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Posted by Joshua Breisblatt | Aug 28, 2018 | History of Immigration, Immigration 101, Legislation, Reform
The United States Senate and Republican Party lost one of their biggest champions for bipartisan immigration reform and most vocal critics of President Trump's immigration policies when Senator John S. McCain III (R-AZ) passed away at the age of 81 last week.
While McCain will largely be remembered for his 32-year career in the Senate where he consistently championed immigration reform, McCain's legacy on immigration is imperfect. This included his vote against legalizing 2.5 million people through the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, to supporting Arizona's hard-line immigration bill SB 1070, to using "build the dang fence" as part of his 2010 election campaign messaging.
However, McCain long believed there was a bipartisan deal to be made to legalize undocumented immigrants and create a functional legal immigration system.
In 2005, McCain—along with former Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)—introduced the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, commonly referred to as McCain-Kennedy. Although the proposal never received a vote on the Senate floor, it would become the basis for future proposals that included a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, increased border security, and recommendations for addressing the nation's labor needs.
As Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute said, "Whatever else historians will say about comprehensive immigration reform… McCain-Kennedy will remain central. It became the symbol of what a good bipartisan approach to immigration should be."
McCain and Kennedy—along with a bipartisan group of Senators—would try again in 2006 and 2007 to pass immigration reform to no avail.
In 2010, when McCain found himself in a heated Republican primary, he took a harder line on immigration. He came out with ads calling on Congress to "build the dang fence," a reference to 600 miles of border fencing built along the Southern border, much of it in Arizona.
He also became an outspoken defender of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070 legislation, known widely as the "show me your papers" bill. McCain called the bill an "important step forward." The Supreme Court ultimately struck down several its most problematic provisions in 2012.
However, the senator's turn to the right on immigration did not last long. McCain easily won his primary against former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and then the general election. This victory allowed McCain to take up the cause of immigration reform again.
In the summer of 2013, McCain was once again an instrumental member of the so-called "Gang of Eight" that led the Senate in passing the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 by a 68 to 32 margin. Among other proposals, the bill would have opened a pathway for citizenship to many undocumented immigrants. However, the House of Representatives refused to bring it up for a vote, despite likely having the support of a majority of the chamber.
The 2016 election led Senator McCain to differ sharply and publicly with President Trump on the issue of immigration. He publicly disagreed with the president's choice to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative and called the family separation policy an "affront to the decency of the American people and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded." In his 2018 book "The Restless Wave," McCain took it a step further by calling Trump's treatment of refugees "appalling" and considered the deportation of longtime residents as cruel and inhumane.
Senator McCain will be sorely missed in future immigration policy deliberations on Capitol Hill. His leadership and bipartisan approach are exactly what our nation needs.
His farewell letter shows just how far McCain had come over his life, as he urged the country to come together:
"We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been."
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Vonnegut Speaks On Mental Illness
Author KURT VONNEGUT, left, and his son, MARK, speak of their family's struggle with Mark's mental illness before a packed crowd in the Sackler Museum yesterday.
By Maria S. Pedroza
Author Kurt Vonnegut and his son, Mark, recounted last night the turmoil that unfolded in their family after Mark began to suffer from mental illness in 1969.
"Not only did we see you crack when you went crazy, we saw something beautiful when you got well," said Kurt Vonnegut. "The recovery was worth it."
Before a packed crowd in the Sackler Museum, the pair addressed the difficulties that any family faces when one of its members develops a mental disorder.
The Vonneguts held the discussion to celebrate the recent reprinting of Mark Vonnegut's 1975 book Eden Express. The book details Mark's sudden breakdown and slow recovery.
"I wrote the book when I doubted I would get well," said Mark Vonnegut.
He said that his mental illness was originally misdiagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia, but was really a combination of bipolar disorder with elements of schizophrenia.
Publishing an account of mental illness in such a frank manner was extraordinary for its time.
"People don't talk about mental illness for many reasons—one is that it makes their children less marriage-able," said Kurt Vonnegut.
He then added that his own mother warned him against marrying a woman—his future wife—whose family had a history of mental illness. While his wife never experienced mental illness, his mother committed suicide.
The father-son duo frequently switched between a question-and-answer forum and a chat. The conservation often jumped from topic to topic.
"Are there any wonderful new pills for crazy people?" asked Kurt Vonnegut.
Mark Vonnegut, who is now a Milton, Mass.-based primary care physician and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979, answered that people were more medicated today but were not being cured.
"The health care system today stinks," said Mark Vonnegut.
He added that fewer side effects of new drugs lead to more frequent prescription.
"Drugs will get rid of the voices in people's heads, but you have to leave them at least a little bit of their zip," said Mark Vonnegut.
When Kurt Vonnegut asked his son for his thoughts on psychotherapy, Mark Vonnegut responded that it gave false hope to anyone who was not biochemically balanced.
The discussion relied on audience input, which ranged from questions about Mark Vonnegut's Harvard days to audience members' personal stories about mental illness.
Mark Vonnegut said, after his experiences with mental illness, he most values going into work everyday and saying "How may I help you?."
—Staff writer Maria S. Pedroza can be reached at mpedroza@fas.harvard.edu.
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CORRECTION: April 9, 2013
An earlier version of the caption of the photo accompanying this article as well as a statement in the story incorrectly stated that author Kurt Vonnegut won the Pulitzer Prize.


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Janus International, a supplier of rolling-doors and components for the self-storage, commercial and industrial markets, has added three employees to its self-storage staff.
Jason Figart joined the company's technical-sales department and will manage both U.S. and European projects. Figart spent the last four years as the international sales, estimating and accounts manager for U.S. Door & Building components. Prior to that, he was an account manager for a refractory company in the steel industry. Jason will operate out of Janus' Temple, Ga., and Peterlee, England, offices.
Richard Seaberry joined Janus as the western-region sales manager for self-storage. He has more than 20 years of experience in the coiling door industry. He most recently worked with U.S. Door as a self-storage sales manager. Seaberry will manage accounts in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah, and be based in the Anaheim, Calif., office.
Carl Wiman joined Janus as a senior draftsman. He initiated the drafting and design department at U.S. Door, and previously held positions at Roll-Lite Overhead Doors, Atlas Rolling Steel Doors and Clopay Building Products. Wiman will be operate out of Orlando, Fla.
(From left to right) Jason Figart, Richard Seaberry, Carl Wiman
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NAUGATUCK — Four years into the new millennium, about the only person interested in the few scattered buildings still standing on the vast former Uniroyal Inc. complex was Steven Spielberg.
And he was only interested in them because he was filming a movie about the possible destruction of the planet.
"War of the Worlds," Spielberg's 2005 film based on the H.G. Wells novel and starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins and Dakota Fanning, was not one of the famed director's most memorable efforts.
The film did, however, cause quite a stir in central and western Connecticut, mostly because Spielberg and his film crews spent several days shooting scenes in different parts of the region in the fall and early winter of 2004.
The final theatrical release contained a brief, five- or six-second scene depicting a beleaguered Cruise being chased through an industrial area by a fleet of alien warships. That scene was filmed in December 2004 at the former Uniroyal complex, between a pair of dilapidated factory buildings on Spencer and Elm streets.
At the time of Spielberg's visit the two buildings had been largely vacated for years and had fallen into disrepair, particularly when viewed from the outside. Together, they formed a fitting backdrop for a movie in which the earth is invaded and overrun by a technologically superior civilization.
Today, nine years and about $10 million later, the two buildings have been refurbished and converted into a shiny and sophisticated new research and development center by Chemtura Corp., the modern incarnation of Uniroyal and a number of other pillars of the American chemical industry.
The 50,000-square-foot building at 12 Spencer St. and the 30,000-square-foot facility at 400 Elm St. now make up Chemtura's Nudenberg-Wheeler Technical Center, a facility that employs about 65 research scientists and technicians who provide technical services and support to Chemtura customers around the world; technical support to the company's manufacturing plants; and some product R&D.
The facility is named after Walter Nudenberg and Edward Wheeler, two chemists who pioneered many of the processes still used today in rubber and polymer processing and manufacturing.
"Without them, this would be a very different industry and Chemtura would be a very different company," said Stephen Kohlhase, Chemtura's manager of facilities and real estate in North America.
Chemtura, the fourth-largest publicly traded specialty chemicals company in the nation and one of the largest producers of plastic additives in the world, completed a restructuring process and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after nearly 20 months in late 2010.
It has about 4,500 employees across the globe, including 450 in Connecticut. Most of its Connecticut employees work in the company's complex off Benson Road in Middlebury, its former corporate headquarters and now its regional center for North American operations.
The current incarnation of the company was formed in the summer of 2005, when Crompton Corp. merged with Great Lakes Chemical Corp. to form Chemtura. Nine years earlier, in 1996, Crompton — the successor to Crompton & Knowles Corp. — merged with Uniroyal Chemical Corp. Uniroyal was the successor to the U.S. Rubber Co., a Naugatuck-based company that was the nation's largest rubber chemicals producer in the 1920s and '30s, a period of time during which it supplied rubber tires to 75 percent of the U.S. automotive industry.
As recently as the mid-1960s, U.S. Rubber/Uniroyal had 62,000 employees manufacturing and marketing 33,000 products that were produced in 89 plants across the globe, many of which were in Naugatuck. The company produced everything from tires and upholstery for automobiles, to cushions, carpet yarns, footwear, golf balls, fishing boats, bathing caps and specialty chemicals.
At its peak, the company's Naugatuck manufacturing complex had dozens of separate buildings, the vast majority of which no longer exist, and about 10,000 employees. Two of the U.S. Rubber/Uniroyal buildings that survived are the two buildings that now form the Nudenberg-Wheeler center.
The two-story building at 400 Elm St. is the older of the two, having been built in the late 1930s by the Army as part of Uncle Sam's effort to develop a viable synthetic rubber, Kohlhase said. Synthetic rubber was seen as the solution for keeping tires on military vehicles, tanks and aircraft when Japanese forces threatened to cut off the flow of natural rubber from the tropics.
At the end of World War II, the Army sold the plant to U.S. Rubber, which used it to house the R&D team that supported the company's rubber chemicals business.
The neighboring two-story building at 12 Spencer St. was built in the late 1950s by the Naugatuck Chemical division of U.S. Rubber as a technical sales service center, where rubber and plastic chemicals and products were tested, according to Kohlhase.
The buildings remained in use over the next 50 years, but their importance within the company diminished as time passed. By the dawn of the new century, activity had been greatly reduced in both buildings, and both were beginning to show their age.
By 2007, the Spencer Street facility had been "vacated and mothballed," while the Elm Street location had seen its workforce reduced to four, Kohlhase said.
Things began to look brighter for the two aging Naugatuck facilities in 2009. By then, space had become a premium at Chemtura's crowded Middlebury complex and the company decided to ease the congestion by investing in the two Naugatuck buildings.
The company set aside about $10 million to completely gut and then refurbish and re-equip the two buildings, Kohlhase said. The project started in June 2010, and employees began moving into the newly renovated Spencer Street building in April 2011, he said.
Employees began reoccupying the Elm Street facility in May 2011.
Though Chemtura paid for the renovations, it will be aided by an $8 million reinvestment tax credit it received under the Connecticut Urban and Industrial Site Reinvestment Program, said Tom Ciuba, a company spokesman. The award is recoverable over a seven-year period, which begins at the end of this year, he said.


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Fiat 500 USA Forum > Fiat 500 ABARTH Forums > Fiat 500 ABARTH Issues and Concerns > Paint too soft - 2 chips in the nose in 2 weeks!.
View Full Version : Paint too soft - 2 chips in the nose in 2 weeks!.
Is it the shape of the front end of the car? or is the paint just weak?
2nd chip on the nose, left of the headlight.
I have been living on the same street for over 5 years, with 5 different vehicles.
a Volvo 850 turbo wagon.
seen paint chip like this.. Its almost as if the paint is not fully cured.
I'm averaging 1 chip every 1.5 weeks.
At this rate I'll be paying to have the hood and nose painted every 6 months, Clear bra is extremely expensive, but its too late not anyway.
I don't know what to think because im pretty pissed, but the paint quality-durability IS definitely suspect with these cars.
Sorry to hear about this. The first chip is always painful.
The height of the front end and its angle to vertical has a lot to do with stone and rock survival.
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FL Greenway driving and the sand we have here will leave your bumper with thousands of sand grain size chips.
Driving on surface roads is not a problem, but beltway speeds and sand are a bad combination.
Oh and windshield rock chips are a common occurrence on my commute.
I just replaced the fog lights housings on my VW as they were so pitted they projected about a 1/4 of the light that the replacements are doing.
There is no dirt in FL it is all sand and of course road work never ends so lots of sand falling from dump trucks.


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By Joni Sweet | Verywell Mind October 7, 2021
Leela Magavi, M.D., Psychiatrist and Regional Medical Director at Community Psychiatry + MindPath Care Centers discusses the important role nature plays in children's mental health.
A review of nearly 300 studies has found a strong connection between exposure to green spaces and mental health benefits in children.
The research showed that access to green spaces improved children's physical activity, which may also benefit their emotional well-being.
The benefits of nature were more pronounced in children from historically marginalized communities, which tend to have limited access to green spaces.
Community parks do more than beautify neighborhoods—they also play an important role in kids' mental health, new research confirms.
A massive report recently published in the journal Pediatrics reviewed nearly 300 studies and found a strong connection between the presence of green spaces near homes and schools and positive mental health outcomes in children. It also uncovered a connection between exposure to nature and improved physical activity in kids, which may, in turn, offer added mental health benefits.1
Let's take a closer look at the latest research on nature and emotional well-being in children.
For this report, a team of researchers from Washington State University and the University of Washington evaluated data from existing research to understand the effect of nature on children's health in seven key areas: physical activity; cognitive, behavioral, and mental health; body mass index (BMI); cardiovascular and metabolic measures; asthma and allergies; academic and learning; and other.
They started with nearly 11,000 studies, and after eliminating ones that didn't meet key criteria (such as having a low risk of bias), they included research from 296 studies in their final report.1
"This appears to be a comprehensive review, which carefully examines existing literature. Such reviews integrate various pieces of information, and consequently, allow us to understand specific associations," explains Leela R. Magavi, MD, psychiatrist and regional medical director for Community Psychiatry and MindPath Care Centers. "It is important to note that many studies were excluded based on quality and risk of bias, which suggests that the results are more accurate."
The researchers found that the most common health outcomes children experienced from green spaces were in the areas of physical activity; cognitive, behavioral, or mental health; and BMI.
The strongest benefits on mental health were seen in studies where children had exposure to green spaces where they live or go to school. The authors note that the results of most studies on this topic showed a positive connection between nature and children's attention and mood.
The report also found that exposure to green spaces was connected with improvements to children's physical activity levels—a result that may offer its own benefits on emotional well-being, considering the long-standing evidence of exercise on mental health.1
This study, when taken alone, doesn't provide evidence for a direct link between children's mental health and nature, some experts say. It does, however, add to the growing body of work showing the benefits of the outdoors on kids.
"Since many of the studies were cross-sectional, it is not possible to contend any direct association or causality. In order words, we cannot state for certain that nature does improve children's physical or mental health, but we can assert that it may positively impact children's comprehensive well-being," says Dr. Magavi.
Inequitable Access to Green Spaces
Interestingly, the author says that kids from historically marginalized communities reaped even more pronounced benefits when they had access to nature.1
"The surface fact is that children of marginalized communities spend less time in clean outdoor environments,"2 says Matt Shenker, MEd, LPR-C, resident in counseling at Thriveworks in Hanover, Virginia. "So, since children from marginalized communities spend less time in clean outdoor environments, of course, they experience the greatest benefit when they do get that time."
Rachna Buxani-Mirpuri, LMHC, owner of Buxani Counseling Care and author of "A Pint of Patience with a Dollop of Love," adds: "Several studies have found that kids from marginalized communities who have access to nature tend to engage in less crime and are more socially trusting. It also helps promote a sense of safety, thus influencing positively the mental health of children and youth."
And beyond scientific research, mental health professionals have countless anecdotes of the ways in which green spaces have proven therapeutic for some of their most vulnerable young patients.
"My patients from historically marginalized communities have conveyed that nature and outdoor activities allow them to experience solitude, and in this solitude, they are able to fully experience catharsis. My pediatric patients who have endured and continue to endure stressful situations have shared that they have sobbed and even screamed while hiking or spending time outdoors," says Dr. Magavi.
She adds: "Many individuals tend to internalize their emotions due to multigenerational customs and the deleterious effects of perpetuated discrimination and trauma, so nature and outdoor locations provide them with a safe place to release their emotions."
But despite the benefits, under-resourced communities often have inequitable access to green spaces, which could be playing a role in exacerbating mental health disparities.
"In the U.S. today, the color of one's skin or the size of one's bank account is a solid predictor of whether one has safe access to nature and all of its benefits," says Shenker. "As a result, low-income communities and communities of color have diminished outdoor recreation opportunities and access to nature; lesser quality drinking water; worsened air pollution; greater vulnerability to heat, drought, and floods; greater exposure to disease; and less resilience to the impacts of climate change."
The study authors say they hope the findings of their report will influence policies that lead to improved access to nature for children from all communities and a reduction in childhood health disparities.1
"As a society we need to advocate for an equality in access to green spaces for all children," adds Buxani-Mirpuri.
Meaningful Nature Exposure
It's important to note that not all exposure to the outdoors is equal. "A parking lot is not a park, an urban playground without natural elements is not a garden," the study says.1
To provide children the full spectrum of benefits from the outdoors, parents and caregivers should help them have meaningful interactions with truly green spaces, like a grassy park, a nature trail, or even a community garden, if those environments are accessible to you.
In terms of exactly what those meaningful interactions look like, Dr. Magavi suggests advising children to "focus on the sights, sounds, smells and bodily sensations as they hike or spend time outdoors and to write or speak about these experiences." They could also try journaling about their experience or drawing the things they see.
The key is to find an appealing and mindful way for a child to engage in nature to increase the potential for profound benefits.
"Some children have embraced new and exciting outdoor hobbies, and have learned more about themselves, their strengths, and weaknesses. This self-awareness and introspection can improve happiness and interpersonal relationships," says Dr. Magavi.
What This Means For You
It can be difficult to get kids to take a break from their screens, but the benefits of getting them to spend time outdoors can be well worth the effort. New research, which looked at nearly 300 studies, found that access to green spaces was strongly connected to improved mental health outcomes in children.
Not all exposure to the outdoors is equal, though. To help children reap the benefits of nature, look for spaces with plants and vegetation, and encourage them to try mindful activities, like journaling, experts say. It's also important to call for policy changes that increase access to nature in all communities—including historically marginalized neighborhoods, which often lack parks.
The full article and references in Verywell Mind can be found here.
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Farmers market in Cabo San Lucas (Facebook page) is an organic market. Not USDA certified organic but rather honest hard working small farmers of Mexico certified. I chose a picture of this elderly gentleman helping his son (?) as a main photo for many reasons. He took a special place in my heart – in ironed pants, super clean shoes and a dress shirt, he is selling produce he grew with his old tired hands, while patting my boys on their heads and walking with difficulty, taking breaks in the shade. Everything about this man says "kindness" and "hard work", and I'm sure he doesn't own much. This is why I shop at farmers markets anywhere I can, to support people's hard work instead of Walmart and Costco's VP executive salaries. Poverty is heart wrenching, but my heart aches when particularly elderly suffer as their ability to work is limited. Anyways.
Cabo farmers market is located in the community of Pedregal, just outside of downtown Cabo, in the courtyard of Penny Lane Cafe. Beware that map directions might not work for you. Somehow, the map took us to a wrong place and we did punch in the right address. We found the market by simply driving around Pedregal, yes with imaginary stop sings and one way streets with yellow lane divider in the middle.
You know what, once you get a hang of driving in Mexico it is actually easier than in North America. It is completely different but drivers are not nearly as aggressive in Cabo as they are in Vancouver. And rules are so simple, they are bizarre but they work – I'm quite enjoying just slowing down at stop signs and not turning on left and right turn signals LOL, it is so lazy and easy. Anyways.
The market isn't big, there are 3 (!) produce vendors in total. One of them (with grandpa) carries organic chicken and you can even pre-order beef. 2 vendors carry the best farm fresh eggs ever.
I found all "regular" North American produce I usually buy at home. That corn was the sweetest corn ever, like the one I ate as a kid in Ukraine. There were shelves upon shelves with herbs, all kinds of lettuce (arugula was top notch!), carrots, beets, cabbage, celery and 3 types of kale. Everything is here!
Holy, tomatoes!!! Holy heirloom tomatoes! THE BEST! Which makes sense because so much sun here in Mexico, and yet Walmart in Cabo carries the most disgusting plasticky tomatoes similar to the ones sold in Vancouver in winter. Costco was Costco, tomatoes were OK. But Mexican farmers market tomatoes were amazing! Unlike cucumbers, which I gave up on finding tasty in warm climates – they are all like cotton and you gotta peel the thick skin. But nothing beats a sandwich with deli meat, cheese and a cucumber, try it!
Cauliflower galore – white, green, yellow and purple. I got a purple one and am yet to cook it. Alex was busy grabbing radishes.
Zucchini of all shapes, sizes and colours.
I was so pumped to find butternut squash! I will be making simple squash curry soup for lunch, similar to this one.
Leeks, beets, eggplant, poblanos, onions, lime, 20 kinds of peppers, bell peppers, turnip and a few unknown veggie species like the one cut up pink one and sweet potato looking one.
Fruit selection changes every week because it is farmers market – produce in season, the way it should be.
There was papaya, melon and cantaloupe this week. Last week we bought guava but unfortunately it is done for the season. It was out of this world, my kids loved it! I ate so much papaya by now, I think I'm good with vitamin C for the rest of 2017.
Farmers market is not the place to buy your bananas and apples, at least in March.
Farmers market in Cabo San Lucas has a bakery stand. As we are not huge baked goods eaters for health reasons, I wasn't too much interested. I like to make my own wholesome muffins and breads. I also found it to be pricey, even for Canadians. A cookie was US$1.5 which I think is a lot for a Mexican farmers market cookie. We bought a loaf of sourdough bread which was great but I think it cost $6, not cheap at all. Bakery stand is run by North Americans, I believe and so is Penny Lane Cafe. The prices and the menu were very Americanized and cafe was bussing with English. A breakfast would cost us US$40 for 4 of us which I consider expensive because I can cook myself and save money for travels. Yep. I think the main target market of this cafe are snowbirds and there is plenty of them. We barely see any young families and kids.
Overall, you should expect a 50/50 mix of North Americans and Spanish speaking people at the market. This is the place I saw as most English speaking people as in downtown Cabo which I think is great for them to support local farmers. The vendors speak good English too.
Loaded on groceries, walking cobblestone roads (I love that) to our van we went.
US$60 worth of produce and eggs among boogie boards, pool noodles and snorkelling gear. How am I going to live my life in April?! 8 full days of this amazingness left, while I realize for majority of people it marks packing suitcases for vacation. I refuse to live by the majority rules. Off to the ocean view balcony I ago, with a glass of chilled white wine to solve a puzzle, just a 1,000 piece puzzle from Value Village, not the life puzzle. I will think about the latter after arriving to rainy Vancouver and getting a good sleep.
Until next time! Maybe next time I will have our condo clean enough to show you. Ugh, joys of laziness on vacation.


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After the analysis of several people (including myself) about the inclusion of GPL'ed WordPress code, I think the debate over Thesis has mostly subsided with Chris on the losing end. However, the reason the debate was so huge has a lot more to do with what people thought Thesis was doing and why they felt it should (or should not) be subject to the GPL. Although it turns out to be a poor test case, the fact remains that there are several heavily grey areas in the GPL, especially when dealing with dynamic, object-oriented code. Linux module developers have been dealing with these issues for a long time and there still remains a lot of questions. As a disclaimer once again:
This post now has nothing to do with Thesis. I'll talk totally in abstract and simple examples to try and explore the GPL
I am a developer, not a lawyer, and I intend to look at these issues from a technical perspective.
The GPL is a license. It deals with copyright law. It defines who is allowed to copy & distribute the software (everyone).
The GPL doesn't prevent you from charging for the software, but anyone you sell it to inherits the copyright and can then copy & distribute it as they see fit.
The GPL has been tested in court a few times. The biggest issue is that these cases have dealt really with embedded systems where they should have been providing the source, but weren't. See Harald Welte vs. Sitecom, gpl-violations.org vs. D-Link, and BusyBox vs. Monsoon Multimedia.
The GPL stood up well in these tests. However, they did little to answer the fundamental question of what constitutes a derivative work of source code when dealing with dynamic & scripted code.
What is a derivative work?
Basically, anytime you copy and modify something that is copyrighted, you are producing a derivative work. Let's start with what US copyright law defines as a derivative work: 17 U.S.C. § 101 says "
"derivative work" is a work based upon one or more pre-existing works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted."
It seems clear and obvious that source code can produce a derivative work, the key being is it "recast, transformed, or adapted"? Please note that these are legal terms, not computer coding terms (which don't mean the same thing). US Copyright Office Circular 14: Derivative Works goes on to say:
A typical example of a derivative work received for registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a "new work" or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. Titles, short phrases, and format, for example, are not copyrightable.
So what's clear here is that 1) You must have incorporated the original material in some way and 2) The original material must be significant (short lines of code, common tidbits, etc don't count). This is where the Abstraction/Filtration/Comparison test comes in.
Now let's look at what the GPL says is a derivative work. My examples will be with regards to writing plug-ins, themes, and extensions. This is where the Thesis debate was originally derived and where there still exists a lot of great area. From the GPL FAQ's:
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins. This means the plug-ins must be released under the GPL or a GPL-compatible free software license, and that the terms of the GPL must be followed when those plug-ins are distributed.
If the program dynamically links plug-ins, but the communication between them is limited to invoking the 'main' function of the plug-in with some options and waiting for it to return, that is a borderline case.
Even the GPL writers acknowledge how grey this area is. As we'll see, I think their interpretation already over-reaches the legal limits of copyrights. It's also important to read the FSLC's opinion with regard to WordPress Themes:
The PHP elements, taken together, are clearly derivative of WordPress code. The template is loaded via the include() function. Its contents are combined with the WordPress code in memory to be processed by PHP along with (and completely indistinguishable from) the rest of WordPress. The PHP code consists largely of calls to WordPress functions and sparse, minimal logic to control which WordPress functions are accessed and how many times they will be called. They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call. As works of authorship, they are designed only to be combined with WordPress into a larger work.
Some Simple Test Cases
So let's look at some simple code examples and see where things break down. I'll provide three pieces of code:
Able has written:
[sourcecode language="ruby"]
#Able has released this code under the GPL
class Foo
def perform_work
puts "Able's Foo has performed work"
Baker has written:
#Baker has licensed this privately and very strictly
puts "Baker's Foo has performed work"
Charlie has written a
class BigFoo < Foo
def do_it_all
perform_initial_work_by_charlie
perform_work #Who's work?
perform_cleanup_work_by_charlie
First a sticking point: WordPress calls include() to include a theme. My example has the supposedly derivative work calling the dependency. I don't believe the flipflop is relevant because the GPL FAQs use the same answer for both scenarios. I've done it this way for simplicity and ease-of-understanding.
So is Charlie's work derivative of Able's? It's dependent on either Able's or Baker's to be sure. but derivative?
The key argument for themes is "They are derivative of WordPress because every part of them is determined by the content of the WordPress functions they call". This is almost entirely the definition of inspiration. What seems to matter is "Did Charlie refer to Able's code or Baker's code when developing his own code?". However, I believe this argument breaks down as well.
When you're talking about a creative work, inspiration is a key factor. Fan fiction runs up against this wall. Fan fiction is derivative because someone else's intellectual property (their characters, settings, plot lines, etc) have been used to create your work. Fan fic has been consistently found to be derivative and subject to copyright claims. But there is a very big difference between Charlie's work and a piece of fan fiction. When you sell a fan-fic book, the original author's characters are actually incorporated into what you're selling. However, Charlie's work does not significantly incorporate any bits of Able's code, at least at the time of distribution. The key is that the in-memory combination occurs with the end user, who is not distributing ANY code and therefore is not required by the GPL to do anything. What you incorporate into your distribution is really the issue, not inspiration.
This becomes a major distinction. Charlie is not selling or distributing Able's source, only his own. The incorporation must happen at the time of distribution. With non-compiled source code, the incorporation happens with the end user when they run the software. So here is a more apt analogy: Monopoly the board game. Let's say I create my own board for a board game, with its own set of rules and no shared ideas (beyond those common to all board games, such as having a big card board piece on which you play). Now I wish to sell this board and only the board. In order to use my board game, I instruct you the end user to use the pieces from a Monopoly game because they work very well with my game. My game was even designed with using these exact pieces in mind (I was inspired by Monopoly pieces, although other pieces COULD work…that's totally up to the people playing). However, you must obtain the Monopoly game on your own. My board game will not work without Monopoly pieces, so it is dependent but not derivative. The two pieces are combined at someone's kitchen table to produce the final product. So it is clear that having distributed only my own original work, regardless of where my inspiration came from, no copyright is inherited from the original product.
So Charlie's code contains no code from Able. Charlie wrote it all himself. Copyright law seems to stop right there. Having failed a test for substantial similarity and a lack of distribution of anything under the GPL, the GPL can exert no copyright over Charlie's code. In fact, this is a copyright issue that has been settled many times. In Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., or the GameGenie case, the court decided that interoperability does not create a derivative work. Much like our coding examples and WordPress themes, the GameGenie wouldn't work without a Nintendo. It was once again clearly dependent, but not derivative. This argument becomes even clearer when we refer only to binaries.
I think in the end it's clear that the GPL over-reaches in its determination of what constitutes a derivative work. This is where the "infectious" moniker comes from. It tries to 'claim' copyright over completely original works that it has no authority over. My examples deal with the very precise cases of dynamic scripting (non-compiled) code, distributed via source only, where no shared code exists between the GPL'ed and non-GPL'ed product, so please be cautious about reading into the too much with regards to things like Linux Kernel Modules or the like. Finally, I'm really enjoying the overall debate (I do love the GPL), and the great attitude everyone I've talked to (on both sides) has taken. Let's continue that, for the good of all OSS.
Posted on July 16, 2010 Author DrewCategories Internet-At-LargeTags gpl, thesis, thesiswp, wordpress
18 thoughts on "Beyond Thesis: Does the GPL go too far and what makes a derivative work?"
demetris says:
I was saddened by the tone and quality of the recent fighting, but, on the other hand, I am glad that posts like yours and Ryan Boren's arose from it.
Anyway… here is a couple of interesting articles about the GPL and "derivative works", from my bookmarks:
http://www.law.washington.edu/lta/swp/law/derivative.html
http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj19.htm
drewblas says:
Thanks Demetris,
The Washington Law article was extremely enlightening and I felt it says very much the same thing with regards to plugins: "the answer in this example depends on questions of copyrightability, incorporation, substantial similarity, market demand, and public policy". Market demand is a topic I didn't delve into, but I would say that with few exceptions, a plugin or theme does not in any way supplant demand for the original product and is, once again, therefore not a derivative work.
I'm curious. In the example code you gave, isn't it possible that ONE of Able or Baker infringes on the other? Isn't it possible that, despite the derivation status of Charlie's code, Baker might be derivative of Able or vice versa?
The problem is that this analogue is difficult to apply to WordPress. There aren't many things that have the same functions, same classes, into which themes & plugins plug.
The abstraction layer idea is nice though.
Hi Frederick,
My assumption was that Able and Baker developed their code totally independently, and even that their code does totally different things. However, you're very much correct that there is a line where creative input says that it is impossible for two works to be substantially similar without one having been inspired by the other (Which is why we don't get two Paul Simons both writing "The Sounds of Silence" on opposite sides of the world. If two people wrote that identical song, then one really MUST have been derived from the other).
I really like the way you've analyzed the GPL in general in this post, and cleared up the derivative vs. dependent question.
I have a question. Is the following analogous to what you're saying about the dependency/derivative thing?
Say I write a C program using the MySQL client library (and for the moment let's forget Sun's OSS exception that essentially nullifies the infectious GPL clause) and I don't bundle the MySQL client library, permitting it to be, instead, dynamically linked on the user's end. The question of dependency and derivation are murky so far.
Then say that a third party, let's call them Orical, makes a client library COMPATIBLE with MySQL in all function calls, but which interacts with Orical's database instead of MySQL, and which is licensed under a restrictive commercial license.
Would this summarize the argument that my program is not derivative of MySQL nor Orical? The issue, I think, is that my program wouldn't be dependent on MySQL, since an alternative to MySQL exists. Sure, my program might not be derivative, but it's not dependent either.
This invokes other questions, like Sun's JDK vs OpenJDK.
Eric Marden says:
That's not accurate. The copyright holders still retain the copyrights. Users are given certain (inalienable) rights *under the GPL" but the creators still retain copyrights.
@Eric,
It's possibly not worded well, my intent was to say that the CODE inherits the copyright. As in it retains the copyright of the original creator
I might be the only one, but I found it quite funny that you used Ruby (and its delicious syntactic sugar) for you example code. +1 internets for you, sir.
Great Post. Very Reasoned. GPL isn't perfect, but is what WP has chosen and what we're stuck with. Now if we could all agree on the spirit AND the letter of the license, we could possibly move on.
Caleb Cushing ( xenoterracide ) says:
I was researching this months ago and decided that I don't like the GPL anymore… perhaps the LGPL is more suited. perhaps what I'd really like is an ALGPL So if people use my software and change it they have to give me the changes (even if it's on there box) but plugins and apps linked to it don't have to be shared, by the source.
I don't much care about wordpress though, but this is making me think about using GPL for anything that might have plugins.
saulgoode says:
So what's clear here is that 1) You must have incorporated the original material in some way and 2) The original material must be significant (short lines of code, common tidbits, etc don't count).
In your citation of the Copyright Act's definition of "derivative work" you've omitted the second sentence, wherein works that do not directly incorporate material from the original are still characterized as derivative works.
Furthermore, the issue is not whether "material" is incorporated, but whether protected "creative expression" from the original is incorporated. This is why trivia books about a TV series,
answer keys to a textbook, and unauthorized stories based on another author's characters/universes/creations have all been found to be infringing derivative works. (Your citation of the Galoob v. Nintendo case is a poor example because the court's ruling was that Galoob's device did not constitute a copyrightable work and thus could not be found to be infringing of copyrights.)
For software, the "creation" of the programmer is not merely the text of the source code, but the organizational combination of the various functional aspects of the program (in other words, the intellectual and creative decisions of the programmer as expressed in the code). A plug-in or module which is written to avail itself of the organizational structure of the program is effectively incorporating the copyrightable aspects of the original software in a derivative work — and preparation of such derivative works is one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder as set forth in Title 17 §106(2).
I apologize for using WordPress as an example, but most are familiar with it, and the Able/Baker example is too basic.
Many WordPress themes rely heavily on the WordPress api, and derive much of there functionality from it. Themes are not output, they become part of the program when installed. As a stand alone program they are useless.
Here is a simple argument. If somebody wants to claim that an at least moderately complex theme is not a derivative work because it is not competing with the original copyright holder, then what happens if the theme designer decides to start shipping WordPress with their theme because it is required for it to work? I think most would agree this would now make the theme a derivative work that is competing in the market place.
So with the above in mind, I just don't believe that by simply telling people to go download WordPress "over there" to make my program work is good enough to get away with hijacking the freedoms that the theme developer was granted and required by the GPL to pass on.
I think there are plenty of projects out there that this same argument can be applied to.
I am hoping that the GPL v3 solves some of these issues, but I need to take another hard look at it with all of the new possible loopholes in mind.
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Nick the Geek says:
I set out to find a good article arguing for the idea that Themes are not derivative works.
I think this might be the best article on the subject, though I don't necessarily feel that one could argue that the GPL would not apply to themes and plugins because they not only require WP to function, they typically require more than a little bit of the core code to be embedded into the theme in order for the theme to function.
Each time a WP function is used in the theme code it is actually invoking large chunks of WP code. A function exists to allow a single line to run many lines, and potentially other functions as well building in a large web of integration within the original code.
Now, there are many aspects of a theme that could be considered original work. CSS, JS, and images might be dependent on the Core php, but they do not use any of the php. This seems much more closely related to the board game illustration you posited.
Anyways, thank you for this well written article supporting proprietary rights.
Caleb Jenkins says:
Drew –
This was a really well written piece and make many of the same arguments that I've been considering for a while now. I think that your conclusions are spot on.
In general, I don't have an issue with GPL (although I'm a much bigger fan of MIT or BSD) I do take issue with the over-reaching that GPL often leads to.
This is the sort of common sense understanding of GPL that needs to be expanded.
The big issue to me is the slippery slope of the overreaching GPL claims, such as claiming that wordpress themes or plugins are derivative works of wordpress.
The claim that enhancing what people can do with their installed copy of wordpress constitutes a derivative work is almost as absurd as claiming that worpress is a derivative work of php, apache, mysql, or even linux.
Furthermore (since this is really an argument on the copyright aspect of derivative works not GPL), what would happen if companies like Microsoft started claiming that anything that calls their API's, shares memory space, or somehow enhances Windows is now a derivative of their product?
Violating the GPL only means that you don't have the rights specially granted by the license. But what happens when privately licensed copyrights start overreaching the way GPL has?
One of the biggest arguments that wordpress people use is the analysis from the Software Freedom Law Center (http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/) but that is hardly objective because the SFL wrote the GPL. Furthermore, an item in the GPL FAQ certainly is not a binding part of the license itself.
It is my opinion that some people, such as Matt Mullenweg, use the GPL more as a power grab than anything else. In their opinion, if something touches WordPress in any way, it falls under the scope of the GPL. And if you don't use the GPL in your theme or plugin, they completely shut you out of the community.
People would be outraged if Microsoft sued Mozilla, claiming that Firefox was a derivative of Windows. Why then are so many people allowing WordPress to claim that anything that runs on WordPress falls under GPL?
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djdarkman says:
My thoughts were the exact same when I took a look at how does a WP theme look like, my first thoughts were:
how does my WP theme know that the_title() is implemented by WP or possibly a WP clone?
but yes this is generally an interesting debate.
bulkzooi says:
I think it's strange that this GPL-issue is so much discussed. There is a much bigger GPL-issue in the media world (HTPC, NMT, XBMC, Boxee) which doesn't get any attention at all.
What's happening?:
Boxee.tv is distributing a fork of GPL v2 XBMC Media Center software. They ship this software with a closed source unique executable without license. At the moment, they only offer a downloadable version of their Media Center but very soon they will release Boxee Box (shipped with this software).
XBMC.org (a community driven Foundation) and Boxee are friends (Boxee donated a substantial amount of money) but there is a third party, Voddler.com, involved who did exactly the same thing. XBMC.org went hard on Voddlers' copyright infringement but they don't mind Boxee; to me this is a very strange and disputable attitude. Especially since xbmc.org has many downstream suppliers, which should be protected.
When your talking about commercializing GPL: Both Boxee and Voddler are financed by Venture Capital. In total around 35 million US-dollar…..
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Tom Weigel (October 14, 1948 – October 2017) was an American poet, playwright, visual artist, editor, and publisher. He was a principal member of the third generation of the New York School.

Life and work
Tom Weigel was born in Astoria, Queens, NY to Thomas Peter Weigel and Theresa Patricia Sheehan (Weigel) both of New York City. His grandfather, John J. Sheehan, was born in County Cork, Ireland. The Weigel family, of German descent, had a hardware store in New York City during the 1920s located on 2nd Avenue and 64th Street. Tom graduated from Northport High School, on Long Island in 1966. He began writing poetry and fiction in his early teens as well as writing for the school newspaper and The Northport Journal.

In 1968/69 Weigel lived on West 4th Street in New York City. His upstairs neighbor, was the filmmaker and poet, Piero Heliczer who introduced Weigel to the Poetry Project where he gave his first reading.

Weigel attended Parsons School of Design while working  for a variety of Architectural firms in New York City including: I.M. Pei, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Edward Larrabee Barnes. In 1970 he married designer Frances Beeler, and they moved to Buffalo, New York and later to Louisville, Kentucky where Weigel worked at the McCauley Theater. In 1977 he divorced and returned to New York City living in an apartment on East 6th Street in the East Village.

Weigel's poetry was widely published in magazines during the years 1966-2018. His work can be seen in over 150 Poetry publications including The Paris Review. He was one of the early publishers of small 8 ½ x 11" stapled mimeograph magazines. Mimeo Revolution.

He studied writing at the Poetry Project, taking classes with Poet, Alice Notley and became friends with Ted Berrigan and Charles Henri Ford. During this time that he began publishing Tangerine Magazine and The Full Deck Anthology which included works by a wide array of East Village poets active in the 70s and 80s. His press, Andrea Doria Books published the poets Helena Hughes, Angela Dryden and Michael Scholnick, among others.

Weigel has read his work at hundreds of venues including The Museum of Modern Art Poetry Series hosted by Lita Hornick in May 1986 as well as The Ear Inn with Peter Schjeldahl. He read on Radio Belgrade (in the former Yugoslavia) with Nina Živančević.

Tom was introduced to Jackie Curtis by Andy Warhol at an art opening. Jackie and Tom soon became good friends and Tom's apartment often became the outpost for reading plays and poet gatherings. A frequent guest was Margo Howard Howard. Together, Margo and Tom established The Mary Stuart Society. Weigel wrote an account of this time period in his book titled: Portrait of a Playwright: The Jackie Curtis Story.

After the deaths of many of the New York poets, artists and friends, Weigel moved out to New London, Connecticut and worked for the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. During this time he ran a poetry series at the local coffee house, Muddy Waters, and later at the Bean and Leaf Cafe while publishing a poetry magazine, BURP. His contributions to the establishment of a New London poetry scene was recognized by the town Council. On August 18th, 2014, Mayor Finizio and President Hyslop presented a joint proclamation to Weigel for his dedication and support of local poets.

The Australian Visual Poet, Artist and Filmmaker, Pete Spence, publishes an ongoing magazine dedicated to Tom titled OZ BURP.

Published works
 Homefront (1970)
 Panic Hardware (1979)
 Audrey Hepburn's Symphonic Salad and the Coming of Autumn (1979)
 Sonnets (1980)
 Little Heart (1981)
 Twenty-Four Haiku After the Japanese (1982)
 Ginger Root Trail (1985)
 East of the Sun (2000)
 A Haiku Valley (2003)
 Portrait of a Playwright:  The Jackie Curtis Story (2005)
 Cauliflower or Bust (2005)
 Haiku You Can Squeeze (2007)
 Extended Glitch (2008)
 Around the Long View (2009)
 A Faint Humming (2009)
 Watch That Side (2012)
 Time Further Out (2015)
 Mambo (2016)

Health and later years
In 2014, Weigel's health deteriorated as he battled diabetes and cancer. He moved to an apartment in Chester, NY to be close to his sister, Monica Claire Antonie, who was caring for him. His remains were buried in the Chester, NY Cemetery. One of his Haiku's are carved into the headstone, it reads:

in the frosted stillness

wondering where the wind goes

when it's not blowing

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2017 deaths
People from Astoria, Queens
American poets
American dramatists and playwrights
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Râu de Mori, alte Schreibweise Rîu de Mori [] (veraltet Suseni; , ), ist eine Gemeinde im Kreis Hunedoara in der Region Siebenbürgen in Rumänien.

Râu de Mori ist auch unter der deutschen Bezeichnung Mühldorf und der ungarischen Malomvize bekannt.

Geographische Lage

Die Gemeinde Râu de Mori liegt im Südwesten Siebenbürgens im Hatzeger Land (Țara Hațegului), in den nördlichen Ausläufern  des Retezat-Gebirges. Am Bach Râușor – ein rechter Zufluss des Râul Mare – und der Kreisstraße (drum județean) DJ 686 gelegen, befindet sich der Ort ca. 18 Kilometer südwestlich der Kleinstadt Hațeg (Hatzeg); die Kreishauptstadt Deva (Diemrich) liegt etwa 68 Kilometer (42 km Luftlinie) nördlich von Râu de Mori entfernt.

Geschichte
Der Ort Râu de Mori, ein ehemaliges Hörigendorf, wurde erstmals 1359 urkundlich erwähnt. Auf Grund archäologischer Funde auf einem von den Einheimischen Livada lui Binder genannten Areal ist nach Angaben von Nemeș (1988–1991), Andrițoiu (1992) und Kalmar-Maxim (1999) die Geschichte der Besiedlung der Region jedoch bis in die Bronzezeit zurückzudatieren. Des Weiteren sind nach Angaben von J. M. Ackner, I. Mallasz, I. Marțian u. a., Funde aus der Römerzeit gemacht worden. Im 15. Jahrhundert gehörte der Ort Râu de Mori zu den 30 Dörfern der kleinadligen Familie Cândea (später magyarisiert Kendeffy).

Die Bewohner leben heute vorwiegend von der Landwirtschaft und der Holzverarbeitung. Am Stausee Ostrov wird ein Wasserkraftwerk betrieben.

Bevölkerung
1850 lebten auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Gemeinde 3781 Menschen. 3619 davon waren Rumänen,  73 Roma, 70 Magyaren, elf Siebenbürger Sachsen und acht andere. Die höchste Einwohnerzahl (5304) – und gleichzeitig die der Rumänen (5109) – wurde 1977 erreicht. Die höchste Anzahl der Ungarn (141) und die der Deutschen (55) wurde 1910, die höchste Anzahl der Roma (117) 1956 ermittelt. Darüber hinaus bezeichnete sich 1890 und 2002 ein Einwohner, 1977 vier Einwohner als Ukrainer, 1880, 1910 und 1977 je zwei Einwohner als Serben, 1910 und 1966 ein Einwohner als Slowake.

2002 lebten in der Gemeinde Râu de Mori 3546 Menschen, davon waren 3428 Rumänen, 88 Roma, 25 Magyaren, zwei Italiener, ein Ukrainer, ein Lipowaner und ein anderer.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Die Ruinen des Anwesens der Familie Cândea, im 14. Jahrhundert errichtet, steht unter Denkmalschutz.
 Der Stausee Ostrov, ein Stausee des Flusses Râul Mare, nördlich des eingemeindeten Dorfes Ostrov (Groß-Rodendorf).
 Das Kloster Colț (, "Mănăstirea Colț"), mit einer steinernen Kirche und Wehrturm, im 15. Jahrhundert von der Familie Cândea gestiftet, befindet sich südlich des eingemeindeten Dorfes Suseni. In der Saalkirche mit einem kleinen Altar, sind Wandmalereien des 15. Jahrhunderts zu sehen; steht unter Denkmalschutz.
 Die Ruine der Fliehburg Cetatea Colț, etwa 2,5 Kilometer (Luftlinie) südöstlich von Râu de Mori entfernt (, ), wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts im Auftrag des Kleinadligen Cândea errichtet und im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert mit acht Meter hohen Wehrmauern und einem 12 Meter hohen Wehrturm erweitert, steht unter Denkmalschutz.
 Die Gemeinde ist auch Ausgangspunkt zu den Gipfeln des Retezat-Gebirges und zum Retezater Nationalpark (Parcul Național Retezat).

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