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Wanner Family Photos
Here is another update in the long goal to load all my photos up onto the blog. I have loaded my maximum for the month of May already but am happy to report I am about 90% done. Then I can spend time writing and commenting about other things rather than the latest updates in photos.
My last update relating to photos dealt with the Nuffer family. My ancestor from the Nuffer family married a Wanner introducing a new name for the line. Here is the information on the Wanner family.
It is a sad note that four of my great grandmother's siblings all lived to be adults but died for a variety of reasons. Two from flu, one from blood poisoning, one as a missionary in New Zealand.
John George Wanner (Johann Georg Wanner)
18 Oct 1845 – Holzgerlingen, Boblingen, Wurttemberg
16 Feb 1922 – Logan, Cache, Utah
6 Jun 1870 – Holgerlingen, Boblingen, Wurttemberg
Anna Maria Schmid
21 Jan 1849 – Holzgerlingen, Boblingen, Wurttemberg
9 Dec 1929 – Logan, Cache, Utah
John George Wanner (Jr)
29 Oct 1870 – Holzgerlingen
5 Jan 1947 – Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Christina Wanner (married Charles August Nuffer)
30 Mar 1872 – Holzgerlingen
10 Aug 1940 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
Maria Magdalena Wanner (married William Addison Wagstaff)(More information at this link: Wagstaff Family)
12 Sep 1873 – Gruenkraut, Boblingen, Wurttemberg
23 Oct 1952 – Ogden, Weber, Utah
Johannas Wanner
23 Jun 1875 – Gruenkraut
5 Nov 1875 – Unknown
Johannas Frederick Wanner
28 Jul 1876 – Gruenkraut
12 Nov 1878 – Unknown
Luise Sophia Wanner (married Jeffery Marcelin Bodrero)
30 Mar 1879 – Gruencraut
1 Feb 1967 – Logan, Cache, Utah
Jacob Frederick Wanner (married Mary Elizabeth Carter and Eva Christensen)
14 Jan 1881 – Gruenkraut
25 Aug 1955 – Preston
Pauline Wanner (married William Henery Crossley)
1 Apr 1884 – Gruenkraut
10 Dec 1921 – Ogden
Gottlop Wanner (married Rebecca Hicks and Grace Elizabeth Stewart)
18 Jun 1886 – Gruenkraut
25 Mar 1952 – Inkom, Bannock, Idaho
Wilhelmina Wanner (married Moses Bodrero, brother to Jefferey above)
12 Sep 1887 – Gruenkraut
4 Mar 1991 – Logan (103 ½!)
John George Wanner
29 Oct 1870 – Holzgerlingen
5 Jan 1947 – Chicago, Cook, Illinois
1. Married
14 Nov 1894 – Logan, Cache, Utah (divorced or did she die?)
Eliza Stirland
3 Dec 1876 – Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England
Unknown death date
Earl Wayne Wanner
31 Oct 1895 – Providence, Cache, Utah
29 Jul 1962 – Unknown
George Phineas Wanner
1897 – Somewhere in Present Franklin County
Unknown Death location or life.
2. Married
31 Aug 1898 – Logan, Cache, Utah (divorced)
Regina Friederike Nuffer
26 Jan 1869 – Neuffen, Esslingen, Wurttemberg
10 Mar 1942 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
William Cristoph Wanner
9 Nov 1899 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
1 Dec 1918 – Camp Genicart, Gironde, France (Influenza)
Willard John Wanner (married Gladys Laverna Thompson)
9 Nov 1899 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
19 Oct 1979 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
Mary Louise Wanner (married William Fredrick Andra, my great grandfather)
5 Mar 1901 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
11 Aug 1991 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
Golden Wanner
4 Sep 1902 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
26 Nov 1918 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (Influenza)
Eva Virtue Wanner (married Adolf Ernest Spatig)
24 Feb 1904 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
12 Aug 1968 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
Rulon Wanner
6 Nov 1905 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
26 Feb 1924 – Logan, Cache, Utah (blood poisoning from razor cut)
Serge Nuffer Wanner
8 Mar 1908 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
5 Oct 1929 – New Zealand (killed as a missionary for LDS)
3. Married
5 May 1921 – Fort Myers, Lee, Florida(divorced)
Annie Janes Metts
29 Aug 1873 – St Augustine, St Johns, Florida
4 Jan 1961 – Unknown
4. Married
3 Jun 1942 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Grace Irene Frasure
5 Jul 1893 – Evansville, Rock, Wisconsin
Mar 1980 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Nuffer Family Photos
For those who did not notice, I added a couple of new albums. So now I will take an opportunity to explain the Nuffer family.
My mother's mother's mother's mother's maiden name was Nuffer. That is how I tie in. There are alternate spellings. The other main spelling is Neuffer, which some of the family has changed it back to (despite the family changing it to Nuffer, even the German line). My 3rd Great Grandfather was married 4 different times. So here we go.
John Christoph Nuffer
6 Mar 1835 – Neuffen, Esslingen, Wurttemberg
12 Apr 1908 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
13 May 1862 – Neuffen
1. Agnes Barbara Spring
26 Nov 1841 – Neuffen
29 Jan 1867 – Neuffen
John Nuffer
4 Dec 1862 – Neuffen
4 Jun 1946 – Preston
George Friedrich Nuffer
20 Jan 1864 – Neuffen
31 Mar 1952 – Saratoga, Santa Clara, California
Christiane Nuffer
18 Aug 1865 – Neuffen
8 Jun 1866 – Unknown
25 Jul 1867 – Neuffen
2. Eva Katharina Greiner (my 3rd Great Grandmother)
26 Feb 1835 – Dettingen, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wurttemberg
26 Feb 1893 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho (then Oneida Co)
Regina Friederike Nuffer (my 2nd Great Grandmother)
26 Jan 1869 – Neuffen
10 Mar 1942 – Preston
Charles August Nuffer (He interestingly married the sister to my 2nd Great Grandfather, John George Wanner)
18 Jun 1871 – Neuffen
17 Jul 1952 – Preston
Adolf Nuffer
14 Apr 1875 – Neuffen
21 Sep 1955 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Mary Nuffer
11 Oct 1881 – Providence, Cache, Utah
5 Oct 1900 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
28 Sep 1893 – Logan, Cache, Utah
3. Anna Elizabeth Reber
17 May 1855 – Aezruti, Schangnau, Bern, Switzerland
1 Dec 1901 – Logan, Cache, Utah
She was married before with children
19 Mar 1902 – Logan, Cache, Utah
4. Maria Anna Alker
12 Aug 1847 – Worms, Rhineland, Hesse
23 Jul 1926 – Logan, Cache, Utah
Regina Friederike Nuffer married John George Wanner in 1898. But before that, she was married to Jacob Scheibel in 1889. He was from Kolb, Saratov, Russia. He ran off and we don't know what ever became of him. They did have a child named Alma Katherine Scheibel who would go on to marry Charles Daniel Naef and have 11 children together. She lived in Downey, Bannock, Idaho raised her family there and is buried there.
Andra Family Photos
Here is the information on the Andra family. This is the family of whose information I have uploaded.
Previously I had loaded the Knauke family album. This will be an extension of that family.
Friedrich Theodor Andra
3 Jan 1867 – Rosswein, Dobeln, Saxony
23 Nov 1902 – Meissen, Dresden, Saxony
9 Sep 1892 – Radebuel, Dresden, Saxony
Christiana Wilhelmina Knauke
24 Oct 1869 – Radebuel, Dresden, Saxony
25 Dec 1957 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Frieda Minna Andra (1893 – 1978)
Walter Theodor Andra (1896 – 1967)
William Fredrick Andra (1898 – 1990)
Clara Anna Andra (1899 – 1989)
Otto Carl Andra (1902 – 1982)
Frieda Andra married 4 times;
George Edward Greaves
Wilhelm Henrich Lehmitz
Leonhard Michael Wendel
Brigham Horrocks
These were her children;
George Andra Greaves
Walter Taylor Greaves
Elizabeth Frieda Greaves
Marion Minna Greaves
Ada Helen Greaves
Hazel Marie Lehmitz
Walter Andra was married 5 times;
Julie Emilie Auguste Emma Blanke
Ruby Elvine Struve
Marie Stohr
Cleo Roseline Busk
Dorothea Landow
These were his children;
Loraine Emilie Andra (Julie's, went by Edwards)
Minnie Yvonne Andra (Ruby's)
Theodore Andra (Cleo's)
LaRoy Walter Andra (Cleo's)
Robert Andra (Cleo's)
Linda Cleo Andra (Cleo's)
Patricia Esther Andra (Cleo's)
Clara Andra was married to:
Emile Heinrich Adolf Blanke
These were their children:
Clara Ruth Blanke
Leroy E Blanke
Arnold August Blanke
Otto was married twice:
Rebecca Amelia Christensen
Elizabeth Mauerman
These were his children:
Rebecca Ila Andra (Rebecca's)
Otto Carl Andra (Rebecca's)
Elizabeth Andra (Elizabeth's)
Iona Andra (Elizabeth's)
Carl Otto Andra (Elizabeth's)
Albert Andra (Elizabeth's)
Carol Andra (Elizabeth's)
Virginia Andra (Elizabeth's)
William Fredrich Andra (Sr)
11 Feb 1898 – Meissen, Dresden, Saxony
13 Mar 1990 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
10 Mar 1920 – Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Mary Louise Wanner
5 Mar 1901 – Mapleton, Franklin, Idaho
11 Aug 1991 – Preston, Franklin, Idaho
William Fredrick Andra (1920 – 1992)
June Andra (1923 – 1999)
Mildred Andra (1925 – 2008)
Golden Rulon Andra (1926 – 2004))
Colleen Mary Andra (1928 – 1999)
Sergene Andra (1932 – 2013)
Donald Wanner Andra (1933 – Present)
Robert Lee Andra (1934 – 1934)
Ross Leslie Andra (1936 – Present)
Dale Andra (1940 – Present)
Dennis Willard Andra (1942 – 1945)
Larry Eugene Andra (1943 – Present)
Knauke Family Photos
Far Flung
I thought another entry would be in order. A few notes of interest first.
Tonight I again played Dr. Abbott in Squash. Do you know how humbling it is to be whooped by a 60 year old man in Squash every week? He is an orthodontic professor at the Dental School Amanda attends. Anyhow, it is not all bleak. I beat him 2 of 6 tonight, and 2 of 6 last week. One of the games tonight was a complete shutout. He did not make a single point! Yeah, I am getting my game back. It just doesn't seem very impressive against a 60 year old!
For the family history plug, I have two miniature miracles to give. Family history is one of those things that just keeps on giving.
I received an e-mail from a Juan Jose Breuer Moreno in Buenos Aires suburbia. Instantly the Breuer name in his name had my interest piqued. Well, he was sending me an e-mail about family history. Come to find out, we are exactly 6th cousins.
Going back far enough, I had a set of great something grandparents whose last name was Breuer. We are talking they were married in Kirchheim, Prussia on the 22 Jul 1777. Their daughter, Anna Catharina Breuer would marry a Wilhelm Jonas. A name that would come down through the years to be my mother's maiden name.
Anna Catharina Breuer had a half brother named Carl. That is Juan's ancestor. So I have officially opened communications with a relative who lives in Argentina. Who would have ever thought I had ties to Argentina by blood? I look forward to learning more about the family. I do recognize that he lives in an area called San Isidro, which is a very affluent area. It is also an area with heavy ties to the government there. It will be interesting to learn of their history and if perchance it ties to the history of Argentina.
He tells me he has a full time genealogist working for him. I wish I could afford someone to help out in the old East Germany! Luckily this line comes from Rheinland which does make it somewhat easier, besides the language barrier. At any rate, just what I have seen so far, this genealogist is very thorough and appears to have ALL the information one could want in relation to dates and places for important events. I am especially interesting in learning what he has for the ancestors of the Breuer line, for what I have only goes one more generation (to1720). Hopefully he has opened up a whole load more.
For another little miracle. I received an e-mail from a lady who was inquiring about Sarah Amelia Donaldson from Ontario Province, Canada. I always knew my Donaldson's came to Utah via Ontario Province and Ireland. So I looked into my records to find I did have a Sarah Amelia Donaldson.
I responded to her e-mail but alas, it was not the same one. It is not uncommon to get e-mails that end up not taking you anywhere.
Oddly, a few days later, she e-mailed me back and said she had the strangest story (I don't know the details, so I am assuming quite a bit here). That she had told her mother that I have a different Sarah Amelia Donaldson. Her mother made the comment that she had some records on that Sarah.
Her mother went and dug out a packet of papers. At some point in the past, a lady knocked on the door with this packet. She knew that her mother was related to the Donaldson family and left the packet with her. For what reason, I am not sure. She didn't know what to do with it, it was any relative of hers so she stuck it away.
Here I come with a different Sarah Amelia, and this lady offers to scan all the pages and e-mail them to me. I can tell you that I have received over 100 e-mails of scanned documents on my Donaldson family. Granted one brother many years ago moved to Northern Utah and started my line. But as far as I can tell, all the rest remained in Frontenac Township of Ontario Province. She sent me scores of documents providing children, families, and information on families I had not traced too much. (It is a line I have wanted to pursue, but have not). She gave me information that traced this line of the Donaldson family across Canada to British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. These are lines that would have been difficult to establish noticing how much they moved about. One line even goes to the Seattle area.
Well, I have made it through about half of the e-mails. I have to admit, I am a bit tired of opening e-mails and inserting the information, but what a treasure of information. Some of the family group sheets are very complete with all the dates. Others just have names, and I will have to hunt down more on them at some other time.
But I am grateful to have added a good score of family to the file. There is plenty more to go. I am sure of that. Just information I need to round out what she gave me would keep me occupied for a good while.
Well, there is a bit of an update. Life continues interesting.
Thanks be given
There is not a whole lot to report on at the present. We enjoyed a Thanksgiving here in blessed Virginia.
Amanda and I drove to Massanutten, a resort up in the hills. We went up to spend Thanksgiving with Amanda's Uncle and Aunt. It turned out to be an interesting day. I enjoyed the drive up to the area. Gordonsville was the highlight of the day, the town having a personality completely its own. A rare thing it seems these days.
Massanutten wasn't anything to boast about. They do have a very large indoor water park. Other than that, it was just a bunch of condos in the middle of the mountains. Don't get me wrong, the mountains were beautiful. How much more beautiful without the "hello, here I am" presence of the resort?
Amanda and I have determined we will never go out to enjoy our Thanksgiving meal again. It seems to undermine what the day is about. Who would have ever thought it was Thanksgiving. Where was any resemblance of Thanksgiving, other than a commercial version of the foods associated with the date?
We went back and pretty much watched the TV for the rest of the day. Driving home, we were relieved to leave the situation which seemed lacking so much.
Hopefully, I can pay some homage to the day here even though the day did not provide much.
This week, I discovered I am the posterity of individuals who lived at Jamestown. Yes, next years celebration of 400 years in America, honored even by the Queen, is directly relevant to me. Not just through this nation, but through my ancestors who lived there. The Clark (or Clarke) family, the Summers, Lumpkin, and Thompson groups I am all related to. There is a possibility my Clark's even come from the famous John Clark, who was the Master's Mate on the Mayflower. He had been to Jamestown before, imprisoned in Spain, made the trip of the Mayflower, and eventually made his way back to live in Jamestown. He died not too much afterwards. I am also a descendent of the Graham Clan who settled parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. They extended into Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio as well. I am an American very deep in some roots. One of those Grahams was a personal friend of George Washington, and convinced him to help endow a new school he had founded. Yep, a Graham founded Washington and Lee. My history includes three future presidents, universities, and other numerous recorded aids to society.
My roots expand the ocean many times. My roots run to Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England. My ancestors were in the court of rulers; my ancestors even ruled parts of the Roman Empire. My ancestors come from Sweden, Norway, and the largest number from Germany. I have family who can be traced into Russia, Australia, and a score of other nations. The foundations I have been given are broad and inclusive. I am so very fortunate. Each of us have a history which began long before we were born.
Those blessings extend beyond my family. This nation, which has its hopes in liberty and freedom are one of the greatest blessings to me. I am very fortunate. It may be a weakness in many ways, but is a great boon in many more ways. I pray for the principles upon which it is founded to continue to go to the whole earth. I pray that those principles would be grasped by other nations and be implemented into their states. I pray our nation might return to the principles of truth and freedom for which it is founded.
I remember the lives of those who were given for this freedom I enjoy and others do not. Two of my Great Grandfather's were gassed in WWI and both lived to tell the tale. Both met painful and difficult deaths due to it. One grandfather has purple hearts to show for his wounds and success in WWII. The other grandfather tried to enroll, but due to health issues was not allowed to be a part.
I pray for the soldiers of freedom everywhere. I care not what nation they represent, as long as they are there for liberty, freedom, and truth. I pray God will bless those who represent those hopes and ideals. That those who do not represent those ideals, or those they represent, will be thwarted in their designs.
It is with gratitude I offer my thanks to He who makes death not a fear. I thank and give adoration to the Savior of all mankind, even Christ that we might all live again. That despite wickedness and fear, we have nothing to fear but sin. I express my deepest thanks for the restoration of His church back on the earth and the miracles which abound about us. The gathering of lost nations, the restoration of Israel, the building up of the kingdom in preparation for the king whose right it is to rule. My deepest sympathies are with the restoration and furthering of eternal purposes upon the earth. My greatest joys and delight come from this impressive, yet almost unrecognizable effort happening in our midst.
I am pleased to have been born at this time of such great blessing. It is with a certain hope I see the future, despite all which is prophesied to come upon us. So much pain that the Saints will barely escape with their lives. We have seen little or nothing of what is to come. Nations will rise up against nations and desolation shall abound on all the earth. Those of the order of God have not need to fear though. This I am grateful for. For the Priesthood which shall protect those within the covert from the storm, for the Resurrection that those who will be lost; both for their own sins and for a more full judgment upon the wicked.
Most close to home I thank for those who are dearest to me. I am thankful for those who so deeply touch the deepest parts of my soul. Many who are now separated from me by death, but that too shall not be for long. My dearest wife, and all her splendor for which I am a blessed soul. My parents who fought and struggled so hard for my upbringing and their abiding love for me.
There is a whole multitude of souls I could reference for their influence in my life. The more I learn and contemplate, the more I realize how intricately every soul is linked to one another. Even years later we remember the influence of another. There are influences from childhood, influences from events far away, and even influence from beyond the grave.
My heart is full. I am thankful for all things.


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BYU (23-11) at Southern Miss (27-9)
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DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 27, 8 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Reed Green Coliseum (8,095) -- Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Television: ESPNU. NIT Record: BYU 14-8, Southern Miss 8-7. Series Record: First-ever meeting.
GAMES NOTES: With an opportunity to play in semifinals of the 2013 National Invitational Tournament on the line the BYU Cougars will battle the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at Reed Green Coliseum on Wednesday.
The NIT's semifinals will be held at Madison Square Garden on April 2 with the winner of this contest advancing to take on either Providence or Baylor. The other semifinal will be between the victors among Alabama/Maryland and Virginia/Iowa.
The high-octane Cougars haven't deviated from the successful plan the team has employed all season long. BYU has scored 90 points in each of the first two rounds, including a 90-71 rout of Mercer in Monday's second round. The Cougars didn't look so strong entering the event as they had lost five of eight contests. BYU is in the midst of its 11th appearance in the NIT, winning titles during the 1951 and 1966 seasons.
If it weren't for Memphis, Southern Miss could have very well been Conference USA's entrant in the NCAA Tournament. However a 91-79 setback against the Tigers in the conference finals, its third of the season against them, ended those hopes. The Golden Eagles have recovered nicely with tournament wins over Charleston Southern and Louisiana Tech to reach the NIT quarterfinals. At 27-9 the Golden Eagles have amassed the most wins in a season ever, while having totaled at least 22 in three straight years.
Brandon Davies dominated up front with 26 points and 10 rebounds, while Tyler Haws poured in 24 points in the win over Mercer. Matt Carlino got into the act as well, draining 5-of-10 from behind the arc and just missing a double- double with 18 points and nine assists.
The Cougars' effort against the Bears has been their blueprint all season with the team relying heavily on Haws, Davies and Carlino. Haws (21.5 ppg) was the leading scorer in the West Coast Conference this season and can score from anywhere on the floor. Davies (18.0 ppg, 7.8 rpg) pounds away on the inside with nine double-doubles on the campaign. Carlino (11.0 ppg, 4.5 apg) often takes a backseat in the scoring department, but makes sure to keep the rest of the team involved.
After jumping out to a 35-27 lead at halftime against Louisiana Tech, a team that was nationally ranked at one point, the Golden Eagles struggled a bit in the second half when they shot 36.7 percent overall. However Southern Miss limited the Bulldogs to just 33.3 percent shooting in the final 20 minutes to hold on for the win. Despite the win, the 1-of-15 effort Southern Miss had from 3-point range is a cause for concern.
Dwayne Davis (16.3 ppg, 4.5 rpg) had a solid all around game in the victory with 13 points, seven rebounds and four assists. The 6-foot-5 forward contributes in just about every facet of the game and has some explosive scoring ability with 10 games of at least 20 points this season. Unlike the Cougars, the Golden Eagles rely more on a balanced attack, with five other players scoring at least eight points per game. Jerrold Brooks (10.8 ppg) is the only other double-figure scorer, while lead distributor Neil Watson (9.8 ppg, 4.9 apg) and top rebounder Jonathan Mills (9.4 ppg, 7.9 rpg) are also reliable options.
The Golden Eagles have really defended Reed Green Coliseum well this year with just a single blemish in 15 tries at home. BYU (6-5) isn't a stellar road team, but if Haws, Davies and Carlino keep up their high level of play the Cougars won't be run off the floor. Expect a tight contest with the Golden Eagles finding a way to pull out a win in the end.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Southern Miss 73, BYU 71
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Emplacement of a Corrective Action Management Unit, a Temporary Unit, or an Area of Contamination
A CAMU can also be considered for management of remediation waste. Using a CAMU for disposal of remediation waste can be considered a type of leave-in-place remedy, but it does not necessarily need to be in or even near an existing SWMU or disposal site. It would be established at a location where remediation waste could be consolidated and managed; this is similar to use of a landfill. However, in contrast with leave-in-place, remediation waste would be moved from the disposal units onsite to the CAMU. In addition, although the CAMU could receive munition bodies and scrap metal from the site and from the EDS or the EDTs, it would not necessarily need to include these metals. It could be used merely to manage contaminated media such as soil). In addition, in combination with designated areas of contamination, CAMUs used for storage and treatment, and possibly TUs, a cost-effective and efficient means of dealing with remediation waste that is protective of human health and the environment and that is tailored to the site in question could be developed.
On-site Treatment vs Off-site Transportation for Treatment
The DOD interim guidance (U.S. Army, 2009) clearly favors on-site treatment, but it leaves the door open for off-site transportation for treatment:
Under certain circumstances and after coordination with appropriate state, federal and DOD agencies and, when appropriate, with concurrence by Center for Disease Control's U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), the DASA (ESOH) may authorize other dispositions (e.g., transport and treatment off-site, open detonation).
Off-site transportation would presumably be considered when space or other limitations prevent an onsite approach or when a military installation with EOD capabilities is a reasonable distance from the burial site. There may be circumstances in which off-site transportation for later destruction will be a good option.
Other Approaches
In the quotation above, DOD leaves open the option of open detonation for RCWM. The DOD interim guidance goes on to say, "When open detonation is authorized, 50 USC, Section 1518 requires Congressional notification." Clearly, open detonation would be used only in highly unusual circumstances when there is no safer way to deal with the RCWM.
DOD (U.S. Department of Defense). 1998. Policy to Implement the EPA's Military Munitions Rule. July 1. http://uxoinfo.com/blogcfc/client/enclosures/1July98mrip.pdf. Accessed February 17, 2012.
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 1976. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., as amended through P.L. 107–377, December 31, 2002. Available at http://epw.senate.gov/rcra.pdf. Accessed June 14, 2012.
EPA. 1984. Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984. H.R. 2867 (98th). November 8. Available at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/98/hr2867. Accessed May 31, 2012.
EPA. 1990. National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan ("National Contingency Plan"). 40 CFR Part 300; Preamble at 55 FR 8713. March 8. Available at http://www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/remedy/sfremedy/pdfs/ncppreamble61.pdf. Accessed March 29, 2012.
EPA. 1998. Management of Remediation Waste Under RCRA. EPA 530F-98-026. October 14. Available at http://www.epa.gov/superfund/policy/remedy/pdfs/530f-98026-s.pdf. Accessed March 21, 2012.
EPA. 2002. Amendments to the Corrective Action Management Unit Rule; Final Rule. 40 CFR Parts 260, 264, and 27. January 22. Available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2002-01-22/html/02-4.htm. Accessed April 11, 2012.
EPA. 2005. Handbook on the Management of Munitions Response Actions. May. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Available at http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P100304J.txt. Accessed March 20, 2012.
EPA. 2010. Munitions Response Guidelines. July. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response Available at http://www.epa.gov/fedfac/documents/docs/munitions_response_guidelines.pdf.
NRC. 2006. Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
U.S. Army. 2004. Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel (RCWM) Response Process. EP 75-1-3. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. November 30. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army. Available at http://publications.usace.army.mil/publications/eng-pamphlets/EP_75-1-3/toc.htm. Accessed April 11, 2012.
U.S. Army. 2006. Military Munitions Response Process. EP 1110-1-18. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Engineer Pamphlet. April 3. Washington, D.C.: Headquarters, Department of the Army. Available at http://ww.hnd.usace.army.mil/oew/policy/IntGuidRegs/EP1110-1-18.pdf. Accessed March 29, 2012.
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This Authorization to Obtain Employment Information is for use by a client and gives his or her counsel authority to obtain employment information. This authorization contains all relevant information including the name of the law firm and the employer. It also sets out which employment information can be released. Many employers will not release employment history or information without an authorization.
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Please be advised that the law firm of ____________________________________, represents the undersigned in an automobile accident wherein I lost income from my employment. It will be necessary for me to obtain records from my employer showing salary, wage, bonus, commission and other relevant information. I hereby authorize my employer to release any and all information regarding my employment and income to ___________________________ and release said employer from any and all liability associated with the release of all such information.
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Dated this ____ day of ________, 20__.
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Right-to-Life Congressional Priorities for 1998: Statement by Douglas Johnson, NRLC Federal Legislative Director, January 22, 1998.
Washington, D.C., on January 22, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. When we stood before you here one year ago today, we explained that the two top legislative priorities of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) during the 105th Congress would be, first, enactment of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and second, defeat of any so-called "campaign reform" bills that would restrict our right to speak to the public regarding the positions and actions of specific politicians on right-to-life issues.
Over the past year, there have been very significant developments on both of those issues, but in each case, the final legislative outcomes for this Congress remain in doubt. I would like to briefly outline the status of these two issues, which remain top-tier priorities for our organization during 1998. I will then describe a third legislative priority, a new piece of legislation we will be publicly discussing today for the first time -- the Child Custody Protection Act.
Our focus here today on these three issues should not be understood to suggest that these will be the only issues of major significance to NRLC during the 1998 congressional session. There are other weighty matters to be dealt with.
For example, pro-life leaders in Congress, led by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), will renew their efforts to curb the Clinton Administration's use of the foreign aid program to promote the legalization and expansion of abortion in the developing world -- and we will strongly back their efforts. [See Action Box, page 13.]
Another example: NRLC strongly supported the enactment of the current law that prohibits federal funding of harmful experimentation on living human embryos; we also oppose such harmful experimentation when it is done with non-government funds. Recently, many press reports have said that President Clinton supports a five-year "ban" on human cloning, but this is not accurate. In fact, the President has proposed legislation that would allow individual members of the human family to be created by cloning, used for harmful experimentation, and then destroyed.
In other words, President Clinton's proposal in effect authorizes human cloning but only if the cloned human beings are killed or allowed to die without being implanted in a womb. NRLC will strongly oppose any attempt to persuade Congress to embrace the ideological fantasy that embryonic human individuals are something :other than "human beings" and therefore may be treated like laboratory mice or frogs.
[See page 21. of this issue for the text of NRLC's February 5 letter to the U.S. Senate regarding the cloning issue.]
In June 1995, Congressman Charles Canady (R-Fl.) focused a spotlight on one of the many grisly facets of abortion practice in America, when he introduced a bill to ban the specific abortion method in which a living baby is partly delivered, feet first, before being killed by the puncturing of the skull with a surgical instrument and the removal of brain matter with a suction machine. Since then, this act -- the killing of a partly delivered baby -- has been defined in the laws of 17 states by the legal term of art partial-birth abortion. Congress has also twice passed legislation to place a national ban on partial-birth abortion.
When we stood before you a year ago, it was not long after the Senate had sustained, by an eight-vote margin, President Clinton's first veto of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. We noted that the results of the 1996 election had not greatly changed the balance of forces in Congress, but added that in our view, the prospects for enactment of the bill during the new Congress really hinged on whether the American people would begin to receive more accurate information regarding the practice of partial-birth abortion.
We quoted a few of countless examples of major news outlets uncritically accepting and reporting as fact the abortion industry's manufactured claims that partial-birth abortions were performed rarely and only in dire medical circumstances. [Typical of many such claims was a letter opposing the bill that was sent to Congress by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the National Abortion Federation (NAF), and other groups, stating, "This surgical procedure is used only in rare cases, fewer than 500 per year. It is most often performed in the case of wanted pregnancies gone tragically wrong...."]
Such claims, we pointed out, were disproved by a substantial body of readily available evidence, including published interviews with various abortionists who had pioneered the partial-birth method. We also noted that even with respect to the small fraction of cases involving women whose babies suffered from grave disorders, eminent medical authorities rejected the procedure as medically unnecessary and indeed risky for the mother.
The validity of our assertions has been amply demonstrated by events of the past year. Only days after that press conference, the general performance of the media in covering the partial-birth abortion issue was strongly critiqued by the PBS documentary program Media Matters. The producers concluded that many major organs of the press had uncritically presented as fact the unsupported assertions of the pro-abortion lobby regarding the prevalence and typical circumstances of partial-birth abortions, while ignoring evidence put forward by supporters of the bill that contradicted those assertions.
The validity of the Media Matters critique was further underscored several weeks later in a series of interviews given by Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, an association of about 200 abortion clinics. In interviews first with American Medical News and then with The New York Times, Mr. Fitzsimmons said he had "lied through my teeth" when he claimed that partial-birth abortions were performed rarely and in exceptional circumstances. As The New York Times reported, "As much as he disagreed with the National Right to Life Committee ... he said he knew they were accurate when they said the procedure was common .... In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along, Mr. Fitzsimmons said." Asked why he earlier told journalists information that he knew was false, Mr. Fitzsimmons explained, "I just went out there and spouted the party line."
But Mr. Fitzsimmons was not the architect of that "party liner It was the top leadership of the major pro-abortion advocacy groups -- NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and NAF -- who developed and promulgated that concerted campaign of misinformation.
That smokescreen of misinformation was so widely disseminated by so many voices of supposedly impartial authority that it still, to a degree, clouds the perception of many Americans regarding this issue. But slowly the truth is sinking in, and the movement to prohibit partial-birth abortions continues to grow.
Last May, the American Medical Association (AMA) endorsed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, after sponsors of the bill agreed to make minor clarifying revisions. In a May 19 letter to Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), AMA Executive Vice President P. John Seward, M.D., said, "Thank you for the opportunity to work with you towards restricting a procedure we all agree is not good medicine."
In 17 states, bills to ban partial-birth abortions have been enacted. Many of these bills are under legal challenge, but no court has yet considered the legal arguments of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee as to why such a ban should be upheld even under Roe v. Wade. If President Clinton's veto is overridden this year, then the federal courts should squarely address the question of the constitutional status of human beings who are only inches away from achieving legal live birth status when they are brutally killed. [See "Call It Partial-Birth Abortion -- It's the Law!" June 19 NRL News, page 6, and "Ohio `Brain Suction' Law, Struck by Court, Differs Greatly From Partial-Birth Abortion Laws,." Dec. 9 NRL News, page 8.]
Each time the bill has come up in the House and Senate, the level of support has grown. We expect that the House will vote to override the President's veto with some votes to spare. In the Senate, the vote on May 20 was 64-36 -- still three votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin. NRLC and other organizations supporting the bill will renew and redouble our public education and lobbying efforts this year, in the hope of obtaining those additional votes. It is an uphill fight, but success is not outside the realm of possibility, considering that support for the ban in the Senate grew by 10 votes between December 1995 and May 1997.
President Clinton and his Senate allies enjoy one important advantage, which is the tendency among many news outlets to greatly minimize the profound differences between the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and the alternative legislative proposals that have been endorsed by Mr. Clinton, these being the Hoyer-Greenwood Amendment in the House and the Daschle Amendment in the Senate. These proposals are often inaccurately described by reporters as banning partial-birth abortions except those performed for "health" reasons. That is a distortion, because the Hoyer-Greenwood and Daschle proposals, on their face, have no application whatever to cases in which the government cannot prove that a given baby's lung development placed that baby past the point of "viability." The vast majority of partial-birth abortions are performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy, and therefore would be entirely untouched by the proposals endorsed by the White House.
Even after the point that a specific baby's pre-abortion "viability" might be established beyond a reasonable doubt -- the final three months of pregnancy -- these "phony bans" would allow partial-birth abortions to be performed at any abortionist's discretion. Regarding the Daschle Amendment, late-term abortionist Dr. Warren Hem, author of the standard text Abortion Practice, told the Bergen Record (May 14, 1997), "I will certify that any pregnancy is a threat to a woman's life and could cause grievous injury to her physical health."
Clearly, the public is overwhelmingly opposed to partial-birth abortion, regardless of the exact stage of lung development of the baby subjected to this brutal procedure. To the degree that the public becomes aware that the alternatives pushed by opponents of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act are merely political shams that would leave partial-birth abortion virtually unrestricted, our chances of overriding the veto are enhanced.
A year ago today, we explained that we would vigorously oppose any so-called "campaign reform" bill that would restrict our rights, under the First Amendment, to speak to the public regarding the positions and actions of specific politicians on right-to-life issues.
A year later, we feel that we have made some headway in highlighting the degree to which most of the pending so-called "campaign reform" bills would do just that. But much of the coverage of this facet of the campaign-reform issue remains superficial and often contains distortions regarding both current law and the legislative proposals.
The latest version of the McCain-Feingold bill, for example, contains layer upon layer of restrictions on speech by citizen groups about politicians. Most of the press attention has focused on a provision that would prohibit any type of organization, other than a federal political action committee, from daring to even mention the name of a member of Congress, or candidate for Congress, in a broadcast communication to the public for 60 days before any primary or general election.
But the bill contains other restrictions on free speech about politicians that are even more sweeping and that apply year round. Printed voter guides and scorecards containing commentary or value judgements on issues would be banned, except those put out by PACs. Moreover, in a provision almost entirely ignored by the press, even ads that refer to no candidate would be re-defined as illegal campaign contributions, if they advocate a position that is deemed to be "of value" to a legislator or other candidate with whom the sponsoring organization has had virtually any manner of two-way communication, at any time of the year. [See October 21, 1997 NRL News, page 13.]
Of the thousands of state and local right-to-life groups in the nation, only a handful have the resources to handle the complexities and regulatory burdens of operating a federal political action committee. Therefore, to allow no organizations other than PACs to comment on the actions of federal politicians -- which is the net effect of the McCain-Feingold bill -- would effectively gag most citizen-activist groups, such as those that make up the backbone of the pro-life movement. Yet commentary regarding elected officials is at the heart of what the First Amendment protects.
This is not a peripheral issue for us. We believe it is essential that we be allowed to speak directly to the public about upcoming legislative votes and about the actions of specific politicians on issues of concern to us. We do not believe most Americans want to give politicians and political appointees control over the amount, tone, and timing of what we say to the public about their positions and their actions. [See "Do American Voters Need Speech Nannies?" September 30, 1997, NRL News, page 1.]
In order to engender a more informed public debate, last fall NRLC ran radio ads in nine states, criticizing specific lawmakers for their sponsorship of bills to restrict our speech to the public about politicians' positions. These ads criticized members of both parties, some pro-abortion and some anti-abortion, for their proposals to regulate speech about politicians. [See November 18, 1997, NRL News, pages 6-7, and "NRLC Responds to the League of Women Voters' Push for Gag on Others' Speech About Politicians," on page 13 of this issue.]
We expect to renew our public education efforts in anticipation of votes during the next few months on the McCain-Feingold bill in the Senate and various speech-restriction schemes pending in the House. NRLC will continue to work with other groups that vigorously defend the right to free speech about politicians, including the Christian Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the NRA -- and all three of those groups, by the way, expressed approval of our references to their opposition to these bills in some of our recent radio ads. [For information on upcoming Senate and House action on bills to restrict free speech about politicians, see the Action Request that begins on the back cover.]
NRLC enthusiastically endorses a brand new piece of pro-life legislation that will soon be introduced in the U.S. House and Senate, entitled the Child Custody Protection Act.
[For the latest developments on this bill, see the story that begins on page 1 of this issue.]
The lawmakers involved in the preparation of this legislation are Senator Spencer Abraham (R-Mi.) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl.), as well as Congressman Charles Canady (R-Fl.), the chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. With Congress in recess, none of these lawmakers were able to join us here today, but they have consented to our discussing the legislation. Senator Abraham and Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen have sent printed statements, which you will find in your press kits.
This proposal would make it a federal offense to transport an individual age 17 and under across a state line for an abortion if this action circumvents the application of a state law requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion (or judicial waiver of such requirements).
Twenty-two (22) states have laws in effect that require the notification of, or consent by, at least one parent (or authorization by a judge), before an abortion can be performed on those below the age designated by the state. (The 22-state figure does/not include what we call "parental circumvention" laws, which allow notification to or consent by persons other than parents or legal guardians, and/or that allow abortionists to waive notification/ consent requirements for reasons other than medical emergencies.)
However, these laws are sometimes circumvented by adults who transport minors to abortion providers in neighboring states which do not have parental notification or consent laws. In some cases, the adults involved in this activity are associated with abortion providers. In other cases, the adults involved seek to assist minors in concealing abortions from their parents for a variety of motives, including concealment of statutory rape or other criminal activity.
A recent criminal prosecution in Pennsylvania illustrates how outrageous these violations of parental rights can be. This case (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Hartford) involved an 18-year -old man who had a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. The girl became pregnant. Pennsylvania law requires parental consent prior to the performance of an abortion on a minor. Nevertheless, the man's mother took the girl (who had just turned 13), without her mother's knowledge (the mother did not even know her daughter was pregnant), on a school day, and transported her 60 miles to an abortion clinic in New York, where an abortion was performed. Pennsylvania authorities prosecuted this woman, who was convicted of interfering with the custody of a child. Her son pled guilty to two counts of statutory rape.
Most significantly, at trial and on appeal, this woman, Rosa Hartford, has been represented by the leading pro-abortion legal defense organization, the New York-based Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP). A central element of the CRLP's defense is that the conduct of Rosa Hartford was protected by the U.S. Constitution, because Hartford did no more than help the girl exercise her constitutional "right to abortion" under Roe v., Wade. As the CRLP put it in one brief, "this case asks whether the thousands of adults who each year aid young women in exercising their constitutional right to an abortion can be put at risk of prosecution."
CRLP attorney Kathryn Kolbert said in an interview that her client is "an individual [who] has assisted a woman [sic] to exercise her constitutional rights." Adults engage in such activity "thousands" of times, Kolbert said, adding, "How does a 14-year-old get to New Hampshire from Boston without getting a ride? [Associated Press, Sept. 16, 1995.]
This constitutional argument was rejected by the Pennsylvania trial court and by a state appeals court. The appeals court held that "although a parent's right to make decisions for her child is tempered in the instance of abortion, at least in Pennsylvania that parent has the legitimate expectation that procedural safeguards designed to protect the minor will be observed," that is, that "another responsible adult (i.e., a judge) will provide some oversight to that decision." (However, in October the appeals court remanded the case for a new trial due to erroneous jury instructions.)
At some point, the CRLP may present a federal court with its argument that adults have the right to, take minors across state lines, without parental knowledge or consent, in order to procure abortions -- even in cases involving pregnancies resulting from criminal activity. By enactment of the Child Custody Protection Act, Congress would take a clear stand against this bizarre notion that the U.S. Constitution confers a "right" on strangers to take One's minor daughter across state lines to get a secret abortion, even when a state law specifically provides for the involvement of a parent or judge in the daughter's abortion decision.
Enactment of the bill would greatly reduce the circumvention of state parental involvement laws, thereby protecting all of the compelling interests that the state legislatures recognized in enacting those laws in the first place. This includes the need for parents to be aware that their minor daughter may be subjected to a surgical procedure and/or the administration of drugs that could be dangerous in light of medical history unknown to the minor herself.
In short, federal legislation is warranted because of the acknowledged scope of the practice, and because of the profound physical and psychological risks of an abortion to a minor. As the Supreme Court has observed, "[T]he medical, emotional, and psychological consequences of an abortion are serious and can be lasting; this is particularly so when the patient is immature." [H.L. v. Matheson, 450 U.S. 398, 411 (1981).]
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Pirate Party of Canada
|Pirate Party of Canada
|Parti Pirate du Canada
Active federal party
|James Wilson
|Patrick Fitzgerald
|June 12, 2009
|3-212 Henderson Highway, Suite 15. Winnipeg MB R2L 1L8[1]
|Pirate politics,
IP reform,
Network neutrality,
Open government,
Civil Liberties
|International affiliation
|Pirate Parties International
|Black and Purple. Alt: Red and White
|Seats in the House of Commons
0 / 308
|Seats in the Senate
0 / 105
|Politics of Canada
Political parties
The Pirate Party of Canada (French: Parti Pirate du Canada, abbreviated as the PPCA), is a minor party in federal Canadian politics. The party was registered with Elections Canada in 2010, the PPCA is modelled on the Swedish Pirate Party and advocates intellectual property reform, privacy protection, network neutrality and greater government openness.[2] No member of the party has been elected to Parliament.[3]
- 1 Name
- 2 Founding and development
- 3 Projects
- 4 Political positions
- 5 Party governance
- 6 Elections
- 7 Influence
- 8 Criticism
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 External links
"Companies had labelled people who infringe on copyright as pirates, and we figured since we were going to reform copyright law, we were going to get called pirates anyway, so we were going to adopt the term and make it our own" -James Wilson, current leader,[4]
The Pirate Party drew its inspiration from the Piratpartiet, the Swedish Pirate Party. In 2001, the copyright industry established the Antipiratbyrån — The Anti-Piracy Bureau. In 2003, to combat this legislation, a group of artists, musicians, and cultural workers founded a think-tank called the Piratbyrån — the Piracy Bureau. In selecting that name, the Bureau was signalling that they were the progressive, while the antis were the regressive. In 2005, when copyright laws were harshened again in Sweden, the Bureau established itself as a political party becoming the Pirate Party.[5] Due to past successes of the Bureau, the name immediately conveyed all the political ideas the party stood for. Under that banner, the Pirate Party came 5th in the 2009 European Parliament elections with 7.13% of the vote and 1 MEP, later increasing to 2 after ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Christian Engström became the first MEP for the party, and Amelia Andersdotter took the second seat on December 1, 2009.
The Canadian Pirate Party was ideologically founded out of that movement, retaining many of the political thought of their parent party.
"...we keep our funny name but use it to get the attention to spread to our very important causes." -Travis McCrea, former leader[6]
Founding and development[edit]
In June 2009, the PPCA was founded by a handful of Canadian supporters active on the web forums of the Pirate Parties International collective.[7][8][9] The party established its own forums and removed membership fees, as part of a campaign to gain the 250 members necessary for registration,[10] gaining 1,000 members by October 2009.[11]
In October 2009, the party selected university student Jake Daynes as its interim leader and established an interim council.[12] On April 12, 2010, the party was granted official status by Canada's chief electoral officer, Marc Mayrand.[13][14] On August 19, 2010, the party held its first leadership elections.[15] On September 1, 2010, the first official Federal Council was elected, with Mikkel Paulson as party leader.[16][17]
According to Elections Canada, the Pirate Party became eligible to field candidates on April 12, 2010 and was registered on November 6, 2010.[18] As of November 2010 the party claims to have over 2,000 members.[19]
Following the 2011 election the party examined issues that had arose with its constitution and began taking steps to reform it. Issues included a hard to reach quorum for General Meetings and the difficulties of the Federal Council members running for office while also handling party paperwork and administration. On December 19 the party adopted the new constitution and held elections for the new Executive Board and Political Council.[20]
In June 2012, the party began the process of crowdsourcing its 2015 election platform and opened sections of its forums to guests.[21]
In July 2012, the Pirate Party of Canada allegedly failed to produce its financial report for Elections Canada,[22] citing a changeover of official agents for the party. However, internal PPCA documents demonstrate that the party's membership have been advocating for a public release of the party's financial information since the 2011 Federal Election.[citation needed] Despite these claims, Elections Canada has all of the party's 'Statements of Assets and Liabilities and Statements of Revenues and Expenses' from 2011 until the present.[23]
On September 27, 2009, the party launched a BitTorrent tracker, named the "Canadian Pirate Tracker" or "CaPT", with the aim of promoting its position on works being released online[24]
Pirate Party Radio was a weekly audio show from 2009-2011 produced by the Canadian RantMedia and host James O'Brien.[25] It was officially recognised by the Pirate Party of Canada,[26] United States Pirate Party[27] and Pirate Party UK.[28] As of May 5, 2011 the weekly broadcasts stopped.
In 2011, in response to lawful access legislation that was being put forward in Parliament, the PPCA announced it would launch a VPN service to help guard Canadians' online privacy.[29]
In early 2012, also in response to Bill C-30, several members of the Pirate Party of Canada created a new Linux distro titled Pirate Linux. It is installable as a package on an existing Linux system or as its own distribution based on Ubuntu. It includes many privacy enhancements, including utilizing Tor with browsers preconfigured for its use.[30]
Political positions[edit]
|Whether you watched a movie at a friend's house that you didn't pay for, or if you borrowed a book, that's essentially what they are calling piracy.
—Mikkel Paulson, former leader[31]
Like the Swedish Pirate Party, the PPCA platform is focused on intellectual property reform, privacy, net neutrality and open government.[2] The party has also called for net neutrality in Canada, and suggested that medical patents are preventing innovations that could save lives.[32] Candidates have also suggested that making government records available online may encourage transparency, and allow citizens to more directly scrutinize and participate in the process.[33]
Like their Pirate counterparts worldwide, the PPCA is bloc-neutral on other issues, noting that issues outside the party's realm are left to the individual candidate to represent their own constituents' desires.[33][34][35]
The PPCA has been heralded by OpenMedia.ca for its "digital policy issues".[36]
Party governance[edit]
The party is run by three organs of party governance: the Executive Board, the Political Council, and the General Meeting. The Executive Board consists of the president, vice-president, secretary, leader, deputy leader, and chairs of standing committees of the party.[37] The Political Council consists of the leader, deputy leader and other council members elected by approval voting.[38] The General Meeting is open to all members and meets monthly.[39] While the Executive Board and Political Council can act independently in most matters, the General Meeting has veto power over their decisions and may pass their own motions.[40][41]
Current Executive Board[edit]
|Councillor Name
|Elected To Board
|Patrick Fitzgerald
|Mar 19 2014
|Mar 19 2014
|Vice President
|James Phillips
|Mar 19 2014
|James Wilson
|Mar 19 2014
|Craig Nobbs
|Mar 19 2014
|Deputy Leader
Current Political Council[edit]
|Councillor Name
|Elected to Council
|James Wilson
|Jan 25 2014
|Party Leader
|Craig Nobbs
|Jan 25 2014
|Deputy Leader
|Adrian Pappas
|Jan 25 2014
|Frederic Trottier-Hebert
|Jan 25 2014
|Bob Trower
|Jan 25 2014
|Scott Elcomb
|Jan 25 2014
|Chad Kohalyk
|Jan 25 2014
Former Pirate Party Leaders[edit]
- Jacob Daynes (2009–2010)
- Mikkel Paulson (2010–2012)
- Shawn Vulliez (2012–2013)
- Travis McCrea (2013-2013)
- James Wilson (2013–Present)
2010 by-elections[edit]
The first federal election contested by the party was the November 2010 by-election in Winnipeg North, finishing ahead of the Communist and Christian Heritage parties, but behind the Green Party.[19][42]
Jeff Coleman, a 25-year-old small business owner, was the first Pirate Party of Canada candidate to run for federal election.[43][44]
|Winnipeg North
|Jeff Coleman
2011 general election[edit]
For the 2011 federal election, the PPCA put forward candidates in 10 of the 308 ridings but failed to win a single seat, averaging 0.63% support for their candidates. The media noted that Craig Nobbs ran a zero-dollar campaign.[45] The Pirate Party of Canada acquired a total of 3,198 votes.[46]
|Edmonton Centre
|Mikkel Paulson
|Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont
|Brent Schaffrick
|British Columbia
|Craig Nobbs
|British Columbia
|Jesse Schroeder
|Prince George—Peace River
|British Columbia
|Jeremy Coté
|Vancouver Centre
|British Columbia
|Travis McCrea
|Ric Lim
|Steven Bradley Scott
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After Bob Rae resignation of the Toronto Centre riding, a by-election was held on November 25, 2013. On August 2, 2013, Travis McCrea had announced that he was running in the riding.[47] On October 11, 2013, McCrea left the role of leader of the Pirate Party of Canada, and withdrew his name from the by-election citing depression.[48][49][50][51]
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On January 1, 2012, twelve[53] IP addresses assigned to the Canadian House of Commons were caught pirating copyrighted films, music, e-books and software.[54] In the same leak, similar activities were linked to the U.S. House of Representatives and the French President's residence, the Elysees Palace.[55] The discovery was attributed to the PPCA.[53][56]
Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May noted that the PPCA seemed redundant, as the two parties shared the majority of their platforms on copyright reform, medical patents and intellectual property;[57] but the PPCA responded that "even if the Green Party had the same stance as us, [...] they were not talking about these issues in the last election; no party was".[58]
David Shipley, an analyst at the University of New Brunswick's Information Technology Services department, has criticized the party for being largely around online issues, which may not be enough to garner votes. He is quoted as saying: "How much people decide where they're going to place their vote based on their entertainment preferences, I'm not sure."[4]
Jon Pammett, professor of political science at Carleton University, sees issues with small single-issue parties, like the PPCA. In his opinion the Pirate Party has a larger set of issues than most as they have "picked a set of quite complicated and technical issues, however, and may have some difficulty using the limited attention they get in public campaign events to adequately explain them."[59]
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- ^ http://elections.ca/content.aspx?section=pol&dir=par&document=index&lang=e#ppc
- ^ a b "About the Pirate Party of Canada". Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/04/14/beyond-the-fringe-a-look-at-the-parties-without-seats/
- ^ a b c d "Pirate Party's James Wilson aims to lead party nationally". cbc.ca. January 25, 2014.
- ^ "Why The Name "Pirate Party"? - Falkvinge on Infopolicy". Falkvinge on Infopolicy.
- ^ https://www.pirateparty.ca/about/
- ^ CBC News (June 30, 2009). "Copyright Fighting Pirate Party Coming to Canada". Retrieved November 1, 2010.
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada - History". Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ "PPI Canada Board". Pirate Parties International. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
- ^ "Pirate Party drops fees in drive for recognition". CTV News. August 30, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada; Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!". VUE Weekly. October 7, 2009. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ "Interim Leader and Directors". Pirate Party of Canada. October 8, 2009. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- ^ http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/04/26/the_pirate_party_seeks_your_booty.html
- ^ http://www.thesudburystar.com/2010/04/27/avast-pirates-officially-on-ballot-13
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada seeks new captain". IT Business.
- ^ "Leadership". Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- ^ "Leadership acceptance letter". Pirate Party of Canada. September 1, 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ^ "Registered Political Parties and Parties Eligible for Registration". Elections Canada Online. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ a b Black, Debra (November 4, 2010). "Winnipeg North first Canadian battleground for Pirate Party". Toronto Star. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ "Constitution 2011-12-18". Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
- ^ https://www.pirateparty.ca/forum/index.php?topic=2269.0
- ^ "Registered Political Parties Submit 2011 Financial Returns". AlphaTrade Finance. Retrieved July 16, 2012.[dead link]
- ^ http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=fin&document=index&dir=pol/asset&lang=e
- ^ Geist, Michael (September 27, 2009). "Pirate Party of Canada Launches Creative Commons Tracker". Retrieved April 13, 2010.
- ^ "Pirate Party Radio Official Website".
- ^ "Link on Pirate Party of Canada Site to Pirate Party Radio".
- ^ "Approval of Pirate Party Radio for US Pirate Party".
- ^ "Pirate Party UK tweet endorsing Pirate Party Radio".
- ^ "Pirate Party plans to offer Canadians VPN service". canadiancontent.net.
- ^ http://piratelinux.org/?page_id=13
- ^ Capilano Courier, Free the Internet
- ^ "Avast! Pirates officially on ballot". Niagara Falls Review. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ a b "SteinbachOnline.com - Local news, Weather, Sports, Free Classifieds and Business Listings for Steinbach, Manitoba". steinbachonline.com.
- ^ "Pirate/Non-Pirate Issues (PPCA Wiki)". Pirate Party of Canada. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
- ^ http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Copyright+changes+eyed+Pirates/4581465/story.html
- ^ The Wire Report. "OpenMedia releases political party report cards". thewirereport.ca.
- ^ http://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php/Constitution_2011-12-18#Article_VI._Executive_Board
- ^ http://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php/Constitution_2011-12-18#Article_VII._Political_Council
- ^ http://wiki.pirateparty.ca/index.php/Constitution_2011-12-18#Article_V._General_Meetings
- ^ Pirate Party of Canada. "Leadership". Retrieved February 26, 2011.
- ^ Pirate Party of Canada. "General Assembly". Retrieved February 26, 2011.
- ^ "Winnipeg by-election attracts Pirate Party candidate". Toronto: The Globe & Mail. November 4, 2010. Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ "Winnipeg North first Canadian battleground for Pirate Party". thestar.com.
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/winnipeg-by-election-attracts-pirate-party-candidate/article1216096/
- ^ Dan Ferguson. "Langley Pirate candidate ran a zero-dollar campaign". Langley Times.
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada hooks over 3,000 votes in first general election". The Georgia Straight - Vancouver News and Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ Kady O'Malley (May 20, 2014). "Pirate Party poised to hit the by-election hustings in TO Centre". cbc.ca.
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada leader steps down to seek mental health help". Metro.
- ^ https://www.pirateparty.ca/2013/10/13/resignation-of-travis-mccrea-as-party-leader/
- ^ "I would like to announce that effective... - Pirate Party of Canada / Parti Pirate du Canada - Facebook". facebook.com.
- ^ "Pirate Party of Canada Leader Resigns, Drops out of TO By Election : CanadaPolitics". reddit.
- ^ http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/busted-canadian-parliament-filled-with-media-pirates/
- ^ a b http://www.straight.com/news/pirate-party-canada-links-illegal-downloads-house-commons
- ^ http://torrentfreak.com/busted-canadian-parliament-hosts-bittorrent-pirates-120101/
- ^ http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2012/01/03/19196571.html
- ^ http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/03/pirate-party-discovers-illegal-downloading-in-the-house-of-commons/?__lsa=e6e8-1c4d
- ^ Wilson, Drew (July 8, 2009). "We Don't Need a Canadian Pirate Party – Green Party Leader". Zeropaid. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
- ^ Wilson, Drew (July 8, 2009). "Exclusive Canadian Pirate Party Responds to Green Party". Zeropaid. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
- ^ Adrian Humphreys (April 14, 2011). "Fringe profile: Pirate Party champions Internet issues". National Post.
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I fixed his eyes... maybe.
September 27th, 2011 #3
His eyes aren't parallel to his nose or mouth right now. I don't know how stylized you want to get but they also appear too wide.
September 27th, 2011 #4
To fix the eyes, construct the eye sockets first.
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Looks great now.
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Flip it horizontally and tell me that.
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September 28th, 2011 #9
I know this is a minor issue compared to the great eye debate but I noticed that HIS left hand isnt gripping the lightsabre he is just making a fist underneath his other hand.
But to fix it I wouldnt just add some lightsabre detail to the gap between the hands, as the angle of his hand is a little way out and the sword hilt would emerge near his thumb knuckle for want of a better description and it would look a little weird.
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Looks better.
Right now, I'm moving on to something new.
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The overall problem is you're drawing symbols of what you think the features and anatomy are, rather than describing the shape through plane changes and forms wrapping around things. If this is digital, drop the existing layer back in opacity and focus on the underlying structure. What's coming forward, what's moving away, and what direction things are turning. I highly recommend using reference. (And if you are using reference already, please share!)
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September 29th, 2011 #19
Now can you draw with simple shapes what his body is doing in that first shot?
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Okay! You're off to a good start. What I'm noticing is once you start developing the shapes, the images is flattening out quite a bit. In the source image, Luke is leaning forward and his arms are held more forward as well. His right leg is forward to support his weight.
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Funny, I am starting to think the original image is the best one.
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Sometimes it's easier just to redo the whole thing. Here's my WIP so far. I am thinking about adding in the actual background like the reference I posted earlier. I feel like I have been ignoring backgrounds too much.
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my WIP so far
October 4th, 2011 #25
WIP... quick background sketch. Playing around a bit with the white color (light).
October 10th, 2011 #26
WIP... trying to finish background 1st (and quickly as possible). Picture is originally 600 dpi but re-sized 150 dpi for posting here.
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Check those perspective lines on the ref again. They cross each other just below the face. Perspective creates focus anyway, so putting the perspective focal point onto the face would be totally justified compositionally.
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Anyway I did another take on the perspective study on the drawing version. It looks accurate now. The only problem is the funky perspective going on with the upper right ceiling metal frame. Since the main focus is Luke, I've decided to keep it simple by using one-point perspective.
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October 12th, 2011 #29
My first green line perspective guide with vanishing point outside the right side is the most effective.
October 12th, 2011 #30
Your first and second pictures had the most animation and the best likeness The eyes weren't realistic, but they had a touch of hammill's looking out for under the brows.. and a touch of comedy if you flick between the two.
Your first mouth was also much better.
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