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United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, Southern Division, London
June 22, 2017
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff/Respondent,v.MELVIN MOUNTS, Defendant/Movant.
Gregory F. Van Tatenhove United States District Judge.
matter is before the Court upon Movant Melvin Mounts'
petition to vacate, set aside, or correct his sentence
pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. [R. 345.] Consistent with
local practice, this matter was referred to Magistrate Judge
Hanly A. Ingram, who filed a Recommended Disposition
recommending that Mounts' motion be denied. [R. 347.]
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 72(b)(2), a petitioner has
fourteen days after service to register any objections to the
Report and Recommendation or else waive his rights to appeal.
In order to receive de novo review by this Court,
any objection to the recommended disposition must be
specific. Mira v. Marshall, 806 F.2d 636, 637 (6th
Cir. 1986). A specific objection "explain[s] and
cite[s] specific portions of the report which [counsel]
deem[s] problematic." Robert v. Tesson, 507
F.3d 981, 994 (6th Cir. 2007). A general objection that fails
to identify specific factual or legal issues from the
Recommendation, however, is not permitted, since it
duplicates the Magistrate's efforts and wastes judicial
economy. Howard v. Secretary of Health and Human
Services, 932 F.2d 505, 509 (6th Cir. 1991).
Mounts filed timely objections to the Recommended
Disposition. [R. 349.] Mounts' two objections are
sufficiently definite to trigger the Court's obligation
to conduct a de novo review. See U.S.C.
§ 636(b)(1)(c). The Court has satisfied that duty,
reviewing the entire record, including the pleadings, the
parties' arguments, relevant case law and statutory
authority, as well as applicable procedural rules. For the
following reasons, Mounts' objections will be
Ingram's Recommended Disposition accurately sets forth
the factual and procedural background of the case. The Court
mentions the below key facts to frame its discussion and
analysis, but, overall, chooses to incorporate Judge
Ingram's discussion of the record into this Order.
Melvin Mounts was indicted, along with seven co-defendants,
for conspiring to distribute oxycodone in violation of 21
U.S.C. §841(a)(1) and 21 U.S.C. § 846. [R. 1.] On
June 12, 2013, Mount pled guilty to Count 1, which
encompassed a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846, conspiracy
to distribute oxycodone. [R. 194.] A Presentence
Investigation Report ("PSR") was prepared in
which Mounts was categorized, under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, as
a career offender with a criminal history category of VI and
an enhanced offense level of 32. [R. 264 ¶¶ 48,
62.] The total offense level was reduced to 29 after a three
point reduction due to Mounts' acceptance of
responsibility, making the recommended Guideline Range for
sentencing between 151 to 188 months. [R. 347.] At
Mounts' sentencing, held on October 3, 2013, Mounts
withdrew his objections to the PSR, which included an
objection regarding his criminal history. [R. 220.] The Court
entered a sentence of 151 months of imprisonment followed by
five years of supervised release. [R. 234.] Mounts filed a
timely appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which
was subsequently denied on October 3, 2014. [R. 312.] Mounts
did not filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the
Supreme Court. [R. 347.]
On June
1, 2016, Mounts, through counsel, filed a motion to vacate
sentence which was construed by the Court as a 28 U.S.C.
§ 2255 motion. [See R. 344, R. 345.]
Mounts' motion was then referred to Judge Hanly A. Ingram
to review and prepare a Recommended Disposition. [R. 344.]
Mounts based his motion on the premise that the Court used
incorrect felony qualifiers during his sentencing, in light
of the ruling in Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct.
251 (2015). [Id. at 2.] On July 21, 2016, Judge
Ingram filed his Recommended Disposition calling for
Mounts' motion to be denied as time-barred, and,
alternatively, denied on its merits. [R. 347 at 7.] Mounts
filed two objections to Judge Ingram's Recommended
Disposition pursuant to his rights under 28 U.S.C. §
636(b)(1). [R. 349.]
Court finds that Mounts raised two objections to Judge
Ingram's Recommended Disposition that are adequately
specific to trigger de novo review by this Court.
See U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(c); Mira, 806
F.2d at 637. Mounts objects to the Magistrates' finding
that his motion is time-barred and his second objection
states that the court erred in sentencing him pursuant to
U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1 instead of § 4B1.2. [R. 349.] As
the second objection informs the decision on the first
objection, the second objection will be discussed first.
In his
second objection, Mounts calls for the Court to rule
consistent with Jones v. United States, No. 15-1518
(2nd Cir. 2016), Descamps v. United States, 133
S.Ct. 2276 (2013), and Mathis v. United States, 136
S.Ct. 2243 (2016) to determine that his prior convictions for
the facilitation to commit robbery in the 1st
degree should not be considered a violent crime under §
4B1.1. Thus, Mounts believes that he should have been
sentenced under § 4B1.2. [Id. at 1, 2.] Mounts
argues that "[u]nder the analysis laid out in
Johnson, the Defendant [sic] involvement in these
[past] crimes [of facilitation to commit robbery in the
1st degree] would be considered vague and
therefore should not qualify him as career [sic] criminal
offender." [R. 345-1 at 2-3.] However, the question of
whether a conviction of facilitation to commit robbery in the
1st degree involves violence or a threat of
violence has already been decided by the Sixth Circuit Court
of Appeals. In United States v. Elliott, the Sixth
Circuit found that "force or the threatened use of
force is an element of facilitation to commit robbery, first
degree, and thus, as in Gloss, we need not reach the
question whether the offense would be a violent felony under
the residual clause." United States v. Elliot,
757 F.3d 492, 496 (6th Cir. 2014). Thus Mounts was correctly
sentenced under § 4B1.1. While the Mathis
analysis has been extended from ACCA cases to sentencing
under § 4B1.2 guidelines, see United States v.
Smith 2017 WL 908225*4, the Court need not discuss that
analysis in the present case because the defendant was
sentenced under the force clause, not the residual clause, of
the sentencing guidelines.
to Mounts' first objection, the timeliness of his §
2255 Motion, the foregoing analysis shows that
Defendant's objection is without merit. Although the
Johnson decision may have afforded convicted felons
a new right to file a § 2255 Motion under 28 U.S.C.
§ 2255(f)(3) by declaring the residual clause of the
ACCA unconstitutional, that right does not extend to those
sentenced under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1. Since the defendant
has not articulated a newly recognized right that would
extend the statute of limitations for filing a §2255
Motion, the current § 2255 Motion was time-barred as of
January 2016. [R. 347 at 2, 3.] But, even had the defendant
been sentenced pursuant to 4B1.2's residual clause, the
Johnson decision would not have afforded Defendant
Mounts relief. In Beckles v. United States, the
Supreme Court held that "the advisory Sentencing
Guidelines, including § 4B1.2(a)'s residual clause,
are not subject to a challenge under the void-for-vagueness
doctrine." 137 S.Ct. 886, 896 (2017). Accordingly,
Johnson and Pawlak do not provide Mr.
Mounts with any basis for relief.
conclusion, after reviewing de novo the entire
record, as well as the relevant case law and statutory
authority, the Court agrees with Judge Ingram's analysis
of Mounts' claims. The Court also denies a certificate of
appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) as to each
issue asserted. Under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules Governing
§ 2255 Proceedings, the "district court must issue
or deny a certificate of appealability when it enters a final
order adverse to the applicant . . ." Rules Governing
Section 2255 Proceedings, Rule 11. A certificate of
appealability may issue "only if the applicant has made
a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional
right." 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2). As set forth by
the United States Supreme Court, this standard requires the
petitioner to "demonstrate that reasonable jurists
would find the district court's assessment of the
constitutional claims debatable or wrong."
Slack, 529 U.S. at 484; see also Miller-El v.
Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336 (2003). Under this standard,
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my life and ministry: pulling together the pieces and then watching God spin them into something beautiful
Monday, June 28, 2010
where the healing begins
My job description is basically this.
Create a space where people meet God.
Tall order? BIG GOD.
Yesterdays services were such a wonderful reminder that it's not about us... it's not our church, it is His church.
Most Sundays it is hard to know what is going on in the hearts of the people in the seats. We just have to prepare well and trust God to do the rest, but this week when people moved out of their seats and took on a posture of humility before God, I came undone.
And then in the evening as I seperated the hundreds of cards our congregation had written to the family of Kyron Hormon and the principal and staff at Skyline Elementary I felt incredibly blessed to be part of this community, even when we grieve together. To see mothers and fathers reach out to one another, and step parents sharing a story others cannot, educators feeling the weight of one anothers burdens. It was really a hopeful and sacred task.
I could make a quick list of the things which didn't go right Sunday morning.
But instead, I would rather make a list of the things which did.
I got to experience excellence, beauty, caring, grace, mercy, humility, authenticity, unity, service, creativity.
To see people connecting with their God, to see healing begin. It is rewarding work and why I do what I do. Sundays.
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netflix delivered a broken dvd for last night's movie night. seems they don't want me to watch any more tom hanks flicks. in our 80s movie blitz, we've managed two out of four excellent 80s tom hanks laughers.
"Well, I like you, and I want to spend the night with you."
"Do you mean sleep over?"
"Well, yeah."
"OK... but I get to be on top."
"Not that I'm complaining, but I usually don't like my filth this clean!"
last night was supposed to be number three.
"I don't understand. All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's... she's a fish."
and the disc was broken. d'oh.
we settled for some horrible looking brothers playing old-time hockey like eddie shore and one of the funniest scenes EVER in a sports movie
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
"I'm making it look mean!"
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Creamy Seafood Sauce
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- 1⁄2 lb medium shrimp, peeled and deveined (about 15)
- 1⁄2 lb sea scallops
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1⁄4 cup white wine (or alcohol-free, or sherry)
- 1 teaspoon seafood instant bouillon granules (or chicken)
- 1 garlic clove, minced (or 1/4 teaspoon powder)
- 1 small zucchini, diced
- 2 cups small broccoli florets
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1⁄2 cup diced red pepper
- 2 green onions, sliced
- basil pesto
- 1 (13 1/2 ounce) can skim evaporated milk
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Combine first 5 ingredients in medium saucepan on medium-high. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium. Simmer, uncovered, for 3 minutes until shrimp is pink. Do not drain. Remove seafood to small bowl using slotted spoon. Cover. Keep warm.
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interested in the jblood stuff, pics please . where are you located?
Hey everyone, got a few things for sale
1. Rear Wheel drive jdm intake plenum, with throttle body but no tps.
2. Jblood (was told) side skirts and rear pods
3. Big port jdm 16v block, coomplete with pistons rods crank etc
4. Eboost2, silver face silver bezel, 40 psi version
Price and condition:
1. $150 Very good condition
2. $100 for the lot, not the best, needs a few repairs to the skirts
3. $50 use for parts only
4. $650 Firm, brand new in box never used.
pics will be up later any questions just pm or sms/call 0400 142 370
Cheers, Stefan.
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interested in the jblood stuff, pics please . where are you located?
pics will be up tomorrow hopefully, am in brisbane, and pretty sure its just a copy not an original.
Keen on kit pending pics.
where u located if in sa ill take the kit today
He's in Brisbane if you read, located in QLD
kit is on hold pending payment, have pics but not sure on how to get them up???
bump it back up
kit sold?
RIP Carly - a smile to light the world.
rear pods are sold, skirts still available $50, and block now free


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AFL Coverage
Sorry Martin but the coverage of AFL in England is excellently weird.
When I departed Australia I thought it would be really hard to watch any AFL, especially my beloved Swans. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the world's greatest game had quite a following amongst expats in London.
So I currently get my fix the following two ways:
1) The Fulham Slug – This is one of the best pubs in London to watch sport. They have a delayed broadcast of every match of every round. Annoyingly throughout the weekend they fast forward parts of the match to squeeze them into two hour blocks . The pub is also run by an Eagles fan. Cheap 'Snake Bite' makes up for this. Debaucherous activities occur after sundown with scantily-clad girls dancing on the bar and drunken guys talking up where they have been in Europe.
2) AFL.com.au – Once sports Pay TV provider Setanta went bust earlier in the year, the AFL thought it would be a good idea to stream every AFL match live online to the UK, Canada and USA. As soon as I upgraded to a MacBook Pro I found the quality to be excellent – much like watching TV on Gran's 1970's TV with the knob that you would turn to change channels, and the button that alternated from UHF to the other one (that never had any channels on it). Alas, I digress. Annoyingly, the Swans haven't played any night games for a while so I have to wake up super early to catch the day's action. They also haven't won many games and look almost certain to miss the finals. My timing to leave Australia is, therefore, well timed. I do miss the SCG though and hope to be back for the first Sydney derby (or darrrby if you didn't attend school).
It does seem a little strange that I can travel half way around the world and get better AFL coverage than I did in Sydney. For those who have no idea what AFL is, best watch the vid below.
PS – check out my post about Wimbledon
Trish S permalinkAugust 5, 2009 7:40 am
Coverage is starting on ESPN in the UK this Friday, so I don't know how much longer the free AFL online will last. We connected to ESPN yesterday, in time for the Cat-Blues match on Friday. Book your spot on the sofa for the Grand Final now!


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Today I am working from home, since it's very icy and somewhat snowy out there. No one in my department went in today, so it's great. I've got some work stuff to finish up, but without interruption, it shouldn't take me long. I want to take advantage of being home to scan photos and upload them to ancestry.com. I am crazy about exploring my genealogy and have found out some really neat stuff on ancestry.com - I highly recommend it. My dad helped me identify some people in some old pictures he had (ones that had been my grandmother's) and it's great running into people out there on the web who I'm finding that I am related to!
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Taking Advantage
Last night sucked, but I'm trying not to dwell on it. Worst cluster headache ever. Enough said. Gabapentin is making me a little loopy right now.
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I haven't written my blog for a couple of months. There has been little desire and frankly, beyond writing in my journal the thought of writing seemed more like a chore.
I have no good reason for not writing more. It's not that I was too busy there just hasn't been anything in my head that I felt like writing about. This winter has been long and as of this writing (March 26) is getting on my nerves. I've written in the past about my love for winter and I do, love winter but seriously; I'm about done with this season. I woke this morning to snow…again. My heart sinks when I see it. I know it sounds like whining but quite a few people who I cross paths with agree, this winter can go away.
I haven't run with any consistency since the Super bowl. I ran that Sunday when I had no business doing anything other than getting up, eating breakfast, lunch and dinner and watching tv. But I did run. By mile three I wasn't feeling it. I thought about calling my wife for a ride but I succumbed to the voice in my head which kept uttering the word "whimp." So I kept running. I stopped three or four more times still not feeling anything other than a strong desire to get home. I thought again about calling my wife for a ride and again the voice in my head put that idea to rest. By now there was a hitch in my stride that "felt better as I ran." The next voice in my head kept calling me "idiot." I knew it wasn't good. I knew this pain would result in time off. I checked in with my body throughout the run but that voice too was overpowered by the voice in my head. I felt tense, tight and had even less rhythm than I normally have. Each stride felt forced; my body and mind arguing. My mind won.
Here it is a little over two months later. A few visits to the chiropractor and massage therapist and a helluva lot of stretching and I'm finally able to run 3-miles without pain. There's some mild discomfort which hangs around long enough to remind me to not rush back. Last year I was injured and unable to run when I arrived in Florida and the entire summer was missed. I won't let that happen this year.
I ran 5K on Monday and felt really good. The run felt good, physically and emotionally. If it hadn't been for the injury and my recovery plan, I would have gone further. It was that kind of run. I have done quite a bit of walking and have used this form of locomotion as an adjunct therapy
For now, I'll keep listening to that voice in my head.


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Southwest May Get Even Hotter, Drier: " Global warming will permanently change the climate of the American Southwest, making it so much hotter and drier that Dust Bowl-scale droughts will become common, a new climate report concludes.
Much of the nation west of the Mississippi River is likely to get drier because of the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but the greatest effect will be felt in already arid areas on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. By the end of the century, the climate researchers predict, annual rainfall in that region will have decline by a worrisome 10 to 20 percent."


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text: A good atmosphere is easy to take for granted. This was my first thought when I read the joyous NASA press announcement that Mars "once had conditions suited for ancient life." Mars lost its opportunity for life because its atmosphere changed too much. But what about planet Earth? Though we're not in danger of losing our life-giving atmosphere, the question is: Will it be a good life?


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The above implies that, these days, developing good code is the result of a highly disciplined effort. From an architectural point of view most new applications are structured along three tiers, the UI, the Logic and the Data. To this end new applications are developed as highly modularized and are using heavily the established standard protocols depending under which framework they are being coded (for instance, under Windows, new developed applications use extensively the so-called web services protocols, whereas with Open Source and Java, similar objectives are achieved with EJBs, etc...).
Manual code development methods, as opposed to CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering), where code is automatically generated based on a database (encyclopedia) of cross validated specifications, face a serious problem with development discipline. Developers jump too early into coding, especially with approaches like Agile Development and Extreme Programming; they don't properly plan the application design and testing and, even under the current modern development frameworks, they still end-up creating uncommon and complex (spaghetti) code as they used to do with unstructured Cobol in the 70ies. This code, often poorly documented, is extremely difficult to maintain in terms of bug-fixing and functional enhancements. On top of this, such code suffers heavily from regression problems.The only strategy to improve developer productivity and quality of their code is thru what is known as 'enforced discipline'. This has been attempted in the last 30 years via CASE technology. We are currently operating in the third wave of that initiative, albeit this time we seem to have moved backwards, away from classic CASE into rather 4GL and 3GL, non-withstanding the availability of frameworks, standards, protocols, libraries, and SDKs.
From the above description it becomes obvious that modern IT managers, facing the challenge of their current applications legacy that has to be maintained and gradually replaced by a new legacy, are very sensitive to and receptive of commercial offerings that seem to resolve part or the whole of their development issues. This also explains the success of SAP that, despite the high implementation cost and its generally primitive code and methods by which this was created, offers the sense of a safety net against the challenges of future functionality and ability to scale. Sort of 'never get fired for selecting IBM in the 70ies and 80ies' thing. By supporting the vast majority of enterprise applications, SAP took away many of the headaches of the community of contemporary CIO's...
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March was pretty uneventful hair wise. Here is a photo of the progress.
I am almost finished with the T-gel shampoo, I may have one or two washes left with it. My scalp is doing alright so T-gel did its magic once again. I am really looking forward to having a healthy scalp and not having to worry about the horrible T-gel shampoo smell.
I have not trimmed my hair since I decided to take on the no trim challenge. Some days are harder than others, today is one of those days. I woke up thinking I want my hair to be evened out and I should just get one little trim. Then I saw the photo I took of my hair today and weirdly thought it would look better if I evened it out, although its only the random waves that make it truly uneven. I have a problem with compulsive trimming I know this. I think I'm going to do a hair treatment today to take my mind off it. Heck I may go to a salon and do it, I do have a coupon for a hair treatment.
One thing I am REALLY loving is that my hair does not look red in the slightest. This makes it super easy to grow out the henna. I can barely see any roots growing in and I can't really tell how long they really are. They blend perfectly with the demi-dye.
I have straightened my hair maybe twice this past month, mostly because of being lazy but also because I didn't really care. The longer my hair gets the easier it is to ignore it. I forgot how low maintenance long hair is, even though its only been months since my hair was waist length.
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I was cruising along with the windows down on this beautiful fall day here in Middle Tennessee, scanning the radio for fun music, when I came across a peppy little tune I knew I had heard before. As the girl with Colbie Callet type voice began singing, I remembered that the song is entitled "Hold Me" and the girl singing was Jamie Grace. I think this song wins the prize for the most blatant "Jesus Is My Boyfriend/I wrote a peppy romantic song and decided to make it about Jesus to make a profit off the Christian market" song I've ever heard. Some sample lyrics:
I've had a long day, I just wanna relax
Don't have time for my friends, no time to chit-chat
Problems at my job, wonderin' what to do
I know I should be working but I'm thinking of You and
Just when I feel this crazy world is gonna bring me down
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Oh, I love the way You hold me, by my side You'll always be
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Lord, I love the way You hold me
And the sappy love song, oops, I mean praise, no wait, sappy love song goes on and on. I don't really have time to get into a long tirade about why I dislike using contemporary romantic imagery to discuss one's relationship with God, but I'd like to go on the record as saying this song is utterly and completely ridiculous.
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- Andy said...
I think I just vomited a little in my mouth
- Thin Places said...
For some bizarre reason I've come across your site twice in the past year. This time I was looking for the Alan Bancroft who translated the Therese of Lisieux collection of poetry. Are you the same Bancroft, brother? I don't know why I came across your site the other time.
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This dog friendly town of TUBAC has water bowls out for our Pets. Cookie came with us for over an hour, then slept the rest of the way home. She just isn't that interested in seeing the sights.
Her idea is "If you have seen one Art Festival, you have seen them all."
NOT true..so I am not inviting her along to the one in Tempe in March!!!


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OMAR SAIF GHOBASH is Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia. He is the author of Letters to a Young Muslim [1] (Picador, 2017), from which this essay is adapted. Copyright © 2017 by Omar Saif Ghobash. All rights reserved.
Saif, the elder of my two sons, was born in December 2000. In the summer of 2001, my wife and I brought him with us on a visit to New York City. I remember carrying him around town in a sling on my chest. A few days after we got back home to Dubai, we watched the terrible events of 9/11 unfold on CNN. As it became clear that the attacks had been carried out by jihadist terrorists, I came to feel a new sense of responsibility toward my son, beyond the already intense demands of parenthood. I wanted to open up areas of thought, language, and imagination in order to show him—and to show myself and all my fellow Muslims—that the world offers so much more than the twisted fantasies of extremists [2]. I've tried to do this for the past 15 years. The urgency of the task has seemed only to grow, as the world has become ever more enmeshed in a cycle of jihadist violence and Islamophobia [3].
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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Muslim-Omar-Ghobash/dp/1250119847
[2] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/islamic-scripture-not-problem
[3] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/france/2006-09-01/france-and-its-muslims
[4] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-arab-emirates/2016-03-18/mosque-and-state
[5] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/issues/2016/95/3


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Since I spend so much time in my kitchen, I wanted to see something beautiful when I looked out my window so, bit by bit, we improved the view. We extended the fence with lattice and trained some Virginia Creeper to grow through it. We planted an apple tree and a couple rose bushes and other perennials. And, last summer, I painted the garden shed.
I love colour and had a lot of fun picking out some vibrant paint for the door and trim that would uplift me even when I looked out my window in the dead of winter. And dipping my brush in the paint and applying that vibrant colour was so much fun! There's something heart-opening and soul-expanding about slapping colour onto a canvas, no matter what that canvas might be.
I like for things to be functional as well as beautiful so the fact that this shed housed our garden tools fit the bill, but the piece de resistance of my vision was a shelf above the shed's door that would hold the sweet, little bird feeder I had found at Victoria's Flowers and Gifts.
The feeder had proved popular with the neighbourhood birds when I placed it on a log in the back yard. But it wasn't in a place where I could easily sit and watch my feathered friends as they kibbutzed around the feeder. Nor was it the safest spot around. In fact, a few area birds have met their untimely demise thanks to our cat, Kally, so I thought moving the feeder to this shelf out of reach of her claws would not only keep them safe, but would provide me with free entertainment while I washed my dishes.
Shed painted, shelf installed, I filled the feeder, bought a couple of bird seed cones from my son's band fundraiser, and was eagerly looking forward to some beautiful times communing with the birds.
I was very pleased with the way it turned out.
Unfortunately, the birds were not as enamoured as I was.
They didn't come.
In fact, they stayed away in droves.
I'm still not sure why.
Perhaps the shelf is tucked up too high. Maybe it's too far away from the safety of the trees. Maybe they no longer like the food. Perhaps they feel too exposed or don't want anyone watching them as they dine.
Maybe they prefer the adrenalin rush that comes from snatching a bite to eat from under the nose of the cat.
Whatever the reason, I have not seen one bird perch on my shelf all winter.
Not one bird.
Other than these, of course:
Maybe I'll strategically place a few branches on the shelf to make it feel more tree-like.
Or maybe I'll just forget about trying to lure the birds to a place they apparently don't want to go.
Even though my vision hasn't turn out exactly as planned, I've already got a lot of enjoyment out of the project. Planning it was fun. Painting it was a joy. And I do still get to enjoy the colours every time I look out my kitchen window.
Maybe that's enough.