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“Survivor” comes to Dunedin again on June 24th
Season 2 to feature new and exciting games, 42” LCD at stake
Dunedin, FL – The popular “Survivor: Dunedin” promotion returns to Dunedin Stadium on Thursday, June 24 when the Dunedin Blue Jays start off the 2nd half of the 2010 Florida State League season against the Daytona Cubs.
Last year’s event, which saw 10 contestants try to outwit and outlast each other for the grand prize of a 42” LCD television, was one of the most popular events the Blue Jays had put on in quite some time.
This year’s event will operate much like last year’s, with contestants being split up into two tribes and pitted against each other in numerous events that test the body and mind, with the final contestants facing off in an obstacle course to win the grand prize.
The first pitch for that night’s game is scheduled for 7 p.m. The stadium gates will open at 6 p.m. The events will take place between innings throughout the game with the final obstacle course taking place at the conclusion of “Launch-A-Ball” right after the game.
Fans who are interested in being contestants for the show by sending an email with the subject line “Surivor” to Kathi.Wiegand@bluejays.com. Fans should include his or her name, phone number, a photo, and in 200 words or less, describe why he or she should be chosen as a contestant.
All e-mails for prospective contestants must be received by the Blue Jays by 5 p.m. on Friday, June 18.
The event will take place on a “Thirsty Thursday” at Dunedin Stadium where fountain sodas and draft beers will be $1 apiece.
Tickets for the event are $6 for general admission, but fans can receive a discount if they use the code word “Survivor” while purchasing their tickets.
To purchase tickets, visit the front office of the Dunedin Blue Jays at 373 Douglas Ave. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or call (727) 733-9302. Tickets are also available before and during every Blue Jays home game at the ticket office in front of the stadium.
For more information on this event, please contact Kathi Wiegand by calling (727) 738-7052 or by email at Kathi.Wiegand@bluejays.com.
Much has been made of your Toronto Blue Jays lack of perks and promotions this year. I for one miss twoonie Tuesdays and the give away games.
I just wanted to show you guys that somewhere, someone gets it in the organization.....
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eSwatini demo demands regime change
eSwatini-Politics-Protest
November 13, 2019 to 14:53
APA-Mbabane (eSwatini)
The first day of a planned series of demonstrations against the current system of government in the kingdom of eSwatini began in Mbabane on Wednesday with a heavy security presence in the streets of the capital.
Civil society organisations, unions and political parties took to the streets early in the morning demanding a new multiparty system of government that will replace the Tinkhundla system.
The marchers were carrying placards calling for King Mswati III to unban political parties so that he could automatically hand over some of his powers, which he holds absolutely.
During the march they delivered a petition to the South African High Commission where they accused Pretoria of benefiting from what they saw as the 'misuse' of national resources for the procurement of 81 BMW cars to be used in royal escorts.
There was heavy police presence at the march, with constant on-the-side meetings between security officers and political party and union leaders.
The activists have drawn up a scanty schedule of how they hope to push for regime change, a move that was propelled by the recent purchase of 19 Roll Royce cars for the king's wives.
A detailed plan of action will be drawn during a mass meeting that will be held in Manzini on Saturday.
The current political situation in the country has attracted foreign media as political party leaders have been featured by the Voice of America, Radio France, South African Broadcasting Corporation and three SA radio stations.
These include Sibongile Mazibuko of the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress (NNLC) Mlungisi Makhanya of the People's Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) and Wandile Dludlu of the Swaziland Youth Congress (SWAYOCO).
Mazibuko said there would be no progress and development in the country as long as the King Mswati III had the final authority over all the three arms of government namely the legislature, the judiciary and the executive.
The constitution of eSwatini states that the king and the Queen mother are immune to all the laws of the land.
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Returned Migrants and Remittances Alleviating Poverty: Evidence from Malang, East Java
Devanto Shasta Pratomo , Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
This paper examines the sustainability of returning international migrants, who remain at home country, moving out from poverty. This study uses cross-sectional primary data as of September and October 2015 on 840 households of the returned migrants which is around 10% of the overall migrant stock in the Malang district, East Java as of 2014/2015; and also 840 current migrants, which is again around 10% of the current migrant stock as a control group. Although we have found that remittances reduce the probability of households living in poverty, this study concludes that returning migrants will not be better off for very long, and will almost certainly return to poverty after some time. The major limitation of this paper is that it focuses only on the financial capital's contribution to the welfare of the returning migrants, not incorporating also such factors as human capital, business skills, or attitude that migrants get from staying overseas. The study suggests the government should provide guidance to migrant households on how to use their gained income in a more sustainable and productive way, thus making the best of the financial capital available to them.(original abstract)
Ubóstwo Migracja
Poverty Migration
Devanto Shasta Pratomo
Brawijaya University, Malang, Indonesia
Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
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One Day In July: Remembering The 1934 Minneapolis Teamster Strike
THE 1934 MINNEAPOLIS TRUCKERS STRIKE On "Bloody Friday", July 20,1934,at 3rd and 6th, 67 striking truckdrivers and their supporters were shot by Minneapolis police, acting on orders from the Citizens Alliance, an anti-labor employers' group, which controlled city government. Seventy-five years later, WE REMEMBER THEIR SACRIFICE!
This weekend Minneapolis returned to an old tradition and celebrated the 1934 general strike in Minneapolis, that brought unionism to Minneapolis. The first day was a music festival in the streets where the fighting took place. Today was a picnic attended by relatives of strikers, and representatives of the UE who took part in the Republic Windows occupation in Chicago. No known 1934 strikers are living.
Teamsters got their name from starting out organizing drivers of teams of horses. There was less time between the 1934 stike and the Civil War, than the strike and today.
By Dave Riehle
Three successive strikes by Minneapolis truck drivers in 1934 resulted in the defeat of the Citizen's Alliance, the dominant employer organization that had broken nearly every major strike in that city since 1916. The strikes also established the industrial form of union organization through the medium of an American Federation of Labor (AFL) craft union and set the stage for the organization of over-the-road drivers throughout an 11-state area, transforming the Teamsters into a million-plus member union. The strikes were notable for their almost unequaled advance preparation, military tactics, and the degree to which they drew the active participation of union, non-union, and unemployed workers in Minneapolis alike into their struggle. Veteran union militants expelled from the American Communist Party in 1928 as Trotskyists led the strikes.
Carl Skoglund and V R. (Ray) Dunne, the central leaders, had also been expelled from the AFL Trades and Labor Assembly in Minneapolis in 1925 for their political views, along with 20 other Communists. In 1931 Skoglund obtained membership in Teamsters Local 574, a small general drivers. local. The president, William Brown, was supportive of their perspective for organizing drivers, helpers, and inside workers into an industrial union formation that could break the hold of the Citizen.s Alliance.
By late 1933, working in Minneapolis coal yards, they had consolidated a volunteer organizing committee, including Grant and Miles Dunne (V.R's brothers), Harry DeBoer, and Farrell Dobbs. Dobbs, DeBoer, and Shaun (Jack) Maloney became key leaders of the over-the-road drivers' organizing campaign from 1935 to 1940.
On 7 February 1934, a strike was called in the coal yards, shutting down sixty-five of sixty-seven yards in three hours. Under the leadership of DeBoer, an innovative strike tactic was introduced for the first time, cruising picket squads patrolling the streets by automobile. Cold winter demand for coal brought a quick end to the strike two days later, resulting in a limited victory for the union. Local 574's membership rose to three thousand by April, as the organization drive continued.
In preparation for a general drivers. strike, 574 got agreement for active support from Minneapolis unemployed organizations and the Farm Holiday Association, allied with the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. On 15 May, Local 574, now 6,000 members strong, voted to strike all trucking employers, demanding union recognition, the right to represent inside workers, and wage increases.
The union deployed cruising picket squads from strike headquarters, a big garage where they also installed a hospital and commissary. A strike committee of one hundred was elected, with broad representation from struck firms. A women's auxiliary was established at the suggestion of Carl Skoglund.
On Monday, 21 May, a major battle between strikers and police and special deputies took place in the central market area. At a crucial, point, 600 pickets, concealed the previous evening in nearby AFL headquarters, emerged and routed the police and deputies in hand-to-hand combat. Over thirty cops went to the hospital. No pickets were arrested.
On Tuesday, 22 May, the battle began again. About 20,000 strikers, sympathizers, and spectators assembled in the central market area, and a local radio station broadcast live from the site. Again, no trucks were moved.
Two special deputies were killed, including C. Arthur Lyman, a leader of the Citizen's Alliance. No pickets were arrested. On 25 May a settlement was reached that met the union's major objectives, including representation of inside workers.
In the following weeks, it became clear the employers were not carrying out the agreement. Over 700 cases of discrimination were recorded between May and July. Another strike was called on 16 July. The union's newspaper, The Organizer, became the first daily ever published by a striking union. Trucking was again effectively closed down until Friday, 20 July, when police opened fire on unarmed pickets, wounding 67, two of whom, John Belor and Henry Ness, died.
The Minneapolis Labor Review reported attendance of 100,000 at Ness's funeral on 24 July. A public commission, set up later by the governor, reported: "Police took direct aim at the pickets and fired to kill. Physical safety of the police was at no time endangered. No weapons were in possession of the pickets." On 26 July, Farmer-Labor Governor Floyd B. Olson declared martial law and mobilized four thousand National Guardsmen, who began issuing operating permits to truck drivers.
On 1 August, National Guard troops seized strike headquarters and placed arrested union leaders in a stockade at the state fairgrounds in Saint Paul. The next day, the headquarters were restored to the union and the leaders released from the stockade, as the National Guard carried out a token raid on the Citizen's Alliance headquarters. The union appealed to the Central Labor Union for a general strike and the governor issued an ultimatum that he would stop all trucks by midnight, 5 August, if there was no settlement. Nevertheless, by 14 August there were thousands of trucks operating under military permits.
Although the strike was gravely weakened by martial law and economic pressure, union leaders made it clear that it would continue. On 21 August, a federal mediator got acceptance of a settlement pro-posal from A. W. Strong, head of the Citizen.s Alliance, incorporating the union.s major demands. The settlement was ratified and the back of employer resist-ance to unionization in Minneapolis was broken. In March 1935 International president Daniel Tobin expelled Local 574 from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). However, in August 1936 Tobin was forced to relent and recharter the local as 544. The leaders of 544 went on to develop the area and conference bargaining that exists today in the IBT. Local 544 remained under socialist leader-ship until 1941, when eighteen leaders of the union and the Socialist Workers Party were sentenced to federal prison, the first victims of the anti-radical Smith Act, a law eventually found by the United States Supreme Court to be unconstitutional.
Posted by Frank Partisan at 12:53 AM
Labels: 1934 Teamster Strike, Carl Skoglund, Citizen's Alliance, Dunne Brothers, Harry DeBoer, Leon Trotsky, Teamsters Local 574
How about a bit of honesty and integrity Renegade Eye?
I didn't even remotely blame the UK muslims for all the problems in the world in that last thread, not even remotely - can you really substantiate that extraordinary smear made before you took away the opportunity for rebuttal? Or is it just hysterical, biased rubbish in reaction to nothing but facts and the truth?
Delete away my friend, you obviously seem to have been won over by the DHG school of dirty tricks: Smear, cut, close and / or censor.
By your own account, it sounds like the Union drew first blood, Ren. You guys proud of sending thirty cops to the hospital?
ps - If it's any consolation, I don't think it was your post, Sentinel, which served as the reason for closing down the last thread.
Desert Mystery said...
Sorry for an unrelated question, Ren.
Why is the Democratic party in Minnesota called the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party? Are they left of the national democratic party?
And to think I didn't make one single solitary comment in the last thread, so no one can blame me for its problems. Which is a relief, as I was starting to feel like one of those UK Muslims. But, since I am in general agreement with the "party line" here, I guess it's safe to comment.
FJ-Good on you in that last thread, by the way, but as for this one, what were the cops doing there to begin with?
And as for the thirty cops in the hospital, what about this-
"Trucking was again effectively closed down until Friday, 20 July, when police opened fire on unarmed pickets, wounding 67, two of whom, John Belor and Henry Ness, died."
I've done a lot of rethinking and re-evaluating my support for unions lately, but from the looks of things, they were pretty much the "good guys" here.
I admit I don't know that much about the situation. I can be convinced. Hell, here lately I've started to wonder if even the Mafia was really all that bad. I'm about two inches away from wanting to put Jimmy Hoffa's mug on Mount Rushmore.
They do the same thing in New York, Desert Mystery. I think it was originally a way of forming coalitions.
And with that, I am back into hibernating mode.
Okay, just one more point and I'll shut up.
Kudos to the union for this-
"Cold winter demand for coal brought a quick end to the strike two days later, resulting in a limited victory for the union."
Give them credit for common sense at least.
Okay, I misread that. From the looks of it, I guess it was the bosses who ended the strike because of the bad weather. So, good on them.
Just a few notes. I'll comment more later.
1) The union organized an unemployed union, so they would not cross the picket lines, and in fact be on them.
2) It was the first strike with a daily newspaper.
3) They invented cruising pickets. They would allow trucks to leave the yards, and stop them blocks away.
4) They had a ladies auxillary, that cooked food and did healthcare. Strikers didn't use hospitals.
5) The depression started in 1929, but actions like this occured around 1934/1935. Consciousness follows events.
6) It was organized by the Communist League of America, the Trotskyists in the US. Trotsky had disagreements with how they organized it. They were great unionists, but poor Marxists. They didn't call for a break from Roosevelt and Democrats, or call for nationalizations.
Desert Mystery: Minnesota had a populist party called the Farmer Labor Party, that merged with the Democratic Party in the 1940s.
Pagan: The coal strike was the first in a series of three strikes. They closed 650 coal yards.
FJ: Violence was defensive. I've seen videos.
I don't think an ambush like the one you described can really be fairly classisfied as "defensive", Ren.
At a crucial, point, 600 pickets, concealed the previous evening in nearby AFL headquarters, emerged and routed the police and deputies in hand-to-hand combat. Over thirty cops went to the hospital. No pickets were arrested.
And the police "massacre" described later almost sounds like retaliation for the violent ambush.
I'll admit I don't have any facts. I'm merely stating what it sounds like. First blood.... then retaliation by a superior force.
This is about how the bureaucrats, Stalinists and gangsters, tried to sabotage the strike.
Sentinel: It would have been disasterous to keep going with the last thread.
Pagan: The coal strike was militant. Coal was dumped on the street, when the trucks were stopped.
Desert Mystery: See my previous comment.
FJ: Your favorite source on the 1934 strike; Wikipedia.
The States Has A Proud Labour Tradition.
It's A Pity (no surprise though!)That The Media Hides The Fact.
People Should Know Their History.
You should have related the events of May 19.
The market was to be the scene of the fiercest fighting during the earliest part of the strike. On Saturday, May 19, 1934, Minneapolis Police and private guards beat a number of strikers trying to prevent strikebreakers from unloading a truck in that area and waylaid several strikers who had responded to a report that scab drivers were unloading newsprint at the two major dailies' loading docks. When those injured strikers were brought back to the strike headquarters the police followed; the strikers, however, not only refused to let the police into the headquarters, but left two of them unconscious on the sidewalk outside.
It better sets the stage for the events of 21st (the ambush) although it does sound like the workers may have been capitalizing on their "mobility tactics" and were cognizant of the fact that the cops would now likely pursue them back to their HQ (setting out the bait they needed for the ambush).
Tony: People here don't know their history. The ones that do, have a hard time with the dialectic between today and the thirties. Young people don't know the words to Solidarity Forever.
FJ: There isn't any controversy that the workers were violent. Minneapolis used to have a picnic to celebrate the victory of the workers of three strikes. The bosses created the Aquatennial Celebration to counter the picnics. Now the Aquatennial wants to add a pro labor event. Only in Minneapolis.
Harry Barnes said...
Labour : What Is To Be Done? See -
http://dronfieldblather.blogspot.com/2009/07/labour-what-is-to-be-done.html
Harry: I changed my links to reflect your new blogging direction.
In the US, a labor party is a revolutionary idea, whose time has come.
Donald Trump’s American Carnage Comes to Washington
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Stratfor: WikiLeaks and the Afghan War
By George Friedman
On Sunday, The New York Times and two other newspapers published summaries and excerpts of tens of thousands of documents leaked to a website known as WikiLeaks. The documents comprise a vast array of material concerning the war in Afghanistan. They range from tactical reports from small unit operations to broader strategic analyses of politico-military relations between the United States and Pakistan. It appears to be an extraordinary collection.
Tactical intelligence on firefights is intermingled with reports on confrontations between senior U.S. and Pakistani officials in which lists of Pakistani operatives in Afghanistan are handed over to the Pakistanis. Reports on the use of surface-to-air missiles by militants in Afghanistan are intermingled with reports on the activities of former Pakistani intelligence chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, who reportedly continues to liaise with the Afghan Taliban in an informal capacity.
The WikiLeaks
At first glance, it is difficult to imagine a single database in which such a diverse range of intelligence was stored, or the existence of a single individual cleared to see such diverse intelligence stored across multiple databases and able to collect, collate and transmit the intelligence without detection. Intriguingly, all of what has been released so far has been not-so-sensitive material rated secret or below. The Times reports that Gul’s name appears all over the documents, yet very few documents have been released in the current batch, and it is very hard to imagine intelligence on Gul and his organization, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate, being classified as only secret. So, this was either low-grade material hyped by the media, or there is material reviewed by the selected newspapers but not yet made public. Still, what was released and what the Times discussed is consistent with what most thought was happening in Afghanistan.
The obvious comparison is to the Pentagon Papers, commissioned by the Defense Department to gather lessons from the Vietnam War and leaked by Daniel Ellsberg to the Times during the Nixon administration. Many people worked on the Pentagon Papers, each of whom was focused on part of it and few of whom would have had access to all of it.
Ellsberg did not give the Times the supporting documentation; he gave it the finished product. By contrast, in the WikiLeaks case, someone managed to access a lot of information that would seem to have been contained in many different places. If this was an unauthorized leak, then it had to have involved a massive failure in security. Certainly, the culprit should be known by now and his arrest should have been announced. And certainly, the gathering of such diverse material in one place accessible to one or even a few people who could move it without detection is odd.
Like the Pentagon Papers, the WikiLeaks (as I will call them) elicited a great deal of feigned surprise, not real surprise. Apart from the charge that the Johnson administration contrived the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of what the Pentagon Papers contained was generally known. Most striking about the Pentagon Papers was not how much surprising material they contained, but how little. Certainly, they contradicted the official line on the war, but there were few, including supporters of the war, who were buying the official line anyway.
In the case of the WikiLeaks, what is revealed also is not far from what most people believed, although they provide enormous detail. Nor is it that far from what government and military officials are saying about the war. No one is saying the war is going well, though some say that given time it might go better.
The view of the Taliban as a capable fighting force is, of course, widespread. If they weren’t a capable fighting force, then the United States would not be having so much trouble defeating them. The WikiLeaks seem to contain two strategically significant claims, however. The first is that the Taliban are a more sophisticated fighting force than has been generally believed. An example is the claim that Taliban fighters have used man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) against U.S. aircraft. This claim matters in a number of ways. First, it indicates that the Taliban are using technologies similar to those used against the Soviets. Second, it raises the question of where the Taliban are getting them — they certainly don’t manufacture MANPADS themselves.
If they have obtained advanced technologies, this would have significance on the battlefield. For example, if reasonably modern MANPADS were to be deployed in numbers, the use of American airpower would either need to be further constrained or higher attrition rates accepted. Thus far, only first- and second-generation MANPADS without Infrared Counter-Countermeasures (which are more dangerous) appear to have been encountered, and not with decisive or prohibitive effectiveness. But in any event, this doesn’t change the fundamental character of the war.
Supply Lines and Sanctuaries
What it does raise is the question of supply lines and sanctuaries. The most important charge contained in the leaks is about Pakistan. The WikiLeaks contain documents that charge that the Pakistanis are providing both supplies and sanctuary to Taliban fighters while objecting to American forces entering Pakistan to clean out the sanctuaries and are unwilling or unable to carry out that operation by themselves (as they have continued to do in North Waziristan).
Just as important, the documents charge that the ISI has continued to maintain liaison and support for the Taliban in spite of claims by the Pakistani government that pro-Taliban officers had been cleaned out of the ISI years ago. The document charges that Gul, the director-general of the ISI from 1987 to 1989, still operates in Pakistan, informally serving the ISI and helping give the ISI plausible deniability.
Though startling, the charge that Islamabad is protecting and sustaining forces fighting and killing Americans is not a new one. When the United States halted operations in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Soviets in 1989, U.S. policy was to turn over operations in Afghanistan to Pakistan. U.S. strategy was to use Islamist militants to fight the Soviets and to use Pakistani liaisons through the ISI to supply and coordinate with them. When the Soviets and Americans left Afghanistan, the ISI struggled to install a government composed of its allies until the Taliban took over Kabul in 1996. The ISI’s relationship with the Taliban — which in many ways are the heirs to the anti-Soviet mujahideen — is widely known. In my book, “America’s Secret War,” I discussed both this issue and the role of Gul. These documents claim that this relationship remains intact. Apart from Pakistani denials, U.S. officials and military officers frequently made this charge off the record, and on the record occasionally. The leaks on this score are interesting, but they will shock only those who didn’t pay attention or who want to be shocked.
Let’s step back and consider the conflict dispassionately. The United States forced the Taliban from power. It never defeated the Taliban nor did it make a serious effort to do so, as that would require massive resources the United States doesn’t have. Afghanistan is a secondary issue for the United States, especially since al Qaeda has established bases in a number of other countries, particularly Pakistan, making the occupation of Afghanistan irrelevant to fighting al Qaeda.
For Pakistan, however, Afghanistan is an area of fundamental strategic interest. The region’s main ethnic group, the Pashtun, stretch across the Afghan-Pakistani border. Moreover, were a hostile force present in Afghanistan, as one was during the Soviet occupation, Pakistan would face threats in the west as well as the challenge posed by India in the east. For Pakistan, an Afghanistan under Pakistani influence or at least a benign Afghanistan is a matter of overriding strategic importance.
It is therefore irrational to expect the Pakistanis to halt collaboration with the force that they expect to be a major part of the government of Afghanistan when the United States leaves. The Pakistanis never expected the United States to maintain a presence in Afghanistan permanently. They understood that Afghanistan was a means toward an end, and not an end in itself. They understood this under George W. Bush. They understand it even more clearly under Barack Obama, who made withdrawal a policy goal.
Given that they don’t expect the Taliban to be defeated, and given that they are not interested in chaos in Afghanistan, it follows that they will maintain close relations with and support for the Taliban. Given that the United States is powerful and is Pakistan’s only lever against India, the Pakistanis will not make this their public policy, however. The United States has thus created a situation in which the only rational policy for Pakistan is two-tiered, consisting of overt opposition to the Taliban and covert support for the Taliban.
This is duplicitous only if you close your eyes to the Pakistani reality, which the Americans never did. There was ample evidence, as the WikiLeaks show, of covert ISI ties to the Taliban. The Americans knew they couldn’t break those ties. They settled for what support Pakistan could give them while constantly pressing them harder and harder until genuine fears in Washington emerged that Pakistan could destabilize altogether. Since a stable Pakistan is more important to the United States than a victory in Afghanistan — which it wasn’t going to get anyway — the United States released pressure and increased aid. If Pakistan collapsed, then India would be the sole regional power, not something the United States wants.
The WikiLeaks seem to show that like sausage-making, one should never look too closely at how wars are fought, particularly coalition warfare. Even the strongest alliances, such as that between the United States and the United Kingdom in World War II, are fraught with deceit and dissension. London was fighting to save its empire, an end Washington was hostile to; much intrigue ensued. The U.S.-Pakistani alliance is not nearly as trusting. The United States is fighting to deny al Qaeda a base in Afghanistan while Pakistan is fighting to secure its western frontier and its internal stability. These are very different ends that have very different levels of urgency.
The WikiLeaks portray a war in which the United States has a vastly insufficient force on the ground that is fighting a capable and dedicated enemy who isn’t going anywhere. The Taliban know that they win just by not being defeated, and they know that they won’t be defeated. The Americans are leaving, meaning the Taliban need only wait and prepare.
The Pakistanis also know that the Americans are leaving and that the Taliban or a coalition including the Taliban will be in charge of Afghanistan when the Americans leave. They will make certain that they maintain good relations with the Taliban. They will deny that they are doing this because they want no impediments to a good relationship with the United States before or after it leaves Afghanistan. They need a patron to secure their interests against India. Since the United States wants neither an India outside a balance of power nor China taking the role of Pakistan’s patron, it follows that the risk the United States will bear grudges is small. And given that, the Pakistanis can live with Washington knowing that one Pakistani hand is helping the Americans while another helps the Taliban. Power, interest and reality define the relations between nations, and different factions inside nations frequently have different agendas and work against each other.
The WikiLeaks, from what we have seen so far, detail power, interest and reality as we have known it. They do not reveal a new reality. Much will be made about the shocking truth that has been shown, which, as mentioned above, shocks only those who wish to be shocked. The Afghan war is about an insufficient American and allied force fighting a capable enemy on its home ground and a Pakistan positioning itself for the inevitable outcome. The WikiLeaks contain all the details.
We are left with the mystery of who compiled all of these documents and who had access to them with enough time and facilities to transmit them to the outside world in a blatant and sustained breach of protocol. The image we have is of an unidentified individual or small group working to get a “shocking truth” out to the public, only the truth is not shocking — it is what was known all along in excruciating detail. Who would want to detail a truth that is already known, with access to all this documentation and the ability to transmit it unimpeded? Whoever it proves to have been has just made the most powerful case yet for withdrawal from Afghanistan sooner rather than later.
Labels: Afghanistan, Daniel Ellsburg, Pakistan, taliban, The Pentagon Papers, WikiLeaks
Democrats really made a huge blunder in 2008 when they called Iraq "the wrong war" and Afghanistan "the right war", while it was precisely the opposite.
Now, it's Obama's war and he can't really withdraw without losing face.
I think it will drag on, as a kind of low-intensity conflict, until the parties concerned will get tired of it.
Obama made it his war.
I've been thinking lately, the reason finance capital went for Obama so strong, is because Bush was a disaster for the empire.
In Iraq, a Sunni dictator, was replaced by a pro-Iranian dictator. It's inevitable the Taliban will return to power.
The goals of both wars, were not achieved.
Iraq will have another Bonapartist dictatorship. The Shiites are rural. They don't know any other kind of government.
the reason finance capital went for Obama so strong, is because Bush was a disaster for the empire.
100% correct.
But most leftists still don't get it. Their stupidity is really amazing.
Personally, I don't think Bush fought the Iraq War for the "empire". It was personal. He wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein because he tried to assassinate his father.
I don't know much about Saddam trying to kill Bush's father. I've heard that.
To some supporters, having a mobile US military presence in the Middle East was a goal. That turned into a disaster.
Some on the left won't admit Bush's democracy rhetoric was a good point about him. He gave that up quick.
I think Obama will want to do a SOFA type agreement in Afghanistan.
The wars disrupted balances of power, between India and Pakistan, and Iraq and Iran.
I don't know much about Saddam trying to kill Bush's father.
You would know more if it was YOUR father...
This is life. You kill millions of Kurds and Shiites and Iranians... and nobody says anything. But then you mess with one (only ONE) wrong motherfucker and... WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED ? Why is the entire US military on my ass ???
"I don't care about any "balance of power" bullshit. You tried to kill my daddy!"
Sonia: I'm starting to agree with you. I don't know the details of the threat.
The Afghanistan fiasco isn't going well. That's no revelation.
So maybe on of McChrystal's homeboys released the leaks. How much does it matter?
Fact is that the right wing diaper pissers are still afraid that the crack Afghan spec-ops are going to night drop and put botulism in their corn flakes. We are a nation of frightened children who do understand the party is over, the dollar is dogshit and the empire is no more.
Still, anyone who doesn't realize this is ALL about Iran and not some two bit dictator with "weapons of mass destruction"(LMAO) is really missing a good game.
I don't know the details
Back in 1993, Clinton actually ordered a huge bombing raid on Iraq in retaliation, after discovering the details of the assassination plot.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm
A year later, in 1994, Dubya went into politics, winning his very first election (as governor of Texas). Coincidence ?
Ducky: If there was the remotest chance there was WMD's, there would have been no invasion.
At one time, it was believed the US army will contain or circle Iran, and be mobile to attack anyone else. Those days are gone. All Middle East governments are unstable. Bush was delusional.
Sonia: It makes more sense daily. Even Chomsky denies ownership of oil, as a reason. Control of who buys it, is an issue.
The problem with all that is that Bush didn’t conceive or plan the Iraq war – these people did:
They were the authors of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and had called for the invasion of Iraq long before 9/11 – their long awaited and much desired “new ‘Pearl Harbour.”
It was these people who led Bush by the nose and not just in Iraq but Afghanistan too, and their influence can still be felt with the forthcoming war against Iran.
Bush and his ‘daddy’ was just a coincidental sideshow.
Rog says: -
The PNAC document was based on an earlier document written by the same crowd called "Clean Break"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
I agree the americans were led into the war by powerful people who had other interests at heart, the bush assassination plot is just an urban myth.
Sonia: That article may be right. There are no details to the plot.
Sentinel: I agree the neoconservatives had great influence.
We've gone around before. I don't see war with Iran any time soon. The US needs Iran and Syria to withdraw from Iraq.
Anonymous: The Iraq War drained the ruling class. It made so little sense. Afghanistan is an irrational drain as well.
Like all of history it was a convergence of factors. The remarkable thing is what a lousy hegemon the U.S. turned out to be!
A few good decades then ruin.
Troutsky: I agree.
The long term planning was completely based on illusions.
Troutsky,
The remarkable thing is what a lousy hegemon the U.S. turned out to be!,
No doubt Hitler's Germany would make a much better hegemon that everybody could admire.
It's funny how people always admire winners and despise losers. Skratch a Marxist and an opportunist is always underneath...
One day you'll understand that "lousy hegemon" is the best kind.
Hitler's Germany didn't make a good hegemon. The Soviet Union got in the way.
The Soviet Union got in the way
Yes, a state capitalist Soviet Union led by Trotsky's murderer, who killed more Communists than Hitler, McCarthy and Pinochet combined....
One day, you'll need to explain why you defend Stalin so much...
"The Soviet Union got in the way"
As I have pretty much demonstrated at least a few times on this blog, the USSR would have completely collapsed almost immediately without massive US and British aid because the workers paradise was grossly incompetent in production and torturously backward in technology.
To a much lesser effect but much more ignoble degree, the murderers of the NKVD played their part too executing enmasse the ‘work-shy’, dissatisfied workers or simply just the latest object of Stalin and his minions hatred and paranoia as well as gleefully machine gunning retreating Red Army soldiers and murdering returned Soviet POW’s.
And to cap it all, all of the Marxist dogma went out of the window straight away in favour of a nationalist appeal to fight for the ‘Motherland’ because the communists knew that ordinary people care naught for their anti-human nature and anti-reality claptrap.
The truth is that if the Germans had came - or even just pretended to come - as liberators the oppressed Soviet people would have joined them, as they initially did in the Ukraine.
The communist knew that and were terrified of it.
Sentinel,
as they initially did in the Ukraine.
Not just Ukraine. And not just "initially". Two million Russians joined Vlasov's Army as late as 1944, when Red Army's victory was all but assured. And Don Cossacks, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Kalmyks, Tartars and almost every nation in the Caucasus also joined the anti-Soviet ranks during WWII.
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Brand Protect EU > Designs
Design Rights: how to protect your designs
Design rights protect the visual appearance or appeal of products. They can be the most effective and economical form of intellectual property (IP) owned by your organisation. Design rights can be registered or unregistered. New designs can be registered with various intellectual property offices around the world, and in the USA, where they are referred to as “design patents”.
How can I prevent manufacturers and /or big retail companies copying my graphics or product designs and mass-producing them?
If you are a designer, click here for a brief explanation.
In the UK, registered design rights protect the complete appearance of a product’s design; including its lines, contours, colours, materials, texture, and shape. Whereas an unregistered design right additionally protects the shape, appearance and configuration of products, both internally and externally. The design can take the form of a two-dimensional drawing or a three-dimensional design made to that drawing, or vice-versa.
The layout of a shop, packaging colours, and the brand name and logo chosen for the business, can all be subject to registered design rights. Registering design rights is also an appropriate way to protect websites from copycat competitors. Applications to register designs in the UK are filed in the UK Designs Registry, which is part of the Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO).
Community Design right covers gives rights in each of member states in the European Union (EU). A Community Design that complies with the requirements of protection for such designs is directly enforceable in each member state of the European Union. In a similar way to UK design regulations, the designer relying on a Community Design has the option of relying on either an unregistered Community Design right or a registered Community Design right. A registered Community Design is valid in all countries of the EU. The EUIPO only deals with applications for registered Community Designs, as an unregistered Community Design does not require filing for registration.
How to choose between registered and unregistered design rights
This section introduces the two types of design rights, and the following sections go on to explain them each in more detail.
Unregistered design rights are awarded automatically if the design meets the following criteria:
The design is original and is all your own work, and
The design is not commonplace or is not widely acknowledged within groups of comparable products.
If you feel it is vital to register your design in order to protect its appearance, physical shape, configuration and decoration from potential copycats, then the registration process at the UKIPO takes about a month. This is assuming that the design:
Is new, and has an individual character,
Is not offensive,
Does not feature graphic imagery or words,
Does not utilise protected flags and emblems (e.g. a national flag or the Olympic rings), and
Is not an invention, nor a characteristic that is solely dictated by the product’s technical function, as this may require patent protection. More information on patents is available here.
Unregistered design rights tend to have shorter lives, in terms of length of time protection is afforded, and many aspects relating to the various aspects referred to above, can sometimes be difficult to prove. However, some businesses prefer to make use of unregistered design rights, simply because they consider registering a design to be costly and slow in comparison with the speed with which they develop new products, e.g. the fast-fashion sector.
Unregistered design right and design copyright holders looking to prosecute for an infringement must be able to prove that:
The rights holders created the design in the first place and
Deliberate duplication has occurred.
By contrast, in enforcing an alleged infringement of a registered design right does not require proving ownership of the right.
Although in order to be registered, a design must be novel, and difficulties often arise where the new design is similar to an existing design. The legal test is to assess whether, in the eyes of an informed user, the similarities are so strong that differences between the designs in question can be classed as being inconsequential; these differences are always “judged by the eye”.
A designer may have up to twelve months to make the new product available and to promote the design, before making a final decision as to whether to register the design work as a Community Design, or to allow the design to remain unregistered. If the designer or owner of the design fails to register the design in that twelve-month period, then the right to register the design is lost. If the designer wants to register a UK design, then he or she must undertake a design rights search prior to application, and register the design before it is shown to the public.
Further information on registered design rights and unregistered design rights is provided below.
What are Registered Design Rights?
With a registered design right, registration allows the proprietor to deal with the design as an item of property. The proprietor can mortgage, sell, and/or licence the right to use the registered design.
In the UK, as in the EU, a registered design can be protected for up to 25 years, subject to the registration being renewed every five years. Registration is relatively straightforward, and when you have obtained the design right (by registration), you may want to think about exploiting the right by licensing it to others. The official fees for UK registration start at £50.00. Currently, the official fees to register a Community Design start at €350.00 and more detailed information about that registration process is available on the EUIPO website, here.
Its worth noting that although Registered Designs are useful for protection against counterfeits, their narrow scope can mean that this protection can be circumvented by making an article look different to that shown in the Registered Design drawings.
In the recent past, the laws relating to registered designs have undergone significant change making them more relevant to the end user. The changes have been brought about by two legal measures; the first is a European Directive (98/71/EC) and the second is Council Regulation (EC) no 6/2002. The Directive caused the Registered Design Act 1949 to be changed radically and the Council Regulation introduced the availability of a Community-wide registered design. As a result, the advantage of registration is that it gives the owner a monopoly similar to the rights enjoyed by a patent proprietor.
Making multiple applications for registered design rights
Both the UK and EU registries allow multiple applications for more than one design, and do not restrict the designs to be grouped together. When filing multiple applications, the cost is reduced in comparison to making a single application.
Each of the designs in a multiple application is seen as a separate design and can therefore be licensed and/ or assigned separately. At renewal, not all the designs have to be renewed.
Overseas design registration
When making a registered design right application in the UK a “priority date” is generated. This date can be claimed as support for corresponding design applications filed abroad within six months of the UK filing date. It is also possible for a UK registered design application to claim priority from an overseas filing. For example, the same design can be applied for in the USA and then applied for in the UK, design right can be claimed from the date of application for the US “design patent”.
Even if you had made multiple applications at the same time (see above), it is still possible to claim different priorities for each design and to defer the registration and publication of only some of the designs.
Taking action for infringement or invalidity of a registration
The proprietor of a registered design can bring proceedings for infringement against any third party who applies the design, or one substantially similar to it, to products. In addition, the proprietor can also bring proceedings against anyone who trades in articles bearing that design. Unlike copyright, registered design can be enforced against a third party (such as a retailer) who has not himself or herself copied the proprietor’s design.
In deciding whether or not a third party’s design is sufficiently similar to the proprietor’s design, the documents deposited with the relevant registry are crucial. The remedies available to the proprietor of a registered design that may have been infringed include: court orders (injunctions), an order for delivery up, damages, accounts of profits and costs, as well as to curtail the use of the design on all types of products.
If you believe that a third party has registered a design that is similar to your own design, you can file a request to declare the third party’s registration invalid. Other potential bases for invalidity include lack of novelty, individual character, or that the proprietor is not entitled to the design.
Depending on your design, the registration process can be complicated; if you are uncertain as to how best to ensure full protection for your design in a cost effective manner, BRAND PROTECT can advise, and can undertake the registration process for you. Please call us on +353 (0) 15394211 for a free initial discussion about your application and, if you wish to proceed, to establish a fixed fee.
What is an Unregistered Design Right?
If a British citizen (or a citizen of the EU and certain other countries) creates a design then, on creation, the designer receives copyright protection for their design. This protection lasts for up to 15 years.
A Community-wide design right is created automatically when the design is first shown to the public, and is valid in all states of the European Union. If the design is not registered, it remains an ‘unregistered design right’ and lasts for three years from the date of the first showing to the public. However, beware, there may be no protection at all, as unregistered design rights do not exist in most countries outside the EU.
Although an unregistered design right lasts for up to 15 years in the UK, it is worth noting that during the final five years of any unregistered design right, the owner is obliged to give a licence of right to anybody who applies for such a right.
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Israel Missing From U.N. Sponsored Map
By Julie Stahl
CNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief
A key United Nations agency has lent its support to a Palestinian Authority tourism map that completely obliterates Israel.
Established by a U.N. resolution in 1978, the United Nations Development Program opened an office in eastern Jerusalem in 1981. It assists PA ministries in the development of the economy, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, water and rural areas.
Five percent of its funding comes from U.N. headquarters, with the rest coming from donors including Japan, the U.S., and European Union member states.
The PA Ministry of Tourism's new map, called "Palestine, The Holy Land," shows the entire expanse of present-day Israel, the disputed West Bank and Gaza Strip. The whole area is called "Palestine." There is no reference to Israel, or indication of borders between Israel and areas controlled by the PA.
"This publication was made possible thanks to the support of the United Nations Development Program/Program of assistance to the Palestinian people," reads a small credit on the back of the map.
However, a senior advisor to the UNDP in eastern Jerusalem, Omar Daudi Abu Khaled, distanced the agency from the contents of the map.
"This map was published by the Ministry of Tourism and is part of their encouraging tourist activities," he said by telephone on Friday.
"It's not our responsibility to identify the borders [between Israel and PA areas]," he added.
Itamar Marcus, director of the Palestinian Media Watch - an independent media monitoring group - said there was nothing new about the message being sent by the map.
"None of the official maps [of the PA] show Israel," he said, including those printed in PA school text books.
PMW had only managed to find a single tourist map in English that mentions Israel, and that one, Marcus said, was "not for internal consumption."
By contrast, Israeli maps routinely mark off PA-controlled areas. Some Israeli school text books already cover the Oslo peace process, which began seven years ago.
'Israel Does Not Exist'
The message to Palestinians was clear, Marcus said: "Israel does not exist."
On the tourist map, a few of the larger Israeli cities are marked, with Arab names underneath. All other Israeli communities are missing, while Arab villages are named.
Simultaneously, symbols in the map's legend include those for archeological sites, and historic Islamic and Christian sites. There are plenty of the latter, but only a single synagogue, near Jericho.
In Bethlehem, the Jewish shrine at the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel is demarcated as a historic mosque.
Under an inset aerial photo of the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Haram Al-Sharif is the explanation that the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque are the "third holiest place for Muslims after Mecca and Medina."
No reference is made to the fact the highly-contested Mount is also Judaism's holiest site, the location of two consecutive Jewish Temples.
"The Dome of the Rock is one of the most impressive buildings in Palestine with its gold plated Dome," the map says. "For Muslims this is the place where the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven in a night journey from the rock. Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by the Kaliph Waleed, son of Abdul Malek who built the Dome of the Rock between 709-715. It is used for group prayers."
On the flip side of the modern tourist map is a historical one, with dozens of descriptions of key places, including Islamic and Biblical historical sites.
There, Jerusalem is cited as a city "chosen by God to be the bulwark of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam." It also includes "Hebrews" in a long list of peoples who ruled over the city in times past.
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Human Rights Organizations on High Alert as Senate Considers CIA Liaison for US Ambassador to El Salvador
Media contact: Samantha Pineda, [email protected] (202) 521-2510 ext. 204
Washington, DC: On April 3, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to give the green light to Ron Johnson, Trump’s nomination for U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, moving him one step closer to confirmation. Johnson retired as a U.S. Army Colonel in 1998 and currently serves as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Liaison to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
Human rights advocates are concerned about a former military officer representing the United States in El Salvador, especially given the U.S.’ support for brutal state repression during the country’s twelve-year Civil War (1980-1992) and see parallels to Trump Administration’s overall agenda for Central America, in which the U.S. military plays an ever-increasing role. The Administration has requested a drastic increase in Pentagon funding for FY 2020, calling for an increase from $16 million to $478 million for the U.S. Northern Command, which includes U.S. operations in Mexico, and an increase from $38 to $209 million for SOUTHCOM. On March 28th, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced the signing of a “historic agreement” with the security minister of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in order to “stem irregular migration at the source,” which critics fear will oblige Central American countries to cooperate with an anti-immigrant, border militarization agenda.
“The combination -- increasing the SOUTHCOM budget and making an intelligence operative Ambassador to El Salvador -- increases the likelihood of another major spike in violence in El Salvador, already one of the most violent countries on Earth. As with Mano Dura, Super Mano dura and other failed military policies, prioritizing military solutions and military operatives in El Salvador has proven and continues to be nothing less than catastrophic,” said author and independent journalist Roberto Lovato.
In El Salvador, human rights defenders have also expressed concern about Johnson’s nomination. “As someone who lived through one of the darkest periods of Salvadoran history, it is disappointing to see that we have not learned the lessons of the past. The issues we are facing as a country and as a region require a humanistic and intersectional approach to violence and poverty. We need human rights defenders, psychologists, doctors, and teachers, not military strategists.” said Mirna Perla, long time human rights defender and survivor of a 1975 massacre of students at the University of El Salvador by the members of the National Guard.
Similarly, Father Fredis Sandoval of the Monseñor Romero Human Rights Coalition (Concertación Monseñor Romero), an organization that has played an active role in demanding a judicial investigation of the assassination of now Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero, expressed, “As a person and citizen of this country, in this sense, we deplore that the government of the United States might confirm a CIA liaison to be Ambassador of one of the largest Embassies in the region; with this nomination the message being sent is that human rights is not a priority for this administration. I hope that the nomination will be reverted and that another person will be considered, one who is ready to meet the challenges of human dignity, human rights, reconciliation, and the construction of peace with social justice, so precious to the people of the United States and of El Salvador.”
“We didn’t hear much from Johnson during his confirmation hearing to indicate that he would support the type of policies that the Salvadoran government has implemented to slowly but surely improve conditions in the country, like raising the minimum wage or supporting violence prevention and reintegration programs,” said Alexis Stoumbelis, Executive Director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). “Coupled with the fact that incoming president Nayib Bukele has made it clear that he will give the U.S. Embassy a seat at the table, a Johnson confirmation could easily result in the further expansion of the very same policies of militarization that have already devastated the region.”
Johnson’s nomination will move on to full Senate vote where, if his hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee is any indication, he is likely to face little opposition.
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Khalifa Ali bin Abu Talib - Social Boycott Of Banu Hashim
Because of their repeated failures, the Quraish became desperate. They felt that now the only way before them was to kill Muhammad (peace be on him . The Holy Prophet enjoyed the protection of his tribe Abu Hashim, and as long as such protection was there Muhammad (peace be on him) could not be killed according to the tribal code, for any such murder would have precipitated tribal warfare. The Quraish approached Abu Talib, the head of the Banu Hashim, to prevail upon Muhammad (peace be on him) to desist from his teachings. Abu Talib consulted the Holy Prophet whether he could accommodate the Quraish in any way. The Holy Prophet expressed his resolution in strong terms that he would not fail or falter in the performance of the mission that had been entrusted to him by God. Thereupon the Quraish asked Abu Talib to withdraw the protection of Banu Hashim from Muhammad (peace be on him). Abu Talib consulted the Holy Prophet again, and tried to prevail upon him to compromise with the Quraish in some way, which could avert the crisis. The Prophet told his uncle that he could withdraw his protection from him if he liked, but he could not compromise in any way in the matter of the mission entrusted to him by God. Abu Talib felt unhappy on the growing rift between the Muslims and the Quraish, but he assured him that he would not abandon him, whatever might come. Abu Talib accordingly told the Quraish that he could not withdraw his protection from Muhammad (peace be on him). Thereupon the Quraish decided to enforce social boycott against Banu Hashim. An agreement was drawn up which was signed by the representatives of all the sections of the Quraish except the Banu Hashim. The agreement provided that the Quraish would neither marry their daughters to the Banu Hashim, nor marry the daughters of Banu Hashim. It was also provided that they would neither sell anything to nor buy anything from the Banu Hashim. The document was hung on the Kaaba. The Holy Prophet and the Banu Hashim moved to a glen outside Makkah and there remained in a state of semi-captivity for a period of two to three years. Thereafter the social boycott was lifted, and the Banu Hashim returned to their homes in Makkah.
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définition - Wilderness hut
Wilderness hut
Moscow Villa in Victoria, Australia
A wilderness hut, backcountry hut, or backcountry shelter (Finnish: autiotupa) is a rent-free, simple shelter or hut for temporary, usually overnight accommodation, usually located in wilderness areas, national parks and along backpacking and hiking routes.
They are found in many parts of the world, such as Finland, Sweden, Norway, and northern Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
1 Backcountry huts by country
1.1 Finland
1.1.1 History
1.1.2 Customs
1.2 New Zealand
1.4 See also
1.6 External links
Backcountry huts by country
The Oahujoki wilderness hut in Lemmenjoki National Park, can accommodate seven people overnight.
The huts can be divided into official and unofficial, or maintained and unmaintained ones. Official wilderness huts are mostly maintained by Metsähallitus (Finnish for Administration of Forests), the Finnish state-owned forest management company. Most of the wilderness huts in Finland are situated in the northern and eastern parts of the country. Their size can vary greatly: the Lahtinen cottage in the Muotkatunturi Wilderness Area can barely hold two people, whereas the Luirojärvi cottage in the Urho Kekkonen National Park can hold as many as 16.
A wilderness hut need not be reserved beforehand, and they are open for everyone.
For centuries the vast wildernesses of Finland and its resources were divided amongst the Finnish agricultural societies (such as families, villages, parishes, and provinces) for the purpose of collecting resources. Areas owned in this way were called erämaa, literally "portion-land". People from agricultural societies made trips to their erämaas in summer, mainly to trap fur-bearing animals but also to hunt game, fish, and collect taxes from the local hunter-fisher population.
Huts were built in the wilderness for use as base camps for hunters and fishers from agricultural societies. Also non-agricultural Sami people built huts to help them manage reindeer. The earliest huts were meant only for the use of people from the society that owned them. People from other societies were not allowed to use the resources of other societies' erämaas.
Huts that were free for everyone were first seen in late 18th century Finland, when dwelling places were built along walking routes for passers-by. In the 19th century the authorities started building these huts. Later in the 20th century they started to be built for travellers.
A Finnish wilderness hut typically contains at least a dining table, a gas stove and a heating stove.
Lapin läänin autiotupatoimikunta (The wilderness hut commission of Lapland Province) wrote these "unwritten laws of the wilderness" in the mid-20th century:
Anyone who steals or deliberately destroys or damages other people's property behind an unlocked door not only commits a crime but also a shameful and cowardly act. So leave the contents of the cottage in good shape when you leave. This means that, should you return to the cottage, they will be in good condition. Huts can (and will) be locked if there's ill conduct.
When you enter the cottage, check that the fireplace is in safe and in good working order before you light a fire. If there is a problem and you cannot fix it, leave a message detailing the problem, so that the owner will know about it and can fix it.
Use the firewood reserves of the cottage sparingly unless you can immediately obtain new billets, as the next visitor may have an urgent need of dry wood. It is obvious that whittling kindling out of bunk boards, to say nothing of burning them, is an outrageous infringement of the laws of the wilderness.
Use the cottage's food and other emergency supplies only in a really urgent situation. Another passer-by may later perish without them.
Keep the cottage tidy, and the surroundings and the water supply clean. Leave the trees around the cottage in peace.
Upon leaving the cottage, clean it well and provide it with at least the same amount of firewood that you have burned. A good traveller leaves a plentiful supply of billets and, if the stocks are low, replenishes them.
If there is a guestbook in the cottage, leave your name, the date and words about your trip. Do not carve your initials in the walls of the cottage; this is an ugly habit that should be broken.
If you can, leave a box of matches, dry kindling, bread, salt, or other non-perishable food in the cottage, perhaps in a bag hanging from the ceiling, safe from mice.
Before you close the door make sure that the fire in the fireplace has completely died out and that there is no danger of it restarting.
The last person to arrive at the cottage has a greater right to use it than those already dwelling there. So, if the cottage cannot hold everyone, those who have stayed there the longest are obliged to make room for those just arriving and tired. The old Finnish saying must be remembered: Sopu sijaa antaa (Harmony gives room). Also, note the American saying: "First in, first out".
Lastly: never rely solely on the wilderness huts while hiking, on the popular routes they may be crowded. Always carry a tent or some cloth applicable to making a shelter.
See also: Tramping in New Zealand
New Zealand has a network of approximately 950 backcountry huts.[1] The huts are officially maintained by the Department of Conservation (DOC), although some of the huts have been adopted and maintained by local tramping (hiking) and hunting clubs by arrangement. There are also unofficial and privately owned huts in some places. They vary from small bivouac shelters made of wood to large modern huts that can sleep up to 40 people, with separate cooking areas, utilities and gas.
Some huts were initially commissioned or built by clubs along commonly walked routes, both for safety reasons as appropriate, and sometimes for convenience. The network of back-country huts in New Zealand was largely extended in the mid-20th-century, when many more were built to serve the deer cullers of the New Zealand Forest Service [2]. Most larger and more modern huts, like some found on the Great Walks, have been purpose designed and built to serve trampers (hikers). Many of New Zealand's back-country huts are remote and rarely visited, and it is common for recreational trampers to design trips with the idea of reaching and visiting specific huts. Some people actively keep count of which huts they've visited; a practice which is informally referred to as Hut Bagging.
Back-country huts in New Zealand were free to use until the early 1990s, when the New Zealand Department of Conservation began charging for their use. For most back-country huts, nightly hut tickets are purchased via an honesty system by people who use the huts, with an additional option of purchasing an Annual Hut Pass (similar to a season ticket) for people who use huts frequently. Huts on frequently used and heavily marketed tracks, such as the New Zealand Great Walks, usually operate on a booking system, and often have resident wardens checking the bookings of users who arrive to stay the night. [3]
Since the inception of hut fees in New Zealand, there has been controversy amongst some hut users. Many users belong to clubs which helped to build and maintain the huts before the government department was created, and consequently inherited them. It is common to find people who refuse to pay for the use of huts in protest, arguing that the government is trying to charge them to use facilities that they themselves are entirely responsible for providing. DOC argues that all hut fees are used for the continued maintenance of huts, and for building new huts as appropriate. It has at times made efforts to demonstrate this by specifically allocating money from hut fees towards budgets for these purposes.
The majority of the huts were built in an era of lower levels of government regulation and the long term use of the huts was not considered. As a result of the Cave Creek disaster in 1995 DOC tightened up on the standards for structures on public land. Some of the huts were upgraded to meet build regulations whilst others were removed or had certain facilities (such as beds) removed to cause them to fall into less strict building categories. In 2008, due to the recognition of the unique situation and the remote locations, the government relaxed the building standards for the huts. They now no longer are need to have emergency lighting, smoke alarms, wheelchair access, potable water supplies or artificial lighting.[4]
The Pocosin cabin along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Park.
In the United States, backcountry huts may be provided by the Forest Service, state or national parks such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park [5]. Wilderness huts are frequently located along hiking routes.
The Tenth Mountain Huts is a system of 29 backcountry huts in the Colorado Rocky Mountains honoring the men of 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army, who trained during World War II at Camp Hale in central Colorado. They provide a unique opportunity for backcountry skiing, mountain biking, or hiking while staying in safe, comfortable shelter.
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Mountain hut - building located in the mountains intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers and hikers
Bivouac shelter - a temporary shelter
Bothy - simple shelter
Lean-to – a temporary, small, open building intended for shelter during hiking or fishing trips in the wilderness
Log cabin - small house built from logs
Part of this article is based on a translation of an article in the Finnish Wikipedia.
Laaksonen, Jouni. "Autiotuvat on-line" (in Finnish). http://koti.kainuu.com/joula/at/. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
^ Department of Conservation backcountry hut information
^ Te Totara Hut: Aniwaniwa's historic heritage
^ Backcountry hut information: Places to stay
^ "Building rule changes reduce red tape for huts". New Zealand Government. 2008-10-31. http://feeds.beehive.govt.nz/release/building+rule+changes+reduce+red+tape+huts. Retrieved 2008-10-31.
^ Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Backcountry Camping - Backpacking (U.S. National Park Service)
Outdoors.fi - information about huts in Finland
Backcountry Ski Huts in BC, Canada - listing and map of huts in the province
New Zealand Department of Conservation - information on huts
Using Backcountry Huts Properly - information on proper use of backcountry huts.
Remote Huts on the West Coast of the South Island - hut photos and route descriptions
huttrip.com - route descriptions and details on using huts
Tenth Mountain Huts - Main site for the Tenth Mountain Huts
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Duncan Patterson Talks about ANTIFEAR, His Newest Collaboration with Darren White, and more.
Published on : November 3, 2020 November 3, 2020 by Nicolae Baldovin
ANTIFEAR is the new project of Darren White and Duncan Patterson, since curiosity killed us we had to ask about their project. With Duncan’s help, this interview came up.
“We were on an overnight train in Romania in 1994 and we discussed doing a project together, more punk and raw.”
Hello! How are things going in this period? Is it the most difficult period a band can go through? Have you ever had any similar situation in your career?
I’m doing ok. I had been on a long break before the whole coronavirus thing kicked off, so it hasn’t affected me so much. I had planned to record in April though and had to put that on hold. I’ve just been writing a lot and recording home demos. I now have about two albums worth of songs. So it’s been a very productive period for me.
Your career traces back to the early ’90s when you began your musical incursions as a member of Anathema. Can you recall your first ever musical experience?
I played in bands before Anathema and started playing music a long time before Anathema existed. My first ever musical experience, with an instrument, was playing the keyboard in a school nativity play when I was about nine years old.
How do you feel you have grown in the time since Anathema, Antimatter, or Íon, both personally and musically?
We are talking about more than half of my life here. It’s not so simple to sum it up in a few paragraphs. Barring the last five years, my musical journey has been documented. I’d have to write a book to explain the personal things though, which I will one day before I forget everything.
What are currently your main compositional- and production-challenges?
I don’t really see anything like that as a challenge as such. I just work on things until they sound or feel right to me. It’s a process that often takes time. Something things will happen fast. I wrote and arranged a song last week in less than an hour. Sounded terrible, as I just plugged the guitar straight in without tuning it, but I got the arrangement down before I forgot it. Other tracks can take years to finish, especially stuff that has been scrapped and revisited many years later. I’ve enjoyed working on the Antifear stuff. It’s the first time I have attempted to write guitar-based heavy music for about 25 years. I’m enjoying the process and I have encountered a style that comes naturally while not under any pressure at all.
Can you recall the moment when you and Darren White thought you could be in a group together again? Was it hard to think of the ‘Antifear’ name that you both agree on?
We were on an overnight train in Romania in 1994 and we discussed doing a project together, more punk and raw. Something Hellhammerish but with a more political theme. We have been in touch a lot more since the Resonance Tour and sometime this year decided to record a 7″ in the vein of that conversation we had back in 1994. I started writing and the music came quickly. I suddenly had 3 tracks worth of music. Then more ideas came and I had all these songs written in my head and using pen and paper to write down the chord structures etc. So I bought and borrowed some equipment so that I could record demos at home and send them to Darren. The whole idea has grown wings now and we are working on a full-length album. As for the name, it took us a while to come up with a name that stuck with both of us. But with the whole thing, we have agreed to do it without pressure, to work freely and let ideas come and go. Darren came up with the name Antifear and we agreed it was strong but continued to look for ideas. After a while, we decided to stick with it, and here we are.
“The ANTIFEAR stuff is more riff-based. Like gothic punk, influences from Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Discharge, Christian Death, Fugazi, The Cure.”
Generally, how do you both go about writing your music? Do you write together or separately?
I’ve been writing music at home and sending it to Darren. Then he will have a good listen and come back to me with his ideas about structure. It’s very healthy for me to have a second opinion from someone who isn’t interested in making the songs sound more commercial or accessible. That has been a problem for me in the past. I have worked with people who completely misunderstood what I was trying to do. So it was double the work, trying to drag an idea back into a creative space after someone had attempted to commercialize it. It’s as if they think I’m trying to write ‘hits’ but I’m doing it wrong. (laughs) But Darren is creative in his own right and has been a big help with the arrangements. He will handle the lyrics, or at least most of them. If anything comes to me naturally then I will try it and we will see if it works.
Are there any styles you’d like to experiment with within your future music?
If I’m experimenting then there’s not a name that I can put on it. I can speak about the music that I am working on now though. My new solo album has influences from church hymns, Scott Walker, Dead Can Dance, old Antimatter revisited. The Antifear stuff is more riff-based. Like gothic punk, influences from Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Discharge, Christian Death, Fugazi, The Cure.
Music has known a solid change once with the evolution and development of technology. How do you see this change given the fact that there where technology appears, the emotion may lose its course?
It depends on who is using it. I have a lot of electronic music which is full of emotion. It all depends on the creator or the producer (if he has a lot of control). And some people are good at mimicking emotions in music. You wouldn’t know unless you knew the people who were making it.
When you perform live, how do you want your audience to feel as they leave the show?
I hope that they feel how I feel when I have just enjoyed watching a band.
What is the most challenging thing about making music for you?
Getting it to the right people. Making music is a challenge when you are making it with people on a different wavelength to you. But, for me now, it’s a challenge to get it to the right ears.
What does it mean to play and live in the millennial generation of artists? What do you borrow from those who came before you, and what do you do to push the genre forward?
I’m not bound to any specific genre and I’m not part of any scene, so I don’t know really. I just do what I do and keep going. I don’t listen to much modern music at all. All of my influences are decades old.
It is remarkable, in a way, that we have arrived in the 21st century with the basic concept of music still intact. Do you have a vision of music, an idea of what music could be beyond its current form?
I have little interest in modern music. I’d love something to come along and blow me away, but it’s been a very long time since that happened. I don’t have any specific vision beyond what I am making myself. It’s nothing groundbreaking but I have my own style of writing, sense of melody, and dynamics. So I should after a quarter of a century. I still have things that I have yet to fulfill and I’m in a very creative mode right now. As for outside music, I’m waiting for someone to create something new for me to enjoy. I’ve missed that.
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==Atheist Views on...== ===...[[Religion]]=== Every human being, cat and extra-terrestrial is born an atheist. That is because an atheist is literally a person who does not believe in a god or gods. Every religious person will say otherwise of course; they will say that an atheist is somebody who actively believes that he doesn’t believe, and they define a lack of religion as religion in its own right. If you’re confused don’t worry; the people who think like this are clearly quite confused too. Here is a typical rant from an angry religous person who clearly hates atheists ( spelling errors <s>added</s> left in ): Religious people clearly think a lot about non-religious people. The reverse is not true. Most non-religious people are too busy living their lives to be worried about something they don’t believe in. ( Fairies, unicorns, Zeus, Thor, Hercules, Tony Blair, etc ). They simply develop page after page of online content, write books like, well, all the books they write and actively protest the new version of the Pledge of Allegiance ( since the original version didn't contain the word "God", just like the original Dollar bill didn't say anything about trusting God ), and so on and so forth. Sometimes they commit acts of terrorism like blowing up toy busses to show people they're right. ===...Afterlife=== The Atheist believes that the all-powerful ''Athe'' did indeed create the realms of [[Heaven]] and [[Hell]], but did such a good job that to sully them with the presence of human souls would be an affront to their beauty. As such, when one dies, the Atheists believe that your soul is weighed and measured by one's actions in life, and is sent to Las Vegas or South Bend depending on how much of a [[dick]] one has been. ===...Abortion=== Atheists believe that the spirit of Athe flows only through their nervous systems. For this reason they say that two week old undeveloped human embryos haven’t yet been blessed by Athe. If a woman has been raped or will die as a result of the birth of a child Atheists believe that it is the will of Athe that the woman must die and so she not be allowed to have an abortion. They only believe abortions are appropriate for people who can’t be bothered buying condoms. Atheists know that anyone who hasn’t used contraception must be a Christian and they allow the person to have an abortion as revenge, hence pissing off the Christians in two ways at once. ===...Dan Brown=== Atheism is painted in a very crude and unpleasant way in the author Dan Brown's novels, in particular the portrayal of the Illuminati, a militant atheist organisation which attempts to destroy the [[Vatican]] with a plot device. Some of the better known celebrity Illuminati members have spoken out against this portrayal of their society as closed and secretive, stating: ''"the Illuminati have always been an open and inclusive society dedicated to the destruction of organised religion around the world ( fair enough, we're not doing a very good job Allah Ackbar! )—visit our website for information on how to join!"'' ===...Creation=== Thinking Athe would never bother to get her hands dirty by creating the world, most Atheists think it more rational to believe the universe emerged out of nothingness by itself, as opposed to the religious view that the supernatural deity emerged out of nothingness by itself. Atheists are lazy and the improbability of an infinitely complex supernatural deity magically popping up out of nowhere gives them too much to think about; it raises too many questions. Questions like: How can something complex enough to create the vast and unending expanse of the universe come straight out of nothingness? If we have established that a supernatural deity capable of creating the universe can pop out of nowhere is it so unreasonable to accept that the universe itself popped out of nowhere and cut out the middle man ( or middle woman in this case )? How the hell can you “make” life? Don’t animals start as single cells and then develop as embryos? How the hell can you “make” a full grown human ( and every other plant and animal ) in their fully grown form simply by blowing into mud? Atheists don’t like to answer too many questions, so it’s just easier to assume that Athe herself did not create the universe. In regards to evolution, Atheists believe that humans did not evolve directly from chimps. Humans and chimps merely had a common ancestor, [[Homer Simpson]]. Since Atheists are lazy when it comes to answering complicated questions they don’t go for answers like “every single animal in the world was created in exactly the form they are in today and they have not changed since that day, nor ever will they”. Just as with the sudden appearance of the supernatural deity, the sudden appearance of life in all its complexity without themselves even growing from embryos as they do today is too much for the small imagination of an atheist. The other problem with this assertion is that life does appear to be changing all the time. So what atheists say, to save time, is that a self-replicating molecule similar to DNA appeared around [[Number|3.5 billion]] years ago and since then that molecule has been doing its best to keep itself safe inside bacteria, plants and animals. These molecules were probably built by Darwin and then sent back in time with the help of his patented "Evolvinator". Once atheists have said that they can go back to watching [[TV]] and tell the religious people who keep asking them these questions to stop asking them questions about things they don’t care about. ===...Homosexuals=== All atheists are hetrophobic ( they hate straight people ). According to the atheist Bible: :''If a man also lieth with womankind, as he lieth with a man, both of them hath committeth an abomination: they shalt surely be put to death; their blood shalt be uponst them.'' This means that all atheists would like to kill all straight people. They even have websites dedicated to it. The website claims to "show why Athe wrote Leviticus 20:13". At the present time, <s>Catholic</s> Atheist adoption agencies in the UK are blackmailing UK ministers to not introduce new legislation which will give equal rights to <s>gay</s> straight people. They are threatening to close down if the legislation comes to pass. <s>Catholic</s> Atheist organizations have a habit of being <s>homophobic</s> hetrophobic and of bullying and blackmailing politicians. A <s>Catholic</s> Atheist minister for the Forced Labour Party is upset because she “doesn’t want to have to decide between her <s>faith</s> lack of faith and her ambition” (I think we all know which one she’ll chose when her next paycheck arrives!). This same minister’s <s>faith</s> lack of faith didn’t stop her for voting in favour of building more casinos in the UK, or supporting the Very Reverent St. Tony Blair the Great in every scandal he’s been involved in during his [[Time|last ten years]] in power.
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Vulnerable Breeds Project - KC Press Release
177.03 (Dated 17/11/03) In June of this year the Kennel Club announced that research would be undertaken to identify and confirm those breeds of dog which are basically of British or Irish origin and may be considered to be vulnerable i.e. those whose numbers are declining and whose status within the world of dogs has diminished over a number of...
Back in 2002, Mrs Ann Harpwood (Finloren) wrote an article for the DDTC Magazine discussing the lack of puppies in the Breed and suggesting some ideas for a Breed Recovery Program. I've reproduced it here in full to in order to provide input into the current debate about Vulnerable Native Breeds.......
Vulnerable Native Breeds Launch - Crufts 2005
On the 10th - 13th March 2005 the Kennel Club will be staging the "Greatest Dog Show in the World" - Crufts, at the NEC Birmingham. At the Birmingham Press Launch of Crufts at the NEC at 10.30am on Tuesday 8 March 2005, the Kennel Club will be featuring vulnerable breeds, which in turn will be promoting themselves, proving what a joy they are...
The Dandie has been struggling to maintain its puppy registrations and is now classified by the Kennel Club as a Vulnerable Native Breed. Paul Keevil takes a closer look at the figures and advises that the situation has reached crisis point. The final issue of The Kennel Club's Breed Record Supplement for 2004 arrived recently covering the...
Despite the best efforts of the Kennel Club, Individual Breed Clubs and the British and Irish Breeds Preservation Trust, it seems that the message is being preached only to the converted. With more and more people choosing exotic dogs over home-grown varieties, our native companions are facing extinction.Justine Hankins reports
Vulnerable British Breeds- Original KC Press Release
VULNERABLE BRITISH BREEDS 087.03 (Dated 25/6/03) The Kennel Club's prime responsibility is to promote in every way the general improvement of dogs. It is also particularly concerned, of course, to protect those breeds of dog which are of British origin and are considered to be vulnerable i.e. those whose numbers are declining and whose status...
Vulnerable Native Breeds Parade - the Video
On 9th March 2008, in the main arena at Crufts, the British and Irish Dog Breeds Preservation Trust held a parade of Vulnerable Native Breeds. The event showed the twenty most threatened breeds, with their handlers dressed as characters associated with the breed. Unfortunately, the parade coincided with the judging of the Dandies, so very few of...
Vulnerable Breeds Parade at Crufts 2008
Paul Keevil organised a Vulnerable Breeds Parade at Crufts last year. It was held in the main arena, and shown on the big screens, but never televised. However, BBC events kindly recorded it for us, so I have uploaded it all onto YouTube. It is uploaded in sections - one section for each breed, so I have made up a playlist which (hopefully)...
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Japan, South Korea Warn Against North Korea Missile Launch
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(1) Japan and South Korea joined the United States Wednesday in urging North Korea to cancel plans to send a long-range rocket into space.
(2) Japan and South Korea say the launch would violate United Nations resolutions. Those measures bar North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Such a missile can travel over a great distance, fall to the ground and then explode.
(3) North Korea told UN agencies on Tuesday that it planned to launch what it called an “Earth observation satellite” between February 8th and the 25th.
(4) The Japan Times newspaper reported that the launch may take place around February 16th. That is the birth anniversary of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. He was the father of current leader Kim Jong Un.
(5) North Korea says it has a right to launch rockets as part of its space program. But Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other American allies have criticized the program. They say it is a way for North Korea to avoid UN restrictions on weapons development.
(6) Abe called the North’s missile tests “an obvious violation of Security Council decisions.” He told Japanese lawmakers that the launch would be “a grave, provocative act against the security of our country.”
(7) On Wednesday, Japan’s Defense Ministry ordered its ballistic-missile defense units to be ready to shoot down any North Korean rocket that threatened the country. The Japan Times reported that observers expect the missile to fly over two small Japanese islands.
(8) Experts say it is not likely that American or South Korean forces would attack the missile before it is launched.
(9) Daniel Pinkston teaches international relations at Troy University in Seoul. He says no country is considering using “force to destroy the missile on the ground before the launch, or something like that, because the cascading effects and the consequences of that would be costly for everyone.”
(10) South Korea warned the North not to launch another missile.
(11) Cho Tae-yong is a security official in the office of the South Korean president.
(12) He said, “We strongly warn that the North will pay a severe price if it goes ahead with the long-range missile launch plan, which is a grave threat to peace not only in the Korean peninsula but also this region and around the world.”
(13) On Wednesday, China said it was concerned about reports that North Korea was planning a missile launch this month. A Chinese foreign ministry official said China has called on the North to exercise restraint.
(14) The United States and its allies have been pressuring China to support strong U.N. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test last month. Experts say China must pressure the North to stop its nuclear tests. They say the North does not change its behavior because of criticism or pressure from other countries.
(15) North Korea last launched a long-range rocket in December 2012. It then soon tested its nuclear weapons for a third time. It tested its nuclear weapons for a fourth time early last month.
(16) The United States and China agree that the UN should approve a strong resolution against North Korea. But they do not agree on how the North should be punished. They also remain divided over the level of severity the punitive measures should take.
(17) The U.S. is considering sanctions against the North. These measures would target companies and banks that operate in North Korea. Many of them are based in China. If these sanctions are put in place, they would likely increase tensions between the United States and China.
(12) China protects North Korea and is the North’s top trading partner. It agrees that the North Korean leadership should be punished. But it also wants any sanctions to lead to a restarting of international negotiations.
(18) In early 2009, North Korea left negotiations with the U.S., South Korea, Japan, China and Russia. Those talks were aimed at ending the North’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic aid and security guarantees.
(19) China’s top nuclear diplomat arrived in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Tuesday to talk about restarting the talks.
(20) Ahn Chan-il lived in North Korea until he defected. He is now an expert on the North at the World Institute for North Korean Studies in Seoul. He said there is little the U.S., Japan and South Korea can do “other than releasing statements” criticizing the North for its plan to launch a missile this month.
(21) Experts believe the planned rocket launch is part of North Korea’s program to develop nuclear missiles. They believe the North has more than 1,000 missiles that can reach targets in South Korea and Japan, and enough plutonium to make eight to 12 nuclear bombs.
(22) Last year, American military officials said they believe North Korea can make a nuclear weapon small enough to be placed on a long-range missile. North Korea has not yet shown that it can do so, however.
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It’s The Climb: Injured Students Navigating Campus
By Sophie Cohen and Sammi Handler on November 30, 2016
Graphic by Kitty Luo and Alena Rubin
Garnett March ’19 slowly places one crutch after the other as he ascends up the 36 stairs to his Spanish class in Seaver Center, the one area he cannot access via electric scooter. In a few days, though, he will be off his crutches for the first time while at the Upper School.
After March chipped a bone in his knee, he could not exert pressure on it for three months, and worried about how he would navigate the stairs of the upper school campus. Even after learning his route from class to class with Assistant to the Head of Upper School Michelle Bracken, he sought to find a more handicap-accessible way. He thought that a scooter would do the job, as he recalled that his friend Kylie Wallace ’19 had used one at the Middle School.
“Before sophomore orientation, I came here, and I met Ms. Bracken and she took me around my schedule, and showed me how to get around on my crutches,” March said. “I found out it was just too difficult to do that solely on my crutches, so I think that was what made me get the scooter.”
When students have injuries that leave them temporarily handicapped, they struggle to find ways to handle the campuses’ staircases and hills. March, Wallace and Kerry Neil ’19 share a few scooters to ride from the parking lot to the Seaver Center and the quad, but still stumble as they balance heavy backpacks on their shoulders and walk with crutches. But, making the school more handicap accessible may be impossible, administrators said.
“It would be a monumental task to create ramps where stairs are right now,” President Rick Commons said. “One has to use the driveway, and that, I’m sure, is difficult for someone on crutches.
Upper School Dean Sharon Cuseo said the deans make sure to introduce injured students to the elevator in the library and the one in Chalmers Hall, which only goes to the first and second floors of the building. However, deans are sometimes forced to change a student’s schedule to avoid a class on the third floor of Seaver since it “isn’t really accessible,” she said.
“It is a common topic of discussion to make the school more accessible,” Cuseo said. “We are in a situation where we hopefully will be making changes to the buildings in the future that obviously will change everything, but we are dealing with some very old architecture and we are obviously up to code, but I do think that would be a huge priority in the future.”
Private schools are subject to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, a civil rights act that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including schools.
However, Professor of Law Laurie Levenson (Solly Mirell ’06, Havi Mirell ’08, Dani Mirell’17) said that the school is probably allowed an exception for buildings and walkways built before the act was passed in 1990.
Students who have had to use crutches at the Upper School said it would be beneficial for many students to make some adjustments to the campus.
“I was definitely not the only one who was on crutches,” said Gillian Gurney ’17, who tore her ACL and partially tore her meniscus during her sophomore year.
“I came back from winter break and there were seven kids who also had the same surgery that I did. Plus, I had friends who’ve been in wheelchairs who can’t even [climb] stairs at all. So I think it’s very important that there’s time devoted to helping kids because there’s a significant portion of kids who will be on crutches at one point during their Harvard-Westlake career.”
To get to her art class from her English class in Rugby Hall, Neil has to use her crutches to get to the elevator in the science building, and then scooter across the back road to Feldman Horn.
March said using his crutches takes a lot more time than the scooter, yet he does not have an alternative way to get to his Spanish class, causing him to be late.
March, Wallace, Neil and Gurney said that teachers have been lenient and understanding, allowing them to arrive a few minutes late without any penalty.
“I emailed all my teachers during winter break saying that I would be late,” Gurney said. “They were very understanding, it’s just that I felt pressure that I needed to get there even though they were very understanding.”
Students said they would like for the school to better accommodate handicapped students, an idea the Commons agrees with.
“If there are good suggestions that people have, I’d be open to them,” Commons said. “We need to do everything we can to make it easier for people who are disabled temporarily or permanently.”
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Irish Green Marble
Precious Stone of the Emerald Isle
There are only about 5 million people in the whole of Ireland – 3.5 million in the Republic and the rest in the North – which is why Kevin Joyce was looking beyond the home market when he decided to start working the family quarry in the famous marble – producing area on the west coast of Ireland, Connemara.
The beautiful green of Connemara marble has a distinguished international history. It is the stone in great monolithic columns at the entrance to the University Club in New York, USA, in Laplaya Palace, where President Reagan entertained the Pope, and in Leinster house, Dublin, where the Irish parliament sits. It can even be seen in the Vatican, having been presented as a gift by Guglielmo Marconi, who set up the first radio link with America in 1901 from Connemara.
In the UK the marble has been used in cathedrals, including the Irish Chapel of Westminster Cathedral, in the chapel of St.John’s College, Cambridge, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. There is also a fine example of a huge sculptured bowl on the way to the geological collection at the Natural History Museum in London.
Traditionally, Connemara marble was produced from the quarries of Streamstown, Ballynahinch and Lissoughter. Now dimensional slab and tile are available as a result of Kevin Joyce adding some new machinery to his Ballynahinch quarry located near the tile plant at Recess.
His intention is to market the marble as a range – or, in the parlance of fashion world preferred by Joyce, ‘collection’ – under the brand of Connemarble.
The reason there will be a collection is to make the most of the different shades of green that can be produced from the blocks – there are eight altogether with names like Variegated Olive, Moss, Light and Dark Lichen. And top of the range will be a marble sparkling with iron pyrite (fool’s gold) which occurs naturally in parts of the quarry.
Blocks of marble of up to 40 tonnes are being wire-sawn from the quarry.
When they have been cut down to more manageable sizes they either go to Connemarble’s own tile line in the factory at Recess or are shipped out to Italy to be sawn into slab, Connemarble believing that, for the moment at least, the Italians can saw the slab more economically than it can be done in Ireland.
The level of investment in the operation so far has been considerable. In the quarry, a Dazzini wire saw has been bought to cut out the blocks and a 40 tonne O&K excavator installed to handle them.
In the factory, a primary saw has been substantially modified with the addition of a new motor and completely new software. Ireland, they say is second only to the USA in the production of computer software, so there was plenty of expertise to buy in to modify the operation of their saw. A tile line with a Cemar polisher and a Breton beveller has also been installed.
The buying in of expertise is something Kevin Joyce has not shied away from. He has recruited Kevin Kidney, whose background is not in stone but in managing the successful development of new companies and the turnaround of sluggish performers. And in the quarry, in charge of the extraction of the stone is Charlie Bourke, the Lord Naas, son of Lord Mayo and a direct descendant of Grainne Uialle, a chieftan in the area in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and an adversary of the Queen’s.
In the context of the quarry, Bourke has spent most of his life working with stone and was instrumental in the development of thin stone panels, created by facing an aluminium honeycomb with a veneer of stone as thin as 5mm.
He took the technology to America, where the panels are still produced for distribution worldwide. They are used where weight is more important than price – such as in lifts, in boats and even in aeroplanes – because they do carry a price premium.
It was a product Kevin Joyce describes as “too soon for its time”, but it is no coincidence that Connemarble are selling lightweight panels with 7mm Connemarble veneers. Nor that they are working on the development of 7mm floor tiles, resin impregnated and glass fibre backed to give them the strength of a tile 20mm thick. Because of the extra square metres produced from a block, Joyce believes such tiles could sell for 10% less than 20mm tiles.
The tile line at Recess is currently producing about 100m2 of 12mm tiles a week, although Connemarble intend to reduce the thickness to a more standard 10mm shortly. A smaller amount of slab is being produced at the moment, but they expect slab to be the bigger part of their sales in due course. Kevin Joyce says Charlie Bourke has consistently failed to reach targets he was set for the amount of stone to be removed from the quarry. But Joyce is delighted about that. What Bourke has managed to do is produce twice as much workable block with half the amount of waste that had been forecast. That, in turn, has produced savings on wire saws.
In whatever size or shape the marble is available, Kevin Joyce believes the key to success is marketing. And he has strong opinions about that – he once rejected a shop design he had paid for from Terence Conran because he felt it was wrong for the product and the place.
He believes strongly in the branding of a product, which is why he is selling his marble as Irish Connemable rather than a generic Connemara marble. And he is making a lot of the fact that the stone does come from Ireland, especially with it being green and from the Emerald Isle. The point of emphasising its Irishness is that one of Ireland’s biggest exports over the years has been its people and their subsequent offspring. “There are 43 million people in the USA who call themselves Irish”, Joyce points out, adding that there are also a good many in the UK.
The Americans, particularly, like demonstrating their origins, but there are few quality products that are identifiably Irish with which they are able to do so. Connemarble gives them one. But it is a bright, lively product which, as a whole floor, could be considered a little overwhelming. However, used as a highlight with a more neutral field of light cream or pink, it creates an unusual floor without an exorbitantly high cost. This is how it is presented in Connemarbles newly opened showroom.
- Eric Bignell
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IS THERE A WAR CRIME IN WHAT LORD HEH-HEH, TJIBBE JOUSTRA OF THE DUTCH SAFETY BOARD, IS BROADCASTING?
Posted By Editor On October 19, 2015 @ 3:53 am In MH17,US-Russia | No Comments
Tjibbe Joustra (lead image, right), chairman of the Dutch Safety Board, wants it to be very clear that Russia is criminally responsible for the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014; that a Russian-supplied ground-to-air missile, fired on Russian orders from territory under Russian control, exploded lethally to break up the MH17 aircraft in the air, killing everyone on board; and that Russian objections to these conclusions are no more than cover-up and dissimulation for the guilty.
Joustra also wants to make sure that no direct evidence for what he says can be tested, not in the report which his agency issued last week; nor in the three Dutch government organs which prepared and analysed the evidence of the victims’ bodies, the aircraft remains, and the missile parts on contract to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) – the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR), the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research ( TNO), and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). So Joustra began broadcasting his version of what he says happened before the release of the DSB report. He then continued in an anteroom of the Gilze-Rijen airbase, where the DSB report was presented to the press; in a Dutch television studio; and on the pages of the Dutch newspapers.
But when he and his spokesman were asked today for the evidence for what Joustra has been broadcasting, they insisted that if the evidence isn’t to be found in the DSB report, Joustra’s evidence cannot be released. So, if the evidence for Joustra’s claims cannot be found in the NLR, TMO and NFI reports either, what exactly is Joustra doing – is he telling the truth? Is he broadcasting propaganda? Is he lying? Is he covering up for a crime?
In the absence of the evidence required to substantiate what the DSB chairman is broadcasting, is the likelihood that Joustra is concealing who perpetrated the crime equal to the probability that he is telling the truth? And if there is such a chance that Joustra is concealing or covering up, is this evidence that Joustra may be committing a crime himself? In English law, that may be the crime of perverting the course of justice. In US law, it might be the crime of obstruction of justice. In German law, it might be the crime of Vortäuschung einer Straftat. By the standard of World War II, Joustra’s crime might be propagandizing for the losing side, that’s to say the enemy of the winning side.
When William Joyce (lead image, left, centre), an Anglo-American broadcaster on German radio during the war and known as Lord Haw-Haw, was prosecuted in London in 1945, he was convicted of treason and hanged. The treason indictment said he “did aid and assist the enemies of the King by broadcasting to the King’s subjects propaganda on behalf of the King’s enemies.” The legality of this indictment and the conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords.
By the customary civilized standard, Joustra must be considered innocent of any crime of broadcasting unless he’s proven guilty. And the proof of such a crime would require evidence admissible in court, acceptable to a judge or jury beyond reasonable doubt. Of course, such a standard of Joustra’s innocence will be the standard by which his public statements must also be judged. But if Joustra lacks the evidence for what he is claiming in his broadcasts then perhaps the evidence is also lacking for his innocence of crime.
Joustra, 64, has served most of his career as a Dutch government apparatchik, first at the Ministry of Agriculture; then at the agency for unemployment benefits; then coordinator of anti-terrorism operations; and since February 2011 at the DSB. Last Tuesday, after presenting the DSB report to the press, but not allowing questions, Joustra spoke [1] briefly to Dutch reporters. He told them what had not been reported in several hundred pages of the DSB’s report and appendixes – that he has pinpointed the launch area for the Buk missile, and that it “was controlled by separatists at the time. The area that we designate as launch location is located within this area.” “So they [separatists] are responsible?” the reporter asked. “We can’t answer this question. It’s not for the DSB to do this.” The reporter asked: “One plus one equals two, doesn’t it?” “Yes, that’s true,” Joustra said. “Sometimes another person needs to make this calculation.”
A little later Joustra gave an interview to the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant, which published [2] the text of his remarks on October 16. Joustra told the newspaper the evidence of the Buk missile was “irrefutable”. He was “certain”, he added, that the firing position was from what the newspaper described as “pro-Russian rebel held territory.” Joustra told the reporters to look closely at the DSB document for the evidence. “I thought it was clear.” He claimed his saying-so was “factual, not a slip”.
Joustra went further, dismissing criticism of the DSB’s evidence and conclusions. “Every time the Russians come up with different stories and different speakers,” Joustra told Volkskrant. “I’ve got the impression that they are trying to take the report back and it does not matter what argument.” Russia is trying to protect the guilty, he added. “How did that Buk battery get there – where did it come from exactly? Who ordered it to do so? I expect that it is possible to make that clear.” To Joustra it was already clear. Russia is protecting the guilty. “Several countries are not eager to deliver [suspected] people at all,” he told Volkskrant, which added that he meant Russia, and believed that Russian suspects have already been identified in the Dutch investigation.
Joustra said today through spokesman, Sara Vernooij, that he had been accurately quoted in Volkskrant. When he spoke of meetings with Russians, Vernooij says Joustra was referring to meetings held this year on February 17-20; May 6-7; and August 11-12. He refuses to identify the Russians by name “due to privacy reasons.”
For evidence of his “certainty” and for the “ irrefutability” of the evidence of missile and warhead, Joustra replied that he is relying on “appendix X the NLR report, appendix Y TNO report, appendix Z TNO report. Data that are not mentioned in the reports or appedicces [sic] will not be released.”
These reports, Joustra and Vernooij were then asked, “do not refer to direct evidence. They refer to computer simulations based on parameters of missile and warhead which originated from the Dutch Ministry of Defence; are classified; and are not disclosed in the TNO documents. The direct evidence available is that the missile model and the warhead type cannot be fired together. A computer simulation is not evidence that they were. Is there any other evidence on which Mr Joustra relies for his certainty and irrefutability?”
“I have nothing to add to the final report”, Joustra and Vernooij have replied.
For more details on what the DSB, the NLR and TMO reports call evidence, and the conclusions they draw, read this [3] and this [4]. For the DSB’s summary of the Russian evidence and Russian objections to what the Dutch call evidence, see Appendix V [5].
Additional physical evidence of Joustra’s claims about the missile and warhead are residues of the explosive from the warhead, and paint from the missile traces or parts which have been found, according to the DSB, in the aircraft wreckage and on the ground. The DSB says it relied for analysis of this evidence on the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). The NFI [6] is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. It has publicly acknowledged participating in the MH17 case by analyzing DNA samples from victims during the identification phase of the examination of bodies in August of 2014. Here is the NFI’s release of August 28, 2014 [7].
Not since then has the NFI admitted to doing anything more on the MH17 case. But it did do chemical analysis of explosive residues and paint samples, NFI spokesman Suzan Demirhan said today. “That’s correct, we did.” Asked to say when the analysis was commenced, and when the NFI report was delivered to DSB, Demirhan said: “We are not allowed to discuss this. The Public Prosecutor [Service] ordered [the study]. I cannot confirm [the details]. We are not allowed to bring anything to the public. You have to ask your question to the Ministry of Justice and Security.”
According to the DSB [8] (page 35), analyses of explosive and paint residues “were performed by the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) at the request of the Public Prosecution Service and shared with the Dutch Safety Board”. The Ukrainian Government in Kiev had refused to cooperate in this part of the investigation, the DSB has also reported (same page). “The Dutch Safety Board attempted to obtain reference material of the suspected weapon in order to further substantiate the origin of the fragments. The objective was to establish that the chemical composition of the fragments was consistent with that of the suspected weapon. This was not achieved, so this verification could not take place.”
Jean Fransman, spokesman for the Justice Ministry, was asked to address these DSB disclosures about the source of the evidence in the NFI report, and say where, if not the Ukraine or Russia, the evidence came from. He replied he cannot answer. “This is all part of the independent investigation of the DSB. We as a ministry have no say or involvement in this investigation. The NFI has done its work for the DSB investigation and for them only.” When it was pointed out that the NFI claims it was up to Fransman to respond as the ministry had “coordinated” the evidence-gathering, analysis and reporting, Fransman insisted he can say nothing at all. “And thank you for your friendly and non-insinuating questions.”
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[1] spoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMVu_X8U28
[2] published: http://www.volkskrant.nl/rampvlucht-mh17-storystream/joustra-kritiek-moskou-op-mh17-rapport-is-uit-angst~a4164202/
[3] this: http://johnhelmer.net/?p=14322
[5] Appendix V: http://johnhelmer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Appendix-v-consultation-part-a.pdf
[6] NFI: https://www.forensicinstitute.nl/about_nfi/
[7] August 28, 2014: https://www.forensicinstitute.nl/about_nfi/news/2014/current-situation-regarding-the-dna-analysis-mh17.aspx
[8] DSB: http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-abouttheinvestigation-en.pdf
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