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GREEN- Easy buildin' green? Are local developers on the bandwagon?
Trifling with timber: Builders deep-six too much wood
A few months ago, local builder Darren Young and his helper were busy doing something builders do all the time– loading wood for a construction job onto his trailer. But this load of wood, approximately 60 16-foot pieces of cedar-beveled siding and base trim– an estimated $1,152 worth of materials– wasn't at a lumber yard; it was in a dumpster at the site of an upscale development just outside town.
"The construction manager there told me the wood was ruined, and I could have it if I wanted it," says Young, who moved his company, Willow Tree Construction, here from Seattle two years ago. "The only reason to throw away wood is if it's infested or rotten."
Young says the wood was fine and he's grateful to have it. He agreed to speak publicly about the issue on the condition that the Hook not reveal the location of the site.
"Go to some of the new housing developments," says Young, climbing into the dumpster, "and you'll find lots of good scraps."
Oddly enough, most of the houses in the upscale development had not been built: the sidewalks were in, street signs and lights were installed, but it was a neighborhood of staked-off dirt lots.
"I didn't come here looking for materials," says Young, "but I couldn't understand why they were throwing it away. It seemed so wasteful."
Indeed, why throw away all that wood?
"It's called capitalism," says Blake Caravati, a veteran builder and former City Council member. "Once that material hits the jobsite, if they don't need it, it's cheaper for them to get rid of it than it is to store it or try to recycle it. It's sad, but that's the way it is."
But brand new lumber?
"Unfortunately," says Charlottesville architect Gate Pratt, "the large-production builders build at such a scale that it wouldn't be worth the expense to recycle such a small amount of material. I don't know how you would prevent the waste short of mandated recycling."
One can imagine that having the general public picking through a construction site might not be the safest course. But Caravati also says that contractors are reluctant to let the public know about available materials on their sites for another liability reason.
"If someone uses a board taken from the site and it turns out to be inferior," he says, "who do you think is liable?"
What's more, says Caravati– who's skeptical of the so-called "green" building movement to begin with– it might actually be more "green" to throw the material away.
"To store or recycle that stuff," he explains, "you're going to need someone to come out and get it and haul it away, and then they're going to need to store it and process it."
Think of dozens of trucks and workers driving around picking up small loads of waste from job sites. Dealing with the construction waste that way actually creates a larger carbon footprint, says Caravati.
When a builder, especially a large builder, makes a new materials order, it all arrives at once by train, then delivery trucks make a trip, and that's it. What could be greener? Still, Caravati hates to see good materials end up in dumpsters.
"I don't know what the hell a 'green' builder is," he says, "but I learned things from my Mother, who grew up in the Depression and who saved and reused everything. I'm the same way. I save everything. Does that make me green? I don't know."
Of course, as a former Councilor and mayor, Caravati can't resist weighing in on the City's recently announced plan to build a living roof atop City Hall.
"It might feel good to put on that green roof," he says of the proposed $650,000 project, "but will it really do a damn? Why not invest in a geothermal heating and cooling system? That might be a better investment in the long run. The green roof is a political statement, not a carbon footprint statement."
Young appears to share Caravati's skepticism. "For many businesses," he says, sliding a painted piece of trim onto his trailer, "the green movement is just a play on words."
Politics and virtue aside, architect Jeff Sties, a member of the Charlottesville chapter of the James River Green Building Council, says there has always been an "enormous amount of waste" in both commercial and residential construction. According to EPA estimates, he says, 136 million tons of construction and demolition debris was generated in 1996, the majority of which could have potentially been recycled.
Among the reasons it was deep-sixed: preventing delays, saving on storage costs, and avoiding the hassle of performing a "cut list," a list of wood materials and how they are to be cut up for use on the job. Then there's the fact that many suppliers charge hefty restocking fees on returned materials– or refuse to accept returns altogether.
"In my opinion," says Sties, "the way to reduce waste is to offer incentives to builders who implement the LEED rating system– and at the same time increase fees associated with dumping."
For example, Sties says that under the Materials and Resources section of the LEED rating system (the standard for builders seeking green street cred), builders can get one point for diverting 50 percent of their construction waste from a landfill to another source such as a Habitat Store or a recycling center, and an additional point for diverting 75 percent.
"But not having a project team interested in construction waste and recycling to begin with is the real problem," says Sties.
"Recycling here is a real pain in the butt," says Young, wiping his forehead and pulling the last of his free lumber from the dumpster, as he recalls how discards are handled in his old hometown.
"In Seattle, people are given 55-gallon containers with wheels to put their recyclables in," he says. "The trash cans are small and the recycling bins are big– it's just the opposite here.
"Don't get me wrong," he quickly adds. "Any effort is good, but there are better ways to do it."
Might this be the way Charlottesville builders recycle in the not-so-distant future?COURTESY OF PETER VAN DER LINDE
Coming soon! van der Linde's amazing recycling machine!
Local builder and businessman Peter van der Linde couldn't agree more.
"People have lived for years in recycling frustration," says van der Linde, who also owns a trash container business. In fact, the dumpster Young went diving into belongs to Van der Linde Container Rentals. "It's a pain in the... neck."
As a builder for 30 years, he also agrees with Young about the volume of materials discarded on job-sites. "It's always been a big problem," he says.
Three years ago, van der Linde decided to do something about it. On a 10-acre tract of land near Zion Crossroads, he plans to finally open a $10-million, 100,000-square-foot recycling center, featuring a 270-foot state-of-the-art sorting machine, which should be operational in mid-May.
"This will be the opposite of the way it's done now," he says. "You'll just throw everything into one container, no need to separate or sort it. You don't need to lift a finger. We'll do it."
He pauses for emphasis.
"Now, everything changes, now recycling is easy," he says.
Indeed, while both the city and the county offer recycling services, the activity is nearly a full-time job. In addition to sorting and separating glass, metal, aluminum cans, newspapers, magazines, and catalogs for the city's curbside service, telephone books, file stock, and mixed paper must be taken to the McIntire Road Recycling Center. In 2003, the County stopped its curbside recycling service because it had become too expensive. In its absence, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority published a guide directing folks to different facilities for different materials, many of which can be dropped off only at certain times. The recycling guide is three single-spaced pages long.
In contrast, van der Linde says his recycling machine can can sort 15 separate recyclable materials, including cardboard, paper, plastic, cement, carpet and pad, glass, metals, brick, block, yard waste, wood, drywall, asphalt, even styrofoam. And anything intact will be sent to Habitat for Humanity.
"This machine will recycle 90 percent of what goes into it," he says.
Indeed, the new venture will make it especially easy for all those developments tossing good lumber into his dumpsters. "Don't change anything you're doing," he says he'll tell builders. "It's business as usual. Just toss it all in there, and we'll sort it."
"Our lives just got a lot easier" says Alec Cargile, president of Lithic Construction, who says he's been waiting for someone to do this for years. "It's fantastic what he's doing, because for anyone who chooses to use this service, it will now be effortless to recycle."
"I think it's a terrific idea because he's using the same containers he's already using, and he already has his disposal business in place," says Ned Ormsby, a project manager with Lithic. "There's no need to retrain your guys; you just toss it all in there."
"I think it's a powerful thing he's doing," Cargile adds. "If people really start using his service, it could have a huge impact on the whole county."
Van der Linde says he'll rent various container sizes without charge to neighborhoods, schools, municipalities, or anyone else who wants one nearby, and then charge a standard transportation and tonnage fee. Additionally, there will be no-charge drop-off containers at the facility itself.
As for his spectacular machine, van der Linde says it was the missing link, as inferior machines and hand-sorting trash has been wildly inefficient. "In the last seven years or so, these separation machines have really been perfected," he says. "I did a lot of research on them, and I believe this one I bought is the ultimate machine."
Nearly the size of a small shopping center, the machine and the new facility will require 15 people to operate, he says. Manufactured by Sherbrooke Ltd., a Canadian company, the new machine uses optics, electromagnets, and other technologies to identify objects to be recycled. The machine can sort and separate recyclables from thousands of pounds of trash in a fraction of the time it would take to hand sort, and it deposits them neatly in separate bins. According to industry experts, the machine's ability to yield more recyclable materials faster could begin to make recycling profitable.
"There's a rapidly emerging market for recyclables," van der Linde says. "I'll just offer to supply the materials and then we'll have to see what happens."
Clearly, the idea of responding to Young's lament– and that of frustrated recyclers everywhere– appears to be worth the risk for van der Linde.
"It's just something that's long overdue," he says. "It's a real feel-good undertaking."
"When you have a personal connection, people are more likely to change," says Terri Kent, seen here with her son Ian.PHOTO COURTESY OF TERRI KENT
Better with Betty! Website aims to simplify recycling
With van der Linde's recycling machine not slated to be up and running until May, we're facing several more months of separating cans and paper and glass. And even when it's operational, what are we going to do with that old bag of shoes, that smashed sliding glass door, and that broken washing machine?
Well, duh! Ask Betty!
"People kept telling me about all the piles of recyclables they had lying around at home," says Teri Kent, a former teacher and stay-at-home mom, "and I started putting my own life under the microscope. What can I do to help them and help the environment?"
Inspired by the Better World Handbook, a kind of Activism for Dummies that provides simple, practical ways for busy folks to change the world, Kent launched a website in January called Better World Betty (betterworldbetty.com). The site introduces us to the character of Betty, a kind of perfectly coifed June Cleaver– out not to bake the perfect pie and send her family pressed and neat off to work and school, but to save the planet.
"She tends to the Earth, bringing a better world to the table," writes Kent on her website, "rather than a big roast turkey."
In Kent's mind, the idea of recycling had become too abstract, too clinical, and, well, not very fun. Creating Betty was a way to make it personal.
"When you have a personal connection, people are more likely to change," she says.
Indeed, right from the get-go, Betty began charming local greenies, including former Mayor David Brown, who seemed smitten writing about Betty on his blog in January.
"Kudos to Teri Kent for this useful and charming website," he wrote, mentioning the City's new Green City Initiative website, but adding that it was "not quite as cool as Betty, though."
In January alone, says Kent, the site saw 1,700 users, 25,000 hits, and most important– 65 percent of people who visited bookmarked it.
Current mayor Dave Norris was charmed as well: he helped organize the simultaneous launch of Better World Betty and the city's site.
"I've talked with her several times about this, and I think it's a good thing," Norris says. "It's one more component in moving our community in the direction of lessening its impact on the environment."
Though Kent already has plans to revamp Betty (no, she's not changing it to Better World Angelina)– giving her an improved directory and more intuitive site functionality, forums, and video presentations– the current directory allows visitors to find out where to recycle everything from toasters to toothbrushes, anti-freeze, backpacks, and batteries. It also has a list of businesses that go the extra green mile, an "Ask Betty" feature where recycling questions are answered, and a whole host of green living tips and information.
"A lot of people talk about change," says Kent, "but I'm big on action. Betty makes it easier to live greener better by giving people the tools they need."
The beauty of Betty, Kent emphasizes, is that site users don't have to be perfect. Instead, the queen of green advocates an incremental approach. "The small things that people decide to do add up," she says.
Ideally, Kent hopes the website helps connect people with the right choices, and eventually, with each other.
"I'd like to create a community where people can share ideas," she says, "like what to do with old sponges or bags of worn shoes. There are so many great ideas out there about how to recycle and reuse. People just don't know about them."
Indeed, Kent believes education is key to living greener better. For example, how many of us know what gets done with the things we take the effort to recycle?
"This has always been somewhat controversial," says Kent. "Does what you recycle really get used?" [See the Hook's cover story, "(Re)cycle of life: We want to believe," February 8, 2007].
Again, the more informed people are, the more likely the system will improve.
"That's the hardest thing, closing the loop, so that materials don't just end up sitting in a landfill," says Kent. "But it's difficult. For example, plastics need to be collected in really high volumes, with good quality, to make it profitable to recycle. People need to know that they can make money salvaging materials. "
Although unaware of van der Linde's planned recycling project– a $10 million state-of-the-art sorter and sorting facility near Zion Crossroad that will use various technologies to separate up to 15 recyclable materials– Kent says it's exactly the kind of effort that can close the loop. Indeed, as van der Linde recently mentioned, a market for recyclables is slowly emerging, but the situation is not likely to get better until there's more demand.
That might happen, if Kent has her way, when the world will be full of Bettys.


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Vianney Le Caer is a freelance photojournalist based in London, UK. His work spans from reportage in the Middle East, Caribbean and Central Africa, to commercial and celebrity photography in London. He is experienced in navigating conflict zones, having covered the Ukrainian revolution, the fallout of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts, as well as several reportages from Lebanon, the D.R.C., Haiti and Eastern Europe. In 2016, he was the recipient of a Pride Photo Award for his feature-story 'Beirut Sun Tanners'.
Vianney studied Law & Political Science at Rennes 1 University in France, then went on to complete an M.A. in Political Science in France and in Hanoi, Vietnam, before transitioning into photojournalism. In 2014, he graduated from the London College of Communication with an M.A. in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.
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Athabasca Basin and beyondDecember 7th, 2013
Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere for November 30 to December 6, 2013
by Greg Klein
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Introducing the Alpha Minerals spinco—Alpha Exploration Inc
With court blessing announced December 2 for the Alpha Minerals TSXV:AMW takeover by Fission Uranium TSXV:FCU, the deal faces just one more approval, this one from the TSXV. That was expected, but not announced, on December 6. Alpha's spinco, Alpha Exploration Inc (anticipated ticker TSXV:AEX) gets about $3 million cash and all non-Patterson Lake South assets, including properties in Ontario and British Columbia as well as Saskatchewan. Each Alpha Minerals share fetches 5.725 Fission shares and one-half spinco share. Since December 3 Alpha Minerals shares have no longer traded with spinco shares attached.
The current Alpha Minerals board and management will "substantially" move into AEX positions.
Court approval for Fission Uranium's spinco—tentatively titled Fission 3.0 to also commemorate Fission Uranium's predecessor and Denison Mines' TSX:DML acquisition Fission Energy—was announced the previous week. Each Fission Uranium shareholder gets one share of post-arrangement Fission Uranium as well as a share of the Fission spinout, expected to start trading December 10.
Having obtained full PLS ownership from its 50/50 joint venture ally, Fission Uranium has undoubtedly caught the attention of much bigger takeout artists.
Read more about uranium merger-and-acquisition activity.
Lakeland/Declan Resources JV accelerates work, strengthens their positions
In this market you have to work with strong partners. You have to collaborate and be a bit creative. We're fortunate to work with people like Declan president Wayne Tisdale's team and the financial connections they can bring.—Ryan Fletcher, director of Lakeland Resources
A new team of Lakeland Resources TSXV:LK and Declan Resources TSXV:LAN means an accelerated winter drill program for their Gibbon's Creek flagship as well as the opportunity to put additional work into other Basin-area projects.
Declan's first-year commitment will inject another $1.25 million into Gibbon's, a 12,771-hectare north-central Basin property that already underwent over $3 million of work prior to last fall's field campaign by Lakeland. Declan may earn 50% of the project by spending that $1.25 million, paying Lakeland $100,000 and issuing two million shares in 12 months. Over four years Declan may obtain a 70% interest for a total of $1.5 million in cash, 11 million shares and $6.5 million in spending.
The agreement further demonstrates Declan's new direction, following its acquisitions in September and October of the 9,000-hectare Patterson Lake Northeast and 50,000-hectare Firebag River properties.
Declan's commitment also allows Lakeland to ramp up its campaign for two other north-central Basin properties, South Pine and Perch Lake. Work on all those properties will be managed by Dahrouge Geological Consulting, led by PLS and Waterbury Lake veteran Jody Dahrouge.
Field results from Lakeland's fall campaign are pending, while new appointments are anticipated from Declan.
Read more about the Lakeland/Declan JV and their other projects.
Read more about Lakeland Resources here and here.
Macusani claims low-cost uranium potential in Peruvian PEA
Macusani Yellowcake TSXV:YEL presented its case for a low-grade but potentially low-cost uranium mining operation in Peru with a preliminary economic assessment released December 5. The company envisions both open pit and underground operations with "a low stripping ratio in the open pit operations, anticipated low acid consumption and high process plant recoveries expected to be achieved in a short period of time."
The report, using U.S. dollars, uses an 8% discount rate to calculate a $417-million after-tax net present value with a 32.4% internal rate of return. Those numbers assume a long-term price of $65 a pound uranium oxide (U3O8).
Initial capital expenditures would come to $331 million to build the mine and a plant processing 8.5 million tonnes per year. Total sustaining capital costs for the 10-year lifespan would reach $228 million. Payback would take 3.5 years.
Life of mine cash costs would average $20.57 a pound but, Macusani emphasized, years one to five would average $19.45, "placing it in the lowest quartile in the world using 2012 production figures." Those first five years would produce an average 5.17 million pounds annually which would, were it operating now, rank the mine the world's sixth largest, the company maintained. The 10-year average would be 4.3 million pounds.
The project, on the Macusani plateau in southeastern Peru, features multiple deposits, some adjacent to each other, others a few to several kilometres apart. The December 5 news release once again claimed last August's resource update showed a 167% increase in measured and indicated categories. But there was no increase in the measured category. In fact measured pounds equal less than 1% of the M&I total.
Calling the project potentially "one of the lowest-cost uranium producers in the world," Macusani CEO Laurence Stefan added, "The PEA demonstrates that the Macusani plateau has significant potential to become a major uranium-producing district, considering that only small areas have been explored to date."
The company expects to begin pre-feasibility work in 2014.
NexGen announces initial geophysical results for Rook 1
An airborne radiometric survey over the PLS-vicinity Rook 1 project found at least five zones with elevated readings, NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE reported on December 2. Two of the zones are "proximal" to last summer's drilling and could provide targets for another program beginning in January. Additionally aeromagnetic data identified regional and local basement structures.
The company will pursue the source of the elevated radiometrics next summer through ground radiometric surveying, mapping and sampling. Meanwhile the current data from 5,772 line-kilometres of high-resolution magnetic, very low frequency and radiometric surveys undergoes more comprehensive analysis.
Still to come are assays from NexGen's nine-hole, 3,473-metre campaign at the eastside Basin Radio project, where the company holds a 70% option two kilometres east of Rio Tinto's NYE:RIO Roughrider deposits. Having raised $5 million in late August, NexGen stated it's still well-financed.
More near-surface, district-wide potential found in Argentina, says U3O8
In mid-November U3O8 Corp TSX:UWE said a discovery roughly 40 kilometres northeast of its Laguna Salada deposit could indicate district-scale potential. On December 4 the company stated another Argentinian discovery, on the southern extension of Laguna Salada, further suggests that potential. In both cases vertical channel sampling found near-surface, soft gravel uranium-vanadium mineralization.
Laguna Salada trials showed that screening could concentrate over 90% of its uranium in about 10% of the gravel's original mass, resulting in 10 to 11 times greater grade, U3O8 stated. The company maintains its deposits offer continuous surface mining potential with alkaline leaching.
Dubbed La Susana, the new discovery's slated for pitting and trenching to determine the extent of mineralization. While Laguna Salada's PEA nears completion, the company continues JV negotiations with a province-owned mining company that could unite Laguna Salada with adjoining concessions.
U3O8 has a Colombian uranium-polymetallic project with a PEA and an earlier-stage project in Guyana.
Aldrin finishes Triple M gravity survey, offers $2-million private placement
With its ground gravity survey complete, Aldrin Resource TSXV:ALN stated anomalies coincide with previous results and already-identified drill targets. Data from 871 stations on Triple M, adjacent to and southwest of PLS, covered two parallel bedrock conductors already noted from an airborne VTEM survey and surface radon anomalies, the company reported on December 4.
Gravity anomalies consist of relatively low readings "reflecting the dissolution and removal of rock mass by the same basinal fluids that may also precipitate uranium," Aldrin explained.
Two days earlier the company announced a $2-million private placement for Triple M exploration and drilling. The offer comprises 18.18 million units at $0.11, with each unit consisting of one flow-though share and one-half warrant, with each full warrant exercisable at $0.16 for 18 months.
In early November Aldrin reported closing a $972,500 first tranche of a private placement that had been announced the previous month. The company has also indicated plans to buy the Virgin property around the Basin's south-central rim.
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A Report from Lanesboro CI
On 5/8/14 I was attacked by ten PERT staff, and while in the midst of defending myself I saw Lanesboro CI's superintendent Mr. David Mitchell running towards me. So I struck him as well, resulting in knocking loose and chipping his tooth. This was my fourth violent confrontation with PERT in a six month timeframe. This is my second longterm stay on HCON/Supermax for seriously assaulting and injuring high-ranking prison officials, who were attempting to assault me. Some of the other atrocious acts being carried out under the directives of Superintendent Mitchell are policies such as the 48 hour minimum in full restraints for minor rule violations, the 72 hour minimum of deprivation of one's mattress, bed linen, personal property, and hygiene products, racial profiling and slave-like attacks on Afrikan-Amerikan prisoners by all-white PERT goon squads, property damage or loss while in staff's possession, no cleaning supplies, a new stat-approved STG SHU program that lasts for four years with no programs or beneficial outcome for the prisoners forced to remain in solitary confinement.
While at Lanesboro, we fought back when provoked or attacked, did a 91 prisoner hunger strike lasting seven days, filed grievances to prison officials in the State's capital, all to no avail. Now, I am writing to inform the public of why recidivism is so high, why we're entering society full of rage and hatred. We are enduring modern day slavery and torture at the hands of those entrusted with the responsibility to help rehabilitate us. This is the biggest hoax of all.
I'm preparing to file my own state tort and Federal 1983 civil suits against NC DPS prison officials and ask the supporters of the prison news bulletin to assist me in my efforts to obtain redress and remedy for State and Federal Constitutional violations of my rights. I also hope to have the names of at least 10 other prisoners who were seriously assaulted, injured, and hospitalized. We are looking to pursue a class action if legal representation can be found on a pro bono basis.
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Strategic planning: Make harassment work for you
Each time in my career that I have ignored sexual harassment aimed at me, I have moved up the corporate ladder. For example, the boss who once pulled all senior management out of the company's sexual harassment seminar because he thought it was a waste of time– and patted me on the butt as he left the room– has turned out to be my most reliable cheerleader (and a very impressive reference).
In my first eight days of my job at a financial software company, I was sexually harassed six times by my new boss. This list does not include his sexual harassment of me during the interview process, which I chose to ignore since it was my first interview at a respectable company in six months.
Maybe you're wondering what, exactly, I regard as sexual harassment. The easiest conversation to relay is this one:
Me: "Thank you for setting up that meeting; it will be very helpful."
Boss: "Big testicles." (He then pretends to squeeze his genitals.)
I had no idea what he meant by this comment, but it is short and easy to relay to make my case.
Here are some other choice moments:
When he took me out for lunch on my second day on the job, he told me he once fell in love with a woman as tall as I am but was intimidated by her height, so they just had casual sex. I said nothing in response.
But I knew, from a legal perspective (and also a moral one) that I needed to tell him his comments were unwanted. So that afternoon when he said, "I want to hug you, but it would be illegal," I said, "You're right."
Each night, I relayed some of the best lines from work to my husband. He was stunned. He couldn't believe these events actually happened in today's workplaces. I told him this was standard. He told me I should sue so that we could go to Tahiti. I told him I'd probably settle out of court after three years for about $200,000– and I'd be a pariah in the workplace.
I told my husband that his very hot, 27-year-old boss gets hit on as much as I do. He said he saw her at work all the time, and this never happened. I told him that of course men don't harass women in front of other men. After all, it's illegal. Men are not stupid. But I suggested to my husband he was perpetuating the myth that harassment isn't widespread.
In fact, 44 percent of women between ages 35 and 49 report experiencing sexual harassment at the workplace– even though almost every company has an explicit, no-tolerance policy. A survey shows that 21 percent of all women report being sexually harassed at work, while a Rutger's University study indicates that for knowledge-based workers, the percentage can go as high as 88 percent.
Yet when women leverage the no-tolerance policy, their names are plastered over the business pages, and they are blacklisted in their industry.
So the best way to change corporate America is to gain power and then wield it. To get power, you have to stay in the workforce, not the court system, and work your way up. Unfortunately, this means learning how to navigate a boys' club. But when you know the system, you then are clear about the root of its problems, and you know how to initiate change.
In this spirit, I hatched a plan to rid myself of my harassing boss. Originally, I took a job in business development, even though I hated selling to clients, because it was the only place with an opening. I told myself that the members of the management team were so smart that I would learn to love sales from them. After weeks of harassment, though, I thought management was so smart that if I explained why I wanted to be moved to another department, they would see my request as extremely reasonable. I figured they would be grateful for my low-key approach to this sensitive problem, rather than resentful that I had been hired to work in biz dev and then had asked to be switched to a department with no openings.
I was right. I was moved into marketing, which I prefer. I received a more prestigious assignment and gained a smarter boss. Had I reported that I had been sexually harassed during the interview process, I would not have gotten the job. Had I reported the harassment to my boss's boss without presenting a plan for solving the problem, I would not have received a better assignment.
In fact, if you have a strategy, enduring sexual harassment can be a way to gain power to achieve your long-range goals.
Epilogue: Eventually, my boss was fired. Officially for low performance, though I have always fantasized that it was for rampant harassment.


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I've seen him play a lot. His game is predicated on his ability to penetrate, but I just don't think he has NBA-level speed or quickness. His ball-handling is not sharp enough to consistently get in the paint at this level. He's also not strong enough to finish through contact. Add that to the fact that his jumpshot is not too solid... and you have a dangerous prospect. I think he will likely be a waste of a pick.@RollWithEm what makes you say this about Payton? I like his size and reported skillset, but obviously have not seen him play.
Payne's a better rebounder. They are similar defensively. Patterson has more range at this point in his career because he has worked to extend that range. At the time they both entered the league, I would say they were similar in that respect as well. Good comparison.Is Payne a better defender than PPat? Because they seem pretty similar skillset wise.
After a series of workouts with players who could be second-round selections, the Toronto Raptors spent Thursday looking at some whocould be options with their first round pick later this month.
In a six-player workout that included UCLA's Kyle Anderson and Clemson's K.J. McDaniels, Raptors director of scouting Dan Tolzman talked about the disadvantages of drafting before the free agency period. The key is to treat each situation separately.
"I think the biggest thing is to not make draft decisions based on that, on your current roster and your current situations," Tolzman said. "You keep it in the back of your head and you'll take it into account when you're drafting players but if the most talented guy or the highest guy on your list happens to be a position that you're loaded up with you can work stuff out later. You can use all those guys as assets later."
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"I think the main thing for that is the position that we're picking," Tolzman said. "I think at 20 the chances of you finding a guy that could be that one guy away are slim to none. To come in right away and do that, those guys aren't available at 20. Whether it's the best player available or just the best player on your board, it could be totally different. If it fits with the culture of the team and the makeup of the locker room, and all of that stuff, in addition to him being a project, I think you roll the dice on a guy like that because you do have a little bit more of an opportunity to develop that person as your team builds on its own."
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Anderson embraced the opportunity to talk with NBA coaches and general managers at his workouts.
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Anderson spent time after the workout speaking with Raptors head coach Dwane Casey. Not surprisingly, Casey was giving him advice about the defensive end of the floor.
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The roles Kawhi Leonard and Jimmy Butler have played in their teams respective success is something teams will consider when looking at McDaniels throughout this process.
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So all things considered, you can imagine the state of mind in which I went to my hairdresser on Saturday. Now, my hairdresser herself is lovely, but I can only really deal with that kind of environment by viewing the experience as an anthropological field trip.
We have discussed this before, but you really need to meet my hairdresser. You can talk to him about a lot of stuff, most especially your own specialist subjects. I feel privileged.
Trouble with smalltalk and lying, eh. You loveable aspie, you.
One of the questions I struggle to not tell the truth in reply to is, "How are you?" I've learned to say "Fine" largely because my partner is sick of seeing That Expression on the faces of checkout operators.
Still get that one wrong from time to time. Sorry, folks.
I'm with Hadyn (I think ?) on this one - Hairdressers ? I go to a Barber, conversation proceeds at a glacial pace. I think it took two years to get from grunt to How-ar'ya....
In response to "how are you ?" I did try "do you really want to know ?"...won't be trying that for a while....sigh.
Oh I hear you! I cannot count the number of times I've said something I thought was a normal thing to say only to have the room descend into awkward silence.
Some of the difficulty is that my humour is too dry, too specialised or too rude for many settings so I find myself stuck with the topics about which I can be terribly, terribly earnest. I don't like me when I'm terribly, terribly earnest.
Once, a very nice woman kindly asked me if my daughter read the Color Fairies books like all the other daughters, and I got to say no, actually, she prefers Captain Underpants. We never saw those people again.
This encounter resonates so strongly with me. By virtue of the mysterious process of certain character traits breeding true I am raising somewhat non-conformist children and I find this is often the ultimate conversation stopper. The other mothers will be sighing "boys, huh?" at some purportedly masculine trait that my boys have never displayed and venturing to point out that fact invariably makes the silence descend some more.
JacksonP, in reply to
Still get that one wrong from time to time. Sorry, folks.
Sorry for what? I almost always get this wrong. If you don't want to know how I am, then don't ask me. Otherwise I'm going to tell you about my ingrown toenail, my sciatic nerve and my... 'Yes, I'm fine. Thanks for asking'.
Emma Hart, in reply to
Oh I hear you! I cannot count the number of times I've said something I thought was a normal thing to say only to have the room descend into awkward silence.
This may have something to do with our shared socialisation context. It took me years to realise that the full-on snog was not an appropriate greeting outside of KAOS. Of course, then PAS introduced me to my Wellington friends, and I came full circle...
This encounter resonates so strongly with me.
My mother once said to me - only about a year ago - "Your friends who don't have children will never get it." And it's really stuck with me because, in general and particularly with sizeable-group-dynamic, I'm actually more comfortable with my childless friends because you don't wander into pits like that all the time. Also, I find it really hard dealing with people who can only talk about their kids, and I have enough purely-functional conversations about my own. I can only conclude that my mother never felt my near-constant need for two entire separate lives.
I should say, my hair does look fabulous. But this was my first professional colour, so the first time I'd been in the salon for two hours. My tweets became increasingly desperate.
Emma Hart, in reply to
If you don't want to know how I am, then don't ask me.
Also, "Busy day?" "Yeah, once I get home I have some porn to write, and then a stack of reading on the politics of BDSM. You?"
"Oh, can't complain... Who'd listen? ;)" is a useful compromise.
I have been known to use small talk to disconcert people, but only gently.
I know I can make some/most blokes squirm a bit if I volunteer something about my emotional state, especially if it is overwhelmingly positive.
A late-middle-age hetero bloke actually saying things like "I really like being in your company" makes them double-take and/or reassess my suitability as a friend.
(My friends are generally used to this by now, so not easily subverted.)
Most blokes find any discussion of almost anything to do with (their own or one another's) emotion too uncomfortable.
"How are you?"
"Well, (brain clicks into gear and says, "you could leave it there" but…) a bit pissed off really, how can John Key…… …..and what about…… …..Can you believe what those bastards…. ….."
Most people don't ask me anymore.
But it does give me an excuse to post this again…
How to Win Arguments, As It Were
by DAVE BARRY
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. You too can win arguments. Simply follow these rules:
Drink Liquor.
Suppose you're at a party and some hotshot intellectual is expounding on the economy of Peru, a subject you know nothing about. If you're drinking some health-fanatic drink like grapefruit juice, you'll hang back, afraid to display your ignorance, while the hotshot enthralls your date. But if you drink several large martinis, you'll discover you have STRONG VIEWS about the Peruvian economy. You'll be a WEALTH of information. You'll argue forcefully, offering searing insights and possibly upsetting furniture. People will be impressed. Some may leave the room.
Make things up.
Suppose, in the Peruvian economy argument, you are trying to prove Peruvians are underpaid, a position you base solely on the fact that YOU are underpaid, and you're damned if you're going to let a bunch of Peruvians be better off. DON'T say: ``I think Peruvians are underpaid.'' Say: ``The average Peruvian's salary in 1981 dollars adjusted for the revised tax base is $1,452.81 per annum, which is $836.07 before the mean gross poverty level.''
NOTE: Always make up exact figures.
If an opponent asks you where you got your information, make THAT up, too. Say: ``This information comes from Dr. Hovel T. Moon's study for the Buford Commission published May 9, 1982. Didn't you read it?'' Say this in the same tone of voice you would use to say ``You left your soiled underwear in my bath house.''
Use meaningless but weightly-sounding words and phrases.
Memorize this list:
Let me put it this way
In terms of
Per se
As it were
So to speak
You should also memorize some Latin abbreviations such as ``Q.E.D.,'' ``e.g.,'' and ``i.e.'' These are all short for ``I speak Latin, and you do not.''
Here's how to use these words and phrases. Suppose you want to say: ``Peruvians would like to order appetizers more often, but they don't have enough money.''
You never win arguments talking like that. But you WILL win if you say: ``Let me put it this way. In terms of appetizers vis-a-vis Peruvians qua Peruvians, they would like to order them more often, so to speak, but they do not have enough money per se, as it were. Q.E.D.''
Only a fool would challenge that statement.
Use snappy and irrelevant comebacks.
You need an arsenal of all-purpose irrelevant phrases to fire back at your opponents when they make valid points. The best are:
You're begging the question.
You're being defensive.
Don't compare apples and oranges.
What are your parameters?
This last one is especially valuable. Nobody, other than mathematicians, has the vaguest idea what ``parameters'' means.
Here's how to use your comebacks:
You say: ``As Abraham Lincoln said in 1873…''
Your opponent says: ``Lincoln died in 1865.''
You say: ``You're begging the question.''
You say: ``Liberians, like most Asians…''
Your opponent says: ``Liberia is in Africa.''
You say: ``You're being defensive.''
Compare your opponent to Adolf Hitler.
This is your heavy artillery, for when your opponent is obviously right and you are spectacularly wrong. Bring Hitler up subtly. Say: ``That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say'' or ``You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler.''
So that's it: you now know how to out-argue anybody. Do not try to pull this on people who generally carry weapons.
As I drift in increasing bouts of mental illness perhaps I can apply some identity dyslexia to the problem..
How are you ? > Who are you ?
Today I am Attilla the Hun and I want all the space in the office.....
Isabel Hitchings, in reply to
Also, I find it really hard dealing with people who can only talk about their kids, and I have enough purely-functional conversations about my own.
I enjoy talking about my kids in the sense that I find child development really interesting and they are my main case-studies. This is not the conversation that most people who want to talk about their kids want to have. I have come close to gnawing my limbs off to avoid the competitive brag-fests about whose little darling is the bestest.
Rich Lock, in reply to
We have discussed this before
Yeah, but that was over a year ago. We've all forgotten about it. I'll just cut and paste my comments from pg 9 of that thread, and no-one will notice the recycling...
Want to talk about the weather? Maybe you should talk to someone else.
Want to talk about that local sports team? Talk to someone else.
That TV show you watched last night? Talk to someone else.
The lastest Hollywood celebrity shenannigans? Talk to someone else.
Your rant about Helen Clarke? Is ignorant and distasteful.
Your rant about the global warming conspiracy? Makes you look stupid.
I simply have no interest in 'playing the game'. Needless to say, cab rides and visits to the barber are usually a fairly agonising experience.
Emma Hart, in reply to
We have discussed this before
Yeah, but that was over a year ago.
This perfectly-serviceable point aside, Russell meant he and I have had this conversation, re hairdressers, a couple of weeks ago. In private, once the topic of conversation became unsuitable for public consumption.
However. I do have a sterling couple of examples of awkward conversation between me and David recently, which I probably shouldn't mention.
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Small talk is learnable. The only real question is: Can you be bothered? If it causes you discomfort and embarrassment to be unable to small talk, it's actually pretty damned simple. So that first question is important. If you don't want to learn it, then you surely won't.
Once, a very nice woman kindly asked me if my daughter read the Color Fairies books like all the other daughters
Is this were you furrow your brow enigmatically, and say that you have issues with Andrew Lang's Anglocentric bias and cultural insenitivity?
kmont, in reply to
I know what you mean, I often dislike myself when I am terribly, terribly earnest.
But it is probably worse when I am feeling bored with myself, think I probably project an arrogant uninterested vibe, when what I really want is for SOMEONE ELSE TO TALK.
BenWilson, in reply to
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Most blokes find any discussion of almost anything to do with (their own or one another's) emotion too uncomfortable.
Yes, men don't expose their privates so easily. Some of that is possibly because they're far more easy to tear clean off than a woman's.
BenWilson, in reply to
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when what I really want is for SOMEONE ELSE TO TALK.
Simplest tactic in that situation: Ask a question. It's one of the best tools in the small-talker's arsenal.
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The evolution of the detective novel in the Victorian Period.
What the Dickens, with Bleak House,
Jack 'n' Moriarty and those
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kmont, in reply to
Oh I do, I do, I am actually an excellent small talker, black belt in small talk even when I am in the mood but from time to time I just want to be an awkward wallflower and I think it is odd for people who don't know me well to see the contrast. Kind of need a T Shirt 'I am out in public because I am trying to achieve xyz but do not actually want to interact, talk to me but let me passively sit there while you do all of the conversational heavy lifting.'
Wilde Thing...
I don't like me when I'm terribly, terribly earnest.
Have you tried being Lady Bracknell instead?
:- )
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Yes, men don't expose their privates so easily. Some of that is possibly because they're far more easy to tear clean off than a woman's.
Oh, I've got the fine art of over-sharing to an intimidating degree while revealing absolutely nothing of value. Much finger food and a faint air of bemused fascination also help those unavoidable bouts of social intercourse pass on fleet feet. Funny how people don't notice if you're mute, when you actually find what other say much more interesting than the sound of your own voice.
(I do enjoy Christmas parties though – wee fruit mince pies and an intense discharge of social obligations? Wizard.)
Rich Lock, in reply to
Small talk is learnable.
Yes, and like you mentioned in another thread, I've learned enough vague detail to be able to deflect awkwardness when, for example, sport comes up. Enough to be able to hold my own politely while planning a swift exit for a drink or pit stop.
But there's no easy escape from hairdressers and cabbies - they hold you hostage until their conversational demands are met. When we returned from the UK last year, we got stuck with a cab driver on our trip back from the airport who would. Not. Shut. The fuck. Up. Had a conversational style that involved asking a lot of questions, and then telling you he knew a bloke who could come round and fix that for us. Just what I wanted after 24 hours on a plane with a 6-month old.
Moz, in reply to
PAS introduced me to my Wellington friends, and I came full circle...
Surely that's pushing it even for fairly close friends?
At least on PA there's no danger that it will go all quiet.
That Expression on the faces of checkout operators.
I found myself doing that the other day. The guy in front of me in the queue (express lane, even) decided that "how are you" deserved a full examination of his medical, social and legal situation. With a bit of wiggling I managed to push him around to the end of the checkout so the checkout chick could process my stuff. No offence, I came here to shop.
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Center for Western Studies Receives $300,000 Challenge Grant
Augustana College's Center for Western Studies is the recipient of a $300,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
CWS Hosts 29th Annual Art Show and Sale February 20-22
Twenty-six local and regional artists will be featured in the 29th annual Artists of the Plains Art Show and Sale February 20-22 sponsored by the Center for Western Studies (CWS).
Augustana Included in New Research Center
Augustana College has been named a participant in a new 2010 research center created to conduct basic research in nuclear physics and astrophysics at the former Homestake Gold Mine.
Augustana Guest Speaker Greg Mortenson Nominated for Peace Prize
Greg Mortenson, co-founder of the Central Asia Institute and founder of Pennies for Peace, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in a bipartisan, bicameral effort led by members of Congress.
Augustana Offering Variety of Workshops for Spring 2009
Augustana College is offering a series of Continuing Education Workshops this spring. These workshops are scheduled from February through April, 2009. Many of the classes are held on weekends and class size is limited.
Award-Winning Russian Director on Campus to Work, Teach
Augustana College Theatre is excited to announce the arrival of two guest artists from St. Petersburg, Russia – Natalia Lapina and Andrey Khvostov. Lapina is on campus to direct the premiere of Ivan Fuller's new play Eating into the Fabric.
Senior to Represent BRIN Undergraduate Fellows in Pierre
Dan Day, a senior from Vermillion, S.D., majoring in computer science and biology, has been selected to represent all the Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) undergraduate fellows at the Poster Day in Pierre, S.D., on February 17.
KELO TV: Student Internship Enriched by Life Experiences
For the last six years, Augustana student Kendra Gottsleben has been getting enzyme treatments at Sanford Children's once a week. She's been given so much by the nurses and staff there, and now she says she's finally able to give back.
New Tennis Complex Will Serve Augustana, Community
Augustana President Rob Oliver and Athletic Director Bill Gross today announced plans to build a new tennis complex on campus that will serve the College and the community.
Norwegian Landscapes in Retrospect Exhibit
A photograph exhibit showing the landscape changes in Norway in the 19th and 20th centuries is on display at Augustana College. The exhibit, located in the Morrison Commons Siverson Lounge, is free and open to the public.


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A Former Legend... with 1 Remaining Fan... and 1 Final Opponent...
The story of a professional wrestler who's afraid of conflict in real life. 'Leo the Blue Lion' is nearing the end of his career and finds out he has one fan left in an eight-year old boy, who hides a secret that will change Leo's life forever.
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Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people.
The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company called Myriad Genetics has valid patents on the human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are related to breast and ovarian cancers.
That a company most people have never heard of could have the exclusive rights to pieces of our DNA is a bit unnerving. More than a bit unnerving: The ownership of our genes is being decided by nine justices who, although brilliant legal minds, are not exactly biotechnologists.
They wrestled with nucleotides and covalent bonds. They spoke of mRNA, cDNA, introns and exons. They dabbled in tagging and base pairs.
"If you could get a super-microscope and look at what they have with the cDNA," Justice Stephen Breyer postulated, "you would discover something with an A there, you see, and you wouldn't discover something with a U there. And there is no such thing in nature as the no-introns AGG, whatever." Whatever.
The justices broke down the building blocks of life into terms they could understand better, such as bodily organs, Amazonian plants, baseball bats and chocolate chip cookies.
The last analogy was provided by Sonia Sotomayor. Like a kid trying to impress her science teacher, she piped up 38 times for questions, far ahead of the second-place Breyer (26) and just two shy of the combined output of Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the silent Clarence Thomas.
Sotomayor's fellow justices appeared exasperated with their know-it-all colleague; Chief Justice John Roberts extended one lawyer's time after Sotomayor badgered him with questions, and Alito tried to redirect the proceedings after she treated the court to an extended baking analogy. "I can bake a chocolate chip cookie using natural ingredients: salt, flour, eggs, butter," she said. "And if I (combine) those in some new way, I can get a patent on that. But I can't imagine getting a patent simply on the basic items."
As Myriad's attorney, Gregory Castanias, tried to answer, Sotomayor kept breaking in with kitchen talk: "So I put salt and flour, and that's different? ... Now you can get a patent on the flour?"
Castanias told her the question showed "the problem with using the really simplistic analogies, with all due respect." There was laughter in the courtroom.
Based on the justices' questioning, there was little doubt that corporations such as Myriad have a legitimate claim to the DNA in our bodies. The argument was mostly about whether corporations own the material itself or merely have the exclusive rights to use our genes for research and commerce.
Castanias likened the gene sequence the company clipped from the human genome to a baseball bat, because it "doesn't exist until it's isolated from a tree."
Roberts balked at this analogy. "You don't look at a tree and say, 'Well, I've cut the branch here and cut it here and all of a sudden I've got a baseball bat,'" he said.
Alito, too, asked about the bat, "which at least I can understand better than perhaps some of this biochemistry." Alito likened the gene discovery to serendipity, like a tree branch that has "fallen into the ocean and it's been manipulated by the waves, and then something's been washed up on the shore, and -- what do you know? -- it's a baseball bat."
Elena Kagan preferred to liken the company's gene discovery to "the first person who found a liver."
And Breyer wondered if patent protection could apply to "anything from inside the body that you snip out and isolate."
Castanias assured the justices that the gene discovery was not at all comparable to patenting a slice of "liver, kidney, you know, gallbladder -- pick your organ."
Alito chose a vegetable instead. "Suppose," he said, that medicinal benefits were found in "the leaves of a plant that grows in the Amazon." Further, Alito proposed, "it's not just the case of taking the leaf off the tree and chewing it. ... It's extracted and reduced to a concentrated form."
Thus began a harvest of horticultural hypotheticals: "If we simply pick the leaf off the tree and swallow it ..." "It's uprooted and taken out of the forest ..." "Captain Ferno goes to the Amazon and discovers 50 new types of plants ..."
The justices were deep in the weeds -- without a genetic map.
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Woodstock, Maryland
The arrival of the Jesuits in Maryland's Patapsco Valley marks the beginning of the story of the spiritual community of St. Alphonsus. From the start, the residents and the Jesuits were part of each other's lives, in a partnership.
The Jesuits opened Woodstock College in Maryland in 1869, and Mass was often celebrated in the Stackhouse Store (now the Woodstock Inn). Although only 35 in number, local Catholics formed the nucleus of a parish. On April 30, 1889, a new church was dedicated in honor of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, a Jesuit brother who had been canonized in 1888.
In four short years (1968-1972), the destruction of the first church by lightening was followed closely by the closing of both the parish school and Woodstock College. Working together, the men and women of St. Alphonsus built the present church and celebrated the first Mass in the new church on Christmas Eve, 1971.
The 21st century brought continued growth and change. Today the parish numbers more than 500 registered families, and the liturgical, educational, evangelical, social justice and social ministries have grown in proportion to the size of the faith community. The parish preschool, which opened in 2008 with four students, has grown in five short years to 100.
The Center for Ignatian Spirituality offers a variety of opportunities for participation in the Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian prayer as it fosters Ignatian identity and spirituality on a parish-wide basis.
St. Alphonsus Parish also enjoys a close relationship with its sister parish in the Jamshedpur Province of Rerua, India. This includes financial contributions for the building of schools, dormitories, wells and other structures as well as providing scholarships for boys and girls who otherwise would not have the opportunity for education.


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Dear Em,
This is inpection day. Every single thing we own is spread out and it has to be just so. You speak of receiving a souviner. Now I sent two, that is, two pins. I wish you would let me know what you mean by say only one souviner for I hope that both of the pins that I sent was received by you. I am feeling the same as usual, and hope all you dear folks at home are well and standing up under the Terrific weather. I see that the Red Sox are in first place. I am going to be there for the Big Series.
Dear Lena
To continue the postal that I sent Em, I wish to inform you that as far as I can make out we are to stay here for one week more and then hit for Galveston after that? This outpost work is getting to be very important, for we have to be on the alert at all times. We can never tell when the Spicks will pick one of us off, or rush one of our out gaurds, and as we non comps are in charge of these men and posts, it makes our work more important than you can imagine. (Adious)
Dear Pa,
You will see this (the three postals) is nothing but a letter addressed to the family. I suppose you got enough traveling in your vacation, and I bet you can imagine the monoteny we went through in getting away down here. Of coarse it will not be so bad going back. We were talking to an old fellow yesterday who is 101 years old. He said he came from N.E. 80 years ago and adds that this is the best country God ever made and that he wouldn't go back to N.E. for a million. He was never sick in his life and works his ranch every day. He is going to live 50 years longer.
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The U.S. government's so-called "War on Drugs" in Central America is under heavy fire again after a barrage of negative publicity surrounding a controversial and deadly operation in Honduras earlier this month: an attack that terrorized villagers and reportedly killed two pregnant women and two children traveling on a riverboat. Fierce criticism also erupted when it emerged later that state-sponsored gunmen speaking English — presumably Americans, according to witnesses — pointed a gun at a teenager's head and threatened to shoot if he refused to talk.
While the Obama administration has acknowledged that there were Drug Enforcement Administration agents on board the helicopters that gunned down civilians during the operation, most American authorities have denied direct U.S. government participation in the actual killings and terror. The DEA insisted that, despite the U.S. State Department providing at least two of the helicopters and some of the mercenaries involved in the slaughter, its own functionaries were acting only in an "advisory" capacity.
Numerous victims, however, described some of their attackers as "gringos," a somewhat derogatory term for Americans. "If you don't talk we'll kill you.… Where is El Renco? Where is the merchandise?" the English-speaking drug warriors said to 17-year-old Celin Eriksson, according to his statements to the Associated Press after the operation. His 14-year-old cousin, Haskel Tom Brooks Wood, was killed on the riverboat as the drug warriors riddled it with bullet holes before and after shining a spotlight on it.
After shooting up the boat in the middle of the night, wounding several people and killing at least four more — including two pregnant women, the young boy, another child, and possibly two other victims, all of whom were reportedly out looking for food — the helicopters landed in the village. The heavily armed squads stormed out. According to multiple news reports based on accounts from witnesses and local officials, the agents and mercenaries began breaking down doors of wooden shacks near the town of Ahuas, brutalizing villagers while searching for an alleged criminal suspected of involvement in drug transportation.
Several hours before dawn, one of the helicopters landed in front of Hilaria Zavala's hut. Half-a-dozen armed personnel emerged and kicked their way into her home, she said, before a man she described as a "gringo" threw her husband on the floor and put a gun to his head. "They kept him that way for two hours," Zavala recalled when interviewed by an AP reporter. "They asked if he was El Renco, if he worked for El Renco, if the stuff belonged to El Renco. My husband said he had nothing to do with it."
Multiple villagers described similar scenes of horror as the rampaging bureaucrats and "contractors" swarmed the area screaming about a character known to them as "El Renco." One witness cited in reports from the town said the government gunmen commandeered a local boat and even kidnapped a teenage boy who knew the area, supposedly to serve as their guide during the frantic search for a canoe thought to have drugs on board.
The U.S. State Department claimed Central Americans and U.S.-funded mercenaries were in charge of the operation, and that American agents were just "advising" them. Local news outlets reported that all of the gunmen were wearing military fatigues, though the U.S. embassy flatly denied that any American troops had been involved in that particular operation. U.S. soldiers, however, have participated in numerous drug operations in the region.
"So as you know, we support counter-narcotics interdiction not only in Honduras but throughout the Central American area. We do this through our program SICA, the Central American Integration System," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said as she ruffled through papers containing her carefully outlined talking points, noting that she did not know whether the DEA advised U.S.-funded, -armed, and -trained Honduran drug warriors to open fire on civilians, but that the program adheres to U.S. law. "In this particular operation on May 11, the U.S. DEA was involved only in a supporting role."
The Honduran military investigation concluded that the civilians — all of whom were innocent, described by local officials as "humble" and "honest" — were killed by "accident." Apparently the soldiers were looking for the drug canoe and shot the wrong boat. It remains unclear whether the victims' families will receive compensation, or whether any cash payment to the relatives would be paid by U.S. or Honduran taxpayers — not that money could ever compensate for the loss of innocent life. No criminals were arrested. But authorities from both countries claimed the purpose of the operation was to find some cocaine allegedly hidden on a canoe in the jungle.
Criticism of U.S. government funding for Honduran authorities has been growing, with at least 87 members of Congress asking the State Department to review the human-rights situation there. According to the department's latest report on the issue, that Central American government's police and agents are routinely involved in unlawful killings. Yet despite laws forbidding aid to such regimes — not to mention the lack of constitutional authority for foreign aid or a drug war — the U.S. government continues to borrow and print currency to finance its Honduran counterpart, as well as dozens of other unsavory regimes around the world.
In Yemen, U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks revealed, senior American officials had conspired with the nation's U.S.-backed and –financed dictator to lie about who was dropping bombs on supposed "militants." The former dictator promised to take credit for the mass aerial killings if the U.S. government would slaughter the "terrorists" — mostly his political opponents — though the truth in that case eventually emerged. With the outrage over the killings in Honduras this month growing quickly, activists, locals, and reporters continue to demand answers, hoping that the whole story will come out someday.
But even as it stands, the situation is already grim, analysts say. "Whether American agents or contractors pulled the trigger that killed two pregnant Honduran women who were headed to a mother's day celebration, whether they put the gun to the head of a Honduran teenager and then left him bound in the jungle, are disputable facts," noted Mike Riggs in a piece for the liberty-minded Reason magazine. "Why the Honduran government is waging a war against its people is not: The American government has instructed it to, and is training and equipping its military and law enforcement agencies."
At least one U.S. congressman feigned outrage over the Obama administration-backed operation, too, blaming local authorities for the killings instead of disastrous American policies. "I have consistently expressed deep concerns regarding the danger of pouring U.S. security assistance into a situation where Honduran security forces are involved in serious human rights violations," said Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), suggesting a U.S. "review" of its so-called "security" foreign aid to the Honduran government. "The problems are getting worse, not better, making such a review all the more urgent."
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) chief Ethan Nadelmann blasted the attack as well, even if U.S. bureaucrats did not physically pull the triggers or kill the women and children. "DEA agents are never permitted to be involved in the killing of innocent people, whether or not they are in pursuit of criminal suspects," he told the AP. "What happened in Honduras appears to have crossed the line — an action that was not approved by the U.S. Congress — and is, ultimately, unethical."
Meanwhile, even as U.S. taxpayers continue showering compliant foreign governments with billions of dollars for the drug war, Congress is investigating the Obama administration for supplying high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels under operation "Fast and Furious." The DEA's money-laundering operations are also under congressional scrutiny after the New York Times reported that the agency was laundering massive amounts of drug profits for assorted criminal enterprises. The administration is stonewalling on both probes, according to congressional investigators.
The former head of the DEA, meanwhile, has accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of trafficking cocaine into America, and numerous reports and inside sources in recent decades have made similar allegations. And the border is still wide open — on purpose, according to experts. On the other hand, last year, it emerged conclusively that the CIA had indeed been involved in shooting down a plane carrying American missionaries over Peru — supposedly because they thought the plane might have drugs on it. Veronica Bowers and her baby were both killed.
But as the U.S.-backed and United Nations-inspired prohibition continues to ravish the region as tens of thousands of innocent lives are lost, Latin American governments have increasingly started to debate alternatives. The tough-on-crime President of neighboring Guatemala, for example, is actually lobbying for complete legalization to save his nation from the savagery and crime associated with the war.
President Obama, however, dispatched high-level functionaries to ensure continued drug-war compliance by governments in the region, promising more U.S. tax money to national rulers who cooperate fully. And more recently, the administration asked Congress for even broader permission to use American military forces at home and around the world in both the terror and drug wars — all without mentioning the Constitution a single time. But at the same time, opposition is growing stronger after each atrocity that comes to light.
Related articles:
Despite Mounting Regional Pressure, Obama Vows More Drug War
The Other Unconstitutional War
Latin America Debates Drug Legalization; Obama Demands More War on Drugs
Central America: Drug Wars Escalate While Aided by U.S.-funded Highway
Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels
Mexican Drug Trafficker Says He Worked With Feds
War on Drugs Grows FAST Abroad
Obama Backs Mexico's Failed 'War on Drugs'
Congress Probes DEA Drug Money Laundering Scheme
"Drug Lords" Targeted in Fast & Furious Worked for FBI
Obama Demands More War-making Powers from Congress
Calderon: U.S. Officials Involved in Drug Trade
Top UK Officials: UN-inspired War on Drugs Failed
Feds Purposely Keeping U.S. Borders Wide Open, Experts Say
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Metron is your leader, huh? I guess maybe he does have a movement going on. A movement of Ellgab faggots. Stay strong!
I am just fine with Metron and if that makes me a faggot, or a libtard, or an ellgab shill in your book-- then so be it....and I'd say the same damn thing to anyone who tried to force me into an opinion on you.
Never stop dreaming!
A friendly reminder that theres a home for off topic substance free posts that no one wants to read. Welcome home Dr Laughingstock Leghumper. Post often. http://bellgab.com/index.php?topic=12448.0
Oh, look! Its another lemming who cant think for himself. Hey, What did you think of W delivering pizzas to the unemployed establishment?
My Turn... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzFhOslZPM
Oddly popular in Norway.
Yes, very. They even have their own site, but it hasn't been updated in a while. https://www.rainmakers.com/(I'll bet a lot of people were let down about the cancellation.)They still play live though, locally. https://www.rainmakers.com/shows-2/I saw these guys back in the late 80's - they were the headliner. They put on a pretty good show.I still have a couple of their albums on cassette.
Seriously, where are all the Bush supporters here on this?! Why havent they posted their support for this yet?!
Occam's Razor, Dr. Faggot - there appears to be a dearth of W supporters here, go figger...
The ISS already has Japanese:
What is hilarious is that such "fake news" organizations like CNN, MSNBC, etc elected Trump via free advertising and are only, somewhat, profitable because of covering him so that deranged leftists can vent, rabidly nodding heads and foaming at the mouth and barking leftist mantras at the tv, at the outrageous claims and lies by the hosts.
All govenment acronyms might as well be spelled FU - because that's what they all do.
"Frankenstein" comes to mind. Victor now is goading the village mob into grabbing their pitchforks and torches before they storm the monster's castle.
So, where are your posts supporting his pizza delivery?
How appetizing! It makes my old high school lunches look like five-star gourmet meals by comparison.
Irish People Try Native American Food (Pemmican, Frey Bread, ...)"Its like kissing a really old woman"
Well that sums up this weekends demokkkrat media fake news nothing burger. Nope, it wasnt Fridays fake news. https://youtu.be/uG5GqMJ4-6E
One need not be Irish to appreciate the culinary skills of the red manAfter a meal theres nothing like a good cigar.
Who's the Ron Jeremy in this? My guess is the IRS, but the NSA and the TSA (in a literal sense at times) probably are close contenders.
I heard the full audio of all sides today on Beck. How can anyone supprt the democrat party anymore?
This 'native' stooge is funded by the Gates Foundation and the Rockefellers, he's a professional agitator, nothing more.
VC makes an appearance at the 01:45 mark.


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