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September 29, 2007 by dandelionsalad
Murder of Iraqi Journalists by Dirk Adriaensens
by Dirk Adriaensens
Global Research, September 29, 2007
BRussells Tribunal
The betrayal of Iraq 's media professionals
A new landmark in the Iraq catastrophe, and a new landmark in history altogether: at least 300 media professionals have died in Iraq.
Suhad Al-Khalidi, reporter for Iraqi Media Network, was killed by US troops on 4 February 2007 when their patrol passed by her car in Hilla. Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad on 7 February 2007. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed the three guards. Rasoul Abdul Hussein, a reporter, was killed together with his wife in Diwaniya on 21 February 2007. Hamid Mohammed Salih, a program director for the Dijlah radio station, was assassinated in the Jami'a district 0n 19 March 2007. Mohammed Jassim Yousif, a reporter for the Iraqi Media Network, was assassinated west of Baghdad on 31 March. An unknown correspondent for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram was killed in a car bomb explosion targeting the Shi'ite Khillani mosque in a crowded area of central Baghdad on 19 June 2007. Abdul Khaliq al-Habir al-Anbaki, a caricaturist in al-Mutamar newspaper, was killed along with his 11-member-family in the car bombing attack that took place on 27 July 2007 in Karrada, central Baghdad.
The two things these murders have in common is that these persons were Iraqi media professionals and that their assassination, which occurred in 2007, went unreported by CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists), and RSF (Reporters Without Borders). These casualties are listed on the BRussells Tribunal website (http://www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm) and their cases were taken from different press reports.
What's happening with the Western journalist ethics? What's happening with the solidarity between Western media professionals and their Iraqi colleagues? The above mentioned killings, did they not take place? Were they not mentioned in one or another press report? Why are they not listed then?
Different journalists organisations defend the interests of their colleagues and/or compile lists of killed media professionals in occupied Iraq: CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists), RSF (Reporters Without Borders), INSI (International News Safety Institute) – closely linked with the IFJ (International Federation of Journalists), ICasualties (Iraq Coalition Casualty Count), (IFEX) International Freedom of Expression Exchange – who collect most of their data from RSF-, and others, like UNESCO.
CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a result of a hostile action—such as reprisal for his or her work, or crossfire while carrying out a dangerous assignment. CPJ does not include journalists killed in accidents, such as car or plane crashes, unless the crash was caused by aggressive human action (for example, if a plane were shot down or a car crashed trying to avoid gunfire). Nor does CPJ include journalists who died of health ailments. They list only 26 Media professionals killed in 2007, of which 5 in a list of pending investigations into suspicious deaths, called Killed: Motive Unconfirmed.
The Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial (Newseum) staffers claim to compile their list from information circulated by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Press Institute, the International Freedom of Expression Clearing House, Reporters Sans Frontières, the International Federation of Journalists, the Inter American Press Association, news stories and other sources. A whole lot of sources, it seems. They list only 28 journalists killed in Iraq in 2007.
Reporters without Borders lists only 50 killed media professionals in 2007. INSI lists 57 casualties in 2007.
The BRussells Tribunal lists 300 deceased media professionals since the illegal invasion until now, of which 271 are Iraqi Nationals. 6 died of "non-violent" causes. All the others are violent deaths. The number for 2007 stands at 72 killed media professionals, of which 71 are Iraqis. The latest casualty being an Iraqi newspaper correspondent, Abdul-Khaliq Nasser, who was fatally wounded in a rocket attack in Mosul on 28th September 2007.
All the mainstream media worldwide take over the ridiculous figures of CPJ and RSF. Here's what one usually reads in an article about yet another killing of a media professional:
"According to Reporters Without Borders at least X journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003; two are missing and 13 are currently being held hostage. Their number may be higher than the CPJ figure quoted above because it includes media assistants as well as journalists."
"The CPJ count is the most widely cited number in reporting on journalist deaths in Iraq . But the CPJ tally of 61 is misunderstood and incomplete because it excludes dozens of journalists and news organization employees killed or who otherwise died on assignment in Iraq.", Eason Jordan writes in the IHT on 08 February 2006.
The US Administration, the Brookings Institution, you name it, they all use CPJ, RSF and ICasualties figures of killed media professionals. One would expect that lists of murdered colleagues are compiled with the greatest care, given the importance official bodies attach to these figures. That is not the case. The negligence with which the lists are compiled is revolting. It is another sign of either self-censorship or deliberate downplaying of casualties, something we're seeing happening with the surveys of civilian casualties in Iraq . The media don't use the scientific studies of the Lancet or the credible polls of ORB, the media use the ridiculous figure of Iraq Bodycount, an organisation that lists only what the Western media reports. A clear case of inbreeding. A clear case of imitating "His Master's Voice".
Please have a look at some figures. These include Journalists, Media workers and unconfirmed cases.
Al-Iraqiya director general Habib al-Sadr told AFP last month that at least 75 members of his staff have been killed since he took over the channel in 2005 and another 68 wounded. The BRussells Tribunal list of killed media professionals has less than 1/3rd of this number in its database. So by extrapolation we could conclude that we have listed only about 1/3rd of the real casualties of media professionals in the Iraq war. Why is this claim not being further investigated? Habib al-Sadr's words are meant for sceptic people who think that the BRussells Tribunal figures have been artificially inflated.
Do I sound too harsh for the Western media organisations? I don't think so. I've written to CPJ and received a meaningless answer. I wrote to RSF and received no answer. I've written to many media outlets and received no reaction. I've also sent them a previous article: "At least 78 media professionals killed in Iraq in 2006.", dated 21 February 2007. No reactions, no comment.
By the way: after further research, I discovered that at least 90 media professionals have been killed in 2006, not 78. Here is the number of killed media professionals by year, according to different press accounts.
Of which 6 have died of "non-violent" causes.
Let's have a closer look at the figures for 2007. Let's have a look – as an example – at the media professionals that CPJ doesn't include in its list. Conclude for yourself if these deaths would have to be included or not. And think about why they have not been included. There is a link to the media that have reported these killings.
These 45 Iraqi media professionals deserve to be remembered, especially by organisations that claim to defend their interests. Looking at these figures is a good reason for journalists not to use CPJ's tallies anymore in an article about the killing of a journalist. It's not a decent thing to list only 36 % of the reported casualties and leave out 64%. There can be no valid reason to underreport so grossly.
But there's more. The most striking absent journalist in CPJ's database is Yasser Salihee (or Yassir Al-Salihi). Knight-Ridder reporter, Yasser Salihee, 30, was killed on June 24, 2005 while driving his car. He came into a Baghdad road intersection where every exit had been blocked by U.S. Humvees. He died of a single shot to the head. A report by Salon.com, which interviews the supposed sniper –but does not identify him– paints the incident as an unpremiditated, accidental killing. But details of the scene and the events revealed later have the hallmarks of a staged assassination. At the time Salihee entered the intersection, all other exits were blocked. And as he approached, another car already in place began 'turning' in front of Salihee to bring him to a halt in the killing zone and ensure a perfect shot. The windshield of his car appears to be pierced by only one bullet -the fatal one. Four fingers of his right hand were missing -possibly in vain self-defense. At the time he was killed, he was investigating the activities of the death squads in Iraq . There are reasonable doubt about this incident being a murder or an accident. Yet CPJ doesn't even list Yasser Salihee in their special unconfirmed cases for 2005. He just disappeared from CPJ's database. That is very remarkable and very suspicious. And certainly not impartial.
I would like to plead for a serious count of killed media professionals who died in this bloody war. Or is the life of an Iraqi media worker less worth than that of his colleagues in the West, where killed journalist are meticulously counted?
I would also like to plead for the creation of an independent journalists organisation that can really defend the interests of journalists in Iraq, and is not linked in one way or another to the mainstream media that are owned by the very same people who have advocated for this war to take place, who keep on defending the occupation and remain silent about the catastrophic situation that is being rightfully defined by ever more people as a genocide.
Dirk Adriaensens is member BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee
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So What About Iran? By Uri Avnery
By Uri Avnery
09/29/07 "ICH"
A RESPECTED American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will respond by launching missiles at Israel, and this will serve as a pretext for an American attack on Iran.
Far-fetched? Not really. It is rather like what happened in 1956. Then France, Israel and Britain secretly planned to attack Egypt in order to topple Gamal Abd-al-Nasser (`regime change` in today`s lingo.) It was agreed that Israeli paratroops would be dropped near the Suez Canal, and that the resulting conflict would serve as a pretext for the French and British to occupy the canal area in order to `secure` the waterway. This plan was implemented (and failed miserably).
What would happen to us if we agreed to Cheney`s plan? Our pilots would risk their lives to bomb the heavily defended Iranian installations. Then, Iranian missiles would rain down on our cities. Hundreds, perhaps thousands would be killed. All this in order to supply the Americans with a pretext to go to war.
Would the pretext have stood up? In other words, is the US obliged to enter a war on our side, even when that war is caused by us? In theory, the answer is yes. The current agreements between the US and Israel say that America has to come to Israel`s aid in any war – whoever started it.
Is there any substance to this leak? Hard to know. But it strengthens the suspicion that an attack on Iran is more imminent than people imagine.
DO BUSH, Cheney & Co. indeed intend to attack Iran?
I don`t know, but my suspicion that they might is getting stronger.
Why? Because George Bush is nearing the end of his term of office. If it ends the way things look now, he will be remembered as a very bad – if not the worst – president in the annals of the republic. His term started with the Twin Towers catastrophe, which reflected no great credit on the intelligence agencies, and would come to a close with the grievous Iraq fiasco.
There is only one year left to do something impressive and save his name in the history books. In such situations, leaders tend to look for military adventures. Taking into account the man`s demonstrated character traits, the war option suddenly seems quite frightening.
True, the American army is pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even people like Bush and Cheney could not dream, at this time, of invading a country four times larger than Iraq, with three times the population.
But, quite possibly the war-mongers are whispering in Bush`s ear: What are you worrying about? No need for an invasion. Enough to bomb Iran, as we bombed Serbia and Afghanistan. We shall use the smartest bombs and the most sophisticated missiles against the two thousand or so targets, in order to destroy not only the Iranian nuclear sites but also their military installations and government offices. `We shall bomb them back into the stone age,` as an American general once said about Vietnam, or `turn their clock back 20 years,` as the Israeli Air Force general Dan Halutz said about Lebanon.
That`s a tempting idea. The US will only use its mighty Air Force, missiles of all kinds and the powerful aircraft-carriers, which are already deployed in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. All these can be sent into action at any time on short notice. For a failed president approaching the end of his term, the idea of an easy, short war must have an immense attraction. And this president has already shown how hard it is for him to resist temptations of this kind.
WOULD THIS indeed be such an easy operation, a `piece of cake` in American parlance?
Even `smart` bombs kill people. The Iranians are a proud, resolute and highly motivated people. They point out that for two thousand years they have never attacked another country, but during the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war they have amply proved their determination to defend their own when attacked.
Their first reaction to an American attack would be to close the Straits of Hormuz, the entrance to the Gulf. That would choke off a large part of the world`s oil supply and cause an unprecedented world-wide economic crisis. To open the straits (if this is at all possible), the US army would have to capture and hold large areas of Iranian territory.
The short and easy war would turn into a long and hard war. What does that mean for us in Israel?
There can be little doubt that if attacked, Iran will respond as it has promised: by bombarding us with the rockets it is preparing for this precise purpose. That will not endanger Israel`s existence, but it will not be pleasant either.
If the American attack turns into a long war of attrition, and if the American public comes to see it as a disaster (as is happening right now with the Iraqi adventure), some will surely put the blame on Israel. It is no secret that the Pro-Israel lobby and its allies – the (mostly Jewish) neo-cons and the Christian Zionists – are pushing America into this war, just as they pushed it into Iraq. For Israeli policy, the hoped-for gains of this war may turn into giant losses – not only for Israel, but also for the American Jewish community.
IF PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not exist, the Israeli government would have had to invent him.
He has got almost everything one could wish for in an enemy. He has a big mouth. He is a braggart. He enjoys causing scandals. He is a Holocaust denier. He prophesies that Israel will `vanish from the map` (though he did not say, as falsely reported, the he would wipe Israel off the map.)
This week, the pro-Israel lobby organized big demonstrations against his visit to New York. They were a huge success – for Ahmadinejad. He has realized his dream of becoming the center of world attention. He has been given the opportunity to voice his arguments against Israel — some outrageous, some valid – before a world-wide audience.
But Ahmadinejad is not Iran. True, he has won popular elections, but Iran is like the orthodox parties in Israel: it is not their politicians who count, but their rabbis. The Shiite religious leadership makes the decisions and commands the armed forces, and this body is neither boastful nor vociferous not scandal-mongering. It exercises a lot of caution.
If Iran was really so eager to obtain a nuclear bomb, it would have acted in utmost silence and kept as low a profile as possible (as Israel did). The swaggering of Ahmadinejad would hurt this effort more than any enemy of Iran could.
It is highly unpleasant to think about a nuclear bomb in Iranian hands (and, indeed, in any hands.) I hope it can be avoided by offering inducements and/or imposing sanctions. But even if this does not succeed, it would not be the end of the world, nor the end of Israel. In this area, more than in any other, Israel`s deterrent power is immense. Even Ahmadinejad will not risk an exchange of queens – the destruction of Iran for the destruction of Israel.
NAPOLEON SAID that to understand a country`s policy, one has only to look at the map.
If we do this, we shall see that there is no objective reason for war between Israel and Iran. On the contrary, for a long time it was believed in Jerusalem that the two countries were natural allies.
David Ben-Gurion advocated an `alliance of the periphery`. He was convinced that the entire Arab world is the natural enemy of Israel, and that, therefore, allies should be sought on the fringes of the Arab world – Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, Chad etc. (He also looked for allies inside the Arab world – communities that are not Sunni-Arab, such as the Maronites, the Copts, the Kurds, the Shiites and others.)
At the time of the Shah, very close connections existed between Iran and Israel, some positive, some negative, some outright sinister. The Shah helped to build a pipeline from Eilat to Askelon, in order to transport Iranian oil to the Mediterranean, bypassing the Suez Canal. The Israel internal secret service (Shabak) trained its notorious Iranian counterpart (Savak). Israelis and Iranians acted together in Iraqi Kurdistan, helping the Kurds against their Sunni-Arab oppressors.
The Khomeini revolution did not, in the beginning, put an end to this alliance, it only drove it underground. During the Iran-Iraq war, Israel supplied Iran with arms, on the assumption that anyone fighting Arabs is our friend. At the same time, the Americans supplied arms to Saddam Hussein – one of the rare instances of a clear divergence between Washington and Jerusalem. This was bridged in the Iran-Contra Affair, when the Americans helped Israel to sell arms to the Ayatollahs.
Today, an ideological struggle is raging between the two countries, but it is mainly fought out on the rhetorical and demagogical level. I dare to say that Ahmadinejad doesn`t give a fig for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he only uses it to make friends in the Arab world. If I were a Palestinian, I would not rely on it. Sooner or later, geography will tell and Israeli-Iranian relations will return to what they were – hopefully on a far more positive basis.
ONE THING I am ready to predict with confidence: whoever pushes for war against Iran will come to regret it.
Some adventures are easy to get into but hard to get out of.
The last one to find this out was Saddam Hussein. He thought that it would be a cakewalk – after all, Khomeini had killed off most of the officers, and especially the pilots, of the Shah`s military. He believed that one quick Iraqi blow would be enough to bring about the collapse of Iran. He had eight long years of war to regret it.
Both the Americans and we may soon be feeling that the Iraqi mud is like whipped cream compared to the Iranian quagmire.
Uri Avnery is an Israeli author and activist. He is the head of the Israeli peace movement, "Gush Shalom".
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Notes on the News-Making Naomis by Glitzqueen (aka The Other Katherine Harris) (fascism)
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Glitzqueen's blog post
Two Naomis, Klein and Wolf, are lately notable for their release of new books: Klein's The Shock Doctrine and Wolf's The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. So far I've seen only reviews and interviews, both volumes being so hot off their respective presses, but they've separately commanded so much attention over the past week that it's possible to conclude they'd be better read and considered together.
The topic in each case is the rise or reassertion of dictatorships around the world, although considerably different lenses are applied.
Wolf escorts her readers from 1920s Italy to 1930s Germany to Soviet-dominated East Germany in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in 1968 and then beyond Europe to Chile during the Pinochet years that began in 1973 and China of the late 1980s/early 1990s. In a Buzzflash interview published September 25, the author stated, "(T)he practice of crushing an open society was essentially invented by Mussolini. It was … developed and elaborated on by the other great tyrants of the 20th century and then they studied each other. Hitler studied Stalin. Both … studied Mussolini." What she often calls a "blueprint" involving 10 key steps now comes into play whenever tyrants wish to crush a democracy. As she told Mark Karlin, "I start the book saying in Thailand this coup took a week. This is what they did — boom, boom, boom. It's like they had a shopping list and really they did."
The 10 steps Wolf identified are these:
Invoke a Terrifying Internal and External Enemy
Create a Gulag
Develop a Thug Caste
Set up an Internal Surveillance System
Harass Citizens' Groups
Engage in Arbitrary Detention and Release
Target Key Individuals
Control the Press
Dissent Equals Treason
Suspend the Rule of Law
Not yet having read her book or seen anything relevant to the question, I can't say how Wolf addresses distinctions between dictatorships of the right and of the left, or if it's on grounds of these that she omits economic issues from her master-list. The lack of them does leave quite a hole.
Klein, by contrast, makes economic issues her focus, seeing them as the root of repressive actions taken in spots subject to corporate dominance and what she calls "the dictatorship of debt" (sadly including everything Wolf named and more).
As a bridge between these authors, I find Dr. Lawrence Britt's analysis of the 14 defining points of fascism useful. These have been making the rounds in cyberspace for several years, so I'll touch on them only briefly. Most of his points are equally applicable to both political extremes. Like Wolf, he emphasizes scapegoating an enemy; obsessing with national security, crime and punishment to the detriment of human rights (which parallels Wolf's next six steps); controlling mass media; suppressing dissent as unpatriotic; and militarism.
Britt construes exaltation of the military more broadly in economic terms than Wolf's final step, imposition of martial law, and he also introduces some attributes notably absent on the left — religious zealotry, sexism and corporate protection at the expense of labor — plus two that merit spots on Wolf's all-purpose list: fraudulent elections and the financial machinations of corrupt cronyism. Even in the supposedly classless Soviet Union, an economic elite set policy and profited from it.
Wolf's work may fall short in failing to emphasize who benefits. Perhaps this struck her as obvious and extraneous to the step-by-step action plan she wants us all to recognize. Even so, in a book meant as a clear and comprehensive alert to the uninformed, it's hard to understand why there wouldn't be a fervent "follow the money" admonition. She believes an urgent state of crisis exists in this country and vehemently calls for a public outcry against perversions of our Constitution, yet The End of America seemingly doesn't name the real culprits — who were exactly the same sorts backing Mussolini and Hitler.
By all accounts, The Shock Doctrine suffers no such lack of clarity. Klein goes straight for the throats of the Milton Friedman gang, who with the "full force of the US military machine … serving their corporate agenda" have created "an ever-widening chasm between the dazzling rich and disposable poor" just about everywhere. Through the past 35 years, they've availed themselves of each national crisis to impose the further shocks of privatization policies that quickly proved counterproductive for all but a few, but were maintained through repression and deception of the citizenry.
It's no accident that South Americans are the first people waking up from this collective trance; after all, they were the first to get clobbered. Pinochet's Chile was the Friedman system's prototype, followed by many neighboring countries in desperate need of development aid, then Thatcher's England (where the Brits got duped into a mass sell-off of public assets in the aftermath of their silly Falklands skirmish), Eastern Europe as it emerged from the Iron Curtain, South Africa, Russia, the Asian Tigers, Israel, occupied Iraq, tsunami-struck Sri Lanka (now a beachfront developer's delight), the countless areas succumbing to the biofuels boondoggle and, alongside all of these, ourselves. New Orleans is only the starkest example of our fall from democracy into the global "epidemic of inquality" engineered by corporatist dominion.
Both Wolf and Klein end on notes of hope. Wolf's hinges on mobilizing millions to "drive Congress" through the American Freedom Campaign and and its Republican counterpart, the American Freedom Agenda. "We've got a 10-point legislative agenda," she stated in the Buzzflash interview, explaining that this "includes restoring habeas corpus and protecting journalists from prosecution. That would do a lot to give us some time. If we don't restore these laws we have almost no time, according to the blueprint."
Not one of the 10 points on the AFC site, as important as they are, even hints at the underlying problem of our Congress' being bought-and-paid-for.
Among the hopeful signs Klein sees are growing refusal of IMF and World Bank "assistance" and "free trade" agreements that cede further advantage to transnational corporations; voter rejections of a European Constitution; exposure and prosecution of some leading tyrants and tycoons; protests by Chinese workers and peasants; grassroots activism through groups like Brazil's Landless People's Movement; and "land re-invasions" by Thai villagers who rebuilt tsunami-ravaged communities in defiance of the government and with no outside aid.
By combining both of those approaches, we could really see a new day. My suggestion is that we "drive Congress" to get corporate money out of politics and back into the tax revenue pool at a just level; to abolish the obscenity of corporate personhood; and to make companies cease robbing us through endless subsidies, unfair laws and wars we overwhelmingly oppose.
When America Went Fascist By Chris Rowthorn
Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" by Stephen Lendman
The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now By Carolyn Baker
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps by Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf: I had a vision of Jesus (my personal testimony, too)
The Colbert Report: 10 Easy Steps to Fascism By Manila Ryce (video link)
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism By Dr. Lawrence Britt
The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism (video link)
Posted in Corporations, Economy, Fascism, Featured Writers, History, News &-or Politics, Police State, Politics, United States	| Tagged Fascism on Dandelion Salad, Klein-Naomi, Naomi Klein, Naomi Klein on Dandelion Salad, Naomi Wolf on Dandelion Salad, The Other Katherine Harris, Wolf-Naomi | 3 Comments
Congress Quietly Approves Billions More for Iraq War by John Nichols
by John Nichols
Posted 09/28/2007 @ 11:48am
The Senate agreed on Thursday to increase the federal debt limit by $850 billion — from $8.965 trillion to $9.815 trillion — and then proceeded to approve a stop-gap spending bill that gives the Bush White House at least $9 billion in new funding for its war in Iraq.
Additionally, the administration has been given emergency authority to tap further into a $70 billion "bridge fund" to provide new infusions of money for the occupation while the Congress works on appropriations bills for the Department of Defense and other agencies.
Translation: Under the guise of a stop-gap spending bill that is simply supposed to keep the government running until a long-delayed appropriations process is completed — probably in November — the Congress has just approved a massive increase in war funding.
The move was backed by every senator who cast a vote, save one.
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, the maverick Democrat who has led the fight to end the war and bring U.S. troops home from Iraq, was on the losing end of the 94-1 vote. (The five senators who did not vote, all presidential candidates who are more involved in campaigning than governing, were Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Republicans John McCain and Sam Brownback.)
Said Feingold, "I am disappointed that we are about to begin the 2008 fiscal year without having enacted any of the appropriations bills for that year. I am even more disappointed that we voted on a continuing resolution that provides tens of billions of dollars to continue the misguided war in Iraq but does not include any language to bring that war to a close. We need to keep the federal government operating and make sure our brave troops get all the equipment and supplies they need, but we should not be giving the President a blank check to continue a war that is hurting our national security."
In the House, the continuing resolution passed by a vote of 404 to 14, with 14 other members not voting.
The "no" votes in the House, all cast by anti-war members, came from one Republican, Ron Paul of Texas, and 13 Democrats: Oregon's Earl Blumenauer, Missouri's William Clay, Minnesota's Keith Ellison, California's Bob Filner, Massachusetts' Barney Frank, New York's Maurice Hinchey, Ohio's Dennis Kucinich, Washington's Jim McDermott, New Jersey's Donald Payne, California's Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson and Lynn Woolsey.
That means that, of the 2008 presidential candidates, only Republican Paul and Democrat Kucinich voted against giving the Bush administration a dramatic — if not particularly well publicized — infusion of new money for the war.
"Each year this war is getting more and more costly — both in the amount of money spent and in the number of lives lost. Now this Congress is providing more funds so the administration can continue down a path of destruction and chaos," said Kucinich, who noted the essential role of House and Senate Democratic leaders, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in passing the continuing resolution. "The Democratic leadership in Congress needs to take a stand against this President and say they will not give him any more money. That is the only way to end this war and bring our troops home."
h/t: Malcolm
Posted in Economy, Empire, Iraq, News &-or Politics, Politics, War	| Tagged 2008 Election, John Nichols, Kucinich-Dennis, Nichols-John, Paul-Ron, Russ Feingold | 2 Comments
The Empire Is Over By Charley Reese
By Charley Reese
09/29/07 "Lew Rockwell"
The American government has come to resemble the characters in The Wizard of Oz. We have the Cowardly Congress, a president without a brain, and a foreign-policy establishment without a heart.
Our politicians are still trying to play the empire game long after the age of empires has ended. Blinded by arrogance, they cannot see that with every passing day, the world needs us less and less and hates us more and more. We are passing through that phase when the grandeur of the empire exists only in the minds of politicians who have insulated themselves from reality.
A friend of mine, a classical scholar, sometimes tells his students, "No one woke up one morning in 476 A.D. and said, 'Gee, I'm in the Dark Ages.'" The transition from the heyday of Roman power to a stage of barbarism was a gradual process. We are in a process of change. No one is going to announce on TV that the U.S. is no longer a superpower.
Nevertheless, the signs are there if you look for them. A nation that was able to help crush the Axis powers in three and a half years hasn't won a war since then. We have had four years of struggling with an insurgency in a small, poor and broken country. Our economy is shaky under mountains of debt. Half of our people make less than 42,000 inflated dollars a year.
Where we were once the arsenal of democracy, today there is hardly a major weapons system that doesn't rely on imports of one kind or another. Much of the industry that is left is foreign-owned. Japan, which once lay prostrate, dominates the American car market. It is extremely difficult to find anything today that is not made in China or some other cheap-labor country.
In the meantime, the cowardly Congress doesn't have the guts to tackle any of the major problems confronting the American people. Our president continues to embarrass us practically every time he opens his mouth in public. The foreign-policy establishment is riddled with aging draft dodgers agitating for more wars – against small countries, of course.
True, we still have lots of nuclear weapons, but do you think any American president would want to get into a nuclear shooting match with China or Russia? Look at how we reacted to two airplanes crashing into two office buildings. What do you think we would do if San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco became radioactive ruins with millions of casualties? We are not prepared mentally, spiritually or materially to deal with a nuclear war.
We are like all empires in their final stages. We have grown soft. We like our comforts. We don't wish to be inconvenienced. We like poor Mexicans to do our stoop work and poor Americans to do our fighting, provided they do it far away so we won't be disturbed by explosions and screams. We enjoy our decadence, and there are always people in the media who can rationalize anything, no matter how sick and revolting it is.
As for trying to understand the world, we are just too busy being amused and following the adventures of Britney Spears and other celebrities. We like to let the TV and the politicians do our thinking for us. It saves energy. They tell us whom to hate.
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Olios inaequipes är en spindelart som först beskrevs av Simon 1890.  Olios inaequipes ingår i släktet Olios och familjen jättekrabbspindlar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Q: Why custom spinner has different style than default? I have created custom Spinner (called CustomSpinner) using android.widget.Spinner as parent. My CustomSpinner has just only overriden constructors.
Issue: The default Spinner dropdown view has black color, but CustomSpinner dropdown view has white color in the same activity.
What should I add to my CustomSpinner to follow default Spinner style?
CustomSpinner class:
package com.example.customspinner;

public class CustomSpinner extends Spinner {
    public CustomSpinner(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, int mode) {
        super(context, mode);
    }

    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
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    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
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    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int mode) {
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    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
    public CustomSpinner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes, int mode) {
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Usage in layout layout/activity_main.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
                android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
                android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
                android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
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    <Spinner
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src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.igorok.customspinner" >

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
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public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    private Spinner mSpinner;

    private static String[] mStrings = new String[] {
        "1111111",
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        "3333333",
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    };

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        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mSpinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(
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    @Override
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            return true;
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}

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the goal of my question is to understand why it happens. I dont want to set black color manually.

The reason is that the theme of your app (AppTheme) has a defined style for normal Spinners, but your CustomSpinner doenst fit into that category. For solving it do as zgc said or check this: How to: Define theme (style) item for custom widget

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Die 5. Infanterie-Division war ein Großverband der Reichswehr und der Wehrmacht.

Geschichte

Aufstellung
Die Division wurde im Zuge der Vergrößerung der Reichswehr im Oktober 1934 aufgestellt mit der Tarnbezeichnung Kommandant von Ulm und am 15. Oktober 1935 umbenannt in 5. Infanterie-Division. Der Divisionsstab wurde aus dem Stab des bisherigen Infanterie-Führer V gebildet.

Die Division wurde nach starken Verlusten im Osten am 1. Dezember 1941 im Raum Moulin/Frankreich in die 5. leichte Infanterie-Division umgegliedert und am 6. Juli 1942 in 5. Jäger-Division umbenannt.

Am 1. Mai 1945 wurde die Division beim Absetzen in Richtung Elbe im Raum Wittenberge zersprengt, die Masse geriet am 3. Mai im amerikanischen Brückenkopf an der Elbe bei Lenzen in Gefangenschaft.

Garnisonen
Friedensstandort des Divisionskommandos war Ulm. Die Truppenteile der Division waren in Württemberg und Baden stationiert.

Teilnahme an Gefechten und Kampfhandlungen
Die Division wurde am 25. August 1939 mobilgemacht, als Division der 1. Aufstellungswelle. Zu den bereits unterstellten Truppenteilen kamen dabei hinzu:

 I. Abteilung des Artillerie-Regiments 41,
 die Divisionseinheiten 5.

Unterstellung und Einsatzräume

1939–1940
Die Division nahm nicht am Überfall auf Polen teil, sondern wurde Ende August an den Westwall verlegt; Teile der Division befanden sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits am Oberrhein im Manöver. Anschließend nahm die Division 1940 im Verbund der 2. Armee am Westfeldzug teil. Bis März 1941 verblieb die Division als Besatzungstruppe in Frankreich.

1941
Im April 1941 verlegte die Division nach Ostpreußen und nahm ab 22. Juni im Abschnitt der 9. Armee am Angriff auf die Sowjetunion teil. Sie drang beim Unternehmen Taifun im Verband der Panzergruppe 3 auf Wjasma vor, wurde dann nach starken Verlusten zur Auffrischung für zwei Monate nach Frankreich verlegt, für den Einsatz im Mittelgebirge ausgerüstet und in 5. leichte Infanterie-Division umbenannt.

1942–1944
Im Januar 1942 gelangte die 5. leichte Division erneut an die Ostfront, wo sie am Unternehmen Brückenschlag zur Befreiung der im Kessel von Demjansk eingeschlossenen deutschen Truppen teilnahm und bis Ende 1943 Stellungen im Raum Staraja Russa bezog.

Im Juli 1942, zu diesem Zeitpunkt kämpfte die Division südlich des Ilmensees, wurde die Division zur Jäger-Division umgebildet und in 5. Jäger-Division umbenannt. Anfang 1944 wurde die Division in den Raum Witebsk verlegt. Im März 1944 trat die Division im Verbund des LVI. Panzer-Korps unter General Hoßbach mit der 5. Panzer-Division und der 131. Infanterie-Division zum Entsatzangriff auf Kowel an. Es folgten schwere Abwehrkämpfe im Raum um Kowel und im Pripjet-Gebiet sowie Rückzugskämpfe über den Bug und den Narew auf die ostpreußische Grenze.

1945
1945 kam es zu Abwehrkämpfen in Ostpreußen und Rückzugskämpfen auf die Weichsel und die Oder. Nach der Schlacht um die Seelower Höhen folgte der Rückzug bis zur Elbe. Die Division, ihr letzter Gefechtsstand lag bei Schivelbein bei Dramburg, wurde am 2. Mai in der Nähe von Wittenberge zersprengt. Nachrichten- und Aufklärungsabteilung setzten über die Elbe und gingen in amerikanische Gefangenschaft. Nachdem ein Durchbruchsversuch der restlichen Teile auf Wittenberge scheiterte, ergaben sich die verbliebenen Truppen in der Nacht zum 3. Mai in Lenzen nördlich Wittenberge den Amerikanern.

Organisation

Verbandszugehörigkeit
Die Division unterstand im Frieden dem V. Armeekorps in Stuttgart.

Unterstellte Truppenteile
Der Division unterstanden

1934
 Infanterie-Regiment 14 in Konstanz mit I.–III. Bataillon (vorher Infanterie-Regiment Konstanz)
 Infanterie-Regiment 56 in Ulm mit I.–III. Bataillon (aufgestellt 15. Oktober 1939)
 Artillerie-Regiment 5 in Ulm mit I.–III. Abteilung (vorher 5. Artillerie-Regiment)
 Pionier-Bataillon 5 in Ulm (vorher 5. (Württ.) Pionier-Bataillon)

1935
 Am 15. Oktober wurde die Infanterie-Divisions-Nachrichten-Abteilung 5 in Ulm aufgestellt

1936
 Am 15. Oktober wurde das Infanterie-Regiment 75 in Freiburg mit I.–III. Bataillon aufgestellt aus den
 Ergänzungs-Bataillon Infanterie-Regiment 14 in Weingarten, wurde bei der Mobilmachung 1939 das I. Bataillon des Infanterie-Regiments 460 (260. Infanterie-Division)
 Ergänzungs-Bataillon Infanterie-Regiment 56 in Weinsberg, später Biberach, wurde bei der Mobilmachung 1939 das II. Bataillon des Infanterie-Regiments 460
 Ergänzungs-Bataillon Infanterie-Regiment 75
 Ergänzungs-Bataillon Artillerie-Regiment 5
 MG-Bataillon 35 in Horb, bisher MG-Bataillon 4 des V. Armee-Korps, wurde der Division unterstellt

1939
Division der 1. Welle. Eine Infanterie-Division der 1. Welle hatte einen Soll-Bestand von 534 Offizieren, 2701 Unteroffizieren, 14.397 Soldaten und 102 Beamten.

Siehe auch: Gliederung einer Infanterie-Division.

Zu den bereits unterstellten Truppenteilen kamen dabei hinzu:

 I. Abteilung des Artillerie-Regiments 41,
 Divisionstruppen 5
 Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 aus dem Kavallerie-Regiment 18, ab 1. März 1941 Radfahr-Abteilung 5, ab 1. April 1943 Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5
 Infanterie-Divisions-Nachschubführer 5, ab 1. November 1942 Kommandeur der Divisions-Nachschubtruppen 5, mit allen Truppenteilen

Als Ersatz-Truppenteile für die Division wurden im Wehrkreis V aufgestellt:

 am 27. August 1939 Feldersatz-Bataillon 5 in Ulm, am 22. Dezember 1939 abgegeben, am 20. März 1941 erneut aufgestellt (der Division unterstellt)
 unterstellt der 155. Division, ab 1. September 1940 der 165. Division, ab 1. Oktober 1942 der 465. Division
 * am 27. August 1939 Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 14, ab 10. April 1943 Grenadier-Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Bataillon 14
 * am 29. August 1939 Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 56, ab Oktober 1941 Jäger-Ersatz-Bataillon 56
 * am 26. August 1939 Infanterie-Ersatz-Bataillon 75, ab 20. Juli 1942 Jäger-Ersatz-Bataillon 75, am 16. April 1945 I. Bataillon Grenadier-Regiment 726
 * am 26. August 1939 Artillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung 5 in Ulm als leichte Abteilung

Dezember 1941 als leichte Division
 Jäger-Regiment 56 mit I. bis III. Bataillon (zuvor Infanterie-Regiment 56)
 Jäger-Regiment 75 mit I. bis III. Bataillon (zuvor Infanterie-Regiment 75)
 Artillerie-Regiment 5 mit I. bis IV. Abteilung
 Divisionstruppen 5
 Panzerjäger-Abteilung 5
 Radfahrabteilung 5 mit 1. und 2. Radfahr-Kompanie
 Pionier-Bataillon 5
 Nachrichten-Abteilung 5
 Infanterie-Divisions-Nachschubführer 5

1942 als Jäger-Division
 Jäger-Regiment 56 mit I. bis III. Bataillon
 Jäger-Regiment 75 mit I. bis III. Bataillon
 Artillerie-Regiment 5 mit I. bis IV. Abteilung
 Divisionstruppen 5
 Feldersatz-Bataillon 5
 Panzerjäger-Abteilung 5 mit Stab, 1. 3. Kompanie (motZ), ab 1943 1. Kompanie (motZ), 2. Kompanie (StuG), 3. Kompanie (Geb.Fla.)
 Radfahrabteilung 5, ab 1. April 1943 Aufklärungs-Abteilung 5 mit 1. bis 3. Radfahr-Kompanie, 4. schwerer Kompanie
 Pionier-Bataillon 5 mit Stab, 1. und 2. Kompanie (besp), 3. Radfahr-Kompanie, Brücken--Kolonne B (mot) 5, leichte Pionier-Kolonne 5
 Nachrichten-Abteilung 5 mit Stab, 1. Fernsprech-Kompanie (teilmot), 2. Funk-Kompanie (motorisiert), leichte Nachrichten-Kolonne
 Infanterie-Divisions-Nachschubführer 5, ab Kommandeur der Nachschubtruppen 5 mit 1. bis 3. kleine Kraftwagen-Kolonne (30t) 5, 4. bis 6. Fahr-Kolonne(besp) 5, 7. kleine Kraftwagen-Kolonne Betriebsstoff (25 m³) 5, Kraftwagen-Werkstatt-Kompanie (mot.) 5, Kraftwagen-Nachschub-Staffel 5, Nachschub-Kompanie 5, Bäckerei-Kompanie (mot.) 5, Schlächterei-Kompanie (mot.) 5, Verpflegungsamt 5, 1. und 2. Sanitäts-Kompanie (teilmot.), 1. und 2. Krankenkraftwagen-Zug 5, Feldlazarett (mot.) 5, Veterinär-Kompanie (mot.) 5, Feldpostamt (mot.) 5

Abgaben
 Januar 1940 das Feldersatz-Bataillon 5 als III.Bataillon Inf.-Regt. 324 zur 163. Infanterie-Division
 Februar 1940 Stab und II. Bataillon Inf.-Regt. 56 an die 292. Infanterie-Division
 Oktober 1940 Stab Inf.-Regt. 14, III. Bataillon Inf.-Regt. 14, III. Bataillon Inf.-Regt 56 und III. Bataillon Inf.-Regt 75 an die 125. Infanterie-Division
 Beide letztere Abgaben wurden wieder ersetzt.
 Dezember 1941 Inf.-Regt. 14 an die 78. Infanterie-Division

Kommandeure

Bekannte Divisionsangehörige
 Hermann Teske (1902–1983), war von 1960 bis 1965, als Oberarchivrat, Leiter des Militärarchivs beim Bundesarchiv.

Verweise

Quellen
 Beständeübersicht im Deutschen Bundesarchiv

Siehe auch
 Infanteriedivision

Literatur
 Adolf Reinicke: Die 5. Jäger Division 1939–1945. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1962.
 Gert Sievert: Ende und Erbe der 5. Infanterie- und Jäger-Division. Redaktion: Gert Sievert/Helmut Binder/Karl Dörflinger/Dieter Keller/Siegfried Sarau, Hrsg.: Kameradenkreis der 5. Infanterie- und Jäger-Division, Villingen 1982.
 Helmut Thumm: Der Weg der 5. Infanterie- und Jäger-Division 1921–1945. Bildband. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1976.

 Veit Scherzer: Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Band 3. Die Divisionen – Divisionen und Brigaden mit den Nummern 4 bis 8. Scherzers Militär-Verlag, Ranis/Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-938845-13-4.
 Hans-Joachim Harder: Militärgeschichtliches Handbuch Baden-Württemberg. Herausgeber Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009856-X.
 Werner Haupt: Heeresgruppe Nord. Bad Nauheim 1967.
 Werner Haupt: Leningrad, Wolchow, Kurland. 1976.
 Franz Kurowski: Demjansk – Der Kessel im Eis. Wölfersheim-Berstadt 2001.
 Samuel W. Mitcham: Briarcliff Manor: Hitler's Legions. Stein and Day, 1985.

Einzelnachweise

Anmerkungen

Division der 1. Aufstellungswelle
Gegründet 1934
Aufgelöst 1945
Militär (Ulm)


This report is the second part of a three-part comprehensive report filed by both Dr. Burnaford and Dr. Scripp, as Co-Principal Investigators of the PAIR project.
The first report, written by Dr. Gail Burnaford , focused primarily on three years of collecting evidence of progress meeting PAIR teacher professional development goals, the evolution of teacher professional development outcomes in comparison with control group teachers, and speculation on theg eneral impact of high quality PAIRteacher practices on student learning.
The second and third parts of this report, written by Dr. Lawrence Scripp and his research team from the Center for Music-in-Education and CAPE (2011-2012], focus on the impact of PAIR on student learning. This second report (2011) reports primarily on differences among control-treatment statistical comparisons of PAIR student academic test outcomes. The following third report (2012) features an extensive review of qualitative and quantitative aspects all PAIR student arts integration outcome data. In addition, it provides a comprehensive analysis of the possible statistical links between seven teacher professional development factors and four student learning outcomes.
In this paper reports on a research project in arts integration education, conducted in the Chicago Public Schools in partnership with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), a research-based organization focused on optimizing the impact of artists and arts learning in schools for the benefit of whole-school improvement in arts learning, teacher professional development, and school culture.
Copyright 2011 Partnerships in Arts Integration Research.


Our mission is to help each child have fun being active while building confidence, positive attitudes, and personal skills important in a well-rounded lifetime of success. The fitness and life skills learned through gymnastics are tremendous. Gymnastics is the foundation of human movement and provides the building blocks necessary for development in all sports. We strive to promote safety, self-esteem, friendship, and fun everyday!


Steve Kroner Feb. 4, 2019 Updated: Feb. 4, 2019 10:22 p.m.
Steve Negoesco, who led the USF men's soccer program to four national titles and 22 conference championships in his 39 seasons as head coach, died Sunday. He was 93.
Negoesco played fullback at USF in the late 1940s and early '50s. He took over the program in 1962. The Dons won national titles in 1966, '75, '76 and '80. USF named its soccer facility after Negoesco in 1982. His career record: 540-172-66.
Joe Dugan played three seasons (1988-90) as a center back under Negoesco.
Current head coach Eddie Soto, who took over the program in 2014, played for Cal State Fullerton in the 1990s.
Negoesco often recruited a roster with an international flavor. Dugan said Negoesco stressed playing the game a certain way.
Negoesco was born in Jutland, N.J., on Sept. 12, 1925. His mother died when he was 6 months old. Negoesco later was sent to Romania to live with an aunt and uncle. He was captured by the Germans in 1940 and taken to a prisoner-of-war camp.
He eventually escaped, returned to Romania and, ultimately, made it back to the United States.
Dugan appreciated Negoesco's personal touch as a coach.
Negoesco's soccer legacy doesn't reside solely at USF. He helped found San Francisco youth leagues in the 1950s.
"He gave so much (to youth soccer), while taking so little," Dugan said.
Negoesco was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Mercedes. He is survived by six children, 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
In that Chronicle story from 2000, Negoesco said his efforts to build the USF program specifically and soccer in general didn't stem from a desire to receive accolades.
Steve Kroner's main coverage beats for The San Francisco Chronicle's Sporting Green are WCC basketball, the Giants and the A's. He occasionally covers the NFL and college football, the NBA and golf. Steve, who joined The Chronicle in November 1998, also works as a copy editor. Before working at The Chronicle, he spent 16 years as a sports producer/reporter for KPIX TV. Born in San Francisco and raised in Millbrae, Steve went to Capuchino High and then to Cal, from which he graduated in 1981 with degrees in journalism and political science.
He lives in San Francisco.


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Registration (MPI-PKS main building, office 1A05)
Welcome Reception (MPI-PKS foyer)
09:15 - 09:30 Scientific Coordinators Markus Heyl, Roderich Moessner, Frank Pollmann
Chair: Amit Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
09:30 - 10:00 Vedika Khemani (Havard University)
Quantum Dynamics in Constrained Systems
10:00 - 10:30 Stephen Powell (University of Nottingham)
Collective dynamics in dimer models and constrained systems
11:00 - 11:30 Maximilian Schulz (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Stark many-body localization
We consider spinless fermions on a finite one-dimensional lattice, interacting via nearest-neighbor repulsion and subject to a strong electric field. In the non-interacting case, due to Wannier-Stark localization, the single-particle wave functions are exponentially localized even though the model has no quenched disorder. We show that this system remains localized in the presence of interactions and exhibits physics analogous to models of conventional many-body localization (MBL). In particular, the entanglement entropy grows logarithmically with time after a quench, albeit with a slightly different functional form from the MBL case, and the level statistics of the many-body energy spectrum are Poissonian. We moreover predict that a quench experiment starting from a charge-density wave state would show results similar to those of Schreiber {\it et al.\/} [{\it Science\/} {\bf 349}, 842 (2015)].
11:30 - 12:00 Evert van Nieuwenburg (CALTECH - California Institute of Technology)
MBL signatures in stark contrast to disorder
We analyze a different single-particle localization mechanism as a starting point for typical Many-Body Localization (MBL) studies. Rather than disorder we consider particles in the presence of a linear potential, which in the non-interacting limit exhibit well-known Wannier-Stark localization. We analyze the fate of this localization in the presence of interactions. Remarkably, we find that beyond a critical value of the potential gradient, these models exhibit behavior very similar to that obtained for disorder as indicated by their spectral and dynamical properties. These models, therefore, may constitute a new class of generic non-random models that fail to thermalize. They suggest new directions for experimentally exploring and understanding the phenomenon of MBL. If time permits, I wish to shortly mention a machine learning based consideration of finite size scaling for the MBL problem.
Chair: Paul McClarty (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
14:00 - 14:30 Fabien Alet (CNRS)
Many-body localization transition in a two-dimensional disordered quantum dimer model
14:30 - 15:00 Thomas Bilitewski (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
Dynamics of the jammed spin liquid
We study the low temperature static and dynamical properties of the classical bond-disordered antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice. Its groundstates can be understood to satisfy a set of local constraints exactly matching the number of degrees of freedom. We find {\it discrete} degenerate ground states in presence of arbitrary (bounded) disorder whose number grows exponentially with system size. These states do not exhibit zero-energy `excitations' characteristic of highly frustrated magnets but instead are local minima of the energy landscape, albeit with an anomalously soft excitation spectrum. This represents a spin liquid version of the phenomenon of jamming familiar from granular media and structural glasses. Correlations of this jammed spin liquid, which upon increasing the disorder strength gives way to a conventional spin glass, may be algebraic (Coulomb-type) or exponential. Surprisingly, despite the rigidity of the groundstates, we establish the vanishing of the corresponding spin stiffness. The spin dynamics resembles that of Coulomb Heisenberg spin liquids, but exhibits a new low-temperature dynamically arrested regime, which however gets squeezed out with increasing system size, in correspondence with a detailed study of the energy landscape which exhibits vanishing energy barriers between ground states and appears highly connected.
15:00 - 15:30 Yuan Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Excitation dynamics of quantum spin ice
I will describe some of our recent efforts in understanding the excitation dynamics of quantum spin ice, a model system for studying three dimensional U(1) quantum spin liquid. In the first part of the talk, I will present a partial solution to a toy model that captures the essential features of single spinon, or "magnetic monopole", dynamics in quantum spin ice. I will demonstrate that the highly-constrained motion of spinon can be mapped to a random walk with entropy-induced memory. Direct simulation of this random walk shows that the spinon can nevertheless propagate coherently at long distances despite the constraint. In the second part of the talk, I will present our numerical simulation of a quantum spin ice model, where we observe and characterize the signatures of emergent photons and spinons in the dynamic spin structure factor through a combination of QMC simulation and stochastic analytic continuation.
16:30 - 17:00 Subhro Bhattacharjee (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)
Butterfly effect in frustrated magnets
17:00 - 17:30 Sid Parameswaran (Oxford University)
Classical Dimer Models on Penrose Tilings
Poster session (focus on odd numbers)
Chair: David Luitz (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
09:30 - 10:00 Alexey Gorshkov (University of Maryland)
Confined dynamics in long-range interacting quantum spin chains
10:00 - 10:30 Michael Knap (Technische Universität München)
Dynamical Phase Transition in a 2D Quantum Dimer Model
We consider the quench dynamics of a two-dimensional (2D) constrained quantum dimer model and determine its rich dynamical phase diagram. By means of exact diagonalization on systems of sizes up to 8x8 we show that properly defined order parameters relax to their thermal expectation values. This allows us to study the underlying equilibrium phase transitions in a dynamical context: a BKT-transition between a columnar ordered valence bond solid (VBS) and a valence bond liquid (VBL), as well as a first order transition between a staggered VBS and the VBL. For quenches across the BKT transition, the Loschmidt rate develops conventional non-analyticities at the zero-crossings of the order parameter, fixed by microscopic parameters. By contrast, the relaxation time across the first order transition scales linearly with the correlation length of the initial state, preventing the formation of sharp kinks. Within the staggered VBS, some local observables even fail to thermalize as a result of the kinematic constraints of the quantum dimer model.
11:30 - 12:00 Juan P. Garrahan (University of Nottingham)
Slow dynamics due to kinetic constraints, from classical to quantum
Chair: Alexander Chernyshev (University of California, Irvine)
14:00 - 14:30 Maksym Serbyn (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many-body scars
The statistical mechanics description of many-particle systems rests on the assumption of ergodicity, the ability of a system to explore all allowed configurations in the phase space. For quantum many-body systems statistical mechanics predicts the equilibration of highly excited non-equilibrium state towards a featureless thermal state. Hence, it is highly desirable to explore possible ways to avoid ergodicity in quantum systems. Many-body localization presents one generic mechanism for a strong violation of ergodicity relying on the presence of quenched disorder. In my talk I will discuss a different mechanism of the weak ergodicity breaking relevant for the experimentally realized Rydberg-atom quantum simulator [1]. This mechanism arises from the presence of special eigenstates in the many-body spectrum that are reminiscent of quantum scars in chaotic non-interacting systems [2]. In the single-particle case, quantum scars correspond to wave functions concentrated in the vicinity of unstable periodic classical trajectories. I will demonstrate that many-body scars appear in the Fibonacci chain, a model with a constrained local Hilbert space which can be realized by a Rydberg chain. The quantum scarred eigenstates are embedded throughout the otherwise thermalizing many-body spectrum but lead to direct experimental signatures, as I show for periodic recurrences that reproduce those observed in the experiment [1]. Finally, I will construct the weak deformation of the Rydberg chain Hamiltonian that makes revivals virtually perfect [3]. I will conclude with discussing a new opportunities for the creation of novel states with long-lived coherence in systems that are now experimentally realizable and possible generalizations of these results. \\ [1] Bernien, H. et al., Nature 551, 579–584 (2017), arXiv:1707.04344 \\ [2] C. J. Turner, A. A. Michailidis, D. A. Abanin, M. Serbyn, Z. Papić, Nature Physics (May 2018), arXiv:1711.03528 and Phys. Rev. B 98, 155134 (2018) arXiv:1806.10933 \\ [3] S. Choi, C. J. Turner, et al. arXiv:1812.05561
14:30 - 15:00 Michael Pretko (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Localization and Many-Body Scars in Fracton Systems
Fractons are a special type of emergent particle which obey not only conservation of charge, but also of higher charge moments, such as the dipole moment. In this talk, based on work in collaboration with Shriya Pai and Rahul Nandkishore, I will describe how the conservation of dipole moment leads to severe restrictions on the dynamics of fractons and can prevent the system from reaching thermal equilibrium. Specifically, we study one-dimensional fracton systems evolving under random unitary dynamics, subject only to the conservation of charge and dipole moment. We show that, when initialized with a single charge, the system forever remembers the initial position of the fracton, failing to reach thermal equilibrium. When the system is initialized with multiple fractons, all charges agglomerate to form a single density peak at their collective center of mass. We also study one-dimensional fracton systems undergoing periodic time evolution. In such Floquet systems, we can study the eigenstates of the time evolution operator and their entanglement spectra. We find that a Floquet fracton system hosts a small number of non-thermalizing eigenstates, obeying semi-Poisson statistics in their entanglement spectra, while the majority of the spectrum is thermal, obeying Wigner-Dyson statistics. We argue that the non-thermalizing states provide an example of quantum many-body scars.
15:00 - 15:30 Olexei Motrunich (CALTECH - California Institute of Technology)
Exact Quantum Many-body Scar States in the Rydberg-blockaded Atom Chain
A recent experiment in the Rydberg atom chain observed unusual oscillatory quench dynamics with a charge density wave initial state, and theoretical works identified a set of many-body ``scar states'' showing nonthermal behavior in the Hamiltonian as potentially responsible for the atypical dynamics. In the same nonintegrable Hamiltonian, we discover several eigenstates at \emph{infinite temperature} that can be represented exactly as matrix product states with \emph{finite} bond dimension, for both periodic boundary conditions (two exact $E = 0$ states) and open boundary conditions (two $E = 0$ states and one each $E = \pm \sqrt{2}$). This discovery explicitly demonstrates violation of strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in this model and uncovers exact quantum many-body scar states. These states show signatures of translational symmetry breaking with period-2 bond-centered pattern, despite being in 1d at infinite temperature. We show that the nearby many-body scar states can be well approximated as ``quasiparticle excitations" on top of our exact $E = 0$ scar states, and propose a quasiparticle explanation of the strong oscillations observed in experiments.
16:30 - 17:00 Elsa Lhotel (CNRS - Institut Néel)
Magnetic monopole dynamics in spin ice
Among the original magnetic states which emerge from frustrated magnetic systems, spin ice has aroused a strong interest because beyond its macroscopically degenerate ground state, the excitations can be described as magnetic charges, called magnetic monopoles. At very low temperature, below 200 mK, spin ice dynamics is governed by these monopoles. By performing thermal quenches in spin ice compounds down to these temperatures, through a specific protocol called "avalanche quench" [1], we are able to prepare samples with a very large out-of-equilibrium density of metastable magnetic monopoles. We used this method to study the monopole dynamics in the spin ice compounds Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, and could measure the monopole current as a function of magnetic field [2]. In this talk, I will present some of our recent results which show that even below 200 mK, there is a fast recombination of magnetic monopoles. The comparison between magnetic relaxation measurements performed on several samples with different isotopes gives insights on the quantum tunneling mechanism governing the hopping of monopoles on the lattice, and shows the role of the dynamic coupling between the hyperfine fields and the electronic spins associated with magnetic monopoles. [1] C. Paulsen et al., Nature Physics 10, 135 (2014) [2] C. Paulsen et al., Nature Physics 12, 661 (2016)
17:00 - 17:30 Santiago Grigera (The University of St Andrews)
Phases and dynamics using machine learning
Workshop dinner (MPI-PKS cafeteria)
Chair: Mike Zhitomirsky (CEA Grenoble)
09:30 - 10:00 Christian Pfleiderer (Technische Universität München)
Vibrating-coil magnetometry of spin ice far from equilibrium
10:00 - 10:30 Matthias Vojta (Technische Universität Dresden)
Fractionalized Fermi liquids and exotic superconductivity in the Kitaev Kondo lattice
Fractionalized Fermi liquids (FL*) have been introduced as non-Fermi-liquid metallic phases, characterized by coexisting electron-like charge carriers and local moments which itself form a fractionalized spin liquid. Here we investigate a Kondo lattice model on the honeycomb lattice with compass interactions among the local moments, a concrete model hosting FL* phases based on Kitaev's Z2 spin liquid. We characterize the FL* phases via perturbation theory, and we employ a Majorana-fermion mean-field theory to map out the full phase diagram. Most remarkably we find nematic triplet superconducting phases which mask the quantum phase transition between fractionalized and conventional Fermi liquid phases. Their pairing structure is inherited from the Kitaev spin liquid, i.e., superconductivity is driven by Majorana glue.
11:00 - 11:30 Igor Lesanovsky (University of Nottingham)
Constraints, disorder and localisation in Rydberg lattice gases
Rydberg lattice gases provide a versatile platform for studies of quantum few-body and many-body phenomena with applications ranging from quantum information processing to simulations of complex condensed matter systems. Of particular interest is the so-called facilitation mechanism (or anti-blockade), where the excitation of an atom to a Rydberg state is strongly enhanced in the vicinity of an already excited atom. This effect is of broad relevance and exploited in the design of quantum gates as well as in protocols for dissipative quantum state preparation. In the many-body context it effectuates an aggregation mechanism, where an initial Rydberg excitation seed triggers a dynamical growth of excitation clusters, and it enables the implementation of kinetic constraints thereby connecting to the physics of glass-forming substances. I will focus in my talk on the dynamics of Rydberg excitations in an optical tweezer array under facilitation conditions [1]. Due to the finite temperature the atomic positions are randomly spread, an effect that leads to quenched correlated disorder in the interatomic interaction strengths. This drastically affects the facilitation dynamics and may lead to Anderson localisation in Fock space [1,2]. Furthermore, the system features an unusual many-body localisation scenario in the sense that the it permits a mapping to fermions subject to non-local and disordered interactions. I will discuss the time-evolution of the entanglement entropy and population imbalance and will analyse the level-spacing statistics for this peculiar setting [3]. [1] M. Marcuzzi, J. Minar, D. Barredo, S. de Leseleuc, H. Labuhn, T. Lahaye, A. Browaeys, E. Levi and I. Lesanovsky, Facilitation dynamics and localization phenomena in Rydberg lattice gases with position disorder, Physical Review Letters 118, 063606 (2017) [2] M. Ostmann, M. Marcuzzi, J. Minár and I. Lesanovsky, Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators, arXiv:1802.00379, Quantum Science and Technology (2019) [3] M. Ostmann, M. Marcuzzi, J.P. Garrahan and I. Lesanovsky, Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions, arXiv:1811.01667
11:30 - 12:00 Jürgen Berges (Universität Heidelberg)
Quantum anomalies and topological transitions in gauge theories far from equilibrium
Chair: Claudio Castelnovo (University of Cambridge)
14:00 - 14:30 Mari Carmen Bañuls (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
Exploring constrained models with tensor networks
14:30 - 15:00 Natalia Chepiga (University of California, Irvine)
DMRG investigation of constrained models: from quantum dimer and quantum loop ladders to hard-boson and Fibonacci anyon chains
Motivated by the presence of Ising transitions that take place entirely in the singlet sector of frustrated spin-1/2 ladders and spin-1 chains, we study two types of effective dimer models on ladders, a quantum dimer model and a quantum loop model. Building on the constraints imposed on the dimers, we develop a Density Matrix Renormalization Group algorithm that takes full advantage of the relatively small Hilbert space that only grows as Fibonacci number. We further show that both models can be mapped rigorously onto a hard-boson model first studied by Fendley, Sengupta and Sachdev [Phys. Rev. B 69, 075106 (2004)], and combining early results with recent results obtained with the present algorithm on this hard-boson model [arXiv:1808.08990], we discuss the full phase diagram of these quantum dimer and quantum loop models, with special emphasis on the phase transitions. We study systems with up to 9'000 sites and calculate the correlation length and the wave-vector of the incommensurate short-range correlations with unprecedented accuracy. We provide strong numerical evidence that there is an intermediate floating phase far enough from the integrable Potts point, while in its vicinity, our numerical data are consistent with a unique transition in the Huse-Fisher chiral universality class. Moreover, using conformal field theory, we fully characterize the Ising transition and the tricritical Ising end point, with a complete analysis of the boundary-field correspondence for the tricritical Ising point including partially polarized edges. Finally, we show that the Fibonacci anyon chain is exactly equivalent to special critical points of these models.
Group photo (please note that the photo will be published on the workshop website)
16:30 - 17:00 Adam Smith (Technische Universität München)
Logarithmic spreading of out-of-time-ordered correlators without many-body localization
Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) describe information scrambling under unitary time evolution and provide a useful probe of the emergence of quantum chaos. We calculate OTOCs for a model of disorder-free localization whose exact solubility allows us to study long-time behaviour in large systems. The model consists of fermions and spins minimally coupled, and generates dynamically its own disorder, which gives rise to localization of the fermionic degrees of freedom. Remarkably, we observe logarithmic spreading of correlations, qualitatively different to both thermalizing and Anderson localized systems. Rather, such behaviour is normally taken as a signature of many-body localization, so that our findings for an essentially non-interacting model are surprising. We provide an explanation for this unusual behaviour and suggest a novel Loschmidt echo protocol as a probe of correlation spreading.
17:00 - 17:30 Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA)
Entanglement and thermodynamics in non-equilibrium isolated quantum systems
Poster session (focus on even numbers)
Chair: Santiago Grigera (The University of St Andrews)
09:30 - 10:00 Satoru Nakatsuji (University of Tokyo)
Quantum metamagnetic criticality in a quantum spin ice system
We have been working on a quantum spin ice candidate Pr2Zr2O7 and present our recent work on the experimental observation of the metamagnetic transition under a field along the diagonal [111] direction, which separates a low-field spin liquid state and a polarized state. We examine the possibilities of hypothetical emergent excitations proposed in the quantum spin ice manifold and beyond.
10:00 - 10:30 Martin Mourigal (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Magnetic excitations in a classical spin liquid: the case of MgCr2O4
I will report a comprehensive inelastic neutron-scattering study of the frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet MgCr$_2$O$_4$ in its cooperative paramagnetic regime. Theoretical modeling yields a microscopic Heisenberg model with exchange interactions up to third-nearest neighbors, which quantitatively explains all the details of the dynamic magnetic response. This work demonstrates that the magnetic excitations in paramagnetic MgCr$_2$O$_4$ are faithfully represented in the entire Brillouin zone by a theory of magnons propagating in a highly-correlated paramagnetic background. I will discuss the relevance of this result to other pyrochlore antiferromagnets and to the general problem of determining the nature of magnetic excitations in spin-liquids from experimental data alone. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under award DE-SC-0018660.
11:00 - 11:30 John Chalker (Oxford University)
Emergent gauge fields, magnons and quenched disorder: low energy excitations in geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets with weak exchange randomness
The Heisenberg antiferromagnet with uniform nearest neighbour exchange on the pyrochlore lattice has a ground state that is macroscopically degenerate in the classical limit, and the degrees of freedom within the ground state manifold form an emergent gauge field. Weak exchange randomness lifts this ground state degeneracy and leads to spin glass freezing at a temperature scale set by the disorder. We discuss the low-energy excitations in this frozen state. Since the frozen state spontaneously breaks symmetry under global spin rotations, these excitations are expected to be Goldstone modes. In addition, to be low energy modes, they must be excitations of the emergent gauge field, which is distinguished from the one arising in spin ice materials because it has an intrinsic dynamics inherited from the precessional dynamics of Heisenberg spins. We show how the standard Halperin-Saslow theory of Goldstone modes in a spin glass must be modified to describe this constrained dynamics.
11:30 - 12:00 Shu Zhang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Spin dynamics in the 3D quantum spin liquid candidate NaCaNi$_2$F$_7$
Chair: Soumya Bera (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
14:00 - 14:30 Nic Shannon (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Having your cake and eating it: the curious connection between quantum spin liquids and quantum spin nematics
Quantum spin liquids (QSL's) have traditionally been discussed as states which do not break any symmetry, and so do not undergo any (conventional) thermodynamic phase transition. A ready-made language for such states was found in lattice gauge theory; within this picture, where a local constraint leads to a local "gauge" symmetry, Landau-like phase transitions are explicitly forbidden, and the properties of the spin liquid follow from its emergent gauge structure. Famous examples of this type include Kitaev's toric code, which can realise a Z2 lattice gauge theory, and quantum spin ice, a QSL described by a U(1) lattice gauge theory. Both are characterised by a high degree of entanglement, and fractionalised, topological, spin excitations. Quantum spin nematics, in contrast, are states which explicitly break spin-rotation symmetry, through a local, quadrupolar order parameter. And within the usual paradigm, these states would not be expected to display any of the magical properties of QSL's. In this talk we revisit this expectation, and explore the curious connection between QSL's and quantum spin nematics, as uncovered in projected wave functions for spin liquids on the triangular lattice [1], complimentary studies of square-lattice frustrated ferromagnets [2], and numerical calculations for quantum spin ice with frustrated transverse exchange [3]. In all of these cases, there is evidence that broken spin-rotation symmetry can coexist with the fractionalised excitations and long-range entanglement characteristic of a QSL. [1] T. Grover et al., Phys. Rev B 81, 245121 (2010) [2] R. Shindou et al. Phys. Rev B 84, 134414 (2011) [3] O. Benton et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 067201 (2018)
14:30 - 15:00 Attila Szabó (University of Cambridge)
Seeing beyond the light: Semiclassical simulation of visons and photons in quantum spin ice
The exotic behaviour of quantum spin liquids in bilinear Hamiltonians is often underpinned by perturbative ring exchange processes that induce matrix elements between classically degenerate configurations. In this talk, I will discuss a novel semiclassical numerical method that allows to achieve unprecedented insight into the thermodynamic as well as spectral properties of these systems, and demonstrate its capabilities by applying to quantum spin ice. First, we obtain photonic normal modes in excellent agreement with large-$S$ field theory predictions. We then use the method to study gapped vortices of the emergent magnetic field that are analogous to visons, and obtain their bare energy cost and long ranged Coulomb interaction. In addition, we investigate their thermodynamics in the presence of a thermal bath of photons. Contrary to the behaviour of spinons in classical spin ice, we find that visons form a weak electrolyte: Their strong interaction makes the energy cost of a bound pair lower than that of an isolated vison, leading to a qualitatively different temperature dependence of the pinch points in the emergent magnetic field. Additionally, strong interactions between visons and the thermal bath of photons appear to reduce the creation energy of the former, suggesting a possible hybridisation between the two excitations in quantum spin ice. We close by commenting on the general applicability of the method to other quantum spin liquids and quantum dimer models.
15:00 - 15:30 Masafumi Udagawa (Gakushuin University)
Spectrum of itinerant fractional excitations in quantum spin ice
16:30 - 17:00 Asmi Haldar (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science)
Onset of Floquet Thermalization
We discuss some recent results indicating the absence of unbounded energy absorption (infinite-T local thermalization) in a periodically driven interacting spin chain. The non-thermal behaviour arises sharply above a threshold value of the drive amplitude. The freezing is attributed to the emergence of a local conserved quantity. Ref: Phys. Rev. B 97, 245122 (2018).
17:00 - 17:30 Anatoli Polkovnikov (Boston University)
Using Floquet engineering for fighting dissipation in complex systems
Structured discussions
The workshop will take place in seminar rooms 1+2 of the MPI-PKS main building.

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Country Homes Christian Church seeking new volunteers to help refugees learn English
Fri., Oct. 28, 2022
Marcy Majeski teaches vowels to Lan Zhang and Hannah Wang, both Chinese immigrants, at Country Homes Christian Church on Wednesday in Spokane. (Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman-Review)
By Nina Culver For The Spokesman-Review
For more than 40 years, Country Homes Christian Church on Spokane's North Side has been a haven for immigrants working to learn English.
The church's English Language School has been thriving since it launched in 1979 to help the influx of refugees from Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia. It has helped about 640 students from 60 countries since its launch, program director Todd Gossett said.
The school meets from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. each Monday and Wednesday, and there are currently seven students. There are three more students waiting in the wings, but more volunteer tutors are needed, Gossett said.
Anyone can be a volunteer tutor and no teaching experience is required, Gossett said. Knowledge of other languages also isn't required.
"None of our people speak another language," he said. "All that's required is a little bit of time to make a huge difference in someone's life."
The church provides all the necessary supplies and materials, including materials in languages from Portuguese to Pashto.
"We acquire what we need and we have lots of resources," Gossett said.
The current students hail from China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan. Several other ESL programs exist in Spokane, but most of the students who come to the church do so because they are more comfortable learning in a nonclassroom environment one on one with a tutor, Gossett said.
Although the school is held in the church and hosted by the church, there is no religious content.
"We do not proselytize in any way," Gossett said. "There is no religious connection. That's not part of what we do at all."
The program is also free for the students. The church hosts fundraisers to pay for needed supplies.
"It's part of our mission," he said. "We raise money for the English Language School."
Tutors and their students are not limited to meeting at the church during their sessions. Often tutors will go shopping with their students and some have even helped their students study for a driver's license test.
"It's not just book learning," Gossett said. "We take them out and help them experience everyday situations."
The goal is for the students to be able to fully participate in life here, whether that's by going to a doctor and communicating their needs or talking with their children's teachers.
"It changes everything," Gossett said of the ability to speak English. "It's draining to see how hard the students are working, and so rewarding when they get it."
The only hiccup during the school's history happened during COVID. Tutoring sessions were suspended for nine months. It was difficult because wearing masks inhibited the lip-reading that is a necessary part of learning a new language, Gossett said.
Now that the school is back in full swing, Gossett said there are more students in need of tutors and he'd also like to expand the tutoring sessions to Fridays. Having more volunteers will help make that possible, and Gossett said teaching people to speak English is something anyone can do. It's also very rewarding.
"Our tutors come from all walks of life," he said. "It's as enriching for them as it is for those learning the language. It creates lifelong relationships. The bond that's created between the students and the tutor is forever, and it's pretty cool."
Those interested in learning more about being a volunteer tutor can call the church at (509) 466-3414.
"We have the need, it's just if we can find the people to help us out," Gossett said. "It's a small operation, but it makes a significant difference."
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The chiefs of Kingsclear, Madawaska, Oromocto, St. Mary's and Tobique First Nations issued a statement on Thursday in reaction to a federal study that said the proposed mine would have a "significant" impact on several communities.
The proposed mine would impact 1,253 hectares of land about 60 kilometres northwest of Fredericton that have been traditionally used for hunting, fishing and resource-gathering by the Tobique, Kingsclear, Woodstock and St. Mary's communities.
"This open pit mine would destroy one of our last remaining areas to harvest and practise our culture," said Tobique Chief Ross Perley in a statement by the chiefs. "It creates a long-term risk of contamination for our territory and resources.
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Name Sydney John Ferguson Rank: Corporal
Number VX46852
Battalion 2/23rd Infantry Battalion
Place of Birth. Foster 10 May 1918
Next of Kin Anne Ferguson, his mother.
The son of Herbert and Anne Ferguson of Warragul, formerly of Mirboo North.
Date and place of enlistment
29 July 1940 at Caulfield
Location on enlistment
Occupation labourer
Date and place of death Tarakan, in present day Indonesian Borneo on 7 May 1945, aged 26.
Location of grave or memorial
He is buried in Labuan War Cemetery East Malaysia Malaysia. He must have been moved to Labuan Cemetery at some point.
Relationship to Woorayl Shire
He lived at Dollar
The 2/23rd Infantry Battalion was raised at the Albury Showgrounds in New South Wales in August 1940. Initially the brigade belonged to the 7th Division but in early 1941 moved to the 9th Division. The battalion did its initial training in Albury before moving to Bonegilla, on the Victorian side of Murray River. The battalion embarked Sydney on 8 April 1941and arrived in the Middle East in November.
In early 1941 the battalion moved into Cyrenica in Libya to complete its training. Despite British successes at the start of the year against German-led counter-attacks, the 9th Division fell back to Tobruk. The 2/23rd entered Tobruk between 6 and 10 April.
The battalion helped defend Tobruk for eight months. In April the 2/23rd defended the western side and from May to July it moved to the eastern side of Tobruk.
The battalion returned to Australia and was re-organised to fight in tropical jungle. On 4 September 1943 the 2/23rd participated in an amphibious landing at Red Beach, north west of Lae. Shortly before the landing occurred, the invasion fleet was attacked by six Japanese fighters and three bombers. The landing craft, however, made it to shore and the 2/23rd participated in the subsequent fighting around Lae, Finschhafen, and Sattelberg. After Sattelberg, the 2/23rd continued to move inland, capturing Masangkoo, Kuanko, and finally on 9 December, Wareo.
The 2/23rd returned to Australia in February 1944. After some leave, it reformed in Queensland at Ravenshoe on the Atherton Tablelands in June. The war was almost over before the battalion went into action again. This time in Borneo.
In April 1945 the battalion was transported to Morotai, which was being used as a staging in area in preparation for amphibious landings on Borneo. The 2/23rd landed on Tarakan on 1 May. The two lead battalions were the 2/23rd and 2/48th. From 6 May to 16 June there was bitter fighting in the mountain ridges of Tarakan. The Japanese used mines, booby traps, and suicide raids to delay the Australian advance through the tangled hills and jungle-covered ridges. Syd was killed in action during this action. He had fought throughout the war and was amongst those of his battalion killed in the latter part of the fighting.
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Visit the most famous and popular of all the attractions in Crete, the Palace of Knossos. Join your expert guide on a journey back of 5000 years into myths and legends and learn secrets of the oldest civilisation in Europe, the Minoan. Enjoy a guided tour of the historical site that covers an area of 22.000m2 on 5 floors with 1.300 rooms, hear all about the legendary labyrinth and the Minotaur (the half-human monster). This day brings history and legend back to life and is a must see on any visit to Crete.
After our visit to Knossos, our first stop on the scenic route towards central Crete is the Monastery of "Kera Kardiotissa". It is dedicated to Virgin Mary; it is run by nuns and is locally known as Little Lourdes, with people making pilgrimages to pray for relief from their sins.
Then we drive south and reach the Plateau of Lassithi, which may have been the crater of an ancient volcano. It numbers nearly ten thousand windmills. The Plateau is a wonderfully cool and fertile area where you will see small towns and a very warm welcome. Here we will have a short stop to visit the Monastery "Vidiani" which is dedicated to Zoodohos Pigi (The life giving spring). The monastery hosts a small natural history museum, in collaboration with the University of Crete.
After the lunch break in one of the local villages in Lassithi, we will visit the Dicti Cave where Zeus, the father of Greek Gods, was born.
While crossing the villages of the Plateau, we pay a short visit at a traditional potter's factory, seeing an ancient ceramic art, which completes today more than 8.000 years of history. Leaving the Plateau we will see the views down to Pediada Plain which are truly magnificent. A short photo-stop will complete the day in a perfect way.


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