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↵Last weekend's most frightening football hit came on a puzzling game-ending Kurt Warner bullet to Anquan Boldin as the Cardinals trailed the Jets by three touchdowns. Boldin got knocked out in violent fashion. He was strapped to the old stretcher and taken to the hospital. Luckily, he quickly regain his head and the most dire worries were set aside.
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- 2 small apples, divided
- 10 whole cloves
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- Core and cut one apple into 10 slices. Insert one clove into each slice. In a Dutch oven, combine juices. Add apple slices and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until flavors are blended.
- Discard apple slices and cinnamon sticks. Core and cut remaining apple into 12 slices. Ladle cider into mugs; garnish with apple slices. Serve warm. Yield: 12 servings (3/4 cup each).
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"An antifascist who is only an antifascist is not an antifascist."
Erich Fried
On the 19th February 2011, for the second consecutive year, Europe's largest Nazi demonstration, organised on the occasion of Dresden's bombing at the end of WW2, was successfully blocked by leftist protesters. Walking through downtown Dresden in the evening, amidst the celebrations after the Nazis had given up and gone home, you had the impression the entire German left was gathered in Dresden.
While the successful blockade undoubtedly represents an uplifting, unifying and significant victory for the left, there are two questions I would like to raise that bear on the matter of making sense of this victory in a larger context.
First, the Nazis are a very convenient enemy to mobilise against, especially in Germany. This is not to downplay the very real threat they represent to foreigners and leftists. But it is not at all clear to what extent successfully rallying against the Nazis can consolidate the left in the struggle against the advances of neo-liberalism or Western foreign policy.
Secondly, while ostensibly protesting against the Nazis, the vast majority of the anti-Nazi protesters were actually engaged in clashes and cat-and-mouse games with the riot-police. That is to say, for the majority of the protesters, it was clear that no confrontation with Nazis would take place, and that, in this sense, they were actually taking part in an anti-police or anti-state protest. So the question arises whether this Nazi-Police-State hydra was just created by a conflation of circumstances on that day, or whether it corresponds to something more visceral, throbbing deep down in the entrails of German society.
The main actors were:
the (riot-)police, 4500 strong, and equipped with water cannon, teargas and truncheons
the Nazi demonstrators, numbering between 3000 and 4000 (fewer than anticipated, perhaps as a result of the successful blockade last year). After twelve months of remobilising, the Nazis were determined that nothing in heaven or earth would prevent them from marching this time round.
the anti-Nazi protesters, between 15 000 and 20 000, consisting of locals and leftists from all over Germany mobilised and brought to Dresden in bus convoys (around 300 buses) by the organisation Dresden-Nazifrei. Among the protesters were also around 3000 members of organisations such as Antifa which dedicate themselves to disrupting Nazi events nationwide and are ready to use violence to achieve their goals.
The function of (1) was to defend (2) against (3).
The main difficulty in blocking the Nazi demo was that, as late as the very morning of February 19th , it still wasn't clear where it would take place. Three or four possible locations south of the river Elbe were considered likely Nazi rallying points. The main meeting point for the anti-Nazi protesters was the south side of one of the bridges (Marienbruecke). As events unfolded, it became clear that the most important Nazi route would lead southwards down Fritz-Loeffler Strasse from the main train station. Unfortunately, most of the anti-Nazi protesters, marching in the course of the morning from the bridge meeting-point towards the main train station, ended up stuck on the wrong (north) side of the railway tracks, all ways across which were blocked by police barriers. The police had also blocked all side streets leading to the Nazi route. The decisive factor, however, was that the police were very thinly spread, due in main part to the very considerable mayhem wreaked by the Antifa groups going around erecting barricades of burning rubbish to obstruct the path of Nazi buses, trying to push through police barriers, smashing windows of police stations, etc… It was thus possible for around 500 protesters to make it through somehow or other to the Nazi route and block it. The riot-police, though outnumbered, could easily have dispersed this blockade by deploying the sophisticated technology they'd been using all day long against other protesters and Antifa groups. However, the protesters at this blockade all looked like proper citizens, there were even a few members of the Saxon parliament and at least one member of the Bundestag (Hans-Christian Stroebele). In my opinion, if Antifa groups had made it there, or if the crowd had been less middle-class in appearance, the stormtroopers would have moved in on them. In any case, the blockade was successful, and the Nazis eventually went home (via Dresden Plauen and Leipzig, I don't want to go into too many details here). As they were about to mosey off to celebrate or to go home, the Fritz-Loeffler-Strasse protesters were encircled by extra platoons of riot-police and prevented from leaving. Though many did manage to break through the barrier, about 50 were not able or willing to escape and now face criminal charges. The day was brought to a conclusion by a violent police raid on the Dresden-Nazifrei offices.
I would like to emphasise what seems to me a crucial point. Without the chaos created by the Antifa groups, the police would have been able to protect the Nazi route, and the Nazi demo would have successfully proceeded. The peaceful anti-Nazi protesters, often in groups numbering several hundred, were all helplessly stuck in side streets in front of police barriers, 15 to 20 men strong. It's the Antifa groups that had the resolve to push through or to create the havoc leading to the possibility of a breakthrough. This fact has not been mentioned by a single mainstream media article, as far as I'm aware. The Antifa groups have been portrayed basically as delinquents availing themselves of any opportunity to have a bit of fun destroying private property or assaulting defenseless riot-police (headline: 82 police injured!).
(A lot of video footage from the demo has been posted on Youtube. Just search for Dresden 19 Februar 2011.)
Ted Grant, one of the founders of the Militant Tendency in the 1960s in England, writes as follows:
"To combat the working class it is not possible for the capitalists to rely only on the old forces of repression embodied in the state machine. In modern conditions no state can last very long which does not, at least in its initial stages, possess a mass basis. A military police dictatorship does not serve the purpose. The capitalists find a way out in fascism which finds its mass support in the middle class on the basis of anti-capitalist demagogy. It is important to understand that fascism represents a mass movement: that of the disillusioned middle class." (The Menace of Fascism, 1948)
This constitutes an understanding of the nature of fascism that many Antifa members would agree with. Certainly, it is very useful when looking at Europe in the 1920s and '30s. In order to analyse what is happening in modern-day Germany, I would like to adopt Grant's definition. Accordingly, in this article the term 'fascism' will be used to denote a last resort in the class war of capitalists against a powerful left, that consists in mobilising a disillusioned middle-class by appealing to nationalist sentiment and scapegoating minorities.
Of course, the left is not powerful in Germany today (or in Europe). It does not threaten the existing political and economic structures. Nor have the business and political elites adopted a racist discourse. They do however entertain an ambiguous relationship to racist groups and racist ideology, as I hope to make clear in the following two sections. And I believe it is useful to keep in mind the above definition of fascism to understand the manifestations of this ambiguous relationship.
The left always has the potential to grow strong, mirroring as it does the natural tendency in each of us to care about others, to belong to a community, to shatter the culture of polite indifference which thrives on structures of economic inequality. As long as leftist ideas circulate, the working and middle classes together represent, as the saying goes, a sleeping giant that will always pose a latent threat to the existing structures.
The current geopolitical background is surely not reassuring to the right. I do not believe that the left in Germany (or in Europe) has gathered strength from the political momentum generated by the developments over the last decade in Latin America. Still, those developments could conceivably inspire and provide a framework for a leftist mobilisation in Europe, and recent events in North Africa no less so. (Tahrir square was very much on people's minds in Dresden on Feb 19th, as I assume it has been in Madison, Wisconsin, these past four weeks.)
The neo-liberal project of deregulation, privatisation, and cutting social spending has recently expanded in Western Europe, especially since the last financial crisis; and it is not at all clear how much the middle-class will be willing to forfeit. Certainly, the left could develop a discourse that could resonate deeply with a disillusioned middle-class, unless pre-emptive fascism is successfully deployed beforehand.
With this backdrop, consider the meaning of a Nazi-demo in Dresden. What attitude would you expect the establishment/business parties to adopt? On the one hand, the Nazis' ideology is alienating, and any open support for them would carry considerable political liabilities. On the other hand, forbidding the Nazi demo would send a clear, and hence unhelpful, message to the middle-class, making it more difficult to subsequently mobilise them against the left, should the need arise. You would thus expect class-conscious decision-makers, navigating between Scylla and Charybdis, to hem and haw and spin a web of equivocation until all issues are intractable and no-one knows right from left. Specifically, in Dresden, the tactics were on the one hand to allow the Nazi-demo on the 19th (more on this in the next section) and then, on the other, to organise a human chain against the Nazis and schedule it, considerately, on a different day (the 13th), so as not to interfere.
I propose now to look at two manifestations of pre-emptive fascism in a little more detail. The first is the decision to allow the Nazi demo, a revealing example of the contortions the establishment instinctively performs. The second is the reception of Thilo Sarrazin's book by the German mainstream. These two examples illustrate the ambiguous relationship of the establishment to racist groups and to racist ideology, respectively.
According to the law (Versammlungsgesetz), all German citizens have a right to organise and take part in a demonstration, though they must have it registered with the appropriate authorities at least two days before it takes place. It is this law, anchored in the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of assembly (Versammlungsfreiheit), that supposedly compels the city of Dresden to allow a Nazi demonstration and, if necessary, to defend it against possible disruptions.
You will have noticed that I deviously snuck a 'supposedly' into the last sentence. It seems to me that, given the circumstances, the highest administrative court of law in Saxony (Oberverwaltungsgericht in Bautzen), to which the case was referred after the usual tortuous process of appeals up the judicial ladder, could have justified denying the Nazis the right to demonstrate in Dresden. It seems very significant to me that they didn't do so. Indeed, according to the very same article of German law, the responsible authorities may forbid the demonstration if there are concrete indications that its taking place could lead to serious disturbances. This was obviously the case for the Feb 19th demo.
There are other issues involved here. One obvious question is whether constitutional rights also extend to groups whose ideology is declared to be unconstitutional. At this point, the whole debate becomes kind of surreal. The Nazi party is, of course, forbidden in Germany. Nazi paraphernalia are also forbidden, as is reading or owning 'Mein Kampf', no matter how high Churchill's esteem for it. Indeed, in 2009, of the 19,468 right-wing criminal offences registered by the police, 13,295 were "propaganda crimes", that is, fooling around with swastikas, or giving the Nazi salute, distributing pro-Nazi literature, etc… In fact, I am using the word 'Nazi' in this article, but, strictly speaking, the Nazi demo was not a Nazi demo, because there is no Nazi party in Germany. The (not-)Nazi demo was organised mainly by the NPD, which stands not for Narcissistic Personality Disorder but for Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, a political party which is, uh, let us say 'associated' with the Nazi scene, but whose official discourse avoids unequivocal rhetoric.
By the way, the NPD's position regarding foreigners in Germany is, in all essentials, indistinguishable from that of establishment business political parties such as the CDU or FDP. Their discourse basically draws the outlines of a world where hardworking Germans don't want their taxes to go towards social benefits for jobless foreigners who can't even speak German properly and who get up at noon (fuckers!) and sit on their arse all day getting drunk while their delinquent children terrorise German kids in German schools.
Getting back to the NPD, in 2001, the German federal government, under Schroeder, instigated proceedings, approved by the German legislature and supported by all main political parties except the FDP, to have the Federal Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgericht) investigate the NPD with a view to forbidding it. In 2003, these proceedings were discontinued on account of procedural irregularities. It turns out the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) had so many undercover agents within the NPD that most of the evidence gathered was deemed unusable. So the situation is that there is a consensus that the NPD should be forbidden, but we have to wait before the case is presented before the Constitutional Court again until the procedural hurdles are removed. In the mean time, the NPD can organise demos in Dresden, and if the left successfully blocks the march, that's a criminal offence since such actions infringe the NPD's constitutionally enshrined right to demonstrate.
Meanwhile, the threat posed by the Nazis is not hypothetical. According to RAA-Sachsen, an organisation which offers counseling to victims of racist or right-wing-motivated violence, there were 239 instances of assaults leading to bodily harm in Saxony in 2010. RAA-Sachsen points out that, very likely, many victims do not seek assistance out of fear or shame, so 239 is a lower bound.
In fact, during the February 19th demo, a group of Nazis attacked an alternative leftist housing project (in the district Loebtau). The assault lasted about ten minutes and part of it was even posted on Youtube. You can see for yourself that there is a police patrol-car down the road, just looking on. Obviously, protecting people in their home against Nazis was not deemed as important as preventing protesters from reaching Fritz-Loeffler Strasse: no riot-police were sent to protect the house in question.
My point is that, given the circumstances, the highest administrative court of law in Saxony could have justified forbidding the Nazi demo. Not only did they choose to allow it, the final decision was taken on the morning of the 19th and, as already mentioned, the location of the demo kept secret thus stymieing the anti-Nazi protesters.
Thilo Sarrazin is a German politician (SPD) and former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. His 2010 book "Deutschland schafft sich ab" (something like "Germany is going to the dogs") is the most popular German book on politics in a decade, and has sold over a million copies. In this book, Sarrazin makes the following points:
The social costs of Muslim immigration are much higher than the resulting economic gains.
Turks and Arabs make like effort to learn German. This is a manifestation of their lack of interest in German culture and in education in general, and of their unwillingness to integrate successfully in German society.
Intelligence is genetically inherited. It is well-known that the percentage of congenital disabilities among Turkish and Kurd immigrants is above average. Since Muslim immigrants have more children than Germans, there's a danger that the level of intelligence in Germany is going to sink.
Immigrants are disproportionately criminal.
What strikes me as particularly significant is that, in a book about immigrants in Germany, the theme of genetically inherited intelligence plays an important role. You would have expected this fact alone to condemn the book to ridicule. None of Sarrazin's claims stand up to serious examination. I refer here to a dossier called 'Sarrazins Thesen auf dem Prüfstand' written by Korinna Schaefer, Coskun Canan, Benjamin Schwarze, and edited by Naika Foroutan. There's also a little booklet called 'Linke Argumente gegen rechte Hetze' published by Die Linke that goes through many of Sarrazin's claims and shows how they are contradicted by the findings of major studies such as the Gallup Coexist Index 2009.
In the German edition of Lettre International, No. 86 (2009), Sarrazin explains that 'I don't owe any respect to someone who rejects the very state he lives off, who doesn't provide for his children's education, and regularly produces new little headscarf-girls (Kopftuchmaedchen). This is the case for 70% of the Turks and 90% of the Arab population in Berlin.' Rebuked for having invented these statistics, he said that 'when you don't have a number, you have to create one that points in the right direction, and when nobody can disprove your figure, then your estimate has asserted itself.' (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Heft 10, 2010)
So we've got this bitter old guy writing a racist book. Big deal! Well, it is a big deal, because of its reception in Germany. Commentary in the mainstream media has typically taken up one of the two following strategic positions:
Outright celebration of the fact that, finally, a politician has the guts to formulate what everybody was already thinking but no-one dared to say out loud. Sarrazin portrayed as nonconformist intellectual wrestling with the nation's taboos.
Some distance from all that genetics stuff in his book, but gratitude that, finally, such an important debate has been placed on center stage. Thank you Herr Sarrazin!
Outright rejection of his ravings, the only reasonable position, has featured only very marginally in the intensive debates. There was a scandal around something he said in an interview about Jews all sharing a certain gene, but in my opinion that whole media show, instead of constituting a sober challenge to his ideas, only served to further distract from the real issues at stake. For example, apart from ignoring the fact that all his 'hard science' is sheer invention and distortion, the debate never included a serious examination of the reasons why Turks and Kurds end up living in Germany, or of the role Western countries have played in enabling and supporting the repression of the Kurds in Turkey. Nonetheless, Sarrazin has managed to portray himself as the victim of a vicious media campaign. That's quite a feat when you consider that the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt (DVA), Sarrazin's publisher and subsidiary of Bertelsmann, was able to ensure that, in the weeks leading to the book's appearance, journalists were not allowed to report on it, with the notable exception of articles in Spiegel and Bild which whetted the public's appetite for Sarrazin's controversial theses, thus guaranteeing maximum positive pre-release publicity.
The result: according to an article in the Handelsblatt from September 2010, 56% of Germans believe Sarrazin is right, and 68% believe that immigrants do not show sufficient willingness to integrate.
It is a mere truism that, in a society characterised by economic and political inequality, and in times of social spending cuts, scapegoating immigrants is perceived as useful by certain sectors. The debate is shifted away from important questions whose exploration would very probably strengthen the left, and passions are inflamed by controversies whose only merit is to be compelling enough to perform this function. In the case of the Sarrazin book, the controversy was contrived by absorbing into public discourse a rhetoric rooted in racist ideology. A highly publicised engagement with such rhetoric on its own terms, no matter how critical, validates and legitimises the values and ideology this rhetoric incarnates, giving them official imprimatur and investing them with respectability and a priori plausibility.
When political parties such as the FDP and the CDU, many of whose prominent members have actively participated in the Sarrazin debate thus implicitly subscribing to its ideological framework, support the Nazis' right to demonstrate and then organise a human-chain on a different day from the Nazi-demo, one has the right to be suspicious about their intentions. It seems plausible that their main concern was to perform the balancing-act of opposing the efforts to block the Nazi-demo whilst giving the appearance of distancing themselves from it. After the demo had been successfully blocked by the left, they tried to instrumentalise the events as much as possible to discredit and vilify the left, with the vast majority of pundits in the mainstream media expressing outrage at the violent clashes between leftists and police. You got the impression everything was just fine until leftist hooligans descended on Dresden to wreak havoc.
The Nazi demos in Dresden started in the late 1990s, and reached a first landmark with around 5000 demonstrators in 2005, the year the NPD won their first seats in the Saxon parliament. The demos grew from year to year until 2009 when 7000 Nazis marched through Dresden. Thanks to the successful 2010 blockade they were down to fewer than 4000 this year. What will happen next year? Will the Nazi-demo be allowed again? Will the police turn up in sufficient numbers to defeat the left and the blockade?
Identifying the ambiguous relationship between the establishment and the Nazis represents an answer to the second question I asked at the outset. With respect to the first question, I hope my arguments can serve as a basis for widening the scope of the mobilisation against the Nazis to include issues that are immediately relevant to the struggle to transform the existing social structure. That is to say, by mobilising not only against the Nazis, but also against the ambiguous stance of the establishment towards them, against the reaction of the establishment to the 2011 blockade, and against other manifestations of what I have termed pre-emptive fascism, the anti-Nazi protests can be integrated within the broader agenda of the left, and they can galvanise the left by the focus and the passions they arouse, and by their success.


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A long time ago in a Hollywood far away, George Lucas is said to have offered Twentieth Century Fox the merchandising rights to his aborning space opera Star Wars in exchange for the funds needed to complete the film. The story goes that studio chieftains let the filmmaker dip deeper into the till, but hooted at the notion of tie-ins to a movie that starred a bunch of unknowns, a couple of robots, and a walking carpet.
Whatever the truth to this tale, Star Wars and its sequels defied the pessimists and minted millions at the box office. But the merchandising rights have grossed billions for Lucas, and are the foundation of his own moviemaking empire. This May, the empire struck back, with a new prequel, Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace, an asteroid field of new collectibles, and, at FAO Schwarz in Manhattan, a new second-floor shop to showcase the galactic goods.
What was once 1,500 sq. ft. (135 sq. m) of floor space as barren as the desert planet of Tatooine is now filled with shoppers eagerly combing the racks and shelves for Lucas-approved merchandise that ranges from cuff links and bedspreads to action figures and the hugely popular double-ended lightsabers. Visitors are "greeted" by near-life-size mannequins of Phantom Menace characters including Darth Maul and Queen Amidala, as a videoscreen replays clips from the film in a continuous loop. This themed universe is topped off by models of the Pod Racer and Naboo Fighter vehicles from the movie, suspended upside down from the ceiling to offer visitors a closer look at the elaborate topside detailing of the spacecraft.
Though FAO Schwarz has a half-dozen or so Star Wars shops at stores nationwide, this was the first to spotlight the prequel. With a new movie to back up their experimentation, the FAO Schwarz development team decided to throw out the first rule of retail illumination and, rather than hit the merchandise with lights, instead cloak the new shop in the velvety blackness of deep space.
If the cantina band from the original Star Wars ever needs a place to play on Fifth Avenue, this would be it. Dik Glass, senior vice president of store development at FAO Schwarz, says, "From an idea store management developed with project designer Joanne Newbold and lighting designer Marsha Stern, we agreed that this shop would have a degree of darkness, and that it would feel like the effects from the movie were present in the area, even though we did not have the time or the money to try to recreate those effects in the space."
"It's themed retail in a club setting," says Stern. She knows from both: She is a veteran at theatrical setups for FAO Schwarz, having worked with Johnson Schwinghammer on its Las Vegas showplace, and in a former incarnation was the house LD at New York's famed Palladium nightclub. The Star Wars shop was the Manhattan-based designer's first project under the banner Marsha Stern Lighting Design & Consulting Inc., and it sent her and her own personal Chewbacca, a talismanic teddy bear named Chadsworth, into hyperspace shortly after Christmas last year (read all about her adventures with Chadsworth on her website, www.msldc.com). "We began the project at the end of January, and we had to rock by the end of April so the retailers could get in and the store could open in May with the movie. Designing, fabricating, and installing--it was the whole kettle of fish."
Stern got into the swim of things quickly. "I was privy to all the materials that Joanne Newbold had; she had been to Skywalker Ranch, where very strict attention was paid to the fabrication of the replicas and costumes to be used at the shop. Her material, including an assortment of photos, gave me a thorough understanding of who the new characters were and how they and the new spaceships fit into the Star Wars mythology."
The illumination scheme helped with in-store mythmaking. "Not having the house lights on was music to my ears," she recalls. "What more could I want than a dark palette to work from? It's a battle to have 65-85fc in a room and make an effect; if you stand by the millwork in the shop you're up close to 85fc, but in the center you're in the 50-55fc range, which is quite low. The lighting complements the videoscreen and illuminates the scenic pieces, and as it moves around, your eye follows, so you note more of the environment than you would if the house lights were on."
Stern decided to enlist the aid of the Force: automated lighting. "It was a great opportunity to use it in a retail setting." But in the fast-paced, and cost-conscious, galaxy of retail design there are some mountains that not even a Jedi master can move, and a lighting budget that was halved from its original figure was one of them. Plans to use High End Systems Studio Spots(TM) were shelved, though Dataflash(R) AF1000s were tucked into the spacecraft scenic pieces. The ETC Irideon AR5 washlight was ultimately chosen, though not originally specified.
"I really wanted the AR7 spot projector, for its texturing capabilities and flexibility, but I was told it was not going to be available until fall," Stern says. "Under a very special circumstance, I purchased eight 150W AR7s back in March, and in the interim they've loaned me 16 of the 35W AR5s. As it turns out, the size and shape of the AR5s work very well; they're almost R2D2-ish, an obvious plus in this environment," she laughs.
Stern tailored other aspects of the equipment for the fanciful environment to the realities of the budget. "We respecified control from a Status Cue(R) CPU to an ETC Irideon Master Control Processor, with a DMX out, that would control everything. It works extremely well in retail due to its small size, its biggest selling point; I go to a closet in the back of the shop, open it up, and I don't see the racks anymore. I also had to respecify a dimming system to a smart DMX relay unit supplied by Lighting Management Inc. The show had to pop a bit, but this change was again more financially realistic. It was extremely fortunate that the client wanted movement, and I was lucky that ETC Irideon and High End were willing to work with me to preserve the artistic integrity of the design."
Of her design, which the LD also programmed, she says, "All of the lights are not moving all of the time, but at all times something is moving. The biggest challenge was to locate lights so that I could illuminate the set pieces, whether they were spaceships, models, or mannequins, and work with FAO Schwarz as to where store management did or did not want pieces of truss. To properly light something, you have to get at it from 360 degrees, but I couldn't plop a light down in the middle of the visual line of the video to illuminate a particular ship, and you don't want shoppers to see fixtures when they walk in, but a beautiful, broad view of the facility."
Stern settled on an H-shaped grid layout for the overhead Times Square Lighting trussing, which also holds 25 "efficient, versatile, and cute" Altman Micro-Ellipses, fitted with lamps that can switch easily from warmer to cooler looks. "There are 12 DMX-controllable relay switches that go out to 30 circuits in the room. Each box is a quad box, so I have the ability to plug multiple fixtures into one circuit, allowing a great deal of flexibility. Certain circuits go on and off, working in tandem or against one another, and the circuitry is placed throughout the room so that I can cover an object from different sides."
The largest objects are the foam-crafted spaceships, supplied by Sanford, FL-based Exoscope Design and Fabrication. Without close cooperation between Stern, Exoscope, and neon designer Patrick Nash, and a visit to the Exoscope facility for inspection, the ships, which range from 6 to 10' in length (2-3m), would not have flown in the shop. "They absolutely had to look right," the LD states. "The picture I had of the Pod Racer showed an electrical discharge running from engine to engine, which powered it, but how could I simulate that? Neon, which is flexible and relatively easy to maintain, seemed the logical choice."
"We used neon elements inside the rockets to simulate fire and smoke," says Nash, a Manhattan-based designer who has worked with Stern before and helped her choose VoltArc Technologies neon in purple, red, and blue to achieve the desired look. "We considered programming the neon with DMX, but the effect wasn't startling enough."
"I preferred a rapid on-and-off movement to double back like an electrical bolt," Stern says of the Pod Racer. "It appeared as well that there was some thrust happening, some fire from the engines, so I decided to put Dataflash AF1000s inside, and controlled them so they would work in tandem with the neon, which was encased in an acrylic sheath for safety. But despite a lot of help from High End I could not get them to perform for the 30-second duty cycle that FAO Schwarz requested; I couldn't give them more than 12-15 seconds of on time, and I swapped them out in mid-June. But I'll use them somewhere else."
Lighting the mannequins of Darth Maul and Queen Amidala had Stern seeing red. "It's stock backlighting with fluorescents, complicated by the fact that the costumes didn't appear until the eleventh hour. It was basically blind-focusing based on the pictures--I tried to bring out the 'evil' red of Darth versus the 'good' red of the queen, which has blue and pink mixed in for a subtle distinction between the two types of red." Much of the Star Wars coloring for the characters and the spaceships is from Lee Filters mounted in the Altman units.
A maintenance contract with FAO Schwarz gives Stern a Yoda-like watchfulness over the contours of her design. Difficulties in maintaining moving fixtures is one factor inhibiting their use in retail, she says. "My dream product would be something that has a 10,000-hour lamp life, the size of an AR7, and the power of a High End Cyberlight(R). But that isn't going to happen," she laughs. "The smaller the product, and the smaller the control, the greater the success will be with the end user. And the cost has got to come down; there's not a whole lot available for $2,500 or less for an automated fixture."
With sequels to the prequel to come, there are at least two big chances for the moving-light industry to gain more of a foothold in the realm of Star Wars that FAO Schwarz has opened up. Stern says the non-traditional lighting scheme has at least one big fan. "On his inaugural visit, George Lucas said he liked the technology very much."
OWNER FAO Schwarz Dik Glass, senior vice president, store development; John Thaxton, senior project manager; Joe Maer, project manager
PROJECT ARCHITECT Allen + Kilcoyne Architects Daniel Allen, principal architect; Jason Bergen; project manager
PROJECT DESIGNER J. Newbold & Associates Joanne Newbold, designer
SHOW LIGHTING DESIGNER Marsha Stern Lighting Design & Consulting Marsha Stern, principal lighting designer
SPACESHIP DESIGNERS AND FABRICATORS Exoscope Design and Fabrication Scott Freeland, principal designer
NEON DESIGNER Patrick Nash Design Patrick Nash, designer
DMX PANEL AND FLUORESCENT FIXTURE SUPPLIER Lighting Management Inc. Kurt Thomas, principal
THEATRICAL LIGHTING SUPPLIER Barbizon Inc. Jeffrey Siegel and Daniele Kiely, service division; Brian Fassett, service technician
PARTIAL LIGHTING EQUIPMENT LIST (16) ETC Irideon AR5s (25) Altman Micro-Ellipses, with Ushio lamps and Wiko Solux lamps (4) High End Systems Dataflash AF1000s (1) ETC Irideon Master Control Processor (1) ETC Response Unit 2212 (1) Lighting Control & Design Genesis 2400 Series DMX panel F32 T8/735 Octrom 4" fluorescents in all millwork 40W Osram Sylvania blacklight lamps VoltArc Technologies neon for Pod Racer and Naboo Fighter spaceships
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Blaming a lynch mob fueled by the media and political opponents, Mayor Bob Filner said goodbye to San Diego after its City Council accepted the terms for his resignation amid allegations of sexual harassment.
"It certainly was never my intention to be a mayor who went out like this," Filner said Friday as he read from handwritten notes on a yellow legal pad.
Video: Filner Resigns Part I
Calling it the toughest decision of his life, Filner said he agreed to resign even though he knows he would be vindicated if given due process in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee.
The city's first Democratic mayor voted into office in 20 years is also facing a criminal investigation by the California State Attorney General's Office, our media partner the Voice of San Diego reports.
At first, Filner blamed his own personal failures for his downfall. Then he turned defiant, describing the atmosphere around City Hall in the last six weeks as the hysteria of a lynch mob.
"Not one allegation, members of the council, has been independently verified or proven in court. I've never sexually harassed anyone," the mayor said of the numerous allegations from more than a dozen women. Filner has been accused of grabbing, groping, kissing and making crude comments to women when he was mayor and a U.S. Congressman.
He said he takes responsibility for putting the city through "a very bad time" and then moments later warned city officials of how unsubstantiated rumors quickly grew into demands for his resignation.
"I am responsible for providing the ammunition," he said. "But there are well-organized interests who have run this city for 50 years who pointed the gun; the media and their political agents pulled the trigger."
Video: Filner Resigns Part II
After several days of negotiations with city officials, Filner agreed to resign effective Aug. 30 at 5 p.m.
Councilmembers David Alvarez, Mark Kersey, Lorie Zapf, Marti Emerald, Kevin Faulconer and Council Pro Tem Sherri Lightner and Council President Todd Gloria approved the settlement after listening to an hour of public comment.
Councilmembers Myrtle Cole and Scott Sherman were not in attendance.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith presented the motion that was passed 7-0 in closed session. Read the agreement here
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Filner's voice grew shakey and he appeared visibly emotional when he addressed his former fiancee Bronwyn Ingram. "I love you very much," he said. "I personally apologize for the hurt that I have caused you Bronwyn." Ingram broke off their engagement just days before the allegations of improper behavior were launched by longtime supporters Donna Frye, Cory Briggs and Marco Gonzalez.
Filner apologized to citizens for the scandal that has consumed the city for two months and had something to say to his accusers who included a retired Navy admiral, a City Hall volunteer, a Marine wounded in combat, a Veterans affairs nurse and a university dean.
"To all the women that I've offended. I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships. But the combination of akwardness and hubris led to behavior that many found offensive," he said.
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents former mayor's communication director Irene McCormack Jackson, commended her client for being the first of more than a dozen women to come forward.
In a written statement, Allred said Filner "continues to live in his own reality."
She also shared this reaction from McCormack Jackson:
"I'm relieved the City has rid itself of Bob Filner so that he will not be in a position to prey on any more women. My thoughts are with the courageous women, who because they spoke out, galvanized the residents of this great city and its elected leaders to rise up against a serial sexual harasser and a gross abuser of power. Bye bye, Bob. You will not be missed"
Video: Filner Resigns Part III
Throughout his speech, some of Filner's supporters would interrupt him with comments or applause. He turned to the audience in council chambers, apologized to those who still backed him and asked them to carry on with his progressive vision for the city.
Filner offered the warning, "the fight for control of this city has become vicious and bloody."
Supporters stood and applauded Filner as he concluded.
"It's a sad day for San Diego but like the Mayor said the fight goes on. We have hope," supporter Philip Liburd said after the council session.
Councilmembers offered their thoughts on the scandal and the agreement and shared a common theme - it's time for the city to move forward.
"This is not the time to be trumpeting a partisan victory, or dancing on Bob Filner's political grave," Briggs, Frye and Gonzales said in a written statement Friday "We have not "won" anything, as our entire community has suffered dearly, and in a way that transcends politics."
Video: Filner Resigns Part IV
Approximately 40 people spoke in the council chambers on the 12th floor of City Hall, 202 C Street downtown.
One of the mayor's accusers, Laura Fink, spoke in favor of an immediate resignation. Watch Video
"I hope that you will weigh carefully the offer that is before you and ask yourselves not only what the cost of resignation will be but the cost to each of us of enabling Mayor Filner to remain in office indefinitely," Fink said.
Rachel Laing with the Recall Bob Filner effort told the council that more than 1,200 volunteers have collected more than 20,000 signatures in just five days. Watch Video
"As citizens we have the right to vote and we have the right to recall," said Mike McCormack, brother of the former mayor's office employee who has filed the sexual harassment suit. "Please be confident that the people of San Diego will successfully recall Bob Filner."
"You have failed us. This media circus behind us is because of you. When you did the strong mayor charter and you didn't figure out how you would be able to impeach a mayor," recall organizer Stampp Corbin told the council. Watch Video
"I trust that you have brought forward a recommendation that you think is in the community's best interest," said Lani Lutar, former president of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. "There is no option in which the taxpayers will not have to pay."
Community activist Enrique Morones called the process a lynching, an execution and a kangaroo court then recalled the words of his late father, " We will always remember those who stood with us, we will always remember those who stood against us but we will especially remember those that stood by and said nothing."
"Bob Filner is a very good person," said Sherman Heights resident Maria Ochoa through a translator. "Where is the justice? Who is behind all of this?"
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As for the councilmembers who were absent Friday, a spokesperson said Councilmember Scott Sherman "had a long standing family obligation that couldn't be rescheduled." A spokesperson for Councilmember Myrtle Cole said Cole is attending an educational conference in Washington D.C. that has been scheduled for several months.
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For more than six years, the Fort Campbell and Oak Grove community has heard talk of a new mall that could truly change the area.
With some neighbors having long given up hope that mall would ever be built, the city has finally announced construction starts Monday.
"I saw them ground break it a long time ago, so I was wondering if they're going to do anything," said neighbor Betty Larmore.
Just down Fort Campbell Boulevard across from Gate 7 are bold letters on a sign reading, 'Coming Soon'. Some Oak Grove residents didn't think that promise would ever happen.
"I was wondering when we were going to get it," said neighbor Diana Wilmoth. "It's been years now."
Speaking by phone, former Senator Joey Pendleton said he's been supporting the idea for a 110-acre Oak Grove mall for more than six years.
"We're trying to give something to our military, give them a place to go for entertainment, restaurants and a better quality of life," said Pendleton.
Pendleton added the project could bring more than 5,000 jobs to the area.
"I see a lot of people who are in need of work, so increasing that is imperative for this area right here," said Wilmoth.
According to Pendleton, the project's taken years because it's the only of its kind in Kentucky.
Mother-of-three Wilmoth said she's ready to see the construction next door.
"My husband's deployed right now, and I'm also a reservist, so I know what it's like to be in a military family," she explained. "Sometimes we don't have time to do anything. Having it closer to us would allow us to spend more time together as a couple and also as a family."
Other neighbors are voicing concerns over the increased traffic the mall will bring along Fort Campbell Boulevard.
For Wilmoth, 'Coming Soon' is an exciting promise.
"I think the good things outweigh the bad," she said.
Pendleton added, the projected $385 million price tag that comes with Oak Grove Village will be paid for with a tax increment funding plan. In it, 80 percent of taxes created by businesses in the new mall will go toward the construction costs.
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A new controversy could be brewing in the Indian aviation industry. This follows the Indian Government allowing foreign airlines to operate the Boeing 747-800 aircraft to India but denying them permission to operate the Airbus A380 aircraft in Indian skies.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation lists both the new aircraft as 'Code F' aircraft, which means that they are much bigger aircraft both by length and wing span compared with any other aircraft flying internationally.
Cashing in on the Government's decision, German airline Lufthansa has announced that it will start operating the Boeing 747-800 to Delhi in the first week of August.
However, there are also a host of international airlines which are keen to get the A380 into Indian skies. These include Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Emirates, except that they do not know when the Government will allow that.
When both the aircraft are Code F, why should only one be allowed?
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The Government has its reasons for following this approach. A senior official of the Ministry of Civil Aviation told Business Line that the A380 was not being allowed in Indian skies because the aircraft is capable of carrying over 500 people in one flight.
However, the argument of the large number of passengers that can fly in a single A380 flight does not make sense. The Airbus Web site shows that in a typical three-class seating, the A380 can accommodate 525 people. In comparison, the Boeing Web site shows that in a similar configuration the Boeing 747-800 will seat 467 — that is a difference of 58 seats between the two aircraft. Moreover, even the Boeing 747-400, which is flying in Indian skies, can carry over 400 passengers in a single flight. The argument about numbers also sounds hollow because of another reason — at the moment, Singapore Airlines is carrying only between 409 and 471 passengers on its A380 flights elsewhere in the world, while Emirates is carrying between 489 and 517 passengers in a flight.
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Of course, industry watchers and international airlines have their own explanations for the Government's attitude. According to them, it is fear of competition which is forcing Indian carriers to lobby with the Government to keep the A380 out.
This makes sense, because even Emirates is looking at flying the A380 into India even though this will mean that it will have to cut down on the number of daily flights that it operates — one of the reasons why the Dubai-based airline has caught the fancy of Indian passengers. From Delhi alone the airline operates four times a day to Dubai and then offers connections to pretty much any part of the world.
Many others feel that allowing the Boeing 747-800 to fly in Indian skies could be because the Boeing 747 family of aircraft have been flying in India for several years, while the A380 is a new aircraft which entered service only five years ago.
Small airports
The other issue that is highlighted by official sources is the number of airports in India which can handle the A380. At the moment, there are only a handful of airports, including Delhi and Hyderabad, which can handle a Code F aircraft.
This again does not make much sense because if an airport can handle the other Code F aircraft, the Boeing 747-800, then it can also handle the A380. Also, the A380 has landed in Indian airports on more than one occasion without any problems.
Moreover, the Government's long-term vision was getting these aircraft into Indian skies and that is why a lot of investment has been made at various airports in aerobridges, catering trucks and personnel training so that they can handle these aircraft. Allowing the A380 will mean better use of these assets which have been created at airports such as Delhi.
Clearly, the Government is not looking at things the way most of the aviation industry is. And till it does, it is flyers in India who will not get to experience the comforts of the new aircraft.


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Microdermabrasion is a popular cosmetic procedure because it works on both the outer layer of the skin (called the epidermis) as well as the deep layer of the skin (the dermis).
There are two basic types of microdermabrasion - crystal microdermabrasion and diamond microdermabrasion. They both offer similar benefits, but the mechanism between the two is different.
Crystal MicrodermabrasionCrystal microdermabrasion, sometimes called microcrystal dermabrasion, is the form of microdermabrasion that originally came to the United States from Europe. It is still the most popular type of microdermabrasion.
During a treatment, super-fine crystals are sent from a receptacle on the microdermabrasion machine, through a tube, and to a glass or stainless steel wand. Via the wand, the crystals are sprayed over the skin (think of it as controlled sandblasting).
The crystals and exfoliated skin particles are simultaneously vacuumed away through the same wand. Used crystals are sent to a second receptacle on the machine, and are discarded after the procedure.
Aluminum oxide (corundum) crystals are typically used, because they are nearly as hard as diamonds. Magnesium oxide, sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), and even sodium chloride (salt) crystals are sometimes used as well.
Diamond MicrodermabrasionDiamond microdermabrasion is a newer procedure, but one that is quickly gaining popularity as a crystal-free microdermabrasion option.
Instead of using crystals to exfoliate the skin, a wand with a diamond-encrusted tip is passed over the skin. The diamond tip abrades the skin and, like the crystal version, the exfoliated particles are then vacuumed away through the same wand.
Effects of MicrodermabrasionBoth forms of microdermabrasion work similarly. The skin is deeply exfoliated by the crystals or the diamond tip, so it feels softer and smoother immediately after treatment. The exfoliation also helps reduce the formation of comedones and brightens the complexion.
The suction aspect of the treatment is as vital as the exfoliation itself (it isn't just helpful in sucking away exfoliated skin.) Called negative pressure in pro-speak, the suction stimulates the dermis, causing a remodeling process to occur.
Microdermabrasion triggers a wound response in the skin. As the skin repairs itself, it becomes thicker, smoother, more elastic, and looks healthier as a result.
Some people prefer diamond microdermabrasion because of the lack of crystals. Breathing in aluminum oxide crystals can be irritating, and can cause short-term breathing problems.
Because the microdermabrasion wand forms a closed loop system, the crystals are generally being suctioned back into the machine and not spraying out into the air to be inhaled. Good practitioners limit their clients' exposure to the crystals, so don't let this scare you away from having a treatment done.
Video: See a Microdermabrasion Treatment
Freedman Bruce, Rueda-Pedraza E, Waddell S. "The Epidermal and Dermal Changes Associated with Microdermabrasion." Dermatologic Surgery 27 (2001):1031-1034.
Karimipour DJ, Kang S, Johnson TM, Orringer JS, Hamilton T, Hammerberg C, Voorhees JJ, Fisher G. "Microdermabrasion with and without aluminum oxide crystal abrasion: a comparative molecular analysis of dermal remodeling." J Am Acad Dermatol. 2006 Mar;54(3):405-10. Epub 2006 Jan 23.
Kim HS, Lim SH, Song JY, Kim MY, Lee JH, Park JG, Kim HO, Park YM. "Skin barrier function recover after diamond microdermabrasion." J Dermatol. 2009 Oct;36(10):529-33.
Rajan P, Grimes PE. 'Skin barrier changes induced by aluminum oxide and sodium chloride microdermabrasion." Dermatol Surg. 2002 May;28(5):390-3.
Shpall R, Beddingfield FC, Watson D, Lask GP. "Microdermabrasion: a review." Facial Plast Surg. 2004; 20(1):47-50.


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After some sparring back and forth over the offseason, the Matt Forte and the Chicago Bears finally came together on a longterm contract Monday that would pay the running back around $8 million per season. Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the deal also includes a nice guaranteed sum for Forte.
BREAKING: #Bears RB @MattForte22 will receive over $18 million in guarantees, according to source close to the situation.— Sean Jensen (@seankjensen) July 16, 2012
The Bears had until 4 p.m. ET on Monday to get a deal done before Forte would be forced to play under the team's franchise tag. Instead, he now has the security of a four-year deal. The Bears, in turn, get a key piece of their offense back happy. Forte's deal should just about wrap up what has been an eventful offseason for the Bears. They also signed wide receiver Brandon Marshall and running back Michael Bush.
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The Texas Rangers are probably really, really wishing they had signed Josh Hamilton to a contract extension before the 2012 season began.
If Hamilton keeps up his current pace -- which, of course, is nearly impossible -- or even something close to it, he'll be in line for an enormous payday as he enters free agency this fall.
Hamilton hit two more home runs in Friday night's rain-delayed 10-3 Rangers win over the Angels. That gave him, at the time he hit the second of those homers in the fourth inning, eight home runs in his previous 17 at-bats.
Read that again. Not eight homers in 17 games, which would be impressive enough. Eight homers in 17 at-bats, a home run in nearly half of his trips to the plate over five games. In those five games, Hamilton is 11-for-21 (.524) with a double, the eight homers, four walks (including an intentional pass to load the bases in the sixth inning with another power hitter, Adrian Beltre, due up; Beltre flew out to end the inning) and 14 RBI. All of this has resulted in a line of .524/.600/1.714, a 2.314 OPS, in those five games.
But wait! There's more! Hamilton's 17 home runs over his team's first 33 games tied a major league record, first set by Cy Williams of the Phillies in 1923 (Williams wound up with 41 home runs), later tied by Frank Howard of the Senators in 1968 (Howard finished with 44). Both Williams and Howard led their leagues.
Which Hamilton will likely do as well; he's currently leading the AL in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, home runs, RBI and total bases. He's outhomered one entire team (the Padres, who have 13) and isn't too far behind the Cubs and Twins, who have 19.
Watching from the other dugout Friday night was Albert Pujols, who signed one of those huge deals before this season and might have been expected to do what Hamilton has. Instead, Pujols took another 0-for-4 Friday and is hitting .192. In the immortal "word" of former major league pitcher Joaquin Andujar, "youneverknow".


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Studio co-owner Jody Hirsch said, "As a small business, we feel very much a part of the community and this is our way of giving something back. It's who we are and it gives us a lot of joy."
The center donated the facility for two hours and instructor Suzi Tipa of Millwood donated her time. Coles Market donated food for the participants and all money raised goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.


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For the second straight start, Tim Hudson had one ineffective inning, and the offense couldn't buy a run-scoring hit in the late innings as the Braves suffer a disappointing end to a 10-game road trip with a 5-3 loss to the Diamondbacks.
Eric Chavez would be the villain-du-jour in the game; he started the scoring with an RBI single in the first to score Paul Goldschmidt, who had three hits in the game. Atlanta would tie the score against Ian Kennedy in the third inning when Freddie Freeman drew a bases-loaded walk. Freeman would later give Atlanta the lead in the top of the fifth with a two-run double.
That lead would quickly evaporate in the bottom of the inning. A one-out walk to pinch-hitter Jason Kubel followed by Gerardo Parra's single gave Didi Gregorius the opportunity to drive in Kubel, cutting the lead to one. Hudson struck out Goldschmidt and had two strikes on Chavez, but the Arizona third baseman doubled home both runners to give the D-backs the lead. Cody Ross contributed a run-scoring single, increasing the lead to two.
The game was still winnable for the Braves offense, and they had ample opportunities against Arizona's bullpen. Atlanta put two runners on base in each of the next three innings, but no one could get the big hit when he needed to. The offense left seven runners on base after the fifth inning, 12 in total, in Atlanta's sixth loss of a 10-game road trip. Freeman's fifth-inning double was Atlanta's lone hit in 11 tries with runners in scoring position.


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Cpl Anne-Marie Ellement inquest: she was "devastated" over decision not to prosecute soldiers after rape claim, sister tells inquest
Updated 4:56pm Monday 3rd February 2014 in News
A ROYAL Military Police officer from Bournemouth was found hanging in her barracks two years after alleging she had been raped by two soldiers, an inquest heard today.
Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, 30, was found at Bulford Barracks near Salisbury on October 9 2011.
Cpl Ellement's sister, Sharon Hardy, told the inquest in Salisbury that she had been left "absolutely devastated'' by the decision by military investigators not to prosecute the two soldiers who she claimed had raped her in November 2009, while she was posted in Germany.
Mrs Hardy, 44, told the inquest that her sister rang her from Germany to tell her of the allegation.
"She was absolutely traumatised,'' Mrs Hardy, a married mother of four from Christchurch, said.
Cpl Ellement returned to the UK on compassionate leave and spent Christmas with her sister and her family.
"She was devastated. She looked worn-out and she had lost weight - she looked awful,'' Mrs Hardy said.
"She kept a lot back because I think she was embarrassed about what happened. She was dreading going back to Germany.
"Anne-Marie was confident those soldiers would be charged and I was not going to tell a victim they may not be charged.
"She was really frightened about going back to Germany because she didn't know what to expect.''
Mrs Hardy said one female soldier supplied a statement to investigators supporting Cpl Ellement's allegations but changed it after befriending the girlfriend of one of the soldiers she was accusing of rape.
"She told me that the girls had started to turn on her. She lost the support network that she thought she had when she was sent on compassionate leave,'' Mrs Hardy said.
"The girls were running up and down the corridor screaming 'There's the girl that cried rape', banging on her door.
"All that I could do was try and reassure her that once they were charged everything would be OK.''
Mrs Hardy said her sister was "absolutely devastated'' at learning the two servicemen , who are known only as Soldier A and Soldier B at the inquest, would not be charged.
"Anne-Marie was absolutely devastated. She could not believe it,'' she said.
"She was 110 per cent certain what had happened to her and her being in the Royal Military Police and the fact they were not taking her allegations seriously.
"She said to me 'They got away with it. They are trying to uphold the law but they have got away with it'.
"She was so strong and she believed what they did was wrong. She was not happy and she wanted justice.''
An inquest in March 2012 recorded a conclusion that Cpl Ellement, originally from Bournemouth, took her own life.
But last August the High Court ordered a fresh hearing, which began today and is expected to last at least two weeks.


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New nature reserve provides sanctuary for threatened Siberian Taimen
The Wild Salmon Center (WSC), Khabarovsk Wildlife Foundation (KWF), and other partners have succeeded in winning approval for the creation of the Tugursky Nature Reserve, which will protect nearly 80,000 acres of critical habitat within the Tugur Watershed in the Russian Far East's Khabarovsk Region. A regional decree was signed by the Governor of Khabarovsk to establish the Reserve. …
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Madagascar's reptiles: Highly threatened but not yet over the edge
Reptiles are among Madagascar's most bewildering creatures but nearly 40% of them are facing an elevated risk of extinction according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. A study published today in the journal PLOS ONE says that successful management of Madagascar's protected areas is crucial to the survival of many of these species. …
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Between a gill net and a hard place: more pressure on Vaquita
The world's smallest cetacean, the Critically Endangered Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), is facing its most daunting challenge yet. Despite decades of conservation work to protect this porpoise in its limited habitat in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, an unlikely but illegal trade in wildlife has arisen all to quickly. Chinese demand for the swim bladder of another threatened species- the totoaba fish (Totoaba macdonaldi) is now accelerating the slide toward extinction for this species of porpoise. …
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Know the enemy: lessons from the labs on Galapagos
It may be a little unfair to wage war on a fly. But for SOS grantee and IUCN Member, Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), Philornis downsi, deserves it. This parasitic insect is in the unfortunate situation of being an invasive species – a relative newcomer to the Galapagos islands, and one whose own ecological niche is threatening the survival of endemic bird species. Particularly at risk are Darwin's famed finches – especially the Critically Endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). …
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True Grit: life on the trail of the rosewood poachers
Marking World Ranger Day 31 July 2014, SOS – Save Our Species wishes to bring you to the frontline of conservation. Talking with Chaloaw Kotud, Enforcement Ranger Patrol Team Leader at Thap Lan National Park, Thailand we highlight the work of the unsung heroes worldwide who are charged with protecting our wild heritage. …
30 Jul 2014 | News story
El número creciente de muertes de guardaparques exige leyes más estrictas
Siendo los cazadores furtivos responsables de más de la mitad de las muertes de guardaparques en los últimos dos años, la UICN, Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, y la Federación Internacional de Guardaparques (IRF) instan a tomar medidas más enérgicas contra la delincuencia relativa a la vida silvestre en el mundo entero, en oportunidad del Día Mundial del Guardaparque que se celebra el 31 de julio en todo el mundo. … | English | French
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World Tiger Day - New hope despite the numbers?
It is a curious thing that there are more tigers in captivity than in the wild right now as we mark World Tiger Day. According to estimates as few as 3000 roam the wilds of the 13 tiger range countries of Asia. That's a big area and a very low number. In fact we have lost 97% of all wild tigers in a little more than 100 years. …
29 Jul 2014 | News story
Cross River Gorillas and Camera Traps: the value of video technology
Following the news in March 2014 about the launch of a new species action plan for the Critically Endangered Cross River Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli), SOS Grantee and IUCN Member, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) successfully captured a bounty of valuable camera trap video sequences from Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary (KGS), Cameroon. …
28 Jul 2014 | News story
The Sumatran Rhino: Another 200 years? It's your call!
Have you ever seen a Sumatran Rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)? It is often said, we protect what we know and love, so SOS thought to share a short video of this unique, charismatic and Critically Endangered rhino species to show just what SOS is trying to do - protect threatened species, their habitats and the people who depend on them. And as International Ranger Day approaches (July 31), we also highlight the role of the Rhino Protection Units who work tirelessly to guard the last few Sumatran Rhino from poachers. …
25 Jul 2014 | News story
One tenth of bird species flying under the conservation radar
More than 350 newly recognised bird species have been assessed by BirdLife International for the first time on behalf of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. The assessment shows that more than 25% of these newly recognised birds have been listed as threatened on The IUCN Red List - compared with 13% of all birds - making them urgent priorities for conservation action. …
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With their 2-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Monday, the New York Yankees now face the prospect of trying to come back from a 3-0 hole in the best-of-seven game American League Championship Series.
New York had chances on Monday, including in the ninth inning when they advanced the tying run to second base, but the offense was once again unable to come through. Now, they find themselves in a difficult hole, needing to win four straight games to avoid elimination. The term "must-win" gets used too often in sports, as Andrew Mearns of Pinstriped Bible noted, but that is exactly what New York now faces.
Despite the big hole, Yankee fans aren't ready to give up just yet. They are taking a one game at a time approach and Wednesday New York will have its ace CC Sabathia on the mound. As Mearns said, the focus isn't on winning Game 5, 6 or 7, but instead winning the next game.
Focus on tomorrow. Perhaps don't wait until the ninth inning to start putting good at bats together against Tiger pitching (it will be Max Scherzer, who pitched to a 1.23 ERA in 7.1 innings during the Division Series last year). Scratch some runs out for the ace, and to quote Terry Francona "win every inning." Winning those innings can lead to something greater if you can do it. The 2012 Yankees did not win 95 games by luck. They have the ability to do it. They have their ace going tomorrow.
It's not over.
The comeback attempt begins Wednesday in Game 4 with first pitch scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on TBS.


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We were 8 women, mostly seniors, mostly from Maine & wintering in Florida.
The Paradise surly surpassed our expectations. We've all cruised ..LOTS... and did not expect the high level of service we received. We purposely choose an inexpensive, easy to put together cruise from Tampa ( we are mostly from Venice ).
We were surprised how much room we had in our mid-ship, but lower level cabin. Once we put the twin beds in an L shape.. it opened up the entire cabin for 2 women to get around with ease. The lighting in the bath was great, so it was convenient for 2 people to get ready at the same time, with good vanity lighting and magnifying mirror.
Plenty of closet space,too. I used the RICK STEVES method of packing and bring my clothes on hangers, so, it takes only a few minutes to unpack and hang.
ONLY improvements.....a BLOW DRYER... and a CURTAIN between the closet area and vanity/beds, for privacy, would have been TERIFFIC....!!! Bath came w toothpaste,creams and a few other samples and nice THICK toasty BATHROBES and BEACH TOWELS ..!
Elevators were right around the corner, so easy access everywhere.
The FOOD was especially GREAT...!! From Chateaubriand ( like butter )w/ Bearnaise sauce, to the most incredible WARM chocolate desert.
We first choose the anytime dining, because we wanted to dine around 7PM.... but on another Carnival Cruise, we had to get a buzzer and wait to be seated...
SOOOO, we asked to be wait listed for the early seating. We did get it and were so happy. Our team of waiters were professional and came to know us quickly. There were cheerful and anticipated request. We had our wine waiting for us and occasionally ordered an extra dish we wanted to try and shared with the table of 11.
COZUMEL..ship is docked directly at pier.
This was my second time in COXUMEL. First time took a Carnival excursion to a beach club. Very expensive, crowded and just ok.
THIS TIME I had researched CHANKANAAB NATIONAL PARK.. and it was GREAT.You only need to grab one of the SEVERAL taxis waiting outside the ship. for 6 of us it was about $15-$18 total.
The Park is only a FEW minutes away. it is spotlessly clean and the minute we arrived and bought our DAY PASS TICKET $20 per person USA....the guides asked what we wanted to see and do and directed us. A short walk to the gorgeous cove and beach we were met by another server who asked how many in our party and then found us lounge chairs under a big thatched umbrella facing the ocean. Some of us brought our own snorkel and mask. They were for rent there as well. The SHIP also SOLD your own SNORKEL for $5. A good buy, too.There are a few steps w/rail down to the water. For anyone snorkel shy...You could just stand there and see exotic fish all over. Gorgeous, clean, tropical beach and water.
Exotic drinks, brought by our server were really well priced..about $6. We all brought a snack from the ship, so did not order lunch, there.There are a few shops there.
Another bunch of taxi's were always waiting to bring you back to the ship.
2 of our party took the Dolphin/Manatee encounter and enjoyed it. That was ALSO held at CHANKANAAB....!!You can pay and do that on your own as well.Also, glass kayak's. A walkway behind the seating area has huge ( in cages ) crock's and giant lizards ( not caged) that were color changing and gorgeous to look at and were not at all anxious to meet up with us :-). There are TONS of COLORFUL SHOPS all over the Cozumel dock area.
Grand Cayman, TENDER....First, some of the group had not been there before and wanted to take the 2 hour TOUR in a crowded VAN $25..US...with the USUALL stops at PRE-ARRANGED buying spots...UGH...!!! Awful.THEN, we just shopped and then went to the RITZ HOTEL on the beach for the most incredible PINA COLADA.
The sea days were spent playing lots of RUMMIE-CUBE in the library, sitting on the SERENITY (adult only) deck..almost always got a shade seat.. the sunny ones go fast.The small outdoor deck above it was a great comfortable, shady place for lunch,games, etc.
The entertainment was fine. I think unless you have a special HEADLINER on board, they are always about the same.No, I did NOT win the $20,000 bingo, either :-)
Check-in went incredibly easy and fast.Remember 8 women traveling.!! We were sitting on the LIDO deck having lunch at NOON....!!!!
Luggage in rooms by 2PM..NICE..!!!!
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If you have a SPA treatment...be PREPARED for the BIG SELL for lotions , etc to take home..Also, by the second day there will be SPECIALS offered. WAIT to BOOK.
From Venice, we hired BLUE SKY LIMO. It was very reasonable and efficient.
This will surely be an annual TGG trip for us, now...!!
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Postcard from Lisbon
By @2010 B.Bonnier
Feel the very soul of Portugal. Fall in love with the sound of someone singing Fado from a balcony above, the sight of white washed buildings, the ancient churches and an old stone castle.
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Publish Date January 17, 2011
Dimensions Large Format Landscape 80 pgs
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Category Travel
Tags Vasco, Fado, Lisbonne, Lisbon, Portugal, Pasteis
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