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Important Property Tax Dates
September 30
On or before September 30, the County Assessor shall notify the property owner of any change in valuation due to new construction, additions to, deletions from, or splits or consolidations of assessment parcels, and changes in property use that occurred after September 30 of the preceding year and before October 1 of the valuation year. Property Owner has twenty-five (25) days to appeal to the State Board of Equalization, if the property is located in a county with a population of five hundred thousand persons or more or to the County Board of Equalization if the property is located in any other county. A.R.S. §§ 42-15105 and 42-16105(C).
September 30
Not later than September 30, Golf Course Owners and Managers must return to the County Assessor the form prescribed by the Department used to report data necessary to calculate economic obsolescence, in order to receive the economic obsolescence adjustment to value. A.R.S. § 42-13152 (D)(6)
October 1
The first one-half of taxes on all real and secured personal property are due and payable on October 1. A.R.S. § 42-18052(A)
November 1
The first one-half of taxes on all real and secured personal property are delinquent at 5 pm on November 1. (If November 1 is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the time of delinquency is 5 pm the next business day.) A.R.S. § 42-18052.
November 19
The State Board of Equalization and County Board of Equalization shall complete all hearings and issue all decisions with respect to assessments which were changed by the County Assessor due to new construction, additions to, deletions from or splits or consolidations of assessment parcels, and changes in property use that occurred after September 30 of the preceding year and before October 1 of the valuation year and subsequently appealed by the property owner within twenty-five days after the date of the County Assessor's notice of change assessment. A.R.S. §§ 42-16165 and 42-16108. A property owner dissatisfied with the decision of the State or County Board of Equalization on a changed assessment may appeal to the Court within sixty (60) days of the date of the decision. A.R.S. § 42-16205(A)
December 1
On or before December 1, the County Assessor shall complete and certify the assessment roll and deliver it to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. A.R.S. § 42-15153.
December 15
A Property Owner who is dissatisfied with the valuation or classification of property by the County Assessor may appeal to the Court on or before December 15. Such a Property Owner may appeal directly to the Court without initiating the administrative appeals process. A.R.S. § 42-16201.
December 15
No later than December 15, the County Assessor shall ascertain all real property in the county subject to taxation which is not valued by the Department. The County Assessor shall determine the full cash value of all such property, as of January 1 of the next year, and shall list such property with the valuation found for use on the rolls A.R.S. § 42-13051
December 15
A new owner of property that was valued pursuant to A.R.S. § 42-13051, the valuation of which was not appealed by the former owner of the property, may file an appeal of valuation with the Court on or before December 15 of the year in which the taxes are levied A.R.S. § 42-16205 (B).
Further Information About the Calendar of events
Property on the secured tax roll (real property and secured personal property) is assessed on an annual basis. The calendar of events for secured property follows a yearly cycle. The Assessor places a value on the property, notifies the property owner of that value, creates the tax roll, and sends it to the Board of Supervisors which certifies the roll and levies the tax.
Some of the dates in the assessment calendar are "fixed" by statute. Others are also set by statute but change or "float" with the calendar from year to year, depending on what day of the week they occur, or the date of certain events such as a Board of Supervisors meeting.
Fixed dates include: the lien date for secured property, the date that first and second half taxes are due (for secured property), and the dates those taxes become delinquent. Some of the "floating" dates include the date the tax rate is set ("on or before the third Monday in August") or the date the lien attaches to unsecured personal property ("the date of the first normal monthly meeting of the County Board of Supervisors, when the Board extends the roll and levies the tax"). See the "Annual Calendar of Legal Events" for a complete listing of the assessment calendar.
Administrative Appeal Process
The administrative appeal process in Arizona allows a taxpayer to request a review of the assessor's opinion of the full cash value (not the limited value) or the legal classification of that property. The appeal process is similar for both the secured and the unsecured roll, with some differences in time limits and procedures. The property owner has the right to appeal the property value within certain statutory time limits.
The administrative appeal process has two levels: the assessor level, and the County Board of Equalization (CBOE) level or State Board of Equalization (SBOE) level. It is a process that somewhat resembles the court system, but is not actually a part of that system. The property owner may take their appeal to the court system if they desire, and circumvent the administrative process; but this is costly and time-consuming compared to the administrative process, so the majority of appeals are resolved in the administrative process. If a property owner does file an appeal in Tax Court or in Superior Court, they must pay the tax under protest while waiting for a decision if the proceedings extend beyond the tax due date.
Notice of Value
The Notice of Value for secured property does not currently include any personal property, therefore the actual value placed on secured personal property by the assessor does not appear on any notification until the bill is sent out the following October. It is important to note, that no statutory appeal process exists for personal property on the secured roll. The State Board of Equalization has agreed to hear any appeals on secured personal property.
Unsecured Tax Roll Events
Property on the unsecured tax roll, like secured property, is valued annually; however, more than one unsecured roll may be created during the year by the County Assessor. Some counties may produce a monthly unsecured roll, and some may produce a quarterly (or less frequent) roll.
The Assessor creates the unsecured roll, notifies the property owner of the value placed on the property, and sends the roll to the County Board of Supervisors who extend and levy the tax at their first normal monthly meeting which is the first Monday of the month except in Maricopa county, which is the first Wednesday of the month. On or before the second Monday of the month, the county treasurer has the unsecured roll available, and the tax is due at that time and delinquent thirty days later. The lien on unsecured property is attached at the point in time that the supervisors extend and levy the tax. The property owner has 30 days in which to appeal the value of the personal property. The Assessor then has 30 days to respond. The lien on unsecured property is both a lien on the property and a lien on the owner of that property.
Within 5 days after the tax becomes delinquent, the County Treasurer delivers a tax bill to the sheriff commanding him to seize and sell as much of the property as is necessary to pay the taxes, interest, and any penalties as well as the cost of the search and seizure. (Remember that personal property is mobile, so time limits are considerably shorter than those for real property.)
According to statute, the due date for taxpayers to provide an annual report of unsecured property is May 1, or 45 days from the Assessor's demand (DOR form 82520 and 82520A), whichever is later. The Assessor must, by law, send a demand notice to the taxpayer requesting a report of property. Most counties send their annual demand notices out by March 15 in order to allow the 45 days before May 1.The annual demand is preprinted with the property which the taxpayer listed from the previous year, and the taxpayer need only show additions to or deletions from the report.
The calendar for unsecured property is both a monthly and an annual calendar. The "Annual Calendar of Legal Events" published by the Department of Revenue contains the Unsecured Roll events described, in detail, in the latter portion of the calendar.
Centrally Valued Events
Certain types of properties are valued by the Centrally Valued Property (CVP) Unit of the Arizona Department of Revenue. These properties are complex and often cross county or state lines. They include gas, water, and electric utilities and pipelines, airline flight property, railroads, and telecommunication companies. Also included are producing mines, i.e, mines currently in production, and mines which have been in operation within the last three years but are not now producing. With a few exceptions, the Centrally Valued Properties Unit determines the location and valuation of these properties within each taxing district.


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[Updates to this post were added in April 2012.]
I would like to announce our internet cafe's achievements and past footprints (for the benefit of first-time visitors).
Anti-English Spectrum established, brought up problems with low quality native English teachers for the first time. Exposed to the world the English xxxx [Spectrum] site that is ruining our country.
[Here is how the site looked when it began (with photos from the Sexy Costume Party):]
[Here is how the site looked in 2006:]
[They fail to mention that the reason they started was because members of English Spectrum posted photos of what the Chosun Ilbo described as
a "sexy costume party" held at [the] Mary Jane club [in] November [2004]. Some 70 percent of the participants were Korean men and women, while the rest were foreign men and women.Some of the women in the photos were harassed to the point that some of them needed psychological counseling, as I mentioned in this post, and which is also mentioned here. On January 13 Anti-English Spectrum also found and translated a year-and-a-half-old post from Korean ESL titled "How to Mollest[sic] your Students." By the next day several internet news outlets had reported on it.]
2005.02 [Incorrect - actually 2005.01.30]
MBC 2580 current affairs program and morning news. Participated in shooting reports on English teachers. [Links: English Korean]
Fully participated and joined in on the coverage of SBS's 그것이 알고 싶다 [I Want To Know That] "Blond and Blue-eyed English Teachers." [Links: English Korean, SBS page]
[This show opens with the following re-enactment of the "How to Mollest[sic] your Students" post that Anti-English Spectrum had translated and disseminated a month earlier.]
2005.02 (end)
Conducted 3 separate campaigns in front of Hongdae, Myongdong, Shinchon and Seoul Girls Highschool). [Campaigns to oust illegal native English teachers]
[Link: First result here]
2005.01 to present
Submitted countless [hundreds of] petitions to the MOJ, Immigration, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Education Ministry.
[resulting in]
- strengthened E-2 visa related documents at Immigration
- active and full-blown crackdown operations on illegal English teachers by related organizations
- southern district prosecutor's office deported 69 fake academic credential teachers in Oct. 2005
2005.01 to present
Extensive efforts in trying to get press on the problems and disorder regarding native English teachers. Scores of articles were published/broadcast! (MBC, SBS, Kookmin Ilbo, Dailian, Hankook Ilbo, Breaknews, The Korea Economic Daily, The Women's News, etc…)
2005 - 2005.12
Conducted campaigns to prohibit illegal native speakers to teach and appear on TV.
Visited Information and Communications Ministry, Ethics Committee to request that the native English teacher job search site English xxxx be punished for posting obscenities.
[That Ministry he mentions -정보통신부 doesn't exist anymore - it is now split into four separate Ministries and Commissions – he may have meant the Korea Communications Commission.]
2005.01 to present
Successfully reported and closed down native English teacher sites and sites with posts that degrade women in Korean society.
2005.01 to present
Collected information and exposed illegal native English teachers and reported them to related institutes (cannot disclose).
Visited the National Assembly (assemblyman Lee Joo-ho, etc) to request a bill to strengthen checks on native English teacher management policies / plans.
2006 to present
Efforts made to build opposing public opinion against the lowering of standards regarding qualifications for native English speakers by certain people involved in the English education market. Received confirmation from Education Ministry and Offices of Education that qualification standards will be strengthened.
Participated in National Assembly public hearing (held by assemblyman Lee Joo-ho) regarding English education and delivered our Internet cafe's position on the matter - emphasized that budgets concentrated on foreign assistant teachers should be used to support Korean English teachers and English students.
Cooperated and participated in TV broadcast programs regarding problems with low quality, unqualified native English teachers.
SBS 'Seven Days': "Unverified foreign English teachers, a danger to children" [Link]
KBS 'Center of the World': "Are native speaking English teachers really trustworthy/reliable?" [Link])
KBS2 'VJ Special Forces': "The war against foreign crime" [Link]
Made the native English teacher blacklist into an issue [in the news] (Breaknews).
[Though only the English Teacher Blacklist Breaknews article is mentioned above, Breaknews (or 'Inside Story' in its newspaper edition) did six different articles about English teachers from July to September of 2006, including:
07.24 "Low-quality foreign teachers absorbed in money, women, drugs." [Link]
08.07 "Low quality English teachers: 'Korean women are a source of money and sex partners'" [Link]
08.16 "Women give English teachers 'full service like a king'"[Link]
08.21 "Affairs with High School Students, Spreading Nude Photos on the Internet" [Links: English Korean]
09.12 "Foreign teachers demand mothers in substitution for tutoring fees." [Link]
09.18 "Tracking [down] blacklisted foreign teachers suspected of having AIDS" [Links: English Korean]
Several other stories would follow from Breaknews over the years. All of the above articles mention 'tipster' Mr Kim (or Mr. K) and/or Anti-English Spectrum. In a November 2006 Breaknews article, Mr. K also makes comments, and is described as "Low quality native speaking teacher deportation site manager Mr. K," suggesting this is a pseudonym for Lee Eun-ung. Two days before that article appeared, an older BreakNews article was reposted at Anti-English Spectrum, and in the comments, members thanked 'Mr. Kim'. 'M2' - the ID of Lee Eun-ung, the manager and public face of the site - coyly wrote "I'm curious about Mr. Kim;..." Regular poster 'jasminhyang' later wrote in a comment "the first letter of Mr. Kim's nickname is 'm'."
In the last Breaknews article listed above, 'Mr. Kim' suggests that "E-2 visa requirements should be strengthened. … A medical check certificate (including AIDS) should be added to the documents required for an E-2 visa." All of these articles were announced on the Anti-English Spectrum website; considerable excitement was shown by Lee Eun-ung about the AIDS article being published, getting their 'English Teacher = AIDS infected' message into "broadcasts, in newspapers, on subways and in convenience stores."
(I looked at this more closely here)]
Brought attention of Education Ministry and Offices of Education to our endless problems regarding low-quality native English teachers. Made countless contacts with Assemblyman Lee Ju-ho and related officials at the National Assembly Education Committee to alert them to the dangers of low-quality native English teachers. Bills are currently being prepared to prohibit low-quality native English teachers from flowing into schools.
[Article titles (dead links):]
"Ministry of Education: Currently preparing to establish an organization to stop low-quality native English teachers from flowing into schools."
Ohmynews: "Education Committee Assemblyman Lee Ju-ho's English Education Special Support Bill"
Constructed an in-depth report and a report collecting victim cases regarding low-quality native English teachers. Distributed these reports to policymakers, including the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee's Education Committee, and native speaking English teacher policy commissioners at Education Offices all over the country.
Personally went on location to shoot a report on the problems with Hongdae Club Day, the gathering place of low-quality foreigner English teachers, for the purpose of broadcasts and press exposure. Breaknews, YTN broadcast the report numerous times by the hour. A barrage of civil petitions were sent to Mapo Police Station, and after the news broadcast, the police announced that it would implement a crackdown.[YTN: "Hongdae, Foreigner 'Lawless Zone'" - links: English Korean]
After our cafe's broadcast went out on the atrocious behaviors of foreigners at Hongdae clubs, Commander Bell's U.S. forces in Korea were completely prohibited from entering Hongdae clubs.
[YTN: "U.S. Forces Banned from Hongdae" - links: English Korean]
[Omitted from this list is another propaganda success by the group in tying English teachers to AIDS. As Lee wrote in February 2009:
In spring of 2007, our group received a tip from a woman who wanted help. A teacher from Australia threatened her, saying he'd had sex without a condom in southeast Asia and she should be careful of AIDS, too. The tip also said the teacher was loitering around her place, trying to terrify her. After this writer and others pursued him with the cooperation of relevant authorities, he was finally arrested by police in the capital region after living at a guest house in Seoul.Sports Chosun: "From molestation to AIDS threats - Shocking perversion of some English teachers; Beware the 'Ugly White Teacher.'" [Links: English Korean]
Chosun Ilbo: "White English Teacher Threatens Korean Woman with AIDS."[Links: Korean English]
Cable network Olive TV's "Pandora's Box with Park Hae-mi." Collaborated and cooperated in filming 10th episode of Pandora's Box – "Attention! Low-quality Lecherous Foreign Teachers!" Scored the biggest ratings record in the history of Olive TV.
Cooperated with related organizations to track, conduct stakeouts on and report numerous low-quality teachers with forged academic credentials, and successfully made disclosures and arrests. The process took months. Included in KBS, SBS, YTN main news. Reported in real time during news broadcasts. Maeil Economic Daily, CBS, No Cut News, Kyunghyang Daily, Yonhap News, Segye Ilbo, Chosun Ilbo, etc…
SBS: "Faked backgrounds, molestation...'Wonderful native-speaking teachers.'" [Link]
MBC: "Native speaking teacher, Low quality teachers" [Link]
KBS: "Unqualified English teacher arrests" [Link]
YTN: "Faked Background - unqualified foreign teachers remain unchanged." [Link]
[An English language report about this is here.]
Visited the Ministry of Justice Immigration Service for a meeting. Requested health check reports to be included in the E-2 visa renewal process. Emphasized that health check reports are the only legal safety measures that can stop the drug activities of foreign English teachers in Korea beforehand.
Collected information regarding low-quality drug-using foreign English teachers and tracked down their dwellings. Closely cooperated with related organizations to disclose 22 drug offenders, the majority of whom were foreign English teachers, and had them arrested.
This was featured on KBS, MBC, SBS, YTN, and made headlines in Korean newspapers.
KBS: "Teachers on drugs in English class uncovered." [Link]
SBS: "'Stoned lecture"; A heap of native speaking teachers uncovered."[Link]
NoCutNews: "To foreign English teachers, Korea is a depraved heaven." [Link]
YTN (link dead)
KBS 2TV "In-Depth 60 Minutes" 1st segment "What is the problem with these Native Speaker Teachers with Forged Degrees?" Actively participated in covering the story and providing info., cooperating and providing advice through interview. Emphasized the need for health check reports and criminal background check reports, which is the major focus issue of our cafe. [Link]
Visited National Assembly and had meeting with Assemblyman Shin Hak-yong and his group. Emphasized that an verification system must be enacted as law regarding unqualified foreign teachers. Received a positive response saying that an amendment is being prepared regarding immigration laws to stop unqualified teachers.
[On October 16, 2007 it was found out that Christopher Paul Neil had taught in Korea. That day, a story appeared on MBC news which Anti-English Spectrum took credit for. It was also broadcast in this news report, which followed a story about Neil with the segue, "Yes, problems surrounding foreign instructors are never-ending..."]
Received an award of thanks from Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in celebration of Police Day. Received this award for contributing immensely to police operations. [The award] was a recognition for our efforts in disclosing foreign English teachers with forged academic degrees and drug offenses.
Was invited to attend meeting with Ministry of Justice. Meeting title: "A Meeting with Experts and Related Organizations regarding Foreign Native Speaker Conversation Teaching (E-2) Teachers." Emphasized that health check reports, criminal offense reports should be included in documents required when native speaker teachers enter the country. Related organizations expressed agreement and said that these would be reflected in policies. Requested that unjust profits should be recovered when punishing illegal native English teachers, and surcharges [monetary fines?] should be greatly increased.
[The bottom of the poster shows the list of participants at this significant meeting, including officials from the Ministry of Justice, the foreign-policy division of the Immigration Office, representatives from the Ministry of Education and Human Resources, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. From private sector we find the Director of the Association of Foreign Language Academies and Lee Eun-ung, chairman of the Citizens' Movement to Expel Illegal Foreign Language teachers.]
Visited National Assembly to meet with assemblyman Min Byung-doo and his group, and emphasized the need for a strengthened verification system regarding unqualified native speaker English teachers and an increase in budget to support Korean English teachers as fundamental solution.
The Ministry of Justice announced that starting from December, native speaker English teachers will be required to submit health check reports and criminal background check reports in regard to E-2 visa procedures.
KBS: "Foreign Teacher with Criminal Record Entry Restriction" [Link]
YTN: "Native Speaking Teacher Criminal Record Check Requirement" [Link]
SBS: "Foreign Teacher's Criminal Record must be Confirmed for Entry" [Link]
The Ministry of Justice, Immigration Service announced a new E-2 visa related enforcement ordinance, providing basis [for new] visa [procedures]. It was announced that [visa procedures were to include health check reports (drugs, AIDS, STDs) and criminal background checks, thus cutting off the flow of unqualified foreign teachers [into Korea].
KBS 2TV "VJ Special Forces" episode 375 segment "Protect the Republic of Korea! Foreigner Crimes are a Top Priority Emergency." [Link] Participated in the shooting of the program and helped in getting it broadcast. Provided information regarding the gathering places of low-quality foreigner teachers and illegal teaching activities. Alerted the people to the ugly behaviors of unqualified foreigner English teachers and cooperated with [the program] "VJ Special Forces" for two years straight.
Interview with Kyunghyang Daily's weekly current affairs magazine "Newsmaker." Explained the falsity of claims by hagwon recruiters regarding E-2 visa policy enforcement laws and also delivered our concerned views. Feb. 5th, 2008, No. 761, page 46. "Native speaking teacher 'inadequate supply?'" [Link]
Interview with MBC's "Son Seok-hee's Viewpoint Focus" Alerted the people to our café's activities and the problems with illegal teachers. The "Viewpoint Focus" website put up an email address for people to report illegal foreigner teachers, together with our cafe's Internet address.
[Link to interview transcription - first result here]
MBC "Live Broadcast Topic Focus" program, "Situation Report on Native Speaker English Teachers; Do We Know Our Children's English Teachers?" Provided info and cooperation, participated in supporting broadcasting efforts. Received thanks from writer/PD saying "This could not have been broadcast without the help of your organization." Alerted the people of problems with illegal foreigner teachers. [Link]
SBS and 3 other networks broadcast reports. Exposed 9 people, including cannabis-smoking native speaker English teachers at a well-known hagwon in Ilsan and employment brokers. Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested these people. Our group tracked down these people for 100 days in cooperation with relevant agencies, and also conduced a 17-day stakeout to solve this case. Was able to get reports broadcasted regarding the MOJ's E-2 visa policies that exclude cannabis tests, and drew attention to the issue. Submitted petitions to relevant institutes. Requested to relevant institutes that these policies in error be fixed. Received apologies in response.
SBS: "With no Marijuana Test, More Pot-smoking Native Speaking Teachers Uncovered" [Link]
CBS: "More [Pot] Smoking Teachers... Regular [Pot] Smoking Native Speaker Arrested" [Link]
Booked 10 people including teachers with forged degrees and those involved in illegal job placement , etc., and these included the arrest of two 2 foreign teachers who were charged with forged degrees, laundered nationalities and sexually molesting a high school student. Broadcast on MBC, SBS, Yonhap.
Yonhap: "Unqualified native speaking teacher with fake degrees, nationality exposed" [Link]
MBC: "Unqualified native speaking teacher with fake degrees, nationality exposed" [Link]
KBS news reported on illegal unqualified foreigner teachers that we exposed. Tracked down an unqualified teacher with an STD and reported to him Immigration Service. Based on information on this person, 6 unqualified teachers, brokers and about 40 hagwons that employed such teachers were exposed, according to responses to us by related organizations.
KBS: "Fake native speaking English teacher exposed." [Link]
Together with Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, captured 3 native speaker teachers involved in cultivating cannabis, and brought them to court. Three Canadian teachers were arrested right before trying to leave the country. Using equipment in their homes, they were involved in growing and smoking cannabis.
Raised attention to the issue of [sexual] relationships involving money with foreigner teachers on the KBS program "World's Morning." Cooperated by providing much information and advice, and was interviewed on behalf of the group.
Attended Meeting held by Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Dept. of External Affairs to devise countermeasures regarding foreigner crimes, and delivered our opinions. Asserted that [procedures for] questioning of suspicious persons [by police] should be permanently established in order to be protected from foreigner crimes. Requested information exchange regarding the residences of problematic foreigners, in collaboration with the Immigration Service. Requested that foreigner crimes be dealt with strictly.
Cooperated with Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency Dept. of External Affairs, and exposed a foreigner teacher with forged academic degrees who had been illegally sojourning and hiding out for 12 years. Also, a group working illegally as a teacher employment agency through the Internet for many years was booked without detention. This was made into news reports and articles through countless press and broadcasting outlets. Interview with MBC's "World's Morning" [sic - actually "This Morning"]
MBC: Native speaking English teacher with fake degree from U.S. university arrested" [Link]
Herald News: "Korean society is too easy on white people." [Link]
CBS: "Native speaking teacher with faked academic background." [Link]
Video interview with Seoul Shinmun. "Drug-using Foreigner Teacher Caught After 150-Day Stakeout" This article alerted our group's activities and purpose to the people and received much support and encouragement. [Links: English Korean Video of Lee]
Exposed & deported a foreigner professor with a previous sexual crime record. Found out information on the sex crime records of the professor, who was working at the English and English Literature Dept. of a university in Daejeon, and reported it to relevant institutes. Got him ousted from Korea.
"'Shocking' - American teacher convicted of child molestation teaching at a university in Korea" CBS, Chosun Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun [all have the above title; also Korea Times]
Had meeting with Representative (Assemblywoman) Choi Young-Hee of the National Assembly Youth (Juvenile) Committee, and requested that the E-1 visa [procedures] include criminal background check reports. Requested that a reporting system be established that will allow the mandatory reporting by hagwons to Offices of Education whenever sex crimes by foreigner teachers occur. [Link]
Daejeon KBS Chungcheong Patrol Program, "The Two Faces of Foreigner English Teachers" was broadcast. [Link (page 2)] Cooperated and participated in the shooting of the program and also did interviews. Alerted the Chungcheong[-do] area of the problems of foreigner teachers and professors, and exposed the problems of E-1 visas (professor visas). Played a decisive role in deporting a foreigner professor who had a sex crime past.
2009.02.15, 02.19
In order to notify the people of the unfounded falsehood of the petition submitted to the NHRCK regarding the AIDS and drug testing of foreigner teachers, we personally created articles that were then published in Seoul Shinmun, Weekly Kyunghyang.
Seoul Shinmun: "Do AIDS Tests for Foreign Teacher Constitute Discrimination?" [Link]
Weekly Kyunghyang: "Do Drug Tests for Foreigner Teachers Constitute Discrimination?" [Links: English Korean]
Brought the attention of the chief of investigation at Immigration Service to the issue of discrepancies between foreigner addresses on record with the Immigration Service and their actual addresses, explaining that this difference causes too much time wasted when tracking down unqualified foreigner teachers in cooperation with relevant investigative agencies. Requested that improvements be made regarding this difficulty. Intensive discussions and examinations regarding this issue will be conducted during policy meetings scheduled in the latter half of this year.
Proved the falsity of claims by foreigner teachers saying that Koreans are distorting [facts about] foreigner teachers, and their claims that AIDS and drug tests are discriminatory. Seoul [Metropolitan Police] Agency External Affairs exposed drug-using foreigner teachers. (this was broadcast).
MBC: "Native speaking teachers who regularly take drugs uncovered" [Link]
YTN: "Drug smoking native speaking teachers" [Link]
MBN: "Foreign teachers smoked drugs prior to elementary school class" [Link]
[Not mentioned here is that the same day, a Police report of Drug arrests for March and April was released, and most articles focused on a (Korean) high school teacher and minister who had been arrested. The only newspaper article (as opposed to TV networks) which focused on the arrest of 6 English teachers was a Donga Ilbo article written by Lee Mi-ji, who is mentioned on the Anti-English Spectrum site. On May 20, this reporter wrote another article featuring an interview with Lee Eun-ung, who called for teachers to be detained after every arrest.]
Chosun Ilbo created great waves through society by extensively reporting about our group, and struck a responsive chord with relevant institutes and the Korean people, while also stirring up feelings of caution.
[The series, by Chosun.com intern reporter Choi Hui-seon, was titled 'Native speaking teacher frauds."]
"The sex crimes of native speaking teachers who don't distinguish between young students and female coworkers" [English Korean]
"'[We're] Substitutes for married women's husbands...' The demeaning words of some native speaking teachers." [Links English Korean]
"Can even high school dropouts live in Korea?" [Links: English Korean]
"Foreigner with 9 crimes on his record professor at distinguished Korean university" [Links: English Korean]
"Native speaking teachers only protest articles criticizing them without reflection" [Links: English Korean]
14 native speaker teacher foreigners were arrested on gambling and drug charges. Korean people were alerted to the seriousness of the matter.
KBS: "''Out of Control Foreigner English Teacher' Teaches Class while High and Commits Sexual Molestation." [Link]
MBC: "'Regular gambling/drug use' - Many foreign teachers booked" [Link]
MBN: "Many foreign English teachers stained by drugs and gambling exposed" [Link]
In Weekly Chosun No. 2069, [I] contributed an article under the title "Advice from an Activist involved in the Movement to Expel Illegal Foreign Language Teachers." [Here I] point out and discuss problems such as distortions about native speaker teachers and various points of view toward them. [Links: English Korean]
2009 September
In preparation for a National Assembly parliamentary audit, we received a request for cooperation with data from the members of the education committee. We submitted data such as a list if unfit instructors and problems with and alternatives to measures related to administering them. At the request of the auditing institution we submitted a list of unfit instructors.
[Who knows if this had anything to do with GNP Rep. Park Min-sik saying, "The flood of unqualified native speaking teachers is the Government's responsibility," or GNP Rep. Lee Ju-yeong saying, "Of foreigners, native speaking teachers are especially potential child molesters" during the parliamentary audit that fall.]
Interviews with MBC radio "Kim Mi-hwa's Our World" and the TBS traffic broadcast "Seoul Plaza." [Due to] the serious problems with unfit foreign instructors and gaps in their management, we requested that the marijuana test be included again in the in the E-2 visa. [We were] interviewed about solutions and awakened the attention of citizens to our group's achievements.
2009.10 - 2010.02
We stood up to the native speaking instructors' distorted and biased article about the "Citizens for upright English education." We conducted media activities to correct the distortion. Native speaking teachers recognized that citizen institutions support our group.
Korea Herald: "One year later, ATEK struggles for recognition" [See also the first post here, titled "We declare victory in the struggle".]
MBC Son Seok-hui Attention focus (mini interview)
2010.02.05 Donga Ilbo: "Is the 'Movement to Expel Bad English Teachers' stalking?" [Korean, English]
We forced the deletion of the foreign instructors' one-sided article.
[No they didn't. They threatened to sue the paper, which removed the images taken from AES's website that were originally published, but the article they're referring to is still here.]
2010.03.22 - 24
CBS "Kim Hyunjung's News Show" interview, MBN Live Today interview
Let citizens know about measures against and examples of harm [caused by] the problem of native speaking instructors' molestation of children.
'[Should] foreigners [who commit] sex crimes be deported?' Interview on the subject of CCTV installation. Interviewed live on the topic of 'What is the cause of native speaking teachers being unfit teachers?'
[A transcript of the CBS interview is here. I'll get around to translating it someday.]
Gangster English instructor arrested for drugs and murder.
Cooperating with institutions for three months led to the arrest of a murdering, drug selling, degree-forging native speaking instructor. It led to 8 related English teachers being arrested.
We let citizens know about the problems of verifying native speaking instructors and national immigration policy. Public broadcasters YTN, SBS, KBS, and MBC all broadcast reports.
[Oddly enough they make no mention that Ronald Rhee, the teacher above wanted for murder in the US who was eventually extradited, had dual citizenship and was not subject to E-2 visa (or any visa) rules. Not deterred by this, several newspapers published (without direct AES influence) articles with titles like "The country where murderers and drug criminals teach English", "The Seriousness of Foreign Teachers' Ugly Double Lives Cannot Be Measured", "It Doesn't Matter Even if English Teachers are Criminals?", as well as an article calling for Choi Young-hee's bills to be passed.]
Immigration amendment (submitting fingerprints and photos) passes in the National Assembly. Since the beginning of 2005 we have [tried to] raise awareness of the issue of unfit native speaking instructors [with] arrest[ing?] national institutions and each part of society [in regard to] the seriousness of managing native speaking instructors and have constantly raised the question of fingerprinting. The ministry of justice legalized the submitting of fingerprints and photographs by foreigners and foreign instructors.
Interview on SBS radio show "Seo Du-won's SBS Viewpoint" about the dangers and child sex crimes of native speaking teachers and measures to prevent them. Stressed that E-2 visa be strengthened and a federal criminal record check included.
[A transcript of the interview is translated here.]
The ministry of justice announces that E-2 visa requirements have been strengthened, and the native speaking instructors' movement to abolish the AIDS test was blocked. We achieved through our effort the strengthening of the E-2 visa for citizens. [We] made possible the re-inclusion of the marijuana test, the requiring of federal criminal record checks, and the continuance of the AIDS test.
[They link to (but do not take credit for) this NoCut News article, which is translated at the bottom of this post, and which asserts that "deviant and criminal acts by foreign teachers have become common."]
"Are native speaking teachers introduced to Korean culture through drinking parties?" [Korean, English] Article about problems with the Gyeonggi Education Office's GEPIK native speaking instructor training program (drinking party) and examples of the problems and harm to Korean teachers caused by unfit native speaking assistant teachers.
Through an education broadcast we blocked the false propaganda of the native speaking instructor group. On the EBS morning special (English education lecture) program we blocked the native speaking instructor's political plot and blocked the goal of native speaking teachers to have access to student listeners. [More information about the program can be found here (first result)]
In the Seoul area native speaking instructors were arrested for smoking drugs. For 45 days we cooperated with institutions and brought about the arrest of a native speaking teacher working at an elementary school. The investigation is under way as police try to ascertain how many accomplices bought drugs from or smoked drugs with this instructor.
[This refers to this arrest in April, the first reported foreign teacher drug arrest in nine months. A May 21 post at their site has more details (first result).]
2011 April - July
The Gyeonggi Education Office bans instructors from bringing alcohol to native speaking instructor training. An article exposed the excessive drinking at the Gyeonggi Education Office's 2010 GEPIK native speaking instructor orientation and demanded the relevant institutions rectify this. The Gyeonggi Education Office prepared a guideline banning instructors from bringing alcohol from April 2011.
[More about this was mentioned here.]
2011, mid-July
Meeting with 1000 university students from four Seoul universities, making them aware of the truth about native speaking instructors and the harm to university students caused by the native speaking instructors' generous and undeserved benefits. Meetings with university students outside Seoul are scheduled.
Made successful a Chosun Ilbo article about native speaking instructors taking and distributing new kinds of drugs.
"Drugs are entering through Yougle (Youtube + Google)" [Translated here]
Alerted the nation to the spread of new kinds of drugs by native speaking instructors via Youtube and Google. Reported 20 such sites spreading drugs to an agency.
2011 August to September (Enforcement scheduled)
The Ministry of Education passed legislation allowing the disclosure of [hagwon] instructor confirmation on relevant office of education homepages. Since 2008 our group has demanded agencies establish a system allowing parents to confirm instructors on relevant office of education homepages and finally this legislation was achieved.
The native speaking instructors' petition to find the foreigner health check (AIDS check) unconstitutional is rejected.
To maintain the native speaking instructor AIDS test, our group urged media who form public opinion, the MOJ, public corporations litigating for the government, the Regulatory Reform Commitee affiliated with the prime ministers office, etc. that strong measures were required.
The AIDS test for native speaking instructors is still maintained.
http://cafe.naver.com/englishspectrum/11062 [Click first result]
Seoul Metropolitan Council plans to gradually phase out the SMOE native speaking English assistant teacher system.
The hiring budget for SMOE NSETs will be gradually reduced and by 2014 NSETs will be phased out in secondary schools. Our group constantly asked SMOE and Seoul city to switch over the NSET budget to support Korean English teachers.
[For more information see here.]
Made possible the arrest and expulsion from the classroom of murderer, rapist, gangster native speaking instructors who faked their academic backgrounds. These criminal instructors were arrested and punished after a year of effort.
[They link to TV news reports by KBS, SBS and MBC. More information on this arrest is here.]
Participated in SMOE English education forum.
Requested the wholesale reduction of instructors and cuts to the NSET budget
Requested thorough supervision of native speaking hagwon instructors.
Requested that the NSET budget be transferred to the budget for improving the capabilities of Korean teachers.
Cooperated with MBC Live Broadcast This Morning
Interviewed about problems with low quality native speaking instructors, cooperated with broadcaster. Made parents aware of the seriousness of the problem.
Seoul Metropolitan Council passes large scale cuts to the NSET budget
Native speakers will be reduced in High Schools from 2012, middle school NSETs from the middle of 2012
We achieved the final goal of our group
Filed many petitions with the MOE, National Assembly, human rights commission, citizen rights commission [?], etc. regarding reducing NSETs.
Our cafe's biggest achievement is that we were able to bring to public consciousness and established public opinion - among our people and related organizations - regarding the problems associated with low-quality native speaker teachers. This all started with the help of your actions!!!

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A Big New Milestone Reached in Coal Retirement, Public Health, Climate Disruption
Millions of Americans are breathing easier these days as we announce that the Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign has crossed the halfway mark toward meeting our goal of securing the retirement of a third of the nation's coal-fired power.
It's only been a year and a half since Bloomberg Philanthropies gave a $50 million grant to the Sierra Club to support the efforts of the Beyond Coal campaign. As part of this partnership, the Sierra Club set the ambitious goal of winning commitments to retire 105,000 megawatts of coal -- about one-third of U.S. coal plants -- by 2015.
These coal plants are the nation's number-one source of the carbon pollution that is disrupting our climate, the sulfur pollution that causes heart attacks and premature death, and the mercury pollution that harms babies in the womb.
Today, thanks to the hard work of millions of people and dozens of partner organizations, our children, our grandparents, our friends, our neighbors, and so many others are enjoying cleaner air and water -- and U.S. carbon emissions are at a two-decade low. Earlier this week, we announced the three coal retirements by American Electric Power that put us across this halfway mark.
We are joined in this work by allied organizations, large and small, from coast to coast. I like to think of it as a grassroots, open-source effort that is winning big victories for our health and the planet. Together, our work averaged one coal plant retirement a week in 2012.
Let's look at this milestone by the numbers:
2,011 --The megawatts of coal retired by AEP that put us at the halfway mark last week.
12 million -- The tons of climate-disrupting pollution those three AEP plants will no longer emit.
84,000 -- The tons of sulfur-dioxide pollution those three AEP plants will no longer emit.
142 -- The number of coal plant retirements the Beyond Coal campaign and its allies have secured.
66,000 -- The megawatts of solar and wind power online today, enough to power 13 million homes. That number is increasing every day: In January 2013, every single megawatt of new installed electric capacity was from renewable sources.
According to the Clean Air Task Force, the 54,000 megawatts of coal that the Beyond Coal campaign and its allies have helped retire so far has resulted in these numbers:
3,900 lives saved.
6,000 heart attacks avoided
$1.8 billion in health costs saved.
206 million metric tons of climate-disrupting carbon pollution prevented from being dumped into our air every year -- the equivalent of removing 43 million cars from our roads.
Our work is not yet done, of course. We must continue to work on retiring the remaining coal plants, investing in clean energy, and ensuring strong transition programs for those workers and communities affected by coal plant retirements.
I write today with a deep commitment to carry that work forward, knowing that city by city and state by state, Americans will continue coming together to move beyond coal -- to clean energy. The health, safety, and prosperity of our kids and families depend on it.
-- Mary Anne Hitt, Beyond Coal Campaign Director


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The fact that Casey Kasem, the 82-year-old co-creator and host of the American Top 40 Countdown, reportedly died peacefully while surrounded by his three children, despite a previous tug-of-war between his children and second wife, seems not only fortunate but apt. It means his death can honor his career's great achievement.
It wasn't American Top 40, or being the voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo, or mixing statistical data with pop music or inventing the Long Distance Dedication. No, all of us who spent adolescent weekends listening to Casey Kasem's countdown knew it as one of American music's great cures for loneliness, a reminder that the 40 most popular songs weren't the ones you should embrace to be cool or popular, but the songs kids like you all over America were listening to already. To hear Casey Kasem tell it, you were part of that "all over America." You loved music? That was cool enough, and you were not alone.
A Michigan native, Kasem had been a DJ at radio stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Cleveland before launching American Top 40 on July 4, 1970. Pop song rankings and countdowns weren't new: American Top 40 originally used Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 list, which had been around since 1958. The radio countdown format went back to Your Hit Parade, launched in 1935. Kasem's innovation and his genius were not in the what but in the how: he made something as dry as the on-air reading of sales data exciting for the era when pop music was losing its cachet as the voice of generation and becoming a ubiquitous commodity — less Woodstock, more Peter Frampton.
Tacitly accepting that pop songs no longer screamed with purpose on their own, Kasem instead focused on ancillaries — trivia, anecdotes, backstories. American Top 40 got its rankings via radio play and record sales, but Kasem gave each song a narrative, not just a numeral. It made the countdown neither a competition like sports, with obvious winners and losers, nor an indicator of taste. It made songs seem interesting, whether or not you liked them. They were topics for discussion. They were something to share.
It was music geekery, 30 years before Pitchfork and from a most unlikely source: a middle-aged dad with a gentle "isn't this great?" arch in his voice, who seemed as excited about U2 or Prince as he was about Stacey Q or Men Without Hats. American Top 40 in Kasem's hands wasn't about discernment but knowledge, about being smart rather than fashionable. It was what we now commonly call "nerding out."
American Top 40 peaked in popularity in the early 1980s, before the consolidation of commercial radio a decade later and with a substantial boost from a hot cable channel called MTV. I discovered AT 40 in sixth grade when Kasem began repurposing the countdown as a half-hour Saturday morning TV show and right before his 1988 departure from the program over a contract dispute. I've still got the orange and black Maxell cassette from the first time I listened to the countdown all the way through and tried to stop the tape before Kasem's voice came in. I wish I still had the legal pads I'd cover with lists of which songs fell how many "notches" on the countdown while my mother yelled "It's a beautiful day out there, Kevin!" from downstairs.
To many of us at that age, lousy at sports and at sea with dating, pop culture was its own kind of success. Memorizing how high "Uptown Girl" got in the countdown (#3) was the first place we felt good at something. Factoids, announcements, leap forwards and stumble backs of that week's countdown — I transcribed them all, because knowing felt like power. But there was something else, too: That guy on the other end of the radio held you spellbound for four hours with a narrative spun from every cool thing you could think of about popular music. Was there a grown-up job in that someday?
The most important word then in "American Top 40" wasn't "Top 40," a radio industry term invented in the 1950s, but "American." Kasem began each broadcast by saying, "These are the songs you're buying and radio stations are playing all over America." And I'd imagine those kids, kids like me all over America — kids who did not have a team to lead to victory that day or a new crush to meet for ice cream, kids in their own empty bedrooms being told it was OK to care about music this much, to want to be good at something that badly.
In only a few years, Kasem left the countdown, I started high school and the Top 40 format's dominance over FM radio began to erode. Predicting the coming of Nirvana, my friends laughed at AT 40, its smell of conformity and host who wouldn't know irony or sarcasm if it slapped him. At my precious progressive high school (where the prettiest girl in my class had seen The Smiths seven times) in my precious, progressive town (home to Kurt Cobain's favorite venue The Blind Pig), things that were "popular" withered from scorn. So when my best friend told me that Casey Kasem was for losers, I believed him, hid my legal pads in the back of the hall closet and walked away.
None of us buying our first Radiohead T-shirts could have known that, three decades later, we would be living in the world Casey Kasem helped create. It is the music fan's time, powered by self-curation and the urge to share. Our playlists, queues, devices and social media profiles may be as unique to each of us as our genetic code. But sharing and effusing are the highways this data travels. Since those highways are choked with music already, we search in the noise not just for experts but also for common ground, not just for someone who knows music better than us but someone who feels as enthusiastic about sharing the joy of it as we do.
In an earlier time, we would find our musical brothers and sisters by picking a side — alternative over mainstream, rap instead of rock — seeing who agreed, then defending our choice to the death. In the 21st century, that feels like hating on hugs and world peace. We like the music we like. Instead of xenophobes, we are now all world travelers, on the same journey to find more.
Early fall 2012: a 39-year-old writer finds an iPhone app that records rebroadcasts of American Top 40. He listens on his regular Saturday-morning walks. When Casey Kasem ends the broadcast as he always did, with "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars," he stands on his toes and reaches for the stars.
Why was this Kasem's signoff? I've never heard him explain it. But it's obvious it wasn't congratulations to whoever sold the most records that week. It was for you, the listener. I took it to mean that music, at its best, pointed to a different tomorrow, of what you could be even if you weren't quite there yet, and that trying was worth it.
I'm there now. I have a grown-up job writing about culture, friends and a happy marriage. The legal pads are lost to time, though I miss them a little. Now, when I'm done on Saturdays, I turn off the countdown and use a different app to tune into where music is right now.
I didn't pick back up with Casey Kasem and his countdown for nostalgia's sake. I was a lonely teenager and am a happy adult. I listen to this beautiful thing Casey Kasem made to measure how far I've come and remember that others, all over America, felt this stuff was just as important. It reminds me of the kind of unity of spirit that music promises and delivers on its best days.
When I heard of Casey Kasem's death, I called my wife and got about three sentences out before I started to cry. "Most of us do not get to meet our heroes," she said, comforting me. I understood that. He had been sick and declining for more than a year. Being the contested ground of a family at war is no way to live — and, worse, no place to die. Thankfully, that wasn't his lonely last song. But what breaks my heart is that, for the hours of joy, companionship and unending hope his program showed me, I was never able to tell him, "Thank you."
And so this long-distance dedication is going out to Casey Kasem, who taught me it was OK to love music this much. I will look up to those stars, the ones you beseeched so many of us to reach for, and I will remember you there.
Kevin Smokler is a San Francisco-based writer working on a book about '80s movies.
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2013-05-10 A key element of the impact of the F-35 is its combat systems. No combat system is more important on the aircraft than its ability to see 360 degrees around itself. This system is called the Distributed Aperture System or DAS.
Now the DAS has come to Eglin with its latest batch of F-35As.
According to a USAF story released on May 9, 2013 and written by Joel Fortner Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs:
The Air Force took another step forward with its newest fighter jet when an advanced F-35 Lightning II landed at the service's lead training base, home to the largest fleet of F-35s worldwide.
The new stealth fighter kicks off a major training effort at the F-35 schoolhouse on an aircraft with unmatched capabilities. The F-35 is the military's newest stealth fighter jet. Students from all military branches who are learning to fly the plane go through the schoolhouse at Eglin, including some from international services.
In addition to a few design improvements, the major difference between the new aircraft and others is sensors and software. For example, pilots for the first time will begin training on a capability that gives them a 360-degree view around the jet. Sensors that act like highly sophisticated cameras that can detect heat and other information are embedded in the front, sides and back of the F-35.
When in use, the pilot basically can see everything around them near and far, a capability not found in any current military fighter, said F-35 instructor pilot, Major Jay Spohn. The system was designed to see other aircraft, people on the ground, missile launches, and more, and share that information with other aircraft and command centers on the ground.
Other new capabilities include a weather tracker and an enhancement of a system known as ALIS, or autonomic logistic information system, which transmits aircraft health and maintenance information and makes use of a portable computer planeside for the maintainer.
"This system is a game changer," said Senior Master Sgt. Eric Wheeler, production superintendent, 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Unit. "It combines real-time data collection and trouble shooting in one system, eliminating the need for carting out stacks of binders and paper forms to the jet, as well as having to dual annotate once on paper and again later in the office on a computer."
The latest system software, which has a better user interface and enhanced capability to download, is another step along the track in fixing problems in less time, which can be critical in time of conflict, Wheeler said.
The new F-35A will share the skies over Eglin's training ranges with the Navy VFA-101 flying squadron here, which is slated to get their first two F-35C aircraft later this month along with another United Kingdom F-35B assigned to the Marine Corps VMFAT-501 flying squadron, scheduled to arrive here in about a month.
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Flacco, Ravens Pick Apart The Lifeless Giants, 33-14
BALTIMORE (AP) — On their fourth try, the Baltimore Ravens finally got the victory they needed to win the AFC North.
Joe Flacco threw for 309 yards and two touchdowns, and the Ravens defeated the New York Giants 33-14 Sunday to capture their second straight division crown.
The Ravens (10-5) led 24-7 at halftime and cruised to the finish behind a short-handed defense that harassed quarterback Eli Manning and limited New York (8-7) to 186 yards.
Playing its second game with Jim Caldwell as offensive coordinator, Baltimore scored touchdowns on its first two possessions and amassed a season-high 533 yards — including 289 in the first half alone.
The victory ended a three-game skid for the Ravens and assured them of a home playoff game in the first weekend of January.
The defeat eliminated the defending Super Bowl champion Giants (8-7) from contention in the NFC East and severely damaged their chances of qualifying for a playoff berth.
New York has lost five of seven and was coming off a 34-0 defeat at Atlanta. New York has dropped five of seven and was coming off a 34-0 defeat at Atlanta.'
In this one, Manning went 14 for 28 for 150 yards and was sacked three times.
Flacco, meanwhile, rebounded from a stretch in which he committed two turnovers in each of Baltimore's three straight defeats. He completed 25 of 36 passes, ran for a score and did not throw an interception or lose a fumble.
Flacco repeatedly picked on New York cornerback Corey Webster, who simply couldn't contain Torrey Smith or Anquan Boldin. Smith caught five passes for 88 yards and a touchdown, and Boldin finished with seven receptions for 93 yards.
Ray Rice ran for 107 yards and caught six passes for 51 yards and a touchdown. Backup Bernard Pierce gained 123 yards rushing as part of a running attack that generated 224 yards.
Baltimore's defense was also impressive despite the absence of injured linebackers Ray Lewis and Jameel McClain, along with safety Bernard Pollard.
Now, after ending its longest losing streak since 2009, Baltimore is assured of hosting a first-round playoff game during the first weekend in January.
New York, on the other hand, fell out of a first-place tie in the NFC East and will need a win over Philadelphia next week — along with help from other teams — to squeeze into the postseason
Baltimore's first drive ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass from Flacco to Smith. The play came after officials overturned a fumble by Jacoby Jones at the New York 5 following a replay review.
The 73-yard march featured a few new wrinkles from the Ravens' offense, most notably an option pitch from Flacco to Rice and third-string running back Anthony Allen's first catch of the season, a first-down grab at the New York 40.
After the Giants went three-and-out for a second straight time, Smith made an outstanding catch behind Webster for a 43-yard gain before Flacco scored from the 1.
Manning followed with a four-play, 77-yard drive highlighted by a 43-yard completion to Rueben Randle and a 14-yard touchdown run by David Wilson.
That, however, would be the extent of the New York offense until Domenik Hixon caught a 13-yard touchdown pass with 3:18 left. After scoring 52 against New Orleans on Dec. 9, the Giants have totaled only 14 points in the past two weeks.
The Ravens went up 17-7 midway through the second quarter. After Boldin burned Webster for 39-yard gain on a third-and-19, a replay erased a 9-yard touchdown catch by Jacoby Jones and forced Baltimore to settle for a field goal.
Late in the half, the Ravens moved 76 yards in seven plays for a 24-7 lead. Flacco went 5 for 5 for 68 yards, including a 27-yard touchdown pass to Rice.
Baltimore opted for ball control in the second half, and the Giants were powerless to stop them. After an exchange of punts at the start of the third quarter, the Ravens moved 82 yards in 16 plays, holding the ball for just short of eight minutes, before Justin Tucker kicked a 20-yard field goal.
The lead became 30-7 with 11:08 left when Tucker concluded a 13-play, 62-yard drive with a 30-yard field goal.
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California Proposition 8/Gay Marriage Appeal Hearing Live at 10 a.m. PST
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Ninth Circuit to hear and broadcast appellate arguments today
Appellate arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger begin at 10am PST today.
The proceedings are expected to last for about two hours. During the first hour, lawyers will argue whether Proposition 8 supporters have standing to appeal U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's August decision, which struck down California's gay marriage ban.: During the second hour, attorneys will address whether the ban violates the U.S. Constitution.
Both sides expect to weather vigorous questioning from a three-judge panel featuring Ninth Circuit judges Stephen Reinhardt, Michael Hawkins, and N. Randy Smith.
The panel will sit in Courtroom One of the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco.: Public seating will not be available there.: However, several media outlets, law schools, and courthouses are hosting live broadcasts of the proceedings.: Please click below for details on how to attend or tune in.
TELEVISION: C-SPAN will broadcast the proceedings nationwide.: Bay Area residents can view that feed on Channel 15 or tune in to another broadcast on ABC's Channel 7.
RADIO: California Public Radio will air the arguments in a special broadcast of The California Report, which can be heard on 35 California stations, including 88.5FM in San Francisco and 89.3FM in Sacramento.: The proceedings will also be available on 801AM, KGO Newstalk.
ONLINE:: The outlets listed above will stream the proceedings on their websites.
LAW SCHOOLS: UC Berkeley School of Law will host a live, closed-circuit feed of the proceedings in Room 115.: Other law schools hosting on-campus viewings include Harvard, NYU, Stanford, University of Arizona, UC Hastings, UCLA, University of Chicago, and Yale.
COURTHOUSES: Federal courthouses in the following cities will host viewings for the public:
Boston, MA:: Courtroom 11, 5th Floor, John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Way.
Brooklyn, NY:: Courtroom 6A, 6th Floor, Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East.
Pasadena, CA:: Mezzanine Conference Room, Richard H. Chambers U.S. Courthouse, 125 South Grand Ave.
Portland, OR:: Pioneer Courtroom, U.S. Pioneer Courthouse, 700 SW Sixth Avenue.
San Francisco, CA:: Overflow areas of the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, 95 7th St.: Another viewing will be hosted in the Ceremonial Courtroom located on the 19th Floor of the Philip Burton Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, 450 Golden Gate Ave.
Seattle, WA:: Courtroom 1, 8th Floor, William K. Nakamura U.S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Ave.
A federal appeals panel in San Francisco will hear oral arguments Monday, Dec. 6, in the landmark challenge to Proposition 8 – California's voter-passed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
Broadcast of the district court trial last January was disallowed due to objections by some witnesses who said they feared harassment. But only attorneys will appear before the court Monday, and the 9th Circuit has agreed to allow the proceedings to be broadcast on C-SPAN and in other venues around the country.
A three-judge panel will hear arguments regarding the appeal of a lower court decision that held Proposition 8 violates the federal Constitution's guarantees to equal protection and due process of law.
The Aug. 4 decision from Judge Vaughn Walker was the first time a federal court had struck down a statewide same-sex marriage ban, and similar bans exist in the constitutions or statutes of 38 other states.
Another six states have interpreted existing law as excluding same-sex couples from marriage licensing. Only five states and the District of Columbia have marriage equality laws.
If the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upholds the lower court decision, the ruling would make the bans in California and eight other western states unenforceable. But the decision of the 9th Circuit – whatever it is – will almost certainly be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and a decision there could affect bans in all states.
But there are also numerous potential variations to this simple scenario.
The most prominent potential variation at the moment concerns whether the group that has been defending Proposition 8 in court has legal standing to bring its appeal to the 9th Circuit.
It is a dull question compared to the drama of the original three-week trial of witnesses who testified about how Proposition 8 had damaged their lives. But its resolution could have enormous consequences for the case and will consume one of two hours set aside for Monday's appeal.
Here is some key information most court watchers will need to know and will want to take notice of Monday:
Case name: Perry v. Schwarzenegger is the shorthand name for the case. The full name is Perry v. Schwarzenegger and Hollingsworth et. al.
Time and Place: Monday, Dec. 6, 10 a.m. PDT (noon, CST)?at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, in San Francisco.
Where to watch: Nationally, C-SPAN will be broadcasting the proceedings live. Court enthusiasts can also go to the federal courthouse in select cities around the country to watch a live feed – in Boston; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Pasadena, Calif.; and two other courthouses in San Francisco.
Plaintiffs, Jeff Zarrillo, Paul Katami, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier entering the Federal District Court House on July 2, 2009. Bill Wilson
The Parties: Perry is Kristin Perry, one of four plaintiffs who originally filed the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8. Perry seeks to marry her partner of 10 years, Sandra Stiers. They have four children. The other two plaintiffs – also a couple – are Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, who have been together for nine years.
The city of San Francisco was also designated as a plaintiff-intervenor in the district court, meaning the city did not bring the lawsuit but established that it had a governmental interest in the outcome.
Schwarzenegger is, of course, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who represents the California government in the case. Neither Schwarzenegger nor California Attorney General Jerry Brown (now governor-elect) was willing to defend Proposition 8 in the appeal.
So the real appellants in the case are the original "proponents" of the ban, identified as the Yes on 8 campaign (aka ProtectMarriage.com), and include State Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth and others. In addition, the board of supervisors and clerk of Imperial County are seeking the right to serve as appellants as well.
The schedule: The first hour of the two-hour argument will be focused on the issue of whether the Yes on 8 appellants and/or Imperial County have legal standing to appeal the lower court's decision (see below). There will be a "brief" break, and then the second hour will be focused on the merits of the appeal (see below). The entire proceeding is likely to be concluded by around 12:15 p.m. Pacific Time.
The attorneys: At least six attorneys will be involved in Monday's argument – three on merits and three on standing.
On merits, famed conservative attorney Ted Olson will argue for the four plaintiffs, and Therese Stewart, the openly gay chief deputy city attorney for San Francisco, will present arguments for the city, which would like to see the ban struck down. Conservative attorney Charles Cooper, who led the defense of Proposition 8 at the district court trial, is expected to argue the merits for proponents.
On standing, it has not yet been announced who will argue the standing issue for plaintiffs, the Yes on 8 Proponents, or Imperial County.
Legal standing issue: Not just anybody can initiate a lawsuit and appeal the decision, but courts err on the side of allowing a party to appeal.
Nevertheless, a party or parties seeking to appeal must still show they are at least vulnerable to an "actual" injury because of the decision below. That injury can include an economic one, but it has to be an injury more "concrete" than the fact that appellants disagree with the lower court decision.
Proponents will argue that the fact they were allowed standing in the U.S. District Court should mean they should naturally have standing on appeal.
The merits: Two provisions of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment are at issue, both encompassed in this language: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Concerning due process, a state cannot deny citizens a fundamental right, including the right to marry, unless it can show a compelling reason to do so. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker said proponents failed to establish "any historical purpose for excluding same-sex couples from marriage, as states have never required spouses to have an ability or willingness to procreate in order to marry."
With equal protection, the government may not treat one group of citizens with less favor than others unless it has a reason to do so. It may not treat oppressed minorities with less favor unless it has a compelling reason to do so.
Judge Walker ruled that gays and lesbians are an oppressed minority and that proponents failed to establish evidence of even a simple, rational reason to treat them differently, much less a compelling one.
The Judges: The 9th Circuit on Monday, Nov. 29, announced the three judges that will make up next Monday's panel – and it's a dramatic line-up.
The senior-most judge – in age and experience on the federal appeals bench – is Stephen Reinhardt, 79, a Carter nominee who has ruled favorably on gay-related cases before.
The least senior is N. Randy Smith, 69, a native of Utah, an appointee of President George W. Bush, and a graduate of Brigham Young University Law School, an entity of the Mormon Church which played an enormous role in promoting Proposition 8.
In the middle is Judge Michael Hawkins, 65, a Clinton appointee, based in Phoenix, Ariz.
Prop 8 proponents on Wednesday, Dec. 1, filed papers asking Reinhardt to recuse himself because his wife, Ramona Ripston, is executive director of the Southern California chapter of the ACLU, which has been actively involved in trying to invalidate Prop 8.
But Reinhardt on Thursday morning, Dec. 2, issued a statement refusing to step down from the trial, saying there is no legal reason to question his impartiality.
Timetable after argument: There is no deadline by which the three-judge panel must issue its opinion, however, a decision is likely to be forthcoming within a few months. The losing party then will almost certainly appeal that decision to the full 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals,which may or may not agree to hear an appeal.
The losing party at that point would then likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The earliest the Supreme Court would likely get such an appeal would be in the fall of 2011, and the earliest it would rule would be in the late spring of 2012.
If the proponents or Imperial County lose on the question of standing, the 9th Circuit could decide not to make a ruling on the merits. But proponents and/or Imperial County would almost certainly appeal the decision concerning standing to the Supreme Court.
Should the Supreme Court rule that either of those parties has standing, it would then send the question on the merits of the appeal back to the 9th Circuit for a decision.
That eventual decision on the merits from the 9th Circuit could then be appealed to the Supreme Court. Wild guess timetable for a decision from the Supreme Court on merits with this scenario? 2014.
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The Role of Private Sector and Producer Organisations in Rural Advisory Services
Context and Objectives of the Meeting
From 24-26 September 2013, the 4th GFRAS Annual Meeting took place in Berlin, Germany, hosted by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), and the International Academy of Rural Advisors (IALB). 160 participants from 62 different countries and sectors attended the event. The meeting focused on the role of the private sector and producer organisations in rural advisory services (RAS), and on strengthening RAS networks. Objectives of the 4th GFRAS Annual Meeting were to:
- Understand and agree on the role of private sector and producer organisations in RAS
- Strengthen RAS networks in mobilising human and financial resources, and planning and implementing networking
- Update participants on progress in GFRAS
On 23 September, seven side events were organised by GFRAS affiliates and members.
- RAS Country Fora (AFAAS, RELASER)
- Exchange of ideas for a practice-oriented knowledge platform on good practices in agricultural extension (GIZ, GFRAS)
- Innovation in Family Farming and Rural Advisory Services (FAO)
- Founding Meeting of the European Forum for Farm and Rural Advisory Services EUFRAS
- Spotlight on Education and Training in Extension and Advisory Services (GFRAS)
- Embedded Services as Modality for Sustainable RAS (SFRAS)
Participants considered the 4th GFRAS Annual Meeting as an opportunity to exchange with peers and potential partners and to gain new insights into dynamic, pluralistic RAS. They especially understood the importance of integrating the private sector and producer organisations in the RAS system. Participants appreciated the opportunity to reflect on ideas for network strengthening.
Main Conclusions and Recommendations of the Meeting
The role of private sector and producer organisation in RAS
Public sector, private sector, and third sector RAS contribute through various arrangements to the provision and financing of RAS. Participants recognised the broad range of functions of private and third sector RAS.
(Table by R.Birner)
Producer organisations are crucial both on the demand and the supply side of RAS. On the demand side, they have the role of identifying and synthesising needs, demands, and solutions for farmers. Producer organisations should contribute to monitoring and evaluation of RAS, and participate in policy formulation. On the supply side, producer organisations provide and co-finance RAS activities. Their strengths in RAS derive from producer organisations' knowledge about farmers' contexts and needs. Together with their capacity to provide unbiased advice, often linked to other services such as marketing, this leads to a high level of trust from their clients. Participants recommended producer organisations in RAS to:
- Increase capacity in good governance, organisational management, and federal-level coordination
- Develop mechanisms for financial sustainability of RAS, considering embedded services, co-funding, and service fees
- Raise awareness of producer organisations' roles in RAS and intensify partnerships with other actors in the agricultural innovation system
- Increase capacity in RAS provision, i.e. in regards to demand-orientation, brokerage, flexibility, and communicating products
Private sector RAS have the advantage of being fast, flexible, and high quality. They benefit from the private sector's financial resources, and competitiveness. However, companies' interests lead to a neglect of public goods and a marginalisation of producers' interests. Participants recommended private sector RAS to:
- Adhere to corporate social responsibility principles
- Engage in clearly-communicated public-private partnerships, avoiding the use of public and donor funds to crowd out services
- Build on existing structures and local initiative
- Increase transparency in the supply of services
- Elaborate and share strategies for cost-effective RAS
Producer organisations and private sector share a number of challenges. They were both recommended to:
GFRAS was recommended to foster the recognition of the private sector and producer organisations' role in RAS by:
- Promoting capacity strengthening of producer organisations and other RAS providers through the development of methodologies and training guides
- Evaluating, documenting, and disseminating good practices and evidence
- Engaging in evidence-based awareness raising, advocacy, and policy dialogues for pluralistic RAS, public-private partnerships, and extension policies
- Supporting and providing platforms for knowledge exchange at the regional level and fostering private sector and producer organisation inclusion
- Working towards harmonised standards for RAS
Network strengthening
People are at the centre of a network, which gains its energy from diversity, inclusiveness, and ownership. Affiliates and members are mobilised by the value-added of a network, such as mutual learning and voice, which is reflected in demand-oriented results. A network's mission links the individual to the common interest. It should be based on buy-in and respect subsidiarity principles. A realistic mission requires reviewing and updating. Roles in the network are freely chosen. Affiliates and members can contribute as free actors, initiators, managers, or suppliers. Communication moves a network internally and externally: Inclusion and ownership require broad consultations; visibility supports outreach and results. Other resources are key, but especially funding should follow action and be handled in a sustainable way, tapping internal potential and focusing on continuous engagement.
GFRAS will follow-up on the 4th GFRAS Annual Meeting results in 2014. Conclusions and recommendations in regards to the role of private sector and producer organisations in RAS will be discussed and validated at the regional and global levels. GFRAS will participate and contribute to the Farmers' Forum 2014 in Rome, and support (sub-) -regional activities to discuss private sector and producer organisations RAS.
In regards to network strengthening, GFRAS (sub-) regional fora have identified various actions, depending on their situation and context. Actions include to:
- Identify needs and interests
- Establish and activate fora and virtual networks, and diversify their membership
- Raise awareness on the forum and create partnerships
- Organise regional events
- Elaborate administrative and content-related tools and guidelines
- Collect and share information
- Form operational and thematic groups
- Foster capacity strengthening
- Raise resources
The GFRAS secretariat and steering committee will backstop and support (sub-) regional RAS fora upon demand.
The 5th GFRAS Annual Meeting will take place in October 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its focus will be on evidence-based policy influencing and network strengthening. The meeting will provide a space for information exchange and networking. RAS stakeholders from public, private, and civil society are invited to register for the 5th GFRAS Annual Meeting between April and July 2014.
Documents and further information
Participants list (pdf 561KB)
Summary (pdf 257KB)
Minutes (962KB)
List of share fair presenters (pdf 187KB)
Evaluation Report (pdf 481KB)
Report of the Country Fora side event (pdf 807KB)
Programme (pdf 170KB)
Field trip description (pdf 316KB)
Announcement (pdf 273KB)
Concept Note (pdf 289KB)
Find more information on the role of private sector and producer organisations in RAS:
5 Key Areas for Mobilising the Potential of Rural Advisory Services, GFRAS 2010
Shared Position on RAS' role in Agricultural Innovation Systems, GFRAS 2012
The New Extensionist, GFRAS 2012


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The claim: Nonrespirator ear loop masks do not protect people against coronavirus, and it is explicitly stated on the packaging of masks
As mask-wearing has become a common method to stop the spread of COVID-19, posts circulating online claim disposable ear loop masks do not provide any protection against the virus.
A May 21 Facebook post shows a picture of a box of the disposable masks, where the warning label cautions, "THIS PRODUCT IS AN EAR LOOP MASK. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT A RESPIRATOR AND WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY PROTECTION AGAINST COVID-19(CORONAVIRUS) OR OTHER VIRUSES OR CONTAMINANTS."
The caption reads, "When you shame people for not wearing masks but then read the side of the box of the masks you spent $25.00 on." The user who shared the post did not respond to USA TODAY for comment.
The post has since been widely shared, in several variations. Some posts include only the photo of the box's label. In other cases, select words of the warning label are highlighted.
As businesses begin to reopen across the nation, controversy surrounding mask requirements has created a challenging environment for business owners, and false claims about masks have only continued.
Fact check: What's true and what's false about coronavirus?
Are cloth face coverings effective?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that COVID-19 spreads mainly through respiratory droplets when someone who is infected coughs, sneezes or talks, making cloth masks an effective way to lessen the transmission of the coronavirus.
The CDC recommends cloth face coverings be worn in public areas where social distancing is difficult to maintain.
But the CDC does note, "A cloth face covering may not protect the wearer, but it may keep the wearer from spreading the virus to others." By wearing a cloth covering in public, the spread of the virus can be slowed by lessening the transmission to others.
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Lisa Maragakis, an expert in infection prevention at Johns Hopkins Medicine, says in an FAQ on coronavirus and masks that while cloth masks are not medical-grade, they may be helpful in nonpatient settings to "contain coughs and to remind people to not touch their face, but they are not suitable for providing medical care to patients."
Maragakis also says that while cloth masks are used to guard against the spread of COVID-19, the masks do no have a tight seal and are made of different materials.
The Mayo Clinic says cloth masks can be effective because surgical and N95 masks are in short supply and should be reserved for health care workers, while cloth masks are easy to find and can be washed and reused. Cloth masks are used specifically in areas of "significant community-based transmission," but the clinic cautions a mask should not be touched while being worn, and hands should be washed immediately after removing a mask.
Fact check: No, N95 filters are not too large to stop COVID-19 particles
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, a scientific journal, suggests that homemade masks can dramatically reduce the spread of COVID-19 if enough people wear them in public settings.
"It is also possible that this low-level technology, including homemade masks, could reduce the severe global economic impact of COVID-19, which has the potential to cause billions of people to suffer shortened life expectancy because of a reduced standard of living," the study reads.
A key message from the study on the widespread adoption of face masks is "my mask protects you, your mask protects me."
Fact check: Disposable masks should always be worn colored-side-out
Commercial vs. homemade cloth masks
Public health officials have recommended that people craft their own masks when faced with mask shortages. While it's unclear how much protection homemade masks offer, studies suggest a homemade mask is better than no protection.
A 2010 study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health that tested the effectiveness of materials such as sweatshirts, scarves and towels found that sweatshirts offered slightly more protection than T-shirts. Cotton towels were also found to be more protective than scarves.
In a 2013 study examining homemade masks compared to commercial face masks in the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, researchers concluded that both commercial masks and homemade masks provided protection, but the surgical masks were three times more effective in blocking transmission.
"Our findings suggest that a homemade mask should only be considered as a last resort to prevent droplet transmission from infected individuals, but it would be better than no protection," the study reads.
The CDC has also released instructions on creating homemade masks.
"Simple cloth face coverings can be made at home and may help prevent the spread of COVID-19," the site reads.
In an interview with NPR, William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, said "Homemade masks, shawls, scarves and anything that you can conjure up at home might well be a good idea." He noted while it is not clear how much protection homemade masks can offer, any bit of protection would help.
More: 55 retailers selling face masks online: Old Navy, Nordstrom, Anthropologie, and more
Our rating: Partly false
The claim that nonrespirator ear loop masks are ineffective at protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is rated PARTLY FALSE based on our research. It is true that ear loop masks do not protect the wearer from COVID-19. But it is false to say they offer no protection. They are worn to protect others from the virus and help limit the spread in public settings. The warning on the packaging of the masks does not imply that the masks do not slow the spread of the disease, but rather, that the mask does not protect the wearer.
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Ian Hitchcock, Getty Images In what may prove to be a jarring legal setback for artists who live next door to famous people and want to try and use that proximity as the basis for an unauthorized exhibit, Axl Rose has issued a cease-and-desist notice to the exhibitor behind the L.A. art show titled ' Axl Rose Was My Neighbor .' Compiled by Laura London, who describes herself as "similar to a social anthropologist" in the way she managed to snap photos of property belonging to Axl Rose, who was her neighbor, 'Axl Rose Was My Neighbor' purports to offer viewers a glimpse into the Guns N' Roses frontman's suburban existence during the early '90s through a combination of London's photographs and the work of actors who will create a, ahem, "docudrama based on an interpretation and depiction of actual events." Surprisingly, Rose does not seem at all interested in having strangers view photos of his former home, and/or a recreation of his past that London describes as "a combination of personal experience, memory, observation and imagination." He seems particularly perturbed by one photo in particular, which depicts a garage door spray-painted with hostile graffiti aimed at Rose's ex-wife, Erin Everly; while London claims Rose is responsible for the vandalism, he's calling her contention "outrageous, false, fabricated and highly defamatory." "Mr. Rose never spray-painted anything," reads the letter, drafted by Rose's busy attorney. "Your salacious and inflammatory statements are plainly designed to garner attention and line your pockets with money." The letter is directed toward Mat Gleason, the founder of the exhibition space Coagula Curatorial , while Laura London is CC'ed, as well. TMZ has posted the letter , which requests that the exhibitor post an apology and that all presentations of 'Once Upon a Time … Axl Rose Was My Neighbor' be canceled. [button href="http://loudwire.com/axl-rose-was-my-neighbor-photo-recreation-exhibit-fall/" title="Next: Learn More About the Axl Rose Photo Exhibit" align="center"]
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