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The Walmart department store in Bowie is considering shutting down its current site and opening a larger store in the city — but some residents worry Prince George's County's first "super center" would hurt the rural character of the proposed relocation area.
"I love Walmart ... but it seems we have too much building," said Anna Drinnon, 62, a 26-year resident of Mill Branch Road, the road where the larger store would be located. "A couple of stores is fine, but we got too much."
The proposed 186,000-square-foot store would replace the 117,000-square-foot Walmart located on Crain Highway, and would be built on a nearby 74-acre plot of land, said Joe Meinert, director of Bowie's planning department. There are two other Walmarts in the county, according to store officials, but this would be the county's first super center.
All employees at the Walmart would transfer to the new store, which would then hire 80 additional workers and include a groceries section, said Walmart spokesperson Amanda Henneberg.
"When we relocate and expand to include super centers, it means we're adding grocery. Grocery is something our customers have come to expect," Henneberg said, adding that the Bowie store opened in 1993 and lacks many features offered in newer stores.
The property owner of the proposed relocation site, William Chesley of Crofton-based W.F. Chesley Real Estate, said he plans to also build additional retail, office space and a hotel on the site, although he doesn't know when those plans will be approved or when building will start.
"The preliminary plans are already approved. The next step is to get detailed site plans approved, which we're working on now," Chesley said.
John Henry King, the city's economic development director, said Walmart could be the catalyst for the proposed development on Mill Branch Road.
"Rarely do you see retail built speculatively. You need committed tenants before construction," King said. "Walmart is the first tenant to open up the doors for the rest of the property to be developed."
Meinert said he expects some resistance from the community, as the city has a long, somewhat contentious history regarding development of rural areas.
For decades, Prince George's County designated all land east of U.S. 301 as "rural," and the city liked it that way, Meinert said. But about 20 years ago, development began creeping south and more "rural" land was labeled "developing" to accommodate expanding suburban life.
Despite opposition from the city, the county approved the Mill Branch lot for commercial use in 2006.
Meinert said the city welcomes the new store, but hopes development in the area will stop there.
"We're hoping [development] won't go any further than where it is ... to protect the character of the county," he said.
From the city's economic standpoint, the super center means more income, officials said.
Some Bowie residents said they would welcome a larger store.
"This [Walmart] doesn't really seem like it has as much as others I've seen," said Karri Taylor, 25, of Bowie.
George Galloway, property manager of Collington Plaza, a shopping center located next to Walmart, is not thrilled about the potential relocation.
"Who is coming to take that place? We already have Target, Kohl's ... every grocery store. I'm not sure who's going to fill that Walmart space," Galloway said, adding that Bowie's market is already saturated with retail.
The County Council must ultimately approve the Walmart, which could take up to a year as developers must meet various building criteria, but since the land is within city limits, the city is able to hold public hearings on the development and send its opinion to the county, Meinert said. The city will hold a public meeting Sept. 19 to introduce the plan to residents, allowing attendees to ask developers questions. The city will also schedule two subsequent public hearings, but dates have not yet been determined, Meinert said.


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The Face of Beauty
Date: 4 May 2005
Few sights in our solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings.
The gas planet's subtle northward gradation from gold to azure is a striking visual effect that scientists don't fully understand. The gradation may be related to seasonal influences, tied to the cold temperatures in the northern (winter) hemisphere.
At times, the rings' shadows shield the mid-northern latitudes from the harshest of the sun's rays. As Saturn travels around the sun in its 29-year orbit, the shadows narrow and head southward, eventually blanketing the opposite hemisphere.
Images taken with blue, green and red spectral filters were used to create this color view, which approximates the scene as it would appear to the human eye. The view was brightened to enhance details visible in the rings and within their shadows.
The images were obtained with the Cassini wide-angle camera from a distance of approximately 999,000 km (621,000 miles) from Saturn, as the spacecraft cruised a few degrees above the ring plane. The image scale is about 60 km (37 miles) per pixel on Saturn.
Last Update: 30 Mar 2011 (AMB)
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I was playing around with this option to use multiply socket connections with same hostname and same port (IRC). However the socket function needed for this is SO_REUSEPORT.
Though the majority of linux distro's does not have that yet officially implented in there distro's.
However for debian there is an patch that can be installed to get it working:
it has some work but I got it working after a while (Noobie in debian) maybe some other people are facing the same problem as I was.


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When a London modeling agency booker dozes off while waiting for the midnight subway train, the subterranean terror that awaits her in the underground tunnels will send her screaming for her life through a dark labyrinth in this horror entry directed by Christopher Smith and starring Run Lola Run's Franka Potente. Awakening to discover that the midnight train has passed and she is locked in the station, Kate (Potente) reluctantly steps onto a mysterious empty train for a ride she will not soon forget. As the train grinds to a stop in the pitch black tunnels of the London Underground, Kate realizes that she is not alone in the darkness and if she has any hope of surviving until dawn she'll have to fight for her life against an unimaginable horror too terrifying for the light of day.~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Ken Campbell, Jeremy Sheffield, Vas Blackwood
Produced by: Julie Baines
Directed by: Christopher Smith
Written by: Christopher Smith
Running time: 1hr 25min
Opens: Jan 01, 2003
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UPDATE 9:45 p.m. — Watch and listen to the news conference and interviews with Mike DeWine and the Limberios family in the frames below.
Click here the read Ohio AG Mike DeWine's statement
UPDATE 12:59 p.m. — Visiting Judge Dale Crawford and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine shared the details of the grand jury findings during a one-hour press conference Wednesday morning.
Crawford said the grand jury inquiry found 19-year-old Jacob Limberios accidentally shot himself in the head on March 2, 2012, and the jury elected not to consider criminal charges against anyone.
DeWine detailed the investigation by his office, including obtaining opinions from two independent forensic pathologists that found Limberios was shot on the right side of his head, shown by beveling revealed in the multiple autopsies conducted on the body. Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation scientists also conducted tests on the gun that showed 30 percent of the time, it could be fired without the trigger being pulled.
Watch the full press conference in the player below
No criminal charges will be filed in the case.
The civil lawsuit the family filed against Sandusky County coroner John Wukie will move forward, as Jacob's parents work to have the ruling on his death certificate changed from suicide to accident.
Watch an interview with Mike and Shannon Limberios in the player below with their reaction
Watch a follow-up interview with Attorney General Mike DeWine in the player below
Original post — Be here for live coverage at 11 a.m.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine will hold a news conference on the second floor of the Sandusky County Courthouse this morning "to announce the results of the special prosecution and BCI investigation into the March 2012 shooting death of Jacob Limberios."
The news conference is set to start at 11 a.m. The courthouse is at 100 N. Park St.


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Cut him (give him a boot out facility)
Keep him (give him a chance)
Trade him to Jets for Tim Tebow's Jock Strap
Why is Naanee still on the field.
I saw this coming. Day one when we signed him. it's a fact. I even posted as much. Why the **** are we stuck with coaches who just can't figure out that some players just don't improve your team, I don't know what the hell he does at practice. But last year it was columbo, this year nadookie.
"Now when I go to the bathroom I find out who my friends are." - Jake Scott after both broken hands were in casts following the 1972 season
On the bright side, we didn't sign Sparano to be our OC, so we have that going for us.
I would rather line up Nate Garner at wr at least he can block,Legadont sucks
im with ya wildbill, i think i posted the day we signed him about how stupid it was, people were talking about how physical he was and his size and blocking and i stated, "having to watch every carolina game cause my roomie is a fan, this guy is utter garbage" i quoted to my roomie again WTF is he still in the league with anyone
That was probably the worst fumble I have ever seen. It was as if he was actually surprised he caught the ball for once, then when he realized he caught it, he dropped it to do as what nature would do...


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Panelist Gina Wood (Director of Policy and Planning, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies) with CFCC Senior Fellow Gloria Danziger at the 2011 Urban Child Symposium, one of CFCC's annual conferences.
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CFCC convenes conferences for the judicial, legal, and court communities on the latest developments and initiatives in the field.
In addition to conferences, see the full list of CFCC's workshops and trainings.
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10 Fun and Romantic Fall Getaways
We tend to associate the end of summer and the arrival of fall with going back to school or getting back to work, as the vacation season is over. But that doesn't have to be the case. The northern hemisphere contains some pretty remarkable fall destinations, perfect for weekend adventures or even weeklong getaways


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The Creative Writing Scene at Grinnell
Grinnell has a vibrant creative writing scene. There are many published writers on campus--faculty, staff, and students. There are also a number of published writers living in town. The College regularly brings in prominent authors to give workshops and readings, especially through Writers@Grinnell. Among these prominent authors have been recipients of major awards: Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and MacArthur Fellowships. Grinnell's proximity to Iowa City, site of the prestigious University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, makes it an easy stop on the reading train, as authors with newly published books often arrange a mini Iowa circuit. (Our location also allows Grinnellians to zip into Iowa City to catch a famous writer who, for whatever reason, can't make it to Grinnell.) In addition to the many professional readings--some six or seven a semester--there are all sorts of student readings and open-mike sessions. Each semester culminates with a formal reading from the Grinnell Review, the College's undergraduate creative writing journal. Students are eligible for annual prizes in fiction and poetry; these prizes come with monetary awards and are announced at the spring Grinnell Review reading.
Creative Writing Courses
Writing Classes
Grinnell's Creative Writing Curriculum
Grinnell has neither a creative writing major nor a creative writing track. The English department believes that creative writing ought to be fully integrated into the formal study of literature. Simply put, there is no admirable writing without exhaustive reading. That said, we offer numerous creative writing courses--as many, if not more, than those schools with creative writing majors and/or tracks. We offer both introductory courses and seminars in fiction and poetry writing. We also offer six-week short courses in these genres, courses taught by prominent faculty from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Imagine spending six Fridays with Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the United States. Students from Grinnell have had this opportunity. In addition to introductory courses, seminars, and short courses, exceptional students may set up a MAP (Mentored Advanced Project) with a Grinnell faculty member in which they pursue a creative project--a novel, say, or a collection of poems. These MAPs often become the basis for the student's MFA portfolio. Occasionally, the College offers non-fiction classes--writing about jazz, for example, or writing about place.
Courses in Poetry
The Craft of Poetry (ENG 206) 4 credits.
Instruction in the techniques and process of verse writing. Readings may include published poems and essays on the art of poetry. Prerequisites: English 120. BARLOW, SAVARESE. Taught every semester.
Writing Seminar: Poetry (ENG 386) 4 credits.
Advanced workshop for students with a strong background in verse writing. Prerequisites: English 206 and permission of instructor. BARLOW, SAVARESE. Taught every other semester.
Special Topic: Advanced Poetry Seminar (ENG 295) 1 or 2 Credits.
Advanced workshop for students who have taken at least one creative-writing course at Grinnell. Prerequisites: English 205 or 206. Six week short course. KUUSISTO
Courses in Fiction
The Craft of Fiction (ENG 205 ) 4 credits.
Instruction in the techniques and process of fiction writing, with emphasis on the short story. Readings may include published short stories and essays on the art of fiction. Students may also be asked to write in forms related to fiction (journal, autobiography, prose poem). Prerequisites: English 120. HO, DOMINI. Taught every semester.
Writing Seminar: Fiction (ENG 385) 4 credits.
Advanced workshop for students with a strong background in fiction writing. Prerequisites: English 205 and permission of instructor. HO. Taught every other semester.
Special Topic: Craft of Non-Fiction (ENG 295) 4 Credits.
Advanced workshop for students who have taken at least one creative-writing course at Grinnell. Prerequisites: English 205 or 206. DOMINI.
Special Topic: Advanced Fiction Seminar(ENG 295) 1 or 2 Credits.
Advanced workshop for students who have taken at least one creative-writing course at Grinnell. Prerequisites: English 205 or 206. Six-week short course taught by visiting professor.
Other Writing Courses Previously Taught:
Special Topic: Writing the Land (ENV 295) 1 Credit.
Advanced workshop to discuss and improve the student writers' works of fiction and non-fiction. Local field trips will be part of the experience. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
Special Topic: Criticism and Writing for Public Media (HUM 395-01) 1 Credit.
Advanced workshop for serious nonfiction writers who want to pursue writing as a profession. Focus on the mechanics of writing for newspapers and magazines, career issues, and the function and value of good criticism. Prerequisites: Declared English or Music major and completion of 200-level course work in English or music.
Distinguished Authors at Grinnell
Each year, usually in the spring, a distinguished author gives a reading and conducts a workshop or roundtable with students, thanks to funding by a generous anonymous donor. Distinguished authors have included W.S. Merwin, Marilynne Robinson, John Edgar Wideman, Ana Castillo, Adrienne Rich, Edward P. Jones, Natasha Trethewey and Mark Doty.
2013-2014: Tracy K. Smith - Born in Massachusetts, earned her BA from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. From 1997 to 1999 she held a Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. Smith is the author of three books of poetry: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; and Life on Mars (2011), which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
2012-2013: Natasha Trethewey is the 19th United States Poet Laureate [2012-2013]. In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote "Her poems dig beneath the surface of history - personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago-to explore the human struggles that we all face." She is the author of Thrall [2012], Native Guard [Houghton Mifflin], for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq's Ophelia [Graywolf, 2002], which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association, and Domestic Work [Graywolf, 2000]. She is also the author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast [University of Georgia Press]. A memoir is forthcoming in 2013.
2011-2012: Mark Doty is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (2005);Source (2002); and Sweet Machine (1998). Other collections include Atlantis (1995), which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award; My Alexandria (1993), which was chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series and which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, and was also a National Book Award finalist; Bethlehem in Broad Daylight(1991); and Turtle, Swan (1987). He has also published several memoirs including Heaven's Coast (1996), which received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction,Firebird (1999), Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy (2000), and Dog Years(HarperCollins, 2007).
Doty has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill, Rockefeller, and Whiting foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was elected an American Academy Chancellor in 2011. He has taught at the University of Houston and is currently serving as a Distinguished Writer at Rutgers University.
2010-2011: Dorothy Allison's first book of poetry, The Women who Hate Me, was published in 1983. Her first short story collection, Trash (1988), won two Lambda Literary Awards and the ALA Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Her first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award, won the Ferro Grumley prize, became a best seller, and was turned into an award-winning movie by actress/director Anjelica Huston. Her second novel, Cavedweller (1998), was a NY Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the Lillian Smith prize, and an ALA prize winner. It was also turned into a film directed by Lisa Cholendenko (The Kids are Alright). Allison was recently a writer-in-residence at Davidson College, and is currently working on a new novel She, Who.
2009-2010: Award-winning short-story writer and novelist Edward P. Jones read in JRC 101 on April 8, 2010. Jones has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He was also the recipient of a 2004 MacArthur Fellowship. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His second collection,All Aunt Hagar's Children, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His Pulitzer-winning novel, The Known World, is set in pre-Civil War Virginia, and it was for this work that Jones was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
2008-2009: Renowned feminist author Adrienne Rich read from her poetry at Herrick Chapel on September 25, 2008. Rich is the author of many works of poetry and prose, including Diving into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, The School Among the Ruins, Of Women Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics, and Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations. Among her many awards and honors are the Yale Younger Poets Award, the National Book Critic's Circle Award, the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
2007-2008: Chicana novelist Ana Castillo read from her novel The Guardians on April 10, 2008. A celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist, Castillo's many awards include the American Book Award for The Mixquiahuala Letters, The Carl Sandburg Award, the Independent Publisher Storyteller of the Year Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts in fiction and poetry.
2006-2007: John Edgar Wideman read at Grinnell College on April 30, 2007. Wideman grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, where many of his works of fiction are set. He is known for his works in several genres: novels, short stories, non-fiction, and memoirs. His works include (among others) Brothers and Keepers (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award), the memoir Fatheralong (finalist for the National Book Award), and the novels Sent for You Yesterdayand Philadelphia Fire (both of which won the International PEN/Faulkner Award). His awards include a Rhodes Scholarship, the American Book Award for Fiction, the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, and a MacArthur fellowship.
2005-2006: Marilynne Robinson visited Grinnell's campus in the spring of 2006. Robinson is best known for her novels:Housekeeping (which won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was included in both The New York Times Books of the Century and the UK Guardian Observer's list of the 100 greatest novels of all time), Gilead (which received a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction), and the more recent Home. Robinson has also published nonfiction: Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. Robinson teaches at the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
2004-2005: W. S. Merwin came to campus in the spring of 2005. Merwin is a poet, translator, and environmental activist who lives on the island of Maui. His first book, A Mask for Janus, was selected for the Yale Younger Poets series, and his collection The Carrier of Ladders was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Migration: Selected Poems 1951-2001 won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Book Award and was named as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Merwin has been awarded the Tanning Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.
Faculty Writers at Grinnell
English Department Faculty
George Barlow is a poet who earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Hayward, an M.A. in American Studies and an M.F.A. in Poetry, both from the University of Iowa. He specializes in African-American literature, poetry, and teaches Craft of Poetry and the Poetry Seminar most semesters. George is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and a Graduate Opportunity Fellowship from the University of Iowa. He is now a member of the Board of Directors of Humanities Iowa. He has published two volumes of poetry, Gabriel from Broadside Press, and Gumbo from Doubleday, and is co-editor with Grady Hillman and Maude Meehan of About Time III: An Anthology of California Prison Writing. George has poems appearing in numerous anthologies, including The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, The Anthology of American Sports Poems, The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry, Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African-American Poetry, Voices on the Landscape: Contemporary Iowa Poets, African American Literature, In Search of Color Everywhere, Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African -American Writing, Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945, The Jazz Poetry Anthology, The Best of Intro, New American Poets of the 80s, Giant Talk: Voices of the Third World, Eating the Menu, A Galaxy of Black Writing, and Celebrations: A New Anthology of Black American Poetry. He has published poems in many journals, including The Black Scholar, Caliban 2, River Styx, The Iowa Review, Antaeus, Callaloo, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The American Poetry Review, Yardbird Reader, Big Moon, Obsidian, A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Review, and most recently, Seneca Review: The Lyric Body. He has had work accepted by theafricanamerican.com, an online literary magazine, and Iowa City's 2006 Poetry in Public Project, through which his poem "Neptune" was printed on posters and displayed in downtown kiosks, on City buses, and in other public places.
Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption (Other Press 2007), which Newsweek called a "real life love story and a passionate manifesto for the rights of people with neurological disabilities." It won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal in the category of health/medicine/nutrition, and a chapter was selected as a "notable essay" in the Best American Essays series of 2004. The book was featured on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" (twice), ABC's Nightly News with Charles Gibson," and NPR's "Diane Rehm Show." He is also the co-editor of Papa PhD: Men in the Academy Write about Fatherhood (Rutgers University Press 2010) and of a special issue of Seneca Review entitled "The Lyrical Body" (2010).
His poems, creative nonfiction, and translations have appeared in American Disasters, American Poetry Review, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Autism Perspectives, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Edge City Review, Flyway, For New Orleans and Other Poems, Graham House Review, Fourth Genre, Gravity Draws You In, Modern Poetry In Translation, New England Review, the New York Times, Papa PhD: Men in the Academy Write About Fatherhood, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poetry International, Poetry Motel, The Poker, Potpourri, Rattle, Segue, Seneca Review, Sewanee Review, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, and Stone Canoe. His reviews and opinion pieces have appeared in American Book Review, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Austin American Statesman, the Baltimore Sun, the Cincinnati Post, the Dallas Morning News, the Des Moines Register, the Gainesville Sun, the Houston Chronicle, the Huffington Post, the LA Times, the Louisville Courier Journal, and the Tallahassee Democrat.
He's currently working on a novel entitled Republican Fathers and a book of poems entitled The World Is a Fine Place. He teaches American literature, creative writing, and disability studies at Grinnell. He also directs the college's reading series, Writers@Grinnell.
Saadi Simawe is a fiction writer, poet, critic, editor and translator who has a B.A. from Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska. He also earned both an M.A. in African-American studies and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. He teaches English and African-American literatures. He also offers independent projects on comparative literature and Middle Eastern literature. He has published translations and fiction as well as articles on African-American, Middle Eastern, and comparative literature. Recently, his novel Out of the Lamp, was released by Al-Rafid, an Arabic language publisher in Britain. He has also recently published a scholarly work, edited for Garland, entitled Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison.
Paula V. Smith holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including poetry in Flyway Literary Review and Red Cedar Review and short fiction in The North American Review and Bellevue Literary Review. Paula V. Smith has contributed to creative projects shared with photographers, composers, and visual artists, as well as fellow writers. In 1996 she collaborated with Mary Swander, Edward Hirsch, Ray Young Bear, and other poets on the text for "Broken Ground," a choral-orchestral piece composed by Jonathan Chenette. This commissioned work was performed by the Des Moines Symphony and Grinnell Singers to celebrate Iowa's Sesquicentennial. In April 2010 Paula V. Smith's novel, "The Painter's Muse," appeared in Italian translation under the title Il Silenzio della Musa, followed by Spanish and Dutch translations in fall 2010 and spring 2011. Recent news is that the Spanish translation sold close to 4000 copies in the first few months after its publication, and the Italian publisher is now marketing the novel as an e-book. The manuscript in English remains available to an interested U.S. or British publisher. While working slowly on a second novel, Paula Smith has completed her third year as Grinnell College's Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College.
Other Writers among the Faculty and Staff
David G. Campbell, Professor of Biology and Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment at Grinnell College, is a scientist, teacher and author. He began his professional life in the West Indies, as Director of the Bahamas National Trust for the Conservation of Wildlife and as a consultant for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, in Switzerland. After earning a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Campbell joined the scientific staff of the New York Botanical Garden, spending eight years in the field in the Brazilian Amazon, conducting research on the biogeography of trees and the ethnobotany of the forest people. In 1987 Campbell joined the sixth Brazilian expedition to Antarctica, studying the life cycles of the invertebrate parasites of crustaceans, fish and seals. He may be the only biologist to have research sites in those antitheses of diversity, the Amazon and Antarctica. After coming to Grinnell College in 1991, Campbell and his students began a long-term research project in Belize on the Maya forest and its people. Campbell considers fieldwork to be an integral part of his teaching, and has taken hundreds of Grinnell students and alums to the New and Old World tropics.
The author numerous professional papers, Campbell is also a writer of literary nonfiction. He is author of four books in this genre: The Ephemeral Islands (1977), a natural history of the Bahama Islands, The Crystal Desert (1993), a reminiscence on three summers in Antarctica (selected as one of the notable books of 1993 by the New York Times Book Review), Islands in Space and Time (1996), an exploration of ten wilderness areas from Palau to Paraguay, and Land of Ghosts (2005), a personal essay on Amazonian diversity, biotic as well as human. Campbell has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Burroughs Medal, the PEN Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. His current literary projects are The Feral Forest, an exploration of the co-evolution of Maya biophilia and language in Belize, and Cosmic Beachcombing, a personal essay on exploration and discovery set in the cosmodromes of Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Cape Canaveral, Florida.
J. Harley McIlrath is a fiction writer who, as the Assistant Manager of the College Bookstore and the Pioneer Bookshop, runs the stores' trade and textbook sections. Harley has a B.A. in English and Philosophy, and a M.A. in English, all from the University of Northern Iowa. His work has appeared in Aethlon, the Briar Cliff Review, the Cream City Review, NightSun, the North American Review, Seneca Review, Short Story, and the Wapsipinicon Almanac. Harley has written reviews for the Literary Magazine Review, and served for a long while as Editorial Assistant to Robley Wilson at the North American Review. His short fiction collection, Possum Trot, was published in 2010.
Kesho Scott is a fiction writer, memoirist, essayist and cultural critic with a B.A. in Sociology from Wayne State University, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Detroit, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa. Her book Tight Spaces, a collection of autobiographical stories she co-authored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba High, won the American Book Award in 1988, has been translated into Italian and Arabic, and has gone into several printings. She has also written The Habit of Surviving: Black Women Strategies for Life (Rutgers University Press, 1991) and Twenty Years of Unlearning Racism: which is due out in 2007. She is also at work on two other works: Autobiographical story of Scott's political and personal memoir of life and love in Ghana in the 1970s and Biographical Stories of African-American Men's Habit of Survival, 2008. Kesho has also lectured and toured extensively across the country and abroad, and has made appearances on the Oprah Winfrey and Sonya Live shows, as well as C-Span. She is past Chair and Associate Professor in Grinnell's American Studies department. Scott won a State Department Fulbright to Ethiopia in 2001-2002.
The Grinnell Review
The Grinnell Review is the college's mainstream journal of art and literature. In addition to publishing once a semester, The Review sponsors periodic van runs to Iowa City for fiction and poetry readings sponsored there by the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and Prairie Lights bookstore.
We have uploaded the fortieth volume of the Review :
Short Courses
Teachers of Recent Short Courses
These writers have taught and will be teaching short courses in creative writing at Grinnell:
Spring 2014, poet Richard Kenney, Guggenheim and Macarthur fellow.
Fall 2013, Jeff Porter; Radio Days: New Media Writing and the Art of Sound.
Fall 2012, Jeff Porter; Radio Days: New Media Writing and the Art of Sound, Saugata Bhaduri; From Theory to Post-Theory and Sam Tanenhaus; The Writer in the World.
Spring 2013, Gandhi: Yogi, Hero or Activist?; Dobe/Kapila.
Spring 2012, advanced fiction: novelist Kevin Brockmeier, winner of the O. Henry Award and National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
Fall 2011, non-fiction writer Jeff Porter.
Spring 2011, poet Richard Kenney, Guggenheim and Macarthur fellow.
Spring 2010, novelist Paul Harding, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Fall 2008, poet and non-fiction writer Steve Kuusisto.
Spring 2008, poet and non-fiction writer Steve Kuusisto.
Fall 2007, poet Tessa Rumsey, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize.
Spring 2007, poet Marvin Bell, Guggenheim and National Endowments for the Arts fellow.
Spring 2006, poet Emily Wilson, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.
Fall 2005, novelist Kevin Brockmeier.
Spring 2005, novelist James Hynes.
Spring 2004, poets Robert Hass, Macarthur fellow and co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Brenda Hillman, Guggenheim and National Endowments for the Arts fellow.
Spring 2003, poet Cole Swensen.
Fall 2002, novelist Chris Offutt, Guggenheim fellow.


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Impact of Photography
Clubessential creates several hundred new or redesigned websites every year. We've developed tools, such as our "Implementation Console," and a well organized process to create fully custom designs that match the branding of each club in a timely manner.
However, one common roadblock to a quick completion is the lack of adequate professional photography. The quality of the design of a website depends on many factors which change with time, but one unchanging requirement for a beautiful website is excellent professional photography. You may not need a redesigned website today, but today is the time to start gathering signature photos for that inevitable redesign in the future.
The best professional photo shoots don't take place on a rush basis in the middle of a website design. The weather, for one thing, may not cooperate. How do you get a shot of the clubhouse during a delightful sunset if it's January? Another problem with rushed photography is the level of cooperation from your members. You will undoubtedly want them in some of the photos, but in order to get them in the right mood and the right clothes, you will need to wait for certain signature events.
Strategic Photography Plan
The way to capture a collection of signature photos is to enter into a relationship, perhaps on retainer, with a local professional photographer to capture key photos throughout the year. Schedule them to attend key events and ask them to watch the weather to find that perfect day to make a shoot. Build a library of high resolution photos on:
Grounds, facilities, amenities. Be sure to include daytime, evening, night shots and, of course, sunsets. You should also encourage your photographer to take both interior and exterior photos of your club amenities, which will ensure that your photo collection will complement the public and the private portions of your website.
Historical items, especially those that might play a part in the club branding, such as wall paintings, plaques, trophies, door knobs, statues, embossed or embroidered items (take close up shots that may work as textures in your marketing and website designs).
Unique architectural elements, such as signage, structural/building materials, carpet, wallpaper, stone, brick, wood, and signature marble. One technical hint: websites are viewed on flat monitors, so texture shots should be captured "straight on" so they can be viewed properly on a flat screen.
Signature events. It is of course always a good idea to have someone taking casual photos of key events and then posting them on the website. But it is also a good idea to have a professional photographer capture candid lifestyle shots at several events a year. These high resolution shots can be used for years, not only for the website design, but for other kinds of marketing materials. As you grow your event photo collection throughout the calendar year, you'll then have a comprehensive library to promote your events the following year.
Staff. Don't forget to capture professional candid shots of your staff. Don't line everyone up for a mug shot – let the photographer decide when and where to shoot. The right photo will make a good impression on the membership and help them become more engaged with the club because they remember all the staff.
The Strategic Photography Plan does not need to be extensive or expensive – it just needs to be ongoing so that, over time, you develop and maintain a complete set of professional high resolution shots to use.


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Laura Pauline Veirs (born October 24, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. Veirs was raised in Colorado, studied geology and Mandarin Chinese at Carleton College, worked as a translator for a geological expedition in China, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. While growing up, she heard folk-country, classical, and pop music at home. However, she didn't "listen seriously," she says, until her 20s.[citation needed] At Carleton, she joined an all-girl punk band called Rair Kx!. After graduation, her taste moved to older country and folk, and during her time in China she began writing lyrics.[citation needed] In 1999, Veirs released a self-titled album, which was recorded live and featuring just her and guitar. 2003 saw the release of Troubled by the Fire, accompanied by veteran musicians such as Bill Frisell. She then signed to Nonesuch and released Carbon Glacier. Year of Meteors followed in August 2005. Year of Meteors was selected by the New York Times as a "critics choice". Veirs released Saltbreakers in 2007. July Flame appeared in January 2010 on her Raven Marching band label. The Washington Post praised it.
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NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Lightning seldom appears in the Las Vegas sky, but when it does, it is always something to behold.
Local residents can attest to the unique opportunity in Southern Nevada of seeing one bolt of lightning dash across the sky with the Las Vegas skyline in the background. However April 4, witnesses were able to experience a sight that they had not seen before.
Unlike weather that normally comes and goes with the clouds, this time there was not a cloud in the sky. This lightning was made of metal and powered by fuel. Two F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron conducted the aircraft's first operational flights from Nellis AFB.
Lt. Col. Benjamin Bishop, 422nd TES director of operations and Capt. Brad Matherne, 422 TES F-35 division commander, were the first pilots to conduct an operational flight from Nellis' flight line.
Both have prepared for this moment for quite some time.
"It's been a long time command, and the level of effort by all those involved with getting to this point has been nothing short of astounding," Matherne said. "Now we can get down to the business of what Nellis does best; the development of tactics."
"The squadron's first F-35 sortie represents the culmination of efforts by a world-class operations and maintenance team," Bishop said. This mission also signified the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Nellis AFB.
The successful flight does not begin or end with the pilots. Bishop went on to credit the hard work of maintenance Airmen with mastering a complex new airframe, while working overtime to ensure it was ready for flight.
"The first local F-35 flight speaks volumes about the professionalism of our Nellis maintenance team," he added. "The fact they were able to accept the aircraft and get them into the air so quickly is astonishing. These jets are new to Air Combat Command, so they are literally writing the book on many of the procedures used to maintain the aircraft."
Members of the 57th Maintenance Group's Lightning Aircraft Maintenance Unit and the 422nd TES have prepared for years to make the transition of the F-35A to Nellis smooth.
"All the training and preparation over the last two years have been for this day," said Chief Master Sgt. Michael Prah, Lightning AMU superintendent. "Getting the aircraft in the air shows the hard work our maintenance Airmen have put forth in order to bring this new capability to Nellis."
"If you look at the capability that this aircraft will bring to the fight once it's operational, it's humbling knowing you were involved with the initial development," Matherne said. "It will definitely be something I look back at and take pride in for a long time."
This historic flight comes less than a month after the March 19 arrival ceremony for the aircraft.
During the ceremony, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Lofgren, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center commander, noted that live flying the aircraft over the Nevada Test and Training Range is only the first step in integrating the F-35 into operations here.
A simulator is also being constructed on Nellis in order to test and develop tactics for advanced training. Together with continued operational flights, the Air Force will begin to see how the Lightning II reacts to realistic enemies in real-world operations.
While this may be the first time the Lightning II has appeared in the clear skies over Las Vegas, it will not be the last. The Air Force plans to assign 36 F-35s to Nellis by 2020.
"This is the future of airpower," Bishop said. "I am honored be a part of the team that will write the tactics, techniques, and procedures F-35 pilots will use in the years to follow."


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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
One of Those Rare Instances in Which the Nazi Analogy is Unavoidable
Marty Lederman
Andrew Sullivan describes the uncanny and chilling correspondence between the Gestapo's "enhanced" (or "sharpened") interrogation techniques, and those that have been officially authorized and used by the United States over the past few years. Not only are the techniques, and the nomenclature, of a piece -- but so are the legal and ethical justifications offered in their defense.
Over the weekend I re-read Mark Twain's War Prayer. Excerpted here:
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(*After a pause.*) "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!"
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
AS: "Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007."
There is no comparison? It wasn't until '38 that Kristallnacht happened, until the deportations started. In '37, Jews in Berlin still went about their business, in a constrained manner with specters of danger all around, but still basically normally. The intelligentsia hadn't abandoned the country yet.
The problem with Godwin's law is that no one recognizes how normal most of German life was until the start of WWII. Yes, race laws were put into place - but those were little different from American race laws which were in place in many regions until the 50's and 60's. Eugenics laws were only taken off the books in some states in the 70's.
Yes, we are quite distinct from 1937 Germany - but we are also quite distinct from numerous societies. But this automatic claim that we are completely different actually does require argument, rather than the knee-jerk response of "of course we are different".
In fact, most Germans throughout the 30s wouldn't recognize what their society was becoming before their eyes - it didn't affect their business at the corner store, their mail delivery or their relations with their neighbors until 38. For those who weren't politically active, the most they felt was a general repression to speak out in public, that there were repercussions to saying out loud "unpatriotic" thoughts.
while I have little doubt that both Bart and Charles would have been enthusiastic members of the Hitler Youth Brigade, i wonder whether at the end they would have resorted to the "just following orders" mantra, in order to save/justify themselves, or they would go down with the ship.
i suspect the latter.
dead-enders go down with the ship.
A curious thing about Godwin's law is its selective enforcement, at the hands of prosecutors with a decidedly Republican slant. Dick Durbin was charged with violating it when he struck up an association between Nazi Germany and Guantanamo abuses. If Sullivan is right, Durbin's crime was that he did not make the abuses as uncannily redolent as he might have, not that he failed to hoist the right warning flag.
In the moment the charge was used to divert attention from the abuses and to accuse Durbin of disbelief in his nation and a failure to follow Duncan Hunter's reading of the Guantanamo menu, with its rice pilaf and other succulent offerings to the detainees.
At around the same time the Bush administration was settling on "fascist" to label Islamist extremists. The term makes no sense under Robert Paxton's analysis of fascism, according to which the phenomenon is peculiar to faltering constitutional democracies in a state of crisis. Recall further how Rick Santorum lavished "Nazi" on miscellaneous viewpoints against which he sought to run in his re-election bid.
The strategy is plain: Take a term that might be used against you – in this case because of your systematic assault on civil liberties – and deny others its use even as you appropriate it for your own use against enemies foreign and domestic, blurring the distinction whenever possible to create the image of an un-American fifth column, witting or otherwise. This achieves three goals: you escape scrutiny; you cow your opponents; and you rob the term of any sensible meaning, which comes in handy in case, despite your best efforts, scrutiny suffers an uptick.
We've seen other examples of this. The latest is "voter fraud." Before that there was "class warfare." One can generate a host of such cases because the tactic is tailor-made for the game underway. It's remarkable that a website frequented by persons knowledgeable about the peculiar hazards of prosecutorial discretion should salute Godwin's law with such fervor.
To bring the point further home, another feature of Paxton's analysis is that fascism is intensely situational, homegrown out of the particulars of the moment – an opportunist's dream that does not travel well. This, taken together with its emergence from a nominally democratic matrix, make it hard to see coming and easy to blunt analogies. A corollary of his analysis is thus that, while any term can be overused, the chief beneficiaries of Godwin's law are would-be fascists.
For a time I found it useful to post examples of the Bush administration's attempts to coordinate opinion in the press, between regulatory agencies and the industries they purport to control, and among party operatives. The examples of this are legion – the "talking point" is by now routinely noted; clampdowns on whistleblowers and scientists who think for themselves are old hat; inducements to the media to conform to the government's viewpoint are tiresome stuff. It's done differently in each case. Goebbels confronted the same situation in 1933. But he coined a term for the common objective: Gleichschaltung. It means coordination, a term that peppers the May 9 National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, which, it has been noted, leaves the other branches strikingly out of the effort.
It was no accident that Sinclair Lewis called his 1930's novel "It Can't Happen Here." A more prescient title might have been "Godwin's Law."
Professor Balkin:
Of course, the fact that the Gestapo did something -- even something that was treated as a war crime -- does not necessarily mean that it is wrong or that we should condemn it.
But surely it ought to give one pause. And make one wonder about a major political party debate in which the candidates eagerly brag of their willingness to emulate the Gestapo -- and in which the audience lustily cheers them along.
After condemning the guilt by association smear in your first paragraph quoted above, you turn right around and employ this smear in the next paragraph.
The Gestapo used the full range of interrogation techniques, from simple questioning to actual torture. Therefore, you can make this invalid guilt by association attack equally against your average police detective as you can the CIA and against the Dems as well as the GOP.
Sullivan also makes several invalid comparisons between CIA coercive interrogation techniques discussed here and the criminal acts of genuine torture such as beatings committed by the Nazis against the Norwegians and by some of our own forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, for which several perpetrators have been prosecuted.
Even if some of these techniques are arguably short of legally defined "torture" in some cases...
None of the disclosed coercive methods would appear to fall under the legal definition of torture. Indeed, most fall far short of that definition.
...surely they are the sort of "cruel treatment" that the Geneva Conventions prohibit...
Many would be barred for lawful combatants who fall under the definitions in the Geneva Conventions. However, the CIAs coercive interrogation techniques are not employed against lawful enemy combatants who fall under the Geneva Conventions.
The techniques might also, at least in many cases, violate the federal assault law
Coercive interrogation of unlawful foreign enemy combatants during a war no more falls under the domestic assault laws than killing the enemy during a war falls under domestic homicide laws.
and the McCain Amendment, as well.
To the extent that the McCain Amendment applies and is different that the MCA. the later enacted MCA would appear to take precedence. The MCA merely repeats the definition of torture which existed under the international torture conventions - the intentional infliction of severe pain.
None of the disclosed coercive methods would appear to fall under the legal definition of torture. Indeed, most fall far short of that definition.
Since the memo "establishing" the legality of waterboarding, etc. has never been made public, it would appear that there are no "disclosed" methods, unless we count news reports.
But if BDP means to include those, and to claim ONE MORE TIME that waterboarding, forced standing, hypothermia, etc. aren't torture ... whom does he expect to convince? Hasn't that claim been knocked out of the park 20 times at this blog?
I would like Mr. DePalma to state expressly that he is not paid or otherwise compensated to post comments here.
Anderson said...
BD: None of the disclosed coercive methods would appear to fall under the legal definition of torture. Indeed, most fall far short of that definition.
Since the memo "establishing" the legality of waterboarding, etc. has never been made public, it would appear that there are no "disclosed" methods, unless we count news reports.
Is there a reason not to credit the leaks reported in the press to which Professor Balkin linked and the CIA's own interrogation manual to which I linked?
If your contention is none of these sources is accurate and we do not know what coercive interrogation techniques involve, then we might as well simply admit we do not know what we are talking about and adjourn the debate.
But if BDP means to include those, and to claim ONE MORE TIME that waterboarding, forced standing, hypothermia, etc. aren't torture ... whom does he expect to convince? Hasn't that claim been knocked out of the park 20 times at this blog?
Actually, the vast majority of posts here and those linked from here generally assume the fact that coercive interrogation techniques = "torture" without actually applying the legal definitions of torture to the facts as we know them and providing some context against actual examples of torture. I attempted to provide such an analysis in my blog entry linked above.
I would like Mr. DePalma to state expressly that he is not paid or otherwise compensated to post comments here.
I am not paid to grace you with my humble opinions. Rather, I lose billable time in doing so.
BDP:Many would be barred for lawful combatants who fall under the definitions in the Geneva Conventions. However, the CIAs coercive interrogation techniques are not employed against lawful enemy combatants who fall under the Geneva Conventions.
The problem with this assertion is that all combatants, lawful or not, are EXPLICITLY included under Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions (see articles 45 and 75).
BDP:However, the panic induced by waterboarding is extremely brief and and can hardly be considered a "prolonged" mental harm
The duration of the abuse is arguably irrelevant. Explicit descriptions of inappropriate behavior often emphasize that the legality of the action is not contingent upon its duration.
From the "Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment":
The term "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" should be interpreted so as to extend the widest possible protection against abuses, whether physical or mental, including the holding of a detained or imprisoned person in conditions which deprive him, temporarily or permanently, of the use of any of his natural senses, such as sight or hearing, or of his awareness of place and the passing of time.
Under those conditions, Guantanamo has been violating international law from the moment the prisoners arrived.
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BDP:Many would be barred for lawful combatants who fall under the definitions in the Geneva Conventions. However, the CIAs coercive interrogation techniques are not employed against lawful enemy combatants who fall under the Geneva Conventions.
The problem with this assertion is that all combatants, lawful or not, are EXPLICITLY included under Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions (see articles 45 and 75).
OK, let us take a look at these articles:
Article 45.-Protection of persons who have taken part in hostilities
1. A person who takes part in hostilities and falls into the power of an adverse Party shall be presumed to be a prisoner of war, and therefore shall be protected by the Third Convention, if he claims the status of prisoner of war, or if he appears to be entitled to such status, or if the Party on which he depends claims such status on his behalf by notification to the detaining Power or to the Protecting Power. Should any doubt arise as to whether any such person is entitled to the status of prisoner of war, he shall continue to have such status and, therefore, to be protected by the Third Convention and this Protocol until such time as his status has been determined by a competent tribunal...
Article 75.-Fundamental guarantees
1. In so far as they are affected by a situation referred to in Article 1 of this Protocol, persons who are in the power of a Party to the conflict and who do not benefit from more favourable treatment under the Conventions or under this Protocol shall be treated humanely in all circumstances and shall enjoy, as a minimum, the protection provided by this Article without any adverse distinction based upon race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national or social origin, wealth, birth or other status, or on any other similar criteria. Each Party shall respect the person, honour, convictions and religious practices of all such persons.
2. The following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever, whether committed by civilian or by military agents:
(a) Violence to the life, health, or physical or mental well-being of persons, in particular:
(i) Murder;
(ii) Torture of all kinds, whether physical or mental;
( iii ) Corporal punishment ; and
(iv) Mutilation;
(b) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment, enforced prostitution and any form of indecent assault;
(c) The taking of hostages;
(d) Collective punishments; and
(e) Threats to commit any of the foregoing acts.
Article 45 simply states that captures are entitled to a status hearing if they claim to be POWs (i.e. lawful combatants) or if it is apparent that they are POWs. None of the captures of which I am aware has claimed that they are lawful combatants. Rather, they claim to be civilians. al Qaeda and the Taliban do not claim that their people qualify as POWs Nor is it apparent that combatants captured in civilian clothing are POWs. Therefore, there is no presumption that they are POWs and certainly none after the Combatant Status Tribunal finds them to be unlawful enemy combatants.
Article 75's list of prohibited acts do not include any of the coercive interrogation techniques because they do not fall under the definition of torture.
BDP:However, the panic induced by waterboarding is extremely brief and and can hardly be considered a "prolonged" mental harm
The duration of the abuse is arguably irrelevant.
As I discuss in my linked blog post, 18 U.S.C. § 2340(2) defines defines "severe mental pain" as "prolonged mental harm."
From the "Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment"
This is a UN resolution, not international law.
Bart, are you going to claim that waterboarding does not even rate as "corporal punishment"? Because that is among the thing "prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever" under Article 75.
Does Godwin's Law apply to comparisons to Stalin as well as to Hitler? Because cold cell, long time standing, stress positions and especially sleep deprivation were among his favorite techniques as well. And for much the same reason, they did not leave scars, and you could always say they were not really torture.
As for whether such techniques rate as true torture or merely abuse or mistreatment, I would say it depends on how severely they are applied. The line is not always a clear one.
But I would say it is time to stop parsing fine distinctions between what is true torture and what is merely "cruel, inhumane and degrading" and say that we don't care where the line is, because either way it is not acceptable.
Yeah, those techniques ain't torture. Other than prolonged application has been known for more than half a century to lead people insane. Just like sensory deprivation isn't torture - even though there is endless evidence that fairly short stints of sensory deprivation and isolation cause permanent psychological trauma.
Don't let the Bart's of the world frame this one! Coercive techniques that are well known to result in permanent psychological damage are torture.
Which would you rather have done to you: have 10 cigarettes put out on your skin, or be put in sensory deprivation for three days? If you answer the latter and haven't had years of meditative training, you answered wrong.
Never forget Orwell's rat cage.
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Bart, are you going to claim that waterboarding does not even rate as "corporal punishment"? Because that is among the thing "prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever" under Article 75.
Most definitely. Corporal punishment is the infliction of pain through beatings.
I was going to reparse for Bart, but found this in rereading the conventions:
Chapter IX. Repression of Abuses and Infractions
Art. 49. The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing, or ordering to be committed, any of the grave breaches of the present Convention defined in the following Article.
Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High Contracting Party concerned, provided such High Contracting Party has made out a prima facie case.
Each High Contracting Party shall take measures necessary for the suppression of all acts contrary to the provisions of the present Convention other than the grave breaches defined in the following Article.
In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by safeguards of proper trial and defence, which shall not be less favourable than those provided by Article 105 and those following, of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949.
Art. 50. Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
Then article 105:
Art 105. The prisoner of war shall be entitled to assistance by one of his prisoner comrades, to defence by a qualified advocate or counsel of his own choice, to the calling of witnesses and, if he deems necessary, to the services of a competent interpreter. He shall be advised of these rights by the Detaining Power in due time before the trial.
Failing a choice by the prisoner of war, the Protecting Power shall find him an advocate or counsel, and shall have at least one week at its disposal for the purpose. The Detaining Power shall deliver to the said Power, on request, a list of persons qualified to present the defence. Failing a choice of an advocate or counsel by the prisoner of war or the Protecting Power, the Detaining Power shall appoint a competent advocate or counsel to conduct the defence.
The advocate or counsel conducting the defence on behalf of the prisoner of war shall have at his disposal a period of two weeks at least before the opening of the trial, as well as the necessary facilities to prepare the defence of the accused. He may, in particular, freely visit the accused and interview him in private. He may also confer with any witnesses for the defence, including prisoners of war. He shall have the benefit of these facilities until the term of appeal or petition has expired.
Particulars of the charge or charges on which the prisoner of war is to be arraigned, as well as the documents which are generally communicated to the accused by virtue of the laws in force in the armed forces of the Detaining Power, shall be communicated to the accused prisoner of war in a language which he understands, and in good time before the opening of the trial. The same communication in the same circumstances shall be made to the advocate or counsel conducting the defence on behalf of the prisoner of war.
The representatives of the Protecting Power shall be entitled to attend the trial of the case, unless, exceptionally, this is held in camera in the interest of State security. In such a case the Detaining Power shall advise the Protecting Power accordingly.
Article 49 (and the preceding articles) does not create exceptions for those who are not members of a protected class (POWs and civilians) or members of High Contracting Parties. This strongly suggests that detainees who are "unlawful combatants" are subject to the laws of the capturing state--with all that entails regarding trial and punishment. However, at the worst such detainees are subject to the punishments in force for the armed forces of the capturing power.
So basically, they are effectively criminals subject to punishment--and should be treated as such since we are party to these portions of the Geneva Conventions. They are entitled to trial and defense, and not to coercive treatment. Since we ratified these conventions, they are our law, and the administration's failure to implement them for years (prior to Bart's vaunted MCA) means that our executive can be considered guilty of violating these Conventions.
IC that "Bart" is up to the same ol' "torture is good"/"it's not 'torture'"/"there's a neat little loophole where anyone that Dubya sez is an 'illegal enemy combatant' falls so we can do anything to them that our little hearts desire" crapola.
The inhumanity appalls and sickens me. Our troops and contractors have beaten to death captives. "Bart" applauds it all, just as the Republicans did at the debate. "Bart" no longer deserves even a civil response on this blog ... past the evasions, the lies, and the sophistry, and the sycophancy, nauseating in itself ... "Bart" has shown himself to be a ready candidate for the Sturmabteilung. And should be treated as such.
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The commentary on Articles 49 & 50 do not add anything to our discussion. Everyone agrees that torture is illegal. The issue is whether the CIA's coercive interrogation techniques meet the legal definitions of torture.
Article 105 discusses the right to representation for captured enemy in a war crimes trial. These rights and more are granted to enemy combatants by the MCA.
There is no requirement to assume that captured enemy combatants will be tried for war crimes and to treat them as de facto criminal defendants. In fact, it is comparatively rare for a capture to be tried as a war criminal. I believe the US has only teed up a handful of the worst al Qaeda for military tribunals.
I believe they do. Among the crimes are "willful killing" which I would believe would apply to the terrorist attacks, as they fall outside of permissible actions (as do the methods of the terrorists) within the conventions. Once captured, under 105, those who are accused of such acts can be tried under the laws of the holding country, which may decide to use their military process. All such accused are entitled to at least the minimum protections of the Geneva Conventions, contrary to your claim that the CIAs coercive interrogation techniques are not employed against lawful enemy combatants who fall under the Geneva Conventions. They're still covered.
Now to bring this into context with your claims, those held at Guantanamo or our other covert prisons (or rendered to other countries for special treatment)have not been given at least those basic protections (whether or not they give them to others, which is covered under the sections above), and were not tried under the laws or military justice of the holding power (us). Yes the MCA (which is a latecomer to the fray) might be considered to cover this, but that is like closing the barn door after the horses have left. We had laws in place to cover these detainees, but refused to apply them. Why were we contravening the protocols of the Geneva Conventions for years? Isn't the right of a speedy trial covered under our own system of laws and military justice systems? You may feel that they are not covered, but the plain text of the Conventions (which are part of our law due to ratification) says they are.
What case authority are you relying on, under American or international law, for your determination that waterboarding, prolonged cold cell (i.e., induced hypothermia), or stress positions, all previously used in the CIA program, are not torture? Or are you just basing this on your own opinion without reference to any case authority?
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Bart: What case authority are you relying on, under American or international law, for your determination that waterboarding, prolonged cold cell (i.e., induced hypothermia), or stress positions, all previously used in the CIA program, are not torture? Or are you just basing this on your own opinion without reference to any case authority?
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