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Postmambo Colombia Music Seminar - Trailer. And HORSES!
. . . . I keep forgetting to put up the trailer for the Postmambo Colombia Music Seminar, which is coming right up.
People are so looking forward to this trip, for a multiple of reasons. As activities are outdoors, the restaurants are open sites, travel within the area will be open to air, and the group is small enough that people can can move --masked -- in separate vehicles -- people feel secure. The weather is terrific now too.
. . . . It's been non-stop busy here. Even this weekend of splendid weather -- about to break for the more usual July of 90+ temperature and humidity -- it was a small, local arts community in New Jersey, with its own gorgeous theater, where the organization provided a showing of Tierra Sagrada to its community. Trying to decide whether to go to Lisbon in the fall, for the annual WOMEX conference, where Tierra Sagrada will be part of the film festival. Plus there was the 4th of July uptown in our friends courtyard garden, el V's bd at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where we got to view the just opened exhibit, Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. These were reconstructions of pieces that we've always seen a white and bare of any color at all. On occasion, the original, as we have it, was shown next to the reconstructed color pieces. I took this occasion to use the Android's camera for the first time.
Northern Bowman, Persian or Scythian
The city's exploding with music events, with musicians coming in from Latin America, particularly. Last night it was Brasil, at Central Park's Summer Stage. It was the most successful event the series has had so far this summer.
. . . . Non stop anxiety here due to the raging covid numbers, and the fool of a mayor who succeeded the previous fool of a mayor. All the officials gravely intone -- finally forced to admit that the numbers in the hospitals alone has us in extreme high risk category for infection -- we should maybe consider wearing masks indoors. We are surrounded by people having to deal with this, while their beloved relatives are in hospital with other conditions and then contract covid from the staff, and they are not allowed, then, to see their relatives. Which means they can't keep monitoring how their relatives are being treated. In one case, there is a doctor who insists on giving the patient an epilepsy med. She doesn't have epilepsy, and it turns her into a zombie -- and thus incapable of protesting anything they do or don't do for her. Why yes, we just received two new boxes of high quality masks from amazilla.
. . . . Non stop rage and despair on most other fronts. What fools -- when not just outright evil, which there is no doubt most of them are -- these jerkwaddies who have counted coup on the country, and what greater fools are us, who have allowed it and done nothing.
A map of Persia, indicating major settlements, regions, and mountain ranges, as well as the march of the Ten Thousand (dotted line).
. . . . I take consolation from Xenophon's Anabasis -- the March of the 10,000 -- and Tom Holland's Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005 -- so author's filled with 9/11 Clash of Empires interpretation of everything).
Additionally, I have become immersed in the splendid novel, Grand Hotel Europa, from Dutch author, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, originally published in Europe in 2018, and translated and published here this last month. The presiding genius of Grand Hotel Europa is Clio, as the lost lover, muse of European history, particularly Italy and Central Europe's. Though not exactly historical fiction, it's difficult to imagine someone who takes historical fiction seriously not being at the very least intrigued by the novel. It's very long, so I fear its beguiling aspects may begin to pale at a certain point, but if this is the case, I have not yet reached that point. Michele Hutchisson's translation fulfills the shimmering, yet transparent beauty of the prose, which wins as much admiration as the reader can provide.
. . . . Watching Indian historical epics, during long hot nights, which not only sends me constantly looking at my World Atlas -- such a huge book, it is fortunate the bed is near my screen -- while marveling at the integration of elephants as not only known and usual, but essential elements of the societies in such a variety of ways -- but teaching me about a whole new breed of horse, the curly-eared Marwari warhorse.
These horses appear to have been bred originally -- perhaps starting in the 13th-4th centuries, post the Mongolian-Turcic conquests of Central Eurasia -- in northwestern India, crossing some Arab stock with 'native' equines and the horses of the Mughuls and the Khanates. They became signature horses of the various northern kingdoms such as Jodhpur (Marwar) region of Rajasthan, and by the 17th century then, the horse of the kingdoms of Maratha Empire, which at its zenith covered all of Central India, most of the western seacoast, the Doab, that fertile land between the Ganges and its greatest tributary, the Yamuna. I think it was the Brits who called it "Hindustan."
These horses, while large and powerful, thus warhorse, also need far less water and forage than most horses. This is more than useful for an empire that encompasses extensive desert and rough infertile ground. The mares typically are larger than the stallions. They have loyal and courageous natures, are said they would not leave their rider even when he was killed in battle. It is also said that when engaging an army that used war elephants, fake elephant trunks would be fastened to their bridles, which confused the elephants into thinking the horses were baby elephants, allowing the riders to attack the elephant unexpectedly. The favorite coat for the cavalry warhorse is said to have been 'pinto', as we see in the painting above.
So it is again, when all else fails, horses still give me delight.
. . . . Listening via streaming to a Cali, Colombia radio station. It is all over the music festival Postmambo will be attending, among other activities. The things we can do these days ....
Labels: ancient history, art history, books, Colombia, European history, historical fiction, horses, politika, Postmambo Studies, Tierra Sagrada
Got There; Returned Spiritually Energized, To Crash Yet Again
. . . . Got home about 8 PM mid-last week, later than expected, since the transfer flight back to JFK from Havana, got delayed in Fort Lauderdale, while passengers sat enplaned on the runway for an hour. But otherwise things were fine.
So interesting: in Cuba nobody among the multitudes with whom interaction was inevitable, had even heard of anyone who had covid in the last year +. It was quite different in the first year and a half, which also had a strict curfew all that time. By now everybody has been vaccinated, though supposedly their own vaccine isn't as good as 'ours' -- but Cuba wasn't allowed to get 'our' vaccines. Shoot, the previous made certain Cuba wasn't even allowed to purchase syringes. Also all interaction was outdoors. All of it, except the occasional restaurant meal (with very little available -- forget 'choice' -- and in the room to sleep.
Everyone was more than pleasantly surprised -- and so pleased -- to see Tierra Sagrada -- which they, no more than el Vaquero -- had any idea was going to happen out of those spiritual events of January, 2020.
Though things are tougher than one can even begin to imagine there, it was also energizing, despite the determination of every Cuban to get out of dodge however and whenever they can.
. . . . Something else that happened due to Cuba, is that I finally found it impossible not to retire forever and completely from the flip fone universe and enter that of the smart phone. El V's had his iphone forever -- but it was second hand -- gifted -- in the first place, so he way, way upgraded, despite his dislike of Apple ... but he's had one long enough he's now comfy with it, at least as iphone ios universe. At the same time he was doing that he got me a Samsung Android, so we both could communicate via whatsapp from Cooba, which is the only way. Surprising to me, I liked the phone a lot -- intuitive in a way I never could parse the Tablet, which is still sitting here doing nothing for a year. Maybe I'll give the Tablet another shot. But ultimately, if I have now gone so far down the constant surveillance and sale of my personal data to have a smart phone, I see no reason for the Tablet, which is a whole lot more awkward to hold and handle than the phone is. I dunno.
. . . . The 4th we went uptown to mourn the End of Democracy USA and welcome in our SCOTUS 6 Opus Dei Oligarchy. It's official. We are Russia. Mourning together in company, with delicious food and terrific company, was better than cowering at home. The young white cadres have made all public life a risk, to put it mildly, whether on the subway, at a theater, in school, a nightclub, a park, in church, a parade, just walking on the sidewalk, sitting on one's stoop. It's worked so well in tandem with weaponizing covid to keep us all terrified and hiding. Easy to take over now, right-o.
Best solo reading this last week: Tom Holland's Persian Empire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005). It's going so well with our recently completed read aloud to each other Landmark edition of Histories of Herodotus, and the embarkation of the Landmark Xenophon Anabasis. Kind of getting a handle on these eras. This is when Greece, particularly Athens, was embarking on the new thinking for which it has been lauded ever since, from philosophy, to history, to science, to art, poetry and theater.
Maybe ... it was that of Persia into Greek settlements along Lydia, the islands and even excursion into hinterland, that did this? Along the other hardly to be comprehended Persian conquest of Egypt, seldom occupied by a foreign power, and never held held by one.
Well, in the end, in not many centuries Egypt will be ruled by the Hellenes themselves, in some form, the successors of Alexander -- even if the Athenians considered the Macedonians as much barbarians as the Persians -- and everyone else who wasn't a Hellene. Why yes, in Hellene eyes, the Latins were at least as much barbarians as everyone else. Even if they occupied Greece.
Labels: ancient history, Cuba, domestica, history, politika, Reading, Tierra Sagrada
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Intellectual property of any kind, like patents, trademarks and copyrights, are often being held in various international jurisdictions, like Cyprus, Malta or Gibraltar, with a very low or even zero income tax rates. By incorporating intellectual property licensing companies, it's feasible to transfer the title of an intellectual property with the right to sub-license and then exploit it in other countries. Then this International (offshore) company will be in a position to receive franchise fees and royalty payments from franchisees and licensees, accumulating income in a low-tax or even a tax-free jurisdiction.
All royalty payments are often subject to withholding taxes in the country of origin, while there is also the possiblity of being taxed again in the country of domicile. Thus by incorporating international property licensing companies in countries with a wide Double Taxation Treaties network, like Cyprus, Ireland, Malta and others, enterprises and groups can avoid or at least mitigate double taxation.
Cyprus is a full EU member since 2004 and boasts the lowest corporate tax rate in Europe, which is a mere 10%, while under the country's treaty network, any withholding taxes over royalty payments can be reduced, and in certain cases may be zeroed. But this is not the only reason why you need to consider Cyprus for the establishment of international property licensing companies –much like in the formation of financing companies . The capital requirements are low, just as the maintenance expenses, there is no capital tax over capital contributions into companies that reside in Cyprus, the incorporation procedures are fast and fairly simple and finally there is a chance of achieving income tax exemption for gains upon the sale of the intellectual property.


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State News : Texas
The Division of Workers Compensation has brought on a few new Hearing Officers. Travis Dupree
has joined the Midland Field Office, and will be covering Abiline and San Angelo as well. Mr.
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practice law in Texas since November of 2008. Amanda Barlow has joined the Dallas and Fort
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Beaumont Field Office. Robin Burgess, a 2004 graduate of the City University of New York School
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Russian Arms Maker Reveals Mecha 'Concept' That Looks Suspiciously Like a Giant Robot Statue
By Matt Novak on at
Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov is showing off its latest and greatest death machines at the Army-2018 international forum in Moscow this week. And one of its most stunning designs is something straight out of Robocop. The only problem? It looks like it's just a statue.
Photo: Kalashnikov Concern
Yesterday, Kalashnikov released photos from the exhibition, including images of what the Kremlin-funded propaganda agency RT described as a "futuristic mechanised walker concept." Kalashnikov says the walker could be used to solve "engineering and combat tasks," but it's not clear that it has any moving parts right now. It's one thing to build a "concept" walker. It's something else entirely to build a walker that actually... walks.
RT also published a video of the walker concept, but that doesn't give us any more information about whether the thing actually moves. Kalashnikov says development of the device will been displayed at the next military exhibition.
The design of the walker looks like a cross between an AT-ST from Star Wars and the ED-209 from 1987's Robocop. The introductory scene for the ED-209 is one of the most famous from Robocop for reasons you can see in the clip below. So it's no wonder that humans are a bit terrified anytime something like this Russian "walker" gets trotted out. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be trotting on its own quite yet.
Gizmodo has reached out to Kalashnikov for more information about its futuristic war machine. But it seems like humanity might be safe. For now. [Kalashnikov and RT]


I was hoping to post this Chinese chicken recipe I saw online. I've got a great picture even! Alas, the sauce was way too salty. I hate that.
But the good news is that I looked around for a stir fry vegetable to serve with the chicken and found this easy and good stir-fried asparagus recipe in Simple Chinese Cooking. I hadn't tried this recipe before but it was delicious. Other recipes I've liked from the book include Mongolian Beef, Stir-Fried Bean Sprouts, Stir-Fried Zucchini, Carrots and Celery, Chilled Cucumber Salad, and a Bean Sprout Salad, which I also loved.
A quick and easy stir-fry of asparagus and garlic. Once you start cooking it only takes about 2 minutes.
Trim the wood ends off the asparagus. Peel the thick end if you'd like to make it more tender. Slice each spear in half on the diagonal.
Heat the peanut oil in a wok or frying pan until it shimmers slightly. Add the garlic and stir-fry 10 seconds, then add the asparagus and stir-fry 1 minute. Add the wine and stir-fry 30 seconds. Add the water or stock and stir-fry another 30 seconds or until just tender.
Add the sesame oil and serve.


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Points of Unity
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Analysis, News Updates
LeftRoots in the news
In These Times Magazine recently wrote a profile of LeftRoots, "Socialists of color to the front":
LeftRoots doesn't see itself as the final home of this 21st-century socialism. Rather, it is "attempting to lay the groundwork for the launching of a political instrument in the future," Kümm says. LeftRoots, she says, is a way to "train up social movement leftists to be prepared to take part in the launching of that political instrument." LeftRoots folks are candid about how far the Left has to travel before it can flex its political muscle the same way as robust cadre movements of the past (the radical Black socialist autoworkers in Detroit in the late 1960s and 1970s, for example). But LeftRoots intends, after a couple years of rigorous study, experimentation and analysis, to draw a clearer picture of the sorts of vehicles the Left needs to bring its vision to life.
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LeftRoots hangOut: 2018 report-back from ENFF and MST in Brasil
In the summer of 2018, for the third consecutive year, LeftRoots had the great privilege to send some of its cadres to study with the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) in Brasil. This powerful, mass social movement of rural workers has fought for land reform and social transformation since its founding in 1984. It also runs a school, the Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF), built by the volunteer labor of MST members, designed for the study, training, and political development of the international working class. From late May to mid-July, LeftRoots cadres Nikki and Ariel took part in the Fifth International Course for Political Educators at MST's Escola Nacional Florestan Fernandes (ENFF). This seven-week program of intensive work and study brought together scores of English-speaking activists and revolutionaries from dozens of countries around the world. As you would expect, it was a rich, intense, complicated, and rewarding experience. Nikki and Ariel hosted a hangOut to share their reflections on their time at ENFF. We are pleased to share the recorded video with you here.
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LeftRoots hangOut: Report-back from women's delegation to Vietnam
In December, 2017, three LeftRoots cadres—Merle Ratner, NTanya Lee, and Rose Brewer—got to spend a few weeks on women's delegation to Vietnam, one of the few surviving 20th century socialist experiments. On April 19, 2018, the three of them, along with LeftRoots compas Cathy Dang and Juliet Ucelli, hosted a national LeftRoots hangOut to talk about their experience. This is the recording of that hangOut.
Analysis, Cadre Writings, News Updates
2018 Congress Day 3: Jonel
On February 15, 16, and 17, LeftRoots is holding its first national congress. Members from across the country are gathering to identify, discuss, and debate the key features of the current moment, the strategic implications of those conditions, and how LeftRoots and its members can continue to develop and grow to make decisive interventions to push the moment closer to 21st century socialism.
After each day of the congress, a few LeftRoots cadres will blog about their experiences that day in hopes of giving those interested a peek at what we're doing in California and why we're so excited about it.
Jonel, Miami Florida:
The day began with a breakfast that you have to write about. Pancakes, potatoes, and frittatas. It was the last day and the food crew held us down!
Shortly after the opening we moved into one of the most exciting parts of the day for me, the Strategy Get Down Session where we got to explore the different strategy labs. I attended the Electoral Lab. The Electoral Lab takes a stab at Phase One of the Strategy. It's exciting to be moving towards doing actually Leftroots work. Especially when the work is so aligned with work that is already moving in Florida.
Then there was branch meeting time. Finally! As a member of the Fannie Lou Hamer Branch, where we're constantly looking at each other through a computer screen, being in person together was really special. I learned a little more about my branch members and got a glimpse of who they were and where they were coming from. It also left me hungry for more space with the branch and even more excited about starting an in-person branch.
The closing of congress was beautiful, moving, and truly representative of what it means and feels like to be in Leftroots. Steve led us out of the main room into the sanctuary. The way that we knew it was time to move from the main room was by the generation that we came into the movement. Starting from the 60s and going into the 2010s where I entered the movement. Coming into the sanctuary we were greeted by each generation with joy, love, and community. And of course we closed out in song: I'm a socialist, I'm a feminist!
2018 Congress Day 3: Romeo
Romeo, New York City:
Waking up early after an organizational talent show (filled with both decades of impressive skill being showcased, and some self-admitted shenanigans) went late into the night, I woke up early on the final day of our organization's formal gathering. The day was the end of the beginning for many members, given the understanding that what we achieved in our first congress is only the start of the hard work we'll have to put forward as revolutionaries. The previous days proved to be filled with joy and camaraderie as we built with cadres we've never met or have only spoken to online, but also with the discomfort necessary to grow as revolutionaries and as an organization.
The day started with a breakfast organized by dozens of comrades, as they've been doing throughout the congress, to feed the hundreds of us that made it out. The many ways the congress came together is a testament to the growth the organization is experiencing, given that an effort like this would have not been possible perhaps even a year ago. Like the two before, the day was filled with discussions of the insights and challenges cadre members are having across the nation with their social movement work, with their LeftRoots branches, with their personal relationship to the struggle, and with how to move forward and integrate the many different perspectives and experiences we all bring. The reflection continued through the day as we all took some time to discuss the goals and progress of our congress, which was to further our strategy-development process and our development as strategists—the first step in allowing us to build power as both a leftist organization, and alongside the broader left in the US and around the world.
The bulk of the day was composed of various working meetings on topics like how to build core leadership in the organization from communities that will be critical to the future of the struggle, or how to assess where the environmental movement is and what LeftRoots' unique contribution to the movement could be. Cadres' myriad kinds of meetings about different movements was a constant reminder of just how varied and grounded the work we're doing is. That was then followed by having the branches—both the in-person ones across the country and the online ones—each come together to discuss the insights and commitments cadres had made over the course of the congress and how they would impact our growth and work in the future.
The hundreds of us who were able to make it out to the congress, while holding those who couldn't in our hearts, came together to close out the congress with an intergenerational homage. We moved into the large sanctuary room of the community church we've called home in the order of our "movement birthdays", with those os us who have been in the struggle for over five decades filing in first, there to greet the rest os us as we made our way in. For younger members like myself, getting to celebrate those who have formed and continue to form a path and an example for us while also being celebrated and carrying the torch of the struggle was a testament to how LeftRoots is on the right track to building an organization the left needs.
The beauty of that activity led to our singing and jamming together to finally close out the congress, to finally start the end of the beginning for the organization's first foray into not just building strategy, but implementing strategy for liberation. To proceed into the future of an organization that I'm very grateful and proud to be a part of.
2018 Congress Day 3: Andrés
Andrés, Philadelphia:
It's crazy to think of being at the end of our first Congress. So much of my experience in the organization has felt like a big drumroll up to this moment; our success as a collective at raising enough money to get everyone here felt like a climax that didn't leave much room to imagine what being here, together, would feel like. And yet, being here now, today has simply felt like a step into what to us as revolutionaries must be inevitable—a necessary transformation.
It was helpful to hear our staff acknowledge first thing that YES, we're all tired and perhaps spent, but that it is necessary of us to continue engaging in rigorous camaraderie, and to show up fully. As we thanked the folks who held down our space, our logistics, and our food, it felt like a celebration of what was once thought of as impossible; a true political act.
I participated in a break-out workshop on cadre care and culture, which was awesomely facilitated and provided a really insightful platform for thinking collectively about what are all the dimensions of truly becoming cadres, blending support with rigorous accountability, grounded in emotional intelligence. It was really moving to spend time with other folks imagining in detail what our interpersonal and systemic relationships would look like in a liberated society, and to begin chiseling down concrete steps in building towards that now.
I also spent my lunchtime meeting with folks in my praxis circle, also looking toward the future and feeling a sense of both excitement and anxiety: what are we going to build in this new period of experimentation? How can we make this space relevant for the continued political development of folks in our sector?
After a riveting presentation on our collective tech capacities, and fantastic New Wave rendition of Minecraft by our Lil'Rooters, we moved into a conversation with folks in our Branch, to grapple with what does it mean for us in Philadelphia to enter this new period, what will we hold ourselves to, and how do we continue building our capacity for rigor and collective accountability. This question has been heavily on my mind throughout the Congress, and it has been really hard to wrestle with other comrades through our liberalism and deformity. If yesterday (day #2) showed us anything, it is that YES we built this, and we have a long way to go in answering this question in particular.
This is why I felt such deep emotions as we closed out the Congress with a call from our national staff for revolutionary rigor in this new moment: this will be hard, and there is no other way than to push right through it. Here we go.
2018 Congress Day 3: Lydia
Lydia, Boston:
About 40 years ago, when I was 20, I participated in the founding congress of a revolutionary left organization, mostly people of color, in Oakland. The passion and inspiration that I felt then brought tears to my eyes.
Today, we passed out of the meeting hall and into the church sanctuary, generation by generation—activists forged in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, the oughts, and finally the "youngest" who have emerged since 2010—touching each other one by one with a hi-five, a clasp of the hand, a hug. For this 60 year-old revolutionary, there was nothing more inspiring than that moment.
There were challenges as well. As we tried to practice honest, constructive feedback and struggle, we managed defensive and reactive feelings as well. We spent the day in breakout groups, struggling with our confusion, our differences, our need for clarity, but preparing to launch collective work projects and committed to learning together through the work. Since I have felt this as LeftRoots' most important challege for the past two years, since I joined, I left with a feeling of momentum, hopeful that this practical learning is what will push us forward in greater unity and in developing a more cohesive and bottom-up organization.
2018 Congress Day 3: Thomas
Thomas, New York City:
The theme today: "Ready to struggle, ready to learn." I'm deeply and wholly full, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and physically. One of my commitments during this congress is to build and deepen camaraderie with my comrades in LeftRoots. That commitment transpired in many ways, one of which was to chop it up, break bread, and party it up!! As much as I felt physically exhausted on the morning of our last day, after a night of dancing and deep building with comrades over good old Jameson, processing the past two days, I was determined to bring my whole self (with the aide of lots and lots of caffeine) into day 3, our final day together. I'd be lying if I convey that I was not in physical pain from the previous night, but the conversations, the brilliance that comrades brought, and the energy of day 3 gave me lots of sustenance that kept me going.
The love that went into the nourishing breakfast, prepared by comrades with some revolutionary cooking skills, elevated my capacity to be fully present and set up me and all of us to bring our best selves forward. We had the fuel to engage powerfully in the next steps process for the Strategy Get Down – the process my comrades and I are protagonizing around to develop strategy for the liberation of our people and planet. A huge part of this protagonism is the LeftRoots Labs—on-the-ground experiments, grounded in praxis, that test our strategy and can propel us forward. After being guided through the number of labs (at least 10!!), I initially navigated to the narrative strategy experiment. This one is looking at doing a rigorous analysis of the current hegemony that can help us develop a counter-hegemomic frame that can strengthen our forces and weaken the opposition's in the struggle for a world beyond capitalism, heteropatriarchy and white supremacy. Narrative strategy work prepares us to enter the battle of ideas in the US, a terrain our movements have ceded to the Right. This is no small intervention and contribution we can make in the coming decades. I am in awe!
Given my personal and mass-based work-related commitment to electoral work, and especially given the political moment we are in, I then navigated to the electoral lab that a number of our comrades have been putting a ton of intentional thought into. This particular set of comrades shared their proposal for possible ways to engage electorally, with an eye towards our long term vision. There is so much brilliance among these comrades! We discussed some key criteria for how to engage and protagonize in the electoral terrain to not only advance projects to defeat Trumpism and the reactionary forces this represents in the upcoming elections, but to cohere the seeds for a political instrument. Stay tuned is all I gotta say!!
After having space and time for each branch to deepen with one another and process our experiences of the congress, after each of us extending appreciations to at least one other comrade through a LeftRoots love letter, we closed out the day in a powerful, powerful song coming out of the South African anti-apartheid movement – "Why I Am Socialist". Even though we may not be about church, we took it to church on this song. There was laughter, there was joy, there was crying, there was love, there was a whole range of emotions that held us all.
As I reflect at the end of this historic congress, and as I get ready to commit in my protagonism in a unique and critical way to advance our vision and strategy for liberation, I feel affirmed, really affirmed that as an immigrant from Ethiopia, I've made the right decision to stay in the US and have my longing and vision for moving back to Africa on hold. This is huge for me. It's transformative to know that I'm in deep relationship with other revolutionaries who are committed and ready to advance a vision for another world grounded in love and rigor. This is our responsibility; not only do our movement family in the US depend on us, but my people in Africa and elsewhere are also counting on us to be successful. The world needs us to win.
2018 Congress Day 2: Noelle
Noelle, Philadelphia:
The theme of our second full day at the 2018 LeftRoots National Congress was 'Trust through Rigor,' which rang true for me as we started the day with practices that grounded us in our histories, culture, selves, and one another as comrades. We celebrated the lunar new year and a comrade's milestone birthday, and centered together. In this large space, with over 200 comrades, I felt connected and plugged into the very moment we were in. This set us up for a major protagonist challenge for the day: attempting to engage in principled struggle. Our NCC facilitators put forward our aims: to ground our assessments (even if only partially articulated) and be willing to shift our positions if we were so moved by other assessments being offered. An analogy that I found useful was that this exercise is like jumping on a trampoline – it allows us to see what we cannot currently view, and to practice doing that again and again (taking a leap to see what's beyond the horizon). As I reflect on this exercise, I am struck by how much listening and openness is required, along with trusting the process—that we can, in fact, be rigorous while upholding our own and each other's dignity. Our comradely relationships can actually be strengthened in these moments as we get to know each other, ourselves, and who we are struggling with and for.
As the day continued with self-organized meet-ups and the introduction of the Little Red School (yeah!), I noted how many of us—particularly myself—are wrestling with our own underdevelopment and are hungry for the space to build the capacities that will ultimately lead to us all getting free. At the end of this day, I am more clear that I am here for all of that—and I am ready to get down with my comrades that dedicate themselves to the self-transformation required to get there. I am feeling incredibly appreciative for LeftRoots—all of the cadres that are building this organization, and the leadership bodies and staff that have made sacrifices beyond what many of us know. Last full day—let's go!
2018 Congress Day 2: Kat
Kat, Philadelphia:
After an incredible and dense first day, we kicked off day two. In a lot of ways, conveying my feelings into a blog post about this day has felt really difficult. If day one had my brain ready to explode from the sheer amount of processing I needed to do to engage in the conjunctural analysis as well as ready to bawl my eyes out as the weight of this moment hit me again and again, day two definitely struck a different chord with me and among many at the congress that yet feels impossible to put down in a few paragraphs.
Day two kicked off with a spectrogram to test out where cadres were on various significant issues that arose in the Strategy Get Down and to begin the hard work of engaging in principled struggle. From there we held various break out groups on topics cadre had proposed that ranged from discussing the role of gender in the document all the way to the particular challenges and realities of being an Executive Director of a movement organization and a cadre member. We re-elected our amazing national secretary, Steve, and held a consulta to hear assessments and recommendations about the organization from any cadre who wanted to put something forward.
All of that sounds pretty straightforward but in practice, it drew out a series of emotions in me (and others) that at times did not feel pleasant. As a member of the Cadre Care local committee and praxis circle, a Philly CC member, and someone still grappling with my own political underdevelopment and all the shit that comes with it as a young Black Leftist, I would argue that the majority of my time in LeftRoots has been about moving through a whole host of unpleasant feelings as I continually transform to be able to do what is necessary to win in these coming periods.
As we prepared to engage in the spectrogram, we were reminded that now we had to learn to put niceness aside and learn to struggle with one another. As Steve spoke to us about why we should re-elect him, he made a call for all of us to see this organization as ours and to build it. That we should not vote for him unless we were willing to step into greater transformation and be accountable to that collectively in this new period. As we fight day in and day out against the fucked up shit this system causes, we can often assume that in our spaces with our folks, things should feel easy and effortless. In practice, we are struggling individually and collectively against too many years of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and capitalism, and inherent in that is the fact that struggle is hard. It is not fun. It brings up infinite feelings that at times we'd rather not deal with and yet it is beyond necessary to move through to grow stronger and reach beyond what currently exists.
So while I wish I could write about how exciting the second day was, that shit was hard for me and that is ok. The second day underscored the mundane and heavy reality of the work we have ahead of us. It reminded me that through that work of struggle and collective transformation, we can build the deeper comradeships and capacities we desperately need to win. That there is no other way to get to 21st century socialism but through, no matter how hard it gets. With so many others counting on us, there is no other option than to continue digging in. And as I moved through all these emotions and talked with other comrades, I am reminded of how deeply I am committed to this organization, this work and to seeing the vision we have put forward become the reality.
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Austria – landlocked sovereign country located in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The capital is the city of Vienna on the Danube River.
Alexander Van der Bellen, president of Austria.
Head of state: President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen.
Head of government: Chancellor of Austria, Christian Kern.
^ a b "Austria". The World Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. July 14, 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
^ In the former district of Mürzzuschlag registration plates showing the MZ- were issued.
^ In the former separated districts registration plates showing the FF- resp. HB- were issued.
^ Vehicle registration plates issued in the district of Liezen usually show the LI-code. However, in the former area around Bad Aussee and the area Gröbming which are nevertheless part of Liezen district registration plates showing the BA- was issued respectively GB-code is issued.
^ In the former districts of Judenburg and Knittelfeld registration plates showing the JU- resp. KF- were issued.
^ In the former districts of Feldbach and Radkersburg registration plates showing the FB- resp. RA-were issued.


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Finding momentum in the cold is challenging for depleted lineup
Ryan Lewis Beacon Journal/Ohio.com @ByRyanLewis
CLEVELAND — April can be cruel, especially to hitters.
It's one of Indians manager Terry Francona's bigger concerns every time a new season rolls around, which every year just so happens to take place prior to temperatures rising and, in some cases, the snow clearing.
The beginning of the regular season and the transition from spring training to games that matter can throw off timing enough. Add in a daily fight against the chill of Ohio or Minnesota or Illinois in late March and April, and finding your swing can be more difficult than trying to restart your car after it's been sitting under a sheet of ice and snow for a week.
This Indians lineup already had some question marks and less of a track record than in years past, plus the injuries to Francisco Lindor and Jason Kipnis have left it depleted. There's nothing to say the offensive issues during the team's first series in Minnesota — in which they scored five runs and struck out 39 times — have anything to do with the frigid weather. But, it doesn't make anything easier, either.
As much as anything, trying to hit in the cold weather is a bigger issue when looking at a larger sample size. Not all hitters feel any difference, particularly on a daily basis. There's also the fact that the Twins had little trouble scoring on Sunday in their 9-3 win. But on an individual level, it can exacerbate an already tough beginning by making it harder to carry over any positive momentum from day to day.
"When you get into summer and you have a good swing, you can keep it for a couple weeks," Francona said. "Here, you take a good swing and then your next at-bat is a whole another adventure. Your bat is cold, the handle is cold, your gloves are cold. It's a grind. But whoever grins through it better gives themselves a better chance to win."
For example, Tyler Naquin's first two games in Minnesota were about as rough as they could have been. He struck out six times and popped out in front of home plate in seven at-bats. It's only the first two games of the season and Francona cited a timing issue, but in relation to the weather, the cold at least won't help a turnaround from an ugly beginning.
Francona has mentioned how being strong mentally is important for a hitter trying to dig out of an early rut while having to stare at some poor numbers for at least a few weeks. Several hitters in the Indians lineup are on their way to being in that situation. It's one of the things many in the lineup might have to fight as the Indians rely on their starting rotation.
The fact that it's so early in the season is, likely, the bigger factor at play. Jose Ramirez, for example, has now gotten off to a slow start in first week of the season the past two years.
"Sometimes guys just start out slow," Francona said of Ramirez. "The weather's not going to help anybody. We know that. Sometimes you're not ready to be who you are yet. You know you're going to look up at some point and he's going to be leading the league in a lot of categories or second and third. First couple of games sometimes guys just aren't ready to be themselves yet."
Ryan Lewis can be reached at rlewis@thebeaconjournal.com. Read the Indians blog at www.ohio.com/indians. Follow him on Twitter at @ByRyanLewis.


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Emergency Preparedness, Schools
School Emergency Preparedness Resources
Your kids spend much of their waking hours in school, and knowing that they are going to be safe in an emergency, whether it's an evacuation, power outage, or severe weather incident, is so important to any parent or guardian. We've put together a collection of ePACT school emergency preparedness resources.
Back to School Safety Ideas – Emergency planning and preparedness should be a top priority for students and staff, and making the effort with small initiatives can make a huge difference in a school's ability to prepare for, and respond to, an emergency. From providing parents with information to get them involved, to helping principals and administrators engage students in emergency preparedness, and conducting drills, we have lots of great ideas in this post!
Back To School: Comfort Kits – Having familiar items can help students of any age cope during an emergency, and comfort kits make them feel more at ease as they wait to be released or if they have to shelter in place at school. Kits are great for students of all ages, and should include key emergency items as well as comfort items for younger children, like games or a stuffed toy.
5 Ways Your PAC Can Get Prepared – Parent Advisory Committees often play a huge role in helping their schools with emergency preparedness planning. Keep reading to learn more about how your PAC can review school emergency plans, make sure student information is up to date, compile inventory and equipment lists, share key resources with families and staff, and implement drills and exercises throughout the year.
Emergency Preparedness for Secondary School Students – Even when kids get older and enter secondary or high school, it's still important to make sure they're prepared for any emergency. Bernadette Woit, Schools Emergency Management Consultant, shares quick tips to equip secondary school students with the knowledge and supplies they need to deal with an emergency.
Why Are Emergency Forms Important? – With the start of school comes the stack of paperwork to complete for your children, whether it's for school itself, sports teams, day care or after school clubs. Why are these forms so important? We've provided a quick breakdown of the main types of information collected and a description of why each is necessary.
Lockdowns in Schools – These occur for any number of reasons, including safety issues like a nearby police situation, extreme weather, or downed power lines – all of which make evacuating a school unsafe. While the situation can be stressful for everyone, solidifying processes across staff, students, and parents is critical to ensuring everyone's safety.
Helping Schools Enhance Their Emergency Preparedness – With school lockdowns being reported more and more over the last decade, there has been a move to ensure that schools and communities are better prepared for crises, using lessons learned from past events. Learn how to develop common plans and drills, ensure that schools have a clear communication plan, provide safe and efficient reunification for students and their families, and how the use of technology can help preparation and response.
Student Safety & Emergency Drills – Part of being well prepared for emergencies is knowing exactly what to do in a crisis and being able to do so without panicking. The best way to ensure students are as calm as possible in any emergency is to conduct practice drills regularly throughout the school year. These help students learn what to do, where to go, and how to behave, with clear guidelines and expectations of what to do in a real emergency.
Simple Ways You Can Prepare for a Student Release – A controlled student release can be activated in numerous scenarios, so preparing for a release is just as important as preparing for an emergency or disaster itself. Whether you're preparing as a parent or preparing your kids, communication is key ahead of any school release, and can help make sure that the school only allows your children to go home with you or an authorized alternative guardian.
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Watch St. Joe's-Greenwich hockey semis live
Sports // High School Sports
Sharon Cappetta
March 2, 2015 Updated: June 3, 2019 7:07 p.m.
If you can't make it to Stamford for Fairfield County's "Frozen Four" this week, you can catch all the action with live streaming video and audio from Hersam Acorn Network and HANRadio.com.
Longtime rivals No. 2 Darien and No. 3 New Canaan skate in the first FCIAC boys hockey semifinal on Wednesday, March 4, at 4 p.m., at Terry Connors Rink. They'll be followed by top-seed Greenwich and No. 5 St. Joseph of Trumbull, which are scheduled for a 6 p.m. face-off.
Last winter, HAN Radio brought you all seven FCIAC boys ice hockey playoff games live. This year, Hersam Acorn has teamed up with the NFHS Network to add live video to HAN Radio, southwestern Connecticut's leader in live high school sports coverage.
The live sporting events and archived video are available for a subscription fee, which varies based on how long you want access to Hersam Acorn's content on the NFHS Network. Part of the subscription fee will benefit the ongoing operations of the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC), its member schools and student athletes.
You can subscribe to watch Wednesday's game here. Subscriptions are available for 24 hours, a month or longer. The audio feed of the broadcast on HANRadio.com and TrumbullTimes.com is free.
A subscription also gives you access to archived games, which includes HAN's video coverage of Saturday's Ridgefield-St. Joseph FCIAC boys ice hockey quarterfinal game and Saturday's FCIAC girls ice hockey championship between Darien and Ridgefield.
You can find those games on Hersam Acorn's NFHS affiliate page.
The Hersam Acorn Network and HANRadio.com are part of Hersam Acorn, which covers the news, arts and sports of 18 towns in Connecticut and Westchester Couny, N.Y.
More info: HANRadio.com, radio@hersamacorn.com or Hersamacorn.com.


Below you will find the text for Step One of the Healing Your Life Course. You will also find a link to the video of Paul Ferrini teaching this step. Please read through the text and then watch the corresponding video.. Then, when you are ready, answer the homework questions in the journal that follows. When you have finished, save your answers so that you can refer back to them in the future.
Goal: Feel your pain and see it as a wake-up call.
Strategy: Drop your mask. Open your heart.
Get in touch with your feelings and share them with others.
shame. You can't heal until you stop hiding your negative feelings and stop pretending to be happy when you are not.
You have to be authentic to be happy. You have to take off your mask and be real. You have to come out of the closet.
Pain is a wake-up call. Therefore, feeling and acknowledging your pain is the first step in the healing process.
anesthetize your pain or help you escape from it. As long as you are an addict, you won't feel the depth of your pain, and you will have little incentive to heal it.
Your mask or persona helps you gain social approval. It helps you to appear to be normal and well-adjusted, even if you aren't. It hides your pain and shows people an edited version of you. They don't see your fear, your shame, your grief, your self-judgment. They don't see how your heart hurts or how your mind is gripped by anxiety. In other words, your mask hides your shadow material. It is like make-up or hair spray. It hides your zits and makes your unruly hair sit down even on a bad hair day. It makes everything look better than it is so that the shadow can stay hidden.
breast implants because they don't feel comfortable with the sags and wrinkles of an aging body. They want a perfect body and a perfect life. Of course, the attempt to find perfection in the body or the world is bound to fail. The body withers and dies. The world is an unsteady place. There is no security here.
Real happiness cannot be found on the outside. It can only be found within. It can only be found by developing a loving relationship with yourself. And you can develop such a relationship only if you accept yourself, warts and all.
That means that you need to make peace with your shadow. You have to learn to see and to love all those aspects of you — physical, emotional and mental — that are un-ideal and challenging for yourself or others. You have to be willing to see not only where the body sags or extends outward inelegantly, but where your heart hurts or feels sad. You have to learn to get your arms around your whole experience, both high and low, good and bad, light and shadow.
People may love your mask, but they don't necessarily see, accept or know what is underneath the mask. You yourself may not know the deeper, more primitive part of you. You may be disconnected from your emotional body and the pains and yearnings of your heart.
Your shadow is locked away behind your mask. Usually it is unconscious, which is why very few people are in touch with it. Generally, you see it only when you are triggered and your pain erupts. This is often sudden and surprising. You witness unhealed wounds you did not know that you had.
Our relationships inevitably push our buttons, and our pain inevitably leaks through our masks. Like most of us, you are probably trying to avoid this eruption of your shadow because you do not want to deal with your pain or the pain of others. Society rewards you for having a good mask and living behind it. It is all about "saving face." It is all about looking good, even if you don't feel good. It is all about denying the shadow and not looking at your pain and self-betrayal. Taking your mask off is therefore a revolutionary act. It is the first step in the process of healing your pain and creating an integration between shadow and persona.
Some people never get a good mask. They don't conform to norms very easily. When people judge or criticize them, they run away. They withdraw into an emotional shell. They hide there and remain invisible so that no one can criticize them, reject them or try to fix them.
us build shells. Sometimes we do both at the same time or at different times in our lives.
The shell builder usually does not have much of a social life. Her needs for belonging are not met. She would rather be independent and free than risk the loss of her freedom by conforming to the ideas and expectations of others.
When you wear a mask, others cannot see who you really are. You show them a False Self. When you hide in a shell, people can't be intimate with you. You hide from them because you are afraid of criticism or rejection. As you probably know, mask-making and shell-building start at a very early age.
This first step in your healing process is about coming out of whatever denial mechanism you have adopted. It asks you to take off your mask or to come out of your shell. It asks you to be visible to yourself and to others, just the way you are.
Step One asks you to come out of the closet. It asks you stop hiding or pretending to be someone else and start being honest about who you are. You don't have to live a lie anymore. In fact, the reason you are in pain is precisely because you are living a lie. You are not being honest about who you are.
Being honest means acknowledging your pain to yourself and others. It means beginning to see all those parts of yourself that you have not yet learned to love. It means facing your fear and walking through your shame.
Of course, this takes courage on your part. And it requires an environment where it is safe to be yourself. It requires the creation of a loving community where you and others can heal your wounds and to step into your power and purpose.
A healing community offers a long-awaited antidote to the family of origin experience. Whether overtly or subtly, you were wounded in your family of origin. It wasn't your parents' fault. They were wounded too and were just teaching you what they were taught by their parents. This is not about finding fault with your parents or trying to make them responsible for your pain. That is a waste of time. It leads to victimhood, not to empowerment.
Yet you do not want to be in denial about your past. To the extent that you did not feel safe in your family or accepted by your parents and siblings, you learned to put on a mask or build a shell. That is where you began to betray yourself or isolate from others. That is where you learned to live a lie or disconnect from your feelings.
accepted and people are encouraged to be themselves. The healing community extends its loving arms around you as you come out of your shell or take off your mask. It encourages you to be honest and authentic. It invites you to share your inner truth with others.
3. You become addicted to substances that mask your pain.
4. You intellectualize your feelings.
have? Understanding the ways in which you live in denial is essential for beginning to wake up and take responsibility for your life.
All attempts to escape your pain by medicating it, denying it, or avoiding it are bound to fail. When you run away from your pain, you create more pain. Only when you face your pain can you move through it.
Please don't be afraid of your pain anymore. See it as your ally. Your pain is a wake-up call. It tells you what needs to change, heal or shift in your life.
pushing the pain away. Just tune into how it feels.
you to move through some of your shame and creates a community that supports your healing.
There is fake happiness and real happiness. Fake happiness is all about avoiding our pain and pretending to be happy. How have you done this?
Pain is not necessarily bad. It is a wake-up call. Where has it been a wake-up call for you?
What hurts the most in your life right now?
Other than what hurts now, what is the most painful thing that has ever happened to you?
Are you feeling your pain or trying to push it away? How do you try to push it away?
Sometimes being in our heads and analyzing our lives can be a way of detaching from our pain and not feeling our feelings. Is this true for you? Do you intellectualize your feelings so you don't have to feel your pain?
What addictions do you have that numb your pain or enable you to avoid it?
Do you pretend to be happy when you are not? How do you hide your pain behind a mask?
What does your mask look like and when do you wear it?
Some people don't have a good mask. ff they don't feel accepted by others, they withdraw or run away and hide. These people have a shell, rather than a mask. They escape into their shell to feel safe. Is this true for you?
What does your shell look like and when do I retreat into it?
Does your shell keep me isolated from others? Is this the price you have to pay to feel safe?
Is it hard for you to drop your mask/come out your shell and share your pain with others?


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At canopy level on the 19th floor is a warm, communal area for relaxing, entertaining and working out. All residents will be able to enjoy the panoramic views and sun-drenched spaces year round, whether entertaining friends in the private dining room, relaxing in front of the fire on a winters day, enjoying an alfresco summer barbeque on the landscaped terrace or working out in the fully equipped gymnasium.
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Restoring the River Salmon: Life History Diversity and Resilience
Dan Bottom
This article was submitted by Dan Bottom, a current Howard L. McKee Ecology Resident at Sitka. Dan is a fishery research biologist who worked in state and federal government for 38 years, including 22 years with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in Corvallis and 16 years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Oregon. His research interests include salmon, estuaries, and environmental history. He helped to initiate a long-term study of the effects of wetland restoration on salmon populations in the Salmon River estuary, right in Sitka's backyard. Dan retired from federal service in 2016 but continues serving as Courtesy Faculty at Oregon State University and as a technical advisor for a large habitat restoration program in the Columbia River estuary.
Part Two: Life-History Diversity and Resilience
I am wary of all descriptions that begin, "Most salmon..." "Most" is so often deceptive. Without fanfare or qualification, it strips away all the outliers and reduces salmonness to any trait found in the greatest frequency or number. With no point of reference, "most" begs many questions: "most since when?" "most where?" "how often most?" etc. "Most" declares the standard for ignoring all other possibilities that a lesser salmon might otherwise achieve-possibilities that become all the more important when "most" is no longer very many, and "none" is the overriding concern. The recovery of diminished Pacific Northwest salmon stocks requires attention to much more than "most." Our Salmon River Study began by searching for all the salmon "others."
Most, but not all, fall-run Chinook Salmon on the Oregon coast rear in estuaries before migrating to sea, where they feed and grow and later return to their home streams to spawn. What most Chinook Salmon do to complete one life stage, however, may or may not predict their likely success negotiating the next.
Paul Reimer's classic study in a small basin on the southern Oregon coast (Sixes River), for example, identified five alternative rearing and migratory pathways or juvenile "life histories" within the same Chinook Salmon population. Most juveniles leaving Sixes River followed what Paul classified as pathway Type 2- rear in freshwater until mid-summer, stay in the estuary for a few weeks, and migrate to the ocean by late summer. However, most adults (90%) were the survivors of pathway Type 3-rear in freshwater until mid-summer, remain in the estuary up to several months, and enter the ocean in the fall. In this case, most juveniles (Type 2) accounted for less than 3% of the returning adults, whereas most returning adults were the survivors of a smaller number of late ocean migrants (Type 3).
The Sixes River research can be credited for demonstrating that estuaries are important environments for the growth, survival, and return of many adult Chinook salmon. However, it also revealed how incredibly variable salmon life histories can be- even within a single population in one tiny watershed- and why we should never discount the outliers.
Recently biologists have coined the term "portfolio effect" to describe the contribution of genetic and life-history diversity to salmon persistence. Salmon hedge their bets against population extinction in unpredictable environments by spreading their risks. Juvenile salmon are flexible. Individuals in a population may choose different migration routes and schedules to make the difficult life-cycle transitions from gravel bed to stream, stream to river, river to estuary, estuary to ocean, and back again. No one route and schedule can ensure survival against every possible contingency that population members might face at any time along the way- disease, predators, drought, flood, landslide, El Nino. Each year brings its own set of contingencies. Each year a mere fraction of the several thousand eggs deposited by each female salmon will survive to adulthood. A diversity of life-history pathways makes it more likely that at least some-but certainly not most-individuals in the population will survive to continue the next generation.
The diversity of habitats throughout a river basin determines the number of life-history pathways potentially available to young salmon. Removing most habitat in an estuary, for example, could eliminate pathways that involve extended periods of estuary rearing- the Type 2 and Type 3 life histories of Sixes River Chinook Salmon, for example.
1. Beach seining at the Salmon River mouth to estimate the timing and sizes of juvenile salmon at ocean entry. 2. A trapnet used to capture salmon and other fish in the Salmon River tidal marshes. Fish were collected in a live box as each channel drained with the outgoing tide.
When our research team initiated the Salmon River Study in the late 1990s we weren't surprised to find juvenile Chinook Salmon in the restored tidal marshes. We already knew that estuary-migrating juveniles often seek shallow, off-channel habitats to rear. Still, we couldn't help but wonder whether the long-term effort to restore the estuary's wetlands had made any difference to the population as a whole. Did reconnecting estuarine marshes establish new (or re-establish old) life-history pathways in the population? Did any of those juveniles in the restored marshes actually survive to contribute to the next generation?
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife conducted surveys in the Salmon River estuary in 1975 - 1977 when the tidal marshes were fully diked. At that time, most juvenile Chinook Salmon reared upriver for many months. Few entered the estuary before July, and estuary abundance peaked and declined a month or two thereafter. In contrast during our 2000-2002 surveys, many juveniles entered the estuary at smaller sizes earlier in the spring (April - June); occupied the restored marsh-channel habitats through August; and migrated to the ocean over a much wider range of sizes and times. We classified four generalized life-history pathways, including two early migrant types that were rare or absent during the 1970s surveys: fry migrants (an inch or two in length) move into estuary wetlands soon after emerging from the gravel, and larger fingerlings (two to three inches in length) rear upriver for a few weeks or months before entering tidal-marsh channels in April or May.
Survivors of each of the juvenile life-history pathways contributed to adult returns, many tracing previously inaccessible routes through the tidal marshes. Three of the four pathways involved weeks or months of estuary rearing. As many as three quarters of the returning adults that survived to spawn in the Salmon River had spent >30 days feeding in the estuary, usually in the restored wetland channels.
Diversity of the Salmon River population was simplified when wetland diking eliminated the number of life-history pathways available in the estuary to young salmon. Now most, but not all, juveniles rear in the estuary, and most, but not all, returning adults are the survivors of estuary-resident juveniles.
Restoring tidal wetlands alone may not be enough to ensure resilience of this one small population in a rapidly changing climate. Those pathways now chosen by "most salmon" may one day become the routes of mere outliers, and vice versa. Yet I feel better knowing that restoration has expanded the life-history possibilities and extended the range of outliers. Such diversity only increases the likelihood that at least some individuals will survive in a shifting aquatic environment.
Read the conclusion of this series here: The Coho Return


The club was treated to a brilliant slide presentation this week by Chris Palmer ARPS AFIAP DPAGB APAGB. All these letters after his name give an indication of the extremely high standard of his work.
In the first half he showed us many different ways of photographing rock, stone and pebbles to make the best of their varying shapes and colours. Then he took us to Zion National Park for landscape photography at its best and The Wave in the southwest of America really took our breath away with its beauty.
After the tea break, Chris presented a water theme (very helpful for any members who haven't taken their own photos for the club's set subject of water). Mainly waterfalls, some taken from unusual angles and also making the most of fallen leaves in rivers or puddles.
The next destination was at the entrance to a goldmine with rusty old cars and lorries providing scope for the wonderful colours that can be found in such a location.
Finally, Chris took us to his local beach on the south coast where the main feature was the iron water defence. Once again he showed how, by getting in close to the subject, the beautiful colours of corroded metal can produce outstanding abstract photos.
A really instructive and enjoyable evening providing inspiration for us all to look beyond the obvious viewpoint. Many thanks Chris.


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Jaludi v. Citigroup & Co.
January 4, 2023 by Justia
Jaludi worked at Citigroup. After he reported company wrongdoing, he was demoted, transferred, and (in 2013) terminated. He claims Citigroup blacklisted him from the financial industry. In 2015, Jaludi sued Citigroup for retaliation under both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and RICO. The district court sent his claims to arbitration. Jaludi appealed the arbitration order. In early 2018, while that appeal was pending, he filed an administrative complaint with the Secretary of Labor, adding one new allegation that, in late 2017, a headhunter had stopped returning his calls. In 2019, the Third Circuit remanded, holding that he was not required to arbitrate his Sarbanes-Oxley claims.On remand, the district court dismissed, finding his administrative complaint untimely. Though Sarbanes-Oxley required an administrative complaint within 180 days of the retaliatory conduct, he had waited more than two years after the last incident. Jaludi argued that the court should have granted him leave to amend because the 2017 allegation that he added in his administrative complaint happened fewer than 180 days before that complaint, making it timely. The Third Circuit affirmed. Although neither filing the administrative complaint after the statute of limitations had run nor suing before exhausting his administrative remedies was jurisdictional under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Jaludi's delay in filing justified the dismissal. View "Jaludi v. Citigroup & Co." on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Corporate Compliance, Labor & Employment Law
Dirauf v. Berger
December 28, 2022 by Justia
Plaintiffs filed suit in New Jersey state court against German citizens and New Jersey-based defendants, alleging one federal RICO claim and 120 state law claims. Defendant Straub removed the case to federal court with the consent of the other defendants, asserting jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. 1331, 1332. Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their RICO claim. The district court issued a remand order, explaining that a court must "examine its own subject matter jurisdiction," the basis for federal-question removal had been "mooted" by the dismissal of the federal claim, diversity jurisdiction was lacking, and one of the defendants was precluded by 28 U.S.C. 1441(b)(2) from removing the case as a forum-defendant. Defendants moved to vacate the remand order. The district court denied that Rule 60(b) motion, explaining that section 1332(a)(2) did not confer diversity jurisdiction, it was not required to explain why it was declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction, the case had been in federal court for only seven days so judicial economy did not favor retention of the state claims, and there was no apparent forum manipulation. The state court proceeding recommenced; the court granted dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction.The Third Circuit affirmed. Federal appellate courts may not review remand orders where remand is based upon a lack of subject matter jurisdiction or a defect in removal, 28 U.S.C. 1447(c)-(d). In this case, remand was proper; vacatur of the remand order is not warranted. View "Dirauf v. Berger" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure
Adorers of the Blood of Christ United States Province v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC
November 8, 2022 by Justia
The Adorers, an order of nuns whose religious beliefs require them "to protect and preserve Earth," own property in Pennsylvania. When Transco notified them that it was designing a 42-inch diameter interstate gas pipeline to cross their property, the Adorers explained that they would not sell a right-of-way through their property. Transco sought a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) published notices and hosted open meetings to discuss the pipeline. The Adorers neither provided comments nor attended meetings. When FERC contacted the Adorers directly, they remained silent. Transco altered the pipeline's route 132 times in response to public comment. FERC issued the requested certificate, which authorized Transco to use eminent domain to take rights-of-way 15 U.S.C. 717f(c)(1)(A). Transco sought an order of condemnation to take rights-of-way in the Adorers' property. The Adorers failed to respond to the complaint.Days after the district court granted Transco default judgment, the Adorers sought an injunction under the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act (RFRA) 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1(c). The Third Circuit rejected the Adorers' contention that RFRA permitted them to assert their claim in federal court rather than before FERC. After the pipeline was put into service, the Adorers sought damages under RFRA. The Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the suit. To permit a party to reserve a claim, the success of which would imperil a FERC decision to certify an interstate pipeline, by remaining silent during the FERC proceedings and raising the claim in separate litigation would contravene the Natural Gas Act's exclusive review framework. View "Adorers of the Blood of Christ United States Province v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Government & Administrative Law, Utilities Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
United States v. Weiss
From 1986-1991, Weiss did not pay federal income taxes. In 1994, Weiss late-filed returns for those years, self-reporting a $299,202 liability. The IRS made tax assessments against him, triggering a 10-year limitations period for collecting unpaid taxes through a court proceeding or a levy. Weiss's subsequent bankruptcies tolled that limitations period three times: In July 2009, the IRS began the process of a levy. It mailed a Final Notice to Weiss in February 2009, informing Weiss that it intended to levy his unpaid taxes and that he could request a Collection Due Process hearing. The notice was not sufficient to make a levy, so the limitations period continued to run. Weiss timely requested a Collection Due Process hearing, which suspended the statute of limitations for the period during which the hearing "and appeals therein" were "pending," 26 U.S.C. 6330(e)(1); no less than 129 days remained in the limitations period. Weiss did not prevail at the hearing or in any of his review-as-of-right federal court challenges. As a last resort, Weiss filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court in October 2018. On December 3, 2018, the Court denied that petition. Instead of proceeding to levy Weiss's property, the government initiated an action in the district court on February 5, 2019.The Third Circuit found the action timely. Petitions for writs of certiorari are "appeals therein." An appeal remains "pending" until the time to file such a petition expires. View "United States v. Weiss" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Tax Law
United States v. Haisten
October 5, 2022 by Justia
The Haistens sold discounted animal pesticides and drugs online from their South Carolina home. They operated in violation of multiple FDA and EPA regulations. They sold counterfeit DVDs of movies and television shows that they obtained from China. The Haistens ignored cease-and-desist letters from state regulators and animal pesticides companies. Department of Homeland Security agents began making undercover purchases from the Haistens. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized shipments of counterfeit DVDs. Agents then searched the Haistens' home, which revealed unapproved animal pesticides and drugs, counterfeit DVDs, and business records. In the ensuing prosecution, Count 14 charged the Haistens with trafficking counterfeit DVDs that were seized by CBP officers in Cincinnati. Count 15 charged them with trafficking counterfeit DVDs, that were seized at their home. Defense counsel did not request a jury instruction on improper venue or move for acquittal on Counts 14 or 15 for lack of proper venue in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Haistens appealed, challenging an evidentiary ruling and a statement the government made during its summation. The Third Circuit affirmed.The Haistens then sought relief under 28 U.S.C. 2255, arguing that their trial counsel was ineffective for failing to challenge venue on Counts 14 and 15. The Third Circuit remanded the denial of that motion for the district court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on whether their counsel had a strategic reason for not raising a defense based on improper venue. View "United States v. Haisten" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, White Collar Crime
Peace Church Risk Retention Group v. Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP
September 20, 2022 by Justia
A fire at the Barclay assisted living facility caused four residents' deaths. Their estates sued Barclay and Johnson Controls, which maintained and monitored Barclay's fire-suppression system. After Barclay and its liability insurers settled with the estates, the insurers sued Johnson in federal court, asserting diversity jurisdiction. The insurers alleged that they stood in the shoes of Barclay as its subrogees and were entitled to damages for the settlement payments they made on Barclay's behalf. The insurers are structured as reciprocal insurance exchanges--distinct legal entities that can sue or be sued but without corporate existence. Each is an unincorporated association whose subscribers exchange contracts and pay premiums for the purpose of insuring themselves and each other. The subscribers are simultaneously both the insureds of and insurers to one another, with the exchanges of insurance between them effected by a common representative.The district court, reasoning that there was no clear Pennsylvania subrogation law prohibition on insurers "asserting tort-based claims against third-party tortfeasors," denied Johnson's motion to dismiss. The Third Circuit vacated without reaching the issue of the availability of the tort claims under Pennsylvania law. Before any federal court can decide the merits of such a question, it must have jurisdiction, which may be lacking in this case. For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, the citizenship of reciprocal insurance exchanges turns on the citizenship of their subscribers, who may not be completely diverse from Johnson. Additional fact-finding is needed. View "Peace Church Risk Retention Group v. Johnson Controls Fire Protection LP" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
Yaw v. Delaware River Basin Commission
The Delaware River Basin Commission banned high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) within the Delaware River Basin, reflecting its determination that fracking "poses significant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management, and preservation of the [Basin's] water resources." The ban codified a "de facto moratorium" on natural gas extraction in the Basin since 2010. Two Pennsylvania state senators, the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus, and several Pennsylvania municipalities challenged the ban, alleging that the Commission exceeded its authority under the Delaware River Basin Compact, violated the Takings Clause, illegally exercised the power of eminent domain, and violated the Constitution's guarantee of a republican form of government.The Third Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the suit for lack of standing. No plaintiff alleged the kinds of injuries that Article III demands. Legislative injuries claimed by the state senators and the Republican Caucus affect the state legislature as a whole; under Supreme Court precedent, "individual members lack standing to assert the institutional interests of a legislature." The municipalities alleged economic injuries that are "conjectural" and "hypothetical" rather than "actual and imminent." None of the plaintiffs have standing as trustees of Pennsylvania's public natural resources under the Pennsylvania Constitution's Environmental Rights Amendment because the fracking ban has not cognizably harmed the trust. View "Yaw v. Delaware River Basin Commission" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Energy, Oil & Gas Law, Environmental Law
Sovereign Bank v. Remi Capital Inc.
In 2007, Sovereign extended a $15 million line of credit to REMI to fund residential mortgage loans. Kaiser guaranteed REMI's obligations. Sovereign and Kaiser agreed that any judgment entered against Kaiser would bear interest at the Prime Rate plus six percent per annum, not at the statutory rate of interest after judgment. REMI defaulted. Sovereign sued REMI and Kaiser. The parties resolved the case by agreement, which the district court entered as a $1,560,430.24 consent judgment in 2010. The Judgment was silent about any applicable interest rate.In 2017, Kaiser moved to declare that judgment had been satisfied. The district court denied the motion, ordering that the applicable interest rate is the federal statutory post-judgment interest rate, fixed by the Federal Reserve Bank, at 0.26%; and that REMI may serve discovery to determine the status of payments made toward the Consent Judgment. The court reasoned that no clear, unambiguous, and unequivocal language in the Consent Judgment demonstrated an intent to depart from the rate of interest provided by 28 U.S.C. 1961. The Third Circuit affirmed. It is incumbent on the parties to detail, with precision and with clarity, the bargain they have struck. The failure to do so in a consent judgment precludes a district court from enforcing an otherwise-silent provision one party asks it to enforce. View "Sovereign Bank v. Remi Capital Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Contracts
Aldossari v. Ripp
In the 1990s, Aldossari's company, Trans Gulf, entered into an agreement in Saudi Arabia with three other businesses to establish and operate an oil refinery in Saint Lucia, a Caribbean island nation. Crude oil was to be sourced from the Saudi government or its national oil company, Saudi Aramco. The project went forward, but, Aldossari alleged, the owners of the three contract counterparties – one of whom became the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia –refused to pay Trans Gulf its share of the proceeds. Two decades later, the soon-to-be Crown Prince promised to pay Aldossari but never did. Aldossari, transferred his rights to his minor son, a U.S. citizen.The federal district court dismissed Aldossari's subsequent tort and contract claims. The Third Circuit affirmed, holding that dismissal of the claims against a deceased defendant was proper because Aldossari failed to allege any basis for exercising subject-matter jurisdiction over those claims. As for the surviving defendants, the lack of any meaningful ties between those defendants and the United States in Aldossari's claims defeats his effort to sue them in the U.S. The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act precludes subject-matter jurisdiction over the claims against Saudi Arabia and Saudi Aramco. The case was remanded with directions to dismiss without prejudice since none of the dispositive rulings reach the merits. View "Aldossari v. Ripp" on Justia Law
Posted in: Civil Procedure, Contracts, International Law, International Trade
Clemens v. Execupharm Inc
September 2, 2022 by Justia
Clemens, then an employee, provided ExecuPharm with sensitive information, including her address, social security number, bank, and financial account numbers, insurance, and tax information, passport, and information relating to her family. Clemens's employment agreement provided that ExecuPharm would "take appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and security" of this information. After Clemens left ExecuPharm, a hacking group (CLOP) accessed ExecuPharm's servers, stealing sensitive information pertaining to current and former employees, including Clemens. CLOP posted the data on the Dark Web, making available for download 123,000 data files pertaining to ExecuPharm, including sensitive employee information. ExecuPharm notified current and former employees of the breach and encouraged precautionary measures. Clemens reviewed her financial records and credit reports for unauthorized activity; placed fraud alerts on her credit reports; transferred her bank account; enrolled in ExecuPharm's complimentary one-year credit monitoring services; and purchased three-bureau additional credit monitoring services for herself and her family for $39.99 per month.Clemens's suit under the Class Action Fairness Act, 28 U.S.C. 1332(d), was dismissed for lack of Article III standing. The court concluded that Clemens's risk of future harm was not imminent, but "speculative." Any money Clemens spent to mitigate the speculative risk was insufficient to confer standing; even if ExecuPharm breached the employment agreement, it would not automatically give Clemens standing to assert her breach of contract claim. The Third Circuit vacated. Clemens's injury was sufficiently imminent to constitute an injury-in-fact for purposes of standing. View "Clemens v. Execupharm Inc" on Justia Law
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By Wally Graham, Resources Roadhouse.
Impact Minerals (ASX: IPT) closed 2016 with a cliff-hanging conclusion to a drilling program on the Silica Hill gold-silver discovery within the company's 100 per cent-owned Commonwealth gold-silver-base metal project.
The Commonwealth project comprises three 100 per cent-owned exploration licences covering about 315 square kilometres of the highly-prospective Lachlan Fold Belt north of Orange in New South Wales, which is host to many major gold-silver-copper mines.
Impact Minerals left the market in a similar predicament to loyal audiences of television programs that end their summers by burning down the local café leaving viewers to wait until the New Year to learn the fortunes of their favourite stars.
Just before Christmas, Impact announced it had extended the sulphide mineralisation at the Silica Hill discovery by up to 50 metres down dip/plunge in the first two diamond drill holes completed as part of a follow up drill program.
The company signed off by telling us that assay results were not available and that we would have to wait, like the television audience, for their anticipated release date of around late January to mid-February.
Adding spice to the mixture, Impact informed us of the encouraging nature of the mineralisation it had encountered at Silica Hill, which comprises promising multiple narrow stockwork-style veins and veinlets together with disseminated sulphides in the rock surrounding the veins.
Everything being what an exploration play would want to see at the early stages of a discovery.
Readings with a portable XRF instrument on both holes (CMIPT048 and CMIPT049) provided further encouragement by indicating the presence of silver mineralisation over 100 grams per tonne occurring in many places both in the veins and the surrounding rock.
"The drilling we completed last year showed us the mineralisation seems to be at least as thick as what we had encountered in the discovery holes and appears to be hosting the right sort of mineralisation we would hope to see," Impact Minerals managing director Dr Mike Jones told The Resources Roadhouse.
It's little wonder the market should be intrigued by developments at Silica Hill, given the short history of outstanding drill results the deposit has produced.
The silver mineralisation zone at Silica Hill strikes north east and dips steeply to the south east and, of note, appears to improve in grade as it gets deeper.
The mineralisation remains open in all directions including up-dip and is terminated by a fault, which Impact has interpreted to suggest further mineralisation may have been offset.
Impact's eagerness to fast-track follow-up drilling at Silica Hill stemmed from results from the four previous drill holes (CMIPT046, CMIPT026, CMIPT043, and CMIPT011), which all returned significant intercepts on two sections.
Most notably was drill hole CMIPT046, drilled beneath Hole CMIPT026, which returned high-grade gold and very high-grade silver over a 41m thick intercept within a 74m thick zone of gold-silver mineralisation.
74.5 metres at 1.2 grams per tonne t gold and 106g/t silver (2.9g/t gold equivalent) from 61 metres, including 41.3m at 2g/t gold and 176g/t silver (4.7g/t gold equivalent) from 61m, including 16.3m at 3.7g/t gold and 246g/t silver (7.6g/t gold equivalent) from 86m.
"The previous results we had achieved at Silica Hill demanded we follow them up in quick fashion, which we did," Jones said.
"The follow-up program was designed to test for extensions to this mineralisation as well as further depth extensions to the Commonwealth deposit centred about 200 metres south west of Silica Hill.
"The earlier drilling demonstrated we had discovered high-grade gold associated with the very high-grade and bonanza grade silver veins that are clearly widespread across the prospect.
Drilling at Silica Hill took a break over the Festive Season while Impact awaited statutory approvals to be granted for some of the drill holes.
Once these have been received, the company will be looking forward to delivering more news on further developments from Silica Hill.
Drilling will be keeping Impact Minerals occupied for a good part of 2017, as the company spends two Western Australia Government Exploration Incentive Scheme grants, totalling $300,000, on its 100 per cent-owned Mulga Tank gold and nickel project east of Kalgoorlie.
This will be supplemented by a recent refund of $1.07 million the company received from the Australian Tax Office for expenditure on research and development in the 2016 financial year.
The Mulga Tank project has been on Impact's radar since it discovered high-tenor nickel and copper sulphides at the Mulga Tank Dunite during a maiden drill program in 2013.
1.Extensive disseminated nickel in the Mulga Tank Dunite with assays of: 2m at 1.3 per cent nickel, including 1m at 2 per cent nickel and multiple 0.5m thick zones of 0.5 per cent to 1.2 per cent nickel within an intercept of 115m at 0.3 per cent nickel; Other thick intercepts include 21m at 0.4 per cent nickel and 59m at 0.3 per cent nickel.
3.High tenor nickel sulphide in multiple komatiites in a flow channel in the upper part of the dunite with assays of: 0.75m at 0.85 per cent nickel, 0.35 per cent copper and 0.28g/t PGE (Pt+Pd+Au); and 6.7m at 0.5 per cent nickel.
"The style of mineralisation and the nature of the rocks we have seen at Mulga Tank immediately raised interest, mainly due to their similarity to those that host the large nickel deposits at Perseverance and Mt Keith," Jones said.
"We collected around 2,500 soil samples at Mulga Tank back in 2015, which we have sent to be analysed using the ionic leach method at ALS Laboratories in Perth.
Impact has identified the geological terrain hosting the Mulga Tank project to be the same as that hosting Gold Road Resources' (ASX: GOR) Gruyere deposit of more than 5 million ounces of gold.
As Gruyere was before it came to prominence, Mulga Tank has been poorly explored for gold and Impact intends to make this a focus of the upcoming drilling.
Peter Unsworth, Dr Mike Jones, Paul Ingram, Markus Elsasser, Felicity Gooding.