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Lady Miners sign with Crowder
BAUXITE — Two Bauxite Lady Miners recently signed to play softball at the next level. Seniors Shelby Chavers and Bailey Buffington both went to Neosho, Missouri, last month and signed to play for the Crowder College Roughriders. On Wednesday, the Bauxite duo shared with their friends, family and teammates at Bauxite High School.
"I am so proud of the commitment that Bailey and Shelby have shown to the game of softball," Bauxite Head Coach Sara Tew said. "They both have put in countless hours outside of school practicing on their own."
Chavers said that Buffington turned her on to Crowder and that she knew that was the place for her.
"I had a friend introduce me to Crowder and I went for a camp one day," Chavers said. "I loved it. I loved the coaching staff, the players there."
Chavers, who will play catcher at Crowder and plans to go into nursing, said her freshman season was the most memorable at Bauxite.
"It would definitely have to be freshman year," she said. "We made it to the state finals for the first time in school history. It was pretty great."
Last season in a 33-2 campaign, Chavers batted .337 with five doubles, two triples and a homerun, adding 38 runs and 25 RBIs, and led the team with 16 stolen bases.
Buffington, who went 31-2 in the circle, had a 1.06 ERA in 171.1 innings pitched, striking out 203 batters while walking just 15. She gave up just 99 hits for a 0.66 WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched). At the plate, Buffington batted .394 with nine doubles, a triple, a homer and 29 RBIs.
Buffington said she'll be pitching for the Roughriders.
"He (Crowder Coach John Sisemore) just pretty much said they're needing some pitching and that he's really looking forward to me being there because he thinks I will get some playing time my freshman year," she said.
Buffington knows all about pitching her freshman season as she started as a freshman for the Lady Miners.
"I came in with a senior pitcher … she ended up quitting right before we started our first tournament of the year," she said. "There was no one else that could pitch. We ended up going to the state finals that year, but lost in the finals.
"My sophomore year, we had an alright year but ended up losing out the first round. I think we were too focused on getting to the finals again and weren't paying attention to the one game at a time.
"Last year we had a really good season. We ended up winning through until we played Bryant. We fell short to Bryant and got to the second round of state because we got a bye and ended up falling to Pottsville."
Buffington said there is no doubt what she will miss the most when she exits Bauxite for Neosho.
"Just all my teammates," she said. "I'm definitely going to miss that the most whenever I leave. I've been playing with most of the girls since I was little bitty, starting out in basketball. I played will Shelby. Me and Destiny McClain have been playing softball together since we were little bitty.
"My teammates have definitely made it the best part of all of it. Winning and losing the games, they're just more than I could ever ask for."
Both Chavers and Buffington will be going to a winning program as the Roughriders went 55-10 last season. That's nothing new for the Lady Miner duo as Bauxite has gone 82-16 the last three years. Buffington, who plans to major in biology and go into the medical field, expects nothing less.
"I think we're definitely capable of going all the way," Buffington said. "It's just taking it one game at a time – not getting ahead of ourselves like we've been doing the past few times. We're definitely capable of it."
"They have both been huge assets to the softball program at Bauxite," Tew said, "and this commitment to further their careers will only increase the ability for future Lady Miners to do the same. I am honored to be the coach of two outstanding athletes, but also two outstanding people."


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The next stop after visiting Tehran, the capital of Iran, was Baku in Azerbaijan, where I had almost a full day to spend, before heading off to Tbilisi. After arrival at the airport, passengers in Baku are asked to put their luggage into the X-Ray directly after immigration, where the security officer could see my drone. As I didn't know, that it is illegal to import drones into Azerbaijan without a permission, I was asked to follow into the security office.
As it was around 5am in the morning, the officer, who was in charge of my drone dilemma, was pretty lazy, and so the whole procedure of leaving my drone in the office until picking it up on my onward trip took almost 1,5 hours. I have spent my day in this charming city without my Phantom then, though it would have been great to fly there - Baku is a city made for drone flying! But, lessons learned: do more research before trying to import a drone to a new place...
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July 26, 2002. Added: David Irving's attempts to sway the High Court of Appeals. This action failed dismally when the so-called expert reports he had presented as new evidence were hurriedly withdrawn by his barrister. The Expert Witness reports presented on behalf of Prof. Deborah Lipstadt completely demolished Irving's mendacious plea.
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Neurofeedback training with the NeurOptimal system is an effective and non-invasive method to improve brain health. Watch our success stories here. Besides brain training with neurofeedback, there are more drug-free ways to improve your overall health. Read these interesting articles from our social media feed.
- 7 Ways Sleep Affects The Brain (And What Happens If It Doesn't Get Enough)
- How to Turn Down Our "What If" Brain (Mindful)
- 5 Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
- Mindfulness for Anxiety: A podcast
Articles about Brain Health:
7 Ways Sleep Affects The Brain (And What Happens If It Doesn't Get Enough)
The brain needs its sleep more than any other organ. Here's the science behind that.
By Alice G. Walton, Forbes.com
For a long time, researchers weren't quite sure why we sleep. There are a number of different theories. Some are evolutionary: For instance, sleep keeps us out of trouble at night and away from animals who wake up and hunt after the sun goes down. Some are physiological: Sleep lets us conserve precious energy. And some are anecdotal: Parents joke that they'd go nuts if sleep didn't exist, since it affords them a much-needed break from their kids. But the reality is that the brain does a lot of work while we're sleeping—even though we're unconscious, this doesn't at all mean the brain is "off." In fact, in many ways, it's incredibly "on."
The RAND research group just came out with a 100-page analysis of how sleep affects us and what sleep deprivation can do to us—and to the economy. They estimate that between lost work and poor performance at work from lack of sleep, the U.S. alone loses $411 billion each year. Though businesses and policy makers may be interested in the financial repercussions of sleep deprivation, these repercussions stem from people being unwell because of it, which underlines the very real consequences of sleep deprivation.
Recent research has laid out some of the reasons why we need sleep, and all the functions the brain seems to perform while we're sleeping. There's more to figure out, but here are a few reasons why the brain needs sleep, and why things tend to go downhill without it.
Sleep helps solidify memory
One of the central functions of sleep is that it helps consolidate long-term memory—it seems to do this, not only through strengthening certain neural connections, but also through pruning back unwanted ones. The brain makes a lot of connections during the day, but not all of them are worth saving; so sleep is a time in which the brain streamlines the connections it "needs."
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In this article from Mindful Magazine "How to Turn Down Our "What If" Brain, the author explains what happens when fear takes control of our thoughts and what we can do to counter-act fear.
How to Turn Down Our "What If" Brain
Article by Hazel Harrison, Mindful.org
Fear has the volume control on your thoughts:
The part of our brain designed to keep us safe is Frightened Fred (along with his friends Big Boss Bootsy and Alerting Allie) who can trigger our 'fight' or 'flight' response. This part of the brain has been brilliantly effective in the survival of humankind, but it can also get in the way of our daily living sometimes. We have become GREAT at listening to Frightened Fred and spotting the potential pitfalls at every turn: "Did that person in the supermarket just give me a dodgy look?" "Is that chap standing a bit too close to my kids?"
We are primed to take care of our own survival and that of our off-spring. Some days, Fred turns up the volume and we focus all our attention on these risks, potential dangers, failures and worst-case scenarios.
Sometimes I listen to fear. Sometimes I don't.
Recently, I was invited to speak at a big conference next year. I came off the phone feeling dizzy with excitement. I sat down with a huge grin on my face and allowed the feelings of self- congratulatory praise to come flooding in. Except they didn't. Fred started making an appearance. "What if I make a terrible mistake?" "What if I face-plant on stage?" "What if I quote someone's research and that person is actually there, and they tell me I've got it all wrong?"
"What if…?" "What if…?"
Let me slow this down. Fred sees the potential threat of a big crowd looking at me. Fred decides to warn me: "Don't do it, it will end in tears!"
Sometimes I listen to Fred (remember he IS trying to keep me safe) and sometimes he is silenced by Problem Solving Pete and Calming Carl. They say things like: "But what's the best that could happen?" and "If the worst case scenario does happen, you'll still be okay – except perhaps for face-planting, you may need medical assistance for that one."
How do we learn to turn down the hum of unhelpful fear-based negativity?
Here's one way: Gratitude
In Woods, Froh and Geraghty's review of the gratitude research they explain gratitude as "noticing and appreciating the positive in the world". This could include: the appreciation of other people's help; feelings of awe when we see something amazing; focusing on the positive in the 'here and now' moments; or an appreciation rising from the understanding that life is short.
Let me introduce you to Grateful Gerty, our brain's gratitude representative. The research tells us that building up Grateful Gerty's strength is associated with a whole host of benefits. Gerty can make Frightened Fred simmer down and reduce anxiety. Expressing gratitude provides a path to more positive emotions. People who express more gratitude have also been found to have better physical and psychological health.
Robert Emmons is one of the world leading gratitude researchers. Here's what he says about the benefits of gratitude:
"We've studied more than one thousand people, from ages eight to 80, and found that people who practice gratitude consistently report a host of benefits:
Physical benefits of gratitude:
- Stronger immune systems
- Less bothered by aches and pains
- Lower blood pressure
- Exercise more and take better care of their health
- Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking
Psychological benefits of gratitude:
- Higher levels of positive emotions
- More alert, alive, and awake
- More joy and pleasure
- More optimism and happiness
Social benefits of gratitude:
- More helpful, generous, and compassionate
- More forgiving
- Feel less lonely and isolated
- More outgoing
How does gratitude work?
When we search for things to be grateful for, neuroscientist Alex Korb explains that this activates the part of our brain that releases dopamine (the feel-good hormone) and it can also boost serotonin production (low levels of this neurotransmitter are associated with depression).
Gratitude can change our thinking habits. Regularly spotting the good things in our life can also make it more likely that (even when we're not looking for them) we see more positives.
And gratitude works on a social level too. It can help us feel more connected to others, which in turn can improve our well-being.
One Simple Way to Strengthen Gratitude:
Grab a journal and, before you go to sleep each night, write 3 things that went well that day and why you think they went well. Keep doing it for a week. That's it.
When I first read the research on gratitude, I felt like there must have been some pages missing. "So, they wrote about things they were grateful for, and then they…"? But no. It really is as simple as that.
As Froh and Bono point out, we can be great at analyzing why we're anxious or sad. But when we're happy, we don't often stop to ponder why. Mainly because when we are experiencing positive emotions, it's a signal that all is well in the world; we can relax and enjoy ourselves.
Keeping a gratitude journal allows us to focus on the positive things. It teaches us how to strengthen Gerty's ability to spot them in the first place – and how to savor them. Some people worry that they won't be able to find anything to be grateful for. While it's true that some days the searching may be harder than on others, Korb reminds us that "it's not finding gratitude that matters most; it's remembering to look in the first place."
There will always be more important things than gratitude.
Pets will need taking to the vets, reports will need to be finished, kids will need feeding, cups will need cleaning… gratitude can quickly fall down the 'to do' list. But that's the challenge with taking a proactive approach to well-being. It's hard to prioritize because you can't easily see the things you're preventing. But here's what's at stake:
- You may be preventing the onset of depression or anxiety.
- You may be moving yourself further up the well-being spectrum towards thriving.
But scientifically, it's very hard to prove all of that.
Why you should be a scientist of your own world:
Just like we know why it's good to eat healthily and exercise, my mission is to help share the research on ways that we can all take better care of our well-being. I want people to have access to evidence-based ways to improve their mental health.
Some of these ideas might work for you, some of them might not. So, what I'd encourage you to do is this: become a scientist of you own life, and if you decide to try keeping a gratitude journal, observe how it feels for you.
And maybe, just maybe, Gerty will get stronger.
Article by Hazel Harrison, Mindful.org
5 Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
When the road gets rocky, what do you do?
A mentor of mine recently passed away, and I was heartbroken—so I tried my best to avoid thinking about it. I didn't even mention it to my family because I didn't want those sad feelings to resurface.
In other words, I took the very enlightened approach of pretend it didn't happen—one that's about as effective as other common responses such as get angry, push people away, blame yourself, or wallow in the pain.
Even for the relatively self-aware and emotionally adept, struggles can take us by surprise. But learning healthy ways to move through adversity—a collection of skills that researchers call resilience—can help us cope better and recover more quickly, or at least start heading in that direction.
The Greater Good Science Center has collected many resilience practices on our website Greater Good in Action, alongside other research-based exercises for fostering kindness, connection, and happiness. Here are 12 of those resilience practices (squeezed into five categories), which can help you confront emotional pain more skillfully.
1. Change the narrative
When something bad happens, we often relive the event over and over in our heads, rehashing the pain. This process is called rumination; it's like a cognitive spinning of the wheels, and it doesn't move us forward toward healing and growth.
The practice of Expressive Writing can move us forward by helping us gain new insights on the challenges in our lives. It involves free writing continuously for 20 minutes about an issue, exploring your deepest thoughts and feelings around it. The goal is to get something down on paper, not to create a memoir-like masterpiece.
2. Face your fears
The practices above are helpful for past struggles, ones that we've gained enough distance from to be able to get some perspective. But what about knee-shaking fears that we're experiencing in the here and now?
The Overcoming a Fear practice is designed to help with everyday fears that get in the way of life, such as the fear of public speaking, heights, or flying. We can't talk ourselves out of such fears; instead, we have to tackle the emotions directly.
The first step is to slowly, and repeatedly, expose yourself to the thing that scares you—in small doses. For example, people with a fear of public speaking might try talking more in meetings, then perhaps giving a toast at a small wedding. Over time, you can incrementally increase the challenge until you're ready to nail that big speech or TV interview.
3. Practice self-compassion
Self-compassion involves offering compassion to ourselves: confronting our own suffering with an attitude of warmth and kindness, without judgment. In one study, participants in an eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion program reported more mindfulness and life satisfaction, with lower depression, anxiety, and stress afterward compared to people who didn't participate—and the benefits lasted up to a year.
One practice, the Self-Compassion Break, is something you can do any time you start to feel overwhelmed by pain or stress. It has three steps, which correspond to the three aspects of self-compassion:
- Be mindful: Without judgment or analysis, notice what you're feeling. Say, "This is a moment of suffering" or "This hurts" or "This is stress."
- Remember that you're not alone: Everyone experiences these deep and painful human emotions, although the causes might be different. Say to yourself, "Suffering is a part of life" or "We all feel this way" or "We all struggle in our lives."
- Be kind to yourself: Put your hands on your heart and say something like "May I give myself compassion" or "May I accept myself as I am" or "May I be patient."
If being kind to yourself is a challenge, an exercise called How Would You Treat a Friend? could help. Here, you compare how you respond to your own struggles—and the tone you use—with how you respond to a friend's. Often, this comparison unearths some surprising differences and valuable reflections: Why am I so harsh on myself, and what would happen if I weren't?
Finally, in case you missed our blog post about Mindfulness for Anxiety. Click here to listen to a podcast by NYC Psychotherapist and Founder of Neurofeedback Training Co. Natalie Baker.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang addresses the National Science and Technology Award Conference in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang expects enterprises to be the "main players" in technological innovation.
Li was addressing an annual ceremony held in Beijing Monday to honor distinguished scientists and research achievements.
He also noted that the human factor is the most important element, requiring more reform to the science and technology (S&T) system and improvements to the incentive mechanism.
Leading personnel in innovation should have a greater say in resource allocation and decision-making in research.
"Concrete efforts should be made to ensure that those with merit and contributions gain respect and benefits," he said.
Monday's ceremony honored 271 projects and nine scientists with national prizes.
Wang Zeshan and Hou Yunde won the top science award.
Seven foreign scientists won international S&T cooperation prizes.
On behalf of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, Li extended congratulations to the prize winners and thanked foreign personnel for their support in China's S&T development.


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Denmark Street Have Fun Making Felt
Mrs Sangwine had a wonderful afternoon teaching the Year 3 children how to make felt. Denmark Street Class are studying the Stone Age and Bronze Age. They are learning how clothes were made in the past.
The children choose different coloured fleece to make the felt. They then used bubble wrap, water, a lace cloth and a towel and followed Mrs Sangwine's instructions. As you can see, the results were outstanding. Well done everyone.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed learning the process of felt making. Thank you Mrs Sangwine for sharing your knowledge with us.
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CAN DO national conference
A national gathering of the bike tribes, to talk about advocacy and development of NZ's bike culture.
The Cycling Action Network is running its regular national get-together for bike advocates in Wellington this year. It's a wonderful chance to compare notes with people from all over the country about how to move things forward, especially in an election year. And this year's theme taps into the grand historical sweep of bikes past and future: it's the BikeBiCentennial, celebrating 200 years of fun, freedom and adventure!
When: Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 March 2017
- Members: Early bird $80 (after 6 March it's $100), or $60 for a day (not including Saturday evening dinner)
- Non-Members: $140 whole weekend, $80 day (consider joining CAN to save)
If cost is a barrier, CAN has some limited funds to help local groups send advocates.
Where: Mezzanine Meeting Room, Wellington Central Library, Victoria Street. As well as being central, the venue has generous bike parking, and Wellington yarnbombers are already decorating the stands.
What's on:
CAN DO is about linking up with advocates from around the country. We're working on a programme that will facilitate your network building. A draft programme will be available shortly, but is likely to include:
- An informal dinner on Friday night, with a showing of Century of Cycling, Nga Taonga Sound and Vision's compilation of historic cycling films.
- Updates on progress from Wellington and around the country, with presentations from advocates, councils, and NZTA.
- Election year: how do we get a bike-friendly government?
- Skills sessions for bike advocates
- Cycle tourism: how has Nga Haerenga helped tourism and business?
- E-Bikes: update on rules, and a chance to ride one
- Getting more kids on bikes
- CAN's Share the Road project
- A conversation with Fulton Hogan on roadworks and signalling
- New initiatives: Bikes Welcome and ReBicycle
- Tours of Wellington bike routes, including the World Famous Frocks On Bike Laneway Art tour
Not to mention the epic Post CAN Do Ride – see below
Accommodation Options
YHA Wellington, Courtenay Place
Halswell Lodge, Kent Tce
Air BNB
Warm Showers hospitality network for touring cyclists
If you can offer a billet, contact Patrick.
If you want a billet, contact Patrick.
Bike Hire
Switched-On Bikes, Queens Wharf, e-bikes and standard
Avanti Plus, Vivian St
List of bike shops
Getting Around
Online Journey Planner
Wellington Combined Taxi tel 04 384 4444
CBD free wifi (Limits apply)
Post CAN DO ride
Monday 27 March
8:21am Train to Carterton
Ride to Carters Reserve, Gladstone vineyard or pub, and on to Martinborough, 47 km
Visit Martinborough wineries. Stay at a holiday home or the holiday park.
Tuesday 28 March
Ride to Featherston, 18 km
Rimutaka Trail to Upper Hutt, 3-4 hours
Hutt River Trail, or train to Wellington. 1-2 hours
Or ride around the south coast to Eastbourne.
Other events
CAN DO coincides with the Cuba Dupa street festival. Check it out between sessions!


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Paly Cross Country Volunteers 2017 Tweet It!
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Hello Everyone, Please use this form to sign up for volunteer jobs (including bring food and drinks to meets) for Paly Cross Country. If you have questions after reading the job descriptions below, please send them to Gordon Craig at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you want to do a specific job, but it is already filled, please email Gordon Craig. Please SCROLL TO THE RIGHT to see the whole season.
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- Meet Reporter --> Attend the meets. Get highlights from coach. Draft a summary to be emailed out to team. If you can't attend the meet, find some other parent to cover for you. The Meet Reporter Assistant covers when the Meet Reporter can't be at a meet.
- Media Coordinator --> Take care of Paly media. Forward results of meets, and any highlights you get from Mark, Wendy, or Coach Michael.
- End-of-the-season Banquet Assistant --> Help the End-of-the-Season Banquet Coordinator.
- Sports Boosters Liaisons --> Attend the monthly Sports Boosters meetings, and report any relevant XC info to Team Parents.
- Snack Shack - Will earn the team $1000 for a few hours of effort on one night, but we need a lot of volunteers. We'll have Sports Boosters experts there to direct us. We just do the work. Here are the job Snack Shack job descriptions:
- Grillers: Get BBQs out and prep items to grill; Shift 3 grillers clean and put BBQs away.
- Prep Workers: Cut tomatoes, lettuce, & onions; put out condiments, tablecloths, etc.
- Runners: Retrieve items as they are ordered, and hand off to window attendants.
- Cashier: Handles orders/money at window.
- Gate Ticket Crew Lead: Arrive at 4pm sharp. Will work closely with Melissa Anderson & Erika Krugler, who oversee the Gate. Will be responsible for taking tickets.
- Gate Ticket Volunteer: Should be OK about working with the public, handling money, giving change, etc. We want to be welcoming and cheerful, so our fans and guests enjoy coming to Paly for games. Each ticket seller will be given a cash box and be responsible for that money. If there's a shortage from any cash boxes (anything other than a dollar or two), the difference will be taken from the Snack Shack proceeds being paid to the volunteer team. Gate ach ticket seller will be given a cash box and be responsible for that money. If there's a shortage from any cash boxes (anything other than a dollar or two), the difference will be taken from the Snack Shack proceeds being paid to the volunteer team.
- Pasta Feed Host --> Host a potluck pasta feed at your house for the team the night before a meet.
- For FOOD & DRINK to bring to a meet, if you think it's just as easy for you to bring 2 of the item instead of 1 (example: 4 dozen bananas instead of 2 dozen), go ahead and sign up for both spots for the meet. Please keep home-made foods nut-free, and label as such.
Info about all of the meets is at http://paly.run#meetinfo. Thank you for volunteering and helping Paly's Cross Country team!


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Education wikis and portals with TVET content
Global Scope
= Open Training Platform
UNESCO's Open Training Platform (OTP) aims to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and value "open" training materials.
Some of the content on the OTP touches on TVET issues (example: Starting My Own Small Business: A Training Module on Entrepreneurship for Learners in a Non-formal Setting).
= WikiEducator
WikiEducator aims to provide the platform for collaborative development of a free education curriculum for all sectors and levels by 2015 using wiki technology (read more about the strategy). According to its founder Wayne Mackintosh, WikiEducator is "the world's fastest growing and most productive wiki in the formal education sector".
It features some content in the area of TVET, but other categories such as teacher education may be relevant in this context as well.
WikiEducator offers free Learning4Content workshops. During the 2-week training sessions participants learn to develop free content for learning, with a focus an wiki skills training in developing countries.
= Wikiversity
Wikiversity is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities.
Wikiversity does not have a category of its own for TVET, its portal on Professional and Vocational Studies is almost empty. Relevant content may however be found in its portals on Tertiary Education and Non-formal education.
= Skills Universe
Skills Universe is an online network for training companies, facilitators, assessors, HR staff & everyone interested in people at work.
Regional Scope: Europe
= Navreme VirtuVersity
Navremeis a knowledge development network about the most challenging issues and in the crucial policy sectors of the 21st century. Its members are mostly from Southeast Europe.
Its navreme VirtuVersity is a virtual university in the interactive immersive environment SecondLife that stands for the increasing need to bridge the gap between "virtual" distance education and interactive training.
= Vetculture
VETcultureis the virtual home for the VET & CULTURE network - a voluntary association of senior and junior researchers and students, who wish to practice cross-cultural, independent and critical research, debate and academic teaching about relations between education, work and politics.
Vetculture was started in Central Europe in 1993, but is starting to become more international.
The network created initiatives such as a continuing curriculum development exchange for junior researchers. Other activities in the TVET field are EMVET and EMVET Journal.
They also have broad range of publication activity on Technical and Vocational Education.
VETNET is a European Research Network in vocational education and training, part of the European Education Research Association (EERA).
The Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET) covers a broad range of research and development activities in vocational education and training (VET) and covers both initial VET and continuing vocational training, school-based and workplace-based learning provisions as well as the development of pedagogic expertise for vocational and professional education.
See also
Open Educational Resources, Online resources for TVET policy-makers


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Alpine Reads
January 2014: Breach
Alpine Book of the Month: Breach
Poor conditions, ego driven choices and one mountains indifference lead to a life threatening injury on Kilimanjaro's hardest alpine climb. Rob Taylor's riveting first hand account, The Breach, examines not only our varied motivations for climbing but also our frailty and resilience in the mountains. Recommended by Sean Platt.


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Status: Accepted
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Submission Date: 963011
|A quantum analog of Shannons noisy channel theorem
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Category: Brief Article
Limits are given to the amount of quantum information that can be transmitted reliably down a noisy, decoherent quantum channel using stationary, ergodic sources. Quantum error-correcting codes are presented that allow the information transmitted to attain this limit. The result is the quantum analog of Shannons bound and code for the noisy classical channel.
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Gonski plus needed for education
COUNTRYMINDED candidate for New England Pete Mailler has called out the Coalition's commitment to rural and regional education.
"Barnaby Joyce and the Coalition have gutted school funding over the next two years, abandoned the National Education Reform Agenda and subsequently ripped more than $26 million out of promised school funding for the New England electorate in 2018 and 2019 alone," he said.
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"With technological advancements, and an interconnected global economy, Australia must advance to compete, and although Gonski went part way to resolving the resourcing issue, there is also a cultural element of the education system that needed to be addressed," he said.
"To start with, great teachers need to be identified and rewarded.
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"We also support a funding mechanism or tax deductibility for all education related expenses including travel for rural, regional and remote families, and policies that improved access to better telecommunication services for rural, regional and remote families for education purposes."
"Education is essential to provide future generations with the best possible opportunities and to ensure Australia is globally competitive in all fields of endeavour. There is no reason why Australia shouldn't be at the forefront of innovation and excellence in education."


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On 1st Anniversary of Largest U.S. Prison Strike, New Interviews Shed Light on Protest & Retaliation. Democracy Now! (9/11/17) Video.
"Last year's strike, launched on the anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, sparked widespread retaliation by prison guards, including in Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility. This is prisoner, poet and abolitionist Fred Williams, speaking about the strike and the retaliation in an interview just released by Rustbelt Abolition Radio."
Episode 9: Reports from the Prisoner Resistance Movement. Rustbelt Abolition Radio (9/9/17)
"On the anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion we reflect on the intensifying political struggles behind bars by examining two extraordinary flashpoints: Amerika's nationwide September 9, 2016, prisoner strike, and the August 19, 2017, Millions for Prisoners march."
America must listen to its prisoners before we make a major mistake. By Heather Ann Thompson. Washington Post (9/8/17)
"In 2016, the men and women who protested in prisons from Michigan to South Carolina to California also suffered mightily for standing together to demand humane treatment. In fact, throughout U.S. history, anytime men and women behind bars have rebelled — their only means of telling the world just how terribly they are being treated on the inside — they have endured severe repercussions."
Lansing, MI: Abolitionists Demonstrate in Solidarity with #MillionsforPrisoners. By MAPS. It's Going Down (8/31/17)
"Demonstrators in Lansing, MI blocked lunch hour traffic surrounding the main office of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) on Friday, August 18. Their action was in solidarity with the Millions for Prisoners March, a nationwide weekend of action against mass incarceration and prison slavery."
Private prison worker fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes to inmates. By Tom Perkins. Detroit Metro Times (8/28/17)
"So far, Trinity – which was awarded a three-year, $158.8-million contract in 2015 – has had 161 of its Michigan prison employees banned from prison property for various violations, Gautz said, and has been hit with $2.1 million in fines. The fines were for unauthorized meal substitutions, delays in serving meals, inadequate staffing levels, and sanitation issues, among other problems."
Prison food worker: 'I was fired for refusing to serve rotten potatoes.' By Paul Egan. Detroit Free Press (8/25/17)
"A prison food worker says he was fired Saturday after he refused to serve rotten potatoes to inmates at Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula. 'It was the most disgusting thing I've seen in my life.'"
Florida locks down all 97,000 prisoners, blocking them from Aug. 19 Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March. By Prison Abolition Prisoner Support (PAPS) and The Ordinary People Society (TOPS). San Francisco Bayview (8/19/17)
"Prison activists and family members of prisoners are concerned that this lockdown and repression may lead to more violence. At Kinross Prison in Michigan last September, inmates peacefully marched in the yard and then were met with brutal retaliation from correctional officers."
Protesters block downtown Lansing streets, equate Michigan prisons with neo-Nazi movement. By Justin A. Hinkley. Lansing State Journal (8/18/17)
"Fascists do not just march in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., a couple dozen protesters said Friday in downtown Lansing. They also run the prisons in Michigan and across the U.S." Video.
People of Interest. CKUW 95.9 FM (6/20/17)
Twenty-minute interview beginning at 34:40 (June 20, 2017) with MAPS spokesperson, Alejo Stark, about MAPS' organizing in solidarity with prisoners facing retaliation for the Kinross uprising.
Abolitionists Rally Outside Home of Prison Director in East Lansing. By MAPS. It's Going Down (6/13/17)
'Ahjamu Baruti, one of a handful recently transferred out of Oaks after over eight months in isolation, described solitary as "the soul breaker," noting that: "Long term solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment, due to the deprivation of basic human needs such as environmental stimulation and social interaction….The psychological effects of long term confinement on the human brain are phenomenal, because the human brain needs social contact like our lungs need air! Zoo animals are being honored with fulfillment of these needs. The cruelty of caging them for long periods of time alone or in tight spaces is acknowledged. Federal guidelines for laboratory animals require more space be provided for them, along with sensory stimulation and environmental enrichment, than what is afforded prisoners in solitary confinement."'
Group protests solitary confinement in Michigan's prisons. ABC 10 News (6/12/17)
"A group of concerned citizens held a protest Sunday afternoon in East Lansing outside the home of Heidi Washington, the director of the Michigan Department of Corrections. The demonstration concerned what the protestors referred to as 'Solitary is Torture.' The group, Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS), held the demonstration. They asked for the release of 70 inmates being held in solitary confinement at the Oaks Correctional Facility in Manistee."
Police Respond to "Solitary is Torture" Demonstration at Home of Michigan Department of Corrections Director Heidi Washington. eNews Park Forest (6/12/17)
"A "solitary is torture" demonstration was held Sunday outside the East Lansing home of Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) Director Heidi Washington amid police presence and curious neighbors."
What's hidden behind the walls of America's prisons. By Heather Ann Thompson. The Conversation (6/4/17)
"Prisons are built to be out of sight and are, thus, out of mind. Somehow, even though these institutions contain human beings, including children, and even though we are the ones who cough up the billion of dollars that it costs to run them, we are expected simply to trust that they are operated humanely and that they in fact make our society safer. As a historian of crime and punishment who has been inside of America's prisons and has documented severe abuses that have taken place within them, I know this trust is not warranted. It is past time that the public has unfettered access to these public institutions so that we can know exactly what happens behind prison walls."
Michigan Prison Admits Losing Control Amid Inmate Rebellion. U.S. News and World Report (5/12/17)
"Officials at an Upper Peninsula prison have admitted to temporarily losing control of the facility to an inmate rebellion, the Michigan Department of Corrections now says after previously denying any such incident."
State report shows 'riot' shook control of U.P. prison. By Michael Gerstein. The Detroit News (5/12/17)
"The Michigan Department of Corrections previously denied a riot happened in September at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Chippewa County, but a 262-page incident report revealed that senior officials referred to the event as a 'riot' and admitted to having lost control of the prison for an unspecified amount of time….'It's a very scary thing to see hundreds of prisoners moving as one body when, already in a prison setting, you are very outnumbered,' Gautz said. 'You can't allow a scenario for prisoners to move as one and act as once voice.'"
The Battle Continues: An Update on Michigan Prison Strike Repression. By MAPS. It's Going Down (5/8/17)
"In a surprising move, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) released up to 100 prisoners from solitary confinement sooner than anticipated, while another 80 or more remain….It is also essential to remember that even those released from solitary at Baraga are being returned to the same abhorrent conditions of overcrowding, inedible food, impossible wages, and more that drove them to strike and protest in the first place. In most cases, they are worse off because they have not yet returned to their former low security levels."
Harold Gonzales, Kinross Prisoner, to Be Released from Solitary. It's Going Down (4/30/17)
"After about 40 people phoned the prison, on April 24, Baraga staff reluctantly informed H.H. that he will not be kept in administrative segregation (solitary confinement) for two years as originally sentenced, but will be released around May 1st. This is a major victory and demonstrates how pressure from across the state and country can force the hand of corrections departments that are becoming increasingly vulnerable to public scrutiny.
End the retaliation against HH Gonzales, currently in solitary confinement. It's Going Down (4/17/17)
"However, not everyone is being released from segregation. Some are being targeted for even harsher retaliation at this time. Harold "H.H." Gonzales was one of the spokespeople for the demonstrators at Kinross on 9/10 who negotiated the peaceful resolution. He wrote, "This action has me labeled as the 'leader' of the fall incidents, when in actuality I ended a situation that could have turned ugly for everyone." H.H. has also spoken out publicly against the abuses and retaliation of the MDOC. Although he had no tickets for the past seven months, he is now being targeted with bogus tickets to justify his ongoing solitary confinement. The biased grievance system provides no relief."
The origins of the Attica uprising. Rustbelt Abolition Radio, ep. 3 Bonus (4/4/17)
"In this bonus segment, we return to renowned historian Heather Ann Thompson as she elaborates on the multifaceted origins of the historic 1971 Attica Uprising, drawing out their resonances with other prison rebellions across history and geography, as well as their telling implications for our present historical moment."
The riots will continue. Rustbelt Abolition Radio, ep. 3 (3/13/17)
"In this episode we examine the expansion of the carceral state as a response to anti-racist movements and urban rebellions of the 1960s, the political economic underpinnings of these social transformations, and the ways in which historic instances of prisoner rebellion are continuous with present-day resistance behind bars and point toward upheavals yet to come… We talk with Adine, whose son was recently transferred to Baraga Maximum Correctional Facility following an "inciting a riot" charge in the aftermath of the Kinross rebellion."
Psychological warfare in prison: Segregation is the soul breaker. By Ahjamu Baruti. San Francisco Bay View. (2/28/17)
"Note from a supporter: The article was written by a conscious-minded political prisoner and former inmate of Kinross Correctional….Ahjamu was strip searched, cuffed, locked in leg irons and shipped to Oaks Correctional in Manistee Michigan and thrown in a cell in Administrative Segregation, where he stays 23 hours a day since the events unfolded at Kinross….
Zoo animals are being honored with fulfillment of these needs. The cruelty of caging them for long periods of time alone or in tight spaces is acknowledged. Federal guidelines for laboratory animals require more space be provided for them, along with sensory stimulation and environmental enrichment, than what is afforded prisoners in solitary confinement."
Kinross Prisoners Facing Up to Two Years in the Hole for Rebellion. By MAPS, It's Going Down. (2/28/17)
"The full scope of the retaliation against the prisoners who were at Kinross that day is only beginning to be comprehended. Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity (MAPS), an affinity group organizing in solidarity with prisoners against the violence of incarceration, reached out to dozens of people imprisoned at Kinross last Fall. From their responses to date, a picture of repressive and arbitrary retaliation is taking shape…
We agree with others who have stressed that the full consequences of the prison strike may not be understood for years to come. At this stage, two points are clear: 1) As long as conditions only worsen when desperate people communicate their grievances, the riots will continue. 2) Since none of us are free while some of us are caged, those of us outside who seek an end to the violence of incarceration in the world must continue our efforts in solidarity with those inside….
Larry Baba X-Guy: As an old vet I sensed mayhem coming, block reps would do their jobs and present a list of requests and get sent back and early in the morning get chained up and rode out, not allowed to pack their personal property (otherwise half the property comes up missing, thrown away, etc.). But block reps were glad to get away from those conditions, many inmates would refuse to lock up or sit on their bunks so they could go to level IV, that's how bad it was. I had planned to run for block rep so I could get rode out."
No walls, no cages: from migrant justice to prison abolition. Rustbelt Abolition Radio, ep. 2 (2/12/17)
"We close this show with two firsthand narratives. One from Curtis, a local Detroiter whose family has been turned upside down by the carceral state and racial capitalism, and another from Harold Gonzales, currently incarcerated inside Michigan's Kinross prison."
2017 Has Already Seen Several Prison Rebellions. By Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof. (2/8/17)
"Although the nationwide prison strike has fallen from headlines in recent months, incarcerated individuals continue to resist abuse and mistreatment while supporters on the outside rally to their defense….Because prison rebellions rarely get coverage of the scale of the Vaughn Rebellion, the public's unfamiliarity with uprisings may give the impression that they are infrequent. But in reality, prisoners, their families, and their support networks take action against abusive conditions, mistreatment, and a lack of access to programs and services all over the country, on a regular basis. Several prison uprisings have occurred in the first weeks of 2017."
Michigan prisoners speak out against 'epic' abuse and retaliation. By Harold Gonzales, San Francisco Bay View. (2/3/17)
"It is hard for me to write these accounts because they are so numerous in blatant retaliatory actions against us, without any regard or fear of accountability. A lot of the public would not believe a state agency could stoop to a lot of the persecution I've faced for standing against past and present inhumane treatment. They count on that fact, as well as the hope that an attitude of "prisoners don't deserve rights," or the public turning a blind eye to the mistreatment of prisoners, will be their license to mistreat us….In essence, [MDOC] is "big business" and, like all big business, its goal is to protect its interest. Couple that with a system that creates its own policies, answers to itself and, because its merchandise is prisoners, has no real moral or ethical responsibilities, and you have the Michigan Department of Corrections, or MDOC!….The prison clearly was not ready for human or animal habitation. Every maintenance man was heard to say, "I don't know why they brought you guys here; the prison is not ready."…Kinross just created a united mindset to stand against it finally. Suddenly, everyone was an activist, willing to support in any way they could….You have to realize the severity of the situations we face in here. They (MDOC) have literally killed people in here and gotten away with it….We need help, I'm shouting out from this 8-by-10 cell, help us! Don't let them quiet our voice; be an amplifier for us. Don't let what they are doing to us and throughout the MDOC fade into oblivion."
What Happened at Vaughn Prison? By Heather Ann Thompson, Jacobin Magazine. (2/2/17)
"At Vaughn prison and elsewhere, we should demand transparency and stand with the inmates who dare to affirm their humanity….It isn't simply Attica's history that should make us concerned about what might be transpiring now at Vaughn. Just this past September, on the forty-fifth anniversary of the Attica rebellion, prisoners throughout the US went on strike against forced prison labor and the terrible conditions in which they live. Not surprisingly, corrections officials once again tried to spin this unrest by stressing the illegitimacy of the prisoners' actions: these were but violent criminals who had gone on a rampage, and they would be dealt with accordingly. The men and women in these facilities relay a very different story."
Prison food contractor hit with $2M in penalties. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (1/20/17)
"The penalties, first reported Thursday by Gongwer News Service, show significant problems persist with the privatization of prison food services, after the state ended a contract early to replace its first prison food contractor, Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services."
Prison strike organizers to protest food giant Aramark. By Kamala Kalkar, PBS Newshour. (1/8/17)
"And on Sept. 9, the anniversary of the Attica takeover, thousands of inmates across dozens of state prisons went on strike to rail against it. There were reports of pepper spray, teargas and zip ties at Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan before hundreds of people believed to be involved were transferred to other facilities. Inmates across the country were also censored, prevented from receiving newspapers and put in isolation. "That was the first wave," Glasgow said. "This is the second wave." In 2015, the state of Michigan canceled a controversial, $145 million, three-year contract with the company. In addition to complaints about the quality of food, more than 100 Aramark employees were banned from prison grounds for inappropriate behavior, according to state officials. That year, a judge also found an Aramark supervisor guilty of trying to arrange an assault on an inmate."
Prison protest cost taxpayers $900K, 'scariest' day ever for corrections officer. By John Agar, Grand Rapids Press. (1/5/17)
"A housing unit officer said: "I'm totally different since this, you know, walking in there. I always want to come out the way I came in, and that day really was the scariest ever before since I've started working… . It's really changed me, just being in there, and how (prison officials) downplayed it.""
Kinross prison disturbance cost Michigan nearly $900,000. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (1/4/17)
"The vast majority of the $888,320 bill was wages, overtime, meals and accommodations for about 100 emergency response team members who were sent to Kinross from around the state and stayed there about a week, Chris Gautz told the Free Press Tuesday. On top of those personnel costs of about $741,000, the cost of repairing damage to the prison was just over $86,000, he said. The department also spent close to $94,000 moving prisoners involved in the disturbance to higher-security prisons, according to records the Free Press obtained under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act. Gautz said most of those transportation costs were personnel costs and they are included in the $741,000 figure. Damage in the Sept. 10 incident included at least one fire, smashed windows and sinks, busted-out walls, damage to telephones and other communications equipment, trashed files and graffiti, department records show. One unit was left unlivable for several days. Though nobody was injured, emergency response team officers armed with shotguns and pepper spray guns stormed the housing units and zip-tied the wrists of nearly all of the more than 1,200 inmates. Corrections officers say it was Michigan's first prison riot since 1981, and that officials temporarily lost control of the facility. Gautz and other prison managers insist there was no loss of control and the disturbance should not be described as a riot. The department found money within existing budgets to pay the unforeseen expenses, Gautz said, adding he is not aware of any specific cuts made to other budget areas to help cover the cost. The damage occurred after officers stormed the housing units to remove instigators, following what was described as a peaceful march in the yard by more than 400 inmates."
What do we mean by abolition? Rustbelt Abolition Radio, ep. 1 (1/2/17)
"In this episode we turn to recent news of the deepening impacts of the biggest prison strike in U.S. History, as we look at Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We also speak with Professor Liat Ben-Moshé on our carceral society and the political imaginary of abolition. We wrap with a phone interview with Chaz, an imprisoned trans woman in Michigan who is fighting for queer and trans prisoners' liberation."
Protesting inmates refuse meals at western U.P. prison. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (12/30/16)
"About 80 high-security prisoners at Baraga Correctional Facility in the western Upper Peninsula refused to eat lunch and dinner this week in a protest over prison food, a Corrections Department spokesman confirmed."
Scandal at Kinross Prison. By Greg Peterson, U.P. Breaking News. (12/12/16)
"Federal lawsuit alleges spoiled and undercooked and raw food is being served to Michigan prison inmates and after the scandal plagued Aramark was booted out but now its people are allegedly running the new company and just as poorly – Named in suit are Kinross Warden, Deputy Warden now Warden at Baraga Max, two food companies, and state prison officials."
Combating Repression Following the Kinross Prison Uprising: New Perspectives, New Efforts. It's Going Down. (12/1/16)
"As reports continue to come in from Michigan prisoners who were involved with the uprising, both the scope of retaliation and individual stories of resistance are making their way out. The attempt by vegan prisoners to maintain agency over their own bodies through daily insistence on food keeping with their ethics, is one ongoing avenue of struggle. Even in the most ordinary circumstances, maintaining a vegan diet in prison is very challenging. In the wake of the Kinross uprising, it's become even more so for some….What follows is another perspective on the Kinross uprising from Lamont Heard, a prison rebel in the Michigan DOC who was active during the protests at Kinross Correctional in March of this year. Lamont was not present at Kinross during the September uprising, but compiled the following account from inmates who were transferred to his current prison after the events of September 9th and 10th."
Rattling the Cages: This fall's prison strikes are a model of how to both survive and challenge an authoritarian, racist order. By Dan Berger, Jacobin Magazine. (11/18/16)
"Numbers aside, the mass action shows that a bold spirit of resistance has once again jolted the American prison landscape. For more than five years now, prison and immigrant detention center officials have had to contend with sustained disruption."
State Sen. Wayne Schmidt — Kinross incident highlights need for corrections reforms. By Wayne Schmidt, Petoskey News-Review. (11/2/16)
"Some of the conditions that are said to have led to the disturbance add to the call for reforming our criminal justice system."
Why are fewer Michigan prisoners classified as high-security? By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (10/31/16)
"The classification a prisoner receives is calculated using a score sheet and has more to do with how compliant a prisoner is and how well the prisoner is expected to adjust to life behind bars than to what kind of criminal record the prisoner has."
Why US inmates launched a nationwide strike. By Max Blau and Emanuella Grinberg, CNN. (10/31/16)
"Officials in Texas and South Carolina denied to CNN that any protests took place. But criminal justice advocates said the scale makes it the largest and most significant inmate strike in American history. ..'We're bringing this conversation to the mainstream,' (Austin Community College professor Azzurra) Crispino said. 'People often say, that's not practical, there's no point in talking about it. Now we say the words prison and abolition together, and people don't laugh.'"
Prisoners say harsh backlash followed Kinross protest. By Aidan Wayne, Detroit Metro Times. (10/28/16)
"Their stated intention was to negotiate for better living and working conditions, including better quality and quantity of food, higher wages, lower phone rates, and to disallow putting up to eight men in a room designed for four. The protest was peaceful, and organizers asked that the response from officials be in accordance with that, without violent retaliation."
America's Private Prisons Are Nothing Less Than a System of Modern Slavery. By Donovan Farley, Paste Magazine. (10/27/16)
"For a certain segment of the population, 'prison' is an abstract term that perhaps calls to mind an hours-long stint in jail for some youthful indiscretion, quickly forgotten, records expunged. For those people, this may seem a faraway problem—or simply not an issue. ('These are criminals after all,' goes the classic dismissal of the prisoners' humanity.) But for many—especially those in the minority community—the threat of jail in America comes as a fearsome part of everyday life. In a country that has five percent of the world's population but 25 percent of its prisoners, and doles out far longer sentences than almost every other country, how we treat our prisoners is clearly reflective of where we are and where we're headed as a society."
Compliant Prisoners Teargassed without Provocation; Michigan Department of Corrections Withheld Information. By eNews Park Forest. (10/26/16)
"Numerous discrepancies between claims from the MDOC and witness accounts from prisoners and guards alike have come to light thus far. MDOC spokesperson Chris Gautz claimed that only prisoners at Kinross participated in the September 9 nationwide work stoppage. Multiple prisoners contradict this claim and state that kitchen workers at Marquette Branch Prison, Michigan Reformatory, and Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility also refused to work that day. MDOC saidthat only kitchen workers and a few others refused to report to work at Kinross, but [a Kinross prisoner] reports that it was a facility-wide work stoppage."
Strikes on Prison Labor, Conditions Still Strong into 3rd Month. By TeleSUR English. (10/25/16)
"Even after inmates complied when ordered to go to their bunks, a SWAT team launched tear gas and pepper spray at the inmates…Three inmates have died in Kinross since the uprising, all from questionable causes. Meanwhile, guards told Buzzfeed they support the strike and 'see it as a moral issue.'"
U.S. Prisoner Protest: Why Listening to the Voices of the Incarcerated Matters. By Heather Ann Thompson, on Newsweek. (10/25/16)
"An estimated 24,000 American men and women behind bars have been trying to call our attention to the terrible state of prisoner conditions since September 9. It matters who the press believes and what it reports. State officials understand the stakes of how this latest unrest is characterized. According to reports out of Michigan in the wake of a dramatic upheaval at a major penal facility there, just how to spin the crisis was heavily debated. As one internal email put it: 'I think we need to be clear that these are not sympathetic characters and their actions are not something that should be viewed as anything other than destructive and dangerous for staff and other prisoners.' If we choose to interpret the most recent prison protests as a destructive effort, we will again ignore the thousands of men and women who deserve the right to live with basic dignity."
Prisons Are Erupting and Why It Matters. By Heather Ann Thompson, The Daily Beast. (10/21/16)
"Kinross, like countless other penal facilities across the country, is overcrowded and the men held inside have been trying to bring attention to the inhumane conditions they live under for a long time now. But this facility, again like so many others, is far, far away from where most of the prisoner families live as well as far from the media's gaze. People on the outside can't see the 'spoiled food, severe overcrowding, indifference to inmate grievances' that the men inside have been enduring."
Historian: From Attica to Kinross, we have a right to know what happens in our prisons.
By Stateside Staff, Michigan Radio. (10/21/16)
"'Whether it's Attica in 1971 or it's our own Michigan's Kinross facility today,' she said, 'these are public institutions and we have a citizen's right to know what goes on behind those bars and behind those walls, and we don't.'"
"It Is In Losing We Gain": Reflections on the September 10th Kinross Prison Uprising. It's Going Down. (10/20/16)
"The September 9th and 10th actions at Kinross demonstrate tactical similarities to the demonstrations that spread through the Michigan prison system in March of this year. Michigan prisoners continue to show that they are highly organized and capable pulling off mass demonstrations that shake the Michigan prison system. This time, they showed they are capable of doing so in coordination with prisoners on a national level.
What's clear is that the Michigan Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's (MDOC) go-to solution for managing prisoner revolt seems to be the retaliatory transfer. In March, we saw this tactic blow up in their face when the prison administrators themselves surmised that the strikes most likely spread from Kinross to another facility after an organizer was transferred. Apparently they have not learned their lesson. As 250 prisoners who now have the experience of two successful mass rebellions are transferred throughout the Michigan prison system, there is no way of knowing where the next protest may occur….
From Gilbert Morales: Ain't no sacrifice greater than that for our fellow brothers. I had a lot going but when the call came only those with courage can live a life of virtue. Even though it cost us plenty and we may not reap the benefits we did something that many have failed at. Sitting in this 8 x 10 cell, it makes a man wonder is it worth it. I've heard many of the men yelling, "I shouldn't of went out there." It is testing the best of them. They regret making that final call. If they can't come to terms with the decision they made they will be resentful doing time. They have to realize that only losing everything are they free to do everything. It is in losing we gain. One could wonder what kind of math did God create but it is all about longevity. And from the looks of it, unless it gets overturned, we are going to be here for a while: in Administrative Segregation, Level 5. They read all mail."
2 Inmates Have Died in 'Preventable Deaths' at Striking Prisons. By Monique Judge, The Root. (10/18/16)
"Inmates at Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan and Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama died this month after prison staff reportedly failed to respond on time."
Two Inmates Have Died Amid National Prison Strike. By Cora Lewis, Buzzfeed. (10/18/16)
"Prisoners have died in two facilities where inmates are participating in a national prison strike, in what organizers say were preventable deaths caused by inadequate staffing. At Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan, where 400 inmates took part in a protest last month, an inmate named Charlie Anderson died on October 10 in an incident being investigated by local police."
Michigan prisoners rise up! Overcrowded and underfunded state prisons spawn resistance. By Rand W. Gould, San Francisco Bayview. (10/15/16)
"Not since the 1980s, when the state of Michigan simultaneously ratcheted up 'tough on crime' laws and eliminated good time credits have Michigan's prisons seethed with so much discontent and been so overcrowded…This year, after decades of passivity, Michigan prisoners are finally rising up and actively resisting their oppression – the inevitable 'chickens coming home to roost' in a prison system that operates as a human warehouse, offering few programming opportunities (none for lifers), whether teaching job skills or rehabilitation, and slave wages of $.84 to $1.14 per day for the limited jobs available. These slave wages have not increased in decades, but have decreased, as both food service and Michigan State Industries (MSI) workers had their performance bonuses taken, while the quantity and quality of food served in the chow hall declined precipitously and commissary prices skyrocketed due to privatization."
Prisoner Strike Results In Retaliation, Death, In Michigan Prison. By Rising up with Sonali. (10/14/16)
"An inmate named Charles Lee Johnson has died at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Michigan, one of the prisons that had participated in a nationwide prisoner work strike. Johnson is one of three prisoners that have died within Michigan prisons in just the past month…Prison authorities put the Kinross facility on lockdown for days after a work stoppage in September. Their grievances stem from extremely harsh conditions inside the facilities. Details are now emerging of severe retaliation that includes solitary confinement, transfers to other facilities, and even new charges."
Three Michigan Prisoners Die Within One Month Amid Crackdown on Prison Strike. By Democracy Now! (10/14/16)
"In Michigan, a prisoner at the Kinross Correctional Facility has died of unknown causes on Monday. Charlie Anderson is the third person to die within Michigan's prisons within a month. This comes as new information has surfaced about a crackdown at the Kinross Correctional Facility against prisoners participating in the nationwide prison strike. Prisoners say they did not show up to work at the kitchen on the morning of September 9—the first day of the strike—and instead organized a peaceful march of hundreds of prisoners in the yard. They say an armed tactical team then stormed into the yard, handcuffing people and firing tear gas canisters. They also say some of the prisoners were left outside in the rain for up to six hours in retaliation."
Officials debated message on Kinross prison disturbance. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (10/14/16)
"The department's public disclosures about the incident sparked an internal controversy, with corrections officers saying it was Michigan's first prison riot since 1981, and that officials temporarily lost control of the facility; while prison managers insist there was no loss of control and the disturbance should not be described as a riot. E-mails obtained by the Free Press show there was an internal debate about the contents of a news release the Corrections Department sent out at about 10:40 p.m. on Sept. 10, after calm was restored. 'Does the tone of this match what we had to do tonight?' asked Corrections Department legislative liaison Kyle Kaminski, after the draft news release was circulated among top prison officials. …Corrections Department Director Heidi Washington said she 'didn't want to get into specifics' in the news release. 'This has been ongoing for over 12 hours and (the news media) haven't picked up (on) it yet,' she said in an e-mail to prison spokesman Chris Gautz, after Kaminski's e-mail was sent to her. 'I don't want to send a flare up now that makes a huge public issue.'"
Fiance of Michigan Prisoner Describes Brutal Response to Prison Strike. By Brian Sonenstein, Shadowproof. (10/13/16)
"On September 9, most prisoners at Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility took part in the national prison strike against slave labor and refused to report for work. The prison responded by withholding their hot meals and eventually launched an assault against the prisoners for their peaceful protest. Administrators later withheld medical care and a prisoner died."
Officials probe inmate death at corrections facility. By Detroit News staff. (10/13/16)
"Authorities are investigating the death of a third inmate at a state corrections facility in the last month, officials said Thursday. Michigan Prison Abolition claims medical staff did not arrive for approximately 15 minutes 'even after he became unresponsive,' the group said in a statement Thursday. The group also alleges that other prisoners have complained about inadequate medical care at the facility, which last month was the site of a prisoner-led protest.The incident comes weeks after state corrections officials have said about 150 inmates were moved from the prison to other facilities after the Sept. 10 protest. Officials said it started peacefully, with about 400 prisoners marching in the Kinross Correctional Facility yard."
Justice Department announces investigation into Alabama prisons as US prison strike continues. By Gary Joad, World Socialist Web Site. (10/13/16)
"There has been a wholesale abandonment of the idea that prisoners deserve any good treatment behind bars. In Texas, for example, prisoners are literally locked in cages longer and longer than they have ever been, with no time out of the cell. It's sweltering, of course, because it's Texas. It's hundreds of degrees in these cement cages. They're serving horrendous time in solitary … mistreated with lack of food (and) suffering lack of medical care."
Michigan Prison Labor Strikers Release Their Demands. By Brendan O'Connor, Jezebel. (10/10/16)
"According to the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee—an effort by Industrial Workers of the World, an international labor union, to help incarcerated workers organize—Kinross remained on lockdown for nearly two weeks, from September 10 to the morning of September 22. 'About 150 prisoners accused of being instigators were transferred to other facilities, where an unknown number were charged with inciting a riot and punished with isolation,' IWOC said in a statement. 'In violation of MDOC policy, guards destroyed the property of the accused prisoners and encouraged other prisoners to steal their personal food'…'We're supposed to be rehabilitating these people, but then they take away anything that makes them human.'"
Guards Sympathize With Striking Prisoners: "We See It As A Moral Issue". By Cora Lewis, Buzzfeed. (10/9/16)
""We see it as a moral issue," said Andy Potter, chief of staff and executive vice president of the Michigan Corrections Organization (MCO), which represents 10,000 corrections staffers. Hundreds of inmates in Michigan took part in the national strike with a peaceful prison-yard march in early September, leading to a purge by prison authorities, who identified 250 organizers of the strike and relocated them to other facilities.
"The officers basically understand the prisoners' plight," Potter told BuzzFeed News. "They don't outright support the work-stoppage, they haven't taken a position like that, but almost everyone that I've talked to — and I represent them — understand why the inmates would do it.""
Peacefully Marching Prisoners at Michigan's Kinross Teargassed, Zip-Tied, Left out in Rain. By Diane Bukowski, Voice of Detroit. (10/9/16)
"The violent assault of the armed officers triggered panic among the prisoners, who feared for their lives. Some reported being shot at directly with tear gas canisters. Others attempted to barricade their unit doors. Reportedly, fires were set in several units, at least one window was broken, and sinks and surveillance cameras were damaged after the officers began their assault. Media reports have focused on who was to blame for the damage to physical property, not the violence done to prisoners in violation of their human rights."
Inmates: officer tactics escalated peaceful protest at Kinross. By Stateside Staff, Michigan Radio. (10/4/16)
"Last month on Sept. 10, there was an incident at the Kinross Correctional Facility. It started with a peaceful demonstration by prisoners and ended with a fire, smashed windows, and other vandalism. 250 inmates were moved to higher security prisons. The spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, Chris Gautz, said call it an incident, or call it vandalism. But don't call it a riot. But the union for corrections officers saw it differently. Tom Tylutki from the Michigan Corrections Organization joined Stateside and felt confident calling the incident a riot."
More Details Emerge on Kinross Prison Riot. By Barb Hall, Patch. (10/4/16)
"Some are saying riot, others say skirmish, but it's becoming clear that an incident at Kinross Correctional Facility last month was bigger than originally reported, and some are blaming prison authorities for the escalation. A Kinross inmate told the Detroit Free Press that the prisoners were under control and had returned to their units on Sept. 10 until more than 100 armed officers arrived and fired pepper spray. "It could have been settled," Kinross inmate Anthony Bates told the Free Press in a telephone interview."When the officers came in, they caused chaos," said Bates, 39. "It sparked the flame … (and) started a wildfire." "It was a riot," Tom Tylutki, president of the Michigan Corrections Organization union told the Free Press. "For anybody to describe it as anything other than that is just amazing to us." Nobody was injured in the incident."
Kinross inmate: Raid with pepper spray sparked vandalism. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (10/4/16)
"An inmate at Kinross Correctional Facility says hundreds of prisoners had returned to their housing units and were peaceful on Sept. 10 until more than 100 officers, armed with shotguns and firing pepper spray, stormed the units and triggered anger and acts of vandalism. 'It could have been settled,' Anthony Bates…told the Free Press in a telephone interview. 'When the officers came in, they caused chaos,' said Bates, 39…. 'It sparked the flame … (and) started a wildfire.' Bates' story that the housing units were peaceful and inmates thought their grievances were being investigated until armed officers poured into the facility is corroborated in letters written by two other inmates, which were provided to the Free Press by friends or relatives who asked that the inmates not be identified."
The Largest Prison Strike in History is Being Largely Ignored by Major Media Outlets. By Spencer King, Paste Magazine. (9/30/16)
"Media co-chair of the IWOC Azzurra Crispino told Democracy Now the following:
Less than two days ago … at Kinross unit in Michigan … The warden had come out and was speaking to the inmates, over 400 of them, which had peacefully marched in the yard. But after the warden left, basically, a riot repression team came in and dragged prisoners out of their showers and out of their cells, zip-tied their arms behind their back and threw them out in the yard and left them out there for five to six hours in the rain without any access to bathroom facilities. So the repression that prisoners are facing around the country for having participated in the strike is real, and it's very severe."
Hunger Strikes, Marches & Work Stoppages: Unprecedented National Prison Strike Enters Third Week. Democracy Now! (9/28/16)
" Well, certainly, the history here bears repeating. When George Jackson was assassinated 45 years ago, he had been calling for a prisoners' union and a nationwide prison strike. So it's fitting that on September 9th, on the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising, that we were finally able to deliver the largest prison strike that has ever been seen in U.S. history. In terms of the momentum, certainly now there has been a shift towards dealing with repression."
Riot? Disturbance? What really happened at Kinross prison. By Stateside Staff, Michigan Radio. (9/22/16)
"On September 10, there was an uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula. According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, it's the most serious incident inside a Michigan prison anyone can recall since the 1981 riot at what was then called Southern Michigan Prison in Jackson. MDOC says there were no injuries to corrections staff or inmates. Approximately 250 prisoners have been transferred out of Kinross since the incident, the department says. As first reported by the Detroit Free Press, there's a dispute over just what to call the incident at Kinross."
Riot or reined-in? Prison officials disagree on U.P. skirmish. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (9/21/16)
"A Sept. 10 uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility was much more serious than initially described: The Department of Corrections lost control of the prison before retaking it with armed force after inmates did their best to wreck the place, says the president of the Michigan Corrections Organization. 'It was a riot,' Tom Tylutki told the Free Press on Tuesday. 'For anybody to describe it as anything other than that is just amazing to us.'…It was the first time armed officers were sent into housing units since the Michigan prison riots of 1981, Tylutki said… Tylutki said there were warning signs at Kinross, including a 1,000-prisoner food protest in March."
Attica's Lessons Went Unlearned: Our Prisons Are Still a Disgrace. By Heather Ann Thompson, The Daily Beast. (9/13/16)
"Back in 1971 when the prisoners at Attica protested—when they were begging for help from state officials—they ended up being shot, tortured, and traumatized. And because the nation ignored the problem then, and indeed made it much, much worse, prisons are once again erupting. This time we can't respond with even more abuse. This time we must all listen, and act."
#PrisonStrike Resistance to Slavery Across the World. It's Going Down. (first published 9/8/16)
"This resistance comes not from the Democratic Party nor the pro-capitalist labor unions that support it, the NGOs or non-profits which act as a wet blanket on revolt during every uprising, or the self-appointed activist leaders who seek to manage and contain social movements and struggles, but instead has built itself from ground up through endless and tireless hours of letter-writing nights, noise-demonstrations, community meetings and conferences, call-in campaigns, bloody riots, nights spend wheat-pasting and spray painting, and mass strikes.
Now, this force awakens. This grassroots and horizontal confederation of collectives, organizations, crews, individuals, and networks; organized for the purpose not of speaking truth to power, electing a politician, or creating a third party, but instead in breathing life into a movement aimed at the destruction of prisons, policing, white supremacy, and the capitalist State that protects their existence."
UPDATE: 400 inmates protest at U.P. Prison. ABC 10 News Upper Peninsula. (9/11/16)
The Michigan Department of Corrections has released more information in connection to Saturday's protest at the Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe. MDOC spokesperson Chris Gautz says 400 inmates began marching Saturday at 8:50 a.m….Officials and staff at the prison had the inmates back in their housing units at 12:30 p.m….Some housing units were damaged and a small fire was reportedly set while prison staff removed these inmates. Emergency response teams and officers from other prisons were sent to Kinross to help restore order. No injuries were reported."
Inmates in Upper Peninsula set fire, damage housing units. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (9/11/16)
"Instead of regular hot meals, inmates at Kinross received bag meals all day Friday and again Saturday morning, he said. The bag meals — which Gautz noted were a result of the inmates' actions — were among the grievances prisoners raised after about 400 of them peacefully marched and chanted in the yard on Saturday morning, he said. Other issues raised were wages paid for prions jobs — 74 cents to $3.34 per day — and access to the commutation process, he said."
Downtown protest tonight supports nationwide prison strike. By Michael Jackman, Detroit Metro Times. (9/9/16)
"Here's something you're unlikely to learn about from the mainstream media today: Prisoners across the United States are striking today. They will refuse to work in protest of "modern day slavery" — a demand that is backed up by facts showing the injustice of the modern-day "carceral state.""
Why 1,200 Michigan Inmates Are Protesting Their Prison's Food. By Tom Perkins, Munchies. (3/25/16)
"On Monday, all but 30 of 1,300 inmates in northern Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility skipped meals as part of a peaceful demonstration, according to a prisoner who spoke with MUNCHIES.
"The portions are smaller. The food is nasty and not thoroughly cooked. Young, old, and multiple races are involved in this," Lamont Heard…told me.
He adds that the food protest followed a Sunday demonstration over the prison's conditions, which he says include broken/overflowing toilets, poor ventilation, broken heaters (January's average low temperature is 12 degrees in Michigan's upper peninsula), problems with visitation, and other issues with prison services."
Michigan prisoners still protesting foul food. By Michael Jackman, Detroit Metro Times. (3/23/16)
"One of the groups most concerned about these protests and prisoners not getting quality food is the Michigan Corrections Organization, the labor union representing more than 10,0000 corrections personnel in the state of Michigan. See, they don't like it when any grievance is so undeniable that it gets 1,000 prisoners to agree to engage in protest."
Prisoners protest food under new contractor Trinity. By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press. (3/22/16)
"About 1,000 of the Kinross Correctional Facility's approximately 1,300 inmates staged a silent protest Sunday, before a similar number refused to eat meals on Monday."
Something still stinks in Michigan and Ohio's prison kitchen. By Tom Perkins, Detroit Metro Times. (2/17/16)
""The only thing they did was switch the employees' shirts," Lamont Heard, a prisoner…in Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility, tells us. "It's the same people— they just switched the title, but the food is worse. Everything is worse than with Aramark."…The food is so bad that some are skipping meals even though they're hungry, say Heard and Randy Jones, another Kinross prisoner. "The food is worse. Somehow, the food got worse. Whatever they cook, no matter what it is, it's always worse. Now, everyone has a negative attitude toward Trinity. It's the same as before," Jones says.
The prisoners claim inmates who file grievances face retribution from Trinity staff. If a prisoner reports a problem, then he's likely to end up with the smallest slice of cake on the next run through the chow line. And the grievances go to Trinity's food boss, so little is resolved. "It's like complaining to the wolf about what's going on in the hen house," Heard says, adding that the staff is on its best behavior if Trinity brass is visiting the site.
Kenneth Williams, also a prisoner at Kinross, deals with kidney issues that require a special diet. He tells me that Trinity refuses to consistently feed him that diet, and that led to a recent hospitalization. "I'm angry. This could cause me to be on dialysis, and that's what I keep telling them," Williams says. "I'm trying to avoid being on dialysis. Once your kidneys start failing, then everything starts failing. "A lot of times I end up going without eating. I go hungry.""


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