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Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, is a global city, a major tourist destination, and a center of culture and industry. Located on the Mediterranean coast, it boasts great weather, unique architecture, and a fun ambiance.
From taking in Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia to strolling along Las Ramblas, a student or tourist in Barcelona is never bored. It is considered one of the top study abroad destinations for students who want to experience Barcelona's culture, take in its beaches, or dance the night away in anyone of the huge discotecas.
Barcelona: famous for its history, its parties, its beaches and its culture. The capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, Barcelona is considered one of the world's major global cities. There are weekend excursions a'plenty, with such notable nearby landmarks as Mt. Tibidabo, Montjuic Castle and the site of the 1998 Olympics.
Student Housing
If you study abroad with a third party provider, they almost always provide housing for students or can assist you with finding some. However, if you directly enroll in a university in Barcelona, you may be in charge of finding a homestay or apartment on your own. For student housing, Beroomers and UniPlaces are good places to check. For homestays, try Homestay.com.
Culture and Immersion
Barcelona is a city saturated with art and history. The minute you set foot in Plaza Catalunya – which will likely be your first stop from the airport – you need only peek a few blocks away to see the fantastical architectural wonderments of Gaudi. From Gaudi's coveted La Pedrera to the infamously incomplete Sagrada Familia to the environmental getaway of Parc Guell, his artistic touch offers a whimsical feel unique to Barcelona. The Picasso museum can also be found in the heart of the city.
Catalunya is also a proud region. Boasting its own dialect and regional history, Catalonians even celebrate their own regional holidays and festivals, such as La Merce and La Diada Nacional. Many students studying Spanish are often shocked to find that they don't overhear many Spanish conversations at all, but don't worry, most Catalunians find it amusing to practice Spanish with foreigners.
…and many foreigners there are. Barcelona's popularity with European students offers the opportunity to mingle with not only native Spaniards, but also with students (and citizens) from various European countries.
Culture Shock and Support
Dinner is at 9 p.m. on an early night, professors often show up rather late to class, city workers and sales associates do not pay nearly as much attention to customers as in American: These things, combined with distance from home and a completely unfamiliar territory, make for an almost inevitable bout of culture shock.
Luckily, many study abroad programs offer fantastic support systems. API, the program with which I studied abroad, kept students busy from their first day abroad by teaching us about regional classes, offering us office hours for supportive pep talks, and making sure students found a friend within the program.
You won't regret a decision to study abroad in Barcelona; it is a city that has anything a foreign student could hope for.
Contributed by Kristin Nehls
Study abroad programs in Barcelona vary depending on what is offered, but you can expect to spend about $10,000 per semester. It is important to consider what is offered in your study abroad package before going abroad; because Barcelona is so aptly located for travel to the rest of Europe, many study abroad programs will offer international excursions, with all expenses included as part of their study abroad fee.
Because Spain's currency is the euro, it is also important to explore the patterns of the exchange rate before going abroad, and factor that into you budget. Barcelona is a big city with big city prices, meaning it could be more expensive than options in southern Spain. There are, however, plenty of great deals for students throughout the city (free drink nights and a three month metro card for about 100 Euro, to name a few).
Ask your university whether or not scholarships that you receive each semester can be transferred towards your study abroad expenses; programs such as API will accept all funding that a school is willing to transfer, which can bring your study abroad cost down significantly. Or you can always apply for independent scholarships, such as the one offered by Go Overseas.
- API offers a variety of scholarships for those participating in their programs - including a few great options in Spain!
- CC-CS scholarship fund offers multiple scholarships, celebrating diversity or rewarding academic excellence for alumni and program participants.
- ISA sponsors the Dr. Carlos Castañeda Memorial Scholarships for students participating in an ISA program in a Spanish-speaking country.
- More Study Abroad Grants and Scholarships


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4.241J / 11.330J Theory of City Form
Covers theories about the form that settlements should take. Attempts a distinction between descriptive and normative theory by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. Concentrates on the origins of the modern city and theories about its emerging form, including the transformation of the 19th-century city and its organization. Analyzes current issues of city form in relation to city-making, social structure, and physical design.


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Save Time and Money by Watering the Right Way
True, water is essential to lawns. But too much or too little can harm them. Running the sprinkler all night wastes a precious resource and sets up the right conditions for disease. Frequent, light watering sets your lawn up for trouble in hot weather. Here are a few easy pointers for correct watering.


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Truly speaking, the little I know about morality, I learnt it on football pitches. Albert Camus, French philosopher and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature.
In four days' time the sound of a whistle and crisp thud of a boot on a football will herald a month when the world's eyes are fixed on South Africa.
In the coming weeks, billions of people will watch the spectacle of the much-anticipated Fifa World Cup 2010, held for the first time in its 80-year existence in Africa.
For the most part the global television audience of more than 300 million will be focussed on what happens on the 10 football pitches around South Africa and celebrating the winning teams.
But Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and other organisations want the world to see the full picture. While the unifying power of football is celebrated 1.4 million people are still dying needlessly of HIV/Aids each year in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these deaths could be averted by increased access to antiretroviral therapies (ART) and a right to treatment.
MSF wants to remind the world that the HIV/Aids crisis is not over.
MSF teams are present in several countries of the Southern African region and provide assistance, treatment and care in numerous communities affected by HIV/Aids and its deadly associate disease, tuberculosis.
During the following six weeks, this blog will give people living with HIV/Aids, MSF doctors, nurses, lay counsellors and football supporters the opportunity to speak out about this reality while the world's media and competing nations focus on the football matches.
The world has witnessed remarkable achievements in the fight against HIV/Aids during the last 10 years which saved the lives of millions in developing countries through the scale-up of treatment and care for people living with HIV/Aids.
More than 4 million people in developing countries now have access to life-saving ARTs — an incredible medical feat. However all these efforts are not enough as 9.5 million more people in the developing world who need ART are still on the waiting list.
But a treatment funding deficit will condemn these millions of people living with HIV/Aids to death.
These millions of people are almost all entirely dependent on donor countries and institutions like the US President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to survive. But there has been a perceptible shift among donor countries in the G8 away from promises they made to keep up with long-term commitments to fund ARTs for people living with HIV/Aids.
So, what we are seeing now is that the much-anticipated happy and normal full time that life-prolonging funded ART would have brought is now under threat.
The effect of a donor retreat on funding the HIV/Aids fight is like having the referee blow his whistle to stop the World Cup final match halfway through. It would cause an outrage, with nations and people up in arms over the match being stopped at half-time. But the sad fact is when donors and the rich nations start turning the HIV funding tap off — an action that will result in the premature and preventable death of millions of people needing immediate treatment for HIV/Aids — it happens with little or no reaction or outrage. This is not acceptable.
We call on the world to protest against lives being lost because poor nations cannot afford treatment.
By reading this blog and contributing your views, you can take a stand in support of universal access to treatment and care for ALL people living with HIV/Aids. By doing this you'll stand in support of giving people in developing countries living with HIV/Aids a sporting chance. The world needs to demand Extra-Time in the deciding match where scoring for treatment, saving the lives of people and beating HIV/Aids is the ultimate goal. Let the provision of funded and scaled-up antiretroviral treatment and saving millions of lives be the winner, then only will the world triumph.
Borrie La Grange
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In-Home Health Care Workers, known as In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Workers, have been in wage and benefit negotiations with Humboldt County for almost a year and a half with no reslution to this point. IHSS Workers are asking for a wage increase from the minimum wage of $8.00 an hour to $9.50, and additionally are asking for health benefits and union recognition.The group is calling for Humboldt County residents to contact Supervisors to voice support for their cause.
According to the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Web Page: "In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) is a program directed by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) that provides aid to blind, aged, and disabled individuals who are unable to remain safely in their own home without the aid of a care provider. In Humboldt County, The Department of Health and Human Services Social Services Branch manages the IHSS program. Humboldt County In-Home Supportive Services is committed to having elders, disabled adults and disabled children in Humboldt County live to their highest personal potential in the least restrictive environment. Designed as an alternative to out-of-home care such as nursing homes, the Humboldt County IHSS program has a team of Social Workers, Public Health Nurses, Mental Health Clinicians, Eligibility Workers, and Vocational Assistants that work together in determining the needs and eligibility of the applicant."
Additional Resources on this Issue:
California United Home Care Workers - http://www.cuhw.org/
KMUD News Coordinator Terri Klemetson recently aired two pieces related to this story. The first which aired on KMUD Local News on August 23, 2012 includes an interview with Margaret Lewis, one of the negotiators for the IHSS workers.The second, airing on August 24, 2012, contained information about the issue from Mark Lovelace, Humboldt County District 3 Supervisor. Use the players below to hear or download these audio clips.
Interview with Margaret Lewis
Interview with Mark Lovelace


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Built by Camper & Nicholson to one of the finest designs of Charles E. Nicholson; this yacht originally named SYLVANA was launched in 1910. When commissioned, Nicholson had clearly won over the wealthy yachtsmen of the period to his designs that by then were regularly beating those of Watson, Fife and Herreshoff on the race course.
Now ORION OF THE SEAS; she was completely rebuilt 2003-2005 with a total focus on keeping the original detail where possible but where modern systems were installed; then most discreetly and with effective sound insulation. Where money is no object it can lead to "over restoration" but the treatment of ORION leaves her looking very much as she would have done in 1910 – yet she is probably stronger now than she ever was and could reasonably be described as a "classic super yacht". As a regular winner on the classic race circuit; many who have spent time aboard acknowledge how she has touched their lives – she is simply unforgettable.
Built by Camper & Nicholson to one of the finest designs of Charles E. Nicholson; this yacht originally named SYLVANA was launched in 1910. When commissioned, Nicholson had clearly won over the wealthy yachtsmen of the period to his designs that by then were regularly beating those of Watson, Fife and Herreshoff on the race course.
Now ORION OF THE SEAS; she was completely rebuilt 2003-2005 with a total focus on keeping the original detail where possible but where modern systems were installed; then most discreetly and with effective sound insulation. Where money is no object it can lead to "over restoration" but the treatment of ORION leaves her looking very much as she would have done in 1910 – yet she is probably stronger now than she ever was and could reasonably be described as a "classic super yacht". As a regular winner on the classic race circuit; many who have spent time aboard acknowledge how she has touched their lives – she is simply unforgettable.
It was in 1910 that SYLVANA, a schooner destined to make history, was launched at Camper & Nicholson's yard in Gosport At that time yachting was in its comparative youth, but the class and elegance of this lovely schooner made her stand out immediately. Built for the Spanish Royal family, she was later bought by one Colonel Courtenay Morgan, registered at Portsmouth and then sailed under the British flag. Subsequently SYLVANA transferred to Brest and sold to another owner, who in turn resold her. She subsequently moved to Argentina, remaining there for some years.
In 1930 the schooner once again became the property of a Spanish owner, who brought her to the Mediterranean, so after five names ranging from PAIS DE FRANCE, through LE MATIN, DIANE and VIRA the schooner was finally renamed ORION. One of the most important times in her history was in 1967, when without masts and with her deck seriously damaged following an incident off Cap Creos during a close-hauled passage in difficult weather conditions, she was transferred to La Spezia.
It was during this period that the boat was attacked by time and neglect, everything on board deteriorated or disappeared. Notwithstanding having run the risk of demolition she actually spent four years laid up in Le Grazie.
Luckily as in the best fairy stories someone fell in love with this image of beauty; two brothers to be precise, who without fighting over this boat did everything they could to give her the love she so badly needed and place her back on her throne as queen of the seas, following the original plans. Naturally the work involved the whole hull structure, upper works and systems, which were obviously updated and modernised to meet modern safety canons.
Meanwhile her sail plan had already been redesigned from a schooner with fore and aft rigging into one with staysails. The main deck had also badly damaged, and for this reason was redesigned by Faggioni and then rebuilt with local labour.
Another key period in her history was the work undertaken in 1998-99, when the original schooner fore-and-aft rigging was reinstated.
The new rigging included shorter masts saved by the gaff of the master spanker. Given the major structural works carried out, the interior was also restored to its former splendour with much passion and dedication of those involved. Until then the interior had been neglected and even carelessly painted, covering up detail that deserved to be highlighted and appreciated in their original state.
After no less than five names and twelve owners, ORION is once again a cult figure for lovers of vintage yachts Thanks to the outstanding historic value and technical characteristics, ORION has taken part in the most important classic regattas including the Veteran Boat Rally in which she duelled with another queen MARIETTE, engaging in battles comparable with those enjoyed during the America's Cup. Streamlined, elegant and highly polished, she has always stood out thanks to her capacity for decisive sailing even in light winds, her unfurled sails making the most of even the lightest breeze.
Since slipping her first mooring in Gosport in 1910, ORION has experienced moments of splendour and abandon, finally brought back to her former glory to earn the nickname "Pearl of the Mediterranean".
Captain Renzo Castagna, who skippered the schooner until 2003 has said: "Like all the men who have worked on board ORION during its long history, I feel nostalgia and affection for this boat that are difficult to put into words. I can tell you that all those that worked on her were struck by this boat, no ordinary boat, not simply a vintage boat, but one with special appeal. Her present owner has understood this and wants to restore her to exactly how she was in the beginning. Years ago the original drawings were obtained in England and the rigging was restored, because they realised that the rigging introduced during restoration in the seventies was decidedly less efficient than the original. In particular it compromised her manoeuvrability, tacking was not as easy, above all with a light wind, and for this reason we participated in meets but not in the more difficult regattas. The previous rigging had a shorter bowsprit and was a mixture of fore- and-aft and Latin rigging. This was fine for strong winds but made everything more difficult when manoeuvring with a light wind. She needed canvas up high, only in this way could she become more competitive.
Over recent years, instead of only taking part in show regattas, ORION has participated in far more competitive regattas, in which she duelled for example with MARIETTE", with many of the crew that had previously been on "Orion" on the latter boat. This situation always created great rivalry - healthy sporting rivalry. Both yachts belonged to Italian owners and this fact increased competition too. Latterly ORION's owner took her to a boatyard near Marseilles specially set up to renovate this schooner. He decided to completely rebuild her based on original documentation, in the past he completed restored the famous ROLLY GO he is a lover of this kind of work and does it very well. Notably in 2002 the boat was awarded a prize during a meet in Monte Carlo, by old Mr. Nicholson, who said: "This is my boat, the boat my father built, I recognise her as she is now". I am sure that her current owner will manage to restore her to the splendour of 1910, the day she was launched. ORION is a boat that manages to cast a spell on you, those who have crewed on her talk about her always, because her seaworthiness and sailing virtues are really difficult to find elsewhere. She sails well and above all has no fear, neither from a structure nor from a waterline point of view, in fact a fully developed sea is her ideal environment. This is also due to her weight, was substantially increased after restoration with the installation of previously nonexistent systems and special systems such as the steel tanks, but nevertheless it is still a very competitive boat. Even the deck plan is unique; for example the crew has the whole of the forward quarters at their disposal while the remaining three quarters of the boat are dedicated to the owner and his guests. The interiors are spacious and divided up well, large rooms where the crew does not interfere with the owner's privacy."
- Composite construction; teak and Iroko planking on galvanised steel frames
- Teak decks
- Teak Superstructure
- Mahogany interior joinery
Accommodation for 10 guests in 5 staterooms and 7 crew members
- Doghouse / deck saloon forward
- Companionway stairs down aft of deck saloon and corridor aft
- Main saloon beautifully appointed for dining and socialising in style
- Doorway aft to
Master suite recently re-configured aft of the main saloon
- 2 x Double berths; one each side
- Access aft to the master bathroom and shower
Moving forward through the saloon the foot of the main stairwell to four further guest cabins
-2 x Double cabin with en suite bathrooms
-2 x Twin cabin with en-suite bathrooms
Forward to the galley
- Walk-in fridge
- Large primary freezer
- 2 x Secondary freezers
- 2 x Fridges
- Electrolux professional oven
- Electrolux professional induction plate and wok
- Electrolux professional polished chrome plate
- Electrolux ice maker
- Electric slicing machine
Forward again to 3 crew cabins with separate access to the galley and crew quarters from the foredeck
- Miele stainless steel 7 kg washing machine
- Miele stainless steel 8 kg dryer
- Electrolux rotary presser
- Centralised vacuum system
- Oregon pine spars
- Main mast height 174ft / 53m
- Sail area 1,200 Sq m to 2,250 Sq m
- Stainless steel standing rigging
- Polyester running rigging
All Dacron sails
- Main
- Foremain
- Working Topsail
- 2 x Fore topsail
- Racing Staysail
- Jib
- Jib top sail
- Ballooner
- 14 x Meissner classic hydraulic winches
- Hydraulic electric main halyard winch
- 2 x Hydraulic anchor windlasses
- Classic teak and bronze aft gangway
- Classic admiral's ladder
- Classic Vidoli Shipyard wooden tender for 12 people
- Rubber tender for 12 people with 100 HP Novamarine engine
- 2 x Caterpillar 6 cylinder 3306 TA 350 HP each with Z drive
- ZF V Drive gearbox
- 2 x Bruntons feathering propellers
- Cruising speed 11 Knots
- Max speed 13 Knots
- Kohler 27 kW generator
- Kohler 21 kW generator
- 3 Phase 220 V Alternator
- 24 V battery bank
- Siemens electric boiler heating system
- 3x Separate electric/ engine calorifierdomestic hot water systems; master, guest, crew
- Tecma WCs
- HEM 400 l/h water maker
- HEM UV installation antibacterial
- BWT mineral water production system
- Hamann Super mini water treatment
- 2,000 litres Fresh water
- 1,000 litres grey and black water
- Simrad B&G Navigation Equipment last generation with remote installation at helm
- Simrad B&G autopilot
- Hydraulic rudder installation
- Classic barograph
- Simrad radar
- Thrane & Thrane Satellite telephone
- Sailor VHF
- Apple computer
- 2 x ACR - Pathfinder and Mini B300
- Life Jackets
- Fire suppression system
- Galley fire and bilge Pumps
- Engine room bilge / fire pumps
- Fire extinguishers
- 3 x Life rafts
ORION was housed in a purpose-built facility in La Ciotat, France, where she underwent a 2 year complete re-build. Every effort was made and achieved to create a modern yacht without losing any of her heritage and pedigree, and without detriment to her century old history. Key features were:
- Hull planking removed and hull taken back to bare steel frames
- Keelson and stem timbers retained
- Frames re-galvanised and painted
- The best – some 70 % of old and new teak planking refastened
- With absolute attention to detail as much of the original interior joinery as possible retained
- Original interior re-built and repaired / replaced to match where necessary
- Efficient insulation as possible installed to minimise noise
- Engine room and galley completely renewed and refitted throughout
- Re-engined with addition of new generators
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- Constant on-going attention and maintenance
These particulars have been prepared from information provided by the vendors and are intended as general guide. The purchaser should confirm details of concern to them by survey or engineers inspection. The purchaser should also ensure that the purchase contract properly reflects their concerns and specifies details on which they wish to rely.
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The man responsible for one of the biggest U.S. intelligence leaks in history, 29-year old Edward Snowden, has been staying in a room in a Hong Kong hotel for the past three weeks.
And now, says CNN, he is running out of money.
One of the two Guardian reporters who broke the story with Snowden, Ewen MacAskill, says the cost of the hotel is beginning to max out Snowden's credit card.
The Guardian reporters, Glenn Greenwald and MacAskill, who are also in Hong Kong, declined to reveal what hotel Snowden is staying in.
If the U.S. intelligence apparatus is anything like as powerful as what Snowden describes, however, it probably won't be long until he is located. And at that point, a hotel bill will probably be the least of Snowden's concerns.
(And perhaps the Guardian will pick up the tab!)
The results of an early Business Insider reader poll suggest that Snowden has won the hearts and minds of people worldwide. Two-thirds of those who responded to the poll think Snowden is a "hero." Only one third think he is a "traitor" or "haven't made up their minds."


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The ship that Captain Morgan lost while sacking Panama City in 1671 had long been thought gone forever. Meet the man who thinks he found it.
WE'RE IN A TURKISH SCHOONER, cruising toward the mouth of Panama's Chagres River, with captain Bryan Carson at the helm. Carson is tanned, 30-something, a Californian who abandoned a fluorescent-lit corporate existence to "live like a pirate" in the Caribbean. His uniform today is a pair of board shorts adorned with pictures of Bob Marley, and he's leaning back, steering with his left foot. "I woke up one morning and I couldn't do the cubicle thing anymore," he explains, idly scanning the horizon. "It just got to be—"
Suddenly Carson's eyes go big and his bare soles hit the deck. "Hold on!" he says, giving the wheel a hard nudge with his hand. "You see that?" He points to the depth meter. It reads 1.6 feet, as in 1.6 feet of clearance beneath our hull. "This is an extremely hairy place to maneuver. No wonder Morgan had problems here."
By "Morgan" he means the British admiral Sir Henry Morgan, a.k.a. Captain Morgan, the most brilliant privateer and pirate of his era. In 1670, Morgan sailed into the Chagres en route to Panama City, the jewel of the Spanish Empire, on his way to successfully sacking it. But mere yards from where we're cruising, Morgan's flagship, the Satisfaction, was lost when it smashed into an infamous coral reef by the name of Lajas—which we just missed by 1.6 feet. Three hundred forty-two years after the buccaneer king wrecked here, we nearly staged a reenactment.
As the author of a book on Morgan's life, Empire of Blue Water, I came to Panama to meet up with Fritz Hanselmann, an archaeologist who believes he's found what scores of explorers and treasure hunters have failed to locate: the wreck of the Satisfaction on the Chagres riverbed, right under our feet. As his team dives on the remains, the world waits to see if the scientist from Texas State University can prove his claim.
Hours after our close call on the Chagres, Hanselmann and I stroll along the battlements of a ruined fort called San Lorenzo that looks out over Lajas Reef. Before Morgan crashed onto the reef, his men took San Lorenzo in a grisly hand-to-hand fight that opened the way to Panama. We look down on the swirling waters where the Chagres River meets the Caribbean Sea. "I've thought about this for a long time," says the strapping, blond-haired Hanselmann. "When I was growing up I was reading books about Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Empire. Now we're here trying to bring that adventure to life."
WHILE IN OTHER PARTS of the world it may seem like all that's left of Captain Morgan is the rum brand (which sells 100 million bottles a year and is underwriting Hanselmann's expeditions to find all five of Morgan's lost ships), the buccaneer's spirit still haunts the streets of this old colonial city, where he led an army of political refugees and outright criminals in bloody forays against the Spanish.
So, as Hanselmann and his three-man team get their scuba gear ready for their next dive, I head to a gated Panama City neighborhood and the residence of Juan David Morgan, a lawyer with the firm Morgan & Morgan. Ensconced in a richly appointed home overflowing with rare Central American art, the lawyer is putting the finishing touches on a novel about the pirate commander. Morgan is an unusual name in Central America, I point out. Could he be related to Henry Morgan? He laughs. "He had no children, so I don't think so." But when Juan was growing up, no one believed that. "I would go to grammar school and when the children heard my name, they would say, 'You are a pirate. Your family stole all the gold from Panama!'"
Which isn't to say there's a consensus here on Captain Morgan's legacy. If you ask the locals who he was, you're likely to get a number of different answers: thief, adventurer, traitor, hero and so forth. I ask Juan Morgan which noun he would choose. "He was all of these things," he says, smiling. "That's what makes him so fascinating." Later, a tour guide echoes the sentiment. "To the British, he was a patriot," he says. "To the Spanish, a villain. But to the slaves of Santo Domingo, a hero." Dominican slaves, the man tells me, used Morgan's raids to stage their own revolts against the Spanish. That's a new one.
I make my way back to the dive site to find Hanselmann and his team eating dinner at a nearby restaurant. Captain Bryan is playing harmonica in a pickup band. I buttonhole a waitress named Juanita and ask her if she knows the notorious Captain Morgan.
"Of course I know him. Everyone does."
I nod, expectantly. Juanita looks at me.
"And what do they say about him?" "
Captain Bryan is whaling on an Eagles song. It's hard to hear. "Morgan!" I yell. "Bueno o malo?"
"Ah," Juanita says, leaning in toward me. "Captain Morgan, he was a baaaaaaaad man. This is what we learn in school."
Later, I relate the exchange to Hanselmann. "Sure, Morgan stole and pillaged," he says. "But his ships were among the few democratic societies around at the time." Indeed, his pirates were some of the first small-d democrats in the Americas: They elected their captains and voted on their mission targets. "These were free men," says Hanselmann. "And by the way, look at the Spanish! If you compare what Morgan did to what the conquistadors did, it's not even close."
WHEN I CATCH UP WITH HANSELMANN on the water the next morning, he's just surfaced with two new artifacts from the wreck: a sword fragment and a barnacled horseshoe. He's excited about the first—Morgan and his men would have come to the Chagres armed to the teeth. The sword makes sense. The horseshoe is more problematic. The privateers didn't bring pack mules with them; they stole what they needed along the way.
Hanselmann places the artifacts in plastic bags and we drive to the Pacific side of the country, crossing the Panama Canal. Soon the Panama City skyline comes into view; it looks as big as Houston's. We crawl through the traffic and finally arrive at the Patronato Panamá Viejo (Old Panama Trust) in the ancient part of the city, where the artifacts will become part of a major collection of Hanselmann's discoveries.
Waiting for us is Tómas Mendizábal, a young Panamanian archaeologist who is co-director of the Morgan project. He takes me down to the basement, where the fruits of Hanselmann's labor are submerged in large plastic tubs, with thin red and blue wires snaking into the water. "We're extracting the salts," says Mendizábal, "because when the artifacts dry, the salts crystallize and expand and then, poof, the artifacts split apart."
I look down into the tubs and spot a big 17th-century French cannon, along with smaller guns whose English brands are visible through the water. Hanselmann pulled these guns off the riverbed two years ago, from a site near the ship that the archaeologists found. They've been undergoing electrolysis ever since.
We know that before it became the Satisfaction, Morgan's flagship was a French sloop that had sailed the Caribbean Sea under the name Le Cerf Volant. The pirates captured it and added four cannons to the ship's gunnery, bringing the total to 22. Spanish ships of the time most likely would have carried only Spanish-made guns, so these British cannons were probably Morgan's. It really is a tremendous find. The only other physical artifact we have from the pirate captain is a comb that resides in a Jamaican archive. These iron weapons, however, are intimately connected to who Morgan was.
"When I heard that Fritz had found the cannons, I thought, Cool!" says the boyishly enthusiastic Mendizábal. "We've never had any material evidence that he was here, except for Panamá Viejo." That is, the old city that Morgan burned down, separate from the new city—now populated by skyscrapers—that was founded after the pirates left.
Mendizábal makes his living, in a way, from the buccaneer king. When someone in Panamá Viejo wants to renovate a building, they must first call in an archaeologist to dig the site. Still, Mendizábal isn't Morgan's biggest fan. "He was a criminal!" he says, laughing. "Even if he had a huge impact on all our lives, that's what I believe."
Hanselmann arrives and we examine the horseshoe. It doesn't fit with what we know about the Satisfaction. What's worse, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the 80 chests that were found at the bottom of the ship in the Chagres. "If I'm Morgan and I'm coming into Panama," says Hanselmann, "I'm coming with an empty ship. Sailing here with a full hold doesn't make sense to me." Pirates of Morgan's era saw their ships as getaway cars. They wanted them to be fast and empty.
After further study, the verdict is unavoidable: The cannons the team found probably belonged to Morgan. The sword did too. But the ship did not. Most likely, it's a Spanish vessel that sailed at about the same time that Morgan was alive.
We retire to a bar in Panamá Viejo to quietly consider the implications over glasses of rum. "The ship isn't Morgan's," says Hanselmann finally, "but it is a picture of what Morgan was facing. It's his world."
We nod. The Satisfaction is still out there, somewhere in the Chagres River. Nevertheless, the team has the cannons, and Mendizábal is thinking about what they will mean to his countrymen. "Panamanians aren't big on history—at all," he says. "Most 20-year-olds today don't even know who Noriega was! But ask any kid in the street, any taxi driver, they know Henry Morgan." It's a weird twist, freighted with irony: One of the best hopes of sparking the locals' interest in Panama's history is the man who burned their capital to the ground.
So long as the money holds out, Hanselmann will continue his quest. But whether or not he's successful, it's clear that Morgan's legacy goes well beyond whatever may be waiting at the bottom of the Chagres. He's as alive as any 17th-century pirate could expect to be, still haunting the memories of Central Americans, still serving as a sort of model for adventurers like Captain Bryan, looking for a way out of a humdrum life.
It's settled: Henry Morgan lives. Or at least his ghost. We raise our glasses—even Mendizábal—and toast the old rogue.
STEPHAN TALTY's latest book, Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day, tracks the life of another fearless adventurer.
Very interesting. Do we know when and which pirates added the four additional cannon to the Satisfaction? Presumably it was after the raid on Maricaibo?


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James Hardy Wilkinson
Born: 27 September 1919 in Strood, Kent, England
Died: 5 October 1986 in Teddington, Middlesex, England
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Jim Wilkinson's mother was Kathleen Charlotte Hardy and his father was James William Wilkinson who was in the dairy business. The family were not well off but were close and supported each other. There were five children in the family and Jim was the third child, having one brother and three sisters. Jim showed a great ability to carry out complicated arithmetical calculations as a child, and whats more he enjoyed doing so. He won a Foundation Scholarship to Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Rochester, at the age of eleven. This was fortunate, for his parent's dairy business collapsed in the 1930s and the family were left extremely poorly off. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and matriculated there shortly after his seventeenth birthday. At Cambridge he was taught by Hardy, Littlewood and Besicovitch. His final examination results were sent to him by Besicovitch who wrote:-
Easily at the top of the First Class. Heartiest Congratulations.At this stage Wilkinson seemed set to become a classical analyst but the Second World War changed the direction of his research. In 1940, rather than going into the infantry, Wilkinson began war work on the thermodynamics of explosions, ballistics, supersonic flow, and fragmentation of shells. At first he tried to solve analytically the problems he was presented with, which after all was the way he had learnt at university to solve problems, but he soon realised that he would have to use approximate numerical methods if he was to obtain useful results. He began to put his greatest efforts into the numerical solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations, using finite difference methods and the method of characteristics. He carried out the calculations on a mechanical calculating machine which he operated by turning a handle.
In 1945 Wilkinson married Heather Nora Ware, the daughter of a buyer for a drapery warehouse; they had one daughter and one son.
In [9] Wilkinson makes the interesting comment that if the war had only lasted for three years he would almost certainly have returned to Cambridge and resumed his research on classical analysis. However, he spent six years involved with numerical computing and by this time he was completely fascinated by the new area of research. As a child he had been fascinated by calculating, but his course at Cambridge had taken his interests towards analytic techniques. His war work had taken him back to the love of his childhood, namely calculating, and now he wanted to push forward with the development of computational mathematics. He became Turing's assistant at the National Physical Laboratory in London in May 1946.
At the National Physical Laboratory he worked on the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) computer project and, although no computer existed at that time, he wrote subroutines to do floating-point arithmetic. His role at this time was described as follows:-
Turing provided the blueprint, but could not get on with others. Wilkie [the name by which Wilkinson was known at that time] was able to cooperate as well as anyone with Turing, and had the tact and wisdom necessary to get things done. He grasped all the technical details very quickly, shared the lectures on ACE with Turing and wrote the definitive description of the design.In 1948 Turing left the ACE project and Wilkinson [1]:-
... took a leading role in the development of a modified machine, known as Pilot ACE; this proved highly successful from its inception in May 1950.Pilot ACE was intended to demonstrate the potential of the technology. In [9] Wilkinson describes the public demonstration of Pilot ACE in 1950, at which the machine, incredibly, ran much better and for much longer than it ever had before. After the successful demonstration, Wilkinson realised for the first time that he would now be expected to do useful work on the Pilot ACE computer, which, until that moment, he had only though of as a means of convincing others that the ACE project had potential and should be continued.
He continued work becoming more involved in writing many high quality papers on numerical analysis, particularly numerical linear algebra. Having written subroutines to do floating-point arithmetic before a computer had been built to run them on, he was now in the fortunate position of being able to progress rapidly, gaining experience with floating-point computing. In numerical linear algebra he developed backward error analysis methods. He worked on numerical methods for solving systems of linear equations and eigenvalue problems. He wrote over 100 papers and was best known for his books Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes (1963) and the impressive The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem (1965).
As well as the large numbers of papers on his theoretical work on numerical analysis, Wilkinson developed computer software, working on the production of libraries of numerical routines. The NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) began work in 1970 and much of the linear algebra routines were due to Wilkinson.
He received many awards for his outstanding work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969. He received the A M Turing award from the Association of Computing Machinery and the J von Neumann award from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics both in 1970. He was awarded honorary doctorates by Brunel (1971), Heriot-Watt (1973), Waterloo (1978), and Essex (1979).
George Forsythe wrote in 1960:-
In my opinion Wilkinson is single-handedly responsible for the creation of almost all of the current body of scientific knowledge about the computer solution of the problems of linear algebra.He is described in [4] as having extrovert characteristics but being a reserved and private man:-
Discussion with him was not always easy because the competitive instinct led him to introduce topics about which he had read and remembered a great deal.He was described by a colleague as:-
... always optimistic and jovial, very fair and impartial in his evaluations, liked virtually everybody, had a nearly overpowering enthusiasm for many things outside mathematics. ... he was always competitive.His main interest outside mathematics was music, on which he was extremely knowledgeable, and he was also an expert on wines. He died at home from a heart attack.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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Mourning scrapbook from 1879 made by "Mary". Picked up at an estate auction, full of pages of handwritten verse and die-cuts that are glued in place. It is a touching tribute, in remembrance of a sister who passed away. In the second image is the date June 24, 1879 which I infer to be the date her sister passed away. In the third image is the date November 6, 1879 and indication that would have been her sister's 17th birthday.
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What does the DllThreads_slim.dll file do?
The DllThreads_slim.dll process is also known as ThreadDll or, as the case may be, is a part of as the case may be. This software is produced by PopSoft. An obsolete or defective version of DllThreads_slim.dll can cause problems for your computer that can range from slowness to error messages such as these:
- ThreadDll has stopped working. Windows is checking for a solution to the problem... (Windows 10, 8, 7)
- ThreadDll has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. (Windows 10, 8, 7)
- DllThreads_slim.dll has encountered a problem and needs to close. (Windows XP)
- Access violation at address FFFFFFFF in module DllThreads_slim.dll. Read of address 00000000.
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ThreadDll developed by PopSoft for the
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Frequently occurring are file sizes such as 57344 Byte (56KB) bytes.
How to fix DllThreads_slim.dll?
Method 1: Solving the DLL Error by Copying the DllThreads_slim.dll File to the Windows System Folder
Download the DllThreads_slim.dll error Repair Tool.
- If you are using a 64 Bit operating system, copy the "DllThreads_slim.dll" file and paste it into the "C:\Windows\sysWOW64" as well.
NOTE! On Windows operating systems with 64 Bit architecture, the dll file must be in both the "sysWOW64" folder as well as the "System32" folder. In other words, you must copy the "DllThreads_slim.dll" file into both folders.
Next, You need to do a full System Scan
- In order to complete this step, you must run the Command Prompt as administrator. In order to do this, all you have to do is follow the steps below.
NOTE! We ran the Command Prompt using Windows 10. If you are using Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, you can use the same method to run the Command Prompt as administrator.
- Open the Start Menu and before clicking anywhere, type "cmd" on your keyboard. This process will enable you to run a search through the Start Menu. We also typed in "cmd" to bring up the Command Prompt.
- Right-click the "Command Prompt" search result that comes up and click the Run as administrator" option.
- Paste the command below into the Command Line that will open up and hit Enter. This command will delete the damaged registry of the DllThreads_slim.dll file (It will not delete the file we pasted into the System32 folder; it will delete the registry in Regedit. The file we pasted into the System32 folder will not be damaged).
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe /u DllThreads_slim.dll
- If you have a 64 Bit operating system, after running the command above, you must run the command below. This command will clean the DllThreads_slim.dll file's damaged registry in 64 Bit as well (The cleaning process will be in the registries in the Registry Editor< only. In other words, the dll file you paste into the SysWoW64 folder will stay as it).
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe /u DllThreads_slim.dll
- We need to make a new registry for the dll file in place of the one we deleted from the Windows Registry Editor. In order to do this process, copy the command below and after pasting it in the Command Line, press Enter.
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe /i DllThreads_slim.dll
- Windows 64 Bit users must run the command below after running the previous command. With this command, we will create a clean and good registry for the DllThreads_slim.dll file we deleted.
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe /i DllThreads_slim.dll
- You may see certain error messages when running the commands from the command line. These errors will not prevent the installation of the DllThreads_slim.dll file. In other words, the installation will finish, but it may give some errors because of certain incompatibilities. After restarting your computer, to see if the installation was successful or not, try running the software that was giving the dll error again. If you continue to get the errors when running the software after the installation, you can try the 2nd Method as an alternative.
Click "Save File" and follow the on-screen instructions to install the program.
First, open DLLEscort, click on the "File Repair" to the right of the input "file name" and click "download"
After the download is complete, find the corresponding version of the file, click on "Open"
Method 2: Copying the DllThreads_slim.dll File to the Software File Folder
- In order to install the dll file, you need to find the file folder for the software that was giving you errors such as "DllThreads_slim.dll is missing", "DllThreads_slim.dll not found" or similar error messages. In order to do that, Right-click the software's shortcut and click the Properties item in the right-click menu that appears.
- Click on the Open File Location button that is found in the Properties window that opens up and choose the folder where the application is installed.
- Copy the DllThreads_slim.dll file into this folder that opens.
- This is all there is to the process. Now, try to run the software again. If the problem still is not solved, you can try the 3rd Method.
Method 4: Solving the DllThreads_slim.dll Error Using the Windows System File Checker
- In order to complete this step, you must run the Command Prompt as administrator. In order to do this, all you have to do is follow the steps below.
NOTE! We ran the Command Prompt using Windows 10. If you are using Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, you can use the same method to run the Command Prompt as administrator.
- Open the Start Menu and before clicking anywhere, type "cmd" on your keyboard. This process will enable you to run a search through the Start Menu. We also typed in "cmd" to bring up the Command Prompt.
- Right-click the "Command Prompt" search result that comes up and click the Run as administrator" option.
- Type the command below into the Command Line page that comes up and run it by pressing Enter on your keyboard.
sfc /scannow
- The process can take some time depending on your computer and the condition of the errors in the system. Before the process is finished, don't close the command line! When the process is finished, try restarting the software that you are experiencing the errors in after closing the command line.
How to uninstall ThreadDll SoftWare
To remove ThreadDll from your computer, please follow the manual instructions below .
- Click the Windows Start Button. In Windows 8, look for Control Panel.
- Click Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Look for ThreadDll or PopSoft in the list of available programs.
- Click Uninstall.
How to tell if DllThreads_slim.dll (ThreadDll) was uninstalled cleanly
After uninstalling, restart your computer. Then start Windows Explorer and see if there is still a folder with the name of the software under C:\Program Files. Be sure to check the Registry as well for remnants of ThreadDll. To do this, start "Regedit", then look under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" > "Software" for ThreadDll or the name of the producer. Always keep in mind that only a computer professional should ever directly delete entries in the Windows Registry.


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Sandy Hook False Flag Fallout Reaching Critical Mass by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 17 Jan 2013 Today, we read that a Newtown fourth-grade girl asked to 'ban semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines.' Wow. This is one erudite eight- or nine-year-old! See: Newtown Schools Chief Tells Washington Hearing About Fateful Day 16 Jan 2013 Newtown schools Superintendent Janet Robinson on Wednesday told U.S. House Democratic leaders about the horrors of the Dec. 14 shooting and ended by sharing a fourth-grader's letter to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asking for a change in gun laws. "What everyone in Newtown wants is for you to ban semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines and to make everyone use guns safely," Robinson said, reading from the letter. "This is important so that a person cannot shoot many people at once, and/or injure people badly. Semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity magazines put lives at risk." The Newtown fourth-grade girl asked that people opposed to gun control visit the town's municipal offices, which are lined with boxes full of cards and letters, and to read one card from every box to realize just how many people want a change in gun laws. [Yes, she asked for people to visit the 'town's municipal offices.' Now, how many *fourth-graders* do you know who pontificate about 'large-capacity magazines' and 'municipal offices?' This is obvious FAKERY.]
...so much of this story is BS, and NO accountability from totally Zionist/jewish dominated press. This FF investigation must go on til we get to the bottom of it. No tears I saw anywhere on TV and I watched close the first couple days.
Brother Nathaniel has some words on this hoax, as does veteranstoday that are worth reading, as the containment was lost weeks back.
This story and Aurora/Columbine is as big as 911 in my view. Same 'lay the groundwork' scenario (Oklahoma precedent, WTC precedent prior to hi-tech demo by Larry Stinkerteen)...and another advance to totalitarianism and socialism, OWG.
And what IS it with that school shooting exercise concluding next door that day in lil ole Newtown CT? And who are the people seen being chase into the woods by "PD" GOrdon Duff said on rense last week that he knows of RUssian satellite vdeo of the shooting, but maybe Gordon meant the real video available of this on Youtube.
I wish Dr, Kevin Barrett would apply his massive number of braincells to another installment on what he thinks, I asked him to at truthjihad,blogspot... He highly recommended your site as a great news sifter on one of his shows on Americanfreedomradio a few days back, and I concur.
Consider this exchange between a reporter and Ct. State Medical Examiner Wayne Carver, concerning the Sandy Hook victims' wounds (from an SOTT article by Niall Bradley & Joe Quinn):
"Unidentified reporter #4: How many bullets or bullet fragments did you find in the autopsy. Can you tell us that?
Carver: Oh. I'm lucky I can tell you how many I found. I don't know. There were lots of them, OK? This type of weapon is not, uh ... the bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy - this is very clinical. I shouldn't be saying this. But the energy is deposited in the tissue so the bullet stays in [the tissue].
[In fact, the Bushmaster .223 Connecticut police finally claimed was used in the shooting is designed for long range field use and utilizes high velocity bullets averaging 3,000 feet-per-second, the energy of which even at considerable distance would penetrate several bodies before finally coming to rest in tissue.] "
And to all those who value the truth - PLEASE DO NOT EQUATE ZIONISM WITH JUDAISM. The forces of Zionism are delighted when you do!
I was thinking the same thing. I heard him say the bullets remained in the tissue, which indicates a shotgun, not the rifle; then they tell us the bullets penetrated walls and windows, and then pierced cars in the parking lot. On the police radio, the cop says they have multiple guns in the school, "including rifles and shotguns"...plural
I own an AR15 along with several other weapons. You can buy .223 in hollow point (fragmentary) bullets which will stay within the body as they fragment on impact. However, hollow points are more common for use in .40 and 9mm handguns such as the Glock and SigSauer. The really peculiar thing is that all caskets are closed due to each child being shot in the "forehead" or "jaw" as reported by the few "parents" thus far. I suppose this could be the result of the killer following up, to make certain all injured parties were dead.
Still waiting for security video from this and the Aurora incidents. That the video was not damning, it would surely be used by MSM as graphic video is much more convincing than hear-say. The UN agenda to disarm would much benefit from video, would it not?
People believe we it is getting worse. I believe they are scared they are losing control and are turning up the heat. It was so easy from the 30's thru 80's to lie and cheat a population. All of their news came from one newspaper or a few news channels. Now, people are finding out there was a 3rd building which fell on 9/11. One not hit by a plane, yet fell as if imploded by demolition charges. Your news channel never showed you this, did it? Flight 93 was destined for WT7 because it contained the SEC. Unfortunately for the Jewish Mafia, it was shot down by an F16 pilot that didn't get the memo. If they would kill 3000+ in that flag to end constitutional rights, it is no stretch to think 26 more for the 2nd ammendment.
By the way, China likes Mexican Oil, but Zionists love bombs. Pemex went boom, not because of faulty electrical infrastructure, but as a warning shot against premature demise of the US bond.
China is all up in Africa and the Zionists are worried about resources (uranium and gold). That is Mali...
20 countries on 2 continents defines World War. What do you think we are in? Who do you think will win? Where will that leave you and family? Did you see the helicopter machine gun drills in Miami and Houston?
The stock market DJIA just breached 14000, tied for highest ever with 2007. Yet, they just reported that our economy had contracted over the last quarter. Zionist Bernanke prints $85 a month and gives it to JPM, GS, BAC in exchange for American Real Estate. The banks then dump this money in the stock market. It an illusion, a bubble, when the bond market fails, this one is going to hurt. Have you made preparations?
I get a kick out of Christians who say things like, "those sheeple are living in a delusional fantasy world". Do you see the irony? There are three scams: Religion, War and Money Creation. There is a god, it is energy. There is a soul, it is mass consciousness. Jesus was a man who taught that God is part of all of us and that you do not need to go through a priest to reach god. This idea of god is older than Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Freemasons at the highest levels know this as do their Illuminati (Jesuit) masters. At this level, they may claim Jewish, Catholic or Protestant, but remember this is just another smokescreen. Their religion is not like the common peoples. Why do you think they allow you to have a religion? If it were an empowering tool, would it not be spun until the truth was hidden? King James printed a Bible because the printing press encouraged many different versions, all to suit the printer's agenda. He set about his one approved agenda. Christians sure like to kill Muslims, anyone know why?
The rabbit hole is deep...
What do you get when you put the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids? The Sandy Hook Syndrome (with no disrespect intended toward the victims or their loved ones). See sott.net/article/257636-The-Sandy-Hook-Tragedy-An-Inquisitive-Visit-to-Newtown-Connecticut
While your overarching point that Sandy Hook might be false flag is worthy of examination as much as any opinion, I take issue with your assumption that this is fakery because a child used a phrase not normally attributable to children. My child is a third-grader... she independently determined that she was against assult rifles and high-capacity magazines after watching the news in her bedroom one evening after Sandy Hook. In our family we encourage examination of current events and we refrain from discouraging our children from forming opinions as long as they are formed with a reasonable examination of both sides of the debate. After she came to my wife and I, she asked what she could do to make her school safer. One option we discussed was to write her congressperson and ask for action. Although the letter was not written, it did spark quite the dicussion within our family on the role of government and how the buracacy functions (or fails to). I have every faith that had that letter been written it would have contained many phrases you would be surprised to see coming from a 9-year-old little girl who loves volleyball, her bunny, bugs and the beach when not pondering the constitutionality of limiting the 2nd amendment. Some of us have children who are very intelligent and capable of using terms and phrases that, quite frankly, many adults can't spell.
For you to assume "fakery" because you can't fathom your child (real or imagined) writing "...town's municiple offices..." is a ridiculous assumption. The irony is you would disagree if someone claimed your essay fakery because you give no support for your argument other than your conclusion that a child was overly erudite.
... and even though the public mind is now entranced in the Christopher Dorner episode of Shock Doctrine, a few of us still have unanswered questions about Sandy Hook. Perhaps you can offer a critique of the comments made by Dr. Wayne Carver, as noted below.
The misspelling was intentional you rube; sorry the point went over your head... now go back and find the second piece of satire I inserted since you're so clever. (Hint: you won't get it by policing the grammar and spelling this time - you'll actually have to pay attention to context, LOL.) As for Carver's comments - I don't care to comment on comments about something someone said was said... d'ja catch that? Read it slow, Rational Observer... LOL...
BTW, thanks for admitting (albeit after prodding) that a child did spell (and by extension, use) municipal correctly...
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The convictions of three men in the 2009 murder in Almaty of prominent Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk was a bright spot in Kazakhstan's otherwise grim press freedom record. The government had yet to reform its media laws in line with international standards, despite its promises to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE. To the contrary, the upper chamber of parliament approved a bill in December requiring international broadcasters to register with the government and imposing limits on foreign content aired by local cable carriers. Editor Ramazan Yesergepov continued to serve a three-year prison term on fabricated charges of collecting state secrets after a local court denied him early release. In November, an Almaty court convicted reporter Valery Surganov on defamation charges stemming from an article alleging police improprieties; the court imposed severe restrictions on his movements as penalty. The cases were a sobering reminder of the cost of critical journalism. In April, President Nursultan Nazarbayev won a fourth term in an election so uncompetitive that he took 95 percent of the vote, according to official results. OSCE monitors criticized the restrictive media climate in the run-up to the vote.
In October, an Almaty court found a former Kyrgyz security agent and two accomplices guilty in Pavlyuk's abduction and murder, sentencing them to prison terms ranging from 10 to 17 years, international press reports said. The court said the killing was motivated by Pavlyuk's journalism, but it did not specify a reason or name a mastermind, the regional news website Fergana News reported.
Pavlyuk case timeline:
December 16, 2009: Pavlyuk was hospitalized in a coma after being abducted and thrown out of a sixth-floor window in Almaty, regional press reports said.
December 22, 2009: Pavlyuk died in an Almaty hospital, Fergana News reported.
November 29, 2010: Kazakh prosecutors brought charges against ex-Kyrgyz security agent Aldayar Ismankulov, regional press reports said.
October 11, 2011: Ismankulov and two accomplices, Almaz Igilikov and Shalkar Urazalin, were convicted.
Ramazan Yesergepov, editor of the independent weekly Alma-Ata Info, remained in prison on antistate charges, according to CPJ research. Yesergepov's newspaper published two memos from the KNB, the Kazakh security service, that showed high-ranking agents conspiring to influence a prosecutor and a judge in a tax-evasion case.
Yesergepov case timeline:
November 2008: Yesergepov's article, titled "Who Rules the Country--The President or the KNB?" was published in Alma-Ata Info. Alongside his commentary, Yesergepov published two internal KNB memos.
January 2009: KNB agents seized Yesergepov from an Almaty hospital and placed him in detention.
August 2009: A Taraz regional court convicted Yesergepov on "collecting state secrets" charges, sentencing him to three years in prison.
October 2009: A regional court denied Yesergepov's appeal.
June 2010: A CPJ representative was barred from visiting Yesergepov in prison.
The unidentified men used baseball bats and a non-lethal traumatic pistol against Orken Bisen and Asan Amilov of the Internet-based opposition broadcaster Stan TV. The two were covering a strike by oil and gas company workers in the western city of Aktau. The assailants stole the journalists' equipment and video footage in the October attack, Stan TV said.
Attacks over time, according to CPJ and Adil Soz, the Almaty-based media foundation:
2007: 1 independent journalist assaulted in the southern city of Shymkent.
2008: 1 opposition journalist stabbed in Almaty.
2009: 2 journalists attacked, 1 murdered in Almaty.
2010: 1 journalist beaten in western Kazakhstan.
2011: 2 Stan TV journalists attacked.
An Almaty court ruled in favor of Saltanat Akhanova, wife of Kazakhstan's financial police head, in a defamation lawsuit against editor Gulzhan Yergaliyeva and her news website Guljan. The damages, equivalent to US $33,800, stemmed from Guljan articles that described foreign assets allegedly held by Akhanova. The plaintiff had sought 2.6 billion tenge.
Notable damage awards, according to Adil Soz:
2008: 30 million tenge (US$200,000) against journalist Almas Kusherbayev and the independent newspaper Taszhargan. Member of Parliament Romin Madinov filed suit over an article that said his business interests had benefited from his legislative work.
2009: 60 million tenge (US$400,000) against the independent daily Respublika. Plaintiff BTA Bank filed suit over an article saying the institution was facing financial pressure from foreign investors.
2010: 20 million tenge (US$135,000) against journalist Lukpan Akhmediyarov and the independent newspaper Uralskaya Nedelya. The plaintiff, a company named TengizNefteStroy, later decided to withdraw its claim.
On three occasions--in January, March, and October--authorities confiscated or bought off the print runs of the independent weekly Respublika-Delovoye Obozreniye, according to the press freedom group Adil Soz. Authorities did not provide an explanation, Adil Soz reported. The critical outlet had long been at odds with authorities, CPJ research shows.
Harassment of Respublika over time:
2005: The Information Ministry ordered Respublika to be shut down. Using ever-changing titles and Web addresses, the paper's staff continued to publish.
2009: Authorities seized the weekly's print run and froze its bank accounts in an attempt to enforce a politicized court verdict that ordered Respublika to pay 60 million tenge to BTA Bank.
2010: Respublika's website was blocked by the state Internet provider and subjected to denial-of-service attacks.
2011: Alla Zlobina, Respublika's regional correspondent in Uralsk, received threatening phone calls; authorities ignored her complaint.


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This time resigning as Prime Minister of Jordan, according to the Washington Post. Readers will recall our earlier reports here and here on Judge Al-Khasawneh's (belated) resignation from the ICJ in order to take up the post of prime minister, in which he's been only some six months. He thus unfortunately won't be able to return from Jordan to the Peace Palace. Coincidentally, in some act of cosmic irony, the General Assembly and the Security Council are voting today in elections for Judge Al-Khasawneh's replacement on the Court – What's in Blue report here. Only two candidates are in the running:
The two nominees for the single position are Dalveer Bhandari (India) and Florentino P. Feliciano (Philippines). (In an 18 April note verbale, Lebanon announced that its candidate, Ghaleb Ghanem, had withdrawn from the race.) Bhandari (64), currently serves as a senior judge in the Supreme Court of India. Feliciano (84), served on the Supreme Court of the Philippines and is now a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (one of the potential arbitrators appointed by member states). (Both candidates' curricula vitae are included in a note by the Secretary-General of 11 April – S/2012/213.)
UPDATE: Dalveer Bhandari was elected to the ICJ today by the GA and the UNSC – ICJ press release here.


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Freedom of speech, hate speech and the Internet - the role for community response?
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While attending the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) recently, I went to an interesting session about the issue of hate speech in the context of the Internet. While some of the panelists argued that there need to be boundaries and actions taken when acts of hate speech are committed, others argued that we need to be careful when advocating for control over what people say on the Internet, lest 'hate speech' be used as an argument to suppress freedom of expression more generally. Freedom of expression is a human right, however so is the right to dignity and this is where a balance needs to be established.
This is not a new issue - it has existed in the context of traditional media too - but the Internet, and especially social media, has made it a little more complicated. The Internet extends way beyond national boundaries and country-specific legislation, and the potential audience for any one message is much greater.
When it came to talking about solutions during the session some people were really behind the idea of community response and moderation. What this means is that other members of the so-called community - other Facebook or Twitter users for example - take action against someone spreading hateful racists, sexists or xenophobic messages online. The user can either be reported, blocked or have their comments demoted. Sometimes other users will send him or her messages to show their disapproval.
On one hand this sounds easy and cost effective. However it is not always so simple: sometimes the wider community is too broad or uninterested and no action takes place; sometimes members of the community overreact and engage in hate speech themselves; some users may be protected by anonymity; and sometimes there are serious offline consequences to hate speech online and greater action is needed. Where I come from - South Africa - there have been a few cases where people who posted racist tweets were not only reprimanded by the Twitter community in the country but were also reported to the Human Rights Commission.I would like to hear your thoughts on this - have you ever reported a user you felt was abusing someone else's right to dignity? How do you feel about community moderation and do you have any other suggestions?


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Last night we sent out a tweet asking for video of the kid—then just a rumor—that allegedly came out on to the field at the Alamodome, during the Alamo Bowl, and, we heard, "ran out of the stands from behind the Texas end zone, was at midfield before anyone really saw him and was in the other end zone before security started in," and "then he jumped into the stands and ran up the stairs and out one of the section tunnels, presumably to freedom."
A lot of people made Mack Brown jokes. But it turns out a real person did in fact run onto the field, and do almost exactly what our tipster said he did. That last bit—the escaping to to freedom bit—didn't quite happen, though: SB Nation points out that the fan was eventually found and ejected. Still, considering how long he spent on a football field, on national television in front of thousands of people, striking poses and wearing a teal shirt, "eventually" is the operative word here. Quick on the draw, those Alamodome security guards.
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Thompson played in 305 games with the Lightning after being claimed off waivers by Tampa Bay on January 21, 2010. During his career with the Lightning he registered 36 goals and 75 points. He has played in 22 career Stanley Cup Playoff games, all with Tampa Bay in 2011 and 2014, and recorded a goal with four points. Thompson has played in 391 career NHL games with the Lightning, New York Islanders and Boston Bruins. He has registered 39 goals and 85 points with 199 penalty minutes.


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In 2017, the year just past, over 29,000 people filed for bankruptcy protection in the Northern District of Georgia. In 2016, over 32,000 people filed. Based on statistics released by the Clerk of Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia, around 500,000 people have filed bankruptcy over the past 10 years. Given that there are about 5 million people in the Atlanta metro area, this means that about 1 out of every 10 north Georgia residents has filed a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13.
I give you these statistics not to promote bankruptcy filing as a positive (I strongly believe that it should be considered as a last resort) but to demolish the myth that only deadbeats and speculators file bankruptcy. The truth is that whether economic times are good or bad, even a few bad months caused by:
- a short term job layoff
- a separation or divorce
- an unexpected illness
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can send you spiraling over the edge of solvency.
You may be wondering:
- what does it mean to seek relief under the bankruptcy laws?
- are there legitimate alternatives to bankruptcy?
- do I qualify?
- what is the cost?
- will I ever get credit again?
You'll find the answer to all of these questions on this web site. You are also invited to call Ginsberg Law Offices at 770-393-4985 to speak with either attorney Jonathan Ginsberg or attorney Susan Blum for advice specific to your situation. Bankruptcy, when used as a financial tool, can serve as a reset button. It can give you a second chance and a do-over. More importantly, bankruptcy can give you back your peace of mind – your capacity to sleep though the night and to escape that perpetual bad mood.
On this web site, you will discover the answer to these and other questions Susan and I answer every day. One thing for certain – legal debt relief under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 is not a one size fits all solution. Some cases last 5 months and some cases last 5 years. Usually we can file a case in which you do not have to give up any of your property, although sometimes you may choose to surrender a house or a car to cancel the payment obligation.
Why Choose Ginsberg Law?
As an Atlanta bankruptcy attorney for the past twenty-five years, I have come to understand just how difficult it will be for you to make that call to me about filing a bankruptcy case. Attorney Susan Blum, who joined Ginsberg Law Offices as as of counsel attorney several years ago, joins me in encouraging you to call our office at 770-393-4985 if you think that filing may be an option.
We have represented hundreds of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 clients and have successfully guided these clients through the bankruptcy process in Atlanta and nearby bankruptcy filing districts of Gainesville, Newnan and Rome. When you become one of our clients, you will meet one-on-one with the attorney – not a paralegal or legal assistant – to discuss the financial problems you are facing. And whether you decide to file bankruptcy, or pursue a non-bankruptcy alternative, you will feel a sense of relief knowing that you more clearly understand the bankruptcy process and whether filing makes sense for you.
Most of the people I see say things like "I never thought I would be in this position" or "this is the most embarrassing and difficult decision I have ever made." I want to reassure you that when you contact Susan or me, we will treat you with courtesy and respect and that we will treat the information you provide to us n strict confidence.
As a small firm that offers one-on-one attention to our clients, you may want to know how we approach the bankruptcy process:
- While bankruptcy serves as a powerful tool to address debt problems, it is not the only solution. When you call, we will discuss both bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy alternatives.
- If we agree that bankruptcy makes sense for you, there are two parts to filing – first, we must prepare and file your paperwork; second – when your case is over, you will need guidance from us about how to restore and rebuild your credit. We will help you with both of these services.
- Our fees are reasonable and a lot less than downtown law firms, but we are not a discount legal clinic. Susan or I will quote a price for your case based on the facts of your case. The law now requires us to gather a great deal of documentation about your income, expenses, assets and debts. No longer can you file a case without first producing documents including past year's tax returns, copies of pay stubs, and proof of expenses. I have set up a page on this web site called Just Starting to Look that sets out exactly what I need to analyze your debt situation. You can then fax us your package of information (fax is 770-393-0240) and we will review at no charge. You can also drop your package by our office.
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Most people considering bankruptcy have a lot of questions. You may have very little experience with court proceedings of any kind and now you are thinking about filing a 50 page petition that will become part of a public record containing information about your income, your debts, your assets and what you spend every month. What privacy rules apply? Will your employer, relatives and friends find out that you have filed? Will you ever recover from this embarrassing experience and qualify for a mortgage, car loan or credit card?
These questions are very relevant and you deserve truthful and accurate answers. You also deserve the attention of a lawyer who will take the time to learn what you have been through, answer your questions and treat you with respect. Although Jonathan and Susan see bankruptcy as a last resort, we also recognize that sometimes unpleasant or unexpected things happen to good people. In our practice, we see men and women from every walk of life – including teachers, administrative personnel, managers, professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants). You can be certain that no matter what your situation, you will always be treated with professionalism and respect and that any information you provide will be kept in the strictest of confidence.
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As you might imagine, I receive a lot of phone calls every day from people who are facing debt issues and have some questions about bankruptcy. Several of these callers have been reluctant to download and fill out a long form questionnaire. I understand this concern and to address it, I created a simple two-page worksheet that should give me enough information to speak with you.
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- I urge you to call or e-mail before you try any desperate measures like raiding your retirement plan, transferring property, or transferring credit card balances. Although I can deal with these actions, you are usually better off not taking these steps. I would rather hear from you sooner rather than later.
- I also recommend that you contact me if you have been sued or if there is a pending judgment. When a judge issues a judgment the underlying debt becomes a secured debt and can be satisfied by seizing bank accounts, garnishing wages or liening property. While I can sometimes get rid of judgments in a bankruptcy, you are better off avoiding them whenever possible.
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Please take a few minutes to read the information on this web site and to watch the videos I have posted. Bankruptcy is a big decision and Susan and I want you to be both informed about bankruptcy law in Georgia and we want you get a sense about how we practice.
If you would like to learn more about Atlanta bankruptcy law, I invite you to call or email for free information about Chapter 7 law and Chapter 13 law, the rules that identify the property you can exempt (protect) when you file using Georgia's bankruptcy exemption statute (Section 44-13-100 of the Official Code of Georgia), and how you can rebuild your credit after filing. Jonathan and Susan are here to help you decide if the right decision for you and your family involves a Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
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