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EU flies solo to reduce aviation emissions
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BRUSSELS- The European Union's controversial inclusion of international airlines in its emissions trading system (ETS) has received heated criticism. Political pressure continues to mount on the EU as the start date of aviations inclusion in the ETS fast approaches.
By Stephanie Bishop-Hall
Sitting in the gate lounge at an airport somewhere you stare blankly at the generic carpet made of geometrical shapes in bright and inoffensive colours. Around you people move with purpose, collecting bags or loved ones, talking loudly on the phone, looking tired or stressed. Now and then a voice stutters over the loud speaker, almost indistinguishable from the vacant sounds of movement that surround you.
When asked by the uniformed flight attendant to show your ticket, you remember how cheap it was: a discount ticket, half the normal price. No need to feel guilty about this trip. What you did not consider was the environmental impact of your cheap ticket and the aviation industry as a whole.
"Basically right now, buying a cheap ticket is one of the most environmentally damaging consumer products," says Dudley Curtis, communications manager at Transport and Environment, a non-governmental organisation working from inside Brussels.
"Aviation is ten-times more polluting than road traffic but has none of the same regulations. It's a sector that doesn't even run on the same standards as every other industry," Mr Curtis adds.
A model aeroplane soars below its shadow.
Following the creation of the Kyoto Protocol to tackle climate change in 1997 the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a specialised agency of the United Nations, was tasked to work with developed nations to reduce aviation emissions. Fourteen years later, the organisation has not decided on a binding global measure to reduce the industry's emissions.
In 2005, the European Union (EU) concluded that bringing aviation into the EU ETS would be the most cost-efficient and environmentally effective option for controlling aviation emissions. The proposal took eighteen months to be adopted and the 'Aviation Directive' became EU legislation.
How the ETS works:
From the 1st January 2012 all airlines flying to and from the EU will be required to monitor and report their emissions to the member state that issued their license. Under the EU ETS airlines will be given 85 percent of their emissions for free, and will have to trade or buy the remaining 15 percent at auction.
In protest over the legislation, the Air Transport Association of America, American and United Continental Airlines took their case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
In October this year Juliane Kokott, Advocate General of the ECJ, expressed a preliminary opinion that the EU's inclusion of international aviation in its ETS was compatible with international law. This opinion is not binding and the courts decision is expected early next year.
Stationary model aeroplanes fly in front of the European Parliament buildings.
ICAO and the Chicago Convention
"The EU has no right to charge third countries," says Jacqueline Foster, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament and spokesperson for the Committee on Transport and Tourism.
The main basis for a legal argument against the inclusion of aviation in the EU ETS is a breach of the Chicago Convention, in which the purpose of ICAO is set forth. The argument lies in the description of 'sovereignty'. Those bringing the case against the EU argue that forcing them to partake in the ETS impinges on their sovereignty as it is unilateral and they have not agreed to it.
The European Commission maintains that the legislation is not extra-territorial and does not hinder states from acting on their own territory. The Commission reiterates that within the ETS legislation there is a provision that exempts airlines from countries taking equivalent steps to cut emissions from aviation.
Mrs Foster expressed her belief that the EU is breaking the Chicago Convention. "It was decided without proper discussion with third countries," she states.
On November 2nd of this year, under pressure from twenty-six nations including the US and China, ICAO agreed to adopt a non-binding working paper urging the EU to refrain from including flights by non-EU carriers in its ETS.
"ICAO has basically been a useless organisation when it comes to aviation environmental impacts. It [the working paper] is just a continuation of the unproductive nature of the industry," comments Mr Curtis.
Tax revenue vs. the environment
There have been claims from within the EU that the measure is primarily a way to raise tax revenue.
"It's not about the environment, the focus is on tax revenue," Mrs Foster states emphatically.
Brian Simpson, Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism was quoted at the 55th annual meeting of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines as saying:
"…Within the EU, governments are keen to press ahead because they desperately need the money. They won't say that—oh no—they will claim it's to help the environment, just as they do with Air Passenger Duty. But let's be under no illusions here—both ETS and APD are being used as revenue streams for hard-up governments and not for environmental protection measures."
A source from within the European Commission denies this claim, arguing that if the inclusion was in fact aimed at tax revenue the airlines would have to buy 100 percent of their allowances at auction.
A political struggle
"This a political fight more than it is a legal fight and it's really about whether America wants to turn this into a major international dispute," Mr Curtis says.
Earlier this year, an anti-EU bill was introduced into the US Congress which declares the EU aviation directive illegal and if passed by the Senate will prohibit any US airline from complying with the EU law. This would leave the airlines in an impossible situation where they will either break US or EU law.
The official stance of the European Commission on this possible development is one of no speculation.
Consumers will pay
The European Commission expects an increase in ticket prices as a result of the ETS. The Commission's official figure is around a two euro increase on a transatlantic flight. It is understood that the Commission is not concerned about the effect the ETS could have on the tourism industry.
Jacqueline Foster disagrees: "the consumer will pay and it raises competition issues," adding, "the EU is over-regulated and the end result will be on tourism industry."
Flying into the future
Despite continued international pressure, the EU, led by Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, remains firmly behind the legislation.
Commissioner Hedegaard expressed in a speech made on the 10th November at the European Parliament Transport Committee meeting, "…We as EU stand firm in respect of this non-discriminatory legislation and express that we have no intention of amending it."
Links for further reading:
The Chicago Convention
Latest European Environment Agency report on Transport, 'Laying the foundations for greener transport'
European Commission, Climate Action, Aviation Policy
Danish MEP speaks out on the significance of the Energy Efficiency Directive
Energy efficiency: The danger of rift and reality
Dock the tails!
EU Agreement ignores illegal fishing and violation of human rights
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Історія групи
Колектив існує вже давно, але назву «Галаси ЗМеста» отримав тільки навесні 2020 року. Тлумачення назви групи двояке: це голоси наче думки людей з глибинки, а також голоси зі змістом.

Група з п'яти осіб зазвучала через кілька місяців після початку протестів у Білорусі. Її створили колишні кавеенщики. Загалом у колективі 5 осіб, які займаються музикою у вільний від роботи час. Барабанщик Максим Пономаренко керує барановичським народним ансамблем «Явар», гітаристи Євген Кардаш та Євген Артюх викладають в музичній школі. Вокалістка Ірина Сорговицька працює в школі психологом. Вокаліст і автор текстів пісень Дмитро Бутаков — військовий перекладач.

В інтерв'ю TUT.BY фронтмен групи Дмитро Бутаков повідомив:— Я взагалі, чесно кажучи, «совок» справжній — досі розвалу країни великої не можу пережити. Білорусь як окрема самостійна держава? Мені важко це прийняти.Ще Бутаков говорив, що він «проти радикальних і псевдореволюційних змін»; що його не влаштовують «лідери ось ці дивні, змінювані, нескінченні». У своїй творчості група висміює Телеграм-канали й дворові чати, страйки, протести студентів і білоруських опозиціонерів. До березня 2021 року на їхньому каналі та на сайті було вже близько 20 композицій. Учасники групи повідомляють, що вони так вирішили показати своє ставлення до технологій кольорових революцій. Вважають, що вони руйнують країни під соусом «політичної боротьби». Їх пісні часто перетинаються з протестною тематикою. Також у групи є сатирична пісня під назвою «Евромечта». У ній виконавці іронізують щодо сучасних європейських цінностей:«Хочеться і рівності й братерства, і всюди виявляти волю, в трепетному пориві толерантства на синочка одягати сукню».  На YouTube-канал групи підписано 16 тисяч користувачів, найпопулярніший ролик на ньому набрав 52 тисячі переглядів. На початку грудня 2020-го музиканти виступили з концертом на сцені Купалівського театру.

Участь у Євробаченні
Белтелерадіокомпанія опублікувала відео з піснею, з якою музиканти збираються взяти участь у «Євробачення». За добу на офіційних сторінках конкурсу пісня «Я навчу тебе» (, ) стала лідером за кількістю дизлайків і коментарів. Багато хто помітив у пісні політичний контекст проти опозиції в Білорусі, також у мережі з'явилася велика кількість негативних відгуків. Деякі користувачі в інтернеті просили дискваліфікувати Білорусь з конкурсу.

11 березня Європейський мовний союз зазначив факт порушення текстом пісні правил конкурсу про заборону політичних висловлювань та запропонував Белтелерадіокомпанії змінити композицію або внести корективи в текст. В іншому випадку буде прийнято рішення про дискваліфікацію Білорусі як країни-учасниці конкурсу. Тоді ж на офіційному каналі Євробачення був закритий доступ до ролика.

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 Галаси ЗМеста — хто вони?

Представники Білорусі на Євробаченні
Музичні колективи, що з'явились 2020
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Засновані в Білорусі 2020

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Disadvantages of Using Skype
by Kefa Olang
Over the years, Skype has become one of the leading messaging programs. Although it boasts a world of communication features that enable you to connect with anyone around the world, it is certainly not without drawbacks that can, at times, make it less desirable.
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New funding pool to provide options for minority and women-owned businesses
STAUNTON - AT&T is collaborating with the Staunton Creative Community Fund to create a funding pool for entrepreneurs in the Shenandoah Valley.
One pool will specifically be a grant program for minority and women-owned businesses that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and other financial barriers, a release said.
"Women and People of Color are statistically more likely to become entrepreneurs," Executive Director of SCCF Debbie Irwin said in a release. "They are also more likely to face unique challenges as entrepreneurs for a number of reasons, including limited access to credit, poor financial health and COVID-related issues. Through this program we hope to fill in some of the gaps that exist for these entrepreneurs that enrich our communities so greatly."
Another pool will be a full scholarship program, part of the SCCF's business planning course, called Business Bootcamp.
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AT&T has contributed $16,000 to the program. SCCF will distribute six $2,000 grants and will send six qualified entrepreneurs through the Business Bootcamp class in 2021.
"We know there is much more that must be addressed when it comes to inequities across every facet of society," said Vince Apruzzese, president of AT&T-Virginia, in a release. "By teaming up with SCCF, we're taking a step together toward addressing the inequities and challenges that women and minority entrepreneurs face every day. This program provides them with additional tools to start, grow and sustain businesses in Virginia, which is great for their families and communities – and for our entire Commonwealth."
For more information on the Women and Minority-Owned Business Support program, e-mail hello@stauntonfund.org.
SCCF is a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs in the Shenandoah Valley with classes, funds and more. For more information on the organization go to StauntonFund.org. AT&T's philanthropy and social innovation invests in projects that promote academic and economic achievements and addressing community needs like those that promote social justice and racial equality.
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The United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) spend is expected to increase each year through 2022 to meet the simultaneous goals of maintenance, modernization and increasing capabilities. These increases will come with lower margins for prime contractors, but firmer schedules for major production and service programs. Renewed emphasis has been placed on improving program, financial and administrative efficiencies, and eliminating or reforming procurement programs that are overlapping or inefficient and have technology areas that "crosscut," or can be applied by multiple agencies.
Frost & Sullivan's research,"US DoD Budget Assessment, 2018 2022," finds that the 2018 US DoD budget requested an increase of $52 billion, or nine percent, over the 2017 budget. The study highlights some of the projects and programs that offer the best opportunities for growth and penetration into the US DoD market. Budget spending plans for the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and joint services are assessed with categories including research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE); procurement; operations and maintenance (O&M); and services evaluated.
"More aggressive combat actions against ISIS and other terrorist and insurgent group activity drive improvements and upgrades for C4ISR, targeting, and international partner collaboration tools, especially in the Middle East and Africa," said Aerospace & Defense Principal Analyst Brad Curran. "Nations such as Russia and China have renewed their "Cold War"-type military deployments, while North Korea and Iran are improving their long-range missile capability. This drives the U.S. and regional allies such as Germany, Japan, and South Korea to increase the effectiveness of current and new-build platforms, weapons and C4ISR, as well as ensure interoperability with U.S. forces."
Further U.S. DoD 2018 budget findings include:
• Significant increase in O&M and RDT&E requests;
• $35.8 billion in new prime contracts awarded to Lockheed Martin;
• The largest share of funding has been awarded to the Air Force;
• Operational priorities include missile defense systems, special forces, secure computer networks, and the development of hypersonic and laser weapons;
• Increase in classified programs budget; and
• Demand for mature, commercial off-the-shelf-based mobile information technology and applications to enable sensor networks and collaborative targeting.
"DoD technologies are driven by the need to improve the maintenance of existing platforms and simultaneously make incremental upgrades to improve combat capabilities as well as remain effective while under electronic and cyber-attack," noted Curran. "The high average age of most aircraft, ship, ground vehicle platforms and C4ISR systems makes modification and modernizing a priority. Product providers should look toward offering innovative products in these sectors to garner opportunities."
US DoD Budget Assessment, 2018 2022 is part of Frost & Sullivan's Defense Growth Partnership Service program.
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Dane Thomas is the author of The Conscious Hustle and creator of the Spiral Clearing Process. He is working on some amazing projects aimed at freeing human beings from negative conditioning and exploring freedom in every sense. In this 45 minute interview we cover free-style rapping, failing quickly, creating an entrepreneur mind-set around money and wealth, and Dane's ongoing journey to explore sexuality and masculine identity.
We also mention some amazing resources for anyone who is looking to unleash themselves from limiting beliefs and self-doubt.
nb: there is some artful swearing in this episode, and free discussions of bodily parts and functions.
"We're so sexually repressed that we can't handle all the parts of ourselves. Which is the cause of a lot of sexual dysfunction, a lot of abuse.
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They took the 15 of us hunger strikers to ASU-Hell-Row
SF BayView, December 13, 2011
CDCR is back to its original torturer tactics
Written Nov. 27, 2011 – The CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) did everything but kill us this last go-round because, as I have said, the torture can always be seen in their policy. We had always stipulated that we were on a peaceful nonviolent hunger strike. This way no one could accuse us of causing any problems against CDCR and the prisons we're held in throughout California.
On Sept. 26, 2011, we prisoners officially went back on our nonviolent hunger strike, where our only action is sitting in our cells starving ourselves to death in protest of the constant human rights violations, where we prisoners are made to suffer indefinite SHU terms in solitary confinement for nothing, while being subjected to constant attacks by prison officials in order to encourage our debriefing.
On Sept. 29, 2011, about 30 guards, two to each prisoner, came to escort us to Administration Segregation Unit ASU-H-Row, which was soon termed "Hell-Row." Each of us was ordered to put on only our shoes, socks, boxer shorts and T-shirt. Each of us complied with these orders without incident.
Once all of us were removed from our cells, we were then led to the tunnel where we were met with another 20-30 officers who had created a "soul train line" for us to walk through. The 15 prisoners all come out of the short corridor D1-D4. Once all the prisoners were lined up in the tunnel with over 50-60 officers, it was a period of silence, which I believe was for the purpose of intimidation. It didn't work.
Once the leading officer, after about three minutes, instructed the officers to begin moving us out, we were led to the clinic, where some quack of a psychiatrist asked us were we "mentally sane" and many of us refused to respond. Once the last person was asked, we were escorted out of the tunnel and into the outside area. After about 200 yards of walking, we were going through another checkpoint where a correctional officer with a clipboard told the escorting officers that we go to the following cells.
It was a total of 12 cells: Three of the four were double cells for the seven New Afrikans. The rest were single cells for the four Mexicans and four whites. Upon getting all of us into our assigned cells, they then issued us pink/orange linen. We were removed from SHU and placed in ASU – reversing the usual sequence, when prisoners are placed in ASU first and once given a SHU term are placed in SHU.
So we were wondering why were we being placed in ASU when we were already in SHU? It would be minutes after being placed in ASU that we would learn that we were placed on Hell-Row for "concentrated torture." Yes, we were placed in ice cold cells and given nothing.
Many of us had never been placed in the new Ad-Seg cells. We realized that these cells are truly unfit for anyone to live in. They are compressed; you can be on the bottom bunk and have your feet resting on the toilets, you are two to three steps away from the front door and the cold blowers were deliberately turned on in order to make sure we suffered.
We were given inadequate clothing; therefore, we could not protect ourselves from the cold blowers. This was done in order to intensify our suffering in Ad-Seg in order to try and get us to eat. When the warden walked in H-Row tier and talked to each and every one of us, he said if you eat you can go back to your SHU cells. Each and every one of us refused to eat.
When the warden was asked why were we here, he said because we were the leaders of the hunger strikers which have caused a disturbance throughout the prison system. When asked who authorized our placement in ASU, he said Secretary M. Cate and Undersecretary S. Kernan.
We told him that there was no leaders of the hunger strikers; it's just negotiators/representatives who actually volunteered because they didn't want people dying on the hunger strike without ever having their voice heard, so those individuals who are the negotiators should be commended, not further tortured. I asked him why am I here; I am not no negotiator. He said I don't know, but I'll get back to you. He never did get back to me.
The officials continued to come around in order to try and persuade us to eat, but we continued to refuse to eat. The chief deputy warden came walking the tier and he told us if we don't eat we will be receiving CDCR rule violation reports. I told him if we are willing to lay down our lives for the 25 years of torture we have suffered – whereas you have been a conspirator – then what difference would a CDCR rule violation report make?
The cold blowers were turned up on high, and we continued to suffer. It should be clear we were forced to suffer on Hell Row 15 days straight until the negotiators made a deal along with our mediation team lawyers. And it should be clear that I am basically touching the surface due to the litigation pending.
Once we were ordered back to our cells, we would discover that the correctional officers had deliberately trashed our cells. All our cosmetics, thermal tops and bottoms, political writings, legal material, books etc. were stolen – not confiscated – outright taken away from us while we were held in Ad-Seg.
We were then told that due to being on the hunger strike, we cannot go back on our normal diet. They placed us on record to get two lunches for breakfast and two lunches for dinner, but they gave us only one for breakfast and one for dinner.
It should be clear that all these retaliatory actions was deliberate in order to "instigate some violence" out of prisoners. It didn't work, and we remain very much committed and dedicated to our peaceful nonviolent protocol.
Looking back on it now, we realize that CDCR has used any acts of violence to propagate against us all whenever they need to dehumanize us in order to justify their inhumane policies, decisions and treatment against us. We have lost our right to be paroled based on the criteria set by the Parole Board, family visits, visits, educational programs, nutritional diet, adequate medical treatment, pictures, food sales, news, TV and movies, weights etc. – all lost in the name of the threat to safety and security of the institution. All this is being lost based on how CDCR officials manipulate prison violence.
Therefore our question is what do we want for ourselves? We got prisoners still incarcerated on one-year-to-life sentences or seven-to-life sentences that go back to the '60s and '70s, prisoners still locked up on 15-to-life, 25-to-life on early '80s sentences when they have met all the criteria for parole. But the Parole Board is overseen by nothing but racist, money-hungry Board of Prison hearing commissioners and deputy commissioners who do not see nothing but criminals and modern-day slaves when a prisoner is before them.
So we, as prisoners, have to create the conditions behind these prison walls that will justify our own rehabilitation and humanity. Because the current practices is to keep us in an environment where we all remain immune to misery and half-life. We're responsible for our future.
I told you all that many have died and many more will continue to die. Within the last few months we lost two prisoners in these torture chambers, one in the ASU, where the officials took us to torture us. The word is they committed suicide. Usually when someone commits suicide it's because they're unable to take the pressure that's being placed on them.
But here's something we all need to beware of: Medical has used psychiatric drugs to "treat pain" in low doses and all these drugs cause "suicidal thoughts" and chemical imbalances in the prisoner's brain functions, which is why many prisoners for the last 20 years have been turned into zombies because their medical treatment has been these drugs that have side effects that are associated with suicide.
Also, it's important to know that the torture prisoners have sustained over the last 25 years is unbearable for some, and prisoners are unable to get prison guards' attention if you are in an emergency situation – and this is in their ASU orientation manual. So we educate the people in the public as to what's going on, but there are a lot more prisoners who will be dying in these SHUs, Ad/Segs etc. because of medical neglect and real psychological evaluation.
The torture is in the policy and I am aware of prisoners' situations because they're right here with me. We have guys who can't hear, see and are suffering from bacterial diseases etc. I personally think this quack Dr. Sayres gets off telling prisoners they only have a few more days to live.
The public has to realize that the system oppresses humanity for one purpose: to exploit them. Occupiers, we support you wholeheartedly. Corporate America is worth $23 trillion but the so-called people's government is in debt for $15 trillion. How does that work when many of these corporations get subsidies from the people's so-called government?
Mutope Duguma, aka James Crawford, has been reporting to Bay View readers on the hunger strike from the beginning. He is the writer of "The Call," the formal announcement that alerted the world to this massive hunger strike, "SHU prisoners sentenced to civil death begin hunger strike," "This hunger strike is far from over," "Pelican Bay SHU prisoners plan to resume hunger strike Sept. 26," "Greed drives solitary confinement torture," "Hip hop community, support our hunger strike!" "Retaliation at Pelican Bay: Letters from the SHU" and "We are willing to sacrifice ourselves to change our conditions." This letter was typed by Adrian McKinney. Send our brother some love and light: Mutope Duguma, s/n James Crawford, D-05996, D1-117U, PBSP-SHU, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532.
Labels: 2011, administrative segregation, CDCR, long term solitary confinement, nonviolent means to protest torture, Pelican Bay ASU, solitary confinement, solitary torture, torture
SHU prisoners sentenced to civil death begin hunger strike
SF BayView, July 1, 2011
In a letter to the Bay View, SHU prisoner Mutope Duguma (s/n James D. Crawford), who wrote "The Call," published in the Bay View online and in print in June, sheds light on the background leading to the hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Penitentiary that is set to begin July 1.
First and foremost, let me say that it is New Afrikans (Blacks) like yourselves who represent our new Afrikan nation (NAN) with compassion and dedication that is a reflection of the unconditional love and respect that our ancestors demonstrated during their enslavement by our historical enemies (HEs) who unfortunately see us (New Afrikans) as an obsolete people.
This is why our HEs' very politics is designed and structured to exclude us as a people from their economic system that forces many of our people to be dependent on the very same system that enslaved our ancestors. …
There are New Afrikans throughout this nation who believe in a new Afrikan ideology that can liberate our people from the malignant American socio-culture, politics and economic system. They have the solutions to our problems. Rather than keeping them in back alleys and prisons, we need to listen and begin to put these theories and concrete solutions into effect.
Ask yourselves why it is that so many of the New Afrikans who have a strong political line just happen to be locked up in solitary confinement units. We know they are not terrorists, we know they are not gang members and we know that they are not criminals.
So why? Because they are well studied and their political beliefs will undoubtedly liberate every New Afrikan in this nation from mental and physical slavery. Many of these New Afrikans can easily rid themselves of having to endure the suffering by denouncing their political beliefs, but throughout this nation they remain steadfast, refusing to be coerced away from their agenda of dealing with the New Afrikan struggle for liberation. If we cannot be brave enough to associate with these New Afrikans who are willing to sacrifice their lives in the name of our people, then we have a serious problem.
I personally believe that the lack of education is our most trying problem. We all should know that our historical enemies are not and will not educate our New Afrikan people. That is the responsibility of our New Afrikan Nation. This is how you rid our communities of the many street vices and pathologies that plague our communities and that have New Afrikan people preying on one another while being labeled terrorists, gang members, druggies, criminals etc.
New Afrikan people in this nation can be labeled by our historical enemies (HEs), and our people buy into it without investigating in order to get the facts. Hell, I was once an ignorant, impoverished young man living in the Watts Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects. I couldn't read or write; I graduated from grade school with seven Fs. Not once did my environment of teachers attempt to educate me. My world became exactly that: my world.
But when I got to prison, it was New Afrikan prisoners who come from where I was from – poverty stricken environments throughout California – who civilized me by giving me a proper education of self and of the world.
But guess what? These same New Afrikans are the most hated throughout the state of California and many are "keep aways" from the New Afrikan population. This is what made me love what our HEs hate. I've come to love the Bay View for your relentless support of the New Afrikan community. And I want to thank you for keeping the hated voice heard.
Peaceful hunger strike to begin July 1
Pelican Bay SHU prisoners [joined by SHU prisoners at Corcoran] will embark upon a major hunger strike indefinitely until our five core demands are met. The demands are listed in "The Call: Hunger strike to begin July 1."
[Duguma added the following notes at the end of the five core demands]:
Besides regular visits, add video visits for SHU and Ad-seg so prisoners can visit with approved family and friends who cannot afford to visit them at Pelican Bay.
Re-allow the donation of second-hand televisions and radios to indigent SHU inmates when items are placed on their personal property card.
Cold-weather-proof the outside walls for those cells that are exposed to outside weather (in this case cells B through E) with a thick rubber membrane so that in winter months, the cells don't turn into ice boxes.
Provide better, non-lumpy, cheaper four-inch thick foam mattresses instead of the lumpy cotton mattresses.
Provide for better SHU recreation and book lending programs.
There has been a protracted attack against Pelican Bay State Prison SHU prisoners for the last 22 years, where indeterminate SHU prisoners have been sentenced to a civil death by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Our civil and human rights have been violated, a policy sanctioned by the judicial system, which allows CDCR PBSP gang officials to hold us in solitary confinement indefinitely on the word of a prison snitch.
It is this injustice that has led to the July 1, 2011, hunger strike. We want to bring light to the suffering SHU prisoners serving indeterminate sentences who have suffered for 22 years.
Send our brotha some love and light at: James D. Crawford, D-05996, D1-117up, PBSP-SHU, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95532.
Labels: 2011, California, CDCR, Five Core Demands, hunger strike, long term solitary confinement, Mutope Duguma, Pelican Bay State Prison, torture
The Call: Hunger strike to begin July 1
SF Bay View, June 3, 2011
Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison are planning to begin an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. This hunger strike has the potential to become the most significant event in California prison reform in the last decade. Public support is crucial. A few months ago, Ohio prisoners won all their demands after a petition with 1,200 signatures was given to officials. Record your support by signing the Pelican Bay petition – and ask your friends to sign it too – at http://www.change.org/petitions/support-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-at-pelican-bay-state-prison.
by Mutope Duguma (s/n James Crawford)
This is a call for all prisoners in security housing units (SHUs), administrative segregation (ad-seg), and general populations (GP), as well as the free oppressed and non-oppressed people, to support the indefinite July 1 peaceful hunger strike in protest of the violation of our civil and human rights here at Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (PBSP-SHU), short corridor D1 through D4 and its overflow, D5 through D10.
It should be clear to everyone that none of the hunger strike participants want to die, but we are taking this dire action due to our circumstances: The state of California has sentenced all of us on indeterminate SHU program to a "civil death" merely on the word of a prison informer – a snitch.
The purpose of the hunger strike is to combat both the psychological and physical torture in ad-seg and the SHU, as well as the justifications used to support treatment of the type that leads to prisoners being subjected to a civil death. Those subjected to indeterminate SHU programs are neglected and deprived of the basic human necessities while withering away in a very isolated and hostile environment.
Prison officials have utilized the assassination of prisoners' character by each other as well as the general public in order to justify their inhumane treatment of prisoners. The guards' "code of silence" allows them the freedom to use everything at their disposal in order to break those prisoners who prison officials and correctional officers (COs) believe cannot be broken.
It is this mentality that set in motion the establishing of the short corridor, D1 through D4 and its D5 though D10 overflow. This mentality has created the current atmosphere in which COs and prison officials have agreed upon their plan to break indeterminate SHU prisoners.
This protracted attack on SHU prisoners cuts across every aspect of the prison's function: food, mail, visiting, medical, yard, hot/cold temperatures, privileges (canteen, packages, property etc.), isolation, cell searches, family and friends, and socio-culture, economic and political deprivation. This is nothing short of the psychological and physical torture of SHU and ad-seg prisoners. It takes place day in and day out, without a break or rest.
The prison's gang intelligence unit was extremely angered at the fact that prisoners who had been held in SHU under inhuman conditions for anywhere from 10 to 40 years had not been broken. So the gang intelligence unit created the "short corridor" and intensified the pressure of their attacks on the prisoners housed there. The object was to use blanket pressure to encourage these particular isolated prisoners to debrief – i.e. snitch – in order to be released from SHU.
The COs and administrative officials are all in agreement and all do their part in depriving prisoners in the short corridor and its overflow of their basic civil and human rights. None of the deliberate attacks are a figment of anyone's imagination. These continuous attacks are carried out against prisoners to a science by all of them. They are deliberate and conscious acts against essentially defenseless prisoners.
It is these ongoing attacks that have led the short corridor and overflow SHU prisoners to organize ourselves around an indefinite hunger strike in an effort to combat the dehumanizing treatment we prisoners of all races are subjected to on a daily basis.
Therefore, on July 1, 2011, we ask that all prisoners throughout the state of California who have been suffering injustices in general population, administrative segregation and solitary confinement to join in our peaceful strike to put a stop to the blatant violations of prisoners' civil and human rights. As you know, prison gang investigators have used threats of validation and other means to get prisoners to engage in a protracted war against each other in order to serve their narrow interests. If you cannot participate in the hunger strike, then support it in principle by not eating for the first 24 hours of the strike.
I say that those of you who carry yourselves as principled human beings, no matter your housing status, must fight to right this and other egregious wrongs. Although it is "us" today – united New Afrikans, Whites, Northern and Southern Mexicans and others – it will be you all tomorrow. It is in your interests to peacefully support us in this protest today and to beware of agitators, provocateurs and obstructionists, because they are the ones who put 90 percent of us back here because they could not remain principled even within themselves.
The following demands are all similar to what is allowed in other supermax prisons (e.g. federal Florence, Colorado, Ohio and Indiana State Penitentiaries). The claim by CDCR and PBSP that implementing the practices of the federal prison system or that of other states would be a threat to safety and security are exaggerations.
This call is co-signed by D. Troxell, B-76578; T. Ashker, C-58191; S.N. Jamaa-Dewberry, C-35671; A. Castellanos, C-17275; and G. Franco, D-46556. They, along with the call's author, Mutope Duguma (s/n James Crawford, C-35671), can be contacted by writing to them at PBSP-SHU, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532.
Hunger strikers' five core demands
Prisoners in the Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit D-Facility Corridor will begin an indefinite hunger strike on July 1, 2011, in order to draw attention to and to peacefully protest 25 years of torture via the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's arbitrary, illegal and progressively more punitive policies and practices, as summarized in our "Formal Complaint," which can be read at www.prisons.org/hungerstrike.htm. PBSP-SHU inmates' hunger strike protest is to continue indefinitely until the following changes are made:
1. Individual Accountability: This is in response to PBSP's application of "group punishment" as a means to address individual inmates' rule violations. This includes the administration's abusive, pretextual use of "safety and concern" to justify what are unnecessary punitive acts. This policy has been applied in the context of justifying indefinite SHU status and progressively restricting our programming and privileges.
2. Abolish the Debriefing Policy and Modify Active/Inactive Gang Status Criteria: The debriefing policy is illegal and redundant, as pointed out in the Formal Complaint on page 7, section IV-A. The active/inactive gang status criteria must be modified in order to comply with state law and applicable CDC rules and regulations – e.g., see Formal Complaint, page 7, section IV-B – as follows:
A) Cease the use of innocuous association to deny an active status.
B) Cease the use of informant and debriefer allegations of illegal gang activity to deny inactive status, unless such allegations are also supported by factual corroborating evidence, in which case CDCR and PBSP staff shall and must follow the regulations by issuing a rule violation report and affording the inmate his due process required by law.
3. Comply with U.S. Commission 2006 Recommendations Regarding an End to Long-Term Solitary Confinement:
CDCR shall implement the findings and recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons' final 2006 report regarding CDCR SHU facilities as follows:
A) End Conditions of Isolation (page 14): Ensure that prisoners in SHU and ad-seg (administrative segregation) have regular meaningful contact and freedom from extreme physical deprivations that are known to cause lasting harm (pages 52-57).
B) Make Segregation a Last Resort (p. 14): Create a more productive form of confinement in the areas of allowing inmates in SHU and ad-seg the opportunity to engage in meaningful self-help treatment, work, education, religious and other productive activities relating to having a sense of being a part of the community.
C) End Long-Term Solitary Confinement: Release inmates to general prison population who have been warehoused indefinitely in SHU for the last 10 to 40 years (and counting).
D) Provide SHU Inmates Immediate Meaningful Access to:
i) adequate natural sunlight;
ii) quality health care and treatment, including the mandate of transferring all PBSP-SHU inmates with chronic health care problems to the New Folsom Medical SHU facility.
4. Provide Adequate Food:
Cease the practice of denying adequate food, provide wholesome nutritional meals including special diet meals and allow inmates to purchase additional vitamin supplements.
A) PBSP staff must cease their use of food as a tool to punish SHU inmates.
B) Provide a sergeant/lieutenant to independently observe the serving of each meal, and ensure each tray has the complete issue of food on it.
C) Feed the inmates whose job it is to serve SHU meals with meals that are separate from the pans of food sent from kitchen for SHU meals.
5. Expand and Provide Constructive Programming and Privileges for Indefinite SHU Status Inmates.
A) Expand visiting regarding amount of time and adding one day per week.
B) Allow one photo per year.
C) Allow a weekly phone call.
D) Allow two annual packages per year. Base a 30-pound package on "item" weight and not packaging and box weight.
E) Expand canteen and package items allowed. Allow us to have the items in their original packaging. The cost for cosmetics, stationary and envelopes should not count towards the max draw limit.
F) Allow more TV channels.
G) Allow TV-radio combinations or TV and a small battery operated radio.
H) Allow hobby craft items – art paper, colored pens, small pieces of colored pencils, watercolors, chalk etc.
I) Allow sweat suits and watch caps.
J) Allow wall calendars.
K) Install pull-up/dip bars on SHU yards.
L) Allow correspondence courses that require proctored exams.
For more information and ongoing updates about the hunger strike, check the California Prison Focus website, www.prisons.org/hungerstrike.htm.
Labels: 2011, Arturo Castellanos, CDCR, Danny Troxell, Five Core Demands, G. Franco, hunger strike, Mutope Duguma, Pelican Bay State Prison, SHU, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, solitary confinement, The Call, Todd Ashker, torture
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Songkran Festival is the new year celebration of Thailand. It's also known as Thai New Year. People of Thailand consider it a time to pay respect to their families, friends, monks and Buddha. People consider the splash of water on this event as a symbolic thing that can remove all of their previous sins and can make you clean from all kind of bad lucks or misfortune and start a new year with getting the blessings and good luck for you. in the previous years, people use small bowls of water to throw water on their friends and family to have fun and enjoyment. But now a day people are using water guns, water buckets and water cans to throw water on each other and the water fight during the celebrations of Songkran Festival can be bigger than your expectations. As there has come a variety in water pots that can be used to throw water on others during the celebrations of Songkran festival, so there is great possibility that you are going to get wet during this event.
If you are planning to visit Phuket in Thailand during Songkran festival, then this can be a good guide for you, because it can help you to know about the history of the Songkran festival, what is the importance of Songkran in Thai culture, what you can do during your visit to Phuket and what places you must visit in Phuket during the celebrations of Songkran festival.
New year celebrations of Thailand can be a wild and wet event for everyone in the entire country. But the celebrations that you can enjoy in Phuket are of an international level and can be the most energetic among all of the other places. You can find tourists, locals and expats together enjoying the water fight by throwing a splash of water on each other through water guns, water cans and water buckets. The water fight is the most important thing during the celebrations of Songkran festival. These immense water fights can take place along the roads at multiple different places in the island, and you may find some pick-up trucks having a large number of youngsters on them throwing water on everyone who passes by them. They enjoy the water fight in this way and craziness during these water fights can be on its peak.
Patong is a main host for the celebrations of Songkran festival but Phuket comes on the second number for the hosting of celebrations of Songkran festival. With having street parties, you can join some traditional activities during Songkran festival's celebration to enjoy more. Well, the major activities or events of Songkran festival in Phuket take place at Queen Sirikit Park in Phuket city on 13th April, and you can enjoy daily activities at Saphan Hin Park during the celebrations of Songkran festival every day from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
You can see the most traditional aspects of Songkran festivity during Songkran celebrations in Phuket which includes the procession of Buddha images and different ceremonies to pay respect to elders with scented water.
You can never even think about to visit any place during the celebrations of Songkran Festival without being wet, particularly if you are riding a motorbike or have hired a tuk-tuk for your travel. No one mind being wet during the Songkran celebrations, so, there is no way to stay dry during the days of celebrations.
The best advice for you to enjoy more during Songkran celebrations in Phuket joins the water fight but do not forget to put your wallet or other important papers at your residence, because they can be damaged during water fight by getting wet.
If you do not want to be a part of the crazy crowd during the celebrations of Songkran festival, then it is better for you to visit local villages and do not go to tourist centres. You can enjoy many of traditional activities that can be hosted by the major resorts.
Do not forget to bring a plastic bag to save your important things, if you want to enjoy a water fight. And be sure that you have a water pistol, water cane, water bottle or water bucket with you. You can get these accessories easily from any of the roadside stalls.
Do not forget to bring spare clothes, if you have a plan to visit any other place after enjoying a water fight.
--Read more on What to Pack during Songkran Festival.
It can never be a better idea to rent a motorbike especially during the celebrations of Songkran Festival.
--Read more on How to Survive in Songkran Festival.
Phuket is the busiest island especially during the celebrations of Songkran festival. You can find a large number of people at the Patong Beach area. You can find huge water fights there. People either local or foreigners, you can find there throwing water on each other and having fun. If you want to enjoy the Songkran Festival and want to be a part of the water fight then, street parties of Songkran festival can be the best option for you. But if you are one who does not want to be a part of a water fight and wants to enjoy calmly, then to be a part of traditional events can be the best option for you.
If you want to be a part of wet parties of Songkran, you can be a part of them in Phuket Town at early morning, which can turn into craziest fights in the afternoon. This water fight lasts till night and ends at Bangla Road. People who are going to join festival can be divided into two parts, one category can be of those who want to be a part of street celebrations and the second category is of those who travel through pick-up trucks to have fun.
If you want to travel to Thailand during these days. The transportation and accommodation will be a big problem. During the holiday, most of them will be sold out months before the festival. The streets will be a grand water carnival. Contact us and we can help you avoid the hassles, and have a Thailand local experience that includes the best of the Songkran Festival!
Water Battle by Tuk Tuk and get into the heart of the water battle!
Water Party in Silom Road. Spot the firetrucks ambushed at each intersection with their incredibly powerful water hoses.
Continue to Pattaya where helds a week-long Songkran celebration and colorful nightlife.
Elephant sanctuary: wearing Karen clothing and bath these cute creatures.
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Those who know how the human mind REALLY operates don't always play fair. They "work" us with "words", because words program the unconscious mind. Our elected officials know this, so often name legislation the opposite of what the intent truly is.
will ban states from creating GMO labeling laws of their own. It redefines terms like "natural" to allow GMO. It bans any mention of organic, natural, foods as being safer or better than their GMO counterparts, and puts in place further measures designed to destroy the small farmer.
So, as you can see, there is nothing "safe or accurate" about it. The words are a joke, but it seems like the overall energy of the nation is one of apathy regarding this and other freedoms lost. We've been molded into good little consumers, and buy-buy-buy until our mental and/or physical health is destroyed. Then we move on to enrich the medical establishment, until such time as we die. Lots of profit here, and "the money behind the throne" doesn't want that disrupted.
I know this sounds "negative", but believe we must have awareness of both good and bad before anything can be changed. The total takeover the GMO industry is working towards can still be prevented if we would just unite. There's phenomenal - miraculous even- power in collective, positive, energy. But that's not what I want to talk about. Instead, I'm concerned about how we empower this present system when we allow it to make us miserable, angry, or afraid. Our power lies in our voltage, and these emotions drain it. My hope is that we can radiate the higher vibratory energies of love, joy, and gratitude, and focus on the fact that positive things are also happening- they're just not getting much publicity. Turn off the news, search online, maybe you'll see that those who care are working together. Maybe you'll even become involved. Meanwhile, can we keep from being drained when we see that our representatives in Washington have chosen corporate kickbacks over our wellbeing? I don't know- I'm trying, and it's not all that easy.
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We all know what a life changing decision it is having a baby. Suddenly your home will be totally different and will never go back to the way it once was. Before you actually bring your new baby back home there are all kinds of preparations that you need to make in order to make sure it's the right environment for a baby. So let's take a closer look at just a few of the ways that you can get your home ready for your new arrival.
Right at the top of the list is to make sure your home is a safe environment for a baby. Babies become mobile very quickly so it is important that the whole house is baby-proofed. This may involve putting extra locks on cupboards, gates on staircases and softening up any sharp corners on furniture. Remember there are lots of things in your home that have the potential to be a hazard. Thinking about everything even if it seems safe to you is very important.
Getting a room ready for your baby is one of the most exciting times for any new parent. First of all, they will need a place to rest their head so check out Cuckooland for potential options. You will want to make sure that the room is the right temperature and that it gets enough natural light. Also you should consider the types of toys and other stimulating items that you want to fill the room with.
In the days after having your baby you won't have much time for anything beyond looking after him or her. You need to make sure that you have planned out other aspects of your life. Obviously making sure you get enough to eat is absolutely essential, so try to prepare some meals in advance and stock them in your freezer. You may even decide to buy some ready-meals to save yourself going through the effort of cooking.
When you finally get back to your own bedroom you will want to make it as conducive to sleeping as possible. This means taking extra steps to make it both dark and quiet. In terms of keeping out the light, a blackout blind can be a very worthwhile investment as you will find yourself sleeping at strange hours during the day. In terms of the noise you could consider investing in a white noise machine.
The first few weeks after having a new baby can be extremely stressful so any extra help and support that you can get will be much appreciated. If you are lucky enough to have some close friends or relatives who can help out it is worth talking to them before the birth so you can work out how much time they are able to spend with your new baby. You may even decide to get a cleaner or babysitter to take other responsibilities off your mind.


AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: To determine if acute overexpression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, gamma, coactivator 1 beta (Pgc-1beta [also known as Ppargc1b]) in skeletal muscle improves insulin action in a rodent model of diet-induced insulin resistance. METHODS: Rats were fed either a low-fat or high-fat diet (HFD) for 4 weeks. In vivo electroporation was used to overexpress Pgc-1beta in the tibialis cranialis (TC) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles. Downstream effects of Pgc-1beta on markers of mitochondrial oxidative capacity, oxidative stress and muscle lipid levels were characterised. Insulin action was examined ex vivo using intact muscle strips and in vivo via a hyperinsulinaemic-euglycaemic clamp. RESULTS: Pgc-1beta gene expression was increased >100% over basal levels. The levels of proteins involved in mitochondrial function, lipid metabolism and antioxidant defences, the activity of oxidative enzymes, and substrate oxidative capacity were all increased in muscles overexpressing Pgc-1beta. In rats fed a HFD, increasing the levels of Pgc-1beta partially ameliorated muscle insulin resistance, in association with decreased levels of long-chain acyl-CoAs (LCACoAs) and increased antioxidant defences. CONCLUSIONS: Our data show that an increase in Pgc-1beta expression in vivo activates a coordinated subset of genes that increase mitochondrial substrate oxidation, defend against oxidative stress and improve lipid-induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle.


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Middle Tennessee has history in its hands at NCAA tournament
Joe Rexrode
USA TODAY NETWORK -- Tennessee
MILWAUKEE — This time MTSU is a stylish pick in the world of NCAA tournament forecasting, and shocked faces will be few if the Blue Raiders beat Minnesota in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
The only thing that would surprise me is if Thursday's 3:30 p.m. game at BMO Harris Bradley Center doesn't come down to a few plays at the very end. If the Golden Gophers make them, it will not change the fact that this was an extraordinary MTSU team, finishing 30-5 while playing all season under the pressure of producing a sequel to last year's NCAA glory.
And if the Blue Raiders make them? Well, then we can really start talking. About a chance at the first Sweet Sixteen in school history. About the kind of free publicity that MTSU would have to spend hundreds of millions to buy.
About the two words coach Kermit Davis keeps using to describe his vision: "national program." And yes, possibly about someone trying to poach that coach – the open LSU job is a natural fit for Davis, and NCAA tournament success is an intoxicant for athletic directors on the hunt.
If the Blue Raiders follow up last year's epic first-round upset of Michigan State with another NCAA win, then we can start talking about Butler. Not just because MTSU probably would play Butler in Saturday's second round. Also because MTSU wants to be Butler.
"That's something you always talk about and point toward," MTSU athletic director Chris Massaro said, and he's not alone.
Butler, a small private school in Indianapolis, estimated that the publicity from its 2010 NCAA run – which ended with a loss to Duke in the title game in Indy – would have cost $639 million to buy. To put that in perspective, MTSU's annual athletics budget is $25 million.
And Massaro and his staff figured last year's win over Michigan State alone created at least $10 million in free publicity. In the hours following that shocker in St. Louis, Massaro said, MTSU was getting about 18,000 social media mentions every 30 seconds.
A loss to Syracuse in the second round kept the Blue Raiders out of the Sweet Sixteen in Chicago, which would have meant a week of intense national attention and brand enhancement. But in the season that followed, average attendance for home games at Murphy Center went up 14 percent (from 5,184 to 5,909). Davis said 3,000 MTSU fans showing up for last week's Conference USA tournament in Birmingham was a "big step" in the building process.
The Blue Raiders have so much more recruiting clout now that "it's not even close," Davis said, and Massaro said coaches in several other MTSU sports have reported a positive recruiting bump from the Michigan State win.
"And applications to the school are up 15 percent," Massaro said. "I don't know if I'd attribute that all to basketball, but that's significant."
So is the opportunity at hand. MTSU senior star Reggie Upshaw said he wants this program to become one of those "mid-major teams that are known nationally," with Wichita State, VCU and Gonzaga joining Butler as prime examples of programs from smaller conferences with wide reach.
"You can make the argument that this year is even bigger than last year in some ways," Massaro said. "If we can win again, it validates last year in the minds of some people nationally. Then you start getting more respect."
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Then maybe more teams from power conferences such as the SEC and ACC will agree to schedule games with MTSU. Scheduling is always a problem at this level, and a bad season for C-USA hurt the Blue Raiders and resulted in them getting just a No. 12 seed in the tournament despite a 30-4 record.
Switching to a stronger conference could be part of the process from here. That's what Butler, a No. 4 seed in this tournament, did on the way to becoming a perennial college basketball power. The Bulldogs moved up from the Atlantic 10 to the Big East in 2013.
They've also consistently hired head coaches from within and have survived the departure – also in 2013 – of star coach Brad Stevens to the Boston Celtics. MTSU could be in that position soon.
I asked Davis about the LSU job and he pointed out that he just signed an eight-year deal (for $565,000 a year plus bonuses) and added: "I'm totally committed to seeing this thing through to the national level."
But he would have to take a long look if approached by LSU, where he was an assistant for five years before taking over at MTSU in 2002. You're talking about triple the salary, massive program resources and no more scheduling or exposure headaches.
And LSU should look at Davis, regardless of what happens in this tournament. You're talking about a guy who has gone 153-53 in the past six years while graduating 52 straight players.
Massaro, by the way, gets it.
"Kermit has done a great job of building this program, and it's poised for success," he said. "It's really poised for success if he stays. But he's done such a good job that it would still be poised for success if he left."
They may need to have a talk at some point. If they're talking about Butler on Friday, we're talking about the possibility of the greatest weekend in MTSU athletics history.
Reach Joe Rexrode at jrexrode@tennessean.com and follow him on Twitter @joerexrode.
No. 12 MTSU (30-4) vs. No. 5 MINNESOTA (24-9)
When: About 3 p.m. Thursday
Where: Milwaukee
TV/radio: TNT/102.5-FM, 94.9-FM


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Morris, Hawaii lose in NCAA Tournament
From staff and wire reports
Virgin Valley High School graduate Connie Morris realized a lifelong dream on Saturday night by playing in the NCAA Tournament.
The experience for Morris and her Hawaii teammates, though, wasn't dreamy.
Led by its standout backcourt of Nirra Fields and Jordin Canada and a stifling defense that allowed only 12 baskets, UCLA overwhelmed the Rainbow Wahine, 66-50, in the first round of women's basketball tournament.
Morris, who played at the University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College before finding her place at Hawaii, played four minutes but didn't record a statistic in her final collegiate game.
The 10th-ranked Bruins (25-8) held the Rainbow Wahine (21-11) to 19 percent shooting from the field, a season low, and blocked eight shots.
"We got beat by a better team today, point blank," said Hawaii coach Laura Beeman. "We did not bring our A game today, and that was because of what they did to us."
The Rainbow Wahine were making their first NCAA tourney appearance since 1998. Hawaii is now 1-7 all-time in tourney play, with its only victory coming in 1990 over Montana 83-78.


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Q: How can to set savepoint in integration tests (with hsqldb in-memory)? I have integration tests with hsqldb (in memory), now I need to set savepoint in my tests, in BaseTest class, How can to set savepoint in tests (hsqldb (in-memory))?
BaseTest:
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {TestConfig.class})
public class BaseTest {

    @Before
    public void savePoint() {
        //set savepoint - How can do it this?

    }

    @After
    public void rollBackToSavePoint() {
        //roll back to savepoint - How can do it this?

    }
}

my Test:
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class MyTest extends BaseTest {

    @Test
    public void test1() {
     ...
    }
}

TestConfig:
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration;

@Configuration
@EnableJpaRepositories("database.dao")
@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = { MyServiceImpl.class})
@EntityScan({"database.model"})
@Import({DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.class})
public class TestConfig {

...

}

A: It helped me:
import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;
import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition;
import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionStatus;
import org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition;

    @Autowired
    private PlatformTransactionManager platformTransactionManager;

    @Test
    public void test1() {
        //save new user in db:
        userDao.save(new User("Name1")); //in result in db 1 user
        //set savepoint:
        TransactionStatus status = platformTransactionManager.getTransaction(
                new DefaultTransactionDefinition(TransactionDefinition.PROPAGATION_REQUIRED));
        //do changes in db:
        userDao.save(new User("Name2")); //in result in db 2 users
        //roll back to savepoint:
        platformTransactionManager.rollback(status);
        userDao.findAll(); //in result in db 1 user
    }