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Deceit and Deracination: Review of Next Year in Diego Garcia
Next Year in Diego Garcia – Jean Claude de L'Estrac,
Translated by Touria Prayag (Elp: Mauritius, November 2011)
Review by Vaughan Rapatahana
The very best way to commence this review is to quote the very first paragraph from this important and well-researched book in its entirety:
This story is one of deceit, lies and cowardice. Perhaps worse; it is the story of the British Foreign Office admitting that large sums of money were at stake in Whitehall negotiations which led to the butchering of the Mauritian territory. The decision to rip the Chagos archipelago from the mainland was thus sealed as was the fate of its inhabitants who were forced to leave their birthplace to make room for the Anglo-American military base, Diego Garcia.
In fact what the Anglo-American conspiracy did to the Chagossians was and remains to this very moment, a major crime against humanity – which may well be the only legal recourse left for these displaced and distraught and brave people to fight with. The selfsame conspiracy has steadily forsworn them at every gain they ever made – culminating in the 20 December, 2012 European Court of 'Human Rights' further denying them any redress in terms of a chance to return to their now uninhabited islands, because they had already accepted the munificence of British recompense more than once over the years, commencing after a court battle in 1982. Although they did receive some pittance in 1978 from Mauritian authorities who had sat on that British 'largesse' for five years previously!. Case closed.
Except that – of course – rich Anglo-American yachtsmen and women can sail and party-in-the-harbour for long periods of time on and off the beaches of the very islands the stranded Chaogossians can still not attain, while the yachties merely have to obtain a visa from the BIOT (British Indian Ocean Territory) office for a small fee.
This book portrays this whole saga of Anglo-American duplicity, and in de L'Estrac's many other terminological sideswipes and full-on attacks he repeats more than once all of the following vocabulary: 'maintaining the fiction', 'bribes', 'secret agreements', 'pretend', 'blackmailed', 'complicity', 'dodge its obligations', 'lied about', 'conceal' and 'avoid' – among a disturbing raft of others pertaining to the perfidy, minaciousness and greed of feckless English public servants and some politicians, in particular. No-hold bars writing at its best — further strengthened by de L'Estrac's myriad use of recently declassified documents pertaining to the entire affair.
Originally the Chagos Islanders were actually indigenous to these scattered atolls and in some cases were families with several generations' heritage: of an African with some East Indian mixed bloodlines, from the times a couple of hundred years previously the French and later the English had dragooned them to the islands to toil in the copra and coconut trade. These Creole-speaking Ilois were indubitably poor, did have some pragmatic problems such as hordes of rats everywhere and what can only be depicted as a rudimentary standard of living, but they were also indubitably reasonably happy in this archipelago of "abundance and peace." And it was – and remains – their home, their turangawaewae.
But, of course, Los Americanos wanted these isolated splinters of land as a vital naval/armed forces/air nexus so as to fight the various supposed bad guys, starting from the Russians in nearby Ethiopia through today's Al Qaeda clones, wherever they might be. A bit of enforced rendition and waterboarding never hurt anyone and why not in Diego Garcia, the keystone to this Americanized war footing base? As Admiral Horatio Rivero spluttered: I want this island. In so doing. he was demonstrating that the American Navy, in general – or should that be, in commander – were very keen to grab these islands and bugger the inhabitants. Although several Americans were totally against this project in first place and for some considerable time afterwards, as for example Edward Kennedy and Clairborne Pell, their voices were soon squashed into the mud of military realpolitik.
Now, of course also, the Chagos had indeed been ceded to Mauritius way back during the Treaty of Paris (1814) when Britain had slam-dunked the French navy into oblivion – and it must also be stressed that Mauritius maintained only tenuous ties with the Chagos at the best of times: indeed proffered very little via aid or interest. In fact Mauritius' connection to Chagos was only ever at best rather haphazard and they certainly were of absolutely no assistance when the no-return one-way deportations to both Mauritius and Seychelles commenced soon after the Anglo-American skullduggery began in earnest in 1968. By 1973 indeed "There were no Chaogossians in the Chagos" and the initial waves of deportees found themselves quite literally abandoned on the docks of Port Louis – bereft of shelter, funding, equipment to make an even fundamental re-start to their lives.
Mauritius was also earnestly seeking independence from Britain – at least some Mauritian politicians were. They also knew – after having heard on the pre-Wikileaks grapevine – that the USA was particularly interested in these coral atolls and were pretty darn keen themselves to get a bit of gold (not that the Americans were ever going to offer any sort of recompense for Chagos lands then or in the present day. Even although right up until the present day the Chagos action groups try to petition for recompense from the Americans, the stock riposte always is – 'Go ask the British.')
For of course – again – Los Americanos saw Britain as fully responsible for not only Mauritius – as part of that burgeoned monster named the British Commonwealth – but also Chagos. And Britain knew darn well also that they could not just wrench the Chagos away from Mauritius : this would cut across UN Declaration 1514 (XV). So, Mauritius' consent was bought and bribed and blackmailed by a prevailing fiction novel written by Britain that there would be no Mauritian independence unless Mauritius 'gave up' Chagos. When Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (Premier of Mauritius) in 1965 tried to obtain a better fiscal and a future-use territorially guaranteed deal from the British government, one Harold Wilson spat out the hard line that 'really' the Americans were not that interested in the scheme after all. He and the rest of his UK bunnies therefore tried to convince Mauritius that the US would withdraw interest and – more – that Mauritian independence moves would be well hampered. Besides which, the British threatened to merely usurp the Chagos via an Order in Council anyway, if necessary! (Which would mean the UK could not abide by any UN resolution as it would not have the requisite Mauritian permission.) Anglo chicanery once more.
And then, of course, there was the mighty sweetener of three million pounds for this devil's pact trade-off, eh. Mauritian complicity, sadly, was all too "easily purchased."
More, this blackmail re: Mauritian independence was a completely cynical ploy as the UK already: "had already decided to 'get rid' of Mauritius as soon as possible!" This ex-Dutch, ex-French islands network of Mauritius and Rodrigues was always going to achieve its independence anyway. Preferably after the British got what they wanted first – a ceding of Chagos and the follow-up long-term lease to the salivating Americans.
Mauritians did not actually realize that the UK HAD to have Mauritius consent so as to avoid as much as possible accusations of the UK totally ignoring UN resolutions (and, in particular, Section 73 of the UN Charter) for the UK knew well that: "the islands are legally part of the territory of the colony concerned." The UK had had its best lawyers working on all the definitions for yonks (or should that read 'yanks').
For the very same reason they – these duplicitous British politicians and civil servants – also pretended consistently that there were no permanent residents on Chagos, and had never been. This complete and massive lie is articulated in one of their sample declarations here: "Only a few hundreds of workers of indentured labourers hired on contract and their families" as used to describe the Chagossians, when it was several hundred kilometres from the truth. Because, of course: "the absence of permanent residents on the islands would allow the UK to dodge its obligations under Chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations." Somehow Indigenous islanders had to become misrepresented as: "migrant labourers." Another vast fictive strand.
So began and finished – from the early 1960s until right now – this entire sorry process of betrayal and deceit and dissemination of the impoverished, largely illiterate Chagossians and the construction of "The American city of Diego Garcia" as so very well illuminated (with copious photographs), evidenced (via an impressive array of Notes) and articulated in this book.
Sir Paul Gore-Booth, from the Foreign Office: The object of the exercise was to get some rocks which will remain ours; there will be no indigenous population except seagulls…[who]…have not yet got a Committee (the Status of Women Committee does not cover the rights of Birds.)
In equally smart-arse and racist reply was from one D.A. Greenhill: …unfortunately, along with the birds go some few Tarzams or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure.
Thus a completely new territorial entity named the BIOT was formulated, despite several non-Western nations', as in non-White, manifest qualms and complaints at the U.N. level.
The actual depopulation process was heinous – initially hundreds of dogs were rounded up and incinerated in full view of their Chagossian owners. Ilois who went to Mauritius were suddenly stranded there, as there were no boats back (the 'island is closed' grieves one Ilois character in Mutiny, the definitive novel by Mauritian author Lindsey Collen). Remaining Ilois were themselves rounded up like their pet dogs: "Carrying nothing more than a small box containing personal belongings and a mat," while: "Bulldozers uprooted palm trees, destroyed the coral reef with explosives and the corals ripped out were used to build the runway." To add considerable insult to their totally undeserved misery was the fact that: "the best space [on the ferrying-away boats] was reserved for horses."
Living conditions – even today – remain especially grim for the displaced Chagossians – I know as I stenuously enquired after them on a recent (January, 2013) trip to Mauritius whereby some non-Chagossians knew of the Chagos people, but had no idea whatsoever where they actually were. "They lived in rusty tin shacks along narrow and potholed streets," writes de L'Estrac and: "A census conducted a year after their arrival reported 44 deaths 'due to unhappiness, poverty and lack of medical care'…an alarming number of psychological problems and suicides." More: "they experienced the same level of discrimination and prejudice as the African-Mauritians or Creoles with whom they assimilated" – for, of course, pigmentocracy still sadly thrives within Port Louis and indeed beyond, with the sad irony that their supposed 'betters' in the main are dark-skinned East Indian descendants of other indentured labourers.
Mauritian authorities for a long time also did absolutely nothing for these refugees, despite being 'recompensed' for their forfeiture of the very lands these refugees had been so evilly coerced to depart. de L'Estrac once more: "in one case, 31 people shared three rooms…"
The current irony is that Mauritius now however sees Chagos as part of their territory and is making some efforts and international bellows to attempt to re-attain the archipelago. However Mauritius trying to claim sovereignty is made far more difficult as the Chagossians had by then been declared UK citizens well before (in another irony for British white-collardom attempting to portray them as homeless non-permanents) – which is why they have been through the full gamut of UK law courts over several years, until a final 3-2 House of Lords judgment against them in 2008. This final British-based legal conundrum came after three earlier victories in these selfsame, yet 'lower', law courts.
During this time also were many protests and hunger strikes – often led by women – and a series of reciprocal legal manoeuvres by the UK government, who tried to bribe the Ilois to give up all rights to any possible return to their home island – signing with their thumbprints documents they couldn't even read! They kept on receiving such relatively meager $$$ measures for some time – which those refugees deported to Seychelles didn't get at all, by the way. But no way, Jose, was the UK – at the behest of the USA – ever going to relent and allow any fulltime return by the Ilois to their homeland island chain. Britain even resurrected the ancient and generally never used procedure of Orders in Council on more than one occasion – all signed by Queen Elizabeth – to initially incorporate the entire BIOT and to later (in 2004) prevent these few hundred destitute Chagossians ever going home for good, let alone, God forbid – ever attaining territorial qua homeland rights.
As noted, the other supreme villain here – the US – also never paid any Chagossians a nickel, let alone a cent, and their only huge monetary advance was to their British cronies to establish and implement a phalanx of Polaris missiles. The USA themselves also continued to provide a handy rucksack full of lies such as their original intention on Diego Garcia as being to construct merely: "certain limited facilities." More bullshit. More worryingly was the fact that during the mid-1960s they were feeding such crap to their own countrymen.
The severe fact was and remains that they, like the UK: were: "determined to take possession of the islands in question at all costs" and both parties to this crime also were whispering staunchly to the remainder of the so-called White Commonwealth – including New Zealand, of course – during their scheming – about 'saving the free-world.' Obviously the irony was lost on these multi-white ears. Even more bizarrely at that time the Shah of Iran was also allowed in on the secret: "and his help was sought in combating any 'anti-colonialist criticism' at the United Nations." The complicity of the UK and USA of course remained steadfast throughout too: "Even before the end of the negotiations, the United States were kept informed of the developments," while the empire of Halliburton – of course – that great elitist financial fount of American potency and military construction was always a benefactor and to this day remains mightily involved.
As for the Chagossians – many of whose original stranded generation has thinned out considerably – the only recourse now would seem to be an appeal to the International Criminal Court as regards a case declaiming crimes against humanity. Especially now as these selfsame Anglo-American politicians, in their cynical manipulations, have further endeavoured to declare the entire BIOT a 'protected maritime park' and as such – uninhabitable by mankind – especially dark-skinned Ilois.
Establishing a marine reserve might, indeed, as the FCO's Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling in the [British Indian Ocean Territory].
This in 2010 from one Richard Mills, US advisor. Wikileaked, by the way.
More, in 2016 the current 'lease' expires and then there is room for a further 20 years…as again Machiavelli-ed, of course between the two nefarious poles of Anglo and American.
This is about the stage where the book under review halts – in late 2011. Jean Claude De L'Estrac has written a severe critique about a seriously evil wrongdoing in our World today. More people need to read his book, to become aware of not just Diego Garcia, but of the Chagos Islanders and their unenviable plight. I totally guarantee it to ensure full wakefulness, read in one sitting, for all its readers – it is compellingly distressing and comprehensively well-written.
Meanwhile the struggle continues by the Chagos Refugees Group and their inspiring leader Olivier Bancoult http://www.chagosrefugeesgroup.net/
But I bet any 'success' for them, such as a return to the archipelago, won't be next year in Diego Garcia…not when clowns like UK Foreign Secretary William Hague can blither after the 2012 verdict: "There are fundamental difficulties with resettlement in BIOT, but we will be as positive as possible in our engagement with Chagossian groups and all interested parties."
The rot continues.
Yet, by the same token, to wax clichéd momentarily, the British will never be able to: "attempt the Chagossian experience from history" as the London Minority Rights Group once atrabiliously scorned them.
Precisely because books such as Jean Claude de L'Estrac's have been written.
- English Language as Hydra (Multilingual Matters, U.K.)
- Schisms (Stonesthrow Poetry, Nevada, USA)
In addition he has a novel forthcoming in early 2013: Toa (Atuanui Press, Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand)


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There is an article in the New York Times that discusses the clout Chasidim in America have achieved. And it does not paint a flattering picture. Some might say that this is just typical New York Times bashing of religious Jews. But I'm not so sure it is. Let us examine the issue.
Chasidim do have clout. There is no question about it. How did they get so much clout? Prior to the Holocaust, Chasidim in America barely existed as an identifiable entity. But they grew exponentially into huge numbers since the Holocaust. Chasidim tend to get married early (in some cases both bride and groom are in their teens) and have many children. A family of ten or more children is not uncommon. As a result, now over sixty years later they are a force to be reckoned with.
Although I have argued that – despite their rate of growth – their current numbers do not necessarily predict their future dominance as a culture in Judaism… their numbers are very definitely huge as is their current influence in government. This is mostly seen in the power of their vote. If their rabbinic leadership tells them to vote for a certain candidate, they tend to do so in large numbers without question and without needing to know what that candidate stands for. This gives Chasidim as a group out-sized political power!
This power does not go to waste. This community uses it to their full advantage. When they make a request to a government official, he pays attention. And often sees to it that the request is granted.
I have no problem with using one's clout to get things done for your community. There is nothing wrong with petitioning your government for your cause. It is no different than any group lobbying for their particular agenda. In that sense Chasidim are no different than – say – the gun lobby. It is the right of every American citizen – no less Chasidic citizens – to petition their government.
The question arises when petitioning for rights becomes pressuring for rights. Requests then turn into demands with unspoken threats of political defeat in the next election if those demands aren't met. Although it may be legal to do that – it can easily be interpreted as a form of political extortion to get what they want – sometimes at the expense of others.That can only result in resentment at best… and at worst create (or expose latent) anti-Semitism.
First let me say that I view it unethical to vote for a candidate without knowing what he stands for just because you were told to do so by a rabbinic leader. I understand why they do this. It is obvious. It gives them an extraordinary amount of power over elected officials. But one ought to vote for a candidate because of believing what he stands for – not because it will give your group collective power over him.
This is not good citizenship. And it makes religious looking Jews look bad. How does this affect the image of religious Jews in the world? Does this result in a positive image of Chasidim – or a negative one? What about the rest of Orthodox Jewry? Will we all be judged the way?
And how necessary are those demands? Are they Halachic or cultural? Let us look at some examples (described in the Times article) of achievements their clout has brought them.
How important is it for Chasidic women to demand a female lifeguard at their beaches that are apparently sex segregated? Although I understand their request – it is a not a Halachic requirement to have a female lifeguard. Is it worth exercising the community's clout to get one?
I also do not understand why they insist on well water for their Pesach Matzos. They apparently object to chlorination. What does chlorine have to do with Chametz? It is not a leavening agent. It is a poison which if used in small quantities kills bacteria and has no harmful effects on human beings.
Separate – sex segregated public buses are now the norm in their neighborhood. Men in the front and women in the back. That is no doubt illegal. But since they do it voluntarily, no one bothers them. Is that so necessary? I know Chasidim consider separate seating on a bus to be more modest. But is violating the law the right thing to do if it isn't a Halachic necessity – even if no one bothers them about it?

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Verona Jim Younger
Long-time Sweetwater elementary school teacher, Verona Jim Younger, 99, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012. Mrs. Younger spent most of her adult life in Sweetwater and began her Sweetwater ISD career at East Ward School (Philip Nolan), then moved to East Ridge Elementary when that new school opened. She taught first grade, although she switched to second grade for the last few years before she retired. Mrs. Younger taught at least two generations of families, and one family's six children all spent a year in her classroom. A silver platter with the engraved names of that family's children can be seen at the Sweetwater's Pioneer Museum, along with other school memorabilia her family has donated. Mrs. Younger was a long-time member of 4th and Elm Church of Christ.One school story Mrs. Younger told that tickled her fancy and that of most listeners was about students asking her age. While some teachers would respond to that question with their actual age, Mrs. Younger always said that she was 110 years old. One day following students asking her age and hearing her answer, two little boys were overheard on the playground discussing the situation. One boy said to the other, shaking his head, "Naw, she's not 110. If she was 110, she'd have a long white beard."Married 74 years to J.V. Younger, an active member and officer of the Sweetwater Lions Club, Mrs. Younger enjoyed immensely the many meetings and conventions in various locales she attended with Mr. Younger.In 2001, the Youngers relocated to the Houston area to be near their only child, Kathryn Gehbauer and her family. Mr. Younger died in 2006. Born in Rockwood, Texas, on Nov. 13, 1913, Mrs. Younger was the eldest, yet the last surviving, child of the five siblings of the late Jim and Catherine Featherston family.Survivors include daughter, Kathryn; grandchildren, Gary Gehbauer, Keith Gehbauer and wife Sharon; great-grandchildren, Kelsey Gehbauer, Eric Hall, Reed and Emma Gehbauer; and nephews, John and James Walker.Online condolences for the family may be left at www.claytonfuneralhomes.com.


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If you're thinking of hitting the beach anytime this summer, the Natural Resources Defense Council suggests you're much less likely to get sick playing in the surf at Ocean City or at Dewey and Rehoboth beaches in Delaware.
The New York-based environmental group rates the Atlantic beaches closest to most Marylanders "superstars" for water quality, awarding them five stars for ensuring the health of bathers, along with 11 other beaches nationwide. Ocean City has gotten the group's five-star rating every years since 2008.
The water is tested twice a week at O.C., the NRDC reported, and just 4 percent of samples taken last year in the stretch from 124th Street north to the Delaware line had bacteria levels that exceeded state water-quality limits. Only that northern portion of Ocean City's beach was rated.
The beaches at Rehoboth Avenue in Rehoboth and at Dagsworthy Street in Dewey also get tested twice a week, according to the group, and have even fewer elevated bacteria readings.
In fact, Delaware as a whole earned top honors in NRDC's report card for monitoring water quality and ensuring bather safety at all of its beaches. Maryland, by comparison, came in 11th among states.
Nationwide, the environmental group said the number of beach closings last year for unsanitary conditions dropped 14 percent, but it said that was largely because drier weather washed less pollution into the water.
Even so, it said the number of closings and swim advisories topped 20,000 across the U.S. in 2012 -- a level exceeded for the eighth time in the past nine years. Such a string of closings and advisories indicates serious water pollution persists, the group said. The most common reason for closing a beach or issuing an advisory against swimming is a test showing excessive levels of bacteria, indicating the presence of human or animal waste in the water.
The NRDC contends that beach water quality standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency aren't protective enough, and it's threatened to file suit if they aren't strengthened.
The group contends EPA standards allow beaches to be considered safe even if up to 10 percent of samples exceed bacteria limits, a rate that could allow one in 28 bathers to come down with GI distress. Moreover, the NRDC complains the agency has neglected to set standards aimed at preventing skin rashes and ear infections from contact with tainted water.


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NBA Draft: Stock Watch
This year's draft is shaping up to be a very interesting one as there is no clear-cut No. 1 pick. Much like 2006, this is a weaker draft without any immediate franchise changers or great depth. Projecting the first round is much more challenging with the level of talent down from most years.
One scout told me that he's usually hearing other scouts complain about the lack of talent out there and assuring everyone it's not that bad, but this year he's been complaining with the rest. With so many unknowns, if nothing else, it should get very interesting.
Jared Sullinger took over the top spot on the mock draft this week, as more and more scouts are mentioning him as the safest pick at the top. Will he change the fortunes of a franchise? Not likely. Will he end up one of the top 3-5 players out of this draft, and a potential all star and a rock in the paint for 10-12 years? Probably.
Derrick Williams is another player that some teams have No. 1 overall on their boards. He occupied the top spot last week and has been playing as well as anyone, and similar to Sullinger he's dominating games, unlike most of the other No. 1 overall pick candidates.
Perry Jones has the most upside and sat a top the mock draft for a number of months. Teams may ultimately be afraid to take him No. 1 overall as he has the look of a player that will need time to develop a killer instinct. Worst-case scenario, he could get a GM fired before finally figuring things out and gaining the intensity to compete every minute on the floor.
Some may question Sullinger, or Derrick Williams, who occupied the top spot last week as legit No. 1 candidates, but considering that every prospect has their flaws, it's a wide-open race. Perry Jones (inconsistency/lack of intensity), Kyrie Irving (injured/small/not overly athletic), Enes Kanter (unproven at high level/hasn't played/injury concerns - knee), Terrence Jones (maturity/body language), Derrick Williams (lack of defense/position/true 6-9?), Jared Sullinger (weight/mobility).
The team that lands the top pick will likely factor into who that pick ends up being. A GM with job security and a team lacking a franchise talent might opt to swing for the fences with a player such as Perry Jones. More likely a team coming off of a bottom-feeder finish will have a GM with more urgency to show something out of the top pick decide on going with a safer pick, such as Sullinger, Williams or Irving.
Here's a look at who's rising and falling on our draft board:
Jared Sullinger 6-9 286 PF Ohio St. Fr.
He's heftier and less mobile than the prototypical NBA power forward, but he couldn't have picked a better time to be a draft prospect, as Kevin Love is having a breakout season. Love's success could be helping to redefine how the prototypical power forward is perceived. Scouts have described Sullinger as a more nimble and athletic version of Love (with better knees and more potential).
Sullinger has the No. 1-rated Buckeyes rolling like a tank through the early part of Big Ten play, having dismantled JaJuan Johnson and Purdue on Tuesday. They built a 20-point first-half lead and never looked back as Sullinger finished with 17 points and 7 rebounds. He's had some absolutely dominating performances and has made a smooth transition to the college game.
According to sources, Sullinger has battled insomnia in the past and could be found roaming the halls in the wee hours at the adidas Nations camp a few years ago. This isn't considered a major problem, but something that teams will obviously look into when the psychological evaluation tests begin. Sullinger shows no effects of any sleep disorder in games as he has the perfect "ornery demeanor" to mix it up inside.
Said one scout: "This kid is just scratching the surface of figuring out how to use his ass and body to his advantage in the post." Sullinger grew up around basketball, as his father "Satch Sullinger" taught him the basics from an early age. He's got an amazing feel for the game, with the ability to step outside and knock down shots to go along with his tremendous post skills and touch. He's also an excellent passer with the vision to see the floor and find teammates when he's doubled, which happens often.
Ohio State looks like a strong title contender, and if they win it all, it will only enhance Sullinger's chances of going first.
Derrick Williams 6-9 235 PF Arizona So.
Williams has been on a meteoric rise all season with efficiency numbers that are sure to make John Hollinger's heart skip a beat. His efficiency is mind boggling, as he's averaging 2.15 points per shot, hitting 62 percent from the floor and 70 percent (19-27) from 3-point range. His 19.7 ppg and 8.1 rpg are coming in 29 minutes per game.
His performance against Kansas' Morris twins was the one that really made scouts take notice and begin to consider him among the top handful of available prospects. He has played extremely well since that game, too, with strong performances against the Washington teams on the road last weekend.
A number of scouts have mentioned him as a player being discussed as a top pick and more than one team has him atop their draft board. His natural NBA position, however, is up for debate. He's considered a SF by some scouts and a PF by others. He'll have a chance to play both positions, but has the length (7-foot wingspan) and explosiveness to compensate in any height shortcomings. If he measures 6-foot-9 in shoes as he did at the Amare Skills Academy, or more precisely 6-foot-8 barefoot, that will give his No. 1-overall-pick chances a boost.
Said one scout: "He's been playing as well as anybody. Why couldn't he go No. 1?"
Another scout said this: "I'd love to see what he could do if he was actually playing with a decent point guard. Teams are able to double and triple team him, focusing all of their defensive focus on him, and he's still killing it."
Jimmer Fredette 6-2 190 PG BYU Sr.
Fredette's performance against SDSU on Wednesday night was the stuff of legend. He was in such a zone, it was as if he couldn't miss. His 43 points in BYU's biggest game of the year was absolutely phenomenal. He started slow with just two points in the first eight minutes, but then began to pour it on.
The performance was no fluke, either. Remember last season, Fredette torched the Arizona Wildcats to the tune of 49 points and nine assists in one of the greatest individual performances in McKale Center history.
This season, Fredette leads the nation in scoring (27.4 ppg) and is making a strong case to be National Player of the Year. He is incredibly crafty at creating shots and only needs an inch of daylight to get his shot and it's not just shooting, he finds teammates and his overall feel for the game is at an extremely high level. He makes it look easy.
He has yet to exhibit the PG skills and defensive speed to consider him as a full-time PG at the next level. However, he will have a chance to be an instant-offense type of player in the mold of an Eddie House. He's not Stephen Curry, but he has some of Curry's innate ability to get quality shots off in rhythm in the blink of an eye.
Despite his shortcomings, scouts are beginning to believe he will be a first round pick. This was Fredette's fifth-career 40-point game, and third within his past four games. He looks like a man on a mission, and BYU is quickly becoming a team that nobody wants to play in March.
Nolan Smith 6-3 180 PG/SG Duke Sr.
Smith has been very strong taking over the PG position for Duke with Kyrie Irving's injury — so strong, in fact, that he has even been mentioned as a National Player of theYear and first-team All-American candidate.
Scouts still question his ability to play the PG position full time at the NBA level, but he has shown the ability to play mistake-free ball and be an excellent decision maker.
In comparison to a player such as Jimmer Fredette, Smith lacks that one standout ability (shooting), but doesn't have any major weaknesses either. In the right situation, Smith should prove to be an excellent role player off the bench for an NBA team.
His four-year Duke pedigree and the way he has filled in so effectively for Irving has put him into a good position to be a late first-round pick in this year's draft.
Tristan Thompson 6-9 225 PF Texas Fr.
Thompson has really found a groove lately with nine straight double-digit scoring games. His 17-point, 15-rebound performance in Texas' win over Michigan State had scouts buzzing, and he has continued with strong play since.
His performance against Kansas, outplaying the Morris Twins in the second half (finishing with 12 points, six boards and five blocks) to help Texas upset the Jayhawks also raised some eyebrows among scouts.
Tristan has been a part of winning teams (adidas 64 champions & back-to-back high school champions) at the prep level. In high school, he appeared too enamored with being a SF and developing his handle and face-the-basket skills. He finally appears to be putting more focus on his bread and butter and developing a post game. His footwork is looking more comfortable and he's making plays around the basket.
Athletically, he's got a lot to work with, possessing a huge wingspan, great fluidity, speed in the open floor and excellent leg strength, which leads to his explosive leaping ability. In such a weak draft, Thompson is getting mentions as a possible top-10 pick — one team has him rated eighth on their board —although he's still seen as more of a potential pick than a player that can be a big contributor initially.
In high school, Thompson developed a reputation for lacking focus and some analysts became skeptical about him. He has developed a reputation as a hard worker this season.
Kawhi Leonard 6-7 210 SF San Diego St. So.
Leonard is getting a lot of buzz from NBA scouts and is benefiting from the exposure that SDSU's great season has afforded him. He's a multi-skilled forward with tremendous rebounding ability. He also shows an excellent ability to handle the ball and get by opponents off the dribble.
Leonard has a prototypical basketball body with extremely long arms and huge hands. He's a rebounding machine who attacks the glass with reckless abandon. His 10.6 rebounds per game ranks 13th in the nation and he has had 15 or more rebounds in three of his past four games.
He considered leaving early after last season and made a great decision staying in school for his sophomore year. He's considered a first rounder by most scouts and could go as high as top-10 with a strong finish to the year.
Marshon Brooks 6-5 190 SG Providence Sr.
A virtual unknown before the season, Brooks is long, lanky and shows excellent ability to create off the dribble. He's second in the Big East to Kemba Walker in scoring and uses his length well to finish around the basket.
His style of play and body are similar to former first rounder Josh Howard. Brooks can take players off the dribble, as well as pull up from the perimeter. Like Howard, his body is thin but with his big wingspan he plays bigger than his listed 6-5 height.
His foot speed is solid but not sensational, and could keep him from being a standout at the NBA level. But there were some of the same concerns with Howard, and he became a quality pro.
On the negative side, Brooks doesn't always show the best body language. He can appear frustrated with teammates when they make mistakes or don't get him the ball enough. Regardless, Brooks has ridden a tremendous senior season into being legitimately discussed as a first rounder by scouts.
Harrison Barnes 6-8 215 SF UNC Fr.
Barnes has fallen considerably from his early season perch as the top-overall pick. He has not found a comfort zone and appears to be thinking too much instead of just reacting and playing instinctually. He's shown the ability to step up his play late in games, knocking down a game winner against Miami and hitting some clutch shots in prior games. However, his inability to put together consistent 40 minutes and struggling to stand out is a real concern.
The consensus is that Barnes is no longer considered a lottery pick for this year's draft. "If he didn't have the reputation coming in, I'm not sure I would have even taken notes on him," said one scout.
Another scout mentioned that they felt at some point they could see things finally coming together for him and he'll gain that confidence and comfort in taking over and playing to his ability. But the general feeling is that he wasn't just in a slump early on and it was more of him being overrated coming into college.
"Maybe that's just what he is," said one scout. "A player who blends but doesn't necessarily stand out".
In his defense, he's been playing with a below-average PG Larry Drew most of the year and plays extremely unselfishly, always moving the ball and never really looking to use the dribble to create for himself. But for a player some had touted as the preseason National Player of the Year, 11.8 ppg on 37-percent shooting is a major disappointment. He's still projected as a lottery pick for 2012, but he's got a long ways to go.
Josh Selby 6-3 183 PG Kansas Fr.
Selby has shown some intriguing ability as a go-to scorer and ability to attack the basket. He had a solid start to his college career but has fallen off dramatically. He's forcing things far too much, taking ill-advised shots.
The biggest issue so far for Selby has been consistency. When he's on, he's on. When he's off, he's been way off. Typical freshman stuff — he puts together a solid showing and follows that up with a bad showing. But for a player who wants to be a one-and-done guy, he's not showing the readiness necessary to be a high pick and his status as a first rounder is in jeopardy if he doesn't improve.
Similar to Jerryd Bayless, Selby is a physical specimen with a great combination of strength and athleticism. But similar to Bayless, there are concerns with his attitude. If anything, he is overconfident, as he wants every big shot and has the attitude that he's the man and should be the leader of the team. On the negative side, some scouts question whether he's too cocky and if he's more about himself than the team. He's also very turnover prone, averaging nearly as many turnovers as assists: three per game.
On the positive side, he's knocking down a high percentage of shot from 3-point range at 40 percent (22-55) showing a terrific form and willingness to take over in important moments. He's had less time acclimating to the college game than others, so how he finishes the year will be important.
Elias Harris 6-8 235 SF/PF Gonzaga So.
Harris has really struggled this year. His FT percentage and assists have improved, but everything else has regressed from his freshman year. He's averaging just 12.3 ppg, and his 3-point shooting has dropped to 33 percent.
There are some scouts who still like him and the toughness he has shown playing through an achilles injury should be noted. But for a player that is the age of a senior, Harris could be running out of time. He still lacks perimeter skills, prompting some scouts to write him off as a small forward and declare him an undersized power forward. It's still uncertain if Harris has the skill level to make it in the NBA. He's a bouncy athlete who competes hard and shows desire, but he could be too much of a tweener to stick in the league.
Kevin Love should be grateful that he has a coach that lets him play in garbage time in order to keep his double double streak alive.
I'm sure Sullinger would love to post 20-20 games on a bottom-dwelling team.
I think Purtogoose is really Moses Malone's bitter mother. You really dont think a team like Boston, LA or Miami would be improved by adding a player like Kevin Love? I think it's refreshing to see him play the game the way his poition traditionally should be playing it.
miami maybe since they lost haslem but love wouldnt be able to keep up with them...and he wouldnt do anything on the lakers or celts..Hes a hustle role player who is the only real option on a last place team, lets not talk like hes suddenly charles barkley or something...his coach leaving him in just to get his stats kinda waters the whole effect anyway.


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Colorado teen Jarell Brooks just wanted to see a movie about superheroes. He didn't realize, as he entered the fated theater in Aurora to see the latest Batman movie, that he was about to become one.
The 19 year old was ready to high-tail it outa dodge when the gunman opened fire in a packed movie house of midnight-theater goers excited to see The Dark Knight Rises. But as he, along with hundreds of others, rushed for the exits, he noticed Patricia Legarreta, struggling to save her toddler and infant, and suddenly, saving his own life didn't seem quite as important. Crawling on top of Patricia to protect her and pushing she and her babies out the side exit to safety, Jarell was shot in the thigh, and Patricia was mildly injured with buckshot, but the children were safe, and both Jarell and Patricia have been released from the hospital.
About what Jarell did, Patricia told ABC News, "It makes me feel glad because I felt helpless. Everybody at that moment was going through it, and to know that someone had that mindset, it makes me feel happy to know that in times of trial, there are good people out there."
Heroes Who Lost Their Lives
Three other heroes, who put themselves between their girlfriends and the line of fire, weren't so blessed. As reported here, Jon Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves used their bodies as bullet shields to protect their girlfriends as accused madman James Holmes turned the Aurora cineplex into a shooting gallery. Jansen Young, Samantha Yowler; and Amanda Lindgren made it out with intact bodies but broken hearts, having lost the loves of their lives.
Heroes In Our Midst
I'm working on a book proposal for my next book, which I'll describe in more detail at some future point, but which may revolve around fear and how we become resilient to it, transforming fear into courage. As I'm researching the book, I'm coming across stories of profound bravery, studying people like Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr, Nelson Mandela, Erin Brockovich, Miep Gies who protected Anne Frank, Harvey Milk who spoke out about gay rights, Paul Rusesabagina who saved 1,200 lives during the Rwanda genocide, 9/11 firefighter Stephen Siller, and Virginia Tech professor Liviu Lebrescu, who saved the lives of 22 of his students during the Virginia Tech massacre.
These people must have faced impossible fears, and yet they found within themselves the courage to do what they must, even when it meant putting their lives at risk. I can't help wondering, "What inner resources do they call upon?"
Fear & Courage: Two Sides Of One Coin
In an informal survey on Facebook (you can see the nearly 50 responses here) and Twitter (dozens more responses showed up there), I asked people to share with me their deepest fears. Answers ranged from fear of losing a loved one, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of financial disaster, fear of suffering and death, fear of being unlovable and winding up alone, fear of regret, fear of unworthiness, and fear of the unknown to phobias, such as fear of spiders, snakes, roaches, and heights.
I then asked people to tell me the bravest thing they've ever done and what inner resources they've called upon to face their fears and stand fully in their courage. If this next book is a go, I'm going to be interviewing people who have done impossibly brave things in the face of the gravest fears – risking one life to save another's, putting a broken heart on the line, taking great financial risk to follow a dream, risking your health, as living kidney donors do, taking impossible risks to follow a dream.
I want to interview people who have walked in the valley of fear and decided to feel the fear and do it anyway, like I have, on my good days, been brave enough to do. (You can read my story here.)
Courage Comes In All Colors
We all have our brave moments, when we decide to do something that feels impossible, and yet we do it anyway. Bravery isn't just about saving someone's life. We're impossibly brave when we face a health crisis and decide to heal ourselves, get brave enough to overcome addiction, gather up our moxie and leave an unhappy marriage, keep your heart open after losing a pet, forgive ourselves after we screw up, and forgive someone else when they hurt us.
I've become fascinated with everyday acts of extraordinary courage, with how we all have moments when we're brave enough to keep our hearts open, take professional and financial risks, do what it takes to heal our bodies and souls, and give in service to someone else.
How Are You Brave?
So tell me, darlings. How are you brave? Tell me your story or tell me the story of someone you know who has done something requiring a boatload of courage. The story just might wind up in my next book – and it's certain to inspire someone else to be just a wee bit more brave next time the Gremlins of fear show up.
Embracing and in awe of courage,
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November 21, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Newmar, Sony Offer 3D TV in Louisville Launch
Newmar Corp. announced today (Nov. 21) that it will show the RV industry's first use of Sony 3D television technology at the Nov. 29-Dec. 1 49th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky.
According to a press release, the televisions will be shown in the 2012 Essex Class A diesel motorhome at the event, and will also be available on Newmar's 2012 King Aire diesel pusher.
"Newmar's introduction of Sony 3D technology in its luxury motorhome lines is just another RV industry first brought to market by our company," said Kyle McCrary, Newmar's director of luxury motorhome sales. "Thanks to the Miller family and the resources they provide, our company has a legacy of being an innovator in the RV industry. Newmar will remain committed to innovation when the opportunity presents itself."
In a partnership between Sony and Newmar, visitors to the Newmar display will be able to experience the Sony 3D TV first hand, as well as have the opportunity to enter a drawing for a chance to win a Sony 3D television prize package.
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From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world's most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the scientist may identify problems, it falls to the engineer to solve them. It is the inherent practicality of engineering, which takes into account structural, economic, environmental, and other factors that science often does not consider, that makes engineering vital to answering our most urgent concerns.
Henry Petroski takes us inside the research, development, and debates surrounding the most critical challenges of our time, exploring the feasibility of biofuels, the progress of battery-operated cars, and the question of nuclear power. He gives us an in-depth investigation of the various options for renewable energy—among them solar, wind, tidal, and ethanol—explaining the benefits and risks of each. Will windmills soon populate our landscape the way they did in previous centuries? Will synthetic trees, said to be more efficient at absorbing harmful carbon dioxide than real trees, soon dot our prairies? Will we construct a "sunshade" in outer space to protect ourselves from dangerous rays? In many cases, the technology already exists. What's needed is not so much invention as engineering.
Just as the great achievements of centuries past—the steamship, the airplane, the moon landing—once seemed beyond reach, the solutions to the twenty-first century's problems await only a similar coordination of science and engineering. Eloquently reasoned and written, The Essential Engineer identifies and illuminates these problems—and, above all, sets out a course for putting ideas into action.
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Science is by its very nature global. In fact, it is galactic, even universal. This is because science deals with universal laws, like the law of gravity. No matter where on earth I jump, gravity will pull me down according to the single law of universal gravitation. And no matter where an apple falls, it falls toward the ground. We believe that it has always been so, regardless of culture.
But this is not to say that practicing science is independent of culture. It is proper to speak of American science, as distinct from, say, Japanese science. Indeed, at least one Japanese scientist has taken note of the fact that his culture has yielded a paucity of Nobel laureates. This has been attributed to the deference that the Japanese culture expects of the young toward the elderly. Prize-winning scientific breakthroughs often depend on rebellion against the prevailing paradigm, not deference to it.
At the same time, the Japanese excel in technological endeavors. Their automobiles and consumer electronics are admired and bought around the world. The disciplined Japanese culture is well suited to the mass manufacturing of excellently engineered and highly reliable products. Those products that are exported fit nicely into the target culture; those that are for home consumption are distinctly Japanese.
So there appears to be a significant difference between science and engineering and how they relate to culture. A commonly cited difference between the two endeavors is that science seeks to understand what is, whereas engineering seeks to create what never was. It is wrong to describe engineering as mere applied science. There is some extra-scientific component to engineering, something often referred to as the creative or artistic component. The engineer designing a bridge does not deduce its form from scientific laws and mathematical equations. Rather, like a poem or a painting, the bridge is formed first in the engineer's mind's eye. It is only then that the hypothesized structure can be given a scientific or mathematical litmus test. In engineering, analysis follows synthesis--not the other way around.
It is essential that the similarities and differences between science and engineering be kept in mind when identifying and attacking global problems. Scientists and engineers come from different technical cultures as surely as Americans and Japanese do from different social ones. --Henry Petroski
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Downtown anarchist/reporter killed in Mexico
Brad Will, shortly before his death, in the zocalo at Oaxaca City.
By Lincoln Anderson
Outrage over the murder of activist and journalist Brad Will and the violence in Oaxaca, Mexico, exploded on Monday when a protest by hundreds of angry demonstrators outside the Mexican Consulate in Midtown flared into a near riot with the police.
Protesters tried to storm the consulate, then chained themselves to a gate blocking the entrance. By the time it was all over, 12 had been arrested, several of them having been carried off or dragged off by police after doing civil disobedience.
Will, 36, a former East Village squatter and community gardens activist turned Indymedia reporter, was killed last Friday by paramilitaries in Oaxaca City as he was documenting the uprising against Ulises Ruiz, governor of the state of Oaxaca (pronounced "wah-hahka").
His final video begins with Will doing an interview about the insurgents' fight to maintain control of a local radio station. There had already been gunfire from the paramilitaries that morning. Will then follows along with a group of Oaxacans who, despite sporadic gunfire, chase one of the paramilitaries into a building, then use a dump truck to ram an opening in it. At some point, either this paramilitary or another fires a shot that strikes Will in the abdomen. The tape ends in commotion, with Will crying, "Help me!" and others shouting, "Grab him!" as they try to pull him to safety. The camera is left on a ledge, still filming.
The video, which is in Spanish, can be viewed at
Emilio Alfonso Fabian, a teacher from Oaxaca, and Esteban Zurrita, an Oaxaca resident, were also killed in the same incident by the paramilitaries, who are said to be connected with PRI, the state's ruling party.
Will was buried in Oaxaca.
A peaceful memorial for Will by about 75 friends was held Saturday evening outside the Mexican Consulate on E. 39th St.
But Monday's protest, which drew hundreds, had a markedly more militant tone. The rally took up the call of APPO, the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, which is demanding Ruiz's resignation, claiming he rigged the 2004 election.
Will's friends and the uprising's supporters fear his death will be used to justify the government's quashing the rebellion in Oaxaca City, which has been under the insurgents' control for about five months. Each night, the insurgents barricade the roads into the city and stand guard.
At both the memorial and protest a red-and-black anarchist flag fluttered above the crowd. Will identified politically as an anarchist.
Also at the protest, in a different take on the white "ghost bikes" left around the city wherever cyclists have been killed, a black ghost bike with spokes made of rebar was chained to the consulate's fence. Will was an avid cyclist who participated in Critical Mass rides. Taped to the bike's handlebars was a bullet. However, Will always insisted he was a peaceful anarchist.
About an hour after the rally started, one protester, Tim Doody, 32, of the West Village, scaled a lamppost using a foot harness attached to a strap that he pushed up the pole bit by bit. When he got up 25 feet, he unfurled a banner with a painting of the bearded and pony-tailed Will with the slogan, "One more night at the barricades." Hanging onto the pole, Doody hung the banner around his neck.
While everyone was focused on Doody up on the pole, several other protesters tried to storm through the consulate's doors. There was a tangle of police, protesters and other individuals.
The crowd closed in on the consulate and someone grabbed a police officer's hat and flung it into the sky and when it came back to the sidewalk a man stomped on it.
Police whipped out small telescoping black batons and briefly flailed them to disperse the crowd, then, moving like offensive linemen on a football team, aggressively shoved the protesters away from the consulate.
Indymedia reporter Brandon Jourdan, 26, a friend and former roommate of Will's from when they lived together in Tribeca, lay down in front of a laundry van and refused to move, and was carried off by police.
Delayed briefly by two women near the base of the lamppost, two police on top of an Emergency Service Unit truck pulled the banner away from Doody, then convinced him to come down, after which he was arrested.
The situation remained tense for another hour. Scuffles repeatedly broke out, as protesters refused to stay where police told them.
Two days before, friends had gathered at the consulate to grieve and remember Will, an activist who seemed to have been involved in almost everything of a leftist nature going on in the city, when he wasn't off reporting on some hotspot in Latin America. Some of the mourners held smoldering sheaves of sage, filling the air with a sweet smell. With small white candles, they made the shape of the Indymedia logo on the sidewalk.
Indymedia started in 1999 during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, which Will participated in. He was involved in Indymedia a collective of volunteer reporters affiliated with more than 150 independent news centers from the beginning.
Eric Laursen, an anarchist who helped organize protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, said it was natural for Will to be drawn to Oaxaca.
"What's going on in Oaxaca is exactly what Brad's dedicated his life to," Laursen said. "He had a sense for homing in on people taking control of their own lives and their own government direct democracy. It's the same reason George Orwell went to Barcelona in the 1930s. He did tree-sits in the Pacific Northwest, he did squats."
Friends related an incident that deeply affected Will, when, covering a squatter eviction in Brazil, police let Will go after seeing his American passport, then killed some of the squatters.
Josh Bregman, a fellow independent reporter who met Will in Oaxaca, said he and Will had been there together briefly in September. Bregman said the resistance has set up an encampment in the zocalo, or central square, of Oaxaca City. Every night, at the roads into the city, barricades are put up, made of cinder blocks, wood, tires, with a fire in their middle. During the day, people can move in and out.
Bregman said Will, he and others were trying to document how neoliberal policies otherwise known as free trade are wreaking havoc on the Mexican campesinos by bringing in U.S. agricultural products.
Michael Shenker and Fran Luck spoke about Will's history as a squatter in the East Village. In recent years, Will had been living in Williamsburg, or "Billyburg," as he liked to call it.
"On the local level, two of his homes were destroyed right under his feet," Shenker said, referring to the Fifth St. Squat and Dos Blocos.
In 1997, after a small fire caused the evacuation of the Fifth St. Squat, the city moved to knock down the building, despite a judge's court order to halt the demolition. But Will snuck in and got up onto the roof, even as the demolition had started.
"They kept swinging that wrecking ball, but Brad did not back down," Shenker recalled. "It went on for close to an hour. Eventually Brad won they stopped. They sent up cops with a platform and they arrested him."
Afterwards, the old tenement was razed that night, in defiance of the court order. But Will and the other squatters later won a $120,000 legal settlement from the city. Shenker also said it was Will's act that led the city to negotiate with the remaining East Village squatters, culminating in the 2002 sale of the buildings to the squatters for $1.
"We lost the building," Shenker said of the Fifth St. Squat. "But thanks to Brad's efforts, 11 of those 12 buildings are safe today. Thank God to Brad Will, my home is safe today."
"It inspired the whole Lower East Side," echoed Luck of Will's brazen act. "It was such a symbol of defiance and resistance what a staunch pillar. It seemed to me like Brad had nine lives, at least. Think of the guts of being the last person in a building that the city was trying to wreck. They could have easily wrecked it with him in there…. Brad wasn't just Oaxaca." Will was also a key member of the More Gardens group, fighting to save community gardens from being developed. Aresh Javadi recalled how, during the fight to save Esperanza Garden on E. Seventh St., Will had locked himself down in a device called a "black bear" at the base of a 28-foot-tall sunflower structure, on top of which another protester was perched.
"Brad took his sweet, long time," Javadi said. "He made it very difficult for them." In the end, Will was the second-to-last person arrested in that protest. He was later arrested again at the Esperanza site when garden activists, making a last stand to prevent the plot's development, tore down the construction fence.
Graphic novelist Seth Tobocman said Will was an important figure in countless local struggles.
"The community gardens, ABC No Rio, the squats a lot of these owe their existence to Brad," Tobocman said. "He trained people to do nonviolent civil disobedience. He was involved with everything Downtown. Brad was an activist long before he was a journalist. He was a writer and folk singer too."
When he was in town, Will also rode in Critical Mass, the monthly event to raise awareness about bicycling and nonpolluting transportation.
"He was a rare individual, because he was a long-term activist and also an environmentalist," said Bill DiPaolo, founder of Time's Up!, the East Village environmental organization that promotes Critical Mass. "He was not a flash in the pan…. Brad operated in several different circles. He was a local activist, and he was known globally. He would bring back his video from the world and show it at the Time's Up! space."
"Anarchist" did not mean violent, at least not for Will. After the 2004 R.N.C., he related how deeply upset he had been to discover he had been on a list of protesters under surveillance by the New York Police Department for the 18 months leading up to the convention. ABC's "Nightline" reported that, according to the N.Y.P.D., the individuals were "troublesome, even dangerous, anarchists who infiltrate other groups of demonstrators and then try to provoke violence."
At the time, Will who stressed he had never been arrested for a violent act said he was considering suing the Police Department for defamation of character.
"I never hurt anyone in my life," Will said then. "There are no cases pending against me. I'm a journalist now, I don't want my career to be ruined."
However, in the end, he only sued for being pepper-sprayed during a clash with police on 16th St. during the R.N.C., for which he won a settlement, according to Jeffrey Rothman, the attorney who represented him.
Will explained that, to him, anarchy meant "anti-authoritarian," "anti-oppression," "self-rule," "local control" and, ideally, no government. He contributed a chapter on community gardens to a book on global movements, "We Are Everywhere," in which he identified himself as an anarchist.
Another time a few years ago, in an interview while biking in a Critical Mass ride, Will again complained about being singled out apparently for his politics explaining how he had been detained for interrogation at the airport by Homeland Security officers after returning from a trip reporting abroad.
Will grew up in the Midwest where his family lives in Wisconsin. His given name, according to Indymedia, is William Bradley Roland. According to Newsday, he is survived by his parents and three siblings. Javadi said Will was also a father, and leaves a young child living in France.
In a statement, Will's family said: "We are grieving over the tragic and senseless loss of Brad's life. Brad's friends and family admired his brave support for the downtrodden and willingness to act tirelessly upon his convictions. We believe he died doing what he loved. We will all miss Brad's compassionate, loving and adventurous spirit, and it is our hope that his life's work reporting on the human struggle will never be forgotten."
Interested from an early age in both writing and activism, in his early 20s, Will attended the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Colorado, where one of his teachers was Allen Ginsberg.
"He loved Brad," Jenny Smith who met Will at Naropa recalled of the famed Beat poet. She recalled Will also was the groom in a mock gay wedding they staged in Boulder in plain sight of a Promise Keepers evangelical meeting.
Two East Village activists speaking on Monday as the consulate protest was winding down said there will be consequences for Will's murder.
John Penley, who usually spends the winters D.J.'ing on the Oaxaca coast, said he didn't go down this year because of the unrest.
"My predication, the whole thing is blowing," Penley said. "It's definitely going to spread. In a way, it may be a good thing for Mexico, because change never comes without violence in Mexico. I believe that Brad's death may be the spark that sets off the revolution."
Father Frank Morales, of St. Mark's Church, said of his former fellow squatter Will, "That's what he was doing in Oaxaca the people seized the land. People got to squat the world. He was covering it. He was documenting the struggle of grassroots people.
"He was an activist's activist," Morales said.
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The Avengers hulk smashed its way past the wizarding world of Harry Potter to claim a new box office record this past weekend with $200.3 million in ticket sales. And now for the actual surprise. Nearly half of those tickets were sold to women. Why? I've got three words for you: The Incredible Hulk. And now two more: Mark Ruffalo.
In a script by Joss Whedon -- male director oft described as a feminist -- smooth, sexy Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man has been dethroned in favor of a guy who literally smashes through everything set in front of him. But it's as the Hulk's alter-ego Dr. Bruce Banner that Ruffalo and Whedon have reinvented the superhero as the everyman.
Goodbye macho man. Hello sweet, humble, unassuming, conflicted guy who looks more like he needs a hug and, I dare say it, mothering, than a man ready to take on the world. Who would have thought of the Incredible Hulk as cuddly? Who would have thought the Hulk would be getting all the attention today?
During interviews with the actors before the New York premiere last week, Tom Hiddleston, who plays the movie's main villain, Loki, joked that it was almost embarrassing sitting at Comic-Con last fall with people so focused on giving him "Loki Love" while Ruffalo and Captain America actor Chris Evans sat beside him. At the time comic book fans were still uneasy about Ruffalo's casting.
Those days are over. We're in love with the Incredible Hulk. And the big green lug has gotten Ruffalo plenty of attention, from a Twitter hacker who has taken his account hostage to sending bids sky high on some Avengers-themed memorabilia he's signed to support the green charity he passionately talks up every chance he can get about the danger of natural gas drilling instead of the danger of letting a green monster loose in Manhattan.
But it's Disney/Marvel's promise to give Ruffalo his own movie in 2015, a flick that will be 100 percent Hulk, that shows how much this reinvigorated character means to the franchise. In total, we're supposed to get six films out of him.
He's certainly sexy enough to draw the ladies (sorry, but you were thinking it too). But thanks to Whedon and Ruffalo himself, Hulk is finally a superhero we can wrap our arms around and let him carry us through another Avengers (they totally set that up at the end of the movie; if you stayed for the post-credits scene?) and beyond ... fingers crossed anyway.
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Saudi: Suspected Ebola victim did not have virus
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi man who died last week after returning from Sierra Leone did not have the Ebola virus, according to initial international laboratory results, Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said.
The ministry said late Saturday that samples submitted to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came back negative for the Ebola virus, adding that samples were also sent for testing to a laboratory in Germany. The ministry said the CDC is conducting additional tests to further confirm the negative Ebola finding and determine if the patient was infected with a different virus found in Sierra Leone.
The 40-year-old Saudi national died Wednesday in a hospital isolation ward in the Saudi coastal city of Jiddah after showing symptoms of the viral hemorrhagic fever. He was the only suspected Ebola case in the kingdom and had just returned from a trip to affected Sierra Leone.
Ebola, which has no proven vaccine or treatment, has killed more than 900 people this year in four countries in West Africa.
Saudi Arabia is not issuing visas this year to Muslim pilgrims from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea as a precaution to avoid the spread during the hajj pilgrimage, which sees massive crowds of people from around the world gather in Mecca. The decision affects a total of 7,400 pilgrims from those three countries.


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Darryl Worley Asks for Prayers Before Father's Surgery
Darryl Worley and his family gathered to wish his father Tom Worley well before he was wheeled into surgery this morning. The singer tweeted the video below from the waiting room, where he chatted with his mother and joked around with his dad.
"That's Paw right there, he's gotta have that growth fixed," the singer says after the older Worley sticks his tongue out at the camera. "What do you want me to tell 'em, Mama?"
"Just pray," Bonnie Worley responds. It's not clear what sort of work Worley's father is having done, or how serious the surgery is. The family seems to be pulling together while keeping a positive attitude.
Darryl Worley is taking a break from promoting his new single 'You Still Got It' to be with his father. According to his website, he has mostly private shows scheduled for the remainder of March.
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append_around_filter(*filters, &block)
If you append_around_filter A.new, B.new, the filter chain looks like
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With around filters which yield to the action block, before and after are the code before and after the yield.
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# File actionpack/lib/action_controller/filters.rb, line 521 def append_around_filter(*filters, &block) filter_chain.append_filter_to_chain(filters, :around, &block) end
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around_filter - working example
More detailed, working example of usage:
class HomeController < ApplicationController around_filter :action1, :action2 around_filter do |controller, action| logger.info "code block before action" action.call logger.info "code block after action" end def index logger.info "ACTION" end private # filters should not be available for external URL def action1 logger.info "ACTION1 before yield" yield "ACTION1" logger.info "ACTION1 after yield" end def action2 logger.info "ACTION2 before yield" yield "ACTION2" logger.info "ACTION2 after yield" end end
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ACTION1 before yield ACTION2 before yield code block before action ACTION Rendering home/index code block after action ACTION2 after yield ACTION1 after yield
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around_filter code example
This is how it's used:
around_filter do |controller, action| do_your(:stuff) do action.call end end


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Cypress Bay High School is atwitter with rumors about a website allegedly containing photos of naked female students from their Weston school.
The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident but said it is unknown whether the young girls in the photos are currently students at Cypress or surrounding schools.
An unnamed Weston resident, however, told deputies she recognized some of the girls in the photos as friends of her younger sister, who attends Cypress, according to a report by the BSO.
The website showed 14 photographs of apparently underage girls flashing different parts of their bodies and two showed girls involved in sex acts, the report said.
Ten girls were identified by name and others were listed as "misc." The pictures seemed to be taken by the girls themselves but it unknown who created the site, authorities said.
Twitter exploded Thursday afternoon when several tweets said a link had been posted to a website that contained naked photos of female students.
Officials with the Broward school district said the school was aware of the issue but did not disclose further details.
"I don't think that anybody really knows what's going on," said Tracy Clark, public information officer for the district. "There's an active criminal investigation going on."
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Is there a way to skin the user interface ? because the original is ugly to be honest.What are the solutions for this problem ? Are there options to change colour, etc...sorry to be so blunt, but it needs a "makeover" !
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The United Nations Resident Coordinator for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Ghulam Isaczai, has warned that humanitarian gains made over the past decade could be eroded without urgent funding support.
"Without sustained humanitarian support, the gains made in the past 10 years to improve food security and the overall health and nutrition of the most vulnerable – children, pregnant and nursing mothers, and the elderly – could be quickly reversed," said Mr. Isaczai.
This year, the UN appealed for US$150 million to deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance to communities across the country. So far only $52 million has been received, leaving a gap of $98 million.
Earlier this month the World Food Programme – one of the five UN agencies operating in DPRK – announced that it had been forced to reduce rations for the hundreds of thousands of mothers and children it supports in DPRK because of a "severe" funding shortfall.
"WFP has had to scale back its assistance in recent months, distributing food in significantly lower quantities than planned – and in some cases, not at all," the agency said.
If the funding gap is not immediately addressed, close to 2.5 million women and more than 220,000 young children will stop receiving multi-micronutrient supplements that are designed to bolster nutrition during critical periods of development and growth.
Precarious progress
Over the past decade, international humanitarian assistance has helped control disease outbreaks and reduce maternal and infant mortality in DPRK. Between 2000 and 2010, DPRK's maternal mortality rate dropped from an estimated 120 deaths per 100,000 live births to 81.
Rates of chronic and acute malnutrition have also fallen. However, around 16 million people in DPRK remain chronically food insecure and highly vulnerable to food production gaps, and almost 28 per cent of children under five are chronically malnourished, with 4 per cent acutely malnourished.
"For us to maintain those gains in those areas and to further improve the situation, we need to continue to provide humanitarian assistance," said Mr. Isaczai.
This year, DPRK's cereal deficit is estimated at 507,000 metric tons. A lack of agricultural inputs – seeds, fertilizers and tools, for example – is considered the main challenge for the country's farmers and food producers.
"We (also) need to expand the diversity of farming to include soy beans, protein rich agriculture products, and produce vegetables and fruits in order to improve the nutritional value of their food chain and food supply," said Mr. Isaczai.
Keeping humanitarian and political concerns separate
Mr. Isaczai appealed to donors to separate humanitarian needs from political issues.
"We cannot deny the fact that, given recent events, the lack of progress on the political front does influence donors' behaviour in terms of funding," he said.
"(But) by providing funding for humanitarian purposes we are sending a very strong message to the [North] Korean public that the world cares about them.
"This will be very visible, concrete evidence of UN and world support to the vulnerable people of DPRK."
In July, the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) released $6 million to support humanitarian efforts in DPRK. Since 2006, CERF has provided over $80 million in funding for agencies assisting people in the country.


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Ronald Newcome, Jr., 70
Ronald Newcome, Jr., 70, Punxsutawney, died Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, at Dubois Regional Medical Center.
He was born June 11, 1941 in Punxsutawney, a son of the late Ronald W. Newcome, Sr. and Mabel (Dinger) Newcome.
Sept. 8, 1962, he married Donna Belle Smith, who survives.
He was the Pastor of the Maple Grove Church of God.
He loved his family, his church family, hunting, fishing and the outdoors. He spent a lot of his time at the church.
He was a loving caretaker to his wife and a loving father to his children.
He was an equipment operator for the P&N Coal Company.
Surviving relatives include his wife, Donna Belle; son Rodney Newcome and wife Kim of Punxsutawney; son Fred Newcome and wife Devonie of Weippe, Idaho; daughter Karen Perez and husband Steve of Punxsutawney; son Ralph Newcome and wife Tammy of Weippe, Idaho; and a son Steve Newcome and wife Donna of Punxsutawney; 11 Grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Richard Newcome.
Friends will be received from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at the Deeley Funeral Home, Punxsutawney.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at the Chestnut Grove Independent Church with Pastor Joe Spack officiating.
Interment will be at Lakelawn Memorial Park, Reynoldsville.
In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested that memorial contributions may be made in Mr. Newcome's memory to the Maple Grove Church of God, 1558 Laurel Run Road, Penn Run, Pa. 15765.


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A pair of unearned runs proved to be the different on Sunday afternoon at Goodyear Park, as the Nebraska baseball team fell 4-3 to the Utah Utes at the Spring Training home of the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds. The Huskers were in search of a weekend sweep of the Pac-12 Conference after beating No. 1 Oregon State on Friday and Washington on Saturday, but instead had to settle for a 2-1 weekend.
Nebraska starter Chance Sinclair got off to a bumpy start, walking the first two Utah batters he faced. The righty then got a groundout and a strikeout, but issued his third walk of the inning to load the bases. Sinclair nearly got out of the inning unscathed, but a two-out error by shortstop Jake Placzek allowed the Utes to score an unearned run. Sinclair came right back and got a fly out that stranded three runners and limited Utah's damage to one run.
Nebraska's offense got the run back in the bottom of the frame on a one-out single from Michael Pritchard. With Placzek on second, Pritchard extended his on-base streak to 49 games with a hard shot up the middle. Pat Kelly followed with a single, but Utah starter Dalton Carroll got a double-play ball off the bat of Blake Headley to end the first inning.
The squads then went scoreless for two innings, before Utah retook the lead with a run in the top of the fourth. NU reliever Jeff Chesnut retired the first two Utes he faced, but then gave up a double and a pair of singles that scored a run. With a pair on, Chesnut struck out Max Shuman looking to end the inning.
The Utes pushed their lead to 3-1 in the top of the fifth with four singles off freshman reliever Derek Burkamper. The Husker bats did answer though in the bottom of the frame with one run, as Placzek came through with a sacrifice fly that scored Christian Cox, who reached earlier in the inning on an error.
After Utah pushed its lead back to two runs, 4-2, in the top of the sixth on an unearned run, Kelly got the bottom of the frame going with a double to left-center field. Headley and Austin Christensen each followed with singles that plated Kelly, before Ryan Boldt laid down a sacrifice bunt that put two Huskers in scoring position with one out. With the tying run just 90-feet away, Utah reliever Bret Helton got a strikeout and a groundout that ended the Husker rally and kept Utah ahead by one, 4-3.
The Huskers threatened in the bottom of the eighth with a two-out walk to Christensen and a single by Boldt, but Helton got Cox to ground out, stranding the tying run at second base. Nebraska got the tying run on again in the ninth following a two-out walk to Placzek, but Helton struck out Pritchard swinging to earn his first save of the season.
The Huskers continue their non-conference slate next weekend with a trip to Charleston, S.C., for a three-game series with The Citadel. The series kicks off on Friday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. (CT), continues on Saturday at 1 p.m. and concludes on Sunday at 11 a.m.