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Cops Say Forty Years of War on Drugs is Enough
By Gari 6/17/2011 01:03:00 AM 25 comments
By Philip Smith
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This week marks the 40th anniversary of America's contemporary war on drugs, and the country's largest anti-prohibitionist law enforcement organization is commemorating -- not celebrating -- the occasion with the release of report detailing the damage done. Members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) hand-delivered a copy of the report, Ending the Drug War: A Dream Deferred, to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the drug czar's office) Tuesday after holding a press conference in Washington, DC.
On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon (R) declared "war on drugs," and thousands of deaths, millions of arrests, and billions of tax dollars later, drug prohibition remains in place -- the Obama administration's declaration two years ago that it had ended the drug war in favor of a public health-centered approach notwithstanding. Ending the Drug War details how the war on drugs continues unabated, despite the recent administrations' less warlike rhetoric, and the ways it has hurt rather than helped drug users and society at large.
"When President Nixon declared the 'drug war' in 1971, we arrested fewer than half a million people for drug offenses that year. Today, the number has skyrocketed to almost two million drug arrests a year," said former Baltimore narcotics officer and LEAP executive director Neill Franklin. "We jail more of our own citizens than any other country in the world does, including those run by the worst dictators and totalitarian regimes. Is this how President Obama thinks we can 'win the future'?"
The report shows that despite the drug czar's nice talk about ending the drug war, Obama administration spending priorities remain highly skewed toward law enforcement and interdiction -- and it's getting worse, not better. In 2004, the federal drug budget was 55% for supply reduction (policing) and 45% for demand reduction (treatment, prevention). In the 2012 Obama budget, supply reduction has increased to 60%, while demand reduction has shrunk to 40%.
The report also demonstrates through arrest figures that on the street level, the drug war continues to be vigorously waged. In 2001, there were almost 1.6 million drug arrests; a decade later, there were slightly more than 1.6 million. Granted, there is a slight decline from the all-time high of nearly 1.9 million in 2006, but the drug war juggernaut continues chugging away.
"I was a police officer for 34 years, the last six as chief of police in Seattle," retired law enforcement veteran Norm Stamper told the press conference. "At one point in my career, I had an epiphany. I came to the appreciation that police officers could be doing better things with their time and that we were causing more harm than good with this drug war. My position is that we need to end prohibition, which is the organizing mechanism behind the drug war. We need to replace that system guaranteed to invite violence and corruption and replace it with a regulatory model," he said.
LEAP slams the Obama administration for its forked-tongue approach to medical marijuana as well in the report. The administration has talked a good game on medical marijuana, but its actions speak louder than its words. While Attorney General Holder's fam ous 2009 memo advised federal prosecutors not to pick on medical marijuana providers in compliance with state laws, federal medical marijuana raids have not only continued, but they are happening at a faster rate than during the Bush administration. There were some 200 federal medical marijuana raids during eight years of Bush, while there have been about 100 under 2 1/2 years of Obama, LEAP noted.
And LEAP points to the horrendous prohibition-related violence in Mexico as yet another example of the damage the drug war has done. The harder Mexico and the US fight the Mexican drug war, the higher the death toll, with no apparent impact on the flow of drugs north or the flow of guns and cash south, the report points out.
Sean Dunagan, a recently retired, 13-year DEA veteran with postings in Guatemala City and Monterrey, Mexico, told the press conference his experiences south of the border had brought him around to LEAP's view.
"It became increasingly apparent that the prohibitionist model just made things worse by turning a multi-billion dollar industry over to criminal organizations," he said. "There is such a profit motive with the trade in illegal drugs that it is funding a de facto civil war in Mexico. Prohibition has demonstrably failed and it is time to look at policy alternatives that address the problem of addiction without destroying our societies the way the drug war has done."
Ending drug prohibition would not make Mexico's feared cartels magically vanish, LEAP members conceded under questioning, but it would certainly help reduce their power.
"Those of us who advocate ending prohibition are not proposing some sort of nirvana with no police and no crime, but a strategy based in reality that recognizes what police can accomplish in cooperation with the rest of society," said former House Judiciary Crime subcommittee counsel Eric Sterling. "The post-prohibition environment will require enforcement as in every legal industry. The enormous power that the criminal organizations have will diminish, but those groups are not going to simply walk away. The difference between us and the prohibitionists is that we are not making empty promises like a drug-free America or proposing thoughtless approaches like zero tolerance," he told the press conference.
Drug prohibition has also generated crime and gang problems in the US, the report charged, along with unnecessary confrontations between police and citizens leading to the deaths of drug users, police, and innocent bystanders alike. The report notes that while Mexico can provide a count of its drug war deaths, the US cannot -- except this year, with the Drug War Chronicle's running tally of 2011 deaths due to US domestic drug law enforcement operations, which the report cited. As of this week, the toll stands at four law enforcement officers and 26 civilians killed.
It was the needless deaths of police officers that inspired retired Maryland State Police captain and University of Maryland law professor Leigh Maddox to switch sides in the drug war debate, she said.
"My journey to my current position came over many years and after seeing many friends killed in the line of duty because of our failed drug policies," she told the Washington press conference. "This is an abomination and needs to change."
While the report was largely critical of the Obama administration's approach to drug policy, it also saluted the administration for heading in the right direction on a number of fronts. It cited the reduction in the sentencing disparity for crack and powder cocaine offenses and the lifting of the federal ban on needle exchange funding as areas where the administration deserves kudos.
Forty years of drug prohibition is more than enough. Police are getting this. When will politicians figure it out?
The government within the government will not let it end. The billionaires are being deregulated and the small guy further corralled. People on the left and right bicker while corporations have run away with their government. The drug war might get renamed but it will stand.
there is no war that's the problem... police does not fight wars, send the US military to end it.
This article is mostly well written. This drug war has been a massive, massive blunder, and you'd think after 40 years, people would get it. What's the term when you do the same thing over and over and expect a different result? That's right, insanity.
It's just sick that not only has this war not prevented drugs from being used, but it's also massively increased violence, incarceration rates, and more. So basically the whole thing is 100% counterproductive.
Only one thing, though... this article did not mention anything about kidnapping. I'm pretty sure if drugs were legalized, those sick drug cartels would kidnap even more because of their massive greed for money (note: anybody who kills for money should never be alive under any circumstances). That's a scary thought.
I agree send them to inner city neighborhods
in L.A. etc. go after them.
Did you ever stop to think that if America had not had the "War on Drugs", Successful or not that the United States could well be going through the same thing that is happening in Mexico. I refuse to accept wrong as being right, just because it seems to be unpopular. Laws are Laws to serve the majority for the public good. Not just to make a few druggies happy. I also am tired of seeing the Press and Hollywood make heroes out of Drug users and perverts.
Another simpleton view of what is going on down south. These folks have become accidental guerillas for the cartels.
If are going to legalize pot then go all the way and legalize cocaine, meth and heroin since the cartels will still make money off of those.
While you are at it you better legalize kidnapping and extortion since that is where the cartels will turn when drugs are not profitable.
People talks about legalizing and taxing drugs. I see this just as a power grab by the gov so they can get a new revenue source. If you tax drugs then there is still a motivation to smuggle them just as there is still cigarette and liquor smuggling happening.
The problem is the criminals and criminal culture down south not the comodity that they smuggel.
Amen anon 9:24!
the idea of decriminalizing drugs is not to "make druggies happy" it is to halt the rising death toll. or are you people reallly ok with another 40,000+ deaths at the expense of your "war on drugs"
This part really hits home:
"We jail more of our own citizens than any other country in the world does, including those run by the worst dictators and totalitarian regimes."
B June 17, 2011 at 12:02 PM
asylum is for those in a country where there is NO safety in any area. Mexico is perfectly safe in 2/3 the country. 1/3 the country has a lower murder per capita than US...Whereas I appreciate there plight...they cannot use that for entry to the US.
@June 17, 2011 9:24 Am do you think drugs are legal in Mexico? No, weapons like ak47's are illegal in Mexico. When we make something illegal we open a black market economy based on that product. If recreational drugs where legal, like alcohol or aspirin, there wouldn't be people killing themselves over said products. an ounce of pot can cost as much as a ton of corn. what kind of power are these laws giving criminals? The same power that Al Capone received during alcohol prohibition. However, Al Capone didn't have the same type of global reach. as for drug users or "druggies" as you so eloquently put it, Ill agree, as long as you toss alcohol, caffeine, tobacco,and prescription drug abusers, into to the same category. I don't care If one is legal and the other isn't. lets look at the numbers, and we will find more deaths linked directly to caffeine abuse than marijuana. cocaine is a filthy habit, and I don't wish an addiction on my worse enemy, However I believe that treatment is the answer. as well as education, real education not propaganda, I as a child was smart enough to recognize facts from fiction in those school drug programs. had I been less informed I would have thought it was all lies. but they mix them up so you go to either one side or the other. there's a gray area in this civil war. the war on drugs is a war on the people. Nowhere else is it more evident than in Mexico. I pray for peace, and for God to open your hearts to the truth that's killing us here in Mexico. has someone followed the money? who is getting rich from this war? certainly not drug users.
It is not "MY war on drugs" killing people. Its the Drugs and people who want drugs and people who want to sell drugs, killing people. So be it, but Do Not ever expect me to accept that just because you want to make it OK, means it is Right or a good thing....
to me the argument to legalize drugs is like a Rapist telling the victim "relax you know you want it, and expecting the victim to accept it and be happy. When you make the crime acceptable then you accept responsibility for the Crime. yes a lot of people have died and more will die, both good and bad, as has happened in the world since time began, but with hope and prayer for what is right and good and Good People continue to stand up to the fight we will keep evil at bay. But don't expect to be safe from the wolf when you let him in your house.
BarkGrowlBite June 17, 2011 at 12:42 PM
99.99 percent of cops do not agree with the members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).
If drugs were legalized the killings in Mexico would not stop. The real problem in Mexico is the fact that the majority of Mexicans live in abject poverty while a tiny minority of the wealthy runs the country. There is only a small middle class. The cartels would find other illegal enterprises if drugs were legalized. The cartels are similar to the insurgencies in Columbia and Peru.
The War on Drugs is not responsible for the killings in Mexico. It's the lousy socioeconomic situation in that country.
@June 17, 2011 9:24 AM
The Drug War is a failure and has been for the last 40 years, when you have police officers telling you that, its a lost cause.
"While you are at it you better legalize kidnapping and extortion since that is where the cartels will turn when drugs are not profitable."
Do you see anyone that demands to be kidnapped or extorted? The answer is NO! Its the demand of drugs that drive the market! Plain and simple. Demand and supply.
"If you tax drugs then there is still a motivation to smuggle them just as there is still cigarette and liquor smuggling happening."
Yeah but the difference is people will be going to their local alcohol/Drug store and not the street dealer even if it was smuggled and cheaper.
Tell me something, name one success that the Drug War has brought?
@June 17, 2011- 11:32AM,
I got news for you more people in the United States die every year from alcohol related accidents (DWI) then all the people who have been killed by Mexico's drug war last six years! It's a fact (CDC- approximately 11k people die every year from alcohol related car crashes). Let's say 50k people have died (murdered) in Mexico over the drug war since Calderon took office..you looking at 66k in the US for DWI crashes. Not to mention approximately 79k people die each year in the US as a result of alcohol abuse..whether it be disease or over consumption (poisoning). My point is alcohol is perfectly legal to consume..it's taxed and regulated by age..etc..but yet it's the third leading cause of "lifestyle death" in the US. The question remains, how many of those +300k people in the US, who died as a result of alcohol in the last six years, would still be alive if alcohol was illegal? I'm not suggesting we need to go back to the prohibition days..I'm saying making something legal to possess, sell, and consume doesn't save lives! Your talking about criminals (drug cartels) who have engaged in unspeakable crimes of murder..they are the problem!
Ardent June 17, 2011 at 2:07 PM
This who abuse drugs are often times depressed and committing a form of suicide. YES, suicide is illegal, too, but does society go around waging war on those DIRECTLY trying to do themselves in? No? Well then why do authorities try to wage war on those trying to do themselves INDIRECTLY in by obsessively using dangerous drugs? To protect them? Hardly! When drug users are thrown in jail it is never described as 'protective custody'.
The whole logic of those who advocate criminalizing things like drug use and prostitution is punitive and hateful, not loving and/ or concerned. That's what produces the return meanness in the drug abusing sectors of society.
Just as an aside, I would love to know what percentage of rank and file cops are against the drug war? After all, they are the ones that have to capture and then throw our society's 'throwaways' into jail for a crime of using substances that themselves are a lot less harmful than jail time is to the cops' prisoners. Wouldn't that be interesting, an actual poll of cops and their actual pov on this matter?
Plan Colombia. Epic Fail.
Plan Caribe, Epic Fail
Merida Innitiative, Epic Fail
Plan U.S. keep crackers on drugs, WIN!!!!!
Drugs are winning
Because there is not much reliable information, statistically speaking, regarding numbers of drug addicts in the United States, it is difficult to address the necessary cost/benefit analysis of decriminalizing drugs or certain drugs. (The number of drug addicts varies daily. Some believe this might be due to social stigma.) There are so many points where a comparison of our only known model (alcohol) is inapplicable. However, if one examines that model, it is apparent that only approximately 4 million of the 17-18 million known alcoholics seek treatment at qualified facilities, and it is difficult to correlate which of those represent recidivism.
I need better stats to do realistic comparisons.
Imjustagirl
BarkGrowlBite June 17, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Ardent, you are full of it. No one is forcing all those idiot dopers to use drugs. It's their fault when they get locked up, not the cops who are just doing their jobs. As a life member of three large law enforcement associations, I can tell you that 99 percent of the cops would vote in favor of the War on Drugs. Believe me, no cop would lose one second of sleep throwing some dip-shit like you in jail if he caught you with drugs.
And THANK YOU to the Anon who said, "I got news for you more people in the United States die every year from alcohol related accidents (DWI) then all the people who have been killed by Mexico's drug war last six years!" You have made an excellent case against the legalization of drugs.
Oh, yes, if the idea of legalizing drugs is appealing to any because they "like to do drugs" or "prohibition didn't work", then you do not have my vote. If the idea of decriminalizing drugs is appealing to any because it would alleviate a heavy encumbered legal system, then yes,you have my vote.
June 17, 2011- 11:32AM,
Exactly the point, making illegal drugs legal will only increase the number of deaths attributable to legal drugs.The war on drugs is preventing the explosion of drug use by those gullible enough to use drugs.Reluctance is currently being provided by the illegality of drugs.
YOU are just kidding yourself here, BarkGrowlBite. Nobody but yourself could actually believe this....
'BarkGrowlBite said...99.99 percent of cops do not agree with the members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).'
I don't know what the figure actually might be, but you are merely barking up the wrong tree here with YOUR pretend percentage of cops in love with the drug war, Barker.
Norm, is not the only cop that can put 2 plus 2 together and come up with the right conclusion....
"'I was a police officer for 34 years, the last six as chief of police in Seattle," retired law enforcement veteran Norm Stamper told the press conference. "At one point in my career, I had an epiphany. I came to the appreciation that police officers could be doing better things with their time and that we were causing more harm than good with this drug war.'
"It is not "MY war on drugs" killing people."
are you kidding me? President Nixon is the one who STARTED this "war on drugs" and encouraged all the countries to adopt it as well.
If America just legalized marijuana. There would no fucking war. Dumbasses, think about it.


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Post date: May 17, 2009 6:33:41 PM
Recent calls by the Rastafarian community for an official apology by the Royal Barbados Police Force are of little consolation in determining the truth surrounding the death of Mr. Iakobi Maloney. Little has been accomplished in the way of establishing a concentrated drive toward the discriminatory practices of the Royal Barbados Police Force both - towards the general public and the Rastafarian community. Holding meetings where portraits are admired and reminiscence is expanded upon is not the answer to the issue at stake. It is agreed that a certain public awareness must be kept front and centre concerning the issues of the Rastafarian community, but a more definite effort at direction of will and a sense of purpose must be adopted.
The brother of the deceased, Mr. Mandela Maloney, must seek to embrace the issue based not on what he can call for within private citizen's rights, but what is available on the wider international "human rights" platform that has been so blatantly circumvented. No amount of "reasoning" no matter how well it is publicized can avert the fact that serious miscarriage of judicial decision making, and legal due process, has to be resolved by a serious application of higher judicial power. Furthermore, if a legal appellate fails to secure the necessary results and the revealing of the truth, then it is wholly incumbent upon the entire Rastafarian community, and the family, to seek the highest legal recourse, at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
Police commissioner Darwin Dottin, has attempted to throw the Rastafarian community a bone instead of a true olive branch. Bones are usually dry and only have two ends, one with which to promise and the other end with which to deny all involvement when the pressures of truth comes too close to home. An olive branch has a stem with many mature leaves and may at spring time bud, and was first used by the ancient Greeks as a means of establishing peace and continued conditions of dialogue and sincere efforts at reconciliation. Each leaf of the olive branch can be considered a symbol of continued and sincere effort at establishing equality of rights and perusal of the pertinent issues facing the local Rastafarian community. A bone has no such power.
The Rastafarian community worldwide has to follow in the continued adoration of the late Bob Marley. Bob's music was his greatest weapon of change, and though far removed from todays offering of confusion and disrespect of women "bashments" that have pervaded society, lives on in glorious hope of peace, hope, strength and reconciliation as the weapons of war. Marley's words "Release yourselves' from mental slavery" were not just a lyrical composition aimed at empowering communities, but were pointed directly at fostering the will within oneself to "Rise up, standup, standup for your rights". This call should emanate even more resolutely through the local Rastafari community by embracing the enormous challenge of seeking, by all means possible, true justice; the much needed opening of dialogue, using other arsenals such as the higher education of their peers engaging modern legal and technological instruments of the law.
There is some serious concern that the image of the Rastafarian community has been damaged severely by individuals who profess the faith, dress accordingly, but who engage in socially deviant behavior. These individuals know who they are and what they are not representing by their miscreant behavior and frequent run-ins with the law. What is completely unacceptable is the fact that the true Rastafari faith and movement locally is automatically branded as being wholly responsible for the conduct of these individuals. Indeed, what is much needed for the healing of relations between the local Rastafarian community, the public and especially law enforcement is; a concentrated effort at publicly denouncing those practices, which are causing harm to the faith and community. Further, those individuals bearing the tools of scholastic empowerment should actively become involved in the monitoring of legal process and its effects, alluding to the community being as intelligent as possible pertaining to matters before the courts, legal representation, and the education of their younger generations.
It is not enough to simply pass on the torch of faith to the younger generation in the hope that they will accept the circumstances and fall in line. Educationally, the Rastafarian community has been discriminated against at will and has had to struggle with a stigma that has been turned into a damaging force by an unintelligent and willfully narrow minded public. Ignorance is not hereditary but rather a state of the mind influenced by the unwillingness to accept the fear of ones own shortcomings.
The Royal Barbados Police Force is one of the many government organizations who flounder on in desperation everyday, hoping that the next day will be better but failing utterly to address the fundamental issues of ingrained discriminatory attitudes and inherently flawed operating procedures. Customer service is non-existent, rude and inflammatory language is the norm, the public is viewed as a nuisance and the appalling self preserving rock bottom morale is utterly incomprehensible.
What is ever more disturbing is the fact that recent events surrounding the murder of a Canadian tourist were seen to be a sterling job on the part of the RBPF with a substantial reward being offered for the assailants capture. Not surprisingly, the perpetrator was quickly apprehended and charged, with the RBPF made to look as though they were the cutting edge of law enforcement. Why is that same attitude and determination lacking in everyday public service?
Why was this professional courtesy not extended to the Maloney family? Was it deemed un-necessary to dedicate the same amount of urgency to finding out the truth about what actually took place in this young man's last moments compared to the case of a wealthy Canadian Jew?
Where is the moral, social, and law enforcement service equality, that is claimed to be a founding principle of the Royal Barbados Police Force? Or is it that the facade of vested interest and social status might be tarnished, and thus must be preserved at all cost, irrespective of what happens to the less socially empowered in the society?
The causes of the Rastafarian community are in much need of support at a very difficult time in their history. It is incumbent upon every member of that community and decent law abiding citizens of Barbados to demand equality morally, socially and professionally from each other so that a definite influence of change and understanding can innervate our society.
It is absolutely imperative that the Maloney family seek every avenue available within the confines of the law to have answers, truth and justice delivered without delay. The public must also be kept fully informed every step of the way along the difficult path ahead, in order that a very clear and unequivocal message be relayed that unprofessional, tardy and inappropriate action by the RBPF directed toward any member of society, will not be tolerated.
Also, the Rastafarian community must seek to use this opportunity whilst in the social spotlight to educate the public in creative ways that can help to generate hope and a chance to speak as one voice, from within the society. There has been much done already toward this end and it is to be highly commended, but the true legacy of what is within each other will be bound together even more firmly if the colonial imperialist stigma of; "being unable to live in the Tenement Yard" is confronted by the dedication to social equality and justice.

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Official presentation of the rabbit JOKIO 27 x 19 x 19 cm, the very first sculptur designed in the BLANC BIJOU material. Jacques Owczarek, french sculptor living in Paris, is the first artist edited in BLANC BIJOU. The rare rabbit is invited in the VIP ROOM of the French consulate of France in Hong Kong and Macao. The rabbit JOKIO is considered as the masterpiece of the fair.
Dominique Bouchet realized his dream. The goodness and the beauty touched his heart. He lives between France and Japan,his second motherland.
He was only 17 years old, when he left for Paris from his hometown, Charente ; the young man had already made a long trip in his mind. He liked the savory, provincial, favorable and simple dishes.
He worked hard and passionately, and it was when he was 20 years old that he was hired by Joël Robuchon for the opening of the restaurant of the hôtel Concorde Lafayette. After 2 years,he became Joël Robuchon's righ hand.
Dominique Bouchet entered in the sphere of a chef with the star that he would never leave. From 1978, he became the top-chef in the restaurant «Le Jamin» (Paris), he achieved two-stars of the Guide Michelin. In 1981, Claide Terrail entrusted him with the post of the top-chef of the restaurant «La Tour d'Argent», and assigned him for opening a new restaurant in Tokyo.
Dominique Bouchet discovered Japan when he was 27 years old, and became the youngest three-stars chef of the Guide Michelin.It was the turning point in his career as a chef.
Going back to Charente, he opened his own restaurant, «Le Moulin de Marcouze», near by Cognac, two-stars restaurant that he had been holding for 12 years.
Paris missed him. Dominique Bouchet rejoined «L'hôtel de Crillon», where he was fully trained by Christian Constant for 7 years.
In 2004, he finally founded his restaurant «Restaurant Dominque Bouchet» on the Treihard street, 8th ward of Paris.
He is quite familiar with Japan, and has developed a good relationship.In Japan, he exports and imports fine products. In the land of Nippon, Dominique Bouchet let himself fascinated and keeps his sincere and generous temperament.
In July 2013, he is going to establish the first restaurant as Dominique Bouchet in Ginza, Tokyo.
BLANC BIJOU impresses this chef as a bridge between the innovation and the tradition of the art of life in France and Japan.This is the encounter with hide kasuga, creater-founder of BLANC BIJOU that is awarded «High-light material of the Year 2012» and therefore the official reception was held in the Embassy of Japan.The eternally white material made from the fluorite, its smooth touch, infinitely sensitive form has an elegance like marble. BLANC BIJOU «Table Art» is born this way.
Distribution : Dominique Bouchet 11, rue Treilhard 75008 Paris.
The Octogonal Monument is the first Architecture dressed in BLANC BIJOU Material.
The monument is designed by an architect based in France. The Octogonal Monument stands up at the North East of Japan.
hide kasuga presents the rabbit JOKIO designed by the French Sculptor Jacques Owczarek to mister Arnaud Barthélémy, the French Consul of France in Hong Kong and Macao.
The number «89» is dedicated to mister Barthelemy in reference of the history of France.
Edition of the JOKIO rabbit in 5 cm heigh. This limited edition is signed and engraved under 500 samples.
The Maison MAUBOUSSIN supports this launch offering a special visibility to this new piece of art of the french sculptor Jacques Owczarek.
To mark the official unveiling of a work of contemporary art made from BLANC BIJOU, Mr Hide kasuga presented a sculpture of a rabbit made from BLANC BIJOU, whose eyes made from precious stone, fluorite, to Mr Ichiro Komatsu, the Japanese Ambassador to Paris.
This unique object was designed by Mr hide kasuga. Entitled "hide kasuga 1896", it pays tribute to the origins and founder of the family firm which since become NiKKi Fron. This gift symbolises the strong link between the arts and technology and the traditions that bind French and Japanese nations.
A symbol of purity, with a high sensory value, BLANC BIJOU is eternally white and benefits from a unique feel, representing the unity of our peoples and our innovative vision.
To mark the presentation of this gift, Mr hide kasuga presented Jacques Owczarek, the French sculptor chosen to demonstrate the potential uses of BLANC BIJOU in the contemporary arts, to His Excellency Mr Ichiro Komatsu.
Born in 1961, Jacques Owczarek lives and works in Paris. His meeting with Mr hide kasuga literally changed his vision of sculpture and materials. The work produced in BLANC BIJOU, a rabbit called JOKIO, will be officially presented to collectors at the FINE ART ASIA international art fair in Hong Kong in October 2012. This will mark the meeting between the traditional values of ancient art and innovation in a unique, quality material designed to stand the test of time.
An exceptional rabbit: first sculpture created by BLANC BIJOU to be officially presented to collectors in FINE ART ASIA HONG KONG. The rabbit JOKIO is the first sculpture created by BLANC BIJOU.
BLANC BIJOU is a special material made from a rare and precious material. Having an eternal whiteness and unique touch, this is an exception in the world of art works.
This unique piece of work of Jacques Owczarek will be presented to collectors in FINE ART ASIA in Hong Kong, from 4th to 7th October, 2012.
An exceptional material which is made of a rare material: fluorite. An eternal whiteness. A soft, sensual sense of touch.
This unique material was presented in the International Exhibition "Now design à vivre" in Paris Maison et Objet in January 2012. They were elected as the High Light material of the year.
BLANC BIJOU established a new relation among sculptures, works and their touch. According to Jacques Owczarek, this unique material opens up new view of creation for artists and designers, and offers new experiences to collectors.
The work of Jacques Owczarek will be officially presented in the occasion of FINE ART ASIA in Hong Kong, from 4th to 7th October, 2012, by La Galerie Pierre DUMONTEIL.
The NiKKi Fron park in Nagano - Japan quality of its fabrics, since 1944, a cluster of research and development of innovation was established, it is specialized in the production of decoration made in hemp and silk and the design of polymers. In 2009, when hide kasuga took the lead of the family group NiKKi Fron, the financial crisis has already spread abroad.
By looking into the potential of the craftsmen of the group and the capacity to innovate NiKKi Fron, he decided to improve the formula of the fluropolymer to obtain absolute whiteness.
The Philosopher's stone of the 21st century is born.
Fascinated by the result – its whiteness and its exceptional sense of touch, hide kasuga created the BLANC BIJOU project and decided to establish the headquarter in Paris, in view of its French culture and the openness of the creators he met during his various stays and studies in France.
Two years will be necessary for him to study the forms and create an inventory of possibilities.
In 2011, while the family company celebrates its « 115 years of innovation », the brand's functional values of products of the leading sector evolved, towards the sensory values. BLANC BIJOU expresses the sensitive side of the world. It also indicates the marriage of science and sensibility : a new world of innovation and design which opens up our most creative side.
To mark the occasion, the Japanese government entrusted Mr. hide kasuga with the mission of promoting Japanese culture abroad, based around BLANC BIJOU's activities, values and vision.
Hong Kong is a place of particular symbolic importance for BLANC BIJOU. The rare fluorite mineral, from which the innovative BLANC BIJOU is made, was discovered by British scientists around the 17th century. British fluorite is the most famous to give off beautiful fluorescent by ultra violet. Fluorite was named from the Latin language "fluere" by French scientists in the 19th century. The biggest deposits of this rare material are found in China. The marriage between Japanese innovation and French artistic talent are combined in this unique work produced using highly specialized craft techniques.
A new era of exquisite creation has begun for top creators and collectors.
The work is represented by La Galerie Pierre DUMONTEIL Paris, New York, Shanghaï.


It was a magical week. I went with my friend Cheryl the first day and had so much fun. I met lots of people from Garden Town's Gazebo later in the week. They were all really nice and we had a grand time talking, eating, laughing and taking in the show. Garden Town is a chat line I really enjoy. The show was wonderful, so many things to take in and see. My favourite thing at the show was the Terracotta People playing chess. I loved all the floral displays and got some really good ideas for our new pond and garden.


Mafia Stories: Santo Trafficante Jr.
Despite numerous stunted ambitions, Santo Trafficante Jr. was regarded as one of the most powerful of the Mafia bosses in the United States. He ruled the Tampa, Florida, family with an iron hand and, following a long Mafia tradition in that city, has kept it profitably involved in many standard organized crime activities, such as gambling, loan-sharking and, above all, narcotics dealing. Florida is regarded as the top entry point for drugs into this country.
Born in this country, he is one of the few sons of a Mafia don to succeed to the godfather position in a crime family. His father, Santo Trafficante Sr., was boss for many years until his death in 1954. The elder Trafficante bequeathed his crown to his son, and his offspring had the required cunning, forcefulness and determination to take it.
Through the years it has been difficult for law enforcement officials and other observers to gauge Trafficante's activities, although it has been well known that he, as much as his father, initiated the crime family's move into the gambling casino world of pre-Castro Cuba.
Trafficante took up Cuban residence in 1946 and remained there until Fidel Castro ejected the mobs in 1959. After that Trafficante returned to Tampa and maintained the family's international ties in other fields. It has been alleged that in 1969 he journeyed to Saigon to make arrangements with the Corsicans there to ship Indochinese heroin unto the United States.
Trafficante was known to have been deeply involved in the CIA efforts to involve the underworld assassination attempts on Castro. Under pressure of a court order granting him immunity from prosecution, but threatening him with contempt if he refused to talk, Trafficante admitted to a congressional committee in 1975 that he had in the early 1960s recruited other mobsters, such as Johnny Roselli, to assassinate Castro.
"It was like in World War II," he told the committee. "They tell you to go to the draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." According to Trafficante, he and his fellow underworld conspirators considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talk about everything." Eventually, he said, the plots all failed.
Others give a different interpretation of the facts, that Trafficante above all others took the CIA for a ride. This version, backed by Roselli's statements, holds that Trafficante had no intention of trying to get Castro, that poisons prepared by CIA master chemists were simply flushed down Florida toilets, and moneys from the CIA to be siphoned to Cubans on the island never left the United States.
Some lawmen, and Roselli and his superior, Chicago boss Sam Giancana, ended up believing that Trafficante had even sold out to Castro. When Castro took power, he jailed Trafficante for a time, then suddenly released him and allowed him to leave with all his money.
The theory holds that Trafficante became Castro's agent in Florida, and when the CIA plots developed, he probably reported everything to Cuban agents in the state. There has long been a theory among many researchers that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was actually a Castro retaliation for the CIA-Mafia plots against him.
In 1978 Trafficante testified once again before a House assassination committee on the Kennedy murder. This time the committee was especially interested in a sworn statement made to committee investigators by Cuban exile leader José Alemán that months before the Kennedy assassination, Trafficante had told him, "Kennedy's gonna get hit."
However, in public testimony, Alemán, clearly fearful of Trafficante's wrath, gave the comment a different interpretation. What the mob boss probably meant, Alemán said, was that Kennedy would be hit by Republican votes in 1964—not bullets. It was the first and only time Trafficante was granted status with George Gallup as an expert on voter opinion, and for that matter it was virgin use of the term hit in mob lingo as being synonymous with "landslide."
Trafficante glided through the probe. He was one of the most successful Mafia bosses in that respect— suspected of much but convicted of little until his death in 1987 of a heart ailment.


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The eighty-sixth Minnesota Legislature first convened on January 6, 2009 and ended upon the beginning of the next Legislature in January 2011. The 67 members of the Minnesota Senate were elected during the 2006 General Election, and the 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were elected during the 2008 General Election.

Sessions
Two special sessions were held.  The first was for several hours on May 17, 2010, to complete a budget bill.  The second special session was held October 18, 2010, to provide disaster relief to flood areas in Southern Minnesota.

Party summary
Resignations and new members are discussed in the "Membership changes" section, below.

Senate

House of Representatives

Leadership

Senate
President of the Senate
James Metzen (DFL-South St. Paul)

Senate Majority Leader
Lawrence Pogemiller (DFL-Minneapolis)

Senate Minority Leader
David Senjem (R-Rochester)

House of Representatives
Speaker of the House
Margaret Anderson Kelliher (DFL-Minneapolis)

House Majority Leader
Anthony Sertich (DFL-Chisholm)

House Minority Leader
Until June 24, 2009 Marty Seifert (R-Marshall)
From June 24, 2009 Kurt Zellers (R-Maple Grove)

House Members

Members, 2009-2010

Senate Members

Members: 2009-2010

Membership changes

Senate

References

Majority and Minority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives, 1901-present
Minnesota Legislators Past and Present, 86th Session

Results of Special Elections for the Minnesota Legislature, 1971-present

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2009 in Minnesota
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2009 U.S. legislative sessions
2010 U.S. legislative sessions

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Ан-714 — советский экспериментальный самолёт на базе Ан-14 с шасси на воздушной подушке (СПО), разработанный Куйбышевским КБ шасси самолётов и вертолётов под руководством И. А. Бережного. Предназначался для проведения комплекса исследований по определению области применения СПО как взлётно-посадочного устройства.

История
Попытки оснастить самолёт шасси на воздушной подушке (СПО) предпринимались неоднократно. Впервые такой аппарат был создан в СССР в 1939 году. На учебно-тренировочный самолёт УТ-2 вместо колёсного шасси установили резиновый баллон с вентиляторной установкой. В 1941 году была разработана аналогичная конструкция СПО для Пе-2, баллоны размещались под мотогондолами. По замыслу конструкторов, после взлёта воздух из баллонов выпускался, и они втягивались в задние отсеки мотогондол, где закрывались створками. Но Пе-2 с СПО так и не взлетел. На Ан-714 , который был спроектирован на базе Ан-14, была применена такая же схема гибкого ограждения для СПО, как и на Пе-2.

Первый полёт Ан-714 совершил 20 октября 1970 года. Ан-714 был построен в одном экземпляре, и работы по такой схеме СПО были прекращены, как неперспективные.

Техническое описание СПО
СПО представляет собой три несущих баллона тороидальной формы из прорезиненной ткани, расположенных на местах крепления стоек шасси. Сверху каждого баллона установлен гидромотор ГМ-36 мощностью 22 л. с. с центробежным ротором. Привод ротора — от маршевых двигателей самолёта через систему гидравлического вала. Масса каждого такого устройства 28 кг.

Ротор нагнетает воздух в камеру внутри кольца баллона, создавая внутри зону высокого давления. Из-за разницы в давлении между объёмом внутри баллона и нормальным атмосферным давлением самолёт поднимается до тех пор, пока давление не стабилизируется. Избыток воздуха выходит в атмосферу между баллоном и опорной поверхностью, образуя так называемую воздушную подушку . Испытания показали, что удельное давление на поверхность 0,07 кгс/см², что в 100 раз меньше, чем у колёсного шасси.

Технические характеристики

Примечания

Литература
 В. Б. Шавров: «История конструкций самолётов в СССР 1951—1965 гг.». / «Машиностроение» 1994 / Стр. 30.

Самолёты Антонова
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Castle Dungeon
To the left the entry, the right the hall way
To the left tunnels to cells, to the right the cell flooring
You are advised to stay away from this dungeons, enter if you dare. this dungeon is often considered cursed do,to the odd sounds that can be heard from below. the Dungeon is protected by a heavy door surrounded by chain's, also a large sign . it is also said Amber keeps the castle's defense below for some unknown reason but this has never been proven. The inside of the dungeon is a mystery for only the fist half has been seen by others, only Amber has moved to the deepest part of this dungeon of death and pain. A odd man has also been seen outside in the Garden's late at night with the dungeon door's open slightly. This man is none other then Phantom which is hardly seen outside his room or usually vanishes which most believes means he's in the dungeon.
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2011-07-30 [Sicarius]: The slender figure moved through the darkness, eyes seeing clearly despite the inky shadows. She felt more at ease here in this quiet and dangerous place...it reminded her of life before the war...To be sure, she'd never really liked the danger aspect of living in the city...in fact she'd downright loathed it, nevermind that the simple fact it was dangerous had ensured her a steady paycheck...Indeed, she didn't even care much for the feeling now...still, it was familiar...unlike the rest of this place.
The city...
She could not help but miss it...though time and time before, she'd told herself she'd move to a place like this if she ever got the opportunity...Of course, that was before the war had broken out...when she had been able to choose whether to stay or go...the keyword being choose. Instead she'd been forced to pick up and move...or the people under her would have stayed in the city to be with her, nevermind that she would have survived and they wouldn't...at least not if they continued to help her (as she knew they would insist on doing)...If only Vera were still alive...perhaps it would have made it more bearable...She shook her head; she would not think about Vera...not now...
She decided to focus on her current surroundings...bleak, drab...the feeling of hopelessness, terror, anger, and utter despair were almost tangible...Truth be told, she'd found this place quite by accident...Or perhaps not...Something had been 'calling' to her earlier...and now that pull had stopped...Lips lifted in a sardonic smile. It figured.
2011-07-31 [Itami Cross]: slowly a tall caped Figure walked forward, his cape flowing slightly with each step as his armor glimmerd from the slight light caming from a small crack in the wall. slowly his blue eyes stared into the darkness without a care. Water splashed as he moved through the water as he crossed his arms, his muscles flexing from the movement before hs stopped seeing the slender form of a woman from the darkness before he slowly glanced down about to turn when he felt his body pulse slightly as if something was calling out to him, quickly he glanced back from over his shoulder as he narrowed his eyes, 'who is that? that voice?'
Slowly he turned and began to walk again as he stepped in the water causeing it to splash as it echoed throughout the tunnel. The tall amn spoke not a word as he went past the gate leading out and into the deeper part of the other tunnel as he stopped dead in his tracks then steared down into a deep pond of water which had formed in a crater most likely from war times.
slowly his eyes narrowed as his mind flashback to a calm view with a blonde haired boy raunning around a pond chaseing a rabbit before he slipped and fell into the water. quickly the vision changed from bright to dark as the boy struggled trying to stay above water as claw like hands wrapped around him pulling him down into the water.
Slowly the man blinked as the image fadded and he looked back senceing someone approaching.
2011-07-31 [Sicarius]: The unknown force that had led her here was pulling once more...toward the sound of splashing water. She gave an inward sigh as she obeyed the call and began to walk in the direction that called to her...toward the man. Silver eyes glowed brilliantly in the darkness as she followed with very little noise. Her posture was relaxed. She had nothing to fear...at least not yet...and who knows, perhaps this encounter would help her reconcile the fact she had been forced to leave.
She spoke not a word as she moved toward the man, choosing to stand beside him and stare down at the pool of water. Vera's face made itself known in her mind, and she shook her head slightly. It does no good to relive that which cannot be changed...she thought, lifting her gaze to study the man's features. Armor...and a cape...how unusual...
((Sorry it's not much...brain is kinda dead...))
2011-08-01 [Itami Cross]: Slowly the man's eyes gazed to the girl beside him before he returned his gaze to the water as he crossed his arms not speaking a word as he lifted his gaze waiting for her to speak if she wished.
((Its cool, this part will be slow before a friendship forms))
2011-08-01 [Sicarius]: Silver eyes watched him surreptitiously now, though it looked like she was looking down at the pool of water. Once more Vera's face made itself known in her mind, and at this, she gave a sigh. The sound shattered the relative silence. Sensing he would not be the first to speak, and knowing it was rude to pretend he was not there, Faell opened her mouth. "So...what's your story?" Not bad, she thought, ...I managed to sound civil...seemingly uncaring, but civil...
She said nothing about the sensation she was feeling...the incessant tugging that was urging her to keep going forward...and though her tone had made it seem as though she was not interested in hearing from the stranger, she actually was. It was somewhat of a hobby of hers...helped her remember a person, learn about them...
2011-08-01 [Itami Cross]: Blue eyes slowly shifted to the girl as he took his hand running it through his blonde hair as he made sure it remained in its normal slicked back style before he spoke his voice deep and quiet, "My story doesen't matter.." with that said he went quiet again seeming kinda quiet and a bit uncareing of the situation himself.
2011-08-01 [Sicarius]: Lips lifted in a sardonic grin at his reply, "As you say," she said simply, falling silent again. She, of course, offered nothing by way of introduction...Faell couldn't help but mentally roll her eyes when she'd seen him run a hand through his hair, There is not much of a breeze to cause it to blow out of place...she thought. And, for a third time, Vera's face came unbidden into her mind. Dammit...why I should be thinking of her at this time is beyond me...it's not like she drowned...thank goodness...The Inspectress placed her hands in her pockets, ...coroner corroborated what McGinty told me that night...two shots to the heart...no prolonged pain, no suffering...it was quick...relatively painless...a sigh escaped from her, ...it still should have been me...That little prick should have gone after me...but Vera was there...she thought it was safe...
2011-08-01 [Itami Cross]: slowly the man's blue eyes peered to the woman as she seemed to vanish into her thoughts as his eyes slowly returned to the water before helowered down to one knee as he peered deeper into it then slowly reached his hand inside. Quickly the water around his air boiled then turned to steam as he reached in deeper before he pulled back.
Slowly his arm exited the water as the droplets on his skin turned to steam then went dry as he held a strange box in his hand and he looked at it before his eyes saddened then he turned walking back to the tunnels leading into the cell area of the dungeon.
2011-08-01 [Sicarius]: She was torn from her thoughts as the man reached into the water. Silver eyes watched intently as he kept reaching and the water began to angrily bubble up. Gaze remained the same as he slowly produced a box from the dark depths, though in her mind she couldn't help but wonder what it held. Noting the sorrowful expression in his eyes, the Inspectress turned and began to follow him.
The pulling sensation was getting more insistent as she trailed behind him...trying to tug her back to the pool of water...but something told her that following this stranger would prove to produce something worthwhile...besides, she could always go back later...in fact, it was safe to say she would go back later...
2011-08-01 [Itami Cross]: Slowly the blonde haired man walked deeper into the tunnel before walking up to the rusted bars of a cell as he looked down into it then up at the burned picture which was pinned to the wall behind the cell but center just above it as he slowly turned the gear on the side of the box as it slowly opened and played a soft melody as he lowered it in the cell then stood slowly as he looked to the Picture as the girl's face turned from a frown to a smile almost magically. "Rest in peace Kid, let your mother's music box guide you."
The blonde haired man then slowly turned as his cape flowed behind him and he walked past the woman before stopping his arm and mere inch from hers. he stood for a moment like he was about to speak but then slowly moved on as he exited the room then walked down the tunnel again, this time walking through the water without a care unlike before.
2011-08-01 [Sicarius]: Silver eyes watched the scene unfold, and when she saw the picture change as the melody played...when she heard the man's words, she was surprised to find her lips turned up into an actual smile...the Silver Eyed Witch stood there for a few seconds after the man began walking away...and then, with the pulling sensation growing worse, began to walk once more toward the pool of water.
She stopped just at the edge. What is it you're trying to tell me? she thought, peering intently into it. Why do you keep trying to guide me this way?
2011-08-01 [Itami Cross]: Slowly The man stopped as he stood infront of the door's leading into the dungeon as he slowly narrowed his blue eyes, something was off. the water in the pond and the spirits trapped in the dungeon.
slowly he glance back the felt a pull like something trying to drag him back, 'What is this Feeling?!!!'Slowly the man walked back toward the tunnels as the pull seemed to grow stronger as he moved further in, 'Its getting stronger...i feel it..the woman. is she still inside?!!!'
2011-08-01 [Sicarius]: And now she sat at the water's edge, wondering if she should attempt to walk through it. I know more than my fair share of tricks that would enable me to do so...Faell stared into the liquid that, thanks to the darkness, looked very much the color of ink. Fingers reached out and idly began to trace a few letters of the ogham alphabet above the surface of the water, each letter glowing with a faint emerald hued light that slowly faded. The letters of the ash, the rowan, willow and hazel. Expression, Wisdom, Vision, and Honesty. These were the traits for each that she focused on now as she stared into the water, silver eyes trying to scry the still surface. "Reveal to me what lies beneath...guide me to that which bids me come..." Words were spoken softly, respectfully...something that seemed in-congruent with her usual attitude.
2011-08-04 [Itami Cross]: He calmly stood back as he watched the silver eyed woman patiently before glancing toward the water,'What is she doing...she shouldnt tamper with the darkness of this dungeon.'
Quickly he blurred as he appeared beside her but then clutched his ears as a loud scream echoed throughout the dungeon before he looked back seeing a odd glow in the far tunnel, 'THE BANSEE!!! SHIT!'
2011-08-04 [Sicarius]: The pool of water remained dark...there would be nothing revealed to her...not yet anyway. Head turned slowly in the direction of the scream, it was like the sound didn't even effect her. Silver eyes began to glow brighter, Now this...this reminds me of the city...Rising to her feet, she stood watching the glow...and smiled...
2011-08-04 [Itami Cross]: Quickly the man looked to the Girl then back at the glow before he raised one arm then curled his fingers like gripping something as a strange seal appeared infront of his hand as the glow got brighter then a odd femal figure walked forward. The girl had pitch black hair which fell over her face blocking her facial features from view as her torn white dress moved slightly as she walked.
2011-08-04 [Sicarius]: "One of the Sidhe," she murmured, "It's been a long time since I encountered any of your kind..." The Silver-Eyed Witch walked forward, "...Pray tell me, if you are able, whose clothes you have been washing?" It was a tactfully phrased question...a subtle way of asking whether the spirit was here to tell of another being dying.
2011-08-04 [Itami Cross]: Slowly the bansee raised a hand before pointing at the blonde haired man and opened her mouth but was hit by a strange white beam in the shape of a Cross. The Bansee let out a loud screech as The man lowered his arm then began to walk, he slowly passed the Bansee as she turned to dust as he passed her then walked toward the exit of the Dungeon.
2011-08-06 [Sicarius]: Silver eyes watched the creature's motions, saw the open mouth, the beam of light...the creature's dissolution into dust. She watched impassively as the stranger walked away, then let out a soft sigh that echoed throughout the tunnel. It is unusual for them to simply keen and point at the one who is destined to die...she thought, moving now to the pile of dust and bending down. The pointer of her left hand drew a circle around the pile...a silver light, tinged with purple rose where her finger touched. A binding ritual...one that would ensure the creature would return to dust upon its being broken...A few ogham letters in the air in front of the circle...Ash, rowan, hazel...Expression, wisdom, honesty...Three times she drew the symbols...Three times did the glowing emerald letters embed themselves in the barrier...Nine symbols now surrounded the outside of the binding circle.
"Creature of Old, I ask thee rise...
To offer words honest, wise...
Let you speak, and myself clearly see
That which needs to be revealed...
Arise once more, and speak, though sealed...
In circle of Letter and circle of Light...
I ask for thee to rise tonight...
To pass your wisdom onto me
And harm it none, so mote it be..."
Softly chanted, respectful in tone, this was her invocation. It had never failed her yet, and the Inspectress was sure it would not fail her now...And now, she waited patiently to see if the being of the Sidhe would heed her call...
2011-09-18 [Itami Cross]: slowly The blonde haired man slowwed his steps to a stop as hee glanced back senceing magic being put in motion but he merely smairked, "its a cursed dungeon...magic will not stop them here." with that said he countinued forward once more vanishing into the darkness as the doors leading to the dungeon slowly creeped shut causeing the sound to echo through out the dungeon as a strange energy began to glow from deep in the water as it began to boil as if placed over a volcano.
2011-09-18 [Sicarius]: Faell sighed, gaze unreadable. I know more of curses than he realizes...she thought, taking down the binding circle in mere seconds. Still, even I know when a thing is futile...there is no spark in the ash...and, were it a real Sidhe, something would have remained...perhaps not enough to bid this one rise...but it wouldn't have felt so...so lifeless... "Rest..." she said softly, turning toward the stairs. "...and I wasn't trying to stop anything...merely get some answers..." It was clear she was addressing the stranger, though she didn't stop moving toward the exit...Out of Darkness...she thought, Into light. And her silver eyes glowed brighter as she ascended the worn steps.
She stopped, feeling the energy shift, then gave a sigh, turning back in the direction she'd just come from. "Luise," she murmured, causing an orb of light to appear throwing out harsh beams, illuminating everything but its summoner. And now we shall see what we shall see...


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Carillion signs £70m Saudi hospital contract
17 Jun 14 Carillion Saudi Arabia has signed a contract with Aldara Medical Corporation to deliver the £70m second phase of a hospital in Riyadh.
The new Aldara Hospital & Medical Centre is strategically located in Riyadh close to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre and also Al Faisal University. It is being built to address growing demand for high-quality health care in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabia and in the wider region.
Carillion chief executive Richard Howson said: "We are delighted to have been selected to deliver this prestigious project, our second hospital project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which offers significant opportunities for growth that contribute to the improving outlook in our Middle East markets. We look forward to working closely with the Aldara Medical Corporation and to using our extensive experience in the healthcare sector to ensure that the Aldara Hospital and Medical Centre is completed to the highest standards."
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There is no such thing as "it's too late", I teach women above 30 to stand on their hands and turn into back-rolls for the first time in their lives, so trust me when I say you can certainly start working out at any point in your lifetime. Guess what, here is my top tips to help you start.
Although there are many types of workouts that are fashionable at the moment, they are not all necessarily the best for you to start with. Your workout needs to be kind to your body. Make sure you select a type that will be gentle on your joints, that will help you build muscle slowly but surely without damaging your joints. Another factor to consider is a workout that will not cause you immense agony of running short on breath. Pilates and yoga are great choices along with dance based workouts.
It is important that you select a workout that is easy for you to commit to. Apart from the fact that it certainly needs to be something you enjoy, ensure you select a workout facility that is already on your way home/work-place. The less you have to get out of your way, the easier it is for you to commit after you start.
We all get psyched up and ambitious when we start something new and it is very easy to develop a new obsession. Remember your body needs time to adapt and change, in order to keep up with excitement. Start by working out 2-3 times per week, then move it up to 4-5 times so your body can get more accustomed. Remember that having at least 1 rest day per week is vital for your body to recover.
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The most important part of starting a new workout is paying attention to your nutrition and sleep. The countless events of clients collapsing and feeling faint/dizzy during their session are almost always a result of lack of sleep or food. Make sure you sleep well and that you eat at least 90 minutes before your class, it is your body's petrol!
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Good morning from full-blown snowstormy Vermont. We won't be driving anywhere today, not even to visit my mother. Today I was supposed to return to my regular work hours at the college, noon to 8 PM, but because of the weather, the library is closed. I wonder if our electricity and internet will hold?
No word from Curiosity Quills, but I'm slowly moving to a decision. I've reached out to CQ asking for referrals regarding respectable agents, and have found a trustworthy person to walk me through the self-publishing process (including how to stay on Amazon) if that's the road I choose. I think I'll give it another week to see what pans out. I haven't forgotten my promise to give you the story. At this point, it's all about timing and my own reserves of energy.
I've been reading up on new teaching methods as I prep for information literacy lessons in several on-campus classes. Because it has been a dream of mine to learn all the romance languages, I was comforted to know that even though it's harder to learn a new language as an adult, it is still quite possible, and so is learning more than one language at a time. Hearing the sound of a new word in a new language comforts me. Every now and then I pull a word from the atmosphere and I decline or conjugate it in Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian. I study the patterns and roll the sequences around my tongue. This is my idea of a good time. When I was at UVM, I took a linguistics course because I was interested in becoming one. But the instructor, I remember her well, gave us a horrid, dry textbook, and killed any interest I had in pursuing this subject further. Well, almost killed. I'm still hooked. I just wish I had more time.
I leave you with a fact. The pitter patter of snow against our windows sounds just like oatmeal burning in the pot on the stove. I forgot again.
Check in next week for another segment of Finding Home.
gotten back to Paul and said he really can't ….he self publishes, but in small quantities of expensive museum type books, adn that he isn't set up to be able to larger quantities of less expensive noel type books.
So sorry for getting your hopes up.
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Britain evacuates its diplomats from Iran; Norway shuts embassy
BAGHDAD — One day after the sacking of its embassy in
Tehran by pro-regime Iranian militants, Britain on Wednesday evacuated
all its diplomats from Iran, closed its embassy and ordered the
expulsion of all Iranian diplomats from London within 48 hours.
Foreign Secretary William Hague told Parliament the attack was a "grave
violation" of diplomatic convention in a speech delivered moments after
the last British diplomat had left Iran. Norway also shut its embassy,
and Germany announced that it was recalling its ambassador amid reports
that other European nations may follow suit.
developments were the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter clash
between the Islamic Republic — burdened by an increasing array of
sanctions over its nuclear program — and the West.
Tuesday, dozens of basiji, as members of the pro-regime political
militia are called, stormed the embassy, tore down and burn British
flags, and carted away the cast-iron coat of arms featuring two lions.
Wednesday, a statement published in the name of hundreds of "student"
protesters by the semi-official Fars News Agency, which is linked to
Iran's Revolutionary Guard force, declared that such actions would
continue.
also reported that police used tear gas to clear the embassy, and
arrested a dozen protesters at the embassy's residential garden compound
further north in Tehran.
students' move today and occupation of the Old Fox's Den of Plots
(British Embassy) was only a meager response to this declaration of war
and Britain should wait for the coming moves of the great Iranian nation
who intends to settle an old score for years of plotting (against
Iran)," the statement read.
Persian-language news
websites identified in photographs some of the protesters as leaders of
the Basij militia, which is commanded by the Guard, and the Guard's Quds
Force, which handles Iranian military and covert actions abroad.
Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nor President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose respective supporters have been locked in
political battle since last spring, have yet spoken about the events.
But Khamenei's representative to the universities said students had
proven that "they found the center of sedition," an indication that
Khamenei supported the action.
"An attack like
that could not have happened unless it was approved quite high up," said
Massoumeh Torfeh, an Iran specialist at the School of Oriental and
African Studies at the University of London. "I don't know what level it
was on, because we haven't heard yet from Khamenei, but it must have
come from a high source."
The latest spark was
London's recent decision to target Iran's central bank with sanctions
aimed at halting Iran's nuclear work, which the U.S., Britain, and
Israel believe is aimed at making a bomb.
Iran's anger at Britain — beyond historical grudges that stretch back
centuries, dates to the 2009 presidential election, when millions of
Iranians took to the street to protest the declared re-election of
Ahmadinejad, only to be crushed.
Among Iran's
foreign enemies, which include the U.S. and Israel, Britain was singled
out then for being the most determined to overthrow the regime.
has been mounting on the relationship between Iran and the U.K. over
the past two years, triggered by the 2009 post-election protest, which
was widely reported by the newly set-up BBC Persian TV, which the
Iranian government described as a 'soft war' on Iran," Torfeh said.
new British sanctions aimed at Iran's central bank added to the anger
since they strike directly at the Revolutionary Guard, the main engine
of Iran's economy, she said.
Ahmadinejad admitted to parliament in recent weeks that Iran was facing "the biggest offensive in history."
"All our purchases and sales, all our agreements are being monitored and blocked," he said.
attack on the embassy, which took place as the basijis and other
militants were marking the anniversary of the assassination of nuclear
scientist Majid Shahriari, revealed a broader issue about the internal
political fight in Iran.
"It illustrates their frustration with the sanctions regime," Torfeh said.
watcher Scott Lucas on his EAWorldview website suggested that Iran's
actions stemmed from a position of weakness. He said a combination of
factors, economic problems, a spate of recent unexplained explosions at
military and industrial facilities, and a report from the U.N.'s nuclear
watchdog agency that details past weapons-related projects, prompted
the "regime … to hit back."
He said Iran could be using the prospect of military confrontation to help them mask economic problems and political infighting.
Iran's
decision earlier this week to expel the British ambassador, after just
one month on the job, was a "very big mistake," Torfeh said.
British ambassador was one of the high-ranking diplomats who was
actually in Tehran. He could have been used by the (Iranian regime) as a
way of resolving the problems with the West. Instead now … they have
set themselves up against the rest of the world, and made themselves far
more isolated."
(McClatchy Newspapers and The Christian Science Monitor operate a joint news bureau in Baghdad.)
Distributed by MCT Information Services
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Kaiser Permanente Grant Purchases Refrigerated Storage Trailers to Expand Food donations, Offer Hope
By Corporate Communications on	 October 15, 2020 Community Caring
Kaiser Permanente, in partnership with non-profit, Sowing Empowerment & Economic Development, Inc. (SEED) and Prince George's County Councilmember Dannielle Glaros, this week unveiled two refrigerated food storage trailers bearing murals by local artists. The two new units, which were purchased through a donation from the health system, will expand access to fresh food for those in the Greater Riverdale community and surrounding areas. The refrigerated food storage trailers are located at the Christian Life Center in Riverdale, Md. and were purchased through a $24,000 contribution from Kaiser Permanente to SEED, Inc., which provides food and other resources to low and moderate-income families.
"Many residents of the Greater Riverdale community have been hit especially hard by this pandemic, making food insecurity an even greater issue," said George Leventhal, director of Community Health at Kaiser Permanente. "This contribution is just a small part of the work we're doing at Kaiser Permanente to remove barriers to health, like food insecurity, and we hope that these food storage trailers help to expand access to healthy, nutritious food throughout Greater Riverdale."
Kaiser Permanente also hired local artists and brought in local art students to create artistic murals on the food trailers. The murals were revealed today at the Riverdale site. In collaboration with the Greater Riverdale Cares initiative, a consortium of government leaders and local organizations focused on addressing food insecurity that is led by Councilmember Glaros, Kaiser Permanente and SEED hope that the mural-laden food storage units serve not only as a way to expand access to healthy food in Greater Riverdale, but also to brighten the community and offer hope.
"Since launching Greater Riverdale Cares in April, we have provided more than 1 million pounds of fresh produce and groceries to residents in need," said Councilmember Glaros. "These refrigerated trailers will serve the practical purpose of safely storing food donations prior to distribution and will serve as an inspirational reminder of a community rallying together to support each other."
SEED distributes food to hundreds of families each Wednesday at the East Pines Community Center in Riverdale beginning at 12 p.m. and Councilmember Glaros sends updates on weekly food distribution opportunities for those in need. The Greater Riverdale Cares collaborative has helped feed more than 10,000 families and delivered more than 100,000 hot meals to the Riverdale community.
"This initiative is the perfect public, corporate and community partnership, " said SEED President and CEO Lisa Butler McDougal. "In the six months since the economic crisis began, SEED has distributed more than 150,000 pounds of fresh produce, 100,000 pounds of groceries, 75,000 hot meals and nearly 40,000 diapers to affected families. With Kaiser Permanente's support we have the capacity to serve more."
About Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente has a mission to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 12.3 million members in eight states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal Permanente physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the-art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education, and the support of community health. For more information, please go to kp.org.
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Scout's Transformation In To Kill A Mockingbird
To begin with, Scout develops greatly throughout the story by learning her place in society- as a woman. Scout believes from an early age that "being a girl" was something terrible and "wussy", and "being a boy" was something valuable and brave. Being a girl was less of a matter of what she was born with and more of a matter of how she acted. "I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with." (pg 119) Scout's train of thought tells us that she was unaware of society's invisible rules, thought girls were supposed to be hated for being sissy and prudent, and deserved to be shunned…show more content…
Aunt Alexandra petitions for Scout to serve tea time one afternoon, and Scout completes the task accompanied by Calpurnia, dressed in a crisply starched dress that concealed the boyish trousers she treasured so much. Aunt Alexandra graciously invites Scout to come sit and chat with the ladies. Unexpecting of anything of worth in the small talk, Scout hears a conversation, though so civilized and polite, so full of quiet yet powerful courage, so unlike a boy's honoring bravery. Thier innocent chit chat revealed the towns biased beliefs, and Miss Maudie and Aunt Alexandra hear of something unforgivable and so ironic it was sad in the iconic conversation of the ladies of Maycomb. Scout witnesses the intangible way the pair stand up for what they believed in, not in the way that Scout knew so well, but in a complicated, strange but just as powerful way. Miss Maudie's courage was most apparent, the way she stood contrary and cold to Miss Merriweather and the others without even raising her voice. Simple gestures like squeezing Scout's hands and a slightly colder tone said so much. But Aunt Alexandra also showed courage, composing herself after the devastating news of Tom Robinsons's death and her silent thanks to Miss Maudie when she silenced the ironic and discrimitory women
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To Kill A Mockingbird Scout's Transformation
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Why Is Innocence Becomes Experience?
In To Kill A Mockingbird there are several reason why innocence becomes experience. Phys.com stated "Between ages 5 and 11, the researchers found, children become aware that many people believe stereotypes, including stereotypes about academic ability. When children become aware of these types of bias about their own racial or ethnic group, it can affect how they respond to everyday situations." This shows that Scout and Jem are in a time of their lives when racism will take effect. Not only because
Harper Lee's best-selling novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" has become an American classic. Read by both young and old around the world and taught to schoolchildren almost everywhere, the youthful charisma of Scout Finch and the bravery of her father Atticus have charmed audiences for more than 50 years. This book was so successful that Lee had decided never to write a sequel, saying that the success of To Kill a Mockingbird had "overwhelmed" her. But the book didn't start out as a masterpiece--in fact
Life Lessons In To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird', illustrates various morals and life lessons that reflect the attitudes of individuals towards notions of self growth, prejudice and innocence. The novel encompasses Atticus Finch's courage and determination as he goes against the social conventions of Maycomb, Alabama and fights for justice whilst also teaching his children extremely valuable lessons. Harper Lee's extensive exploration of these ideas are expressed through her literary techniques and characterisation
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Theme Of Maturity In To Kill A Mockingbird
one's very own sense of purity; the loss of innocence is an inexorable process of maturity and the development of one's character for both physical and moral enhancement. For instance, throughout Jem and Scout's early years at Maycomb, the two children set an enormous breakthrough in their transformation into young adults as they encountered the real world and came to know the good and the evil on their surroundings alongside their own inner demons. For instance, the youngster's imagination and curiosity
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