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"You know," Ralph says, "he looks exactly like Stanley. He looks exactly like my brother, only he's dark."
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Netanyahu On Obama, Clinton: "What The Hell Do They Want From Me?"
Thu, 05/28/2009 - 7:17pm
Last night, shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told journalists that the Obama administration "wants to see a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a confidante. Referring to Clinton's call for a settlement freeze, Netanyahu groused, "What the hell do they want from me?" according to his associate, who added, "I gathered that he heard some bad vibes in his meetings with [U.S.] congressional delegations this week."
In the 10 days since Netanyahu and President Barack Obama held a meeting at the White House, the Obama administration has made clear in public and private meetings with Israeli officials that it intends to hold a firm line on Obama's call to stop Israeli settlements. According to many observers in Washington and Israel, the Israeli prime minister, looking for loopholes and hidden agreements that have often existed in the past with Washington, has been flummoxed by an unusually united line that has come not just from Obama White House and the secretary of state, but also from pro-Israel congressmen and women who have come through Israel for meetings with him over Memorial Day recess. To Netanyahu's dismay, Obama doesn't appear to have a hidden policy. It is what he said it was.
This is a sea change for Netanyahu," a former senior Clinton administration official who worked on Middle East issues said. The official said that the basis of the Obama White House's resolve is the conviction that it is in the United States' as well as Israel's interest to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "We have significant, existential threats that Israel faces from Iran and that the U.S. faces from this region. It is in our mutual interest to end this conflict, and to begin to build new regional alliances."
Netanyahu needed to engage Obama directly, the former official said. "Now that he has done so, and also sent a team of advisors to meet [special envoy to the Middle East George] Mitchell, he has very clearly received a message: 'I meant what I said on settlements. No natural growth. No elasticity. There will be a clear settlement freeze.'" (Netanyahu sent a team of advisors including minister for intelligence Dan Meridor for meetings with Mitchell in London Monday.) LinkHere
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Costs of dismissed Palin ethics complaints pile up
Bobby Jindal Protested For Rejecting Stimulus Funds
Jindal supports moves to provide more flexibility for budget cutting. Jindal has suggested cuts to education and health care because of declining state revenues. Those areas are not protected in the state's constitution. LinkHere
Relies, if you don't kick the bums out of Rome, I will not own you anymore!!!!!!!!
Take A 10-Day Cruise With Karl Rove, John Bolton: $14,000 Per Couple
Republicans are said to be experiencing their winter of discontent, aimlessly adrift and trying to get their bearings after a couple of tough campaign cycles. So why not join like-minded folks and be literally adrift, on a luxury cruise ship meandering for 10 days in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic?
You'll be able to commiserate with and enjoy the grand company of luminaries from the conservative National Review -- Rich Lowry, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Lopez, Kate O'Beirne and others.
The luxurious Holland America Noordam sets out from Rome to Dubrovnik to the Greek Isles, then to Sicily and back to Rome. The 2009 Mediterranean Cruise has a "sunny itinerary" perfect to brighten an otherwise gloomy time, the magazine's ad says. There are "exclusive cocktail receptions and smokers (featuring H. Upmann cigars), scintillating seminars and intimate dining with guest speakers." LinkHere
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,331,578"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,302
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Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos 'Show Rape'
By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent and Paul Cruickshank
At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. LinkHere
Worse Than This
Ret. Gen. Antonio Taguba confirms unreleased photos show U.S. personnel engaging in rape and sexual torture in several Iraqi prisons
Seymour Hersh, Right Again
"Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? ... They are in total terror it's goingto come out."
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Secret cables may show doctors monitored CIA torture
Flashback: Torture photos depict 'rape and murder,' Sen. Graham said in 2004
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Unreleased photographs of alleged abuse by U.S. military personnel of prisoners at Iraqi prisons – which President Obama refused to release earlier this month – include images of rape and sexual abuse, according to a new report.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who in 2004 investigated and wrote a report on allegations of detainee abuse in U.S. prisons in Iraq, has confirmed the existence of graphic photographs depicting the following:
–An American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner.
–A male translator apparently raping a male detainee.
–A female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.
Other photographs depict sexual assaults on prisoners with a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube, according to the Telegraph story. LinkHere
Update:: Pentagon denies pics in question depict rapes
On Thursday afternoon a Pentagon spokesman denied that the pictures "whose release U.S. President Barack Obama wants to block, include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse," Reuters reports.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Daily Telegraph newspaper had shown "an inability to get the facts right".
"That news organization has completely mischaracterized the images," Whitman told reporters. "None of the photos in question depict the images that are described in that article."
Whitman said he did not know if the Telegraph had quoted Taguba accurately. But he said he was not aware that any such photographs had been uncovered as part of the investigation into Abu Ghraib or abuses at other prisons. LinkHere
Thing is it is hard to deny pictures of same, floating around the net.
Ask Secretary Clinton Why the US Continues to Deliver Arms to Israel Despite strong evidence of the misuse of U.S. weapons against civilians in Gaza, Amnesty International recently revealed that the United States sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel. The Wehr Elbe, a ship controlled by the U.S. Military Sealift Command, docked and unloaded several thousand tons of arms on March 22 at the Israeli port of Ashdod. Ask State Department officials why the United States would deliver these arms to Israel.
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Arsene Lupin story (tear out). (ca. 1932)
Barrymore performance reviews transcribed from newspapers. (no date)
Billboard (The) magazine. (1935 Dec 14)
Boomerang Bill exhibitor press book. (ca. 1922)
Captains Courageous campaign book. (no date)
Christmas Carol (A) - 33 rpm album. (no date)
Cigarette Cards with images of Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore. (ca. 1930s)
Clippings about Diana Barrymore. (no date)
Clippings about Dolores Costello. (ca. 1920s)
Clippings about Ethel Barrymore. (ca. 1940s-1950s)
Clippings about John Barrymore. (ca. 1920s-1940s)
Clippings about Lionel Barrymore. (ca. 1920s-1930s)
Clippings featuring Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore.. (no dates)
Clippings featuring Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore.. (ca. 1930s)
Don Juan souvenir programs (2 items). (ca. 1926)
Duel in the Sun pressbook. (no date)
Enemies of Women program. (ca. 1923)
Filmographies and play lists related to the careers of Ethel, John, and Lionel Barrymore. (no date)
From The Bad Man campaign book. (no date)
House of Barrymore by Margot Peters (The) - book. (c. 1990)
John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore obituaries. (1942 May)
John Barrymore magazine cover tearouts. (ca. 1925)
John Barrymore obituary photostat copies (rolled).
John Barrymore photographs (rolled). (no date)
John Drew in Richard Carvel souvenir program. (c. 1900)
Liberace postcard ephemera. (1963 and no date)
Lionel Barrymore stills. (1942, 1946)
Man I Killed press books. (no date)
Photograph Binder 2 (1 of 2) (49 items). (ca. 1920s - 1940s)
Photograph Binder 4 (34 items). (1930s-1940s)
Photoplay Studies publication about Captains Courageous. (1937 Apr)
Sit by the Fire, Pantaloon playbill. (1906 Jan)
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In Stock. Chop-Monster is a sequential jazz improvisation method by acclaimed jazz pianist and educator Shelly Berg that utilizes a "call-and-response" approach: students listen to a jazz idea, imitate it until it is internalized, and then "try it on their own." In Chop-Monster 1, students will hear and improvise to the Ima7, iimi7, and V7 chords in the key of B-flat, plus a basic blues progression. In Chop-Monster 2 students will hear and improvise to the ii-V-I progression in three keys (concert B-flat, E-flat, F).
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The government-appointed panel looking into Walmart's lobbying with American lawmakers for its entry into the Indian market is likely to meet tomorrow and deliberate on information provided by the retail giant.
The one-man committee, headed by former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Mukul Mudgal, during its meeting last month had sought fresh details from Walmart.
Sources said the probe panel is expected to meet on May 6 to discuss various information provided by the retailer. This would be the fifth meeting of the committee since its set up in January.
After the last meeting on April 10, Mudgal had said that he has sought more information from Walmart. The previous meeting was attended by Walmart representatives and senior officials from the Corporate Affairs Ministry and the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, among others.
The tenure of the panel, which was expected to submit its report by April 30, has been extended.
In response to a query on when the panel is expected to complete its probe, Mudgal had said, "It would depend on the replies given by Walmart and if at all a little extension is sought, it won't go beyond June".
Following reports about Walmart's lobbying among the US lawmakers since 2008 for facilitating its entry into the Indian market, the government in December 2012 had assured Parliament to get the matter probed by a retired judge.
The committee is looking into "whether Walmart undertook any activities in India in contravention of any Indian law", and any other matter relevant to this issue.
As per Congressional records of lobbying disclosure reports, the company spent a total amount of USD 6.13 million (about Rs 33 crore) on lobbying for various issues, including on "discussions related to FDI in India", during entire 2012.
Amid intense political pressure, the government had set up the panel to look into the issue.
The Corporate Affairs Ministry is providing administrative support to the committee, which has already discussed responses received from the public on the matter.
Separately, the regulatory agencies here are also probing allegations of bribery against Walmart in India.


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Now, you know I love eyeliners, and I love Urban Decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencils – so this vault – first launched in the US and now in the UK as of TODAY at Debenhams – is just magnifico! (is that a word?!)
The box (its not really a vault) contains 40 colours and would cost £560 if each pencil was purchased separately. It is on sale for £240 (cough).
Do I want this? YES
Would I buy it? NO. Because I already have most of the UD shades, and also, collecting pencils and spending £240 when it's tallied up is one thing, but in one go? I just canne do it.
But that's just me – will you be splashing out on this amazing looking eyeliner vault?


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Gatherings of the ancient Athenian citizen assembly began with the sacrifice of a pig and the sprinkling of blood to consecrate a sacred space. When a Roman emperor wanted to discover the future, he sacrificed an animal and dispatched a specialist to read the entrails. It's been a long time since sacrifice was so intimately connected to political life, and, as I argued in Defending Constantine, we have Constantine to thank for that.
A number of recent writers, however, have raised uncomfortable questions about whether we have come so far from the classical world as we believe. In Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion (Blackwell, 2010), Ivan Strenski "interrogates" our understanding of both religion and politics to show how intertwined they continue to be. Strenski wants to know why the nation-state, "an otherwise worldly institution, defined by its monopolization of the use of force . . . , assume[s] a religious character? Why does it become, for example, the focus of absolute obedience, for which individual citizens not only do sacrifice their lives, but also feel that they are obliged so to do?"
His answer, after a summary of the history of contests between Pope and Emperor in the medieval West, is that the modern nation-state is a "transformed Church" (the phrase comes from Louis Dumont).
One of the most powerful statements of this theme comes from Paul W. Kahn's Putting Liberalism in Its Place. Kahn, who teaches law at Yale, argues that liberalism does not have the intellectual tools to understand itself. What gets ignored, he argues, is the political significance of love and especially of love expressed in sacrifice.
Kahn's title might be misconstrued. He does not use "liberalism" in the sense that the word is used on talk radio, as the opposite of "conservatism." Rather, Kahn has in mind the political order that characterizes today's Western nation-states, and within which both conservatives and liberals operate.
Liberal theory assumes that the individual is the elementary unit of analysis and political discourse, and makes a sharp distinction between the public realm, which is the sphere of reasoned discourse, and the private realm, the sphere of irrational, ungrounded loves and loyalties. Because of these precommitments, liberal theorists miss fundamental realities of political life.
Liberalism cannot, for instance, make any sense of the family. According to liberal theory, the family is confined to the private sphere, but families have public dimensions and aspirations (most obvious in dynasties like the Kennedys and Bushes). Parents teach their children to become good citizens; historically, women have contributed to war efforts by bearing sons. Politicians appear in public surrounded by beaming wife and perfect kids. Families just won't stay put in a private confine.
Nor can liberalism make sense of children. Children are not self-standing individuals, but enter the world already embedded in a social setting and a polity. Since we were all children, it's difficult to find a single instance of a liberal "individual."
In theory, liberalism consigns "love" to the private sphere too, but Kahn argues that love is actually a foundational dimension of political life. Political rhetoric is full of the rhetoric of love. Patriotism is a form of love. Out of love comes sacrifice, which Kahn views as a primordial political reality, even in our "rational" modern politics. The liberal state claims to be an ultimate value and hence makes ultimate demands on its citizens. At any time, the liberal can call on its citizens to sacrifice themselves for the sake of maintaining the way of life of the particular nation-state. It can call on citizens to kill and be killed.
For Kahn, political sacrifice is one of the central innovations of modern polities. He writes, "The modern nation-state has shown itself to be an extremely effective instrument of sacrifice. It has been able to mobilize its population to make sacrifices in order to sustain the states own historical existence." More sharply, "The immense capacity of the nation-state to sacrifice its citizens in war was the great political discovery of the nineteenth century. That discovery begins with Napoleon's armies inheriting the popular enthusiasm of the Revolution; it was further revealed in the American Civil War, when democratic armies based on mass conscription confront each other for the first time."In modern states, citizenship is defined as "a willingness to respond to the demand for sacrifice for the continued existence of the state." This might involve sacrifice of being killed, or the sacrifice of certain private interests for the sake of the common good, the survival of the liberal state ("ask not what your country. . .").
Theoretically, there is no limit to what the state might demand. Modern states assume the "autonomy of the political," an autonomy that cannot be rightly checked by any other power. Modern states have assumed the mantle of "sovereignty" that once belonged to God. Like God in traditional theology, they claim power over life and death, and few are willing to talk back. Liberal states are not totalitarian; but they make total demands.
Kahn's analysis of the sacrificial basis of modern politics is especially challenging for Christians, since what is lost in modern sacrificial politics is the original form of political sacrifice in Western history, the sacrifice of martyrdom. Originally, martyrdom was a break on state power.
The early Christian martyrs unmasked the pretensions of the Roman empire by showing that "the state and its claim to power [was] nothing at all. In the end, sacrifice is always stronger than murder. The martyr wields a power to defeat his murderer, which cannot be answered on the field of battle." Kahn finds a secular form of martyrdom today in "the politics of human rights or the nonviolent resistance of the civil rights movement."
But that is not the dominant thread of modern martyrdom: "The domain of sacrifice shifted [in modern politics] from that of religious resistance to the state to that of political patriotism. Modern stories of sacrifice are less likely to be of religious resistance to the state than of individuals whose faith in the 'truth' of the state – the popular sovereign – fuels an ultimate resistance against those who make 'false' claims to represent the people. For Americans, Lincoln becomes the great image of the martyr – a politicized Christ. Martin Luther King, Jr., too is celebrated not for his adherence to a religious claim to truth in resistance to the state, but as a sacrificial patriot in the Lincolnesque tradition."
Kahn pushes further to point out the 20th century was not, as often believed, a secular age, but "was marked by the magnitude of its faith, and even by the extreme character of the sacrificial demand made by political communities of ultimate belief. Western nation-states became grand institutional structures for the sacrifice of their citizens to the idea of the necessity of the state's continued existence. Only under such an idea can we begin to make sense of the millions sacrificed on the battlefields of Europe, let alone the extension of the battlefield to the entire territory of the state. The modern state coopts the act of sacrifice to its own ultimate end, which is only the continued existence of the popular sovereign."
Christians in the modern age have often ridden the wave of sacrificial politics, and American Christians have shown as little resistance as any. Christians are among the most patriotic Americans. So seamless is our union of American ideals with Christianity that it is difficult for us to consider even the possibility that our nation is a sacrificial system competing with God and the church for our loyalty.
It is virtually unthinkable that God might call us to the sacrifice of martyrdom in opposition to America rather than to sacrifice in defense of America. No wonder activist Christians are so readily folded back into the system. Until we get sacrifice straight, until there are actual martyrs, witnesses whose witness costs something, our resistance to statism will remain anemic.


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Top Stitched Wedding Booklet
Custom wedding projects are a specialty for our studio. When a marriage has multiple events and large amounts of information - a booklet structure just makes sense. We worked with stationery designer Kavita Ahuja on this letterpress printed booklet for her brothers wedding. (Also, her and her fiancee also have a very cool website selling boutique handmade perfumes called
The booklet is a french folded structure with a cover that wraps the spine to hide the raw page edges. The french folding allows a nice letterpress impression on each page while hiding any show through of impression on the interior since the backs are hidden. Everything is printed on Pearl White Crane Lettra 80lbT with navy and gold ink. The binding edge is stitched from the top with a navy thread. The booklet fits into an existing A7 square flap envelope. Note on that the envelope can print both the face and the flap by opening them before printing.


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While looking for a house back in July, MonsterMaritime's Dan Twohig spotted something strange on Microsoft's Virtual Earth website. As Twohig was perusing through images of the Trident Submarine Base in Bangor, Washington, he found a clear image of an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine with its propeller exposed. That may not sound like much, but images of submarine propellers are classified information and usually hidden when submarines are dry docked.
Twohig, who is a ferry deck officer, said that he would have expected the US Navy to have better control over classified information being exposed to everyone on the Internet.
I guess the Navy did not count on Microsoft's Live Search Maps allowing the world access to the satellite images from orbiting cameras. As far as I know, images of this type should be classified. Instead, this information is available to anyone with an internet connection. I would think that Commanding Officers of military installations would have some person on their staff who takes a look at what is out there and makes recommendations on how to better provide security.
For whatever reason, the image is still available on Virtual Earth today—some two months after Twohig first posted about the exposed submarine. While I have no idea what the side effects of displaying an image of a classified submarine propeller are, I suppose this falls into the general category of "cool." If nothing else, it will make for some great water cooler talk.
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clothing[AS. clath, cloth]
Wearing apparel; used both functionally and decoratively. From the medical standpoint, clothes conserve heat or protect the body (e.g., gloves, sunhelmets, and shoes). Air spaces in a fabric and its texture, rather than the material alone, conserve heat. In matted woolen fabrics, the air spaces are destroyed and insulation is lost. Wool and silk absorb more moisture than other fabrics, but silk loses it more readily. Cotton and linen come next, but linen loses moisture more quickly than cotton. Knitted fabrics absorb and dry more readily than woven fabrics of the same material. The temperature inside an individual's hat may vary from 13° to 20°F (7° to 11°C) warmer than the outside temperature.
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Garments designed with special features, such as Velcro closures, to enable persons with disabilities to dress themselves without assistance.See: clo; hypothermia
artificial covering for protection or decoration or as a livery.
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includes rugs for cattle and horses and for Sharlea sheep in sheds. For dogs there is a great variety of decorative clothing limited only by the imagination of the owner. Pleasure horses are also likely to have a wardrobe of rugs including a lightweight cooling-off rug and a waterproof mackintosh, a hood to cover the head and neck, a cap to cover the head only, hoof boots of various sorts, protective leg bandages, a tail sock and eye goggles.
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Underground Railroad
Between 1840 and 1860, before the American Civil War, enslaved Africans followed the North Star on the Underground Railroad to find freedom in Canada. It was not an actual railroad but a secret network of routes and safe houses that helped people escape slavery and reach free states or Canada. Sometimes there were guides available to help people find their way to the next stop along the way. Travelling on the Underground Railroad was dangerous and required luck as much as a guide.
The "railroad" actually began operating in the 1780s, but became known as the Underground Railroad in the 1830s. The organization used railroad terms as code words. Those who helped people move from place to place were known as "conductors" and the fleeing refugees were called "passengers" or "cargo." Safe places to stop to rest were called "stations." Conductors were also abolitionists—people who wanted slavery abolished. They were Blacks and Whites, men and women. Many of them were Quakers or Methodists.
Places had code names to help keep the routes secret. Detroit, from which most left the United States, was known as "Midnight." The Detroit River was called "Jordan," a biblical reference to the river that led to the promised land. The end of the journey also had a code name, such as "Dawn." People could communicate without being specific: "Take the railroad from Midnight to Dawn." The refugees arrived all across Canada, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, but most came to what is now southwestern Ontario, to places such as Windsor, Fort Erie, Chatham and Owen Sound.
The Underground Railroad has been the subject of a certain amount of myth-making. Because of the secrecy required for its success, there hasn't been much documentation to describe its role in our history. It is impossible to know for certain how many slaves found freedom by way of the railroad, but it may have been as many as 30 000. The railroad's traffic reached its peak between 1840 and 1860, especially after the US passed its Fugitive Slave Act in 1850. The new law allowed slave hunters to pursue and capture enslaved persons in places where they would legally be free. It resulted in several attempts to kidnap escapees in Canada and return them to former owners in the Southern States.
Some of the conductors and others associated with the railroad became famous for their efforts; Harriet Tubman, Mary Ann Shadd and Josiah Henson are but a few.
The Historica Minute Underground Railroad presents a dramatization of the type of imaginative methods that may have been used to move people from place to place. Apply what you understand about the operation of the Underground Railroad as you view the vignette.
Tracks to Freedom
Travel down the interactive Tracks to Freedom website to learn about the people and events associated with the legendary Underground Railroad. Also, check out the Can you escape feature. From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.
On the Road North
A Virtual Museum multimedia exhibit that examines the history of the Underground Railroad.
Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!
Read excerpts from this book at Google.com.
Harriet Tubman
Watch a video about the role of Harriet Tubman and others in the Underground Railroad. From YouTube.
Ripley, Ohio's Role in the Underground Railroad
Listen to a feature story about the hazards faced by travelers bound for Canada along the Underground Railroad. From the website for National Public Radio in the US.
The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!
A synopsis of a richly illustrated book that illuminates the "clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and conductors" that formed the lengendary Underground Railroad. From Dundurn Press.
Quilts as Code
Listen to an interview with Dr. Raymond Dobard about the use of coded messages in quilts that pointed to safe houses along the Underground Railroad. From the website for National Public Radio in the US.
The National Park Service's Innovative Approach to the Underground Railroad
An article about plans to broaden the concept of the "Underground Railroad" to include all means and attempts to escape enslavement in the US. From the History News Network website.
Bringing life to the 'Niagara Nine'
An article about a Canadian filmmaker's plan to tell the story of African Americans abandoning a life of freedom in Canada to fight in the US Civil War. From the History News Network website in the US.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
An article about Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July address about abolition of enslavement. Includes a reference to enslaved Africans fleeing to Canada. From Time magazine.
I've Got A Home In Glory Land
An interactive website for I've Got A Home In Glory Land, a book that chronicles Thornton and Lucie Blackburn's harrowing escape from enslavement in the US, landmark legal triumphs in Canada, and their successful business ventures in the Town of York (Toronto).
Walter Rolling
A virtual exhibit featuring the life and career of local teacher Walter Rolling. Also chronicles the Rolling family's journey from the US to King Township. From the website for the King Township Public Library.
Underground Railroad
Click on "Read this Book" and scroll down to page 15 for an overview of the origins, history, and geography of the Underground Railroad in the US. Also, scroll down to page 135 for an overview of Taking The Train to Freedom, a history of the Underground Railroad. Produced by the National Park Service in the US. From Google Books.
Griffin House
About Griffin House, a historic dwelling that stands as a testament to the bravery and determination of black men and women who journeyed to freedom in Southern Ontario via the Underground Railroad. A City of Hamilton website.
Griffin House: A National Historic Site
Information page about the Griffin House in Ancaster, Ontario, a farming property that was home to many generations of Canadian Black families. From the Ancaster Township Historical Society.
From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
An interesting online information source about Abraham and Mary Ann Shadd's involvement in abolitionist activities and the Underground Railroad. See Page 62. From Google Books.
Our Stories - Remembering Niagara's Proud Black History
An extensive online exhibit featuring photographs, documents, and audio clips of pioneers' reminiscences about the history of the Black community in the Niagara region. From the Norval Johnson Heritage Centre and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
North to freedom
Daniel Hill discusses the Underground Railway in this 1979 CBC Radio clip.
Harriet Tubman
An illustrated account of Harriet Tubman's heroic leadership in the Underground Railway movement. From the Women in History website.
Freedom Park
Information page about Fort Erie's Freedom Park, a site along the Niagara River that is regarded as a major terminus of slave crossing into Canada as part of the Underground Railroad. From the website for the Town of Fort Erie.
Bell pealed freedom for slaves
A news story about a display of a replica of the Buxton bell at the Ontario Legislature (Toronto) in honour of Black History Month and in memory of the Underground Railroad and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. From thestar.com.
We Are Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History
Scroll down to page 41 to read "The Lord seemed to say 'Go': Women and the Underground Railroad Movement" by Adrienne Shadd. From the Our Roots website.
Black History Month begins
A 1999 CBC News story about plans to restore the African Methodist Episcopal Nazery Church in Amherstburg, Ontario. The 150-year-old church was a terminal in the Underground Railroad.
Lighting Freedom's Road
This website describes how African Americans escaped enslavement in the US by travelling to Montréal via the Champlain Line of the legendary Underground Railroad. Check out the rest of this site for more information and features. From the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association.
Underground Railroad
A brief article about the Underground Railroad and the people who helped formerly enslaved fugitives escape to Canada. From The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Up From Slavery
Author Bryan Walls provides a vivid account of his ancestors' harrowing escape from enslavement along the Underground Railroad. A University of Toronto website.
Deborah Brown Narrative
This narrative from Deborah Brown describes her perilous escape from enslavement through the Underground Railroad to Canada. From Parks Canada.
Owen Sound
A heritage tour of the most northerly terminus of the Underground Railroad at Sydenham (now Owen Sound) in Ontario. Also features the "Follow the Drinking Gourd" song. From the website for the City of Owen Sound.
About Oakville's historic connection to the Underground Railroad. From the Oakville Heritage Trails website.
Canada, the Promised Land
A great image collection featuring people and places associated with the Underground Railroad. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the US.


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Nike founder Phil Knight spoke about the $227 million Matthew Knight Arena, the UO basketball facility named for his son, before the inaugural game there in January 2011.
(The Oregonian / 2011)
Knight was one of nearly 50 people recommended by UO President Michael Gottfredson for the 11- to 15-member board.
Knight's assistant, Lisa McKillips, says in a letter dated Aug. 9 that the Nike chairman was honored to be included but would like to have his name withdrawn from consideration.
"He will continue to support the university in a variety of other ways, and looks forward to working with the governor, the new board, and the university community," McKillips wrote.
Two other prominent officials also withdrew their names: David Frohnmayer, a former attorney general and UO president, and Ann Aiken, a federal district judge based in Eugene. Frohnmeyer said he did not wish to be considered, and Aiken said judicial ethics rules prohibited her from accepting a government appointment.
Kitzhaber's office released the letters Friday in response to a request by The Associated Press.
Knight has given millions to the university's athletic and academic programs, and his cash has been instrumental in powering Oregon football to national prominence.
State lawmakers voted this year to give UO, along with Portland State University and Oregon State University, more independence from the State Board of Higher Education.
The independent boards will have authority to hire and fire presidents, set tuition and fees and oversee the university's operations. The universities will continue to coordinate their legislative lobbying efforts and budget requests, and they're still working out how to share centralized services like accounting and payroll.
Kitzhaber spokesman Tim Raphael said the governor's office would announce his selections for all three university boards on Monday. They're subject to Senate confirmation next month.
-- The Associated Press


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
Yesterday's bombing of a Syrian government intelligence compound in Damascus, the largest terrorist attack since the uprising began, has the United Nations, the US, and other backers of the opposition worried that the formerly peaceful protest movement is transforming into an armed insurgency that evokes comparisons to Iraq.
No group has claimed responsibility for the two bombings, which killed 55 people and wounded almost 400, according to The New York Times. The Syrian government blamed terrorists, as it has in most past bombings, while the opposition accused the regime of setting up the bombing to frame it, as it too has done in the past. But as the Monitor and other outlets have reported, there is growing evidence that jihadist groups have infiltrated the country and joined the fight against President Bashar al-Assad and his regime.
The New York Times reports that Syrian members of the opposition have noticed a rise in murmurings about jihad and the number of non-Syrians on the battlefield. Analysts have been tracking the uptick in discussion on jihadi websites about going to fight in Syria, and Iraqi officials say that jihadis in their country have been moving west, toward Syria.
The progression of the uprising is drawing comparisons to the earliest phases of insurgency in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and northern Mali – "where a radicalized domestic core of fighters, eventually supplemented by foreigners and veterans of other jihadi conflicts, gradually swelled into a dangerous, anarchic insurgency" – the Times reports
The UN Security Council condemned yesterday's attacks "in the strongest terms" and "reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security, and that any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation," according to Reuters. The reference to motivation is possibly a warning to the opposition that it will be considered responsible for any violence it perpetrates, even if it is first provoked by the regime.
Bloomberg reports that events like yesterday's bombing pose a challenge to US support for the opposition.
The Syrian opposition has begun adopting the tactics of an armed insurgency such as suicide bombings, which can't be condoned, said two United Nations diplomats. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to comment. That shift is making it harder for the US and its allies to keep the blame focused on the Assad regime for the violence, which persists despite a UN cease-fire agreed to by both sides in the conflict.
"America is not going to want to have its fingerprints on car bombs in Damascus," said Joshua Landis, director of the Middle East program at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. "America is very careful about this because they don't want to end up supporting terrorism, but that's where we are headed. Insurgencies carry out terrorist acts. You can call it something different, but ultimately you're blowing things up and trying to kill as many soldiers as you can."
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said yesterday that the US still ultimately pins the blame on the Assad regime because by not abiding by the cease-fire, and by turning to violence initially, it pushed the opposition in that direction.
"The degree to which that chaos, that they are leading, also leads to other kinds of chaos, we still put responsibility firmly at their feet," she said of the regime, according to Bloomberg. "These kinds of tactics are not in keeping with what we've seen from the legitimate opposition," she said of the bombings.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said yesterday that the Pentagon knows there are "extremist elements trying to make inroads in Syria," but that they are "distinct from the opposition."
But US officials are also arguing against the opposition's use of violence because it "erodes the opposition's moral advantage," increases the likelihood of sectarian fighting, and undermines efforts at brokering a diplomatic solution, according to Bloomberg.
The New York Times reports that a recent report from the International Crisis Group backs the US line on where the blame lies:
"The fact is that the regime's behavior has fueled extremists on both sides and, by allowing the country's slide into chaos, provided them space to move in and operate,'' the report said. "The fighting came at a huge cost to civilians and, in its aftermath, security forces engaged in widespread abuse, further radicalizing large swaths of society.''
Bill Roggio, an analyst on terror and military issues and the managing editor of the Long War Journal blog, told CNN that the attacks were likely carried out by an al Qaeda-linked group called Jabhat al-Nusra, which emerged only recently and has claimed responsibility for some of the past bombings. Jeffrey White, a defense fellow and analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that yesterday's attacks bore a resemblance to the attacks carried out by Al Qaeda elements in Iraq.
Rather, they feel al-Assad's regime is using "jihadists and al Qaeda types" that it was tied to during the Iraq war. There are people in the Syrian opposition, [Mr. White] said, who call the Al Nusrah Front a Syrian government organization.
"The opposition guys are saying the regime still controls them. When they want them to do something, they order them up," White said.
Noting that the attack "is not typical of Free Syrian Army-type actions such as ambushes, bombings of regime vehicles, targeted killings, and attacks on checkpoints," White said there is no way to know definitively who is responsible. But he said he doubts the government is behind attacking "pillars of the regime."
CNN reports that members of the opposition have accused the regime of working with al-Nusra and other jihadist groups, but the Monitor notes that the government and jihadist groups are "unlikely bedfellows" because of the secular nature of the Syrian regime and its Alawite faith, considered apostate by many jihadis.


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Lancaster County
Date: April 14, 2014
For more information contact
Dave J. Shively
(402) 441-7311
Election Commissioner Announces
Voter Registration Sites
LINCOLN -- The Lancaster County Election Commissioner will conduct voter registration at several sites from April 15th to April 19th. Any Nebraska resident who will be 18 on or before November 4, 2014, has moved, changed his or her name, or would like to change their political party affiliation, may register to vote at the following times and locations:
April 15th -- 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Williams Branch Public Library
5000 Mike Scholl Street
April 17th - 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Bethany Branch Public Library
1810 North Cotner
April 19th - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (noon)
Anderson Branch Public Library
3635 Touzalin Avenue
Individuals may also register to vote through the mail. Mail-in registration forms are available at most post offices, banks, and libraries. A voter registration form is also available on the Election Commissioner's web site which may be downloaded, printed and mailed to the Election Commissioner's office. The web site address is: lancaster.ne.gov/election. Mail-in voter registration applications must be post marked no later than Friday, April 25, 2014, in order to be effective for the May 13th Primary Election.
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Ida Margaret McRonald (nee Magness) was born on October 2, 1930 and died of leukemia in Verdugo Hills Hospital on May 26, 2013.
She was born in Crumlin, a small town in Wales. Her parents were Stephen Lester Magness and Ethel (Watkins) Magness. As a young child, Ida moved with her parents and two brothers (Andrew and Bill) to Deal, a popular holiday resort near Dover in Kent on the southeast coast of England.
When World War II broke out in September 1939, she went to live with her grandmother in Crumlin as an evacuee. At the end of the war, she returned to Deal, finished school, and at age 18 enrolled as a trainee Registered Nurse at Folkestone Hospital. Following graduation as an RN, she was employed at Reading Hospital from 1951 to 1954.
In 1953, she met her future husband, Angus McRonald, a physicist from Scotland working at the nearby Atomic Weapons Research Institute. Married in 1954, they sailed to Adelaide, Australia via the Suez Canal. Her family grew in Australia, with the births of her son and daughter. In 1962, the family moved to Sydney, Australia, where they lived in the beach town of Cronulla. In December 1954 they sailed back to Britain, where her husband was employed at the National Physical Laboratory. Ida worked as an RN in Adelaide, in Sydney, and in England during these years.
In August 1965, the family came to the La Canada area, where her husband worked at JPL until 2000. Ida worked in intensive care at Glendale Adventist Hospital from 1971 through 1974, became a Registered Nurse in California, and in 1974 was offered a post at Verdugo Hills Hospital in charge of the Sixth Floor (then Orthopedics and Pediatrics). She loved interacting with patients and their families and visitors, fellow nurses, doctors, hospital staff, and volunteers. In the seventies, VHH was one of the leading hospitals to introduce computer use, and Ida gave an invited paper on that subject at a conference at Oxford University in England. After retiring from VHH in 1990, she was the Public Representative on the VHH Bio Ethics Committee, until her death.
All who knew Ida noted her friendly disposition and her willingness to assist where she could. Always a loving wife and mother, she leaves her husband Angus of 58 years, a son Andrew in Portland, Oregon, and her daughter Carol in La Canada.
Ida was a happy, loving person who enjoyed music throughout her life, gardening, and dancing. Her one regret was that she did not have a strong singing voice in the Welsh tradition. She also loved to travel – enjoying cruises and many visits to relatives in England, Scotland, Wales, Australia and New Zealand, and to many European countries as well as places in the USA.
In recent years, she was active with the CalTech-JPL Retirees, going on many trips, and with the Pasadena Womens' Club.
Funeral services will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, at 1712 S. Glendale Avenue, Glendale, CA 91205 on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 9 AM.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Verdugo Hills Hospital at 1812 Verdugo Boulevard, Glendale, CA 91208, in memory of Ida McRonald, or to the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org.
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The US State Department may have covered up illegal and inappropriate behavior concerning sex and drugs, according to a report by CBS News citing a draft memo from the department's inspector general's office.
An internal memo obtained by John Miller of CBS News said there were eight examples where an investigation of misconduct was influenced, manipulated, or called off, the network reported on the "CBS This Morning" broadcast.
Misconduct cited in the memo, the network said, included allegations that a State Department security official engaged in sexual assaults on foreign nationals hired in Beirut, that members of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's security detail engaged prostitutes while on official trips abroad, and that an underground drug ring operated in near the US embassy in Baghdad and provided State Department contractors with drugs.
In its report, CBS quoted the State Department as saying it would "not comment about specific allegations of misconduct, internal investigations, or personnel matters. Not all allegations are substantiated." The statement continued: "It goes without saying that the Department does not condone interference with investigations by any of its employees."
The charges come as the department continues to be under fire from congressional Republicans concerning the drafting of talking points about a September 2012 attack on a US diplomatic post in Benhgazi, Libya, that claimed the life of four people, including the American ambassador. Critics believe the talking points, delivered on Sunday talk shows by UN Ambassador Susan Rice, were modified for political reasons.
The conservative website Human Events was quick to link the CBS report and the Benghazi controversy. "The spirit of Benghazi went far beyond the lies and obfuscations pumped out by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top people, according CBS News, which has 'uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks,' " the site said.
Mr. Miller, who previously was an assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, interviewed Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the State Department's inspector general's office. Ms. Fedenisn, who worked in the State Department for 26 years, said the IG uncovered various cases of wrong doing "some of which never became cases." She added, "we were very upset. We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed and how high up it went was very disturbing."
In one case CBS cited, State Department investigators from the Diplomatic Security Service were told to stop investigating the behavior of a US ambassador who was suspected of meeting with prostitutes in a public park. Fedenisn said it was likely that hostile intelligence services were aware of such alleged activities and that they presented "a serious risk to the United States government." The ambassador was summoned to Washington but was allowed to return to his post.
CBS said that two hours after contacting the State Department about Fedenisn's charges that "investigators from the State Department's Inspector General showed up at her door."
That triggered this response from Human Events. "The State Department might have been lax about investigating and exposing these nefarious activities, but it springs into action with the speed and ferocity of a panther when it's time to pounce on a whistleblower."
It is not clear how much political impact the CBS report will have. The story of the alleged State Department misdeeds will have to compete with wall-to-wall coverage of recently revealed government surveillance programs.
"Our current attention span makes it unlikely that the State Department's alleged misdeeds will be front page news, but the story certainly has plenty of rather attention-grabbing details," Slate observed. "Perhaps the most troubling part of the report isn't the alleged misconduct itself but the possibility of the subsequent attempts to keep it under wraps."


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Here's a simple DIY project from Kitesurfer that'll let you charge your devices without the distracting clutter of power strips and wall worts.
The mod uses a single cubby in an Ikea bookcase as a charging station. To keep a clean appearance, Kitesurfer shoved all the unsightly chargers and power strips behind a fake wall constructed from a remnant piece of white board.
To liven up the charging cubby, he gutted a digital picture frame and inserted it in the middle of this fake wall. The picture frame displays a battery charging icon, but wouldn't it be great if you could display photos from your phone or even the actual charging status of your device. Any other ideas to create a charging station that's functional and pleasing to the eye? [Kitesurfer via hackaday]


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Insure Your Love contest and Twitter party
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ask any Mom on the street why she does the things she does for her family, and the answer will likely be simple - love. Our love for family, and desire to show it, drives just about everything we do as Moms. Whether baking cupcakes until midnight the night before your child's classroom party, dressing up like a princess to host a tea party with your kids or working overtime to be able to afford a special family vacation - sometimes we're willing to do just about anything for love.
And with the holiday dedicated to love just around the corner, it might be time to look past heart-shaped chocolates and consider a different way of expressing your love...with the purchase of a life insurance policy.
You might be asking yourself what love and life insurance in common. More than you might realize! Simply put, life insurance is a product you purchase because you love someone and want to make sure they'll always be protected financially, even after you're gone.
As we know from the Valentine's Day celebrations taking place in classrooms and romantic restaurants everywhere, love and fun go hand-in-hand! To get Americans thinking about life insurance as an expression of enduring love, the nonprofit LIFE Foundation is sponsoring the Crazy4Love Photo Contest. From now until February 19, you'll be able to visit the popular microblogging website tumblr.com and share a photo that captures how you've expressed your love to someone dear to you. One Grand Prize winner will receive a $1,000 gift certificate toward a romantic getaway weekend. Go to www.insureyourlove.org to learn more about the contest and to enter.
Check out this video from a very special "spokesperson" who knows a thing or two about love.
Here's the info on the Twitter party:
LIFE Foundation /MomSelect Twitter Party
Date: Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Time: 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. EST
Location: #InsureYourLove
Host: @MomTalkRadio (Maria Bailey, Founder of MomSelect)
Join us to share crazy acts of love confessions, win fun Valentine-themed prizes, and learn about the peace of mind you gain when you buy life insurance and know that your loved ones will always be protected financially, even after you're gone.
Think you have the perfect story of how you've expressed your love recently? Don't keep it to yourself! From now until February 19, you'll be able to enter the Crazy4Love Photo Contest by sharing a photo that captures how you've expressed your love to someone dear to you. One Grand Prize winner will receive a $1,000 gift certificate toward a romantic getaway weekend. Go to www.insureyourlove.org to learn more about the contest and enter today!
Disclaimer: I was not compensated in any way for spreading the word about this contest and Twitter party, but by doing so I have been entered to win a $250 American Express gift card and a gift basket.


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Teen Scene
August 2018
Recent Releases
All That I Can Fix
Crystal Chan
Ronney, who wishes that his family -- suicidal dad, pill-popping mom, and super-smart little sister -- wasn't so infamous in their small Indiana town.
What happens:
he local eccentric releases exotic zoo animals into the town, further complicating Ronney's life and sparking raging debates about gun control and animal rights.
Why you might like it:
Honest, angry, and fiercely funny, Ronney is a character you won't soon forget.
Bruja Born
Zoraida Córdova
What it's about:
Beautiful Lula Mortiz is a healer from a long line of brujas, but after her boyfriend Maks is in a terrible accident, healing isn't enough, and Lulu's desperate magic disrupts the balance between life and death.
Series alert:
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Labyrinth Lost
(starring Lula's sister, Alex) will leave you longing for the next book in the Brooklyn Brujas series.
My Plain Jane
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
What it's about:
Teenage Charlotte Brontë is working on a novel about her dear friend Jane Eyre, but it's not quite the classic you'd expect: for one thing,
Jane can control ghosts.
About the authors:
After recounting the supernatural adventures of Lady Jane Grey in
My Lady Jane
, this trio of authors returns with a hilarious and feminist "deconstruction of a gothic novel" (
For fans of:
Mackenzi Lee's
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, editors
What it is:
a collection of reimagined myths from diverse Asian cultures.
Roshani Chokshi's tale of a lovelorn Filipino mountain spirit; Lori M. Lee's android version of a Hmong folktale; Alyssa Wong's bittersweet take on the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival; plus stories by Renée Ahdieh, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, and many more.
Who it's for:
anyone looking for an authentic, inventive, "own voices" take on Asian mythologies.
Wild Blue Wonder
Carlie Sorosiak
What it's about:
Quinn's memories of good times at her family's magical summer camp in Maine are poisoned after her best friend Dylan dies in a boating accident. Blaming herself, Quinn sinks into guilt and grief until a surprising romance helps her find a way forward.
Why you might like it:
Quinn's journey from heartbreak to healing -- told in then-and-now style alongside the unfolding mystery of Dylan's accident -- will keep you turning pages all the way through.
Life After High School
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Nick Burd
Dade, a high school grad who's stuck in a stifling Midwestern suburb. Weary of his bickering parents, pathetic job, and hook-ups with his closeted friend Pablo, Dade can't wait to get out.
What happens:
Mere months before his escape to college, Dade falls hard for handsome, enigmatic Alex Kincaid.
For fans of:
A.S. King's
Ask the Passengers
, Peter Cameron's
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
, and other novels with messy, true-to-life characters.
The Loose Ends List
Carrie Firestone
What happens:
Maddie's post-graduation plans take a sharp detour after her Gram announces that she has terminal cancer and is taking the whole family on a "death with dignity" cruise.
irreverent dialogue, international locales, and a memorably quirky cast of characters.
Why you might like it:
Hefty doses of humor and romance help to balance this thought-provoking look at life and loss.
That Thing We Call a Heart
Sheba Karim
What it's about:
It's the summer after senior year, and Shabnam is in love for the first time. She's dying to tell her outspoken best friend Farah, but first she'll need to repair the rift that's been growing between them since Farah starting wearing the hijab.
It is for you?
If you like Jenny Han's books and want further relatable, realistic stories about the complications of friendship and romance, be sure to pick up
That Thing We Call a Heart
Radio Silence
Alice Oseman
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Groom Slay: Don't Intimidate Witnesses
All too often excessiveness of force exhibited by police in New York City has been borne out in the minority community. This tragedy seems to be yet another in a long string of incidents in which Black men end up dead for an infraction that might only merit a ticket.
(Urban League chief asks for Justice Department intervention).
We are calling for the immediate intervention by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to investigate reports of witness intimidation and harassment surrounding the case of the recent police shooting death of 23-year-old Sean Bell, as friends and family laid him to rest in Jamaica, Queens.
Our hearts go out to family and friends of the victims of this unfortunate tragedy, and we have the sincerest hopes and wishes for the full recovery of those injured. We commend the leadership of the Reverend Al Sharpton in quickly rallying the community around the egregious nature of the incident and urging Mayor Michael Bloomberg to meet with Sean Bell's family and community leaders. The mayor did the right thing by doing so. However, we cannot condone the police's treatment of the victims' friends and family in their search for the elusive gun and fourth man in a tan jacket who allegedly fled the shooting scene.
According to The New York Times, police raided a Jamaica apartment complex in their quest to find the elusive fourth man with the alleged gun who prompted police to open fire on Bell's car, killing him and injuring two other men.
In the process, they arrested four people, three men and one woman, and brought them in for questioning. According to media reports, one of the men they brought in -- Erskine Williams Jr. -- is a friend of the victims and son of Bishop Erskine Williams, Sr., raising the specter of witness intimidation.
Also, in their search for evidence that could possibly vindicate the undercover cops who showered Bell's party with a hail of 50 bullets, they're neglecting their obligation to right the injustice possibly done to the victims.
All too often excessiveness of force exhibited by police in New York City has been borne out in the minority community. This tragedy seems to be yet another in a long string of incidents in which black men end up dead for an infraction that might only merit a ticket.
It seems like it's getting to a point where educating our children on how to survive their communications with the police will be commonplace because so many of our young men have ended up dead because of miscommunication with authorities.
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Questions and Answers on the new, reformed Common Fisheries Policy
The overall objective of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is to make fishing sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially. The new policy will bring fish stocks back to sustainable levels and will stop wasteful fishing practices. It will provide EU citizens with a stable, secure and healthy food supply for the long term; it seeks to bring new prosperity to the fishing sector, end dependence on subsidies and create new opportunities for jobs and growth in coastal areas. EU financial assistance through the proposed European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (IP/11/1495) will be available to support the sustainability objectives of the new policy.
Why is a new policy necessary?
Europe's fisheries policy is in urgent need of reform. Vessels are still catching more fish than can be safely reproduced. The fishing industry is facing an uncertain future.
Against this background, the European Commission proposed in 2011 an ambitious reform of the policy. This reform is about putting in place the conditions for a better future for fish and fisheries alike, as well as the marine environment that supports them. The reformed CFP will contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy and the policy will work towards robust economic performance of the industry, inclusive growth and enhanced cohesion in coastal regions.
Sustainability is at the heart of the CFP reform. Fishing sustainably means fishing at levels that do not endanger the reproduction of stocks and that provide high long-term yields. This requires managing the volume of fish taken out of the sea through fishing. Under the new CFP stocks must be exploited at sustainable levels, defined as the highest catch that can be safely taken year after year and which maintains the fish population size at maximum productivity. This level is known as the 'maximum sustainable yield' (MSY). This objective is set out in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas, and was confirmed at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development as a target the world should reach by 2015. The new CFP shall set the fishing levels at MSY levels by 2015 where possible, and at the latest by 2020 for all fish stocks.
Estimates1 show that if stocks are exploited in this way, stock sizes could increase by about 70%, with improved catch levels, incomes and wages for crews.
Fishing sustainably will also free the catching sector from depending on public support. It will make it easier to achieve stable prices under transparent conditions, bringing clear benefits for consumers.
What are the main elements of the new policy?
The multi-annual ecosystem-based management
To rebuild a vibrant fishing economy in Europe, the marine environment must be protected more effectively. EU fisheries will be managed by multi-annual plans and governed by the ecosystem approach and the precautionary approach to ensure that the impacts of fishing activities on the marine ecosystem are limited. This will safeguard resources and maximise long-term yields.
Multi-annual management plans will move from the current single-stock plans to fisheries-based plans – covering more fish stocks in fewer plans in support of reaching sustainability. Stocks will also be managed through fixing fishing opportunities by Council, and other conservation and technical measures which are part of the toolbox of instruments proposed.
Banning discards
Discarding, that is the practice of throwing unwanted fish overboard, is estimated at 23% of total catches (substantially more in some fisheries!). This unacceptable practice will be phased out with a precise timeline for implementation (progressively between 2015 and 2019) and in combination with some flanking measures. Fishermen will be obliged to land all the commercial species that they catch. Under-sized fish can generally not be sold for human consumption.
Member States have to make sure that their fishing vessels are equipped to ensure full documentation of all fishing and processing activities so as to monitor compliance with the obligation to land all catches.
This ban will lead to more reliable data on fish stocks, support better management and improve resource efficiency. It is also an incentive for fishermen to avoid unwanted catches by means of technical solutions such as more selective fishing gear.
Management of fishing fleet capacity
Member States will have to ensure that the fleet capacity (number and size of vessels) is in balance with the fishing opportunities. Where a Member State identifies overcapacity in a fleet segment, it will develop an action plan to reduce this overcapacity. If a Member State does not achieve the necessary reduction of the fleet capacity, funding under the European financial instrument may be suspended.
Support for small-scale fisheries
In the EU, the small-scale fleet accounts for 77% of the total EU fleet in vessel numbers, but on average its impact on the resources is less, with only 8% of the EU total in tonnage (vessel size) and 32% of EU engine power. Small-scale coastal fisheries often play an important role in the social fabric and the cultural identity of many of Europe's coastal regions. They therefore require specific support. The reformed CFP extends to 2022 the right for Member States to restrict fishing in a zone within 12 nautical miles of the coastline. The future financial instrument for fisheries will include measures beneficial to small-scale fisheries and will help local economies adapt to the changes.
Developing sustainable aquaculture
A better framework for aquaculture will increase production and supply of seafood in the EU, reduce dependence on imported fish and boost growth in coastal and rural areas. By 2014, Member States will draft national strategic plans to remove administrative barriers and uphold environmental, social and economic standards for the farmed-fish industry. A new Aquaculture Advisory Council will be established to give advice on industry-related issues. There is a clear EU dimension in aquaculture development: strategic choices made at national level can have a bearing on such development in neighbouring Member States.
Improving scientific knowledge
Reliable and up-to-date information about the state of marine resources is essential to support sound management decisions as well as effective implementation of the reformed CFP. The CFP establishes the basic rules and obligations for Member States in this area. Member states will be entrusted with collecting, maintaining and sharing data about fish stocks, fleets and the impact of fishing at sea-basin level. National research programmes will be established to coordinate this activity
Decentralised governance
The new CFP will bring decisions closer to the fishing grounds, and it will clarify roles and obligations of each actor. It will end micro-management from Brussels so that EU legislators will only define the general framework, the basic principles and standards, the overall targets, the performance indicators and the timeframes. Member States will then develop recommendations on the actual implementing measures, and will cooperate at regional level. When all Member States concerned agree, these recommendations can be transposed into rules applicable to all fishermen concerned.
New market policy - empowerment of the sector and better informed consumers
The new market policy aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU industry, improve the transparency of the markets, and ensure a level playing field for all products marketed in the Union.
The existing intervention regime will be modernized and simplified: producer organisations will be allowed to buy up fisheries products when prices fall under a certain level, and store the products for placing them on the market at a later stage. This system will foster market stability.
Producer organisations will also play a greater role in collective management, monitoring and control. New marketing standards on labelling, quality and traceability will give consumers clearer information and help them support sustainable fisheries. Certain labelling information will be compulsory, other claims may be supplied on a voluntary basis.
Taking international responsibility
Many of the world's fish stocks are reported as being either fully exploited or overexploited, according to the FAO. The EU, being the world's largest importer of fisheries products in terms of value, must act abroad as at home. The external fisheries policy must be an integrated part of the CFP. In international and regional organisations, the EU will therefore advocate the principles of sustainability and conservation of fish stocks and marine biodiversity. It will establish alliances and undertake actions with key partners to combat illegal fishing and reduce overcapacity.
In bilateral fishing agreements with non-EU countries, the EU will promote sustainability, good governance and the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs) will replace the existing Agreements and they will ensure that the exploitation of fishery resources takes place on the basis of sound scientific advice only targeting surplus resources that the partner country cannot or does not want to fish itself. Under SFPAs, partner countries shall be compensated for granting access to their fishing resources and financial assistance shall be provided to the partner countries for the implementation of a sustainable fisheries policy.
Will there be new rules on Control and Enforcement?
The proposal is consistent with the EU's new control regime from 20102 and integrates the basic elements of the control and enforcement regime for compliance with the rules of the CFP. In light of the introduction of the landing obligation to avoid discards the Commission proposes monitoring and control obligations in particular in relation to fully documented fishery, as well as pilot projects on new fisheries control technologies that contribute to sustainable fishing.
When will the reform come into effect?
With the new policy now agreed at political level, finalisation and formal adoption will follow in the next months. The new policy will enter into force by 1 January 2014. Implementation of the new rules will be progressive, for instance on the landing obligation, because there is a need for the sector to adapt and to be able to deliver results. But the reform sets clear deadlines.
For more information:
Reform of the CFP website: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/reform/proposals/index_en.htm
Impact Assessment Accompanying Commission proposal for a Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy
Council Regulations No 1005/2008 and No 1224/2009
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