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Best Lawn Grass – Steps to Choosing the Best Grass to Plant on Your Lawn
Success with planting the right grass and keeping your lawn neat and tidy depends on a wide variety of things. However, one of the most important issues here would be to determine the best type of grass for lawn, especially if you have no knowledge about the proper grass types growing in your area.
Which Type of Grass Is Best for Lawn
This is the question most people think of when trying to decorate their yard with a natural green carpet. The majority of lawn grasses are classified into two big groups:
- Warm-season grass. It is adapted to the South region and grows best in hot weather. However, when the temperature falls to zero and becomes freezing, the grass turns dormant and brown.
The most popular warm-season grass types include the following:
- Bermuda, which is tolerant to droughts and resistant to weeds due to its aggressive nature of growing. The latter feature may be a considerable disadvantage, as Bermuda may easily invade flower-beds, thus, bringing lots of inconveniences. ;
- Centipede grows best in acidic soils prevailing in the South. It requires minimum maintenance, grows low and is tough, which provides good weed and pest resistance if properly taken care of;
- Zoysia is the type that requires much more care if compared to other turfgrasses. It is successfully grown in sunny, warm and well-drained areas, and if you meet all of its needs, you will get the best grass for home lawn;
- Bahia, turfgrass with a rougher texture, if compared to other turfgrasses, that grows really well in hot and humid areas in the South and can easily manage heavy walking;
- Augustine grows well in sandy soils and prefers exceptionally warm climates. It may be the best lawn grass, as its bright green color lasts into autumn.
- Cool-season grass. This type of lawn grass is adapted to the cold northern climate, where it is able to grow in spring and autumn, but turn brown when the temperature is high in summer. Generally, it is often sold as a mixture of varieties of the same type, or a blend of two and more different species. Professionals claim that growing blends is a very good idea, as if one type of grass dies due to some disease, or doesn't grow well, there is a quite high chance that other types will flourish.
We recommended reading this more detailed article on lawn grass types.
The most popular cold-season grass types include the following:
- Bluegrass is considered to be the best looking lawn grass, the typical choice by homeowners living in northern states. When all of its conditions are met, such as proper soil, regular watering, and enough sunlight, it will reward you with a luxurious lawn;
- Fescue family, that consists of creeping red fescue, hard, fine and tall fescue and Chewings fescue, is resistant to heat, however, to get more information about their tolerance for shade, drought and wear it is recommended to check out the details on the label or ask professionals;
- Bentgrass is a perennial type of grass widely popular for its deep and rich green color and fine leaf which forms a dense and beautiful carpet. It prefers sunny areas and is commonly used for fairways, golf course greens, and tennis clubs;
- Perennial ryegrass is resistant to wear and germinates quite fast. This type of grass is usually added to the mixes of cool-season grasses for lawns.
3 Steps to Choosing the Type of Lawn
When choosing the best grass for your lawn, it is necessary to determine where your grass has to be grown. Examine the map and decide whether you need warm- or cold-season grass type, depending on the state and area you live in. It is important to figure out which grass type will grow best and survive the cold climate. This also applies to pasture and turf, as you don't need to buy the first grass you see and then find it killed by the hard freeze which is normal for your winter. The same can be said about cold-season grasses, as excessively hot summer will do no good to it. Therefore, experts recommend determining the right seed or even using mixtures of both types.
Determine the amount of money, time and effort you want to invest into maintaining your lawn. First, think about your preferences. What kind of lawn do you need? Will it be just something green in your yard, an average green lawn like your neighbor's or and exhibit and lush piece of green art. Every grass type has its level of maintenance that corresponds to its overall look as a result, so decide whether you want a lawn with high, medium or low maintenance. If you are considering buying grass fertilizer check out this page.
Select the type of grass you want to see on your lawn. To do this, you have to consider the ways different types of grass grow. Pay close attention to its appearance and decide whether it will ne creeping or bunch, think of the texture and choose either fine-textured or rough grasses, and think whether it should be annual or perennial.
Now that you have found out the most important information about various grass types, you can stop asking yourself "Which type of grass is best for lawn?" and start thinking about the requirements and finally make an informed decision. Think everything through once more, be confident about your choice and grow the most luxurious lawn in your area.


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Schmoozer the Wonder Puppy
So, I began to look for a new companion to bring home. I admire people who bring adult dogs home. However, I decided to get a puppy for 2 reasons. With the death of both Grumbles and Coal this year and Fancy getting older I wanted someone young and healthy (hopefully). I also have a great opportunity to bring my dog to work. A puppy can learn and adjust to the work environment and will be accepted more easily. I discovered a website petfinder.com which lists puppies and dogs from rescues and shelters. I found a great place - Lil Waif Puppy Rescue. I went out to look at some puppies and that's where I found Schmoozer. Actually I should say he found me, because he charged up to me as soon as I entered.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. ~Gilda Radner
I thought his name was going to be Simcha, which roughly means "a joyous occasion". Indeed, bringing him home was a joyous occasion but his name quickly became Schmoozer. He likes to talk and socialize. He's amazingly smart and I'm delighted to have him in my life. He is now 10 weeks old and he's lived with me for a week. He has already learned sit and is pretty good at laying down. He hasn't had a potty accident in 3 days! He fetches. He walks on leash. I've had this week off work and I am giving him many opportunities to safely explore the world. Today he spent time with two very friendly (and slightly overwhelmed cats) and an old dog.
I have to admit, as my friends and family meet the Schmooze and say how wonderful he is, I want to say "don't forget about Coal". But I am finding one of the best ways I know of keeping Coal's memory alive. I am taking all I learned from him, including a deep and undeniable love, and passing it on to my little Schmoozer.
He was determined to drag this large branch out of the water I'm sure it weighed more then he does. He also discovered he river gets deep for a little guy!
I'm not sure which was more fun - sticking his nose in the water or digging in the sand
He's thinking "will you quit taking pictures and play with me!"
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Bonnyrigg Rose's bid to regain their Super League title suffered a blow last night as they lost out 1-0 to Broxburn Athletic at Albyn Park.
Rose were hoping to keep up the pressure on leaders Kelty Hearts with a fourth win in a row, but Nick Locke's second-half strike for Max Christie's men halted their run.
Robbie Horn's men missed a 40th-minute penalty as midfielder Lewis Turner saw his effort saved by Connor Wallace after the home goalkeeper Wallace had brought down striker Keiran McGachie.
If Bonnyrigg win their five games in hand on Kelty they will go level at the top of the table, with the two clubs still to face each other in Fife.
Meanwhile, managerless Linlithgow Rose's survival hopes took a dent as they lost 1-0 away to Hill of Beath.
Under the caretaker charge of former Newtongrange Star boss Alan Miller and ex- Berwick Rangers manager Jimmy Crease, Rose remain second bottom after Haws striker Greg Smith got the only goal in the second half.
Ten-man Bo'ness United thrashed Camelon 5-1 at Carmuirs Park to maintain their hopes of a third-place finish.
The BUs were a man down and a goal behind after defender Ross Campbell was ordered off in the first half, but roared back to get all three points.
A hat-trick from Marty Wright, a stunning solo effort from Roddy MacLennan and a Colin Strickland penalty secured the comeback.
Penicuik Athletic drew 0-0 away to relegated Fauldhouse United, while in the Premier League, Tranent were 2-1 winners at Sauchie.


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Face-off: US spelling bee champ Ananya Vinay takes on Jimmy Kimmel
The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' show has a long tradition of inviting the Scripps Spelling Bee champions to compete against Jimmy in a mock competition.world Updated: Jun 12, 2017 17:38 IST
US spelling bee champion Ananya Vinay is no stranger to impromptu competitions. Her latest challenge was a face-off against Jimmy Kimmel on his Live show on Friday.
The host challenged the 12-year-old to participate in a "war of words", which is his own version of a spelling bee championship. The competition was given a hilarious twist by Kimmel's sidekick Guillermo, who pronounced the words in his quirky way to trip her up.
The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' show has a long tradition of inviting the National Scripps Spelling Bee champions to compete against Kimmel in a mock competition.
Ever since her win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, Vinay has defended her title with gusto in every show, including the widely mocked interview by CNN anchor who made her spell President Trump's cryptic word 'covfefe'.
Vinay became the 13th consecutive Indian-American to win the US Scripps National Spelling Bee competition, bagging a cash prize of whooping $40,000.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Mollala Evening
This small pastel, 4'x6' is a study of a place very familiar to me. I recently returned to Mollala State Park with a good friend who was keen on seeing the nooks and crannies of the park, something I'd not done when I'd been there in the past. I was at a different time in my life then; young kids, dogs, bicycles. I was preoccupied! Glad to be returning to get another point of view of the park and take it in from a new ( but older), perspective. It was a more mysterious and not surprisingly, quieter place than I'd remembered with hidden beauties and richly textured paths; a good place for contemplation and devotion.
The little painting speaks directly to me of this. When I'm painting, I'm trying to say things simply, quietly, directly. Not over-thinking, nor just flailing around, I hope! I want it to be an image that is as if you were simply there, not searching or looking, just seeing and feeling the place.
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Antrim zoning amendments removed from town warrant
Credit: By Abby Spegman, Sentinel Staff, The Keene Sentinel, sentinelsource.com 23 February 2011 ~~
ANTRIM – Eight zoning amendments, including two dealing with wind energy development, will be left off March's town meeting ballot because of a technicality.
Town Planner Peter Moore posted a notice alerting the public to a Feb. 1 hearing on the amendments. The notice listed the time, place and purpose of the hearing.
But some residents charged the notice did not include enough details about the amendments, as required by state law.
"These procedural flaws on the part of the planning board are fatal to the amendments," attorney Michael Donovan, who represents Antrim residents Richard and Loranne Block, wrote in a letter to Moore, the town planning board and selectmen.
"Should the amendments remain on the ballot and be enacted they would clearly be illegal and invalid."
The state law on what must be included in hearing notices is ambiguous, Moore said.
"There are a lot of chances for procedural defects, and we were caught on one," he said.
The planning board voted Feb. 10 to remove the amendments from the ballot.
One of the amendments would make wind energy a permitted use in highway business and rural conservation districts. That would include Tuttle Hill, where Portsmouth-based Eolian Renewable Energy is proposing installing up to 10 turbines.
Another amendment would define wind energy development to clarify which projects would qualify under the other amendment.
The Blocks are suing the town to prevent the Tuttle Hill project from going through. Eolian is also suing the town to see that it does.
At a special meeting on Tuesday, the planning board voted to hold a public hearing to review the amendments and decide whether to ask selectmen to schedule a special vote on them after March's town meeting.
A date for that hearing has not been set.
A delayed vote on the amendments wouldn't necessarily affect the Tuttle Hill project. Rather, the amendments were proposed by the planning board to clarify the town's rules on wind energy development given the current debate surrounding that project.
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Well whats a small company to do??? The communist agency that protected you for years is now gone(JABLONEX). I am not gonna create yet another brand name of Chinese Crystal. Lets see, there is Celestial, Cosmic, Celebrity and Chinarovski(I think the latter was a result of too many herbs). It appears its about the little bead niches in life and all you amazing bead artists and embellishers. Here are two examples:
Laura McCabe's Embellished Beadweaving: Jewelry Lavished with Fringe, Fronds, Lacework & More (Lark Books Beadweaving Master Class) [Hardcover]
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Here Laura, whom is the sweetest and most talented person one could meet takes a departure from her glitzy past and dives back into beadweaving using less crystal and more earthy materials such as: japanese and Czech Seed beads, freshwater pearl and frosted glass beads(peacock to be specific). Before I talk about Laura's amazing new book, this is someone who almost single handedly brought back rivolis from the dead and created the opportunity for Yorkbeads to be a main supplier of 15/0 metallic plated Czech charlottes. Btw, as laura points out in her new book , only 15/0 Czech Charlottes are small enough to embezzle as Japanesse 15/0 runs much larger due to their bigger holes. Don't worry Laura finds many other uses for the japanese seed beads.
Here is my Amazon book review:
Glitz is Over Rated this Book is not!!!,
May 6, 2010
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This review is from: Laura McCabe's Embellished Beadweaving: Jewelry Lavished with Fringe, Fronds, Lacework & More (Lark Books Beadweaving Master Class) (Hardcover)First, I am in the bead business so I am biased. Most of us do not get to walk down the red carpet. Crystals are way too over rated!!! In this book, Laura uses Japanese and Czech seed beads to accent natural materials and frosted(matte) glass, as in her "Nudibranch Bracelet"(page 83). Laura states, "embellish means to decorate, to enhance, to add beauty through ornamentation or fanciful details". The components are not the star, but the artist is. Laura's jewelry can be worn at your local coffee shop or at your most cherished event. Either way, they make you feel unique, not one of the crowd. Thanks Laura.
the "nudibranch Bracelet" is featured on the back cover and uses a plentiful amount of peacock Matte black AB daggers. Laura also uses our tutti frutti peacock dagger as well as a 10mm pressed black ab peacock coin(will post a picture later, Laura gave me permission)
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Work a right-angle weave frame around an art bead and suspend it from a herringbone necklace. CONGRATULATIONS MAGGIE
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If you've been following my blog, you know how much I love my tight fitted clothes. You see, it took me a long time to embrace my curves and now I leave no chance of not flaunting them. However, it's not always comfortable to be strutting around in bodycon dress/skirt, especially during hot summers. So, when it's a dress down kind of day, a t-shirt dress like this comes to your rescue.
I got this beautiful cherry red coloured dress from Last Inch and believe me, it's the softest piece of garment I've ever worn. I shy away from anything made out of viscose lycra fabric as they cling to your skin in an unflattering way but nope, not this dress!!
This dress is made out of a thick viscose jersey and the belt placed on the lower torso does a great job in hiding the belly( so no spanx – woohoo). I really appreciate when designers in Plus-Size fashion really think about their target customers and add such fun yet clever details on their garments.
You could go ultra low key with this dress by pairing it with some vans or flat sandals but I had to add a dash of glam so I'm wearing these pale pink block heels.
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If you're a lot like the fun folks at WODROB, we are sure you'll be well aware of what's trending in the jewellery scene. Most of us here are suckers for piercings, and we just happened to discuss a new trend that's going to be every hipster's next piercing. We're talking about heartilage (heart cartilage) piercing, a term coined by PopSugar. Move over lobe and conch piercings, because heartilage is obviously the big earring trend we're obsessing about. It's already taken over our Instagram feeds. We're so sure you'll soon find one of your fave celebs sporting it, if not the blogger you follow for all things #StyleGoals.
Born in West4Studio by piercing genius Robbie Milian, heartilage is nothing but a technique the piercing expert uses to elevate an existing cartilage piercing. All Rob does is remove the beads from a client's existing cartilage piercing and twist the edges of the metal earring just so it resembles a heart. Damn creative right! Uber-cool New Yorkers have been spotted with this piercing for a little over a year now. But thanks to the new terminology (read: heartilage) this trend has now got the leverage it should have earlier on. While the trend is already a rage in the fashion capital SoHo, we're hoping that it'll catch up here pretty soon. Thinking of attempting this seriously cute trend? If you do, click your pics and tag @wodrobmagazine on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest.


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Striking, Kicking, Felling and Chin-Na
Many people wish to attend Grandmaster Wong's Intensive Taijiquan Course and Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course as well as Shaolin and Taijiquan courses at various Summer Camps but are unable to do so because they lack the required prior experience. They are also unable to find suitable schools in their areas.
To help them resolve this problem as well as to provide a comprehensive introduction for others who wish to have a preview of Taijiquan and Shaolin Kungfu before deciding to dedicate themselves to these wonderful arts, an Introductory Taijiquan Course and an Introductory Shaolin Kungfu Course are offered. These introductory courses are comprehensive, covering all the important dimensions of Taijiquan and Shaolin Kungfu, namely philosophy, forms, internal force, and combat application.
For combat application, 4 abridged combat sequences are trained. These 4 sequences presented are abridged from 8 Taijiquan combat sequences which in turned are distilled from 12 basic Taijiquan combat sequences. These 4 abridged combat sequences provide adequate training for students to handle all the four forms of attack, namely striking, kicking, felling and chin-na.
The 4 abridged Taijiquan combat sequences were first taught at the Introductory Taijiquan Course in Japan from 12th to 14th December 2007, and Portugal from 12th to 14th March 2008.
Sequences 1 to 3 taught in Japan and in Portugal are similar, but Sequence 4 taught in Japan and that taught in Portugal are different. Please click here to view the Sequence 4 taught in Japan . The one present below is that taught in Portugal.
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Combat Sequence 1 — Striking
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Four Abridged Taijiquan Combat Sequences from Wong Kiew Kit on Vimeo.
Introductory Wahnam Taijiquan Course, Portugal, March 2008
- Fundamental Movements in Taijiquan
- Pushing Hands and Striking Hands
- Kicks and Felling Techniques in Sequence Sparring
- Elegance and Flow in Taijiquan
- General Survey of the Course
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Smashed Potato Chicken Pot Pie
Pro tip: Use packaged mashed potatoes to reduce prep time on this delicious Smashed Potato Chicken Pot Pie.
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Smashed Potato Chicken Pot Pie
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large saucepan melt butter on medium heat. Stir in flour, 1/2 teaspoon of the seasoned pepper, and the salt. Add broth and milk all at once. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Stir in cooked chicken and thawed vegetables. Pour into two 13x9x2-inch-inch baking pans.
- In a medium bowl combine mashed potatoes, Parmesan cheese, garlic, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon seasoned pepper. Using a spoon, drop potato mixture in large mounds over chicken mixture in baking dish.
- Bake, uncovered, for 30 to 40 minutes or until heated through. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition Facts (Smashed Potato Chicken Pot Pie)
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Dvice: "Like the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format war, there are those who are for 3D and those against it. Back then, Sony positioned its PlayStation 3 as a Blu-ray player first — a box that offered the highest quality movies that money could buy. That was in 2006. Today, the PS3 remains fundamentally the same (save for the motion-controlled functionality of the Wii now included), only this time Sony is telling you to take a leap of faith with 3D."
Its funny because I used too didn't care about blu-ray technology and now its becoming number 1 movie and gaming tech format, just like I didn't understand HD but now I wordship that tech SD aint cutting it for me.
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I was at the park today, doing some homework, when a pint-sized bulldog waddled its way to our picnic bench. He held a brownish-yellow tennis ball in his mouth. He snorted and tried to coax me into grabbing the ball from him. My girlfriend, distracted from her studies, wondered whether it was French or British.
The dog's owner meandered over to us. He was a plump, smiling man with a white handlebar mustache.
"What are you studying?" He said.
Japanese, I told him, I want to live there. He told me I'd at least be safe there, since there aren't a whole lot of Muslims in Tokyo.
My girlfriend later told me she'd drawn a red flag right then, but I didn't see it. After all, plenty of people say plenty of ignorant things, and you can't argue with all of them. Besides, starting an argument with a smiling gentleman on a sunny summer day is just about last on my list.
Now personally, I'm a big fan of Bernie Sanders, and eventually, I came out with it. I did it casually, with a chuckle that was genuine and conversational. My girl put her head down against the table. Her social senses were more on cue than mine: I found myself in the middle of a political debate, with no idea how I'd gotten there. He really started to talk.
His points about Greece's failed economy were interesting. I also liked his thoughts on how even if we raised taxes on the super-wealthy, they'd find a way to cheat the system. I wanted to discuss that. But unfortunately, the discussion wasn't open. He made several errors in his discourse, and whenever I started to answer some of his misinformation with a correction, he talked over me.
Finally, he walked away, saying, "I used to be an idealist, and that's nice, but I haven't heard one fact from you." Of course not. You haven't tried to listen.
And I think that's a fundamental assumption in talking politics. We're all so fortunate to have been blessed with a perfect and infallible set of political views, aren't we? Why should we listen to anyone else's points, and keep an open mind? It would seem that we're all set in our ways. But how will anything get done without compromise and listening?
In kindergarten, I got into a fight with one of my classmates over the triangle blocks. You remember those. He needed them for his roof. But I wanted the last two for the garnishing outside my brand new block house. When he insisted on having them I pushed him on the floor. The teacher came over and asked us to share. After a minute I apologized for pushing, the kid said sorry to me. And I gave him the triangle blocks. They weren't so important after all, and he needed them more. How else would he keep the rain out? I cared more about being right than the actual blocks.
And you know what? It's not so different. I would have made mistakes in my argument, too, had I been given the chance. But that's the beauty of constructive conversation: we fill in the gaps, inform, illuminate each other with new ideas and possibilities. So I challenge you, reader, to question your views in your next debate. If you're still right, stick by your guns. But listen to the other side. As long as you and I keep that in mind, we will always continue to grow.
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Politics: Do People Really Listen?
I was at the park today, doing some homework, when a pint-sized bulldog waddled its way to our picnic bench. He held a brownish-yellow tennis ball in his mouth. He snorted and tried to coax me into grabbing the ball from him. My girlfriend, distracted from her studies, wondered whether it was French or British.
Flagging the Flag
I was poking around Facebook when I found this picture:
Facebook took it down.
Jermaine Rogers, the artist, posted soon afterward, explaining that it was not his decision.
He explained that people must have been really offended–he received a lot of nasty hate mail. Maybe that's understandable. Maybe people saw the Swastika flag and failed to understand the artist's message. For Jews, myself included, the Swastika connotes an oppressed people who were enslaved, gassed, burned alive.
It is estimated that over eleven million Africans were shackled and processed and forced across four or five time zones in a boat. Nobody knows how many died in total, but the estimate for African deaths on the journey across the Atlantic Ocean is over a million. That's just during the trip, folks—and if they tried to escape, these people were branded, whipped, or killed.
Either flag is horrible. Today, the Swastika is illegal in Germany. The confederate flag's legality is being discussed in the US: it is symbolic of an oppressed people. I'd be scared if there were Nazi flags hanging in my neighborhood. I'm just putting the shoe on the other foot. It's the same size shoe.
Here's the thing.
This is getting ridiculous.
Apple pulled the 'Gettysburg' game out of their app store "…because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways." It's a history-based game—and shouldn't history be preserved rather than denied? Bernie Sanders, who is running for President, recently said of the flag that it "belongs in a museum," not in public. Can't call that a bad idea. Apple just went kind of crazy with it.
Take the flag off the streets. Put it in a museum.
It's still legal to print a Swastika in Germany, as long as the message is anti-Nazi (for example, a flag with the Swastika–and a cross through it–could be interpreted as legal). So this post here gets removed from Facebook. I realize that Facebook is not the government. But I find that its removal implies censorship's trump over parody. Parody is a vital ingredient in the soup of political awareness (soup: no pun intended–that's a Jonathan Swift joke!).
"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, …" –Jonathan Swift, a Modest Proposal
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Part 11
This story is a part of a chain writing game, started here: http://kerrieanns.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/the-chain-writing-game/
Mac? Why? That ugly motherfucker?
There was no time to think.
George probably bent him over, Cindy thought. One too many times… That was really his weakness–George had grown in power over the last decade. Talking to him, you'd think Superman wasn't weak to kryptonite. Talking to him, you'd figure some men were simply invincible…
It's true, she thought, George is a prick; but does Mac have to gain from helping me?
In the end, it didn't matter. She slipped the screwdriver in her bra.
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Dust, Thoughts, Dusty Thoughts
There's dust, here in Texas.
It's unfortunate, that I often miss the beauty in dust, that I can station behind the wheel of my Honda and see the world, and the whole time, never see anything at all.
It's amazing how I can trek an entire day without remembering a single detail.
Does responsibility do this to me? Responsibility: the ticking of a clock, the need to put gas in my car, or make educated purchases, or hoard enough weekly quarters for laundry? Maybe…I don't like being forced to do things, and when I'm unhappy, or in a rush, I drop out of the world. The tug of duty, it's heavy, and can tether me to 'the grind.' But that's not the answer; how many couch potatoes do you know who are actually content? What if sat and did nothing each day? At the end of my life, would I have even lived at all?
My thinking: the happier I am, the more I can pay attention. The mind tends to reject the unpalatable. And, rejection: if you reject an event, did it truly happen? Did you experience that event, or did you experience yourself wishing that the event was over already? It's the tree, too, falling down in the forest with no one to hear it.
It was freezing this morning in my tent. The zipper broke a couple of days ago, and I bought a big yin-yang drape to cover the empty space. And I sleep on the floor, to boot: I have an air mattress, but I just never want to sit there and blow the damn thing up by mouth. I always have more important things to do—like indulging in my favorite video games, for example, or picking my nose. But I'm veering off topic.
It's freezing, and even though I'm on the floor, my open sleeping bag (the zipper of which is also broken) is under me, a second blanket is wrapped around my feet, and a thick one is on top of me. I'm wearing my fluffy bathrobe and Long Johns, and it's really warm as long as I stay under the covers.
My kitten is in there with me, and my laptop is at my side, so we watch some Japanese Anime— but, eventually, I have to break the cocoon—which is when my toes go cold and numb. So, miserable but determined, I decide to exercise, stretch, and go for a run.
Halfway through the run, the heavy metal rumbling into my ears and propelling my legs, I'm hot enough to drop the jacket. The rolling up of sleeves follows. I'm breathing, and the breath feels good. Oxygen, I love me some oxygen. It's how I stopped smoking cigarettes. Air tastes so much better. It's like drinking Fiji water versus drinking mud. I get into a rhythm, in and out, left foot right foot; I notice a little hop I have on my left side. Have I been sleeping funny, or is my body a little unbalanced? Is my energy funny this week? I can feel my toes, and the sun is warm, now, too, and I'm happy.
Then I start getting texts.
It happens slowly.
This phone, this machine in my hand, the thing I'm using for music, the thing I'm using to move my blood and experience the world, it's taking my happiness, my world from me. It would be easy to say 'don't respond, it's that simple;' it's hard, though, to use moderation, when the thing I want and the thing I don't want are both a part of the same device. I like the people who are texting me…what is it, then?
I don't know how to be alone, I think. I'm always connected—and, is it a real connection, or is it a pseudo kind of understanding, a sharing of ideas and words and thoughts, without any actual human interaction?
I'd rather look you in the face and tell you something. I'd rather watch your reaction and see the color of your eyes, or notice that disgusting pimple under your left nostril, the one that's ready to pop, and tell you so, and probably make fun of you a little. Texting is okay, I guess. But tell me: what happens when someone relies too heavily on a crutch? What happens when someone buys a Rascal, say, or a Scooter and then they use it so much that they stop exercising and, in the end, getting up just to go to the kitchen?
Why walk when you can be carried?
Actually, I'm writing this in a restaurant, right now, and the janitor is talking to me, mopping. What am I doing with this keyboard when I could be connecting with a human being? It's killing me, right now, as I write this. He took a look at my computer and told me he can't use 'one of those things'…wants to, but doesn't know how. Can't read, matter of fact, he shares, his left eye twinkling, the sun hitting it at just the right angle from its low place through the window in the parking lot. His eyes are blue.
"It's gonna be cold tonight," he says, "and I gotta come back to work on my bike." I tell him about my tent, about my blankets, and get to thinking it's funny how life takes care of you and gives you what you need—like a conversation with a janitor that completely sums up what you've been writing about for the last page and a half—and, I come to a conclusion—it helps to be in the world to hear it.
The Road, The Quiet
For those of you who may not know, I've been on the road since late September. I'm in Texas, now, with their Renaissance Festival. I figure this is a good a time as any to start blogging about my experiences. I wrote this content early this morning.
It's Monday morning, and, behind the scenes of the Renaissance Faire, our Monday is your Sunday, in that most of us are off the clock.
It's quiet. The birds are distant, their chirping sweet. There's a series of bells blooming somewhere, the sound of beautiful metal playing soft, probably not too far away. They are hitting different notes, and it's stringing into a song. It's a little out of the ordinary, and in an ordinary town, I'd wonder. But this isn't an ordinary town—this is the street where the Renaissance Faire community lives.
A gentle breeze lifts a nearby hammock, fluffing it. It makes a soft sound as it inflates, then sighs. I'm sitting on a white plastic chair in my neighbor's yard. As the breeze dies down, and the hammock is left, rocking so slowly, hypnotically, between a tree and their trailer.
She's boiled herself a coffee, my neighbor, on her propane stove, and a cup of tea for me. The tea's my own invention. The main ingredients are cinnamon sticks and orange peels. It's bitter, tangy, delicious.
Must've rained last night. Little beads of water dot the empty chairs in her yard. It's fortunate that my kitten doesn't seem to mind the moisture. She's happy as a clam, content to prowl around the drowsy yard among the recently fallen leaves.
Word around the sewing circle is, she saw a cat fight down by the dumpster last week, and that's why she's been imitating a move she saw the other cats use. It's sort of a prowl, the kind where the she is all caution, creeping sideways, back arched, toes full of stealth.
Now she's started jumping around, like a little spring toy.
A zipper opens, which means someone has woken up, is leaving his tent. I can hear the trees' remaining leaves in the wind. They pick up, for a moment, and the rain's hanging leftovers slide off, drop down, and touch the earth.
An upside-down, dangling rose, it's next to a pirate flag, and they're breeze-bobbing under a red NO TRESPASSING rectangle, which is next to Christmas lights, which is just under their trailer's window, which underlooks the gray sky. Gray, indeed. The gray was on the ground, too, this morning, was ubiquitous, was monochrome, but then the fog lifted early.
There's an empty bottle of Mead on the ground. It's next to a blue ice cooler, and surrounded by fire ant hills. Beyond this is a rusted crowbar, matted in a thick cake of dirt. It's hard to tell the dirt from the rust from the indents in the metal. A long piece of dusty rope is tied to the end of the crowbar.
It's a beautiful day off, here. Tomorrow, I'm destined for Oklahoma for a couple of days, where a new and interesting job awaits me. It's funny how having nothing but loose ends can lead to the formation and tying of knots.
Anyone want to take care of my kitten for a couple of days?
~Ezekiel Strawberry
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She Remembered Her Name
A Very Short Story For You
Once upon a time, there was a ghost. The ghost did not think that she was a ghost. After all, how could that be? She felt warm when Aden kissed her. She felt sad when he neglected her. She laughed when he called her a ghost.
She loved Aden very much and one day she followed him to work even though he was being mean. When Aden saw her, he was on lunch break. He was very upset and he told her that she only existed because of him, and that she was a nobody. After that day, the girl was sad for many years.
But stories are never that simple, and one day, she remembered that she was not really a ghost, and that Aden was the one who was lost. Then, she remembered her name.
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"if I do make a mistake, that just gives me a new experience to learn from and to use to teach others."
Pioneer on! It's the job of an oldest sibling, too. Or, anything. Say, technology. Think about the first irrigation systems on the Euphrates: canals lined with limestone. When I think of how many times they must have dug those canals before they thought to line them…how many times did they dig those canals in between flooding seasons, just to watch them melt into the desert?
But they did it, and now we have micro USB and Candy Crush.
Everything's moving and changing and evolving and that kind of makes me think there's hope for humanity.
New generations I've been in and witnessed, and the old ones that were new at the time, they've evolved with the times. American culture evolved every ten years or so in the 20th century.
Look at America's evolution. Just for a minute. See us as we were at the turn of the century, as relatively isolated. See how we weren't as able to learn from others, because we were so far from the world, physically and otherwise, for a long time. We'd just spend our first 100 years of existence in fear and war, expanding the country coast to coast, and fighting everyone along the way.
The 1920s, rebellion, crime. Hollywood's glory. In France, they were painting naked ladies. Here, no. We were much too Christian for that. Which was part of why rebellion was so damn cool.
The 1930s were like a national hangover. Sure, there were still the screwball comedies to cheer people up, but only when they weren't having their money taken by the bank.
You get the idea. Just see how paranoid and strange we were, how we evolved, how we did drugs as a nation and the drugs got stronger as a nation and how we tossed our oddball music out the window again and replaced it with relaxing alternative rock, and how the chaos of internet rage and trolling seems to be calming down.
Just because the hippies were sabotaged by war and Charlie Manson and things that were beyond the scope of their drug-addled peace-minds, that doesn't mean that the world won't eventually get that peace that they wanted.
This whole article is a mess, but I wanted to touch on the fact that I think evolution seems to have a will of its own. I think this is the case because no matter what the situation is, adaptation happens, if for no other reason than because those who do not or will not adapt will not survive.
So humanity is making decisions about what's right and wrong, and we're all learning from each other, and eventually everyone will just have a pretty decent life.
It just sucks we still got a ways to go.


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Things have been slow in the garden this week; the moon has been waning and the weather has been rainy and/or cold. But we're waxing next week and I'm going to start getting my cool weather veggies in. I'm a bit behind, but wanted to wait on the moon (plus, we had a hard freeze this week.)
In the meantime, here's a pic from last week's visit to Cowtown. This is a field thistle that found its home nestled in the lea of a hay bale. Not to sound like a photo nerd, but I really like the contrast of textures in this photo.
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Cloud Operations Management tools have different functions, starting from monitoring and management to automation of processes through both a virtual and cloud infrastructure. The tools in CloudForums can handle the monitoring, automation and measuring aspects in virtual as well as cloud based infrastructures but at a higher level, managing all these operations is basically about lifecycle management of the service. That involves workload management, transparency of costs and the proper retirement of resources when they have served out their purpose.
Understating the vitality of these functions, Red Hat bought ManageIQ so that these capabilities could be rapidly brought under the CloudForums umbrella. It is interesting to know that Red Hat now supports the ManageIQ EVM products that were already in the market prior to this ManageIQ - Red Hat CloudForums 2.0 merger.
Then there was another need which was CloudForums to avoid new silos. That required a form of hybrid cloud management that could span different levels of platforms while still maintaining application portability across these different environments. Basically these were services that prompted the formation of CloudForums in the first place. It was built to merge different technologies that were otherwise isolated and then create resource pools that were commonly used by different platforms.
The full potential of these technologies can now be achieved as technology developed by Red Hat and that developed by ManageIQ can now be merged. The CloudForum technologies and ManageIQ technologies have been found to be very complementary to each other. Clearly, a merger was only the natural evolutionary step.
On some levels, products by these two different houses were actually trying to repair the same hybrid cloud management problems; although they might have been approaching those aforementioned problems from different angles prioritizing their cases differently. CloudForums could prioritize cross-platform image template function over operations function, which was prioritized higher by ManageIQ. The reason the algorithms for these problem solutions can be so easily merged is that both CLoudForums and ManageIQ were originally written in Ruby. Bringing the two different products together and unifying them under the ManageIQ - Red Hat CloudForums 2.0 was the perfect answer to tackle all these problems uniformly.
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Kakao Details Compensation to NA / EU Players for Recent Server Issues
The Black Desert Online team has posted a lengthy article to address recent server issues experienced by both North American and European players. As a result of the weeks' long problems, Kakao will be compensating players for with in-game items. In addition, the team has detailed steps it will be taking to improve communication with the community.
North American players will receive:
Value Pack (7 Days) x2
Blessing of Kamasylve (7 Days) x1
Life EXP +10% Scroll x7 Kydict's Crystal – Adventure x1
EXP Boost Event (24 hrs) (for 2 weeks) - Combat EXP +50%, Skill EXP +20%
Extra Mount EXP +10% event will be extended one more week.
European players will receive:
Blessing of Kamasylve (7 Days) x1
EXP Boost Event (24 hrs) (for 2 weeks) - Combat EXP +50%, Skill EXP +20%
Extra Mount EXP +10% event will be extended one more week.
As for how communication will be improved, three steps have been detailed:
Developers will discuss with GMs and CMs on how to better communicate with the community.
We will try and fix the bugs as swiftly as possible.
We will enlarge our window of communication.
The letter closes with this:
We are opening the 5th slot for Pet for this update. Also, as we previously announced, we are working to reveal the hidden details of items. As part of our ongoing effort, evasion and damage reduction information will be displayed in the item descriptions. We are listening; we are keeping our eyes on all of our player's comments. We are well aware that we are not perfect and believe that the feedback and interest of all users are critical to improving the game. With that said, we are also preparing answers to all other issues our players have pointed out and we plan on issuing a Developer's Letter on a regular basis to better communicate with our NA/EU users. We will match the passion you show in both your compliments and criticisms, with our dedication to develop a better and more enjoyable, Black Desert Online.


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When one man decided to reach out to a bar with the hope of keeping men away from his girlfriend, the bar had two options.
Either ignore the request completely, or screenshot the text request and slam the guy on social media for being a total creep. The bar in question decided on the latter.
Filthy's, a bar located in Newcastle, England, received a text message request from an unidentified man that they were none-too-pleased with. The man offered to pay staff to keep men away from his girlfriend while she was out with her friends for a girl's night out. Filthy's response? Not our job, man.
"For anybody else considering offering us cash to casually stalk their partners: We are a bar, not private investigators or professional perverts," they wrote. "We can however add some finishing touches to the reserved area such as personalized name cards and bubbly on arrival!"
Ice cold. While the bar kept the man's identity anonymous, there is little doubt that the guy missed the post.
Trust and personal space are just a few of the keys to a healthy relationship. This guy's obviously got a few issues with both—asking a bar to keep men away from your girlfriend and her friends is just plain weird, not to mention completely controlling.


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Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney, London. After studying drama and mime in London and Paris, he entered a series of repertory companies and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. His plays and adaptations have been performed in many countries and translated into many languages. Among the many adaptations Berkoff has created for the stage, directed and toured, are Kafka's Metamorphosis and The Trial, Agamemnon after Aeschylus, and Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. He has directed and toured productions of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (playing the title role), Richard II, Hamlet and Macbeth, as well as Oscar Wilde's Salome. Filmography includes A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Octopussy, Beverly Hills Cop, Rambo, Under the Cherry Moon, Absolute Beginners and The Krays. He directed and co-starred with Joan Collins in the film version of his play Decadence.
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|A "Love" sculpture in John F. Kennedy Plaza, commonly known as Love Park, in Philadelphia. Credit Matt Rourke/Associated Press
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|Robert Indiana with his 'LOVE' sculpture in Central Park, New York City in 1971. Image courtesy of CNN
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Sub-Prime Crisis Explained...
10 comments:
- Vicky said...
That's a brilliant sketch!
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- Johnny Guitar said...
I always thought they were much better than the irritatingly unfunny Rory Bremner.
- September 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Vicky said...
Very true. Bremnar is unbelievably not funny...
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Freedom of Expression on Trial in Insein Prison
A group of political prisoners in Insein Prison, the largest prison in Myanmar, were given additional sentences in 1996, while still imprisoned. The authorities sentenced them for attempting to send information about human rights violations to the United Nations and circulating news and writing in prison. They received at least seven further years' imprisonment in an unfair trial, under a law which effectively criminalizes freedom of expression and opinion, by making it an offence to circulate, or intend to circulate "false news". More than 20 persons were given additional prison terms. Nine are still imprisoned. Aung Kyaw Oo, Ba Myo Thein; Bo Bo aka Ko Ko Oo aka Ko Bo Bo; Kyaw Min Yu, aka Jimmy; Phyo Min Thein; Soe Myint, aka Saya Soe; Tun Win; Win Tin (pictured) and Dr. Zaw Myint Maung were reportedly arrested between 1989 and 1992 and have been sentenced to sentences of at least 20 years' imprisonment. During prison officials' investigation they were ill-treated, and many have health problems, exacerbated by their treatment in prison and conditions of detention. Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience, imprisoned for their peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression, and calls for their immediate and unconditional release from detention.
The prisoners are reported to have formed committees to gather information on human rights violations in the prison, to circulate news among prisoners, and to prepare special commemorative magazines with articles, poems and cartoons. Prisoners were not allowed access to writing or reading materials, so any such activity had to be carried out in secrecy, and with recourse to alternative writing materials
Defending human rights
Prisoners gathered information on human rights violations in prison, including inadequate access to medical treatment, torture and ill-treatment, and poor conditions. They intended to send this information to the United Nations Secretary General. Prison authorities found the document hidden in the handle of a bucket in a prison cell. Authorities accused Kyaw Min Yu, a 36 year old physics student and student union leader arrested in 1989, of initiating the project to gather information about human rights violations and to send it to the United Nations. Phyo Min Thein, a student leader, admitted at the trial that he had contributed information to the document on human rights violations, and countered authorities' charges that this was "false", by saying that it represented the truth of his experiences in prison, where he had been held since 1991. U Win Tin, a former editor aged 75, similarly reportedly stated to the court that he did what
"he believed was right..the facts describing the situation with regard to the treatment of prisoners in solitary confinement and other matters, were correct, and were beyond the limits of regulations outlined in the prison manual….the loss of human rights and torture in prison were all genuine and that the prosecution could not prove that these points were inaccurate. "
He also reportedly stated to the court that
"the statement in the letter to the UN that ' political prisoners did not receive sufficient medication in prison' was a true statement, (and). that he himself had not received sufficient medication"
Authorities said that Nyunt Zaw (who reportedly died in prison of heart disease in 1999, at the age of 32) copied the information on an Ajinomoto (a brand of monosodium glutamate flavour powder) plastic bag, to be sent to the UN. Ba Myo Thein, 50, an assistant supervisor in an agricultural office, was accused of signing it.
The prisoners were also charged with writing a message on a prison shirt to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993. It reportedly stated "political prisoners welcome the Vienna Conference…the rays of hope for human rights will be brightened in Burma' and that 'we are still under detention in the SLORC prison where no human rights are practised'. The authorities accused Phyo Min Thein of translating the text into English, and Kyaw Min Yu of signing it.
Journalism on Trial
Prisoners were not allowed to read newspapers. However, they arranged for the overseas publication Time, Newsweek, and other newspapers to be smuggled into the prison, and distributed them among themselves. Tun Win, c. 50, and Ko Ko Oo, aka Bo Bo Oo, were accused of smuggling a radio into the prison. At the trial, authorities said that Kyaw Min Yu had asked Nyunt Zaw "who had beautiful handwriting" to transcribe the news from overseas radio stations, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) and the Voice of America (VOA). Authorities repeatedly stated at the trial that these radio stations "broadcast false news about Burma" and a law enforcement official testified that "news from the DVB was damaging to the country as it had been fabricated." Kyaw Min Yu, in his defence, stated that radio stations such as the BBC and VOA were "good for the people" and broadcast "only correct and confirmed news". He confirmed that he had written news in a bulletin with transcripts of these broadcasts that was circulated every week in the prison, after his handwriting was found on it, but said that he should not be considered to be guilty of the crime of disseminating false news, because the contents were all "based on true accounts." Ko Ko Oo aka Bo Bo Oo, aka Ko Bo Bo was also charged with contributing to the bulletin, which also included information from Radio Myanmar, and news from relatives visiting the prison. Authorities accused Aung Kyaw Oo, a history student and student union organizer, with distributing it.
Writing on trial
Prisoners also produced two handwritten magazines, with poems, articles, illustrations and cartoons. One commemorated the Diamond Jubilee of Yangon University, and had a crocheted cover, and another called "New Blood Wave" The authorities stated that although this material was hand-written, they were still considered to be magazines or literature, and therefore subject to laws which penalize the circulation of information without approval by the official censor. The court also stated that the content was aimed "at discrediting the state and presenting inaccurate information" and that the magazines' "content and style of writing in the magazines was "detrimental to the state." U Win Tin was one of the contributors, and is alleged to have written an article entitled "Students, Youth and Human Right," which he later denied writing. Aung Kyaw Oo admitted at trial to writing a poem called "Together with Infinite Strength," and said that if this were a crime and he were convicted of it, the court should rule to grant prisoners the right to reading and writing materials in prison. Phyo Min Thein, Zaw Myint Maung and U Win Tin were accused of writing a poem, and denied the charge – U Win Tin on the basis that he that he was too old to write poetry. A poem alleged to have been written by Zaw Myint Maung was quoted in court:
" Let it be known to
those in the military who hunger for power,
those demonic military,
wishing to build a military nation,
under a military democracy and military politics,
that we shall resist defiantly with the strength of the fighting peacock,
may it be eternally recorded in history!'"
Soe Myint also known as Saya Soe, a veterinary doctor, was charged with and denied writing a song in the New Blood Wave magazine, and Ba Myo Thein was accused of drawing illustrations for the Diamond Jubilee Magazine. Ba Myo Thein stated that the evidence for this charge had not been obtained in accordance with regulations.
Other supposed offences were mentioned at the trial, including taking part in a ceremony to commemorate the deaths in custody of two political prisoners. Zaw Myint Maung reportedly stated in court that the bringing of charges against him was politically motivated, and that he had not carried out any of the acts with which he was charged.
Torture in Interrogation, and poor conditions of detention in dog cells
While they were investigating in order to determine which prisoners had taken part in these activities, authorities held prisoners for up to three months in cells designed for military dogs, without bedding, and in solitary confinement. They were periodically denied food and water, and also refused the right to receive visits from relatives. There is concern that the way in which defendants were treated may have exacerbated their already poor health conditions.
At their trial, U Win Tin stated that evidence presented against him in court was a "confession" extracted from him by torture; Zaw Myint Maung testified that he had been denied water during interrogation, and that authorities had illegally taken a handwriting sample from him and that he had been asked to write a phrase "designed to damage his political dignity". Other defendants testified that they had been tortured or in other ways ill-treated during interrogation, including by being taken hooded from the prison cell, and tortured including by being threatened and beaten by up to six officials.
Unfair Trial and Unfair Legislation
Their trial also did not match international standards for fairness. Prisoners were not granted legal counsel and confessions extracted by torture were allowed as evidence in court.
Defendants sentenced under section 5 [e] of the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act, a piece of security legislation, which effectively criminalizes the peaceful exercise of freedom of expression and opinion, by allowing authorities to imprison people for either disseminating or intending to disseminate information that is "false". The terms of this legislation go beyond restrictions permissible by authorities on freedom of expression under international law. Its vague terms are open to misinterpretation and abuse, as has been the case in the sentencing of these prisoners, and in previous use of the law to imprison comedians for telling political jokes.
Basic principles of international law on freedom of expression and opinion guarantee the freedom to hold, receive and impart all forms of opinions, ideas and information, and should not be bounded by arbitrary definitions about such opinions' factual quality. In the trial, authorities maintained that foreign news broadcasts, poems, short stories and other opinions expressed in articles by the prisoners were "false" or incorrect information. The judgement was handed down solely on the basis that authorities considered information collected or disseminated by prisoners – including information about human rights violations, news from overseas broadcasts, poems, articles, cartoons and short stories – to be false information, and also on authorities' untested consideration that prisoners knew this information to be incorrect.
Poor Health
Win Tin is in a poor state of health, suffering from spondylitis, a heart condition, haemorrhoids, and other ailments. Others of the group who are or have been in poor states of health include: Zaw Myint Maung who has suffered from hepatitis and other health problems; Soe Myint suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Aung Kyaw Oo reportedly has had liver and kidney disease, Bo Bo Oo asthma, Tun Win gout, and Phyo Min Thein has had various health problems. At least one of the prisoners tried with them, Nyunt Zaw, died at 32, reportedly of heart disease in 1999. He had been held in solitary confinement, and is reported not to have had adequate medical treatment. Tun Win, who is held in Thayawaddy Prison and Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, held in Myitkyina Prison, are being held extremely far from their families. Prisoners are dependent on food and medicines to supplement their prison diet, and the time and cost of travel to distant prisoners mean that they receive less support from their families.
Previous sentences
The majority of these prisoners have already served out the sentences for which they were originally incarcerated.
U Win Tin, 75, is serving a total sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. He was arrested on 4 July1989 on account of his prominence in the political opposition. He is an editor and translator.
Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, 51, a medical doctor and NLD MP elect has been imprisoned since 1990, and was arrested for his alleged participation in discussions about the formation of a parallel government in Mandalay. He was sentenced at a military tribunal with no legal representation, and is believed to be serving a total sentence of 22 years' imprisonment. He is believed to have been deprived of food and sleep during interrogation in 1990.
Among the prisoners are student activists, who had taken part in student politics. Aung Kyaw Oo, a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) has already served his sentence for suspected contact with armed opposition, the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF). He was arrested in 1991 and is reportedly not scheduled to be released until 2010; Kyaw Min Yu (aka Jimmy) was reportedly arrested in1989, and sentenced for his prominent role in student union activism and the opposition political party Democratic Party for a New Society. He is reported to have been sentenced to a total of at least 22 years' imprisonment and is not scheduled to be released until 2011. Phyo Min Thein was arrested in December 1991 in connection with peaceful demonstrations by students after opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize, and is serving a total sentence of 14 years imprisonment, making him eligible to be released now, with time off for parole.
Ba Myo Thein and Soe Myint, aka Saya Soe, were sentenced for alleged links with the Communist Party of Burma, and have served their sentences already. Soe Myint, a veterinary surgeon is believed to have been also sentenced for composing a song commemorating the election victory of the NLD. He was arrested in 1992 and has reportedly been sentenced to at least 22 years' imprisonment in total. Ba Myo Thein was arrested in 1991 and is serving a total sentence to at least 19 or 22 years' imprisonment.
Bo Bo Oo, aka Ko Ko Oo, was sentenced to 19 or 22 years in total, and was arrested in 1991 – it is not known in which connection. Tun Win is reported to have been arrested in connection with activities on behalf of an armed opposition group, and to be serving a sentence to life imprisonment. Amnesty International has no information on the charges against him.
Prison Conditions
While in recent years, following ICRC visits to prisoners, some political prisoners have had access to reading materials, this is not universally applied, and what they may read is restricted. Nor, do prisoners have access to writing materials.
- expressing concern at the imprisonment of Aung Kyaw Oo, Ba Myo Thein; Bo Bo aka Ko Ko Oo; Kyaw Min Yu, aka Jimmy; Phyo Min Thein; Soe Myint, aka Saya Soe; Tun Win; Win Tin and Zaw Myint Maung for peacefully acting in protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and engaging in the peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of expression and opinion;
- urging authorities to immediately and unconditionally release them from detention;
- urging authorities to hold prisoners in conditions which meet international standards, including with access to reading and writing materials and all necessary and appropriate medical treatment, in accordance with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners
- Urging that authorities act in the spirit of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Defenders and recognize that everyone has the right
I) to promote and strive for the protection of human rights nationally and internationally, and to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights,
II) to unhindered access to and communication with international bodies with general or special competence to receive and consider communications on matters of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and
III) to obtain, receive and hold information and to publish, impart or disseminate to others views and information on all such rights and freedoms, and to draw public attention to these matters,
- urging authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of everyone against threats, discrimination, and any other penalties, including arbitrary arrest for taking part in such peaceful activities,
- Urging authorities to end the use of security legislation used to imprison these prisoners which subjects rights and freedoms to greater restrictions than necessary under international law,
General Than Shwe
State Peace and Development Council
Ministry of Defence
Dagon Post Office
Yangon, Union of Myanmar
Faxes: + 95 1 652 624
Salutation: Dear General
Lt General Soe Win
Prime Minister
State Peace and Development Council
Ministry of Defence
Dagon Post Office
Yangon, Union of Myanmar
Faxes: + 95 1 652 624
Salutation: Dear Prime Minister
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