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2019 ASSH Awards and Honours
The Chair of the ASSH Awards and Honours Committee is delighted to invite submissions to the following categories:
- ASSH Book Award
- ASSH Anthology Award
- ASSH Student Article Award
- ASSH Fellow
- ASSH Service Award
Submissions are due by 28 February 2019 and awards will be presented at the 2019 Conference Banquet.
For more information, and to see a list of previous recipients, please visit the ASSH Awards and Honours page.
20th Tom Brock Lecture – Rugby League Retrospective
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2018
Time: 6 for 6.30 pm
Place: Club York, 99 York Street, Sydney
The Annual Tom Brock Lecture began in 1999. This year is an occasion to reflect on how rugby league has changed in the past two decades and how these have been reflected in the annual lectures. A Q & A panel featuring some prominent commentators in rugby league, drawn from different backgrounds, will provide a lively and informative way of looking at a number of issues. These include commercialisation, rationalisation of clubs, governance, international football, greater prominence of women and threats to the rugby league brand. An exploration of the past will provide opportunities to consider both the present and the future.
Members of the panel
Terry Williams – moderator
Brian Canavan
Tracey Holmes
Roy Masters ll
RSVP and details at the Tom Brock Website.
Book Reviews!
Lionel Frost is the interim Reviews Editor. Link to the current list of books that have been given for ASSH for review. If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, please contact Lionel (email@example.com).
If you know of any new books that would be worthy of review, please contact Lionel and he will contact the author or publisher to find out if a review copy is available. Alternatively, you can always review books that you have been given or purchased. Please contact Lionel to see whether these books will be suitable for Sporting Traditions.
Click here for a copy of the Book Review Register.
ASSH @ the Australian Historical Association Conference, 2018
The Australian Historical Association Conference will be held at the Australian National University, Canberra on 2-6 July, 2018, and ASSH will participate as an affiliated Society.
The conference theme is The Scale of History. The AHA welcomes paper and panel proposals on any geographical area, time period, or field of history, especially those relating to the theme of scale. Reflecting the location of the conference in Canberra, we also invite papers on the theme History and the National Cultural Collections which promote engagement between historians and professionals in the GLAMs sector (galleries, libraries, archives, museums).
Keynote speakers will include Clare Anderson (University of Leicester), Mark McKenna (University of Sydney), Mary D. Lewis (Harvard University), and Lynette Russell (Monash University), who will deliver the AHA Presidential Address.
ASSH Stream
The year 2018 is a significant anniversary year for sports historians. For example, fifty years after the Olympic Games in Mexico City, there will be opportunities to explore the Czech athletes' reactions to the Prague Spring, local student unrest, East Germany competing as a separate nation for the first time, and Black Power protests, or to consider the relationship between politics and sport more broadly. The year is also the centenary of the end of World War I, during which sport was radically affected in Australia and worldwide, and hence further examination of sport and war is encouraged. This stream offers ample opportunities for sports historians to further contribute to historiography, both nationally and internationally.
The ASSH Stream will be convened by Bruce Coe.
Please visit the call for papers page for more details, including a list of conference streams. To submit a paper or panel for the ASSH stream, please use the AHA online abstract submission portal and nominate the ASSH stream. The deadline for abstracts is 28 February 2018.
ASSH Tribute to Betty Cuthbert
RIP Betty Cuthbert
Australia remembers Betty Cuthbert as its Golden Girl, who won gold medals
running in the 100 and 200 metre events and the 4×100 metre relay at the 1956
Melbourne Olympics. She won another gold medal in the 400m sprint at the
1964 Tokyo Olympics. She would inspire generations of sportspeople and donate
her four gold medals to the National Sports Museum at the MCG.
By the Sydney Olympics in 2000, multiple sclerosis had confined Betty to a
wheelchair. Assisted by Raylene Boyle, she carried the Olympic torch at the
Sydney Olympic Stadium. In 2004 when the Olympic flame was on its way to
Athens, Betty Cuthbert carried it into the MCG, where she had won her three
1956 gold medals. By helping to educate the community and raise funds to foster
Olympic sport and counter multiple sclerosis, she exemplified the Olympic spirit
and raised awareness of the impacts of multiple sclerosis.
Her achievements have been honoured in many ways. She was awarded an AM
and an MBE, named as an Australian National Treasure, inducted into the NSW
Hall of Champions, the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, the Athletics Australia Hall of
Fame and the International Association of Athletics Federations' Hall of Fame. She
has had streets, a grandstand, a school gymnasium, a scholarship, a fellowship, a
Sydney ferry, a rose and a Western Australian park named in her honour and the
Melbourne Cricket Ground now hosts both the Betty Cuthbert Lounge and a
Betty Cuthbert statue.
News of Betty Cuthbert's death prompted a pause for a minute's silence in her
honour at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London. Her funeral on 16
August will, however, be a private ceremony at Western Australia's Mandurah
Performing Arts Centre. Betty's family believe they acted in accordance with
Betty's wishes in declining the State funerals offered by the premiers of both
New South Wales and Western Australia.
Marie-Louise McDermott
ASSH President
2017 ASSH Fellows
The ASSH Executive created three ASSH Fellows in 2017 for outstanding contributions to the scholarship of sports history in Australia:
A/Prof Rob Hess (BA(Hons), Monash; MA, Alberta; PhD, VicUni)
Rob's scholarship has focused on the history of Australian Rules football. His books on the subject include:
• A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football (2008)
• More Than a Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football (1998)
• Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football (2016)
A National Game won the ASSH Book Award in 2009 and Play On! won the ASSH Book Award in 2017.
The inconspicuous past is a common theme in Rob's research. This theme is most apparent in the titles of his works that include words such as "hidden", "secret" and "marginalised". Rob's theme of the inconspicuous past draws particular attention to the longstanding interest, and involvement, in Australian Rules football from women and the Chinese community. This theme also extends to Rob's work on the history of disability sport in Victoria.
Rob holds a senior position in professional sport history as the Academic Editor of the discipline's largest journal, The International Journal of the History of Sport.
In addition to his academic scholarship, Rob is deeply involved in community sport history: he is a member of the Western Bulldogs Football Club Heritage Committee, a member of Cycling Victoria's History and Heritage Committee, and the honorary historian of the St Bede's / Mentone Tigers Amateur Football Club.
Rob served as President of the Australian Society for Sports History between 2011 and 2013.
A/Prof Tara Magdalinski (BHMS (Hons), UQ; PhD, UQ)
Tara's scholarship conjoins sociology and history and she has published across the spectrum of sports studies. Her more recent research explores the interface between performance technologies, nature and the athletic body. Tara's goal has been to understand concerns about "unnatural" enhancement and expectations of "authenticity" in sport. Her major texts include:
• With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion (2003)
• Sport, Technology and the Body: The Nature of Performance (2008)
• Study Skills for Sports Studies (2013)
Tara is committed to teaching and learning in the tertiary sector, and to equipping students with the academic skills necessary to succeed at University. She is currently the Associate Dean for Learning Innovation in the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design at Swinburne. Tara has used her knowledge of sports studies to advance teaching and learning programmes by producing a series of student-friendly teaching documents. These include:
• Research Methods for Sports Studies,
• Communication and Media in Sport,
• Core Academic Skills for Sports Studies,
• Sociology of Sport, and
• Player Development and Welfare.
Tara has served three terms as President of the Australian Society for Sports History, from 2005–2011.
A/Prof Murray Phillips (BA(Hons), UQ; PhD, UQ)
Murray's initial research was in the social history of sport where he built a reputation for his scholarship on sport and war, sport and gender, and the social histories of golf, rugby league and rugby union. In mid-career, Murray turned his attention to historiography as a specific genre within sport history. Working in this genre, Murray has produced several award winning books. These include:
• Deconstructing Sport History: A Postmodern Analysis (2006)
• Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame (2011)
• Examining Sport Histories: Power, Paradigms, and Reflexivity (2013)
• Sports History in the Digital Age (2015)
Murray has received an Australian Research Council grant to investigate the history of the Paralympic movement in Australia. As well as evidence of peer esteem, the ARC grant articulates Murray's historiographical acumen. His research project for the grant explores communications technologies and the ways these technologies link scholars, sport practitioners, and professional online editors to document the evolving past.
Murray is the Editor of the Journal of Sport History, the official organ of the North American Society for Sport History. He served as President of the Australian Society for Sports History between 2013 and 2015.
Follow the link to a full list of ASSH Fellows and Service Awards.
2017 ASSH Book Awards
The ASSH Executive is delighted to announce the winners of the ASSH Book Prizes for best edited book and best monograph.
ASSH Book Prize: Monograph
Brunette Lenkic and Rob Hess (2016) Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football. Melbourne: Echo Publishing
Play On! is a timely, engaging and well-illustrated account of the development of women's participation in Australian Rules football across the country. Critically, the book disrupts the Victorian-centric focus that underpins so much of the history of the game; Play On! looks at women's participation across the country. Adopting a feminist tone, the authors place women, and their highly engaging personal stories, at the centre of discussion. In so doing, Play On! highlights significant gaps in our knowledge.
The book draws on a range of primary and secondary sources to present a new interpretation of the early games and teams involving female players. Primary sources include an extensive range of newspapers and in-depth oral interviews. One member of the Awards Committee described Play On! as "the product of a relentless, and possibly comprehensive search, for evidence of any kind of engagement by women in Australian Rules football".
Play On! will appeal to social historians of sport. The chronological approach offers a useful timeline for understanding women's participation in Australian Rules football. Play On! contextualises shifts and changes in the game by connecting it to identity politics, the media, business, geopolitics and global events such as the world wars and the women's liberation movement. Cultural historians of sport will appreciate the presentation style of Play On! Rather than a narrative, the authors present a montage of snapshots that, as fragments of the past, draw the reader's attention to both what is said and what is not said, and what is shown and what is not shown. In this manner, Play On! points to a range of continuities and discontinuities over time.
Scholars working in related areas of history, sociology, cultural studies and media studies will certainly find much to interest them in Play On!
ASSH Book Prize: Edited Collection
Gary Osmond & Murray Phillips (Eds) (2015) Sport History in the Digital Age. Urbana: University of Illinois Press
This important edited collection explores the ways in which digital history is reshaping sports history. The essays are wide-ranging, high-quality, and engage issues of relevance and interest not only to historians of sport but also to scholars in many fields.
Although aimed primarily at historians of sport, one of the volume's several outstanding features is that it will appeal much more widely. The chapter by Martin Johnes and Bob Nicholson, titled "Sport History and Digital Archives in Practice", for example, is so clear, comprehensive and accessible that it would be an excellent introduction to digital history for scholars in any field. Many of the chapters sparkle. Anybody with doubts about the contemporary relevance of the issues addressed in this volume need only read the riveting—and disturbing—stories that open Mike Cronin's chapter titled "Social Media as a Research Tool in Sport History". In an absorbing essay, Holly Thorpe uses internet sources to explore fan reactions to the deaths of American surfer Andy Irons and Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke. In so doing, she illustrates the connections between mourning and memory, and digital media and sports history.
This is a serious volume; it highlights the calibre of work being undertaken in the field.
Special Commendation
Dave Nadel & Graeme Ryan (Eds) (2015) Sport in Victoria: A History. Melbourne: Ryan Publishing.
Sport in Victoria takes an encyclopaedic approach to its subject with entries on organised and recreational sports, physical activities, organisations, stadiums, clubs, and athletes, players and administrators from the past and present.
Like other encyclopaedic volumes of sport, such as the Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, the contributions to Dave and Graeme's collection reflect on, and synthesise, existing scholarship; and they raise new questions about sporting life in Victoria.
Sport in Victoria is well illustrated and makes good use of images, photographs and visual representations.
The judging committee is pleased to make this special award. The judges believe that Sport in Victoria is an impressive resource for public libraries, primary and secondary schools, and undergraduate students.
Follow the link for a full list of ASSH Book Awards.
2017 ASSH Awards and Honours
The Chair of the ASSH Awards and Honours Committee is delighted to invite submissions to the following categories:
- ASSH Book Award
- ASSH Anthology Award
- ASSH Student Article Award
- ASSH Fellow
- ASSH Service Award
Submissions are due by 16 March 2017 and awards will be presented at the 2017 Conference Banquet.
For more information, and to see a list of previous recipients, please visit the ASSH Awards and Honours page.
18th Tom Brock Lecture
The Tom Brock Committee is delighted to announce that Dean Widders will deliver the XVIIIth Tom Brock Lecture with a presentation entitled: My Game, My People.
Date: Tuesday 20th September 2016
Time: 6 for 6.30 pm
Venue: "99 on York", 95-99 York St, Sydney NSW 2000
Indigenous footballers have contributed more to rugby league than perhaps to any other Australian sport, and the game is a huge part of Indigenous communities. Participation in rugby league has brought many positive outcomes for Indigenous communities but there have also been some challenges along the way. Dean Widders will examine the place of rugby league in those communities through his own experience and look at the ways the game can affect a positive change.
Dean Widders grew up in Armidale in country NSW where rugby league gave the Indigenous community a chance to make progress provided a strong voice of unity to the Indigenous community. As a player he spent nine years in first grade with the Roosters, Parramatta and South Sydney before finishing his career in England with Castleford. His passion for the game and for helping the Indigenous community has combined to provide him with great opportunities to learn more about the power of his culture. This power motivated him in his career on the field and still motivates him today in his career off the field where he works as an Indigenous leader in rugby league. These days he is employed educating Indigenous players about their responsibilities as role models to our communities, but also seeks to ensure they are armed with the skills and knowledge to have a strong positive voice to create a better Australia.
2015 ASSH Awards
Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2015 ASSH Awards.
ASSH Service Award
The Australian Society for Sport History has awarded Associate Professor Rob Hess its Distinguished Service Award.
Rob was president of ASSH between 2011 and 2013. During his term, Rob updated the structure, policies and functions of the executive committee. In so doing, he greatly improved the governance and administration of the Society. As well as president, Rob has served ASSH as:
- editor of Sporting Traditions between 2003 and 2007,
- editor of the ASSH Studies Series between 2006 and 2008,
- editor of the Reviews section for Sporting Traditions since 2008, and
- an organiser of Sporting Traditions XV in Melbourne in 2005.
As co-author of A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football, which won the ASSH Book Award in 2009, Rob has also helped raise the intellectual profile and credibility of sport history and ASSH in Australia.
ASSH Anthology Award, 2015
The Australian Society for Sport History has awarded Examining Sport Histories, edited by Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips, and published by Fitness Information Technology, its award for best Anthology published over the preceding two years.
Examining Sport Histories comprises 12 chapters by 14 scholars with an interest in sport history. The book tackles three basic questions:
- What is sport history?
- How should practitioners do sport history? and
- What is the relationship between sport history and other academic disciplines?
In addressing these questions, the editors and contributors advocate for postmodern approaches to sport history. By postmodernism, they mean, siding with
- the subjective over the objective
- form over content, and
- representation over reality.
In short, Examining Sport Histories advances the view that historians construct history rather than discover the past. Examining Sport Histories will assist historians interrogate the practice of history, and the implications of that practice.
ASSH Book Award, 2015
The Australian Society for Sport History has awarded its premier award to three books:
- Black and Proud: The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo, by Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond, and published by
- Sport and the British World, 1900-1930: Amateurism and National Identity in Australasia and Beyond, by Erik Nielsen and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
- Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity and Cultural Heritage in Hawai'i, California and Australia, by Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson, and published by the University of Hawai'i Press.
In Black and Proud, Matthew Klugman and Gary Osmond offer fresh perspectives on the iconic photograph of AFL footballer Nicky Winmar's defiant stance against racism at Victoria Park, Melbourne, in April 1993. Black and Proud is an exemplary contemporary cultural history that masterfully blends content and form. Klugman and Osmond make powerful use of context; they examine the photograph of Winmar in the context of Australia's racial past, race relations in the mid-1990s, and the game at Victoria Park in 1993. Black and Proud highlights the centrality of narrative form in history. One member of the committee described the book as a "compelling read" that creates "an element of suspense even though we know some of what happened!" Almost uniquely among historians of sport, Klugman and Osmond give Aboriginal footballers their own voices. And, they reinforce the present-centred nature of history and the importance of moral and political lessons in telling stories about the past. While Klugman and Osmond demonstrate that racism survives in Australian society and Australian football, they also point out that sport enables Aborigines, and Aboriginal communities, to achieve success in a myriad of ways.
In Sport and the British World, Erik Nielsen questions traditional interpretations of amateurism and compares the administrative aspects of the concept with its ideological dimensions. Nielson argues strongly, and persuasively, that amateur officials in Australasia pursued activities that challenged classic British conceptions of amateurism, and that amateurs in Australasia were simultaneously more diverse, and more inclusive, than those in either Britain or Canada. This diversity politicised sporting relations with the Empire. Sport and the British World is an exemplar of meticulous archival work and the comparative method. Nielsen presents a new and complex set of arguments around amateurism—a key, and fundamental, concept in the social history of sport. Nielson also makes some profound observations regarding the development of sport in Canada and Australia. He notes, for example, that the primary spectator sports in both nations are indigenous games—ice hockey in Canada and Australian Football in Australia—and that neither sport has a British heritage.
In Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers, Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson explore the social and cultural relationships between surfers and surfboards across the twentieth century as surfboards become more technical in their design, and as the production of surfboards became increasingly industrialised. Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers is an exemplary model of material history. Warren and Gibson build their history on a sophisticated model of political economy that acknowledges the interdependency of politics, economy and culture. Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers highlights the crafts of contextualisation and conceptualisation, makes good use of oral sources, and emphasises the importance of time and place in history, by tracing political, economic and cultural relationships across the twentieth century and around the Pacific Ocean. The depth of Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers will inspire readers well beyond the material history of the surfboard.
Follow the link for a full list of ASSH Book Awards.


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SPHERU study highlights the experiences of rural seniors on falls and related injuries
September 22, 2016This summer, SPHERU researchers published an article in Educational Gerontology entitled "Voices of senior rural men and women on falls and fall-related injuries: 'If I fall outside and get hurt, what would I do?'"
SPHERU's Dr. Shanthi Johnson -- along with Dr. Bonnie Jeffrey, Dr. Juanita Bacsu, Dr. Sylvia Abonyi and Dr. Nuelle Novik -- contributed to the study. The qualitative study examined the experiences of 42 rural seniors as it related to falls and fall-related injuries. Researchers analyzed the nature, causes and consequences of falls and injuries.
"Falls are common and costly," said Dr. Shanthi Johnson. "The study highlighted the nuanced variation in how falls are voiced and experienced by rural seniors."
A "fall" was described as a seniors' life experience, ranging from a physical fall, a near or impending fall, or no fall with associated fear and other consequences.
The study found that falls were not only common among elderly people but falls and almost-falls had various physical and psychological consequences. Seniors also tended to rely on support from family members and friends instead of turning to health professionals and the health care system.
Researchers found that some seniors use adaptive strategies to avoid falls as opposed to well established fall prevention strategies. For example, some seniors may move their laundry to the main floor instead of using an established strategy such as exercise.
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Good Morning from Australia! Hope you are all doing fine. Today I want to share with you a card which I finished at 3am. Yes, and I only had 5hrs of sleep because of this. lol! I was really into making this card for the Colour Combo Challenge at SCS (CC201) that's why eventhough I started late, I still pursued to put it all together.
This image is Willow from Whiff of Joy. It actually came as a surprise when I received a parcel from Bec and she stamped me some images including this one. I coloured her with my Prismacolor pencils with Odourless solvent using blending stumps. There a lot of firsts in this card, actually. It's the first time I used my Cuttlebug Floral Sceen embossing folder (for the middle panel). I've purchased this a month ago and decided to use it for this card. Another first is the Cuttlebug Vintage dies which I've just received yesterday. Bought it from ebay last Sunday and delivery was super fast! It's also my first time to colour a "Willow" image and to emboss on my Labels One background. And yeah, first Kaiser Pearl Chino to use (for my Prima center).
I'm still finishing 2 cards more which hopefully, I will be able to post this afternoon before DH arrives from work. I can't squeeze in to make cards when hubby's already here as we normally go out just after a few minutes of him taking a rest to buy stuffs or just drive around. Soon as I finished my laundry (the machine is on the move atm, lol!), I will start stamping.
Let's all thank God for another day that He has blessed us. Praise Him for everything!
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by Tom
Water Water - Everywhere-and not a drop to drink?
So Says the Saying!
You drink water from the Tap - and water is good to drink - flushes all the badness out of the System.
A Dripping Tap
I Heard that! Who's a Drip? lol
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Water over Pebbles
Amazing what you can capture when Photographing Water.
Talking about Drips
This poor laddie has a Hole in his Bucket
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While we are on Drips - Drops
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Reflections and Ripples
Another Reflection
Reflections in Belton House Lake.
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Power by Water
The Water Wheel
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Gritter on Lefever, 'Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967'
Harry G. Lefever. Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2005. vii + 286 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-86554-976-0; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-86554-938-8.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Gritter (Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Published on H-SAWH (February, 2007)
From "Spelman Girls" to Civil Rights Activists
"'You can always tell a Spelman girl,' alumni and friends of the college have boasted for years. The 'Spelman girl' walked gracefully, talked properly, went to church every Sunday, poured tea elegantly and, in general, had all the attributes of the product of a fine finishing school. If intellect and talent and social consciousness happened to develop also, they were, to an alarming extent, by-products," former Spelman professor Howard Zinn recounts (p. 15). Despite the school's emphasis on respectability instead of social action, a small but dedicated and influential group of Spelman women emerged as participants in the civil rights movement. Harry G. Lefever traces the arc of their activism, as well as that of professors such as Zinn, in Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967.
By 1957, Spelman was the oldest institution of higher education for black women and one of the most prestigious. It was one of a number of black colleges that comprised the Atlanta University System. Lefever, a sociologist, joined the faculty in 1966 but largely was a non-participant in the civil rights movement. Nonetheless, he uses his insider perspective to uncover the relationship of Spelman College to the struggle; in doing so, he increases our understanding of the local and national civil rights movement.
Both familiar and unfamiliar names surface in this story, including Spelman College women Ruby Doris Smith (Robinson), Herschelle Sullivan (Challenor), Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Robinson (Zoharah Simmons), Marian Wright (Edelman), Bernice Johnson (Reagon), and Betty Stevens (Walker); Spelman professors Howard Zinn, Gloria Wade Bishop (Wade-Gayles), and Staunton Lynd; and local and national civil rights movement figures Martin Luther King, Jr., Julian Bond, John Lewis, Bob Moses, and Lonnie King.
Placing women at the center of his narrative, Lefever uses character sketches to illuminate women's participation in the Atlanta movement and to document their activism in such places as Laurel, Mississippi; Selma, Alabama; Washington, D.C.; and Rock Hill, South Carolina. He frequently uses women's voices to share the students' perspectives at the time and in hindsight. "It is important that the story of Spelman's involvement in the civil rights movement be told by the women who lived it," he explains. "Too often in the past, the story of the movement, both in Atlanta and throughout the South, has been told from the perspective of male activists" (pp. xi-xii). To capture women's voices and tell Spelman's story, Lefever uses a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, including oral histories, panel discussion transcripts, newspaper and magazine articles, books, letters, diaries, and poems.
Lefever organizes his study chronologically, beginning with a brief history of Spelman College from its founding in 1881 until 1957. He chooses the late 1950s as his major starting point because that time period saw a heightened movement for desegregation in Atlanta. Spelman women and Zinn became involved in efforts to integrate the library system and the public seating section of the Georgia state legislature.
The big push for desegregation, however, came with the advent of the sit-in movement. Inspired by the sit-ins by four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960, students from the Atlanta University System, including Marian Wright and Roslyn Pope from Spelman, prepared a document that detailed the inequities and injustices faced by local African Americans. Titled "An Appeal for Human Rights," it was soon approved by the Atlanta student bodies and published in the Atlanta newspapers. Shortly afterward, Atlanta University students began the sit-in movement in Atlanta. Lefever provides extensive detail on the involvement of Spelman students in this and subsequent direct-action campaigns, focusing on their nonviolent tactics, arrests and jail time, and successes in breaking Jim Crow barriers.
To coordinate their protest efforts, Atlanta University students formed the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights, and Spelman student Herschelle Sullivan co-chaired it. The committee was one of numerous local student groups that Southern Christian Leadership Conference official Ella Baker called to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a conference in April 1960 to discuss the sit-in movement sweeping the South. With Baker's encouragement, the student representatives decided to form their own organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to coordinate and facilitate the direct-action movement. With SNCC's headquarters in Atlanta, Spelman women soon became involved in its efforts, and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson (Smith married Clifford Robinson in 1964) became its executive secretary in 1966.
Early in the 1960s, Smith and other Spelman women began to get involved in movement activities outside of Atlanta as well. Smith, for instance, was part of a delegation of SNCC members who journeyed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, to support jailed demonstrators and who were arrested after they engaged in nonviolent protests. She also participated in the Freedom Ride effort of 1961, in which blacks and whites boarded buses to test the South's compliance with a recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in interstate transportation facilities.
A group of Spelman women traveled to Washington, D.C., in 1963 to attend the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, and Wright and Zinn later joined the second of two Selma-to-Montgomery, Alabama, voting rights marches in 1965. During Freedom Summer in 1964, a number of Spelman faculty and students headed to Mississippi to participate in efforts to provide education and voter registration to the state's black residents. Gwen Robinson, for example, served as director of volunteers in Laurel, Mississippi, where the activists opened a day-care center, operated a lending library, and conducted a mock voter-registration campaign.
Lefever ends his study with the untimely and tragic death of Smith Robinson in October 1967. He argues that her death symbolically marks the demise both of SNCC and the civil rights movement: As she was dying from terminal cancer in 1967, SNCC began to unravel as a result of economic hardships and political divisiveness, and Lefever points out that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death came only six months after Smith Robinson's. Although Lefever ends his examination of the movement in 1967, he provides an important epilogue in which he discusses the later careers of his main characters, revealing their continuing efforts to promote social justice at home and abroad.
Lefever's book has a number of strengths, particularly his international perspective on the civil rights movement and his discussion of intraracial divisions. First, he provides a brief but important and fascinating discussion of the impact of international affairs on Spelman's female activists. Determined to provide their students with environments isolated from the segregated South, Spelman administrators began study-abroad programs in the late 1950s. Wright, Sullivan, and Pope were among the Spelman students who spent time in Europe as part of this effort. Lefever writes, "These international experiences greatly broadened the students' horizons and made them more aware of the inequities and injustices that existed in the United States. Study abroad also helped students realize that social injustices [could] be challenged and that students [could] be powerful agents for social change" (p. 19).
In a different chapter, he discusses a 1964 trip of SNCC activists, including Smith Robinson, to Guinea, which had won its independence from France some six years earlier. There, they were further exposed to the parallels between the anti-colonialism movement in Africa and the civil rights struggle at home. Thus, Lefever's work adds to the current trend in civil rights movement scholarship to look at the international aspects of the struggle.
Second, although Spelman College provided these international opportunities for its students, Lefever's study also makes clear the opposition of the school to civil rights efforts. As a whole, scholarship on the black freedom struggle tends to be hagiographic and to minimize intraracial dissent. Lefever provides an important corrective by exploring intraracial issues and thus revealing the complexity of the struggle and the diversity of African American views. From the start, he makes clear that less than 5 percent of Spelman women and professors participated in the movement. Some even faced repercussions for their efforts, such as Zinn and Bishop, who were both fired.
Gwen Robinson remembers that college administrators "made it pretty clear that any young ladies who got involved [in the movement] could be summarily dismissed" (p. 182). She and three other students were expelled for their activism, but they were reinstated after student protests. When they returned to the college, however, they were placed on strict probation. In response to these violations of academic freedom, Lynd resigned in protest. Though Lefever also discusses the opposition of whites to the movement, his discussion of opposition within the African American community is particularly valuable in further revealing the many obstacles civil rights activists faced.
Similar to Christina Greene's recent book on female civil rights activists in Durham, North Carolina (Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, 2005), Lefever's work also augments the existing scholarship on the black freedom movement by focusing on women. His book is weakened, however, by its surprisingly limited discussion of gender. He provides details on what women did much more than he examines how their activities and treatment were shaped by, and challenged, gendered ideas and conventions. For example, from time to time, he mentions the gender-based discrimination that female activists faced in jail, where they were subject to sexual assault from guards and fellow inmates. Yet, Lefever does not go on to provide a gendered analysis of this treatment. Indeed, this is a missed opportunity, especially given the salience of this issue for today as human rights groups report the widespread practice of sexual abuse of women in prisons.
Although Lefever mentions that Smith Robinson and other female activists faced sexism, he does not explore in depth its manifestations or how it affected their participation in the movement. Curiously, in places, Lefever can even seem dismissive of the seriousness of sexism in the struggle. For example, he provides an analysis of SNCC chairman Stokely Carmichael's infamous statement that "the proper position of women in the movement is prone." In short, Lefever argues that this statement was simply a joke and has been taken out of context; he even includes quotes by SNCC women to support his case.
Lefever also could have looked further at the relationship between the civil rights and peace movements. He reveals that eighteen Spelman students and Lynd traveled to Washington, D.C., in 1962 to participate in a peace demonstration with other students from across the country to let President John F. Kennedy and Congress know that they supported a "peace race," not an arms race. Although his chapter is titled "Twin Issues: Civil Rights and Peace," Lefever writes less than two pages about the peace movement. Though Lefever's book is too brief in places, it raises many promising questions and issues for other scholars to explore. In Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967, Lefever does an excellent job of uncovering the participation of Spelman College faculty and students in the movement. He adds to our understanding of the civil rights movement by placing women at the center of his account; looking at the role of a black college; exploring intraracial issues and dissent; showing the connection of a local movement with other regional, national, and international efforts; and using the words of women to tell this freedom story.
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We're still here, just truckin' along.
It's just one of those times for us,
where life comes at you from every direction.
You know what I mean?
Things are just whizzing toward you and pulling at you and you're just trying to keep your balance and keep your head above water and you're moving through the mud and the muck and it's d-r-a-g-g-i-n-g at your legs and you think you see solid ground but every time it gets closer it rains again and everything just becomes mud and ohmyGod this post could go on and on.
I know you've had those days or those weeks or those years.
We've had 2 months of this and I'm tired.
It's nothing we can't handle but sometimes it's all just so exhausting.
Being. an. adult. can. be. so. tiring.
On the bright side we live next to O'Neil Regional Park where these lovely pictures were taken on a Saturday morning after a bike ride from our house that took just a few minutes.
I mean, we live next to this place and it smells like nature when you enter.
That sounds weird but the air is clear and kind of sweet and it's spring and there are new fresh grass shoots all soft and whispy and everywhere and it's amazing.
I'm already envisioning overnight camping trips when Peanut gets just a little bit bigger.
Hopefully he'll grow up getting to know these trails (and there are tons of them) and all the green spaces in between and nature will be a part of his everyday life. This is why I commute the way I do.
This is awesome.
Now if only life could let up on us just a bit, okay?
~shakes fist in air~


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The story takes place back in the dim distant past when I still had black hair and computers hadn't begun to roam the earth. I was head teacher of a small village school at the top end of the
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It truly was a very close knit community. Rhondda
At one time a tunnel had been driven through the mountain at the top end of the village to provide easy access to places like Aberavon, a staggering feat of engineering. When the government instigated cuts to the railway network in the 60's Blaencwm was left stranded on the economic beach with no hope of the tide ever turning. My years spent in this vibrant community were among the happiest of my life.
"All very nice." I hear you say. "But what's the point?"
One day during a drama lesson a little girl said to me. "My Uncle's a writer." My response was something condescending like, "That's nice." While secretly hoping it wasn't the school wall he had daubed with graffiti.
The little girl's name was Elaine Berry. Her uncle was Ron Berry.
Niall Griffiths has described Ron Berry's novel 'SO LONG HECTOR BEBB' as "one of the greatest novels to come out of the twentieth century."
Ron Berry was probably living in Blaencwm, or very close by, at the time. It frustrates the hell out of me to think I could have actually met him. Here was a writer ignored by the world at large and relatively unknown in his own community. Having just read his book for the first time I realise what an opportunity was lost. Never in a million years could I hope to write something like that!
Now as a writer myself I feel a responsibility to my own community. Eto is one of the ways in which I hope to discharge that responsibility by providing a platform for local authors so that writer's of the future will be less likely to suffer the fate that Ron Berry endured. A towering talent that very few people knew existed.
So having answered your question let me ask you one.
"What commitment are you prepared to make to writers within your community wherever you live?"
As Ron said through one of his characters:
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Young Ken Chilstrom led a flight of eight A-36 fighter bombers on a low-level foray in Italy. Only he and two others came home. Bob Hoover thought he could take on the entire German air force, but on his first mission he was shot down, nearly perished, and suffered the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp. Wolfgang Samuel's new book is all about men like Ken, Bob, and the many friends they lost, who saw World War II through to the end and gave freedom to so many others.
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United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.
COYOTE LOGISTICS, LLC, Plaintiff,
MPJ TRUCKING, INC., Defendant.
No. 18 CV 1332
Signed 08/30/2018
Attorneys and Law Firms
Paul Anthony Gajewski, Joel H. Steiner, Axelrod, Goodman, Steiner & Bazelon, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.
Edward F. Ruberry, William Cranley Westfall, Ruberry, Stalmack & Garvey, Chicago, IL, for Defendant.
Manish S. Shah, United States District Judge
*1 Plaintiff Coyote Logistics brings this action against defendant MPJ Trucking for holding twelve shipments of freight for ransom, instead of transporting them in interstate commerce, as required by the parties' contract. MPJ moves to dismiss the complaint under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6); MPJ also moves to strike portions of the complaint under Rule 12(f). For the following reasons, the motion to dismiss is granted in part, denied in part, and the motion to strike is granted.
I. Legal Standards
A motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(1) challenges the court's subject-matter jurisdiction. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1). By contrast, a Rule 12(b)(6) motion "tests whether the complaint states a claim on which relief may be granted." Richards v. Mitcheff, 696 F.3d 635, 637 (7th Cir. 2012). The complaint must contain factual allegations that plausibly suggest a right to relief. Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009). When analyzing a motion under Rule 12(b)(1) or Rule 12(b)(6), the court accepts all well-pleaded factual allegations as true and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff. Scanlan v. Eisenberg, 669 F.3d 838, 841 (7th Cir. 2012); Virnich v. Vorwald, 664 F.3d 206, 212 (7th Cir. 2011). The court need not accept legal conclusions or conclusory allegations, however. Virnich, 664 F.3d at 212.
II. Background
Coyote Logistics is licensed by the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to broker the transportation of freight by for-hire carriers in interstate or foreign commerce. [1] ¶ 2.1 MPJ Trucking is registered with the FMCSA as a for-hire motor carrier of property operating in interstate commerce. Id. ¶ 4. Between approximately June 2 and June 5, 2017, MPJ Trucking accepted and agreed to transport a series of twelve shipments of freight for Coyote, which was operating on behalf of its customers. Id. ¶ 7. As to each of those twelve shipments, MPJ was the "receiving carrier," as defined by 49 U.S.C. § 14706. Id. ¶ 8.
*2 When MPJ received shipment #162, the freight (Lagunitas beer) was in good condition. Id. ¶¶ 11–12. Instead of transporting shipment #162 from Illinois to New Jersey, per the agreement with Coyote, MPJ kept the freight in its possession, causing the freight to become damaged and worthless. Id. ¶¶ 10, 13. Coyote's actual loss from MPJ's conduct was $36,189.92. Id. ¶ 14. Despite Coyote's demands, MPJ has refused to pay Coyote for the damage. Id. ¶ 15. Three other shipments suffered a similar fate; MPJ received shipment #967, #816, and #032 in good condition, but refused to deliver them, causing Coyote actual losses of $34,986.20, $38,538.17, and $14,413.38, which MPJ refused to pay. Id. ¶¶ 18–22, 25–29, 32–36. As a result, Coyote brings four Carmack Amendment claims, one conversion claim, and one breach of contract claim against MPJ Trucking.
Coyote believes that MPJ accepted the shipments with no intention of delivering them to the consignees; Coyote says MPJ intended to hold the shipments in MPJ's facility as ransom. Id. ¶ 39. MPJ demanded payment from Coyote in order to release the shipments; but even when Coyote paid the ransom, MPJ did not offer to deliver the shipments. Id. Because of this conversion, Coyote says it sustained an actual loss of $145,802.67. Id. ¶ 40. MPJ refused Coyote's demands to pay for this damage. Id. ¶ 41. Coyote accuses MPJ of acting deliberately and willfully in this conversion; and Coyote seeks punitive damages totaling $437,408.01. Id. ¶ 42.
Finally, Coyote asserts that MPJ's refusal to deliver the shipments breached the terms and conditions of the Broker—Carrier Agreement they entered into on May 19, 2017. Id. ¶ 45. For this breach of contract, Coyote claims it is entitled to $145,802.67 in damages, plus attorneys' fees. Id. ¶ 46.
III. Analysis
MPJ argues that Coyote does not have standing to bring claims under the Carmack Amendment because Coyote failed to allege a valid assignment.2 The Carmack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act allows a "person entitled to recover" under the statute to bring suit against any motor carrier for the "actual loss or injury" during the interstate shipment, thereby giving a shipper confidence that the carrier will be liable for damage during transport, and allowing a carrier to assess (and insure against) liability risks. REI Transp., Inc. v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., 519 F.3d 693, 697 (7th Cir. 2008) (quoting 49 U.S.C. § 14706(a)(1) ). Some courts have found that brokers are not entitled to bring Carmack Amendment suits, see Exel, Inc. v. Southern Refrigerated Transp., Inc., 807 F.3d 140 (6th Cir. 2015); Traffic Tech, Inc. v. Arts Transp., Inc., No. 15 C 8014, 2016 WL 1270496 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 1, 2016); but, the Seventh Circuit has not addressed the issue. MPJ's argument does not identify a problem of subject-matter jurisdiction; instead, the argument is that the Carmack Amendment does not provide relief for this particular plaintiff. Coyote's complaint adequately alleges that it was injured by MPJ, and there is a case or controversy here.
In any event, whether or not brokers are covered by the Carmack Amendment, Coyote has alleged a valid assignment that puts it in the shoes of the shippers. As MPJ acknowledges, "all Plaintiff needs to state for an assignment is that X person, on X date, assigned X rights to Plaintiff," and "for a subrogation claim, all Plaintiff needs to state is that on X date, Plaintiff paid X dollars, to X person." [20] at 5. In each Carmack claim, Coyote provides that information—albeit not in the way MPJ prefers. For example, in Count I, Coyote states that it tendered a shipment of freight "in its capacity as a broker" and "on behalf of its customer, Lagunitas Brewing Co.," [1] ¶ 10; and that after MPJ damaged the freight, causing an actual loss of $36,189.92, Coyote paid its customer "an agreed sum in exchange for the assignment of all of their/its right, title, and interest in and to shipment #162," id. ¶ 14. This information, along with the language in the caption that refers to Coyote as a "subrogee of Lagunitas Brewing Company, et al." provides sufficient notice to MPJ that Coyote is pursuing the Carmack claims because they have been either assigned or subrogated. See also id. ¶¶ 17, 21, 24, 28, 31, 35. No more notice is necessary for MPJ to understand Coyote's theories.
*3 MPJ also argues that Coyote failed to allege a Carmack claim because it did not provide a factual basis for damages to the freight. To state a Carmack claim, Coyote must show: (1) the goods were delivered in good condition, (2) the goods arrived in a damaged condition, and (3) the amount of damages. If Coyote establishes a prima facie case, the burden shifts to MPJ "to show both that it was free from negligence and that the damage to the cargo was due to one of the excepted causes relieving the carrier of liability." REI Transp., 519 F.3d at 699 (citation omitted). The complaint clearly alleges the requisite elements as to each of its four Carmack claims, and at the motion to dismiss stage, Coyote's well-pleaded allegations are accepted as true. MPJ's assertion that it returned the freight to Coyote due to a financial dispute, and that bills of lading show that the freight was not damaged when MPJ returned it to Coyote, see [20] at 3, does not show that it was free from negligence or that it is relieved of liability under the Carmack Amendment. Coyote's Carmack claims survive dismissal.
Next, MPJ argues that the Carmack Amendment preempts Coyote's conversion and breach of contract claims. Congress enacted the Carmack Amendment to simplify the "patchwork of regulation" surrounding the interstate transportation of goods by creating "a nationally uniform rule of carrier liability concerning interstate shipments." REI Transp., 519 F.3d at 697 (citation omitted). In order to achieve a uniform scheme of liability, Congress ensured that the Carmack Amendment preempted state causes of action against carriers for damaged or lost goods, and Congress placed substantive limits on the rights of carriers to contract away liability. Id. Not every claim involving damaged or lost goods is preempted, though. The Carmack Amendment does not preempt claims that seek to remedy a separate and independent actionable harm. Id. at 697–98 (citing Gordon v. United Van Lines, Inc., 130 F.3d 282, 287 (7th Cir. 1997) ). Coyote's conversion and breach of contract claims do not fit that exempted category—despite Coyote's conclusory arguments to the contrary.3 Rather, each of those claims affect MPJ's liability for damaged goods, thereby upending the uniformity the Carmack Amendment sought to create. Those claims are preempted.
MPJ also complains of pleading errors because the complaint requests a judgment against "MJP Freight" instead of the named defendant MPJ Trucking, and it does not enumerate parties and their capacities in the case caption. A fair reading of the complaint, however, leads to the conclusion that Coyote intended to request a judgment against MPJ Trucking, and not against "MJP Freight." Similarly, reading the complaint as a whole makes it clear that Coyote had three customers—Lagunitas Brewing Co., Masterson Company, Inc., and Ingredion, Inc.—to which Coyote was both a subrogee and an assignee. As such, Coyote's organization and enumeration of the parties' capacities in the case caption is not grounds for dismissal. The facts may belie the allegations, but as with the issue of assignment or subrogation, MPJ Trucking is adequately on notice of the claims.
Finally, MPJ moves to strike the request for attorneys' fees, costs, interest, and punitive damages under the Carmack Amendment. That motion is granted. Since Congress specifically addressed the issue of compensation in the Carmack Amendment, it would "frustrate the uniformity goal" to award other fees or damages beyond the actual loss. Gordon, 130 F.3d at 286–27.
IV. Conclusion
Defendant's motion to dismiss, [15], granted in part, denied in part. Defendant's motion to strike, [15], is granted. Counts V and VI are dismissed with prejudice. Defendant shall answer the complaint by September 20, 2018, and a status hearing remains set for September 28, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.
All Citations
Slip Copy, 2018 WL 4144628
Bracketed numbers refer to entries on the district court docket. Page numbers are taken from the CM/ECF header at the top of filings.
MPJ's reply brief states: "Defendant is not yet challenging whether Plaintiff itself has the right to pursue a claim directly. Defendant is only requesting that Plaintiff specify which hat it is wearing, or allegedly wearing, in each of the 6 counts currently before the Court and provide a factual basis for same." [20] at 5.
That the conversion claim only involves eight of the twelve shipments does not mean it seeks a remedy for a separate and independent harm. For the Carmack claims, the conversion claim, and the breach of contract claim, the harm is the same—the damaged freight.


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Harness your Power of Presence
Listen Effectively and Ask Powerful Questions
Friday 22nd September 2017, The Falmouth Hotel, Falmouth, Cornwall
During this one-day workshop you will:
- Learn the Principles of Presence
- Play with presence while learning to listen more effectively
- Explore and experience the different ways in which people listen
- Experiment with the power of openness, curiosity and compassion
- Learn to ask powerful and intuitive questions
- Explore how to bring your best self forward more consistently
- Identify, explore and discuss your barriers to trust as they arise
- Touch on cutting edge topics such as inner and outer awareness, the power of silence, and tuning into the larger field
Workshop style
Rashmir will introduce you to concepts, ideas and practices that will help you deepen and advance your presence and your listening and questioning skills. Expect an active day, with periods of deep self-reflection.
Who is Rashmir?
Rashmir Balasubramaniam reconnects current and emerging leaders and groups to their highest purpose and potential, and unleashes creative capacity. Rashmir has taught and mentored graduate students and entrepreneurs at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, Pinchot University, Middlebury College, the Yale School of Management, and Fledge - a conscious company incubator. With 25 years of experience across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, Rashmir has a proven ability to work strategically and build trust and consensus with diverse cultural and multidisciplinary groups. Her experience includes over 5 years of purpose, strategy and innovation coaching and consulting, 5 years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and 6 years in investment banking and finance.
Who is it for? If you are a leader, manager, coach or counsellor, enhancing these key capabilities will help you to be more effective in your personal and professional lives.
When and where is it? Friday 22nd September, 9.00am to 5.00pm in Falmouth, Cornwall
Requirements: There are no special requirements. Just bring a sense of curiosity, the desire to harness the power of your deeper presence, and a willingness to roll up your sleeves, play and experiment with other participants while you develop and expand core capabilities.
Terms and conditions: The price is £125. Full refunds are available up until 30 days before the course. Refreshments will be provided. Please bring, or plan to purchase, your own lunch on the day.
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P.S. This picture has nothing to do with the case, but it's copyright-free and I'm freezing in Michigan!
Summarizing opinions in selected criminal cases from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Friday, January 30, 2009
Quick Note on Another Crackerjack Dissent by Judge Merritt
P.S. This picture has nothing to do with the case, but it's copyright-free and I'm freezing in Michigan!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Good Child-Porn Opinion
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Spears v. U.S.---Getting the Kimbrough Point Across
Per Curiam reversal of the Eighth Circuit on Kimbrough grounds.
Very helpful decision and can be applied in other contexts—career offender, child porn, etc. When a guideline is not the product of the Sentencing Commission's characteristic institutional role, a mine-run-case variance from the guideline range is not suspect. This opinion brings into even brighter light the need to deconstruct the guidelines that are not based on empirical support, attack them, and argue that disagreement with these suspect guidelines is not untoward.
Spears calls into question the validity of this summer's holding in United States v. Funk, 534 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2008). It does not sink Funk out-of-hand; however, it provides much ammunition to question the holding. It seems to be a matter of attacking a guideline in the correct manner—really demonstrating that it is not a product of the Commission's characteristic institutional role. What we need to do is give sentencing courts reasons to support policy disagreements with the Guidelines. And you will find GREAT reasons and resources at fd.org. Check out the Sentencing Resources and all the deconstruction materials.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Constructive Possession---Gun Under Driver's Seat Insufficient
Granted petition for rehearing and amended portions of panel opinion. Reversed the defendant's convictions under Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(c)(1)(A)(i). Affirmed conviction under Section 841(a)(1).
Some points of note:
firearm is not enough to establish dominion over the premises and thereby dominion and
control over the firearm." Id. at 9.
*To determine that a defendant had "constructive possession" over a firearm requires "additional circumstantial evidence beyond the defendant's having driven the car in which the firearm was found." Id.
*The defendant did attempt to evade arrest, but this evasion "proves little because [defendant] might well have taken this action in an effort to evade detection of the two bags of crack cocaine found in his pants." Id. at 6.
*A holding that driving a car as its lone occupant suffices to establish "constructive possession" of a firearm found beneath the driver's seat would "institute an untenable strict-liability regime for constructive possession" under there firearm statutes. Id. at 10.
*"Because the evidence in this case is limited to the fact that [defendant] was driving the
car in which police found the loaded gun, there exists insufficient evidence for any
rational factfinder to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that [defendant] had constructive
possession of the gun." Id. at 12.
*Evidence admitted only for impeachment purposes cannot be considered by a court considering the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction. Id. at 12–13.
There was a dissent/concurrence by Judge Griffin:
Disagreed with conclusion that without the impeachment evidence (as substantive evidence) "the evidence is insufficient for any rational juror to find [defendant] guilty of possession of a
firearm" in violation of the statutes. Id. at 15 (Griffin, J., dissenting in part and concurring in part).
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Failure-To-Report is no Violent Felony
The conduct in question-- failing to report to serve a sentence, or failing to return to custody-– frequently is categorized as an "escape" under state and federal law. Most federal circuits have concluded that escapes of any nature categorically qualify as a "crime of violence" or "violent felony."
The Supreme Court has now distinguished 'failures to report/return' from 'actual escapes from custody,' noting that "[t]he behavior that likely underlies a failure to report would seem less likely to involve a risk of physical harm than the less passive, more aggressive behavior underlying an escape from custody." Id. at 4.
Most importantly, the Court cited its recent decision in Begay v. United States, 553 U.S. ___ (2008), and noted that the action/inaction of failing to report is "far cry" from the purposeful, violent and aggressive conduct associated with the offenses specifically named in the ACCA as violent felonies (use of explosives against property, arson, burglary, extortion).
Given the developing line of Supreme Court cases which continue to narrow the definition of "violent felony" and "crime of violence," practitioners must carefully examine their clients' prior convictions. If a prior offense is not specifically enumerated as a "violent felony" in the ACCA or a "crime of violence" under the U.S.S.G. 4B1.2, the career offender guideline, then counsel must analyze whether the prior offense can used as a predicate offense. In many situations, offenses that met the previously expansive definition of "violent felony" and "crime of violence" cannot be categorized as such in the post-Begay/Chambers world.


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An Open Hearted, Open Minded Spiritual Community
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in fullness without limit.
But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.
Ernest Holmes
Each of us is on a spiritual path to become more in touch with our Divine Self, to awaken, to change our life for the better, etc. Whatever that thought or desire is it is coming from the ingrained thought patterns of our personal history. Thinking is the basis for our creations. Of course, how we think is something that we can work on consciously, but (there's always a but…) if this was as easy as it sounds everyone would be healthier, wealthier and happier.
You don't have to do this alone! Through the Sunday talks, classes, Oneness Blessing/Deeksha, sharing with friends, consulting a Practitioner and other activities, we are here to support you.
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it, and it will be yours." Mark 11:24
"I and the Father are one." John 10:30
When we pray recognizing Spirit's Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence and realizing our unity with Spirit, then our prayer is a spiritual treatment. There is no begging or urge to compel an outside entity. We believe that God is an Indwelling Presence therefore our prayers are naturally addressed to this Infinite Presence within and consequently our prayer is answered as we believe.
We put these beliefs into action using a five-step affirmative prayer called Spiritual Mind Treatment. The five steps are:
1. Recognition—recognizing the Presence of Spirit/God is all there is.
2. Identification, Unification—knowing ourselves as One with God/Spirit.
3. Declaration, Affirmation, Realization—applying the Truth to what we want to manifest.
4. Gratitude, Acceptance—expressing genuine gratitude, believing we are receiving.
5. Release—releasing, trusting it is complete. "Let go and let God"
A sample Treatment : I know God is All there is and that I am one with God in Spirit, Mind and Body. I know the perfect health I seek already exists in the Mind of God. Knowing I am one with God and that my perfect health is already established, I claim and accept my healthy body now giving thanks for it! I now release this prayer to the Universe knowing it is done as I believe. I let go and let God. And so it is.
Meditation is simply quieting the conscious mind to enable a fuller experience of God's presence. There are many ways to meditate such as chanting, following the breath, using a mantra, contemplation, listening to the silence. All of these help instill a deep sense of inner peace and relaxation that benefits all aspects of our lives – spiritual, mental and physical.
Ernest Holmes defines meditation as:
The recognition of the Father within, the certainty of our Oneness with the Whole, the immediate availability of the Power and Wisdom resulting from this Oneness. Such communion with God brings harmony into our lives and affairs, establishes the law of health and prosperity, and makes us a light to all who cross our pathway.
A Practitioner has completed many years of training and study preparing themselves to offer Spiritual Mind Treatment to others and is certified by The Creative Thought Center for that purpose.
Many times we are too emotionally involved in a situation, illness or experience to be objective — we can't see the forest for the trees. A Practitioner works with a person to shift a particular belief and create a desired outcome. He/she knows the Truth about that person and declares it through personalized treatment.
"I always sought Spiritual Mind Treatment [from a Practitioner] when I was feeling unsure or upset about something or when I was angry with someone. The practitioner brought me back to Reality and the understanding that I was one with the person with whom I was angry and then explained who I was and the other person as well via step 2. We were both Spiritual beings and God beings because we are all creations of God and if there is only One, then we must all be a part of that Oneness. The practitioner spoke in the order of the steps and I always understood then and came back to the reality of my life. Using the steps is an unfoldment of Reality to me and clears one's head and allows release of emotions that are causing emotional pain. The Practitioner reminded me who I am." Carol Brennan, Practitioner in Training


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As you walk in, the glow of the orange lanterns welcomes you before the sheer size of the menu overwhelms you. There's certainly no lack of choices with Taiwanese and Hong Kong style desserts as well as drinks on offer. The vast majority of the menu is priced around $6-$8, which makes for a very reasonably priced dessert.
The gigantic menu can be broken down into the following:
Taiwanese Desserts (in black bowl/plate) -
Taro, Herbal Jelly, Black Glutinous Rice, Puddings, Tofu Puddings, Snow Ice and Crushed Ice.
Hong Kong Desserts (in orange bowl) -
Sago or Black Pearl Soup, Tofu Pudding, Black Glutinous Rice, Grass Jelly, Ice Cream.
Fruit Smoothies (in clear plastic cup) -
Drinks with some choices containing predefined ingredients or you can build your own combinations.
Choose your category, then choose the specific item number. It's best to order by number rather than name because the names are very similar. You may be asked if you'd like your dessert hot or cold. I generally go with cold because I like to eat the ice. If you choose hot it will come in a warm soup. After ordering at the counter, you'll be given a number on a little stand. Staff will compile the ingredients, find your number and deliver the order to your table.
I'm not a fan of the Herbal Jelly or the Grass Jelly. I think they must be an acquired taste in a similar way to Vegemite. I've tried most of the other categories and my pick of the entire menu is #15 - Taro Balls with Honey Bean, Coconut Jelly, Pearls ($6.80). I love the different textures and flavours. This one is quite filling as well so can be shared between two people if you're not overly hungry.
The fruit smoothies are fun too, especially if you enjoy different textures in your drinks like pearls, jellies or fruit. Here's one of the set options: Mango Coconut drink ($5.90).
It's also important to note that the ice shaving machine is a penguin. This is awesome because he's cute (see red bow tie), appropriate (penguins and ice go together), and useful (he shaves ice for the cold desserts).
I strongly believe that the negative reviews online are mostly due to the fact that people in Adelaide have no idea what to order. This is completely understandable as we've never had this kind of dessert shop in Adelaide before. It takes a bit of patience and adventure to navigate the myriad of choices, but it's well worth the effort. Dessert Story in Adelaide is one of my favourite stops for sweets because their desserts are different, affordable, and fun.


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Dan's DevelopmentsAre you looking for vacant land to build your new home on that is not far from Rockford and Grand Rapids? Dan's neighborhood development, called Meyer Grove, is nestled in a beautiful wooded setting just East of Grant Michigan. This quiet residential development is near Bagley Street and 128th near the Brigadoon Golf Course. Meyer Grove is the premier featured neighborhood for Dan's Developments. Grant is a great place to retire, raise a family and provides an east commute along the M-37 Corridor to the nearby communities of Fremont, Newaygo, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Rockford and Big Rapids. Grand Rapids and Muskegon are both 30 to 35 miles away. Enjoy quaint, rural living with all the conveniences these West Michigan cities have to offer just a short driving distance away. The beautiful tree lined streets of Meyer Grove are waiting for you and your new construction home to put down roots ~ pick your favorite parcel on Austrian Drive, Arbor Drive or Creekside Drive in Grant, Michigan. We can install your new septic system, get your site seed ready and more. Read about our full line of excavating services click here to read more.
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Miriam's Message for the New Year
Spiritually-inclined people always look for new opportunities to start over. January 1st has very little significance in Jewish thought, but if there is an excuse to make a new resolution, to find freshness in your daily routine or to celebrate, why not grab it and make the most of it?
But did you know that the Jewish calendar also celebrates a time for a new beginning this week? This Shabbat we will begin reading the Book of Shemos (Exodus). In Jewish mysticism these next six weeks are called "Shovavim," which is an acronym for the titles of the next six Torah portions, but also means to return. As we read about the beginnings of the Jewish people, how they went from the darkness, pain and suffering of Egyptian bondage to freedom and the receiving of the Torah, it is also an opportunity for us to take on new projects and new challenges with renewed vigor.
Our Sages tell us that Moshe's father Amram chose not to have more children because he didn't want to subject another child to the evil Egyptian decrees. But he was rebuked by Miriam, his daughter, telling him that he was worse than Pharaoh, who only decreed on the male children, whereas Amram is cutting off the source of life for all possible descendants.
I think Miriam's words carry with them an important message. Sometimes we can be guilty of "cutting off the life source" of a great idea or a new venture because of fear of how it will turn out. We don't fully engage ourselves in the projects that will really give us vitality because we are afraid of failure. Miriam's prophetic message to her father was that his job was to do his part to build the Jewish people, and if he didn't fulfill his part, surely God wouldn't bring salvation. This powerful message led to the conception of Moshe and the salvation of the Jewish people.
It is a great time to start fresh! As many people begin to work on their 2016 resolutions, let's put on our to-do list that, starting today, we will do a little more to share our divine spark with the world, to take some new chances, to move forward with our great ideas and to bring our light to the world.
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Breathe fully * Release stress and tension * Heal and resolve trauma * Enhance pleasure and joy in relationships * Access your own internal healing source * Increase vitality and inner peace
What is Clarity Breathwork?
Clarity Breathwork is a profound tool for transformation and healing for the mind, body and soul.
It works with the ancient practice of circular, connected breathing that has been used in cultures around the world, for thousands of years, for healing and attaining higher states of consciousness.
Clarity Breathwork helps to activate the subconscious mind and bring awareness and insights not easily accessed through traditional therapy. Breath opens the energy channels in the body and allows what we have been holding onto to surface and be released. This may be suppressed emotional material, physical blocks in the body, old beliefs structures and identifications, old memories, fight/flight/freeze patterns, and addictions. Clarity Breathwork combines counseling and insight as well as a somatic experiential process where clients gain a deep level of insight, release emotional baggage and actually feel the patterns shifting and transforming at a deep cellular level.
Why to book a session?
Most of us don't breathe fully; we hold back the breath and have been doing so most of our lives. When we start to breathe fully and consciously we are easily able to release what we have been holding and open to an incredible expansion of consciousness, including greater forgiveness and self-love. This inner change brings about shifts in our outer lives for the better.
Clarity Breathwork shines a light and clarity on our deepest beliefs that we carry within us and that do influence our present life and relationships, this brings deep healing and peace.
Individual sessions offer you one on one support and the undivided attention that allows you to unravel your patterns and limitations at a deeper level. The session which last 2 hours involves sharing, intuitive counseling and coaching, as well as approximately one hour of circular, connected breathing. The emphasis is on increasing awareness of the present moment and allowing what is most important to reveal itself.
To book a session or ask for more details click here.
To learn more about the group sessions - breathing circles click here.
What are the benefits?
Breathwork is one of the purest and most effective techniques to release stress and tension, heal and resolve trauma, and awaken your vital life energy. Clarity Breathwork is a safe and gentle method that supports you to access your own internal healing energy. From this place, you can experience a powerful shift in yourself and your life experience.
- Reduces stress and increases energy, aliveness & sense of well-being
- Releases toxins, emotions, and stagnant energy from the cells of the body
- Allows old emotions, memories and past traumas to arise and release in a safe and gentle way
- Helps understand the source of dis-ease and supports the release of physical symptoms
- Unravels relationship/intimacy issues and supports one to embrace and heal old wounds of abandonment, loss & rejection
- Helps one attract new relationships
- Increases flow, ease, joy, and pleasure in life and relationships
- Accesses expanded states of consciousness, including higher guidance and clarity about one's path and life purpose
- Supports the release of limiting thoughts, patterns and imprints from birth, childhood, and past lives
- Opens and enhances creativity and expression
- Healing the wound of your imagined separation
- Increases experience of inner peace
- Allows a feeling of being connected to, and caring for yourself, the earth, and all beings
- Transcends the mind and emotions and supports the awakening to the truth of who you really are
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Some games are ready to go right out of the box. Others require a little more work. Here are four interactive kits that we know will keep you and your kids entertained for hours.
Light It and Shake It (lectrify)
Lectrify is a new company whose mission is to "make it easy and accessible for makers of all ages to build mechanical and electronic projects." And after trying two of their kits, we can assure you that the company is achieving that goal. The core of each kit is a fully-functional circuit board. Light It includes a battery, two LEDs, an on/off switch, and a momentary switch (like an on/off switch but it only works when you press and hold it). Shake It includes a battery, on/off switch, vibrating motor, and more. Young makers (and their parents) can experiment with the board. Then, when they're feeling confident, they can snap the components out of the board and embed them in any project they'd like. One especially cool feature is that the circuit components are compatible with LEGO and other systems, so it's easy to add some special features to your LEGO creations. The possibilities are unlimited, but if you want some suggestions, there are plenty on the website. For ages 5 and up (with adult supervision). Prices vary. http://www.lectrify.it/
Totally Irresponsible Science Kit (Sean Connolly)
Sean Connolly has done a great service for science and math, making both subjects a lot more interesting and engaging. The titles of two of his previous books should give you an idea of his strategy: "The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists" and "The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math: 24 Death-Defying Challenges for Young Mathematicians." The experiments in this book/kit combo aren't terribly new, but it's the approach that counts. For example, learning how to make bubbles out of soap or generate static electricity is okay (yawn). But when you put it in terms of encasing your little brother in a giant bubble or shooting a bolt of lightning from your fingertip, now you've got something fun. Includes the book, a beaker, a test tube, and a measuring spoon. The rest of the ingredients you probably have around the house. For ages 7 and up. $15 on www.amazon.com
Build a Knight's Castle: Paper Toy Archaeology (Annalie Seaman)
What a great way to spark in interest in archeology. You and your child start by reading about how people in medieval times lived, built their castles, and defended them. Along the way, Annalie Seaman, an archeologist and educator, shows you how to pull clues from medieval documents, paintings, maps, burial sites, scraps of metal, and more. Then, you use that knowledge to build a 3D castle using pieces that pop out of the book—knights and weapons included. For ages 5 and up. Under $11 on www.amazon.com
Malia's Beach House Building Kit (Build & Imagine)
Aimed mostly at girls (although plenty of boys will enjoy it too), this constructible dollhouse helps bring out those all-important STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) skills, including building, spatial reasoning, and problem solving. Build & Imagine has a number of kits, all of which use magnetic panels and pieces and are 100% compatible with each other. This one includes Malia and Skyler dolls, 17 dual-sided, illustrated panels, and a few dozen accessories. Kids design and build their own indoor- or outdoor world. Once that's done, they can incorporate the dolls, clothes, and other accessories and props to create any scene they'd like. For age 4 and up $60. https://www.buildandimagine.com/