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Why Don't Domestic Violence Victims Leave?
On this weeks episode, we're talking about the violence within us. And for Leslie Morgan Steiner it wasn't some abstract thing. Violence was real and it took a long time for her to figure that out. Here's how she started her TEDx Talk in Seattle.
(SOUNDBITE OF LESLIE STEINER TEDx TALK)
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER: I was 22. I'd moved to New York City for my first job as a writer and editor at Seventeen Magazine. I had my first apartment, my first little green American Express card. And I had a very big secret.
RAZ: That secret will become clear a little later. So at the time Leslie was living in New York, she just graduated from college and she was starting out her life and she met someone.
(SOUNDBITE OF LESLIE STEINER TEDx TALK)
STEINER: I met Connor on a cold, rainy January night. He sat next to me on the New York City subway and he started chatting me up. He told me two things. One was that he too had just graduated from an Ivy League school and that he worked at a very impressive Wall Street bank. But what made the biggest impression on me that first meeting was that he was smart and funny and he looked like a farm boy. He had these big cheeks, these big apple cheeks and this wheat blond hair, and he seemed so sweet.
RAZ: You say that he did something very smart.
STEINER: He did so many things that were really smart. He was a very, very smart person, perhaps the smartest man I've ever known. He worshipped me. He thought I was so smart that I had this great job at Seventeen Magazine, that I was passionate about helping teenage girls. I had never had anybody feel like that about me.
(SOUNDBITE OF LESLIE STEINER TEDx TALK)
STEINER: Connor believed in me as a writer and a woman in a way that no one else ever had. And he also created a magical atmosphere of trust between us by confessing his secret, which was that as a very young boy starting at age four he had been savagely and repeatedly physically abused by his stepfather. And the abuse had gotten so bad that he had had to drop out of school in the eighth grade even though he was very smart. And he had spent almost 20 years rebuilding his life, which is why that Ivy League degree and the Wall Street job, and his bright shiny future meant so much to him.
STEINER: And I still don't know to this day if he intentionally was trying to deceive me, or if he really felt that too. It felt real at the time and I completely fell for it.
RAZ: Which brings us back to Leslie's secret, the one she talked about on the TED stage.
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STEINER: My secret was, that I had this gun loaded with hollow point bullets pointed at my head by the man who I thought was my soulmate many, many times. The man who I loved more than anybody on earth held a gun to my head and threatened to kill me more times than I can even remember.
RAZ: But in the beginning, you had no idea he would turn violent.
STEINER: Right. His behavior showed no anger or even frustration. He was very sweet and thoughtful and gentle for almost the first two years of our relationship.
(SOUNDBITE OF LESLIE STEINER TEDx TALK)
STEINER: I didn't know that the first stage in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. Now Connor did not come home one day and announce all this Romeo and Juliet stuff has been great but I need to move into the next phase where I isolate you and I abuse you.
STEINER: So I need to get you out of this apartment where the neighbors can hear you scream and out of the city where you have friends and family and coworkers who can see the bruises. Instead, Connor came home one Friday evening and he had told me that he had quit his dream job. And he just wanted to get out of the city and away from his abusive, dysfunctional family and move to a tiny town in New England. Now the last thing I wanted to do was leave New York but I thought you made sacrifices for your soulmate. So I agreed, and Connor and I left Manhattan together. I had no idea that I was walking headfirst into a carefully laid physical, financial, and psychological trap.
RAZ: When did it begin? When did the violence begin?
STEINER: The actual violence began five days before our wedding. It was seven o'clock in the morning. I was trying to finish up a freelance writing assignment so that we would have some money for our honeymoon. And I got frustrated because my computer wouldn't work, and he got angry because I was angry. And he put his hands around my neck, squeezed really tightly, and used the chokehold to hit the back of my head up against the wall repeatedly. And he held me for a long time. I had 10, you know, bruises on my neck from his fingers. And it was pretty scary. I was just so confused and scared and didn't know where to turn. And had no - I had no realization that this was going to be a pattern.
RAZ: But then it happened a few days later?
STEINER: It happened again almost immediately, on our honeymoon, which it just broke a little piece of my heart. I was trying to find a secret beach, and I got lost and he got angry, and he punched the side of my head so hard that the other side of my head hit the driver's side window. And then a few days later driving home from the honeymoon he got angry again and he threw a cold Big Mac at my face as I was driving. I mean is that domestic violence? I didn't know anything could be so bizarre.
RAZ: So why did Leslie stay? That answer in a moment here on the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today we're talking about the violence within us. And we've been hearing Leslie Morgan Steiner's story, she tells it on the TED stage and in her book "Crazy Love." And she writes about her first marriage, to a man named Connor, and it was a marriage that was defined by violence. And how Leslie says she actually got used to it.
(SOUNDBITE OF LESLIE STEINER TEDx TALK)
STEINER: Why did I stay? The answer is easy. I didn't know he was abusing me. Even though he held loaded guns to my head, pushed me down stairs, threatened to kill our dog, pulled the key out of the car ignition as I drove down the highway, poured coffee grinds on my head as I dressed for a job interview, I never once thought of myself as a battered wife. Instead, I was a very strong woman in love with a deeply troubled man, and I was the only person on earth who could help Connor face his demons. The other question everybody asks is, why doesn't she just leave? To me, this is the saddest and most painful question that people ask because we victims know something you usually don't. Over 70 percent of domestic violence murders happen after the victim has ended the relationship, after she's gotten out, because then the abuser has nothing left to lose.
RAZ: How did you do it? How'd you leave?
STEINER: You know in some ways he left me no choice. I gave him an ultimatum that if he kept on abusing me I would leave. So I drew a line in the sand and I really meant it. And he didn't for six months. But then one night, again he did. And I knew with the first punch the marriage was over, but what I didn't realize was that maybe my life was going to be over. That he was so angry and so full of rage. The beating went on for a very long time, for hours. I tried really hard to get him to stop and I think I was making headway, when I got very lucky, in that a neighbor who had heard the fight banged really, really hard on our apartment door. And that really broke the spell for Connor. And somehow Connor realized what he was doing and he started crying and he stopped beating me and kicking me and breaking things over my head, and he got his coat and his keys and he left. And I called the police, and I never went back to him.
RAZ: Have you talked to him since you split up?
STEINER: I haven't talked to him in 20 years. I think I couldn't talk to him today without shaking. And he called me once a year after we got divorced, and it was a very brief conversation and I have not heard from him or seen him since then. And one of my most sincere wishes in this lifetime is to never, ever see him again.
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STEINER: We tend to stereotype victims as grisly headlines, self-destructive women, damaged goods. But since publishing "Crazy Love," I have heard hundreds of stories from men and women who also got out, who learned an invaluable life lesson from what happened, and who rebuilt lives, joyous happy lives, as employees, wives, and mothers. Lives completely free of violence. Like me. As it turns out, that I'm actually a very typical domestic violence victim and a typical domestic violence survivor. I remarried a kind and gentle man. What I will never have again, ever, is a loaded gun held to my head by someone who says that he loves me. Thank you.
RAZ: Would you characterize his violence as evil?
STEINER: No, I wouldn't.
RAZ: You wouldn't?
STEINER: I think that violence sometimes is contagious. I think his stepfather was evil. He had been a little kid horribly abused and he'd also seen his mother, who he loved so much, be abused and beaten and put in the hospital. And I think that does something to a kid. So I understood his rage. It was, in its own weird way, it was a logical response to what happened to him as a child. But that's different than evil.
RAZ: In some ways, do you think both of you were victims?
STEINER: Oh yes, absolutely. I don't know if he intentionally set out to victimize me. I don't think that he did. But the thing that still baffles me is, if what he wanted was me to really love him, then why did he hurt me? 'Cause he drove me away. He made it inevitable that I would leave at some point. That's the part that I really don't understand. I don't think it's ever a victim's fault. But I played a role in it by trying to save him, by trying to help him. In some ways I really bought into the twisted idea that I could heal him. You could argue that that was a very seductive thing to offer him, as well. You know, we both had our roles in this really twisted dance.
RAZ: It's amazing when, you know, you think about human resilience, right, because we're adaptable. We can adapt to the worst, most unbelievably violent situations and, and live through it.
STEINER: I know, we are adaptable. People say that like it's a good thing. In some ways, I think I would've been better off if I hadn't been so adaptable, if I had broken right away.
RAZ: Leslie Morgan Steiner. She wrote the book "Crazy Love" and you can hear her whole TED Talk at TED.npr.org.
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Right now, you might be mulling which new game console to get when the Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 go on sale in November. But here's something else to consider.
Today, Valve, the creators of such PC games as Half-Life and Portal and the company behind the Steam online gaming platform, announced that it's getting into the console business with not just one machine but a range of products for the living room.
The line will be called Steam Machines, and they will all run on SteamOS, the company's new Linux-based, living-room-optimized platform, which it announced on Monday.
"Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014," the company wrote on its website.
Valve didn't specify which manufacturers it is working with or provide any details about the consoles themselves, though it did state in its FAQ that it is building a range of boxes that will be optimized for size, price, quietness and other factors.
While those products are still in development, Valve has created a prototype and plans to ship 300 of them for free to Steam users this year for testing. You can apply to be one of those lucky souls by signing up for the beta program here; the deadline is Oct. 25.
Testers will be able to play almost all of the 3,000 games available on Steam, and can play using gamepads or with a keyboard and mouse. Valve said it will offer other methods of input, too. And users will be allowed to share their experiences and feedback with everyone online.
Bringing PC gaming into the living room is something Valve has been working toward since last year, when the company introduced a feature called Big Picture that allowed PC games to be played on the TV. Though a big challenge, the variety of products and openness of the platform could prove to be competition for the likes of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
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Misuse of Computers: Shadowcrew and soupnazi
The Internet is a vehicle for bringing together people with common interests, but Shadowcrew was not your everyday social network.
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Shadowcrew was a notorious criminal conspiracy that operated from August 2002 to October 2004. It was a wake-up call for corporations, particularly retailers, with vulnerable networks. This community of credit-card fraudsters and identity thieves participated in an Internet-based exchange, a high-tech twist on trafficking in stolen goods. Shadowcrew.com was like a version of eBay for buyers and sellers from the black hat, or criminal side, of the hacker communityThe Shadowcrew conspiracy revealed network and database security problems were pervasive. Despite a decade of Internet commerce and an even longer history of criminal exploitation of credit cards, Shadowcrew confirmed there was still big money to be made due to weak security measures. It revealed a global community of criminal hackers was profiting from exploiting vulnerable networks and servers; the hacker's penetrations were not always detected. Why would a bank robber risk using explosives if he can find a bank vault that's routinely left open and no one notices repeated intrusions?
Shadowcrew founders, Andrew Mantovani and David Appleyard, came up with the idea of an online exchange for carders to swap hacking tips and to sell or auction off stolen data. The Shadowcrew members sent out thousands of phishing e-mails to get credit card information and they hacked into databases after penetrating 12 computer networks. Some Shadowcrew members used a sophisticated money laundering system created by Omar Dhanani to exchange cash for eGold, which was backed by gold bullion. Another method to avoid the oversight inherent in banking was to pay by Western Union money transfers.
Shadowcrew members used a combination of instant messaging, encryption, and anonymizers (virtual private networks, proxy servers, and rotating IP addresses) to hide their activity and they succeeded in operating for more than two years. Besides debit- and credit-card information, the Shadowcrew members also held auctions of other tools for identity theft, including information about bank accounts, Social Security cards, health insurance cards, birth certificates, and counterfeit passports, drivers' licenses, traveler's checks and college student IDs.
Crew members such as Brandon Monchamp and Matthew Johnson were moderators of forums that discussed topics such as how to create drivers' licenses or counterfeit bank cards. Other crew members, including Alexander Palacio, acted as reviewers who evaluated stolen merchandise such as credit card number collections. Vendors such as Rogerio Rodrigues and Omar Dhanani provided money laundering and other services. Shadowcrew vendor Nicolas Jacobsen hacked into T-Mobile's servers and customer database, giving him access to personal information for 16.3 million T-Mobile subscribers. The T-Mobile hack also enabled Shadowcrew to monitor e-mails for months. One account led Jacobsen to Peter Cavicchia, a US Secret Service agent involved in the investigation. Shadowcrew was able to monitor Secret Service e-mails and had access to government documents that contained sensitive information.
Shadowcrew was the introduction of law enforcement authorities to a criminal mastermind who was later to organize what CBS News called "the worst high-tech heist in shopping history." The conspiracy named 'Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin' was launched by Albert Gonzalez, also known as soupnazi.
Gonzalez had been arrested in 2003 while he was an administrator and moderator of the Shadowcrew.com website. The site had 4000 members selling and swapping stolen credit-card information using encrypted communications. After his arrest, Gonzalez cooperated with the Secret Service on a sting. Operation Firewall resulted in 28 arrests in 2004 of Shadowcrew members, including Mantovani and Appleyard. Besides the Secret Service in the US, the investigation and simultaneous arrests involved law enforcement agencies in Canada, Belarus, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ukraine.
Gonzalez had convinced the Shadowcrew conspirators to use a private VPN that was monitored by the Secret Service. Nicolas Jacobsen, who'd hacked T-Mobile servers, asked Gonzalez for a proxy server, not knowing Gonzalez was a Secret Service informant. In response, the Secret Service configured a honeypot proxy server that enabled its agents to monitor Shadowcrew activity. The agents learned of Jacobsen logging into Secret Service computers with the userid and password for Agent Cavicchia. A week later law enforcement agencies took down Shadowcrew with simultaneous arrests in several countries.
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"Shadowcrew members collectively trafficked in and made unauthorized use of at least 1.5 million stolen credit card numbers"
In October 2004, the Justice Department handed down indictments for 19 Shadowcrew leaders. The Justice Department announcement of the indictment of Kenneth J. Flury described the scheme as netting him almost $400,000 in three weeks of using counterfeit ATM cards:
"On October 18, 2005, a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, returned an indictment charging Flury with one count of bank fraud, arising from a Flury's scheme to defraud CitiBank which occurred between April 15, 2004, and May 4, 2004, and involved Flury obtaining stolen CitiBank debit card account numbers, PINs and personal identifier information of the true account holders which Flury fraudulently encoded onto blank ATM cards. After encoding blank cards with the stolen account information, Flury used the counterfeit ATM to obtain cash advances to withdraw cash and obtain cash advances totaling over $384,000 from ATM machines located in the Greater Cleveland area over a 3 week period. After Flury fraudulently obtained the funds, he transferred approximately $167,000 of the fraud proceeds via Western Union money transfers to the individuals supplying the stolen CitiBank account information located in Europe and Asia"
In 2006, the Shadowcrew criminals faced justice for Conspiracy and Bank Fraud. Kenneth J. Flury and Andrew Mantovani were fined and sentenced to 32 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Five others were sentenced at that time. Flury was ordered to pay $300,748.64 in restitution to Citibank.
The Shadowcrew arrests followed a period of staggering growth in credit card fraud, which had become a multi-billion dollar nightmare. In 1980, Visa and Master Card lost $110 million to credit card fraud. By 1995, that number had grown to $1.63 billion. In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission reported $52 billion in goods and services had been purchased with fraudulently obtained personal identification. The FBI reported in 2005 that credit card fraud was the majority of the total U.S. financial fraud losses of $315 billion.
Next: Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin' -- Shadowcrew members used a combination of instant messaging, encryption, and anonymizers (virtual private networks, proxy servers, and rotating IP addresses) to hide their activity and they succeeded in operating for more than two years.


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While Iran's nuclear programme has been at the centre of foreign and economic policy debates for months, what seems unclear is the precise nature of the threat it might pose.
Is Iran striving for nuclear latency (the ability to produce nuclear weapons) or is it actually striving to build weapons? Would they deploy them, or use them as a means of further establishing its power in the region?
There have been a series of inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities over the years, with mixed results and levels of cooperation from Iran.
Tensions have neared the boiling point several times over the years, and in the wake of yet another report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stating concern and doubt about the civilian nature of Iran's nuclear programme in November, Iranian officials openly discussed shutting down a key global oil transport route, the Strait of Hormuz, running along Iran's western and southern coastlines.
"Every country that has reached the level of nuclear potential has realised that you maximise this potential by refraining from the use of your weapons. It's equivalent to a situation where you're torturing somebody - you never want to kill them, because then, it's over. "
- Stephen Kinzer
It's hard to determine what is going on within the country, where a heightened power struggle is taking shape after the recent parliamentary elections and in the lead up to the 2013 presidential elections.
The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, maintains that Iran never has and never will seek nuclear weapons.
"There is no doubt that the decision makers in the countries opposing us know well that Iran is not after nuclear weapons," he said in a speech in February. He went on to say that Iran, "logically, religiously and theoretically, considers the possession of nuclear weapons a grave sin and believes the proliferation of such weapons is senseless, destructive and dangerous".
The same month, talk of war reached a high point, with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu trying to drum up support for a military strike against Iran. But the logistics of such an attack, lack of public support from the US and a fresh round of nuclear talks (a strategy Israel decries as Iran simply "buying time") have put those plans on hold.
A spokesperson for the IAEA declined Al Jazeera's request for an interview, saying that the agency preferred that its "reports do the talking". The agency's newest board report expresses frustration with Iran's lack of cooperation and refers to outstanding issues connected to the "possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear programme".
In the latest round of talks on its nuclear programme in Istanbul, Iran rejected bilateral talks with the US, but the diplomats nonetheless said Iran gave some positive signals in the talks.
Nature of the threat
The US has been concerned with Iran's influence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, and becoming a nuclear power in the region is only bound to increase that clout.
"The main reason Iran is trying to reach that point is that Iran is suffering from lack of legitimacy and recognition on the International level - they think that the West will not recognise the Islamic Republic without a nuclear Iran," said Mehdi Khalaji, senior fellow at the Washington Institute.
"Iran wants to be treated like Pakistan - which has a nuclear programme. It fears giving up its nuclear programme and becoming another Libya," said Khalaji.
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"I do not believe that Iranian leaders are suicidal - using a nuclear bomb against any country will be the end of the Islamic Republic and the current leadership," said Khalaji, himself a native of Qom and the son of reformist cleric Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Khalaji.
"I think they don't want a nuclear bomb to use it. I think they want nuclear capability to just have full hegemony in the region."
He added that another effect of a nuclear Iran may be a potential cascade effect, as other countries in the region rush to become nuclear states.
Although there have been reports aplenty about a potential attack on Israel, it seems more likely that Iran would wield its powers as others do.
"Every country that has reached the level of nuclear potential has realised that you maximise this potential by refraining from the use of your weapons," said author and Iran expert Stephen Kinzer.
"It's equivalent to a situation where you're torturing somebody - you never want to kill them, because then, it's over."
Marvin Weinbaum, former intelligence analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the US State Department and a current scholar-in-residence at the Middle East Institute, recently argued in an article that a war against Iran would be a mistake, but not because of the questionable ethics of a pre-emptive war or the mass casualties it would cause.
Weinbaum wrote that if Iran was a rational actor and decided against striking back, it would manage to make the world see the US and Israel lumped in as "aggressors", thereby winning hearts and minds while justifying the need for nuclear weapons.
"What we've seen is that Iran can be provocative ... If the kind of attack that they're likely to suffer is going to be one of a limited, surgical kind, and where they can recover from that in the matter of a few years, then there is far more to be gained in taking advantage of the political opportunities that it may afford," Weinbaum told Al Jazeera.
But he also said that he did not believe Iran was aiming to build nuclear weapons to "destroy the Jewish state", as he said is Israel's stated case.
"Do I believe it? No. Because ... were it do to so there would be massive retaliation, not just from Israel - because I think Israel would be limited - but by the United States," said Weinbaum.
"The Iranian leadership, above all, wants to survive. That's their number one objective right now."
The real ramifications of Iran achieving nuclear latency or acquiring weapons, he said, would be in allowing Iran "to throw its weight around in the region" against not only Israel, but other countries in the Gulf region.
"The Arab countries would be living in a very different environment than they are today," said Weinbaum, who dismisses the importance of Israel's nuclear programme in the region, saying that it is "useless" and has failed to "force anyone to do anything".
However, Iran, he said, "has the capacity to overthrow those regimes in the region".
US 'war drums' grow louder
Still, despite the lack of clarity as to what Iran wishes to do with potential nuclear warheads (destroy Israel or flex its muscles) and the stated reluctance of many US military and security experts to support a war against Iran, within the US, there's an increasing sense that Iran poses a serious threat.
"The beating of war drums has intensified, without a doubt, in recent months. It's a matter of great concern because these two countries are now really in each other's faces," said Kinzer.
"We're right in front of Iran with our ships in the Persian Gulf and people are being blown up on the streets of Tehran," he said, referring to Iranian scientists who have been the target of assassinations in recent years.
"Meanwhile, Iran is pushing into what Americans consider to be their own sphere of influence ... The enmity between these two countries has become an institution of American foreign policy, but with the elections coming up in the United States, the situation is reaching troubling new heights," said Kinzer.
Issues with logistics and a shortage of international support have lead to talk that Israel might postpone a possible strike for another year, which gives the situation time either to diffuse or intensify.
Indeed, it's uncertain if an attack on its nuclear facilities would act as a final deterrent.
"It is highly unlikely that an Israeli air strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would succeed in preventing an Iranian bomb over the long-term," said Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, who specialises in issues of national security with a focus on nuclear weapons and terrorism.
"In fact, it could well bring the day when Iran tested a weapon closer, rather than delay it. Despite recent press excitement, my estimate of the likelihood of an Israeli air strike against Iran this year is about 25 per cent," said Allison - who added that he agreed with the view of the US intelligence community - that Iran was seeking the capability to build nuclear weapons, but has not yet decided to build them.
The efficacy of sanctions and wars
While China, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Venezuela are among countries that maintain decent ties with Iran, with Russia and China at times being the strongest of these allies, the West has largely responded to Iran with 30 years of sanctions.
"There have been various approaches and so far, the American approach seems to be dominant - and this is the approach that we should just hector and criticise and sanction and isolate Iran an push Iran into a corner and make Iran suffer until Iran surrenders," said Kinzer.
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That said, he adds that Iran 's "biggest misstep" has been its lack of transparency.
"We don't really know what Iran is doing, and meanwhile they're testing missile delivery systems," said Kinzer.
Iran, he said, has seen the US refrain from attacking North Korea, one of its "axis of evil" enemies, because that enemy has nuclear weapons, while attacking Iraq, which did not.
If a war against Iran doesn't seem likely to act as a long-term deterrent to the nuclear path - some analysts hold that a war would only delay Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons - it seems unlikely that sanctions will achieve more.
The effects of the financial pain are reaching average Iranians, with a group actually mobbing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in the southern city of Bandar Abbas earlier this month, shouting that they were hungry and suffering.
Although sanctions worked against Libya's nuclear programme, Allison points out that the programme there was not advanced. Sanctions failed to work in Pakistan because the US, he said, relaxed them due to "common interests [for example] the fight against al-Qaeda".
Bringing up Israel's own nuclear weapons programme is non-starter, as the country is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, therefore is not compelled to submit to IAEA inspections and has not faced sanctions for its weapons programme.
But Iran, said Allison, "has hidden behind the rights to dual-use nuclear technology given to it by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while at the same time seeking a nuclear weapon capability" - hence the ever-hardening sanctions, regardless of minimal returns.
Dealing with a nuclear Iran
What seems untenable at the moment - that the world could possibly accept Iran as a nuclear power - might indeed be the case.
But Kinzer believes that accepting Iran as a nuclear power is "inevitable".
"The fact is ... more countries are going to becoming nuclear armed. We're going to have to get real and find the kinds of security mechanisms to help deal with that reality. You can't just pick and choose the members of this club forever and that's just something the West is going to have to deal with," he said.
Weinbaum is unsure that any measure would prevent Iran from reaching nuclear capability.
"The jury's out on that," he said.
"We have to see who prevails in Iran ... we have to see what they decide. There is some honest probing here to see how far they are willing to go."
But it seems that, acceptable or not, a mixture of internal politics - which sees the current government struggling for legitimacy - and international struggles - will keep Iran on its current course.
"Khamenei, and others in charge of the nuclear programme, believe that the only way to save the economy, to lift the sanctions and become a normal country is to go nuclear," said Khalaji.
"The Islamic Republic wrongly thinks that if it's more dangerous, it will be more likely to impose its recognition on the world. That's wrong," said Khalaji.
"I don't know anyone who believes that a more dangerous Iran would be safer."
Follow D. Parvaz on Twitter: @Dparvaz
... iran is on a war path, that has been deterred with sanctions for 30 years !
...nobody can believe a nuclear atomic weapons iran will be of any "good"...!


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Bardo 7.08 is a collaboration between painter Jesse Leroy Smith and film-maker Roger Thorp. It was first shown at the Waking Path event at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in August 2014.
Providence is a new film from Roger Thorp currently installed at the Millennium Gallery Winter Show in St Ives.
little song films at tremenheere sculpture gardens
Final night of the Cornwall Art Biennale
Cornwall Art Biennale
We're excited to announce that we've been invited to show some films at the Cornwall Art Bienalle on 13th April
Little Song Films Relaunch
dedicated to the poetics of the moving image little song films exhibits the work of artists from 12 countries.
we are presently changing the web site so please bear with us
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Since the Day of Archaeology on Friday and my last post, a lot has happened – in particular, a lot of work! During the whole weekend, many of us continued being busy with final preparations such as arranging exhibits, painting texts on the walls, labelling artefacts, glueing QR codes to the show cases and supplementary booklets, and an awful lot of cleaning!
The funny thing is that even though prehistory is often covered with dirt – well, at least the artefacts… and, occasionally, our field plans and equipments… and most of the time our clothes –, exhibits need to be perfectly clean.
Yet, cleaning is one of these works most people don't expect when thinking of prehistoric archaeology but actually it's a huge part of our job: On excavation we constantly clean profiles, the planum, the camera lenses and other equipment such as our glasses, afterwards the finds are cleaned, the data is cleaned from errors, outliers, false recordings, then we clear our minds to look at the result in a least biased way, well, and then we make everything extra clean and clear to exhibit the lessons we have learned… Hence, archaeologists are basically born cleaners!
For example, Dr. Elaine Turner usually studies hominid subsistence patterns based on faunal assemblages from Middle Pleistocene sites such as Schöningen or the Czech Kůlna Cave to Late Pleistocene Moroccan cave Taforalt but on this weekend she wiped the floors.
Dr. Alejandro Garcia Moreno, the GIS-specialist of the Schöningen and Neumark-Nord projects, polished the vitrines together with our trainee Nicola Scheyhing M.A. and also tidied the entrance together with Dr. Radu Ioviță. So by mid-day Monday, Monrepos was spick and span!
However, besides the exhibition, the official opening ceremony had to be prepared:
Tables and chairs had to be put up, huge umbrellas had to be opened outside the main entrance of the museum due to the disappointing weather forecast, decoration had to be made and spread, the buffet arranged, concession stands equipped, glasses filled, bottles with more wine, sparkling wine, water, rose syrup, birch syrup, and elder syrup, that Juliane Weiß M.A. had made, had to be spread on the stands, a speaker's desk had to be set up, microphone and speakers had to be synchronised for the hall and so on and so on…
But it was not just our staff and our colleagues from Mainz or the supporting actors who are going to be the guides – family members and friends were also helping such as Aritza's wife Dr. Pauline Buthaud and our future fellow, Dr. Karen Rubens (currently at Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig).
We are still not sure how we did it. For sure, there were moments of pure exhaustion.
Nevertheless, with joined forces we prepared the exhibition for visitors on Monday 1 pm!
When the "event" began at 1:30 pm, the house became filled up with people! With 100-200 expected guest and almost as many cars to come up the long way above the Rhine valley, Wolfgang Heuschen M.A. and Sascha Sieber had to organise the car park and saw nothing of the official speeches. However, lucky them because due to the packed hall the air really became thin during the official speeches of Prof. Dr. Falko Daim, head of our parent institute, the RGZM, of the minister of education, science, and culture of Rhineland-Palatinate, Mrs. Doris Ahnen, of the vice-president of the Leibniz society, Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich W. Hesse, and the head of our institute, Prof. Dr. Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser. She introduced the actor guides who instantly relieved the audience from the ceremonial atmosphere when asking them to participate in a little experiment about human behaviour… the results surprised quite a few of our guests. After this cheerful end to the official part, the storm on the buffet began and the first visitors were guided through the museum. Dr. Olaf Jöris invited people to follow him through the exhibition with an in-depth scientific view on the concept and the content.
Some actors remained at special places within the exhibition to offer visitors insights into their programme. Outside the house trainee, undergraduate and graduate students were serving drinks while post-docs kept the bottles coming from the fridge – and finally, the sun also came out!
However, if you think: "That's it!" – well, no! Since the museum opened for the public on Tuesday, of course, someone had to clean up after the party…
Dishes, tables, and floors had to be cleaned, chairs and tables put away, decoration spread through the house, and everything put back to its right place…
The opening for the public on Tuesday went quite smoothly then: Even though it was Tuesday and holidays haven't begin yet, we had several visitors and Frank Moseler M.A. also had to give his first guided tours. Today, it continues quite nicely with the first children's birthdays.
However, after the final cleaning up on Monday, we could finally begin relaxing after a very long day and a very, very long precedence… So we say: "Cheers! And we hope to see you soon in our new exhibition!"
P.S.: You should definitively use our wishing tree – wishes made to the tree do come true: Germany became World Champion! Hooray!!!


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|Jul 14th, 2011 04:03 PM
|Deadly Towers Sux
|Also, I love the other Hugo games! Cameo appearance by The Doctor=WIN! I friggin' HATED those flytraps though...
|Mar 7th, 2011 04:50 PM
|Deadly Towers Sux
*sniff* the memories of this game bring tears to my eyes (both joyful and bitter tears)
This was the very first computer game I ever played (not to be confused with video game; that was Mario Bros. in the arcade)
I swear, that mummy is responsible for partial hair loss on my part! (Well, not really, but that sums up my frustration)
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|Sep 23rd, 2010 02:05 AM
I'm sure I'll do some kind of article on UHF in the future as it's one of my favorite movies. Stanley Spadowski, Conan the Librarian, Wheel of Fish... what's not to love? And yeah, there's always a possibility for a DOTT review in the future as well.
But back on track, it's really nice to see that so many people remember Hugo's House of Horrors. Any game with Green Igor and Rubber Bungs is mandatory for all I-Mockery readers to play. I'm sure I'll play through the sequels eventually and will review them as well. Dr. Boogie is also planning on reviewing the 3D sequel that plays like a DOOM clone of sorts (the one that Lothalis mentioned above), so keep an eye out for that one.
|Sep 22nd, 2010 08:22 PM
|Also, because I forgot to mention it earlier - you win for life for mentioning UHF & Day Of The Tentacle. Any chance you'll be doing a write-up on either of those in the future? :D
|Sep 21st, 2010 10:36 AM
I love this piece - I remember playing this game way back when, & I was never able to finish it (the mummy kept killing me D
I really hope you play the other 2 & post tributes to them as well :D
|Sep 19th, 2010 11:47 AM
How many lives were saved by Rubber Bungs?
We may never know, but the number has to be in the 3 to 5 hundred thousand range.
Rubber Bungs. Our unsung heroes in the realm of survival.
|Sep 17th, 2010 01:00 AM
|Oh my god thank you! I have this really fond memory of back in 2nd grade on halloween my computer teacher had a special day where she played through this game and the whole class got to watch. I never knew the name of the game, and always have remember it around this time of year, I was actually just thinking about it the other day.
|Sep 14th, 2010 07:06 AM
|I used to play this game years ago! Oh the memories!
|Sep 14th, 2010 05:21 AM
While I did enjoy this classic adventure, along with many of it's genre, I always found it interesting that after Wolfenstien 3D came out many "re-imaginings" of games were created in a simular manner.
While is was for the most part a FPS, there were a few good riddles and puzzles you needed to solve so you could continue in the game.
|Sep 13th, 2010 08:58 PM
|Igor is hulks weak brother.
|Sep 13th, 2010 08:42 PM
|Mister Tea
Oh yeah, I still have the old text parser-only DOS version. In that one, the old man's final question is whether or not you registered your shareware. So yes: he's actively encouraging the player to lie.
Oh, and heads-up, Rog: Hugo 2 is much more frustrating than parts 1 and 3.
|Sep 13th, 2010 02:12 PM
Oh my gosh, how many hours did me and my kid sister waste trying to see who could get through this game fastest? To this day I remember not telling her the answer to the first trivia question and how mad she got at me!
Thanks RoG, that was a great walk down memory lane!
|Sep 13th, 2010 01:50 PM
That mummy was the bane of my existence. Spending hours re-searching through the house for some missing item to give to it, trying everything I could think of to either scare or burn the thing with candle.
Even after me and my friends figured out the way around it, I still refused to believe that's how you were supposed to get past the thing. I mean after an entire game where you had to use your brain, they wouldn't make a single area where you had to rely on skill and luck would they? Would they?!
I always thought Igor and the red guy were brothers. I do believe that you have now given me nightmares.
|Sep 13th, 2010 01:38 PM
|Fun. I never could make text command games work for me. I guess I just lacked the imagination...or something.
|Sep 13th, 2010 11:24 AM
|It is always nice to see articles about old games like these. They sure don't make them like they used to. :')
|Sep 13th, 2010 09:07 AM
|10,000 Volt Ghost
|HHH is an amazing game. HHH2 and HHH3 are just as fun. In HHH2 you get to play as Penelope. Watch out for the stupid robot though.
|Sep 13th, 2010 06:18 AM
|lol, love those style games. It's a shame that they don't really make these anymore, though I suppose their modern successors would be flash games...
|Sep 13th, 2010 03:20 AM
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Beginning in 2010, the Western's Planning Studio class participated in a coordinated service learning curriculum that partnered several WWU classes with the City of Bellingham, Sustainable Connections, and other community and institutional partners in order to develop new urbanism planning concepts to help transition Bellingham into a more urban and sustainable community. Planning Studio is the first in the series of coordinated class investigations that emphasizes the preparation of the plan/design concept.
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Saturday, September 24th
7:00 – 9:00 Vendor/Speaker Arrival & Set-up.
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9:15 – 10:00 - Lisa Perry - Lisa is from the NorthEast Arkansas Regional Archives (NEARA) in Powhatan, Arkansas. The archive is a branch of the Arkansas History Commission (State Archives). NEARA's mission is to collect, preserve, and make available, source materials pertaining to the history of northeast Arkansas and its people. this facility will be an asset for those doing genealogical or historical research. Lisa will discuss NEARA's holdings which include traditional archival material such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, newspapers, and broadsides. Books, periodicals, and other print resources create a general Arkansas history reference library. The core of NEARA's initial holdings included approximately 500 cubic feet of Lawrence County government records, donated by the Lawrence County Historical Society. These county records are among Arkansas's earliest documentary resources. Records from numerous counties in the region are also available on microfilm. As the "Mother of Counties," Lawrence County was established in 1815, prior to the creation of Arkansas Territory (1819). The county encompassed most of north Arkansas, and was later subdivided into more than thirty modern counties in both Arkansas and Missouri.
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James and Deborah Topps of Adrian recently celebrated 40 years of marriage.
James Topps and Deborah Farquhar were united in marriage March 1, 1969, at Morenci United Methodist Church by Rev. Emmet Koons.
James is employed as a service officer for the Department of Michigan American Legion and Deborah is a self-employed day care provider in Adrian.
The couple has two children, Michelle (and Ken) Desgranges of Hillsdale and J.J. (and Amber Brighton) Topps of Hudson. They also have four grandchildren, Evan Topps and Ashton, Lizzy and Collin Desgranges.
They celebrated with a family dinner with their children and grandchildren.


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Early Years
Strachey was born on April 4, 1572, in Saffron Walden, Essex, in the southeast of England, on an estate that his grandfather, also named William Strachey, had purchased a decade earlier. He was the oldest son of four sons and three daughters born to William Strachey and Mary Cooke Strachey. The Strachey family had long been prosperous farmers in Saffron Walden, while the Cookes were wealthy London merchants with property in Kent. On July 4, 1587, William Strachey (the elder) was awarded a coat of arms, making him—and by extension his sons—a gentleman. Mary Cooke Strachey died in 1587, and in August of that year Strachey (the elder) married Elizabeth Brocket of Hertfordshire. They had five daughters.
William Strachey (the younger) enrolled at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, on February 14, 1588, and on June 9, 1595, he married Frances Forster, a distant relative of his mother and the daughter of a wealthy landowner in Surrey. They had two sons: William, who was baptized on March 30, 1596, and Edmund, baptized on February 26, 1604, both at Crowhurst, Surrey. William Strachey (the father) died in November 1598, leaving his estate to his wife Elizabeth Brocket Strachey and then, upon her death in 1602, to his son William Strachey. The inheritance appears to have supported Strachey and his family for the next few years, and by 1605 he was a member of Gray's Inn, the largest of the Inns of Court. No evidence exists that he ever practiced law; instead, he pursued interests in literature and the theater.
Strachey contributed a prefatory sonnet to a 1604 publication of Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall, a play first performed at the Globe in 1603 by William Shakespeare and his company. The journalist John St. Loe Strachey later called the poem "one of the most cryptic things in the whole of Elizabethan literature." A shareholder in the Blackfriars Theatre in London, William Strachey apparently was friends with Jonson, the poet John Donne, and perhaps even Shakespeare.
With his inheritance running low, in 1606 Strachey drew upon his wife's connections to gain a post as secretary to Sir Thomas Glover, who represented both the Levant Company and King James I at the Ottoman Empire's capital at Constantinople. Traveling aboard the Royal Exchange, the party stopped in Algiers and Greece before arriving in Constantinople on December 23, 1606. Soon after, however, Strachey fell out with Glover, who described him as "that most malicious knave" and who fired him on March 17, 1607. The Levant Company wrote Strachey that he had "much overshott" himself by communicating too freely with the former ambassador, Henry Lello. With a letter of introduction from John Donne, Strachey sailed to Venice but was unable to secure a job, and finally returned to England.
On July 24, the ships were separated by a storm, and the Sea Venture, which carried much of the colony's new leadership, including Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Gates and Admiral Sir George Somers, was thought lost. In fact, it was blown off course and ran aground on a fishhook-shaped group of islands known as the Bermudas. Strachey vividly described the storm in A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight, writing that "we could not apprehend in our imaginations any possibility of greater violence." He suggested their survival was miraculous: "The Lord knoweth, I had as little hope, as desire of life in the storme, & in this, it went beyond my will."
The castaways spent about ten months on the uninhabited islands, and Strachey appears to have insinuated himself into the company of the Sea Venture's captain, Christopher Newport. On February 11, 1610, he and Newport served as witnesses to the christening of John Rolfe's daughter, named Bermuda, and on March 25, he, Newport, and James Swift became godfathers to a baby boy called Bermudas. (Rolfe's wife and daughter both died.) Strachey served on Gates's crew, building one of two pinnaces out of the Sea Venture's wreckage, and his account notes "dangers and divellish disquiets" that overcame some of the men. Somers and Gates clashed, a sailor was murdered, and multiple mutinies were quashed, with one colonist executed.
Once the pinnaces Deliverance and Patience were built, the colonists set sail for Virginia, arriving at Point Comfort in the Chesapeake Bay on May 21, 1610. On May 24, they arrived in Jamestown and there, according to Strachey, found "all things so contrary to our expectations, so full of misery and misgovernment."
De La Warr soon convened the Council, which included Strachey, who also was chosen to be its secretary and recorder. (Matthew Scrivener had drowned in January 1609.) One of De La Warr's first actions was to expand a set of rules, instituted by Gates, that governed the colony. The persistent and widespread perception was that, in Strachey's words, "sloath, riot and vanity" had been to blame for the famine. Strachey complained that "the headlesse multitude, (some neither of qualitie nor Religion) [were] not imployed to the end for which they were sent hither, no not compelled (since in themselves unwilling) to sowe Corne for their owne bellies." As such, a new, stricter regime, "an absolute command," was established, using these rules as a foundation for order.
Little is known of Strachey's specific activities in the colony from 1610 until 1611, although he clearly had repeated contacts with the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco, who were engaged with the English in the First Anglo-Powhatan War (1609–1614). He extensively interviewed two Indian men, Kemps and Machumps, both of whom spoke English. And he visited the Quiyoughcohannock and the Kecoughtan Indians. In September 1611, Strachey returned to England.
By contrast, the Virginia Company declined to publish Strachey's account of the Sea Venture. Although he praised Gates and Somers, Strachey was forthright about the mutinies in Bermuda and highly critical of the Jamestown colonists' "Idleness" and their leaders' "misgovernment." Ironically, he also may have been too effusive in his praise of Bermuda's prospects for colonization, the English preferring to keep this information close lest it tempt the Spanish into populating the islands.
Two versions of Strachey's account exist: a rough draft, started in Bermuda and finished at Jamestown prior to De La Warr's arrival; and a longer, more polished version begun after Strachey was appointed secretary. Dated July 15, 1610, the longer version was addressed to an anonymous "Excellent Lady," probably the wife of a company official. Both drafts likely circulated among Londoners connected to the Virginia Company, and many scholars believe that Shakespeare used one of them as a major source for his play The Tempest, thought to have been written in 1610 and 1611. In 1625, the Reverend Samuel Purchas published Strachey's longer draft as A true reportory in the fourth volume of Hakluytus Posthumus; or Purchas His Pilgrimes. He had obtained the manuscript from Richard Hakluyt (the younger).
Finally published by the Hakluyt Society in 1849, Strachey's Historie has since proved to be a rich source of information about early Virginia Indian society, politics, and religion. "He was not prepared to be an ethnographer in the modern sense," the anthropologist Helen C. Rountree has written about Strachey, "but he had a wider and more detailed curiosity about Indian life than any other writer of his time." Strachey directly copied some of his material on Virginia Indians from Smith's A Map of Virginia (1612), suggesting that, according to Rountree, "either he is corroborating Smith's information or he does not know any better than to repeat it."
Later Years
Little is known of Strachey's apparently impoverished final years in London. On February 8, 1613, a London court ruled against him for an unpaid debt, and a letter survives in which Strachey, about to meet friends "returned from Virginia," begs from an anonymous "Sir" twenty shillings "to pay for my dinner." A poem by Strachey, "To the Cleane Contrary Wife," was appended to a 1616 edition of A wife, a long poem by Sir Thomas Overbury, who in 1613 had been poisoned in one of the most sensational crimes of the day. Strachey's wife Frances Forster Strachey died, probably sometime before 1615, and he married a woman named Dorothy. Nothing else about her or their marriage is known.
During these years, Strachey kept a commonplace book, filled with various notes, book lists, and private thoughts, which is now in the possession of the University of Virginia. Three verses on death also survive, the first beginning: "Harke! Twas the trump of death that blewe / My hower is come false world adewe / That I to death untymely goe."
Strachey died of unknown causes and was buried on June 21, 1621, in the parish church of St. Giles in the Camberwell district of the Southwark borough, London. He left no will, probably because he left no estate to be administered. In 1996, archaeological excavations at James Fort in Virginia uncovered a brass signet finger ring used to impress wax seals on documents. It is engraved with an eagle, the Strachey family symbol dating back to the coat of arms issued to his father in 1587.
Major Works
- For the Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c. (1612)
- A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; upon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, under the government of the Lord La Warre, July 15, 1610. (1625)
- The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; expressing the cosmographie and commodities of the country, togither with the manners and customes of the people (unpublished)
Time Line
April 4, 1572 - William Strachey is born in Saffron Walden, Essex, to William Strachey and Mary Cooke.
1587 - Mary Cooke Strachey, mother of William Strachey, dies.
July 4, 1587 - William Strachey is awarded a coat of arms, making him—and by extension his sons, including the future colonist and writer William Strachey—a gentleman.
August 1587 - William Strachey, father of the colonist and writer William Strachey, marries his second wife, Elizabeth Brocket of Hertfordshire. They will have five daughters.
February 14, 1588 - William Strachey enrolls at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
June 9, 1595 - William Strachey marries Frances Forster, a distant relative of his mother and the daughter of a wealthy landowner in Surrey.
March 30, 1596 - William Strachey, the son of William Strachey and Frances Forster Strachey, is baptized at Crowhurst, Surrey.
November 1598 - William Strachey, father of the writer and colonist William Strachey, dies. He leaves his estate to his wife Elizabeth Brocket Strachey and then, upon her death, to his son William Strachey.
1602 - Elizabeth Brocket Strachey, second wife of William Strachey, dies, allowing for the transfer of an inheritance to her stepson, William Strachey.
1604 - William Strachey contributes a prefatory sonnet to a publication of Ben Jonson's play Sejanus His Fall.
February 26, 1604 - Edmund Strachey, the son of William Strachey and Frances Forster Strachey, is baptized at Crowhurst, Surrey.
1605 - William Strachey is listed as a member of Gray's Inn, the largest of the Inns of Court in London.
June 23, 1605 - William Strachey mortgages his property in his hometown of Saffron Walden, Essex, to his two brothers-in-law.
August 17, 1606 - William Strachey likely appears before James I at Hampton Court as a member of Sir Thomas Glover's staff. Glover receives his credentials as the king's and the Levant Company's ambassador to Constantinople.
September 1606 - Aboard the Royal Exchange, William Strachey leaves England for Constantinople as secretary to Sir Thomas Glover, the king's and the Levant Company's ambassador to Constantinople.
December 23, 1606 - The Royal Exchange, carrying Sir Thomas Glover and his secretary, William Strachey, arrives in Constantinople. Glover is ambassador to the Grand Signor, representing James I and the Levant Company.
March 17, 1607 - Sir Thomas Glover, English ambassador to Constantinople, fires his secretary, William Strachey, charging him with being loyal to the previous ambassador, Henry Lello.
May 23, 1609 - The Crown approves a second royal charter for the Virginia Company of London. It replaces the royal council with private corporate control, extends the colony's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean, and installs a governor, Sir Thomas West, twelfth baron De La Warr, to run operations in Virginia.
June 2, 1609 - The largest fleet England has ever amassed in the West—nine ships, 600 passengers, and livestock and provisions to last a year—leaves England for Virginia. Led by the flagship Sea Venture, the fleet's mission is to save the failing colony. Sir Thomas Gates heads the expedition.
July 24, 1609 - A hurricane strikes the nine-ship English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue mission. The flagship Sea Venture is separated from the other vessels and irreparably damaged by the storm.
February 11, 1610 - Captain Christopher Newport and William Strachey serve as witnesses to the christening of John Rolfe's daughter, named Bermuda after the group of islands on which they are stranded. The girl and her mother both die.
March 25, 1610 - Captain Christopher Newport, William Strachey, and James Swift become godfathers to a baby boy called Bermudas after the group of islands on which they are stranded.
May 21, 1610 - Having been stranded in the Bermuda islands for nearly a year, the party of Virginia colonists headed by Sir Thomas Gates arrives at Point Comfort in the Chesapeake Bay.
May 24, 1610 - The party of Virginia colonists headed by Sir Thomas Gates, now aboard the Patience and Deliverance, arrives at Jamestown. They find only sixty survivors of a winter famine. Gates decides to abandon the colony for Newfoundland.
June 8, 1610 - Sailing up the James River toward the Chesapeake Bay and then Newfoundland, Jamestown colonists encounter a ship bearing the new governor, Thomas West, baron De La Warr, and a year's worth of supplies. The colonists return to Jamestown that evening.
July 15, 1610 - William Strachey completes a revised version of a letter about the Sea Venture shipwreck and the condition of the Virginia colony. Addressed to an anonymous woman, it will be published posthumously by Samuel Purchas as A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight (1625).
December 14, 1610 - Sir Richard Martin of the Virginia Company of London addresses a letter to the colony's secretary, William Strachey, requesting his elaboration on life in Virginia and, in particular, "how the Barbarians are content with your being there."
September 1611 - William Strachey leaves Virginia, possibly aboard the Prosperous, and arrives in London either late in October or early in November.
December 13, 1611 - William Strachey's edition of For the Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c. is entered for publication.
1612 - In London, William Strachey publishes a compilation of all of the laws issued before he left Virginia early in the year. He titles his book For the Colony in Virginea Britannia. Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, &c.
1612 - After the Virginia Company declines to publish his manuscript, William Strachey dedicates separate copies of The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia to Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland, and Sir Allen Apsley.
February 8, 1613 - A London court rules against William Strachey for an unpaid debt of £30, charging him an additional £5 10s. in court costs.
1615 - Probably sometime before this year, William Strachey's wife Frances Forster Strachey dies, after which Strachey marries a woman named Dorothy.
1616 - William Strachey's poem "To the Cleane Contrary Wife" is appended to an edition of A wife, a long poem by Sir Thomas Overbury, who was poisoned in 1613.
1618 - William Strachey dedicates a third edition of his manuscript The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia to Sir Francis Bacon.
June 21, 1621 - William Strachey's burial is recorded in the parish register of Saint Giles in the Camberwell district of the Southwark borough, London. The cause of his death is unknown.
1849 - The Hakluyt Society publishes William Strachey's The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia.
1996 - William Strachey's signet ring, identifiable by an eagle—the family seal—is discovered by archaeologists working at the site of the first Jamestown settlement.
Further Reading
Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Zacek, N. William Strachey (1572–1621). (2015, September 21). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Strachey_William_1572-1621.
- MLA Citation:
Zacek, Natalie. "William Strachey (1572–1621)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, 21 Sep. 2015. Web. READ_DATE.
First published: July 25, 2011 | Last modified: September 21, 2015
Contributed by Natalie Zacek, a lecturer in history and American studies at the University of Manchester.


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At the beginning off this day one of the team working with me at the Rampart Scotland fieldschool asked if this was a normal day, to which I replied, yes. What I meant of course was that every day is different. And even within a single project, every day, every hour can be a diverse mix of new and old, familiar and challenges. Best of all is working with and helping to train people who have a real passion. Perhaps this means that ater 30 years of digging, I still have that spark that makes me proud to be an archaeologist. With the chance to document this event in Day of Archaeology, the originators (who I can't thank enough) and those that have helped make it happen (who I also must take my hat off to) I am happy to share one day in my life … are you sitting comfortably! Then I'll begin. But first I best tuck into some coffee and cake!
The morning started with a shock, as I forgot that we started at 8am, so it was quickly feed the hens, feed the cats, make breakfast for my wife (who has discovered the joys of a bad back – courtesy of our last excavation!) who also runs Past Horizons. No time to feed myself, as I jumped into the minibus and drove through the side roads of East Lothian in Scotland to our project – White Castle hillfort on the edge of the Lammermuir hills. We troop out the van and stroll to each trench, discussing what we will do today, and why. The process is as important as the digging. One trech is to be planned, another cleaned for photography, yet another must investigate and sample a layer with charcoal. And of course the ditch needs cleaned and recorded and topographic survey must continue. Everyone splits off to their tasks and trenches, smiles tell me that Murray Cook and I are doing something right.
To us there is not such thing as a bad question or a stupid one – they all mean we are discussing and always have time to explore a concept, whether it is long distance trade of bronze and raw materials to the names and locations of supposed Irona Age tribes in Scotland around the 1st century AD. Then why not use the spectacular view across the Lothian plain before us to talk about 18th century agricultural improvements and farming techniques. It all matters.
Suddenly trench 13 runs across with exciting news – what could it be? Well it turns out it was a fragment of cremated bone coming out of the charcoal. Only 4mm long and they spotted it, how about that for keen eyes. They soon find more, and we discuss what it could mean and a variety of 'right' answers. Talking seems to be half the fun of archaeology in this environment.
Soon, another car turns up, with three students (or ex students) from Edinburgh University, they are sset to work on a new trench in the deep bracken (an invasive and damaging fern like plant) . They want to learn to draw and dig, survey and section, plan and record – they will be the new archaeologists – so for them, the training is more detailed, more structured.
The council archaeologists turn up for a visit as I try again to connect to the internet and post another message from the hill – to no avail – but Murray and I then spend an hour with them, touring each trench, discussing future strategies and even mutual support in coming years. They have useful comments to make – and sometimes it pays to listen rather than talk (or perhaps I am just growing up).
Tea break comes and goes, and the hut platform becomes a platform, with no trace of a hut (yet) but plenty of sign of root damage to sub surface archaeology. It looks like it has been put through a cement mixer and then poured back onto the site. Useful to know for monument management plans. We start to discuss the next year already, and the next, while talking of other projects to come, and projects we have remembered fondly.
All too soon, it is 1pm, and time to head off to Edinburgh, however, I decide to go home, with a twist. We wind and drive deeper into the hills and point to castles and cairns, standing stones and sheepfolds, that each tell a millennia old story of people and place. Back at base, we clean and prepare for the big city, which gives me just enough time to check BAJR jobs, answer some emails and even help out a poor woman, who needed a trowel in Cornwall ASAP! – no worries. Then I collate the Open day rota for Saturday ( only 15 people at a time, bussed up from the nearest village) phone up and email confirmations just in time for the team to arrive at my house and it is off to Edinburgh.
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Headliners Justin Wilcox ($16,000) and Rodrigo Damm ($15,000) were the top earners at this past weekend's Strikeforce Challengers 15 event.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today received the list of disclosed paydays from the California State Athletic Commission.
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Tristen Arenal: $1,000 (no win bonus)
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Today Sissinghurst Castle is known for its stunning garden, created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in the middle of the twentieth century. In the eighteenth century, however, Sissinghurst served as a grim prisoner-of-war camp for a number of years. We have just acquired a painting that sheds light on this lesser-known episode.
During the Seven Years War (1756-1763) Sissinghurst Castle was used as a camp for captured French seamen. The painting we have just purchased records an incident on 9 July 1761 when two prisoners were shot by a drunken guard with apparently little provocation. The naïvely painted picture was probably made soon after the event by one of those present.
As well as recording a war crime, the picture shows various parts of the Castle that were soon to disappear. The inmates were treated appallingly and ended up having to use much of the contents of the house as firewood, which contributed to its subsequent dilapidation.
The front range, visible in the foreground of the painting, still survives (seen above from the other side) –
– as does the main tower, but most of the rest of the Tudor prodigy house has disappeared.
Vita Sackville-West created her writing room on the first floor of the tower. This was her inner sanctum, where nobody dared to disturb her while she worked.
Vita and Harold made Sissinghurst into a place of great beauty, but the evidence of its darker history has not been expunged entirely. Some of the graffiti the prisoners left behind can still be seen in the tower. This new acquisition will be the centrepiece of a display there telling the story of this unhappy period.
The picture was purchased at auction at Bonhams in London on 20 January with the help of generous donations from the Tenterden and District National Trust Association, the Rye and District National Trust Association and from Adam Nicolson, the grandson of Harold and Vita.
It was Adam who identified the precise subject of this picture, an account of which survives in the Admiralty files in the National Archives. He has recently written a book on Sissinghurst, which can be found here.