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We sent a strong message to the UN conference urging for the stronger role of local governments in the global discussions. See the message to Rio
Newly elected
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Leading eco-cities discuss the formation of an ICLEI Eco-cities network. For more information contact secretary.general (at) iclei.org
Discussions around formation of a new ICLEI program on health and happiness
New signatories to the Mexico City Pact and Durban Adaptation Charter
Launch of URBIS network, fostering knowledge exchange through URBIS Dialogues to transcend the science-policy interface and to contribute to the achievement of the CBD Aichi Targets
Mayor Park of Seoul, Republic of Korea, elected to be new chair of the World Mayors Council, starting his post later in the year
ICLEI-UNEP Sustainable events guide
Announcement of the Suwon EcoMobility Festival
Attendance of 4 of ICLEI's FutureCityLeaders, raising the voice of youth speaking in high-level plenaries. See here for more information:
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Candidate presented by: Dr. Angela Sorby, Associate Professor of English
Mary Oliver's poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations." Oliver has received countless distinctions, including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and continues to influence generations of younger poets, as well as adding to her legions of loyal readers with each eagerly awaited new book.
Oliver was born in Ohio in 1935. She attended Ohio State University and Vassar College, then a women's college. As a young writer, strongly influenced by the work of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, she wrote to the late poet's sister and was invited to visit. For the next several years, Steepletop, St. Vincent Millay's country house in upper state New York, became her second home. Subsequently, Oliver moved to New York City, then visited England for one year. In 1964, she returned to the United States. During the past two decades, she has taught at various colleges and universities: Case Western Reserve, Bucknell, Sweet Briar College, the University of Cincinnati and Bennington College in Vermont.
Mary is a major literary figure whose past honors include a Guggenheim fellowship and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memoiral Award, among others. Since 1965, she has published many acclaimed volumes of poetry and prose, including her most recent collection, A Thousand Mornings. Perhaps most significantly, though, she has achieved a rare distinction among poets: her work is genuinely popular. People—and not just English majors—read Mary Oliver. Her poems are broadly appealing because, rather than articulating a narrowly autobiographical version of the self, they expand outward into the natural world that we share. To read an Oliver poem is to encounter swamps, hoof-prints, herons, stars and bears. Such images coax us to the edge of the sacred, without defining it for us. Instead, we are asked to contemplate: "Is the soul solid, like iron?" "Who made the grasshopper?" "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
As a Jesuit institution, Marquette University is steeped in Ignatian spirituality, and Mary Oliver's work resonates with this contemplative tradition. We admire her achievements, but we also admire the example she sets as a spiritual guide, seeker, and risk-taker. In gratitude for her work, its reach and its profundity, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Mary Oliver for the Marquette University degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.

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Trading in the exchange rate between two currencies.
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Stanford University's ambitious expansion of its hospital facilities will come with an equally ambitious traffic-management program that university officials hope will unclog some of Palo Alto's busiest intersections and smooth Stanford's path toward the city's approval.
Palo Alto and Stanford University have agreed on an aggressive $126 million package of traffic improvements, including expanded shuttle services, better pedestrian and bike paths, road upgrades and Caltrain Go Passes for more than 9,000 hospital workers. The traffic measures, which the City Council discussed Monday night, aim to alleviate the city's top concern about the medical-center expansion and accelerate Stanford's negotiations with the city over a "development agreement."
The $3 billion project includes the construction of a new Stanford Hospital and Clinics building, expansion of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and reconstruction of various Stanford University School of Medicine facilities. It would add about 1.3 million square feet of new development to Palo Alto and far exceed the city's zoning regulations.
The university has offered to include the traffic-reduction measures as part of a $173 million package of "community benefits" it proposed on Jan. 18. Stanford is willing to include the benefits in a development agreement with Palo Alto.
The measures include four new Marguerite shuttles to whisk commuters from transit stations to the hospital. Stanford would also provide Caltrain Go Passes to all hospital employees -- a measure that the university estimates will cost $90.1 million over the next 50 years. If Caltrain services cease because of budget problems, the funds would be directed to other traffic-reducing measures.
Stanford also proposed to provide a permanent transportation-demand management (TDM) coordinator and to spend $3.35 million to improve pedestrian and bicycle connections around the hospitals and to lease spaces at Ardenwood Park in the East Bay so that employees could use AC Transit to get to work. The university plans to spend $5.1 million on programs related to AC Transit.
Palo Alto Deputy City Manager Steve Emslie said the traffic improvements proposed by Stanford would mitigate traffic impacts at some of the city's busiest intersections -- including University Avenue and Middlefield Road, and El Camino Real and Palm Drive -- to "less-than-significant levels." The program aims to get 35.1 percent of commuters to eschew cars for other modes of transportation.
If Stanford is unable to meet the 35.1 percent alternative mode share by 2025, it would have to pay the city $4 million, under an agreement currently on the table.
Emslie said the goal remains extremely ambitious but noted that Stanford already has a world-class traffic-management program at its academic campus next to Palo Alto. It also helps that more than 22 percent of hospital employees already use alternative transportation.
"If we achieve the same commute diversion that is currently being experienced by the university on campus, we believe we can hit the very aggressive goal for 35.1 percent," Emslie told the council.
While Palo Alto and Stanford officials agree that the traffic measures would greatly benefit the city and reduce the project's impacts, officials from the two sides remain at odds over how these projects should be classified. While Stanford is characterizing the traffic measures as "community benefits," Palo Alto officials believe they constitute "mitigations" that Stanford is legally required to provide to comply with state environmental law.
Emslie said the city and Stanford have "agreed to disagree" on how to classify these traffic improvements but praised the proposed measures as ones that would "significantly improve the community by providing access to better transportation, providing incentives, removing single-occupancy vehicles from the streets and supporting public transportation."
Council members praised Stanford's proposed traffic improvements as exactly the type of programs the city should support for major development projects. Councilman Pat Burt called it a "well-designed program" and "the right thing to do." He said such a program is needed to both lessen Stanford's impacts and make sure the city continues to have economic growth.
Stanford had proposed the traffic programs as part of a larger list of community benefits, including $7 million for health care programs in the community and $12 million for climate change and sustainability projects.
Staff has estimated Stanford's package of benefits (not including the traffic measure) to total about $50.9 million.
Palo Alto and Stanford remain split on several issues, including a requirement that Stanford provide the city a "revenue guarantee" to make sure the hospitals don't overburden the city's General Fund. While city officials have called for such a guarantee, Stanford has proposed a single $1.1 million payment to account for possible impact on the General Fund.
But several council members said they were happy about the latest progress on the negotiations, which City Manager James Keene described as the "last couple of miles" in a marathon. Vice Mayor Yiaway Yeh said council members "finally see an end in sight." Mayor Sid Espinosa agreed.
"I'm very hopeful tonight," Espinosa said near the conclusion of the meeting. "I can see we're very close to an agreement and closure."
The council plans to vote on a development agreement with Stanford in April.


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Fortunately, there are many different grants, scholarships, loans, and other funding sources available to students in Chicago and Illinois.
In 1957, state lawmakers created the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) to "ensure that financial considerations did not prevent Illinois students from realizing their postsecondary educational goals." This group oversees many of the state and federal financial aid programs available to students attending school in Chicago and other parts of the state.
Each year ISAC awards millions of dollars to qualified applicants. According to information gathered in a report by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, Illinois ranked third in the nation both in terms of the total amount of need-based grant aid provided to undergraduates and the average amount provided per full-time undergraduate student.
One of the state's most common grant programs is ISAC's need-based Monetary Award Program (MAP). MAP is the second largest program of its kind in the country. Other popular forms of scholarships and grants include:
- Minority Teachers of Illinois (MTI) Scholarship Program
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Lori Reimers, an ISAC staff person, pointed out that a student must maintain a permanent residence in Illinois for at least one year before being considered a resident and becoming eligible for state financial aid. Because state-funded financial aid comes from taxpayer monies, this policy is typical across the country. However, Reimers explained that this does not mean that students from other states cannot access affordable education in the Chicago area.
"While our resources are intended for state residents, many colleges have reciprocity agreements that allow students from nearby states to qualify for resident tuition rates," Reimers emphasized.And in addition to federal aid, out-state students may qualify for other types of funding, including special monies that certain schools and high demand program areas have available to help recruit students from around the globe.
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U.N. imposes another round of sanctions on Iran
UNITED NATIONS -- After several months of grueling diplomacy, the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran's military establishment -- a move that the United States and other major powers said should prompt the Islamic Republic to restart stalled political talks over the future of its nuclear program.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the foreign ministers of allied nations asked the European Union's chief diplomat to pursue talks with Iran at the "earliest possible opportunity," and President Obama asserted that "these sanctions do not close the door on diplomacy."
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David Linhardt is a serial entrepreneur with 18 years of direct marketing experience in both online and offline channels. He's been a corporate executive, a marketer, a solutions provider and a pioneer in developing new direct marketing models. David got his marketing stripes at Procter & Gamble, the inventor of modern-day brand management. David invented the Digital One Rate program at AT&T Wireless, creating $1.5 billion in enterprise value and transforming the wireless industry. After turning around a $60 million division at Experian, David helped get Yesmail, Inc. to profitability for the first time in its history. After a successful sale to InfoUSA, David left Yesmail to start Maverick Direct Marketing as a pure startup. With only $5K in total investment capital, David grew Maverick 202% per year with 48 months of consecutive profitability. Today, David leads Life Phase Media, an innovative developer of break-through direct marketing models that combine technology, data and analytics.
David has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. David is happily married and is the proud father of a beautiful girl. David and his family live in the Chicago area.
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Life Phase Media's mission is to improve the online advertising ecosystem for consumers, publishers and advertisers. We generate and compile online behavioral data on consumers experiencing significant life events, like having a baby, going to college or getting married. Using our proprietary technology, we mine large volumes of disparate data sources to predict individual consumer behavior. These predictions lead to better experiences for consumers and increased marketing efficiency for advertisers. We are a life event data company and we use these data for the betterment of everyone in the ecosystem.
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The 1st Marine Aviation Force overcame interservice and logistic obstacles to fly combat missions during World War I. In the process, it established a tradition of excellence for future Leatherneck aviators.
In January 1917, four months before the United States entered World War I, Marine aviation consisted of just five officers and 18 enlisted men. Most were in a detachment assigned to the Advanced Base Force at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. On 26 February, First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham received orders at the yard to form a Marine aviation company.1
Atlanta-born Cunningham had served in a volunteer infantry regiment during the Spanish-American War. He returned from Cuba, was mustered out, and for the next ten years sold real estate. In 1909, at age 27, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. After two years of routine service ashore and afloat, he was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the Advanced Base Force. Intrigued by the possibilities of flight, he rented, at $25 a month, a pusher-type "aeroplane." Cunningham thrashed about on an open field at the navy yard but could not get "Noisy Nan," as he called the mechanical dodo bird, off the ground.
On 22 May 1912, he reported to the U.S. Naval Aviation Camp at Annapolis. In August he received orders to the Burgess Company at Marblehead, Massachusetts, which had airplanes and civilian instructors for flight training. After two hours and 40 minutes of instruction, Cunningham took off in a hydroplane, circled the bay several times, and came down in a safe water landing, becoming the Marine Corps' first aviator. (Marines celebrate the day he reported to the Naval Aviation Camp as the birthday of Marine Corps aviation.) Between October 1912 and July 1913, Cunningham managed to make almost 400 flights in the first Wright aircraft purchased by the Navy, the B-1 seaplane, or "Bat Boat."
The fliers at the Navy's Annapolis camp, including Cunningham, went to the annual fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean in January 1913. More than 150 Navy and Marine Corps officers, including Lieutenant Colonel John A. Lejeune, were taken aloft in orientation flights from Guantanamo, Cuba.2
The aviation detachment with the Advanced Base Force, however, missed its first chance at expeditionary duty during the Veracruz, Mexico, landing in April 1914 because it had not yet discovered a way to get its two aircraft, both seaplanes, to the objective area in flying condition.
At San Diego in 1916, Cunningham, for the first time, flew in a cockpit instead of on an open-air seat in front of the wings of a pusher. Off Pensacola on 8 November of the same year, he was hurled aloft in a Curtiss AB-2 seaplane by a catapult on the stern of the armored cruiser North Carolina (ACR-12), possibly the first such catapult shot. The plane flipped over and plunged into the Gulf of Mexico, and Cunningham was fished out of the water with an injured back that troubled him for the rest of his life.
By the summer of 1917 and with America at war, Cunningham found himself straddling two missions. Originally, the Philadelphia Advanced Base Force's Aviation Company, redesignated as the Marine Aeronautic Company, was to train in seaplanes for antisubmarine patrols. But now Major General Commandant George Barnett had secured approval for the creation of a Marine squadron to provide reconnaissance and artillery spotting for the Marine brigade that was about to be organized in France. By 14 October, the loosely knit assemblage had split into the two planned aviation units. The 1st Aeronautic Company would continue to train in seaplanes for the antisubmarine missions (it was eventually transferred to the Azores). The 1st Aviation Squadron, meanwhile, would prepare to support the brigade in France.
Under an agreement reached between Captain Cunningham and Colonel Henry H. "Hap" Arnold of the Army Signal Corps, the 1st Aviation Squadron was to train at Hazlehurst (later known as Roosevelt) Field at Mineola, Long Island, New York. Then it was to move to the Army's advanced school of flying at Houston, Texas. Cunningham told Barnett that after this, "The Squadron will . . . be ready for service in France and the Army will completely equip it with the same technical equipment furnished their squadrons."3
Captain Cunningham himself left for France in November to pin down a definite mission for the Marine Corps squadron intended for Europe. Once there, he visited French and British air bases and flight schools and managed to fly on several missions over the German lines. Relations with the U.S. Army, however, were less cordial. Cunningham tried to extract a promise that the Marine squadron would be attached to the Marine brigade, but the Army aviation authorities "stated candidly that if the [Marine] squadron got to France it would be used to furnish personnel to run one of their training fields, but that this was as near the front as it would ever get."4
Cunningham turned to the Navy. During conferences with U.S. Navy officers at Dunkirk, France, and with officers of the British destroyer patrol, he perceived a need for day bombers to fly patrols over Belgium's English Channel coast and to attack German submarine pens at Zeebrugge, Bruges, and Ostend, Belgium. On his return to the United States, Cunningham presented to the General Board of the Navy his plan for a land-based force of Navy and Marine planes for use against the U-boat bases. The Board approved the formation of a Northern Bombing Group to include a Marine element. While the Navy aviators would fly Italian-built Caproni bombers, the Marines were to fly De Havilland DH-4 bombers. On 11 March 1918, Cunningham received orders to organize and take command of the 1st Marine Aviation Force, consisting of four squadrons, to be formed at Miami, Florida.
In short order, a British officer, sent to Miami to appraise the squadrons, cheerfully announced the Marine units fit for combat. At least one Leatherneck flier disagreed. Said First Lieutenant Ford Rogers: "We had flown nothing but Jennies [Curtiss JNs]. We got one DH-4 and all of us got one flight . . ."5
Captain Cunningham and his first three squadrons landed at Brest on 30 July 1918, expecting that their aircraft and equipment would be waiting when they arrived. They were not, and no one at Brest seemed to care much. No arrangements had been made to move the squadrons to their intended airfield near Calais, 400 miles away, so Cunningham persuaded the French to give him a train for the two-day trip.
On arriving at Calais, his Marines were temporarily billeted in a British rest camp while work began on the airfield sites. Squadrons A and B were to go to Oye, a town between Calais and Dunkirk. Squadron C was to go to La Fresne, 7.5 miles southwest of Calais. Both fields were behind the British sector of the Western Front. The selected sites were essentially flat fields planted in sugar beets, which yielded to Marines with spades. The British provided portable canvas-and-wood hangars.
Before leaving for France, Cunningham had arranged for the delivery from the Army of 72 two-seater DH-4s. These bombers arrived in crates at the Navy supply base in southwestern France at the end of July, but the first aircraft did not reach Cunningham until 7 September. Even so, the planes did not arrive in proper numbers; most had erroneously been shipped to England. Cunningham, however, struck a bargain with the British, who had an excess number of DH-9A airframes but no engines. Conversely, the Americans had a surplus of Liberty engines but few airframes to house them. Cunningham's deal was that for every three Liberty engines delivered to the British, they would deliver to the Marines one completely equipped DH-9A bomber.6
By now, the mission of the 1st Marine Aviation Force had changed. The Germans had abandoned their submarine bases along and near the Channel coast. The Marines' new mission would be the general support of the British and Belgian-and sometimes the French-armies.
Knowing the Royal Air Force had more planes than pilots, Cunningham arranged for his idle aviators to fly with RAF Squadrons 217 and 218, which were equipped with both DH-4s and DH-9s. The Marine pilots rotated through the British squadrons so that each would go on at least three raids. Karl Day, a future lieutenant general, remembered that in the "V" flight formations the newcomer was always the last plane on the right: "If shot down it didn't disturb the formation."7
On 28 September, First Lieutenant Everett S. Brewer and Gunnery Sergeant Harry B. Wersheiner, flying with Squadron 218, got the Marines' first aerial kill, during a dogfight over Courtemarke, Belgium. Both Marines were badly wounded in the fracas. On 2 and 3 October, Marines flying with Squadron 218 carried out the Corps' first aerial resupply mission. Two planes flew through heavy German fire to deliver 2,600 pounds of food and stores to an isolated French regiment near Stadenburg.
Squadron D arrived at La Fresne on 5 October with 42 officers and 183 enlisted men, bringing the strength of the 1st Marine Aviation Force up to 149 officers and 842 men. To conform to the Northern Bombing Group's nomenclature, Squadrons A, B, C, and D became Squadrons 7, 8, 9, and 10.
On 8 October, Squadron 9 took off on a raid. Second Lieutenant Ralph Talbot had "the fastest ship in the squadron," and was given the job of protecting the rear of the flight as it returned from the bombing. The next day, he wrote to his fiancée:
my first Hun yesterday. We were ten miles inside the lines when four
Fokker triplanes and five Fokker biplanes attacked us. One Hun climbed
up and put a bullet into the gas tank six inches over my head, and another
bullet cut the shoulder of my uniform but never touched me, and he put four
into my tail before I could swing around. Then a second later my own tracers
entered his machine and he began to tremble and fell over on his back and
down in a spin. We had six machines in our flight and one of the boys was
knocked off. The fight took place at 14,000 feet.8
Talbot played a part in another, bigger raid two days later. Captain Robert S. Lytle, commanding officer of Squadron 9, took out five DH-4s and three DH-9As to strike the German-held railroad yards at Thielt, Belgium. They dropped a ton of bombs. On the way home, 12 German fighters-eight Fokker D-VIIs and four Pfalz D-IIIs-jumped Lytle's eight De Havillands. In the melee, the Germans singled out the DH-4 flown by Talbot with Corporal Robert G. Robinson in the back seat. Captain Lytle's engine failed as he tried to come to Talbot's aid. Robinson brought down one attacking plane with his twin Lewis guns. Two others closed in from below. Robinson took a bullet in his elbow, but clearing a jammed gun with his one good hand, he continued to fire until he was hit twice more. With Robinson unconscious in the back seat, Talbot whipped his DH-4 around and got a second German with his front guns. He then put his damaged plane into a long dive, clearing the German lines at 50 feet and coming in safely at a Belgian airfield. Robinson was taken to a field hospital, and the surgeon general of the Belgian Army operated on his arm and saved it.
Lytle, meanwhile, came down without power and made a dead-stick landing in front of the Belgian lines, and he and his observer scrambled to safety. That night, under cover of darkness, a Marine working party dismantled his plane and brought it back in through the lines.
On 25 October, Talbot tested a new plane, with Squadron 9 Second Lieutenant Colgate Darden in the back seat as observer. The engine failed, and the plane crashed. Darden, who had not fastened his seat belt, was thrown clear, but Talbot burned to death. He had been writing war poems with a vague idea of publishing them after the war. Most had no titles, but one was titled "The Circus":
Under the main top
Spreading wide,
Under the panelled, vaulty blue,
Against some filmy heap I swoop.
I glide!
Doing. . . . . . . . .
Doing what my heart forbears to do.
Tenor of the bugle,
Shrilling high.
Warning siren!-Like a violin!
An undernote that stirs!-Mitrailleuse!
Tatting. . . . . . . . .
Tatting for the concert to begin.
Our circus whips and reels about
The sky!
Fantastic some,-some bizarre!
Cheers and urgings reach us from afar
Cheers for the superman.
The Nation's aviator.
We are the star performers!
Who swing from bar to bar with ease.
Ignoring Life, ignoring Death
For honors
Beneath the Big Top
On the Big Trapeze.9
Talbot and Robinson earned Medals of Honor. Badly smashed up, with a fractured vertebrae, a crushed face, and temporary paralysis, Darden was hospitalized for a year. Afterward he married Irene DuPont, served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, a term as governor of Virginia, and stints as chancellor of the College of William and Mary and president of the University of Virginia.10
In all, the four Marine squadrons carried out 14 bombing raids, always flying without fighter escort. They had several more fights with German planes. During one, on 22 October, the plane flown by Second Lieutenant Harvey G. Norman, with Second Lieutenant Caleb W. Taylor as his observer, was shot down, killing both Norman and Taylor, in what was the first Marine aircraft lost to enemy action.
By the time of the armistice, 11 November, with the pluses of additional acquisitions and the minuses of operational losses, Cunningham's four squadrons totaled 20 DH-9As and 16 DH-4s-about half of the 1st Marine Aviation Force's planned strength. Nevertheless, during the war's final months, the squadrons had managed to fly 57 missions-43 with the British and 14 on their own. The Marines calculated they dropped 15,140 pounds of bombs while with the British and 18,792 pounds by themselves, and they counted four confirmed kills of German fighters and eight "probables." Four Marine aviation force pilots were killed and one pilot and two gunners wounded. For the Leathernecks, the influenza epidemic, which for a while in October virtually halted operations, was deadlier than battle, claiming the lives of four officers and 21 enlisted men. In December 1918, having established the foundation for Marine combat aviation during its short, heated aerial campaign, the 1st Marine Aviation Force sailed for home.
General Simmons is director emeritus of Marine Corps History. He is also the author of the prizewinning novel Dog Company Six (Naval Institute Press, 2000), and numerous military history books, including The United States Marines: A History 4th edition (Naval Institute Press, 2003). He is currently writing a history of the Marine Corps in World War I.
1. Johnson, Marine Corps Aviation: The Early Years, 10. back to article
2. Apparently, LCol Lejuene was not much impressed. He does not mention the flight, nor does he even mention Lt Cunningham by name, in his Reminiscences of a Marine. back to article
3. Cpt Cunningham ltr to MGen Barnett, MSgt Roger Emmons papers, GRC, as quoted in Johnson, Marine Corps Aviation: The Early Years, 15. back to article
4. Maj Cunningham, "Value of Aviation in the Marine Corps," Marine Corps Gazette, Sept 1920 as quoted in Johnson, Marine Corps Aviation: The Early Years, 15. back to article
5. BGen Ford Rogers oral history, GRC, 33. back to article
6. The American-made DH-4 and British-made DH-9A were not greatly different. Both were single-engine, two-seat biplanes, with the superb 12-cylinder, 400-horsepower Liberty engine. With some modifications, the DH-4 remained in the Marine Corps inventory until 1930. back to article
7. LGen Karl Day oral history, GRC, p, 26. back to article
8. Ralph Talbot personal papers, P.C. 410, GRC. back to article
9. Ralph Talbot personal papers, P.C. 410, GRC. back to article
10. Bio file, Colgate W. Darden Jr., GRC. back to article


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Informal Drug Policy Dialogue 2012 Prague
The ninth meeting of the TNI/ Diogenis Informal Drug Policy Dialogue series took place in Prague on 27th and 28th January 2012 and was co-hosted by the City of Prague and by the Office of the National Drug Commission of the Czech Republic. The aim of the dialogue series is to provide a platform for professionals to discuss drug policy issues.
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United States of America vs. Benedict Lupo, Michael Guesman and Hardrock Excavating, llc. Case: 4:13-cr-00113-DCN Doc #: 8 Filed: 02/28/13.
RELATED: Activists call for shutdown of Blott Road well, protest water sale
A federal grand jury has indicted Ben W. Lupo and his company Hardrock Excavating on one count each of violating the Clean Water Act.
The indictments stem from incidents that occurred between Nov. 1, 2012, and Jan. 31, 2013, when federal and state regulators learned that Lupo had ordered an employee, on multiple occasions, to dump a mixture of oil, brine and drilling mud into a storm drain on the property of Hardrock Excavating at 2761 Salt Springs Road.
Thousands of gallons of waste made its way into a nearby tributary that fed into the Mahoning River.
The employee, identified as Michael P. Guesman, 34, of Cortland, also was indicted Thursday on the same charge of violating the Clean Water Act.
An affidavit, filed in U.S. District Court in Youngstown earlier this month, supported evidence collected as part of an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, along with the Ohio Attorney General's Office.
"In this particular case, the evidence suggests multiple instances of deceptive and illegal conduct, without regard to human health and the environment," Ohio EPA director Scott Nally said in a statement.
According to the affidavit, Lupo is believed to have instructed such waste dumps on 20 separate occasions, all at 2761 Salt Springs Road where Lupo operates several other businesses, including D&L Energy, which was implicated in the earthquakes that shook Youngstown on New Year's Eve 2011. Court documents show that 58 temporary storage tanks capable of holding up to 20,000 gallons each of drilling waste were located on the property.
On Feb. 14, Lupo waived his right to a preliminary hearing. With the indictments, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Cleveland will lead the case against Lupo and the other parties involved.
Maximum penalties for violating the Clean Water Act for individuals are three years in prison, one year of supervised release and a fine of $50,000 per day of violation or $250,000, depending on what is larger. For corporations, maximum penalties include five years' probation and a fine of $50,000 per day of violation or $500,000.
Asked if the government's case against Lupo was brought too hastily, with the possibility that just one charge against him could somehow undermine successful prosecution, Mike Tobin, a spokesman for the U.S. District Court of Northern Ohio, said his office was not going to discuss the specifics of its strategy.
He said evidence collected during the ongoing criminal investigation would help strengthen the case against Lupo. Tobin did not rule out the possibility of more charges in the future.
On Wednesday, Mark Moretti, a spokesman for Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's office, confirmed that both federal and state officials executed a U.S. Department of Justice search warrant at D&L and Hardrock's headquarters on Salt Springs Road.
Moretti added that as investigations proceed, it is likely the state will file civil charges, though he could not provide more details about those efforts Thursday.
In response to the early findings of its investigation, on Feb. 7, ODNR permanently revoked the operating permits of D&L Energy and Hardrock Excavating. Under state law, the companies were given an opportunity to present evidence against the state's move within 24 hours.
D&L, an injection-well operator and exploration and production company, waived its right to that hearing, permanently losing its ability to conduct injection-well operations. Hardrock, however, presented evidence to the chief of ODNR's Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, Richard J. Simmers.
Late Wednesday, Simmers issued an order rebuking that evidence, saying that Hardrock's attorney, David Bertsch, failed to convince regulators that the company did not violate the state's brine-hauling laws.
The order means Hardrock's brine-hauling permits are now officially and permanently revoked.
"ODNR's investigation found that Hardrock Excavating willfully and intentionally violated Ohio law," wrote Bethany McCorkle, chief of communications for ODNR in a prepared statement. "Mr. Lupo's indifference and lack of reasonable care resulted in a pattern of violations that will not be tolerated in Ohio."
Simmers cited eight violations as cause for his order.
Chief among them was a regulator's discovery that Mohawk Disposal Management, another of Lupo's companies involved in various oil and gas operations, was hauling brine under the certification number of Hardrock.
Not only was Mohawk unauthorized to haul brine, according to the order, but it also was transporting the waste to unregistered disposal sites not on record with ODNR, which the agency requires so that it can track disposal of the waste properly.
"Hardrock engaged in a pattern of violations by willfully allowing Mohawk trucks to transport brine under Hardrock's registration number or, at a minimum, showed lack of reasonable care in the use of its registration number," Simmers wrote in his order.
Now, the only recourse Hardrock has left is an appeal that can be filed with the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission within 30 days of Simmers' order.
McCorkle added that ODNR employees attempted to personally serve the order to Lupo at Hardrock headquarters, but company officials refused to accept it, forcing ODNR to send the order via certified mail.
Chris Abbruzzese, spokesman for the Ohio EPA, said cleanup efforts on Salt Springs are expected to conclude sometime this weekend. Officials with the agency will continue to monitor the site and keep collection and containment equipment there until they feel all the waste has been properly cleared at the site.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the gay marriage debate for the first time on Friday by agreeing to review two challenges to federal and state laws that define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
The high court agreed to review a case against a federal law that denies married same-sex couples the federal benefits heterosexual couples receive. It also unexpectedly took up a challenge to California's ban on gay marriage, known as Proposition 8, which voters narrowly approved in 2008.
Same-sex marriage is a politically charged issue in a country where 31 of the 50 states have passed constitutional amendments banning it, while Washington, D.C., and nine states have legalized it, three of them on Election Day last month.
The tide of public opinion has been shifting in favor of allowing same-sex marriage. In May, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to say he believed same-sex couples should be allowed to get married. A Pew Research Center survey from October found 49 percent of Americans favored allowing gay marriage, with 40 percent opposed.
Yet even where it is legal, married same-sex couples do not qualify for a host of federal benefits because the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, passed by Congress, recognizes only marriages between a man and a woman.
Gays and lesbians married under state laws have filed suits challenging their denial of such benefits as Social Security survivor payments and the right to file joint federal tax returns. They argue the provision, known as Section 3, violates equal protection provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
Meeting in private on Friday at their last weekly conference before the court's holiday recess, the justices considered requests to review seven cases dealing with same-sex relationships. Five of them were challenges to the federal marriage law, one to California's gay marriage ban and another to an Arizona law against domestic partner benefits.
The court had been widely expected to take up at least one of the challenges to the federal marriage law, given that two federal appeals courts had found the law unconstitutional. Less clear was what the court would do with the California gay marriage ban.
"Taking both a states' rights case like Prop 8, and a case involving Congress' authority in the DOMA ... suggests that the court is ready to take on the entire issue, not just piecemeal it," said Andrew Pugno, a lawyer for the individuals defending California's gay marriage ban.
In an "orders list" released after its meeting, the court granted an appeal in the case of Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old lesbian who challenged her denial of federal tax benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act.
Windsor's wife, Thea Clara Spyer, died in 2009, but because the same-sex marriage was not recognized under federal law, Windsor had to pay more than $363,000 in federal estate taxes on assets she inherited from Spyer, according to her lawsuit.
Reached by phone on Friday, Windsor said it was "thrilling" that the justices decided to take her case. She said winning would be a "big boon for civil rights."
Federal courts of appeal in New York and Boston had found unconstitutional the provision that denies federal recognition and benefits to married same-sex couples.
The Obama administration said last year it viewed the law as unconstitutional and would no longer defend it in court. A group appointed by the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives has backed the law, asking the justices to uphold it.
In its order on Friday, the Supreme Court said it wanted to consider whether the congressional group had a right to defend the law, given the Obama administration's conclusion that the law is unconstitutional.
Both sides in the debate welcomed the court's decision to take up the issue.
Civil rights activists said it was another breakthrough in their bid for equal rights.
"It is time for the Supreme Court to strike down this unconstitutional statute once and for all," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, which represents Windsor.
Opponents hope the justices will reverse lower-court rulings and uphold what they regard as U.S. traditional social policy.
"We believe the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn this exercise of judicial activism and stop federal judges from legislating from the bench on the definition of marriage," said John Eastman of the National Organization for Marriage.
If the court invalidates the law, states might still be allowed to legalize or deny same-sex marriages on their own terms.
Another section of the law, which is not being challenged, says that states do not have to give legal status to same-sex marriages performed in other states that permit such unions.
Less expected was the court's decision to review California's ban on same-sex marriage. The California case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, had sought marriage equality for gays and lesbians under the U.S. Constitution.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February found the gay marriage ban unconstitutional. But it ruled narrowly in a way that only affected California and not the rest of the country, finding the state could not take away the right to same-sex marriage after previously allowing it.
No other state that allowed gay marriage has later banned it.
The court could follow the 9th Circuit's decision and also rule narrowly, allowing same-sex marriage only in California but not the rest of the country. It could also recognize a right to marriage equality
In its order list, the court said it wanted to consider whether gay marriage opponents in the case had standing to defend the law after state officials declined to do so.
If the court finds the private opponents do not have a right to defend the law, gay marriage would become legal in California. But in doing so, the court would not address the broader constitutional rights at stake.
"On the one hand, we want our clients and citizens of California to have marriage equality immediately. On the other hand, this is an ideal case for the Supreme Court to decide this critical civil rights issue," said David Boies, a lawyer for the gay marriage advocates.
Lawyers for Indiana and 14 other states had filed a brief in support of Proposition 8, urging the justices to reverse the 9th Circuit's decision and uphold the law, which they say promotes responsible procreation and the ideal family life for children.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris welcomed the court's decision to take the case as a step toward equality under the law.
The Supreme Court took no action on an appeal from the state of Arizona, asking the court to revive a state law version of DOMA. The Arizona law, which the 9th Circuit invalidated, eliminated domestic partner healthcare benefits for gay and lesbian state employees.
Same-sex couples in Arizona cannot marry, under that state's constitutional ban passed in 2008.
The court is expected to hear arguments as soon as March, with decisions expected by the end of June.
(This story corrects year Thea Clara Spyer died to 2009, not 2007, in paragraph 11)
Additional reporting by Peter Henderson in San Francisco and Edith Honan in New York; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Xavier Briand and Peter Cooney


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If you Google "Rapture September," added than a actor after-effects advance this is on people's minds. Some are even accepting dreams about it. Others ask, Does not animate the day or hour administer to the 2nd advancing or to the rapture?
The abstraction that Christ would al of a abrupt yield Christians to heaven afore the end-time aeon of adversity was alien afore John Darby answer it in the 1830′s. William Miller began admonition again and the "Great Disappointment" in 1844 was a result, but this does not beggarly the abstraction is unbiblical.
The book of Revelation shows the endure of seven churches in a afflictive state: "I apperceive your deeds, that you are neither algid nor hot. I ambition you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold-I am about to discharge you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I accept acquired abundance and do not charge a thing.' But you do not apprehend that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, dark and naked."
If we can accept the "true witness," this analysis suggests we are not accessible for a rapture which its supporters say occurs in ballad 1 of the next affiliate if John is told ""Come up here, and I will appearance you what accept to yield abode afterwards this." Rev 4:1.
But if we are honest, we accept to accept that it's a jump to achieve that agency a rapture of the abject accumulation that we saw a few verses earlier. It's accurate that the chat "church" is not begin afterwards in Revelation, but the "watershed" accident that initiates end-times that separates the past, present and approaching may beggarly that the abbey era is over and we move, either to acceptable the Helpmate of Christ, or if unfaithful, to accepting allotment of the harlot who rides the barbarian of New Apple Order, Rev 17:1-3.
As this nation moves loses freedoms in a move against all-around government, "one taken and addition left" may beggarly taken to a FEMA affected because if the aggregation asked "Where," Christ said, Area the physique is, there will the eagles be gathered," Luke 17:36,37. The banquet of the birds in Revelation 19:17,18 is not about a rapture-we don't wish to be "taken," adverse to a accepted fabulous alternation of books and movies.
The oft-quoted argument that Christ will accumulate us from the hour of allurement that shall try the apple does not necessarily beggarly a rapture to abstain the tribulation. The hour of allurement adeptness beggarly the abbreviate aeon of time that Satan personates Jesus, animate miracles to deceive the accomplished apple because they "received not the adulation of the truth.", 2Thessalonians 2:9,10.
We adeptness be poor Bible acceptance to achieve that accepting kept from the hour of allurement agency we get a abandonment for the adversity if the Bible says, "We accept to through abundant adversity access into the commonwealth of God." Acts 14:22. This is said altered agency in altered passages, but it's about our appearance development.
After diagnosing our "pitiful" condition, Christ says to buy of Him "gold aesthetic in the fire." Rev 3:17,18. It's been said that a lot of of Revelation is a amalgam of antecedent Bible passages that accommodated and end in the Revelation. Our acquaintance with the accomplished Bible tests our adeptness to adapt Revelation afterwards jumping to conclusions.
The gold approved in the blaze comes from Malachi 3, the endure book in the Old Testament area we see God's absorbed to absolve or clarify us as gold, a access articulate in Handel's Messiah at Christmas. The advice comes from the "messenger of the agreement whom [we] desire," Mal 3:1-3.
What does that mean? We've been dancing about the topic, but rapture or no-rapture depends on our compassionate of the alliance parables. We can become the Helpmate of Christ by authoritative a covenant, but how?
Christ's apologue of the 10 virgins who are comatose with their lights out suggests that we don't accept this topic. Their accepting out of oil for their lamps agency they can't see how to get to the wedding. Maybe that's us.
Oil comes from the two olive copse apery the Old and New Testaments in Zechariah 4. Christians who are abbreviate on oil may be defective an compassionate of the Old Testament.
God afflicted Egypt for their abounding gods, their abuse of God's people, and for their annihilation of infants. America has abounding parallels to Egypt as the greatest nation, a bread-basket for the apple in time of famine, but its annihilation of the approaching and the abuse of Christians may be just beginning.
God attacked the gods of Egypt like the Nile-their abridgement depended on it like we depends on the dollar. We are about to see God's judgments on America, in a re-run of Exodus 5-12. Again God took Israel to a agreement and afterwards said, "I am affiliated unto you," Jeremiah 3:14, KJV. That's how we ally Christ!
God admired the agreement accord as a alliance and Paul includes the Exodus in "all those things happened to them for examples… ends of the world." 1Cor 10:1,11.
God got an apprenticed helpmate at Sinai-they admired a aureate dogie 40 canicule later, but their trials in the wilderness accepted what was in their hearts. "The affection is deceitful" Jer 17:9. To accept we are accessible for heaven may be ambitious thinking. It's been said that a brace is never absolutely affiliated until they accept their aboriginal austere altercation and survive it.
When Christ discussed end-times, He said to accept the book of Daniel which has abeyant activity or afterlife situations in capacity 1-6. Daniel 1 is about the king's healthcare that Daniel wisely declined. Dr. Ben Carson said Obamacare is the affliction affair back slavery. If we abstraction Daniel, we are able to see added parallels to what's coming.
It does attending like the angel in Daniel 2 (representing the kingdoms of this world), is accepting accessible to abatement financially and "in the canicule of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom… " Dan 2:44.
How will He do it? "God declares the end from the beginning," (Isa 46:10) and in the alpha if God took Israel to a covenant, He said, "If you will accumulate My covenant, you will be to me a kingdom," Exod 19:5,6.
Now we can accept the disciples' question, Will you at this time restore the commonwealth to Israel? and Christ's reply, "It is not for you to apperceive the times and seasons," They were searching for an alien commonwealth and He affiliated it to times and seasons, a byword acclimated alone already added in the New Testament King James. It's if the 2nd advancing is imminent.
Paul says we which are animate will be angled up if Christ comes with the "trump of God." 1Thess 4:16,17. He added shows this "at the endure trump" in 1 Cor 15:52, We are about accessible to alpha the 1st of seven trumpets in Revelation 8. We apprehend bread-and-butter collapse because the grass decodes to riches, comparing Rev 8:7 with James 1:9-11 in the King James. This agency we are "caught up" at the 2nd advancing "at the endure (7th) trumpet."
Paul continues… "But of the times and seasons,… the day of the Lord [the end-time apocalyptic aeon as apparent in Joel 2:10,11] comes as a bandit in the night. For if they say, 'Peace and safety!' again abrupt abolition comes aloft them, as activity pains aloft a abundant woman." 1Thess 5:1-4. A lot of humans would accede that the US-Iran nuclear accord is 'Peace and safety' talk.
We could apprehend bread-and-butter collapse and aggressive law to put us into chains like Egypt from which God will bear us with activity pains as He did with Israel, His "firstborn." Exod 4;22. He took Israel from sudden, abolition to a agreement and Paul included that history of the Exodus for us in 1 Cor 10:1,11.
That's it! That's how we become His kingdom. "We accept to through abundant adversity access into the kingdom" and by authoritative a agreement signaled by calamity that causes a midnight cry, (Matt 25:6; Exod 12:29,30), we aswell become His Bride.
But the agreement is not some new deal. It's the aforementioned law, but God promises to accord us a new affection so we will wish to do what it says. Ezek 36:25-27.
Christ said, "Till heaven and apple pass, not one jot or tittle shall canyon from the law till all be fulfilled." We are beholden that He accomplished the beastly sacrifices of the law. We don't accept to annihilate animals. But He aswell abstract the law to say if we are affronted with our brother, we may be guilty, or if we animalism afterwards a woman, it's like committing affair in our heart.
Maybe we can see now that the abbey isn't accessible for rapture until we accept had the New Agreement Promise accomplished to us. Until then, we can all say with Paul, "the acceptable that I would, I do not… " Romans 7.
What's advancing will drive us added into the things of God or, if angled on our own way, they will amalgamate us as Pharaoh. The Acceptable News is that God has a plan and we can be included if we are gluttonous to accept His agency and accommodate to His will as we affirmation His promises. Halleluiah.


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The judge who held Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins in contempt of court has been subpoenaed by a grand jury looking into whether her ruling was improperly influenced by other judges.
Despite the grand jury summons, state District Judge Lena Levario is fighting any attempt by prosecutors to question her. Levario's attorney, Tom Mills, has filed a motion to quash the subpoena, which was served last week as Levario sat on the bench in her courtroom.
Levario is at least the second judge subpoenaed in the matter at Watkins' behest. He is seeking to determine whether criminal court judges Julia Hayes and Angela King tried to improperly influence Levario's decision in a case in which Watkins was accused of prosecutorial misconduct by an oil family millionaire. King has also been subpoenaed, as has Hayes' attorney, George Milner III. They, too, are fighting the subpoenas.
Neither Milner nor King has appeared before the grand jury. But what will happen in the battle over the subpoenas is unclear because grand jury subpoenas and investigations are secret.
Those involved in the case have been ordered by state District Judge Mike Snipes not to discuss it. Snipes is the judge who will decide whether Levario, Milner and King must testify or produce documents to the grand jury.
The three judges or their attorneys declined to comment Tuesday. Debbie Denmon, a Watkins spokeswoman, said the office does not comment on grand jury proceedings.
Pete Schulte, who represents Milner, said that the investigation is ill-advised.
"It's unfortunate the DA's office is continuing this type of investigation when the evidence is clear that nothing illegal happened," said Schulte, who has been a Watkins supporter. "Craig Watkins is in control of his own destiny, and Mr. Watkins is the only person who can put a stop to this and move forward."
Milner represented Hayes when she publicly feuded with Watkins last year after she held one of his prosecutors in contempt of court and then withdrew her ruling.
He is also an attorney for oil heir Al Hill III, who accused Watkins of misconduct when Hill was accused of lying to get a $500,000 loan and charged with mortgage fraud. Hill alleges Watkins indicted him on mortgage fraud charges as a favor to Lisa Blue, an attorney who was feuding with Hill over legal fees and who is also a political benefactor of Watkins.
Levario held Watkins in contempt March 7 when he refused to testify about the allegations. She also dismissed the charges against Hill, partly because Watkins wouldn't testify.
In August, another judge acquitted Watkins of contempt, saying the hearings should have never been held because Hill needed evidence of wrongdoing by Watkins for Levario to grant the hearing but instead was using the hearing to seek evidence.
No ruling was made on the merits of holding Watkins in contempt or the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.
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It is not clear whether the DA's office is investigating Levario. Prosecutors could be seeking to interview Levario as a witness.
Watkins unsuccessfully tried to recuse Levario from his contempt case after accusations from a former county employee who said Levario made disparaging comments about Watkins at lunch. Two other county employees at the same lunch did not hear the remarks.
The investigation by the DA's office was prompted by emails between Levario and the attorneys in the Hill case, including Wilson.
On Feb. 8 — a month before Watkins was held in contempt — Levario sent an email to prosecutors and defense attorneys informing them that she'd discussed the case with other judges. While judges are mostly forbidden from having conversations outside the courtroom about cases, they are allowed to discuss the matters before them with other judges.
"Most were just casual conversations regarding the stress associated with the cases and not the legal issues or outcome," Levario wrote. "However, 2 judges did leave me with the impression that they are not on Mr. Watkins' side in this matter."
Levario also said of the two judges: "Their opinion regarding the DA's office is irrelevant to me or to this hearing. I informed them at the time that I was not going to and I did not comment on their statements to me."
One of Watkins' top prosecutors, Russell Wilson, responded, asking for the identities of the two judges. He also asked Levario to preserve the content of the conversation. Levario wrote back that her conversations with King and Hayes were oral communications that were not recorded.
Declining interview
Wilson sought to interview Levario this month but she declined via an email sent to all attorneys involved in the Hill case.
"As all of you know, ex parte communications, with certain narrow exceptions, are prohibited under the Code of Judicial Conduct and the ethics rules governing all lawyers," Levario wrote. "The Hill cases are on appeal. These cases may return to my court. I will no more sit down with Mr. Wilson to discuss these cases in his office than I would with the defense attorneys."
"Improper influence" is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. But if Watkins believes that there were at least three people conspiring to influence Levario, prosecutors could seek indictments for "engaging in organized criminal activity," a felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail.


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