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Firstly, i'll just say that ever since i started this sort of treatment i no longer have that fear, self-blame, and hopelessness i felt since i was a child to adolescent years. I had PTSD symptoms for so long and it didn't help that i was also asthmatic and often bullied in school for being different.Though it's no longer that case in my current school. But even then all of the bad memories i had eventually turned into my nightmare/s or flashbacks whenever it was triggered. My parents may not believe me but i know myself, the emotional scars i had would remind me that in the real world no one can be trusted, except for few and i'm worthless as far as a sibling of mine is concerned. So i started to search for a therapist or psychiatrist that could help me out, I've been searching for one in my country but there's only few of them here and most of them are live in a different country. That's when i started to search online, after so many years i finally found a therapist Andy Eckley that could help me out with this many complicated emotions i kept in bay. There's not much to fear when you realize that all of those unpleasant memories were in the past and there's still something worth living for in life.
-Thanks a lot Andy,
I am writing this a couple of months after a whole day intense session with Andy. I didn't want to see a man and felt so nervous but he was easy to talk to and I felt safe throughout.I am a practitioner myself and have gained much relief from my PTSD and the events which caused it. Whatever I tried I would end up every few months having a crisis and facing hospital . This time nothing I tried worked my life collapsed and then I was told that Andy was the Top man. He has managed to completely rid me of nearly all symtoms. No flashbacks. No dissociation No nightmares No other me's to deal with - it still fells a little strange , but in a good way. My life has moved on so much and I feel whole and in control. I am truly free of the nightmare my life was before , it's as if those things happened to someone else and are of no concern anymore. I am no longer scared to move forward and succeed to be the amazing person I always knew that I would be if I could rise above my past and be free. I thank Andy so much and encourage any reading this to book a session you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.
I have suffered with PTSD now for many years now and have tried many of the National Health treatments, with no real success. I found Andy's details following a Google search and carried out his simple test. I was booked in for a 5 day treatment and a 2 day follow up, which I still have to come. We covered what needed to be done in three days. I now feel fantastic and have done so now since I completed my 3 days which was 5 days ago. I dont live in the area so I stayed at The Langdales Hotel, which is about a 5 minute walk to Andys premises. This was a great location and the staff there were very understanding.
Andy is very understanding and makes you feel relaxed with the systems he uses. I found having with treatment condensed into consecutive days, really helped to deal with my demons.
I feel Great and many thanks.
Foe anyone reading this and also suffering, then don't, it is your life, get it back. Andy offers a full money back guarantee, where can you go wrong. Thanks
Andy's techniques have changed my life. Three months ago, I was a completely different person. I would wake up every day and feel sad or depressed about my life and how some aspect of it wasn't the way I wanted. Now, none of those things that used to bother me still have any effect on my state. It's a great feeling to start every day feeling confident and upbeat. I can't imagine going back to what I used to be like.
For people who get a session with Andy, ask him about all the different techniques he knows and try them for yourself. See what works for you! He knows so much and if one method doesn't work, it's very certain that another will help resolve and heal your issues.
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Norman's case was interesting in that as a Police Officer he was exposed to some traumatic sights and incidents which left him suffering with PTSD - luckily he was brave enough to ask for help, but how many other emergency workers have severe trauma from their working lives and yet suffer without knowing help is available - if you are one of these people ask me for help - My clearing programme worked for Norman and it will work for you.
I went to see Andy some time ago but didn't want to put any personal details out there on the net, but my friend has said I should- to let others know what it's like. My pal gave me the courage to contact Andy by email. I was depressed, had made a serious attempt at suicide some years ago, and was really close to that again - a crisis. I had no job, no marriage,no interests and my life was like this for over 10 years. I could not go out of the house, as I was agoraphobic and conscious of my weight issues. Oversimplified but to give you some idea of how it went-Andy helped me find out the causes of it all and aided me by remove them as problems. We talked, did a very detailed time- line of all my phobias,connected issues and traumas and this prepared me to start talking about and working on loads of personal stuff that I'm too embarrassed to put here and which I'd blocked off. It was for me, just like some surgery but without the knife or overwhelming pain or stay ib hospital. The whole visit was strangely relaxed, not at all tense and stressful-which is what I imagined it would be like. We got to this in a few days! Sometimes the experience was quite humorous especially when working on my food cravings/addiction and when I was upset at all I felt things were o.k., just like others have said on here before. Andy helped me so much really, it's completely different, I go out, I'm happy, I've got 2 interviews for work next week, and I'm losing weight. Life is just getting better. Other therapists I'd had couldn't do what he did for me, so I reckon people should see him if they need help,cause my problems weren't even PTSD but he still helped me. Thank You Andy.
I had the privilege of spending 5 days with Andy Eckley very recently. We had a lot of work to do in a relatively short space of time. Until we did my timeline which spanned 39 years I knew I had PTSD but was still confused why at times it was still so debilitating.I soon found out!! We worked hard, used Click tracks, which I can't recommend highly enough but my favourite part was "Bear" work with the EFT Tapping Bears. I know it sounds like I was having way too much fun, and yes I did mostly enjoy the process but it wasn't all plain sailing!!
Since I left Andy and Kathryn's, MANY things have happened which really would've had me in a big panic before, now I have so many tools to use I have coped with one of the most stressful weeks of my life and better still I have come out of it with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. I am going to keep in touch and once the next big thing is out of the way (my wedding!) I will be making some decisions about how I will be spending the rest of my life. I have a sneaking suspicion that PSTec and EFT will be in there somewhere. Watch this space!! And another HUGE Thank You to Andy for being there, it has made all the difference! God Bless x
Hello Andy,
I just wanted to do two things,first of all to thank you so much for helping me overcome all the pain,loss and utter grief that has paralysed me for years- I know for sure that I could not have made it through without your persistence and support, and secondly to encourage others to trust you and to go and see you for help if they were anything like me.
I should be honest about just how over the top sceptical and just so suspicious of you I was: even when I met you because I couldn't really get my head around the idea that you really could help me work through my grandmother's death,I think that her death just worsened the PTSD and so I had no hope- just nothing left. I was so very negative, unsure-in case you were a fake or just money grabbing...sad really isn't it that I could not perceive you for what you are but this is where I was at and I just should be straight about it. I am however, so very grateful that you pushed through my grief,bravado and the PTSD trauma, to reach me where I was... simply at my most vulnerable... one thing I noticed, and have recalled with some amusement, is how you never gave up on me and for that...well there are no words worthy of your kindness,goodness and professionalism. Thank you, is I guess,so weak in the light of where I have come from in just 5 days of your programme, but I know now that you will understand that my feelings are sincere. Quite frankly I feel a bit silly for having not properly received what you have tried to say on your site,but I guess my pain would not allow me to see straight. There was no way that I thought I would be feeling hopeful,seeing a way to live life and yet here we are Andy, and I'm out the other side.
I can certainly confirm that the success you promised kind of sneaked up on me whilst we worked together in a way that was imperceptible at first...this type of healing and robustness that has returned to me had left me long ago and it just came on back and I feel absolutely amazing. I'm so happy and smiling.... and more importantly it's on the inside-where others can't even see it all! My relatives noticed the differences after only 2 days with you(before we had really got on to the toughest stuff I had to deal with) whilst I was talking on the mobile to them and I wasn't even talking about you or the clearing programme experiences...so yeah, things have changed so much that my life is not just incomparable with what has gone before- its just so damn good it's like someone else is living in this body: You could say Andy, that it is taking me more time to get used to than it has for you to do the clinic with me and deal with it all!! I'm in shock-the good kind of shock though... especially at what you have accomplished in both what you do and the way you do it- the way you share it all,indeed,spend it all upon others. I did not know that such a selfless,reliable and no-egotistical therapist existed in the U.K.
There is no more appropriate way to write this all Andy because you deserve the credit for who You are: really, really, gifted and knowledgeable and boy am I a happy bunny that you spent all that training and stuff you went through on me!
Secondly,I am indebted to you to such a degree,that I want to write this for anyone who might see it, for anyone who like me was cynical, hurt, un-trusting, scared and unbelieving of the material and claims you make on the website. Just do it! Go to Andy! don't give in or up, and stop thinking even for a second that he is either unqualified, mad or bad, because having done it I can tell you after seeing G.P.'s therapists etc... he is the dogs *******, he knows how to help you and can do it faster than you can possibly accept or imagine, He and his therapy are not too good to be true...only TOO GOOD TO BE MISSED!!!!
Thanks again Andy, warmest wishes and thanks,
This will be a long review, but it will be thorough on my part, please read it if deciding whether to visit Mr Eckley.
Before I lay out my thoughts for individuals, visiting this website to read, I wish to be as candid as I may, about my own background and agenda, after all everyone presents their own perspective of Andy and it is coloured in tone by who they have become; what has moulded their ideas and their experience. Therefore, beginning with one's own influences one is avoiding the conclusion that your own perspective is either the only one or the ultimate one. This is quite important (within my own mind-set), because I usually think it increases the likelihood of being informed and ready to weigh more accurately, whether one can receive something written about someone else, as measured or balanced. Therefore, I share the following with you…
My particular approach to life and its challenges is, heavily influenced by my first degree at Oxford University and the subsequent degrees achieved at various prestigious institutions in the U.K. ; fundamentally ensuring that I definitely have both an analytical and critical view of most things. Therefore, my contribution to what is written about Mr Eckley and his clearing programmes, needs to be understood and engaged within the light of my former caveat; I am naturally sceptical and not too fond of people, systems, or institutions that make, or appear to make, wide sweeping claims about anything. The latter fact is true because when I engage any aspect of science or experience I seek out evidence and proofs for things claimed and I do not by nature or culture just accept something as true or correct because someone says it is so.
Furthermore, I am not an armchair critic, who is absorbed in escapist books/ideas, neither am I someone who believes that the usual methods of approaching a particular problem are always the best. I have however, been active in investing in the wellness of others… employed as a counsellor of vulnerable individuals, worked for some years variously with the homeless, addicted and individuals you could describe as receiving or in need of receiving psychological treatments. I should also be clear in explaining that I am not simply a "do-gooder" but have studied at graduate level both psychology and psychotherapeutic methodologies and their practice in particular professional settings. Naturally, this does not make me an expert, neither do I claim any particular specialism in one of these disciplines but I do have qualifications in them and I have worked and trained for 4 years in palliative care chaplaincy, and for 5 years in ecclesiastical settings too. Nonetheless, though I am no expert, neither am I a mere novice in being able to assess other types of methods in treating traumatized or vulnerable persons. So, now I can write what I wanted too….
Between the ages of 11 and 18 as a young boy in his most formative years, I was sexually abused and that abuse was violent, it was terrifying and the perpetrator did much more damage to me than anything purely physical could accomplish. Isolated and alone my coping mechanisms could only be unhealthy. The frequency and overall duration of these events ensured that although very damaged I threw all my energies into making sure that I did all I could to help the vulnerable in life, to protect and "heal" others. However, as anyone who knows about these things can tell you, you have to do your own interior work, in order to be free to help others. I did not shirk that latter wisdom or responsibility and I spent years on and off in the "system" of various NHS and private therapies in the U.K., sadly nothing I gave myself to accomplished success. I used all my self-knowledge to "get out of the way" of my own healing but still the same anxiety's and symptoms I would later discover was PTSD.
After my last bout of group therapy (2 years), I came across Andy Eckley's web site but even more despondent and frustrated than ever. I used all my previous knowledge to actually write his offers of help off, to disparage his approach to PTSD: after all he did indicate he could help someone in days! (just recall what I wrote about sweeping statements) However, the more I found out about Mr Eckley the more I uncovered about his reputation for putting his money where his mouth was, so to speak. I discovered that he is an expert and tutor to other Therapists in his own techniques and that other previously sceptical therapists are using his methods because they are also getting great results. Therefore, after being the ultimate personification of "The Sceptic", I knew there was no other way to know than to go and visit him to see if he could help deliver success and healing that had eluded me all these years. To be frank, I found him to be astute and subtle in dealing with my rubbish attitude and my cynical approach to doing those things I thought were too simple to be effective. He was definitely not patronizing, or in "therapist speak" mode, he was not clock watching, he did not appear shocked, dismissive, judgemental, or in any way intrusive, and he made me feel safe and worked at my pace. Andy Eckley's method was just so professional and it just does not bare comparison with what I have received before. He readily explained when I wanted it: his methods within the context of our work and made himself available whenever I needed extra assistance.
I was evidently in for the biggest surprise of my life- my symptoms reduced massively in 5 days, I was sleeping, the flashbacks and nightmares all gone…the list of symptomology reduction goes on. In just 5 days, it felt like my own inner "Berlin Wall" had collapsed. Mr Eckley kept testing the results I was achieving to make sure it was real, and gradually I began to realize that all the tools he had been helping me to learn were practically ridding me of these emotional triggers and traumas and that I could not really explain this fact away. He was calm, gentle and sensitive: in therapy, I can only say he was a Master!
Why do I think this? Well you try having years of therapy, same dreary, pain-filled- inner existence and then this… less than a week of help and have your health back in ways you didn't know was possible. I went back home to all the same triggers of trauma but now no distress, and by using his techniques on my own, I have been able to be well enough to return to the scene of my abuse without issues/distress. Now I'm not advocating this for anyone else as it's so personal but I also feel so well that I have chosen (without advice or suggestion/discussion from Mr Eckley) to stop my group therapy because I've found it personally, to be so unproductive by comparison. Instead of sitting in silence and note-taking Mr Eckley enabled me to wipe out the destructive power and influence of emotionally charged events and current ones that were causing me similar distress. So, there was my evidence, my proof, it was not in a book, scientific journal, DNA sample, but in my experience. Therefore it is subjective proof of Mr Eckley's clearing programme- because it is necessarily experienced, but also it is objective proof because I was hyper alert, critical and evaluative (cautious and reflective). My evidence (results) were/are quantifiable: I do not suffer any longer! Therefore, I can thoroughly recommend Andy Eckley's clearing programme and vouch for its success personally. I cannot think why one would not read this and conclude that they should go and see him if they need this sort of help! It just doesn't make sense to go on without this brilliant help It stopped me feeling so low that I wasn't sure I would be around much longer, if it can work for me-it will for you.
If you read this Andy, Thank you so much for all your help and kindness.


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Dallas — History as an area of academic study is overwhelmingly centered on the stories and exploits of men. The theatre is not much different. Plays and musicals such as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Robert Schenken's All the Way, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Les Miserables, and 1776 by Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards may include women in the show as secondary (or even tertiary characters), but it is the men who run the show. IMPRINT Theatreworks is doing their part to correct this ignorance with their production of Lauren Gunderson's The Revolutionists, running July 20 through Aug. 4.
Directed by Ashley H. White and Joe Messina, the cast features Dani Holway as Charlotte Corday, Marianne Galloway as Olympe de Gouge, Jennifer Kuenzer as Marie Antoinette, and Sky Williams as Marianne Angelle. It is the area premiere of this title by Gunderson, who has become one of the most produced living playwrights across the country. And it happens in the theater founded by one of the revolutionary women of American theater, the Marjo Jones Theatre.
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TheaterJones: Why do you feel this show is important for audiences to see right now?
Dani Holway: I think most importantly this show is giving women visibility. The show centers around a sisterhood and proves that women are and have always been a force to be reckoned with.
Marianne Galloway: It's important to see this show to connect with where we've been so we can learn from the past and work towards change for the better, but it's also vital to gather together in a communal setting in this world where we're increasingly alone: alienated from each other by screens and schedules and the sense that time is moving way too fast. To sit down, connect with each other, breath the same air, and share the same story. That's part of the gift of live theater.
Jennifer Kuenzer: What I feel is important to note about the stories being told is that three of these women actually existed, but have primarily been written about by men, and only one of those women written about extensively, the other two, hardly at all. The fourth woman is a composite of women that existed, but because of the color of their skin, their stories were and are still largely unwritten.
Sky Williams: And it's good inspiration for the impending revolution.
The show is being presented in the shadow of #metoo and #timesup. How does this production fit into the landscape?
JK: While the themes of sexual violence and women's rights are certainly part of this play, they are presented as symptoms, not the disease.
MG: The Revolutionists is about grace, power, and artistic defiance in the face of extreme political crisis. I keep getting asked how the various female-focused projects I'm doing are related to #metoo and #timesup. Those movements are specific to sexual assault/harassment. That's the framework Women are being seen in right now, and that's concerning. Not everything a woman fights has to do with sexual assault, which seems like an obvious statement. We are that fight, and it's an important one. We are simultaneously so much more. The Revolutionists celebrates some of that "more".
The cast and production team is almost exclusively made up of women. How does that feel in a theatre landscape in which women are frequently marginalized in terms of opportunity and representation?
SW: It feels empowering and safe.
JK: It feels like work. Good work.
DH: This has been such an inspirational and empowering journey. Getting to bounce ideas off of and create with such an incredible group of women is unmatched. It should happen more often.
MG: It feels f*cking awesome.
Playwright Lauren Gunderson notes that this show is about activism and how we got about changing the world. For you, how does this play do that?
MG: This play has connected me to a woman who fought for our rights and died for her efforts over 200 years ago. It gives me strength as I experience the barrage of progressively devastating news that floods my newsfeed. Maybe that's how it contributes to our own, present-day revolution: by giving hope to the broken-hearted through the knowledge that this is a long, long haul, but we are not and never have been alone.
DH: We are always writing our own stories and we have the ability to make the changes we often so wish to see. This play also highlights the importance of friendship and how vital it is to be there and support one another, no matter how different our backgrounds may be.
SW: Absolutely.
JK: I feel like this play covers a lot of ground. I want to hear about what people walk away with; meet me at a post-show gathering, let's chat there.
A few fun, rapid-fire questions: If you could trade roles with someone else in the cast, who would it be and why?
DH: Jennifer Kuenzer.
MG: I'm the only one in the cast who gets to wear pants, so I think I'll keep my sweet gig as a badass activist playwright.
SW: I think we can all agree that Marie Antoinette has some of the most fun lines.
JK: I totally wish I had an answer for this. I'd Russian Roulette the roles. That would be a trip. But for real though, I don't want to share my wig.
If you could have dinner with any three not-so-well-behaved women, who is on your guest list?
JK: Roxane Gay, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Paula Vogel.
SW: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Eve—I really just want to yell at her.
DH: The top of my list is, obviously, Lady Gaga. I wouldn't mind sitting down with Eowyn from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ("I am no man!"), or Joan of Arc either.
MG: Hillary Clinton, Hedy Lamarr, and Julie Taymor. The list of alternatives should one of these ladies eat a bad taco before our dinner and have to cancel is long and awesome.
Any final thoughts?
SW: Everyone should see this show; there's a message in it for everyone.
DH: This show is important, and powerful, and heart-wrenching, and terribly, horribly, perfectly funny. Come see it.
JK: Lauren Gunderson wrote a shockingly accurate play. If you encounter a moment, a line, a detail that seems too ridiculous or too modern or too convenient to be believed… It's actually true. Researching this play has been its own wild, joyful, devastating entertainment.


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On Monday, Constitution Day, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others addressed the growing free speech problem on university campuses at an event in Washington.
"We have the oldest written Constitution still in use— 231 years. This brilliant document has stood the test of time," said Sessions. He said our government has been durable because of its Founders' understanding of people and power and the importance of a foundation on truth. He lauded the First Amendment and said, "[T]he Founders protected the liberty of Americans to express themselves. It was a core value of the new Republic."
Sessions lamented the growing threats to free speech on higher education campuses, and noted cases in which the Justice Department had inserted itself. "We have reached a pivotal, perhaps even an historic, moment. It is time to stand up to the bullies on campus and in our culture," he said.
Also at this event was Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who chairs the education committee in the Senate and a formerly served as U.S. Secretary of Education. Alexander urged university leaders to "veto the heckler's veto" by penalizing those students who attempt to thwart the ability of speakers to speak and audiences to listen. However, he added, "What the federal government should not do is pass a law trying to solve all this. Conservatives do not like it when judges try to write laws, and conservatives should not like it when legislators and agencies try to rewrite the Constitution."
Sessions declared his commitment to constitutional principles. He also recounted, "The words of the founder of the University of Virginia, as chiseled in his nearby monument, declare: 'For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.'"
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I arrived in Lake Placid that morning with a couple of ideas for the sunset photo; most of which involved Whiteface Mountain or the Heart Lake area. I stopped to do some scouting at Connery Pond where the sky was an electric blue with beautiful contrasting white and gray clouds that, at times, enveloped the snowy summit of Whiteface. The low clouds to the west made me doubtful for a dazzling sunset so, after grabbing a few shots, I moved on and headed over to the hotel to check-in.
I wasn't sure what to expect as those low clouds kept creeping in, but I wasn't about to pass it by. I headed to the John Brown Farm and found a view of the MacIntyre Range. I walked up a slight hill in a field and set up in the shadow of the Ski Jumps. I had a feeling it wouldn't be one of those bright and jaw-dropping sunsets as those clouds drifted across the sky, but I wanted to wait it out. Looking behind me, Whiteface became surrounded by low clouds, so this was the right place to be.
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I need to cancel the page break after the 'report header' section.
My idea to first page is show first the report header, then the page header or an duplicate of it and below the detail lines, finally page footer.
I have configured in this section 'Force new page' to none and 'Keep together' to yes but allway jumps to new page after.
This configuration is ignored. Could it be a bug?
I use LO 184.108.40.206 which includes the Oracle report generator.
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New York is everything and nothing like I had imagined.
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Court Won't Let Navajo Invoke 'Bad Men' Clause
(CN) – A Navajo woman cannot seek damages from the U.S. government after a cop sexually assaulted her 14-year-old daughter and took "compromising" pictures of the girl with his cell phone, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled, finding that the attack is not covered by the "bad men" clause of the Navajo Nation's treaty with the United States since the attack occurred on a Sioux reservation.
Officer Daniel Kettell, a Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation police officer and a member of the Sioux tribe, arrested Jennifer Pablo's daughter, F.C., on suspicion of underage drinking and drove her to a Rosebud Sioux police station in June 2008.
"While [en] route to the facility, Officer Kettell physically and sexually abused, molested, and assaulted F.C. and took compromising photos of her on a cell phone," according to the ruling.
Kettell was arrested and charged with one count of abusive sexual contact for the attack. He pleaded guilty in South Dakota U.S. District Court and was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay a fine.
Pablo filed a $2 million lawsuit against the United States for "future medical, rehabilitative, and psychological counseling, treatment, and therapy" damages, arguing that the attack is protected by the "bad men" clause of the Fort Sumner Treaty of 1868 between the Navajo Nation and United States.
According to the clause: "If bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the authority of the United States, shall commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians, the United States will … reimburse the injured persons for the loss sustained."
Pablo is a member of the Eastern Navajo Tribe in New Mexico; F.C.'s father is a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota Indians. F.C., now a Navajo Tribe member, was living with her father on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation and was not an enrolled tribe member at the time of the attack.
Pablo cited the "bad men" clause of the Fort Laramie Treaty in her initial complaint, but shifted to a similar clause of the Fort Sumner Treaty in her amended action.
Arguing that the Rosebud Sioux Reservation lies outside of the boundaries of the reservation recognized by the Fort Sumner Treaty, the government moved for summary judgment against Pablo.
"The government does not dispute that F.C. was born on, was residing on, and was attacked on a reservation recognized by the Fort Laramie Treaty," Judge Nancy Firestone wrote. "[However,] Article XIII clearly strips a Navajo of the rights conferred by the 'bad men' clause if he or she permanently settles outside the boundaries of the reservation recognized by the Treaty."
In agreeing with the government, Firestone cited Herrera v. United States. In Herrera, a Navajo girl was attacked off-reservation by a boarding school classmate, and the court ruled against her claim for damages.
Tribe members relinquish all rights if they occupy any territory outside of their reservation, Firestone said.
"The government argues that F.C. was not residing or located in the Navajo Reservation at the time of the attack and therefore under Article XIII of the Fort Sumner Treaty she was not entitled to any of the privileges or rights conferred by the treaty at the time of the attack, including the protections of the 'bad men' clause," according to the April 21 ruling. "Article XIII of the Fort Sumner Treaty provides, in part, 'it is further agreed and understood by the parties to this treaty, that if any Navajo Indian or Indians shall leave the reservation herein described to settle elsewhere, he or they shall forfeit all the rights, privileges, and annuities conferred by the terms of this treaty.'"
Pablo filed a separate claim for $5 million in damages pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, as Rosebud Sioux Tribe officers are considered federal employees by contract.
The claim is pending, and the government has not yet responded on its merits.


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In episode 5 of the Market Urbanism podcast, we talk about the state of municipal finance in America. Are cities spending their way into long-term financial ruin? Or do their good credit scores and lack of bankruptcy signal health?
In segment 1, we discuss a general overview of the issue with Liz Farmer, the municipal finance reporter for Governing Magazine. In segment 2, we discuss California's growing pension crisis with Steven Greenhut, a senior fellow for the R Street Institute.
Show Notes:
1:07 Scott Beyer begins his editorial
4:31 start of interview with Liz Farmer
7:35 Beyer asks Farmer to respond to Chuck Marohn's "growth ponzi scheme" argument
11:12 Sergio Rodrigues asks her if she anticipates more future municipal bankruptcies
13:35 Beyer asks her what the common denominator is between municipalities that file
15:45 Rodrigues asks her about Atlantic City's finances
17:30 Beyer asks her if Detroit's dubious bankruptcy proceeding hurt the bond market
20:33 Antonio Grana asks her how cities in debt can climb their way out
26:08 start of Steven Greenhut interview
30:10 Beyer asks about the negotiation process that leads to these inflated pensions
31:59 Grana asks him what the reform should be. He says ending the "California Rule"
36:38 Beyers asks how reformers could put a more human face to the pension problem
38:22 Martha Ekdahl asks Greenhut how Prop 13's property tax cap influences the situation, and whether it should be eradicated. His answer:
"If you get rid of Prop 13 it would be a disaster. You could take issue with some of the results of it. I've been here at my house for 8 years, and it's tied to the rate when I bought it. But if my neighbor moved in yesterday, he's assessed at the new value. And with the way our property values go up, his taxes are much higher….But overall, the government has not lost revenue because of Prop 13. They're still getting more revenue than ever, and it remains a spending problem. If we got rid of Prop 13, I don't see that we would do a tax swap and reduce other taxes. We would just dramatically increase taxes. And the way spending goes here, it wouldn't be long before that money was gone."
42:23 write-in question from Howard in Orange County: "are there any greenfields in Southern California where housing could get built, helping alleviate the statewide shortage?"
43:19 Beyer asks whether bankruptcy will be a common future option for indebted municipalities
44:41 hosts react to interview


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It is no longer the delirium of a good-natured president, the romantic and obsolete opinions against the regulation of the cannabis industry in Uruguay have been left behind. The regularisation of cannabis is an irreversible and global fact.
In Uruguay,
The avant-garde regularization occurred for many reasons. At first from the bottom: due to the work of different social movements. Then some politicians put the cause on their shoulders and meanwhile, they campaigned. And finally, this political change happened because, in addition, we are facing an unbeatable economic opportunity.
It is time to take advantage of it
Behind every measure he applies, President Tabaré Vázquez always seeks symbolic value. He knows that symbols are the true constructors of a society. With cannabis it was no different. His medical doubts, or his suspicion for those who, from ignorance, compare smoking with cannabis consumption, were left behind. He had the wisdom to announce the beginning of cannabis sales in uruguayan pharmacies from Berlin. This time, through no spokesman. He did it himself as part of an European tour in search of new business opportunities for the country. The symbol can not be more clear. Earlier this year, Canada exported cannabis flowers to Germany.
The cannabis industry represents a huge opportunity for Uruguay, like no other country. It has the necessary political stability, has acquired the adequate financial transparency, it is located at a strategic regional position (the more open markets are those of the Conosur, Brazil, Argentina, Chile), it transmits the security that the world requires for this kind of market, it has regularized the Industry before its neighbors. And there is more. The cannabis industry is based on agronomic resources, has niche market characteristics, approachable from a small territory, and is a product that demands added value.
Nicholas Negroponte recently visited Uruguay. He is the creator of One Computer Per Child (OLPC), founded the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, better known as MIT, creator of Wired magazine and one of the most outstanding computer scientists in the world. When the press asked what disruptive technologies, he thought, would have the most impact on our lives in the next 20 or 30 years, Negroponte was blunt:
That's easy! Biotechnology, no doubt
The cannabis industry could be an excellent specialization
The government has given signals. Not only the announcement from Germany, but also has allocated public funds to industry: the best example was the acquisition of PIEP funds, given by the Ministry of Industry Energy and Mining, by CannaPur.
Of course, the political cost is still stalking. There is a whole mass of deputies and senators waiting for the first stumble to get their electoral revenue. Those many years of prohibitionist propaganda have had their effect. That's why society needs to get involved in this country project. Scientific evidence of the benefits of using cannabis is being accumulated day by day.
It requires the active participation of agronomists, doctors, chemists, engineers, architects, lawyers, accountants, electricians, craftsmen, gardeners, bricklayers. As in December of 2013, when cannabis was regulated in Uruguay, it is time for civil society to be the support and engine of change and embrace this opportunity.
Having regularized the cannabis industry before its neighbors allowed the country to gain a huge comparative advantage. However, the watch does not stop. Colombia and Mexico have made steady progress in recent months. There is a difference from political to administrative facts, but chips are moving.
It is time for Uruguay to capitalize on that advantage.
Related — Copa Cannabis Montevideo (Uruguay) 2017


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An important and very tangible intersection between the offline world of meatspace and the online world of cyberspace is human rights. How human rights are experienced in cyberspace can have a very real effect on how human rights are experienced in meatspace. On this episode we discuss digital rights in Africa.
We dial in to Lagos, Nigeria to speak to 'Gbenga Sesan, Tunde Okunoye, and Sodiq Alabi of Paradigm Initiative. 'Gbenga (@gbengasesan) is Executive Director, Tunde (@TOkunoye) is a Research Assistant, and Sodiq (@SodiqAlabi1) is communications manager. They discuss Paradigm Initiative's second annual Digital Rights in Africa Report which looks at the digital rights landscape in Africa over 2017.


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Dear Dr. Dawkins,
I really want to thank you for not only helping me in my journey to drop Judaism, but also helping me realize the awesomeness of the world and nature. Because of your books and lectures online I had the courage to drop all that nonsense and tell people. It turned out my whole family, with the exception of my father, felt the same way! My younger siblings now go to a regular school instead of giving money to be indoctrinated and I spend my Saturdays working my business with great success.
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Bike lane less safe than sharrows!!!!
My normal commute includes part of S. Braddock between Penn and Forbes. It's a relatively quiet section and I never had any trouble with cars – UNTIL a few weeks ago when I first rode it after a tiny 3′ bike lane had been painted on the right side of the road.
I was passed within 2 feet by multiple cars when riding in the painted bike lane. This pretty much never happened before the line was there.
Problem is, cars think that if there's a painted lane they don't have to use the four foot rule. Without a painted lane, they give proper respect. Riding this same area before the lane was painted I always got 3-4 feet and a nice slow – or at least mindful – pass.
I actually have always avoided the bike lanes on Forbes for the same reason. They just don't feel safe.
Please please please, Bike Pittsburgh – reconsider painting these lanes where they aren't necessary. The road was fine without it. With it, in my experience, it's definitely more dangerous.
Anyone else have similar experiences?
Maybe some of the signs Stef suggested spelling out the four foot rule would be appropriate there?
And some plastic candlestick dividers could help, too.
I don't use the bike lane on Friendship ave for the same reason (plus it's in the door zone).
i had a very similar experience riding along forbes from regent square into squirrel hill a few weeks ago. a bus passed me with about two feet to spare, which as you can guess is absolutely terrifying. similarly, i had a bus beep at me a week or two ago because i was taking the lane in a portion of the road where the bike lane is in the door zone and the road is too narrow to allow passing when i'm not up against the cars. it makes you reconsider their value.
edited to add: last year i rode in a bike lane in florida that was about three feet wide on the side of a seven lane road that was posted at like 55 mph. i wonder why no one ever uses those bike lanes!
I hate to complain about bike infrastructure – but I feel the same way about the new bike lanes in Polish Hill.
Brereton St. is pretty wide, and I never had a problem riding on it. There is plenty of room for cars and bikes to co-exist, and especially on the downhill, bikes go fast enough cars never even need to pass. However, the new downhill bike lane spits bikes out in a position where they are seemingly susceptible to hooks. 99% of cars turn right at the bottom of the hill, where the bike lane ends. Cars misjudging how fast bikes go, or cars that assume cyclists stop where the lane ends might turn right into the bikes path.
On the uphill side, I used to always get 4 feet. Even though the road is unusually wide, many cars now drive right against the white line, and pass much faster than they used to pass me. I take the lane more often than not, but I know if I were to ever get hit there, it could be seen as my fault for not being in the bike lane.
I LOVE the fact there are sharrows all through Polish Hill now. So thanks to whomever was responsible for the Polish Hill sharrows. But the stretch of bike lane has me uneasy. I assume its the city that designs these lanes, and if thats the case, perhaps we should push for more community involvement when deciding where cyclists feel bike markings and lanes would be most beneficial, and where they are not necessarily needed.
Well, I know that bike lanes are seen as more effective for "traffic calming" so they might be an easier sell for political reasons.
But drivers really don't understand that the 4′ rule still applies. On Forbes, it is still illegal to pass a cyclist in the right lane – there just isn't room. But people do it all the time.
Candlestick barriers are only reinforcing the idea that the painted line offers some sort of physical protection. They're not going to keep the drivers any further away. (Unless you were planning to place them 3′ outside the bike lane?!) ;)
I really like the idea of the 4′ passing reminder signage near these lanes though. That would be good.
Cyclists do best when we're recognized as vehicle operators and part of traffic flow and not segregated out by ill-conceived paint stripes that offer no true protection.
Painted bike lanes in the door zone offer all the disadvantages of apartheid with none of the benefits. To me, they don't count as bike infrastructure. Stripes on the ground are concepts that the car-driving public has not decided to accept, and they offer no safety to a cyclist.
My personal decision (and other reasonable people may find a different conclusion, of course) is to take the lane. Use of the bike lane is not mandatory.
If you don't feel safe in the bike lane, just take the lane, and treat the honks as an audible signal that the motorist sees you. Wave hello.
The bike lane on South Braddock shouldn't be less than 5′. If it is then the people who put it in made a mistake.
Vannevar, please describe what the advantages of apartheid were.
Quite right, Scott. Instead of saying,
Painted bike lanes in the door zone offer all the disadvantages of apartheid with none of the benefits.
I very much should have said,
Painted bike lanes in the door zone offer all the disadvantages of apartheid and additional risk.
I regret my poor writing.
Cheers, V.
That parking is pretty long term parking, meaning it services 8-10 hour jobs not a business district which attracts higher parking turnover. Certainly doors open occasionally on Friendship Ave, but not very often.
^ So now we're supposed to take the temperature of the cars engine block as we approach to determine the likelihood of a car door opening? I treat EVERY door as though it will open the instant I get to it. Use the full lane.
Vannevar wrote:Quite right, Scott. Instead of saying,
Painted bike lanes in the door zone offer all the disadvantages of apartheid with none of the benefits.
I very much should have said,
Painted bike lanes in the door zone offer all the disadvantages of apartheid and additional risk.
I regret my poor writing.
Cheers, V.
no, what you should have done was not compare bike lanes to apartheid. in what world would anyone consider that a reasonable comparison? all the disadvantages? really?
Some other people do talk about bicycles and apartheid; you could google those terms. For instance, these folks write about bicycle apartheid in terms of placing bike-share stations in affluent white neighborhoods rather than in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and that's consistent with the traditional use of the term.
This flickr image has the caption, "While woman says bike lanes = apartheid, Hart Fisher looks on". So somebody else considers the usage reasonable.
Here's why I use that term. Some may disagree, and that's not personal. This is the internet, people disagree.
With bike lanes, the Cyclist is assigned a subordinate place.
The Cyclist should know their place.
If they stray out of their place, the Drivers know that the cyclist deserves what they get.
The Drivers are fully Entitled to stray across the cyclist's place whenever they "need" to (or want to) – to get around stopped traffic, to park, to rush, to unload, to open their doors, to avoid any delay.
The Drivers can brush right next to the cyclist in the striped bikeway.
The bikeway does not permit any left turns. Only Drivers may make left turns.
When there's not enough room for the bike lane, it disappears.
We don't have enough room for "your kind here"
What the bikelane delivers is "segregated lanes". We call them segregated facilities. If you prefer to use "segregated" rather than "apartheid", I can support that. Most bike infrastructure types readily use the S-word.
That "bike lane" is yours, Mr/Ms Cyclist, until somebody in a car wants it. Then it's theirs, for driving or opening doors or parking. And you should accept that.
Because the Drivers have given you some place on the road, just like some small place on the back of the bus, Cyclists should feel grateful and show submissive respect.
Don't be getting uppity. Don't you dare be making any left turns in the lane.
Because if you do get uppity, they'll kill you. And they'll sympathize with the poor Driver who has to live with that emotional experience.
I don't mean any offense. That's how I feel about it.
Apartheid seems a bit strong. We do get treated reasonably decently, at least compared to how blacks were treated in South Africa (or in the US for that matter).
But there (and here) there's been progress. You have to work at it and get people to deal with you. We'e getting there. I prefer to think about it from Gandhi's perspective:
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
I'd like to believe we're at stage 3, and within sight of stage 4.
That's not Gandhi, it's some union leader. Look it up.
BTW, anyone comparing bike lanes to apartheid, or complaining about the comparison, is flirting with Godwin's law. Just saying.
+1 Vannevar. Still, I'm grateful for the bike lanes if only for their "drivers, there are bikes around here" awareness value. I too have been cited by Drivers when I strayed out of the painted bike lane to avoid the door zone or to make a left turn. When we've had a conversation as a result, I've explained why I strayed. Maybe their understanding improved as a result.
hm. On the interwebs (which I checked at the time), it's popularly attributed to Gandhi . But with a bit of work I did find this:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism.
There is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein:
"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America."
— Proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1918), p. 53 *
The Gandhi-sh version is more succinct and definitely makes for a punchier quote (as happens with many such pronouncements). I still stand by my appraisal of where we stand. And on the whole I'd rather we didn't have to go through those burning or monument stages; I'm happy with just getting some respect on the road. More generally accuracy trumps effect, always.
I agree with the Godwin flag, though I'm not sure who lost (or won) since we all seem to be on the same side relative to the them.
Ahlir:we all seem to be on the same side relative to the them
There are people who believe (for instance) that describing the gay rights movement in comparison to the civil rights movement, and/or describing same-sex marriage relative to miscegenation laws is not appropriate.
Personally, I get the similarities and the impact while recognizing the vast differences, and I see both the similarities and differences with the bike lanes issue. The metaphor works for me in a year of dead cyclists. The status quo is killing us and society finds that acceptable.
Godwin Himself says his Rule has been twisted beyond anything he intended; all Godwin wrote was: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. " link1, link2.
To bring it back to the OP's comment (if I understand it rightly, Bike Lane Less Safe Than Sharrows), I think bike lanes are a dangerous, second-class construct that fosters misconceptions and negative outcomes; that sharrows are much better in terms of maintaining presence of mind among the Drivers; and (imo) bikes belong in the lane.
My compliments and respect to you all. Cheers, V.
Hi Scott – it might be 5′ but there's junk in the gutter and sewer grates I usually dodge because I'm chicken to ride over them – it feels pretty narrow to me. I'll take a better look at it next week and let you know if it's actually too narrow.
@Vannevar: i recognize that the difference is in degree, not kind. however, i also feel that the difference in degree is so significant, and the emotions tied up in that difference so great, that the comparison is offensive. apartheid is one of the few words in our language that has a general definition and yet is almost universally used to refer to one thing. at some point, that will surely change, but for the time being, co-opting the word is going to alienate potential allies, at best.
and to those complaining about the complaining, at least we're not complaining about the complaining about the complaining.
Vannevar wrote:I think bike lanes are a dangerous, second-class construct that fosters misconceptions and negative outcomes; that sharrows are much better in terms of maintaining presence of mind among the Drivers; and (imo) bikes belong in the lane.
In all cases?
As I see it, sometimes bike lanes are the better choice, sometimes sharrows. I'm not happy they're going with sharrows on West Carson, for instance. I'd really like a segregated bike path through there. Second choice for there: bike lanes; third: sharrows; fourth: nothing. But I'd rather see sharrows on westbound Friendship, not a bike lane.
Are you happy they're putting sharrows on West Carson instead of bike lanes?
For me, which of the two is best depends on whether there are parked cars, many intersections, the road's slope, car speed, number of lanes, width of the various lanes, maybe other factors.
How often drivers open doors into a bike lane isn't as important as the mere fact that they can. For me, that's enough to make the bike lane on westbound Friendship unsafe.
The bike lane on Beechwood is often in the door zone, but Beechwood is wide enough that cars can give me 4 feet when I ride on its left edge, or just outside, to clear the door zone. Not so with Friendship. There's no safe way to use the bike lane.
Everyone needs to realize that all of us in North America, from Janette Sadik Kahn to the Yinzer driving the quad cab 4X4 Ford, are in the toddling stages of the learning process. I think Scott has said this before – we put SOMETHING in place, see how it works, and continue to adjust and improve. I think the OP started things off quite constructively and usefully. It would be good if everyone could view the comments not as 'complaining' about the infrastructure, but as part of this process.
Even if we had the luxury of having the world's most brilliant European traffic planner, omniscient and omnipresent, on call to identify and propose the ultimate solutions to which kind of paint line goes where, even they would be confounded by the belligerent and uncooperative society we are working within. We Americans have been quietly taught to walk around with our hands on our triggers, always alert to the possibility of someone taking a thing that might be ours, rather than considering a solution that might be best for all of us.
I had to put that last bit in because I didn't want anyone thinking I woke up with rose colored contacts in.
Steven wrote:In all cases?
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Are you happy they're putting sharrows on West Carson instead of bike lanes?
Since you asked: Yes, and Yes, if you mean painted bike lanes.
I think that paint-striped bike lanes are dangerous for reasons already stated. Given a choice between painted bike lanes and sharrows, I'll prefer sharrows every time.
Jersey-barrier segregated bike lanes (for instance, SC) are completely wonderful on streets that appropriately have speed limits over (say) 25 mph. I would be pleased to see that on West Carson Street.
Peace out, V.
I, for one, would much prefer a painted bike lane to sharrows on West Carson (given that there's no parking). I don't think sharrows mean anything to most drivers, if they see them at all. But a painted bike lane marks the edge of the driving lane, and at least creates some space motorists don't normally go.
Except the bike lane ends abruptly and puts you right into a curb around 10th st
I would vastly prefer to have bike lanes on practically all streets in Pittsburgh rather than sharrows on practically all streets.
Are there current bike lanes that are not ideally installed: yes.
Are there cases where sharrows are useful and helpful in the current infrastructure: absolutely.
But my ultimate goal is not the enabling of people who can ride at 18 mph to more easily ride in city traffic. That's a good goal and we're making good progress toward that, and one which I personally appreciate and make use of on a daily basis.
My ultimate goal is creating a city where everyone feels safe to ride in the city, regardless of their speed or riding-with-car-traffic confidence.
I want my 8-year to be able to ride to school.
I want my partner to feel perfectly comfortable riding to the store to pick something up. I want my 70-year colleague to be able ride to work. And, I want a city in which everyone else thinks these things are all perfectly reasonable things to do.
Bike lanes, separated paths/cycleways where appropriate, quiet safe streets that are safe to ride on, and intelligently designed intersections that safely support the interplay of all modes of traffic are all important parts of this future.
The bike lane on Braddock is at least 5′ from the curb. I did a quick measurement this morning on my way into work.
Personally I have found that my commute on Braddock Ave is more enjoyable with the lane and sharrows. I used to have cars overtaking me to pass others on the right or turn on a regular basis especially at rush hour. Since the road markings have been put in I have not had this happen.
As for cars passing too close. I can not say that it is more or less than before the lane went in. I too had many close calls on Braddock Ave and Forbes Ave. These close passes have happened with bike lanes but also happened before they went in. My feeling is probably less but I have no data to back that up.
Agreed that it is a loaded term, with a lot of baggage, most of it negative. Probably not the best term to use.
But I think V's point-by-point depiction of what he meant by that term in his post a few posts up on this page (quick link) is a more objective analysis of what's really going on.
I think I've said this in three posts in the last few days: We have a long way to go. Hackles are raised. Plenty of yinzers in 4×4 trucks who don't give a rat's ass about pansy cyclists, spandex or not. Plenty of damn fools (see my suffer-fools-gladly thread) whose minds won't be changed at all, ever. They're both going to give us shit, much the same way as a black person in Pretoria or Selma would have been (or still may be) treated. There are still people who oppose miscegenation.
Just never mind them. One of them may well yet kill one of us, and have no idea why they got a vehicular homicide charge. I am really trying to think positively, but it's hard.
Every piece of infrastructure we put out there makes it easier for someone else to get around. Every cyclist who joins our ranks makes it harder for the haters to ignore us. Those who hate the most are also the oldest, so eventually they will die out, mainly.
Like it or not, the terms apartheid and segregated are apt. A good many people's minds can be changed. Lots more of them. Work on them.
"Those who hate the most are also the oldest, so eventually they will die out, mainly."
In a particularly heated argument on race relations years ago I told my uncle that unless he could change his mind, the world would be a better place when he died. The station wagon filled with family members got real silent for a long time.
Can we bring this thread back on topic.
The primary debate ITT (bike lanes vs sharrows) seems to be lifted straight from a Yehuda Moon comic I read at least 2 years ago.
I strongly believe that this "debate" is the cyclists' version of "cut or uncut." It's pointless to argue about, because no matter how you see it, someone's getting the shaft.
Um, not touching that one, Jay…
But are there national standards for bike lanes (width etc.)? That we can simply argue about which lanes are out of spec.
For the record, I think sharrows are great, as are lanes. Even better is how the two can be made to work in concert, like on Liberty near the Bloomfield Bridge.
Ahlir wrote:First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.I'd like to believe we're at stage 3, and within sight of stage 4.
I'd say we are at the beginning of stage three.
It's only been a year or two since there were people that would ask with a sneer on their face every time they saw me, "Are you still riding your bike?"
I'm thinking we'll go through a NYC-type phase, where bikers get ticketed for any tiny non-life-threatening violation and drivers continue to be unchecked in their awful behavior.
JaySherman5000 wrote:the cyclists' version of "cut or uncut."
Well said. I went looking for the Yehuda Moon comic, couldn't find it, but I did come across this-
@Vannevar: After some searching, I think the specific comic I was "remembering" doesn't actually exist. When I used to read YM, I would often read the comments, and that's where I was steered to John Forester. My brain must've amalgamated the YM comic with the debate that raged through its comment section.
From the Forester site: "Bikeways neither make cycling much safer nor reduce the skill required. They probably do the reverse.
Government knows that bikeways don't make cycling safer, but it uses the public superstition that they do."
et cetera, et cetera, and so on, ad nauseum…
The best "compromise argument" can be boiled down thusly:
Bike lanes are not the safest option, but they promote cycling. And the more cyclists there are on the road, the more aware of them motorists will become, and the better off all cyclists will be.
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Error 403 Forbidden — it may be that you have to link the page the image was posted to. A lot of comics, especially older ones that date to when bandwidth was much more expensive, require this to keep their costs down and prevent hotlinking.
(A couple related blog posts: f%^# you, john franklin ; Forester v. Facts ; Franklin and Forester quotes, in a Dutch context)
clicking the image works fine in my browser, maybe it's a board issue? anyhoo, here's the page:
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Food will be provided by local and regional chefs or commercial vendors. Musicians and dance groups reflecting the various cultures of Yuma and Mexico will provide entertainment throughout the evening. The beer/wine garden will have options of full beverages or sampling size.
Part of the entertainment consists of the Yuma Chopped Championship. High school culinary teams will be competing on stage. The teams will have to create a hot or cold appetizer in 30 minutes on stage. Their appetizer will be scored by three judges.
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Für unser erstes Interview haben wir uns UG, den Gründer und Chef des spanischen Independent Labels Thronerecords ausgesucht. Wir haben ihn zu seiner Arbeit als Labelbetreiber und seiner Affinität zum Vinyl befragt und er stand uns Rede und Antwort. Im Folgenden könnt ihr seine sympathischen Ansichten und Ausführungen lesen.
what was the reason for you to start a record label?
I used to run in the 90's another different label before Throne. I felt really boxed in within a couple of musical styles, while personally I liked quite a lot of different bands and music styles, you know. So, I decided to pack the other label off, and started Throne Records in the beginning of the 2000's, with a clear focus on attitude / intention instead of purely musical style. Along these years I've released some of the fastest bands in the world, as well as some of the slower ones! Also, some others non-related with speeds at all. So you can see the whole point. Therefore, the main reason why I started Throne up, was to release records I would buy myself if I wasn't running a label.
do you sign bands that you like personally? if not, what music do you listen to privately?
99.9% of the priority when releasing a band is that I like them quite a lot on a personal level. As Throne is a one-man project, it all relies on my own personal taste, that's it. Very rarely I helped out friends even though I was not that much into their stuff. I don't count this as a mistake, because it feels good to help out people you respect, you know… but since some years ago I've seen there are enough labels and resources around which enable every single band to release something, so I decided to focus only on what I really like, you know… When at home or going to live shows, I listen to all the types of music you can imagine when seeing my releases' catalog, and many other styles I really like which I don't/can't release due to lack of funds, resources, or knowledge. The list would be endless, believe me. My father was a local musician, while my mother was a local actress, so I was exposed to a lot of different stuff while I grew up…
do you have a favourite release on thronerecords?
Hahaha… who do you love most; mammy or daddy? Actually, yes, I have a favourite Throne release; always the next one!
if you were free to choose, which band would you sign for thronerecords?
I actually release most of the bands I'd like to! I'm really fullfilled and satisfied with the bands I'm releasing, honestly. That suits perfectly for a small underground/DIY label like Throne.
our personal evaluation is that there are currently more vinyl sales than a few years ago. what's your personal view about vinyl purchases?
Well, as some of you may know, I decided to stop releasing CD format a couple of years ago, more or less. Instead, I tried to focus on the only music format I've always liked, always trusted in. I grew up in the 70's and 80's with my father's vinyls and my own ones, never liked tapes back at the time (when I was a teenager I felt stupid to pay the same amount for a vinyl than for a pro-cassette release, I always thought vinyl was THE format). I'm not against CDs at all, it's just that I personally only buy vinyl, therefore I started to distribute more and more vinyls despite of cds, and ended up releasing vinyl only as a natural progression. I think CDs sell quite more units seeing it from a global point of view (I mean, counting all commercial type of music). But vinyl gained more and more recognition within underground styles. Yes. I think it's very positive because bands and labels will have to focus more on the release itself, whereas artworks, the whole sleeve format, analog sound, etc etc. It's a victory for the true lovers of music, from my point of view. Of course, there are also shitty vinyl releases with no effort whatsoever in the artwork, package, sound quality, etc. But when a label and a band cares about all these aspects, you've got an unbeatable format there: vinyl!
what was your first self bought record?
I was 9 years old, and I remember this as if it was 1 year ago, believe me. I saved all the christmas money and bought Motörhead's "no sleep 'til Hammersmith". It was 1983.
what are your plans for the near future?
Well, this year 2010 seems to be one of the funniest and more hectic ones, if not the most since I started the label! You know, these sort of chances that happens very rarely. Like a snowball. I'm counting the days now for the SUMA "ashes" 2×12″ and CONAN "horseback battle hammer" 12″ get delivered from the pressing plant. Besides that; from May til the end of the summer, I should release the following if everything's OK:
LUDICRA "the tenant" 2×12″
LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER "buscando una respuesta" 12″ (this is the first and last repress ever of this old Throne's title, in order to celebrate their first album for Relapse Records)
JARBOE "mahakali" 2×12″
NADJA "skin turns to glass" 2×12″
Afterwards, with no time schedule set:
NEKROS debut 12″ (great swedish bands with the main head behind Tyrant and Arcana)
GRIEF "torso" 2×12″ (official repress)
GRIEF "miserably ever after" 2×12″ (official repress)
TARANTULA HAWK a couple of vinyls with unreleased stuff.
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My thanks go out to all the people who've cared about, assisted, contemplated and appreciated whales in general. Also to those who've had the sensitivity to wonder what the whales want or need – taking a moment to pause automatic human-doing and instead wish to know the animals' wishes.
So, what do whales want at times of beaching? Obviously, the answer will be different each time, depending on the circumstance, causal factors, individuals and the collective (which is a very strong influencing factor in whale culture.)
The mass stranding of 20 false killer whales on Noordhoek Beach last month was challenging for all concerned, and has raised many questions and voices. The human voices are the loudest – and the most conflicted. What I'm about to write is intended to give voice to the whales. In my professional life as an animal communicator I'm often involved in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation cases, in the interests of helping the animals and human understanding.
A simple misnavigation
When I and another animal communicator, Wynter Worsthorne, connected with the whole group who beached, we both got similar senses from them. The reason for the beaching was them being thrown off track in their navigation. They couldn't maintain the original course they had set – and so found themselves in trouble in shallow water, with stress and confusion causing the final beaching. Those who were able to swim away didn't want to leave their family of podmates.
The whales who beached were not unhealthy or sick. They had not been subjected to a sonic boom that might have caused them physical pain and malfunction. Their echolocation was working perfectly. Something else, almost magnetic in quality, caused a straying from course. The whales do not know the origin of the disturbance, and neither do I. I simply empathically connect with their experience – so if they don't know, I don't know. Back in the human world our scientists would best be able to comment on what could cause such an effect – but to the whales, it's a mystery.
Of the 20 whales who beached, some died naturally, some were euthanased in situ after veterinary evaluation, and the remaining five were transported by road to the naval base on the opposite coast. Here they were loaded onto boats and taken out to calmer seas, where they were successfully released and seen strongly swimming away together in formation.
Too weak for deeper waters
A couple of hours after that I connected telepathically with the five survivors, only to have them tell me they were going to beach again and wanted to die. They asked me to come find them physically so that I could help accelerate that process and support them in their transition.
I phoned a friend to help with the drive and search and we set off into the dark unknown. A few kilometres into our coastal drive, we stopped in a parking lot and I tuned in again to ask where they were. The feeling came back that we should go around one more corner. After doing that, I felt a strong pull to my left so we doubled back at the first road we could find, and discovered a beach I didn't know existed – with three whales struggling in the shallows.
They were suffocating, drowning and in convulsions of physical distress. When I asked why they wanted to die after being successfully rescued earlier in the day, they conveyed that the trauma of what they'd been through in the day was too much to survive. Well-meaning and even appropriate intervention with all its logistical elements plus the manhandling, had been too much. Too long out of the water, too much stress, etc.
It was obvious that these three whales were near their end. They did not want to be re-floated and were highly stressed by an attempt to do so. Once we'd alerted the City of Cape Town authorities to come down to the beach, we were able to support the whales' breathing somewhat in the rough surf conditions and furthermore offer them the energetic support they wanted. That means calm energy, quietness, good intentions and compassionate witnessing. It does not mean physical holding or comfort (which humans often project onto wild animals who really do not want to be groped or "cuddled" by humans).
20 Whales accounted for
Thanks to the tenacious efforts of the already-exhausted City rescue lead, the distressed whales were mercifully euthanased in the early hours of Monday morning. The remaining two rescued whales died later that morning elsewhere. Sadly, they are now all accounted for.
So, if the question is "What did these whales want?" then the answer is that initially they didn't want to die. However it was inevitable for many of them due to the stranding itself. The rescue attempts were well-meaning and valiant, but ultimately too stressful for those five whales to survive on top of what they'd already been through.
One of the lessons from all of this is that Cape Town should look at adopting a version of the international protocol on dealing with marine mammal strandings, to aid the timing and quality of decision-making in times of crisis. Currently so much energy is spent on faction-fighting (yes, even between the non-profit and conservation organisations) and general disarray on the day that a clear path to assisting the animals isn't easy. Literally (due to the public congesting the beaches and roads) and figuratively.
There's also a lot of difference in opinion about what's best to do – on the day and for countless weeks and months of arguing afterwards. This is where I see animal communication making a major difference to how strandings are handled. By finding out directly from the animal themselves what they want and need, humans can relieve themselves of the enormous and fraught task of decision-making under all sorts of pressures. Most importantly, the animals' individual and collective needs could better be met by the humans genuinely wanting to help them.
For each situation and each individual whale, the answers might be different. There's no point in generalising or theorising. How about we simply ask the whales what THEY want, and then honour their wishes as best we can? That's the kind of rescue that's possible.
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Made from stones collected mainly from the South Island rivers, this labyrinth is styled from a picture of a labyrinth on an angel in Watts Chapel, Compton, Surrey, UK.
This labyrinth was built as my response to September 11th when I suddenly realised that peace in my world begins with me; that I can be the difference that makes a difference and work towards world peace by learning to hold peace in my own heart.
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Walking the Margins
"One step at a time
that's all I need to know.
One foot after the other,
that's all I need to do.
that I am enough as I AM."
from 'Walking the Margins'
Jan Blythe
With a passion for colour on silk and for labyrinths it was a natural extension for me to start painting fabric ones. Bringing colour to the labyrinth has bought a whole new dimension, both in terms of logistics (3x3m is a large surface to work with) and in terms of walking the finished labyrinth. For me, walking these labyrinths has a physical effect on my body. I can feel the colour and the labyrinth working my energy system, re-aligning me.
At the moment I am painting two different labyrinths, one in water colours, the other, fire colours. I am in the process of finding words for them. To me, the two sets of colours I am painting represent the ancestral memories of water (blues, turquoise and violet) and the ancestral memories of fire (gold, oranges and reds).


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To arrive too early in the marsh is an adventure in pure listening; the ear roams at will among the noises of the night, without let or hinderance from eye or hand. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac.
I came across this line and my thoughts went immediately back to pre-dawn moments in the vast coastal marshes of southern New Jersey with Gabrielle during the World Series of Birding. More than even the forest, the sounds of a early morning marsh coming to life are like a symphony.