempting to fuse the live-power of both heavy/gritty rock, and dance music. Ghetto evolved over a heavily active period of 2008-2011, to incorporate a greater electronic influence, and the assimilation of synths, programming, and sampling into their instrumentation – drawing from the experimental moments of Radiohead, and distorted beats of Nine Inch Nails, among others.
During that time, two 4-track e.p.s (2008’s ‘E.P. 1’, and 2010’s ‘For Every Him, Her, & They) were recorded, and the band played notable Irish venues - including Waterford’s The Forum, Waterford’s Electric Avenue, Cork’s Cyprus Avenue - as well as playing a number of festivals: Cork’s Indiependence Festival, and supporting The Frank & Walters in The Spiegeltent for Midsummer Festival, Waterford’s Sproai, and Guinness’ Arthur's Day Festival.
The band went on hiatus in Nov. 2011. After seven years, the band returned in Nov. 2018 with their first new e.p. saw the band return with their first e.p. in eight years - ‘Oll Korrect’. The e.p. is a collection of five songs which lean more heavily into the electronic and production-driven arena than Ghetto’s previous dance-rock offerings - recorded by two bandmembers who now live 5,000kms apart, in different continents - in Waterford, Ireland, and New York, USA - and was recorded entirely over the internet, without the two members being in the same country, nevermind the same room, for the entirety of the recording process.
Current Line-Up:
Chris Falconer (also of solo project ‘Waiting Space’) - Vocalist & Art Director
Conor Dalton (also know as 'Scew') - guitarist, multi-instrumentalist & producer
ABOUT 'OLL KORRECT'
‘Oll Korrect’ is Ghetto’s first new e.p., in 8 years. Part of the reason for this near-decade long gap, is that our members have been scattered to various parts of the world over the interim years. Not sharing a room to jam is tough enough – but not sharing a continent is harder. In 2016, we released the single ‘Drift’ - the only song recorded since our last e.p. (2010’s ‘For Every Him, Her, & They’). Drift was our first experiment with finishing a song together via the internet - but Drift had start like a song traditionally happens: through the band jamming, in a session in Oct. 2013, when we were all still in one place. Before we went to our different parts of the world, we recorded elements of the song, and kept these on file. When settling down happened, we finished the song over online correspondence. It was a welcome way of still creating something together, despite our physical distances - but then ‘regular life’ took precedence again.
With no sign of all of us being in one place again in mid-2017, two members of Ghetto (living 5,000 km apart – one in New York, USA, and the other in Waterford, Ireland) began discussing the idea of trying another experiment - songs (an e.p.’s worth, not just one) created entirely over the internet - to scratch that itch that the absence of Ghetto had left in their lives. Ideas were exchanged irregularly - but where to begin was illusive. Finally, in August 2018, hopes accelerated into action, and the process of writing an e.p. truly began. Demos were exchanged transatlantically using email, and file-transfer. Without ever sharing the same room (or continent) since that process began five months ago - vocalist Chris Falconer (also of solo project ‘Waiting Space’), and instrumentalist & producer, Conor Dalton (‘Scew’), evolved these email exchanges, into the 5 new songs that make up the ‘Oll Korrect’ e.p..
THE SOUND & THE ARTWORK:
The sound of the e.p., is symptomatic of this internet-based writing process - with the songs leaning more heavily into the electronic and production-driven arena than our previous dance-rock offerings. The songs also inherit influences from the work which Conor & Chris have created away from the project in its downtime. Conor has moved more heavily into production than before, and has begun soundtracking work since being based in New York - while Chris has used the time ‘waiting’ for Ghetto’s return, to create his atmospheric audio/visual side-project: ‘Waiting Space’. The cinematic outlook and new skills developed over these years and side-projects, have also allowed the band to entirely undertake this e.p. process with a D.I.Y., in-house etiquette. Both members recorded their elements in their respective home studios - Conor undertook the mixing and production duties which have sonically shaped the e.p., while Chris has developed the artwork, videos, and media that accompanies the release. The result is the most whole-vision offering which Ghetto Amaretto has created to date.
The cover image of a jellyfish had been invoked early on during some of the first demos.
The watery, colourful, but sometimes murky nature of the music of many of the tracks, drew a visual compliment in the luminosity, fluid, and allusiveness characteristics of a jellyfish – and also the potential unexpected abrasive ‘sting’ that it possesses. Each song has also been given an accompanying image - with the designs revolving in particular around the use of halftone; essentially using a digital-medium, to mimic a characteristic of print-medium. This is to reflect the nature of the recording of the e.p. itself, and the key roles which digital mediums such as file-transfer, DAWs, and video-calling played, in making it possible to create songs together (5,000 kms, and a 5-hour time-difference, apart).
THE NAME:
The words ‘Oll Korrect’ are the likely foundation of the modern phrase ‘O.K.’ – which began in Boston in 1838, where a group used abbreviated expressions and exaggerated misspellings (‘oll korrect’, being ‘all correct’) as part of a fad of the time – it was, to an extent, an early case of ‘meme culture’. The wording has been adopted for the name of this e.p., as it reflects a sarcastic, but hopeful, reflection at the phrase ‘everything is going to be O.K.’ - a sentiment which characterises subjects covered over the course of the 5 songs - including ocean pollution, political unease, and the expanding role of technology - and other things that might you exclaim the phrase...
A Perfect Circle, Agent Fresco, All Tvvins, Audioslave, Bat For Lashes, Bloc Party, CHVRCHES, Chino Moreno, Codes, Crosses, Daft Punk, Daughter, Dawn Golden, Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Enter Shikari, FKA Twigs, Halfnoise, Hippie Sabotage, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Kiasmos, Lamb, Modelselektor, Muse, Múm, Nils Frahm, Nine Inch Nails, Now Now, Olafur Arnalds, Paper Route, Placebo, Pvris, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Sohn, Talos, Team Sleep, The Cure, The Mars Volta, The National, The XX, Thom Yorke, Thrice, Trent Reznor, Twenty-One Pilots, Waiting Space, Warpaint, moderat
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First Music Contact is a free information & advice resource for Irish musicians at any career level. Breaking Tunes is an FMC run project. We also co-run the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival & run the Music From Ireland project.
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Maher: The More You Know About Islam, The More Afraid Of It You Are, Intolerant Christians ‘Really Aren’t a Problem’
Ian Hanchett
HBO host Bill Maher argued that it isn’t true that people wouldn’t be as afraid of Islam if they knew more about it, “Actually, it’s the reverse” and that he wished liberals would “have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way” on Friday’s “Real Time.”
Maher, after referencing the covering up of nude statues in Italy during a visit by Iran’s president said, “I think people are mixing up two things, tolerance and capitulation.” He added, “It’s one thing to be tolerant of another culture, but this is our culture. You know, Christianity did have a problem with t*tties like in 1300, but we got over it. So, we shouldn’t change our culture to a more backward culture, should we?”
Talk radio host Thom Hartmann countered by citing the Justice Department putting curtains in front of a nude statue during John Ashcroft’s tenure as Attorney General and saying, “This is not a Muslim problem. This is a fundamentalist problem. Maher objected, “Except when it happened in this country, the liberals laughed at him, and they opposed him. I wish they would have the same enthusiasm for intolerance elsewhere in the world as they do for Christians here at home, who really aren’t a problem, because they don’t get really get their way. It’s laughable.”
Hartmann then said, “Except that he covered that for four years.” Maher responded, “But nobody thought it was realistic.” Hartmann maintained that “a lot of Republicans” did.
Former Congressman Trey Radel (R-FL) later wondered, “What about if we go, the next time we show up, an entourage to Iran, are they going to be — I want them decked out in muscle t-shirts, with those ’80s shorts with the American flag all over them. Are they going to do that for us? No.”
Maher added, “I think liberals have to stop insisting that the world is the way they want to it be instead of the way it is.” He then pointed to folk singer James Twyman’s efforts to do a concert in ISIS-controlled territory to hopefully stop ISIS’ violence. Maher then argued, “[Y]ou cannot just insist that the reality that you think about in your head is the reality that exists in the world. After the San Bernardino attacks, we were off the next week, but I heard all over TV, this — everybody was saying, ‘If only Americans knew more about Islam, they wouldn’t be so afraid.’ Actually, it’s the reverse.”
Hartmann then pointed to moderate Islamic groups on the ground. Maher responded, “We have to be on their side, not on the people who say ‘Islamophobe,’ who just help the enablers.”
Hartmann later stated, “I think back to all the years that I’ve been debating right-wingers who have been like, ‘Immigrants have to learn English first!’ And, you know, it actually makes a certain amount of sense. … It seems like the first step in any country, including in the United States, and we’re starting to do this now in our public schools, but we need to do it more extensively, is to bring — when people come in from another culture to, say ‘You know, your culture’s fine, but here’s our culture.'”
Maher responded, “Well, it isn’t fine, and I just hope that the civics guidebook in Sweden is more persuasive than the Koran, but I doubt it is.”
Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett
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Michigan Call Recording Law
Below is a section of the Michigan State Statutes that we believe apply to recording phone conversations. This information is not intended as a substitute for legal counsel.
From the Michigan State Code
Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539c: A private conversation legally cannot be overheard or recorded without the consent of all participants. Illegal eavesdropping can be punished as a felony carrying a jail term of up to two years and a fine of up to $2,000.
In addition, any individual who divulges information he knows, or reasonably should know, was obtained through illegal eavesdropping is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to two years and a fine of up to $2,000. Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539e. Civil liability for actual and punitive damages also are sanctioned. Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539h.
The eavesdropping statute has been interpreted by one court as applying only to situations in which a third party has intercepted a communication, an interpretation that makes it legal for a participant in a conversation to record that conversation without the permission of other parties. Sullivan v. Gray, 324 N.W.2d 58 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982).
The state supreme court stated in a July 1999 ruling that a participant in a conversation "may not unilaterally nullify other participants’ expectations of privacy by secretly broadcasting the conversation" and that the overriding inquiry should be whether the parties "intended and reasonably expected that the conversation was private." Therefore, it is likely that a recording party may not broadcast a recorded conversation without the consent of all parties. Dickerson v. Raphael, 601 N.W.2d 108 (Mich. 1999).
Under the Michigan statute, a parent may not vicariously consent to a recording for a minor child. Williams v. Williams, 603 N.W. 2d 114 (Mich. Ct. App. 1999).
It is a felony to observe, photograph or eavesdrop on a person in a private place without the person’s consent. Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539d. A private place is a place where one may reasonably expect to be safe from intrusion or surveillance, but not a place where the public has access. Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.539a.
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