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Macaw Research Project Update 2011
The Tambopata Macaw Project 2011
Donald J. Brightsmith, Gaby Vigo, and Janice Boyd Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center at Texas A&M University December 2011
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Can't believe it is December and time for the annual migration back to the jungles of Peru. It was a busy year for the Tambopata Macaw Project. Don was promoted to a new position as Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Health at Texas A&M University and after years of collaborating from afar, Dr. Janice Boyd moved to Texas and joined the Schubot Center full time to help strengthen our parrot conservation research program. Meanwhile, fieldwork continued in earnest in the wilds of Peru and beyond. So many things happened that it is hard to sum them up in just a few pages, but we will do our best to give you some of the highlights of 2011. We wish you all a happy macaw breeding season (oh and happy holidays too!
The Macaw Project Invades the Neotropical Ornithological Conference in Cuzco, Peru This November, over 1000 leading experts on tropical birds from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, US, Australia, Hungary and nearly every country in Latin America came together for the Neotropical Ornithological Conference. It was an energetic and eclectic mix of the brightest and best, where you never knew if the conversation you were joining would be in English, Spanish or Portuguese or what topic or bird species would come up next. The conference was held in Cuzco, Peru the capital of the ancient Inca Empire and located only 160 miles from our project home base of Tambopata Research Center. With so many friends and colleagues from all over the Americas so close to our home site, we wanted to make sure that they got a taste of home grown Peruvian research. So we pulled out all the stops. There were over 20 members and alumni of the project at the conference and we did all we could to ensure that they got a good introduction to the macaw and parrot research we have been doing for the last 12 years.
In total, our research team and collaborators from Texas A&M University gave 11 research talks and presented 4 posters on a wide range of topics including:
Don, along with friend and collaborator Thomas White from the Puerto Rican Parrot Project, organized a symposium which aimed at helping parrot researchers do better science and collect the biological information needed to help conserve Scarlet Macaw nest at Tambopata Research Center, Peru. parrots as a group. All in all we had a wonderful time. We learned so much and got to share so much new information with our colleagues and friends from all over the Americas.
Parrot Nutrition update
Don and his grad student Juan Cornejo have been pushing forward with the research on parrot nutrition with the goals of "using wild parrot nutrition to improve captive parrot health." In 2011 we processed crop samples from wild Cuban Amazons from Abaco Island, Lilac‐crowned Amazons from Mexico, Thickbilled Parrots from Mexico, Scarlet Macaws from Peru, and Green‐winged Macaws from Peru. Thanks to Caroline Stahala, Katherine Renton, Sonia Gabriela Ortiz‐Maciel, and all the assistants who helped make this happen. Juan also analyzed 15 different commercially available hand feeding formulas. We published a paper on the amino acid content of Scarlet Macaw chick diets from Peru and Juan is currently working on papers on the composition of the hand feeding formulas, fatty acids in wild chick diets, and a comparison among all the different species' crop contents. The work on the hand feeding formulas has found that there is great variation among products which suggests that there is no consensus among manufacturers of the correct nutrition for growing psittacines and the industry could benefit from more research on parrot chick nutrition. In addition, we found that the manufacturer's recommendations for how to prepare and feed their products vary widely, and this makes the nutritional differences among products even larger. This suggests that manufacturers put much more effort in to making the powder than they do informing consumers how to use it. Juan is writing up his dissertation now and we hope to have big news on parrot diets by the end of 2012.
Satellite telemetry
An important part of working with parrots is knowing where they go. If they go too far, and stray outside parks and protected areas, then we need more complex strategies to conserve them. For that reason, we have been using special satellite telemetry collars since 2008 to figure out where our large macaws go throughout the year. Last year we reported on "Charming," and other Blue and Gold Macaws who traveled around southern Peru and Bolivia, some going as far as 150 km from the point of capture before returning a few months later to their "home turf." With this we have confirmed that this species uses huge areas of rainforest every year.
In 2009 we put collars on two Scarlet Macaws, but they both stayed really close to TRC for the entire 8 month study. But despite this general lack of movement, we decided to try again in 2011. So in January we put satellite collars on two more Scarlet Macaws. This time they were trapped at wooden nest boxes, so that we could retrap them in 2012 and remove the collars (if needed). In 2011, both collared birds remained near their nest sites through March. By late March "Franz" seemed to be moving northward but unfortunately his collar stopped transmitting prematurely. However, much to our surprise, "Angeles" went on a tour comparable to those of the Blue‐and‐Golds. He went north and west, spending May just across the border in Bolivia, before returning southward in June, July, and August to the area around TRC. Both Franz and Angeles returned to their nests by October and were still wearing their special collars. As part of our research we are working to make the collars more "macaw friendly," so that they fall off automatically once the batteries die. And right on cue, Franz's collar came off just as the new nesting season began. Both birds are now at their nests and according to our field team, Angeles' first chick is hatching as I write this report! We plan to collar both birds again in January and see what their movements are in 2012. The study of these landscape‐level movements is very important for conservation of parrots and macaws, since most parrots and macaws rely on food resources that vary seasonally, and they must move to follow these food resources as they come into and out of season. Their conservation requires that areas be set aside that provide food resources over the full 12 months of the year. Both Charming and Angeles have spent significant time outside of the current protected areas in Peru and Bolivia, which suggests that macaw conservation will continue to be complex.
When do parrots nest?
. . . and why? That is a question that has been bothering us for some time. In the US and Europe, most birds nest in the spring as the weather warms up, insect populations increase, and the days are long. But in the tropics, the seasons are much different and the timing of breeding is much more variable. In both Costa Rica and Peru the macaws nest around the beginning of the year. However, in Costa Rica it is the middle of the dry season and in Peru it is the middle of the wet season. Meanwhile, Blue‐headed Pionus from Costa Rica to Peru and everywhere in between always seem to nest in the dry season. For years we have speculated on what could explain these odd patterns. We have always expected that it was related to food supplies, but we have never been able to see how the nesting season changes with food availability in the forest. Until now.
Working with Peruvian botanist and Macaw Project field leader, Gustavo Martinez we have measured the food availability throughout two years in the forests of TRC. When we compare the food availability with the timing of nesting of the different parrot species, we found was that the total number of parrot species nesting was closely related to the numbers of trees in the forest with fruits and flowers. Food availability peaked around the end of the dry season. Looks like many trees time their fruiting to make sure that the seeds fall in the early wet season so they can germinate and start growing before the forest dries out again.
When we focus in on Blue headed Pionus, we find that they nest early in the season just as the food supplies peak. When their chicks fledge there is a still lot of food in the forest for them to feed on. But for Scarlet Macaws, things seem a little more complicated. They too start breeding as the availability of their food items peaks. But, by the time their chicks fledge in March, the amount of food in the forest is nearing its annual low. The temperate equivalent would be like fledging your young just as winter sets in. Our satellite telemetry data suggest that April and May are times when the macaws wander widely like those described above and it seems that even the new chicks accompany their parents on these long trips far from home in search of abundant food supplies. These findings are important for understanding how macaws and other parrots fit in to the ecosystems where they live. Only with this type of knowledge can we understand the birds well enough to help conserve them.
Chick death by starvation
Preliminary investigations show that 50% of the chicks that die at TRC die of starvation. In total over one in four chicks hatched at the site die of starvation. Lone chicks and first chicks in multichick broods are the ones that are most likely to fledge while 45% of the second born and 100% of the third and fourth born die of starvation. What is behind these alarming statistics? In over 250 hours of video analyzed, we found only one incidence of aggression between chicks so direct competition and siblicide are not driving this pattern.
However, these videos do give us some clues: first and second chicks that survived to fledging are fed ~5 times per hour. However, second chicks and third chicks that eventually starved to death are fed on average about once per hour. This was not the only difference in parental care. Sometimes the parents brood only some of the chicks, not all of them. Second and third chicks that eventually starve to death are excluded from the brooding 10 times more than first and second chicks that fledge. What these data suggest is that the parents are specifically choosing which chicks will live and which will die. Those that die they are killed through specific targeted neglect. Three healthy Scarlet Macaw Chicks ready to be weighed and measured by the crew of the Tambopata Macaw Project. All three survived to fledging, a first for the project.
Just under half of all second born chicks die of starvation at Tambopata Research Center. In addition nearly all 3rd and 4th chicks also die of starvation.
The goal of our research this season is to understand what is driving the parents' decision to let some birds starve. Maybe food supply is not enough to feed more than two chicks or maybe the chick raising process requires too much energy so that it is not possible for the macaw pair to fledge four chicks. The average brood size in the Tambopata area is 1.5 chicks per nest. Perhaps just the older and more experienced pairs are the ones that are able to raise two chicks successfully. If that is the case, why do the parents lay and incubate four eggs. Are those third and fourth eggs a kind of insurance or "back up" plan?
During the 2011 season, a pair of very experienced Scarlet Macaws brought a new piece of evidence to this case. They successfully raised a third chick (see photo). The male of the pair was banded and we knew for sure that he was 18 years old and that he had successfully raised at least six broods before. We monitored this nest closely, measuring chick development and monitoring the parents' and chicks' interactions using video cameras to try to understand why in this particular case the parents where so interested in fledging three chicks. The Texas A&M veterinary team also participated in this experience, monitoring and analyzing the health of the three chicks. Our observations suggest that the first chick's health was not good in the early weeks of life, and it seemed uncertain if it would survive to fledging. Second and third chicks were perfectly fine and growing normally. The video data show that the female was consistent in her care of the second chick, but suggest that she was uncertain about the fate of her other two chicks. This doubt was displayed in her behavior as she selectively ignored the third chick some days and the first chick on other days. However, in the end she provided enough care to both the first and third and for the first time in nearly 20 years, we watched as three chicks successfully fledged from a Scarlet Macaw nest at TRC.
During the 2012 breeding season (currently underway) we are recording macaw behavior inside and around additional nests to gain more insights in to the forces driving this macaw chick starvation. Since October 2011, we have been monitoring 40 macaw cavities (20 natural cavities and 20 artificial nests) of which 26 are being occupied by macaws (19 nest occupied by Scarlet Macaws, 4 by Green‐winged Macaws and 2 by Chestnut‐fronted Macaws). As of early December 2011, we have 21 eggs and 5 chicks. We have already had our first chick lost due to starvation: a fourth chick from the same pair that fledged three last season. However, the third chick in that nest looks healthy and could be raised to fledging again this season.
Cement nest boxes? . . . really?
In Peru we have been working with nest boxes for years. In fact, building the first nest boxes ever used by wild macaws was the first major accomplishment of Peruvian Eduardo Nycander and his field crews way back in 1990, in the early years of the Tambopata Macaw Project. The project has used nest boxes made of palm trees (but they rotted away in less than a year), wood (but they only last 2 – 3 years) and PVC plastic sewer pipe (but the pipe is really expensive, hard to transport and the tops and bottoms are still a weak link). As a result we have been searching for a quick, easy, cheap and durable way to make nest boxes. In the last year, a colleague from Cuba, Maikel Cańizares shared his little secret with us: cement and burlap can make great nest boxes. At his study site they have been used by both Cuban Amazons and Cuban Conures. This coming year, we plan to modify his designs and build a test group of boxes to see if our macaws will also use them. We are cautiously optimistic that these new designs will provide us with the cheap and durable boxes we have been looking for. We will let you know if we have any success.
New volunteer opportunities
Would you like to come and be a volunteer on the Tambopata Macaw Project? We now have the ability to take volunteers who are able to spend as little as two weeks or as much as three months. From young biology majors to more mature parrot lovers and even physically fit retirees can now help us do the research that has allowed us to learn so much about the biology and conservation of macaws and other parrots in Peru. If you think you would like to join us as a volunteer, or just want more information on the project, please visit us on the web at www.macawproject.org.
Publications available online
Whenever we have new publications about our research, we post them on our webpage, so you can all have direct access to the new science we are producing. Please visit us and see the science behind the Tambopata Macaw Project www.macawproject.org.
Many private citizens have worked as volunteers in Peru, provided encouragement and moral support, and provided donations to help keep us going over the past 12 years, and I would like to thank you all for this help. Thanks to all the assistants, including over 100 young Peruvians, who have helped us with all the field work and organization. Congratulations to Juan Cornejo who has taken a position at the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo working as the assistant to the Curator of Birds. We wish him
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sorry, it wasnt
sorry, it wasnt
Early Mediterranean civilization always bored the hell out of me.
You know, only you would post that kind of fucked up shit. My Roman blood beats your marsh blood any day of the week.
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
they have a great history, dont get me wrong. but their actual civilization was nothing to write home about. as far as real civilization goes the greeks were a million times better at literally everything. the romans were good at farming, war and political intrigue. fun stuff (well maybe not farming) but not the heights of civilization. they were also sort of okay at prose stylings. but in philosophy, mathematics, the sciences and literature they had nothing.
Hmm, just a thought, but couldn't math be more attributed to early Arabic mathemiticians than the Greeks, or was alot of the Greek work the inspiration/base for the Arabs?
they were a republic that got crammed up its own ass and made a bunch of roads and battle strategies.
sounds like the US to me
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Congress established a Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture in 1881.1 The division focused on research and the provision of information; it did not actively manage forest lands. The agency's name was later changed to the Bureau of Forestry.
The Forest Reserve Act (also known as the Creative Act) of 1891 allowed presidents to set aside forest reserves out of public lands by executive order. Those reserves were managed by the Department of the Interior. By 1897, 40 million acres had been set aside.
The Federal Forest Transfer Act of 1905, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, moved control of the forest reserves from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Forestry, which was renamed the Forest Service. The new Forest Service grew quickly—by 1908, it had 1,500 employees and controlled 150 million acres of land.2
The Weeks Act of 1911 was an important early law that expanded the powers of the Forest Service. The law authorized federal subsidies to the states for forest fire prevention, and it allowed the Forest Service to purchase private lands for the creation of national forests.
The Forest Service was heavily influenced by its charismatic first chief, Gifford Pinchot, a close friend of Roosevelt's. Pinchot was a progressive who believed that professional forest managers employed by the government could manage forests better than private owners. He made no secret of the fact that his eventual goal was for the Forest Service to gain authority over all public and private forest lands in the nation, a goal that was the policy of the agency until 1953.
Pinchot and others also believed that the nation was about to experience a timber famine that could be relieved only by huge investments in forest management. The reality turned out to be far different. U.S. timber consumption peaked in 1910 as the use of wood for fuel declined and as wood products manufacturers greatly increased the amount of useful wood they produced from each log.
Because of the continued availability of private supplies, Forest Service lands accounted for just two percent of the nation's lumber supply by the early 1940s.3 The "national wood famine" that the Forest Service had predicted never happened4 Indeed, the United States had a glut of wood on the market from the time the Forest Service was created through at least the 1980s.
Despite its flawed projections, the Forest Service was one of the most popular agencies in government in the 1950s. "No one can deny that the Forest Service is one of Uncle Sam's soundest and most businesslike investments," gushed Newsweek in 1952. "It is the only major government branch showing a cash profit."5 The magazine also lauded the agency's contribution to the value of recreation, wildlife management, timber stands, and pure and abundant water. The Newsweek issue, which featured Smokey the Bear on its cover, ascribed the agency's success to decentralized management.
Incentives to Cut
The popularity of the Forest Service did not last. Incentives built into the agency's budget by well-intentioned but poorly conceived laws effectively rewarded forest managers for losing money on environmentally questionable practices.6 At the same time, managers were penalized for earning a positive return for following environmentally sound practices.
Congress gave the Forest Service funding to arrange timber sales, but it directed the agency to fund reforestation and other post-sale activities out of the timber receipts. Agency managers soon learned to maximize timber sales in order to fund an array of programs. The budgetary system created perverse incentives. Because extra funds could be spent on restoration, the more damage timber sales created the larger were the budgets that managers got to control. Every level of the agency's hierarchy had a stake in the below-cost timber sale program because as much as a third of the funds went for agency overhead.
Forest Service cutting practices were also problematic. At the time of the 1952 Newsweek story, most national forest timber was managed using selection cutting: individual trees were cut when they were mature, leaving behind beautiful stands of younger trees. When done right, a selection cut forest is hard to distinguish from wilderness.
Clearcutting, in which all trees on 20 to 100 acres or more are cut regardless of maturity, imposes higher reforestation and rehabilitation costs. But since agency managers got to keep those costs out of timber receipts, they had an incentive to clearcut even when other cutting techniques were more compatible with recreation and other uses. From a timber industry point of view, clearcutting sometimes makes sense. But when considering recreation, wildlife, and watershed, it was often devastating. The cash profits of the 1950s also vanished, and by the 1980s the Forest Service was losing billions of dollars a year on the timber program and other activities.
By 1970, the Forest Service was cutting almost four times as much timber as it did in 1952, almost all of it clearcut. The resulting controversies over both clearcutting and the large amount of timber being cut rocked the agency and led to lawsuits, congressional hearings, and tree-sitting protests. Ironically, agency leaders responded to the controversies by becoming more centralized in their management, which only made the Forest Service more vulnerable to criticism.
In 1976, Congress tried to resolve Forest Service problems by instituting a comprehensive forest planning process. But the resulting plans proved to be a costly mistake: the agency spent more than a billion dollars planning the national forests, but the plans were often based on fabricated data, and they did not resolve any debates.
The Forest Service's legacy of poor management continues today. A 2003 report by the Government Accountability Office concluded: "Historically, the Forest Service has not been able to provide Congress or the public with a clear understanding of what the Forest Service's 30,000 employees accomplish with the approximately $5 billion the agency receives each year. Since 1990, the GAO has reported seven times on performance accountability weaknesses at the Forest Service."7 The agency's financial operations were on the GAO's "high-risk" list for waste between 1999 and 2005.8
The timber program continues to be subject to inefficiency and scandal. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that a large area of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska was clearcut and the trees left to rot because of inept planning by the Forest Service.9 U.S. taxpayers lost millions of dollars in Tongass. The agency's costs of selling timber from Tongass have substantially exceeded fees collected from timber companies. In 1992, a quirk in timber sale contracts even caused the Forest Service to pay timber companies $14 million to cut Tongass timber, which was a cost to taxpayers on top of the $40 million that the agency spent to manage the timber.10
Nonetheless, big changes have come to the agency despite its poor planning and management. Starting in 1990, a new generation of national forest managers began to wind down the agency's timber program. Within six years, timber sales had fallen by 85 percent, and they remain at fairly low levels today. This relieved the controversies about overcutting, but it led many to wonder where the agency would shift its focus after timber: Recreation? Wildlife management?
Fires Are the New Cash Cow
The answer came in 2000, when a fire burned more than a billion dollars worth of homes in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Congress responded by giving the Forest Service a whopping 38 percent increase in its 2001 budget, mostly for fire activities. Total national forest fire expenditures have more than quadrupled in the last 15 years.11 Fire expenditures have grown from about 10 percent of the Forest Service budget in the early 1990s to more than 40 percent today.
Much of this money is being spent reducing hazardous fuels within the forests. Far more is spent preparing for and suppressing fires. Yet much of the spending on fire activities is as questionable as the Forest Service's earlier timber programs. National forest fire problems are not as bad as the Forest Service claims; hazardous fuels are only a major issue on about 15 percent of federal lands in the West.
Forest managers have known for decades that some fires should be allowed to burn for the good of forest ecosystems. But from the beginning, Congress has given a virtual blank check to the Forest Service for fire suppression activities, and much of the spending has been of dubious value. The agency has made poor management decisions regarding prescribed burnings over many decades.12
Agency leaders are taking advantage of Congress's willingness to throw money at the fire issue. With an increasingly large share of the Forest Service bureaucracy dependent on the extra funding that comes around each fire season, the agency blindly puts out almost all fires. Even people within the Forest Service fear that the agency's traditional commitment to conservation is being lost in an orgy of spending on fire-related activities.13
Reform Options
Today, the Forest Service controls 193 million acres of land, has a budget of $5 billion, and employs more than 30,000 workers.14 The Forest Service is in need of serious reforms. The services provided by the agency should be restructured to reduce taxpayer costs and to improve forest management practices.
One option is for Congress to allow the agency to charge fair market value for recreation and other uses of Forest Service land. That would probably raise enough revenue to cover all of the agency's costs. Taxpayers would save about $5 billion annually if the Forest Service was shifted to a self-funding structure.
If Forest Service activities were self-funded, it would force the agency to be more efficient in its operations and more responsive to forest land users. Self-funding would create incentives for the agency to decentralize its operations, allowing managers to respond to local conditions instead of being controlled by top-down plans from Washington.
Another reform step would be to revive federalism by eliminating federal forest subsidies to the states and turning portions of the national forests over to the states. Other activities could be privatized. It might be possible, for example, for some national forests to buy private insurance, as Oregon did until recently.
Some experts have proposed full privatization of the national forests.15 Alternately, the national forests could be structured as independent trusts that would be owned by the federal government, but managed by a board of directors and funded out of forest-related receipts. The trusts would have special obligations to promote conservation, while still producing many valuable resources.
For decades, the Forest Service has been plagued by mismanagement and subject to perverse and damaging incentives. In the coming years, policymakers should focus on the goal of reforming the Forest Service to reduce taxpayer costs, while improving the sound and ecological management of forest lands.


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This candy bar caught my eye immediately. I found it while on a trip to New Your City. I was in town for a wedding, and earlier in the day I was exploring around Soho. I went into Dean & Deluca's to poke around for some candy, since they tend to carry more obscure and high end types. That is where I saw on their chocolate shelf, this Sir Francis Bacon Toffee Bar.
This bar really stands out. It's not shaped like most chocolate bars, but thicker and heftier. It's like a mini brick. I really like the style of the packaging. It has the engraving of Sir Francis Bacon on the front, wit ha pig snout pasted on his face like a sticker. If you look closely you can see they drew in the strings that holds the snout to his face. Very clever.
The back of the package reads: "We start with rich, buttery toffee, add the surprise of artisan smoked bacon, then enrobe it in premium dark chocolate. The result? A bar as original as it is unforgettable." Excited after reading this, I open the box and pull out a large block wrapped in maroon foil. I unwrap the foil packet and you can see the big block of chocolate toffee there. It's very pretty, the chocolate is dark and smooth with a nice subtle sheen. It smells dark, rich and slightly smokey.
I try to take a bite of the bar, but I find that it's just too thick for me to break a corner off with my front teeth. I angle the bar so I can chew it from the side and lightly clamp down in hopes of lightly breaking off a piece. I broke a corner off successfully and saw that under the chocolate this is a giant slab of toffee. The toffee is very flavorful, full with notes of butter and something toasty. The chocolate is good, and adds some sweetness, but it's really the toffee that shines here. As for the bacon? Every so often you can take its smokiness, and some bacon flavor. It isn't with every bite, and the toffee flavor really overpowers everything else.
This bar isn't as bacon flavored as I imagined. Which, is probably a good thing because you want a good balance of flavors, even more adventurous ones. It is really excellent as just a toffee with chocolate bar, so if you wanted to try something with a "light" bacon experience, this bar is a good start. Both me and my fiance greatly enjoyed it.
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"You know you don't have to go if you are scared. You don't have to prove anything".
Messages of this kind and similar ones poured into my facebook inbox and my mobile phone.
I admit, it was not an easy decision to partake in this project. From about a week prior to the journey to Beit Jalah, I stopped sleeping. Nightmares returned at night and by day my head was full of difficult thoughts and fears. In between, I repeated in my head, like a mantra, a sentence that my friend Gilad Chushani said to me a few weeks earlier: fear stems from lack of knowledge. And I knew that I don't know, and that I'm afraid. Rational or not, this fear was tangible even though I didn't allow myself to get carried away with specific worries concerning possible dangers that might lie in waiting for me in the Palestinian town, in an encounter with people about whom I knew nothing except that they are Palestinian artists.
My last encounter with Palestinians on Israeli/Palestinian soil was very bad indeed. It was on the 21st of December 2000; I was a soldier in the Nahal and volunteered to help members of my peer-group who had settled in Maskiot in the Jordan Valley. While I was playing backgammon with a girl from my unit in the Meholah Junction, waiting for a lift to Maskiot, a young Palestinian man aged 20 or 21 sat next to us. Half an hour later, exactly at the moment of my sweeping victory in the game, he arose and walked towards the bus stop. A disturbing thought crossed my mind. I didn't hear any approaching bus. I turned my head to follow him and suddenly felt him standing behind me, gripping me from behind tightly. I grabbed his hand that surrounded my neck in an attempt to break free when he screamed something in my ear and then there was a colossal explosion. I will skip all the graphic details. Later I spent 5 months recovering in Rambam Hospital, followed by a year of rehabilitation. Ever since, I suffer from loud ringing in my ears, and my daily activities brought to a standstill from time to time, with flashbacks where I re-live this experience weighing me down. This happens nearly always when I hear Arabic, see Arabic script, hear the explosion-like sounds of car engines, and all sorts of other benign situations; in short, what is considered a full post-traumatic phenomenon. So there, I have explained a bit about the reasons for all my anxieties and the fears I felt in anticipation of my visit to Palestine.
And indeed, as I arrived and took in on which side of the Separation Wall I stand, I was engulfed by anxiety. For about four hours I felt myself under an offensive of anxiety and flashbacks which were in stark contrast to all the smiles and polite head gestures exchanged by everyone. After getting to know the Palestinian participants and as I was getting used to this strange situation and to the simultaneous translation which was constantly whispered in our ears by Ahmed Jafary the skilled translator, that the many tensions bottled inside myself were only just then slightly eased (that particularly pacifying peace-pipe that we jointly smoked certainly didn't hurt).
All the participants in the project gave chilling testimonies on their encounter-points with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it was generally felt that all the artists who took part were there not for the sake of apportioning blame but in order to find a starting point for the future – a future without violence, occupation or bloodshed. I will not repeat here the terrible stories that nearly choked me when I heard them, and I will not delve into the details of the traumas, which people on both sides grew up so much so that they seem an almost "natural" and inextricable part of life.
In the website of the Bereaved Families Forum (www.theparentscircle.com ), the objects of this "Narrative Project" are described as follows: "To build trust and empathy, to further mutual understanding between Palestinians and Israelis and to provide tools for recognition and understanding of the national and personal narratives of the other side".
I think that this is exactly what we did, or at least started doing. Through the honest sharing of our personal narratives, by means of the mutual curiosity and interest of the art created on the other side of the divide, and by identifying with the basic and universal difficulties faced by artists wherever they are, we came closer, feeling our way, trying to get to know each other better. Mostly though, we learnt at close range what perhaps seemed obvious to most of us beforehand, but was better understood in Beit Jalah, namely, that people and their actions are a direct product of their lives' circumstances.
One of the most interesting parts for me was on Saturday morning, when two professors of history, Eyal Navah and Khalil Baader arrived, and introduced us to chapters from a history book written jointly by them, which describes the two narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the respective viewpoint of the two nations side by side. They spoke about Zionism, the Balfour Declaration, the White Paper, the Holocaust, the Naqba/War of Independence. Each of them told the history as told in their society. The gaps between the national narratives are huge. I was very familiar with the Israeli narrative. Probably my bizarre interest in history since childhood had instilled this "knowledge" in me very well. The Palestinian narrative, on the other hand, was almost entirely new to me. Previously, I never understood their perception of historical events that I assumed I knew so well.
There were incredible moments for me when, for example, I was sitting with a nice Palestinian guy on Friday night for an in-depth chat into the early hours of the freezing night in Beit Jalah, and between exchanges of photographs and stories, on art, politics and anything in between, for a flash I glimpsed at this situation as an observer.
There was I, a former IDF soldier, who was mortally wounded by a suicide-bomber a young Palestinian student, sitting and having a conversation about political art, religion and music, with a young Palestinian student and painter, who some years prior to this, was in an Israeli prison charged with a failed attempt to cause an explosion against Israeli soldiers in Nablus.
I cannot describe what I felt, but it soon turned into a recognition, that he is participating in this project with me today and he wants to encounter other voices in the Israeli society, beyond the ones he already knows, those of soldiers and settlers. And here we are by ourselves, chatting and everything is alright, no one is blown up and the conversation flows, and at times even makes us laugh. The dialogue about art helped me bridge many of the strange moments that passed through my head almost against my will.
One of the most significant things that happened to me on a personal level during this weekend, was that I managed to dissolve to some extent the hard cognitive connection forged in the last decade, between spoken and written Arabic and death and terror. In my mind new associations emerged, between Arabic and good, interesting art, between Arabic and good, interesting people, and between Arabic and people like myself, who are seeking freedom of choice in their profession, creativity, time and life.
I want to summarize and tell you that through this project I met people who are similar to me as far as religion, a wish for secular state for both people and conceptual art are concerned. In fact, in many ways the similarities exceeded the differences. I met people who are interested and willing to co-operate in artistic and social matters, do not believe in boycotts and want to be creative and be active. I hope we will exhibit our art jointly, here in Israel and in Palestine, and in the world. After all, we have much more in common than just a tragic history, a blood-saturated earth and perhaps a few genes.
We are going to meet again in a fortnight in Lifta, a site of a former Palestinian village at the outskirts of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants abandoned during the 1948 war, and I eagerly anticipate this meeting.
I warmly recommend to you to follow the activities of the Bereaved Families Forum and to try and participate in similar project arranged by the Forum in the future.
Omer Golan, 31, a painter and new-media artist. His works are created on the seam-line that combines technology, science, sociology and art. Omer studied new media programming in order to create his new-media works. Using computer, sensors, cameras and unique software that he created, he generates certain rules that help him manipulate the space in which he displays his works and produce dynamic works that react to the audience's response and transpose passive viewers into participants.


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Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Update! Lefthand Canyon has been chip & sealed and reports from riders are that the road is unrideable
Boulder County will be chip sealing 25 miles of county roads this summer, including some popular bicycle routes.
Starting on Monday, June 11, County crews will begin spreading the chip on Overland Road above Jamestown and work their way down James Canyon, and then Lefthand Canyon all the way to US36 (Foothills Highway). The chip application will be followed closely by rollers and sweepers to set the material into the road surface along with the application of a "fog-coat" to further reduce the amount of loose material. The entire process is expected to take just under a week for each section of road.
Chip-sealing roads preserves the road surface, reduces potholes, and extends the life of the pavement, allowing us to go longer between pavement overlays. We understand the chip seal can be disruptive to cycling and can make for a rough ride for a period of time. To address these concerns, Boulder County continues to use smaller chips than in the past and is committed to sweeping and fog-sealing the roads immediately after the chip is applied in an effort to reduce the amount of loose chips and smooth the ride. However, the chip seal process can make for a rougher ride until it settles with the heat of the summer, so please use caution when cycling on these roads for a couple of weeks after the chip is put down.
- Week of June 11
James Canyon Drive / Overland Drive – top of James Canyon to intersection with Lefthand Canyon Drive.
- Week of June 18
73rd / 75th Street - south of Plateau Road
Niwot Road - west of 73rd to 63rd and east of 73rd to Highway 119
Jay Road - US36 (28th Street) to 47th Street
- Week of June 25
Jay Road - 47th Street to 75th Street
Baseline Road - City limits (east of 55th) to Cherryvale Road
North 75th Street - Longmont limits (south of St. Vrain Road) to Highway 66
Neva / Niwot Shoulders Project - construction begins mid-summer through the Fall.
Boulder County will be reconstructing both Neva Road and Niwot Road this summer/ fall between US36 (Foothills Highway) and North 63rd Street. The old pavement along both roads will be removed and a new roadway constructed to include 4-foot shoulders along the entire stretch of roadway. Use of the road during construction may be difficult, especially when the old pavement is removed. Daytime closures are anticipated for at least part of the project.
Construction is currently anticipated to begin in late July and extend through to Thanksgiving. Please respond to this email if you'd like to be added to the Neva/Niwot email update list.
Highway 93 Shoulders Project – public open house, Thursday June 21.
Boulder County Boulder County is partnering with CDOT and the City of Boulder to add shoulders to Highway 93 between Highway 128 and Highway 170, and to construct a new trail crossing for the city's Community Ditch Trail. The open house is an opportunity to review the current conditions and provide input on the upcoming design.
Open house information is available here. Please respond to this email if you'd like to be added to the Highway 93 email update list.
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Boulder County will be repaving approximately 5 miles of county roads around Lyons this summer, including Apple Valley, Blue Mountain, Antelope and Old South Roads. Construction is expected to begin in late June and be completed by the end of July.
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Seems like they are targeting
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Seems like they are targeting bike routes.
Points: 5
By the time potholes would
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
By the time potholes would have actually surfaced on the road, that fkin chip seal will have long gone into disrepair...
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They need to put a shoulder
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They need to put a shoulder on 93 down the hill into Boulder and not stop at 170. That's one of the more terrifying stretches to ride on.
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There's an easy alternative -
Submitted by Eric Budd (not verified) on
There's an easy alternative - just take Marshall road. It's almost as fast, too.
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Submitted by Craig (not verified) on
haha, take Marshall Rd to where? I believe this person is talking about the section of 93 south of 170, toward 128.
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With the exception of
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With the exception of Baseline Rd, none the roads need to be chip sealed! How about the county repave and widen Monarch Rd between 63rd and Diagonal, redo the concrete on 63rd between Diagonal and Gunbarrel Ave, there many wide cracks in the concrete, St Vrain Rd and Hygiene Rd between Foothills and 63rd. Think the money will be better spent on these projects than chip sealing which never lasts.
Points: 14
Not sticking to posted schedule
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The work on the lower portion of Left Hand Canyon was supposed to commence next week. However, they went ahead and started this week. The contact at Boulder County transportation is on vacation this week.
What's the point of posting a schedule if they are not going to adhere to it? I'm afraid the cycling community is going to be in for one long confusing summer.
Points: 14
Are you serious?
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Really?? They're ahead of schedule and you're upset. You'd probably be the first one complaining if they were behind schedule. Get a life. Sheeez....
Points: 9
Perhaps he has been focusing
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Perhaps he has been focusing his training to peak for one last attempt this weekend for a top Strava result before they chip seal the road. Now the opportunity for fame is fading away.
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No, I wouldn't have wasted my time going over there moron. I could have planned differently.
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A sombre day...
I don't normally post very personal things but I thought I would take this day to break from blogging to remember my husband's grandfather, who passed last Saturday afternoon. We're going to spend the day with family & remembering Pop-pop!
To everyone else, I hope you all have pleasant weekends & I'll see you Monday.
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i'm sorry about the loss of Pop-pop. the nice thing about memories is that they're always with us. have a nice weekend.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry about the loss too - nice to remember him on here.ReplyDelete
Hoping you have a weekend full of wonderful memories and smiles.ReplyDelete
Praying for you guys today Jen! Love you all:)ReplyDelete
oh i'm sorry girl! hugs!ReplyDelete
Hi Jen! Hope you've had a good weekend of remembrance. It hasn't been very long at all since his passing and I send all good wishes to you and your family.ReplyDelete
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- Besides making a mess after a good pillow fight, chicken feathers are pretty much useless and amazingly the poultry industry generates 2.7 billion kilograms of chicken feathers each year. But now, a new technology promises to turn carbonized chicken feathers into fuel tanks for hydrogen fuel-cell cars, hurricane-resistant roofing and lightweight car parts; via CleanTechnica.
- Computers have a come a long way from talking red lights in a science fiction movie. Nowadays, they can even be green. IBM is working on an energy efficient supercomputer that uses water to recycle its excess heat. It's a revelation because normally cooling large computer systems requires hefty amounts of air-conditioning; Reuters reports.
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11-07038 Oliver et al v. CitiMortgage Inc et al (Doc. # 41)
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Oliver et al v. CitiMortgage Inc et al, 11-07038 (Bankr. D. Kan. Dec. 6, 2011) Doc. # 41
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SIGNED this 6th day of December, 2011.
In re:
Michael Gene Oliver Case No. 05-40504
Ann Lucille Francis, Chapter 13
Michael Gene Oliver
Ann Lucille Francis,
vs. Adversary No. 11-07038
CitiMortgage, Inc. andCiticorp Trust Bank, FSB,
Memorandum Opinion and Order
Plaintiff has asked the Court to reconsider an order that granted Defendants'
unopposed Motion to Strike Plaintiffs' Request for Jury Trial. But because consent of
all parties is required before a bankruptcy court can conduct a jury trial, and
Defendants decline to consent, Plaintiffs were required to file a motion to withdraw the
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reference to have the proceeding transferred to the district court for a jury trial.
Plaintiffs have never done so. Because of that failure, Plaintiffs have not shown that
granting Defendants' Motion to Strike Jury Trial was clear error or results in manifest
injustice. As a result, the Court denies the Motion to Reconsider.
Procedural History
Plaintiffs requested a jury trial within their July 2011 Complaint, citing Rule
38(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. With their answer, Defendants also filed
a separate motion to strike the jury trial request. The Motion to Strike asserted twobases for striking the request: (1) Plaintiffs waived their right to a jury trial by not
timely filing a request for transfer to the district court; and (2) Plaintiffs were not
eligible for a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment.4
Plaintiffs did not respond to Defendants' Motion to Strike. When Defendantssubmitted an order granting that motion ten days after the response was due, the Court
1 Doc. 1 at p. 16.
2 Doc. 9.
3 Doc. 10.
4 Defendants' second argument relied on Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg, 492 U.S.
33 (1989), and only superficially addressed the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
Defendants argued that, because Plaintiffs' Complaint seeks a "declaratory judgment to
determine the balance owed on Plaintiffs' Note," the Complaint "would naturally affect
Defendants['] proof of claim which concerns estate assets." Defendants claimed that courtshave held that proceedings affecting estate assets involve public rights and, under the
Granfinanciaera standard, Plaintiffs thus have no right to a jury trial. Doc. 10 at ¶ 3.
5 The response to this non-dispositive motion was due within 14 days, pursuant to
D. Kan. Rule 6.1(d)(1). All Local Rules of the District of Kansas are applicable to
bankruptcy proceedings under D. Kan. Rule 83.8.2 and D. Kan. L.B.R. 1001.1(a).
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signed the Order. A few days later, the Court entered a Scheduling Order. That ordernoted that the parties' pleadings agreed the claims in the adversary proceeding involved
core matters and that the Court had jurisdiction to enter a final order and judgment.7
The Court's Scheduling Order also noted that, "[n]evertheless, any motion to withdraw
the reference pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(3) shall be filed by November 1, 2011."8
Plaintiffs timely filed a Motion to Reconsider the Order Granting the Motion to
Strike.9 Plaintiffs advance five arguments: (1) because Defendants' Motion to Strike
was not accompanied by a memorandum, Plaintiffs were not required to file a response
to the Motion; (2) Rule 39 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure mandates a jury trial
because the Court did not find that there was no right to a jury trial; (3) Plaintiffs need
not file a motion to withdraw the reference because Plaintiffs seek a jury trial in the
bankruptcy court, not in the district court; (4) Defendants' analysis of the Seventh
Amendment right to a jury trial is flawed; and (5) Plaintiffs should get more time to
respond to the motion to strike based on the excusable neglect of their counsel.10
Conclusions of Law
I. The Standard of Review Governing Motions to Reconsider
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for motions for
6 Doc. 14.
7 Doc. 17 at ¶ 5.
8 Id. (emphasis added).
9 Doc. 19.
10 Doc. 20.
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reconsideration.11 The District of Kansas Local Rules do address these motions under
D. Kan. Rule 7.3(b). That rule provides:
Parties seeking reconsideration of non-dispositive ordersmust file a motion within 14 days after the order is filedunless the court extends the time. A motion to reconsider
must be based on: (1) an intervening change in controllinglaw; (2) the availability of new evidence; or (3) the need tocorrect clear error or prevent manifest injustice.
Plaintiffs argue only the third prong of Rule 7.3(b)—"the need to correct clear error or
prevent manifest injustice." The decision to grant or deny a motion for reconsideration
is a discretionary matter for the Court,12 and the movant must show that
reconsideration is necessary.13
II. Statutory and Procedural Considerations Governing a Jury Trial in
the Bankruptcy Court
This dispute surrounds the right to a jury trial on claims asserted in the
bankruptcy court. When a jury trial is demanded in a bankruptcy proceeding, 28 U.S.C.
§ 157(e) begins the Court's analysis. Section 157(e) states:
If the right to a jury trial applies in a proceeding that may beheard under this section by a bankruptcy judge [governing"all cases under title 11 and all core proceedings arisingunder title 11, or arising in a case under title 11"], thebankruptcy judge may conduct the jury trial if specially
11 Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc. v. Bloomberg, L.P., 312 F.3d 1292, 1296 n.3
(10th Cir. 2002).
12 Fye v. Okla. Corp. Comm'n, 516 F.3d 1217, 1224 n.2 (10th Cir. 2008) (referring to
a motion for reconsideration as "an interlocutory motion invoking the district court's
general discretionary authority to review and revise interlocutory rulings prior to entry offinal judgment").
13 Classic Communc'ns, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 180 F.R.D. 397, 399 (D. Kan.
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designated to exercise such jurisdiction by the district courtand with the express consent of all the parties.
Therefore, under § 157(e), a bankruptcy judge may conduct a jury trial in appropriate
cases only if both (1) "specially designated" to do so by the district court and (2) all
parties consent.14
The first step in the § 157(e) analysis is to determine whether the district court
has designated this jurisdiction on bankruptcy courts within the district. Turning to the
Local Rules for the District of Kansas, Rule 83.8.13 states:
(a) A district judge shall conduct jury trials in all bankruptcycases and proceedings in which a party has a right to trial byjury, a jury is timely demanded, and no statement of consentto jury trial before a bankruptcy judge has been filed.
(b) A bankruptcy judge shall conduct jury trials in allbankruptcy cases and proceedings in which a party has aright to trial by jury, where a jury is timely demanded, andthe parties have jointly or separately filed a statement ofconsent to trial before a bankruptcy judge. A bankruptcyjudge may hear and determine all motions, dispositive orotherwise, filed by the parties in such a case or proceeding.15
Rule 83.8.13(b) requires three prerequisites be met before the bankruptcy court has
jurisdiction to conduct a jury trial: (1) a party has the right to a jury trial; (2) a jury trial
is timely demanded; and (3) the parties have consented to a jury trial in the bankruptcy
14 The appropriate cases are those where the party has demonstrated a Seventh
Amendment right to trial by jury on some or all of its claims. See Granfinanciera, S.A., 492
U.S. at 41–42 (concluding that the right to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment isdetermined by the legal or equitable nature of the same or similar claims at the time theSeventh Amendment was ratified). As discussed below, because Plaintiffs—the partiesrequesting the jury trial—have never filed a motion to withdraw the reference in this case,
that analysis has not been done here.
15 (emphasis added).
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court. It is thus clear that consent of all parties is a necessary prerequisite to the
bankruptcy court's authority to hold a jury trial under § 157(e) and Rule 83.8.13.
Subsection (a) of Rule 83.8.13 is applicable when all parties have not consented to trial
by jury in the bankruptcy court. In those cases, the party seeking the jury trial before
a district judge must show: (1) a right to trial by jury; and (2) a timely demand.
Defendants have not "expressly consented."16 Instead, they have made it clear
they do not consent to jury trial in the bankruptcy court by filing the motion to strike.
As a result, to receive a jury trial (again, assuming one is available), Plaintiffs must
follow the procedures for withdrawal of the reference to the bankruptcy court in 28
U.S.C. § 157(d) so that the jury trial may be held in the district court.
Section 157(d) states, in relevant part: "The district court may withdraw, in
whole or in part, any case or proceeding referred under this section, on its own motion
or on timely motion of any party, for cause shown."17 The statute does not define the "for
cause shown" standard, but case law demonstrates that "[t]he right to a jury trial has
been recognized as cause for withdrawal of reference."18 The statute also does not define
"timely," but courts have required that motions for withdrawal be filed at the first
16 28 U.S.C. § 157(e).
17 (emphasis added).
18 Parks v. Persels & Assoc., LLC (In re Ballway), Case No. 10-13945, Adv. No. 1105016,
2011 WL 1770996, at *1 (Bankr. D. Kan. Apr. 20, 2011) (citing Manley Truck Line,
Inc. v. Mercantile Bank of Kan. City, 106 B.R. 696 (D. Kan. 1989) and the cases collected at
1 Collier on Bankruptcy ¶ 3.04[1][b], at 3-54 n.6 (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J. Sommer eds.,
16th ed. 2010)).
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reasonable opportunity.19
In this District, the standards for transfer of a "proceeding commenced in . . . the
Bankruptcy Court," and the operative definition of "the first reasonable opportunity,"
are laid out in detail within Rule 83.8.6. That rule requires the party seeking transfer
(i.e., the party seeking the jury trial) file a motion in the bankruptcy court certifying one
of six grounds for withdrawal of the reference. 20 One of those six grounds is the
existence of cause under 28 U.S.C. § 157(d), and within that ground is the requirement
that the basis for the jury trial be stated with specificity.21
In other words, the party seeking a transfer to the district court—the only court
with jurisdiction to hold the jury trial when all parties do not consent—must file a
motion to withdraw the reference in the bankruptcy court specifying the right to jury
trial for the claims made in the complaint. Furthermore, the Local Rules provide an
express definition for a "timely" transfer: when the movant is the "original plaintiff," as
here, the motion "shall be filed within 20 days after the proceeding is commenced."22
The procedures outlined are mandatory on the requesting party—the Local Rules
require that a case be transferred to the district court "only in accordance" with the
19 See 9 Collier on Bankruptcy ¶ 5011.01[2], at 5011-8 (Alan N. Resnick & Henry J.
Sommer eds., 16th ed. 2010); cf. Commercial Fin. Servs., Inc. v. Temple (In re Commercial
Fin. Servs., Inc.), 97 Fed. App'x 238, 2004 WL 433065, at *1 (10th Cir. 2004) (unpublished)
(refusing to hear appeal due to lack of jurisdiction, but noting the district court's order
denying a motion to withdraw the reference because the motion was filed nine months afterthe jury demand).
20 D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6(a).
21 D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6(a)(6).
22 D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6(b) (emphasis added).
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procedures outlined within the Local Rule.23
Once a party files the motion to withdraw the reference due to the asserted right
to a jury trial, the bankruptcy court must then prepare a "written recommendation" for
the district court, analyzing the Seventh Amendment right to jury trial and formulating
a recommendation for the district court.24
III. Plaintiffs' Have Not Shown the Need to Correct Clear Error or
Prevent Manifest Injustice
Plaintiffs state five separate bases for reconsideration of the Court's Order, but
none are sufficient to carry their burden of showing the "need to correct clear error or
prevent manifest injustice" under the standard governing motions for reconsideration.25
First, Plaintiffs argue that they were not required to respond to the Motion to
Strike until Defendant filed a separate supporting memorandum, relying on D. Kan.
Local Rule 7.1. But those same local rules expressly required Plaintiffs to respond
within fourteen days to the non-dispositive jury trial motion.26 If Plaintiffs perceived a
conflict in the rules, the careful approach would have been to seek an extension of time.
That was not done. Accordingly, the Court was justified in considering the Motion
23 D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6.
24 D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6(f). Often, the bankruptcy court recommends that it retain the
proceedings through discovery and disposition of dispositive motions. See, e.g., Parks v.
Persels & Assocs., LLC (In re Ballway), Case No. 10-13945, Adv. No. 11-05016, 2011 WL
1770996, at *4 (Bankr. D. Kan. Apr. 20, 2011); Parks v. Persels & Assocs., LLC (In re
Kinderknecht), Case No. 09-13443, Adv. No. 10-5209, 2011 WL 841141, *4 (Bankr. D. Kan.
Mar. 4, 2011); Parks v. Consumer Law Assocs., LLC (In re Lewis), Case No. 10-10117, Adv.
No. 10-5098, 2010 WL 3905442, at *3 (Bankr. D. Kan. Sept. 29, 2010).
25 D. Kan. Rule 7.3(b).
26 D. Kan. Rule 6.1(d)(1).
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Second, Plaintiffs argue that Rule 39 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
mandates the bankruptcy court conduct a jury trial because this Court did not expressly
find that there was no constitutional right to a jury trial. We know that is incorrect, as
fully discussed earlier, because the bankruptcy court statutorily cannot hold a jury trial
when all parties do not consent to jury trial in the bankruptcy court.28
Third, Plaintiffs argue that they are not required to file a motion to withdraw the
reference, contending the cases cited by Defendants in their Motion to Strike are "based
on outdated law that bankruptcy courts may not hold jury trials."29 It is accurate that
the Tenth Circuit previously held that jury trials in bankruptcy proceedings could only
take place in a district court sitting in its original jurisdiction in bankruptcy.30 Also
accurate is that Congress subsequently amended 28 U.S.C. § 157 to provide subsection
(e), permitting jury trials in bankruptcy courts where the district court has specially
designated and all parties expressly consent. In February 1995, the District of Kansas
provided this designation through D. Kan. Rule 83.8.13, and Plaintiffs even cite that
rule. But Plaintiffs overlook the requirement for unanimous, express consent to a jury
27 D. Kan. Rule 7.4(b).
28 28 U.S.C. § 157(e) (a jury trial in the bankruptcy court requires consent of all of
the parties).
29 Doc.20atp.3.
30 Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Frates (In re Kaiser Steel Corp.), 911 F.2d 380, 392 (10th Cir.
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trial in the bankruptcy court.31 Where there is no "express consent," and a plaintiff
requests a jury trial, D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6 requires a motion to transfer the proceeding
to the district court within twenty days of the filing of the plaintiff's complaint.32
Plaintiffs were required, but did not do so, here.
Fourth, Plaintiffs argue that the Granfinanciera test governing the right to a jury
trial cited in Defendants' Motion to Strike is not triggered because Plaintiffs' Complaint
requests money damages for emotional distress and lack of good faith and fair dealing,
and states a violation of the Kansas Uniform Consumer Credit Code. While this may
be true, procedural errors by Plaintiffs prevent the Court from even reaching this
argument. Where all parties do not consent to a jury trial in the bankruptcy court, the
party requesting the jury trial must timely file a motion in the bankruptcy court for
withdrawal of the reference so that the jury trial, if appropriate, can be conducted in the
31 Even if the Court decided to measure the time for Plaintiffs to file a motion to
withdraw the reference under D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6 from the date of Defendants' Motion to
Strike filed in September 2011, the twenty days expired over two months ago. No matter
the measure, Plaintiffs did not (and still have not) filed a timely motion to withdraw the
32 In one of the cases cited by Defendants in support of their Motion, Stainer v.
Latimer (In re Latimer), the Tenth Circuit noted the holding from Kaiser Steel Corp. that
bankruptcy courts do not have jurisdiction to hold a jury trial, and held that when the
bankruptcy court cannot hold a jury trial (but a jury trial is demanded), failure to make a
timely request under Rule 38 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and to file a motion to
withdraw the reference to transfer the proceeding to the district court constitutes a waiver
of the right to jury trial. 918 F.2d 136, 137 (10th Cir. 1990).
In this case, the bankruptcy court cannot hold a jury trial because all parties do not
consent—a different reason for the unavailability of the jury trial in the bankruptcy court
than the one stated in Latimer. Because of this unavailability, however, the result is the
same: the party seeking the jury trial must still make a timely motion to withdraw the
reference and transfer to the district court. As the Tenth Circuit held in Latimer, failure to
make that timely motion is a sufficient basis for finding waiver of the right to jury trial.
The second case cited by Defendants, Bartmann v. Maverick Tube Corp., 853 F.2d
1540 (10th Cir. 1988), is, simply put, wholly inapplicable. The case concerns an involuntary
bankruptcy petition, and makes no mention of jury trials.
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district court. The motion must state the bases for its motion, and specify why the
movant is entitled to a jury trial on its claims.
Plaintiffs did not follow this mandated procedure, and Defendants moved to
strike the requested jury trial almost 30 days 33 after the motion to withdraw the
reference was required. Even after receiving this motion, Plaintiffs elected not to file
the requisite motion at that point, or at any time. This is true despite the Court's
express reference to a motion to withdraw the reference within its Scheduling Order
issued in early October 2011.34 Defendants' Motion to Strike argued this procedural
defense and additionally attacked the constitutional basis for the requested jury trial.
There is simply no need to assess the constitutional basis when Plaintiffs have failed
to undertake the required procedural steps.
Finally, Plaintiffs argue that additional time should be granted to respond to
Defendants' Motion to Strike based on the excusable neglect of their counsel. Even if the
Court were to grant Plaintiffs' requested additional time to respond, there is no remedy
available. Defendants properly moved to strike based, in part, on failure to timely move
to withdraw the reference. Even if Plaintiffs were now permitted to respond to the
Motion to Strike, Plaintiffs have offered absolutely no reason for excusing the failure
to timely move to withdraw the reference, despite both Defendants and the Court
pointing Plaintiffs to that requirement. Plaintiffs' counsel argues that he demonstrates
excusable neglect for not responding to the Motion to Strike because he thought a
33 The Complaint was filed July 22, 2011, and a motion to withdraw the reference
was due twenty days later, on August 11, 2011. The Motion to Strike was filed September 6,2011.
34 Doc.17at¶5.
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hearing would be scheduled on the Motion, and because he was traveling out of state
from September 30 to October 5.35 But he makes no claim that he has been unable to
timely file the motion to withdraw the reference, which was due long before the Motion
to Strike was filed, and long before the time when counsel was out of state.
Plaintiffs have failed to carry their burden on the motion for reconsideration. In
assessing a motion to withdraw the reference based on a requested jury trial, Judge
Somers has aptly stated, "the right to a jury trial can be waived by failing to make a
timely demand 'even though it was inadvertent and unintended and regardless of the
explanation or excuse.'"36 Even if the Court granted Plaintiffs' Motion to Reconsider and
gave Plaintiffs the opportunity to oppose Defendants' Motion to Strike, Plaintiffs have
waived any right to a jury trial. This was a stated basis for the original Motion to
Strike, and there was no clear error or manifest injustice in the Court's original Order
on that Motion.
Order of the Court
The Court denies Plaintiffs' Motion for Reconsideration of the Court's Order
35 Doc. 20 at p. 5–6.
36 Redmond v. Hassan (In re Hassan), 375 B.R. 637, 644 (Bankr. D. Kan. 2006)
(quoting 9 Charles Alan Wright & Arthur R. Miller, Federal Practice & Procedure, Civil 2d,
§ 2321 at 166 (1995)). The facts and ultimate conclusion of the Hassan case provide a
suitable comparison to those stated herein. In Hassan, the defendant seeking a jury trialdid not file a motion to withdraw the reference until approximately three and a half monthsafter the motion was required under D. Kan. Rule 83.8.6. Judge Somers recommended tothe District Court that transfer be permitted even though the motion to withdraw thereference was not timely. Judge Murguia ultimately exercised his discretion to grant themotion to withdraw the reference despite the untimeliness because there was no prejudiceto the opposing party. Redmond v. Hassan, No. 06-234-CM, 2008 WL 795740, at *2 (D. Kan.
2008). In contrast to the facts of Hassan, the party seeking the jury trial herein has never
filed a motion to withdraw the reference, despite the passage of over four months since thejury trial demand was made in the Complaint, and despite the reference in Court's
Scheduling Order to 28 U.S.C. § 157.
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Granting Defendants' Motion to Strike.
It is so ordered.
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Daryl Hall and John Oates created an original mix of soul and rock that made them the most successful pop duo in history. As songwriters, singers and producers, they embraced the pop mainstream, bringing passion and creativity back to the 3-minute single. Over the course of their career, they have recorded six Number One hits and put 34 songs in the Billboard Top 100.
Deeply rooted in lush Philly soul, Hall and Oates mixed smooth vocal harmonies and the romantic vulnerability of soul with edgy hard rock and new wave riffs to create some of the finest pop music of the 1980s. They teamed up in the early 1970s in Philadelphia, and landed a deal with Atlantic. On their first three albums, they searched for the right style for their talents as they experimented with soul, folk and hard rock.
After their subsequent string of hits in the 1970s, including "She's Gone"and "Rich Girl", they were energized by new wave and dance music. The result was an incredible run of original songs that topped the pop and R&B charts throughout the 1980s. Combining the best of both rock and R&B, Hall and Oates set the stage for the important crossover work of Madonna and Prince, and go on to influence the work of contemporary artists like Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake.
Here are 5 essential Hall & Oates songs.
"She's Gone" (1974)
The single, which is about Hall's 1972 divorce, was featured on the duo's second album, Abandoned Luncheonette. A moderate national hit in 1974 (#60 on the Billboard Hot 100), it wasn't until after a covers by Lou Rawls and Tavares (who took it to Number One on the Hot Soul chart), the popularity of "Sara Smile" and the recognition that came with it, and a re-release via RCA Records in 1976 that the single really took off, eventually peaking at Number Seven.
In a 2009 interview with American Songwriter, John Oates described the writing process for the song. "I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping… in two minutes. The chorus of "She's Gone" was like that. I sat down with the guitar and sang the chorus of "She's Gone" basically the way that it is. Then I played it for Daryl because I didn't have anything else. It just happened. I said, "Hey, I've got this really great chorus." And we wrote the verses together. "She's Gone" is a song that endures."
"Rich Girl" (1977)
Daryl Hall's self-described "life partner" Sara Allen was the inspiration for many of Hall and Oates songs (including "Sara Smile"), and even a co-writer. This song, however, was about one of her ex-boyfriends, Victor Walker, whose wealthy father owned a chain of fast food restaurants.
Hall penned the song after a strange visit by Walker. Originally, the chorus went "He can rely on the old man's money/he can rely on the old man's money/he's a rich guy," but Hall thought that didn't sound right, so it was changed to "Rich Girl."
"Kiss on My List" (1981)
This song, which went to Number One in April of 1981, was co-penned by Sara Allen's sister, Janna. The third single from the Voices album would be Hall and Oates' second chart-topper, behind 1977's "Rich Girl."
Hit after hit would follow for the duo, leading Hall to tell Rolling Stone "We were vindicated. We were accepted on our own terms. To all those people who said, 'Those guys are on their way out,' we said, 'You guys is wrong.'"
"Maneater" (1982)
A collaboration between the duo and their songwriting partner Sara Allen, "Maneater" was first outlined by Oates and Edgar Winter with a reggae groove. A little more than a month after the release of H2O, "Maneater" would reach Number One on December 18, 1982 and remain there for four weeks – the longest amount of any Hall and Oates single.
"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (1981)
While its run at the top of the Hot 100 and R&B charts in the U.S. may have been brief, the song's impact was immediatley felt across formats throughout the world.
The fourth Number One single by Hall and Oates, "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)," featured shimmering keys, an infectious hook and a pulsing bass line (to which Michael Jackson admitted to lifting for "Billie Jean"). The saxello solo by Charles DeChant further added to the soulful and danceable vibe of the song.
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