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How NRA's true believers converted a marksmanship group into a mighty gun lobby
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In gun lore it's known as the Revolt at Cincinnati. On May 21, 1977, and into the morning of May 22, a rump caucus of gun rights radicals took over the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association.
The rebels wore orange-blaze hunting caps. They spoke on walkie-talkies as they worked the floor of the sweltering convention hall. They suspected that the NRA leaders had turned off the air-conditioning in hopes that the rabble-rousers would lose enthusiasm.
The Old Guard was caught by surprise. The NRA officers sat up front, on a dais, observing their demise. The organization, about a century old already, was thoroughly mainstream and bipartisan, focusing on hunting, conservation and marksmanship. It taught Boy Scouts how to shoot safely. But the world had changed, and everything was more political now. The rebels saw the NRA leaders as elites who lacked the heart and conviction to fight against gun-control legislation.
And these leaders were about to cut and run: They had plans to relocate the headquarters from Washington to Colorado.
"Before Cincinnati, you had a bunch of people who wanted to turn the NRA into a sports publishing organization and get rid of guns," recalls one of the rebels, John D. Aquilino, speaking by phone from the border city of Brownsville, Tex.
What unfolded that hot night in Cincinnati forever reoriented the NRA. And this was an event with broader national reverberations. The NRA didn't get swept up in the culture wars of the past century so much as it helped invent them — and kept inflaming them. In the process, the NRA overcame tremendous internal tumult and existential crises, developed an astonishing grass-roots operation and became closely aligned with the Republican Party.
Today it is arguably the most powerful lobbying organization in the nation's capital and certainly one of the most feared. There is no single secret to its success, but what liberals loathe about the NRA is a key part of its power. These are the people who say no.
They are absolutist in their interpretation of the Second Amendment. The NRA learned that controversy isn't a problem but rather, in many cases, a solution, a motivator, a recruitment tool, an inspiration.
Gun-control legislation is the NRA's best friend: The organization claims an influx of 100,000 new members in recent weeks in the wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. The NRA, already with about 4 million members, hopes that the new push by Democrats in the White House and Congress to curb gun violence will bring the membership to 5 million.
The group has learned the virtues of being a single-issue organization with a very simple take on that issue. The NRA keeps close track of friends and enemies, takes names and makes lists. In the halls of power, it works quietly behind the scenes. It uses fear when necessary to motivate supporters. The ultimate goal of gun-control advocates, the NRA claims, is confiscation and then total disarmament, leading to government tyranny.
"We must declare that there are no shades of gray in American freedom. It's black and white, all or nothing," Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said at an NRA annual meeting in 2002, a message that the organization has reiterated at almost every opportunity since.
"You're with us or against us."
An identity crisis
The National Rifle Association was founded in 1871 by National Guard and retired Army officers in New York who vowed to "promote rifle practice" and improve marksmanship. The first president, Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, had seen too many Union soldiers who couldn't shoot straight. For generations thereafter, the NRA focused on shooting, hunting and conservation, and no one thought of it as a gun lobby.
The turmoil of the 1960s — assassinations, street violence, riots — spurred Congress to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968, the first major piece of gun legislation since the New Deal. Supporters of gun control originally included California Gov. Ronald Reagan, who worried about the heavily armed Black Panthers.
The NRA didn't like the 1968 law, viewing it as overly restrictive, but also didn't see it as a slide toward tyranny. The top NRA officer, Franklin Orth, wrote in the association's publication American Rifleman that "the measure as a whole appears to be one that the sportsmen of America can live with."
The key word: "sportsmen."
In 1972, a new federal agency charged with enforcing the gun laws came into being: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Lawmakers raged against the terror of cheap handguns known as Saturday-night specials.
It was in that environment that Neal Knox rose to prominence.
Clifford Neal Knox — born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, a graduate of Abilene Christian College — started out as a newspaper reporter and editor before founding, at the age of 30, Gun Week magazine.
He wanted to roll back gun laws, even the ones that restricted the sale of machine guns. He believed that gun-control laws threatened basic American freedoms, that there were malign forces that sought nothing less than total disarmament. There would come a point when Knox would suggest that the assassinations of the 1960s and other horrors might have been part of a gun-control plot: "Is it possible that some of those incidents could have been created for the purpose of disarming the people of the free world? With drugs and evil intent, it's possible. Rampant paranoia on my part? Maybe. But there have been far too many coincidences to ignore" (Shotgun News, 1994).
In the second half of the 1970s, the NRA faced a crossroads. Would it remain an Establishment institution, partnering with such mainstream entities as the Ford Foundation and focusing on shooting competitions? Or would it roll up its sleeves and fight hammer and tongs against the gun-control advocates? Or flee to the Mountain West? The latter was appealing, and the NRA leadership decided to move the headquarters to Colorado and also spend $30 million to build a recreational facility in New Mexico called the National Outdoor Center.
The moderates felt rejected by both the NRA hard-liners and the Washington elite.
"Because of the political direction the NRA was taking, they weren't being invited to parties and their wives were not happy," says Jeff Knox, Neal's son and director of the Firearms Coalition, which fights for the Second Amendment and against laws restricting guns or ammunition. "Dad was on the phone constantly with various people around the country. He had his copy of the NRA bylaws and Robert's Rules, highlighted and marked. My father and a lot of local club leaders and state association guys organized their troops."
Theirs was a grass-roots movement within the NRA. The solution was to use the membership to make changes. The bylaws of the NRA gave members power on the convention floor to vote for changes in the NRA governing structure.
"We were fighting the federal government on one hand and internal NRA on the other hand," Aquilino says.
In Cincinnati, Knox read the group's demands, 15 of them, including one that would give the members of the NRA the right to pick the executive vice president, rather than letting the NRA's board decide. The coup took hours to accomplish. Joe Tartaro, a rebel, remembers the evening as "electric." The hall's vending machine ran out of sodas.
By 3:30 in the morning the NRA had a whole new look. Gone were the Old Guard officers, including Maxwell Rich, the ousted executive vice president. The members replaced him with an ideological soul mate of Knox's named Harlon Carter.
Carter, a longtime NRA board member, had arrived in Washington in 1975 as founding director of a new NRA lobbying unit, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA). His pugnacious approach, which rankled the Old Guard, was captured in a letter he wrote to the entire NRA membership to discuss the fight in Congress over gun control: "We can win it on a simple concept —No compromise. No gun legislation."
He had a shaved head ("bullet-headed" was one description) and vaguely resembled Nikita Khrushchev. A former U.S. Border Patrol agent and chief, Carter was an outstanding marksman who racked up scores of national shooting records. (Four years into his tenure, he would acknowledge that, as a 17-year-old, he'd shot and killed another youth, claiming self-defense. He was convicted of murder, but the verdict was overturned on appeal.)
Within months, thanks to Carter, Knox was working in the NRA headquarters, running Carter's old lobbying unit. And Carter made clear in an interview with The Washington Post that the NRA wouldn't be relocating to Colorado:
"This is where the action is," Carter said.
Another leadership change
Over the next few years, NRA membership tripled. With the presidential election of Reagan, the energized activists went on the offensive, hoping to roll back the 1968 gun-control laws and, in the process, abolish the ATF.
Aquilino, who became the top NRA spokesman, remembers those days as great fun: "We were a bunch of 25-year-olds, and we created the whole grass-roots lobbying concept."
The hard-charging style of Neal Knox created internal and external turbulence. Carter kept looking over his shoulder at Knox, who clearly wanted the top job. On Capitol Hill, lawmakers chafed at NRA pressure. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) complained of the NRA, "You have to have a litmus test every five minutes or you're considered wavering."
One day in 1982, Knox came to work and discovered that he'd been locked out. He'd been fired as head of the NRA's lobbying shop and replaced by a mellower character, Warren Cassidy. Cassidy portrayed himself in an interview with The Post as a reasonable man: "There have been lobbyists at the NRA whose zeal has occasionally gotten in the way of their common sense."
"They felt Dad was too extreme and too uncompromising and they could get more mileage with honey than vinegar, so Harlon pulled the rug out from under him. It was hugely painful. They were best of friends," Jeff Knox said. "Dad showed up to work in the morning and there was a security guard with his boxes of stuff at the front door, and he wasn't allowed back into the building."
Neal Knox hovered around the organization. He managed to get elected to the board in 1983, only to be expelled a year later. ("My mistake — Mine! — was not to have cleaned house on the board when I had a chance," Knox told The Post in 2000.) Carter, meanwhile, retired in 1985.
What happened next revealed the NRA's delicate position as a Washington institution representing a large and increasingly hard-line membership. After years of lobbying by the NRA, Congress passed the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, which, among other gun-friendly provisions, eased restrictions on interstate sales of firearms and expressly prohibited the federal government from creating a database of gun ownership.
A huge NRA triumph, the media declared. Some lawmakers said off the record that they would have voted against the act but feared retaliation from the gun lobby. And yet the Second Amendment fundamentalists were furious. The NRA endorsed the act even though it included a last-minute amendment pushed by gun-control advocates that further tightened the restrictions on machine guns.
The hard-liners like Knox feared that the NRA had gone wobbly. Membership declined. Knox blamed the organization's financial and membership problems on Cassidy and a general "compromising and wimpiness." Cassidy shot back in the press: "Neal is unhappy about everything about an NRA that can function without Neal Knox. . . . Neal believes that the sun does not rise unless he permits it and does not set unless he permits it."
Knox, however, wasn't going away.
A shift back
The NRA made a comeback in part because of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. The gun-control effort, named for White House press secretary James Brady, who was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, called for a seven-day waiting period on gun purchases and a background check on the purchaser.
"What if there had been a Brady Bill 150 years ago? What if they had to wait seven days to get their rifles to come to the Alamo and fight?" an NRA vice president, Robert Corbin, shouted to loud applause at the annual meeting in 1991 in San Antonio, according to The Post's account.
The membership once again shoved the NRA to the right, electing dissidents to the board, including the editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine. Among the new board members was a familiar face: Neal Knox.
"What you're seeing now is the NRA on the way back," he said at the time.
The organization had a new executive vice president, as well, Wayne LaPierre, who knew the organization inside and out from years in the lobbying shop. LaPierre, then 41, had been a PhD student in political science at Boston University with political skills smooth enough to land a job offer after college with Tip O'Neill, the legendary liberal House speaker from Massachusetts.
Instead, LaPierre gravitated toward the lobbying world and, in 1978, was hired by Knox as an NRA lobbyist. He had helped write the gun-friendly 1986 legislation, and he maintained an unwavering stance on the Second Amendment. The NRA flourished under LaPierre's leadership. As Bill Clinton ascended to the presidency, some 600,000 people joined the NRA, according to LaPierre's tally. He appointed a Knox ally, Tanya Metaksa, as head of the NRA lobbying unit.
"Wayne was trying to protect his flank, and he needed somebody very hard core," recalls Richard Feldman, who worked for the NRA in the 1980s and whose book "Ricochet" is a tell-all on gun politics.
LaPierre knew what notes to hit to satisfy the hard-liners. At the annual meeting in 1993, LaPierre told the members, "Good, honest Americans stand divided, driven apart by a force that dwarfs any political power or social tyrant that ever before existed on this planet: the American media."
Democrats in Congress and some Republican allies passed an assault-weapons ban in 1994. That fired up the NRA base. The NRA's rhetoric grew harsher. Out on the political fringe, the militia movement grew in influence, as anti-government activists warned of black helicopters carrying federal agents dressed like ninjas. The militants cited the 1992 shooting deaths of two civilians in a federal raid at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege by federal agents of a religious sect's compound in Waco, Tex., that culminated in a fire killing 76 people.
John Magaw, then the head of the ATF, recalls trying to set up meetings with the NRA to discuss gun issues. "They would not answer. They would ignore us."
It was personal, too. Once, Magaw says, he saw LaPierre waiting to board a plane at Dulles International Airport. They were at the same gate.
"I went over to pay my respects and say hello," he says. "He just turned and walked away. He wouldn't talk to me."
The NRA did not make LaPierre or any other NRA official available for an interview for this article.
Everything seemed to be going the NRA's way in the aftermath of the 1994 midterm election, when Democrats were drummed from the House en masse. But then came Oklahoma City.
Timothy McVeigh's April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day-care center, and although the NRA had nothing to do with the terrorist attack, the association's strident anti-government rhetoric drew national attention. News reports focused on a fundraising letter, signed by LaPierre and sent to NRA members before the bombing, that said the new assault-weapons ban "gives jackbooted Government thugs more power to take away our constitutional rights, break in our doors, seize our guns, destroy our property and even injure and kill us."
Even staunch NRA members began to get queasy. Former president George H.W. Bush resigned his NRA membership. Former NRA president Richard Riley, who headed the association from 1990 to 1992, told The Post at the time, "We were akin to the Boy Scouts of America . . . and now we're cast with the Nazis, the skinheads and the Ku Klux Klan."
LaPierre apologized for having used language that he said was wrongly interpreted as a broad attack on federal agents. And he began to maneuver behind the scenes to keep the NRA from turning into a fringe organization like the John Birch Society. That would mean doing something about Neal Knox, Metaksa and their allies.
At the 1997 annual meeting in Seattle, Knox ran for the office of first vice president, a position that would put him in the line of succession to become president of the NRA. But suddenly he had competition for that job from none other than Charlton Heston. The legendary actor and NRA supporter beat Knox by four votes and went on to become president.
"Needless to say, when you run against Moses, Moses wins," says Joe Tartaro, the Cincinnati rebel.
Metaksa left ILA the next year, and Knox was off the board at decade's end. He died in 2005. David Gross, a self-described "Knoxinista," says Knox and his allies ultimately won the ideological battle even if they personally didn't survive as NRA leaders.
"You know the old saying, 'You never want to be first'?" Gross says. "The person with the alleged radical ideas, or the new ideas, they extend themselves, they fail, then somebody comes along, picks up the pieces and then develops the project."
By 2000, the NRA had become even more closely aligned with the Republican Party and worked strenuously to keep Al Gore from becoming president. At the annual meeting in May of that year, Hollywood legend Heston provided what might be the signature moment in the history of the NRA. He spoke of a looming loss of liberty, of Concord and Lexington, of Pearl Harbor, the "sacred stuff" that "resides in that wooden stock and blued steel."
Handed a replica of a Colonial musket, he said: "As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed — and especially for you, Mr. Gore."
He held the gun aloft.
"From my cold, dead hands!"
The power of controversy
Had Gore managed to carry Arkansas or West Virginia — states full of gun-toting Democrats — or his home state of Tennessee, he would have become president even without any favorable recount of votes in Florida. The next spring, citing the election results, Fortune magazine ranked the NRA as the most powerful lobbying group in Washington, surpassing even AARP.
The paradox for the NRA is that it gains strength when under assault. During the 2000s, with gun control now largely off the table, the NRA membership leveled off. In 2004, the assault-weapons ban expired; in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled, in a 5 to 4 vote, that the Second Amendment establishes an individual's right to own a firearm.
The NRA is now headquartered outside the Beltway, in Fairfax, and, according to its 2010 filing with the IRS, has 781 employees and 125,000 volunteers. Annual revenue tops $200 million. It's a tax-exempt, "social welfare" organization with the self-described mission "to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, to promote public safety, law and order and the National defense."
LaPierre received $960,000 in compensation from the NRA and related organizations, according to the 2010 documents. Kayne B. Robinson, executive director of general operations, was paid more than $1 million. Chris Cox, head of the ILA, made $666,000. NRA President David Keene, a longtime conservative activist who was elected in 2011, is unpaid.
Last election cycle, the NRA spent about $20 million on federal election campaigns, according to Opensecrets.org. It has endowed a professorship at George Mason University (the Patrick Henry Professorship of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment). It's a prodigious publisher of newsletters and glossy magazines, including American Rifleman, which in 2011 reported a paid circulation of 1.8 million. The NRA has a weekly TV show ("American Rifleman Television" on the Outdoor Channel) and a satellite news service, NRA News. The Web site is as slick as they come (as it loads on the screen, the site informs the visitor, "The full NRA experience requires a broadband connection").
Beyond the financial muscle, the NRA has people power. The NRA can inundate local, state or congressional offices with phone calls via a single action alert to the membership.
Cleta Mitchell, an NRA board member, says, "Obama famously referred to people who 'cling to guns and religion.' He was right. We do. And we are proud of it. This is about abiding principles, and people take action when they think someone or some group is taking away precious values."
Grover Norquist, the influential tax activist and an NRA board member since 2000, believes that gun-control advocates fail to recognize that their efforts are viewed by many gun owners as a message that says, "You don't like me." That message blots out all other efforts to communicate, he says. And no one, he says, votes for a candidate simply because that candidate is in favor of gun control. Millions of voters, however, will vote against a candidate on that single issue, he says. He thinks Democrats' efforts to pass new gun laws will backfire.
"The D's keep coming back to this. This is so visceral to them," Norquist says. "Again, it's an expression of contempt for Middle America. They don't like you and yours and don't think you should be in charge of the capacity to take care of yourself. They know they can't do this for you, but they've hired these nice people to draw chalk outlines of your kids, and that's supposed to make you feel better."
William J. Vizzard, a retired ATF official who is now a criminal justice professor at California State University at Sacramento, says the NRA is not trying to be like other Washington organizations seeking to influence legislation.
"The NRA is a populist lobby," he says. "They get support when people are mad and stirred up. They want the attention. They're not interested in fixing things. They want to stir things up, and the more they stir things up, the more members they get and the more money they make. What do they gain by compromising? Nothing."
In the fall of 2009, Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, convened a gun conference that brought police chiefs and law enforcement officials to Washington from around the country. Wexler also reached out to the NRA. The NRA representative remained largely silent, and at the end of the day Wexler sensed that the NRA had showed up merely to say no.
"They were not willing to accept what police chiefs who deal with shooting and firearms every day were saying," Wexler says. "It was like, we don't really care what you're saying because this is what we think. The NRA has a preconceived idea about what should be done. And that is nothing."
The NRA keeps track of gun-control supporters and makes lists. The NRA compendium of "National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies" includes AARP, the AFL-CIO, the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics — just from the A's on the list. (Toward the end of the list is The Washington Post.)
The NRA waited a week before it responded in depth to the Newtown massacre. LaPierre's news conference, covered live on cable television, reintroduced America to the core values of the association. After calling for armed guards for every school, and uttering the line, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," LaPierre predicted that he'd be beaten up in the news media: "I can imagine the headlines, the shocking headlines you'll print tomorrow. 'More guns,' you'll claim, 'are the NRA's answer to everything.' Your implication will be that guns are evil and have no place in society, much less in our schools."
"CRAZIEST MAN ON EARTH" blared the front-page headline of the next morning's New York Daily News.
"GUN NUT!" proclaimed the New York Post.
Among the most sensitive issues for the NRA is the idea of a national database of gun registration. It is orthodoxy among gun rights advocates that registration is a prelude to confiscation. The diehards invoke Hitler and other dictators who confiscated guns prior to slaughtering innocents. The NRA also argues that such registration is unconstitutional.
Two years ago, as part of The Post's investigative series "The Hidden Life of Guns," NRA lobbyist Chris Cox explained the organization's position:
"The federal government has no business maintaining a database or a registration of Americans who are exercising a constitutional right. Just like they have no right and no authority to maintain a database of all Methodists, all Baptists, all people of different religious or ethnic backgrounds."
Last week, Vice President Biden said the administration might use "executive orders" to curtail gun violence, a remark that incited the Drudge Report to run a screaming headline with photographs of Hitler and Stalin splashed on the page.
Biden met with NRA representatives Thursday at the White House. The NRA listened to the administration's ideas and then provided an immediate response.
"We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment," the NRA said afterward in a statement e-mailed to its members. "We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
In short: No.
Alice Crites, Julie Tate, Magda Jean-Louis and Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.
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Secrets of the Henna Girl by Sufiya Ahmed
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Summary: A look at forced (rather than arranged) marriages set in a story with great characters and a plot which kept me turning the pages long after I would normally be asleep. Highly recommended and particularly to anyone who comes into contact with at-risk groups.
Pages: 288 Date: March 2012
Publisher: Puffin
External links: Author's website
Sixteen-year-old Zeba Khan wasn't particularly looking forward to the family holiday with her parents in Pakistan. It was eight years since she'd been there and she had only vague memories of the heat, the mosquitoes, her Uncle's home and her cousin Asif, who is eight years older than her. She's just finished her GCSE exams and - along with her best friend Susan - was planning which subjects she would take for A level and university as well as looking at future careers. She's always been happy in her Muslim faith and the lack of boyfriends, alcohol and drugs had never worried her, although she was perhaps a little envious of the fact that Susan could go out in the evenings.
When she arrived at her uncle's home she was told that she was to be married to her cousin. This wasn't a matter of choice. Her father had promised his brother and it was a matter of honour - and honour came before anything and certainly before a daughter's happiness. Zeba was stuck - if it wasn't for the help of her grandmother one might almost say imprisoned - in a rural, almost feudal village five hours away from Karachi. There's another girl in the village in a similar position. Sehar has a strong Birmingham accent, a husband who beats her and she's seven months pregnant as a result of a forced marriage.
The first point to make is that there is a very real difference between an arranged marriage - where the parents find a suitable marriage partner but the bride and groom enter into the marriage willingly - and a forced marriage. Forced marriage is against all religions and is illegal in the UK. The UK government's Forced Marriage Unit receives over seventeen hundred calls each year from girls and women who are at risk and globally ten million girls under the age of eighteen become child brides each year.
This is a brilliant story. I read it in a matter of hours, desperate to find out what happened to Zeba and her friend Sehar. They're great characters - girls placed in a situation no mature woman should have to face - and they react as girls from the west would do when transplanted into an alien culture. They'd been used to being good Muslim girls at home but were completely unprepared for a society which places women at such a low value. The story is balanced - Zeba's grandmother was against the marriage, as was the local imam. The groom-to-be is not a bad man, but he's being manipulated by his parents too. You get a real sense that this is how it could be.
Secrets of the Henna Girl is aimed at the teenage girl but it really should be read by everyone who comes into contact with girls - and, most surprisingly, boys - who might be at risk. Help is available but it is essential that the problem is recognised for what it is and referred to people who can help.
We think you might also appreciate Under The Same Stars by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
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On July 19, 2017, our second pup of the year was tagged RJ36 (born to RK30) at his natal birth site along a stretch of Napali Coast. But he wasn't officially re-sighted again until late in the afternoon last week Tuesday when a field biologist at Pacific Missile Range Facility reported two seals had hauled out along Kauai's southwestern shore. One was R8HY and the other turned out to be RJ36. The field biologist observed some unusual scars just forward of the weaner's left fore flipper and across his dorsal above his rear flippers.
After reviewing photos of RJ36 with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program (HMSRP), the consensus is RJ36 had an encounter with a shark. The good news is RJ36 appears to be in good health. His wounds have healed, and he's looking nice and plump.
In the Main Hawaiian Islands, HMSRP does not rank sharks as a major threat to monk seal survival. According to HMSRP, there have been no documented cases of mortality from sharks in the Main Hawaiian Islands. However, that doesn't mean they haven't happened, as those events probably go completely undetected.
RJ36 isn't Kauai's only known seal with suspected shark encounters.
There's also RJ36's mom, RK30, who was first sighted as an adult by the HMSRP in 2005, already with what's possibly a scar from a shark bite. She also has a dozen or more cookie cutter shark scars dotting her body.
More recently, another mature female RK13 was sighted in 2011 with two apparent shark wounds–one above her left fore flipper and the other on her right ventral side. We reported on it here. She was regularly sighted along Kapaa's canals as she recovered from her injuries. She was also pregnant at the time but eventually gave birth to a healthy pup, RL10. Then, in May of this year, we reported here that RK13 was sighted with an unsightly wound to her nares (nostrils), possibly due to a shark bite. Monk seals have an amazing ability to heal themselves through a process called "tissue granulation," and RK13's wound healed nicely.
There are two other known seals with shark wounds. RH92 was a newly weaned pup in 2016 when she turned up with a fresh and deep cookie cutter shark wound on her head.
R1KY has a large shark bite scar below her right fore flipper, most visible on her dorsal side.
Cookiecutter: The cookiecutter shark, also called the cigar shark, lives in warm, oceanic waters worldwide and particularly near islands. Its common name comes from the cookie cutter-like wounds it leaves in its prey. It lives at depths of 3,200 feet during the day but migrates up the water column at night to feed. To feed, the fish uses its suction cup-like lips to attach itself onto prey. Then, it spins its body, using the row of serrated teeth on its lower jaw to remove a plug of flesh, leaving behind crater-like wounds that are two inches across and approximately two-and-a-half inches deep.
Galapagos: This shark grows to 10 feet in length and generally eats bottom fishes and cephalopods. In the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where approximately 85 percent of the Hawaiian monk seal species lives, Galapagos sharks have been recorded predating on monk seal pups in nearshore waters around French Frigate Shoals. It's hypothesized that a small group of sharks are involved in this behavior. You can read more about this unusual mortality event and mitigation efforts here.
Not all appearances of sharks spell trouble for monk seals, as this video from National Geographic's CritterCam shows. At 1:50, you'll see sharks in the foreground but no interaction between the species. And at 4:42, you'll see the Crittercam-toting monk seal chase off a couple reef sharks.
March Seal Deaths: Two seals were lost in March. On Kaua`i, RG13 a yearling female, was found dead in the Lihi Canal in Kapa`a. Also, RT12, born on Kauai, a 6-year old male that had been living on O'ahu was found washed up dead. Carcasses were collected and investigated by law enforcement and biologists, and then thoroughly examined by marine mammal veterinarians . Tissues were sent for further investigation for cause of death, as nothing was found on gross necropsy. Both RG13 and RT12 were seen healthy and behaving normally days before death, and they were in good body condition. Each necropsy indicated acute death and histopathology results provided no indication of disease or injury. Inconclusive results such as these are challenging, however one likely cause that is of great concern is acute death by entrapment underwater causing wet, not dry drowning.
Seal of Behavioral Concern, R1KY: Mid April, a young adult female R1KY, originally from Ni'ihau and primarily sighted at Salt Ponds and Poipu, suddenly started to swim with snorkelers and the many swimmers at Poipu county beach park. Previously she was very social with other seals of varying ages. With no seals around, she began following swimmers in the water and onto shore with an avid and unsafe interest for her and the public. R1YK's behavior could escalate into "seal play" or mating behavior of biting and holding people down in the water. NOAA and DLNR coordinators, researchers, and managers have been in discussions and have implemented a plan. If you see R1KY (she has a bleach mark on her back "V01" and also a red tag on the left rear flipper 1KY) appear between Sheraton and Brennekes beach, please report her to the hotline (808-651- 7668) . Remember! If a seal is swimming among people DO NOT call people out of the water or bring attention to the seal, as this may cause panic and a possible drowning.
Grand sightings total: 2,516 monk seal sightings on Kauai in 2014! (6.9 seals per day).
Kauai population: 47 unique individual seals sighted in 2014.
5 seal pups born (3 male and 2 female).
3 pregnant females likely pupped on Niihau (departed pregnant, returned thin).
New Seals: we sighted 11 new seals in 2014, likely from Niihau.
4 were flipper tagged (R4DD, R8HE, R8HP, R1KY).
1 was captured for surgical removal of an injured eye (R1KU) and eventually released on Niihau.
3 were bleach marked for temporary identification.
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YA Racism Novel About as Subtle as a Sledgehammer
1920—Will Tillman is a white teenager selling record players at his father's shop in Tulsa. Black customers aren't allowed to make purchases, but sometimes the elder Tillman allows some off-the-record sales. When Will agrees to do business with a young black man, he unknowingly makes a decision that will put the lives of three people in danger. In a time and place boiling over with racial tension, it's a decision that will prove fatal for one of them.
Present Day—When the Chase Family decides to have the ancient slave quarters behind their old Tulsa home converted into a modern guest cottage, the last thing they expect to get out of the renovation project is a corpse. But that's exactly what the construction crew digs up. The only clue to the skeleton's identity is the dusty wallet Rowan Chase pinches from its pocket when no one is looking. Intrigued by what she finds inside, the 17-year-old launches a secret investigation into the identity of the body. Her detecting points her to an old Victrola shop and the infamous race riot of 1921. How is the body on Rowan's property connected to that event? What, if anything, did her own family have to do with its demise?
Although she's a bi-racial woman living in Tulsa, Rowan has never thought much about what happened in her town over 100 years ago. Now, though, she's obsessed. She thought things had changed a whole lot since then, but the more she learns about Will Tillman and a black man named Joseph Goodhope, the more she wonders if anything has changed at all.
Dreamland Burning, a YA novel by Jennifer Latham, brings to life a tragic historical event that I knew nothing about. Latham uses the riot as a backdrop for an intriguing tale about friendship, hope, and race. The story is compelling, although its messages are about as subtle as a sledgehammer. It's peopled with diverse characters who push against established stereotypes, which I appreciate, but again, some details (James' sexuality, for instance) seem tacked on just to up the book's diversity quotient. Overall, I found Dreamland Burning intriguing. Certain elements annoyed me, though, which turned the novel into a just okay read for me.
for violence, language (no F-bombs), blood/gore, and disturbing subject matter
To the FTC, with love: I bought a copy of Dreamland Burning from Amazon with a portion of the millions I make from my lucrative career as a book blogger. Ha ha.
Labels:B Grade Books,Baby Steps Books,Jennifer Latham,PG 13-rated Books,Racism,U.S. Settings: Oklahoma,YA Novels | 11 bookworm(s) said...
Likable Heroine + Compelling Plot = Another Winning Maeve Kerrigan Mystery
(Note: While this review will not contain spoilers for After the Fire, it may inadvertently reveal plot surprises from earlier Maeve Kerrigan mysteries. As always, I recommend reading books in a series in order.)
Murchison House, one of the concrete high-rises that makes up London's seedy Maudling Estate housing project, is no stranger to police activity. The place is a magnet for every kind of criminal activity possible. This time, a savage—and suspicious—fire has ravaged through the building, leaving many residents displaced and desperate. Four people are dead, one of them an outspoken politician well known for his racist rantings. What was a man like him doing in a dive like Murchison House?
As DC Maeve Kerrigan and the rest of the murder squad look into the incident, it becomes crystal clear that the fire was no accident. Neither was the politician's death. Plenty of people had reason to loathe Geoff Armstrong, but who actually killed him? Everyone connected with Murchison House has something to hide, including Mr. Armstrong. The more Maeve discovers, the more risky her job becomes. Murchison House has always been a dangerous place—will it be a deadly one for the intrepid DC Kerrigan? As if she doesn't have enough to worry about, Maeve is still dodging the skin-crawling attention of her stalker; dealing with a condition that could put her job at risk; and trying to sort out her feelings for one DI Josh Derwent. One thing is clear—she's in for a wild ride.
You've probably realized by now that I'm a raving Maeve Kerrigan fan. Jane Casey's heroine is brave, tenacious, and, above all, human. She's unfailingly likable, an always compelling narrator whom I happen to adore. The series also boasts intriguing minor characters and taut, engrossing plots. After the Fire, the sixth installment, is no exception. With a number of didn't-see-that-coming twists, the story kept me riveted. As always, I'm intrigued to see where Casey takes Maeve next. Wherever it is, I'll definitely be along for the ride!
(Readalikes: Other books in the Maeve Kerrigan series, including Left for Dead [novella]; The Burning; The Reckoning; The Last Girl; The Stranger You Know; The Kill; and Let the Dead Speak; also reminds me of books by Sharon Bolton and Tana French)
for strong language, violence, blood/gore, sexual content, and disturbing subject matter
Labels:B Grade Books,Irish Writers,Jane Casey,Murder Mysteries,Mystery/Suspense,Police Procedurals,R-rated Books,World Settings: England | 3 bookworm(s) said...
Lyrical Southern Novel Atmospheric and Powerfully Rendered
Adelaide Lyle doesn't go inside the church anymore. The only reason she comes anywhere near the building is for the children. Kids should not be anywhere close to the River Road Church of Christ in Signs Following or its dangerous pastor. It's up to the 81-year-old midwife to steer them away, to keep them safe. Their parents might believe in Pastor Chambliss' poison-drinking, snake-handling brand of faith, but that doesn't mean the children should be in harm's way.
Despite Adelaide's watchful eye, a mute, autistic teenager dies during church services. Although the pastor claims the boy's death was an accident, Adelaide doesn't believe it. Not for a minute. Strange, sinister things follow Carson Chambliss wherever he goes. What really happened inside the church? Why is an innocent boy dead?
A Land More Kind Than Home, a debut novel by Wiley Cash, tells the story of a tragic death and the ways in which it rocks a small North Carolina town. Atmospheric and powerfully rendered, it hits on important subjects—faith vs. fanaticism, revenge vs. redemption, and remorse vs. regret. It's an undeniably sad novel, but a compelling one nonetheless. The story has stuck with me, even though it's been months since I read it. If you enjoy rich, thought-provoking Southern fiction, you won't want to miss this one.
(Readalikes: Reminded me a little of The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner)
for language (1 F-bomb, plus milder expletives), violence, blood/gore, and mild sexual content
Labels:B Grade Books,Debut Novels,PG 13-rated Books,Southern Novels,U.S. Settings: North Carolina,Wiley Cash | 3 bookworm(s) said...
Fifth Maeve Kerrigan Mystery Leaves Me Hankering for the Sixth ... and Seventh ... and Eighth ... and ...
(Note: While this review will not contain spoilers for The Kill, it may inadvertently reveal plot surprises from earlier Maeve Kerrigan mysteries. As always, I recommend reading books in a series in order.)
DC Maeve Kerrigan is looking forward to attending the wedding of a colleague in the peaceful English countryside. She could use a break from the grimness of her job as a London murder detective. A brutal cop killing in the city cuts her holiday short, however, and it's not long before she and her mercurial partner, DI Josh Derwent, are headed back to the mean streets of London. So much for the vacation Maeve so desperately needs.
Puzzled by the cold reaction of the policeman's widow, Maeve and Derwent must sort out the truth behind the murder. What led to Sergeant Hammond's untimely demise? Everyone involved in the crime seems to be hiding explosive secrets, including Maeve's boss. Can Maeve filter out the facts in time to catch a killer? Torn between loyalty to her mentor, her desire to put a murderer behind bars, and her blossoming attraction to her partner, Maeve's got plenty on her plate. And things are about to go from bad to a whole lot worse ...
It's no secret that I love me some Maeve Kerrigan. She's the perfect heroine—brave, devoted, and likable. Her narrative voice is so compelling that I would literally follow it anywhere! That's not tough, though, when Jane Casey writes such engrossing stories. The Kill, the fifth installment in her popular series, is no exception. Although I guessed the identity of the murderer early on in this one, the novel still held enough surprises to keep me turning pages late into the night. I'm especially enjoying the growing relationship between Maeve and Josh, the latter of whom gets some much needed humanizing in The Kill. The ending of this one made me sad, but it also left me hankering for the next book (and the next and the next ...).
(Readalikes: other books in the Maeve Kerrigan series, including Left For Dead [novella]; The Burning; The Reckoning; The Last Girl; The Stranger You Know; After the Fire; and Let the Dead Speak; also reminds me of books by Tana French and Sharon Bolton)
for strong language, violence, blood/gore, and disturbing subject matter
Debut Psychological Thriller Odd But Compelling
When Nora Lawrence hops on a train from London to Oxfordshire, she's expecting to spend a peaceful weekend in the country with her older sister. She's shocked to her core when she finds Rachel stabbed to death in her home, her murdered dog nearby. A nurse practitioner who kept to herself, 31-year-old Rachel was hardly the type to attract enemies. Who could have committed such a brutal act against the woman and her canine companion?
As the police flounder around looking for suspects, Nora inserts herself into the investigation. While managing to offend nearly everyone in town, she comes to realize how little she really knew about her sister's life in this far-flung hamlet. Still, she wonders if Rachel's murder had anything to do with an unsolved assault Rachel suffered as a teen. Did her attacker come back to finish the job? Or did the killer have a more current motive? Nora's determined to find out, even if it means putting her own neck on the line.
Under the Harrow, a psychological thriller by debut author Flynn Berry, has earned the expected comparisons to books like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. And it is similar—in some ways. It's moody, atmospheric, and depressing. It's also just ... odd. With a sluggish plot and characters who just aren't that likable (both Nora and Rachel come off as cold, unfeeling, and weird), Under the Harrow is not exactly a page turner. It's compelling enough, though, that I wanted to know whodunit. I also found myself surprised by the murderer, so there's that. In the end, though, Under the Harrow was just an okay read for me.
(Readalikes: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn; The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins; and similar psychological thrillers)
for language (a dozen or so F-bombs, plus milder expletives), violence, and blood/gore
Labels:C Grade Books,Flynn Berry,Murder Mysteries,Mystery/Suspense,Psychological Thrillers,R-rated Books,Sister Relationships,World Settings: England | 4 bookworm(s) said...
Reichs' Standalone Thriller Twisty and Compelling
Need no one. Feel nothing.
That's the mantra Sunday "Sunnie" Night has lived by ever since her forced retirement from the Charleston Police Department. Living on isolated Goat Island, she keeps her distance even from her few neighbors. It's only when her foster father, Perry "Beau" Beaumonde, asks a favor that Sunnie even contemplates breaking her strict code of not caring about anyone but herself. A retired cop, Beau urges Sunnie to at least meet with a wealthy grandmother who's willing to pay big for information about her 15-year-old granddaughter, who's been missing ever since the Hebrew school bombing that killed her mother and brother.
Sunnie can't help but identify with the teenage victim, who's described as moody, resentful, and unhappy. Those are emotions with which Sunnie is all too familiar. The fact that Stella Bright may have been kidnapped by members of a dangerous cult also piques Sunnie's interest. Having narrowly escaped that life herself, she knows something about what Stella may be facing.
Determined to find out what happened to the girl, Sunnie enlists the help of her twin brother, Gus. Together, they chase leads across the country, risking their own lives to solve an increasingly puzzling mystery. With danger lurking around every corner, will the two Nights survive their perilous assignment?
Two Nights, a standalone thriller by Kathy Reichs, author of the popular Temperance Brennan series (on which the t.v. series Bones is based), is a fast-paced, exciting story. With lots of action and plenty of twists, it's a difficult-to-put-down page turner. Sunnie is Tempe's opposite; she's tough, unyielding, and flinty. Although she's not as warm or funny as Tempe (a character I happen to adore), Sunnie's a sympathetic character who's easy to like and admire. While Two Nights didn't capture me as much as Reichs' other books have, I still enjoyed this engrossing mystery.
(Readalikes: Um, nothing specific is coming to mind. You?)
for strong language, violence, and blood/gore
To the FTC, with love: I received an e-ARC of Two Nights from the generous folks at Penguin Random House via those at Netgalley. Thank you!
Labels:B Grade Books,Cults,Kathy Reichs,Mystery/Suspense,R-rated Books,Thrillers,U.S. Settings: South Carolina | 5 bookworm(s) said...
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As love and fear are opposing energies, with opposite charges, darkness is the contrary of light. This is a fascinating subject, which was presented by Armin Risi, a Swiss philosopher, poet, and author at the Conference for Consciousness & Human Evolution in London, in 2014. He talked about how our personal choices affect our world regarding darkness and light.
He also said in the context of The Secret History of Mankind that: "Light beings became human. They have free will." Our free will is respected by energy beings, such as Angels, Spirit Guides, animal spirits, etc., who are assisting humanity in our ascension process. However there are beings, like attachments (entities), who don't respect our free will and want to gain control over our body, our vessel to stir it towards darkness.
So we not only have light in our hearts, but actually we are made of light. We have the power to stay this way. He used the famous quote from Jesus: "Ye are Gods". He says: "this is the key to re-activate the memory of our origin and destiny, as human beings…" How fascinating and empowering is that!
"Now we have everything to create a world that is made of light, rather than darkness. Ancient Knowledge and New Science are accessible at the same time. Holistic understanding of nature and origin of the human beings lead to revolution in science and consciousness…" And it is all happening already. You are already part of it in your personal life, and if you wish you can go to a larger scale. I decided to become an ambassador for the Global Coherence Initiative, which is "is a science-based, co-creative project to unite people in heart-focused care and intention, to facilitate the shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace". I also am a participating artist for the Global Art Project for Peace to spread love and peace on Earth. What ever your interest, whatever your heart is called to, do your bit in small or large, it doesn't matter. What really matters is what you think, what you feel, what you do.
And the best thing is in order to connect, we do not need to be physically in the same place. Your energy can be sensed at the other part of the planet, if you are connected to the other person. How is it possible? We humans are energy beings, resonating on different frequencies. It is all about tuning into the other person's energy waves. Like a radio station sends out radio waves, when you tune into a certain channel on your radio, you can receive and interpret those energy waves. This is pretty much what happens, when I do Reiki distant healing, where I am the radio station, or when I have a Skype coaching session with someone, who is emanating those radio waves and I pick up on them and I can sense the issues they are dealing with.
More and more people start to see and feel the larger forces at play. We, who have already been living consciously can help to bring this light of knowing and the power of love to others, so they can become aware of their amazing power too.
How can we recognise dark forces?
they can implement new daily habits, which influence how successful, happy, abundant they can become in their life.
With the missing pieces, with this perception of the world, how would they be able to comprehend the fact that energetically speaking there are other beings on this planet too? I know it's big leap, all I ask from you is an open mind and the benefit of the doubt, i.e. what if?
If you learn energy self-care, you can look after your energy body, so you can become healthier on all levels: physically, emotionally, mentally and you can discover your purpose, your calling on the spiritual level. If you are healthier on all of these levels, the negativity and fear starts disappearing from you: you let go of harmful thinking patterns, negative emotions that weigh you down, so the root of your physical illness start disappearing. You become healthier, lighter, your self-worth gets to its rightful level, so you start loving your life and yourself more. This way brighter light and more love can emanate from you, you are raising your vibration and your consciousness. Dark forces can't stand confidence, love and light!
Because you have a sixth sense, a non-physical sense inside of you, working all the time that will raise alarms. You will feel that something is not right in the presence of dark forces, and you naturally keep away from the negative, cold-hearted, unpleasant person.
The problem occurs, when you cannot do that, you are not able to separate yourself, because the attachment is tied to one of your family members, who you are living with 24/7, for example, and what's worse, targeting you. That is a real trap, which I fell into.
To be continued… Entities Exist – Part 3.


A Lincoln Anglican Parish Church, St Stephens, has been recently painted by Carus. This work involved the preparing and painting of the roof and all the external walls. The church is a Category 2 Historic Building.


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Skewer marinated chicken and vegetables and grill until cooked through; turning occasionally. Remove from skewers and arrange over pasta. Sprinkle with macadamia nuts and serve!


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Adolfo Wildt
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Adolfo Wildt (March 1, 1868 – March 12, 1931) was an Italian sculptor[1] whose works, which blend simplicity and sophistication, led the way for numerous modernist sculptors.[1]
Self portrait (1909)
(1868-03-01)March 1, 1868
March 12, 1931(1931-03-12) (aged 63)
Wildt was born in Milan to a Swiss family who had settled in Lombardy. He left school at age nine to work as an apprentice; first as a hairdresser and then as a goldsmith. At eleven he began his apprenticeship in the workshop of Giuseppe Grandi who introduced him to the working of marble. His ability to finish the marble made him famous at the age of eighteen. From 1888 he worked for Federico Villa, which made him known as one of the most famous sculptors of the Lombardi era. At the same time, Wildt could continue his studies at the Brera, the School of Applied Arts and then all 'Accademia di Belle Arti.
First exhibitionEdit
In 1893 he exhibited the first work, a portrait of his wife, the Society for Fine Arts in Milan, which was immediately captured by the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. From 1894 he worked for Franz Rose, a Prussian collector, with whom he signed a contract for a period of eighteen years. With this protection, Wildt could immerse himself in his work, participating regularly in exhibitions held in Milan, Monaco, Zurich, Berlin and Dresden.
Later careerEdit
After the death of his patron Rose in 1912, Wildt was forced to compete for the first time with the art market. In 1913, he was awarded the Premio Principe Umberto for his design for the fountain show at The trilogy of Secession of Monaco, then exhibited in the courtyard of the Humane Society in Milan. From 1914 onwards he was able to regularly attend various international exhibitions. He also held a staff in 1919 at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan, while in 1921, 1924 and 1926 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale. In 1921 he founded his School in Milan Marble which then became part of the 'Accademia di Brera and was developed in 1927 in a three-year program. Among his most famous pupils were Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti and Luigi Broggini.
Wildt died in Milan in 1931.
ArtworkEdit
Wildt had a strong background in late nineteenth-century Romanticism, and his sculpture was strongly influenced by the Secession and by Art Nouveau. It is characterized by complex symbolism and by definition is almost gothic in its forms. The extreme smoothness of their surfaces gives his marble busts their absolute purity and plastic integrity that coexists with an almost frenzied dramatic feeling. For this, Wildt is on the threshold of 'Expressionism that proves particularly sad and upset in the expression of his self-portrait of 1908. A significant body of his masterpieces is present in the Civic Museums of Forlì: Fulcieri Paulucci de 'Calboli (1919), Saint Lucia (1926), St. Francis of Assisi (1926), Mask of sorrow or Portrait (1908–1909), Lux (1920), The fountain santa (1921), Protection of children or little ones (1918).[2]
^ Pontiggia, Elena. "Il maestro dimenticato". Sapere (in Italian). Retrieved 4 December 2009.
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iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 beta 1 now available
By Barbara U. Clark	 Last updated Dec 3, 2021
Apple has released iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 beta 1 for iPhone and iPad. The update is only available to registered developers.
The first beta of iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 released to the developers, other updates are also available
Available initially for registered developers, we are sure that this update will be available soon for those who are registered for the beta program.
Google's "Pixel Watch" could be launched in spring 2022 with the integration of Fitbit on Wear OS
As of this writing, it's unclear what this new update brings. Along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, we're sure Apple has also added some new features that we will explore further once we test the beta on one of our own devices.
It is strongly recommended that you install the beta on a device that serves as a spare with you. Downloading the update is simply a matter of signing in to the Apple Developer Program portal, signing in with your Apple ID, downloading the configuration profile, and installing the update over the air. Obviously, you can do a clean install of the update, if you want to go that route.
Please note that registering with Apple as a developer will cost you $ 99 on an annual basis. Is it worth it? Of course, if you want to access beta files well before anyone else. But ultimately, Apple is releasing everything for free to public beta testers. Choose wisely how you want to do this.
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Real-Time Informatics for a "New Soft City"
What if cities could talk? Or transit systems could tell you how they're feeling?
Sounds crazy, but it's not that far-fetched. "Urban informatics" could change the way people understand and interact with cities, says Dan Hill, a designer, urbanist and senior consultant at Arup in Sydney. He explains the idea of projecting real-time data onto the physical environment of a city, such as a lamppost or observation tower, in order to enliven public space, improve the mass transit experience, and transform the way citizens relate to their urban surroundings. Data, which exist all around us, would be accessible to everyone, rather than contained on a mobile device, such as an iPhone or laptop.
Muti-sensory interaction design now merges with architecture, planning and an urbanism informed by a gentle ambient drizzle of everyday data – and so a new soft city is being created, alive once again to the touch of its citizens.
Just imagine if you could use light projections, e-ink, or LEDs to display a "smart meter" of energy consumption on the outside of your home. What would change? Research shows that friendly neighborhood competition can actually breed energy-saving behavior.
Likewise, imagine if cities provided free wireless Internet connectivity outdoors and in other civic spaces, like atriums, libraries and shopping malls, to encourage people to spend time socializing outside of their personal bubble at work or at home. They would literally interact with the city. Public spaces could become friendlier, safer, cleaner and more attractive. It could improve people's health and well-being.
How do the movement patterns of buses and pedestrians overlap in the Stazione Termini neighborhood of Rome? Image via SENSEable City Lab.
MIT's SENSEable City Lab aggregated data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome – the Real Time Rome project – to better understand urban dynamics in real time, and ultimately, reveal ways to reduce inefficiencies and lead to a more sustainable urban future.
Similarly, the University of Technology Sydney's Smart Light Fields tracks the Bluetooth signals of pedestrians to understand movement in a city.
Helsinki transit and Google Maps mash-up. Screenshot via Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
In Helsinki, Finland, GPS data from trams and buses is laid over Google Maps to show travelers where to locate their mode of transport. Hill says it makes people feel more in control of the transit network, and as a result, makes them more likely to use public transport.
The project is slated for 2015. Even though it's a modern high-tech concept, it's inspired by old technology from the Paris Metro in the 1920s that allowed people to press a button to show the route and destinations of their preferred station on an interactive map, lit up by tiny lamps embedded underneath glass.
Interactive visual displays would make transit more convenient. Screenshot via Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
Some other fun urban informatics include the LonelyLight, a pedestrian crossing signal button that is programmed to respond to pedestrians with witty comments like "that feels good, push it again"; and reActive bus stop chairs that angle towards each other when two people sit down to encourage social interaction – when the bus arrives, the chairs swing forward to remind the passengers to catch their ride.
Of course, there are some concerns with broadcasting everyday data into the urban landscape. How much data is too much? Would this trample on personal privacy and anonymity? When a metro station is built to last for 50 to 100 years, how do you ensure that technology designed for today can last for that long without becoming obsolete?
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Suit blaming U.S. government in Kate Steinle's shooting death is tossed
In this July 17, 2015, file photo, flowers and a portrait of Kate Steinle remain at a memorial site on Pier 14 in San Francisco.
(Paul Chinn / Associated Press)
By Hannah FryStaff Writer
Jan. 7, 2020 12:06 PM PT
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. government filed by the family of a woman fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in 2015 whose death became a flash point in the national debate over immigration policy.
The lawsuit filed by Kate Steinle's parents alleged negligence on the part of the government because one of their employees, a federal park ranger, left the handgun that was later used to shoot their daughter unsecured in an SUV parked near the waterfront in San Francisco.
According to court filings, ranger John Woychowski had placed the gun inside a backpack in his locked SUV while he and his family went into a restaurant for dinner on a break from a drive from Southern California to Sacramento on June 27, 2015. When they returned to the car less than two hours later, two windows had been smashed and some of the family's luggage — including the backpack with the handgun — had been stolen.
Four days later, attorneys for Jose Garcia Zarate contend he mistakenly picked up the gun, which was wrapped in a T-shirt, and it went off. The bullet ricocheted off the ground and struck Steinle in the back, mortally wounding her as she was walking along Pier 14 with her father.
Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero wrote in his decision that while Woychowski and his employer, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, may have been negligent for leaving the loaded handgun in the parked car in an unfamiliar city at night, too much time had passed and too many events had occurred by the time Steinle was killed for the court to show a direct connection between the theft and the shooting.
"In this case, the gun traveled at least some distance from the theft, three and a half days elapsed, the gun changed hands once at the very least, and there is no way to know what else transpired during that time," Spero wrote.
Spero also wrote there was no evidence that Garcia Zarate stole the gun.
"Even if the gun was taken directly to Pier 14 by the thief and left there until [he] found it days later — facts that, again, cannot be determined on the record presented — that separation in time, space, actors, and conduct would be sufficient in this Court's view to break the chain of proximate causation between Woychowski's purportedly negligent storage of the gun and Steinle's death," he wrote.
Alison Cordova, a lawyer representing Steinle's parents, said they plan to appeal the ruling. She could not immediately be reached for further comment Tuesday.
Steinle's slaying stoked debate over illegal immigration in the U.S. and the role of local police in enforcing federal immigration laws. President Trump cited Steinle's death during his campaign to make his case for building a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border.
"This senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately," Trump, a presidential candidate at the time, said in a statement two days after Steinle died. "This is an absolutely disgraceful situation, and I am the only one that can fix it."
Garcia Zarate, who was living in the United States illegally, had been deported five times and had just completed his third federal prison term for felony reentry into the U.S. from Mexico in March 2015 when federal officials turned him over to San Francisco to face a 20-year-old bench warrant for marijuana possession and sales. However, prosecutors declined to pursue the case, and he was released.
The shooting occurred four months later. During his trial, Garcia Zarate's attorney argued that the weapon went off in their client's hands in what was a tragic accident.
A San Francisco jury acquitted Garcia Zarate of murder and assault charges, convicting him only of being a felon in possession of a gun. A state appeals court overturned that conviction. The 46-year-old remains in custody and faces federal charges of being a felon and an undocumented immigrant in possession of a gun.
Steinle's parents had also sued San Francisco for damages, but Spero dismissed those claims in 2017, saying there was no prior evidence that Garcia Zarate was dangerous and federal law did not require the city to inform the government before he was released under San Francisco's sanctuary city policy.
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Hannah Fry is a Metro reporter covering Orange County for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the newspaper in 2013 as a reporter for the Daily Pilot, a Times Community News publication. Fry most recently covered breaking news for The Times and was part of the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara. She grew up in Orange County and got her start as an intern at the Orange County Register.
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Spirituality is found in our bonds with others
By John Chesterman
December 26, 2008 — 12.00am
EARLIER this year I mourned for someone I barely knew, a woman who had never spoken or walked. Simone lived her 40-year life trapped in a body that didn't work. She was a person whose severe physical disabilities masked, at least to an outsider, any sense of the internal capacities that she might have had. I still think about Simone, not because she was related to me, or even a friend, but because her life and death makes me question what it is to be human.
A foetus with Simone's disabilities would now in all likelihood be aborted, and this knowledge, strangely enough, makes me mourn her even more. I can't just dismiss her as a woman who had suffered terrible luck. I know that she could have been my daughter, my niece, my mother, even me.
My few encounters with Simone, as a community visitor, have enlarged my understanding of the meaning of altruism. Simone's carers are among the most selfless I have met. Caring for a newborn is selfless to an extent, but that relationship soon changes, as babies develop.
But if the baby does not develop, and if staring into her eyes, or attempting to read her blinks, is the closest approximation one ever has to communication, then how does one understand the efforts of family and carers to provide for her? Is it just a biological impulse for the family? A contractual relationship for the carer? What could Simone possibly give in return?
As I think this, I can tell you what she, without saying a word, has given me as a result of our few brief meetings. Thinking about her forces me to pare away the daily inconveniences of life — traffic jams, office politics, house prices — and concentrate on what is really important.
This is not simply projection, in the way that one might imagine an involuntary movement to be a portentous sign. This has come about as a direct result of meeting Simone.
This line of thinking constitutes the dictionary definition of spirituality: a concern for higher moral thoughts and feelings. Many of us find it hard to clear away our everyday concerns to have this kind of focus. And I would guess that this is why people tend to have their most spiritual experiences at funerals.
Obviously funerals involve sadness about the person who has died, but funerals involve more than sadness. We are forced to face life without the person, and our priorities, what's important to us, must instantly be reordered. I'm convinced that you get at spirituality only through the cracks, when there are disruptions to routines, when things are no longer perfect, if indeed they ever were.
For many people like me, disruptions are not the norm. But people who care for children, or adults, with disabilities face disruptions all the time. Paid carers devote their working lives to a profession whose salary is low and whose physical and mental demands are high. Family members change their job, or their hours, to make way for their responsibilities at home. They sacrifice doing things they enjoy to do what they must. They routinely have to make decisions about what is important in ways that most of us don't.
It's one thing to recognise the spirituality of those who cared for Simone. But what about Simone's spirituality? How could that be defined, least of all met?
Last year I heard an inspiring talk by a visiting Scottish academic, John Swinton, who has researched the spiritual needs of people with intellectual disabilities. He reported that such people simply want to make connections. More than anything, they just want a friend.
I thought about this talk recently when I was reacquainted with a man I had not seen in years. Scott has autism and an intellectual disability. He lives in supported accommodation, though he is secluded from his housemates for their protection.
I had first met Scott when he was a teenager and when there was no lock on his section of the house. Now a digital code must be entered on the wall to gain access to Scott. I braced myself as I went in to see him, and I wondered how he had changed, how aggressive he would be. He was excited to see me, and took me outside to play basketball, then sat me on his bedroom floor to play cards. There was no aggression, which his carers tell me tends to appear when he is frustrated and tired.
In a few simple acts, by simply engaging with me, Scott was challenging me to question my priorities. He was also, I think, meeting my spiritual needs. And for those few brief moments it's also possible that I was meeting his.
John Chesterman teaches politics at the University of Melbourne and is a volunteer community visitor with the Office of the Public Advocate. Simone and Scott are pseudonyms.


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Q: Choose the calendars appearing in the GNOME shell panel When clicking the clock, or date and time, in the Panel of GNOME shell, a popup displays a calendar browsable for events from connected or local calendars. (As far as I know, the date is fetched from the evolution-data-server.) An account may provide multiple different calendars.
In the gnome-calendar app, one can choose which calendars to display via a menu button. Optimally, I would like for the calendar application to show all calendars while only showing a few in the panel applet. Is is possible to choose the calendars showing up in the panel? If yes, where does the option hide?

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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — Menteri Kesehatan Nila Moeloek mengungkap identitas 14 nama rumah sakit yang menggunakan vaksin palsu.

Data tersebut diungkapkan Menkes dalam rapat kerja dengan Komisi IX DPR bersama Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM), Bareskrim Polri, Biofarma, dan Ikatan Dokter Anak Indonesia (IDAI).

"Pengungkapan 14 fasyankes (fasilitas dan layanan kesehatan) ini sudah disepakati dengan Bareskrim Polri," kata Nila di Kompleks Parlemen, Senayan, Jakarta, Kamis (14/7/2016).

Berikut ini 14 rumah sakit yang menerima vaksin palsu:

1. DR Sander, Cikarang

			2. Bhakti Husada, Terminal Cikarang

			3. Sentral Medika, Jalan Industri Pasir Gombong

			4. RSIA Puspa Husada

			5. Karya Medika, Tambun

			6. Kartika Husada, Jalan MT Haryono Setu, Bekasi

			7. Sayang Bunda, Pondok Ungu, Bekasi

			8. Multazam, Bekasi

			9. Permata, Bekasi

			10. RSIA Gizar, Villa Mutiara Cikarang

			11. Harapan Bunda, Kramat Jati, Jakarta Timur

			12. Elisabeth, Narogong, Bekasi

			13. Hosana, Lippo Cikarang

			14. Hosana, Bekasi, Jalan Pramuka

Sementara itu, pada kesempatan yang sama, Kabareskrim Polri Komjen Ari Dono Sukmanto mengatakan, pihaknya telah mengungkap 14 rumah sakit dan delapan bidan yang membeli vaksin palsu dari keterangan tersangka. Namun, kepolisian masih terus melakukan pendalaman.

Tindak lanjut akan terus dikoordinasikan dengan institusi terkait, seperti Kemenkes, BPOM, dan Kejaksaan Agung, untuk menyelesaikan berkas perkara dan mempercepat hasil penyidikan.

"Diharapkan bisa segera mendapatkan hasil pemeriksaannya," tutur Ari Dono.

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The bends of the Mamore River in Bolivia. Credit: Planet Labs, Inc.
The research was led by the UT Jackson School of Geosciences Bureau of Economic Geology and found that the rate of river migration is directly linked to how sharp its bends are—a finding that challenges the prevailing wisdom on how river curvature and migration relate and shows that the relationship is not as complicated as previously thought, said Zoltán Sylvester, a research scientist at the bureau who led the study.
It is established science that the rate of river migration—how quickly parts of a river move across a landscape—is driven by the curvature of its bends. However, earlier research found that there was a cap on how much curvature could influence migration rate. According to these earlier findings, the maximum migration rate occurred along parts of the river where the radius of curvature of the bend (a value that relates to bend sharpness) is two to three times the width of a river. Curves sharper than that were thought to slow migration down by creating a more turbulent environment for water to flow through.
A cartoon animation showing the relationship between river bend curves and river migration. While sharp bends cause higher rates of migration, the point of maximum migration occurs downstream from the maximum curvature of the bend. This creates a 'lag' between the point of maximum curvature and the point of maximum migration. Credit: Zoltan Sylvester/ The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology.
In contrast, Sylvester and his team found that there is no cap. Instead, there appears to be a direct connection between river bend curvature and migration rate, with sharper bends causing a higher erosion rate—which is linked to a faster rate of migration. Another key finding is that the migration linked with the curvature occurs downstream from the bend itself—not exactly alongside as it was previously often considered.
The researchers used satellite data acquired by the Landsat program to reveal the connection between river bends and migration, with the images giving the researchers a bird's-eye view of hundreds of river bends along seven rivers in the Amazon Basin and how they migrated over the past 30 years. The researchers chose to focus on the rivers in the Amazon Basin because of their high migration rate and their location away from the interference of people or complicated geological settings. These other factors can influence the rate of river migration—but having a baseline idea of how the curvatures help control a river is a useful starting point and could help reveal when other factors are at play, said Jonathan Schwenk, a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Lab who studies river behavior.
This is hydrologically obvious if one thinks about it. The sharp bends present an obstruction to the inertia of the water and are therefore eroded. Eventually the water pushes through and the bend is cut off.
Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but to my mind this is the most powerful mechanism.
During flooding, the normal behavior of the river is enhanced and the meandering course can be ignored. Once that happens the river will never be the same. Sandbars, newly eroded banks, and many other changes leave the river different from the pre-flood self.
In Glen Nevis, where we often holidayed, other than portions in 'gorges', the upper and lower portions of River Nevis meandered enthusiastically within the flood-plain, to extent that erosion threatens low-lying sections of the lane.


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Review | Murder in an English Glade (Beryl and Edwina Mystery 5), by Jessica Ellicott
Murder in an English Glade is a charming historical mystery featuring an Odd Couple-type pair of private investigators: British socialite/aspiring novelist Edwina Davenport and American adventuress Beryl Helliwell. In this instalment, the investigators are hired to run a fake undercover investigation at an artists' retreat — their client's cousin is accusing their client's sister-in-law of having an affair with one of the artists, and the client believes the appearance of an investigation will quell her cousin's doubts before the accusations erupt into a full-blown scandal. Except that shortly after Beryl and Edwina arrive, the artist turns up murdered, and the fake investigation turns real.
It's a charming premise. I'm a huge fan of genteel British small town mysteries, and I loved the chance to delve into a world where there's an estate large enough to host a group of artists and a group of Girl Guides, and art has such cultural cache that such goings-on are simply par for the course for the ultra elite. The beginning also totally won me over, with Beryl blundering into an argument with Edwina's housekeeper — being unused to servants, Beryl thinks she's being helpful, but Edwina's gardener is quick to point out her faux pas. I love that contrast between both the lead characters, and how they responded to the situation.
The mystery, as well, hooked me at first. I loved the subplot about a potential romance for Edwina, and the comedy around Edwina learning what going undercover as an artist's model may actually require her to do. I also hadn't realized cigarette cases were designed by painters working with models, so that was an interesting bit of history. The big reveal came as a surprise to me, and I like how all the various disparate elements came together at the end.
That being said, the novel fizzled out for me partway through. Possibly, it's just that I had to be in a certain mood to really get into it, but the latter half felt slow to me. The mystery surrounding Beryl's history with one of the guests didn't really interest me much, and I wanted to see a lot more of Edwina's potential romance. The way the reveal was structured also felt a bit confusing — there's a major clue near the end that points to a particular suspect, but then much ado is made over figuring out the involvement of a character who turned out to be irrelevant to the reveal. And the villain's motivation was only hinted at on-page — there were some clues leading up to it, but the key part of information behind their motivation was only brought up in the big exposition scene, which I felt took away some of the "Aha!" feeling of all the pieces clicking into place.
Overall, it's a pretty good mystery. I found the characters of Beryl and Edwina to be interesting, and I love the set-up of the faux investigation. The second half was a bit of a letdown, but overall, the mystery was solid, and had some good red herrings and clues.
Thank you to Kensington Books for an e-galley of this book in exchange for an honest review.