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Rustic Mango Wood Serving Platter
Serve Mango With Every Meal
After mango trees naturally stop bearing fruit, their wood is harvested and hand-carved by Thai artisans to start a new life as this distinctive server. Featuring a flowing shape and warm grain, each piece is finished with a food-safe mineral oil that seals the surface. Serve bread in organic style or fill with fruit for a rustic centerpiece.
When each tree is cut down, the roots remain intact to encourage regrowth. A sapling is also planted to replace the harvested tree and to continue the cycle. Due to this careful process of harvesting and replanting, mango wood is a fully sustainable resource. Handmade by artisans in Thailand.
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Archful Arrangements. Serve appetizers with a side of
style with these glossy arches, inspired by the handy catering trick of using watermelon rinds for serving quick bites. Toothpick holes take the guesswork out of creating artful arrangements, while a clean ...
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A Hint of Hungary. Had you attended a
dinner party in 19th century Hungary, the menu may have included chicken soup, stuffed cabbage, and butter-cream tortes. Give dinner parties or your kitchen assortment a bit of historic charm—the menu's up ... | {
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outdoor solar powered lights although it is not the best time to talk about outdoor lighting the ideas of solar powered light here is definitely worth saving for next years outdoor outdoor solar powered lamp posts. | {
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Dalyan Turtle Beach
Dalyan tour is among our extensive tours which includes both historic and natural items that we can recommed. After our gathering in the early hours of the morning, a short transport of 1.5 hours is done. During the transport, our guides give information about Fethiye and around. When we reach Dalyan harbour, our cruise starts with our ready boat. Our first destination is the Dalyan Rock Tombs. After our guide gives you information about tombs and arounds, a break is given for you to take many photos. In Dalyan life is the equivalent of the water. The Dalyan river which is the topic of many movies, is famous for its caretta caretta (sea turtle) and blue crabs. Dalyan İztuzu Beach known as The Turtle Beach which streches 7.5 kms is one of the most picturesque beach of Turkey where you can aslo swim and enjoy the beach. After the İztuzu Beach, the open buffet lunch by the Dalyan river is served and following the lunch, you can also make use of the curative spas and curative mud bath. Then we say farewell to you after leaving you to your hotels.
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Project Description
Tesla Home Battery: A Bright Idea or a Crapshoot?
The savior of solar is what some are calling Tesla’s new home battery. Others say it’s just a start.
Nevertheless, builders seem to be sold on the Powerwall, which stores electricity generated from solar panels to serve as a backup system during blackouts and run critical home appliances.
The battery sold out in just the six days it was offered.
Powerwall Popularity
In a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his factories will be busy through the middle of next year with orders for 38,000 home batteries and 2,500 utility-scale batteries.
Musk, the billionaire renowned for pursuing far-out projects, is the man behind the battery. Colonizing Mars is one of his goals at Space X, a rocket maker that he also runs. The Powerwall is yet another of his ambitious missions.
Battery Basics
Although Tesla will make the Powerwall, it will be sold by a variety of other companies includingSolarCity, a solar installer founded by Musk’s cousins, Lyndon and Peter Rive. Musk is SolarCity’s chairman and largest shareholder.
The system will cost $3,000 to $3,500, which could discourage widespread adoption, especially for a product that may only have limited use.
“I don’t believe this product in its first incarnation will be interesting to the average person,” says Peter Rive of SolarCity.
He does still expect there to be enough demand to substantially increase the number of batteries in homes.
Bright Future
Musk is so encouraged by the battery’s initial demand that he believes Tesla and other future entrants in the market will be able to sell 2 billion battery packs around the world — roughly the same number of vehicles already on roads.
Tesla hopes to begin shipping a limited number of Powerwall batteries this summer in the U.S. before expanding internationally next year.
The long-term goal is to reduce the world’s reliance on energy generated from fossil fuels while creating regional networks of home batteries that could be controlled as if they were a power plant. That would give utilities another way to ensure that they can provide power at times of peak demand. | {
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It was an exciting month for the MAF team in west Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They welcomed the long-awaited PC-12 aircraft, the only one in the entire MAF fleet. This aircraft will meet the long-distance demands of serving a country as vast as the DRC.
The DNDI team boarding the plane in Kinshasa. Photo by Nick Frey.
The aircraft went right to work, with its first flight for a team from Drugs for Neglected Diseases International (DNDI) going to Vanga (189 NM from Kinshasa). The PC-12 also did a flight to the Boende district (414 NM) to take a medical team and supplies to fight an Ebola outbreak there.
Next, it covered just over 600 miles to take World Vision and Reach Global teams to Gemena, in the upper northwestern corner of DRC. The flight takes a mere 2 ¼ hours each way in the PC-12, compared to what used to be an all-day trip in the Cessna Caravan, sometimes requiring an overnight stay by the pilot. Now the PC-12 can get there and back in one day.
Pilots David Francis and Rod Hochstetler ferried the plane from Switzerland to Kinshasa, DR Congo. Photo by Jocelyn Frey.
“We are slowly getting the word out that we have a long-range aircraft,” said Nick Frey, WDRC program manager. “No doubt many others will want to use it as they learn of its speed and capability.”
Nick Frey speaks to the staff families during the PC-12 dedication ceremony. Photo by Jocelyn Frey.
Another flight is booked this week for Evangelical Covenant Mission to travel to Gemena. Space has been reserved for two patients to travel back to Kinshasa for treatment; one on a stretcher, and another with a broken leg. This flight support will spare them a nearly impossible trek by any other means than aircraft.
MAF is grateful for this new ministry tool and how it is expanding the service the WDRC team can provide. It means Congolese churches, Christian missions, medical teams and other humanitarian groups working in the country will be better served, and more Congolese people can get the help they need.
Supporters like you made this aircraft a reality for MAF! You are changing lives and having an impact in the DRC. Thank you! | {
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Nov 16, 2016 . It is a 3'x6' continuous ball mill for small scale production at about 1 tph. . Can you go directly from jaw to this or first the hammermill for intermediary grind? . That fine gold will be concentrated in the bittom inside the ball mill.
A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind and blend materials for use in mineral dressing . A ball mill, a type of grinder, is a cylindrical device used in grinding (or .. In situ leaching · Gold chlorination · Gold cyanidation · Bayer process.
A mill is a device that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting .. SAG mills are autogenous mills but use grinding balls like a ball mill. . simple mill for grinding and pulverizing (typically) gold or silver ore. roller mill, an equipment for the grinding or pulverizing of grain and other raw materials. | {
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Southern Miss head coach Scott Berry looks on as the Eagles take on Louisiana-Lafayette.
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Five Golden Eagles pitchers were raked for 14 hits while walking seven, and USM committed five errors in a game for the first time since 2011, as the University of Louisiana-Lafayette pounded out a 13-4 victory before 3,225.
The Ragin' Cajuns (12-3) evened the series with USM (7-7), which won 9-2 Friday night. ... | {
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Dental X-Rays
Our hospital offers dental radiographs (x-rays) as part of our dental care services. In the course of dental treatment, specially designed dental radiology equipment allows your veterinarian to view structures that lie below the gum line. The location of tooth root infections, the extent of periodontal bone loss and the identification of bone cysts and tumors can be identified using dental x-rays. With this knowledge the best decisions can be made in the treatment of your pet.
Anesthesia is required for dental x-rays. A small x-ray film or dental x-ray sensor is placed in the mouth. A movable dental x-ray machine is adjusted to project x-rays through the tooth and jaw onto the plate. The image created can then be viewed to make a diagnosis. Treatment can then be carried out immediately or scheduled for a later date based on the decision reached by you and your pet's veterinarian.
Dogs and cats don't often get cavities. But they do frequently suffer from other types of dental disease. Periodontal or gum disease, in fact, is the number one illness found in both dogs and cats. More | {
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3) Food options seen at the stadium include: Mississippi Sweets BBQ, Subway, Nathan's Hot Dogs, pulled pork/italian sausage, pizza, burgers, snow cones/ice cream, pretzels, cotton candy, Moe's tex-mex, arepas. Not all options may be available but the majority of the things listed should be there. If you're fortunate to have box seats you'll have expanded dining options.
4) Alcohol should be available at all levels of the stadium, though the beer selection will likely be limited for the majority of the stadium. I think they were selling frozen drinks over in the southeast corner of the stadium ("The Cove", looks like a small beach)
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And here are recommendations from a local Owl fan:
BEFORE THE GAME
For breakfast I'd highly recommend Tom Sayer's near campus or, if you want to eat near the beach, snag a table outside of The Boca Beach House (try the homefries).
If you just want to grab something to go, check out either Flakowitz Bagel Inn on 20th and Federal Highway (they have a walk-up window in the morning) or Rhino Doughnuts and Coffee at the south end of Mizner Park (afterward you could wander around Mizner Park a little bit but honestly it's just an outdoor mall so you'll probably be done with it in about 20 minutes).
For lunch I'd recommend LaSpada's Hoagies (5 minutes away by the mall) or Community Table (near campus). Other popular spots (among my friends) include Missippi Sweets (which, again, is at the stadium), Biergarten (German restaurant), Ninja Spinning Sushi, The Rebel House and The Gluttinous Goat.
If you want to pregame/drink some local craft beers, check out the Funky Buddha Brewery about 5 minutes from campus on Federal Highway. That's the "big name" in craft beers in our part of South Florida.
If you wanna check out some FAU gear near campus, visit our friend Mark at It's Owl Time on 20th Street directly east of campus.
Beyond that you have the typical options of beach, bowling, mall, movie theater in Boca Raton, and there's really nothing to do west of the Boca Town Centre mall, so stay in "East Boca".
If you're from out of state, a big draw for most visitors here is Spanish River beach; take Spanish River Blvd east towards A1A and parallel park after the bridge.
If you're looking for free entertainment/something family-friendly, head a little south on A1A and you'll find a small free Nature Center called Gumbo Limbo that has some fish tanks, sea turtles and such. It typically closes by 4 pm, however.
If you don't want to commit to actually swimming or walking the beach because you don't want to get hot/wet before the game, there's a nice quiet free boardwalk among the mangroves at the north entrance of John Rutherford Park behind CVS on North Federal Highway and NE 24th Street (part of the Fifth Avenue Shoppes)
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Hope that helps! Welcome to Owl Country and enjoy your visit with us!
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Thanks for this great post!! I shared it on our CanesTime forums so other Canes fans might be able to read it, too. Hopefully all those who come over are respectful and friendly Go CANES & see you all on Friday!! | {
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[Verse 1]
Real quick, like the joker going right off the back
Wanna see me out there’s a rider for that
Me and you up in a battle you couldn’t sign up for that
They gon need a scrapper just to get your back off the mark
‘Cos you, get crumbled, I move full throttle
A trouble that’s coming for you if you try to slow my hustle
Down, brown, paper, bags
A flow like this I swear your fav never had
I know I dey mad chics digging me they giving me
A big fat blunt like Santa’s stuck up in the chimney
Bow legged rapper when I ball you see the skill in me
See mans not hot but you can tell it’s zero chill in me
Want a crib that look like a sorority
‘Cos I be getting women and I’ll do it with authority
Shout out to all women now they more on me want more of me
But honestly nowadays a lot of ya’ll be boring me
Right now the hip-hop game’s been ignoring me
Act like they don’t see what the boy be doing globally
Things I’m doing on a large scale would leave you (?)
I’m like a sound sultan my flows got a black belt
So what the plan my bro?
‘Cos am hear to give em really what they asking for
Anyone’s that got some issues that I should know
Speak now so I can split your a-s in four
That’s a, sign of a cross and a, sign of your loss
You should, read the reports TINNY round of applause
And a, word to the boss you said it was time to boss
Then my brother hooked me up and I definitely must
Pause, real talk you know I tell the truth
[Verse 2]
Back to the rap for the real fan addicts
I been all the way up like a big man’s headache
You try to pull me down but the n—a can’t die
Best African in hip-hop and am guessing here’s why
My flow is so impeccable despicable
You avoid the colab ‘Cos you know that am a threat to you
The rest of ya’ll feeling cool it’s only ‘Cos am letting you
And know you can keep shut and do what you suppose to do
Bruh, I wish, that one will try to step to a brother like this
You wanna see war I bring it to your eyelids, iris, I live
For the fool that say, that I ain’t sick is
High risk, call (?) Mehn am running this s–t
Mhen am running for your b—h
[Outro]
TINNY
We about to flip the whole game
BBK
It is a beat by Karma
Ain’t nobody badder than
Is this s-t for M.I….?
N—a, I’m shut of words, really…. am I?
M.I just got HIT from YCEE. VEC will just Bury him alive. Fuck boy @M.I should go find something else to do cos he got no flows for the rap game. | {
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Yes, 2019 is still in its early stages, but for all the concerns about the state of the U.S. investment-grade corporate bond market heading into this year, that universe is off to a solid start.
The Markit iBoxx USD Liquid Investment Grade Index, one of the most widely followed gauges of domestic investment-grade corporate debt, is higher by nearly 3 percent.
What Happened
With expectations in place that the Federal Reserve will slow its pace of interest rate hikes or not boost borrowing costs at all this year, some fixed income investors may revisit longer-dated bonds. For those looking to increase duration exposure without going all the way to long-term bonds and the related exchange traded funds, intermediate-term bond funds are adequate substitutes.
In the investment-grade corporate bond universe, that includes the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCIT). VCIT is CFRA Research's focus ETF for the month of February.
Why It's Important
Last month fixed income investors “gravitated toward intermediate-term bond strategies -- those investing in bonds with maturities between three and ten years – in contrast to short (1-3 years) and ultra-short (less than 1 year) term products that were more popular in 2018 as the Federal Reserve hiked rates multiple time,” said CFRA's Director of ETF & Mutual Fund Research Todd Rosenbluth in a note released Monday.
Home to $18.2 billion in assets under management at the end of last year, VCIT is one of the largest corporate bond ETFs of any maturity range. The fund holds over 1,700 bonds with an average duration of 6.1 years. The average effective maturity on VCIT's holdings is 7.3 years.
“As CFRA’s Investment Policy Committee noted on January 9, the news out of the December 20 policy statement was the shift in language and reflected the more dovish tone coming out of the Fed, underscoring a new patient stance,” said Rosenbluth. “Given the macroeconomic environment, investors were willing to incur additional interest rate sensitivity in exchange for healthier yields.”
What's Next
“As of January 29, VCIT was the second most popular bond ETF, pulling in $2.5 billion and increasing its asset base to $21 billion; bond ETFs collectively added $13 billion to start 2019,” said Rosenbluth. “This ETF seeks to track the Bloomberg Barclays US 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index and the fund is highly diversified with more than 1,700 holdings.”
CFRA has an Overweight rating on VCIT. The fund charges just 0.07 percent per year, making it cheaper than 91 percent of competing strategies. | {
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Radio Stations in GTA 2
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Revision as of 10:52, 20 December 2007 by El shendee(Talk)(New page: <!---useMultiEdit---> Each area features five radio stations from a pool of eleven, in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game. Changing radio stations...)
Each area features five radio stations from a pool of eleven, in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game. Changing radio stations for preference was also possible in the Windows PC version by using the "F1" function key and also in the Playstation version by pressing the "up" directional button. "Head Radio" was present in the original GTA, Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Each gang also has its own radio station that transmits within a limited area.
Head Radio — The city's largest commercial radio station. It can be received in all areas of the game. The DJ's names are Phanny Joe Styles and Johnny Riccaro. Head Radio plays modern pop and rock.
Rockstar Radio — A commercial radio station in the Downtown Area. The DJ/commentator is Sammy Starock, who apparently hates everyone and regularly receives letter bombs from listeners. The station plays pop and rock and occasionally features on-air phone calls from "listeners".
KREZ — The Residential Area's commercial station which plays hip hop and rap. The DJ is Richie T.
Lo-Fi FM — A commercial station in the Industrial Area that plays oldies and pop. The DJ (DJ Die/Dye — Dai is a Welsh abbreviation for the name 'David') is Welsh and seems to have no ties to gangs in the area.
Futuro FM — A radio staion sponsored by the Zaibatsu and filled with promotions for their products. The DJ, Dean Frantz, plays dance, jazz-oriented pop and Funk.
Heavenly Radio — The Krishnas' gang station, transmitting in the Industrial Sector. The music is a mix of Jesus-pop and soft music. Listeners are continuously urged by the station's DJ, Venus Ordelia, to convert.
KGBH — A pun on the Soviet KGB and grievous bodily harm (GBH), radio station of the Russian mafia with DJ Bombatumba. KGBH frequently encounters both technical and personal problems that interfere with their broadcasts. The station primarily plays classic rock.
Lithium FM — The Loonies' station. Features a schizophrenic DJ, Spaz Funbags, who plays oldies as well as some dance music.
Rebel Radio/KING — The Redneck gang station in the Residential Area. The DJ, Marshall Nash, has a Southern accent and posts announcements of escaped convicts who have bounties posted on their heads. The music of choice is modern and classic rock.
Osmosis Radio — The Scientists' station, transmitting in the Residential Area. The DJ "Mama Doc", who is either Icelandic or Scandinavian, plays modern dance music.
Funami FM — The Yakuza gang's station in the Downtown Area. The music is drum and bass-type electronic music. The station is hosted by a maniacal Japanese woman screaming in a high-pitch voice who calls herself Teriyaki-chan.
The theme song on the main title screen is the song "Short change" by the group E-Z Rollers | {
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Source: The Times of India Published on 18th January, 2015 Passion, determination, vision, agility, team play, fundraising skills … What exactly defines the DNA of a booming… Read more “Secrets of enterprise” | {
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not an arbiter of taste
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Eat Local Challenge
A little late to the party, again, silly little me, this one is the Eat Local Challenge organized by Jen. I told her I would participate early on, but got a little side tracked at the beginning of the month when my fridge in the city broke, which made it a little difficult to cook, let alone thinking about the sources of the food I ate. Although deciding to get involved really wasn't that big a deal. David and I go out of our ways to buy and cook with local ingredients anyway. I have been going to the Saturday morning farmers market in San Francisco since it was on the street in front of the old Ferry building many moons ago, and followed when it moved to the parking lot further down the road, to when it returned again to the original location, this time inside the renovated Ferry Plaza where it continues today.
I know buying exclusively local is hardly possible. Self sustaining communities have never really worked: Masada eventually fell, hippie communes in the 60's ended up breeding rebellious yuppies, and Biosphere is now barely more than a glorified Disneyland. Even living here in fertile California, we cannot possibly grow and raise all the things we need. And then there are specialty things that are simply not negotiable, they just cannot be local. This Thai girl will always eat Thai Jasmine rice, always, for example.
But I am still a firm believer in buying local, perhaps not exclusively local, but more local would be good enough for me. I buy local because some things just taste better when they are not shipped across the country, soft, sweet, juicy, tree ripened peaches for example. I buy local because there are superb produce and products local to me that are better than what I can find anywhere else. I buy local because I believe in supporting my community, local farmers, and artisans. I know that being able to make this choice is a privilege, some people are far more concerned with merely keeping their families clothed and fed. But this is a choice I could afford to make, so I did.
I knew I was already doing quite a lot, buying most produce, fruits, and even meats from the farmers market, only going to local Whole Foods or Chinese markets for filler items. But I still wanted to really see how much of them was, in fact, local. So I drew up two lists: one of the things I buy regularly that are certainly local, and the other for the things that either I know not to be local, or perhaps I never paid attention to the provenance at all.
Things I buy regularly that are local:Greens and fresh herbs from Joe at Dirty Girl, Annabelle at Star Route, Julia at Meriquita or Joseph at White CraneFruits from my two farmers market, at the ferry plaza and in downtown Santa CruzMilk/Cream: from either Strauss in Marin or Claravale just south of Santa CruzBread: from Ed and Kathleen at Della FattoriaLocal seafood: squids, sardines, abalone, and other seasonal fish from the California coastMeat: chicken from Mrs. Hoffman, grass fed beef from Marin SunMushroom from Far West FungiOlive oilVinegar: Sparrow Lane
I realized a few things after taking a look at this list. When it comes to fresh foods, I always try to buy directly from farmers at farmers market. On the other hand, for other things, I've been paying more attention to whether it was either organic or sustainably produced than the locality. So, my goal for this Eat Local month is to reconsider the items on my second list, and see how many I could move up to the first one.
In the 10 days so far in this month, I've changed a couple of habits. I no longer use Illy pods that had to be shipped all the way here from Italy. I've switched to locally roasted beans from Blue Bottle at the farmers market or from Los Gatos Roasting Company in Los Gatos. Mind you I had to also buy a proper burr grinder to go with the new choice, but my espresso are better than ever. I'm also buying more Asian ingredients from the Hmong farmers at the Ferry Plaza market as well as at the Soquel market just south of Santa Cruz. I found Kaffir lime leafs from California at Staff of Life in Santa Cruz, so no more going to May Wah to pick up their Mexican ones. I'm also back to using Strauss butter, although I'm secretly hoping that the folks at Claravale will start making butter from their ultra delicious raw milk.
Throughout the month, I will be reporting on the items from my second list that I find equal or even better substitutes locally. Hopefully, by the end of August I would be able to move a bunch of things from the second list up to the top one permanently.
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Eat Local Challenge
A little late to the party, again, silly little me, this one is the Eat Local Challenge organized by Jen. I told her I would participate early on, but got a little side tracked at the beginning of the month when my fridge in the city broke, which made it a little difficult to cook, let alone thinking about the sources of the food I ate. Although deciding to get involved really wasn't that big a deal. David and I go out of our ways to buy and cook with local ingredients anyway. I have been going to the Saturday morning farmers market in San Francisco since it was on the street in front of the old Ferry building many moons ago, and followed when it moved to the parking lot further down the road, to when it returned again to the original location, this time inside the renovated Ferry Plaza where it continues today.
I know buying exclusively local is hardly possible. Self sustaining communities have never really worked: Masada eventually fell, hippie communes in the 60's ended up breeding rebellious yuppies, and Biosphere is now barely more than a glorified Disneyland. Even living here in fertile California, we cannot possibly grow and raise all the things we need. And then there are specialty things that are simply not negotiable, they just cannot be local. This Thai girl will always eat Thai Jasmine rice, always, for example.
But I am still a firm believer in buying local, perhaps not exclusively local, but more local would be good enough for me. I buy local because some things just taste better when they are not shipped across the country, soft, sweet, juicy, tree ripened peaches for example. I buy local because there are superb produce and products local to me that are better than what I can find anywhere else. I buy local because I believe in supporting my community, local farmers, and artisans. I know that being able to make this choice is a privilege, some people are far more concerned with merely keeping their families clothed and fed. But this is a choice I could afford to make, so I did. | {
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Project for the New American CarnivoreFrom Lyman to Niman in 10 Short Years
By James LaVeck and Jenny Stein
July, 2007
In 1997, while attending our first national animal advocacy conference in Washington, DC, we were surprised to find that one of the speakers was a former cattle rancher. His name was Howard Lyman, and not only was he now a vegan, but he had publicly renounced the exploitation of animals and dedicated the rest of his life to sharing with the world the lessons he had learned about ethical eating, environmental sanity, and peaceful grassroots activism. His message, along with that of several other people we heard at that conference, inspired us to change our own diets and join the movement for nonviolence and animal rights.
Now, ten years later, another conference is happening in our nation's capital. While several of the speakers and supporters remain the same, this year's most publicized animal protection conference will not be featuring any cattlemen gone vegan. Instead, it will be putting on the podium a multi-million dollar rancher, a pig farmer, a turkey farmer, and others known for talking of compassion and animal welfare while at the same time profiting from their unapologetic killing of animals.
Now, ten years later, a well-known animal sanctuary, as well as organizations that are the public face of animal advocacy in the United States, have partnered with members of the meat industry to develop "new and improved" standards for the exploitation of animals, and to actively promote consumption of products such as "cage-free" eggs and "animal compassionate" veal.
Now, ten years later, veganism, once widely understood within our movement to be a moral and ethical imperative, a commitment to not participate in the exploitation of others nor to cooperate with those who do, is rapidly being reduced to a mere "lifestyle choice," a "tool," to be selectively used as a means to an end. Similarly, the concept of animal rights, once widely understood to represent a zero-tolerance policy on the exploitation of animals, has become so diluted and degraded, as we shall later see, so as to be comfortably invoked by those who butcher thousands of baby cows and lambs every week.
For us, and for many other activists we have spoken with over these last months, this turn of events has been equal parts disturbing and bewildering. For some it has even been the cause of despair. There is a sense that the movement we have given our lives to is being cynically co-opted and transformed into a caricature of itself.
As we have worked to understand what is happening and why, we have gradually realized that something about this dark experience is eerily familiar. It is, in fact, strongly reminiscent of the cultural and political changes that have befallen our country over the last several years, changes resulting from the Neo-conservative domination of Washington politics.
Rise of the Neo-carns
As most of us know, the Neo-cons are a relatively small network of policy analysts, political operatives and elected officials who have been the driving force behind the radical shift that America's foreign policy has taken over the last several years. Their Project for the New American Century, a think-tank now famous for spawning most of the players and policies behind the US invasion of Iraq, openly advocates for world domination through military force.
What fewer are aware of, however, is that amongst the founders of the Neo-con movement were several former liberals, and it was their insider knowledge of progressive politics that made the Neo-cons so effective at discrediting their former ideology and advancing a new and radical agenda. It was the Neo-cons who conceived of making a doctrine of pre-emptive war official US policy. It was the Neo-cons who found a way to make secret prisons and systematic torture not only legal, but also socially acceptable.
We have developed a hypothesis that some of the more mystifying changes that have come to the movement for veganism and animal rights in recent years can largely be explained by the adoption of the Neo-con mindset and methods by a handful of influential animal organization leaders, philosophers and animal husbandry consultants, several of whom are former animal rights activists. They are the Neo-carns, and they have partnered with certain segments of the animal exploiting industries, using their insider knowledge to redefine the animal movement just as radically as the Neo-cons have redefined the policies of our government, with a similarly disastrous effect.
Our hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory, but rather a theory of cultural influence and unconscious imitation. By speculating about what might be some significant parallels between Neo-conservatism and Neo-carnism, we hope to inspire a community-based critical thinking process in service of a healthier and more effective movement.
Enriching the exploiters
Over the last few years, thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens have been killed, maimed, and psychologically scarred, their families torn apart. The economies of both countries have been bled just as severely to pay for all the mayhem, all in the name of "bringing democracy" to Iraq and "preventing terrorist attacks" in America.
As doubtful as the benefits of this endless "War on Terror" will continue to be for those millions of individuals whose lives hang in the balance, its perpetuation is nothing short of a goldmine for the management and stockholders of a number of multi-national defense contractors and oil companies. For no matter how many innocent people die, these corporations will get paid huge sums of money to build the bombs, and then after the bombs are dropped, get paid even more money to rebuild the buildings and infrastructure the bombs have blown apart. In fact, the greater the destruction, the more money they will ultimately make. Such corporations have close ties to the Neo-cons, and it is well-known that some of the profits they make flow right back into the coffers that fund the Neo-con political machine.
Similarly, the Neo-carns have formed an alliance with a group of large-scale meat sellers and animal exploiters who publicly proclaim their concern for the well-being of those they kill for profit. Working together, they are developing and promoting new standards for the exploitation of animals, and co-producing media events and public relations campaigns that culminate in mutually-beneficial legislative initiatives, all of it amounting to what we might call an endless "Campaign to Refine the Process of Exploitation."
However uncertain the benefits to the animals and the animal movement will be, this endless campaign waged under the banner of "protecting animals" and "reducing suffering" is virtually guaranteed to bring millions in new profits to the "cage-free" egg industry, the "humane" meat industry, the organic dairy industry, and numerous other purveyors of "happy" animal products. In fact, the more the public is taught to channel their concern for animals into the purchase of these new and pricier products of suffering, the more money these large scale exploiters will ultimately make. Some of this money is already being spent within the advocacy movement, being used to sponsor animal conferences, for example, that are now presenting some of these animal exploiters as respected speakers alongside long-time animal rights advocates.
Butchers for Animal Rights?
Nicolette Hahn Niman, in a recent New York Times op-ed, writes with considerable passion and authority about the cruelty and brutality of the common agricultural practice of cutting off the tails of pigs and cows. "Eventually," she says, "our consciences and common sense as well as science should tell us that we need an outright ban."
Described in Neo-carn media as being "haunted by the pigs she saw while touring pig confinement operations as an environmental attorney," Niman notes that "Studies have shown that sows confined in gestation stalls exhibit behavior characteristic of humans with severe depression and mental illness.'" Niman's seeming recognition of the intelligence and emotional capacity of pigs is so persuasive, it nearly succeeds in obliterating our awareness of the 2,000 pigs whose lives are taken each week by her 100 million dollar company, Niman Ranch. One wonders if Ms. Niman has ever taken the time to observe whether each of these 2,000 pigs exhibits physiological and psychological behaviors characteristic of humans, innocent of any crime, being brutally executed one after the other.
Then there's Randy Strauss of Strauss Veal & Lamb, who is quoted in Neo-carn media saying that veal crates are "inhumane and archaic" and "do nothing more than subject a calf to stress, fear, physical harm and pain," and has even gone so far as to say that "Animal rights are important."
Strauss's strong-sounding "pro-animal" language, as well as his being highlighted and praised by the Neo-carns, distracts us from realizing that he, like the war profiteers, has a vested interest in the endless expansion of the exploitation and the killing. In Strauss's own words, "We're now the largest veal company in the United States... We're slaughtering and processing between 1,700 and 2,500 calves and breaking three to five loads of domestic lamb a week at our Franklin facility."
"There are a growing number of people who, if they feel good about what they're eating, will eat veal," says Strauss. "If we can capture that market, we're going to increase the 0.6-pound per capita consumption market resulting in a healthier veal industry."
Squandering the Work of Generations
In a recent New York Times article titled "Veal to Love, Without the Guilt," it was noted that twenty years ago, Americans were eating eight times more veal than today, and that this dramatic change was due to a successful animal rights educational campaign and boycott carried out for years by thousands of animal advocates. The article then goes on to feature the comments of numerous parties who declare how delighted they are to once again be eating veal, except now, the "humanely-raised" veal products are rosy colored and sport a more zesty taste. At some upscale restaurants, this new "guilt-free" delicacy is rapidly becoming one of the most popular items.
Could this have anything to do with a prominent farm animal sanctuary and numerous animal protection groups putting their moral authority and the names of their organizations behind new "more humane" standards for the exploitation of dairy calves? Does it have anything to do with their publishing lists on the internet of restaurants that virtuously serve up the flesh of "uncrated" baby cows, or their elaborate PR collaborations with meat sellers such as Whole Foods and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck, who is only too happy to tell the world how much tastier "happy" animals can be?
Puck has recently launched a high profile PR initiative that includes the development of new "humane" exploitation standards. His company told Special Events magazine that it would use the resulting media exposure "to educate consumers and provide 'how to' information on using fresh, natural, organic and humanely treated ingredients." [Emphasis added].
This initiative succeeds brilliantly at marketing Puck's expensive products, among which veal is one of the top selling items. It also has caused the animals themselves to disappear. Now they are no longer individuals, sentient beings being exploited and killed. They are merely "humanely treated ingredients." This single example captures the essence of what is wrong with so many Neo-carn "victories." Lots of press and hoopla, the public image of animal exploiters lifted to the heavens along with that of their Neo-carn partners, and the basic truth of what is being done to the animals, the most inconvenient truth of them all, methodically swept under the rug.
Irrational Rationalizations
The architects of the Neo-carn revolution seem as blithely untroubled by the unraveling of the veal boycott as the Neo-cons are by the unraveling of American civil liberties. One prominent Neo-carnist offered the following in response to an advocate's criticism of his organization's role in the breaking of the veal boycott:
Of course, when people stopped eating veal in the 1980s, it meant more animals were being exploited, since people largely switched from veal to chicken and/or fish (who are much smaller animals). Lots of animal people tout the anti-veal campaign as the paradigmatic "incremental abolitionist" campaign, even though the result was that far more animals ended up being raised/killed as a result of it.
So just as the Neo-cons ask us to believe that we should allow our civil liberties to be curtailed as a means of protecting our "freedom," the Neo-carns ask us to believe that putting the animal movement seal of approval upon the new "humane" veal is actually saving the lives of animals. In both cases, there appears to be a comfort with assuming ownership and control of -- and then "spending" -- the decades-long work of large numbers of well meaning people in ways that directly contradict the original intent.
Compassion for Sale
And then there is Whole Foods Markets, one of the largest meat sellers in America, and now a major sponsor of numerous animal conferences. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is commonly presented as a business visionary committed to reconciling record levels of profit with philanthropic altruism. The Catholic Reporter, in fact, described Mr. Mackey as one of the few CEOs who "remain as models of ethics in both their personal and professional lives."
However, it was recently reported in the New York Times that over the course of eight years, Mackey made more than 1,000 posts on a popular internet financial forum under a false identity, touting his own company's stock and deprecating a competing company's stock, a company he is now in the process of attempting to buy.
In a popular vegetarian magazine, where Mackey has now twice been honored for his "vegan" values, he was recently described like this:
Mackey's compassion for animals led to Whole Foods' implementation of a humane production system to ensure the industry's highest quality conditions for animals raised for food. Whole Foods Markets' stringent quality-standards program requires frequent auditing and compliance from animal agriculture producers, making it tricky for even the slickest rancher to slip beneath this progressive company's radar.
However, after years of such unqualified animal movement endorsements and what is essentially a massive branding and advertising campaign carried out for free by trusting animal activists, apparently not even one of the "animal compassionate" exploitation standards Mackey and his suppliers developed in collaboration with participating animal organizations has been put into practice. According to the Whole Foods Animal Compassion Foundation web site, "although no producers have met these standards yet, many are exploring the opportunity."
Perhaps the problem will be solved when Whole Foods fills its new Alternative/Compassionate Farm Animal Production Coordinator position. "We are looking for someone," says the job posting on the Whole Foods web site, "who can bring solid evidence that they can produce a meat product in a pasture based system that will leave the taste buds screaming for more, and then get out there and help others do the same."
Is it not strange that while the institutional animal movement has historically struggled to develop and sustain any significant collaborations with the peace, environmental, and human rights movements, it seems to have had no problem at all developing elaborate and rather intimate alliances with animal exploiting corporations such as Whole Foods, Niman Ranch, and Wolfgang Puck?
And is it not also strange that nearly every adult in America is now aware of their option to buy some sort of "humanely-raised" animal product, an option that is being exercised more and more frequently yet, at the same time, hardly any Americans are aware of the fact that animal agriculture is estimated by United Nations scientists to be directly responsible for 18% of global warming emissions, and that adopting a plant-based diet saves more carbon pollution than driving a hybrid auto?
What the World Needs Now
Rather than launching a much-needed massive global warming education campaign that teaches people how to transition to a plant-based diet, the Neo-carns have instead elected to commit millions of dollars and countless activist hours to convincing people to buy "happy" animal products linked to largely symbolic legislative initiatives. Possibly voted down, and more than likely to be weakly enforced, such initiatives suffer many potential limitations in terms of the real benefits they might offer animals. Yet, regardless of the outcome, these initiatives are a winner from the word "go" for "happy meat" corporations and Butchers for Animal Rights.
Committing serious resources to the promotion of a plant-based diet, while it may be great for the animals, a moral imperative, and one of the most effective tools for addressing the global warming crisis, isn't going to sit well with the Neo-carns' animal industry partners. And let's face it, it is also unlikely to bring in as many donations as legislative initiatives that aspire to modify animal husbandry practices while introducing the public to new and tastier animal products. Actually confronting and criticizing the use and killing of animals creates some stress, and stress is bad for business.
Consider how the Neo-cons scoffed at the Kyoto Climate Change Treaty, and have failed to push Detroit to develop electric and hybrid vehicles, opting instead to offer tax breaks to buyers of Hummers. Could it be that Neo-carn leaders, enthralled with their newfound ability to conjure one illusory victory after the other, have all but missed the greatest educational opportunity the animal movement has seen in a generation?
Normalizing the Unthinkable
The methods of the Neo-cons and the Neo-carns are often both overwhelming and outrageous, and this tends at first to stun and immobilize those they are attempting to control. Recall, for example, the voting public's paralysis in the face of the Supreme Court deciding the 2000 election. And then came the difficult and discouraging interval between the run up to the invasion of Iraq and the "Mission Accomplished" moment. More and more people were awakening from the trance, yet still, most of us remained silent, unsure of ourselves, afraid to step out of line and become a target like the Dixie Chicks and others who were the first to say out loud what many of us knew in our hearts to be true.
That's where we are now in the animal movement. "Victory" after "victory" is being declared, and in such a climate, it seems "unpatriotic" to raise any questions or doubts. But the troubling consequences are mounting. It is getting harder and harder to hide the fact that segments of the meat industry are being enriched just like the corporations profiting from the war, and that hard-won progress in the battle for public respect for the rights of animals is slipping away. And as one boundary after another is violated, what was unthinkable and shocking the previous year becomes normal and accepted the next. The relentless quality of the process brings on a kind of learned helplessness.
The Doctrine of Pre-emptive Defeat
So here we come to a crucial point. Neo-cons and Neo-carns both damage the integrity of individuals and society in general by convincing us that we must violate our core principles in order to serve the common good, that by insisting on upholding cherished beliefs and values we are actually impeding progress. We must torture prisoners in order to be safe from attack. We must invade and occupy other countries in order to spread democracy. We must vote for politicians whose policies in nearly every other area are repugnant, because they have promised to support a certain animal welfare bill. We must partner with the animal exploiting industry to promote "happy" animal products even though we know in our hearts that using and killing animals is wrong.
Both the Neo-cons and the Neo-carns offer grim proclamations about the future, creating a climate of despair that enables public acceptance of their radical violations of moral and ethical codes. The Neo-cons, for example, emphasize that the "War on Terror" is likely to go on for generations. They tell us that we must steel ourselves for the nasty business of an unending conflict on many fronts, and that those who insist on questioning their policies are "aiding and abetting the enemy," or "abandoning our troops."
The Neo-carns similarly repeat over and over that "this isn't going to change in our lifetimes," presenting as fact their operating assumption that large numbers of people will not stop eating meat in the foreseeable future. The Neo-carns put forth this doctrine of pre-emptive defeat, and then convince other well-meaning people that their "happy meat" program is the only sane and compassionate course of action. Those who persistently question the wisdom of their approach are likely to be characterized as being "willing to abandon the billions of animals suffering now."
Such intimidating rhetoric distracts our attention from the simple truth that there are other choices, including addressing the root causes, rather than the symptoms of violence and injustice. This begins with the simple act of saying "No," of refusing to participate in the domination and exploitation of others, or to cooperate with those who do.
The Road Not Taken
So what might saying "No" look like? Consider the following excerpts from a 2006 American Psychological Association press release, clarifying the association's position on the issue of torture and abuse:
The Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) has approved a resolution reaffirming the organization's absolute opposition to all forms of torture and abuse, regardless of the circumstance.
The Association unequivocally condemns any involvement by psychologists in torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. This APA policy applies to all psychologists in all settings.
The resolution, approved on August 9, 2006, further underscored the duty of all psychologists to intervene to stop acts of torture or abuse as well as the ethical obligation of all psychologists to report such behavior to appropriate authorities.
"Our intention is to empower and encourage members to do everything they can to prevent violations of basic human rights - at Guantanamo Bay or anywhere else they may occur," said Gerald P. Koocher, PhD, President of the American Psychological Association. "It is not enough for us to express outrage or to codify acceptable practices. As psychologists, we must use every means at our disposal to prevent abuse and other forms of cruel or degrading treatment."
Contrast this with the language from a letter published on the Whole Foods web site, signed by 17 animal advocacy groups regarding their position on the development and use of "compassionate" standards for animal exploitation:
The undersigned animal welfare, animal protection and animal rights organizations would like to express their appreciation and support for the pioneering initiative being taken by Whole Foods Market in setting Farm Animal Compassionate Standards. We hope and expect that these standards will improve the lives of millions of animals.
As you consider these two approaches, ask yourself what message each sends to the world about the morality of practicing violence against others. Ask yourself which inspires you to get involved and take a stand against injustice.
[Note: after this essay was published, the letter mentioned above was removed from Whole Foods' web site and the link became dead. We have since replaced the link with a pdf of the letter which had formerly been displayed on the Whole Foods web site for the last nearly three years. As of Sept. 17, 2007 you could still find the name of the press release that once linked to the letter in Whole Foods' press archives, titled "Animal Rights Groups Express Support for Animal Compassion Foundation," dated January 24, 2005. And you could find mention of the letter, referred to as a "statement of support", in another Whole Foods press release dated January 26, 2005. You can still read an article about how the letter was prominently displayed at Whole Foods markets' check out counters.]
The Journey Home
It is time to stop selling off our movement's ethical foundations piece by piece in exchange for illusory short-term gains. It is time instead to devote our collective wisdom, energy and resources to creating the nonviolent culture our planet is crying out for. It is time to put our full support behind those developing a nonviolent cuisine, nonviolent clothing, nonviolent art, nonviolent education, nonviolent technology, nonviolent laws, and nonviolent foreign policy.
For the first time in history, human society has the ability to evolve and transform on a planetary scale, and this new ability comes to us at the same time as our collective impact on the world's ecosystem threatens disaster. Never has the average person had the ability to do so much harm, or so much good. This time of crisis teaches us as never before how profoundly interconnected our lives are, and how we must now cultivate a holistic perspective. We must lift our gaze up from the ground at our feet, and make our decisions while looking much further down the stream of time, at least several generations ahead.
In this larger, longer term view, as great as the problems caused by Neo-conservatism and Neo-carnism may seem to be, they ultimately serve the purpose of awakening a deeper understanding and a deeper commitment in us all. These inherently flawed ideologies have only gained a foothold because we have allowed our philosophy to be corrupted and our language to be degraded, because we have lost sight of our vision, because we have forgotten who we are. In answering their challenge and regaining our movement's health, we have the chance to rediscover the best parts of ourselves and the most exciting aspect of the human journey—choice.
It's up to us to choose the vision that will shape our world, and the values that will guide us along the way.
Will it be a vision of a "compassionate" seal of approval on every package of animal flesh? Or a vision of every child in America raised on a non-violent diet and receiving a humane education?
Will it be a vision of endless supermarket shelves lined with cage-free eggs? Or a vision of vegan restaurants on every corner, in every town?
Will it be a vision of animal activists collaborating with "kinder, gentler" animal exploiters to cultivate the "sensitive carnivore"? Or a vision of animal activists and former animal farmers joining with environmental and human rights activists to combat violence, hunger, disease, and global warming?
Will it be a compromised, ends-justifies-the-means vision forged upon the assumption of defeat? Or an inspired, confident, long-term vision that fosters peace and planetary transformation?
Our vision is what gives us strength during the darkest times. It is what gives us moral authority when we speak out for the vulnerable. It is what inspires others to become involved. It is what makes our hope for the world more than just a fantasy.
If we faithfully serve our vision, if we fiercely protect and support it, if we defend it from co-option and corruption—then, and only then, will we have a real chance of bringing our vision to life.
Post script: Following publication of this essay, a helpful reader brought to our attention a powerful article recently published in Vanity Fair magazine, "Rorschach and Awe," which explores the involvement of psychologists in interrogation and torture. As it turns out, there are many outside observers as well as practitioners within the American Psychological Association that believe that the APA's policy regarding torture referred to in this essay is not strong enough, as, for example, it does not specifically prohibit their members from participating in interrogations. The article also points out the division and conflict that has developed in the APA as a result of the involvement of some psychologists in the actual design of interrogation techniques.
"The reason that we actually first began working with [Niman Ranch] was that they instituted a practice I'd never seen before, which is that the stock man and woman who work with the cattle out on the range actually go with the animals to the slaughterhouse. They clear everyone else, all the strangers, out of the slaughterhouses and walk with the animal to the staging area to its death, so that that animal has the comfort of a familiar face. And the only stranger is -- there's only one stranger for that animal in the entire process, once its off the truck."
--Conference Sponsor whose organization paid $10,000 for the privilege of inviting Niman and other meat producers to speak to a gathering of animal advocates
Fact: Niman Ranch is responsible for the killing of thousands of animals each week, including cows, pigs, and lambs.
"When it's time for an animal to be slaughtered, a farm worker who knows the animal goes with the animal to the slaughterhouse. All the other people leave the slaughterhouse, so the worker, the animal's 'friend', is the only person present when the animal is slaughtered, so the animal is surrounded only by 'loving' faces when it is killed.
"I was unclear whether this means that the animal's 'friend' is the person who actually kills the animal. However, regardless of whoever actually slits the animal's throat, this description of an animal's death as a humane, kind act by the beneficent Niman Ranch owners was horrifying, the stuff of a dystopic Kurt Vonnegut novel, perhaps. Or, perhaps more fittingly, a real-life production of Arsenic and Old Lace, in which two elderly women lure lonely old men into their homes so that they can humanely poison them to put them out of their misery. This behavior demonstrated the old women's insanity could the same behavior demonstrate Niman Ranch's humanity?"
--Comments from a conference attendee, as reported on AnimalBlawg (no longer online)
Echoes in cyberspace...
Taking Action for Animals and Hierarchy
(AnimalBlawg)
I've discussed why an overly hierarchical organization may appear stronger at first, but ultimately lacks the flexibility, creativity, and activist buy-in necessary for success. I think some of these dangers of hierarchy were apparent at the TAFA conference.
Almost the entire weekend was an extended series of lectures, speeches, and presentations by "leaders" from one organization after another. From this it was clear that this conference was organized by a collaboration between hierarchical organizations, not by a movement. A movement is a strong, nonhierarchical, informal structure that connects closely knit cells of activists.
There was no time for discussion; every second of the conference was purchased by one organization or another to speechify at us. This is not to say that there is no place for plenary sessions and speeches. I learned a lot in many of the speeches. However, without organizational breakouts by geography or by other interest to permit the activists themselves to meet with one another and get to know each other and begin the process of planning real action, the de-centralized creative upswell of activity that typifies a strong social movement can never come from this conference.
Thoughts on the Taking Action for Animals Conference
(Herbivore Magazine)
I am slow to condemn tactics that don't jive with my personal wants. One approach didn't win black folks civil rights, women the right to vote, or the 8-hour work day. Who knows what will make different people respond? Our responsibility is to be there with outreach and information for as many types of people as possible and meet them where they are, instead of expecting them to meet us where we are.
However.
Was HSUS really going to invite meat producers to present at TAFA? It seems
like the kind of rumor that has legs. One person says it and the whole room has heard about it within minutes. I called some people who would know for sure and, yes, a pig farmer and a turkey farmer were presenting. When you donate enough money, you get to host a panel discussion. The Animal Welfare Institute, as is noted on the TAFA website, forked over $10,000, which in effect, bought them a panel. That is my understanding. AWI then invited the pig farmer and the turkey farmer to present. Those presentations included
slideshows of happy animals on their happy farms living "naturally." Those presentations didn't show slaughter and didn't show the grueling transportation those animals endure on the way to slaughter. One HSUS employee told me when pig trucks arrive to the slaughter facility there are always dead animals. And since the pigs are so close to slaughter, there is no financial incentive to feed or give water or care to these animals while in transit.
I was told when these "humane" farmers showed cutesy pictures of animals on
their "humane" farms, people in the crowd oohed and aahed.
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These farmers disgust me with the shameful half-truths they use to discuss the animals they raise for slaughter. It's sociopathic. They care about these animals? They love these animals? Then why, when they are big enough, do they put them on a truck and turn them over to brutes in slaughterhouses for awful deaths?
This is not my biggest problem though. Most of the world doesn't share my vision of a perfect world.
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I did, however, think HSUS and I shared a perfect world vision. Which is why I have been willing to accept a lot of incremental reform that doesn't make me all that happy or inspired. I felt, perhaps, they knew some things I didn't about getting to this perfect world we wanted and if we didn't see eye to eye on tactics, I'd trust they were doing what they thought was right.
Then HSUS decided to sell a meat advertisement for $10,000 at what many
think is a vegetarian/vegan event. If McDonald's pitched in $10,000, could they present a panel and talk about how they're using bigger cages? What about veal producers who don't use the intense confinement methods we all know? If they dropped enough cash, could they talk about their "humane" veal? Would HSUS draw a line anywhere? If they dropped $20,000 could they host the banquet and have a meat option put on the menu? If HSUS is fine promoting "humane" meat, how big of a stretch is it to see some of it being served in the years to come? If, as the welfare line goes, people are going to eat meat anyway so they should eat "humane meat," why was HSUS only serving it up in idea form? Why not the real thing? Is there any reason now they wouldn't serve it?
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Of all the myriad issues facing (what I thought was) our movement right now HSUS decided to hand over a part of it to the opposition and give them an open forum to sell their murderous products. Of all the things (what I thought was) our movement needs to be "creating dialogue" about and needs to be open-minded about, selling torn apart bodies of animals is not one of them. If we can't agree that that is an egregious wrong, I'm not sure what we have left in common.
I'm a pretty patient activist. I feel like I know what we're up against. I support a host of tactics. I feel fairly certain we won't see a massive shift towards veganism very soon. But we keep working. Even if we never make the kind of progress we want, we have to keep working and fighting. We have to, no matter what, try to save those lives that are doomed. Coming up short like this is unacceptable. Coming up short like this is selling those lives out to brutes and liars. It is saying people can't be changed, can't see the beauty or benefit of a bloodless lifestyle.
But people can be changed. I changed. You changed. I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, "If I can go vegan, anybody can." HSUS, by selling an ad to meat producers, gave up on that little spark in countless people who can change and gave them an excuse to never fan it into a roaring flame.
Having discussed this issue many times I'm disappointed to see the repetition of the idea that those who advocate for abolition OPPOSE welfare reforms. I know of nobody who opposes larger cages or more humane slaughter methods, quite the contrary.
What is at issue is whether or not the largest and best known animal advocacy groups are in essence putting a seal of approval on certain "humane animal products" by declaring minor (though certainly positive) reforms as major victories. Or to put this another way, as I've said many times before: if PeTA gives an award to the designer of a slaughterhouse does that give the general public the impression that what goes on at that slaughterhouse is morally acceptable?
We know animal agribusiness plays a major role in global warming, and the resultant refugee emergencies and mass extinctions. Surely this means animal advocates are approaching their heyday as political leaders for our time. After all, who better suited to advise a concerned public on shifting our culture away from its current reliance on meat and dairy products?
Alas. Mainstream advocates aren't taking the cue. On the contrary, they've made themselves a party to a new and ominous form of greenwashing. Allowing supposedly kinder, gentler animal farms to appear attractive, they have invented a new PR trend. One word fits: hogwashing.
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Then there's Niman Ranch. This outfit exhorts us to "[s]erve with pride the world's finest natural beef, pork and lamb" and had the audacity to show up and speak at a gathering called "Taking Action for Animals 2007." Billed as the largest national conference of the animal-protection movement, Taking Action exemplified the trend to restyle agribusinesses as animal-welfare societies when "approved" purveyors of animal flesh held the microphone. A charitable organization called the Animal Welfare Institute evidently paid $10,000 to present this infomercial.
In short, hogwashing offers the customer a chance to eat animals and advocate for them in the same bite. It need not mean people are eating less of the older, unholier products. Unsure if this trend is boosting the industry? Consider this: Wolfgang Puck's branding consultant introduced the celebrity chef to the president of the world's wealthiest animal charity. The branding expert, who formerly ran Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, saw animal husbandry as the key to a profile boost for Puck. Within a year, Puck unveiled a new handling plan for the animals who will wind up braised with a side of sautéed Spätzle....
Viewing animals as commodities, even well-handled commodities, isn't animal protection. The ultimate betrayal of an animal is especially stark after the being has been treated almost like a pet (like the animals at Niman Ranch, who, we're told, are walked into slaughter by someone who knew them by name). To take animals' interests seriously is to opt out of animal agribusiness.
When animal advocates acquire too much "maturation and sophistication" for that, they're praised by the mainstream media for gaining "influence" -- praised, that is, for accepting their culture's corporate values so well. "Instead of telling it like it is, we're learning to present things in a more moderate way," one farm rescue activist told the New York Times. So only foie gras is off-limits (for now; an award-winning "ethical" foie gras is on the way). Every other animal product, it seems, is acceptable, under the "mature" advocates' guidance. Even veal can pass these days -- yes, there's an uncrated version of little dead cows, as Wolfgang Puck was quick to ascertain, and activists now praise Puck for renouncing cruel veal producers.
Granted, "telling it like it is" won't give you instant popularity. For the authoritative remark on that, the New York Times quotes the CEO of a cattle ranchers' group who declares that people opposing meat are "so off the wall" no one pays attention to them. Unfortunately, when mainstream advocacy groups seek wealth and easy public acceptance at the expense of core values, they too consider anyone committed to those values as inconvenient.
When I went to Whole Foods yesterday I did quite a bit of observing and listening. And during this particular trip, there was exactly zero conversation about what kind of standard anyone was operating under regarding treatment and slaughter of animals. There is, however, a large sign above the meat counter that reads: Change the world while you eat. And there were pamphlets from the Animal Compassion Foundation which, if you're not paying attention (or um, reading), you might think that the placement of the three pamphlets, in addition to the giant sign, might indicate that the meat came from a place that met some standard. You just might think you are changing the world by eating the animals under the sign.
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The pamphlets talk of helping "producers make the transition to even higher levels of animal welfare as outlined in the next generation of Whole Foods Market meat standards, the Animal Compassionate Standards, which we are encouraging producers throughout the world to achieve."
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There is nothing in the pamphlets that speaks of any "producer" who has actually met the standard. As a person reading the pamphlet, I conclude that the foundation is a research organization that will amass some best practices for "raising animals in a compassionate manner" (whatever that means). And if I'm not paying attention, I just might think everyone chopped up and presented in various pieces beneath the pamphlets in glass cases were once animals treated in some fabulously compassionate way...
The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund had a lunch event today on the environmental impacts of meat production. Two speakers from HSUS came to discuss the contribution of meat production to climate change
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The rest of the presentation dispelled any questions I had about HSUS's position on "happy meat."
The speaker didn't discuss the "replace" prong at all. Instead, she advocated organic meat consumption, i.e., "refinement," extolling its virtues of being less harmful to the environment and containing more nutrients
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The second speaker mentioned some technology-based measures that have been developed that can reduce the pollution from large animal agriculture operations. I asked whether the implementation of these measures, which can be costly for the companies, will cause the companies to move their operations overseas.
The speakers said that, yes, this is a concern; a lot of beef production is moving to Brazil. However, they're trying to figure out ways to combat this outsourcing. The one solution that the second speaker suggested was, I am not kidding, we can subsidize Brazilian beef production so that the companies can afford the environmental measures.
Excuse me? The Humane Society is talking about beef subsidies?
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Report: Chris Bosh Wants To Play, Frustrated With Heat
Chris Bosh has been popping up on social media with videos and pictures of himself working out and a declaration of “I’m a hooper.” Bosh clearly has no intention of retiring, despite missing a majority of the past two seasons with blood clots, but has not been cleared to play as of yet. While the two-time NBA champ has been vocal about his desire to play in 2016-’17, the Heat have remained mum on their plans for Bosh.
With Chris Bosh going on the offensive this week, the message to the Heat is clear: Getting salary cap relief for Bosh’s contract, if he isn’t cleared to play, is going to be a mighty contentious struggle.
We’re told the Bosh camp remains frustrated with the Heat’s handling of his situation, and that’s part of the reason Bosh and wife Adrienne have gone on a social media blitz this week. As one NBA official said, Bosh wants the public to know he wants to play amid the Heat’s silence.
The Heat has declined to say if Bosh will be cleared – Bosh has been awaiting word himself – but the team disputes any notion that it is trying to keep him off the court to remove his salary from the cap.
Bosh is owed $25.3 million in ’17-18 and $26.8 million in ’18-19 and there is speculation that the Heat will “apply to remove Bosh’s future salaries” due to his health condition, which could prove to be difficult:
To clear Bosh off the cap, the labor agreement says “a doctor that is jointly selected by the league and players association” must agree his condition “is career-ending, or severe enough to put him at risk if he continues playing.”
Bosh’s health is certainly something to keep an eye on heading into the season. For what it’s worth, Heat owner Micky Arison tweeted that he is looking forward to seeing CB at training camp: | {
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A bad argument about inequality
It’s a common refrain amongst Bangladeshis of a certain age and socioeconomic background that “four decades of independence / two decades of democracy and we’ve got nothing”. When you point out that in terms of per capita income or life expectancy or most other measurable metric, things are much better in 2012 than they were in 1992 or 1972, the argument changes to “but we have fallen behind this, that or other country”. Then you point out that, for example, despite being half as rich as India, Bangladesh does better on a range of socioeconomic metrics, showing we have not fallen as much behind as they fear. When you do that, the last line of pessimism among these doomsayers is “ah, what about inequality'”.
Yes, inequality has risen in Bangladesh over the past decades. Is this a bad thing? Perhaps. Perhaps not. For example, when compared internationally, Bangladesh doesn’t apper so unequal. When discussing the subject, we need to explore why we think inequality has risen, and how we think it is affecting the society. There are strong grounds for possible concerns with rising inequality. Unfortunately, Rezwana Abed and my friend Syeed Ahamed make a rather poor argument about inequality in their latest Forum piece.
They make two points about inequality. First, inequality is rising:
Gini coefficient, a measure of the inequality of wealth or income distribution, in the country stood at 33.12 in 2010 from 33.22 in 2005. The Gini coefficient was 25.88 in 1984 and went up to 33.46 in 1996.
This is true, but tells us nothing about why we should be concerned. In theory, rising inequality may well accompany economic transformation. When a new idea is first developed — like introduction of the garments sector — or a new source of income is harnessed — like migrant workers from a particular region — it is quite natural to expect that those who first developed the idea or harness the source of income will become richer than others, raising inequality. In itself, this should not be a cause for concern.
Then they present this chart on geographic inequality in Bangladesh.
I don’t have the underlying data, but the idea that Dhaka and Chittagong divisions are richer than Rajshahi and Barisal is consistent with other work I’ve seen. The persistence of geographical differences in income levels in a culturally homogenous, geographically compact country like Bangladesh is certainly worth further investigation. While there may be good reasons for certain regions to become richer earlier — Chittagong has a port, Rajshahi doesn’t — simple textbook models would suggest that people from poor region would migrate to rich areas, and over time average income would equalise. More complex theories, however, yield persistent inequality. For example, in most countries, cities tend to be persistently richer than the countryside (think New York versus Kansas over American history). This is because cities are where innovation and technological breakthroughs take place.
Which of these theories are true in the case of Bangladesh, I don’t know.
Let me note couple of observations though. Eyeballing the chart, it seems that in 2005, Chittagong’s average household income was around 8,000 taka and was Rajshahi’s 5,000 taka — that is, the richest division was 1.6 times as rich as the poorest. In 2010, the numbers seem to be 14,000 taka for Chittagong and 9,000 for Rajshahi, making Chittagong still about 1.6 times richer. I do have per capita income of urban and rural households — in 2010, urban per capita income used to be 2.1 times the rural ones, narrowing to 1.8 in 2005 and 2010. At least, inequality is not worsening, it would appear.
But the issue is certainly worth further research. And I contend what the research will show is that Abed and Ahamed are wide off-the-mark here:
To some extent, the situation resembles the colonial domination of Bangladesh by Pakistan wherein economic uplift and development concentrated in the more dynamic/urban part of the country while the rural/informal area suffered from neglect.
Taken literally, what Abed and Ahamed are telling us is that Chittagong is colonially dominating Rajshahi the way western wing of erstwhile Pakistan dominated the eastern wing. So let’s think about how the domination actually took place.
The issue was not just that ‘economic uplift and development’ took place in ‘the more dynamic/urban’ West Pakistan and the ‘rural/informal’ East ‘suffered from the neglect’. Rather, the issue was that political power was concentrated in the west, and that power was deployed to use resouces generated from the East’s exports to invest in the West, which made the West more dynamic/urban. There was nothing economically pre-ordained about a rural/informal East and an dynamic/urban West — from the vantage point of partition, East could well have experienced industrialisation had there been an investment boom here in the 1950s. The underlying issue was primarily political. Because of the way last days of the Raj played out, people who came to power in the newly created Pakistan were all centred in the West, they all shared a fear of India, they all wanted to build up a strong army, and they all were fearful (perhaps rightly) that Bengalis of the East didn’t want to spend on an arms race with India. That was the basis of political domination, which resulted in the economic outcome.
This was the context for the two economy thesis. This was the context behind Six Points, which asked for the East to have power over economic policies. This was the context behind Mujib’s platform in 1970. And unless Abed and Ahamed have some novel theory about Chittagong’s political domination over Bangladesh, I think this context has little relevance for any debate on inequality in Bangladesh.
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To me Gini is nowhere as important as raising the minimum standard of living that you indicated in your first paragraph.
Meanwhile I am trying to write up a Bengali blog post on inequality, but that may cover the USA only. | {
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Decades before becoming one of the best working directors around (controversy aside, Zero Dark Thirty was a beautifully directed movie), Kathryn Bigelow was exercising her creative talents as a painter. That is until some guy named Andy Warhol advised her to put down her brushes and get into the film business.
In her upcoming cover story for Time, Bigelow remarks on the origins of her film career, saying:
"I think I had a conversation with Andy Warhol somewhere in all this, and Andy was saying that there's something way more populist about film than art — that art's very elitist, so you're excluding a large audience. "
You think that's cool? Susan Rothenberg once told me that I had a natural build for waitressing. | {
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A STUNNING opening quarter laid the groundwork for Galway as they charted a comfortable path to the last four of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship.
The result of the opening quarter-final at Semple Stadium would have ensured that Mark Dunne’s players were extremely wary of the Tipperary threat and they laid down a marker from the beginning, streaking into a 0-10 to 0-0 lead despite playing into the wind.
Tipperary did show plenty of spirit however and did extremely well to peg back the westerners to a seven-point margin at the interval, when they trailed by 0-12 to 0-5.
Orla O’Dwyer reduced that by one more 35 seconds after the resumption but with the wind at their backs and the speed and movement of their forwards creating so many opportunities, there was no way that Brian Boyle’s crew were likely to prevail having started so poorly.
It was all too easy for the westerners early on as the McGrath sisters Orlaith and Niamh got on the scoresheet, with the youngest of the four siblings on the squad Siobhán causing carnage and adding two of her own later on.
Maria Cooney and Niamh Kilkenny also shot a pair of points each, while Ailish O’Reilly punished Tipp’s defensive indiscretions clinically, converting four from four placed balls.
Ciardha Maher finally got Tipp on the board in the 21st minute, after Sarah Healy had saved Mary Ryan’s hand-passed attempt at goal and that seemed to settle the home side. Cáit Devane, Orla O’Dwyer, Mairéad Teehan and Maher also found their range to give their side hope at the break.
O’Dwyer’s second score added to that optimism but when O’Reilly profited from a neat touch by Aoife Donohue to calmly place a ground shot beyond Orla McEniry for a goal and it was over from that juncture.
Ann Marie Starr, Niamh McGrath, Donohue and the graceful Kilkenny kept the scoreboard ticking over and though Devane, Megan Ryan and Róisín Howard did earn some reward for their efforts, the margin would have been much greater but for the 11 wides Galway recorded as they became a little self-indulgent with the game in the bag.
Notably, the Galway defence kept up their intensity and workrate throughout, pulling off a range of hooks and blooks and forcing numerous turnovers.
Tara Kenny and Heather Cooney were magnificent in that regard with the former earning the Player of the Match award, although there were plenty other contenders.
In the end, both sides introduced a host of subs as the game fizzled to its inevitable conclusion but while Tipperary will be disappointed that they didn’t ask more questions of Galway, the Tribeswomen appear hellbent on adding to their haul of two All-Ireland titles, and winning their first since 2013.
Enda Fahy was the super sub for Galway as the ten-time All-Ireland minor champions advanced to another decider with a thrilling 1-12 to 2-08 win over Kilkenny at Croke Park.Jeffrey Lynskey’s side were 1-06 to 0-06 behind after a first-half where Jim Ryan hit the net early for Kilkenny.Jack Canning — nephew of Joe — scored a second-half penalty for Galway and despite Eoin Cody netting a second goal for Kilkenny, Galway just had enough in the end.Galway last won a minor All-Ireland in 2015 when they beat Tipperary and this was a stern test heading into another final, with Conor Heary’s late red card the final blow for Pat O’Grady’s outfit.Galway took the lead after just 31 seconds when Canning sent over a wonderful effort from out wide on the right wing but the Kilkenny response was excellent.Heary won possession, drove forward and his diagonal ball was fielded by Jim Ryan, who blasted past Darach Fahy and into the Galway net. That score came in the third minute and the teams traded scores for the rest of the half.Canning slotted his and Galway’s second point before Adrian Mullen hit back for Kilkenny. Mullen had scored 1-9 in Kilkenny’s Leinster final victory over Dublin, but Darren Morrissey was keeping the shackles on him here.Conor Molloy opened his account and Canning hit a third brilliant effort, this time from the left, but Kilkenny always kept in front with James Brennan and then Cody on target.There were some fantastic scores from play, Eoin O’Shea and Niall Brassil added to Kilkenny’s tally, but both defence were well on top.Sean Bleahane scored Galway’s last point of the half in the 19th minute and Kilkenny only registered one more point after that with Mullen tapping over a free.It was 1-06 to 0-06 at half-time but Walsh tapped over a free on the restart and then Canning scored his fourth point from play to bring Galway to within one.Cody kept Galway at bay when he followed up on his own rebound to bat Kilkenny’s second goal to the net seven minutes into the second-half.But Galway hit the next two scores, and Canning blasted a penalty past Dean Mason after substitute Donal Mannion was hauled down by Darragh Walsh in the 38th minute.Bleahane levelled the game with his second point before Mullen finally scored his first from play in the 46th minute, but Belahane scored again.Both sides had plenty of chances in the closing stages and Mullen looked like he had sealed the win for Kilkenny with a disputed 65 in the 56th minute.But Mannion was impressive and he brought Galway back level, and in the final minute of normal time Heary was sent off for a second yellow card after he fouled Morrissey.Galway seized the initiative in added-time and Fahy kept his composure to land a massive score in the 64th minute.Galway: D Fahy; C Killeen, D Loftus, D Morrissey; R Glennon, C Caulfield, M Gill; C Fahey, J Fleming; M McManus, C Walsh (0-02, 0-02f), B Moran; S Bleahane (0-03), C Molloy (0-01), J Canning (1-04, 1-00 pen).Subs: S Ryan for Fleming (36), D Mannion (0-01) for Molloy (36), C Elwood for Moran (47), E Fahy (0-01) for McManus (53).Kilkenny: D Mason; T Ronan, M Carey, D Walsh; J Brennan (0-01), C Flynn, J Molloy; J Dowd, N Brassil (0-01); E O’Shea (0-01), C Heary, J Ryan (1-00); E Cody (1-01), A Mullen (0-04, 0-02f, 0-01 ’65), S Ryan.Subs: N Brennan for Brassil (7, blood), Brassil for N Brennan (11), D Barron for S Ryan (49), J Kelly for O’Shea (52), N Brennan for J Ryan (57).Referee: Johnny Murphy (Limerick).
Joe Canning produced an astonishing winning point in the fifth minute of stoppage time from the right sideline to send Galway into the All-Ireland final against either Cork or Waterford after a thrilling 0-22 to 1-18 at Croke Park.The sides were level 13 times in a cracking match and just when a replay seemed on the cards, Canning struck his eleventh point of the game to send the All-Ireland champions crashing out.John O’Dwyer had a chance to snatch an equaliser in the final play but his effort from the right tailed off and Galway’s passage to the final was secured.Galway may not have scored a goal for a third championship match in a row but their ability to pick off points when they were most needed saw them home.It’s the third year in a row that the All-Ireland semi-final has been decided by a single point between theses sides, with Galway gaining revenge for last year’s loss.Now they will fancy their chance of a first All-Ireland title since 1988 after surviving a thrilling conclusion.The sides were level six times in the opening half but Tipperary, playing with the breeze, led by 1-10 to 0-12 at the interval.The goal came after 24 minutes when John McGrath pounced on an error by Galway goalkeeper Colm Callanan and corner-back Adrian Tuohy to flick the ball to the net.That edged the All-Ireland champions back in front and after Johnny Coen levelled directly afterwards, Tipperary should have got a second goal when Galway full-back Daithi Burke slipped but Seamus Callanan’s ground stroke was superbly saved by the advancing goalkeeper Callanan.Galway were on top in midfield and that began to have an impact after Tipperary opened up a 0-04 to 0-01 lead after just seven minutes with Callanan, Seamus Kennedy, Noel McGrath and John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer had found the target.Conor Cooney got Galway’s opening point after four minutes and they enjoyed their best spell when they hit four points without reply from the eighth to 15th minute with Conor Whelan, Coen, Conor Cooney and Cathal Mannion hit the target to lead for the first time by 0-05 to 0-04.Callanan responded for Tipp before Joe Canning hit two either side of another Whelan point to open up a three points leadPaudie Maher pulled back a point before John McGrath pounced for his fifth goal of this year’s title race and his tenth championship goal in history.Whelan’s third point edged Galway back in front after Coen’s equaliser following the goal but Callanan landed a free from distance to tie the game four minutes from the break.Brendan Maher edged them back in front directly afterwards and while Canning hit a trademark point from a sideline on the right, Callanan and sub Jason Forde put two between them in stoppage time.Galway cut that gap to the minimum when Canning got his fourth point when he made no mistake with a free from 60 metres to leave it 1-10 to 0-12 at the break in front of a crowd of 68,184.Joseph Cooney levelled the sides for the seventh time inside a minute of the restart before the unrelated Conor Cooney flashed a goal chance wide after a good run.Callanan responded with another free for Tipp which Canning immediately cancelled and then Whelan got his fourth point to make it 0-15 to 1-11 after 42 minutes.Gearoid McInerney was superb at the heart of the Galway defence in the second-half and he will now bid to follow in the footsteps of his father Gerry who was wing-back for the Tribesmen when they triumphed in ’87 and ’88.Brendan and Paudie Maher got Tipp back in front with points to lead by 1-13 to 0-15 after 49 minutes, but they never led after that, with Callanan saving well from Noel McGrath.Galway hit back and two more points from Canning and a long range free from Padraig Mannion put them two in front.‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer and Noel McGrath pointed either side of a Canning ’65 and then John McGrath levelled 12 minutes from time at 1-16 to 0-19.Another Canning point from play was cancelled by a point from O’Dwyer after Callanan missed another placed ball from distance.Indeed, both sides were guilty of wides as the tension mounted - Galway finished with 14 to Tipp’s 11 - before Canning pointed a massive free from 90 metres to edge the Tribesmen in front three minutes from the end.Brendan Maher stepped forward and showed great composure to tie the games with a free from 70 metres two minutes into stoppage.That suggested a replay would be needed to separate them but Canning had other ideas and his point from distance out on the right wing proved to be a match-winning score to send Galway into the All-Ireland final.Galway: C Callanan; A Tuohy, Daithi Burke, J Hanbury; P Mannion (0-01, 0-01f), G McInerney, A Harte; J Coen (0-02), David Burke; C Mannion (0-01), J Canning (0-11, 0-06f, 0-01 sideline, 0-01 ’65), J Cooney (0-01); C Whelan (0-04), N Burke, C Cooney (0-02).Subs: J Flynn for N Burke (45), J Glynn for C Mannion (53), S Moloney for C Cooney (70), G Lally for McInerney (71-73).Tipperary: D Gleeson; D Maher, J Barry, M Cahill; S Kennedy (0-01), R Maher, Paudie Maher (0-02); B Maher (0-03, 0-02f), M Breen; D McCormack, Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher, N McGrath (0-02); J O’Dwyer (0-03), S Callanan (0-05, 0-03f), J McGrath (1-01).Subs: S Curtin for Patrick ‘Bonner Maher (7-10), J Forde (0-01) for Breen (34), N O’Meara for Forde (62).Referee: B Kelly (Westmeath).
Allianz League form held good at Croke Park where Kerry, the Division 1 champions, saw off Galway, the Division 2 winners, to claim a familiar All-Ireland football semi-final berth.
The Munster champions and 2014 All-Ireland winners brought all their big game experience to bear on the contest with veteran Kieran Donaghy playing an important role.
The big full-forward scored a crucial first-half goal and 1-1 in total as Eamonn Fitzmaurice's men built an early lead and held onto it to secure their fifth consecutive quarter-final win.
Forward colleague Paul Geaney helped himself to 0-4 while David Moran, Johnny Buckley and Paul Murphy all boomed over a brace of points apiece.
It's the end of the line for Galway who bounced back from their Connacht final defeat to Roscommon with a big win over Donegal but never truly looked like taking down Kerry.
Kevin Walsh's Galway outscored Kerry by 0-6 to 0-3 in a period stretching from late in the first-half until the 50th minute.
That reduced their arrears to four points with around 20 minutes remaining but they never got any closer and are still searching for that first win in a Championship game at Croke Park since 2001.
Kerry came into the contest buoyed by their 79th Munster title success and looking to stretch their impressive record in All-Ireland quarter-finals.
They slipped up just twice at this stage - to Down in 2010 and Donegal in 2012 - having never failed to reach the last eight.
They lived up to that impressive record with a surprisingly comfortable win and never once trailed in the encounter.
Ian Burke, who kicked four points for Galway in the opening half, cancelled out an early Kerry effort from Murphy to tie the scores at 0-1 apiece.
But Buckley's ninth minute point for Kerry moved them back into the lead and they remained in the ascendancy from there onwards.
Kerry were excellent in the opening quarter hour and profited from both long and diagonal balls into their full-forward line.
David Walsh, a late addition to the Galway lineup in place of Cathal Sweeney, marked Donaghy but struggled against the six foot six Tralee man in their aerial duels.
Donaghy scored a thrilling 14th minute goal when he rose up above Walsh and Liam Silke in the Galway defence, found some space on his left side and blasted a left footed shot to the net.
Donaghy finished the half with 1-1 and also created points for James O'Donoghue and Donnchadh Walsh in a typically excellent display of high fielding and distribution.
Donaghy's goal helped Kerry into a 1-5 to 0-3 lead after 15 minutes but the Kingdom didn't scored again until the 27th minute as the game entered a lull.
Kerry stepped on the gas again with four points in to open up an ominous seven-point lead but a strong Galway finish to the half that included back to back Burke points steadied them.
Kerry still led 1-10 to 0-8 at the interval and looked in a strong position to return to the last four.
Galway asked more questions of Kerry after the restart with three points and reduced their arrears to four points to hint that they may rescue a result from the game.
Kerry's response was impressive though with points from Jack Savage, Stephen O'Brien and Geaney to put themselves in the clear again.
The game lacked a vital cut and thrust in the closing minutes as Kerry ran in their full allocation of subs and picked off more points through O'Brien and Barry John Keane to win by a handsome eight-point margin.
Kevin Walsh’s Galway cruised to victory over Donegal to book an All Ireland Quarter-Final date against Kerry.
Galway bounced back emphatically as Johnny Heaney kicked 2-2 and Liam Silke and Danny Cummins scored their other goals in a massive win at Markievicz Park in Sligo.
They advance to face Kerry now after beating a poor Donegal side despite having Declan Kyne sent-off in the second-half. Donegal had three of their players black carded and it was a disastrous outing for them as they finished up their campaign.
Galway made a brilliant start and two quick points from Sean Armstrong and Shane Walsh gave them the early ascendency.
Michael Murphy kicked two points in the fourth and sixth minutes to tie the game up before Armstrong cancelled those out with two more of his own – the Salthill/Knocknacarra clubman was a late inclusion instead of Eamonn Brannigan for Galway.
Donegal took the lead for the first time after three points in a row by Paddy McBrearty (twice), and Michael Murphy, but Galway came alive in the second-quarter.
Galway hit 3-5 before the break while Micheal Murphy and substitute Martin McElhinney had the only reprieve for Donegal. Meanwhile Galway blitzed their opponents with Heaney fisting their first goal in the 18th minute.
Galway got their second goal in the 26th minute and it was a massive turning point when Liam Silke fired home their penalty.
Donegal goalkeeper Marc Anthony McGinley got a black card when he tripped Tom Flynn and the Corofin clubman made no mistake from the resultant penalty.
Donegal were down and out at that stage and Galway got their third goal before half-time when Heaney fisted home his second.
It was 3-9 to 0-7 in favour of Galway at the break and they kicked three quick points through Heaney, Armstrong and Gary O’Donnell at the start of the second-half.
That killed off any chance of a fight back and Donegal had Michael Murphy and Martin McElhinney black card as their challenge faded.
Having used their full complement of substitutes already Donegal finished with 13 players.
Paddy McBrearty tried to take the fight to Galway, but he missed a penalty and the rebound when Cathal Sweeney got Galway’s black card after fouling Martin O’Reilly with 11 minutes remaining.
Galway kicked on again, Micheal Meehan made his reappearance in the latter stages and then fellow substitute Danny Cummins kicked their fourth goal.
Jack Canning – nephew of Ollie and Joe – scored 1-3 as Galway dominated throughout in seeing off Clare in the All-Ireland MHC quarter-final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh .
Canning’s goal in the 23rd minute came with the Tribesmen leading by 0-6 to 0-5, having been ahead all through, and their advantage was never less than three points thereafter.
Galway had eight scorers in all, with Conor Walsh impressing from frees while Seán Bleahane and Donal Mannion impressed too.
Clare endured a difficult day in front of the posts, though they looked to have found their feet when Gary Cooney pointed in the 15th and 16th minutes to bring them to within two, 0-4 to 0-2. Galway were always able to stay in front though and Canning netted on 23 minutes after good work by Martin McManus and Ben Moran.
Aidan McCarthy and Riain Considine replied for Clare but Canning had the last score of the half as Galway led by 1-7 to 0-7 and he extended the lead further on the resumption with a fine score from the right.
Keith White led the Clare second-half challenge but Bleahane, Walsh and Conor Fahey helped Galway to ease clear. White’s third pulled it back to five points, 1-12 to 0-10, but four in a row by Gaway, with Mannion, Canning, substitute Shane Ryan and Ben Moran on target, removed any doubts about the outcome.
When replacement Enda Fahey got their second goal with his first touch on 54, it made it 2-17 to 0-11 and though Cooney did net for Clare late on, it was only a consolation.
Goals from Cian Connolly and Brian Stack in each half saw Kevin McStay lead Roscommon to their first Connacht title in seven years as they avenged last year’s 11-point final defeat with a classy showing at Pearse Stadium.Roscommon dominated from the first minute and only allowed Galway brief moments of supremacy, while an ugly late brawl in injury-time saw Micheal Lundy and Damien Comer sent off and Paul Conroy black carded.Roscommon’s goalscorer Connolly was also sent off when he earned a yellow card, but after his side claimed a first win over either Mayo or Galway since 2001 it mattered not a jot to the Roscommon supporters in the 18,287 crowd, who flooded onto the pitch at full-time.In their semi-final romp against Leitrim, the Roscommon forwards showed they were in a rich vein of form and they showed their Galway markers the same class in the early stages.Ciaráin Murtagh pointed the first score of the game exactly a minute into the action, and with huge pressure on the Galway kickouts, Diarmuid Murtagh doubled the lead, before an off-the-ball foul by Declan Kyne on Connolly saw Ciaráin Murtagh on target again.It was a rampant start from last year’s runners-up, but Galway finally made an impact on the scoreboard when Shane Walsh slotted a free from the ground following a foul on Damien Comer, who was double-marked any time the ball came in his direction.The success that the Roscommon inside forward line were having continued though and they reeled off three points in two minutes – a free each from the two Murtagh brothers and a fine long range effort from Conor Devaney from distance in the 12th minute.While Roscommon had a handful of in-form forwards Walsh was Galway’s sole threat and he curled over a love point to make to 0-06 to 0-02 after 14 minutes.But, crucially, the next score came to Roscommon. It was Diarmuid Murtagh that picked out Connolly, isolated inside on his marker Cathal Sweeney, and Connolly’s finish to the net was controlled as he rolled the ball into the bottom corner for a seven-point lead after 14 minutes.As the weather conditions worsened, so too did the quality of football on show. There was little sympathy from referee David Gough either, who fired out five yellow cards before the interval – some of them were very questionable.Nine minutes from the interval, Galway came within the width of the post to a goal of their own when Michael Daly found himself on the end of a slick move, but after Diarmuid Murtagh’s third point, Walsh’s second free meant a 1-07 to 0-03 lead was Roscommon’s at half-time.Nine first-half wides were a blight on Roscommon’s opening 35 and when Walsh and Comer added two quick points for the home side that slack shooting was punished.But, six minutes after the break, Roscommon struck for a second goal. A mark was awarded to Brian Stack when he claimed a Galway kickout, but he continued on his powerful run, which ended in controlled finish low to Ruairi Lavelle’s right.That goal put Roscommon 2-08 to 0-05 ahead and Galway looked dead and buried, but an impressive five points in four minutes saw Galway pull within four points.But three of the next four scores were kicked by Roscommon to settle their nerves and it was left to sub Shane Killoran to kick the last point as McStay’s men claimed the title for the first time since 2010.Roscommon: C Lavin; D Murray, N McInerney, S McDermott; C Devaney (0-02), S Mullooly, J McManus; T O’Rourke, E Smith; F Cregg, N Kilroy, B Stack (1-00); C Murtagh (0-03, 0-02f), D Murtagh (0-05, 0-03f), C Connolly (1-01).Subs used: G Patterson for Murray (35+1-half-time blood), I Kilbride for Cregg (48 mins), D Smith (0-02, 0-01f) for D Murtagh (53 inj.), Colin Compton for C Murtagh (65), R Stack for Kilroy (70), S Killoran (0-01) for B Stack (75).Galway: R Lavelle; C Sweeney, D Kyne, E Kerin; G O’Donnell (0-01), G Bradshaw, L Silke; P Conroy (0-02, 0-01f), F Ó Curraoin; T Flynn, E Brannigan, J Heaney; M Daly (0-01), D Comer (0-02), S Walsh (0-06, 0-04f).Subs used: G Sice for Heaney (half-time), D Cummins for Brannigan (half-time), M Lundy for Flynn (60), E Tierney for Ó Curraoin (65), D Wynne for Conroy (75 BC).Referee: David Gough (Meath).
A powerful second-half performance at Croke Park propelled Galway beyond a determined but ultimately outclassed Wexford side to their second Leinster Senior Hurling Championship title.Conor Cooney's eight-point haul lit up a provincial decider that will be remembered for the physical power and point scoring ability of Micheal Donoghue's Allianz league champions.Cooney went through three different Wexford defenders on the afternoon while Joe Canning consistently punished slack defending and converted 10 placed balls.Joseph Cooney was excellent too as Galway, leading by three points at the break, pulled clear with a tremendous third quarter display.Davy Fitzgerald's Wexford had hoped to crown their breakthrough season with a first Leinster title since 2004 and were neck and neck for half an hour but couldn't live with Galway's greater physical conditioning and attacking power beyond that.Galway's reward is an All-Ireland semi-final place while Wexford will get to experience the redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh when the quarter-finals take place later this month.The Model County started well and gave as good as they got in the first 30 minutes or so, retaining a slender 0-11 to 0-10 advantage at that stage.Captain Lee Chin was a totemic figure for them, winning one hard-fought free before drilling it over from a huge distance out to roars of approval from the large Wexford crowd.Moments earlier, Jack O'Connor had performed a courageous block on Padraic Mannion that left him with a bloodied hand but summed up Wexford's immense desire.The league semi-finalists seemed to come out on top in much of the early loose ball and picked off points from some outrageous angles.Conor McDonald scored two beauties from long range and Diarmuid O'Keeffe cut in between two Galway defenders on the left before splitting the posts from a tight angle.Matthew O'Hanlon marked Galway centre-forward Canning and outscored him from play.Galway got most joy out of Cooney who scored four first-half points, the first three of which came off Willie Devereux before Simon Donohoe was moved onto him.Cooney's fourth of the half in the 30th minute began a burst of four Galway points in a row that nudged them 0-14 to 0-11 clear at the break.Wexford ultimately lost the game in the 15 minutes after the restart when everything went against them.A McDonald point that was initially awarded by the umpire was ruled out by Hawk-Eye.Then McDonald's tame shot from a 40th-minute penalty was turned around the post by Galway 'keeper Colm Callanan.Galway's response was emphatic; seven unanswered points and an exhibition of high fielding from Niall Burke and Conor and Joseph Cooney who all picked off great scores.Suddenly, Galway led 0-21 to 0-12 and even a 1-01 blast form Wexford, including a 53rd-minute O'Keeffe goal, only briefly halted their momentum.Five more Galway points without response from a besieged Wexford put the result beyond doubt.By now, Niall Burke had emerged as a prominent forward for Galway though Joseph Cooney picked off the best of the late scores, a terrific effort from a tight angle out on the right wing.Galway: C Callanan; A Tuohy, Daithi Burke, A Harte; P Mannion (0-01), G McInerney, J Hanbury; J Coen, David Burke (0-01); J Cooney (0-05), J Canning (0-10, 0-08f, 0-01 65, 0-1 s/l), J Flynn; C Whelan, C Cooney (0-08, 0-01), N Burke (0-02).Subs: T Monaghan (0-01) for Flynn 31, S Maloney (0-01) for Canning 67, G Lally for J Cooney 68, S Loftus for P Mannion 72.Wexford: M Fanning; L Ryan, W Devereux (0-01), J Breen; S Donohoe, M O'Hanlon (0-02), D O'Keeffe (1-01); L Chin (0-04, 0-02f, 0-01 65), J O'Connor (0-01); P Morris (0-02), A Nolan, C McDonald (0-05, 0-03f); S Murphy, J Guiney, H Kehoe.Subs: D Redmond for O'Connor h/t, E Moore for Donohoe 47, C Dunbar (0-01) for Kehoe 53, S Tomkins for Nolan 63.Referee: C Lyons (Cork).
Clarinbridge GAA strategic Plan was launched at a Function Night held in Paddy Burkes on Friday 23rd of June."Bridge to the Future" is a strategic plan for the club, compiled over the last number of months, in consultation with the Clarinbridge community at large. It details the Club's vision for Clarinbridge GAA and focuses on the five key areas of Coaching, Player Development, Facilities and Infrastructure, Social & Cultural and Finance.Special thanks to County Chairman Pat Kearney and County Secretary John Hynes for attending and being so supportive of the Club's efforts.
Joe Canning hit seven points and reigning league champions Galway saw off Offaly by 0-33 to 1-11 at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.
Galway were 0-16 to 1-06 ahead at half-time after they answered Oisin Kelly’s early strike with a brilliant half of free-flowing hurling.
Portumna ace Canning scored five points in the first-half and Conor Whelan did the rest of the damage in the second-half as he finished with seven points from play.
Galway have only ever won one Leinster title, back in 2012, but they will face the might of Wexford in a novel provincial final pairing at Croke Park.
Micheal Donoghue’s side were huge favourites coming into this final four clash having breezed past Dublin in the quarter-final, following on from their massive league final success against All-Ireland holders Tipperary.
There was a slight breeze behind Galway in the first-half but they fell behind early when Kelly crashed home a goal in just the fourth minute.
He showed great strength to hold off his marker John Hanbury and finish low into Colm Callanan’s goal but Galway retained their composure and hit their stride.
Points from Padraic Mannion, Cathal Mannion, Conor Whelan and then Conor Cooney saw them take the lead for the first time in the seventh minute.
Galway scored nine points from play by the 20th minute, and then Canning tapped over his first free three minutes later. Galway were still pilfering chances in front of goal and Niall Burke and Jason Flynn were among those guilty of missing opportunities.
Galway ended the first-half with seven wides and but crucially Canning was central to everything – he scored five points, with four coming courtesy of frees in the opening half.
Shane Dooley was keeping Offaly within range, he landed six points in the opening 35 minutes, but Galway were too good and the surging runs of half-backs Aidan Harte and Padraic Mannion were doing massive damage.
Galway were 0-16 to 1-06 ahead at the break and a couple of early Whelan points put Galway completely out in the clear.
Offaly still only had two scorers, with Dooley adding a point but their opponents sailed through the gears. James Dempsey pulled off a fantastic save to deny Shane Maloney in the 50th minute.
But Galway were utterly dominant and when Maloney scored his third point to give them a 0-24 to 1-07 lead in the 51st minute.
Whelan and Niall Burke extended their lead further in the latter stages and Offaly had no answer as they finished with just four different scorers on the day – Galway had nine.
Galway held off a strong comeback from 14-man Mayo to force their way into the Connacht final after a 0-15 to 1-11 win at Pearse Stadium.The sending off of Keith Higgins in the 26th minute had a huge impact on the game as Galway worked their way into a four-point lead only for Cillain O’Connor to kick three late frees to pull Mayo back into contention.But Galway held on to claim a one-point win and clinch their spot in the second final in a row against either Roscommon or Leitrim.With a huge gale at their backs in the first-half, Galway didn’t waste any time in building an advantage and after 12 seconds Damien Comer pointed after Paul Conroy won the throw-in, and straight from the restart Galway pressed up which led to a sweet point from Gareth Bradshaw off the outside of his boot for a 0-02 to 0-00 lead inside a minute.A foul on Bradshaw on the right saw Sean Armstrong stroke over Galway’s third point from outside the 45 metre line in the third minute, but Mayo soon settled and built their way into the game.Facing Galway’s tight defensive line they needed to be patient and pick their way through, but five minutes in Andy Moran spotted the gap and allowed Kevin McLoughlin to score.A minute later the key score of the first-half arrived for Mayo. Lee Keegan looked to have guided a long range point over the bar but his effort hit the post, fell to McLoughlin and the Knockmore man finished low to the net for a 1-1 to 0-3 lead.There was plenty of frantic play from both sides in the opening quarter, but one of the calmer moments came from Michael Daly who settled his side with a beautiful score from 45 metres, which sailed over on the wind.Cillian O’Connor saw a shot on target crash back off the crossbar soon after and Shane Walsh landed a great score on the run for Galway, but Mayo seemed able to keep in touch as O’Connor’s frees and another point from Fergal Boland kept them close to their rivals.Nine minutes from the break Galway’s hopes of a second win in a row over their rivals was boosted when Keith Higgins was shown a straight red card following an off the ball incident with Comer, but as temperatures began to boil, Tom Flynn soon joined him on the sideline when he picked up a black card.But right through the first-half Armstrong was reliable for Galway and his four points from placed balls before the break meant they were well worth a 0-09 to 1-05 half-time advantage.A bright start from Galway launched the first-half and they had a similar introduction to the second when an Armstrong free and a great score from substitute Eamonn Brannigan in the space of a minute stretched their lead to three points.There was no doubt that the extra man around the middle was helping Galway, but a long range score from Diarmuid O’Connor trimmed the fat on that advantage in the 43rd minute, but Armstrong’s 45 into the wind and Comer’s point when the kick-out was pressurised soon had four between the sides.Three Cillian O’Connor frees pulled Mayo to within a point with two minutes remaining and with six minutes added time to be played the sizeable travelling support fancied their chances of a replay, but after Johnny Heaney twice cleared off the line five minutes from time, Evan Regan’s late effort was the closest they came as Galway held on.Galway: R Lavelle; C Sweeney, D Kyne, L Silke; G Bradshaw (0-01), G O’Donnell (c), D Wynne; T Flynn, F Ó Curraoin; J Heaney (0-01), P Conroy, S Walsh (0-01); M Daly (0-01), D Comer (0-02), S Armstrong (0-06, 0-03f, 0-03’45).Subs: G Sice (0-02, 0-02f) for Flynn (31 BC), E Brannigan (0-01) for Wynne (h-t), D Cumins for Daly (70), M Lundy for Sice (72),Mayo: D Clarke; C Barrett, G Cafferkey, K Higgins; D Vaughan, L Keegan, P Durcan (0-01); S O’Shea, T Parsons; F Boland (0-01), D O’Connor (0-01), S Coen; K McLoughlin (1-01), C O’Connor (c) (0-06, 0-05f), A Moran (0-01).Subs: A O’Shea for S O’Shea (48), D Kirby for Moran (48), J Doherty for McLoughlin (58), E Regan for Boland (61), C Boyle for Vaughan (69), D Drake for D O’Connor (73).Referee: Joe McQuillan (Cavan).
Loughrea were the kingpins of the 2017 Kilbeacanty beating Beagh in a closely contested final on a score line of 3-15 to 6-03. The loss of Kevin Keehan in Beagh’s first game proved costly in their bid for 3 in a row and Loughrea proved too strong in the final playing some spectacular hurling on the way to claiming the 7’s McCarthy Cup and €7,000 prize fund. Loughrea beat Ardrahan and St Thomas on route to the final and had outstanding performances from Jamie Ryan and Brian O’Mahony and Neil Keary throughout the day. However goalkeeper Peter Whelan was the hero in the final and went on to win Player of the Tournament. The first camogie final was also a fantastic game with Clare county champions Inagh/Kilnamona coming back from the dead at half time to beat Ardrahan by the closest of margins on a score line of 3-06 to 4-02. Inagh/Kilnamona had many stars throughout the day with Siobhan and Fiona Laverty to the fore in them winning the first Kilbeacanty camogie 7s. Aoife Lynskey from Ardrahan won player of the tournament. The Joe Gillane finals were won by Ardrahan who stopped Craughwell winning three in a row and Kinvara beat Gort in the Shield final.It was a brilliant day out in Kilbeacanty for all hurling and camogie fanatics and the tournament is going from strength to strength. The club would like to thank all sponsors, referees, club workers/members and to all teams that took part who make the day such a great success. 2018 promises to be even better as the club celebrate 100 years since the first tournament was played in the parish.
President of Gort Golf Club Joe Byrne has welcomed the opportunity to link with Galway GAA in launching this event. As past Chairman of Galway Hurling, Joe is acutely aware of the challenges facing Galway GAA in providing funds to ensure our County Teams are prepared properly and this is an opportunity, in a joint venture to support both organisations. There is an intrinsic link between GAA and Golf and many past hurlers and footballers play golf which is an opportunity to continue engaging in sport, but probably more importantly it’s a social outlet to maintain and gain friendship.
Chairman of Galway GAA, Pat Kearney, a past member of the Golf Club, believes that joint venture events like this are very important for increasing support and in doing so generating much needed funds. It’s an exciting Summer ahead for our Hurlers and Footballers, and support off the field is very important.
Chairman of Galway Hurling , Michael Larkin, welcomes this initiative by Gort Golf Club and encourages all Galway GAA friends to participate in the event.
Adrian Quinn Car Sales, Labane are the Main Sponsor for the Golf Classic and both Gort Golf Club and Galway GAA are indebted for his support. We also acknowledge the continued support of Galway GAA Teams Sponsor Supermac’s.
Teams of 4 cost €120, Tee sponsors €100 (combined Team and Tee Sponsorship €170). There will be a special competition for non GUI handicap golfers which affords the opportunity to so many, who are engaged with their Clubs to participate in the event. GAA Clubs are asked to enter a team consisting of GAA Club members and they will participate to play for a generous O’Neills Voucher towards a Club set of jerseys.
Those interested in playing may book on line at Gort Golf Club BRS system, ring the Club at 091-632244, Joe Byrne 087-2625775, John Moylan 087-9165930, Colm Grealish 086-1932511, Michael Larkin 087-8119309.
League champions Galway got their championship campaign up and running with an emphatic 2-28 to 1-17 win over Dublin at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.
The dismissal early in the second-half of Dublin defender Cian O’Callaghan minimised any chance of an upset as Galway advanced to a Leinster SHC semi-final meeting with Offaly next month.
It was only Galway’s second ever senior championship win over Dublin in seven meetings.
Galway led by 1-10 to 1-07 at the end of the opening half with seven different scorers contributing to their tally in front of a crowd of 14,316 in a game played in excellent conditions.
The Tribesmen seemed poised for a big interval lead but Dublin struck for a goal on the stroke of half-time to give themselves real hope.
Indeed, Dublin started and finished the half in a flourish, with Chris Crummey getting them off the mark after three minutes with a good point from the right.
Galway took over from there and shot four in a row in a six-minute spell with Joe Canning, Jason Flynn, David Burke and Conor Whelan hitting good scores for the League champions.
Ben Quinn had a Dublin goal disallowed when he was adjudged to have over-carried the ball. But Ger Cunningham’s men enjoyed their best spell of the opening half after that.
Eamon Dillon reduced the margin and then Shane Barrett landed one from distance before Donal Burke tied the match at 0-04 each after 16 minutes.
Dublin continued to press forward and David Treacy edged them in front but they were also guilty of some wayward shooting, hitting 10 wides to Galway’s seven in the first half.
Galway responded to the challenge with four points without reply, with Cathal Mannion, David Burke, Canning and Conor Cooney pushing them 0-08 to 0-05 in the lead.
Treacy hit back with a Dublin free which was quickly cancelled out when Joseph Cooney ensured all Galway forwards were on the mark in the opening half.
Another Treacy point left just two between them but then Galway, who lost corner-back Paul Killeen to a knee injury, struck a major blow with the opening goal.
Dublin goalkeeper Conor Dooley did well to block an effort from Joseph Cooney but Flynn finished the rebound to the net with a ground strike.
He should have added another three minutes from the break after being set up by a superb pass from Canning but his effort flew over the bar.
And then, just before the break, Donal Burke set up Quinn for a goal for Dublin to leave just three between them at the interval.
Galway doubled that lead in the opening five minutes of the second half with three points from play and Dublin then suffered a massive blow when corner-back O’Callaghan was dismissed after picking up a second yellow card.
That left the Dubs with a mountain to climb and they never looked like mounting a challenge from there as Galway used their numerical advantage to pull away.
They wrapped up the issue when Conor Cooney got Galway’s second goal after 53 minutes, with Dublin unable to mount a rally after that and will now need to regroup for the qualifiers.
Galway McDonagh 4-16 North Clare 0-7Three in a row and heading for Division one is the mid term progress report for Galway north. Darren O Brien opened the scoring for North Clare before three in a row from TJ Brennan, Conor Molloy and Isaa Dehora set Galway up for a lead they never subsequently surrendered. North Clare's top forward Tom Barry rallied the Clare cause with a free and indeed North Galway were finding it difficult to get their best foot forward due to the honest effort provided by the home side.Eventually distance was put between the sides as Cillian Lawless and Conor Molloy hit minors before Isaac Dehora struck for the first Galway goal. By the interval, the Galway lads led by 1-8 to 0-5. The Clare defensive shield was shattered five minutes into the new half as Galway hit 1-4 to no score for Clare. Conor Molloy (3), Mark Kennedy (1) with Dehora hitting the second Galway McDonagh goal to surge 2-12 to 0-5 clear and on their way to victory.GALWAY NORTH: Darragh Connelly (Liam Mellowes), Jack Hughes (Skehana), Mark Gill (Castlegar), Sean Burke (Kilconieron), Sean Joyce (Salthill), Conor Lee (Clarinbridge), TJ Brennan (Clarinbridge)(0-2), Diarmuid O Brien (Ballygar), Dylan O Shaughnessy (Loughrea)(0-1), Cillian Lawless (Athenry)(0-1), Mark Kennedy (Clarinbridge)(0-1), Michael Glynn (Skehana), Damien McGlynn (St Thomas), Conor Molloy (Leitrim/Kilnadeema) (2-9), Iaasc Dehora (Clarinbridge)(2-1). Subs: Neil Connelly (Portumna)(0-1), Cathal Dolan (Kiltormer), Eoin Kerin (Rahoon/Newcastle). Management: Damien Curley and Willie BurkeGalway Maroon 0-24 Offaly 1-13
Galway Maroon recorded their second win of the Campaign when they overcame Offaly in Birr on Wednesday evening. Galway laid a marker early on and when Ross Albertini pointed on the 21st minute, they had built a 0-9 to 0-2 lead. By the interval Galway Maroon led by 0-12 to 0-5 as the spirited Offaly side stayed in contention.
With a decent spread of scorers, Galway led by 0-18 to 0-10 at the three quarters stage before a Brian Duignan goal from a 20 metre free gave Offaly some hope at 1-12 to 0-21 with 7 minutes to go, but the Galway lads closed out the deal to seal a 0-24 to 1-13 win.
Galway Tribesmen enjoyed a comfortable win over a spirited Kildare Cadets side on a splendid pitch in the Athlone GAA grounds. Dylan Carroll of Castlegar lead the scoring with 3-2 and his club colleague James Smith scoring 1-5 from play. The other goals were scored by Ronan Mitchell (2) and Jordan Ruffley. The final score did not do justice to a hard-working Kildare Cadets who never wilted despite the Tribesmen's dominance. Next for Galway Tribesmen is a game versus Donegal.
Aaron Byrne scored the decisive goal as Dublin became the last ever All-Ireland Under-21 football champions with a thrilling 2-13 to 2-07 victory over Galway at O'Connor Park in Tullamore.Dessie Farrell’s side were 0-05 to 0-04 up at the end of the first-half and the game took off after the interval.A Con O’Callaghan goal looked to have put them on their way, but a goal by Galway wing-back Cillian McDaid set up a grand-stand finish.Byrne pounced late on and his goal sealed Dublin’s fifth Under-21 crown and fourth since 2010, with a late Colm Brennan green flag for the Tribesmen making no difference in the end.Dublin held a slim single-point lead at half-time after a tense opening half where both sides had plenty of chances but failed to convert in front of goal.Nerves played a massive part too but Dublin took an early 0-02 to 0-00 lead with points from Glenn O’Reilly and O’Callaghan, who notched a free.O’Callaghan was Dublin’s danger man on the edge of the square but Galway full-back Sean Andy Ó Ceallaigh negated his threat for much of the opening half.Football in Galway has been resurgent lately and on the back of their senior side claiming Allianz Football League Division 2 glory, the Tribesmen claimed the scalp of heavy favourites Kerry, scoring 1-7 from their first nine shots in the semi-final.Dublin have dominated at senior level in recent years, having won four Sam Maguires since 2011. And this U-21 team qualified for the decider at the third time of asking, after back-to-back semi-final defeats against Tipperary and Mayo.But despite O’Callaghan’s early black card they came up trumps against a fancied Donegal, and against Galway they attacked at will early on.But Michael Daly got a crucial score for Galway in the seventh minute and that settled them. Colm Basquel hit back with two points in-a-row and Dublin held a strong 0-04 to 0-01 lead after 18 minutes.
Daly went close with a shot at goal for Galway, but that was foiled and at the other end Ronan Ó Beoláin was performing heroics in the Galway goal.McDaid roamed forward to narrow the gap further after Eoin Finnerty scored for Galway and O’Reilly, and Galway’s Peter Cooke traded scores before the break.Dublin were just one point ahead at half-time but they launched out of the blocks at the start of the second-half and held Galway scoreless for 14 minutes.Dublin assumed a 1-10 to 0-05 lead with O’Callaghan’s goal five minutes after half-time putting them in command. McDaid was Galway’s star and he scored a tonic goal with ten minutes to go which was followed a Kieran Molloy point.But Dublin scored next and it was Byrne’s goal three minutes from time that put the game beyond Galway. Brennan did find the net late on for the Tribesmen, while O’Callaghan settled for a point from the penalty spot for the Dubs with the last kick of the game.Final Score: Dublin 2-13 Galway 2-7Dublin: E Comerford; D Byrne, C O’Shea, E Murchan; D Monaghan, S McMahon, C Murphy; A Foley, B Howard (0-01); T Fox, A Byrne (1-00), G O’Reilly (0-03); C Basquel (0-02), C O’Callaghan (1-03, 0-02f), D O’Brien (0-02).Subs: D Gavin (0-01) for Foley (13), D Spillane for Fox (39), C Sallier for O’Reilly (45), A McGowan for McMahon (60), P Small for Basquel (60), S Smith (0-01) for A Byrne (62).Galway: R Ó Beoláin; L Kelly, S A Ó Ceallaigh, R Greene; K Molloy (0-01), D McHugh, C McDaid (1-01); P Cooke (0-01, 0-01f), C D’Arcy; S Kelly, M Daly (0-01), P Mannion (0-01); R Finnerty, E Finnerty (0-01), D Conneely.Subs: C Brady (0-01) for R Finnerty (30), C Brennan (1-00) for D’Arcy (37), M Boyle for Conneely (39), E Lee for S Kelly (44), A O Laoi for Mannion (54), P O’Curraoin for Molloy (60).Referee: Ciaran Branagan (Down)
Two goals from Jason Flynn and another from Cathal Mannion were among the highlights as Galway turned on the style to crush Tipperary by 16 points in the Allianz HL Division 1 final at the Gaelic Grounds.Micheal Donoghue’s side have had a fierce rivalry with the reigning All-Ireland champions in recent years, and they have clashed in the last two All-Ireland semi-finals, with a point separating them on both occasions.Their last league encounter was a draw, and it was hard-fought opening quarter, until Galway hit their stride and took a 0-11 to 0-5 lead into half-time, thanks to six points from Joe Canning.Flynn scored his and Galway’s first goal just one minute into the second-half and he added the second effort with 13 minutes remaining, before Mannion rammed home a third late on.But if Galway had taken their chances they could have been out of touch at the end of a first-half, where they led by six points. Their forwards were dominant, as they normally are, but this time the backs were brilliant too.Daithi Burke gave an awesome display at full-back, while Aidan Harte was similarly impressive sweeping up loose ball throughout the first-half.Up front Conor Whelan was a constant menace, and Canning converted with ease. Flynn was also winning his personal battle but was guilty of missing a number of scoring opportunities.In all Galway had 11 wides, to Tipperary’s nine, and Micheal Ryan’s men were reeling at the break. It was ferocious from the outset, with huge levels of intensity, and physicality which threatened to boil over at times.Tipperary were in search of their 20th league crown, and first title in nine years, and scored first through a John McGrath free in the third minute. But Galway equalised through Harte, before Whelan opened his tally.John McGrath scored his second free in the sixth minute, but then he missed a free and a 65 as Galway got on top.Noel McGrath levelled things briefly but Galway hit three in a row, with Canning’s second point in the 23rd minute giving them a 0-06 to 0-03 lead.Brendan Maher scored Tipperary’s first point in eight minutes before Galway assumed control again – they hit four in a row, with three from Canning to move six clear.Ronan Maher slotted another important free, to keep Tipperary in touch, but Canning scored his sixth of the half just before the break and Galway led 0-11 to 0-05.Flynn made amends on the resumption, and his speed created an opening that he exploited to blast to the roof of Darren Gleeson’s net in the 36th minute.The teams traded scores after that, which meant Galway always had a healthy cushion on the score-board, and Canning continued to lead from the front. At the back Daithi Burke was immovable and Flynn’s goal in the 57th minute put the game beyond doubt.The late re-introductions of Johnny Glynn and Cyril Donnellan were another plus, while Cathal Mannion the win with a third goal with three minutes left.Final score: Galway 3-21 Tipperary 0-14Galway: C Callanan; A Touhy, Daithi Burke, P Killeen; P Mannion, G McInerny, A Harte (0-02); J Coen (0-01), David Burke (0-01); J Flynn (2-01), J Canning (0-09, 0-03f, 0-02 65), J Cooney; C Whelan (0-05), C Mannion (1-01), N Burke.Subs used: J Glynn for Canning (62), J Hanbury for Daithi Burke (66), C Donnellan for N Burke (68), T Monaghan (0-01) for Flynn (69), S Loftus for Killeen (71).Tipperary: D Gleeson; C Barrett, J Barry, M Cahill; S Kennedy, R Maher (0-02, 0-02f), Padraic Maher; B Maher (0-01), J Forde; D McCormack, M Breen (0-02), S O’Brien; N McGrath (0-02), J O’Dwyer (0-01), J McGrath (0-06, 0-06f).Subs used: N O’Meara for O’Brien (32), Patrick Maher for O’Dwyer (46), T Hamill for Cahill (60), P Flynn for Forde (60), D Quinn for N McGrath (67).Referee: Colm Lyons (Cork).
Galway captain David Burke lifts the cup after the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Final between Galway and Tipperary at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile
President Michael D Higgins with the Galway captain David Burke and Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Aogán Ó Fearghail after the Allianz Hurling League Final at Limerick. Photo by Joe Keane
Galway captain David Burke, left, and two goal hero Jason Flynn celebrate with the cup after the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 Final. Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile
Supermac's CEO Pat McDonagh and his wife Una, the Galway team sponsors with captain David Burke after the Allianz Hurling League Final. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile
Galway are into a first Allianz Hurling League final since 2010 after Conor Cooney’s second-half goal saw them past Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds.Galway dominated for the most part, other than a bright start to the second-half from Limerick that closed the gap to three points. But after Cooney’s goal and five unanswered points Galway cruised to the final on a scoreline if 1-21 to 1-11.Limerick hit 17 wides, a tally sure to annoy manager John Kiely ahead of their Munster championship semi-final against Clare in June.Galway captain David Burke won the toss and elected to play with the advantage of the very strong wind in the first-half at the Gaelic Grounds and that decision helped his side to a 0-13 to 1-5 lead at the interval.Like when the sides met at the same venue three weeks ago, there was a bite to the action as both teams showed great tenacity under the breaking ball, while the hits carried championship intent rather than national league politeness.But even without the wind advantage Galway looked the better team as the points flowed from play easier than at the other end.Two minutes in Cathal Mannion hoovered up a break off the post to score his first of three points from play before the break, while Shane Dowling responded with a free, Conor Cooney tapped over two excellent points to give Galway a 0-03 to 0-01 lead.When the sides last met Joe Canning proved the difference between the sides with his 0-10 haul, but Declan Hannon put the shackles on him in the early stages, until he was forced from the field after 16 minutes.His replacement Gavin O’Mahony brought some quality to the half-back line as the quality of ball into his forwards improved thereafter, although Canning then grew into the game.By the time Hannon left Galway were 0-06 to 0-03 ahead as Padraic Mannion and Conor Whelan added points from play, but in the 20th minute Limerick’s revival was given a boost when William O’Donoghue kicked to the net after David Demspey’s clever pass sent him clear.Galway’s response was controlled as Johnny Coen scored off Canning, before the Portumna man fired over two frees to restore Galway’s four-point lead.A brilliant block form O’Mahony denied Canning a point on the half-hour mark and after an immediate counter attack drew a foul, Dowling added a point for the home side.But that inspiration was fleeting for Limerick as Galway hit the last two points of the half as Canning added a free and an assist as Cathal Mannion gave Galway a five-point cushion.Dowling missed his first free of the second-half as he struggled to judge the wind, but he hit a fine points from play a minute later to cut Galway’s advantage to four points.But Canning added a free and David Burke hit his first of the game in the 46th minute as Galway edged further clear, only for three Limerick points in four minutes to give the home crowd some hope.But 14 minutes from time the dream of a first league final title in 20 years disappeared when Conor Cooney crept inside the full-back line and batted past Nickie Quaid for the clincher.Final score Galway 1-21 Limerick 1-11Galway: C Callanan; Adrian Tuohy, J Hanbury, A Harte; P Mannion (0-01), G McInerney, Daithi Burke; J Coen (0-01), David Burke (c) (0-02); P Brehony, J Canning (0-07, 0-06f), J Cooney; C Whelan (0-02), C Mannion (0-03), C Cooney (1-04).Subs used: T Monaghan (0-01) for Brehony (53), P Killeen for Hanbury (55), N Burke for J Cooney (63), J Flynn for Whelan (66), S Loftus for David Burke (68),Limerick: N Quaid; R English, R McCarthy, M Casey; D Byrnes (0-01), D Hannon, S Hickey; A Dempsey, W O’Donoghue (1-00); S Dowling (0-05), D Dempsey (0-01), G Hegarty (0-01); C Lynch (0-01), K Hayes, G Mulcahy.Subs used: G O’Mahony for Hannon (16 mins), S Finn for Hickey (38), B Nash (0-02) for Mulcahy (48), J Ryan for A Dempsey (53), J Fitzgibbon for D Dempsey (53),Referee: Paud O’Dwyer (Carlow).
Galway produced a superb display to stun favourites Kerry in an exciting All-Ireland U-21 football semi-final at Cusack Park, Ennis.The Tribesmen led from start to finish and never allowed the Kingdom take control, with Gerry Fahy’s men responding well when Kerry threatened a comeback in the second-half.Galway opened up a 1-07 to 0-01 lead after just ten minutes as they used the strong wind from the outset.They got off to a great start when a string of passes set Dessie Conneely up to crack home a goal after just 21 seconds and stun Kerry.Galway built on that with Peter Cooke dominating at midfield and Michael Daly leading an attack which moved at pace.Kerry struggled to get into the game, although Conor Geaney got them off the mark with a free in a rare attack.Wing-back Kieran Molloy went forward to score and make it 1-07 to 0-01 after ten minutes, but then Galway fluffed a couple of great goal-scoring chances with Robert Finnerty shooting wide and Eoin Finnerty unable to hold possession with just goalkeeper Shane Ryan to beat.Kerry, boosted by those let-offs, hit back with a free from Sean O’Shea before Killian Spillane got their first point from play eight minutes from the interval.Kerry stopper Ryan went forward to convert a free from 45 metres but Galway had the final say of the opening half when Cooke got his third point of the match with a free to lead by 1-09 to 0-04 at the interval.Kerry started the second half as Galway did the first with Matthew O’Sullivan forcing home a goal.But Galway responded with a point from Cooke and it was the Galway midfielder who again hit back after a couple of Matthew Flaherty points.Ryan went forward again to shoot his second point and Spillane, son of Kerry star Tom, also pointed to cut the gap to three.But Sean Kelly hit back for Galway and then midfielder Barry O’Sullivan picked up a second yellow and Kerry had to play the final 12 minutes with 14 men.Galway killed the game with three points in rapid succession and then sub Colin Brady sealed it with a goal, although there was time for Jordan Kiely to shoot a consolation effort for Kerry.Final score: Galway 2-14 Kerry 2-10Galway: R O Beolain; L Kelly, S O Ceallaigh, R Greene; K Molloy (0-01), D McHugh, C McDaid (0-01); P Cooke (0-05, 0-03f), C D’Arcy (0-01); S Kelly (0-02), M Daly (0-02), P Mannion (0-01); R Finnerty (0-01), E Finnerty, D Conneely (1-00).Subs used: C Brady (1-00) for Mannion (41), M Boyle for R Finnerty (54), C Brennan for D’Arcy (56), E Lee for McDaid (60).Kerry: S Ryan (0-02, 0-02f); Tom Leo O’Sullivan, J Foley, Tom O’Sullivan; B O Beaglaoich, B O Seanachain, G White; A Barry, B O’Sullivan; B Barrett, S O’Shea (0-01, 0-01f), M Flaherty (0-02); K Spillane (0-04, 0-03f), M O’Sullivan (1-00), C Geaney (0-01, 0-01f).Subs used: M Burns for Barrett (29), R O Se for O Seanachain (41), J Kiely (1-00) for S O’Shea (45), J Morgan for White (55), D O’Brien for O Beaglaoich (60).Referee: B Cawley (Kildare)
After a super display in this year’s EirGrid GAA U21 Connacht Championship, Galway U21 captain, Michael Daly has been named as the EirGrid GAA U21 Player of the Province for Connacht.
Hailing from An Creagan/Mach Locha club, Michael landed this award for the role he played in securing Galway’s first U21 Connacht title since 2013.
The Tribesmen disposed of both Leitrim (QF) and 2016 All-Ireland champions, Mayo (SF) on their way to the final where they faced Sligo, a team that had yet to claim a provincial title at this level. Michael gave an outstanding display on Sligo home turf in Markievicz Park, and it was this performance that helped drive the team on to secure a win over Galway (3-20 to 2-14) in extra time.
This is the first year of the EirGrid GAA U21 Player of the Province initiative and it is one that has been put in place to recognise and reward outstanding performances throughout each of the four provinces at U21 level. Each recipient has been carefully selected by the Gaelic Writers Association.
Director of External Affairs at EirGrid, Rosemary Steen, commented;
“I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to Michael on winning this award. His performance for Galway in the Connacht championship has been fantastic and we are delighted to be able to recognise him for this.
“At EirGrid, we manage and develop Ireland’s electricity grid and we feel strongly that our business mirrors this U21 Championship. We need to ensure that there is a bright future ahead for the young people of Ireland and with the incredible talent on display in this competition with players like Michael involved, we have no doubt that the future of the GAA will be extremely bright”.
Dublin’s Aaron Byrne has been selected as the EirGrid GAA U21 Player of the Province for Leinster and in Munster, Kerry’s, Andrew Barry has been chosen. The Ulster representative will be chosen after the final on Monday, 10th April.
Dublin will play the winner of Donegal and Derry in the EirGrid GAA U21 Football All Ireland Semi-Final on the 15th April at 14:30. The venue for the game is still to be confirmed.
The ignition provided by their bench was the key to Galway’s victory over Kildare in this afternoon’s Allianz Football League Division 2 Final as the Tribesmen won a match in Croke Park for the first time since 2001.
Substitutes Michael Daly and Gareth Bradshaw in particular brought some extra horsepower to the their second-half drive, and in a contest of fine margins that proved decisive.
It was Galway who seized the initiative in the early minutes of the match, establishing a dominance in midfield and flowing forwards from there.
Paul Conroy in particular was driving them on with his ability to carry the ball at pace, and the Kildare defence soon found themselves running towards their own goal more than they would have liked.
Conroy opened the scoring after being put through by a nice Eamon Brannigan pass, and then Brannigan himself doubled Galway’s lead after getting on the end of a wonderful team moved that saw the ball travel the length of the pitch through multiple pairs of hands.
Kildare were struggling to get a foot-hold on the game because they were failing to win primary possession in the middle third of the field.
Kevin Feely has been one of their best players all year, but the big midfielder was turned over twice in the early minutes of the game which summed up Kildare inability to impose themselves.
The former professional soccer player did manage to open his team’s account with well-taken free, but Galway hit back with one of their own through Gary Sice.
Kildare badly needed to find a spark in attack, and it was no surprise that their most skilful forward, Niall Kelly, provided it with two classy points in as many minutes.
Another free from Feely had Kildare ahead on 20 minutes, as the Lilywhites suddenly started playing with real method.
Galway’s game on the other hand was starting to unravel once they got into Kildare’s half of the field. Seven wides in the first 20 minutes tells you all you need to know about their wastefulness.
Sean Armstrong drew them level with a typical Sean Armstrong sort of point, and then the Tribesmen created the first real goal-chance of the game when Johnny Heaney cut through the Kildare rear-guard.
His shot was well struck but at a nice height for Kildare ‘keeper Mark Donnellan who pulled off an athletic diving save to beat the ball to safety.
Kildare moved ahead again courtesy of a David Hyland point that offered a revealing snap-shot of how the game was developing.
When he kicked it, Galway had all of their players inside their own ’45 yard line, but were still unable to prevent Hyland getting his shot off.
Both teams were getting numbers behind the ball when they didn’t have possession, and then tried to counter-attack at pace when they won it.
It was making for a fairly sterile contest with clean-cut chances few and far between, as both teams pretty much cancelled one another out.
A Shane Walsh point was a the last act of the half and ensured the sides went in level at the break, which was a fair reflection of a tight contest that had yet to really ignite.
Thankfully, the second-half took on a much more entertaining complexion, right from the off.
Shane Walsh kicked a really classy point as Galway attacked straight from the throw-in, and then Sean Armstrong followed up with another sweet score a minute later.
Galway were starting to get in behind the Kildare defence thanks to the swift running of Johnny Heaney and Eaonn Brannigan on the wings, and bit by bit the match was opening up.
Kildare too were now committing more men to attack, and they enjoyed a period of some dominance between the 40th and 53rd minute as they outscored Galway by eight points to three.
Niall Kelly was the key man for them in this period, kicking three of those points, as he consistently hurt the Galway defence with his ability to drift into dangerous positions and finish clinically.
He was being helped in this regard by substitute Catha McNally who linked well with the Athy man and kicked a fine point of his own in this period of the game.
But then Galway started to empty their bench, and the contribution of their subs combined with the growing dominance of Paul Conroy, Fiontán Ó Curraoin and Thomas Flynn was the key to what would ultimately prove to be a match-winning surge.
A feature of Galway’s play in this half was their ability to go long to men like Ó Curraoin in particular and win spectacular marks in the middle third that gave them a great attacking platform.
The Tribesmen kicked five unanswered points between the 54th and 63rd minutes to turn a three point deficit into a two-point lead, which would prove to be the winning of the game.
Kildare kept plugging away but two excellent points from Galway subs Daly and Bradshaw were enough to keep them at arms lengths.
The Lilywhites came looking for a match-winning goal in injury-time, but David Slattery was hauled down just outside the penalty area and Kevin Feely lashed the last-gasp free high and against the upright.
And so Galway are Division Two champions, a success that builds on last year’s Connacht title win, and suggests the Tribesmen are still on an upward curve.
Galway added another Connacht title to their collection, having already won the FBD and Under 21, when the county minor footballers defeated Sligo in the Connacht Minor Football League Final at Tuam Stadium.
Iin the opening half Darragh Silke was Galway's top marksman scoring four points and three coming from Padraic Costello as their side led at the break by seven points 0-8 to 0-1.
Galway realised their spring objective registering a win to earn a return to Division One of the Allianz Football League.An experimental Kildare outfit caused Galway problems in the west, but Kevin Walsh’s developing side did just enough to secure the spoils.The teams will collide again in the Division Two decider next Sunday which offers another competitive fixture ahead of the Championship.Despite making 14 changes from the team that defeated Clare last Sunday, a new look Kildare still performed adequately in the opening period.Fionn Dowling, outstanding at centrefield, kicked three sweet first half points from play for Kildare, who only trailed by 0-7 to 0-4 at the break.Galway offered glimpses of their ability with Tom Flynn, Sean Armstrong, Shane Walsh, and Johnny Heaney rifling over splendid efforts for the Tribesmen, who led by three at the turnaround.By the 45th minute Galway’s advantage had been extended to five, 0-11 to 0-6, following a decent burst which included scores from Eamonn Brannigan, Armstrong, and Paul Conroy.Kildare, who introduced a few regulars, continued to battle with David Hyland and Cathal McNally trimming the gap.Galway responded once more with the pacy duo Walsh and Brannigan kicking excellent points as Galway led 0-13 to 0-8 with 15 minutes remaining.The Lilywhites struck four points in a row with Niall Kelly (2) and Dowling (2) finding the range with Galway under severe pressure.Walsh burst through to land a vital score for Galway, but the effective McNally narrowed the gap again for the spirited visitors.It was a tense finale in Salthill for the bumper home crowd, but Galway will join Kildare in the top flight next year.Final score: Galway 0-14 Kildare 0-13Scorers for Galway: Shane Walsh 0-3, Eamonn Brannigan, Sean Armstrong, Gary Sice (2fs) and Barry McHugh (2fs) 0-2 each, Paul Conroy, Johnny Heaney, and Tom Flynn 0-1 each.Scorers for Kildare: Fionn Dowling 0-5 (1f), Ben McCormack, Cathal McNally, and Niall Kelly 0-2 each, David Hyland, and Eamonn Callaghan 0-1 each.GALWAY: Ruairi Lavelle; David Wynne, David Walsh, Cathal Sweeney; Gary O'Donnell, Michael Farragher, Johnny Heaney; Paul Conroy, Fiontan O'Curraoin; Gary Sice, Shane Walsh, Tom Flynn; Eamonn Brannigan, Barry McHugh, Sean Armstrong.Subs: Micheal Lundy for Gary Sice (57), Ian Burke for Barry McHugh (63), Liam Silke for Michael Farragher (67).KILDARE: Shane McNamara; Darren Maguire, Mark Hyland, Liam Healy; Peter Kelly, Shea Ryan, Emmet Bolton; Fionn Dowling, Paschal Connell; Eddie Heavey, Conor Hartley, Con Kavanagh; Cathal McNally, Eamonn Callaghan, Ben McCormack.Subs: David Hyland for Peter Kelly (24, BC), Keith Cribbin for Emmet Bolton (40), Niall Kelly for Ben McCormack (50), Paul Cribbin for Eddie Heavey (52), Kevin Feely for Paschal Connell (56, BC), David Slattery for Conor Hartley (63).REFEREE: Barry Cassidy (Derry).
Two goals from Tom Devine in a minute during the second-half looked to have sealed Waterford’s progress into the Allianz Hurling League Semi-Final, but Joe Canning inspired the home side to a stunning late comeback at Pearse Stadium.
Waterford didn’t score in the last 19 minutes as Canning hit a penalty and Galway fired an unanswered 1-7 to take the win.
Galway now face Limerick, but the fitness of Canning will be a big worry after he was sent off in added-time and limped gingerly from the field.
Last weekend Galway got off to a slow start against Limerick and they eventually claimed a win to sign off their Division 1B campaign. But this afternoon at Pearse Stadium they trailed by 0-6 to 0-0 after 10 minutes and by 0-10 to 0-2 after 18 minutes.
It was a desperate start from the Tribesmen who struggled under the high ball at the back, displayed a sub-par first touch, and hit five wides in the first quarter.
Starting in the full-forward line but with the No 9 on his back Tommy Ryan caused havoc early on, and drew the free that saw Maurice Shanahan launch the Waterford scoring in the second minute. After a brief lull, Stephen Bennett, Tommy Ryan, DJ Foran, Kevin Moran and Stephen Roche all hit unanswered points form play for the Déise.
Conor Whelan was in blistering form for the Tribesmen and it was his score in the 12th minute that finally got them off the mark, but Waterford were full deserving of an eight-point lead when Shanahan drilled over his third free.
Galway should have pushed themselves back into the tie after 21 minutes, but Joe Canning saw his penalty saved by Ian O’Regan, nevertheless, from there to the interval it was Galway who looked the sharper side.
Conor Cooney’s goal 11 minutes from the break lifted their hopes and after a Canning free and Cathal Mannion’s point, Whelan landed a great score from the sideline to cut the lead to four.
Roche stopped the Galway run of points at the other end, but the Tribesmen added three more before the break as Waterford led by 0-15 to 1-9 at half-time.
Devine’s first goal came in the 43rd minute after a brilliant pass form Mark O’Brien sent him on his way, while less than a minute later he got in behind Daithi Burke and finished low past Colm Callanan, who had denied Stephen Bennett with a brilliant save a couple of minutes earlier.
Four points in a row from Joe Canning close the home side to within six points with 15 minutes remaining.
Devine looked to have hit the insurance score for his side in the 56th minute, but they failed to score after that as Canning and Niall Burke inspired the Tribesmen to a memorable win.
REFEREE: Barry Kelly (Westmeath).Two goals from Tom Devine in a minute during the second-half looked to have sealed Waterford’s progress into the Allianz Hurling League Semi-Final, but Joe Canning inspired the home side to a stunning late comeback at Pearse Stadium.Waterford didn’t score in the last 19 minutes as Canning hit a penalty and Galway fired an unanswered 1-7 to take the win.Galway now face Limerick, but the fitness of Canning will be a big worry after he was sent off in added-time and limped gingerly from the field.Last weekend Galway got off to a slow start against Limerick and they eventually claimed a win to sign off their Division 1B campaign. But this afternoon at Pearse Stadium they trailed by 0-6 to 0-0 after 10 minutes and by 0-10 to 0-2 after 18 minutes.It was a desperate start from the Tribesmen who struggled under the high ball at the back, displayed a sub-par first touch, and hit five wides in the first quarter.Starting in the full-forward line but with the No 9 on his back Tommy Ryan caused havoc early on, and drew the free that saw Maurice Shanahan launch the Waterford scoring in the second minute. After a brief lull, Stephen Bennett, Tommy Ryan, DJ Foran, Kevin Moran and Stephen Roche all hit unanswered points form play for the Déise.Conor Whelan was in blistering form for the Tribesmen and it was his score in the 12th minute that finally got them off the mark, but Waterford were full deserving of an eight-point lead when Shanahan drilled over his third free.Galway should have pushed themselves back into the tie after 21 minutes, but Joe Canning saw his penalty saved by Ian O’Regan, nevertheless, from there to the interval it was Galway who looked the sharper side.Conor Cooney’s goal 11 minutes from the break lifted their hopes and after a Canning free and Cathal Mannion’s point, Whelan landed a great score from the sideline to cut the lead to four.Roche stopped the Galway run of points at the other end, but the Tribesmen added three more before the break as Waterford led by 0-15 to 1-9 at half-time.Devine’s first goal came in the 43rd minute after a brilliant pass form Mark O’Brien sent him on his way, while less than a minute later he got in behind Daithi Burke and finished low past Colm Callanan, who had denied Stephen Bennett with a brilliant save a couple of minutes earlier.Four points in a row from Joe Canning close the home side to within six points with 15 minutes remaining.Devine looked to have hit the insurance score for his side in the 56th minute, but they failed to score after that as Canning and Niall Burke inspired the Tribesmen to a memorable win.Final score: Galway 2-22 Waterford 2-19Scorers for Galway: Joe Canning 1-10 (1-0 pen, 4fs), Conor Cooney 1-0, Conor Whelan 0-3. Aidan Harte, Cathal Mannion and Niall Burke 0-2 each, Padraic Mannion, Thomas Monaghan 0-1 each.Scorers for Waterford: Maurice Shanahan 0-6 (4fs), Tom Devine 2-1, Stephen Roche 0-3, Tommy Ryan, DJ Foran and Kevin Moran 0-2 each, Stephen Bennett, Seamus Keating, Mark O’Brien 0-1 each.GALWAY: Colm Callanan; John Hanbury, Daithi Burke, Aidan Harte; Padraic Mannion, Gearoid McInerney, Paul Killeen; Adrian Tuohy, Johnny Coen; Joseph Cooney, Joe Canning, David Burke; Conor Whelan, Conor Cooney, Cathal Mannion.Subs: Thomas Monaghan for John Hanbury (23), Niall Burke for Joseph Cooney (64), Shane Maloney for Conor Cooney (68).WATERFORD: Ian O’Regan; Kieran Bennett, Shane McNulty, Shane Fives; Conor Gleeson, Tadhg de Búrca, Seamus Keating; Kevin Moran, Mark O’Brien; Stephen Bennett, Stephen Roche, DJ Foran; Tommy Ryan, Maurice Shanahan, Tom Devine.Subs: Shane Bennett for DJ Foran (52), Noel Connors for Seamus Keating (55), Michael Walsh for Mark O’Brien (58), Brian O’Halloran for Tommy Ryan (59), Pauric Mahony for Roche (61).REFEREE: Barry Kelly (Westmeath).
Cillian McDaid of Galway receives the Man of the Match award from Manager access planning at EirGrid Louis Fisher after the EirGrid Connacht GAA Football U21 Championship Final match between Galway and Sligo at Markievicz Park, in Sligo. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Micheál Daly of Galway in action against Paul McNamara of Sligo during the EirGrid Connacht GAA Football U21 Championship Final. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
Micheál Daly of Galway in action against Sligo's Paul McNamara with on the right Séan Kelly celebrates scoring his side's third goal during the EirGrid Connacht GAA Football U21 Championship. Photos by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
All-Star midfielder David Burke produced a stunning display for Galway as they ended Division 1B campaign with a fourth win at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick.
Limerick led by 1-13 to 0-15 at the end of an exciting opening half which saw Cian Lynch strike for the only goal of the game just before the break.
But David Burke was a colossus at the start of the second-half, and he reeled off five points from play, with Thomas Monaghan and then Niall Burke helping to secure the victory for Galway.
Galway played with the breeze at their backs in the first-half, but they couldn’t use that to their advantage and they went in trailing by one point at half-time.
It was hugely competitive and the sides traded scores all the way through, but Galway hit six points in a row during a blistering four-minute spell towards the end of the half and that pushed them four points clear.
But the hosts finished the stronger and Lynch’s low shot flashed past Colm Callanan in the Galway goal one minute before half-time, while Kyle Hayes tagged on another point, and Shane Dowling added a couple of scores for the half-time lead.
Joe Canning was outstanding for Galway in the first-half. He wore the No 10 jersey, but started at corner-forward and scored nine points before the interval.
The Portumna clubman missed a lot of hurling since Galway’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat against Tipperary last season, but he looked at the peak of his powers in Limerick.
He scored a sideline cut, two frees from inside his own 65, and three great points from play as part of his tally, to help Galway stay in touch.
Limerick No 10 Dowling was dominating down the other end of the field, with seven points in the first-half.
Te key score of the half came just before the break when Cian Lynch blasted to the net and Limerick by the minimum at half-time.
However Galway midfielder Burke took control of the game after the break, and he was majestic as Galway raced in front with their captain scoring five excellent points from play.
His replacement Niall Burke struck the insurance score in the 72nd minute, as Galway held on.
Latest Hurling Final News & Updates
The GAA has confirmed the referees for the 2017 Hurling All-Ireland Senior and Minor Finals on September 3rd with Fergal Horgan appointed to referee the Senior final while Sean Cleere of Kilkenny will officiate in the Electric Ireland Minor Final
The GAA has confirmed the referees for the 2017 Hurling All-Ireland Senior and Minor Finals on September 3rd with Fergal Horgan appointed to referee the Senior final while Sean Cleere of Kilkenny will officiate in the Electric Ireland Minor Final
Galway manager Micheal Donoghue said that the shock death of Tony Keady will be used as motivation for next month's All-Ireland hurling final showdown with Waterford. He said they would do everything in their power to honour Keady's legacy as they try to bring the Liam MacCarthy back to Galway.
Austin Gleeson is free to play in the All-Ireland final against Galway.Referee James Owens informed the Central Competitions Committee that he is happy with his officiating of the All-Ireland semi-final, which means the Hurler of Year will not be punished for Sunday's incident involving Luke Meade.
Padraic Mannion of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Colm Callanan of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Galway captain David Burke during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Galway manager Mícheál Donoghue during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Conor Cooney of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
The GAA has confirmed the referees for the 2017 Hurling All-Ireland Senior and Minor Finals on September 3rd with Fergal Horgan appointed to referee the Senior final while Sean Cleere of Kilkenny will officiate in the Electric Ireland Minor Final
The GAA has confirmed the referees for the 2017 Hurling All-Ireland Senior and Minor Finals on September 3rd with Fergal Horgan appointed to referee the Senior final while Sean Cleere of Kilkenny will officiate in the Electric Ireland Minor Final
Galway manager Micheal Donoghue said that the shock death of Tony Keady will be used as motivation for next month's All-Ireland hurling final showdown with Waterford. He said they would do everything in their power to honour Keady's legacy as they try to bring the Liam MacCarthy back to Galway.
Austin Gleeson is free to play in the All-Ireland final against Galway.Referee James Owens informed the Central Competitions Committee that he is happy with his officiating of the All-Ireland semi-final, which means the Hurler of Year will not be punished for Sunday's incident involving Luke Meade.
Padraic Mannion of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Colm Callanan of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Galway captain David Burke during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Galway manager Mícheál Donoghue during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Conor Cooney of Galway during a press conference at the Loughrea Hotel & Spa in Loughrea. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
Galway City & West Under 15 football team who played in the Adam Mangan Memorial Shield Tournament in Offaly against Dublin and Longford. Photo: Tommy Faherty.
Galway North Under 15 football team who participated in the Adam Mangan Shield Tournament. They played both Wicklow & Limerick. Photo: Ann Cunniss Burke
Galway referee John Keane and his umpires Mike Mackey, Shane Carr, Tom Lane and Martin Kearns before the All-Ireland U17 Hurling Championship Final between Dublin and Cork at Croke Park. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile
Canning magic sends Galway into All-Ireland Final after thriller
Joe Canning produced an astonishing winning point in the fifth minute of stoppage time from the right sideline to send Galway into the All-Ireland final against either Cork or Waterford after a thrilling 0-22 to 1-18 at Croke Park.The sides were level 13 times in a cracking match and just when a replay seemed on the cards, Canning struck his eleventh point of the game to send the All-Ireland champions crashing out.John O’Dwyer had a chance to snatch an equaliser in the final play but his effort from the right tailed off and Galway’s passage to the final was secured.Galway may not have scored a goal for a third championship match in a row but their ability to pick off points when they were most needed saw them home.It’s the third year in a row that the All-Ireland semi-final has been decided by a single point between theses sides, with Galway gaining revenge for last year’s loss.Now they will fancy their chance of a first All-Ireland title since 1988 after surviving a thrilling conclusion.The sides were level six times in the opening half but Tipperary, playing with the breeze, led by 1-10 to 0-12 at the interval.The goal came after 24 minutes when John McGrath pounced on an error by Galway goalkeeper Colm Callanan and corner-back Adrian Tuohy to flick the ball to the net.That edged the All-Ireland champions back in front and after Johnny Coen levelled directly afterwards, Tipperary should have got a second goal when Galway full-back Daithi Burke slipped but Seamus Callanan’s ground stroke was superbly saved by the advancing goalkeeper Callanan.Galway were on top in midfield and that began to have an impact after Tipperary opened up a 0-04 to 0-01 lead after just seven minutes with Callanan, Seamus Kennedy, Noel McGrath and John ‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer had found the target.Conor Cooney got Galway’s opening point after four minutes and they enjoyed their best spell when they hit four points without reply from the eighth to 15th minute with Conor Whelan, Coen, Conor Cooney and Cathal Mannion hit the target to lead for the first time by 0-05 to 0-04.Callanan responded for Tipp before Joe Canning hit two either side of another Whelan point to open up a three points leadPaudie Maher pulled back a point before John McGrath pounced for his fifth goal of this year’s title race and his tenth championship goal in history.Whelan’s third point edged Galway back in front after Coen’s equaliser following the goal but Callanan landed a free from distance to tie the game four minutes from the break.Brendan Maher edged them back in front directly afterwards and while Canning hit a trademark point from a sideline on the right, Callanan and sub Jason Forde put two between them in stoppage time.Galway cut that gap to the minimum when Canning got his fourth point when he made no mistake with a free from 60 metres to leave it 1-10 to 0-12 at the break in front of a crowd of 68,184.Joseph Cooney levelled the sides for the seventh time inside a minute of the restart before the unrelated Conor Cooney flashed a goal chance wide after a good run.Callanan responded with another free for Tipp which Canning immediately cancelled and then Whelan got his fourth point to make it 0-15 to 1-11 after 42 minutes.Gearoid McInerney was superb at the heart of the Galway defence in the second-half and he will now bid to follow in the footsteps of his father Gerry who was wing-back for the Tribesmen when they triumphed in ’87 and ’88.Brendan and Paudie Maher got Tipp back in front with points to lead by 1-13 to 0-15 after 49 minutes, but they never led after that, with Callanan saving well from Noel McGrath.Galway hit back and two more points from Canning and a long range free from Padraig Mannion put them two in front.‘Bubbles’ O’Dwyer and Noel McGrath pointed either side of a Canning ’65 and then John McGrath levelled 12 minutes from time at 1-16 to 0-19.Another Canning point from play was cancelled by a point from O’Dwyer after Callanan missed another placed ball from distance.Indeed, both sides were guilty of wides as the tension mounted - Galway finished with 14 to Tipp’s 11 - before Canning pointed a massive free from 90 metres to edge the Tribesmen in front three minutes from the end.Brendan Maher stepped forward and showed great composure to tie the games with a free from 70 metres two minutes into stoppage.That suggested a replay would be needed to separate them but Canning had other ideas and his point from distance out on the right wing proved to be a match-winning score to send Galway into the All-Ireland final.Galway: C Callanan; A Tuohy, Daithi Burke, J Hanbury; P Mannion (0-01, 0-01f), G McInerney, A Harte; J Coen (0-02), David Burke; C Mannion (0-01), J Canning (0-11, 0-06f, 0-01 sideline, 0-01 ’65), J Cooney (0-01); C Whelan (0-04), N Burke, C Cooney (0-02).Subs: J Flynn for N Burke (45), J Glynn for C Mannion (53), S Moloney for C Cooney (70), G Lally for McInerney (71-73).Tipperary: D Gleeson; D Maher, J Barry, M Cahill; S Kennedy (0-01), R Maher, Paudie Maher (0-02); B Maher (0-03, 0-02f), M Breen; D McCormack, Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher, N McGrath (0-02); J O’Dwyer (0-03), S Callanan (0-05, 0-03f), J McGrath (1-01).Subs: S Curtin for Patrick ‘Bonner Maher (7-10), J Forde (0-01) for Breen (34), N O’Meara for Forde (62).Referee: B Kelly (Westmeath). | {
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A big topic of discussion lately has been the concept of traveling on frequent flyer points, and while some are privy to the system many still seem to be unaware of the basics. Let’s change that.
For the uninitiated, “the points game” refers to the optimized collection and hyper-effective exploitation of the points and miles that come from airlines, hotels, and credit cards*. More elaborately, it is the process of accumulating the highest quantity of the most useful (more to come on what that means later) points as easily as possible. And conversely it entails redeeming rewards that consist of flights, hotels and other travel-related products for the least amount of those points as possible.
To be clear, this is not a new game; for as long as hotels and airlines have had half-decent marketing departments there have been programs in place designed to retain customers and reward loyalty.
Fun Fact: The earliest frequent flyer program that remotely resembles what we have today was launched by Texas International Airlines in 1979. And while another preceded this, TIA's was the first that used the concept of mileage to reward its passengers.
Back in those days the equation was simple – you received miles for flying on an airline then you turned around and spent those miles on the same airline. This worked well when fuel was cheap, tickets were expensive, and loyalty was appreciated.
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But, as things go, those programs later (d)evolved into nothing more than just another budget that looks a lot better when there is a bigger number sitting on the profit side than on the loss. Spoiler alert, that's hard to accomplish when you're "giving away" lots of flights.
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Fun fact: In 2015 Delta Airlines' relationship with American Express contributed 2billion dollars to their bottom line. This is not chump change.
2. They created alliances with other airlines
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TL;DR: Instead of having to have your travel agent book separate tickets JFK-LHR on American and LHR-MUC on British Airways you could simply have American book the flights all the way through under one ticket.
3. They made rewards more expensive & harder to redeem
This is simple: higher price for flights = less people rewarding themselves = more seats for paying customers and more paying customers = more revenue. There was a little bit of overlap 5 or so years ago between 1 & 2 happening. Let’s call those the glory days and shed a tear when we remember the cheap and virtually readily available flights across the board.
Additionally, and building on the price increases that were discussed above, the difficulty in redeeming awards has skyrocketed. There are now hurdles like award charts, revenue or distance based rewards, phantom inventory, random programs in Egypt, plus a few external social influences (refer to any travel blog, Facebook group or frequent flyer forum for details) that have all severely impacted the ability to use points.
The Result
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Whether you are a business owner with millions of credit card points, a consultant with a few hundred thousand, or a non-traveler who likes the occasional trip to Disney or Hawaii, there are ways to make your cost of business, luxury, or personal travel virtually free. But it sounds complicated, right? It is, and that's why a whole industry of "travel hackers" has organised to meet the demand. | {
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RICHMOND, Ind. — A Richmond man and a Fountain City man face drug-dealing charges after an early-morning traffic stop.
A pound of marijuana, more than 10 grams of methamphetamine and two handguns, including one listed as stolen, were located inside a vehicle pulled over about 2:15 a.m. Friday by Indiana State Police Trooper Jacob Ridgway, according to an ISP news release.
Frank M. Provance(Photo: Supplied)
The driver, Frank M. Provance, 21, of the 300 block of 32nd Street and passenger William Edward Howell, 26, of the 7500 block of W.E. Oler Road in Fountain City were both lodged in the Wayne County Jail on a variety of felony and misdemeanor charges, the release said.
Provance is preliminarily charged with Level 2 felony dealing methamphetamine, Level 2 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony possession of a stolen handgun and Level 6 felony maintaining a common nuisance, according to the release. He is also charged with misdemeanor dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a handgun without a license and possession of paraphernalia.
William E. Howell(Photo: Supplied)
Howell was jailed on preliminary charges of Level 2 felony dealing methamphetamine, Level 2 felony possession of methamphetamine, Level 6 felony maintaining a common nuisance and misdemeanor charges of possession of a handgun without a license, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.
Ridgway was northbound on Chester Boulevard in the area of Sim Hodgin Parkway when he noticed a speeding southbound vehicle, according to the release. Ridgway activated his radar and clocked the vehicle at 55 mph in a 30-mph zone. As Ridgway turned to pursue the vehicle, it turned east onto North J Street without using a signal.
After Provance pulled the vehicle into the lot of a closed business, Ridgway smelled the odor of marijuana from inside the vehicle, the release said. Richmond Police Department Officer Jordan Tudor arrived to assist Ridgway, and the officers' investigation discovered the drugs and handguns. | {
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LONDON (IPS) - A Dangerous Delusion is the work of one of Britain’s most brilliant political commentators, Peter Oborne, and an Irish physicist, David Morrison, who has written powerfully about the misleading of British public and parliamentary opinion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
This book will infuriate neoconservatives, Likudniks and members of the Saudi royal family but enlighten all who struggle with what to think about the claim that Iran’s nuclear programme threatens the survival of Israel, the security of Arab states in the Persian Gulf, and global peace. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSION
Writing with verve and concision as well as with the indignation that has been a feature of good criticism since the days of Juvenal, the authors spare the reader potentially tedious detail so that the book can be devoured in a matter of hours.
Their purpose, stated early in the work, is to argue that U.S. and European confrontation with Iran over its nuclear activities is unnecessary and irrational. Insofar as some concern about Iranian intentions has been and is justified, that concern can be allayed by measures that Iran has been ready to volunteer since 2005 and by more intrusive international monitoring.
An international legal instrument, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has a starring part in the story. This treaty, one of the fruits of the détente following the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, has been remarkably successful in discouraging the spread of nuclear weapons. Iran has been a party since the NPT entered into force in 1970.
In 1968 a senior U.S. official testified before the Senate that the newly drafted NPT did not prohibit the acquisition of nuclear technologies that could be used for military as well as civil purposes (dual-use).
It was assumed that parties would have an interest in complying with a treaty designed to limit the spread of devastating weapons and that those tempted to stray would be deterred by frequent international monitoring of the use of nuclear material.
Iran’s troubles began with India’s 1974 nuclear test. Although India had not signed, let alone ratified, the NPT and had used plutonium to fuel its device, the United States and Europe interpreted the explosion as evidence that the NPT’s drafters had blundered in failing to prohibit have-nots from acquiring dual-use technologies such as uranium enrichment.
They formed the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and set about making emerging states’ acquisition of such technologies progressively harder – in a sense, amending the NPT without the consent of most of its parties.
Then, in the 1990s, Israeli politicians began to claim publicly that Iran had a nuclear weapons programme and was only a few years away from producing warheads.
As a result, when Iranian opponents of the Islamic Republic claimed in 2002 that Iran was secretly building a uranium enrichment plant, many U.N. members were ready to believe that Iran was violating or was about to violate the NPT. Such was the sense of danger generated by the United States and some of its allies that people overlooked the absence of evidence that Iran had even intended the enrichment plant to be secret.
Instead, Iranian admission that scientists and engineers had engaged in undeclared nuclear research led people to assume that Iran’s obligation to declare the enrichment plant 180 days before the introduction of nuclear material (and not earlier) would have been ignored had it not been for the opposition group’s whistle-blowing.
Iran’s travails since 2004 – condemnation by the IAEA Board of Governors and the U.N. Security Council, ever harsher sanctions, U.S. and Israeli military threats in violation of the U.N. Charter – would have been both logical and rough justice if there had been evidence that Iran was intent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
That is not the case, however, as Oborne and Morrison make plain. On the contrary, since 2007 U.S. intelligence estimates have stressed the absence of an Iranian decision to use its enrichment plants to make fuel for nuclear weapons; the IAEA has repeatedly stated that Iran’s known nuclear material remains in civil use; and the only nuclear weapon activity in Iran for which there is evidence is the kind of research that many NPT parties are assumed to have undertaken.
Trying to account for this irrational handling of the Iranian case, the authors posit a U.S. determination to prevent Iran from becoming a major Middle East power.
That view may be the most questionable of their judgements, as possible explanations exist elsewhere: intensive lobbying in Washington, London and Paris by Israel and Saudi Arabia, which see Iran as a regional rival and need to justify the strategic demands they make of the United States, the influence of counter-proliferation experts obsessed with closing an imagined NPT loophole, the Islamic Republic’s terrorism and human rights record, and antagonisms born of bitter memories.
The hypocrisy of politicians is, rightly, a target of the authors’ indignation. In 2010 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, defending the imposition of sanctions, proclaimed: “Our goal is to pressure the Iranian government… without contributing to the suffering of ordinary Iranians.”
In 2012 President Obama, seeking re-election, boasted: “We organised the strongest sanctions in history and it is [sic] crippling the Iranian economy.”
But the authors’ fiercest indignation is reserved for the mainstream media, whom they indict for embedding in public discourse the idea that Iran has or is seeking nuclear weapons by ignoring facts and serving as a conduit for anti-Iranian propaganda.
By endorsing the proposition that Iran’s nuclear ambitions must be curbed by sanctions or the use of force, the mainstream media risk repeating their past mistake of failing to question the Bush/Blair case for war on Saddam Hussein.
A Dangerous Delusion was written before Iran’s June presidential election, begging the question of whether the re-emergence of pragmatic diplomatists in Tehran will encourage Western politicians to heed the “plea for sanity” with which Oborne and Morrison close.
“It’s time we [in the West] asked…why we have felt such a need to stigmatise and punish Iran….Once we do that…we may find it surprisingly easy to strike a deal which can satisfy all sides.”
*Peter Jenkins was a British career diplomat for 33 years following studies at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard. He served in Vienna (twice), Washington, Paris, Brasilia and Geneva. His last assignment (2001-06) was that of UK Ambassador to the IAEA and UN (Vienna). Since 2006 he has represented the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, advised the Director of IIASA and set up a partnership, ADRgAmbassadors, with former diplomatic colleagues, to offer the corporate sector dispute resolution and solutions to cross-border problems. [IPS | September 2, 2013] | {
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More on Carson
I spoke to Doug again yesterday evening. Little Carson is doing great, as is Rachel. Both are coming come later today (they keep them both in the hospital 24 hours before releasing them). Doug sent some pictures of Carson yesterday and said he would try and send a few more soon. He brought Ruby to see her little brother for the first time, he said, and she was hugging and kissing him.
Incidentally, Carson’s due date was March 7, 2006. I don’t know how often it happens that a baby is born so close to the due date (he was an hour off of being born on the due date), but that’s a pretty darn good guess on the doctor’s part. | {
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Cindy adds pinch pleat draperies to her 1960s mid-century modern home
Cindy finished a project: Pinch pleat drapes and valences for her adjoining living room, kitchen, dining room and entry in her 1960s mid-century modern house. The draperies are so happy, don’t you think? Cindy is, too, and she has photos — and tips based on her experience — to share.
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Cindy writes:
Hi Pam!
Nearly six years after buying my 60’s ranch I figured out what to do about draperies. I would have been perfectly happy without window coverings because I love lots of light, but we’re at the end of a cul de sac and when cars drive down the street the occupants see the entire living room area, so for the sake of privacy I decided to have pinch pleat draperies made of a beautiful fabric I found on www.tonicliving.com after learning about them from one of your reader’s comments. What a great site with so many retro fabric choices!
The fabric I chose is a bold floral that works beautifully with the wall color; as for painting the rods to match…I got that tip from YOU! I was a bit concerned that, given the size of the largest window, it would overpower the room, which it did for about ten minutes. I love it because it feels both retro and contemporary at the same time. I did two windows and three valences to keep the large open area coordinated and also had four pillows made. Although tonicliving.com makes draperies, I had them made locally and was surprised at the cost….the entire project, including the cost of 35 yards of fabric, cost me under $1500. I had another quote from a few years ago for over $4,000!
One valuable lesson I learned is to hire a professional to install such a large rod and draperies. When a carpenter friend offered to help me do it I readily accepted…. six long hours later we had finished, only to discover we had put the rod a bit too low….(a very long story that I now am able to laugh about). The following week I hired a professional installer from a local furniture store to reinstall …. 90 minutes and $75 later they were properly aligned and completely functional. Oh the lessons we learn along the way!
Now on to landscaping….!
Cindy
Love ’em, Cindy.
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Gavin – Gary is starting my entry area next week!
Leslie, the fabric is new – I got 35 yards from http://www.tonicliving.com – they have an excellent selection.
Barbara, by wallpaper you must mean the backsplash in the kitchen….it’s not wallpaper, it’s stenciling that I did myself four years ago…I enlarged a tiny picture from a catalog, made templates, and bought four colors of paint (always Benjamin Moore at my house!) and got going on a very trying process but I love the results! I’d love to put that exact pattern on ceramic tile but haven’t explored that much yet.
I wanted pinch pleats for my living room, but cannot even come close to affording them right now. However, I found some curtains at IKEA that have the feel of pinch pleats especially when they are open. I love them! You can hang them on a traverse rod or a regular pocket rod. They come super long and you iron hem them yourself to the size you need. For a pair they are only $60. Just a tip for those of us that can’t splurge just yet:)
First off, I like how happy Cindy looks in her house. Second, I really like the pinch pleats and the fabric they are made from — fun to see the big flowers on a pillow or when the drapes are closed, and such a nice pattern is formed by the folds when the drapes are opened. Finally, I really love what I see through the windows — all of that foliage!
Hey Cindy – Thanks for the great pictures of your draperies. My Mom made pinch pleat drapes for a living during the 60’s and every window in our ranch house had them; even the sliding glass patio doors. I didn’t realize how lucky I was to have such beautiful window coverings as a child. What great fabric on those drapes as well!!! | {
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(CNN)—In the latest installment of CNN=Politics Daily, Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley sits down for an exclusive one-on-one with presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama. In the interview, the Illinois senator discusses the question that’s on everyone’s mind: who will be his choice for Vice President.
Hillary Clinton is expected to officially drop out of the presidential race Saturday, but some of her constituents wished the New York senator had done things differently. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux reports.
Finally: Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain worked to court voters in Florida, which in the past has proved to be a crucial fall swing state. | {
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It was 2003. I was moving from my retail money-management business to managing an exclusive hedge fund.
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My parting gift to my retail clients was Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). But not everybody was on board. When I told them about Apple, they thought I was crazy…
Many of my clients were skeptical. I understood why.
At that time, Apple was trading at the same price it had been in 1982. The stock price had done nothing in 21 years.
But I knew Apple had a new technology in the pipeline…
It was the iPod.
Up until then, you could only use the iPod on an Apple Mac. In 2002, Apple announced that it was finally rolling out a PC version.
This was a huge shift…
All of a sudden, the hottest music player in the world would be available to the biggest pool of technology buyers in the world. This was a no-brainer investment.
Why didn’t everyone jump on it?
The reason is simple: Apple was deeply misunderstood. People saw the iPod as a niche product.
I saw the iPod as the next generation’s Walkman. (The Walkman was a personal cassette player made by Sony. It dominated the 1980s.)
The clients who believed in me had the chance to make a small mint.
Over the next decade, a $10,000 investment would have ballooned to nearly a half-million dollars. The iPod was once a disruptive technology. It almost single-handedly killed off the compact disc (CD).
It was one of those rare opportunities to make a fortune on a truly groundbreaking idea.
Now, I don’t recount this story to brag… I want to show you why it’s so important to get into a revolutionary idea as early as possible.
The results can be life-changing…
For a while now, I’ve been on the soapbox preaching the virtues of cryptocurrencies. I’ve been so bullish on them that I’ve even received letters from my subscribers calling me “obsessive".
And that’s fine. I understand why it may seem that way to you.
But consider this…
I had to drag my retail clients kicking and screaming into Apple back in 2003. If I wasn’t so “obsessive" then, they would have missed out on the iPod 49:1 money train.
So there’s a reason for my bullishness. I don’t want you to miss today’s opportunity before it slips away. And time is running out…
The game-changing technology I’m referring to is called the blockchain.
The blockchain is the backbone of the cryptocurrency industry. It tracks the transactions of digital money like a traditional ledger tracks bank transactions.
Here’s why the blockchain will be so revolutionary…
Today, it’s the transaction system for the burgeoning digital currency industry. But soon, you’ll be able to conduct all kinds of other transactions on the blockchain - from trading stocks to buying real estate.
And you’ll be able to do it in a fraction of the time and cost that it takes to do them today. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about…
Last September, I told my readers about the first international trade deal ever conducted over the blockchain. The trade was facilitated by Barclays Bank. It involved the purchase of $100,000 in butter and cheese.
What’s so amazing about this rather mundane trade?
Normally, trades like this take an average of 10 days to complete. They require hundreds - sometimes thousands - of documents to be signed.
But Barclays completed the trade using the blockchain in a mind-blowing four hours.
The finance trade industry conducts $2 trillion in transactions each year. It’s more than 400 years old. And the blockchain completely changed the game in four hours. Think of all the savings (and reduced paperwork) this new technology will create for the industry.
That’s what a disruptive technology looks like.
But not everybody recognizes it yet. Just like they didn’t recognize how disruptive the iPod would be.
The mainstream media hasn’t picked up on the blockchain yet. And few in the public even know what it is. (Ask your family and friends if they’ve ever heard of it; the answer is likely “no.")
So now is the perfect time to get in: when the technology is about to take off… but right before the herd comes storming in. If you wait too much longer… you’ll be too late.
Not convinced this technology is set to explode?
Well, there’s more… Events are unfolding quickly. In addition to the Barclays trade in September:
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WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — A New York-born gunman opened fire inside a building at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning, killing 12 people and wounding three others, including a law enforcement officer, authorities said.
The gunman, Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, was killed in a shootout with police at the Naval Sea Systems Command building, authorities said.
Alexis was born in Queens, according to the FBI. He was employed part-time doing clerical work at Borough of Manhattan Community College from 2001 until 2003, the school said.
Aaron Alexis' Brother-In-Law: He Wasn't Close With Family
Alexis’ mother, sister and brother-in-law live in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where FBI agents were interviewing the family and searching their Putnam Avenue home Monday.
“When I got here, (the family was) very distraught, very stressed out, tears,” Anthony Little, Alexis’ brother-in-law, told CBS 2’s Jessica Schneider. “They didn’t see it coming. It’s very hurtful. And their hearts are going out more to the victims.”
Little — who is married to Alexis’ sister, Naomi, 32 — admitted that he never met Alexis, adding that the man had not spoken to some members of his family in more than five years. Family members, however, never expressed concern that Alexis was dangerous, Little said.
Michael Ritrovato, who said he was a close friend of the gunman’s, told Schneider that Alexis was upset recently about getting stiffed on a job.
“What he called me about three to four months ago (was) that they didn’t pay him on a new job as a government contractor or something,” Ritrovato said. “He didn’t get paid. They took him to Tokyo and there was no pay, and that’s what he stressed to me.”
Wendy Lopez, a former neighbor, said she was questioned by the FBI, too.
“Asked me the same questions everyone else is asking — what I remembered about the family, anything in his demeanor to indicate anything,” she said. “But there was nothing at all.”
Aaron Alexis (credit: handout)
Authorities had been looking into the possibility that other gunmen might have been involved in the shooting, but they ruled out that possibility Monday night.
“We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside of the base today,” District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
The FBI said Alexis gained entry to the yard by using a valid pass he obtained from doing contract work there. The FBI is seeking more information about Alexis by asking anyone who knew him to call 800-CALL-FBI or log onto https://tips.fbi.gov.
“While we have learned some information about his recent whereabouts, we continue to work to determine where he has been, who he has talked to and what he has done,” said Valerie Parlave, assistant director of the FBI’s Washington office. “This includes determining the origins of the weapons he used.”
A law enforcement official told CBS News’ Pat Milton that Alexis apparently had a handgun, an AR-15 assault rifle and a shotgun with him and was wearing dark blue clothing.
Officials said in addition to the 13 casualties, eight other people were injured — three of whom were shot and five others who suffered either injuries from falling or due to stress. None of the injuries is considered to be life-threatening.
The ages of the 12 victims killed by Alexis ranged from 46 to 73 years old, authorities said. Police released a partial list of victims’ names Monday night:
Michael Arnold, 59
Sylvia Frasier, 53
Kathy Gaarde, 62
John Roger Johnson, 73
Frank Kohler, 50
Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46
Vishnu Pandit, 61
‘HE AIMED HIS GUN AT US AND THEN FIRED’
Witnesses described a gunman opening fire from the fourth floor, aiming down on people in the first-floor cafeteria. Others said a gunman fired at them in a third-floor hallway.
As CBS 2’s Dick Brennan reported, Navy Commander Tim Jirus was helping evacuate people when a victim was gunned down right in front of him.
Others described the chaos and tense moments as the gunfire broke out.
“As we were exiting the back door, we noticed him down the hall,” Navy Yard worker Todd Brundidge said of the shooter. “And as he came around the corner, he aimed his gun at us and then fired at least two or three shots. And we ran down the stairs to get out of the building and as we left the building, there were still shots in the building.”
“I would be lying to you if I told you we weren’t scared, but I was very pleased with my folks that we were not panicked,” U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Vandroff said.
About 3,000 people work at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, many of them civilians.
Patricia Ward, a logistics management specialist, said she was in the cafeteria and heard shots. They sounded like “pop, pop, pop,” she said. After a few seconds, there were more shots, she said.
“Everybody just panicked at first,” she said. “It was just people running, running, running.”
Police and federal agents from multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene. Ambulances were parked outside, streets in the area were closed, and departures from Reagan National Airport were temporarily halted for security reasons. Helicopters evacuated victims from rooftops, and they were taken to nearby hospitals.
Both Lanier and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said there is no reason to think the attack was a terrorist attack, but noted that nothing has been ruled out.
Aaron Alexis mug shot (credit: Fort Worth Police)
REACTION FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday afternoon said this fatal shooting incident is another grim reminder that there needs to be reforms to gun control in America.
“There are just too many guns around, and it just happens again and again and again,” he said. “People are getting killed. Innocent people are getting killed. I don’t know how long we can go and continue to do this. We’re the only developed country in the world that has a gun problem like this.”
Though the incident in D.C. appeared to be isolated, Bloomberg said the NYPD beefed up its presence at some potential targets in New York City.
“Whenever there is an event like that, we always ramp up our security,” said Bloomberg.
Speaking Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama said the victims were “courageous Americans” and “patriots” who knew about the risks of serving overseas, but wouldn’t have expected such “unimaginable violence” at home.
Aaron Alexis (credit: handout)
GUNMAN’S CHECKERED PAST
A profile began to emerge Monday evening of Alexis, who was a former Navy reservist, a Defense Department contractor and a convert to Buddhism. He also had flashes of temper that led to run-ins with police over shootings in Fort Worth, Texas, and Seattle.
While some neighbors and acquaintances described him as “nice,” his father once told detectives in Seattle that his son had anger management problems related to post-traumatic stress brought on by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Alexis lived in Seattle in 2004 and 2005, according to public documents. In 2004, Seattle police said, Alexis was arrested in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man’s vehicle in what he later described to detectives as an anger-fueled “blackout.” Police later arrested Alexis, searched his home, found a gun and ammunition in his room, and booked him into the King County Jail for malicious mischief.
Alexis told police he could not remember firing his gun at the Honda until an hour after the incident.
He served in the Navy reserves from 2007-11. It was while he was still in the reserves that a neighbor in Fort Worth reported she had been nearly struck by a bullet shot from his downstairs apartment.
In September 2010, Fort Worth police questioned Alexis about the neighbor’s report; he admitted to firing his weapon but said he was cleaning his gun when it accidentally discharged. The neighbor told police she was scared of Alexis and felt he fired intentionally because he had complained about her making too much noise.
Alexis was arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm within city limits, but Tarrant County district attorney’s spokeswoman Melody McDonald Lanier said the case was not pursued after it was determined the gun discharged accidentally.
Alexis was taking online classes through Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Fort Worth, school officials confirmed. | {
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New UBS Investor Watch Pulse Report, "Art in Motion," reveals
insights on the behaviors and buying trends of U.S.-based high net worth
collectors
Key Findings:
58% of fine art collectors have bought a piece of art without ever
having seen it in person—a percentage that has more than doubled from
last year (26%)
84% of collectors are either always looking or opportunistically
looking to add on to their collection with 58% planning to add to
their collection in 2019
57% see the artist's gender as a determining factor when purchasing
art, with 70% expecting to purchase works by women in the next year
UBS Global Wealth Management released today a new report that unveils
the majority of art collectors are going online and using social
platforms to stay at the forefront of the art market year round.
Released during Art Basel in Miami Beach, this special Investor Watch
Pulse Report, titled "Art in Motion," studies the attitudes and
behaviors of fine art collectors in the U.S. with at least $5m+ in
investable assets.
Art collectors increasingly comfortable buying art online
The percentage of art collectors who have purchased art online before
they've seen it in person has more than doubled in the past year (26
percent in 2017 vs. 58 percent in 2018), while 63 percent of collectors
polled have gone on the internet to participate in an online auction.
What's more, art collectors are beginning to feel the pull of social
media, using it as a resource to help them follow the art market
closely. Among the collectors, 67 percent follow an artist on social
media, while 65 percent have seriously considered buying art after first
seeing it through their social media platforms.
"The technological trends changing the economy are increasingly changing
the art market," said Karl Ruppert, Market Head of Florida Private
Wealth Management at UBS Global Wealth Management. "There are potential
opportunities presented through future growth of the online art market
to attract new buyers at different price levels, which is beneficial to
the health of the overall market. For gallerists, fairs, auction houses,
artists and collectors, digital tools will be a key area of growth over
the next five years."
Women artists on the rise, and so are the investments in them
Women artists are increasingly being recognized for their standout
contributions along with breaking their sales records — which hasn't
gone unnoticed among collectors. Almost three-in-five collectors see the
artist's gender as a determining factor when purchasing a piece, and 70%
plan on purchasing works by women in the next year.
"While male artists continue to lead overall sales within the market, we
found clients are increasingly recognizing that women artists are
undervalued," said Ruppert.
Collectors ready to buy, but cautious to sell
Collectors are eager to grow their art collection with half stating
they're always looking to add new pieces, and 34 percent are
opportunisitically searching. Moreover, 58 percent are ready to make an
addition in the upcoming calendar year, while 64 percent of fine art
collectors are gearing up to spend more than $100k on their new
additions in 2019.
More than half (58 percent) of these wealthy art enthusiasts view their
collections as their most prized possessions. Not surprisingly,
collectors are only willing to sell up to a third of their collection.
Passing along the passion: Concerns for art inheritance
When it comes to passing along their passion pursuit to the next
generation, 58 percent of art collectors are worried their heirs won't
know how to care for the collection and 57 percent are concerned about
taxes when passing on to the next generation.
Notes to Editors
About UBS Investor Watch Pulse Report
The UBS Investor Watch Pulse Report is designed as a shorter, "rapid
response" reaction to pressing issues of the day. For this special
edition 'Art in Motion', UBS surveyed 175 High Net Worth fine art
collectors with at least $5M+ in investable assets from November 14 -
26, 2018. The report offers insights on U.S.-based collectors' behaviors
and buying trends. UBS also published the 2017 UBS Investor Watch Pulse
Report, 'For the love of art'.
About UBS
UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy, institutional
and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private clients in
Switzerland. UBS' strategy is centered on our leading global wealth
management business and our premier universal bank in Switzerland,
enhanced by Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The bank focuses
on businesses that have a strong competitive position in their targeted
markets, are capital efficient, and have an attractive long-term
structural growth or profitability outlook.
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS has offices in 52 countries,
including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 60,000
people. UBS Group AG is the holding company of the UBS Group. Under
Swiss company law, UBS Group AG is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a
corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors.
For more insights and to download the report, visit
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Machiche
In my upcoming historical novel Hold Fast, I tell the story of Ann MacLean‘s real-life struggles in Canada’s first refugee camp, Machiche.
A place of conflicting identity, Machiche is the perfect setting for the story of a woman from two worlds.
The camp of Machiche was put together on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, on a Seigneury owned by Conrad Gugy, a Swiss immigrant and Justice of the Peace. The Seigneurial system of Quebec harkened back to the feudal structure of the Middle Ages, where a few wealthy lords owned the land, and peasants worked it in exchange for protection. Gugy donated a corner of land for the sudden influx of refugees flocking across the border from America during the Revolution—essentially to keep an eye on them.
Here was a place that straddled two worlds—the old system of lords and peasants, manors and rents, alongside the egalitarian ideals of the American colonies.
Ann would have been perfectly at home in the elegant manor houses in the area. She easily would have graced their dinner tables and balls. It was, after all, the kind of life to which she had been raised by her grandparents.
But instead she lived in the camp with the other refugees, crowded into wooden barracks-style buildings measuring approximately 18×40 feet. Leading up to the first winter, there were so few of these structures that they had to crowd together in groups of about sixteen. The women were expected to sew for their living at a lower rate of pay. Rations were scarce, and the refugees had to supplement them with food they could forage or hunt, difficult to do during the winter. Inevitably, corruption crept in and some refugees took more than their share of the food. The refugees were forbidden from leaving the camp to seek out additional provisions elsewhere.
Ann was no stranger to manual labour, having grown up in a small cottage in the village of Dunvegan. She would have known how to prepare game and cook it, to grow vegetables, to spin, weave, sew, and mend clothes, and to keep house. She wasn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. But Machiche was the proving ground that would put every resolve to the test.
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Don Quixote
By
Miguel de Cervantes
Summary and Analysis
Part 1:
Chapter XLVI-LI
The curate convinces the troopers that they cannot detain a madman. They should rather allow himself and the barber to conduct Don Quixote back to his village where he might be cured, accompanied by a couple of the police officers. Meanwhile, the separate members of the inn's company prepare to leave, happy at the new prospects that the reunions and chance meetings have revealed. The curate pays the barber for the basin, the dispute of the packsaddle being settled; he compensates the innkeeper for the loss of his wineskins and the wine, and hires a wagon to convey Don Quixote in an oxcart. Constructing a kind of cage with wooden bars and a straw floor, the curate and the barber quietly convey the sleeping knight to this vehicle, which is then placed on the oxcart. The Don is too amazed to resist or cry out. In a disguised voice, the barber explains that the "Manchegan lion," the flower of knight-errantry, is now to be conveyed to La Mancha, where he will unite with the "Tobosan dove" and produce brave cubs after the knight's own image.
Don Quixote wonders at his enchantment, for knights-errant, he says, are usually swiftly carried in a sky chariot or on the back of a flying beast. At one point in the slow journey, they are overtaken by horsemen heading for a nearby inn. The newcomers, a group of clergymen, wonder at the strange manner of conveying a prisoner of the Holy Brotherhood, and the canon listens attentively as the curate relates the strange history of Don Quixote and his madness. The canon responds by discoursing on the evils of reading books of romances, for, he says, they neither instruct nor provide their readers with a sense of beauty. For all that, he continues, they have one grace, for they are unlimited vehicles for an author to try his skill at depicting various imaginative happenings and fantastic characters.
The canon now includes a critical appraisal of drama in his discussion with the curate. He says that the plays written for the modern theater are devoid of graceful writing or dramatic development because the public is only interested in spectacle and fast action. Furthermore, he says, the comedies that are played are loosely constructed in terms of historical accuracy, chronological sequence, or moral truth.
While the curate and canon are so engaged, Sancho has a shrewd talk with his encaged master. He declares that the town curate and barber are playing a shameful trick, and that if Don Quixote were truly enchanted the natural functions of his body would be suspended. The knight admits that he is in need of physical relief because his bodily functions are operating, but he counsels his squire to understand that enchantments always take different forms, according to circumstance. The curate may appear to be a familiar person, but he is in fact a powerful necromancer. Sancho seeks permission for his master to be uncaged in order to relieve himself, and while Don Quixote is gratefully relaxing on the grass, he engages with the canon in conversation about books of chivalry. To all the clergyman's accusations that the novels are untruthful and therefore pernicious, Don Quixote declares that every incident therein depicted and each person discussed is in the image of truth and is documented in history.
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The Secretary of the Interior on May 22, 1943, issued Public Land Order 128. It is set out in full below.
1
In this case the significant part of No. 128 is that the Secretary included in the reservation by paragraph 2, adjacent tidelands and coastal waters along the entire shore line of the uplands that touched Shelikof Strait between Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula. The authority of the Secretary to utilize presidential power in the designation of this reservation out of public lands in Alaska flows from a delegation to the Secretary of presidential power to withdraw or reserve public lands and revoke or
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modify prior reservations. Executive Order No. 9146, of April 24, 1942, 1 C.F.R., Cum.Supp. 1149. The presidential power over reservations is made specific by the Act of June 25, 1910.2 Another statutory provision, however, is the principal basis for Order 128. This is
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s 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, 49 Stat. 1250. This act was passed to extend to Alaska the benefits of the Wheeler-Howard Act of June 18, 1934, 48 Stat. 984, 25 U.S.C.A. 461 et seq., and to provide for the designation of Indian reservations in Alaska. As 2 is important in our discussion, the pertinent provisions are set out in full:
'Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to designate as an Indian reservation any area of land which has been reserved for the use and occupancy of Indians or Eskimos by section 8 of the Act of May 17, 1884 (23 Stat. 26), or by section 14 or section 15 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1101), or which has been heretofore reserved under any executive order and placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior or any bureau thereof, together with additional public lands adjacent thereto, within the Territory of Alaska, or any other public lands which are actually occupied by Indians or Eskimos within said Territory: Provided, That the designation by the Secretary of the Interior of any such area of land as a reservation shall be effective only upon its approval by the vote, by secret ballot, of a majority of the Indian or Eskimo residents thereof who vote at a special election duly called by the Secretary of the Interior upon thirty days' notice: * * *'
The Native Village of Karluk held a meeting on May 23, 1944, and accepted 'the proposed Indian Reservation for this village. The adoption of said Reservation passed by a vote of 46 for and 0 against. 11 of the eligible voters were absent.' See note 26, infra. Under 19 of the Wheeler-Howard Act, 25 U.S.C.A. 479, the Alaskan aborigines are classified as Indians.
On March 22 and August 27, 1946, the Secretary of the Interior amended the Alaska Fisheries General Regu-
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lations, 50 C.F.R., 1946 Supp., 208.23, that related to the commercial fishing for salmon in the Kodiak Area Fisheries by the addition of a subsection (r), reading as follows:
'(r) All waters within 3,000 feet of the shores of Karluk Reservation ( Public Land Order No. 128, May 22, 1943), beginning at a point on the east shore of Shelikof Strait, on Kodiak Island, latitude 57 32 30 ' N., thence northeasterly along said shore to a point 57 39 40 '.
'The foregoing prohibition shall not apply to fishing by natives in possession of said reservation, nor to fishing by other pesons under authority granted by said natives (49 Stat. 1250; 48 U.S.C. 358a (48 U.S.C. A. 358a)). Such authority shall be granted only by or pursuant to ordinance of the Native Village of Karluk, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized representative.'
The authority for the regulation is given as 34 Stat. 264 and 478, as amended by the Act of June 6, 1924, 43 Stat. 464, 48 U.S.C.A. 221 et seq ., an Act for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, known as the White Act.
3
As the controlling section of this statute also is important, it is set out here,4 44 Stat. 752:
'Section 1. That for the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States in all waters of Alaska the Secretary of Commerce from time to time may set apart and reserve fishing areas in any of the waters of Alaska over which the United
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States has j risdiction, and within such areas may establish closed seasons during which fishing may be limited or prohibited as he may prescribe. Under this authority to limit fishing in any area so set apart and reserved the Secretary may (a) fix the size and character of nets, boats, traps, or other gear and applicances to be used therein; (b) limit the catch of fish to be taken from any area; (c) make such regulations as to time, means, methods, and extent of fishing as he may deem advisable. From and after the creation of any such fishing area and during the time fishing is prohibited therein it shall be unlawful to fish therein or to operate therein any boat, seine, trap, or other gear or apparatus for the purpose of taking fish; and from and after the creation of any such fishing area in which limited fishing is permitted such fishing shall be carried on only during the time, in the manner, to the extent, and in conformity with such rules and regulations as the Secretary prescribes under the authority herein given: Provided, That every such regulation made by the Secretary of Commerce shall be of general application within the particular area to which it applies, and that no exclusive or several right of fishery shall be granted therein, nor shall any citizen of the United States be denied the right to take, prepare, cure, or preserve fish or shellfish in any area of the waters of Alaska where fishing is permitted by the Secretary of Commerce. * * *' See for definition of 'several,' 2 Bl.Com. 39-40.
These are the statutes and orders that created the situation that led to this litigation.
The issuance of the White Act regulation of March 22, 1946, brought concern to the commercial fishing interests of Alaska. This was because of its drastic penalties. See note 49, infra. The native village of Karluk
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spoken of in Order No. 128, establishing the reservation is situated on the Karluk River, long recognized as one of the most important salmon spawning streams of Alaska. The natives live at its mouth on Shelikof Strait. There the salmon must congregate from the Strait to enter the channel of the river leading to their spawning grounds in the interior of Kodiak Island. The waters included in the reservation are those stretching eight miles along the coast north and south of the mouth, 3,000 feet into the Strait. Thus the best of the Karluk salmon fishery is put into the reservation by Order No. 128.5 For an understanding of the locality, a sketch map is appended.
The importance of the Karluk fishery will be appreciated by reference to a few of the facts in connection with it. When Russia ceded Alaska to the United States in 1867, 15 Stat. 539, Karluk was already well known as an abundant salmon fishery.
6
By 1885 the salmon canneries were flourishing and Bancroft reports the Karluk pack at 36,000 cases out of a total of 65, 000.7 The production continued large.
8
The red salmon was most prolific. There were variations in the catch but it was
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always valuable.
9
In later years, the fluctuations continued and other varieties increased relatively.
10
None of the respondent companies have packing plants at Karluk. All are, however, on Kodiak, Island, which is around 100 miles long and 50 broad, and within fishing distance of the reservation waters. There is a fish refrigeration plant on the river. These canners have canned fish from these waters for from seven to twenty-four years. The percentage of each canner's pack that comes from the reserved waters is so large that the trial court found irreparable injury to the packers if they could not obtain the catch of the reservation. '* * * no other replacement source of such salmon for their canneries
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on Kodiak Island is available to them.' The canners' investment is substantial, running from two to five hundred thousand dollars respectively. The fishing is done by men who own their own three- to four- man boats, use similar company boats or operate under boat buying contracts. Prices for the catch vary for these classifications. These packers employ over four hundred fishermen, chiefly residents of Alaska and over six hundred cannery employees, chiefly nonresidents.
The fishing season at Karluk begins around June 1 and continues intermittently, depending upon the run of fish, until Sept. 30. After the issuance of 208.23(r) restricting the fishery at Karluk Reservation to Karluk natives and licensees, respondents brought this action against the Regional Director for the Territory of Alaska of the Fish and Wildlife Service to permanently enjoin the exclusion of their fishermen from the reservation on the ground that neither regulation 208.23(r) nor Public Land Order No. 128 legally closed the fishery of the coastal waters to respondents. The District Court granted the permanent injunction and held invalid both the regulation and the land order. 67 F.Supp. 43. On the same grounds the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the order for permanent injunction. 165 F.2d 323.
I.
(a) At the outset the United States contends that the Secretary of the Interior is an indispensable party who must be joined as a party defendant in order to give the District Court jurisdiction of this suit. In Williams v. Fanning,
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U.S. 490
, the test as to whether a superior official can be dispensed with as a party was stated to be whether 'the decree which is entered will effectively grant the relief desired b expending itself on the subordinate official who is before the court.' 332 U.S. at page 494, 68 S.Ct. at page 189. Such
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, 97]
is the precise situation here. nothing is required of thE secretary; he does not have to perform any act, either directly or indirectly. Respondents merely seek an injunction restraining petitioner from interfering with their fishing. No affirmative action is required of petitioner, and if he and his subordinates cease their interference, respondents have been accorded all the relief which they seek. The issues of the instant suit can be settled by a decree between these parties without having the Secretary of the Interior as a party to the litigation.
(b) Petitioner, Regional Director for the Territory of Alaska of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Interior Department, is charged with the duty of enforcing the acts of Congress relating to the fisheries of Alaska and regulations issued thereunder. The District Court found that since March 22, 1946, the effective date of 208.23(r) of the Alaska Fisheries General Regulations, petitioner has continually threatened the seizure of all boats and equipment used to fish in the waters covered by this regulation to respondents' substantial and irreparable loss, and that the seasonal run of salmon in the reservation waters was essential for respondents' profitable operation. From the following facts it will be seen that there is sufficient evidence to support these findings.
After the promulgation of the fishery regulation, 208.23(r), the Warden for the Fish and Wildlife Service on Kodiak Island, one of petitioner's subordinate agents, repeatedly informed officials of the canneries that the regulation would be enforced and that the necessary steps would be taken to prosecute any violations. He communicated to the representatives of the canneries the contents of a telegram in which petitioner directed that a case to test the regulation be arranged for the opening day of the fishing season. The contents of this telegram were relayed to the headquarters in Seattle of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., a trade association of the canned
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, 98]
salmon packers of which all but one of respondents are members. Thence the information was distributed to all interested parties. The Kodiak warden then reiterated to the cannery operators on that island his intention to enforce the regulation even though his force and equipment were inadequate for the purpose.
Thereafter two officers of the Indian Service were appointed special agents for the Fish and Wildlife Service to assist in the enforcement of the fishing regulations issued by the Interior Department. They arrived at Karluk June 24, 1946. These two deputies were armed and maintained a boat patrol in the waters of the reservation. They checked the names of boats fishing in the waters of the reservation against the permits issued by the village of Karluk. No boats were allowed inside the area which had been restricted for beach seining by vote of the Indian meeting of May 23, 1944, 11 and which was marked off by buoys.
If respondents show that they are without an adequate remedy at law and will suffer irreparable injury unless the enforcement of the alleged invalid regulation is restrained, a civil court will enjoin.
12
While ordinarily
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criminal prosecutions will not be restrained even under an invalid statute, 13 a civil action will lie in exceptional circumstances that make an injunction necessary to effectually protect property rights.
14
The facts heretofore detailed as to the investments of respondents in canneries and fishing equipment and their establish activities in the waters of the reservation make clear the serious effect on them of exclusion from the reservation. It is not a threat of a single prosecution, as in the Spielman case, but an ousting of respondents and their employees from the fishing grounds unless each individual person takes a fishing license. Under the findings the respondents could not operate profitably if prohibited from fishing in the reservation area. Many fishermen may stay away from the grounds for fear of punishment. In the pursuit of their otherwise lawful business respondents are threatened with criminal prosecution should they fish in the waters of the Karluk Reservation without a permit from the native village. For the violation of the applicable regulation under the White Act, severe penalties are imposed including fine, imprisonment, the summary seizure of boats, haul, gear, equipment, and their forfeiture to the United States.
15
These sanctions deny to respondents an adequate remedy at law for to challenge the regulation in an ordinary criminal proceeding is to hazard a loss against the payment of a license fee and compliance with the fishing rules of the natives. Yet to stay out of the reservation prevents the profitable operation of the canneries. In such a situa-
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tion a majority of the Court thinks that the 'danger of irreparable loss is both great and immediate' and properly calls forth the jurisdiction of the court of equity.
16
II.
Respondents sought this injunction forbidding criminal proceedings aimed at excluding them from fishing in the coastal waters of Karluk Reservation on the ground that Public Land Order No. 128, note 1, supra, was invalid as a whole and particularly because of the inclusion of tidelands and coastal waters by 2 of the order.
Respondents attack in their complaint the validity of the entire order because 'no part of the land area involved had been withdrawn by Executive Order and placed under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior prior to May 1, 1936, as required by the Act of May 1, 1936.' This position has not been pressed or decided.
17
The final order for an injunction against petitioner does not include any ruling on that point.
Nor do we think the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Karluk Reservation, Public Land Order 128, by virtue of the use and occupancy of the area by the natives under 8 of the Act of May 17, 1884, 23 Stat. 26, 48 U.S.C.A. 356, or 14 or 15 of the Act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1101, need be decided. While the point is referred to in the briefs, no such issue was tendered by the complaint; no such point was raised by the assignments of error; the question was specifically pretermitted by the opinion of the Court of Appeals, 165 F.2d at page 325; it is not included in the questions presented by the petition for
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, 101]
certiorari and is not relied upon by the respondents to require affirmance of the Court of Appeals decree.
(a) The validity of Public Land Order 128 depends in this case on the scope of the power granted to the Secretary to establish this reservation by the language of 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, supra, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to designate as a reservation 'any other public lands which are actually occupied by Indians or Eskimos within said Territory.' An administrative order is presumptively valid.
18
In this instance, the Secretary acted by statute, 2, Act of May 1, 1936, and through delegation of presidential authority.
19
This delegation in turn rested on the Act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 847.20 This chain of delegated authority for the allocation of public lands in Alaska retains for future congressional action the power for the ultimate disposition of the property, land and water, within the boundaries of the reservation. Withdrawals under the Act of June 25, 1910, are 'temporary' and 'until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.'
The Wheeler-Howard Act of June 18, 1934, 'To conserve and develop Indian lands and resources,' which was extended to the Territory of Alaska by 1 of the Act of May 1, 1936, authorized the Secretary of the Interior
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to restore to tribal ownership only the remaining surplus lands of any Indian reservation theretofore opened for sale or other disposition.
21
It did not authorize the creation of reservations of any kind. Its only reference to acquisition of lands by or for Indians is in 5, 25 U.S.C.A . 465, where appropriations are authorized for that purpose. This section is inapplicable here.
Section 2 of the extending act, set out at the beginning of this opinion,
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, supra, gives no power to the Secretary to dispose finally of federal lands. B the new section he is authorized simply 'to designate as an Indian reservation' any other public lands which are actually occupied by Indians or Eskimos within said Territory. There is no language in the various acts, in their legislative history, or in the Land Order 128, from which an inference can be drawn that the Secretary has or has claimed power to convey any permanent title or right to the Indians in the lands or waters of Karluk Reservation. Rather the contrary is true. In the Act of May 14, 1898, 30 Stat. 409, 48 U.S.C. 411, 48 U.S.C.A. 411, 'Extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for reilroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,' there is the express proviso that nothing contained in the Act 'shall be construed as impairing in any degree the title of any State that may hereafter be erected out of the Territory of Alaska, or any part thereof, to tide lands and beds of any of its navigable waters, or the right of such State
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, 103]
to regulate the use thereof, nor the right of the United States to resume possession of such lands, it being declared that all such rights shall continue to be held by the United States in trust for the people of any State or States which may hereafter be erected out of said Territory. The term 'navigable waters,' as herein used, shall be held to include all tidal waters up to the line of ordinary high tide and all nontidal waters navigable in fact up to the line of ordinary high-water mark.' Indeed the United States affirms in its brief that Karluk Reservation is merely a reservation 'for a particular governmental use,' not a disposal of the area. The government says it is like Sioux Tribe v. United States,
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, not like United States v. Holt State Bank,
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U.S. 49
.
An Indian reservation created by Executive Order of the President conveys no right of use or occupancy to the beneficiaries beyond the pleasure of Congress or the President. Such rights may be terminated by the unilateral action of the United States without legal liability for compensation in any form even though Congress has permitted suit on the claim. Sioux Tribe v. United States,
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U.S. 317
; see United States v. Santa Fe Pacific R. Co.,
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U.S. 339
, at page 347, 252. 22 When a reservation is established by a treaty ratified by the Senate or a statute, the quality of the rights thereby secured to the occupants of the reservation depends upon the language or purpose of the congressional action. 23 Since Congress, under the Constitution, 3 of Art. IV, has the power to dispose of
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the lands of the United States, it may convey to or recognize such rights in the Indians, even a title equal to fee simple, as in its judgment is just. Shoshone Indians v. United States,
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U.S. 335
, 339, 340, 692, 693. When Congress intends to delegate power to turn over lands to the Indians permanently, one would expect to and doubtless would find definite indications of such a purpose.
24
In the present case a determination of the power delegated to the Secretary of the Interior by the Wheeler-Howard Act of June 18, 1934, and 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, is important. It is important for the reason that a statute that authorizes permanent disposition of federal property would be most strictly construed to avoid inclusion of fisheries by implication. Petitioner argues for a holding that the power granted covers water as well as land. If that power were broad enough to enable the Secretary to designate nonrevocable or permanent reservations of all Alaska fishing grounds for the sole benefit of natives living in villages adjacent to the fisheries, it might place in his hands the power to grant the natives
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, 105]
the right to exclude all other fishermen from the fisheries. In this present case, for example, it might mean that the native residents of the Karluk Reservation would have the perpetual use and enjoyment of this valuable Karluk fishery for themselves and their licensees. 25 On May 23, 1944, a year after Public Land Order 128, the petitioner shows that there were 57 residents eligible to vote for approval of the designation of the reservation.
26
As indicated by the cases hereinbefore cited, a recognition of such ownership in Indians might require just compensation to them of the fair value of the fishery, if the United States should desire hereafter to reopen the area to the public under its regulations. There is much less reason to read such power of permanent disposition by the Secretary into 2 than there was to read it into the President's 'implied grant of power' to create reservations. United States v. Midwest Oil Co.,
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U.S. 459, 475
, 314. It would take specific and unambiguous legislation to cause us to rule that Congress intended to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to alienate the Alaska fisheries permanently from public control.
27
The argument that Congress did not intend to
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, 106]
authorize the designation of water or fisheries as a part of an Indian reservation has behind it the unarticulated premise that the United States must have complete power to protect, improve and regulate for the good of all our people these unrivalled sea fisheries with their wealth of food. It loses much of its force by our conclusion that Alaskan Indian reservations, established or enlarged under 2 are subject to the unfettered will of Congress.
28
(b) An argument that the reservation is a nonrevocable grant can be made. Under the Act of June 18,
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1934, 16, 25 U.S.C.A. 476, applicable to Alaska, see 13, 25 U.S.C.A . 473, an Indian tribe was authorized to adopt a constitution and by- laws for its government. This was done by the Karluk Reservation Indians. There is a phrase in the section that has color of recognition of ownership of tribal lands in the Indians. It reads as follows:
'In addition to all powers vested in any Indian tribe or tribal council by existing law, the constitution adopted by said tribe shall also vest in such tribe or its tribal council the following rights and powers : * * * to prevent the sale, disposition, lease, or encumbrance of tribal lands, interests in lands, or other tribal assets without the consent of the tribe; * * *.' 48 Stat. 987.29
We think, however, in view of the breadth of the coverage of the Wheeler-Howard Act that this language would be effective only where there has been specific recognition by the United States of Indian rights to control absolutely tribal lands.
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Persuasive of this conclusion is that the bill when originally introduced by Interior provided in 7 of Title III that 'Title to any land acquired pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indian tribe or community for whom the land is acquired, but title may be transferred by the Secretary to such community under the conditions set forth in this Act.' The italicized words were omitted when this section was incorporated into 5 of the Wheeler-Howard Act, 25 U.S.C.A. 465. See Hearings before House Committee on Indian Affairs, 73d Cong., 2d Sess., on H.R. 7902, p. 9. Turning to 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, the strongest argument for the nonrevocability of a reservation, created under 2 of that Act comes from a letter of the Secretary of the Interior printed in the House and Senate Reports on the bill which became the Act in question.
30
The reports, speaking of 2, said: 'This provision in reality carries out the promise of this Government contained in its act approved on May 17, 1884 (23 Stat. 26), as follows: "Provided, That the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them but the terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress." H.R.Rep.No.2244, 74th Cong., 2d Sess., p. 3. The pertinent part of the letter is set out below.
31
The legislation was, of course, a fulfillment of the aid fore-
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shadowed in the statutes referred to in the letter. Such references to general legislation on public lands in the huge Territory of Alaska, however, cannot be treated as an adequate basis for courts to declare that power was given the Secretary of the Interior to dispose finally of Alaska lands. The first section of the Act of May 1 was a mere amendment of the Wheeler-Howard Act to bring Alaska under its coverage. The Wheeler-Howard Act did not authorize the creation of Indian reservations. Section 2 of the act extending the Wheeler-Howard Act to Alaska was intended to permit the organization of the Alaska natives so that they could avail themselves
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of the earlier Act.
32
It cannot be said, we think, that such reservations may be permanent or nonrevocable. A reading of 2 will show that there are no words with the connotation of recognition or conveyance of title. There are no words, such as appear in other statutes,33 reserving the right of exploration, discovery and claim for precious metals and valuable minerals. There is no discussion in the reports or the debates that show a definite intention of anyone to part with public property establish an Alaskan Indian communal system. Under such circumstances, we think the land and water reservations created under 2 are reservations at will.
(c) We are convinced that 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to include in the Karluk Reservation the waters described in 2 of Public Land Order No. 128. To interpret the clause 'or any other public lands which are actually occupied by Indians or Eskimos within said Territory' to describe only land above mean low tide is too restrictive in view of the history and habits of Alaska natives
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and the course of administration of Indian affairs in that Territory. The title to the uplands and waters in question is in the United States.
34
The fisheries as well as the uplands are subject to its present control.
35
In 1868 Congress extended our laws relating to customs, commerce and navigation over the 'mainland, island, and waters of the territory.' 15 Stat. 240. The seal
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islands and the waters adjacent thereto were promptly made a reservation for the preservation and exploitation of the seal fishery. 15 Stat. 348, 16 Stat. 180. A civil government for the new territory was set up in 1884. 23 Stat. 24. In that act appeared the proviso referred to supra, n. 31, in the letter of the Secretary of the Interior. By 12 a commission was empowered to report upon the condition of the Indians.
36
On June 30, 1885, the Commission reported to the Secretary of the Interior as to the fisheries in the words in the margin below.
37
By virtue of 15 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, supra, note 28, the Congress set apart the 'body of lands known as Annette Islands' in Alaska for a reservation for the Metlakahtla Indians. Nothing was said as to fishing rights. A presidential proclamation of April 28, 1916, reserved to them the surrounding waters within
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3 000 feet. 39 Stat. 1777.38 After the proclamation a proceeding was brought by the United States relying upon the statute and proclamation to oust a fish trap of the Alaska Pacific Fisheries from the waters mentioned in the proclamation. Such a decree was obtained in the District Court and affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on the ground 'that the reservation of Annette Island by the act of Congress, and of its surrounding waters by the President's proclamation, is fully sustained.' Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States, 240 F. 274, 283. For the validity of the proclamation reliance was placed upon his power to reserve lands for reservations without specific authority. See United States v. Midwest Oil Co., supra. This Court affirmed the decree as to the waters within 3,000 feet of the shore lines. Although in the brief a vigorous attack was made on the power to issue the proclamation covering the waters, the proclamation was not referred to in the unanimous opinion here. This Court felt com-
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pelled to decide the fisheries were included in the language of the statute by the purpose to assist the Indians to train themselves. Fishing was said to give value to the islands. 'The use of the adjacent fishing grounds was equally essential. Without this the colony could not prosper in that location.' Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States,
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U.S. 78, 89
, 42.
The conditions as to the waters around the Annette Islands closely parallel those of other Alaska areas actually occupied by natives. The Annette Islands case was relied upon by the Secretary of the Interior for his authority to include the fisheries under 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936. 56 Int.Dept. 110. The Alaska aborigines, like the Metlakahtlans, are fishermen. They, too, depend upon the waters for a large part of their support. For them the adjacent fisheries are as important, perhaps more important than the forests, the furbearing animals or the minerals.
Respondents urge upon us the cases in this and other courts which have held that the phrase 'public lands,' the term now under consideration, used in 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, does not include any area extending below mean high tide.
39
As the respondents state, this case turns not on tidelands, the area between mean high and mean low tides, but on whether the Secretary could include coastal waters in the reservation, i.e., the area
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, 115]
'3000 feet from the shore line at mean low tide.' As we understand respondents' argument and as we see this case, the question of tidelands is not significant. Reference to Mann v. Tacoma Land Co.,
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U.S. 273, 283
, 821, will make clear respondents' positi n. Before the admission of Washington to statehood, November 11, 1889, 26 Stat. 1552, the United States issued land scrip to Mann for location on 'unoccupied and unappropriated public lands' and the holder made location on tidelands and received the register's certificate therefor. When Mann sought to restrain trespass on the land so obtained, this Court held: 'It is settled that the general legislation of congress in respect to public lands does not extend to tide lands. There is nothing in the act authorizing the Valentine scrip, or in the circumstances which gave occasion for its passage, to make an exception to the general rule.' 153 U. S. at page 284, 14 S.Ct. at page 822. Respondents assert that the reference to public lands in 2 should be construed in the same manner since the federal land laws apply to Alaska40 as do the reasons for excluding waters seaward of mean high tide.
41
The Government points out that the cases relating to the limits of 'public lands' are cases where final disposition not temporary use of the lands appeared. When one deals with a statute so large in purpose as to justify the above-quoted comment of the Secretary of the Interior that it 'provides a method by which the financial aid provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act may be extended to those Indians and Eskimos of Alaska who occupy established villages,' one may not fully com-
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, 116]
prehend the statute's scope by extracting from it a single phrase, such as 'public lands' and getting the phrase's meaning from the dictionary or even from dissimilar statutes. Section 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, is but one of a series of enactments relating to Alaska natives, lands and fisheries. It must 'be taken as intended to fit into the existing system' and interpreted in that aspect.
42
There is nothing that we have found in the statute or the legislative history to justify the significance put upon the use of the words 'public lands' in the clause of 2 under discussion instead of 'lands' used in the preceding clauses. If a differentiation was intended, surely it would have been more definitely expressed.
Taking into consideration the importance of the fisheries to the Alaska natives, the temporary character of the reservation, the Annette Islands case, the administrative determination, the purpose of Congress to assist the natives by the Alaska amendment to the Wheeler-Howard Act, we have concluded that the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to include the waters in the reservation. No injunction therefore may be obtained because of the invalidity of Order No. 128.
III.
Subdivision II of this opinion has been directed toward the determina ion of the scope of 2 of the Act of May 1, 1936, extending the Wheeler- Howard Act to Alaska. We were led to hold that Order 128, set out in full in note, 1, supra, validly included in ther reservation the waters to a distance of 3,000 feet from its shores. In his handling of the problems of the Karluk natives as affected by their need for a reservation and fishing rights, the Secretary of the Interior took another step under the authority of 1 of another act, the White
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Act. The section is set out at length in the text beginning on page 4 of this opinion (
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). The Act was for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska. Section 1 authorized the Secretary to set apart fishing areas in any of the waters of Alaska and establish in those preserves closed seasons 'during which fishing may be limited or prohibited.'
Pursuant to this statute detailed regulations were issued by the Secretary of Commerce and they have been continued by the Secretary of the Interior since Reorganization Plan No. II, note 4, supra.
43
One area established was the Kodiak Area which included the waters here in question. 44 Among the waters at first closed to commercial salmon fishing were the Karluk River spawning waters and those within 100 yards of its mouth.
45
Later the Secretary of the Interior, still acting solely under 1 of the White Act, added the waters of the Karluk Reservation to the prohibited areas.
46
An exception was made in the regulation to the prohibition against fishing in the reservation waters. The precise language of the entire subsection (r) of the regulation, 208.23, is on page 4 of this opinion. (
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). We repeat here the exception:
'The foregoing prohibition shall not apply to fishing by natives in possession of said reservation, nor to fishing by other persons under authority granted by said natives. 49 Stat. 1250; 48 U.S.C. 358a, 48 U.S.C. A. 358a. Such authority shall be granted only by or pursuant to ordinance of the Native Village of Karluk, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized representative.'
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The citation to 49 Stat. 1250 is to the Act of May 1, 1936, authorizing the creation of the reservation. Perhaps it was thought that the creation of the reservation justified this exception in the White Act regulation but we do not understand that any support from that Act is claimed for the establishment of the White Act preserve.
The validity of the exception permitting fishing by natives in possession of the reservation and their licensees is challenged by respondents because of a proviso in 1 of the White Act, reading:
'Provided, That every such regulation made by the Secretary of Commerce shall be of general application within the particular area to which it applies, and that no exclusive or several right of fishery shall be granted therein, nor shall any citizen of the United States be denied the right to take, prepare, cure, or preserve fish or shellfish in any area of the waters of Alaska where fishing is permitted by the Secretary of Commerce. * * *' 48 U.S.C.A. 222.
Respondents alleged that the exception for fishing by natives and their licensees made 208.23(r) wholly illegal because it was inconsistent with the proviso of 1 of the White Act as to exclusive or several right of fishery. The District and Circuit Courts agreed with this argument and the District Court said that the regulation must be viewed in its entirety, 67 F.Supp. 43, 49. We agree that it is not possible to separate the closing of the area from the exception and thus hold the closing applicable to everyone. A right to fish locally is too important to the natives in Alaska for us to conclude from this record that the Secretary would have promulgated the prohibition to fish for salmon in reservation waters without the exception in favor of the natives. We have no doubt, however, that the White Act authorizes the establishment of White Act preserves or
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closed areas in reservations created, as the Karluk Reservation, under 2 of the Act extending the Wheeler-Howard Act to Alaska. No implications can be drawn from the broad and clear language of the White Act that reservation waters, however valuable for fishing or fish propagation, must be left unprotected from ruthless exploitation.
What we have said heretofore in this opinion as to the importance of fisheries and their conservation to Alaska natives with reference to the Karluk River area in particular need not be repeated. The quoted section of the White Act gives power to the Secretary so that he may '(c) make such regulations as to time, means, methods and extent of fishing as he may deem advisable.' Then follows the proviso that every such regulation shall be of general application and that no exclusive or several right of fishing shall be granted therein. This section was enacted to correct alleged abuses that arose in the administration of the Act 'For the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska,' approved June 26, 1906, 34 Stat. 478. By 6 of the earlier act, streams or lakes could be set aside as permanent preserves but not coastal waters. Although the 1906 Act did not delegate regulatory powers in the amplitude of the White Act, fishing reservations in territorial waters were created by Executive Order and regulations were issued thereunder.
47
The policy behind these regulations and their administration was to restrict the right to fish commercially to those who had formerly fished in these areas. See Fisheries Service Bulletin No.
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92, Jan. 2, 1923. Congress did not propose that these rich fishing grounds should be monopolized by this defined group. The legislative history of the White Act only emphasizes what the statute clearly says, that is, no special privileges in Alaskan fishing preserves. 48 The enforcement provisions of the White Act gave stern warning to prospective violators.
49
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For the conservation of the fisheries, it was recognized that administrative flexibility must be permitted.
'The maters of Alaska are so vast and the local conditions so varied that it is utterly impossible to prescribe by legislation in detail the provisions necessary to meet each situation. To attempt to do so would be to defeat the purposes sought. This can be done by placing broad powers and a wide discretion in the administrative branch having charge of the subject.' Sen. Rep. No. 449 on H.R. 8143 (which became the White Act), 68th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 2. Compare Dow v. Ickes, 74 App.D.C. 319, 123 F. 2d 909, 913.
Although 8 of the White Act50 left a power in the Territorial Legislature of Alaska to impose taxes or licenses for fishing, we do not read 8 as limiting the power to license fishing to the Territorial Legislature. The section does not make the legislative power exclusive. Since 1 of the White Act not only authorizes the establishment of fishing preserves but also requires that the fishing be carried on 'in conformity with such rules and regulations as the Secretary prescribes under the authority herein given,' 51 we are of the opinion that licenses for fishing may be required in areas regulated under the White Act. We think, however, these licenses may be only regulatory in character and, within the discretion of the Secretary, must have their cost fixed so as not
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to exceed the estimated approximate cost of reasonable policing of the area. We do not read the White Act as empowering the Secretary to raise general funds for native welfare of general conservation purposes from White Act preserves.
As 208.23(r) with its exception in favor of the natives in possession of Karluk Reservation and their licensees is based upon 1 of the White Act, we think it clear that its proviso 'that no exclusive or several right of fishery shall be granted therein,' applies to commercial fishing by natives equally with fishing companies, nonresidents of Alaska or other American citizens and so applies whether those natives are or are not residents on a reservation. We find nothing in the White Act that authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to grant reservation occupants the privilege of exclusive commercial fishing rights. It seems also clear to us that the adoption of a corporate charter and a constitution by the Native Village of Karluk under 16 and 17 of the Wheeler-Howard Act, 25 U.S.C.A. 476, 477, discussed, supra,
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, can add nothing to the power of the Secretary under the White Act. 'Exclusive,' as used in 1 of the White Act forbids not only a grant to a single person or corporation but to any special group or number of people. The legislative history set out above shows this. The offending regulations which brought about the enactment of the roviso in 1 of the White Act were administered so as to limit fishing to those who had been using the fisheries before the regulations. The White Act fishing preserves were not intended to furnish a monopoly to a favored few. Whatever may be the powers of the Department of the Interior or the natives as to regulating the entrance of persons other than natives in possession of Karluk Reservation into or on the area of land and water in that reservation,52 they are not broad
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, 123]
enough to allow the use of the White Act sanctions to protect the reservation against trespass. White Act sanctions are for White Act violations. The Department of the Interior by 208.23(r) has decided upon the conservation of fisheries in the described waters of the Karluk Reservation in accordance with the White Act with an exception in favor of the natives that seems to rest on the fact that the natives are on a reservation that includes the White Act conservation area. This cannot be done. The welfare of the 57 electors of Karluk Reservation and their families is important. The Secretary of the Interior, however, cannot given them such preferences as are here given under the authority of the White Act. Other American citizens are equally entitled to the benefits from White Act preserves.
53
We hold that the regulation 208.23(r) is void as a whole because it violates the proviso of the White Act. See
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.
IV.
There are problems cannected with the administration of the Karluk Reservation and the protection of the fishing preserves that have not been determined by the courts or the Department of the Interior. Our holding that coastal waters may be included in the reservation waters and that the White Act cannot be used to create a monopoly in the Indians establishes a different basis for administrative and judicial conclusions. The 1945 ordinance
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must be considered; it appears in the margin.
54
It states that Public Land Order 128 restricts the right to fish commercially in the reservation waters to Karluk inhabitants. This ordinance antedates the regulation. See
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, supra. It evidently is based on the theory that the creation of the reservation gave exclusive fishing rights to the natives in possession. Permits required the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his au-
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, 125]
thorized representative.
55
An example of the permit is printed below. 56 We know nothing from the record of the reasons for the $2 fee for residents or the $40 fee for nonresidents or their relation to the cost of policing the area. See Haavik v. Alaska Packers' Association, 263
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U.S 510. So far as appears after once approving an ordinance, the Department's only direct control over the ordinance is by approval or disapproval of amendments.
57
This is an equitable proceeding in which the respondents seek protection against unlawful action by petitioner, the Regional Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. The interests of respondents, the India of Karluk Reservation, and the efforts of the Department of the Interior to administer its responsibilities fairly to fishermen and Indians are involved.
58
These are questions of public policy which equity is alert to protect.
59
This Court is far removed from the locality and cannot have the understanding of the practical difficulties involved in the conflicts of interest that is possessed by the District Court. Therefore we think it appropriate for us to refrain from now entering a final order disposing definitively of the controversy.
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With our conclusion on the law as to the establishment of the reservation and the invalidity of the regulation before them, the Department and the parties should have a reasonable time, subject to the action of the District Court on the new proposals, to adjust their affairs so as to comply with our determinations.
We therefore vacate the decrees of the District Court and the Court of Appeals and remand this proceeding to the District Court with directions to allow thirty days from the issuance of our mandate for the Secretary of the Interior to give consideration to the effect of our decision. Unless steps are taken in this proceeding the District Court, on the expiration of thirty days, shall enter a decree enjoining the defendant Hynes and all acting in concert with him substantially as ordered in the permanent injunction entered November 6, 1946. 60 If timely steps are taken, the District Court will, of course, be free to enter such orders as it may deem proper and not inconsistent with the present decision. Pending the entry of further orders by the District Court, the preliminary injunction entered July 18, 1946, shall apply to protect the rights of the respondents.
Jurisdictional questions aside, I am in full agreement with the Court's conclusion that Public Land Order 128, 8 F.R. 8557,1 is valid and was effective, according to its terms, to include in the reservation for the Karluk In-
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dians the tidelands and coastal waters therein described. This action was taken pursuant to the statutory authorizations recited in the order and particularly the Act of May 1, 1936, 49 Stat. 1250, 48 U.S.C. 358a, 48 U. S.C.A. 358a. When approved by the Indians in accordance with the proviso of the latter Act, Order 128 withdrew the area covered from any general or public right of access for fishing or other purposes inconsistent with those of the reservation and set aside that area for the exclusive benefit of the Indian occupants and inhabitants. Cf. Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States,
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U.S. 78
. The necessary effect was to forbid others to enter the area for purposes inconsistent with the reservation's objects, thus making persons so entering trespassers and subject to such remedies as the law may afford to prevent or redress their wrongful entry.
By his 1946 amendments to the Alaska Fisheries General Regulations, 50 C.F.R. 1946 Supp., 208.23(r), the Secretary of the Interior reinforced his prior action in setting aside the Karluk Reservation, prohibiting fishing within the coastal waters included in Public Land Order 128, except 'by natives in possession of said reservation' and 'by other persons under authority granted by said natives * * * by or pursuant to ordinance of the Native Village of Karluk' approved by the Secretary or his duly authorized representative.
2
This action was taken pursuant to 34 Stat. 264, 478, as amended by the White Act of June 6, 1924, 43 Stat. 464, as amended June 18, 1926, 44 Stat. 752.
That Act, in the interest of 'protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States in all waters of Alaska,' conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce (now Interior), broad powers to 'set apart and reserve fishing areas
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in any of the waters of Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction' and within such areas to 'establish closed seasons during which fishing may be limited or prohibited as he may prescribe.' See Dow v. Ickes, 74 App.D.C. 319, 123 F.2d 909. Effective penal provisions by way of criminal sanctions and for seizure and forfeiture of offending boats, gear and appliances were enacted to prevent or redress violation of the regulations made pursuant to the statute's authorization.
3
The promulgation of Amended Regulations 208.23(r), pursuant to the White Act's provisions, reinforced the effect of Public Land Order 128 in withdrawing the area covered by the latter from public or common right of entry for fishing and other purposes. But it had also the further effect of notifying the public that trespass upon the reversed area by persons not entitled to enter and use it would be met with the White Act sanctions 4 for enforcement of the order and the amended regulations.
Although holding Public Land Order 128 valid and effective to establish the reservation for the Indians' exclusive benefit, the Court finds Amended Regulations 208.23(r) 'void as a whole.' The chief consequence held to follow is that the White Act sanctions cannot be applied to enforce the regulations or to prevent or redress trespass upon the reservation by others than the Indians in possession or their licensees.
With this conclusion I cannot agree. The amended regulations' invalidity is said to follow solely because of the exception permitting natives and their licensees to fish in reservation waters. This is said to violate the White Act proviso, which forbids any 'exclusive or sev-
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eral right of fishery' and denial to any citizen of the right to fish in any waters where fishing is permitted by the Secretary's regulations. In other words, because the Secretary allows the Indians to fish in the reservation waters he must allow all others to do so on equal terms, otherwise his regulations become totally void and the White Act sanctions unavailable for protection of the reservations and the Indians' rights.
This view, it seems to me, rests upon two fallacies. One is that the two statutes, of 1936 and 1924, are in irreconcilable collision and the Secretary cannot exercise the powers given to him by the 1936 Act and by the White Act consistently and simultaneously with reference to the same waters. The other fallacy is a corollary, namely, that the White Act proviso applies wherever the White Act prohibitions and sanctions may be made applicable, even though the area is a valid Indian reservation.
I do not think the two statutes are in such inescapable inconsistency as forbids their simultaneous and harmonious pplication in setting aside and protecting reservations for the exclusive use and benefit of the native Indian population. Indeed their legislative history and purposes demonstrate that they were intended to serve common objects in the conservation and protection of Alaskan fisheries.
The White Act was adopted in 1924. Its primary object was to preserve the fisheries of Alaska from the destructive private exploitation then taking place. That evil did not arise from any previous, existing, or anticipated policy of setting aside reservations for the exclusive benefit for the natives. It arose exclusively from quite the contrary policy of permitting widespread commercial exploitation by specially favored groups, not of Indians but of others who sought and secured monopolistic privileges and favors in fishing. There were therefore twin evils at
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which the White Act struck. One was the rapid and virtually unrestrained depletion and destruction of the fisheries; the other, the expanding creation of commercial monopolies fostered by preexisting policy in regulating the industry. 65 Cong.Rec. 9520-9521; see also 65 Cong.Rec. 9680-9682; H.R.REp. No. 357, 68th Cong., 1st Sess. 2; Sen.Rep. No. 449, 68th Cong., 1st Sess. 5; Hearings before Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries on H.R. 2714, 68th Cong., 1st Sess.
The White Act, accordingly, was not merely and exclusively an antimonopoly statute. It was both a conservation measure and one to outlaw private, commercial monopoly. The conservation features were contained in the basic general provisions giving the Secretary his broad powers of control over fishing. The more specific antimonopoly features were included in the proviso. The latter were important. But they did not override or minimize the more general provisions, apart from the proviso, giving the Secretary power to regulate the industry in the interest of 'protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States in all waters of Alaska.' The proviso merely limited the manner in which his power was to be exercised in the situations to which the proviso was applicable.
So the questions arise whether the proviso was intended to have any effect in waters validly set aside by Congress, executive order, or the Secretary as reservations for the exclusive benefit of the native population and, correlatively, whether the policy of the proviso was meant to forbid the application of other provisions of the White Act, including its prohibitions and sanctions, in the protection and conservation of such reservations. In other words, was the general policy of the White Act in conflict with the policy existing at its enactment concerning Alaskan Indian reservations or later under the 1936 Act,
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so as to require that the two policies or statutes be kept entirely separate and distinct in their application and administration and to forbid them to be applied conjointly in executing their common conserving and protecting objects.
Certainly the White Act proviso had no purpose to throw open validly created Indian reservations to fishing by all comers. Its aim was not to destroy such reservations or to open them to general, common rights of fishing. In view of the legislative history cited above, which is consistently supported by subsequent administrative construction,5 the proviso cannot be construed as expressing any policy hostile to creating such reservations with exclusive rights of fishing for the native population and protecting them against wrongful invasion. On the contrary, the statute, including the proviso, was strongly supported by the delegates in Congress from Alaska and others representing the native interests6 as against those of commercial exploitation toward which the Act was aimed. There were numerous Indian reservations in existence at the time of the legislation, cf. Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States, supra, affording the natives exclusive fishing rights. But the extensive le islative history discloses no protest, complaint or concern arising on account of them. Indeed it gives strong reason for believing that the native interests joined with others in opposing continuance of the policy of monopolistic commercial exploitation and in support of the White Act, including the proviso, as a necessary method of preventing the imminent destruction of the natives' historic means
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of livelihood by that form of exploitation, and not at all by reason of any evils arising out of exclusive fishing rights granted to the native population in reservations validly created for its benefit.
Consequently, far from representing an attitude or purpose of hostility toward a policy of Indian reservations with exclusive native rights of fishing, the White Act constituted an effective step toward conserving the Alaskan fisheries, under the Secretary's broad regulatory powers, for such purposes as well as for the prevention of monopoly in open fishing areas where no reservations existed.
It follows, in my view that the White Act proviso has, and was intended to have, no application to validly created Indian reservations, either to forbid the Secretary to exclude others than natives from fishing in the reservation waters or to compel him, if he allows the natives to fish, to permit all other citizens to do so on equal terms. The proviso had no purpose so to restrict his powers in relation to reservation areas. It was directed solely against abuses by other than native interests in waters not included within areas set aside for the natives' exclusive benefit.
But it does not follow, in my opinion, that because the proviso is inapplicable the Secretary is forbidden to exercise his regulatory and enforcing powers under the White Act in protection of reservations and the natives' exclusive rights in them or that he cannot utilize those powers and the White Act sanctions conjointly with his authority under the 1936 Act to create reservations and protect them against unlawful invasion. The White Act proviso aside as inapplicable in purpose and intent to the specific situation, i.e., one involving a validly created reservation, nothing in either statute forbids his doing so. Each is in terms a conservation measure, having the
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common object of preserving and protecting the Alaskan fisheries from unrestricted exploitation and destruction by commercial interests. That community of purpose is not affected by the fact that the one Act secures this protection for the public generally, the other for the special benefit of the native population. That difference merely means that two interests require and are given protection against a third, not that the latter acquires immunity against protection afforded either or both of the other two.
Accordingly, in my opinion, the White Act proviso being inapplicable to waters included in a valid Indian reservation, the two statutes may be applied to serve their basic common objects of conserving and protecting fisheries in all Alaskan waters, including those set apart as valid Indian reservations, as against the private, commercial exploitation and monopoly which the White Act and the Act of 1936 were intended to prevent. The statutes should be construed and Congress, I think, intended them to be construed, so as to work together harmoniously, not irreconcilably, to achieve this object.
I therefore cannot regard Amended Regulations 208.23(r) as 'void as a whole.' The regulations are valid, in my judgment, and enforceable by application of the White Act sanctions except possibly in one respect. This is the feature by which the Secretary has delegated to the Village of Karluk the authorit by ordinance to license others than natives of the village to fish on terms fixed by the ordinance subject to the Secretary's approval. Conceivably that power might be exercised by the village, through licensing others than native inhabitants, in a manner which would violate the spirit of the White Act proviso, i.e., by licensing favored commercial interests so as to create essentially the type or types of monopoly or favoritism the proviso intended to forbid.
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It is one thing of course for the Secretary to give the natives exclusive rights of fishing in the reservation's waters. It may be entirely another for him to delegate to them the licensing of others, even retaining the power to approve the licensing ordinances as Amended Regulations 208.23(r) does.
II.
Whether or not the authority conferred by the regulations upon the village to license others is valid is a question, however, which I think it neither necessary nor appropriate to answer in this proceeding, for reasons affecting the existence and propriety of exercising equity jurisdiction in this case, now to be stated.
I seriously doubt the existence of equity jurisdiction on the showing made by this record. But in any event I do not think it should be exercised to afford respondents the relief they have sought. The Secretary of the Interior, whose regulations and authority are at stake, has not been made a party to the suit. Nor has the Village of Karluk, which obviously is vitally interested. Moreover, the allegations concerning threatened enforcement of the regulations by White Act sanctions seem questionably sufficient to establish the basis for equitable intervention, in view of circumstances appearing in the record and asserted in briefs filed here questioning their sufficiency.
But, if all these factors are put to one side, one other remains which in my opinion precludes granting the equitable relief respondents seek. Their claim was founded in the complaint, as I think it had to be, not only upon the alleged invalidity of Amended Regulations 208.23(r), but also upon the asserted invalidity of Public Land Order 128. However, they have not been successful in the latter attack, for the Court holds that Public
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Land Order 128 is valid and was effective to create the Karluk Reservation according to that order's terms.
This ruling cuts all valid ground from beneath respondent's claim to aid from a court of equity. With it, they come not as persons entitled of right to enter the reservation and fish, but solely as trespassers having no right of entry, but seeking only to avert the incidence of possible remedies for threatened wrongful entry. In effect the Court's decision is that respondents, although they have not put forward their case in this light, are entitled to have it so determined and to have equitable relief which prevents possible application of White Act sanctions against them. I cannot agree that persons so situated have standing to invoke the assistance of a court of equity. Accordingly I think the judgment should be reversed and the cause should be remanded with instructions to dismiss it.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS joins in Part I of this opinion.
Footnotes
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Footnote 1
] 8 Fed.Reg. 8557: 'Alaska 'Modification of Executive Order Designating Lands as Indian Reservation 'By virtue of the authority contained in the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497, U.S.C., Title 43, secs. 141Ä143 (43 U.S.C.A. 141Ä143), and the act of May 1, 1936, c. 254, 49 Stat. 1250, U.S.C. Title 48, sec. 358a ( 48 U.S.C.A. 358a), and pursuant to Executive Order No. 9146 of April 24, 1942: It is ordered, As follows:
'1. Executive Order No. 8344 of February 10, 1940, withdrawing Kodiak and other islands, Alaska, for classification and in aid of legislation, is hereby modified to the extent necessary to permit the designation as an Indian reservation of the following-described area: 'Beginning at the end of a point of land on the shore of Shelikof Strait on Kodiak Island, said point being about one and one-quarter miles east of Rocky Point and in approximate latitude 57 39 40 ' N., longitude 154 12 20 ' W.; 'Thence south approximately eight miles to latitude 57 32 30 N.; 'Thence west approximately twelve and one-half miles to the confluence of the north shore of Sturgeon River with the east shore of Shelikof Strait; Thence northeasterly following the easterly shore of Shelikof Strait to the place of beginning, containing approximately 35,200 acres.
'2. The area described above and the waters adjacent thereto extending 3,000 feet from the shore line at mean low tide, are hereby designated as an Indian reservation for the use and benefit of the native inhabitants of the native village of Karluk, Alaska, and vicinity: Provided, That such designation shall be effective only upon its approval by the vote of the Indian and Eskimo residents of the area involved in accordance with section 2 of the act of May 1, 1936, supra: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim or right nder the laws of the United States within the purview of that Section.'
'That the President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry any of the public lands of the United States, including the District of Alaska, and reserve the same for water-power sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be specified in the orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.'
There is a second section designed to keep the reservations free for mineral exploration and utilization. 43 U.S.C.A. 142.
[
Footnote 4
] Under Reorganization Plan No. II the authority of the Department of Commerce over the administration of the White Act was transferred to the Department of the Interior, effective July 1, 1939. 53 Stat. 1431, 4(e), 5 U.S.C.A. 133t note.
[
Footnote 5
] The river itself and all waters within 100 yards of its mouth are closed to all commercial salmon fishing. 50 C.F.R., 1946 Supp., 208.23(d).
'The number of salmon actually caught in Karluk Bay, near the river mouth and in the lower portion of the river, is so large as to make a true statement concerning them seem incredible. In 1888 the canneries put up over 200,000 cases, averaging about 13 red salmon to the case, or more than 2,500,000 fish. In 1889 the number of fish put up was still larger, reaching probably 250,000 cases, containing more than 3,000,000 salmon. As the number of fish arriving at Karluk Bay for a long period of years has been known to be far greater than in any of the other bays of southern Alaska, it is probable that most of these salmon were present at Karluk for the purpose of ascending the river to spawn. Now the number of spawning fish seen in the river, the lakes, and their connecting rivers was comparatively very small, indeed out of all proportion to the number taken on the beach.'
[
Footnote 9
] The highest reported by the Statistical Review of the Alaska Salmon Fisheries, June 13, 1930, Bureau of Fisheries Bulletin, vol. XLVI, p. 666, was nearly 4,000,000 fish in 1901 and the lowest about 400,000 in 1927. The report said:
'Many investigations of the Karluk red-salmon fishery have been made, much has been written about it, commercial interests have battled for exclusive control and domination of it, and dire prophecies have been heard concerning its ultimate destruction. Because of these things, Karluk has undoubtedly been given more close attention than any other fishery in Alaska. * * *'
[
Footnote 10
] Unchallenged figures by plaintiffs show large catches. A table from the largest operator is printed for illustration.
'The total catch of fish taken within the area now included in the Karluk Indian Reservation during the years specified * * *:
'A meeting was called by the president and the same evening with Mr. Peters Mr. Watrous of Juneau and Mr. Leraas present. Following discussion and action:
'1. The problems of setting aside an area for beach seining were discussed. It was agreed that 1000 yd. from the mouth of the river up the spit and from the mouth of the river to Julia Fort point approximately 500 yd. on the Improvement side, placing markers or buoys 500 yd. out from mean low water mark be the restricted area for Karluk beach seining only. Purse seining could be done outside this restricted area this year or until further action by the council.'
'By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, and as President of the United States, I hereby authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sign all orders withdrawing or reserving public lands of the United States, and all orders revoking or modifying such orders: * * *'
Executive Order 8344, 1 C.F.R., 1940 Supp., p. 101, referred to in Public Land Order 128, temporarily withdrew Kodiak Island from settlement, location, sale or entry for classification.
[
Footnote 20
] So far as material that act is set out in note 2, supra.
[
Footnote 21
] It is unnecessary to appraise the effect of such restoration. Tribal ownership may vary from an unrecognized Indian title, see Northwestern Bands of Shoshone Indians v. United States,
324
U.S. 335
, 338, 340, 692, 693, to land so set apart to an Indian tribe by definitive treaty as to require compensation to the tribe, if the United States thereafter appropriated lands within the area. See Shoshone Tribe v. United States,
299
U.S. 476, 486
, 246; 44 Stat. 1349. The effect of restoration under the Wheeler- Howard Act will depend upon the provisions of law under which the separate reservations exist. Compare Cohen, Handbook of Federal Indian Law, c. 5, 5A, p. 94.
[
Footnote 22
] Possible claims under the Indian Claims Commission Act of August 13, 1946, are not covered by this statement. See 60 Stat. 1049, 1050, 2( 5), 25 U.S.C.A. 70a(5). It refers to claims 'based upon fair and honorable dealings that are not recognized by any existing rule of law or equity. No claim accruing after the date of the approval of this Act shall be considered by the Commission.'
'Sec. 5. That upon the approval of the allotments provided for in the preceding section by the Secretary of the Interior he shall cause patents to issue therefor in the name of the allottees, which shall be of the legal effect and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State of California, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to the said Indian, or his heirs as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever. * * *' 26 Stat. 712, 713. 322 U.S. at page 422, 64 S.Ct. at page 1091.
[
Footnote 25
] One gets a sense of its value from the catch of a single operator. Note 10, supra.
[
Footnote 26
] We understand, although it is not a fact of weight, that the number includes both men and women over twenty-one. 49 Stat. 1251; Constitution and By-Laws of the Native Village of Karluk, Alaska, Official Publication, United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, GPO (1939); Constitutio , Art. V, 1; Certificate of Adoption, p. 4; 48 Stat. 986Ä987, 13 and 16, 25 U.S.C.A. 473, 476.
The population of Karluk around 1880 was 302. Report on the Population, Industries, and Resources of Alaska by Ivan Petroff, p. 37, H. R.Misc.Doc. 42, P. 8, 47th Cong., 2d Sess. In 1920 it was 99; in 1929 it was 192; in 1939 it was 189. 16th Census of the United States (1940), Population, vol. 1, Number of Inhabitants, p. 1193.
[
Footnote 27
] In the Act of May 14, 1898, 30 Stat. 409, 48 U.S.C.A. 371 Note, which extended the homestead land laws of the United States to Alaska, it was specifically provided that 'no entry shall be allowed extending more than eighty rods along the shore of any navigable water, and along such shore a space of at least eighty rods shall be reserved from entry between all such claims, and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize entries to be made, or title to be acquired, to the shore of any navigable waters within said District: * * *.'
'Sec. 15. That until otherwise provided by law the body of lands known as Annette Islands, situated in Alexander Archipelago in Southeastern Alaska, on the north side of Dixon's entrance, be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use of the Metlakahtla Indians, and those people known as Metlakahtlans who have recently emigrated from British Columbia to Alaska, and such other Alaskan natives an may join them, to be held and used by them in common, under such rules and regulations, and subject to such restrictions, as may (be) prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior.' 48 U.S.C.A. 358. See 34 Stat. 1411, 46 U.S.C.A. 237, 238, and 48 Stat. 667, 8 U.S.C.A. 601 Note.
See a discussion of the limited power of the President to create even temporary reservations for Indian immigrants. 18 Op.Atty.Gen. 557.
We have carefully considered the opinion in Miller v. United States, 9 Cir., 159 F.2d 997, where it is held, page 1001, that the Indian right of occupancy of Alaska lands is compensable. With all respect to the learned judges, familiar with Alaska land laws, we cannot express agreement with that conclusion. The opinion upon which they chiefly rely, United States v. Alcea Band of Tillamooks,
329
U.S. 40
, is not an authority for this position. That opinion does not hold the Indian right of occupancy compensable without specific legislative direction to make payment. See also United States v. 10.95 Acres of Land in Juneau, D.C., 75 F.Supp. 841.
[
Footnote 29
] In Hearings before Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 73d Cong., 2d Sess., on S. 3645, the bill which became the Act of June 18, 1934, p. 247, the following discussion took place as to the meaning of these words:
'Senator O'Mahoney. But what you are saying here is that the constitution shall vest in some personÄwhat? The following rights and powers. And then you undertake to enumerate those powers. The first one that you enumerate is the right to employ counsel. The second one is the right to prevent individuals from selling and dis osing of their property. Then you come to a third one and it is to represent the tribe, and that seems to me to be hanging up in the air.
'The Chairman. The second one you stated incorrectly.
'Senator O'Mahoney. Have I?
'The Chairman. It is not to prevent them from selling individual lands; it is tribal lands.
[
Footnote 31
] 'An even more important reason for the designation of reservations in Alaska is that by doing so the United States Government will have fulfilled in part its moral and legal obligations in the protection of the economic rights of the Alaska natives. In at least two acts f Congress this obligation is specifically acknowledged. The act approved on May 17, 1884, 23 Stat. 26, contains the following language: 'Provided, That the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them but the terms under which such persons may acquire title to such lands is reserved for future legislation by Congress.' 'The act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1100, contains similar language: 'That none of the provisions of the last two preceding sections of this act shall be so construed as to warrant the sale of any lands belonging to the United States which shall contain coal or the precious metals, or any townsite, or which shall be occupied by the United States for public purposes, or which shall be reserved for such purposes, or to which the natives of Alaska have prior rights by virtue of actual occupation.' Lands which should have been, by virtue of these acts, segregated for natives of Alaska have not been so segregated.
The provisions of section 2 of H.R. 9866 will aid the Federal Government in rectifying this condition, and in protecting the interests of the natives in the future. Section 2 of the bill which gives to the Secretary of the Interior power to designate certain lands as Indian reservations is, therefore, a logical sequence of the legislative history regarding Indian lands in Alaska and provides a method by which the financial aid provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act may be extended to those Indians and Eskimos of Alaska who occupy established villages.'
[
Footnote 32
] This appears from the following excerpt from the Secretary's letter:
'Indian tribes do not exist in Alaska in the same sense as in continental United States. Section 19 of the Indian Reorganization Act defines the word 'tribe' as referring to 'Any Indian tribe, organized band, pueblo, or the Indians residing on one reservation.' With a few exceptions the lands occupied by natives of Alaska have not been designated as reservations. In order, therefore, to define an Alaskan tribe it is necessary to identify it with the land it occupies and in terms of the language of the act, 'reservation.' In addition, if native communities of Alaska are to set up systems of local government, it will be necessary to stipulate the geographical limits of their jurisdictions. Reservations set up by the Secretary of the Interior will accomplish this.' This, with the proviso of the first section, was deemed sufficient to enable the lands to be identified and to permit the Wheeler-Howard benefits to be available to the Alaska natives.
Art. II. 'In the cession of territory and dominion made by the preceding article are included the right of property in all public lots and squares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, fortifications, barracks, and other edifices which are not private individual property . * * *'
Art. III. 'The inhabitants of the ceded territory, according to their choice, reserving their natural allegiance, may return to Russia within three years; but if they should prefer to remain in the ceded territory, they, with the exception of uncivilized native tribes, shall be admitted to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion. The uncivilized tribes will be subject to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt in regard to aboriginal tribes of that country.'
[
Footnote 35
] Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States,
248
U.S. 78, 87
, 39 S. Ct. 40, 41; Shively v. Bowlby,
152
U.S. 1, 47
, 565, and cases cited; Mann v. Tacoma Land Co.,
153
U.S. 273, 283
, 821. See also Tulee v. Washington,
315
U.S. 681
. In Knight v. United Land Association,
142
U.S. 161
, at page 183, at page 264, the Court said: 'Upon the acquisition of the territory from Mexico the United States acquired the title to tide-lands equally with the title to upland; but with respect to the former they held it only in trust for the future states that might be erected out of such territory.' In Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. United States, supra, 248 U.S. at page 87, 39 S.Ct. at page 41, the statement is made, 'That Congress had power to make the reservation inclusive of the adjacent waters and submerged land as well as the upland needs little more than statement. All were the property of the United States and within a district where the entire dominion and sovereignty rested in the United States and over which Congress had complete legislative authority.' Compare also Borax Consolidated, Ltd., v. Los Angeles,
296
U.S. 10, 15
, 25.
'Sec. 12. That the Secretary of the Interior shall select two of the officers to be appointed under this act, who, together with the governor, shall constitute a commission to examine into and report upon the condition of the Indians residing in said Territory, what lands, if any, should be reserved for their use, what provision shall be made for their education what rights by occupation of settlers should be recognized, and all other facts that may be necessary to enable Congress to determine what limitations or conditions should be imposed when the land laws of the United States shall be extended to said district; and to defray the expenses of said commission the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.'
[
Footnote 37
] 'The General Land Laws of the United States should be extended over the Territory as early as possible. The natives claim only the land on which their houses are built and some garden patches near their villages; they ask or expect nothing more. A deed for their lots in severalty would be a very highly prized document by them. The fisheries occupied by them before the advent of the Whites should also be secured to them against encroachment. They ask only the same rights and protection given the white man.'
[
Footnote 38
] 'Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the laws of the United States, do hereby make known and proclaim that the waters within three thousand feet from the shore lines at mean low tide of Annette Island, Ham Island, Walker Island, Lewis Island, Spire Island, Hemlock Island, and adjacent rocks and islets, located within the area segregated by the broken line upon the diagram hereto attached and made a part of this proclamation; also the bays of said islands, rocks, and islets, are hereby reserved for the benefit of the Metlakahtlans and such other Alaskan natives as have joined them or may join them in residence on these islands, to be used by them under the general fisheries laws and regulations of the United States as administered by the Secretary of Commerce.
'Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to fish in or use any of the waters herein described or mentioned.'
A presidential proclamation had theretofore, 1892, set apart Afognak Island, Alaska, and its adjacent bays and territorial waters as a public reservation for fish culture without specific authority to reserve waters. 27 Stat. 1052.
[
Footnote 39
] Borax Consolidated, Ltd., v. Los Angeles,
296
U.S. 10, 17
, 22, 26, 29. This case turned on the power of the United States to convey tideland seaward of the line of mean high tide after California's admission to the Union. Public lands there could not include tidelands as they passed to California when she became a state. The cases cited in the Borax case to support the statement as to public lands are cases that have nothing to do with tidelands or coastal waters but depend upon whether the lands in question were subject to disposal as property of the United States, i.e., public lands. See Newhall v. Sanger,
92
U.S. 761, 763
; Barker v. Harvey,
181
U.S. 481, 490
, 693; Union Pacific R. Co. v. Harris,
215
U.S. 386, 388
.
'Sec. 6. Any person, company, corporation, or association violating any provision of this Act or of said Act of Congress approved June 26, 1906, or of any regulation made under the authority of either, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment for a term of not more than ninety days in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and in case of the violation of section 3 of said Act approved June 26, 1906, as amended, there may be imposed a further fine not exceeding $250 for each day the obstruction therein declared unlawful is maintained. Every boat, seine, net, trap, and every other gear and appliance used or employed in violation of this Act or in violation of said Act approved June 26, 1906, and all fish taken therein or therewith, shall be forfeited to the United States, and shall be seized and sold under the direction of the court in which the forfeiture is declared, at public auction, and the p oceeds thereof, after deducting the expenses of sale, shall be disposed of as other fines and forfeitures under the laws relating to Alaska. Proceedings for such forfeiture shall be in rem under the rules of admiralty.
'That for the purposes of this Act all employees of the Bureau of Fisheries, designated by the Commissioner of Fisheries, shall be considered as peace officers and shall have the same powers of arrest of persons and seizure of property for any violation of this Act as have United States marshals or their deputies.'
'Sec. 8. Nothing in this Act contained, nor any powers herein conferred upon the Secretary of Commerce, shall abrogate or curtail the powers granted the Territorial Legislature of Alaska to impose taxes or licenses, nor limit or curtail any powers granted the Territorial Legislature of Alaska by the Act of Congress approved August 24, 1912, 'To create a legislative assembly in the Territory of Alaska, to confer legislative power thereon, and for other purposes."
[
Footnote 52
] See 27 Stat. 631 relating to representation of Indians by the United States district attorneys; Cohen, Handbook of Federal Indian Law, pp. 252Ä53; Powers of Indian Tribes, Solicitor of the Interior, Nathan R. Margold, October 25, 1934, M27781 pp. 55Ä58. See United States v. Candelaria,
271
U.S. 432
; United States v. Berrigan, 2 Alaska 442; United States v. Cadzow, 5 Alaska 125.
[
Footnote 53
] Dow v. Ickes, 74 App.D.C. 319, 123 F.2d 909, 916: 'It prohibits monopoly, but it does not prohibit reasonable discriminations required by the purpose of conservation and limitations inherent in the type of fishing to which the Secretary's judgment must be applied.'
[
Footnote 54
] 'An Ordinance. Whereas, under Public Land Order 128, of May 22, 1943, creating the Karluk Reservation, the right to fish commercially in the waters of said reservation is restricted to the inhabitants of the Native Village of Karluk and vicinity, and;
'Whereas, non-residents desire to continue their fishing operations in the waters of said reservat on;
'Now, Therefore, be it ordained by the Council of the Native Village of Karluk, a federal corporation chartered under the Act of June 18, 1934, as amended;
'Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, firm, association or corporation, to fish for, take or catch any fish, or to operate any fishing vessel, gear or equipment, within the waters of the Karluk Reservation except under a permit issued by the Native Village of Karluk, for which the fee shall be as follows:
'(A) For residents of the Territory of Alaska $1.00
'(B) For non-residents of the Territory of Alaska $25.00
'Provided further, that a person to qualify for a resident (Class A) permit must have resided in the Territory of Alaska for three consecutive years prior to the date of their application, or request, for a permit.
'Section 2. The possession of fish upon any vessel within said waters without a permit shall constitute prima facie evidence of a violation of this ordinance.
'Section 3. Any violation of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500).
'Approved this 31st day of May, 1945.'
The 1946 ordinance made the fee $2.00 for residents of Alaska and $40. 00 for nonresidents.
Karluk had received its corporate charter, constitution and by-laws August 23, 1939. Official publications, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, See 16 and 17, 48 Stat. 987.
[
Footnote 55
] Section 5 of the Corporate Charter of the Native Village of Karluk provides that 'In using its powers the corporation must not do the following things: * * * 'Make leases, permits or contracts covering any lands or waters set aside as a reserve for the Village without the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his authorized representative.'
[
Footnote 56
] 'Commercial Fishing Permit. 'Karluk Indian Reservation, Karluk, Alaska, June 30, 1946. 'Pursuant to an Ordinance passed by the Council of the Native Village of Karluk, Alaska, dated May 31, 1946, permission is hereby given by the Native Village of Karluk to Ray Harmon of Kodiak, Alaska, to enter the waters and land of the Karluk Reservation for the purpose of engaging in commercial fishing for salmon, S.J. F & P Co., during the period: June 1946 to September 1946. 'This permit is issued subject to the conditions printed on the back hereof. I accept: RAY HARMON PERMITTEE Boat No. or Name: Caroline Fishing for: (CANNERY) San Juan NAME UGANIK BAY, ALASKA ADDRESS 'Conditions EWAN M. NAUMOFF ISSUING OFFICER PRESIDENT KARLUK TITLE Approved: H. C. BINGHAM APPROVING OFFICER ASST. TEACHER A.N.S. TITLE 'This permit is valid only if approved by the General Superintendent of the Indian Service in Alaska or his duly authorized representative, and is revocable in the discretion of the issuing officer. It is not transferable and must be carried on the person of the permittee when engaged in fishing authorized hereunder, and must be exhibited by any person requesting to see it. This permit is issued and accepted by the permittee on the express condition that the permittee will comply with all of the provisions of law and regulations governing fishing on the Karluk Indian Reservation, Alaska. The permittee is warned not to interfere with the fishing activities of the Indians of the Karluk Indian Reservation nor use, disturb, or destroy any property belonging to said Indians.'
[
Footnote 57
] Article VI of the Constitution of the Native Village of Karluk provides that 'Changes in this Constitution and Bylaws may be made if the changes are approved by the Secretary of the Interior and by a majority vote of the Village members voting in an election called by the Secretary of the Interior at which at least 30 percent of the voting membership take part.'
[
Footnote 58
] For a discussion of the difficulties of the preparation of regulations, compare Addison v. Holly Hill Fruit Products, Co.,
322
U.S. 607
, 153 A.L.R. 1007. See also the statements of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Hearings before the House Committee on Indian Affairs, 73d Cong., 2d Sess., on H.R. 7902 ( Wheeler-Howard act). | {
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Why Yahoo Bought Koprol: Location, Location, Location
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LESSON 13 *September 22–28
Sabbath Afternoon
Read for This Week’s Study: Acts 27, Acts 28, Rom. 1:18–20.
Paul had long wished to visit Rome, but his arrest in Jerusalem changed everything. By giving in to the legalistic pressure of the Jerusalem church leaders, he ended up in Roman custody for almost five years, including the time he spent on the sea journey to Italy. This change represented a severe blow to his missionary plans.
Despite the setback, Jesus Himself promised that the apostle would still testify of Him in Rome (Acts 23:11). Even when we fail Him, God may still give us another chance, though He does not always spare us from the consequences of our actions. Not only was Paul taken to Rome as a prisoner, but there is no biblical evidence that he ever went to Spain, as he had hoped to do (Rom. 15:24). After being released from what is known as the first Roman imprisonment, Paul would be arrested again, this time to suffer martyrdom (2 Tim. 4:6–8) under Nero in a.d. 67.
Yes, Paul made it to Rome, and while waiting in his house-prison to be tried before the emperor, he spoke, despite his chains (Eph. 6:20, Phil. 1:13), without hindrance to whoever came to him (Acts 28:30, 31), including important figures from Caesar’s household (Phil. 4:22).
* Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, September 29.
SUNDAY September 23
Sailing to Rome
After about two years of confinement in Caesarea (Acts 24:27), Paul was to be sent to Rome. Judging by the first person plural and the richness of details used to describe the long and turbulent sea journey to Italy (Acts 27:1–28:16), Luke was accompanying Paul, as was another Christian named Aristarchus (Acts 27:2). Another important character in the story was the Roman centurion, Julius, who had other prisoners as well in his charge (Acts 27:1).
It was late summer when they departed. The Fast (Acts 27:9) refers to the Day of Atonement, in the second half of October. Because of the winter conditions, travel in the Mediterranean was normally avoided between November and March. This time, however, they faced difficulties from the beginning, and only after much delay they reached the small bay of Fair Havens, in the island of Crete (Acts 27:8).
Read Acts 27:9–12. While in Fair Havens, how did Paul intervene in the story, and how was his intervention received?
Paul’s warnings went unheeded, and so they decided to sail westward another 40 miles to a harbor (Phoenix) where they could winter with safety. Unfortunately, with a sudden change in the weather, they were caught in such a violent tempest that the crew had no option but to let the ship be driven southwest by the wind, away from land. Soon they began to throw the cargo overboard and even some of the ship’s gear in a frantic attempt to lighten it, as it was already taking on water. The situation was dramatic. After several days of scant daylight, poor visibility, heavy rain, and raging winds, without knowing where they were and in complete exhaustion, they “finally gave up all hope of being saved” (Acts 27:20, NIV).
Read Acts 27:21–26. What was Paul’s second intervention in the story?
In prophetic words, Paul told the crew a message he had just received from God. There was no reason to despair or lose hope. There would still be danger and loss, but all of them would survive.
Why would such a faithful and dedicated servant of the Lord like Paul have to suffer through so much? What lessons can we learn from his experiences?
MONDAY September 24
The Shipwreck
In his second intervention in the story, Paul assured all who were on board—276 people altogether (Acts 27:37)—that, though not everything would come out fine, there would be no casualties; only the ship would go down (Acts 27:22). Fourteen days later, the apostle’s words were fulfilled. Still under a terrible storm and with the ship completely adrift, the sailors sensed land was near, possibly because they could hear the noise of breakers (Acts 27:27). After a series of soundings, and fearing the ship would be driven against the rocks along the shore, they dropped four anchors from the back of the ship in order to reduce their speed; meanwhile, they desperately asked their gods for daylight to come (Acts 27:28, 29).
Read Acts 27:30–44. What lessons are here for us in this story?
In the beginning of the journey, the centurion treated Paul well but had no reason to trust the apostle’s nautical judgment earlier in the trip. After two weeks, however, things were different. Paul had already gained the centurion’s respect with his prophetic intervention about the shipwreck (Acts 27:21–26), which was heading now to its fulfillment.
Paul urged the people on board to eat, otherwise they would not have the strength to swim and get ashore. Divine providence does not necessarily exempt us from doing what would normally be our duty.
“Throughout this narrative a nice balance is maintained between God’s assurance of their safety and the efforts of the people involved to ensure it.”—David J. Williams, Acts (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990), p. 438.
As morning approached, the sailors came in sight of land; it was a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground. The ship, however, never reached the beach. Instead, it struck a sandbar and ended up breaking apart by the force of the waves. The soldiers’ plan to kill the prisoners to prevent them from escaping was stopped by the centurion, mainly because of Paul. In the end, as God had promised, not a single life was lost.
What should it say to us about the power of Paul’s witness, and his character, that in a desire to keep Paul alive the soldiers were forbidden to kill any of the prisoners?
TUESDAY September 25
In Malta
It was only upon reaching the shore that the survivors learned they were in Malta, a small island in the center of the Mediterranean, just south of Sicily. In the two weeks they had been adrift in the sea, yielded to the force of the wind, they had covered about four hundred seventyfive miles since Fair Havens, in Crete. Now they would have to wait out the three months of winter before continuing their journey (Acts 28:11).
Read Acts 28:1–10. What happened to Paul on the island of Malta, and how was God able to use him?
The people of Malta were very friendly and hospitable, and their first action toward Paul and his group, who were all wet and cold, was to light a fire to warm them up; the temperature in Malta at this time of the year would not be higher than about 50°F.
The incident of the snake drew the people’s attention to Paul. At first, the local pagans viewed the fact that he was bitten as an act of divine retribution. They thought Paul was a murderer who had managed to escape from death by drowning but was still caught by the gods, or perhaps the Greek goddess Dik - e, the personification of justice and vengeance. Because the apostle did not die, he was hailed as a god, as had happened in Lystra several years before (Acts 14:8–18). Though Luke does not dwell on the episode, it is probably safe to assume that Paul took advantage of this situation to bear witness of the God he served.
Publius was either the Roman procurator of Malta or just a local dignitary, but he welcomed Paul and his companions for three days until they found a more permanent place to stay. At any rate, the healing of this man’s father gave Paul the opportunity to engage in a sort of healing ministry among the Maltese people.
In Luke’s account, there is no mention of a single convert or of any congregation Paul left behind when he departed from Malta. Such omission might be entirely coincidental, but it illustrates the fact that our mission in the world goes beyond baptisms or church planting; it also involves concern for people and their needs. This is the practical aspect of the gospel (Acts 20:35; compare with Titus 3:14).
How fascinating that these islanders, who were ignorant about God’s law, had a sense of divine justice. Where, ultimately, did that come from? See Rom. 1:18–20.
WEDNESDAY September 26
Paul in Rome, Finally
After three months in Malta, Paul and his companions were finally able to continue their journey (Acts 28:11). They arrived in Puteoli (Acts 28:13)—modern Pozzuoli, in the Bay of Naples—from where they would travel to Rome by road (see Acts 28:11–16).
The news of Paul’s approach quickly reached Rome, and from there a group of believers traveled several miles south to welcome him.
Though he had never been to Rome, the apostle had numerous friends in the city: co-workers, converts, relatives, and many others who were very dear to him (Rom. 16:3–16). The meeting on the Appian Way must have been particularly moving, especially in view of the shipwreck and the fact that Paul was now a prisoner. As a result of such a unique demonstration of love and care on the part of his beloved friends, the apostle thanked God and felt deeply heartened as he was about to face trial before the emperor.
In his official report, Festus certainly must have written that according to Roman law, Paul was not guilty of any significant crime (Acts 25:26, 27; 26:31, 32). This probably explains why he was allowed to rent a private dwelling (Acts 28:30) instead of being sent to a regular prison or military camp, though after Roman fashion he was chained to a soldier the whole time. That Paul was at his own expense implies he was able to carry on his own trade (Acts 18:3).
Read Acts 28:17–22. What did Paul do as soon as he settled down?
Though Paul could not go to the synagogue, the synagogue could come to him. So, soon after his arrival, following his policy of going first to the Jews (Rom. 1:16), he called together the local Jewish leaders to state his innocence and explain, as he had done before, that he had been arrested for no reason other than the hope of Israel (Acts 23:6, 24:15, 26:6–8). His intention was not so much to defend himself as to create an atmosphere of trust that allowed him to preach the gospel, showing how Jesus’ resurrection was the fulfillment of Israel’s ancestral hope. Surprised that they had not received any information from Jerusalem about Paul, the Jews decided to hear him.
Read Acts 28:22. What does this tell us about the hostility against the believers still at this time? How can we stay faithful even when others are talking against our faith?
THURSDAY September 27
The Victory of the Gospel
On a set day, the Jews came in large numbers to hear Paul’s presentation of the gospel (Acts 28:23).
Read Acts 28:24–31. What was Paul’s point in quoting Isaiah in this context?
The quotation from Isaiah 6:9, 10 describes what happens when people refuse to accept the divine message. Though some Jews believed, others didn’t, and so, because of this great dispute, the apostle had no choice but once again to turn to the Gentiles (Acts 13:46, 47; 18:6). Paul had to wait two years to be tried by the emperor. Meanwhile, though restricted to his house-prison, he was still able to share the gospel without hindrance with those who came to him. The last scene of Acts is one that emphasizes the victory of the gospel, as no force, whether Jewish or Roman, had been able to stop its progress.
It is not clear why Luke finishes his book at this point, as there is evidence that, due to the weakness of the case against Paul, he was released from this imprisonment, went on another missionary journey, and was again taken to Rome and executed (2 Tim. 4:6–8). Perhaps, from the standpoint of Luke’s literary purpose, by having preached even in distant Rome, the gospel already had reached the “ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8, NIV).
“Paul’s patience and cheerfulness during his long and unjust imprisonment, his courage and faith, were a continual sermon. His spirit, so unlike the spirit of the world, bore witness that a power higher than that of earth was abiding with him. And by his example, Christians were impelled to greater energy as advocates of the cause from the public labors of which Paul had been withdrawn. In these ways were the apostle’s bonds influential, so that when his power and usefulness seemed cut off, and to all appearance he could do the least, then it was that he gathered sheaves for Christ in fields from which he seemed wholly excluded.”—Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 464. From the standpoint of the church’s mission, however, it could be said that the book of Acts—or the history of the spreading of the gospel— is not yet finished, and it is here that each one of us enters the picture. Many more exciting and dramatic chapters have been written throughout the centuries, sometimes with the blood of God’s faithful witnesses.
Now it is our turn to add one more chapter, the last one (we hope!), and bring the mission Jesus left with the disciples to its full completion— “and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14, NKJV).
FRIDAY September 28
Further Thought: “Christ has given to the church a sacred charge. Every member should be a channel through which God can communicate to the world the treasures of His grace, the unsearchable riches of Christ. There is nothing that the Saviour desires so much as agents who will represent to the world His Spirit and His character. There is nothing that the world needs so much as the manifestation through humanity of the Saviour’s love. All heaven is waiting for men and women through whom God can reveal the power of Christianity.”—Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, p. 600.
“Long has God waited for the spirit of service to take possession of the whole church so that everyone shall be working for Him according to his ability. When the members of the church of God do their appointed work in the needy fields at home and abroad, in fulfillment of the gospel commission, the whole world will soon be warned and the Lord Jesus will return to this earth with power and great glory.”—Page 111.
Discussion Questions:
How does Luke portray Paul’s faith in God throughout the whole journey to Rome? How were others affected by such unconditional faith?
Despite everything he had gone through, Paul never gave up his faith or his mission. In Rome, he continued to preach despite his limited freedom. What can we do when tempted to give up on our proclamation of the gospel to someone?
Read Romans 1:14, 15. Why did Paul feel himself under obligation—or a debtor—to preach the gospel to everybody? Are we less obligated than he was? Consider this statement: “To save souls should be the lifework of everyone who professes Christ. We are debtors to the world for the grace given us of God, for the light which has shone upon us, and for the discovered beauty and power of the truth.”—Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 53.
Read again the passage from Isaiah that Paul used. How could this idea apply to us? Yes, we have been given a great deal of truth, but if we harden ourselves to it, or even to aspects of it that might conflict with our own wishes or desires, what danger could we face spiritually?
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Salem, Oregon – On December 30th, a group of Salem area residents filed an appeal of the City of Salem's urban growth boundary (UGB) expansion to construct a third Willamette River bridge to the state Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA)....
The eight co-petitioners are asking LUBA to reverse or remand the Council's decision.
"We're appealing the City's decision to expand the UGB for a third bridge because its a bad idea for Salem and because it violates local plans and state planning rules," said Robert Cortright, the group's spokesperson. "It's a bad idea because it's an expensive, unaffordable project that won't reduce traffic congestion and will destroy homes and businesses"....
The LUBA appeal will contend that the City's actions violate state planning laws because they failed to consider all alternatives to address peak hour traffic congestion problems. To justify a UGB expansion, local and state planning rules require that the City show a new bridge is the only reasonable way to meet future transportation needs. But the City's own plans and studies show that widening the existing bridges in combination with other actions, like expanding transit service and staggering work hours for state employees, would work as well in reducing congestion — and at a cost that would be hundreds of millions of dollars less than a third bridge.
There are several interesting details in them, and they might be worth your time. In some cases the details might complicate the urge to flatten things with over-simple narratives about need and meeting the need. (Humans are complicated!)
A couple of transportation things also stand out.
From the summary:
Census data shows that 18% of North Salem residents do not have access to a vehicle
The survey shows that 85% of respondents use their car get their groceries. However, 45% of respondents [also] use an alternative form of transportation, at least part of the time. About 18% walk.
Our nearly compulsory autoism creates real problems for people.
Making better conditions for walking and biking and busing isn't just about serving some car-skeptical elite. It's about serving a very large portion of our citizenry. It's about fairness.
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Maybe it is the pessimissm and worry about our reactionary moment, or the loss of cultural giants like Bowie and Prince, but it's hard to see much to praise or to see positive patterns in 2016.
(Maybe you see something more optimistically?)
And much more than policy and ideas, which seemed especially insignificant this time, the year was about people and politics.
Elections
Although there is little to say here, the most important transportation stories of 2016 arise out of the National election in November and the City Council elections settled in May. The further resignation of another Councilor in November and the subsequent March 2017 election could decisively shape Council. Things seem likely to change on both local and national levels. If the Legislature can manage, 2017 might also bring a new funding package.
As with the SRC's part-whole problem, on walking safety while we mourn individual deaths, we do not look at the system and seek ways to curb our autoism and the deaths that result from it. We rationalize crashes as the result of bad actors or bad choices, but do not look at the ways our system increases the probability of catastrophe. The January City report was shelved, and did not create any policy reform.
Monday, December 26, 2016
It seems like the SRC has a real problem with part-whole relations, nearly always subordinating criticism of defective parts to overall assurances that the whole is wholesome and true.
Sometimes this might be warranted, but it also serves to insulate parts from any criticism at all. Looking at the entirely of the way this argument is deployed on several occasions, it seems clear it is a strategy to deflect reasonable criticism of the parts.
In a systematic way, too often on the SRC values don't scale, and the overall shape of the argument exploits discontinuities between the big picture and the details.
demonstrate[s] that the bicycle system improvements integrated in the Preferred Alternative will result in improvements to the overall bicycle element of the transportation system. This criterion is not intended to be used to judge the overall adequacy of the system in evaluating a single project.
But there is no such demonstration in Section 4.2.2.2 of the Findings Report. It simply asserts
The TSP Amendments supporting the Preferred Alternative are consistent with the goal for the bicycle system element. The new bridge crossing will include bicycle facilities on the bridge and connections to bicycle facilities in the bridgehead areas on both sides of the river and will enhance the overall connectivity of the bicycle system in support of the goals listed above. Amendments to the Bicycle Network Maps (7.1, 7-2, and 7-5) will show bicycle facilities on the new bridge and on ramps connecting Marine Drive to Edgewater Street. These facilities will be identified as high priority associated with the Preferred Alternative. Map 7-10 will also be amended to change the priority for the multi-use path along Marine Drive from Tier 2 to Tier 1.
There's no argument developed here. It just a bald-faced assertion that these new facilities "will enhance the overall connectivity."
Friday, December 23, 2016
Shall we flog the dead horse? It's hard to say what the next event may or may not be on the epic saga of the Salem River Crossing. Depending on what happens next, there might be more to say; or, also, any further thought right now might be utterly moot and irrelevant. But in the event there might be more to say, here are some thoughts.
In
the "Findings report" of October 4th, 2016, Section 4.2.1 (pp.162 -
172), two relevant policies from the Salem Area Comprehensive Plan seem to be omitted, Policy 11 and Policy 18.
The Findings discussion jumps from Policy 8 to 12 (pp. 166-167), and
again from Policy 17 to 19 (p. 168).
Local
governments within the Salem Urban Area shall develop multimodal plans,
services, and programs that decrease reliance on the SOV as the
dominant means of travel. Progress toward this objective shall be
monitored through benchmarks sets forth in Table #1
Policy 18 says:
The
Salem Transportation System Plan shall identify methods that employers
can use to better facilitate the commute of their employees, encourage
employees to use alternative travel modes other than the SOV, and
decrease their needs for off-street parking.
By
themselves these aren't killers or anything, and the other adjacent policies
are probably more important. Still, I would have expected the findings to reference
them, and I find the silence odd and worth noting.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Here's a nice thing to keep in the back of your mind for next month. Especially if you don't bike much or have a friend who doesn't, and one of you has a bike that's just sitting in the garage because something's broken on it, here's an opportunity to fix it. (It looks like there will be beer, too!)
They'll be moving from downtown to this cluster on "middle commercial." The forms here are suburban with big boxes, strip malls, and the big stroad. There's some legacy development from before that, but nothing left from the streetcar era. It's not very walkable.
There is in fact a key segment of missing sidewalk adjacent to their building on Commercial. And when the semi-couplet of Vista/Fairview were "improved" several years ago, the City striped no bike lanes. Biking and continuing south on Commercial through this area is challenging.
So this is going to be an interesting transition. Reporters will be more distant from City Hall and from the Capitol, so will there be even less coverage of city and state politics? With development picking up downtown, it is also a move away from an important center of economic and cultural activity.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Now that we've been able to go through some of the traffic modeling from around 1980 that supported the Front Street Bypass, the Salem Parkway, and the Mission Street Overpass, it's clear that there some pretty big misses. That points towards a systemic problem with the modeling.
On a comfortable majority of road segments, the projected year 2000 traffic volumes were meaningfully larger than actual traffic volumes measured mostly in the 2010s. Even when you look 30 years out instead of 20, the actual traffic still hasn't caught up to the projected numbers. (On a few segments actual traffic is higher, but these are the exception.)
Let's look at the biggest misses.
Wild overestimates:
Front Street bypass
High/Church in downtown
Cherry Street
Portland Road/Fairgrounds Road
Pine Street
17th Street
Center Street near 17th
12th Street
The Mission Street overpass itself
Big undercounts:
Liberty/Commercial in downtown
Front Street at River Road
25th Street north of Mission
Many of the other estimates are "in the ballpark" but slightly under actual counts; considering the actual counts here mostly are from the 2010s, not from year 2000, however, the general drift in nearly every case is that there was a system bias for overestimating traffic volumes for year 2000.
Documentation is scarce, but the Downtown Historic District materials claim the building was constructed circa 1915 and underwent extensive modification in the 60s. Formally it is classified a "historic, non-contributing" building.
The map of discarded alternatives is a little interesting. Some of them would have had much more impact on already developed areas. The route they chose, the "Railroad West," west of the railroad lines, probably did minimize impacts to existing development. But we forget the losses, especially the individual stories of people and families affected, down the memory hole. And now, in currently paused Kroc Center Study, we have contemplated millions for a bridge or other facilities to mend the gap we created.
Val Springer rediscovered the box in her garage not long ago. Inside were five large photo albums.
She intended to track down the family whose lives are chronicled on the pages, but didn’t know where to begin and never got around to it.
So she asked for my help.
I’ve had success reuniting people with family keepsakes — some 1930s letters between a father and daughter, a World War II service flag with the names of three brothers handwritten on it, and a World War II veteran’s wallet with precious family snapshots inside.
These albums deserve a home, too.
You can find more images and clues in the article. What is most interesting here are the bikes.
Two of the images they reproduce show bikes identified as circa 1897. They both show a woman, and even though she has a skirt, she appears to have a bike with a top tube, not a step-through. In one of them a man on her left does have a step-through.
Is this evidence of a moment before frame geometry was gendered? Is this evidence that the family or group didn't ride the bikes and instead were using them as props to show a kind of up-to-dateness? Bikes were expensive at this time, and still represented advanced transportation technology.
(click to enlarge for detail)
Are two of these in the photo below?
(detail of a photo of a photo on an angle in an album)
If these are the same two people, they've switched bikes
Urban real estate developers always ask for subsidies whether they need them or not, and cities often provide them even when they’re not needed. Why else would cities subsidize billion-dollar sports stadiums to house teams that are worth billions and that are owned by sports tycoons worth billions?
That’s why cities need to know a lot about the economics of private real estate development deals, specifically when and why projects pencil out or don’t. It’s something that, amazingly, cities know little about. If you’re going to subsidize a developer, for example, you should only do it when you know you can’t get the project you want done any other way. Alternatively, if you’re going to soak a developer for impact fees or other community benefits, you should do so only when you know it won’t kill a project you otherwise want. That’s why cities should have a lot of financial analysis capacity -- not just to balance their own budgets, but to understand whether developers are balancing their own budgets on the backs of the taxpayers. [italics added]
Criticism of the proposed Park Front subsidy has focused on it as an instance of "crony capitalism," a boodle favor for a former member of City Council and current executive with the Chamber of Commerce.
Commenting on the criticism, another person asked
Would another, outside developer, receive this same treatment? The project does seem to deserve some incentive, since that seems the norm for development that promises increased tax revenue and an improved downtown....[would] a project like this would receive similar treatment if an outside group were building it?
And the answer is probably yes, the same subsidy would be extended to any other developer who asked for it.
The issue here is almost certainly not that a former member of City Council is extracting special favors, but rather that we lack ways, and have not structured urban renewal incentives, to discriminate between valuable projects that truly need help to get off the ground, and projects that would happen anyway and just want the extra slush funding. Our application of urban renewal subsidies, as with enterprise zones and other tax incentives, is too crude and unnecessarily subsidizes too many projects that are already positioned for or have reasonable chances of success.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
As you're out and about, or if you have a view from above, look for intersections and lanes with intact zones of snow. Those are "sneckdowns," temporary curb extensions and lane narrowings caused by the snow, and evidence of surplus width or other area in the roadway.
The zones with snow could become bike lanes, wider sidewalks, pedestrian medians or other road space reallocated for users other than those in cars. They are evidence for ways we have overengineered and overdesigned roadways for car travel and too-high speeds.
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Most of these items appear to be retrospective, reviews of past decisions and projects and planning, and it's not clear that OBPAC is in a position really to alter or improve them. Instead it looks like they are just getting updates. One of them, though, is more forward looking.
The financial damage of former Salem councilor Daniel Benjamin's resignation could cost the city as much as $17,000.
It seems like a better one might be something more like:
The yearly cost to service the proposed Salem River Crossing, which accomplished a major milestone Monday night, is estimated to take $45 million a year out of the local economy.
Even if you disagree with the deleterious nature of the SRC, isn't it obvious that the proposed $430 million project is much vaster and more costly than a $17,000 special election to right a set of wrongs? (Especially if the SRC is also a mistake, as so many of us believe.)
Monday, December 5, 2016
Friday morning in Silverton, one Salemite struck and killed another and then compounded his troubles by fleeing.
From the paper:
A North Salem man was arrested after a fatal hit-and-run crash near Silverton High School on Friday morning.
Dillon Van Diviner, 22, was driving on the 400 block of Grant Street when he hit a construction worker who was working on a driveway project of a new home, according to a statement released by Silverton Police Chief Jeff Fossholm. Van Diviner continued driving after hitting the construction worker, identified as Bradley Goad, 45, of West Salem. Goad was pronounced dead at the scene.
(It should be noted the paper's rhetoric is correct, that the human has agency here: None of this "the car left the road and hit the pedestrian" evasiveness. Humans are driving and required to maintain control. Even when it is not done with murderous intent, in the awful catastrophe a human remains the agent.)
Update, December 5th
Wow. Apparently "murderous intent" is in fact an issue here. From an update in the paper:
Moments before he struck and killed a West Salem man with his car, the suspect in Friday's fatal hit-and-run in Silverton allegedly smoked marijuana in his car and then intentionally sped toward the victim, officials said.
Dillon Van Diviner, 22, of Salem, was arrested on charges of murder, hit-and-run and DUI after he told police he purposely hit Bradley Goad in Silverton on Friday morning.
Van Diviner told police he ran over Goad because he feared Goad, a 45-year-old construction worker from West Salem, posed a danger to others. Van Diviner did not give any reason for this fear, other than an "intense overwhelming feeling," according to a probable cause statement filed in Marion County.
Wow. Just wow.
Since it appears to be a murder with a car as weapon and also probably a mental health matter, it is not so much a road safety matter. It's hard to say there is any amount of better road engineering or other safety changes that could prevent this. Vision Zero and other safety programming almost certainly has nothing further to offer.
Heartfelt condolences to the friends and family of Bradly Goad.
December 2016
Also over the weekend, you might have seen the piece about a driving school and failing a driving test while using a calculator for some basic math with the off-hand.
Sunday, December 4, 2016
On rereading the summary document of responses to public comment, there are still quite a number of items it seems possible to contest and on which more public debate, even a kind of adversarial and more robust litigation style of back-and-forth argument at Council, would be worthwhile. Matters are far from conclusively settled, and there has not been enough time to present and sift the evidence to make determinations possible about "a preponderance" on one side or the other of many sides of the issue.
One claim may be genuinely new, however, and is very much worth a little more investigation here.
I'm not sure I can prove this, but it has seemed that in the draft Environmental Impact Statement, and in the subsequent talk about funding that occurred in 2013-2014, there was an assumption that the bridge structure would be engineered to a mid-level quake standard, something like a 7.0 event. The DEIS on Geology is quite vague, and there is little or no explicit mention of these standards. A text search on the full chapter 2 on Alternatives doesn't turn up any instances of the word "seismic" or "earthquake."
It has seemed like the level of seismic reinforcement was a deliberate
fudge factor, sometimes used to allow for a lower cost estimate, other
times used to say that the bridge will be reinforced adequately.
It's hard to prove a negative, but you would think that the level of reinforcement, especially to a 9.0 standard, would have appeared somewhere, in one of these documents. That would be a thing to shout about, in fact. But it
was never spelled out that that meant exactly. The omission is telling.
Before BikeTown launched in Portland in July, Corvallis became the second community in Oregon to launch a public bikeshare system. Jackson County started its program in 2015.
Corvallis’ bikeshare program, Pedal Corvallis, rolled into town on June 30 thanks to a collaboration between several community partners, including the region’s Medicaid provider – the InterCommunity Health Network Coordinated Care Organization (IHN-CCO) – and the Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments (OCWCOG), a regional planning and service-delivery agency that covers Benton, Lincoln, and Linn Counties.
The close involvement of healthcare and the local MPO is remarkable. It would be interesting if Salem Health and SKATS/MWVCOG, or a similar group, emerged in Salem. (The Lund Report has more on it as a health initiative aimed at Medicaid clients.)
Station at Good Sam in Corvallis - via OCWCOG
(But is that convenient location?)
There are 6 stations and 35 bikes throughout town. Station locations are:
The bikes are equipped with front and rear lights, a basket, and a U -lock. Helmets are being provided free to a limited number of IHN-CCO members. The system also includes 2 trikes, to accommodate loads such as groceries or laundry, as well as for the benefit of participants who may have balance challenges. All Pedal Corvallis stations are located within two blocks of a Corvallis Transit System stop or closer.
An annual Pedal Corvallis membership costs $25, a month pass costs $10, and a 3-day pass costs $5. Trips up to 2 hours are free at all membership levels. The program is open to anyone age 18 and older, and membership is free for IHN-CCO members.
Corvallis of course has fareless transit and a very large population of college students. But the six stations are not very closely spaced, and really appear oriented towards the CCO members. It's not obvious that the stations are really very convenient for the general public. Do you go to a clinic first, traveling by bus or something, and then get on the bikeshare? The stations seem to be located at trip end or trip middle rather than trip start. As a system, distinct from it as any emblem of bikeyness or urbane cool, it doesn't appear all that functional. Maybe the integration with transit is key and better than it appears on the surface, even with stations not more than two blocks from a transit stop. But it just looks like it requires too much trip planning to use in an easy, convenient, frictionless way.
''The purpose of this book,'' [Jacobs] writes, ''is to help our culture avoid sliding into a dead end, by understanding how such a tragedy comes about, and thereby what can be done to ward it off and thus retain and further develop our living, functioning culture which contains so much of value, so hard won by our forebears. We need this awareness because, as I plan to explain, we show signs of rushing headlong into a Dark Age.''
In the course of this extremely sloppy book, Ms. Jacobs identifies ''five pillars of our culture'' that she says show ''ominous signs'' of decay...
Unfortunately Ms. Jacobs does not manage to make a plausible case for this thesis in her haphazard book. She does not convince the reader that North America is in danger of entering a Dark Age: either a big one like that following the collapse of the Roman Empire, or a smaller, slower decline. Nor does she persuade the reader that her ''five pillars'' incorporate all today's most pressing problems.
It was not uncommon at the time to say that Jacobs was at the end of her powers - she was nearing 90, somewhat infirm, perhaps all the praise had gone to her head. She had become a crank.
What a difference a little over a decade makes. Dark Age Ahead is poised at this exact moment for something of a critical reappraisal. It's not hard to see why.
At the top of the list is a current rendering finally of the project for a safe crossing on Commercial at Union Street.
From December 1st DAB meeting
A much earlier concept from 2013 or so
For comparison, here's an earlier concept from a few years back, and it is interesting to note the edits, which are mostly deletions:
No southbound bike lane on Commercial Street, either north or south of Union
Sharrows only on east side of Union Street, angle parking remains
A standard bike lane westbound on Union, west of Commercial
The corners on the west side of the intersection are more rounded and less squared off, which will make zoomy turns easier for those in cars
For east-west travel, the current design does not meet a standard for a "family-friendly" bikeway on Union Street. Kids and adults who bike infrequently will not likely feel comfortable on Union Street yet.
On one quick pass over it, a couple of things stood out. These mainly centered on why the haste and short time-line matters. (Maybe on subsequent passes other things will seem more important, but this was the first impression from scanning it.)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Join us for an open house Tuesday, November 29 at the Salem Public Library to talk about accessory dwelling units (ADUs), commonly known as mother-in-law apartments. The City of Salem is considering allowing these smaller housing units in the city as a way to expand housing choices in Salem.
We want to know how you think ADUs should be regulated in Salem. Your input will be used to help develop a recommendation for allowing ADUs in the community.
In June, Emily Loberg readied her 1985 rebuilt touring bike and set out on a 5,350-mile solo journey.
Her months-long adventure would take her over the Cascades, near two oceans, across the Great Plains, up the Continental Divide and through 15 states.
"This has always been a life-long dream of mine — to bike across the country," said Loberg, who was 24 when her journey started. "I bike everywhere I go. My dad taught me how to ride a bike when I was 5 ... It's always been a big part of my life, and I love to travel."
Monday, November 28, 2016
The video's supposed to be light-hearted, and so we shouldn't place too much stress on it. At the same time, it ostensibly offers a statement of Mayoral priorities, and so it's not something to ignore completely.
The council-related events of last week overtook it, though. Maybe now we can revisit it a little.
Food is a distraction also: At the drive-thru coffee shack
Just overall, this thing about conducting interviews in cars is a little disturbing. As a pop culture phenomenon, carpool karaoke and its successors is amusing - but let's be clear that it's also a formal instance of distracted driving, no matter how careful is the driver.
Again, it's meant to be light-hearted, but this style and form reinforces our propensity for dangerous driving, and suggests driving is no big deal, that drivers can conduct any number of other activities while driving. There's nothing outrageous here, it's important to say, but it very nicely expresses our current norms and cultural expectations for a certain inattentiveness on the road. This is normal, banal, perfectly acceptable autoism. But it's actually dangerous.
As for substance, the Mayor's number one priority? Uber.
Frankly, that's a little bizarre. Of all the things to say as number one, that's it???
Sunday, November 27, 2016
If we haven't killed ourselves off in some slow-developing or sudden extinction event, historians from the future looking back on our era will write about our enthusiasm for cars and the way we embraced the pseudo-science and social engineering in hydraulic autoism. They will be impressed with the pseudo-scientific metrics of volume/capacity ratios and levels of service, as well as our tolerance for long and sedentary commutes, and equally amazed with our repudiation of actual science in rising greenhouse gas emissions, their effects, and our careless response.
The Policy Committee for our Metropolitan Planning Organization meets on Tuesday the 29th, and there are several meaty matters on the agenda. At the top of the list is a two hour work session after the meeting proper to discuss greenhouse gases and what the State and MPOs should do.
From the agenda:
The Advisory Committee on Metropolitan Transportation Planning and
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets has held five meetings between May and
November 2016. Commissioner Brentano and Mike Jaffe have represented
SKATS on the committee and provided updates to the SKATS Policy Committee.
The Advisory Committee has consensus on several of the initial target issues and is
having its final meeting in December....
Because of the complexity of this GHG target setting issue, the Policy Committee
requested a 2-hour workshop to review the work and consensus recommendations
of the Advisory Committee. SKATS staff will provide a presentation about the
target setting process assisted by staff from the Department of Land Conservation
and Development. After the Policy Committee has asked questions and discussed
the issue, they are requested to provide Commissioner Brentano and staff with any
direction they believe is appropriate for the final meeting of the Advisory
Committee in December and/or LCLD’s meeting in January 26-27 to adopt targets.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Council meets on Monday, and in order to accommodate overflow capacity, the meeting was moved to Loucks Auditorium at the Library. Subsequent developments have rendered the matter moot, and since we will be left mainly with the denouement on that civic drama now, important it is, it does not seem useful to have further comment here.*
Other things on the agenda really had not been important in that context, but now that they are bumped up, from here the principal matter now at Council is the set of proposed amendments to the West Salem Urban Renewal Area for the Second Street-Marine Drive extension and undercrossing.
A smaller, scaled-down undercrossing plan?
The actual text of Exhibit 1 is very interesting.
Marine Drive in the TSP is a mid-sized "collector street" and in the Salem River Crossing it has tended to grow even more and to become something of an expressway - though in order to secure assent, the SRC has in many ways exploited some ambiguity and traded on vagueness, sometimes acting like Marine Drive was just a collector, other times like it was an urban highway.
In these proposed URA amendments, Second Street is twice labeled a "local street," a smaller classification for neighborhood streets.
That seems like an important definitional switch.
Secondly, the amendments discuss an extension of Second Street to Patterson only, and not a continuation east of Patterson into Wallace Park and then turning north to Glen Creek.
Thirdly, this avoids the troublesome matter of any demolition on the Union Street Railroad Bridge and trestle.
If there is no chicanery here, this could be a right-sized project worth supporting again. In important ways it seems to revert to an earlier concept and phase. (See here, here, and here.)
It will be interesting to see more discussion on this latest concept, but with these changes, it now seems like it merits support more than opposition or doubt.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
The Thanksgiving ad from 1916 shows part of the network of old neighborhood grocery stores. I don't think there's any great lesson here, but it is interesting to think about how they were spaced more for walking distances than driving distances.
Hardly any of the storefronts remain, and most of the lots have been redeveloped, either with newer houses or with larger commercial development. While it's not possible at the moment to dive very deeply into any of these, as corner grocery stores in the context of pre-autoist neighborhoods a few are immediately interesting.
Ward Richardson's cabbagery is located on Hickory and Front, right in the footprint of the Salem Alternative. It would have been ruralish in 1916. Melwood's would have been in the old Hollywood neighborhood before urban "renewal," and Harlan's near the train depot before the Hospital razed everything in that neighborhood. The Highland Grocery is right by the old Herbert Hoover house. Schmid's is on the old Geer line. Streetcar routes are nearby many of them, too.
The ad, with its gauzy, swirling pilgrim figure, I read as influenced by art nouveau. If you love design and art history, maybe you'll be able to characterize it better. It's a striking contrast from the more conventional, and somewhat grim, iconography of 1915.
Oregon Walks' Weston Awards are named in honor of America's greatest walker, Edward P. Weston. In just 10 days in 1861, Weston walked from Boston to DC to attend Lincoln's Inaugural Ball. His journey took him to cities big and small, neighborhoods poor and rich, through a cross section of America, where he was welcomed at every turn.
The Weston Awards celebrate inspiration, enthusiasm, perseverance, and the conviction that one of the best ways to get anywhere is on foot. Join us in celebrating the Westons among us today: people from all walks of life who have made our communities more livable and more walkable.
The gala will be Friday, December 2nd, in The Treasury Ballroom at 326 SW Broadway in Portland, from 6:00pm-9:00pm
AARP Oregon and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership are working together to bring Oregonians an Inter-generational Safe Streets Challenge. Youth and older adults have similar needs when it comes to navigating our streets on foot. Whether a second grader is walking to school, their grandfather is walking to the corner store with their shopping trolley, or their aunt is walking to the park to socialize – we need accessible destinations, continuous paths, and safe crossings.
We’re pleased to announce the following recipients have been selected for the Inter-generational Safe Streets Challenge:
Just Walk Salem Keizer & Stephens Middle School (Salem-Keizer School District)
Just Walk Salem Keizer (a grassroots network of neighborhood walking groups) will engage at least two groups of middle school students and older adults in working together to develop at least 1 walking route each that highlights the points of health in their neighborhood. The groups will cross-check the routes by conducting the Walkable America ‘walkability checklist’. Once finalized, the walking routes will be included in a full-color “WanderWalks” pocket map printed by our transit provider, Cherriots, and distributed to neighbors through community partners. This project aims to foster healthy neighborhoods through identifying safe and enjoyable places to walk together.
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Long ago, in Japan, there lived an old man who liked nothing better than to invite his friends for the tea ceremony. (Pause). In those days, both men and women wore kimono, traditional robes that had no pockets.
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Instead, men would carry small items in boxes called inro, held in place in their belts by netsuke beads. (Pointing to netsuke) The old man wore a netsuke of a daruma, the Buddha who sat in meditation so long his arms and legs became one with his body. (While pulling card) Daruma are symbols of patience but...
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The old man was always impatient when everything was not just right. From his place in the old man's belt, the daruma netsuke could see the old man measure out just the right amount of tea and whisk it to a perfect froth.
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He watched as the old man purified the tea container with his fukusa folded just so, but the daruma could sense that the old man's spirit was not in harmony and his mind was filled with distracting thoughts.
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Behind the flower arrangement in the tokonoma that had been carefully prepared to reflect the season, the old man had placed a scroll with the sentiment, ichi go ichi e (performer points to each character) -"one meeting for all eternity." Since we may only meet each other once in this lifetime, we need to treasure each encounter as though it might be the last. This meant that the old man should have been thinking about his guests.
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But the old man was so worried about having everything just right that he often forgot all about his guests. Had he put out the best sweets? Had he heated the water to the right temperature? Were his bowls and utensils fine enough? These thoughts crowded into his mind. The netsuke could see that the old man had forgotten the real meaning of the tea ceremony, but how could he let him know? Sometimes the old man was so distracted he forgot other things too...
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One day, when the old man was preparing tea for very special guests, the daruma netsuke noticed that he had forgotten the futaoki, the bamboo rest on which he would place the lid from the tea pot. Oh, how impatient and angry the old man would be with himself when he found out!
9
Soon, the old man would have to notice. As he took the scoop and transferred it to the other hand, he would look for the futaoki. What could the daruma do? Suddenly…
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Poka!... koro, koro, koro, koro... the daruma broke off from the chord where he was fastened and rolled koro, koro to stand where…
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the futaoki would have stood! When the old man saw this he was amazed and delighted. "What a thoughtful little netsuke!" he cried, laughing at the coincidence. For the first time, he realized he had never felt this light of spirit when doing the tea ceremony before. He had been so impatient and distracted, he had not been thoughtful of his guests!
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From that day on, he always kept his little daruma netsuke as a futaoki to remind himself that harmony in his heart and thinking of his guests was more important than all the perfection of his tea utensils or technique. (Pause) In this way, many years passed, but one day…
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The daruma netsuke found himself in darkness. What had happened to the old man? Was he no longer useful? Why was he bumped about so, but never allowed to see the light of day? Sometimes he could see a thin streak of light, (pull card slightly out and then back in) but then he would be plunged into darkness again. In this way many, many years passed…Had his life with the old man been but a dream? (Pause) But one day, quite suddenly (pull card half way out quickly).
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The lid opened and light streamed in. When the daruma netsuke's eyes adjusted to the light, he could see a woman's face, smiling down on him. "Why, what a beautifully carved little netsuke!" she cried. (Pull rest of card). "He must be very old. I wonder how long he has been stored away like this. I'll take him with me to show everyone.".
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Suddenly, the daruma netsuke was plunged into the soft darkness of the woman's pocket, but he struggled to peek out and what he saw was so strange and unfamiliar! Where was he? What the daruma netsuke didn't know was that he had not only traveled through more than a hundred years of time, but he had also traveled thousands of miles to a new country.
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But, when the daruma netsuke managed to get out ofthe woman's pocket, he rolled koro, koro, koro, koro onto something very familiar indeed! It was a tatami mat, and he was in a tearoom! The woman was serving tea, just like his friend the old man had done, only she poured the water from the pot, instead of scooping it out. And her guests looked very different too! But what pleased the daruma netsuke the most was the feeling of harmony in the room! lchigo ichie--one meeting, one eternity-the daruma remembered.
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From the carps pictured on the scroll and the irises in the flower-arrangement in the tokonoma, the daruma netsuke knew it was Spring. Yes, through patience, he had found his way home at last, and koro, koro, koro, koro, he rolled into the tokonoma to watch the ceremony. The end. | {
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There seems to be no middle ground with Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn (1949), a historical drama made in England though set in 1830s Australia. Most Hitchcock admirers dislike it. Hitch himself considered it an almost total failure. Even during production co-star Joseph Cotten disparagingly referred to it as "Under Corny Crap." It was an expensive flop, to the $2.5-$3 million production losing money, the bank even repossessing Hitch's rights.
But the French loved it, thinking it one of Hitchcock's all-time best films, and for at least 40 years a handful of determined English-speaking film theorists have written exhaustively about its supposed qualities. That's probably why it turned up in a cinema class I audited around 1978-79. Watching the rented 16mm print, I was bored out of my mind, and only the new Blu-ray made me want to revisit it again. (Needless to say, the video transfer here is far superior to that print.)
The movie is not without interest and plays somewhat better if the viewer goes into it not expecting a typical or even minor Hitchcock thriller. The story has faint echoes of Hitchcock's first American success, Rebecca (1940), but it's not a suspense thriller in the usual sense.
In rough and rugged Sydney, Australia, the new Governor, Sir Richard (Cecil Parker), arrives to take charge of the region, accompanied by his rebellious second cousin, Charles Adare (Michael Wilding), a gentleman with no means of support.
Ignoring Sir Richard's strict instructions to the contrary, Charles accepts an offer from landowner Samson Flusky (Joseph Cotten), a convicted murderer and transported convict, now wealthy and married to Irish aristocrat Lady Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman), where years before in Dublin Flusky had been the family's stable boy.
Charles agrees to Flusky's dodgy land deal to financially benefit both men, but more importantly the hazily alcoholic Lady Henrietta, socially shunned and near the point of madness, lights up when she learns that Charles is a close friend of her sister back in Ireland. Recognizing the positive influence Charles seems to have over his wife, Flusky invites Charles to stay on at the estate.
Charles gradually makes significant progress with Lady Henrietta's recovery, but this does not please the longtime housekeeper, Milly (Margaret Leighton), virtually the lady of the house during her mistress's long illness, and secretly in love with Flusky herself. Like Iago she begins hinting (none too subtly) that Charles and Lady Henrietta, he clearly in love with her by this point, are having a clandestine affair.
Hitchcock had recently broke free of his long-term contract with meddlesome producer David O. Selznick, striking out on his own. With British businessman Sidney Bernstein Hitchcock formed Transatlantic Pictures, making Rope (1948) in Hollywood and Under Capricorn in the U.K., both distributed initially by Warner Bros. Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946), each starring Ingrid Bergman, had been big critical and commercial hits, and landing her for Under Capricorn seemed like a shrewd commercial move.
Hitchcock soon realized his mistake. He doesn't say so directly in the audio interview excerpt included on the Blu-ray (lifted from the Truffaut interviews of the mid-1960s), but the idea of emphatically Swedish actress Bergman playing a high society Dubliner was ludicrous from the start. (Bergman affects a strange, vaguely Swedish-Irish accent.) By contrast, Virginia-born Joseph Cotten, playing a onetime Irish stable boy long ago transplanted to Sidney, requires much less suspension of disbelief. He's very good (as the underrated actor almost always way) and his unusually good costumes add to the effect.
The most interesting thing about Under Capricorn is how it subverts slightly the usual class pecking order. Cotten, a former nobody, is a domineering presence, while servant class Millie assumes the role of lady-of-the-house in Lady Henrietta's absence. Charles is a gentleman but basically penniless and at Flusky's mercy, while both Flusky and Lady Henrietta rely on Millie for everything, unaware that she's facilitating her physical and psychological decline. And even though Flusky appears to be Sydney's largest landholder, he's unwelcome at an official ball of Irish expatriate society types.
In the audio clips Hitchcock places more blame on the screenplay, first entrusted to actor Hume Cronyn, whom Hitch unflatteringly calls a "total amateur," then passed along to playwright James Bridie, whom Hitch complains could never write a decent third act. The long film (nearly two hours) is excessively talky, especially for a visual storytelling master like Hitchcock, a much of the talk is insipid. Millie's Iago-like manipulations are painful in their obviousness. And when Charles tries to boost Lady Henrietta's spirits, early scenes have him encouraging her to take on "women's work": seeing to the linens, lording over the kitchen staff, etc. By today's standards Charles's words of encouragement aren't exactly liberating.
Hitchcock famously employed long takes in Rope, some as long as ten minutes, to create the impression of a story told in a single, unbroken "take." Under Capricorn does a little of this, though the longest takes here run probably no more than two or three minutes. However, the camera dollies around the scenery much more noticeably than the usual 1949 production, often effectively and never distractingly so. The downside is, probably because of this the sets are all evenly ablaze in mostly flat, high key lighting for nearly the entirety of the picture. Though photographed in three-strip Technicolor by the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Under Capricorn is visually unappealing. A bit of suspense toward the end exhibits a flash of atmospheric lighting the film could have used a lot more of. Hitchcock later admitted he was out of his depth attempting a historical costume picture, and nothing about it feels authentic, its many phony matte paintings, backlot sets and over-lit interiors being singularly unreal.
Video & Audio
The 4K restoration of Under Capricorn is mostly very impressive. Some of the close-ups of Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten dazzle, though scattered shots, particularly process dissolves, exhibit misaligned matrixes and there's some damage here and there. But the color is vividly accurate for the most part and the extreme detail would be revelatory if the movie was better. The DTS-HD mono, supported by optional English subtitles, is a little tinny during the film's thunderstorm sequence, but is likewise mostly very good. Region "A" encoded.
Extra Features
Once again, Kino impresses with its ramped-up commitment to supplements. Included here is a audio commentary featuring Kat Ellinger, but the really noteworthy extras are 12-odd minutes of audio of Hitchcock discussing the film with director Francois Truffaut for his seminal book; and "Cinema of Signs," a fascinating short film featuring director Claude Chabrol discussing Hitchcock and Under Capricorn in particular from the perspective of the French New Wave. A trailer rounds out the extra features.
Parting Thoughts
Lesser Hitchcock for sure, but still worth seeing and a must for completists. Recommended. | {
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News, 1/23/2009
New Ambassadors and Consuls General
The President of the Republic appointed today on the 23rd of January, the following persons as Heads of diplomatic missions abroad:
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Lars Backström as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Beijing, China as from 1 September 2009
Currently, Backström is serving as the Finnish Ambassador in Bangkok, a position held by him since 2005.
Backström entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1982, and he has served the Finnish Embassies in Mexico City, Ankara and Lagos as well as Finland's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York and Finland's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels. In the Ministry, he has worked for the Political Department and, during 1997-2005, as Director of the Unit for Humanitarian Assistance.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Maarit Jalava as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark as from 1 September 2009.
Currently, Jalava occupies the post of Administrative Director of the Administrative Services of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She has been serving in this position since 2007.
Jalava joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1976 and has worked in the Ministry in the Administrative Department and the Department for External Economic Relations as well as the Department for Africa and the Middle East. From 1999 to 2004, she served as Director of the Terms of Employment Unit and as Director of the Personnel Unit from 2004 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, held the post of Deputy Director General of the Administrative Department. She has also served the Finnish Embassy in Stockholm.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Laura Kakko as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2005, Kakko has been performing the duties of Deputy Director General of the Department for Europe of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Kakko started her career in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1990. In the Ministry, she has worked in the Press and Culture Department, the Political Department, the Unit for Asia, North America and Oceania as well as the Department for International Development Cooperation. She served as Director of the Unit for Neighbouring Area Cooperation of the Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia during the years 2003-2005. Her diplomatic career has taken her to New Delhi, and she has served Finland's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels, and the Finnish Embassy in Moscow.
Before joining the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Kakko served in various duties in the Finnish Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Antti Kuosmanen as Head of the Finland's Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris, France as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2005, Kuosmanen has been serving as the Finnish Ambassador in Beijing.
Antti Kuosmanen entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1976. He has served, i.a. in Geneva and Brussels as Deputy Head of Finland's Permanent Representation to the European Community. In the Ministry, he has occupied the post of Director of the integration office of the Department for External Economic Relations and as Deputy Director General of the EU Secretariat during Finland's EU membership negociations. From 1996 to 2002, he was Director General of the General Affairs and External Relations Council of the Council of the EU. Kuosmanen served as Director General of the Department for External Economic Relations from 2002 to 2005.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Pertti Majanen as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Dublin, Ireland as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2005, Majanen has been serving as Director of Finland's Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris.
Majanen, who joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1974, has served the Finnish Embassies of Dar es Salaam and San José. He has occupied the post of Ambassador in the Finnish Embassy in Manila. As for his career in the Ministry, he has served in various duties in the Department for International Development Cooperation, i.a. as Director of the NGO Liaison Unit and the Units for Asia and Latin America. During 1995-1997, he was Director of the Unit of Development Policy and Coordination of the Department for International Development Cooperation.
From 2000 to 2005, he served as Under-Secretary of State for International Development Cooperation.
Appointment of Under-Secretary of State Marjatta Rasi as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Vienna, Austria as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2005, Rasi has occupied the post of Under-Secretary of State for International Development Policy.
Rasi entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1969. She has served the Finnish Embassies in London and Paris, and Finland's Permanent Mission to the United Nations. She has served as the Finnish Ambassador in Delhi during 1991-1995 and as Finland's Ambassador to the UN in 1997-2005. As for her career in the Ministry, she has occupied i.a. the post of Director of the Political Department and Director General of the Department for International Development Cooperation in the years 1995-1997.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Alpo Rusi as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2007, Rusi has been serving as Ambassador in the Staff of the Chairman of the of the 63rd General Assembly of the UN, and he was in charge i.a. of issues related to the reform of the UN and security as well as relations between the EU and the UN.
Rusi entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1973. He has served the Finnish Consulate General in Hamburg, the Embassy in Copenhagen, Finland's Permanent Mission to the UN and the Finnish Embassy in Bonn. As for his career in the Ministry, Rusi has worked for the Political Department as Director of the Unit of Planning and Research, Director of the Unit for Western Countries, Consulting Counsellor for European Affairs, and in the Unit for Western Balkans of the Department for Europe. During 2004-2007, he performed the duties of Roving Ambassador for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. In addition to these duties, he acted as Chairman of a working group assessing the future of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe.
From 1994 to 1999, Rusi performed the duties of Political Advisor to the President of the Republic, and in 1999-2000, as vice coordinator of the Stability Pact for the Western Balkans. Doctor of Social Sciences Rusi also held the post of Professor of International Policy of the University of Lapland in the beginning of the 2000s.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Pilvi-Sisko Vierros-Villeneuve as Head of the Finnish Embassy in Paris, France as from 1 September 2009.
Currently, Vierros-Villeneuve is serving as Director General of the Political Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, a position held by her since 2005.
Vierros-Villeneuve, who joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1984, has served Finland's Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva, the Finnish Embassy in Paris and Finland's Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels. As for her career in the Ministry, she has performed various duties in the Department for External Economic Relations and the Political Department. From 2000 to 2004, she served as Director of the Unit for Arms Control of the Political Department. She has carried on post-graduate studies inthe Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in France during 1988-1989.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Eero Suominen as Head of the Finnish Consulate General in Canton, China as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2005, Suominen has been performing the duties of Minister-Counsellor in the Finnish Embassy in Vienna. He had entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1995. In the Ministry, he has worked in the Department for External Economic Relations, the Department for International Development Cooperation and Political Department, and the EU Secretariat. From 2000- 2005, he was Director of the Training Unit of the Adminstrative Department of the Ministry.
As for working for Finnish missions abroad, he has served the Finnish Embassies in Mexico City, Bonn, Rome and Finland's Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels.
Appointment of Counsellor of Foreign Affairs Erja Tikka as Head of the Finnish Consulate General in Hamburg, Germany as from 1 September 2009.
Since 2007, Tikka has held the position of Deputy Director General of the Department for Communication and Culture of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. From 2001 to 2007, she served as Director of the Information Unit of the Department.
Tikka started in the service of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1985 in the Press and Culture Unit and has worked as a Press Officer in the Finnish Embassies in Bonn and London.
During her career, Tikka has also performed the duties of Secretary of the Finnish Centre Party during the period 1990-1994. Before joining the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, she performed various duties in international organisations and as a reporter.
Appointment of Administrative Second Secretary Maria Sorsa as Head of the Finnish Consulate in Las Palmas, Spain as from 1 September 2009.
Currently, Sorsa is working for the Unit for Security Policy and Crisis Management of the Political Department of the Ministry.
She started her career inthe Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1976, and, in the Ministry, she has worked for the Administrative Department, the Department for External Economic Relations and the Department for International Development Cooperation. Sorsa has performed various duties in the Finnish Embassies in Havanna, Madrid, Stockholm, Nairobi, Rome, Washington and Athens. From 2004-2008 she occupied the post of Consul in the Finnish Embassy in Madrid. | {
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Innovation (Finalist)
North Canton-based Area Wide Protective (AWP) Inc. hires traffic control specialists, or flaggers, at an incredibly high rate of 300 workers per week — a particularly challenging task given the high rate of turnover in the field.
Making this task even more cumbersome is the intensive hiring and onboarding process. That's where Heather Adamson comes in, as she was charged with putting in place a process that could handle this high volume.
She led the charge on selecting and implementing a new applicant tracking system and establishing a process that allowed online applicants to move through the hiring process with incredible speed, the nomination said. Also, this process was implemented over only five weeks, allowing the company to immediately improve its recruiting, according to the nomination.
Now, the background check process, drug screen and personality assessment are integrated in the recruiting process to "eliminate these touch points" that were historically handled manually, the nomination said.
"Heather tackled the difficult task of high volume traffic control hiring with the open mind of a college freshman and the grit of a prize fighter" AWP president and CEO John P. Sypek wrote in the nomination. "She assembled a team to research best practices, flexible technology, and performance metrics, hired a team of like-minded, 'accomplish-the-mission' professionals, and the outcome has been a recruiting and hiring platform that provides us a sustainable, competitive advantage in the marketplace meeting the ever increasing demands of our customers with quality people."
Also as part of this transformation, AWP's orientation and hiring process has been shortened dramatically. According to the nomination, applicants who apply on Thursday are scheduled to start orientation and training the following Monday.
"Given current hiring benchmarks of 300 confirmed new employees per week, this reduction in time and expense represents a tremendous savings," the nomination said.
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The
FIA
(the international motorsports sanctioning body run by
French Bureaucrats) has never really had a good understanding
of motorsports in the US.
Relations between the various and sundry US based racing bodies are
erratic at best,
with the occasional sanctioning body war thrown in for good measure,
breaking up the periods of apparent peace.
It's enough to drive a french civil servant nuts.
A list of North American sanctioning bodies is being developed
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W&W has made a ton of waves in 2017 so far. Mostly because the duo launched a new alias, NWYR, which focuses entirely on trance. While W&W at one point made solely trance, they have since crossed over to almost only big room house. The new alias was met with widespread approval and has had massive success, including a stunning debut at Ultra Miami.
2 New Single On The Horizon
Today W&W tweeted out that new music was to be released this week. One under their W&W project and another as NWYR. Fans have taken to twitter to heavily guess that the NWYR release will be the Ultra ID that is still only known as ‘Drago'. We hope that this is the case as the tune is absolutely incredible. That being said no official news on the release has been announced. While there is no official word on which day the tracks will drop, we imagine both will be released this Friday. Check out the tweet and ID from Ultra below!
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The last post by Villane was in Feburary and the last commit at github was in June 2009, and I've become interested in Scala lately so I thought I would ask what's going on with this project.
Also, I downloaded the code and tried to run the test bed, but the jars for lwjgl in the project are too old to work with the more recent native libraries I have, and when I switched to the old ones I get this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\Users\Jarl\Desktop\scalabox2d\scalabox2d-testbed\lwjgl.dll: Can't find dependent libraries at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1803) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1728) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:823) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1028) at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:72) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65) at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81) at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98) at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:129) at org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer$1.run(AppGameContainer.java:39) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.newdawn.slick.AppGameContainer.<clinit>(AppGameContainer.java:36) at org.villane.box2d.testbed.slick.TestbedRunner$.main(TestbedRunner.scala:25) at org.villane.box2d.testbed.slick.TestbedRunner.main(TestbedRunner.scala)
But re: the jars, have you tried just swapping out all the old ones for the new ones? I'm sure you'll have to do some tidying up after the fact, but I'm pretty sure LWJGL has been at least mostly API stable for quite a while now, so I can't imagine you'd need to do too much editing.
Or is it a matter of getting things to link right that you're having trouble with? What IDE do you use, if that's the case?
But I got the testbed working, I didn't swap out the jars for lwjgl because, well, I don't know exactly what maven is or how it works but as far as I could tell I was not allowed to use a jar that wasn't on some server(the github repository?), clicking on the libraries node only allows me to, "Add Dependencies," an option that won't let me just browse my computer for jars.
The solution to my problem was to add JAVA_HOME\jdk1.6.0_18\jre\bin to my Path, I use 64-bit Windows 7.
I haven't had any time to work on it, but when I find time (no idea when exactly, might be December) I'll finish porting it to Scala 2.8, then we'll see what happens next.Besides the upgrade in Scala version, I want to bring it up to date with the latest Box2D release.
One thing that has gained my interest lately is the possibility of compiling Scala to LLVM IR (someone is working on it: https://github.com/greedy/scala/), which might have better overall performance and faster calls to native code than the JVM. It would be interesting to get scalabox2d working on that if it's ever completed.
Quick update: I started working on it again, but it seems the C++ Box2D has changed so much that in order to not miss anything, I'm doing a full port again. Not quite from scratch, I'm copying classes from the old code, but this time I'm porting from the bottom-up, so I'll have compiling code all the time. And I'm going over the C++ code line by line basically to see what needs changing in Scala code. I hope to have it done in a month.
Update: as you've probably noticed, it's been way more than a month and no news. I suffered a hard disk crash and after I got the data restored, I didn't have as much time any more I hope I will find time to continue this, but I'm not sure when.
In other news, I started working on my own programming language that has a somewhat Scala-like syntax, but compiles to machine code (using LLVM), taking advantage of SSE instructions where possible. I want it to be a good language for writing games, so when I get far enough with implementing the language features and compiler, I may do a new port of Box2D in my own language. Currently complex 2D vector ops already compile to just a few SSE instructions. For example SSE4.1 has dot product as a single instruction.( I'm documenting the project at http://villane.wordpress.com/ )
Sorry guys, I am no longer working on the Scala port. If anyone wants to take over the project, just fork it on github -- https://github.com/Villane/scalabox2d/ At least I am not making any long term plans for it -- I may take it up again one day if I feel like it, but don't have plans to keep maintaining it.
-- off topic shameless plug follows --
I've made some progress with my own programming language, but it's not ready for the public yet. However, one of the first "programs" in it is probably going to be a simplified Box2D port with a small testbed. The language is pretty much geared towards math syntax, a mix of OOP/Functional programming and good performance with control over memory use.
Here's an example of a 2x2 matrix implementation: https://gist.github.com/3767858 I've been doing some low-level microbenchmarks and noted that the LLVM compiler optimizes away a separate transpose function on the matrix. So 'm.transpose * v' has the same performance as 'm mulT v'. So I am able to save implementing a lot of duplicate functions for performance reasons. Also, the mathematical syntax allows to write things like: rotᵀ * (v - pos). And it should be as fast as the C++ code that inlines some of that computation.
If someone who isn't as concerned about performance as I was wants to take over the Scala port -- I just realized that there are some nice opportunities there to take advantage of a more functional programming style -- and with recent optimizations in JVM's, the performance might even not be that much worse.
So it might be a nice exercise to practice going from imperative to functional programming -- because a lot of the code there is still as imperative as the original.
the edgeSeparation function is pretty much the same as in the C++ version. It's even harder to read because of the inlining of some operations, but disregarding that it still isn't much more concise. But what it essentially boils down to is (in pseudocode, not exactly Scala):
This is assuming there would be a findMin function in the library, which there probably isn't, but it should be easy enough to add as a separate function or "extension method". [EDIT] There is that function in Scala 2.9 at least, it's called minBy
I'd actually love to go and do things like this myself just as an exercise, and then compare performance with imperative version, but I don't have the time | {
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Author: yarncove
I grew up in pre-oil boom Newfoundland and Labrador. Most of my friends from high school and university are scattered across Canada and around the world, simply because most opportunities were elsewhere.
So it was great to see my old buddy Gilbert in town. Gilbert is a pilot based in Nova Scotia, and his work takes him all over the globe. A few of us went out for a pint at the Duke of Duckworth to catch up. Gilbert mentioned my knitting and wondered if I could make a pair of traditional Newfoundland trigger mitts for a retirement gift for one of his colleagues.
At which point, my friend Danielle added, “Yeah, Heather – I meant it when I asked if you could knit that sweater for me!”
Two commissions!
First, the trigger mitts, since the retirement gift was needed by the end of the month. I had been wanting to try one of the latest patterns from Spindrift Handknits, called the Wesleyville Trigger Mitt, and this was the perfect chance.
I did the 21st century thing – put out an appeal on Facebook, and within the day, I had bought enough dark grey from a friend’s stash to finish the project.
I’m just throwing it out there to all purveyors of knitting supplies in the St. John’s area: Briggs and Little REGAL yarn is an essential supply for all the traditional N.L. knits – If you stock it, we will buy it!!
Anyhow – back to the commissions. Danielle and I needed to go wool shopping.
As we were talking that night at the Duke of Duckworth, I mentioned that of all out of my friends, I have probably lived the most of my life in Newfoundland. Which is fine, but I think it would be nice to spend an extended period of time somewhere else, just for a change.
Gilbert said, “Well, just put the money for those triggers mitts in your trip fund.”
As for Danielle’s sweater, it’s already prepaid. You see, Danielle and her husband Jean-Marc lived for a couple of years in the south of France. My husband and I got to stay in their vacant apartment for a holiday a couple of years ago.
I should probably knit Danielle’s entire wardrobe for the rest of her life.
I love a sale. I pride myself on buying anything at full price as rarely as possible.
So when I heard Posie Row was having a big sale this past weekend – I got myself downtown as quickly as possible.
Posie Row is a funky gift and clothing shop in downtown St. John’s, which has recently expanded. Upstairs, the rooms are small micro-shops, rented to other local businesspeople. It’s kind of a cool little indie mall.
It’s where Cast On Cast Off, the knitting shop with the fanciest yarn in town, has relocated – to a scenic third floor space.
I headed directly upstairs to check out the sale at Cast On Cast Off. I also had a skein of yarn left over from a previous project to return for store credit.
Store credit in hand, I browsed the sumptuous shelves. What to buy? Struck with indecision, I surrendered to my woolly surroundings and let the yarn choose me.
Now that Christmas knitting is over, it’s time for a little “me” knitting.
Most of my gift and commission knitting tends to be Newfoundland traditional style pieces made with Briggs and Little yarn. I’ve been itching to work with yarn that’s different in size, texture and colour. Plus, other people get to wear stuff I made, so why shouldn’t I?
It’s vanity project time.
I made a short poncho as a Christmas gift out of some hand dyed Queensland yarn I snagged at a sale a few months back. I had loads left over, and it’s really nice. Obviously, I need a beret.
I had some soft acrylic solid and variegated yarn left over from a dog sweater. In addition to looking sharp on a chihuahua, I thought those yarns might look pretty good on me.
Despite knitting a gauge swatch, it quickly became clear that this mitten would be way too small for my hand. Also, both yarns were pulling in on the wrong side of the mitten, making it even smaller on the inside. But it was so pretty I had to finish it. It reminds me of a stained glass window.
Now for the biggest vanity project of all: a sweater. I have admired the February Lady Sweater pattern on Ravelry for ages, and I calculated that it could be made it in one of my favourite yarns, Cascade 220.
Sweaters are a good idea in theory, but I get impatient with longer projects and I get nervous about sizing.
I’ve made gauge swatches, I’ve taken measurements, I’ve even compared stitch numbers with another Cascade 220 sweater, and I’m well into the February Lady project. I still can’t tell whether it will fit me or even be wearable once it’s done.
Oh well, it’s January. The weather is miserable. There are new things to watch on Netflix. I have passed the point of no return on this sweater.
The Geek Bar is a new pub on the west end of Duckworth Street in downtown St. John’s – formerly (still?) known as the Rock House Pub. It’s a space for sci-fi enthusiasts, board game aficionados and avid crafters. If you are going to drink a pint and knit at the same time, this is the place to do it.
The excellent Katie Garibaldi, owner of Cast On Cast Off, organized it all as a way to celebrate her knitting shop’s new location, on the third floor of the Posie Row shopping complex further east on Duckworth.
She even had limited edition Cast On Cast Off beer glasses made for the occasion!
The evening started early – at 6:30 p.m. My friend Sheila and I were dropped down there a few minutes early, knitting bags in hand. There was a lineup outside. In the rain.
We joined the queue, and joked about the bad old days when we’d be standing out in the rain one street below us – on George Street – to get into a dance club or to see a band.
The doors were unlocked promptly at 6:30 and a bar staffer wearing a Stormtrooper helmet welcomed us in.
All the available seating was quickly filled by knitters and a few rogue crocheters.
Projects on the go ranged from the big (a crocheted afghan) to the small (a figure of Eleven, the character from Stranger Things).
There were some notable members of the St. John’s knitterati there, and lots of other people I’d never met before. Mostly women, and a few brave men. Sheila and I shared our table with an archaeology student from Ontario and one of Sheila’s former elementary school students. It was cool to meet younger knitters.
There are a few knitting groups that meet around town, but this was, by far, the largest group of knitters I have seen assemble in St. John’s. Also the most diverse, in terms of people, projects and levels of ability.
All hands agreed that this Knit Night was a hit – and many of us suggested to Katie that she make this a regular thing. As many of us knit mostly at home, it’s a good way to get out of the house and still scratch that woolly itch.
As Shirl the Purl said when we said our goodbyes at the end of the evening, “May the knit be with you!”
You’d think with my obsessive knitting, I’d have a shop full of stock by now.
However, since I hold down a full time job and I live in a house with other people, I have plenty of distractions to keep me from knitting around the clock.
At this point, I make enough socks, mitts, and other assorted woolly things to keep everyone in my life in homemade gifts, with a small surplus left over.
There was enough surplus this year to bring a small selection of knitted goods to a staff craft fair at my office.
We had a lovely selection of things on sale. Hand painted greeting cards, Christmas ornaments, jewelry, maple table centrepieces, and lots of baked goods. I work with a talented and crafty bunch of people.
It was a bit of a strange experience, watching shoppers – my friends – browse through the wares. I found myself hoping they would select one of my things to purchase. It was surprisingly stressful.
It also gave me some insight into my own twacking/window shopping habits at craft fairs. I’m notorious for browsing, examining, then moving on to the next table, and the next. Until our little staff event, I didn’t realise that a browsing but non-committal customer can feel like a small hope dashed; a micro-judgment on your creations.
After a couple of days, like all the others who took part in the craft fair, I made a reasonable number of sales. Through additional word of mouth, I am working on a few more pairs of socks, for later seasonal shoppers. So in the end, it all worked out.
From now on, I’m going to try to be less of a window shopper and more of a buyer when I’m oohing and aahing over locally made items.
The experience also makes me realise that I’m not a natural entrepreneur. I’m used to work diligently for a reasonable and predictable salary.
Newfoundland and Portugal have a long, connected history. Portuguese fishermen came to Newfoundland for centuries to fish for cod – or as they call it – bacalhau – and here in Newfoundland, we have long enjoyed port wine from Porto in the form of Newman’s Port.
In modern urban Portuguese supermarkets, you can still buy an old-school salt cod. You can’t find this at my local Sobeys.
I was also delighted to find out that we share another thing in common: knitting.
I saw this bin of familiar looking wool socks at a souvenir shop in Aveiro, Portugal. (Which happens to be the place that, historically, made the salt that dried the cod from Newfoundland.)
Portugal has a long tradition of knitting. It was especially important in rural areas of northern Portugal, where women used wool taken from local sheep to knit socks and sweaters. Usually, the yarn was not dyed and of a natural beige/grey colour.
My father backs this up, citing the Portuguese fishermen he used to watch playing football (soccer) on the harbour apron in St. John’s several decades ago. He remembers them wearing “greyish” knit sweaters.
I’ve been doing a bit on online research on knitting in Portugal since I’ve been back. There’s a bit of information on the Wool Route of northern Portugal and northern Spain, and lots of information on the Portuguese knitting technique as used in South America, but surprisingly little to be found on the role of knitting in Portuguese life.
This is a good reason to make a return trip to Portugal – there is knitting research to be done!
In my house, travel is our weakness. When faced with replacing a frayed couch or renovating a back deck, we’ll choose none of the above and buy a pair of seat sale airplane tickets.
That’s how we wound up taking a trip to Portugal recently. Nine days we would be away. The burning question: how much knitting gear do I need to pack?
First thing: what to knit? Chunky traditional socks tend to be always in demand, so this seemed like a good time to top up my pre-Christmas inventory. Also, I knit socks on circular needles, so I wouldn’t be sticking my elbows or long straight needles into other airplane passengers.
Next thing: how much will I knit? Assuming I`ll knit a lot while in transit, and not so much when in full blown tourist mode, let’s assume three pairs of socks at most.
Our holiday started when I cast on my first sock in the airport lounge in St. John’s.
For the next nine days I knit on airplanes, trains, even during a brutal two-hour lineup at customs in Lisbon. I also knit at cafes, and on sunny roof terraces.
When I look at the completed socks, I can remember where I was during the different stages of construction . I was just starting the second green sock when the stunning cast-iron bridges over the Duoro river came into view. I finished the red one at our rented flat in Porto. And I worked on the stripes of the grey pair on our sunny rooftop terrace in Lisbon.
The knitting came in handy in staving off air rage when we were delayed on the tarmac in Lisbon and then took a longer route back to Canada. I knit most of a complete pair of socks in the 12 hours I was squished into an economy seat. It`s healthier than drinking those little bottles of Chateau Air Canada.
Total projects completed: five and one-third socks. I ran out of green yarn on the Porto to Lisbon train.
Oh – and Portugal is beautiful. I managed to stop knitting long enough to notice.
Many of us get our knitting patterns online these days, but Shirley “Shirl the Purl” Scott kicks it old school – and she has amassed an impressive collection of knitting books.
Shirl has been doing a bit of downsizing lately, and she has donated much of her large collection of knitting books to Spindrift Handknits.
I was lucky enough to be amongst a select group of townie knitters invited to the Spindrift Handknits HQ for the opening of the Shirley A. Scott Knitters’ Library.
After the customary coffee, tea and cookies, we broke out our knitting, and sat down to listen to Shirl’s short and colourful talk about her collection.
Shirl had a long career as a librarian, and she has assembled a collection of knitting books with that trade’s attention to detail.
Most of her books focus on North Atlantic knitting.
There are books on Shetland, Fair Isle and German Sweaters. Estonian and Norwegian Mittens. Swedish socks. American midwestern/Scandinavian jackets. There’s also the scattered Japanese lace manual thrown into the mix.
It’s all a bit mind blowing.
A few fun facts from Shirl:
American knitters are credited with most of the English language translations of these northern knitting patterns.
Most knitting books are published with a copyright, but not a copyright date, to make knitters less likely to judge whether a pattern is in or out of fashion.
Japanese patterns rely mostly on graphs and numbers, so even if you can’t read Japanese, you can probably figure out a pattern.
Shirl, goddess of knitting that she is, is like the rest of us mere mortal knitters in at least one respect. Although she has amassed this amazing collection of knitting patterns, she has attempted only a handful of them. We all have good intentions.
We finished off the afternoon with a round of knitting trivia and another round of coffee and sweet treats.
I feel like I have entered a secret society of sorts; kind of like the Freemasons, but with wool.
The Shirley A. Scott Knitters’ Library is accessible through Spindrift Handknits by request.
I approach my knitting needs the way I approach groceries. I buy ‘em as I need ‘em. I have a project in mind. I go to the yarn shop and buy the supplies. When I have finished that project, I buy another skein or two for another project.
Then recently, on a trip to my go-to yarn shop, I saw an ominous sign in the window.
The owner is retiring and selling the building. She says the probable buyer wants to carry on with the yarn business, but a change in my yarn-drug dealer comes with a risk.
I need to start a stash.
Many of you have epic stashes. I hear tales of rooms full of yarn that you know you will never live long enough to knit.
But I have to start somewhere.
First, I made a list of all the yarns I have used in past projects, and that I’m likely to use again.
Then I hit the sale, which was a little underwhelming. “Sale” was more about thinning out the shop’s hoarder-like stock by a few skeins.
One of the yarns on my list, Diamond Select Ultra, was on sale, so I bought half of dozen of those. I bought some Cascade 220 at full price for a sweater I might make next winter. And then I picked up a few sale skeins that looked interesting. I’m just a wild and crazy gal.
I’m also looking for alternative sources.
Briggs and Little, the yarn I use for most of the trad Newfoundland-style knits, is relatively easy to find. On some excursions around the bay I found some shops in smaller communities that sell it, so I snapped some up.
Yes, I know there is online ordering.
But to me, buying yarn in person is part of the process and part of the pleasure. I like to feel the quality of the yarn before I buy. I look at the colours in natural light. I put skeins side by side, colour by colour, to look at potential. I have often gone to the yarn shop with one kind of yarn in mind for a project, but leave with something completely different and way better.
So – in grocery terms – my stash is more of a “Oh, hams are on sale! I should buy a couple for the freezer” situation, than say, stocking up the bunker with several years’ worth of canned goods.
The funny thing is, now that I have all this yarn, I’m a bit paralyzed by choice. What am I going to make next?
So Signal Hill is spectacular, but not for the faint of heart. Kind of like the Signal Hill socks are for me.
Rayna set me up well, though – with a beautiful skein of hand dyed Tanis Fiber Arts Superwash Merino from her personal stash – and lots of encouragement and occasional emergency advice.
Like a hike up Signal Hill in high winds, this pattern requires my full concentration and skill.
I had to change my usual habit of knitting in front of the television, or in a waiting room, or in a car – basically any situation in which most people stare at their phones.
I knit the Signal Hill socks sitting upright at a table, with an overhead light on, the drapes wide open, using my full concentration.
I tried several methods of cabling – using a cable needles, cabling without needles, and I finally settled on a hybrid technique, in which I put the cable stitch on a stitch holder, then slid it back to the left needle for knitting.
But like a hike up Signal Hill on a windy day, the sense of accomplishment I got when I reached the tops of the toes is as spectacular as the view. Here are my socks and I at the top of Signal Hill.
I try to wear my Signal Hill socks in a way that I can show them off – with cropped pants, shorts, etc. Like running up the actual Signal Hill, you have to brag a bit about the feat. (And about the feet).
A word of caution: don’t expect me to gift you with a pair of Signal Hill socks anytime soon. Like running up Signal Hill, I don’t expect to be repeating these socks on a daily basis. | {
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The Ministry published inflated production records, regardless of the fact that in in reality, production was decreased. Because of this, the records showed that there was an enormous surplus of boots, and the people were going barefoot. | {
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Tag: Black History Month
As a middle-class white male, I know I'm not really in much of a position to bitch about being overlooked or disadvantaged. Still, I'll admit feeling a bit like the odd man out when one of my (formerly) favorite fast food establishments, McDonald's, launched their "I'm Lovin' It" ad campaign in 2003. Few things are more transparent and painful than when a business makes an obvious attempt to pander to minorities, because they usually do such a piss poor job.
Oh sure, fast food chains targeting black people is nothing new, so that's no big deal in and of itself. But historically for TV ads, it seems the chains had their regular campaigns and then they had their "black" ads, replete with awful R&B-esque music and sad attempts to look hip. But McDonald's took it to a whole new leve
The January/February 2008 issue of The History Channel Magazine (yes I subscribe) features some excellent content to commemorate Black History Month - a profile of prominent lawyer and rights activist William Henry Lewis and an expose of so-called sundown towns among them.
So imagine my dismay when I saw a full-page ad in the same issue for this:
Yeah I know that the reasons for the secession of the Southern states and the Civil War are numerous and complicated, but come on. This really is too much. Without even commenting on the utter tackiness of the ring itself - which I would expect to be worn by someone appearing on an episode of Cops - am I the only one who finds it a tad inappropriate that this thing is being advertised in the same issue of a magazine that shows pictures... | {
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Neil Heslin, holding a picture of himself with his son Jesse, testifies at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
Neil Heslin, the father of a 6-year-old boy who was slain in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, stoically faced down pro-gun activists last night.
More than 1,000 people attended a hearing before the Gun Violence Prevention Working Group at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on Monday to share their views on gun control, USA Today reported. Among them was Heslin, who held a large framed picture of himself and his son Jesse as he urged officials to consider strengthening gun laws in Connecticut.
But as he gave his emotional testimony, pleading with lawmakers to improve mental health options and to ban assault weapons like the one Adam Lanza used to murder his child and 25 other people, his speech was interrupted by dozens of audience members, The Connecticut Post reported.
“I still can't see why any civilian, anybody in this room in fact, needs weapons of that sort. You're not going to use them for hunting, even for home protection," Heslin said.
Undeterred, Heslin continued. "There are a lot of things that should be changed to prevent what happened."
Heslin's son, Jesse McCord Lewis, was described by friends as a happy child, The Post reported. A "little cowboy," Jesse reportedly liked to play with the fake horses at a local Western-themed restaurant. After he was shot and killed by Lanza, a line of police officers on horseback joined the motorcade at the boy's funeral.
"He was a boy that loved life. Lived it to the fullest…He was my son, he was my buddy, he was my best friend." Heslin said.
To honor their "irrepressible" son who dreamed of becoming an architect, a paleontologist and a lighthouse keeper, Benjamin Wheeler's parents have established Ben's Lighthouse, a group that supports the healing of Newtown's children in a safe, non-violent environment. Find out how you can get involved here.
To honor their smiley 6-year-old girl who loved to paint, Emilie Parker's parents have set the Emilie Parker Art Connection, an organization that supports the arts with funding for programs in the community and schools. Find out how you can get involved here.
Honored at his funeral by the very firefighters whose shoes he hoped to one day fill, Daniel Barden already knew his dream job at age 7 and how important it was to extend support to kids with special needs. To perpetuate his legacy, his parents launched the "What Would Daniel Do" movement to inspire people to treat one another with kindness as Daniel would. Learn more here.
A heroic teacher who reportedly hid some students during the shooting and died trying to shield them from bullets, Victoria Soto is being honored through two memorial funds. Donations to the Vicki Soto Memorial Fund can be mailed to P.O. Box 411, 411 Barnum Avenue Stratford, CT 06614. Donations can also be made to the Victoria Leigh Soto Endowed Memorial Scholarship Fund created by Eastern Connecticut State University to support students studying to become teachers who have unmet financial needs. Learn more here.
On Feb. 22, what would have been Charlotte Bacon’s seventh birthday, the little girl’s supporters will announce the winners of the Charlotte Bacon Act of Kindness Award. The initiative encourages people 18 and under to submit a drawing or story about an inspiring selfless act, along with $5 –- to support a fund for Sandy Hook shooting victims. Learn more here.
The heroic principal who died while lunging unarmed at Adam Lanza as he fired bullets at her students, according to officials, will be remembered through a fund set up in her honor. Find out how you can get involved in the Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung Memorial Fund here.
Rachel D’Avino, a behavioral therapist who shielded her students from bullets, according to ABC News, is being honored through a fund set up in her name. Find out how you can get involved with the Rachel Marie D’Avino Memorial Fund here.
To help the parents of Olivia Engel -- a 6-year-old girl who "had perfect manners" and was the "teacher's pet, the line leader" –- take time to grieve for their daughter, supporters have set up the Friends of the Engel Family Fund. Find out how you can donate here.
Her parents’ “little hummingbird,” Avielle Richman, 6, loved horses, Harry Potter and the color red and will be honored through a fund set up in her name. Contributions to the Avielle Richman Memorial Fund can be made to PO Box 686, Newtown, CT 06470.
Josephine Gay never learned to speak, but the girl with the “indomitable” spirit was social, affectionate and partook in rigorous therapy daily without complaint, according to a statement released by her parents. To help other kids with autism, who face many of the same struggles Josephine tackled head on, her family has set up “Joey’s Fund” through the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Find out how you can get involved here.
An “upbeat and kind” 6-year-old who loved to wear bright, flowery dresses, a neighbor told the Wall Street Journal, Madeleine Hsu will be honored through a memorial fund set up in her name. Donations can be sent to the Madeleine Hsu Memorial Fund, c/o Wells Fargo Bank, 26 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470
Dylan Hockley, 6, died in the arms of his favorite teacher, Anne Marie Murphy, according to a statement released by the family. His parents now hope to give other kids with autism the kind of specialized attention that helped Dylan thrive through a fund set up in his name. Donations to the Dylan Hockley Memorial Fund can be made online or sent to PO Box 553 Botsford, CT 06404.
To keep alive their daughter’s deep-seated love of animals, Catherine Violet Hubbard’s parents have asked supporters to donate to the Newtown Animal Shelter, an organization that cares for homeless, unwanted and abandoned animals. Find out how you can make a contribution in Catherine’s memory here.
An avid athlete who loved baseball and had already won his first “mini triathlon” at age 6, Chase Kowalski’s parents hope to honor their son’s vivacious spirit through a fund set up in his name and through a still developing project, called "Chase’s Place." Find out more here.
To honor the little boy who shared his mom’s love of horses, and often fell asleep in her arms, Jesse Lewis’ parents set up a memorial fund in his name that will pay for Jesse’s older brother’s education and college tuition. Find out how you can get involved here.
She was only 6 when she died, but Ana Grace Márquez-Greene had already cultivated a deep passion for singing and dancing, a passion her parents hope to make possible for other aspiring artists through a music scholarship fund at Western Connecticut State University. The Marquez-Greene family has also established a therapy fund to help them through the grieving process. Find out how you can involved here and here.
To honor their son whom they described as an "energetic, loving friend to all,” James R. Mattioli’s parents have set up a memorial fund in his name. Donations can be sent to the
James R. Mattioli Memorial Fund c/o Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main Street, Newtown CT 06470.
Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7, was a "girly girl" who loved playing dress-up and wearing pink, her grandmother told Irish Central, and her family hopes to keep her legacy alive through the Grace Memorial Fund at the Fairfield County Community Foundation. Donations can be mailed to the Fairfield County Community Foundation, 383 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851.
She died cradling Dylan Hockley, the autistic 6-year-old for whom she served as a teacher's aide, according NBC. Anne Marie Murphy's family hopes to keep alive her passion for helping kids with special needs by asking supporters to donate to the country's largest autism science and advocacy organization, Autism Speaks, in her honor. Learn more here.
A diehard Giants fan who was honored after his passing by his favorite player, Victor Cruz, according to the New York Daily News, Jack Pinto, 6, will be remembered through a fund set up in his name that will disperse money to organizations that help families in need. Find out how you can get involved with the Jack A. Pinto Charitable Fund here.
The youngest of the 20 children killed during the shooting, Noah Pozner leaves behind four siblings, including his twin sister and best friend, Arielle. Supporters have set up the Noah's Ark of Hope Fund to provide the little boy's siblings with counseling services, education and basic needs. Donations can be made online and checks can be mailed to Noah's Ark of Hope Fund 261 S. Main St. #332 Newtown, CT 06470.
To honor Caroline Previdi, a 6-year-old who loved to draw and dance, Beta Theta Pi –- the fraternity to which her father belonged –- launched a fund in her memory that will help support the grieving family and provide college tuition scholarships to worthy students majoring in Education, according to the New York Daily News. Find out how you can support the Caroline Previdi of Sandy Hook Elementary Memorial Scholarship Fund here.
Remembered as a little girl who adored horses, the movie “Free Willy” and playing with her two younger brothers, according to CBS, Jessica Rekos is being honored through a fund set up in her name. Donations can be sent to the Jessica Rekos Memorial Fund PO Box 713, Newtown, CT 06470-0713
When Lauren Rousseau landed a permanent substitute teaching job at Sandy Hook Elementary School, her mother told the NewsTimes it was the “best year of her life." A scholarship fund has been set up in her name through the Pi Beta Phi Foundation. Find out how you can get involved here.
School psychologist Mary Sherlach lunged toward Adam Lanza in an effort to stop the gunman and died while trying to protect her beloved students, officials said. Family members are honoring Sherlach's memory through a fund set up in her memory through the Fairfield County Community Foundation. Learn how you can get involved here.
Allison Wyatt "loved to laugh and was developing her own wonderful sense of humor,” her family wrote in a statement obtained by NBC. The Wyatts have established two funds in Allison’s memory –- the fund set up in her name will support charities in her honor and the second will provide Allison's younger sister with ongoing support and help pay for her college education. Donations payable to "Ben Wyatt as Custodian" can be mailed to Steve DeMartino, c/o TransAct Technologies Inc., One Hamden Center, 2319 Whitney Avenue, Suite 3B, Hamden, CT 06518. | {
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"'Round Springfield" is the 125th episode (the 22nd episode of season 6) of The Simpsons. It was first shown on television on 30 April 1995.[1] The episode was written by Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia based on a story idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss and the first episode directed by Steven Dean Moore. The episode features many cultural references, including Carole King's song "Jazzman", the actor James Earl Jones and the Kimba the White Lion/The Lion King controversy.
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Bart Simpson gets a stomachache after accidentally eating a jagged metal Krusty-O with his breakfast cereal. Lisa is the only one who believes him, however. Homer and Marge send him to school anyway. Bart struggles through the test. After finally convincing Mrs. Krabappel that he is actually ill, she lets him go and see the nurse. Bart collapses on the medical room floor. He is then taken to Springfield General Hospital where he undergoes surgery from Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Nick. It seems Bart has appendicitis.
While visiting Bart in the hospital, Lisa meets her hero, jazzman Bleeding Gums Murphy, in a bed in another ward. Later, Bleeding Gums gives Lisa his saxophone for her school recital. It starts off terribly (owing to most of the orchestra having their appendixes removed so they could miss school), but Lisa gets up and performs a solo routine, becoming the star of the show. Returning to the hospital the next day, Lisa becomes sad to learn that Bleeding Gums has died. Lisa is the only person who attends Bleeding Gums's funeral, and she vows to make sure that everyone in Springfield knows the name Bleeding Gums Murphy. Bart, meanwhile, sues Krusty the Clown and is given a $100,000 settlement. However, after Bart's attorney Lionel Hutz takes his "legal fees", Bart is left with only $500, though Bart seems to be okay with it.
Lisa is still sad. She decides that the best way to honor Bleeding Gums' memory is by having his album played at the local jazz station. Lisa spots it in the Android's Dungeon store for $250, but after hearing that Bleeding Gums is dead, Comic Book Guy doubles the price to $500. Bart then walks in with his $500 and, after remembering that Lisa was the only one who believed him about his stomach ache, Bart decides to buy the album with his money, and Lisa thanks him for it. When the station plays one of Bleeding Gums's songs, Lisa is disappointed because the station's tiny range still prevents anyone from hearing it. Lightning then strikes the antenna, giving it extra power and projecting it into every radio in Springfield. Lisa is finally satisfied. After proclaiming "that was for you Bleeding Gums," she turns to leave, but not before Bleeding Gums is seen from heaven to tell Lisa that she had made "an old jazz man happy". After saying a final goodbye, Lisa and Bleeding Gums jam to "Jazzman" one last time.
The title of this episode is a play on both the song 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk and the movie of the same name about an unhappy jazz musician.[2][3]
Bleeding Gums Murphy appears to Lisa in a cloud near the end of the episode with Darth Vader, Mufasa, and James Earl Jones saying "This is CNN". Despite the fact that all three characters were voiced by Jones, the characters in this scene were impersonated by cast member Harry Shearer; Jones himself guest starred in two episodes before.[4] Additionally, Mufasa accidentally saids "Kimba". He corrects himself by saying "Simba". This is a reference to controversy regarding The Lion King's similarity to the anime show Kimba the White Lion.[3][4] Lisa and Bleeding Gums play Carole King's song "Jazzman" in this scene and in the hospital earlier in the episode.[2] Bleeding Gums has to leave at the end of the scene because he has a date with the jazz singer Billie Holiday.[1] for the TV Show ER.[5]
Bleeding Gums appears on an episode of The Cosby Show. This is a reference to Cosby often getting jazz musicians he liked to appear on the show; in the episode, Cosby is voiced by The Simpsons regular Dan Castellaneta.[3] Lionel Hutz' "crack team of lawyers" Robert Shaporo and Albert Dershman are parodies of Robert Shapiro and Alan Dershowitz,[1] two of the defense attorneys at the O.J. Simpson murder case. The three drive away in a white Ford Bronco, the same car O.J. Simpson drove in his televised low-speed pursuit before his arrest.[5][6][3]
This was the first episode directed by Steven Dean Moore.[6] Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia, who were writers on The Critic and were big fans of The Simpsons, were happy to be able to write an episode.[7][8] The original story was based on a story idea by Al Jean and Mike Reiss.[1] The main story of the episode's first act sees Bart get appendicitis from eating a jagged metal Krusty-O. Mike Reiss's father, being a doctor, "sort of" acted as the medical consultant on this episode. He stated that "you can't get" appendicitis from eating a piece of metal, but the writers decided to do it anyway.[5] In his flashback, Murphy is shown as having a "$1,500 a day Fabergé egg habit"; Jean "didn't realize just how expensive" Fabergé eggs actually were, so the joke does not make much sense.[3]
This episode was the first to have a recurring character killed off on the show. The writers and production team felt that it would be a good, emotional storyline, which, through Lisa, could focus on the theme of sadness.[3] They decided that it could not be one of the main characters; Jean joked that "we wouldn't want it to be someone like Mr. Burns, that we'd obviously want to see in the show again".[3] But later Jean decided on Bleeding Gums Murphy, a character introduced in "Moaning Lisa", an episode of season 1; a flashback to "Moaning Lisa" is featured in the episode.[2]
Murphy was a fairly minor character, only appearing in 2 episodes of the show, but he appeared in the show's opening sequence and remained there after this episode,[5] until the opening was re-designed in season 20.[9] Moore's first ever job on the show was in the animation department for "Moaning Lisa" so he "appreciated" being able to direct this episode.[6] Reiss stated "I had been polling for years to kill Marge's mom but this was a better idea".[5] Actor Ron Taylor returned to guest star as Murphy in the episode.[5] Comedian Steve Allen also made his second guest appearance on the show, who had also appeared in the episode "Separate Vocations" before.[3]
"'Round Springfield" finished 60th on its American broadcast in the ratings for the week of April 24 to April 30, 1995. It received a Nielsen rating of 8.2. The episode was the fourth highest rated show on the Fox network that week.[10] Mike Reiss and Al Jean thought that the episode would "get a ton of awards", and joked that this was why they opted to receive a story credit, which they usually would not. Ultimately it did not win any awards.[5]
Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, who were the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide found that it was "a real tear-jerker" and praised Grampa believing everything he saw was death.[2] Ryan Keefer of DVD Verdict rated the episode a "B".[11] Adam Finley of TV Squad liked the episode. He liked its many "great moments" including "Steve Allen pimping his books on TV: How to Make Love to Steve Allen; Happiness is a Naked Steve Allen; Journey to the Center of Steve Allen; The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen" and "Moe running a "retox" clinic right next to a detox clinic".[12]
On the bad review side, Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide called the episode "dull" stating that "some of the moments connected to Bart's illness are funny," but that he "really hate[s] that "Jazzman" song" and dislikes "the Bleeding Gums parts."[13]
In the episode, budget cuts at Springfield Elementary School force the janitor Groundskeeper Willie to be used as a French teacher. Expressing his disdain for French people, he exclaims to his class: "Bonjour, you cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys."[1][14] This quote, particularly the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", has since been more widely used. It was used particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq, having been popularized by the right-wing National Review journalist Jonah Goldberg, to describe European and especially French opposition to military action. It was once noted that the phrase was "made acceptable in official diplomatic channels around the globe".[15]Ben Macintyre has written that the phrase is "perhaps the most famous" of the show's coinages and since Goldberg's usage it "has gone on to become a journalistic cliché."[16]
It has subsequently been used by the New York Post (as "Surrender Monkeys") as the headline for its December 7, 2006, front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group and its recommendation that U.S. soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by early 2008.[17] Articles in the Daily Mail have used the phrase in reference the French's "attitude problem",[18] and the "muted" European reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden,[19] while The Daily Telegraph has cited it in relation to Anglo-French military cooperation.[20] The term has been used in books by commentator Laura Ingraham,[21] and academics Stuart Croft,[22] Stephen Chan,[23] and Paul L. Moorcraft and Philip M. Taylor.[24]Ned Sherrin included the quote in the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations; it was introduced in the third edition in 2005.[25] It is also included in the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.[26]Douglas Coupland's 2009 novel Generation A refers to Groundskeeper Willie's use of the phrase.[27]
The line was "probably" written by Ken Keeler during one of the episode's re-write sessions, although none of those present on the episode's DVD audio commentary could remember for sure.[3] The writers were surprised it became as widely used as it did and never meant it as a political statement, merely as an "obnoxious" joke for Willie.[3] The French dub of the show uses the line "singes mangeurs de fromage", eliding the word "surrender".[16] | {
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Musings and rants of a middle school teacher out to save the world, one student at a time...
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
I said No Mayo!!!
Sometimes you gotta wonder about your kids.
Mr. Social Studies is beginning his unit on Europe. He has mentioned before that one challenge when teaching a bunch of 12 and 13 year olds geography is the fact that they have such a small frame of reference. Many haven't ever left the town they live in, let alone been to another state or country. He makes an effort to do these great PowerPoints with lots of pictures and tries to tie in a lot of current event information. Anything to broaden these kids' horizons.
This week he began his unit on Europe, and started off with the United Kingdom. He showed pictures of oil platforms in the North Sea (which fascinated them for some reason), Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, Stonehendge, etc. They got into a discussion about current events and he mentioned that the U.K. is our ally in the War on Terrorism and in fact, has suffered a number of terrorist events over the years, including the recent one this past July. He then poses a question to the class: "Does anyone know what it was the terrorists bombed this past July?"
Several hands go up and one student answers, "They bombed subways."
Mr. Social Studies nods in agreement and is about ready to continue the discussion when he sees a hand frantically waving in the air. It is Pink Girl, a rather bright girl prone to incredible bouts of note-writing and gossip. She rarely raises her hands, being a blurter, so Mr. Social Studies is pleased to see she's following the rules for once and calls on her.
"I'm afraid I don't get it," she says in all sincerity. "Did the terrorists not like the food?"
It took Mr. Social Studies and the class a beat or two before anyone realized that she was thinking of Subway, the sandwich shop, and not subways, the thing you ride underground.
Pink Girl was beyond pink when she realized her mistake. Fortunately, she's the type of kid who can laugh at herself and she, Mr. Social Studies, and the entire class had a good time over her little lapse of brain power. | {
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Monday, 4 November 2013
The Night VI - Music Sounds Better With You
Got your disco shoes on? Ok, let’s dance, because to re-word a Los Campesinos! lyric, there’s nothing better than you, us and dancing. OK, we’ll admit that in the Breaking More Waves camp food and sex are pretty splendid as well, but this is a music blog and despite our sometimes desperate attempts to shoehorn those two subjects into every analogy, metaphor and pun we can think of, ultimately we’re here to add to the conversation about music, not writing about stuffing our faces and shagging. As Shakespeare once said, if music be the food of love, play on.So here’s today’s tune to dance to. It’s by previous Breaking More Waves Ones To Watch 2013The Night VI and it’s the third in a series of six covers that the band are releasing to the world. It’s one of our favourite disco tracks – play this alongside Spiller’s Groovejet and all sorts of mayhem will break loose from our hips down (oh - back on those sex references again). With Daft Punk and Chic & Nile Rogers back in currency (blimey – who ever thought you’d see Nile on the X Factor supplying the riffs for Dermot O’Leary’s dad dance moves?) this version of Music Sounds Better With You is perfectly timed.This song was chosen by harpist, vocalist and visual artist Anna who states: “From 1998's summer all I can remember is France winning the World Cup against Brazil (trois-zero) my tough big brother crying when Colombia got disqualified and French supergroup Stardust topping the charts with their one off hypnotic and sublime dance track Music Sounds Better With You. She then goes on to explain that in choosing to cover the song the band was faced with a dilemma. How did they take a song with no verses and translate it for a band who don't play house music? The solutions was to incorporate some of Stardust’s sampled inspiration - Chaka Khan's Fate. Thus they end up with a Russian doll arrangement - a cover within a cover.The Night VI - Music Sounds Better With You | {
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It’s Time for B2B to Embrace Mobile Marketing
It’s Time for B2B to Embrace Mobile Marketing
Conventional wisdom is that mobile marketing is for business-to-consumer brands only. It’s as if business-to-business marketers weren’t invited to the party.
Good thing conventional wisdom is often wrong. B2B mobile marketers: Here’s your invitation to the biggest party out there.
The more than 184 million U.S. smartphone users crave mobile content – even from B2B brands. Yet these companies are missing out on opportunities to sell, build relationships, nurture customer connections and achieve other integrated marketing outcomes.
Regalix exposed this gap in its “State of B2B Content Marketing 2015” survey. Researchers learned that a whopping 80 percent of respondents did not have an exclusive mobile content strategy. Through the survey, Regalix reported that content marketing “is the emerging face of digital marketing, and content will be at the core of all meaningful consumer engagements.”
Yet many B2B companies are behind in adopting a mobile strategy as part of integrated marketing efforts.
With smartphone users worldwide projected to top 2 billion in 2016, “some quick catching up needs to be done by the B2B marketer,” Regalix wrote. Clearly, B2Bs must invest in their mobile presence. “It is crucial for marketers to incorporate mobile into their marketing mix.” | {
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"The Rolling Stones concert in Perth will not be going ahead as scheduled forWednesday 19 March 2014," the band tweeted Tuesday. "No further info is available at this time, ticket holders are asked to hold on to their tickets until a further update is available."
Scott, who designed dresses for outlets including Barneys and Banana Republic, was found dead of an apparent suicide in her Manhattan apartment Mondaymorning. She and Jagger had been an item since 2001. | {
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All products and components destined for the oil and gas industry can be secured through ITT Controls. Barton Instruments offers among others pressure units, flow meters, flow electronics, flow analyzers, industrial products and relief valves. The brand Barton Instruments which has been active since has designed and sold the first dual-bellows meter assembly, which is the heart of many pressure-based products including chart recorders, indicators and switches. Barton Instruments sets the industry standard in this field in the petrochemical and process industries. Barton Instruments products are designed for long and reliable operation. The products are accurate and robust and have an unrivaled reputation.
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Oxygen[ edit ] Oxygen may be used for patients requiring supplemental oxygen via mask. Usually accomplished by a large storage system of liquid oxygen at the hospital which is evaporated into a concentrated oxygen supply, pressures are usually around kPa psi , [1] [2] or in the UK and Europe, bar approximately psi. In areas where a bulk system or high-pressure cylinder manifold is not suitable, oxygen may be supplied by an oxygen concentrator.
However, on site production of oxygen is still a relatively new technology. Medical air[ edit ] Medical air is compressed air supplied by a special air compressor , through a dryer in order to maintain correct dew point levels , and distributed to patient care areas by Half Hard BS: In smaller facilities, medical air may also be supplied via high-pressure cylinders.
A selector tool to be used by suppliers and buying organisations preparing a catalogue for upload into PECOS; Updated on 10th September for use with Excel
The neutrality of this section is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met. January Learn how and when to remove this template message On rare occasions, bleed air used for air-conditioning, and pressurization can be contaminated by chemicals such as oil or hydraulic fluid.
While those chemicals can be irritating, such rare events have not been established to cause long term harm. This alleged long-term illness is referred to as Aerotoxic Syndrome by agenda groups, but it is not a medically recognized syndrome. One alleged potential contaminant is tricresyl phosphate. Many lobbying groups have been set up to advocate for research into this alleged hazard. Cabin Environment Research is one of many functions of the ACER Group, [12] but their researchers have not yet established any causal relationship.
A verification of cabin air contamination with toxic substances e. Recent improvements in solid-state electronics have enabled pneumatic power systems to be replaced by electric power systems. In a bleedless aircraft such as the Boeing , each engine has two variable-frequency electrical generators to compensate for not providing compressed air to external systems.
The Care and Feeding of Ponies: Mustang Instrument Cluster Removal
A ton of them! The point behind using supports is to put the guitar into an optimal position for ease of playing but also to allow for correct posture and a physically healthy playing style. Having one foot up on a foot stool can strain the back, leg, and neck muscles. The Ergoplay device fastens on via suction-cups.
warning: unauthorized access to this united states government computer system and software is prohibited by public law (the computer fraud and abuse act of ) and can result in administrative, disciplinary or criminal proceedings.
Hook-up drawing indicates tubing slopes, position of instrument in reference to process tapping point, scope break between instrument vs piping. Hook-up drawing also gives information the requirement of bulk material for each installation. It also details its specification size, type and material and the quantity. There are two types of hook-up drawing: Process Hook-Up This hook-up drawing contains typical installations for instrument which connects to the process Pneumatic Hook-Up This hook-up drawing contains typical installations for instrument which requires instrument air such as control valve, actuated valve Reference drawing: A good designer can also read whether the instrument tapped in gas service or liquid service.
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My cat used to drink from the garden pond and never seemed to suffer any ill effects, and you often see dogs drinking from muddy puddles. So why do humans have to be so careful and only drink clean water? Will it form sediment that gets buried beneath the seabed and eventually turns into plastic “oil” or “coal”? I had previously suspected that some tadpoles are late undergoing metamorphosis, but this one really missed the boat.
Pneumatic systems like the oleo strut generally have long operating lives, and the construction is not unusually complex for maintenance purposes.. An oleo strut consists of an inner metal tube or piston, which is attached to the wheel axle, and which moves up and down in an outer (or upper) metal tube, or cylinder, that is attached to the airframe.
History[ edit ] Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company designed and introduced the first oleo-pneumatic shock-absorbing strut for airplanes, later called “Aerol” struts in The cavity within the strut and piston is filled with gas usually nitrogen, sometimes air—especially on light aircraft and oil usually hydraulic fluid , and is divided into two chambers that communicate through a small orifice. When the aircraft is stationary on the ground, its weight is supported by the compressed gas in the cylinder.
It compresses the gas, which acts as a spring, and forces oil through the orifice, which acts as a damper. A tapered rod is used on some designs to change the size of the orifice as the piston moves, providing greater resistance as compression of the strut increases. Additionally, a check valve is sometimes used to uncover additional orifices so that damping during compression is less than during rebound.
Nitrogen is usually used as the gas instead of air, since it is less likely to cause corrosion. The various parts of the strut are sealed with O-rings or similar elastomeric seals, and a scraper ring is used to keep dust and grit adhering to the piston from entering the strut. In this application, an engine driven pump is used to pressurize the hydraulic fluid.
The Quadro range of motor scooters use the oleo strut to allow for low speed lean.
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Let me fill you in on some of the news: Sister Angeline Saris has made it through surgery and is in good spirits. Angeline sent me a pair of pictures earlier today. But it is a funny shot in an Oh, Gross!
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These isolate tubing from its supports, Beware of Tubing Vibration! It is suggested that impulse lines for instruments shall be arranged to avoid: When tube vibration is a problem, due to the closeness of machinery, process pressure changes or other excitation, it is recommended: The orientation of the loop should be chosen with due regard to the probable relative motion between the connections.
These units provide consistent high quality welds when operated correctly. Plastic Instrument Tubing Ensure that extremely soft plastic tubing is used with an insert. Never use metal ferrules on plastic tubing. This technical article includes important subjects such as Ferrule hardness, 2. Pipe and Tube – Lots of very useful information here including descriptions on seamless and welded, common pipe and tube terms, manufacturing methods, nominal working pressures, pipe dimensions and weights, tube weights and working pressures.
Useful Facts About Stainless Steel – This technical data sheet is full of useful facts and information about stainless steel. Selection of Materials – This very useful table gives the composition of the various materials used such as SS and SS etc.
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Edraw allows you to more easily create piping and instrumentation diagrams for piping systems, industrial, chemical, fluids and hydraulics drawings. It is used by people in a variety of crafts. The primary users of the document after plant startup are process technicians and instrument and electrical, mechanical, safety, and engineering personnel.
So you can always have it ready to hand, the Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology is also available in a paper version. Containing around pages, it lists nearly terms in four languages (French, German, English and Spanish), with an alphabetical index.
Other documents used in the development of the CSS configuration are as follows: The usual appearance of them is to have the cause on the left hand side with the effect at the top with a ‘X’ matrix. Sometimes logic symbols are included which make the operator’s engineering design requirements unambiguous. Whilst this is an excellent approach it is rather costly, thus it is infrequently used. Cause and Effect – Some projects categorize cause and effects as part of process document and some other projects consider them an instrument deliverable.
Cause and Effect is presented as a form of matrix. The marked intersection between both means that they are related as cause-effect. Example Cause and Effect – A useful example of an Cause and Effect diagram – from instrumentationportal. This package is deliberately separate from the executive software of the system since it is very important that software previously developed is not corrupted in any way. After completion the software is tested extensively before being included in the overall software package.
Great emphasis is placed on ensuring that the executive software cannot be accessed by unauthorised personnel and once the system is operational the configuration package is usually located onshore. It is all very well to have duplicated and triplicated hardware but if there is a common software bug just what can be done to overcome the problem.
Well the answer is that the requirements of API RP14C should be followed in that there should be a primary and secondary safety system. Usually the primary being the electronic system and the secondary, safety relief valves. | {
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An armament from World War I has exploded at an industrial site in the former Flanders battlegrounds, killing two construction workers and injuring two more.
Johan Lescrauwaert of the Ypres prosecutor's office said a shell or grenade from the 1914-1918 war exploded near the workers. The circumstances were unclear because there was apparently no digging at the site - the usual cause of such accidents, he told VRT network.
Every year the battlefields in western Belgium throw up hundreds of armaments from the Great War, and most are destroyed without incident by a special Belgian army bomb squad. In a nearby city, the army was completing the destruction of over 800 gas canisters.
The Flanders battlefields cover dozens of cities where allies clashed with German forces for most of the war. | {
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Delhi Diesel Vehicles Ban Affected 50k Vehicles
This Tuesday people of Delhi witnessed a very important decision made by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). The NGT has ordered a ban on diesel vehicles whose registration is more than 10 years old. According to a report, it is expected that almost 50,000 vehicles will be off the road due to this decision. Most of the vehicles will be from Commercial vehicle segment and according to Times Of India, Gurugram alone has around 30,000 vehicles, powered by diesel.
Another 21,000 vehicles are expected in Noida and Ghaziabad. After these orders from NGT, the officials are in the process of preparing the list of diesel vehicles which are not in the criteria to ply on roads. The officials will start their own inspection and will fine the ones who are violating the orders. The particular order is taken in order to take a significant step against increasing pollution rate in Delhi. Before this, NGT banned the registration of all the new above 2000cc diesel vehicles in the Delhi NCR region and now this step will further help in fighting the pollution problems of Delhiites. The registration ban was initially called for six months but, now the NGT is thinking to extend this for 11 months. Further, the NGT has planned to extend the ban on diesel vehicles in 11 more cities to fight against the alarming situation of pollution in different cities.
But, this step of NGT has created a sort of problem for the diesel vehicle owners as they were not informed prior about this ban. The commercial vehicles are hit badly with this decision as almost 60% vehicles are forced off the roads.
Let us know whether this decision of NGT is appropriate or not. What else according to you can government do to reduce the pollution level in the national Capital.
Abhishek is a Content Strategist with hands on diversified projects. Being an automobile enthusiast, his passion for cars and curiosity to explore the field helps him in evolving engaging content with an eye on each and every precise detail. | {
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Davey Submission -This Is Capitalism
Category: Content & Marketing – Education
This is Capitalism was originally created as a multimedia series focused on providing a historical perspective on the free market economy, helping younger audiences understand the proven power of economic incentives to drive innovation, opportunity, and market evolution.
To broaden the reach of its vital message, TIC turned beyond their static website presence and expanded their scope to social media.
The shift required a robust content strategy that would allow the educational resource to maintain a frequent posting cadence without straying from its central message, an aesthetic optimized for social contexts, and a post-promotion strategy that ensured content was reaching the right audiences.
We delivered on all fronts, helping outline a set of content pillars that blended classic examples of capitalist success with those of up-and-coming entrepreneurs harnessing free market principles for positive social change. The developed visual strategy ensured posts across a wide range of inspiration-sources remained visually consistent, viscerally pleasing, and clear in their aims. A successful promotion strategy ensured efficient spend in boost budgets, driving CPL down consistently by surfacing content to truly interested audience groups.
The success on social media was staggering. TIC’s Facebook page accumulated nearly twenty-thousand followers in under two years’ time. Its more nascent Instagram presence is at nearly half a thousand followers as of this submission. Both networks serve as hubs of political and economic discourse, inciting commentators across age, class, and political divides to debate the merits of capitalism and the modern-day relevance of historical success stories. Though comments aren’t always positive, they are consistently thoughtful, passionate, and on-topic, succeeding in the account’s aims: convincing audiences to absorb and critically assess history’s economic lessons. | {
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New faces and systems make Endless Space 2 an Early Access title worth keeping an eye on.
With just three games under their belt, Amplitude Studios have quickly made the list of developers whose progress is worth following. Their penchant for great storylines and unique factions is clearly reflected in Endless Space and Endless Legend while the detour into roguelike territory that was Dungeon of the Endless shows that they’re comfortable moving out of the 4X Strategy sphere. As they’re still pumping out expansions for the stellar Endless Legend, it just so happens that Endless Space 2 also became available on Early Access.
The (early) Early Access version comes with four of the eight of the factions that will be available at release. The Sophons and the Cravers are familiar faces to those who’ve played the previous title while the Vodyani and the Lumeris are newcomers to the series. Each of these factions looks and plays differently. The Vodyani, which quickly grew to be my favorites, live on Arks, giant spaceships that need to orbit a planet in order to be able to access improvements. Their other ships can also harvest essence from foreign populations, which can then be used to purchase population units on your Arks or recruit other Arks. This basically gives you an early military advantage, as Arks are strong offensive spacecraft, and the potential to relocate your bases. I enjoyed the option of mobility; however, you can’t always be on the move if you want improvements to come by. The Lumeris revolve around trading and Dust. They do not require colonizer ships, instead being able to purchase outposts on planets they can colonize right away. The Cravers return with a bunch of tweaks. They are unable to make peace with other factions only while the militarist party leads the empire. In Endless Space they were always on the warpath. On top of that, Craver population members actively consume the planet. This forces you to constantly expand and plan things in a different manner when playing the Cravers due to the lack of a stable long-term home system. The Sophons are science-oriented, being able to know what has been already researched by other empires and, also, travel faster. Their weaker ships, though, brought my playthroughs to quick ends due to being sandwiched in between Cravers and Vodyani.
The largest addition in Endless Space 2 is that of political parties, empire-wide forms of government and laws. Depending on your faction, you’ll begin with a certain form of government and a leading party. Cravers initially run under a dictatorship under the militarist party while Vodyani are a federation with religious orientation. The form of government dictates how elections are handled and gives you different actions you can do to sway public opinion in certain directions. Dictators will employ Manpower, resource also required for ground invasions, while democracies will use their influence in this regard. Each of the six available political parties has a default law activated when they come into power. These laws give all sorts of passive bonuses that are beneficial to your empire. The laws also have thresholds of party approval that must be met in order to be able to be active. With the proper research, you can have a larger number of laws active and get the option to change the initial form of government. Political parties appear in an organic way, based on what’s happening around you. If you’re a Sophon, you’ll start led by the scientists, but a declaration of war from another empire alongside the recruitment of ships will prompt militaristic voices to rise up to the point where they might win the Senate. This can work for you or against you as, instead of militarists, you can end up with pacifists leading you while space insects are knocking at your door, aiming to steal all your sugar and then enslave you.
The population mechanic has also been tinkered with a bit. Your planets will now attract different types of populations. Depending on the minor factions and other empires around you, there’s a chance your next population type will be one of theirs. Different population types come with different benefits; however, getting a militarist-oriented pop on one of your planets may quicken the rate at which the party gains approval. Then, of course, there’s the joy of having Cravers on your non-Craver world, which prompts the appearance of the countdown to the moment when the planet’s resources run out. As far as I am aware, there is no way to get rid of a population once you’ve got it, which sets the stage for some potentially interesting turn-outs. However, part of me is also rooting for a deportation mechanic somewhere down the line, to get those pesky Cravers to eat someone else’s planet. The FIDS system is now the FIDSI system, due to the addition of Influence, a resource introduced in Endless Legend. This resource is mostly used in politics but also in convincing minor factions to join you. Planetary specializations aren’t present by default anymore, instead requiring research prior to being able to be built. Research is also handled similar to how Endless Legend did things, with potential unlocks being available in four areas of improvement over five eras out of which three are available at the moment.
Combat has remained mostly the same. Instead of cards, you now pick an action plan from a set of three and watch cinematic battles unfold. Of course, the ways in which you customize your ship’s offensive, defensive and support modules alongside the hull types in your fleet play a large part in how the battles pan out. There doesn’t seem to be an empire cap to how many ships you can have. Fleet sizes are the only ones limited by command points which can be increased by an upgrade later on. When more than two fleets are contesting a planet, you have to battle each enemy fleet separately instead of initiating a large battle with all the present fleets. I’m hoping, that large battles will be introduced somewhere down the line. Conquering a planet from a faction you’re at war with prompts a truce for a couple of turns. Regarding the sound and graphics, there’s little to complain about. The soundtrack is done in the same style as the one in Endless Space and instantly transports you into the game’s world. Graphically, things have improved significantly. The interface is much slicker now and the ships ooze personality. The galaxy map with its planets and fog of war is simply a joy to look at. I shouldn’t forget to mention that, depending on the level of zoom you can get overviews on a series of elements important to your empire.
Being the early version that it is, there are plenty of things still to be added. Just two of the six victory conditions are in: score and military. The AI seems to have a propensity towards not wanting to do business with you. Then again, there aren’t really factions that dabble too deeply in diplomacy at the moment. Something I would definitely love to see are effects that change things in a more drastic way for each of the factions. These could apply especially to laws, political parties. At the moment they feel a little too safe, being just passive modifiers. Regarding lore and quests, there’s not much there as of now, save for the initial quests for each faction and a side quest that’s common to all. There’s promise to the writing, with quests giving you choices regarding the way you want to approach them.
Having spent some time with this very early version of the game, I’m eager to see where Endless Space 2 will go during its time in Early Access. What’s there already is most certainly promising however, at the same time, surpassing their previous 4X strategy titles won’t be an easy feat for the people over at Amplitude Studios. Whether you choose to do it from a distance or by hopping onto the Early Access train, Endless Space 2 looks like a game you want to keep your eye on. | {
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Flipkart in trouble again: Former COO sends legal notice over his ouster
Flipkart’s former COO, Nitin Seth, who was recently fired from the company, has apparently slapped a legal notice on the company.
The Indian e-commerce player, Flipkart, may be in a little bit of a trouble once again, as its former COO, Nitin Seth, who was recently fired from the company, has apparently slapped a legal notice. Seth had joined last year as the chief people officer at Flipkart, after serving as the country head at Fidelity International.
Soon after joining Flipkart, Seth was elevated as the COO, making him the second most prominent executive at Flipkart after Kalyan Krishnamurthy took over as the CEO. He was not only leading the HR function, but was also heading Flipkart’s logistics unit, Ekart, and corporate functions, such as strategy. At Flipkart, Seth was surprisingly asked to leave this May, after his light-speed promotion at the company. However, despite a few attempts, Flipkart refrained from commenting on the development.
Seth’s elevation at Flipkart had raised speculations as he rose up the levels to reach the second top most positon in the company in no time. Even his sudden departure from the company came as a surprise to many. Cultural disconnect is reportedly being cited as one of the major reasons behind his ouster or exit, while his decision to take legal action points towards other issues. Apparently, Seth has challenged his ouster saying it was illegal.
Whatever may be the reality, Flipkart seems to be in trouble once again owing to the legal notice. Reports suggest that this could result in a long legal tussle, especially at a time when Flipkart is looking to hire senior executives after a huge churn at the senior levels, in the recent past.
It is Krishnamurthy himself, who has been heading all the major verticals after Seth’s exit from the company. | {
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A round up of press and media articles featuringRoyal Tokaji wines from around the world.
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Royal Tokaji release 2008 Single Vineyard Aszú Wines
01 May 2014
Royal Tokaji are releasing their 2008 Aszú wines from their prized single vineyard estates Mézes Mály (1,644 bottles), Szt. Tamás (2,232 bottles), Nyulászó (4,056 bottles), Betsek (4,596 bottles) and Birsalmás which is only available in The Royal Tokaji 2008 Single Vineyard Collection Box. These wines made from nobly rotted grapes picked berry by berry will be available on allocation to their customers around the world.
István Turóczi, Royal Tokaji's Managing Director, based in Mad, Hungary, describes the 2008 as: "An outstanding vintage, one of the greatest Royal have made, liquid gold with classic Tokaji Aszú richness and a wonderful zingy freshness on the finish".
Tokaji Aszú wines are renowned for their longevity. For the first time these Royal Tokaji single vineyard wines will be available packed in vineyard branded wooden boxes each holding 6 x 500ml bottles to facilitate cellaring during their long lifespan.
During the 2008 growing season a very mild winter was followed by a rainy spring and early summer. August was hot and dry while a cool wet September delayed ripening. A lovely long Indian summer from the beginning of October turned a good vintage into a great one. This wonderful weather provided perfect conditions for the developing Aszú berries on the Furmint, Hárslevelü and Yellow Muscat vines.
These raisined berries from each individual vineyard were macerated with dry base wines for up to 48 hours and then transferred to old Hungarian oak barrels for fermentation and ageing. After two years in our cool, deep underground cellars barrels were selected for blending and bottling as Single Vineyard Aszú wines. | {
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It's debatable whether this is a bug or not, but I think the current interrupt
handling behavior with IO.copy_stream is fragile and unpredictable, and
inconsistent with IO#read and IO#write.
This is to be consistent with IO#read and IO#write behavior
where rb_io_wait_readable() and rb_io_wait_writable() retry
on interrupt (EAGAIN/ERESTART) instead of returning a short
copy or raising Errno::EINTR.
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It's debatable whether this is a bug or not, but I think the current interrupt
handling behavior with IO.copy_stream is fragile and unpredictable, and
inconsistent with IO#read and IO#write.
This is to be consistent with IO#read and IO#write behavior
where rb_io_wait_readable() and rb_io_wait_writable() retry
on interrupt (EAGAIN/ERESTART) instead of returning a short
copy or raising Errno::EINTR.
Can I get a response on this soon? I really want this issue resolved
before 1.9.3 because it's inconsistent with existing Ruby read/write
behavior and working around it painful.
Since the experimental function rb_thread_call_with_gvl is not callable
with GVL, nogvl_copy_stream_continue_p is not callable with GVL.
So nogvl_copy_stream_continue_p is not callable from maygvl_* such as
maygvl_copy_stream_wait_read.
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GE camp encourages STEM careers for young girls
GE Girls at RPI curse members and their student mentors pose in front of the giant wind turbine blade outside the GE Global Renewable Energy Headquarters during their visit to the Schenectady campus on August 2, 2012. Photo by Dave Kraus/Courtesy of GE
Alice Menis, left, works on a wind turbine, assisted by GE employee and Edison Engineer program member Whitney Norris. Photo by Kris Qua/Courtesy of GE
SCHENECTADY - Twenty-two middle school girls from Schenectady City School District and their families gathered at GE's Schenectady Campus Thursday evening to celebrate what they learned from the week-long summer camp, GE Girls @ Rensselaer.
This short term camp was designed to spur an interest for students interested in science, technology, engineering and math, otherwise known as STEM and also to initiate mentoring relationships with women in STEM careers.
GE also awarded a $25,000 grant to fund the program in the Capital Region leveraging RPI as the local university partner.
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"We see that young girls are interested in STEM, but when it comes time to make a career choice, STEM fields are not high on their priority list," said Joanne Kugler, Chief Information Officer, GE Power and Water and Executive Champion for the global GE Women's Network. "Many girls express that they don't know a lot about STEM careers and opportunities.
Through programs like this we can help change that. We can expose girls, at a young age, to leaders in these fields in hopes of making a lasting impression."
After being bused daily to RPI where they were able to connect with faculty and GE women, the students were able to showcase their projects to their families along with Schenectady City School District and Rensselaer officials.
The girls had the opportunity to endure in various projects including how to design a wind tower, building a flashlight, learning the chemistry behind lip gloss, making ice cream and taking part in a motorized LEGO car rally.
"It is critically important to excite all young people about STEM, and to nurture and develop their natural curiosity about the world around them," said Cynthia Smith, assistant dean of students and director of pipeline initiatives and partnerships at RPI. "GE Girls @ Rensselaer is an important program for the Capital Region. Not only does it introduce and inspire young girls to have a lifelong love of discovery and innovation, it helps set them on a path to one day study at a world-class university like Rensselaer and secure a job at a technology leader like GE."
All of the girls were nominated for the program by their teachers and principals. GE worked with RPI to develop the curriculum and exercises based on the model that was established at MIT.
"We are extremely grateful to GE and excited for the students who have the opportunity to participate in this camp," said Schenectady City School District Superintendent Larry Spring. "Not only does this inspirational, hands-on program keep students learning, engaged and thinking like a scientist during the summer months, but in many cases leads them to develop greater interest in science and technology. A program like this might even change the course of a student's life; allowing them to see opportunities in Math, Science and Technology that they might not have otherwise realized." | {
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OvO Enjoy Web cam games on your PC similar to the eyetoy on the playstation2. Connect your Web cam and OvO will put yourself in the center of 11 fun games. Experience new ways of playing: Just move in fro... | {
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After updating I lost all my accounts!
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ONLY APPLIES WHEN UPDATING FROM A VERSION PRIOR TO 2.1.38.0.
IF UPDATING FROM A LATER VERSION THIS DOES NOT APPLY AND YOU SHOULD CONTACT SUPPORT INSTEAD.
We sincerely apologize for the trouble. This occured because Mailbird was unable to move the database and a couple of other folders to their new location, but don't worry, your accounts and messages are all safe. Here is how to get them back:
Close Mailbird.
Open Windows Explorer and in the address bar at the top type: %localappdata% and hit Enter. Alternatively, hold down the Windows key on your keyboard while pressing the R key. This will bring up the Run window where you can type %localappdata% and click OK to open the folder.
In this folder you will find a subfolder called 'Mailbird'. Open this.
Inside this folder delete the subfolder called 'MessageIndex' if it exists. It may not.
You may also find a folder called 'Attachments'. If you do, rename it to simply the capital letter 'A' (by selecting it and pressing F2 on the keyboard, then removing letters until only the first A is left, and pressing Enter on the keyboard).
Now move the folder 'A' to inside the folder called 'Store', by dragging and dropping the 'A' folder unto the 'Store' folder. If asked to replace files, click yes. We want to replace files and folders inside.
The 'A' folder should have disappeared from the folder.
Open the 'Store' folder.
Delete the 'MessageIndex' subfolder in here as well, if it exists.
Inside you may also see 1 to 3 files starting with the name 'Store.db'. If you do, delete them all. This is the new database that was created after you updated which does not hold your old accounts, so is safe to delete.
Now go back out one "level" to the main 'Mailbird' folder again.
Here you will see the same 1 to 3 files starting with the name 'Store.db'. Move all these files inside the 'Store' folder, the same way as before with the 'A' folder. These are the old database files with all your accounts and messages. Moving them to their new location inside the 'Store' folder will let Mailbird use them again from now on.
That should fix it. If you start Mailbird now, all your accounts and messages should have returned.
Note Mailbird may appear a little laggy and use more CPU for a few minutes, while the message index is recreated.
If you experience any issues following this guide, please don't hesitate to create a support ticket and we will get back to you as soon as possible. | {
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Bristan Renaissance adds a touch of period glamour to your bathroom with our stunning collection of traditional bathroom taps. Our traditional ranges are available in a choice of finishes, featuring both chrome and gold bathroom taps. | {
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A must-have asymmetrical sleeve top.
Hello all! This is my first blog and I am as excited as a kid is on seeing an ice-cream. 🙂
Well, summers in Mumbai, (the city I live in) are extremely hot, with temperatures going pretty high in the afternoons. You really wouldn’t want to step out in the afternoons, but if you have a lunch planned with your bestie, (after a long time) you would not want to miss that anyway, right? Getting dressed or putting on the make-up can be highly boring. How we love our pair or tracks or pyjamas and a tee, in this kind of weather and how we wish we could wear that everywhere, right? But when the lunch planned, is at an amazing fine- dine restaurant, you surely want to look like a diva and your best, in all those selfies you’d take.
True story of every girl! Too much confusion.
Also, being a mother to a 2 year old, I am always short of time. I have literally managed the art of getting dressed under 10 mins. 🙂 I am sure most of my mommy friends would agree. Well, to solve this problem, I took to the middle-ground, balancing between style and simplicity, going natural on the makeup and selecting my outfit which was chic yet summer- friendly and mainly, done in less than 10 mins.
So here’s what i wore.
I chose a super easy-breezy, red asymmetrical-sleeve top by ‘Life- Shopper’s Stop’. Red, I feel, is a power colour and even the simplest of outfit in red can make a style statement, all on its own. What I love about this top is it’s cut and fit. The asymmetrical sleeves make it look so glamorous. This top, if teamed with appropriate bottom wear , can also be a perfect outfit to wear to a party. (This top is currently available at a discount of 40%). You can try so many looks with this top. I dropped it a little from one shoulder to make it look further stylish. The best part, you can play with your accessories.
I teamed it with an ankle length cotton denim pants by forever 21. I am in love with ankle length pants. They give absolute justice to your favourite pair of sandals or stilettos. (You can also show off your newly- bought anklet).
I wore my loved pair of red and black bowed, peep toes which I had bought from a local shop in Bandra, (a favourite shopping hub in Mumbai).
I accessorized this look with a beautiful bead necklace. I bought this one at Colaba causeway. (Colaba is another shopping hub, famous for street shopping. It is a shopper’s delight attracting both, locals and foreigners. No one returns empty handed for sure) | {
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UK Publicists Aid Dalai Lama Media Campaign
A number of UK PR firms, led by local boutique John Doe, are aiding a media campaign that promotes the Dalai Lama’s current trip to the country.
LONDON--A number of UK PR firms, led by local boutique John Doe, are aiding a media campaign that promotes the Dalai Lama’s current trip to the country.
The programme revolves around a video message which supports the Tibetan spiritual leader’s message of non-violence and peace. The ‘Stand Up and Be the Change’ is directed by Rankin and features messages delivered from the likes of Stella McCartney, Jarvis Cocker, Michael Stipe, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Alison Mosshart, Grimes and Beth Ditto. Credits have been designed by Gorillaz.
To launch the video ahead of the Dalai Lama’s youth event in Manchester tomorrow, John Doe has assembled a roster of high-profile publicists, including Mandi Lennard, DawBell, Sam Ross and Debora Burns, to help with media outreach.
The Dalai Lama is to address thousands of young people in Manchester’s MEN Arena, giving a talk entitled ‘Century of Dialogue - Stand up and Be the Change.’
"I set up John Doe to make a difference and working on the cultural/media strategy for this campaign has been an honour," said John Doe founder Rana Reeves. "I am especially grateful to the team at John Doe and my colleagues and friends in the industry who have joined us in promoting this important message."
The Dalai Lama will visit London, Manchester and Scotland during his eight-day tour. He will also speak at the Yorkshire International Business Convention in Leeds, which has, reportedly, displeased the Chinese government. The Dalai Lama continues to live in exile in India. | {
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Drush make UI
Primary tabs
Purpose
This project aims to let you create a drush make file using a UI. The primary goal is not having a UI only but rather saving all the data strucutred for later uses.
That means, that every make file is a node, every module is a part of a CCK field, which seperates the data of a module into 4 fields (server_key, short_name, api_revision, revision).
The UI yet provides you the autocompletition of modules and available apis. It also fetches the available releases which you can chose to use them in your make file.
No typos, search or whatever anymore. This data is fetched using the update_feed_api
You can also add custom make file options using the custom field which are then tailed to the make file. So you are free!
This module is build ontop of nodes and utilizes views to actually evaluate the make files. This module is a feature.
E.g. the shipped view (just a default view) makes it possible to search for the make files, search for make files which include specific modules or even modules of a specific version.
That is just the start, in the end this module gives you a new structured entity “Make file”. Build your own applications on top, utilizing the new gathered informations.
3-Step Quick-installation including a test drupal
The make file is included in the module or can be downloaded here. Just copy it to your docroot root.
Usage
Configure the update_feed_api module (set the servers you want to fetch modules from). Check the installation guide there
Fetch projects (you dont need to fetch the releases yet, this will be done automatically on demand)
Create a new node “Drush make file”
Add modules, set the API Version and a short description of the make file for your notes if need
Click on “drush make files” and use the view to search through the make files
Click on a make file to see what modules are included
Architecture
update_feed_api:
Just a source of projects / releases. Its used to ask questions like "what projects are or that server and what releases do i have"
update_feed_cck:
A cck field which has all fields to add packages based on the data fo update_feed_api. That field has an formatter to later be exported as entried os a make file. Generally you can add this cck field to every content_type
drush_make_ui:
Adds a view which actually can generate a complete make file with all needed fields, included core, version and allo this. Deeply basedon the modules before, just adds:
- a content type where update_feed_cck is a cck field (drush make file )
- that content type has some additional meta fields like "extra" | {
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Mr Mongoose’s Fantastic Weekend EP
Sorry I have been letting Summer take the best of me these last few days, but no worries because I am about to unleash all hell on releases this week. I didn’t get the chance to post this last week before the shenanigans began, but it is definitely worth the post. Circus Records decided, to hell with it, if no major labels are gutsy enough to put out a Moombahton EP with well known artist, we are going to stand out and show them how it is done. And they easily delivered some sensational funky tunes. Doctor P and Flux were able to convince some of these artist who I could never imagine making a Moombahton track to do so. The master of the dirtiest darkest tunes, who even has two personas to separate his Deep Dubstep and Heavy Dubstep tunes, FuntCase/Haze, even took a stab at Moombahton. Personally that says a lot about Circus Records and the artist they work with. Trying to expand a newly growing genre as well as the boundaries for their artist. I won’t say that I personally thought all the tracks were amazing, but 501, Doctor P and Dillon Francis, as well as Brown & Gammon surely delivered. Don’t sleep on this exciting EP and get it on Beatport HERE. | {
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A Booklet and Guide to Inquiry Based Science Education
TitleA Booklet and Guide to Enquiry Based Science Education
PublisherSNAS, IAP, Khartoum
Release Date1 Feb 2017
Produced by the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences through a project funded by IAP and in collaboration with the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, this booklet provides guidelines on inquiry-based science education (IBSE) for teachers and parents. It also introduces a series of 'hands-on' experiments for primary-school aged children that can be carried out using materials that are cheap and locally-available in the two partnering countries. | {
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A company partly owned by music producer Dr. Luke is fighting back against Becky G and her $105 million lawsuit, claiming the singer didn’t hold up her end of the deal and isn’t owed a dime.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Core Nutrition is denying all allegations they are screwing the “Zooted” singer out of millions.
The company alleges that any damages she suffered were the result of her “own acts and omissions” and claims she did not fully and fairly perform all necessary conditions under the alleged contracts.
Back in November, 21-year-old Becky G sued the bottled water company and trashed music producer Dr. Luke in the complaint, but did not name him personally as a defendant.
Core Nutrition is in the process of being bought for $525 million by the company that owns Dr. Pepper. Luke has an ownership stake n Core and worked with Becky on her music career.
Becky G claimed she promoted Core on social media and in her music videos since the beginning of her career. However, she claimed to only have gone along with it out of fear Luke would ruin her career if she refused.
The singer claims she eventually learned she was being used as a “walking, talking, and singing billboard to turn its irrelevant water brand into a hip and culturally relevant water company.”
All the while, she claims, “Dr. Luke made it clear both directly and implicitly that Ms. Gomez’s ability to have a music career would be tied to her continuing involvement in promoting Core.”
Becky G claimed she was promised 50,000 shares of the company. Based on the possible evaluation of the sale in process, that could equal at least $105 million for the singer. | {
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I installed Apache on my small Ubuntu server, so when it installed, it produced a directory ~/Apache/ with sites for example htdocs, logs, cgi-bin, etc. I had been then in a position to create several pages and scripts that we place into the related sites (~/Apache/htdocs, ~/Apache/cgi-bin), and that i could serve these files on the internet.
Regrettably, my server had an unpredicted hard restart, and also, since then, it appears such as the files aren't being offered. The server continues to be up, however when I visit the URL, I recieve a webpage that states "It really works!Inch rather than that which was expected.
Does anybody understand how I'm able to get Apache for everyone from ~/Apache/htdocs again? I attempted to RTFM and Google to have an answer already however it wasn't very useful. | {
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The One to Count On...
Washington civic groups recognized
Washington service organizations were honored yesterday for organizing blood drives during a ceremony at the UP Church. Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center Donor Resources Director Amanda Hess says a blood drive in Washington, usually brings in about 100 units. She says that’s an a excellent showing for a community this size. Hess says only five percent of Americans are eligible to give blood, but one in five people entering U.S. hospitals need it. Washington Mayor Sandra Johnson received the humanitarian award on behalf of the city’s civic groups. She says they’ll find a special spot in city hall for it to be displayed. | {
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These
images are inspired by the saturated colors & chrome-like textures found in
amusement parks; and by the heavy metal and hip hop music played on my favorite
rides, the Gravitron and the Matterhorn. Bling, reflections, pop culture and humor
are recurring themes in my work.
BEYATCH BLANKET
BLINGO
installation view
Brained39
x 54"
Beyatch
Blanket Blingo30
x 40"
This
window project is two unique self portraits, die cut and mounted on plex mirror
and framed in gold, ornate plaster frames. In Brained the lightening
bolts are the only section in which the mirror is revealed. The sign lettering
is made of shaped aluminum foil... | {
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Woo, this one was a difficult one for me! That's what I'm soooo late! I had absolutely no mojo!
I used limitless layers to make the lion and since I didn't have any other ideas for eyes, I stitched them in. This was especially difficult, since I have NO..NONE..NADDA skills with a needle and embroidery thread! LOL. | {
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We are excited to announce that tagItron is now a member of RAIN RFID , an global alliance promoting the universal adoption of UHF RFID technology in a way similar to other wireless technology organizations including NFC Forum, WiFi Alliance and Bluetooth SIG. RAIN uses the GS1 UHF Gen2 protocol which ISO/IEC has standardized as 18000-63. The word RAIN an acronym derived from Radio Frequency IDentification is intended as a nod to the link between UHF RFID and the cloud, where RFID-based data can be stored, managed and shared via the Internet. A RAIN RFID solution uses a reader to read and write a tagged item, manage the data and take action.
RAIN RFID is a wireless technology that connects billions of everyday items to the internet, enabling businesses and consumers to identify, locate, authenticate, and engage each item.
About tagItron GmbH
tagItron GmbH is one of the most-experienced RFID solutions provider to the textile and automotive industry. With almost 25 year of innovation and leadership, tagItron offers a full range of RFID-related products including tags, readers, antennas, systems and software solutions, to fit any operation and work environment. tagItron Auto-ID technology and solutions are used on a wide variety of products and in many industries. tagItron® GmbH, the global Developer, In-house Producer and "Single Source Supporter" of your choice is an ISO 9001 certified company and represents one of the few fully-integrated players in the RFID industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phrb6OUxd7I | {
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English Typing Jobs in Delhi
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Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken Zoodles
Zucchinis can be cooked in so many ways, they are ridiculously amazing when tossed into a chocolate chip Paleo zucchini bread – off you go in search of a recipe now! Today, however, we are featuring them as fun, swirly zoodles, so Paleo-eaters of any age can freely devour them directly from the pot, no fork necessary. To be civil, serve some utensils for eating, lay them next to the plate and let the meal begin.
One may say that these creamy, sun-dried tomato chicken zoodles border on the side of being posh, after all, the ingredients are higher end and definitely not resembling college ramen noodles in any possible way. We say, go for it! Treat yourself to something appetizing and luscious, you deserve it. Plus it only takes 40 minutes of prep and cook time, then it is done. Serve dinner with a glass of white wine or pomegranate green tea, then sit back and relax, knowing that you have just created a classy, simple meal for all to enjoy.
Cooking and baking can be extremely rewarding, especially when you are creating with locally produced ingredients. Why not explore more alternatives for dealing with a glut of zucchini? Keto zucchini fries have reached a certain amount of fame, as well as our mouthwatering chocolate flourless brownies. The choice is yours, eat wisely.
Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken Zoodles Recipe
Serves: 4Prep: 20 minCook: 20 min
Protein: 22g / %
Carbs: 9g / %
Fat: 17g / %
Values are per portion. These are for information only & are not meant to be exact calculations. | {
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The Love Pass
Remember the movie Pay It Forward? The movie that starred Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and that spooky little kid from the Sixth Sense. The idea behind The Love Pass is sort of like the Pay It Forward concept. Sort of.
Every time you purchase a T-Shirt from The Love Pass, you receive a second T-Shirt for you to pass on to a friend, family member, loved one or even a stranger. Ultimately, the goal of The Love Pass is to touch lives through the greatest gift…love.
And that’s not even the best part of The Love Pass. They will actually 10% of their annual profits to various charitable organizations. How awesome, right! | {
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Travel, Portrait + Lifestyle Photography
winter 2016 music
Hello strangers! Thought I’d pop in with a little gift of music for the holidays. I know I always say this, but I really hope to find more time for this neglected space in the new year. (once my little monkey is in preschool!) Until then, here’s what I’ve been listening to recently…
Loving girl groups like Warpaint, Computer Magic, Maggie Rogers and of course, Angel Olsen. She’s got a spot-on Stevie Nicks vibe in the song I’ve shared. Jim James’ “Here in Spirit” is a new soulful find and Cass McCombs, “Bum Bum Bum” is super catchy. There are some perennial favorites like Bon Iver, Flaming Lips and Temples. Plus there’s some new to me finds like Beverly, Blood Orange and High Highs. Honestly, they’re all good songs — but more importantly, I can’t believe this is my 20th mix!
Sadly, I just learned that 8tracks is now charging for any listening beyond one hour a day. What a bummer! I’ll put this mix up there for now, but will be on the lookout for another free streaming service. Happy Holidays!
If you’re in need of some new music to take you into the weekend, look no further. In spite of
About
180360 is the photography company and blog of Kim Hudson. Here you will find her online portfolio of portraiture, travel, and food images; as well as musings on healthy living, music and lifestyle inspiration. | {
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C H A P T E R 3
Using the WoW API to Create a “Hello, World” Mod
Let's get started. You have already seen some Lua examples in Chapter 2, so writing a “Hello, World!” mod will be no problem for you.
But this first example mod will do a bit more than just displaying “Hello, World.” It will provide two slash commands: /hwadd <id> <text> and /hwshow <id>. The former adds text to a table that will be saved, while the latter sends the text that was saved under id to a chat channel. Gold farmers might think that the only possible use of this addon is to spam the trade chat with advertisements, as it allows you to send a lot of text with one macro. ...
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PTT
Though it may not always seem like it, big wireless carriers are still stuck on the concept of push-to-talk communication. It’s easy to see why — instanteous communication between multiple people can be a huge benefit in certain lines of work, and and catering to those groups often leads to some hefty service contracts. To that end, AT&T has announced that they have launched a… Read More
Looks like Motorola will be pairing a keyboard with push-to-talk in the i465, due sometime this year. The immediacy of text messaging is great, yes, overshadowed only by the immediacy of instantly speaking to someone using a nationwide walkie-talkie, so this handset ought to cover all the need-to-talk-ASAP bases. Read More
Sure, Push-to-talk can be handy. But is it ten dollars handy? AT&T thinks not.
Tucked into the Samsung Rugby press release was a mention that AT&T would be lopping 50% off the Push-to-talk monthly price tag, bringing it down to just 5 bucks starting today. With both AT&T and Verizon now offering PTT for a fiver, it probably won’t be too long before Sprint (currently at $10)… Read More
Nextel, Sprint’s homely-yet-dependable half-brother, has decided that it’s time to party like it’s 1999 with the Motorola i570.
It’s got Direct Connect, Group Connect, Direct Talk, Direct Send, GPS, a 64k color internal display, monochrome external display, rugged design, speakerphone, and a bunch of other stuff that you’d expect from a phone that works first… Read More
Push to talk, or PTT, sucks. There aren’t many things more annoying than being at the mall and hearing someone’s phone chirp followed by a disembodied voice saying, “Dude, we’re at the Mervyns!” We hate that. Cingular/AT&T, though, thinks we deserve more of it, as it’s allowing all of its customers with compatible hardware access to PTT with other… Read More
Though it’s been something available on the QT for awhile, Sprint today has officialized its CDMA + iDEN hardware, merging the wireless provider’s own network with forever-ago purchased Nextel. This means a Sprint phone can have all the CDMA features (cheap calling plans, for example) and get the iDEN’s Push To Talk with other Sprint and Nextel handsets.
In addition to… Read More
has launched on Cingular’s website with something we didn’t know about: Push To Talk.
We knew Cingular had plans for PTT, but we didn’t think it would debut with such little fanfare and on such a pedestrian phone. Sure, it’s got 3G, but it’s a cheap-o otherwise.
In addition to the CU400, PTT can be enabled on the Pearl, the Moto V365, Samsung D407, and SE Z525a. Read More | {
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Vail Pet Talk: Understanding heart disease in our pets
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What are the leading causes of heart disease in dogs and cats?
For dogs: The leading cause of heart disease in dogs is chronic valvular disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease and heartworms. Chronic valvular disease affects 20-40 percent of all dogs. This disease is characterized by degenerative changes in the heart valves, with the mitral valve being the most common site affected. When the valves of the heart are no longer able to perform their job, the internal pressure of the heart increases, cardiac output drops, the heart becomes bigger, and finally congestive heart failure prevails. Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease where the chambers of the heart become enlarged and the walls of the ventricles become thin and weak. This disease has been shown to have a genetic or familial basis as well as a link to deficiencies in certain amino acids and protein like substances (L-Carnitine and Taurine).
For cats: The leading causes of heart disease in cats are cardiomyopathies. These are diseases that affect the muscle of the heart and result in weakness of the heart itself. The most common cardiomyopathy affecting cats is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where the heart muscle becomes abnormally thickened and loses its ability to function properly. Other less common cardiomyopathies include: Dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.
A common link between cats and dogs is how thyroid conditions can lead to secondary heart failure.
Some dog breeds are more susceptible to heart disease then others. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Miniature and Toy Poodles, Chihuahuas, Lhasa Apsos, Yorkshire Terriers, Schnauzers and Cocker Spaniels are breeds that are commonly affected by chronic valvular disease.
Boxers, Doberman Pinschers, Springer Spaniels, American and English Cocker Spaniels, German Shepard, Great Danes, Old English Sheep Dogs, St. Bernards, Schnauzers, and other large breed dogs are commonly affected by dilated cardiomyopathies.
In cats, pure breeds such as: Persians, Maine Coons and Ragdolls appear to be the most affected by cardiomyopathies, but any breed can fall victim to heart disease. | {
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Monday, October 06, 2008
An important press release from Donald Betts campaign for the US House> WICHITA, Kans. – State Senator Donald Betts, Jr. provided information at last week’s press conference that Rep. Todd Tiahrt had taken $3,000 from Northrop Grumman during the 2008 election cycle. Additionally, Tiahrt voted for on the Fiscal 2008 Department of Defense Authorization Bill HR 4986, PL 110-81, Section 804 which allowed the Secretary of Defense the ability to waive “Buy American” Provisions. It passed by the House 369-46 with Representative Tiahrt voting Aye. This vote by the entire Kansas delegation effectively allowed the Air Force to make decisions on outsourcing military work to other countries. Campaign donations to Tiahrt can be reviewed by at The Center for Responsive Politics (a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization) website at this link: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00008144§or=D&seclong=Defense&cat=D03&induslong=Misc+Defense
“Todd would have you believe that he has been an opponent of ‘outsourcing’ but the truth is he voted for the bill that allowed foreign companies to bid on defense contracts.” “Most people would be shocked to learn that he voted for a bill a few years ago that undermined the ‘Buy American Act’ established in 1933 by giving the Secretary of the Defense the opportunity to let out contracts to foreign governments.”
“I am sure that Representative Tiahrt doesn’t want the public to realize that it was ‘him’ and other members of Congress and not this contract that opened the door to sending our jobs and security overseas,” said Betts. “It is an outrage that he is acting as though he supports Boeing and opposes Grumman when the truth is that he took campaign donations from Grumman,” said Betts. “We should absolutely never outsource our military contracts. The Department of Defense should always use American manufacturing for the sake of insuring the best possible products for our servicemen and women and for our nation’s defense and security.”
In addition to this legislation opening the process to foreign companies, it is important to note that in 2001, both Representative Tiahrt and Senator Roberts started receiving contributions from Grumman’s Political Action Committees (Grumman is the partner with EADS (Airbus) on the tanker project). Shortly thereafter, McCain mounted a campaign to force the Congress and Air Force to drop the Boeing tanker leasing deal introduced in October 2001. McCain bragged during the 2008 campaign for President that he had “saved” the American taxpayer 30 billion dollars by forcing the cancellation of the contract. In May 2003, Roberts voted for the John McCain amendment to the Fiscal Year 2004 military budget (Senate Bill S1050) allowing the Department of Defense to buy military equipment and services from foreign companies, including EADS, undermining the “Buy American Act”. It passed with a 50-48 largely Republican party line vote.
Senator Roberts and Representative Tiahrt are on the Senate and House sub appropriations committees for military spending, yet there is no evidence that they spoke out or tried to stop the cancellation of the Boeing contract in May 2004. Furthermore, the House and Senate in a series of continuing motions eroded the 50% USA content rule used by the Department of Defense by making agreements with 21 foreign countries to grant a waiver from the 50% rule. In other words, the House and Senate declared even if military equipment was manufactured in one of the 21 foreign countries it would be counted as “MADE IN THE USA”. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and President Bush supported these motions as did Roberts and Tiahrt. These motions passed without any reported opposition from Roberts or Tiahrt.
Section 817 banned the Secretary of Defense from buying military hardware from any foreign company who receives subsidies from a foreign government when that government is a member of the World Trade Organization and applied only when the US is involved in an unresolved WTO dispute over the subsidies or the WTO has ruled the subsidies are illegal. The sole purpose of the amendment was to prohibit Airbus from winning the tanker contract over Boeing.
Section 818 required military purchases contain at least 50% USA made content. It would have invalidated the special agreements with 21 foreign countries allowing them to manufacture more than 50% USA military equipment and count it as “made in the USA”
Section 1212 would have prevented the US military from buying equipment from foreign companies who have sold items on the USA’s Munitions List to China.
HR 1815 passed the House and was referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee on which Senator Roberts sat. Senator Warner tried to attach the 3 “Buy American” amendments to the Senate defense appropriations bill, but in May 2005 Roberts as a member of the committee dropped the “Buy American” provisions. Grumman teamed with EADS (Airbus) to bid on the tanker in September 2005. The Senate Armed Services Committee stripped “Buy American” provisions out and it passed the Senate Armed Services Committee without any recorded objection from Roberts. On November 15, 2005, the stripped bill passed the Senate with unanimous consent with no recorded objection from Roberts. On that same day, Roberts was named to serve on the conference committee to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate bills. On December 21, 2005, the Senate agreed to the Conference Committee Report by a voice vote, again without the “Buy American” provisions.
Roberts and Tiahrt did not voice their opinions objecting to military contracts involving bidding from foreign companies or foreign countries, yet they have been very vocal as of late to show the voters of Kansas that they are the advocates of keeping military work in the U.S. “Voters need to be alert to realize this is not how they have voted and to realize this is just the latest in their campaign ploys to the public to present a different image,” said Betts. | {
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