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Future wars and violent conflicts will be shaped by the inabilities of governments to function as effective systems of resource distribution and control, and by the failure of entire cultures to compete in the post-modern age. The worldwide polarization of wealth, afflicting continents and countries, as well as individuals in all countries, will prove insurmountable, and social divisions will spark various forms of class warfare more brutal than anything imagined by Karl Marx.
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Resource scarcity will be a direct cause of confrontation, conflict, and war. The struggle to maintain access to critical resources will spark local and regional conflicts that will evolve into the most frequent conventional wars of the next century. Today, the notion of resource wars leads the Westerner to think immediately of oil, but water will be the fundamental need of some states, anti-states, and peoples. We envision a need to preserve rainforests, but expanding populations will increasingly create regional shortages of food--especially when nature turns fickle. We are entering the century of "not enough," and we will bleed for things we previously could buy.
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6 April 2009
The Director of National Intelligence last week named Roslyn A. Mazer of the Department of Justice to be the next Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
What makes this an intriguing appointment is that from 1996 to 2000 Ms. Mazer was the first chair of the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), which is among the most successful classification reform initiatives of the last half century. At a time when agency Inspectors General may be asked to assume greater oversight over classification policy, she brings an exceptional depth of knowledge and experience to the subject.
One of the ISCAP's functions is to consider appeals from public requesters for release of information that executive agencies have withheld as classified. Under Ms. Mazer's leadership from 1996 to 2000, the ISCAP declassified information in an astounding 80% of the documents that were presented for its review.
In fact, Ms. Mazer's ISCAP was so successful in overturning spurious classification claims that the Central Intelligence Agency begged for relief from ISCAP jurisdiction. The CIA plea was rejected in a 1999 Office of Legal Counsel decision. But in his 2003 executive order on classification (sect. 5.3f), President Bush granted the CIA a veto over ISCAP declassification rulings.
In a 1998 speech to a conference of intelligence agency classification officials, Ms. Mazer criticized what she termed "the Lewis Carroll element of classification policy" which leads to "keeping classified categories of information that everyone already knows."
During the Cold War, "closed regimes found themselves hopelessly and fatally outpaced by open societies, and ultimately collapsed from exhaustion," she reminded the assembled intelligence officials. "This is the reason why our democracy endures, why we live under the oldest living constitutional democracy, and why we cannot export democracy like bananas to formerly closed societies."
"We prevailed over those societies because of our passion for openness, for trusting our citizens more than we empower our leaders. We celebrate our openness. In fact, it is unnecessary secrecy that is timid and cowardly. Openness is courageous. Be courageous. Be as open as you responsibly can," Ms. Mazer urged.
Ms. Mazer will succeed Edward Maguire, the outgoing ODNI Inspector General who presented his own critique of the ODNI in testimony before a hearing (pdf) of Rep. Anna Eshoo's House Intelligence subcommittee last week ("IG Report Blasts the Director of National Intelligence," Secrecy News, April 2, 2009).
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We are supposedly a democracy, but this country's cloak and dagger past remains a major part of its present and future, writes Bryan Rostron
You discover that you're married to someone you've never met; worse still, dead. South Africans can find themselves trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare if information held by the state is incorrect. But imagine those records were compiled by secret police.
Mysteriously you're stymied at every turn, never allowed to know why. It's also a form of identity theft.
This, in effect is whats happened to many of our most toxic secrets from the past.
They're still buried in files and our new rulers seem almost as devoted as the old regime to keeping those apartheid-era records as far from our gaze as possible.
"I don't think we are doing very well, frankly," says Verne Harris, director of the Nelson Mandela Center of Memory.
"The major reason, I think, has to do with cultures of secrecy. There's a deadly mix of old apartheid personnel – there are still many strong pockets of them – mixing with the culture of secrecy associated with the liberation (movements) under ground and (in) exile. There's a meeting of minds between those old and new spooks."
Intelligence agencies of the democratic era have for years played a cat-and-mouse game with archival experts about the whereabouts, even the existence, of apartheid era security documents.
In many instances, they have simply lied.
Thus no one has any idea of the extent of material available to examine the full history of apartheid. In some cases, the existence of huge caches of vital security agency documents have only been revealed by inadvertent bureaucratic slip-ups.
"The recommendation of the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) was for an archival audit, but that never happened, so we simply don't know what documents are out there," says Piers Pigou, the director of the South African History Archive (Saha)
"But Saha has been able to establish that the military withheld 90 percent of their documents from the TRC, and we found that out entirely by mistake. We asked for three file serious that we knew about and a clerk unwittingly replied: 'No we have 42 file series.'"
"Vast quantities of incriminating state records were shredded or incinerated in the dying days of the National Party government."
In their seminal book Unfinished Business – South Africa, Apartheid and Truth, Terry Bell and Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza state, "In little more than six months in 1993, while political parties of the apartheid state negotiated with the representatives of the liberation movements, some 44 metric tons of records from the National Intelligence Service alone were destroyed. There was so much material that state incinerators could not cope; the furnaces of private companies, such as steel maker Iscor had to also be used. Into these flames disappeared the last vestiges of the voices of thousands of victims."
Grotesquely, the old regime was not the only authority prepared to obliterate precious documentary records of our recent past.
"In 1996 I as part of a team that walked into a room where both old and new spooks were systematically destroying records of the old Bophuthatswana Intelligence service – a year after Nelson Mandela had ordered a moratorium on destroying documents," recalls Verne Harris.
The Saha endured years of official "lies, denials and obsfuscation" trying to trace 34 boxes of TRC files, some of which were regarded as highly sensitive, like that of murdered envoy Dulcie September in 1988. Finally, after much duplicity and denials, the Ministry of Intelligence Services admitted possession and – after a three year legal battle – the files were transferred to the national archives. Half of these files are now in the public domain.
The other half can only be accessed through official applications which, claim archival experts, is effectively a "brick wall"
So what is going on? This is not simply a matter of drawing a line under the past. After all, many of those mentioned in the files are still living and, theoretically, have a right to information about themselves.
Secrets, however, are also political currency. Secrets are power.
There will also be compromising information in the files, not only about the nefarious activities of apartheid officials, but about the ambiguous role of some libeation "heroes" as well, possibly even high ranking current politicians.
Speculation about Joe Modise, the deceased former minister of defense, for example, continue to surface, while Peter Makoba, the later former youth leader who made "admissions" during an ANC security investigation, is still treated as a hero in ANC mythology.
The sad truth is that both the old and new bosses have a vested interest in keeping the past hidden.
The paranoia within the ANC, expecially in exile, is well documented. Much of this culture of secrecy and suspicion seems to survive and thrive today. The debacle over allegations by Mo Schaik that Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy, and the subsequent enquiry which exonerated him, revealed much of this festering, unresolved paranoia.
"Rumour, gossip and insinuation seeped into the inner machinery of the movement, stopping initiatives in thier tracks, always raising questions," wrote Padraig O'Malley in his book Shadows of Difference.
"This was the inevitable result of the movement's having been infiltrated by South African agents, at all levels, and its own awareness of its limited capacity to keep them out."
O'Malley adds: "So deeply had the enemy penetrated the ANC that when the ANC, with the assistance of its own moles in the SB (Special Branch), turned on itself to weed out 'suspects' it did so with the ruthlessness the SB admired. In the process, errors were made, individuals and families ruined, careeers brought to abrupt halts."
"There was a brief, golden era of openness, but since 1999 there has been a distinct closing down," says Verne Harris.
Other countries, mostly former Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe, faced similar dilemmas in the transition from repressive regimes and each dealt with them differently.
Some countries not wanting to destablise national reconciliation, kept secret police files closed for years. Yet this frequently led to a proliferation of rumour and smears -- which, without access to records, could be neither substantiated nor dismissed. Gradually most former Soviet satellites began to open up secret records under a process known as "lustration", taken from the Latin word for ritual purification.
In Poland there are constant new revelations. Last year the Archbishop of Warsaw stepped down after admitting to being an informer during the Communist era. Even Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity and Polands first democratically elected President had to fight charges that he'd been a collaborator. He was cleared, but the taint lingered.
For many former dissidents information in their secret files was extremely painful: perhaps their husband, wife or lover had been informing on them.
Others had to fight for years to clear their names. One of the best known Czech dissidents is Jan Kavan, whose exploits in smuggling material in and out of Prague were legendary. After the Velvet Revolution, Kavan became an MP.
Then it was discovered that his 500-page secret police file claimed that, while he was the London representative of the Union of Czechoslovak Students, he held meeetings with an attache at the embassy who was an agent of the STB, the Czech equivalent of the KGB.
Kavan refused to resign and, after seven years of court cases, cleared his name.
In fact, one counter allegation in the Czech Republic is that some right-wing politicians, many of whome took no part in the resistance against Soviet tyranny, used STB files to make highly selective leaks to smear more liberal politicians, most of whom had been anti-Soviet dissidents like Kavan.
The problem, clearly, is how far can any secret police document be trusted?
"A key difficulty is how much credence one gives to the content of such files -- and to be sensitive to concerns over privacy and confidentiality," agrees Pigou. "I believe the critical factor, however, is a competent information approach that can balance the need for openness with appropriate exemptions.
"At Saha we recognize there is such a thing as a legitimate secret -- we just don't feel that those making these vital decisions in South Africa employ an appropriate balance in their overall attitudes about access," he said.
Personal files that have come to light in South Africa reveal some of the crudity and ignorance of security police judgements.
Barry Streek, the late jounalist, accessed his record (File 3016), to discover a 1971 recommendation, signed by the minister of justice, urging that he be restricted without delay on the basis that: "Streek is clearly a supporter of communism. His whole ideology is one of opposition to and the undermining of the current authority."
In addition to suspect, unnamed sources, there are also the dubious motives of the security handlers themselves. There is always a temptation to build a case (and their own reputation), not to mention the possibility of personal animus. In former Soviet satellites it has been shown that, as Communist regimes crumbled, secret police deliberately and maliciously placed "poison pills" in dissidents files, knowing that later this could ruin their reputation.
Perhaps the most sensational case in Poland, after secret police files were fully opened in 1995, was that of Malgorzata Niezabitowska, a goverment spokeswoman and former Solidarity leader. She denied collaboratinig and insisted she had only been interrogated once for six hours.
"The core of the system was a lie and the systems executors were professionals," said Niezabtiowska. "The knew very well how to make lies look like truth, by mixing both in words and in documents."
A court verdict later ruled she had been registered as a spy but that there was no evidence she was aware of this fact. Clearly there is a great deal of ambiguity contained in all secretive documents.
The first, most complete, revelations were from East German Stasi files after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A major reason for this is that the collapse of the East German regime was rapid and total. West Germany virtually took over, it was like a successful invasion. In most other countries, South Africa included, there's been a more fraught transition: many sensitivities -- and therefore secrets -- had to be balanced and placated. Yet how can we continue, 15 years after our first democratically elected goverment, to accept this protracted silence about so many apartheid-era documents?
The obstruction appears to be a mix of disinterest, incompetence, but above all officialdom's enduring love of secrecy for its own sake.
Pigou points out: "Our Freedom of Information Act is premised on the right to access, except in specific cases. But most bureaucrats consider us an irritation and their starting point tends to be, 'we have no intention of giving you this information... and you can go blue in the face to make your point.' That's not how it was meant to be.
Concealment is the trademark of secret policemen. Not democracy.
Brian Rostron's new novel Black Petals (Jacana) is about a South African archivist who stumbles across a surveillance file on himself -- and doesn't recognise this person at all.
Source: The Sunday Independent, March 15 2009: Sunday Dispatches: Page 13: The Secret Files that Still Haunt SA, by Bryan Rostron


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Old Adam, The Carrion Crow - Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Old Adam, the carrion crow,
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I will be in Colombo until the end of May, teaching from four of their sequences on different nights. Please check out my teaching schedule in the calendar on my blog for up to date classes.
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— Ten doesn't go into three very cleanly or easily. But that's the math facing Coach Juergen Klinsmann and the U.S. soccer team less than three weeks before the 23-man World Cup rosters are due.
Klinsmann invited 30 players to training camp, which began Wednesday at Stanford University. And providing they are all healthy, as many as 20 of those players have a pretty good chance of being on the plane to Brazil.
So that leaves 10 men competing for what may be no more than three spots. And no matter how you do the math, it's not going to be pretty.
"The reason why we took 30 is because we aren't sure yet, simple as that," Klinsmann said Wednesday. "We want to see them come in and compete for the spots. We have 50-50 cases all over the place going on, so the best thing for us coaches is to look first-hand, see them in training, see where they are right now, and then make the decision three weeks down the road."
When Klinsmann coached the German team in 2006, he took only 23 players to World Cup camp. And already this month Brazil and Mexico announced their final teams for Brazil, avoiding the tension, drama and angst that is sure to build around the U.S. team as the June 2 deadline for selecting the final rosters draws near.
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"The next three weeks is definitely about the form that they are in," said Klinsmann, who is promising an intense and physical camp with two-a-day sessions. "And it's a daily competition. It's an awesome competition to be in because it's about going to a World Cup."
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Only an injury will keep goalkeeper Tim Howard from starting in Brazil no matter how he looks in camp, and that won't be known for a while because he was one of 10 players excused from the first workout. Midfielders Michael Bradley and Jermaine Jones, defenders Matt Besler and Fabian Johnson, and forward Clint Dempsey can also sleep easy knowing they will be on the team.
On the other end it would probably take an injury, a miracle or both for defender DeAndre Yedlin, forward Terrence Boyd and midfielders Joe Corona and Maurice Edu to win a spot.
Then there are the question marks. Will the balky knee of Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez, a potential starter in Brazil, be fully healed by the U.S. opener against Ghana on June 16? Is defender Tim Chandler fit after sitting out much of the German season because of torn cartilage in his left knee?
And what about forward Jozy Altidore? Was his disastrous season with Sunderland of the English Premier League an aberration or something more serious?
But it's not always the best players who make the team; tactics and personality also have an impact. Klinsmann has long preferred a 4-3-2-1 alignment, but in last month's friendly with Mexico he benched Landon Donovan and used a diamond midfield to great success. Which formation he decides to go with in Brazil will play a big part in determining who is on the roster.
Then there's versatility, which Klinsmann also values and which could help the case of defender Brad Evans and the Galaxy's Donovan, who may suddenly be among those in need of a strong camp to win a spot on the roster.
And finally cheerleaders who can do a number of things and won't complain if they don't start. Klinsmann calls these players "givers" and the importance he places on their contributions is a big reason why D.C. United's Eddie Johnson isn't in camp and San Jose's Chris Wondolowski is probably going to Brazil.
"It's about the best players that fit into the style that you want to play. And the best group of players," said two-time World Cup defender Alexi Lalas, now a studio analyst with ESPN. "It scares American soccer fans when you leave off what people view as a talented player. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
"Because there was a time not so long ago where there was no debate because we didn't have that type of depth. There are going to be some very, very good players that we don't see down there this summer. And that's OK. I look at that as a sign of progress."
Part of this is a mind game, too. Klinsmann is a big believer that soccer is a mental as well as a physical game, one that demands 24-7 devotion and care. And if keeping his players doubting and on edge through a cutthroat camp allows him to sharpen that edge, so much the better.
Truth is, Klinsmann already has a pretty good idea what his team will look like.
"You want 23 names?" he said last month. "I can give you 23 names right now."
But he won't, of course. Not until June 2. By then the math figures to be a little easier.
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The Next Form of Democracy
Matt Leighninger
How Expert Rule is Giving Way to Shared Governance…and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same
Matt Leighninger
296 pages (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006)
This book describes a shift in American public life: a move away from rule by experts and elected representatives, and toward the direct involvement of citizens in the decisions that affect their communities. Although there is certainly room for debate about the extent, significance, and future of this phenomenon, Matt Leighninger, the executive director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium, makes a compelling case that something new is, in fact, transforming the way in which decisions are made by local governments and school boards, and sometimes even at the state and national levels.
We are all familiar with the frustration involved in the typical public hearing. Individuals and community group representatives step up on the podium and share their responses to a proposed action – in under five minutes each. There is rarely a chance for dialogue. The participants wonder whether officials are listening. Even with governmental bodies that have reputations for being responsive to "citizen input," when controversial or unpopular proposals are on the table, open hostility and impatience are inevitable. This maddening process remains the most typical course for decision making in our country.
The problem is exacerbated by the growing tendency of public bodies to see their communities not as collections of citizens, but rather as individual consumers. They don't engage citizens as potentially active decision makers, but instead seek to meet their needs as consumers of high-quality services. The author describes this trend as consistent with the oft-noted depoliticization of American life, reflected in the steady decline in party affiliation, in electoral participation, and in participation in unions and service and recreational clubs.
Leighninger argues, however, that a countervailing tendency is developing in "shared governance." Although most of his case histories provide positive examples of what shared governance can accomplish, he's not afraid to share stories about limited successes or failures. Herein lies the strength of his book. Leighninger provides sufficient information for readers to draw their own conclusions about the significance of the transformation. In his vision, experiments in shared governance can and should move beyond short-term, single-goal efforts, toward the institutionalization of increased citizen control of the decision-making process.
Another strength of this book is Leighninger's excellent analysis of the issues that citizen empowerment efforts need to address if they are to be successful in recruiting mass participation and actually effect solutions to community problems. His insights should prove useful to citizen activists attempting to create organizations capable of empowering average citizens in the public decision-making process.
Leighninger is careful to distinguish the new movement for shared governance from earlier models intended to empower citizens. For example, the shared governance efforts he discusses need not adhere to the confrontational model pioneered by Saul Alinsky in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in 1930s Chicago, in which have-nots are enlisted in zero-sum games against the establishment. Increasingly, Leighninger writes, all neighborhoods – rich and poor – will benefit from more citizen involvement. In the end, the book may be overoptimistic in its interpretation of the extent and significance of this movement. At one point, the author waxes poetic about the revolution signified by San Jose, Calif., providing each of a number of neighborhood councils with direct control over $50,000 for community improvements. Each of those neighborhoods is more or less the size of a small city, and nobody would be impressed if, say, Santa Cruz, a town of 58,000, announced that the collective neighborhood organizations rather than the elected City Council would get $50,000 to spend on their priorities. The number of citizens involved in Leighninger's examples is less than one tenth of 1 percent of the population of this country.
More critically, the book never really does examine how we can realistically hope to engage citizens in sustained efforts at shared governance in a society that systematically narrows the realm of democratic decision making, one that alienates students from the process of their own education and workers from the control of their work. Modern society is pushing us in the opposite direction, creating increasingly anomic communities in which citizens are driven apart by the economic necessity of relocating to new neighborhoods or regions to seek work.
Nonetheless, this book does offer a glimmer of light in what has become a very dark and long tunnel. Many of us who have been engaged in public life, either as public officials or employees, or as citizen activists attempting to empower communities, will have a great deal to learn from this thoughtful assessment. And those of us committed to the democratic experiment can hardly afford to dismiss the potential that exists in shared governance. Indeed, we might benefit from applying what we learn to our own democratic community efforts.
Mike Rotkin is a lecturer and the director of field studies in the community studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has been mayor of Santa Cruz four times and is currently serving his sixth term on the Santa Cruz City Council.


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Alexa & Carlos PenaVega Enjoy Married Life at the Justin Timberlake Show!
Alexa PenaVega perfects the rocker look while hitting up the Justin Timberlake concert at Staples Center on Tuesday night (August 12) in Los Angeles.
The 25-year-old actress was joined in the Hyde Lounge, sponsored by Puma that night, by her hubby Carlos, 24.
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Her Tomorrow People co-star Robbie Amell was also there, with his longtime girlfriend, Chasing Life's Italia Ricci.
In case you missed the news, Alexa just landed a role on ABC's Nashville!
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Australia's Huge Ocean Energy Opportunity
Catching the waves: it's time for Australia to embrace ocean renewable energy
Mark Hemer, et. al., October 17, 2016 (The Conversation)
"…Australia arguably possesses the world's largest wave energy resource, around 1,800 terawatt hours. Most of this is concentrated in the southern half of the continent…To put this in context, Australia used 248 terawatt hours of electricity in 2013-14...Waves aren't the only renewable power source in our oceans. The daily movements of the tides shift vast amounts of water around the Australian coast, and technology for conversion of tidal energy to electricity is more mature than any wave converters…[There are also the less mature technologies of thermal energy conversion] and energy captured from our large ocean currents…To keep us on track to meet our international commitments, members of Australia's Climate Change Authority recently proposed a target of 65% by 2030. This would require a rapid, large scale transition to alternative emission-free energy systems...Wind and solar are currently leading the way, but we'll need other technologies…[W]ave power has only a third of the variability of wind…[and can] be forecast three-times further ahead…[T]he lifetime costs of ocean energy technologies are high…[but experience suggests that costs for wave energy will decrease…" click here for more


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The depiction of Superman in Zack Snyder's movies Man of Steel and Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice have been extremely divisive, with many fans not liking the darker, brooding version of the Man of Steel on the big screen as opposed to the brighter, more hopeful one we're used to in the comic books.
According to Superman actor Hendry Cavill a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, that will change in Justice League. DC legend Geoff Johns was personally responsible for creating a faithful rendition of the comic book character.
Says Cavill, "Geoff and I have been delving into the history of the character to get to the core of who Superman is. This is the first time we see the true Superman. The Superman who is confident, and sure, and full of hope and joy."
Hopefully this ends up being true and the Superman we see in Justice League is not the joyless version we've seen in past films. With the positive early reactions to the movie, however, it seems that we may be getting the version of Superman we want.
Justice League opens in the United States on November 17, 2017. It stars Henry Cavill as Superman, Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg.
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Last week, the 140 Characters Conference (#140conf) was the epitome of the social media echoplex. We were underground, talking about ourselves and the impact that we one day might have on the world. Very often inside the echoplex you'll hear people talking about doing "Twitter research". Usually that research entails looking at their feed of their friends or an RSS search for a hashtag.
Today, the Web Ecology Project has blown every single one of those "research" reports out of the water. "The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days" is a scientific look at two million plus messages produced by Twitter users.
One thing that would have been interesting would be to see messages per location and how that information spread, but the users of Twitter were poisoning that well of information by changing their locations to and/or from Iran in a futile attempt to stop the Iranian government from finding them. All this did was potentially spread misinformation about what was actually going on.
Regardless, click the image to read hard facts about the Iranian election and Twitter.


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Soviet leader Chernenko calls for more nuclear-free zones
Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko, replying Saturday to a letter from a British mayor, declared support for the creation of more nuclear-free zones in the world.
Western diplomats said they considered the message was aimed more at reaffirming that Mr. Chernenko was fully in control than in delivering a specific political message.
Chernenko has officially been on vacation since mid-July. Unconfirmed reports have been circulating that he had returned here for medical treatment.
Cities in Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan, and New Zealand have declared themselves nuclear-free zones. No such zones have been declared in the Soviet Union, and officials have said publicly that such moves are ''not considered necessary'' by the authorities.


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|Map of the Town of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory in 1881
The streets that went east-west were named after United States presidents, beginning with Washington and alternating, first to the north, then south, in order of office. Adams was the first street to the north of Washington, Jefferson the first south, and so on. Things get a little out of order, especially when they came to John Quincy Adams (they already had an Adams street) so they skipped him and went directly to Andrew Jackson.
Indian tribe names were used for north-south streets: Montezuma, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Arivapai, Tonto, Apache, Cortez, Mojave, Papago, Yuma, Cocopah, Hualpai, and Yavapai.
Central Avenue, originally called Centre, later becoming Center followed by Central, is a north-south avenue which was at the center of the original 14 block by 7 block townsite of Phoenix, Arizona Territory. When the City changed the original north-south tribal names to a numbering system, Central was the dividing line: the "Streets" to the east and the "Avenues" to the West. The original townsite was from Van Buren Street on the north to Harrison Street to the south, Apache on the east and Yavapai to the west (fourteen blocks wide by seven blocks deep). These streets and The original townsite was from Van Buren (northern edge) to Harrison Street to the south (fourteen blocks wide by seven blocks deep).
Old-time Phoenix streets original names
Centre Street changed to Central Avenue
Montezuma Street changed to 1st Street
Maricopa Street changed to 2nd Street
Pima Street changed to 3rd Street
Pinal Street changed to 4th Street
Arivapai Street changed to 5th Street (actually, this is a misspelling, the actual Indian tribe is Aravapi)
Tonto Street changed to 6th Street
Apache Street changed to 7th Street
Oregon Street changed to 8th Street
Park Avenue changed to 8th Street
Brill Avenue changed to 10th Street (because they were going to use Brill elsewhere)
Nevada Street changed to 10th Street
California Avenue changed to 11th Street
Arizona Street changed to 11th Street
Franklin Street changed to 20th Street
Chicago Avenue changed to 44th Street
Delano Avenue changed to 48th Street
Cortes Street changed to 1st Avenue
Mojave Street changed to 2nd Avenue
Papago Street changed to 3rd Avenue
Yuma Street changed to 4th Avenue
Cocopa Street changed to 5th Avenue
Hualpai Street changed to 6th Avenue
Yavapai Street changed to 7th Avenue
Lateral 14 changed to 27th Avenue
Christy Road changed to McDowell Road
Tempe Road changed to Van Buren
Olive Avenue changed to Dunlap Avenue (but not in Glendale!)
By the way, Cactus Way was between Central and 1st Street, and Wall Street was between 1st Avenue and Central. Not shown on any maps, but businesses sometimes used these names to indicate their location. Melinda's Alley was also a residential street (and also part of the "Red Light District"), and ran east and west between Monroe and Adams the length of the city, from 7th Avenue to 7th Street.
The road "out of Phoenix" is Grand Avenue, which begins on the original "edge of town" - 7th Avenue and Van Buren, and goes northwest at a 45-degree angle.
The major streets in Phoenix are one mile apart and are indicated on the list.
Phoenix street names going north from downtown
Washington Street (0) - named after the first president of the United States, George Washington.
Adams Street (100 North) - named after our second president, John Adams.
Melinda's Alley - You won't find this on any maps, but it was lined with houses and businesses during the early years of Phoenix. A trace of it remains, as of this writing, as simply a back alley at Central Avenue between Monroe and Adams. In 1902, Charles Poston lived, and died, on Melinda's alley
Monroe Street (200 North) - named after our fifth president, James Monroe.
Van Buren Street (300 North) - Major street. Named after our eighth president Martin Van Buren. It was also known as Tempe Road. As it curves south into Tempe, it turns into Mill Avenue.
Grand Avenue - In 1887 developers from Fresno, California were inspired to create a quick, easy route cutting diagonally from downtown Phoenix to lure settlers to the west side. This avenue runs at a 45 degree angle northwest beginning at Van Buren and 7th Avenue, which was known as Yavapai Street at that time. Original Grand Avenue Addition document from 1887 is here.
Taylor Street (500 North) - named after our 12th president, Zachary Taylor.
Fillmore Street (600 North) - named after our 13th president, Millard Fillmore.
Pierce Street (700 North) - named after our 14th president, Franklin Pierce.
McKinley Street (800 North) - named after our 25th president, William McKinley.
Garfield Street (900 North) - named after our 20th president, James A. Garfield.
Roosevelt Street (1000 North) - Half-mile street. Named after our 26th president, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
Diamond Street - Named after the Diamond Heights addition platted in 1909 by E.J. and Emma R. Bennitt. Original Diamond Heights document is here
Portland Street
Latham Street - Named after H.I. Latham who owned the H.I. Latham Company, a real estate and investments firm and was a prominent booster of Phoenix. He owned 40 acres with his wife Henrietta at the northwest corner of Central and McDowell at the turn of the century.
Moreland Street - This street was originally called Westmoreland, but the West had to be removed to avoid confusion. Otherwise, it would have been East Westmoreland Street, or West Westmoreland Street. Can you blame them? See the original Westmoreland Street here.
Culver Street
Willetta Street
Lynwood Street
Palmcroft - The Palmcroft subdivision was platted in 1927 by Dwight B. Heard and William G. Hartranft on land purchased from J. W. and Sallie G. Dorris. It's still an amazing neighborhood to walk around in today.
Almeria Road
Coronado Road
Granada Road
Granada Road
Palm Lane
Hubbell Street
Holly Street
Monte Vista Road - This is Spanish for "Mountain View" or "View of the Mountain". Monte Vista was a subdivision platted on December 4th, 1908 by Dwight B. Heard, president of the Suburban Realty Company.
Cypress Street
Oak Street
Harvard Street - An Ivy League School, like Yale and Princeton whose names were used in the 1924 subdivision Greenfield Acres created by T.H. and Elsie Greenfield at 16th Street just south of Thomas. Princeton Street appears to be gone now.
Sheridan Street
Yale Street - See Harvard Street above
Encanto Boulevard - Half-mile street. "Enchantment" in Spanish.
Hoover Street
Vernon Avenue
Lewis Avenue
Ashland Avenue
Wilshire Drive - named after Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861 - 1927), who was known by his contemporaries by his middle name, Gaylord, and was a land developer for whom Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles was also named.
Woodward Drive
Virginia Avenue (2600 North)
Cambridge Avenue
Windsor Avenue
Edgemont Avenue
Greenfield Road - From the Greenfield Gardens subdivision platted by T.H., Elsie, Max, and Bonnie Greenfield in 1928. This street runs at an angle parallel to Grand Canal. Look for it as you pass the Creighton Christian Church at 22nd Street, just south of Thomas.
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Thomas Road was also known as West Oleander Avenue.
Country Club Drive - Goes around the Phoenix Country Club, a private golf course, which remains outside of the city limits to this day.
Merrell Street
Verde Lane
Catalina Drive
Avalon Drive
Pinchot Avenue
Earll Drive - Named after E.A Earll who developed Earll Place which was platted in 1929. Earll Place plat map is here
Flower Street
Cheery Lynn
Monterey Way
Campus Drive - Goes around Phoenix College.
Mulberry Drive
|John Preston Osborn
Neri's son, and John's grandson, was Sidney Osborn, the 7th governor of Arizona.
Mitchell Drive
Whitton Avenue - Named after F. E. Whitton, who platted the Whitton Tract in 1910. Original Whitton Tract document is here.
Columbus Avenue
Weldon Avenue
Clarendon Avenue
Indianola - Named by T.M. Earnhart, who platted Indianola Place at 2nd Street in 1909.
Fairmount Avenue
Piccadilly Road
Amelia Avenue
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Monterosa Street
Devonshire Avenue
Heatherbrae Drive
Glenrosa Avenue
Montecito Avenue
Original document showing Turney Avenue from 1893. Transcript of document:
This plat of lots: - Is hereby published as the complete plan and survey thereof and the street upon the recording thereof in the County Recorder's office of the Country of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona, is dedicated to the public for their use forever. The premises hereby subdivided consists of the North half (1/2) of the South-west quarter (1/4) of Section number Twenty (20), township number Two (2) North of Range number three (3), Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, County of Maricopa, Territory of Arizona.
Witness my hand this seventh day of November, 1893, R.H. Woolf.
Recorders Office, Phoenix, Maricopa Co., A.T.
Filed and recorded request of J.N. Evans, Nov. 7th, 1893, at 2:30 P.M.
Book 2 of Maps Page, Neri Osborn, County Recorder (son of John P. Osborn), by Wm. E. Thomas, Deputy.
Witness my hand this seventh day of November, 1893, R.H. Woolf.
Recorders Office, Phoenix, Maricopa Co., A.T.
Filed and recorded request of J.N. Evans, Nov. 7th, 1893, at 2:30 P.M.
Book 2 of Maps Page, Neri Osborn, County Recorder (son of John P. Osborn), by Wm. E. Thomas, Deputy.
Territory of Arizona, County of Maricopa
Before me, O.A. Turney, a Notary Public, in and for said county of Maricopa, on this day personally appeared R. H. Woolf known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 7th day of November, 1893
O.A. Turney, Notary Public
Before me, O.A. Turney, a Notary Public, in and for said county of Maricopa, on this day personally appeared R. H. Woolf known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledge to me that he executed the same for the purpose and consideration therein expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 7th day of November, 1893
O.A. Turney, Notary Public
Roma Avenue
Sells DriveCampbell Avenue - Half-mile street.
Minnezona Avenue - Named by contractor Porter (P. W.) Womack, for a favorite Aunt MINNiE and combined it with AriZONA.
Grand Canal - I know, it's not a street, but many times in old maps it's a good reference. I'm putting it here in this list because this is where is crosses Central, although it crosses different streets elsewhere. And yes, it's Grand Canal, as in Grand Canyon, not The Grand Canal. Built in 1878, they must have thought pretty highly of it, to compare it to Grand Canyon!
Meadowbrook Avenue
Hazelwood Street
Coolidge Street
Highland Avenue
Elm Street
Pierson Street - named by Eugene M. and Lena Pierson, who platted Pierson Place in 1926 at 7th Avenue, just south of Camelback Road.
Mariposa StreetCamelback Road (5000 North) - Major street. Named after Camelback Mountain, which is so named because it looks like a camel lying down.
Reade Avenue - named after Dave Reade, who worked as a salesman for John F. Long.
Pasadena Avenue
Medlock Drive - Named after Floyd W. Medlock, who platted Medlock Place at Central Avenue in 1926.
Orange Drive
Colter Street - Prior to our neighborhood incorporation into the city of Phoenix in the 1950s, Colter Street was named Nile Street, and hence the Nile Neighborhood organization was born.
Oregon Avenue
Georgia Avenue
Vermont AvenueMissouri Avenue - Half-mile street.
Marshall Avenue
San Juan Avenue
San Miguel Avenue
Montebello Avenue
Solano Drive
Rancho Drive
Palo Verde Drive - The palo verde tree is Arizona's state tree. It's Spanish for green tree.Bethany Home Road (6000 North) - Major street. Led to the Bethany Home, way outside the city, near what is now 15th Avenue. The "home" was a tuberculosis sanatorium operated by a religious organization in the early 1900s. The namesake of the home is an ancient town near Jerusalem.
Solicito Lane
Rovey Avenue
Kerridge Lane -
Keim Drive
Rose Lane
Claremont Street
Marlette Avenue
Stella LaneMaryland Avenue - Half-mile street
Sierra Vista Drive
McLellan Boulevard - Named after George W. McLellan, who platted the Washington Homesites in 1925. The map says it was at Alhambra Road.
Tuckey Lane
Krall Street
Krall Street
Ocotillo Road - A type of cactus that is native to the Sonoran Desert.
Lawrence Road
Lamar Road
Flynn Lane - Named by James L. Diggs, owner of Arizona Paving and Grading, after his wife Eula Flynn Diggs.Glendale Avenue (7000 North) - Major street. The road to Glendale, Arizona. Glendale Avenue becomes Lincoln Drive when you pass 22nd Street going east, entering the city of Scottsdale. The city of Glendale started as a temperance colony in the 1800s, and in spite of an excellent and active historical society, no one really knows why the city was named Glendale. Maybe it just sounded good. Glendale Avenue, in the city of Glendale itself , was originally Washington Street.
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Lincoln Drive - named after John C. Lincoln, a self-made millionaire, who came to Arizona in 1931 when his wife, Helen, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He founded the Desert Mission in Sunnyslope, which became John C. Lincoln Hospital. He also helped establish a resort in Paradise Valley called The Camelback Inn.
Cactus Wren - The state bird of Arizona.
Glenn Drive
Palmaire Avenue
Myrtle Avenue
Northview Avenue - The name comes from Northview Acres, a subdivision that was created in 1946.
State Avenue
Gardenia DriveOrangewood Avenue - Half-mile street. Named after The Orangewood Nursery Company, which was managed by Burle J. Jones in 1912.
Vista Avenue
Kaylor Drive - Named after the Kaylor family that settled and built a home on that street.
Kaylor Drive - Named after the Kaylor family that settled and built a home on that street.
Wagon Wheel Drive
Kaler Drive
Morten Avenue
Belmont Avenue
Frier Drive (7700)
Hayward Avenue
Desert Park Lane
Augusta Avenue
Linger LaneNorthern Avenue (8000 North) - Major street. This is the northern edge of the Salt River Valley. The southern edge is South Mountain.
Loma Lane
Harmont Drive
Royal Palm
Griswold Road
El Camino Drive - Spanish for "The Road".
Las Palmaritas Drive
Arizona Canal. Yes, I know it's not a street, but on old maps it makes an excellent reference. I'm putting it in this list here because this is where it crosses Central Avenue, although it crosses other streets elsewhere. Built in 1885, and, like Grand Canal, there is no "the". I guess that's how people talked in those days.
El Caminito Drive - Spanish for "The Little Road".
Echo Lane
Butler Drive - Half-mile street.
Seldon Lane
Orchid Lane
Diana Avenue
Alice Avenue - named after the daughter of the founder of the community of Sunnyslope, William R. Norton.
Lawrence Lane
Golden Lane
Townley Avenue
Puget AvenueDunlap Avenue (9000 North) - Major street. Named after Phoenix Mayor John T. Dunlap. Original document is hereand here. Dunlap becomes Olive Avenue at 43rd Avenue (entering the City of Glendale).
Caron Street - named after Frank and Lenna Caron, who platted the Caron Tract at 4th Street in 1925.
Eva Street - named after Eva Caron, the wife of Ralph D. Caron. This street was named in 1929.
Mission Lane
Sunnyslope Lane - Sunnyslope is a community that has some deep historic roots in Phoenix. You can read more about Sunnyslope here.
Hatcher Road - Named after Robert A. Hatcher, who came to Arizona in 1908 from Florida. The name of this road was changed from Wabash to Hatcher in the late 1940s when the road was paved.
Carol Drive - named by Walter and Hilda Tengen who moved to Sunnyslope from Indiana in 1926.
Vogel Avenue - Originally Olmstead Lane (probably named by the Tengens). About 1938-39, John and Susie Vogel purchased the plot on Olmstead Lane and built three small houses, one for themselves and two others to sell or rent. It was during that time that that Olmstead Lane was renamed Vogel Avenue.
Purdue Avenue - Same as above.Mountain View - Half-mile street. The mountains that you can view to the west are the White Tanks, and the mountains to the east are The Phoenix Mountains.
Ironwood Drive
Cinnabar Avenue
Brown Street
Cheryl Drive
Cochise Road
North LanePeoria Avenue (10600 North) - Major street. The road to Peoria, Arizona. This road doesn't go all the way through east, it ends at 7th avenue, at North Mountain. The road that is its equivalent east of the Phoenix Mountains, picking up again at 24th Street, is Shea Boulevard - named after James A. Shea. James Shea and Harvey Bell (see Bell Road) organized the Paradise Verde Irrigation District in 1916. The town of Peoria, Arizona, was named after Peoria, Illinois, from whence its first settlers came. You can still see the original names of the streets on the west side of Grand Avenue, Washington Street, Jefferson Street, Madison Street, and Monroe. Yep, they are still there! However, Vine Street became 82nd Avenue, Orange Avenue became 83rd Avenue, Peach Street became 85th Avenue, and Almond Street became 86th Avenue. Market Street, east of Grand Avenue, is still there. Walnut Street became 81st Avenue.
Becker Lane
Sahuaro Drive, also spelled Saguaro Drive - The saguaro is the symbol of Arizona, the saguaro cactus blossom is the state flower.
Mercer Lane
Desert Cove Avenue
Shangri La Road
Yucca StreetCholla Avenue - Half-mile street. Cholla is a type of cactus which is native to the Sonoran Desert.
Lupine Avenue
Sierra Street
Altadena Avenue
Sunnyside Drive
Poinsettia Drive
Poinsettia Drive
Laurel Lane
Paradise Drive
Butte Drive
|Cactus, Arizona Post Office
Wethersfield Road
Charter Oak - refers to a monument in Hartford, Connecticut where the city charter was hidden to keep it out of the hands of the enemy.
Bloomfield - a city in Connecticut
Columbine Drive
Larkspur Drive
Corrine Drive
Windrose Drive
Aster Drive
Dahlia Drive
Wood Drive
Wood Drive
Sweetwater Avenue - Half-mile street.
Captain Dreyfus Avenue - Only east of Cave Creek Road. Do you think it could be from the famous Captain Alfred Dreyfus affair in the late 1800s and early 1900s in France? The French writer Émile Zola supported Captain Alfred Dreyfus who had been falsely accused and imprisoned on Devils Island. The case was re-opened after Emile Zola (see below) went to the aid Captain Dreyfus.
Surrey Avenue
Pershing Avenue - named after John Joseph Pershing "Black Jack" (1860 - 1948), general of the U.S. Army who served in the Apache and Sioux Indian wars, Spanish American war in the Battle of San Juan Hill, the Philippine-American War in the Moro Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese War, the Mexican Revolution in the Pancho Villa Expedition, and World War I.
Willow Avenue
Alexandria Way
Emile Zola Avenue - Émile Zola was a French writer during the late 1800s. That explains who Émile Zola is, but it doesn't explain why the street was named after him!
Victor Hugo Avenue - Victor Hugo was a 19th century French poet.
Joan de Arc Avenue - Joan de Arc, who lived in the 15th century, was a martyr and a national heroine of France. Again, that's who she was, but it doesn't explain why the street was named after her!
Eugie Avenue
Voltaire Avenue
Sharon Avenue
Rue de Lamour Avenue - "Street of Love" in French. If you live on that street, I hope that it is true for you!Thunderbird Road (13800 North) - Major street. Thunderbird Road ran by a U. S. Army Air Corps training field during WWII.
Greenway Road (15400 North) - Major street. Named after John Greenway, Arizona pioneer. His statue is in the Hall of Statues for Arizona, although most Arizonans have never heard of him. John Greenway's web page is here. By the way, there is another Greenway Road in south Phoenix. Yes, it's still there, you can find it on Google maps. Look for it just east of Central between Southern and Baseline, south of Vineyard. How Phoenix could have two roads with the same name, I don't know. I wonder if it confuses the Post Office! I suppose that's what zip codes are for.
Bell Road (17000 North) - Major street. Named after Harvey Bell, a local farmer. He and James Shea (see Shea Boulevard) organized the Paradise Verde Irrigation District in 1916.
Hartford Avenue - named after the city in Connecticut, which was named by my 11th great-grandfather Samuel Stone
Lindner Drive (in the Belair Subdivision) - Named after Carl Henry Lindner, Jr. (April 22, 1919 – October 17, 2011), a Cincinnati businessman and one of the world's richest people. According to the 2006 issue of Forbes Magazine's 400 list, Lindner was ranked 133 and was worth an estimated $2.3 billion. He was a client of Charles Keating (see below)
Keating Circle (in the Belair Subdivision) - Named after Charles Keating, who is most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.
Continental Drive (Near the Belair Golf Course) - Named after The American Continental Mortgage Company
Union Hills Drive (18600 North) - Major street. Named after the Union Hills. Not as impressive as Camelback Mountain, but hilly.
Beardsley Road (20200 North) - Major street. Named after William H. Beardsley, a farmer in the north valley. He headed up the group that raised 3.3 million dollars in 1925 to build the dam on the Agua Fria river, which was designed by Carl Pleasant.
Deer Valley Road (21800 North) -Major street.
Pinnacle Peak Road (23400 North) - Major street. Named after Pinnacle Peak, a granite summit, which is just east of Pima Road in Scottsdale.
Happy Valley Road (25000 North) - Major street.
Jomax Road - named after Josephine and Maxine Durham
Culpepper Drive (in Anthem) - named after Detective Culpepper from the 1963 movie *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*
Phoenix Streets going south from downtown
Jefferson Street (100 South) - named after Thomas Jefferson, our third president.
Gold Alley - named after Yugoslavian immigrant Martin Gold. Not any any maps, it was a residential and business section between 5th and 7th Streets, mainly Hispanic.
Jackson Street (300 South) - named after Andrew Jackson, our seventh president.
Harrison Street - Half-mile street. Named after our 9th president, William Henry Harrison. This is where the railroad tracks are.
Buchanan Street (500 South) - named after James Buchanan, our 15th president.Lincoln Street (600 South) - named after Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president.
Grant Street (700 South) - Major street. Named after Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president.
Sherman Street
Hadley Street
Tonto Street - named after the Tonto Apache Indian tribe. Central Park, which is on Tonto between 1st and 2nd Street, originally platted in 1910, is still there.Buckeye Road (1200 South) - Major street. The road to Buckeye, Arizona.
Yavapai Street - named after the Yavapai Apache Indian tribe.
Yuma Street - named after the Yuma Indian tribe, today known as the Quechan.
Papago Street - named after the Papago Indian tribe.
Pima Street - named after the Pima Indian tribe.
Sonora Street - named after the province of Sonora, Mexico
Cocopah Street - named after the Cocopah (Kwapa) Indian tribe.
Mojave Street - named after the Mojave Indian tribe.
Apache Street - named after the Apache Indian tribe.
Durango Street - named after Durango, Mexico.
Hess Avenue
Hilton Avenue
Gibson Lane
Watkins Street
Lower Buckeye - Major StreetUniversity Drive (2800 South) - Major street. The road through Arizona State University in Tempe.
Magnolia Street
Pioneer Street
Victory Street
Elwood Street
Raymond Street
Fulton Street
West Road
Illini Street
Jones Avenue
Southgate Avenue
Riverside Street
Pueblo Avenue
Hildalgo Avenue - Named by Walter R. and Blanche F. Strong, who platted the subdivision Hildago Place in 1927.
Romley Road - named after Elias Romley, who is also the namesake of Romley Hall at Brophy College.
Southern Avenue (6000 South) Major street. Presumably the name indicated the southernmost avenue of the city.
Wong Way - named after Phoenix City planner Jimmy Wong. Another example of slipping in a bit of humor by the people who name the streets!Baseline Road (7600 South) - Major street. This is the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS) line that divides Arizona north and south, created by the Land Ordinance of 1785. The original main survey line of the valley started from a point atop a small butte east of what is now the Phoenix International Raceway. The rest of the valley was measured from a line extending east and west of that point, called "the Salt River and Gila Baseline and Meridian." Fortunately for sign makers, the name adopted for the road following that line was shortened to Baseline Road.
Valencia Drive - A Valencia is a type of orange
Harwell Road
Beautiful Lane
Gary Way
Beverly Road
Ian Drive
Desert Lane
Latona Road
Gloria Drive
Nagdali Lane
Magdalena Lane
|J.C. Dobbins
Dobbins Road - Major street. Named after J.C. Dobbins, chairman of the Phoenix city planning commission.
Lindner Avenue - In Dobson Ranch, named after Cincinnati businessman Carl Linder.
Saratoga - In Dobson Ranch
Keating Avenue - In Dobson Ranch, named after businessman Charles Keating, who was convicted in December 1991 of 17 counts of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy. In July 1993, Keating was given a 12½ year sentence. The judge also ordered Keating to pay restitution of $122 million to the government, but Keating said he was $10 million in debt and had no assets to sell. There is also a Keating Drive in the Bellair neighborhood of Glendale north of Bell Road at 45th Avenue.
Houston Avenue
Guadalupe Road (9200 south) - Major street.
Grove Parkway
Elliot Road (10800 south) - Major street.
Warner Road (12400 south) - Major street.
Ray Road (14000 south) - Major street.
|Dr. Chandler
Pecos Road - Major street.
Germann Road - Major street.
Queen Creek Road - Major street.
Ocotillo Road - Major street. An ocotillo is a desert plant, native to the Sonoran Desert.
Chandler Heights Road - Major street.
|Governor Hunt
Hunt Highway - Major street. Named after Arizona Governor George W.P. Hunt.
North and south roads in the West Valley
|Nathaniel Dysart
Dysart Road - 13100 West (131st Avenue) Named after Nathaniel Dysart, the rancher who donated the land for the Dysart School.
Litchfield Road - 13900 West (139th Avenue) except for the section between Thomas and Camelback, which is about 14100 West. Named after Goodyear Cotton and Tire executive Paul Litchfield.
How Sarival Avenue got its name
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Below are the the cartoons I drew over the weekend:
One time VP candidate Charlie Crist of Florida has been lack-luster in his support of John McCain in this crucial toss-up state.
The stuffy overture center will book more rock and pop acts to try to stimulate ticket sales. I guess there are just too many people in Wisconsin who would rather watch the Packers than Opera.
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If you are living in limited income housing apartments then you are probably living in a bad neighborhood as you really only find limited income housing in neighborhoods that nobody wants to live in. Living in a bad neighborhood can negatively impact your life in a number of ways. Firstly, people will take one look at your address and immediately judge you, they will get the impression that you are not good enough and have not worked hard for your living, therefore resulting in having to reside in a bad neighborhood because you cannot afford anything better.
Nobody wants to be tarred with the same brush as other lowlife criminals or people that are not good enough, but this is most likely what will happen if you live in limited income housing apartments. Another thing people you may have problems with is getting a decent, well payed job as potential employers will look at your address and will not want to employ you, this is a sad fact but unfortunately a true one. If you have any opportunity to move out of a bad neighborhood then you should take it, no matter what. Living in a better neighborhood will make a difference to both you and your family's lives. Better neighborhoods have better facilities, especially better schools.
Applying for low income apartments: How Much Must You Earn?
When applying for low income apartments it is necessary to give all sorts of details about your finances, personal situation, income, expenditure and assets. All aspects of your life are processed in order to determine whether you are eligible for low income apartments or not. It is not a simple case of one figure for your earning being the defining factor. The reason for this is that if you are a single person and earn an amount of money, this may be more than the level considered for income support, however if you were a single parent with three children and earned the same amount, you may be considered eligible.
This system may not seem fair to some people as they think that applying for low income apartments should be done in a much simpler way, and based solely on one fixed income figure. The problem with that is that it would not allow for different peoples circumstances to be taken into account. It would also be open to abuse from workers and their employees then as well. An employee could pay someone just under the threshold, under the understanding that the employee would then be able to get a low income apartment and would be better off for it.
Low income subsidy application: Why So Confusing?
There are a number of reasons why a low income subsidy application is so confusing. One of these reasons is that the government probably don't actually want to hand out any more money than they have to, and by making things more confusing less people will actually be able to submit successful applications. This may sound extremely cynical, but I have many years of experience of such things first hand. If an application is unsuccessful due to an error of some kind, then it must be delayed. The longer it takes the less money the government has to pay out.
Another reason why a low income subsidy application can be so confusing is that often with these sorts of things, the criteria which define things such as low income, are confusing and conflicting. This makes it difficult for the individual who is trying to submit the form to understand exactly what to fill in or what they need to provide in order to get the help they are entitled to. It is not easy to make a system that caters for so many people that have so many differing circumstances, but the government should be able to devise a workable system.
Low income housing for rent: A House With a View?
Low income housing for rent in an area with a nice view is always going to be popular. Some people may consider this to be unfair, if they are currently renting low income housing that does not have a good view from it. I think that this is ridiculous, as people who are receiving help from the government in a time of financial difficulty should be happy for what they can get. They certainly should not be looking to others in a similar situation to their own, and moaning that someone else has a better view than they do. They are lucky enough to be given the support, and it is just down to chance as to whether they get the best of the low income support houses or not.
People should be grateful for any help they receive in this day and age, with such financial problems, it is difficult to understand how the government find the money to help anyone with rent. I would certainly be happy to receive low income housing for rent, instead of paying extortionate prices for a flat of house. I would obviously be very happy if that house can with a view, but would not complain about it if not.
Low income loans for houses: Paying over a Period of 40?
If low income loans for houses need paying over a period of 40 years then the interest built up over that time will end up being huge. People need to understand that nobody, and I mean nobody offers out huge amounts of money without expecting to make a large amount more back in return. People think that the government is willing to help out low income people to pay for housing just to be kind, but that is ridiculous! The reason that they are offering it is in order to make more money from the interest. It is not a good idea forany low income families to enter into a long term, large financial commitment.
It may seem like a good idea to begin with, but low income loans for houses are a terrible idea. There is no getting away from it, if you are unable to afford to get a mortgage, then lending a large scale loan amount that will take 40 years to pay off is not going to improve your situation.People need to wise up and cut down on spending other people's money. It may improve the short term situation, but it will be a constant anchor tying you down.


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Obama Goes to Mexico: Time is Ripe to Advance Bilateral Relations
This week's meeting between Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto brings U.S.-Mexico relations to center stage. This second face-to-face between the two leaders occurs at a critical time in each presidency. Domestic reform efforts that have far-reaching implications for the bilateral agenda are underway in both countries. These include immigration reform in the U.S. and reforms to boost economic competitiveness in Mexico and though they inject some short-term uncertainty into the relationship they also infuse it with a sense of new possibilities and opportunity.
Presidents Peña Nieto and Obama have both entered a post-honeymoon environment that demands hard work and successively heavier lifts on every policy goal.
Recent efforts to broaden the discourse on U.S.-Mexico relations have been largely successful—and overdue. Nevertheless, security remains the focal point for many citizens of both countries and a primary challenge for Mexican leaders.
Peña Nieto campaigned on promises of a recalibrated strategy on security and the Mexican public has been patient in granting his administration time to develop its approach. But there are risks in the pace his team seems to have adopted, including mounting skepticism —at home and to some extent in the U.S.— that the issue has not been given the priority it deserves. Mexican officials emphasize their commitment is strong and encompasses efforts to reduce violence, protect human rights and construct a rule of law that supports a more open and competitive economy.
Now near the 150-day mark of his six-year term, Peña Nieto has pushed through a number of long-awaited reforms —to labor, education and telecommunications— and is readying other, thornier ones for action. His efforts have been widely praised and his popularity is high, but passing the reforms is just the opening act. Implementation is crucial. And it's this recognition that has prompted many observers, particularly Mexicans themselves, to be more circumspect in their praise of the administration's accomplishments to date.
The foundation for the administration's ambitious reform drive has been the Pact for Mexico, an historic agreement Peña Nieto and the leaders of the two main opposition parties signed the day after the new PRI president took office. A few days ago the administration was forced to temporarily suspend all activities related to the Pact, including a planned announcement of financial reforms.
The crisis was provoked by the opposition's discovery that the PRI was using public funds to finance party-run programs —and thereby gain political advantage— ahead of local elections in July. The dispute has exposed the inherent political tensions and consequent limitations of the Pact.
Though the parties may be able to resolve the immediate controversy, many see signs that the alliance is fraying and expect negotiations for remaining initiatives on the 95-item reform agenda—including highly anticipated fiscal and energy reform packages—to be more problematic.
President Obama will be able to sympathize with his Mexican counterpart on this score. Over four years and 100-days into his second term he has become well acquainted with difficult negotiations. Like other two-term presidents, he may soon look to foreign affairs to burnish his legacy. His visit to Mexico offers a rare opportunity to promote goals in both the domestic and foreign policy arenas.
President Obama will emphasize the need to continue to effect close security cooperation and coordination. He will also seek to positively frame the immigration reform debate, which is just getting underway in the U.S. Senate and is expected to continue for the remainder of the year. The visit to Mexico affords the chance to highlight the successful and interconnected economic partnership the countries share and to make the case for immigration reform as essential to North America's economic security. And in many respects President Peña Nieto will have the opportunity to do the same.
The U.S.-Mexico economic partnership is thriving. Mexico is the U.S.'s second largest export market and third leading source of imports. Bilateral trade reached nearly one-half trillion dollars in 2012, roughly $1.4 billion each day. An estimated six million U.S. jobs depend on trade with Mexico. And strong regional supply chains mean that nearly 40 percent of every product the U.S. imports from Mexico is really "Made in America."
As strong as the bilateral relationship is now, however, it must deepen and evolve in order to ensure expanded opportunity and security for both countries going forward. Presidents Peña Nieto and Obama have both entered a post-honeymoon environment that demands hard work and successively heavier lifts on every policy goal.
With the stakes potentially so high on so many issues fundamental to the relationship, only the highest-level commitment will advance the agenda. There may never be a more opportune time.


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I recommend this boat to every one.
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Yesterday, I went deep sea fishing for the first time with Kingfish Charters! I can't begin to tell you how great of a time we had with you! It was so much fun and everyone on the boat had a blast. I was excited to go out deep sea fishing to begin with, but honestly this trip exceeded my expectations! We were reeling in fish after fish, and every hole we fished had something to offer! Thank you for such a great time; we will definitely be back!!
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Thank you for a great fishing trip. We have been on other boats and have not had such excellent service. Thank you for taking us to places where we could actually catch fish just about every time we dropped a line. We certainly had a wonderful time and would recommend Capt. Mike and Kingfish Charters to others.
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Had a wonderful day out at sea,on my sons 16th Birthday.We caught quite a lot of Fish and had to throw back a monster of a catch, a huge Red Snapper, my son caught three and I caught a large one. It was a fun Day.
K and K. H.
I would also like to compliment Capt.Mike for several great trips out. My wife and I drive all the way from Ocala, Fl to fish aboard Kingfish Charters. We always catch fish and I even won a small fishin' pool we had for the biggest snapper.
M and W. J.
Kingfish Charters Deep Sea Fishing: A very fine fishing operation. I have had the pleasure of becoming friends with Captain Mike in the past year and I must say he runs a fine organization. Not only does he know his fishing but his equipment is top quality. Safe fishing for any level. So when you are here in Destin, stop in and say hello to Capt. Mike, tell him Bart said Hi.
Thank you Bart


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His music style is unique, blending elements of traditional country, roots-rock, soul and blues like many 'Americana' artists yet he defies the expansive genre, ever so slightly, by adding elements of straight up pop music resulting in a distinctive and refreshing sound. He first hit the scene in 2003 with his debut release 'Both Hands'. Nominated for three WCMA's including Best Live Act, the album launched his career path as a touring singer/songwriter.
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RELIGIOUS leaders and academics have cautioned that Singapore is not immune from extremists using the Internet to influence and recruit foreign fighters to join conflicts in Iraq and Syria.
But they said Singapore's experiences in tackling the threat of radicalisation and extremist ideologies should help stave off the danger of some Muslims in Singapore being influenced to join the causes in the Middle East.
Research fellow Fanar Haddad, at the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute, said: "It is worrying that sectarian entrenchment and sectarian hate emanating from the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts have had an echo as far away as South-east Asia, though thankfully not in Singapore."
Dr Haddad also said it was important to note that differences in beliefs are not what fuelled the tensions in Iraq. "The real drivers of sectarian tensions in Iraq are issues of power, politics and representation," he pointed out.
The conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the Middle East have reportedly attracted several thousands of foreigners to join the fighting, giving rise to concerns that it could impact nations in this part of the world.
In Iraq, an extremist Sunni group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is trying to carve out a purist Islamic state on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border.
When asked about the situation, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last Friday that Singapore was carefully watching it.
"You may think it's a long way away, but things in the Middle East have a way of sending out long-distance vibrations and reverberations which can affect us in South-east Asia," he added.
With reports of Malaysians and Indonesians joining the fight in Syria, PM Lee cautioned that there was a chance Singaporeans might also be led astray.
He said the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, or Muis, has issued statements to guide Muslims on the right path.
Mufti Fatris Bakaram has also stressed the importance of education in preventing religious misinterpretation.
In an April interview, he said it was crucial for Singapore Muslims to be able to discern what is being said online about the conflicts.
Meanwhile, the Home Affairs Ministry is investigating a 37- year-old Singaporean, Haja Fakkurudeen Usman Ali, for allegedly going to Syria to take part in armed violence there. A former Indian national, he became a Singapore citizen in 2008.
Self-radicalisation, however, is a real possibility, said Dr Haddad.
"The twisted jihadi ideology has proven attractive to young Muslims from just about every walk of life and every part of the world, so there are no hard and fast rules about who is liable to become radicalised and who is not."
Still, Singapore's economic situation, social cohesion and levels of tolerance help reduce the risk of violent extremism, he added.
Agreeing with the Mufti, Dr Mohamed Ali, secretary of the Religious Rehabilitation Group which counsels extremists, said the best way to prevent self-radicalisation is through education.
The group's work has given the community valuable experience in dealing with extremist ideology, he said.
The Singapore Muslim community understands the threat well, "but we must to continue to prevent the occurrence of religious misinterpretation and self-radicalisation", added Dr Mohamed, a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Worries that the political strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims could raise tensions among Muslim groups in Singapore are also unwarranted, the experts said.
Most of Singapore's 700,000 or so Muslims are Sunni. About 5,000 are Shia Muslims.
Ba'alwi Mosque's Imam Habib Hassan, a Sunni, said the two groups have prayed, lived and inter-married without fuss or fanfare in Singapore for more than 100 years, he said. "We identify ourselves as one," he added.
Agreeing, Ustaz Mohammad Rosli Hassan, president of Shia organisation Jaafari Muslim Association Singapore, said "people living here are more educated, peaceful, harmonious and civilised".
More importantly, he added, the Government is secular and "we trust it is capable of tackling any extremist group or individual".
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