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Perspective
Control this cute and nice robot and try to find the right way to the escape. It is not so easy as it seems to be at first! Use the arrow keys to move and shift to rotate the world. Is it not so cool? Duh! Just have faith in yourself and you will do this.
There are so many levels and different brain twisters, where you can improve all your skills and thinking abilities. This game takes that idea and turns it into a fun move about many challenging, mind boggling levels, across a lot of worlds and do it successfully by changing your perspective of the world around you. That's right kids, you can change the way you view the world in this game by simply clicking the shift button on your keyboard! Are you already fascinated? Then do not waste your time and solve each puzzle as better as you can! Have faith in yourself! | {
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Here’s Everything You Can Eat at Rochesterfest
The Rochesterfest food vendors will be open daily at 11:00 a.m. from Monday June 19 thru Saturday June 24. I'm excited for the cheese curds and I really want to try Alligator on a Stick, an Ice Cream Panini and a Hot Beef Sundae. Here's a complete list of all the food vendors at this year's Rochesterfest and what they'll be serving: | {
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Computer learns sign language by watching TV
This is very interesting and the possibilities could be great! ASL is not provided for many auto-translation services. For example, Google Translate can work through 30+ text-based languages. Rosetta Stone, the popular language learning software, does not offer ASL. | {
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Coffee drinking, fashion fiends
Main Menu
Victoria’s Secret Makeup Brushes
I am a believer! I’m always a bit skeptical when it comes to buying cosmetic brushes at clothing stores. In the past, I have used Victoria’s Secret’s lip gloss and mascara. I was quite impressed with the quality. Since, starting a new 9-5 job, I found myself having VERY little time to put on makeup. I was in search for the perfect travel sized brush set. I was in line for some purchases for my mom’s birthday presents and my eyes immediately caught sight of the cute little travel sized brush bag on the shelf which included a set of 5 brushes.
With my turn up next to pay the cashier, I rushed to buy the cute pink-striped brush set. I asked the cashier if she’s a fan of their brushes and of course she said they’re amazingly soft and highly recommends them. I didn’t even get to feel the brushes to see if they were soft to see for myself! After her raving on about them, I couldn’t wait to try them out.
I would now like to pronounce that my VS Brushes are one of my favorites from my current brush collection. The quality is comparable to Sephora Brushes or Sonia Kashuk, although, I own mostly eco-friendly drug-store bought brushes (which are pretty good too).
I definitely recommend Victoria Secret’s brushes because they are affordable and great quality! The application from them feels so amazing on your skin AND the zipper casing is SUPER ADORBS! It fits in my bag perfectly and it’s the perfect size for the on-the-go chick like me. It also has a mirror inside so you don’t have to worry about finding one in your bag, which I like to call the dark hole. Ever felt like you were digging for days looking for things in your gigantic bag? Yep, the troubles of being a woman during this day and age, but I’m not complaining one bit. (;
If you do decide to purchase Victoria Secret Brushes, you will NOT regret it. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so. Don’t forget to tell Victoria’s Secret that LipstickLaceAndLattes.com sent you their way. (; | {
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The Importance of Defining Your MBA Goal
Goals are not an afterthought in MBA admissions. They are front and center in the minds of many admissions directors. Put them front and center in your mind as you prepare to apply.
What is an MBA Goal?
A goal is something you want to do (not just study), and for MBA admissions purposes it should relate to a specific industry. For some applicants, geography is also an important element in their goal. Your goal should be based on your experience, not television, not what your parents/significant other or friends think you should do, and not simply what will make you a lot of money.
I am not saying that you can’t change careers. You clearly can, because roughly 50% of MBA students are career changers, and many estimates place that number much higher. But you need to have a realistic vision of your future based on skills and character traits you have developed and experience that you have had.
Defining Your MBA Goal
Clear, well-defined goals are as much a requirement of MBA admissions as are your GMAT, GPA, and work experience. Define your goal in terms of the function you want to perform and the industry in which you want to perform it.
To define your objectives for b-school, first look inward:
1. What do you enjoy and where do you excel?
2. Examine what you have done off the job and see if there are lessons in your non-professional life for your professional life.
3. Clarify and mine your interests and past experiences.
Then look outward:
1. Examine professional paths that will take advantage of your strengths and give you more of what you find satisfying.
2.Research the schools to find those that support your professional goals and provide an educational environment where you can thrive.
3. Establish specific goals you want to achieve within a given program and a career direction for your post MBA years.
What’s Your Goal?
A strong, clear MBA goal should guide your admissions research and your choice of target schools. And expressing your goals clearly in your essays will help show adcoms why you belong in their programs. Defining your goal is an important first step in the MBA admissions process, and we can help! Check out our MBA admissions consulting servicesand work one-on-one with an advisor who will help you define your career goals and apply successfully to your top-choice program. | {
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Welcome to the assortment of fluffy and shaggy big pussies.
You like your garden with vegetation and grass? You like when carpet matches the drapes? You wish to have good old times when woman grew beautiful hair on the pussies, then this tube is for you, because smooth pubic sugary swells no longer relevant in fashion of natural hairy big pussy. | {
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Links to this website and profiles in social networks
18 links pointing to Korg.com were found. Individual words like Korg, Tuners, Guitar and Logo are frequently used in text links from other websites. The most important links to the website are from Factory77.com and Soundtree.com. The homepage of Korg.com and the subsite /us/ are most referenced by other websites.
Most important links to this website
The table shows the most important links to Korg.com. The table is sorted in descending ordered by weight.
#
Domain ?
Link text ?
Linkscore ?
1.
factory77.com
KORG logo
2.
www.soundtree.com
korg
3.
www.platinumsoundsets.com
Korg
4.
www.centralmusicstore.com
korg
5.
www.voxshowroom.com
korg usa
6.
www.synthzone.com
korg sos
7.
roxys.com
korg
8.
geekofthenorth.com
Korg Headtune Guitar tuners
9.
www.avalonmusicinc.com
Korg
10.
www.tulsaband.com
Korg
Most frequently referenced pages by external sources
The table shows websites of Korg.com, which are often linked by other websites and therefore they are classified as important content.
#
URL of the website ?
Number of external references ?
1.
http://www.korg.com/ (Home)
9
2.
http://www.korg.com/us/
2
3.
http://www.korg.com/sos
1
4.
http://www.korg.com/headtune
1
Note: The analysis of the external links is based on the most recent data.
Technical information
The web server used by Korg.com is located in Tokyo, Japan and is run by Amazon.com. The server runs exclusively the website Korg.com.
The Korg.com websites were developed using the programming language PHP and served by a Apache server. The website uses the latest markup standard HTML 5. The website does not specify details about the inclusion of its content in search engines. For this reason the content will be included by search engines. The visitors are redirected to the homepage of the website "/us/". | {
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AT&T May Charge for Facetime Over Cellular Networks
AT&T appears ready to charge iPhone users for Facetime calls over cellular networks when iOS 6 launches in the fall.
Facetime currently works over Wi-Fi only, but Apple will extend the video chat service to cellular networks when iOS 6 debuts. Unfortunately, AT&T users may see an error message when trying to use Facetime over cellular, as 9to5Mac discovered while running the iOS 6 beta.
“To enable FaceTime over cellular on this account, contact AT&T at 611 or visit http://www.att.com/mywireless,” an error message said. A Verizon iPad using cellular didn't receive the same message, according to 9to5Mac.
AT&T won't confirm or deny whether it's planning to charge for Facetime over 3G or 4G networks, but a statement from the company seems ominous: “We’re working closely with Apple on the new developer build of iOS6 and we’ll share more information with our customers as it becomes available,” spokesman Mark Siegel wrote in an e-mail.
Aside from mobile hotspot use, I can't think of any other iPhone apps or services that AT&T forces behind a paywall. If AT&T is planning to charge for Facetime over cellular networks, it marks the return of a disturbing trend, where the carrier decides that some services are either too data-hungry or too disruptive to allow on its airwaves for free.
Around that time, the Federal Communications Commission was looking into Net neutrality rules, so wireless carriers may have hoped to fend off regulation by looking progressive. The Net neutrality rules adopted in late 2010 prohibit Internet service providers from unreasonably discriminating against certain types of traffic, but many of the rules don't apply to wireless carriers.
An extra charge for Facetime would be upsetting, but it would also be strange, because other video chat services already work over cellular networks, including Google+ Hangouts and Skype. Savvy users could simply move to those services to avoid giving AT&T any more money, unless the carrier starts blocking Facetime alternatives as well. | {
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‘A guy can change anything. His face, his home, his family, his girlfriend, his religion, his God. But there’s one thing he can’t change, Benjamin. He can’t change…his passion.’
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The 82nd Academy Awards were a time of surprising sagacity for the members of that oft (justly) derided body.
Okay, yes, The Hurt Locker won Best Picture—undeservedly—and Sandra Bullock took home Best Actress for The Blind Side—also undeservedly; but at least they gave Christoph Waltz the Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds. That was a good move.
Actually, you know what: now that I think about it, I take my opening gambit back. That Waltz victory aside, 2009 was a pretty much bang-on average year for the amount of silly decisions and painful oversights on behalf of the Academy.
It was also a year, however, in which the members could have claimed a perfectly good excuse for voting in any number of ridiculous ways.
How so?
Simple: I’m sat here, over half a decade later, and just a cursory glance over the list of the entries up for the Best Foreign Language Oscar that year is enough to make me go faint and need a lie down. Because holy shit. You know what contenders were in that pool? To name just three: Michel Haneke’s devastating The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte); Jacques Audiard’s virtuoso A Prophet (Un prophète); and a joint Argentinian-Spanish production, directed by Juan José Campanella, called The Secret In Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos). Shit, had I been forced to choose between these sky-scraping achievements, I might’ve ended up giving the Best Original Screenplay to The Hurt Locker instead of Inglourious Basterds or A Serious Man.
I probably would’ve preferred to just blindly throw a dart at a board with the movies’ names on it, because there’s no real right answer to the question posed by that list.
Except that there kind of is, and the Academy—somehow!—gave it.
Because The Secret In Their Eyes is a pretty unbelievable film. I saw it in the cinema when it first came out and, being so bowled over by its emotional resonance and formal brilliance, I then went back two more times in just as many weeks. In the intervening years, I have probably seen it at least another five or six times, always appreciating it a little bit more. It’s one of those movies that sits perfectly astride the populist/’scholarly’ (for want of a better word) divide. It takes the viewer on a pulse-pounding thrill ride, stealthily giving a masterclass on film theory while it does so. It’s a rare occasion indeed that I use this as a comparison, but in this the movie is very much like Heat. Similar to Michael Mann’s superlative masterpiece, it also evolves with each viewing; the first time round there barely being any chance to devote attention to a sober critical analysis, so viscerally invested is the viewer in the proceedings. Only on repeat viewings does it really become possible to break things down and to think on them intellectually.
I could drone on for hours about the The Secret In Their Eyes in its entirety, but there is one particular scene that I want to highlight today. (Okay, it’s actually two adjacent scenes, but for the sake of argument, and because they are essentially indivisible, I will be referring to them as one.) It happens almost exactly halfway through the movie, and I don’t think it’s much of a stretch of the imagination to say that it constitutes maybe the finest example of pure cinema seen in a very long time.
The Secret In Their Eyes is, in essence, a love story, but it is one deeply soaked in regret and firmly entwined in politics. The wraparound is the present day, but the story is told mostly through flashbacks to the mid-1970’s—a time of great social and political turmoil in Argentina, during which right-wing forces from the military and security sectors carried out extensive and organised campaigns of terror, death, and ‘disappearance’ against the members and sympathisers of multiple left-wing or other dissident organisations. It is against this backdrop that a young federal investigator, Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) meets, and promptly falls in love with, his boss, Irene Menéndez Hastings (Soledad Villamil). In the present, a retired Espósito is struggling to start his first novel. It is to be based on a grisly rape and murder case of a young woman that he and Hastings—now a judge—worked on 25 years earlier. One that neither were very happy with the conclusion of.
As I said, there are multifarious strands and layers to the movie, but that is not what I want to talk about here. I want to zero in on just one scene. One scene that was for all intents and purposes akin to a religious experience for me. Watching it unfold the first time, I was not immediately aware that there was something special happening, but as the rhythm gathered pace and the tension mounted my gut began to sense that something was up. Then, at the halfway point, a moment of total ecstasy, of realisation, of disbelief, followed by a euphoric roller coaster through the pure joys of cinema.
Great art exists to be shared, to be talked of. So that’s what I want to do here.
—Note: some spoilers for the movie do abound from here on in. They are not major, but the author’s recommendation is that ideally the reader stop what they are doing to watch the movie before coming back.—
Before we dive in, there are two additional details to note for context:
1) Espósito has a colleague and friend, Sandoval (Guillermo Francella). Sandoval spends the lion’s share of his time onscreen playing the comic relief in the story, but a poignant sense of pathos soon comes to envelop the man as we begin to see that he is also a hopeless, somewhat-functioning alcoholic, who spends most of his free time in the same dive bar, hanging out with the same barflies, struggling to keep his failing marriage together. We see Espósito bail Sandoval out of trouble numerous times—stopping fights, giving him a couch to sleep on when his wife kicks him out—and he is slowly but surely losing patience with his friend.
2) By this point in the movie, Espósito and Hastings know who must have committed the murder. Sandoval and Espósito break into the suspect’s house and Sandoval, against Espósito’s wishes, steals a wad of his letters. Unfortunately they contain nothing useful. On top of that when the presiding judge learns of the duo’s illegal maneuverings he closes the case. A year later, after Espósito and Hastings see that the murdered woman’s poor widower has never given up the search for her killer, they make small, quiet efforts to help. It is at this point that we find ourselves at the scene in question. Espósito has come to confront Sandoval at his dive bar, where he sits, day-drinking by himself in the corner and continuing with the Sisyphean task of pouring over the suspect’s meaningless letters. Letters which he was not supposed to touch, and certainly not sneak away with…
Espósito marches in.
Sparks flare as an impatient Espósito deals tersely with his drunken friend. He has crossed a line. This is not helping anyone or anything. But there seems to be a strange, quiet confidence to Sandoval, gently humming somewhere underneath his alcoholic surface.
A golden hue lies over the proceedings and the quiet, cosy mise en scène transports us exactly to this place, so familiar to Sandoval. The place of his ruin, made to feel so inviting, almost as if there could be salvation hidden somewhere in one of its corners, or at least redemption. The drunkard’s delusion. We share Espósito’s frustration.
And yet.
As the camera switches back and forth, over-the-shoulder shot to over-the-shoulder-shot, our perspective and loyalty switches with it. Sandoval grasps the letters and expounds his disbelief at their inability to find their man. Espósito beseeches him to drop it, but the intense look in Sandoval’s eyes, and the strange lucidity in his words, forces him to listen. ‘My mind exploded,’ he says, ‘I couldn’t stop.’ Espósito nods slightly as Sandoval carries on, his curiosity—and ours—piqued, yet tempered by Sandoval’s obvious inebriation. We can’t be sure if we’re watching a classic, revelatory penny drop moment, or a sad man’s drunken ramblings.
Sandoval starts to talk about the nature of man. How he can change his skin, do anything to be different. ‘But there’s one thing he can’t change. Not him, not you, not anybody.’ He tells his friend there’s a reason he always finds himself back at this bar, drinking his days away: It is his passion.
Sandoval stands and crosses the bar to one of his ‘associates’.
Espósito follows and quick introductions are made. Sandoval has a spring in his step as he communicates with his bar friends, and an effervescent confidence envelops him as he engages one of them, bringing out the wad of letters. Reading out a series of seemingly meaningless passages, he prompts the man on the stool each time he stops. The man answers by zeroing in on each strange reference, identifying names and dates therein. Slowly we realise, those are soccer players being referenced. Matches. The local team.
The camera jumps back and forth. A passage is read, the man answers, Sandoval’s eyes shine. As this continues we are periodically shown Espósito and the other patrons. They all feel that something is happening, though only Espósito begins to feel the true significance of it all. As it cuts back to him each time, the camera slowly tightens on Benjamin Espósito’s face.
In a furious back and forth Sandoval and the man on the stool finish with the passages and the decoding of soccer references. Sandoval asks him what the local soccer team is to him. ‘A passion,’ he replies. Even after nine years without a championship? ‘A passion is a passion!’ Sandoval’s symphony has reached its crescendo and he addresses his friend as he slowly walks over to him, his face alight with the fire of revelation: ‘You see, Benjamin? A guy can change anything. His face, his home, his family, his girlfriend, his religion, his God. But there’s one thing he can’t change, Benjamin. He can’t change…his passion.’
The pacing of Sandoval’s walk, the smile on his face, and the delivery of that line—we are rapt. It’s as if the world has momentarily stopped spinning.
And then, just as the word ‘passion’ escapes Sandoval’s lips, a cut to end all cuts and the world’s spinning resumes twice as fast. From the tense silence of the bar where a pin dropping would rattle us we are flung into the air, high above a soccer stadium, into an apocalyptic clash of senses.
The wind roars in our ears as an operatic soundtrack battles the banshee’s scream of the crowd and the bellow of the announcer for our attention.
The camera flies on towards the stadium. Closer, lower, until we can see the players themselves. It zooms over their heads as they clash upon the bright green pitch. In a bravura display of camerawork and CGI that beggars belief we fly over the goal, over the lower stands, over the cheering, singing jumping crowds.
As we slow we spot a familiar face: Espósito. The camera gradually turns, settles, and touches down next to him, amidst the heaving masses. We are there with him, fully immersed.
Espósito wears a mask of grim determination. Sandoval’s revelation has led them on a hunt. He is here too. Our pulse pounds with the beat of the game.
Shuffling towards each other through the throng, the vertiginous view disorientating both them and us, we hear: they have been at this for a long time. They have attended game after game after game, combing the endless crowds for their quarry, all to no avail. On the verge of giving up, just then they spot a man a few rows down, to the left. Convinced, they sidle down towards him and grab him by the shoulder, furious vindication in their voices as they pronounce his name. But the man turns and it is not who they seek. Disconsolate and deflated they start to leave.
As they begin to fade into the crowd, however, the camera does a curious move: it does not follow the two. Instead it slowly pans up to the right. Our attention shifts glacially from the departing duo to the man who’s face now takes up a third of the frame, albeit still slightly out of focus. We have seen this face before. Only briefly, but we know. This is him. His face rapt with attention, he does not notice the divine lightning bolt that strikes Espósito just as we are losing sight of him. Something makes the hunter turn. His eyes scan and then lock onto the man close to us. His prey. Sandoval now sees him too. Espósito fights through the crowd to get back to him, an incomparable look on his face. We urge him on but to be stealthy, for the love of God tread softly! But the feet of a desperate man do not oft fall softly.
Espósito reaches the man. He grabs him and cries his name. This time the man responds.
Just then the crowd erupts in reaction to the game. The teeming masses are on their feet, and the roar is deafening. The camera cannot hold still, and in the madness Espósito’s grip is broken and the suspect makes a run for it. Up the stands and through the crowds he flies, Espósito and Sandoval struggling to keep eyes on him during their pursuit. Then he is back into the passageways behind the stands, the two men on his tail. Into the bare concrete bowels of the stadium he flees. Corridors and stairways pass and the camera never once leaves Sandoval in his and Espósito’s breathless pursuit. We see a team of policemen join in in a pre-planned effort, but they and Espósito are nonplussed. The man is fast. It is Sandoval who doggedly pursues, unwavering, until he corners the fleeing man in a toilet. The man surprises Sandoval and knocks him to the ground, and then our point of view is with the suspect. Still the camera has not cut. Desperate and determined the man sprints, each possible escape route slowly getting cut off, until he is forced to climb over a wall and suffer a drop that injures his ankle. His pursuers are not far behind, their shouts fill our ears. The man picks himself up and haphazardly dashes in the only direction available to him: onto the pitch. Suddenly we are earth-bound, the grass previously glimpsed from the sky now crunching underneath our feet. The crowd boos. The scale of the chase has exploded, bu the man does not give up. His face pours sweat but his feet still pound the dirt. Just then a soccer player runs right through him and he falls to the ground. The camera falls with him and we see his face, pressed up against the grass. ‘Stay down, you son of a bitch!’ we think, when a dog barks, a truncheon appears and we know the game is up. Sandoval’s trail has led to Espósito and Hastings’ quarry. He is caught. | {
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Following With Fire and Sword', this is an adaptation of the second and most spectacular part of Sienkiewicz's trilogy of warfare, romance, and derring-do. With war raging across Europe in the 17th century, a dashing warrior fights for the heart of a young gentlewoman. With almost four hundred actors, thousands of extras and twenty three thousand costumes, this is one of the most popular films in Polish cineman and received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Feature. | {
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Shaping of modern European populations
DNA analyses of some 40 ancient human skeletons from Central Europe has thrown light on the prehistoric events that have shaped modern European populations.
It is well known that two major events had a major impact on the gene pool of modern Europeans. The first was the migration of primitive hunter-gatherers into the continent some 35,000 years ago. This was followed by a new wave of farmers from the Near East in the early Neolithic approx. 6000 years ago.
A new study by an international team of specialists, published recently in Nature Communications, used mitochondrial DNA analyses of 37 human skeletons from the Mitelelbe Saale region of Germany and two from Italy. The remains span an interval of 3,500 years, from the Early Neolithic to the Bronze age.The results indicate that events some time after the initial migration of early Neolithic farmers had a significant impact on the genetic makeup of today’s population. It appears that a major population upheaval, the details of which are unknown, took place in the Mid-Neolithic, some 4,000 years ago. The gene pool was further modified by new waves of migrants from Spain, Portugal and Eastern Europe in the late Neolithic | {
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Network Working Group M. Chen
Internet-Draft W. Cao
Intended status: Standards Track Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Expires: February 28, 2013 S. Ning
Tata Communications
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Orange CH
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Alcatel-Lucent
August 27, 2012
Return Path Specified LSP Pingdraft-ietf-mpls-return-path-specified-lsp-ping-08.txt
Abstract
This document defines extensions to the failure-detection protocol
for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
known as "LSP Ping" that allow selection of the LSP to use for the
echo reply return path. Enforcing a specific return path can be used
to verify bidirectional connectivity and also increase LSP ping
robustness. It may also be used by Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection (BFD) for MPLS bootstrap signaling thereby making BFD for
MPLS more robust.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
Status of this Memo
This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.
Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute
working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-
Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/.
Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months
and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any
time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
This Internet-Draft will expire on February 28, 2013.
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Internet-Draft Return Path Specified LSP Ping August 20121. Introduction
This document defines extensions to the failure-detection protocol
for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
known as "LSP Ping" [RFC4379] that can be used to specify the return
paths for the echo reply message, increasing the robustness of LSP
Ping, reducing the opportunity for error, and improving the
reliability of the echo reply message. A new reply mode, which is
referred to as "Reply via Specified Path", is added and a new Type-
Length-Value (TLV), which is referred to as Reply Path (RP) TLV, is
defined in this memo.
With the extensions described in this document, a bidirectional LSP
and a pair of unidirectional LSPs (one for each direction) could both
be tested with a single operational action, hence providing better
control plane scalability. The defined extensions can also be
utilized for creating a single Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
(BFD)[RFC5880], [RFC5884]session for a bidirectional LSP or for a
pair of unidirectional LSPs (one for each direction).
In this document, term bidirectional LSP includes the co-routed
bidirectional LSP defined in [RFC3945] and the associated
bidirectional LSP that is constructed from a pair of unidirectional
LSPs (one for each direction), and which are associated with one
another at the LSP's ingress/egress points [RFC5654]. The mechanisms
defined in this document can apply to both IP/MPLS and MPLS Transport
Profile (MPLS-TP) scenarios.
2. Problem Statements and Solution Overview
MPLS LSP Ping is defined in [RFC4379]. It can be used to detect data
path failures in all MPLS LSPs, and was originally designed for
unidirectional LSPs.
LSP are increasingly being deployed to provide bidirectional
services. The co-routed bidirectional LSP is defined in [RFC3471]
and [RFC3473], and the associated bidirectional LSP is defined in
[RFC5654]. With the deployment of such services, operators have a
desire to test both directions of a bidirectional LSP in a single
operation.
Additionally, when testing a single direction of an LSP (either a
unidirectional LSP, or a single direction of a bidirectional LSP)
using LSP Ping, the validity of the result may be affected by the
success of delivering the echo reply message. Failure to exchange
these messages between the egress Label Switching Router (LSR) and
the ingress LSR can lead to false negatives where the LSP under test
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is reported as "down" even though it is functioning correctly.
2.1. Limitations of Existing Mechanisms for Bidirectional LSPs
With the existing LSP Ping mechanisms as defined in [RFC4379],
operators have to enable LSP detection on each of the two ends of a
bidirectional LSP independently. This not only doubles the workload
for the operators, but may also bring additional difficulties when
checking the backward direction of the LSP under the following
conditions:
1. The LSR that the operator logged on to perform the checking
operations might not have out-of-band connectivity to the LSR at
the far end of the LSP. That can mean it is not possible to
check the return direction of a bidirectional LSP in a single
operation - the operator must log on to the LSR at the other end
of the LSP to test the return direction.
2. The LSP being tested might be an inter-domain/inter-AS LSP where
the operator of one domain/AS may have no right to log on to the
LSR at the other end of the LSP since this LSR resides in another
domain/AS. That can make it completely impossible for the
operator to check the return direction of a bidirectional LSP.
Associated bidirectional LSPs have the same issues as those listed
for co-routed bidirectional LSPs.
This document defines a mechanism to allow the operator to request
that both directions of a bidirectional LSP be tested by a single LSP
Ping message exchange.
2.2. Limitations of Existing Mechanisms for Handling Unreliable Return Paths
[RFC4379] defines 4 reply modes:
1. Do not reply
2. Reply via an IPv4/IPv6 UDP packet
3. Reply via an IPv4/IPv6 UDP packet with Router Alert
4. Reply via application level control channel.
Obviously, the issue of the reliability of the return path for an
echo reply message does not apply in the first of these cases.
[RFC4379] states that the third mode may be used when the IP return
path is deemed unreliable. This mode of operation requires that all
intermediate nodes must support the Router Alert option and must
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understand and know how to forward MPLS echo replies.
This is a rigorous requirement in deployed IP/MPLS networks
especially since the return path may be through legacy IP-only
routers. Furthermore, for inter-domain LSPs, the use of the Router
Alert option may encounter significant issues at domain boundaries
where the option is usually stripped from all packets. Thus, the use
of this mode may itself introduce issues that lead to the echo reply
messages not being delivered.
And in any case, the use modes 2 or 3 cannot guarantee the delivery
of echo responses through an IP network that is fundamentally
unreliable. The failure to deliver echo response messages can lead
to false negatives making it appear that the LSP has failed.
Allowing the ingress LSR to control the path used for echo reply
messages, and in particular forcing those messages to use an LSP
rather than being sent through the IP network, enables an operator to
apply an extra level of deterministic process to the LSP Ping test.
This document defines extensions to LSP Ping that can be used to
specify the return paths of the echo reply message in an LSP echo
request message.
3. Extensions
LSP Ping defined in [RFC4379] is carried out by sending an echo
request message. It carries the Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC)
information of the LSP being tested which indicates which MPLS path
is being verified, along the same data path as other normal data
packets belonging to the FEC.
LSP Ping [RFC4379] defines four reply modes that are used to direct
the egress LSR in how to send back an echo reply. This document
defines a new reply mode, the Reply via Specified Path mode. This
new mode is used to direct the egress LSR of the tested LSP to send
the echo reply message back along the path specified in the echo
request message.
In addition, two new TLVs, the Reply Path TLV and Reply Traffic Class
(TC) [RFC5462] TLV, are defined in this document. The Reply Path TLV
contains one nested sub-TLV that can be used to carry the specified
return path information to be used by the echo reply message.
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these codes MUST be set to zero. Reply Path return code only used
when sending echo reply, and it MUST be ignored when processing echo
request message. This document defines the following Reply Path
return codes:
Value Meaning
------ ----------------------
0x0000 No return code
0x0001 Malformed Reply Path TLV was received
0x0002 One or more of the sub-TLVs in Reply Path TLV
was not understood
0x0003 The echo reply was sent successfully using the
specified Reply Path
0x0004 The specified Reply Path was not found, the echo
reply was sent via other LSP
0x0005 The specified Reply Path was not found, the echo
reply was sent via IP path
0x0006 The Reply mode in echo request was not set to 5(Reply
via Specified Path) although Reply Path TLV exists
0x0007 Reply Path TLV was missing in echo request
0x0008-0xfffb Not allocated, allocated via Standard Action
0xfffc-0xffff Experimental Use
Flag field is also 2 octets in length, it is used to notify the
egress how to process the Reply Paths field when performing return
path selection. The Flag field is a bit vector and has following
format:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| MUST be zero |A|B|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
A (Alternative path): the egress LSR MUST select a non-default path
as the return path. This is very useful when reverse default path
problems are suspected which can be confirmed when the echo reply is
forced to follow a non-default return path. Here, the default path
refers to the path that the egress LSR will use to send the echo
reply when the return path is not explicitly specified as defined in
this document. If A bit is set, there is no need to carry any
specific reply path sub-TLVs, and when received, the sub-TLVs SHOULD
be ignored.
B (Bidirectional): the return path is required to follow the reverse
direction of the tested bidirectional LSP. If B bit is set, there is
no need to carry any specific reply path sub-TLVs, and when received,
the sub-TLVs SHOULD be ignored.
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The A bit and B bit set MUST NOT both be set, otherwise, an echo
reply with the RP return code set to "Malformed RP TLV was received"
SHOULD be returned.
The Reply Paths field is variable in length, not more than one sub-
TLV MUST be carried, which describes the specified path that the echo
reply message is required to follow. When the Reply Mode field is
set to "Reply via Specified Path" in an LSP echo request message, the
Reply Path TLV MUST be present.
3.3. Reply Path sub-TLVs
Each of the FEC sub-TLVs (include existing and future defined) for
the Target FEC Stack TLV[RFC4379] is applicable to be a sub-TLV for
inclusion in the Reply Path TLV for expressing a specific return
path. For these shared sub-TLVs, they share the same registry with
the Target FEC Stack TLV for the range of 0-31743 and 32768-64511.
In addition, this document defines three new sub-TLVs: IPv4 RSVP
Tunnel sub-TLV, IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV and Static Tunnel sub-TLV.
These sub-TLVs are only designed for Reply Path TLV, hence this
document calls them dedicated sub-TLVs to Reply Path TLV. For these
dedicated sub-TLVs, this document will create a new registry (Section6.1), the sub-TLV type MUST be allocated from the new registry.
Detailed definition is in the following sections.
In [RFC4379], the range of 31744-32767 and 64512-65535 for sub-TLVs
is specified for Vendor Private Use, and MUST NOT be allocated. This
document changes that rule to make it not applicable to Reply Path
TLV and redefines the rule as in Section 6.2 . If an implementation
recognizes any specific Vendor Private types as defined in [RFC4379],
and uses the sub-TLV type specified in this document, care must be
taken to ensure that the implementation does not confuse the two
usages.
With the Return Path TLV flags and the sub-TLVs defined for the
Target FEC Stack TLV and in this document, it could provide following
options for return paths specifying:
1. Specify a particular LSP as return path
- use those sub-TLVs defined for the Target FEC Stack TLV
2. Specify a more generic tunnel FEC as return path
- use the IPv4/IPv6 RSVP and Static Tunnel sub-TLVs defined in
Section 3.3.1, Section 3.3.2 and Section 3.3.3 of this
document
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3. Specify the reverse path of the bidirectional LSP as return path
- use B bit defined in Section 3.2 of this document.
4. Force return path to non-default path
- use A bit defined in Section 3.2 of this document.
3.3.1. IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV
The IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is used in the Reply Path TLV to allow
the operator to specify a more generic tunnel FEC other than a
particular LSP as the return path. According to the bits set in the
Flag field, the egress LSR will then choose an LSP from the specified
Tunnel as the return path. The format of IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is
as follows:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv4 tunnel end point address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Flag | Tunnel ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Extended Tunnel ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv4 tunnel sender address |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2 IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV
The IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is derived from the RSVP IPv4 FEC TLV
that is defined in Section 3.2.3 [RFC4379]. All fields have the same
semantics as defined in [RFC4379] except that the LSP-ID field is
omitted and a new Flag field is defined.
The IPv4 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV Type field is 2 octets in length, and
the recommended type value is TBD.
The Flag field is 2 octets in length, it is used to notify the egress
LSR how to choose the return path. The Flag field is a bit vector
and has following format:
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|P| MUST be zero |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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P (Primary): the return path MUST be chosen from the LSPs that belong
to the specified Tunnel and the LSP MUST be the primary LSP.
S (Secondary): the return path MUST be chosen from the LSPs that
belong to the specified Tunnel and the LSP MUST be the secondary LSP.
P bit and S bit MUST NOT both be set, otherwise, an echo reply with
the RP return code set to "Malformed RP TLV was received" SHOULD be
returned. If P bit and S bit are both not set, the return path could
be any one of the LSPs from the same Tunnel.
3.3.2. IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV
The IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is used in the Reply Path TLV to allow
the operator to specify a more generic tunnel FEC other than a
particular LSP as the return path. According to the bits set in the
Flag field, the egress LSR will then choose an LSP from the specified
Tunnel as the return path. The format of IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is
as follows:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv6 tunnel end point address |
| |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Flag | Tunnel ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Extended Tunnel ID |
| |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IPv6 tunnel sender address |
| |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 3 IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV
The IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is derived from RSVP IPv6 FEC TLV that
is defined in Section 3.2.4 of [RFC4379].All fields have the same
semantics as defined in [RFC4379] except that the LSP-ID field is
omitted and a new Flag field is defined.
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The IPv6 RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV Type field is 2 octets in length, and
the type value is TBD.
The Flag field is 2 octets in length and is identical to that
described in Section 3.3.1.
3.3.3. Static Tunnel sub-TLV
The Static Tunnel sub-TLV is used in the Reply Path TLV to allow the
operator to specify a more generic tunnel FEC other than a particular
LSP as the return path. According to the bits set in the Flag field,
the egress LSR will then choose an LSP from the specified Tunnel as
the return path. The format of Static RSVP Tunnel sub-TLV is as
follows. The value fields are taken from the definitions in
[RFC6370].
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Static Tunnel sub-TLV Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source Global ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source Node ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Destination Global ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Destination Node ID |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Source Tunnel Num | Destination Tunnel Num |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Flag | Must Be Zero |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 4 Static Tunnel sub-TLV
The Flag field is 2 octets in length and is identical to that
described in Section 3.3.1.
The sub-TLV type value is TBD.
3.4. Reply TC TLV
Reply TOS Byte TLV [RFC4379] is used by the originator of the echo
request to request that an echo reply be sent with the IP header TOS
byte set to the value specified in the TLV. Similarly, in this
document, a new TLV: Reply TC TLV is defined and MAY be used by the
originator of the echo request to request that an echo reply be sent
with the TC bits of the return path LSP set to the value specified in
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this TLV. The format of Reply TC TLV is as follows:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reply TC TLV type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| TC | MUST be zero |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
The Reply TC TLV Type field is 2 octets in length, and the type value
is TBD.
The Length field is 2 octets in length, the value of length field is
fixed 4 octets.
4. Theory of Operation
The procedures defined in this document currently only apply to
"ping" mode. The "traceroute" mode is out of scope for this
document.
In [RFC4379], the echo reply is used to report the LSP checking
result to the LSP Ping initiator. This document defines a new reply
mode and a new TLV (Reply Path TLV) that enable the LSP ping
initiator to specify or constrain the return path of the echo reply.
Similarly the behavior of echo reply is extended to detect the
requested return path by looking at a specified path FEC TLV. This
enables LSP Ping to detect failures in both directions of a path with
a single operation, this of course cuts in half the operational steps
required to verify the end to end bidirectional connectivity and
integrity of an LSP.
When the echo reply message is intended to test the return MPLS LSP
path(when the A bit is not set in the previous received echo request
message), the destination IP address of the echo reply message MUST
never be used in a forwarding decision. To avoid this possibility
the destination IP address of the echo reply message that is
transmitted along the specified return path MUST be set to numbers
from the range 127/8 for IPv4 or 0:0:0:0:0:FFFF:127/104 for IPv6, and
the IP TTL MUST be set 1, and the TTL in the outermost label MUST be
set to 255. Of course when the echo reply message is not intended
for testing the specified return path (when the A bit is set in the
previous received echo request message) , the procedures defined in
[RFC4379] (the destination IP address is copied from the source IP
address) apply unchanged.
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When sending an echo request, in addition to the rules and procedures
defined in Section 4.3 of [RFC4379], the reply mode of the echo
request MUST be set to "Reply via Specified Path", and a Reply Path
TLV MUST be carried in the echo request message correspondingly. The
Reply Path TLV includes one or several reply path sub-TLV(s) to
identify the return path(s) the egress LSR should use for its reply.
For a bidirectional LSP, since the ingress LSR and egress LSR of a
bidirectional LSP are aware of the relationship between the forward
and backward direction LSPs, only the B bit SHOULD be set in the
Reply Path TLV. If the operator wants the echo reply to be sent
along a different path other than the reverse direction of the
bidirectional LSP, the "A" bit SHOULD be set or another FEC sub-TLV
SHOULD be carried in the Reply Path TLV instead, and the B bit MUST
be clear.
In some cases, operators may want to treat two unidirectional LSPs
(one for each direction) as a pair. There may not be any binding
relationship between the two LSPs. Using the mechanism defined in
this document, operators can run LSP Ping one time from one end to
complete the failure detection on both unidirectional LSPs. To
accomplish this, the echo request message MUST carry (in the Reply
Path TLV) a FEC sub-TLV that belongs to the backward LSP.
4.2. Receiving an Echo Request
"Ping" mode processing as defined in Section 4.4 of [RFC4379] applies
in this document. In addition, when an echo request is received, if
the egress LSR does not know the reply mode defined in this document,
an echo reply with the return code set to "Malformed echo request"
and the Subcode set to zero will be send back to the ingress LSR
according to the rules of [RFC4379]. If the egress LSR knows the
reply mode, according to the Reply Path TLV, it SHOULD find and
select the desired return path. If there is a matched path, an echo
reply with Reply Path TLV that identify the return path SHOULD be
sent back to the ingress LSR, the Reply Path return code SHOULD be
set to "The echo reply was sent successfully using the specified
return path". If there is no such path, an echo reply with Reply
Path TLV SHOULD be sent back to the ingress LSR, the Reply Path
return code SHOULD be set to relevant code (defined Section 3.2) for
the real situation to reflect the result of Reply Path TLV processing
and return path selection. For example, if the specified LSP is not
found, the egress then chooses another LSP as the return path to send
the echo reply, the Reply Path return code SHOULD be set to "The
specified reply path was not found, the echo reply was sent via other
LSP", and if the egress chooses an IP path to send the echo reply,
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the Reply Path return code SHOULD be set to "The specified reply path
was not found, the echo reply was sent via IP path". If there is
unknown sub-TLV in the received Reply Path TLV, the Reply Path return
code SHOULD be set to "One or more of the sub-TLVs in Reply Path TLV
was not understood".
If the A bit of the Reply Path TLV in a received echo request message
is set, the egress LSR SHOULD send the echo reply along an non-
default return path.
IF the B bit of the Reply Path TLV in a received echo request message
is set, the egress LSR SHOULD send the echo reply along the reverse
direction of the bidirectional LSP.
If the A bit of the Reply Path TLV in a received echo request message
is not set(a.k.a a specific return path sub-TLV is carried or the B
bit is set), the echo reply is REQUIRED not only to send along the
specified path, but to test the selected return path as well (by
carrying the FEC stack information of the return path).
In addition, the FEC validate results of the forward path LSP SHOULD
NOT affect the egress LSR continue to test return path LSP.
4.3. Sending an Echo Reply
As described in [RFC4379], the echo reply message is a UDP packet,
and it MUST be sent only in response to an MPLS echo request. The
source IP address is a valid IP address of the replier, the source
UDP port is the well-know UDP port for LSP ping.
When the echo reply is intended to test the return path (the A is not
set in the previous received echo request), the destination IP
address of the echo reply message MUST never be used in a forwarding
decision. To avoid this problem, the IP destination address of the
echo reply message that is transmitted along the specified return
path MUST be set to numbers from the range 127/8 for IPv4 or 0:0:0:0:
0:FFFF:127/104 for IPv6, and the IP TTL MUST be set to 1, the TTL in
the outermost label MUST be set to 255. Otherwise, the same as
defined in [RFC4379], the destination IP address and UDP port are
copied from the source IP address and source UDP port of the echo
request.
When sending the echo reply, a Reply Path TLV that identifies the
return path MUST be carried, the Reply Path return code SHOULD be set
to relevant code that reflects results about how the egress processes
the Reply Path TLV in a previous received echo request message and
return path selection. By carrying the Reply Path TLV in an echo
reply, it gives the Ingress LSR enough information about the reverse
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direction of the tested path to verify the consistency of the data
plane against control plane. Thus a single LSP Ping could achieve
both directions of a path test. If the return path is pure IP path,
no sub-TLVs are carried in the Reply Path TLV.
4.4. Receiving an Echo Reply
The rules and process defined in Section 4.6 of [RFC4379] apply here.
When an echo reply is received, if the reply mode is "Reply via
Specified Path" and the Reply Path return code is "The echo reply was
sent successfully using the specified return path", and if the A bit
is not set. The ingress LSR MUST perform FEC validation (based on
the FEC stack information of the return path carried in the Reply
Path TLV) as an egress LSR does when receiving an echo request, the
FEC validation process (relevant to "ping" mode) defined in Section4.4.1 of [RFC4379] applies here.
When an echo reply is received with return code set to "Malformed
echo request received" and the Subcode set to zero. It is possible
that the egress LSR may not know the "Reply via Specified Path" reply
mode, the operator may choose to re-perform another LSP Ping by using
one of the four reply modes defined [RFC4379].
On receipt of an echo reply with Reply Path return code in the Reply
Path TLV set to "The specified reply path was not found, ...", it
means that the egress LSR could not find a matched return path as
specified. Operators may choose to specify another LSP as the return
path or use other methods to detect the path further.
5. Security Considerations
Security considerations discussed in [RFC4379] apply to this
document. In addition to that, in order to prevent using the
extension defined in this document for "proxying" any possible
attacks, the return path LSP MUST have destination to the same node
where the forward path is from.
6. IANA Considerations
IANA has a temporary allocation for a TLV from the "Multiprotocol
Label Switching Architecture (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) Ping
Parameters - TLVs" registry, "TLVs and sub-TLVs" sub-registry - Type
21 (Reply Path TLV). For this TLV the standards action sub-TLVs (the
range of 0-31743 and 32768-64511) shall be blocked from being
allocated. IANA is also requested to assign one new TLV from the
"Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (MPLS) Label Switched
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Survey shows Europeans absorb Chinese culture from films
Films help Europeans to better understand today's China, as shown through an academic report, which was released by Beijing Normal University on Monday.
A focus on family, emphasis on collectivism, and a tendency to support the weak side are three recognizable values in Chinese movies for European filmgoers, according to a recent survey the report is based on.
"Such values are also key parts of Chinese tradition," says Huang Huilin, 85, a senior professor at Beijing Normal University who launched the survey.
"We can thus see how big an influence films have in constructing people's impressions of Chinese culture."
The report is based on 1,549 responses to questionnaires taken in 2018 by different age groups in seven European countries-the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland.
About 78 percent of people who took part in the survey had watched Chinese films in the past three years, and 40 percent had watched five Chinese films or more within the period.
The Spanish had seen the most Chinese films among the seven countries, and 7.9 percent of interviewees from Spain have watched 20 Chinese films or more in the past three years.
The British seemed to have the least interest in Chinese films, as only 4.5 percent of people from the United Kingdom had watched 20 Chinese films in that time period. And 35.8 percent of Britons had not seen any Chinese films in the past three years, compared with Spain where the number was just 13 percent.
Meanwhile, Huang says there needs to be more follow-up studies to explain the results.
"As China's global influence increases, we can see Europeans now have wider contact with Chinese films," the professor says.
"We also find their tastes are getting more diverse," she adds.
"Also, other than understanding traditional values, many interviewees showed a better understanding of modern China after watching the films."
But Huang says that Western stereotypes about China still prevail in some areas.
For instance, "loving peace", which is advocated as a mainstream value in China, is least recognized in the films, according to the survey.
In terms of production, the special effects in Chinese films impressed the Europeans, but when it came to distribution and publicity they were not happy, the survey showed.
Huang says this could help the Chinese adjust their strategies to promote Chinese films overseas.
Huang is China's first PhD supervisor in film studies. And this is the eighth year in a row for this widely respected scholar's team to research the global influence of Chinese films overseas.
The survey was originally a general one spanning the globe in its early years, but it was narrowed down to specific regions in recent years.
Last year's report was based on research in Canada and the United States.
Speaking about the survey, Sui Yan, a professor at the Communication University of China and editor-in-chief of Modern Communication journal, in which Huang's annual reports have been published, says: "In the film industry, big data analysis is used a lot.
"But these questionnaires can help you better understand film-related cultural issues. The past eight years have produced many valuable references for our film industry."
As for Xiang Yunju, the deputy director of the China Literature and Art Critics Association, he says: "From the Western perspective, Chinese culture was considered as one of 'the others' for a long time. But, frequent communication between Chinese and overseas films have changed this. Now, films draw people from overseas to Chinese culture.
"It is good for filmmakers to have a better understanding of how films help build up China's national image, especially in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative."
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and UN Environment are renewing their partnership on the environment, in recognition of the enormous challenges facing our planet, and the…
This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2002 and 2006. The objective of the project was to strengthen national capacity to manage persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and to assist countries in meeting their…
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This is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2005 and 2008. The objectives of this project were: to enhance indigenous peoples' awareness and effective participation in CBD and GEF processes through the establishment…
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Is it Goodbye To The Hand Shake or The Hug Forever?
So if and when this Coronavirus goes away and we all get to head out to our favorite watering hole or restaurant and run into our friends, just how are we to greet them? We used to shake hands or hug them, but will we continue to do that after what we all have been through? Only time will tell. Lets face it, you may want to shake a hand, but the recipient of your attempted handshake may not want it because he or she is just not ready to do so yet. An awkward moment. Wow, what a confusing time we life in.
So in the meantime do will we need to come up with other ways to acknowledge our friends when we see them? Probably so. With that in mind, here are some options we may need to try instead of the traditional handshake or hug in the future. | {
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101-111 W. Valley Blvd.
Hotel and Mixed-Use Development
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
222-room Hyatt Place hotel
55,00 sq. ft. of commercial space
87 residential condominiums
Two levels of underground parking
PROJECT STATUS:
Construction is underway and expected to be completed in 2017.
The environmental document for this project is now available for public review. A mitigated negative declaration had been prepared and copies of the document and exhibits are available for review below. | {
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Montmartre in the rain, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Paris, 1897, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam. Acquired with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association (supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) and the VSB Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum has recently been able to enrich its collection with the painting Montmartre in the rain by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). The work forms a valuable addition to the Van Gogh Museum's extensive collection of Nabis prints. Bonnard painted Montmartre in the rain in 1897 at the peak of his Nabis period. The painting is typical of Bonnard's early style. The acquisition represents the Van Gogh Museum's next step in building up a collection of Nabis paintings, following its purchase of The two sisters by Maurice Denis (1870-1943) in 1991. The painting may be viewed until 20 September 2009 on the third floor of the Rietveld building. The purchase was made possible with support from the BankGiro Lottery, which contributed around half the purchase price, the Rembrandt Association (supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) and the VSB Foundation.
Montmartre in the rain - The French artist Pierre Bonnard painted this pleasant view of Paris from his attic studio in Montmartre. He depicted the rue Tholozé on a rainy evening, with a horse-drawn carriage and dark figures under umbrellas hurrying past brightly lit shop windows. Alongside this lively street scene, the left-hand side of the painting looks peaceful. The grand houses and courtyard refer to the more intimate, secure life of Paris. The blank wall, placed emphatically in the centre, divides the scene, thus creating a daring composition. The large areas of colour, the oblique perspective and the dark silhouettes betray the influence of Japanese prints. Bonnard was fascinated by this view and by the rue Tholozé; over a number of years he included this view, or parts of it, in at least ten works. The museum has already two lithographs with this theme in its collection.
Pierre Bonnard - Within the Nabis group, Bonnard was known for the Japanese influences in his work. This earned him the nickname 'Bonnard, très Japonard'. These Japanese influences are reflected in the two-dimensionality, overlapping and strong contours used in his work, as can be seen most clearly in his advertising posters. The artist began his career in 1885 in Paris. Together with Maurice Denis, Paul Sérusier (1863-1927) and Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) he founded the artists circle Les Nabis. They presented themselves as 'prophets' of a new art and, like Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) before them, gave primacy to their imagination and personal experience. In terms of style and subject, their work displays more differences than similarities. The work of Denis and Sérusier, for example, evinces a pronounced tendency towards symbolism and occultism, while the work of Vuillard and Bonnard manifests a greater attention to painting technique.
Benefactors: The purchase of Montmartre in the rain was made possible through the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association (supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds) and the VSB Foundation. These organizations seek to stimulate the collecting activities of public art collections in the Netherlands. Due in part to the support of these organizations, the Van Gogh Museum was able to purchase The Seine at Nanterre by Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) in 2008. | {
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United States v. Arevalo
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Hurley, Senior District Judge
ORDER
This order pertains to the relief requested in the government's letter of October 3, 2009.
The July 31, 2009 declaration of the defendant, while not as detailed as it might be, is found to be sufficient to warrant a hearing as to the validity of defendant's mother's consent to the search of "his bedroom at his mother's house" (Gov't's Oct. 3, 2009 Letter to the Court, at 1), as well as the admissibility of defendant's purported post-search admissions.
The required suppression hearing is rescheduled, as requested by the government, from October 9, 2009 until October 21, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. Also on that date, the Court will hear oral argument on the other items of relief sought by defendant in his August 3, 2009 Notice of Motion.
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Continuing with the theme of Balance Awareness Week, I sat and thought what would be interesting for our followers to read. As I think about the dizzy, vertigo and imbalance patients that we’ve been lucky enough to see at The Hearing & Dizziness Clinic, their stories came to mind.
The moment that they got dizzy, felt the world spin or that they were spinning.
My Dizziness is sometimes more like a little ripple of vertigo, this weird uncomfortable sensation: like if I turn my head, it feels like my head hasn’t caught up to where I am. My head feels unsteady. I feel unsteady. When I’m dizzy I can feel nauseous. I feel it if I turn around too quickly or when I’m practicing some of my vestibular rehabilitation therapy exercises. And like butterflies in your stomach when you feel naseous, I also feel the butterflies in my head, spinning around, making me feel woozy. When this happens, I want nothing more than to close my eyes and pray for the tranquility of stillness. When I’m really dizzy, I have no balance. I’m more than clumsy. If I walk, I look like I’m drunk. Unsteady and stumbling.
The other night I felt so dizzy; it was like there was a violent sea in my head, waves sloshing around so that I couldn’t find my balance.
Emily’s blog describes the beginning of her symptoms, tests, treatments, vestibular rehabilitation and her life after her dizzies. How many of our readers have shared their dizzy stories with family and friends and learned that they too have had some vestibular dysfunction?
Balance Awareness Week isn’t just learning about imbalance, but about knowing that you aren’t alone.
5. Vestibular disorders are difficult to diagnose. It is common for a patient to consult 4 or more physicians over a period several years before receiving an accurate diagnosis.
6. There is no “cure” for most vestibular disorders. They may be treated with medication, physical therapy, lifestyle changes (e.g. diet, exercise), surgery, or positional maneuvers. In most cases, patients must adapt to a host of life-altering limitations.
7. Vestibular disorders impact patients and their families physically, mentally, and emotionally. In addition to physical symptoms such as dizziness and vertigo, vestibular patients can experience poor concentration, memory, and mental fatigue. Many vestibular patients suffer from anxiety and depression due to fear of falling and the loss of their independence. | {
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Women protest in Rabat saying NO to forced marriage/rape
Morocco on Thursday said it would amend a law allowing rapists to marry their underage female victims after the suicide of a teenage girl raised doubts about the effectiveness of reforms to women’s rights in the country.
Sixteen-year-old Amina El-Filali killed herself last week near the northern city of Larache by swallowing rat poison after a six-month forced marriage to the man who raped her.
Local human rights activists say the law violates women’s rights and was created to avoid damage to the reputation of the victim’s family.
“This is a painful incident… This is an issue we can’t afford to ignore,” said Communication Minister and government spokesman Mustafa el-Khalfi.
“She was raped twice – once by the rapist and the second time by marrying him… We plan harsher sentences against rapists and we will launch… a debate about law 475 to reform it,” he told reporters.
Rape victims in Morocco carry a stigma of shame and dishonour. They are often suspected by police and judges of consent, and little social assistance is given to help them rebuild their lives.
Convicted rapists face five to 10 years in prison, and up to 20 years when the victim is underage.
At the westernmost boundary of the Muslim world, and only a stone throw’s away from Europe, Moroccan women find themselves enjoying more freedoms. A family law reformed in 2004 won the North African country praise from the West for giving Moroccan women more rights than many Arab states.
But that reform, which led to the creation of matrimonial courts, has been dogged by Morocco’s conservative and predominantly male judges, and by a failure to adopt laws to ensure better protection to women from physical abuse.
While it allowed women to seek divorce, made procedures for polygamy complicated and raised the minimum marriage age for women to 18 from 15, it enabled judges to rely on their own discretion in allowing minors to be married.
One out of eight rural Moroccan women aged between 15-19 was married in 2010 while the rate stood at one out of seven in 1994, official data shows. | {
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Houston, we have a problem. It’s the offence. All of it. Toronto’s offence has become one where one guy tries to basically do it all by himself most of the time. Maybe, occasionally, a two-man game gets going, but getting three, four or even five involved? Not happening.
The result is a ton of missed shots. A lot of turnovers, a lot of forces, a lot of bad looks. Are the Raptors actually running an offence right now, or are they just doing a lot of freelancing? As I’ve said before, I don’t like the Rudy Gay/DeMar DeRozan pairing because if they are your top offensive threats (or even #1 and #3), your offence is not going to be efficient. DeRozan’s shot selection is not good. Part of that is because he can’t hit threes consistently, but part of that is because he settles too much. Gay settles too and while he’s a better shooter, he’s not a premier shooter. You can get away with one guy like that carrying an offence, but not two. Eventually, either DeRozan gets moved or the Raptors will continue to make life far tougher than it needs to be.
Other problems with the offence include: Not enough pick and roll action; Too much Amir Johnson handling the ball; Nobody finding Jonas Valanciunas when he’s wide open rolling to the hoop, or when he’s established position down low. But those are mostly minor things. The major issue, is where the shots are coming from. Again, Toronto is making life hard on itself by taking inefficient shots or by forcing tough shots. Grantland’s Zach Lowe wrote a great piece today on how the Rockets have figured it out by doing what the stats tell them to do: Take smart shots. Valuable shots, ones that give you the best chance of winning games. Those would be threes, shots at the rim and free throws. Of course, it helps having a guy as good as James Harden at getting to the line and scoring in an efficient manner (as good as Rudy Gay is, he isn’t really close to Harden), but it’s more than that. It’s mindset as well.
More thoughts:
- This goes back to the offence, but the decision-making was terrible. It was playground-esque at times (six assists, 12 turnovers in the first half). They watch enough tape to know a good shot vs. a bad shot and a force vs. a good take, but keep doing the same thing regardless.
- Wizards look much-improved. Wall gets guys going and Beal is improving rapidly. Not sure letting Emeka Okafor shoot the ball 10+ times is a recipe for success. He should be a last resort on offence. Nene trying also helps. He doesn’t always look like he’s interested in playing, but when Nene wants to, he’s solid.
- Speaking of trying: Andrea Bargnani tried. So that’s a start. That’s all people are asking for at this point. Even if his shot wasn’t falling, he still played hard and was one of the few Raptors to make smart decisions re: shot selection.
- Again, it’s time to get Valanciunas more involved. He’s been quite good, particularly on offence, of late. He should also be more involved at home, where his stats are much better and where he gets the crowd reacting to him in a very positive way.
- Here’s a second unit that makes a lot of sense:
Sebastian Telfair running the show (once he picks up all of the plays), a lot of the time playing pick-and-roll with Bargnani, which should get him going.
John Lucas or Terrence Ross playing the 2 (depending on matchups) providing outside shooting and some scoring punch.
Landry Fields at the 3, giving the offence good movement, the defence a capable guy and providing the rebounding presence that Bargnani doesn’t.
Andrea Bargnani at the 4 and as the featured offensive player with a lot of pick-and-pops.
Amir Johnson at the 5. Solid last line of defence. Has played well with Bargnani in the past (Valanciunas and Bargnani should never see the court together, don’t work defensively).
That would allow the Raptors to be pretty potent against other bench units, and would give guys like Gay and DeRozan extra rest, which could help them be more aggressive on offence and better on defence (particularly DeRozan).
I know Alan Anderson provides defence, but his offence is just too inconsistent and too iso-based to work with the other players.
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I could not agree with you more. In addition, you can’t have your best player turning the ball over as much as Rudy does. That saying though, I can see the rotation issues being fixed in the near future. It’s however very frustrating as a fan to experience the inefficiencies.
Wow I usually refrain from commenting on the affairs of the raptors but this is one of the most honest articles I’ve read about them in a long time. I think the problem is Coach Casey. We need a serious offensive mind to bring in a new offensive system. Then Casey can focus on the defense. | {
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Raikkonen, Alonso explain start collision
Both Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso were able to walk away from a scary-looking collision at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Raikkonen slewed left as he accelerated out of Turn 2 and collected Alonso, with the Spaniard careering into the barriers before riding up on top of the front of Raikkonen's car, where he came to a halt.
"I got some wheel spin and then it just went left, it was a bit of an unusual place as it was a bit higher speed," he said.
"The end result is what it is, a really poor weekend, but that's how it goes."
Alonso, who retired for a fourth straight race, believes that both drivers were fortunate not to be injured in the collision.
"I started very good today, made a lot of places at Turn 1 and Turn 2," said Alonso, who rose from 19th to 14th.
"Kimi was with the Prime time, so he was exiting Turn 2 with a lot of wheel spin, so the car was moving and we were all overtaking him left and right.
"At one point he lost the car to the left, and I was on the left, so we went both on the wall, and I was lucky to not hit him on the head. Looking at the replays I was braking but my wheels were in the air, so I was close with him, but luckily we are both fine." | {
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Dining
DINING SERVICES
Clubhouse opens April 14th
Tee Off Menu available during April
Full Menu service available May 1st
Luncheon service will be available Tuesday through Sunday after 12:00 noon.
APRIL & OCTOBER*
Noon - 7:00pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday
Noon - 8:00pm Friday, Saturday
* In order to enhance service, reservations are strongly encouraged.
** April and October dining hours may be reduced based on weather
conditions and dining reservations. Call clubhouse or check website.
MAY, JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER (Full Menu Service)
The Clubhouse will be open to members and their guests, Tuesday through Sunday, 11:00AM - 10:00PM.
Dining services will be available Noon - 9:00pm, Tuesday through Sunday
Until May 15 and during October, the dining room may close at 7:00pm unless there are dinner reservations.
The Half-way House does not accept cash except for special groups.
To expedite play, golfers are encouraged to use the 9th tee phone to place Half-way House orders or call the clubhouse at 343-9109 to place orders for delivery. Halfway house hours may vary dependent upon weather conditions.
SPECIAL NOTES
1. It is unlawful for alcoholic beverages to be sold for off premises consumption.
2. It is unlawful to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone who is considered to be intoxicated.
3. All food and beverages consumed on the club premises must be purchased at club facilities. They are not to be brought in. | {
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Palin Weighs In on Health Care Reform
By Dan Farber
August 8, 2009 / 9:05 AM
/ CBS News
Sarah Palin, nearly two weeks into her new life outside of Alaska politics, is adding her voice to the health care reform debate via her Facebook page, suggesting that implementing the Obama administration's proposed plan would allow bureaucrats to decide whether the sick, elderly and disabled, including children with Down Syndrome (like her own baby, Trig), are worthy of health care.
"As more Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we're saying not just no, but hell no!
(AP Photo/Al Grillo)
"The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
"Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion."
Stephanie Condon's CBSNews.com story, 10 Health Care Reform Myths, examined whether H.R. 3200 mandates or encourages euthanasia or "death panels," and she concluded that the bill offers a provision in which Medicare would cover patient-doctor consultations about end-of-life planning for the first time, which is different than an Obama "death panel" that would decide whether former Governor Palin's Down Syndrome baby is "worthy of health care."
At a tele-town hall meeting with members of the senior advocacy group AARP last month, President Obama could not help but describe one question he received as "kind of morbid."
"I have been told there is a clause in (the health care bill) that everyone that's Medicare age will be visited and told to decide how they wish to die," said a caller named Mary from North Carolina. "This bothers me greatly, and I'd like for you to promise me that this is not in this bill."
There is nothing in any health care reform bill before Congress that would require people to "decide how they wish to die."
Conservative talking points from activists and legislators, however, would suggest otherwise.
This rumor gained traction in large part because of comments from New York's former Republican lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey. On a radio show on July 16, McCaughey said she had read the bill and discovered that "Congress would make it mandatory . . . that every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner, how to decline nutrition, how to decline being hydrated, how to go into hospice care . . . all to do what's in society's best interest . . . and cut your life short."
"Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on 'the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration' and other end of life treatments, and may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign," they said. "This provision may start us down a treacherous path toward government-encouraged euthanasia if enacted into law."
In fact, Section 1233 of Democratic House H.R. 3200 would allow Medicare for the first time to cover patient-doctor consultations about end-of-life planning, including discussions about drawing up a living will or planning hospice treatment. Patients could, of course, seek out such advice on their own — but they would not be required to. The provision would limit Medicare coverage to one consultation every five years. | {
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Fieldrunners 2 HD Rockets Up iPad Sales Charts
Look out, Angry Birds Space HD. That number one position is up for grabs.
There's a chance, however slight, that Subatomic Studios' recently released Fieldrunners 2 HD will dethrone Angry Birds Space HD as the number one paid iPad game. Turns out, the popular tower-defense hit just slid into the number two position, right behind Rovio Entertainment's galactic puzzler.
Have to admit, this is very impressive, considering Fieldrunners 2 HD costs $7.99, which is at least $7 more than iOS users seem willing to pay these days. Then again, Minecraft: Pocket Edition holds steady at position four, and it sells for $6.99. Perhaps there's something to be said for premium pricing after all. | {
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Brand new free gift still in box. One year warranty starts on 22 Oct 2016. Retailed at $320. I am selling it for only $200.Please visit my other ads through the "More ads from this seller".
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A dangerous job
This guy wakes up one morning to find a gorilla in his tree. He looks in the phone book for a gorilla removal service until he finds one. "Is it a boy or girl Gorilla?" the service guy asks. "Boy," is the man's response. "Oh yeah, I can do it. I'll be right there," says the service guy. An hour later the service guy shows up with a stick, a Chihuahua, a shotgun, and a pair of handcuffs. He then gives the man some nstructions: "Now, I'm going to climb this tree and poke the gorilla with the stick until he falls. When he does, the trained Chihuahua will bite the gorilla's testicles off. The gorilla will then cross his hands to protect himself and allow you to put the handcuffs on him." The man asks, "What do I do with the shotgun?" The service guy replies, "If I fall out of the tree before the gorilla, shoot the Chihuahua." | {
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich- The Red Cross shelter at the Alpine Baptist Church will close tomorrow April 29 at noon. This shelter is located at 692 7 Mile Rd. NW. in Comstock Park. At this shelter, people will be able to get water, snacks, and clean-up kits until closing time tomorrow.
Those who have been affected are encouraged to call the Red Cross at 616-456-8661. Workers are on hand to provide clean-up kits and find community resources to assist with recovery. | {
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Melina Meza has been sharing her knowledge of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and whole foods nutrition with yogis around the world for over 20 years. Melina pioneered Seasonal Vinyasa, an innovative multi-disciplined approach to well-being, and is the author of the Art of Sequencing books including her latest, Asana Modifications.
Since 1997, Melina has been teaching yoga at 8 Limbs Yoga Centers in Seattle, Washington, where she also is Co-Director of their 200- and 500-Hour Teachers’ Training Program..
Currently residing in Oakland California, Melina facilitates year-round yoga and Ayurveda workshops and retreats for new and experienced practitioners. From her very first class in 1993, she have never stopped exploring the physical, mental, and spiritual practices passed down from the ancient sages. Yoga has been the “launching pad” that has rocketed her into a life journey of cultivating the disciplines necessary to gain insight and wisdom integral to being healthy, compassionate, and radiant, as well as how to share those gifts with others. | {
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Eye-gaze tracking may offer objective tool for detecting autism in children
Methods for detecting early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are primarily observational, spanning from parent reports to clinical evaluation. But researchers at Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital have found remote eye-gaze tracking technology may be a more effective tool for spotting signs of ASD.
In research published Friday in the Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, study authors observed the technology helped identify children with autism from children without autism but with other developmental issues like ADHD, anxiety and intellectual disabilities.
“Abnormal eye gaze is a hallmark characteristic of [ASD], and numerous studies have identified abnormal attention patterns in ASD,” the authors write in their abstract.
Led by Thomas Frazier, director of the hospital’s autism center, the authors say their team is the first to use remote eye-gaze tracking to pinpoint children with and without autism.
“Identifying children with autism early is critical to getting them appropriate interventions that will make their lives better, Frazier said in a news release. “The lack of objective methods for identifying children with autism can be a major impediment to early diagnosis.”
Frazier and his team studied 79 children— 40 with autism and 39 without— ages 3 to 8 who were at high risk for the disorder, which is marked by difficulty in social interaction, impulsivity and potentially self-harm. Usually children with autism can be diagnosed by age 2 and the rest by age 3, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Researchers hypothesized that an index based on children’s time spent looking at social targets and shorter time spent looking at non-social targets could be used to identify ASD cases. Their analysis ultimately suggested the index successfully matched four out of five cases among both the children diagnosed with our without autism.
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Study authors said further study with larger samples would be needed before the test could be developed for a clinical setting, but they said the method holds promise for the creation of an inexpensive, easy and effective test for detecting autism. According to a government report released Thursday, one in 68 American children has an ASD. Boys are four to five times more likely than girls to have one of the disorders, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
“Remote eye tracking is easy to use with young children and our study shows that it has excellent potential to enhance identification,” Frazier said in the release, “and because it is objective, may increase parents’ acceptance of the diagnosis, allowing their children to get treatment faster.” | {
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Newsroom
Almost 7,000 members of the community took the SEA Games route
07 Jun 2015
SINGAPORE, 7 June 2015 – Almost 7,000 members of the community participated in the Nila Swim & Aquathlon and Nila Run and events this weekend.
Held on the 6th and 7th of June, The Nila Swim & Aquathlon and Nila Run, a 10km run events offered sport enthusiasts with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the SEA Games from the athlete’s perspective by swimming and running a modified route of the SEA Games Triathlon Course – a first in SEA Games history.
After watching the SEA Games athletes complete the Marathon, the community also spent the weekend at the surrounding competition venues, including the Sports Hub.
Andrew Lio, 32, relationship manager, joined both the Nila Aquathlon and Nila Run “My favourite moment was when I was running alongside a fellow participant I had just met, and we encouraged each other to push on during the Nila Aquathlon, which really showed the spirit of sport. I also managed to see the SEA Games Triathletes go past on their bikes, which was a big plus.”
Aileen Ho, 38, who recently completed her 100th marathon, joined the Nila Run, a 10km run which is a far cry from her usual marathon distances. She said, “I was contemplating to join the Phuket Marathon or the Nila Run with my amateur running friends, and eventually decided to be part of the SEA Games in some way. I am happy that I did the run, although we were drenched and cold. We decided to stay and watch. And I am glad I did, because we witnessed our marathon champion doing his home run! ”
The Nila Swim & Aquathlon took place on Saturday 6 June with 800 participants, whilst 6,000 participated in the Nila Run on Sunday, 7 June.
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For ten thousand years, governments have polluted the human race by stealing and squandering the products of our labor, repeatedly creating war and destruction, and choking off initiative and invention. Yet now, in this present era, there is serious hope that these parasites will cease to leech. The root of the problem is, at long last, being...
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[Author's Note: Readers who know someone working in a prosecutor's office might usefully refer him or her to this article. It's adapted from one of a series at the new web site TinyURL.com/QuitGov, which aims to help government employees lead honest lives.]
Getting bad guys off the street is surely a good and noble objective, a vital task in a...
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Is Anders Breivik bad, or mad? If his Norwegian judges find him insane, they will lock him up at the King's pleasure with crazies until he proves he loves Big Brother, and that may be forever; but if they find him criminally liable for murdering 77 people last July, he will spend about 20 years in the company of others, about half of whom are probably...
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Perhaps the most delightful chapter in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the one describing Dagny Taggart's visit to Galt's Gulch. Exhausted and frustrated by trying to run a railroad in the teeth of bureaucrats and bloodsuckers, she drops in to see what a free society is like--and is given a vision of liberty. If Rand had never...
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The power-crazed psychopaths running government need one thing above all: a supply of employees to do their grunt work. With that, they can survive any crisis, any criticism, any revenue shortfall, any desertion by voters; but without it, they are powerless. Therefore, those wishing to enjoy life without government in practice as well as in theory need...
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Why does it matter, to market anarchists, whether or not God exists? Surely all would be able, in a free society, to believe whatever they wish about religion?
That was the thrust of Paul Bonneau's recent article here, and he added that it's counterproductive for the libertarian spokesman to ridicule the religious. His point is well taken. In the...
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The Internet is abuzz with execration of the TSA, and deservedly so, but recently Becky Akers reported on one site that the agency now rivals the IRS in the degree to which Americans detest it. That's a very notable achievement, given that it's had a mere one decade instead of ten, to attract such loathing.
The report rings true. Only a minority of us fly,...
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The words "escape" and "prison" fit together like hands in gloves in the mind of every prisoner, but in that of every warden, the two will never meet; or not on his watch, not if he can help it. So prisons don't have fire escapes. Instead, they are built of materials that will not burn; concrete, steel, brick. They look dull, but they...
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Given the axiom of self-ownership, there's very little difference between those two verbs. To govern someone is to override his own wishes; he wants to do X, but government commands him to do Y. Likewise, to enslave someone is to override his own plans; he wants to be an Econ Professor and columnist, but the slave-owner commands him to pick cotton, and...
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It's a bit difficult to compress a big slice of human history into a few hundred words, so if I omit some of your favorite details, I hope you'll forgive me.
I pick 1492 as being the pivotal year in that immense saga. One could of course choose from other good candidates: 50,000 years ago when mankind migrated out of Africa to populate the rest of the...
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If I outline the delights of a free society, quite often the listener will say that it's "Utopian." All very nice but not practical, he means, and after clarification he usually agrees that "Utopian" means a status that is not stable; that if it is put into place, it will inevitably collapse. If I have the chance, I'll then continue by...
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Any phone book has a long list of government offices. So isn't this a silly question?
Not really. All those listed items are departments of government, or representatives of the State, or Town etc. Where and what exactly is the state itself? Like the famous Wendy's ad from 1984, we're interested in the core of the matter: Where's the Beef?
If you...
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As a thought-experiment, I've been trying to imagine how different US history would have been if, at certain alternative times in the past, government had altogether disappeared--if ours had become a truly free society. So let's see how it might have worked out, moving back in time in discrete steps.
In each example below, all government in America is...
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It's been a great pleasure to see media mention every day recently of the man who once said in my hearing that the IRS is "the world's largest terrorist organization." The mere possibility that Ron Paul could actually get elected President is enough to make any liberty lover salivate. That he should already have stacked up some straw-poll...
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Michael Kleen's Conversation with Vox Day was an unusual article for Strike The Root, but gave a valuable insight into why theists may become good branch-trimming libertarians, but seldom ax-wielding, anarchist root-strikers. I had noticed Mr. Day at the masthead of that highly Statist, conservative publication World Net Daily, with its 24-point...
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The aftermath of the release of the first 1% of the recent second wave of leaks of sensitive government documents is in some ways more fun than reading of the newly uncovered secrets themselves. It has drawn a clear distinction between those who are horrified and those who are delighted; like the acid test for fake gold, this reveals what people really think...
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John Pistole, our nation's Groper in Chief, told Margaret Warner on PBS' News Hour on November 16th what a shame it would be if travelers missed their connections at Thanksgiving because more of us than usual elected to "opt-out" of what are becoming known as the TSA's new "porno scanners"--in favor of a highly intrusive pat...
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An advocate for the US Constitution recently argued on the Peter Mac Show that any group of people in any locality properly has the right to set up an association and to define its terms. He was correct, of course. The terms agreed would relate to who can belong and who, not--and to how decisions of policy and practice shall be made, as...
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The Reverend Thomas Malthus was no dummy. He made a colossal and famous error by predicting at the end of the 18th Century that human population would stop growing for want of food to feed any more people, but he was a serious scholar nonetheless. He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and as well as being an Anglican clergyman was...
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Nothing can match the institution of government for sheer malevolence and resultant mayhem, but the modern media come close; the big, established ones that report selected items of news, arranged and analyzed so as powerfully to mold public opinion and thereby help perpetuate the established order. Happily and thanks largely to the Internet and the...
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Is the state a fiction, a myth? How in either case does it compare to a business company, also sometimes called a fictional entity? Or to a religion?
I'm using "state" not so much to mean a particular political organization like the State of New Hampshire, but more in the sense used by Oppenheimer in The State, or by Bastiat in his...
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Is there one, really? Quite a few think so. I wonder how many of them know what Muslims believe. I wonder how many of those know what they believe themselves, and why. Anyway, let's take a look--and if there is one, let's think how such a menace would be handled in a free society. To those kindly concerned that I might be targeted by terrorists...
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Chapter 8 of my Transition to Liberty shows that I foresee the time--in the mid-2020s, for reasons it explains--when widespread civil disobedience will play a valuable part in hastening the end of the government era. It will be a period when around one in four of the population has learned what liberty means (and what government means) and so is eager...
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Several of my friends insert the two letters "st" in the middle of the word, to express the view that bankers make up a large, organized criminal class. Here, I'll follow the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty, and check some of the evidence, but meanwhile leave those letters out.
At root, a bank...
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Those who lend money to the government participate in a fraud, for all of them know that it has only one way ultimately to pay either interest or principal: by stealing it. So if they ever lose it (and they will, as below) there will be no sympathy from this quarter.
They do the lending by purchasing municipal bonds and Treasury Bills,...
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The abrupt termination of the distinguished, six-decade career of Helen Thomas, after she expressed her opinion about Jews on May 27th, has something fishy about it. There are layers of deception to be uncovered, and since nobody else has removed them, I will make the attempt. You read it here first.
Until that day, there had been no...
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In June I had the pleasure of visiting PorcFest 2010, a friendly festival of freedom-seekers held in Northern New Hampshire; so far north that, had one traveled much further, one would have entered Her Majesty's jurisdiction. One of her subjects had in fact come south, from his freedomain somewhere near the North Pole, to enhance the Festival;...
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Normally I give politics all the close attention it deserves, which is to say, next to none; but I've been unable to avoid the thick layers of hypocrisy that have been oozing out of the Mexican Gulf since BP's blowout preventer failed to prevent a blowout.
At once, it was plain that an awful tragedy was looming. Not just the tragedies of...
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Among the welter of news reports about the recent tragedy in Haiti, I noticed a couple that were quite perceptive. As it happens, they both broke surface on the PBS News Hour.
One came a few days after January 12th from David Brooks, the Hour's token conservative. He observed that a slightly more severe earthquake had hit San Francisco and Oakland in 1989, which brought...
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I've been re-reading a couple of excellent, recent articles on Strike The Root, each of which in its way predicts a gloomy future.
One is Glen Allport's "Year Ahead" and the other, Tzo's "Got Money?. Glen provides us as usual with a wealth of evidence to prove his point, piling one piece atop another until there can be no doubt of the message...
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There's no doubt of it, Obama is one of the world's two best orators of the last hundred years, and his performance at the December 10th ceremony was stellar. Was there a teleprompter? I didn't see him even glance at a set of notes, yet the delivery was flawless. To his credit also is the way his speech addressed head-on an irony of the occasion; here was the world's...
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The word comes in two flavors, and I'd like to focus on the second; but both derive from the Latin debere, meaning to owe--hence also a "debit" to an account. In most common use, the word has to do with an obligation, contractual or moral; it is alleged for example that by some mysterious means everyone has incurred a duty to serve one's country, as in JFK's...
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One of the debates among liberty seekers is about the extent to which it's morally right to accept or reject government handouts. In my opinion, it's one of a rather small number of issues still open to valid debate, and for sure there are good, sincere people on both sides of it and I respect all of them. Although these remarks come down clearly on one side, that respect...
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There's a legal case which changed the face of America, and which poisons a great deal of contemporary life; it's known as Marbury v. Madison, and was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in 1803. That was the year the Judicial Branch drove through the gaping hole left for it by Article Three of the Constitution (which gives it very few powers and...
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Where and when did government start? It's quite a mystery. Given that human beings are basically harmless creatures, how did it happen that an inherently violent institution arose in human society, whose whole raison d'tre is always to destroy the fundamental human right of self-governance? The question is important not just to satisfy historical understanding, but to...
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Recently some friends and I discussed the nature of hom sap so as better to understand how it could be that the violent institution of government could appear from nowhere, back before writing was invented. Are we good, or evil, or neither?
We didn't reach full agreement, but the subject was given a new boost by B.R. Merrick's recent fine thought-provoker, The Heart...
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Standards of parliamentary civility are maintained in the Mother of them all in London by a convention that excludes the following words from the floor of that House: blackguard, coward, git, guttersnipe, hooligan, ignoramus, liar, rat, swine, stoolpigeon, and traitor. Her cousin in Belfast prohibits calling members papish bigots and protestant bigots, to disguise the fact...
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My father worked all his life for one company, a prestigious insurance firm in the UK. He began from school as an entry-level clerk, and ended up its Branch Manager in the city of Worcester, where the well-known sauce is made. In all that time, he made only one key mistake of which I'm aware.
Soon after he took over the Worcester branch, he came up with a plan for a new product....
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Last week I waited for a Westbound flight to be called, from a gate in London Heathrow, and happened to sit next to a black lady, somewhat overweight, in a dark uniform. I made conversation with, "Are you joining this flight?"
"No," she said, "I work here"--meaning, presumably, Heathrow. "I'm a profiler."
"Really?" I said, in my...
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Stewart Browne's recent, eloquent column here about the need to secede reminded me of the long-running debate among freedom-seekers about the best (or at least, the most feasible) way to establish a free society: (1) to attract libertarians to populate a small independent area, a marked-off Government-Free Zone (GFZ) of some kind in which statists would have no place, or (2) to...
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Larken Rose is best known for his courage in resisting the supposed US "income tax," which is enforced without having been written into law; and suffered imprisonment for encouraging folk to take advantage of the fact. Recently, however, he has taken to writing novels, and his latest, called The Iron Web, has nothing to do with the i-tax but much to do with our...
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As Alex Knight reminded us a few months ago, there are those who say the present recession will get worse, ending perhaps in a general breakdown of society complete with food riots and martial law; and last week an STR reader poll revealed that as many as 85% of us think that the March stock market bottom was not the bottom at all, that the Dow will go lower yet after what may...
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Quite rightly, we tend to focus here mostly on what is happening today, rather than long ago. However, to do that all the time is a pity, for it robs us of historical perspective, which can be quite valuable. For example, consider: Are we more free today, than our forebears were in the 1900s? How can we tell? Does it matter?
I think it may matter, because if we can measure...
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Britain has turned out some pretty good mathematicians over the years, and one reason may be the complexity of its old currency system, which we were expected to understand by the age of six or so. Its structure was that of Pounds, Shillings and Pence; symbolized £, s and d and pronounced LSD (which may be why Brits of my generation did not all immediately tune in to...
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The screeching from our gloom and doomster friends on the Right has become deafening in recent months: they say the US dollar is on the very verge of collapse!
It's monotonous, and I usually just hit the "delete" button. Occasionally, though, when the mood takes me, I reply with some such innocent question as "When?" or "To be replaced by what?" or...
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Nine or ten thousand years ago, mankind began to plow fields. I don't know what tools he used--perhaps some kind of wooden spades or trowels, fashioned with flint from a cedar of Lebanon; but somehow he turned the earth and cereal seeds were planted and some months later his little society had something to eat--without having had to strike camp and move along every few days or...
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No, that's not the name of a distinguished firm of tax lawyers with a German flavor, and no, Irwin Schiff has not been offered a place in the Obama Cabinet. That would be the day! He did once run for President, with a cute little red plastic cowboy hat adorning the heads of his Libertarian Party supporters, but delegates instead nominated Harry Browne, who did a very creditable...
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Like all good STR articles, the recent one by Marcel Votluka got me thinking.
It got me thinking about what laws are, and what an ethic is when it's at home. Both purport to be about behavior--harmony between humans--so we expect them to coincide well and are surprised when they don't. However, I take the opposite view, and express surprise when they do. An examination of what...
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You'll be wondering about that question mark.
As Dave Barry so accurately put it, '. . . the troubled 'big three' auto makers . . . ask Congress for $25 billion, explaining that if they don't get the money, they will be unable to continue making cars that Americans are not buying.' Others suggest that once bailed-out, the Big Three will no longer make cars, but will just keep...
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A financial report I encountered says that "President-elect Barack Obama, who takes office Jan. 20, has said his first priority will be to pass an economic stimulus plan that will invest in public works and create or save 3 million jobs." I don't doubt that it's accurate, and so am horrified.
One thing he and his admirers have glossed over is that almost the entire...
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There's a very remarkable short book I recommend, called simply Night. It tells in the first person what happened to a young boy after he and his family were taken to Auschwitz from their home in a small Hungarian town in 1944.
After a grueling train trip, everyone was segregated by gender and Elie waved farewell to his mother and three sisters. The two elder ones survived, as he...
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I can see four things wrong with the following provision of the US Constitution:
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been...
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No, this is not about a newly-discovered manuscript by Ian Fleming, revealing more amazing exploits of Agent 007 and his mysterious boss; it's about the even more mysterious subject of money; specifically, about how much of it will be needed in the coming free society.
Some may feel that's rather theoretical, but I have little patience with such a view. If we are serious about...
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Charles Ponzi achieved in his lifetime something very rare: his surname became part of the English Language. Thomas Crapper did that in the 1860s, when he developed and marketed the modern toilet, and so did Sir Robert Peel when he organized the British police; to this day, agents of that force may be called "bobbies" or sometimes "peelers." But how many other...
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George F. Smith, a regular fellow contributor to Strike The Root, has written a crackerjack novel which all here will enjoy, and could acquire to give or lend to friends whose interest in the great money swindle may have been piqued by the recent $750 billion government "failout." With the intriguing title The Flight of the Barbarous Relic, it's a cleverly crafted...
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Marshall Fritz died November 4th, and the freedom movement is the poorer.
While living, Marshall was larger than life. Large physically, this remarkable man had that mysterious quality, a "presence," that would dominate whatever group he entered--in a benevolent way, of course. To the extent that curmudgeonly individualist libertarians have a leader, he was it. And now...
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One of the nice things about not voting is that one can enjoy a little sport at the expense of those who do. Let me share with you an example or three.
A few days before November 4th, I visited a nearby town, and first called at the government postal monopoly for some stamps so that I could write to an innocent friend incarcerated in a government prison. Standing in line, I said...
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Recently an "Editor's Pick" here recommended a no-charge Flash presentation by Chris Martenson about the next 20 years, appropriately called The Crash Course. I endorse that; it's outstanding. I've seen many presentations, but never one more professionally delivered. Further, its 2 ' hour total viewing time is split into 21 short parts, so as to make it easy to absorb...
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Everyone seems to agree that the mess in the money trade stems from profligate mortgage lending half a decade ago; banks loaned large sums to people with poor credit rating, then sold the mortgages in bundles with other, better-quality notes, then those were resold throughout the industry, and so when some borrowers failed to repay to the terms agreed, everyone was stuck with bad...
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There's no shortage of complaints about government, nor will there ever be for as long as they may be expressed without penalty; though that may not be too long a period, Amendment #1 notwithstanding. Here's the twist: I'm going to name a few of the more common, current ones, and show simply what might be a possible resolution of each. Then I'm going to ask whether the sum of...
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There are a lot of good folk out there who think civilization is being run--badly--by the Bilderbergers and their friends.
They point to such sources as G. Edward Griffin's The Creature From Jekyll Island which documents how the Federal Reserve Bank was set up a century ago, and conclude that since the Fed holds the purse strings, it governs the government; that hence, we are all...
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Bob Barr was not an ideal choice for libertarians, but he got the nod, so he's the only person likely to be on most ballots in November offering a freedom-ish alternative to the two War Party candidates. His platform is halfway decent, it has a lot of good stuff. Here, however, is one form of words prominently missing, in his segment on "Taxes":
"Taxation is theft...
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Government is doomed. The whole miserable apparatus of local, State and Federal politicos, liars, thieves, pimps, bullies and bureau-rats will disappear a couple of decades hence and a few years later, the peoples of every other country in the world will follow our example. Those of us who understand why it has to go are now, happily, equipped to make it happen.
A few weeks ago...
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Soon after landing on American soil, I found myself lining up for gasoline for 45 minutes, and that told me something was wrong with this land of free enterprise. When all the establishment media I could lay hands on failed to explain the shortage, I knew it was worse. When only a fringe magazine (The Libertarian Review, July/August 1979, with outstanding articles by D.T....
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I've been peering into my crystal ball again, trying to see what government might do to impede a peaceful Anarchist Revolution when it awakens to the fact that one is under way. This is to give you a quick overview, and especially to ask any reader to jump in to the STR Forum, or just email me directly, if he thinks of any kind of hostile action the parasites might take, in the...
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I'll not tell you the date, but based upon a very few simple and well-grounded assumptions, it will fall in the year 2027. "E-Day" is the day that all government in America will evaporate because, having gained a proper understanding of its nature, nobody will be willing any longer to work for it on any terms; tens of millions will have done what a certain DMV...
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Ever since I was nine years old, I've had huge respect for the writer Arthur Ransome. Some here will recognize him as the author of a delightful series of children's books starting with Swallows and Amazons, good for reading at any age and full of wholesome stuff; siblings in each of several families are portrayed, discovering and practising virtues like respect, self-reliance,...
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Civil Disobedience, or CD, is spectacular and scary and costly and courageous and inspiring, all of the above, but as I suggested in the case of Gandhi, not necessarily effective. Still, there are some occasions when it may be useful.
CD means the deliberate flouting of a government law, usually in plain view. Some refused to register for the draft, when it was operating; they...
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"Utopia" can be defined as "any visionary system of political or social perfection," but we most often hear it in the derogatory sense of "an impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform," and it falls thus from the lips of those walnut-brained idiots to whom we've just earnestly explained our vision of how a free-market society...
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"Ladies and gentlemen, this is for me the most difficult press conference I've ever held, though not for the reasons you may be supposing. The fact is that I am--for the first time ever--going to tell you the truth. We shall see tomorrow, from your reports and broadcasts, whether you can handle the truth.
"It is, of course, no small thing for the Governor of the Empire...
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"Why is the number of your squad 451?" asked the girl on the train, of the blond fireman in his smart uniform. His answer: "Because in Fahrenheit, that's the temperature at which the pages of books catch fire."
Yes, it's true, I just watched a 42-year-old movie, "Fahrenheit 451" and enjoyed it a lot. It falls short here and there, and isn't up to the...
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Recently Dr. Gary North, the well-known Libertarian predictor of catastrophes large and small, wrote a thought-provoking article entitled "Non-Negotiable Political Demands" in which he listed seventeen. It's worth reading the original, because it's as vigorous an expression of the Classical Liberal position as I can recall reading, and at first sight we can say "...
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This is the last in my series of eight reports from the year 2030 about life in our newly-free society. I hope you've enjoyed them so far, and although they are rightly very upbeat, I hope you also agree they included "warts and all"--that they came without unjustified bias. If so, I also hope you'll be hungering and thirsting to help make it happen. Of course, with the...
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We move around, in this newly-free America, for the usual reasons: to visit family, to find business or employment, and for the delight of seeing all the amazing, spectacular beauties this great land has to show. The big difference is that since E-Day, there has been nobody to stop or hinder us.
Forty years ago there was a TV miniseries produced called Amerika, with a K. Its...
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Although two thirds of a century has passed since he wrote it in 1963, Murray Rothbard's classic What Has Government Done to Our Money? still has no equal as an explanation of what money is and how government distorted it. Rothbard called for free-market gold, which was of course impossible while government remained in control--but when it evaporated, three years ago, the market...
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For the first time ever in recorded human history, in 2027 a major society began righting wrongs and restoring damaged rights.
True, I'm being a little unfair to the quite enlightened traditions in Somalia, to settlers of mediaeval Iceland, and to villagers throughout Europe in the same era--who resolved social outrages like theft, homicide and assault by arraigning the perp...
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The great walk-out from government work, culminating in 2027, was the reason it evaporated. Nobody had lifted a hand or a shotgun against it, nobody had voted it out, and few had even withheld tax payments until a year or two prior--it merely disappeared with a whimper when nobody showed up to the office. This was a truly elegant implementation of de la Bo'tie's five-century-old...
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I've now reported for you on the state of Ownership and Health in the newly-free America of 2030, and today I thought you'd like to know how education has fared, in the three years since government imploded on E-Day. I'd say that this is the industry that has improved most radically of all!
For about 175 years before then, almost every child in America used to leave home every...
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January 3, 2008
I turned 90 in the year that government finally collapsed, so if anyone had cause for concern about that decapitation of the health care system, I was the one. At this age, one's good health assumes an importance never considered in the carefree days of youth and prime. However, I need not have worried; as always, the market works.
Political management of...
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December 5, 2007
Have you heard of Rainbow Five? Most have not; I had not, until I read Thomas Fleming's masterpiece, The New Dealers' War. I'd say it is one of the most important documents of the 20th Century, and yet to this day it is little known. Such is history; forget its lessons, as Santayana so famously said, and you're condemned to repeat them. The story of Rainbow Five...
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November 26, 2007
Imagine the Feds were to obey and be limited by the US Constitution. Would that produce a free society?
As a stick with which to defend oneself against government people, the Constitution is a lot better than nothing. They invade your privacy without "probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and...
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December 5, 2007
Have you heard of Rainbow Five? Most have not; I had not, until I read Thomas Fleming's masterpiece, The New Dealers' War. I'd say it is one of the most important documents of the 20th Century, and yet to this day it is little known. Such is history; forget its lessons, as Santayana so famously said, and you're condemned to repeat them. The story of Rainbow Five...
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October 15, 2007
The 19th Century Industrial Revolution was one of the most glorious periods in human history, for the societies that took part--notably in America and Europe . Thanks to the intellectual groundwork laid a century earlier in both philosophy and science, the influence of governments was reduced at the very time when enterprise could develop key discoveries in...
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October 11, 2007
In a recent essay here I suggested that the state (government, nation) is "an entity utterly irrational at its very root," and that raised a few eyebrows--so I thought to explain. The concerns were of this kind:
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September 27, 2007
Alan Greenspan was economic advisor to governments and presidents from Gerald Ford onwards, and Fed Chairman for 19 years. He has had enormous influence for a third of a century, so it's worth trying to understand him.
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September 17, 2007
The reputable London gambling firm Ladbrokes is offering odds of 40/1 against Ron Paul winning the White House (click on Specials > US Presidential Election), so true believers in the Paul campaign might do well to pony up a grand then pocket a handy $40,000 in November next year. That could be one benefit of a Paul victory. But what else?
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June 15, 2007
It's just a year since I wrote to suggest how we can get there from here, so I thought you'd like to know that the project is proceeding nicely. In response to that announcement, about as many as I had hoped joined the Academy it introduced, and that one-time boost will bring forward by several years the day that government evaporates; it's still too early to...
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June 4, 2007
It's all very exciting and good for morale. You get up early, ride to the bus station, sing along with two dozen others of like mind on the journey to the big city, then march along the streets yelling slogans, waving banners and getting photographed for the evening news as part of the latest phenom. With any luck, purveyors of the opposite view will show up across...
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May 9, 2007
Governments wage war on anything and anyone that interferes with their insane wish to dominate everything in sight; they are only about power, for its own sake. Any regular reader of Strike The Root will know this. Still, it's amazing to watch it happen.
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April 18, 2007
There is a rich variety of reasons why a "minimal government" cannot work, starting with the entirely sufficient one that since every human owns his own life, any interference with his exercise of that fundamental right imposes a negative effect upon his wellbeing.
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April 12, 2007
Some years ago, I paid a visit to a strange bank.
It wasn't "strange" in the sense of being weird or sinister, just in the sense that I'd not been there before; it was not my regular bank, and so it was strange to me. The reason I went was that I'd come across an old piece of plastic in my drawer, and wanted to try it out.
It bears a symbol not displayed by any...
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March 26, 2007
A number of extraordinarily brave libertarians have recently shown themselves willing to suffer physically at the hands of government rather than submit to its authority. Is this a good idea? Let's probe that question in three ways:
' - Does self-sacrifice strengthen one's own resolve and self-respect?
' - Does it inspire the hesitant to take...
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March 16, 2007
Imagine: you stand in a government court, accused of wearing an orange jacket in public on St Patrick's Day.
You're disconcerted to find that the judge, the court staff and even your own defense attorney are, in addition to the prosecutor, all Irish-American; and as everybody knows, Irishmen think very poorly of the color orange. You have certainly been guilty of...
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March 9, 2007
Eighty percent of humanity is living in squalor. Why?
The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto asked and answered that in his 2000 book, The Mystery of Capital"--well worth reading, and the subject of a 2004 STR article here. His analysis of the cause of these anomalies is stimulating; in my view his prescription for a fix, less so.
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The case of US v Brown is over; on January 18th, 2007 , Ed and Elaine Brown of Plainfield , NH , were convicted of tax evasion in a Federal Court. What I'll call the case of Brown v US then began, and seems set to continue through the Spring.
The Feds are very clever at gaining such convictions, even though nobody has yet found any law compelling anyone to pay their "income...
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February 26, 2007
Back in 2002 before the invasion, I chanced upon what I thought then--and now--was an unusually intelligent article about what the NeoCons planned to do in the Middle East . It was by Gary D. Halbert and derived from the Stratfor think tank, and while analysis of government policy is not normally anything of interest to anarchists, this did fascinate me because...
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January 30, 2007
This is the time of year when 150 million working Americans 'fess up to owing the FedGov several thousand dollars each, and many of us pick up a free copy of the 1040 Instruction Book at the government's nearest Post Office and try to minimize the total. This offers a short guide to two pages of that 100-page book which most people never read.
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January 15, 2007
We know, now, that government can never be constrained in either theory or practice but must be eliminated altogether from civilized society; but I can confirm the "in practice" bit of that due in part to the dogged determination, and ultimate failure, to prove the opposite by one of the most remarkable men I've been privileged to know: Andrew...
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January 8, 2007
Here is a professionally produced, full-length movie that alerts Joe Sixpack to the erosion of his liberties, and as such it deserves our close attention. This reviews its strengths and weaknesses.
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October 30, 2006
Here's why every human being, who is able and willing to engage his brain, mustbecome an anarchist.
The process of reasoning below is not hard. It may be true that at any one time the great majority of our fellow humans will not consider it--but that is a matter of will, not of ability. Anyone who does give this his or her attention will find that he has no...
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There's a wonderful resource on Strike The Root, called the Non-Voting Archive--well worth a visit, if you haven't been there recently. And if you have, the title above may trigger a double-take; has Jim entirely lost his marbles?
Not quite, I hope, though of course since I don't believe in government, there are those who think I lost them long ago, or that I never had any to...
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October 2, 2006
Carl Watner's extraordinary book I Must Speak Out is densely packed with superb material for the student of market anarchism, and one of its chapters reproduces an 1896 essay by Francis Tandy about what means are appropriate for getting from a Statist society to a free one. It is remarkable; and I got to wonder how things might have been for the last century,...
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September 21, 2006
A recent STR article by Tony Sampognaro suggested that The On Line Freedom Academy is too "academic" and lacks "WIFMs." I led the project of putting the Academy in place, so would like to respond.
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September 18, 2006
On television, there is one news program worth watching. With refreshing honesty, it bills itself as "the only fake news show in the world that admits it" and can be found on cable, at the Comedy Channel; late-night, with a repeat the next day in prime time for those of us who retire early. It's "The Daily Show," and its host at the anchor's desk is Jon Stewart...
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September 8, 2006
It's the key to the whole tragedy, and five years later it's even more tragic that so few are even asking that question, let alone suggesting an answer. It's one of the five that journalists are trained to ask about every story they cover (What, When, Where, Who and Why), and while the other four were answered professionally within hours of the first WTC impact...
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There was a little adverse reaction to my June article on Strike The Root, How We Can Get There From Here, by some skeptical of its success because its growth projections appeared too similar to those of the notorious "multi-level" marketing schemes (MLMs) that once filled our email inboxes. It was rightly observed that most of those are spectacular failures.
So I'd like to...
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Market anarchists have no problem visualizing an ideal society--one rid of the age-old curse of government, so that we self-owning human beings make all our own decisions, unburdened by any obligation except those undertaken explicitly and voluntarily.
Nor have we any problem seeing the ruin, misery and destruction caused by government, as it supercedes those sovereign decisions...
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I'm writing about those eleven million undocumented aliens among us. You recently decided to ship them back South, and although I do have an opinion about that, please allow me to not reveal it, for today I want to urge upon you only one point: that if you do enforce the law in that way, you do so efficiently and fairly.
First though, I can understand your reasoning. You make...
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The Preamble to the United States Constitution is surely one of the most sublime paragraphs ever written. Before this dissection begins, let's prop it up and admire it in all its glory:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure...
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In 1945, $5,000 would buy you a pretty nice house in most parts of the USA; yet according to the Inflation Calculator, that sum would equate to $52,500 60 years later, accounting just for the government's destruction of the value of the US Dollar. If someone has for sale a nice, well-maintained 3-bedroom ranch for $52 grand, please let me know.
More likely, today it would go for...
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There was a delicious moment on PBS' 'Lehrer News Hour' on January 25th.
The segment was run by correspondent Jeff Brown, and concerned an announcement from Google about its policy in China . Only 8% of Chinese have Internet access, but that's still 100 million people, so it's a huge market for the search-engine company, which it has decided to exploit by providing new Chinese...
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You probably heard this one, but here goes in case not: If the whole world were anarchist, who would enforce the law of gravity? Ka-boom. You may also have heard the Second Law of Thermodynamics, for our theist friends are fond of citing it to prove that the order found in nature is created: "In a closed system, entropy rises."
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Regular readers of Strike the Root need no reminder that 2007 was another terrible year for the cause of individual freedom; and that's just as well, for I might be arrested if I gave one. But liberty is more often eroded gradually than demolished all at once, and the events of this year had origins in 2006 and 2005--of which a quick reminder may be useful.
The worst day came...
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Nobody is better qualified than my friend Per Bylund to propose, as he did in a recent STR article, that we who yearn for liberty "save the world through saving [our]selves." Per is not only a brilliant thinker and prolific author (in two languages!) he founded an anarchist website before many of us got our brains in gear and has engaged in debate there all comers from...
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Ever since monarchs first felt the rumblings of discontent, they reached for a way to justify their miserable existences in the eyes of those upon the product of whose labor they lived in luxury; for many centuries the "Divine Right" theory did the job. The theory had it that a God exists, supremely governing the whole universe, and favors were granted to the Church to help it...
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The jury is still out, as I write these words. Its verdict may be in by the time you read them, and there's a blog with the latest news--but that's okay because the point of this article is not to comment on the trial's outcome but to show what government had to do, in order try to silence an influential advocate of freedom. Its conclusion will be that government is wholly unfit...
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My wise friend and mentor Anthony I. S. Alexander makes the analogy of a smooth-flowing stream, peaceful and beneficial to all in its proximity and fostering all manner of productive life in its waters. He supposes that at a point in its history, some hooligan tosses in a boulder, after which all the waters below are disturbed; eddy currents develop and hew out new paths through...
Towards the end of a recent Strike The Root article I predicted that New Orleans would be rebuilt regardless of cost, by the FedGov's use of money stolen from you and me, and with none of the discipline over spending that would be imposed by a free market--which would, of course, properly address the primary question in the first place, of whether it's a good idea to rebuild a city vulnerable to...
It's always amusing to watch different factions of the political class lambaste each other, if only because there is truth in so many of the rude things they say. It was quite a spectacle, for instance, when Barbara Boxer (D-CA) left her own LA and flew to the other LA to lecture the Republican President on his allegedly miserable failure to do more to help the poor left stranded by the recent...
There's something very peculiar about the disaster in New Orleans . News reports are full, of course, of vast numbers of homeless and hundreds of dead, and particularly of heroic action by rescue people, usually government employees. I mean no disrespect to any of those; on the contrary, I want only to point to the cause, so they need never be burdened thus again.
Some of those responding to a recent article of mine took me to task for its reference to the doctrine of original sin as a "myth." One message hoped that I'd arrange to be buried in an asbestos suit; that was subtle, but I think I understand. So here, I thought to address the question: can one with intellectual consistency embrace both individual freedom and Christianity?
Undoubtedly,...
Ever since large numbers of people realized that the Internet offers a way to communicate instantly and at zero marginal cost, there has been a problem called "spam." Some people get very heated about it and want the government to "do something" to impair free speech. I'm one of those who have always disagreed.
Of course, I too am a victim of what is properly called "UCE": Unsolicited Commercial...
On May 29th, French voters rejected the European Constitution, so kicking all establishment Pols in the eye; a resounding 55-45 said "Non." A couple of days later, Dutch ones did the same by an even wider margin. Right result, wrong reasons.
The greatest honor we can do for the American war dead is to get our brains in gear.
There's a circular argument circulating, and it urgently needs to be unspun: it holds that citizens owe a duty to fight the government's wars, because government exists mainly to defend the citizens. Let's leave aside for now the other few "justifications" for government to exist; they don't amount to much...
Government rests on a gigantic 'protection racket'; a threat is perceived, and Pols offer their services to protect people from it, in return for a grant of power. The alleged 'AIDS Epidemic' is a case in point, and doubly mendacious; there is no true threat, and there has certainly been no government-provided protection.
Currently we're getting used to revelations that the Iraq War (Act II) was started on the basis of completely false intelligence; in other words, a total screw-up, a massive blunder. However, this is nothing new. Most other wars also started as a result of government incompetence and/or government malevolence in some mix, and the exception usually perceived, World War Two, is no exception at all...
Once upon a time many years ago, a group of clever men gathered in the home town of Mr. Franklin to challenge an oxymoron: they set up a "limited government." The United States of America was the result, and to this day the tale persists that its powers have limits. This Friday, April 15th, we will each be able to check that out.
There's no possibility of reconciling the opposites in this debate, for one side regards an unborn fetus as a person with full legal rights to life and to the protection of the law, even in some cases when it's only a zygote, while the other sees it as a clump of cells entitled to neither. The first perception normally springs from religious belief, and that in its nature is never subject to...
This month Martha Stewart emerged from five months' incarceration after being convicted of lying to the government. Next month you, dear Reader, will have to decide what you are going to do about your tax return. The two events are connected.
John and Jane lived together. I don't really know whether they ever underwent a marriage ceremony; there are no wedding photos on their walls, but they'd been together, so their neighbors say, for several years; so even if they never signed a bit of government paper, I guess they may still be man and wife, in "common law." And they really were fond of one another, which is more than you can say...
From the latter's recent article in Britain's Spectator magazine, it appears that the readership of Strike The Root may include such luminaries as the Archbishop of Canterbury and the distinguished free-market Conservative historian Paul Johnson; for it refers to the very themes struck in my recent piece here about the tsunami.
First off, I must declare an interest in "Social Security": I'd starve without it. That aside, all my opinions on it are strictly impartial and objective. Good, now that's out of the way.
On January 11th, President Bush announced his panel to recommend needed changes in Social Security, and since for at least a quarter century anyone able to think straight and do math has been...
Good articles here on Strike The Root develop one single theme; authors tell readers what we are going to tell you, then we tell you, then we tell you what we told you; and all is wrapped up in a neat bundle. Sorry, but this one will be different. The only common thread below is the tsunami. These thoughts are what happened to catch my interest in the wake of the disaster, as one member of the...
The broad freedom movement in America today is united in believing that government is massively too big, too expensive, too intrusive and too dangerous; but otherwise holds quite a spectrum of opinions about why, how much, and what's to be done about it. At one end of it are people like me, who perceive that government in its essential nature is unalterably opposed to human beings in our...
Soon after becoming a libertarian, I tried to imagine how society would function with a far, far smaller government, and I lost no time. It was not hard to see the appalling waste government produces, nor the towering inefficiency of its operations. I could quickly grasp that most major functions needed to be turned over to free competitive enterprise: health care, welfare, retirement...
Notice three distinctive features, not previously seen:
1. Everyone, not just "opinion leaders," is to be enlightened. No doubt, that will be a tough job with the hard core of government junkies; but remember that every human is rational at root, and that attitudes will change with time. There is a 23-year period involved here, and today's hard case will be less resistant when, two...
For a long time past, those with some idea which way is up have been pointing out correctly that the electoral process is a farce, and we'll revisit some of the reasons below; but this year there has come a fresh one to confirm it, in the shape of Osama Bin Ladin. To the shock and horror of every talking head and pompous Pol, this wily A-rab released a tape which, they fumed, sought to "...
Once again, as Election Day approached the mantra intensifies: never mind for whom, but vote! It's your birthright, etc etc. For those troubled by a vague feeling that they are being hornswaggled, I write to offer comfort.
1. A first reason for not voting carries no weight with me personally, for I happen to be one who likes thinking outside the box and making up my own mind; but I mention it...
If you can stand the boredom, it's no bad idea now and again to watch C-SPAN for a while. The patient producers on that channel do a fine job of exposing our rulers' work to the public gaze. Sometimes, as below, a few minutes with C-SPAN can convince us afresh that no rational, acceptable alternative exists to a zero-government society.
It was a dull evening elsewhere on the TV spectrum, so I...
Here in New Hampshire, anyway, September 14th was the day good political zombies were supposed to turn out and cast a vote. And the previous day at my Town Dump (what better locale?) a lady approached to remind me of that fact.
I thanked her for her reminder, but said that I didn't believe in government.
The shock of hearing that from an otherwise normal-looking and soft-spoken dumper of trash (...
Few raconteurs on radio are more entertaining than the multi-talented Garrison Keillor. His insights into human nature seem penetrating. His stories of country life in Minnesota are homely and gripping, his humor can be hilarious yet he can turn from comedy to pathos on a dime, then back again just as fast. And to top it all, he can very passably sing. An announcement that his Prairie Home...
Oxymorons pop up all over the place, rather like the little green men of Irish folklore, or the Trolls to be found in every Swedish forest. They are there, you know they are there, but unless you look real hard, you never see them in the light of day.
Let's pause to define the word. An oxymoron is a phrase with an internal contradiction, like "square circle," or "dry water...
The old joke has it that anyone who likes sausages or laws should not watch either of them being made; and there is something in that, though it's a long way short of the whole truth. Here, let's dig deeper. The viciously corrupt, immoral way in which laws are created, and their bizarre and unpredictable effects on the economy, are not the primary reasons why we should despise them all....
Television this week is full of D-Day documentaries, because June 6th is the sixtieth anniversary of the famous invasion. Government and its audiovisual propagandists don't seem to have learned a whole lot in those six decades, for that assault is still portrayed as glorious.
I was there, kind of. As a boy of 7 in the English Midlands, I awoke that day to the sound of continuous droning high...
In Maine, it's famously impossible to get there from here; so as I reflected on the loathing with which much of the world now regards the fair name of America as a bomb-spitting, empire-seeking, prisoner-torturing monster, I wondered how we got here--having started 228 years ago with such a fervent passion for individual liberty, peace and trade.
I went back to re-examine the Declaration of...
American torture of Iraqi prisoners has been called "sadistic" but that unjustly demeans the memory of the Marquis de Sade. It is no such thing. The merry Marquis lived (1740-1814) in La Coste, France, and had by all accounts a voracious sexual appetite and a fine disregard for convention. He threw wild parties and the partygoers indulged in orgies galore--complete with whips,...
The Iraq fiasco is providing a powerful validation of our Libertarian theory about how a free society would best be defended.
That's not of course to say that Iraq is in any sense a free society. Nor it is to disrespect the hundreds of Americans who have been killed there, nor to pass judgment on who, there, are the good guys and bad guys--an extraordinarily difficult task. Nor in particular does...
The Power of Twelve
by Jim Davies
In a zero-government society (ZGS) the only disputes that could arise would be those between individuals in society, and not between individuals and government--for there wouldn't be one. And those disputes would be settled under the terms of contracts previously agreed, as is sometimes done today in civil...
Did you hear someone say that today?
Or last week, last month or last year? - me neither. It's a funny thing, but although it's not hard to get someone to agree that Group X or Type Y certainly need to be controlled for the good of society (and although members of Group X may favor it for those of Type Y, and those of Type Y for those of Group X) the speaker's enthusiasm for...
Happily, these days the freedom movement has plenty of good web sites and magazines that routinely expose the massive harm done by government programs; and there are so many tens of thousands of government activities that such writers will never run short of material. They usually point out that among that welter of programs there are a few useful functions that would be in demand in a free...
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The jury is still out, as I write these words. Its verdict may be in by the time you read them, and there's a blog with the latest news--but that's okay because the point of this article is not to comment on the trial's outcome but to show what government had to do, in order try to silence an influential advocate of freedom. Its conclusion will be that government is wholly unfit...
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The Preamble to the United States Constitution is surely one of the most sublime paragraphs ever written. Before this dissection begins, let's prop it up and admire it in all its glory:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure...
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June 15, 2007
It's just a year since I wrote to suggest how we can get there from here, so I thought you'd like to know that the project is proceeding nicely. In response to that announcement, about as many as I had hoped joined the Academy it introduced, and that one-time boost will bring forward by several years the day that government evaporates; it's still too early to...
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November 26, 2007
Imagine the Feds were to obey and be limited by the US Constitution. Would that produce a free society?
As a stick with which to defend oneself against government people, the Constitution is a lot better than nothing. They invade your privacy without "probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and...
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I'll not tell you the date, but based upon a very few simple and well-grounded assumptions, it will fall in the year 2027. "E-Day" is the day that all government in America will evaporate because, having gained a proper understanding of its nature, nobody will be willing any longer to work for it on any terms; tens of millions will have done what a certain DMV...
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For the first time ever in recorded human history, in 2027 a major society began righting wrongs and restoring damaged rights.
True, I'm being a little unfair to the quite enlightened traditions in Somalia, to settlers of mediaeval Iceland, and to villagers throughout Europe in the same era--who resolved social outrages like theft, homicide and assault by arraigning the perp...
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Where and when did government start? It's quite a mystery. Given that human beings are basically harmless creatures, how did it happen that an inherently violent institution arose in human society, whose whole raison d'tre is always to destroy the fundamental human right of self-governance? The question is important not just to satisfy historical understanding, but to...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Michael Kleen's Conversation with Vox Day was an unusual article for Strike The Root, but gave a valuable insight into why theists may become good branch-trimming libertarians, but seldom ax-wielding, anarchist root-strikers. I had noticed Mr. Day at the masthead of that highly Statist, conservative publication World Net Daily, with its 24-point...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Given the axiom of self-ownership, there's very little difference between those two verbs. To govern someone is to override his own wishes; he wants to do X, but government commands him to do Y. Likewise, to enslave someone is to override his own plans; he wants to be an Econ Professor and columnist, but the slave-owner commands him to pick cotton, and...
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Nobody is better qualified than my friend Per Bylund to propose, as he did in a recent STR article, that we who yearn for liberty "save the world through saving [our]selves." Per is not only a brilliant thinker and prolific author (in two languages!) he founded an anarchist website before many of us got our brains in gear and has engaged in debate there all comers from...
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One of the nice things about not voting is that one can enjoy a little sport at the expense of those who do. Let me share with you an example or three.
A few days before November 4th, I visited a nearby town, and first called at the government postal monopoly for some stamps so that I could write to an innocent friend incarcerated in a government prison. Standing in line, I said...
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Is Anders Breivik bad, or mad? If his Norwegian judges find him insane, they will lock him up at the King's pleasure with crazies until he proves he loves Big Brother, and that may be forever; but if they find him criminally liable for murdering 77 people last July, he will spend about 20 years in the company of others, about half of whom are probably...
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For ten thousand years, governments have polluted the human race by stealing and squandering the products of our labor, repeatedly creating war and destruction, and choking off initiative and invention. Yet now, in this present era, there is serious hope that these parasites will cease to leech. The root of the problem is, at long last, being...
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[Author's Note: Readers who know someone who helps operate elections might usefully refer him or her to this article. Should it become widely read before November, it could have an interesting effect. It's adapted from one of a series at the new web site TinyURL.com/QuitGov, which aims to help government employees lead honest lives....
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Few novels if any can have so profoundly assisted the spread of socialism in the century following 1850 as those of Charles Dickens, for they portrayed vividly the slums in English cities during the Industrial Revolution which enabled Karl Marx, who lived in London with support from his friend Friedrich Engels, to denounce the capitalist system he said had...
Column by Jim Davies.
Government tries to justify its ubiquitous spying on private correspondence on the back of 9/11. It's just another government lie. The events below took place four years earlier.
Back in 1997, Mr Gingrich was a powerful figure in DC – Speaker of the House. Soon afterwards he swapped wives and was cast into outer darkness for a decade, but recently he ran...
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From time to time a market researcher calls me up and asks for a few minutes of my time to answer his or her survey questions. I always answer “Yes, I'll be happy to; what rate are you offering?”
“What was that, again?”
“What are you offering to pay? My opinions, on a range of topics, are highly valuable. So is my...
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You've just been kicked in the teeth, and this is to convey sympathy and comfort, as well as sincere congratulations for what you've done – along with suggestions about what you might best do next.
The way you have been treated by your own Party is a scandal that will long reverberate – and was so stupid even from the Party's perspective...
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That was the promise, made by politicos in the England of my youth; health care, they said, is a right, an entitlement. In Churchill's wartime cabinet, William Beveridge, whom I briefly met 15 years later, had designed a scheme by 1945, and it was rushed through and implemented in 1947. The exodus of British doctors to North America began shortly...
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The coming free society will be rational; residents will live on the basis of reality and reason rather than myth. We will recognize government for what it is and therefore reject it on rational grounds; we will think in rational, economic terms predominantly. I can be sure of this, because a free society will not come into being until everyone does think...
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Alex Knight's recent fine column The Post Office that Government Built relates the sad case of one of its 600,000 employees who faces a bleak future as that structure is poised for collapse. It might be useful to compare such cases with the similar ones that will take place when government servants quit voluntarily, having learned what freedom and...
Column by Jim Davies.
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It's fairly clear what “evil” is, we know it when we see it. But what is its opposite, goodness? And are human beings basically good, evil, neutral or something else?
It's important to understand that, because if for example mankind is marred with a bias towards evil, the case for a restraining government, as Paine and others have...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Many reading this already understand the Self-ownership Axiom; that we each own our own lives by right, and hence that all government is an unnatural and ruinous appendage. Among those who do, though, surprisingly there is disagreement over what to do about it.
Some hold that resistance by such voluntaryists in the present government-saturated environment...
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All governments everywhere depend for their survival on their victim “citizens” failing to see (that is, to understand) what they are doing. In English, to “see” carries both meanings; we can see what they are up to, yet at the same time fail to grasp its significance.
It's an amazing form of blindness, yet it affects nearly...
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It's often said that government is good at only one thing: waging war. I doubt that.
Very true that waging war is its favorite activity, but that seems to me to overstate its skills somewhat; government may be better at waging war than at anything else, but it's not really good at it at all. For starters, the success rate is on average 50%. Then...
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Patrick Buchanan is a conservative--and more a social or cultural one than an economic one. He makes no pretense to be a libertarian, still less an anarchist; he is or was a Washington “insider” to the extent of being on the staff of Tricky Dick Nixon, and to that of being a regular on prime-time talk shows like “The McLaughlin Group....
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The wage due for a week's worth of unskilled labor today might be $464, and so it was two or three hundred years ago – though then, it was often called a “pound.” Of silver, that is.
Is that to be fixed by law as the permanent value of such labor, or is it to be free to vary subjectively with demand, supply and quality? I hope that...
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Freedom cannot be imposed by force. I (and many others) have said that before, yet the Libertarian Party continues to exist. There are also those who imagine that if there is a general economic collapse, free-market businessmen will step into the power vacuum and set up a libertarian or anarchist society with which everyone else will then cooperate (or else...
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It's the name given to a chart of price movement that shows a very large rise, followed by a very large fall; its shape is more or less symmetrical, like the one shown here representing the price of shares in the South Sea Company around 1720 and denominated in pounds. As it shows, the price rose briefly by a factor of nine. This South Sea Bubble is the...
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Yet another overture is being played, for the magnum opus of Armageddon, the long-predicted final battle between good and evil (i.e., us vs. them) somewhere not far from Israel. Others have been played before, in 1967, for example, but this one centered on Syria is shaping up to be quite a doozie. Nearly all players in the region are tuning up their...
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In a lively exchange in the Guardian comments section recently, a strong bias was revealed to the effect that government is needed to prevent corporations running wild and tyrannizing the world. That's one of the elderly fictions that is still thrust down the throats of trusting children in government schools, to assure them that government is not...
Column by Jim Davies.
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In a LewRockwell.com blog post on June 7th, Mike Rozeff offered the surprising opinion that taxation is not necessarily always theft, because some people accept the need to pay it and do so willingly. He called that an example of the “consent of the governed.” I've engaged him in a friendly email exchange since, but we still disagree....
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In September 1971 there was a serious riot in the state prison in Attica, NY, which left 39 dead, and drew much comment. One of the comments was as follows. See whether you can guess by whom it was made:
“Any mutiny by the prisoners is going to be put down and put down hard.”
The State Governor, maybe? Or some law-n-order Conservative? Probably...
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Recently there was an unusually perceptive comment posted on these pages, that noted the folly of supposing that believers in government can be expected to leave us infidels in peace.
There are only two ways of getting what one wants: earning it, or stealing it. Persuade, or compel. This is the great divide, the feature that separates believers from non-...
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There was a lot of fuss recently about something they call the “debt ceiling.” Supposedly, it's a kind of limit to what the FedGov can borrow. It's all a load of horsefeathers, of course, because whenever they find the limit inconvenient, they will raise it – as they have already done, 95 times in a row. One of the key features of...
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(With acknowledgements to C.S. Lewis and Christopher Hitchens.)
So, nephew, you've been called to serve on a jury. Congratulations!
I was very glad to learn last month that you plan never to vote again, so it's a good idea to get yourself off the voters' list. But meanwhile, you're still on it – hence this opportunity to help some...
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I'd be very scared if confronted by someone armed, and evidently mad or malevolent.
The first type might well do me harm, fatally maybe, because he or she wouldn't understand or be responsible for the actions about to be taken. A young child, perhaps, slashing a kitchen knife while playing some martial-arts fantasy he has dreamed up. Or an adult in...
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It's very sad, to see so much of it around STR. Several whose fingers fly over the keyboard to make comments seem to think that government is a fixture, here to stay.
This is not limited to STR, mind; I enjoy much of the work of Fred Reed on another site, and noticed a fine recent example called Your Papers, Citizen which expertly compared the...
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Last week Forbes magazine ran an article by one Peter Reilly, to assess the merits of Irwin Schiff's stand against the alleged income tax, and drawing extensively on remarks made by his son Peter Schiff, the investment advisor. To call the article “fair” would over-rate it, but it did bring that debate to the attention of some highly...
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In October 1944, Christian Günther, the Swedish Foreign Minister, relaxed with a group of journalists and casually mentioned a telegram sent to him on June 17th, 1940 by Björn Prytz, then his envoy in London.
When the news of his remarks reached London, it threw the then Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, into a tizzy: “It is most...
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It has struck again; Season Four is upon us, descending like a British influenza. More than six million were infected with Season Two, more than eight million by Season Three; and early reports say the present visitation will lay low over ten million Americans on the next several Sunday evenings. I myself am running a temperature.
For the few whose...
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The power-crazed psychopaths running government need one thing above all: a supply of employees to do their grunt work. With that, they can survive any crisis, any criticism, any revenue shortfall, any desertion by voters; but without it, they are powerless. Therefore, those wishing to enjoy life without government in practice as well as in theory need...
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On February 14th the UAW took another kick in the teeth; employees of Volkswagen at its plant in Chattanooga voted 712 to 626 not to join. Trade unionists everywhere were buzzing like demented hornets; on The Guardian website I offered a little comfort (“The union lost. Boo-hoo. Get over it. Unions are parasites.”) but, alas, I was heavily...
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At about 7.35 p.m. ET on February 22nd, the NBC News TV reporter grabbed my attention with the following, as well as I can recall it:
“Government has disappeared.” and “The are no policemen to be seen. Not even traffic cops.”
This, again, was 2014 – not 2027. And it was not a spoof, like the alien invasion one in 1938. The...
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Everyone wants to be free, to make his own decisions without interference. That's a no-brainer; if there are any exceptions beyond those unhappily born without the ability to manage for themselves, they are very few. I never met anyone who said “Rule me, please!”
Libertarians, however, add one crucial and distinguishing feature to that: We...
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"Capitalism" is another of those words, like "liberal," whose meanings have been twisted by time, use and particularly by government influence, to mean something quite different from, and sometimes opposite to, their original intent. When we see Occupy Wall Street protesters waving banners calling for its downfall, they are referring to...
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One of the ugliest things said about freedom advocates is that in a society without government, large numbers of poor people would be trampled underfoot. Critics say that if all were free selfishly to pursue our own ends, many would be left behind, to suffer and starve. That such a society would be harsh, uncaring, divisive, mean. That it's necessary to have a government, to...
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One of the hottest exports from America, to judge from the vacuous rhetoric of the recent election campaigns, is that of jobs. This time it wasn't so much Ross Perot's ”giant sucking sound” from Mexico, but the unprincipled greed of the bargain-producers in China who were the main culprits. Today I found a whole fountain pen for less...
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It's now 100 years since fiat money was introduced to America, by the Federal Reserve Act. In that century, over 98.5% of its value has been destroyed.
Suppose you found a counterfeit bill in your wallet. Would you spend it? The recipient would hand over something valuable in exchange, but when he came to deposit the bill, it would be rejected, so he...
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The nation is breathless, as I write, awaiting news from the Supreme Court about what marriage is. Crowds attend its building, working themselves up into a tizzy and a froth, for inside its lobby is engraved the arrogant and outrageous claim:
IT IS EMPHATICALLY THE PROVINCE AND DUTY OF
THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT TO SAY WHAT THE LAW IS
~ directly...
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Having undergone surgery this year following a stomach ache, that's a condition I will not wish upon anyone; but if stomachs do have to malfunction somewhere, the inside of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is one of the least inappropriate places--and he confirmed, last week, that the inner turmoil has already begun: 'the ramifications of make-your-own...
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Famously, in 1922 Ludwig von Mises predicted the ultimate failure of socialism, for the good reason that in a planned economy, freely-moving prices are outlawed, while freely-moving prices are the only valid signal of what is wanted, where, when and in what quantity. It took a while – and a dreadful war – but in 1990 he was proven right. The...
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During the latter half of the last century, shopping changed its character, to accommodate the popularity of the inexpensive horseless carriage. Instead of stores being all grouped together near the town center in a manner convenient for customers who arrived on foot, either direct from nearby homes or from the bus depot, the “out of town shopping...
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In 1991, while a Communist counter-coup was being repressed in Moscow, jubilant crowds pulled down a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky which had stood in front of the KGB headquarters building, the Lubyanka. Despite his nickname, it had been made of bronze, lest a Hero of the Revolution turn rusty. Note that it was a spontaneous demolition by plain people, not...
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Everything they say, these Pols, is scripted and rehearsed. I find it really, really difficult to tell whether their endless stream of dicta is serious, or just theater. It's always theater, of course, but sometimes it's also truly meant, and that usually means big trouble, but how does one know when they're kidding and when, not?
Clearly,...
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Last month, I splurged a whole 99 cents on the download of an 89-year-old book.
Worth every penny, it's a non-fiction horror story: James Murphy's 1939 English translation of Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf. Its sheer blandness and apparently reasonable, normal prose is what sets it apart, in the light of what arose from it a decade or two later....
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Nothing can match the institution of government for sheer malevolence and resultant mayhem, but the modern media come close; the big, established ones that report selected items of news, arranged and analyzed so as powerfully to mold public opinion and thereby help perpetuate the established order. Happily and thanks largely to the Internet and the...
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I'd heard somewhere that Leo Tolstoy was an anarchist, so reckoned it was high time I read War and Peace. Thanks to gutenberg.org, I was able to download both that and Anna Karenina and enjoy the pair of them on vacation rainy days. Having done so, I must dismiss the rumor; he was an extraordinary author and thinker, and upset Establishment clerics and...
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I've been continuing to read the fascinating story of the modern libertarian movement's early years, as told in the Libertarian Forum, edited and often written by Murray Rothbard. It's vast, but very worthwhile – warmly recommended. I've supplemented it recently with a re-read of parts of Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of him...
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If I outline the delights of a free society, quite often the listener will say that it's "Utopian." All very nice but not practical, he means, and after clarification he usually agrees that "Utopian" means a status that is not stable; that if it is put into place, it will inevitably collapse. If I have the chance, I'll then continue by...
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Last month I wrote Opinion and Reason to encourage clear, rational thinking: i.e., to begin with a premise, progress from it in logical steps, and only then to arrive at a conclusion. This sits in contrast to the much more usual method of reaching any opinion: to begin with a prejudice (a “pre-judgment”) and then perhaps look around for...
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Faith: what a person believes, regardless of fact, evidence, proof or reason; it's powerful stuff. It can cause him to surrender his life, and to rob others of theirs, all the while retaining a strong sense of virtue, of doing the right thing.
My first-ever face to face encounter with the Infernal Robbery Syndicate was an audit in Connecticut with a...
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There are people who rob banks, and banks that rob people. This is about the latter. Our friendly Main Street banker is a robber; in two ways now, and with a third in preparation.
Way #1 applies directly and terribly, but to only a few of his customers, and until he strikes, it's fairly well hidden. Some years ago I opened a bank account, and eventually...
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Below is a photograph of a happy cop.
He's happy because at the end of a trying day, his team accomplished its mission; a suspected murderer had been arrested. He's also happy because behind him, a crowd of local residents, whom he thinks he “protects and serves,” is applauding him and his comrades for a job well done.
That doesn...
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Is the state a fiction, a myth? How in either case does it compare to a business company, also sometimes called a fictional entity? Or to a religion?
I'm using "state" not so much to mean a particular political organization like the State of New Hampshire, but more in the sense used by Oppenheimer in The State, or by Bastiat in his...
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Several of my friends insert the two letters "st" in the middle of the word, to express the view that bankers make up a large, organized criminal class. Here, I'll follow the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty, and check some of the evidence, but meanwhile leave those letters out.
At root, a bank...
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I've tried, but have not been able to agree with Paul Bonneau's recent article Libertarians Are Nothing Special. Quite the contrary, I think libertarians are extraordinarily special.
Many of us begin by taking an interest in the political scene, and vote for a libertarian candidate in some election. That's a mistaken strategy, yes, but as a starting...
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Why does it matter, to market anarchists, whether or not God exists? Surely all would be able, in a free society, to believe whatever they wish about religion?
That was the thrust of Paul Bonneau's recent article here, and he added that it's counterproductive for the libertarian spokesman to ridicule the religious. His point is well taken. In the...
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The abrupt termination of the distinguished, six-decade career of Helen Thomas, after she expressed her opinion about Jews on May 27th, has something fishy about it. There are layers of deception to be uncovered, and since nobody else has removed them, I will make the attempt. You read it here first.
Until that day, there had been no...
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The Reverend Thomas Malthus was no dummy. He made a colossal and famous error by predicting at the end of the 18th Century that human population would stop growing for want of food to feed any more people, but he was a serious scholar nonetheless. He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and as well as being an Anglican clergyman was...
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An advocate for the US Constitution recently argued on the Peter Mac Show that any group of people in any locality properly has the right to set up an association and to define its terms. He was correct, of course. The terms agreed would relate to who can belong and who, not--and to how decisions of policy and practice shall be made, as...
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It's a bit difficult to compress a big slice of human history into a few hundred words, so if I omit some of your favorite details, I hope you'll forgive me.
I pick 1492 as being the pivotal year in that immense saga. One could of course choose from other good candidates: 50,000 years ago when mankind migrated out of Africa to populate the rest of the...
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There's a theory that holds that a government is okay provided that the people in its domain agree for it to exist and rule, and I thank David Eagle for my title, though the reasoning and conclusions are my own.
The theory seems to have two forms: One is the familiar "Constitutionalist" position that says that America was just fine...
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It was the best and the worst century in human history, and it ends this month.
The previous one closed in 1912, a year best remembered for the sinking of the Titanic--a story that has been skillfully tuned to incite distrust of business and reliance on governments. It's a fable, which I demolish here. But the fable served as a prélude to what...
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Murray Rothbard never pretended to be infallible, and he wasn't; but when he wrote or spoke on his specialty of economics, he was . . . close enough for government work. I had the chance to hear him speak several times, and have some of his books, and say that he was the most brilliant, prolific and consistent pro-freedom writer of the 20th Century....
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There's a lot of silly superstitions around, one of which regards the number 13 as unlucky, leading to irrational but septasyllabic triskaidekaphobia. Tall buildings are built with floors numbered up to 12, then 14 and beyond; it must play havoc with the design engineers. According to Shyam Sunder Gupta, in 1993 the prestigious British Medical Journal...
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World history was radically changed, in the small Turkish town presently known as Iznik. It affected a vast range of human activities during the last 17 centuries; it housed an event more significant than Rome itself with its claim to dominate Christendom, than Paris with its thousand years of prominence in trade and culture, than Florence or Venice with...
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The great danger of criticizing specific things government does or says or fails to do or say is that readers can reasonably infer that if the opposite were done or said, all would be well. In other words, they can infer that the author envisages the possibility of a satisfactory government. I do not, ever, anywhere; for by definition (of “govern...
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It's been a great pleasure to see media mention every day recently of the man who once said in my hearing that the IRS is "the world's largest terrorist organization." The mere possibility that Ron Paul could actually get elected President is enough to make any liberty lover salivate. That he should already have stacked up some straw-poll...
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Those who lend money to the government participate in a fraud, for all of them know that it has only one way ultimately to pay either interest or principal: by stealing it. So if they ever lose it (and they will, as below) there will be no sympathy from this quarter.
They do the lending by purchasing municipal bonds and Treasury Bills,...
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Any phone book has a long list of government offices. So isn't this a silly question?
Not really. All those listed items are departments of government, or representatives of the State, or Town etc. Where and what exactly is the state itself? Like the famous Wendy's ad from 1984, we're interested in the core of the matter: Where's the Beef?
If you...
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Underlying approaches to the great problem of how to rid society of government parasites without violence is the insight of Etienne de la Boëtie:
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like...
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Dr. Gary North is a prolific writer, as shown by his huge archive at LRC; and most of those of his articles I've read are very good. He's particularly perceptive about the future of higher education, as this recent example illustrates.
Sometimes he's too long-winded for my taste, and sometimes he seems to me to get it wrong – though the...
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We are Root Strikers here, because rather than trying to trim the branches of the evil tree of government, we seek a way to destroy its roots. Some want a smaller or minimal government; we want none at all. It's a powerful analogy, a good name.
We are also voluntaryists, for we believe every human action should be uncompelled. That's explicit, and...
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In June I had the pleasure of visiting PorcFest 2010, a friendly festival of freedom-seekers held in Northern New Hampshire; so far north that, had one traveled much further, one would have entered Her Majesty's jurisdiction. One of her subjects had in fact come south, from his freedomain somewhere near the North Pole, to enhance the Festival;...
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Last month in The Thirteenth Year, I suggested a few dreadful government actions that would make 2013 memorable. I missed one: mea culpa. This was the year in which a minor government in the Mediterranean turned an island into a verb. Its subject is a government, its object is the money someone holds in a bank in its jurisdiction, and its meaning is that the...
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Chapter 8 of my Transition to Liberty shows that I foresee the time--in the mid-2020s, for reasons it explains--when widespread civil disobedience will play a valuable part in hastening the end of the government era. It will be a period when around one in four of the population has learned what liberty means (and what government means) and so is eager...
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Prior to Harry Browne's first run for US President in 1996, his friend John Pugsley wrote him a passionate “open letter” urging him not to. As far as I know, Harry didn't reply, but he did continue his campaign – and repeated it four years later. He got few votes more than the LP normally receives, but his platform and campaign were...
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I've been re-reading a couple of excellent, recent articles on Strike The Root, each of which in its way predicts a gloomy future.
One is Glen Allport's "Year Ahead" and the other, Tzo's "Got Money?. Glen provides us as usual with a wealth of evidence to prove his point, piling one piece atop another until there can be no doubt of the message...
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Recently I re-read part of that seminal essay, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boëtie, written in 1548, or 464 years ago. He said that if you want to topple a tyrant, all you need to do is to withdraw support. No violence, no sweat, just stop helping him.
Yet 24 years later there was a massacre of Huguenot Protestants, indicating that...
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There's no doubt of it, Obama is one of the world's two best orators of the last hundred years, and his performance at the December 10th ceremony was stellar. Was there a teleprompter? I didn't see him even glance at a set of notes, yet the delivery was flawless. To his credit also is the way his speech addressed head-on an irony of the occasion; here was the world's...
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Normally I give politics all the close attention it deserves, which is to say, next to none; but I've been unable to avoid the thick layers of hypocrisy that have been oozing out of the Mexican Gulf since BP's blowout preventer failed to prevent a blowout.
At once, it was plain that an awful tragedy was looming. Not just the tragedies of...
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John Pistole, our nation's Groper in Chief, told Margaret Warner on PBS' News Hour on November 16th what a shame it would be if travelers missed their connections at Thanksgiving because more of us than usual elected to "opt-out" of what are becoming known as the TSA's new "porno scanners"--in favor of a highly intrusive pat...
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The words "escape" and "prison" fit together like hands in gloves in the mind of every prisoner, but in that of every warden, the two will never meet; or not on his watch, not if he can help it. So prisons don't have fire escapes. Instead, they are built of materials that will not burn; concrete, steel, brick. They look dull, but they...
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The Tea Party is confused; no new news there. It has the great virtue of gathering together under one banner a variety of folk displeased with government, but their interests are so diverse as to prohibit a coherent alternative platform. Rather like the electorate as a whole, some want government to do A, while others want it to do Non-A. Unfortunately, I...
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The Internet is abuzz with execration of the TSA, and deservedly so, but recently Becky Akers reported on one site that the agency now rivals the IRS in the degree to which Americans detest it. That's a very notable achievement, given that it's had a mere one decade instead of ten, to attract such loathing.
The report rings true. Only a minority of us fly,...
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Last week, sales of tabloids on the streets of London were boosted by the news that a French magazine had published photos of the Duchess of Cambridge – gasp – topless.
She and her husband the future King were relaxing in a “secluded chateau” for what they reasonably thought was a period of privacy by the pool, but it...
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They mark limits on government power. If you or I have some right or other, it means government is excluded. If we own some property by right, its agents may enter only by permission – or else by force, violating the right. If we have the right to remain silent, its agents may not rightly oblige us to speak.
Government really, really doesn't like...
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Is there one, really? Quite a few think so. I wonder how many of them know what Muslims believe. I wonder how many of those know what they believe themselves, and why. Anyway, let's take a look--and if there is one, let's think how such a menace would be handled in a free society. To those kindly concerned that I might be targeted by terrorists...
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Carl Menger's great discovery was that all economic activity consists of everyone's individual, subjective choices. His successors in the Austrian school – Bawerk, von Mises, Rothbard, et al – have amplified that and refined it, but that's the fundamental truth. That is how prices are determined and why products are produced. The...
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Recently some friends and I discussed the nature of hom sap so as better to understand how it could be that the violent institution of government could appear from nowhere, back before writing was invented. Are we good, or evil, or neither?
We didn't reach full agreement, but the subject was given a new boost by B.R. Merrick's recent fine thought-provoker, The Heart...
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Perhaps the most delightful chapter in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the one describing Dagny Taggart's visit to Galt's Gulch. Exhausted and frustrated by trying to run a railroad in the teeth of bureaucrats and bloodsuckers, she drops in to see what a free society is like--and is given a vision of liberty. If Rand had never...
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When I mentioned here last year that I'd made a little web site at TinyURL.com/QuitGov, there were, incredibly, some who poured scorn on the idea – which was, as stated, to introduce to its employees the news that it's dishonest to work for government, and so to prepare their minds for the day when one or more of their friends invites them to...
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To protect the guilty, I'll falsify his name as “Naylor,” but last weekend I received a concise email from someone who had read my recent Murray's Missing Plan on STR; for doing which, of course, he is much to be commended. Among other things, he offered three key opinions:
Universal re-education won't work, 99% of children are...
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Better late, it's said, than never. So while I should have taken the opportunity years ago, this month I got around to it and listened to the famous interview of Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace, made for TV in black and white in 1959. You too can see it, on YouTube here (use Ixquick to find Parts 2 and 3.)
It lasts 30 minutes, and it's a half hour very...
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One of the debates among liberty seekers is about the extent to which it's morally right to accept or reject government handouts. In my opinion, it's one of a rather small number of issues still open to valid debate, and for sure there are good, sincere people on both sides of it and I respect all of them. Although these remarks come down clearly on one side, that respect...
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Among the welter of news reports about the recent tragedy in Haiti, I noticed a couple that were quite perceptive. As it happens, they both broke surface on the PBS News Hour.
One came a few days after January 12th from David Brooks, the Hour's token conservative. He observed that a slightly more severe earthquake had hit San Francisco and Oakland in 1989, which brought...
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The Complete Libertarian Forum (CLF) is a massive work, and by not hurrying I'm making some slow but satisfying progress. I'm up to October 1973, and at Kindle location 25370 there are some remarks by Murray Rothbard about Robert LeFevre.
Apparently this libertarian scholar and apologist wasn't quite to Murray's liking, for I'd seen...
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Only one credible plan exists, as far as I know, for the elimination of government in short order. It's outlined here and in summary it consists of each market anarchist introducing one of his or her friends per year to a freedom school, and resigning his government job if he has one. Easy, inexpensive, unstoppable, and totally indispensable. No other...
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The aftermath of the release of the first 1% of the recent second wave of leaks of sensitive government documents is in some ways more fun than reading of the newly uncovered secrets themselves. It has drawn a clear distinction between those who are horrified and those who are delighted; like the acid test for fake gold, this reveals what people really think...
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I've been continuing to read the fascinating story of the modern libertarian movement's early years, as told in the Libertarian Forum, edited and often written by Murray Rothbard. It's vast, but very worthwhile – warmly recommended. I've supplemented it recently with a re-read of parts of Justin Raimondo's excellent biography of him...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Prior to Harry Browne's first run for US President in 1996, his friend John Pugsley wrote him a passionate “open letter” urging him not to. As far as I know, Harry didn't reply, but he did continue his campaign – and repeated it four years later. He got few votes more than the LP normally receives, but his platform and campaign were...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Recently I re-read part of that seminal essay, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boëtie, written in 1548, or 464 years ago. He said that if you want to topple a tyrant, all you need to do is to withdraw support. No violence, no sweat, just stop helping him.
Yet 24 years later there was a massacre of Huguenot Protestants, indicating that...
Column by Jim Davies.
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Many reading this already understand the Self-ownership Axiom; that we each own our own lives by right, and hence that all government is an unnatural and ruinous appendage. Among those who do, though, surprisingly there is disagreement over what to do about it.
Some hold that resistance by such voluntaryists in the present government-saturated environment...
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When the Church of Rome has in mind to elevate one of its heroes or heroines to the status of sainthood, it follows a certain procedure – one element of which is to hear the opinion of an advocatus diaboli – a devil's advocate. His job is to reason against the proposed canonization, so reducing the probability of error.
That task fell in...
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You've just been kicked in the teeth, and this is to convey sympathy and comfort, as well as sincere congratulations for what you've done – along with suggestions about what you might best do next.
The way you have been treated by your own Party is a scandal that will long reverberate – and was so stupid even from the Party's perspective...
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Underlying approaches to the great problem of how to rid society of government parasites without violence is the insight of Etienne de la Boëtie:
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like...
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[Author's Note: Readers who know someone working in a prosecutor's office might usefully refer him or her to this article. It's adapted from one of a series at the new web site TinyURL.com/QuitGov, which aims to help government employees lead honest lives.]
Getting bad guys off the street is surely a good and noble objective, a vital task in a...
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An advocate for the US Constitution recently argued on the Peter Mac Show that any group of people in any locality properly has the right to set up an association and to define its terms. He was correct, of course. The terms agreed would relate to who can belong and who, not--and to how decisions of policy and practice shall be made, as...
By Jim Davies.
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Is the state a fiction, a myth? How in either case does it compare to a business company, also sometimes called a fictional entity? Or to a religion?
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PRISONER OF WAR RESOLUTION APPROVED AT INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS MEETING
Vienna, Oct. 7 -- A United States resolution calling for the full protection of war prisoners and clearly directed against Communist North Vietnam was adopted at the International Red Cross conference here today in spite of Soviet procedural obstruction.
October 08, 1965
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‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Unleashes the Vulture in New Trailer
The new trailer seems to reveal a lot in terms of the plot structure of the movie. If you’re worried about spoilers or don’t want to know too much, I’d avoid watching the trailer.
If you don’t care too much, than you’ll Tom Holland’s Spidey living his day-to-day, being mentored by Tony Stark, which doesn’t seem to be off to a great start (but then again this is Tony Stark whose relationships are never great), and facing off against the Vulture, Spider-Man Homecoming‘s villain for the movie. | {
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Wolf Simulator v 0.9
2016-08-25 20:09:35
By Vladislav_Belza
- Your pack can now attack the bears;
- Added auto-save game data;
- Added witches house in the forest, the legend about the witch;
- Balanced stamina, increase strength points, attack;
- Fixed a large number of bugs; | {
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Beauty Crush: Berry Lips
14/08/2014 16:36
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22 May 2015
Katie Jones
MyDaily UK
There's something about a berry coloured lipstick that just says 'chic'. It's also the perfect shade to brighten up any autumn outfit, so it's no surprise that plum pouts are a fave on the red carpet at this time of year too.
Zoe Kravitz got her glossy aubergine lip just right at the Whitney Gala and Studio Party on Wednesday night. Glowing skin, long lashes, and a touch of eyeliner completed her low-key look and that lipstick? Love it - especially against her dark hair.
Berry tones don't have to be dark, though.
Lake Bell and Juliette Lewis proved that raspberry is the perfect tone for green-eyed girls with brown hair. Both ladies kept the rest of their makeup to a minimum and yep, both of their pouts popped.
So - want to do sultry and sophisticated beauty this season? Let these looks be a lesson. Berry (no matter what the tone) is always beautiful. | {
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Abstract
Background and Purpose—Research evidence supporting Early Supported Discharge (ESD) services has been summarized in a Cochrane Systematic Review. Trials have shown that ESD can reduce long-term dependency and admission to institutional care and reduce the length of hospital stay. No adverse impact on the mood or well-being of patients or carers has been reported. With the implementation of many national and international stroke initiatives, we felt it timely to reach consensus about ESD among trialists who contributed to the review.
Methods—We used a modified Delphi approach with 10 ESD trialists. An agreed list of statements about ESD was generated from the Cochrane review and three rounds of consultation completed. ESD trialists rated statements regarding team composition, model of team work, intervention, and success.
Results—Consensus of opinion (>75% agreement) was obtained on 47 of the 56 statements. Multidisciplinary, specialist stroke ESD teams should plan and co-ordinate both discharge from hospital and provide rehabilitation in the community. Specific eligibility criteria (safety, practicality, medical stability, and disability) need to be followed to ensure this service is provided for mild to moderate stroke patients who can benefit from ESD. Length of stay in hospital, patient and carer outcome measures and cost, need to be routinely audited.
Conclusions—We have created a consensus document that can be used by commissioners and service providers in implementing ESD services. Our aim is to promote the use of recommendations derived from research findings to facilitate successful implementation of stroke services nationally and internationally. | {
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Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability - Agenda
Monday, October 21, 2013, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
4. Chancellor’s Report - Mr. James Skidmore, West Virginia Community and Technical Council.
• WV Bridging the Gap Consortium, $25 Million US Department of Labor TAACCCT Grant • Innovations and Future Directions for Workforce Development in the Post-Recession Era, • A Report by the Urban Institute • Community College Graduation Trend | {
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We didn't invent the weather (God did that)....just the weather blog...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tornado Reported Near Haskell, OK
***Update 9:19 PM CDT: The circulation has reorganized and strengthened again, and is now located just East of Wagoner. The storm is moving East/Northeast at 40 mph, and if you live in rural areas to the East/Northeast of Wagoner and over toward and South of Peggs, seek shelter from this storm as a tornado could develop again at any time. Damage has taken place further West back toward Haskell from this storm and associated tornadoes.
***Update 9:10 PM CDT: Radar indicates that the circulation associated with the tornado that just moved through the Haskell area has weakened considerably in the last 10-15 minutes. It is currently located just North/Northeast of Porter, and is moving East/Northeast at 35 mph.
If you live in Wagoner or up toward Peggs, remain alert as this storm could still reorganize again and produce another tornado threat.
-----------------------------------------Original Post:
Spotters report a tornado near Haskell. Radar is now indicating a debris ball (as noted by the white circle on the image below). This is a very dangerous situation. If you live in Redbird, Porter, or Tullahassee and Okay, seek immediate shelter.
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I am also hearing reports of significant damage in Haskell on emergency scanners. We were detecting a debris ball on radar suggesting substantial debris was being lifted aloft by the tornado when it went through the Haskell area.
I have family there as well. Phone and cell lines are down in the area with very little communication in or out except by HAM radio at this time.
I just saw media video going down the "main drag" in Haskell, and there were lots of trees and power lines down and windows broken, but I didn't see very much in the way of structural damage.
They did not venture into town, and by radar it would appear that the South and East sides of town would have had the highest impact. I believe the scanner reports of more significant damage I'm hearing are Southeast of town.
Hopefully the city has fared better than it sounds at this time, we'll have to see what the light of day reveals.
Haskell is not destroyed. I just got a hold of my friends and family who live there. The popshop lost its canopy and I think Subway got hit, but its not as bad as it sounded and it seems like everyone is ok.
Viola, thanks for the information. It was apparently worse just south and southwest of town. Emergency Managers are asking for heavy equipment to remove debris in that area. I have not heard of any casualties, hopefully there will not be any.
Haha - no sipping beverages. More like corralling bored, sweaty kiddos in a very HOT shelter. But I shouldn't complain. We were safe and sound. We did take cover for that Haskell storm, as it set off the alarms in South Broken Arrow where we were.
Rob, as always, thank you for your superb coverage of these storms! Many thoughts and prayers for your family in the area. I did see a news report from Haskell, they were showing that Subway that Viola mentioned.
There are quite a few empty and abandoned houses in Haskell, especially on that side of town. I'm hoping the leveled house your talking about was one of those. The thing is Haskell people don't tend to take the sirens very seriously because they use them all the time, or snakes get in. My dad's best friend works for the city and he kept complaining about the snakes setting the sirens off. Good thing it wasn't too serious. My friend just texted me telling there are a bunch of fire trucks out front of the popshop because apparently there is a gas leak now.
Thanks for the info. I think the phone lines were jammed (understandibly) there for awhile which created some confusion. There were also some flat out bad reports transmitted by HAM radio operators, which usually are pretty reliable. I think "Joplin Sendrome" had set in and a lot of folks were panicking.
Without a doubt, there was a significant debris ball just South and Southeast of Haskell for a time on radar (see the images in the post). Some type of debris (could have been a signficant amount of trees or other non-structural matter) was certainly being carried aloft by the tornado at that time. Thankfully it appears not to have been a lot of folks' homes.
Shamrock, thunderstorms that form well to your West this afternoon could make it into your area later this evening or tonight. That's why you were in the slight risk area (although it's been trimmed back a bit on this morning's update). We'll have to see how organized the activity gets over middle & western Tennessee today and how it progresses Eastward.
Well, I hope they don't....so far so good. They haven't updated us yet and I hope it stays that way. We are under chance of severe tomorrow but I think damaging winds are the main threat. I don't want one single part of this storm in the West, though.... | {
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We recently moved to a new town in North Dakota, Spring of 2013. It was exciting- new places to go and all new people to meet, and at the same time we were both a little nervous. We spent a few Friday and Saturdays just driving around and getting accustomed to where things were. We wandered inside, as well as outside the city limits just to see all of its views, surroundings, and offerings.
We didn’t know exactly where we would go, or where we would end up, but it was an adventure. We went on all roads from highways to minimum maintenance roads, just to see where it would take us. We preferred the country to the city, and that’s probably why we now live where we do.
I believe great things happen when you do something abnormal to your normal. You learn more about yourself when you are put in situations where you have never been. You rely on others, and in return grow into a better you. How good does it feel when you conquer something all by yourself, or in our case- as a team. It feels great!
That’s what we have done. We moved to a place where we didn’t know anyone. And slowly but surely we gained our footings. And it feels great to have accomplished all we have in just under a year. Here has become our Home, for the time being that is. We may wander again later.
I took my dog to the V-E-T today. That’s how we talk now. It goes the same for, W-A-L-K or car R-I-D-E, and I think he is catching on to those as well. Anyways, he weighed in at 43.5lbs for a 4.5 month old yellow lab. We are getting BIG, where did my puppy go!? We were finally able to stay still -with the help of a tasty treat just out of nose reach- while the scale calculated his new weight. I was pretty proud.
After the V-E-T, we headed on over to the BarkPark. (He still doesn’t know that one yet!) Although we were all alone for most of the time, we still managed to enjoy ourselves. As I threw the ball and watched Kota run after it (thank you fetch-it) I couldn’t help but remember when I was nervous about getting a dog in the first place. I mean, isn’t everyone? Your getting a new member of the family, and what happens if you realize that your not a dog person!?
I was so afraid of that. I was afraid that the lifestyle that the dog would need would interfere with the lifestyle that I wanted to live. It’s been a bit of an adjustment once we got Kota. Everything takes just a bit longer, floors don’t stay clean for nearly as long, and there is hair everywhere. At the same time this adjustment has been so good. He keeps us moving; we no longer purge on a Netflix series. We get up and we go!
Being that we are 4 and a half months old, I think we hit some milestones. We are past the infatuation with the toilet paper. We are over the humping phase (halleluiah). And, do I dare jinx myself and say that we have learned what are doggie toys and what are not. Welp-I just did it..
While I can make a very long list about the things that we are still going through-such as, the love of the cat box, the cat itself, attacking the broom/vacuum while trying to clean, working on not jumping up on people, I think I will just make light on the fact that at 4.5 months old, I have a really well tempered dog whose face just melts my heart, and that I really do love. And whose really going to remember if I had clean or dirty floors?
Were you nervous to get your pet? What were some things that you had to get accustom to once you brought them home?
You know when you hear an old song on the radio and it instantly takes you back to a specific time and place. You can remember every little detail; where you were, who you were with. For me the word -linger- took me back to when I was a kid at summer camp.
It was one of those moments that you knew that you were exactly where you were suppose to be at that particular time in your life. God placed me there, and it was perfect. I didn’t want to end.
That’s what this prompt did to me; like a song on a radio. Took me back in time.
Here’s the song. Have you heard it?
Hmmm, I want to linger.
Hmmm, A little longer.
Hmmm, A little longer,
Here with you.
Hmmm, It’s such a perfect night.
Hmmm, It doesn’t seem quite right.
Hmmm, That this should be,
My last with you.
Not much coffee is being drank by myself lately. Zero cups in 6 days–to be exact. Not that I’m counting.
Yes- that is one of the few things that this Lent season has brought forth; or more appropriately, removed.
My morning ritual is similar to everyone else’s- wake up, let the dog out, turn on the keurig, and inhale all that deliciousness bundled up into that cup.
It has been going better than I expected. Even this past weekend, when I knew hubby was going to be able to drink his. I was preparing for a weak, moody, and coffee deprived version of myself. Which I have seen a few times in the past few days, but I don’t know if I can blame that entirely on not having my morning coffee.
To be fair, I did replace my morning cup of joe with other stand-ins; such as OJ, Milk, and Tea.
Coffee isn’t necessarily the biggest and best thing that a person can give up, however it is what spoke to me when I was reading an article about Lent. And let me tell you, I kept reading that long list to see if anything else would speak to me, because I did not want to give up my morning coffee. As that day went on, I knew that if I chose to fast on something else, I would be cheating the system, because it would be something easier to go without. Something not as substantial as the relationship between myself and coffee, and the relationship is very real.
Biblical fasting is a withholding of things – good things – that have taken a too-important role in our lives. -SheReadsTruth
As you can see, I love coffee. So much, that it’s in the title of my blog. But, I love God more. And I want to show him that. That is why I decided to give up coffee for lent. Not because coffee takes away my time from the Lord (quite the opposite), but because every morning I can refocus the importance back on God. So He can make me strong, not weak. So He can remove the moody attitude, and fill my heart with joy and peace. So that He can be the caffeine that I crave.
I think the greatest thing about fasting is that every time you want to have that can of pop, box of candy, -or cup of coffee- is that you are reminded why. Why are you doing this? Why are you fasting? And how unsubstantial it really is in the big scheme of what God gave up for us. For me, every morning I am reminded of why I can’t have my cup of coffee, it isn’t a whine, it is more of a thank you to God for the amazing things He had to do, to get me here. | {
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Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the late 1940s,with NA meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early 1950s.The NA program started as a small US organization that has grown into one of the world’s oldest and largestinternational organizations of its type. For many years, NA grew very slowly, spreading from Los Angelesto other major North American cities and Australia in the early 1970s. Within a few years, groups hadformed in Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, and Great Britain.
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Home > The Agreement in Bali Is Just the Beginning: Now the Work Toward Implementation Starts
The Agreement in Bali Is Just the Beginning: Now the Work Toward Implementation Starts
Submitted by Selina Jackson
On Wed, 12/11/2013
co-authors: Gerard McLinden
By now the ink has dried on the hard-fought achievement of the 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) last weekend in Bali, Indonesia. The landmark agreement – the first since the establishment of the WTO in 1995 – consists of three components: trade facilitation, some agricultural topics, and issues of importance to least developed countries.
Beyond the substance, the agreement comes at an important moment. Just at the point when many feared that momentum was shifting toward bilateral agreements and “mega-regional” trade agreements and away from the WTO, members managed to reach agreement at the multilateral level. This is especially important for the small and least developed countries that rely most heavily on the multilateral system to have an equal voice, secure market access, and effectively integrate into the global economy. While trade ministers, the WTO Secretariat, and its Director General deserve credit for the outcome and probably a much-needed rest, attention must now turn toward developing a concerted and well-coordinated effort to ensure successful implementation.
The package of trade measures agreed in Bali will provide important economic benefits to the world economy and to developing countries, in particular. The centerpiece of the package, the Trade Facilitation Agreement[1], is designed to streamline border procedures, increase transparency, reduce inefficiencies, and improve competitiveness. Reducing the high transaction costs and unnecessary red tape traders face could provide a significant boost to global GDP, according to a 2013 study by the World Bank and World Economic Forum[2].
There is, however, a lot of work to be done to help developing countries implement the agreement and reap its benefits. With $5.8 billion spent in 2013 on trade facilitation projects[3], the World Bank Group has demonstrated its commitment to supporting trade facilitation improvements and overcoming barriers that hamper developing country’s participation in the international trading system. For example, not far from Bali, the World Bank Group is supporting customs automation, trade facilitation modernization, and efforts to increase transparency and streamline non-tariff measures in Cambodia, Laos, and other East Asian countries.
Joint statements on trade facilitation issued at the WTO 4th Global Review of Aid for Trade[4] in July and by multilateral development banks[5] at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in October have highlighted the fact that significant trade facilitation-related assistance is already provided by international organizations and bilateral donors. Still, more work is necessary and new efforts are important to ensure that this trade facilitation-related assistance achieves maximum effectiveness and results.
The trade facilitation text[1] agreed in Bali outlines an approach to ensure capacity building support is targeted where it is most needed, is better coordinated, and that its delivery is effectively monitored. This is a unique feature of the agreement and one that offers potential to improve international coherence in the delivery of implementation support. The modalities of coordination are important to get right. A well-working system would reinforce existing demand-driven assistance programs, and would complement the coordination among many partners that takes place at the national, regional and international levels. It would also be able to ensure that all countries seeking assistance are able to find development partners with the capacity to support their efforts.
The WTO’s partners in the development community are ready to work together to provide trade facilitation support and to ensure the timely and effective implementation of this landmark agreement. By the time of the Bali agreement’s first anniversary, we will hopefully be well on the way to ensuring the agreement’s potential is being realized and that traders in developing and developed economies are all beginning to reap the benefits. | {
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With the recent success of Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s ode to spaghetti westerns, I thought it would be appropriate to go back to the source and revisit the original 1966 Django featuring Franco Nero (Enter the Ninja) in the titular role. Let me start by saying the two movies have nothing to do with each other. Besides the hero’s name, the only other connecting factor is Nero’s cameo in the later film. The original Django merely served as an inspiration for Tarantino’s blood-soaked tale of a slave-turned-bounty hunter. I like spaghetti westerns; I have since a good friend introduced me to Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy more than 20 years ago. For those few who don’t know, I’m referring to A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), all starring Clint Eastwood. Franco Nero is no Clint Eastwood, but still makes a decent anti-hero in one of the most violent and brutal films of the time. Django is still pretty violent by today’s standards; the highlights include a guy getting his ear cut off and fed to him and somebody’s hands getting smashed to a bloody pulp. It’s also a pretty ugly movie. I have rarely seen as much mud, dirt and filth as I did in Django. If director Sergio Corbucci (Super Fuzz) intended to de-mystify the Old West, he certainly succeeded. He presents a more realistic vision of the Old West with the less-than-reputable people that likely populated many (if not all) of the frontier towns. They’re neither the clean-cut singing cowboys (Roy Rogers, Gene Autry) nor the upstanding heroes (John Wayne, Gary Cooper) that starred in the westerns your grandparents (or great-grandparents) grew up watching at Saturday afternoon matinees. Even the so-called “hero” isn’t especially heroic. This is what spaghetti westerns are all about. I can see why Tarantino digs these flicks, they are pretty bad ass!
As the movie opens (with a cool theme song by Roberto Fia) with drifter Django (Nero) making his way to a border town dragging a coffin behind him. What’s in the coffin? The answer is not as morbid as you think. He stands and watches as a beautiful young woman named Maria (Nusciak) gets brutally whipped by a gang of Mexican revolutionaries. A group of bandits wearing red scarves shows up and kills the Mexicans only to be shot down by Django after they try to kill the woman. He takes Maria to a nearby town where he waits at the saloon (where else?) for gang leader Major Jackson (Fajardo, City of the Walking Dead) to show up. The saloon keeper Nathaniel (Alvarez) explains that his only customers are Jackson’s men and the Mexicans and they hate each other. He also explains that Maria isn’t welcome there due to her past associations with both groups. Most of the prostitutes (the joint is full of them!) don’t even want her there. Django has a personal grudge against Jackson; he wants revenge for the murder of his wife. After a confrontation that leaves a few of his men dead, Jackson returns to town with his entire gang to kill Django. Now we find out what’s in that damn coffin! Django pulls out a machine gun and mows down almost the entire gang. Jackson manages to get away, but that’s just the way Django wants it. He makes a deal with Mexican general Hugo Rodriguez (Bodalo) to help him steal a large quantity of gold from a nearby Mexican Army fort. Rodriguez, who needs the gold to fund his revolution, agrees to share it with Django in exchange for his assistance. I don’t need to tell you that certain things don’t work out as planned and it all culminates in a couple of violent confrontations.
There’s not really a lot to Django if you want to know the truth. It’s a rather simple story with no surprise plot twists or sudden revelations. A few plot points might be a bit murky, but nobody goes into a B-movie like Django with expectations of perfection. Like I said, Nero doesn’t have the screen presence of Eastwood, but he’s still a bad ass in his own right. I love it when he pulls out that machine gun and makes quick work of Jackson’s men. It’s one of the baddest things that I’ve ever seen in one of these flicks. Then there’s the dialogue! You have to love lines like, “Cemeteries are a good investment in this area if you can get paid in advance” and “If you’re a coffin maker, you sure did pick a good town to settle”. Gee, makes me want to move there right away. What are the schools like? LOL! There’s no question that Loredana Nusciak is smoking HOT, but she’s definitely lacking in the acting department. You know what? WHO CARES? Like I said, viewers approach a movie like Django with certain expectations. Things like acting, plot and character development aren’t really important here. What is important is whether or not the movie delivers in the action department. It does! Is it violent? Most assuredly, YES! I say the more violence, the better. I noticed that Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) served as assistant director on Django. That’s pretty cool. The music by Luis Bacalov is also pretty good even though it sounds like ersatz Ennio Morricone. In short, Django makes for a pretty decent B-movie spaghetti western. Be warned, many subsequent movies have the name Django in the title, but the only official sequel is 1987’s Django Strikes Again (aka Django 2: Il grande ritorno). It definitely makes a nice companion piece to Tarantino’s movie. Now there’s a good idea for a double feature with the guys. | {
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High school students work together on an English project during class at Vernon Hills High School. Despite the school not passing AYP, administrators say their students are equipped for success in high school and beyond. (Kate Jacobson, Tribune photo)
State officials decided in January to raise the cutoff scores for the Illinois Standards Achievement Test — given to primary school students — to get ready for Common Core curriculum. Adequate yearly progress, or AYP, score requirements have also continued to climb.
School officials say, because of this, the scores alone don't tell the whole story of how well a school is doing.
Libertyville District 70 Superintendent Guy Schumacher compared changing the passing requirements to altering the rules in a football game.
"Our students clearly have the skills, the knowledge and performance strengths that show they are successful learners," he said. "They have been taught well and put out a solid performance. Now the end result — how you gain a touchdown — has been changed. It doesn't stop them from performing well; it simply means we now have to address success with a new understanding of scoring practices."
Comparing last year's ISAT scores to this year's scores is like comparing apples and oranges, said Eric Youngman, director of curriculum and instruction at Libertyville District 70.
Schools weren't equipped to meet the new state standards that align with Common Core standards, he said, so the data itself is not entirely comparable.
Adequate yearly progress is becoming increasingly less attainable for the district's schools, he said, though one school in the district — Rockland Elementary School — made its required yearly progress.
No other schools in Libertyville made adequate yearly progress, including area high schools.
In Lake Forest, all but one school — Everett Elementary School — failed to make adequate yearly progress markers, according to a Tribune analysis of state records.
Youngman and Lauren Fagel, assistant superintendent of curriculum, instruction and technology for Lake Forest District 67 and Lake Forest High School Community District 115, said the schools that passed in the district are doing nothing different than other schools in the area.
Youngman said that with standards so high, it's the norm that most schools will fail. If one passes, he said, it might be as simple as students in those schools were having better days.
Though the scores overall dropped, both Libertyville District 70 and Lake Forest District 67 schools have ISAT scores in the mid-80th percentile — some are in the low 90th percentile.
Youngman said changing the score required to pass this year was just an added blow to schools.
Because schools are still adjusting to new Common Core curriculum requirements, he said, officials don't expect data to accurately reflect student achievement for another few years.
"It's very difficult to compare this year from previous years, because we have those new cut scores," he said. "It will be … aligned [in the future] with Common Core. [I think] we'll align better in 2014, more realistically."
Local districts look at a variety of factors when determining student achievement, officials said.
Key parts of that include focusing on continuing teacher education, implementing varying tests throughout the school year and measuring test scores and achievement even after students have left elementary and middle school, Youngman said.
"Starting in kindergarten, we're meeting all these standards, and we're on trajectory," he said. "I think we're in an excellent spot."
Fagel said Lake Forest schools are focusing more energy on individual students than on standardized tests.
Though scores for primary-school students have dropped and changing standards have created headaches for some administrators and teachers, Fagel said the districts aren't worried about what this year's state data shows.
"From the beginning, the whole AYP system has been unrealistic," she said. "[Standardized tests] are just jumping through hoops for state regulations and mandates. We keep our eye on the prize: Are our students growing each year?"
Both Fagel and Youngman said a better indicator of student achievement would be tracking progress of students through multiple years of school, instead of introducing a new test each year for different sets of students.
Lake Forest school officials are considering tracking student achievement from kindergarten to post-secondary education to see where students felt unprepared and where gaps in learning occurred, Fagel said.
Students in area high schools fared better with Prairie State Achievement Exam scores. | {
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The additional $1.276 million for the Hope Street First Response Youth Service in Melton brings the State Government's total contribution to $2.476 million towards the capital build cost of the specialist youth supported crisis accommodation centre (youth refuge). We are very grateful to the State Government for their commitment to the project which will provide support and accommodation to young people and young families in crisis as a result of and impacted by homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless in the municipality of Melton and neighbouring communities.
FEATURED PILOT PROGRAM: Hope to Home in Whittlesea
Many young people face obstacles when trying to secure stable accommodation due to no rental history, lack of affordable housing, and no employment to sustain rental leases. The Hope to Home in Whittlesea pilot program will address these issues by:
Facilitating the transition of up to 30 young people (and their children) from the Hope Street in Whittlesea program or Whittlesea Housing into 1 and 2 bedroom units
Providing case management once they secure private rental of these units
Helping these young people maintain their tenancy, employment, education and training, and community connections
Engaging the support of community stakeholders including local businesses to address barriers contributing to youth homelessness | {
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Schiff told Finance Magnates that his offshore bank is partnering with another company to launch the currency, envisioned to circulate freely online using Bitcoin’s blockchain. It would be redeemable for real gold or cash through his offshore bank, Euro Pacific Bank, based in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Customers will also be eligible to spend their physical gold holdings with a mobile payment app, planned for launch in the near future.
The currency’s launch will be the latter stage of SchiffGold’s platform expansion. Since 2012, Schiff’s customers have been able access their gold and silver holdings using pre-paid debit cards tied to their accounts. Later this year, Schiff says those prepaid cards will convert to debit cards, allowing account holders to spend their gold in real-time. They will also be able to use their gold to buy stocks and bonds through the bank’s brokerage subsidiary.
In order to save on fees, when customers use their debit cards, the platform’s default setting will be to spend available fiat balances before liquidating gold. In cases where the merchant actually wants to be paid in gold rather than fiat, account holders would use the mobile payment app instead of using their debit card.
Competition
2014 saw the launch of a number of small startups looking to digitize gold through the blockchain. None have really taken off, the only possible exception being BitGold. It has invested heavily in its platform and marketing, securing funding from a number of large investors including Sprott Asset Management.
It too offers the ability to purchase or transfer gold online, and appears to also leverage Bitcoin’s blockchain. Schiff argued that the startup has been overhyped, and questioned the startup’s business model. Some have pointed at BitGold’s lofty valuation, which gained another 14% to $238 million on Monday, and alleged its shares are in a post-IPO bubble. The startup has been giving away free gold to woo users, but it remains to be seen if this will translate into more transactions and greater revenues.
Schiff pointed to BitGold promoting users to convert fiat to gold, only to convert it back to fiat when spent. Nobody really wants to spend gold, he argued further; people buy gold to save it. They may spend it eventually, but not until it is far more valuable than it is today. Having the flexibility to spend gold, but at the same time having the option not to, is the ideal combination, Schiff explained.
Until now, software limitations in his platform made for a cumbersome 2-step process when transacting with gold, which resulted in higher fees. The company is employing upgrades such that the spending of gold is immediately executed on the open market as debit cards are swiped, cutting out the middlemen and bringing down the cost.
He added that while both he and several competitors don’t charge for gold storage, he incurs no costs at his end for the service.
However, the ability to make purchases with SchiffGold is limited to clients of the offshore bank, which is not available to US persons. The new gold-backed digital currency, however, will be available to Americans on the secondary market. They can buy, save and spend the currency, but can’t redeem it for gold. BitGold recently enabled gold purchases in the US, where it plans on adding its mobile app and prepaid card, but gold payments are not available.
Schiff added that technically, there is nothing proprietary about what he, BitGold or other similar services are trying to accomplish. Rather, they are looking to capitalize on what they anticipate as an increasing demand for reliable stores of spendable deposits.
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Schiff is known for his bold predictions, some of which have gone well, such as the 2008-09 recession, and others which have not.
Despite gold’s struggles during the past few years, Schiff believes that there are fundamental forces that should push it higher in the long-term. The US economy “is in its worst shape ever,” and in reality, it has not recovered from the financial crisis.
He indicated that a dollar figure for gold prices is hard to predict, and furthermore, the rise may be delayed due to continued negative sentiment on the precious metal and false beliefs that the economy is recovering.
Still Bearish on Bitcoin
Last year, his company, then called Euro Pacific Precious Metals, began accepting bitcoin for payment through BitPay. Like with most merchant integrations, the company receives such payments as fiat, the bitcoin absorbed by the payments processor.
Schiff believes in the power of Bitcoin’s blockchain, but sees no value in bitcoin as a currency or investment. Over time, he sees bitcoin falling in value due to its increasing supply and what he anticipates as decreasing demand.
In the past, parallels have been drawn between gold and bitcoin due to their constrained supply. Indeed, several of the startups marketing both have drawn this parallel in touting them as long-term stores of value. Schiff argues that bitcoin and most other digital currencies are not backed by anything of intrinsic value, whereas gold is physically sought for real-world use.
He added that the main value-add of accepting bitcoin to date has been the speed of transaction execution. Payments are settled in near-real-time, whereas wire transfers can take several hours. He hasn’t realized much savings in credit card fees, since most gold purchases have been made via wire transfer.
Bitcoin will eventually be entirely regulated, he predicted. But regulation will be its downfall, as its whole raison d’etre is to skirt government control.
Other Predictions
Silver has even greater upside than gold, according to Schiff, although it costs more to store through his firm than gold. Silver has traditionally amplified gold’s moves in both directions, analogous to litecoin’s moves relative to bitcoin.
He sees potential short-term weakness in the equity markets, but they will be propelled higher by additional rounds of quantitative easing. The era of near-zero interest rates will continue well into the foreseeable future, although the Fed may “ceremonially” raise rates for a brief period.
Foreign markets reacted more than necessary to fears of a rate increase, he said. Therefore, one can expect an even greater bounce than with US equities, once it becomes clear that the era of quantitative easing will stick around for a while. | {
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Exhibitor Marketing
Exhibitor Marketing Toolkit
To help you market your participation in IMBC and drive traffic to your booth, we have created an exhibitor marketing kit with a number of tips and tools to help you advertise your booth number and products and services to IMBC attendees. Press contacts, sample releases, booth design tips, and more are also included in this kit.
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Company Listing
Each exhibiting company receives their company name, booth number, phone number, web address, and product category printed in IMBC's final program. Exhibitors and sponsors must submit this information online via your company profile in Boat Show Manager, which can also include contact name, logo, and company description. For more information on creating your company's profile, click here.IMBC’s Social Networks
Click here to join IMBC social media sites where you can post your attendance and booth number as well as market new products you will be exhibiting.
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We would also like to congratulate Andrew and David Wood for winning the Kathy Donnelly Judges Award $5,000 for their installation Wet Mess (right). Andrew and David have both worked for Martumili as field officers in the past and we are very happy for their success. | {
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Alex Face unfazed by the controversy surrounding his painting
PHUKET: Alex Face, the artist who painted the controversial mural depicting a three-eyed child on a wall of one of the city’s most historic buildings, the Peranakan Nitat (Baba) Museum in Phuket Town, is set to remove the artwork today.
The Thai artist, whose given name is Patcharapol Tangruen, has been commissioned to paint buildings all over the world, but this is the first time, to his knowledge, that one of his murals has had to be removed.
He agreed to remove the mural himself amid public outcry following its unveiling on April 10. Through social media, residents criticized the artwork’s placement at what was formerly the Chartered Bank, the only international bank in Phuket and a marker of the island’s period of industrialization.
Criticism of the project was also leveled at municipality support for the project through an engagement organization called So Phuket.
Old Phuket Town Community president Don Limnunthaphisit said that community members were shocked to see the painting appear on one of the city’s most historic buildings.
“The core of this problem is that people are questioning why modern art is painted on the side of a 100-year-old building. It’s simply in the wrong place. It’s like forcing a 100-year-old person to get a tattoo. I am personally not against the art. I’m glad people enjoy taking photos with it and would have suggested that it stay there for another three months so people could enjoy it before it’s removed” said Mr Don.
“However, the authorities have made their decision so I’m fine with that,” he added.
The mural was initially approved by Phuket City Deputy Mayor Kosol Tang-Uthai. During a highly charged debate at Phuket City Hall, chaired by Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana on April 12, Dr Kosol, who is also the former president of the Thai Peranakan Association, admitted that although he backed the plan to paint parts of the old town, he was unaware that a mural would be painted on the museum wall and offered to hand in his resignation over the ‘miscommunication’.
Alex was unruffled by controversy and said he was happy to remove the art himself.
“I have been working in this field for more than 10 years and in that time I have seen a lot of things, good and bad. Sometimes people who disagree with my work chase me away even before it’s finished,” he said.
“I understand the issue here in Phuket. I have no problem removing my art, but what I do not quite understand is why the authority and other relevant people did not talk before it became an issue,” he noted.
He said he planned to make the removal of the mural another piece of artwork in its own right by making a stop-motion movie. However, he did not reveal how he planned to remove it.
“I spent a lot of time researching Phuket culture. I always study the places where I will work. In this case, I’d say I have done my job. The issue is among others, not me,” said Alex.
“I will say that working in Phuket has been one of my most impressionable experiences. The art did its job. It forced people to talk and resolve issues.
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Family matters have kept me away from the Gas Game lately. For those of you playing at home, you should be noticing a discrepancy between the expected gas price, using the NYMEX futures, and what has been happening in Grand Rapids, in that gas has been CHEAPER than expected in GR. My theory is that this pending change in NY and Connecticut, where MTBE gasoline will be banned as of January 1, is causing prices there to go up now. This is confirmed by this data from the Department of Energy. Consequently, we currently have a “Chicago Winter Discount” of about 6 cents it looks like. Here’s what I think happens this week: Price hike to $1.54. Well, couldn’t be more CORRECT than that!
The name of the site is based off an essay Ed wrote for the Grand Rapids Press titled "The Gas Game". The current website was established later by Patrick DeHaan after he and Ed predicted gas price hikes on GasBuddy's website GrandRapidsGasPrices.com, as well as Ed’s personal web page.
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Tree Removal Regulations by State
Removing a tree is usually an easy process. Tree removal professionals are called and scheduled to remove the tree, proceeding without any hassle or obstacles from local or state officials. However, there are rules and regulations in some states requiring permits or special permissions before trees are felled, either for preservation reasons or in accordance with city ordinances.
In any state, utility companies have strict policies in regards to trees and utility lines. The safest distance to plant any hedge or tree shorter than 25 feet in most states is within 20 feet of power lines. Otherwise if you try to plant a tall tree closer to the power lines, there’s a good chance the utility company or the city will come through and either trim the tree to their specifications or remove it completely. So it’s better to plant it far away from utility lines, as to avoid any problems and keep it looking the way you want.
Below are the fifty United States and city policies on tree removal outside of utility line policies, including the US capital.
Alabama
According to the city of Birmingham, there are no rules associated with the removal of trees on private property. The city has no specific circumstances laid out wherein trees can be removed by the city. This means the care and removal of a tree on private property lies wholly with the owner. The city also requires no permits be acquired by a private tree removal contractor before a tree is removed on private property.
Alaska
The city government of Juneau has no requirements involved in the removal of trees, nor does it require any permits beforehand. However, the city government of Anchorage has specific rules wherein the director of development services can come in and remove trees that are dead, hazardous, or illegally located (i.e. on private property between two sidewalks or near public pavement). Any residents of Anchorage who intend to plant trees in their front yard should be sure they’re located far enough back from the sidewalks to avoid this forcible removal by the city.
Arizona
Phoenix’s government requires no permits or notifications before the homeowner has a tree removed on their own property. However, the city does have a visibility ordinance that requires no trees greater than a foot in diameter or 10 feet in height near intersections block traffic signs, signals, or pedestrians. Else, the city will give seven days warning to the owner to fix the problem and then remove it themselves.
Arkansas
Little Rock, like the rest of the state, is home to an abundance of tree cover, both in public spaces and on various private properties. As such, there are no permit requirements to remove trees on private property, since it has so many trees and no bugs or diseases plaguing one type of tree.
California
The city government of Sacramento only requires a permit for tree removal on private property if the tree is designated as a “heritage tree” or is an oak, a type protected across the entire state of California. Otherwise the tree can be removed without any permit or requirements ahead of time by city law. The same is required in Oakland, where certain types of trees are “protected”, meaning it’s a coast live oak four inches or larger in diameter or four and a half feet above ground, or it’s another type of tree that’s nine inches in diameter or larger. San Jose also requires permits for trees with a trunk circumference of 56 inches or greater or two feet above ground. Fresno requires a permit for most of its tree work beforehand. Los Angeles requires no permits for any tree work outside of cutting down oak trees.
Colorado
Denver Parks and Recreation, which handles the urban tree landscape of Denver, outlines that private property tree removal responsibility lies completely with the owner, not with their office. However, if property owners find trees encroaching on their property from the street or other public spaces, they have to apply for a permit to remove them. They cannot remove them without this permit, or they can be penalized by the city of Denver. Denver residents also cannot remove trees that are within the public right of way, even if they’re located on their property.
Connecticut
Hartford has no requirements for tree removal on private property in terms of acquiring permits from the city government. Its municipal code also does not allow for city officials to remove trees on private property, so any hazardous or dead trees must be removed by the owner. There are no tree species currently considered a protected species in Connecticut either.
Delaware
The city of Dover, Delaware promotes tree growth in its urban sector but does not prevent the private residential owner from removing trees when necessary. While the city recently made an addendum to their municipal code to protect the wet lands and other landscapes, there are no special provisions for the protection of specific tree species or permits required before private property tree removal.
Florida
City regulations in Tallahassee require that trees with diameters greater than 36 inches might require permits depending on their health and condition. In Miami any removal of more than 25 percent of trees will necessitate a permit before a professional can cut it down. Jacksonville also mandates that trees over four feet tall or with a circumference greater than three and a half feet must have a permit acquired before it can be removed from private property.
Georgia
In Atlanta, tree owners considering removal must check city regulations before proceeding with the process. Any hardwood tree species with a diameter of six inches or larger must have a permit to be cut down, and pine trees that have a diameter of 12 inches or more must have a permit before tree service professionals uproot them. This is due to a tree ordinance in Atlanta that serves to protect the population of trees and keep it from downsizing any further.
Hawaii
Honolulu’s city officials do not require that their residents give notice or fill out a permit application before they have trees removed from their property. However, the city does have a rule outlined in their street trees regulations, which allows for private property trees to be trimmed. The rule reads that “the Director may trim obstructing or hazardous portions of any tree standing on private property which overhangs or projects into a street.” This means that if residents do not maintain their trees properly, they can be trimmed to a length by a city official without permission but within legal codes.
Idaho
Boise has no regulations regarding tree removal in the city, nor does it require a permit for removal ahead of time. The only exception is the removal of an elm tree on private property, in which case it will require a permit. The city has no special rules for removing trees on private property in the case of dying or hazard trees, so the removal of such trees falls to the responsibility of the property owner. Property owners should also be aware of removing or pruning trees on their front yards, in case these trees count as “public right of way” trees. If they are, they cannot be removed as they are city property, not private property.
Illinois
Residents of Chicago cannot remove trees on their private property with first getting a tree work permit from the Bureau of Forestry. The bureau issues them in conjunction with a liability insurance certificate, in case the removal causes any damage to the surrounding area outside private property lines. With the introduction of emerald ash borer to the area recently, the State of Illinois Department of Agriculture will also want an additional compliance agreement settled if a property owner intends to cut down an infected ash tree. There will also be additional work for a property owner intending to cut down a tree in an Asian Long-Horned Beetle quarantine zone.
Indiana
According to state law, the owner of a tree between two properties is the one who has the trunk on their land. As such, the responsibility for care or removal lies with him or her. Although the branches and limbs might hang over into another yard, the neighbor cannot remove them. Indianapolis has no permits or regulations regarding tree removal on private property. Indiana law also requires that landowners maintain their property so that others can enjoy their own property.
Iowa
According to Des Moines law, trees on private property are the responsibility of the owner to maintain and care for or remove. This means that dead and hazardous trees located near sidewalks or streets that may inflict harm on pedestrians or cars must be taken care of by their owners, as the city will not take responsibility to remove them. Owners of such trees should be aware of their health and take the proper measures to remove them or trim when needed. The city also has no special regulations or permits in place for the removal of special species of trees.
Kansas
State law in Kansas requires that any city proves, either through laboratory tests or other evidence, that a tree is infected on private property before they can go in and remove it. Cities otherwise have no basis to remove or trim trees on private property, meaning such duties fall to the resident to maintain the trees. The city of Topeka has no permits or special regulations in terms of tree removal for its residents either, nor does Kansas City or Wichita.
Kentucky
In Frankfort, trimming and removing trees on private property falls to the responsibility of the owner. However, some responsibility for street and public right-of-way trees also falls to some private property owners, determined by where exactly the tree is located. If a private property owner has a tree of this type and wishes to remove or trim it, they must acquire a permit from the City Arborist before they can do any work on it.
Louisiana
Louisiana state law has rules in place to protect trees in certain landscapes, including a provision that states cypress trees on water bottoms owned by the state cannot be cut down without a state lease, right-of-way rights or permit. If someone does, they will be subject to a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment up to six months. The law also protects any land within five feet about sea level or on fast lands, so any trees that lie within that area cannot be removed even if it’s private property. Baton Rouge city law also outlines that a permit is required for tree removal when clearing land greater than one acre of private property.
Maine
In Augusta city limits, there are no special permits or requirements for the removal of trees on private property. Near the Maine shoreland though, trees must be four inches or more in diameter and four and a half feet above ground before they can be removed. There cannot be any land clearings on the shoreland measuring greater than 250 square feet. There has to be enough room in between the cutting such that vegetation and trees remain well-distributed. It’s referenced as the buffer strip. Near ponds and rivers, this strip can extend 100 feet from the water line.
Maryland
Maryland has several state laws that protect trees and require permits to have them removed by private property owners. The Roadside Tree Law protects all trees near the roadways in the state, and the state only grants removal of a tree on the roadway if it is hazardous or diseased. It must also be replaced by whoever cuts it down. The Forest Conservation Act requires permits for any tree removal by more than one acre or 40,000 square feet. The Seed Tree Law promotes the replacement of removed trees by allowing eligible harvested lands of five acres to plant pine seedlings. Baltimore shares responsibility for the care and maintenance of some right-of-way trees with homeowners. Any roadside trees that lie on private property cannot be removed without a permit from the Baltimore government.
Massachusetts
Massachusetts state law has a strong standpoint when it comes to the ownership of trees on private property between two different people. Enacted in 1698, the state illegal tree cutting law reads that any illegal cutting down or damaging of another’s tree makes that person liable for three times the amount of the tree. It’s important that private property owners are absolutely sure the tree belongs to them before they cut down or remove a tree, as they could be brought up on civil charges and pay in replacement fines otherwise. Private property owners also have the right to petition in Boston for public tree removal through tree hearings. There are no other laws in Boston regarding permits or special regulations for tree removal on private property.
Michigan
Michigan’s ash trees started getting infected with emerald ash borer disease in 2003, and now it has special disposal sites across the state for ash trees. These trees, if on private property, should be removed immediately if diseased to prevent the spread to other trees. The state’s agriculture department will also inspect ash trees on private property if asked by the homeowner. In Lansing, there are no permit requirements or special regulations regarding tree removal on private property.
Minnesota
Minneapolis laws include regulations for tree removal on private property, wherein private property owners must request a tree removal permit from the Forestry Division of the Park and Recreation Board. Forestry has the right to deny the permit if it’s the best interest of the public, and the city also has the right to go in and remove trees from private property if they’re judged to be a hazard to other trees or people in the city. This usually means that the tree will have a disease including Dutch elm, emerald ash borer or oak wilt. The state of Minnesota also has rules and regulations regarding hazard trees and limbs and nuisance trees on private property that may require removal accordingly for the safety of the public.
Mississippi
City regulations in Jackson, the state capital of Mississippi, exclude any provisions for the removal of trees on private property. Tree removals can proceed without a permit in the city, and the city cannot enter and remove trees from private property, meaning that the care and removal of any hazardous or dying trees falls completely to the owner. The city also has no rules regarding the removal of magnolia trees, the state’s emblematic tree.
Missouri
St. Louis city laws state that private property trees are the responsibility of the owner to maintain or remove. However, the city’s ordinance on trees also states that the Director of Forestry and the city has the right to enter private property and inspect or remove trees that they find to be hazardous to the public, whether they’re diseased, have insect pests that could spread to public or other private trees, or might be at such an angle as to be a hazard to public street ways, signals and sidewalks.
Montana
Montana state law has no special laws in regards to the removal of trees on private property. There are no requirements for permits before a tree has to be cut down, and the city has no special regulations wherein the city can enter private property and remove a tree. Billings also has no special circumstances or rules regarding tree removal on private property.
Nebraska
Neither the state nor its capital city of Lincoln has any special regulations or rules regarding tree removal on private property. The care and responsibility for trees on private property lies solely with the owner, meaning that financial payment to remove one will also fall on them. If the tree is overhanging a street or public roadway but lies behind a fence line, its care will need to be handled by the owner, not the city.
Nevada
Nevada’s tree population continually works to grow, meaning that cities like Carson City create programs to increase the shade cover and general population of trees. However, the city and state do not require that citizens acquire a permit for tree removal before cutting down a tree in their yard. There are also no special regulations in the Carson City municipal code that allow city officials to go in and remove trees from private property for any reason.
New Hampshire
Like in Maine, New Hampshire outlines regulations regarding trees near the shoreline. To remove trees within 50 feet of the shoreland, they have to follow a grid and point system. To remove trees between 50 and 150 feet of the shoreland, they have to follow the unaltered state requirements. Beyond 150 feet, there are no requirements for removing trees. In Concord, there are no special regulations or permit requirements for removing trees on private property.
New Jersey
Recently, many townships in New Jersey are starting to preserve more trees by creating ordinances that protect ones on private properties. This means that even if private property owners want to remove trees, they might not be able to. Depending on the township, they can apply for permits to get a tree removed, but the township might reject the permit. The Trenton department of forestry has the right, as laid out in the city’s rules, to remove trees on private property that might be a hazard to other residents only after giving notice to the owner to remove it themselves.
New Mexico
New Mexico’s tree population is sizeable for the state’s climate, so the government imposes no limitations or rules when it comes to the removal of trees on private property. Neither of its two larger metropolitan areas, Albuquerque and the state capital of Santa Fe, have special rules when it comes to tree removal on private property. This means that complete removal responsibility in the case of hazards or dying trees near sidewalks must be handled by the owner, or else they could be liable for damages.
New York
New York state has no specific ordinances regarding tree removal, but it suggests ordinances for community developments. Community developments in New York might have ordinances on trees, depending on the location of the tree and who planted it. Depending on the case, someone living in the community development might have to get a permit for removal, and the development might not allow for removal if it interferes with the look of the community. The city of Albany, however, outlines specific rules where trees six and half feet in circumference or larger cannot be removed from private property without a permit. City officials in Albany also have the right to enter private property and remove trees that are an imminent threat to the public after giving the owner 30 days notice.
North Carolina
Raleigh’s municipal code outlines the difference between public trees on the right-of-way and streets near sidewalks that cannot be touched by any person but city workers and private trees. Private trees can be removed without a permit in Raleigh, but a tree near the sidewalk cannot. Also, trees on private property can be removed by the Urban Forester when that tree could affect the public health and safety of other trees or people. There are also specific trees listed as conservation or champion types that cannot be removed, so residents should make sure their trees don’t fit that list by calling the department first. In Charlotte, property owners must have permits before they remove trees from their properties.
North Dakota
North Dakota has no state laws regarding tree removal on private property. Its state capital, Bismarck, also has no special regulations or ordinances in terms of tree removal. Responsibility completely falls with the private owner of the tree. Bismarck has special municipal ordinances that allow for the city forester to declare a private property tree a nuisance if it’s unsafe or dangerous. There are also certain types of trees prohibited in Bismarck (13-02-12) that produce cotton and can be removed by the city.
Ohio
Ohio state law has no provisions for tree removal on private property. Its capital city of Columbus has special requirements for the removal of street trees near public sidewalks and adjacent private properties, but the removal of trees on private property are the responsibility of the owner. Cleveland, another large city in the state, also has no provisions in its municipal code in regards to tree removal on private property.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma state law includes no provisions when it comes to private property tree removal. The state also has no regulations for city governments when it comes to removing trees for any reason. Its state capital, Oklahoma City, also has no requirements for permits before tree service professionals cut down trees on private property. However, the trees have to be cut down a certain way to avoid endangering public land or individuals. Tree service professionals who are certified in the city will know how to do it properly and avoid any problems. Tulsa also has no regulations in terms of tree removal on private property.
Oregon
While the state laws in Oregon have no regulations regarding tree removal, the city of Salem protects certain trees types, designated as heritage trees in the city. These trees cannot be removed or cut down without a permit. Also trees that are 12 inches or greater in diameter in some cases will require a Parks Department permit, but that will depend and require private property owners consulting with the Planning Division first. Salem also allows city officials to remove trees if they’re diseased or a hazard to other trees and pedestrians through Chapter 86 of its municipal tree ordinance.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia has specific policies concerning private property trees that overhang onto public spaces or other people’s property. According to its overhanging or encroaching trees code, the city’s enforcement officer has the right to issue a notice to the owner, and if it’s not taken care of after 30 days, proceed to prune or remove the tree. However, Philadelphia has no other regulations when it comes to removing trees on private property whose branches do not overhang onto other property areas.
Rhode Island
Providence recently passed a zoning ordinance that protects any tree 32 inches in diameter or greater, regardless of where it is (i.e. private or public property). The city also requires that significant trees cannot be removed without permission from the City Forester. There must be a request filed, which has to meet certain criteria, including that the tree poses a risk to others. The City Forester also has the right, under Rhode Island state law, to enter into private property and remove trees that could pose a risk to the health and safety of other trees or people.
South Carolina
South Carolina protects its grand trees from any kind of removal, and the same goes for its capital city, Columbia. There’s a process outlined for getting a grand tree removal permit in the city municipal code that follows:
“General; procedure. If an owner/developer proposes to remove any protected trees (see (b) above), then he/she must document the request and submit it as part of the landscape plan. The request shall be subject to the approval of the zoning administrator in conjunction with landscape plan/ zoning permit approval.
Criteria for removal of grand trees. It shall be unlawful to remove a grand tree without the written permission of the zoning administrator. The location of grand trees requested to be removed shall be indicated on the landscape plan and/or tree protection plan. The following criteria shall be utilized in evaluating requests to remove grand trees or stands of trees: topography of the site; proposed grade changes; location of utilities and driveways; location of the trees; proposed tree planting or transplanting to compensate for tree removal; public safety; tree health, condition and longevity; tree species; and any historic, aesthetic or exceptional quality associated with the tree(s).
Requirements for replacement of grand trees. When removal of grand trees is approved, the following replacement requirements shall apply: Grand trees shall be replaced with shade trees wherever possible. An equal number of density factor units of replacement trees shall be planted to replace the density factor units for trees removed. This planting shall be in addition to the required density factor for the site.”
South Dakota
Sioux Falls requires no permit for private property owners when it comes to tree removal. However, their director of forestry retains the right to control any trees considered nuisances under city ordinance 94, wherein they are considered problems to the public’s safety. This means that the tree might have diseases or insects that could spread to other trees on private or public property that need to be removed for such prevention. South Dakota has no other tree laws in place to death with tree removal on private property otherwise.
Tennessee
Tennessee state law includes no provisions for the removal of trees on private property. However in Nashville, the state capital, there’s a city tree removal ordinance which states that protected trees six inches or more in diameter on properties greater than those for one or two family home residences must have a permit before they can be removed, as they are considered “protected” trees. This might also necessitate a replacement tree, which will be the responsibility of the person who has the tree cut down. Tree removal companies in Nashville must also have permits acquired before they remove any trees on public or private property, which includes a plan as to where they put they tree after cutting it down.
Texas
Texas state law allows for city officials to deal with nuisance trees that can have an effect on other trees, either on public or private properties, by removing them, even if they belong to a resident and not the city. In Austin the city arborist does not allow for the removal of trees on private property that have a circumference of 60 inches or more without a permit. The only way a resident can get a permit to remove such a tree is if they can prove it is a hazard to the public or their home. In Dallas and its surrounding suburbs, property owners are completely responsible for the care and removal of their trees and do not require a permit for removal.
Utah
Utah state law protects “heritage trees”, which include “rare, threatened, or vanishing species of trees” according to the Utah Heritage Tree Act of 1975. This means any tree designated by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands as indigenous to Utah or very well-adapted to the climate cannot be cut down. In Salt Lake City, outside of this law, the city has no permit requirements or special rules when it comes to the removal of trees on private property.
Vermont
In Vermont, they have what is called a “tree warden” in every city. While this warden most controls the care and removal of trees on public property, his or her control extends into private property if there’s an infestation that needs to be controlled. In Montpelier, they have a city tree board which has the right to remove trees on private property under the condition the tree is diseased or a hazard to other properties, private or public. The removal will be at the expense of the owner after they are notified by the board. There are no other rules in Montpelier in terms of permits for tree removal on private property.
Virginia
Virginia state law has no special permit requirements or laws concerning tree removal on private property. In Richmond, there are no also no laws or special requirements for private property tree removal. An ordinance was introduced to the city to preserve certain types of trees, but it did not pass. However the disposal of tree limbs and branches after removal are also the responsibility of owners because the city will not collect them.
Washington
Washington state has no law concerning the removal of special trees on private property. In Seattle, there also isn’t a permit requirement for private residence tree removal. However, some public right-of-way trees are maintained by private residences, and removing those require a permit.
Washington, D.C.
The country’s capital maintains certain regulations when it comes to private residences and trees. Tree removal policy in D.C. for residences includes: 1) a permit for pruning or removing any street tree between a sidewalk and curb; 2) a permit for removing trees on private property that exceed 55” in circumference, and 3) homeowners managing trees on the curb. However, the tree owners who adopt those trees will receive benefits from the Washington, D.C. Urban Forestry Administration.
West Virginia
West Virginia state law includes no requirements for private owners of trees when it comes to acquiring a permit for tree removal on their property. There are also no special requirements protecting special types of trees or giving cities special powers over trees on private property. The same is true in its capital city, Charleston. The city has no outline in its municipal code for the removal of trees on private property.
Wisconsin
The state of Wisconsin’s legal codes outlines nothing involving trees on private property in terms of removal. The same is true for one of its larger cities, Milwaukee, whose municipal code only covers the care and removal of public trees maintained by the city and not private residence trees. As such it is the responsibility of the owner to take care of the tree’s removal before it becomes a hazard and lands on a neighboring property or public area.
Wyoming
The Forestry Division in Wyoming released a Tree Owner’s Manual to help its residents stay aware of care regulations for trees on private residences. Part of the manual includes information on removal but excludes mention of any permits or special requirements by the state. The municipal code of its capital city, Cheyenne, also excludes any information on special requirements or permits involving tree removal on private property. | {
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OMG, STEVE, WHY U SO ADORABLE?! I love how enamored he is by Tony and how distracted he gets and he walked into a glass door because he is ridiculously in love/lust. I also love that he goes to Pepper seeking advice on his feelings and the conversation they had. Basically, this is totally charming and gave me all the feelings. XD
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The Louisiana senator who is sponsoring a bill to make it more difficult to remove Confederate monuments from public grounds has put off discussing that legislation until next week.
Sen. Beth Mizell, R-Franklinton, said she delayed discussing Senate Bill 276 because she had not been aware it was coming up in the Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs agenda until a few hours before it was scheduled to be heard.
"I am still planning on bringing the bill," she said.
The legislation didn't appear on the committee's schedule until late Tuesday night (March 29), even though the committee less than 24 hours later on Wednesday afternoon. That didn't give Mizell enough time to prepare for presenting the bill, she said.
Sen. Karen Carter Petersen, D-New Orleans, is the head of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that will eventually hear the Confederate monument legislation.
Petersen said a mixup with staff lead to a few bills being added to the committee's schedule late Tuesday night. The Confederate monuments legislation wasn't the only item to come up with little notice, and she was happy to defer the bill until next week at Mizell's request.
But Petersen is also opposed to the legislation, which would affect local municipalities abilities to remove war monuments from their own lands. "I don't know if we need [the state] to dictate what happens to city property," Petersen said in an interview Wednesday.
The New Orleans City Council voted in December to remove the statues and the Battle of Liberty Place monument, capping a months-long campaign and public hearing process that Mayor Mitch Landrieu started as part of an effort to mend racial divisions in the city.
The move has prompted a couple of lawsuits to keep the monuments in place. And last week, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeal said the city could not take down the statutes while a lawsuit challenging New Orleans ability to do so is working its way through the legal process.
If passed, Mizell's legislation could also block the monuments removal. It would create a new Louisiana Heritage Protection Commission that would have final say on whether war monuments on any public property could be removed, including those related to the Civil War. In the proposed legislation, the Civil War is referred to as the "War Between the States".
The commission would be made up of the secretary of the state Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism as well as one representative from each of Louisiana's congressional districts who are picked by the State Senate President and House Speaker.
The commission's first meeting would have to take place before Sept. 15, 2016, under the bill. The members of the commission would have to be announced by Sept. 1, 2016. The commission members would serve four-year terms that align with the Louisiana governor's term.
Mizell said the bill was not specifically brought to block the removal of the New Orleans monuments, though she hoped that might be a by product. She said her home parish has no Confederate monuments, and her constituents have to travel to place like New Orleans to see such symbols. So, it shouldn't be left up to New Orleans to figure out whether they come down or not.
"Everything we have in Louisiana is of value to all of us," Mizell said in an interview. "Most of the school children have to go on field trips to see those things. That's why you take school trips to New Orleans and Baton Rouge."
But there isn't much enthusiasm for the bill in the Senate leadership. In a previous interview, Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, said he had hoped the Senate wouldn't have to spend a lot of time discussing the proposal. | {
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The goal of the proposed study is to validate an experimental paradigm to assess medication effects on smoking relapse following a brief (3-day) monitored period of smoking abstinence and a programmed cigarette lapse.
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Drug: PlaceboDrug: Varenicline
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The proposed human experiment will test the validity of a novel paradigm that may provide a method for distinguishing compounds that are likely to have efficacy from those that are not, before they are tested in more costly large-scale clinical trials. Specifically, in a within-subject (cross-over) behavioral pharmacology investigation of 60 smokers, we will test the effects of varenicline versus placebo on smoking behavior in the natural environment following a 3-day period of monitored abstinence and a programmed cigarette lapse. A positive signal for varenicline effects in this study would provide support for the sensitivity of the paradigm. In addition, following completion of all assessments, participants will be followed in a 13-week open-label varenicline smoking cessation trial to determine whether response to varenicline in the laboratory study predicts clinical response in the open-label trial.
Participants will complete a 21-day study phase that will include a 10-day drug run-up and monitoring phase (days 1-10), a 3-day abstinence phase (days 11-13), and a programmed lapse (day 14) followed by a 7-day observation phase in which participants are asked to remain abstinent and will receive modest monetary reinforcement for doing so (days 15-21).
Drug: Varenicline
Day 1 - Day 3 0.5mg once daily Day 4 - Day 7 0.5mg twice daily Day 8 - End of Treatment 1.0mg twice daily
Other Name: Chantix
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Participants will complete a 21-day study phase that will include a 10-day drug run-up and monitoring phase (days 1-10), a 3-day abstinence phase (days 11-13), and a programmed lapse (day 14) followed by a 7-day observation phase in which participants are asked to remain abstinent and will receive modest monetary reinforcement for doing so (days 15-21).
Drug: Placebo
Participants will take placebo pills for 21-days using the same regimen as the varenicline study period.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Yes
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Exclusion Criteria:
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芸曰：「聞王郎懦弱無能，不過守成之子，而王又無成可守。 Yun said “I heard young Wang is timid, weak and incompetent; whilst he is a son who will preserve the accomplishments of previous generations, the Wangs do not have many accomplishments to preserve.
幸詩禮之家，且又獨子，許之可也。」 Fortunately they are a cultured family, and moreover have only one soon, so betrothing him would be fine.
_Literally, Yun describes them as "a family of the Book of Songs" (詩禮). The son is an only-child (獨子) so he will inherit everything. 許 here means 'betroth'._
余謂藎臣曰：「吾父與君有渭陽之誼，欲媳青君，諒無不允。 I said to Jinchen: “My father and you have the friendship of Weiyang, so if you want Qingjun as a daughter-in-law, I imagine it will be permitted.
_渭陽 refers to a story from ancient China about two very close friends, and could be translated as 'legendary friendship'. 諒 here is like 'suppose', for dealing with a delicate issue. 無不允 is literally 'not have no permission', so 'have permission'._
但待長而嫁，勢所不能。 But it’s necessary to wait until she has grown up and then marry her, and in the current circumstances that is not possible.
_勢 generally means 'force' or 'power', but here has the sense of 'force of circumstances'._
余夫婦往錫山後，君即稟知堂上，先為童媳，何如？」 After my wife and I have gone to Xishan, you would then notify my father that first she will be your child daughter-in-law; how about that?”
逢森亦托友人夏揖山轉薦學貿易。 Fengsen was also entrusted to a friend, Xia Yishan, who would in turn introduce him to the study of trade.
_夏揖山 is a name: Xia Yishan._
安頓已定，華舟適至，時庚申之臘二十五日也。 As soon as this was settled, it happened that the Hua’s boat arrived. It was the 25th day of the 12th month of 1800.
_適 means "just at that moment" or "it so happened"._
芸曰：「孑然出門，不惟招鄰里笑，且西人之項無著，恐亦不放，必於明日五鼓悄然而去。」 Yun said “If we leave the house alone, not only will we provoke the laughter of the neighbours, but also there’s that issue of the Westerner not being repaid; I’m afraid that he won’t let us go. We must leave quietly tomorrow at 5 o’clock.”
余曰：「卿病中能冒曉寒耶？」 I said “My darling, in the middle of your illness can you stand the morning cold?”
芸曰：「死生有命，無多慮也。」 Yun said “Life and death are fated, I don’t have much concern.”
密稟吾父，亦以為然。 I secretly informed my father, and he agreed to it.
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Stop Demolishing the 1000 year old temple
It was built a 1,000 years ago and is a protected heritage monument. But soon it will be demolished. This 1,000-year-old temple near Kumbakonam is going to be demolished to make way for a 4-lane highway. The highway is planned under the Thanjavur-Vikkiravandi 4-way project of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
Built between 1012 and 1044 AD by Rajendra Chola, the temple in Manampadi village contains at least ten priceless inscriptions from that period. The numerous sculptures found in the premises are rare and unique.
The NHAI has now decided to demolish this temple for widening the highway and has already earmarked the areas.
2014 would be the 1,000th year celebration of the coronation of Rajendra Chola, son of Raja Raja Chola. The demolition of a temple constructed by him will be shameful for the entire Tamil community.
The people of the village, historians and archaeologists have opposed the move and appealed to the Tamilnadu Government and NHAI to divert the road project to the extreme northern side of the temple, to protect the monument.
The Project Implementation Officer of this project and the District Collector can choose to stop the destruction of this national heritage.
Hence I have started this petition asking the Project Implementation Officer, NHAI and the Thanjavur District Collector to stop the demolition of this 1,000 year old temple. If enough of us sign the petition, they will know that the people of Tamilnadu and India do not want to see this heritage monument demolished.
Recently, residents of the Pannaiyapalayam village in Villupuram district protested against the planned demolition of a 1,300-year-old temple under the same road project. Heeding to their protests, the NHAI did not demolish the temple.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders May Have Committed An Ethics Violation With Her Red Hen Tweet
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After issuing a statement that she was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is facing accusations that she may have committed an ethics violation because her tweet came from her official @PressSec Twitter account.
Sarah, I know you don’t care even a tiny little bit about the ethics rules, but using your official account for this is a clear violation of 5 CFR 2635.702(a). It’s the same as if an ATF agent pulled out his badge when a restaurant tried to throw him/her out. https://t.co/Fj6OfBAdew
“This is a sign of the total ethical rot of this administration, which comes from the model set at the top,” Ian Bassin, executive director of Protect Democracy and former associate White House counsel to Barack Obama tells Refinery29. According to rules set in place by the nonpartisan OGE, Sanders may have violated rule 5 CFR 2635.702 (c), which bars federal employees from using their government position to endorse any private “product, service, or enterprise.” Conversely, this same rule bans federal employees from using their official titles to denounce such private entities.
When I was a WH lawyer we trained all staff they couldn’t use their WH titles or resources (like Twitter acct) for personal uses like making restaurant reservations or promoting businesses. So yes, this tweet violates federal ethics rules. I’m sure Don McGahn will remind her. https://t.co/2t2JCVb5B7
Sanders could have posted her Red Hen statement to her personal Twitter account and would have been in compliance. When Sanders tweets from the @PressSec account, she is presumed to be speaking in her professional capacity as the press secretary, and her communications from this accounts are subject to government ethics rules.
We saw this same controversy arise when White House counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway was accused of breaking this rule after she invited Americans to purchase Ivanka Trump-branded products on a 2017 episode of Fox & Friends. Conway was on the show performing her White House communications duties, making it inappropriate for her to shout out a private company, especially one owned by the president’s daughter from which the family had means to experience financial gain.
“Sanders’ violation is small potatoes,” says Bassin. “These types of violations from the president and his family are the true injury to the American people.”
Refinery29 has reached out to the White House press office and counsel's office for comment. | {
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I've used those tactics and as long as you have the suitable players it will work great but it is quite a huge learning curve because everyone bombs forward to swamp the opposition meaning you need to be smart with your passing
I've used those tactics and as long as you have the suitable players it will work great but it is quite a huge learning curve because everyone bombs forward to swamp the opposition meaning you need to be smart with your passing
Have noticed this, I've actually been using 'counter attack' set tactic which so far hasn't been too bad tbh. I'll see tomorrow when I pick the controller up again.
I've used those tactics and as long as you have the suitable players it will work great but it is quite a huge learning curve because everyone bombs forward to swamp the opposition meaning you need to be smart with your passing
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Washington (CNN) - FreedomWorks says it's still committed to finding a consensus fiscal conservative candidate to challenge longtime Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, even though a FreedomWorks board member has endorsed Hatch.
Monday morning the Hatch campaign was touting an endorsement by Steve Forbes, the former two-time GOP presidential candidate, CEO of Forbes, and a vice chairman of the FreedomWorks Foundation board.FULL POST
(CNN) – The leader of a large grassroots organization instrumental to the tea party movement isn't happy with Mitt Romney, and he's not afraid to show it.
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, was adamant that the former Massachusetts governor is "not good with the men and women of the tea party movement" Friday during an interview on CNN.FULL POST
Washington (CNN) – A leading grassroots conservative organization and an influential fiscal conservative group say they're making final pushes Thursday to try and defeat House Speaker John Boehner's plan to reduce the nation's debt.
FreedomWorks says it's reaching out to its conservative allies in the House, including lawmakers and their staff, in the hours before the chamber is expected to hold a pivotal vote on the Republican Speaker's proposal.FULL POST
Washington (CNN) – Will it spark an altercation between tea party activists and establishment Republicans?
On Monday, leaders and supporters of FreedomWorks - a major tea party sponsor - will make an unscheduled visit to the offices of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the group that helps elect Republicans to the Senate. And the activists will deliver a message to the NRSC: butt out of the Utah senate race.FULL POST
"It's a curious decision by FreedomWorks considering Orrin Hatch agrees that a limited government is essential to rebuilding our country. If FreedomWorks is anxious to spend their money, why not put it into defeating Barack Obama in the Presidential race?" says Hatch campaign manager Dave Hansen in a statement to CNN.FULL POST
Washington (CNN) - FreedomWorks is reaching out to its membership for guidance on which Republican candidates to endorse in next year's GOP Senate primary battles.
"We are determined to support the most fiscally conservative person who can help put a stop to the Obama/Reid big government agenda in Washington, DC. The most important part of this decision-making process is hearing from you, our hard-working, liberty-loving FreedomWorks members," says FreedomWorks Chairman and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, in an email to supporters.FULL POST
The chairman of FreedomWorks, a national organization that provides much of the organization behind the tea party movement, tells CNN that "Mitch is exactly the kind of candidate that our folks across the country are looking for."FULL POST
Washington (CNN) – Two long serving Republican senators who could face primary challenges from the right as they run for re-election next year both showed up Tuesday night at a reception held by a leading grassroots conservative organization.
Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah and Dick Lugar of Indiana separately attended the function, put on by FreedomWorks at their new headquarters, which is located just a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol building.FULL POST
Washington (CNN) - With the 2010 election's conclusion, conservative grass roots organizations like FreedomWorks are looking toward their next big hurdles– making sure elected officials keep their promises to reduce the deficit and lower taxes and, of course, winning big in the next major election in 2012.
As part of their effort to continue the conservative momentum which led Republicans to an unprecedented 60 seat gain to clinch the majority in the House of Representatives, FreedomWorks, founded by former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey, is rolling out a new website aimed at empowering Tea Party-backed groups by providing supporters with the tools to connect with other local groups, find events and engage in discussions.FULL POST
Baltimore, Maryland (CNN) – One of the top leaders of a conservative grassroots organization that helped elect Tea Party backed candidates in last week's midterm elections says now is the time to turn political promises into policy initiatives.
Matt Kibbe is president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a group that has organized many of the high profile Tea Party movement events over the past year and a half, and in this election cycle, the group poured millions of dollars into efforts to help elect many Tea Party backed Republican candidates for Congress.FULL POST | {
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DA: 4-year-old Willow Grove boy beaten to death for spilling cereal
WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (WTXF) - A Montgomery County mother and her boyfriend have been charged in the death of her 4-year-old little boy, according to authorities.
Sadness hung over the 1800 block of Lukens Avenue in Willow Grove Tuesday night as a neighborhood came to grips with the death of 4-year-old Tahjir Smith and the arrest of his mother and her boyfriend.
Investigators say 19-year-old Lisa Smith and 26-year-old Keiff King stand charged for now with attempted murder, aggravated assault and other crimes in the beating death of little Tahjir after he spilled his breakfast cereal at their home, which police described as deplorable and crawling with roaches.
"Severely punished and beaten and then burned in a shower," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said.
Investigators say King and Smith disciplined the child after the cereal incident and made him lay down on a bed. Authorities say his clothes were removed and the child was punched and struck repeatedly with a sandal after Smith claimed the boy was "sneaky." Imprints were found on the child's body, according to investigators.
When the child stopped breathing, police say, King and Smith dressed him and took him outside where they concocted a story saying he had passed out after coming back from the stores with Smith. Investigators say the coroner also found old injuries, including rib fractures on Tahjir's.
"Unfortunately, it looks like the child didn't go through this the first time last night," Steele added. "It's gonna be our time to stand up for a child who can't speak for himself anymore."
The DA says charges could be upgraded to murder once the final autopsy results come back. Smith and King are behind bars on $500,000 bail each. They have a preliminary hearing set for January 31st. | {
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Indianapolis City Guide –
Welcome to IndianapolisIn the heart of the Midwest is a city rich in arts and culture, history and heritage, time-honored traditions and endless possibilities. Indianapolis, the nation’s twelfth largest city, has gone through a dramatic revitalization and stunning renaissance period that makes it almost unrecognizable from the place it was less than two decades ago. Indianapolis is the right balance of big-city style and small-town neighborliness that makes it the perfect place to live. Discover more about this place where everyone is welcomed by the warmth of genuine smiles. What follows is just an overview about the Hoosier Capital. I encourage you to learn more by visiting www.abilityplus.com . Also to assist you, this City Guide includes numerous links to websites that provide additional information about the events and locations mentioned.
Who We Are
SMALL TOWN WITH A BIG CITY ATMOSPHERE
Since the 1990’s, Indianapolis’ successful efforts to revitalize the heart of the city have resulted in a downtown package that includes the new Lucas Oil Stadium, Banker’s Life Fieldhouse, Victory Field, a larger Indiana Convention Center, an IMAX large-format theater, a world-class zoo, numerous museums, high-rise office buildings, state-of-the-art sporting facilities, several hotels,restored residential areas, and Circle Centre Mall.
Diversity and steady growth have long been the hallmarks of the Indianapolis economy and have long been the foundation of Indy’s strong performance during the past decade. Indianapolis can boast on diverse strengths in the manufacturing, distribution, retail and service sectors. Economic diversity keeps Indy on a steady growth track, and away from the boom and bust cycles experienced by many U.S. cities.
Where We AreIndianapolis is easily accessible from a wide variety of locations. Did you know more interstate highways bisect Indianapolis than any other in the country, earning our city the title of Crossroads of America? I-465 completely encircles the city like a wheel, with connecting spokes made out of I-65, I-69, I-74 and I-70, plus US-31, US-40 and others. Because of our central location and ties to the interstate system, half the nation’s population is within a day’s drive, which makes traveling to and from Indy by car quite convenient. Of course, the Indianapolis International Airport offers travel on several airlines with nonstop and direct flights to more than 100 destinations, if air travel is more your speed.Quick Facts about Living in IndyThe Indianapolis Region, also known as Greater Indianapolis, is a nine-county area that surrounds the center and capital. These counties are Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Madison, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Morgan, and Hendricks. Based on the growth of nearby Carmel, Indiana, the Indianapolis statistical area this describes was renamed Indianapolis-Carmel in 2007.
Cost of Living Index – 2010Based on the National Average of 100, Indianapolis has a lower Cost of Living Index than several other cities in the Midwest.87.2 Indianapolis-Carmel, IN90.4 St. Louis, MO-IL97.8 Kansas City, MO-KS92.0 Columbus, OH99.4 Detroit, MI93.8 Cincinnati, OH116.9 Chicago, IL92.8 Lexington, KY87.7 Louisville, KY
Cost of Housing$183,040 Average Price of New Home (Marion County 2012)$116,061 Average Price of Existing Home (Marion County 2012)$151,568 Average Price of Home (Metropolitan Indianapolis Area 2012)
Climate (The Weather Channel)• July is the average warmest month at 84°F• The highest recorded temperature was 104°F in 1988.• October average for the fall is 64°F• The average coolest month is January at 34°F• The lowest recorded temperature was -22°F in 1985.• May is the average wettest month.
What We Have to Offer
SPECIAL EVENTSFrom sporting events to special events, Indianapolis hosts all kinds, especially during the summer months. In May, join the swell of people who come to the city to participate in the Indianapolis 500 Festival including the Mini Marathon, the nation’s largest half marathon with a record 35,000 registrants.
Enjoy the sounds of the Indy Jazz Fest at downtown’s Military Park. Explore African-American heritage and culture in July during the weeklong Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. And revel in the sights, sounds, smells and sensations of the Indiana State Fair, the oldest state fair in the country held for a dozen days in August on the near north side of the city.
SPORTSDid someone just say speed? Mention racing and Indianapolis takes the checkered flag every time. Commonly referred to as the “Racing Capital of the World,” Indianapolis hosts the three largest single-day sporting events in the world: the Indianapolis 500, the Brickyard 400 and the United States Grand Prix, which brings fans to Indy from across the globe. The privately-owned Indianapolis Motor Speedway is located on the near west side of Indianapolis in the town ofSpeedway. Indianapolis also is home to Lucus Oil Raceway where the NHRA Drag Racing Series and USAC Midget and Sprint Cars hit the track. The Hall of Fame Museum on the grounds of the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is where you can discover how the area’s love affair with racing started, where it’s been and where it’s going. Racing certainly is not all Indy has to offer the sports-minded. The city boasts professional teams in basketball, football, and baseball. Always known as a basketball state (remember the movie “Hoosiers”? Indianapolis has been home to the Indiana Pacers basketball franchise for forty years. This rich history from ABA to NBA includes winning memories of star players from George McGinnis to Reggie Miller. The downtown Banker’s Life Fieldhouse, a state-of-the-art building with a nostalgic façade, also is home to the WNBA’s Indiana Fever — 2012 WNBA Champions!
Since March 28, 1984, the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts have called Indy home. With a city of supporters behind them, Coach Tony Dungy and MVP Peyton Manning led the team to victory in as Super Bowl XLI Champions in 2007. Their new home field with a retractable roof, Lucas Oil Stadium, gives the team a great home field advantage and provided the city with the opportunity to host Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, 2012.
Professional baseball has been played in Indianapolis since 1887, and today is home to the Indianapolis Indians, the “Triple A” affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Indians play ball in the heart of downtown at Victory Field, the “best minor league ballpark in America” and a great place for the whole family to spend a summer afternoon or evening.
Indiana Ice is a Tier 1 hockey team formed in 2004 when it was purchased from the former Danville, Illinois, the Danville Wings. They skate at the Pepsi Coliseum on the Indiana State Fairgrounds and at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse.
Indianapolis’ pro soccer team Indy Eleven will make its on-field debut in April 2014. The team will compete in the North American Soccer League, the top feeder league to Major League Soccer.
INDY ATTRACTIONSDesigned by the architects of Washington, DC, downtown Indianapolis is laid out on a mile square grid with Monument Circle serving as the centerpiece. At the center of Monument Circle stands the 284-foot Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument. Made of Indiana limestone, the Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument stands as a tribute to the Indiana military servicemen who served in the Civil and Spanish-American Wars. Thirty-two stories up, an observation tower provides a panoramic view of the city skyline.
Located in the southwest quadrant of downtown, White River State Park features the grassy areas, trees, water and walkways visitors expect to find in a state park. In addition, it is home to such attractions as the Indiana State Museum, the NCAA Hall of Champions, the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, the IMAX Theater, the Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western
Art, Victory Field ballpark, the National Institute for Fitness and Sport and the Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial. Stroll to and from the White River State Park attractions on the many trails and paths that run through it.
The Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art is a showplace for the art, culture and history of the American West and its indigenous people. Educational programs, engaging exhibits and special events are added dimensions of this unique museum.
Follow the journey of the student-athlete at the NCAA Hall of Champions. Through a variety of highly interactive displays and video presentations, visitors are able to see and hear athletes and coaches describe how they excelled in their respective sports.
Get back to nature at the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens, where plants and animals are the main attraction. The nation’s only accredited combined zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden, it occupies 64 acres in White River State Park. The Indianapolis Zoo, divided into biomes, features nearly 4,000 animals in a “cage less” setting and is home to the state’s largest aquarium. White River Gardens gets two green thumbs up for its seasonal botanical shows, theme demonstration gardens and a 5,000 square-feet conservatory filled with tropical plants.
The Indiana State Museum is a showplace for Indiana’s cultural and natural history. The building, constructed of Indiana materials, triples the size of exhibit and program space from its former locations while preservation labs and storage facilities house the museum’s collection of more than 400,00 artifacts.
People of all ages enjoy the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Whether measured by size, number of artifacts or number of visitors, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is the world’s largest and was recently ranked as the “best children’s museum” in the country by Child magazine and the No. 1 museum in the Midwest by FamilyFun magazine. The five-story museum houses 100,000 artifacts in 10 major galleries that explore the physical and natural sciences, history, foreign cultures and the arts. Many of the exhibits are interactive and participatory, encouraging hands-on learning. Treat yourself to a ride on the turn-of-the-century carousel, get a great view of the stars at SpaceQuest Planetarium or get prehistoric in the Dino Discovery Lab, where children can work side-by-side with professional paleontologists to select 65 million year-old dinosaur fossils for display in the Dinosphere, the most up-to-date representation of dinosaur behavior in the world.
Visit the Indianapolis Museum of Art to enjoy one of the largest general art museums in the United States where a $180 million investment project was completed in 2010. Feast your eyes on paintings, sculptures, photographs and textiles from African, American, Asian and European collections. While there, plan to visit the National Historic Landmark 26-acre estate Oldfields-Lilly House and Gardens. And wander the 100-acres of untamed woodlands, wetlands, lake and meadow of the adjacent Fairbanks Art and Nature Park.
INDY’S MORE HISTORICAL SIDEIndianapolis is second only to Washington, DC, in number of memorials. The city pays homage and respect through memorials to Medal of Honor recipients, fallen law enforcement and firefighters, and Hoosiers who died in conflicts from the Civil War to Somalia. Indianapolis is also home to one of only 26 national monuments in the country. Situated on the east bank of the Central Canal, the USS Indianapolis Memorial recognizes those who died on the last U.S. ship to sink during World War II. Etched on one side is the story of the sinking with the names of all those who served on the other.
Step inside the beautiful Hilbert Circle Theater right on Monument Circle to hear the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. The year-round performance schedule of 200 classical, pop and holiday concerts is performed at the historic theater, plus summer concerts are heard under the stars at Conner Prairie frontier village. Just a few blocks from Monument Circle stands Indianapolis Union Railroad Station, site of the nation’s first union railroad. Built in 1888 to handle the booming rail traffic, Union Station has been restored into a beautiful hotel and meeting venue. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/indianapolis/unionstation.htmAlso within walking distance of Monument Circle is the Indianapolis City Market. Established in 1886, the original City Market is still standing and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In an Old World atmosphere, the market’s vendors offer fresh produce, meats, fish, imported coffees and baked goods. Specialty stands include gifts, flowers, candy, shoe shines, clothing, alterations, and shoe and leather repair. Cart vendors ranging from a portrait artist to various craft and jewelry designers add an ever-changing flavor to the market.
For decades, the Madame Walker Theatre Center has been the heart of Indiana Avenue, once well-known throughout the Midwest as the city’s center of jazz. Legendary musicians like Bix Beiderbecke and West Montgomery played at the Indiana Avenue jazz clubs. The Walker Building and Theatre were originally constructed in 1927 as the home of Walker Manufacturing, founded by the country’s first female self-made millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker. Travel north to the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers for a stop at Conner Prairie, an open-air living history museum. It serves as a local, regional, and national center for research and education about the lives, times, attitudes, and values of early 19-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, emphasizing the Indiana experience. The museum and historic areas are set on a 210 acre site featuring wooded areas and orchards along the White River in central Indiana. Each year, more than 320,000 people visit this living history museum and frontier village where the past becomes the present. You can experience authentic frontier activities, including a pioneer wedding celebration and camp meeting. Seasonal events and exhibits throughout the year enrich the museum and its visitors. It’s good, old-fashioned family fun…1830’s style. For more modern outdoor activity, spend the day at Eagle Creek Park. With 3,900 acres of wooded terrain and a 1,300-acre reservoir, Eagle Creek, is one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. The park has footpaths, bike trails, a nature center, a 36-hole golf course, archery and pistol range, shelter houses, playgrounds and two retreat centers that are available for day conferences or retreats. Visitors can swim, sail, canoe, bird watch, fish and cross-country ski. Horse-drawn carriage rides through the park are offered seasonally. Eagle Creek is home to one of only two rowing courses in the United Sates sanctioned for international competition by the International Federation of Rowing Associations. In 1994, it was the site of the World Rowing Championships.
DINING All that activity is bound to work up an appetite. Indy’s diverse and abundant restaurant selection downtown gives diners a lot to chew on. Tempt your taste buds with a succulent steak from Ruth’s Chris Steak House or savor the seafood at Kona Jack’s Fish Market. Travel around the globe without ever leaving the city with P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, the Rathskeller for authentic German cuisine or the Claddagh Irish Pub. Catch the big game on one of the many TVs at Champps, Rock Bottom Brewery or Hooters. In addition to wonderful national restaurants with locations in Indianapolis, our city boasts delicious and unique options for dining too numerous to name, but here are a few worth pointing out.A fourth generation continues the homemade Italian food tradition begun in the 1930’s at Iaria’Italian Restaurant. Sandwiches at Shapiro’s Delicatessen are still stacked so high they don’t fit in your mouth. Calling downtown home for more than 100 years, St Elmo Steak House has a national reputation for great food, great service, and shrimp cocktail you’ll never forget. Select from hundreds of restaurants in the area based on location or cuisine at http://indianapolis.diningguide.com“Two things I’ve noticed about Indianapolis whenever you go back:The people are nice –automatically nice –and the food is better!”David Letterman
SHOPPINGExplore Circle Centre Mall downtown where you’ll findevery specialty store you would want. If antiques are what you’re looking for, take a short drive southeast of downtown to Fountain Square historic district, where you’ll find antique dealers in specialty stores and art galleries. Or browse the eclectic boutiques and vintage clothing shops just a little north of downtown in Broad Ripple Village where you also can dine in one of their unique pubs and eateries, many with outside seating during the warm-weather months. Other area malls include Castleton Square on the northeast side, Glendale Mall to the north, Greenwood Park Mall on the south side, Lafayette Square Mall on the west side, and The Fashion Mall at Keystone on the far north side. Surrounding area malls include Hamilton Towne Centre in Noblesville, Clay Terrace in Carmel, Metropolis in Plainfield and south of Indianapolis, Edinburg.
Indy
Government
A BRIEF LESSONBy 1970, the city of Indianapolis had grown to encompass all of Marion County. Rather than two separate bodies for city administration and county administration, a unified government or UniGov was created. Under UniGov, the City Council and County Council combined to form the City-County Council. City-County government is now divided into three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, similar to the federal system of government. For additional detailed information, please visit the government website at www.indy.gov
Executive BranchThe executive branch consists of the mayor’s office and five departments, each with its own functions and responsibilities. Under UniGov, the mayor is the chief executive officer of both the city and the county. Gregory A. Ballard was elected the 48th Mayor of Indianapolis on November 6, 2007, and was re-elected to a second term on November 8, 2011.A director is appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City-County Council for each of the five departments: Capital Asset Management-monitors condition of infrastructure assets such as streets, bridges, sewers, etc., manages parking meters, and maintains street and bridge lighting. Metropolitan Development-responsible for code enforcement, planning and zoning, redevelopment, and historic preservation. Public Works-collects and disposes of liquid and solid waste, monitors air pollution, and maintains streets, bridges, storm water drains, and sanitary sewers
Public Safety-responsible for overseeing the Indianapolis police and fire departments, emergency management planning, weights and measures, and animal control.
Parks and Recreation-maintains and builds golf courses, neighborhood and regional parks, community centers, swimming pools, and other recreational facilities such as William Kuntz Soccer Center, Mayor Taylor Velodrome, and the Regatta Course at Eagle Creek. Each department also has a non-salaried policy-making board that holds regular public meetings. The board members are appointed by the mayor and the council.
Legislative BranchThe legislative branch of local government consists of the 29-member City-County Council. Each member is elected for a four-year term. Twenty-five of the members are elected by the voters in their districts and four at-large members are elected by the voters of the entire county. In addition to powers of confirmation of mayoral appointments, the council has exclusive power to adopt budgets, levy taxes, and make appropriations. The council can also enact, repeal, or amend local ordinances.
Judicial BranchThe third branch of UniGov, the judicial branch, consists of a Circuit Court; a Superior Court withfour divisions (Civil, Criminal, Probate, and Juvenile); a Municipal Court with 13 criminal trial courtrooms and four civil courtrooms; and a Small Claims Court with eight courtrooms.
Police and Sheriff Merger In January 2007, the Indianapolis Police Department merged with the Marion County Sheriff’s Department to form the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.
Residential
Communities
MARION COUNTY Marion County is divided into nine Townships with different advantages and strengths. It’s like they have distinct personalities. If you are relocating to Indianapolis, you might want to spend some time in each area to determine which area suits you best. Each township is governed by a Township Trustee, Township Assessor and Advisory Board.
NORTHLawrence TownshipLawrence, Indiana, both the city and the township, is located in the northeast corner of Marion County. Several upscale housing communities and outdoor recreation facilities are in the area including the exclusive Geist development.The elementary, junior highs and high schools have received excellent rating, and career training is offered in fifteen vocational areas. Also, special education and gifted classes are available. Visit https://www.ltschools.org/.
Pike TownshipIn the northwest corner of Marion County that includes Eagle Creek Park, Pike Township offers a diverse social, cultural, ethnic and economic makeup. The nine elementary schools, three middle schools and one high school (with a freshman campus) maintain high academic standards in state-of-the-art facilities. Visit the school website at http://www.pike.k12.in.us/. Eagle Creek Park, in the township’s northwest corner, provides a 5,000-acre nature facility for hiking, fishing, sailing and skiing. It also includes a 27-hole golf course, bird sanctuary, archery range, woodland/wildlife preserve and other family activities.
Washington Township Encompassing a large area of northern Indianapolis, Washington Township is the third most populated township in Marion County. It has a long-standing reputation for a fine standard of living with tree-lined neighborhoods. Butler University and Broad Ripple Village are in Washington Township. The school system has received high scholastic ratings and special education programs are available. Career training in fifteen fields is offered by the J. Everett Light Career Center. Many private and parochial schools are also within Washington Township. Visit the school website at http://www.msdwt.k12.in.us/
Three branches of the Indianapolis/Marion County Public Library offer excellent facilities including traveling bookmobiles. This township offers both public and private recreational facilities.
SOUTH Franklin TownshipMarion County’s southeast corner has been predominantly a rural area on the fringe of Indianapolis, however, substantial development has taken place and many new housing developments can be found. The township is served by six elementary schools, two intermediate schools, and one high school that boast state-of-the-art athletic facilities. Visit http://www.ftcsc.k12.in.us/.
Perry TownshipIn the south central section of Marion County, this township features well-established residential neighborhoods. The town of Southport is located in the southern section of the township and the University of Indianapolis is in the northern section. Perry Township includes 11 elementary schools, two sixth-grade academies, two middle schools and two high schools. Visit the school website at http://www.msdpt.k12.in.us/
OUTSIDE OF MARION COUNTYSome of the finest residential communities in the Midwest are located in the greater Indianapolis area in the counties bordering Marion County.
NORTH –HAMILTON COUNTY
Carmel Indiana, is pronounced Car’- mel, like the candy! One of the fastest growing suburbs in the United States, Carmel has often been called an “ideal suburb” with some of the most outstanding housing and most affluent per-capita incomes in Indiana. Located in Clay Township, Hamilton County, it lies immediately north of Indianapolis via state highways 31 and 431.
Schools The Carmel-Clay School Corporation earns high scholastic ratings. There are eleven elementary schools, three middle schools and one high school with extensive facilities. Vocational and special education programs are offered. Visit the school website at http://www1.ccs.k12.in.us/. Municipal InformationThe government includes the Mayor and a seven-member City Council, a Clerk-Treasurer, a City Judge, as well as Board and Commissions including the Board of Public Works, Board of Zoning Appeals, Redevelopment Commission, Plan Commission, Parks and Recreation Board, Economic Advisory Board, and Housing Authority.
MiscellaneousBesides easy access to all of Indianapolis for entertainment and recreation, the Carmel area boasts of top-rated country clubs, golf courses, health clubs, riding stables and shopping districts. Carmel has its own Symphony Orchestra and a highly-acclaimed modern public library.
FishersLocated in southeastern Hamilton County, the town of Fishers began simply in 1872 as a train stop called Fishers Switch and very slowly grew to a population of 388 by 1960. That all changed quickly after Indiana highway 37 was relocated and connected to I-69. The Town of Fishers became a fast-growing suburb just 20 miles north and east of downtown Indianapolis. By 2006, the population was 60,000. In 2010, the population grew to 76,950 with an estimated population of 81,850 in 2012.
Schools Hamilton Southeastern Schools have achieved significant successes in academic competitions, sports, music, arts and other extracurricular activities. The school corporation includes twelve elementary, three intermediate and three junior high schools, a freshman campus and two senior high schools.The schools hold a Four Star rating issued by the Indiana Department of Education. Visit the school website at http://www.hse.k12.in.us/. Municipal InformationThe town of Fishers is governed by a seven-member Town Council with legislative and executive powers, plus a clerk-treasurer responsible for the town’s financial matters. The Town Council elects a council president and vice-president. The town council also appoints and oversees a town manager whose day-to-day management responsibilities include overseeing the administration, development, fire, police, parks and recreation, public works, wastewater and information technology departments.
MiscellaneousIn July 2005, Money Magazine unveiled its annual listing of “Best Places to Live in the United States”. The Town of Fishers was ranked as twenty-fourth best, higher than any town or city in Indiana.
NoblesvilleNoblesville is the seat of Hamilton County and is seventeen miles northeast of Indianapolis. I-69, with easy access to I-465, is just four miles southeast of Noblesville. Prestigious home and condominium communities such as North, South and West Harbours and Forest Bay surround Morse Reservoir, a boating enthusiast’s “dream”. SchoolsThe Noblesville School District serves most of the city of Noblesville and all of Noblesville Township.
Schools Include six elementary, two middle school, and one high school with a freshman center. Visit http://www.noblesvilleschools.org/.
Municipal InformationGoverned by a Mayor, a seven-member Common Council, a City Planning Commission and a Board of Zoning Appeals, the City of Noblesville also has a 23-member police force as well as fourteen auxiliary police. Two fire stations with a 30-man full-time crew serve the area.
Miscellaneous Forest Park is a municipal park with a 9-hole golf course, pool, sports and picnic facilities and the Indiana Museum of Transportation and Communications. Also within the city limits is the newly enlarged Riverview Hospital. Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement, a living museum of early Indiana history, is just south of town and attracts visitors from all over the Midwest.
NORTHWEST –BOONE COUNTY
ZionsvilleA historic and architectural treasure just into Boone County, Zionsville is a quaint village less than thirty minutes from downtown Indianapolis. Restored and remodeled starting in the 1960’s to preserve its Colonial, Victorian and Early American past, Zionsville is one of the favorite shopping and dining villages complete with brick streets of yesteryear. This, combined with the dramatic new home communities bordering the town, makes Zionsville a much-favored address.
SchoolsZionsville Community schools include five elementary, two middle schools, and one high school. For more information about the schools, visitwww.zcs.k12.in.us. Municipal InformationA five-member Town Council is elected along with a Clerk-Treasurer. The Redevelopment Commission is made up of six members.
MiscellaneousIn 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln traveled by train through Zionsville from his home in Illinois to his inauguration. The train stopped briefly and Lincoln stepped to the rear platform of the train to speak to the assembled crowd. In commemoration that site was named Lincoln Park.
WEST –HENDRICKS COUNTYAvonOn the west side of Indianapolis, the Town of Avon has experienced explosive growth as has the Carmel/Fishers area north of the city. In 1990, the area claimed a population of just 1,000, although it was not officially a town until 1997. The population in 2004 was approximately 10,000. Officials list the population as 13,300 for 2012.
SchoolsAvon Community School Corporation includes seven elementary schools, two intermediate schools, two middle schools and one high school. The Avon schools recently were recognized as Indiana “Four Star” schools by the Indiana Department of Education by placing in the top 25 percent of all Indiana schools for its statewide testing scores (ISTEP) and graduation rate. Visit the school website at http://www.avon-schools.org.
Municipal InformationThe five members of the Town Council serve as the executive and legislative body. A council president is elected by the town council. The Town Manager is the chief administrative officer who oversees departments and staff who coordinate various services. Brownsburg located just 15 miles north of the Indianapolis International Airport, Brownsburg is a combination of rural and suburban. This family-oriented own is home to one of the most diverse auto racing facilities in the county, Lucus Oil Raceway at Indianapolis, where more than 100 events are held each year.
SchoolsBrownsburg Community School Corporation includes six elementary schools, two middle schools,and one high school. Visit http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/. Municipal InformationThe Town Manager, under the direction of the five-member Town Council, is responsible for the administration of the town and has supervisory control over all town personnel except elected officials, policemen and firemen.
SOUTH –JOHNSON COUNTYGreenwood / Center GroveLocated just south of Indianapolis is the city of Greenwood. Divided into two distinct areas, Old Towne occupies Main Street off of I-65. Many long-time businesses have been joined by new manufacturers and warehouse facilities. Greenwood’s White River Township is called Center Grove. Newer luxurious subdivisions dot the landscape and have brought tremendous development and growth to the area.
SchoolsGreenwood Community School Corporation includes four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. For more information, visit http://oak.gws.k12.in.us/. Center Grove School Corporation in White River Township includes six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. In addition to academic excellence, Center Grove also is known outstanding sports and other extracurricular programs. Visit the school website at http://www.centergrove.k12.in.us/.
Municipal InformationGreenwood is managed by a Mayor and Common Council. Assisting is the Board of Public Works & Safety, Advisory Plan Commission, Economic Commission, Redevelopment Commission, and others. Miscellaneous The Greenwood Greenways program has built dozens of miles of multi-use trails, greenways and walkways throughout Greenwood for walking, running, cycling and skating enjoyment. More trails are planned throughout the area.
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The Circle City has a variety of off-beat and exciting things to do and places to go. It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in basketball, history or high-octane excitement, Indianapolis can provide friendliness and fun that is recognized far and wide. Visit http://visitindy.comfor more information.
Here is just a sampling of some of the fun and funky things Indianapolis offers: •Tilt Studio Indy is your family FUN destination! Featuring one-of-a-kind motion simulators, video games, redemption games and now Red Planet laser tag! We are Indianapolis’ largest arcade, birthday party and event center located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis in the Circle Center Mall.•Ride pedal boats or surrey bikes, rollerblade or jog along the Indianapolis Canal Walk, a renovated 10 ½block downtown canal which features gardens, parks, decorative bridges and walkways. The canal has become a focal point for activity on the west side of downtown. •Race go-karts at Fastimes Indoor Karting, which offer European-style, wheel-to-wheel racing in state-of-the-art karts. Driverscan race against the clock or each other and racing helmets, suits and gloves are provided. If you need more of the “real thing”, drive a professional race car at Track Attack Racing School•Go duckpin bowling at Action Duckpin Bowl or Atomic Bowl Duckpin in Fountain Square. In duckpin bowling, players get three wooden, softball-sized balls per frame with which to knock down 10 pint-sized pins. Both alleys are located in a historic renovated building furnished with equipment from the 1950s and featuring oversized black and white photos of past duckpin bowling greats –most of whom have flattops. •Tour the Indiana Medical History Museum, what one travel book called a “marvelous museum quite simply without peer in the entire county.” The museum is housed in the historic Pathological Department of the former Central State Hospital. The museum includes old stethoscopes, X-ray machines, ophthalmoscopes, lab equipment and other medical artifacts. •Spend the evening stargazing at Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium, Indiana’s premier observatory. The observatory is located on the beautifully landscaped grounds of Butler University, just a few miles north of downtown Indianapolis. •Check out the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum. More than 35 cars that have won the Indianapolis 500 are on exhibit at the museum. Shop for souvenirs and racing mementos in the museum’s gift shop. You can even take a ride around the famous 2½ mile oval, home of the “greatest spectacle in racing”. •Have a few laughs at Crackers Comedy Club Downtown or Broad Ripple, where the alumni list includes Tim Allen, Rosie O’Donnell, Jeff Foxworthy and Drew Carey. •Take in an outdoor summer concert during Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie. On weekends, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs classical music while the audience spreads out on blankets with picnic dinners in a wooded, picturesque setting of this living history museum.
Index of Indianapolis’s Arts Groups and Facilities Theatre/Dance/Music American Cabaret Theatre–authentic European-style cabaret Asante Children’s Theatre–enlightening youth through theatrical arts Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre–year-round Equity theater Dance Kaleidoscope–Indiana’s only professional modern dance company Freetown Village–first-person living history portrayals Indiana Repertory Theatre–Indiana’s Theatre Laureate Indianapolis Children’s Choir–one of the largest in North America Indianapolis Civic Theatre–community theateroperating continuously since 1914 Indianapolis Opera–opera of the highest professional standards Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra–under the baton of Maestro Mario Venzago Massachusetts Avenue Arts District–theaters, galleries, retail, jazz, trendy restaurantsMurat Center–beautiful downtown venue Phoenix Theatre–contemporary issue-oriented plays Theatre on the Square–presents an unorthodox view on orthodoxAttractions and Landmarks Visit Indy–Visitor’s Central Athenaeum–home of the American Cabaret Theatre Broad Ripple Village–Indy’s version of Greenwich Village Indianapolis Canal Walk–USS Indianapolis memorial is here The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis–the world’s largest Christ Church Cathedral–the city’s oldest church building Hilbert Circle Theatre–beautifully restored movie palace http://hilbertcircletheatreindy.org/Conner Prairie–life as it is was in 1830s Banker’s Life Fieldhouse–home to the NBA’s Indiana Pacers andWNBA’s Indiana Fever Eagle Creek Park–every outdoor activity you can think of Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art–O’Keefe, Remington and more Garfield Park and Conservatory–500 tropical plant varieties President Benjamin Harrison Home–jewel of the Old North side Indiana Historical Society–the home to several artifacts of Indiana heritageIndiana Medical History Museum–a collection of scientific artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesIndiana Statehouse–center of Indiana government; tours available Indiana State Museum–showcase for Indiana’s natural history Indiana Repertory Theater and Indiana Roof Ballroom–historic gems downtownIndianapolis City Market–Old World atmosphere Indianapolis Motor Speedway–Hall of Fame, Brickyard Crossing, and the world famous oval track Indianapolis Museum of Art–famous ‘LOVE’ sculpture is here Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens–see dolphins perform or hold a giant cockroach James Whitcomb Riley Home–the Hoosier Poet’s home in Lockerbie Square Madame Walker Theatre Center–landmark in the Indiana Avenue corridorMassachusetts Avenue Arts District–art, jazz, theatre in historic section retail, restaurantsMedal of Honor Memorial–memorial honoring American heroes; a must see along the Indianapolis Canal WalkMorris Butler House Museum–sixteen rooms of Victorian furnishings NCAA Hall of Champions–in White River State Park National Art Museum of Sport–more than 1,000 works of fine art Scottish Rite Cathedral –magnificent Gothic-Tudor structure Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument–tribute to the soldiers who served in the Civil and Spanish American wars War Memorial Plaza and American Legion Mall–historical tribute and popular site for events White River State Park–home to the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, IMAX Theater, National institute for Fitness and Sport, the Eiteljorg Museum of Native American and Western Art, Victory Field, Central Canal, The National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Hall of Champions.There are many wonderful cities and towns in the Indianapolis area. For assistance in finding the right community and home for you, call/ text or email me! 317-709-4335 or mailto:[email protected] | {
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Just a short note to add our summary to the blog postings for CQP 2010. I submitted our score yesterday and I have to reiterate that we both had a wonderful experience in this contest. Choosing multi-single (the old mans category!) and having a contest run only 30 hours is very nice. Although propagation was less than favorable, all in all we seemed pretty successful. In judging success in these sorts of endeavors, one must keep in mind the limitations. In our case no tower, no beam antenna and only a single 50 foot dipole for all bands. 50 foot on 80M is certainly a stretch , but it worked after a fashion as you will see. It is interesting to note that San Diego County provided our most dense QSO contribution.
2010 CQP W5PG Score Summary.
As far as “Done Well”, “Do Better” items are concerned I would offer a few suggestions:
Figure out how to add 160M and more efficiency on 80M while remaining stealthy.
Eliminate the nasty noise source that appears to be being carried by either my gas mains or AC refrigerant copper plumbing.
Spend some time working out better ergonomics.
As in most city lots situations, more antennas, towers and a larger neighborhood presence is out of the realm of possibility so maximizing what you have to work with is paramount. It is, after all, a hobby that must coexist with both family and neighbors, and as such I aim to be a good neighbor. An interesting side note: we ran 500 W all weekend, essentially with a signal on the air for a solid 30 hours with nary a RFI complaint from any quarter. That means more to me and my hobby than anything else I can add. | {
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This website is designed to help the citizens and taxpayers of Logan County, Colorado access property value information online. The Assessor's Office discovers, lists, classifies, and values all real and personal property in Logan County. The Assessor's Office is also responsible for maintaining public records, including ownership and parcel maps. We also submit the Abstract of Assessment to the Colorado Division of Property Taxation, as well as certify values to taxing entities and produce the warrant and tax roll. Our primary goal is to establish fair and equitable values for all property, with the highest level of efficiency possible. The Treasurer's Office prime function is the collection of property taxes.
County parcel maps are available in the Assessor Office for reviewing.
The Assessor and Treasurer Offices strive to serve the people of Logan County with outstanding customer service. The information contained herein will be regularly maintained for your benefit. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please feel free to come by or contact us if we can be of further assistance. | {
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When Christina Aguilera released her garish, sexually charged sophomore effort, Stripped, in 2002, it seemed that she pushed her obsessions with tweaking taboos just a little too far. Sure, she could still sing, but her music was now driven entirely by skeletal club grooves and explicit carnality. It was a bold break from the teenybopper persona she was desperate to shed, but it was overcorrective steering, taking her a little bit too far down the road toward a grotesque caricature, particularly in her ugly video for the ...
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When Christina Aguilera released her garish, sexually charged sophomore effort, Stripped, in 2002, it seemed that she pushed her obsessions with tweaking taboos just a little too far. Sure, she could still sing, but her music was now driven entirely by skeletal club grooves and explicit carnality. It was a bold break from the teenybopper persona she was desperate to shed, but it was overcorrective steering, taking her a little bit too far down the road toward a grotesque caricature, particularly in her ugly video for the album's lead single, "Dirrty." All this grandstanding provoked an intense reaction, not just among fans but among her collaborators, who also wondered if Christina was going a little too far, but she managed to keep from sinking largely on the strength of the ballad "Beautiful," an empowering statement of self-love that managed to dampen "Dirrty"'s impact even if it didn't erase it. It also set the stage for the next phase of her career: as an outright old-fashioned diva, much like Madonna or Cher. Smartly, she followed this path for her third album, the sprawling, deliriously entertaining double-disc Back to Basics.The title alone on Back to Basics is an allusion that perhaps Christina herself thinks she might have gone a little too far with Stripped; she stops short of offering an apology -- she even has a song where she proclaims she's "Still Dirrty" -- but this album's emphasis on songs and singing, along with the fixation with the big-band era, does suggest that Aguilera is ready to be once again seen as a world-class vocalist. Nevertheless, Back to Basics also makes clear that Stripped, for as flawed as it is, was also a necessary artistic move for Christina: she needed to get that out of her system in order to create her own style, one that is self-consciously stylized, stylish, and sexy. As the endless series of pinup photos in the album's booklet illustrates, Christina is obsessed with earning credibility through association: she dresses up as a big-band vamp and drops allusions to Etta James, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin, all under the assumption that listeners will think of Ms. Aguilera as the heir to that throne. While she may have the vocal chops to pull it off to a certain extent, Back to Basics doesn't quite feel like it belongs to the classic soul and R&B tradition, even if the second disc is designed to be an old-fashioned jazzy R&B album, complete with bluesy torch songs and occasionally live instrumentation. Aguilera's instincts are too modern to make the album sound classic. She remains stubbornly autobiographical -- she disses departed producer Scott Storch on "F.U.S.S.," again addresses the abuse inflicted on her mother by her father, spends much of the album detailing her love for her new husband, Jordan, and always filters everything through a very personal filter that makes this seem like a journal entry à la Alanis Morissette (even "Thank You," subtitled as her dedication to her fans, isn't about the fans; it's about how Christina has inspired them, saved their life, or kept them going while stationed in Iraq -- all stories recounted in the voicemail that runs throughout the track). Her lyrics remain bluntly direct, particularly when she talks about sex: "Candyman" makes her cherry pop and her panties drop, while the "Nasty Naughty Boy" will receive "a little taste of the sugar below my waist." That combined with the slick, precise computerized production means that even when Christina tries to sound classic, she winds up sounding like the present.But that's what's good about Back to Basics -- even though she strives hard to be a classic soul singer here, she can't help but sound like herself, and surely there is no other big-budget pop album in 2006 that bears the stamp of its auteur so clearly. As she did on Stripped, she has gotten to indulge herself here, but where she was more concerned with sound than structure last time around, on Back to Basics she spends just as...
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Last month at Gamescom 2011, FROM showed off more Armored Core V screenshots and a new trailer (featuring some cringe-worthy voiceovers redeemed only by the accompanying epic Armored Core music).
The latest gameplay reveals are the three confirmed maps (Abandoned City, Buried Facility, and Alpine Base) and the ability to place a plethora of turret/cannon defenses all over your team’s territory.
A new set of screenshots was released for TGS 2011. Noteworthy are the giant AC you can see above and a new curved beam saw hype thingy the new Moonlight. Oh, and Gamespot actually managed to interview Nabeshima himself. Nothing really new, though. | {
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This residency investigates a fictional waiting room: a grey zone, a transition, a temporary abolition of the time, of the usual activities, of thoughts about productivity. Waiting is considered as a condition, a state without any destination. In the lingering there is a potential to which we rarely give importance. The setting is made to distract you from a linear time progress. An immersive sound environment where auditive and material elements merge, utopian ideas meet concrete observations of the present. A time window that opens up, that creates a collective waiting experience from a listener’s perspective. | {
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Yesterday we arrived at Chamonix. We came with nanny and grandad.(Chamonix is in France 🇫🇷).
We woke up early and went to see the Glacé de mer (Sea of ice ) Glacier. We took something like a mountain train to reach the view point. The view was amazing!! Me, Mummy, Daddy and Nanny went down to see the Glacier and ice cave. We went really slowly because I was scared.
Once we arrived at the ice cave, we went inside. It was freezing cold and I had to wear a jacket!!! Brrrrrrrrrrr!
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Battery, Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue
At about 4:10 p.m., Berkeley police officers came across a large crowd that had gathered. Several pedestrians told police that there was a fight. As the officer approached, she saw the involved parties being separated. She was told the fight started when the victim got out of his vehicle and was attacked. The attacker “pushed the victim to the ground and started hitting him.” The victim sustained non-life threatening injuries. Police arrested the attacker at the scene on suspicion of several violations, including battery and public intoxication.
Felony Assault, Ohlone Park
Two men got into a fight in Ohlone Park, 1701 Hearst Ave., at about 6:45 p.m. after an incident during a basketball game. Police said Clarence Bailey, 44, of San Pablo picked up a rock and punched a 57-year-old Berkeley man in the face with it. Police arrested Bailey and the other man declined medical attention after receiving non-life-threatening injuries.
Felony Battery, 1700 block of Derby Street
At about 10 p.m., police responded to a domestic disturbance on Derby Street. According to police, a brother punched his sister and knocked her unconscious after getting into a fight about “family issues.” Police said the brother fled. A family member called police to report the incident and took the sister to the hospital for care. She suffered serious non-life threatening injuries as a result of the incident. Police were unable to find the brother.
I appreciate the follow up article. It’s not clear to me that the data support the “slightly more violence than usual” claim. I used your crimemapping link and looked at the same number of days in the last few months. In November, there were 19 assault/battery incidents not counting domestic violence calls.
In December the count was 8, not counting domestic violence.
Obviously my data set is too small to make any big pronouncements, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear that 8 in a week is unusual.
Bill N
I also note that the police were called or present in each incident and that the assailants were caught in 2 out of three assaults. I look at this crime mapping link often and wonder how the data is collected? Might be an interesting followup article sometime.
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Thank-you for doing this research. The “more violence than usual” rang false to me as well. I’m glad to see that I was correct.
I’m wondering if perhaps Berkeleyside would consider creating a new category for crime, since the new reporter seems to be mainly focused on that subject.
There is something to be said for reporting ALL the news, but perhaps not every item is “front page” material…?
PragmaticProgressive
I drew a slightly different conclusion. Ignorance about how much thuggery affects our city is widespread. I’m happy to see more coverage but I want it to inform and not mislead so that we can press city officials to do a better job.
emraguso
Really all I meant was that three assaults/battery incidents in one day is not necessarily that typical. But definitely a very small sample. I wasn’t trying to make any broad claims here — it was just surprising to see that many incidents in one day. That’s why we followed up with police about it. As it turned out — they all seemed to be very different types of incidents, and unconnected.
PragmaticProgressive
It’s a fair point about three-in-one-day specifically.
What I personally found surprising was that 8-in-one-week is the low side of normal. That strikes me as unacceptably high.
emraguso
We’d need to do a much broader analysis to get clarity on what is normal, I think. To complicate matters, these can represent such a broad range of incidents. Thanks for providing the link you provided.
emraguso
We’d need to do a much broader analysis to get clarity on what is normal, I think. To complicate matters, these can represent such a broad range of incidents — from just the threat of violence to actual violence, from incidents with strangers to domestic violence. Thanks for providing the link you provided.
PragmaticProgressive
Great, I look forward to reading what you uncover.
emraguso
I’m not sure how quickly this will happen; I didn’t mean to suggest it’s something we can analyze. It would be quite difficult without a lot of information from BPD. But a broader BPD crime report should be coming out from the department in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps it will address this issue.
The Sharkey
How sad that violence is so commonplace in Berkeley that some folks think beatings aren’t important enough to be “front page” news.
Gun Owner
I can’t believe that people still think that possession of a human hand or fist is safe or useful in any way. How often are people murdered just because a fist happens to be nearby and available or convenient to use?
Laws allowing people to own human hands or fists are out-dated and do not represent modern times, or modern needs. Anyone who believes they need to own one in order to protect themself from tyrannical elements has a screw loose.
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. How many of these assault victims died. Would it have been the same if they’d been shot? Do the math. | {
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Cailyn iCone Blending Shader Brush
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Shade or blend any eye shadow perfectly with this velvety, dense brush. The CAILYN® iCone Blending Shader Brush has a rounded edge with firm, fine fibers and is your go-to brush for creating buildable, contoured eye looks. Steel bottom platform includes a magnetic stand to keep brushes clean and organized without losing their natural shape. One of 18 uniquely designed facial brushes in the iCone collection. | {
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To obtain licensure requires graduation from anARC-PA approved/accredited Physician Assistant program. Specialty experience preferred on a position by position basis.UHPPM1-56 requires that newly hired non-physician providers apply for credentialing and privileging at the time of hire.
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The Bali '89 collection is reminiscent of our first original rattan bucket bag, emphasizing texture and the art of the weave. The Bali '89 clutch is a convertible shape that will easily take you from day to evening | {
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
I painted this on location in Granbury off Hwy 144. The sumac bushes were what caught my eye. The sun was out and it warmed up to a lovely 70 degrees. I used a palette knife to paint this. It is available for purchase and would make a great Christmas gift. $100.00
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The forecast for Wednesday was temperatures in the seventies with calm winds. When I heard that I scheduled a day off work. I was not disappointed.
I have passed this spot daily and thought I could find something here to paint. The sumac bushes appeared to be glowing in the morning sun. It was a good spot and a great morning.
I painted this with a #28 Galleria (1 1/4" wide). It was a challenge on such a small canvas.
Friday, November 25, 2011
This was my second attempt at a painting in the fog. It was too thick at my first stop and I ended up with a wiper. I drove up the hill and found this spot. The sun was trying to burn the clouds away, but the fog stayed around a long time. I challenged myself by using a larger brush on this one. I used a #28 Galleria, that is 1 1/4 of an inch wide. This is available for purchase. $125.00
Monday, November 21, 2011
This was the last painting I did in Olivette Hubler's workshop last weekend. We had the best time with great weather and fall color. This is from the flat rock area off Edwards Road in Paluxy.This is available for purchase. $125.00
Saturday, November 19, 2011
I created this during a workshop with Olivette Hubler last weekend. We were painting in an area on Edward's road that is one big flat rock. I am always inspired when we paint here and usually do have a great time while there. This day was no exception. Everyone in the class seemed to have a good time and were equally inspired. This is available for purchase through CFAI.http://www.cfai.co/sherijones
Thursday, November 17, 2011
I created this during a plein air workshop I took with Olivette Hubler. I was working behind the Benard Museum on the Paluxy River. A woman had come down to purchase a window in memory of her late husband at the museum. You can purchase the windows and have them restored. She watched me paint for a while and decided she wanted to purchase my painting. I was about halfway through it and agreed to finish it and ship it out when it dried. I love it when that happens.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I painted this during a recent workshop I took with Olivette Hubler. She suggested we bring large brushes and some large canvases. This was the largest I've painted outdoors and loved using my 2 inch brush. Bigger the canvas, bigger the brush.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
I painted this during a workshop I took with Olivette Hubler. She did a demo each morning and I found this so helpful in understanding her approach. I really admire her work and loved the workshop. It has been great being outside painting these last three days. The mornings started off cold, but we had clear skies and warm temperatures for the most part. This house is in Heritage Park in Glen Rose, Texas.
Friday, November 11, 2011
I painted this today in Glen Rose during a workshop with Olivette Hubler. She's a great artist and I am excited to be in her class. This park is along the Paluxy River and has a number of beautiful old buildings they have brought in. There is a lot to choose from to paint. It turned into a great day with temperatures in the seventies.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
I painted this in the studio after a plein air adventure with my friend Joyce Thomas. I was still inspired and knew I had one more in me. I enjoyed using my left over paint and a palette knife on this one. The location is at a beautiful spot in the Paluxy area. This is available for purchase.
Monday, November 7, 2011
This was inspired by photos I took in the Ft. Worth Botanical Garden. The bright poppies grabbed my attention. It was a fun dance with my palette knife. It is available for purchase through Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
This was painted at Lake Granbury's Hunter Park on Saturday. This was the second painting I did that day. When I first drove up I couldn't see this tractor through the fog. By the time I got to painting it the sun was just right. It was a challenge, but a lot of fun to paint. This is available for purchase. $175.00
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
I met my friends, Joyce Thomas, Jill Randall, Olivette Hubler and Terry Moore at Hunter Park on Lake Granbury Saturday morning. We found plenty of inspiration. The grasses are turning a golden color in the morning sun and the trees are starting to change too. It was great to be outside and enjoying the nice weather with good friends. I painted this with a palette knife.
This is available for purchase. [email protected]://www.sheriart.net/http://www.sheriart.blogspot.com/
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About Me
I have studied painting and glass work for over 25 years, constantly learning from diverse
artists and workshops. I consider myself a colorist and feel it speaks volumes in whatever
medium or subject I choose to use. My goal is to push boundaries, growing through
experimentation, variety and brush mileage.
My recent inspirations come from plein air work. Painting outdoors or working from life has
proven to be an exhilarating and challenging experience. I am inspired to record my
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Furniture classics: the Vitra Eames lounge chair
Husband and wife Charles and Ray Eames are among the most influential twentieth century designers. Their best-known furniture design is the Vitra Eames Lounge Chair.
History of the Vitra Eames Chair
The Vitra Eames Lounge Chair & Ottoman, which launched in 1956 offered a modern twist on the classic English club armchair. It was a gift for Billy Wilder who was the director behind movies such as Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard.
Charles Eames wanted the leather upholstery to look soft and well-used, inviting the user to sink back and relax in it. At the time he used a baseball reference to comment how it had: “the receptive look of a well-used first baseman’s mitt.”
The chair has consistently featured in popular culture since its introduction. In the hit US comedy Frasier it is a centrepiece in the title character’s apartment. Oddly the chair has also been associated with former first secretary of state Peter Mandelson. He was pictured enjoying himself in one at his Notting Hill home in the late 1990s.
The chair is still referenced to this day with French designer Ora Ito coming up with a Nike trainer that paid respects to the chair’s curves in 2014.
Last year saw an exhibition at the Barbican in London dedicated to the work of the Eameses. The retrospective catalogued how they not only made an impact on the furniture industry but also to architecture and film.
Luxury materials
The seat shell is made from bent plywood with a cherry, walnut or palisander veneer finish. The leather upholstery comes in a range of colours including white, chocolate, umbra grey and classic black.
The chair is available from Vitra in two sizes: classic and a newer option with larger dimensions. They also recently reduced two winter versions: the lounge chair in all white and all black.
Our office furniture team are proud to be trusted Vitra dealers and if you are interesting in purchasing the Vitra Eames Lounge Chair or any other Vitra products, please visit our dedicated Vitra page to find out more and get in touch to discuss further. | {
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Who would make Bollywood's sexiest Catwoman?
Who would make Bollywood's sexiest Catwoman?
And the cat is out of the bag! Only recently, filmmaker Christopher Nolan roped in Anne Hathaway to essay the beautiful yet brutal Selina Kyle aka Catwoman in third Batman flick The Dark Knight Rises.
One of the most fascinating anti-heroines of all times, the Catsuit was previously donned by the likes of a sensational Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Forever and Halle Berry in its eminently forgettable eponymous edition.
So here's a wild thought, who do you think among our girls would make an ideal Catwoman? Click through our options and have your say!
Katrina Kaif
Like Hathaway, Katrina is best known for her golden girl parts and sparkling smile. It would be great to watch her step out of the comfort zone and explore the dark side. Plus, with her newly toned bod and doe-eyed seduction, there's no reason why she shouldn't.
Deepika Padukone
Those never-ending legs and athletic structure are tailor made to slip into Catwoman's snug 'n' sexy suit. At the same time, Deepika's gorgeous brown eyes and dimpled smile could work a mix of edgy and vulnerable too.
Sonam Kapoor
Considering Sonam's competence at transforming into various icons or get-ups for magazine shoots, it's only fair to develop that trait to produce something spectacular and long-lasting. Like the utterly mercurial Catwoman.
Kangna Ranaut
All that frizzy hair and volatile, high-strung responses -- playing a neurotic Selina Kyle is a cake walk for Kangna following films like Gangster, Woh Lamhe and Fashion. The real challenge lies in donning the Cat suit, could the No Problem star whiplash her way through it as well?
Rekha
Kind of a belated fantasy, yes? Okay, but 20 years ago, Rekha would have hit one straight out of the ballpark with her sumptuous rendition of the femme fatale in question. The lady's fierce sensuality and husky purr makes for aheady combo and a deadly Catwoman. | {
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Market Recap: Bears Keep POUNDING, NAKED Shorts, FOMC Minutes
On the commodities front, Oil (NYSE:USO) declined to $92.63 a barrel. Precious metals also declined, with Gold (NYSE:GLD) falling to $1539.00 an ounce while Silver (NYSE:SLV) fell 0.91% to settle at $27.14.
Employees at Merrill Lynch, a subsidiary of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) discussed helping naked short-sales by market-maker clients via e-mails the banks attempted to keep secret. Overstock.com(NASDAQ:OSTK) said in a court filing that a Merrill official told another to ignore compliance rules. It then accused Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs of manipulating its stock from 2005 to 2007, causing its shares to fall.
Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed Wednesday that the agency has opened a “preliminary investigation” into JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) over a headline-making trade loss estimated at more than $2 billion. JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, disclosed the multi-billion dollar loss last week, saying it was due to a failed hedging strategy. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, said the loss was a “terrible, egregious mistake.”
April FOMC meeting minutes released on Wednesday revealed that some Federal Reserve officials have not expressed confidence in signs of a growth upturn to change their guidance that rates will probably stay very low until late 2014. Fed officials also showed uncertainty in economic forecasts to not make any changes to the guidance. On a positive note, some officials did express more confidence about the recovery’s durability while others noted inflation concerns.
The HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Android phones are facing an indefinite delay at US Customs for potentially infringing on an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) patent. The agency is currently investigating the patent issues with Apple according to The Washington Post. The One X is currently out of stock at AT&T’s (NYSE:T) online store and many retail stores did not know when more units would be available. | {
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From The Archives: What Would Bill Graham Do? Vibing It Out With Ken Hays
As Gathering of the Vibes kicks off today in Bridgeport, we revisit this conversation with founder from Ken Hays, which originally ran in 2007 after the event returned to its current location at Seaside Park in Bridgeport.
Ken Hays is a man dedicated to preserving the community of the Grateful Dead. In 1995 when New York City’s Mayor Giuliani denied a public gathering in Central Park commemorating the legacy of Jerry Garcia, Ken brought 3,500 people to SUNY Purchase to celebrate with music. Following that initial celebration of the life of Garcia, Ken’s Gathering of the Vibes has grown to encapsulate the ever-expanding world and community of the Grateful Dead. From trading tapes on Dead tour to throwing the East Coast’s most celebrated festival, here Ken reflects on past challenges, the Vibes return to Seaside Park and genuine American Beauty.
JH: So this is the 12th anniversary of GOTV. As you look back, how does it feel?
KH: It feels great! Twelve years ago if you said that I’d planning a party for twenty thousand of my closest friends I’d say you’re insane. It has been an incredible ride. Incredibly challenging, but totally rewarding at the same time.
JH: Did you think you’d make it this far?
KH: There’s a phrase that we use in the offices that goes, “We’re pretty much winging this thing!” Every year is a challenge. I never thought that I’d be in the position of doing what I like to do for so long.
JH: Where’d you come up with the idea to do a James Brown tribute night?
KH: Well I’ve got a picture on my desk from backstage at the Vibes in 2003 of my sister, my niece, my nephew and Mr. Brown. He was a pleasure to work with. When we had him in 2003 I felt great for the kids out there that they were able to experience him in his full glory. We’ve got George Clinton and Deep Banana that will be doing some fun stuff and a lot of special guests that will be sitting in, showing their respect, and celebrating his music.
JH: GOTV has moved around the Northeast and been held at several different sites. What brought it back to Bridgeport, CT?
KH: We had always intended to after Vibes 2000. We had just about 10,000 at the Vibes in 99 at Seaside Park in Bridgeport. In 2000 we had around 15,000 people. In the Fall of 2000 the city started work on a master beautification project in the park and put $10 million into it and hydro-seeded 80 acres of grass. It typically takes around 5 years for the ground to settle and the grass to take firm hold so we can park with camped cars on the field without doing damage. Now six years later we can return.
JH: Where’d you get your start in the music business and how did you become involved in festival production?
KH: Our first show was moe. and MMW at the Capitol Theater in Portchester, NY. That was our first step trying out the waters. That was during the Terrapin Tapes days. It seemed like a fun thing to throw a party for some friends. That was where it all began.
JH: So you booked a moe. show which eventually evolved into GOTV?
KH: Indeed. Well.the GOTV started after Jerry died. Giuliani said no to a gathering in Central Park similar to the couple hundred thousand that gathered in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The Mayor couldn’t put up the cash to cover police, fire, EMS expenses and to cover the amount of people that would be in Central Park. So the folks from Dupree’s Diamond News, myself, and Bob Kennedy got together and said. “Let’s do it!” We went to SUNY Purchase College and called it Dead Head Heaven: The Gathering of the Tribe. We had 3,500 people. moe. headlined along with Max Creek. It was an amazing experience.
JH: I didn’t realize that this started as a reaction to Jerry’s death.
KH: Absolutely. This was about celebrating Jerry’s life, the music of the Dead, and how we all collectively as the Deadhead community could move forward together.
JH: How do you move forward together as the Deadhead community?
KH: How do we move forward together as a community? I don’t think it has been anything that has honestly been planned. It has evolved, it has mutated, it has become its own living, breathing entity. It’s very similar to the Grateful Dead which is try to keep it loose but try to keep it tight at the same time and don’t be afraid to change. Just grow and just do what seems right in your mind and your soul and try and do everything you can to keep everyone happy and together as a cohesive group of likeminded individuals caring for their kids and their families and their extended families. When you have common values as a community I think it’s almost magnetic. People want to hang out with like minded friends. It has progressed by its own design.
JH: GOTV has always been traditionally Grateful Dead-oriented. What’s your history with the Dead?
KH: I started Terrapin Tapes in Spring Tour 1991. I was handing out flyers. I had this idea when I went to school in CO when I was doing a lot of tape trading and paying ridiculous prices for Maxell XL II’s. I came back home to Connecticut that summer and would drive into the city and go to Uncle Steve’s and buy XL II 90’s for a great price and figured there had to be a way for everyone in the country to trade their analog cassette tapes and send them out in the mail to the post office but they could get their price at a lower price than going to the store and purchasing them. That was the origin which allowed me to go out on tour and sell Deadbases and hand out flyers about Terrapin Tapes. My friends at home were answering the phones and packing out boxes of tapes and filling out the UPS forms and shipping it out. That’s how Terrapin Tapes began.
JH: When did you first start seeing the Dead?
KH: My first show was 11-10-85. And then I pretty much toured from 1990 on. I did around 370 shows or so.
JH: Was there anything that hit you at your first show?
KH: Oh absolutely. Musically, having listened to American Beauty over and over again[Choking up] It was eye opening. It was the first musical experience that really took hold of me. It inspired me. I don’t listen to enough Dead these days now that we’re working 16 hour days. But it really, truly opened my eyes.
JH: What act are you most excited to see this year?
KH: I get a kick out of being able to turn the Vibe Tribe onto old school artists. The kids that have never seen a James Brown or a Buddy Guy or some of these legendary artists – to give them the experience is incredibly meaningful. For me, Buddy is the man. Bobby coming back and joining us along with Mickey, I feel really good about the way this year’s lineup came about. For Sunday for example, I actually have my younger brother Kevin who is an accomplished jazz artist he has played with Sonny Rollins and Joshua Redman and toured with John Scofield for a number of yearssome pretty heavy hitting jazz folks. On Sunday he’s going to kick off the day then we’re going to do the Mardi Gras parade with Dirty Dozen, and then Martin Sexton, the Wailers, Buddy Guy, and then the festival closes on Sunday night with Los Lobos. It’s an incredibly diverse day of music in the park. I’m looking forward to that full day and having my brother back on the bill is nice because he hasn’t played here in ten years. | {
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, chaired by Senator Mark Udall, heard testimony yesterday on the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park Establishment Act (S.1708).The bill was introduced late last year by Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and co-sponsored by Senators Brown and Kerry of Massachusetts and Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island.A companion bill was introduced in the House of Representatives. Senators Kerry and Reed testified in support of the bill, followed by the Associate Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Dr. Stephanie Toothman, who also expressed support.Senator Whitehouse submitted written testimony urging favorable action on the legislation.
Senator Kerry evoked the memory of the late Senator John H. Chafee to whom the park would be dedicated.“I have no doubt that given his love of the environment, his love of history and his love of New England, Senator Chafee would agree that the history of the Blackstone River Valley is unique to the American experience and that protecting it as a National Historical Park is unquestionably in the public's interest. I hope we can honor his memory in this way.”In his testimony, Senator Reed also paid tribute to John Chafee and noted how the park proposal builds on the successes achieved as a result of his leadership and the hard work it inspired at many levels. “The extensive work of the National Park Service and the tireless efforts of federal, state and local officials, advocates, and volunteers -- in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts -- have resulted in the recovery of historic villages, riverways, and rural landscapes throughout the Corridor—a remarkable success story.Creating a national historic park sets a clear path to preserve our cultural heritage, improve the use and enjoyment of these resources, and protect these nationally significant cultural and natural resources.”He concluded by saying, “This is a process, but I hope we can build on the momentum from today’s hearing and succeed in creating a new National Historical Park.”
Both Senators invited Chairman Udall for a visit to the Blackstone Valley and experience what it has to offer for himself.The Chairman responded that he looked forward to that opportunity, and to working with the Senators and the NPS to move the legislation forward.
As noted in the testimony, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, transmitted the final Special Resource Study for the Blackstone River Valley to Congress earlier this month.In an accompanying letter, the Secretary strongly endorsed the “preferred alternative” presented in the study, which recommends a partnership between a new National Historical Park and the existing National Heritage Corridor.The study was conducted by the NPS.Associate Director Toothman confirmed that the NPS supports the legislation.
Next, the Subcommittee is expected to mark up the bill, for consideration by the full Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for approval.The bill would then go before the full U.S. Senate.A House hearing on the companion legislation is expected in the near future.
The hearing and positive testimony were welcome news in the Blackstone Valley.Donna Williams, Chair of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, said she was “thrilled to see the legislation move forward” and grateful for the testimony delivered by the Senators.“We could not have said it better ourselves,” she said. “We are lucky to have Senators and Congressmen care as much as we do about continuing the success of the National Heritage Corridor and make the case for a new National Park with such passion.” | {
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Lawyers withhold services, boycott court sessions
THE Law Society of Lesotho has resolved that its members should withhold services from clients and boycott court proceedings to force the judiciary to reconsider its decision to suspend the April session of the Court of Appeal.
The boycott is with effect from 16 to 24 April 2019 and the lawyers will also use the period to engage stakeholders who include the Acting Chief Justice, ‘Maseforo Mahase, and Court of Appeal president, Kananelo Mosito.
The lawyers will also use the period to engage magistrates who are currently on a go-slow strike in an effort to find solution to their long-standing grievances for higher salaries and improved working conditions.
The lawyers’ boycott was announced by the Law Society’s president, Advocate Tekane Maqakachane, at the High Court on Monday.
The High Court Registrar, Pontšo Phafoli, recently told this publication that the suspension of the Court of Appeal’s April session which was due to begin on Monday was caused by the simple issue of the shortage of funds for its operations.
However, there are widespread allegations that the suspension was a politically motivated decision aimed at ensuring that the new All Basotho Convention’s national executive committee (ABC’s NEC) does not appeal to the apex court in the event that it loses its High Court dispute with party’s old NEC.
The ABC’s old and new NECs are locked in a legal battle after the old NEC refused to accept the results of the party’s elective conference which ushered in National University of Lesotho (NUL) Vice Chancellor Professor Nqosa Mahao as the deputy leader.
In February, three ABC legislators Habofanoe Lehana (Khafung constituency), Keketso Sello (Hlotse) and Mohapi Mohapinyane (Rothe) filed a High Court application seeking the nullification of the ABC’s NEC elections. The trio argue that the polls were marred by vote rigging and wants the court to order fresh elections within three months of the finalisation of their application. Prof Mahao has already indicated that he and the rest of the new NEC will appeal to the Court of Appeal should they lose the case which could be finalised anytime from this week.
Sources within the ABC said last week’s decision to suspend the April session of the apex court which was supposed to have started tomorrow was done to ensure that the new NEC does not take its case to the apex court.
Adv Maqakachane said in resolving to withhold services from clients and boycott court proceedings, the lawyers had no political motives and they had acted out of concern that the closure of the Court of Appeal paralysed the justice system.
“The situation of the non-functioning of the Court of Appeal needs immediate attention but the magistrate have been able to function in those dire conditions,” Adv Maqakachane said. He said this in response to claims that they were only boycotting proceedings because they had political interests in the affairs of the apex court and paid no attention to the concerns of the magistrates.
“The wheel of justice is not turning fully because it means from the lower courts, our clients will reach a dead end when they need to appeal.
“The Court of Appeal is ready to function but we were told it is being suspended due to lack of funds. It is not the business of the Law Society to determine how the money is sourced. It is the sole responsibility of the executive to avail money and as to how they do it, it is up to them.”
His sentiments were echoed by the deputy president of Law Society, Adv Lehlohonolo Matee. Adv Matee is the lawyer of the defendants in the ABC case.
He said that the lawyers “do not belong to any faction of the ABC but want to see the judiciary functioning at the full 360 degrees”.
“The Law Society has the primary function to protect the judiciary which when dysfunctional, the country cannot have a proper administration of justice or rule of law.
“We only learned through the go-slow of the Magistrates that their grievances were no longer being resolved so that is another issue which was discussed in an urgent meeting which we were forced to have this morning (Monday).
“Members this (Monday) morning resolved that the council (of the Law Society) should engage the Acting Chief Justice, the Court of Appeal President and the High Court Registrar on the issue of the Court of Appeal. We will also engage the stakeholders on the magistrates’ issues for a solution.
“While the negotiations are ongoing, members have reached a harsh decision to boycott all legal representation from 16 to 24 April. A special meeting will be held on 24 April determine whether we continue with the boycott or not.
“We do now want to deny our clients justice but this is the harsh decision we had to take to fight for a complete circle of justice,” Adv Matee said.
However, another member of the Law Society, Advocate Qhalehang Letsika, said it was wrong for lawyers to boycott court proceedings. He said instead they should have sued for the opening of the Court of Appeal.
“The Court of Appeal had been dysfunctional for close to two years and the Law Society engaged us as its members and we fought a legal battle to have it opened.
“I agree that the Court of Appeal has to function for justice to be fully served but the boycott is the wrong decision. As lawyers we should use the courts to fight for justice and they should have engaged us to file a case for the apex court to be reopened,” Adv Letsika said.
The April session was supposed to start on Monday and run till the end of the month. It was supposed to hear 29 cases.
The Court of Appeal resumed its sittings in November 2018 after almost two years of absence due to long-drawn legal battles over who should be the court’s president.
Justice Mosito, who had been re-appointed to the post on 1 August 2017, was finally sworn-in in November 2018 after a Court of Appeal judgement which nullified a February 2018 Constitutional Court ruling which had set aside his re-appointment.
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Treasures Box Set
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This Box Set includes:Captain Stevenson's Secret; In this first book of the series; A Diary of Treasures, a desperate sailor withstands the hardships of starvation and injury. Alone and stranded in the Pacific, he is unaware that the island was once famous for a pirate's treasure and a cabin boy. Discovering the remains of a man's tortured body complicates his hope of rescue as he learns that greater danger lay ahead.Return To Stevenson's Isle; The foursome from Captain Stevenson's Secret return to search for treasure on Stevenson's Isle. What could possibly go wrong this time? The crew of the Sylvester find new challenges and a mystery as they make their way to the island in this second book of the series; A Diary of Treasures.Stevenson's Reward; The noble foursome from Return To Stevenson's Isle become a crew of five as they search for another treasure in the south Pacific islands in this final book of the series; A Diary of Treasures.
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I was in rough shape, the pain enormous, and it took some time, actually days, to sum up all the parts that hurt and to ascertain the gravity of all my illnesses. Hard grounding or not, I didn't know what happened to the boat. I had lost all ability to steer when the entire rudder assembly separated and disappeared under the stern. This was followed by almost twenty-four hours of constant bailing before I suffered the bump on my head, while trying once again to plug the hole left behind by the absent steering shaft. I can only guess that the MisInformed is making her way slowly, even now, toward the great trash haven in the ocean to join with the other floating debris. That is, if she's not already lying at the bottom, to sail no more.
When I first arrived on the island I had no idea of its rich history, and having washed up abruptly onto its shore after a terrific and terrifying storm, I did not care about its past. I was just happy to find myself alive.
Lying on my back I could barely lift my head away from the thick heavy wet sand that had sucked it down into the upward position that had proved to preserve my life. Groaning with agonizing pain, my first attempt to roll to my side failed and I had to rest up a bit before the second attempt also failed. The horizon was beginning to lighten and I was strengthened by the idea that a warming sun might help me out of my situation. I remember there was a passing thought that perhaps someone would wander by and help me to my feet. But that did not happen. Well, I quickly had to ask myself, why should this day be different from any other? I waited for the warmth and if I didn't move things I hurt a little less. I tried bending my knee but I passed out from the pain. In a way this was helpful because I didn't awake again until the sun was well up and warming my tired old bones.
Due to my strict upbringing in the upper social class of America, reading juvenile literature was greatly frowned upon. Instead Plato's Republic, Voltaire's Socrates and Herodotus' Histories were to be studied and discussed at great length. Works such as Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island and The Boy Scout Manual were considered pedestrian and counterproductive. A real shame for me as it turned out, because without the prior knowledge imparted in such books, I was literally cast upon the island with little hope of surviving.
Grounding, we've all heard of the term before, and in its simplest form we sailors know that if weather conditions are not too bad and only a sandbar is involved, it's just a temporary setback until the tide rises or the wind picks up or the captain pulls a tricky maneuver to release the boat from the grasp of earth.
To get to such a far away place is easy if one has only a modicum of financial assets. Keeping a close eye to the weather is of extreme importance and something which I should have done a little better.
Spending money was always easy for me. Any new invention that came along to help with navigation was easy prey for my wallet and although times could be tough for the general population I could usually find a way to purchase what I most wanted in life. There were sacrifices along the way, as in most lives, but there is no reason to detail those here, now or later. That I was now lost, became the greatest matter of importance.
On or about my sixtieth birthday I came to a number of conclusions about life. One was that my accomplishments had seemed few. He was born and then he died was more work from a stone carver than I deserved. Some tombstones at least say father or mother which, although brief, are better epithets than I had earned. Another conclusion: I was most probably going to traverse the rest of time alone. This had been a hard pill to swallow. It seemed akin to giving up. I had considered the idea earlier in life...perhaps as many as twenty years earlier...but I had struggled on, rarely looking in the mirror and facing the reality of getting old. As long as I didn't really look at the reflection very hard (and I didn't) I could continue to see more possibilities than really existed. Poor fool... And guaranteed to fail to boot. Surely I had missed the boat, looking to port when I should have looked to starboard (and I'm not referring to this more recent incident). Well, it's been a rough time, and as much as I wish that this aspect of life would somehow disappear, I'm afraid the Almighty has seen to it, that so far, hope still springs eternal and frustration abides. Was there someone around that next corner? But then, I have digressed haven't I?
Desperate, better than hopeless, described my awareness as I awakened again to my surroundings and my wretched physical condition. I remember wondering at this moment whether my usual poor performance had finally taken me to my end.
I knew not to try rolling the same way again and I certainly wasn't going to bend that knee again. I resolved that I must at the least get away from a semi-floating position. I ever so gently tested the other leg by slowly dragging my foot up underneath to about knee level and then pushed away slowly against the wet water and sand mixture that wanted so much to keep me right where I was.
It wasn't much, but there was some movement, and after several hours I was looking back at a lovely beach that revealed the struggles of an out of season, out of place, injured pseudo snow angel.
I was exhausted and only in a slightly better position than before. Shade would come with the movement of the sun, but I was extremely thirsty and I had no idea about where I was or how cold it might get after sunset.
What if I could dig a small hole with my good arm, I'm on the beach, water would be there and I would use part of my shirt's tail to absorb water? Salty to be sure, but at that point any moisture was helpful and was welcomed.
I'm not sure now, when the first thought was given to food. There was so much to do before such a luxury could be gotten, but I do remember that the moisture of the shirt felt so good on my lips.
What a predicament! If I dragged myself further up the slope of the beach I would have to dig even deeper to wet my shirt again. I had no idea how much farther I needed to push to be safe from any tide during the coming night.
With any sudden movement the pain would come back to remind me that I really needed to do a little more self-examination to establish whether any splints were needed. A quick survey of the beach for any available driftwood was made within my limited view. I closed one eye and was able to see a few usable pieces, and not at a great distance. My head still hurt and I could feel some dried blood in my hair and along one side of my face. There was really little sense to waste the moisture I gathered in my shirt to either clean up the mess or to dirty my shirt in such an effort. If I somehow survived the next few days I would give consideration to this small discomfort at some later date.
Well, what to do? I looked again at the few pieces of driftwood and saw that one of the larger pieces could be used as a tool to dig, certainly with more efficiency than my one good hand. And it could dig deeper, just what I would need at a higher position on the beach. After a short rest and another dampening of my shirt, I mistakenly wiped my entire face and reddened my shirt with some of the re-moistened blood. I cursed myself for my short memory and stupidity and re-rinsed my shirt so as not to pollute my next water port. I squeezed out the waste as well as I could with the use of only one hand. I proceeded diagonally upwards toward the driftwood forsaking my first water hole, now colored with my blood.
I can't emphasize enough the amount of pain involved to reach that small pile of otherwise useless wood. I created one-legged crippled sand-angels on the surface of the beach until I reached the shade of protective trees. I had dragged my driftwood tied together with my belt, securely latched through two belt loops of my pants.
Somehow my spirits had remained high to this point even though the situation would have appeared quite hopeless to an observer. Perhaps the challenge of survival had affected my outlook, perhaps that age-old desire to see who or what might be around the next corner drove me forward once more.
Now that I was out of the direct sunlight I figured I could do without the sleeves on my shirt, though they protected me from the sun during the long days of sailing. I prepared to make use of them to make fast the splints on either a leg or an arm as soon as I determined what was the condition of both.
I eased off the shirt and placed the shoulder portion of the shirt into my mouth and began to pull with my good hand and arm until I successfully began to get separation by ripping the material.
It was far easier to investigate the arm than the leg so that's where I started. Feeling first along the humerus and then slowly along the radius and ulna, I could determine no clear separation or sharp edges through the skin. At the elbow I could feel a small chip of bone floating just below the skin, which probably accounted for some of the pain I endured when previously trying to roll on my side.
Well I could live with that and was further relieved to find that I had only sprained the wrist, something else that would simply get better over time.
Now at least I could begin to use both arms with pain but with less worry. Next was the leg, and it wasn't good. I was going to have to find a tight fit among large boulders, if there were any close by, or some other arrangement that would allow a good tug on the leg so I could set it. There was no doubt about the break at mid fibula and it needed alignment. This would have to happen soon and I considered whether too much time might have already passed for a good result. I had no idea how much time had passed between shipwreck and my awakening until I passed my hand over my wet pants and felt for my pocket watch. I pulled it carefully from my pocket with my sore arm and to my amazement it still worked. Date and time keeping were intact... I opened the rear access to shake out the remaining water and set it carefully on the sand to allow the sunlight to dry the interior workings. I would have to repeat the dunking and drying process as soon as I could find fresh water to combat the corrosion that the salt may have already effected. Whether the watch was to be ruined or not at least I knew it wasn't too late to set my leg. But then the task lay at hand and had to be attempted. I looked around for help. Still no one, and then it suddenly came to me, maybe there was no one?
I searched around again now that my position had turned into one that was more upright and a little further up the beach. I would have to pull myself a little closer to the tree line where the thin grass began to group into a bed that gained a green color the further one looked. My eyesight was beginning to return so that my focus was better than it had been earlier. With more detail I could begin to hunt for the twin tree trunks that I needed so desperately, but there was not a pair in sight.
A number of scenarios came to mind about how one might come to pulling a leg straight with sufficient force to pull the bones apart enough so that ends of the break could be lined up properly for a good heal. But everything that came to mind needed non-existing resources, excepting one daring plan that could cause my demise.
I pictured the solution in my mind and dismissed it a number of times as too dangerous and very possibly fatal. The natives would have a good laugh discovering the man who had committed suicide by hanging from his foot tied to the crotch of a tree. Rather strange way to do it they would remark, shaking their heads. And if there were natives, perhaps I should wait a little longer and they would discover me and save my leg and me with an all-knowing doctor and the beautiful assistant who would care for my every need.
I waited a while longer and considered the probabilities and gathered my small resources nearer to me as I drew closer to the tree that looked to have the needed height and strength to accomplish the task.
Surely I would pass out from the initial pain that I was to sustain after dropping from the branch, with my belt attached to both my ankle and the branch. There was little doubt that the branch was stout and stiff enough, but the buckle was of such light grade that it caused me uncertainty. To add a sprained ankle to the broken leg was also an option, as was a broken neck. If I were lucky to be relieved of all the aforementioned, I would still have to be strong enough to set the leg by tying my shirtsleeves around the driftwood splints and then disembark from the tree itself, from an upside-down position without further injury. The day was getting shorter with all the deliberations and some things could just not wait for the morrow.
Once again I gathered my resources and with every bit of strength and determination I climbed the tree and connected the belt to tree and ankle. I stood upright and closed my eyes and leaned forward. My stomach suddenly churned with fear and I fainted with the effect. My weakened grip on the tree's trunk gave way.
My concerns were for naught. Luckily for me the tree branch broke and the force of my fall and the sudden jerk on my leg were more than enough to put things back as they should be. After re-awakening from my unconsciousness I had enough presence of mind to carry on the plan and apply the splint. With the exception of stiffness in the neck, I seemed to have suffered no further injuries from my latest adventure. I rested a while before digging a deeper hole to retrieve a bit of moisture to my lips and face, the water seemingly less salty the further away I was from the shore.
Skipping about painfully on one leg, I set out to find a suitable crutch, (the broken tree limb was too long and nearby driftwood too short). And it was time to make plans to survive the coming night. I considered making a fire and then I thought about the warmth of the sand and the dampness that lay beneath the surface. At first I thought about digging into the sand and covering myself with it, but I dismissed the idea, perhaps too quickly.
I had never built a fire before without the aid of matches or at least a hot ember stolen from a diminishing fire. I took a quick inventory of my belongings: one sleeveless shirt, one pair of pants, a belt, one pair of shoes, wet socks, a pocket watch and one bimini frame end fitting with a small stainless steel bolt and locknut. I quickly wound the watch in an effort to prevent the instrument from coming to a stop in its corrosive | {
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Good to hear, though total life span will be interesting.
Like I (think I) said, my wets lasted 6 years but were retired after 8 years and both had had a few total flattenings in their early years. Same with my mum's - 2 or 3 totals (not detected for a week or 2) plus half a years use per year (left in car open circuit; sometimes with a 3 month top up charge) - it was retired after 8 years.
My flooded battery was replaced with a 10-year design Yuasa UXH38-12 UPS AGM battery (38AH). It was discarded after 5 years (preventative maintenance) which is when I, er, acquired it/them. They sat for ~ 5 years with occasional checks (maybe charged every 2 years or so), and then I started using 1 as my main battery (and another as a spare). So 12 years old and it is still going strong despite it not supposedly being suited to cranking, though I have a 140A reduction starter as opposed to the 240A standard starter.
I'm waiting for it to die - it should have considering the abuse it gets.
But so far I', that impressed that I reckon I'd get the cheaper UXH100 or 110 (AH) which would probably last forever... well I reckon a good 10 years judging by the UXH38 performance.
The UXH100 is about the same price as 75AH Optima yellows & reds etc (they retail here for $550 though can be obtained for $450; UXH100 (or UXH110?) is about $500), and I know which brand I trust.
do you live in the south oldspark? we see a lot of flooded batteries last about 4 or 5 years old in the shop, but not much more then that. we go from 100F to -30F year to year though.
but yeah ill definitely be expecting 5 years from this battery, yet i have a feeling it will last double that. especially since it could probably lose about half its rated capacity and i could still use it just fine for my needs.
I'm in the south, but Australia. We have warmer temperatures here...
Up north nearer the equator, for UPSs they use to use gel cells (specifically Sonnenschein) because others would not last (AGMs and wets).
My AGM life comment is because many confuse an AGMs ability with it's liking - eg, just because it can supply high current does not mean it is good for it!
I presume by "in the shop" you do not mean sitting on the shelf and topped up (or trickle charged) every 3 months max?
My wets after 8 years were probably about 5AH capacity instead of their original 40AH, but that was fine if she started withing 15 seconds. (Though then I got the reduction starter and a reluctor/electronic ignition and she'd cold-start as low as 5.2 battery volts! YEs - it's a 12V system.)
i grew up working in my dads auto shop. in general, most batteries we saw were garbage. i do agree if you buy a good quality wet cell they can be plenty good... but i was so sick of battery problems i just splurged. it seemed to work too, like i said its a heck of a lot better then even i was expecting. | {
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