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New Haven corporation counsel: No evidence of racial disparities in Fire Department discipline
NEW HAVEN>> City Corporation Counsel Victor Bolden has concluded there was no evidentiary basis that black or Latino firefighters have experienced harsher discipline based on their race.
The report (read full version here) was created in response to allegations that surfaced at a June Public Safety Committee meeting that there was unfair discipline in the Fire Department based on race. Fire Union President Lt. James Kottage later said discriminatory discipline affects firefighters of all races.
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. directed Bolden to do a report to review allegations.
"Suspensions aren't rampant through the fire house," Bolden said.
The report was created through the "lens of a lawyer," to determine if the allegations would have merit in the legal sense, Bolden said.
He added that the city takes allegations of racial discrepancies in the Fire Department seriously, given its history.
Kottage and Firebirds executive board member Darrell Brooks had previously asked for an independent report. Both said they weren't surprised by the results.
"My immediate response is I'm not surprised," Brooks said. "…with all due respect to (Bolden), I don't expect him to say 'yeah we got a problem."
Kottage said he disagrees with the methodology of the report and he is disappointed there wasn't a more thorough investigation that included the union and interviews with some of those who were disciplined.
"This isn't an investigation," he said. "This is an analysis of numbers."
The report concluded there are very few suspensions in the department for firefighters of all races. Four percent of whites, four percent black and nine percent of Latino firefighters received any suspension in 2011. In 2012 the numbers were 2.3 percent for whites, 10.1 percent for blacks and 4.2 percent for Latinos.
In 2011, 14 firefighters were suspended: seven white, three black and four Latino, according to the report. At the time, there were a total of 176 white firefighters, 79 black and 48 Latino.
Charts within the report refer to the rate of non-discipline. This was done because methodology for looking at discrepancies based on race is often done from the positive end, Bolden said. For example, the city looks at pass rates for civil service tests instead of fail rates when looking for racial discrepancies.
Bolden used an EEO-4 report filed by the city to determine the non-discipline rate. The report must be filed by municipal and state governments with more than 100 employees every two years. It is submitted to the U.S. Equal employment Opportunity Commission.
The EOOC uses an "80% Rule," which is the standard that triggers an investigation if there is evidence of discrepancies. Bolden said he decided to use the rule as a measure in his report, given that it is common practice.
Effectively, the non-discipline rate would have to be below 77.6 percent for discipline of black and/or Latino firefighters to meet that standard in 2012; for that year the rates were 89 percent for blacks and 95 percent for Latinos.
The 2011 rate would have to be 76.8 percent; it was 96 percent for blacks and 91 percent for Latinos.
Bolden also looked at suspensions based on individual rule violations to find out if harsher penalties were given to members of a certain race. The time period reviewed was from Sept. 22, 2010, which is when Assistant Chief Patrick Egan was hired, to June 30, 2013.
Kottage singled out Egan at the Public Safety Committee meeting, alleging the assistant chief was meting out discipline in an unfair manner. Chief Administrative Officer Robert Smuts said at the June Public Safety Committee meeting that he was on the committee that hired Egan and that the city was looking for consistent discipline in the department. He noted that sick time was down by one-fifth and worker's compensation cases were down by one-third after Egan was hired.
Bolden concluded there was no evidentiary basis to show that black or Latino firefighters experienced longer terms of discipline based on race. The report broke down discipline for the entire time period by offense, which includes 13 categories.
There were instances where white firefighters received longer suspensions than blacks or Latinos.
That isn't to say that white firefighters were discriminated based on race, Bolden said. Those instances were on a case-by-case basis, some included a firefighter disciplined for multiple offenses at once or where there was a pattern of progressive discipline for previous offenses.
One outlier found in the report was for insubordination. One firefighter, who identifies himself as black and white, was given a 90-day suspension. Others suspended for the offense received one- to six-day suspensions.
The 90-day suspension was negotiated between the city and the fire union and the firefighter agreed under the settlement that there was just cause for the violations and the suspension period, according to the report. He admitted he purposely changed documentation and lied to Egan about it.
One of the initial things mentioned at the June meeting was that black Firefighter Reginald Blakey was facing suspension for being late to work the prevoius November. Blakey had been suspended four times in the past for the same offense and ultimately was given a 24-day suspension by the Board of Fire Commissioners in July. Blakey was suspended for breaking the absence without leave rule.
Bolden's report goes until the end of June. It notes only black and Latino firefighters received more than two days of suspension for the offense, but that every one of them who received more than two days had been disciplined in the past.
The report notes that:
"Every firefighter who received discipline for absence without leave for the first time during this time period received the same amount of discipline: one day of discipline, except for one firefighter-- who is white --- who received two days of suspension."
Kottage said the union does not object to discipline in the right circumstances.
"The union is supportive of discipline to correct disobedience," he said "The thing I would want is consistency and I believe there is a lack of consistency."
Kottage said he hopes the Public Safety Committee hires an independent lawyer with expertise in the matter to conduct a full investigation.
Call Rich Scinto at 203-789-5748. Have questions, feedback or ideas about our news coverage? Connect directly with the editors of the New Haven Register at AskTheRegister.com


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Two training courses have been conducted by the Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College (RLESC) for Qatar Petroleum (QP) Regional Fire Departments – Fire Instructor and Fire Officer (Crew Command) courses. Thirty-eight firemen, leading firemen and sub-officers from QP Regional Fire Departments in Ras Laffan, Mesaieed, Offshore and Dukhan have completed both levels of training: Fire Instructor I and Fire Officer I. These courses were conducted at the QP training center at the Villaggio complex.
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Dr. Ider Ronneberger, PostDoc
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- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 8:12 PM
During my travels through Mexico, I often wondered how vulnerable and exposed those officers in the back of the truck were to attack. It seemed that they just stuck out like easy targets.ReplyDelete
Police steal from poor citizens, do not allow armed citizens to defend themselves so, they deserve to be shot just like all politicians should be shot on sight.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 9:13 PM
... Wow, I Was Just Talking About The 15 Federal Police Killed In 2015 And The Bridge Ambush From 2010 With A Copworker, Then Decided To See If There Was Any New Articles On BB And This Appeared ... No BuenoReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 9:20 PM
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- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 10:32 PM
Oh so they were "armed civilians" not members of organized crime or sicarios..etc etc.. They had to be "civilians" we all know where this is going.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 10:45 PM
Let those ugly creatures from michocan kill each other , cause the dumbest federals are in michocan always getting their ass handed to them by organize crime , over in tamaulipas we get down de frente and even the criminals here have balls no coward shit of ambush , but always end up como coladeraReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 8:04 AM
Sure.. there has been like 3 or 4 stories here recently how sicarios tried to ambush federales but got all murdered and not one federal wounded..Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 10:09 AM
Oy aca ja ja ja. Bajele a lo machito pinche macho de la web.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 8:42 PM
10:45 in trampalipass even mothers and their newborn babies are recognized for being dangerous drug traffickers by detectives without training sentencing them to death without even a charge being filed, shut the fack up...Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2016 at 6:31 AM
They ambush police in tamaulipas too, the only difference is the sicarios always get killed and nothing happens to the police. Don't be dumbDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 10:50 PM
Chapos desperate move this is the reason his mom's house got shot upReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 11:34 PM
You get armed civilians when they get tired of living like slaves to a corrupt government.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 2:42 AM
Se reactivaron los Caballeros Templarios.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 4:52 AM
Damn, does organization Cartel Lives Matter exist in Mexico.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 5:15 AM
I wouldn't be surprised if the cops retaliate.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 5:17 AM
Well, 10 000 more police officers to go, may have been the army, or the marinas, since the narcs and the cartels never win one...ReplyDelete
I hope they were not planted weapons "exclusive use of el ejercito" in a knee jerk reaction"
This is what happens in a real ambush, unlike all the others which are reported where the police don't take a scratch but scores of cartel are taken out..ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 8:05 AM
That's in tamaulipasDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2016 at 12:36 PM
In mexico some times motorcycle riding police officers get killed by getting shot on their back while chasing dangerous mexican criminals fleeing in packed cars while shooting at the police doing the chase...Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 6:44 AM
Land of deception, you don't know who's the good guys or the bad guys. But michoacan is where more police have been killed, mainly those crooked federales.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 6:25 PM
EXACTLY land of deception.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2016 at 3:11 PM
There are even videos and recordings of templarios yelling "tirenles a los azules! A los verdes no, los verdes están can nosotros...!" Cundo mataron los ct como a 20 policias federales mientras los del ejercito se escondian...Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 7:15 AM
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 7:18 AM
Cops ambush cops behind the scenes, and blame cartels or civilians may be another scenario in the game of greedReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 7:26 AM
Cobardos. Ambush? What a bunch of spineless sissies. There's a place down in hell with their names on the reservations...ReplyDelete
Desde Tierra CalienteReplyDelete
This day I have helping with Ingles. The bad policia son del estado Michoacan. PJE policias. The policias municipios do not go like those guys por camioneta. The policias estatal do not like that. The SSP go in convoyes porque ambusquedas. So maybe it is PJE who get kiled this time. Pruebas who kiled them is for fools. The PJE have all peoples as enemys. Carteleros, SSP, rurales, todos. But this problem is alimento politico the gobernacion Michoacanero is to put blame in their enemys, cierto o no. They are to say doctor Mireles have these peoples do this. El Asunto actual es de no importe. Que pobrecito Michoacan.
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 11:02 AM
Sad history..but until the corrupt Mexican goverment. no change.. and change the laws to alow Mexican residents with good record to buy.legal weapons. To defend their lives and family.. from criminals . Cartel or sicarios .. mexico will never change and every day will be worst lot of inocent. And criminal will die ....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 1:24 PM
Meanwhile, the only leader that could have made a difference, in Michoacan, is sitting in jail with made up charges. I hope you are happy Castillo.CTM.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 2:41 PM
I frequent this blog often,for a coupleasure of years now. sometimes multiple times a day. Good stories, good articles and most often than not good comments. Great work by all the BB staff, it is much appreciated. And even more so knowing they are not getting paid one cent but do it for the love of journalism and to help inform others...I'd like to comment on the matter of how our brothers up north always tend to call the brothers from el sur especially Michoacan & GuerreroReplyDelete
Ugly, indios etc...the funny thing is 99% of the time a comment like that is made its made by a dude! Mas putos no pueden ser. Bola de envidiosos, racistas a su propia sangre. I guess the brothers from up North have an anglo-Saxon lineage. Somos los mismos, no mas que en Michoacan se Dan los huevos mas grande.Replies
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 4:49 PM
Tienes toda la razon vale. There is a lot of ignorance and envy in Mexicans unfortunately. One cannot fix, argue or negotiate with an ignorant person. We must simply ignore them. Saludos de Michoacán a usted carnal y a toda la de mas gente inteligente de Mexico.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 6:52 PM
I'm from Michoacan and I know alot of people from up north that think they are superior to me because I'm from the south. Don't listen to them it's just ignorance. I'm 6"2 and light skinned when they say ALL from Michoacan are indios and short.. . Most are all talk and no action when you get in their face. My girl is from chihuahua and at first her family looked down on me but now they respect me because they know how i am. Had to get on a few of her relatives faces that thought they were tough guys but now its cool. They still don't Like me but they learned to respect me and that's cool with me. Like I said, the only people with that mentality are just ignorant.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2016 at 4:35 PM
El peor enemigo de un mexicano,es el mexicano.Delete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2016 at 10:10 PM
I think your generalization of the "people up north" is what is ignorant. Im from Sinaloa and my best friends are from Michoacan and Guerrero.There is ignorance and intolerance in all of society, but as soon as we practice this ignorance and intolerance we become part of it and we become the problem. When I see a fellow Mexican I dont see an enemy I see a paisano a brother somebody I can identify with. If I see this paisano in trouble I step in to help and Im confident that if I was the one in need mi paisano me va a ayudar. Somos hermanos, somos Mexicanos.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2016 at 12:10 PM
Brother from sinaloa. Read the first comment again....it's true, the majority of the raza from up North feel that way. C'mon carnal, if you read these posts often you'll see for yourself. I'm just stating the truth...and I too feel this way ("when I see a fellow mexican I don't see an enemy I see a paisano") no matter which remote corner of Mexico they are from.Delete
Arriva Michoacan, y los Raiders.
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2016 at 6:31 PM
10:10 it is not ignorant, I have been around people from sonora, sinaloa, and chihuahua. There is some cool people but alot of them have a misconception about people from the south. They call them indios and just talk bad about them . I was locked up and there were people from Sonora, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa. People from sonora didn't like people from Chihuahua, people from Chihuahua didn't like people from sinaloa, and people from sinaloa didn't like people from chihuahua. people from Chihuahua and Sonora didn't like people from michoacan, Chiapas, Oaxaca.. when ever there was a Mexican the paisas would ask were they were from, if they were from sinaloa , sonora or Chihuahua they were cool with them. If they happened to be from the south they would try and pick on them and later would ignore them like if they wasn't Mexican. While the whole time they were kissing each other's ass eventhough they didn't like each other. I've been in other situations that proove my point. There is even a joke about Mexicans that goes like this.. two Fisher men were out catching fish in the U. S, after they caught a few crabs one told the other to close the bucket because they were going help each other to get out. Later they were in Mexico and after a few crabs the guy remembered what the other guy said about closing the bucket so the crabs won't climb out. The other guy said " don't worry about closing the bucket on these crabs from Mexico, one's they see one allmost make it to the top, onother crab will take him down" sad but trueDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 2:55 PM
That's GANGSTA!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2016 at 4:26 PM
Es lo q pasa cuando le robas a gente innocents y vamos por mas-CJNGReplyDelete
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Ever since I learned about subbing cauliflower for rice I have been experimenting with different ways to change up my favorite recipes. This one is a spin on one of our mom's favorite dishes.
It is similar to the "hamburger helper" packets you can buy at the grocery store but healthier :)
Give this a try when you want something quick, easy, tasty, and healthy.
I'm thinking the kids might even give this a go.
According to Myfitnesspal, one serving of this (recipe makes 4 servings) is:
375 calories, 16 carbs, 18 fat, 39 protein, and 6 fiber.
Not to shabby for a such a large serving!
Cheesy Cauliflower Helper
1 lb extra lean ground beef
1 medium/large head cauliflower
1 small onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
salt & pepper
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 cup no fat cream cheese
1/3 cup 1% milk
1 cup shredded aged, light cheddar cheese
1/2 tsp dried mustard
dash hot sauce
Bring a large pot of water to a boil.
In a large frying pan, start cooking the ground beef over medium heat, stirring to break up.
While beef is cooking, chop cauliflower into small florets and boil in the prepared pot of water. Cook the cauliflower until it is tender, about 8 - 10 minutes. Drain and set aside to keep warm.
When beef is almost done (only a bit of pink remaining), add in the onion, garlic, salt & pepper, onion & garlic powder. Cook until beef is done and onions are soft. Reduce heat.
In the same pot you cooked the cauliflower, stir together the cream cheese, milk, cheddar cheese, dry mustard, and hot sauce.
Place on burner that should still be warm from cooking the cauliflower. (Burner does not need to be turned on, there should still be enough heat. - If not, turn heat to low.)
Stir continuously until cheese sauce is smooth.
Stir the cooked beef mixture into the cheese sauce. Then stir in the warm cauliflower.
Toss well to ensure everything is well coated.
Serve immediately. (If you find it is not hot enough simply turn the burner on medium heat for a few minutes until everything is heated through again.)
I served mine on a bed of baby spinach and topped with a pinch more aged cheddar.
Note - this dish is very mild as far as flavors go. Be sure to use a nice strong cheese so the flavor of the cheddar shines through.
If I had to describe the flavor of this - I would say it reminds me of the inside of a cabbage roll minus the tomato sauce, of course.
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Why Does My Homeowner's Insurance Company Keep Increasing the Value of My Home?
If your home burns down, or your pipes burst and flood your house, homeowner's insurance is what picks up the check for repairs. Over the years, changes to the house and the construction market may increase what it costs to take care of any damage, CNN states. Even when the market is down, your insurer may decide that the value of your house has gone up.
If you add on a garage or a deck, or remodel your kitchen, that will add substantial value to your house, and it will cost that much more to repair. Remodeling is a common reason for insurers to upgrade the value of a house, according to CNN. If you don't upgrade the amount of your coverage with it, you may find yourself unable to pay off damages.
You can buy a cash-value policy or a replacement-cost policy for your home, the Investopedia website states. Cash value or "actual value" policies pay the original purchase price of whatever was damaged or destroyed, less wear and tear; that payment is the same regardless of what it costs to replace what you lost. Replacement value policies pay to replace an item or building, up to the limit on the policy.
Replacement value is not the market value of your home, the Homeowners Insurance Guide states. Instead, it's a measure of how much it will cost to hire someone to rebuild your house, for example, or to buy new furniture or repair a leaky roof. Because construction costs go up with the inflation rate, many insurers will include an automatic insurance increase on the amount of your coverage, reflecting the increased replacement value.
Even if your home's market value has slumped, the price of construction may have risen faster than inflation. After Hurricane Katrina, for example, contractors across the Southeast were drawn to New Orleans to rebuild, the All Business website states. That creates a very tight market where contractors can charge higher prices, which means the price of replacing a home goes up too.
Have your insurer check your house every year to make sure that you don't have it underinsured, CNN recommends. If your insurer thinks your home has gone up in value, increasing coverage now prevents potentially disastrous repair bills later.
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16 December 2009
GB 1500m man Tom Lancashire shares his joy of Christmas shopping with the nation and asks if mince pies can count as his five a day.
Keep an eye on uka.org.uk for more athlete blogs
So last week I was asked to make an appearance for UKA at the McCain Roadshow in Nottingham. It's basically a big inflatable tent in the city centre where parents can bring their kids to try out some different athletics events and meet some top UK athletes for photos or autographs or a bit of inspiration.
Unfortunately, I was not wearing the compulsory GB team kit and so spent most of the day wandering round largely unnoticed, or at least unrecognised as an athlete.
It was a bit disconcerting, not least when a woman approached me with her child while I was helping out in the 15m sprint section. I smiled at them and said to the child "Would you like to have a go at the sprint?" at which point the woman bluntly replied "No, we are just looking for one of the athletes to have a photo with, do you know where we can find one?".
My heart sank. I guess all this time spent training and trying to obtain an athlete's body had been wasted...I was nothing without the correct kit. I tried to continue smiling although by now I doubt it was doing much to hide my obvious disappointment and embarrassment. I begrudgingly pointed them in the direction of my good friend, the GB kit-wearing Andrew Steele who, I might add, had spent most of the day signing autographs and taking photos. It was a low point of my athletics career. Well, at least of my Sunday.
Other than that episode the last few weeks have been pretty productive. First and foremost, United won the league so my mood has been generally quite good. I spent a couple of weeks out in the States where I ran a solid PB for 5k. I was happy with it although I think with more consistent pacing and more experience on my part there was maybe a few more seconds there. I also got some really good training in while I was out there and I'm really excited about the season ahead now.
This week I'm planning on running an 800m, before my first 1500m of the season next week. Hopefully with a couple of good performances I can put the anonymity episode behind me and feel like an athlete again!
Take it easy and nos vemos pronto. (that's Spanish for see you soon)


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Taya Kyle, the widow of "American Sniper" subject Chris Kyle, will reportedly publish a memoir.
Ms. Kyle's book will be co-written with Jim DeFelice and published in May through William Morrow, according to ABC.
The book will be titled "American Wife."
The book "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle, who was called the deadliest sniper in American military history, was first released in 2012 and is still on bestseller lists – it ranked at number four on the IndieBound trade paperback nonfiction list for the week of March 12 and at number one on the same bestseller list in the Mass Market category.
Kyle was killed in 2013 at a gun range in Texas.
His book was adapted as a movie of the same name that was released this past December. It was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and starred Bradley Cooper, who received an Oscar nod for Best Actor, and Sienna Miller. The film was directed by Clint Eastwood and was also nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, the Best Sound Mixing, and the Best Film Editing Oscars. It won the Best Sound Editing award.
Monitor film critic Peter Rainer gave the movie a B grade, writing that the movie is "as taut as anything [Eastwood] has ever done… Cooper… commendably plays Kyle… As long as Eastwood is showing Kyle in combat, which is a lot of the time, the film has a no-nonsense immediacy… At his best, Eastwood can show us not only violence but its human consequences… If the film had plumbed his psychological state with anything like the acuity of his marksmanship, we would have a masterpiece. But Kyle, the regular guy with super-honed killer instincts, remains an enigma. Miller's role quickly degenerates into weepy-wife terrain, and Kyle's re-entry into civilian life, where he endures PTSD for a time, is too sketchily drawn – and too easily resolved."
"Sniper" recently became the highest-grossing movie domestically of 2014, according to Variety.


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By Ian B
August 25 2014
Just like London buses, you wait for ages then two come along together: another week, another picture set! This time the Tigers played Edinburgh Rugby in the glorious setting of Melrose in the Scottish Borders. Edinburgh, having the game won as the time ran out, gave away a penalty at the scrum only to see David Mele slot the kick to steal the game by a solitary point! Enjoy the picture set. All comments welcome...
Edinburgh Rugby v Leicester Tigers
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Short History of Economic Progress
A Course in Economic History
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Y. S. Brenner is an economist whose main concern is with development, and this attitude is reflected in his approach to economic history.
He begins this seminal study in the era of the Reformation in Europe, and bases it on the hypothesis that once started, economic progress will spread over ever-increasing parts of the earth wherever and whenever conditions become suitable. From this point of view, he examines the nature of the impediments which prevent the more rapid and general progress of mankind towards greater material affluence, while at the same time considering the positive growth promoting factors in the various economies. Thus, he provides an analysis of economic progress in the developed countries showing which natural, social, political and cultural forces promoted such progress and which delayed or hindered it. He attempts to explain why European nations took several decades to emulate the achievements of Britain and why nations in other parts of the world, such as Japan and Russia, were unable for a considerable time to match the advances made in parts of Western Europe and the United States. Finally, he attempts to explain why the developing countries are still finding it so difficult to catch up with the economic progress of the more advanced nations.
Y. S. Brenner was Head of the Department of Economics at Cape Coast University in Ghana. The book arose from a series of lectures on economic development he delivered there during the years 1966–1967. This book was first published in 1969.
Table of Contents
I The beginnings
Introduction: Some General Ideas
Population Growth and the New Agriculture 7
Urbanisation, Transport and the Growth of Markets 21
Machines and New Sources of Power 32
II Population
World Trends in Population Growth 53
The Accretion of People in Europe 53
Economic Conditions and Population Trends 67
III Agriculture
Progress in Agriculture: General Observations 96
The Widening of the World's Cultivated Area and the Rising Per-caput Output of People Employed in Agriculture 100
Delays in the Emulation of Modern Farming Techniques in Eastern Europe 109
The Increasing Per Acre Yield of Cultivated Land 118
Capital and Organisation 124
IV Industry
The Coming of Industry: General Observations 145
Transport and the Transformation of Commerce 154
Science, Natural Resources and New Sources of Power 159
The Waning of the Political and Institutional Impediments to Economic progress in Continental Europe 161
The Industrialisation of North America 171
Industrial Progress in Pre-Revolutionary Russia 176
The Industrialisation of Japan 183
V The New Era
The Rise in Living Standards 196
The United States of America: Competition among Capitalists and the Rise of Organised Labour 204
The Soviet Union: Growth without Capitalistic Competition 217
Japan: Industrial Growth and International Competition 229
Israel: A Special Case 238
VI The Underdeveloped Countries
Thinly and Densely Populated Areas 264
Thinly Populated Countries 268
The 'Overpopulated' Countries 282
An Afterthought 292
Index 296
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Issue 09 Contributors
Essay Issue 09: by Paul Devereaux
Thinking About Photgraphs
Francisco Gomez de Vilaboa
The Dream Creature
Kayung Lai
Simon Thorpe
Lucy Williams
Hazel Pitt
Frederica Landi
Francisco Gomez de Vilaboa
The Dream Creature
While immersed in the dream, beyond a simple status, the subconscious substantially reveals parts of ourselves we thought lost and I would argue, omitted. Stressful situations, aggression, abuse and discrimination (sexual and social), can be a continual punishment on the mind, so much so that it is often stored and archived in the subconscious as an auto defence mechanism. This is what I call the creature. There is so much more hidden in the sheets below, a secret world where you can find yourself. Once inside this world, fears, insecurities, strengths, and much more can be revealed. The complexity of human nature is hidden in those parts we do not understand.
These series of pictures metaphoricacally represent the transformation of oneself into the creature alive in the dream. Through surreal states, transformations and different facets within the same character, it describes the trip the protagonist follows in this unconscious stage. The end of the trip is represented with the awakening of that Dream and shows the disconcerted dreamer discovering that they had become the creature hidden inside. Beautiful, strong, rough, and clever exist in parallel with insecure, weak and foolish and describe the nature of human beings
Kayung Lai
This body of work explores the breakdown of my cultural heritage. The initial images were taken from home video stills of my childhood which were reminiscent of the time when family ties were unaffected by language barriers, as I used to be fluent in Cantonese. The chemical weathering of the stills addresses the nostalgia experienced for a time before conflicting cultural identities.
Simon Thorpe
A personal exploration of parenthood and the conflict between the desire for telling the truth; in order to prepare my daughter for the ups and downs of life and the desire to distort the truth as a mechanism for protecting her from the inevitable ills of life and society.
Ultimately my 'real' role as parent -being the one responsible for preparing my child for flying the nest directly through my teaching-is at adds with how we are culturally informed and pressured into guiding our young ones through the passive feeding of fairy tails, myths, legends and silver linings.
Life goes on in it's gloriously unstoppable way and change is an inevitable part of that. Certain life changing events have come to pass recently which will subsequently, no doubt, have an affected the life of my daughter. Fairy Tales was triggered, if not inspired, by this resulting in my work looking 'inward' for the first time rather than 'outward' where the integrity of the work can compromised by external commercial interests.
"Change is good" someone said once, maybe so, we shall see……
Lucy Williams
These are places of fantasy and dreams, of hopes and desires and of short lived fulfilment. They are places where the minimum of details help shape the bare form of a story which is told to the camera in all its simulated pumping, gasping, jiggling, erupting, spread eagled glory. Before being wiped down for the next time.
These photographs are the in between moments, the before and after.
I am fascinated by the world we construct for ourselves, the boxes we put ourselves in and the objects we furnish them with, in order to give them our story and make them a space where we can play out our lives. When we are gone, these places cannot exist any more in that form. They have our marks, the props for our narrative, but without us they are unfurnished and ready for the next tale to be put in place.
Hazel Pitt
The overall rationale for the Configuration's 1 – 5, was to illustrate in a symbolic form, the journey man takes in reaching spiritual union with his or her god self. As inspiration for this, I used the theoretical and visual findings of artists and scientists – my intention being for the resulting artworks to possess both a strange, magical atmosphere along with a scientific, mechanical quality. The accompanying text being the words of a Sufi master.
Proportion, mathematics and sacred geometry became a natural conduit in conveying the mystical; these being present at the core of all form and creation. As I moved through the execution of the configurations, light, colour and abstraction also became the most natural way in conveying the connection with our inner selves.
Although pale colours are often associated with the divine, I felt the need to communicate the brutality experienced on our journey into self. The more difficult the path, the greater the opportunity for self knowledge, hence the heat in the colour.
Abstracting manmade modernist architectural facades from their natural settings gave birth to strange monoliths. My connection with them became both reassuring and unsettling, reminding me of an otherness present within my life at all times. For me, their straight lines and space allow for a sense of peace and contemplation, remindingme of the underlying order present in all things.
Federica Landi
"Rettung" is a German word that implies both the act of "saving" something, and of "redemption".
This is an ongoing research, firstly born as a documentary project concerned with how the space intended for religion and spirituality has been negotiated within the metropolis.
The project developed into research about the "quality" of the sacred space and the ephemeral traces left within it, raising questions as:
What kind of space is the sacred one?
Which kind of time flows through it and how photography can represent it?
Instead of focusing on the structure of the place as a whole, my attention was instinctively attracted to its fragments: the subtle, peripheral, tiny details that compose the space.
I put my lens in basins of holy water, scanning the floor, the surface of the pews and the edges of the altars.
Looking back at what I had collected over the months I found my camera full of ephemeral objects:
What was I taking pictures of?
Was this a recording of what was there or what was fading away?
The photographic process has thus become a practice for remembering and preserving traces of a cultural and personal memories, a study on the fragile nature of our tradition and where our heritage is embedded.
Thinking About Photographs
Essay Issue 09: by Paul Devereaux
As artist/photographers we live in a visually demanding and complex society where nothing we see is fixed and the perceived or traditional signifier has undergone an aleatory shift or are in perpetual flux. The Artist and writer Suzi Gablik says, "There is more and more information and less and less meaning; each image signifies less and less", but rather than seeing this as a fixed negative, it is within this reduction of easily recognisable context that the space for creative exchange and dialogue can take place.
How artists or photographers negotiate this effectively is dependent upon a wide range of external factors and not all are easy to recognise or engage with.
Framed within a post modern context there has been a re-ordering or altering of past meaning into new spheres that is exploited by the market to recodify thinking and values. This is not an explicit or consciously defined process and may not be recognised by the majority and, if it is, most feel powerless or lack the political will to negotiate this evolving paradigm.
Its core value is singularly economic and ignores any societal or spiritual engagement. It permits a vacuum of responsibility that appeals to our survival instinct which is essentially selfish, and therefore allows us to shrug our collective shoulders and ask what can we do when faced with the consequences of this system and our actions within it.
It desensitises us to the experience of others yet exploits an innate sense of the collective. Adorno and Horkheimer believe, "The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them". This essentially takes place for profit and requires no moral or social obligation as the consumer will make their choice by buying in to the idea, or not.
This apparently soulless view stems from a historical perspective that saw the development of this system from its post war drive, to grow economies, to the recognition of its ability to control peoples habits by focusing on the narrow and singular relationship with the individual.
We are no longer tied to the beliefs of our parent, tribe or clan but can choose to follow how and what we believe, or not at all, or only sometimes.
This form of communication between elements of society reinforces a culture where value is essentially "valueless", placing the consumer outside any moral or spiritual obligation for the potential negative consequences that may result from the transaction. Behind all this is the notion that society, the thing that holds people together in common, is a commodity, a hyper real nebulous cloud of economic or digital relationships where you can find yourself friends with more people than you can count.
This nihilistic doctrine and cultural conditioning that influences our behaviour and beliefs has devolved social interaction and negates previous human experience. This displacement of communal interaction has caused changeswithin the structural and economic equilibrium of modern society but has failed to negate a characteristic within humanity that drives us to seek out relationships with others.
This desire to connect and communicate is not a product or an economic exchange, although this is constantly being exploited, but an essential shift where people are seeking to participate socially, moving away from the focus of desire as object, toward relationships.
This is a fundamental human quality, not necessarily recognised by those who exploit the common held views of social structure but without it we create disengaged and anti social individuals who are not able to recognise the subtlety of feeling and emotional connection or empathy for others.
It also produces a counter reaction to the nihilistic conditioning where extreme reaffirmation of beliefs are promoted through fundamentalist views, religious or secular. Often the opinions appeal to base instincts and emotional reaction and this produces an unhealthy situation for artists where work can become the focal point for the fundamentalist and the freedom of expression currently enjoyed, threatened by mainstream political reaction looking to capitalise on the growing popularity of extremist views.
Working within the current value system we are free to explore (exploit) visual ideas without any obligation or connection to its origin and without any real fear of significant censure of criticism. Even if this does occur, the nature of the socio-cultural economic exchange allows the exploitation of negatives and reinterpretation to be seen as a positive.
Creative expression is perceived as a commodity and it is within the vacuous realm of commodity transaction Artist/Photographers negotiate their creative discourse and without fixed norms to govern the exchange can produce work that leave the viewer struggling to find an anchor.
I see the range of images presented in this edition of Uncertain States following a seam of ideas around death and dreams, dissection, desire and decay with reference to remembered or invented memory, shadow traces left by departure or dislocation and a sense of searching for meaning and discourse.
There is also direct reference to a symbolic religious notion characteristic of western cultural appropriation and a rediscovery or acknowledgement of the immaterial or sacred. Within the images and text I believe there is a desire; for an exploration of experience and sensation offering a dialogue that may encourage the viewer to contemplate or acknowledge a connection with the subject or the ideas they address.
It is not my aim to appropriate the images and give them a different reading but to consider the potential; of meaning as a more generalised/immaterial process. It is within the psychophysical structures of display and audience where the intention and reaction occurs in a dynamic and often troubled interplay. How does a viewer react to work and what is the audience seeking by taking time to look?
Although some of the work in this paper may appear explicit in their intention such as the evidential photographs by Michael Tsegaye of tombstones in Ethiopia, others may appear to conceal it with their choice of subject. The inclusion of photographs by Lucy Williamson of vacant room sets with no real personality offer an interesting counterpoint, apparently used for making pornographic films.
Louise Harrington dissect the human form and reconstructs an image made from repeated sections of a single element to create abstract, almost mechanical shapes. There is a sense of undercurrent with reflections of Muybridge in the frozen action but this is more dehumanised, less celebratory in its response to function and form. The use of black and white photographs adds to the industrial quality and could be seen as questioning the role people play in the current socio-economic model. In China today we hear of vast factories employing thousands of humans in the near mechanical production of digital goods they cannot afford to own In Britain we managed to reject those conditions but instead of being free of this economic servitude we are simply the less restricted side of this bi-polar relationship spinning on an axis of financial commoditisation. We can afford the goods but only if we tie ourselves in to contracts or sustained employment often requiring two adult working for a combined average wage that always fails to fulfil their expectation or needs. More colourful abstracts are the images created by Hazel Pitt. Superficially reminiscent of Art Deco cosmetic advertising but with type quietly tagged on to the geometric design, unassuming in scale but disquieting in meaning for such short combinations of text. Their controlled structure and cryptic use of words is complimented by the superficially formal photographs reminiscent of religious paintings from Catholic Europe by Francisco Gomez de Villaboa that expose the complexity of cultural and personal influence by religious ritual (not necessarily a belief in any form of deity) and the ability it still has in defining elements of our character. The photographs are more guarded than unconstrained and possibly more disquieting for this.
Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer expressed a view that, "…life, the most truthful one, is unrecognisable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning" and this inner self in informed by a range of experience that feeds its purpose and make it tangible.
The formal reference of Villaboas photographs demonstrate quite lucidly the separation between religion as a function of observance and compliance, from the immaterial; a quality of experience that cannot be simply defined but is sometimes referred to as spirituality. The human connection or connectivity found at the core of any set of beliefs is, however, manipulated through this inner spiritual quality of human experience that is difficult to define, understand,
reject or suppress.
Taking time to consider the images implies possible readings of the work that may have no link to the purpose of the artist/photographer in its making but speaks to the viewer and draws out a response connecting to the interior life suggested by Lispector and Villaboas.
Michael Tsegaye's layered association of photographed over photograph, a synchronised process that draws attention to our own ephemeral existence quietly extends an opportunity to engage with a memory of relationships removed and reconstructed within the current liquid culture.
The fractured image and faded quality are visually connected to the work of Federica Landi with related but opposing sentiments, a bitter/ sweet interplay about their genesis. Tsegaye is exploring the loss of something spiritual, a decaying humanity and a moral decline while Landi is rediscovering or uncovering a spiritual sub text within places of religious worship found in London.
Although Michael Tsegaye is evidential in his presentation of the photograph, there is a quality of hope as this negotiates loss and keeps present the immaterial bond he clearly feels by making present the subjects in their absence with compassion and humility.
Looking at and trying to connect with Artistic/ Photographic images is a process equivalent to wandering through the streets of a city with a map but no idea of where you are on it or even if it is the right one; you may be looking left but turning right after every junction. Victor Burgin illustrates this when he says, 'There is no 'language' of photography, no single signifying system upon which all photographs depend; there is, rather, a heterogeneous complex of codes upon which photography may draw'.
How we negotiate the mass of visual information and social disassociation, and make sense of it, is where the craft for the maker of the image lies. To give it meaning for others or ourselves can be a very complex process reduced to simple and often misread expression.
Pornography is promoted by popular culture as sexual liberation for women and religion is a lifestyle choice. The extent of this re-codifying of values has led to a complex mix of ideas that are difficult to challenge without the risk of being perceived negatively.
Within the economic sphere of mass media, even those who portray themselves as objective, hook into the idea of pornography as a life style choice no worse than going on a blind date, but with greater rewards.
Its popularity as a subject has reached such acceptance that a "Porn Star" can be interviewed by the BBC on their Newsbeat programme where she describes her life in short sound bites with throw away lines, "I get paid ridiculous amounts" and "if I want plastic surgery, I get my plastic surgery" or "if I wanted a new car they would buy me a new car". Even the sex side of the exchange, is, "you are safer sleeping with someone in the industry than if you go on a night out, pull someone (and) take them home…". Aimed at young people from the age of fifteen, there was no counter argument or opinion to frame this contextually or objectively to the moral or social implication of pornography as a rational and profitable lifestyle choice.
The depth of exchange within the sexual experience is lost, viewed from a single reductive stance, the act, and is as devoid of any connectivity. It is as impersonal, unfulfilling and incomplete an experience as the sets photographed by Lucy Williamson. Pornography is not about desire and it holds no exchange with relationships or connection between those engaged in the performance or the consumption.
It is not pornography that is caustic but the social vacuum in which operates freely. It does not allow for any emotional connection or empathy for others experience and works on the level of primary function. Suzy Gablik describes an "…electronic landscape, where the real and the imaginary, the catastrophic and the trivial coalesce on a single plane…" and it is an extreme form of discourse within sexual relationships exploited through current media, more damaging as it widely accepted and therefore portrayed as harmless, where female liberation is coalesced with sexual exploitation as a single frame of identity.
We can choose to be implicit or explicit in how the work is made and displayed providing, what we may believe, to be clear direction allowing the viewer a way in, or chance to relate with the work.
There will be those who dismiss quickly any idea of meaning or disagree with the intention of the artist. Others will superficially agree and move on while a few might linger and consider what there is to see in the image and what it holds for them.
It often requires a reaction to seeing that is not a direct intellectual process but something more Ineffable; excitable and fearful with a sense of the near recognition or understanding. This plasmic tug generated at this moment may be gentle and tenuous or of the lightening bolt variety with the sensation of profound understanding, but unlike the potentially deep emotional response that can be found to music, the visual relies on the interconnection of signs and sensations through a myriad of synapses and can be quickly lost if the gaze is broken and engaged by another frame.
Often there is a need for intent, an intellectual desire to "look" for something within the image dependant on a multiplicity of meanings and cultural understanding of viewpoints. What is really at the base of this is a desire for a recognition of the immaterial connection; we look for signs to associate with an images to direct our though and understanding. We read images using a language codified by our experience and knowledge. Collectively or singularly, photographs are a pictorial window, open to our interpenetration, rendering and opportunity to find some form of connection. I think it was Buñuel who said "the most important ingredient in any art is the quality of mystery" and through images we can inform the viewer of the possibilities, suggest the validity of the intangible or immaterial and offer another way of looking.
/ 09 Article by Paul Devereaux 2012
Paul Devereaux is an Artist who works in education.
Current interests lie in experimental analogue
photography and film.
"There is more and more information and less and less meaning; each image signifies less
and less"
Suzi Gablik


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Sports Injuries and the Remedies Available
Injuries are quite common in sports. But that doesn't mean it is not a scary experience. At the same time, having to undergo a severe injury right in the middle of a intense and suspenseful match can be quite traumatizing and pressurizing because all your teammates, your coach, you parents, fans and peers are looking at you and your team to perform well and win the match. But the human mind is capable of overcoming pain and today medical science has evolved so much that recovery is fairly smooth and fast.
Breaking One's Leg and Recovering in the Right Manner
We don't realize how sensitive or fragile our bodies are until some adversity hits us. An intense tackle in Rugby can break one's leg. Depending on whether the fracture is a simple fracture or a compound fracture, the recovery period of different people will differ. A person with a stronger will-power will recover faster than a weak-willed human being. Thankfully modern recovery centers help injured people recover in the right manner and get back to their initial state before the injury at the right pace.
Running Injuries and the Athlete
Twisting an ankle while running is one of the simpler injuries. Runner's knee can have severe adverse effects on one's training program with the help of Maribyrnong dental. It is not easy to train for a marathon or a long distant race with bad legs, hips, knees, ankles, blistered soles or a paining vertebral column. Wheezing lungs certainly wouldn't help a person run in an intense 100m race with competitive contenders and actually win the match. So having a mentally as well as physically fit body is important. You need to nourish your body with the right ingredients and you need to train your body in the right manner.
Taking Care of Sensory Organs
Sometimes a finger may poke you in the eye. A strong elbow may knock out your teeth in a basketball match. A quick dunk can turn into disaster if your wrists break as you collide with another player. A fastball in cricket can break your nose if you are not careful enough to avoid it. Your eyes, ears, mouth, nose are sensitive objects that should be handled with care. But somewhere along the intensity of the game, you forget to be careful and you may injure them. An ENT surgeon will come in handy at a time like this. Emergency dental patients can be treated by dental clinic Braybrook, at http://sunshinedentalgroup.com.au/braybrook-dentist/. Stitching up a bleeding lip or fitting in a crown where a tooth has chipped or broken off will reassure injured patients about recovering their injured body parts.
Since sports injuries are common people should not play sports recklessly, but at the same time modern technology assures us that we can recover at a faster rate to our original state.


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- "Battleship Guam, US militarism, and North Korea," The Hawaiʻi Independent, 9/7/17.
- "The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Pivot, and Pathway," The Hawaiʻi Independent, 11/6/15
- "Private Islands, Super Yachts, and Marine Protected Areas," The Hawai'i Independent, 10/17/14
- "Blue-washing the colonization and militarization of 'our ocean,'" The Hawai'i Independent, 6/26/14.
- "U.S. Military R & R (Rape & Removal) in Guahan," The Hawai'i Independent, 6/6/14
- "A Kite of Words for the Korean People," The Kenyon Review (4/11/13)
- "All With Ocean Views," The Kenyon Review (3/5/13)
- "Our Sea of Plastic," The Kenyon Review (2/1/13)
An introduction to this series of letters can be read here.
- "All Our Generations," The Marianas Variety, 2/2/12
- "The Promise of Latte Stones," The Marianas Variety, 1/13/12
- "The Invasion of Guahan," The Marianas Variety, 1/4/12
- "Our Sea of Voices," The Marianas Variety, 12/19/11
- "The Winds of Trade," Marianas Variety, 12/8/11
- "Hate Speech Sanctioned," Marianas Variety, 11/24/11


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While the Staff Development Office explores how to develop CoPs as a primary mode of professional development in PCCD. Tentatively, we've developed this template (PCCD CoP Values and Guidelines) to help groups explore how they will work together, the types of questions that guide their work, and the formats that will shape their work.
Step 1: Identify an affinity group, problem that needs to be solved, questions that need to be explored.
Step 2: Bring together a group of people who represent varying perspectives on this issue and bring people together.
Step 3: Develop guidelines, roles, and process.
Step 4: Start working
Step 5: Reflect regularly on the values and goals and make adjustments as necessary.
Here's a link to a few of them:
- OER Values, Format, and Support (Draft from August Flex 2018)


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[Excerpt] What this article (and our larger program of work) is designed to demonstrate is that these very simple ideas represent a particularly suitable starting point for understanding the power struggle between parties who regularly engage in negotiation. Specifically, in this article we show that the approach contains certain paradoxes regarding the acquisition and use of power in an ongoing bargaining relationship. The dependence framework treats the ongoing relationship as a power struggle in which each party tries to maneuver itself into a favorable power position.
Required Publisher Statement
© Wiley. Final version published as: Bacharach, S. B., & Lawler, E. J. (1986). Power dependence and power paradoxes in bargaining [Electronic version]. Negotiation Journal, 2(2), 167-174.
doi: 10. 1111/j.1571-9979.1986.tb00349.x
Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
Suggested Citation
Bacharach, S. B., & Lawler, E. J. (1986). Power dependence and power paradoxes in bargaining[ Electronic version]. Retrieved [insert date], from Cornell University, ILR School site: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/1196
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A GIANT iguana halted Tommy Haas's clash with Jiri Vesely in farcical scenes at the Masters 1000 in Miami.
After Haas slowly approached the huge lizard, officials were tasked with getting rid of the unwanted intruder.
And after attempting to grab the creature's tale from behind, it slipped off the ledge and scuppered across the court in the beaming sunlight.
A number of staff were called upon to deal with the situation but their attempts saw them chasing the iguana all over the court.
After being knocked off of one score board, the reptile ran to the opposite corner and perched himself on the other scoreboard.
But following a wild goose chase, the iguana was eventually ushered away after being caught by the tail.
Play then resumed and Vesely went on to beat his German opponent 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-5.


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Arizona has more than 30 state parks where people can camp, go boating, go fishing, visit museums, see natural wonders, hike, picnic and, in general, enjoy the beauty of Arizona. These parks are managed by the State of Arizona, and are different than the national parks managed by the National Park Service.
On the map above you'll find the locations of all the Arizona state parks. You'll notice that there are no state parks in Maricopa County, where the metro Phoenix area is and where most of us in Arizona live. There are several, however, within a couple of hours from most Greater Phoenix locations, close enough for a day trip if that's all the time you have. The Arizona state parks on the map with red markers are within 120 miles of Phoenix.
As you plan to visit the various Arizona state parks, be aware that the weather is very different in different parts of the state, as are elevations of the parks. Dress accordingly, and be prepared for inclement weather in Northern Arizona during the winter.
See a larger, interactive version of the Arizona State Parks map here.
Arizona State Parks Within Two Hours of Phoenix
East of Phoenix
Lost Dutchman State Park
(visitor center, hiking trails, picnic areas, camping)
Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park
(botanical garden)
North of Phoenix
Tonto Natural Bridge State Park
(hiking, but no pets)
Fort Verde State Historic Park
Verde River Greenway State Natural Area/Dead Horse Ranch State Park
34.75255,-112.001763 / 34.753872,-112.019978
(riparian habitat, hiking, canoeing, picnic areas, fishing, trail rides, camping)
Jerome State Historic Park
Red Rock State Park
(riparian habitat, hiking, guided walks, visitors center, theater, gift shop, picnic area)
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
(memorial, hiking)
South of Phoenix
McFarland State Historic Park
(museum, walking tours)
Picacho Peak State Park
(visitor center, hiking trails, playground, historical markers, picnic areas, camping)
Oracle State Park
(wildlife refuge, picnic areas, hiking)
How to Get a Park Pass for Arizona State Parks
If you visit Arizona State Parks a few times per year, you can purchase an Annual Pass for day use (not camping), good for the pass owner and up to three additional adults in the same vehicle. The annual fee is $75 (plus service charge). The pass is not valid at Lake Havasu, Cattail Cove, Buckskin Mountain, and River Island on weekends (Friday-Sunday) and state holidays from April 1 through October 31. Othe restrictions may apply. A Premium Pass is also offered.
Active duty military and retired veterans who reside in Arizona are eligible to receive a discount card, and 100% disabled veterans who reside in Arizona may receive a free day-use pass.
These day-use passes are good for one year. Other park fees or program fees are not included, nor are use of camping facilities. Pass holders are not guaranteed admission to any park that is closed for any reason.
Annual passes for day-use fees at Arizona State Parks may be purchased online. You can also purchase one by phone, mail, or fax. Credit cards are accepted. For questions about annual passes you can call 602-542-4410 Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Arizona time.
Ten Things to Know About Visiting Any Arizona State Park
1. There are fees to enter the parks, and the fees vary, up to $30.
2. At the parks that permit camping fees start at about $15 per night and may go as high as $50 per night. They allow a maximum of six adults and no more than 12 total people per campsite.
3. Some parks have cabins that can be rented.
4. Many of the parks now allow you to make reservations up to 365 days in advance. There is an additional non-refundable fee for that. Here are the policies and restrictions about reservations at ArizonaState Parks as well as for the Kartchner Cavern Tours.
5. Leashed pets are allowed at Arizona State Parks, but not in the buildings or museums. Exceptions: pets are not allowed at Red Rock State Park or on the trails at Tonto Natural Bridge State Park.
6. There are no senior discounts, and the passes for National Parks like the Grand Canyon are not accepted at Arizona State Parks.
7. Many parks have special events and activities during the year. Check the calendar. You'll find historical enactments, star parties, archaeology programs, bird walks, guided tours and more.
8. If you want to take your off-road vehicle to an Arizona State Park, you can find out where you can ride here.
9. You can find a link to each Arizona State Park, and the phone number for more information, by clicking on the markers on the map here.
10. For more information, visit Arizona State Parks online.
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The Map
To see the image of the map above larger, simply temporarily increase the font size on your screen. If you are using a PC, the keystroke to us is the Ctrl + (the Ctrl key and the plus sign). On a MAC, it's Command+.
You can see all the Arizona State Parks locations marked on an ESRI map. From there you can zoom in and out, etc.


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I updated it to:
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File: /phpfreechat-2.1.0/server/.htaccess is as follow below:
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RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
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Thank you so much for those who can help me out.
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Some other tip?
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phpfreechat wrote:Goulart wrote:That's right, and I've already tried this, but issue remains anyway
Some other tip?
This URL should return a small JSON structure:
It redirects to a 404 page...
It's not normal.
Could you have a look to your web server error logs ?
Could you give me SSH/SFTP/FTP access to your server to look at the problem ?
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's
# default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
AllowOverride None
AllowOverride All
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
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