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Museums in Boulder County and Surrounding Area
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Agricultural Heritage Center
8348 Ute Highway 66, west of Longmont, 303-776-8848; www.bouldercountyopenspace.org. Offering a glimpse into the history of agriculture in Boulder County, this site focuses on the years 1900-1925, when families prospered as farmers and witnessed the coming of the modern age. Open first Saturdays 10am-5pm through March 31, then Friday-Sunday 8am-5pm.
Black American West Museum
3091 California St., Denver, 720-242-7428; www.blackamericanwestmuseum.org.
Boulder History Museum/Museum of Boulder
Harbeck-Bergheim House, 1206 Euclid Ave., 303-449-3464; www.boulderhistory.org. In 2017, the Boulder History Museum will move to 2205 Broadway and change its name to the Museum of Boulder. In the meantime, check the website for a schedule of programs and exhibits at the current location. Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th St. (next to Dushanbe Teahouse), 303-443-2122; www.bmoca.org. . Check the website for updates on upcoming exhibits and other museum events like lectures, demonstrations, classes and the Young Artists at Work program. Museum admission is only $1.
Through Jan. 15: HOVAB: Evolving Visions of Land and Landscape
Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum
710 10th St., Golden, 303-996-2755; www.mountaineeringmuseum.org. Exhibits showcasing mountain and rock climbing.
Broomfield Museums
The mission of the Broomfield Depot Museum, 2201 W. 10th Ave., is to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Broomfield while focusing on the railroad depot. The Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum, 12 Garden Center, showcases permanent and temporary exhibits honoring those who have served in the armed forces. Both are open Saturdays 9am-3pm and by appointment. www.broomfield.org.
Carnegie Branch Library for Local History
1125 Pine St., 303-441-3110; www.boulderlibrary.org. Boulder's original library building houses historic Boulder County photographs and manuscripts.
Children's Museum of Denver
2121 Children's Museum Drive, Denver, 303-433-7444; www.mychildsmuseum.org. Offers interactive playscapes, daily programming, storytimes and special events for children up to age 8. Visit for free the first Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm.
Clyfford Still Museum
On Bannock Street between 12th and 13th avenues, Denver, 720-354-4880; www.clyffordstillmuseum.org. Dedicated solely to exhibiting the works of Clyfford Still.
Colorado Railroad museum
17155 W. 44th Ave., Golden, 303-279-4591; www.coloradorailroadmuseum.org. CRM's sprawling 15-acre grounds offer railroad cars and equipment, a main building in the style of a 1880s depot, a reference library, general store and picnic area.
Through Dec. 23: Polar Express Train Rides
CU Art Museum & Visual Arts Complex
1085 18th St., 303-492-8003; cuartmuseum.colorado.edu. The CU Art Museum recently reopened after extensive renovations; admission is free.
Through Dec. 17: Mysterium Tremendum: Collecting Curiosity
Through Feb. 4: Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 1898-1950
Opens Feb. 2: Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women
CU Heritage Center
Third floor of Old Main, CU campus, 303-492-6329; www.cuheritage.org. LLocated in the University of Colorado's original building, the Heritage Center preserves CU history in nine themed rooms, including the Architecture Gallery and the Distinguished Alumni Gallery. A museum collections workroom is open to the public for viewing and research. "Hit the Bricks!" is a long-term exhibit of the CU campus created with 1 million LEGO bricks.
Denver Art Museum
100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, on 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock, Denver, 720-865-5000; www.denverartmuseum.org. DAM makes its fabulous array of art and artists available to everyone with First Free Saturdays, offering free general admission to Colorado residents on the first Saturday of the month. Youth 18 and under are free every day. Join the "Untitled" party on the last Friday of the month and enjoy art, music, performances and refreshments from 6-10pm. Check online for information on lectures, tours, family activities, films and more.
Through April 2: Star Wars and the Power of Costume
Opens Feb. 19: Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place
Opens May 21: The Western: An Epic in Art and Film
Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls & Toys
1880 Gaylord St., Denver, 303-333-1053 www.dmmdt.org. Miniature houses, trains and planes, and antique dolls. Open Wednesday-Sunday.
1st Sundays: Community Day, $1 admission
Dec. 3: Holidays at the Cottage
Dec. 3-23: Gingerbread House Workshops
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-370-6000; www.dmns.org. DMNS features outstanding permanent exhibits like "Expedition Health," "Space Odyssey" and "Egyptian Mummies," plus popular touring exhibits, an IMAX theater (see listing in Film section) and the Gates Planetarium.
Dec. 12, Jan. 22, Feb. 27, March 13, April 10 & June 4: SCFD Community Free Days
Through Jan. 8: Extreme Mammals
Through Feb. 5: Mummies: New Secrets from the Tombs
Opens March 10: Vikings: Beyond the Legend
Estes Park Museum
200 Fourth St., Estes Park, 970-586-6256. Founded by volunteers in 1962, the Estes Park Museum collects, interprets and preserves local history and presents four temporary exhibits each year, in addition to its permanent collections. https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/townofestespark/museum
Forney Museum of Transportation
4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver, 303-297-1113; www.forneymuseum.org.
Fort Collins Museum of Discovery
408 Mason Court, Fort Collins, 970-221-6738; www.fcmod.org. A merging of science and history with more than 100 hands-on exhibits.
Golden History Museums
923 10th St., Golden, 303-278-7151; www.goldenhistory.org. GHM operates three sites in Golden: the Astor House Museum, Clear Creek History Park and the Golden History Center.
Greeley Freight Station Museum
680 10th St., Greeley, 970-392-2934; www.gfsm.org. A railroad-themed history museum with a massive 3D model railroad.
History Colorado Center
1200 Broadway, Denver, 303-866-3682; www.historycoloradocenter.org. History Colorado's hands-on, high-tech exhibits include a 40-by-60-foot tile map of Colorado and a "time machine" visitors can push across the map to hit hot spots that reveal video stories. Check online for special events, plus links to other historic sites operated by the Colorado Historical Society.
Through Jan. 8: Awkward Family Photos
James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum
6352 Fourmile Canyon Drive, west of Boulder, 303-776-8848; www.bouldercounty.org At the turn of the 20th century, this is where prospectors would take their ore samples to find out if they'd struck it rich. Open only on 3rd Saturdays April-October, 10am-2pm
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
1311 Pearl St., Denver, 303-832-8576; www.kirklandmuseum.org. International decorative art, Colorado/regional art, and a retrospective from the estate of Vance Kirkland, an internationally known Colorado painter.
Lafayette Miners' Museum
108 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-665-7030; www.cityoflafayette.com. Refurbished 1890s coal miner's home with displays of mining equipment and period household items. Open Thursdays and Saturdays 2-4pm and Tuesday evenings 7-9pm.
Leanin' Tree Museum & Sculpture Garden of Western Art
6055 Longbow Drive, near Diagonal Highway and Jay Road, 303-729-3440; www.leanintreemuseum.com. Leanin' Tree is a free museum with 250 paintings and 150 bronze sculptures by 100 artists, specializing in American Western and wildlife art of the post-1950 era. Stroll through the sculpture garden to view 25 life-size and monumental bronzes. Open 8am-5pm weekdays; 10am-5pm weekends.
Longmont Museum & Cultural Center
400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374; www.longmontmuseum.org. An outdoor courtyard and four exhibit spaces encourage visitors to explore Longmont's history and culture. A permanent history exhibit spans 14,000 years of Longmont and Front Range history. The Longs Peak Room is an interactive gallery with hands-on history games and other activities. The new Stewart Auditorium hosts theater, film, music and other events.
Thursdays, Feb. 9-March 23: Art & Sip, 7pm
Through Feb. 5: Imprinting the West
Through March: Atrium Photo Show: Dashing Through the Snow
Through May 14: Lowriders: Cars and Culture
Louisville Historical Museum
1001 Main St., Louisville, 303-665-9048; www.louisvilleco.gov. Owned and operated by the city of Louisville, this museum features three historic buildings with an extensive collection of coal-mining artifacts and old photogtwraphs. Pick up a map of the Louisville Downtown Historical Walking Tour. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10am-3pm. Also open First Fridays 6-8pm.
Loveland Museum/Gallery
500 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410; www.cityofloveland.org. The 28,000-square-foot museum hosts exhibits on the history of Loveland and the surrounding area, including a huge topographical relief map of the Big Thompson River system.
Lyons Redstone Museum
338 High St., Lyons, 303-823-5271; www.lyonsredstonemuseum.com. Gift shop and regional genealogy displays, housed in an 1881 redstone schoolhouse. Open daily beginning in late May.
The Money Museum
At the Denver branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1020 16th St., Denver, www.kc.frb.org.
Museum of Boulder
See Boulder History Museum listing.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554; www.mcadenver.org. Rotating exhibitions of regional, national and international art. Children/teens up to age 18 receive free admission every day.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
1850 Table Mesa Drive, 303-497-2408; scied.ucar.edu/visit. NCAR houses a Smithsonian-affiliated museum. Its Visitor Center, in a magnificent building designed by I.M. Pei, features exhibits that teach all ages about weather, climate and atmospheric research. Free tours begin at noon three days a week, or take your own self-guided tour. NCAR's Mesa Laboratory also has several galleries with rotating art exhibits; see separate listing under Galleries.
Nederland Mining Museum
200 Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-0567; www.bouldercounty.org. A glimpse into the world of hard rock mining days in Boulder County. Open Friday-Sunday 10am-4pm, June-October only.
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
1213 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-277-0377; www.rmqm.org. presents 10 exhibits a year, highlighting different quilting styles, histories or themes.
Jan. 26-April 25: Evolutions 2017, juried quilt competition
Sandstone Ranch Visitors & Learning Center
3001 E. Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-774-4692; www.ci.longmont.co.us. Historic homestead property includes hands-on displays inside the circa-1880 house, plus educational exhibits in the ice house, toolshed and barn. There's also a nature trail with a scenic overlook. Beginning in April, open Tuesdays 9am-noon and second and fourth Saturdays 10am-2pm.
Shelby American Collection
5020 Chaparral Court, Gunbarrel, 303-516-9565; www.shelbyamericacollection.org. Features 40 prize sports cars, plus a reconstructed shop. Open Saturdays 10am-4pm and for special events.
Spirit of Flight Center
At Erie Municipal Airport, 2650 S. Main St., Erie, 303-460-1156; www.spiritofflight.com. Hundreds of rare aviation items and artifacts that represent the past, present and future of flight. Open just a few days per week; see info on website.
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Henderson Building, Broadway at 15th Street, 303-492-6892; http://cumuseum.colorado.edu. Permanent, temporary and traveling exhibits include Southwestern pottery, textiles, fossils, rare plants and beetles. The museum hosts regular programming, workshops and other events. Don't miss the second-largest bird collection in the Rocky Mountains or the impressive triceratops display. The museum is open seven days a week, and admission is free. The first Saturday of each month is Family Day, with special activities. Check online for a full calendar of events.
Through March 30: RARE II, an exhibit of botanical illustrations featuring Colorado's globally imperiled plants
Through March 31: Becoming Butterflies
Dec. 7: AIA Lecture Series: New Perspectives on Ancient Urbanism
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
7711 E. Academy Blvd., Denver, 303-360-5360; www.wingsmuseum.org. Housed in a historic 1930s-era Air Force hangar, the collection includes a space station and memorabilia from Lowry Air Force base.
Wise Homestead Museum
11611 Jasper Road, Erie, 303-828-4568; www.eriehistoricalsociety.org. Artifacts, equipment, photographs and displays related to the history of the Erie area, plus a restored farmhouse dating back to the mid-1870s. Open Saturdays 10am-2pm, May-October.
WOW! (World of Wonder) Museum
110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424; www.wowchildrensmuseum.org. Nonprofit children's museum offers interactive science and art exhibits, classes, performances and workshops for children aged 1-11 and their families. A new ongoing exhibit is Little Clinic, which allows kids to explore the medical field through play.
Dec. 31: WOW! New Year's Eve Pary, 1-3pm
Dec. 4: Sensory-Friendly Playtime, for children on the autism spectrum or with sensory processing disorders


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The Squab system was located in the Airam sector of the Outer Rim Territories. It contained the primary star Squab and the planet Skor II.
- Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races
- Alien Anthology
- The Essential Atlas (as "Skor system")
- Star Wars: The Essential Atlas Online Companion on StarWars.com (article) (backup link on Archive.org) (as "Skor system")

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Today i was at school and two of my friends (who are not drugos) were talking about vapor. They said that some kid was selling them for 500 for $10 and how cheap and great that was. I said if its cheap is probley some stepped on shit but they ignored this. It was like they had it stuck in there heads that it was "great, healthy ect" Basically they had been sucked in to it. They don't want to put weed or whatever in there they were talking about these flavors. So anyway i want to know legitimately what is vape, is it bad for you, is addictive and is it illegal for under 18.
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Sonic the Hedgehog; Night of Darkness is a action adventure game where you play as Sonic and his friends. It will be released on the Nintendo Wii.
One day sonic was eating chilli dogs with tails when they saw a robot walk up to them. the robot had a message from Eggman. Eggman told them to go to mecha village at night time so they agreed. when they got there, there was a room. they went in and found eggman with many lazer cannons hooked up to a sparkly dark jewel. just when Eggman fires the lazer he changes direction to the sun and destroys the light. the jewel gains extra power in the night time so it blows Sonic and Tails to different places across the world.
- Sonic: A laid back, cool hedgehog that always saves the world.
- Tails: Sonic's best friend thats a inventor and can fly.
- knuckles: A real tough fighter that protects the master emerald.
- Amy: A girl who is obsessed with sonic uses her mallet when angry.
- Shadow: A mysterious, shady hedgehog who lost his memory.
- Rouge: A sneaky stealer who collects beautiful jewels.
- Omega: A robot who was supposed to side against Shadow but now works with him.
- Cream: A cute rabbit girl who has a chao called cheese.
- Silver: A hedgehog from the future and is rivals with sonic.
- Blaze: A purple cat who posseses the Sol Emeralds.
- Espio: A chameleon who is a ninja on team Chaotix.
- Charmy: A charming little bee on team Chaotix
- Vector: A greedy crocodile on team Chaotix wanting money.
- Big: A big cat who is determined to save his pet Froggy.
- Metal Sonic: A evil robotic version of Sonic.
- Eggman: A evil mastermind behind all the evil in the world.


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United States of America
From The #Pizzagate Wiki
look into: 1983 (US) congressional page sex scandal [1] & similarities to Mark Foley scandal with congressional pages
Alphabet Agencies
DHS - Department of Homeland Security
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
ICE - Immigration and Customs Enforcement
State Department - US Department of State
CDC - Centers for Disease Control
ICAC - Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
CPS - Child Protective Services
USAID - The United States Agency for International Development
JTRIG - Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group
DCS - Department of Children's Services
CPS - Child Protective Services
DFACS - Division of Family and Children Services
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
- 8Feb2017 [2] - Govt Exposed For 'Ignoring' Child Rape Cases — Prosecuting Pot Instead
Domestic Operations/Stings/Arrests/trafficking
- published: October 28, 2016 - "FBI rescues 82 children in nationwide sex trafficking sting" [3]
- Keyword & Phrase quotes from article: "dozens of pimps, prostitutes and associates have been arrested under international efforts" ... "239 child-sex traffickers and their associates were arrested and 82 children were rescued from Oct. 13 to 16" ... "two sisters in Milwaukee, ages 16 and 17, who told authorities that their mother was their pimp, the FBI said in a news release. The girls said their mother also rented out their brother's room to a registered sex offender." ... "Operation Cross Country is part of the FBI's Innocence Lost National Initiative" ..."through our Office for Victim Assistance, we offer a lifeline to minors"
- Craigslist's shame: Child sex ads [4] - published: 10Aug2010
- NASA employees caught buying child porn from site which showed three-year-olds being abused - but they escape prosecution and now their names are being kept secret [[5]] - published: 24August2015
- Study: Child sex abuse 'epidemic' in U.S. [6] - published: 11Sept2001
- Database of Publicly Accused Priests in the United States [[7]] - published: unknown [8]
- Indiana Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise [9] - published: 12Jan2017 - "...Michael Fluckiger, 46, of Portland, Indiana, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, along with lifetime supervised release. ... Fluckiger acted as the co-administrator of a highly-sophisticated global enterprise dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children, organized via a members-only website that operated on the Tor anonymity network, through which he and more than 150,000 other members authored and viewed tens of thousands of postings relating to sexual abuse of children as young as infants and toddlers. ... In addition, Fluckiger admitted that website members employed advanced technological means in order to undermine law enforcement's attempts to identify them, including the use of a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network and elaborate file encryption. ...convicted co-defendant and lead administrator of the site, Steven W. Chase, 57, of Naples, Florida, of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges. ...Co-defendant and global moderator of the site, David Lynn Browning, 47, of Wooton, Kentucky ... As a result of the ongoing investigation, at least 48 alleged hands-on abusers have been prosecuted and 49 American children who were subjected to sexual abuse have been successfully identified or rescued. ...investigated the case with assistance from the FBI's Charlotte, Tampa, and Boston, Field Offices. ...launched in May 2006..."
- Conviction List: Ritual Abuse Cases (by state) [10]
- 1Oct2016 [11] - (Compilation Post) Educators accused of sexual misconduct often find new posts
By State or Territory
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- American Samoa
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- California
- Colorado
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- Florida
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- Washington
- West Virginia
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International Operations/Stings/Arrests/trafficking with associations with USA
- 27July1982 [12] - BOY SEX RINGS SAID TO PEDDLE CLIENT DATA TO FOREIGN AGENTS - "Prostitution rings are providing young boys to male customers in Washington and are reportedly selling information about their clients' sexual preferences to foreign intelligence services, a private investigator testified" ... "British, Israeli and Soviet agents had bought information from several call services in Washington" ..."appeared before the committee at the opening in New York City of a two-day hearing on prostitution among young males and on pornography" ... "an accountant for five call services had told him about the sale of information to foreign agents" ... "They're making more money selling information than on the prostitution itself" ... "Allegations of homosexual sex and drug use on Capitol Hill among Congressmen" ... "call service operations in Washington have some connection with organized crime in New York" ... "Earlier, a Washington detective testified that she had uncovered a six-city prostitution network that used 12-year-old boys and allowed customers to pay for sex with credit cards" ... " cities involved are Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, Washington and Houston"
- See: Washington (state or DC?), New York, D.C., California, Louisiana, Texas
- Operation Rescue - Massive online pedophile ring busted by cops - Five Americans among 184 people arrested; 230 abused children taken to safety [[13]] - published: unknown - "Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members" ... "European police agency Europol said in a statement that "Operation Rescue" had identified 670 suspects and that 230 abused children in 30 countries had been taken to safety. More children are expected to be found" ... "184 people had been arrested" ... "those detained are suspected of direct involvement in sexually abusing children" ... "They include teachers, police officers and scout leaders, AP reported. One Spaniard who worked at summer youth camps is suspected of abusing some 100 children over five years" ... "five arrests and four convictions in connection with Operation Rescue in the U.S" ... "Arrests so far have been made in Georgia and Connecticut" ... "website operated from a server based in the Netherlands" ..."Law enforcement authorities from 13 countries, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain and the U.K., were involved in the case" ... "analysts had cracked the security features of a key computer server at the center of the network which uncovered the identities of suspected child sex offenders" ... "helped police break encryption measures that shielded users' identities" etc
- See: Georgia, Connecticut
- 19July1998 [14] - "ring of traders in child pornography whose images of abuse of even babies and infants were peddled via the Internet and other media to clients in Europe, Russia and the United States"... "found out about the ring after one of its members was killed several weeks ago, apparently by a rival" ... "ring operated from a small Dutch town, Zandvoort, and from Berlin"... "police said they had also found voluminous records of what appear to be clients and suppliers from countries including Israel, Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States. They say they believe that some of the photographed children are from Eastern Europe, while some of the short films were made on the Portuguese island of Madeira" ... "Investigators said they found the material in June, in an apartment whose owner had been found dead in Italy" ... etc
- 29Sept2000 [15] - "massive international paedophile network selling violent child-pornography videos to clients in Italy, the US and Germany"... "The tapes, which were made in Russia" ..."the pornographic films, which cost anything from £270 to £4,000" ... "investigators named the Russian firms involved in the trade as Tim-O-Seev Video and Flower 2" ... "believed that the victims shown in the films were kidnapped from orphanages in Russia and the Middle East"... etc
- 14Feb2001 [16] Operation Cathedral & Wonderland Club - "international ring of 180 paedophiles known as the Wonderland Club"... "leniency" ... "seven men were arrested on September 2 1998 as part of Operation Cathedral, one of the largest international police operations ever carried out, involving raids across three continents" ..."global 24-hour internet library containing, in the words of the prosecution lawyer, "some of the worst images of child abuse ever seen""...etc
- 18June2007 [17] - Britain, U.S. break up online pedophile ring - 700 investigated; 31 children rescued as authorities shut global operation
- "...Of the 31 children, some only a few months old...The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse, including the streaming live videos...Officials said the United States, Canada and Australia were Britain's main partners in the investigation, which involved agencies from 35 countries. The international investigation dated back to August 2006 until the ringleader's sentencing Monday...The international probe began after Canadian officials — conducting their own long-running pedophile investigation — tipped off authorities in London about a possible British link...U.S. officials declined to comment because their investigation is continuing in at least 12 states... In Germany, police are investigating two men in connection with the breakup of the ring, the country's Federal Crime Office said. The host of the chat room, Timothy David Martyn Cox, 27, of Buxhall, who used the online identity "Son of God," admitted to nine counts of possessing and distributing indecent images, authorities said...Cox also had been a member of a U.S.-based online pedophile ring shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2006, Gamble said...The host of the "Kiddypics" and "Kiddyvids" site in the earlier case adopted the username "G.O.D.," and Cox's online identity "Son of God" was believed to be a reference..."
- See Also: UK, Germany, Canada, Australia
- 7May2013 [18] Operation Holitna - Massachusetts 'cannibal' admits plot to kidnap and eat a child in dungeon under his home - Agents found child pornography and photos of children who appeared to be dead on his computer - Authorities have identified more than 140 child victims in seven countries - Portway, pleaded guilty to soliciting the kidnapping of a child and to the distribution and possession of child pornography
- 20Sept2015 [19] U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
See also
- Continents and Countries
- (Resource) US - Polly Klaas Foundation: list of missing children http://www.pollyklaas.org/missing
- Pedophile networks shut down
- Operation Cross Country X
- Project Safe Childhood
- Operation Safe Holiday
- Operation Rescue
- Operation Cathedral
- Operation Holitna
- Walton Family [20]


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clothing at target dressYes, I'm still alive! Took the freedom of taking a break from blogging for the holidays. It's very unusual for me to spend 24 hours without my laptop, let alone three days, but it was good. To be honest, I'm sort of sad Christmas is already over. I enjoyed the food, the good movies and the cozy moments on the sofa with the whole family so much! Hope you all had pleasant holidays, too.
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House OKs Limiting Insurer Liability On Storm Damage Claims The Texas House has given preliminary approval to a bill limiting liability for insurance companies sued by policyholders following storm damage to property.
1,700 Flights Canceled At New York Area Airports Due To Snowstorm Authorities say nearly 1,700 flights have been canceled at New York City's three major airports because of the powerful winter storm hitting the region.
Scientists Use Undersea Drones To Help Predict HurricanesAs Hermine worked its way up the East Coast, scientists deployed several underwater drones they say will help them better understand what sustains and strengthens hurricanes and tropical storms.
Wylie Schools Reopen Wednesday After Hail Damage CleanupIn Wylie, it was a day that called for 'all-hands-on-deck'. A massive hail storm left every campus in the district reporting some level of damage.
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Marlin 22 stamped wrong
I am trying to find out some info on a Marlin Bolt action .22. This gun was my grandfathers and I believe it was probably made in the 50's or 60's. It is a bolt action gun with a tube feed magazine. On the barrel it is stamped with "MODEL 36-RC-30-30 CAL.".
I cannot find any information on this gun. I have called Marlin and they knew nothing.
I am just curious how many of these got stamped wrong and what it might be worth.
Post a pic... I'd like to see it.
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No idea what it might be worth, if you find the right buyer.
Do you know what the actual model of the gun is ?
Is there a serial number on it anywhere? It would help narrow it down a bit if we knew what year it was built. I just need the first 2-4 digits if it has a serial number.
From what I can see from the pics it appears to be the 81-DL manufactured after WWII. The 81DL was produced before and after WWII, but not during the war. It was an updated version of the 81B, the 81DL used the plastic trigger guard and the stock appears to be one built after the war. Before WWII they used a beaver-tail style fore end on the stock
Some parts are still available for this rifle at Numrich and may be found on e-Bay or GunBorker.
Thanks for your help. There is no serial number on it that I can find.
I think the serial numbers started in the late 60's so yours is will be earlier than that, late 40's to mid 60's. Nice to see these still around and shooting, I have a 336C lever action in 30-30 from 1967 and it still shoots as good as any new rifle.
If you want some more information, Rimfire Central has plenty of tips, tricks, etc. to keep these up and running and may be able to narrow down you year of manufacture a little better. They tend to get a lot more traffic on these rimfire rifles.
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Look to see if the barrel has been re-lined...it may well have been a 30-30 modded to replace a damaged one...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Thank you…
to all the staff at RACV for getting the table ready for our meetings every month and your friendly service. They made the table look very festive for our December meeting.
This month's Micro Fiction theme…'Trumping yourself in the face'.
Two months in a row without any micro fiction. Hopefully next month's theme will inspire some.
Our micro fiction is posted on the Scifantor website, just go to the Members menu and select the author's name to read their micro fiction.
Next month's Micro Fiction theme is 'Armageddon'.
Next month's meeting…
Date: Sunday 15th January 2017
Time: 9:30am to 11:30am (9am if you would like to join us for breakfast)
Venue: Royal Pines Golf Course – Tee's Clubhouse
Where: Ross St, Benowa. Follow the signs for 'Golf and Tennis' to find the café.
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Blind people have travelled with dogs as companions and protectors for thousands of years. As far as we know, the first person to train dogs, specifically to guide the blind, was Johann Klein, who founded the Institute for the Blind in Vienna. He published a textbook on how to train and use a guide dog, back in 1819.
The first systematic training of dogs as companions and guides for people who had lost their sight, began after the World War I. A specialised school dedicated entirely to training Guide Dogs was founded in Germany to help rehabilitate many thousands of people blinded during the war.
By 1925, the success of this school supported by the German Red Cross received international acclaim.
An American living in Switzerland, Mrs. Dorothy Eustis, who specialized in breeding and training of dogs for police work, visited the German school. She was very impressed and wrote an article for the influential Saturday Evening Post. In 1929 she assisted a young blind American to travel to Switzerland and acquire a dog. Finally, with the support of Mrs. Eustis a Guide dog school was founded in New Jersey: two of the graduates of a Lausanne school went to America, one went to Italy and another one went to work in a Guide Dog school that already existed in Great Britain. It is noteworthy that a Russian emigrant officer Captain Nikolai Liakhoff was instrumental in setting Guide Dog training in Great Britain. A book was written about it and the British highly appreciate his contribution.
Professional training of Guide Dogs in Russia started after the WWII (in Russia it is called the Great Patriotic War). Lots of young and otherwise physically healthy people lost their sight because of the wounds on the front lines. Many of them were highly qualified workers. However, for them it became a problem to get a job and get back to normal life. Special schools and vocational colleges were opened for their social and occupational rehabilitation. While acquiring new skills, vision impaired people had to gain independence in personal mobility, learn not to constantly rely on other people's help and receive an opportunity to walk freely, not just along memorised routes. Only specially trained Guide Dogs could provide such mobility and independence. First Guide Dogs were trained in 1947 in the Central School for Service Dog Breeding and Training, for the WWII veterans.
It was only in 1960, that the Board of the All-Russian Organization for the Blind ("AROB") created a Central Republican Guide Dog School ("School"). Experts in dog breeding were invited to participate in creating this School – military people who went through the war and had a unique experience in training and using dogs at the war front. These people could train dogs for mine-search, medical aid, rescue of the wounded from the frontier line, ammunition delivery. Of course, those skills suggested a completely different type of training, however even today we cannot underestimate the potential of these valuable techniques and knowledge accumulated. The military trainers prepared dogs for practical work in the army. Guide Dogs of today perform in the environment which is peaceful but just as challenging and constantly changing. This is important because news training methods had to be practically invented on site. This legacy was vital for the future Guide Dog training practices in Russia.
At first the school was based on the outskirts of Moscow, in a village of Veshnyaki. Later it moved to the Kupavna village, Moscow Region, where it operates today as the Republican School for Rehabilitation of the Blind and Guide Dogs Training. Nikolay Orekhov was the first director of the School, Nikolai Latushkin, Afanasyi Kupriyanov, Nefyod Gnenkov were the team of his trainers. They will always remain as a part of the school's history. It is their ambition, knowledge and experience that made possible the creation of such a unique organization. They inspired and brought their vision to life. Then the fresh trainers joined the School – Victor Machkov, Mikhail Rybkin, Ekaterina Ushkova, Tatiana Makeenko. After Nikolay Orekhov retired, the school's management shifted three times. None of the new directors was a professional dog breeder, which somewhat held back the school's progress. (Photo: Nikolay Orekhov with the German Shepard and Afanasyi Kupriyanov, one of the dog trainers)
However a lot has changed in the past several years. The changes were for the better. The site with cold wooden cages and single wooden hut, which served as an office and a meeting point for trainers and vision impaired people, evolved into a spot with a modern computerized office and dog-ward with spacious warm kennels. The new generation of trainers revised the old dog training techniques and education methods for vision impaired people. The German training technique, used at the beginning, was adapted to the Russian specifics, we also added our own professional experience and requests of vision impaired people, as well as accumulated experience. The school developed its own training programs and tests, dog breeding and raising program, training programs for the vision impaired people. We also learned modern training techniques from our overseas colleagues. The school has trained a few guide dogs for the Swedish people. We are that generation of dog trainers.
The person who was the driving force for our work for more than a decade was Svetlana Bochkovskaya. She worked at the school for almost 20 years, at the end of her career there as the Deputy Director. She launched and was actively involved in most of the school's projects and united the staff of dog trainers. She unfortunately passed away a few years ago, but only thanks to her our work goes on.
For a long period of time, the school was the only provider of trained Guide Dogs for the Russian blind, as well as for vision impaired people in other republics of the former Soviet Union. At its best times, we trained over 100 Guide Dogs simultaneously. There was a tremendous demand for Guide Dogs. Some vision impaired people were waiting for their Guide Dog for years.
The number of dog trainers also increased. 1990's financial crisis led staff redundancies and decrease of work volume. However the school survived that difficult period and continues to successfully work.
Training of dogs for people with special needs was in such demand that in 1998 a new organisation was set up. The core group of its staff were dog trainers that have worked for many years in the Kupavna school. In the beginning we trained dogs purely on a volunteer basis. In February 2003 the organisation was legally registered in Russia and became Autonomous Nonprofit Organisation "Dogs as Assistants for the Disabled" Training Centere. they set their own centre that trains dogs for disabled people. For the first years we trained dogs purely on volunteer basis. Today our Centre is training Guide Dogs and Therapy Dogs and Canine Therapy classes for children with special needs.
In 2012 our Centre got a permanent base in a town of Zheleznodorozhny in the Moscow Region. This is where we train the dogs and where our offices are.
In 2015 our Centre became a member of the International Guide Dog Federation. The main work of the Centre is still training of Guide Dogs, the demand for them is always there. Guide Dogs are not just used for work as they have been in the past but they are also an important part of psychological rehabilitation of vision impaired people. For many of their owners Guide Dogs not only provide mobility but become their link to the world of ordinary people. The importance of Guide Dogs for social adaptation and rehabilitation of vision impaired people is now accepted worldwide. More and more people ask us to train Guide Dogs for them.
Since the day they first appeared and to this day Guide Dogs changed lives of countless people with vision impairment. Guide Dogs schools exist in many countries. We are proud continue such incredible history of Guide Dogs here, enabling visually impaired people to live safely and independently in Russia.


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Rethinking Columbus Banned in TucsonJanuary 13, 2012 by rethinkingschoolsblogBy Bill BigelowRethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its more-than-20-year history, our bookRethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, Arizona. According to journalist Jeff Biggers, officials with the Tucson Unified School District ordered that teachers pull the book from their classrooms, evidently as an outcome of the school board's 4-1 vote this week to abolish the Mexican American Studies program.As I mentioned to Biggers when we spoke, the last time a book of mine was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I'd written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government feared for its life in 1986. It's worth asking what the school authorities in Arizona fear today.I called the Tucson schools this morning seeking a statement about why they ordered Rethinking Columbus removed from classrooms. The superintendent's office referred me to Cara Rene, Director of Communications and Media Relations for the school district. Rene has not yet returned my two phone calls.For the record, Rethinking Columbus is Rethinking Schools' top-selling book, having sold well over 300,000 copies. And over the years many school districts have not banned, but have purchased Rethinking Columbus for use with students. These include: Portland, Ore., Milwaukee, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, Ont., Atlanta, New York City, Anchorage, Alaska, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Oakland, San Diego, Portland, Maine, Washington, DC, Cincinnati; Rochester, NY, Cambridge, Mass., Missoula, Montana, and the state of Maryland, as well as smaller towns like Stillwater, Minnesota; Athens, Ohio; Eugene, Oregon; and Estes, Colorado.We published the first edition of Rethinking Columbus back in September of 1991, on the eve of 500th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas—what theChicago Tribune promised would be the "most stupendous international celebration in the history of notable celebrations." Rethinking Schools was determined to provide teachers with resources to prompt a more critical approach to the commemoration.In our introduction to that first edition of the book (edited by Bob Peterson, Barbara Miner, and me) we wrote, "Why rethink Christopher Columbus? Because the Columbus myth is basic to children's beliefs about society. For many youngsters the tale of Columbus introduces them to a history of this country, even to history itself. The 'discovery of America' is children's first curricular exposure to the encounter between two races. As such, a study of Columbus is really a study about us—how we think about each other, our country, and our relations with people around the world."Twenty years later, these still seem like pretty sound reasons to "rethink Columbus." And we would ask school officials in Tucson: Why not rethink Columbus?What's to fear? Rethinking Columbus offers teaching strategies and readings that teachers can use to help students consider perspectives that are too often silenced in the traditional curriculum. For example, in 30 years of teaching, virtually all my high school students had heard of the fellow who is said to have discovered America: Christopher Columbus. However, none had heard of the people who discovered Columbus: the Taínos of the Caribbean. That fact underscores the importance of teachers having the resources to offer a fuller history to their students. Further, it points out the importance of developing teaching materials that ask students to interrogate the official curriculum about what (and who) it remembers and what (and who) it ignores—and why?Of course, the suppression of our book is only a small part of the effort by Arizona school officials to crush the wildly successful Mexican American Studies program in Tucson. The program itself exemplifies an effort to address critical questions about stories sorely lacking in today's corporate-produced textbooks and standardized curriculum. Students in the Mexican American Studies classes will now be dispersed to other classes, according to the resolution passed this week by the governing board of Tucson schools.Learn more about the important struggle to preserve this program at Save Ethnic Studies in Arizona, and in articles by Jeff Biggers, at Common Dreams and below. And see my Rethinking Schools blog, "Repeat After Me: The United States Is Not an Imperialist Country—Oh, and Don't Get Emotional About War."Bill Bigelow is curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine, co-editor with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Columbus, and author of The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration.# # #
Neo-Racism in the Southwest
January 18, 2012
Neo-Racism in the Southwest
by JORGE MARISCAL
The surge of neo-racism in Arizona, especially racism directed at
people of Mexican descent, has received sporadic media coverage over
the past year. But for the most part news about the economy and
presidential politics has pushed off the front page Arizona's attack
against its working class of color and their children. In other
words, the slow motion creation of a new Jim Crow regime for Mexican
Americans in Arizona is not "trending."
But what is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as
the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
Specifically, the question being posed is whether or not young people
from working class communities and communities of color ought to be
educated and if they are what are they entitled to learn?
Last month, the U.S. Supreme court agreed to hear Arizona's appeal of
a 9th Circuit decision that declared the draconian anti-immigrant SB
1070 in violation of federal law and therefore unconstitutional. In
the meantime, those who promoted 1070 steadily go about their business
dismantling the highly successful Mexican American Studies program in
the Tucson school district.
At first glance, the ban against "ethnic studies" would seem to be a
prohibition against an entire academic discipline. In reality, it is
a narrowly targeted attack on Mexican American or Chicano studies. As
former University of Arizona dean Sal Baldenegro reports, the ban
leaves other "ethnic studies" programs in place.
Accompanying the elimination of Mexican American studies is a list of
prohibited books. Shakespeare's The Tempest leaps off the list as the
most recognizable title. Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and well-known
histories by Howard Zinn, Ron Takaki, and Rudy Acuña join the
castoffs. According to the list, one-act plays by the Teatro
campesino, short stories by Sandra Cisneros, essays by James Baldwin,
and a speech by Cesar Chavez will be added to the bonfire (or at least
sentenced to perpetual confinement in a local book depository).
The list of banned books invokes more ironies than I am able to unpack
here. That a collection of short stories (Cisneros's Woman Hollering
Creek) whose main characters are young Latina women negotiating gender
and ethnic roles should be on a list of banned readings seems silly.
Silly unless one realizes that what frightens the right-wing Arizona
politicians has less to do with the content of the books and more to
do with the way they might be juxtaposed and interpreted by teachers
who seek to empower their students.
Joining Shakespeare on the banned list is former UC Berkeley professor
Ron Takaki. In his history of the United States, A Different Mirror,
Takaki takes the image of Caliban from The Tempest and uses it to
explain how Native Americans, African slaves, and almost every single
immigrant group that has come to these shoresIrish, Jewish, Italian,
Chinese, Mexican, and so onhave been cast as the monstrous and dark
outsider and fed through the grinder of white supremacy and economic
exploitation. Perhaps the Arizona Inquisitors (as Rudy Acuña calls
them) are smarter than we thought.
But there is one more stunning paradox. Although these books are
banned for courses taught under the umbrella of Mexican American
studies, many of the same books are allowed in other classes at
schools such as Tucson's University High where students are placed on
a college track and exposed to a variety of uncensored curricular
Could it be that the attack on Mexican American Studies in Arizona is
less about "ethnic studies" and more about denying the right to
education to the coming Latino majority (and to the Black community
that the neoliberal consensus considers equally disposable)?
Across the Arizona border in California, we are witnessing a related
transformation that is different in its details, subtler, and less
openly racist. There are no Sugiyamas, Hornes, or Huppenthals, the
henchmen of the Arizona Tribunal. But throughout the University of
California and Cal State systems invisible technocrats are slowly
destroying the public university and converting it into a corporate
bastion where students from California are displaced by foreign
students (who pay more), where students are "taught" in classes of 900
people, and where faculty are forced to become "entrepreneurs"–a fancy
word for academic panhandlers.
At UC San Diego (UCSD), campus leaders recently published their three
top priority areas for the future–all of them had to do with creating
products for the market. The word "education" was not mentioned once.
Academic areas that emphasize history and critical thinking are
either shrinking or becoming a parody of themselves. The push for
on-line education is strong–no need to interact with real students.
We simply sell them virtual courses and have underpaid graduate
students grade the work. Administrators brag that UCSD is no longer a
California university; it's an international universitythis in a
state that will be majority Latino by the year 2040.
As costs go up (more than a 300% increase at the UC system over the
last decade), working class and youth of color will slowly be denied
access. The few that make it in will have to take on serious debt to
finish. The future? – Education for the already privileged and for a
few tokens. Education as preparation for the job market. Education
as the site of corporate-driven research. Education to train elites
from around the world. No more critique of the status quo. Minimal
engagement with local populations. A ban on critical pedagogy in the
classroom. No interest in teaching strategies that empower youth,
especially those who do not already arrive with an abundance of social
and economic capital.
Back in Arizona, Yolanda Sotelo, now in her thirtieth year of teaching
in Tucson schools, was informed last week that monitors would visit
her classroom to make sure banned books were not being used. Teachers
who assigned reading from prohibited titles would be reprimanded.
Monitors would also evaluate all posters in the classroom. In other
words, no critical thinking, no critical history, and no critical
pedagogy for the new Calibans who must take their designated places in
the market economy and forget their past.
JORGE MARISCAL has taught at both public and private universities for
thirty years. His latest book is "Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun:
Lessons From the Chicano Movement " (University of New Mexico Press).
His website is http://jorgemariscal.blogspot.com/
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Banning of Books Signals Revolution in Tucson
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Banned book includes Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Translation in French:
TUCSON -- Outrage was the response on Saturday to the news that Tucson
schools has banned books, including "Rethinking Columbus," with an
essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in
Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard
Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.
The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the
Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of
Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the
state decision.
Students said the books were seized from the classrooms and out of
their hands after the vote banning Mexican American Studies, including
a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi
Germany and they have been unable to sleep since it happened.
The banned book, "Rethinking Columbus," includes work by many Native
Americans, as Debbie Reese of Nambe Pueblo reports. The book includes:
Suzan Shown Harjo's "We Have No Reason to Celebrate"
Buffy Sainte-Marie's "My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying"
Joseph Bruchac's "A Friend of the Indians"
Cornel Pewewardy's "A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas"
N. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"
Michael Dorris's "Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving"
Leslie Marmon's "Ceremony"
Wendy Rose's "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
Winona LaDuke's "To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility"
The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools' Mexican American
Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie
and a book of poetry by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.
Jeff Biggers writes in Salon:
The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook
"Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," which features an essay by
Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers' Circle of
the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation
genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic
studies program.
Biggers said Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," was also banned during
the meeting this week. Administrators told Mexican-American studies
teachers to stay away from any class units where "race, ethnicity and
oppression are central themes."
Other banned books include "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by famed
Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and "Occupied America: A History of
Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña, two books often singled out by Arizona
state superintendent of public instruction John Huppenthal, who
campaigned in 2010 on the promise to "stop la raza." Huppenthal, who
once lectured state educators that he based his own school principles
for children on corporate management schemes of the Fortune 500,
compared Mexican-American studies to Hitler Jugend indoctrination last
Bill Bigelow, co-author of Rethinking Columbus, writes:
Imagine our surprise.
Rethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its
more-than-20-year history, our book Rethinking Columbus was banned by
a school district: Tucson, Arizona ...
As I mentioned to Biggers when we spoke, the last time a book of mine
was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South
Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I'd
written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included
excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting
massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government
feared for its life in 1986. It's worth asking what the school
authorities in Arizona fear today.
Click to enlarge: Books in classrooms during audit.
Roberto Rodriguez, professor at University of Arizona, is also among
the nation's top Chicano and Latino authors on the Mexican American
Studies reading list. Rodriguez' column about this week's school board
decision, posted at Censored News, is titled: "Tucson school officials
caught on tape 'urinating' on Mexican
Rodriguez responded to Censored News on Sunday about the banning of
his books at Tucson schools.
"The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. To ban the teaching of a
discipline is draconian in and of itself. However, there is also now a
banned books list that accompanies the ban. I believe 2 of my books
are on the list, which includes: Justice: A Question of Race and The X
in La Raza. Two others may also be on the list," Rodriguez said.
"That in itself is jarring, but we need to remember the proper
context. This is not simply a book-banning; according to Tom Horne,
the former state schools' superintendent who designed HB 2281, this is
part of a civilizational war. He determined that Mexican American
Studies is not based on Greco-Roman knowledge and thus, lies outside
of Western Civilization.
"In a sense, he is correct. The philosophical foundation for MAS is a
maiz-based philosophy that is both, thousands of years old and
Indigenous to this continent. What has just happened is akin to an
Auto de Fe -- akin to the 1562 book-burning of Maya books in 1562 at
Mani, Yucatan. At TUSD, the list of banned books will total perhaps 50
books, including artwork and posters.
"For us here in Tucson, this is not over. If anything, the banning of
books will let the world know precisely what kind of mindset is
operating here; in that previous era, this would be referred to as a
reduccion (cultural genocide) of all things Indigenous. In this era,
it can too also be see as a reduccion."
The reading list includes world acclaimed Chicano and Latino authors,
along with Native American authors. The list includes books by Corky
Gonzales, along with Sandra Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street;"
Jimmy Santiago Baca's "Black Mesa Poems," and L.A. Urreas' "The
Devil's Highway." The authors include Henry David Thoreau and the
popular book "Like Water for Chocolate."
On the reading list are Native American author Sherman Alexie's books,
"Ten Little Indians," and "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in
Heaven." O'odham poet and professor Ofelia Zepeda's "Ocean Power,
Poems from the Desert" is also on the list.
DA Morales writes in Three Sonorans, at Tucson Citizen, about the role
of state schools chief John Huppenthal. "Big Brother Huppenthal has
taken his TEA Party vows to take back Arizona… take it back a few
centuries with official book bans that include Shakespeare!"
Curriculum Audit of the Mexican American Studies Department, Tucson
Unified School District, May 2, 2011.
High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American
Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 - Texts and Reading
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire
United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
(1990), by H. Zinn
Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 - Texts
and Reading Lists
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna
The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya
The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998),
by E. S. Martinez
500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures
(1990), by E. S. Martinez
Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8
Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie
The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin
Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo
Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena
Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb
At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara
Color Lines: "Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?" (2003), by E. Martinez
Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R.
Montoya et al.
Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz
The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki
The Devil's Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea
Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N.
Saporta Sternbach
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen
Voices of a People's History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6
Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie
Zorro (2005), by I. Allende
Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua
A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca
Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca
Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's
Public Schools (19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A Burciaga
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United
States (2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
(1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez
Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist
Zapata's Discipline: Essays (1998), by M. Espada
Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel
When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia
La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003), by C.
Garcia-Camarilo, et al.
The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001), by Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales
Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No
Child Left Behind" (2004) by Goodman, et al.
Feminism if for Everybody (2000), by b hooks
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991), by J. Kozol
Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T.
D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
...y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995),
by T. Rivera
Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez
Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by
T. Sheridan
Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla
Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum
New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum
Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau
By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea
Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda
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Astro.4UTM are human iPSC- derived astrocytes supporting neuroscience research and drug discovery. Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS) and, traditionally described, act as supporting elements for neurons. Recently, astrocytes have gained more recognition as essential players in information processing in the brain, as well as in various roles in neuronal homeostasis and synaptic plasticity. Additionally, increasing data support the critical role of astrocytes in disease progression, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Since current astrocyte models (i.e., primary or animal-derived) have many limitations with regard to translatability, reproducibility and availability, human iPSC-derived astrocytes provide a valuable tool to challenge the neuron-centric view of neurological disorders and study the role of astrocytes for drug discovery and disease modeling purposes.
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Friday 26 December 1986
It was Friday, under the sign of Capricorn. The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Hugo Lloris and Selen Soyder.
In that special week of December people in US were listening to Walk Like An Egyptian by Bangles.
In UK The Final Countdown by Europe was in the top 5 hits.
Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Frank Oz, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1986
while It by Stephen King was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Gecenin öteki yüzü.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back or Drag Race Eliminator.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
You can also have a look at the whole 1986 or at December 26 across the years.
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Historical Events
Which were the important events of 26 December 1986 ?
- Australia - Proclamation Day (South Australian public holiday), for the foundation of the Australian state of South Australia on December 28, 1836 but commemorated on this day.
- Wrenboys celebrate Wren in Ireland
- Period of Ursids meteor shower ends about this day
- Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia - Tsunami Awareness Day/Tsunami Memorial (or Remembrance) Day
- Mandala Pooja at Sabarimala in Kerala, India
- First day of Kwanzaa
- First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas (the second day is on the New Year's Day)
- Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man.
- Boxing Day in the Commonwealth of Nations.
- The first day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
- St. Stephen's Day, a public holiday in Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, and the Republic of Ireland.
- R.C. Saints - Saint Stephen
- South Africa - Day of Goodwill, a public holiday
- Slovenia - Independence and Unity Day (1990)
Famous Birthdays:
- Hugo Lloris: French football/soccer player, a goalkeeper for English club Tottenham Hotspur and captain of the France national team.
- Selen Soyder: Model.
- Kit Harington: TV Actor.
- Mew Azama: Japanese model and actress.
Famous Deaths:
- Elsa Lanchester: Lewisham London, England -- Actress (Bride of Frankenstien).
- Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
- TV soap Search for Tomorrow ends 35 year run
- Doug Jarvis, age 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games.
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Which were the top hits in that special week of December 1986 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
- Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
- Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
- Duran Duran - Notorious
- Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
- Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
- Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
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The transformation is not only glaring, but it's also amazing!!! No lie!
One of Nigeria's very few comediennes, Helen Paul, shared this epic throwback photo of herself with the caption:
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The Daytime Emmy Awards will air on CBS in June, it has been announced.
The 38th annual ceremony will be broadcast for the second time from the Las Vegas Hilton on Sunday, June 19 at 8/7c
"The best of daytime will be joined by the best of Las Vegas as some of the greatest entertainers in the world will join us for a celebration of all that is great about daytime television," said Jack Sussman, the network's executive vice president of specials, music and live events.
"It will be a primetime event for television honoring daytime's best with non-stop entertainment, guest star surprises and oh, yes, we'll give out a few awards as well."
Nominations will be announced on May 11.
The 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards saw prizes being awarded to programmes including As The World Turns, which was canceled by CBS in 2009, The Bold And The Beautiful, NBC's Today Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, while honours were also handed out to Dick Clark and Agnes Nixon.


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Aurelia Workshop at NDC Oslo
Next week at NDC Oslo, I'll be presenting a two-day workshop titled "Modern Web Applications with Aurelia". Over the course of two days, we'll cover every major topic in Aurelia development through a combination of both lecture-style learning and interactive, collaborative application building. When you complete these two days, you won't only know how to build applications with Aurelia, but you'll also have a slick application you helped to build as part of the process.
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After posting a profitable fall quarter, Tesla returned to spending more than it made. However, its fourth quarter losses, announced on Wednesday, were substantially less than originally assumed by analysts. The electric carmaker's stock price continued to climb during the final three months of 2016, despite losing $448 million from its operations.
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Purcell Marian High School is founded on the traditions of both the Marianists and the Sisters of Charity. A full program of spiritual opportunities are available for students of all walks of life, with an emphasis and commitment to the Catholic faith.
Regular retreats by class, prayer services by topic, service learning opportunity and liturgies for the entire student body are just some of what Campus Ministry coordinates for our students.
As a smaller school, our students regularly present and execute plans that significantly impact the Greater Cincinnati community and beyond by cultivating the foundation established by our Campus Ministry program. Whether service work in Over-the-Rhine or Intersession travel across the globe, Cavaliers know first-hand what it means to minister to others because THEY make the difference!


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That's the cat sitting on my thigh and the dog is glued to my side. I took this picture the other day. I was watching tv and had to get up but they wouldn't let me move... literally. Until my leg started cramping up... When I'm home this is pretty much the situation. These two become my shadow.
They give me so much love and affection that I am not even able to describe it in words. I can have the most terrible of days but when I come home the dog starts jumping up and down tail wagging uncontrollably and the cat is rubbing against my leg purring. The dog brings me the ball and wants only to play with me...he wants to kiss my face and wants me to pet his head and the cat wants me to rub her ears and that is all. They don't want anything in return. All they want is to give me unconditional love. Nothing more... And in a split second I forget about my terrible, no good, very bad day.
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened".
- Anatole France
Then there are those people that tell me, "oh yes, I too love animals but I keep them outside. They're not allowed in the house". I could never keep my babies outside. I mean I understand if it was maybe an allergy related issue that developed later on or something like that but I would never actually go buy a dog and keep it outside in the heat or cold. I'm the person that puts pajamas on their dog in the winter. Yes, I'm THAT person.
Another reason I get the side eye is because I treat them too much like children. "It's just a dog", they tell me. "When you have children you will understand", they say. "Animals don't have the same feelings that people do". This couldn't be any farther from the truth.
It's weird because whenever I talk to my friends who have children I can't help but compare their children to my dog. Is that really weird? LOL. Like in the things they do, for example when kids do devious things becasue they want attention. My dog does that ALL. THE. TIME. Like when I see toddlers that want to be held because they're scared or they're tired of walking around and they tug on your leg. My dog does that too. And it is a total crock of BS that animals don't have the same feelings we do.
Sometimes my aunt will take my dog to her house for the weekend because she loves him just as much as I do and my cat will cry for days and sit behind the front door waiting for the dog to come home. I have a vase on my kitchen counter with wine corks and when the cat knocks one on the floor, the dog usually comes running and steals it. So when the dog isn't there, she deliberalty knocks the corks on the ground in the hopes that the dog will come running back. How sweet is that? She really loves him (heart eyes)...
This meme above is totally me... I would love to have children some day but I really highly doubt that my relationship with my fur babies will be much different after my babies are born. I know I can't say that for a fact right now but I will always love them and take care of them no matter what. I might not have all the spare time that I have to cuddle with them but they will always be spoiled and loved no matter what.
Some people also say that when there are small children in the home animals shouldn't be present.
This is wrong for so many reasons and this is why:
Reasons Why It Is Important to Raise Kids Around Animals
- A study in the Journal of Pediatrics shows that kids who had a dog during the first year of their life had higher immune response, with 31% fewer respiratory tract infections than those without.
- Children with a companion animal in the home have higher self-esteem.
- Living with and interacting with a family pet increases empathy and compassion.
- Having a furry friend in the house can help instill a sense of responsibility in children.
- Children with autism, other spectrum disorders or ADHD can experience lowered blood pressure and better cognitive and communication gains when able to participate in therapy dog programs.
- Kids with a dog are more likely to get out and play, taking the dog on walks and throwing a ball or toy for some catch.
- Pets can be there for comfort when things get real tough. For example when there is a divorce or illness in the family.
That day when my parents came back from the vet I didn't want to talk to anyone, I locked myself in my room and didn't want to come out. My father let me read a poem that stuck with me and that I have never forgotten. I'll share it with you because this little poem really helped me cope with the loss and I hope that it might be able to help others too.
The Rainbow Bridge
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
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|Shlomo Ratzaby
|Founded in
|32°15′16″N 34°55′7″E / 32.25444°N 34.91861°ECoordinates: 32°15′16″N 34°55′7″E / 32.25444°N 34.91861°E
|http://www.tel-mond.muni.il (Hebrew)
Tel Mond (Hebrew: תֵּל מוֹנְד) is a town in the Israeli Sharon region, located east of Netanya and north of Kfar Sava. In January 2009, Tel Mond had a population of 10,000. [1] The mayor of Tel Mond is Shlomo Ratzaby.
Tel Mond was founded in 1929 by Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, later known as Lord Melchett, a former British minister and president of the British Zionist Federation. The Israel Plantations Company headed by Mond purchased land in the region and planted citrus orchards to provide employment for Jewish laborers.[2] In 1933, a group of farmers purchased land from the company and established Moshav Tel Mond. In 1936, another group established Moshav Kfar Ziv. In 1943, new immigrants from Yemen established Shechunat Ya'akov. In the 1950s, Neve Oved and Hadar Hayim were built to accommodate the large wave of immigration after the founding of the state. In 1954, all these communities were merged to form the Local Council of Tel Mond.[2] The surrounding moshavs, Kfar Hess, Herut and Ein Vered, were also founded by the pioneers of Tel Mond.[3]
Over the past decade, the community has grown from a small town to a self-sufficient mini-city that provides services for other regional communities. [4] As a result, real-estate prices in Tel Mond have risen, and residents are concerned that the growth of the community will affect its close-knit character. [5]
The home of Lord Melchett has been turned into House of the Lord museum, documenting the history of Tel Mond.[3] Outside the museum is a statue of Lord Melchett designed by Batya Lishansky.[3]
Notable residents
- Bart Berman, pianist and composer
- Avraham Hirschson, former Finance Minister
- Imanuel Rosen, journalist and television personality
- Yehoshua Sobol, playwright and theater director
Sister cities
- ↑ Goats, baseball and a new synagogue Haaretz, January 30, 2009
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tel Mond (Israel)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 A day in the country - Haaretz - Israel News
- ↑ Goats, baseball and a new synagogue Haaretz, January 30, 2009
- ↑ Goats, baseball and a new synagogue Haaretz, January 30, 2009
- ↑ "Tel Mond, Israel:1994". Sarasota Sister Cities Association. http://www.sarasotasistercities.org/Tel_mond.html. Retrieved 2007-09-03.


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