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HIKE Scenario 01-09: Density of Cattle in Pen/Access to Wate
You are the IIC of a fed cattle slaughter and processing establishment. It is close to the end of the shift, and therefore you are aware that the cattle remaining in the pens will need to be held overnight. 9 CFR 313.2 (e) requires that establishments provide adequate space for animals to lie down if held overnight and this regulation requires that animals have access to water. You decide to verify that the establishment is compliant with this regulation. (Time will be recorded under Category III Water and Feed Availability in HATS.)
You know that the water tanks at this facility are permanent structures, so you want to verify that all tanks are filled with water, are working properly and accessible to the animals. In addition, you want to determine whether the cattle have adequate room in the pens to lie down.
You are aware that the establishment has developed a written program that creates a systemic approach of humane handling and slaughtering following the Federal Register Notice dated September 9, 2004 (volume 69, number 174). This program describes how the plant will space cattle held overnight following the Recommended Animal Handling Guides by Dr. Temple Grandin, Colorado State University to American Meat Institute. This particular program includes a non-regulatory provision of 20 square feet per 1200 pound cattle to allow for adequate space for handlers to drive cattle safely, for the cattle to have access to water, and for all the animals to be able to lie down. The establishment personnel have the responsibility, based on the establishments written program, to check the holding pens randomly per shift to verify that the cattle have access to water. Also at end of the shift, the establishment needs to check that cattle held overnight will have adequate space to lie down and access to water.
You are surprised when you enter the livestock holding area and find that 2 holding pens are full and appear to be overcrowded; you investigate further. You determine that the two cattle pens are overcrowded because animals in the back of the pen cannot move to the water trough and therefore do not have access to the water. You ask the yards supervisor about the conditions in these pens, and he explains that there is a gate broken in the 1 large pen, so he mixed groups of cattle together (double the normal density). You share with him that, in observing the cattle, it is clear that not all cattle in these 2 pens have access to the water, and that, based on the double density in the pen the cattle will also not have room to lie down. You further question him about the establishments written program and why it is not being followed. He stated that they are short 2 livestock handlers and that the random checks had not been performed, and that 3 loads of cattle had arrived early.
You inform him (as directed by 9 CFR 313.50) that this is noncompliance with the regulations as cattle need access to water at all times [in accordance with 9 CFR 313.2 (e)], and that if the animals are to be held overnight, they will need adequate space to lie down. He states that he just filled these pens, and that he had fully intended to move approximately half the cattle to the large pen. He also states that maintenance has been notified to fix the gate, and the cattle will be separated again, within the hour, when the gate is repaired.
As you finish your discussion with the yard's supervisor, a livestock truck arrives with a full load of cattle. You ask the yards supervisor where he is going to pen these animals. He explains to you that this truck came early, and that it was supposed to arrive tomorrow morning. He asks whether the establishment (after it stops driving cattle to slaughter) could use the alleyways as a temporary holding pen in order to decrease the cattle density in each pen and to pen the new arrivals. Because of the unusual circumstance, you state that it would be acceptable to use the alleyway as long as the animals penned there have access to water and room to lie down. He states that large stable water buckets will be placed in the alleyways so that the animals have access to water. He also points out that by using the alleyways; there will be more then enough room for the animals to lie down. You find this approach, if correctly implemented, is consistent with the regulatory requirement.
Your verification of establishment humane handling practices found overcrowded livestock holding pens, so overcrowded, that many cattle did not have access to water. Though the establishment has a humane handling program in place, it failed to follow that program and was noncompliant with 9 CFR 313.2(e). This regulation requires that livestock have access to water at all times while being held in holding pens. Also, you had concern with the amount of room the cattle have for lying down, since they are going to be held overnight. You discussed this concern with establishment management.
You informed the establishment of your findings, as mandated by 9 CFR 313.50, and received assurances from the establishment that its intent was to reduce the number of livestock in the holding pens to an acceptable number. In addition, you informed the establishment that it did not follow its program. Therefore your decision was not to take a regulatory control action but you did document this noncompliance on an NR.
During your discussions with establishment management, more cattle arrived, and you discussed with the establishment how it would effectively handle these animals in addition to the animals already being held in the holding pens. The decision to accept the use of drive alleys as holding pens is acceptable as long as the establishment understands that water needs to be accessible to these animals.
As the IIC, you determine that there is a noncompliance with 313.2 (e), all cattle should have access to water in the holding pens. You document the overcrowding of two pens on a noncompliance record. Also you determine that there was not a violation of the portion of Part 313 that requires that there be space for all cattle to lie down when held overnight. However, you determine that it is appropriate to verify the establishments planned actions to determine whether any further action or documentation is necessary. So, you go back out on the catwalk above the cattle pens just prior to leaving for the day to verify that the cattle have been moved, have adequate space to lie down, and have access to water.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Simplicity Brand Drop Side Cribs
Units: About 600,000
AAFES, of Dallas, TexasBabies"R"Us, of Wayne, N.J.Burlington Coat Factory/Baby Depot, of Burlington, N.J.K's Merchandise (out of business)Meijer Distribution Inc., of Grand Rapids, Mich.Nebraska Furniture Mart, of Omaha, Neb.ShopKo, of Green Bay, Wis.Target, of Minneapolis, Minn.Wal-Mart Stores Inc, of Bentonville, Ark.
Importer/Distributor: Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa. (The firm appears to no longer conduct day to day operations.)
Hazard: Due to sizing problems with the crib's hardware, the drop side can come off the tracks. When the drop side detaches or partially detaches, it creates a hazardous gap, which can lead to infant entrapment and suffocation.
Incidents/Injuries: SFCA and CPSC are aware of nine incidents in which the drop side detached on cribs that are part of this recall. There have been no injuries.
Description: This recall of Simplicity drop side cribs involves models that used a different style of hardware from those cribs recalled in September 2007. The recalled model numbers include: 8620, 8745, 8748, 8755, 8756, 8778, 8810, and 8994. The recalled drop side cribs have a date code, which can be found on a label on the headboard under the mattress support, which ends in 05DH, 05GB, 06DH, 06GB, 07DH or 07GB (examples: 1806 DH or 0507 GB). The recalled model names include: Aspen and Crib N Changer Combo, Gabrielle, Camille, Providence and Shenandoah. Only the brand name "Simplicity" can be seen on the label on the headboard.
Sold by: Department stores, children's stores and mass merchandisers nationwide from January 2005 through August 2008 for between $150 and $300.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cribs and find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. Consumers should return the recalled crib to the place of purchase for a refund or store credit. SFCA Inc., of Reading, Pa. is working with retailers to carry out this recall program.
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LINGUIST List 25.76
Wed Jan 08 2014
Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics/Germany
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ESSLI Workshop: Models in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
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Full Title: ESSLI Workshop: Models in Formal Semantics and Pragmatics
Date: 18-Aug-2014 - 22-Aug-2014
Location: Tuebingen, Germany
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Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2014
Meeting Description:
Magdalena Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
Stefan Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
Invited Speakers:
Michael Glanzberg, Northwestern University
Stanley Peters, Stanford University
Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Frankfurt University
The field of natural-language semantics and pragmatics has undergone a shift away from defining or even mentioning models. Indeed, some scholars find their use redundant at best, harmful at worst. A generation of young semanticists got their first encounters with the formal theory through Heim and Kratzer's textbook, which does not mention models at all. There is little open discussion on these developments, but much anecdotal evidence that people have strong opinions about them. This workshop will give the debate a public forum.
Program Committee:
Nicholas Asher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jon Gajewski, University of Connecticut
Michael Glanzberg, Northwestern University
Hans Kamp, University of Texas, Austin
Magdalena Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
Stefan Kaufmann, University of Connecticut
Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ernest Lepore, Rutgers University
Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paul Portner, Georgetown University
Stanley Peters, Stanford University
Dave Ripley, University of Connecticut
Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Frankfurt University
Workshop Format:
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. The three invited talks are allotted one hour each, including discussion. On the first day, the workshop organizers will give a 30-minute introduction to the topic. This leaves room for eight submitted papers of 30 minutes each, including discussion.
Call for Papers:
Whatever happened to 'model-theoretic' semantics? Since Montague's groundbreaking work and throughout much of its history, the field of formal semantics (and later pragmatics) was characterized by the use of models - abstract mathematical structures in which linguistic
expressions are interpreted and which serve as the backdrop for stating generalizations about their semantic properties and relations.
Over the last couple of decades, however, the once-prominent status of models has been eroding. In the research literature, explicitly defined fragments and models were the norm in the early days (Partee 1975, 1976; Dowty, 1979), but are now the exception rather than the rule. In teaching, one of the most widely used textbooks, Heim and Kratzer (1998), makes no mention of models, in stark contrast with early standard works like Dowty, Wall and Peters (1981). Aside from such signs of waning interest, there is a small but formidable body of work which actively questions the status of models and finds them to be of limited use at best (Lepore 1983; Higginbotham 1988; Zimmermann 1999, 2011; Glanzberg, t.a.).
Such explicit reflections are rare, however. The overall decline of models in the field is not driven by a general debate, let alone consensus. Nor is the turn away from models a turn towards some non-model-theoretic alternative. What we do see instead is a tendency to stay loosely within the model-theoretic framework, but to enrich it with notions and tools whose formal properties remain largely implicit.
The goal of this workshop is to promote and generate discussion of the past, present, and future of models in natural-language semantics and pragmatics, specifically the implications of their apparent demise for the foundations and goals of the field. Topics for discussion include, but are in no way limited to the following:
What are models, anyway? Commitments about language, reality, and the nature of meaning that a model-theoretic approach to semantic analysis implies. The (special?) status of possible worlds and their relationship to extensional models.
What are models good for? Linguistic phenomena or aspects of meaning in whose analysis a model-theoretic approach has been, or would be, crucial or at least beneficial. The (potential) use of models in treating meaning as variable (e.g., in the analysis of uncertainty about language, or in cross-linguistic and diachronic comparative semantics).
Where do models get in the way? Desiderata for semantic theory and limitations of the model-theoretic approach. Risks and side effects of specific methods associated with the model-theoretic approach (e.g., meaning postulates).
Are we safe without modes? Advantages and potential pitfalls of innovative uses of formal techniques or metalinguistic expressions, whose repercussions are underexplored (various kinds of states and events, partial functions, etc.)
What are the alternatives?
Submission Procedure:
Authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to three pages, including examples and/or references (single-spaced, at least 11pt font, on US letter or A4 paper with margins at least 1in or 2.5cm on all sides, in .pdf, .txt, .doc or .odt format). Abstracts must be submitted by February 15, 2014, electronically at the following address:
Authors who are unable to comply with these requirements are welcome to contact the organizers.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (153 votes).
In short: Great race and a bargain as wellIn full: I can't think of another endurance race in this region, which is such great value. The organisation and pre-race info was great and the mainly rural route was enjoyable. Apart from the well-advertised 'sting in the tail', there were few sections that were completely flat. The marshals and volunteers were great, the t-shirt is an attractive technical T and the goody bag was good value. A few extra loos at the start might be nice but you can't have everything. Well done Congleton Harriers and Congleton Lions for a great day!Date of review: October 7, 2014
In short: Great race and well organisedIn full: First year I've run this and got a PB. Don't be put off by previous year'c comments about the start - well organised with road / lane closures so plenty of room to run.Date of review: October 15, 2013
In short: exhilarating with full on cheshire charmIn full: Small enough to make you feel a part of something and big enough to make you raise your game. Most importantly, a superbly organised and most charming half marathon event through mellow Cheshire pastures. Loved it!!Date of review: October 14, 2013
In short: Well organised, great raceIn full: Great cheers from marshall's and members of public, lovely scenery along the route and got a PB and tech tee that actually fits and good design! Fabulous race would definitely recommend. Sting in the tail isn't bad if you've run a few hills!Date of review: October 12, 2013
In short: A great race and real challenge!In full: Friendly and very well organised. Great course with a mixture of main roads and countryside. The day was made all the more worthwhile by the excellent photography provided by Bryan Dale at www.racephotos.org.uk. Great pics for great memories in the absence of medals. I'd definitely recommend this race to other runners.Date of review: October 12, 2013
In short: A great 1/4 marathon and an interesting distance. I di this race 9 years ago and its just as good now as it was then!In full: Friendly well organised race. Nice course, and very scenic once you have got off the main roads for the first two miles. I did the 1/4 marathon, but may do the half in future. Excellent photography provided by racephotos.co.uk.Overall very pleased. Was slightly disappointed at no finishers medal for the 1/4 marathon (there was one in 2004) but this was made up for by the fact I finished 3rd overall and there were prizes for the top 3 males and females in this smaller supporting race.Very very good race!Date of review: October 11, 2013
In short: excellent organisation, a good course, and a great atmosphereIn full: Good facilities, very close to start. Nice course with good Police and marshall supportMildly undulating rather than hilly, but all flows nicelyExcellent tech.tee shirt again this year. Highly recommend this race AND Congleton Harriers other two races, the Cloud 9(March) and the Passing Clouds(end Oct), both mostly offf-road AND MUCH more hilly!Date of review: October 10, 2013
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The urological specialty covers diseases and damages of kidneys, ureters, bladder, prostate, urethra and male reproductive organs. In the Department of Urology in Cologne-Holweide conservative, endoscopic and open surgical techniques are used.
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Strumming on Sub RosaPosted by Jay Batzner in CD Review, Jay Batzner, minimalism, Piano, tags: CD Review, Charlemagne Palestine, instrumental, Jay Batzner, Piano, strings, Sub Rosa
Strumming Music
(piano, harpsichord, and string ensemble versions)
Sub Rosa
Upon first cracking open this 3-CD collection of Strumming by Charlemagne Palestine, I saw the brief newspaper article by John Rockwell who tells the tale of a Palestine performance cut short because the composer was playing a Steinway and not a Bösendorfer ("cut short" is relative since the piece lasted 2.5 hours instead of 4). The article presents the situation as an acute case of "diva-itis" but when I heard the original version of Strumming (even listed as "for Bösendorfer piano") and heard the massive clouds of overtones and sympathetic vibrations, I could see why Palestine would not be pleased with a Steinway instrument. So much of the piano version of Strumming doesn't happen at the keyboard but in the air around it. The incessant keyboard hammerings melts into waves of sound much like dots in a Seurat painting. Around the 17 minute mark of this 52 minute performance from 1974 my brain couldn't hear the keyboard anymore – just the spectra of the harmonies pushing against each other. The cresting wave around 30 minutes is an absolutely transcendent ride as is the surrender to the "power chords" 7 minutes later. I trust Charlemagne Palestine to deliver what he wants me to hear and this recording is one you can trust. As much as I would love to hear a more recent, higher-resolution, and longer version of the work, I think it is hard to call this performance anything other than definitive. It makes the 12 minute version of Strumming on the Godbear album feel like a 5 Second Film.
In addition to Palestine performing on Bösendorfer, the Sub Rosa collection has two other versions: one for harpsichord performed by Betsy Freeman in 1977 and one for a string ensemble organized at the SF Conservatory by John Adams in that same year. The harpsichord version weighs in at 35 minutes and is probably the closest to providing an actual "strum" aesthetic although without the pronounced melting of sustained sonic spectra. Freeman's technique and treatment of the material is compelling and well paced. Some folks might approach a harpsichord version of Strumming with extreme distaste but there is no reason to avoid this wonderful performance.
I found the string ensemble version (about 25 minutes long) to be surprisingly sustained whereas the keyboards furiously chug away. There is nary a tremolo to be heard nor any other picturesque technical tricks that one would expect from string ensemble writing. The harmonic journey is laid bare and exposed in a frail and naked manner. It is this string version that I really hope gets taken up and revisited in a longer and higher quality recording (at least one without coughing). As a minor quibble, I'm not sure why this is sold as a 3 disc set since the harpsichord and string versions could comfortably fit on a single disc. True, there are few of us who will spin all versions back-to-back-to-back, but I always bristle when I have a disc with so much dead space by a composer known for extended compositions.
While these recordings are supposedly of the same piece of music, each of these versions contains a different element of "truth" to them. Each stands squarely on its own as a performance of a hypnotic and unique compositional voice instead of sounding as mere arrangements of the original piano version. These three recordings are interconnected the same way that good film/book pairings (2001, Blade Runner) contain the core of the work while still showcasing different distinct artistic visions.


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The Freshwater and Marine Image Bank is a digital collection from the University of Washington Libraries of images related to freshwater and marine topics, in all their diversity. It includes images of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals, pictures of fish hatcheries and dams and vessels, materials related to polar exploration, regional and traditional fisheries, and limnological (freshwater) subjects. Its scope is global. Last indexed July 5, 2012


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Cortland Cruises, Will Host NCAA Regional
from press release
CORTLAND, N.Y. – Twelve different players
scored goals as the nationally fourth-ranked women's lacrosse team
defeated Keene State College, 21-3, in the first round of the NCAA
Div. III playoffs Wednesday afternoon at the SUNY Cortland Stadium
Complex. The Red Dragons improved to 19-1, tying the scchool record
for wins in a season, and will host a four-team regional on
Saturday and Sunday with the winner advancing to the "final four"
hosted by Adelphi University. The Owls' season ended at 13-6.
Sophomore Maria Di Fato (Camillus/West Genesee) scored four goals and added two assists for Cortland. Junior Lindsay Abbott (South Onondaga/Onondaga Central) led all scorers with seven points on three goals and four assists. Sophomores Gina Campese (East Syracuse/East Syracuse-Minoa) and Taylor Harney (Patchogue/Patchogue-Medford) each recorded two goals and two assists, freshman Ashley Cook (Commack) had two goals and one assist, freshman Taylor Robinson (Manlius/Fayetteville-Manlius) scored twice and senior Antonia Cianfrocco (Chittenango) and sophomore Mary Hartzheim (Manlius/Fayetteville-Manlius) registered one goal and one assist apiece. Sophomore goalies Ally Levy (Reisterstown, MD/Seton Keough) and Shauna Hutchinson (Islip Terrace/East Islip) split time in the cage. Levy made four saves in the first half and Hutchinson did not stop a shot in the final 30 minutes.
Senior Jamie Albert (Southington, CT), junior Caitlyn Corace (Mahopac) and sophomore Nicole Curry (Hampstead, NH/Pinkerton Academy) each scored a goal for the Owls with senior Emily Persano (Somers, CT) collecting an assist. Freshman goalie Erin Taylor (Brewster) turned aside eight shots.
Di Fato gave the Red Dragons a 2-0 lead with goals at 29 minutes, 16 seconds and 27:35. Abbott then assisted Cook's goal at 23:53, and Albert put the Owls on the scoreboard at 21:30 with a free-position goal to make it a 3-1 game. Cortland answered by ending the half with 11 straight goals for a 14-1 lead at intermission. Abbott tallied three goals and Di Fato scored twice during the run.
Cook made it 15-1 just 37 seconds into the second half, and Kollar extended the lead to 16-1 at the 23:50 mark. Persano set up Curry's goal at 20:39 to end Cortland's 13-goal streak. Campese and Corace then traded scores before the Red Dragons ended the game with the last four goals for the 21-3 final.
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Guanabanas | Jupiter
The lush jungle motif and tiki vibe has made Jupiter's little slice of paradise one of the most popular spots to dock a boat and grab a bite. Guanabanas, named after the sweetly sour fruit, is an outdoor oasis where every seat has an exceptional view and the Caribbean-inspired menu serves South Florida's seemingly insatiable appetite for fresh-caught snapper and sweet plantains.
While the conch fritters and Cuban pork tacos are popular favorites, Guanabanas' real claim to fame is being the spot to grab a drink and enjoy the ambiance and live entertainment. The stage comes alive with reggae, rock steady, jazz and rock musicians performing every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and the cocktails are inventive and always chilled to perfection. For a local favorite, the A1A Lemonade ($8.75) is a cold and refreshing morning pick-me-up, while the Dolphin Puncher ($9) is a citrusy rum punch with a kick of sour guanabana juice added for good measure.
Boater-friendly, Guanabanas sits along the Jupiter Creek across from Burt Reynolds Park. The bar and grill has 13 boat slips and sits next to the public floating dock that can hold another eight. However, access is limited to smaller vessels because of two bridges with high water marks at around 14 feet (check the tide before attempting the bridges; the northern span is a bit shorter). For those looking to make a paddle of it, Blueline Paddle mans a stand-up paddle rental spot off the dock, so you can burn a few calories before hitting the bar.
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Artist: Richard WeigmannConstruction: Painted MuralLocation: Millard BranchInstalled 1999
Millard Branch's dedication to art continues inside the building!
Seward, Nebraska native Richard Weigmann painted a four panel mural near the entrance to the meeting
"The Earth Is an Open Book" depicts a progression of the natural world from underground
caves and volcanic formations up to the earth and sky.
Mr. Weigmann is an Art Professor at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska.
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Caribou may lose endangered status
SPOKANE, Wash. - The federal government may remove endangered species protection from the woodland caribou, which is found in Idaho, Washington and Canada.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will take another look at the Selkirk population of caribou and that removing them from protection may be warranted.
The agency made that announcement Tuesday in response to a petition from the Pacific Legal Foundation, Bonner County in Idaho and the Idaho State Snowmobile Association.
That petition says the Selkirk population of caribou is not significant and not worthy of protection. Those groups oppose a proposal to set aside hundreds of thousands of acres of land as caribou habitat.
The Center for Biological Diversity says this is the last population of caribou in the lower 48 states and should be protected.


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History: Colonial Period
Compiled and Written by Lou Hoffman
Download this document as a PDF: Colonial New Mexico
During the late evening hours of 15 July 1945, Enrico Fermi wandered among his fellow scientists at the Trinity Test Site soliciting bets. He wondered. Would the test bomb ignite the atmosphere? And, if so, would it destroy just New Mexico or destroy the world? A deafening roar, a brilliant orange ball of fire and a thunderous shockwave at 5:29:45 a.m. the next morning answered his question. In that same instant, the military future of New Mexico departed dramatically from its martial past. Very quickly, a territory and state that was often an outpost of empire and a battleground for Native Americans and Europeans, was becoming inextricably linked to a new ideological and imperial struggle being waged on a global scale. Despite that, two things remained constant. New Mexico would be just as it had been, dependant on a military presence for survival and stability. Secondly, those who would take part in modern conflict came from often diverse backgrounds. From the warrior traditions of the ancient Pueblo Indians to the significance of the state in the military-industrial complex of the atomic age, New Mexico's military heritage has been and continues to be defined by the contributions of peoples from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. For four centuries after the first Spanish expedition, New Mexicans fought each other in a prolonged struggle for control of the land, its resources and even its people before uniting together in the twentieth century against foreign powers. The legacy of these conflicts extends far beyond the fields of battle to an important and influential element in New Mexico's society - the veterans themselves.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
New Mexico's documented military past dates back to the earliest stages of contact between the Pueblos and the Spanish. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led the first Spanish army into New Mexico in 1540. The section of the Rio Grande Valley in which Albuquerque is situated was first visited by Europeans under Hernando Alvarado who was a lieutenant commander under Coronado. In the sixteenth century it was was an important military headquarters for all the Spanish explorers who ventured into this part of the country.
Born in Salamanca, Spain around 1510 Coronado sailed in 1535 to Mexico with Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, which included Mexico. Coronado became governor of New Galicia province, northwest of Mexico City, in 1538.
In 1539, Marcos de Niza, a Spanish missionary priest, returned to New Spain from a journey to the north. He claimed to have seen a golden city, Cíbola, among the Zuni Indians in the region. Niza's account and stories by Alva Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and other Spanish explorers led to Coronado's Cíbola expedition.
Coronado gathered an army in Compostela, the capital of New Galicia, at the end of February 1540. He assembled nearly 300 soldiers, 1,000 Indian allies, including some slaves, and about 1,500 head of livestock. Several missionary priests also joined the expedition north into what was then known as la tierra incognita (the unknown land) in search of the seven cities of gold.
In July, Coronado reached the place he identified as Cíbola in the area of what is now Gallup, New Mexico. The Zuni Indians there fought to defend their territory, but the Spaniards defeated them and established a camp at the site. To the Spaniards' bitter disappointment, the town they thought was the legendary Cíbola was not a golden city. It was instead a small village called Hawikuh, which was inhabited by about 100 families.
From his base camp, Coronado sent smaller bands of soldiers under the command of others to explore to the west and the east. One of his men, Pedro de Tovar, led a force to the Colorado Plateau and the Painted Desert to the northwest. Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and his party became the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon.
This map shows the explorations of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in the American Southwest. Coronado searched in vain for the legendary cities of Cíbola and Quivira. The present-day state boundaries are also shown.
Source: World Book Map
In the winter of 1540, Coronado moved his headquarters to the Rio Grande Valley near the Kuaua Pueblo, which today is the focus of the Coronado State Monument near the town of Bernalillo, and then to other communities of the Tiguex province, spending the winters of 1540-41 and 1541-42 at Puaray -- also called Coofor and Alcanfor -- which is south of Kuaua.
Knowledge of Kuaua dates back to virtual infinity. In pre-recorded history, 2,000 or so years ago, people were hunting game and gathering plant products for food, plus other naturally occurring materials for clothing and shelter, in the precincts of the middle Rio Grande Valley. By 600 A. D., Pueblo Indian ancestral cultures were building pit houses close to where the Kuaua ruins stand today. The beginnings of the village probably date to around 1300 A. D. when members of ancient societies living in what is now eastern Arizona and southwestern Colorado were forced, perhaps by drought, to seek the watered valley of the Rio Grande.
Source: History of Coronado Monument – Kuaua Pueblo by Don Bullis
The village grew, probably continually as the population grew, until it reached about 1,200 rooms, which were all connected together in a kind of irregular L shape around three plazas. Each of the plazas contained at least one Kiva; semi-subterranean chambers which were used for social and ceremonial purposes. Nature provided sustenance for the Pueblo people. Game was abundant in the area, as were edible wild plants. They also cultivated corn, beans, squash and cotton.
The initial meeting between the Spaniards and the Pueblo people must have been a stunning event, particularly for the Indians. For the first time they saw armed men --perhaps wearing armor -- mounted on horses; they saw other animals previously unknown to them: cattle, sheep, goats and swine. They heard a strange language. The Spaniards, too, must have been awed by the discovery of a functional society on a primitive frontier; the artistry of the paintings on Kiva walls must have amazed them.
Mutual curiosity didn't last long. The Spanish decided that they would simply occupy one of the twelve villages of the Tiguex province, and the Pueblo people agreed. But other problems arose. The soldiers required food and they took it from whomever they chose, and they were otherwise arbitrary in the way the dealt with their hosts. There was at least one reported rape. The Pueblo inhabitants revolted against their oppressors, and began the warfare by killing Spanish horses with arrows. Out numbered, and fighting for their lives, the beleaguered Spaniards resorted to desperate measures retaliating with great force using harquebuses (matchlock guns) and crossbows. Many of the Indian people were killed: some in the normal course of the conflict, but others burned to death or drowned. The Pueblo of Arenal and its inhabitants were destroyed. Coronado hoped that this demonstration would deter further conflict, but it only hardened the resolve of the surrounding Pueblos who carried on fighting well into the spring. By that time, the Spanish had destroyed more than ten villages. Limited resources and an inability to thwart the Spanish convinced many of the surviving Native Americans to seek sanctuary in the mountains throughout the region.
But, Coronado's victory was short lived. As one historian has said, "The Tiguex Pueblos … were subjugated with such severity as to incur Indian hostility to the Spaniards for generations."
The following spring, Coronado pressed on to the east in search of mythical riches and the Atlantic coast. Tempted by new stories of a city of gold called Quivira, Coronado led an expedition eastward across the Pecos River. He wandered through the panhandles of present-day Texas and Oklahoma and eventually reached what is now central Kansas before returning to New Mexico in the fall.
Physically broken, discredited and empty handed Coronado and his army departed for Mexico in the spring of 1542, leaving three Franciscan padres behind. Juan de Padilla, Juan de la Cruz and Luis de Escalona were all martyred within two years. Coronado remained governor of New Galicia until 1544 when he was suspended from his office during an investigation of his Cíbola expedition. In 1545, Coronado was charged with mistreatment of Indians, failure to colonize the lands he had explored, and other misconduct. In 1546, he was cleared of all wrongdoing.
The Spanish ignored the middle Rio Grande Valley for the next 56 years, until they returned to the region under the leadership of Don Juan de Oñate in 1598.
Don Juan de Oñate
Juan de Oñate (oh NYAH tay) born near Zacatecas, Mexico in about 1550 is remembered mainly for colonizing the territory now called New Mexico, in 1598. His explorations extended from the Colorado River to the plains of Kansas.
The first major expedition into New Mexico sanctioned by the Spanish Crown finally got off in 1598 when, after a two-year delay, 50 year-old Don Juan de Oñate set out from Mexico City with 500 people. Although no regular soldiers accompanied the expedition, there were 130 armed males of fighting age -- a potentially large army by then contemporary standards in the Southwest. His contract with the King of Spain called for the ambitious Spaniard to establish settlements in New Mexico at his own expense. Oñate, one the most controversial figures in New Mexico history, was born to a wealthy and aristocratic mining family in Mexico. His extensive wealth and influence made him a perfect candidate to satisfy the Crown's desire to establish settlements in New Mexico, something no other expedition had been able to do. However, what began as a promising and profitable adventure was troubled from the outset. Oñate's wealth was nearly exhausted before he even left Mexico. By the time he and his company of followers settled in northern New Mexico at the location they named San Gabriel, they were almost entirely supported by funds from the royal treasury.
Despite the financial difficulties, the expedition moved into New Mexico unchallenged by the Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley after blazing the Royal Road, El Camino Real, a route for commerce and conquest, that 400 years later is still in use.
Source: National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior
Jornada del Muerto
The roughest and deadliest part of the Camino Real was the stretch between Las Cruces and Socorro called Jornada del Muerto or Journey of the Dead, which traversed a broad, flat waterless valley featuring expansive lava beds. With no grazing or firewood, it offered no sustenance to travelers for 90 miles.
Caravans left the comparative ease of the Rio Grande just north of Las Cruces and prepared for a brutal, three-day march with little rest and no water. Oñate wrote that his group suffered for lack of water until someone's dog appeared with muddy paws. The travelers followed the dog to temporary water where animals and people slaked their thirst. Known from then on as Los Charcos del Perillo, the pools of the little dog, it became a paraje, or camping place, where wagon trains watered and prepared for the harsh trip ahead.
After three days of anxious passage, Oñate reached the river near present day San Marcial. Informed by the events of the past, the Pueblos sought to avoid conflict and the destruction of their villages. At first, they accepted the Spanish presence and accommodated their settlements for a short time. After Pueblo dwellers of the village Teipana gave food and succor to the strangers, Oñate promptly renamed the village Socorro, meaning help, in recognition of their hospitality.
Why did caravans leave the river and journey into the arid wasteland? For almost 100 miles, the river was too difficult to follow, especially for livestock and wooden carts. Huge canyons led from eastern and western mountains, creating gigantic ridges to climb and descend, one after another.
The river often changed its course and left quicksand in its wake. What had been a safe passage on an earlier trip might lead to suffocating quicksand or be completely washed away. Despite hardships, travelers made better time on the flat, dry valley.
In early August 1598, 22 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Governor Juan de Oñate set up his headquarters in San Juan Pueblo near the confluence of the Chama and Rio Grande Rivers just north of present day Espanola, but by 1601 he had moved the Spanish capital across the Rio Grande to the Yuque-Yunque Pueblo. Named San Gabriel, it served as the seat of government until 1610.
A program initiated by the Franciscan padres who accompanied Oñate was called reducción. It provided that the Pueblo people of Tiguex would be consolidated into a few villages where mission churches could be constructed and where the work to convert the Indians to the Roman Catholic religion could be facilitated. Kuaua was probably abandoned under this edict by 1625. There is archaeological evidence that the village was resettled about 100 years later, but the later occupants may have been Spanish. Whoever they were, they didn't stay long and the place was abandoned again and the walls were crumbling badly by the end of the 1Ninth century.
Like most European efforts to establish colonies in North America the Spanish found themselves under-provisioned and unprepared for the struggles associated with colonization. As the seasons gave way to winter and the harsh realities of New Mexico's climate began to take a toll on the expedition. Would be soldiers and colonists alike began to extort provisions from the surrounding pueblos. Once again, they resorted to various means of violence to secure precious food-stuffs. Discontent spread quickly and in 1599, Ácoma Pueblo struck back, killing eleven Spanish soldiers, including Oñate's nephew, Juan de Záldivar. Three intense days of fighting ensued. During that span, Oñate's army, now numbering only 72 men, defeated and destroyed Ácoma, maiming and killing nearly 800 inhabitants and taking more than 80 men and 500 women and children captive. For Oñate this was a significant, if bloody, military victory and it ensured that the struggling Spanish colonizing effort would survive and grow slowly for much of the seventeenth century.
Despite his victory, Oñate's leadership came into question by the settlers at San Gabriel with whom he quarreled and by the Crown. Also, his venture was quickly becoming the largest drain on royal coffers. Forced to resign, he was tried and found guilty of immorality and abuse of power. In 1606, he was replaced by Pedro de Peralta, whose greatest success was re-establishing the struggling Spanish settlement further south on the site of present day Santa Fe, abandoning San Gabriel.
Pueblo Revolt
Throughout the seventeenth century the Spanish population in New Mexico never exceeded more than 3,000, but that did not prevent conflict. On regular occasions various Pueblos, including Zuni, Taos, Jemez, and villages of the Tewa clashed with Spanish settlers and soldiers. All achieved some minor gains, but they were short lived. Indeed, these isolated incidents had little effect on the already slow development of the Spanish colony. It was not until the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 that the Spanish were confronted with a unified threat from the Pueblos. During the two decades leading up to the revolt, New Mexico suffered from severe drought and above average temperatures. Those conditions resulted in significant crop losses and death from starvation. Crop yields and precious livestock herds were further reduced by raiding Navajos and Apaches from northern New Mexico who sought to supplement their own dwindling food supplies by preying on the inhabitants of the river valley. Those factors, along with the growing population in the valley and the routine indignities that Pueblos suffered at the hands of the Spanish, contributed to a cultural revival among the Pueblos who increasingly looked to their own leaders and traditions to handle the on-going crisis.
Dissent among the Pueblos was galvanized and a movement to rout the Spanish out of New Mexico began. A secret meeting at Taos Pueblo set the plan in motion. Messengers were dispersed to known anti-Spanish pueblos. The plan, however, was discovered when sympathetic Pueblos alerted the Spanish and contributed to the capture of two messengers. Weary of their discovery, the Pueblos, led by Popé, a Tewa from Oke Owinge, San Juan Pueblo, took the offensive on 10 August 1680. Even though they were aware that an attack was imminent, the Spanish were still taken completely by surprise. They failed to grasp the scope of the upheaval. Nearly 17,000 Pueblo Indians were aligned against them. Spaniards in outlying settlements who were not immediately overrun sought sanctuary in Santa Fe and Isleta Pueblo. The Spanish retaliated mercilessly, hanging Pueblo holy men and torturing others, including Popé.
However, the Native Americans capitalized easily and swiftly on their numerical superiority and laid siege to Santa Fe. Two thousand Pueblos surrounded the settlement, which could only muster 100 men of fighting age in opposition. This lone Spanish outpost in New Mexico held out for one month until, with the city literally in ruins and their supplies of food and water exhausted, Governor Antonio de Otermín issued orders to abandon the settlement. They were granted leave of the city on 21 September, retreating to El Paso, humiliated and soundly defeated. In the month of fighting, Pueblo Indians killed more than 400 Spaniards, destroyed fields and crops, and sacked or destroyed every Spanish building in the territory. Of the 33 Franciscan priests in the province, 21 were killed during the conflict. For a time the Pueblos succeeded in ridding their homes of the Spanish. It was the largest movement of its kind. Not until Arthur St. Clair's defeat in the Ohio wilderness in 1791 were so many Native Americans united in a common cause. What had begun in secret shocked the Spanish in New Mexico and in Europe, but it did not end their resolve to establish colonial dominance in New Mexico.
The desert leg of the Camino Real would secure its reputation when survivors of the revolt headed south. More than 2,000 colonists and loyal natives attempted the trek. Almost 600 of the weak, ill or exhausted refugees died on the journey.
Diego de Vargas
The ramifications of the revolt and the ideologies that formed its foundation spread throughout the region and tempered Spanish interest in colonization until 1693 when Diego de Vargas, a Spanish aristocrat arrived in El Paso. De Vargas left his family behind in Spain, arriving in North America resolved to expand his personal fortune and establish a permanent colony in New Mexico. He quickly demonstrated leadership and the determination desperately needed if a colony was to survive. Initial forays into New Mexico in 1693 were met with unanticipated success. De Vargas, with the aid of Pueblo allies, managed to secure the moderate allegiance of 23 Pueblo communities throughout the Rio Grande Valley. The next year, de Vargas returned with 800 settlers, which included 100 soldiers and a large number of long-standing Pueblo allies, many of whom fled during the revolt years before. However, de Vargas quickly discovered that he was not as welcome as his previous venture had suggested. When he returned in 1694, Pueblos who previously professed friendship now opposed him and his company. Diplomatic efforts to regain control of Santa Fe, which the Pueblos had occupied since the revolt, failed and soon gave way to open warfare. Bolstered by Pueblo Indian allies, de Vargas's Spaniards easily took the old capital but not before they executed 70 of the citadel's defenders who refused to surrender. Although the re-conquest of Santa Fe provided de Vargas with a much needed victory it was merely the beginning of nearly three years of ceaseless warfare between the two groups, each desperate to control the valley.
Beyond Santa Fe, the returning Spaniards exerted little influence. Authority did not come from the presence of Franciscan priests as it had in the past. It was now vested in military force. Sensing another opportunity to defeat the Spanish and chase them from the country, the Pueblos launched a full-scale uprising in 1696. Not nearly as coordinated as they were in 1680, the Pueblo attacks were met swiftly by a well-prepared and organized de Vargas. Unlike his predecessor, he anticipated a military confrontation. He countered with his small but disciplined army of Spanish and Indian allies by waging a six-month campaign aimed at destroying food supplies and attacking Pueblo strongholds. This war of attrition took a dramatic toll on the Indians. De Vargas soon gained control of the countryside, ultimately subduing all but the Hopis who slipped further into isolation in what is now northwestern Arizona.
The uprising of 1696 marked the end of the first wave of fighting between the Spanish and the native communities of New Mexico. It also marked an end to hostilities between the Spanish settlers and the Pueblos. The two sides never clashed in open warfare again. Each side suffered dramatically from the wars waged between 1680 and 1696. The Pueblo population declined from 17,000 to 14,000 in just 20 years. More importantly, the disproportionate number of male deaths during that period upset the balance of Pueblo society and diminished their ability to mount any type of opposition to Spanish settlement in the region. Moreover, after 1700, a tenuous alliance was forged between these groups when they found themselves faced with new challenges from Ute, Apache, and Navajo Indians who frequently attacked outlying settlements seeking slaves to trade, livestock and foodstuffs, or simply to defend the borders of their traditional homes from expanding settlements of Spaniards.
Villa de Alburquerque
On 23 April 1706 Don Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, who replaced Governor Vargas in 1704, wrote to the king of Spain and to the viceroy of New Spain stating that he had founded a new villa in New Mexico, which he named after the viceroy, Fernandez de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque:
"I certify to his majesty: That I have founded a villa on the banks and in the valley of the River of the North in a place of good fields, waters, pastures, and timber, distant from this villa of Santa Fe about twenty-two leagues,... naming it the Villa of Alburquerque... There are now thirty-five families located there, comprising 252 persons, adults and children. The Church has been completed... the government buildings have been begun, and other houses of the settlers are finished with their corrals, irrigation ditches running, fields sowed—all without any expense to the Royal Treasury."
The necessity of forming this settlement was prompted by frequent nomadic Indian raids. Franciscan fathers were also motivated at the time to build the church of San Felipe de Neri on the north side of what is now the Old Town Plaza.
Throughout this era, the military power in New Mexico was rarely determined by the presence of regular soldiers. In fact, professional soldiers did not arrive and remain in New Mexico until after the Pueblo Revolt. Survivors of the revolt established a presidio or fortified settlement at El Paso, and after Diego De Vargas returned in 1693, another was established in Santa Fe as ordered by the Viceroy. With their establishment the responsibility of defense shifted from the local citizenry to professional soldiers paid for by the Crown. Despite their presence very few communities could rely on paid troops for defense in the eighteenth century. Their numbers were very few and their ability to defend was limited largely to the area immediately surrounding the presidio. They were hardly an effective defensive force, and certainly incapable of waging any type of offensive war on their own.
Although the presidio system expanded after 1780, individual citizens and territorial militias known as "vecinos," or neighbors, were a mainstay on the frontier. Locals armed themselves however they could, with bow and arrow, lances, spears, or if they were fortunate enough, a firearm. Even their personal dwellings often incorporated some type of fortifications. When a campaign was called for, volunteer militia units comprised of both Spanish and Pueblo Indians supplemented the small number of regulars. Such an alliance between the Spaniards and Pueblos was not unique, either to the region or the era. Europeans and Indians throughout the Americas forged alliances. Traditional rivalries among Indian nations encouraged some to seek alliances with Europeans while others enjoyed lucrative economic and political relationships with trans-Atlantic powers that resulted in increased influence and temporary regional hegemony over their Indian neighbors. The alliance between the Pueblos and Spanish in New Mexico in the eighteenth century had mixed success, but it did ensure the survival of each during one of the most turbulent times in New Mexico.
In a place where resources were limited, human beings and livestock became two of the most coveted commodities. And in the absence of any strong military presence or central government, predation provided an organizational impetus for the political and economic system that took shape in New Mexico. It initiated a cycle of violence that would remain unbroken until the 1860's.
Direct influence from Spain declined markedly throughout the eighteenth century. By 1821 more than just an ocean separated Mexico from the Crown. Three hundred years had passed and a decade of violent upheaval throughout much of New Spain culminated in Mexican independence on 24 February 1821. The most dramatic consequence of revolution was marked by the recall of regular soldiers from the presidios. Their departure ushered in a new era of violence and increased raiding. Although conflict was frequent during the period from 1821 to 1846, it was also irregular in nature. At its lowest point, the territorial militia mustered not merely to defend against increased attacks from Indians but to take the offensive, plundering Navajo, Apache, and Ute Indians, stealing their stock and taking slaves. Indeed, by this time, the raiding economy was reaching its peak. Neither Native Americans nor European interlopers could gain the upper hand, and as long as a balance of power existed, the cycle remained unbroken.
The first challenge to that cycle came not from the Mexican government but the United States, which took control of the territory in 1846 while at war with Mexico.


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I think it's time to have another meeting of the FoH as we haven't had a meeting since July and we would need to talk about a lot of thing related to the FoH as the murals on the wall, couches, library, cleaning etc..
So I thought that we could have the meeting on the 14th of September, so next Monday since we had the FoH meeting on every first Monday in a month if I know it right. What do you think of having the meeting at 7? we could have it in the action room if it is free at that time.
I took a note of some things that I think are need to be discussed:
1, Murals on the wall in the kitchen and in the café:
Magda was planning to do some murals on the kitchen's wall but she hasn't done it as the festival started and we haven't talked about it since then. But at the same time, Matias also has some ideas and plans that he'd like to do in the café and in the kicthen as well.So I think that this should be discussed with everybody at the meeting with the details ( how, when, where etc) so that everybody will more or less know what is going to happen with the space in the café so nobody will feel being left out of the decision.
2, What should the FoH cover?
is it about only the café or should it be about the whole building?
3,Library .
How can it be improved? There are many books that are not labeled and more signs are need in the café, where the other bookshelf is which is otherwise a bit broken.
4, plants and flowers:
Should we keep them in the windows? I really like having them both in the window and around the café but they reallly need help to survive the sort of rough circumstances and the lack of ... regular and sensible care. The other thing is about the flowers on the tables, I talked with Emma and she said that we can have a budget for that. How much should the budget be? should we buy flowers every week or every two weeks?
5, chairs, tables, couches:
I think that the café really misses some comfy couches, and some of the tables, and the chairs need some fixing as well. Maybe we should organise a resurrection workshop where people with good ideas and skills would give them a new shine and revitalize them. Because I think it would be nice to involve more people in how we are shaping the space in the Forest.
I started to look for some furnitures and couches on free cycle and gumtree. If I find something good, who should I connect or who is up for carrying somethings? We've got a really nice sofa in the EVS flat that we can bring to the Forest after we moved out from the Haymarket flat in the first weeks of October.
6, Vollie/disabled toilet:
I guess that it doesn't strictly belong to the Front of House or the café (does it?) but I think it really needs to be changed and Im really interested in doing it. I really like what HUndertwasser did with the toilets inside the houses that he made. I think I'll just copy the pictures here because I don't think I can explain it in a convincing way so:
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I was thinking about getting the waste material from tiles shops and factories but I dont know if that possible and I was thinking about using some recycling things to make it more functional and creative and a better looking space.
Does anybody have any other ideas on it?
That's all that I came to mind but these are all very open to any suggestions! so come up with your ideas and post them or/and discuss them on Monday!


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Lakewood would be a good home for a dog park.
In fact, it's surprising there aren't more dog parks locally, especially for an area that fancies itself a tourist destination.
Andrea Windoft, Lakewood treasurer, recently approached David Wordelmann, Lakewood mayor, for permission to explore the idea of a dog park across from the community boat launch on East Terrace Avenue. The most expensive materials needed at first is fencing and a dispenser for plastic bags, though there will be a cost to add benches, fountains and other amenities over time. Better yet, Windoft is looking for ways to build the park without asking for any taxpayer money, recently enlisting the help of the Lakewood Kiwanis Club. Donations can be payable to Village of Lakewood Dog Park and mailed to 20 W. Summit St., Lakewood NY 14750.
One concern that hasn't been discussed publicly is the proposed park's proximity to Chautauqua Lake. The Environmental Protection Agency deemed pet waste a "nonpoint source of pollution" in 1991, which put pet waste in the same category as oil and toxic chemicals. It has been estimated that a single gram of dog waste can contain 23 million fecal coliform bacteria, which are known to cause cramps, diarrhea, intestinal illness, and serious kidney disorders in humans. EPA estimates show two or three days' worth of droppings from a population of about 100 dogs would contribute enough bacteria to temporarily close a bay and all watershed areas within 20 miles of it, to swimming.
Responsible dog owners, however, are the type of people who clean up their dog's waste, whether it's in a dog park or on a neighbor's lawn. We hope, if the park does become a reality, that village officials ensure there is strict enforcement of regulations to clean up dog waste in the park.
With proper management, a dog park would be a welcome addition to the area. Dog owners in the Lakewood area should consider joining Windoft's effort.


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Yesterday, Bryan Fischer, the Director of Issue Analysis for the American Family Association, announced that you would be appearing today on his radio show.
Mr. Fischer has a long history of outrageous, dishonest, and often hateful statements--as a result of which, the Southern Poverty Law Center has officially designated the AFA a "Hate Group." This designation is well earned given the tenor and frequency of Fischer's harsh attacks on the LGBT, Muslim and Hispanic communities among others.
This week, though, Mr. Fischer made a statement that goes to the core of this nation's values. In a post on the American Family Association's website he claimed that the First Amendment only applies to Christians:
"The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. They were making no effort to give special protections to Islam… Islam is entitled only to the religious liberty we extend to it out of courtesy."
This assertion would come as a shock not only to every American who learned that religious liberty and equality under the law are among our nation's core principles, but to the founders themselves, who clearly intended for the protections of the First Amendment to extend to all creeds.
Mr. Fischer isn't simply wrong about this point--he is spreading a dishonest and dangerous lie about how America should treat not only Muslims, but people of all faiths or no faith at all.
If you choose to appear with Mr. Fischer today, you have a responsibility to disavow this lie while on the show.
We disagree on many issues, but this should not be one of them. Progressives and conservatives alike should make clear that the First Amendment protects the religious liberty of all Americans.
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