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Even though the speakers included a movie star and three bestselling authors whose books have sold a grand total of 146 million copies, it was the readers for whom they write that took center stage at yesterday morning's Children's Book and Author Breakfast.
"I am thrilled to become a part of this community," Octavia Spencer, the event's emcee, told the packed room full of booksellers, publishers, young bloggers, and media. "You all are the rock stars of books." Spencer, who won an Oscar for her role as Minny in The Help, disclosed that, as a child she was a "fan of children's books," especially of historical fiction classics and junior sleuth series. "There's something about the books you read as a child that gives in to magic," she said.
More recently, she's become a fan of kung fu movies. "These elements came together," she explained, in writing The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (S&S, Oct.), the first novel in her Randi Rhodes: Ninja Detective middle-grade series about three children who use their wits and martial arts skills to solve mysteries. Explaining that diversity in stories "is essential" to her, Spencer noted that the series features a Latino boy who wears hearing aids, an African-American boy, and "Randi herself, [who] is a redhead, a minority in her own way."
She is committed to demonstrating to children "how alike" humans all are. "Best friends," she noted, "don't have to look alike to love each other." Storytelling, she said, "is an incredibly important part of the human experience. We grow, we learn to empathize through storytelling."
"What joy it is to write for seven- and eight-year-olds," declared Mary Pope Osborne, who was at BEA to promote her 50th Magic Tree House novel, Hurry Up, Houdini! (Random House, July). "There's nothing sweeter, more authentic," she added. To prove it, she read some of her favorite letters from young fans, praising her writing, making suggestions for future novels, even sending her gifts, including food. There are also children who write her asking her for books they can't afford to buy.
Access to books, which builds up child literacy, is essential, Osborne noted, declaring, "We can change the world if we can get all third-graders to read at grade level." Osborne and her family have developed a Magic Tree House classroom and mentors program, which provides books for children in Title I schools. It recently donated 120,000 books to Newark, N.J., schoolchildren; "every third-grader [at Title I schools] got a box of 28 books each to take home." Musing on what happened to the children who have sent her letters over the years, she concluded, "They still exist. They're gangly teenagers or adults. They look like you and me."
If anyone could follow as beloved and prolific a writer as is Osborne, it would be Rick Riordan, who joked as he stood at the podium, "I taught eighth grade: nothing scares me." Reflecting upon his first appearance as a BEA breakfast speaker eight years ago, before the release of his first Percy Jackson novel, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Riordan pointed out that much has changed since 2005: "Back then, my two sons were reading Mary Pope Osborne; now they're reading Veronica Roth." His background as a teacher has helped him a great deal in writing middle-grade novels inspired by mythology, he said, as he knows how important it is to "see things from the reader's point of view." Unlike Osborne, he doesn't receive food gifts from his fans, but "middle schoolers are brutally honest," and he has received critiques from them. For instance, he said, one young reader complained that Riordan mentioned the word "god" too much in his novels, and suggested that he might want to use "gosh" instead.
Describing the fourth novel in the Heroes of Olympus series, The House of Hades (Disney-Hyperion, Oct.) as focusing upon Percy and Annabel, Riordan disclosed that they "struggle to survive and support each other as they literally go through hell," before unveiling the book's cover for the first time.
Veronica Roth, who at 24 was the youngest author to speak, moved the audience with her presentation, even though she hardly mentioned the much-anticipated final installment in her Divergent series, Allegiant. Recalling how she had been a voracious reader as a child, but went through a period of not reading as a young adult, because, in her arrogance, she refused to allow herself to read the books that would most excite her, such as Harry Potter, Roth praised young readers for caring so much about what they read. "They care about the story, the story is real for them, because they're able to immerse themselves completely," she said.
Referring to some controversy among her readers concerning her depiction of a sexual assault in Divergent, and her response to it, Roth noted that accepting criticism gracefully "is the only way" to becoming a better writer. Even though it's much more difficult to accept criticism from others rather than taking it personally or ignoring it, Roth said that, like her readers, "I'm here to learn instead of 'I already know.' Every writer I know is here to learn." Accepting criticism with humility as a reader and as a writer, she concluded, "really means freedom."


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UK compliance with international law: bribery and corruption. Arnell, Paul; Quiroz-Onate, Diego (Inderscience http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJLSE.2010.033355, 2010)ARNELL, P. and QUIROZ-ONATE, D., 2010. UK compliance with international law: bribery and corruption. International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 3(3), pp. 183-212.UK compliance with its international obligations in the area of bribery and corruption is in question. Recent domestic and international developments have brought this issue to the fore. This article addresses UK compliance. ...

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PETALING JAYA: Two senior government officials have been remanded in Malacca and Johor over separate cases of graft involving millions of ringgit.
In Malacca, a senior state government official with the title of Datuk was remanded for four days.
The 55-year-old was brought to the magistrate's court by the Malaysian Anti- Corruption Commission (MACC) officers before the remand order was issued by assistant registrar Syarina Shaarani @ Tan.
On Monday in Putrajaya, MACC also detained and obtained a fiveday remand for a 70-year-old contractor with links to the Malacca senior official, who was believed to have solicited kickbacks in exchange of approval for projects.
It is learnt that MACC had frozen 22 bank accounts owned by the senior official and his family members amounting to RM11mil and 24 accounts belonging to the contractor totalling RM12mil.
MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations) Datuk Azam Baki confirmed the latest arrest, adding that the investigation would zoom in on the projects involving the two suspects.
In Johor Baru, an assistant officer with the Johor Land Office was remanded for six days by a magistrate's court over abuse of power in a land acquisition case.
Clad in an MACC orange lock-up shirt, the suspect, in his 50s, was brought in under the escort of several officers at around 11am. The remand order was approved by assistant registrar Norhidayah Abdul Manaf.
MACC state director Datuk Simi Abdul Ghani told Bernama that it was in the process of identifying the source of the man's assets.
The suspect, he said, was believed to have abused his position to obtain land through land offices in other districts as well as acquire these via ownership transfers.
Initial investigation revealed that the suspect owned several pieces of agricultural land as well as a few residential plots and luxury homes.
In another case, a director of a federal agency in Labuan was rearrested by MACC a day after his remand for a graft probe over a RM12mil food court in Tg Purun expired.
This time, the suspect, 59, was held over a probe into a building and infrastructure project worth RM48mil in Labuan.
Yesterday, Labuan magistrate's court registrar Haizah Tamin granted a seven-day remand order against the director.
So far, MACC has recorded statements from 17 witnesses, including two civil servants and staff from several companies and contractors.
However, sources said no new arrests or seizure of assets and property had been made.
Graft investigators are still sifting through documents and other evidence to determine the number of contracts in the project since the director took over the helm about two years ago.
Two contractors, in their 40s, who were detained with the director earlier over the food court project, have been released.
The director is said to have asked for RM100,000 from the contractors as kickback for awarding them the project.
Confirming the re-arrest, Azam said the director was detained over an ongoing probe under Section 17(a) of the MACC Act for offering and receiving bribes.
So far, 12 bank accounts with cash amounting to RM889,000 belonging to the suspect and several family members have been frozen.
MACC is also tracing several million ringgit allegedly transferred out of the accounts shortly before the suspect was picked up.
Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Idris Haron said MACC's action against the state senior official reflected its government's transparency.
There had been speculation that the officer was closely linked to certain key officials in the state, including himself, said Idris.
"Anyone can be seen to be close to me, but when it comes to corrupt practices, I will be the first to stand against it," he said.
However, he urged people not to jump to any conclusion as the probe was still ongoing.
Senior officials held for alleged graft
PETALING JAYA: Two senior civil servants, one of whom is a Datuk, were detained by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Malacca and Johor for alleged corrupt practices.
Sources said the first suspect, aged 55, was picked up in downtown Malacca at about 2pm yesterday and is to be remanded today.
More than 20 bank accounts containing over RM10mil were frozen.
It is learnt that the suspect was soliciting kickbacks in exchange for approval of projects involving local authorities.
The sources said the MACC was currently determining the amount of money and number of projects involved.
More individuals are expected to be picked up to facilitate investigations.
In a separate case, an assistant land district officer was also picked up over alleged corruption.
The suspect, in his 50s, was detained when he appeared at the Johor MACC office to have his statement recorded at about 2pm yesterday.
Sources said the suspect was said to have misused his position to obtain land, including alleged illicit transfer of land ownership.
The case is being investigated under Section 23 of the MACC Act 2009.
Initial investigations showed the suspect owned several plots of agricultural land covering 6.77ha.
In addition, he is said to have acquired a 27.51ha piece of jointly-developed land, residential land and a high-cost luxury unit in several districts in Johor.
Johor MACC director Datuk Simi Abdul Ghani confirmed the arrest.
He said the suspect would be brought to the court for a remand order to detain him further as part of the probe.
Earlier this month, the MACC arrested two senior office bearers of two government-linked companies over suspected abuse of power and corruption.
Cash and other assets worth millions were seized and bank accounts frozen.
Last week, a federal agency director and two contractors were also detained.
The contractors had been released but the director was re-arrested to assist in a money-laundering probe.
By Simon Khoo The Star/Asian News Network
MACC detains two for alleged corruption
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In these posts I will try to bring you something Creative, Something Cool and something Commercial.
The format for these 3 things will vary, from images, videos and websites to unique applications, tips tricks and tutorials. Mostly print or 3D related but some things may be thrown in just because they ought to be shared (probably in the Cool part)!
There will be some terrible jokes thrown in at the end too!
Being a bit of a geek for all things design related, hopefully I'll be able to find some interesting bits and bobs to share with you!
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Welcome to number 64 of Joe's 3 C's!
In the words of Game of Thrones...Winter is coming. I don't know about you but the winter duvet is out and I've had to start wearing jumpers or a coat when leaving the house But at least I got to get away for a bit over the summer period...did any of you get away anywhere nice
Something Creative...
I'm loving these paper-cut, layered and backlit little scenes!
I can't remember where I found them, but I've seen a few similar ones recently online.
The soft glow looks great, a really nice installation to add something a bit different to your home. The fantasy element really suits the application, a nice nightlight for a child?
In number 62 of my 3 C's I looked at multi-layered UV/clear acrylic prints, these are similar in structure just cut instead of printed-split the depths of field into layers and off you go!
Something Cool...
I saw this installation from some guys in the States called 'Underwraps' on a post from Avery-Denison online.
I think they've done a fantastic job!
A really Cool way to transform a boring beige building into something that makes you look twice. It looks pretty simple and easy, but to pull off this look as good as these guys have takes some good design skills.
I love the final image with the old rustic truck to tie it all in.
Something Commercial...
Any of you that know me will know how the VersaUV range of printers that we offer are my favourite
I love the versatility and capabilities they offer, and now we have a new series that has just launched - The VersaUV S-Series!
This effectively gives the range 7 new models as the S-Series comes in both a flatbed version (4 sizes) and a belt version (3 sizes).
The smallest is the LEC-330S-B150: 760 x 1470mm
and the largest is the LEJ-640S-F400: 1625 x 3883mm
This graphic gives you an idea of sizes-relating to phone cases and wine boxes as examples:
We get ours next week and I can't wait to have a play with it!
If you want any more information or spec get in touch and come in for a cup of tea and a chat!.
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"In May, 2010, Matt Cutts denied that social signals had an effect on search rankings. In December of the same year, he declared that they were actually starting to work in the buzz and signals they were able to get through social media into the site authority factor of their ranking algorithm. Six months later, Google+ was born.
The Penguin Update and subsequent tweaks to it have changed the way that search engine marketers approach aggressive optimization. The days of running rampant and blasting out bulk links are gone. Today, quality finally trumps quantity and the playing field has been leveled in a way that in essence puts a "governor" on how quickly they can ramp up the rankings on their domains.
As social signals grow in their effects on search rankings for both Google and Bing, the ability to create amazing content and promote it on social media is quickly becoming the most important technique that internet marketers have in their arsenal. In 2013, it will likely eclipse link-building as a ranking factor.
Here are three things you must understand to make it work for you today and to be ready for what lies ahead".
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Arpaio: Looks Like Hawaii 'Hiding' Obama Birth Record
The Hawaii Department of Health's refusal to confirm to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett that it has a valid birth certificate on file for President Obama makes it look like Hawaii officials "are hiding something," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in an interview this morning with WND.
Bennett told Phoenix talk-radio host Mike Broomhead yesterday on his KFYI AM show that he might keep Obama's name off of the state's presidential ballot if he doesn't receive the confirmation.
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Eight weeks ago, the secretary of state asked Hawaii officials merely for an email confirming the Department of Health has a certified copy of the birth certificate. But Bennett told Broomhead, reported the White House Dossier blog, that Hawaii officials have not complied.
Mike Zullo, the head of Arpaio's Cold Case Posse team investigating Obama's eligibility, told WND that Hawaii's refusal to comply "is just another outright, glaring display of stonewalling that the Sheriff's Office has encountered since Day One conducting this investigation."
Zullo said "common sense at this point should be
everyone's guide."
"If this was a non-issue, it wouldn't be going on eight weeks waiting for the state of Hawaii to verify anything," he said.
Zullo told WND that Maricopa County Sheriff's Office investigators have spoken at length with Bennett regarding the president's birth record. Arpaio's team announced March 1 that it found probable cause that the document released by the White House last year as Obama's birth certificate is a forgery.
Zullo said his team spoke with Bennett as recently as last week.
"We are in the beginning stages of enlightening him to critical information that the sheriff has acquired during this investigation," Zullo said.
'It looks like they're hiding something'
Arpaio confirmed he's still investigating Obama's birth certificate and also the president's Selective Service registration form, which his team also found probable cause to be a forgery.
"We're not getting too far with cooperation from the federal government," he told WND this morning. "But that doesn't matter; we're still going to continue our investigation and see if those documents are forged."
Regarding the Hawaii Department of Health, Arpaio noted he's said since the beginning of the investigation last fall, "Show me the microfilm."
"They won't do that, so it looks like they're hiding something," he said.
Arpaio said he will continue his investigation regardless of whether or not Obama gets on the ballot.
In the radio interview yesterday, Broomhead asked Bennett if he would remove Obama's name from the ballot if Hawaii won't reply to his request.
"That's possible. Or the other option would be that I would ask all the candidates, including the president, to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate," Bennett said.
Bennett explained that under Hawaii law, government officials can request verification that the state has possession of a valid birth certificate.
"They could say yes tomorrow, and the whole thing goes away," Bennett said. "If they can't say yes to that simple question, then it makes me wonder if we have to take it to another level."
Bennett said that regardless of Hawaii's response, he needs "to have to have some simple verification that people are qualified for the office if they're going to be on the ballot here in Arizona."
The Arizona official insisted he's not a "birther" and denied he's trying to appease "birthers" because he wants to run for governor.
"I believe the president was born in Hawaii – or at least I hope he was," Bennett said.
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Soil, dirt, mud or earth. Whatever you call it, it is rapidly disappearing and that could have huge knock-on effects for farming and the food that we eat.
Look below your feet. Chances are you are standing on flooring built on concrete. And what is under the concrete? Just mud. Earth. The ground.
Soil is such a mundane feature of our world that, unless we are selecting footwear for a rainy outing in the countryside, we seldom give it thought. But it is running out. Every year, 75 billion tonnes of soil – covering more than 38,610 sq miles (100,000 sq km) of arable land – is lost. Around 80% of global farmland is now moderately or severely degraded and, in the past 40 years alone, one-third of cropland has had to be abandoned because of severe soil erosion.
And this is at a time when farmers are struggling to feed a global population of seven billion and growing, which currently gets more than 95% of food calories from the land. Over the next 50 years, more food will have to be produced than over the last 10,000 years combined.
Mud, in other words, is the vital thin brown line between us and starvation.
Soil erosion, which is driven by humans through farming or livestock grazing, has played a big role in the decline of entire civilisations, including in Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Central America, according to University of Washington soil scientist David Montgomery. He points out that civilisations only last as long as it takes to plough through the depth of their regional topsoil. Having seen firsthand the dire consequences of severely degraded soils in East Africa, where literally "dirt-poor" people are entirely dependent on whatever food aid they receive, I have developed a new respect for the brown stuff.
Even if we could produce enough food without soils – and I have seen some great vegetable gardens growing on floating lily beds in Bangladesh, for example – it is doubtful we could replace as cheaply the many ecosystem functions that soils provide, from water management to pollution, remediation to supporting structures, and from trees to houses.
The biggest problem is that it takes such a long time for soil to form – some 10-12,000 years to build up to depths we might describe as productive land. First, the rocks that have made it from the Earth's interior to the surface must be "weathered" by wind and rain, a disintegration that is assisted by microorganisms, insects and lichen. This organic matter decays, feeding more organisms, including, in time, plants. It is the accumulation of hundreds of years of this organic matter, living organisms and minerals that we call soil. It takes a few hundred years to produce each centimetre of soil (although it is a little faster in the tropics), but it can be lost in a matter of hours.
Trapped soil
One of the culprits contributing to loss of farming land is "sealing" and it is likely that the rooms you and I are in now are at least partly to blame. Whenever a new road or building is constructed, soil is effectively sealed underneath it. Because most cities and towns around the world have grown from small settlements where hundreds of years ago people discovered the most fertile land, vast urban centres are now effectively squatting on some of our best food sources. By developing on so-called brownfield sites of contaminated land and building upward rather than out into fields, some of this sealing can be limited. In many cities, urban agriculture is making use of some of this blocked-in soil.
If we are not sealing the soil down with concrete, we are allowing the wind and rain to wash it into the oceans. Soil erosion is such a serious problem that some scientists believe European soil could last less than a century. And Europe is one of the better places. In China, soil is being lost 57 times faster than it can be replenished naturally, while in Europe it is 17 times, in America 10 times and in Australia five times, according to a team at the University of Sydney led by John Crawford.
Agriculture is the main culprit. A raft of practices – from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops – contribute to depleted soils. Farmers are then forced to seek new soil, often by invading forests. If we want to preserve the few remaining forests and other diverse ecosystems around the world, we are going to have to better manage our existing agricultural land.
Deforestation is a major driver of soil loss. Once shrubs and grasses have been cleared from the land, there are no roots to hold soil, nutrients and water in place. A dry spell can turn the ground to dust that is easily blown away, as happened with disastrous consequences in America in the "Dust Bowl" 1930s. This also frequently happens in China, Australia and parts of Africa, where large areas of agricultural land are becoming deserts.
Great green wall
Farmers are fighting back by planting trees and shrubs that help keep the soils moist, buffer the winds and slow rainwater. West African countries, for example, have already achieved remarkable improvements in soil fertility as a result of tree-planting programmes, and there is now an ambitious plan for a 'Great Green Wall of Africa' to cross the continent from Djibouti to Senegal in a tree barrier against the encroaching deserts.
In Indonesia, I found farmers planting vetiver – an Indian grass – to protect their soils from erosion, because its roots grow down deep and hold it in place. Solutions like this are liked because they offer multiple benefits – vetiver reduces weed and pest incursion, produces marketable oil and is also useful for animal feed.
Essential minerals, such as nitrates, that crops suck up from the soil take a particularly long time to be replaced naturally. Although nitrogen is very common in the air, only a few organisms are able to break the tough chemical bond in the gas to create the nitrate form that plants and animals use to develop proteins.
Animal faeces contain many of these chemicals, and recycling essential nitrates from biomatter is the easiest and cheapest way of replenishing the soil. In many places in the world, livestock dung is the only fertilizer available, but it is becoming scarcer because, in trying to preserve the few trees and shrubs around cropland, farmers are burning dung for cooking.
One solution to this problem, which I saw on a farm in India and which is now being trialled in Cameroon, is to use the dung to feed a biodigester – a tank in which bacteria break down the waste. The methane gas produced by the bacteria is then used to fuel cooking stoves, and the decomposed manure can be spread on the fields as fertiliser.
Another way of getting nitrates into the soil is to introduce the few organisms that can create it for you – so-called 'nitrogen-fixers', which includes plants like legumes that contain in their root systems bacteria that can make nitrates from the air. At the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute in Nairobi, I met soil scientist Peter Okoth, who has developed different types of promiscuous soybean – a nutritious nitrogen fixer – that can be intercropped with cereals and can concentrate an impressive 265 lb (120kg) of nitrate per hectare of soil. Okoth says his soybean variants are, "more effective than industrial fertilisers", which are not only expensive but are also made from oil, meaning they produce greenhouse gas emissions during production.
Give peas a chance
A growing body of scientists is arguing that the common pastoral scene of a man in a hat driving a plough is causing some of the biggest damage to our soils. By churning up the soil, farmers break down its important structure and integrity, reduce its fertility by exposing the minerals to oxygen, release quantities of carbon dioxide and remove the nutrients in the leftover crop stalks.
Instead, they say, farmers should switch to no-tillage agriculture, in which once the grain is harvested, the new seeds are simply sown into holes among the leftover plant matter. Leaving the old crop stalks and roots in place holds retains the soil and its moisture, reducing erosion. The rotting vegetation recycles nutrients and attracts microorganisms, worms and insects, which help maintain soil fertility and provide ecosystem services. The practice is gaining popularity in Brazil and across the Americas, but getting the world's poorest farmers to adopt it will take time, partly because of the prohibitive cost of equipment.
I visited Keith Ashby, a farmer who has been using no-till agriculture for the past six years on his wheat fields in Kent, southeast England. "I get a better yield than when I ploughed, and it's slashed my fuel costs," he said. "Instead of having to drive a tractor up and down the field several times, I only have to do it once to drill and sow." Considering that it costs him 9.9 gallons (45 litres) of fuel an hour for 14-hour days over 2 weeks, while his neighbour who still ploughs uses 19.8 gallons (90 litres) an hour for substantially longer, he is making important cuts in costs and carbon emissions.
"We use the sheep to provide manure for the fields, which halves our fertiliser use," he explained. In the next field, Ashby was "resting" his wheat field by growing turnips for the sheep, and nitrogen-fixing peas and beans to help improve his soil.
Back in my office, I reflect that there is more mud on my boots than on parts of the chalk-exposed Kent Downs, which just a few hundred years ago were as lush and fertile as Ashby's fields. We may have spent the past millennia getting rid of valuable soils, but we are now learning ways of retaining it, from the big transcontinental projects to small-scale grass-planting. I have mentioned some of the methods I have discovered on my travels: let me know on our Facebook page of any methods you have found useful.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Oscar López Rivera's 32 Years of Resistance to Torture --Will President Obama pardon the longest held Independentista?
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Torture of Mumia Abu-Jamal Continues off Death Row
Read the full article, written for Prison Radio, here.
UPDATE: We won! Mumia is in general population. Below is a photo of his second visit (the first photo of him since the mid 1990s):
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Media Justice on Trial in Philadelphia - the Duel of Two Films About Mumia Abu-Jamal
JUSTICE ON TRIAL - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal from Big Noise Films on Vimeo.
A new film, entitled "The Barrel of a Gun" was unveiled in Philadelphia on September 21. The film is officially endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and "Murdered by Mumia" authors Michael Smerconish and Maureen Faulkner, and based on the two trailers that have been released and public statements by the filmmaker, Tigre Hill, that he believes death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is unequivocally guilty, we can safely expect that the film will be biased against Abu-Jamal, as is the case with the majority of mainstream media coverage about Abu-Jamal, particularly so in Philadelphia.
Supporters of Abu-Jamal mobilized to confront Hill's film. This film can be particularly dangerous now because of Abu-Jamal's current legal situation, where the death penalty may be reinstated by the US Third Circuit Court. In response, Journalists for Mumia has just published the latest issue of our newspaper (viewable here), where we confront Hill by laying out evidence of innocence and why Mumia's trial was unfair.
Read the full article, co-written with German author Michael Schiffmann, published by Truthout, here.
Monday, April 26, 2010
book review -- The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, & Fighting for Those Left Behind
The late Safiya Bukhari (1950-2003) is not the most famous veteran of the Black Panther Party (BPP), but the compilation of her writings, The War Before, edited by former political prisoner Laura Whitehorn at the request of Bukhari's daughter, Wonda Jones, should be required reading alongside the memoirs of BPP cofounders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
The War Before makes many significant contributions to scholarship, including its examination of women in the BPP. Bukhari recognizes serious problems of sexism and misogyny, but argues that this was symptomatic of the Left in general and, relative to other leftist groups, the Panthers had gone much further to address the problem. Women were involved in the party at every level and, in 1970, Huey Newton issued an important public statement of support for the women's and gay liberation movements. Bukhari writes that the Panthers "may not have completed the task of eradicating sexist attitudes within the Party and in the community. But we did bring the problem out in the open and put the question on the floor."
This book review was published in the April issue of Z Magazine. Read the full article here.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Voices of Participatory Democracy in Venezuela --A review of Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots
There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in
Read the full article at Upside Down World. This article has also been reprinted by Truthout, Dissident Voice, The Statesmen, Axis of Logic, Venezuela Analysis, Venezuela Indymedia, Infoshop, Mostly Water, Op Ed News, Philly IMC, and Indybay.
Watch the interview with co-author Carlos Martinez below.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
book review - This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA
From 1997 to 2001, Craig Rosebraugh acted as a public spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a self-described "international, underground movement consisting of autonomous groups of people who carry out direct action in defense of the planet."
On February 12, 2002, Rosebraugh was made to testify against his will before the US Congress' House Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health. The FBI had recently declared the ELF the #1 domestic terrorist threat, and Congress had subpoenaed Rosebraugh demanding he help them investigate "eco-terrorism." Rosebraugh had already received seven grand jury subpoenas from various federal investigations, but had always refused to cooperate. After he rejected this particular Subcommittee's offer to voluntarily testify, they seemed to think that intimidation might help. They were wrong.
Rosebraugh invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 54 times that day, instead issuing his now-famous 11-page statement declaring that "the US government by far has been the most extreme terrorist organization in planetary history," He cited a long list of crimes, beginning with the history of Black chattel slavery and the genocide of indigenous peoples, and concluding with a long list of US military interventions since WWII. He argued that it was hypocritical to label the ELF "terrorist," since all ELF actions had been directed towards corporate property, and had never injured anyone: "This noble pursuit does not constitute terrorism, but rather seeks to abolish it."
Rosebraugh has since continued his public advocacy of direct action and has edited a new book entitled This Country Must Change: Essays on the Necessity of Revolution in the USA.
Read this full review at www.TowardFreedom.com
Monday, November 02, 2009
book review - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
This new book was released on November 1, and my review of it is featured at TowardFreedom.com, a progressive perspective on world events. Below is an excerpt. Please read the full article here.
On the morning of December 4, 1969, lawyer Jeffrey Haas received a call from his partner at the People's Law Office, informing him that early that morning Chicago police had raided the apartment of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago. Tragically, Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark had both been shot dead, and four other Panthers in the apartment had critical gunshot wounds. Police were uninjured and had fired their guns 90-99 times. In sharp contrast, the Panthers had shot once, from the shotgun held by Mark Clark, which had most likely been fired after Clark had been fatally shot in the heart and was falling to the ground.
Haas went straight to the police station to speak with Hampton's fiancée, Deborah Johnson, who was then eight months pregnant with Hampton's son. She had been sleeping in bed next to Hampton when the police attacked and began shooting into the apartment and towards the bedroom where they were sleeping. Miraculously, Johnson had not been shot, but her account given to Haas was chilling. Throughout the assault Hampton had remained unconscious (strong evidence emerged later that a paid FBI informant had given Hampton a sedative that prevented him from waking up) and after police forced Johnson out of the bedroom, two officers entered the room where Hampton still lay unconscious. Johnson heard one officer ask, "Is he still alive?" After two gunshots were fired inside the room, the other officer said, "He's good and dead now."
This article has also been featured at Black Commentator, Z Net, Infoshop, Philly IMC, Peoples' Voice, Daily Kos, Mostly Water, OpEdNews.com, Eat The State!, Political Affairs mediaLeft, and Assata Shakur Speaks.
Also, be sure and check out the review by Ernesto Aguilar here. and another review at the Why Am I Not Suprised? blog here.
(In this photo, reminiscent of the photos of southern lynchings, smiling police carry away Fred Hampton's body)Watch the 1971 film "The Murder of Fred Hampton."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Color Lines book review: Other: An Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology
Other: An Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology (AK Press) is an impressive book featuring writing and art by 22 people imprisoned in the U.S. The publisher, the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, writes that it "works with API (Asian and Pacific Islander) prisoners to educate the broader community about the growing number of APIs in the U.S. being imprisoned, detained and deported."
Other contributes significantly to both prison-abolitionist and ethnic-studies literature, each of which has badly neglected this issue. In the preface, journalist Helen Zia argues that the resulting invisibility of API prisoners extends to the "mainstream media and ethnic media alike," where they essentially "do not exist." While the arrest rate among API youth is increasing, APIs still do have a lower arrest and incarceration rate than other racial groups; however, in 2004, the Services and Advocacy for Asian Youth Consortium in San Francisco reported that the API conviction rate is 28 percent higher than other racial groups.
The plight of API prisoners who were legal residents with green cards at the time of their arrest is illustrated by the story of coeditor Eddy Zheng. When granted parole in March 2005, Zheng was ordered deported and was immediately transferred to immigration detention. He promptly appealed the deportation order but was held in detention until February 2007, when he was released after an outpouring of public support. As of this writing, his deportation appeal was pending at the Ninth Circuit Court.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Book Review: "Anarchy Alive!: Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory"
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Chaim Leib Weinberg: A Jewish Anarchist in Philadelphia
The "Old City" neighborhood of Philadelphia is renowned for its many historic sites related to the "founding fathers" and the US colonial era. Yet, very few know about this same neighborhood's significant anarchist history. Since 1997, local historian Robert Helms has led an "Anarchist Historical Walking Tour" that presents this history of resistance from the poor and working classes, who viewed the rhetoric about "American Democracy" as a fraud, and organized themselves to challenge the power of the ruling class. Helms is the editor of the just-released English translation of Chaim Leib Weinberg's (1869-1939) autobiography: Forty Years in the Struggle; The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist.
This article was published in the July/August issue of Z Magazine. You can read the full article here.
(PHOTO: Chaim Leib Weinberg)
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Neoliberalism Needs Death Squads in Colombia
As the largest recipient of
Throughout Blood & Capital, author Jasmin Hristov seeks to expose the rational motivations behind state violence for capitalism's economic elites in the
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Beyond Attica: The Untold Story of Women's Resistance Behind Bars
My review of Victoria Law's new book Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women was published today at Alternet. You can read the full article at Alternet, but here is an excerpt:
The central thesis of Resistance Behind Bars is truly profound. In clear, non-academic language, Law argues that recent scholarship documenting and radically criticizing the increased incarceration rates and mistreatment of women prisoners "largely ignores what the women themselves do to change or protest these circumstances, thus reinforcing the belief that incarcerated women do not organize." Alongside academia, Law also harshly criticizes radical prison activists, arguing that "just as the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s downplayed the role of women in favor of highlighting male spokesmen and leaders, the prisoners' rights movement has focused and continues to focus on men to speak for the masses."
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Anarchism, Marxism, and Zapatismo
Staughton Lynd, coming from the Marxist perspective, harshly criticizes the influence of vanguard politics on Marxist revolutionary movements, whereby these movements have adopted authoritarian and anti-democratic practices, with these abuses of power being justified by the argument that their particular group is the vanguard of the revolution, and is therefore entitled to lead the revolution as it sees fit. Lynd sees the Zapatistas' rejection of vanguard politics as representing a "fresh synthesis of what is best in the Marxist and anarchist traditions." The Zapatistas, Lynd writes, "have given us a new hypothesis. It combines Marxist analysis of the dynamics of capitalism with a traditional spirituality, whether Native American or Christian, or a combination of the two. It rejects the goal of taking state power and sets forth the objective of building a horizontal network of centers of self-activity. Above all the Zapatistas have encouraged young people all over the earth to affirm: We must have a qualitatively different society! Another world is possible! Let us begin to create it, here and now!"
Read the full book review at Upside Down World.
Monday, June 22, 2009
New Book Surveys Oaxaca Uprising to Teach Rebellion
--This is the first paragraph in my new article, which can be read in full at UpsideDownWorld.org.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Citing withheld evidence, supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal call for civil rights investigation
The DA's office withheld two items from Abu-Jamal's defense: the actual location of the driver's license application found in Officer Faulkner's pocket; and Pedro Polakoff's crime scene photos. Then, at the request of prosecutor McGill, Judge Sabo ruled to block three items from the jury: prosecution eyewitness Robert Chobert's probation status and criminal history; testimony from defense eyewitness Veronica Jones about police attempts to solicit false testimony; and testimony from Police Officer Gary Waskshul.
Read the full SF Bay View article here.
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--Take action supporting the campaign at FreeMumia.com!
--Read letters to Attorney General Eric Holder from Cynthia McKinney and U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal --An interview with Aviva Chomsky
(PHOTO: Aviva Chomsky with delegate Sandra Díaz from Appalachian Voices)
Aviva Chomsky is professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in
Chomsky is also a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining sector. She just returned from the Witness for Peace delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of
Read the full interview here.
PHOTO: Cerrejón mine, Colombia
Sunday, May 03, 2009
The Angola Three: Torture and Slavery in the United States
"My soul cries from all that I witnessed and endured. It does more than cry, it mourns continuously," said Black Panther Robert Hillary King, following his release from the infamous Louisiana State Penitentiary at
Robert King, Albert Woodfox, and Herman Wallace are known as the 'Angola Three,' a trio of political prisoners whose supporters include Amnesty International, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Congressman John Conyers, and the ACLU. Kgalema Mothlante, the President of South Africa says their case "has the potential of laying bare, exposing the shortcomings, in the entire
The joint federal civil rights lawsuit of King, Woodfox, and Wallace, alleging that their time in solitary confinement is "cruel and unusual punishment," will go to trial any month in
An 18,000-acre former slave plantation in rural
The Angola Panthers saw life at
Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace
Both convicted of murder for the April 17, 1972 stabbing death of white prison guard Brent Miller, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have recently had major victories in court that may soon lead to their release. In response,
Woodfox and Wallace were inmates at
On September 19, 2006, State Judicial Commissioner Rachel Morgan recommended overturning Wallace's conviction, on grounds that prison officials had withheld evidence from the jury that prison officials had bribed the prosecution's key eyewitness, Hezekiah Brown, in return for his testimony. However, in May 2008, in a 2-1 vote, the State Appeals Court rejected Morgan's recommendation and refused to overturn the conviction. Wallace's appeal is now pending in the State Supreme Court, with a decision expected any month.
On June 10th, 2008, Federal Magistrate Christine Noland recommended overturning Woodfox's conviction, citing evidence of inadequate representation, prosecutorial misconduct, suppression of exculpatory evidence, and racial discrimination. Then, on November 25, US District Court Judge James Brady upheld Noland's recommendation, overturned the conviction, and granted bail. Attorney General Caldwell responded by appealing to the US Fifth Circuit. In December, the Fifth Circuit granted Caldwell's request to deny Woodfox bail, but indicated sympathy for the overturning of the conviction, writing: "We are not now convinced that the State has established a likelihood of success on the merits." On March 3, oral arguments were heard by appellate Judges Carolyn Dineen King, Carl E. Steart and Leslie H. Southwick, and a decision from them is now expected within six months. If the three judge panel affirms the overturning of Woodfox's conviction, the state will have 120 days to either accept the ruling or to retry Woodfox. The state has already vowed to retry him if necessary. If the Fifth Circuit rules for the state, Woodfox's conviction will be reinstated.
Ira Glasser, formerly of the ACLU, criticized AG Caldwell, writing that following the October 2008 announcement that Woodfox's niece had agreed to take him in if granted bail,
When the October 27-29 National Public Radio (NPR) series on the case reported directly from
As NPR documented, there is no physical evidence linking Woodfox or Wallace to the murder. A bloody fingerprint was found at the scene but it matches neither prisoner's prints. Prison officials have always refused to test that fingerprint against their own inmate fingerprint database.
Pardoned in 1986, and now deceased, Brown always denied receiving special favors from prison authorities in exchange for his testimony. However, prison documents reveal special treatment, including special housing and a carton of cigarettes given to him every week. Testifying at Woodfox's 1998 retrial, former Warden Murray Henderson admitted telling Brown that if he provided testimony helping to "crack the case," he would reward him by lobbying for his pardon.
In early 2008, a 25,000-signature petition initiated by ColorOfChange.org, calling for an investigation into Woodfox and Wallace's convictions and solitary confinement, was delivered to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal by the head of the State Legislature's Judiciary Committee, Cedric Richmond. To this day, Jindal remains silent on the case.
In March, 2008, following a visit from Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee; Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck; and Cedric Richmond, Wallace and Woodfox were transferred from solitary and housed together in a newly-built maximum security dormitory for twenty men. This temporary release from solitary lasted for eight months, during which time Woodfox reflected: "The thing I noticed most about being with Herman is the laughing, the talking, the bumping up against one another…we've been denied this for so long. And every once in a while he'll put his arm around me or I'll put my arm around him. It's those kinds of things that make you human. And we're truly enjoying that."
In April, following his visit, Conyers wrote a letter to the FBI requesting their documents relating to the case, stating: "I am deeply troubled by what evidence suggests was a tragic miscarriage of justice with regard to these men. There is significant evidence that suggests not only their innocence, but also troubling misconduct by prison officials." The FBI responded by claiming that they had no files on the case, because, they had supposedly been destroyed.
In his deposition taken October 22, 2008, Warden Burl Cain explained why he opposed granting Woodfox bail and removing him from solitary confinement. Asked what gave him "such concern" about Woodfox, Cain stated: "He wants to demonstrate. He wants to organize. He wants to be defiant…A hunger strike is really, really bad, because you could see he admitted that he was organizing a peaceful demonstration. There is no such thing as a peaceful demonstration in prison." Cain then stated that even if Woodfox were innocent of the murder, he would still want to keep him in solitary, because "I still know he has a propensity for violence…he is still trying to practice Black Pantherism, and I still would not want him walking around my prison because he would organize the young new inmates. I would have me all kinds of problems, more than I could stand, and I would have the blacks chasing after them. I would have chaos and conflict, and I believe that."
The only other known
Robert Hillary King
The new book From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Robert Hillary King has just been released by PM Press, and King is currently touring the East Coast to promote the book. This inspiring book tells of King's triumph over the horrors of
King first entered
Upon release, King was again arrested on robbery charges, and was convicted, even though his co-defendant testified that he had only picked King out of a mug shot lineup after being tortured by police into making a false statement. King appealed, and while being held at New Orleans Parish Prison, he escaped, but was re-captured weeks later. Upon returning to Orleans Parish he met some of the
In 1972, King moved to
King writes about the fight, started in 1977, to end the practice of routine rectal searches of prisoners: "Coming to a consensus conclusion that this practice was a carryover from slavery (before being sold, the slave had to be stripped and subjected to anal examination), and after months of appealing to our keepers, we decided to take a bold step: we would simply refuse a voluntary anal search. We would not be willing participants in our own degradation." When King and others refused, they were viciously beaten. Woodfox hired a lawyer on the prisoners' behalf and they filed a successful civil suit. The court ruled to ban "routine anal searches." Another victory came after a one month hunger strike that stopped the unhealthy and dehumanizing practice of putting the inmate's food on the floor to be slid underneath the cell door, whereby food would often be lost and the remaining food would usually get dirty.
In 1973, King was accused of murdering another prisoner, and was convicted at a trial where he was bound and gagged. After years of maintaining his innocence and appealing, his conviction was overturned in 2001, after he reluctantly pled guilty to a lesser charge of "conspiracy to commit murder" and was released on time served.
Kenny "Zulu" Whitmore
On June 21, 2008, Robert King attended the unveiling of a 40-foot mosaic dedicated to
The mosaic adorns the back of activist/artist Carrie Reichardt's home in the
Imprisoned since 1977, Whitmore met Herman Wallace while imprisoned in 1973 at the East Baton Rouge Prison. Whitmore was released but then arrested and subsequently imprisoned at
Three court cases are now pending: the federal civil rights lawsuit at the US Middle District Court, Albert Woodfox's appeal at the US Fifth Circuit, and Wallace's appeal at the State Supreme Court. At this critical stage, a new DVD has just been released by PM Press, titled The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation. The DVD is narrated by death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and features footage of King's 2001 release, as well as an interview with King and a variety of former Panthers and other supporters of the Angola 3, including Bo Brown, David Hilliard, Geronimo Ji Jaga (formerly Pratt), Marion Brown, Luis Talamantez, Noelle Hanrahan, Malik Rahim, and the late Anita Roddick.
The perpetuation of white supremacy and slavery at
Longtime Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama says that Woodfox and Wallace "love people and will fight for justice even if it puts them on the spot. I think of them as real heroes…who hated to see people in the prison get hurt." San Francisco journalist and former BPP member Kiilu Nyasha adds that "it behooves us to not forget those who were on the frontlines for us….We need to come to their rescue because they came to ours."
The many years of repression and torture have failed to extinguish the
For more information, please visit www.angola3.org
Hans Bennett is an independent multi-media journalist (www.insubordination.blogspot.com) and co-founder of Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal (www.abu-jamal-news.com)
11-year old Brit "Poppy" visited Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace for four hours on August 8, 2008. Poppy said afterwards: "When I first saw Herman and Albert I ran up to them and gave them a huge hug. It was weird to think that this is a rare treat for them, just to have a hug from another human being."
VIDEO: Robert King Wilkerson (one of the Angola 3) and Louisiana House Judiciary Chairman Cedric Richmond deliver 25,000 petition signatures from ColorOfChange.org members calling on Governor Jindal to investigate and intervene in the Angola 3 case.
VIDEO: Outraged by the injustice of their situation after having visited Herman and Albert in March of 2008, Conyers spoke about the case at the Student National Medical Association's (SNMA) annual conference.
VIDEO: The first official act from the Angola 3 London - an unveiling of a mosaic on the back of The Treatment Rooms in Chiswick, by Baroness von Reichardt. The mosaic is dedicated to the memory of Anita Roddick who first introduced the Baroness to Herman Wallace one of the Angola 3 in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary - "The Farm". The ceramics within the mural contain life enriching quotes from both Herman and Anita. Power to the People!
Created by www.bondageforfreedom.com To raise awareness of The Angola 3. Sung by The Gospel Choir of Chowchilla Female Prison, California.


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It was happened by this blog for sure.
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NORTH LIBERTY– North Liberty Mayor Amy Nielsen announced Feb. 10 that she will run for State Representative in House District 77, which encompasses western and southern Johnson County, including the cities of North Liberty, Tiffin, Oxford, Swisher, Shueyville and Lone Tree.
A bus containing approximately 30 Solon Community School District students was involved in a collision Thursday, Dec. 4, at the intersection of Highway 382 and Ely Road west of Solon.
According to Superintendent Sam Miller, three minor injuries were reported to school children. "Parents of all students on the bus were notified of the accident," Miller said in a press release. "Students were transferred to a different bus and taken home."
By Lori Lindner
North Liberty Leader
NORTH LIBERTY– The North Liberty Community Food Pantry is raising some green to feed its neighbors.
By Lori Lindner
North Liberty Leader
NORTH LIBERTY– From Bangkok to Barbados, from Long Valley, New Jersey to North Liberty, Iowa, four million pinwheels were collectively spinning a solitary message on Sept. 21.
NORTH LIBERTY–Grace Stewart, student at Clear Creek Amana (CCA) Middle School, wants to be an aerospace engineer.
And given her drive and focus, one small step for this girl could certainly turn into a giant leap for mankind.
JOHNSON COUNTY– It's just another tool in the toolbox for law enforcement personnel. So says Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek about the MRAP (Mine-Resistant, Ambush Protected) truck his department and five other law enforcement agencies across the county recently joined together to obtain.
SWISHER– With kids' games and a vendor fair, a horseshoe tournament and cow chip bingo, and especially a weekend full of free live music, Swisher Fun Days truly is a fun way to support veterans.
The 2014 Swisher Fun Days weekend was held Aug. 1 and 2 in the small town of 879 people. It's been a community tradition for so long, even organizers have a hard time pinning down the number of years the free event has taken place.
"I do know it has been at least 28 years," said parade organizer Gary Palas.
NORTH LIBERTY– City crews will collect fallen branches from Monday's storm through noon on Thursday, July 3. The branches should be no longer than five feet and placed along the curb.
By Lori Lindner
North Liberty Leader
NORTH LIBERTY– Sandi Spurrell loves babies. She is an artist quite skilled in drawing and graphic design. She adores children and families, enjoys meeting new people and making fast friends, and is killer with a camera.
Wrapped all up in one package, these qualities are what make Spurrell an excellent on-location photographer.
Spurrell's journey through various stages of life and different facets of her career led her to start her own business, Sandi Spurrell Photography, run from her home in North Liberty. She is now accepting new clients.
By Lori Lindner
North Liberty Leader
Solon Economist
JOHNSON COUNTY– Johnson County supervisor Democratic candidate Mike Carberry traces his ambition back to his roots.
The son of a large animal veterinarian and a school teacher, Carberry grew up on a small farm in Benton County.
"I spent a lot of time on small family farms from my dad, and I learned a real conservation ethic from those farmers," said Carberry. He mentions his participation in Boy Scouts and earning the rank of Eagle Scout as another influence.
By Paul Deaton
Solon Economist
SOLON– The city council appointed Steve Stange mayor at a May 7 meeting, and decided to appoint, rather than elect, his replacement on the council.
City voters have until Wednesday, May 21, to file a petition for a special election if they disagree with Stange's appointment.
Stange had expressed an interest in the position after previous mayor Cami Rasmussen resigned her post to accept an interim position as city administrator.
By Chris Umscheid
Solon Economist
IOWA CITY– Voters in Johnson County will decide in November whether or not to approve a $30,800,000 bond referendum for a courthouse annex.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors gave tentative approval for the floor plans of the proposed three-story structure in a meeting Wednesday, May 8, with Neumann Monson Architects and Venture Architects as well as County Attorney Janet Lyness and Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek. The board gave an overview of the facility later that afternoon in a meeting with the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee.


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The U.S. Army announced on August 10 the establishment of the Energy Initiatives Office (EIO) Task Force, which will serve as the central managing office for the development of large-scale renewable energy projects for the Army. The scale of renewable energy production needed by the Army to provide enhanced energy security is estimated to require investment up to $7.1 billion over the next 10 years and is expected to generate 2.1 million megawatt hours of power annually. The Army has a goal of 25% renewable energy by 2025. The task force will be operational by September 15.
The EIO Task Force will work within the Army to streamline existing acquisition processes and leverage industry for the execution of large-scale renewable and alternative energy projects on Army installations. Army installations currently are pursuing renewable energy infrastructure but often lack the expertise needed. The newly announced task force will fill this expertise gap and will provide resources aimed at working with the private sector to execute large-scale renewable energy projects.


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These are the upcoming books I would like to read and review
It is also my teaser page of things to come. The further away a release is the less certain is the information, covers can change from week to week and delays are common. This is also a collection of data from public sources that can contain errors or old information. So you can't trust this calendar like it is written in stone.
Click on the covers for a larger image. Titles in Italic have covers. Recent changes are bold
March 2013
- Shadow of Freedom (Honorverse – Talbott) by David Weber (Baen) – uk us
- The Gate Thief (Mither Mages 2) by Orson Scott Card (Tor) – uk us
- A Few Good Men (A Darkship novel) by Sarah A. Hoyt (Baen) – us uk
- The Art of War (Chung Kuo 5) by David Wingrove (Canongate)
- The Last Threshold (Neverwinter Saga 4) by R.A. Salvatore – uk
- Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza – uk – Debut
- Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace) – uk us
- Growing Pains by Ian Whates
- Evening's Empires (A Quiet War Novel) by Paul McAuley – July?
April 2013
- Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon (Baen) – uk us
- Deep Space (Star Carrier 4) by Ian Douglas (Harper Voyager) – uk us
- Serene Invasion by Eric Brown (Solaris) – uk
- Protector (Foreigner 14) by C. J. Cherryh (Daw) – uk us
May 2013
- House of Steel (Honorverse novella) by David Weber (Baen) – uk
- Dead ever After (Sookie Stackhouse 13) by Charlaine Harris (Gollancz) – the final True Blood novel – uk
- Guardian (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier 3) by Jack Campbell (Ace) – uk
- Bloodstar Star Corpsman 2 by Ian Douglas (Harper Voyager) – uk
- Alien in the House (Katherine "Kitty" Katt 7) by Gini Koch (Dow) – uk
- ACID by Emma Pass (Random House)
Summer 2013
- Serene Invasion by Eric Brown
June 2013
- Limits of Power (Paladin's Legacy 4) by Elizabeth Moon (Orbit) – uk
- The Crash by Guy Haley (Solaris)
- Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse 3) by James S. A. Corey (pseudonym for Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck) (Orbit)
- Earth Afire (First Formic War 2) by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (Tor) – uk us
- On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children Book 2) by Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz) – uk us
- The Lives of Tao by Wesley Tao (Angry Robot) – uk
- An Inch of Ashes (Chung Kuo 6) by David Wingrove (Corvus)
- Lexicon by Max Barry (Mulholland)
- Enders (Starters 2) by Lisa Price (Delacorte) – uk us
July 2013
- On the Razor's Edge (The January Dancer 4) by Michael Flynn (Tor) – uk
- Phoenicia's Worlds (Book 1) by Ben Jeapes (Solaris) – us uk
- Heaven's Fall (Heaven's Shadow 3) by Michael Cassutt & David S. Goyer (Tor)
- Storm Surge (Destroyermen) by Taylor Anderson (Roc) – uk us
- Beginnings (World of Weber 6) by David Weber (Baen) – us uk
- iD (The Second Machine Dynasty 2) by Madelaine Ashby (Angry Robot) – uk
- Hellfire (Theirs Not to Reason Why 3) by Jean Johnson (Ace) – uk us
- Terra by Mitch Benn (Gollancz) – uk us
August 2013
- No Life But This (A Long, Long Sleep 2) by Anna Sheehan (Gollancz) – uk
- The Ace Of Skulls (Tale of the Kitty Jay 4) by Chris Wooding (Gollancz) – us uk
- Marauder / The Core (A Shaol universe book) by Gary Gibson (Tor UK)
- Jupiter War (Owner Trilogy 3) by Neal Asher (TorUK) – uk us
Autumn 2013
- Warcage (Humanity's Fire Universe) by Michael Cobley (Orbit)
- Like A Mighty Army (Safehold 7) by David Weber (Tor) – sept/oct/dec – title?
September 2013
- Proxima by Stephen Baxter (Gollancz) – uk
- Fiddlehead (The Clockwork Century 5) by Cherie Priest
- 23 Years on Fire (A Cassandra Kresnov Novel) by Joel Shepherd (Pyr) – uk us
October 2013
- Cape Grace (Shaman's Tales 2) by Nathan Lowell
- The Arrows of Time (The Orthogonal 3) by Greg Egan – uk
- Defender (Kris Longknife 11) by Mike Shepherd (Ace) – us uk
- Perilous Shield (The Lost Stars 2) by Jack Campbell (Ace) – uk us
- Prince Thief (Tales of Easie Damasco 3) by David Tallerman (Angry Robot) – uk
- Evening's Empire (Quiet War universe) by Paul McAuley
- The Clone Assassin (Clone Republic 9) by Steven L. Kent (Ace) – uk
November 2013
- Fiddlehead (Clockwork Century) by Cherie Priest (Tor) – us uk
- Starhawk (Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins 7) by Jack McDevitt (Ace) – uk
- Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archives 2) by Brandon Sanderson (Gollancz) – uk
December 2013
- Andromeda's Choice (Legion of the Damned 0.2) by William C. Dietz
- The Dresden Files 15 by Jim Butcher
2013 date to be decided
- Gods of Risk (an Expanse novella) by James S. A. Corey
- Treecat Wars (Stephanie Harrington 3) by David Weber & Jane Lindskold (Baen)
- Penny Royal (A Polity Novel) by Neal Asher (TorUK) – year?
- Crux (Nexus 2) by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot) – later in the year
- The Betrayal (The Bone World 3) by Peadar Ó Guilín (David Fickling?)
- Cauldron of Ghosts (Honorverse – Torch) by David Weber & Eric Flint (Baen) – title pending
- Armada by Ernie Cline (Crown Publishing) – 2014?
- The Betrayal (The Bone World 3) Peader Ó Guilín
- Marmelukes (Janissaries) by Jerry Pournelle
2014 date to be decided
- The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire 6) by George R. R. Martin
- A Travesty of Hope (Honorverse Travis Uriah Long 1) by David Weber and Timothy Zahn (Baen)
- The Lambda Functionar (Halting State 3) by Charles Stross – working title
- Red Snow by Ian R. MacLeod
- Hopeland by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Day That I Loved (RNC 10) by David Drake
January 2014
- To Do or Die
Hounds of War(Ray Longknife 4) by Mike Shepherd (ACE)
February 2014
- The Glorious Angels by Justina Roberts (Gollancz)
March 2014
- The Quantum Thief 3 by Hannu Rajaniemi
- Ancestral Machines (Humanity's Fire 4) by Michael Cobley (Orbit) – uk
June 2014
- Target (Vicky Peterwald 1) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
- The Expanse 3 by James S. A. Corey
November 2014
- Tenacious (Kris Longknife 12) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
- The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire 6) by George R. R. Martin
- Beneath the Avalanche (Hedren war 2) by John Ringo
June 2015
- Survivor (Vichy Peterwald 2) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
November 2015
- Relentless (Kris Longknife 13) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
June 2016
- Rebel (Vichy Peterwald 3) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
November 2016
- Ambassador (Kris Longknife 14) by Mike Shepherd (Ace)
- Master of the Wind (Hedren War 3) by John RIngo
Unsure when
- (Storm?) Black Mountain (Ray Longknife 5) by Mike Shepherd (ACE)
- Iteeche War (Ray Longknife 6) by Mike Shepherd (ACE)


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Adam Malin was 13 when he went into business, and his chosen profession was the business of sci-fi and comic books. This was back in 1971, years before his proliferation of fan gatherings to celebrate the likes of "Star Trek" and "Xena," an effort Malin and his partner continue to run through their Glendale-based Creation Entertainment.
After two decades in New York, the company relocated here from New York in 1992 and now hosts some 30 major entertainment events across North America, including last weekend's "Grand Slam Convention: Star Trek and Sci-Fi Summit" at Bob Hope Airport. The gathering included a full-cast reunion with the actors from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," while fans waited in lines for memorabilia, to converse freely in Klingon and to show off their often meticulous costumes.
"I'm still a huge star Trek fan after all these years," says Malin, 56, who has raised two children in Glendale. "I've been watching for 47 years and loving it since it first started."
In recent years, the company has hosted gatherings for fans of Xena, Lord of the Rings and all things sci-fi. From Creation's offices in Glendale, the company's 15-person staff also organizes a health and fitness expo.
Malin's parents were already vendors at antique shows when he attended his first comics-themed swap meet in New York. He found hundreds of fans there much like him, and an idea was born. With a bank loan co-signed by his parents, Malin and partner Gary Berman rented space and had Marvel Comics creators Jim Steranko and Stan Lee as guests of honor.
At least 1,000 people turned up. The company has continued to grow ever since, coinciding with the rise of fantasy films as a dominant force.
"We felt like social outcasts back then, and now we feel very socially forward," Malin says. "We were waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to what we knew all along — which is imaginative and fantastic fiction would find its day."
Malin acknowledges it's not cheap to attend Creation events, but argues that a fan will get more for his money at 12-hour film and comics events than he ever could in a movie ticket.
"There has never been such a wealth of genre entertainment and intellectual property," says Malin. "It's a great time to be a fan. It's never been greater."
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Real Estate Transactions for issue of 9/30/08
September 16, 2008
16th Ward
John Miller to John Fuchs at Burham St. for $5,000.
Estate of Gertrude Baranowski to Catherine and Daniel Bowen at 2316 E. Carson St. for $80,000.
Vincent Richtar to Aaron Bowen at 2318 E. Carson St. for $1 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $87,000).
Robert Laskovich to JMG 2120 Merriman LLC at 2120 Merriman St. for $84,000.
Lisa Hays et al. to Andrew Zavage et al. and Gerald Zavage at 2528 Mission St. for $113,000.
Federal National Mortgage Assn. to Advanced Rental Properties Inc. at 404 Mountain St. for $8,000.
Stacey Taylor to Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority at 401 Parkwood Road for $3,207 by sheriff's deed.
Kathryn Wuenschell to Rachel Williamson at 2116 Sur Way St. for $29,000.
17th Ward
John Weber to Erin Williams at 1919 Harcum Way for $165,900.
Michael Kanter to Balser Ltd. LLC at 2361 S. 18th Street Ext. for $48,000.
18th Ward
Kristine Zottola to Stephen Shepard at 437 Edgemont St. for $96,000.
Pittsburgh City to David and Dolores Clark at 92 Pasadena St. for $2,900.
19th Ward
Keith White to Bank New York Trust Co. NA trustee at 2408 Beaufort Ave. for $1,506 by sheriff's deed.
Roger Raymond Fischer to Roger Fischer II at 505 Bellaire Ave. for $105,000.
American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. to Encore Property Management LLC at 626 Bellaire Ave. for $15,500.
James Auten to US Bank NA trustee at 427 Belonda St. for $1,455 by sheriff's deed.
US Bank National Assn. trustee to Creative Real Estate Investment Team LLC at 1602 Fallowfield Ave. for $11,500.
Todd Sheppard to Benjamin Ciotti at 441 Grace St. for $187,500.
Collier Development Inc. to Michael LaPiana at 1023 Grandview Ave. for $84,000.
Estate of Teresa Mishizen to William Lang at 675 Linda Drive for $84,000.
Raymond Anderson to Wells Fargo Bank NA at 31 Marne Way for $1,557 by sheriff's deed.
816 Crawford L.P. to Christina Cook at 1305 Methyl St. for $34,000.
Chatham Village Homes Inc. to Kathleen Kohan at 652 Pennridge Road for $152,000.
Anthony Esposito to Barry Ries at 1828 Pioneer Ave. for $104,000.
Robert Welsh to Jeffrey and Kimberly Wegener at 526 Rossmore Ave. for $92,000.
Timothy Bauer to Matthew Walker at 2399 Saranac Ave. for $86,000.
Bernice Elizabeth Yokim to HSBC Bank USA NA trustee at 15 Simms St. for $1,491 by sheriff's deed.
Devin Robbins to US Bank NA trustee at 2359 Vodeli St. for $1,455 by sheriff's deed.
Housing & Urban Development to Admiral Capital Management LLC at 1217 Wareman Ave. for $27,625.
Michele Rotunda to HSBC Bank USA NA trustee at 2307 Wolford St. for $1,593 by sheriff's deed.
Andrew Krugh Jr. to Thomas Venturino at 2097 Woodward Ave. for $70,000.
29th Ward
Peter Mamula to Ronald Jardini at 132 Parkfield St. for $27,000.
Estate of James Rollinson to Russell Schmitt at 132 Santron Ave. for $26,000.
Catherine Hillgartner to Wells Fargo Bank NA at 415 Spencer Ave. for $1,455 by sheriff's deed.
Coza Co. to Robert Francis Driscoll Jr. at 101 Thielman St. for $25,000.
Paula Bertges to Gregory Biehl at 2757 Waterman Ave. for $75,000.
30th Ward
Estate of Jennie Elizabeth Young to R & T Investments LLC at 422 Alice St. for $22,500.
Pittsburgh City to Frank and Chamell Lash at 415 Orchard Place for $200 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $4,524).
Mt. Oliver
Jacqueline Ketter to HSBC Bank USA NA trustee at 443 Hays Ave. for $1,455 by sheriff's deed.
John Ruggeri to Kitty Liquors LLC at 137 Stamm Ave. for $9,000.
Steven Englert to US Bank NA trustee at 423 Walnut St. for $1,557 by sheriff's deed.