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Families, cyclists and walkers can all have a great day out at Windsor Great Park, over 1000 acres of parkland, woodland, formal avenues and gardens, which were once part of a huge Norman hunting forest dating from the 13th century.
Virginia Water, a man-made lake created in the 18th century, with its nearby ornamental water fall and 'Roman temple' on its south side. You needn't worry if you forget the picnic – there are refreshment vans dotted all around the park serving everything from ice cream to tea and bacon butties.
Valley Gardens, on the north side of Virginia Water - 250 acres of exotic shrubs, forest and meadows, which can be explored via a myriad of pathways. Or if you prefer something more formal, don't miss the Savill Garden, created in the 1930s by Sir Eric Savill, and reputedly one of the UK's finest ornamental gardens. There is a charge to get in – £8.50 an adult, but well worth it if you are that way inclined.
A recent addition to the Park is the Savill Building, an example of contemporary architecture and engineering, with its distinctive curved roof, where you can enjoy a snack or meal, including a roast on Sundays and afternoon tea during the month of August. There is also a gift shop in the Savill Building.
There are paths and tracks throughout the Park for walkers and runners, and with no vehicular traffic apart from the odd estate vehicle, it is very safe. Dog walkers are welcome and cycling is permitted on tarmacked tracks, while roller blading is permitted in only some areas.
For families with children, there is a children's play area on Obelisk Lawn, near the Savill Garden, which is suitable for both toddlers and younger children and, of course, there are acres of green space to play frisbee, throw a ball around or enjoy other more traditional pastimes.
Windsor Great Park is not easy to reach by public transport. Egham, Windsor and Virginia Water are the nearest British Rail stations, but it's at least a 30 minute bus ride from the closest station to reach the Park. If you're driving it is much easier as the Park is close to the M4, M3 and M25 and there are four car parks to choose from, depending on how you plan to spend your day. Car parking costs about £6 a day.


We venture into Ponsonby Road local Conch and find a backyard café worth shouting about.
Tipped off by a fellow foodie, we wandered into Conch Records recently, intent on finding out more about their latest project; a mysterious new day time restaurant serving up delicious South American fare.
Open for both breakfast and lunch, you only need to wander past their wood fired pizza oven and into the open air courtyard to see what all the fuss is about. Pared back, intimate and quieter than the hustle to be found on Ponsonby Road, we quickly nabbed one of their wooden cabanas, lapping up the afternoon sun streaming through.
While the menu changes each week in order to appeal to the creative whims of the chef and the availability of in-season produce, some dishes are kept on as crowd pleasers, the emphasis on healthy, fresh food with a South American bent.
Ravenous, we took chef Bevan Kaan's advice and opted for the organic lamb shoulder with asparagus and market greens. Slow cooked for three hours, it's melt-off-the-bone tender and we certainly hope this is one dish that remains on the menu. Their wood fired quinoa and sweet corn cakes with spicy pickles and a hearty serving of fresh guacamole was another stand out, and with the taste of wood fire lingering long after our meals were finished, we left feeling undeniably satisfied. If you're hungry and looking for a chilled out space, this secret boteco will certainly hit the spot.
Conch is open from Wednesday through to Sunday, with breakfast available from 8am – 12pm and lunch from 12pm to 3pm.


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National Camping Month on June, 2021: Air National Guard what is it?
June, 2021 is National Camping Month 2021. Get Outdoors, It's National Camping Month. Says The North Face ... National Camping Month.
The Air national Guard (along with the Army National Guard and the Reserves in any branch) is a PART TIME job. You will complete basic training and job training for your branch then you are back at home to conduct training (typically) one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer. Your pay is based on your rank and years of service. Most new people start out at the rank of E-1. As an E-1 you will typically make $188.00 for a Sat/Sun training period...not $800.
the Guard is the strategic reserve for the Air Force and Army and as such you can and will be deployed throughout the world. the Air Guard typically only deploys for 90-180 days at a time as compared to 12-15 months for the Army and Army Guard.
There is a reason you get all of those great benefits. The military is not a welfare, social works, jobs training program.
What is the best place to camp in Adirondacks NY?
Do you know that the Adirondacks is the largest National Park in the US, bigger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined? There are hundreds of camping areas, dozens of lakes and waterways and thousands of miles of trails. There is no "best" place to camp, almost every area is great in some way. If you want to be as close to New York City as possible, and it sounds like you want outfitter provided experiences like rafting and car-camping tent sites, I suggest you look on line at commercial campgrounds around the Lake George and Glens Falls areas, less than an hour north of Albany. These sites will have photos and descriptions of the resources and scenery in those areas.
Because August is a peak month for camping in the 'Dacks, it would be best if you made sure you had a reservation at any campsite before heading up there -- don't count on being able to just drop in wherever you want this time of year.
Camping near Durango, Colorado?
Contact the San Juan National Forest directly for information on dispersed camping rules and regulations.
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Q: Angular form inside directive with isolated scope I have a form like this
<ng-form name="investorQuestionaireForm" ng-show="user && user.investorType">
    <input
        type="radio"
        required
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        ng-model="investorQuestionaire.recesso"
        ng-change="investorQuestionaireValidation('recesso', investorQuestionaireForm)"/>
    <input
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        ng-model="investorQuestionaire.recesso"
        ng-change="investorQuestionaireValidation('recesso', investorQuestionaireForm)"/>
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This form is inside a directive:
angular.module('crowdcoreApp').directive('investorForm',function(){
    templateUrl: 'views/template/equity_investor_form.html',
    restrict: 'E',
    scope: {
        project: '=project'
    },
});

The problem I'm facing is that when I click on the radio button, the value of investorQuestionaire.recesso is not updated, the ng-changefunction is not triggered and most of all the radio button, still result as pristine (both in the html class and in the directive scope). I think that there are some problems with the data binding...
Any suggestion on the possible fault of this behavior?

A: Your radio buttons do not seem to have values.
Add some values to your radio buttons and try it again. For example
<ng-form name="investorQuestionaireForm" ng-show="user && user.investorType">
<input
    type="radio"
    required
    value="option1"
    name="recesso"
    ng-model="investorQuestionaire.recesso"
    ng-change="investorQuestionaireValidation('recesso', investorQuestionaireForm)"/>
<input
    type="radio"
    required
    value="option2"
    name="recesso"
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    ng-change="investorQuestionaireValidation('recesso', investorQuestionaireForm)"/>
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The short answer to your question, whether or not the tip version of NaviServer will work on that kind of data is: test it! I have set up a test environment with Tcl 8.5, and yes, it works.
The whole situation with Tcl byte arrays is tricky (to use a polite word). I am pretty sure, you do not want to know the all details but since you brought it up, here it goes. Probably, i have not got everything completely correct, and for sure, details change between Tcl versions.
A "bytearray" is an internal type of an Tcl_Obj for interpreting the internal representation of a Tcl value (not necessarily a Tcl variable). There are situations, when a Tcl byte array is really representing binary data (e.g. content of an image), then there are situations, where byte arrays are used, where content has a string representation in UTF-8, but which does not fit into Tcl's internal UCS-2 representation (e.g. >2 byte UTF-8 characters), and situations, where one has a subset of UTF-8 that fits into UCS-2. Depending on this situation, Tcl has an internal machinery trying to detect, when it is safe to use a byte array directly, depending on the fact, whether or not the byte array has a string rep (the latter is called a pure byte array). Unfortunately, it is also possible to create a string rep in situations, where one should not have a string rep (e.g when the one interactively enters a command returning a pure byte array, or when the Tcl C-API function Tcl_GetStringFromObj() is called on such an Tcl_Obj, eg. in a ns_log or some other command used for debugging. In these cases, it happens easily, that a wrong representation is chosen. Here comes the converto/convertfrom into play, which mostly here for converting to/from the UCS-2 rep and producing proper pure Tcl byte arrays.
For a Tcl application developer, it is not so easy to know, when convertto is necessary. Some good Tcl guys are working to improve the situation.
For example, starting Tcl 8.7a1, Tcl has now two types of Tcl byte arrays, the classical one and a so called "proper" bytearray, replacing the former pure bytearray, and making it more robust against creating string reps. I addition to these, there were many changes to address various bug reports from that area.
Just the indicator "german umlauts are working or not" is not a good indicator, whether the encoding is right. Here is a pure Tcl example, showing the "umlaut" correctly (since it is a 2-byte char) but the black sun is damaged. The code without the converto operations works only fine for "a" and "ü" (UTF-8 2 char), bot not for "☀" (UTF-8 3 char).
puts "v <$v> v1 <[binary decode base64 [binary encode base64 $v]]>"
with convert operations at the right places, it works fine.
puts "v <$v> v1 <[encoding convertfrom utf-8 [binary decode base64 [binary encode base64 [encoding convertto utf-8 $v]]]]>"
Nobody is happy about this, people are working to make it better on Tcl 9.
Thank you very much for your answer. I am interested in "all the details", thank you for the extensive answer. I did not immediately test your fix, as you were explicitly refering to Tcl versions 8.6 and 8.7. I simply thought, if you dont expect it to work for Tcl 8.5, for whatever reason, there is no point in setting up a HEAD-version test environment.
Anyhow, now I have compiled a NaviServer that has the same versions for all its components except for NaviServer itself (from 4.99.14 to 4.99.16d10/HEAD), and I can confirm that the problem disappears when using the HEAD version that includes your fix. The problem also disappears, when doing an append myvar "".
So, finally, the problem seems to be solved. I simply add the workaround and wait for the next NaviServer release.
Thank you, again, for your help!!
PS: Actually, the "culprit" in the "real code" was an ns_log line a few lines above (my log 3-[encoding convertfrom [ns_conn encoding] $interactionParams(preview)]). The problem disappears as well, when I simply remove that line. It seems to have a similar effect as the -translation binary in the artificial example.


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The Hidden Gems of Horror: 12 Lesser Known Books Just As Creepy As Your Favorite Halloween Classics (Part 1)
Posted on October 5, 2018 October 5, 2018 by The Towering Book Stacks in Decorating on a budget
'Tis the season y'all! Cindy's filling our home with pumpkins of varying sizes while just about every Netflix selection we make is some kind of horror flick. My main life goal from now 'til Thanksgiving involves stockpiling enough cinnamon and nutmeg to reenact that scene from Scarface on my kitchen table with pumpkin spice flavoring.
Just like this, but the piles are brown.
October means Halloween, and Halloween means a hodge-podge of wonderful fall clichés ranging from candy induced tummy aches to tummy aches resulting from a long Halloween night out. All Hallow's Eve is also one of those holidays that, like Christmas, seems to take up more and more of the calendar every year. Two weeks ago I caught myself arranging ceramic ghosts on an end table when I thought to myself "Huh, seems a little early for this" before gleefully adding a plastic Frankenstein to the mix. That's Halloween's power. I don't care what month it actually happens, but the second the leaves start turning, the Halloween season has begun.
Certain holidays illicit certain moods. Christmas is for nostalgia and cuddling, the Fourth of July lets you fly not just the American flag, but your freak flag as well! On Halloween the only important thing one needs to feel is the tingling of your spine that comes from reading something scary too late at night.
This is a lifestyle blog first and foremost, and any information you need on making your home Halloween ready can be found in the litany of articles Cindy is readying this month. As a bumbling clod of man that apparently can't rearrange ghosts on an end table to save his life, I've opted out of that arena in lieu of a space more my speed: scary books.
The right scary story or supernatural novel can do just as much to put one into the Halloween spirit as the grisliest of suburban lawn decorations. Hell, a lot of the decorations you're putting up this year probably take their inspiration from some shambling horror thought up by some Victorian writer so hopped on opium he couldn't tell where the walls of his apartment ended and the walls of the spirit realm began. In honor of the special strain of unhappy nutcase that tends towards the career of a horror fiction writer, I'm using this article to bring to light twelve books you should read this month to get you into the Halloween spirit.
Of course, any listicle writer can take a drag of his vape pen and slam his forehead against a keyboard until the words "DrAcUlA iS a PrEtTy ScArY BoOk" appears on the screen. The books on today's list aren't your standard Halloween classics. They haven't been endlessly remade into films and no one's dressing up as these characters to go trick or treating this year. However, these books are scary, sometimes even scarier than their more famous compatriots and they deserve your attention. Not just to give you chills this October, but to keep the screams coming all year round.
Note: The following list is in no particular order. Instead, all titles have been listed according to the category of horror they represent. Feel free to seek out the titles that best suit your tastes, or read them all and expand the horizons of fear!
Cosmic Horror: The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James by M. R. James
Cosmic horror was made most famous by the American writer (and famous reclusive phrenologist) H. P. Lovecraft. This type of horror gets its screams less from gore, and more from the crippling realization that Man is an insignificant speck of a thing in a universe full of howling darkness and god-like beings that can drive you to madness just by being in the same postal code. Cosmic horror monsters are malevolent, but malevolent in the way a toddler is malevolent around an anthill. Lovecraftian horrors like Cthulu, Azethoth, and Yog Sothoth may rain madness and death on unsuspecting mortals, but they're so god-like in stature that humans as a species barely even register on their radar. We humans are used to thinking of ourselves as the heroes of our own stories. That we control our destinies. That we're special. Cosmic horror writers take that away from you. They make you invest in heroes that take on eldritch horrors only to come to the sinking realization that they never stood a chance from the start.
M.R. James earns double honors on this list for not only being a top-notch writer of cosmic-style horror, but having the most stereotypically British life a man born before the year 1900 could have had. A lifelong scholar of medieval history, James was likely a deeply closeted homosexual scarred by the deaths of many students and friends in the First World War. Every Christmas, he would sit down with the students of whatever all-male school he was teaching at the time and read a ghost story he had written over the course of the previous year.* Over time, these ghost stories were collected into a single volume of some of the creepiest ghost stories I've ever read. James switches out Lovecraftian aliens for ancient curses, magical artifacts and the ghosts of a variety of horrible people, but the nebulous mood of hopelessness created by these stories manages to out Lovecraft Lovecraft. Though more supernatural than extraterrestrial, James' monsters mock the human condition and show us just how small and insignificant we truly are.
*That fact that ghost stories are a Christmas tradition in England should make us all glad that they're empire collapsed.
For fans of: H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King's It, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Cloverfield, Dagon (the film)
Vampires: The Light At the End by John Skipp and Craig Spector
This may be a controversial take, but I'm not a fan of what the Twilight series did to the vampire in fiction (Editor's note: the author of this blog post is currently recovering from severe blood loss as a result of the edginess of the previous statement). A vampire without gore and ugliness might as well be a vampire without fangs. Look no further than the novel version of Dracula and you'll see a character that for all his old-world sophistication, is deep down a savage and viscerally upsetting creature to be around. A vampire story needs edge. It needs seediness. It needs teeth goddammit! The Light At the End is a prime example of a modern vampire novel that's actually scary. Set in 1980's New York City, the novel deals with the transformation of a punk-rock loving teenager into a creature of the night and the lives he bloodily ends along the way. This novel is considered one of the touchstones of the splatterpunk movement, a style known for its intense gore, violence and identification with counterculture movements. Though it apes the style of classic 80's horror flicks, it's goriness isn't cheesy. This a legitimately horrifying book for fans of the vampire genre that love The Lost Boys, but were disappointed at the fairly mild levels of blood spewing vampiric shenanigans. It's sheer gleeful bloodiness and hat tipping to outsider subcultures will also satisfy fans of Clive Barker or Todd McFarlane; seeing as how punks wear only slightly less in the way of leather and chains than Pinhead and Spawn.
For fans of: The Hell-Bound Heart by Clive Barker, Spawn by Todd McFarlane, The Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch, Salem's Lot by Stephen King, The Cabal by Clive Barker, The Hellraiser films, The Saw films, Interview With A Vampire by Anne Rice, The Lost Boys, The Misfits.
Sci-Fi Horror: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
It's an absolute literary crime that Harlan Ellison isn't one of the most well-known sci-fi writers of the last fifty years. Genre writers like Ellison get a bad rap. They're work is seen as either schlocky, full of clichés or churned out for pulpy rags that pay by the word. This isn't unwarranted. A lot of famous genre writers *cough Robert Heinlein and Terry Goodkind cough* are guilty of plain bad writing. Harlan Ellison is different. This guy wrote and edited science fiction and fantasy stories for decades, and the list of his published works stops somewhere at just over 1,700 stories, essays and scripts. I've only read a few dozen of these so far, but the sheer variety of topics he tackles is something I've never seen in another author. More importantly, whether his stories revolve around haunted slot machines, the skeletons of fallen Biblical giants, or cosmic versions of the Grim Reaper, they're all great. Harlan's body of work is large in the same way Dickens padded his books out for magazine publication. Ellison's writing is brilliant. It's genre fiction raised to the level of pure literary beauty. He made the most out of the genre he chose and the opportunities that genre afforded his imagination.
The short story collection I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is probably the single best introduction to Ellison's work one can get. You get a nice mix of Ellison's sci-fi stories as well as his more supernatural stuff like the haunting Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes. It even has personal commentaries on each story written by Ellison himself to boot. However, the true gem of this collection is the title story. Published decades before the personal computer's birth, this story revolves around the last few members of the human race being used as the plaything of a psychopathic supercomputer. Think the machines from The Matrix with the personality of Patrick Bateman. Though never actually appearing physically in the story, the computer's presence is felt constantly as an oppressive source of constant misery. It's the perfect mixture of omnipotent being and spoiled child. The rage of Frankenstein's monster existing in the mind of a petty god. This story at times forces feelings of coldness, hopelessness and queasiness on the reader in equal measure. You'll be exhausted when you're done reading it, but you'll never forget it.
For fans of: Event Horizon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, R.U.R. by Karl Capek, The Matrix, The Terminator.
Gothic Horror: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
If you've ever read a story with creepy old castles, grotesque looking characters, dark woods, secret passageways and dusty libraries then you've read a gothic horror story. Gothic horror is as much a mood as it is a genre. Gothic writers create worlds brimming with madness, rot, creaking doors and all the other sights/sounds needed for the perfect jump scare. Many classic horror characters (Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.) got their start in gothic novels, the influence of which is still felt in many aspects of horror culture. What these stories lack in gore, they make up for in mood setting. A Gothic novel will make you wait to see the monster, but you'll be convinced every dark corridor or ruined mansion contains unnamable horrors just out of sight in the darkness beyond.
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel ever written. Though more of a thriller or mystery in terms of plot, this 1764 novel tells a simple but compelling story of love and death in the requisite dusty old castle. Through the novel doors slam, secret passages creak open, maidens are threatened by lust maddened aristocrats, and a kid straight up gets crushed to death by a giant knight helmet. The novel hints at supernatural things going on and keeps tensions high to make the castle itself seem like just the place that would be full of ghosts, real or imagined. Not only is this book decently scary, but a cool literary history lesson as well.
For fans of: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Any and all Edgar Allen Poe stories/poems.
The Devil Among Us: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Some horror stories have monsters that steal the show. A well-made monster can tear apart co-eds with the best of them, but it takes a special kind of creature to truly take over a story and become the most compelling part of the narrative. Freddy Kruger, Humbert Humbert and Voldemort all have aspects of their character that make them memorable long after their books or films are done. Hannibal Lector is irredeemable as a human being, but he's also always the most interesting person in the room. Each of these characters has a little bit of the devil in them. They make you root for them, identify with them, even like them no matter what horrible things they do. The devil's greatest trick after all, is convincing you he doesn't exist. Or at least, convincing you he's not such a bad guy for long enough to get within grabbing range.
Cormac McCarthy has a knack for crafting memorable monsters, be they Anton Chigurh in No Country for Older Men or Lester Ballard in Child of God. McCarthy's Blood Meridian is not just McCarthy's best novel, but it contains one of modern literature's most horrifying characters, Judge Holden. Judge Holden, or 'The Judge' as he's sometimes called is a hulking albino serial murdering child molester that lack both Chigurhs' code of ethics and Lester Ballard's pitifulness. The Judge inhabits a warped version of the American West where neither God nor civilized Man has a place. Here men are driven to rape, murder and pillage as a matter of course. Done in equal measures to survive and just for the hell of it. The violence here is more visceral. The blood is stickier. Death is treated with all the gravitas of a game of rock-paper-scissors. Judge Holden revels in this world. He partakes in every twisted aspect of it. His evil hiding behind an inhuman bulk but always on the lookout to indulge itself further. At times Holden is poetic. He quotes classic literature, reminisces on philosophy and has an avid interest in science. This matters surprisingly little however, once you see him drag mentally challenged man around on a leash for three chapters as a pet or you when you come to realize just how many children go missing when he's around.
For fans of: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, A Nightmare on Elm Street, American Psycho (book and film), Fargo (season one), Hannibal (the TV series).
Existential Horror: Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti's brand of horror comes from hopelessness. Though he takes clear inspiration from Lovecraft and other writers of that ilk, his short stories defy classification as one specific type of horror. The running theme though all his work is the idea that human life is essentially a mistake. We're not special. Our lives don't matter. Our species is just a collection of dumb apes that would do the world a favor by dying off. There are powerful forces at work in his stories that can pound you into the dirt like a tent peg, but if they did, would it even matter? Wouldn't you be better off if they did and got things over with?
This particular volume has two separate short story collections in it. Both are excellent, assuming you like crushing despair with your Halloween hijinks.
For fans of: Stories by Clark Ashton Smith, stories by Arthur Machen, Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Season One of True Detective.
*Bonus* Body Horror: Akira by Katsushiro Otomo
Admittedly, this comic series isn't exactly a hidden literary gem. It's one of the most famous examples of Japanese manga in our culture and the movie version of this story was one of the first anime films to become popular in America. This particular story however, deserves a place in literary canon beyond just niche appeal. Spanning six volumes and a couple thousand pages. Akira tells a story that's essentially about a near-future Japan reeling from the effects of a supposed nuclear blast in the middle of Tokyo. After this attack, some people living with the dystopian Japanese police state begin developing telekinetic powers ranging from telekinesis to mind reading to exploding heads with a thought. Whether these powers represent the next step in human evolution or the beginning of the apocalypse is for you to read, but it's Akira's step into body horror that earns it a place on this list. This comic is first and foremost an action/sci-fi story, but the gross beauty of the images fill you with an old testament awe as you read. Several characters in this series appear as shambling grotesques and many of the psychic characters develop bodily mutations straight out of a David Cronenburg film. Using the style of manga as a visual medium, Akira is able to take the cancerous mutations to levels that would be impossible with even a Hollywood budget. Characters are twisted and bloated to the point that they barely inly the slightest resemblance to a human. This body horror is more god-like than monstrous, characters bloating and twisting into infant gods, weird and terrible, yet impossible to look away from. This series tells an amazing story about Man standing on the cusp of godhood. As the characters inch closer and closer to the terrible truth that is Akira, you'll find yourself repeatedly questioning what being a human even means.
For fans of: David Cronenberg, Cabin Fever, Annihilation, Jacob's Ladder, Tusk
Thus ends part one. If you're style of horror is more werewolves, ghosts, and your more run of the mill deranged murderers, stay tuned for part two: coming next week to a lifestyle blog near you.
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Thanks!! Wait until we reveal part 2 😀
Gabrielle Coleman says:
Excellent article. Don and I made out our lists for the library. Happy Halloween!
That is awesome to hear, hope you and Don liked the books we picked! Plus we will be publishing part 2 this Friday.
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Development of a Mobile, Automated Tool Mark Characterization/Comparison System
Ames Laboratory (DOE)
2011-DN-R-0230-2
NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes
The PIs propose the development of a prototype instrument designed to provide forensic examiners with the ability to characterize a tool marked surface, compare the data from that surface to data files obtained from any other surface, and evaluate the likelihood that the two surfaces were made using the same tool. While the areas selected for characterization are at the discretion of the examiner, acquisition of the data will be carried out automatically. Comparison of resulting data files will be made in an objective manner using software algorithms developed and tested by researchers at Ames Laboratory / Iowa State University (AL/ISU). The instrument to be developed will be based on a portable 3-D optical profilometer manufactured by Alicona, Inc. and development will be undertaken with their assistance and cooperation. Since much of the actual hardware needed already exists physical assembly of a prototype instrument should be achieved relatively easily. Due to the relatively small size of the instrument, it is anticipated that the actual device will be portable, allowing it to be taken directly to crime scenes if need be. A large part of the effort will involve integration of software developed by AL/ISU into the operating parameters of the profilometer. A software package called "Mantis," for Mark and Tool Inspection Suite, is under development that incorporates all of the algorithms developed at AL/ISU for striated toolmark analysis. This includes the routine "Matchmaker," which allows for objective comparison of toolmarked surfaces and provides a statistical measure of the probability of the match by using an internal calibration routine, and "Markmaker", a software routine that allows generation of a virtual tool tip that can be manipulated and used to estimate the exact force, angle of attack, and twist-angle that existed when the evidence mark was made. While the software suite is still in the preliminary stages, it promises to be extremely user friendly and easy to operate. The software will also be expandable, to include future algorithms designed to evaluate more complex multivariate marks such as impression evidence and shear marks. We plan to test the viability of the prototype by placing it into the hands of actual forensic examiners for them to use and conduct a series of tests.
The proposed instrument would serve as a prototype system that could enhance current efforts as exemplified by the National Integrated Ballistics Network (NIBIN). As such it should be recognized that it will still be a research system, not one suitable for immediate and widespread use. However, if successful the system would: 1) be able to compare all types of tool marked surfaces; 2) be portable; 3) provide objective statistical evaluation of data files; 4) elucidate factors that existed when the tool mark was made; 5) provide an open source platform that other researchers can write algorithms for and test, while offering data-files that can be used by any system or researcher; and hopefully 6) provide all these benefits at a greatly reduced hardware cost as compared to current systems in use.
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Home Interights et. al. v Botswana (Communication No. 240/2001) [2003] ACHPR 50; (20 November 2003)
Interights et. al. v Botswana (Communication No. 240/2001) [2003] ACHPR 50; (20 November 2003)
Communication No. 240/2001
Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session
INTERIGHTS ET AL (ON BEHALF OF MARIETTE SONJALEEN BOSCH)
BEFORE: CHAIRPERSON: Salimata Sawadogo VICE CHAIRPERSON: Yassir Sid Ahmed El Hassan COMMISSIONERS: Mohammed Abdulahi Ould Babana, Andrew R Chigovera, Vera M Chirwa, E.V.O. Dankwa, Angela Melo, Jainaba Johm, Sanji Mmasenono Monageng, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, M. Kamel Rezag-Bara
Citation: Interights v. Bots., Comm. 240/2001, 17th ACHPR AAR Annex VI (2003-2004)
Publications: Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, Vol. 2, at 583 (Malcolm D. Evans & Rachel Murray eds., 2009); (2003) AHRLR (ACHPR 2003)
29th Session: Commissioner Andrew R. Chigovera
31st Session: Commissioner Andrew R. Chigovera
32nd Session: Commissioner Andrew R. Chigovera
33rd Session: Commissioner Andrew R. Chigovera
SUMMARY OF FACTS
1. The communication is submitted by Edward Luke II of Luke and Associates, Saul Lehrfreund of Simons Muirhead and Burton (practising advocates based in the United Kingdom and Botswana) and Interights, a human rights NGO based in the United Kingdom on behalf of Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch who is of South African nationality.
2. Mrs. Bosch was convicted of the murder of Maria Magdalena Wolmarans by the High Court of Botswana on 13th December 1999 and sentenced to death. She appealed to the Court of Appeal of Botswana, which dismissed her appeal on 30th January 2001.
3. The Complainant alleges that the judge who convicted Mrs. Bosch wrongly directed himself that the burden of proof was on the accused "to prove on a balance of probabilities" that someone else was responsible for the killing and thereby reversing the presumption of innocence. That the Court of Appeal wrongly upheld the conviction despite recognising the fact that the judge had fundamentally erred by reversing the onus of proof.
4. The Complainant further alleges that her right to life has been violated by the imposition of the death penalty for what was alleged to be a crime of passion, in circumstances where there were clearly extenuating circumstances.
5. It is also alleged that Mrs. Bosch is likely to suffer inhuman treatment and punishment because the execution will be carried out by the cruel method of death by hanging, which exposes the victim to unnecessary suffering, degradation and humiliation.
6. The Complainant alleges a violation of Articles 1, 4, 5 and 7(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.
7. The communication was received at the Secretariat of the Commission 7th March 2001 by fax.
8. On 12th March 2001, the Secretariat of the African Commission wrote to Interights requesting for complete copies of the judgements of the High Court and Court of Appeal of Botswana.
9. On 26th March 2001, the Secretariat of the Commission received by courier the full text of the judgement of the Court of Appeal of Botswana delivered on 30th January 2001 and expert affidavits relating to the manner and speed in which a person executed by hanging would meet their death.
10. On 27th March 2001, the Chairman of the Commission wrote to the President of Botswana appealing for a stay of execution pending consideration of the communication by the Commission.
11. The President of Botswana did not respond to the appeal but information received at the Commission indicates that Mrs. Bosch was executed by hanging on 31st March 2001.
12. At its 29th ordinary session, the Commission decided to be seized of the Complaint and the parties to the communication were informed of this decision.
13. At its 30th ordinary session held in Banjul, The Gambia, the Commission heard oral submissions from the Complainants and declared the communication admissible.
14. On 9th November 2001, the Secretariat informed the parties of the decision of the African Commission and requested them to transmit their written submissions on admissibility and on the merits to the Secretariat.
15. The African Commission continued the process of exchanging information between the parties.
16. At its 34th Ordinary Session, held from 6th to 20th November 2003 in Banjul, The Gambia, the African Commission considered the communication and delivered its decision on the merits.
17. The admissibility of communications brought pursuant to Article 55 of the Charter is governed by the conditions stipulated in Article 56 of the African Charter. This Article lays down seven (7) conditions, which generally must be fulfilled by a Complainant for a communication to be declared admissible.
18. The Complainants submit that they have fulfilled all the conditions of Article 56 of the African Charter. They argue that Mrs Bosch was convicted of the murder of Maria Magdalena Wolmarans by the High Court of Botswana on 13th December 1999 and sentenced to death. She appealed to the Court of Appeal of Botswana, which dismissed her appeal on 30th January 2001. On 7th March 2001, 35 days after the Court of Appeal of Botswana had handed down its decision dismissing Mrs Bosch's appeal, the Complainant filed this communication with the African Commission. They submit that this matter has not been submitted for examination under any other procedure of international investigation or settlement. The Complainants also state that all local remedies were exhausted and the complaint was filed with the African Commission within a reasonable time from the time local remedies were exhausted. Therefore the African Commission should declare the communication admissible.
19. In their response, the Respondent State concedes that all local remedies in this matter were exhausted, as the Court of Appeal is the last and final court in Botswana.
20. The Commission notes that the Respondent State and the Complainants agree that all domestic remedies were exhausted and thus declares the communication admissible.
21. Three issues relating to alleged violations of the African Charter were originally raised on behalf of the applicant. A fourth issue, namely whether or not there was a violation of Articles 1,4, and 7(1) in declining to respect the indication of provisional measures was added when consolidated submissions were made. Two further issues were added in the document entitled "Note of Applicant's Submissions" circulated at the 31st Session bringing the total number of issues to six. One of the six issues namely "whether the methods of execution in Botswana, by hanging, breached Article 5 of the African Charter" was abandoned during the hearing of the matter at the African Commission's 31st Ordinary Session. Each of the remaining issues will be dealt with in turn.
ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL
22. With regard to the alleged violation of the right to fair trial under Article 7 (1)(b) of the African Charter, the issue is whether the misdirection by the trial judge in regard to the onus of proof was so fatal as to negate the right to fair trial in the circumstances of this case. Simply put, does a misdirection per se vitiate the holding of a fair trial in violation of Article 7 of the African Charter and of necessity leads to the quashing of a conviction with capital consequences.
23. In this regard, it was submitted that the placing of the burden of proof on the applicant was a violation of a fundamental right such as would negate the holding of a fair trial and that the court of appeal wrongly held that this did not result in a miscarriage of justice.
24. In dealing with this issue it is important to recognise that there is no general rule or international norm stating that any misdirection per se vitiates a verdict of guilt. As pointed out by the State Party, what is generally accepted in several countries particularly common law countries is the rule that a misdirection will vitiate a verdict of guilt only where such misdirection either on its own or "cumulatively is or are of such a nature as to result in a failure of justice." The legal position is aptly stated in Archbold, Criminal Pleading and Practice [FN10] as follows":
"The very basic and fundamental function of the courts of justice is to ensure that no substantial miscarriage of justice is allowed through the operation of the judicial process. The courts cannot be seen to undermine the very foundation for the existence of the judiciary, namely justice, unaffected by technicalities and sophistry of the legal profession". In other words, where a court is satisfied that despite any misdirection or irregularity in the conduct of the trial the conviction was safe, the court would uphold such conviction.
[FN10] 200 Ed at page 18
25. The Court of Appeal thoroughly examined the evidence led at the trial and the effect of the misdirection and came to the conclusion that there was a massive body of evidence against the Applicant which would lead to no other conclusion than that it was the applicant and no one else who murdered the victim and that the quality of the evidence was such that no miscarriage of justice was occasioned.
26. A breach of Article 7 (1) of the African Charter would only arise if the conviction had resulted from such misdirection. As pointed out by the Court of Appeal at page 47 of the judgement, the trial judge "meticulously evaluated the evidence and came to the only conclusion possible on the evidence".
27. A number of decisions have been taken in the European Court of Justice on Article 6 (2) of the European Convention on Human Rights which also provides for the presumption of innocence. In discussing Article 6(2), R. Clayton and H. Tomilson observe [FN11] that the Article does not prohibit presumption of facts and law and citing Salabiaku v France (1988) 13 EHRR 379 paragraph 28 states that the State must however,
"Confine them within reasonable limits which take into account the importance of what is at stake and maintain the rights of the defence [FN12]":
A more appropriate discussion of Article 6(2) can be found in the Digest of Case-Law Relating to the European Convention on Human Rights (1955-1967) [FN13] where it is stated that,
"If the lower court has not respected the principle of presumption of innocence, but the higher court in its decision has eliminated the consequences of this vice in the previous proceedings, there has been no breach of Article 6 (2)[FN14]"
[FN11] Page 114, paragraph 11.238.
[FN12] See also Hoang v France (1992) 16 EHRR 53.
[FN13] 1970, UGA Huele, Belgium
[FN14] Digest of Case-Law Relating to the European Convention on Human Rights 1955-1967 U.G.A Huele, Belgium paragraph 153 on page 140
28. As already discussed above, the Court of Appeal 'meticulously evaluated the evidence' between pages 11-20, 62-74 and 77-111 of the judgement and was satisfied that despite the misdirection, there was adequate evidence to convict the Applicant of murder.
29. It should be noted here that it is for the courts of State Parties and not for the Commission to evaluate the facts in a particular case and unless it is shown that the courts' evaluation of the facts were manifestly arbitrary or amounted to a denial of justice, the Commission cannot substitute the decision of the courts with that of its own. It has not been shown that the courts evaluation of the evidence was in any way arbitrary or erroneous as to result in a failure of justice. The Commission therefore finds that there is no basis for finding that the State Party violated its obligations under Articles 4 and 7 (1).
ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 5
30. The second issue relates to the allegation that the sentence of death in this case was a disproportionate penalty in the circumstances of this case and hence a violation of Article 5 of the Charter.
31. While it is accepted that the death penalty should be imposed after full consideration of not only the circumstances of the individual offence but also the circumstances of the individual offender, (Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Downer and Tracey v. Jamaica (41/2000) 14 April 2000), there is no rule of international law which prescribes the circumstances under which the death penalty may be imposed. It should be pointed out here that apart from stating the trend in other jurisdictions and decisions of other Human Rights bodies governed by specific statutes, it has not been established that the courts in this case did not consider the full circumstances before imposing the death penalty. If anything, the courts fully considered all the circumstances in this case (See pages 48 to 55 of the judgement of the Court of Appeal). It is clear that the submission that the imposition of the death penalty was disproportionate to the gravity of the crime in this case is based on an erroneous assumption of what amounts to extenuating circumstances.
32. Extenuating circumstances are facts bearing on the commission of the crime, which reduce the moral blameworthiness of the accused as distinct from his/her legal culpability. First, the facts or circumstances must be directly related to or connected with the criminal conduct in question. The court is only concerned with facts which lessen the seriousness or culpability of that particular criminal conduct.
33. Second, extenuation relates to moral blameworthiness. It is the state of mind of the offender at the time of the commission of the offence that is a relevant consideration otherwise offenders would use any personal circumstance totally unrelated to the conduct complained of to escape punishment.
34. In considering whether or not extenuating circumstances exist, the inquiry is:
a) Whether there were at the time of the commission of the crime facts or circumstances which could have influenced the accused's state of mind or mental faculties and could serve to constitute extenuation
b) Whether such facts or circumstances, in their cumulative effect, probably did influence the accused's state of mind in doing what s/he did; and
c) Whether this influence was of such a nature as to reduce what he did.
35. The claimed capacity for redemption or reformation and or good character is certainly not connected with the commission of the particular murder and therefore not relevant considerations to this finding of extenuating circumstances.
36. In deciding on the proportionality of a sentence one would have to fully weigh the seriousness of the offence against the sentence. It is quite evident from the Court of Appeal records that the murder committed by Mrs Bosch involved considerable effort and careful planning.
37. Thus while the African Commission acknowledges that the seriousness or gruesome nature of an offence does not necessarily exclude the possibility of extenuation, it cannot be disputed that the nature of the offence cannot be disregarded when determining the extenuating circumstances. As such, the African Commission finds no basis for faulting the findings of both the trial court and Court of Appeal as it relates to this issue.
ISSUE OF REASONABLE NOTICE
38. It was submitted that failure to give reasonable notice of the date and time of execution amounts to cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and treatment in breach of Article 5 of the African Charter and that execution under such circumstances violates the protection of law provisions under Article 3 as it deprives an individual the right to consult a lawyer and obtain such relief from the courts as may be open to him or her.
39. It should be noted that this issue was not addressed by the Respondent State in its written submissions primarily because it had not been communicated to it. The issue was not even raised in the Authors' consolidated submissions of the record of their oral submissions on admissibility made at the 30th Session and submitted to the African Commission's Secretariat on 18th March 2002.
40. The issue only surfaced with the Author's written submissions distributed shortly before the hearing of the matter at the 31st Session of the African Commission. It was therefore not surprising that no useful submissions or submissions at all were made on behalf of the Respondent State on the issue. Neither was there any debate on the issue at the instance of the Commissioners, as they had not had an opportunity to consider those submissions.
41. In the circumstances it would be fundamentally unfair to the Respondent State to deal with the substance of this issue save to observe that a justice system must have a human face in matters of execution of death sentences by affording a condemned person an opportunity to "arrange his affairs, to be visited by members of his intimate family before he dies, and to receive spiritual advice and comfort to enable him to compose himself as best he can, to face his ultimate ordeal [FN15].
Alleged violation of Article 4: Clemency Procedure was unfair
[FN15] Guerra v Baptiste [1996] AC 397 at P.418
42. This is one of the two issues raised rather belatedly and the approach in issue 3 above applies and the comments made hereunder are for future guidance in matters of this nature it being pointed out that the communication procedure is an attempt to achieve or address failed justice at the domestic level which follows the rules of natural justice and would not permit any springing of surprises.
43. Applicant alleges that in exercising his clemency, the President acts "arbitrarily". The main issue is whether or not the Presidential clemency is what is envisaged in Article 4 of the Charter. Article 4 proscribes the arbitrary deprivation of the right to life. A process is put in all jurisdiction to ensure that due process is had in ensuring that the right to life is not violated. This process includes the holding of a trial so that an accused is given an opportunity to defend his cause. It is that process that can be challenged to be arbitrary. The intervention of the President does not in any way affect the non-arbitrariness of the process. The due process in Botswana was followed with the Applicant's case following the process that has been established to guarantee Applicant's rights. Her matter was heard in both the High Court and the Appeal Court.
44. It should also be noted that the exercise of clemency unlike the process described above, is discretionary in most jurisdictions and are for the most part discretionary; they are given to him to be exercised in his own judgement and discretion [FN16]. Whilst the Constitution of Botswana provides for the constitution of an Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy, the President is only required to request and get advice from that committee if he so wishes. However, he can only exercise his power of clemency after presentation of a written report of the case from the trial judge together with any other information that he may require.
[FN16] Executive independence and the Courts Presidentialism in commonwealth Africa B.O Nwabueze at Page 33
45. The question then is whether or not the President arbitrarily deprived the Applicant of her right to life. The word "arbitrarily" is defined in Black's Dictionary [FN17]
"as fixed or done capriciously or at pleasure, without adequate determining principle, not founded, not done or acting according to reason or judgement, depending on the will alone, absolute in power, capriciously tyrannical, despotic, without fair solid and substantial cause, that is without cause based on law... ...Ordinarily "arbitrary" is synonymous with bad faith or failure to exercise honest judgement and an arbitrary act would be one performed without adequate determination of principle and one not founded in nature of things..."
A similar definition is provided in Stround's Judicial Dictionary [FN18] and Classen's Dictionary of
Legal Words and Phrases[FN19]
[FN12] 5th Ed, West Publishing Company, 1979.
[FN18] 5th Sweet and Maxwell Limited, 1986
[FN19] Volume 1. Butterworths, 1975.
46. The other factor that needs to be considered is the time factor. On 30 January 2001, the court of Appeal dismissed the Applicant's case. On 5 February 2001 a memo from the Gaborone Women's Prison to the divisional Commander states that applicant was advised of her right to petition the President. On 7 February 2001 the Attorney General of Botswana wrote to the Applicant's Lawyers on the issue. The Lawyers wrote to the Clemency Committee on 26 February 2001 requesting for more time to prepare a clemency petition. The preliminary submissions were only submitted on 15 March 2001, one and half months after the Appeal was dismissed. It is acknowledged that an 6 March the lawyers wrote to the President requesting for information as to when the clemency hearing was to be held. Attendance of the Applicant or her lawyers at the hearing is clearly impractical. One can envisage the President now sitting as a court to hear oral submissions from petitioners. Not only is the suggestion misconceived and implications thereof impractical, but the implications will also result in undermining the office and dignity of the President.
47. In any event, the right to be heard does not entail entitlement to the benefit of all the facilities which are allowed to a litigant in a judicial trial. Thus the 'right to be heard' in appropriate circumstances may be confined to the submission of written representations. These are clearly appropriate circumstances for written representations.
48. However, it should be noted that a person must be given a reasonable time in which to assemble the relevant information and to prepare and put forward his representations (See also Baxter op cit at p 552.)
1. Alleged Violation of Articles 1, 4 and 7(1): Execution of Applicant pending consideration of Applicant's Communication by the African Commission
49. The last argument is that Article 1 of the African Charter obliges a State Party to comply with the requests of the African Commission. The Complainants base this argument on the letter written by the Chairperson of the African Commission to the President of Botswana on 27th March 2001 seeking a stay of execution. The letter was communicated by fax.
50. In its oral submissions during the 31st Ordinary Session, the Respondent State argued that the fax was never received by the President. However, in this particular case, the African Commission is not in possession of any proof that the fax was indeed received by the President of Botswana.
51. Article 1 obliges State Parties to observe the rights in the African Charter and to 'adopt legislative or other measures to give effect to them.' The only instance that a State Party can be said to have violated Article 1 is where the State does not enact the necessary legislative enactment [FN20].
[FN20] See the Case of Young, James and Webster which discusses Article 1 of the European convention which is similar to Article 1 of the Charter
52. However, it would be remiss for the African Commission to deliver its decision on this matter without acknowledging the evolution of international law and the trend towards abolition of the death penalty. This is illustrated by the UN General Assembly's adoption of the 2nd Optional Protocol to the ICCPR and the general reluctance by those States that have retained capital punishment on their Statute books to exercise it in practice. The African Commission has also encouraged this trend by adopting a "Resolution Urging States to envisage a Moratorium on the Death Penalty "[FN21] and therefore encourages all States party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights to take all measures to refrain from exercising the death penalty.
[FN21] Adopted at the 26th Ordinary Session of the African Commission held from 1st to 15th November 1999, Kigali, Rwanda
FOR THE ABOVE REASONS, THE AFRICAN COMMISSION
Finds that the Republic of Botswana is not in violation of Articles 1, 4, 5 and 7(1) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights [FN22]; Strongly urges the Republic of Botswana to take all measures to comply with the Resolution urging States to envisage a Moratorium on the Death Penalty; Requests the Republic of Botswana to report back to the African Commission when it submits its report in terms of Article 62 of the African Charter on measures taken to comply with this recommendation.
[FN22] Commissioner N Barney Pityana asked to be recused from participating in consideration of this communication at the 29th Ordinary Session of the African Commission and as such did not take part in all discussions relating to this matter
Done at the 34th Ordinary Session held in Banjul, The Gambia from 6th to 20th November 2003.
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On Friday, June 23, 2017, MLA Members for Justice in Palestine posted a statement protesting the MLA's ratification of Resolution 2017-1. The anti-BDS resolution, which calls on the association to refrain from the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, was ratified as it barely reached the 10% threshold of member votes (1,954 out of 18,279 members voted in favor of the resolution) required by MLA bylaws. While the vote suggests threshold of mobilization of pro-Israeli constituencies within academia, and constitutes an upsetting setback for the academic boycott movement within the MLA, the ratification of resolution has little political significance generally, as criticism of Israel's policies increase and support for Palestinians gathers renewed legitimacy among students and academics across the US.
David Palumbo Liu's "The Language of Oppression" (Jacobin July 16, 2017) provides an insightful report on the vote results.
After a series of successes, this result represents an unfortunate, but not dispiriting, setback for the academic boycott movement within the MLA. Setbacks are not uncommon for Palestinians or anyone committed to advocating Palestinian rights. Palestinians have suffered an almost endless series of defeats at the hands of the Israeli military, but affirm their right to exist in Palestine, forging a remarkable culture of resistance that stands in opposition to Israel's ruthless colonialism.
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine remains committed to promoting Palestinian literature and culture, advocating Palestinian human rights, and working with other academics in opposing injustice. The group is exploring how best to respond to this setback and will soon be issuing a public statement.
Click to VOTE NO on Resolution 2017-1.
Voting on MLA Resolutions ends at Midnight on Thursday June 1, 2017.
Click this link to sign the petition against MLA Resolution 2017-1.
Timothy Brennan is a professor of Comparative Literature, English and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Global Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the author of Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008), and edited, introduced, and co-translated the first English edition of Alejo Carpentier's classic study, Music in Cuba (U of Minnesota P, 2001). Other books include Borrowed Light, Vol. I: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies (Stanford UP, 2014), Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia UP, 2006), Empire in Different Colors (Revolver, 2007), At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Harvard UP, 1997), and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation (Macmillan, 1989). He was named Russell Chair in the Humanities in 2014. He has chaired the Sociological Approaches to Literature Division of the Modern Language Association (MLA). His essay (co-written with Doug Rossinow) on the Israel/Palestine conflict was the featured article on Yahoo.com in 2003.
Resolution 2017-1, which suppresses debate over Israel within the MLA and, indeed, is intended to prevent any public statement by the organization critical of the Israeli state is itself an outrage and a betrayal, of course, of everything the MLA nominally stands for. I recall seeing signs of this kind of cynicism and political intolerance in the MLA earlier as a member of the Delegate Assembly during the debate over Ward Churchill. It is a mood very much in the spirit of the United States' more general rightward turn, but now taken up enthusiastically, it appears, by a frustrated sector sick-and-tired of critical thought, angry at its own professional disenfranchisement, and eager to get revenge on the humanities' earlier progressive commitments.
Added to this, of course, is the very faux-patriotically American desire to support Israel whatever it does, insulated from any of the criticisms that even supporters of this proposal would normally mount against other states. This effort to censor — and even to render permanently invalid – the richly deserved condemnation of Israel's violations of international law and its unspeakable treatment of Palestinians, is disgraceful, and would embarrass the organization in the eyes of many here and abroad.
Many of us – I know I am not alone – have been long disenchanted with the MLA's overpaid administrative staff (who apparently are in their positions for life), the unconscionable cost for students and faculty to attend its annual convention, the relative lack of intellectual substance or discussion at this convention, and the cliquishness of its publishing organs and official hierarchy. The MLA has an opportunity to redeem itself by defeating this proposal. Why should we remain in the organization if it does not?
MLA Members for Scholars' Rights, lead by Russell Berman and Cary Nelson, is a small group of academics that Israeli agencies and pro-Israel lobby organizations in the US have endorsed in the battle against academic boycott. Scholars' Rights came into existence primarily to oppose MLA Members for Justice in Palestine and seeks single-mindedly to undermine solidarity with Palestinians among academics. Behind its shallow liberal discourse on academic freedom, the Scholars' Rights group engages in all manner of misinformation and misrepresentation to defend Israel from growing public criticism.


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What is a landlocked bay?
Which is a landlocked harbour?
Which is the land locked harbour of India?
What is a landlocked port?
How deep is the San Francisco Bay?
Can you swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco?
Which is the largest landlocked harbor in the world?
Which is the largest natural harbour in the world?
Which is the largest landlocked bay in the world?
Which is the largest landlocked country in the world?
adjective. shut in completely, or almost completely, by land: a landlocked bay. having no direct access to the sea: a landlocked country. living in waters shut off from the sea, as some fish.
Vishakhapatnam harbour is located in Andhra Pradesh is an example of the landlocked harbour. It is the second largest port by volume of cargo handled. It is the only port of Andhra Pradesh.
Visakhapatnam:- The port of Visakhapatnam is a land locked harbour as it is surrounded by land and the water passage is towards the ocean or sea.
The port which is encircled by land from all sides with a water passage towards sea or ocean is termed as land-locked port.
about 12-15 feet
The average depth of the bay is about 12-15 feet deep. Heck, between Hayward and San Mateo to San Jose it averages 12 to 36 inches.
The Alcatraz swim is an approximately 2 mile swim from Alcatraz Island to the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco. Alcatraz swims are $165 per event.
San Francisco Bay can be surely counted as the world's largest landlocked harbor due to many reasons. Its length, width, the area which it covers, the number of islands located in it, the rivers associated, and several other factors account for this fact.
Poole Harbour is a large natural harbour with the town of Poole on its shores. The harbour is a drowned valley (a ria) formed at the end of the last ice age and is the estuary of several rivers, the largest being the Frome. It has a long history of human settlement stretching back to pre-Roman times.
An area from about 1000km 2 to 4000km 2 is covered by the San Francisco Bay, making it the world's largest landlocked bay. It covers a total length of around 60 miles, and its width is approximately 3 to 12 miles. The coast, which lies on the western and eastern sides of the San Francisco Bay, is connected by the bridges.
Zambia is a landlocked South African country with an area of 752,612 km² bordering 8 countries including Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi. The country has a population of 12, 935, 000 people.


Note to Donald Trump and Company: Lower Your Voices. Stop Playing With Matches.
If there is something we won't soon forget in our turbulent era, it is the image of massive California brushfires enveloping hundreds of square miles of land in the Golden State and everything situated on that bone-dry landscape. The smoke was so severe that people with respiratory problems from areas well removed from the fires suffered from the heavy, smoke-filled air for days afterward.
Ever since the explosive Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump's "grab 'em by the p*ssy" remark was revealed a few weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the asterisk has been used in deference to the sensibilities of polite company that might read and be offended by the Fifth Avenue Fraudster's statement. But Trump never seems charming or polite in any company, and another more recent outrageous utterance by the president-as-asterisk may serve to define him.
When the Emmy Awards are announced next season, some pol watcher pros might predict, an Ohio congressman will certainly win in a category which he seems to dominate.
The Emmy for the Worst Performance in a Continuing Role goes to … Jim Jordan of Urbana, Ohio.
In light of daily revelations about new scandals engulfing the nation's capital, we are struggling to digest the full magnitude of the corruption and incompetence of the Trump administration. But while we are absorbed by our present circumstances, it might be helpful to look at another very corrupt era of our national history, a time when the public also dealt with information overload about misdeeds in high places, for some perspective and an idea about where all of this ends.
Now that the dust is clearing from the faculty strike at Wright State University in Dayton, let's to take a look at what happened. A tentative agreement was reached on Feb. 10.
The University of Akron's acting President John Green recently revived the school's report card that has been a troubling story for too long. In his State of the University address, Green, who has a been at the helm since last April , soberly observed that the downtown campus has been an academic center in decline from plunging enrollment, weighty debt and a lack of a sustaining can-do mission that's hardly encouraging. Given its recent woeful history, it's doubtful that both its true state of despair and ragged image will be be reversed anytime soon.
"It ain't over till it's over," Lawrence Peter Berra famously told us years ago. And if the topic is Republican behavior in the form of hatred for all things government, including targeting public employees for retribution and engineering government shutdowns, Yogi said it for us.
No, It ain't over. Not by a long shot.
Welcome to another variant of PTSD – this one called Petulant Trump Shutdown Disaster.
I've been poking around the post-shutdown comments to get a greater understanding of how the commander-in-chief's brain-locked base reacted to his retreat from demanding big money for his storied wall. The tense body language of his apologists told me that they are struggling to make sense of their favorite president.
They have been squirming. Making lame excuses. Some even abandoning their faith that he would indeed Make America Great Again on the backs of brown-skinned terrorists. It was ugly and the polls reflected the despair.