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Woobm-USB (Wireless out of band management) is USB device, that provides Serial connection over wireless bridge.
Connect Woobm-USB USB device to your MikroTik, Linux or other device and configure it wirelessly without need of any serial cables as well as provides CLI configuration possibility to laptops without serial port, mobile devices and tablets.
Woobm-USB has built in webpage for easy access and configuration. Device supports Access Point and Client modes.
First start up
Connect your Woobm-USB to USB port, open wireless network with SSID: WoobmAP will be created. Connect to device and open devices IP address in web browser.
Default Woobm-USB IP is 192.168.4.1
RouterBOARD device will automatically mount serial USB device.
WEB interface
WEB interface allows access to serial port from any device equipped with 2.4GHz wireless module.
Web interface default page is "Home" From home page it is possible to connect and configure RouterOS neighbour devices (MikroTik devices in same network) Press on device IP address to establish connection
By opening Terminal tab, Woobm-USB will try to emulate USB serial interface. On successful attempt "Connection successful! " message will appear above terminal window. You can enter commands from keyboard or use key buttons to send out commands through USB serial interface.
Show keyboard will bring up keyboard on mobile devices. Extra buttons provide missing keyboard keys for mobile devices.
Note: Only one USB serial terminal bridge may be emulated, If serial port is already used, error message will appear above terminal window.
Settings tab provide basic configuration for Woobm-USB device.
Basic settings part provide serial port, button and wireless general settings.
|Identity (string; Default: Mikrotik)
|Device identity is used for DHCP client as 'host name' parameter when reporting it to the DHCP server, and for neighbour discovery.
|Telnet port (integer; Default: 23)
|Port used for incoming telnet requests
|Baud-rate (integer; Default: 115200)
|Baud rate used for serial communication. Should match host device.
|Data bits (; Default: 8)
|Parity (; Default: None bits)
|Stopbits (integer; Default: 1)
|Web conn. timeout (integer; Default: 2400)
|WPS enabled (On/off; Default: On)
|Set the default settings with a button (On/off; Default: On)
|Device greeting (On/off; Default: On)
|Force echo (On/off; Default: On)
|Ignore telnet commands (On/off; Default: On)
|Status LEDs enabled (On/off; Default: On)
|802.11 mode (; Default: default)
Upgrade firmware
Use upgrade firmware tab for manual firmware upgrade.
Telnet access
It's possible to use Telnet clients to access serial port. For Telnet access open Woobm-USB address in telnet client. Woobm-USB forwards serial port to telnet client.

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D23 is holding an exclusive behind-the-scenes Midnight Soiree at the Walt Disney World's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror on October 5th, and the club's Gold Members can purchase tickets beginning on July 11. [Read more…]
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Beverly A. Hirstein (nee Amrine), 90, of Waterloo, died June 18, 2019, in Waterloo. She was born February 24, 1929, in Urbana, the daughter of the late parents Edgar S. and Clara E. (nee Ford) Amrine.
She was a member of St. Paul UCC, Waterloo, lifelong Cardinal Fan, an avid bridge player and an expert cross stitcher.
She is survived by her children Gary (Mary) Hirstein, Katha (Mark) Cranage, John (Cheri) Hirstein, and Sharon (Ken Weiler) Hirstein; grandchildren Eric Hirstein, Nicholas (Tracy) Hirstein, Nicholas McClane, Carrie (Mike) Love, Amy (Raub) Olsen, Holly (Adam) Radford, Scott (Jami) Hirstein and Matt (Michelle) Jaenke; eight great-grandchildren; the father of their children Harold Hirstein; brother Melvin (Doris) Amrine; sister Patricia Theros; nieces; nephews; and cousins.
Visitation will be 10 a.m. until time of service July 13 at Quernheim Funeral Home.
A memorial service will be 11 a.m. July 13 at Quernheim Funeral Home in Waterloo, Pastor Michael Southcombe officiating.
To help celebrate her life please feel free to wear red or St. Louis Cardinal attire.
As an expression of sympathy the family prefers memorial contributions to: Monroe County Humane Society.


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Two French journalists held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 18 months have arrived in France, flying into an airport near Paris.
Cameraman Stephane Taponier and reporter Herve Ghesquiere were freed in circumstances that remain unclear.
The pair were kidnapped with Afghan colleagues near Kabul in December 2009 while on assignment for French TV.
Mr Ghesquiere said they were both in good health. "We were never threatened with death, never beaten," he said.
The two Frenchmen, who were working for French state television network France-3, had become some of the longest-held Western hostages in Afghanistan.
"There are lots of hostages in the world, I feel for those who are held hostage, and those who died in operations when they tried to save them," the forty-seven-year-old added.
"Until you have been a hostage, you can't understand but I really feel for them because it is over for us but still going for them."
'No regrets'
The pair, who had been embedded with French troops in Afghanistan, decided to gather material from an area known locally as "the Black Hole", according to the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.
In April 2010, after posting a video of the hostages on the internet, the Taliban said they had submitted a list of prisoners to French authorities that they wanted freed in exchange for the two journalists.
Mr Taponier, 46, and Mr Ghesquiere and one of the three Afghan colleagues with whom they were seized, interpreter Reza Din, were released on Wednesday. French officials have said that no ransom was paid for the men.
The other two Afghan translators had been released some time ago, French officials said.
After stepping on to the tarmac, the two embraced waiting relatives and shook hands with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife.
Mr Ghesquiere, who was held in solitary confinement for the last eight months, said he did not regret his decision to work in Afghanistan.
"It's what I always wanted to do. I don't want to go back to Afghanistan tomorrow but […] I want to do this job now more than ever."


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Spend a night or two in Morefield Campground, just 4 miles inside Mesa Verde. With 267 sites, there's always plenty of space! The campground rarely fills. Each site has a table, bench, and grill. Camping is open to tents, trailers and RVs, including 15 full hookup RV sites that require reservations.
Morefield's campsites are situated on loop roads that extend through a high grassy canyon filled with Gambel Oak scrub, native flowers, deer, and wild turkeys.
Several of the park's best hikes leave from Morefield and climb to spectacular views of surrounding valleys and mountains.
Wake to an all-you-can eat pancake breakfast at the café in Morefield's full-service village. There's also a gas station, RV dumping station, coin-operated laundry, complimentary showers, a gift shop and grocery store.
With all of its conveniences and amenities, Morefield provides a truly comfortable stay in Mesa Verde National Park.
Morefield Campground is the only campground in Mesa Verde National Park, but be forewarned, you might just experience a little sticker shot at the price. Cost for a tent site with NO hookups was almost$35 after taxes. The campground does has flush toilets and wifi through out the campground. Next to the camp store are showers and a coin laundry. Each campsite has a picnic table, tent pad and metal fire ring. The campsites really vary in appearance, some are out in the open right next to each other, other are in the trees and bushes which gives you a little more privacy, but most are still right next to another very close site. Some other these are perfectly level areas, others will have you going up of down stairs. The sites with stairs seemed to be slightly more secluded. While it was nice to have restrooms with running water, their was no way to dry your hands, so bring a towel with you as they have no paper towels or air driers for you hands. Water could be found at the restrooms. For you trash you had to find the one dumpster in the middle of the camping loop, but be warned, it could be difficult for some to open. I was a bit disappointed that the campground wasn't kept in better shape, especially for the price they were charging. Several campsites were closed due to needing repair, and the trail from the camp loop to the store was falling apart, it is need of new pavement or just remove it and go to a dirt path. They have Wifi, and said it was better the closer to the restrooms you were, but if a few people are using it, it really slows down. The Wifi was nice as you have no cell service in the campground. All in all this is a nice campground except for the price.
Spent three days here, with our too young daughter, she's now 9 and ready to go back and learn more of the history of this land and it's people.
The only campground in Mesa Verde National Park, this is the most expensive National Park campground I have stayed in. Morefield is also the only National Park campground I've visited that had wifi, free showers, and paid laundry. There were very few other campers in the tent loops mid-October. The bathrooms are kind of mostly clean. There is also water and trash throughout the campground. Most of the attractions in Mesa Verde are a little less than an hour's drive away. I wish I could have stayed longer if only to go on more of the tours of historic sites.
You can get a reservation online but the site choices are first come. Some are totally miserable with no shade but others have some nice shade. We went to the onsite cafe wToo many times-pancake breakfast was awesome. When we went, it was during the big 416 fire so there was a fire ban but propane was okay. The bathrooms and showers were pretty good. There is also a laundry area. They are very strict about keeping anything that may attract bears in your car. The roads are good but are winding roads in the mountains. There are lots of different trails to check out as well as cliff dwellings-some require tour tickets.
Went in June
This campground is run by Aramark for NPS. It's adequate. Showers at a central location are free and clean; each shower has its own door so it's completely private. Laundry facility by the store is also clean…and large.
The bathrooms in the camping loops were clean, and there was a water spigot outside the bathrooms.
Camp store has a decent selection of craft beer at good prices. Every Aramark employee I interacted with (store, laundromat) was nice.
So what's wrong with this place? Vast majority of the sites are dry…which is not a problem. You don't reserve a specific site…also not a problem. Just get there early so you can get a decent site. Many sites have significant erosion so they look almost uninhabitable, and many have no shade. We got there early on a Thursday before Memorial Day and were able to find a level site with shade, and it wasn't on top of anyone else.
You're in the national park so it's convenient. And the park was quiet.
stayed for two nights, almost no other campers. Our site had small trees for shade. Its pretty, but not the most gorgeous views, those are at the top of the park! The campground was clean and quiet. The stars were out with little light pollution. There is a cafe at the camp store, recommend the all you can eat 8 dollar pancake breakfast. If you have two days do it, there is so much to see! There are also showers which were clean. Did the ranger tour of balconey house, was amazing.
We LOVED this campground (even though we froze our butts off)! We stayed here on the very first day of fall and it was absolutely gorgeous.
In the tent loop we stayed in (Navajo) there's a variation of how the sites are set up. Our site was set up with the parking area up above, with steps down into the gambel oak grove where the tent pad and picnic table were. We really loved this setup, and it was really nice to feel a little more secluded from our neighbors than other sites in the campground.
The bathrooms are well spaced and clean, and we're fairly certain that the Wi-Fi routers in the campground were in the bathroom buildings. If we stayed there for a longer amount of time where we'd need to be working, we would probably consider staying in a site closer to the bathroom for better Wi-Fi signal. But for our relatively short (and work-free) stay, it was fine.
There are showers and laundry located in the main building near the camp store /cafe (where they have breakfast in the mornings, yum). The showers are free, and the laundry is very reasonably priced. The showers, though, at least in the fall, weren't my favorite. The ceiling is very high, and the changing area has no real separation from the shower itself, which makes showers pretty chilly as the water and water vapor has to heat up a much larger area than a smaller shower area. I think when we go back, we might try to rig our own shower curtain with suction cups or something to keep the shower a little warmer. Our second night there it had rained all day and the temperature dropped pretty rapidly once the sun went down, and a nice hot shower helped warm us up (especially in the morning) but it would've been nicer if there had been a shower curtain. I'm sure it's just a pain to keep shower curtains clean, but it would make a huge difference, especially in the "shoulder" seasons.
There is also gas at the camp store, but it costs a fortune. Fill up in Cortez before heading up onto the mesa and you shouldn't need any gas while in the park. There are also free dump/fill stations for RVs, which is definitely handy.
Overall we really enjoyed this campground and are hoping to go back soon!


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Charlie Sheen suing Warner Bros., Chuck Lorre for $100 million
HollywoodNews.com: Charlie Sheen is apparently moving forward with his lawsuit against Warner Bros. and Chuck Lorre, and the 'Two and a Half Men' actor is asking for big money.
Sheen is reportedly suing to be paid for the eight episodes that were canned this season, as well as $100 million in punitive damages, states TMZ. The suit is reportedly being filed on behalf of the cast and crew.
Sheen's attorney, Marty Singer, has reportedly stated in the documents that everyone is trying to blame Sheen for the cancellation of the show, when he wanted to return to work.
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Only one third of email reaches inboxes
FireEye says two-thirds of email stopped by security solutions
Less than one third of all email traffic in the first half of the year was genuine, 'clean' email which ended up being delivered to an inbox, according to FireEye.
The security company's half-yearly email security report said that only 32% of email was sent through to the recipient, with 58% of malicious mail blocked by threat intelligence solutions, and 10% stopped by advanced attack protection systems.
The report also found that 1 in every 101 emails had malicious intent, while 91% of all cybercrime incidents are initiated by an email.
The FireEye Email Threat Report is compiled from analysis of half a billion emails screened by FireEye solutions from January to June 2018.
The company noted that actual malware, including email containing viruses, adware, Trojans, spyware, ransomware and so on only makes up 10% of email attacks. The other 90% of blocked attacks, such as impersonation, fraud and phishing attempts do not rely on a malware component in the email.
"Not only is email the most pervasive form of communication, it is also the most popular vector for cyberattacks. This makes email the biggest vulnerability for every organisation," said Ken Bagnall, vice president of email security at FireEye. "From malware to malware-less attacks including impersonation attacks like CEO fraud, a single malicious email can cause significant brand damage and financial losses. By choosing an email security solution with features based on real-time knowledge gained from the frontlines, and by teaching users to always ensure they are communicating with who they think they are, organizations can better defend against attacks."


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Jiu Jitsu fighting style
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shirtless Eddie Bravo stood on one end of the jiu jitsu mat inside the Ginásio do Ibirapuera sports arena in São Paulo, Brazil, stared straight ahead, then walked toward his destiny.
It was May 17, 2003, the quarterfinal match in the 66-kilogram division of the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC) Submission Wrestling World Championship, one of the biggest challenges of its kind. Fans had gathered to cheer on masters of jiu jitsu, judo, wrestling and other grappling arts in a rare interdisciplinary tournament, a real-life Bloodsport. Bravo had turned 33 two days earlier, and this was his present: his first international professional tournament; his first matches on foreign soil; and a hostile crowd rooting for the guy across the mat from him, three-time defending champion Royler Gracie, scion of the family who essentially created Brazilian jiu jitsu. No member of the clan had ever lost to an American, certainly not in a competition broadcast on national television. Certainly not to an undersized Mexican kid from Santa Ana.
To the audience, Bravo was just another pretender-a brown belt, at that-who wasn't particularly good at the traditional method of jiu jitsu, with its stylized moves emphasizing grips on a gi (the sport's uniform) to gain leverage over opponents. But Bravo had a trump card: a style of his own, developed over thousands of hours of training that incorporated jiu jitsu techniques with tactics people might use in a real fight, not in a kimono-grabbing contest.
Trainers and fighters had little idea who Bravo was, and the ADCC tournament was stocked with legends-but Bravo was ready. He upset former jiu jitsu champion Gustavo Dantas in the opening round of the tournament with a rear naked choke, squeezing Dantas into submission. Now, he stood facing Gracie.
"Royler was a hero of mine, " Bravo says now, more than a decade later. "It was like being inside of a 3-D TV or something. It was surreal and weird, but I was confident. He didn't look that strong, and I was used to going against [muscular] wrestlers, so any time I got to go against someone my size, I was confident."
The face-off began. Bravo dropped to one knee in a half-guard position to better trap one of Gracie's legs. Gracie cautiously circled around him for a minute, looking for a way to blast through the American's defense. Then Bravo trapped his leg, and the two men dropped onto the mat. For the next eight minutes, they battled fiercely as they writhed about the mat, limbs locking and flailing to gain some, any advantage over each other. Gracie controlled Bravo through most of the match, with Bravo seemingly gripping on for dear life.
As the seconds ticked away, Bravo realized he had to make something happen or he'd lose. He decided to debut one of his unorthodox moves, one he had developed for months: the Rubber Guard, in which he'd hold one of his legs across the back of Gracie's neck to break the Brazilian's posture. The champ broke right through his Rubber Guard, but Bravo recovered and managed to figure-four his legs around Gracie's neck and apply a triangle choke. Bravo vised his legs together, trying to cut off Gracie's blood and air. When that crushing pressure wasn't enough, Bravo grabbed the back of Gracie's head and pulled him farther down into the triangle of his legs. A few seconds later, the most accomplished member of jiu jitsu's first family frantically tapped his hand to signal he was done.
Boos erupted from the crowd, as a stunned Bravo strutted in triumph around the mat before collapsing into a sobbing heap in the middle. A reporter tried to interview him, but Bravo was inconsolable. "He's a legend, " Bravo muttered. "I can't believe I won. I can't believe I won."
Bravo would go on to lose a semifinal match, but it didn't matter: He was the first American to beat a Gracie, and his legend was secure.
And then Bravo stunned the jiu jitsu world by retiring from competition.
He wasn't done with the sport, though. He opened a school in Los Angeles to teach his new system, 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. It became the first well-known jiu jitsu program based entirely around training without wearing a gi, an innovation that led to the genre's revival in mixed martial arts (MMA), where conventional jiu jitsu fighters had gone from a dominating force in the sport's early days to a struggling minority.
Many jiu jitsu traditionalists and MMA aficionados think Bravo's system all bluster and no substance, and they think less of the man himself, not just for his moves, but also for his open love of pot, his celebrity friends and for besmirching their sport with upstarts who think they can take on anyone because they learned from the Man Who Took Down Gracie. But in the past decade, 10th Planet has expanded worldwide, with academies across the U.S.-including Costa Mesa and Buena Park-as well as locations in Europe, Asia, South America, Mexico and Australia. And his fighters are dominating opponents with their professor's style, bringing more acolytes into the fold.
"I don't think I even have to prove the effectiveness of my system anymore, " Bravo says. "I pass it along to the MMA fighters, and they go out and prove its effectiveness in their fights."
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It's 10:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, and Bravo is sitting against the chain-link fence that sections off the jiu jitsu mat from the rest of the HardQore Brand Training Center near downtown LA. He's exhausted, but his eyes are wide, and his excited voice carries across the large building. Bravo adjusts the cuff of his long-sleeved rashguard (a jiu jitsu training shirt) to cover up the end of his colorful tattoo sleeves and loosens the strap on his protective headgear. In front of him, a few dozen students get in one last round of training. The 5-foot-8 Bravo isn't as large as many of the other guys on the mat, but he dominates the room.
"All right, guys, wrap it up! They're kicking us out!" Bravo shouts to his class.
Every type of jiu jitsu practitioner is here, from amateurs to professionals, white and black belts. They're doing Bravo's moves, all featuring names out of a Hasbro game: the Rubber Guard, the Twister, the Lockdown, Dead Orchard and more. The students haven't stopped going through drills and squaring off for at least two hours, several of them were here the day before, and many of them will return the next day. Some of the students have been with Bravo for years; others are just training with him for a week while they're on vacation. No one wants to miss a minute with their famous professor.
Not bad for a guy who originally wanted to make it big in music.
Bravo was born Edgar Cano in 1970 in Santa Ana-"where all the Mexican servant workers and gardeners lived, " he cracks. When he was 10, his stepfather left his mother, and his now-single mom had to raise three children on a salary of roughly $150 per week. To help make ends meet, Bravo became an entrepreneur early on, stealing pencils to sell at school at a dime apiece, then working at a swap-meet stand selling underwear and socks when he was 14.


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SEMINAR: Limiting Techniques for High-Order Finite Element Discretizations of Conservation Laws
March 2, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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The main focus of this talk is on the design of high-resolution finite
element schemes for scalar conservation laws and hyperbolic systems.
A unified limiting strategy is proposed for continuous and discontinuous
Galerkin approximations. Using the Bernstein basis representation of
polynomial shape functions, we modify the high-order discretization
so as to enforce local discrete maximum principles for the coefficients
and guarantee that numerical solutions stay in the admissible range.
The development of accuracy-preserving limiters for high-order Bernstein
finite elements requires careful revisions of algorithms designed for
linear and multilinear Lagrange elements. The proposed element-based
extensions of algebraic flux correction tools include
(i) a new low-order upwinding strategy and high-order variational
stabilization for continuous finite elements,
(ii) localized limiters for antidiffusive element contributions, and
(iii) an accuracy-preserving smoothness indicator that allows violations
of discrete maximum principles at smooth peaks.
Extensions of element-based limiters to nonlinear hyperbolic systems
will be presented in the context of piecewise-linear finite element
approximations to the Euler equations of gas dynamics.
This is joint work with R. Anderson, V. Dobrev, Tz. Kolev, C. Lohmann,
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Athanasius Of Alexandria; Translated by Tim Vivian and Apostolos N. Athanassakis, with Rowan A. Greer; Preface by Benedicta Ward SLG; Foreword by Rowan Williams
Details: 360 pgs
Publication Date: 03/01/2003
An Encomium on Saint Anthony by John of Schmun A Letter to the Disciples of Antony by Serapion of Thmuis
Instrumental in the conversion of many, including St. Augustine, The Life of Antony provided the model saint's life and constitutes, in the words of patristics scholar Johannes Quasten, 'the most important document of early monasticism.' Here is one volume are translations of the text in the Greek written by Athanasius (from the new critical edition of G. J. M. Bartelink) and in the Coptic, the language Antony himself spoke. Two short contemporary coptic texts further manifest the powerful influence of 'the father of monks.'


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My Grandpa used to grow a lot of roses; we bought him one for his 80th birthday and I have long since forgotten the name of it. His garden, that it was planted in, is still there, but neither of my grandparents are. There's that Elvis Costello song, isn't there? He sings It's Been A Good Year For the Roses, I don't know if this is one such year, but I do know that they've preoccupied my thoughts more than ever before in my life.
I bought a patio rose tree about a year ago, in a terrible state, on sale for a few quid. It looked like it might not survive but after a little while, it flushed into bloom again, but with two different shades of pink: one very pale going towards apricot and one a proper rich, almost blowsy pink. It's done it again this year, but with the constant rain, the colours seemed to have become washed out, watered down a little. And, strangely, it has hardly any leaves this year. I just don't understand it.
A few months ago, I moved another rose that came with the garden. I didn't move it gently, it was dragged out of the ground and I think I even took my spade to one of it's more stubborn roots to get it to give up its spot. I then replanted it, knowing that it was the wrong time of year to move it altogether. The rose felt that brutality for a while. Its leaves wilted, some fell off. It looked a poor specimen. I watered it and fed it and asked it to do its thing and now it has started to come back, bearing one deep fuchsia pink, tight-lipped rosebud. I do not deserve it, but nature does that for itself and is far more potent than me with my destructive spade and garden rearranging, thankfully.
I have also bought a 'Sunset Boulevard' rose as a gift recently, which I have not yet had the opportunity to give. I must confess that I became intrigued to know what colour it would bloom before I gave it because I had bought it in mind of a particular orangey ginger dog and, as I discovered with half-dead patio rose, you never know exactly what you've got with a rose until it flowers. As it just came out this week, I realised that, yes, it will do. It's a rather Flaming June sort of nasturtium orange, the catalogues show a duskier, softer tone, but I think it is ok. It makes me think, when I think about trying to describe roses in words, that they defy colour description. Really, they do. The closest I can come is to emergency draft in another species of flower using comparison as description. Poor, really. Surely the rose deserves better. Look across a range of pink, or red roses and try and describe each variety in words. Impossible?
At the time of buying the Sunset Boulevard, I also bought a climbing rose, an off-white with a yellow centre. It too has flowered this week. At first, I was disappointed with the small, flat flowers, but I have realised that the scent is so beautiful that I must forgive it its conservative display. And that really is all I have to say about my roses; except that last night I was in someone else's kitchen with the back door open. The evening sun was shining through, there was a slight breeze. The black and white cat of the house, who has the most magnificent ostrich feather for a tail, was playing underneath a large rose bush about four feet high, covered in fat, shocking pink, fleshy blooms; the kind that Georgia O'Keefe might have painted. I was watching the cat when I saw a single petal fall from one large rose.
We think we know all about rose petals and how they fall, or at least I thought I did: they might float, or drift, downwards and land with silent grace somewhere in a romantically poetic sort of way. This bruiser of a petal did no such thing. It plummeted with a perceptible thud onto the concrete below. It's probably still there: a big, fat, pink petal pulsating with the universal energy that makes us all that we are.
When you are in a deep pit of doom…
…the obvious thing to do to lift oneself out of it (when all the usual suspects fail to work) is to make bunting.
The fact that I have never attempted the feat before, possess only minimal seamstressing skill and little practical aptitude for crafts are only minor hindrances to overcome. The idea came about when I was in a dance shop buying the second pair of Irish Dancing Shoes in a week, in preparation for my twelve trips to and from school tomorrow afternoon (see last Wednesday's post if you care for an explanation of that one). The dance shop has a material concession in the right hand corner manned by, well a man. One suspects he runs up all kinds of sequinned numbers for ballroom dancers but he was a slightly aggressive shopkeeper for the customer wanting a few offcuts and a bobbin of thread. There are a lot of passive aggressive people out there you know. Watch out for them, they often come disguised as mice.
Anyway, the proposed bunting sewing activity follows on directly from demolishing a wall at the weekend; stage 1 of converting the mudbath that is the garden to something that the neighbours don't have to wince at over the fence. Well, the neighbours on the left hand side anyway; I don't think the ones on the right care.
Stage 1 is not yet complete as there is the small matter of half a tonne of soil to move which was held back by the ugly and stubborn wall.
Here's some aspirational bunting, to brighten up the blog. There's no need to have triangles all the time is there?
Tomorrow I might dazzle the blog readers with where I am now keeping my clothes pegs. Life – you couldn't write it.
Mothers Day: Keeping it real in SS2
Now we no longer send our children up chimneys, down the pit, into service and up yonder t'mill, they are a permanent fixture in the front room, hogging the telly and polluting the atmosphere with 21st Century noise.
I am sure we would be delighted to spend the day together under the former circumstance, especially if the children had walked miles clutching a posy of spring flowers; amongst the current din and general lack of consideration for others I would rather take myself off to the allotment with a bottle of booze.
Speaking of which, yesterday was a great day in the garden. I called it Lets see whats survived a harsh winter and six months of neglect? What came out of the regime best was the compost bin. Joy of joys, and totally unbelievably, I found I had converted all manner of doings into beautiful, sweet-smelling, light and fluffy rich compost. Well of course it was not I, it was the Universal Law of Energy: matter cannot be created or destroyed, only transmuted.
Now I just need to see if six months in the compost bin has the same effect on me.
Down the allotment
I was very kindly offered a bit of a patch on Re:forms allotment last year. I duly went down and looked and hadnt been back since. At last it has stopped raining and freezing, so we went down for a bit yesterday and managed to get in two rows of spring onions and some rehomed strawberry plants, in between standing about in some degree of shock and awe. Some plots are so… tidy. Some plots are not. The best are the Edgelands sort anyway.
The magic of the allotment has inspired me: I am going to plant a field of dreams once I have started the seeds for the corn in the kitchen.
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In the last Natural Science and Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium of the spring semester series on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 11 in Schaefer 106, Susan Goldstine, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the College, spoke about her experiences with mathematical beading and the connections between math and art.
Her journey started on November 3, 2008 when she received an unexpected email from Ellie Baker, a computer scientist and artist in Massachusetts, whose daughter was a senior in high school and planning to make beaded crochet bracelets based off mathematical patterns on Goldstine's website for a science project. Her high school told her it wasn't science.
Baker's daughter, Sophie Sommer, designed a bracelet that replicated a seven-color torus, or the surface of a doughnut. Goldstine was quite impressed with Sommer's design and exact replica of the seven-color torus, in which every color on the bracelet touches each of the other six at one point in the pattern.
Sommer had then come up with a new seven-color pattern similar to the torus. Goldstine and the mother-daughter duo had finally decided to meet at the Joint Math Meeting in Washington D.C. in 2009, where they shared their designs in person for the first time.
It was then when Goldstine had learned to finally actually make the bracelets, which are made "by crocheting a strand of beads into a cylinder and sewing the ends together to form a torus," according to Goldstine's webpage. Goldstine also noted that Baker and Sommer favored a mathematical approach because it would lead to more perfect symmetry in the bead design, since trying to visualize a finished product based off a 2-D pattern is rather difficult.
After the initial meeting, Baker contacted Goldstine again with a new way to create these seven-color tori with art: knitting and crocheting. Artists Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Caroyln Yackel, who originally created the designs, had inspired Baker to try even more mathematical designs with bead-crochet bracelets such as a torus knot, which is a knot that can be drawn on a torus and measured based on the amount of times the line passes through the hole and also completely around the torus.
Once Baker completed a torus knot on a bracelet, she turned to Goldstine for even more designs like an Esher tessellation, which is the division of a plane or other surface into one or several identical shapes. Though Baker was sure there was a mathematical theory on how to perfect the Esher bracelet, she just couldn't find it. So finally, after working on the bracelet for a while, she brought a finished product to the 2010 Joint Math Meeting in New Orleans.
Now fully interested, and on sabbatical, Goldstine started to devote more time to the art form, and had her breakthrough in September 2010 when she discovered a perfectly symmetric "hockey stick translation." In this design, the pattern is described as "to the right, down-right once," meaning that there would be five beads in a row and then the sixth bead would be located down one row and to the right one space from the initial line of five. Once they discovered this pattern, Baker and Goldstine began to design back and forth and came up with 11 designs, which they submitted to the 2012 Joint Math Meeting's art exhibit in San Diego. Their collection is called the "Crystallographic Bracelet Series."
Currently, Baker and Goldstine are working on publishing a book about the various mathematical bead crochet bracelets. "Our goal is to teach people how to make the bracelets while also designing new ones ourselves," said Goldstine.
Goldstine also noted that Sommer ended up completing the project in high school in 2009 and won a prize for her work. Currently attending Colgate University in New York, Sophie has even sold some of the more simple patterned bracelets on Etsy.com.
First year and math major Laura Andre thought the lecture was interesting. "I liked how it showed that you can incorporate math into art," she said. The NS&M Colloquium Series plans to return next semester to the College.


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text: I was asked a question on Thursday that seemed so simple and silly that I didn't have an answer for it but it was more because I never had to think about it, I never had to have an answer for "what do you think about death". The question was asked by someone who I had never met before but I was suppose to confide in and speak to them about something that holds so much weight in my heart and I didn't know what to say. I didn't? I didn't think about death, I still don't think about death, I am aware of the that death is apart of life but even during this time, a time where I am heart broken by a death it isn't what I think about. It was sudden, I didn't see it coming and even if death had of been something I thought about regularly nothing on earth could have prepared me for this for the pain, the heart break, the shock, the emptiness that comes with death and I still, won't spend anymore of my time thinking about death, it will still just remain apart of life but what I will become more familiar with is the affect on my life and me as a person that a death will bring. Death and how it happens doesn't scare me, losing someone scares me, missing someones presence from my life for the rest of my life scares me. I know it doesn't sound natural but the death isn't whats holding the weight in my heart, I know she lived a life, a life most couldn't dream of living, she didn't fear death, strangely we spoke about it more than I ever have. She lived a life everyday that meant everyday was a new one, a new lesson, a new experience whether it be finding a new book or just hearing about how coffee in another country is made. She never worried about passing into her next life because she was focused on living the one she had now. She deserved to give more like she did, teach more like she did, excite more like she did and just enrich more lives everyday with her love and wisdom like she did and I find sadness in knowing the world and the people in it are without that now. She deserved to just do and be more but for me her passing doesn't make me think anymore about death, death isn't what gives me a headache from crying it's what death takes from me that brings all the suffering, losing someone you spent everyday creating memories with, making plans with, laughing with and just being with is where the suffering comes from. Missing you, missing everything about you. They say 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' and I agree. As much as I appreciated you when you were here with me and I was everyday grateful for the love, even the tough love and the energy you injected into my world and you knew that but I never knew truly the impact you had on my life, until now, now that I don't have it, I don't have any regrets because of all my friendships, the one with you provided more love, mutual respect, concern and appreciation of any other and it is something I want to honour within other relationships. I know you're still here, I know you're still with me but a million reminders of you a day could never remove the heart palpitations and over whelming sense of anger that comes from not having your physical presence everyday. I don't mind not having an answer to "what do you think about death" and I will never spend too much time thinking about death but I will spend everyday thinking about what it took from me, but more importantly I will spend more time thinking about what you gave to me. I will never stop missing you even more.


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PICTURED: The migrant street dwellers sleeping rough on the doorstep of Buckingham Palace
SLEEPING only metres away from the Queen, these shocking pictures reveal how a group of migrants have set up camp just down the road from BUCKINGHAM PALACE.
A group of migrants have been found sleeping on the streets near Buckingham Palace
The unbelievable snaps show around a dozen foreigners waking up in their cardboard boxes, having spend the night in the doorways of the exclusive millionaire residence of Grosvenor Place.
The block where the migrants were photographed, which is private property, is only across the road from the wall bordering off the Buckingham Palace Gardens and just 300 metres away from the Palace itself.
Latest figures show there are some 6,500 people sleeping rough on the streets of London each year - with around 40 per cent of this estimated to be migrants.
Homelessness figures in the capital have shot up in recent years, with a report by the Combined Homelessness and Information Network showing an overall 16 per cent increase between April 2014 and March 2015.
In terms of Westminster, where Grosvenor Palace is located, the report noted a 17 per cent rise.
Westminster Council said they have no power to move them on
The group is believed to consist of dozens of foreigners
A spokesperson for Westminster City Council said: "As this is private land, the council has no power to move people on but we will work with the leaseholders to support and advise them on a suitable resolution.
"We take the issue very seriously and commission outreach teams in the area to ensure the welfare and safety of those in genuine need of help.
"We work hard with the Police and Immigration Services to address any area where groups are involved in anti-social behaviour."
Down the road in Park Lane, the front of expensive shops near the plush Dorchester Hotel - where rooms can cost around £7,000 - can often be seen crowded with rough sleepers.
Westminster has seen a recent rise of 17 per cent in homelessness
The migrants folding away their blankets
While dozens of foreigners, believed to be mainly Romanian and Bulgarian, are usually spotted folding away their sleeping bags having camped outside Marble Arch, another expensive area where homes cost millions of pounds.
Nearby businesses have expressed their frustration at the situation, and said that not enough is being done to tackle rough sleepers.
More than 70 migrants are now said to be sleeping on the streets in the area, some of whom have been camping there for two years.
Westminster Council said earlier this month that it needs stricter powers to help remove the street dwellers.
These shocking photographs came as Britain's immigration problem was laid bare thanks to startling new statistics.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics showed that the number of migrants entering the UK last year was equivalent to adding a new city the size of Newcastle upon Tyne to the country.
Almost 600,000 immigrants swept into the UK and, even accounting for the 322,000 people left, the country had 260,000 new foreigners looking to make their homes here.
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By Maria Nereida Jaimes
Ecuador, a democratic country named because of its proximity to the equator is bordered by South American countries Colombia and Peru. Ecuador has experienced a drastic change in its government in the past century and has managed to survive various eras of political and economic instability.
The beginning of the century marked a huge turn for the country as a new constitution emerged. Since the constitution was placed in effect in 1998, four presidents have lead the democratic country with varying ideologies. The different viewpoints of such administrations in Ecuador have classified it as a "partly free" country by Freedom House and has gained the rank of 105 out of 180 concerning free speech and free press in 2017 by Reporters Without Borders. Ecuador has seen a gradual improvement in its rank as opposed to the previous years. Ecuador's free speech and free press values plummeted with the third president, Rafael Correa. The Correa Administration suppressed the rights of free speech and free press with oppressive laws. In 2018, the new president Lenin Moreno has taken office in hopes of regaining faith from the Ecuadorian community.
Historical Background
Ecuador is a representative democracy that is composed of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. Ecuador has an autonomous electoral agency called the Tribunal Supremo Electoral which manages voting for all citizens. The country is separated into 24 provinces each of which is further divided into administrative cantones and parroquias. The democracy is bound by the constitution with ideas inspired from the United States.
Ecuador has a significant background that has lasted over a 9,000-year period. Ecuador's history is marked by five eras, including the pre-Colombian era, the Conquest, the Colonial period, the War of Independence, and the Republic era. The Pre-Colombian era is marked by the Incan invasion of the tribes that formed the confederation of Quito. The Incan empire was ruled by Huayna Capac, who which divided the empire to his two sons Atahualpa and Huascar. The division not only created opposing beliefs but it led to a civil war in which Atahualpa arose victorious. The civil war weakened the Incan Empire and provided the perfect opportunity for the Spanish conquest. The conquest began when Francisco Pizzaro landed in Ecuador in 1531 and took advantage of the conflict to overthrow the Incan Empire.
The victory of the Spaniards marked the beginning of the Spanish Colonial Era in which Ecuador was an integral part of Spain's colonies in the new world under the viceroyalty of Lima, Peru. In 1563 Ecuador was awarded its own Audiencia; a type of government, allowing it to deal directly with Madrid. The Quito Audiencia was composed of a court of justices and an advisory body that consisted of a president and several judges. During this period Ecuador was occupied by an encomienda system: a system that was composed of granted lands and forced labor. This encomienda system persisted to nearly the end of the Colonial Period.
Ecuador was under Spanish control for about 300 years until the Criollos—a mix of Spanish and natives begun the War for Independence era. This era emerged as Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed of King Ferdinand VII in July 1808. During this period there was strong oppositions from the Quito Audiencia. They called for a congress in 1811 and declared the entire area of the Audiencia to be independent of any government currently in Spain. Two month later the Audiencia approved a constitution for the state of Quito that provided for democratic government, but also granted recognition to the authority of Ferdinand should he return to the throne.
This gave way to the era of Gran Colombia, a period of eight years where Ecuador became the southern district within the Republic. The people of Ecuador weren't quite satisfied with the Republic of Colombia and decided to part, drawing their own constitution once again. General Juan Jose Flores was placed in charge of political and military affairs and was noted as the founder of the Republic. Flores was preceded by General Garcia Moreno who governed through conservatism between 1860 and 1895. From 1895 to 1925 Ecuador was ruled by liberals, headed by Eloy Alfaro. Alfaro gave separation to the church and state, created schools and implemented several rights—such as freedom of speech. His administration was followed by Jose Maria Velasco Ibara, whose five presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and with his final presidency in 1972. The world wars created vast instability for the republic, and between 1960 and 1979 the country was subjected to a military government. In 1979 Ecuador returned to its democratic rule yet continued to suffer political and economic instability. At the end of the century Ecuador suffered and economic crisis causing it to change its currency to the dollar and reinvent its constitution once again. With the new constitution in place Quito Major Jamil Muhmad was named president, who later endorsed Gustavo Noboa to take his place. At the end of Noboas presidency Rafael Correa was elected president who served for three consecutive terms from 2007 to 2017 and who was later succeeded by the current president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno.
Free Speech
The issues concerning free speech in Ecuador have become controversial internationally since the election of then—President Rafael Correa in 2007. Correa not only challenged the democracy and the nations constitution but he also undermined international agreements protecting free speech.
The biggest obstacle that Ecuador's free speech has faced is the implementation of the 2013 Organic Communications Law (OCL). The law was passed in June 14, 2013 and it went in effect in 2014. The OCL seeks to provide the professionalism of journalism, as well as aims to defend citizen's rights enabling them to object to publications that they do not agree with that have been written or said to in turn receive a public reply (Valentin, K. Erriksson). According to Freedom House the law was meant to impose a range of vaguely word content restrictions, codifying "media lynching" through the text for the government's protection—defined as the repeated dissemination of information intended to harm a person's reputation or credibility (Freedom House). In addition, the OCL also prohibits "censorship," defined under the law, as the failure of private media outlets to cover issues that government considers to be of public interest (Human Rights Watch). The government posed the law to seem as a protection of the citizen's rights to information, yet the law has been criticized as an oppressor of free speech and as a governmental tool to control and dictate the information made available to the public.
The Ecuadorian people have faced many issues since the implementation of the OCL, including the censorship of their speech and violent responses by the government officials disrupting peaceful protests. On Sept. 17, 2014, up to 20,000 Ecuadorians took to the streets to manifest a protest over issues concerning labor legislation, increases in transportation costs, access to public university education as well as other proposed policies (Human Rights Watch). The peaceful protestors were confronted by government officials and many were brutally beaten for speaking freely on the issues they found concerning. Many of the protestors were arrested and convicted without due process (Human Rights Watch). Three days after the events took place, President Correa went on to congratulate the National Police for their actions during the demonstrations and accused demonstrators of attempting to overthrow the government. This is one of the many protest that have been carried out, all resulting in similar outcomes. This sparked criticism from the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights condemning Correa's free speech practices (Alpert, Megan). Correa sided with the public officials instead of protecting the rights of the citizens and condemning corruption.
Rafael Correa's main focus was to protect himself and uphold the honor of the government. Correa focused on the oppression of free speech while claiming to be its guardian (Index On Censorship). To uphold his claim on the protection of free speech Correa decided to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who took refuge in the country's embassy in London (Free Speech in Ecuador Has Limits). Correa's actions to grant asylum to Assange—a free speaker in world issues contradicted the actions that he imposed at home concerning the freedom of speech. Correa and Assange were widely criticized, both for evoking ideas that contradicted their beliefs. Assange was previously "principled and plucky champion of freedom of speech, but the moment Assange decided to seek shelter in Ecuador… he betrayed the principles he claimed to represent" (Fuentes, Fred). Correa took this opportunity to uphold his image as the protector of free speech, given that he did in fact provide asylum to a key figure in international politics. Fred Fuentes makes the argument in Ecuador: Correa pushes free speech, challenges 'media dictatorship' that "above freedom of information and speech, comes freedom to make as much money as possible, no matter what. That is why, just as the U.S. hates Assange for releasing information it wanted to keep secret, media corporations hate Ecuador for challenging their right to control information." This elicits the idea that with information comes power and that the freedom of speech infringes it.
Correa narrows the idea of free speech in order to protect his image and defend the government. The use of the internet as a platform has become a new way of expressing free speech and defying the nations laws. The internet has been used by individuals such as Gabriel Gonzales to criticize the government. Gabriel Gonzalez anonymously ran a humor website called the Crudo Ecuador that published photo montages and videos making fun of Correa (Alpert, Megan). Correa began to attack those who seek to criticize him, his main target being Gabriel Gonzales. The government's role has been focused on censoring those who attack and defame public officials. The government has also abused U.S. copyright law which whom they held international agreements with, all in efforts to try to have critical images and documents removed from the internet (World Report 2017). According to Reporters Without Borders, many Ecuadorians have seen content removed from their Facebook, YouTube or Twitter accounts that criticize or mock the government's actions. The actions taken by the government to remove content that defames them via the use of the internet has become a way of censoring individuals when they choose to speak about issues that they deem important. Rafael Correa focused on protecting his reputation and manage to turn the law to his advantage while at the same time infringing on the freedom of speech.
Today the idea of the internet as a way of seeking to deliver free speech is one that has overcame many of the constrictions of the OCL. The government tried to censor Ecuadorians from viewing content that constricted their honor and dulled their political power. The government was not only criticized by the media or those informed of their actions but by many external factors such as the idea of trying to exploit U.S. copyright and its international agreements to provide for their protection. The use of the internet makes it easier for individuals to share their beliefs and receive information that is not only important to the government but to their selves.
Free Press
The idea of free press has a significant role in providing information to the citizen that may be or not of utter importance. Ecuador's free press has been an influential aspect in its history. During Correa's presidency the idea of free press was suppressed, mostly due to the Organic Communications Law that infringed in every aspect that the media stands for.
Correa's administration sought to use the law to "oppose media corporations that, through their monopoly on information, have created 'media dictatorship' for their own economic and political interest. They attempted to break the 'media dictatorship' and democratize the right to information and ensure media corporations are not beyond the law (Fuentes, Fred). The government also claims that the idea of the OCL is to provide "everyone information of public interest received through media that is verified, balanced, contextualized and opportune," and that "the deliberate and repeated omission of subjects of public interest constitute an act of prior censorship" (Reporters Without Borders). The law in itself is a contradiction, a law that was formulated by the government to shift the power of the media to their hands. Since its implementation the government has attacked the press causing a "chilling effect," an idea that has condemned the press to seek self-censorship for fear of the penalties imposed by the law.
The rule of a democracy states that the importance of communication through the media resides in the power that it obtains by influencing people massively by orienting their perceptions that could in respect provide for upcoming general interest that fortify the exercise of their rights. The media is granted with the power to provide information that influences the ideas of the general public, it is up to the public to decipher that information as useful or not. President Correa believed that certain information provided by the media was subject to be censored if it was not deemed as important by the government or if was based on defamation. The first lawsuit that Correa filled in the case of defamation was that against opinion editor Emilio Palacio after he was expelled from asking questions that Correa considered inappropriate (Martens, Vivares, & McChesney p. 73). "Ecuador's highest court delivered a staggering, shameful blow to the country's democracy siding with the president's campaign to silence and bankrupt El Universo, Ecuador's largest newspaper" (Ecuador's Assault on Free Speech). The court upheld a $42 million libel judgment against Emilio Palacio as well as three other of the newspaper's directors in addition to a three-year prison sentence. The root of it developed when Correa claimed "aggravated defamation of a public official—after Palacio wrote a column accusing Correa of ordering the army to open fire on a hospital during a protest." Due to international criticism focused on the violation of free speech, Correa excused the newspaper from paying any damages in exchange for a public apology (Reporters Without Borders). This case was brought to light even before the OCL was enacted, condemning the media to self-censorship on defamation cases.
When the OCL was implemented in 2013 the SUPERCOM—a government firm provided to deal with any violations of the OCL. According to Freedom House the SUPERCOM became involved in a high-profile case in January 2014, after the independent daily El Universo published a cartoon in December satirizing the government's recent search of journalist and activists Fernando Villavicensio's home, prompting Correa to call the cartoonist, Xavier Bonilla an "ink assassin" in televised speech. The government fined the newspaper two percent of profits from its fourth quarter, which amounted to $90,000 due to the violation of Article 25 of the OCL, which prohibits media from taking a position on the guilt or innocence of people involved in lawsuits. Bonilla was ordered to issue a correction and he was later sanctioned and asked to apologize again in 2015 when he published a cartoon labeled as discriminatory (Alpert, Megan). Gradually, Correa turned the law to favor him and his political agenda.
Freedom of press is diminished when the government seeks to control the importance of publications. Once the government involves itself with the credibility of the press the purpose of freedom has been exhausted. Free press gives the opportunity for journalist to publish content that many not be appropriate, or pleasant to everyone but it may be important in determining decisions by the general audience on topics that are of interest. In June 2014 four newspapers La Hora, El Comercio, El Universo and Hoy were accused of not providing Correa's private visit to Chile enough coverage (Reporters Without Borders). According to Freedom House the coverage allegedly violated an article of the Communication Law that bans "prior censorship." The law states that the media cannot censor information that is of utter importance to the public; the importance criteria determined by the government. This provides a violation of the constitution, for it states that the government may not dictate to the press what they have to publish. The law once again is so broadly written that it contradicts itself in its own terms.
The election of Correa marked the beginning of a corrupt government that forced the citizens to believe and only exercise the ideas they found fit. In a democracy the role of the press is to provide information to the citizens so that they can make informed decisions based on their knowledge and expertise. The role of the press is also to provide coverage on governmental corruption that is infringing on the rights of the individuals. The Organic Communication Law provided for the control of the press by thee government, suppressing the information that the consumer received. Ecuadorians were deceived by the law due to the lack of knowledge acquired because of governmental filtering. The people of Ecuador were found clueless on important matters such as corruption, increase in crime and overall attack to free speech. Since the end of Correa's presidential terms, newly elected president Lenin Moreno has sought to overturn the many freedom violations that occurred under Correa. The task to overturn corruption and once again gain credibility from the Ecuadorian people will be marked to be a difficult one.
Critical Comparison
The United States was founded and established by the founders as a democracy that provides for basic liberties and human rights. The Bill of Rights is a document that was formulated to sustain the basic rights of the U.S. citizens. The First Amendment provides for the freedom of speech and freedom of press as well as others. The United States is seen worldwide as a free nation concerning freedom of speech and press. The legal system that provides for the protection of U.S. citizens and its constitutional rights is placed upon the checked judiciary branch; to avoid corruption.
Ecuador has posed the idea that any protest involving "broader public issues" are a violation to the government ideals because they automatically disturb the peace and incite lawless action. In the case of the protesters the lawless action only occurred when public officials decided to incite disturbance of the peace by beating demonstrators. If this were the case in the United States, the protesters would have the upper hand and the right to continue peacefully protesting, so far as their demonstration are of public concern and so far, as no lawless eminent action is incited. The U.S. Supreme Court case Snyder v. Phelps provides the idea that peaceful protest is protected under First Amendment to the Constitution to "ensure that public debate is not stifled." They go on to add the idea provided by precedent that "if there is a bedrock principle underlying the first amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because the society finds it offensive or disagreeable" (Texas v. Johnson). The government may not intrude in public debate only because they find offense in it, but it should embrace it and ensure that the rights of the individual are protected and not violated by its protectors.
Ecuador's free speech issues are focused on various parts of the spectrum. Many of the lawsuits and violations that have occurred since the election of Correa to president are concerned with cases of defamation. In the case of Emilio Palacio, Correa filled a lawsuit, claiming defamation of a public individual. If this case were tried in a U.S. court, it's likely that Palacio's case would be upheld in the precedent decided New York Times v. Sullivan. The Sullivan decision stated that the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment was the unconditional right to say what one pleases about public officials and that the constitution awards the citizen and the press, unconditional privilege to criticize official conduct despite the harm which may flow from excess and abuses as long as it does not violate the actual malice standard. With that, the court states in the decision that, the constitutional guarantees require, we think, a federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with actual malice—the knowledge that it was false or reckless disregard of weather it was false or not. The malice standard is not met in the case of Palacio; his sole purpose of publication was to inform the public of government actions. Determining the basis that the case falls under, his conviction will likely be overturn due to the reasoning of the actual malice standard from the Sullivan decision.
In comparing Ecuador with the United States in free speech and free press, the United States comes out victorious in providing protections that enhances the flow of these rights. Ecuador lacks the stability and balance that the United States has acquired through the years in determining the constitutional protections of the individual. For Ecuador to become a freer nation on free speech and free press matters it must begin by diminishing corruption in government and justice system. It is the hope that the individuals who hold these rights seek to protect them before others choose to diminish their importance.
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This essay was last updated April, 30 2018.


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