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Hey guys, incase you dont go into the Fantasy Cricket Thread, i am about to tell you about the awesome cricket comp that i am starting up.
I will start the exact same thread here, so i dont waste your time for you going into the other thread.
It takes minimal effort to join, just 4-5 lines and 1 minute of your time. Its good fun trust me
Basically what it is we get as many people to sign up as possible, and then I'll sort them into teams, the more people the more teams obviously, then each team can pick a captain who can name their side everyweek, ill run the games (one dayers and tests), and then at the end of the year we'll run a CW Medal for the best player of the season, pick a Cricket Web Side who will play international matches against the big boys such as Australia, England, India and so forth.
So if your Interested just simply fill out a form and post it on here. Here is the form template.
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Batting: Left or Right Hand
Bowling: Right or Left Arm, Fast, Legspin, Offspin, Medium
ps. girls dont be shy you should sign up as well it requires minimal effort and can be pretty funny, cricket isnt just a boys sport and try to get your mates to sign up for it cause if i dont get enough teams i cant run the comp.
*This comp is not meant to be a threat to the other sportal comp, just something that i feel could be fun that i could do in my own time so please dont ban me and take away my privleges *


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DONETSK, Ukraine — With Ukrainian flags flying high and garlands of flowers in their hair, protesters marched through the heart of this city at sundown Monday.
"East and West together," they chanted.
But in Ukraine, even such anodyne appeals to unity can be a magnet for trouble. The protesters, including old men and grade-school-age children, were walking into a trap.
The club- and whip-wielding separatists who set upon these demonstrators were just the latest proof of the disarray that has engulfed eastern Ukraine in recent weeks. The attack marked a fitting coda to a day that also featured an assassination attempt on the mayor of the country's second-largest city and the fall of yet another government building to pro-Russian militants.
The militants' campaign extended Tuesday to the eastern city of Luhansk, where men wearing camouflage fatigues stormed the regional administration building. Police did nothing to stop their advance, witnesses said.
For the residents of this normally tranquil region, it has been a shocking and sudden descent into lawlessness at the hands of shadowy forces that make their views known, but rarely their identities.
The men who attacked the pro-Kiev rally Monday evening wore black masks and wielded clubs while announcing their allegiance to Russia.
"They shouted, 'If you don't throw away your flags, we'll kill you. This place is Russia, not yours,' " said Olga Styagunova, 43, a marcher who ducked into a bakery to escape attack.
The fate of Kharkiv's mayor, who was shot in the back while out exercising, suggested that the separatists make good on their threats.
Gennady Kernes, known through social media as a flamboyant character , was once a staunch supporter and beneficiary of Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
But after Yanukovych was ousted in February, Kernes swiveled his allegiance and forged civil relations with the new pro-Western government in Kiev. His eastern city was a hot spot for pro-Russian activists, but in recent weeks Kernes and police forces managed to retake government buildings occupied by separatists.
As of late Monday, the mayor was in critical condition, and local officials said he was "fighting for his life."
The assassination attempt was preceded by an assault to the south, where armed militants seized a government building in another city as they expanded their pro-Russian campaign across eastern Ukraine. They now hold city halls and security headquarters in about a dozen cities and towns.
The masked men who took the building in Kostyantynivka wore camouflage and carried automatic weapons — a more serious-looking bunch than the usual citizen militias in the region, which typically carry baseball bats and metal pipes.
Meanwhile, in the breakaway city of Slovyansk, militants continued to hold dozens of hostages, including seven foreign military observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Russia has called for the men to be released, but the city's self-appointed "people's mayor" has suggested that he intends to try to swap them for some of his allies who have been jailed by the Ukrainian government.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he spoke with his Russian counterpart Monday and urged Moscow to use its influence with the separatists to win the captives' release. "It is Russia's job to free the hostages," he said.
Andrey Kelin, Moscow's ambassador to the OSCE, said that it had been "extremely irresponsible" of the organization to send monitors to eastern Ukraine but that Russia would do what it could to free them.
Overall, the Ukraine Security Service said, pro-Russian separatists hold more than 40 hostages in eastern Ukraine, most of them jailed in Slovyansk.
In a statement, the agency named one leader of the separatist movement as a former colonel in the Russian army and said he was wanted for his alleged role in capturing the OSCE observers.
Another man named by Ukrainian security was a former officer in the Soviet army who had fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya and is being sought for his alleged involvement in the torture and killing of a local pro-Kiev politician.
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Monday that journalists and political activists are "at increasing risk of political-motivated violence, such as unlawful detention, abduction and assaults" in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow has denied playing any role in the crisis in eastern Ukraine and instead has called on the Kiev government to restore order and guarantee the safety of Russian-speaking residents in the region.
Ukrainian officials say Russia is trying to provoke its smaller and far weaker neighbor into war. With tens of thousands of Russian troops lodged on Ukraine's eastern border, the Kiev government has been paralyzed — unable to defend itself from the growing separatist threat without risking an invasion from Russia.
That paralysis was on vivid display Monday evening as Ukrainian security forces looked on passively while the separatists clubbed the pro-Ukrainian demonstrators.
The protesters had gathered near dusk beneath a soaring statue of this city's favorite son, Soviet pole-vaulting champion Sergey Bubka, and as they set off down a wide boulevard, the mood was upbeat. Children waved blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags. Everyone joined in for the national anthem.
But the atmosphere changed in an instant when the crowd was ambushed by dozens of armed young men, who swung their whips and hurled molotov cocktails after blowing past hundreds of government security forces.
"Police knew that men with bats were coming, but they just let them do it," said Oleg Saakyan, 19, a protest organizer whose ear was dripping blood. He was one of at least 25 people who were injured.
A police sergeant who declined to give his name said that he had compassion for the demonstrators but that police officers are in a difficult position.
"We support unity," he said. "But I'm not going to get my head beaten for 2,500 hryvnia [about $200] a month."
The rising violence and seeming inability of the state to respond have left many in eastern Ukraine feeling deeply pessimistic.
"In two or three weeks, we will lose Donetsk," said Oleksandr Yaroshenko, a local politician who is aligned with the West. "Russia doesn't even need to invade, because we're so weak. We won't be able to control these thugs."
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As a dental office in Berkeley, we treat patients who are in need of emergency care, routine dental treatments, and preventative care. Regardless of why you come to our office, if you are experiencing discomfort, we will identify what the issue is, treat it, and discuss ways that you can prevent it from occurring again. Very often, this involves refuting common oral health care myths. Things like "milk is good for the teeth" has led parents to send their babies and children to bed with a bottle or cup of milk. Since there is a lot of sugar in milk, this leads to baby bottle tooth decay in countless toddlers. Common myths, while seemingly harmless, can significantly impact your oral health. For this reason, we have compiled a list of oral health myths and our responses to them.
Myth – Diet soda is okay for the teeth.
While we recommend drinking things low in sugar, diet soda has not solved the entire problem. Soda is full of acid, and when you place acid on your teeth, it can lead to erosion. You only have a set amount of enamel, and once it has eroded, it will not grow back. This makes it important to watch what you expose your teeth to and that includes diet soda. We recommend that you limit how much of it you drink and that you rinse your mouth with water after doing so. If you drink a lot of soda, you should also brush three times a day with a fluoride toothpaste to strengthen your teeth and visit our dental office in Berkeley for regular teeth cleanings.
Myth – Men are the only ones who get oral cancer.
The largest group of people who are diagnosed with oral cancer are men over the age of fifty. For this reason, many people assume that this is a male exclusive disease. It is not. Both men and women can get oral cancer, and it does not matter how old you are. In fact, one of the leading causes of oral cancer is the HPV virus, so if you have been diagnosed with it, be sure to have regular cancer screenings. For more information on oral cancer, schedule an appointment with our dental office in Berkeley.
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Your oral health as a child can indicate how healthy your teeth will be going forward. However, it is up to you to keep them that way by brushing and flossing regularly, receiving ongoing dental care, and eating a healthy diet. Your oral health and the condition of your mouth will change with age, so you cannot take your health for granted. Additionally, things like medications can increase your risk of developing cavities if it gives you dry mouth.
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Three generations of human rights
The division of human rights into three generations was initially proposed in 1979 by the Czech jurist Karel Vasak at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He used the term at least as early as November 1977.[1] Vasak's theories have primarily taken root in European law.
His divisions follow the three watchwords of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The three generations are reflected in some of the rubrics of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.[citation needed] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights includes rights that are thought of as second generation as well as first generation ones, but it does not make the distinction in itself (the rights listed are not in specific order).
First-generation human rightsEdit
First-generation human rights, sometimes called "blue" rights, deal essentially with liberty and participation in political life. They are fundamentally civil and political in nature: They serve negatively to protect the individual from excesses of the state. First-generation rights include, among other things, the right to life, equality before the law, freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, and voting rights. They were pioneered by the United States Bill of Rights and in France by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in the 18th century, although some of these rights and the right to due process date back to the Magna Carta of 1215 and the Rights of Englishmen, which were expressed in the English Bill of Rights in 1689.
They were enshrined at the global level and given status in international law first by Articles 3 to 21 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In Europe, they were enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953.
Second-generation human rightsEdit
Second-generation human rights are related to equality and began to be recognized by governments after World War II. They are fundamentally economic, social, and cultural in nature. They guarantee different members of the citizenry equal conditions and treatment. Secondary rights would include a right to be employed in just and favorable condition, rights to food, housing and health care, as well as social security and unemployment benefits. Like first-generation rights, they were also covered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and further embodied in Articles 22 to 28 of the Universal Declaration, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
In the United States of America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights, covering much the same grounds, during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. Today, many nations, states, or groups of nations have developed legally binding declarations guaranteeing comprehensive sets of human rights, e.g. the European Social Charter.
Some states have enacted some of these economic rights, e.g. the state of New York has enshrined the right to a free education,[2][3] as well as "the right to organize and to bargain collectively",[4] and workers' compensation,[5] in its constitutional law.
These rights are sometimes referred to as "red" rights. They impose upon the government the duty to respect and promote and fulfill them, but this depends on the availability of resources. The duty is imposed on the state because it controls its own resources. No one has the direct right to housing and right to education. (In South Africa, for instance, the right is not, per se, to housing, but rather "to have access to adequate housing",[6] realised on a progressive basis.[7])
The duty of government is in the realization of these positive rights.
Third-generation human rightsEdit
Third-generation human rights are those rights that go beyond the mere civil and social, as expressed in many progressive documents of international law, including the 1972 Stockholm Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and other pieces of generally aspirational "soft law".
The term "third-generation human rights" remains largely unofficial, just as the also-used moniker of "green" rights, and thus houses an extremely broad spectrum of rights, including:
- Group and collective rights
- Right to self-determination
- Right to economic and social development
- Right to a healthy environment
- Right to natural resources
- Right to communicate and communication rights
- Right to participation in cultural heritage
- Rights to intergenerational equity and sustainability
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights ensures many of those: the right to self-determination, right to development, right to natural resources and right to satisfactory environment.[8] Some countries also have constitutional mechanisms for safeguarding third-generation rights. For example, the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations,[9] the Parliament of Finland's Committee for the Future, and the erstwhile Commission for Future Generations in the Knesset in Israel.
Some international organizations have offices for safeguarding such rights. An example is the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. The Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission has as its mission "protecting, preserving and improving the environment for present and future generations, and promoting sustainable development".
A few jurisdictions have enacted provisions for environmental protection, e.g. New York's "forever wild" constitutional article,[10] which is enforceable by action of the New York State Attorney General or by any citizen ex rel. with the consent of the Appellate Division.[11]
Maurice Cranston argued that scarcity means that supposed second-generation and third-generation rights are not really rights at all.[12] If one person has a right, others have a duty to respect that right, but governments lack the resources necessary to fulfill the duties implied by citizens' supposed second- and third-generation rights.
Charles Kesler, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, has argued that second- and third-generation human rights serve as an attempt to cloak political goals, which the majority may well agree are good things in and of themselves, in the language of rights, and thus grant those political goals inappropriate connotations. In his opinion, calling socio-economic goods "rights" inherently creates a related concept of "duties", so that other citizens have to be coerced by the government to give things to other people in order to fulfill these new rights. He also has stated that, in the US, the new rights create a "nationalization" of political decision-making at the federal level in violation of federalism.[13] In his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift, Paul Rahe, the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, wrote that focusing on equality-based rights leads to a subordination to the initial civil rights to an ever-expanding government, which would be too incompetent to provide for its citizens correctly and would merely seek to subordinate more rights.[14]
19th century philosopher Frederic Bastiat summarized the conflict between these negative and positive rights by saying:
M. de Lamartine wrote me one day: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program; you have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first half." And, in fact, it is quite impossible for me to separate the word "fraternity" from the word "voluntary". It is quite impossible for me to conceive of fraternity as legally enforced, without liberty being legally destroyed, and justice being legally trampled underfoot.[15]
Economist Friedrich Hayek has argued that the second generation concept of "social justice" cannot have any practical political meaning:
No state of affairs as such is just or unjust: it is only when we assume that somebody is responsible for having brought it about ... In the same sense, a spontaneously working market, where prices act as guides to action, cannot take account of what people in any sense need or deserve, because it creates a distribution which nobody has designed, and something which has not been designed, a mere state of affairs as such, cannot be just or unjust. And the idea that things ought to be designed in a "just" manner means, in effect, that we must abandon the market and turn to a planned economy in which somebody decides how much each ought to have, and that means, of course, that we can only have it at the price of the complete abolition of personal liberty.[16]
New York University School of Law professor of law Jeremy Waldron has written in response to critics of the second-generation rights:
In any case, the argument from first-generation to second-generation rights was never supposed to be a matter of conceptual analysis. It was rather this: if one is really concerned to secure civil or political liberty for a person, that commitment should be accompanied by a further concern about the conditions of the person's life that make it possible for him to enjoy and exercise that liberty. Why on earth would it be worth fighting for this person's liberty (say, his liberty to choose between A and B) if he were left in a situation in which the choice between A and B meant nothing to him, or in which his choosing one rather than the other would have no impact on his life?"[17]
Hungarian socialist and political economist Karl Polanyi made the antithetical argument to Hayek in the book The Great Transformation. Polanyi wrote that an uncontrolled free market would lead to repressive economic concentration and then to a co-opting of democratic governance that degrades civil rights.[18]
The World Conference on Human Rights opposed the distinction between civil and political rights (negative rights) and economic, social and cultural rights (positive rights) that resulted in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action proclaiming that "all human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated".[19]
See alsoEdit
- Human security
- "Two Concepts of Liberty", a lecture by Isaiah Berlin which distinguished between positive and negative liberty
- ^ Karel Vasak, "Human Rights: A Thirty-Year Struggle: the Sustained Efforts to give Force of law to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", UNESCO Courier 30:11, Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, November 1977.
- ^ N.Y. Const. ART. XI, § 1, found at New York State Assembly website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v. State, 86 N.Y.2d 307 (1995). Case brief found at Cornell Law School website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ N.Y. Const. ART. I, § 17, found at New York State Assembly website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ N.Y. Const. ART. I, § 18, found at New York State Assembly website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, s 26(1).
- ^ s s 26(2).
- ^ African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Article 20, 21, 22 and 24
- ^ Notes: Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Future Generations
- ^ N.Y. Const. ART XIV, § 1. Found at New York State Assembly website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ N.Y. Const. ART XIV, § 5. Found at New York State Assembly website. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ Cranston, Maurice. "Human Rights: Real and Supposed," in Political Theory and the Rights of Man, edited by D. D. Raphael (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967), pp. 43-51.
- ^ "Charles Kesler on the Grand Liberal Project". Uncommon Knowledge. May 28, 2009. Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
- ^ "Soft Despotism with Paul Rahe". Uncommon Knowledge. November 19, 2009. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
- ^ Bastiat, Frédéric (1850). "Selected Essays on Political Economy". Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. Missing or empty
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- ^ Hazlett, Thomas W. (July 1992). "The Road from Serfdom: Forseeing the Fall". Reason. Retrieved January 4, 2010.
- ^ Jeremy Waldron, 1993. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers, page 7, 1981–91. ISBN 0-521-43617-6
- ^ Karl Polanyi (2001). The Great Transformation. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-5643-1.
- ^ Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Part I para 5
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding the expanded recall of Navitas Naturals™ products to include additional expiration dates of products containing Organic Sprouted Chia Powder, due to the possible presence of Salmonella.
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The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm400185.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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Mountain Memories: Interview with Judy Bonds
In October 2009, I spent a Saturday afternoon talking with Julia "Judy" Bonds at her house along the Coal River in Boone County, W.Va. as part of an oral history project called "Radical Roots: Cultural and Political Resistance in the Appalachian South." A daughter, granddaughter, sister, and ex-wife of coal miners, Bonds—who was diagnosed with cancer last summer and died this week—spent the last decade fighting against a highly destructive form of mining called mountaintop removal, which involves clear-cutting native hardwood forests, using dynamite to blast away the mountaintop to expose underlying coal seams, and dumping the waste into nearby valleys and streams. To date, the practice has leveled over 500 mountains and buried or polluted nearly 2,000 miles of headwater streams. "What the coal companies are doing to us and our mountains," Bonds has said, "is the best kept dirty little secret in America."
Bonds, who previously worked as a waitress and manager at Pizza Hut and for convenience stores, devoted 90 hours a week to protecting the people and mountains of Appalachia from the ravages of mountaintop removal mining. For her and her family, it was a deeply personal fight. In 2001 they became the last residents to evacuate Marfork Holler, a community that had been virtually destroyed by mountaintop removal mining. After that, her dedication and success as an activist and community organizer made her one of the nation's leading community activists confronting an industry practice she calls "strip mining on steroids."
Bonds served as director of Coal River Mountain Watch, a grassroots organization that advocates for the end of mountaintop removal. When she was not organizing demonstrations or attending public hearings, Bonds traveled extensively with the Mountaintop Removal Road Show talking about the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, communities, and ecosystems. In 2003, she won the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize, an award informally known as the "Green Nobel." She was also the recipient of the Earthmover Award from GEO Magazine, the Emma Goldman Award from the Sierra Club, and was been featured in National Geographic, Vanity Fair, and Newsweek.
Kirkland: Tell me about growing up in the Coal River Valley.
Bonds: I was born in 1952 and raised a few miles down the road in Marfork. It was great growing up in that holler, the most safe, secure place you could be. We were always taking walks, talking with each other, flipping over rocks and looking for crawdads. I'd go swimming in the Coal River with no concerns. We were kind of isolated, but I think I liked that isolation, the mountains closing in on us, one on each side and one to the back. It made us feel safe.
We were the last house up in the holler, which we call the "head" of the holler. The "mouth" of the holler is what we call the entrance. You'll hear a lot of that kind of talk in Appalachia, the talk of body parts. We talk in human, living parts—the mouth, the head, the spine or backbone of the mountain, the finger ridge. We speak the language of a living, breathing world. I don't think I realized that until about 10 years ago when I became an activist. Somebody came up and said, "You talk about your home as if it were part of your own body." And they were right, this landscape is a living, breathing part of me. I consider it something to protect, like I would my own body. That's an idea that's been passed down from generation to generation.
Kirkland: What did coal extraction look like in Marfork when you were a child?
Bonds: Growing up in Birch Holler, there wasn't any mining taking place at that time. But understand that we had hollers and then we had sub-hollers. In Marfork, the main holler, we had a little country store, an old slate dump, some railroad tracks. There was deep mining going on and a little bit of surface mining, but the surface mining was in the form of contour highwall mining. It wasn't a great situation but it was far less invasive than mountaintop removal. One reason mountaintop removal is pushed so hard is because we've about depleted all the easy coal to get, all the good coal. I could tell you that driving by a preparation plant right now. What once was beautiful black shiny coal is now gray slate-looking coal. What we're mining for now is coal my daddy would have thrown away years ago.
When I was a child the mining was benign to me. Everybody that lived on the Coal River was basically employed by the mining companies. It was just what people did. It's what my family did and what the neighbors did. We didn't see black water and fish kills in the river, and we didn't have coal dust all over everything. Up until Massey Energy moved into the holler in the '90s and started mining coal like a bunch of outlaws, the mining in Marfork wasn't in the forefront of my mind. There were still a lot of people that lived in the holler and we still had a good community.
Kirkland: How does your connection to coal inform your role as an activist?
Bonds: I know what it feels like to be around coal mining. My father and grandfather were both coal miners. My brother was a coal miner. My nephews and my ex-husband, they were all coal miners. I've got coal in my blood. That connection gives me an edge that other activists might not have. And that's the case for all the local activists here in the Coal River Valley, folks like Chuck Nelson, Maria Gunnoe, Bo Webb, and Lorelei Scarbro. We all have long histories with coal, so we absolutely know what we're talking about when we get up and speak at hearings or organize demonstrations. It doesn't work to call us knee-jerk environmentalists because we all have the proper credentials. We're forging a whole different kind of environmental movement, and it's about time. The movement should have morphed a long time ago.
Kirkland: What's different?
Bonds: I see it moving away from simply explaining the science, talking about ecological indicators like mayflies and stoneflies. I agree those are very important predictors, "canary in the coalmine" kinds of indicators. I support every bit of that work. But the main problem with the movement for us is that the science has been too disconnected from human culture. The social and cultural implications of environmental destruction are becoming more and more important to local people. These people are beginning to speak out because their livelihoods are at stake.
Kirkland: Using local culture as an environmental indicator, I like that. But coal producing states like West Virginia that sacrifice their natural resources for quick-fix development aren't improving the conditions for long-term sustainability. It still seems to be jobs versus environment.
Bonds: That's the way the coal industry and the EPA look at it. The industry's biggest argument now is that the EPA cares more about mayflies than it does human beings. Then you have companies like Massey pumping out commercials and putting together events that are supposedly celebrating how great they are as job producers in the state. Apparently all the EPA cares about is the "environment" and all the coal companies care about are "jobs." It's obviously not that simple. We stand up as activists because we know this conversation is about something much bigger. It's about what kind of jobs and how those jobs affect the mayflies and the people living in these mountains. We're trying to make broader connections and bring the conversation to a whole new level.
Kirkland: The injustices in the coalfields are so easy to recognize today. What were they like when you were a child?
Bonds: It doesn't matter what time in history you want to talk about, you can't live around coal and not see injustice. When I was six years old my sisters and I would take pillowcases out to the railroad tracks and walk up and down picking up lumps of coal that fell off the railroad cars. We took it home and gave it to my mother and she'd burn it in our fireplace to keep us warm. When you're a kid you don't think about those things, but now I know it was because daddy wasn't making enough money to keep the house warm.
When I was about the same age I was crazy about horses and dogs, just crazy about them. I use to get on my hands and knees and pretend to be an animal and crawl all over the floor. It hurt my knees crawling around like that, so one day I looked around the house and found some black knee pads and I put them on. After a while of playing my mom came in and said, "Judy, what are you doing?" I told her, "I'm pretending to be a horse!" She said, "Get those things off, your daddy needs those for work." When I asked her what he used them for I learned about 30-inch coal, which is when miners would crawl back in dog holes and pick at coal seams not much bigger than they were. It's like working all day under your kitchen table.
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A few years later I found one of my daddy's paycheck stubs. It was for $15 and most had to be spent at the company store. Company stores still ruled at that time. That made it hard to have cash to buy the things you needed. It made it hard to save. I think a lot of the older miners fully knew the challenges they faced as miners at that time, the abusive working conditions and the restricted way of spending money. Even if they didn't do anything about it they at least recognized those conditions. Miners today are faced with many of those same conditions but I think they are blind to it, and many of them choose to ignore it.
When I look back on it I see how the coal companies enticed people to work for them. They'd recruit guys like my cousins to take jobs at such-and-such mine and tell them, "You guys will be able to retire here, no problem. There's 50 years of coal here. Go buy you a house, buy you a car. Get settled in." Two years later the company would hand you a pink slip and tell you they were out of coal. This is the same story happening in town after town in Appalachia. What the coal industry has created is a mono-economy. Power is the hands of a very select group of people and it stays that way because there aren't other choices for employment. That centralized power is a very dangerous thing.
Kirkland: Getting back to Marfork, tell me about your exodus from the holler.
Bonds: In 1998 Marfork Coal Co. built a synthetic fuel plant, which was nothing more than a tax write-off. After they put the plant in we woke up every morning with this orange greasy stuff all over our home. It was terrible. Then we found out about the Brushy Fork Impoundment, a 9 billion gallon sludge dam sitting directly above our home. The dam's foundation was built on a honeycomb of abandoned underground mines so if it were to collapse, the slurry would blow out from every side of the mountain. Even Marfork Coal knows this. Their emergency warning plan states that in case of a dam breach, a 40-foot wall of sludge, 72 feet at its peak height, would engulf communities as far as 14 miles away. Marfork Coal is owned by Massey who is the largest coal producer in Central Appalachian and the fourth largest in the U.S. Up here we have Massey, Arch, and plenty of others, but Massey owns most of the coal deposits. They don't own the land! Just the deposits.
For years we dealt with black water spills and fish kills in the river and coal dust all over everything. The dust was in my grandson's lungs and he became ill with asthma. We decided we had to leave Marfork. We didn't want to leave, in fact we were the last ones to leave, but we had no choice. For our own safety we had to. We moved here to Rock Creek, a little bit above the mining and slightly above the sludge dam, but still close enough to feel the blasting. Even now I feel them blasting at the Edwight job just over that ridge.
Kirkland: What was the catalyst for you becoming an activist?
Bonds: I don't think I chose to become an activist, it was chosen for me. The circumstances dictated that for me. I think it had to do with how much injustice I was willing to accept. My work is about recognizing injustice and pushing for its correction. If we choose not to see it, we won't be inclined to do anything about it.
I became an activist because of the fish I witnessed with my grandson in Marfork when he was six years old. One day we found ourselves standing in a river full of dead fish. So he and I started paying close attention to the river and we noticed black water spills happening almost on a weekly basis. I found out it was coming from the sludge dam just above. It wasn't just affecting us, but this was poisoning the whole town of Whitesville right below us. I know the chemicals and the heavy metals coming from this coal waste have made a lot of local people sick. There are folks in Prenter whose wells are contaminated by the coal sludge that has been injected underground by the coal companies. These people have brain tumors. They have kidney and liver cancer. These people are dying from coal sludge.
For a long time I watched the companies poison this whole area and it finally became too much. I decided something needed to be done so I called the Department of Environmental Protection hoping to find some answers. The DEP is the agency that gives out mountaintop removal mining permits, not the agency that "protects the environment" like their name suggests. They're in cahoots with the coal industry, as are all the other regulatory agencies in this state. These agencies are set up by the industry and for the industry. You might say, "Come on Judy, that's crazy." But it's not hard to get your way when you have a lot of money. Coal owns this state, there is no question about it.
Kirkland: How so?
Bonds: The schools, the politicians, and the media are all bought off by coal. Ninety-five percent of the media in West Virginia are holdings that have direct ties to coal. Big industry guys like Buck Harless, Bray Cary and Don Blankenship have all the money in the world to shape public opinion, and they are directly involved in producing the media West Virginians look at every day. The other 5 percent of the media is very, very afraid. Even the Charleston Gazette has backed off on running editorials about mountaintop removal.
This state doesn't belong to the United States of America, it belongs to King Coal. West Virginia is like a banana republic. The federal government needs to come in and take over the whole state, all the way from the dogcatcher up to Gov. Manchin.
Kirkland: Has the pro-coal agenda become more intense with the pressure put on by activists or do you see signs that they are weakening?
Bonds: If anything their agenda is becoming more aggressive. The closer we get to winning, the more hostile they are toward us. I don't know who said this but it's true: "First they laugh at you, then you face violent opposition, then you win." We're in the violent opposition phase right now and I think we've been in that phase for a while. Today we're dealing with the same conditions they were in the '20s and '30s fighting for unions, 40-hour workweeks, and livable working conditions. And you've heard of the bloody mine wars—the Matewan Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain. This violent opposition is here today and it is getting more aggressive.
The fact is that people want to hurt me and many of the other activists on this river. Bo Webb almost got run over by a car while we were doing a march not long ago. Larry Gibson's house has been shot at and his cabin has been burned. Maria Gunnoe's dog was shot and killed. She's installed cameras and put up a tall fence to protect herself.
Kirkland: Is it difficult not to use the same aggressive tactics used by those who oppose you?
Bonds: It's really hard. For many of us who live in local communities here in the hills and hollers of Appalachia, it's hard not to say, "Come on!" when people start threatening us and spitting on us. One of my first events as an activist was the reenactment of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1999 where we held a 75-mile march. We were attacked the first day out, so we had to have police protection the rest of the march. I learned real quick how to deal with violence.
Kirkland: Not long after you were assaulted at that event you were handcuffed, arrested, and taken away by the police. What were you arrested for? How does it feel being arrested while fighting against injustice?
Bonds: Being arrested is difficult because it's been instilled in Americans that if someone is handcuffed and taken off by the police they must have done something "bad." Activists have that same fear, but in the end we know we are fighting for a good cause. It's a real shame to be hauled off by the police for being a concerned citizen. When I was arrested this summer at Marsh Fork Elementary it was for "impeding traffic" and "obstructing an officer." I don't get it because when the officer told me to get up, I got right up. The only reason we sat down in the street in the first place was because there was nowhere else to sit.
These kinds of arrests happen all the time in West Virginia. A few weeks ago seven kids sat in Gov. Manchin's office in protest of mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain, the last mountain we have left in this valley. They were arrested the minute the governor's office closed its doors. The day before last seven other kids were arrested for lying in front of a coal truck route. They were charged a $2,000 cash-only bond for conspiracy, trespass, and impeding traffic. You see, all these activists are being arrested, taken to prison, given high bonds, and treated like criminals for speaking out against destruction and violence, but when the coal miners act the way they did at the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers hearing a few weeks ago, when they push 80-year-old women up against the wall and scream at them, when they heckle people so that they can't participate in their First Amendment rights, when these things happen and the police do nothing about it, that tells you something about our "justice" system. Not one coal thug was arrested that at that hearing. These guys interrupted a federal hearing, and nothing was done about it.
There is a major conflict of interest taking place, and that conflict is leading people to violence. Two weeks after the demonstration at Marsh Fork a bunch of drunk coal miners came and disrupted Larry Gibson's 4th of July community picnic on Kayford Mountain. These guys were very intimidating, very threatening. They were cursing and threatening us while we had our celebration, and at one point this big shirtless man made a slashing motion across his throat and said "F--k you and your kids." There was somebody videotaping that day so we showed the tape to the police, but they didn't do anything about it. That man should have gone to jail as soon as the police saw what happened. They should have said, "Who is this guy? Let's go get him." But they wouldn't take any action until Larry pressed charges. In the end, the miner got off on a "personal recognizance" bond.
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The last intact mountain in West Virginia's Coal River Valley is slated for mountaintop removal coal mining. Local residents have other ideas: a wind farm.
Kirkland: Some critics argue it's the environmentalists who have crossed the line and started using extreme tactics. Some have used terms like "environmental terrorism" to describe the direct action against mountaintop removal. Are there grounds for making these claims?
Bonds: I've heard of the Earth Liberation Front and I've read about people burning SUVs and that sort of thing, but those aren't the kind of people fighting against mountaintop removal.
I haven't seen a single person involved in this movement get wrapped up in anything that would be called terrorism or extremism. The people involved in terrorism in this region are the coal companies and the coal miners. It's easy to use their words against them because they're the one with the explosives. They're the ones blowing up mountains. They're the ones threatening people's lives. They're the ones with blood on their hands.
Kirkland: It's been an uphill battle for you from day one. Most people don't have the stamina to face the opposition you do every day. How you stay energized?
Bonds: I know it's the right thing to do. And I'm deeply religious and think God plays a big part in my work. I also see the youth of America and try to picture every child standing in that stream full of dead fish like my grandson. I know that isn't right. As I'm learning more about climate change, the consequences of not acting have become pretty clear. Once you know what I know, you can't un-know it. There's no going back to "normal." If you stop fighting against what you know is wrong, then shame on you! You may have to take a little break, but you can't quit fighting. You can't quit doing what's right. Some days are harder than others, but we do have good days around here.
Kirkland: What would you be doing if you weren't an activist?
Bonds: I'd be enjoying the mountains, forests, rivers and hollers. I'd be hiking and fishing, just being a hillbilly. I'd especially be spending more time with my family.
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I love everything about the Olympics, in particular what it showcases – sportsmanship, patriotism, and uncompromising dedication.
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[1] 2013 Retirement Confidence Survey, Employee Benefits Research Institute, March 2013.
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This companion document provides an Introduction to the Disciplinary Concepts and Skills of Anthropology, four concepts of the discipline and provides connections to the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards.
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The French & Indian War, or the Seven Years' War
I have always been drawn to the first world war, the one that began in a remote glen in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1753 and by its end changed the look of the world in 1763. It sets up the American War of Independence, the decades of war between Britain and France -- in many ways, the modern age itself. For many years I have attended as a vendor the annual seminar of the Braddock Road Preservation Association at Jumonville, very nearby where George Washington ambushed a patrol of French soldiers on May 28, 1753 and sparked the world war that followed. On this page I will offer new books and classics, dvds and audiobooks, and any other worthy items of the 18th century that relate to the "wilderness war."


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Immediately after the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line, students at San Diego State University were already trying to solve the case.
Complete Coverage: Terror in Boston
"Within two minutes of when it happened we were already working on it," said Eric Frost, Director of the SDSU Visualization Center or as it's popularly known, the "Viz Center."
Frost and other homeland security experts work at the lab teaching students how to make sense of digital data, such as pictures, video and social media posts.
Since Monday, Frost has been in contact with investigators across the U.S. who need help. In this case, he and his students are trying to pinpoint the Boston bombing suspects.
"We categorize things by time and location and then content. If you're used to doing that, this is just making a pattern. Looking for Waldo in the pattern," Frost said.
The Viz Center specializes in organizing and delivering geospatial data a sophisticated way of connect-the-dots.
Frost said the private sector as well as academic institutes are far ahead of law enforcement in this type of research mostly due to privacy concerns.
"It's a neat thing that the government is asking the public for help," Frost said.
"Universities are by far our best, quietly in the background helping and not in the limelight," he said.
For students, this is the ultimate training and reward.
Graduate student Justin Freiler immediately jumped on social media after the bombings to see the video and images being shared.
By comparing images from random people and angles, he said the team can coordinate a person and determine their location and movements.
Everything is time stamped so it can be put together as a puzzle, Freiler said.
"You not only want to help them but their families and the people affected at that moment. It's really nice to bring something to the table and justice faster," he said.
Frost (pictured right) and the Viz Center have worked with federal officials, emergency responders and the U.S. military for years.
They work on projects ranging from border tunnels to tsunami and hurricane response.


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It's been said that fish have a three-second memory. Wrong! Many years ago I had a pet largemouth bass in an aquarium. He was my pal, as well as my teacher. I learned a lot about fish behavior from watching him and he gave me a special respect for a fish's intelligence.
His diet consisted of minnows from the bait shop. If I came home without minnows, the bass would see me walk in the room and not care the slightest bit. But if I came home carrying a plastic minnow bag, he'd get very excited and press his face right up against the glass. That's intelligence my friends. That's memory. Now, some might say "well it's just conditioning." Precisely! And conditioning depends upon memory; which depends upon possessing some form of sophisticated intelligence.
Fishermen have long known that fish have this intelligence. We've all heard about how a particular lake's fish population became "educated" to certain baits. Musky anglers are especially keen to give Esox credit for being clever and remembering every bucktail, jerkbait or topwater that ever duped him - and being capable of "not falling for that again."
It's a fact that tackle manufacturers always use "fresh" fish when testing lures, scents, colors and retrieves. Their experience proves that after a fish realizes a lure isn't edible, they won't strike it again for a while. The fish associate the bait with something negative and "learn" to avoid that negative experience in the future.
Generous research has been conducted on fish intelligence as it relates to negative experiences and positive conditioning. In one experiment I read about online, fish "learned" to swim over to a red disc in the water as opposed to a brown disc. By swimming to red, the fish were rewarded with food; while swimming to brown provided no reward. They quickly learned by positive/negative reinforcements and proved that colors can be stored in the memory banks.
Dr. Kevin Warburton, adjunct researcher with Charles Sturt University's Institute for Land, Water and Society, has called the notion of a fish's three-second memory "rubbish."
Warburton, who has studied fish behavior for years says, "Fish can remember prey types for months; they can learn to avoid predators after being attacked once; they retain memories for several months; and carp that have been caught by fishers avoid hooks for at least a year." I've heard that carp are pretty smart creatures.
Dr. Warburton added, "Fish can recognize other individuals and modify their own behavior after observing interactions between other individuals. For example Siamese fighting fish will attack other members of the same species more aggressively if they've seen them lose contests with other fighters." That's amazing.
So what does this mean for fishing? Well, other than providing some interesting topics for discussions with your friends, I think this information can be used to help us all catch more fish. If we accept that fish have a memory and can act in an intelligent manner, then our approach to fishing will change. We will fish smarter if we give fish credit for being smart.
For example, let's say you're fishing along a weed edge for largemouth bass with a weedless rubber frog. A bass blows up on the bait and you set the hook. He's on! For a second anyway, but then gets off.
As a smart human, you can deduce that the fish is at least somewhat hungry to have struck the fake frog (either that, or he just likes to beat up frogs). As a fisherman who gives the bass credit for having a memory, you can also deduce that being hooked (if only for a second) was a negative experience for the bass and not something that he wishes to repeat.
So, the smart fisherman will not throw the frog back into the fish's environment to try and catch that same fish. No, he will choose a fresh bait that the bass has not seen and has no negative association with - and then present that bait to the fish in a realistic manner. Maybe he'll bite again and maybe he won't, but there's nothing wrong with tipping the odds in your favor by acknowledging that even a dumb fish can be capable of outsmarting a fisherman.
Babe Winkelman hosts "Good Fishing" and "Outdoor Secrets," the most-watched fishing and hunting programs on television. Tune in on NBC Sports Network, Destination America, Velocity, Time Warner Sports Texas & New York and many local broadcast channels. Visit Winkelman.com for air times and more information.


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A Rustic Ranch-Style Mountain Wedding at Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa in Tabernash, Colorado
Liz Westgate (31 and a registered nurse) met Jyace Stutsman (28 and in business development) in Colorado—it all began with a yoga date—so they wanted their wedding to showcase the state's raw beauty. Jyace, from Aspen, and Liz, from Michigan, knew guests would be traveling from near and far, so they selected the 6,000-acre Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa in the mountain town of Tabernash (an hour and a half from their home in Denver), the perfect choice for a destination wedding. Guests could explore the property on horseback, on foot or on skis and then unwind at the spa. Organized activities included a Friday night welcome party at Heck's Loft, the wedding celebration Saturday and a snowy Sunday brunch. The focus was on love and the celebration of family and friends. The couple exchanged heartfelt vows in the Broad Axe Barn (their grandmothers were the flower "girls"), followed by a cocktail hour on the patio, then back inside the barn for dinner and dancing. From colorful wildflower arrangements and mercury glass candles on the farm tables to greenery draped across the chandeliers, the vibe was natural yet romantic. A dessert and candy bar was available before dinner. "Why eat dessert only after dinner? Eat it before too," says Liz, who admits to having a sweet tooth. The couple dined on delicious local fare, shared a giant brownie (in lieu of a cake), danced, danced, danced, took part in the German chair-lifting tradition of sie leben hoch and had the time of their lives. Liz's advice to future couples is a simple five-word mantra: "Do whatever makes you happy." —Chrissy Sorenson


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Democrats: Foley hid TV advertising expenditures
For the second time in a span of eight days, the Connecticut Democrats filed a complaint against Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley Tuesday, this time accusing the GOP frontrunner of hiding television ad production costs from his last filings with the state Elections Enforcement Commission.
Democrats say that a $50,000 ad buy by Foley with the state's four major television networks that was executed July 1 and the corresponding production costs are conspicuously absent from Foley's July 10 campaign finance disclosure statement.
Since Foley accepted $1.4 million in public funds for his campaign through the Citizens' Election Program, his critics say that the second-time candidate for governor has an obligation to the taxpayers to itemize his expenditures.
The former U.S. ambassador to Ireland and private equity manager from Greenwich is seeking a rematch in November against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who defeated Foley by less than 6,500 votes in 2010.
"Tom Foley needs to be held accountable for recklessly trying to bend the rules and skirt the law," Devon Puglia, a state Democratic Party spokesman, said in a statement. "His filings have been disorganized and error-ridden, because he thinks no one is watching. Mr. Foley is not being clear with voters on his spending -- and these are taxpayer dollars at stake. If Tom Foley can't competently handle the paperwork for public financing, questions abound about his suitability for office."
Foley's campaign told Hearst Connecticut Media that it has not received invoices yet for its first campaign ad, which debuted July 7 and was produced by Doug McAuliffe Strategic -- Creative, an Alexandra, Va., ad agency utilized by GOP candidates.
"This is another attempt by Governor Malloy and his surrogates to distract attention from his failed leadership and terrible policies as governor," said Chris Cooper, a campaign spokesman for Foley.
Cooper said the campaign could either amend its July 10 filing or itemize the advertising expenditures in a future report to the state elections agency, which it regularly consults on compliance issues.
"The Foley campaign has worked with SEEC on nearly everything we do," Cooper said. "We are confident that we are in compliance with all SEEC regulations and procedures."
Democrats aren't buying the explanation from Foley's campaign and said there is a procedure in place for candidates for statewide office to report expenses incurred, but not paid based on a good-faith estimate of the campaign treasurer.
A staff attorney for the agency would not comment on the matter because the 62-page complaint is pending.
The basis of the first complaint filed by Democrats is that Foley exceeded spending caps for publicly funded candidates for governor in order to meet his campaign payroll and pay for his television ad buy. It is also pending.
Foley got a one-week head start on Malloy in television advertising, reintroducing himself to the electorate in a 30-second commercial featuring his wife, Leslie Fahrenkopf Foley. Presenting Foley as a family man who can fix anything, the ad appeared to be directed at female and unaffiliated voters, two demographics that Foley needs to win over to reverse his political fortunes.
Democrats have concentrated their opposition on Foley, who will face state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, of Fairfield, in the GOP's Aug. 12 primary.
Though McKinney is still waiting for the state to approve his application for public funding, his first television ad of the race premiered Tuesday without protest from Democrats. McKinney's campaign said it consulted with state elections enforcement officials before running the ad.
All three candidates are going the public-funding route.
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