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NORM PATTIS: Law, common sense collide once someone is arrested
Do you believe in the presumption of innocence? I doubt it. But don't feel bad. Lawmakers don't believe in it either. The sad fact is that once someone is arrested, they're guilty in the eyes of their neighbors. Pick up the paper to learn that the fellow next door just got busted for some infamous crime: you'll never look at him the same way again.
Despite the lurid and often quite troubling allegations in such cases, we just can't seem to get enough of them. Daily newspapers report on them with an unseemly relish. We love crime for reasons having to do with sin, I suspect. We're all sinners.
Our courts aid and abet the thrill of it all. Arrest warrants are routinely made public. In sex cases, the names of the complaining witnesses are edited out. That's because a person making a claim of sexual abuse enjoys the benefit of a state statute requiring courts to keep their name confidential. Even when newspapers become aware of the name of a complaining witness, editors won't print them.
Why do we permit the accused's reputation to be destroyed by publication of mere accusations, while keeping the name of the accuser secret? Is this a left-handed way of admitting that we believe the accuser must be right or he or she would not have come forward? What about the presumption of innocence?
A presumption is an assumption armed with legal force. To presume something means you must take it as a given. A presumption can be rebutted, or disproven, with evidence; lawyer's call these sorts of things rebuttable presumptions. Thus, a person is presumed innocent unless and until the state proves his or her guilt by the law's highest standard, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The accused is supposed to start the case with an assumption that he or she is innocent, not guilty, of the crime charged. It is the state's burden of proving that the accused is guilty. This is bedrock law in every jurisdiction in the United States. We pay lip service to this principle, even as we ignore it.
The law and common sense collide once a person has been arrested. After all, folks aren't arrested at random. The accused must have done something to get arrested, right? We give lawmen the benefit of the doubt if we are trusting sorts. "What did he do?" we ask when we see a man led away in cuffs. I wonder why we don't ask the more meaningful question: "What do the officers think the man did?" Lawmen can, and do, get it wrong. Sometimes their greatest mistake is believing an accuser.
I represent a popular physician accused of crimes, Dr. Tory Z. Westbrook. Odds are you've seen him on television or read his name in the paper. You see, a group of former patients of his are now claiming he groped them. He's been charged with sexual assault. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The allegations sound damning, and, although we are prepared to meet the allegations head on, we are forced to sit silently by as he is crucified in the press. We cannot attack those who have pointed the finger at him. The rules of court give his accusers a pass: They can throw all the stones they like from behind a veil of secrecy. We cannot respond. Although Dr. Westbrook enjoys the presumption of innocence, the law permits his accusers an open season of accusation. You cannot know their names; I am forbidden to utter them in public, even if I know things about them that would make their mommas blush.
If we truly believed in the presumption of innocence, we'd see to it that the accused enjoyed the same solicitude we afford to those who regard themselves as victims.
But I say we're not serious about the presumption of innocence. We love stories about criminal cases because they pass for the equivalent of morality plays in a secular society. We portray the criminal process as a struggle of good versus evil. The accuser, who we are quick to call a "victim" merely because he or she has made an allegation, represents good. The accused is evil.
We don't give the devil a presumption of innocence. He's a stock character. But those accused aren't supposed to be regarded as devils. Regarding someone as guilty just because the government accuses them of a crime gives the government too much power. If anyone of us can be destroyed just because he or she has been accused, then those with the power to make accusations can destroy us all. That's not supposed to be our law.
Norm Pattis is a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer with offices in Bethany and New Haven. Follow his blog at www.pattisblog.com. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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R&B singer Robin Thicke sought the permission of his actress wife Paula Patton before including naked models in his new music video "Blurred Lines."
The "Sex Therapy" hitmaker recently recorded the track with rappers T.I. and Pharrell Williams and they shot two versions of the promo – a tame one (below), which was released last week, and another strictly for adults.
The X-rated second promo, directed by Diane Martel and featuring a handful of sexy women dancing nude for the cameras, hit the Internet on Tuesday – and it's already proved to be a big hit online.
However, Thicke reveals he only went ahead with the saucy project after receiving the thumbs up from the Precious actress.
He tells the Associated Press, "When I first got both videos, I liked them both, but I thought the first one is so good maybe we'll just release that and not release the second one. And then I started playing it for my friends and my lady, and everybody just thought it was great. It's entertainment… Obviously if she (Patton) didn't like it, I wouldn't put it out." )
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Folic acid
What is it?
Folate and folic acid are forms of a water-soluble B vitamin. Folate occurs naturally in food, and folic acid is the synthetic form of this vitamin. Since 1998, folic acid has been added to cold cereals, flour, breads, pasta, bakery items, cookies, and crackers, as required by federal law. Foods that are naturally high in folate include leafy vegetables (such as spinach, broccoli, and lettuce), okra, asparagus, fruits (such as bananas, melons, and lemons) beans, yeast, mushrooms, meat (such as beef liver and kidney), orange juice, and tomato juice.
Folic acid is used for preventing and treating low blood levels of folate (folate deficiency), as well as its complications, including "tired blood" (anemia) and the inability of the bowel to absorb nutrients properly. Folic acid is also used for other conditions commonly associated with folate deficiency, including ulcerative colitis, liver disease, alcoholism, and kidney dialysis.
Women who are pregnant or might become pregnant take folic acid to prevent miscarriage and "neural tube defects," birth defects such as spina bifida that occur when the fetus's spine and back do not close during development.
Some people use folic acid to prevent colon cancer or cervical cancer. It is also used to prevent heart disease and stroke, as well as to reduce blood levels of a chemical called homocysteine. High homocysteine levels might be a risk for heart disease.
Folic acid is used for memory loss, Alzheimer's disease, age-related hearing loss, preventing the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reducing signs of aging, weak bones (osteoporosis), jumpy legs (restless leg syndrome), sleep problems, depression, nerve pain, muscle pain, AIDS, a skin disease called vitiligo, and an inherited disease called Fragile-X syndrome. It is also used for reducing harmful side effects of treatment with the medications lometrexol and methotrexate.
Some people apply folic acid directly to the gum for treating gum infections.
Folic acid is often used in combination with other B vitamins.
How effective is it?
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database rates effectiveness based on scientific evidence according to the following scale: Effective, Likely Effective, Possibly Effective, Possibly Ineffective, Likely Ineffective, Ineffective, and Insufficient Evidence to Rate.
The effectiveness ratings for FOLIC ACID are as follows:
Effective for…
- Folate deficiency. Taking folic acid improves folate deficiency.
Likely effective for…
- Kidney disease. About 85% of people with serious kidney disease have high levels of homocysteine. High levels of homocysteine have been linked to heart disease and stroke. Taking folic acid lowers homocysteine levels in people with serious kidney disease. However, folic acid supplementation does not appear to reduce the risk of heart disease-related events.
- High amounts of homocysteine in the blood (hyperhomocysteinemia). High levels of homocysteine have been linked to heart disease and stroke. Taking folic acid lowers homocysteine levels by 20% to 30% in people with normal to slightly elevated homocysteine levels. It is recommended that people with homocysteine levels greater than 11 micromoles/L supplement with folic acid and vitamin B12.
- Reducing harmful effects of a medicine called methotrexate. Taking folic acid seems to reduce nausea and vomiting, which are possible side effects of methotrexate treatment.
- Birth defects (neural tube defects). Consuming high amounts of folate in the diet and taking folic acid supplements during pregnancy reduces the risk of neural tube birth defects.
Possibly effective for…
- Age-related vision loss (age-related macular degeneration). Some research shows that taking folic acid with other vitamins including vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 reduces the risk of developing age-related vision loss.
- Depression. Limited research suggests that taking folic acid along with antidepressants seems to improve symptoms in people with depression.
- High blood pressure. Research suggests that taking folic acid daily for at least 6 weeks reduces blood pressure in people with high blood pressure. However, taking folic acid with blood pressure medication does not seem to lower blood pressure any more than taking just the medication alone.
- Gum problems due to a drug called phenytoin. Applying folic acid to the gums seems to prevent gum problems caused by phenytoin. However, taking folic acid by mouth does not seem to improve symptoms of this condition.
- Gum disease during pregnancy. Applying folic acid to the gums seems to improve gum disease during pregnancy.
- A skin discoloration disorder called vitiligo. Taking folic acid by mouth seems to improve symptoms of vitiligo.
Possibly ineffective for…
- Cancer of the white blood cells (acute lymphoblastic leukemia). Taking folate during pregnancy does not reduce the risk of childhood cancer of the white blood cells.
- Breast cancer. Consuming folate in the diet might lower the risk of developing breast cancer in women who also eat high amounts of methionine, vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin), or vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), but research is not consistent. Other research suggests that taking folic acid supplements alone does not lower the risk of breast cancer.
- Heart disease. Research suggests that taking folic acid alone or with vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) and vitamin B12 does not reduce the risk of death or heart disease-related events in people with heart disease.
- Chronic fatigue syndrome. Daily injections of folic acid appear to have no effect on symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Toxicity from the drug lometrexol. Daily injections of folic acid appear to have no effect on symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Prostate cancer.Folic acid levels in the blood do not seem to be linked with the risk of developing prostate cancer.
- Stroke. Research suggests that people with high folate intake from the diet have a lower risk of stroke due to blood vessel ruptures (hemorrhagic stroke). However, folic acid does not seem to reduce the risk of stroke due to blood clots (ischemic stroke).
Likely ineffective for…
- Inherited disease called Fragile-X syndrome.Taking folic acid by mouth does not improve symptoms of fragile-X-syndrome.
Insufficient evidence to rate effectiveness for…
- Alzheimer's disease. Limited evidence suggests that elderly people who consume more folic acid than the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) appear to have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than people who consume less folic acid.
- Preventing re-blockage of blood vessels after angioplasty. There is inconsistent evidence on the benefits of taking folic acid after a procedure to widen the blood vessels. Taking folic acid plus vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 might actually interfere with healing in cases where a device (stent) is inserted in the blood vessel to keep it open.
- Bipolar disorder. Taking folic acid does not appear to improve the antidepressant effects of lithium in people with bipolar disorder. However, taking folate with the medication valproate improves the effects of valproate.
- Cervical cancer. There is some evidence that increasing folic acid intake from dietary and supplement sources, along with thiamine, riboflavin, and vitamin B12, might help to prevent cervical cancer.
- Memory and thinking skills in older people. There is conflicting evidence about the role of folic acid in age-related decline in memory and thinking skills. Some research shows that taking folic acid might improve mental function in older people. However, other research suggests no benefit.
- Colorectal cancer. Some research suggests that taking folic acid by mouth as a supplement or in the diet lowers the risk for developing colorectal cancer. However, contradictory evidence exists.
- Diabetes. Taking folic acid supplements does not seem to benefit people with diabetes.
- Epilepsy. Taking folic acid does not reduce seizures in people with epilepsy.
- Esophageal cancer. Research suggests that consuming more folate in the diet lowers the risk for developing esophageal cancer.
- High amounts of homocysteine in the blood caused by the drug fenofibrate. Taking folic acid every other day might lower levels of homocysteine in the blood caused by the drug fenofibrate.
- Stomach cancer. Research suggests that taking folic acid reduces the risk of developing some types of stomach cancer.
- Gout. Early research suggests that folate might reduce the risk of gout.
- Hearing loss. Low levels of folate in the blood seem to be related to the risk for sudden hearing loss in adults. Some evidence suggests that taking folic acid daily for 3 years slows the decline of hearing loss in older people who have low folate levels. It is not clear if folic acid supplementation reduces hearing loss in people with normal folate levels.
- Male infertility. Some research suggests that taking folic acid plus zinc sulfate daily can increase sperm count in men with low sperm counts.
- Lung cancer. There does not appear to be a relationship between low levels of folic acid and lung cancer in most people.
- Helping medicines used for chest pain work longer. Some evidence suggests that taking folic acid does not help medications for chest pain (nitrates) work longer.
- Cleft lip. Some research suggests that taking folic acid during pregnancy lowers the risk of left lip. However, other research shows no effect.
- Pancreatic cancer. Eating more than 280 mcg of folate in the diet daily is linked to a lower risk of developing pancreatic cancer. However, other research suggests that folate intake is not linked to pancreatic cancer risk.
- Restless leg syndrome. Taking folic acid seems to reduce symptoms of restless leg syndrome. Researchers are studying whether folic acid deficiency causes restless leg syndrome.
- Sickle-cell disease. Taking folic acid might lower homocysteine levels. However, it is not known if this will benefit people with sickle-cell disease.
- Cancer due to a disease called ulcerative colitis. Early research suggests that taking folic acid might prevent cancer in people with ulcerative colitis.
- Liver disease.
- Alcoholism.
- Weak bones (osteoporosis).
- Other conditions.
More evidence is needed to rate folic acid for these uses.
How does it work?
Folic acid is needed for the proper development of the human body. It is involved in producing the genetic material called DNA and in numerous other bodily functions.
Are there safety concerns?
Folic acid is LIKELY SAFE for most people when taken by mouth or injected into the body. Most adults do not experience any side effects when used in doses less than 1000 mcg daily.
Folic acid is POSSIBLY UNSAFE when taken by mouth in large doses, long-term. High doses of folic acid might cause abdominal cramps, diarrhea, rash, sleep disorders, irritability, confusion, nausea, stomach upset, behavior changes, skin reactions, seizures, gas, excitability, and other side effects.
There is some concern that taking too much folic acid for a long period of time might cause serious side effects. Some research suggests that taking folic acid in doses of 800-1200 mcg might increase the risk of heart attack in people who have heart problems. Other research suggests that taking these high doses might also increase the risk of cancer such as lung or prostate cancer.
Special precautions & warnings:
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Folic acid is LIKELY SAFE when taken by mouth appropriately during pregnancy and breast-feeing. Taking 300-400 mcg of folic acid daily is commonly used during pregnancy to prevent birth defects.
Procedures to widen narrowed arteries (angioplasty): Using folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 intravenously (by IV) or by mouth might worsen narrowed arteries. Folic acid should not be used by people recovering from this procedure.
Cancer: Early research suggests that taking 800-1000 mcg of folic acid daily might increase the risk of cancer. Until more is known, people with a history of cancer should avoid high doses of folic acid.
Heart disease: Early research suggests that taking folic acid plus vitamin B6 might increase the risk for heart attack in people with a history of heart disease.
Anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency: Taking folic acid might mask anemia caused by vitamin B12 deficiency and delay appropriate treatment.
Seizure disorder: Taking folic acid supplements might make seizures worse in people with seizure disorders, particularly in high doses.
Are there interactions with medications?
- 5-Fluorouracil
- There is some concern that taking large amounts of folic acid with 5-fluorouracil might increase some side effects of 5-fluorouracil, especially stomach problems. Talk with your healthcare provider before taking folic acid.
- Capecitabine (Xeloda)
- There is some concern that taking large amounts of folic acid might increase the side effects of capecitabine, especially stomach problems like diarrhea and vomiting. Talk with your healthcare provider before taking folic acid.
- Fosphenytoin (Cerebyx)
- Fosphenytoin (Cerebyx) is used for seizures. The body breaks down fosphenytoin (Cerebyx) to get rid of it. Folic acid can increase how quickly the body breaks down fosphenytoin (Cerebyx). Taking folic acid along with fosphenytoin (Cerebyx) might decrease the effectiveness of fosphenytoin (Cerebyx) for preventing seizures.
- Methotrexate (MTX, Rheumatrex)
- Methotrexate (MTX, Rheumatrex) works by decreasing the effects of folic acid in the body's cells. Taking folic acid pills along with methotrexate might decrease the effectiveness of methotrexate (MTX, Rheumatrex).
- Phenobarbital (Luminal)
- Phenobarbital (Luminal) is used for seizures. Taking folic acid can decrease how well phenobarbital (Luminal) works for preventing seizures.
- Phenytoin (Dilantin)
- The body breaks down phenytoin (Dilantin) to get rid of it. Folic acid might increase how quickly the body breaks down phenytoin (Dilantin). Taking folic acid and taking phenytoin (Dilantin) might decrease the effectiveness of phenytoin (Dilantin) and increase the possibility of seizures.
- Primidone (Mysoline)
- Primidone (Mysoline) is used for seizures. Folic acid might cause seizures in some people. Taking folic acid along with primidone (Mysoline) might decrease how well primidone works for preventing seizures.
- Pyrimethamine (Daraprim)
- Pyrimethamine (Daraprim) is used to treat parasite infections. Folic acid might decrease the effectiveness of pyrimethamine (Daraprim) for treating parasite infections.
Are there interactions with herbs and supplements?
- Green tea
- There is some concern that green tea might keep folic acid from working the way it should in the body. This might lead to a condition that is similar to folic acid deficiency.
Are there interactions with foods?
- Food
- Taking folic acid with food reduces its absorption slightly, but probably not enough to be important.
- Zinc
- Researchers don't agree on whether or not folic acid interferes with zinc absorption. But for people who get enough zinc in their diet, the effect of folic acid probably isn't important.
What dose is used?
The following doses have been studied in scientific research:
- For folic acid deficiency: the typical dose is 250-1000 mcg (micrograms) per day.
- For preventing neural tube defects: at least 400 mcg of folic acid per day from supplements or fortified food should be taken by women capable of becoming pregnant and continued through the first month of pregnancy. Women with a history of previous pregnancy complicated by such neural tube defects usually take 4 mg per day beginning one month before and continuing for three months after conception.
- For reducing colon cancer risk: 400 mcg per day.
- For treating high levels of homocysteine in the blood:
- 0.5-5 mg (milligrams)/day has been used, although 0.8-1 mg/day is appears to be more effective.
- In people with end-stage renal disease, high homocysteine levels may be more difficult to treat, and doses of 0.8-15 mg/day have been used. Other dosage plans such as 2.5-5 mg 3 times weekly have also been used. Doses higher than 15 mg daily do not seem to be more effective.
- For improving the response to medications for depression: 200-500 mcg daily has been used.
- For vitiligo: 5 mg is typically taken twice daily.
- For reduction of toxicity associated with methotrexate therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or psoriasis: 1 mg/day is probably enough, but up to 5 mg/day may be used.
- For preventing macular degeneration: folic acid 2.5 mg, vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) 1000 mcg, and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 50 mg daily.
The adequate intakes (AI) for infants are 65 mcg for infants 0-6 months and 80 mcg for infants 7-12 months of age. The recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) for folate in DFE, including both food folate and folic acid from fortified foods and supplements are: Children 1-3 years, 150 mcg; Children 4-8 years, 200 mcg; Children 9-13 years, 300 mcg; Adults over 13 years, 400 mcg; Pregnant women 600 mcg; and breast-feeding women, 500 mcg. The tolerable upper intake levels (UL) of folate are 300 mcg for children 1-3 years of age, 400 mcg for children 4-8 years, 600 mcg for children 9-13 years, 800 mcg for adolescents 14-18 years, and 1000 mcg for everyone over 18 years of age.
Other names
5′-methyltetrahydrofolate, 5′-MTHF, Acide Folique, Acide Ptéroylglutamique, Acide Ptéroylmonoglutamique, Acido Folico, B Complex Vitamin, Complexe de Vitamines B, Complexe Vitaminique B, Dihydrofolate, Folacin, Folacine, Folate, Folinic Acid, L-methylfolate, Methylfolate, Méthylfolate, Pteroylglutamic Acid, Pteroylmonoglutamic Acid, Pteroylpolyglutamate, Tetrahydrofolate, Tétrahydrofolate, Vitamin B9, Vitamine B9.
To learn more about how this article was written, please see the Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database methodology.


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'Arab Spring': The chilly cruel winter reality of Arab racism and Islamic bigotry
Not that ethnic racism and religious bigotry weren't rampant before the so-called "Arab spring" sprung about. But the intolerance tide seems to be only worsening, and without an Arab dictator to "hold" various factions together, vulnerability expand, risks rise.
As the D.B. puts it: "Violence Against Egypt's Copts in an Intolerant Arab Spring.. The elephant in the room of the Arab Spring is now the mistreatment of minority communities—Christians and others—across the Arab world."
FPM asks: Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt's Christians? … the guise of the "Arab spring" and "people-power," all hailed and supported by the U.S.—worked for religious minorities in the Arab world?
In Feb. Diana West wrote: "Islamic bigotry kept under wraps in Egyptian uprising." Especially at the brutalization and racist rape by Arab Muslim mob in Egypt of CBS journalist L. Logan (thinking she was Jewish) and the MSM silencing the story.
In May, the New York Times reported on the growing Islamic anti-Christian attacks: "Egypt's Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists." That "Coptic Christians, many of whom have felt less secure since Egypt's dictator stepped down, held a sit-in May 19 in Cairo."
Explaining: The revolution has empowered the majority but also opened new questions about the protection of minority rights like freedom of religion or expression as Islamist groups step forward to lay out their agendas and test their political might.
Around the region, Christians are also closely watching events in Syria, where as in Egypt Christians and other minorities received the protection of a secular dictator, Bashar al-Assad, now facing his own popular uprising.
Z. Baumann, in a June article, asks about Christians: "Arab Spring's losers of revolution?"
Christian Persecution monitor (Aug.) "Common Fear, Opposing Reactions Define Differences between Christians in Egypt and Syria."
Later on, in that month:
Egyptian Islamic Jihad Official: If We Come To Power We Will Launch Islamic Conquest To Instate Sharia and "Exterminate" Christians If They Cause Problems.
The Copts Association and Christian of Iraq said (Sep.) The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution… Throughout the region, Christians have been targeted by Muslim mobs … that the Arab Spring is posing a threat to Christian minorities throughout the Middle East.
As the Arab Islamic mob (Sep.) attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo, they were justifiably described by a Western journalist. "They Were Animals." Still think, the Arab-Israeli conflict is about "land…?"
From a 2006 article in The Guardian: "The race taboo,": The existence of racist attitudes within Arab countries is often denied, resulting in scandalous displays of prejudice against certain ethnic groups. The Arab countries, mostly are in denial. The A to Z of ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East embraces Alawites, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'is, Berbers, Chaldeans, Copts, Druzes, Ibadis, Ismailis, Jews, Kurds, Maronites, Sahrawis, Tuareq, Turkmen, Yazidis and Zaidis (by no means an exhaustive list), and yet serious discussion of ethnic/religious diversity and its place in society is a long-standing taboo.
If the existence of non-Arab or non-Muslim groups is acknowledged at all, it is usually only to declare how wonderfully everyone gets along.
In April this year, indingenous group who suffer discrimination: Tunisia's Berbers test the limits of country's newfound freedoms
Probably most noted group of non-Arabs to suffer from Arab racism are blacks.
Already in March, Rebels execute black immigrants while forces kidnap others… Therefore the Arab racism of Libyan rebels constitute crimes against humanity.
From NER, March 10 "Arab Racism On Display In Libya."
From a Mar 5, 2011 "Black Africans Caught in Libyan Arab Racism" That Libyan rebels, overwhelmingly racist and anti-African…
The New York Times reported in September: "Libyans Turn Wrath on Dark-Skinned Migrants," That As rebel leaders pleaded with their fighters to avoid taking revenge against "brother Libyans," many rebels were turning their wrath against migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, imprisoning hundreds for the crime of fighting as "mercenaries" for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi without any evidence except the color of their skin.
Explaining the scapefoating of black: Still, in a country with a long history of racist violence, it has become an article of faith among supporters of the Libyan rebels that African mercenaries pervaded the loyalists' ranks. And since Colonel Qaddafi's fall from power, the hunting down of people suspected of being mercenaries has become a major preoccupation.
Even the Arab-based Arab-biased al-Jazeera reported testimonies of "how race-based discrimination and violence, long an issue in Libya, had been inflamed by the war."
From the HuffingtonPost, September "The Great Taboo: Arab Racism," With the liberation of Libya come less happy reports from Amnesty and Physicians for Human Rights of rebels slaughtering scores of black Africans, believing they were all pro-Gaddafi mercenaries. While the dictator did hire some fighters from sub-Saharan Africa, the vast majority of black Africans in Libya are entirely innocent immigrants, one million of whom are guest workers.
Tarek Fatah (October) on "The future of the Arab Spring"
I'm very pessimistic about the Arab world… I think there will be far more chaos than Obama can manage. There's nothing there. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamists have billions of dollars. The jean-clad, western secularists have to worry about their girlfriends, and their New York Yankee hats and every silly stuff, and Twitter and Facebook. While the real world is moving on. All these guys will come back to New York, and Boston, and Toronto and say, 'Oh, we went there for sabbatical and had fun in Cairo.' While the Muslim Brotherhood is deeply entrenched. Not a single black face in all of Arab Spring. What does it say to you? 20% of the Arab population is black, but you can't see a single black face. It's a completely racist movement. It says non-Arabs in the Arab Spring have no rights. IF you're Bangladeshi, Filipino, Indonesian…you have absolutely no rights. This is worse Apartheid. That's why Africans are fleeing Libya, dying in the Mediterranean, to get to Italy or to Israel.
On the plight of Africans in Arab Egypt, UNHCR (October) says no more resettlement for refugees from Libya in Egypt… For the Africans now stranded in Egypt, Ali, a Somali refugee who has been waiting for nearly a decade to be relocated, he warns that there will be an upsurge in anti-Africanism and racism toward the refugees who are barred from work and education in the country.
Black activists in October decried: "Why The New York Times Ignored Libya Ethnic Cleansing… Not Genocide If "Our Team" Commits the Crime."
When a major newspaper supports so-called "rebels," even though the signs are abundant from the very beginning that they comprise sadistic killers, radical Islamists, and anti-Black racists, what does it do at the end of the day, when the evidence can't be hidden anymore that the so-called "liberators" are in fact genocidal killers?
[…] Complicity is widely shared. Not even the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, has condemned the targeted killings of Black Libyans. Not a word of condemnation from Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, who is in Tripoli today. Nothing from United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and the ICC's Ocampo.
Carina Ray (Sep.): "Gaddafi and the Mercenary Myth." The mistreatment and murder of blacks by rebel forces in Libya is an extension of long-simmering anti-immigrant sentiments that are directed at sub-Saharan Africans. Xenophobia and racism are both at play here.
In that month: Persecution of Black Libyans draws international outcry
Workers World. They must protest the racist persecution of Black Libyans and all Africans and demand that it stop immediately.
A Sep. report: "Poverty Skyrockets in the World's Poorest Country Due to Racial Violence After Revolution in Neighboring Libya."
Niger is the poorest country in Africa and the world: Many of its people go hungry every day, many children die before their fifth birthday, and countless thousands have died in past famines. Now, it's getting much poorer, as black migrant workers from Niger are forced to leave neighboring Libya because of the color of their skin in the aftermath of the revolution there. Workers used to send money home to Niger from Libya, enabling impoverished family members to survive. But now these workers have been forced to leave Libya, where some black migrant workers were lynched, and many others have been rounded up and jailed in appalling conditions after being falsely accused of being mercenaries for the brutal, recently-ousted dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi…
Still, in a country with a long history of racist violence, it has become an article of faith among supporters of the Libyan rebels that African mercenaries…
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Quote of the Day - More traffic goes past that spot than anywhere else in the country.
Hope on a Holiday Freeway: The Guy on the 405
Driving back from LA on Friday, traffic was stopped: dead stopped. You know, the kind of stopped you just know will turn you and several thousand of your nearest friends into a 30-second segment on the 6:00 evening news. While the rest of us watching groan with an at-too-well understanding of your plight.
Traffic started to move slowly on both sides of the freeway, but not in the middle. Fortunately, I was on one of the the sides that was moving, not too far from the start of the traffic jam. Within a car length or two, I saw what was going on.
One 6x6x8 piece of lumber lay askance in the middle lane, blocking traffic. It looked like it had already been run over; a couple of chunks of lumber (the size of 2x4's) were scattered nearby.
Perhaps realizing the futility of his position, the guy driving - ok, well parked - in the middle lane immediately behind the offending tree trunk, was getting out of his car.
On the 405 freeway.
In Los Angeles.
One of the busiest freeway in the world.
As he got out of his car, his intent became clear. That tree trunk was going into the back seat so he could go forward. It became apparent that the lumber was too big for the back seat, so he finagled it forward into the passenger seat. Good thing for bucket seats.
And all without a weaving California Highway Patrol car to create a traffic stop, we all waited behind him, stopping the rest of the traffic behind us.
On our own. Cooperating. Without talking.
In the hustle and bustle of the season, we took a moment and by stopping, paid our respects to a honorable citizen doing his duty to all of us on the freeway - at great danger to himself.
Once the lumber was in the car and the back door shut, he got back in the driver's seat and drove off.
I have no idea who you were, but my thanks go out to you for reaffirming my faith in California freeway drivers.


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Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau – bohemian, travel writer and landscape gardener of great renown – designed Muskauer Park, one of the most beautiful landscaped gardens in the world, in the early 19th century. Covering around 830 hectares, it is made up of a number of smaller parks on either side of the German-Polish border, each with its own character.
The largest English-style landscaped park in central Europe, Muskauer Park also testifies to German/Polish reconciliation: around a third lies in the town of Bad Muskau in Saxony, while the majority of the park is to the east of the Neisse river on the Polish side. Pückler modelled the park that surrounded his New Palace in Muskau on the English gardens of the early 19th century. What is considered so successful about the park is the way in which the individual, differently structured areas are connected by sweeping vistas and winding paths. The integration of the natural course of the river Neisse, which flows through Lusatia, with the man-made canal (called 'Hermann's river Neisse'), is also regarded as a masterpiece. Other attractions in this garden kingdom include the Old Castle, a tropical glasshouse, the Kavaliershaus, the spa park and hillside park, the orangery and the English Bridge, a historical footbridge over the Neisse that has been destroyed several times but was faithfully reconstructed in 2011. If you cross over the bridge, you'll suddenly find yourself in Poland where the beautiful old park cafés serve lody (Polish for ice cream) instead of eis. In whichever side of the park you find yourself, you simply must treat yourself to an original Prince Pückler (Neopolitan) ice cream. You can also spend the night at the park. Some of the buildings have been converted into holiday apartments, offering an authentic yet relaxing place to stay in the fairytale world of Prince Pückler.
Opening times
Muskauer Park Tourist Information, Prince Pückler Park Foundation, Bad Muskau
April to October: 10am to 6pm daily
Public guided tours and walks
April to October: Saturday, Sunday and on public holidays: 2pm; all year round on Sundays at 10am
Short guided tour: through selected sections of the park
Long guided tour: the short tours are combined with additional sections of the park or with the Polish section of the park on its own.
Whole park tour: this guided walk presents the entire park on both sides of the river.
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Muskauer Park is part of the '' UNESCO route. Other stops on the route are:
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Sunrover Expeditions offers one, two and three day tours of Fraser Island and Moreton Island from Brisbane daily with a choice of camping, staying at Tangalooma Resort, Eurong Beach Resort or Kingfisher Bay Resort.
Tours depart from the Gold Coast, Brisbane Roma Street, Noosa Info Centre and Rainbow Beach. Sunrover Tours keeps their groups small and takes pride in offering personalised services. All tours offer the choice of staying in tents on camp sites or to upgrade to beach lodges or hotel accommodation, for example the Eco Award winning Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island.
Sunrover has a tour option to cater to all tastes and budgets.
Day One; four wheel drive past aboriginal midden site at Spitfire Creek. Swim or snorkel in freshwater lake, Blue Lagoon and four wheel drive along wilderness surf beach and to the desert sandhills for a sandboarding adventure.
Enjoy island hotel accommodation at Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort - a magical setting on Moreton Bay.
You can also experience the thrill of handfeeding wild dolphins at night.
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Travel with your experienced driver and guide in a small group to explore Fraser Island.
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Meet the Humpback Whales of Hervey Bay and explore the World Heritage wilderness Fraser Island with an experienced guide. Walk through towering rainforests growing in sand, discover huge sandblows moving across the island, swim in beautiful fresh water lakes, wade in fast flowing creeks, drive along the world's most beautiful beach highway and marvel at coloured sand formations.
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Pass the Glasshouse Mountains to Noosa River Ferry and Cooloola Coast Beach. At Rainbow Beach enjoy the coloured sands and surf. Take the ferry to Fraser Island and enjoy a surf beach, Lake Wabby, and a famous sand dune where you can swim, hike and turtle watch.
On the second day, visit Lake McKenzie where you can swim and snorkel in this unique lake. Visit Central Station magical rainforest. See a giant King Fern, world heritage satinay forest and the crystal clear waters of Wanggoolba Creek. Or four wheel drive to Eli Creek, Cathedral Beach and Indian Head.
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Famed tech-pioneer company BBN - which among other things gave the world the "@" symbol in email addresses - has been awarded Pentagon funding to develop the "Wireless Network after Next" (WNaN) for use by the digital grunt of tomorrow.
The firm says that the $11.3m in defence cash comes from the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA - the Pentagon's radical edge-bloodening bureau. For this, BBN will demonstrate a "hardened virtual network infrastructure" running on handheld data radios. The demo network will start with 20 nodes this summer and scale up to 370.
BBN have already carried out smaller-scale trials of their WNaN tech, and say that it's ideal for use in digital-footsoldier efforts like Land Warrior or the Ground Soldier Ensemble candidates. These efforts let every soldier see where he and his buddies are on a map, and also enemies, objectives etc. They might grow to offer other features like streaming video, medical telemetry and so on in future.
DARPA say that WNaN represents a change from the usual military comms philosophy of having a few long-ranging expensive nodes, which deal with jamming or tough conditions by being powerful. Rather, the idea here is to have lots of cheap, less powerful nodes and cope with problems by weight of numbers:
Previous practice has been to build high cost and hence sparsely deployed nodes, and to organize the network around these nodes. This program aims to shift the approach used to design military wireless networks from design for radio range to design for node density. Proposers should assume node densities associated with deployments in which each warfighter and each vehicle has a WNaN radio node.
BBN say that their kit is nice and cheap, as it uses off-the-shelf bits: DARPA require a mass-production cost of less than $500 per unit. The firm also says the tech is "disruption tolerant", able to stream video even when many routes are blocked by jamming, terrain features or whatnot. WNaN is also said to play nicely with other military RF systems.
The only question-marks remaining would seem to be those regarding the programme's name, which plainly can't remain appropriate forever. Presumably at some point this will have to change to something like Next Enhanced Radio Datanet (NERD) and then to Warfighter Augmentation Network Ground Equipment Radio (WANGER) etc. ®


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Indigenous Australian art
Indigenous Australian art or Australian Aboriginal art is art made by the Indigenous peoples of Australia and in collaborations between Indigenous Australians and others. It includes works in a wide range of media including painting on leaves, wood carving, rock carving, sculpting, ceremonial clothing and sand painting. This article discusses works that pre-date European colonization as well as contemporary Indigenous Australian art by Aboriginal Australians. These have been studied in recent years and have gained much international recognition.[1]
- 1 Traditional Indigenous art
- 2 Symbols
- 3 Contemporary Indigenous art
- 4 Aboriginal art in international museums
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 Further reading
- 8 External links
Traditional Indigenous art
There are several types of aboriginal art, and ways of making art, including rock painting, dot painting, rock engravings, bark painting, carvings, sculptures, and weaving and string art.
Rock painting
Australian Indigenous art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. The oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Narwala Gabarnmang rock shelter in south-western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date. Rock art, including painting and engraving or carving, can be found at sites throughout Australia. Rock paintings appear on caves in the Kimberley region of Western Australia known as Bradshaws. They are named after the European, Joseph Bradshaw, who first reported them in 1891. To Aboriginal people of the region they are known as Gwion Gwion[2] or Giro Giro.[3] Other painted rock art sites include Laura, Queensland,[4] Ubirr, in the Kakadu National Park,[5] Uluru,[6] and Carnarvon Gorge.[7]
Aboriginal rock art has been around for a long period of time, with the oldest examples, in Western Australia's Pilbara region and the Olary district of South Australia, estimated to be up to around 40,000 years old.[8] Examples have been found that are believed to depict extinct megafauna such as Genyornis[9] and Thylacoleo[10] as well as more recent historical events such as the arrival of European ships.[11]
Rock engravings
Rock engraving depends on the type of rock being used. Many different methods are used to create rock engravings. There are several different types of Rock art across Australia, the most famous of which is Murujuga in Western Australia, the Sydney rock engravings around Sydney in New South Wales, and the Panaramitee rock art in Central Australia. The Sydney engravings, depicting carved animals and humans, have their own peculiar style not found elsewhere in Australia.
The rock art at Murujuga is said to be the world's largest collection of petroglyphs[12] and includes images of extinct animals such as the thylacine. Activity prior to the last ice age until colonisation is recorded.
Dot painting
Dot painting consists of various paint colours like yellow (representing the sun), brown (the soil), red (desert sand) and white (the clouds and the sky). These are traditional Aboriginal colours. Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they were painted on rocks, in caves, etc. The paintings were mostly images of animals or lakes, and the dreamtime. Stories and legends were depicted on caves and rocks to represent the artists' religion.
On modern artwork, dots are generally applied with one of two instruments, (1) bamboo satay sticks and (2) ink bottles. The larger flat end of bamboo satay sticks are more commonly used for single application of dots to paintings, but the sharp pointier end is used to create fine dots. To create superimposed dotting, artists may take a bunch of satay sticks, dip the pointy ends into the paint and then transfer it onto the canvas in quick successions of dotting.[13]
Bark painting
Bark paintings are regarded as fine art, and today the finest art commands high prices on the international art markets. The best artists are recognized annually in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.
Aerial desert "country" landscapes
From ancient times, Australian aboriginal culture also produced a genre of aerial landscape art, often titled simply "country". It is a kind of maplike, bird's-eye view of the desert landscape, and it is often meant to tell a traditional Dreaming story. In the distant past, the common media for such artwork were rock, sand or body painting, but the tradition continues today in the form of colored drawings with liquid based color on canvas (see section Papunya Tula and "Dot Painting" below).
Stone arrangements
Stone arrangements in Australia range from the 50m-diameter circles of Victoria, with 1m-high stones firmly embedded in the ground, to the smaller stone arrangements found throughout Australia, such as those near Yirrkala which depict accurate images of the praus used by Macassan Trepang fishermen and spear throwers.
See Aboriginal stone arrangements for more details.
Carvings and sculpture
- Carved shells – Riji
- Mimih (or Mimi) small man-like carvings of mythological impish creatures. Mimihs are so frail that they never venture out on windy days lest they be swept away like leaf litter. It is said their necks are so thin a slight breeze might snap their heads off. If approached by men they will run into a rock crevice; if no crevice is there, the rocks themselves will open up and seal behind the Mimih.
- Fibre sculpture
Weaving and string-art
- Basket weaving – see Australian Aboriginal fibrecraft
- Necklaces and other jewelry, such as those from the Tasmanian Aborigines
Certain symbols within the Aboriginal modern art movement retain the same meaning across regions although the meaning of the symbols may change within the context of a painting. When viewed in monochrome other symbols can look similar, such as the circles within circles, sometimes depicted on their own, sparsely, or in clustered groups. Depending upon the tribe of which the artist is a member, symbols such as campfire, tree, hill, digging hole, waterhole, or spring can vary in meaning. Use of the symbol can be clarified further by the use of colour, such as water being depicted in blue or black.
Many paintings by Aboriginal artists, such as those that represent a "dreamtime story", are shown from an aerial perspective. The narrative follows the lie of the land, as created by ancestral beings in their journey or during creation. The modern day rendition is a reinterpretation of songs, ceremonies, rock art and body art that was the norm for many thousands of years.
Whatever the meaning, interpretations of the symbols should be made in context of the entire painting, the region from which the artist originates, the story behind the painting, and the style of the painting, with additional clues being the colours used in some of the more modern works, such as blue circles signifying water.(Source: Aboriginal Symbols - Indigenous Australia)[14]
Religious and cultural aspects of Aboriginal art
Traditional indigenous art almost always has a mythological undertone relating to the Dreamtime of indigenous Australian artists. Wenten Rubuntja, an indigenous landscape artist, says it is hard to find any art that is devoid of spiritual meaning:
Doesn't matter what sort of painting we do in this country, it still belongs to the people, all the people. This is worship, work, culture. It's all Dreaming. There are two ways of painting. Both ways are important, because that's culture. – source The Weekend Australian Magazine, April 2002
Story-telling and totem representation feature prominently in all forms of Aboriginal artwork. Additionally, the female form, particularly the female womb in X-ray style, features prominently in some famous sites in Arnhem Land.
Graffiti and other destructive influences
Many culturally significant sites of Aboriginal rock paintings have been gradually desecrated and destroyed by encroachment of early settlers and modern-day visitors. This includes the destruction of art by clearing and construction work, erosion caused by excessive touching of sites, and graffiti. Many sites now belonging to National Parks have to be strictly monitored by rangers, or closed off to the public permanently.
Contemporary Indigenous art
Modern Aboriginal artists
In 1934 Australian painter Rex Batterbee taught Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira western style watercolour landscape painting, along with other Aboriginal artists at the Hermannsburg mission in the Northern Territory. It became a popular style, known as the Hermannsburg School, and sold out when the paintings were exhibited in Melbourne, Adelaide and other Australian cities. Namatjira became the first Aboriginal Australian citizen, as a result of his fame and popularity with these watercolour paintings.
In 1966, one of David Malangi's designs was produced on the Australian one dollar note, originally without his knowledge. The subsequent payment to him by the Reserve Bank marked the first case of Aboriginal copyright in Australian copyright law.
In 1988 the Aboriginal Memorial was unveiled at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra made from 200 hollow log coffins, which are similar to the type used for mortuary ceremonies in Arnhem Land. It was made for the bicentenary of Australia's colonisation, and is in remembrance of Aboriginal people who had died protecting their land during conflict with settlers. It was created by 43 artists from Ramingining and communities nearby. The path running through the middle of it represents the Glyde River.[15]
In that same year, the new Parliament House in Canberra opened with a forecourt featuring a design by Michael Nelson Tjakamarra, laid as a mosaic.
The late Rover Thomas is another well known modern Australian Aboriginal artist. Born in Western Australia, he represented Australia in the Venice Biennale of 1991. He knew and encouraged other now well-known artists to paint, including Queenie McKenzie from the East Kimberley / Warmun region, as well as having a strong influence on the works of Paddy Bedford and Freddy Timms.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the work of Emily Kngwarreye, from the Utopia community north east of Alice Springs, became very popular. Although she had been involved in craftwork for most of her life, it was only when she was in her 80s that she was recognised as a painter. Her works include Earth's Creation. Her styles, which changed every year, have been seen as a mixture of traditional Aboriginal and contemporary Australian. Her rise in popularity has prefigured that of many Indigenous artists from central, northern and western Australia, such as Kngwarreye's niece Kathleen Petyarre, Minnie Pwerle, Dorothy Napangardi, Lena Pwerle, Angelina Ngale (Pwerle) and dozens of others, all of whose works have become highly sought-after. The popularity of these often elderly artists, and the resulting pressure placed upon them and their health, has become such an issue that some art centers have stopped selling these artists' paintings online, instead placing prospective clients on a waiting list for work.[16]
Current artists in vogue include Jacinta Hayes, popular for her iconic representation of "Bush Medicine Leaves" and "Honey Ants", Rex Sultan (who studied with Albert Namatjira), Trephina Sultan and Reggie Sultan, Bessie Pitjara and Joyce Nakamara, amongst others.[17]
Despite concerns about supply and demand for paintings, the remoteness of many of the artists, and the poverty and health issues experienced in the communities, there are widespread estimates of an industry worth close to half a billion Australian dollars each year, and growing rapidly.[18]
Papunya Tula and "dot painting"
In 1971–1972, art teacher Geoffrey Bardon encouraged Aboriginal people in Papunya, north west of Alice Springs to put their Dreamings onto canvas. These stories had previously been drawn on the desert sand, and were now given a more permanent form.
The dots were used to cover secret-sacred ceremonies. Originally, the Tula artists succeeded in forming their own company with an Aboriginal Name, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd,[19] however a time of disillusionment followed as artists were criticised by their peers for having revealed too much of their sacred heritage. Secret designs restricted to a ritual context were now in the market place, made visible to Australian Aboriginal painting. Much of the Aboriginal art on display in tourist shops traces back to this style developed at Papunya. The most famous of the artists to come from this movement was Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. Also from this movement is Johnny Warangkula, whose Water Dreaming at Kalipinya twice sold at a record price, the second time being $486,500 in 2000.
The Papunya Collection at the National Museum of Australia contains over 200 artifacts and paintings, including examples of 1970's dot paintings.[20]
There have been cases of some exploitative dealers (known as carpetbaggers) that have sought to profit from the success of the Aboriginal art movements. Since Geoffrey Bardon's time and in the early years of the Papunya movement, there has been concerns about the exploitation of the largely illiterate and non-English speaking artists.
One of the main reasons the Yuendumu movement was established, and later flourished, was due to the feeling of exploitation amongst artists:
"Many of the artists who played crucial roles in the founding of the art centre were aware of the increasing interest in Aboriginal art during the 1970s and had watched with concern and curiosity the developments of the art movement at Papunya amongst people to whom they were closely related. There was also a growing private market for Aboriginal art in Alice Springs. Artists' experiences of the private market were marked by feelings of frustration and a sense of disempowerment when buyers refused to pay prices which reflected the value of the Jukurrpa or showed little interest in understanding the story. The establishment of Warlukurlangu was one way of ensuring the artists had some control over the purchase and distribution of their paintings." (Source: "Warlukurlangu Artists". warlu.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2005.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>[dead link])
Other cases of exploitation include:
- painting for a lemon (car): "Artists have come to me and pulled out photos of cars with mobile phone numbers on the back. They're asked to paint 10-15 canvasses in exchange for a car. When the 'Toyotas' materalise, they often arrive with a flat tyre, no spares, no jack, no fuel." (Coslovich 2003)
- preying on a sick artist: "Even coming to town for medical treatment, such as dialysis, can make an artist easy prey for dealers wanting to make a quick profit who congregate in Alice Springs" (op.cit.)
- pursuing a famous artist: "The late (great) Emily Kngwarreye...was relentlessly pursued by carpetbaggers towards the end of her career and produced a large but inconsistent body of work." According to Sotheby's "We take about one in every 20 paintings of hers, and with those we look for provenance we can be 100% sure of." (op.cit.)
In March 2006, the ABC reported art fraud had hit the Western Australian Aboriginal Art movements. Allegations were made of sweatshop-like conditions, fake works by English backpackers, overpricing and artists posing for photographs for artwork that was not theirs. A detective on the case said:
"People are clearly taking advantage...Especially the elderly people. I mean, these are people that, they're not educated; they haven't had a lot of contact with white people. They've got no real basic understanding, you know, of the law and even business law. Obviously they've got no real business sense. A dollar doesn't really have much of a meaning to them, and I think to treat anybody like that is just… it's just not on in this country."Call for ACCC to investigate Aboriginal Art industry, ABC PM, 15 March.
In August 2006, following concerns raised about unethical practices in the Indigenous art sector, the Australian Senate initiated an inquiry into issues in the sector. It heard from the Northern Territory Art Minister, Marion Scrymgour, that backpackers were often the artists of Aboriginal art being sold in tourist shops around Australia:
"The material they call Aboriginal art is almost exclusively the work of fakers, forgers and fraudsters. Their work hides behind false descriptions and dubious designs. The overwhelming majority of the ones you see in shops throughout the country, not to mention Darling, are fakes, pure and simple. There is some anecdotal evidence here in Darwin at least, they have been painted by backpackers working on industrial scale wood production."[21]
The inquiry's final report made recommendations for changed funding and governance of the sector, including a code of practice.
Aboriginal art movements and cooperatives
Australian Indigenous art movements and cooperatives have been central to the emergence of Indigenous Australian art. Whereas many western artists pursue formal training and work as individuals, most contemporary Indigenous art is created in community groups and art centres.[22]
Many of the centres operate online art galleries where local and international visitors can purchase works directly from the communities without the need of going through an intermediary. The cooperatives reflect the diversity of art across Indigenous Australia from the north west region where ochre is significantly used; to the tropical north where the use of cross-hatching prevails; to the Papunya style of art from the central desert cooperatives. Art is increasingly becoming a significant source of income and livelihood for some of these communities.
This section requires expansion. (August 2013)
The winners of the West Australian Indigenous Arts Awards were announced on 22 August 2013. From over 137 nominations from throughout Australia, Churchill Cann won the Best West Australian Piece (A$10,000) and North Queensland artist Brian Robinson won the Best Overall prize (A$50,000),[23]
Aboriginal art in international museums
The Museum for Australian Aboriginal art "La grange" (at Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is one of the few museums in Europe that dedicates itself entirely to this kind of art. During seasonal exhibitions, works of art by internationally renowned artists are being shown. Also, the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, has an "Oceania" collection,[24] which includes works by Australian Aboriginal artists Lena Nyadbi, Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford, Judy Watson, Gulumbu Yunupingu, John Mawurndjul, Tommy Watson, Ningura Napurrula and Michael Riley.[25]
Two museums that solely exhibit Australian Aboriginal art are the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art (AMU), in Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.[26][27]
See also
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Australian Aboriginal art.
- ↑ Caruna, W.(2003)'Aboriginal Art' Thames and Hudson, London, p.7
- ↑ Doring, Jeff Gwion Gwion: Chemins Secrets Et Sacrés Des Ngarinyin, Aborigènes D'Australie (Gwion Gwion: Secret and Sacred Pathways of the Ngarinyin Aboriginal People of Australia) Könemann 2000 ISBN 9783829040600 p. 55
- ↑ Worms, Ernest Contemporary and prehistoric rock paintings in Central and Northern North Kimberley Anthropos Switzerland 1955 p. 555
- ↑ "Rock Art Sites & Tours". Quinkan & Regional Cultural Centre. 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (2012). "Ubirr art site". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 August 2013.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (2013). "Rock art sites". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 August 2013.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Pre-history of Carnarvon Gorge". Australian Nature Guides. Retrieved 29 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Rock Art, Aboriginal Art Online, retrieved April 2008.
- ↑ Masters, Emma (31 May 2010). "Megafauna cave painting could be 40,000 years old". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 29 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Akerman, Kim; Willing, Tim (March 2009). "An ancient rock painting of a marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, from the Kimberley, Western Australia". Antiquity (journal). Retrieved 11 December 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Middleton, Amy; AAP (2 August 2013). "Aboriginal rock art may depict first sea arrivals". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 29 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Department of Environment and Conservation (6 February 2013). "Creation of Western Australia's 100th National Park - Murujuga National Park". Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 29 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Fine Dot Paintings". Utopia Lane Art. Retrieved 21 November 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Team AusEmade (28 September 2008). "Aboriginal Symbols". Ausemade.com.au. Retrieved 16 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Caruana, Wally (2003). Aboriginal Art (2nd ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-500-20366-8.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Warlayirti Artists, 'Supply and Demand', http://www.balgoart.org.au/art_centre/mainframe.htm, retrieved July 2007
- ↑ Nazvanov, DR Greg. The Australian Aboriginal Art Investment Handbook, 2010.ISBN 1445776073
- ↑ Senate Standing Committee on the Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (2007), Indigenous Art: Securing the Future - Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector, Canberra: The Senate
- ↑ "Papunya Tula Artists". Papunyatula.com.au. Retrieved 16 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Papunya Collection, National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
- ↑ Sydney Morning Herald (2007) Backpackers fake Aboriginal art, Senate told
- ↑ Wright, Felicity and Morphy, Frances 1999-2000. The Art & Craft Centre Story. Canberra: ATSIC (3 vols).
- ↑ Craig Quartermaine (23 August 2013). "Winner of the West Australian Indigenous Art prize announced". SBS World News Australia. Retrieved 28 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "musée du quai Branly: Oceania". Quaibranly.fr. Retrieved 16 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Musée du Quai Branly Australian Aboriginal Art Museum at the Aboriginal Art Directory. View information about Musée du Quai Branly". Aboriginalartdirectory.com. 15 July 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Home". AAMU. AAMU. August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection". Campaign for the Arts at the University of Virginia. Rector & Visitors, U.Va. August 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Further reading
- Bardon, G. (1979) Aboriginal Art of the Western Desert, Adelaide: Rigby
- Bardon, G. (1991) Papunya Tula: Art of the Western Desert, Ringwood VIC: McPhee Gribble (Penguin)
- Bardon, G. (2005) Papunya, A Place Made After the Story: The Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement, University of Melbourne: Miegunyah Press
- Donaldson, Mike, Burrup Rock Art: Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art of Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago, Fremantle Arts Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9805890-1-6
- Flood, J. (1997) Rock Art of the Dreamtime:Images of Ancient Australia,Sydney: Angus & Robertson
- Johnson, V. (ed) (2007) Papunya painting: out of the desert, Canberra: National Museum of Australia
- Kleinert, S. & Neale, M. (eds.) (2000) The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Melbourne: Oxford University Press
- McCulloch, S. (1999) Contemporary Aboriginal Art: A guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, St Leonards (Sydney): Allen & Unwin,
- McIvor, Roy (2010). Cockatoo: My Life in Cape York. Stories and Art. Roy McIvor. Magabala Books. Broome, Western Australia. ISBN 978-1-921248-22-1.
- Morphy, H. (1991) Ancestral Connections, London: University of Chicago Press
- Morphy, H. (1998) Aboriginal Art, London: Phaidon Press
- Myers, F. R. (2002) Painting Culture: The making of an Aboriginal High Art, Durham: Duke University Press
- Rothwell, N. (2007) Another Country, Melbourne: Black Inc.
- Ryan, M.D. and Keane, M. and Cunningham, S. (2008) Indigenous Art: Local Dreamings, Global Consumption, in Anheier, Helmut and Raj Isar, Yudhishthir, Eds. Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy, London: Sage Publications, pp. 284–291
- Senate Standing Committee on the Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (2007), Indigenous Art: Securing the Future - Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector, Canberra: The Senate
- Wright, F. (with Morphy, F. and Desart Inc.) (1999–2000) The Art and Craft Centre Story (3 vols), Woden: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
External links
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Indigenous Australian art
- Indigenous Art Code the industry code set up to promote integrity, transparency and accountability in dealing with Indigenous art [1].
- Aboriginal Art Directory Comprehensive list of art centres, museums, galleries, along with Aboriginal art news and reviews [2].
- Arts Law Centre of Australia - Indigenous art legal issues
- Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists
- Australian Indigenous Art Trade Association
- National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award
- Culture Victoria – images and videos related to traditional art and artefacts
- Australian Art Collector magazine's Guide to Indigenous Art Centres
- Lockhart River Art
- Remembering Forward. Australian Aboriginal Painting since 1960 at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
- Discussion on Country, memory and art: Understanding Indigenous art, Howard Morphy, John Carty and Dr Michael Pickering, National Museum of Australia, Audio on demand, 8 December 2010
- Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, National Museum of Australia online exhibition
- Aboriginal art project in Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
- Aboriginal Art Museum of Utrech.
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John Musgrove is my 2x great grandfather. He was born c1833 to parents Joseph Musgrove and Jane Dewhurst.
On 6 October 1855 John married Catherine Ainsworth at the Parish Church in Blackburn, Lancashire. They had at least 5 children:-
Susannah – born 2 August 1856 – died 1 February 1869
George – born 20 August 1857 – died 20 August 1857
Thomas Ainsworth – born 12 December 1860 – died 16 April 1928
Joseph – born 13 April 1864 – died 3 June 1948
James – born 5 August 1868 – died 23 November 1868
I have found John on the 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1881 census returns. His occupation varied over the years and he was described as a crofter, a carter and a general labourer. In the 1871 census Catherine is living at 18 Ellen Street, Over Darwen, Lancashire and I assume that John was away from home at the time of the census.
On the 2 December 1858 tragedy struck the family when John's father, Joseph Musgrove, died as the result of a fall at home. Here's a blog post about his death – Sunday's Obituary – Joseph Musgrove
Ever since I started my interest in genealogy and researching my family history my mother has regularly told me of a story about a suicide by hanging somewhere in the past. So I was aware that at some point I may find the evidence.
Back in August this year I finally got round to ordering a copy of John Musgrove's death certificate. And now I have the confirmation of the family story – cause of death was "suicide by hanging – unsound mind".
According to the death certificate John died at Railway Road, Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 17 September 1884. An inquest was held by the Deputy Coroner J C Anderson on the same date.
The family story was that John returned home one night and the door was locked. Whether he had been drinking, whether John and Catherine had argued, I guess I will never know. Catherine refused to let him in and John replied that he might as well kill himself. If the story is to be believed then Catherine threw him a rope.
Despite my best efforts I have not been able to find any record of the inquest. I have tried Clitheroe library and been to Blackburn library to search the newspaper archives. I've also spoken with the Blackburn Coroners Office. There is a death notice in the local Blackburn paper but no report of the inquest. I discovered during this search that inquest records/reports were considered to be the property of the coroner and were most likely destroyed when the coroner retired.
So sadly it seems I will never learn any more about the tragic events of Wednesday 17 September 1884.


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Fresh from the small town of Cobbleskill, young Louise Ginglebusher arrives in New York City. Hungry and on a budget, Louise enters a café, where her order is taken by Wechsberg, her kindhearted but contentious waiter. Feeling sorry for the girl, Wechsberg brings her a turkey sandwich rather than the chicken liver she ordered. While Wechsberg confers about his taxes with his bearded attorney, George Prescott, Louise eyes the bewhiskered barrister. Noticing Louise's interest, Wechsberg introduces her to George and when the waiter learns that her last name is Ginglebusher, he insists that she take George's business card in case she ever decides to change it. After George leaves, Wechsberg sighs that his friend is too honest to earn a decent living. From the café, Louise goes to see Mr. Buckingham, the owner of the prestigious Buckingham Music Hall and an old friend of Louise's father. Buckingham hires Louise as an usher, and while working one day, she meets Wechsberg again when he comes to smoke and watch a movie. Later, as Louise leaves work, she is accosted by a masher. Spotting Wechsberg in the street, Louise claims that he is her husband and dismisses the young man. Wechsberg then walks Louise to her boardinghouse. As they sit on the front porch and discuss their dreams, Wechsberg impetuously invites Louise to an elite social gathering at the Savoy Ritz, at which he is working the following night. When Louise appears at the event in a borrowed gown, Wechsberg advises her to pretend to be a foreigner and mingle. The headwaiter soon discovers that Louise's name is not on the guest list, but Wechsberg claims that she is one of the entertainers. After sitting down at one of the tables, Louise is joined by J. Conrad Nelson, an elderly, philandering meat magnate. When Nelson, the party's host, begins to question Louise, Wechsberg tells him that she is there to perform and Nelson then asks her to sing. To save Wechsberg's job, Louise sings and so impresses the audience that Nelson insists she accompany him upstairs to his penthouse. Thinking that Louise is an aspiring young singer who has crashed his party to attract his attention, Nelson offers to star her in a musical. To discourage his attentions, Louise declares that she is already married, prompting Nelson to offer to buy her out of her marriage by financially compensating her husband for his loss. Seeing an opportunity to help the struggling George, Louise hands Nelson his business card and tells him that George is her husband. The next day, Nelson visits George in his shabby storefront office and offers to appoint him his company's legal representative. Suspicious, George thinks that Nelson is misrepresenting himself and dismisses him. Noticing that the lawyer's office walls are plastered with slogans proclaiming the virtue of honesty, Nelson dispels George's reservations by claiming that he needs an honest lawyer as a model for his staff. Soon after, Louise arrives at George's office door, and hearing the two men talking inside, hides in the hallway. As Nelson is about to leave the building, he spots Louise and insists that she come to his apartment the following evening. When Louise enters his office, George thinks that she has come to change her name. Ecstatic that his ethical virtues have finally been recognized, George is sure that fate has sent Louise to him and asks her to join him on his errands. Louise eventually convinces George to shave off his geezer-like beard, revealing a handsome young man. After a stroll in the moonlight, George proposes that Louise change her name to Prescott and declares his love for her. Feeling guilty for deceiving George, Louise demurs, and when George asks to see her the next night after his meeting with Nelson's board of directors, she tells him she already has a date. The next day, Nelson instructs his board of directors to keep George occupied while he romances Louise. At the business meeting, George questions the board's financial proposals and insists upon scrutinizing them further. Louise, meanwhile, enters Nelson's apartment and nervously blurts out that George is not her husband. When Wechsberg bursts into the apartment followed by George, Nelson is convinced that they are all involved in a conspiracy and informs George that he was hired only because Nelson believed him to be Louise's husband. Bitterly disappointed, George departs. Some time later, Nelson comes to George's office and, after informing him that his objections at the board meeting saved the company $200,000, insists that the lawyer honor his contract. Nelson then informs George that he has financed Wechsberg in his own restaurant and invites him to hear Louise sing at the opening that night. George refuses to attend, but as Louise eagerly awaits George's arrival, Wechsberg tries to conceal his absence from her. Just as Louise is about to take the stage to perform, George appears and they embrace in a dance of love.
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I rode to church Sunday morning, and encouraged others to do the same. We usually meet in a high school auditorium, but graduation was yesterday and the school was unavailable. Occasionally, we can't use the school for other reasons. This happens a few times per year. Instead, we end up going to our community center. It's not big enough for all of us, but we just meet outdoors (weather permitting). This was a beautiful day for church outdoors, not to mention the ride there (11 miles)
Assistant Pastor Kurt and his wife Emily roll up on their bikes.
Abbey (pastor Kevin's daughter) rolls up. They live just across the street.
Whee! Bikes! (a few more are parked elsewhere)
About as laid back as you can be and still calling it worship. I love this church, the people that make it, and all the stuff that goes along with it. I won't bore you with doctrine, though.
Pastor Kevin will use any excuse to inflate the slide for the kids. They love it.
Mike cooks pancakes. Also in the brunch spread: Bagles, parfait, pudding (???) and juices.
After church, I had about a 15 mile ride to my birthday party at Antioch Park. I took about 1/2 the trip on the road, and in the middle of the trip, I used Indian Creek Trail (Warren's Fave)
Sneaking up on some walkers. Cue the "Jaws" theme.
Kids at the sandlot. Hardly a cloud in the sky yesterday. Just airliner contrails.
Maybe I took a little Singletrack with The Twelve. Contrary to belief, road bikes can go off road. Just gotta be careful. It's fun, though.
The freshly opened section of Indian Creek Trail that has Warren all excited. It was nice not having to use the blighted walking path through Corporate Woods.
Some family members at the shelter at Antioch Park.
... Mating Crickets??? Not sure what was up with this, but they were clinging upside down to the ceiling of the shelter.
After the party, my wife and I went fishing at Shawnee Mission Park.
The geese were flocking. Sheesh.
They swam right through where we were fishing. Notice the red bobber halfway up and a bit left of center in the photo. Somehow they avoided tangling in the fishing line.
FAIL! This guy spent about 5 minutes trying to cram this overloaded bag into this trash bin. Eventually he gave up and just put the lid on top of this bag.
How to have fun at the lake!
Let's see, you can toke on a hookah... ???
Or kick a ball around... These little heathens kicked the ball into the lake. Their dad (the one who's toking above) and the kids were both too chicken to go get the ball. I took a swim and rescued it. I bruised my feet up pretty badly on the rocks while getting out of the lake, though.
Go Kayaking...
Or just go fishing. Hi, Hunni.
This is the only fish we saw. He was too tiny and still refused to take our bait.
This was my sister's B-Day present to me. Those are full of beer. Lots of beer.
The ride in was nice this morning with the exception of my bruised and tattered feet. Chris and Karen joined in for yet another convoy.
Tomorrow is my Friday. I'm on vacation off and on for the next 2 weeks. I've been blogging and photographing like mad here, especially in the face of Bike Week. I'm going to be scarce but not completely absent for the next 2 weeks. For the time being, check out Dave's Good Stuff, as he bike commutes during the week and packs on the weekend training miles. What initially started as a brotherly challenge training for the Triple By-Pass turned into a lifestyle change and a heck of a good read that's mostly cycling related but always interesting and frequently updated. No pressure, Dave!
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Busy Sunday
I rode to church Sunday morning, and encouraged others to do the same. We usually meet in a high school auditorium, but graduation was yesterday and the school was unavailable. Occasionally, we can't use the school for other reasons. This happens a few times per year. Instead, we end up going to our community center. It's not big enough for all of us, but we just meet outdoors (weather permitting). This was a beautiful day for church outdoors, not to mention the ride there (11 miles)
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- Apertome said...
Well, happy birthday! It sounds like a full (but fun) day.
About riding road bikes off the road: I can't say I've done so on singletrack, but I've found my road bike does a lot better on gravel than I expected. And the extra challenge of trying to stay upright with skinny tires will keep you on your toes!
- May 19, 2008 2:37 PM
- Daniel Siegel said...
I rode Indian Trail yesterday from 435 and antioch to where it ends in olathe, then back. It's a nice scenic ride. Looks like you had a good birthday.
- May 20, 2008 3:04 PM
Looks like that cricket is sheading it skin as it grows/grows wings. Science class what can I say.
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