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The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene.
Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andréns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrén family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andrén ancestor—a gang master on the American transcontinental railway—that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers. The police insist that only a lunatic could have committed the Hesjövallen murders, but Birgitta is determined to uncover what she now suspects is a more complicated truth.
The investigation leads to the highest echelons of power in present-day Beijing, and to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. But the narrative also takes us back 150 years into the depths of the slave trade between China and the United States—a history that will ensnare Birgitta as she draws ever closer to solving the Hesjövallen murders.
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Henning Mankell is the prizewinning author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, which were adapted into a PBS television series starring Kenneth Branagh. His novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold thirty million copies worldwide. He is the first winner of the Ripper Award (the new European Crime Fiction Star Award) and has also received the Glass Key and Golden Dagger awards. He divides his time between Sweden and Mozambique.
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Frozen snow, severe frost. Midwinter.
Early in January 2006 a lone wolf crosses the unmarked border and enters Sweden from Vauldalen in Norway. A man on a snowmobile thinks he might have glimpsed it just outside Fjällnäs, but the wolf vanishes into the trees heading east before he is able to pinpoint it. In the remote Norwegian Österdalarna Mountains it had discovered a lump of frozen moose carcass, with remnants of meat still clinging to the bones. But that was more than two days ago. It is beginning to feel the pain of hunger and is desperately searching for food.
The wolf is a young male that has set out to find a territory of his own. He continues his way eastward. At Nävjarna, north of Linsell, he finds another moose carcass. For a whole day he stays and eats his fill before resuming his trek east. When he comes to Kårböle he trots over the frozen Ljusnan and then follows the river along its winding route toward the sea. One moonless night he lopes silently over the bridge at Järvsö, then heads into the vast forests that stretch to the coast.
In the early morning of January 13 the wolf reaches Hesjövallen, a tiny village south of Hansesjön Lake in Hälsingland. He pauses and sniffs the air. He detects the smell of blood. He looks around. There are people living in the houses but no smoke rising from the chimneys. His sharp ears can't detect the slightest sound.
But the wolf is in no doubt about the blood. He skulks at the edge of the forest, nose in the air. Then he moves forward, silently, through the snow. The smell comes from one of the houses at the far end of the hamlet. He is vigilant now—with humans around it's essential to be both careful and patient. He pauses again. The smell originates from the back of the house. He waits. Then eventually starts moving once more. When he gets there he finds another carcass. He drags his large meal back to the trees. He has not been discovered, not even the village dogs have stirred. The silence is total this freezing cold morning.
The wolf starts eating when he comes to the edge of the trees. It is easy, as the flesh has not yet frozen. He is very hungry now. Having pulled off a leather shoe, he starts gnawing away at an ankle.
It snowed during the night but stopped before dawn. As the wolf eats his fill, snowflakes once again start dancing down toward the frozen ground.
When Karsten Höglin woke up he remembered dreaming about a photograph. He lay motionless in bed and felt the image returning slowly, as if the negative of his dream were sending a copy into his conscious mind. He recognized the picture. It was black and white and depicted a man sitting on an old iron bed, with a hunting rifle hanging on the wall and a chamber pot at his feet. When he saw it for the first time, he had been gripped by the old man's wistful smile. There was something timorous and evasive about him. Much later Karsten had discovered the background. A few years earlier the man had accidentally shot and killed his only son while hunting seabirds. From then on the rifle had never come down from the wall, and the man had become a hermit.
Höglin thought that of all the thousands of photographs and negatives he had seen, this was the one he would never forget. He wished he had taken it himself.
The clock on his bedside table read half past seven. Höglin usually woke up very early, but he had slept badly that night, the bed and its mattress were uncomfortable. He made up his mind to complain about them when he checked out of the hotel.
It was the ninth and final day of his journey. It had been made possible by a scholarship enabling him to study deserted villages and other small settlements that were being depopulated. He had come as far as Hudiksvall and had one hamlet left to photograph. He had chosen this particular one because an old man who lived there had read about his project and sent him a letter. Höglin had been impressed by the letter and decided that this was the place for him to conclude his study.
He got up and opened the curtains. It had snowed during the night and was still gray, the sun not yet risen. A bundled-up woman was cycling past in the street below. Karsten considered her and wondered how cold it was. Negative five degrees Celsius, possibly negative seven.
He dressed and took the slow-moving elevator down to reception. He had parked his car in the enclosed courtyard behind the hotel. It was safe there. Even so, he had taken all his photographic equipment up to his room, as was his practice. His worst nightmare was to come to his car one day and find that all his cameras had vanished.
The receptionist was a young girl, barely out of her teens. He noticed that her makeup was slapdash and gave up on the idea of complaining about the bed. After all, he had no intention of ever returning to the hotel.
In the breakfast room a few guests were absorbed in their morning papers. For a fleeting moment he was tempted to get a camera and take a shot. It gave him the feeling that Sweden had always been exactly like this. Silent people, poring over their newspapers with a cup of coffee, absorbed in their own thoughts, their own fates.
But he resisted the temptation, served himself coffee, buttered two slices of bread, and tucked into a soft-boiled egg. Without a newspaper, he ate quickly. He hated being at a meal on his own without anything to read.
It was colder than he expected when he emerged from the hotel. He stood on tiptoe to read the thermometer in the reception window. Negative eleven degrees. And falling, he suspected. This winter has been far too warm. Here comes the cold spell we've been expecting. He put his cases on the backseat, started the engine, and began scraping ice off the windshield. There was a map on the passenger seat. The previous day, after taking pictures of a village not far from Lake Hassela, he had worked out how to get to his final port of call: take the main road southward, turn off toward Sörforsa near Iggesund, then follow either the east or the west shore of the lake called Storsjön in some parts and Långsjön in others. The guy at the gas station on the way into Hudiksvall had warned him that the east road was bad, but he decided to take it anyway. It would be quicker. And the light was so lovely this winter morning. He could already envisage the smoke rising straight up to the sky from the chimneys.
It took him forty minutes to get there. By then he had already made a wrong turn, a road leading southward to Näcksjö.
Hesjövallen was situated in a little valley by a lake whose name he couldn't recall. Hesjön, maybe? The dense forests extended all the way to the hamlet, on both sides of the narrow road leading up toward Härjedalen.
Karsten stopped at the edge of the tiny village and got out of the car. There were breaks in the clouds now. The light would become more difficult to capture, perhaps not so expressive. He looked around. Everything was very still. The houses gave the impression of having been there since time immemorial. In the distance he could hear the faint noise of traffic on the main road.
He suddenly felt uneasy. He held his breath, as he always did when confronted with something he didn't really understand.
Then it dawned on him—the chimneys, they were cold. There was no sign of smoke, which would have been an effective feature of the photographs he hoped to take. His gaze moved slowly from house to house. Somebody's cleared the snow already, he thought. But not lit a single fire? He remembered the letter he'd received from the man who had told him about the village. He had referred to the chimneys and how the houses seemed, in a childish sort of way, to be sending smoke signals to one another.
He sighed. People don't write the truth, but what they think you want to read. Now should I take pictures with cold chimneys or abandon the whole business? Nobody was forcing him to take photographs of Hesjövallen and its inhabitants. He already had plenty of pictures of the Sweden that was fading away: the derelict farms, the remote villages whose only hope of survival was that Danes and Germans would buy up the houses and turn them into summer cottages. He decided to leave and returned to his car. But he didn't start the engine. He had come this far; the least he could do was to try to create some portrait of the local inhabitants—he wanted faces. As the years passed, Karsten Höglin had become increasingly fascinated by elderly people. He wanted to compile an album: pictures that would describe the beauty found only in the faces of very old women, their lives and hardships etched into their skin like the sediment in a cliff wall.
He got out of his car again, pulled his fur hat down over his ears, picked out a Leica M6 he'd been using for the past ten years, and made for the nearest of the group of houses. There were ten in all, most of them timber and painted red, some with added stoops. He could see only one modern house. If it could still be called modern, that is—a 1950s detached house. When he came to the gate, he paused and raised his camera. The nameplate indicated that the Andrén family lived there. He took a few shots, varying the aperture setting and exposure time, trying out several angles, though it was clear that there wasn't enough light yet and he would get only an indistinct blur. But you never know. Photographers sometimes expose unexpected secrets.
Höglin was intuitive with his work. Not that he didn't bother to measure light levels when required, but sometimes he'd pull off surprising results without paying attention to carefully calculated exposure times. Improvisation went with the territory.
The gate was stiff. He had to push hard in order to open it. There were no footprints in the newly fallen snow. Still not a sound, not even a dog. It's deserted, he thought. This isn't a village; it's a Flying Dutchman.
He knocked on the front door, waited, then knocked again. Nothing. He began to wonder what was going on. Something was amiss. He knocked again, harder and longer. Then he tried the door handle. Locked. Old people scare easily, he thought. They lock their doors and worry that all the things they read about in the papers are going to happen to them.
He banged on the door. Nothing. He concluded there must not be anybody at home.
He went back through the gate and moved on to the next house. It was starting to get lighter now. The house was painted yellow. The putty around the windows was coming off—it must be very drafty inside. Before knocking he tried the door handle. Locked again. He knocked hard, then began banging away even before anybody could possibly have had time to answer. Once again, empty.
If he went back to his car now, he would be at home in Piteå by early afternoon. That would please his wife. She was convinced that he was too old to be embarking on all these trips, despite the fact that he was only sixty-three. But he had been diagnosed with symptoms of imminent angina. The doctor had advised him to watch what he ate and try to get as much exercise as possible.
One last try. He went around to the back of the house and tried a door that seemed to lead to a utility room behind the kitchen. That was also locked. He went to the nearest window, stood on tiptoe, and looked in. He could see through a gap in the curtains into a room with a television set. He continued to the next window. It was the same room, and he could still see the TV. A tapestry hanging on the wall informed him that jesus is your best friend. He was about to move on to the next window when something on the floor attracted his attention. At first he thought it was a ball of wool just lying there. Then he saw that it was a woolly sock, and that the sock was on a foot. He stepped back from the window. His heart was pounding. Was that really a foot? He went back to the first window, but he couldn't see as far into the room from there. He went on to the second window. Now he was certain. It really was a foot. A motionless foot. He couldn't be sure if it was a man's or a woman's. The owner of the foot might be sitting in a chair. It was hard to make out—but if so why hadn't the person stirred?
He knocked on the window as hard as he dared, but there was no response. He took out his cell phone and dialed the emergency number. No signal. He ran to the third house and banged on the door. Nothing. He felt like he was in the middle of a nightmare. He picked up a foot scraper, smashed the door lock, and forced his way in. He had to find a telephone. There was an old woman lying on the kitchen floor. Her head was almost totally severed from her neck. Beside her lay the carcass of a dog, cut in two.
Höglin screamed and turned to flee. As he ran through the hall he saw the body of a man sprawled on the floor of the living room, between the table and a red sofa with a white throw. The old man was naked. His back was covered in blood.
Höglin raced out of the house. He couldn't get away fast enough. He dropped his camera when he reached the road but didn't stop to pick it up. He was convinced that somebody or something he couldn't see was about to stab him in the back. He turned his car and sped away.
He stopped when he reached the main road, then dialed the emergency number, his hands shaking uncontrollably. As he raised the phone to his ear, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. It was as if somebody had caught up with him and stabbed him. He could hear someone speaking to him on the phone, but he was incapable of answering. The pain was so intense that all he could manage
was a faint hiss.
"I can't hear you," said a woman's voice.
He tried again. Once more nothing but a faint hiss. He was dying.
"Can you speak a bit louder?" asked the woman. "I don't understand what you're saying."
He made a supreme effort and produced a few words.
"I'm dying," he gasped. "For God's sake, I'm dying. Help me."
"Where are you?"
But the woman received no reply. Karsten Höglin was on his way into the endless darkness. In a desperate attempt to escape from the excruciating pain, like a drowning man trying in vain to rise to the surface, he stepped on the gas. The car shot over to the wrong side of the road. A truck on the way to Hudiksvall carrying office furniture had no chance to avoid a head-on collision. The truck driver jumped down from his cab to check on the driver of the car he had crashed into. Höglin was prostrate over the steering wheel.
The truck driver, from Bosnia, spoke little Swedish.
"How is you?" he asked.
"The village," mumbled Karsten Höglin. "Hesjövallen."
Those were his final words. By the time the police and the ambulance arrived, Karsten Höglin had succumbed to a massive heart attack.
It was not at all clear what had happened. Nobody could possibly have guessed the reason for the sudden heart attack suffered by the man behind the wheel of the dark blue Volvo. It wasn't until Karsten Höglin's body had been taken away and tow trucks were trying to extricate the badly damaged furniture van that a police officer bothered to listen to the Bosnian driver. The officer's name was Erik Huddén, and he d...
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Federal Communications Commission
Before the
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In the Matter of
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Application for Modification of Big LEO License
to Change the Orbital Debris Mitigation Plan
Adopted: July 31, 2014
July 31, 2014
By the Chief, Satellite Division, International Bureau:
By this Order, we authorize Iridium Constellation LLC (Iridium) to operate up to ten of
its non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) space stations under a revised orbital debris mitigation plan, which
extends the post-mission atmospheric re-entry period from within a few months to within 25 years. We
deny, at this time, Iridium's request to operate its remaining space stations under the revised plan. This
action will allow Iridium to continue seamless operation of its satellite constellation while mitigating the
risks associated with the post-mission disposal of its satellites.
On January 31, 1995, Iridium's predecessor-in-interest, Motorola Satellite
Communications, Inc., was authorized to construct, launch, and operate a "Big LEO"1 NGSO Mobile-
Satellite Service (MSS) system consisting of 66 satellites and up to 12 in-orbit spares.2 This original
authorization for the Iridium system did not include an orbital debris mitigation plan.
On February 8, 2002, the International Bureau approved the assignment of the Big LEO
authorization to Iridium.3 The approval was based, in part, on an orbital debris mitigation plan submitted
in connection with the assignment application.4 Under the orbital debris plan, at the end of its useful life
each Iridium satellite would be lowered through a series of maneuvers from its 778-kilometer near-
circular mission orbit to an orbit with a perigee altitude of 250 km.5 Due to the natural decay of this
disposal orbit, Iridium satellites would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere within a few months.6 A study by
1 "Big LEO" refers to low-Earth orbit (LEO) mobile satellite services above 1 GHz. LEO generally refers to orbits
at altitudes of less than 2000 km.
2 Motorola Satellite Communications, Inc., Order and Authorization, 10 FCC Rcd 2268 (Int'l Bur. 1995), corrected,
10 FCC Rcd 3925 (Int'l Bur. 1995), affirmed in part and modified, 11 FCC Rcd 18502 (1996). The Iridium system
was later authorized for up to 14 in-orbit spare satellites. Space System License, Inc., Order and Authorization, 14
FCC Rcd 9829 (Int'l Bur., Sat. Div. 1999).
3 Space Station System Licensee, Inc., Assignor, and Iridium Constellation LLC, Assignee, et al., Memorandum
Opinion, Order and Authorization, 17 FCC Rcd 2271 (Int'l Bur. 2002).
4 Id. at 2290-92.
5 See id. at 2290.
6 Id.
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the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) estimated the risk of human casualty
resulting from re-entry of an Iridium satellite by this method to be 1 in 18,406.7 In connection with its
orbital debris plan, Iridium secured an insurance policy that provides two forms of coverage: one with a
three-year term covering the planned de-orbiting of up to eight satellites per year, and a second one with
an 18-month term, once triggered, covering activities related to any planned de-orbiting of the entire
On June 9, 2004, the Commission adopted policies concerning the mitigation of orbital
debris.9 In doing so, the Commission aimed to "further the domestic policy objective of the United States
to minimize the creation of orbital debris[.]"10 For NGSO space stations, the Commission stated that it
would continue reviewing post-mission disposal plans, on a case-by-case basis, in light of orbital debris
mitigation guidelines developed by the U.S. government and the international community.11
It noted that
disposal plans consistent with U.S. government and international guidelines, such as those providing for
the placement of satellites into an orbit from which they will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere within 25
years, would "[a]s a general matter . . . suggest that the space station[s] will operate consistent with the
public interest."12
The Commission also noted that the U.S. government guidelines provide that disposal
of a spacecraft by atmospheric re-entry should present a risk of human casualty of less than 1 in 10,000.13
Finally, the Commission anticipated that insurance issues would continue to play a role in our evaluation
of orbital debris plans, particularly when they involve atmospheric re-entry.14
On July 1, 2008, Iridium filed an application to modify its Big LEO license to change the
orbital debris mitigation plan.15 Under the proposed plan, at end of life each Iridium satellite would be
lowered, in two phases, until it reaches a disposal orbit with a perigee altitude of 600 km.16 Iridium
estimates that the natural decay of this disposal orbit would result in an orbital lifetime of less than 25
years.17 Based on the methodology used by NASA in its study of the original Iridium orbital debris plan,
Iridium calculates the risk of human casualty resulting from the revised plan to be approximately l in
In response to inquiries by the Satellite Division,19 Iridium provided supplementary information
7 Id.
8 Id. The United States was listed as an additional insured party on the policy. Id.
9 Mitigation of Orbital Debris, Second Report and Order, 19 FCC Rcd 11567 (2004) (Orbital Debris Order).
10 Id. at 11568-69.
11 Id. at 11601-02. See also id. at 11572- 74 (discussing U.S. government and Inter-Agency Space Debris
Coordination Committee guidelines); U.S. Government Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices, available at
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/library/USG_OD_Standard_Practices.pdf [4].
12 Id. at 11602.
13 Id. at 11603.
This guideline was incorporated from a NASA Safety Standard, NSS 1740.14. Id.
14 Id. at 11613-14. Under international law, the U.S. government could potentially be held liable for certain damage
that may result from private space station operations, including disposal, maneuvering, and the generation of orbital
debris. Id. at 11612-13.
15 Iridium Constellation LLC, Application for Minor Modification, File No. SAT-MOD-20080701-00140 (July 1,
2008) (Application). We placed the Application on public notice on February 28, 2014. Policy Branch Information,
Satellite Space Applications Accepted for Filing, Public Notice, Report No. SAT-00999 (Feb. 28, 2014). No
comments were filed.
16 Application, Appendix A at A-3.
17 Id.
18 Letter to Robert G. Nelson, Chief, Satellite Division, from Donna Bethea-Murphy, Vice President, Regulatory
Engineering, Iridium Constellation LLC, at 3 (Oct. 3, 2011) (October 2011 Supplement). In calculating this figure,
Iridium assumes that its last existing first-generation satellite will begin de-orbit by 2020. Id.
Federal Communications Commission
about its proposed orbital debris plan and the health of its satellite constellation.20
On December 27, 2013, Iridium filed an application to modify its Big LEO license to
launch and operate a second-generation satellite constellation.21 The application proposes to wholly
replace the current operating constellation shortly after the last planned launch of new satellites in May of
2017.22 Thereafter, Iridium asks to reserve the option to retain some of the current satellites as potential
in-orbit spares for the new constellation.23
On May 22, 2014, the Satellite Division granted, in part, a request by Iridium to extend
the license term for its existing satellite constellation.24
The license term ends January 31, 2018.
Since first proposing its revised orbital debris plan, Iridium has continued to operate
several satellites beyond the fuel reserve necessary for de-orbit under the original plan. Currently, seven
satellites lack sufficient fuel to comply with the original orbital debris plan.25 All have enough fuel to de-
orbit consistent with the revised plan.
We find it is in the public interest to grant, in part, Iridium's request to modify its orbital
debris mitigation plan. Iridium's revised post-mission disposal plan contemplates atmospheric re-entry
within 25 years, consistent with both the U.S. government and international guidelines.26 Using NASA
methodology, Iridium estimates that the casualty risk from its revised disposal method is 1 in 13,000,
within the U.S. government guideline of less than 1 in 10,000.27 Additionally, pursuant to an agreement
(Continued from previous page)
19 Letter to Donna Bethea-Murphy, Vice President, Regulatory Engineering, Iridium Constellation LLC, from
Robert G. Nelson, Chief, Satellite Division (May 9, 2011); Letter to Donna Bethea-Murphy, Vice President,
Regulatory Engineering, Iridium Constellation LLC, from Jose P. Albuquerque, Chief, Satellite Division (Apr. 15,
20 Letter to Robert G. Nelson, Chief, Satellite Division, from Donna Bethea-Murphy, Vice President, Regulatory
Engineering, Iridium Constellation LLC (June 30, 2011); Aerospace Corporation, De-Orbit Collision Risk
Assessment and Casualty Risk Assessment Report (June 30, 2011) (Aerospace Report); October 2011 Supplement;
Letter to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, from Jennifer D. Hindin, Counsel for Iridium Constellation LLC (May
15, 2014). Iridium requested that complete versions of the June 30, 2011 letter and Aerospace Report and May 15,
2014 letter be accorded confidential treatment. Letter to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, from Jennifer D.
Hindin, Counsel for Iridium Constellation LLC (June 30, 2011); Letter to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, from
Jennifer D. Hindin, Counsel for Iridium Constellation LLC (May 15, 2014). It submitted redacted versions of the
June 30, 2011 letter and May 15, 2014 letter for public viewing.
21 Iridium Constellation LLC, Application for Modification of NGSO Authorization to Launch and Operate
Replacement Satellites, File No. SAT-MOD-20131227-00148 (Dec. 27, 2013) (Second Generation Application).
22 Id., Engineering Statement at 9.
23 Id.
24 Iridium Constellation LLC, Stamp Grant, File No. SAT-MOD-20101001-00207 (granted in part and deferred in
part May 22, 2014) (License Extension Grant).
25 See Iridium Constellation LLC, Application for Special Temporary Authority, File No. SAT-STA-20140612-
00062 (granted July 29, 2014); Iridium Constellation LLC, Application for Special Temporary Authority, File No.
SAT-STA-20140612-00063 (granted July 29, 2014). The Satellite Division has granted and periodically extended
special temporary authority (STA) for Iridium to operate satellites consistent with the revised plan. See, e.g.,
Iridium Constellation LLC, Stamp Grant, File No. SAT-STA-20140612-00062 (granted July 29, 2014) (180-day
STA for six satellites); Iridium Constellation LLC, Stamp Grant, File No. SAT-STA-20140612-00063 (granted July
29, 2014) (180-day STA for one satellite).
26 Application, Appendix A at A-3; Orbital Debris Order, 19 FCC Rcd at 11601-02.
27 October 2011 Supplement at 3; Orbital Debris Order, 19 FCC Rcd at 11603.
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with the U.S. government, Iridium is required to maintain an insurance policy covering the de-orbiting of
its satellite constellation.28
Iridium's policy covers risks associated with de-orbiting the constellation for
up to 12 months once requested by Iridium.29 The policy has been renewed annually since the expiration
of the original policy's three-year term in 2003.30 The U.S. government is a named beneficiary of the
Grant of the revised orbital debris plan for up to ten first-generation satellites will allow
Iridium to continue to operate, consistent with U.S. government guidelines, the seven satellites which
currently lack enough fuel to comply with the original plan. It also will allow Iridium between now and
January 31, 2018, to continue operating up to three satellites beyond the point at which Iridium would
have been required to dispose of them under the original plan.
We deny, at this time, Iridium's request to authorize the modified disposal plan for
Iridium's remaining first-generation satellites. Iridium's license term ends on January 31, 2018,31 more
than six months after it separately proposes to have completely replaced its current operating
constellation.32 Moreover, based on the record developed in this proceeding, these remaining satellites
will have enough fuel to operate well beyond the end of their license term under their current disposal
plan. Because of this, authorizing a disposal plan that involves their continued presence on orbit as
uncontrolled objects over up to 25 years, instead of over a few months, would increase the on-orbit
collision risks associated with disposal without a counterbalancing public benefit in extended service.
We conclude that grant of the revised orbital debris mitigation plan for up to ten, first-
generation Iridium satellites will serve the public interest by allowing Iridium to continue seamless
operation of its satellite constellation consistent with U.S. government guidelines. We deny Iridium's
request to operate its remaining first-generation satellites under the revised plan because the increased
risks associated with the longer disposal period are not outweighed by a competing public benefit in
extended service.
Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the application of Iridium Constellation LLC to
modify its authorization for a non-geostationary orbit Mobile-Satellite Service constellation, File No.
SAT-MOD-20080701-00140, IS GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART. Iridium is authorized to
operate up to ten first-generation space stations under the revised orbital debris mitigation plan. Iridium's
remaining first-generation space stations must continue to operate under the orbital debris plan approved
in Space Station System Licensee, Inc., Assignor, and Iridium Constellation LLC, Assignee, et al.,
Memorandum Opinion, Order and Authorization, 17 FCC Rcd 2271 (Int'l Bur. 2002).
28 Iridium Communications Inc., SEC Form 10-K at 16 (Mar. 4, 2014) (Iridium 2014 10-K). See also Iridium
Communications Inc., SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 10.1 (Sept. 29, 2009) (copy of 2000 Iridium contract with the U.S.
government); Iridium Communications Inc., SEC Form 10-Q, Exhibit 10.7 (Nov. 9, 2010) (copy of 2010 contract
29 Iridium 2014 10-K at 31, 79.
30 Iridium 2014 10-K at 16.
31 License Extension Grant.
32 Second Generation Application, Engineering Statement at 9.
Federal Communications Commission
This Order is issued pursuant to Section 0.261 of the Commission's rules on delegations
of authority, 47 C.F.R. § 0.261, and is effective on release.
Jose Albuquerque
Chief, Satellite Division
International Bureau
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Started by a pair of Walla Wallans, The Muscle Shack isn't your average gym. That much is apparent, whether it's the snarling jacked bear pumping iron in the logo, or the fact that there are only two cardio machines in the joint and are only for cool-downs between lifting, co-owners Greg Delp and Nathan Tebeck are quick to emphasize.
Instead of a modern gym with a snack bar, a climbing wall and a lounge á la Gold's Gym, The Muscle Shack is a place to come in, lift weights — maybe let out a grunt or two — and go home. It's the Gold's Gym of Venice Beach, not the shopping mall.
"There's a lot of gyms around town, and they're all good, but they have their different niches," Delp said.
Tebeck finished the thought: "They haven't nailed the niches where you're here to come in and just get the hard work done."
Delp and Tebeck, who graduated together from Walla Walla High School in 2008, are proponents of a weight training philosophy called High Intensity Training. HIT, popularized in the 1970s by Arthur Jones, posits that workouts should be brief and infrequent, but intense.
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Delp and Tebeck have been friends and trained together since high school. They hatched the idea to open a gym together shortly after graduating. Their gym would be a fantasy land for body builders: a place where you could use chalk, drop weights if need be, grunt and listen to loud music. Whatever they needed to do to work out to their full potential.
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"If you're not allowed to let out a grunt if you're pushing out 800 pounds on the leg press, then you're not working out to your potential," Delp said. "And that's what we're all about — we're all about showing you what you're capable of and showing you your full potential."
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INDIANAPOLIS -- When it comes to defending the no-huddle offense, the Giants have tried just about anything, including some well-timed injuries that left them looking like Al Czervik. But entering Sunday's Super Bowl against the Patriots, New York defensive coordinator Perry Fewell feels pretty good about his team's chances when it comes to slowing down New England's no-huddle offense.
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However, the numbers tell a different story. The Giants defense faced a no-huddle offense on 83 of 1,072 snaps over the course of the regular season, a total of just 7.7 percent of the time. (That includes five regular-season games where it didn't face any no-huddle snaps.) In its three playoff games, opponents have operated out of the no-huddle on 22 of 194 snaps, or only 11.3 percent of the time. Combining the two, the Giants have faced a no-huddle set on 105 of 1,266 snaps, or 8.3 percent of the time.
The one game when they did face a team that ran a lot of no-huddle was when they faced Seattle on Oct. 9 at MetLife Stadium. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll told anyone who would listen that Seattle would go no-huddle against the Giants, but New York couldn't stop it. In that game, with Charlie Whitehurst and Tarvaris Jackson sharing quarterbacking duties for the Seahawks (Whitehurst came in after Jackson left with a pectoral injury in the third quarter), the Seahawks utilized the no-huddle on 32 of their 76 plays from scrimmage on the way to a 36-25 win over the Giants. (The third-most no-huddle snaps they faced was against the Rams, when the New York defenders made a mockery of the game, faking injuries in hopes of derailing the St. Louis no-huddle. On that night, the Rams were in no-huddle for 10 of 67 offensive snaps. In the regular-season finale against Dallas, the Cowboys went no-huddle on 19 of the 59 snaps.)
"We knew it was coming, we prepared for it but we just didn't have an answer for them today," defensive end Osi Umenyiora told reporters after the game when asked about the Seahawks' no-huddle. "We practiced for that all week. We knew it was coming. We just weren't able to stop them."
Meanwhile, the Patriots have used the no-huddle as a regular part of their offensive scheme all season long. Unlike most teams who only lean on it in end-of-half and end-of-game situations, New England went to it several times throughout the season. Overall, according to NFL gamebooks, the Patriots offense was in no-huddle on 242 of its 1,082 snaps during the regular season, a rate of 22 percent. That figure increases when you factor in the two postseason wins -- New England went no-huddle on 33 of the 64 snaps against Denver and 33 of 68 plays against the Ravens.
In all, including the two postseason wins, 308 of New England's 1,214 plays from scrimmage have come in the no-huddle, or 25 percent.
"Anytime you talk about no-huddle, it's definitely a challenge when it comes to your conditioning level," said Giants defensive lineman Chris Canty. "You have to definitely push through it. But it comes down to being able to make plays, to make negative plays and slow the pace of that offense down. That's what you have to put your focus on."
Here are four other things we learned Thursday in Indianapolis:
Everyone has commented on how relaxed Patriots coach Bill Belichick has been over the course of Super Bowl week -- on Thursday, he fired off a couple of one-liners in the opening moments with the media. The coach was asked about coming across more relaxed and engaging over the last five days. "That's different than it normally is?" he responded with a smile.
But at the same time, the quarterback has also appeared pretty content. He's endured multiple sessions with media, even yielding the podium in the ballroom he has previously occupied for a smaller podium in a room with the rest of his teammates in another part of the hotel.
Brady has been genuinely reflective over the course of the week, talking frequently about how he's grown and evolved as an individual. Whether it's because of age or family or overall maturity, he's presented a different face to the media this time around. It certainly sounds like he's been far more appreciative of this Super Bowl visit than the ones he's made in year's past.
"It's been a very fun week," Brady said. "After not having been here for four years, I'm really enjoying the experience, and some of the fun aspects of the week. It's much more tolerable when you become a veteran player. I had a great time at media day -- that was fun. Sunday night was cool. When we got in, I got to see Rodney [Harrison] over the stadium. I've spent a lot of time together with my teammates.
"Unlike the other playoff games where you're not really sure how it's going to go the following week, now we know how it's going to go. We're not going to see each other after Monday. You just enjoy the experience with those guys, and hopefully we have a lot of reasons to celebrate on Sunday night."
Gronkowski was on the field for the second half of the two-hour practice session the Patriots held Thursday at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center (which for all the world sounds like something out of "Parks & Recreation"). While he was limited, the fact that he was simply on the practice field for the first time since prior to the AFC championship game is a positive note for the Patriots,
"He did some things. He didn't do everything," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said of Gronkowski. "We'll see how he is tomorrow. I think that will be the big key -- how he responds to this today.
"It was good. It was fine. We'll see where he is tomorrow -- whether that set him back, whether it didn't and whether he's able to continue progress on a daily basis," Belichick added. "But it was a good test for him, too, at least. At least he was out here and did some things to see how he feels. We'll see how it goes."
This is relatively new territory for Gronkowski, who had back issues while in college but has never been on the shelf for an extended stretch in his nearly two full seasons in the NFL. At the media session Thursday morning prior to practice, Gronkowski indicated that the final decision on his health would be made by him and the team's training staff.
"It's my body and I know how I feel the best," Gronkowski said. "I just communicate with the trainers on how I feel, what they think, and we just put all our knowledge together so we can get the best possible situation.
"I will make the final call. I listen to the trainer's advice, but it's how I feel. I'm just trying to get better. The trainer has helped me to get to a place where I need to be," Gronkowski added. "We have a couple of options to explore. I'm not even sure I'm going to wear anything. I'm taping it and testing things out every day to see how I feel. We just talk about it. We're going to figure it out."
While Gronkowski hasn't been on the field, Brady has still managed to spend time working with the tight end when it comes to game planning for the week.
"We're always communicating back and forth about his routes and the schemes that we have that are a little bit different for this game." Brady said when asked about Gronkowski. "He's a fast learner. He's played every game; he's practiced every single day this year [prior to his injury]. He has a pretty good understanding of what we're doing. It's not like he has to figure out how to play football again. Probably the break is good for him in a sense that he hasn't been beat all week in practice. Hopefully, he can go out there and play."
In the wake of Chris Canty's promise of a Tuesday parade in New York, the Patriots said to a man on Thursday that there's not going to be any sort of back-and-forth in the media when it comes to a war of words.
"No I don't care about what's been said. They feel confident and we do, too," Wilfork said. "The game is never won in the papers or through media. You always have to rely on the game on that Sunday, or whenever the game is. For us, that's Sunday. We'll do all our talking on Sunday. We don't have to go out and say what we want to do and how we feel. I know we are very confident, they are very confident. If they weren't, they wouldn't be in the position that they're in. Both teams want to win, but it's on game day. It's not now, it's on game day."
Canty made the statement to a New York television station. When asked if he was worried about giving the Patriots bulletin board material, he said he didn't care.
"Obviously, Tom Brady made a statement at their pep rally. Obviously, both teams are here to try to win a football game," he said. "It just is what it is. I'm not trying to inflame anybody or anything like that. I want our fans to be excited about the game that's coming up on Sunday. It's going to be a great football game. It's going to be a 60-minute game, and hopefully we can put ourselves in the best position to be successful."
"I stand beside what Vince says," said linebacker Jerod Mayo. "A good team will lose on Sunday -- hopefully, it's not us. There are two good teams going at it. It's good that he has that confidence."
"I don't blame him for saying that," said offensive lineman Logan Mankins. "Hopefully, our fans are getting ready too. We want to win the game, they want to win the game. We know that only one team can, so, whichever teams wins is going to have a big party, and the other team will be very disappointed."
"It's his opinion. He's entitled to his own opinion," said defensive end Mark Anderson. "The best team will win Sunday night. All we're going to do is continue to work, continue to prepare and do what we have to do and correct any mistakes so we can play at a high level on Sunday."
Though Canty suggested that the comment was not the basis of a war of words, Patriots receiver Deion Branch -- when interviewed by the Mut & Merloni show on Thursday morning -- was clearly irked by Canty's comments.
"Philadelphia said that, too," Branch said of Canty's parade boast, referring to an Eagles team that offered numerous boasts in the buildup to Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. "[At] 6:30, we'll see Chris on the football field Sunday. ... We'll be there. He can say they've got a parade and all that stuff. That's cool."
The Patriots ask a lot of guys to do a lot of different things, and while the spotlight this season has been on Julian Edelman and Matthew Slater and their versatility, Rob Ninkovich has been the most integral of those players. The Purdue product has been asked to shuffle from defensive end to outside linebacker and back again as New England has continued to rotate between three- and four-man fronts.
"He's handled it well. He puts in a lot of time in the film room and a lot of time in his playbook, and it shows on the field," said linebacker Jerod Mayo. "They ask him to rush, they ask him to drop, they ask him to play zone, man-to-man. He does it all. That's what makes him a good player."
His responsibilities have changed -- and he appeared to struggle with some aspects of the change through the first half of the season -- but has really come on strong down the stretch. As colleague Kirk Minihane pointed out, Ninkovich was only one of two NFL defenders to finish the season with at least six sacks and two interceptions. (Baltimore's Terrell Suggs was the other.) Ultimately, he finished second among linebackers with 62 tackles (46 solo) in the regular season with 6.5 sacks, 9 quarterback hits and two interceptions.
"Playing defensive end my whole career basically, it's pretty easy to just put my hand down and rush," Ninkovich said Thursday. "The more difficult things are learning the 4-3 scheme as a true linebacker, a SAM linebacker off the ball. That's a little bit different, but I enjoyed learning every different aspect of the defense. It gives you a lot more knowledge of the game.
"Before, as strictly a defensive end, you don't know all the ins and outs of defensive coverages, the things that defensive football is all about. I really enjoyed learning this year the different schemes we've run."
A frustrated Bill Belichick sat down with Michael, Dale and Jerry after the Patriots first loss of the season. We break down why it happened with the coach.
Dale, Michael and Jerry speak with defensive leader Chandler Jones about the Patriots first loss of the season.
We check in with the best NFL analyst on Boston radio, Tedy Bruschi, after the Patriots fell to 10-1 last night in Denver.
A quick game recap of Celtics 121-97 loss to the Atlanta Hawks.
A 5-minute game recap of the Celtics 111-101 loss to the Nets
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DJ Bean and Ken Laird discuss the sniping back and forth from Claude Julien, Brad Marchand, and Rangers coach Alain Vigneault after Boston's 4-3 comeback win on Friday. The game featured two somewhat controversial hits, Matt Beleskey's check of Derek Stepan (breaking a rib) and Brad Marchand's collision with goalie Henrik Lundqvist and ensuing flop.
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Brady discussed the loss in Denver.
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11/28/2014 - Jacob Dean attends his local Black Friday Walmart protest with about 75 to 100 other activists who braved the nasty Oregon weather to get the message out! This is Jacob's third year attending and covering this protest for Filter Free Radio. Thanks to all who showed up, keep up the good fight for all. Special thanks to the brave Walmart workers on strike for the interview, and organizers of the event.
FFR #117 - Outlawing Revolution & Portland's Walmart Divestment!
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http://www.filterfreeradio.net - FFR Episode #117 - Outlawing Revolution & Portland's Walmart Divestment! Jacob Dean and Skeptical Scott broadcast live and talk about Cecily McMillian's sentencing today, the corporate state's crushing of dissent and resistance, Chris Hedges's article They Can't Outlaw The Revolution plus Portland, Oregon is the first US city to divest funds from Walmart (and we covered this back in November 2013 with City Commissioner Steve Novick at the Walmart Black Friday Protest!) Recorded live on 5/19/2014 in Portland, Oregon.
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Portland First US City To Divest Funds From Walmart
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News making headlines this week from YES! Magazine - On Thursday, May 15, the city of Portland got rid of $9 million, or 25 percent, of its investments in Walmart. This marks the beginning of a divestment program that will purge Portland's investment portfolio of $36 million in Walmart bonds by 2016, according to a press release. The divestment plan is part of the city's responsible investment initiative, introduced by City Commissioner Steve Novick, and adopted in October 2013. The initiative also prohibits the city from purchasing Walmart bonds in the future.
Portland is not only discontinuing its investments in Walmart, but has set up a committee to advise it on making socially responsible investments in the future. The committee will address issues like abusive labor practices, corruption, and health concerns, among other things.
As you may recall, Filter Free Radio's Jacob Dean attended the Black Friday Walmart Protests here in Portland (2012 & 2013) where in November 2013 Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick spoke about Portland divesting from Walmart.
Here is the video recorded live by Jacob Dean 11/29/2013 at Walmart in S.E. Portland, Oregon.
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FFR #114 - Is $15 Enough? Plus Kshama Sawant!
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Jacob Dean and Skeptical Scott broadcast live from Portland, Or and Washington, DC and Jacob shares his experience from and coverage of the 15Now.org event in Portland, Oregon on Thursday 4/24/14. Jacob interviews Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant about her inspiration and motivation. Plus we take your calls live and much more! Recorded on 4/28/2014 live in Portland, Oregon.
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Filter Free Radio Episode #110 The Million Blanket March and Progressive Radio Northwest Seattle Forum! Jacob Dean broadcasts live and speaks with Million Blanket March organizer Liberty Jones of Evolve PDX and shares his experience from the MBM! Plus special guests Space Dog of Space Dog Radio and Independent Journalist Mark Taylor Canfield join me in the second hour to recreate the PRNW panel and continue the conversation about the Progressive Radio Northwest Forum we all three attended last week at Impact Hub Seattle. Plus the biggest announcement in the history of Filter Free Radio (so far!) Which actual radio station has decided to broadcast Filter Free Radio? Find that out and much more! Recorded live on 3/31/2014 in Portland, Oregon!
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The Pathology of the Wealthy - Chris Hedges
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On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges discusses the psychology of the super rich; their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms.
2013 Black Friday Walmart Protest in Portland, OR 11/29/13
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Jacob Dean attends his local Black Friday Walmart protest in SE Portland, OR for a second year in a row! About 100 protesters, marchers, singers and sign-holders braved the cold to make their voices heard. A march led the protesters all around the parking lot while security and police enforced no-trespassing on Walmart property. Several speakers gave crowd-energizing and inspiring speeches including Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick, CWA Local 7901 President Madelyn Elder, Diana Wu of Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon, Reverend Eugene Ross of United Church of Christ, and many more! Thank you to everyone who participated in the resistance today! Keep up the good fight and we'll see you again next year! Recorded live on scene by Jacob Dean November 29, 2013.
(00:00) - Who's street? Our street.
(00:50) - Protest Chants
(04:20) - We March
(04:30) - Solidarity Forever Pt 1
(05:45) - Police cause more problems than protesters!
(09:15) - Why are we here? (Madelyn Elder interviewed by KGW tv)
(09:48) - Solidarity Forever Pt 2
(11:36) - A voice for Walmart workers
(12:00) - Speeches Begin
(12:55) - Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick speaks
(15:55) - Diana Wu of APAN speaks
(18:15) - Reverend Eugene Ross of United Church of Christ speaks
(24:55) - Organizer Dennis Gravy speaks
(28:25) - Protesters sneak inside Walmart to deliver special message!
(29:13) - CWA Local 7901 President Madelyn Elder speaks
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Noam Chomsky: Elections Today – Uninformed People Making Irrational Decisions
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MIT Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Noam Chomsky briefly explains the electoral process in America.
Black Friday Walmart Protest in Portland 11/23/12
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http://www.filterfreeradio.com - Jacob Dean attends the Wal-mart Solidarity Occupy Black Friday Protest at his local Wal-mart on 82nd Ave in Portland, OR November 23, 2012. There is one picture from a friend who works at a near by restaurant from when the protest began around 10am with many more folks on the street than when I got there after 1pm. Local NBC news affiliate KGW Channel 8 was on the scene, that's encouraging. Thanks to the fellow in the interview again for the great sign and a minute of your time! We'll be airing this video during FFR #57 Monday 11/26/12 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT!
HOPE - By Chris Hedges
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This is What Hope Looks Like
Hope will not come in trusting in the ultimate goodness of Barack Obama, who, like Herod of old, sold out his people. It will not be realized by chanting packaged campaign slogans or attempting to influence the democratic party. It will not come through our bankrupt liberal institutions-- from the press, to the withered stump that is the labor movement.
Hope will only come now when we physically defy the violence of the state. All who resist, all who are here today, keep hope alive. All who succumb to fear, despair and apathy become an enemy of hope. They become, in their passivity, agents of injustice.
If the enemies of hope are finally victorious in this nation, the poison of violence will become not only the language of power but the language of opposition. And those who resist with nonviolence are the last thin line of defense between a civil society and its disintegration.
Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of mind. Hope is action. Hope is doing something. The more futile, the more useless, the more irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of rebellion is, the vaster and more potent hope becomes.
Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak, unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness, the lies, fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope knows that an injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice visited on all of us. Hope posits that people are drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret of hope's power. Hope demands for others what we demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face.
Hope is not for the practical and the sophisticated, the cynics and the complacent, the defeated and the fearful. Hope is what the corporate state, which saturates our airwaves with lies, seeks to obliterate. Hope is what this corporate state is determined to crush. Be afraid, they tell us. Surrender your liberties to us so we can make the world safe from terror. Don't resist. Embrace the alienation of our cheerful conformity. Buy our products. Without them you are worthless. Become our brands. Do not look up from your electronic hallucinations. No. Above all do not think. Obey.
The powerful do not understand hope. Hope is not part of their vocabulary. They speak in the cold, dead words of national security, global markets, electoral strategy, staying on message, image and money. The powerful protect their own. They divide the world into the damned and the blessed, the patriots and the enemy, the privileged and the weak. They insist that extinguishing lives in foreign wars, or in our prison complexes, is a form of human progress.
They cannot see that the suffering of a child in Kandehar or a child in the blighted urban pocket of our nation's capitol diminishes and impoverishes us all. They are deaf, dumb and blind to hope. Those addicted to power, enthralled by self-exaltation, cannot decipher the words of hope any more than most of us can decipher hieroglyphics.
Hope to Wall Street bankers and politicians, to the masters of war and commerce, is not practical. It is gibberish. It means nothing. And this is because they kneel before the idols of greed and money.
If we resist and carry out acts, no matter how small, of open defiance, hope will not be extinguished. If all we accomplish today is to assure a grieving mother in Baghdad or Afghanistan, a young man or woman crippled physically and emotionally by the hammer blows of war, that he or she is not alone, our act will be successful. But hope cannot be sustained if it cannot be seen.
Any act of rebellion, any physical defiance of those who make war, of those who perpetuate corporate greed and are responsible for state crimes, anything that seeks to draw the good to the good, nourishes our souls and holds out the possibility that we can touch and transform the souls of others.
Hope affirms that which we must affirm. And every act that imparts hope is a victory in itself.
(from W. H. Auden) Defenseless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
FFR #57 - Filter Free Radio - Walmart & Fossil Fuel vs. We The People!
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http://www.filterfreeradio.com Filter Free Radio Episode #57 - Filter Free Radio - Wal-mart & Fossil Fuel vs. We The People! Jacob Dean and Skeptical Scott broadcast live from Portland, OR and Washington DC! Who is responsible for the lives lost in the garment factory fire? Wal-mart? Plus what happened on the Black Friday Wal-mart protesting nationwide and how did Wal-mart's Communications VP spin the truth on FOX? Finally do we have a choice about climate activism? (No, we don't.) Why it's time to get active and directly target the fossil fuel industry with Bill McKibben from Democracy Now and much much more! Recorded live on 11/26/2012 in Portland, OR.
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CONFIRMATION CLASSESConfirmation Classes are for students from 6th through 8th grade are held Sundays at 10:30am during the academic year.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLEach summer, St. John's teams up with First Congregational Church to host Vacation Bible School for school-age children. Volunteers are always welcome for this activity.
PRAYER CIRCLEThe Prayer Circle shares specific prayer requests.We pray in thanksgiving and lament for all.
SEWING CIRCLEThe Sewing Circle quilts for Lutheran World Relief.
BOOK CLUBOur Book Club reads a variety of books based on participants interests. Past choices include The 8 Habits of Love, by Ed Bacon, and Pastrix, by Nadia Bolz-Webber.
EXTENDING THE FEAST FOR LOCAL FOOD PANTRIESOn the first Sunday of each month, we take a collection for our local food pantries. This practice comes to us from the ancient church. In that time, after all of the people gathered together had eaten, a deacon would take food to people in need. The feast was extended! We hope to continue that tradition. Please bring your donated items to worship the first Sunday each month.
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MICHIGANSt. John's supports those in need locally and abroad.