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September 11 is being used as a reason to build up police intelligence
Osmín, a Cuban trucker, is living in Florida legally--but that
didn't matter to the department of motor vehicles. When he was stopped
on May 2 by a policeman who wanted to see the permit for a job he was
working on, as well as his license, he handed over all the necessary
papers. Although they were in order, he was sent to the driver's-license
office because the document granting his temporary stay will expire
later this month. When dutifully checking in at the DMV the next day, he
explained that his application for permanent residency is pending,
allowing him legal stay until it is resolved. But the clerk, guided by
the governor's new antiterror restrictions, didn't understand the
intricacies of his immigration status. He confiscated Osmín's
license--good until 2007--and sent him home, unable to drive and unable
to work. "I feel very bad," said Osmín (who didn't want to have
his last name used out of fear it might harm his residency application)
the following workday, stuck inside. "I have to pay my bills, I've lost
a complete day of work and I don't know when I'll get my license back."
Spurred on by post-September 11 fears, more than a dozen states, from
Colorado to Delaware, have passed or are considering restrictions on
issuing driver's licenses to noncitizens. Some, like Georgia, Minnesota
and New York, may tie license expiration dates to the expiration of
immigration papers, as Florida, New Jersey and Kentucky do now.
Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles now sends
records of all its transactions to the FBI every night. A Michigan bill
would authorize DMV staff to contact federal authorities if there is
"reasonable cause" to believe an applicant is an illegal alien. Even
legal refugees from Bosnia or El Salvador can get tripped up in the new
red tape. "If you make it difficult for people to get a driver's
license, you're going to get a lot more people driving without a
license, and we might have more uninsured drivers on the road," says Ben
Johnson, associate director of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association. "Getting tough on driver's-license law isn't going to make
the country any safer."
Declaring his state's enlistment in a "war against illegal immigration,"
South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon introduced legislation to
have local cops enforce federal immigration laws. Florida is working
with the Immigration and Naturalization Service on a groundbreaking plan
to deputize police officers as INS agents. "This gives police another
legal hook to justify their profiling and will prevent illegal
immigrants from reporting crimes against them," says Dan Kesselbrenner,
director of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers
Heightening surveillance of foreign students, bills pending in
California, Minnesota and Georgia, and a new Virginia law, would require
colleges to report noncitizens to the INS if they repeatedly miss class
or withdraw. An Oklahoma measure would prevent noncitizens from
enrolling in flight school. "While everybody's in the patriotic mood,
people's tolerance level is a little bit lower," says Lena Lee, a
research assistant for South Carolina's House of Representatives,
describing a bill to restrict university enrollment of students who come
from a "state sponsor of international terrorism" as determined by the
US Secretary of State. "The rush is on to get the legislation out.
People are kind of blindly doing it--with good intent."
Oklahoma's Joint Homeland Security Task Force even brought up blocking
foreign students from certain courses. Representative Bill Paulk, a task
force member, said legislators are particularly worried about nuclear
design and computer classes. "Obviously," he said, "there are some
courses you would not want foreigners to take."
For more than a century, a recognizable pattern existed among those
migrating to New York City: They came first either through Ellis Island
or up from the American South, and more recently via JFK. As the
newcomers quickly helped build larger communities, they began to occupy
distinct places in the mental and physical geography of the city.
Yet the fastest-growing migration of the past few decades into the city
severely complicates the demographic pattern to which most New Yorkers
are accustomed. Mexican migrants, whose (counted) ranks nearly tripled
to 275,000 between 1990 and 2000, are indeed coming in significant
numbers, but they are staying for quite varying amounts of time and
inhabiting quite varying parts of the city. Spatially, there is no
Mexican equivalent of the Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the Bronx, or
the Dominican enclave in Washington Heights. That the vast majority of
those who come across the Rio Grande are undocumented also suggests that
it may be a while before the Mexican community will have a direct voice,
either politically or via organized labor, in city affairs.
Enter Jimmy Breslin. Yes, the same pugnacious figure familiar to New
Yorkers for his four decades as a muckraking columnist, and to national
audiences most recently for his intro to Spike Lee's Summer of
Sam. Could there be a better guide to the new pattern of immigration
than Breslin? From a scholarly standpoint, the answer would obviously be
yes--the recent work of Arlene Dávila and Agustín
Laó-Montes, Nancy Foner and others is a good place to start. Such
scholarship shows that the current wave of immigration fits no one mold,
with some groups, particularly Mexicans, establishing a transnational
pattern of going back and forth to their home countries, thus making it
impossible even to identify a single unified process of Latino
immigration. But from the perspective of gritty, everyday, street-level
New York, or at least that fast-disappearing world of tough talk and
no-nonsense reporting, Breslin has no match as a firsthand observer of
the newcomers' place in the city's social hierarchy. Ultimately, the way
Breslin, an older, working-class Irish-American, grapples with the new
migration tells us more than a little bit about the changing meaning of
the American dream.
Breslin's new book, his eighth nonfiction work, tells of The Short
Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez, an undocumented Mexican
laborer, died in a 1999 construction accident in the Hasidic
neighborhood of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. For Breslin,
Gutiérrez's story not only typifies the hardships that Mexican
migrants face in coming north but shows how harsh the working conditions
are when they arrive. Gutiérrez, in other words, hardly lived the
life of a latter-day Horatio Alger. Instead of fortune, the city
provided only loneliness and a gruesome but entirely preventable death
in a cement foundation.
Gutiérrez's tragic demise sets Breslin on course to discover the
origins of what would otherwise have been yet another mostly forgotten
existence. Breslin goes to central Mexico, to the small town of San
Matias (near Puebla), to recapture Eduardo's life and surroundings
there, and then follows his tortuous journey north across the border,
before arriving in Brooklyn. In the process, Breslin accomplishes twin
goals: to show how Mexican migrants are increasingly making their way
well beyond the Southwest, steadily transforming the demographics of
Midwestern and Northeastern cities; and, more dramatically, he
illustrates how that migration probably has more in common with the
Middle Passage than with any of the heroism now accorded to the
immigrant journey through Ellis Island.
Breslin opens with a series of outsider's observations of life in
impoverished San Matias. Ninety percent of Mexican children will never
go to school beyond the sixth grade, and instead go to work, which in
places like San Matias is sporadic and pays almost nothing. Thus, as a
result of stories told by relatives and others within their community,
the young of San Matias live their lives with pictures of American money
in their heads. And "such poor, dark-skinned children," Breslin
observes, soon become the young adults who are migrating along with
counterparts from India, China and elsewhere to become New York City's
new majority, by which he essentially means people of color.
Getting here from San Matias is no mean feat. After hearing from his
girlfriend Silvia's brother-in-law of construction work in Brooklyn that
paid $6 or $7 an hour (to undocumented Mexicans), less than one-third of
what unionized American workers receive, Eduardo was tempted to go
north. After Silvia, only 15, told him that she was headed for Texas,
Eduardo, four years older, had even less reason to stay home. Breslin
then vividly re-creates both journeys, supplementing the two stories
with documentation of parallel dangers that Mexican migrants experience
every day: dangerous coyotes (smugglers), rattlesnakes, heat exhaustion,
drowning in the Rio Grande, suffocation in a tunnel leading to Tijuana,
getting hit by a train in Texas or a car in San Diego, local police,
airport security and, above all, the Border Patrol. Thus harrowed, both
Silvia and Eduardo nevertheless do land safely: the former in Bryan-College Station, Texas, where she works at both the Olive Garden and a
barbecue joint; and the latter initially at JFK, only after being
delivered COD by a coyote on a flight from Los Angeles.
Sympathetic as the author is to the courage and struggles of those who
endure such hardship in coming north, there are still some troubling
dimensions to Breslin's account, particularly in his somewhat simplistic
choice of terms to describe the process. He so often uses "the Mexicans"
as the subject of his sentences that one begins to fear Buchananesque
calls for big walls along the border (fortunately, they are not there).
Breslin also far too simplistically refers on many occasions to how
Mexican migrants are lured by The Job, and at one point riffs: "They
come across the riverbanks and the dry border, those people who want to
work, who want to scrub floors and clean pots, or mow lawns." Yet as his
own telling of Silvia's double shifts in El Paso and of Eduardo's later
job-hopping in New York suggests, the specific work matters much less
than the simple fact of a paycheck. Migrants seeking wages who will
accept the least-desirable work is surely more accurate than talk of
Mexicans who want "The Job," but then again, drama is Breslin's primary
Once away from the airport, Eduardo enters a frighteningly impersonal
city, and here Breslin emphasizes the changing meaning of the
contemporary immigrant experience: "Once, they came in dreadful old
ships, from Magilligan in Northern Ireland, from Cobh in southern
Ireland, from Liverpool and Naples and Palermo and Odessa.... Those able
to stand always scoured the horizon for the first look at a city where
the streets were decorated, if not paved, with gold." The numbers of
subsequent nonwhite migrations, particularly those of Puerto Ricans and
Dominicans, are missing from Breslin's litany, which illustrates the
degree to which the traditional mythology of immigration into New York
City needs to be rewritten continually. But here as elsewhere, Breslin
should be indulged, for the experience of Mexican immigrants in New York
is skewing more than a few familiar demographic patterns.
Eduardo's experiences in Brooklyn illustrate some of the unique features
of contemporary Mexican migration. He settles with a handful of others
from San Matias in Brighton Beach, an area whose Eastern European Jewish
identity grew rapidly with the influx of Russian and Ukrainian
immigrants in the early 1990s. On a few occasions, he and a friend would
go to Sunset Park, an increasingly Latino neighborhood and one of the
few areas of the city with a visible Mexican presence. Indeed, as the
ongoing research of John Mollenkopf and others demonstrates, even though
their ranks are growing rapidly, Mexican migrants are tending to favor
heterogeneous ethnic neighborhoods rather than grouping together.
Breslin's re-creation of Eduardo's life in the city may help explain one
of the reasons this is so. As Eduardo and his roommates drink a few
beers after a long day's work, they reminisce of home and discuss plans
to go back. That so many do go back and forth, perhaps, diminishes the
necessity for those who stay to form distinct neighborhoods of their
Those working here as undocumented laborers also face conditions hardly
conducive to sticking around. Despite repeated building-code violations
elsewhere in the neighborhood, a slumlord named Eugene Ostreicher was
able to continue building in South Williamsburg, using undocumented
Mexican laborers like Eduardo. While working for Ostreicher in November
of 1999, Eduardo poured cement on the third and top floor, which was
supported by only three flimsy, improperly fastened beams; the structure
soon collapsed, and Eduardo drowned in cement three floors below.
Breslin thus takes aim at a variety of targets: Ostreicher, who was slow
to face punishment, and whose cozy relationship to City Hall (via Bruce
Teitelbaum, ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's liaison to the Hasidic
community) had allowed him to keep building despite past violations; the
city's Department of Buildings, a bastion of frightening corruption and
inefficiency; and, to a lesser extent, the construction unions, which
allow the use of nonunion labor. Some of Breslin's examples do seem
tangential, like his discussion of a phony Pell Grant scheme run by
Ostreicher's Hasidic neighbors, or of Mayor Giuliani's war on sex shops.
But there is no doubting Breslin's crusading spirit, and he's always
good for a memorable barb or two--as when he reminds us that pre-9/11,
Giuliani did "virtually nothing each day except get into the papers or
to meet girlfriends."
As the book closes, with Eduardo dead and Ostreicher facing minimal
punishment at best, the meaning of the former's sweet dream is
uncertain. He came to New York with a desire only to make enough money
to go home, perhaps with Silvia. But now he is sent home in a casket
paid for by the Red Cross and the Central Labor Trades Council, the
latter doing so to "get into the newspapers." Though by no means the
first group to come to America with the primary goal of making money in
order to take it back home, Mexican migrants find a labor market that is
increasingly transient, unregulated and brutal. Still, despite the
hardships, they are helping to create a new, transnational version of
the American dream. It is a story that we all need to consider, and
Jimmy Breslin has successfully helped open the door.
A camera system in the nation's capital is making civil libertarians
The recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hoffman Plastic
Compounds, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board makes it plain that
the Court's majority lives in denial of the social reality millions of
working people face every day. The Court began by making worse an
already bad precedent. As a result of a previous decision in the case of
Sure-Tan Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, millions of
undocumented immigrants lost the right to be reinstated to their jobs if
they were fired for joining a union. Now the Rehnquist Court says they
can also forget about back pay for the time they were out of work.
The decision rewards employers who want to stop union organizing efforts
among immigrant workers--the very people who've built a decade-long
track record of labor activism, often organizing themselves when unions
showed little interest in them. Their bosses can now terminate
undocumented workers who join a union, without monetary consequences.
But the Court's logic goes further, willfully ignoring social reality.
Today in 31 percent of union drives employers illegally fire workers,
immigrant and native-born alike. Federal labor law may prohibit this,
but companies already treat the cost of legal battles, reinstatement and
back pay as a cost of doing business. Many consider it cheaper than
signing a union contract. In the Court's eyes, however, retaliatory
firings are not even a violation of law.
William Gould IV, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board,
points to "a basic conflict between US labor law and US immigration
law." The Court has held that the enforcement of employer sanctions,
which makes it illegal for an undocumented immigrant to hold a job, is
more important than the right of that worker to join a union and resist
exploitation on the job.
According to Rehnquist, Jose Castro, the fired worker in the Hoffman
case, committed the cardinal sin of falsely saying he had legal status
to get a job. This lie, told by millions of workers every year, is
winked at by employers who want to take advantage of immigrants' labor.
It is only in the face of union activity that bosses suddenly wake up to
the fact that their workers have no papers (and usually then fire only
the ones involved with unions).
This decision isn't about enforcing immigration law, despite Rehnquist's
pious assertion that employers can already be fined for hiring people
like Castro. It's about money. When it becomes more risky and difficult
for workers to organize and join unions, or even to hold a job at all,
they settle for lower wages. And when the price of immigrant labor goes
down, so do the wages for everyone else. The decision has already been
misused by some employers, who have told their immigrant workers they no
longer have the right to organize at all, or have illegally refused to
pay them the minimum wage or overtime.
A recent study by the Pew Charitable Trust counts almost 8 million
undocumented people in the United States. They make up almost 4 percent
of the urban work force, and more than half of all farmworkers. The flow
of workers across the border will not stop anytime soon. The National
Population Council of Mexico reports that "migration between Mexico and
the United States is a permanent, structural phenomenon--the intense
relationship between the two countries makes it inevitable."
Sacrificing the rights of those workers will not stop people from
crossing the border, nor end the need for the work they do. If they are
to have legal status, the door to legal immigration must be opened and
sanctions repealed. But come they will, regardless. The Court's message
to them, however, is: Know your place. Do the work, stay in the shadows,
accept what you are given and never think of organizing to challenge the
structure that holds you in chains.
The old movies used to feature a priest walking alongside the condemned
man toward the scaffold, offering last seconds of comfort,
plea-bargaining strategies with St. Peter, a bolstering hand under the
elbow. Sometime in the next decade the tableau may be reversed, with a
lay counselor assisting the condemned priest as he totters toward that
final rendezvous with the executioner.
The death penalty is being vigorously touted as the best way to deal
with child molesters. And as the world knows, the Roman Catholic Church
has sheltered many a child molester. On the cutting edge here are three
states noted for the moral refinement of their legislators: to wit,
Montana, Louisiana and Alabama. The first two states have already put
Death for Molesters into their statute books, and when Alabama lawmakers
convene again next year they will press forward into legislation, after
an overwhelming vote from the state's House of Representatives last year
in favor of molester executions.
The Montana law allows a person previously convicted of "sexual
intercourse without consent" with someone under 16 in any state to be
sentenced to death if convicted of the crime in Montana. The law was
passed in 1997, but no one has yet been charged under that provision.
Since 1995 Louisiana has had a law allowing the death penalty for people
convicted of raping a child under 12. Thus far, a few charges, no
Alabama's bill would authorize the death penalty for people convicted a
second time of having sex with someone under 12. No other states allow
capital punishment for a sex crime. ABC News quoted Marcel Black,
chairman of the Alabama House Judiciary Committee, as saying, "The very
serious meaning of this is to send a message to child molesters that it
is a bad thing to do."
Molesters can take comfort in the fact that these laws will probably not
survive challenges from higher courts. The US Supreme Court ruled in
1977 that the death penalty is excessive punishment for rape. But who
knows, in the current atmosphere anything is possible. Maybe that's why
Pope John Paul II, a far-seeing man, shifted the Church toward
opposition to the death penalty.
Two years ago fewer than 8 percent of those who took part in a Gallup
poll among Jewish Israelis said they were in favor of what is politely
called "transfer"--that is, the expulsion of perhaps 2 million
Palestinians across the Jordan River. This month that figure reached 44
Professor Martin van Creveld is one of Israel's best-known military
historians. On April 28 Britain's conservative newspaper the Telegraph
published an article outlining what van Creveld believes is Sharon's
near-term goal--expulsion.
According to van Creveld, Sharon's plan is to drive 2 million
Palestinians across the Jordan using the pretext of a US attack on Iraq
or a terrorist strike in Israel. This could trigger a vast mobilization
to clear the occupied territories of Arabs. Van Creveld notes that in
the 1970 showdown between Jordan's King Hussein and the PLO, Sharon,
serving as commanding officer of Israel's southern front, argued that
Israel's assistance to the King was a mistake; instead it should have
tried to topple the Hashemite regime. Sharon has often said since that
Jordan, which has a Palestinian majority even now, is the Palestinian
state, and thus a suitable destination for Palestinians to be kicked out
of his Greater Israel.
A US attack on Iraq would offer appropriate cover. Sharon himself told
Secretary of State Colin Powell that nothing happening in Israel should
delay a US attack. Other pretexts could include an uprising in Jordan,
followed by the collapse of King Abdullah's regime.
Should such circumstances arise, according to van Creveld, Israel would
mobilize within hours. "First, the country's three ultra-modern
submarines would take up firing positions out at sea. Borders would be
closed, a news blackout imposed, and all foreign journalists rounded up
and confined to a hotel as guests of the Government. A force of 12
divisions, 11 of them armoured, plus various territorial units suitable
for occupation duties, would be deployed: five against Egypt, three
against Syria, and one opposite Lebanon. This would leave three to face
east as well as enough forces to put a tank inside every Arab-Israeli
village just in case their populations get any funny ideas."
In van Creveld's view (he does say that he is utterly opposed to any
form of "transfer"), "the expulsion of the Palestinians would require
only a few brigades. They would not drag people out of their houses but
use heavy artillery to drive them out; the damage caused to Jenin would
look like a pinprick in comparison." He discounts any effective response
from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon or Iraq.
But what about international reaction? Van Creveld thinks it would not
be an effective deterrent. "If Mr Sharon decides to go ahead, the only
country that can stop him is the United States. The US, however, regards
itself as being at war with parts of the Muslim world that have
supported Osama bin Laden. America will not necessarily object to that
world being taught a lesson--particularly if it could be as swift and
brutal as the 1967 campaign; and also particularly if it does not
disrupt the flow of oil for too long.
"Israeli military experts estimate that such a war could be over in just
eight days," van Creveld writes. "If the Arab states do not intervene,
it will end with the Palestinians expelled and Jordan in ruins. If they
do intervene, the result will be the same, with the main Arab armies
destroyed. Israel would, of course, take some casualties, especially in
the north, where its population would come under fire from Hizbollah.
However, their number would be limited and Israel would stand
triumphant, as it did in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973."
We've been warned.
Anyone looking for evidence that the death penalty should be
abolished need only look at the case of Zacarias Moussaoui, the
so-called twentieth hijacker, now on trial for his life for allegedly
I am beginning to suspect that Nation readers may not fully appreciate the challenges Attorney General John Ashcroft faces. What would you do in his place? Your intelligence agencies had no advance knowledge of the September 11 plot and don't appear to know much more about future attackers. Airport security screeners are letting test bombs and guns pass at alarming rates, and your immigration agency is so hapless that it issued visa extensions to two of the hijackers six months after they died flying planes into the World Trade Center towers. When you consider the threat from their side and the incompetence on ours, it's understandable that Ashcroft has cast his net so wide. He's shooting in the dark. In fact, the expanse of his net is probably inversely proportional to the depth of the intelligence he has received.
But just as with the terrorists themselves, understanding Ashcroft's motives does not justify his actions. To date, despite the thousands of Arab and Muslim immigrants arrested, searched, profiled and questioned, Ashcroft has charged only a single person--Zaccarias Moussaoui--with any involvement in the attacks of September 11. And he was arrested before the attacks occurred. Such broad-brush tactics are unlikely to succeed, for they give notice to potential targets, allowing them to evade detection while alienating the very communities we must work with to identify potential threats who may be living among them.
Ashcroft has shown no signs of getting closer to his target. And the less he finds, the wider he sweeps. He recently announced that he was extending to 3,000 more people his much-criticized initiative to subject male immigrants from Arab countries to "voluntary" interviews, despite the fact that the initial interviews have led to no further charges in the investigation. And having learned how easy it is to use immigration law as a pretext for criminal law enforcement when you lack probable cause, the Justice Department is now preparing to enlist local police officers to help enforce immigration law, a disastrous proposal likely to drive immigrant communities even deeper underground.
The lengths to which Ashcroft will go was revealed most recently by his indictment of Lynne Stewart, a 62-year-old New York attorney who has made a career of courageously taking on clients for whom few other lawyers are willing to risk their reputations. Her most notorious such case was defending Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman in his 1995 criminal trial for conspiring to bomb the tunnels into Manhattan. Now she's charged with providing "material support" to the sheik's organization, the Egypt-based Islamic Group, largely by abetting communications between the sheik--whom prison regulations prohibit from communicating with virtually anyone in the outside world--and others in the group.
The government simultaneously announced that it will make Rahman its test case for its unprecedented initiative to listen in on attorney-client communications. Confidential exchanges with lawyers have long been sacrosanct, because they are critical to any fair legal process. In the past, they could be intruded upon only with a warrant based on probable cause that the communications were intentionally furthering criminal activity, but the new regulations permit monitoring without a warrant or probable cause. But under regulations issued after September 11, the government claims the authority to monitor attorney-client communications without establishing probable cause for believing that the communications are being used for illegal ends, and without obtaining authorization from a judge.
Most troubling, Ashcroft is prosecuting Stewart although she has not been charged with furthering any illegal or violent activity of the Islamic Group, a wide-ranging Islamic political movement that engages in a great deal of lawful activity in addition to terrorism. While many have criticized the government for targeting a lawyer, of far more concern is its criminalization of speech and associations having no connection to terrorism. Unable to link Stewart to any actual terrorist activity in any way, Ashcroft has resorted to guilt by association. As a US citizen, Stewart will at least have an opportunity to defend herself in a public trial. Not so the hundreds of noncitizens still being detained on immigration charges in connection with the September 11 investigation, many long after their immigration proceedings have concluded. Under orders from Ashcroft, they are being tried in secret proceedings closed to the public, press, legal observers and family members.
In a major setback for the Ashcroft agenda, US District Judge Nancy Edmunds on April 3 declared the closed proceedings unconstitutional. She ruled that open trials are a fundamental feature of our justice system and that any closure must be carried out not in the sweeping manner that Ashcroft so favors but through means narrowly tailored to protect national security interests. The government has appealed, arguing that to act in a more narrowly tailored fashion might tip off Al Qaeda to what we do and don't know. But one has to wonder whether the government's real concern isn't that opening the proceedings might tip off the public to just how wildly John Ashcroft is shooting in the dark.
While most of the media focused, with good reason, on the huge increase in military spending and dramatic cuts in domestic programs in President Bush's $2.1 trillion budget proposal for 2003, a fe
A Mexican migrant acquaintance once told me that he'd love the opportunity to brief Congress on immigration policy. Let us imagine him now, walking into the hallowed chamber, dressed in his typical migrant attire: a fading Oakland Raiders jersey, oversized bright orange painting pants, imitation Air Jordans. He wears a baseball cap with the epigram ¡qué viva México, cabrónes! rendered in red, green and white--the colors of the Mexican flag. He reaches into his well-worn backpack and pulls out some handwritten notes on crumpled sheets of paper, and begins:
First, I would like to tell the distinguished sirs and madams a bit about the migrant life. I'm from a luckless southwestern Mexican town whose timber-based economy is in tatters--no sign of economic development on the horizon, NAFTA or no. I made my first trip to the States at 13, a solo journey that included a few months of indentured servitude to a "coyote," a real cabrón. I paid off what I owed him by picking aluminum cans out of the garbage. When I finally broke free, I took to the road.
I never had a problem getting a job. With a cheap forgery of a green card, the bosses never looked twice. As the years went by, I cruised from state to state. I got married to a girl from home and soon we were on the road together, hopping back and forth across the border that supposedly separates our nations.
Beginning in the latter half of the 1990s, our border-crossings became increasingly difficult. Suddenly, you built walls on the US-Mexico border. Big ones, made of coppery steel. These you have referred to as "interdiction measures," which include programs with names like Gatekeeper, Safeguard and Hold the Line. Since 1995 as many as 1,400 migrants died on that line, pushed by your Border Patrol into the remote, deadly desert and lonely stretches of the Rio Grande.
You recently deployed the first of more than 1,600 National Guard troops along the frontiers with both Canada and Mexico, to provide "tactical" support to the other agencies on the line. The last time you put the military on the line, the result was the shooting of an 18-year-old who was out herding his goats; you did the sensible thing and pulled them out. Now they're back; so far, thankfully, they are unarmed.
I tell you that this is a dangerous situation, and yet, in the wake of September 11--when I grieved as much as if Mexico herself had been attacked--I am mindful of your security concerns. I submit to you that you cannot secure your borders alone. I humbly suggest consultations at the highest levels between the federal law-enforcement agencies of our two countries, a starting point for recognizing that American homeland security is Mexican homeland security and vice versa.
We must re-imagine the border between us. All the money you've poured into "holding the line"--some $4 billion a year for the total INS budget--does nothing of the sort. Yes, it makes it more difficult, and sometimes deadly, to cross. But we still do cross back and forth over that line.
Dear legislators, I watch CNN en Español and have been following your recent debates over immigration policy very carefully. Let us speak frankly here: You've been playing an age-old shell game--appeasing the rabid dogs of nativism but leaving the border open enough to supply labor to big business, which keeps getting you re-elected.
What a great buzz there was in the migrant communities before 9/11! You were speaking (well, some of you) about an amnesty--pardon me, a regularization--of the immigration status of the nearly 9 million estimated "illegals" in your midst. Then for several months you shied away from such discussions. But now your President is on his way to Latin America, and he will meet with my President. It is clear to us, the migrants, that these men want to see some movement on the issue--Bush, to bolster his standing among Latinos and his business cronies, and Fox, to please paisanos like me--but this makes many of you uncomfortable. I know why. It's Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Now, I might look a bit like Caliban (especially in these surroundings), but I'm no Taliban, no terrorist! What are my weapons? Leaf blowers and dishrags?
You must place regularization and some version of a "guestworker" program back on the fast track. Everybody wins with real reform: Your labor-hungry industries will be happy, and you might even get some of that coveted Hispanic vote. But you need to understand one thing: We migrants will not accept any kind of program modeled on the infamous, exploitative Bracero Program. Braceros, my grandfather among them, had no right to leave an abusive boss, had no recourse to better their working conditions and wages, could not join unions. The guestworker program of the new century must give us the rights that all American workers enjoy. And there must be a mechanism for affording those workers who spend, say, six years living and working in your country the opportunity for permanent legal status.
When Vicente Fox rose to power two years ago, he made a statement that caused you much anxiety: He foresaw the border between the United States and Mexico disappearing within a decade. I tell you today that this prophecy will come to pass. There are no lines in nature, dear sirs and madams. The fact that I am here before you today proves that this is so. I thank you for your kind consideration in allowing me to speak before you today. ¡Qué vivan los mojados! Long live the migrants!


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The Dow Jones Industrial Average pulled back 24.49 points, or 0.2%, to 13114.59, declining for a third-straight session. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index fell 6.83 points, or 0.5%, to 1419.83. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 22.44 points, or 0.7%, to 2990.16.
Consumer stocks lagged behind as holiday retail sales rose by the slimmest margin since 2008, according to MasterCard's SpendingPulse unit. Redbook Research, another market analysis firm, reported national chain-store sales the first four weeks of December were unchanged from a month earlier, compared with a targeted increase.
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Investors awaited another round of budget talks as President Barack Obama planned to return to Washington, cutting his Christmas vacation short. Later this week, discussions toward averting the fiscal cliff—a set of tax increases and spending cuts set to go into effect starting in January unless lawmakers can come up with an alternate plan—are set to resume.
On the economic front, the S&P Case-Shiller 20-City home prices index for October rose more economists expected. A reading on manufacturing activity in the central Atlantic region showed slower expansion this month than in November, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reported.
Most European markets were closed, while Asian markets traded broadly higher for a second-straight session. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average ran up 1.5% on Wednesday to a nine-month high, after climbing 1.4% on Tuesday, with continued yen weakness boosting exporter shares. China's Shanghai Composite added 0.3% to reach the highest closing level in nearly six months, after surging 2.5% on Tuesday.
Crude-oil futures for February delivery jumped 2.7% to settle at $90.98 a barrel, the biggest daily percentage increase since Nov. 19. December gold futures rose 0.1% to settle at $1,659.80 an ounce. The dollar lost ground against the euro but rallied against the yen, amid expectations that Japan's incoming prime minister will fulfill campaign promises to weaken the currency. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose in price to yield 1.758%.
Elsewhere in the corporate arena, nutritional-supplement maker Herbalife HLF +1.27% Herbalife Ltd. U.S.: NYSE $58.04 +0.73 +1.27% March 14, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.74M AFTER HOURS $58.04 0.00 0.00% March 14, 2014 7:48 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 28,436 P/E Ratio 11.29 Market Cap $5.88 Billion Dividend Yield 2.07% Rev. per Employee $689,330 03/13/14 The Senator and the Hedge Fund 03/13/14 Analyst on Herbalife: FTC Inve... 03/12/14 Federal Trade Commission Start... More quote details and news » gained after it said it is working with law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in connection with a tussle with investor William Ackman, who last week said he has made an "enormous" bet against the company.
Marvell Technology MRVL +0.51% Marvell Technology Group Ltd. U.S.: Nasdaq $15.81 +0.08 +0.51% March 14, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4.09M AFTER HOURS $15.81 -0.00 -0.02% March 14, 2014 4:29 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 5,708 P/E Ratio 23.95 Market Cap $7.78 Billion Dividend Yield 1.52% Rev. per Employee $468,990 02/20/14 Marvell Technology Profit Soar... More quote details and news » fell after a Pittsburgh jury ruled the chip company should pay Carnegie Mellon University nearly $1.17 billion for infringing patents related to data-storage technology.
Medifast shares tumbled amid news that acting chief financial officer Edward Powers plans to resign by Jan. 4, marking the second departure of a CFO from the weight-loss program provider in about a month and a half.
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Giant Step's Resident 31: Pete Rock, N.E.R.D., Raphael Saadiq, Kelis
October 20th, 2008Photo from Pete Rock at Hudson (c) Bartek Radwan
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The most authentic thing about Sex and the City is all the bitchy conversations New Yorkers have about relationships. Every single time I venture out for dranky dranks, the talk always turns to how batty single people are and how dating in New York is like lighting your head on fire. There's the girl whose ex-boyfriend used to beg her to go to crappy parties and then ignore her while he danced with other girls. There's the guy who freaked out and sent his lady friend home in a cab when she received a text message after midnight. And then there are my poor guy friends who, no matter how fugly or partially unemployed, always end up swatting away giggly girls who furiously claw at their nether-regions simply because they're single. Yeah, boo hoo. Anyway, finding a meaningful relationship in NYC is like trying not to laugh during a Sarah Palin speech. But for knuckleheaded dreamers like myself, that doesn't dull the chase.
And that's why Pete Rock's recent Giant Step throwdown at the Hudson was double the fun. Everyone there was simply too attractive. Men with velvet blazers were sipping cocktails like they were born with a pinky ring. I spent most of the time nursing a red wine and making eyes with the fellers (I'm too much of a loony tunes to actually talk to boy people). Pete Rock was getting all House Party 2 with it, blasting Johnny Kemp and TLC like it ain't no thang. Despite his groovy, soulful album offerings, as a DJ he's usually good for a boot-stomping, ashy-knuckle, Boyz N The Hood type of time. But I liked the switch up because pajammy jams are like totally more fun than drive-by shootings.
Also high on the funness scale is Raphael Saadiq. Raphael touched down at SOBs for his last New York performance of the year. He's one of the few artists that I just become a drooling mess for. Me at a Raphael Saadiq concert is just this sad mix of two-stepping and screaming. Raphael takes the stage and then I'm just bellowing foolishness for the next 40 minutes: "Oh my god, he's doing a rock version of "Be Here!" Oh snap! He just mixed "Get Involved" with "Feels Good!" Is that a 12-minute reprise of "Sky, Can You Hear Me?!" Yes, dear god encore!" Then I mouth the lyrics like he's talking to me, impale other people's feet with my stilettos and steal posters. I'm that person. And it feels great.
Another semi-authentic thingy about Sex and the City is getting into that party. Last week, one of the places to be was arguably the N.E.R.D. and Nas throwdown sponsored by Smirnoff at Capitale. I used to constantly hit up these corporate ragers, knocking back cocktails and hi-fiving the typical group of industry ankle-biters who crowd these things. I stopped going to these events because there is always an infestation of people at the door trying to get in. The crowd was also this goofy mix of ruddy, balding corporate fatheads and shallow, downtown hip hop fatheads. However, all was forgotten when N.E.R.D. took the stage and did their "I'm wild at 35!" dilettante rock. Nas is talented and all but he has the stage presence of a brick of cheddar. But he did get my attention when he brought out Kelis to sing "If I Ruled The World." She wandered out, drink in hand, and listlessly crooned the chorus before kissing Nas and wandering off as unceremoniously as she came. Yes, honey, it's late and we've all seen this pony's tricks before. But at least you got into the party and you've got a man. Some of us are making careers chasing both.


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Fri, 11/12/2009 - 10:03 — Petzl NewsThe TIKKA² contest has been up and running for more than a month now. We've received many great submissions and not all the great ones won the weekly popular online vote.
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The third group of YEP says goodbye to Borneo
Mon, 16/11/2009 - 15:46 — Petzl NewsThe newest Young Explorers return home to spread Pangaea's message, while South African explorer Mike Horn sails on to new horizons in the fight for nature.
"All we want to show you is that anything is possible. I have given you a key: the door is open, so walk through it."
Xavier De Le Rue in Antarctica: Drake passage... check!
Fri, 13/11/2009 - 08:52 — Petzl NewsXavier De Le Rue, in expedition to Antarctica, shares his first impressions through this testimony and these striking images:
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New Next Gen Macbook Pro
Posted: June 12, 2012 | Author: usabilitygal | Filed under: Design, Mobile, UI, Usability, UX (User Experience) | Tags: Apple, interaction, Interface, ios 6, ios6, laptop, Mobile, next gen macbook pro, next generation macbook pro, retina display macbook pro, Usability, user experience |3 Comments"It's without doubt the best computer we've ever built!"
If you're an Apple fan then you're probably feeling pretty excited right now. WWDC was held yesterday (you can watch it here) and Apple have finally launched the next generation of Macbook Pros. Thankfully they've met and exceeded most people's expectations, with the new Macbook Pro showing off an incredibly slim casing, superb retina display, high performance and attention to little details such as the lowering the noise of the fan (yes seriously!). I don't know of any company that would value the user experience to such detail.
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It's very impressive and I'm already reaching for my purse. The question is whether to wait until July which is when Mountain Lion is released. There's a free upgrade for anyone purchasing the Pro if you buy now, or like my other half plans to do, you could wait until next month which also gives Apple some time to solve any issues there may be with the new hardware design.
I'm not as impressed with iOS 6. It may surprise you to know that I've never owned an Apple mobile, despite my love of all things Apple (well, except iTunes which needs a complete redesign). For most people, their mobile is an extension of themselves, of their own personality. I find the iPhone form factor to be quite masculine. It feels expensive and high quality but I just can't connect with it. There is one thing that keeps pulling me to Android and that is Widgets. As far as user experience is concerned they enable a shorter, more efficient and effective interaction. I can simply turn on my backlight and I instantly know the weather, the latest news, read a note to myself (usefulness), and I can see a photo of my other half with the cats (emotional attachment, love). It all adds up to a nice experience. iOS may have better usability and apps than Android, but I personally believe they need to add more fun, emotion, usefulness and wow factors into their mobile desktop to have increased emotional appeal.
Getting back to the new Macbook Pro, here are a few quotes from WWDC relating to User Experience that I wholeheartedly agree with.
"To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again and I think with great intent you disconnect from the past."
"If you never change anything then what you can engineer is kind of incremental. But when you're willing to change things then you kind of open up a whole new world of design."
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Interesting, that you prefer Android for its emotional appeal. Can you say what android-phones you had so far? Because the experience extremely depends on the manufacturer and the model. I use a HTC Desire and the internal memory of 512 MB is much too low to install more than a handful of apps, which is extremely deteriorating the experience.
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Hi Andreas, I have the Galaxy S and I'm currently deciding between upgrading to the S3 or waiting until the iPhone 5. I find widgets incredibly useful and there are only 2 things that are a temptation for me with the iPhone. One is there are more apps available and two, synching my Android with my Apple calendar and emails was a real pain. I need to do a bit of research, but if synching the S3 with Apple isn't too much of a headache I'll go with the S3. Have you seen the leaked images and video of iPhone 5?


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Brevan Howard posts poor returns in flagship fund, emerging markets
NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, one of the world's largest hedge fund firms with $40 billion in assets, is posting lackluster performance in its flagship fund and heavy losses in its emerging market portfolio.
Two people familiar with the numbers said on Thursday that the flagship, the roughly $28 billion Brevan Howard Master Fund, is virtually unchanged for the year as of Oct. 4. The portfolio, the firm's largest and making macro economic bets, was up about 3.8 percent as of the end of June but has been declining since.
The Europe-headquartered Brevan Howard, which has offices around the world including New York, has not been immune to the roller coaster sell-off in U.S. Treasuries.
Like other hedge funds that bet heavily on changes in interest rates and bond prices, its portfolio has been hit hard the past several months by fears the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin reducing its monthly buying of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
The Brevan Howard macro portfolio's flatish performance compares to a 2 percent decline for macro-focused funds, according to Hedge Fund Research. But the portfolio lags the average 5.6 percent gain posted by all hedge fund as of Sept. 30.
The Brevan Howard Master Fund, launched in 2003, has not had a down year since its inception. A survey by research firm Preqin found that Brevan Howard was the 11th most popular hedge fund for U.S. institutional investors.
Brevan Howard has also been rocked by the sell-off in emerging market bonds and stocks, another side effect of this summer's speculation the Fed will pullback from its easy money policies to stimulate the U.S. economy that have driven investors into high-yielding investments.
The firm's dedicated emerging markets hedge fund with $2.8 billion under management is down 12 percent for the year as of Oct. 4, according to marketing material reviewed by Reuters.
The fund managed by Geraldine Sundstrom, who joined Brevan Howard in 2007, has been hit harder than most other emerging market hedge funds. The average emerging market hedge fund is up 2.07 percent this year, according to Hedge Fund Research.
Emerging markets have had a rough year, owing to a growth hiccup in China to protests in Brazil and political upheaval in Egypt. In June alone, U.S.-based EM stock funds saw $17 billion in outflows and U.S.-based EM bond funds suffered $4.24 billion of outflows.
It's not clear why Sundstrom's fund has faired worse than other emerging market funds. The Brevan Howard fund is up 1.21 percent this month, a sign it could be starting to turn things around. Indeed, the performance of Sundstrom's fund has seesawed in recent years. Last year the fund was up about 14 percent, but in 2011, it dipped 6 percent.
A person familiar with the fund said that in the past, Alan Howard, one of the firm's co-founders, has been a big believer in Sundstrom. The person said after the fund's 2011 losses, Howard allocated more money to Sundstrom's portfolio as a sign of support.
Howard is a member of the New York Fed's Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, a group of prominent money managers who periodically meet with Fed officials to discuss economic policy.
In the United States, Brevan Howard began bolstering its U.S. offices in New York, after curtailing its operations in the U.S. in 2008. The firm, according to a regulatory filing, has about 28 people in New York.
But one of its recent hires, Shelley Goldberg, a commodities strategist, already has left. Goldberg, who joined last year from Nouriel Roubini's Roubini Global Economics, left to work in so-called green energy, water and infrastructure investing.
In Europe, where most of Brevan Howard's employees are based, a number of people have left. In August, Bloomberg reported that since May at least a dozen traders have left.
Reuters reported in June that one of those traders was Luke Ding, the manager of the firm's $570 million currency fund that had struggled to gain traction since its launch.


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The belief that online and offline are largely distinct and independent realities.
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I agree with most everything he says in the column because, besides the last paragraph, his column is a antidote to digital dualism—the idea that online and offline worlds are somehow separate entities, one "virtual" and the other "real." But his column brings back digital dualism at the end—and does a disservice, in my opinion, to the rest of his points.
—Zeynep Tufekci, "Breaking Bread, Breaking Digital Dualism," Technosociology, February 8, 2012
—Zeynep Tufekci, "Breaking Bread, Breaking Digital Dualism," Technosociology, February 8, 2012
As someone who runs social media workshops in universities, I've become ever more convinced that many of the confusions which surround digital activity stem from a basic ontological misunderstanding of what online activity is. It's too frequently construed as something distinct from the 'real' world.
The reasons for this distinction, which has pithily been named digital dualism, are a fascinating question in their own right.
—Mark Carrigan, "Some quick thoughts about sociological realism and digital life," The Sociological Imagination, June 29, 2012
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The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the physical; the on- and off-line.
And some have a bias to see the digital and the physical as separate; what I am calling digital dualism. Digital dualists believe that the digital world is "virtual" and the physical world "real."
—Nathan Jurgenson, "Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality," Cyborgology, February 24, 2011
A short essay called Digital Dualism, which Google claims was published on January 31, 2001, comes close to the ideas behind the phrase as I'm defining it here, but doesn't quite get there, so it's not the earliest citation of the phrase.
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Vintage shops in NYC: the best East and West Village finds
Vintage shops are a dime a dozen in Manhattan. We found the best places to score thrifted duds, retro sunglasses and more around the Greenwich Village area.
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Not all vintage stores are created equal. In fact, a lot are full of junk. We scouted out independent shops in the East Village and West Village to find the best women's clothing and accessories retailers, bookstores and more. Get your coin purses and money clips ready; you're about to do some retro damage.
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Liza Sherman
Rifle through refinished relics you never knew you needed. This dealer creates strikingly modern benches and desks out of reclaimed metal, and also cozinc-topped llects artifacts from around the world. Browse items like a bistro table from Aix en Provence ($4,800), an original 1930s Mickey Mouse–printed Japanese kimono ($1,800, framed) and Egyptian hand-blown glass chandeliers ($5,800). Most purchases will easily top $500, but even if you're not going to buy, it's worth stopping in for inspiration alone. 212-414-2684, lizashermanantiques.com
- 37A Bedford St between Carmine and Downing Sts
Alabaster Bookshop
Pick up an early-edition Hemingway novel at Alabaster Bookshop, a rare- and used-book dealer holding the last line of defense against obsolenscence on what used to be known as Book Row. The shop has selections here range from Star Wars novels to Clifford Odets plays, which fill floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. 212-982-3550
- 122 Fourth Ave between 12th and 13th Sts
Metropolis Vintage N.Y.C.
Perfectly frayed, high-waisted Levi's shorts ($35–$50), leather jackets ($100–$300) and button-up patterned dresses ($35–$60) are ideal for accessorizing with combat boots ($90–$120). Browsing here is like going to Goodwill, except everything is the cream of the crop. Metropolis also cosponsors the Soul Clap and Dance-Off party at Brooklyn Bowl, so they know what it means to look fly and strike a Travolta. 212-358-0795, metropolisvintageonline.com
- 43 Third Ave between 9th and 10th Sts
Fabulous Fanny's
Forget surfing Warby Parker online—check out retro glasses at this vintage-eyewear shop, which specializes in styles dating from the 1700s to the modern day and has a hands-on, try-on policy. Grab eyeglasses, sunglasses in shapes like cat-eye sunglasses, Audrey-evocative rounds and even spectacles usually only seen in daguerreotypes. But please, we beg you: Skip the Wayfarers.
- 335 E 9th St, (between First and Second Aves)
The Penny Farthing
You've got glasses, books and boots, and you may have even dragged a piece of furniture all the way from the West Village. Kick back with your purchases at this wood-paneled tavern decorated with vintage bicycle wheels, the perfect comfort after a long thrift walk. If you're still feeling old-school, opt for fish and chips ($14) and a Penny Lane martini (Hendrick's gin, limeade, freshly squeezed lemon, simple syrup; $12). Some good vintage conversation topics while you chow down and imbibe: Who plays the best old-time rock & roll? Talk among yourselves.
- 103 Third Ave, (at 13th St)
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booked a hunt with pawprint for 2014 Now the wait
This is a discussion on booked a hunt with pawprint for 2014 Now the wait within the Hunting Africa forums, part of the Hunting Forums - Hunting in Africa category; Got the deposit in and dates booked with paw print for part of our 2014 hunt.Will be myself and son ...
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booked a hunt with pawprint for 2014 Now the wait
Got the deposit in and dates booked with paw print for part of our 2014 hunt.Will be myself and son with 2 friends spending 10 days with paw print.I am still looking at some other options for myself and son.Just can not decide on a place for the colored springbucks yet and maybe looking outside of SA for some hunting this trip also.I can say dealing with Pieter at paw print has been great.Looking forward to seeing what the limpo area has to show us and showing my son more of africa.Good luck to all booking there hunts for 2014 and later.
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Good for you, he has great prices! You should love the Limpopo Province.
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Bill, you should think about Jules of the Karoo for your springbuck varieties. Best in S.A. Good luck on your safari with Paw Print.It should be great!
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LOL Jules jumped right out to me as well but you beat me to the punch. Amazing animals there, his springbok program was one of the founders of quality game management in SA and one of the most successful, they hold far too many world records to argue that point.
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Thanks for the booking Bill,I am looking forward to the hunt.Agree with Jules of the Karoo,same advice I give.
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Thank all for the help on the springbuck ideas.Jules of the karoo are on the short list for sure.Also looking at kmg with marius and two others that i just started looking into more.The springbucks are more for my son to hunt and me just being there to enjoy the time with him.I may look for a cape kudu or something like that on that part of the trip.As for the buff special at paw print not sure that will be in the cards this trip or not.Will depend on what other plans I make with other places on this trip.Still thinking maybe carcal with dogs and letting my son take it with a bow also.Anyone else has any info on springbucks let me know.
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billc, good luck with your trip.
While in the Limpopo, the Crocodile River holds some fabulous Bushbuck.
I too have deposit in for 2014. Zimbabwe in August for Cape buff, but first to NZ in May for Stag and Tahr.
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Ive had the pleasure of knowing Mick for a number of years, we made music, movies, partied, chilled out, worked but best of all grown up together. Every step of the way and inspiration.
So humble. Truly inspirational. Applause.
Tears of love and inspiration flowed as I listened to the 'itchy boy'. Seldom, if ever, do you see the manifestation of completely real in a human being. Micky Smith is the very best of nature. The video is breath-taking and has left me speechless. I've been touched by an angel.
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Is this Danger Dan by any chance ?!??!?…..
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On a serious note, Mickey's work is and has been from the start OUTSTANDING!… A pretty special human being !…
Ive been lucky enough to know a few people like Micky, and all of them are among my very favorite people I have ever met. Rock on Micky.
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guy is amazingly open and natural – this is cool – that's what you get from wild,nature,lack of hitec crowd and inspiration that is given by a nature….sometimes we forget about this…. especially in big metropolis..
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Respect Mickey. Awesome words, amazing work and well deserving of coverage.
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Mickey is a legend – humble and honest. I'm gonna bust out my copies of ABC and against the grain and watch them again.
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As a struggling musician from Dorset, i totally understand that mold he's talking about as it was the same for me.
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Life changing speech…You put all my thoughts into words. You're a chill genuine dude, who knows what he loves. Glad you found it the way you did. I can't thank you enough for the inspiration. People like you can change the world, and hopefully one day I'll be one of you too.
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This video is absolutely beautiful, and M is an inspiration to us all for doing the things he loves.
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Absoloutley fantastic. He makes you step back and look at the bigger picture. So humble and down to earth. Really inspirational and a beautiful person.
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Watched "Dark Side of the Lens" last year, but had no idea he was invited to speak at Do Lectures, until now. What a treat to see him speak about his passion once again. He just seems to have the right words. Excellent and very moving talk and film.
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So glad I stumbled upon this! Such a amazing talk, done us South West boys proud! I hope one day I can be content as you. Hope to see you over summer.
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If your home, like many others, has a U-shaped staircase and you're in need of a stair lift, the AmeriGlide Platinum Curved Stair Lift is the perfect stairlift for your home. The U-shaped staircase is also referred to as a 180-degree staircase. U-shaped stair lifts are simple to manufacture and install, and with an AmeriGlide Titanium, you have the choice of whether the chair will be one the left, right, inside, or outside of the staircase. It's completely up to you.
The installation of a 180-degree stair lift is very similar to the 90-degree, but involves a few extra pieces of railing in order to make the entire U-shaped turn. Once we have taken the simple measurements needed to customize your stair lift, the stair lift will fit in perfectly with your stairs and as close to the wall as possible.
A U-shaped stair lift will incorporate two straight rail pieces connected by at least two curved rail pieces. The amount of straight and curved rail pieces is completely dependent on the size of your staircase, if there are landings, and which side the chair will be on. Rail pieces are seamlessly joined together by spirol pins after the leg bases are mounted to the stairs. Leg bases provide the height and stability needed to keep your stair lift safe.
After the leg bases and rails are in place, you have the complete shape of your curved stair lift. The carriage will need to be to be fitted onto the rails and through the skate rollers. Once the battery is connected and chargers are installed, you're ready to secure the chair to the stair lift.
Proper testing and programming is required before use, and then you're ready to use your new Platinum Stairlift! A curved stair lift is much easier and more convenient than installing two straight stair lifts, like many of our customers have done in the past.
This article does not serve as instructions for installing an AmeriGlide Platinum Curved Stair Lift, but merely description of the process. You should not attempt to install this stair lift on your own or without an experienced stair lift installer.


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