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How to replacing a Ignition Lock Cylinder on a 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan. These procedures are very common on other year/make/models.
On this repair, I will be using a APDTY 035814, which comes completely set-up with new keys and extra tumblers. Having the extra tumblers makes it possible to code the new part to use the original key. Here is a link for instruction on coding the ignition lock cylinder from Dorman.
1.) Disconnect the negitive battery cable. Remove steering column cover retaining screws.
If you are also replacing the Ignition Switch also, you will need to remove the steering column shroud.
1a.) Remove cable from parking brake release handle. Remove screws holding steering shroud.
Then remove the lower steering column shroud.
1b.) Removing the Ignition Switch, use a No. 10 Torx bit, remove the ignition switch mounting screw.
Depress the retaining tab, and gently pry switch from steering column.
2. With ignition switch in RUN position, depress retaining tab. Remove lock cylinder.
To install, reverse removal procedure. Ensure ignition switch and actuator shaft in lock housing are
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This Lock Cylinder was very sticky, so I decided to inspect why. After taking this one apart I found excessive wear well above the normal. After talking to the vehicle owner, he has had this problem for quite a while.


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Copper-alloy boar mount from the Thames foreshore (London) © Courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
The launch on Monday of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure annual reports show that 97,509 finds were recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 2011 (an 8% rise on the previous year) and 970 Treasure cases were reported in the same period (up by 12%).
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now features 820,000 finds with nearly 400,000 images from across England and Wales contributing enormously to the archaeological record. Last year 463,160 people used the website and database, and it also won best research/online collection at the Best of the Web awards 2011 at the Museums and the Web conference.
Increasingly more and more people are becoming aware of the PAS. In July this year Britains Secret Treasures, which highlighted 50 finds recorded through the PAS, was screened primetime on ITV1 from 16-22 July. The series was watched by an average of 3.5M viewers, the highest being 4.2M.
Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum said It is clear from the discoveries reported this year that the Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme goes from strength to strength. The ITV series this year shows just how much these finds have captured the publics imagination and changed our understanding of the past. It is a scheme which is envied the world over. I am very grateful to the Department for Culture Media and Sport for continuing to support the Scheme and to Treasure Hunting magazine who have continued to publish PAS reports . And to other generous funders such as The Headley Trust, Institute for Archaeologists and the Heritage Lottery Fund who support staff to ensure that the Scheme can continue its vital work. As well as the funding bodies who have helped acquire Treasure finds.
Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, said It never ceases to amaze me that such incredibly important objects have survived in the ground for many hundreds of years, waiting to be found by everyday people. Not only are these objects extremely exiting discoveries, but once reported Treasure or recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme they have great potential to rewrite the history of this country, and enrich local and national museums.
Four exciting new discoveries are to be highlighted at the launch this year:
An extremely rare late Iron Age helmet from near Canterbury, Kent.
This copper-alloy helmet was found by a metal- detectorist in October 2012, and the findspot subsequently excavated by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The helmet had been upturned and used as vessel to hold a human cremation. A brooch found with the helmet probably once fastened a bag containing the bones. Both the helmet and brooch date from the early to mid-first century BC. Julia Farley, Iron Age Curator at the British Museum notes This is a very rare find. No other cremation has ever been found in Kent accompanied by a helmet and only a handful of Iron Age helmets are known from Britain. Therefore we think this example was probably made on the continent and it is fascinating to speculate how it came to be in a grave in Kent.
In the middle of the first century BC, Caesar was at war in Gaul (modern France). But as well as being a time of war, it was also a time of travel, communication, connections and change. Mercenaries from Britain had travelled to join the fighting, and it is tempting to believe that the person who owned this helmet might have fought in Gaul, against the Romans or perhaps even alongside them, eventually bringing the helmet with them to Britain. Before Gaul fell, Caesar would make his first expedition to Britain, landing on the shores of Kent not far from where this helmet was found. The owner of this helmet, or the people who placed it in the grave, may have lived through the very beginning of the story of Roman Britain.
The second largest hoard of Roman solidi (gold coins) ever found in Britain.
The discovery was made by a metal-detectorist near to St Albans, Hertfordshire, and reported to his local Finds Liaison Officer. In October 2012 the findspot was excavated by a team of archaeologists from St Albans City and District Museums Service and altogether 159 coins were recovered. The coins date to the late 4th to early 5th century AD (after AD 408 regular supplies of Roman coinage to Britain ceased) and were mostly struck in the Italian cities of Milan and Ravenna and issued under the Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II, Theodosius I, Arcadius and Honorius. The largest hoard of Roman solidi was found at Hoxne in Suffolk in 1992 and comprised 565 solidi. Richard Abdy, Curator of Roman Coins as the British Museum said This is a hugely exciting find. During the period of the Roman occupation of Britain, coins were usually buried for two reasons; as a religious sacrifice to the Gods, or as a secure store of wealth, with the aim of later recovery. The late date of the coins suggests their burial could have been associated with the turbulent separation of Britain from the Roman Empire c. AD 410.
Threat of war or raids may have led to the burial of the coins, as may the prospect of a long journey, or any other risky activity, which could then result in the non-recovery of a hoard and its consequent survival in the archaeological record. Gold solidi were extremely valuable coins and Roman law did not allow them to be spent in everyday marketplace situations. They would have been used for large transactions such as buying land, or goods by the shipload, and were an especially handy source of portable wealth for travellers (in much the same way as gold sovereigns were to Britons abroad prior to travellers cheques or internationally accessible bank accounts). Therefore it is likely that the ancient owners of these coins were very rich, typically Roman elite, merchants or soldiers receiving bulk pay.
The hoard is available to view in the Citi Money Gallery at the British Museum from 4 December.
An important hoard of Viking Age gold and silver metalwork.
In May 2012 Stuart Campbell and Steve Caswell were detecting on farmland near Bedale, North Yorkshire when they found a Viking Age hoard. Much of the material was left by the finders in situ and thereafter recovered by archaeologists from Yorkshire Museums. The hoard consists of an iron sword pommel inlaid with gold foil plaques, four gold hoops (from the hilt of the sword), six small gold rivets (probably from the pommel or hilt), four silver collars and neck-rings, a silver arm-ring, a silver ring fragment, a silver penannular brooch, and 29 silver ingots. Some of the objects, which date to the late 9th to early 10th, are decorated in late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and Viking art styles. Barry Ager, Medieval Curator at the British Museum said At the time the hoard was deposited the north of England was largely under Viking rule, with their capital at York. So the material in this significant hoard probably represents Viking bullion, either obtained by trade, or plundered or extracted from enemies, which could later be melted down and reused for jewellery, or further exchange. It is likely that those who buried this material intended to come back for it, but for reasons unknown to us they were not able.
The Bedale hoard is available to view in Room 2 of the British Museum from 4 December.
Intriguing boar mount associated with Richard III.
Found on the Thames foreshore was this copper-alloy mount in the form of a boar, which was reported to the local Finds Liaison Officer. The mount shows the boar chained, collared and wearing a crown, and it has a crescent (presumably heraldic) above one of its legs.
Michael Lewis, Deputy Head of PAS and Treasure said given the renewed interest in Richard III, after the apparent discovery of his remains in Leicestershire, it is wonderful to have a London find associated with the king. The mount is very similar to a number of boar badges which have been reported Treasure over the past few years, which were made for followers of Richard III (of York), as Duke of Gloucester, during the Wars of the Roses. Richard took the white boar has his sign; bore may have also been an anagram of Ebor, the Latin for York.
Badges in the form of a boar were ordered for use at Richard IIIs coronation (in July 1485) and also for the investiture of his son, Edward, as Prince of Wales (in September). However, it is not certain what the mount from London came from, maybe a piece of furniture or was used to decorate an item of leather once owned by a supporter of Richard III, or possibly even the king himself.
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Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis is a respiratory infection caused by inhaling the
Histoplasma capsulatum, the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, is found in the Central and Eastern United States, Eastern Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It is commonly found in the soil along river valleys. It gets into the soil mostly from bird and bat droppings.
You can get sick when you breathe in spores produced by the fungus. Every year, thousands of people worldwide are infected, but do not become seriously sick. Most people have no symptoms or have only a mild flu-like illness and recover without any treatment.
Risk factors include traveling to or living in the Central or Eastern United States near the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, and being exposed to the droppings of birds and bats. This threat is greatest after an old building is torn down, or when exploring caves. Having a weakened immune system increases your risk for getting or reactivating the disease, and for having more and worse symptoms.
Most people with acute pulmonary histoplasmosis have no or mild symptoms. The most common symptoms are:
- Chest pain
- Chills
- Cough
- Fever
- Joint pain and stiffness
- Muscle aches and stiffness
- Rash (usually small sores on the lower legs called
erythema nodosum)
- Shortness of breath
In the very young, elderly, or people with a compromised immune system, symptoms may be more severe, including:
- Inflammation around the heart (called
- Serious lung infections
- Severe joint pain
Exams and Tests
To diagnose histoplasmosis, the doctor needs to find the fungus or fungal productsin the body, or evidence that your immune system is reacting to the fungus.
Tests include:
- Antibody tests for histoplasmosis (also called serologies)
- Biopsy of infection site
Bronchoscopy(usually only done if symptoms are severe or you have an abnormal immune system) Complete blood count(CBC) with differential Chest CT scan Chest x-ray(might show a lung infection or pneumonia) Sputum culture(often not positive, even if you are infected)
- Urine Histoplasma capsulatum antigen
Most cases of histoplasmosis clear up without specific treatment. Patients are advised to rest and take medication to control fever.
If you are sick for more than4 weeks, immunocompromised,or are having breathing problems, your doctor may prescribe medication. Drugs used to treat this condition include itraconazole and amphotericin B.
Outlook (Prognosis)
When histoplasmosis infection is severe or gets worse, the illness may last for 1 to 6 months. Even then, it is rarely fatal.
It can be a serious illness in people with weak immune systems, such as those who:
- Have AIDS
- Have had bone marrow or solid organ transplants
- Take medications to suppress their immune system
Possible Complications
Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis can get worse over time, or can become chronic pulmonary histoplasmosis (which doesnt go away).
Histoplasmosis can spread to other organs through the bloodstream (dissemination). This is usually seen in infants, young children, and patients with a suppressed immune system.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if:
- You have symptoms of histoplasmosis, especially if you have a weakened immune system or have been recently exposed to bird or bat droppings
- You are being treated for histoplasmosis and develop new symptoms
Avoid contact with bird or bat droppings if you are in an area where the spore is common, especially if you have a weakened immune system.
Deepe GS Jr. Hisoplasma capsulatum. In Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 264.
Kauffman CA. Histoplasmosis. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 340.
Waht LJ, Freifeld AG, Kleiman MB, et al. Clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with histoplasmosis: 2007 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2007; 45(7):807-825.
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Allied Specialty Vehicles Inc. (ASV), a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners (AIP), today (Sept. 21) announced that it has purchased ambulance manufacturer Road Rescue from Spartan Motors Inc. in an asset transaction for $8 million. Road Rescue is a manufacturer of premium Type I and Type III ambulances.
AIP is parent company of Fleetwood RV Inc.
"We're excited to add the Road Rescue brand to our portfolio of ambulance companies. For many years, Road Rescue has been regarded as one of the leading high-end builders of modular ambulances, and under ASV, we anticipate further enhancing that reputation," Randall Swift, president and CEO of Winter Park, Fla.-based ASV, stated in a news release.
ASV, with revenue of approximately $1 billion, is a market leader in three industry segments: Fire & Emergency, Recreational Vehicles, and Bus & Industrial. The company was formed on August 25, 2010, through the combination of four existing portfolio companies of AIP: E-ONE Inc., Collins Industries Inc., and Halcore Group Inc.; with Fleetwood RV Inc. to be combined in the fourth quarter of this year.
American Industrial Partners is an operationally focused middle market private equity firm comprised primarily of multidisciplined engineers and experienced operators which makes control investments in North-American based industrial businesses and implements strategies to grow the earnings of those businesses. AIP has managed three prior funds which totaled over $1 billion and is currently investing its fourth fund, $405.5 million American Industrial Partners Capital Fund IV LP.


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Before we get this thing rolling, I would like to give you a little background about me: I am 28 years old, I live in the lovely capital of Austria, Vienna, and I am studying history here (yeah, for real...). I earn my money being a self-employed IT-consultant, mostly doing small companies with Windows desktops, Windows or Linux servers, removing viruses, updating websites, all the small stuff. I have been into Linux for about three years now, and I have been an avid user of Red Hat Linux ever since. That dates back to 2002, when I really wanted to like Mandrake, but every release of Red Hat seemed to be a bit less buggy and more stable. Until Red Hat 7.3, I used the KDE desktop, with 8.0 I switched to Gnome (and that's pretty much the reason why I use Fedora today).
I have installed Fedora Core 2 on two computers here: one is an old PIII, 256 RAM, IDE drives, some old 4MB GPU, PS2 keyboard and mouse, really nothing special. The second computer is my - much beloved - Compaq Presario 2815 that i bought two years ago: PIV mobile, 512 RAM, 30 GB IDE drive, ATI Radeon 7500 GPU, USB mouse. Both systems have already seen everything from Red Hat 7.3 - Fedora Core 1 (and Mandrake 8.x to 9.x), and I can't recall any installation problems ever.
Before the installations, I was a little frightened of the 2.6 kernel hardware support, and, since both systems dualboot Windows XP, I was thrilled if I get caught by the infamous dual-boot-bug. I was not that frightened, because, after all, this is not a Fedora-specific bug, but a kernel2.6 bug, and it also happens with Suse 9.1 and Mandrake 10. So I thought, it can't be THAT bad, these systems have been out for some time. Also, I don't have any firewire stuff, so I didn't mind that firewire was disabled in FC2.
I didn't really care about the old PIII, it's just there for backup-reasons. I had the backup-hd removed during installation, and I knew I could set it up again easily enough. Installation on this computer went without a problem, I just deleted the old Linux partitions, let the installer create new ones behind the NTFS-partition, selected personal desktop and that was about it. I was able to boot Windows, I was able to boot Linux, and I got a chance to see if immediate upgrading of my notebook would be worth it. Of course, since my notebook featured a rock-solid, finetuned Fecora Core 1 installation, immediate upgrading would have NOT been necessary. Oh well... I chucked CD1 in, deleted my everyday-I-love-it-and-can't-live-without-it system and went for the new thing...
Again, the installation went without a hitch. And I was lucky. No bug again. (Not that I'd really need the Windows XP installation. I boot it about once a month and the only thing I do is upgrade my virus-definitions. Duh.). The whole installation process took about 20-30 minutes, I just installed the default "Personal Desktop", around 2GB of software. All hardware was detected properly (I don't know if the winmodem is set up correctly but I couldn't care less).
Ok, on to my regulars: first of all, I had to edit fstab to mount my data drive (a FAT32 partition that sits between my Windows and Linux installs, you probably guessed it). Routine for me, still someone at Red Hat should do something about this. This should be automatic. You can do it during the partitioning of the installation, but that's also not too intuitive :-)
Ok, Mozilla - check. Openoffice - check. Gimp - check. Gaim - check. Rhythmbox - check. Let's add some of my day-to-day software: I opened the package installation tool, and installed the samba packages, K3B, Mozilla Mail, XMMS (which is surprisingly not installed by default) and gFTP (same here). I set up Mozilla Mail, copied my mail directory back and checked mail (I am sitting behind a DHCP'ed router, so internet connection was there without any further configuring). Surfing the web, checking mail, and my Windows install was not trashed. Good stuff :-)
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
My LEE family Surname
The first KNOWN Lee in our line, of whom we are aware is Richard Lee. Richard was born December 16, 1830 in Buchanan County, VA. He married to Nancy Fuller, she was the daughter of John Fuller and Christina Rasnick.
Richard Lee and his wife, Nancy Fuller Lee had several children including James Hamilton Lee, born 1857 in Buchanan County, VA. Grandpa James married Sarah Lockhart in 1900. Sarah was from Pike County, Kentucky.
James Hamilton Lee and Sarah Lockhart Lee had one child, my grandfather, Charles Compton Lee. Sarah died in childbirth and my grandfather was raised by her sister, Julie Lockhart Blankenship and her husband, Mont Blankenship. He went by the last name "Blankenship" at times.
Charles Compton Lee married Mary Ethel Smith Lee and they had eleven children, ten of whom reached adulthood. My mother was the third oldest. Opal Virginia Lee married Joseph Francis Jr. on December 3, 1949 in the Pike County Courthouse with Justice of the Peace, Noah Hobbs officiating.
And that brings me to... well... ME. Geneva France Burton Coleman.
I will fill in some more information about my Lee Surname and the other Surnames mentioned here, including FULLER, LOCKHART, and SMITH in subsequent posts. Until next time..happy hunting for your family!
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Finished the season with a 9-6 record, including 4-0 at the No. 6 .... Dominated Lydia Smith from Brown, 11-3, 11-2, 11-1, Nov. 19 … Swept Stanford's Serena Fagan 11-2, 11-4, 11-9 … Beat Melina Turk of Dartmouth, 3-0, Dec. 1 … Won over Lauren Sachvie of Cornell, 3-1 ... Downed Stephanie Cabot from Bates, 11-4, 11-3, 11-3 ... Won the No. 4 match in Harvard's 9-0 win in the first round of the 2011 CSA National Team Championship against Cornell ... Went 1-2 at the 2011 CSA Individual National Championship.
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Named to CSA All-America second team ... Stood at 4-5 at the No. 1 slot ... Began season with a 4-0 record after downing opponents from Brown, Williams, Dartmouth and Cornell.
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Garnered First Team All-America honors in her freshman campaign ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Year and was named to the All-Ivy First Team ... Had the longest run of any Harvard women's player in the 2008 CSA National Championship "A" bracket, advancing to the national semifinals ... Began season with a 4-0 record, defeating opponents from Brown, Stanford, Dartmouth and Cornell ... Captured key wins against Stanford and Dartmouth in consolation rounds of the Howe Cup ... Finished season with a 6-6 record at No. 1 and a 9-7 overall mark.
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Both Havelock and Orange entered Friday�s eastern 3A regional championship game giving up just 10 points per game.
Both Havelock and Orange entered Friday�s eastern 3A regional championship game giving up just 10 points per game. In a battle of the best defenses, Havelock came out on top, clearly.
The Rams forced two turnovers, as Pharoh Cooper and Julian Cuthbertson each recovered fumbles. For Cooper, who plays safety, it was his first fumble recovery of the year.
�I don�t think I ever had one before,� said Cooper. �I know it�s my first one this year.�
Meanwhile, Havelock also recorded three sacks, two coming at a crucial time when Orange had driven to the Ram 30-yard line in the second quarter. Anthony Fisher and Kendall Vickers recorded sacks to end that Panthers scoring threat, and Fisher combined with Maurice Harris on another sack in the third quarter.
Havelock�s defense also held on fourth down in the first quarter when the Panthers were making a bid to take the lead. Also key was a tackle by Taylor Woods on Orange running back Jamal Pittman for a loss of 2 yards on a third-and-1 from at the 42-yard line in the third quarter.
In all, Orange totaled just 98 yards on 34 rushes for a 2.9-yard per carry average and totaled just 216 yards for the contest.
Center of attention
Havelock center Michael Howard is the smallest of the Rams� starting offensive linemen at 175 pounds. Orange High School countered with nose tackle Jake Frederick, who is listed at 295 pounds. Despite the size difference, the Rams had no problems blocking Orange�s big defensive front.
Howard at one point had to leave the game for a few plays in the first quarter with a bloody mouth and was replaced by David Lynch, who also is listed as 175 pounds.
No matter, the Rams scored on the drive anyway, getting a 13-yard touchdown run from Cooper.
Just for kicks
After Orange returned Havelock�s opening pooch kickoff 52 yards inside the Ram 25-yard line and converted it into a tying touchdown in the first quarter, Noah Kemble was directed to kick the ball deep the rest of the night.
Known as a standout soccer player for the Rams, Kemble drilled consistently high and deep kickoffs � and along with good kickoff coverage - kept Orange pinned inside its own 30-yard line the rest of the night. Kemble also had a touchback on one of his kickoffs.
Meanwhile, fellow kicker Dylan Baker hit on all six of his extra point attempts for the Rams.
Balanced offense
Havelock�s spread offense is known as a wide-open offense, but the Rams were remarkably balanced against Orange.
The Rams totaled 262 yards rushing and 258 yards passing in the contest.
�We�ve got great linemen, great receivers and great running backs,� said Cooper, who threw for 248 yards and rushed for another 98, accounting for four touchdowns from the quarterback position. �I thank my team every time I get a chance to because they really make some holes.�
Not about football
No one could blame Havelock sophomore linebacker Joey Godette if his mind wasn�t completely on football on Friday night. Godette�s home caught fire on Thanksgiving night, and the structure was considered a total loss. Godette and eight others staying at the home for the holiday escaped unhurt.
Still, Godette lost everything in the fire, and the family does not have renter�s insurance. A collection was taken up during the game to help the family, a collection to which many fans from Orange High School donated, drawing applause from Havelock fans when it was announced over the stadium loud speaker.
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I bet they all but laughed in his face, then kicked him to the curb. In fact, I'm shocked they even granted him an audience, to even pitch his movie to them. o_0
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On a side note, I've lost enough of my life to WoW... no way in hell am I going to watch a raid onscreen and not get epic loot!
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K's nursery was pieced together with the intention of creating a fun, whimsical, "make me wanna smile" space to enjoy. My husband and I love to spend time in the nursery with our little man and we think (hope) he enjoys it as much as we do.
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CHAPIN, SC (WIS) - Lexington-Richland School District Five made no decision Monday night on whether or not to terminate a teacher in the district who ignited a nationwide controversy after he allegedly threw down an American flag and stomped on it in front of his classes as part of a lesson.
District spokesperson Mark Bounds said the district's investigation into the matter is over. Superintendent Dr. Stephen Hafter has made the recommendation to the school board to fire Chapin High School teacher Scott Compton.
According to the South Carolina Teacher and Employment Dismissal Act, Compton has 15 days to respond to the request for termination. If he appeals, he has the right to a hearing before the board to prove his case.
The board discussed the matter behind closed doors at its packed meeting Monday night at Chapin High School. There was plenty of talk about the subject during the public comment portion of the meeting.
A retired Vietnam veteran, Tom Fincher with Chapin's American Legion Post, told the crowd he would like for the board to consider allowing a flag disposal ceremony to take place at the school's campus. He said that's the only way to bring closure to the issue.
"We're for anything that enhances respect for the American flag," said Fincher. "That flag we served under, died under. It is more than a piece of cloth."
Parents, on the other hand, said the closure they want to see is Compton removed from the classroom
"Based on this person's actions, this teacher is not a role model for my children," said one parent. "And is the epitome of who I don't want my children to grow up to be."
The district placed Compton on administrative leave after parents characterized his lessons as disrespectful and unpatriotic.
When Michael Copeland overheard his teenager talking about what her honors II English teacher did with the flag in their classroom, he pressed for details.
"He drew a couple of symbols, like one of them was a cross, and he said, 'What does this represent,' and everybody said, 'Christianity,'" said Copeland.
"Then he proceeds to take down the American flag, and said, 'This is a symbol, but it's only a piece of cloth. It doesn't mean anything,' and then he throws it down on the floor and then stomps on it, repeatedly."
"I asked what was he trying to get, the point across? And she said, 'I don't know,' and he said, his explanation was there would be no consequences, it's just a piece of cloth that doesn't mean anything."
But there are consequences.
"Our superintendent served in the military, I served in the military for 20 years, our flag is a symbol of our freedom, and so many people have fought and died for that liberty, and so we take this action very seriously," said Mark Bounds, a spokesperson for Lexington-Richland 5.
Compton repeated the lesson in three classes that day, prompting a full investigation. After an unrelated incident at Dutch Fork where a teacher was suspended for a political sign in her room, officials say teachers know better.
"There is a code of ethics for teachers that talks about professional conduct, and then we tell our teachers that their personal opinion is their personal opinion and shouldn't be brought into the classroom, and so we caution them all the time," said Bounds.
Copeland believes telling students the 50 stars symbolize the 50 states, the red and white stripes, symbolize the original 13 colonies might have been a better way.
"He totally ignored what I consider what would have been an excellent teaching point to just simply throw the flag down and show no respect to it at all and to the people that it means a whole lot to," said Copeland.
The class was told they'd have a permanent replacement for Compton for the remainder of the year.
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More than 100 Britons arrive in Malta after Libya evacuation
More than 100 Britons have arrived in Malta after being evacuated from Libya, where fighting between rival armed factions has spread in the capital.
The British survey ship HMS Enterprise evacuated 110 Britons. The British ambassador to Libya, Michael Aron, said the group included 30 children, 12 infants, four pregnant women and one elderly and sick person.
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110 Britons arrive in Malta after Libya evacuation
More than 100 Britons have arrived in Malta after being evacuated from Libya, where fighting between rival armed factions has spread in the capital.
The British survey ship HMS Enterprise evacuated 110 Britons. The British ambassador to Libya, Michael Aron, said the group included 30 children, 12 infants, four pregnant women and one elderly and sick person.
Britain was one of the last Western countries with an embassy open in Tripoli after the weeks of street fighting forced the United States, the United Nations and European diplomatic staff to leave.
Also on board the Enterprise was a small number of Irish and German people.
Royal Navy ship evacuates Britons from Libya
Around 100 Britons have been evacuated from Libya on a Royal Navy ship, according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
Among them were staff from the UK embassy that was forced to shut down against a backdrop of deadly fighting between rival militias in the north African state.
An FCO spokesman said: "We have carried out an assisted departure and the vessel is leaving Libya with those on board. The majority of them are British."
The ship which departed from Libya's captial Tripoli, is heading for Malta.
Assisted departure of Brits from Libya 'under way'
The Foreign Office has confirmed the assisted departure of British nationals from Libya "is under way".
Earlier today 22 people were killed in the Libyan capital of Tripoli as heavily-armed groups fight for control of the international airport.
Report: Royal Navy to 'help evacuate Britons from Libya'
The Royal Navy is reported to be preparing to evacuate Britons from Libya amid escalating violence in the north African state.
Sky News reported that the survey ship HMS Enterprise is heading for the port of Tripoli and is expected to moor offshore on Sunday.
The Ministry of Defence declined to comment on the reports. An MoD spokesman said: "As the FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) has made clear, the UK Government will provide assisted departure for a number of UK nationals before suspending consular operations on Monday."
"For operational reasons we will not discuss further details including whether, and in what ways, the MoD could support these efforts."
Violence in Libya forces British embassy to shut down
Escalating violence in Libya has prompted the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to shut down its embassy in the country.
Many staff were evacuated earlier this week following intense fighting in Tripoli but now the FCO says it will suspend its consulate once it has assisted the departure of British nationals.
British Ambassador to Libya Michael Aron wrote on Twitter:
"The protection of our staff is paramount, and we assess that the current environment in Tripoli does not allow us to operate safely. We have therefore decided temporarily to relocate UK-based staff from the country," an FCO spokesman said.
Group of Britons leave Libya on board French boat
A group of UK nationals has left Libya on a French boat following the escalation in violence between rival militias in and around the capital, Tripoli.
"A small group of British nationals left Tripoli this morning on board a French frigate," a Foreign Office spokesperson said.
"Our advice remains that British nationals should leave by commercial means still available, and we are monitoring the situation and keeping our advice under constant review."
Libya: Huge fire as rockets hit fuel tanks near Tripoli
A rocket attack on fuel tanks near Tripoli airport in Libya has caused a huge "out of control" fire as clashes between rival militias intensified.
"It is out of control. The second tank has been hit and the firefighters have withdrawn from the site as the fighting has resumed in the area", the National Oil Company Mohamed Al-Harrai told Reuters.
Libya asks for international help amid fighting
Libya has asked for international help after an oil depot caught fire amid clashes over the country's international airport in Tripoli.
The country's interim government said in a statement posted on its website that the fighting between rival militias caused the blaze, which could trigger a "humanitarian and environmental disaster."
It appealed for "international help" but did not specify what sort of help it wants.
Libyan TV stations called on residents to evacuate areas within a three-mile radius of the airport. Many Libyan families responded to the call and scrambled to leave their homes.
Dozens killed in Libya as western diplomats flee
At least 36 people were killed during the weekend's clashes between Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants in Benghazi, security officials said.
The government said more than 150 people have died, many of them civilian, in the capital Tripoli and Benghazi in two weeks of fighting as clashes forced UK and other foreign diplomats to pull out of the country.
France and Germany join UK with orders to leave Libya
France and Germany have joined Britain in calling on their citizens in Libya to leave the country amid the worst violence since the war that brought the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.
The United States evacuated its embassy in Libya yesterday with diplomats driven across the border into Tunisia under heavy military escort after rising trouble in Tripoli.


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Michigan's Burke, Baylor's Griner win John R. Wooden Awards in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES – Trey Burke of national runner-up Michigan won the John R. Wooden Award on Friday night, completing the sophomore guard's sweep of the major player of the year awards.
Brittney Griner of Baylor won the women's award for the second consecutive year.
Burke picked up his award with Wolverines coach John Beilein, Burke's parents and both sets of his grandparents in the audience at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Burke is the first Michigan player to win in the award's 37-year history.
He was announced as the winner at last weekend's Final Four in Atlanta.
Burke also won the Naismith and Associated Press national player of the year trophies.
"The heaviest has to be the Naismith," Burke said about his hardware. "I would say the Wooden is my favorite because Wooden was so critical to so many people's lives. So many people praise him and what he stood for as a coach on and off the court that I feel so honored to be here."
Burke received 2,808 points in voting by national basketball media, beating out Victor Oladipo of Indiana by 90 points in the closest outcome since 2006, when Duke's J.J. Redick finished 72 points ahead of Gonzaga's Adam Morrison.
Voting ended after the third round of the NCAA tournament.
Burke averaged 18.8 points and 6.8 assists in helping the Wolverines to the school's first Final Four since 1993. They lost to Louisville 82-76 in the NCAA championship game on Monday night, when Burke scored 24 points.
"He said if he could he would have traded all these awards for a national championship," Burke's mother, Ronda, said.
It's been a whirlwind month for Burke and Beilein, both of whom were still absorbing the loss that ended the season.
"I'm coming to more peace now," Beilein said. "I watched the game on the plane and that hurt. We understand the magical season we had."
Burke said, "We were all emotional. We exceeded a lot of people's expectations."
As he was winning award after award, Burke chafed a bit at the extra attention on him.
"It was awkward for him because he wanted his team to win first," Beilein said. "It was a bit overwhelming. We got him to smile a few times, but it was like, 'Who do we play next?'"
Burke said he would announce Sunday whether he'll return to Michigan or enter the NBA draft.
"He's listened to some of the birdies in the air," Ronda Burke said. "He's at a point in his life where he can put everything in front of him and make the best decision."
Doug McDermott of Creighton was third with 2,344 points. Otto Porter Jr. of Georgetown was fourth, followed by Kelly Olynyk of Gonzaga, Shane Larkin of Miami, Cody Zeller of Indiana, Mason Plumlee of Duke, Deshaun Thomas of Ohio State, and Ben McLemore of Kansas.
Griner is the fourth woman to win back-to-back Wooden awards since the trophy was first given out in 2004. She averaged 23.8 points — third-best in the country — and 4.14 blocked shots as a senior, and finished her career as the No. 2 scorer in NCAA history.
Griner didn't attend for the second straight year because she is in Hartford, Conn., ahead of next week's WNBA draft.
She received 1,230 points, beating out runner-up Skylar Diggins of Notre Dame by 87 points in voting by national basketball media. Elena Delle Donne of Delaware finished third; Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford was fourth; and Griner's teammate, Odyssey Sims, was fifth. Only Ogwumike and Sims were present.
Voting concluded after the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Kansas' Bill Self received the Legends of Coaching award from Wooden's daughter, Nan.


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NMU placed Second in the Medium School category at the 2014 Loyal E. Horton's Dining Awards, a National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) competition.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Ohio Valley Conference coaches and sports information directors have spoken, and two of the top five players in the league belong to Tennessee Tech.
Senior guard Kevin Murphy and junior guard Jud Dillard were named to the All-OVC First Team on Tuesday, tying Tech with Murray State for most players named on the squad.
The All-OVC selection was Murphy's second after being named to the First Team a season ago. The honor was Dillard's first.
"They've both worked really hard and they're both certainly deserving," said head coach Steve Payne. "Jud is one of the most improved players in our league and he has a tremendous amount of toughness. Kevin has had a big-time year."
Murphy leads the OVC and ranks 12th in NCAA Division I in scoring, averaging 20.6 per contest. He moved into second on Tech's all-time scoring list when he became the first and only player in the nation to score 50 points in a game this season on Jan. 30 against SIU Edwardsville.
Murphy has 1,957 career points and will become Tech's all-time leader in games played when he steps on the floor Thursday for the OVC Tournament quarterfinals. He has scored in double-figures in 25 of Tech's 30 games this season, recorded 20-plus points in 16 outings and scored more than 30 four times.
The Atlanta, Ga., native has shot 42.9 percent from three-point range, an efficiency rate that ranks fourth in the league, and has averaged 2.4 threes per outing, ranking second in the conference.
Dillard is the OVC's leading rebounder and ranks fourth in the league in scoring. The Riverdale, Ga., native is averaging 18.0 points per contest and pulling down 8.7 boards, numbers that put him in the top 60 in NCAA Division I in both categories.
He upped his scoring average more than seven points from his sophomore season and improved his rebounding numbers by more than three boards an outing. He also posts a field-goal percentage of 52.3, also good enough to rank in the NCAA's top 60.
Dillard has posted eight double-doubles and scored in double-figures in 27 of 30 games. He has led Tech in rebounding in 25 games.
Ninth-ranked Murray State nearly swept the league's superlative awards with Isaiah Canaan winning Player of the Year, Jewuan Long taking Defensive Player of the Year and Steve Prohm being named Coach of the Year. UT Martin's Myles Taylor was named Freshman of the Year.
OVC Player of the Year: Isaiah Canaan, Murray State
OVC Defensive Player of the Year: Jewuan Long, Murray State
OVC Freshman of the Year: Myles Taylor, UT Martin
OVC Coach of the Year: Steve Prohm, Murray State
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Isaiah Canaan, Murray State
Robert Covington, Tennessee State
Kevin Murphy, Tennessee Tech
Donte Poole, Murray State
Jud Dillard, Tennessee Tech
All-OVC Second Team:
Jaron Jones, Eastern Kentucky
Tyler Stone, Southeast Missouri
John Fraley, Austin Peay
Jeremy Granger, Eastern Illinois
Ivan Aska, Murray State
Mark Yelovich, SIUE
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Myles Taylor, UT Martin
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Rafael Nadal's ailing left knee may still bother him for a few more weeks, his coach said Monday.
Nadal practiced for 90 minutes with Nicolas Massu of Chile on Monday, his fourth straight day of training since arriving in the country for his first match in more than seven months.
Nadal opens up Tuesday in the VTR Open, playing doubles with Argentina's Juan Monaco. On Wednesday, he will play singles in the second round against the winner of a first-round match between Argentines Guido Pella and Federico Delbonis.
"The knee is much better, but they've told us he will feel some discomfort and lack of mobility until the end of the month," said Toni Nadal, the seven-time French Open champion's coach and uncle. "But it's definitely getting better."
Nadal has avoided surgery so far, getting therapy in hopes of speeding the healing. But the slow recovery from the inflamed knee means Nadal has been trying to lower expectations as he uses three Latin American clay-court tournaments to prepare for a run at an eighth French Open title.
Nadal has practiced in Chile wearing a white bandage around his knee.
"The bandage is normal and is part of the treatment," his coach said.
Nadal will be watched closely in doubles Tuesday, which is meant to give him extra playing time on top of his matches in singles.
His uncle has called the small Chilean tournament "our first French Open."
Nadal has the best clay-court record in the Open Era, winning 93 percent of his matches. Many will expect him to sweep through this event as he would in the first week of the French Open, perhaps without dropping a set. Anything less will add to speculation about his future and could add pressure.
"His game is much better than when we got here," Toni Nadal said. "It was better yesterday and even better today. We're looking to the doubles as an added test."


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Bad case of the creeping crud
I don't feel well. I have a little fever, chills, chest congestion, a cough, a drippy nose, aches and pains. Dennis wants to go shopping for a new (different) pickup truck this afternoon, but he may have to go alone.
Flu has hit my store, leaving various departments with no one to work. I suspect that's where I picked up the bug, from a sick co-worker or customer. I'm off work for the weekend, so I won't have to call in sick. I hope I'll feel better by Monday.
St. Peter and Paul School in Hopkinsville closed a few days recently to interrupt their flu cycle. The public schools haven't been closed yet, though they've had reduced attendance several days.
Isaac ran a fever of nearly 102° for a couple of days. I took him to the doctor, thinking he might have a strep infection. The doctor ruled that out but gave him antibiotics for bronchitis. A couple of weeks later, his coughing is not as severe, but still persistent.
I didn't get a flu shot, though I should have. It wasn't convenient for me to get one. My store needs to offer flu shots, but I suppose they think their employee turnover is so great that it wouldn't be a money-saving proposition.
Anyway, I've read that some of the flu viruses that are around currently don't match the viruses in this year's flu vaccine. Sometimes the flu viruses outsmart the vaccine makers.
By the way, why do you suppose so many clip-art images show sick men and children, with women taking care of them? I guess it's because we're naturally tough. (Usually, that is.)


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Enzymes convert starch to sugar. It makes sense to me that an increase in enzyme activity would increase the efficiency of converting starch to sugar.
Don't go out and buy blue spray paint for your boil kettle to try to up your "efficiency".
Just read this in Beer Smith under mash profiles help.
FWIW, here's the quote from the mash profile section of the help...you decide....."The light body profiles mash at a lower temperature resulting in higher enzyme activity and a cleaner lighter overall profile. Full body profiles mash at a higher temperature resulting in less enzymatic activity and more unfermentable sugars in the finished beer - providing a fuller body to the finished beer."
Others might beg to differ, but in my experience...Mash temperature has negligible effect on efficiency. Ditto for mash time. Ditto for water to grain ratio (i.e., qts/lb). If you mash in some water at 148 to 154 F for 40+ minutes, you're going to make beer at an efficiency that is mostly affected only by the extent of the crush. Beyond the crush, very little matters.My experience. YMMV... but I doubt it.
+ 1 for everything Dave mentions, excepting that runoff time is the next most important variable after crush. Those two factors are what I feel are the most important for efficiency.


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Published: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The Defence Department won't start figuring out what to do with its Joint Task Force 2 commando base south of Ottawa for at least another year, says the head of the country's special forces.
Col. Michael Day said an environmental assessment still has to be done for JTF2's new home in Trenton, Ont. Once that is finished, along with the development of a more firm construction schedule for the new Trenton installation, then the department can start looking at the future of the facility near Ottawa known Dwyer Hill.
"I don't think we'll initiate the look for how we're going to deal with Dwyer Hill until we have a better sense of the environmental assessment and the construction timeline," Day said.
The department would likely turn its attention to determining the future of the Dwyer Hill Training Centre in another year to 18 months, he suggested. "I think it's premature to look before then," said Day, head of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command.
JTF2, which expanded in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., has outgrown the Ottawa installation.
The federal government announced in September the unit would relocate to Canadian Forces Base Trenton in eastern Ontario.
The process of dealing with the future of 80-hectare Dwyer Hill base will consist of two phases. One will be an examination of whether the Defence Department has a need for the counter-terrorism training facility.
Day said he doesn't see the country's special forces having a continued use for the base. "At the moment, I don't predict an urgent need or an operational requirement to keep it . . . but again, we're talking multiple years, so my situation may change," he added.
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"[It was a] good match overall," men's assistant coach Mike Sherman said. "The Bisons are making good decisions out there and playing with great energy. We just need to execute when we get opportunities on break points and set points, and it will all come together."
Austin Peay gained an early lead on the Bisons when they swept the doubles point.
Strecker and senior Joe McArdle fell to Henrique Norbiato and Sean Bailey 8-4 at the No. 1 doubles spot, while sophomore Colby Shaw and freshman David Salazar came up just shy of a win at No. 2, falling to Jasmin Ademovic and Remi Calleja in a tiebreaker 8-7 (10).
Senior Mario Hernandez and freshman Miguel Cortez were defeated by Joao Pagan and John Storie 8-5 at No. 3.
With a 1-0 deficit, the Bisons entered singles play but went on to post only one win.
Strecker came back in the third set to defeat Norbiato at the No. 1 singles spot, winning 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 and recording the Bisons' lone win for the night.
At No. 2, Salazar was defeated by Ademovic 6-2, 6-3, while Shaw fell at No. 3 to Bailey 6-3, 6-1.
Hernandez came up short at No. 3, falling to Calleja 6-4, 6-3. At No. 4, Cortez fell just short of taking the match to a third set, losing in a second set tiebreaker 6-3, 7-6 (5). Sophomore Daniel Lee also played a solid match but was unable to pull out a victory, losing to Storie in a third set tiebreaker 2-6, 7-6(5), 10-8.
The Bisons are back in action Friday, February 11th, when they face North Alabama at Richland Country Club.
Henrique Norbiato/ Sean Bailey (APSU) def. Oliver Strecker/ Joe McArdle (LU) 8-4
Jasmin Ademovic/ Remi Calleja (APSU) def. Colby Shaw/ David Salazar (LU) 8-7(10)
Joao Pagan/ John Storie (APSU) def. Mario Hernandez/ Miguel Cortez (LU) 8-5
Oliver Strecker (LU) def. Henrique Norbiato (APSU) 6-2, 5-7, 6-1
Jasmin Ademovic (APSU) def. David Salazar (LU) 6-2, 6-3
Sean Bailey (APSU) def. Colby Shaw (LU) 6-3, 6-1
Remi Calleja (APSU) def. Mario Hernandez (LU) 6-4, 6-3
Joao Pagan (APSU) def. Miguel Cortez (LU) 6-3, 7-6(5)
John Storie (APSU) def. Daniel Lee (LU) 2-6, 7-6(5), 10-8
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News note: G-8 Ministerial Meeting on Education, Moscow, 1-2 June
12 June 2006 - The G8 Ministers of Education met in Moscow on 1-2 June 2006 to confirm their commitment to cooperation in education at all levels in the 21st century. The meetings objectives included assessing the availability of education at all levels, the progress made on the program of lifelong learning, the development of the UN Education for All program, and the expansion of the educational system to integrate immigrants into society. Ministers reaffirmed their countries' commitment to support achieving the Millennium Development Goals of universal primary completion and gender equality at all levels of education, and to helping countries to achieve the goals of the Education for All (EFA) agenda.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
A Presentation on National Security Certificates
I have mixed feelings about the conference as a whole. The first day was mostly non-academic presentations, and tomorrow and Friday are reserved for scholarly material. I went to the first session today, which was basically given by the organizers to the military as a vehicle to sell Canada's role in the occupation of Afghanistan. It actually would've been good to take detailed notes and use that to dissect the military's justifications for the war in a post on this blog, but it didn't occur to me until too late. There was some useful information about what's going on in Afghanistan, or at least the military's particular take on that, but it was mostly a pretty unpleasant experience -- lots of racist-sexist silliness about it being all a noble campaign to save helpless Afghan women and patronizing stuff that amounted to these lesser people having no idea how to do basic things without Western tutelage. There was even one frightening General -- a relic of Cold War fanaticism, I guess -- who kept saying outrageous things, like actually using the expression "red hordes," without any hint of irony, when describing the post World War II purpose of the Canadian army reserves.
In my session there was a graduate student who talked about work on security issues at the municipal level in Sudbury, which was probably interesting but he presented in French and I was too preoccupied with my own stuff to give it the kind of concentration that it would've taken me to get even the basics. There was also someone from the War Resisters Support Campaign, who made some interesting points.
I didn't stick around for the afternoon session. I figure I'll go to one of the sessions tomorrow, in which a friend is presenting, but I'm not sure how much time I can spare, otherwise -- this has been kind of an intense week on multiple levels and I have a lot of work that hasn't been getting done.
Anyway, here is the text of what I presented:
Hello. As __________ said, my name is Scott Neigh. Among other things, I'm a member of a group called Sudbury Against War and Occupation, which is some local residents of this city who are doing what we can to oppose war and occupation, broadly understood, as well the many nasty things that go with them. I want to thank the organizers for the opportunity to speak today about one of those nasty things, so-called "national security certificates," which we regard as a very negative domestic consequence of Canada's involvement in and support of war and occupation.
Now, I say I'm here to talk about security certificates, but that really means I'm talking about people. I'm here to talk about the five men – all Muslim and all racialized – who are currently in the security certificate process. Their names are Adil Charkauoi, Mohammed Harkat, Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohammad Mahjoub, and Hassan Almrei. If you look ______ you will see posters with pictures of these men and a little information about them. So I'm talking about them. I'm talking about their families. I'm talking about their communities. It's easy to hear a lot of the things that I have to say as abstract injustices, as wrongheaded ideas, and even at that level they are bad enough; but they are also things that are being done to people.
Security certificates are a legal mechanism that the Canadian state can use to indefinitely detain non-citizens, including refugees, refugee claimants, and permanent residents, and ultimately deport them. They have existed in Canadian law since 1976, though their form has shifted over time. New legislation was just passed earlier this year, in fact, because early last year the Supreme Court of Canada found the existing security certificate regime to be unconstitutional. However, little is fundamentally different in the new legislation.
Those of us who oppose the security certificate process have a number of grounds for doing so. One version of the quick, bullet point list would be: two-tier justice, secret trials, shocking lack of due process, and deportation to torture.
They work like this: The first thing to keep in mind is, as I said, that this process cannot be invoked against human beings who have access to the legal category of "citizen", and is only used against human beings who do not. To set this process is motion, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, or CSIS, recommends it and two cabinet ministers must sign off on it. Then the targeted individual is detained.
Some time later, the certificate is reviewed by a Federal Court judge. The information for the review is provided by CSIS. This information can contain hearsay and all manner of speculative, unverifiable material, as well as information based on racial profiling. The legislation quite openly permits CSIS to submit information that would be inadmissable in a court of law, and even the judge does not get full disclosure from CSIS. Other serious problems have been raised with the ways in which CSIS goes about collecting and compiling information. The detained person and the lawyer of their choice never get to know the allegations or whatever detailed supporting information might exist for them, and only a very abbreviated, highly pruned summary is released. Needless to say, the public is also forced to remain ignorant about why public servants acting in our name are depriving fellow human beings of their liberty. The standard for the judge to make a decision in the review based on this information is far, far lower than the standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" that is used in criminal proceedings. The only way for this process to end is deportation – which, by the way, the government has shown a willingness to pursue even when their own assessments have determined that the detained individual is at risk of torture or death if they are deported.
The version of the law passed this year makes a number of changes over the previous legislation, though they are largely superficial changes. One of the most visible shifts is the system of "special advocates." What happens is the government, using the device of the security clearance assessment, assembles a list of lawyers that it finds acceptable. So you are starting from a list put together by the very entity that is targeting these individuals and harassing their communities. For the judicial review of the certificate, the detained individual is then assigned one of these "special advocates" by a Federal Court judge – the detainee gets to provide some input into which one, but the final decision rests with the judge. The special advocate then gets to see the secret information that CSIS has submitted to the court (which, remember, is not necessarily everything anyway). And once the advocate has seen the secret evidence she can no longer communicate with the detained individual, except in rare instances when special dispensation is given by the judge. They cannot even ask basic questions like, "Where were you on the night of October 28th?" and so on, which means they are forbidden to engage in most of the routine activities that lawyers need to do to gather information to respond to accusations against their clients. A similar system has been used in Britain, and it has been roundly criticized as a failure. It seems clear that the main impact of instituting a special advocate system in Canada will be to make it less obvious to the casual observer that what you really have is not due process, but a secret trial.
There were a few other changes introduced in the newest version of the legislation, again mostly cosmetic. There are some changes to the rules for speed and frequency of review of the detention, though the experience of the men currently detained indicates that minor shifts in the rules on paper don't necessarily mean much in practice. As well, certain kinds of appeals are allowed now when they weren't before, though other kinds that were previously allowed are now prohibited.
Another highly touted change was that the new legislation states that information believed to have been obtained as a result of torture is inadmissable. There is something profoundly sick about the idea that information obtained from torture has ever been openly acceptable in our legal system, so this change, however symbollic it is, is good. However, it is hard to see how this can actually be implemented in practice in a meaningful way. As long as CSIS gets information from U.S. and other foreign intelligence sources, there is just no way for them to be sure that it hasn't been obtained by torture. Even CSIS's own oversight body, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, admitted in a 2006 report that CSIS could not absolutely guarantee that information from such sources was not tainted by torture.
So even with these changes, the legislation remains discriminatory, with one set of rules applying to citizens and another set to everyone else in a way that just assumes that if you are an immigrant, you are a potential 'threat to national security.' Despite the fancy manoevers of the special advocate system, targeted individuals are subjected to a secret trial and they are never permitted to know or adequately defend themselves against the allegations. Rules of evidence and standards of proof remain absurdly low. Opportunities for appeal remain strictly limited. And nothing has been done to change the way in which, in practice, this process has been used to target Muslim men of colour and their communities.
It is also important to note that before the new legislation passed, a number of the most prominent mainstream lawyer's organizations in the country declared that the new legislation would still be unconstitutional. Yet the Conservatives passed it, and the Liberals voted for it, including our own MP, Diane Marleau. Those of you in the audience might want to ask her why she voted for legislation that she knows is unconstitutional, and that she knows creates the conditions for secret trials and deportation to torture.
SAWO and many other groups across the country are making a number of demands around this issue. We want the secret trials process to be abolished – there is no place for two-tier justice. We want those men currently detained to either be released or to have access to fair and open trials. We demand that the Canadian state end its profiling and harassment of racialized communities. And we demand a commitment that the Canadian state live up to its international human rights commitments and end all deportation that might result in torture.
To these ends, people across the country are taking action. Organizing against security certificates has been going on in a sustained way for at least five years in some parts of the country, and is continuously expanding into new areas. Sudbury, for example, has only seen activity around this issue for the last six months or so. More than 15 cities across the country have seen activity against security certificates in the last year.
Groups have engaged in a number of different kinds of actions. They have provided support for the detained men and their families, both direct material support and political support. They have confronted politicians. Public education has been very important as well, since one of the biggest obstacles to opposing security certificates is that most people don't know about them. The most recent focus for activity, and what has consumed most of SAWO's energy on this issue, has been opposing Bill C-3, the recent legislation reauthorizing secret trials as part of the Canadian legal landscape. Though the efforts to prevent its passage were unsuccessful, more people than ever before know about and oppose national security certificates. Many, many organizations beyond those directly involved in the organizing endorsed the mobilization against Bill C-3. Already detainees and their supporters are preparing to mount new legal challenges, and those will likely provide at least one focus for continuing to build political momentum against security certificates in communities across the country that will eventually become unstoppable.
Now, I can see how some people might object to the position I've outlined. They might say, "Well, yes, this isn't a great process, but for the sake of the security of Canadians, don't we need it?"
I would reply, "Absolutely not." And I reach that conclusion just by looking around me.
I look around the world at how "terrorism," as understood in its narrow and distorted mainstream usage, has been effectively addressed. This is, after all, the very narrow slice of real security that security certificates are meant to address. And what I see is that even in that narrow area, it is ordinary police work rather than extraordinary powers that has achieved results.
I look around me – at my life, at the lives of people I care about, and at the lives of people I don't know but whose interests matter to me – and think about how the security of these lives could be improved in real, practical ways. What I see, the threats of harm that are most frequent and most likely, not only have very little to do with that slice of security usually labelled "terrorism" but could only be meaningfully addressed by courses of action to which the strongest proponents of security certificates are staunchly opposed.
I look at the root causes of whatever risk might exist of acts commonly understood as terrorist in nature being directed at Canadian targets, and I see a consistent refusal by the Canadian state to deal with those root causes.
I look at the political advantages that some powerful interests derive from mobilizing fear and hate and racism.
I look at the history of what "national security" has always been about. It has always been about expelling certain groups of people from the nation, about organizing exclusion, and also about those who have power within the nation retaining that power.
And I look at what security certificates are actually doing. The government has not presented one single shred of evidence that anything done with security certificates has actually done anything to enhance the wellbeing of any ordinary people. And there is plenty of evidence of how the lives of many ordinary people have been affected in very negative ways by security certificates and the larger campaigns of profiling and harassment of racialized communities of which they are a part.
Thank-you very much.
So that's what I said, more or less, plus answering a couple of questions from the floor. The only thing I would add is that a couple of fellow activists in attendance pointed out that I did say a couple of things that they, and I, don't really believe. In one place I argue that "ordinary police work" is a good alternative to the extraordinary powers exerted in security certificates, and in another I demand in an unnuanced way "fair and open trials" for the detained men. Both of these give the impression that I think that the ordinary functioning of the legal system is somehow okay when it comes to "terrorism" and to racialized people in particular, and with respect to its place within social relations more generally. Which is not what I think at all. If I have time (big if) I'll maybe see if I can write a post or two to come up with concise, accessible ways of including those concerns for the next time I'm writing/talking about security certificates.
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Scott, I really like this. Thanks so much for putting it together and making the intervention.
- 3/05/2008 8:51 pm
- Scott said...
Thanks Chris!
Hope you and A. are enjoying your brief space for relaxation before the more onerous travelling begins!
- 3/05/2008 9:32 pm
oh wow!
- 4/02/2008 7:56 am
- revolutionario said...
It could not be said better. Words of action.
- 4/12/2008 2:16 am
- Scott said...
Thank-you anonymous and revolutionario!
- 4/12/2008 10:45 am
What I usually say is that I personally think the entire justice system is skewed against people of colour and others, but that doesn't mean these guys shouldn't have equal access to it. The system claims to see everyone equally (the eyes of the law thing) - we have to insist it live up to its claims, even if we are pessimistic about it being possible.
The other part is of course that, if there actually were any evidence, they wouldn't need the certificates. So it's a pretty safe demand on one hand, and can build popular support among people who do think the system is fair, on the other. Securing that support is both critical to the cause, and opens up opportunities for discussions about the system as a whole, its flaws, etc.
Anyway, glad someone got out to that thing to talk about sec certs - I saw the call for papers but couldn't fit it in. Looks like it was a good talk, too!
- 7/08/2008 8:33 am