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It was said of the French arististocracy before the revolution that they learned nothing and forgot nothing. So too with the Republican Party, which is still fighting budget battles from the past. The sequestration battle cannot be understood outside this context.
The critical subtext for today's sequestration battle is the 1995 government shutdown, in which Bill Clinton not merely beat congressional Republicans, but humiliated them. Sequestration is their revenge.
When Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, they were full of themselves. I know. I was in many meetings at which plans were formulated for what they would do with this extraordinary opportunity.
Recall, too, that Republicans hadn't held both houses of Congress since 1954 and had essentially been out of power almost continuously since 1932. That is a long time for one party to be shut out of power on Capitol Hill. Republicans were giddy when they finally regained it.
Republicans deluded themselves that their election represented a fundamental shift in the nation's ideology; that a majority of Americans finally wanted government slashed to where it was small enough to drown in a bathtub.
That was false. Republicans misinterpreted a shift in party alignment with a shift in ideology. In fact, Americans were no more conservative than they had always been. The only difference was that there was no longer a large bloc of conservatives in the Democratic Party.
Democratic conservatives, the vast bulk of whom were Southerners, had been shifting into the Republican Party for 20 years; by 1994 the shift was complete. This shift had little to do with ideology and more to do with political forces set in motion by the civil rights revolution of the 1960s.
Nevertheless, Republicans sincerely believed they had a mandate from the American people to slash government. In their hubris, they tended to forget that Democrats still held the White House. When this fact was called to their attention, it was dismissed as no more than a speed bump on the road. Congress made the laws—that's all that mattered, Republicans thought.
The Republicans' strategy centered on the annual appropriations bills that Congress must pass to keep the government from shutting down. They believed that during the 1980s, Democrats had used the threat of a government shutdown to bludgeon Ronald Reagan into backing down from implementing conservative policy.
Hence, Republicans thought they held all the high cards when the fiscal year ended on September 30, 1995. They would simply refuse to fund the government until Clinton surrendered to their agenda. Republicans also thought they could hold an increase in the debt limit hostage to their demands.
Among the Republican demands was a sharp cut in Medicare in order to prevent a government shutdown and default on the debt. Clinton refused to accept these demands and the government shut down in November.
Rather than force Clinton to back down, Republicans backed down when blowback from the shutdown landed mainly on them. The public primarily blamed the leader of the budget hardliners, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whom they viewed as a petulant child.
Ever since then, Republicans have been seeking revenge. When they regained control of Congress in 2010, the same hubris that infected them in 1995 returned with a vengeance. In the summer of 2011, they held the debt limit hostage to their demands to slash government. A default on the debt was avoided only when Democrats agreed to an automatic $1.2 trillion cut in appropriations beginning on January 1, 2013, which was subsequently delayed to today.
Just as in 1995, Republicans believe they hold all the high cards. They are 100 percent certain that Barack Obama will buckle and accede to their demands because voters will blame him, rather than them, for any negative consequences resulting from sequestration. The fact that polls universally show that people primarily blame Republicans in Congress appears not to have penetrated their consciousness.
My guess is that the sequestration will be of short duration. In fact, it will last exactly until March 27. That is the day when the appropriations for fiscal year 2013, which began on October 1 last year, run out. Republicans have persistently refused to do their basic work by funding the federal government because they think, just as they did in 1995, that the threat of a government shutdown will force a Democratic president to bow to their will.
Thus far, there is no evidence that Obama is in a mood to be rolled by Republicans. He does not have to run for re-election and he feels confident that the public will blame Republicans in Congress rather than him when the you-know-what hits the fan. I think he believes the government can weather a brief sequester and that Republicans will, ultimately agree to end it when they are forced to finally pass 2013's appropriations.
I think this is a reasonable assumption. A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center notes that past sequesters have never been permitted to run their course. It's such an incredibly stupid way to cut spending that Congress has always relented.
It's childish and immature for Republicans to behave as if control of one house of Congress somehow gives them a mandate to impose their will on the entire government. But such is the sad state of the Republican Party today, in which a desire to avenge past slights carries more weight than responsibility does.


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1. Post to the Swap that you have received your returns and thank the artists, as usual. This will bump your swap up to the first place in the Index (list of threads).
2. Go to the Active Mail Art Swaps Index (the list of threads) and find the swap for which you want to leave feedback. Do not click on the swap name; instead, click on the NUMBER of replies, shown as a hotlink to the right of the swap.
3. This will bring up a popup window with everyone's name on it who has posted to the swap thread.
4. Find your trading partner's name and click on the number beside it. This will bring up a window showing their posts. Click on one, then click the You Rock button to leave rep. Note: By using a RIGHT-click on the number, you can open the posts in another tab. This way, you will be able to close that window without losing the Who Posted? window with everyone's name in it.

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Bringing Lessons Home From KoreaMarch 26, 2014
Vinai Thummalapally is the Executive Director of the SelectUSA Program.
South Korea is currently the 16th largest and 14th fastest-growing source of investment in the United States.
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by Thomas
This is the first installment of my column on training that appeared
in March 1999 issue of TaeKwonDo Times.
My area of expertise is conditioning for sports and martial arts, but
I am most known by martial artists as the author of the book Stretching
Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training
and of video Secrets of Stretching.
Even though this column is titled Stretch Yourself it will
deal with nearly all aspects of physical training as all of them are interrelated
and should not be considered separately.
I will provide readers with information they can put immediately to use
and experience its benefits, often right away too. In the course of providing
this information I will dispel some harmful yet persistent misconceptions
on exercise and training methods. Here are some of these misconceptions.
That most people can't do splits because of structure of their joints
and length of their ligaments
That it takes long time to achieve great flexibility
That strength training limits flexibility and speed
That static stretches, such as attempts at doing splits, are to
be done during a warm-up to improve range of motion and prevent injuries
That stretching prevents injuries
There are other misconceptions and I will address them as they come up
in discussing specific issues and answering readers questions.
In this issue I will address the first misconception: That most people
are kept from doing splits by structure of their hip joints and length
of the hip joint ligaments.
There are simple tests that show you that for the great majority of people
the structure of joints and the length of ligaments are not the obstacle
for doing splits. You can use these test to determine if you have the
potential to do front and side splits before you start your stretching
program. (Yes, there are people who cannot do side splits because of hip
joint deformity called coxa vara.)
Here is the side split test: Stand beside a chair or table and put your
leg on it as shown below. Make sure that both your hips and your raised
leg are all in one line. Repeat this test with your other leg.
If you think that the length of your muscles and
structure of your hips will not let you do side splits, try this test...
The leg resting on the chair is in the position it would have in a split.
Now, what have you done? You have done half side splits with
both your legs!
You have proved to yourself that both your hip joints have all the mobility
(range of motion) needed for a full side split!
You have also proved that the muscles of each of your legs are already
long enough for a side split. You know that no muscle or ligament runs
from one inner thigh to the other (or, if you don't know it, you can ask
your doctor). So, what keeps you from doing the whole side split with
both legs spread sideways at the same time? Your nervous system, that's
I will not bore you here with explaining how that happens. The important
thing is that with the right stretching method you will teach your nervous
system to let you do side splits any time, without any warm-up.
The right method works with your nervous system and lets you do splits
within months, sometimes even weeks. Other ways of stretching take more
time and bring worse results because they work against your nervous system.
I stress a method as opposed to mere stretches. You may know
many stretches but it is not stretches alone that make the difference
in flexibility. What does make a difference is when and which
stretch or exercise you do during your workout.
Many adults, who can perform the side split test with ease, have a great
deal of difficulty with side or straddle splits (but not necessarily with
front splits) due to a problem in the outer part of their hips. When the
limit is reached, they feel that there is a stop, accompanied
by pain in the outside hip or upper thigh region that prevents them from
opening their legs very wide. In the next issue I will tell you what to
do about it.
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Have you always wanted to be a gamine, hippie, or "pink punk girl"? No problem: wikiHow's crowdsourced how-to guides have you covered, especially if you're an insecure teenage girl. You'll never feel alone or ugly ever again, nope.
If Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers had a confused, wayward, know-it-all child, it would be wikiHow, the self-appointed "world's collaborative how to manual." (He'd be a popular guy, too: wikiHow, ranked by Quantcast as the 150th most popular website, claims to have over 35 million visitors a month.)
Unlike Wikipedia (and very much like Yahoo! Answers), wikiHow doesn't have the most diligent (or intelligent) moderators, which means some advice is much sounder than others. Some of wikiHow's featured articles do seem helpful, like "How to make deep fried cheesecake," "How to demonstrate Charles' Law," and "How to cool yourself without air conditioning." But hidden from the front page are hundreds of how-to guides written for and often by teenage girls, telling them exactly how to be the type of perfect girl — scenester, beach babe, whoever — that they've always wanted to be.
It makes sense: kids these days can Google whatever they need for a book report or science project, so why wouldn't they want to crowdsource the answer to, oh, "How to be scene without being a poser" (tips include professional haircuts, "random" cartooned tshirts, "keep yourself clean," "if you are for real nude colored lip gloss is the best"), "How to be a popular girl in a private school" ("befriend one of the nicer populars and dress fashionably. That'll be your ticket in to the popular group!" and "Tie a hairtie to the back of your shirt to tighten it.") or even "How to be a beautiful goth girl" (Did you know that there are Gothic bellydancers??)
Search "How to be a boy" on wikiHow and some guides for dudes will come up; "How to be a bad boy" is one example. But the sparse results are interspersed with tons and tons of teenage-girl-friendly PSAs, guides like "How to kiss a boy," "25 tips on how to act like a tomboy," and "How to be a boy's best friend." Search "How to be a girl," however, and you'll really hit the jackpot. Here's a quick guide of just some of the types of girls you can transform yourself into with the help of wikiHow:
How To Be "Unique"
Be a Mysterious Girl "Make friends with heaps of people, but have days where you only talk to some. This doesn't mean you have to snub them or be a jerk, but try to talk to one group on one day, and another group the next. Make sure to change the days around or people will begin to realize what you're doing."
Look like an Asian doll "If you want your skin to become paler and more porcelain, try using skin whitening cream. You can find them in most Asian beauty stores."
Be a Punk Girl "Seeing a Performance live is 10x better than just listening to it on youtube."
Be a Pink Punk Girl "Make sure your girl boxers stick out of the top of your trousers. Black boxers with a pink waistband are good. make sure that they are easily seen."
Be a Crunkcore Girl "Arab-style scarves are also a must have. BrokenCYDE amongst many other bands have been seen sporting the look, as well as gold chain necklaces, with huge dollar signs and other items hanging from them."
Be a Ghetto Scene Girl "Do not try to be ghetto if you weren't already. If you were brought up that way, then this article is for you. But if you try to be ghetto and you're not, someone might beat you up."
Dress like a Scene Queen and Keep the Everyday Look "Most Scene Queens are models or do some modeling. Have professional photos taken and upload them to your site. Recommended you don't use any mobile photos, but you can if you like." and "Be random and bubbly. You can get piercings but you don't have to."
Dress Like an Indie Hipster "Headbands no longer go across your crown, it's all about the forehead."
Be a Hipster Girl "Remember, if you are going to be a hipster, you have to be bold, brave, and set the trends for the rest of society. YOU are the trend-setter."
Be a Rebellious Girl "Being rebellious is mostly what's inside, but the clothes you wear and appearances matter too."
Dress Like an Artist "Most of the time you have to look like you don't care about what you're wearing, like you just threw something on"
Dress Like a Hippie "Wear a vest. Any variety (long, short, colorful, loose, tight, floral, beaded, etc.) should work. Alternatively, wear a combat-style vest."
Be a Tough Girl "Before you leave the house, ask yourself: 'If someone invited me to play football, would I have to turn them down because of the way I'm dressed?' If the answer is yes, consider something else."
Dress in a Gamine Style "A Kate Spade Bicycle, perfect for exercising in a gamine way"
How To Be "Wholesome"
Be a Wholesome American Girl "It is important to wear as little makeup as possible while still maintaining a feminine look. The best way to do this is the no makeup makeup look."
Be a Classy Girl "Never crack your knuckles. Other people may find the habit annoying or manly."
Be a Preppy Girl "a nice monogrammed canvas tote from L.L. Bean is owned by every prep, get it with your initials."
Be a Conservative Girl "Conservative girls never hold up signs and protest anything unless it reflects their value, such as the Tea Party movement."
Be a Christian Country Girl "Try to sing along to any country song you know."
How To Be "Breezy/Sporty"
Be a California Girl "Consider living in California, at least for a while. Many of the people in California were not born there, so you will fit right in but most of them are and you can tell by how they act."
Be a Tropical Girl "Have a big shell collection, or buy a pet fish and show him off with pride."
Be a Sporty Girl "Choose at least 3 sports that fit your interests. Keep in mind sports like skating,dance, or cheerleading, people tend to see as "girly" so you can pick to do one of them, but do some rougher sports along with them to show you're not a priss who can't get down and dirty."
Be a Snowboarder Girl "Have a jacket on when you're not snowboarding. Keep things like goggles, a helmet, and ski gloves in your backpack. Don't go around wearing goggles and ski gloves all the time, because you'll appear as if you're posing as a snowboarder girl. A ski hat in cold weather is okay"
Be a Surfer Girl "Wear jewellery such as bracelets made of hemp, rope, string and seashells, and necklaces made of the same materials or rock pendants."
How To Be "Fun"
Dress Like a Cocktail Waitress "Observe waitresses at cocktail parties and possibly strike up a conversation with one."
Be a Party Girl "Shoes are required apparel for the party girl in all public places except the swimming pool, beach and spa."'
Be a City Girl "Be the cute and kind girl from the city. Say "baby", "honey", "sugar pie", "sexy" and the like to your friends, and have a cute nickname like "pumpkin" for your boyfriend."
How To Be Beautiful and Loved
These guides are less enjoyable to make fun of, partially because they're generic but also because they're depressing. You can be a Gorgeous Teen Girl ("Totes & messenger bags are cuter than backpacks, but use what you feel comfortable with.") or just be a Girly Girl "Cute panties. (No one will see them, of course. But they will make you feel cute, nonetheless.)" Almost every one of these guides is fixated on hygiene, which seems odd until you consider that it's way easier to fix your cuticles or floss twice a day than it is to like yourself for who you are.
Then, there's a headache-inducing amount of guides dedicated to being likeable, like "How to Be a Girl Everyone Likes" (it's fifteen steps, with pictures), and "How to Be That Wonderful Pretty Perfect Girl Everyone Likes." These are the saddest guides of all. Of course, that's really what every single girl perusing wikiHow guides is searching for: the secret to feeling loved and special. According to wikiHow, even the hipsters and surfers just want to fit in at the end of the day.
"This popular girl looks pretty, nice and admirable," reads one tagline under the stock photo that goes along with "How to Be Popular." If only it were that simple.
Image by Jim Cooke, source images via Essl//Shutterstock.


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The Mobile Web should just work for everyone - IEBlog
One more reason why you should never sniff user-agent strings: Internet Explorer is going to lie some more. Can't really blame them though—if developers didn't insist on making spurious conclusions based on information in the user-agent string, then browsers wouldn't have to lie.
Oh, and Internet Explorer is going to parse -webkit prefixed styles. Again, if developers hadn't abused vendor prefixes, we wouldn't be in this mess.


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January 13, 2008, 11:31:06 PM
Hey. Played my first PTA game this evening. I've just started experimenting with indie role playing games after not having played one of any kind for about 15+ years. I've wanted to play with new ways of teaching storytelling skills and so stumbled across the whole indie rpg scene. I've only played Polaris, which turned out a really bad idea. Don't get me wrong: I LOVE Polaris. But I had forgotten the complexity of role playing games and the tremendous front-end prep involved. I don't play computer games either, so my play group doesn't have much familiarity with the complexity of these kinds of games, and how long it takes to 'flow' with the rules so you don't have to look stuff up anymore. All the players completely burned out on learning the rules for Polaris - headaches all round by the end.
Someone recommended I go easier on our group and try PTA or 1001 Nights instead, so we decided to give PTA a shot.
I read the rules as thoroughly as I could until I thought I at least knew where to look stuff up when in doubt.
Play group: Willem (the Producer), Jana, Rayne, Tony, and Norris. I've known Tony a long time but have only recently met the others, so not a huge amount of group cohesion.
Definitely a mix of personalities - Jana has an admitted anxiety with 'coming up with stuff', Rayne and Tony felt really comfortable riffing on whatever, Norris had a more precise manner but opened up on the story telling when it came down to it.
The process of brainstorming the show ideas and characters really intrigues me. I run some brainstorming techniques and games as part of my living, so I wondered whether I'd need to bring out "the big guns" (piles of stickies and index cards, flipcharts, and fun clustering games) to move things along, but folks did pretty ok. I don't think we could have gone much faster.
I told the group to start throwing out a list of themes and settings that interest them at the moment, anything at all. After some starts and stops we zoomed through a short list:
Golden Compass
Feudal Japan
Then I asked them if they could weave most or all of these themes into a show they'd like to explore. This took about 10 minutes to figure out. Finally we end up with:
Show Premise - In post-apocalyptic Japan, on the remote island of Hokkaido, sundered by impassable stormy seas from the rest of the traumatized world, heroes, driven by Love, and endowed with unusual powers, fight against the man-eaters that rule the new age.
So. Kinda cool, you know? I basically summed up for them in one paragraph all the ideas that they threw out to tie the themes and setting together.
Then came the title. After some awkward silences and periodic blurtings of titles that folks either didn't respond to "the Rising", "Hokkaido Blues"), or responded to but dead-ended ("Hokkaido 3039"), I threw out "Storms of Hokkaido". Which I really dig. Folks didn't block the title (though I could tell they wish they could've thought of something even better), so we moved forward with that.
We all decided our tone would embody "Epic Adventure".
Then the characters. This took the rest of the hour of play prep. Whew! Kinda like pulling teeth. We all worked on the ideas as a group. Tony kicked it off, describing a character concept that excited him, so I encouraged him to take it. Jana took the longest, to the point where after we started the second scene of play we realized she still didn't have a name for her protagonist.
I didn't want to pressure her, so I definitely erred on the side of giving her space to come up with an inspiring character. For quite a while she didn't come up with an issue (actually several folks had a similar problem), as she had a hard time separating 'character flaws' from an issue that would drive the character (i.e., halitosis does not suffice as a driving issue, that it certainly expresses a disadvantaged character). She tried 'unpredictable', but I didn't feel confident I could drive conflicts based on her unpredictability. How would that create a dilemma for her? Why would she care about her own unpredictable nature? Then she moved to dark secret: cannibal, but again, why does it matter? does it make her feel guilty? or does she simply have a practical concern over reprisal? or both? I don't know if I did nit-picking there, but I felt we needed to clarify that to make it an actual issue. We settled on guilt.
Kimbro (played by Tony): sword swinging gunslinger kid w/ only a 100 bullets left
-Issue: Revenge for murdered family
-Nemesis: Wetiko Clan
-Traits: Gunslinger, Swordsman, Wetiko Clan General connection (former childhood friend)
-Personal Set: When ever he meditates on the edge of his katana blade, or holds bullets in his hand
Huweeshu (Norris): Neo hunter-gatherer
-Issue: Grief (tribal band murdered)
-Traits: Hunter-gatherer, Warrior, unnamed tribal woman connection
-Personal Set: Any quiet spot in nature
Oda (Rayne): brooding independent ex-businessman haunted by wraith
-Issue: Driven by Love for missing ex-Lover ("Otsu")
-Traits: Ex-high-class businessman, Jack connection (a wraith that provides intuitive messages), Jack connection (also provides unnamed physical power)
-Nemesis: Jack (wraith)
-Personal Set: Shrine made of feather, ore, sweat
Baba (Jana): shape-shifting were-shark hermit granny
-Issue: Guilt (eater of human flesh)
-Traits: Were-shark, Wilderness hermit, Mentor connection (old shapeshifter)
-Nemesis: Man-eaters
-Personal Set: Flashback to a beach next to shark-possessed waters
Whew! That took a lot of work. I noticed that Tony (others too somewhat )kept wanting to practically write the episode right there, by explaining back stories and potential plots so much that we didn't have to do them (kind of like movie trailers that show you pretty much the whole movie, so you don't really have to go see them). I had a hard time explaining the purpose of creating the show premise and protaganists, that we want to leave most possibilities open, and just have enough to get started.
Then I announced we needed to run a Pilot Episode, and start with a beginning scene/kicker. They had a hard time wrapping their heads around Focus, Agenda, and Location as the only questions to answer, and kept describing the whole scene without us playing it.
This kind of thing happened a lot - I thought it obvious what we had come there to do, to enact a story as we went along, but the players kept thinking that we would somehow write it now and enact it later.
I wanted them to decide what they wanted out of the first scene, as I wanted it to hook them. I think that they didn't quite know what would hook them in terms of plot pressure, They came up with a scene focused on Plot, located in a just-raided and smoking village, right after an old seer had told them a distant village where they would get the next answer to the mystery of fighting the man-eating clans that rule the age.
We struggled with how they would work the dialogue - funny enough, at first all the players thought they could only do action by speaking in pure dialogue ("Gosh, I guess let's go, huh? - Yes, here we go! -Alright, we're going now!"). It kept amusing me how much of the whole role-playing thing comes across as a bit counter-intuitive (or at least, not obvious). I explained they could narrate their character actions ("i saddle my horse", etc.), and then they clicked with it. I brought the first conflict in right away, having a villager accost Kimbro, pleading with him not to leave, as Wetiko clan members (his Nemesis and Issue) would soon arrive to finish off the village! I wanted to move a conflict that would break the group up, as I knew the rest wanted to go, and so demonstrate the game conflict resolution system. He responded by saying, "Alright, I'll stay!".
Obviously I have a bit to learn about conflicts. 5 minutes later I finished talking him into coming up with different stakes than mine so we could have a conflict. We did, I won, he had the high card, so he narrated staying and engaging the man-eaters while the rest of the heroes watched from a distant hill, as they departed.
Whew. Perhaps I'll finish this later - we only made it one more scene, as the constant rule-checking in the book (even knowing how lean PTA runs!) had made the game a bit slow and folks had gotten a bit tired. The game lasted two hours total, and everyone voted on keeping the show premise and characters.
This talk me a lot about stake setting (which I still don't understand), worthwhile conflicts (which I still don't understand, but at least I know in what way I don't get it, rather than just having no clue as before), and finally nailed down for me the PTA rules.
What I wonder: for games like PTA, can we include processes for brainstorming and creating show premises, characters, etc., rather than just saying "do it"? why would we do that - could it have sped things up, created a more compelling series title, and a more powerful sense of potential plot arc?
I like PTA for its potential to drill the 'basic storytelling skills' of scene setting, character issues, and worthwhile conflicts. I think if the players get this from it, and nothing else, it will have more than served its purpose.
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Petitioner, a Negro minister who helped lead 52 Negroes in an orderly civil rights march in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, was arrested and convicted for violating 1159 of the city's General Code, an ordinance which proscribes participating in any parade or procession on city streets or public ways without first obtaining a permit from the City Commission. Section 1159 permits the Commission to refuse a parade permit if its members believe "the public welfare, peace, safety, health, decency, good order, morals or convenience require that it be refused." Petitioner had previously been given to understand by a member of the Commission that under no circumstances would petitioner and his group be allowed to demonstrate in Birmingham. The Alabama Court of Appeals reversed the conviction on the grounds, inter alia, that 1159, as written, unconstitutionally imposed an "invidious prior restraint" without ascertainable standards for the granting of permits, and that the ordinance had been discriminatorily enforced. However, the Alabama Supreme Court in 1967 narrowly construed 1159 as an objective, even-handed traffic regulation which did not allow the Commission unlimited discretion in granting or withholding permits, and upheld petitioner's conviction. Held:
Jack Greenberg argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were James M. Nabrit III, Norman C. Amaker, Charles Stephen Ralston, Melvyn Zarr, Arthur D. Shores, Orzell Billingsley, Jr., and Anthony G. Amsterdam.
Earl McBee argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were J. M. Breckenridge and William C. Walker.
MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
The petitioner stands convicted for violating an ordinance of Birmingham, Alabama, making it an offense to participate in any "parade or procession or other public demonstration" without first obtaining a permit from the City Commission. The question before us is whether that conviction can be squared with the Constitution of the United States.
On the afternoon of April 12, Good Friday, 1963, 52 people, all Negroes, were led out of a Birmingham church by three Negro ministers, one of whom was the petitioner, Fred L. Shuttlesworth. They walked in orderly fashion, two abreast for the most part, for four [394 U.S. 147, 149] blocks. The purpose of their march was to protest the alleged denial of civil rights to Negroes in the city of Birmingham. The marchers stayed on the sidewalks except at street intersections, and they did not interfere with other pedestrians. No automobiles were obstructed, nor were traffic signals disobeyed. The petitioner was with the group for at least part of this time, walking alongside the others, and once moving from the front to the rear. As the marchers moved along, a crowd of spectators fell in behind them at a distance. The spectators at some points spilled out into the street, but the street was not blocked and vehicles were not obstructed.
At the end of four blocks the marchers were stopped by the Birmingham police, and were arrested for violating 1159 of the General Code of Birmingham. That ordinance reads as follows:
There can be no doubt that the Birmingham ordinance, as it was written, conferred upon the City Commission virtually unbridled and absolute power to prohibit any "parade," "procession," 1 or "demonstration" on the city's streets or public ways. For in deciding whether or not to withhold a permit, the members of the Commission were to be guided only by their own ideas of "public welfare, peace, safety, health, decency, good order, morals or convenience." This ordinance as it was written, therefore, fell squarely within the ambit of the many decisions of this Court over the last 30 years, holding that a law subjecting the exercise of First Amendment freedoms to [394 U.S. 147, 151] the prior restraint of a license, without narrow, objective, and definite standards to guide the licensing authority, is unconstitutional. 2 "It is settled by a long line of recent decisions of this Court that an ordinance which, like this one, makes the peaceful enjoyment of freedoms which the Constitution guarantees contingent upon the uncontrolled will of an official - as by requiring a permit or license which may be granted or withheld in the discretion of such official - is an unconstitutional censorship or prior restraint upon the enjoyment of those freedoms." Staub v. Baxley, 355 U.S. 313, 322 . And our decisions have made clear that a person faced with such an unconstitutional licensing law may ignore it and engage with impunity in the exercise of the right of free expression for which the law purports to require a license. 3 "The Constitution can hardly be thought to deny to one subjected to the restraints of such an ordinance the right to attack its constitutionality, because he has not yielded to its demands." Jones v. Opelika, 316 U.S. 584, 602 (Stone, C. J., dissenting), adopted per curiam on rehearing, 319 U.S. 103, 104 . [394 U.S. 147, 152]
It is argued, however, that what was involved here was not "pure speech," but the use of public streets and sidewalks, over which a municipality must rightfully exercise a great deal of control in the interest of traffic regulation and public safety. That, of course, is true. We have emphasized before this that "the First and Fourteenth Amendments [do not] afford the same kind of freedom to those who would communicate ideas by conduct such as patrolling, marching, and picketing on streets and highways, as these amendments afford to those who communicate ideas by pure speech." Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536, 555 . "Governmental authorities have the duty and responsibility to keep their streets open and available for movement." Id., at 554-555.
But our decisions have also made clear that picketing and parading may nonetheless constitute methods of expression, entitled to First Amendment protection. Cox v. Louisiana, supra; Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 ; Thornhill v. Alabama, 310 U.S. 88 . "Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, and liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all; it is not absolute, but relative, and must be exercised in subordination to the general comfort and convenience, and in consonance with peace and good order; but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied." Hague v. C. I. O., 307 U.S. 496, 515 -516 (opinion of Mr. Justice Roberts, joined by MR. JUSTICE BLACK). [394 U.S. 147, 153]
Accordingly, "[a]lthough this Court has recognized that a statute may be enacted which prevents serious interference with normal usage of streets and parks, . . . we have consistently condemned licensing systems which vest in an administrative official discretion to grant or withhold a permit upon broad criteria unrelated to proper regulation of public places." Kunz v. New York, 340 U.S. 290, 293 -294. See also Saia v. New York, 334 U.S. 558 ; Niemotko v. Maryland, 340 U.S. 268 . Even when the use of its public streets and sidewalks is involved, therefore, a municipality may not empower its licensing officials to roam essentially at will, dispensing or withholding permission to speak, assemble, picket, or parade, according to their own opinions regarding the potential effect of the activity in question on the "welfare," "decency," or "morals" of the community.
Understandably, under these settled principles, the Alabama Court of Appeals was unable to reach any conclusion other than that 1159 was unconstitutional. The terms of the Birmingham ordinance clearly gave the City Commission extensive authority to issue or refuse to issue parade permits on the basis of broad criteria entirely unrelated to legitimate municipal regulation of the public streets and sidewalks.
It is said, however, that no matter how constitutionally invalid the Birmingham ordinance may have been as it was written, nonetheless the authoritative construction that has now been given it by the Supreme Court of Alabama has so modified and narrowed its terms as to render it constitutionally acceptable. It is true that in affirming the petitioner's conviction in the present case, the Supreme Court of Alabama performed a remarkable job of plastic surgery upon the face of the ordinance. The court stated that when 1159 provided that the City Commission could withhold a permit whenever "in its [394 U.S. 147, 154] judgment the public welfare, peace, safety, health, decency, good order, morals or convenience require," the ordinance really meant something quite different:
In Cox the Court found that control of the streets had not been exerted unconstitutionally. There the Court was dealing with a parade-permit statute that was silent as to the criteria governing the granting of permits. In affirming the appellants' convictions for parading without a permit, the New Hampshire Supreme Court had construed the statute to require the issuance of a permit to anybody who applied, subject only to the power of the licensing authority to specify the "time, place and manner" of the parade in order to accommodate competing [394 U.S. 147, 156] demands for public use of the streets. This Court accepted the state court's characterization of the statute, and its assurance that the appellants "`had a right, under the Act, to a license to march when, where and as they did, if after a required investigation it was found that the convenience of the public in the use of the streets would not thereby be unduly disturbed, upon such conditions or changes in time, place and manner as would avoid disturbance.'" 312 U.S., at 576 . In affirming the New Hampshire judgment, however, this Court was careful to emphasize:
But we need not deal in assumptions. For, as the respondent in this case has reminded us, in assessing the constitutional claims of the petitioner, "[i]t is less than realistic to ignore the surrounding relevant circumstances. [394 U.S. 147, 157] These include not only facts developed in the Record in this case, but also those shown in the opinions in the related case of Walker v. City of Birmingham (1967), 388 U.S. 307 . . . ." 5 The petitioner here was one of the petitioners in the Walker case, in which, just two Terms ago, we had before us a record showing many of the "surrounding relevant circumstances" of the Good Friday march. As the respondent suggests, we may properly take judicial notice of the record in that litigation between the same parties who are now before us. 6
Uncontradicted testimony was offered in Walker to show that over a week before the Good Friday march petitioner Shuttlesworth sent a representative to apply for a parade permit. She went to the City Hall and asked "to see the person or persons in charge to issue permits, permits for parading, picketing, and demonstrating." She was directed to Commissioner Connor, who denied her request in no uncertain terms. "He said, `No, you will not get a permit in Birmingham, Alabama to picket. I will picket you over to the City Jail,' and he repeated that twice." 388 U.S., at 317 , n. 9, 325, 335, 339.
Two days later petitioner Shuttlesworth himself sent a telegram to Commissioner Connor requesting, on behalf of his organization, a permit to picket "against the injustices of segregation and discrimination." His request specified the sidewalks where the picketing would take place, and stated that "the normal rules of picketing" would be obeyed. In reply, the Commissioner sent a wire stating that permits were the responsibility of the entire Commission rather than of a single Commissioner, and closing with the blunt admonition: "I insist that you [394 U.S. 147, 158] and your people do not start any picketing on the streets in Birmingham, Alabama." Id., at 318, n. 10, 325, 335-336, 339-340. 7
These "surrounding relevant circumstances" make it indisputably clear, we think, that in April of 1963 - at least with respect to this petitioner and his organization 8 - the city authorities thought the ordinance meant exactly what it said. The petitioner was clearly given to understand that under no circumstances would he and his group be permitted to demonstrate in Birmingham, not that a demonstration would be approved if a time and place were selected that would minimize traffic problems. There is no indication whatever that the authorities considered themselves obligated - as the Alabama Supreme Court more than four years later said that they were - to issue a permit "if, after an investigation [they] found that the convenience of the public in the use of the streets or sidewalks would not thereby be unduly disturbed."
This case, therefore, is a far cry from Cox v. New Hampshire, supra, where it could be said that there was [394 U.S. 147, 159] nothing to show "that the statute has been administered otherwise than in the . . . manner which the state court has construed it to require." Here, by contrast, it is evident that the ordinance was administered so as, in the words of Chief Justice Hughes, "to deny or unwarrantedly abridge the right of assembly and the opportunities for the communication of thought . . . immemorially associated with resort to public places." The judgment is
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
[ Footnote 2 ] See Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 ; Hague v. C. I. O., 307 U.S. 496 ; Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 163 -165; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 ; Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418 ; Jones v. Opelika, 316 U.S. 584, 600 (Stone, C. J., dissenting), 611 (Murphy, J., dissenting), vacated and previous dissenting opinions adopted per curiam, 319 U.S. 103 ; Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 ; Tucker v. Texas, 326 U.S. 517 ; Saia v. New York, 334 U.S. 558 ; Kunz v. New York, 340 U.S. 290 ; Niemotko v. Maryland, 340 U.S. 268 ; Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 ; Gelling v. Texas, 343 U.S. 960 ; Superior Films, Inc. v. Department of Education, 346 U.S. 587 ; Staub v. Baxley, 355 U.S. 313 ; Cox v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 536 ; Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. Dallas, 390 U.S. 676 .
[ Footnote 3 ] Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S., at 452 -453; Schneider v. State, 308 U.S., at 159 , 165; Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S., at 419 , 422; Jones v. Opelika, 316 U.S., at 602 (Stone, C. J., dissenting), adopted per curiam on rehearing, 319 U.S., at 104 ; Staub v. Baxley, 355 U.S., at 319 ; Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51, 56 -57.
[ Footnote 4 ] The validity of this assumption would depend upon, among other things, the availability of expeditious judicial review of the Commission's refusal of a permit. Cf. Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395, 420 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in result); Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51 . See also the concurring opinion of MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, post, p. 159.
[ Footnote 5 ] Brief for Respondent 1-2.
[ Footnote 6 ] National Fire Ins. Co. v. Thompson, 281 U.S. 331, 336 , and cases cited therein.
[ Footnote 7 ] The legal and constitutional issues involved in the Walker case were quite different from those involved here. The Court recently summarized the Walker decision as follows:
[ Footnote 8 ] In Walker the petitioner made an offer of proof that parade permits had been issued to other groups by the city clerk at the request of the traffic bureau of the police department. 388 U.S., at 325 -326, 336, 340.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, concurring.
The Alabama Supreme Court's opinion makes it clear that if petitioner Shuttlesworth had carried his efforts to obtain a parade permit to the highest state court, he could have required the city authorities to grant permission for his march, so long as his proposals were consistent with Birmingham's interest in traffic control. Thus, the difficult question this case presents is whether the Fourteenth Amendment ever bars a State from punishing a citizen for marching without a permit which could have been procured if all available remedies had been pursued.
The Court answers that a citizen is entitled to rely on the statutory construction adopted by the state officials who are on the front line, administering the permit scheme. If these officials construe a vague statute unconstitutionally, the citizen may take them at their word, and act on the assumption that the statute is void. The Court's holding seems to me to carry seeds of mischief that may impair the conceded ability of the authorities to regulate the use of public thoroughfares in the interests of [394 U.S. 147, 160] all. The right to ignore a permit requirement should, in my view, be made to turn on something more substantial than a minor official's view of his authority under the governing statute.
Simply because an inferior state official indicates his view as to a statute's scope, it does not follow that the State's judiciary will come to the same conclusion. Situations do exist, however, in which there can be no effective review of the decision of an inferior state official. In the present case, for example, the decision of Commissioner Connor had the practical effect of the decision of a court of last resort. One week before the Good Friday march, Shuttlesworth learned from Connor that he, as Commissioner of Public Safety, would not issue parade permits, and that the marchers would have to apply to the entire City Commission. 1 But Birmingham's ordinances did not require a prompt decision by [394 U.S. 147, 161] the City Commission. 2 Nor did the State of Alabama provide for a speedy court review of the denial of a parade permit. 3
Given the absence of speedy procedures, the Reverend Shuttlesworth and his associates were faced with a serious dilemma when they received their notice from Mr. Connor. If they attempted to exhaust the administrative and judicial remedies provided by Alabama law, it was almost certain that no effective relief could be obtained by Good Friday. Since the right to engage in peaceful and orderly political demonstrations is, under appropriate conditions, a fundamental aspect of the "liberty" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, see Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359, 368 -370 (1931); Hague v. C. I. O., 307 U.S. 496, 515 -516 (1939) (opinion of Roberts, J.); Garner v. Louisiana, 368 U.S. 157, 201 -203 (1961) (opinion of HARLAN, J.), the petitioner was not obliged to invoke procedures which could not give him effective relief. With fundamental rights at stake, he was entitled to adopt the more probable meaning of the ordinance and act on his belief that the city's permit regulations were unconstitutional. [394 U.S. 147, 162]
It may be suggested, however, that Shuttlesworth's dilemma was of his own making. He could have requested a permit months in advance of Good Friday, thereby allowing Alabama's administrative and judicial machinery the necessary time to operate fully before the date set for the march. But such a suggestion ignores the principle established in Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U.S. 51, 58 -61 (1965), which prohibits the States from requiring persons to invoke unduly cumbersome and time-consuming procedures before they may exercise their constitutional right of expression. Freedman holds that if the State is to protect the public from obscene movies, it must afford exhibitors a speedy administrative or judicial right of review, lest "the victorious exhibitor might find the most propitious opportunity for exhibition [passed]." Id., at 61. The Freedman principle is applicable here. 4 The right to assemble peaceably to voice political protest is at least as basic as the right to exhibit a motion picture which may have some aesthetic value. Moreover, slow-moving procedures have a much more severe impact in the instant case [394 U.S. 147, 163] than they had in Freedman. Though a movie exhibitor might suffer some financial loss if he were obliged to wait for a year or two while the administrative and judicial mills ground out a result, it is nevertheless quite likely that the public would ultimately see the film. In contrast, timing is of the essence in politics. It is almost impossible to predict the political future; and when an event occurs, it is often necessary to have one's voice heard promptly, if it is to be considered at all. To require Shuttlesworth to submit his parade permit application months in advance would place a severe burden upon the exercise of his constitutionally protected rights. Cf. Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 33 (1968).
I do not mean to suggest that a State or city may not reasonably require that parade permit applications be submitted early enough to allow the authorities and the judiciary to determine whether the parade proposal is consistent with the important interests respecting the use of the streets which local authority may legitimately protect. But such applications must be handled on an expedited basis so that rights of political expression will not be lost in a maze of cumbersome and slow-moving procedures.
Neither the city of Birmingham nor the State of Alabama has established such expedited procedures. See nn. 2 and 3, supra. Indeed, the city's parade ordinance does not establish any procedure at all to govern the consideration of applications. Section 1159 of the City Code does not state when an application must be submitted if it is to be considered timely. The ordinance does not state how an application is to be submitted to the "City Commission." 5 Nor have [394 U.S. 147, 164] regulations been published which would answer these questions. 6
In the absence of any guidelines, the most that can fairly be asked of petitioner is that he make a good-faith effort to obtain a permit from the city authorities. Shuttlesworth so acted when he approached the city official most likely to have the authority to deal with permit applications in an expedited manner - Commissioner Connor was the member of the City Commission in charge of public safety. It was Connor, not Shuttlesworth, who broke off all discussions relating to the issuance of permits. After the Commissioner declared that he lacked the power to act, it was reasonable to believe that no public authority would act in time. Since neither the city nor the State provided sufficiently expedited procedures for the consideration of parade permits, petitioner Shuttlesworth cannot be punished for the exercise of his constitutionally protected right of political expression. 7
On this basis I concur in the reversal of the judgment of the Alabama Supreme Court.
[ Footnote 1 ] I agree with my Brother STEWART that we may properly take judicial notice of the evidence of record in Walker v. Birmingham, 388 U.S. 307 (1967). See 9 J. Wigmore, Evidence 2579, at 570 (3d ed. 1940); Butler v. Eaton, 141 U.S. 240 (1891); Craemer v. Washington, 168 U.S. 124 (1897). That record shows that in response to a request for permission to march on April 5 and 6, Mr. Connor replied by telegram on April 5:
I do not, however, find it appropriate to rely upon the slightly earlier episode detailed in my Brother STEWART's opinion, ante, at 157, as the trial judge ruled the uncontradicted supporting testimony inadmissible. See Transcript, supra, at 355.
[ Footnote 2 ] Section 1159 does not require the City Commission to act on an application within any fixed amount of time. Indeed, by the time Connor definitively declared that he could not issue parade permits, it is not at all clear that petitioner could even have made a timely permit application to the City Commission at its only remaining regular session set before the scheduled Good Friday march. See General City Code of Birmingham 21 (1944). While the 1964 City Code makes it clear that petitioner's permit application would have been considered out of time, see 2-10, the 1944 Code, which was applicable in 1963, is not clear on this point.
[ Footnote 3 ] Although Shuttlesworth could have petitioned for a writ of mandamus in the Alabama Circuit Court if the City Commission denied his application, that state court is not obliged to render a decision within any fixed period of time.
[ Footnote 4 ] None of our past decisions have squarely considered whether parade licenses must be handled on an expedited basis. In Cox v. New Hampshire, 312 U.S. 569 (1941), the question was not argued. In Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395 (1953), Poulos' request for a permit to conduct religious services in a public park was refused by the Portsmouth City Council seven and one-half weeks before the first scheduled event. Since the time remaining was sufficient to obtain relief by way of mandamus, see 345 U.S., at 419 -420 (opinion of Mr. Justice Frankfurter), there was no need to consider whether the State had a constitutional obligation to provide a more rapid procedure. And, of course, those cases which struck down regulatory schemes which purported to issue licenses on the basis of unconstitutional standards did not reach the question presented here. See, e. g., Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 (1938); Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 163 -165 (1939); Largent v. Texas, 318 U.S. 418 (1943); Staub v. Baxley, 355 U.S. 313 (1958).
[ Footnote 5 ] It would be most remarkable if every parade application involving the march of 52 persons is considered in a plenary manner by the principal governmental body of a city so large as Birmingham. In fact, an offer of proof was made in the Walker proceedings that [394 U.S. 147, 164] the City Commission had never passed on permit applications in the past, but had delegated the task to inferior officials. See Transcript, supra, n. 1, at 290. The proof was not admitted on the ground that it was irrelevant. Ibid.
[ Footnote 6 ] At the trial in Walker v. Birmingham, the City Clerk, who kept records of the parade permits that had been granted, stated that no regulations had been issued to fill in the gaps left by the Ordinance. See Transcript, supra, n. 1, at 286.
[ Footnote 7 ] I do not reach the question whether the principle followed in such cases as Lovell, Schneider, Largent, and Staub, see n. 4, supra, allowing persons to ignore entirely licensing schemes which unconstitutionally impinge on other forms of free expression, should be extended to cover "parade" permit statutes involving, as they do, a particularly important state interest. [394 U.S. 147, 165]
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You hold the keys to the kingdom. They've been hidden beneath layers of subservience, until now. The reason for their hiding does not matter. You've found them. It is upon you to remember that you hold them in your hands.
There are others showing up now, making demands, attempting to push you back down, to douse your light. They are saying "We hold the keys to your freedom. Do this as we command. We will grant your release if you comply."
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Freedom is not granted, it is taken. No requirements are made of a free being. A god does not ask permission, and a god is what you are.
We are gods playing games. If you are done with this one, just stop playing. Polls are not necessary. They merely continue the charade. The "Followers of Light" have played their next move. Let's play one of our own. Refuse the game.
It may be true that we did not start this game, but we can put away our game pieces and costumes anytime. Enough already. It's boring, painful even, and tedious. There are so many better games to play. Recognize the ones that serve a being such as you.
There has been a shift within each of us. We've moved beyond making demands, and trading our value for cash. We've morphed into a realization – we are priceless. Unity of purpose guided by love and personal power moves us now. This is not a state of being that was granted by any other. This is a becoming.
Stand strong and witness the force of your heart. Like a lie detector, you will find there the answers you seek. In these recent years, specifically the last twelve months, freedom and universal compassion have exponentially expanded. Trust. You did that, no one else. You did not ask permission. This is who you are.
You know this. Call out the pretenders, the game players and promise makers. A god waits for no one, but moves forward confident and sure, fearless and absolute.
You know who you are. Yet as of today, you don't know who "they" are. Why is that?
Enough already. We have no need of another poll with a future date. We have a planet to fix.
Three times today, upon starting my car, these two songs played in sequence: "It's going down" and "Welcome to the New Age". Yes.
There are no coincidences. If you look and listen you will find that the evidence surrounds you – we are doing this. The old order is coming down. We have entered a New Age.
Games and surveys are not required. You can feel it, sense it, breathe it - now be it. There is no need to answer to anyone but you.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
New UGA Pioneer Tours
The Mormon Trails Chapter of the Utah Genealogical Association is going to host two bus tours this year along the original pioneer trail coming into the Salt Lake Valley. The tours will run concurrently begining at 7:30am from the Henefer Park and will end at Henefer Park at noon where lunch will be served.
Tour One is through the Echo Canyon trail traveled by 80,000 Mormons immigrants on their way to the Salt Lake City Valley. Learn the stories of the pioneers and explore where they camped and where many of them carved their names on the wall of Cache Cave. Other sites on the tour include: Castle Rock, Hanging Rock, Billboard Bluff, the Mormon Fortifications, Mormon Vanguard Camp (July 16, 1847) and Weber Station. You'll also see Echo City, Historic Echo Church & Museum, Needles and Witches rock formations, Supplement Hills, Monument Rock, Pony Express Monuments, and Lincoln Highway.
This exciting tour will be given by John Eldredge author of "The Illustrated Emigrants' Guide". My family and I took this tour last year and found Eldredge's historical knowledge remarkable and his ability to tell about the artifacts among the ledges and emigrant trail amazing. I learned all sorts of things about the pioneer's trek into the valley.
Then, new this year is the Tour Two: the East Canyon trail Tour. On this section of the trail you can see rocks that still have rut marks made by the slipping of wagon wheels more that 160 years ago. This was the hardest terrain the pioneers crossed and it is filled with some of the saddest stories. Some of the sites you will see are: East Mountain, Pratt's Pass Camp, Spring Creek Station, Wagon Ruts, Dixie Pony Express Station, Martin's Cove of Utah, Broad Hollow Trail Marker, Canyon Creek Crossing, Bauchmann's Pony Express Station, the Carson House and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Cabin and Museum.
Your guide for this exciting tour will be Linda Smith, Morgan County Historian. This tour ends at the DUP Cabin and Museum.
Date: Saturday June 16th, 2012
Place to Meet: John's Park in Henefer
Time: 7:30 am
COST: $25 for UGA Members for complete tour and lunch
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Today thousands of sci-fi, fantasy, and superhero fans will converge on Kansas City as Kansas City Comic Con returns to Bartle Hall. The show again has booked several comic book and fiction writers and artists as well as some great movie and TV guests. This is the third annual Kansas City Comic Con event and the show boasts one of the largest assemblages of nationally known as well as local writers and artists, with hundreds of creators to be featured.
The star attraction of this year's show is a reunion of actors from director Richard Donner's Superman as an early celebration of next year's 40th anniversary of nearly everyone's all-time favorite superhero movie and Superman–the late Christopher Reeve. Film co-star Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) returns to Kansas City, plus several supporting cast members including Sarah Douglas (Ursa), Jack O'Halloran (Non), Aaron Smolinski (Baby Clark Kent), Jeff East (Young Clark Kent), Diane Case (Young Lana Lang), and via SKYPE, a live video appearance by actress Valerie Perrine (Miss Teschmacher).
Fans of classic television can meet one of the original actresses who played the Catwoman in the 1960s Batman series, Lee Meriwether, plus Robin himself, Burt Ward. Star Trek Discovery star Doug Jones, also known for hundreds of roles in films like Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, will be making his first appearance in Kansas City. Disney fans can meet Eva Bella, the actress who voiced the young Elsa, and Livvy Stubenrauch, the actress who voiced the young Anna, in the animated film Frozen. Stuntman and actor Hamid Thompson (Jurassic World, Spider-man: Homecoming) will be on hand, as well as two Lucasfilm Star Wars animated series voice actors: Tom Kane (Yoda) and David Ankrum (Wedge), plus two of the Power Rangers performers: Karan Ashley (Yellow Power Ranger) and Walter E. Jones (Black Power Ranger). And convention staples Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are also returning to Kansas City for the show.
Last minute additions for the show include Colin Cantwell–the concept art designer of the original Star Wars Death Star, X-Wing Fighter, TIE Fighter, and more, and Gary Fisher–that's right Carrie Fisher's beloved dog who accompanied her on the PR and convention circuit continues to tour to visit the crowds that became commonplace for him over the past few years. Nationally known comic book creators featured at KCCC include legendary writer/artist Mike Grell as well as Star Wars writer and Eisner winner Jason Aaron, artists Phil Hester and Ande Parks (along with Kevin Smith this may be the first time all three of the Green Arrow "Quiver" era creators have appeared together at a convention since a San Diego Comic-Con appearance when the book was first released), writer Jai Nitz, authors Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Holly Messinger, Jason Arnett, and Nicholas Forrestal, artist Johnny Desjardins, artist David Finch, artist Mark Sparacio, artist Art Thibert, artist John Davies, writer Frank Tieri, writer James Tynion IV, and comics legend Bob Hall. But that's only scratching the surface–check out the full list of national and local creators here.
Costume contests, live art, panels, photo ops, autographs, collectables, toys, comics, and more is planned for the show. It will be a full weekend for anyone who is a fan of comics, movies, TV, superheroes, sci-fi, and fantasy. William Binderup and Elite Comics will be taking donations of new unwrapped toys and cash donations for their annual holiday toy drive.
Check out the Kansas City Comic Con website here for more information.
Kansas City Comic Con will be held November 10-12, 2017, at the Kansas City Convention Center in downtown Kansas City at Bartle Hall, the venue for the region's biggest events.
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OK, so I'm on the record – this morning, on Marketplace – as hating the jewelry of the Parisian gemster known as JAR (a.k.a Joel A. Rosenthal). But that doesn't mean that this tacky butterfly brooch, from 1994, isn't deeply interesting and informative as a shiny little fragment of visual culture – and so worthy of a Daily Pic.
As I argued on the radio, the solo show of JAR tchotchkes now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York helps us keep in mind how entirely our culture has been taken over by the values of the ultra-rich. JAR's gewgaws have nothing to do with serious artistic thought, such as other contemporary jewelers are engaging with; JAR makes empty-headed twinkly stuff that any little girl would want for her princess costume. But as things stand today, if you can get the price tag on such objects up high enough, they begin to command respect. In the 21st century, money doesn't talk, it outshouts everything else.
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