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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 25, 2011) – Former U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team setter Lloy Ball, a four-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic gold medalist, has announced that he is stepping away from his playing career when his current season in Russia is finished.
"I will take a year off to reconnect with family and friends," Ball (Woodburn, Ind.) said via e-mail of the year following his departure from Russia. "I will also take this time to reflect on what path my life will take next."
Ball, 39, listed several reasons for his wanting to step away from the court, at least as a player.
"One is health; this year I have had many more aches and pains than in years past," he said. "Plus, recently I have had a knee injury that will require surgery after this season."
Ball is currently playing for the Russian club team Zenit Kazan, which is in the finals of the Super League playoffs. It is his fifth year playing for the city of Kazan, which he has led to three Russian Super League titles.
While Ball has had a great deal of success with overseas club teams, it usually separates him from his wife, Sarah, and their children, Dyer and Mya, who live in Angola, Ind., when they cannot be with Ball overseas.
"It has become more difficult to balance family and this career," he said.
Ball grew up playing volleyball and basketball in Indiana, despite the fact that Indiana does not have high school boys' volleyball. His father, Arnie Ball, the men's volleyball head coach at IPFW, helped Lloy by coaching him on club teams during Indiana summers.
Lloy Ball was famously recruited to play basketball at Indiana by legendary coach Bobby Knight during his senior year of high school, but turned down the Hoosiers to play volleyball for his father at IPFW from 1991-94, helping the team to three NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship semifinal rounds in four years.
In 1987, a 15-year-old Ball became the youngest player to compete at the U.S. Olympic Festival. In 1988, he became the youngest player ever to compete with the U.S. Men's National Team when Scott Fortune went down with a sprained ankle and U.S. Head Coach Bill Neville asked Ball to go with the team to Japan.
Ball competed in his first Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta, where the U.S. Men finished ninth. In 2000, the U.S. Men placed 11th in Sydney and in 2004 in Athens he helped them to a fourth-place finish.
Photo: Courtesy of the FIVB "A big part of being a good volleyball player is decision making; Lloy is an exceptional decision maker," said USA Volleyball CEO Doug Beal, who coached Ball for the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. "He can handle the ball, he has a good arm and he's a good server. He can help you in a lot of ways."
Following the Athens Games, Ball retired from the U.S. Men's Team, but continued to play volleyball overseas, first for Iraklis in Greece and then for the city of Kazan in Russia.
During the winter of 2006-07, then-U.S. Men's Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon visited Ball in Russia and convinced him to return to the team for one more Olympic Games.
"He makes great choices and I think he is a great student of the game," McCutcheon said of Ball. "He is able to tactically exploit his opponent's weaknesses and play to his team's strengths."
Ball rejoined the team for the 2007 Americas Cup, where it won gold, and then helped it to a victory at the 2007 NORCECA Continental Championship in Anaheim, Calif.
With Ball as the starting setter, the U.S. Men finished fourth at the 2007 FIVB World Cup, just missing an Olympic berth. The team did qualify by winning the 2008 NORCECA Olympic qualifier in Puerto Rico.
Ball was named the Most Valuable Player and Best Setter of the 2008 FIVB World League Final Round as the U.S. Men won their first World League title ever. That set the stage for the team's success in Beijing, where it won eight straight matches to take the gold. Ball started seven of the eight matches and was credited with 208 running sets and one fault for an average of 6.3 running sets per set. He also scored 24 points on 11 kills, 11 blocks and two aces.
"He was great," McCutcheon said. "I look at his performance in the year and a half he was with us. There were so many great matches where he got the job done. I cherish the working relationship he and I had."
Ball lists his three favorite memories of playing with the U.S. Men's Team as 1) Winning a bronze medal at the 1994 World Champ. 2) Walking in at the open ceremonies at the 1996 Olympics. 3) Winning the Gold in 2008.
When asked what advice he would give to players on a boys' high performance team, Ball responded, "Work every day like someone else is trying to take your position; because THERE IS!!!!"

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Autism signs appear in babies' first year, but parents don't notice, study finds
The social disengagement that is the hallmark of autism-spectrum disorders begins to appear in the second half of a baby's first year of life, according to a new study. But California researchers found that parents typically do not notice the decline in their child's behavior until well into his or her second year.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is among the first to glean the pattern of autism's emergence in very young children by following babies from the age of 6 months. At that age, babies who would go on to be diagnosed as autistic and babies who would develop typically showed no significant differences in social behaviors, including smiling, making eye contact and vocalizing responsively.
The study calls into question the bases on which much early speculation about and research on autism and its causes have been based: parental observation. For starters, the study found little to support the observations of some parents that their baby showed symptoms of extreme social disengagement from birth. But it also cast doubt on the accuracy of parents' reports that their baby's descent into autism was sudden and dramatic.
In its detailed comparison of 50 babies — half of whom would go on to be diagnosed with autism — the researchers found a steady loss of sociability and responsiveness in the babies who would progress to an autism diagnosis. Those babies' loss of social skills looked more like regression and less like a slowing of progress that allowed normally developing babies to pull far ahead of them. And that regression was most marked between 6 and 18 months, though it continued more gradually to the 3-year mark, where the study left off.
But while the reduced rates of face-gazing, vocalizations and social engagement were evident to researchers who systematically evaluated the babies every six months, 83% of the parents did not observe the changes chronicled by researchers — not, at least, in the first year they were happening.
In an accompanying editorial, Tony Charman, an autism researcher at London's Institute of Education, expressed surprise that so few parents of children who would go on to be diagnosed with autism observed the changes in their babies. That is especially unexpected because the babies considered to be at high risk of developing autism came into the trial because they had an older sibling who already had been diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorder. Since parents enrolling a baby in such a trial generally recognize his or her higher risk of autism, "we might expect worried parents to be hypervigilant for early signs that something is not right with their younger child," Charman wrote.
Do you wonder if your child's social development is on track? Look here for normal developmental milestones and red flags for autism-spectrum disorders.
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Grains finished the day stronger with December corn up 5 cents, December wheat up 4 cents, and November soybeans up 19 ¼ cents. With the Dow Jones futures over 250 higher and the Dollar Index 1400 lower, grains were given a lot of outside market support. At one point corn was 18 ½ cents higher on the day but just like last week grains have been struggling to hold onto any gains.
Due to the holiday, the release of Export Inspections as well as Crop Progress will be pushed to tomorrow. The next USDA Supply and Demand report will be released Wednesday morning at 7:30am. The trade estimate for Wednesday's USDA 2011-2012 wheat ending stocks figure is 747 million bushels versus 761 million bushels a month ago. The corn production estimate is 12.492 billion bushels with a yield of 148.9 bpa (12.497 billion last month; 148.1 bpa). The corn ending stocks are estimated to be 795 million bushels versus 672 million bushels a month ago. The soybean production estimate is 3.094 billion bushels with a yield of 42.0 bpa (3.085 billion bushels last month; 41.8 bpa). Soybean ending stocks are estimated to be 181 million bushels versus 165 million a month ago.
Until we actually get the report estimates the market could stay range bound at these levels. We have seen plenty of liquidation from the funds already. To see buying resume, we likely need a fundamental shift in demand, or further yield reductions on Wednesday's report. Tomorrow will be the last "Day" session to get positions on ahead of the report. I would only recommend buying back hedges with "defined risk" option strategies for those who are well sold in this market. If you need more downside protection, please call in to discuss current strategies with an EHedger representative today!
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What will the next wave of retirement look like? In USA Today, Duncan Black depicts a grim future for today's 50-somethings. The great borrowing binge of the 2000s - and the collapse of wealth after 2008 - has left the soon-to-retire in precarious economic positions:
According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, the median household retirement account balance in 2010 for workers between the ages of 55-64 was just $120,000. For people expecting to retire at around age 65, and to live for another 15 years or more, this will provide for only a trivial supplement to Social Security benefits.
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Q. My teenage daughter just found out she has a sun allergy. Can you explain what her symptoms mean, and what type of sunscreen she should be using to best protect herself?
Dr. Skotnicki: Many patients develop itchy, red, raised lesions while on a sun holiday, or during the spring in North America. Though this reaction is often referred to as a sun allergy, it's not a true allergic reaction. The correct medical term for this sensitivity is Polymorphous Light Eruption, and it's characterized medically as an abnormal skin reaction to ultraviolet light.
Lesions usually occur on the second or third day of prolonged sun exposure, with reactions lasting about seven days. The condition improves after repeated sun exposure as the skin "hardens" and the abnormal reaction to the sun decreases – which is why it occurs during the spring in Canada and the northern U.S. and improves over the summer months.
The best treatment is prevention. Happily, the newer sunscreen technology is enough to block most reactions. I recommend Ombrelle SPF 45 for kids as it contains titanium dioxide, stabilized Parsol 1789 and Mexoryl SX – all ingredients that block the longer UVA wavelengths, thought to be the primary cause of Polymorphous Light Eruption. I also like La Roche-Posay Anthélios Lait SPF 45, which is fragrance-and preservative-free, and the Anthélios L SPF 60 sunscreen, for heavy-duty protection.
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Source: Patient falls from gurney, dies in Randallstown
Woman suffered head injury, died 2 days after fall from gurney
An investigation is under way in Baltimore County to find out how a patient fell out of a county ambulance on the grounds of a nursing home in Randallstown.
County officials have been tight-lipped about the Sept. 15 incident, which is not what's expected to happen when an ambulance is called to help.
It began when Baltimore County medic 18, stationed off Liberty Road, was called to a nursing home not far away for a female patient who was conscious but not alert. The patient was put on a stretcher, but while being loaded into the ambulance, something went wrong, causing the stretcher and patient to fall, I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller said.
A statement from Baltimore County officials said the patient suffered minor injuries, but an incident report indicated that advanced life support was provided, and sources said the woman suffered a head injury.
The patient was taken to a hospital. She has not yet been identified.
Miller spoke to a relative of the patient involved, who said she died two days after the incident.
The county said an investigation is ongoing to determine why the stretcher fell.
Video produced by the stretcher's manufacturer shows how the apparatus are supposed to lock when loaded into an ambulance so they don't slide out. The I-Team was told the stretcher may have failed and fallen in this case because it had previously been damaged, thus interfering with its ability to lock in place.
State emergency services officials who oversee local departments are also investigating the incident. They weren't made aware of the incident until 11 News inquired about it.


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Maj. JOHN C. LAMB, C. S. A., AND HIS FAMILY.
John Carroll Lamb came with his parents and siblings from North Carolina to settle north of Milltown, GA (now Lakeland) in the late 1840s. He was a son of Margaret Carroll (1799 – 1860) and William Lamb (1782 – 1862).
In 1922, historian Folks Huxford provided the following information on the parents:
Among the early settlers of Milltown and what is now Lanier county, were William Lamb and his family. He was a native of North Carolina, where his family lived near Raleigh. Coming here they settled and lived until the death of the elder Lamb, on the present farm of Nathan Lovejoy, near Milltown.
Mr. Lamb was twice married. By his first wife, whose name is unknown to the writer at present, were born the following children:
Aaron, who remained in North Carolina; Julia, who married a Dr. Hale and who likewise remained in her native state; and Catherine, who married John Carroll of this section.
It seems that the first Mrs. Lamb died in North Carolina, and before leaving there, Mr. Lamb married his second wife, Margaret Carroll, who was a sister to Jesse and James Carroll, early citizens of this county. To this union were born:
- John C. Lamb, who married Satira Lovejoy.
- Lizzie Lamb, who married Daniel McDonald.
- William Lamb, Jr., who married Mrs. Mary Knight, a widow, and daughter of Jesse Carroll.
- Edward Lamb, who married Henrietta Griffin, a sister of the late William H. Griffin of Valdosta.
- Ann Lamb, who married Dougal McDonald. These two McDonalds were twin brothers.
The Carrolls were likewise from North Carolina, near Wilmington.
The 1850 census records show John C. Lamb in the household of his father in that portion of Lowndes County, GA which was cut into Berrien County in 1856.
William Lamb, the father, engaged in farming and acquired approximately 1620 acres consisting of all of Land Lot Nos. 446, 447, 476 and 150 acres of Lot No. 445 in the 10th Land District. He had an estate valued in 1850 at $600 – a level of wealth equivalent to about $3.8 Million measured in 2012 dollars.
In 1850, at age 18 John C. Lamb was occupied as a teacher. About 1858, he married Satira Ann Elizabeth Lovejoy. She was a daughter of James L. Lovejoy and Eugenia Talley, of Clinch county, GA and a granddaughter of Methodist minister Reverend Nathan Talley. John and Satira established their household at Milltown near the plantation of John's uncle, Jesse Carroll. To the Lambs a daughter was born, Lillian Eugenia "Jennie" Lamb, in December of 1859.
The Lambs, John C., Satira, and Lillian were enumerated in the Census of 1860 in Berrien County (formerly Lowndes). Also in the Lamb household was John's brother, Edwin Lamb, age 16. Before the Civil War, John C. Lamb opened and ran a store in Milltown and his brother, Edwin, clerked. J.C. Lamb was a successful merchant and by 1860 his property was valued at $6500 dollars, making him a multi-millionaire by today's standards.
John C. Lamb was appointed as postmaster of Milltown on December 19, 1859, probably posting and distributing mail from his store. On September 29, 1860 he relinquished this position to his cousin John T. Carroll.
On November 11, 1860, election of Abraham Lincoln was announced. Before the month was out, on November 28 1860, John C. Lamb joined the "Muster Roll of Capt. Levi J. Knight's Company of Volunteers, Styled the Berrien Minute Men"
The election of Lincoln ignited the call for secession in the southern states. South Carolina was the first to secede, officially withdrawing from the Union on December 20, 1860, and was quickly followed by Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown called a special election on January 2, 1861 to select delegates for a state convention on the issue of secession. John C. Lamb was elected to represent Berrien County, along with Woodford J. Mabry, at the Georgia Secession Convention of 1861. When the Georgia Ordinance of Secession passed on January 19, 1861, John C. Lamb was one of the signers of the document. His participation was documented in the Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia,
Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted, and Lamb's name appeared on the published Ordinance.
When war finally came John C. Lamb and his brothers, William J. Lamb and Edwin Lamb, were among those who volunteered to serve in Captain Levi J. Knight's Company of Berrien Minute Men. In August of 1861, he was mustered into the 29th Georgia Regiment Volunteer Infantry at Savannah, originally in Company C, as a private. Lamb took his horse with him to war. Perhaps because of his political leadership, business experience and education John C. Lamb was marked for command.
At Savannah, the campfires of the Berrien Minute Men were initially made at Causton's Bluff, overlooking St. Augustine Creek and Whitemarsh Island. By August 20, 1861 the Berrien Minute Men were sent to Brunswick, GA with the 13th Georgia Regiment.
On October 11, 1861 three companies of the 29th Regiment including the Berrien Minute Men were stationed on Sapelo Island. They were manning Sapelo Battery, an earthworks and gun emplacement on the south end of Sapelo Island defending Doboy Sound. The Civil War letters of Private John Hagan described Battery Sapelo as armed with five cannons the largest of which was a 160 pounder. He wrote, "We…havent Elected any of our offiscers for the company yet we feel assured that John C. Lamb of mill town will be our Capt…" By October 14, 1861 Lamb was indeed elected Captain of Company B, Berrien Minute Men. He received official notification of his commission from the Georgia Adjutant General, and accepted his commission by letter on October 24, 1861.
To H. C. Wayne
Adjutant General
Milledgeville, GA
Sapelo Battery, GA
Oct 24, 1861
Yours of the 17th Inst has been duly rcvd covering commission for myself as Captain of Berrien Minute Men Company B.
I accept the commission and have taken and subscribed to the oath herewith attached.
Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
John C. Lamb
March of 1862 found the 29th Georgia Regiment at Camp Tattnall, GA. The Berry Infantry had cleared a campground for Camp Tattnall on January 22, 1862. From Camp Wilson, this new camp ground was "one mile nearer the city, to the right of the White Bluff Shell Road, and named…after old Commodore Tattnall, 'the hero of the age," and the senior officer of the Navy of Georgia. At Camp Tattnall, the duty of ordering supplies for the unit fell to Captain Lamb. In addition to the routine requisitions for shoes, horse fodder, tents, axes, fuel for the camp fires, etc. Captain Lamb had the unhappy task here of ordering coffins for men lost from his command.
On May 16, 1862 the Berrien Minute Men were sent with the 29th Georgia Regiment to Camp Causton's Bluff (renamed in 1863 as Fort Bartow). The station at Causton's Bluff had suddenly become more significant as Federal forces had captured Fort Pulaski on April 11, 1862 after a 30-hour bombardment. Causten's Bluff overlooked St. Augustine Creek and Whitemarsh Island, and the fall of Fort Pulaski made Savannah vulnerable to attack from that direction.
Captain Lamb was promoted to major of the 29th GA Regiment May 10, 1862, when Major Levi J. Knight declined to be re-elected to the position due to illness. Jonathan D. Knight succeeded Lamb as company captain . This re-organization occurred while the 29th GA Regiment was stationed at Camp Debtford, GA. Camp Debtford was on the Debtford Plantation, situated east of Savannah on the grounds of present day Savannah Golf Course. Debtford Plantation was adjacent to and allied with the Causton's Bluff plantation. This was just east of Fort Boggs and near Battery Lee.
Major Lamb was detached for a few weeks for service "on the Savannah River near Fort Jackson." This site was about a mile and a half from the camps of the Berrien Light Infantry, Company I, 50th Georgia Regiment. Fort Jackson, officially known as Fort James Jackson, a brick fortification constructed 1808-1812, was considered by General P. G. T. Beauregard to be "a very weak work." Beauregard's October, 1862 inspection of Savannah defenses found armaments at Fort Jackson consisted of two 8″ Columbiads, seven 32 pounder guns, and one 18 pounder gun (from Craig Swain's discussion of Batteries in the Marshes.)
The following month the 29th Georgia Regiment moved to Camp Mackey, GA, where Major Lamb was placed in command. Camp Mackey was a picket post located on a rice plantation on Mackey's Point, on the Savannah River. "Many soldiers … lost their lives by disease contracted from the malarious rice fields about Mackey's Point, below Savannah, where the Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment was stationed for a long time" (Savannah Morning News, April 29, 1874) .
In July, 1862 it Major Lamb was stationed at the Regimental headquarters of the 29th Regiment at Camp Troup, but the Major was on detached service at Advanced River Batteries on the Savannah River. In November it appears the Major's Regimental headquarters were moved to Camp Young near Savannah, and in December to Camp Clingman at Ashville, NC.
While stationed at Camp Young, 20 men of the 29th Georgia regiment deserted. Four of the deserters were from Company K, the Berrien Minute Men, including Elbert J. Chapman, Albert Douglas, Benjamin S. Garrett, and J. P. Ponder.
John C. Lamb's father, William Lamb, died near Milltown in 1862 and was buried in Milltown in the old cemetery. John C. Lamb and his brother-in-law, Dougal McDonald, were appointed executor of his father's estate. In accordance with the will probated in Berrien County court, John C. Lamb stood to inherit "Land lot No. 446 in the 10th district of Berrien Co…also, Negro man, Cato, ca 28 yrs old, Negro girl, Senah, about 6 yrs old & horse mule named Ball." However, Lamb was with the command of the Berrien Minute Men and the rest of the 29th GA regiment, taking part in the battles of the western wing of the Confederate army.
When the 29th Regiment was deployed to Meridian, MS about late April of 1863, Major Lamb took his horses with him. On May 1, the 29th Regiment halted at Vaughan Station, MS, about 32 miles east of Yazoo City and 1 mile west of Big Black River. There Major Lamb requisitioned and received forage for his horses.
When the 29th Regiment caught up with deserter Elbert J. Chapman in Mississippi, Major Lamb served as the Judge Advocate for the court-martial. Chapman was convicted of desertion, but his sentence was withheld while the Confederate Army fled before Federal forces.
This was just after the fall of Vicksburg. The Berrien Minute Men, the 29th Regiment and the rest of the Confederate Army were making a disorganized retreat.
In a battle near Jackson, MS Major Lamb was killed on July 13, 1863. T 29th had retreated across the Big Black River where they formed a battle line against the pursuing federal forces. From July 9th through the 12th, shelling, skirmishing, and sometimes hard fighting went on. John Hagan wrote, "on the morning of the 13th shelling began at 8 a.m. & continued till 11 a.m. our Regt suffered again Maj John C. Lamb was killed instantly by a round Ball. He was on the right of our company & within 2 feet of Capt Knight, J. M. Griffin & myself when he was shot…our men was turablely Shocked but all acted the part of a Soldier."
William Washington Knight also gave an account of the death of John C. Lamb. In a letter to his wife, Mary, written July 22, 1863 from Scott County, MS, between Jackson and Meridian, MS, Knight wrote, "About ten minutes after fire open Maj Lamb was hit with a twelve pound round shot on the head. It knocked off half his head, kill[ing] him so dead he did not move but very little. He was standing on his feet among or at the feet of our men, in two feet of Jonathan [Knight] and Lt [Wiley E] Baxter." It was not until after Major Lamb's death that the deserter Chapman was executed by firing squad. Knight himself would be dead within six months; his widow Mary Carroll Knight later married John C. Lamb's brother, William J. Lamb.
Lamb's cousin, John T. Carroll, and his father-in-law, James Lovejoy, were the executors of his estate. The following January, they ran the legal announcement in the Milledgeville Confederate Union.
Milledgeville Confederate Union
January 26, 1864
Georgia, Berrien County
By order of the Court of Ordinary of said county, will be sold on the first Tuesday in March next, at the Court house door in said county, one improved lot in the village of Milltown, lately occupied by J. C. Lamb, belonging to the estate of the said John C. Lamb, deceased. Sold for benefits of the heirs and creditors of said deceased. Terms on the day of sale.
JOHN T CARROLL, Adm'rs
Paid $5
January 9th, 1864
The settlement of the estate continued after the War ended.
Milledgeville Federal Union
June 4, 1867
GEORGIA, Berrien County.
TWO months after date application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Berrien County for leave to sell the land belonging to the estate of John C. Lamb, decd.
W E C JOHN T. CARROLL, Adm, r.
May 6th, 1867. 41 9t.
The land Lot 446, 10th District, which John C. Lamb had inherited from his father, was auctioned October 1867 to settle estate debts.
Milledgeville Federal Union
October 8, 1867
Administrator's Sale.
Will be sold before the Court House door in Nashville, Berrien county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in OCTOBER next, one Lot of Land No. 446 containing four hundred and ninety acres, in the 10th District of said county. Sold for the purpose of paying debts. And sold as the property of John C. Lamb deceased. Terms Cash.
(W E C) JOHN L. CARROLL, Adm'r.
Aug. 5th, 1867. 2 tds.
Folks Huxford provided the following:
During the war, Mrs. Lamb stayed with her parents, at their home in the Stockton district of Clinch county. To Major and Mrs. Lamb only one child was born, Lillian Eugenia Lamb, who married Hampton Anderson Howell of Milltown. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Howell were Will H. Howell, who served as clerk of the superior court of Lanier county, Hamp Howell, Jr., who was postmaster at Milltown, [and Elizabeth Howell].
After the War, widow Satira Lovejoy Lamb continued to live with her parents, James L. Lovejoy and Eugenia Talley. In the 1870s, her grandfather Reverend Nathan Talley and his second wife, Martha Travis Talley, were also residing in the Lovejoy household. Satira's widower uncle, Dr. James W. Talley had taken Miss Araminta Mississippi Holzendorf as his second wife, and it was undoubtedly through this connection that Satira came to know her uncle's brother-in-law, Robert Stafford Holzendorf.
A few years after the close of the Civil War Mrs. Lamb married Robert Stafford Holzendorf, who had emigrated to Clinch county with his father, Alexander Holzendorf, and located at Stockton during the war. The Holzendorfs were members of an old Camden county family, who had lived there since the days of the Revolution. Alexander Holzendorf and his family "refugeed" as it was known, from Camden to Clinch on account of the exposed danger of Camden county to the enemy during the war.
To Mr. and Mrs. Holzendorf were born four children, viz.:
- James A. Holzendorf, who married Hattie Phillips, daughter of Wm. S. Phillips of Stockton. Mr. Holzendorf was a railroad agent at Stockton a number of years.
- Robert Holzendorf, Jr., who married Elizabeth Williams of Greenwood, S. C, and who lived at Norfolk, VA.
- A. M. Holzendorf of Waycross, who first married Mamie Penland, and she died, leaving a son, Algeron; and the second wife was Lula, a daughter of Jasper Roberts of Echols county.
- John L. Holzendorf, who married Stella Carter, daughter of Irving Carter, and who died in Milltown.
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There are a lot of oddities about the thirty-first and final year in the life of the indie rock band R.E.M., not least the fact that after barely promoting their fifteenth album, March's Collapse Into Now, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe have just wound up a sort of posthumous press blitz to talk up Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, the career-spanning best of that was announced concurrently with the band's split.
Emerging just in time for Christmas, scant few months after CIN (and clearly considerably better supported by Warners), with the last three slots given over to the obligatory new tracks, there's reason to look upon Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage as a last, opportunist payday. And yet... this is really is the first and only R.E.M. compilation to join up the band's IRS and Warners years; at 40 tracks in length, it hardly condenses their long and varied career into The Hits; worthwhile programme notes from all four members of the band suggest they weren't exactly doing this under duress; and much as the tracklisting feels flawed in places, it's fairly obvious from some of the wackier choices that the band were heavily involved.
The most important thing to establish is that most of this music is extraordinary and that the first half is nigh on faultless. The IRS years are covered in the first 13 songs and you'd have to be a bit of a tool to seriously grumble about with the selection, a graceful journey from the yearning alt.country weirdness of 'Gardening at Night' though to the blazing fires of 'Finest Worksong'. The fact that for six years R.E.M. were just churning this stuff out – the haunted 'So. Central Rain', the swellingly beautiful eco ballad 'Fall On Me', the savage 'The One I Love' – is just extraordinary. You really need to immerse yourself Murmur or Fables of the Reconstruction or Document wholesale to quite appreciate what a trip this band took, but casual fans hearing this early music for the first time ought to have their jaws appropriately dropped.
As we enter the Warner years, Green feels oddly over represented – the incendiary 'Orange Crush' is essential, but piling on all three of the album's bubblegum pop ditties ('Pop Song '89', 'Stand', 'Get Up') is a touch too sugary. But Out Of Time is just about perfectly covered in just three tracks: cryptic, feverish masterpiece 'Losing My Religion', luminously excessive waltz pop oddity 'Shiny Happy People' and the burning, Falkner-esque stream of consciousness of standout album track 'Country Feedback'. With Automatic for the People's oddly moving nonsense pop romp 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' sneaking in at the end, disc one is a slightly saccharine but still more or less faultless account of REM's incandescent ascent to the big time.
It's disc two where shit starts to get a bit weird. After spending a little more time with the peerless Automatic…, the next five albums - Monster, New Adventure in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal and Around the Sun - are dispatched with in just six tracks. Boiling the sterile ATS down to just the heartfelt 'Leaving New York' is one thing, but allowing over a decade of REM's career to drift by in a brief flurry of melodic pleasantness is disappointing. 'Electrolite', 'At My Most Beautiful', 'Imitation of Life', non-album single 'The Great Beyond'... they're all lovely, but there's little grit or weirdness, no hint of NAIHF's blasted expanse or Up's clockwork lullabies. Certainly the absence of the folk drone monolith of 'E-bow the Letter' - NAIHF's astonishing lead single and a top five single ferchrissakes – is pretty outrageous. It strikes me that despite brazening it out for a few years, R.E.M. were pretty stung by the decline in US popularity that 'E-bow…' ushered in, and that this compilation essentially favours the records that did the best in the States.
Certainly the band's last two albums - frequently referred t as their 'comeback' on grounds of their popularity in the US - are given as much room as the preceding four. The two Accelerate songs are deserving enough, the indignant 'Living Well Is the Best Revenge' spewing out like a plume of lava, while 'Supernatural Superserious' is gruff and cuddly as a polar bear. But a trio of CIN tracks seems wildly excessive, considering what was missed off (not to mention the fact they seem pretty arbitrarily chosen). Ditto the presence of three likeable but very album track-ish newbies: the gentle 'We All Go Back To Where We Belong' and 'Hallelujah' sound rather like superior Reveal outtakes; 'A Month of Saturdays' is sprightly, plaintive robopop that feels charmingly inappropriate on a last will and testament.
Anyway, quibbling about the tracklisting of a best of that contains at least 30 songs of unimpeachable brilliance seems a bit dick-ish. But I can't help but feel that the love and effort that's been poured into portions of Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage are slightly undermined by the feeling that other bits have been chucked together without a huge amount of thought for the band's legacy. Maybe that's apt, considering the title, but conversely much of the second half really does feels like band or label have tried to airbrush out the stuff the Yanks didn't like so much. This is very good, but it's not definitive - but perhaps R.E.M. just aren't that sort of band.
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Pot of Gold
The Willow House
A live stick (willow branch) sculpture at Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Buchanan, Michigan
Magic Orb
Bright eyes flowers near a stream at Fernwood Botanical Gardens near Buchanan, Michigan.
Pillars of Understanding
Moss among Buttercup Plants
Moss and small buttercup plants nested in a beach tree root, in the early Spring along McCoy Creek Trail, Michigan
Tigers Overlook the River
Tiger lily flowers near the shore of the Saint Joseph River in Buchanan, Michigan.
Ripe Green Apples
Branches of ripe apples against the blue sky.
Heavy with Red Apples
A tree heavy with ripe red apples near harvest season in Michigan.
Elequent Red Apples on the Branch
A branch of ripe red apples near harvest season in Michigan.
Agraulis Vanillae Butterfly
A beautiful photo of a Agraulis Vanillae Butterfly receiving nectar from a flower. A resident of the Butterfly House at Sarett Nature Center, Michigan
Julia Butterfly in the Sun
A beautiful photo of a Julia Butterfly receiving nectar from a flower. A Julia Butterfly at eye level at Sarett Nature Center, Michigan
Zebra Longwing Butterfly
A beautiful photo of a Zebra Longwing Butterflies feeding on nectar from a flower.
Pond Frog at Fernwood Botanical Gardens
A resident of Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Michigan
Sun Through the Sumac Tree
The evening sun filtering though a staghorn sumac tree near the Saint Joseph River in Buchanan, Michigan.
A Bridge Over the Gorge
Walkway platform over a gorge at Sarett Nature Center, Michigan
Once There Was Youth
Young girl on a path with sun rays streaming over a walkway that hugs an embankment at Fernwood Botanical Gardens near Buchanan, Michigan
Toward the End to Another Loving Day
A loving couple walking along the pier at sunset. Saint Joseph, Lake Michigan.
Fishing at the Lighthouse
A lone fisherman during sunset on the lighthouse pier at Saint Joseph, Lake Michigan.
Freedom Found in the Wayward Sail
Sailing at sunset on Lake Michigan at Saint Joseph.
Lake Michigan Sunset from the Pier
People observing the sunset from the lighthouse pier at Saint Joseph, Michigan.
Fern Dew
Macro, extreme closeup of dewdrop at the end of a small fern blade.
Triad of Dew Drops in the Morning Sun
Macro image of three dew drops that capture a unusual reflections of itself.
Everywind Sculpture
Two Watchers
Garden ornaments seen peering out over the foliage.
Rainbow in Irrigation Spray
Irrigation spay with rainbow against planted field and grain silo.
Niles Train Station
Niles train station. Niles Michigan.
Vineyard with Sun Rays
Sun rays creating a majestic backdrop for a summer vineyard in Southern Michigan
The Cass County Seat
The country courthouse building in Cassoplois, Michigan
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Plea to Take Mel Gibson Off 'Blacklist' Sparks Hollywood Debate.
Eight years after Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic rant during a drunk-driving arrest, Hollywood is debating the rehabilitation of an Oscar winner who was once one of the industry's most bankable stars.
The heated discussion was sparked by a March 12 opinion piece in Deadline Hollywood by Allison Hope Weiner, a freelance writer who covered Gibson's infamous spiral out of favor and now considers him a friend. Her appeal for an end to what she called a "quiet blacklisting" has generated more than 5,700 comments on Yahoo.com's movie page and more than 800 on the Deadline Hollywood site, which is read by many in the industry.
"He has been in the doghouse long enough," Weiner wrote. "It's time to give the guy another chance."
Gibson's movies, from "Mad Max" to "Braveheart" and "Apocalypto," have grossed $3.6 billion, according to Rentrak Corp., providing an incentive for studios and agencies to consider absolution. His particular transgressions, and the number of them over the years, mean it's unlikely to come easy.
Forgiving Gibson "is not the same thing as forgiving Lindsay Lohan for partying too late," said Elizabeth Currid- Halkett, author of "Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity" and an associate professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "Anti-Semitism is not just behaving badly."
While the 58-year-old still directs and acts — he recently completed production as a co-star with Sylvester Stallone on "Expendables 3" — major studios "are either wary of him or prefer not to work with him," said Michael Fleming, Deadline Hollywood's film editor. "I am surprised this has lasted this long. The guy has made a lot of people a lot of money."
Malibu Tirade
The back-and-forth by commentators on Weiner's piece boils down to a bygone question in Hollywood: whether what someone says or does off screen, however repugnant, should have any effect on his fitness to make movies.
Gibson is a long-running case in point. The hits to his reputation aren't limited to those from his tirade about Jews being "responsible for all the wars in the world," delivered as he was arrested in 2006 in Malibu, California. In 2010, audiotapes of threats he made to his then-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva — laced with racial epithets — surfaced. The next year he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge after a dispute with Grigorieva, the mother of his youngest child.
In 2004, he came under fire for what the Anti-Defamation League and others saw as anti-Semitism in "The Passion of the Christ," a blockbuster he directed, co-produced and co-wrote. He reacted to a Frank Rich column about it in the New York Times by telling the New Yorker, "I want to kill him. I want his intestines on a stick. I want to kill his dog."
'Harmful Words'
In 1992 he offended the gay community with remarks in a Spanish newspaper interview and later told Playboy that he would apologize "when hell freezes over."
He did apologize after his Malibu arrest for what he said were his "vitriolic and harmful words," and after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunk-driving charge was sentenced to three years' probation.
Alan Nierob, a Rogers & Cowan publicist who represents Gibson, said his client should be allowed back in the fold. "People should know that he is now healthy once again, both physically and mentally after suffering a breakdown," Nierob said. "He is an artistic genius, and the industry should benefit once again from his enormous talent."
'Harsh Language'
Weiner, describing herself as an observant Jew, said in Deadline Hollywood that Gibson today "is clearly a different man, one who has worked on his sobriety since that awful night in Malibu." And the movie industry, she said, is hypocritical, willing to "work with others who've committed felonies and done things far more serious than Gibson."
She cited Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist who has been in the "Hangover" films. Gibson was dropped from a cameo in "The Hangover Part II" in 2010 after "a lot of people" working on the film protested, Todd Phillips told the Hollywood Reporter.
"Gibson has been shunned not for doing anything criminal; his greatest offenses amount to use of harsh language," Weiner wrote in her more than 3,400-word piece. She said she chose to publish it on the 10th anniversary of "The Passion of the Christ," which she described as "about an innocent man's willingness to forgive the greatest injustice."
The independent release grossed $612 million at the global box office, and Gibson personally made $210 million in 2004, according to Forbes. His fortune was estimated at $850 million by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and People magazine reported that his 2011 divorce halved that.
Befriending Rabbis
In recent years, Weiner said, Gibson has befriended rabbis, attended Passover Seders and donated to Jewish causes. He invited to coffee the Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who took him into custody in Malibu. He was at Weiner's son's bar mitzvah, where she said he charmed her family.
"My friendship with Gibson made me reconsider other celebrities whose public images became tarnished by the media's rush to judge," Weiner wrote. "Whether it's Gibson, Tom Cruise or Alec Baldwin, the descent from media darling to pariah can happen quickly after they do something dumb."
Hollywood is littered with stars who fell from grace — Charlie Sheen after a rant against the producer of "Two and a Half Men," Robert Downey Jr. after arrests for illegal drug use, Cruise after jumping on Oprah's couch and admonishing Brooks Shields for treating her postpartum depression with pharmaceuticals — and who bounced back.
Two Oscars
Downey, Gibson's co-star in "Air America" in 1990, has been among his staunch defenders. He asked that Gibson be on stage to present him with a life-achievement award from American Cinematheque in 2011, and said in his acceptance speech that his friend deserved from Hollywood the same forgiveness it had afforded him. Gibson had helped revive Downey's career when he was considered uninsurable by paying his insurance bond for 2003's "The Singing Detective."
Gibson rose to international fame with the "Mad Max" and "Lethal Weapon" films and won Oscars in 1995 for best picture and best director for "Braveheart," in which he also starred. He garnered acclaim for "Apocalypto," about the end of Mayan civilization, which he financed through his Icon Productions LLC; Walt Disney Co. distributed it.
Released five months after the Malibu arrest, it did well at the box office. "Say what you will about him — about his problem with booze or his problem with Jews — he is a serious filmmaker," wrote New York Times critic A.O. Scott.
Bypassing Theaters
One of Gibson's big hits as an actor before Malibu was "Signs," a 2002 thriller by M. Night Shyamalan that grossed $228 million. One of his biggest flops ever was "The Beaver" in 2011 with Jodie Foster, which made less than $1 million in U.S. theaters, according to the Internet Movie Database.
He bypassed theaters with "Get the Gringo" in 2012, releasing it instead on pay-television. Last year he was a co- star with Sheen in "Machete Kills," which wasn't a critical or commercial success.
In Hollywood, "there are some who may forgive and some who never will," said Michael Sitrick, chairman and chief executive of Sitrick Brincko Group LLC, a Los Angeles-based public relations and crisis-management firm that has represented rapper Chris Brown, baseball player Alex Rodriguez and socialite Paris Hilton. "It's not about spin. It has to be genuine."
© Copyright 2014 Bloomberg News. All rights reserved.
Source: Newsmax.com


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Reality TV star Brandi Glanville is regretting comments she made on a talk show after upsetting a "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast mate with affair gossip.
Actor Eddie Cibrian's ex-wife Glanville made the wild claim that model-turned-reality TV star Joanna Krupa had romanced socialite Yolanda Foster's ex-husband on TV show "Watch What Happens Live" on Monday, and immediately wished she had kept her mouth shut.
To make matters worse, Glanville accused "The Real Housewives of Miami" star Krupa of sleeping with Foster's ex, Mohamed Hadid, while they were still married.
Glanville stated, "Joanna had sex with Mohamed. It was one of many affairs. … But Mohamed and Yolanda are great now."
Krupa fired back on Twitter, writing, "No wonder her husband left her," referencing the end of her marriage to Cibrian, who has since wed singer LeAnn Rimes.
Glanville was prepared to defend her accusation, and said, "Well, Mohamed did tell me that her [bleep] smelled. It's true! I'm not lying…! Sorry, [bleep]. I win!"
Hadid then also chimed in with a tweet of his own, insisting, "That's a lie. I never spoken (sic) to @BrandiGlanville in any way about Joanna. Brandy (sic) is such a scum and a foul mouth (sic)."
Hadid supplemented the tweet with a post to his ex-wife, who is now married to songwriter David Foster, and wrote, "I love you mother of my children and my best friend. U (sic) know I don't have a foul mouth and I would never use words to brandi (sic)."
On Tuesday, Glanville expressed her remorse over her comments, and took to Twitter to write, "My morning is ruined. I'm crying and going back to sleep… It was not my intention to hurt anyone last night, I spoke my truth when asked a question – fought back when attacked I love @YolandaHFoster."
It was not my intention to hurt anyone last night,i spoke my truth when asked a question-fought back when attacked I love @YolandaHFoster
— Brandi Glanville (@BrandiGlanville) November 12, 2013


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Posted by Editoress on 07/31/09
Earlier today, the UCI advised Spanish rider Mikel Astarloza that he has been provisionally suspended. The decision to provisionally suspend Mr Astarloza was made in response to a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Madrid indicating an Adverse Analytical Finding of Recombinant EPO in a urine sample collected from him at an out-of-competition test on 26 June 2009.
The report from the laboratory was received by the UCI yesterday (July 30th).
The provisional suspension remains in force until a hearing panel convened by the Spanish Cycling Federation determines whether Mr Astarloza has committed an anti-doping rule violation under Article 21 of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules. The hearing panel will make a decision on an applicable sanction for Mr Astarloza including his disqualification from any events, in which he competed following the collection of the sample on 26 June.
Mr Astarloza has the right to request and attend the analyses of his B sample.
Under the World Anti-Doping Code and the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, the UCI is unable to provide any additional information at this time.
UCI Press Service
Note: We will be reviewing the results of the Fantasy Tour due to this suspension, since it was announced within one week of the end of the race. Astarloza finished third on stage 8 and won stage 16. He also finished 11th overall. All of these standings will have to be revised.
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May 2012 - Dragon Soul Worldwide Challenge
September 2012 - Blizzard HQ Tour and Mists of Pandaria Live Launch from Southern California
September-November 2012 - New expansion progression finishing with World 2nd/US 1st standing
2013 sure has some big shoes to fill, but we think it's up to the challenge. There is quite a bit of wonderful news coming down the pipe so make sure to follow us on Facebook/Twitter for the earliest updates
All that being said, we're already kicking off the new year with a blast. Our new website launches tonight at midnight (est)!! Make sure to drop by and check it out. We look forward to seeing you there.
Happy New Years! Have fun, but remember to be responsible.


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Chamber Marketing/PR Committee
Name: Chamber Marketing/PR Committee
Date: November 8, 2018
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PST
Event Description:
Marketing/PR aims to reach out to and partner with Claremont businesses and the City of Claremont to increase business visibility and activity. Identify grouping for community business to support and promote the activities of one another. Identify activities designed to draw customers to business centers.
Chair: Michael Reis, Southland Data Processing


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You can locate your child's bus route information online by clicking on the link in this sentence.
Please complete the search form with your street address (house number and street name are both required). If you do not specify a campus or grade level, the results will be for all three campus levels. Please note that your child should be at their bus stop 10 minutes prior to the scheduled pick-up time. Although every effort is made to keep the system current, some bus numbers may change.
If the search does not produce results, please click the Contact Us button at the top of theInfoFinder page and complete the Contact Form. This form will aid Transportation in entering your child into the InfoFinder Le system.
For verification purposes, please include a phone number, and then click SUBMIT.
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When a recycling value chain is working well, it also prevents littering, saves resources and reduces climate impact. To ensure our recycling efforts are aligned across our business, in 2018, Tetra Pak established new circular economy teams, organised in our global sustainability function.
We use high quality raw materials to make our packaging and fulfil our mission to make food safe and available everywhere. Once our packaging has fulfilled its purpose, those raw materials shouldn't go to waste. Instead, they can be collected and - using relatively simple techniques - recycled into something useful.
On average, more than 70 percent of our packaging material is made from long, strong paper fibres that can be recycled several times. The thin layer of polymers – or plastics – in our beverage cartons can be blended with other polymers and turned into new products, such as roofing tiles, crates, carton boxes and more.
As we continue to drive collection and fibre recycling, we are also increasing our focus on polymer recycling in our packaging. As part of our recent pledge to the EU Plastics Strategy, we will work with partners to ensure that by 2030, recycling solutions are in place for all components of our beverage cartons.
Recycling contributes to a low-carbon circular economy? that keeps valuable materials in use. It also helps prevent littering, saves resources, and reduces climate impact. ?
In 2010, we set a goal to double our recycling rate to 40 percent by 2020. We were the first packaging company to set such an ambitious target and have made considerable progress towards it. In 2019, our global recycling rate was 26 percent. The programmes we are involved with have caused the collection for recycling of about 40% of all beverage cartons in the market?.
Setting the goal was the right thing to do; it provided a direction th?at focused our work. The target raised the importance of recycling – both within and outside Tetra Pak. It helped us align partners along our value chain, and significantly improve recycling awareness and infrastructure along the way.
During this time, we also evolved our approach to recycling. We learned that every market has different needs and levels of maturity. Rather than focus on a global single indicator - overall recycling rate - we need to perform against more specific and locally relevant objectives. These keep us competitive and mean we will continue to meet the needs of our customers and other stakeholders. While recycling rate remains a relevant metric, a global recycling rate is no longer indicative of our main target nor the most meaningful measure.??
In Thailand, used beverage cartons have been transformed into corrugated roofing sheets for emergency housing. As well as preventing waste and reducing CO2 emissions, this public participation project has also helped raise awareness of the value of recycling.
Recycling works when all the necessary factors are in place and well connected. A weak or missing local link – such as a lack of efficient collection systems, separate collection of packaging and waste management infrastructure – is a challenge. With our new range of market-relevant objectives, we can tailor our approach to focus on actions with the greatest potential for impact or progress; we can zero in on the right problem in any given geography and solve it in the right way. We are currently driving local recycling initiatives in more than 70 countries.
Our new set of objectives and relevant metrics fall into six categories: consumer awareness, customer awareness and collaboration, collection and sorting, fibre recycling, PolyAl recycling and increasing the value of recycled materials.
Some examples of recycling objectives in action
We take a value chain approach to recycling. This means working on everything from consumer awareness, and collection and sorting infrastructure, through to expanding market opportunities for recycled materials and boosting business opportunities for recycling entrepreneurs. Partnering and connecting stakeholders is critical to building sustainable recycling value chains. We collaborate and associate with a wide range of local and global stakeholders, including waste management companies, recyclers, municipalities industry associations and equipment suppliers.
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Minnesota hosts the Florida Panthers tonight and there is a wide range of news coming out of Wild camp today, so I'll try to catch you up on everything.
Jason Zucker will make his debut in a Minnesota sweater and will wear number 16. He's the 45th player and 14th rookie to suit up for the Wild this season. See the Wild TV pre-game video of Zucker, here.
Niklas Backstrom is set to make his first start in goal since suffering a groin injury on March 1 against the Montreal Canadiens. Backstrom backed up Josh Harding against the New York Rangers on Tuesday, but the cage will be all his tonight. Backstrom dressed as a backup for a few games, but suffered a different lower body and missed the Wild's last road trip.
Justin Falk is expected to return to the blue line after missing nine games with a lower body injury. Falk has practiced with the team this week and is set to see his first game action since March 4.
Tonight also is the Wild's tribute to the Minnesota North Stars "Back on Home Ice" celebration. More than 30 former North Stars are scheduled to be in attendance. A number of former North Stars were on hand at Tom Reid's Hockey City Pub yesterday, as St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman proclaimed March 29-31 North Stars Alumni Weekend. Check out the Wild TV videos of the North Stars Alumni and the mayor's proclamation.
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( This is the final edited version of a chapter on Pakistan contributed by me at the request of the Brookings Institution of the US for an edited volume on Pakistan being brought out by them. The volume will have contributions from selected analysts in India,Pakistan and the US )
Bahukutumbi Raman
The religious extremism encouraged by the Pakistan army has turned into a double-edged sword. To some extent it did hurt the Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s and India after 1989, but it now hurts Pakistan more than India.
The consolidation of the presence of al Qaeda and its associates; the deepening of the roots of the Afghan Taliban in Pakistani territory; the growth of the Pakistani Taliban, called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in Pakistani Punjab and the tribal belt; and the ideological Talibanization of India-specific terrorist organizations such as the Lashkar-e-Toiba LeT(LET [au: or LeT, as below?]) and of growing sections of youth in the tribal belt and Punjab are the outcome of the army's encouragement of religious extremism. The army used extremism as an operational asset to achieve its strategic objectives of forcing a change in the status quo in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), retaining the Pakistani presence and influence in Afghanistan and countering India's presence and influence.
The growth of religious extremism has made Pakistan a state of great concern not only to India (as it has always been), but also to other countries of the world. Al Qaeda and its associates, which have global ambitions, have established de facto control over north Waziristan. The noticeable surge in strikes by U.S. drone aircraft since President Barack Obama came to office in January 2009 might have weakened al Qaeda and its associates to some extent—as claimed by the United States—but the weakening has not significantly affected their ability to operate globally. They may no longer be able to conduct a 9/11-style terrorist strike, but they are still in a position to operate in a larger geographical area than they could before 9/11, although on a smaller scale.
What al Qaeda and its associates have lost by way of well-motivated and well-trained Arab and other foreign cadres has been made good to some extent by the increase in the number of motivated cadres and capabilities of Pakistani organizations such as the LeT. In the past, the LeT was essentially an asset of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)—raised, motivated, trained, and armed for use against India and against Indian nationals and interests in Afghanistan. While continuing to play the India-focused role assigned to it by the ISI, the LeT has gravitated into an organization with global ambitions and a global reach capable of compensating for the weaknesses of al Qaeda and its associates.
The TTP, which started essentially as an organization indulging in reprisals against the Pakistani security forces following their raid of the Lal Masjid of Islamabad by Pakistani military commandoes in July 2007, has developed a larger agenda. It now assists the Afghan Taliban in its operations against NATO forces in Afghanistan and assists homegrown jihadis in the United States and other Western countries by training them in the areas its controls in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The Pakistan army's policy of using the extremists and terrorists as operational assets where it can but countering them as adversaries where it should has created a dichotomy in its counterterrorism policy, thereby weakening the fight against terrorism emanating from Pakistani territory. While the Pakistan army can be expected to keep up its sporadic operations against the TTP, which poses an internal threat, it is unlikely to act effectively against the LET and other India-specific terrorist organizations and against the Afghan Taliban. It has been avoiding action against al Qaeda due to lack of confidence in its ability to eradicate the group and fear that al Qaeda might indulge in acts of reprisal terrorism in Pakistani territory.
The internal security situation in Pakistan, already very bad, has been made worse by the activities of Sunni extremist groups such as the Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ) against the Shias, who constitute about 20 per cent of the population, against non-Muslim minorities, and against the liberal elements in the Sunni majority. The latter have taken up the cause of the minorities and advocate changes in the blasphemy law in order to prevent its misuse against minorities.
The religious parties that campaign in elections generally receive less than 15 percent of polled votes. There is no reason to believe that their number has increased. What has happened is that the terrorism-prone elements in these organizations (as well as in the general population) have moved toward the terrorist organizations for various reasons, including anger over the commando raid at the Lal Masjid and civilian casualties from drone strikes. Since the terrorist organizations do not run candidates in elections, it is difficult to quantify the support that they enjoy in the general population. However, the fact that they continue to have a regular flow of volunteers for suicide terrorism would indicate significant support for them, particularly in Punjab and other areas such as the Khyber-Pakhtunkwa province and the FATA.
It would be incorrect to conclude from all this that there has been a radicalization of Pakistan as a state and society. What we are seeing is the radicalization of sizable sections of the population—particularly in certain areas of Punjab and the Pashtun belt—that have come under the influence of destabilizing ideas and are posing a threat to peace and security in Pakistan as well as the South Asia region and the rest of the world.
Despite pessimistic assessments by many analysts, I do not see any danger of radicalization of Pakistan as a state and a nation in the short and medium term. The army plays an important role in the governance of Pakistan—either directly, by taking over the reins of power, or indirectly, by having a say in matters concerning national security when duly elected political leaders are in power. There has been an increase in the number of radical elements in the army since the days of the late General Zia ul-Haq (1977–88). One finds an increasing number of students from the madrassas in the armed forces and other government departments. They are more prone to be influenced by radical ideas than students from nonreligious institutions.
Such radical elements are found mainly at the lower and middle ranks; the presence of radical elements at the higher command level is rare. However, there have been exceptions, the most prominent of them being General Zia himself, who was a devout Deobandi, and General Mohammed Aziz Khan, who retired some years ago. General Aziz Khan, who belongs to the Sudan tribe of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), was considered a hard-core fundamentalist, in thought and action. Since his retirement, there have been no votaries of radical or fundamentalist ideologies at the level of lieutenant-general and general
Despite the presence of radical elements at the lower and middle levels, the Pakistan army is not a radical institution in a religious sense. While the army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate, which consists largely of military officers, have no compunctions about using radical elements in society for achieving their strategic objectives, they have ensured that their institutions do not get infected with radical ideas at the senior level. During the war against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the ISI, in collaboration with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), used radical ideologies to motivate Afghan, Pakistani, and Arab volunteers to fight against Soviet troops. At the same time, it saw to it that those ideas did not affect the army as an institution. This is equally true in the case of the air force and the navy.
There are three destabilizing ideological influences in Pakistan: Wahabized Islamic extremism, trans-ummah pan-Islamism, and countrywide anti-Americanism. Wahabized Islamic extremism calls for the transformation of Pakistan into an Islamic State ruled according to sharia and the will of Allah, as interpreted by the clerics. It asserts that in an Islamic State, Allah will be sovereign, not the people . Trans-ummah pan-Islamism holds that the first loyalty of a Muslim should be to his religion and not to the state; that religious bonds are more important than cultural bonds; that Muslims do not recognize national frontiers and have a right and obligation to go to any country to wage a jihad in support of the local Muslims; and that Muslims have the religious right and obligation to acquire weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in order to protect their religion, if necessary. Anti-Americanism identifies the United States as the source of all evils afflicting the Islamic as well as the non-Islamic world. While religious anti-American elements look on the United States as anti-Islam, the nonreligious elements look on it as anti-people.
The geo-religious landscape in Pakistan is dominated by two kinds of organizations— fundamentalist parties and jihadi organizations. Fundamentalist parties have been in existence since Pakistan became independent in 1947 and have run candidates in elections although they are opposed to Western-style liberal democracy. Their total vote share has always been below 15 percent. They reached 11 percent in the 2002 elections, thanks to the machinations of the Pervez Musharraf government, which wanted to marginalize the influence of the nonreligious parties that opposed him, such as the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) of Nawaz Sharif. In his overanxiety to cut Bhutto and Sharif down to size, Musharraf handed the tribal areas on a platter to the fundamentalists and the jihadis, thereby—more unwittingly than consciously—facilitating the resurgence of the neo-Taliban and al Qaeda.
So-called jihadi organizations misinterpret the concept of jihad and advocate its use against all perceived enemies of Islam—internal or external, non-Muslim or Muslim—wherever they are found. Their call for jihad has a domestic as well as an external agenda. The domestic agenda is to set up an Islamic Statedemocracy in Pakistan ruled according to sharia and the will of Allah. The external agenda is to "liberate" all so-called traditional Muslim lands from the "occupation" of non-Muslims and to eliminate the influence of the United States and the rest of the Western world from the ummah.
The jihadi organizations were brought into existence in the 1980s by the ISI and Saudi intelligence at the request instance of [au: meaning?] the CIA to be used against the troops of the Soviet Union and the pro-Soviet Afghan government. Their perceived success in bringing about the withdrawal of the Soviet troops and the collapse of the Najibullah government convinced the organizations that jihad, as waged by them, was a highly potent weapon that could be used with equal effectiveness to bring about the withdrawal of the Western presence from the ummah, to "liberate the traditional Muslim lands," and to transform Pakistan into an Islamic fundamentalist state. The Pakistan army and the ISI, which were impressed by the motivation, determination, and fighting skills displayed by the jihadi organizations in Afghanistan, transformed them after the withdrawal of the Soviet troops into a new strategic weapon for use against India to annex J&K and in Afghanistan to achieve a Pakistani presence .
The aggravation of anti-U.S. feeling in the Islamic world after 9/11 has resulted in dual control of the Pakistani jihadi organizations. The ISI tried to use them for its national agenda against India and in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda used them for their global agenda against "the Crusaders and the Jewish people." The jihadi organizations are now fighting on three fronts with equal ferocity—against India, as desired by the ISI; against the United States and Israel, as desired by al Qaeda; and against the Pakistani state itself, as dictated by their domestic agenda, to establish an Islamic state. The growing Talibanization of the FATA and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KP) and the Taliban's spread outside the tribal areas are the result of their determined pursuit of their domestic agenda. The acts of jihadi terrorism in Spain and the United Kingdom; the thwarted acts of terrorism in the United Kingdom; the unearthing of numerous sleeper cells in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and other countries; and the resurgence of the neo-Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan are the result of their equally determined pursuit of their international agenda. Members of the Pakistani diaspora in the Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates[au: which one?] and the Western countries have been playing an increasingly active role in facilitating the pursuit of their international agenda.
The international community's concern over the prevailing and developing situation in Pakistan has been further deepened by Pakistan's status as a nuclear weapon state. The Pakistan army has repeatedly assured the United States and the rest of the international community that the security of its nuclear arsenal is strong and that there is no danger of its falling into the hands of the jihadi terrorists. Despite its reassurances, concern remains, due to various factors.
First, it is admitted even in Pakistan that extremist elements have infiltrated every section of the Pakistani state apparatus—the armed forces, the police, paramilitary forces, and the civilian bureaucracy. It is inconceivable, then, that Pakistan's nuclear establishment would not have been penetrated.
Second, the fundamentalist and jihadi organizations are strong supporters of a military nuclear capability so that the ummah can counter Israel's alleged nuclear capability. They consider Pakistan's atomic bomb not merely a national asset but an Islamic asset. They describe it as an Islamic bomb, whose use should be available to the entire ummah, and so support Pakistan's sharing its nuclear technology with other Muslim countries. In their eyes, A. Q. Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, committed no offense by sharing nuclear technology with Iran and Libya because both are Muslim states—or with North Korea as quid pro quo for its sharing its missile technology with Pakistan. They look on Pakistan's sharing its nuclear technology and know-how with other Islamic states as an Islamic obligation and not as an illegal act of proliferation.
Third, while scientists may be prepared to share technology and know-how with other Muslim states, there has been no evidence of a similar willingness on their part to share them with Islamic nonstate actors such as al Qaeda. However, the dangers of such sharing with nonstate groups were highlighted by the unearthing of evidence by U.S. intelligence after 9/11 that at least two retired Pakistani nuclear scientists—Sultan Bashiruddin Chaudhury and Abdul Majid—had been in touch with Osama bin Laden after their retirement and had even visited him at Kandahar. After being taken into custody and questioned, they admitted their contacts with bin Laden but insisted that their dealings with him were in connection with a humanitarian relief organization that they had founded after their retirement. Many retired Pakistani military and intelligence officers have been helping the neo-Taliban and Pakistani jihadi organizations, the most well-known being Lieutenant General Hamid Gul, director-general of ISI during Benazir Bhutto's first tenure as prime minister (1988–90). Are there other retired nuclear scientists who have been maintaining similar contacts with al Qaeda and other jihadi organizations?
The Pashtun belt on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border will continue to be under the de facto control of al Qaeda, the neo-Taliban, and Pakistani jihadi organizations. Neither the Pakistan army in Pakistani territory nor the U.S.-led NATO forces in the adjoining Afghan territory will be able to prevail over the terrorists in an enduring manner. NATO forces will not be able to prevail in Afghan territory unless and until the roots of jihadi terrorism in Pakistani territory are initially sterilized and ultimately destroyed. The Pakistan army has so far exhibited neither the willingness nor capability to undertake that task. Its lack of willingness arises from its perception that it will need its own jihadis for continued use against India and the neo-Taliban for retrieving the strategic ground that it lost in Afghanistan. Moreover, the army fears that any strong action that it takes against the jihadis operating in the Pashtun belt could lead to a major confrontation with tribal groups, which contribute a large number of soldiers to the army. Next to Punjab, the largest number of recruits in the Pakistan army comes from the KP and the FATA.
The army's incapability arises from the fact that ever since Pakistan was born in 1947, the FATA has remained in a state of isolation and utter neglect, with no worthwhile development of its economy and infrastructure. It should be possible to root out the terrorist infrastructure in the area through NATO operations mounted from Afghan territory, but neither the current government nor any future democratically elected civilian government is likely to agree to that as it could aggravate anti-American feeling across the country and the entire political spectrum, discrediting the government in power at Islamabad. If the Pakistan government, including its military leadership, does not take vigorous action in time, there is the danger that jihadi extremism of the Taliban kind will spread from the tribal areas to the POK and to those areas of Punjab bordering the Pashtun belt. There are indications that it has already started to happen.
India and Afghanistan will continue to face the immediate impacts of the uncontrolled activities of extremists and jihadis in Pakistan's territory. Jihadi terrorism in India's territory will ebb and flow, depending on the effectiveness of India's security forces and counterterrorism agencies in dealing with it. Occasional outbreaks of spectacular acts of terrorism will be followed by long spells of inactivity. In the first few years after terrorism broke out in J&K in 1989, it almost assumed the shape of a sustained insurgency. But the political, counterterrorism, and counter-infiltration measures (building of border fences) taken by Indian authorities have dented the terrorists' ability to sustain a wave of attacks. The total elimination of sporadic acts will not be possible until the state of Pakistan gives up the use of terrorism as a strategic weapon.
There will be continuing instability in Afghanistan, with the danger of Afghanistan reverting to its pre-9/11 position. Narcotics control measures and all measures to dry up the flow of funds to different terrorist groups will remain ineffective. The flow of funds from the international community to Afghanistan will not result in any significant economic development or improvement in the people's standard of living. On the other hand, there is some danger that those funds will leak into terrorist coffers through government sympathizers. The newly raised Afghan security forces and the civilian administration have been penetrated by the neo-Taliban.
The phenomenon of angry individuals in the Pakistani and other Muslim diasporas in the West taking to suicide terrorism and emulating al Qaeda's modus operandi will continue. Strong measures taken by Western governments against their own Muslim population as well as Muslim visitors to their country will add to the feelings of alienation and anger in the Muslim diaspora. That will hamper the integration of Muslims and aggravate the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims. Acts of reprisal terrorism against Western nationals and interests will continue to take place. A repeat of 9/11 in the U.S. homeland cannot be ruled out, however strong the physical security measures. A vicious cycle—more terrorism followed by more physical security measures and restrictions against Muslims followed by more alienation and anger—will continue unbroken.
The fire of jihadi terrorism started in the Afghan-Pakistan region. It can be extinguished only through appropriate measures in the region where it started, particularly in Pakistan, where the heart of the fire is located. Doing so requires a mix of immediate and long-term measures. The immediate measures would include pressuring Pakistan to stop using terrorism as a strategic weapon, effectively putting an end to the terrorist infrastructure created by the ISI, and to arrest and prosecute the leaders of jihadi terrorist organizations. Although those measures would weaken the Pakistani jihadi organizations, they would not end al Qaeda. It could be neutralized only by joint international action. The international community has not been successful because of lack of cooperation from Pakistan, which must be made to cooperate through carrot-and-stick policies. Another immediate measure required is a change in the current overmilitarized counterterrorism methods of the United States, which are causing considerable collateral damage and driving more Muslims into the arms of al Qaeda.
Long-term measures must include heavy investment in education in Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to make modern education available to the poorer segments of society at an affordable price. The madrassa system also must be reformed in order to make the madrassas serve the genuine religious and spiritual needs of the people without seeking to make jihadi terrorists out of them. Western countries should seek to erase the perception in their Muslim populations that Muslims are a targeted community. To do that, they must improve the interactions of intelligence and security agencies with Muslims. How can they be firm without seeming to be harsh? How can they avoid creating feelings of humiliation in Muslims under questioning? These are questions that need attention, immediately and in the medium and long terms. Eradication of the roots of terrorism will be a long, drawn-out process. It needs to be handled with patience and understanding of the feelings of Muslims. The economic development of the tribal areas on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border also needs attention.
India must be a frontline state in the political and ideological campaign against extremism and terrorism in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The threat originating from this area will continue to confront India, Afghanistan, and the international community as a whole for at least another ten to fifteen years. It has to be gradually diluted and the terrorist organizations demotivated before one can hope to see jihadi fatigue set in. Demotivation of the terrorism-prone sections of the population should be the first objective. Better education, better medical care, better infrastructure, better governance, and greater economic prosperity are important factors in any effort to achieve demotivation.
Nonetheless, attention to those factors alone will not achieve the level of demotivation required to roll back the jihadi threat. It is equally important to work simultaneously to change the motives of Pakistan's military leadership, whose reflexes are still largely influenced by memories of the defeat of the Pakistan army by the Indian army in 1971 and by fears of a possible repeat of 1971. The army's reflexes are governed not only by feelings of insecurity arising from fear of what India might be up to but also by the conviction that Jammu and Kashmir belongs to Pakistan and needs to be wrested from Indian control. Fears of India regaining its past influence in Afghanistan are another strong influence.
There is no possibility that India will hand Jammu and Kashmir over to Pakistan. No amount of terrorism and no increase in the strength and capability of the Pakistan army can shake India's control of J&K and its determination to fight for the territorial status quo. The recent attempts by Pakistan to bring China into Pakistan in a big way are an indication of its realization that it cannot achieve its strategic objectives against India through the use of terrorism alone. Pakistan also realizes that the United States is unlikely to help it achieve those objectives.
Having realized the likely futility of using either the jihadi card or the U.S. card against India, Pakistan is once again trying to use the China card by inviting Chinese troops into the POK and the Gilgit-Baltistan area and by encouraging China to diversify its economic and military stakes in Pakistan. China, which has been concerned over the implications for its status and security of the relationship between India and the United States, is showing greater willingness than before to let itself be used by Pakistan to buttress Pakistan's feelings of security vis-à-vis India.
In this web of geopolitical complexities, what are the policy options before India? Should it keep adding to Pakistan's feelings of insecurity and instability or take the initiative to lessen Pakistani concerns? Is it possible to lessen those concerns and help Pakistan rid itself of its anti-India reflexes without changing the status quo in J&K and without giving up India's growing links with Afghanistan?
Any exercise to demotivate the Pakistani state and help it to rid itself of its fears—which are seen by its army as real and by India as imaginary—has to start with frequent and sustained interactions between the institutions of the two countries: political parties to political parties, parliament to parliament, army to army, intelligence agencies to intelligence agencies, Foreign Office to Foreign Office, and Home Ministry to Home Ministry. Increasing institutional contacts are is as important as increasing people-to-people contacts to dispel the two countries' imaginary fears of each other.
How should India and Pakistan increase their institutional interactions with each other? That is the basic question to be addressed, and it should be addressed in the context of an overall vision statement agreed to by the two countries. The imaginary fears are more in Pakistan's mind than in India's mind. India's prime minister should take the initiative by visiting Pakistan to set the ball rolling toward an agreed common vision.
Monday, August 29, 2011
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I posted this thread over a year ago, I was still pursing my LLB at the time. Whelp! I graduated a few months ago. I had my degree evaluated by agency approved by the California Bar Examiners and the evaluation of my LLB was a success. I will be starting in Jan 2015 an LLM program at an approved ABA school. I will also be receiving tuition reimbursement from my employer which will keep my cost down. Upon completion of my LLM, I will be eligible for the Washington State and California Bar exam.
LOL that's funny. Well go for it, best of luck to you on pursuing your education. Where are you in the process? I just have 1 yr left and I got to keep my job and career in tack while pursing a legal education. As far as going to law school full-time that is not an option and would not be a smart move for my situation.
Checking back in! I posted on this site 4 yrs ago when I started my law journey. I received a lot of comments that it couldn't be done. Well 4 years later I have a UK LLB and ABA LLM degree. My foreign law degree has already been evaluated by an agency approved on the Cali Bar examiners list. The evaluation was a success. I plan to take the July 2016 or Feb 2017 bar exam. Best of luck to all pursuing their dreams, keep your eyes on the prize.
There is one distinct advantage, no California First Year Law Student Exam required. Let's face it the FYLSE has about a 20% pass rate. Bypassing that is smart if you have time and resources. A UK LLB, US LLM and a bar pass course would put one in a good position to pass the bar. The FYLSE is always dicey. Online law is a numbers game, this shaves the odds down a bit.