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The changes prompted immediate skepticism from mental health experts and advocates, who suggested the Conservative government is viewing mentally ill offenders as criminals who deserve to be punished, rather than patients who need treatment.
But Harper suggested current laws fail to protect the public and victims from violent, mentally ill offenders.
"When atrocious events do occur, and the state fails to act, fails to do all it can do to defend innocent citizens, it violates the inherent trust upon which its existence is justified," Harper said in Burnaby, east of Vancouver.
"We've heard from Canadians loud and clear: Something here is very wrong."
The proposed legislation would allow courts to designate people who are found not criminally responsible for violent crimes as "high risk." Such offenders could be held longer without a formal review, would be ineligible to leave their forensic facility by themselves and would find it far more difficult to leave even with an escort.
Harper unveiled the changes at a news conference in the Vancouver area, not far from where Allan Schoenborn, who was deemed not criminally responsible for the deaths of his three children in 2008 in Merritt, B.C., is scheduled to attend a hearing next week. The hearing will determine whether Schoenborn, who is currently confined to a psychiatric hospital, should be given any access to the outside world.
Harper, who said he met with Schoenborn's ex-wife, Darcie Clarke, earlier Friday morning, said the case exposed "glaring gaps" in the system.
"Currently, there is no obligation under law or regulation to warn the families of their victims that these violent people are returning to the community," he said.
"Here is the biggest problem: Canadians have been shocked to learn that certain violent individuals who, while still in detention, have received unescorted day passes despite still being a significant threat to public safety."
In 2011, the case prompted renewed headlines when the B.C. Review Board concluded the lead psychiatrist at the Port Coquitlam facility could decide whether to allow Schoenborn to take escorted trips into the community, where, it turned out, Schoenborn's ex-wife also lives.
The psychiatrist said later he didn't know Clarke was living nearby.
Offenders deemed to be a high risk under the new law could not be released until a court agrees. They would never receive unescorted passes to leave their facility and could only receive escorted passes in "narrow circumstances," the government said.
Currently, a review board — chaired by a judge and including mental health professionals — assesses such cases on an annual basis. Under the new law, high-risk offenders could be held for up to three years before their status is reviewed.
Stacy Galt, Darcie Clarke's cousin, said the new legislation will put victims such as her family first.
"Darcie did nothing wrong, yet she has been held victim by outdated laws and early reviews — there is an imbalance in the system," Galt told Friday's news conference.
"Our current system allows a triple child murderer to be given fast freedoms and the mother of his victims to have no say."
The federal government could not provide any statistics that show how often people who are declared not criminally responsible end up re-offending, but experts say it's rare.
Dr. Sandy Simpson of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health said recidivism rates for such offenders are roughly eight per cent, compared to more than 40 per cent for convicts who leave the federal prison system.
Simpson said the proposed legislation represents a significant shift by placing public safety above all other considerations.
He said the current law balances public safety and treating the offender, while calling for the "least onerous and least restrictive conditions" available. The new legislation removes that language, he said.
"I think that is concerning, given that we're talking about people who have committed acts because they're sick," said Simpson, who is also a professor at the University of Toronto.
"This is a product of illness."
David MacAlister, a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., said it's valuable to ensure victims are notified when offenders are before review boards or when they're released.
But MacAlister said the new restrictions aren't supported by evidence about mentally ill offenders and instead appear primarily designed to pacify public anger generated by high-profile cases.
"We've got people cutting people's head's off, killing little children, so it really does attract a lot of media attention, and I know the public looks at that and thinks, 'Wow, how can these people ever be back in our midst?'" said MacAlister.
"They tend to be thinking that these people haven't been punished enough. They're not realizing that they're not criminally responsible — they're not being punished at all."
A 2006 study for the federal Justice Department looked at 12 years of data and found almost a quarter of offenders declared not criminally responsible spend at least 10 years in the system.
About three quarters of them were diagnosed with schizophrenia or an affective disorder, such as being bipolar or suffering major depression. Some 57 per cent had a prior conviction before being declared NCR.
And their crimes were very serious, with 76.5 per cent charged with a violent offence, another 4.3 per cent with a sex offence and 4.8 per cent with arson.
The study concluded that, due to a lack of data, "little is known about how ... accused manage after review board hearings in terms of following conditions, adhering to treatment plans and re-engaging in criminal behaviour."
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On Tuesday, the Senate passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by a vote of 73 to 25. S. 510 will now move to the House of Representatives for consideration. Robert Guenther, United Fresh senior vice president of public policy made the following statement after the vote:
"We are disappointed that the Senate continues to ignore the egregious loopholes allowed in this legislation that will erode consumer confidence in our nation's food safety system. Now, when going to a supermarket, restaurant, farmers market or roadside stand, consumers will be faced with the question of whether the fruits and vegetables offered for sale adhere to basic food safety standards or not. Unfortunately, instead of adhering to a science- and risk-based approach that was consistently the foundation of the underlying bill, the Senate has chosen to include a provision that will exempt certain segments of the food industry based on the size of operation, geographic location, and customer base. This provision creates a gaping hole in the ability of consumers to trust the safety of all foods in the commercial marketplace.
"As S. 510 moves to the House of Representatives, we strongly encourage the House leadership to request a conference to reconcile differences between the House-passed food safety legislation and the flawed Senate bill. The House bill makes no arbitrary exemptions from basic food safety standards. This principle is at risk of being discarded for temporary convenience to pass a bill, but it is a fundamental mistake that will come back to haunt consumers, the food industry, and even those producers who think they are escaping from food safety requirements.
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DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Victory is near and Syria will emerge triumphant "when we defeat the arm of terrorism," Syrian President Bashar Assad said Tuesday.
In a nearly 100-minute speech in Cairo, the Syrian leader blasted the Arab League and said it was clear that foreign terrorists were fomenting the months-long protests against his regime, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported.
While it would be difficult to know when the "conspiracy" against Syria would end, Assad said, "It will come to an end when the smuggling of weapons comes to an end. We will triumph over it when we defeat the arm of terrorism."
"We cannot relent in the battle against terrorism," Assad said. "We strike with an iron fist against terrorists who have been brain washed."
He closed by saying, "We are going to be victorious, God willing."
Al-Jazeera showed a split screen of Assad delivering his speech and protesters in the streets. The United Nations has estimated at least 5,000 people had been killed since the uprising began against Assad's government, which has maintained it was cracking down on armed terrorists.
Assad blamed the opposition for delays in talks with the government, one of the conditions of the Arab League's proposal his regime signed. He said a referendum will be held on a new constitution in March.
"We have differences but we have no divisions that would justify a national unity government," Assad said.
Assad said the West wasn't interested in reforms and that reforms would not stop "terrorism" in Syria.
"If we base reforms on the crisis they will be lame and short term," he said. "Reform cannot be based on the crisis, otherwise we will legitimate foreign interference."
He was critical of the Arab League, which suspended Syria's membership and has sent monitors to Syria to observe whether Assad's government is committed to ending its violent crackdown against protesters that was part of the agreement.
"The Arab League is no longer Arab, we should call it a 'Foreign League'," Assad said, adding that by suspending Syria's membership, the league suspended its Arab identity.
In Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Syria is headed toward civil war.
"The structure which has now emerged [in Syria] is heading to a religious, sectarian and a racist civil war," Erdogan told reporters with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg in Ankara. "This has to be prevented.
"Turkey has to make its priority to take a role here, because a civil war, which can emerge here, would also put us in distress," Erdogan said. "It also poses a threat for us."
He did not say whether that role could include military involvement to prevent civil war in Syria.
"I believe that the Syrian administration has by now killed close to 7,000 of its citizens," said Erdogan, whose country was a Syrian ally until August, when Turkish President Abdullah Gul said his country had "lost confidence" in Syria's leadership.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Sophomore Ashley Veilleux (Monroe, Ga.) of the Georgia College soccer team (10-7-1) was named Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the week ending Oct. 28.
Veilleux scored twice and added an assist as Georgia College won their final two conference games last week to clinch a spot in the PBC Tournament.
The sophomore first collected an assist as the Bobcats downed Georgia Southwestern 2-0, then she scored both goals as GC locked up a seed with a 2-0 win over Flagler. Veilleux is now tied for fifth in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) with nine goals on the season. She is also fifth in total points.
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READING - Cody Taylor, 18, of Narvon and Michael Koser, 19, of Birdsboro were arrested on Feb. 8, on drug charges after a month of undercover investigation by the Berks County Detectives, according to a press release.
During the arrest, task force detectives seized a fully-loaded 9 mm Ruger handgun and approximately $600 worth of marijuana, county detectives said.
In January, Berks County detectives received information from the Caernarvon police that Taylor may have been selling drugs, county detectives said.
On two separate occasions, undercover detectives purchased drugs from Taylor on the 100 block of Morview Boulevard in Morgantown, county detectives said. The first purchase occurred on Jan. 7, where undercover detectives purchased $60 of Ecstacy from Taylor, the report said.
The second purchase was a month later on Feb. 7 and detectives purchased $60 worth of marijuana from Taylor, detectives said.
The following day, undercover detectives met with Taylor to purchase a half pound of marijuana, and Taylor took the detectives to Koser's house, at 130 Proud Foot Drive in Birdsboro, the report said.
Koser sold detectives the half pound of marijuana for $2,5000, detectives said.
Taylor and Koser were charged with multiple counts of delivery; possession with the intent to deliver; possession of marijuana and Ecstasy, and criminal conspiracy On Feb. 8, county detectives said.
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CAIRO, (Reuters) - The median overnight interbank rate on Egypt's pound dipped to 11 percent on Monday, May 21, from 11-3/8 percent on Sunday in a liquid to moderate market, bankers said.
They said the lack of Central Bank dollar sales led to excess pound liquidity. "The Central Bank still hasn't sold any dollars and so banks don't need to buy pounds," said one banker.
"We need a dollar sale to absorb some of the pounds in the market," said another banker.
Ever since the Central Bank introduced a "managed peg" in January for the pound at around 3.85 per dollar, banks have relied heavily on Central Bank dollar sales to provide for their needs.
Three banks out of eight called by Reuters said they had not made any overnight loans.
Overnight rates ranged between 10-1/2 and 11-3/4 percent, down from 11 to 11-3/4 percent on Sunday.
Three banks gave one-week rates, which varied from 10 to 11-1/2 percent, versus Sunday's 10-1/2 to 11 percent.
The CAIBOR showed an overnight interbank rate of 11.2045 percent versus Sunday's 11.0477 percent.
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WINNEBAGO — Children young and old now have another mission when they visit Severson Dells Nature Center.
They are to observe, discover, play and create.
They can do so in the center's new outdoor classroom called The Grove.
Saturday's grand opening attracted hundreds of visitors and featured live entertainment by artist and musician David Stocker.
Don Miller, the center's executive director, called The Grove "a bridge" that connects the generation of children and families with the outdoors.
"We want them to leave the electricity in the house, and use their creativity, imagination and free play," he said.
The Grove, design and created by local artists Stocker and Drew Helge, features distinct pods, each with its own theme such as: music, art, building blocks and climbing structures.
In the music pod, children can bang large boom tubes on a concrete slab to make a deep base sound, play a slit drum or strum the strings from the guts of a piano.
In the art pod, children can do sand sculpting, decorate the Aldo Shack with "mud graffiti," or paint with water two large Pennsylvania Blue Slate arrowheads. One arrowhead stone is upright and the other is upside down to symbolize peace, Helge said.
The centerpiece of The Grove is a concrete stage topped with a pergola supported by beams made of black locust trees.
Also in The Grove are three large hickory, walnut and oak trees, which Helge called the "ancestor trees" that seeded the other trees.
Similarly, he said, he wants The Grove to be a place where parents and grandparents will bring children for generations to come.
Rob and Patti Klinger of Winnebago brought their 6-year-old son, Jack, and 3-year-old daughter, Lilli, to the opening. If Jack is The Grove's toughest critic, the naturescape can be deemed a success.
"Every single thing here is pretty much my kind of thing," he said. He said his favorite area of play the Messy Materials pod where children can build structures. "I like how you can build forts out of sticks."
The Grove was a four-month, private-funded, $140,000 project. Miller also said it is still a work in progress.
"We'll learn a lot from the kids and see what they like and shy away from."
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The 200 acres of glorious parkland surrounding Mellerstain House one of Scotland's grandest stately homes designed and built by William and Robert Adam provide a wonderful setting for these three delightful cottages. Visitors are welcome to roam the grounds including the fabulous Italian-style terraced gardens which command panoramic views over the lake to the distant Cheviot Hills. The scenic and historic attractions of the Border country are all close at hand and the beaches of Berwick and Holy Island are also easily accessible. Kelso (6 miles) offers shops inns and restaurants and is home of Floors Castle and the famous Kelso Horse Races whilst Edinburgh with its magnificent castle museums galleries and excellent shopping is only a 35 mile drive. Fly fishing can be arranged locally several golf courses are nearby and shops and pubs are just 3.5 miles away. Beautifully appointed and very comfortable these three properties offer a unique holiday opportunity. West Lodge ref S4166 is a charming 18th-century stone cottage enjoying its own garden with splendid views towards the Cheviots. Clock House ref S4568 has been beautifully converted to a high standard to form part of the Old Clock House dating from the early 18th century. Adjoining the Clock House is Courtyard Cottage ref S4569 which has also been lovingly converted to a high standard and boasts three en-suite bedrooms. The courtyard coffee shop serves delicious home cooking on 'house open' days - and special occasions large and small can be catered for by arrangement in the state rooms of Mellerstain House.
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The United States came out of their first match in this year's World Cup with a tie that felt like a win.
The American squad led by Landon Donovan walked out of the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in South Africa to chants of "U-S-A," having battled cross-pond soccer powerhouse England to a 1 - 1 draw.
Midfielder Clint Dempsey, who scored the solo goal for the United States, said after the match to ESPN, "This means we still have a chance to advance out of the group."
The United States did not advance out of the initial round of group play in the 2006 World Cup tournament.
Underdog Team USA effectively put the brakes on a potent English attack. Brit forward Wayne Rooney, who proclaimed to the English papers that his squad was "not scared of anyone," was held to one shot on goal. The English captain, Steven Gerrard played an explosive first half but was nearly invisible for the second.
The United States, wearing dark blue, only got off 12 shots to England's 18. The equalizer, arriving forty minutes into the first half, came on what ABC announcer Martin Tyler called, "one of the softest goals you will ever see."
Clint Dempsey let loose a left-footed strike at the center of the net from 25 yards out. Although the play should have been routine for England's goalkeeper Robert Green, the ball squirted out of his hands and gently rolled into the net.
"Hey, they all count the same when they go in," Dempsey said.
The first goal of the game came after only three and a half minutes. England's Gerrard found a wide gap in the edge of U.S. defense and blew by a flat-footed Ricardo Clark, blasting a low shot to beat American keeper Tim Howard. Allowing early scores in World Cup play has been an epidemic for American squads.
Despite giving up the quick score, Howard proved stout for the rest of the match, holding off a late game fusillade of shots by the Brits. Howard was named Man of the Match.
The Americans will now take the next week to prepare for their June 18 match with Slovenia, and then will meet Algeria on June 23.


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In this year of hyper-partisan political rhetoric, County Council chairwoman Courtney Watson, a Democrat, has struck a different note in her re-election campaign.
Cindy Ardinger, the campaign manager whom Watson introduced at her hotel fundraiser April 23, is a Republican, as were some of the guests rubbing shoulders with county employee union leaders and liberal Democrats such as County Executive Ken Ulman and U.S. Rep. John Sarbanes. Watson, who represents Ellicott City and Elkridge, is from a swing district where voters have elected both Democrats and Republicans.
Watson has a well-known opponant this year in former state delegate and Maryland Transportation Secretary Robert L. Flanagan, who is campaigning but has not yet filed for the office, but she never mentioned politics to her supporters.
She said her job is 20 percent legislative, 20 percent zoning and 60 percent constituent service, and helping individual people solve problems is what she loves.
"We don't get special license plates, scholarship money to give out or hotel rooms when meetings run late," she said, describing a few perks of General Assembly members. "It's not glamorous. We solve the annoying daily problems out in the neighborhood," she told the crowd. "I love to do that. I had a great time in the snowstorms," she said, helping get plows to people's streets and solving their weather-related problems.
As a community activist on school issues and later as a school board member, Watson worked closely with former councilman Christopher B. Merdon, a Republican. "I'm in local government. I represent all parties," Watson said later about her approach. "We are going to stay away from overheated political rhetoric" during the campaign, she said.
An old Watson ally on school crowding problems, Ardinger said a political party is not her top priority, either.
"I support the person. Courtney and I go way back," she said.
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"Big surprise announcement! All of us are running," Del. Gail H. Bates joked to the 40 or so Republican true believers gathered in the damp grass and overcast chill Sunday on Brent Rutley's 50-acre ornamental tree farm in Woodbine, within sight of Interstate 70.
The gathering was both a formal kick-off for the four Republican incumbents in Howard who are seeking re-election, and a plea for more Republican reinforcements in public office come November. None of the party's candidates running for other county and state offices appeared. Dennis R. Schrader, who is to announce his candidacy for the County Council seat held by Democrat Jen Terrasa on May 5, said Sunday is prime door-knocking time he didn't want to give up.
Bates spoke for herself and the three other elected Howard Republicans, fellow Del. Warren E. Miller, State Sen. Allan H. Kittleman, who is also senate minoirty leader, and county councilman Greg Fox.
Being such a small minority amid majority Democrats, Bates said people often ask her, "Why do you do it?" Republicans in Maryland don't have the strength even to block unwanted bills without Democratic help.
"It's a challenge, but it's a responsibility of our party to question everything," she said, invoking the name of Glenn Beck, the histrionic Fox News entertainer who has urged viewers to do that very same thing.
Still, Kittleman cheered the partisan crowd with hope for success in November.
"This is going to be a transformational [political] year in Maryland," Kittleman said. Democrats Jon Weinstein and Maryann Maher are also runnig for the two District 9 delegate seats and Jim Adams is opposing Kittleman.
The themes for all four Republicans were familiar — that Democrats are spending the state into peril; that higher taxes are just around the corner if Democrats win; and Democratic victories and more regulations are bad for business. "Maryland's going to go downhill," Kittleman warned.
As Miller put it, "Our colleagues on the other side of the aisle won't listen and don't want to improve things." Kittleman added that Republican reinforcements are badly needed to make the GOP a force to be reckoned with in Annapolis, though he said Fox has been "the most effective council member of all five. The victories we get are amazing."
Fox said he was successful in enlisting enough council Democrats in 2007 to block a two-cent increase in the fire property tax for rural areas, and to stop the Ulman administration's plan to buy a floor of a proposed office condominium building in Oakland Mills. The building was never built.
Kittleman singled out State Sen. James N. Robey, a Democrat, former county executive and county police chief, for voting in favor of a bill that increased the minimum auto liability insurance requirements for Maryland drivers, which will boost premiums for some.
"Only the trial lawyers supported it," Kittleman said, acknowleging that most Howard residents have more than minimum coverage, but warning that "citizens of Owen Brown and Long Reach [in Robey's district] will be hurt" from higher insurance premiums.
Robey said later "it wasn't a partisan issue," He supported the bill, he said, because at the minimum requirement of $20,000 for one person and $40,000 for multiple people injured, "there's not sufficient coverage there" to pay for care after serious accidents.The law would raise the minimum to $30,000 to $60,000.
But three Republican delegates, Rick Impallaria of Baltimore County, and James J. King and Donna Stifler of Harford were among the bill's co-sponsors. Among Howard's delegation, Democratic Dels. James E. Malone, Steven J. DeBoy and State Sen. Edward J. Kasemeyer, the senate majority leader, voted against the bill along with Kittleman, Miller and Bates, according to state records.
Give and take
Kittleman might have little but criticism for most Democrats in the General Assembly, but not when it comes to Kasemeyer, who represents parts of Howard and Baltimore counties.
At a Howard Chamber of Commerce legislative breakfast in River Hill on April 21, Kittleman, who represents Howard and south Carroll counties, blew a political kiss at the low profile Kasemeyer, who sat a few tables away.
"If [Senate President Thomas V.] Mike Miller retires and the Democrats retain control of the Senate, we'd be very fortunate to have Sen. Kasemeyer as president of the Senate," he told the crowd. The camaraderie didn't last long, though.
Kasemeyer later marveled at how "nice" it was of Kittleman to mention him as a possible future Senate president.
At the breakfast's end, Kittleman managed to irritate Robey by warning that federal stimulus money was "designed to get us through the elections. It was designed that way," he said, implying that the federal money helping to keep the states afloat this year was intended to benefit Democrats. "Think about that when you go to the ballot box," he said.
An annoyed Robey arose, ready to fire back.
"I'm scared to death about all this" anti-tax and spend rhetoric, he told the chamber members. "Just remember to go to the damn ballot box and vote. I don't care who you vote for," he said. "Maryland is in better shape than most other states. If we start giving up all the successes we've had, we won't be Maryland any more. We'll be Georgia or Mississippi, where they lay off cops and teachers" and have "rat-infested" public buildings.
Kittleman's rhetoric, Robey said later, "is a fear tactic" merely designed for political advantage. "They preach that sermon every day," he said, but no one knows now what will happen to taxes next year.
Amid the political sparks, a frank Del. James E. Malone Jr., a Democrat who represents parts of Baltimore County and Elkridge in Howard, said what some others may be thinking. Now that the 2010 legislative session is over, he said, he has just one focus.
"My number one priority right now is to get re-elected," he said.


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Geez, there are only four weeks of practice left before the first real game. Bad and hurt is no way to make a Super Bowl contender, pal.
It's as if Paea and Major Wright are playing Injury Bingo, racing to cover the Probable, Doubtful, Questionable and Out squares every month.
but Paea and his injury expose two problems: The depth at defensive tackle is questionable, and more importantly, the talent at that spot has not proven to be game-changing consistently.
That's why the Bears traded up to draft Paea last year. We're talking about the most important position in Lovie Smith's Tampa-2 base defense. As good as Julius Peppers is -- same goes for Urlacher, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman -- the under-tackle is responsible for making every other position work right, and here's how:
Pressure up the middle demands double-teams, which frees up Peppers from at least the triple-teams and allows the Bears to drop seven men in coverage, which gives them more bodies to get takeaways and hides the utter fear everyone has of the kid safeties.
Go back to Tommie Harris' first two years when he disrupted almost every offense in channeling his inner Warren Sapp.
Since then, pffft.
Matt Toeaina and Henry Melton aren't Warren Sapp, but they are your starters. I had hopes that Paea could turn into Sapp with training wheels. But now he has a bad wheel. Or bad spoke. Or whatever the cloyingly bad analogy is.
One guy who stood out at the position was Nate Collins. He registered a sack and seemed to be around the plays against the Broncos scrubs the way Shea McClellin was. The problem is, of course, if McClellin and Collins are your best defensive linemen, then you have issues. Peppers won't magically change that and make everyone better. We saw that last season.
The other problem is that Collins, presuming he makes the roster, will have to miss the opener against the Colts in order to serve a one-game suspension for pot possession during the offseason.
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In a blog post last year I discussed Marc Davis's talent for telling a funny story in less than a second. Under most circumstances artists try to avoid clichés, but for this task stock characters and stereotypical situations are your best friends (although I have to say that even here it is remarkable how few truly stereotypical situations Davis uses). Another friend of the quick-joke artist is ritual. If you show characters involved in a well-known ritual, you have already incorporated a good deal of story before you've even begun. The best example of this in the Haunted Mansion is the pair of duelists depicted in the grand ballroom's portraits:
Think how much you "know" within half-a-second. A gentleman of some social standing believes his honor has been slighted by another gentleman of about equal social station, and he has challenged him to a duel. The other fellow makes no apologies and so accepts the challenge. The time period is not modern, but 19th century or earlier. The two men are somewhat stuffy, humorless characters. In particular, they seem almost melodramatically sensitive when it comes to their personal honor. You know all of this at a glance, because you know the rules for this particular ceremony, and you probably share the current perception about the kind of people thought to be attracted to it. A dueling scene is a brilliant choice for a drive-by joke.
And what is that joke? Obviously, the duel settled nothing and continues ad infinitum in the afterlife. What was supposed to be the ultimate way of settling a dispute in fact ensured that the dispute would never be settled. It has always been my opinion that the two shot each other dead, leaving no winner, and so the duel continues, stuck in an endlessly repeating loop. I know that GRD thinks there is a real winner, based on a slight sideways head movement by one of the duelists at the end of the cycle, and others who have worked on the figures confirm that the little movement is there, but it's virtually undetectable to guests, and I'm not yet fully convinced it represents a bullet hit rather than drawing a bead. What would truly settle the issue is if one of the two guns went off before the other. The pistols have a special bulb for a barrel flash as well as a bang, so it should not be an irresolvable question. Perhaps one of you Forgottenistas has an insider's familiarity with the shot sequence.
Yer goin' DOWN, dude
While we're snooping around backstage looking at light bulbs and head nods, here are a few fuzzy pix that some of you might find interesting. Top left is the actual set up at DL. Directly underneath them the doombuggies are scooting along the balcony. Top right shows them in the shop, not long before installation in 1969. The bottom row gives you some close-ups. Center and right are the same character, one recent (center) and one old (right). As you can see, they've done up his eyes a little differently over the years. That's the Auctioneer's head from POTC, by the way.
There are more unsolved mysteries with the duelists than whether or not one of them won the duel. There is also reason to suspect that they are not located where they were originally planned to be. Much of what follows may be filed under "speculation," but hey, nothing wrong with that so long as you admit it.
It all begins with Collin Campbell's artwork for the "Story and Song" souvenir record album.
These lush, colorful illustrations are beloved by Mansion fans. But despite their breezy, painterly quality, if you compare them to the corresponding Marc Davis concept art you find that they are extremely conservative. Campbell stayed very close to his sources. This is typical:
Now let's take a look at the Grand Ballroom illustration, which spreads across two pages. The left side would be the place
you might expect to find the duelists, but they aren't there. Balcony railing gingerbread obscures that portion of the wall.
But that doesn't mean that Campbell ignored the duelists. Over on the right side of the painting is a
little surprise, something unknown until this artwork was re-issued with the CD version of "Story and Song"
in 2009. The painting as it was known from the booklet in the 1969 record album looks like this:
But the same painting in the CD booklet looks like this:
Note the portrait on the wall, fully visible for the first time in 2009. Is that . . ? Is that . . ?
It is. It's one of the duelist portraits. What's it doing over here on this side of the room?
It wouldn't be so odd except that Collins is so consistently literal in his reproductions of Davis artwork. Putting a duelist on the wrong side of the room is a little bold for him. Unless Davis also had the duelists on that wall in his sketches. Is that possible? Alas, we don't have Campbell's source art. Well, okay, what's on that right-hand wall in the actual attraction? The fireplace. And above the fireplace is the Mantelpiece Ghost.
Funny thing about Mantelpiece Ghost. He's missing entirely from the two Effects blueprints produced in the first quarter of 1969. If that's just an oversight, it's odd that it happened not once but twice and was never corrected on the blueprints, which were repeatedly updated as they were used. This would also be the only such erroneous omission on these blueprints. Mantelpiece Ghost should be in the red circle on the left.
You can see him in a WDW blueprint of the same area:
Hmm. Is it possible that the duelist portraits were originally going to be on the wall above the fireplace but were subsequently relocated, while a new ghost was put in that area, the Mantelpiece Ghost? Complicating this theory is the fact that the duelists are right where they should be on these same blueprints (see the red circles on the right). What may have happened is that they realized the duelists would work a lot better on the back wall, above the balcony, and they decided they would definitely move them there, even before they came up with something to replace them on the right. That would explain the blueprints. By this scenario, Marc Davis came up with Mantelpiece guy fairly late in the game, no earlier than mid-to-late spring, in fact.
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There is a compelling piece of evidence supporting the theory just advanced: the figure numbers. All figures in the Haunted Mansion are given a number like "F-12" or "F-39." (The "F" stands for "human figure.") Also, the Mansion is divided into numbered "Areas" and the figure numbers in each area follow the flow of the ride. "Area 1" is at the beginning and contains only F-1 and F-2, the two hanging corpses in the two stretching galleries. The list next moves to Area 6, the ballroom, where figures 3—35 are found, beginning with granny and ending with the second duelist. Area 7 is the attic (F-42 is marked "omitted"; guess who?). Area 8 is the graveyard, featuring F-43 (the caretaker) through F-75 (the beheaded knight). Area 9 is for all the hitchhikers, closing out the list with the ghosty-go-round hitchhikers in the mirror (F-80 to 94). Projected ghosts like Mdm Leota, the singing busts, and Little Leota are not included on these lists.
So where do you suppose the Mantelpiece Guy is? He's tacked on near the very end (F-79), a conspicuously out-of-place Area 6 interruption on the Area 9 list. That can only mean that he was a Johnny-come-lately, one of the last AA figures added to the ride.
The only AA figures later than Mantelpiece Guy are the hitchhikers in the mirror. That's not hard to explain; we now know with certainty that they didn't show up until after the ride had opened.
Joe "Datameister" Cardello has come up with a good idea for a way to "plus" the duelists: Turn the figures in the paintings into rear projections so that they can disappear when the "real" figure is lit up. Here are a couple of rough GIFs Joe came up with to illustrate the idea. On the top is what you have now, and below it is what you would get with his idea (yeah, yeah, we know it's the wrong duelist).


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Modern artists working in New Mexico and Colorado continue to influence my work. They simplified the landscape and abstracted shapes to express the beauty and awe inspiring vistas they saw and felt. I feel my work pays homage to these earlier artists and the tradition of landscape painting. I am also very interested in how the viewer interprets my paintings. Everyone sees or feels something different about my work. Just as in nature the environment affects each person differently.
Once I graduated from high school I got a job in an art gallery and remained there for many years. I studied privately with several artists in Colorado who instilled in me a deep appreciation of modern art movements of the twentieth century. In 1984 I married my artist wife Sushe and we opened our own contemporary gallery in Colorado Springs, which closed 6 years later. For the past 30 years we have painted and exhibited our work throughout the West while maintaining our home and studios in Denver, Colorado.


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A Suffolk County legislator is calling for the dismantling of a long-defunct restaurant and catering facility now owned by the county, but officials say his plan to turn the property on the shore of Lake Ronkonkoma into a park is costly.
The Bavarian Inn, which has been closed for more than six years, is an eyesore with its exterior covered by graffiti and parking area of broken asphalt overgrown with weeds, said John M. Kennedy Jr. (R-Nesconset). The lawmaker urged Suffolk to develop a demolition plan in a letter last week to county officials.
"The residents have endured this rotting hulk for long enough," Kennedy said in an interview. "It has been the subject of fires in the past, drug paraphernalia, and has also taken up the time and expense of town government through repeated board-ups."
The location -- bordered by Lily Pond Park and Walter S. Commerdinger's historic home to the north, Lake Ronkonkoma to the south and Lake Ronkonkoma County Park to the north and west -- makes the former restaurant "an excellent candidate" for the county park system, he said. "Our long-range goal is to develop launching points for nonmotorized boating like kayaking and canoeing," Kennedy said.
Development of the site would be subject to provisions of the New York State freshwater regulations due to its location on the shoreline of Lake Ronkonkoma, said Department of Environmental Conservation Regional director Peter Scully.
Suffolk County took ownership of the Smithtown Boulevard property on June 19, 2012, due to tax default, said county spokeswoman Vanessa Baird-Streeter.
"We are concerned that Legislator Kennedy's proposal could cost Suffolk County taxpayers, at minimum, $600,000 inclusive of demolition, restoration and the inability to recoup tax arrears," she said. "At a time when the county is facing a fiscal deficit, we must be extremely prudent with dollars spent."
Baird-Streeter said the county "will look at all possible options for this property and find a solution that is in the best interest of all Suffolk County taxpayers," adding that those options include sale at auction and transfer for municipal purpose.
Smithtown Town Supervisor Patrick Vecchio described the property as "a dangerous nuisance" and said, "I'm totally in agreement with Mr. Kennedy's sentiments."
Beachfront recreation or boat launching would be the best use for the property, said town planning director Frank DeRubeis, adding, "We all want this building to come down."
"Even if you used it for park land, you couldn't build a restroom on the facility," he said of the poor septic system and frequent flooding due to high groundwater.
Residents said they support Kennedy's plan.
Michael Fallacara, director of the Walter S. Commerdinger Preservation Society, said, "Our hopes and dreams are to turn that into a passive public park," he said. "Perhaps have boats and canoe areas, maybe a gazebo."
Frank Gorman, chairman of the Nesconset-Sachem Civic Association, said the environmentally sensitive land is "too much of a community asset . . . to do anything other than make it a park."
Gorman said the current building is "disgraceful" and said his group found needles and plastic bags of heroin there a few years ago. "Nobody wants it in their back yard."
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Rsync is 15 years old.
Funny how old ideas are always 'new' to someone.
Symantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news – well, as sexy as backup news can be – is that the latest release of NetBackup is said to be 100 times …
I really hope you're trolling, NetBackup is way more complex than rsync (or Robocopy, if you're a Windows type).
Anyway, these ideas are just the latest incarnation of a development that spans from 1992 (IIRC) to now. Differential backups have been there since day one, client side deduplicated backups put into a real time synthetic backup, which is then replicated to a remote datacentre at the block level are pretty new technology, however you look at it.
Yes, NetBackup is more complex. rsync would only be part of the Big Picture. You still wouldn't be able to do client-side dedup (disk/processor intensive), but you'd at least get a synthetic backup with inline compression during transport. rsnapshot would help you manage backup snapshots, similar to NetApp, but at a far worse disadvantage. Then there's the matter of CPIOing it to tape or the like, which NetApp can handle in spades (as long as you like managed tape sets). The advantage your rsync/rsnapshot has is cost, at the expense of "lets hope it keeps working." Granted, NetApp becomes a black box appliance as well, but at least it has commercial support....
"The advantage your rsync/rsnapshot has is cost, at the expense of "lets hope it keeps working"
This is a classic problem - I've been working in data protection for about 12 years and this keeps coming up. The use of scripted utility based solutions - like rsync - is a false economy. What inevitably happens is that the person who wrote the scripts leaves the company and you can't get someone to replace them and "hit the ground running", because they have to spend months learning the bespoke solution. It's very much like the backup equivalent of someone in the call centre knocking up an excel macro to do a job and then the management finding that it's totally unusable and needs extra functionality coding into it, six months after they've left.
Other advantages that COTS (or FOSS) backup packages have is that there is multiple platform support - Typically Windows, Linux, UNIXes, VMS, iOS (OS/400), Tandem, Mac OS etc. These systems don't all have rsync and certainly aren't all scripted by the same language. These packages implement multi-tier backups architectures, they tend to have offsite replication and/or vaulting facilities, all of which need to be hacked together by scripts, if they're needed.
That 3.6 minute is probably based on 1 byte changing in the file, which is not a realistic use case.
Also, there's no mention to how much additional CPU load is put on the backup client during this "client-side deduplication". Nice way to crater a VMware environment.
Also, TSM 6.2 had these features over 2 years ago.
....their claim to speed up the backup by such a margin would appear to be merely a gloss of what is actually happening here. Their approach is to do a quick, incremental, backup of what has changed and present this as a 'full backup'. Woe betide the sysadmin who tries to do a restore from this backup when the original full backup repository, or any one of the other 'full backups' has any sort of failure at all - six months or six years down the track, how can you be absolutely failsafe certain that *all* of these pieces of the puzzle will be available and error free? That's why we do full backups in the first place! Calling a series of incrementals a full backup is a fools dream
What's happening is:
A client side deduplicated, differential backup is being taken. Once this backup is on the NetBackup media server, it is being stored on disk (locally attached/SAN attached, or OST appliance) the blocks are uniquely hashed and won't be deleted until all backups which reference them are expired. These blocks are used to create a synthetic full, by processing which versions of which files are in the current and subsequent backups. You can delete the initial full, but the actual data won't be removed until it's not longer required by the synthetic fulls. If you are moving your data onto tape from the disk, there is a physical full (non-deduped) backup made for each synthetically created full - again there is no chance that deleting a previous backup can compromise the subsequent synthetic backups.
This is a similar method to TSM's incremental forever, just at the block level.
NetBackup will typically use 1 CPU core per datastream of backup. You can, of course do the dedupe at the server side.
The handling of VMware in NetBackup is particularly good - you have a mount server, which can mount up the VMDK and back it up as if it is a snapshot of a filesystem, for NTFS, EXT3 and EXT4. This means that you can do proper file level backups and recoveries for VMware.
Sounds good, but (and its a big but) in our Experience over the last 6 years Backup Exec has hardly been a stellar product, and got steadily worse with each release, and we are not a massive enterprise - 6K users just over 10TB of data to backup.
We have needed hotfixes on top of patches just to get the damn thing to work reliably. Everytime we patch it fixes one issue and causes several more.
On features BE matches up with most of the other products out there, but in real world use it has been a right royal pain. Symantec would have a very very hard sell to keep this customer.
Another ludicrous claim from a vendor, which sounds very like the crap coming from numerous salesmen that thin provisioning WILL save you (insert random figure between 80 and 100%) space.
If you run for i in `find .`;do touch $i;done then maybe you'll get something like these figures.
By the way, I'm aware of the error in the above, but feel free to point it out anyway.
NetBackup has had incremental/differential backups since day one, what's new here is the method by which they are being taken. They are no-longer using modification dates or archive bits, rather they are using filesystem change logs, which is much, much faster. No, it's not the first package to do this, but it's new to NetBackup and it's still a pretty new technology.
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Perhaps Symantec should open their eyes and look at what Veeam have been doing for the last few years - particularly their recnt v6 product - it's simply superb and stangely enough for a backup product - it actually works properly and scales with a minimum of fuss.
As awful as it is (and Thank Dog I don't admin the Windoze side!), our NBU instance rarely fails to b/u and restore when requested (runs on and backs up my *ix boxen just fine)
The Vendor-speak in the fine article leaves much to be desired, and I sure hope my boss doesn't read it and think "We could be doing that!"
Beer, because NBU drives me to drink (more)...
Thats fine if you are fully virtualised - for those who aren't then Veeam is just another product to manage whereas this does physical and virtual. The really neat thing about VRay is the backup is catalogued at the time of backup so single file restores are quick and easy (and from reading up on the new stuff single emails etc too) plus I can backup to tape. Veeam has a market but it just isn't flexible enough yet - I mean it needs something like backupexec to back it up - that makes me lol


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Amir Mizroch
08 May 2012 08:34
Amir Mizroch argues that Kevin Bloom's idea that the mind-set of South Africa's Jewry needs a messiah to lead them out of the darkness that is their "Israel right-or-wrong" mentality has been widely discredited. (Paul Botes, M&G)
In his article for the Mail and Guardian, journalist Kevin Bloom states: "Not since Justice Richard Goldstone released the Goldstone Report has the Jewish world been this at odds over one of its own."
Bloom argues that the Jewish world is now "at odds" over Peter Beinart, whose book The Crisis of Zionism calls for American Jews to boycott Israeli-made products made over the Green Line, in what Beinart calls "undemocratic Israel".
I'm not going to get into a critique of Beinart's book. Others have done a good job of that, and many — including myself — have found Beinart to be journalistically lazy.
As a former South African who grew up in the Eighties and Nineties in a Jewish family in Krugersdorp, and now as an editor of the English edition of Israel's largest circulation daily, I believe I have an insight into Bloom's contention that South Africa's Jewish community needs a Beinart-type messiah to lead them out of the darkness that is their "Israel right-or-wrong" mentality.
First, I'd like to point out that justice Richard Goldstone recanted in a big way, after he saw the blatant misuse of his work by people who had a predetermined agenda.
Goldstone realised, too late, that he had lent his good name to a setup, a hatchet job, an inquisition with a predetermined outcome and a libel against Israel.
And when he did figure it out, he tried to roll it back.
While I can't tell the future — and I don't personally know Peter Beinart — I won't close the door on a possible turnaround in his future too.
Secondly, South Africa's Jewish community is not monolithically Pavlovian defenders on Israel. They're smarter than that and they're more involved in a wide range of opinions and projects regarding Israel than one would think.
And if it seems to Bloom that many South Africans defend Israel's positions "right or wrong", it may have something to do with the conversely monolithic approbation Israel receives in the South African press, civil society and government, no matter what Israel does — "right or wrong".
In the South Africa I know and love, Israel is to blame for everything all the time, a priori. If all you're hearing all day is how evil Israel is, how apartheid-like it is and if you don't necessarily agree with that, you might feel slightly frustrated and spurred on to speak out against it, maybe write a letter to the editor.
Certainly, there are Pavlovian defenders of Israel in South Africa's Jewish community, just as there are Pavlovian attackers of Israel in South Africa's Jewish community.
And while we're on the issue of Pavlovian Israel-bashers, how about Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the trade unions, the ANC, the universities, the Russel Tribunal in Cape Town, the "anti-racism" conference in Durban, the former deputy minister of foreign affairs and so many other attacks on Israel from South African officials. The list goes on and on. South Africans don't need a Peter Beinart anymore than they need an Alan Dershowitz. They're doing just fine.
What they need is a more informed debate about Israel from the non-Jewish population of South Africa.
Bloom continues: "Why does South African Jewry not have a countervailing faction as strong as the movement championed by Beinart in the United States?"
Well, maybe it's because things are so bad for Israel in South Africa. If Israel didn't get such an automatic bad rap in South Africa then maybe South African Jews wouldn't feel so compelled to defend her so vigorously. Just saying. And maybe the "movement" that Beinart is championing in America just isn't as big as Beinart and Bloom think it is; or maybe it's more suited to America, where there is a more open debate about Israel (despite what Beinart says) and not to South Africa, where the debate is really about just how bad Israel really is (is it more like Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa?)
Perhaps a "Beinart movement" hasn't organically sprung up in South Africa because South African Jews visit Israel quite a lot more than their American counterparts do and are in general more familiar with daily life here, that they have developed a strong sense of protectiveness over this country. Many South African Jews have families here, especially in a town called Ra'anana in the central plain (there are so many South African expats here that locals call it Raananafontein).
Maybe it also has something to do with the uneasy and uncertain existence Jews, like many non-Jews, feel in South Africa — something Bloom explores with great sensitivity in his good book Ways of Staying.
Maybe this existential, unspoken angst gives South African Jews more of an inkling into the hearts of Israelis, many of whom live under the same uncertainty and uneasy sense of impending doom, imminent flight, a Plan B, another foreign passport, an offshore bank account, etc.
Bloom continues: "... in the United States, where a clique of ageing philanthropists — sworn to ensuring that the Holocaust doesn't happen again — are being censured by their children for refusing to acknowledge that the government of Israel consistently violates the basic human rights of Palestinians."
Ok, so Bloom would like us to believe that US Jewish support for Israel is being monolithically driven by "ageing philanthropists sworn to ensuring that the Holocaust doesn't happen again".
Bloom is falling into Beinart-like journalistic laziness that doesn't befit a man of his experience. There is a growing number of young American Jews connecting to Israel (not the Israeli government, but the country) through sponsored trips here, through Israel programs, through student exchanges and summer camps. Tens of thousands come here every year.
They're not brainwashed into becoming Zombie Zionists, well, not all of them anyway. They're shown around the country, shown the caves of Jewish sages of old, taken to Jerusalem, where Jews have lived for thousands of years, taken to the beaches of Tel-Aviv, where thousands of Jaffa Arabs braai every day too.
They're finding their own ways to connect to Israel, or not to connect. Just like young South African Jews. Just ask the South African Habonim Dror movement or the South African Union of Jewish Students — young South African Jews that over the years have done outreach and co-existence projects.
As for Bloom's central contention that "apartheid placed mainstream South African Jewry in a much closer — and therefore much less critical association with the state of Israel" — Bloom's history lesson is actually quite offensive, to say the least.
He's essentially arguing that the South African Jews of today, including the young, are not critical of Israel because the Jews in the 50s and 60s were worried that the National Party would become anti-Semitic, so they stayed quiet on Apartheid and Israel's wrongdoings. That the situation in 1953 has basically not changed for the Jews of South Africa?
I really just have one syllable to say: Kak. Pure kak.
What does that even mean? That South African Jews didn't support the Oslo Accords? They did. That Jews fought tooth and nail against the disengagement from Gaza? They didn't. That South African Jews tried to foil Ehud Olmert's offer to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas? They didn't. That South African Jews don't criticise Israel? They do. But they criticise Israel from a position of moderation and intelligence. Why would they want to give fodder to Israel's enemies? They (if there really is a "they") support every Israeli government that tries to make peace with the Palestinians, while safeguarding Israeli security. South African Jews have been consistently pro-peace and Zionist. They have been consistently pro-Israel, not purely pro-Israeli government. What does that have to do with Apartheid and support for Israel?
Bloom, like Beinart, sadly misunderstands the Israeli psyche, mostly because he, like Beinart, negates the role history continues to play in the minds of an existentially scarred people who, like it or not, are surrounded not by Swedes and Danes, but by a different sort of neighbour altogether.
It is precisely the issue of history that you cannot ignore if you want to influence Israelis to influence their governments. The last thing you should tell Israelis is, "Listen, folks, seriously, let's put the Holocaust behind us and play nice with the Arabs. Trust them a little more ok.
Relax on the whole Holocaust thing ok, get over it." If you want the Israelis to give peace a chance, you need to make them feel more secure, not less. Polls consistently show consistent support amongst the Israeli public for a two-state solution, with security guarantees.
And here's Bloom's bottom line: "In South Africa's Jewish community there is no one to explain to us that we can no longer use past victimhood to justify Israel's actions."
Come live here for a while, Mr Bloom. Some of your contentions need a reality check; some of your programming needs QA testing. The Holocaust is in the room, whether you like it or not. But it has nothing to do with Palestinian intransigence. Yes, the Jews of Israel today are not the Jews of Europe or America of 1940. Yes, Israel has a lot it can do to fix the situation with the Palestinians, perhaps just as much as the Palestinians — who have never really come to terms with our determination to stay here.
You know, it's not that easy to let go of this "thing" when there are still people out there who threaten us with another Holocaust and are trying to get their hands on the weapons to do it with. Not saying they will do it but they could. They might.
There's even a small chance they would. Should we trust them not to? Shouldn't we? Can we deal with the Palestinians, or can't we? Can we change our country without descending into civil war or can't we? That's a debate that's currently raging in Israel. South African Jews share in that debate but are also humble enough to let Israelis, who live here and not thousands of kilometres away, make their own decisions about their destiny. That's common sense, it's not blind support.
Amir Mizroch was born on Israel, raised in Krugersdorp and studied journalism at Rhodes University. He's the editor of Israel Hayom English in Tel Aviv.
This opinion piece was written in response to Kevin Blooms article "Who will shake SA Jewry's faith in Israel" which appeared in the Mail & Guardian Online on May 7 2012.
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Before Simon Chol Mialith worked for CARE South Sudan as a Peace Building and Conflict Mitigation Coordinator, he worked in several senior positions at national and international organizations both inside and outside of South Sudan. But before that, he was a child soldier.
In his early teenage years, Simon – hailing from the Panriang County of the Unity State in South Sudan – joined the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLM/A). He had grown up during a time of severe conflict – innocent Sudanese villagers suffered fighting and attacks from bombs.
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Simon spent five years in Ethiopia at the SPLM/A base, but when the presidency of Mengistu Haile Mariam fell in 1991, he and a group of former child soldiers flew back to Sudan.
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Although Simon's decision to leave the SPLA coincided with its split into two conflicting factions – a split that marked the divide of the Dinka and Nuer tribes in South Sudan – he had an opportunity to attend school for the first time in his life at the Kakuma refugee camp in Northwest Kenya with other child soldiers. With very little food to eat and no relatives to provide moral and material support, they were called the 'Lost Boys.'
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"Given my personal experience, I believe there can't be development without peace," said Simon.
Today, Simon has turned his experiences as a child soldier into a lifelong commitment to helping others not only survive conflict, but create peace. He works with CARE staff to train them in 'Do no harm' principles and helps to solve and mitigate violence through peace committees which help local residents to solve conflicts – such as land disputes, dowry settlements, stolen cattle and grazing rights for cattle which make up the greatest source of income and livelihood for villagers – through resolution and reconciliation training methods while remaining aware of the sensitive aspects of conflict so as to not create more violence.
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