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In early August 2010, Oceana launched a two-month research expedition in the Gulf of Mexico to assess the long-term impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The expedition took place aboard the Oceana Latitude, a 170-foot vessel capable of sailing in both shallow and deep waters, and adapted to serve as a diving platform.
The expedition team, led by Oceana's Chief Scientist Mike Hirshfield and Oceana's vice president for Europe, Xavier Pastor, included research by Dr. Jeff Short, Oceana's Pacific science director and one of the world's leading experts on Exxon Valdez and the effects of oil spills.
The crew also included scientists, divers and underwater photographers from our U.S., Chile and Spain offices, as well as academic scientists.
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This series is dedicated concealed carry fundamentals and practical considerations.
This video shows the real Chris Collins basically identifying, locating and destroying his enemy using the most latest tactical, tail kicking, urban commando moves possible.
Work into your training a certain amount of drawing the pistol, presenting it, prepping the trigger and not actually firing. This skill is almost as important as being able to prep the trigger, break and get a clean shot. You can run scenarios through your head where the threat is no longer a life threatening threat to you and you do not shoot the target. Therefore, train getting off the trigger.
Do not get caught up with simply firing the same amount of rounds on target every time you shoot. Change it up. Shoot one time, shoot five times sometimes don't shoot at all just draw, present, prep and have the discipline to not break a shot categorically. In the end for defensive shooter you must shoot to stop the threat.
After you've engaged in a drill be sure to scan. This means look around and determine any other target which may need to be shot. When you do look around do not engage in what they call a range scan but rather really look around and look at hands, look at the person, identify a person as a threat or non-threat.
This is a follow up video to arrange the concealed carry work Chris showed in Video http://youtu.be/-_rmrKZYLck. The progression is to get off line where you change your position while simultaneously drawing the gun and presenting rounds on target.
You do not have to have a lot of fancy setup to train from life fire with a concealed carry. A simple circle on a target such as cardboard backing can suffice as an acceptable accuracy zone. When re-holstering, be very cautious on deliberately re-holstering and make sure everything is free from the trigger fire when putting the gun back into your holster. Take your time. Do not rush this step.
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11 questions about health careMarch 28,2013Gov. Peter Shumlin signed Act 48 into law in 2011, and Act 171 in 2012. Together they promise the achievement of the longtime liberal goal of a universal and unified health system, that is, a government-controlled health system rationally designed, managed, and enforced by five government experts titled the Green Mountain Care Board. The governors target date for launching the single-payer health system is 2017.
Here are 11 questions a citizen might want answered about the approaching single-payer revolution.
1. Has Vermont sought outside expertise to create this universal system?
After the Legislature spent half a million dollars on two earlier studies, the Shumlin administration paid $300,000 to the University of Massachusetts to explain the needed amounts and mechanisms to finance Green Mountain Care, and the impacts of various tax increases on taxpayers, businesses and the economy.
2. So how did they recommend that Green Mountain Care be financed?
We may never know, because two months before the reports due date (Jan. 15, 2013) the Shumlin administration told UMass to withhold any recommendations on how Vermont taxpayers could be made to produce the $1.6 billion a year three times the states income tax collections! needed to make Green Mountain Care viable. Gov. Shumlin now says the public doesnt need to know those details until, most likely, after the 2014 election.
3. Will every Vermonter be included in this new system when implemented?
Ideally yes, but actually no. Medicare and Veterans Administration health care, plus the coverage of federal employees in Vermont, will remain under federal control. More than 100,000 employees of larger businesses with self-insured health plans cant be forced into Green Mountain Care, per federal law (ERISA). So the single payer plan will be very far from universal, and the vast savings predicted from having only one payer state government largely disappears.
4. What is the health benefits exchange?
The Obama Affordable Care Act of 2010 pays participating states to establish insurance exchanges where households and businesses can go to purchase government-approved coverage. Alone among the 50 states, Vermont mandates that all individuals and all businesses with one to 50 employees must buy only through the exchange. Businesses with 51-100 employees will be mandated in by 2016. The Obama administration has paid the state of Vermont at least $126 million to create this exchange. (This is not a misprint.)
5. Whats the incentive to purchase through the exchange?
An approved exchange offers federal income tax credits to defray the expense of the premiums. Gov. Shumlin wants as many lives as possible to receive tax credits through the exchange, so in 2017 he can get the federal government to cash out the tax credits and write the state a big check to help finance Green Mountain Care. In fact, the state is aggressively encouraging employers to drop coverage, pay a federal penalty, and send their employees off to the exchange, to increase the tax credit total.
6. What if those employees dont have enough money to pay the higher cost premiums of the policies in the exchange, even with the federal tax credit?
Theyll become uninsured.
7. If the exchange isnt functional by Oct. 1, and individuals and small businesses are forbidden to purchase insurance outside the exchange, what will become of their health coverage?
When their current contracts expire, they will be uninsured, unless the administration waives the mandate requirement.
8. What will become of the exchange in 2017, when single-payer Green Mountain Care springs to life?
Under Green Mountain Care, there will no longer be any major medical health insurance. So the exchange will abruptly vanish after taxpayers spent some $160 million to create and operate it for three years.
9. How does Gov. Shumlin think the Green Mountain Care Board will solve the cost containment problem?
Mainly through payment reform. It will replace the predominant fee for service medicine with some new arrangement, whereby the GMC Board pays money to a provider group that agrees to provide more efficient care. In March the GMC Board got another $45 million federal grant to figure this out. The most familiar model to Vermonters is managed care, in one guise or another.
10. Is all this believable?
Gov. Shumlin staunchly maintains that it is. But longtime single-payer advocate Hamilton Davis has observed, The structural reforms that we need to get the rest of the way payment reform and system integration have not yet moved beyond the early planning and pilot project stage. These two initiatives sound reasonable enough, but they in fact presume a huge technical and cultural shift in the whole warp and woof of the delivery of health care, so that even 2017 will be a considerable stretch.
11. What will happen if this grand scheme doesnt work?
Chaos, probably.
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Doc Rivers interviewed on ESPN Radio
Doc Rivers joined John Thompson and Doc Walker for an interview on ESPN 980 in Washington, D.C. today. Rivers talked about the newly formed trio in Miami, the growth of Rajon Rondo, the Los Angeles Lakers, and how the hell he plans to defend the pick-and-roll with Shaq in the game. (SportsRadioInterviews.com)
On the Miami Heat:
I do think people are all focusing on the wrong thing. I think everybody is talking about shots. Is there enough shots, will they have enough shots, will they be able to play together, whose going to take the last shot and that could cause turmoil, but I think the key for them is will they defend? Because if they defend and get stops, they're talented enough offensively to get points. The key for them is will they buy into being a defensive unit."
On Rajon Rondo:
The other thing about Rondo is he's the smartest player that I've ever coached. His basketball IQ is off the charts. Now it gets him in trouble at times, but he has great feel, he has huge hands, he can rebound, and the thing that I'm most impressed with is he's doing this without a jump shot. You think about how dominant he has been. It's always been said that you cannot win in the NBA with a non-shooting point guard. We're winning with a non-shooting point guard and we're winning because of his IQ."
High praise for Rondo, being called "the smartest player I've ever coached" by Doc Rivers. Especially for a 24-year old kid. Interestingly, Coach K has echoed similiar sentiments while talking about Rondo. When watching Rondo, it's easy to see he has a high basketball IQ, but with all the effusive praise, there must be more to Rondo than the casual fan sees while watching him play on TV. Hell, for all the praise, I expect him to be diagramming plays like the Annexation of Peurto Rico all day.
On the Lakers, via @AsherrodbCSN
"That actually bothers me, when they (LAL) count their total amount of championships, and they count them from another city."
On the addition of Shaq:
My biggest concern honestly coach is defensively because every time Shaq comes on the floor, everyone is going to run pick and roll and no one has been successful in figuring out how to use him and I'm no smarter than anyone else. That's all we've been focusing on this summer is trying to figure out what we're going to do in pick and rolls when he comes into the game."
I laughed out loud when I read Doc's take on Shaq. Sorry Doc, but no defensive scheming is not going to hide the fact that Shaq has cement in his sneakers and will get torched on nearly every pick-and-roll this season. Tom Thibodeau would be the only guy with a chance to come up with a defensive scheme that would work, but he works for the Chicago Bulls now. We're just going have to take our lumps defensively when Shaq is on the court, and hope that his offensive skills outweight his defensive weaknesses.
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Clearly you didn't watch the most recent episode of Shaq vs. if you think he has "cement in his sneakers" dude moved real quick.
Also, killer Little Giants reference.
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Instead of worrying and bashing Shaq's PnR defense why not wait to see how it is? This will be the best defensive team he has ever been on. Shaq has always played preety solid defense and now that he has several HOFs as teammates I believe he will adjust and pick up his game, and theirs to his, to the level we have seen the team play (last playoffs and in 2008). Shaq wants more rings and in order for him to get them he has to buy into the Celtics 'team' and all aspects including the emphasis on playing instense team defense. It's getting real old reading stories about something that hasn't even happened yet. I know, and can see from the posts lately, that the dog days of summer are not kind to stories of importance, but all this 'worry' months before the season starts is wasted effort. Go Cs…
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Doc also claimed that the Lakers have never beaten the Celtics starting five, as if Perk is such a force in the middle. What a sore loser!
Guess what, Doc: the Celtics have never beaten the Lakers' starting five either. If Bynum was playing in 2008 the Lakers could have easily won the championship. Not that I had any respect for this idiot before, but now I hope that the Celtics never win another championship for at least 100 years. Hell, they'll never get out of the East w/ the new juggernaut from Miami….
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thats excactly what i was thinking…..doc needs to do his research before saying the celtics beat the lakers starting 5 because bynum was out and ariza was injured.and in 2010 kobe had a messed up finger and bad knee's and bynum was limited because of his knee's. who was injured on the celtics besides perkins(for the last game)
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A Stock Market Freak and Tech Geek's Christmas Wish List
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Although I noted the other day on Twitter that I would take time off during Christmas week, it probably won't look that way to readers of TheStreet and followers of my Twitter page.
Thirty-six hour days, brother (or soul sister). Packing it all in. No time to rest because this isn't even a job. I write about companies and stocks, primarily in my three favorite spaces: tech, media and retail. Everyday feels like a day off when you do this!
But it's not all coming up roses. I have some issues to run by Santa Claus.
Give Us Less From Wall Street Analysts
A majority of the financial media relies way too much on Wall Street analysts. Every other guest on CNBC is an analyst. Most multimedia sites, including TheStreet, call on these guys for reaction daily.I have a newsflash for you: Lots of investors are sick of analysts. They don't trust them. They don't value what they have to say because, generally, they don't say anything of value. That's not to say we should banish all appearances and opinions from big or boutique firms. Not at all. First, plenty of good Wall Street analysts exist. Guys like Brian Sozzi (who contributes to TheStreet's sister site Real Money) Tony Wible at Janney Montgomery and Richard Tullo of Albert Fried and Co. immediately come to mind. But "good" is subjective. You might love guys whom I dislike and vice versa. This faction deserves inclusion in the conversation; we just need to knock back their profiles. Why? For starters, read "Apple Analysts Should Be Ashamed of Themselves This Morning" and then "Absolutely Devastating News for Amazon?" Several firms -- two in particular -- completely blew it on Apple (AAPL). It wasn't just that they were wrong. It's no sin to be wrong; it's merely human. It's the way they went about being wrong. I explain in the above-linked articles. The second article ( "Absolutely Devastating News for Amazon?") points out that things just got worse when a financial reporter turned to these very firms, seconds after these cats performed pathetically, to get insight on -- of all stocks -- AAPL! I can't make this stuff up.
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The family of a Marine injured by an IED in Afghanistan is writing about his recovery.
Lance Corporal Alex Minsky, 19, of Mission Viejo, was riding in a Humvee when an explosive device detonated. His family has not commented on the extent of his injuries but detail his condition, including surgeries, in their blog on CaringBridge.
Minksy is currently at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, M.D.
"The Hallmark moment (get your tissues ready, people!) was when his Brother marine came in to say good bye to him," Minksy's aunt Jenni writes. " ... (The other Marine) is a bi-lateral amputee and also lost several fingers in an IED blast."
" ... He told Alex he was a true Marine, a fighter, and he would be okay. He gave a thumbs up sign to Alex and Alex lifted up his hand and gave him a thumbs up back," the writer continues. "He told Alex to keep in touch, he was praying for him, and then he said goodbye. I asked Alex if he could say "good-bye" and he waived."
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Aftermath of Killing of Lesotho Highlands Strikers by Police
Roma Hospital Acquires New X-ray but its Friends have to pay Sales Tax
10th Anniversary of the Signing of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Court Judgment on
Dissension in the Ruling Party
Lesotho Defence Force Act 1996
Ombudsman Act 1996
Lesotho Liberation Army, the Prime Minister and Vlakplaas
Strikes by Airways
Staff, Nurses and Taxi Owners
Death Penalty for
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Inquiry into Police Deaths
Independent Electoral Commission
Deaths of
Parliamentarians; New Senators Appointed
Tragic Death of Dr. & Mrs Maema
End of Year Festivities
The incident of 14th September, when police
had shot strikers, continued to be a matter of concern for weeks afterwards, as
rumours spread that the numbers of strikers killed had been higher than first
reports had indicated. Newspapers printed several reports of bodies being dumped
by police in various dams around the Butha-Buthe area. Moafrika in its 11
October issue, quoting company sources, gave the number of dead as 15, to which
was to be added Moeketsi Motuba who had died three weeks after the incident in
hospital. He was a relative of the late Edgar Motuba, who had been murdered for
his reporting in Leselinyana during the period when Lesotho was under the regime
of Leabua Jonathan. The same issue of Moafrika reported that 55 unclaimed
corpses had been buried by convicts, 40 of these corpses at Maseru on 9 October
on the orders of the District Secretary and 15 at Leribe in similar fashion at
the request of the Motebang Hospital Mortuary. 40 of the corpses were badly
decomposed. The newspaper reported concern from workers of Lesotho Highlands
Project Contractors (LHPC) and 'Muela Hydro Power Contractors (MHPC) that some
of their missing friends might have been amongst those who had been buried,
although it appears that in fact the unclaimed bodies were those of paupers who
had died in road accidents or knifings, and of newly born babies who had been
abandoned by their teenage mothers, some of these bodies having been recovered
from pit latrines.
By early October, there was a general belief
quoted by politicians in speeches that the true figures of those killed in the
Butha-Buthe incident exceeded 20, and those who had been injured exceeded 70.
The twice-monthly paper Khakhaulane in its issue of 22 September to 6 October,
under a headline 'The Path Leading to Death taken by the Workers', gave a
lengthy 4-page account of the events of 5th to 14th September, which included
eye-witness reports of bodies being dumped by police in dams and in the Mohokare
at its confluence with the Moroeroe, and of two bodies being recovered from one
of the dams near the Moroeroe river.
In the absence, of corroboratory information
about additional casualties, the best information available was that the known
and named persons who had died were seven in number. Six of them, who were
killed on 14th September, were Thabang Johannes Kobeli of Khohlo-Ntšo; Eric
Rametsi Mosala and Manti Mosala of Tajane; Skosana Skosana of Mokhotlong; and
Makoetlane Makoetlane (home not stated) and Mohloai (first name and home not
stated). A seventh, Moeketsi Motuba had died in Queen Elizabeth II Hospital.
Also available were the names of 25 others who had been treated in six different
hospitals. The funeral of Rametsi Mosala, who left a young wife and two
children, was reported in Moafrika of 1 November 1996. It was held at the home
village of the deceased, Ha Mpapa Molomo in the Tajane Ward.
Meanwhile, the Commission of Inquiry, whose
Chairman was a senior civil servant, Mr. Maluke, had begun its work, and it was
hoped that it might soon clarify what had really happened, and what the total
number of casualties had been.
After over a month of stoppage, a formula was
found for most workers to return to their jobs. An agreement was signed early in
October between management and the Construction and Allied Workers' Union of
Lesotho (CAWULE) to rehire 1700 of the 2300 dismissed workers under new
contracts. CAWULE had disintegrated as a representative of the workers a year or
so earlier. The contractors now offered to pay for the training of shop stewards
at the six construction sites. However, the 40 members of the outgoing workers'
committees and subcommittees were to be amongst the 600 workers who would get
their severance pay and would not be rehired. It was noted also that most of the
rehired workers (other than those on the hydropower project which was behind
schedule) would in any case be retrenched within a year when the construction
work on Phase IA was completed.
The cost of the stoppage was assessed (Star
Business Report, 14 October 1996) as R450 000 per day by David Darcy, the
contractors' project director. By the weekend of 12th-14th October, the 1700
rehired workers were drifting back to the project sites, and work resumed.
An interim report by the Commission of Inquiry
set up to investigate the Butha-Buthe incident became available in November, and
parts of it were published in English in Mafube of 30 November 1996. The
findings of the Commission did not add much to information available from other
souces, except to suggest that the total number of persons killed was five,
being those previously named and with home village given, together with Moeketsi
Motuba who had died in hospital. The interim report appealed to anyone to come
forward who had information about others who had been killed or were missing.
The Friends of St Joseph's Hospital, a group
of persons who support the hospital at Roma, had been trying to raise money for
a new X-ray machine for the hospital since its 25-year old machine had broken
down in August 1995. A vigorous fund-raising campaign had been embarked upon,
and after much time and trouble, the necessary total of M269 616.06 had been
raised for the X ray apparatus together with an automated processor for
developing the X-ray film. Much of the money had come from supporters of the
Friends in Switzerland, Spain, USA, and UK with a major contribution also
negotiated through the Consulate General of Ireland. The new apparatus reached
the Maseru Bridge Border Post in two vehicles early on 6 October 1996.
However, there it stood unable to proceed,
because there was an unanticipated bill for sales tax of M26961.61. Government
hospitals are exempt from paying sales tax, and mission hospitals are a key part
of the same national health network, with government paying the basic salaries
of their professional staff. It had not been expected that they would be
discriminated against in the matter of sales tax. Frantic phone calls were made
to the Minister of Finance, Dr Leketekete Ketso, a former university staff
member, who had the power to grant sales tax exemptions, particularly to
charitable or non-profit making organisations. However, it appeared he just did
not want to hear about the problem.
Meanwhile the suppliers were about to ask the
lorries to return to base after two days of camping at the border post.
Fortunately, the Friends were able to find the M26 961.61 at short notice,
because the firm delivering the machine had only asked for 80% of the price in
advance, so money had been budgeted for the second instalment. The X-ray and
processor arrived after a hectic two days, and were installed in a newly
redecorated X-ray room and adjoining darkroom, the cost of refurbishing of which
had been met by Lesotho Flour Mills.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project Treaty had
been signed on 24th October 1986, and the tenth anniversary was celebrated at
each of the main LHWP sites in Lesotho during the month of October, culminating
with an elaborate luncheon hosted by the King on the exact day of the tenth
anniversary, 24th October 1996. On this occasion, the South African Minister of
Water Affairs and Forestry was present. Notably absent were the two original
signatories of the Treaty, the then Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha of
South Africa and Chief Thaabe Letsie of Lesotho. Since both countries had
subsequently undergone a transition to democratic rule, the new democratic
governments, while adhering to the Treaty, did not think it appropriate to
honour representatives of the earlier regimes.
The long awaited judgment in the High Court
case brought by certain constituencies of the Basutoland Congress Party was
finally delivered on Friday 18 October. Mr. Justice G. N. Mofolo in an interim
order referred the dispute to the Leader of the Party to reach an amicable
settlement with the parties concerned, granting him 14 days to do this, but with
the possibility of an extension of time. In the meantime, all property of the
party was vested in trust with the Leader of the Party, the Prime Minister, Dr.
Ntsu Mokhehle.
A sequel to this was that a meeting of party
members was held at the Cooperative College on Saturday 2 November. The meeting
lasted for over six hours, but achieved nothing, and indeed appears to have
developed into a series of personal attacks on Mr. Tom Thabane, personal adviser
to the Prime Minister, whose earlier history of opposition to the party had made
many of those present reluctant to accept him now as a bona fide party member.
The National Executive Committee of the Party
(the NEC of 1994-5, as recognised by the High Court) met on 11 November. It took
the line that in order to implement the High Court decision, the Leader of the
Party, as Chairman of the NEC should at all times act in conjunction with the
NEC. The Leader (Ntsu Mokhehle) should have directed the Secretary-General (G.
M. Kolisang) to issue notices calling a meeting, which the Leader should then
have chaired. That he had not done so was considered by the NEC as a flagrant
disregard for the terms of the interim order. Indeed it was the leader who
should have drawn the attention of the NEC to the terms of the interim order and
the whole of the judgment. Having gained the views of the NEC, he should have
then called a meeting with the four constituencies who had initiated the court
case. Such action would have set the stage for an amicable settlement. Instead
of this, the Leader of the Party had openly stated that he did not recognise the
1994-5 NEC, and had acted in a way which had deepened the rift rather than
healed it.
Since the Party, and particularly the leader,
was unable to mend the rift within the 30 days appointed, Mr. Justice Mofolo
gave his judgment on Monday 25 November: the outgoing National Executive
Committee was the legal executive of the party and was charged with organising
the next Annual Conference when there would be elections for a new Executive
Committee. These would presumably coincide with the Leadership Election, Dr.
Ntsu Mokhehle's five-year term as leader being about to come to an end. Given
the disorder which had characterised the previous Annual Conference of the
party, observers were wondering whether new elections could be held in a
peaceful and orderly way unless the party engaged demonstrably neutral outside
assistance for their electoral process.
Further evidence of dissension between
factions was competition between them over control over the 35 year old BCP
office, painted in the red, black and green party colours and situated at the
foot of the hill near the Traffic Circle. Moafrika of 22 November 1996 described
and provided a photograph of what was found when members of the Maporesha took
over the building. The newspaper said that there was evidence that the building
had been used as a centre for drug dealing, as a brothel, and as a clinic for
conducting abortions. Those who know the building might wonder how so many
different activities could be conducted in such a confined space.
As a sequel to the Act of Parliament gazetted
on 5 July 1996 which amended the sections of the Constitution dealing with the
Defence Force and Defence Commission, the Lesotho Defence Force Act was
published late in 1996. The Bill had been introduced into Parliament on 29 March
1996, but copies of the Act (Act No. 4 of 1996) only became available in
December, even though the Act appeared as a Lesotho Government Gazette
Extraordinary dated 8 August 1996. Since, like other legislation, the Act was to
'come into operation on the date of publication in the Gazette', this raises the
question of the true date of commencement. (Under §78(6) of the Constitution of
Lesotho, 'no law made by Parliament shall come into operation until it has been
published in the Gazette.') The delay in the appearance of the Act was no doubt
attributable to the size of the document, the text of the Act and its schedules
running to 134 pages.
The new Act provides information on the scope
of employment of the Lesotho Defence Force. Under §5 of the Act, duties include
the defence of Lesotho; the suppression of terrorism and internal disorder; 'the
maintenance of essential services including the maintenance of law and order and
prevention of crime'; as well as other duties as determined by the Minister of
Defence. It had been about a year since Military Police in red berets and with
specially marked vehicles had first made their appearance. If their function
were to maintain law and order within the army, this was in general applauded as
a worthwhile development. However, it had been noted that they had also been
mounting road blocks and assisting the regular police. The new Act made it clear
that assisting the police fell within their responsibilities, and §190 of the
Act in fact spelt out this role specifically.
Under §8 of the new Act, the Defence Council
has a totally different composition from that provided for by the (unamended)
Constitution, the new membership of six being now controlled by the Prime
Minister or by the Minister of Defence, a portfolio which in Lesotho has (except
during the period of Military Rule 1986-93) always been combined with that of
the Prime Minister. Apart from the Minister of Defence, who is Chairman, the
other members are the Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, the
Commander of the Defence Force, a Secretary appointed by the Minister of
Defence, and two members apppointed by the Prime Minister.
Amongst provisions of the new Act are that all
appointments, transfers, retirements etc of officers should in future be
gazetted, providing some transparency about the army command, even though
elsewhere in the act there are draconian penalties for disclosing information
which might assist an enemy. For example §§41 and 42 of the Act provide for the
death sentence for a number of offences committed 'with intent to assist the
enemy'; while §43 provides for the death penalty to be imposed for cowardly
behaviour 'in the presence of the enemy'; and §§48, 49 provide for the death
penalty to be imposed for mutinous behaviour, and failure to suppress a mutiny
with intent to assist the enemy. 'Enemy' is defined in the Act as including 'all
persons engaged in armed operations against the Defence Force or any forces
co-operating with the Defence Force mutineers [sic], rebels and rioters'. Given
this wide definition, it would appear that a large portion of the Defence Force
as a whole might, if the Act had been in existence, have been liable to capital
punishment for past deeds.
The extent to which the Act might have
retrospective effect is, however, apparently limited. A large part of the Act
deals with the operation of Courts-Martial and a Court-Martial Appeal Court,
providing scope for a new profession of military lawyers. Moreover, the Act
requires the Commander of the Defence Force to appoint a Provost Marshall from
amongst his officers, the Provost Marshall to be responsible for the enforcement
of discipline within the Defence Force. §122 states that any trial under the Act
must be commenced within three years of the commission of the offence, but
specifically exempts from this time limit §§47 and 48 which deal with looting
and mutiny. However, §12(4) of the Constitution of Lesotho protects persons on
criminal charges from being convicted for offences which were not offences at
the time of commission, and also protects them from penalties greater than those
existing at the time of the crime. Moreover §127 of the Constitution of Lesotho
specifically states that whereas Parliament may establish Courts-Martial they
are subject to the provisions of the Constitution.
The Act, like the quarterly Defence News, is
published in English only, which means that its provisions will not easily be
understood by many of the persons to whom it applies until a Sesotho translation
has been made. However, like most legislation drafted by outside consultants or
expatriate advisers, it may be that such a translation will not be made for some
time, if ever. The Explanatory Memorandum to the original Bill (published as
Government Notice No. 51 in Lesotho Government Gazette no. 84 of 1996 (13
September 1996) long after Parliament had in fact passed the Bill), provides
some information about the way in which the new Act came into being. It had been
made necessary by the findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1994
Disturbances within the Lesotho Defence Force (the report was never made
publicly available although parts were quoted in newspapers). The Explanatory
Memorandum acknowledges the role of the 'troika' countries (presumably Botswana,
South Africa and Zimbabwe) who came to Lesotho's help when the Implementation
Steering Group (set up after the Inquiry) 'decided that ... we did not have
sufficient institutional support to draft a Defence Act to suit our needs and to
achieve what was possible within our numerous constraints'.
The passing of the Defence Act, like much
government legislation, very largely escaped notice in the local English and
Sesotho press, an indication that local reporters rarely attend parliamentary
sessions. This might be less important if the parliamentary record, Hansard,
were published and made available to the press within days of the relevant
debates. Production of the Hansard of both the National Assembly and the Senate
is however many months, indeed more than a year, in arrears.
The only newspaper comment which has been
traced on the Defence Act at the time of its enactment was a very critical one
in the Basotho National Party newspaper Mohlanka of 24 August 1996. On this
occasion, Mohlanka produced an issue very largely in English (normally it
appears only in Sesotho) presumably directed at those attending the SADC Heads
of State meeting in Maseru. Mohlanka noted that the new legislation had passed
through Parliament without discussion, and particularly criticised §6 of the
Defence Force Act, which provided for the Defence Force to be deployed outside
Lesotho (e. g., as indicated by the front page cartoon in Burundi) without
reference to Parliament.
The Ombudsman Act 1996 (Act 9 of 1996), also
became available in December 1996, to 'come into operation on the date of
publication in the Gazette'. The copy of the Lesotho Government Gazette
Extraordinary in which it was published was in fact dated 12 September 1996.
The Ombudsman Act expands on §§134 and 135 of
the Constitution of Lesotho and sets out duties and functions of the Ombudsman
which include investigation of infringement of fundamental human rights and
instances or threats to 'natural resources, environment or the ecosystem'.
The Act also reiterates the duty of the
Ombudsman under §135(3) of the Constitution to submit an annual report to
Parliament. The passing of this Act was apparently not reported in either the
local English or Sesotho press.
The remarkable transition within South Africa
since 1990 had been accompanied by the need to find a means by which those who
had been caught up in the evils of apartheid could confess their past misdeeds
and receive an amnesty. This means was provided by the setting up of the South
African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under the Chairmanship of
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who had himself been twice a resident of Lesotho in the
past. The Commission heard evidence at a number of venues in South Africa,
including Ladybrand (on 31 October 1996), when it was natural that past events
in Lesotho became the focus of attention.
The continuing work of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission had by mid-1996 resulted in an extraordinarily
detailed and harrowing picture of South Africa's murky past becoming revealed.
The names of those responsible for armed raids on Maseru had become known,
although certain events which must have originated as South African dirty tricks
(such as the bus hijacking at the time of the Pope's visit in 1988) had not yet
been explained. As time went on, it had become evident that members of the ANC,
amongst other organisations, did not have an unblemished past, and the TRC
provided an opportunity for them to reveal events which had occurred while they
were in exile, including the execution of members of the party.
Lesotho's past has been inextricably
intertwined with that of South Africa. Its murky past is no exception, and
questions were being asked as to whether Lesotho did not also need its own Truth
and Reconciliation Commission. In July, the Minister of Justice, Mr. Sephiri
Motanyane had stated in an answer to a question in the Senate that there was no
need for such a commission in Lesotho. This had resulted in a correspondent to
Moafrika in its 9 August issue asking whether the people of the Minister's
constituency, Malibamatšo, were not concerned about their orphans, their
disabled and their dead which had resulted from the events of 1970-4 when rule
by decree had been instituted and opposition brutally crushed.
However, it was not only BNP misdeeds which
became the focus of attention, and appropriate for amnesty. Public interest
centred on revelations about the Lesotho Liberation Army, Ntsu Mokhehle and the
extent to which the LLA had been trained at Vlakplaas. Vlakplaas is a farm
south-west of Pretoria, which, as had now become well-known from the TRC, had
been the centre of covert operations of an apartheid murder squad led by Eugene
de Kock, together with white police and paid black associates known as 'askaris'.
Beginning in its issue of 9 August, Moafrika
began publishing reports from Tšeliso Rapitse, which described how Ntsu Mokhehle
and three BCP members in 1980 had had a rendezvous with South African Defence
Force officers at a farm between Zeerust and the Kopfontein border post, from
where Mokhehle had proceeded to Vlakplaas, where it is alleged he made contact
with a Major-General G. G. Viktor of the killer squad; stayed with the notorious
killers Alfred Nofomela and Joe Mamasela; and met 'new friends such as Oupa
Gqozo of Ciskei, Alfonso Dlakama of Mozambique, leader of RENAMO, George
Matanzima of Transkei and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of KwaZulu-Natal'. One member of
the BCP, Lethusang Mafisa (now an MP), as a result of these contacts, was sent
to the base in the Caprivi where Inkatha members were being secretly trained.
The veteran LLA member, Rapitse, continued his
account of the history of the LLA in Moafrika of 23 August and 6 September by
which time he was claiming that from 1983/4, the BCP had its own Koeeoko (a
mythical and terrible animal whose name had been given to killer squads during
the time of the Leabua Jonathan regime). This Koeeoko of the BCP emerged when
LLA members questioned the direction the LLA was taking, when its leaders,
Tjaoane Sekamane, Thebe Motebang and Shakhane Mokhehle (now MPs of the
Majelathoko faction as Rapitse was at pains to point out) had allowed it to be
taken over by a Colonel Johan Coetzee and his associates. Rapitse provided
gruesome details of killings of LLA members who questioned the path taken by the
LLA War Cabinet, which he identifies as having been Ntsu Mokhehle ('Nongkholo'
or Chief Vulture), Shakhane Mokhehle, Motebang and Sekamane. Taking on the role
of the Mooki, who describes the cause of death at a funeral, Rapitse in Moafrika
of 20 September described in detail the way in which further named members of
the LLA were killed, being individually abducted from Welkom or parts of QwaQwa
and taken by car to 'Selakhapane', the slaughter house. Others committed suicide
rather than suffer the same fate. It was put out that those who died had been
spies of Leabua Jonathan. At the end of the article in the paper of 20
September, the editor, Candi Ramainoane, offered to publish the account of
anyone who knew a different version of these events. Moreover he stated that if
the 'War Cabinet' did not publish its own correct version, then the nation would
believe Rapitse's version, and the relatives of the deceased ought to take legal
Those who looked in the newspaper the next
week for a denial of the events looked in vain. Instead an article signed by S.
Ramonate made new allegations, in particular that dissident members of the LLA
(one such was Lethole Matela) were 'sold' at Vlakplaas to be given to Leabua
Jonathan to be killed at Setibing, the mountain training area of the army. In
return for these, Leabua provided the South Africans with members of the ANC.
Moreover, according to Ramonate, the late
Koenyama Chakela had related an incident that had occurred while the party was
in exile in QwaQwa. One night Sekamane and Motebang had arrived to invite
Chakela and Mahosi to an urgent meeting of the Executive Committee. However, he
had been warned that Mokhehle had ordered that he and Mahosi be killed. They
therefore refused to go, and hid at a distance from the house. A short time
later they watched Koeeoko arrive in the form of five persons who smashed the
door down, but left when no-one was found in the house.
Ramonate also reported that Thebe Motebang,
the present member of Parliament for Khafung, and a member of the 'War Cabinet',
had killed the wife of a man in the Free State while trying to shoot a member of
the LLA. For this he had been arrested in South Africa, but had been released
after the intervention of Ntsu Mokhehle. Motebang, it was said, would be well
advised to appear before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
before its deadline of December, otherwise he might find himself serving years
in gaol in South Africa.
Government had earlier taken action against
Moafrika by deciding that advertisements for government positions would no
longer be placed in the newspaper. Moafrika had also suffered the invasion and
damaging of its office by members of the Majelathoko on 20 September, and its
editor, Candi Ramainoane, had also been required to appear before the
Parliamentary Privileges Committee on 18 September because of his paper's
earlier reporting of the Prime Minister's illness. The issue of 18 October
contained a headline that the newspaper was being sued by four cabinet ministers
for damages of M12 million, not for the reporting about the LLA, but for a story
in the issue of 20 September, when under the heading ''Nete e patiloeng' ('the
truth has been hidden'), the newspaper had quoted unsubstantiated sources to the
effect that ministers had hidden details about their true role in the event when
Highlands Water Project workers had been killed by police at Butha-Buthe.
Meanwhile actual evidence given at the South
African Truth and Reconciliation Commission was keeping the issue of the Prime
Minister's involvement in Vlakplaas alive. For example the Vlakplaas 'askari'
Joe Mamasela alleged that Ntsu Mokhehle had been at Vlakplaas early in 1981, but
he was not used against South Africans, rather he was directing his action
towards Lesotho. Confessed Security Police killer, Dirk Coetzee stated that he
had cooked meals for Ntsu Mokhehle at Vlakplaas.
The newspaper Khakhaulane (which is the paper
of the BCP Youth League and which also supports the Pressure Group faction of
the BCP), also reported statements by Tšeliso Rapitse. In its issue of 22
September, it referred to the long unsolved death of the veteran BCP member,
Koenyama Chakela. He had returned from exile, when an amnesty had been offered
by the Leabua Jonathan Government in 1980, and according to Rapitse, he was
killed by an LLA emissary, Ntšopata Rapapa in July 1982. Rapapa had had
Chakela's brief case sent on to Sekamane and Motebang. According to Rapitse,
Rapapa's fearlessness frightened Ntsu Mokhehle, and this resulted in his sending
him to carry out the assassination of the BNP minister, Jobo Rampeta, in August
1982. Immediately after this he was himself shot by those who had been sent to
go with him on the mission to kill Rampeta. (Another similar version of these
events was published by Moafrika on 29 November 1996.)
The November issue of Khakhaulane printed a
statement of the National Executive Committee of the BCP made through the
Secretary-General, G. M. Kolisang. The statement was in response to the
'alarming' statements being made about Dr. Ntsu Mokhehle being present at
Vlakplaas where according to Mamasela victims had been burned alive to erase
marks of torture. The NEC was of the opinion that it was up to the person
concerned, Dr. Ntsu Mokhehle, to accept or deny the evidence of Mamasela.
Khakhaulane also reported some of the details of what had been said by Joe
Mamasela and Johan Coetzee on Leseli FM on 25 November. In this phone-in
programme, one of the questioners had been Candi Ramainoane, editor of Moafrika,
and Mamasela's detailed reply about Ntsu Mokhehle was printed verbatim as the
lead story in the issue of Moafrika dated 29 November 1996. Mamasela said that
Mokhehle had resided at Vlakplaas with four advisers and had been aware of the
sensitivity of the situation. He had indeed been aware that the Boers, while
facilitating action against Leabua Jonathan's regime, would prefer that it might
appear to be originating in Botswana. Making use of the discomfort of the Prime
Minister, the leader of the opposition BNP, Retšelisitsoe Sekhonyana also
appeared on Leseli FM on 27 November calling on the Prime Minister to resign
because he had been a Vlakplaas collaborator.
The Prime Minister broke his silence in a
statement made on the popular early morning phone-in programme of Radio Lesotho,
Seboping, on 2 December. He denied reports by Mamasela and Coetzee, broadcast on
Leseli FM, that the LLA had been trained at Vlakplaas, saying that in fact they
had been trained in Libya. The Prime Minister's statement (also published in
Makatolle of 4 December 1996 and Lentsoe la Basotho of 7 December 1996)
described his problems of finding a host country when he was excluded from both
Botswana and Zambia at the end of 1980. He had in fact resided in a shack on a
farm near Zeerust on the Botswana border with his assistant, Taaso Taaso. He had
been there for 1½ years and after a Mosotho called Sello had arranged for him to
go to Johannesburg for an eye operation, this same Sello had arranged for him to
stay for a few days while recuperating at a farm near Pretoria, on the side of
Pretoria called 'Erasmus' [Vlakplaas is 7 km SW of the Pretoria suburb of
Erasmia]. As far as he knew, neither farm had been called Vlakplaas, and he had
not met the Vlakplaas killers who said they had known him. From Zeerust, he had
moved to the Odendaalsrus Location and thereafter to QwaQwa, where he was
reunited with members of the LLA. After the Military Coup of 1986, it had become
possible for him to return to Lesotho and the LLA was disbanded.
The story did not die. The BNP newspaper
Mohlanka in its issue of 24 August had been very quick to report allegations
which were emerging about the Prime Minister. Apart from the allegations of
Moafrika about executions of LLA members, it also printed allegations that LLA
members joined with South African forces in the fight against SWAPO in Namibia.
A further detailed instalment (which conveniently left out details about the
non-democratic nature of the BNP at the time) appeared in the issue of Mohlanka
of 14 December 1996. Wide-ranging allegations were made about the extent to
which the BCP and LLA in exile had connived with the apartheid regime; that Ntsu
Mokhehle had passed on information about the Pan African Congress and Azanian
Peoples Liberation Army to the South African Security Police; and even that
BCP/LLA elements (some of whom were said to have been at the National University
of Lesotho) had guided the South African Defence Force during the Maseru Raid of
9 December 1982, which had led to the deaths of many ANC exiles as well as of
Lesotho citizens.
By the end of 1996, it was apparent that the
Lesotho press was becoming collectively a 'Truth Commission', although the
'Reconciliation' element was largely missing. Mafube of 14 December 1996 carried
the story of Tumelo Ramotala who had been sent by the Boers to kill Chris Hani,
the leader of the ANC military wing, who was then living at Lithabaneng on the
outskirts of Maseru. Ramotala had bungled the attempt and had himself been
injured when the bomb he was carrying exploded prematurely. Ramotala had then
been arrested by the Lesotho police, but they had conveniently allowed him to
escape. Subsequently, he had gone to Vlakplaas where he had come across Ntsu
Mokhehle, who was living there.
Moafrika by this time had found yet another
LLA voice from the past. 'Paki', in Moafrika of 20 December 1996, in a long
account, described how he had taken part in an attack on Lesotho from Qwaqwa and
after many sufferings at the hands of the South African police had subsequently,
as a result of BCP intervention, been recruited to become part of a detachment
of the LLA. This group was trained at Lusikisiki in Transkei, and formed a
different group from the Libyan-trained members of the LLA.
Strike action, which had become increasingly
common, continued in the latter part of 1996. However, one strike that was
threatened did not materialise. The workers of the Lesotho Telecommunications
Corporation, who had been on strike earlier in the year, called off the strike
due on 19 October when the Board of Directors of LTC agreed to a 20% salary
Lesotho Airways Corporation was not so lucky.
Its workers staged a four-day strike from 5th to 8th November, with a number of
grievances including uncertainties as a result of the proposed privatisation of
the Lesotho Airways Corporation. The problems of Lesotho Airways were described
in depth in Khakhaulane of 7 September. The heaviest burden was the debt with
which the Corporation had been saddled as a result of the unwise purchase forced
on the Corporation of the Boeing 707, 'Lengau' during the period of military
government. By the time the aircraft had been sold again, there was a debt of
over M5 million to Lesotho Bank, a debt which was still growing through
interest. Staff at LAC had been reduced from 165 to 100, and amongst other
problems had been the loss of qualified staff who had sought greener pastures
elsewhere. LAC was down to two Twin Otter aircraft, and it was a struggle to get
the third aircraft, the Fokker 27 flying again after being damaged by hail as
long ago as October 1995. Although it had been repaired there were no longer
pilots licensed to fly the plane, and to achieve this would require two pilots
to go to Netherlands for a two weeks course before being recertified, and also
five air hostesses who travel with the plane would have to be trained in Cape
A nurses' strike began on Monday 11 November.
This followed an earlier go-slow strike in August following which the nurses
claimed that their grievances had still not been met. Grievances included
shortage of staff, lack of equipment, salary levels and transport problems,
these last being especially acute for nurses on night duty. Nurses returned to
work on Thursday 5 December after the Minister of Health, Mr. Tefo Mabote agreed
to review their salary structure.
A two-day strike by minibus taxi owners began
on Thursday 14 November. The strike was a protest against harassment by the
Military Police, who, it was alleged, beat taxi drivers and issued excessive
fines, which according to the owners were 'for no valid reason'. However, taxi
passengers noted that the fines were being isued for infringements of traffic
laws such as overloading and stopping at unauthorised places, regulations which
had been more often breached than observed. A number of larger buses which ran
during the strike were stoned, and windows were broken.
In a sequel to a robbery in April 1992 when
the proprietor of the Golden Hotel in Mafeteng, Dr. Mohale, had been shot dead,
Tšeliso Lempe was found guilty in the High Court in November and sentenced to
death. The case, like most murder cases, had taken four years to reach court, an
example of the backlog existing in High Court proceedings, which has resulted in
the number of prisoners on remand being similar in number to actual convicted
In another quite different case, after a year
no charges had even yet been laid following the shooting dead of three senior
policemen and the injuring of three others in an incident in Maseru Central
Charge Office on 31 October 1995. In November the Prime Minister presented to
Parliament a summary of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the
incident, this Inquiry having been carried out by a South African judge, Mr.
Justice G. P. C. Kotze.
The Inquiry found that the incident occurred
after differences of opinion had developed within the police force over police
action to terminate the teachers' strike, and after some junior policemen
married to teachers who had been teargassed had surrounded the Charge Office. It
thus confirmed what appeared to be common knowledge on the streets of Maseru on
the same day as the incident took place. Not all of the Report was made public
since it was decided not to prejudice envisaged criminal proceedings. However,
even a year after the event, it appeared that no charges had been laid.
In Parliament on 29 November, the Prime
Minister announced that following recommendations made by the National Forum
held in Maseru in September 1995 (at which a wide variety of political and other
organisations were represented), Government had agreed to the establishment of
an Independent Electoral Commission, and electoral legislation was being drafted
to effect this, so that the IEC could be operational by April 1997, in time to
prepare for the General Election which must take place early in 1998 at the
The Minister of Information and Broadcasting,
Mr. Pakane Khala, died of cancer at the age of 52 on 4 November. Mr. Khala had
spent most of his adult life in Cairo, where he had staffed the BCP Office from
1960 to 1990, and where he had been news editor and announcer on the Sesotho
service (beamed at Southern Africa) of the Egyptian Broadcasting Corporation
from 1966 to 1977. He had had only a short ministerial office, having been
appointed only on 6 May of this year. His death would mean a by-election in the
Nqechane Constituency. His place as Minister was taken by Mr. Monyane Moleleki,
a former Minister of Natural Resources, who was sworn in on 11 December.
A former Minister of Health in the BNP
government, Senator Patrick 'Mota died on 25 November of a heart attack. He was
well known also as a local chief and progressive farmer at Pulane in Berea
District. In 1970, he had accompanied the then King, Moshoeshoe II, when the
King had been forced to go into exile in the Netherlands.
Chief Seeiso Mohale Maama was shot and killed
by an unknown assailant at his house in Boinyatso in October. This occurred a
few days before he was due to be installed as Principal Chief of Ha Maama Ward,
when he would have taken over from his wife who had been Acting Principal Chief
and thereby also a Member of the Senate.
The number of women senators increased by two
on 28 November, when Chieftainess 'Mampota Masupha of Ha 'Mamathe, a widow of
the late Chief David Masupha, was sworn in to replace her husband who had been
killed in a car accident in August; and Chieftainess Maqheqheba Sekonyela of
Tlokoeng Ward was sworn in to replace her husband, Chief Halialohe Sekonyela,
who had retired for health reasons. On the same occasion, Chief Masupha Seeiso,
uncle to King Letsie III, was sworn in as Chief of Matsieng in place of Chief
Seeiso Seeiso, who had gone to London to further his studies.
A multiple car crash on Van Reenen's Pass
during adverse weather on 14 November took the lives of Dr. & Mrs. Malefane
Maema. It was a tragic end for a couple who had by a strange coincidence been
born on exactly the same day, 29 December 1957, had married on the same day, 11
September 1982, and had died on the same day.
Malefane Maema had been one of the most
brilliant students at the National University of Lesotho, proceeding from there
to Cambridge on a Cambridge Livingstone Trust Scholarship, and later completing
a doctorate at Imperial College, London University, in Ecology and Epidemiology.
This served him in good stead as a lecturer back at his old university, and then
as a staff member of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, where he
became Head of the Environmental Division in 1991. In 1995, at the unusually
early age of 37, he had been appointed to a Professorship at the University of
Natal in Pietermaritzburg, where he and his wife were returning after he had
attended (chairing one session) the Workshop on the Phase IB Environmental
Impact Assessment.
Lisebo Maema (née Mosala) had also had a
distinguished academic career and had held a senior post in the Lesotho Ministry
of Economic Planning, before moving to Natal to work with the Reconstruction
Development Corporation.
The double funeral was held at the Anglican
Cathedral in Maseru on 30 November and was attended by over a thousand friends
and relatives. Grievously touched by the loss of their parents were three
daughters aged 7, 10 and 12.
Christmas in Lesotho has increasingly become a
very long break with an increasingly large number of institutions observing a
two week or longer break, once the preserve of the building trade only, whose
two week break over Christmas and New Year has been traditional for at least
half a century. With both Christmas and New Year's Day (also a public holiday)
falling midweek, holidays of at least two weeks duration were common this year.
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority began its break on 14th December and
the National University of Lesotho on 19th December.
In recent years, a new and noisy way of
celebrating end of year festivities has been added, and this year was the
noisiest yet. Fireworks, mainly of Chinese manufacture, which had been
practically unknown in Lesotho until about five years ago, were being widely
marketed and purchased, in theory for use at the New Year, but in practice being
detonated by children as soon as they were being regularly distributed for sale
in November. Hospitals reported a number of injuries as a result of fireworks
improperly used.
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Year 4 of my participating in the JDRF Ride to Cure...man time really does fly. It seems like just yesterday that I was wondering what this Ride to Cure thing was and decided I'd give the whole cycling thing a shot. I can vividly remember arriving in La Crosse for my first ride, feeling a bit anxious, overwhelmed, and somewhat bewildered - everyone had on JDRF shirts and gear, they all seemed to know eachother, and everyone was smiling from ear to ear. I was soon to find out that in my attempts to give back I would actually become part of this amazing family that would give me more than I could ever hope to give back.
My Mom and Dad were with me for that first ride in La Crosse - my first stab at riding a century - and they drove along the course as personal photogs, SAG support, and joined in helping all riders at rest stops along the way. I managed to ride that first century on a 1970s Raleigh 10 speed that my Dad had ridden and fixed up for me to ride with a lot of help from new friends who did the majority of the work pulling me along the course.
Last year for my 3rd year with the Ride program, and first year as a Coach, I travelled to Nashville. My Dad had actually planned on taking a motorcycle trip down to be at that ride with me, but hectic schedules have a habit of getting in the way and a month later he was gone. The outpouring of love and support I received from the Ride to Cure family cannot be overstated.
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Miguel Alvarez
USA, Sci-Fi, 2010
20 min, 35mm, Color
A deep-space transmitter pilot begins to experience unusual flashbacks on his ship when he learns he is being sent back to Earth.
Miguel Alvarez has received awards from the Directors Guild of America, Panavision's Emerging Filmmaker program, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund for his previous films, Tadpoles, Veterans, and Kid. He resides in Austin and is currently writing his first feature, Atlantic City.
Producer: Soham Mehta
Production Companies: Estebandido Films
Screenwriter: Miguel Alvarez
Cinematographer: Naiti Gámez
Editor: Estemiko Bashi
Sound Design: Glenn Eanes, Karlo Motano
Music: Brian Ramos
Cast: Marc Pouhé, Karina Dominguez, Dan Braverman
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A prediction, General Larry Platt will perform at the Finale.
Quote from: TexasLady on January 16, 2010, 10:59:58 AMA prediction, General Larry Platt will perform at the Finale. I didn't get to watch the show, so thanks for posting that! It was hilarious, truly hilarious!
I hate to invite the wrath of Ugot upon me.. but I don't think they are really similar. What do Y'all think? Similar?
I agree. It seems they have over a hundred to Hollywood by now. My opinion several should not have made it through but maybe they wonder if most will choke with Hollywood pressure.


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The hot, humid climate of Houston unfortunately provides an ideal breeding ground for many species of roaches, and the abundant supply of food and shelter that humans unintentionally supply them with means that Houston's battle with cockroaches is going to be going on as long as there are people here.
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The German cockroach is the species of small cockroaches that are often seen indoors. Although called German cockroaches, the species originated in Africa and has difficulty surviving in colder climates, so the hot, humid climate of Houston is a perfect home for them. German cockroaches will often an unpleasant odor when disturbed. These bugs will eat nearly anything, including soap, glue, and toothpaste. German cockroaches are particularly good at establishing themselves inside of houses, and can be extremely difficult to get rid of once they've set themselves up inside a home.
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The American Cockroach is one of the most common species of cockroach found in Houston. These dark-colored roaches can grow up to 1 to 1 1/2 inches in length, and prefer to gather in dark, moist places. Equally comfortable inside the home or out, American cockroaches will routinely set themselves up in wood piles, basements, under refrigerators, or any other dark place with easy access to shelter.
Oriental Cockroaches or Waterbugs are another large species of cockroach, but unlike the Tree roach these bugs are not as content to live outdoors. They get the name waterbug from their attraction to damp, dark places and they love to gather around pipes and under sinks. Though similar in size to Tree roaches, their wings are comparatively underdeveloped and they are only capable of flying short distances.
Really Big Roaches
Tree Roaches or Palmetto Bugs are technically a species of roach called the Florida Woods Cockroach. Their chief distinguishing feature is that they are really, really big, routinely growing up to 2 inches in length. Tree roaches are less inclined to avoid the light than other species of roaches, and can often be seen during the daylight. They love the palmettos and pine trees that surround Houston. The good news is that tree roaches are less likely to come into houses than other types of roaches, but they are great lovers of dampness and will enter houses during drought conditions.
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Dick Grasso: A Spitzer Mayoral Run 'Would Be a Great Asset to My Candidacy'
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|Fri, 02-01-2013 - 2:29pm
In about a month, it will be time for my youngest son's IEP. So that means all the "preparation paperwork' is beginning to be sent home for me to fill out. I dread it everytime! I think it's mostly because some of the questions are so darn hard to answer! You can't just answer these questions, they always want examples for every answer too. And of course, when it comes time to fill out the paperwork, I can never think of any! I really need to be more cognizant of this throughout the year so I can jot down examples as they happen before I forget.
Anyway, just wanted to vent!
|Tue, 02-26-2013 - 7:12am
Oh that sounds like something mine would do!! and has done!!!
As for the state to state thing, I have this discussion so often sometimes it seems SOME people can't wrap their heads around that their state's way or even districts way isn't the only way. We live in an education progressive state and I constantly hear critism from everything from homework to when we start and end school. maybe it makes sense to start summer vacation in May if you actually get summer weather in May but up north its June. We start late August early September and since most schools don't have AC starting early then that would not be pleasant since it can get hot in August.
Anyway that was an off topic rant and I know there was this call for national standards for education and while good in theroy I don't see it going well, but wonder if they will try to incorporate national standards for special ed???
|Fri, 02-22-2013 - 1:14pm
It's so interesting to read about the differences in each state!
I finished the paperwork a couple weeks ago and then DS forgot to turn it in for almost week straight. ::head desk::
|Sun, 02-17-2013 - 9:26pm
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|Mon, 02-04-2013 - 2:23pm
Interesting--our district does not send any paperwork home prior to IEP meetings. We send home a draft IEP ahead of time, but that just started in the last year or so.
|Sun, 02-03-2013 - 4:26pm
Well, I'm jealous of your mutliple choice questions but not the fact that you have to start off the IEP meeting! That would be tough! Are you supposed to just list your concerns and stuff?
Lisa, who still hasn't filled the paperwork!


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Indignant - Definition
angry because of an unfair situation or someone's unfair behavior
Use Indignant in a sentence
If I'm indignant, it's because you threw that book at me!
The woman was indignant about the way she had been treated by the rude clerk.
Because the teacher accused him of cheating, the boy became indignant and walked out of the classroom.
Indignant at the waste of the company's resources, the financial director cut the supply budget by sixty percent.
Whenever his favorite television channel went black, Henry did not hesitate to send an indignant email to his cable company.
After being kicked out of the game, the indignant basketball player made a nasty comment to the referee.
The protesters were so indignant that they began to throw stones at the police officers.
Many teachers become indignant when their students question their authority.
While I'm quite indignant the boy broke my window, I am pleased he took responsibility for his actions.
All 260 passengers were indignant when they discovered their flight had been cancelled.
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