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Nia Green Belt Training
April 10, 2019 Soma Ranch Retreat Center (with affordable, fully inclusive, accommodation) in Montgomery, Texas, US
About the Nia Green Belt
Green Belt is an optional training, which focuses entirely on developing and embodying the skills to effectively teach Nia. All belt levels who teach or desire to teach are strongly encouraged to attend this training.
The Nia Promise and Delivering the Nia Experience are phrases we use to express the transformative power of Nia; to a Nia Teacher's ability to deeply move and touch people within the classroom environment. As a teacher, your role is to guide people through a meaningful journey of physical conditioning and self-discovery. Teaching Nia is all about sharing your personal experience – your physical and emotional sensations, visual images and feelings. To do so, you must have a solid understanding of the form, objective curriculum and communication techniques.
Green Belt comprehensively explores all mechanics of delivering the work, including embodying the choreography, cueing, creating intentional silences, dancing to the music and helping people achieve their personal fitness goals. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned teacher, Green Belt will further your teaching skills. New teachers develop confidence, craft and skill by learning and practicing the foundations of teaching. Seasoned teachers refine and deepen their understanding, building on their craft and receiving feedback from peers to deliver the most powerful experience possible.
The Green Belt training includes a pre-training course based on the 13 White Belt principles. As part of the training, you will learn and work with the routine, Passion.
Meet the Trainer
Helen Terry
Soma Ranch I am here to make a difference in peoples lives through Nia Technique. I manifest this through Nia classes, trainings and reTreats at Soma Ranch, Montgomery,Texas and around the world. With my vast Nia and life experiences, as one of the lead Nia Trainers, I'm not here to impress you, I'm here to inspire. My ideal? to contribute to you personalizing your Nia journey, help dreams come true, encourage you to be the best you can be and live a glorious life. Want help with deciding where/how/when to take a Nia class or training? give me a call. 832-567-4550.
Spend time around Helen and you will learn something, receive inspiration, and garner support for your dreams and desires (not to mention be highly entertained by her loving sense of humor and English-Texan accent, which many mistake for Australian.) "I'm passionate about moving people physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I bring people together and inspire them, at my Studio, the Ranch and around the world. That turns me on."
Helen has been helping people love their bodies and lives through Nia Technique since 1993. She immigrated to the US in 1990, as an International Teaching Fellow. Helen has a Royal Society of Arts Certification in Exercise to Music, B. Ed. (Hons) Physical Education, M.Ed. Exercise Physiology. She is a Certified Body Ecologist and Dance Therapy Specialist.
Recognized by Origins Magazine as a "Top Inspirer in Texas", Helen is multi-talented with a magical formula. She combines experience and knowledge with determination and faith, to consciously create and bring ideas to life. Helen founded NiaMoves Houston in 1996, a successful Nia fitness studio in Houston, which she sold in 2016. Helen now co-owns and runs Soma Ranch Retreat, Montgomery, Texas with her husband Joe.
Helen has a special, and very effective, way of catering to the unique needs of each individual. She helps folks feel great while giving them the skills they need. When she's not leading Nia trainings worldwide, you'll find Helen at Soma Ranch feeding the rescued donkeys, checking in with her daughter, Liliana (who's studying Computer Science/Linguistics at University of Texas) ; enjoying a kombucha tea on the porch with her awesome "home-support" husband, Joe; and being corralled by their Border Collie, Phelps.
"Helen Terry is one of the best teachers, mothers, and trainers, and because of her mastery in Nia and in her ability to build and create a successful personal and professional life she was one of the first two trainers chosen to step into the role of Blue Belt trainer!" Debbie Rosas
"I consider myself an inspirer as much as an educator. I was born to make an inspirational difference in people's lives through movement to music and how I live my life. When I teach Nia, I adore watching how folks light up! It's phenomenal how many people's lives are being changed through this practice. I consider it a blessing to have found Nia and a privilege to teach and share this wonderful technique" Helen Terry
• B.Ed (hons) in Physical Education and Special Need
• M.Ed in Exercise Physiology and Human Performance,
• Dance Therapy Specialist (Authentic Movement)
• Certified Body Ecologist.
• Founder, and former co owner of Studio NiaMoves Houston, (1996 - 2016) www.niamoves.com
• Creator of "Soma Ranch" Montgomery Texas. (est. 2009) www.somaranch.com
• Warm, knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher. (since 1993)
• International Fitness and Wellness presenter (30+ conferences)
We remember Helen as an amazing "teacher to be" so many years ago. Bright, articulate, a big dreamer and full of life's desire. She was fit, and seemed to be one of those people who easily took risks out of passion, not fear. She was open to possibility, willing to receive and learn more, and eager to be in relationship with us, Nia, the group and her experience. (Studio NiaMoves Houston) represents these parts and more. It is her dream, passion, and represents her ability to manifest out of love and not fear. It represents her ability to create and work with community, and to ask for what she needs. As we look into the NOW and Nia's future it is bright and full of Helen.
Congratulations Helen on creating the dream. You inspire us all, and it is a pleasure and joy to know you, work with you and see you as the woman you are in life. More magic awaits we are sure. Thank you for being you and being in our life too.
Love Debbie, Carlos and Jeff
Notes About this Training
Start: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - 6:00 pm
End: Monday, April 15, 2019 - 2:00 pm
Training Cost: $1,199
$599.50 registration fee + $599.50 instruction fee
PLEASE NOTE: A $599.50 (USD) Registration Fee is required to reserve your space. The instructional fee of the Training (plus any applicable taxes) will be collected by your Trainer. Please note: some trainings may be subject to additional taxes when required by law.


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Over 23,000 fans packed the stands at the Knoxville Raceway Saturday night, all hoping to see something spectacular, and many hoping to see an underdog win the 50th annual Knoxville Nationals, and they got just that as Tim Shaffer passed four time defending champion Donny Schatz to take the white flag and held on to win his first ever Knoxville Nationals.
For the first time ever, the historic race was 50 laps in honor of the 50th anniversary and featured a five minute pit stop for all cars at lap 25 allowing teams to make any changes they needed to their cars in preparation for the final 25 laps.
Sammy Swindell had the dominant car leading 46 of the first 47 laps and looked to be on his way to his first Nationals win since 1983, but he would blow a right rear tire with just over two laps remaining and finish 19th. That gave the lead to Schatz with three laps remaining but Schatz had late race motor issues allowing Shaffer to challenge for the lead and eventually take the lead coming out of turn four to take the white flag. Schatz would finish second followed by 360 Nationals champ Shane Stewart, Craig Dollansky charged from 24th starting position to finish fourth and Kerry Madsen completed the top five.
Six Knoxville regulars made the 24 car field including Brian Brown who started on the pole and was running third with six laps to go when he had a tire go down and finished 14th. Davey Heskin was the highest finishing Knoxville driver in eighth, Josh Schneiderman finished 13th in his first ever Nationals A main, Dusty Zomer was 16th, Erin Crocker finished 18th, Lynton Jeffery was 21st and Skip Jackson was 23rd. World of Outlaw point leader Joey Saldana blew a motor early and exited after lap eight to finish 24th and Steve Kinser also lost a motor on lap 31 and finished 22nd. There will be no races this weekend at Knoxville Raceway and the season will resume with two final points races August 28th and the season championship September 4th.

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FCC Taking Another Look At Mobile Phone Radiation
For the first time in 15 years, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission says it's planning on asking if its standards protect people from mobile-phone radiation, partly because of how often we use smartphones now and since we yak away on them for longer periods of time than we used to.
The agency's chairman is asking his fellow commissioners to approve a notice commencing a formal inquiry, said an agency spokeswoman. No rules will be proposed in the notice.
"Our action today is a routine review of our standards," she said, according to Bloomberg News. "We are confident that, as set, the emissions guidelines for devices pose no risks to consumers."
In 1996, the FCC updated its guidelines, setting maximum radiation-exposure levels, based on heat phones emit. Back then, 44 million people had mobile phones. Today that number stands at 332 million wireless subscribers.
The National Cancer Institute has voiced concerns that radio-frequency energy from phones cradled close to our craniums could affect brain and other tissues. But the Institute also said studies of cells, animals and humans haven't provided any evidence that such energy can cause cancer.
Other scientific studies have also said there's no danger of cancer from phones, and industry experts seem confident that this new update will go along with that.
"We fully expect that the FCC's review will confirm, as it has in the past, that the scientific evidence establishes no reason for concern about the safety of cellphones," John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA-The Wireless Association, said in an e- mailed statement today.
Better safe than sorry, right?
Mobile-Phone Radiation Safety To Be Reviewed By U.S. FCC [Bloomberg]
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New loan signing Lacina Traore rejected West Ham in favour of Everton as he preferred Roberto Martinez's style of play.
The Hammers were in pole position for the 6ft 8in Ivory Coast international after securing a work permit ahead of a move from Monaco.
However, Everton came in with a late bid and having assessed both clubs' respective football and position in the Barclays Premier League Traore opted for Goodison Park.
"It was quite close but Everton was my choice," said the striker.
"I looked at the styles of play of the two teams we are talking about and the way in which Everton play is more of a passing side and the style of Everton suited my technical ability.
"Also I looked at where they were in the league and they (Everton) were quite well off for points in the league so I think with that sort of emphasis on skill and the passing game I am hoping I can settle in as quickly as possible with my style of play.
"There were other clubs interested in me at the beginning but I knew Everton had a good possibility of getting into European football next season.
"I am pleased I have made this choice and I am standing by my choice of this club."
Martinez insists despite Traore's size he is much more than a target man.
"He is a very hungry footballer which, at this stage of the season, is very important," said Martinez.
"His size will give you the wrong impression of the way he is as a footballer.
"He is technically very gifted, he has a real understanding of the space and combination play around him and is really quick with his penetrating runs, he is a real athlete.
"All those aspects make us a little bit different because we haven't got that sort of player with that presence and height.
"He is a footballer who is going to bring us a lot."
Traore is still possibly a fortnight away from fitness after arriving with a hamstring injury but Martinez hopes he will be able to help fill the void left by Romelu Lukaku who has been ruled out for several weeks with an ankle problem sustained in Tuesday's Merseyside derby defeat.
"We were expecting the worst so we had good news in that respect as the structure of the ankle is fine and there is no ligament damage," he said the of the Belgium striker.
"The bone is badly bruised so now we need to see how he recovers over the next few days and then we will know the extent of the injury.
"It is a situation which will be resolved in a few weeks and Romelu will be back well before the final seven or eight games of the season."
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Kate60603 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 120 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Kate Allen
I am in the process of quitting my corporate job so I can follow my passion to help others figure out what their passion is. I'm looking to live my dream and help others to do the same through my coaching and training services.
My target audience is mainly women, who are mid career, who are looking to figure out what's missing in their life and what their own passion is. I'm looking to work with people who want to live authentically and to their fullest potential, rather than be a corporate drone. I am going to be offering coaching and online training services.
I have a wordpress blog that I'm in the process of updating with a new theme. The theme is located at http://www.templateaccess.com/wpdemos/wp123/. You can see the colors there.
The logo needs to have a clear background.
I'm looking for a logo that conveys the following concepts:
1. Authenticity
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Please feel free to be creative!
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Wednesday, October 24, 1928
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Rebecca M. McAboy, Long Time Resident, Dies at Age of 83
Mrs. Rebecca M. McAboy, 83, resident of California for 38 years, and widow of the late W.W. McAboy, died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.K. Langworthy, 463 Belmont Avenue. Mrs. McAboy was a native of Ohio and leaves a son and two other daughters, E.J. McAboy, Mrs. A.K. Dick and Mrs. E. Fitzgerald, all of Fresno.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Stephens & Bean.
Fresno Morning Republican
Thursday, October 25, 1928
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McAboy Funeral Today
Funeral services for Mrs. Rebecca M. McAboy, 83, a native of Ohio and mother of Mrs. A.K. Dick, Mrs. E. Fitzgerald, Mrs. W.R. Langworthy and E.J. McAboy, all of Fresno, who died Tuesday, are to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Stephens & Bean chapel, with burial to follow in the I.O.O.F. section of Mt. View cemetery.
|Rebecca Waller McAboy
Mt. View Cemetery
Fresno, California
Rebecca was my 2nd great grandmother. I wrote about her husband, William Warren McAboy - he was my Black Sheep ancestor. Their youngest child, Mabel McAboy Fitzgerald, was my great grandmother.
Rebecca was the daughter of my favorite subject, Emery Waller. Her mother, Rebecca Parker Waller, died 6 days after Rebecca Waller McAboy's birth.
I'm anxious to learn more about Rebecca and hope that at some point I'll run across a photo of her.


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Lions need to neutralise Genia
CARDIFF: He may have sat out six Tests with a knee injury and still be some months off returning to full contact but Will Genia is the man most feared by the British and Irish Lions as they look ahead to their tour to Australia next year.
As Warren Gatland casts around for takers for the Lions No.9 jersey, having made it clear incumbent halfback Mike Phillips needed to rediscover form over the next few months, Genia is being touted by former Lions greats as the key threat in the Wallabies arsenal.
Former Wales halfback Robert Jones, a member of the victorious Lions squad that toured Australia in 1989, called Genia the best halfback in world rugby and said his opposite number in the Lions was a crucial selection. ''Mike Phillips is probably the incumbent Lions scrum half and if he gets the nod he'll play against probably the best scrum half in the world at the moment, [Genia], who's quick, alert and keeps momentum going in the way Australia have played,'' Jones said. ''[He] has a fantastic quick service, scores tries from 30 [metres]. You can't ask for anything more from a halfback.''
Phillips, a standout of the Lions' 2009 tour of South Africa, was the Welsh starting halfback in their clash with the Wallabies this weekend. But if the 30-year-old thought his time with Gatland gave him any sort of 'in' to the 2013 Lions side, the coach set him straight during the week.
''I don't actually think there's been any really dominating performances from a No.9 on a consistent basis,'' Gatland said, mentioning England halfbacks Ben Youngs and Danny Care, plus young Ireland No.9 Conor Murray. ''A good performance, yes, but not week in and week out.'' When asked if there were any players from the 2009 side that he considered available for selection, Gatland said he thought Phillips and Welsh centre Jamie Roberts did a ''good job'' but were under pressure to improve.
''From a Lions point of view, it's about some of the Welsh players putting their hands up in terms of selection,'' he said. ''There are maybe a couple of lines going through a couple of names and they need to re-establish themselves.''
In contrast Gatland called Genia a ''game changer'', while 1989 Lions winger Ieuan Evans said the Reds halfback would be a genuine threat. ''There were some wonderful Australian players who never had the chance to win against the Lions, it only comes around every 12 years,'' Evans said. ''So the likes of Will Genia will be desperate to get back on that field.''
Jones, who famously tussled with his Wallabies opposite Nick Farr-Jones throughout the three-Test series in 1989, said the pairing of Genia with Phillips would be explosive. ''Phillips is the opposite [to Genia] in as much as he's the most abrasive scrum half around, he's very committed,'' Jones said.
''He hasn't perhaps got the best technical scrum-half skills, but is a different player and has his own attributes that contribute to any game, so just watching the potential contest there between those two players is going to be fantastic.''
Gatland also said he would not hesitate appointing two captains for next year's tour, a senior tour captain and an in-game captain. ''You could pick potentially an experienced player. He might be tour captain, but might not be good enough to get selected for the Tests. But he could be really good for us as a tour captain,'' he said. ''Bear in mind that if form's good enough you get selected … But it's all about performance and form, and if that means leaving the captain out then I'm more than … prepared to do that.''
Twitter -@geerob
Georgina Robinson is the chief rugby reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.


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DailyDirt: Exploring Mars
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- Analysis of two Martian meteorites suggests that Mars may have contained much more water than previous estimates. During the formation of Mars, water was likely to be present in the Martian mantle in similar proportions as the Earth's mantle. [url]
- The Mars Curiosity Rover isn't the only spacecraft to try to land on an astronomical object in our solar system. At least twelve other unmanned crafts have hit moons, asteroids or other planets: the Soviet Union's Luna 9, NASA'a Surveyor 1 on the moon, the Lunokhod 1 on the moon, Russia's Venera 7 on Venus, Soviet Mars 3, the Viking 1 and Viking 2 spacecrafts on Mars, the Mars Pathfinder, the NEAR Shoemaker on an asteroid, Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the Huygens probe of Titan, Japan's Hayabusa probe, and the Mars Phoenix lander. [url]
- The 11-year-old Mars Odyssey probe is serving as a "real time" communications relay for Curiosity, allowing Curiosity to focus more of its energy on exploring Mars. Two other Mars satellites (NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the European Space Agency's Mars Express) are also re-transmitting signals from Curiosity, but with delays of several hours. [url]


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Open Gate Sangha extends a warm welcome to the growing global community of those who resonate with Adyashanti's teachings.
Visit the links above and on the right to find out about connecting with others who share Adyashanti's teachings, read Adyashanti's reflections on sangha, learn about what's happening in the organization, and more.
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Wake is the story of an engineer trapped on a sinking ship. His goal is to navigate through the ship and find his way to the surface above. -Dodge bullets and fire, most of all avoid drowning! -Collect keys, torches, flares and even an axe to help you escape -Discover the secrets of what really happened -18 achievements and Online Scoreboards This is the 2013 edition which includes widescreen support, wider controller compatibility, new randomisation system, bug fixes, added new traps and loads of new little features.
Very fun game. Very replayable with achievements and leaderboards.


text: Marketing Experts Preview Friday's WASDE May 8, 2013 05:34 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Fran Howard AgWeb Contributing Writer Email What will be the important changes in Friday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates? Here's what the experts are watching. Producers are greeting this week's sunshine with renewed optimism hoping they will finally be able to get into their fields to plant corn without risking much if any yield potential. "It's like the beginning of the Daytona 500. The engines are running and as soon as the flag is waved, boom, they will be out planting," says Chad Hart, agricultural economist at Iowa State University. Hart says if producers can get their corn seeded by the end of next week, they will still have a shot at obtaining 95 to 100% of yield potential. When USDA releases its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) on Friday, analysts expect few, if any, market-moving changes. Allendale, an Illinois-based brokerage services firm, expects USDA to lower its average 2013 corn yield estimate by 4 bushel per acre to 159.4 bushels due to delayed planting. "A 4-bushel-per acre reduction in yield sounds exciting, but I can't make a bullish case for it," says Rich Nelson, chief strategist at Allendale. If corn producers don't get corn planted by the end of next week, though, Nelson says some acreage intended for corn could start shifting into soybeans. However, for him to reduce yield expectations to a level that would turn the trend for corn higher, Nelson argues that average yield expectations would have to drop to between 152 and 154 bushels per acre. "At that level, I could make a slightly bullish case for prices compared to today's levels," says Nelson. Exports at Four-Decade Lows USDA's forecast for U.S. corn exports are at levels not seen since the 1970s, and USDA could reduce them further in the May WASDE report, says Hart. In the 1970s, U.S. producers were just beginning to sell their production overseas. "We've seen a dramatic cut in exports compared to five years ago," says Hart. "It shows how quickly international demand can shift as buyers turn to other cheaper feed grains." Hart expects USDA to lower exports but raise ethanol use by an offsetting amount, leaving old-crop corn stocks tight. Allendale expects USDA to raise old-crop ending stocks of corn to 762 million bushels, up from USDA's last estimate of 757 bushels. Changes in the soybean crop will likely be even less dramatic, according to analysts, who will be watching to see whether USDA shifts any corn acreage into soybeans and whether exports are slowing even more than anticipated. "South America is getting product shipped, and China, in particular, is starting to grab South American beans, which was supposed to happen earlier," notes Hart. For the marketing year, USDA's latest projection for U.S. soybean exports was 1.35 billion bushels. To date, U.S. exporters have sold 1.33 billion bushels. Allendale expects USDA to leave both soybean acreage and average yield unchanged, but says the department will likely cut its estimates for South America soybean production. "A 1-million-ton drop is not a big deal," says Nelson. For More Information AgWeb will have full coverage of Friday's USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports, following their 11 a.m. release. Back to news


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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Streaming services have replaced downloads as the trendy new way to access recorded music, and, as usual, huge questions center on who in the recording industry will get paid and how much, if anything.
The record labels, especially the big multinationals, are getting paid first in their deals with relative newcomers such as Spotify, so what does that leave for the artists?
A decade ago, compact discs were still the coin of that lucrative realm, retailing for upward of $15, with artists making about 10 percent once they recouped their upfront money from the record labels. Few artists made a living off their recorded music, but the music industry profited handsomely. The advent of Napster shifted priorities to single MP3 files; legitimate services such as iTunes required payment of 99 cents per track. That led to a precipitous decline in music industry revenue, with even less money being distributed to artists. Now streaming services such as Spotify are paying less than a half-a-cent per stream to the music industry, and the revenue pie is smaller than ever.
The "Pennies from the Celestial Jukebox" panel Friday at the South by Southwest Music Conference outlined the harsh realities of the new streaming economic model. "We're not talking about pennies, but pieces of those pennies," said attorney Edward Pierson.
Early stories of Spotify's emergence in Sweden four years ago were tainted by reports that even major artists such as Lady Gaga were making tiny royalties even though their tracks were the most popular on the site. Even now, Spotify commands just 3 million worldwide subscribers. But there is potential for many more as the mobile market expands and the desire for music anywhere, anytime on cloud-based services skyrockets. Potentially huge markets in China and India have gone relatively untapped.
Under the new math of the music industry, many more people would access the music via streaming at a significantly lower cost than ever before. Yet many of the same disturbing questions remain about equitably dividing the revenue.
Label deals with Spotify and other services lack transparency, artist manager Nick Stern said. Just as 20th Century artists rarely knew how much the labels actually made off their albums, today's artists don't know how much licensing money the Spotify-type services have paid the labels to stream their music. "Its not a problem with the economics of Spotify," Stern said, "it's a problem with the economics of the music business."
One thing is certain. "The days of the $14 billion a year music industry are gone and they're not coming back," Downs said after the panel.
Yet no one was advocating a return to the way things used to be.
"Consumers are telling us they want to experience music this way (via streaming)," Stern said. "So it would be stupid to fight it. Otherwise we're just going to repeat the last 10 years."


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Yampa Valley Crane Festival: Monday
- Community-wide
The inaugural Yampa Valley Crane Festival takes place September 16-19 in Steamboat Springs and Hayden, plus a pre-festival screening of the International Wildlife Festival award-winning film Born To Fly on Thursday, Sept. 13 as part of the library's ongoing Wild Films series.
Monday's Crane Festival programming focuses on outreach to school children and seniors. Please click on the links below for detailed festival schedules for each day.
All events are FREE.
Sunday, Sept. 16
Tuesday, Sept. 18
Wednesday, Sept. 19
Keynote Speaker, Dr. George Archibald
Schedule for Monday, Sept. 17 is below...
All Day
Elementary school programs led by Yampatika naturalists.
10 a.m.– 5 p.m.
Photographer Don Tudor's crane photos on display at Sleeping Giant Gallery, 601 Lincoln Ave.
10 a.m.–7 p.m.
Crane artwork by local artists on display at The Artists' Gallery of Steamboat, 1009 Lincoln Ave.
10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen's crane photos on display at Mangelsen's Images of Nature, 730 Lincoln Ave. Manglesen's 48-minute DVD Cranes of the Grey Wind will screen upon request. Mention you are attending the Yampa Valley Crane Festival to receive a 25% discount off any gallery purchase.
12:30 - 1:15 p.m.
Program for seniors at the Steamboat Community Center: A brief talk followed by a screening of Raising Kid Colt, a film by Nina Faust and Edgar Bailey about a Sandhill Crane family at the Kachemak Crane Watch in Homer, Alaska.
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Program for seniors at The Haven in Hayden: A brief talk followed by a screening of Raising Kid Colt, a film by Nina Faust and Edgar Bailey about a Sandhill Crane family at the Kachemak Crane Watch in Homer, Alaska.
6 – 7 p.m.
Young Writers Group gathers in the Teen Project Room Bud Werner Memorial Library, where BookTrails will lead a story writing activity about cranes.
6 p.m.
Crane viewing activity for Steamboat's Over the Hill Gang members.
6:15 p.m.
Board shuttle at the Stockbridge Transit Center (1505 Lincoln Ave.) for crane viewing in Hayden. A $5 donation is suggested to cover the cost of fuel for the shuttle.
7 p.m.
View cranes near The Nature Conservancy's Carpenter Ranch in Hayden.
Maps to crane viewing sites are available at the Carpenter Ranch (on U.S. Hwy 40 in Hayden), Bucking Rainbow (730 Lincoln Ave. in Steamboat Springs), Off the Beaten Path Bookstore (68 Ninth Street, in Steamboat Springs) and at the Bud Werner Memorial Library front desk (1289 Lincoln Ave. in Steamboat Springs). Or check it out on Google Maps here.
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Published online on January 30th, 2011, by the National Committee for Border Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
* The original article in Vietnamese can be found at: http://www.biengioilanhtho.gov.vn/Media/bbg/News/Archives/vie/chu%20quyen%20tren%202%20quan%20dao%20Hoang%20Sa%20-%20Truong%20sa.pdf
Translated by Nguyễn Trịnh Đôn
Editorial notes: On January 19, 2011, the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of
To follow up the story with more information, the Southeast Asian Sea Research Foundation (Quỹ nghiên cứu Biển Đông) presents below an essay by the National Committee for Border Affairs of Viet Nam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that uses historical and legal evidence to argue that Viet Nam has indisputable sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands (which are referred to as "Hoàng Sa" and "Trường Sa", respectively, by Vietnamese).
The Paracel (Hoàng Sa) and the Spratly (Trường Sa) Islands are two archipelagos offshore
In the early days, with only vague information about the Paracel and the Spratly Islands, navigators only knew that there was a large area of submerged cays dangerous for watercrafts in the middle of the South China Sea, referred to as "the East Sea" (Biển Đông) by Vietnamese. Ancient Vietnamese documents indicate this area with various names, including "Bãi Cát Vàng" (English: Golden Sandbank), "Hoàng Sa" (Hán-Nôm: 黃沙; English: Golden Sand) [1], "Vạn Lý Hoàng Sa" (Hán-Nôm: 萬里黃沙; English: Ten-Thousand-Dặm Golden Sand) [2], "Đại Trường Sa" (Hán-Nôm: 大長沙; English: Grand Long Sand), or "Vạn Lý Trường Sa" (Hán-Nôm: 萬里長沙; English: Ten-Thousand-Dặm Long Sand).
Most of the nautical maps made by Western navigators from the 16th to the 18th centuries depict the Paracel and the Spratly Islands as a single archipelago and name it "Pracel", "Parcel", or "Paracels" [3]. Later progress in science and navigation allowed the differentiation between the two archipelagos. It was not until about two hundred years ago (1787–1788) that the
All of the aforementioned maps depict Pracel (including both the Paracel and the Spratly Islands) as an area in the middle of the South China Sea to the east of mainland Viet Nam and located further offshore compared to Viet Nam's coastal islands. The two archipelagos indicated as the "Paracel" and the "Spratly" (or "Spratley") Islands in current international nautical maps are indeed those that are called as "Hoàng Sa" and "Trường Sa", respectively, by Vietnamese people.
Figure 1. A 16th-century Portuguese nautical map depicting the Paracel and the
Historical Sovereignty of Viet Nam over The Paracel and The Spratly Islands
The Vietnamese people have long known the Paracel and the
Several ancient geography books and maps in
Toản tập Thiên Nam tứ chí lộ đồ thư (Hán-Nôm: 纂集天南四至路圖書; English: "The Handbook of the South's Road Map"), compiled in the 17th century by Đỗ Bá Công Đạo, clearly noted in the maps of Quảng Ngãi Prefecture in Quảng Nam that "there was a long sandbank in the middle of the sea that is called Bãi Cát Vàng", and that "during the last month of every winter, the Nguyễn rulers [4] send eighteen boats there to collect goods, mainly jewelries, money, guns, and ammunition".
Figure 2. Scanned image of a page of Toản tập Thiên
In the 1774 map of Đàng Trong (Southern Viet Nam) called Giáp Ngọ niên bình Nam đồ (Hán-Nôm: 甲午年平南圖; English: The Map for the Pacification of the South in the Giáp Ngọ Year) [5,6], made by Đoan quận công (Hán-Nôm: 端郡公; English: Duke of the Đoan County) Bùi Thế Đạt, Bãi Cát Vàng is also indicated as a part of Viet Nam's territory.
During his assignment in Southern Viet
Figure 3. Scanned images of the pages describing
the Paracel and the Spratly Islands in Phủ biên tạp lục (撫邊雜錄)
"An Vĩnh Commune (xã), Bình Sơn District (huyện),
"Bình Sơn District of Quảng Ngãi Prefecture includes the coastal commune of An Vĩnh. Offshore to the northeast of An Vĩnh are many islands and approximately 130 mountains separated by waters which can take from few watches to few days to travel across. Streams of fresh water can be found on these mountains. Within the islands is a 30-dặm long, flat and wide golden sand bank, on which the water is so transparent that one can see through. The islands are rich in swift nests, and there are hundreds or thousands of other kinds of birds; they alight around instead of avoiding humans. There are many curios on the sandbank. Among the volutes (ốc vân) are the Indian volutes (ốc tai voi). An Indian volute here can be as big as a mat; on their ventral side are opaque beads, different from pearls, that are as big as fingertips; their shell can be carved to make identification badges (tấm bài) or calcinated to provide lime for house construction. There are also conches (ốc xà cừ) that can be used for furniture inlay, and
Foreign boats often take refuge in these islands to avoid storms. The Nguyễn rulers have established Hoàng Sa Flotilla with seventy sailors selected from An Vĩnh Commune on a rotation basis. Selected sailors receive their order in the Third Month of every year, bring with them sufficient food for six months, and sail on five small fishing boats for three full days to reach the islands. Once settled down on the islands, they are free to catch as many birds and fish as they like. They collect goods from boats passing by, such as sabers, jewelries, money, porcelain rings, and fur; they also collect plenty of sea turtle shells, sea cucumbers, and volute shells. The sailors return to mainland in the Eighth Month through Eo Seaport. On their return trip, they first sail to Phú Xuân Citadel, where the goods that they have collected shall be submitted to be measured and classified; they can then take their parts of volutes, sea turtles, and sea cucumbers for their own trading businesses, and receive licenses before going home. The amount of collected materials varies; sometimes, the sailors could not collect anything at all. I have personally checked the notebook of the former flotilla captain Thuyên Đức Hầu, which recorded the amount of collected goods: 30 scoops of silver in the year of Nhâm Ngọ (Hán-Nôm: 壬午; i.e. 1762), 5,100 catties (cân) [9] of tin in the year of Giáp Thân (甲申; i.e. 1764), 126 scoops of silver in the year of Ất Dậu (乙酉; i.e. 1765), a few sea turtle shells each year from the year of Kỷ Sửu (己丑; i.e. 1769) to the year of Quý Tỵ (癸巳; i.e. 1773). There were also years when only cubic tin, porcelain bowls, and two copper guns were collected.
The Nguyễn rulers also established Bắc Hải Flotilla without a fixed number of sailors, selected from Tứ Chính Village in Bình Thuận or from Cảnh Dương Commune. Sailors are selected on a voluntary basis. Those who volunteer to join the Flotilla will be exempted from poll tax, patrol and transportation fees. These sailors travel in small fishing boats to Bắc Hải, Côn Lôn Island, and other islands in Hà Tiên area, collecting goods from ships, and sea products such as turtles, abalones, and sea cucumbers. Bắc Hải Flotilla is under the command of Hoàng Sa Flotilla. The collected items are mostly sea products and rarely include jewelries."
Among those documents that have been preserved until today is the following order dated 1786 made by Lord Superior (Thượng tướng công):
"Hereby command Hội Đức Hầu, captain of Hoàng Sa Flotilla, to lead four fishing boats to sail directly towards Hoàng Sa and other islands on the sea, to collect jewelries, copper items, cannons of all size, sea turtles, and valuable fishes, and to return to the Capital to submit all of these items in accordance with the current regulation".
Bishop J.L. Taberd, in his 1837 "Note on the Geography of Cochinchina" [10], also describes "Pracel or Paracels" as a part of Cochinchina's territory and indicates that Cochinchinese people refer to Paracels as "Cát Vàng". In An Nam đại quốc họa đồ (Hán-Nôm: 安南大國畫圖; English: The Map of the An Nam Empire) [11] published in 1838, Bishop Taberd depicted part of Paracels and noted "Paracel seu Cát Vàng" (English: Paracel or Cát Vàng) for the islands farther than those near the shore of Central Viet Nam, corresponding to the area of the Paracel Islands nowadays.
Figure 4. Scanned image of An
The map of
Figure 5. Scanned image of a portion of Đại
Đại Nam nhất thống chí (Hán-Nôm: 大南ー統志; English: The Geography of the Unified Đại Nam), the geography book completed in 1882 [13] by Quốc sử quán (Hán-Nôm: 國史館; English: The National History Institute) of the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802–1845), indicates that the Paracel Islands are part of Viet Nam's territory and was under the administration of the Province of Quảng Ngãi.
Figure 6. Scanned image of a page in Đại
In the paragraphs describing the topography of
"In the east of
"The previous custom of maintaining Hoàng Sa Flotilla was continued in the early days of the Gia Long Era but later abandoned. At the beginning of the Minh Mạng Era, working boats were sent to the area for sea route survey. They found an area with verdant plants over white sands and a circumference of 1,070 trượng [14]. In the middle of Hoàng Sa
Many Western navigators and Christian missionaries in the past centuries attested that Hoàng Sa (Pracel or Paracel) belongs to
A Western clergyman wrote in a letter during his 1701 trip on the ship Amphitrite from
J.B. Chaigneau, one of the counsellors to Emperor Gia Long, wrote in the 1820 complementary note to his "Mémoire sur la Cochinchine" (English: Memoir on Cochinchina) [16] that: "The Country of Cochinchina, whose emperor has just ascended to the throne, includes the Regions of Cochinchina and Tonkin [17] … some inhabited islands not too far from the shore, and the Paracel Islands composed of uninhabited small islands, creeks, and cays."
In the article "Geography of the Cochinchinese Empire" [18], written by Gutzlaff and published in 1849, some parts clearly indicate that Paracel is part of
As sovereigns of the country, successive feudal dynasties in
Toản tập Thiên
"In the middle of the sea is a long sandbank, called Bãi Cát Vàng, with a length of 400 dặm and a width of 20 dặm, spanning in the middle of the sea from Đại Chiêm to Sa Vinh Seaports [19]. Foreign ships would be drifted and stranded on the bank if they traveled on the inner side (west) of the sandbank under the southwest wind or on the outer side under the northeast wind (east). Their sailors would starve to death and leave all their goods there [20]."
"Offshore of An Vĩnh Commune, Bình Sơn District, Quảng Ngãi Prefecture, are more than 130 sandbanks whose distances from each other can take anywhere from a few watches to a few days to travel. They span an area of thousands of dặm, and are thus called "Vạn Lý Hoàng Sa". There are freshwater wells on the sandbanks, and sea products of the area include sea cucumber, sea turtles, volutes, and so on and so forth."
"Not long after the founding of the Dynasty, Hoàng Sa Flotilla was established with 70 sailors selected from An Vĩnh Commune. In the Third Month of every year, they sail for about three days to the islands. They collect goods there and return in the Eighth Month. There is also another flotilla named Bắc Hải, whose sailors are chosen from Tứ Chính Village in Bình Thuận or Cảnh Dương Commune, ordered to sail to Bắc Hải and Côn Lôn areas to collect goods. This flotilla is under the command of Hoàng Sa Flotilla."
The parts covering the eras of Emperors Gia Long, Minh Mạng, and Thiệu Trị completed in 1848 in Đại Nam thực lục chính biên (Hán-Nôm: 大南實錄正編; English: The Main Part of The Chronicles of Đại Nam), the historical document collection about the Nguyễn emperors, record the events of: Emperor Gia Long's possession of the Paracel Islands in 1816, and the temple construction, stele erection, tree planting, measurement and mapping of the islands following Emperor Minh Mạng's order [21].
Volume 52 of Đại
"In the Bính Tý (Hán-Nôm: 丙子) year, the 15th year of the Gia Long Era (1816) … His Majesty the Emperor commanded the naval forces and Hoàng Sa Flotilla to sail to Hoàng Sa Islands for sea route survey."
Volume 104 reads:
"In the Eighth Month, during the autumn, of the Quý Tỵ (in Hán-Nôm: 癸巳) year, the 14th year of the Ming Mạng Era (1833) … His Majesty the Emperor told the Ministry of Public Works that: In the territorial waters of the Province of Quảng Ngãi, there is the Hoàng Sa range. The water and the sky in that range cannot be distinguished from afar. Trading boats have recently become victims of its shoal. We shall prepare sampans, waiting until next year to go to the area for constructing temple, erecting stele, and planting many trees. Those trees will grow luxuriant in the future, thus serving as recognition remarks for people to avoid getting stranded in shoal. That shall benefit everyone forever."
Volume 154 reads:
"In the Sixth Month, during the summer, of the Ất Mùi (Hán-Nôm: 乙未) year, the 16th year of the Minh Mạng Era (1835) … a temple was built on Hoàng Sa Island, under the administration of Quảng Ngãi Province. Hoàng Sa, in the territorial waters of Quảng Ngãi, has a white sand island covered by luxuriant plants with a well in the middle. In the southwest of the island is an ancient temple in which there is a stele engraved with four characters "Vạn Lý Ba Bình" (Hán-Nôm: 萬里波平; English: calm sea for a thousand dặm). Bạch Sa Island has a circumference of 1,070 trượng; previously referred to as Phật Tự Sơn, the island is surrounded by a gently-sloping atoll in the east, west, and south. In the north is an atoll named Bàn Than Thạch, emerging over the water level with a circumference of 340 trượng, an elevation of 1.3 trượng, as high as the sand island. Last year, His Majesty the Emperor had already considered ordering the construction of a temple and a stele on it, but the plan could not be executed due to harsh weather conditions. The construction had to be postponed until this year when the naval captain Phạm Văn Nguyên and his soldiers, the Capital's patrol commander (giám thành), and labourers from the Provinces of Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định came and carried building materials with them to build the new temple (seven trượng away from the ancient temple). A stone stele and a screen were erected on the left hand side and in the front of the temple, respectively. They finished all the works in ten days and returned to mainland."
Volume 165 reads:
"On the first of the First Month, during the spring, in the Bính Thân (Hán-Nôm: 丙申) year, the 17th year of the Ming Mạng Era (1836) … The Ministry of Public Works submitted a petition to His Majesty the Emperor, saying that: In the frontier of our country's territorial waters, Hoàng Sa is a critical and hardly-accessible area. We have had the map of the area made; however, due to its wide and long topography, the map only covers part of it, and this coverage is not sufficiently detailed. We shall deploy people to the area for detailed sea route survey. From now on, in the last ten days of the First Month of every year, we shall implore Your Majesty's permission to select naval soldiers and the Capital's patrolmen (vệ giám thành) to form a unit on a vessel. This unit shall travel to Quảng Ngãi within the first ten days of the Second Month, requesting the Provinces of Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định to employ four civilian boats to travel together to Hoàng Sa. For every island, cay, or sandbank that they encounter, they shall measure its length, width, elevation, area, circumference, and the surrounding water's depth; they shall record the presence of submerged cays and banks, and the topography. Maps shall be drawn from these measurements and records. Also, they shall record the departure date, departure seaports, directions, and estimated distance estimated on the traveling routes. These people shall also look for the shore to determine the provinces, their directions and distances to the surveyed positions. One and all must be recorded clearly and presented once they return."
"His Majesty the Emperor approved the petition, ordered the naval detachment commander Phạm Hữu Nhật to command a battleship and bring ten wooden steles to be used as markers in the area. Each wooden stele is five thước long, five tấc wide, one tấc thick [22], and is engraved with characters meaning: The 17th year of the Minh Mạng Era, the Bính Thân year, Detachment Commander Phạm Hữu Nhật of the Navy, complying with the order to go to Hoàng Sa for management and survey purposes, arrived here and therefore placed this sign."
Đại Nam thực lục chính biên also recorded that, in 1847, the Ministry of Public Works submitted a petition to Emperor Thiệu Trị, saying: "Hoàng Sa is within the territory of our country. It is a regular practice that we deploy boats to the area for sea route surveys every year. However, due to the busy work schedule of this year, we implore Your Majesty's permission to postpone the survey trip until next year". Emperor Thiệu Trị wrote "đình" (Hán-Nôm: 停; English: suspended) in the petition to approve it.
Figure 7. Scanned image of a page in Đại Nam thực lục chính biên (大南實錄正編)
The 1882 Đại Nam nhất thống chí (Hán-Nôm: 大南ー統志; English: The Geography of the Unified Đại Nam) reads:
"Hoàng Sa Islands lies in the east of Ré Island, under Bình Sơn District. From Sa Kỳ Seaport, it can take three or four days to sail to the islands under favourable wind. There are more than 130 small islands, separated by waters which can take a few watches or a few days to travel across. Within the islands is the golden sandbank spanning tens of thousands of dặm and thus called Vạn Lý Trường Sa. There are freshwater wells, and numerous birds gather on the bank. Sea products there include sea cucumbers, sea turtles, and volutes. Goods from ships wrecked by storms drift to the bank."
Other books completed under the Nguyễn Dynasty such as the 1821 Lịch triều hiến chương loại chí (Hán-Nôm: 歴朝憲章類誌; English: Classified Rules of Dynasties), the 1833 Hoàng Việt dư địa chí (Hán-Nôm: 皇越輿地誌; English: Geography of the Viet Empire), the 1876 Việt sử thông giám cương mục khảo lược (Hán-Nôm: 越史通鑑綱目考略; English: Outline of the Viet History Chronicles) all have similar description for the Paracel Islands.
Figure 8. Scanned image of the petition that the Ministry of Public Works submitted to Emperor Thiệu Trị in 1847 with the Emperor's approving note highlighted in the red circle.
Due to the aforementioned richness of sea products and goods from wrecked ships in the Paracel and the Spratly Islands, the Vietnamese feudal dynasties had long exploited sovereignty over the islands. Many ancient history and geography books of Viet Nam provide evidence of the organization and operation of the Hoàng Sa flotillas, which performed these exploitation duties.
Succeeding the Nguyễn lords in governing the country, the Tây Sơn Dynasty always paid fair attention to maintaining and deploying Hoàng Sa flotillas although it had to continuously deal with the invasions of the China's Qing Dynasty and Siam. Under the Tây Sơn Dynasty, the Imperial Court continued organizing various forms of exploitation of the Paracel Islands with the awareness that it was exercising the sovereignty over the islands.
From the foundation of the Nguyễn Dynasty in 1802 until the 1884 Treaty of Huế with France, the Nguyễn emperors had made every effort to consolidate Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands.
Hoàng Sa Flotilla, later reinforced by Bắc Hải Flotilla, was maintained and continuously active under the Nguyễn lords (1558–1783) to the Tây Sơn Dynasty (1786–1802) and the Nguyễn Dynasty (1802–1945).
In conclusion, ancient history and geography books of Viet Nam as well as evidence found in documents written by several Western navigators and clergymen all point to the fact that successive dynasties in Viet Nam have been the sovereigns of the Paracel and the Spratly Islands for centuries. The Vietnamese states-founded Hoàng Sa flotillas' regular presence from five to six months annually to perform certain duties in these islands is itself incisive evidence demonstrating the exercise of Vietnamese sovereignty. The acquisition and exploitation by Vietnamese sovereign states of these islands were never opposed by any other countries, further proving that the Paracel and the Spratly Islands have long been part of Viet Nam's territory.
Sovereignty Exercise over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands Continued by France on Behalf of Viet Nam
Since the conclusion of the Treaty of Huế on June 6th, 1884, France had represented Viet Nam in all of its external relations and protected Viet Nam's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Within the framework of those commitments, the Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly
The French battleships often patrolled in the South China Sea, referred to as "Biển Đông" (English: The East Sea) by Vietnamese, including the areas of the Paracel and the
In 1899, Paul Doumer, the then Governor-General of Indochina, sent a proposal to Paris for building a lighthouse on Pattle Island (đảo Hoàng Sa) within the Paracel Islands to guide ships in the area. The plan, however, was abandoned due to budget issue.
Since 1920, Indochinese ships of customs had intensified their patrol in the area of the
In 1925, the
In 1927, the ship De Lanessan went to the Paracel Islands for a scientific survey.
In 1929, the Pierre de Rouville delegation proposed that four lighthouses to be set up at four corners of the Paracel Islands, namely Triton (Tri Tôn) and Lincoln (Linh Côn) Islands, and the North (Đá Bắc) and Bombay Reefs (bãi Bông Bay).
In 1930, the gunboat La Malicieuse went to the
In March 1931, the ship Inconstant went to the
In June 1931, the ship De Lanessan went to the
In May 1932, the battleship Alerte went to the
From April 13th, 1930 to April 12th, 1933, the Government of France deployed the naval units to garrison in major islands of the Spratly Islands, namely Spratly (Trường Sa Lớn), Amboyna Cay (An Bang), Itu Aba (Ba Bình), Group des Deux Iles (Song Tử) [23], Loaita (Loai Ta), and Thitu (Thị Tứ).
On December 21st, 1933, the then Governor of Cochinchina (Thống đốc Nam Kỳ) M.J. Krautheimer signed the decree of annexing the islands of Spratly, Amboyna Cay, Itu Aba, Song Tử group, Loaita, and Thitu to the Province of Bà Rịa [24].
In 1937, the French authorities sent a civil engineer named Gauthier to the
In February 1937, the patrol ship Lamotte Piquet commanded by Rear-Admiral Istava came to the Paracel Islands.
Figure 9. Scanned image of Decree no. 4702–CP of December 21st, 1933 issued by the Governor of Cochinchina.
On March 29th, 1938, Emperor Bảo Đại signed the Imperial Edict to split the
"Consider that the Hoàng Sa Islands (Archipel des îles Paracels) have been for long under the sovereignty of Nước Nam [12], and directly under the Province of Nam Nghĩa during the previous dynasties' time, and that this administration had not been changed until the reign of Thế tổ Cao hoàng đế [26] as all the communications with these islands were carried out via the seaports in the Province of Nam Nghĩa;
Consider that by nautical progress, the communications have changed, and that the
Single item –– To annex the Hoàng Sa Islands (Archipel des îles Paracels) to the Province of Thừa Thiên. In terms of administration, these islands are under the command of the Governor of the Province."
Figure 10. Scanned image of the Imperial Edict signed by Emperor Bảo Đại on March 29th, 1938.
On June 15th, 1938, the then Governor-General of Indochina Jules Brévié signed the decree on establishing an administrative unit in the Paracel Islands under Thừa Thiên Province.
In 1938,
Figure 11. The sovereignty stele erected by
On May 5th, 1939, the Governor-General of Indochina Jules Brévié signed a decree on amendment of the decree of June 15th, 1938. The new decree established two administrative delegations, namely the Delegations of Croissant And Its Dependents, and Amphirite And Its Dependents.
For the whole time of representing Viet Nam for its external relations, France consistently affirmed the sovereignty of Viet Nam over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands, and protested those actions that seriously violated this sovereignty. For instance, on December 4th, 1931 and April 24th, 1932,
Figure 12. Scanned image of the Decree of May 5th, 1939 issued by the Governor-General Jules Brévié.
Protection And Exercise of Viet Nam's Sovereignty over The Paracel and the Spratly Islands Since The End of World War II
After returning to Indochina after World War II, in early 1947,
Figure 13. Scanned images of the World Meteorological Organization documents containing information about the
On September 7th, 1951, Trần Văn Hữu, the head of the State of Viet Nam's delegation at the San Francisco Conference on the Treaty of Peace with Japan, declared that the Paracel and the Spratly Islands have long been the territories of Viet Nam, and that "to take full advantage of every chance to prevent any seed of dispute in the future, we affirm our long-standing sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands". This statement did not meet any objections and/or reserves of opinion.
In 1953, the French ship Ingénieur en chef Girod went on its survey trip on oceanography, geology, geography, and ecology in the
Later governments in South Viet Nam, including both the Sài Gòn Administration (the Republic of Viet Nam), and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam (abbr. RSVN Government), exercised Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands as clearly showed by the following examples.
In 1956, the naval forces of the Sài Gòn Administration took over the Paracel and the
Figure 14. Scanned image of the statement of Trần Văn Hữu, head of the State of Viet Nam's delegation at the 1951 San Francisco Conference on the Treaty of Peace with
On October 22nd, 1956, the Sài Gòn Administration placed the Spratly Islands under the Province of Phước Tuy.
On July 13th, 1961, the Sài Gòn Administration transferred the jurisdiction of the
Figure 15. Scanned image of Decree 174-NV of the President of the Republic of Viet Nam on transferring the jurisdiction of the Paracel Islands from Thừa Thiên to Quảng Nam Provinces.
From 1961 to 1963, the Sài Gòn Administration built sovereignty steles on major islands within the
Figure 16. The sovereignty stele erected by the
On October 21st, 1969, the Sài Gòn Administration annexed Định Hải Commune into Hòa Long Commune, also under Hòa Vang District of Quảng Nam Province.
In July 1973, the
In August 1973, the Sài Gòn Administration's Ministry of National Planning & Development (Bộ kế hoạch & phát triển quốc gia), in collaboration with Marubeni Corporation of
On September 6th, 1973, the Sài Gòn Administration annexed the islands of Spratly, Itu Aba, Loaita, Thitu, Namyit, Sin Cowe (Sinh Tồn), the Northeast and Southwest Cays, and other adjacent islands into Phước Hải Commune, Đất Đỏ District,
Figure 17. Scanned image of Decree 420-BNV/HCĐP/26 of the Ministry of the Interior
of the Republic of Viet Nam on annexing the Spratly Islands into the Province of Phước Tuy.
Fully aware of the long-standing sovereignty of Viet Nam over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands, the governments in South Viet Nam all showed efforts to protect the sovereignty against any violations and/or disputes over the two archipelagos.
On June 16th, 1956, the Sài Gòn Administration's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement to re-affirm
On February 22nd, 1959, the Sài Gòn Administration detained for some time 82 people who claimed to be "fishermen" from the People's Republic of
On April 20th, 1971, the Sài Gòn Administration once again re-affirmed that the
On January 19th, 1974, the military forces of the People's Republic of
On June 28th, 1974, the RSVN Government claimed its sovereignty over the Paracel and the
In September 1975, the delegation of the RSVN Government at the Colombo Meteorological Conference stated that the
After the country's re-unification, the State of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has been promulgating many critical legal documents on sea and the Paracel and the Spratly Islands. These include: the 1977 Statement by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on Viet Nam's Territorial Waters, Contiguous Zones, Exclusive Economic Zones, and Continental Shelf; the 1982 Statement by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on the Basic Line Used in the Calculation of the Area of Viet Nam's Territorial Waters; the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam; the 1994 Resolution of the Fifth Session of the Ninth National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam on Ratification the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); and the 2003 Law of the National Borders.
In terms of administration, the Government of Viet Nam made the Spratly and the
The Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has repeatedly affirmed Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands in diplomatic notes sent to the involved parties, in the statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in international meetings including the WMO meeting in Geneva (June 1980) and in the International Geological Congress in Paris (July 1980).
Viet Nam has for several times issued its white papers (in 1979, 1981, and 1988) on the sovereignty of Viet Nam over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands to affirm that these two archipelagos are inseparable territories of Viet Nam, and that Viet Nam has full sovereignty over them in accordance with international laws and practice.
On March 14th, 1988, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam issued a statement condemning the
In April 2007, the Government of Viet Nam established Trường Sa Township (thị xã), Song Tử Tây and Sinh Tồn Communes (xã) under Trường Sa District (huyện) in the
In summary, there are three major points one can clearly conclude with references to the aforementioned historical documents as well as international law and practice.
First, successive sovereign states in
Second, for hundreds of years since the 17th century,
And third,
Some International Documents And Treaties Related to Viet Nam's Sovereignty over The Paracel And The Spratly Islands
1. The
When World War II entered its fiercest stage, a conference of the three powers of the Allies, namely the United Kingdom of Great Britain & North Ireland, the United States of America, and the Republic of China (represented by Chiang Kai-shek), was organized in Cairo, Egypt. The Cairo Communiqué [28], the outcome of the conference, states that: "The Three Great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped off all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China."
In accordance to this statement, the three Great Allies expressed their purpose to force
Heads of state and government of the
The Potsdam Agreement assigned
3. Treaty of Peace with
The San Francisco Conference on the Treaty of Peace with
At the plenary session on September 5th, 1951, the Conference agreed with the decision of the Conference's President to reject another proposal requesting "that Japan shall recognize the complete sovereignty of the People's Republic of China over Manchuria, Formosa and its adjacent islands, Penlinletao (the Pescadores), the Tunshatsuntao Islands (Pratas), the Sishatsuntao and Chunshatsuntao (the Paracel Islands, the Amphirites, and the Maxfield submerged cays), and the Nanshatsundao (including the Spratly Islands), and that Japan shall renounce all rights, titles, and claims to these territories". This rejection decision was approved by the Conference with 46 ayes, three noes, and one abstain. Countries that voted to reject this proposal include Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Viet Nam, and Japan.
In the ratified Treaty of Peace with Japan, Article 2 of Chapter II [29] remains unchanged as it had initially been drafted, which states:
(f) Japan renounces all right, title and claim to the Spratly Islands and to the Paracel Islands."
Apparently, the territories proclaimed by the 1943 Cairo Communiqué and the 1951 Treaty of Peace with
Also at the 1951 San Francisco Conference, on September 7th, 1951, Trần Văn Hữu, the head of the State of Viet Nam's delegation, declared that the Paracel and the Spratly Islands have long been the territories of Viet Nam, and that "to take full advantage of every chance to prevent any seed of dispute in the future, we affirm our long-standing sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands". None of the representatives of 51 countries attending the Conference objected to and/or expressed their wish to reserve opinions about this statement.
All of these aforementioned documents and evidence clearly demonstrate that international legal documents, from the Cairo Communiqué of November 27th, 1943 (re-affirmed by the Potsdam Declaration of July 26th, 1945) to the San Francisco Treaty of Peace with Japan of September 8th, 1951, do not recognize the sovereignty of any other countries over the Viet Nam's Paracel and Spratly Islands. Also, the fact that none of the countries attending the 1951 San Francisco Conference objected to or wished to reserve their opinion on the statement of the Viet Nam's delegation on Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands shows that the international community implicitly recognized the sovereignty of Viet Nam over the Paracel and the Spratly Islands.
[1] Hán-Nôm (漢and 喃) is the use and modification of Chinese characters in Vietnamese language with Vietnamese pronunciation since the 10th century.
[2] "Dặm" is an old length measurement unit, equivalent to 0.5 km.
[3] These nautical maps were made by Portuguese, Dutch, and French navigators including Lazaro Luis, Fernão vaz Dourado, João Teixeira, Johannes Janssonius, Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Jacob Aertsz Colom, Theunis Jacobsz, Hendrick Doncker, Frederick de Wit, Pierre du Val, and Henricus van Langren.
[4] "The Nguyễn rulers" refer to the Nguyễn lords (chúa Nguyễn), the feudal rulers of Southern Viet Nam (Đàng Trong) from 1558 to 1775 while
[5] In Hồng Đức bản đồ (Hán-Nôm: 洪德版圖; English: The Hồng Đức Map).
[6] Old Vietnamese documents used the cyclic Oriental calendar to name years. The corresponding year in the Gregorian calendar is thus given for each Oriental year in this essay.
[7] For Vietnamese and Chinese people, "mountain" (Hán-Nôm: 山; Vietnamese: sơn/núi; Pinyin: shan) is also used to indicate an island in the sea. For examples, Chinese people refer to most of the islands in Hangzhou Bay (Hán-Nôm: 杭州灣; Pinyin: Hángzhōu Wān) in the south of Shanghai as "shan"; these include Bái Shan (Hán-Nôm: 白山) and Dàyú Shan (Hán-Nôm: 大魚山). The Chinese people also used "shan" to call some Vietnamese islands such as "Cửu Đầu Sơn" (Hán-Nôm: 九頭山; Pinyin: Jiŭtóu Shan) for Cô Tô Island, "Bất Lao Sơn" (Hán-Nôm: 不勞山; Pinyin: Bùláo Shan) for
[8] Canh is an old time measurement unit, equivalent to about two hours.
[9] Cân is an old weight measurement unit, equivalent to about 600 grams.
[10] "Note on the Geography of Cochinchina" by Bishop Jean-Louis Taberd was published in the 1837 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 6, page 745.
[11] "Tabula geographica imperii Anamitici" is attached in the 1938 Latin–Annamese Dictionary (Dictionarium Latino–Anamiticum).
[12] "Đại
[13] The part covering the
[14] Trượng (Hán-Nôm: 丈) is an old length measurement unit, equivalent to about ten feet.
[15] J.Y.C. cited from "Mystere des atolls – Journal de voyage aux Paracels" (English: Mystery of the atolls – Journal of the voyage to the Paracel Islands), published in the issues 3, 10, and 17 of the weekly magazine Indochine in July 1941. The name "Cochinchina" in these articles refers to
[16] A. Salles cited from "Le mémoire sur la Cochinchine de J.B. Chaigneau" (The memoir of Cochinchina by J.B. Chaigneau), published in the 1923 Bulletin des amis du vieux Huê (Bulletin of the Friends of Old Huế), Volume 2, page 257.
[17] "Cochinchine" (French) or "Cochinchina" (English) indicates either Southern Viet Nam (Đàng Trong) or Viet Nam as a whole, which also included Northern Viet Nam (Đàng Ngoài).
[18] "Geography of the Cochinchinese Empire" was published in the 1849 Journal of the Royal Geography Society of London, Volume 19, page 93.
[19] Đại Chiêm and Sa Vinh Seaports are now called Đại and Sa Huỳnh Seaports under the Provinces of Quảng
[20] Bãi Cát Vàng has for long been known as an area with many dangerous submerged cays in the
[21] The Second Period, Volume 122.
[22] Thước (Hán-Nôm: 尺) and tấc (Hán-Nôm:


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Waycross Drive-In
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The Waycross Drive-In was opened in 1953, and parked 300 cars. It was owned in 1956 by United Theatre Ent. It would later become a Georgia Theatre Company drive-in. Don't have a clue when it went dark hopefully someone else will.
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Any address or photos?
I THINK it opened ABOUT 1950? Info I have says Georgia Theater Company of Atlanta had it open in 1967.
tisloews, I seem to remember a shipmate I knew who was from Waycross telling me that a bunch of different railroads crossed each other in this town so it was called Ways Cross which became Waycross. "Join the NAVY and lean all kinds of things!"
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I think Pernell Roberts was from Waycross.And Burt Reynolds dad was the chief of police here i think that is what i was told.
This drive-in opened on June 5th, 1953 on the Brunswick Highway by Georgia Theatre Company.
Grand opening ad is on this page at View link
Mike,I found a SKYLINE DRIVE-in in Waycross and tracked it the best i could.I wonder if it changed names like SO Many have and became the U.S. One Drive-in there?
@Mike Rivest: If you look closely at the entire page, there is a section to the left of the page which details the "re-opening program" for the Waycross Drive-In. This was the season opening ad, and not a grand opening. It's not always easy to tell the difference, but I'll bet they were open at least as early as 1952.
Brunswick Hwy & S City Blvd, Waycross, GA 31501
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in, which was on the north side of Brunswick Hwy west of S City Blvd.
Here is a 1961 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS.
Historic aerial photos indicate this drive-in was open as early as 1950.
I have another look at the newspaper, the oldest ad that I can find for it was on August 17th, 1950.
I found Waycross Drive-In ads for May 1950. Also found ads in 1949-50 for a Skyline Drive-In in Waycross.
Now Anytime Fitness @ 1715 Knight Avenue.
I have heard that the Waycross Holiday Inn sits on the site of a drive in theatre, but have nothing to back that up.
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater


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The Gauchos were defeated in straight sets for the second time in as many matches on Wednesday night, falling to the USC Trojans by game scores of 25-16, 25-14, 25-21. Having lost four straight matches, UCSB now sits at 2-6, with a winless 0-4 record in conference play. USC improved to 5-3, 4-3.
The Gauchos were paced by junior outside hitter Miles Evans, who led the team with 10 kills. It was the seventh time in eight matches that the Santa Barbara City College transfer has recorded 10 or more kills.
UCSB Head Coach Rick McLaughlin employed a diverse lineup as he tried to get attacks past the Trojans blockers. Freshman opposite Chris Hartig made the biggest splash, registering four kills on five attacks in just one game of action. All in all, a season-high 11 Gauchos saw playing time.
Sophomore setter Bryce Miller, in relief of junior setter Oliver Deutschman, and in the most extensive playing time of his UCSB career thus far picked up 16 assists over two games.
UCSB hit .000 or lower as a team in two of three sets, and their 47 total points was their lowest mark of the season up to this point. Hartig and sophomore middle blocker Ryan Thompson teamed up for the Gauchos only block, while USC racked up 13.5 over the match.
Reflecting their attacking problems, five Gaucho players finished the night with a negative hitting percentage.
USC was led by Tony Ciarelli, who had a match 11 kills, and Robert Feathers, who picked up an impressive 10 blocks.
The Gauchos will visit Pepperdine on Friday night still in search of their first conference victory. They next play at home on Friday, Feb. 10, when they play host to conference leaders UCLA.


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Black Joke
This series is awesome.
As some around already know by now, I tend to favor crazy, over-the-top manga, and Black Joke is no exception. Basically, it's about this one yakuza gang and their battles with other mafia groups on the fictional Neon island (which is apparently the 51st state of the USA despite being in Japan..... yeah). I've gotta say that I am LOVING this series' cast. I especially find myself fond of that lovable gorilla-man Kodama and Runover, the Italian mob boss who has a freaking WHEELCHAIR OF DOOM:
BTW, if the art style looks familiar to anyone it's because it's drawn by the same guy who did the manga adaption of Battle Royale (though I personally prefer THIS series more). Right now the translations are up to the first chapter of volume 2, but there's 7 volumes out altogether. I hope we get caught up soon....
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The art really adds to the ridiculousness of the killings. His artstyle makes more sense for older characters anyways (the characters in Battle Royale look way too old to be high schoolers).
It looks like we might be moving into longer arcs now that the basic setting and characters have been established.
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Glad to see there's people reading this manga here!
Runover is so awesome. I haven't seen a manga character on a wheelchair like him (at least that I remember), especially in the chapter where Kira had to be with him
I also like Akari, we needed a badass female and she perfectly fits the role.
Is it ongoing on Japan or did it finish?
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^As far as I know it's still running, but the translations are nowhere near caught up yet (like I said in the first post, they just started on the second volume while there's currently 7 out in Japan now). But it was only just recently that this series started getting translated, so maybe it won't be too long before we're caught up after all.
Anyways, as fun as those Runover chapters were, my favorite chapter by far was 5 (the one with the dirty cop). Kodama was great in that one ("Hey, he reminds me of somethin'..... Ooh, I know! A TURTLE!). And yeah, Akari is great, too. Normally I'm indifferent to those "goth-loli" types, but she's cool. It also helps that she doesn't look like she's 10 years old.
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Holy crap, this is easily my top favorite chapter by far! We get to learn about Kodama's background, get introduced to his family (I REALLY hope we get to see his mama kick some ass at some point ), and I found it highly amusing to see Akari being such a killjoy. God, why isn't this series getting enough love!? This almost feels like the Kongou Banchou thread all over again.....
BTW, speaking of the Akari scene, that reminded me of the gag from the first chapter where Kira ran over those gay Thai dudes that Kodama was about to take on. I guess getting cheated out of a good fight is gonna become his main running gag, huh?
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"Ying Gao's dresses become animated "in the presence of strangers""Fashion designer Ying Gao has created a collection of robotic dresses, with fibrous panels that delicately twist and curl when they identify strangers nearby.
The Possible Tomorrow's collection is inspired by Gao's interest in the notion that clothing is often seen as a protective barrier.
The dresses' movements are triggered by a fingerprint scanner built into a wooden frame that sits around the wearer's neck.
The device sends to data to a microprocessor that uses Arduino – an open-source electronics platform – and if it doesn't recognise the fingerprint, it triggers motors embedded in each of the panels.
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- Loggy Bayou – Bossier Parish
- Soda Lake (portion east of Twelve Mile Bayou) – Caddo Parish
Users are reminded that a Self-Clearing Permit (SCP) is required for all activities on WMAs. Specific regulations and season dates about Bodcau WMA and other WMAs can be found in the 2013-2014 Louisiana Hunting Regulations pamphlet or viewed on the LDWF's website at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/regulations [4].
Bodcau WMA, owned by the US Army Corp of Engineers and operated by LDWF, is located in Bossier and Webster Parishes and derives its name from the major bayou that bisects it from its northernmost point at the Arkansas-Louisiana state line to its southernmost tip nearly 30 miles to the south.
The WMA is located approximately 17 miles northeast of Bossier City. Numerous access routes to Bodcau WMA are available. The primary access to the area is by traveling north on La. Hwy. 157 from Interstate 20 at Haughton to the community of Bellevue and then following the signs.
For more information contact Jeff Johnson at 318-371-3050 or email@example.com [5] .


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Graveside services for Joanne L. Rickerson, 84, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bella Vista Cemetery, 705 E. Sixth Ave., El Dorado
Graveside services for Joanne L. Rickerson, 84, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bella Vista Cemetery, 705 E. Sixth Ave., El Dorado. A resident of Branson, Mo., since 1978, she was born and raised in El Dorado. The family will greet friends following services on Wednesday in the Red Coach Banquet Room, 2529 W. Central Ave., in El Dorado.
Mrs. Rickerson passed away Friday, Oct. 5, 2012 in Branson, Mo. Joanne L. Rickerson was born Dec. 14, 1927 in El Dorado, the daughter of E. Loren Miller and O. Fern (Hedges) Miller. She was united in marriage to Robert L. Rickerson, July 14, 1945 in El Dorado. They were married for 67 years. Joanne was a long time member and organist of the Temple Baptist Church in El Dorado. She was also a member of the Singing Sweet Adelaines.Mrs. Rickerson is survived by her spouse, Robert L. Rickerson; children and spouses, Rick (April) Rickerson of Bartlesville, Okla., Rea (Bill) Link of Branson, Mo., Randy Rickerson of Fulton, Kan., and Dana (Mike) Randolph of Towanda; 16 loving grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father, E. Loren Miller (father) in 1962; O. Fern Miller (mother) in 1968; four brothers, Roland Miller, Robert Miller, John Miller and Bill Miller; and three sisters, Phyllis Locke, Helen Siegrist and Maxine Doan. Flowers can be sent to Red Coach/El Dorado Chop House. Cards can be sent to Robert Rickerson, 5351 Gretna Rd., Branson, MO 65616.