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When I was a young lass of about 13, I cut out a picture of David Kirk from The Press & pinned it to my bedroom wall. He was holding the Webb Ellis trophy above his head after the Baby Black's triumphant campaign. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that here we'd all be - almost a quarter of a century later - still waiting for another man in black to hoist the cup aloft.
I kept that faded, yellowing newsprint photo on my wall for years, until it got kinda sad to look at. The picture may have long gone but the hope remains.
Silly, foolish me.
The other sad part about this RWC is that I would have been at every single Chch game... sure, I would have been working, but I would have been there. I'm still a bit gutted about that.
Go the All Blacks.
<sniff> -
Emma Hart, in reply to
When I was a young lass of about 13, I cut out a picture of David Kirk from The Press & pinned it to my bedroom wall. He was holding the Webb Ellis trophy above his head after the Baby Black's triumphant campaign.
Kris, my story is completely different. I was fifteen. Far out. Kirk went on the aspirational portion of the wall above my desk, right next to the photo of the RX-7. Later on, I learned to dislike both the whine of a rotory engine, and right-wing economics.
Joe Wylie, in reply to
. . . right next to the photo of the RX-7. Later on, I learned to dislike both the whine of a rotory engine . . .
Not so much the engine sound as the assumption that if you drove one, you owned a massage parlour.
BenWilson, in reply to
right next to the photo of the RX-7
They were great cars, when they worked.
ETA: Similar comment about the ABs. Great team, when they win.
Trust National to use the RWC smokescreen to push through this Attack on Democracy.
We don't seem to have a thread on this yet. It makes a farce of breaking away from the Privy Council... "Don't like what the highest court in the land says? change the decision, under urgency" -
BenWilson, in reply to
I'm not sure it's an attack on democracy, but it sure is an attack on civil rights. Makes me wonder whether having dropped the Privy Council, it is more urgent than ever that NZ makes at least some moves toward a constitution. That's way more in need of changing than the bloody electoral system, which already seems to give carte blanch to the government on basically anything they want to do. It's always been sitting there as a dangerous omission in the NZ system.
Leopold, in reply to
But couldn't Parliament always ignore decisions of the old Privy Council? Agree that this development is very worrying, though. The whole Bor R could abolished overnight, if it suits any govt's agenda. The whole undefined number of crims running free (according to Mr Key) smells of the Reichstag Fire -
Not only Godwinning, but also OT with no mention of RWC - so sue me -
BenWilson, in reply to
But couldn't Parliament always ignore decisions of the old Privy Council?
I don't know from constitutional law.
Rich of Observationz, in reply to
Yes, by passing legislation that overturned the decision.
The NZ parliament can pass any law whatsoever (subject to a few grey areas around entrenchment).
(This is unlike the US and most European states, where legislation that contravenes the constitutional framework - US constitution, European law, ECHR - can be voided, either by the supreme courts or in the case of Europe by supranational courts).
What, if any, safeguards were put in place when we dropped the Privy Council. Surely there were some, it seems totally wrong to me that a simple majority in Parliament is enough to overturn a Supreme Court ruling.
I, perhaps wrongly, thought that the Crown still had the upper hand and that the Crown was greater than Parliament and that the Governor General could ask the Supreme Court to revisit a decision and nothing more.
Even if I was totally wrong and misunderstand the position surely the retrospective part of this move is illegal in some way?.
If National ram this through then let's hope it is the last thing they do, ever. -
You might want to learn some constitutional law.
We are not an absolute monarchy. The "Crown" is simply a term for the government acting as a legal entity, which comes back to being an instrument of parliament. The monarch hasn't vetoed a Bill since Queen Anne. If a G-G did get stroppy, the PM could sack him with one fax.
The Supreme Court has pretty much the same powers as the Privy Council did - it was just a change of personnel and location.
Basically, it's elective dictatorship. We should (as the Irish did in 1937) get ourselves a written constitution that sets limits. But politicians are opposed to it, for a range of reasons.
for instance, part of me is quite pleased that, when we finally get a truly left-wing government, they'll be able to pass a law in all-stages urgency to confiscate all property over $900k, close down the right-wing press and defer any further elections until the revolutionary situation permits. Ok, the last one would arguably take two laws, one to strip out the entrenchment and the other to defer the election
I agree with Rich's explanation but my conviction around written constitutions is less certain. I think our problem is still the size of the Executive relative to the Parliament. if we changed electoral systems and or reduced the size of the Parliament, this would be made worse.
Rich, I'm unclear, do written constitutions typically prohibit retrospective legislation explicitly or rather does the prohibition result from other rights being stronger?
ETA: Kris, great story, thanks. My hero of that cup was Kirwan, he was an old boy of our school and visited often. Actually, he remains a real role model, a man of genuine substance and character.
Whether this would apply in the current case is debatable. IANAL, you know, and I suspect you'd get multiple answers if you asked a few.
But also, rights against unlawful search and seizure are entrenched in the US constitution – alteration would require constitutional amendment – or persuading the Supreme Court into an alternate interpretation, which is probably easier.
Also, very few overseas jurisdictions practically allow a law to be passed in two weeks with only a simple majority in a unicameral parliament. Many of them also have other locks – CERA could never pass in the US, for instance: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine)
Kumara Republic, in reply to
But couldn't Parliament always ignore decisions of the old Privy Council?
Muldoon did it with the Western Samoa Citizenship Act 1982.
Leopold, in reply to
Or even a return to a re-jigged form of legislative Council. Qld ("The Police State" of the 70's) is the only other Australasian govt to have a unicameral parliament - and the reign of Bjelke Joh illustrates the fun and games which can result
In 1987 my father was principal of Hato Petera College on the North Shore. Although only a small school (circa 230 pupils), it had six rugby fields so was a natural choice for some of the smaller nations to choose for rugby practice.
Back in the day, you didn't get hoards of fans descending on a practice session, and one day there were about four teams practicing. I can't remember all of the teams, but one was definitely Romania (good to see them back down here, BTW). The principal's house backed onto the lower fields, so we turned the couch around, opened the ranch slider, and watched them all practice. It was cool to be so close.
After the tournament, my brother was buying a bag at a bag shop in Queen St. A couple of members of the Pumas were in the shop and also in a quandary – they'd run out of money and needed to sell some gear. He bartered with one and purchased a team kit bag and an actual test jersey (signed by the erstwhile owner). Number 13 IIRC, and I think he still has it somewhere.
Steve Barnes, in reply to
You might want to learn some constitutional law.
Nah, that's what Graeme Edgeler's for. I'll stick to Solar Power, Networked media and such ;-)
But I still think everybody, including non lawyers, should be looking hard at this, whether they understand or not. It's amazing that te Herald can stir up more vitriol about sex education than an abuse of power on this scale. -
Sorry to snark, BTW. I just get a bit irritable when people persist in this romantic illusion that there's an old lady in a castle who can sort out our governments if they get too out of hand...
Kumara Republic, in reply to
The whole undefined number of crims running free (according to Mr Key) smells of the Reichstag Fire -
More like the belief that Oceania will always be at war with Eastasia. If there can be Perpetual Wars, so too can there be Perpetual Crime Waves, too.
Minstrels' lament...
Here's a story that speaks volumes about the RWC
and its ruthless overlords:
Unpaid anthem singers at five showpiece matches will not get promised free entry.
bastards... -
A dangerous gamble by the bastards there. The singers could use their platform to bust out some wicked variations in protest a la Tiki Tane.
revelry and rivalry...
At the games, most of the anger is directed at Cooper. And here lies the crux of the problem, in my opinion. Cooper is persona non grata with his smart-arse baiting of Richie McCaw. This behaviour is the rugby equivalent of farting in a cathedral. Cooper needs to clear the air.
(from the Sydney Morning Herald )
Raymond A Francis, in reply to
So who would you like to run the country Steve?
Elected politicians
Un-elected lawyers (Judges) who we have trouble sacking
Bunch of ancients who wrote a constitution that we need a bunch of the above lawyers to tweek to keep it up to-date
Another bunch of lawyers in another country telling us how to run things
And I might say that other country would allow the so called "illegal" video recordings to be presented in Court -
Or even a return to a re-jigged form of legislative Council.
Just thought I'd point out, that while I love a good thread-jacking as much as the next guy. But it's probably not gonna win a jersey and I was hoping this would be a nice little "positive story" thread, a better place might be Russell's threads here http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/chill-out-its-a-party/ or here http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/the-ministers-brain-has-exploded/
Sacha, in reply to
I was hoping this would be a nice little "positive story" thread
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43 comments:
- Marguerite said...
Incroyable ! Sans avoir lu je commente pour être la première !
- 5 September 2008 at 08:37
- Cergie said...
Serai je la deuxième ?
- 5 September 2008 at 08:38
- Olivier said...
donc troisieme
- 5 September 2008 at 08:50
- Olivier said...
Alors Peter, cela fait quoi d'être dépucelé par une marguerite (il faut pour comprendre passer sur mon post sur les reflets aux pyramides) ;o)).
Bon trêve de plaisanterie, passons au chose sérieuse (ce que miss cergie ne fait pas, qu'elle honte ;o) ).
Je reste scotché sur les photos :
1) la croix dans ciel
2) Les escaliers du monastère, sublime, on dirait un petit labyrinthe.. - 5 September 2008 at 08:52
- Cergie said...
Tu as vu Peter, j'ai bien fait de ne pas laisser passer l'occase qui ne se représentera pas de sitôt !
Je reviens, je vais me sécher les cheveux... - 5 September 2008 at 09:21
- claude said...
Quel beau voyage tu nous fais partager là, Peter. Tes photos sont magnifiques. Tout est beau sur ces photos. Une découverte de la toscane sans bouger de chez sois, c'est formidable. Merci !
- 5 September 2008 at 09:27
- Cergie said...
Cela s'appelle être défloré comme une fleur, Olivier
Lucca est tout de même très spectaculaire, et puis la brume de chaleur ne vaut peut-être pas celle du petit matin cependant elle sied bien aux paysages de Toscane.
La végéation, les arbres notamment sont dépaysants et les villas grandioses. Tu y as eu une suite ?
;o) - 5 September 2008 at 09:43
- Nathalie H.D. said...
On est bien primesautier ce matin, Olivier et Lucie-Lucca-Margie-je t'aime un peu beaucoup !
Dépucelé (ou défloré) avant même le petit déjeuner, ça démarre fort pour toi Peter. Refais-toi un petit café pour t'en remettre !
Comme toujours la multiplicité de tes photos est un régal car elle nous donne plein d'aperçus différents, gros plans ou vision d'ensemble, j'ai même vu passer une petite paloma dans une des rues !
Bon week-end Peter ! - 5 September 2008 at 09:56
une plongée en apnée en Italie. Quelques très belles photos au service de ce magnifique pays avec des cadrages plus risqués que d'habitude. En bonne voie vers la béatification ;)
- 5 September 2008 at 10:10
- hpy said...
Et ils ont même l'éléctricité!
- 5 September 2008 at 10:27
- EMNM said...
Another interesting place in Lucca is the square, which was an old Roman amphitheatre.
- 5 September 2008 at 11:21
- PeterParis said...
One of the Lucca photos is from that place! - 5 September 2008 at 11:30
- GMG said...
Hi Peter!
What a magnificent week with all these wonderful posts. Of course, Florence is probably unbeatable, but I have a special trend for San Gimignano (the towers, the square, the museum and the ice-creams); must confess however that being in Siena during the Palio must have been quite exciting. How did you manage to get such a good spot for the picures? Italian connections?? ;))
And then we have Fiesole! Lovely, and a great Orient Express Hotel, The Villa San Michele!
Finally Lucca, a most unknown gem! What a tour!!!
With all this beauty from your pictures in front of me, I'll have to get off! Finally I'll be off from tonight (September 5th) through Monday morning (September 15th). But I don't leave you empty hands: a beautiful beach and lots of champagne wait for you at Blogtrotter. Enjoy! ;) - 5 September 2008 at 11:52
Thank you for your frequent visits to my blogs, Peter. I like to come here to return the favor and see what you have up this time.
There is no doubt you are a good photographer and a crop expert with the mind of a genius, but to focus both your mind and your camera of things 1200 years old is almost like a miracle.
As you probably know, we do not have anything in this country 1200 years old unless it's Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon; or maybe our sitting president; but that's all.
I am in awe of your collage ability and your skill with words seem to be limitless.
I admire you and your ability to travel, at will, all over the world and know where you are at any moment and even able to describe it days or weeks later.
You are a fabulous person.
I would give you a hug if I could grab you. - 5 September 2008 at 12:24
- Jo's-D-Eyes said...
ooooh yeh ! LUCCA is fantastic too, wow Peter!
You have seen the best part of Tuscany, Have you seen the castel on top? this shots are so great I really enjoy seeing them (back) h(of course) we've been in Lucca , so I really LOVE seeing this photo's . Italy is so great.... Whats your next destination?
Ps Madoona yeh! If you are able to get a ticket I would advice you: GO! Its not noisy but great to see the show, she's really a star of m heart. and I do NOT go often to shows, this one was worth seeing...
Happy weekend !!!
Thanks for sharing the Italy shots :)
JoAnn's D Eyes/HOLLAND
(ps-ps: my internet-modem was broken so I could not react earlier excuse me!) - 5 September 2008 at 12:25
I wish you a nice weekend, too. And I see ... you have seen a lot in Tuscany. It must be beautiful there. I wanted to be in Florence or Venice in the middel of September (birthday), but it was impossible to get a flight. So we decided for Bologna instead. I will be sitting on the piazza very soon. Perhaps we can go to Florence as well. So your beautiful photos are just the right thing for me to see and read.
- 5 September 2008 at 13:52
- Shionge said...
It is still spectacular Peter...absolutely stunning photos there. Just have to plan a return trip soon :D
You have a wonderful weekend too. - 5 September 2008 at 16:26
I forgot , what I was saying to you after reading that touching comment of Abraham. And I agree with him.
Happy weekend to you, Peter! - 5 September 2008 at 19:20
Every scene is so beautiful, it's overwhelming. I must get there one day. All that stone, brick, vegetation, beautiful architecture. You must have been so full when you left.
- 5 September 2008 at 19:42
- Alain said...
C'est difficile de dire celle qu'on préfère, peut être les vitrines du bijoutier ou la ruelle si étroite de Lucca.
- 5 September 2008 at 22:28
- Alain said...
Pinnocchio, une oeuvre immortelle, comme Peter Pan ou Alice au pays des merveilles, à inscrire au patrimoine de l'humanité.
- 5 September 2008 at 22:30
- Virginia said...
Peter, thanks for the fabulous tour. I have loved being able to see this part of the world through your lens. Your photographs are superb as always.
PS My French class was cancelled. I am so disappointed. I will just have to fall back on the few phrases I know, whip out my dictionary or beg for help with a pleading look on my face!:) - 6 September 2008 at 05:51
- PeterParis said...
Battue de justesse!! :-)
On ne peux pas toujours gagner. Le principal est de participer! :-) - 6 September 2008 at 09:02
- PeterParis said...
Ca a été un bon début de la journée, merci! :-). Merci aussi pour tes compliments!
J'imatiente... Tu as un sèche-cheveux éfficace?
Un voyage sans trop de frais...! - 6 September 2008 at 09:07
- PeterParis said...
J'avais du mal à me reveiller à l'heure des brumes matinales.
La porte de la villa restait fermée!
J'étais obligé de boire trois cafés ce matin!
(La Paloma me suit presque partout. Tant mieux!)
S'il suffit d'être un bon photographe pour être béatifié, je vois bien d'autres candidats! - 6 September 2008 at 09:13
- PeterParis said...
Ils ont de la chance!
You are right. I already answered above!
You find wonderful ice-creams all around in Italy. It's said that "Vivoli" in Florence offers the best ice-cream in the world. (It was closed for holidays in August!!)
I had no specific good place for my Palio shots. I just used my arms and tried to have longer arms than my neighbours! - 6 September 2008 at 09:22
- PeterParis said...
I'm really touched by your extremely kind comments! I wish I could hug you also! You are definitely an incredible person! It's always a pure pleasure to visit your different blogs!
You are right. Italy is nice! Maybe I will be in Venice early next year (carnival times). Still with a question mark. I'm at present dreaming of a trip to Mongolia... maybe by the Transiberian... Nothing decided.
A September trip sounds nice! Less tourists and the beginning of beautiful colours...! - 6 September 2008 at 09:30
- PeterParis said...
Including a new visit to Paris, I hope!
Abrahal's comments were really touching! I'm now also touched by your comment! (I would also like to hug YOU!)
With your photographer talent, I wold very much look forward to your Tuscany posts! - 6 September 2008 at 09:34
- PeterParis said...
Tu as raison!
A Coddoli, ils ont crée un Parc Pinnochio. A éviter! Rien à voir ou faire et très cher!
Too bad! But, when in Paris, you can always count on me if you need some help! - 6 September 2008 at 09:39
- Ash said...
I completely agree with Abraham's comment! He's said it so well what we all feel so dearly about you, your blog, your passion for travel and photography.
- 6 September 2008 at 10:53
- Ash said...
Like Leena, I too forget what I had initially planned to say..
The Tuscany villas are gorgeous :-) - 6 September 2008 at 10:55
- Shammickite said...
How beautiful! No wonder Italians love their country so much, even the Italians who no longer live in Italy!
Do you speak any Italian, Peter? I wonder how difficult it would be for me, a non-Italian speaker, to travel in Italy and to go to the wonderful places you have seen on your holiday. - 6 September 2008 at 16:07
- Thérèse said...
I'll stay with all the greenery of Italy in mind, green is not too present over here! Have a nice weekend!
- 6 September 2008 at 16:11
- Daniel Chérouvrier said...
N'est ce pas trop difficile de se retrouver sous le ciel parisien avec l'humeur maussade des Parisiens loin de la joie de vivre et la faconde de nos cousins italiens ?
Il semble plus facile de supporter avec bonne humeur Berlusconi de l'autre côté des Alpes que son homologue dans l'hexagone. - 7 September 2008 at 19:05
- PeterParis said...
I'm confused about all these compliments...
No, I don't speak Italian (of course a few words), but with a bit of English, French, Spanish...
Language should not be an obstacle for a visit to Italy!
Green is a quite nice colour! (Among others.) - 7 September 2008 at 23:47
- PeterParis said...
A choisir entre Berlusconi et Sarkozy... - 7 September 2008 at 23:49
- di.di said...
one day i hope this will be my post... hahhahaha... im going to blog about this place.. one day i will....
- 8 September 2008 at 13:58
- Mona said...
wow! what a picturesque scenic beauty!
- 8 September 2008 at 22:37
- sonia a. mascaro said...
Fantastic photos! I would like to be there...
My son knows Lucca and loved the place! - 9 September 2008 at 15:53
- Neva said...
The landscape is quite a view to behold!...It certainly looks like you had a fabulous time....
- 9 September 2008 at 17:50
Je suis trop contente de voir des photos de Toscane et surtout de Lucca où j'étais en vacances. merci Peter pour ces photos ensoleillées...
- 11 September 2008 at 09:25
- Ming the Merciless said...
Bella! Multo bella!
Okay, that's the extend of my Italian vocabulary. :-)
Italy is next on my list of places to visit, especially Rome and Capri. - 11 September 2008 at 20:04
- Magda Machnicka said...
Wonderful, wonderful!!! My sister who is a lawyer, did her doctorate in European Institute, which is placed in Fiesole. I think it is the most beautiful placed university on Earth :-)
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EU steps up fight against 'fake news' ahead of elections
Officials unveiled the measures Wednesday as part of an action plan to counter disinformation in the lead up to the continent-wide vote.
European Union authorities want internet companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter to file monthly reports on their progress eradicating "fake news" campaigns from their platforms ahead of elections next year.
Officials from the EU's executive Commission unveiled the measures Wednesday as part of an action plan to counter disinformation in the lead up to the continent-wide vote in the spring.
The internet companies will have to submit their reports from January until May, when hundreds of millions of people in 27 EU member countries are scheduled to vote for 705 lawmakers in the bloc's parliament.
The Commission singled out Russia.
"There is strong evidence pointing to Russia as a primary source of disinformation in Europe," said Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip.
Many EU member countries have already taken action to combat disinformation, but now "we need to work together and coordinate our efforts," he said.
Russian authorities have repeatedly rejected Western accusations of sponsoring disinformation campaigns and described them as part of Western efforts to smear the country.
Other measures include a new "rapid alert system," beefing up budgets and adding expert staff and data analysis tools.
Google, Facebook, Twitter and browser maker Mozilla are the companies that so far have signed up to a voluntary EU code of conduct on fighting disinformation.
They'll be expected to report on how they're carrying out commitments they made under the code, including their work on making political advertising more transparent and how many fake and bot accounts they have identified and shut down. They'll also provide updates on their cooperation with fact-checkers and academic researchers to uncover disinformation campaigns.
Google, which declined to comment, has tightened up requirements for political ads in the EU, including requiring information on who paid for them and for buyers to verify their identities. Facebook, which did not respond to a request for comment, did the same for political ads in Britain.
U.S. technology giants have committed millions of dollars, tens of thousands of employees and what they say are their best technical efforts into fighting fake news, propaganda and hate that has proliferated on their digital platforms.
"We need to see the internet platforms step up and make some real progress on their commitments," said Julian King, the EU security commissioner. If there's not enough headway, the Commission would consider other options including regulation, he said.
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RFC 4156 - The wais URI Scheme
Network Working Group P. Hoffman Request for Comments: 4156 VPN Consortium Category: Historic August 2005 The wais URI Scheme Status of This Memo This memo defines a Historic Document for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract This document specifies the wais Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme that was originally specified in RFC 1738. The purpose of this document is to allow RFC 1738 to be made obsolete while keeping the information about the scheme on standards track. 1. Introduction URIs were previously defined in RFC 2396 [RFC2396], which was updated by RFC 3986 [RFC3986]. Those documents also specify how to define schemes for URIs. The first definitions for many URI schemes appeared in RFC 1738 [RFC1738]. Because that document has been made obsolete, this document copies the wais URI scheme from it to allow that material to remain on standards track. 2. Scheme Definition The WAIS URL scheme is used to designate WAIS databases, searches, or individual documents available from a WAIS database. The WAIS protocol is described in RFC 1625 [RFC1625]. Although the WAIS protocol is based on Z39.50-1988, the WAIS URL scheme is not intended for use with arbitrary Z39.50 services. Historical note: The WAIS protocol was not widely implemented and almost no WAIS servers are in use today. A WAIS URL takes one of the following forms: wais://<host>:<port>/<database> wais://<host>:<port>/<database>?<search> wais://<host>:<port>/<database>/<wtype>/<wpath> If :<port> is omitted, the port defaults to 210. The first form designates a WAIS database that is available for searching. The second form designates a particular search. <database> is the name of the WAIS database being queried. The third form designates a particular document, within a WAIS database, to be retrieved. In this form <wtype> is the WAIS designation of the type of the object. Many WAIS implementations require that a client know the "type" of an object prior to retrieval; the type is returned along with the internal object identifier in the search response. The <wtype> is included in the URL in order to give the client interpreting the URL adequate information to actually retrieve the document. The <wpath> of a WAIS URL consists of the WAIS document-id. The WAIS document-id should be treated opaquely; it may only be decomposed by the server that issued it. 3. Security Considerations Many security considerations for URI schemes are discussed in [RFC3986]. There are no security considerations listed in [RFC1625], but it should be noted that there is no privacy nor authentication specified in the WAIS protocol. 4. Informative References [RFC1738] Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill, "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, December 1994. [RFC2396] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396, August 1998. [RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. [RFC1625] St. Pierre, M., Fullton, J., Gamiel, K., Goldman, J., Kahle, B., Kunze, J., Morris, H., and F. Schiettecatte, "WAIS over Z39.50-1988", RFC 1625, June 1994. Author's Address Paul Hoffman VPN Consortium 127 Segre Place Santa Cruz, CA 95060 US EMail: firstname.lastname@example.com Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. 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Paul Weyrich's Troika Reunited: ALEC Partners with Republican Study Committee at Heritage Foundation
Three right-wing organizations founded nearly forty years ago by conservative activist Paul Weyrich are rediscovering their shared origins. The Republican Study Committee, a caucus of 169 right-wing Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, is establishing a partnership with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the controversial "corporate bill mill" for state legislators, and their first meeting is scheduled at the Heritage Foundation headquarters. Each of those three organizations -- the RSC, ALEC, and the Heritage Foundation -- were founded in 1973 by Weyrich. (Weyrich passed away in 2008.)
"With the Internal Revenue Service reviewing ALEC's long history of tax fraud, and with major corporations like General Electric, General Motors and Coca-Cola heading for the exits, it's mind-boggling to see the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and its 169 members looking to establish even informal ties to ALEC," Common Cause President Bob Edgar said in a statement.
Next week's meeting, which Roll Call reports will include at least six federal and 18 state lawmakers, is perhaps less surprising given the shared history between ALEC and the RSC.
ALEC, RSC, Heritage Share Origins
ALEC has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months as the public has become aware of its role in advancing the "Stand Your Ground" law initially cited to protect Trayvon Martin's killer, as well as voter suppression bills, anti-environmental and union-busting policies, and other controversial legislation. Amidst these controversies, at least thirty-eight corporate members have cut ties to ALEC and seventy state legislators have dropped their ALEC membership.
Though few Americans were aware of ALEC until recently, it was founded nearly forty years ago.
Some have traced the organization's roots to the 1971 "Powell Memo," a letter from soon-to-be U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell to the director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce mapping out a game plan for corporations to counter what he called a "frontal assault" on the free enterprise system from individuals like Ralph Nader and the environmental movement. "Business must learn the lesson ... that political power is necessary," Powell wrote, and "that such power must be assidously [sic] cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination."
Many have credited the memo as inspiring the founding of right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation in 1973, but few have noted that Weyrich co-founded ALEC and the RSC that same year -- just two years after the Powell Memo was issued. Weyrich would go on to found the Free Congress Foundation the following year and in 1977 he co-founded the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell.
"Next to Ronald Reagan, no single person has achieved more to advance the cause of American conservatism than Paul Weyrich," conservative activist Morton Blackwell wrote in 2008.
When Weyrich died in 2008, then-RSC Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued a statement saying, "The Heritage Foundation, which he co-founded, is an intellectual home for all conservatives. And without Paul, the Republican Study Committee, which he worked to create, would not exist today. His ideas and principles will be carried on by not just the Republican Study Committee and the Heritage foundation, but by conservatives across the country that rely on the institutions which Paul worked to establish."
Weyrich famously observed that with regard to the conservative movement "our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down." Today, ALEC and the GOP are pursuing his vision with a voter suppression agenda that includes strict voter identification bills introduced in 37 states across the nation since 2011, purportedly to crack down on phantom "voter fraud."
Not the First Time ALEC has Worked on Federal Level
Though ALEC has always been focused on state-level policy, its latest collaboration with the RSC is not the first time it has worked with federal lawmakers.
ALEC boasts on its website that in 1981, President Ronald Reagan formed a national Task Force on Federalism, which included ALEC's then-National Chairman Tom Stivers of Idaho, and "would come to rely heavily upon members of ALEC for expert testimony." According to ALEC's history, ALEC members like "State Senator [now Governor] John Kasich of Ohio and Senate President Robert Monier of New Hampshire regularly met in front of the committee." ALEC also claims that it "worked directly with the administration on policy development issues."
In 2005, ALEC established a "Federal Forum" program to build a "working relationship among current and former ALEC members at all levels of government," but it is not clear how long that program lasted.
More recently, ALEC-inspired environmental legislation has appeared in the U.S. House of Representatives with help from House Majority Speaker Eric Cantor, an ALEC alumni. Currently, at least 88 ALEC alumni are in the U.S. House of Representatives, including Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), as well as RSC Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Nine U.S. Senators are former ALEC members, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Meetings May Raise Legal Issues
Regardless of what comes from the reunification of RSC, ALEC, and the Heritage Foundation, the meetings may raise other concerns.
As a charity organized under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, lobbying is not supposed to be a "substantial part" of ALEC's overall activities. Common Cause and former IRS official Marcus Owens have filed IRS complaints alleging that ALEC is violating its charitable status by engaging in substantial lobbying through the promotion and development of model legislation. (A third complaint was filed by the Voters Legislative Transparency Project in August). Rather than arguing that lobbying is an insubstantial part of its activities, ALEC has told the IRS for years that it engages in "zero" lobbying. But meeting directly with members of Congress cannot be construed as anything but lobbying, said Joe Birkenstock, a lawyer at the DC firm Caplin & Drysdale who advises clients on Congressional ethics. "To the extent that ALEC officials themselves are at this event, they are having lobbying contacts," he told Roll Call. "It seems to me that it's probably a slam-dunk."
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The new millennium has seen the born of a new class of full-text indexes which are structurally similar to Suffix Trees and Suffix Arrays, in that they support the powerful substring search operation, but are succinct in space, in that it is close to the empirical entropy of the indexed data. They are therefore called compressed Suffix Trees and compressed Suffix Arrays, or in general compressed indexes. In the literature we counted more than 20 papers authored by more than 20 different researchers. This interest is motivated by the large availability of textual data in electronic form, by the ever increasing gap in performance among the memory levels of current PCs, and by the "non negligible" space occupancy of classic data structures like Suffix Trees and Suffix Arrays which are pervading the BioInformatics and the Text Mining fields. Don Knuth already observed, in its famous 3rd Volume on the Art of Computer Programming, that "space optimization is closely related to time optimization in a disk memory". So we believe that compressed indexes may become a crucial tool for the design of sophisticated and efficient software solutions given the ubiquity of indexing data structures in them. We nevertheless note that the algorithmic technology underlying these compressed indexes stays not at an undergraduate level. Consequently the implementation of any known compressed index requires much engineering effort, a strong algorithmic background, and still the final program may possibly not achieve its best performance! This site has two mirrors: one in Italy and one in Chile. Hence you can argue the why of its name ;-) Its ultimate goal is to push towards the technology transfer of this fascinating algorithmic technology lying at the crossing point of data compression and data structure design. In order to achieve this goal the Pizza&Chili site offers publicly available implementations of compressed indexes. Each implementation follows a suitable API of functions which should, in our intention, allow any programmer to plug the provided compressed indexes within their own software and play with their functionalities and efficiency. The site also offers a collection of texts for experimenting and validating compressed indexes. In detail it offers three kinds of material:
It goes without saying that with this site we hope to mimic the success and impact of other initiatives as data-compression.info and the Calgary and Canterbury corpora, just to cite a few. Actually the Pizza&Chili site is born as a "mix" of both of them, by offering software and testbeds. Several people have already contributed to make this site working and, hopefully, many more people will contribute to turn it into the reference for all researchers and software developers interested in experimenting and developing the compressed-index technology. The API we propose is thus intended to provide a reference for any researcher who wishes to contribute to the Pizza&Chili repository with his/her new compressed index. Have fun!


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How can we understand this moment of 'AIDS Crisis Revisitation', exemplified by the success of films like United in Anger and How to Survive a Plague. Video artist, activist, and academic Alexandra Juhasz provides some insight.
Making and thinking about
AIDS activist video since the mid 80's, Juhasz coined the term "Queer Archive
Activism". In this first of two blog post Visual AIDS interviews her about her term and in the next
post we flesh how Queer Archive Activism works in the world. Visit Alexandra Juhasz's website.
Visual AIDS: Can you tell me about your phrase Queer Archive Activism? What does it mean? Where did it come from?
"Queer Archive Activism" is a term I used (or maybe made up?) to discuss my experimental videotape, Video Remains (2004), in concert with a larger conversation ("The GLQ Archive, AIDS Cluster: Twenty-five Years, 1981-2006"), edited by David Roman for GLQ. In my article, "Video Remains: Nostalgia, Technology, and Queer Archive Activism," I say that term is a "practical and theoretical possibility" that might be of good use for people who might be, like me, deeply concerned with the connection between nostalgia, video and AIDS.
Archive: I was an AIDS video activist at the beginning of the AIDS crisis when I was a graduate student in New York City in the late 1980s. Like many of my cohort—who came into activism in and through AIDS and by using newly available VHS camcorders—I was left with a private collection of AIDS videotapes: completed documentaries and art videos, as well as footage for projects unrealized, or of our daily interactions as young people growing into adulthood (or not) through AIDS. Since many, or even most of the people documented in those tapes are dead, and because that time of aggressive movement, passion, anger, community and also death is itself also dead, I thought of these tapes as my haunted, cherished, and terrible archive, and, years later, I was concerned about my feelings of nostalgia for that time and those images.
Queer: I made Video Remains from one tape from my archive, a 55-minute long-take video I had shot of my best friend, James Robert Lamb, when he was dying. Ours was a life-creating love and relationship between straight woman and gay man that can only be described as queer. The many lesbians who I worked with as AIDS activists, and then later asked to contribute to the making of Video Remains, also spoke movingly about the love, commitment, and care of lesbians for gay men during that earlier time: what else served this relation but queer? In the article, I wrote: "the tape enacts a queer practice by commingling history and politics with feelings, feelings of desire, love, hope, or despair for both my videotape evidence and my anticipated audience."
Activism: The activism in the phrase is the making of grief, anger, and nostalgia into something present, public, communal, and active. When I wrote the article in 2006, I had a theoretical stake, but also lived experience, that moved me to want to think beyond mourning and melancholia, words that many AIDS activist theorists of my time had quite appropriately ascribed to our daily condition during the deadliest phase of this crisis in the US. Douglas Crimp wrote at the time that these psychological conditions were paralyzing, and this was not a position we had the luxury to take: no paralysis in the face of friends dying. Many years later, I wanted to think if we could communally revisit these deaths, that activism, and our ongoing lives, in a way that was active, and political. I found this description of nostalgia to be quite moving in relation to my needs: "Unlike melancholia, which confines itself to the planes of individual consciousness, nostalgia is about the relationship between individual biography and the biography of groups or nations, between personal and collective memory."
I wrote: "I am committed to understanding the activity and collectivity in video, how through making a video in 2004 about AIDS in 1992 I left my solitary, backward-looking circumstances and made them public and forward-looking through interviewing, screening, and discussing. I made my mourning productive, collective, and interactive through video production, montage, and reception."
Visual AIDS: When do you think it started and why do you think it is happening now?
In 2006, I wrote: "I made Video Remains from an archive of video records of my past and the recent past of AIDS and for my contemporaries, people who lived through this dying, people who, I believe, are currently engaged in a debilitating, private melancholic remembrance of AIDS in the 1980s. We have disciplined ourselves to silence our grief and anger, keeping this private, hidden, and personal; of course, our indifferent culture does not seem to mind this quiet. But silence does equal death, after all. By sacrificing our melancholic memories and making them public, I think we can make our mourning visible (as well as our analysis and our anger) and use this to produce something better for the future."
Now, in 2013, I see two things happening:
1) we have a treasure trove of contemporary documentaries and websites also participating in a Queer Archive Activism. It has been remarkable, astounding, and inspiring to see so many of my past contemporaries engaging in their own public, mourning, angry memorials of the early history of AIDS in the US: Vito, How to Survive a Plague, United in Anger, Inventing Safer Sex, We Were Here.
And 2) And yet silences about AIDS also persist: in mainstream culture, in queer culture, between generations, in hard hit communities of color and poor people.
In both cases, my biggest concern is that both AIDS and AIDS activism are understood as things of the past; as if AIDS is not of the present. We also have lost the sense of power (in the face of hopelessness or death) from that earlier period: the felt belief that our activities and activism matter to AIDS, and each other: our actions could change AIDS and ourselves, not privately, but socially and communally.
Alexandra Juhasz has been making and thinking about AIDS activist video since the mid-80s. She is the author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke, 1995) and many later essays about the changing shape of the representation of AIDS including: "From the Scenes of Queens: Genre, AIDS and Queer Love," in The Cinema of Todd Haynes, "So Many Alternatives: The Alternative AIDS Video Movement," From ACT UP to the WTO, "Forgetting ACT UP," ACT UP 25 Forum, Quarterly Journal of Speech, "AIDS Video: To Dream and Dance with the Censor, Jump Cut, She was aguest editor for APLA's Corpus V: Women, Gay Men and AIDS (March 2006) and is interviewed in the ACT UP Oral History project online. As a videomaker, she has made a large number of AIDS educational videos including Living with AIDS: Women and AIDS (1987) , Safer and Sexier: A College Student's Guide to Safer Sex (1991), and most recently, Video Remains (2005). She is a Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College.


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Syria Crisis: Tears falling on a foreign land
Syria Crisis: Tears falling on a foreign land
TEL SHIHAB, Jordan, June 12 (UNHC) - The tears are falling before Hala has even crossed the border. At the moment she enters Jordan, dragging a large black bag with all of her possessions, she lets out a heart-wrenching sob.
Nothing has prepared Hala for becoming a refugee. Now, with her eight children, her sisters and their little ones, she is far from her home in the city of Homs and her husband is still in Syria.
Today, UNHCR field staff are meeting new refugees on Jordan's northern border with Syria. Along with the Jordanian military, they comfort Hala's younger children and help carry their luggage away from the border near Tel Shihab.
After more than two years of vicious civil war in Syria, the soldiers at the border have seen daily flows of people crossing into Jordan. They know all too well the heartbreak, stress and trauma faced by those fleeing. More than 1.6 million Syrians have fled their country since March 2011 and sought shelter in neighbouring countries, including more than 470,000 in Jordan.
"We are all just so exhausted," says Hala. "My children are hungry and tired. We haven't had enough food for weeks and they have all seen more than they should. I worry for them. I worry for my country."
Hala's youngest child, Hiba, is just six months old and the conflict in her homeland has been raging her whole life. Perhaps sensing her mother's fear and upset, tears roll down her rosy pink cheeks and catch in her long dark lashes. But, she doesn't make a sound and her siblings are equally quiet and watchful.
"We don't know what will happen to us now. I hope the fear will pass and that we will be safe now that we are in Jordan. But I also hope that the war will end and that we can go home again. I hope, Inshallah," Hala says.
Her resilience and strength are clear - she has held her family together from Homs to Damascus, and now in Jordan she will do it again. Gently she wipes the tears from her face and, clutching the hands of children, moves off to find some space to rest before the next step of their journey to Za'atri refugee camp, which is now home to more than 100,000 refugees.
UNHCR has dedicated and compassionate staff working on the ground, around the clock, providing care, support and essential relief supplies to refugees like Hala. But, as the war in Syria rages on and thousands of people continue to arrive every day, the agency's resources are increasingly stretched.
Last Friday, UNHCR, other UN agencies and dozens of humanitarian organizations called on donor nations and other supporters to provide billions of dollars in additional funding to help the millions of desperate Syrians inside and outside their country. UNHCR and its partners need US$2.9 billion to help refugees in the surrounding region this year.
At this time, every donation will make a difference and a gift of just US$20 could help pay for mats to prevent two families from having to sleep on the ground. Refugees like Hala, her children and her relatives need your help today.
Please make a donation to the UNHCR Syria appeal.
By Kirsty McFadden in Tel Shihab, Jordan


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Technological Neutrality and Free Software
by Richard StallmanProprietary developers arguing against laws to move towards free software often claim this violates the principle of "technological neutrality." The conclusion is wrong, but where is the error?
Technological neutrality is the principle that the state should not impose preferences for or against specific kinds of technology. For example, there should not be a rule that specifies whether state agencies should use solid state memory or magnetic disks, or whether they should use GNU/Linux or BSD. Rather, the agency should let bidders propose any acceptable technology as part of their solutions, and choose the best/cheapest offer by the usual rules.
The principle of technological neutrality is valid, but it has limits. Some kinds of technology are harmful; they may pollute air or water, encourage antibiotic resistance, abuse their users, abuse the workers that make them, or cause massive unemployment. These should be taxed, regulated, discouraged, or even banned.
The principle of technological neutrality applies only to purely technical decisions. It is not "ethical neutrality" or "social neutrality"; it does not apply to decisions about ethical and social issues—such as the choice between free software and proprietary software.
For instance, when the state adopts a policy of migrating to free software in order to restore the computing sovereignty of the country and lead the people towards freedom and cooperation, this isn't a technical preference. This is an ethical, social and political policy, not a technological policy. The state is not supposed to be neutral about maintaining the people's freedom or encouraging cooperation. It is not supposed to be neutral about maintaining or recovering its sovereignty.
It is the state's duty to insist that the software in its public agencies respect the computing sovereignty of the country, and that the software taught in its schools educate its students in freedom and cooperation. The state must insist on free software, exclusively, in public agencies and in education. The state has the responsibility to maintain control of its computing, so it must not surrender that control to Service as a Software Substitute. In addition, the state must not reveal to companies the personal data that it maintains about citizens.
When no ethical imperatives apply to a certain technical decision, it can be left to the domain of technological neutrality.


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The forum on this Discussion Paper is now closed. Thanks to all who contributed. The policy paper on this topic is forthcoming.
Questions considered:
1) How should the multilateral system, and the UN in particular, best frame its approach to fragile states and fragile cities?
2) In light of the analysis put forth in the paper, what is your reaction to the policy recommendations and what other recommendations, if any, would you propose?
3) Any other views, observations or questions that should be addressed with regards to this paper?
Watch the webcast of the public consultation on our paper:


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In Australia, there are a number of ways to structure your home loan repayments. Finding the best option may save you time and money on your mortgage. Here is some information to help you choose the repayment structure that works best for you.
Variable interest rate loans are all about flexibility. Essentially, with a variable rate loan, the interest rate moves up or down as the market moves. This means your loan repayments may also change month-to-month.
If the interest rate drops, then your repayments may drop as well. However, in the event of an interest rate rise, your repayments could also increase.
Many variable rate loans come with additional features, which can reduce the amount of interest paid over the life of the loan. For example, a variable rate loan with a 100% offset arrangement links your loan account to your savings account. Any funds held in your savings account are offset against the borrowed amount, reducing the interest you have to pay.
Many variable rate loans offer flexibility in terms of increased payments, allowing you to pay off your loan faster if you have additional funds available.
A fixed rate loan is one where the interest rate is fixed for a limited period, and immune from any movements in the market. The most popular choices are three and five-year fixed interest loans, although options ranging from one to ten years are available.
Fixed rate loans allow you to make steady, regular repayments. They're great for borrowers on strict budgets, or if you're entering into a mortgage at a time when interest rates are likely to rise.
In the event of a drop in interest rates, being locked into a fixed rate may mean your repayments are higher than they otherwise would be. It's also worth noting that breaking a fixed rate loan can potentially cost thousands of dollars in fees.
Additionally, many banks will charge you a fee for making extra payments towards the loan during the period it has been fixed.
A split rate loan is when you break your mortgage into two loans – one with a fixed rate and one with a variable rate.
It's something of an 'each-way bet'. A split loan offers borrowers protection from rate rises (with the fixed portion of the loan) alongside the advantage of rate drops (with the variable portion of the loan).
Most banks will allow you to split your loans from the outset, without having to pay for two separate loan applications.
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Jhen's Sweet Corner is the latest company to sign on as a Northern Marianas College ProaPerks Partner, joining many other businesses and organizations. All card-carrying members of the NMC ProaPerks program can now receive a free iced tea with any order.
Jhen's Sweet Corner joins the growing list of ProaPerks partners, such as 153 Restaurant, 360 Restaurant, 4EVER CNMI, Alamo Car Rental, AllStar Sporting Goods, Aqua Connections, Inc., Aquasmith, Athlete's Foot, Avis Rent A Car, BAB Korean Restaurant Cup Bab, Chagi Norf Kitchen, Boarderline, Bolis R US 2, Candle J, Caravan of Food, Casa Decor, Casa Urashima, Chelu Alynez Enterprise, Chungi Wa Korean Restaurant, Clear Water Place, Clear Water Residence, Clear Water Villa, Coral Garden Hotel, Cosmos Lounge, D' Chef's Kitchen, Docomo Pacific, Dollar Days, Enterprise Car Rental, Ete Cafe, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods, Fork and Spoon, Garapan Restaurant Cafe & Grill, Gold's Gym, Grandvrio Resort Saipan, Great Harvest, Boyer Trading Company LLC. dba Ginen Saipan, Ha'ani Company, Healing Stones Spa, Highway Express Auto Care Center, Herman's Modern Bakery, Inc., Hertz Rental Car, Hyatt, Ice Island Coffee & Ice Deserts, Hotel Americano, Ina's Kitchen, International Roller Skates, Isla Shave Ice, Islander Rent A Car, Java Joe's, JC Cafe, Judy's Cafe & Restaurant, Junlyn Salon, Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell, Kiki's, Latte Built Gym, Lohas Massage, Lohas Nails, Lucky Store, Lucky II Mart, Magbers Snack Bar, Majesty Restaurant, Mama D's Cafe, Mariana Lighthouse, Marianas Creation, MMC & Pacific Labs, LLC, Megabyte, Mermaid Restaurant & Milk tea, Micafe Snack Corner, Nam Dae Moon, National Car Rental, Natural Nail & Spa, Neni Girl Nails, NMC Bookstore, Ocean Candy, Ocean Star Restaurant, Pacific Home Appliances, Paradise Dental Spa, Pena House Boutique, Pizzeria Bar & Grill, Pokiyaki, Residence Lodge, Saipan Computer Services, Shirley's Cafe, Salty's, Stay Cafe, Summer Snow Cafe & Kids Corner cafe, Summit Auto Repair Shop, Surf Club, Residence Lodge, The Ohala Foundation Clothing, The Pacific Supply, The Shack, Time Creation Corp., Tinian Diamond Hotel, Tom Yum Restaurant, Tribe Marianas, and Triple J Motors.
The NMC Proa Perks program provides exclusive discounts and benefits for Northern Marianas College students, employees, and alumni. Northern Marianas College is in the introductory phase of rolling out the ProaPerks to alumni, students, and employees. For more information, visit marianas.edu/proaperks.


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Few leagues in the United States can boast of a richer tradition or more illustrious past than the east coast's Cosmopolitan Soccer League.
U.S. World Cup star Claudio Reyna honed his skills in its junior league. The New York Cosmos were spawned there, and some of the world's top clubs were regular visitors during the "golden years" of the amateur game in the 50's and 60's
Now surpassing over 90 years of existence, the league, formerly the German American Football Association, has, undeniable, carved out a distinct niche for itself on the American Soccer landscape.
There are 106 clubs in the CSL's 9 divisions today, conveying the New York metropolitan area. This number includes the reserve teams that First Division as well as the teams in our Over 30 Division.
What was once a German inspired collection of teams in the beginning has over the decades evolved into a truly cosmopolitan refection of the metropolitan area's demographics. Clubs in the CSL represent the spectrum in ethnicity and bring a high level of enthusiasm and some outstanding talent to the field every Sunday.
The league was launched as the German American Soccer League by five clubs back in 1923. The five, S.C. New York. Wiener Sport Club, D.S.C. Brooklyn, Hoboken F.C., and Newark S.C. were joined by four more, Swiss F.C., Elizabeth S.C., Eintracht S.C., and Germania S.C. a year later. The league was later re-organized into the German American Football Association (GAFA) in 1927.
Member clubs didn't take long to make their presence felt at the national level. As early as 1929, Newark S.C.'s predominantly German side had reached the final of the National Amateur Cup, losing to Heidelberg of Pennsylvania, while D.S.C Brooklyn would go one better, defeating Castle Shannon of Pittsburgh in 1936 to bring the cup to the GAFA. In the same year, Hatikvoh lifted the National Junior Challenge Cup, three years after the GAFA had formed a junior division.
Many former pros found themselves moving to the States because of political or economic oppression in order to find a better life. What the league ended up getting were some world class players. Ukrainian S.C., now in the Metro Division was once a power house in the GAFA, was one club that owed its success to good immigrant talent.
Established in 1947 by Ukrainian émigrés fleeing communist oppression, they won the U.S. Junior Challenge in 1959, the U.S. National Challenge Cup in 1965 and the GAFA title in 1964, '65 and '66 as well as the Manning Cup in 1969
Still, fewer political events have had as much impact on the shift in a league as the 1956 Hungarian Revolution had on GAFA. "All of a sudden, we had top class Hungarian players coming over" recalls Wolfgang Radermacher, former player and coach for Eintracht. The results were four championships in a row for New York Hungaria S.C. who took on a lot of newcomers, between the 1958-59 and 1962-63 seasons.
The Hungarian exiles -- among them the Geza brothers, goalkeeper Heni who was capped 19 times for the great Hungarian national side of the 50's and Nikolas, a defender - also bagged the National Challenge Cup for Hungaria S.C. in 1961 and '62.
So dominate was the Hungaria side that the U.S. State Department selected them to represent the United States on an 11 mach Middle Eastern tour in 1962. They returned undefeated.
But the transplanted Hungarians' greatest victory of sorts had come earlier when a few of them were picked for the GAFA All-Star team to face crack German side Kaiserslautern in 1957. Back in 1954, West Germany had stunned Hungary 3-2 to win the World Cup in Kiaserslautern, the Hungarians in the GAFA select were primed for revenge. They got it in a 2-1 win.
The All-Star tradition, first began in 1930 would later give birth to the New York Cosmos in 1968. "The Cosmos was our team, our select team" CSL's former secretary emeritus Fritz Marth said of the side that in the 70's lured Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and other world stars to the North American Soccer League.
In addition to that, until the demise of the Cosmos, in the 80's, the CSL received $12,000 annually from the Cosmos' last owners, Warner Communications. Among the CSL's greatest achievement over the years has been its commitment to the development of youth soccer through its junior league.
Part of this has been through the work of individuals, going back to the 30's , like Harry A. Kraus, the first junior chairman of the GAFA who later served as a Vice President of the USSFA; Walter Marburg, a top junior league administrator in the 60's and coach Miguel Reyna.
The father of U.S. international Claudio Reyna, Miguel's Union County junior teams undertook successful South American tours, won numerous league and invitational tournaments and placed many players in college teams. Claudio, needless to say, is the most famous Union County alumnus to date.
The CSL continues to provide the highest level of amateur soccer in the area and with our work with the NY Red Bulls, we hope that our players will be able to make it to the next level.


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SALT LAKE CITY June 10, 2016 – Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes disagreed with Thursday's decision from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which effectively removes any limitations on state legislatures from restricting Second Amendment rights under the US Constitution to carry a concealed weapon.
"With this ruling, the Ninth Circuit further undermines a bedrock constitutional right," said Attorney General Sean Reyes. "By holding that the Second Amendment in no way guarantees a law-abiding individual's right to carry a concealed weapon in public, the court effectively grants state legislatures in the Ninth Circuit unlimited power to impose whatever regulation—no matter how onerous or irrational—on the exercise of a critical constitutional right.
"No one claims these rights should be entirely free from governmental restriction. For example, we justifiably prohibit violent felons from owning guns. But to allow a scheme preventing law abiding citizens from protecting themselves outside the home is wrong and unconstitutional. It is why Utah joined 20 other states last year in opposing these drastic deprivations of a fundamental right.
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Totnes publishes groundbreaking Local Economic Blueprint
By rob hopkins 28th March 2013
Today sees the publication of what may well turn out to be one of the most important documents yet produced by a Transition initiative. Over the next few weeks we will be returning to it, to hear a range of perspectives on it, and hope it will generate debate and discussion. The document is the 'Totnes & District Local Economic Blueprint', and you can download it for free here. The Blueprint is the first attempt that I am aware of to map in detail a local economy and to put a value on the potential benefits of an increased degree of localisation. If you like, it identifies "the size of the prize" of Transition.
Here Fiona Ward of the REconomy Project introduces the Blueprint:
Economic localisation has often been argued from a range of perspectives, such as being a better way forward and being more sustainable, but rarely has the economic case to back it up been clearly set out. The Blueprint concludes that:
- Although nationally 97% of grocery sales go through just 8,000 supermarkets – in Totnes 26% of money spent on food is already spent with a thriving web of local businesses. Plans to bring just 10% of the £22 million that currently leaves the local food economy to local businesses by targeting everyday items that could be bought cheaper locally would provide a £2.2 million boost to the local economy;
- Making homes in the area more energy efficient could be worth between £26 and £75 million: preparing local businesses to deliver just 10% of this value would be worth at least £2.6 million to the local economy;
- Developing local renewable energy potential could generate £6.4 million energy each year: building local demand and preparing local businesses to deliver as much of the supply chain as possible for just 10% of this potential contributes over £600k per year to our local economy.
This is all before the local economic multiplier is taken into effect, which could make the changes worth far more to the local economy. When combined, this 10% target totals over £5 million which could remain locally and stimulate new jobs, new businesses and a new economy. This is the economic case for seeing community resilience as a form of economic development, indeed as a form of economic development that is far more appropriate to the current economic situation than most of the other ideas being proposed elsewhere.
It is published today by Transition Network's REconomy Project in partnership with: Totnes Town Council, The Totnes and District Chamber of Commerce, The Totnes Development Trust, King Edward VI Community College, Schumacher College and South Devon College, with input from South Hams District Council.
The publication of the Blueprint will be followed by a series of projects (some already underway) that will involve local people and businesses in delivering the opportunities by:
- Working with farmers and growers to strengthen local food supply chains, promoting local food and encouraging the development of local food networks to help identify and realise untapped potential – particularly for everyday items that can be bought cheaper locally;
- Developing the local supply chain for home insulation and other retrofit materials and services, and campaigns encouraging households and businesses to invest will warm homes, reduce bills and create jobs – 22 percent of homes in the Totnes District area have 'poor thermal comfort' – twice the national average;
- Supporting the development of local skills and infrastructure needed to realise the areas renewable energy potential.
The partnership, facilitated by TTT, is encouraging local people and businesses to come together and make the plan happen, and are making their report available so that other groups can conduct similar audits of untapped potential. This report is part of a national pilot run by the Transition Network's REconomy Project. The county of Herefordshire and Brixton in South London are also exploring what could be done to increase the vitality of their local economies. The range of areas studied is designed to maximize learning about the needs and potential of different kinds of local economies.
The national REconomy Project is developing training and support to help others undertake a similar economic evaluation process, meanwhile you can find out more about the process in Totnes here. You can download the Totnes & District Local Economic Blueprint, and the supporting reports for each sector, from Transition Town Totnes and also from the REconomy Project website which includes outputs from the other pilot areas as they appear.
I think it is a really important contribution to the wider debates nationally about where we go as an economy, and the roles that local communities can play in that. Do let us know any thoughts you might have once you've read it, using the comments thread below.