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Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from Charlottesville who represent a five-year moment in the centuries of this place's history, as viewed by one wealthy white male racist donor at another moment in the 1920s. As the Black Lives Matter movement took off nationally this year, many Charlottesville residents demanded that imposing monuments to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson be removed from their places of prominence.
The city of Charlottesville has set up a commission on race, memorials, and public spaces. I've attended portions of two meetings and am genuinely impressed by the open, civil, and democratic process underway to find solutions and possibly consensus. The process has already been educational for me and for other members of the public and of the commission. Some white residents have mentioned realizing for the first time that African Americans do not see their history in Charlottesville's public memorials.
I am not African American, but I certainly feel the same way. I'm disgusted by the monuments to those who participated in land theft and genocide against Native Americans, by the monument to the war on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that killed some six million people who go unmentioned on the monument, and by the Lee, Jackson, and generic Confederate soldier statues. The possibility of seeing people and movements and causes I actually care about memorialized in public space is exhilarating and not previously hoped for.
The desire to punish for the joy of punishing, for revenge, or for racist or sadistic domination has always had certain difficulties hiding behind the pretense of punishing for protection from danger. Creating fear of (young, black, male) "super predators" was a propaganda tactic for politicians like Hillary Clinton that bore some similarity to the efforts by politicians like Hillary Clinton to create fear of Iraqi weapons that didn't exist. The latter was meant to hide U.S. aggression toward Iraq. The former was meant to hide mad, raging punitive vindictiveness that sought to put lots of people in cages for lots of time regardless of the damage done.
One of the difficulties that pretending to punish people for public safety has in hiding real motives for mass incarceration is that the people whom the punishers most want to lock up for the longest time (or execute) are generally the least likely people to commit another crime (even if guilty of the first one). A 2009 study cited in the remarkable new book, Boy With a Knife, found that those who had been incarcerated for homicide were the very least likely to commit any kind of crime. In California in 2011 almost 49% of prisoners released later returned to prison for new criminal convictions, but that figure was less than 1% for those released who had been convicted of murder.
Holly Sterling is the wife of unjustly imprisoned CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling. She discusses his case, his imprisonment, and efforts to request a pardon.
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There's a 10-hour documentary on Netflix with more to teach us than all the combined episodes of Star Wars. (Yes, it's nice to see a storm trooper refuse to fight, but only until he gleefully joins in the killing for the other side, with all his victims still in masks so that we, the executioner audience, don't have to see faces die.)
Making of a Murderer is a hugely important film, and it is in fact quite suspenseful. And I am about to SPOIL the plot for you. So please STOP READING until you've watched the film if you want it to include suspense. (To give you time to watch something so lengthy, I'll also spoil the rest of the NCAA basketball season and tournament for you. Virginia wins.)
I'm going to assume you've seen Making of a Murderer or are not concerned about the element of suspense.
The reason I find a need to write about this is because it exposes a silent epidemic. If child abuse or rape or child labor or some other horror were never talked about, an article or book exposing an unknown epidemic would be quite valuable. And, historically, a video documenting such a thing would be remarkable.
This past year, videos filmed primarily on telephones have exposed the long-pre-existing epidemic of U.S. police murdering unarmed people. We still don't know the full size of that epidemic. It will of course pale beside something like cancer, while dwarfing other horrors about which we are trained to obsess, such as Islamic terrorism.
Making of a Murderer exposes something else that police do. But this is a horror that cannot be documented in a 5-minute video. It takes 10 hours. What police, together with prosecutors do, on a significant scale but a scale we have not yet tried to measure, is this: they frame innocent people and send them to prison.
The psychology involved is tantalizing but a bit of a distraction. When a police officer shoots an unarmed kid, we can ask whether the act grew out of sadism or racism or fear or carelessness. The fact is it grew out of impunity. When police and prosecutors -- and judges and juries -- railroad innocent people to prison, we can ask whether they've acted out of malice, ignorance, fear, or recklessness. The fact is that they've acted out of a sense of untouchable power.
That every level of law enforcement is twisted by racism is well documented in The New Jim Crow, among other places. We know that ugly and ignorant views regularly influence what police and prosecutors do. But Making of a Murderer is a true story of white people framing innocent white people with crimes. The victims of this frame-up are poor, poorly educated, and of markedly low intelligence and social skills. Various prejudices may have been at work. But primarily what's revealed in the documentary is the power of the presumption of guilt that comes with all criminal accusations, combined with the power of the presumption of innocence that in our culture belongs to the police, and only to the police.
During the explosive growth of the U.S. prison system, most people have gone to prison under plea bargains. That many innocent people have falsely pled guilty to plea bargains in order to avoid the risk of a higher penalty has been well documented, although we have no idea of the true scale of this phenomenon. Among those who go to trial in the United States, we know also that a significant number of innocents are found guilty. One reason we know this is that in a tiny fraction of cases there is DNA evidence to be tested that can prove innocence, and -- particularly during the 1980s -- there have been cases in which that evidence was maintained but not tested. Later testing has resulted in numerous exonerations.
Those lucky cases in which DNA evidence was available to free an innocent were not unlike most other cases in the manner in which a false guilty verdict was arrived at. As I've noted before, Brandon Garrett's Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong examines the prosecutions of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA testing. Of the 250, 76% were misidentified by an eyewitness -- most of the witnesses having been led to that act by police and/or prosecutor, some of them badgered and threatened, others merely manipulated. Invalid forensic science expertise contributed to 61% of the convictions, much of it willfully manipulated, some fraction perhaps attributable to well-intentioned but negligent incompetence. Informants, mostly jailhouse informants, and most of them manipulated and bribed by police or prosecutor, helped out in 21% of the trials. In 16% of the cases, the accused supposedly confessed to the crime, but these "confessions" tended to be the result of police intimidation, manipulation, brutality, and simple lying. Garrett fears that similar problems infect the U.S. justice system as a whole. I have no doubt that they do.
In Making of a Murderer we see police produce a false confession, witnesses provide false testimony, the FBI provide false scientific evidence, and -- in a rape case toward the beginning of the story -- an eyewitness led by police into misidentifying a rapist. That earlier crime puts the protagonist in prison for 18 years before a DNA exoneration. Once free, he files a suit for $36 million that threatens to expose numerous crimes by the police who framed him for rape. But at that moment, they frame him for murder.
One of the police and prosecutors' main tools is the media. They produce a false confession by their victim's 16-year-old nephew that proves too ludicrous to be used in court. They never call him as a witness against his uncle. But the jury pool has already been overwhelmingly contaminated by the dramatic tale fed to the media. Many years ago, I reported on the production by the Culpeper, Virginia, police of a false confession by a low-IQ man named Earl Washington. The transcript of the confession was absurd. When asked a straight-forward question, Washington would guess, and always guess wrong. He didn't know any of the facts of the case. But the questioner would then feed him the facts and ask "Isn't that right?" and Washington, aiming to please, would agree. Some states have since required the videotaping of interrogations and confessions.
In the case of Making of a Murderer there is enough videotape of the questioning of the 16-year-old to make crystal-clear what happened. And yet it didn't do a damn bit of good. The kid had no money and therefore no expert defense. His lawyers and his jury blew it. But his uncle had two huge advantages. First he had been exonerated for an earlier crime. The fact that the police were out to get him was widely recognized. The local police department was forbidden to take part in the investigation of the new crime, and took part anyway, and happened to find key evidence. Second, Steve Avery -- that's the name of this innocent man -- settled his $36 million suit for $400,000 and used that money to hire excellent attorneys.
Now, having excellent attorneys is very rare but far from unheard of. Wealthy people have them all the time. But having attorneys who actually believe you're innocent is virtually unheard of. And having attorneys willing to argue that the police framed you is the most extreme rarity. Avery had all of these things, and it still was not enough.
What can we do? Sign this petition to free Steve Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey.
What can we do about the thousands who could not afford to go to trial, could not afford a good lawyer, could not devise any means to persuade their good lawyer to believe them, and/or could not convince their good layer who believed them to risk his or her career by taking on the police department?
I think we have to work to encourage the production of films that will make the phenomenon of frame-ups as well known as the phenomenon of police murder. It's either that or get people to start reading.
Chicago media outlets are reporting that drones have been banned from most of Chicago's skies and cannot fly over you or your property without your permission. The text of the ordinance, however, makes exceptions for police that will require eternal vigilance.
Local legislative action around drones began in U.S. cities in early 2013 with the public demand for resolutions opposing foreign drone murders by the military and CIA (and related training in U.S. skies), combined with public concern about domestic U.S. police departments that had begun acquiring weaponized and surveillance drones. This quickly expanded to include concerns about private drones -- among other reasons, because surveillance footage from private drones could be acquired by governments. As near misses between drones and passenger aircraft began piling up, those issues of safety were added to the mix.
Chicago has now passed a modified version of an ordinance that forbids any drone "that is equipped with a firearm or other weapon" and any drone flown "with intent to use such small unmanned aircraft or anything attached to it to cause harm to persons or property." The new law also bans any drone flight "for the purpose of conducting surveillance, unless expressly permitted by law."
Then come the exceptions: "nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person who is authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration . . . ." And: "nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of a drone by a law enforcement agency in accordance with Section 15 of the Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act, codified at 725 ILCS 167/1 et seq., or its successor provision."
That Illinois law allows police to use drones whenever they claim there is "a high risk of a terrorist attack" or they obtain a 45-day warrant from a court, or they decide they don't have time to bother obtaining a warrant and must act swiftly "to prevent imminent harm to life or to forestall the imminent escape of a suspect or the destruction of evidence," or they're attempting to locate a missing person but not undertaking a criminal investigation, or they're solely doing crime scene or traffic crash scene photography (with a warrant if on private property), or there is a disaster or public health emergency (which need not have been formally declared).
None of that explicitly allows weaponized drones for police, except in so far as the word "terrorist" is generally taken to allow just about anything. So, does Chicago's ban on weaponized drones remain intact for police? I'm pessimistic. I don't think the ban on entering the sky over private property or flying at night or flying drunk or any of the other bans survive for police. The law says "nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of a drone by a law enforcement agency. . . ."
How police drone use works out, I think, depends entirely on how the state law is interpreted and enforced. Who will monitor police drone use? Who will punish violations? The new Chicago ordinance includes penalties: "Any person who violates this section or any rule promulgated thereunder shall be fined not less than $500.00 nor more than $5,000.00 for each offense, or may be incarcerated for a term not to exceed 180 days, or both. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense." But that sounds like a penalty for an individual, not a government agency.
I'm afraid what has been created is a policy of restricting drone use by individuals in Chicago, without effectively restricting it by the entities most likely to violate rights, intimidate, restrict ability to exercise free speech or assemble or petition the government for redress of grievances, and to use unjustifiable force.
This question is far from settled. Chicago is only one city. Other cities and states could choose to clearly ban weaponized drones, and to ban police surveillance drones under a clear system of supervision, oversight, and accountability.
Céline Nahory is International Coordinator for Peace Boat and the Global Article 9 Campaign. She also serves as Regional/International Representative in the International Peace Bureau's Council. She has worked for fifteen years with NGOs in the US, Japan and India, carrying out research and running advocacy campaigns on issues of peace, security, disarmament, economic justice and sustainable development.See:http://peaceboat.org/englishhttps://facebook.com/peaceboathttp://article-9.org/en/index.htmlhttps://facebook.com/article9
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In an online discussion I asked Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, a fairly straightforward question:
"Will Amnesty International recognize the UN Charter and the Kellogg Briand Pact and oppose war and militarism and military spending? Admirable as it is to go after many of the symptoms of militarism, your avoidance of addressing the central problem seems bizarre. The idea that you can more credibly offer opinions on the legality of constituent elements of a crime if you avoid acknowledging the criminality of the whole seems wrong. Your acceptance of drone murders as possibly legal if they are part of wars immorally and, again, bizarrely avoids the blatant illegality of the wars themselves."
Shetty replied without so much as hinting at whether or not Amnesty International would recognize the UN Charter or the Kellogg Briand Pact. In fairness, probably eight people on earth recognize the Kellogg Briand Pact, but the UN Charter is almost universally considered worthy of at least pretended respect and manipulation. And Shetty's last job before this one was for the United Nations. He did not address in any way my suggestion that many human rights abuses are symptoms of militarism. He did not explain how Amnesty can have more credibility speaking on the illegality of war's constituent parts by avoiding speaking to the illegality of war itself (a common contention of his colleagues when I've questioned them). I pointed fairly directly, in the limited number of characters permitted for the above question, to Amnesty's recent report on drones, but rather than answering my question about it, Shetty just pointed out the report's existence. Here is his full "response" to the question above:
"As a human rights organization, Amnesty International's main goal will always be to take that course of action which practically does the most to ensure protection for human rights and respect for international law. We strongly condemn opportunities which have been missed to take effective measures to protect human rights and civilians. We treat the fundamental human right to life with utmost importance -- hence the importance and status we give to our global death penalty campaign. We also believe that governments must not be allowed to use 'security' as an excuse to carry out human rights violations against their citizens. We know, for example, that the humanitarian and human rights catastrophe in Syria did not develop overnight. For the last few years, the states involved and the international community as a whole have manifestly failed to take effective action to stem the crisis, protect civilians, and hold perpetrators of crimes against humanity and war crimes to account. For several years now, Amnesty International's calls for targeted sanctions, an arms embargo and a referral of the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court have gone largely unheeded despite the mounting toll on civilians. On drones: we find the use of drone aircraft deeply troubling, and we have published reports on the terrible suffering they have caused, for example in Pakistan, where the title speaks for itself 'Pakistan: Will I be next? US drone strikes in Pakistan'. amnesty.org/en/documents/...13/en/ The current status quo is absolutely unacceptable, as is the handwashing of the US administration on this theme."
Needless to say, Amnesty's proposal to refer "the situation in Syria" to the ICC is not actually anything of the sort. You can't refer a situation to the ICC. You refer an individual to the ICC. In this case, the individual whom Amnesty wants prosecuted is the individual whom the United States wants overthrown: Bashar al Assad. In other words, in replying to a demand to start opposing war, Shetty offers an example of one of the ways in which his and other human rights groups commonly facilitate wars in places like Syria and Libya, namely by giving war the aura of law enforcement by demanding international accountability for the crimes of one party, the party targeted by the West.
This doesn't mean Amnesty International is pro-war. This doesn't mean Amnesty International does more harm than good. An arms embargo is exactly what's needed. It does mean that Amnesty International falls far short of the role of good global citizen and maintains a radically different relationship to war than many of its supporters imagine.
Columbus was not a particularly evil person. He was a murderer, a robber, an enslaver, and a torturer, whose crimes led to possibly the most massive conglomeration of crimes and horrific accidents on record. But Columbus was a product of his time, a time that has not exactly ended. If Columbus spoke today's English he'd say he was "just following orders." Those orders, stemming from the Catholic "doctrine of discovery," find parallels through Western history right down to today's "responsibility to protect," decreed by the high priests of the United Nations.
A sense of where Columbus was coming from can be found in a series of, aptly named, papal bull(s). These decrees make clear that the church owns the earth, bestows privileges on Christians, hopes to plunder riches, hopes to convert non-Christians, and considers non-Christians devoid of any rights worthy of any respect -- including any non-Christians yet to be encountered in lands completely unknown to the church. Native Americans were literally pre-judged before the church (and its kings and captains) knew they existed.
The Dum Diversas Bull of 1452 gives the King of Portugal permission to attack Muslims in North Africa and begins by declaring them to be full of "the rage of the enemies of the name of Christ, always aggressive in contempt of the orthodox faith," and hopes that they can "be restrained by the faithful of Christ and be subjugated to the Christian religion." Attacking North Africa was "defensive" even then, as the king would "eagerly defend the faith itself and with powerful arm fight its enemies. We also look attentively to labor at the defense and growing of the said Religion."
The Pope adds other unnamed people can be attacked too: "[W]e grant to you full and free power, through the Apostolic authority by this edict, to invade, conquer, fight, subjugate the Saracens and pagans, and other infidels and other enemies of Christ, . . . and to lead their persons in perpetual servitude."
In 2011, the U.S Department of Justice submitted to Congress a written defense of attacking North Africa claiming the war on Libya served the U.S. national interest in regional stability and in maintaining the credibility of the United Nations. But are Libya and the United States in the same region? What region is that, earth? And isn't a revolution the opposite of stability? And does the United Nations gain credibility when wars are waged in its name?
The Romanus Pontifex Bull of 1455 was, if anything, even more full of bull, as it pontificated on places as yet unknown but fully worthy of judgment and condemnation. The church's goal was "to cause the most glorious name of the said Creator to be published, extolled, and revered throughout the whole world, even in the most remote and undiscovered places, and also to bring into the bosom of his faith the perfidious enemies of him and of the life-giving Cross by which we have been redeemed, namely the Saracens and all other infidels whatsoever." How could someone unknown be an enemy? Easy! People unknown by the church were, by definition, people who did not know the church. They were, therefore, perfidious enemies of the life-giving Cross.
When Columbus sailed, he knew beforehand that he could not possibly enounter any people worthy of any respect. The Inter Caetera Bull of 1493 tells us that Columbus "discovered certain very remote islands and even mainlands that hitherto had not been discovered by others; wherein dwell very many peoples living in peace, and, as reported, going unclothed, and not eating flesh." Those very many peoples had not discovered the place they were living, because they did not count as being anyone able to discover anything for Christianity. "You purpose also," wrote the pope, "as is your duty, to lead the peoples dwelling in those islands and countries to embrace the Christian religion."
Or else.
Or else what? The Requerimiento of 1514 that conquistadores read to the people they "discovered" told them to "accept the Church and Superior Organization of the whole world and recognize the Supreme Pontiff, called the Pope, and that in his name, you acknowledge the King and Queen, as the lords and superior authorities of these islands and Mainlands by virtue of the said donation. If you do not do this, however, or resort maliciously to delay, we warn you that, with the aid of God, we will enter your land against you with force and will make war in every place and by every means we can and are able, and we will then subject you to the yoke and authority of the Church and Their Highnesses. We will take you and your wives and children and make them slaves, and as such we will sell them, and will dispose of you and them as Their Highnesses order. And we will take your property and will do to you all the harm and evil we can, as is done to vassals who will not obey their lord or who do not wish to accept him, or who resist and defy him. We avow that the deaths and harm which you will receive thereby will be your own blame, and not that of Their Highnesses, nor ours, nor of the gentlemen who come with us."
But otherwise it's great to see you, beautiful land you have here, and we hope not to be too much inconvenience!
All people have to do to save themselves is bow down, obey, and allow the destruction of the natural world around them. If they won't do that, why, then a war on them is their own fault. Not ours. We're pre-absolved, we've got an Authorization for the Use of Military Force, we're packing U.N. resolutions.
In 1823 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall cited the "doctrine of discovery" to justify stealing land from Native Americans in the case Johnson v. M'Intosh that has ever since been seen as the foundation of land ownership and property law in the United States. Marshall ruled for a unanimous court, uncontroversially, that Native Americans could not own or sell land, except when selling it to the federal government which had taken over the role of conqueror from the British. Natives could not possess sovereignty.
"The Responsibility to Protect (R2P or RtoP) is a proposed norm that sovereignty is not an absolute right," according to Wikipedia, which is as authoritative a source as any, since R2P is not a law at all, more of a bull. It continues: ". . . and that states forfeit aspects of their sovereignty when they fail to protect their populations from mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations (namely genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing). . . . [T]he international community has the responsibility to intervene through coercive measures such as economic sanctions. Military intervention is considered the last resort."
If we understand "sovereignty" to mean the right not to be attacked by foreigners, the high church on the East River does not recognize it among the pagans. Saudi Arabia may murder many innocents, but the church chooses to bestow grace and weapons shipments. The same for Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, etc. The church, under the influence of Cardinal Obama, does not recognize sovereignty but bestows mercy. In Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Ukraine, Honduras, and other troubled lands of Saracens and infidels, they bring righteous rape and pillage on themselves. It's not the fault of the armies performing their duty to attack and enlighten.
Back in the 1980s I lived in Italy and there was a funny movie called Non resta che piangere (Nothing left to do but cry) about a couple of buffoons who were magically transported back to 1492. They immediately decided to try to stop Columbus in order to save the Native Americans (and avoid U.S. culture). As I recall, they were too slow and failed to stop Columbus' departure. There was nothing left to do but cry. They might, however, have worked on altering the people who would welcome Columbus back with collectively sociopathic ideas. For that matter, they might have returned to the 1980s and worked on the same educational mission.
It's not too late for us to stop celebrating Columbus Day and every other war holiday, and focus instead on including among the human rights we care about, the right not to be bombed or conquered.
The University of California is seeking to ban criticism of Israel. This is a widespread phenomenon in the United States, as attested by two new reports and cases like that of Steven Salaita, author of Uncivil Rights: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom.
Salaita was fired by the University of Illinois for criticizing Israel on Twitter. Norman Finkelstein had been denied tenure by DePaul University for criticizing Israel. William Robinson was almost driven out at UC Santa Barbara for refusing to "repent" after criticizing Israel. Joseph Massad at Columbia had a similar experience.
Why, in a country that stretches "freedom of speech" to the point of covering the bribery of politicians, should it be acceptable to criticize the United States but not a tiny, distant country only just created in 1948? And why should such censorship reach even into institutions that usually pile "academic freedom" on top of "freedom of speech" as an argument against censorship?
First and foremost, I think, is the nature of Israel. It's a nation practicing apartheid and genocide in the twenty-first century using U.S. funding and weaponry. It can't persuade people of the acceptability of these policies in open debate. It can only continue its crimes by insisting that -- precisely as a government serving one ethnic group only -- any criticism amounts to the threat of apartheid and genocide known as "anti-Semitism."
Second, I think, is the subservience of the contemporary degenerate educational institution, which serves the wealthy donor, not the exploration of human intellect. When wealthy donors demand that "anti-Semitism" be stamped out, so it is. (And how can one object without being "anti-Semitic" or appearing to dispute that there actually is real anti-Semitism in the world and that it is as immoral as hatred of any other group.)
Third, the crackdown on criticizing Israel is a response to the success of such criticism and to the efforts of the BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) movement. Israeli author Manfred Gerstenfeld published openly in the Jerusalem Post a strategy for making an example of a few U.S. professors in order to "diminish the threat of boycotts."
Salaita called his book Uncivil Rights because the accusations of unacceptable speech typically take the form of proclaiming a need to protect civility. Salaita didn't tweet or otherwise communicate anything actually anti-Semitic. He tweeted and otherwise communicated many statements opposing anti-Semitism. But he criticized Israel and cursed at the same time. And to compound the sin, he used humor and sarcasm. Such practices are enough to get you convicted in a U.S. Court of Indignation without any careful examination of whether the sarcastic cursing actually expressed hatred or, on the contrary, expressed justifiable outrage. Reading Salaita's offending tweets in the context of all his other ones exonerates him of anti-Semitism while leaving him clearly guilty of "anti-Semitism," that is: criticizing the Israeli government.
This criticism can take the form of criticizing Israeli settlers. Salaita writes in his book:
"There are nearly half a million Jewish settlers on the West Bank. Their population currently grows at double the rate of other Israelis. They use 90 percent of the West Bank's water; the 3.5 million Palestinians of the territory make due with the remaining 10 percent. They travel on Jewish-only highways while Palestinians wait for hours at checkpoints (with no guarantee of passing through, even when they are injured or giving birth). They regularly assault women and children; some bury alive the natives. They vandalize homes and shops. They run over pedestrians with their cars. They restrict farmers from their land. They squat on hilltops that don't belong to them. They firebomb houses and kill babies. They bring with them a high-tech security force largely composed of conscripts to maintain this hideous apparatus."
One could read even such a longer-than-twitter criticism and imagine certain additions to it. But, reading the whole book from which I've quoted it, would eliminate the possibility of fantasizing that Salaita is, in this passage, advocating vengeance or violence or condemning settlers because of their religion or ethnicity or equating all settlers with each other except in so far as they are part of an operation of ethnic cleansing. Salaita does not excuse either side of the conflict but criticizes the idea that there is a conflict in Palestine with two equal sides:
"Since 2000, Israelis have killed 2,060 Palestinian children, while Palestinians have killed 130 Israeli children. The overall death count during this period is over 9,000 Palestinians and 1,190 Israelis. Israel has violated at least seventy-seven UN resolutions and numerous provisions of the Fourth Geneva Conventions. Israel has imposed hundreds of settlements on the West Bank, while Palestinians inside Israel increasingly are squeezed and continue to be internally displaced. Israel has demolished nearly thirty thousand Palestinian homes as a matter of policy. Palestinians have demolished zero Israeli homes. At present more than six thousand Palestinians languish in Israeli prisons, including children; no Israeli occupies a Palestinian prison."
Salaita wants Palestinian land given back to Palestinians, just as he wants at least some Native American land given back to Native Americans. Such demands, even when they amount to nothing but compliance with existing laws and treaties, seem unreasonable or vengeful to certain readers. But what people imagine education consists of if not the consideration of ideas that at first seem unreasonable is beyond me. And the notion that returning stolen land must involve violence is a notion added to the proposal by the reader.
However, there is at least one area in which Salaita is clearly and openly accepting of violence, and that is the United States military. Salaita wrote a column criticizing "support the troops" propaganda, in which he said, "My wife and I often discuss what our son might grow up to accomplish. A consistent area of disagreement is his possible career choice. She can think of few things worse than him one day joining the military (in any capacity), while I would not object to such a decision."
Think about that. Here is someone making a moral argument for opposing violence in Palestine, and a book-length defense of the importance of this stand outweighing concerns of comfort or politeness. And he wouldn't so much as object to his son joining the United States military. Elsewhere in the book, he notes that U.S. academics "can travel to, say, Tel Aviv University and pal around with racists and war criminals." Think about that. This is an American academic writing this while David Petraeus, John Yoo, Condoleezza Rice, Harold Koh, and dozens of their fellow war criminals teach in U.S. academia, and not without huge controversy about which Salaita cannot have avoided hearing. In response to outrage at his criticism of "support the troops," his then-employer, Virginia Tech, loudly proclaimed its support for the U.S. military.
The U.S. military acts on the belief, as found in the names of its operations and weapons as well as in its extended discussions, that the world is "Indian territory," and that native lives don't matter. A West Point professor recently proposed targeting critics of U.S. militarism with death, not just denial of tenure. And why is such criticism dangerous? Because nothing the U.S. military does to the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, or anywhere else is any more defensible than what the Israeli military does with its help -- and I don't think it would take much consideration of the facts for someone like Steven Salaita to realize that.
As documented in Douglas Blackmon's book, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, the institution of slavery in the U.S. South largely ended for as long as 20 years in some places upon completion of the U.S. civil war. And then it was back again, in a slightly different form, widespread, controlling, publicly known and accepted -- right up to World War II. In fact, in other forms, it remains today. But it does not remain today in the overpowering form that prevented a civil rights movement for nearly a century. It exists today in ways that we are free to oppose and resist, and we fail to do so only to our own shame.
During widely publicized trials of slave owners for the crime of slavery in 1903 -- trials that did virtually nothing to end the pervasive practice -- the Montgomery Advertiser editorialized: "Forgiveness is a Christian virtue and forgetfulness is often a relief, but some of us will never forgive nor forget the damnable and brutal excesses that were committed all over the South by negroes and their white allies, many of whom were federal officials, against whose acts our people were practically powerless."
This was a publicly acceptable position in Alabama in 1903: slavery should be tolerated because of the evils committed by the North during the war and during the occupation that followed. It's worth considering whether slavery might have ended more quickly had it been ended without a war. To say that is not, of course, to assert that in reality the pre-war United States was radically different than it was, that slave owners were willing to sell out, or that either side was open to a non-violent solution. But most nations that ended slavery did so without a civil war. Some did it in the way that Washington, D.C., did it, through compensated emancipation.
Had the United States ended slavery without the war and without division, it would have been, by definition, a very different and less violent place. But, beyond that, it would have avoided the bitter war resentment that has yet to die down. Ending racism would have been a very lengthy process, regardless. But it might have been given a head start rather than having one arm tied behind our backs. Our stubborn refusal to recognize the U.S. civil war as a hindrance to freedom rather than the path to it, allows us to devastate places like Iraq and then marvel at the duration of the resulting animosity.
Wars acquire new victims for many years after they end, even if all the cluster bombs are picked up. Just try to imagine the justifications that would be made for Israel's attacks on Palestinians had World War II not happened.
Had the Northern U.S. allowed the South to secede, ended the returning of "fugitive slaves," and used diplomatic and economic means to urge the South to abolish slavery, it seems reasonable to suppose that slavery might have lasted in the South beyond 1865, but very likely not until 1945. To say this is, once again, not to imagine that it actually happened, or that there weren't Northerners who wanted it to happen and who really didn't care about the fate of enslaved African Americans. It is just to put into proper context the traditional defense of the civil war as having murdered hundreds of thousands of people on both sides in order to accomplish the greater good of ending slavery. Slavery did not end.
Across most of the South, a system of petty, even meaningless, crimes, such as "vagrancy," created the threat of arrest for any black person. Upon arrest, a black man would be presented with a debt to pay through years of hard labor. The way to protect oneself from being put into one of the hundreds of forced labor camps was to put oneself in debt to and under the protection of a white owner. The 13th Amendment sanctions slavery for convicts, and no statute prohibited slavery until the 1950s. All that was needed for the pretense of legality was the equivalent of today's plea bargain.
Not only did slavery not end. For many thousands it was dramatically worsened. The antebellum slave owner typically had a financial interest in keeping an enslaved person alive and healthy enough to work. A mine or mill that purchased the work of hundreds of convicts had no interest in their futures beyond the term of their sentences. In fact, local governments would replace a convict who died with another, so there was no economic reason not to work them to death. Mortality rates for leased-out convicts in Alabama were as high as 45 percent per year. Some who died in mines were tossed into coke ovens rather than going to the trouble to bury them.
Enslaved Americans after the "ending of slavery" were bought and sold, chained by the ankles and necks at night, whipped to death, waterboarded, and murdered at the discretion of their owners, such as U.S. Steel Corporation which purchased mines near Birmingham where generations of "free" people were worked to death underground.
The threat of that fate hung over every black man not enduring it, as well as the threat of lynching that escalated in the early 20th century along with newly pseudo-scientific justifications for racism. "God ordained the southern white man to teach the lessons of Aryan supremacy," declared Woodrow Wilson's friend Thomas Dixon, author of the book and play The Clansman, which became the film Birth of a Nation.
Five days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government decided to take prosecuting slavery seriously, to counter possible criticism from Germany or Japan.
Five years after World War II, a group of former Nazis, some of whom had used slave labor in caves in Germany, set up shop in Alabama to work on creating new instruments of death and space travel. They found the people of Alabama extremely forgiving of their past deeds.
Prison labor continues in the United States. Mass incarceration continues as a tool of racial oppression. Slave farm labor continues as well. So does the use of fines and debt to create convicts. And of course, companies that swear they would never do what their earlier versions did, profit from slave labor on distant shores.
But what ended mass-slavery in the United States for good was not the idiotic mass-slaughter of the civil war. It was the nonviolent educational and moral force of the civil rights movement a full century later.
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Saturday, Dec. 8 (continued): As I scanned the bout sheet I took note of something unique to Philadelphia – the specific delineations of neighborhoods and the significance they carry. For example, three fighters were listed as being from North Philadelphia while one hailed from West Philadelphia. When I mentioned this to ring announcer "Generous" Joe Antonacci, he lived up to his nickname by bringing over Bernard Fernandez, a New Orleans native who is as identified with "The City of Brotherly Love" as any boxing writer alive.
"Every neighborhood is listed because Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods," said Fernandez. "The biggest drawing fights when Russell Peltz was director of boxing at the Spectrum were two Philly guys, and they were always paired according to neighborhoods. It could have been West Philly vs. North Philly, South Philly vs. Germantown or any combination of Wayne, Liberty, Port Richmond or all the others because that was standard. Maintaining neighborhood pride was a big thing and one of the reasons why Russell's been so successful is that he understood that and in every such fight he made sure to identify the neighborhood.
"When I came here in 1984, the first thing I realized is that I had to get the neighborhoods straight," Fernandez continued. "I'd snag the guys out of the ring and ask them where they were from, and I did that because they wanted to have that known. Sometimes you run into fighters who want to have it broken down further. For example, Ivan Robinson was from Nicetown, a subsection of a North Philadelphia neighborhood. I'm not sure that kind of thing was important in other cities but it works in Philadelphia. Philadelphia fighters have a certain cache, like Mexican fighters also do. If you don't know a particular fighter but if you know he's from Philadelphia, you know that fighter has to live up to that heritage."
Before returning to his spot at ringside, he offered a final tale from years past.
"Russell once had a light heavyweight named Tommy Pfeiffer, who often sold 300 tickets at the Blue Horizon. He was known as 'The Punching Plumber from Clifton Heights.' He had a lot of things going for him as a drawing card. First, there were no other fighters from Clifton Heights so a lot of people from there would come to see him fight. I don't know if they had a lot to be proud of otherwise. Second, he was Irish so he wore green trunks. And third, since he was a plumber a bunch of guys from the plumbers' union would come. So he had the trifecta going: Clifton Heights, being Irish and the plumbers union. If you can get a four-round guy who can sell that many tickets, they're golden."
Just before the card started Antonacci showed me the prototype of Issue One of the revived "Joe Palooka" comic book series, which will be launched after the turn of the year. Though small in size it looked to be an excellent product. I was particularly impressed with the quality of the drawing and the vividness of the color. I felt I didn't have time to read it in full but I'm sure that aspect measures up as well. Antonacci bought the rights to Joe Palooka a few years ago and this represented the culmination of his efforts.
As I scanned around ringside I spotted several familiar faces: Gabriel Rosado, Yusaf Mack, New York Golden Gloves director Brian Adams, Tomasz Adamek, Steve Cunningham and someone I could have sworn was former NFL player Vai Sikahema, who, for my money, was one of the greatest body punchers in NFL history. For those who wonder why I say that, check out this clip:
The first fight pitted welterweights Josue Rivera (0-1 coming in) and Hasan Young (1-1-1) in a scheduled four rounder. The patrons had little time to enjoy the contrast between the crouching, wide-swinging Rivera and Young's more classic style once Young lined up his hooks to the temple. One of them 80 seconds into the fight caused Rivera to fall forward onto his knees and a second one moments later produced the same result. A five-punch flurry by Hasan ended matters at the 1:52 mark, capping a 16 of 27 (59 percent) power punching performance.
The night's second bout produced one of the most unusual post-fight episodes of my boxing life, one I'm almost certain will never be duplicated. Here's what happened:
Philadelphia featherweights Anthony Burgin (1-0, 1 KO) and the debuting Kenneth Brown were scheduled to fight a four-rounder. Brown, a 5-4 southpaw, was forced to deal with a five-inch height deficit and an equally daunting reach disadvantage.
Within seconds of the opening bell, I noticed that the fleet-footed Brown was circling to his left – a cardinal sin because the left-handed Brown was circling directly into the right-handed Burgin's power hand. Moments later, Brown's chief second noticed the same thing and began yelling "you gotta jab and move to your right! You're moving the wrong way!" That got no reaction from Brown so the assistant trainer joined in with an even more urgent tone. No matter how many times they repeated themselves, Brown insisted on moving in the wrong direction for the remainder of round one, which saw Burgin's constant pressure built a 14-7 lead in total connects.
Despite the talking-to he received in the corner, Brown persisted in his futile strategy in round two, which began with him taking a flush jab to the face.
"Do what I tell you!" the chief second shouted, his exasperation growing with every passing second. By now the knowledgeable crowd was pleading for Brown to move to his right because Burgin continued to nail him with power shots (12 of 22, 55 percent en route to a 13-6 total connects advantage in round two).
Brown tried to implement his corner's advice early in the third by barreling inside and briefly moving right, but Burgin's power and aggressiveness dissuaded him from pursuing it further. Instead Brown reverted to what felt most comfortable to him but his results didn't get any better. The connect gaps in round three were more pronounced as Burgin led 14-4 overall and 12-4 in power shots.
The effects of Burgin's stamina-sapping attack became obvious in the final round as his amped-up pressure broke Brown's will to fight back. As Burgin unleashed a 98-punch attack that yielded 35 connects and 30 of 77 power punches, Brown went into full survival mode as he went 0 of 2 overall and didn't throw a single punch in the final two-and-a-half minutes. And, of course, he was moving the wrong way the entire time.
After the lopsided decision for Burgin was announced (40-36 across the board), Brown walked down the steps and talked with a few well-wishers in the front row. I felt badly for the chief second, a trim African-American man whose brow was furrowed with frustration. His fighter had just suffered a resounding defeat despite his emphatic efforts to verbally steer him in the right direction and all of the wisdom he attempted to impart fell on deaf ears. I waited for the proper moment to address him and as soon as I spotted it, I spoke up.
"I'm sorry about the result," I said. "You were telling him all the right things and I don't know why your fighter didn't listen to you."
What the trainer did next absolutely stunned me. He stared hard into my eyes for a few seconds, turned away, tugged on his fighter's arm, brought him over and said to me "tell him what you just told me." And then he walked away.
Never in a million years did I think I would be faced with this situation — addressing a Philadelphia fighter, one-on-one, moments after he suffered a defeat due to a definitive lapse in judgment. Even though I outweighed him by 100 pounds, I knew he was younger, stronger, much more athletic and, because he just lost his pro debut, a potential emotional powder keg. I knew I had to strike the right balance and I only had one chance to do it. I had to get the message across but I also wanted to do so in a way that would affect him positively. As Brown looked dead into my eyes, I perceived he was open to whatever I was going to say to him and I wanted to do it in the best way possible.
"I know you were in tough tonight because your opponent was bigger, stronger and coming at you hard," I began. "I've been in there before and I know what it's like to hit and be hit. Boxing's a hard sport and you have to be tough to even climb those steps. However, I was listening to your corner and your trainer was giving you exactly the right advice. For whatever reason you chose not to follow it. I think the best thing you can do now is to use this as a learning experience. You certainly have speed and you can use that to your advantage, but the most important thing is to continue to work hard and especially listen to your trainer. He knows what he's doing. I wish you all the best in the future."
I don't know if I got through to him – only his efforts in future fights will bear that out — but Brown seemed to appreciate my words. He smiled, shook my hand, thanked me and left for the dressing room.
"I don't think I've ever seen anything like that in my life," Andy told me.
"Me neither," I replied. "I just wanted to console the trainer and then this happens. Mind you, I'm glad I got to talk to him but that was kind of weird. I just hope he listens to his trainer next time."
Other notable undercard notes include:
*One of the most impressive performances belonged to undefeated super middleweight Jesse Hart, who raised his record to 4-0 (3) with a unanimous decision over Steven Tyner (3-9-2, 2). Hart, whose father and trainer was 1970s middleweight contender Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, fired impressive jabs to set up repeated chopping rights to the side of the head. Through it all Tyner continued to chug forward and take a beating that would have felled others.
Hart's CompuBox stats were incredible. In round one – one of the most impressive three-minute stretches I've ever seen live – Hart was 54 of 88 (61 percent) overall, landed 24 of 50 jabs (48 percent) and connected on 30 of 38 power punches (79 percent). In the following three rounds Hart out-landed Tyner 33-9, 39-4 and 37-5 overall en route to connect gulfs of 163-25 (total), 86-8 (jabs) and 77-17 (power). He landed 51 percent overall, 46 percent of his jabs and 57 percent of his hooks, crosses and uppercuts while limiting Tyner to 19 percent overall, 13 percent jabs and 23 percent power.
Along with the numbers, Hart's technique was superb. The 6-2 Hart towered over Tyner and fought exactly the right fight — shooting strong, pinpoint jabs from long range and using them to set up combinations. Despite his dominance, Hart took things as they came instead of pressing the issue or becoming frustrated when Tyner (0-5-1 in his last six) refused to submit.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Top Rank plans to push Hart toward bigger fights next year by upping the level of competition. He appears ready to make that jump.
"They said they have a lot of big plans for me," Hart told the Inquirer. "They said we're going to take off. I think Vegas will be the main stage for me."
*The unusually named light heavyweight Todd Unthank-May (5-0, 2 coming in) was thought to be in a record-building fight against the 4-4-1 (2) Taneal Goyco, but Goyco had a mighty surprise for everyone in the four-rounder's opening moments. Goyco's very first punch — a corking overhand right — crashed against Unthank-May's jaw and sent the undefeated battler crashing butt-first near the neutral corner pad. At that moment anything seemed possible, but Unthank-May brushed himself off and fought his way back.
While Goyco fought well in the first minute of every round, Unthank-May dominated the other two minutes with his straighter blows. That formula served Unthank-May well, for the final result was a 38-37 win across the board. Every prospect eventually faces a day when their resources are unexpectedly tested and here, Unthank-May showed he had the resilience and resources to deal with adversity. But one can also look at this fight from a negative standpoint – how will his chin stand up to stronger punchers?
*Vineland, N.J. featherweight Joshua Arocho (3-6-2, 2) scored a minor upset over previously unbeaten Alex Barbosa (4-1, 1), who clearly paid tribute to the recently deceased Hector Camacho by wearing bright red loincloth trunks with the word "Macho" across the beltline and trying to emulate the Puerto Rican's fast-twitch southpaw style. As the aggressive Arocho belted him with looping power shots, Barbosa responded with grins as often as he did with punches.
"Stop that smiling s__t and let your hands go," Barbosa's corner yelled. The stats say he didn't do so often enough, for Arocho led 260-228 in total punch attempts and 60-56 in total connects. That, and Arocho's constant aggression led to a 40-36 (twice), 39-37 victory.
*The final two fights of the undercard saw Angel Luis Ocasio and Jason Sosa score two round knockouts over Esteban Rodriguez and Isaac Suarez respectively. Suarez landed 58 percent of his power punches while Ocasio connected on 50 percent of his, but both men also absorbed 40 percent of their opponents' hooks, crosses and uppercuts.
The two televised fights featured plenty of ebbs, flows and action. The fight plan Belmontes' team laid out to me the previous day ("take it to Fields for the first five rounds, slow down in the sixth and seventh, then come on strong in the eighth, ninth and 10th") didn't pan out as Hunter scored a second round knockdown and gained even more strength down the stretch. Hunter out-landed Belmontes 208-150 largely on his success in the final four rounds, which saw him build a 91-43 connect advantage overall and a 46-23 bulge in landed power shots.
As for Bryant Jennings, the fact that he could flatten a 253-pound, in-shape power puncher like Tupou speaks loudly about his improving power. Through his first 14 fights Jennings had scored only six knockouts but given his 35-second win over Chris Koval and his fifth round stoppage of Tupou – one produced by a volley of clean power shots – he must be respected in that area of the game. Jennings landed an impressive 56 percent of his hardest blows (59 of 90) and out-landed Tupou 70-47 overall, including 33-12 in the final two rounds.
"Bye Bye's" ascension through the heavyweight ranks in 2012 mirrors that of the "Fight Night" series on the NBC Sports Network. Both are getting excellent reviews and both are poised to achieve even more in 2013. I'm looking forward to seeing how their respective stories will unfold.
All of us went upstairs to grab a share of the pizza that was our post-production meal. As I dug into my second slice, Brian Adams reacted to something he read on his phone.
"Pacquiao was just knocked down in the third round," he declared. The texts were coming from his son, who, a few minutes later, broke the even more dramatic news of Marquez's sixth round knockout victory.
It took several minutes for my mind to wrap itself around that concept. That's because of all the possible scenarios I rolled inside my head, an off-the-floor one-punch knockout that left Pacquiao lying face-first on the canvas was one I didn't even consider. Pacquiao hadn't been knocked out since 1999 and against far larger men his chin showed remarkable resiliency. It certainly hadn't been dented in three previous fights against Marquez and I had no reason to believe it would be different coming into Saturday night's fight.
After shaking off the initial shock, my next thought was "there goes Money Mayweather's $100 million payday." Marquez's KO win officially sandblasted whatever shine the "dream match" still had and virtually guaranteed that Mayweather-Pacquiao would join Lewis-Bowe, Trinidad-Norris and Pacquiao-Valero as among the greatest fights never to materialize. And even if Mayweather-Pacquiao were made – that would require an equally emphatic KO in fight number five – it no longer would have the mystique that it would have had in early 2010 when Pacquiao was fresh off his TKO of Miguel Cotto and Mayweather had just whitewashed Marquez.
Because we knew that taxis would likely be unavailable at 1 a.m., Andy and I fortunately caught a ride with Sports Media's Tom Gianakos, one of the fortunate few who had a rental car. I couldn't wait to get back to the room to catch up on the Marquez-Pacquiao IV aftermath and by 2:30 a.m. I had fully satisfied my information fix.
Sunday, Dec. 9: Though I stirred awake at 7:30, I decided not to get up until 9 simply because I needed more rest. I met Andy in the lobby at 10:15 and by 11:10 I had cleared security.
When I looked at the flight monitor to ascertain my gate I noticed that I had arrived in time to theoretically catch the 11:45 flight to Pittsburgh, whose gate (B8) was located very close to the one for my 1:30 p.m. bird (B9). So, just for kicks, I walked over to B8 to see if I could leave town a bit early.
Although I had to give up my first-class upgrade, I was able to do just that and less than 15 minutes later I was boarding the plane. It didn't matter that the aircraft departed 25 minutes after the advertised time because I landed shortly after 1:10 p.m. It clearly was the most uncomplicated visit I ever experienced at Philadelphia International Airport. Maybe the worm has finally started to turn.
My next concern was the state of my car, for in Part One I mentioned that the check engine light had flashed briefly while ascending a steep incline but turned off on the subsequent descent. When I turned the ignition key the bag was mixed: The good news was that the car started and it drove with its usual smoothness but the bad news was my check engine light was illuminated for the entire trip while my cruise control light flashed on and off without ceasing. It looks like my mechanic has some work to do come Wednesday afternoon.
I pulled into my driveway at 4:02 p.m., which gave me more time to tackle several time-sensitive projects that would have been made tougher by fatigue had I stayed on my original timetable.
The turnaround between trips will be short, for by the time you read this I'll be preparing myself for a return trip to Los Angeles to work CBS' first live boxing show since Bernard Hopkins-Glen Johnson in the early afternoon hours (local time), a late-afternoon Showtime Extreme telecast and an early-evening card for Showtime Championship Boxing. It surely will be a long, work-intensive day but since when have I been afraid of hard work, especially when it comes to my favorite sport?
Until then, happy trails.
Photo of Jesse and Eugene Hart from Philly Boxing History
Lee Groves is a boxing writer and historian based in Friendly, W.Va. He is a full member of the BWAA, from which he has won seven writing awards, including four in the last two years. He has been an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame since 2001 and is also a writer, researcher and punch-counter for CompuBox, Inc. He is the author of "Tales From the Vault: A Celebration of 100 Boxing Closet Classics. To order, please visit Amazon.com or e-mail the author at firstname.lastname@example.com arrange for autographed copies.


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- Supervised play areas. Candy-free checkout lanes. Special parking for pregnant women. Rewarding moms with free spa treatments. Free emergency and fingerprinting ID kits. This is just a sampling of what supermarkets have implemented to reinvent themselves as family-friendly destinations.
Child magazine conducted a five-month investigation sending a 46-question survey to 44 retailers. The results of "The Top 10 Family-Friendly Supermarket Chains," the first of its kind, will appear in the August 2003 issue of Child magazine, on newsstands July 15th.
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A typical program includes 20 hours per week of small-group instruction, at 4 different levels from beginner to advanced, and three workshops on aspects of local life (140 total hours of instruction, including lab; usually 5 – 6 US credits, depending on the home university's transfer policy). Most afternoons include a comprehensive range of organized sport or leisure activities. Sample syllabi can be found here
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Additionally, courses are organized so that students can participate in a number of complementary excursions organized by the ISEFE to sites such as Geneva, Turin, Lyon, Grenoble, and Paris for a minimal price. Activities are organized most afternoons either for free or a small fee and may include hiking, canoeing, canyoning, bicycle trips through vineyards, museums, mountain biking, swimming at the nearby lakes, and sports.
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Birth to 1 year - OT
1 year to 2 years - OT and special education teacher
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Now at 3 he will continue with speech (which I expected) as well as adding back his special education teacher.
He is now referred to a county program because the birth to 3 program is federally funded. On their forms I was asked if I wanted his information shared with his local school district. I was told I have the option of stating no as long as he doesn't need services the year before kindergarden. I checked "no" at least for this year because if he grows out of his issues I don't want him labled from the start in school.
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Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 Manchester United
Andre Villas-Boas on Neil Ashton of the Daily Mail: "You always chase people and attack people and you don't attack them from the front you attack from sitting down with the things you write. You attack integrity and competence when you don't even know that person. Only when I give you the chance (to meet me) can you reach conclusions like you did."
AVB on the media in general: "I think it's clear I don't think (I have been given enough respect).People insult my integrity, my human values, my professionalism and one of these people is sitting here. It insults the success I have achieved at the clubs. I don't think it's fair a lack. It's a lack of respect and an attack on a person's integrity.
"I know it comes with the 6-0 thrashing but the more important thing is the team and the team responded with a good performance today."
And, finally, AVB on Alan Sugar's criticism of his management: "I think it's a very driven agenda by somebody that doesn't honour the club, neither myself nor my players. It's their team, their passion and they don't trade it for anything else, not like Alan Sugar who trades it for money."
David Moyes: "We had a great win in midweek.But for a minute in Cardiff near the end you would have been saying that Man United had a really good week. It is not an easy place to come, Tottenham. They had their own pride which they showed in their performance. So it was disappointing. United have to win. That was why in the end we were trying to get a third goal but we could not quite do it."
Steve Bruce on Hull City's rebranding drama: "I think the chairman has put something like £70 million into this club, so without him there wouldn't be a club or a 'Hull City', it would be down the tubes. However, I've got to have a conversation with him. I don't think he understands quite what it means to the history and the tradition. All he thinks about is going forward. He thinks the brand would be better and that's his opinion."
Brendan Rodgers: "The quality of our squad isn't big enough to cope with two big players like that missing. No doubt it was a disruption.Daniel is out for up to eight weeks which is a big blow for us and Phillipe didn't train all week. He had injections just to get on the bench. It's difficult if you take those two out, two players who have been very efficient for us this season. This little period will test us now but players will come in and it's a great opportunity to a stake a claim."
Jose Mourinho: "It's the sign of a team that is going step by step, that understands my ideas and understands my mentality. Some of them, the ones that are not completely in my mentality and my philosophy, are adapting progressively. They must feel the responsibility of playing for Chelsea...that Chelsea cannot be in December, like it happened in a few seasons, completely out of the title race."
Mauricio Pochettino: "We went ahead very early and I thought it was very even in the first half. In the second half, I think we were doing well and controlling the game before the goals. So I am angry with the end result because there were many decisions in the second half that didn't go our way. We are quite upset about that.I think the deciding factor was that the decisions were not going our way – and the person making those decisions were wearing neither red or blue."
Manchester City 3-0 Swansea City
Manuel Pellegrini: "I would like to arrive at the new year in first place but if that is not possible, then no more than three points from the number one position. We hope we can do it, it will be very important for us. We are six points behind Arsenal, that is too much. We will try to cut this, but if Arsenal continue winning it is not easy."
Michael Laudrup: "I feels a little strange to sit here after a game we lost 3-0 and still really feel that we did many things right. I think we played very well in first-half; I said to the players before the game when you play against players like this we have to keep the ball as much as possible because when they have it they can change a game in a split second."
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Grandma's Apple Dumplings
Total Time
Prep 30 mins
Cook 40 mins
My grandmother is famous for this recipe which has been a family favorite for generations. She will only make it during the fall, but I have a hard time sticking to the seasonal stipulation because they are so darn good! Grandma swears that Jonathan apples are the only decent apples to use in this recipe, but any other tart apple would work just as well. Enjoy!
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Pie dough
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup shortening (such as Crisco)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup ice cold water
- 8 johnathan apples, peeled and cored
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- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups water
- 4 tablespoons butter
- Creating the pie dough:.
- Blend flour, salt, and shortening together using a pastry cutter until the mixture is about the texture of corn meal.
- Add 1/2 cup of ice cold water and mix the dough (I find using my hands for this is easiest). If dough is too dry, add a bit more water but sparingly.
- Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut into eight squares.
- Filling the dumplings:.
- Place one apple on a square of pie dough. Fill the apple with sugar, sprinkle with cinnamon, and dot with butter.
- Bring corners of pie dough to top of apple and pinch shut.
- Place finished dumplings in a 9x13 greased pan.
- Syrup:.
- Bring to boil sugar, water, and butter in a sauce pan. Boil for two minutes.
- Pour syrup mixture around the dumplings.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes or until golden brown. Baste the dumplings with the syrup from the pan every 5 to 7 minutes.
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Made these last night, as one of two desserts for a dinner party. They require a little time, but are an interesting twist on the more traditional apple pie, and were very well-received. DD1 made custard to go with them, and on a chilly autumn evening (for us in Africa), just right! Thanks for this great recipe, made for PAC Spring 2008
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I made this today, and I think we may be fighting over who gets the last one! I did add about 1/2 tablespoon of red hot candies to the syrup but that is just personal preference. This is the new favorite at our house!


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Some tales always defy time like Alif Laila(Arabian Nights). This T.V series was produced by Sagar Films (Pvt. Ltd) and is based on the legendary stories from One Thousand and One Nights. Alif Laila: 1001 Nights-Vol.1 to 20(Episodes-1 to 143) comprises of popular tales like 'Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves' , ' The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor' and many other exciting stories that are a treasure trove of adventures with heroes and villains along with morals to imbibe.
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