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My personal memoir of Wounded Knee 1973
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'Firefights were as commonplace as nightfall' Wounded Knee 1973 included a record number of ammunition used and capture by the U.S. federal forces
"It was the freest most exhilarating time of our lives."
Dwain Camp
Ponca Nation
This is not an overview story of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota occurring on that cold winter in 1973. Although that short period stands out as the singular most life-changing experience of my eventful 82 years, I will leave the telling of that important tale to the others that were in a better position to see and explain the bigger picture.
I will tell you instead of a little slice of time, which includes leaving one world in Southern California and entering another at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
The end of this personal memoir is my clandestine exit of the then newly formed Independent Oglala Nation (I.O.N.), with a hand-picked cadre of the Lakota American Indian Movement as an escort, and our interception and capture by the U.S. federal forces.
My journey began when the phone rang in Escondido, California. I was watching the news and the stories spun of "renegade Indians" regarding the takeover in progress of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Brother Carter was saying to me on the phone, "Hey, brother, we are in a hell of a fight" and it sounded like it.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kent Frizzell, right, listens to AIM leaders prior to signing of a peace settlement on April 5, 1973. One of them appears to be handing off a Talking Stick.
Carter's name was being heard more frequently on national media; such as in TIME magazine which reported on "the exploits of the newest activist in the 'Nixon versus the rest of us' era." I left southern California that day on a commercial flight to Denver.
The American Indian Movement (AIM) chapter there exchanged my California clothes for a winter coat and Levi's and my loafers for high-topped boots. The Denver AIM guys were saying good and strong words — offering both encouragement and information on the latest at Wounded Knee — during our brief encounter.
Then it was just me and the pilot in a small, light plane on a very low-altitude flight to South Dakota. We were staying under 1,000 feet to avoid detection, and I came to full alert when the pilot asked me to please help him watch for a couple of tall TV towers that did loom up just before and after passing near Scott's Bluff, Nebraska — where another bloody set-to between AIM and the local authorities had recently taken place. (In retrospect, the pilot, whose name I can't recall ever hearing at that time, was on the record, an infiltrator for the FBI named Doug Durham.)
I flew into Rapid City. But I still had 40-50 miles to Pine Ridge. Upon my eventual arrival, the sandbag placements by the military at Pine Ridge were already noticeable at strategic points, including the roof of the BIA building.
On my first attempt to walk into Wounded Knee, I was turned back and forced to turn around by the military.
After I was forced to turn around on my initial attempt on the first day, that night was memorable in downtown Rapid City as the locals, both Indian and white, could talk of nothing else.
The following day was when I was able to get into Wounded Knee after hitching a ride partway with a small group of young men and women from the San Francisco Bay area and, SUCCESS!
I was now part of the chaotic scene inside Wounded Knee. That whole first day is kind of a montage of activity in my memory. Meeting Indians of all descriptions, some that later turned out to be lifelong friends and generally getting the lay of the land, literally as well as figuratively, is now only brief but still sharp pictures in my special memories album.
One of the earliest images engraved in memory is the silhouette of our youngest brother Craig, now a less svelte seventy-two, as he made his entrance into the busy activity of "downtown" Wounded Knee.
As brother Carter and I looked for Craig, we were afraid that we would miss him in the gloom. The search was made more difficult with only the light of flickering bonfires and distant headlights, plus great numbers of our brothers and sisters hurrying in all directions in the cold of the South Dakota winter.
I still look back and remember the pleasure and pride at being able to immediately recognize my brother's familiar walk as well as bearing. With us both coming in from California, Craig from mid-state and me from farther south — and with no previous knowledge of each other's plans — we both arrived within a day of each other. At that moment we were three excited and happy brothers.
Not having been in the U.S. military service, I had not been under enemy fire (having a gun drawn and pointed or shot at you in a personal dispute doesn't count) so I had some trepidation.
I wasn't worried exactly, but more concerned and curious about myself. My concerns proved to be groundless. Firefights were as commonplace as nightfall and I found myself immediately caught up and too busy to think about anything other than the task at hand.
If using "commonplace" and "firefights" in the same sentence make it sound as though there was anything remotely casual about it, that is certainly not my intent. We were armed mostly with .22 caliber rifles along with shotguns and a few ancient '30-'30s and one AK-47, our lone automatic weapon which incidentally became quite famous from a widely distributed picture of a warrior holding it victoriously overhead.
We encountered what has been called the heaviest firepower this side of Vietnam — with documented casings counted afterward — more than five hundred thousand rounds expended just from their side, in those busy days and cold nights.
One of my first experiences there was an all-night vigil before our positions could be realistically called bunkers, in a hillside foxhole with just brothers Craig and Carter. The most recent burst of fire had been very intense and, suddenly concerned about our gameplan, I turned to Carter and asked very seriously, "What is our fallback position?" To which he answered, "there is none, this is it."
When I turned and gave him a long look, he then said about no fallback position, "That sure sounds good, but it doesn't wear worth a shit, does it?" and immediately all three of us are practically rolling around on the ground with laughter. Comic relief, of which there was plenty, as is our custom.
My education was ongoing. I learned to never be without your weapon if you were fortunate enough to have one. Also, I learned that even if you are freezing at night in the bunkers, by cutting a slit in an old army blanket, putting your head through and wearing it over your coat as a Pancho, you could stay plenty warm.
We learned that when their flares weren't lighting up the sky, the tracer rounds were more discernible. I recall one night opening a door to step outside and seeing a "tracer" that appeared as though it would hit me exactly between the eyes. Instinctively I jumped back indoors, but to my surprise and relief, the machine gun fire missed the whole house completely.
A not uncommon phenomenon for tracer fire, one of our Vietnam vets later told me, is that it often appears as though it is destined for you.
The area about a half-mile across and ringing Wounded Knee was soon blackened by the constant flares that lit up the night. It immediately became known only as the DMZ … or the demilitarized zone.
One morning, waking up to look across the DMZ to the surrounding hills, we were greeted by a bizarre sight, made so incongruous because of the setting.
Here we were, in the heartland of Native America, USA and there on the crest of each high point of land surrounding Wounded Knee, was perched a menacing U.S. armored personnel carrier (APC) and there they remained for the duration.
We were under siege, and most of that time no one was permitted to enter or leave Wounded Knee. That meant, Geneva Convention or no, that not only food became scarce, but things like insulin for diabetics, feminine hygiene supplies, baby food, and of course toilet paper (tp or treaty paper as it was often called), many of the things we take for granted we did without. We gained some relief with the advent of the pack trains. On mostly moonless nights and even otherwise, 12 or 15 volunteers of all description, mostly younger men but nearly as many women, using local guides, made the long, approximately 7-8 mile, overland walk to Manderson, a very small town with pro AIM sympathizers.
Once there, a waiting group of supporters, at their own peril, helped them load their backpacks with the most necessary items from a cache of supplies that were arriving daily from all over the country. Wisely, ammunition was not included. Warriors were sent out on special missions expressly for ammo. Then, the pack trains hazardously filed their return hike under the noses of the GOON squad and the federal forces with all their technology.
Not all of these unsung heroes and heroines made it back safely, but even so, there was never a shortage of volunteers. Without these pack trains, the hardships for many would have been much harder to bear.
In the following weeks, we become a united community. That account is yet to be written.
But later, shortly before AIM lay down their arms … It took some time for someone to stick their head down into the huge basement of the Trading Post to tell us that an intense firefight was going on.
A new friend from Milwaukee AIM, Herb, and I were running a poker game that had started casually enough, quarter-limit stuff, but escalated as the weeks ground on and as the belief seemed to solidify that we weren't going to live long enough to worry about money.
Some huge pots were casually won and lost but down in the basement we couldn't hear anything from outside. There had been an airdrop earlier and then this firefight that seemed to last for days. When this particular firefight started, it had been raging for some time when we finally received word and hurried to our respective posts. That battle we suffered several badly wounded warriors and a recent arrival, Frank Clearwater, sustained wounds that proved fatal.
We had the radio transmissions from their positions monitored as they did ours and some we captured on tape, including these orders that I recall. "Permission granted. Use that 69 grenade launcher. Flush those f_ _ king Indians out of there. They make better targets that way."
It had been a late, cold and snowy winter and I remember that night when the snow started again, it completely covered the blackness of the surrounding half-mile of flare burned area, "the DMZ." I didn't know when I ran out of the trading post basement earlier, and into that intense 24-hour firefight but that was my last social event at Wounded Knee and very shortly I would be crawling through that newly fallen snow.
It was the next morning that Carter asked Craig and I to meet privately and that same night, I made my exit of Wounded Knee, Independent Oglala Nation,(ION) with an armed escort of 10 handpicked young Lakota warriors as escort. The ten men were chosen for different reasons. Some were needed at home, others had undisclosed missions, but all knew the terrain. I left the Independent Oglala Nation, of which I proudly, if however briefly, carried my new citizenship papers, a huge backpack with all of our most valuable possessions and most importantly, my own mission, which was primarily to unravel the problems impeding the aid to our warriors inside and our supporters outside.
We nearly made it.
After crawling for what seemed 20 miles with a 500-pound backpack (2 miles with a 50-pound backpack) on hands and knees to avoid the invisible, 3 feet above ground, electronic sensors and within a mile of avoiding detection and freedom, we were stumbled upon by a column of soldiers that were themselves trying to find their commander that we had just circled around.
No matter. Pinned down in a ravine, all eleven of us were captured by the U.S. Army.
The cross country trip to the Pine Ridge jail was memorable primarily by the stoic bravery of my Lakota companions. Hands cuffed behind us, made to stay face down on the steel bed of the army truck, banged and bumped bloody by the rough terrain, much to the mirth of the accompanying soldiers, not a complaint, not even a word was uttered.
It became to me, and I am sure to all of the others, a test of will. By the time we finally hit a blacktop road, the soldiers had stopped laughing. Forgotten was my chagrin at having been captured, I couldn't have been prouder of my AIM brothers.
Finally arriving at the Pine Ridge jail, before having the plastic handcuffs cut off of our immensely swollen hands, I was isolated and laying face down on a steel bunk when Dick Wilson, the Oglala Tribal Chairman himself, entered my cell and picked my head up by the hair and peered into my face intently. Saying only one word. "Name."
When I replied, "Dwain Camp," he must have believed me because after a long moment he slammed my face down and stalked out saying, "That's not Carter."
We were stripped of all belongings and held with no pretense of due process. Treasured pipestone bestowed by our brother, Medicine Man and now Chief, Leonard Crowdog, that and my I.O.N. citizenship were two of my great losses.
Along with brother's Carter and Craig's cherished belongings, they were never to be recovered.
We were all detained and eventually booked on a variety of charges that were, after numerous court appearances, dropped for good.
The following years ... to be written.
Dwain Camp, Ponca Nation, at Wounded Knee in 1973. (Photo: courtesy Dwain Camp)
Dwain Camp, ShongaSka, is an Elder of the Ponca Nation. He was raised on the "rez" at White Eagle, Oklahoma, and joined the struggle at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, with warriors of the American Indian Movement in 1973. From that time through the present he has worked on Native issues as an activist and was the former editor/publisher of the Ponca Nation newspaper. You can reach him at shongaska2@gmail.com.
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Well, I twice tried to share this important historic story on my Facebook page, but for some reason couldn't? But this for me a white VVAW member driving four others members from the VVAW National Convention in New Mexico where I had just met Stone Lizard and had my first extended conversations with an Indigenous Native and visited his band of brothers in a white stone canyon in the middle of I don't know where for more talks that will remember forever. So wheeling East in Nebraska we learned of the Wounded Knee situation early so we hold up and called our VVAW NYC National Office and offered to truck a load of supplies into WK and the answer came back they wanted a load of lime for privies, but then they informed us they were under heavy automatic weapons fire and there was no chance of getting through the feds surrounding my Indigenous brothers. Well, I haven't yet read the article but I know its very important to share and will try again tomorrow. To a New Tomorrow! Robert Bruce Mc Laughlin
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OUT FRI FEB 17.. 'Tell Me Why'
"Most of us, I think, battle internally with the forces of good and evil, our inner voices. It's what makes us human, our ability to reason and try to do the right thing, but also accept ourselves for who we are. That is what Tell Me Why is about, I think… " The song was written in the early days of the Covid pandemic and originally appeared as the 4th track on the 2021 album 'Wisdom of Crowds'. This remixed and remastered version will be available on all digital platforms on Friday, February 17.
OUT NOW! 'Home Sweet Home' is a fresh remix of the opening track of the Animal Souls LP 'Wisdom of Crowds' (released Aug 2021). The track was written in 1989 after an interesting encounter with a homeless gent in downtown Vancouver.. accompanying Michael Fisher (bass, keys, vocals) are Chris Murray Driver (Darby Mills Project, Doug & The Slugs) on drums and Preston Anthony Sawyer on guitars & vocals
OUT NOW! 'Midnight Sky (featuring Annika Catharina). This cool new track is a collaboration between Michael Fisher (music) and Annika (lyrics)... Annika sings lead and Mara Hatklin (lead vocals on 'Lessons of Love') returns with some lush backing vocals. The track was co-produced with Pete Cordalis at Green Room Studios in Abbotsford, BC... Cover art by Michelle Duff .. Michelle also did the cover art for 'Lessons of Love' :)
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NEW Animal Souls track is on the way! Michael & Pete are back at Green Room Studios layering the music tracks for Alison Cowie (UK) who will be laying down the vocals on an upcoming release 'ON MY WAY'. The song is another co-write with Michael providing the music and Alison the lyrics. Hoping to have the song ready for release in early 2023.
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Marcus Johnson, Blues Alley and Education
Karen Gross
Recently, I went to hear the remarkable musician Marcus Johnson at DC's oldest jazz and supper Club, Blues Alley. To be sure, I went to listen to this prolific and well-known musician and to enjoy the club's warm and welcoming atmosphere. So far, so good.
But, to my surprise, the highlight of the evening had everything to do with education — one of the many poignant and powerful stories Marcus shared with the audience. This particular recounted story is still haunting me – days later.
Marcus described visiting a professor's office as an undergraduate student (at an HBCU) and mentioning that he wanted to go to law school; the professor responded tartly, "Where are you going? Cracker Jack Law School?" The Blues Alley audience gasped loudly. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, in describing the same incident in his recent book, For the Love of Flo, Marcus asserts that the professor refers to the hypothetical law school as "Captain Crunch" university, not exactly an improvement given that that term is used to described debasing sexual acts and drugs.
As an educator (including ironically 30 plus years combined as a law school professor and a college president at an institution that served almost 70% first generation students), the story stunned me. What professor on this planet would actually think that, let alone say it? Where have I been living – in some fake civility bubble? And, what professor would be so crass as to use the multi-meaning and often deemed offensive and racist word "crackerjack?" And, how could this have happened at an HBCU, a grouping of institutions dedicated to supporting minority students and fostering and facilitating their success in the workplace?
What happened next in the story was Marcus' stunning response to the professor. Marcus went off to Georgetown Law School (he got an MBA too) and had a business card made while still a student, which he dropped off at the offending professor's office. In addition to identifying Marcus as a law student, Marcus wrote something to this effect to the professor on the card's back: "Don't ever treat a student that way again. You never know which student you teach today will be a leader tomorrow, following his or her dreams. Who are you to quash dreams?
With the audience listening as raptly as they would to his music (well, this story and the others are a sort of musical poetry), Marcus then said: "Professors shouldn't do this kind of thing to students. They are the keepers of the future and that carries with it an enormous obligation. As a professor myself now, I know that." And, then Marcus composed an album after this whole incident titled perfectly: Poetically Justified. He played a piece right then from the album.
This isn't, sadly, an isolated incident, right? This isn't the only undergraduate professor who demeans students. If we add K-12 teachers into the discussion and graduate school professors, the number of offenses increases exponentially. I still remember the viral video of the teacher who sent a first grader to the corner for making a small math error – demeaning and embarrassing her before her classmates. That incident received lots of public attention, and I wrote about the fact that it was the teacher, not the student, who needed to be sent into the corner for a prolonged time out.
That these incidents happen is bad enough. That they happen to vulnerable students makes it feel worse for me as the comments can not only be taken to heart but worse, they oft-times cannot be dispelled at home or in one's community.
The harder question is what can we do to address and curb these instances. Surely we must have some workable strategies beyond public humiliation of the instructor through social media. And by the by, these occurrences are not infrequent; I am pretty sure many of them roll under the radar screen, internalized by students but never brought to the attention of principals, deans or college/university presidents.
Yes, Marcus has responded in three remarkable and highly unusual ways. He went back to the professor and "dissed" him royally. And, he shared and continues to share the story with audiences as a sort of shock therapy for those of us who get complacent about the power and possibility of education. And he composed art in response.
But, while both impressive and important, these responses are not enough. I remember asking the faculty at the institution I led, "Would you send your own child here to this college (assuming the fit was right)? Are all the professors ones from whom you would want your children to learn? And, if the answer is not yes, find ways to make the institution and those within it better. Change institutional culture – no small task for sure.
More recently, I have been reflecting on the distinction between teaching and teachers. There is a growing literature suggesting that the focus on teachers is misplaced and lacking in utility if we are seeking wide scale educational improvement. Instead, we need to pay attention to the process of teaching to achieve systemic reform. Perhaps but that excuses behavior like that just described.
Bottom line: the "crackerjack"/ "Captain Crunch" comment is likely not unique; stopping it is difficult if not impossible, and we live in a world in which teachers/professors — the launchers of the future — quash hope and belief in self.
It's a rare student – who is also a rare musician – who can fight back with such conviction and commitment to self. In the absence of a more doable and realistic solution, my answer to this problem (with only a touch of sarcasm) is that Marcus Johnson needs to be cloned — literally and figuratively.
Note: Another thank-you to MW — who helps me see new things and enables me to grow and flourish every day we are together. What's better than that when you are not a kid any more and there's less ahead than behind in terms of time?
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn.
Karen Gross serves as Senior Counsel at Widmeyer Communications and is the Former President of Southern Vermont College. Karen also serves as an affiliate of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions.


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GIT Award 2015 nominee profile #1: All We Are
By Paul Higham on	 17th February 2015 All Talk, Featured Article, The GIT Award
With their debut album freshly released to much critical acclaim, Getintothis' Paul Higham profiles GIT Award nominees All We Are and considers the impact of Liverpool on their burgeoning career.
For long time readers of our pages Liverpool's multi-talented pop-perfectionists, All We Are, will need no introduction.
For those yet to wrap their ears around the three-piece's effortlessly seductive charms you have a treat in store. Like many things in this world, the twin feeling of unbridled joy and limitless excitement on experiencing something wonderful for the first time cannot be easily replicated by future.
Think of walking into a floodlit stadium as a child, clutching tightly to your father's hand, and seeing the shimmering green of the hallowed turf for the first time. Remember arriving at JFK airport for the first time and catching your first jaw-dropping glimpse of the Manhattan skyline as it emerges into view. Recall the dizzying blur of your fist day at school, that combustious combination of anticipation and trepidation.
Good music, no, really great music, has that enduring, life-altering effect. It captures a moment in time. It forever evokes memories of people and places, of times happy and sad. It forces itself upon you, makes you think of little else, and demands such constant play to risk wearing down your fragile stylus.
It might sound like hyperbole but, what seems many moons ago now, All We Are had this effect on us. So treasure that first moment, the visceral thrill of lowering the needle and hearing something magical. Treasure it, as you'll never quite experience it again.
For pretty much all our readers however that will be a mere blissful memory for All We Are are now so much ingrained into the fabric of arguably the country's most musical city that they feel part of the furniture.
GIT Award nominees last year, they appear a reassuring constant in a city where the musical landscape is constantly shifting and ever-evolving. A mere cursory glance at the current crop of nominees would confirm this and cement Liverpool's place at the top of the pile for creativity and musical innovation and reinvention.
Never a city to stand still and rest on its laurels, forever keen to push back the boundaries and to challenge the artistic consensus that too often rewards the safety of mediocrity over risk-taking experimentalism, Liverpool eschews trends. With barely a nod to the stultifying effect of the bandwagon, Liverpool does its own thing.
This is reflected in the music that is being produced right here and right now. Often unpindownable, always interesting, and certainly diverse there is such an array of emerging talent that to remain at its forefront and to continue to lead the charge of the new wave across new frontiers is no inconsiderable feat. Yet this is what All We Are have done.
Nowhere is the city's diversity and inclusivity better celebrated than All We Are. Coming variously from Norway, Brazil and Ireland the band's members met and forged their identity amid the creative hotbed of LIPA. Despite their backgrounds, the band see Liverpool as their city and clearly owe a great deal to their adopted home. "Being from different countries, we feel extremely honoured to be nominated for the GIT award, that means Liverpool has accepted us as their own and that means a lot to us! We are a Liverpool band!"
Tellingly, when asked how Liverpool has influenced the band and how important the city has been in shaping the band's identity and artistic direction the response was clear and definitive, "Massive, no Liverpool, no All We Are."
Like many other bands within the city that we speak to, there is an overriding sense that All We Are exist within a broader community of artists, all of whom feed off each other, challenge expectations and push one another to the next level.
We have long been extolling the healthy state of Liverpool's music community, yet too often it is easy for social commentators to attach a label to a 'scene' when none really exists. That a number of bands emerge at similar times from the same city does not necessarily a community make.
Yet we have always felt Liverpool to be slightly different, a place with the outlook of a global city, but the sense of community of a small village. It is thus reassuring that All We Are have expressed a similar sentiment, "The music scene in Liverpool is special. If you need anything, there is always someone there to help you. It's one big family where everyone wants the best for each other and keep pushing each other to become as good as they can be."
What then of the band's sound? With their collective tongues no doubt pressed heavily against their cheeks, All We Are's twitter profile reveals them to be like "The Bee Gees on Diazepam". While that description is not altogether misleading it does perhaps do the band a disservice.
Embracing a fusion of styles with supreme musicianship and a sureness of touch, All We Are can perhaps be a tricky band to pin down. Certainly there are big elements of funk and R&B to their sound but this is coupled with an intricate tautness and sprightly and seamless leaps in divergent directions.
At the core of the band is Richard O'Flynn's relentless drumming which underpins the band's perfect-pop sound and provide a distinctly danceable tinge around which Guro Gikling's lolloping bass wonderfully weaves. Luis Santos perhaps has the most fun. Dictating melody with his experimental and ear-catching guitar he ensures that you're never sure in which direction a song might head.
What makes All We Are so appealing is the lack of affectation in their music. Far from following a scene or trying to be someone else, they display a confidence in themselves and a style of music that complements their playing and diverse tastes. While not disguising their influences they have been successful in melding them in their own style. Perhaps the biggest compliment we can give is that they sound like All We Are!
Having grasped the baton from the likes of Stealing Sheep and The Wombats, 2014 marked a meteoric year for the band that culminated in the release of their debut album earlier this month.
The last 12 months saw the band move to bigger and more high profile stages. From supporting Warpaint at the beginning of the year to playing with London Grammar on their European tour last Autumn as well as strutting their stuff on a host of festival stages in between, in many ways 2014 was a breakout year for the band, "Last year was absolutely amazing, we loved every bit of it. Playing live is what we love the most so being able to do so on big stages was a dream come true.
"The only pressure we feel is the pressure we put on ourselves, we want to keep developing and growing."
Spending time on the road can often result in strong bonds and artistic connections being developed between bands. Warpaint have been a big influence on the career of All We Are, and the Californian band have remixed the Keep Me Alive, turning it into a darker and more mysterious cut
Anyone who saw their triumphant headline show at The Kazimier in the Autumn will attest to the band's rapid development as a live force. What was most revealing about this show was the togetherness and a new-found confidence that stems from playing bigger stages to people perhaps less familiar with their oeuvre. Each band member seemed to simultaneously take centre stage, each as important as each other and each as essential to the band's distinctive sound.
All We Are at The Kazimier
February 2015 saw the band release their debut album on Domino's Double Six imprint to pretty much widespread critical acclaim. Speaking about the album, which cements their irrepressibly catchy pop sound, All We Are are rightly proud of their achievement, "we're really happy that it's out there and hope people will enjoy it as much as we did making it. We're very proud of our first-born."
You only have to listen to the album to hear the sense of fun – it leaps out at you from the speakers and hits you smack in the face.
Speaking to the band about the making of the album, it is clear that they view themselves, first and foremost, as an albums band, "Since the dawn of All We Are we knew we wanted to make albums. We like to think of ourselves as an album band where the songs belong together and tell a story from beginning till the end. There's a lot of thought behind the track listing and we kind of feel it's a little bit like an old school soul album, where the A side has the more upbeat ones and the B side has the big headphone moments."
As with their live shows, the album feels like a triumph of the band's collaborative spirit. Each member coming to the fore to bring their own skills as part of a cohesive whole. The record veers arrestingly and easily between the funky and intricate to the blissed out and swoonsome. Without ever being confused, it's a record to dance to but also one to sit back late at night, headphones on, and take in its mesmerising and hypnotic disco grooves.
The band remain coy on what the future holds but have revealed that they will soon be starting work on their second full-length album as well as hoping to get back on the road and do what they do best, "We're hopefully going to play loads of gigs and festivals and then we're very excited to start writing our second!"
With strong foundations already laid and a determined musicianship coupled with the irrepressible joy of playing we, for one, are sure that the future will be rosy. Like you, we're excited for the band and look forward to what they'll do next.
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Two Nations Indivisible illuminates Mexico's political, economic, and social transformations over the last three decades and why these changes matter for the United States.
Shannon O'Neil explores economic relations between the United States and Mexico as government officials from both countries meet in Mexico for the annual High Level Economic Dialogue.
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2nd week of hunger strike for NJ Weedman protesting his bail reform lock-up
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Ed Forchion
TRENTON — The man known as the NJ Weedman is staging a hunger strike while he is held in the Mercer County Corrections Center awaiting trial on witness tampering charges.
The charges stem from an April 2016 raid on his restaurant and pot temple across the street from City Hall. As those charges hung over him, he was arrested again a year later after prosecutors accused him of putting their informant in danger by outing his name and picture on social media. Forchion says his intention was not to intimidate the informant.
Having been held since March 3, Forchion said in a news release this week that he has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the new bail laws in the state violate his civil rights.
The bail rules that went into effect this year have allowed most criminal defendants — including ones accused of violent crimes — to be released from custody without bail as they await trial. But a judge ordered Forchion to be held indefinitely because the new rules allow judges to keep defendants locked up if they are considered a danger to victims or witnesses.
As of Thursday, his hunger strike has been going on for more than 10 days.
"I am a peaceful, proud and patriotic pothead," he says in the release. "Yet I have sat here for over 100 days in a cell while watching real criminals, like murderers and rapists, get released daily on bail. Nothing I did was illegal."
Forchion said he had only released the informant's identity on the advice of an attorney, who no longer represents him.
In addition to the witness tampering, Forchion was indicted on cyber-bullying charges after he called a Trenton officer a pedophile in a video he posted online.
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This post is an excerpt from the study guide which accompanies the "Overcoming Addiction" seminar. This portion is an excerpt from "Step Six: RESTRUCTURE MY LIFE to rely on God's grace and Word to transform my life." To RSVP for this and other Summit counseling seminars visit bradhambrick.com/events.
The goal of sobriety is not sobriety. If we fixate on sobriety, then our substance of choice is still at the center of our lives; only we focus on its absence instead of its presence. We pursue sobriety in order to live a God-glorifying, personally-satisfying life that is a blessing to those we love. That means, at this stage in your journey (if not sooner), you should be intentionally setting aside time for things you enjoy.
How much did you spend on AoD per week ( $ ________ ) or per month ( $ _______ )? Create a jar where you put that much money for each interval when you are sober. This does two things. First, it gives you a more tangible expression of how much you were investing in your addiction. Second, it provides funds you were already sacrificing that can be invested in serving those you've hurt or pursuit of addiction alternatives.
Warning One: If cash is a trigger for you, then would be an approach that you would want to avoid, or at least modify, by allowing someone else to hold the cash and know the goal to which you are using as an incentive to enhance your motivation for this journey.
Warning Two: You won't entertain yourself out of addiction. That is not the point. If entertainment is your primary goal, you are merely exchanging a self-destructive form of escape for a functional form of escape (which is still a worthwhile trade, but likely to lead to an addictive relationship to your new interests).
The goal is to create a balanced rhythm of purposeful activity (things that are good and worthwhile, but are physically, emotionally, or mentally taxing) and restorative activity (things that are healthy and fun, so that they allow you to engage your purposeful activities with renewed vigor).
In our day, these restorative activities likely cost money and time. The addiction jar simply helps you see that, if you choose to invest the money and time you already have differently, then you have ample resources to pursue a much more enjoyable life.
The previous section may beg a question, "What did you enjoy before addiction began to dominate your life?" If you know the answer to that question, this section is for you. If you struggle to answer this question, then the next section will provide guidance.
What are things you used to enjoy which were crowded out by addiction?
How might you feel after reviewing the list you just made? You may feel robbed. If so, allow those emotions to further cement the notion that your addiction was never your friend. It systematically dismantled everything you enjoyed about life for its own self-preservation.
You should also feel free. Now that you are, by the grace of God, declaring your independence from addiction, you can pursue these interests again. A full and satisfying life is in front of you. You can't obtain it all at once. That is false-high mentality of addiction. But you can begin to daily take steps in that direction while enjoying the entire journey.
What if you don't know what your interests are? Often addiction dominates phases of life when your current stage-of-life interests would have emerged. What's the answer? Experimentation. Try a smorgasbord of random healthy activities and see what you think.
Too often people think, "I'm not sure I'll like it," or ask, "What if I don't like it?" Is that how you approached your addiction? Did you come to a new substance or beverage and pessimistically wonder, "What if it's not that good?" No, you allowed unhealthy experimentation to become an open door to destruction. All we're asking now is to allow healthy experimentation to become an open door to delight.
Whether your list under "Engage Your Interests" was full or sparse, make a list of things you might enjoy.
One of the values for this list is that it can become cognitive filler for times of temptation. Boredom is a prime trigger for relapse (see Step 3). Anticipating or planning for a new, enjoyable activity can be a way to productively fill boredom, even if you do not have the time or money to engage the activity yet. Again, think about it: during your addiction you spent a great deal of time anticipating your next high (not just being intoxicated). Anticipation is an important part of any pleasure. We want to learn the "discipline of anticipation" for our healthy pleasures.
Life will never be a series of epic moments. In order to enjoy life, we must learn to savor the ordinary. This is the essence of contentment, the secret Paul discovered to thriving in any circumstance (Phil. 4:11-12).
The opposite of addiction will not be "highs" that are the comparable equivalents of the "highs" of intoxication. Instead, the alternative to addiction will be the ability to enjoy the "mids" of day-to-day, normal life. While this may not be as exciting as many people would like, it provides a much more realistic goal.
Grow the habit of asking "What is good?" about each situation and relationship you are in? If this is hard for you, then pray God would give you "eyes to see" what is good.
Resist the tendency to grow bored with God's blessings. We do not want to be God's spoiled child who says we have nothing to do while surrounded by toys.
Begin to grow your in ability to take pleasure in small things. If addiction is fueled by savoring (mentally rehearsing) bad things, then exercise the same cognitive-emotional muscle in how you savor good things.
Allow the memory of good things to be an extension of their goodness. We do this with holidays, weddings, and other major events. Carry the same discipline into less intense pleasures.


Hello Bishop. I wanted to reach out to you regarding my children. You no doubt have heard about the recent campaign to change the way our youth are interviewed. I assure you, we do not have an inkling of nefarious deeds taking place in our ward. It is our effort to teach our kids appropriate boundaries and direct topics of conversation. **** and I have decided to set some boundaries with regards to our children.
*Our children are not to participate in any one-on-one interviews with anyone in the stake, including the bishop and stake presidency. This also extends to counselors. Please be sure that they are aware.
*We are both to be notified in advance of any interviews with our children. And consent from both parents are to be obtained before an interview is to take place.
*One of us must to be present in all interviews with our children.
*No sexual matters are to be discussed during any meetings involving our children.
These limits have been discussed with our kids. We and they fully expect that these boundaries will be respected. Please make this known this is our family policy and this is to be followed for future leaders as well.
He replied by saying he totally agreed with our letter and said he has no problem following our requests. He assured us that he would notify his counselors and pass the letter on to next bishop.
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Согласно социологическим исследованиям, в 2002 году ислам в Якутии исповедовали 1,9 %, в 2006 — 1,2 % жителей Якутии. Преимущественное распространение получил ислам суннитского толка. Ислам в республике исповедуют большей частью представители народов Северного Кавказа и Средней Азии.

Исторически сложилось, что ислам в Якутии исповедовали, прежде всего, жившие там татары и башкиры. Известно, что к 1913 году в Якутии действовали два мусульманских молитвенных дома и две русско-татарские школы — в Якутске и Олекминске.

Первые мусульманские религиозные организации постперестрочного времени возникли в Якутии в 1994—1996 годах в городах Якутске и Нерюнгри.

Ислам в Якутске
В 2005 году в Якутске была открыта одна из самых северных мечетей в России (она севернее, чем Санкт-Петербургская соборная мечеть, но южнее, чем мечеть в Норильске).

Ислам в Нерюнгри
Мусульманская община Нерюнгри издаёт небольшим тиражом газету «Ислам в Якутии».

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True to life, large artificial Staghorn fern in a black pot. With realistic dusky green leaves, this faux staghorn looks great in any modern interior.
For something a little different, the Staghorn fern is the perfect choice.


I bought them at Bed Bath & Beyond on impulse, and left them in the cabinet. Then on Saturday when we had to go to nice holiday party and my nails looked craptastic as always, I "pressed" them into service. In less than 15 minutes, I had a decent hand to shake.
I didn't even know what i was doing when I applied them because I had thrown out the instruction card, because I'm me. So I had no directions and they're still on four days later.
They're nice and short, which I prefer to the longer, less elegant, version.


00:00 Jack Bacon at goalie for Endicott.
02:25 Corner kick by ECM Arian Pilja [02:25].
07:54 Shot by RWU Lucas Watt, SAVE Jack Bacon.
08:11 Shot by ECM Dario Neukom HIGH.
11:54 Header Shot by ECM Evan Couchot WIDE.
14:52 Corner kick by RWU Connor Edwards [14:52].
14:59 Shot by RWU Colby Decker, SAVE Jack Bacon.
15:26 Shot by ECM Evan Couchot, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
17:03 Shot by ECM Charles Badji, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
18:34 Shot by ECM Alex Vuksta, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
21:38 Shot by ECM Dario Neukom, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
22:10 Substitution!ECM substitution: Joshua Sousa for Alex Vuksta.
22:10 Substitution!RWU substitution: Jake Fitting for Colby Decker.
22:10 Substitution!RWU substitution: Michael Oliveira for Jacob Grant.
23:13 Shot by RWU Stathi Panagiotidis BLOCKED.
23:15 Shot by RWU Garrett Bolton, SAVE Jack Bacon.
24:10 Header Shot by ECM Evan Couchot WIDE.
26:04 Corner kick by ECM Jesse Martinez [26:04].
26:09 Shot by ECM Conner Couchot WIDE.
26:17 Substitution!RWU substitution: Hunter Graham for Ryan Miller.
26:17 Substitution!RWU substitution: Nicholas Sanchez for Stathi Panagiotidis.
26:17 Substitution!RWU substitution: Jordan Lach for Connor Edwards.
26:17 Substitution!RWU substitution: John Ryan for Tyler Andrade.
27:00 Shot by ECM Dario Neukom BLOCKED.
28:51 Corner kick by RWU Jordan Lach [28:51].
30:22 Shot by ECM Jesse Martinez BLOCKED.
30:32 Shot by ECM Evan Couchot, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
31:20 Substitution!ECM substitution: Max Robbins for Jesse Martinez.
32:39 Header Shot by ECM Max Robbins WIDE.
35:36 Substitution!ECM substitution: Anant Johnson for Dario Neukom.
35:36 Substitution!RWU substitution: Steven Karp for Jake Fitting.
36:16 Shot by ECM Max Robbins, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
37:54 Substitution!ECM substitution: Fred Marinelli for Joshua Sousa.
43:15 Substitution!RWU substitution: Jack Wetzel for Hunter Graham.
45:00 For ECM: #29 Jack Bacon, #21 Chris Montani, #36 Arian Pilja, #28 Dario Neukom, #6 Conner Couchot, #5 Evan Couchot, #22 Alex Vuksta, #19 Brandon Haughton, #10 Jesse Martinez, #15 Jon Breed, #14 Charles Badji.
45:00 For RWU: #1 Edmund Geschickter, #22 Stathi Panagiotidis, #6 David Majetich, #2 Colby Decker, #3 Jacob Grant, #18 Tyler Andrade, #26 Ryan Miller, #8 Lucas Watt, #17 Austin Hilger, #10 Connor Edwards, #13 Garrett Bolton.
47:31 Corner kick by ECM Jesse Martinez [47:31].
49:25 Corner kick by ECM Jesse Martinez [49:25].
52:11 Shot by RWU Jacob Grant BLOCKED.
52:13 Shot by RWU Stathi Panagiotidis HIGH.
53:11 Shot by ECM Dario Neukom BLOCKED.
54:20 Shot by ECM Evan Couchot BLOCKED.
55:31 Shot by ECM Jon Breed WIDE.
59:38 Offside against Roger Williams.
61:01 Header Shot by ECM Conner Couchot, SAVE Edmund Geschickter.
61:25 Substitution!ECM substitution: Victor DaCosta for Alex Vuksta.
62:56 Substitution!RWU substitution: Nicholas Sanchez for Colby Decker.
62:56 Substitution!RWU substitution: Michael Oliveira for Jacob Grant.
67:08 Substitution!RWU substitution: Hunter Graham for Ryan Miller.
67:08 Substitution!RWU substitution: Jordan Lach for Connor Edwards.
67:08 Substitution!RWU substitution: John Ryan for Stathi Panagiotidis.
68:50 Shot by RWU Lucas Watt HIGH.
68:53 Substitution!ECM substitution: Max Robbins for Jesse Martinez.
68:53 Substitution!ECM substitution: Joshua Sousa for Victor DaCosta.
76:50 Shot by ECM Joshua Sousa HIGH.
79:16 Substitution!RWU substitution: Ryan Miller for Hunter Graham.
80:09 Substitution!ECM substitution: Jesse Martinez for Max Robbins.
80:53 Substitution!RWU substitution: Stathi Panagiotidis for John Ryan.
82:06 Yellow card on RWU Garrett Bolton.
84:47 Substitution!RWU substitution: Jacob Grant for Nicholas Sanchez.
84:47 Substitution!RWU substitution: Colby Decker for Michael Oliveira.
85:10 Shot by RWU Stathi Panagiotidis HIGH.
86:46 Corner kick by RWU Jordan Lach [86:46].
87:02 Header Shot by ECM Will Hartan WIDE.
90:00 For ECM: #29 Jack Bacon, #6 Conner Couchot, #21 Chris Montani, #28 Dario Neukom, #36 Arian Pilja, #5 Evan Couchot, #19 Brandon Haughton, #14 Charles Badji, #15 Jon Breed, #28 Dario Neukom, #17 Joshua Sousa.
90:00 For RWU: #1 Edmund Geschickter, #13 Garrett Bolton, #6 David Majetich, #2 Colby Decker, #10 Connor Edwards, #3 Jacob Grant, #8 Lucas Watt, #17 Austin Hilger, #26 Ryan Miller, #22 Stathi Panagiotidis, #18 Tyler Andrade.
90:16 Offside against Roger Williams.
91:18 Corner kick by ECM Jesse Martinez [91:18].
91:22 Header Shot by ECM Charles Badji BLOCKED.
93:36 Shot by RWU Stathi Panagiotidis, SAVE Jack Bacon.
94:50 Corner kick by RWU Connor Edwards [94:50].


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George Clooney Jokes It 'Kind of Hurts' That the Royal Baby Wasn't Named After Him
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed the name of their baby boy, Archie Harrison, on Wednesday, and George Clooney said he can't help but be a little scorned that they didn't name it in his honor.
Speaking with ET's Nancy O'Dell at Hulu's For Your Consideration event for his new show Catch-22, the Oscar winner was asked how he felt they didn't name George at all in their baby's name.
"That kind of hurts," Clooney stopped before he laughed and admitted, "I like it! Archie. It's good!"
When it was brought to his attention that it is possible (though very unlikely) that they might have turned to actor Harrison Ford for the middle name of their baby, the star said he understood the choice.
"Well, he was once president of a movie," Clooney reasoned, shrugging his shoulders before admitting his own respect for the Star Wars icon. "And if you think about it, it's Harrison Ford, I'm going to call my daughter Harrison now."
In reality, many believe that the name Harrison is a play on the patronymic tradition of naming a child after their father, as in "Harry's son." But without official confirmation, it could still be a reference to the Han Solo actor.
ET spoke with George Clooney on Tuesday at the premiere of Catch-22 in Hollywood, one day after the birth of the royal baby, who happened to be Clooney's 58th birthday, and the actor joked that the new bundle of joy "steals my thunder!" "
"This was my day! I was already sharing it with Orson Welles and Sigmund Freud!" Clooney joked.
While George Clooney was disappointed with sharing the attention of the whole day, the actor – who was one of the celebrities as the royal wedding when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had made the knot almost a year ago – said he was delighted with the new parents.
"I'm very happy, it's a nice couple, so it's very exciting," Clooney surprised.
Despite having two children of his own – 1-year-old twin Alex and Ella, whom he shares with his wife Amal Clooney – George Clooney said he does not feel that it is his place to meet the duke and duchess, or anyone else. otherwise give advice on whatever.
"I'm not giving advice, I'm 58," he said. "At 58 you just go," Ugggh. " I just walk everywhere I go with a walker. "
Watch the video below to hear more.
The new Clooney series, Catch-22, will premiere on May 17 in Hulu.
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Between Imagination & Invention: the Art of NASA in the Space Age
January 31, 2017 /in Featured, News /by Daniela Perallon
Huntsville, AL – What happens when imagination meets innovation? The public can discover exactly that when they explore the latest exhibit at the Arts Huntsville Gallery @ the VBC. Arts Huntsville and Marshall Space Flight Center have partnered to bring the community a first look at original artwork by NASA Artists. The exhibit, Between Imagination and Invention: The Art of NASA in the Space Age, features more than 40 original pieces by NASA artists, many of the pieces are never-before-seen beyond NASA's walls.
From the Gallery of Marshall Space Flight Center.
The pieces, by more than 20 artists from the 1960s through the 1990s, conceptualize the organization's vision for space exploration vehicles and unseen planets, while others document historical events.
This exhibit is the first in Arts Huntsville's year-long celebration of the Alabama 200 Bicentennial Celebration. The "Exploring Our Places" project will feature four gallery exhibits throughout the year showcasing the places that make Huntsville stand out in the state.
"We can think of no better way to kick off a celebration of 'Exploring Our Places' than to showcase the art of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and pieces from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center's collection here at Arts Huntsville's Gallery at the Von Braun Center," said Allison Dillon-Jauken, executive director of Arts Huntsville. "These works celebrate the intersection between art and science – the place where art and invention come together to inspire its viewers to dream about the next boundaries we'll cross in space."
Title Unknown, Renato Moncini. From the Gallery of Marshall Space Flight Center.
"This art collection is a representative sample the type of creative work produced by NASA resident artists in the early years of the space program," said Brian Odom, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center historian. "The intention was to provide the public with an idea of the kinds of work being done across the space agency. Turning what was then thought of a science fiction into reality was difficult in those early years. This art was an important part of that process."
Between Imagination and Invention: The Art of NASA in the Space Age was made possible with the support of the Alabama State Council of the Arts. The exhibit will be on display in the Von Braun Center through March 2017 and can be found between the Mark C. Smith Concert Hall and the VBC Playhouse. The gallery is free and open to the public and can be viewed during VBC hours seven days a week.
For more information about the exhibit call Arts Huntsville at (256) 519-2787 or email info@artshuntsville.org.
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Background/Experience that you think is beneficial to Doula work: I am currently an early childhood educator and prior to my current job, I worked for three years as a preschool teacher. My time working with children has built my passion for their safety, growth, and well-being. I became passionate while working with families and working on communication and problem-solving with various struggles they would endure. As soon as I heard about what a doula is and what they can do, I immediately became intrigued!
What led you to become a Doula?: During my pregnancy, I heard about birth doulas, but my husband and I didn't think we would be able to afford one. Luckily for me, I had an amazing pregnancy and I loved doing all the research, checking out library books, reading up on motherhood blogs, etc. I stumbled across a local doula agency that was looking to expand their business by hiring doulas so I jumped on the opportunity. I am starting with postpartum and infant care work since my schedule is difficult to work around with my almost one-year-old daughter, but eventually, I would love to work with birth clients as well!
People would say that I am outgoing, caring, helpful, fun, and loving.
What are your favorite pregnancy/parenting resources?: When I was pregnant, I loved The Bump app for my phone to keep me in the loop of how many weeks along I am and what to expect during those weeks. After baby came, I checked out The Wonder Weeks book which gave me knowledge on fussy times baby could be going through developmentally and what we could do to help her overcome and shine through those "leaps." I also loved watching YouTube videos to hear other mother's perspectives on issues which made me feel I wasn't alone.
What thoughts come to mind when you see a pregnant woman or brand new mom?: When I come across someone who's pregnant or has a baby, I almost always think about what they must be feeling. I think about how overwhelmed they must be and wonder if they are feeling okay. I just think back to how I felt as a brand new mom, even though I did so much research and prep, I still had no idea what was in store, so I take my experience and think about that pregnant person or new family.
What is the best gift you can give a new mom (as a Doula)?: Non-judgmental support. I can be there for them as someone who will listen to them, care for them hands on in their home, help them find resources if needed, give them a break and help with their baby...whatever that particular family needs.
What is your favorite food?: I don't have a favorite. Put anything in front of me when I'm hungry.
What is your favorite way to spend a day off?: I love checking out new restaurants, shops, and coffee shops to have an iced chai. I also am a sucker for my city's juicery/smoothie places. 🙂 With my baby girl in tow, of course!
Who lives in your house?: Myself, my husband, and our daughter.


Last week, I mentioned that the Faith and Freedom Institute was following in the footsteps of so many other right-wing organizations by conducting a sort of "save America" prayer vigil. We went down to check the event out, which took place outside the gates of the north side of the White House. Unfortunately for Gary Dull and the Faith and Freedom Institute, it seems we were the only ones there, apart from their film crew and a few tourists driving by on Segways.
Dull continued down his path of mediocre mimicking by using the Right's time-honored catchphrase of "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." Later, he equated male-male couples with that of a person and a dog, claiming that if we legalize gay marriage then the next step would be legalization of relationships between a man and a dog.
While you can't blame him for trying, I think the turnout alone (or lack thereof) is evidence that Dull needs to either get a new message or join one of the myriad of other right-wing organizations using the same, tired, rhetoric.


With the push to get AutoCAD running underway, and other Autodesk development projects proceeding concurrently, there wasn't much time to write minutes of meetings, though the meetings continued to be held every month. The next general communication was the announcement of Autodesk's first annual stockholders' meeting. Dan Drake alludes to some of the overwork and the communications problems this engendered herein.
Our good old algorithm for determining monthly meeting dates strikes again: the January meeting would come up on the first Saturday of January, alias New Year's Day. Of course, we don't have it on a holiday, so it moves up a week, to December 25. Oops.
The January monthly meeting will be at 1:00 on Saturday, January 8 (eight), 1983, at Jack Stuppin's house in San Francisco. At 2:00 it will be interrupted for the annual shareholders' meeting (required by our bylaws and state law). This probably won't take long, as the only item currently on the agenda is the election of directors (required by law). Then the directors will meet, again required by law and again probably very briefly, to organize the board and appoint the corporate officers. With luck, if no new business comes up, we may break the world speed record for a bona fide annual meeting.
Those of you who are now stockholders of record will receive a formal notice and proxy with this announcement. If you exercised an option by the 28th, you're a stockholder even though you haven't got your certificate yet.
Employees who aren't stockholders, and stockholders who aren't employees, are encouraged to attend the whole shebang.
Where the hell are the information letters; we haven't had one in months; nobody knows what's going on; we can't survive without better communications.
Putting out minutes or an information letter knocks a couple of days out of the time of someone who has to be getting a product ready for market; we can't survive without getting products out.
Both of these positions seem to be quite right. Anyone who has constructive proposals on the subject is guaranteed a high place on the agenda for the meeting, if any of us has time to prepare an agenda.
Finally, here's the meeting algorithm again, with its output for the coming year. Should this silly thing be changed?
The meeting for an odd-numbered month is on a Saturday; for an even month, on a Sunday.
The meeting is normally on the first (Saturday or Sunday) of the month.
If that day falls on a holiday weekend, the meeting is held a week early. This is certain to happen in July and September, likely in January, and possible even in April.
The annual shareholders' meeting of Autodesk, Inc. will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, January 8, 1983, at the home of Jack Stuppin in San Francisco.
Stockholders of record December 28, 1982, will be eligible to vote at the meeting. If you are not absolutely sure that you will attend, please sign and return the enclosed proxy, which will be revoked automatically if you do attend. It looks better on the records if we do not drag through with a bare quorum.
The only business currently scheduled for the meeting is the election of four directors for the next year.
I may revoke this proxy (1) by giving written notice to the corporation; (2) by executing another proxy, which will take effect when presented to the corporation or exercised at the meeting; (3) by attending the meeting and voting in person.


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5 things you should know today about the Tax Reform
A woman participates in an act against Republican fiscal reform next to the Capitol of Washington DC (United States) on November 15, 2017. In addition to not having the support of the Democratic Party, Trump's promised tax reform, the deepest since the 1980s, faced these days its first legislative obstacles for differences within the Republican majority in Congress. EFE / MICHAEL REYNOLDS
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Today is the most important day in the fight for the Republican Tax Reform, and we want to explain how we've gotten here.
5 things you should know today about the Tax...
After years promulgating the urgency of a tax reform in the United States, members of the Republican Party - with a majority in the Senate, in the House and a president who has monopolized the work of the caucus - have finally come to a more-or-less clear proposal of its Tax Reform, after months of debates and an internal civil war.
This Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote to approve or reject the fiscal proposal, before reconciling it with the proposal of the Senate, and the result could significantly change the economy of the country. That is why we want to explain some key facts:
Last July, GOP members unveiled their budget bill for 2018 before the House of Representatives, setting out their ultimate goal of reforming the US tax system.
After twelve hours of debate, the plan - under the title of Building a Better America - was approved, authorizing then its passage to the Senate to be submitted again to vote.
The project proposes balancing the federal budget by cutting spending and reforming the government, with the promise of "achieving exponential growth in the economy."
As reported by CNN at the time, "the 2018 budget would be a vehicle to change taxes. In the same way that they proposed in their program to repeal Obamacare in the 2017 budget, the leaders of the GOP are using a budget tool called 'reconciliation' to approve the fiscal legislation in the Senate with a simple majority. "
And that was precisely what happened last Thursday, October 19.
As reported by the Washington Post, the Senate approved the Republican budget, allowing the GOP to use a procedural maneuver to pass fiscal legislation through the Senate with 50 or more votes, clearing the need for any type of support from the Democrat senators.
And is that Republicans cannot cut taxes without first achieving the approval of the budget resolution, and that is why all their efforts have focused on getting this to be the first to be approved.
At the same time, and as the Post continues, by agreeing to a "massive fiscal cut," the Senate Republicans have officially displaced the party away from its "promised goal" of ensuring that the "fiscal project would not increase the deficit."
"The White House and the House Republicans had promised that the tax cuts would be compensated with the income from the elimination of certain deductions, but that is no longer the goal of the GOP. On the contrary, they have abandoned the traditional party orthodoxy in the face of deficit reduction and are seeking a political victory after months of frustrations on Capitol Hill."
What does the Tax Reform propose?
After months of debates, on November 2, the GOP unveiled its final tax reform project promoting it as "the best solution for the American middle class." The proposal promotes the economic boost through the cuts of corporate rates from 20 to 35%; taxes of only a 10% global minimum in the overseas profits and the elimination of the alternative minimum tax that imposed a higher payment to the families of greater economic income. But not everything that shines is gold: the mortgage deductions will be reduced to $ 500,000 and the property deductions will reach only 10,000, giving a strong blow to the real estate industry. Also, the Republican plan proposes the elimination of deductions in medical expenses; private universities should start paying taxes on investment through a special tax incorporated and pharmacists working in rare diseases research will no longer enjoy the benefits of the tax credit, which will make it very difficult for them to continue their work.
How does it affect Obamacare?
As explained by the Washington Post, the Republican proposal also aims to rescind what is known as "individual mandate", a measure that will take millions of people out of health coverage and "destabilize the Obamacare markets." The measure is essential to recover the money from corporate tax cuts and people with large incomes. According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, this elimination will imply large enrollment declines, increasing the uncertainty and the confusion, and "it will reduce employee enrollment in employer-sponsored coverage and would make it less likely that healthy people sign up for Medicaid before they get sick." As the Post continues, the individual mandate creates penalties for Americans who don't have health insurance… "Repealing the mandate would free up more than $300 billion in government funding over the next decade, but it would also eventually lead to 13 million fewer people having death insurance".
How do the Senate and House proposals differ?
The differences are substantial: the Chamber proposes 4 tax rates, the Senate proposes 7; both tax deductions increase by almost double in each proposal; both approve the disappearance of the Additional Standard Deduction; the Senate maintains the mortgage interest deduction at 1 million but the House reduces it to 500,000; both eliminate state and local income taxes; the House proposes to maintain the tax deduction of properties with a maximum of $ 10,000, but the Senate proposes to eliminate it. Finally, both proposals eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) that prevented the rich from reducing their taxes.
What happens today?
After the Senate approved its proposal, it is the Chamber's turn to approve theirs, in a strategy known as "reconciliation", through which a definitive proposal will be negotiated between both chambers that President Trump will finally sign, if everything continues according to the Republican's expectations.
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Rest of city schools getting solar panels
Thomas Ebersold
Published 12:33 pm EDT, Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Plans to install a final round of solar panels on school buildings were approved last week by city aldermen and the Planning and Zoning Board.
The Planning and Zoning Board unanimously endorsed the idea of installing solar panels on John F. Kennedy, Live Oaks, Meadowside and Orange Avenue elementary schools, along with West Shore Middle School.
"I think it's a wonderful idea. I think it's great for Milford to be part of a sustainable movement," said Jim Quish, P&Z chairman.
The Board of Aldermen also unanimously approved the plan. Although operated by the Board of Education, the buildings are owned by the city.
James Richetelli Jr., chief operations officer for the school district, told the Planning and Zoning Board that the district installed solar panels on four schools in summer 2017: Mathewson and Orchard Hills elementary schools, East Shore Middle School, and Jonathan Law High School.
"This is in line with the city's initiative to continue whenever we can to put green energy into our buildings," said Richetelli.
Richetelli said all schools had roofs installed within the last four to five years. Of those schools, eight elementary and two middle schools received new roofs within the last two years. He said the roofs were inspected to determine they could carry the weight of the panels. Further, the panels do not affect the 30-year warranty on the roofs.
At its April 18, 2017 meeting, the board supported a plan to put panels on Calf Pen Meadow, Orchard Hills and Pumpkin Delight elementary schools, along with The Academy and Harborside Middle School.
At its April 4, 2017 meeting, the P&Z approved the idea of panels on Joseph A. Foran and Jonathan Law high schools, East Shore Middle School, and Mathewson Elementary School.
In a Dec. 12, 2016 presentation to the Board of Education, Richetelli said the panels could potentially save the district $3.4 million over the life of the 20-year contract with Davis Hill Development LLC (DHD) of Port Chester, N.Y.,
At the April 4, 2017 meeting, attorney Stephen W. Studer, speaking on behalf of the Board of Education, said there are "no substantial out of pocket costs" to the Board of Education because the developer pays for the installation and maintenance of the panels.
The city agrees to purchase the electricity generated by the panels "at a much lower cost than current rates." The agreement would last for 20 years, and Studer said the panels have a 25-year lifespan. He said the city was working with a contractor, rather than purchasing the solar panels directly, due to tax incentives available to the for-profit company.
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Jesuits West Province to Release Names of Jesuits with Credible Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors
Today, Jesuits West is announcing the province will release the names of those Jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors since 1950. In a letter explaining his decision, Fr. Scott Santarosa, SJ, provincial of Jesuits West, said that in the wake of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, which detailed shocking cases of abuse of minors by priests, "the People of God rightly demand and deserve transparency on the part of Church leadership."
According to Fr. Santarosa's letter, the province will release the names of those Jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors since 1950. The release is scheduled for the first Friday of Advent, December 7, 2018, and following the release of names, the province will undergo an external review of files to ensure that its list is complete and that cases of abuse were handled appropriately. If the external review identifies additional names, the province will release those names as well. The name of the firm conducting the external review will also be announced on December 7.
Fr. Santarosa said, "On behalf of the Society of Jesus, I apologize to victims and their families. There is no greater betrayal of pastoral care than the abuse of a minor by someone with a sacred duty to protect and care for the People of God. While the Church in the U.S. has experienced significant reform in this area, we are now called to deepen that reform by becoming more transparent. In issuing this list and calling for an independent review, we hope to offer victims and their families a step forward in the healing process."
Since 2002, Jesuits have enforced rigorous policies to ensure the safety of minors, including ongoing professional development to help create safe environments. In his letter, Fr. Santarosa encouraged anyone who has felt victimized by a Jesuit to contact the province's Advocacy Coordinator, Mary Pat Panighetti, 408-893-8398 or mppanighetti@jesuits.org, and appropriate law enforcement and child-protective agencies.
Calling his conversations with abuse survivors "moments of grace," Fr. Santarosa concluded his letter by asking for prayers for victims of abuse and for the Church. "May we find in this moment the courage to move forward with integrity, transparency and accountability."
To read the full text of Fr. Santarosa's letter, please click here.
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Regina Olson Hughes
American scientific illustrator
(1895-02-01)February 1, 1895
Herman, Nebraska
August 12, 1993(1993-08-12) (aged 98)
Gallaudet College
Illustrator Translator
US Department of Agriculture Smithsonian Museum
Regina Olson Hughes (1895–1993) was an American scientific illustrator in Botanical Art. Born February 1, 1895 in Herman, Nebraska, she became fascinated with the world of plants and flowers. Her parents were Gilbert and Johanna (Sullivan) Olson. At age 10, she contracted scarlet fever and her hearing slowly diminished until she became fully deaf at age 14. In order for her to communicate with her peers, she relied on lip reading and written notes for business work. Hughes retained her speech skills and continued to speak fluently throughout her adulthood. She became proficient in American Sign Language when she enrolled in Gallaudet University.
She loved her rural home, rampant with weeds, plants and flowers. An interest in art also dominated her childhood. Her parents provided art tutoring. Plants and flowers were her favorite subjects. In 1923, Hughes married Frederick H. Hughes[1] and lived on Gallaudet University's campus for thirty years. He was Gallaudet's legendary Deaf economics professor, theater enthusiast, and football coach. In 1956, he died of a heart attack. She died August 12, 1993 due to heart failure at age 98.
2 Government work
2.1 Other work
3 Illustrations
3.1 Published work and art shows
4 Honors
Hughes attended Gallaudet College, the then only postsecondary program for deaf students.[2] She said, "In 1918, when I graduated from Gallaudet, deaf people were looked down upon. We were treated like children." But she never backed down from a challenge. At Gallaudet she proved her gift as a writer and poet, contributing many poems to the college's newspaper, Buff and Blue.[3] After she graduated, she called on Nebraska senator Filbert Hichcock, founder of Omaha World Herald and friend of her father, and asked if he could help her find a political job. He told her, "nice girls don't work. You go home and stay with your papa and meet a nice man and he'll take care of you." She was notably unimpressed with this advice.[1] She received her bachelor's in art in 1918 and her master's degree in 1920.[1]
Government work[edit]
After graduation, Hughes worked at the Veterans Administration for a few weeks before moving on to the state department.[3] In 1930, Hughes worked at the US Department of Agriculture as a research clerk then as a scientific illustrator and translator.[1] She attained stature as an artist and scholar during years of government service. She used her fluency in four languages- French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian- to work as a translator in the State department during World War I.[4] Also at the departments of war and commerce where her most prestigious assignment was translating during the Conference on limitation of armament in Washington, after the armistice.[1] She served as a translator for the US department of State, one of only two non-French women employed by the US office of Translation.[2]
In 1936, she became the scientific illustrator in botany for the Agricultural Research Service.[4] Hughes' experiences has included years of honored illustration work for the Agricultural Research Service and the US Department of Agriculture.[2] Then in 1969, she "retired" from the USDA but then continued work for the Smithsonian Institution.[1] She continued to work until the age of 95, when the Botany Department of the Smithsonian Institution gave a retirement part in her honor.[1]
Other work[edit]
Hughes worked at the Smithsonian until 1990 but did side work as well.[1] She taught at the Mississippi school for the deaf.[2] She painted orchids and bromeliads for Robert W. Read, Curator in the Smithsonian Department of Botany, and continuing as a contract illustrator for scientists at both the USDA and the Smithsonian.[1] Robert Reed was very impressed by her work and continued to work together for 17 years.[3] She has also been a resident illustrator in the Department of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution.[2] Her interest in art and language generated thick sketchbooks. Most of her paintings, as well as many flower studies are based on sketches made during her travels throughout much of the world.[3] In 1979 the Smithsonian Institution honored her by naming a new species, of Bromeliad, "Billbergia reginae," for Regina Olson Hughes.[4] She is the only person to have both a plant genus and species named for her.[5] In 1981, Robert M. King and Harold Robinson, named a member of the Asteraceae after her "Hughesia reginae."
Illustrations[edit]
Hughes was a botanical artist and focused on plants, particularly orchids.[1] Her illustrations include a variety of skills such as watercolor, oils, gouache and pencil.[1] To be an effective botanical illustrator, one has to be intelligent, patient, knowledgeable, aesthetic and naturally artistic.[3] Art history books, generally, do not include scientific illustration, which has been long considered more technical, utilitarian, or even distinguished craftsmanship rather than a means of artistic self-expression.[3] The necessity of executing accurate images of natural plans and flowers requires explicit replication of the object, thus eliminating personal input by the illustrator.[3] She was known for her beautiful, precise and intricate depictions of weeds, orchids, and exotic species.[1] Her lived combination of arts and sciences emanated from her passion.[2] Much of her work is so detailed that it has been done with the aid of a microscope.[4] Hughes was primarily self-educated botany, working closely with taxonomists and other scientists as she illustrated the flowers, weeds, plants, and seeds they collected and categorized from all over the world.[2] For all of these illustrations she wrote the plant descriptions[5] There are no backgrounds to distract the scientists from the main subject of the work. Colors are held to a minimum to avoid interference with the subject. Similar parts of the plant might be shown in different levels of details. Distortotion is frequently seen in Hughes' works in order to show the important parts. Plants and flowers parts must show exact proportions in a corresponding scale.[3]
Published work and art shows[edit]
She was the first deaf artist to have a solo show at the Smithsonian; 40 meticulous watercolors of orchids were exhibited in the Rotunda Gallery of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in 1982: "Artist and Botanist-A Collaboration."[1] Her work has also been exhibited with the National League of American Pen Women, the Guild of Natural science illustrators, and the hunt institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University."[4] The Agricultural Research Service Handbook 366, which contains 224 full-page plates of her work and has been published[1] under the title "Common Weeds of the US," by Dover Press."[4] The USDA Handbook N0. 498,"Economically Important Foreign Weeds, Potential Problems in the United States," contains over 6,000 of her drawings of seeds and plants.[4] Her orchid paintings are permanently on public view at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Museum.[3]
A partial list includes:
Famous International Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts by Deaf Artist 1934 [Roerich Museum, New York City]
Journal of the Bromeliad Society; Grassland Seeds (1957)[1]
Stetches of the United States- Native, Naturalized, and cultivated (1960)[1]
Identification of crop and weed seeds (1963)[1]
National Arboretum 1968[1]
Selected weeds of the United States(1970) [1]
Commons Weeds of the United States (1971)[1]
The agave family in Sonora (1972)[1]
Aquatic and wetland plants of the southwestern United States (1972) [1]
National Agricultural Library 1972[1]
Economically important foreign weeds (1977)[1]
Selby Botanical Garden 1986 [Sarasota, Florida][1]
Eastern Orchid Congress 1986 [Alexandria, Virginia][1]
Gallaudet University 1986 [Washington DC][1]
The Genera of the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae) (1987)[1]
Caryopsis morphology and classification in the triticeae (pooideae: poaceae) [1993][1]
National Orchid Collection[1]
Washington Water Color Association
Brookside Gardens [Maryland]
Honors[edit]
Superior Service Award from the Department of Agriculture, 1962[1][4]
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Human Letters From Gallaudet College, 1967[1][4]
Woman of the Year by Gallaudet Sorority Phi Kappa Zeta (1979)[1]
"Artist of the Year" by the Chevy Chase Branch of the National League of American Pen Women (1980)[1]
New plant genus and species of Asteraceae named after her "Hughesia reginae," 1981
Amos Kendall Award (1981)[1]
The guild of Natural Science Illustrators member[1]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj Moore, Matthew; Panara, Robert. Great Deaf Americans: The Second Edition. Rochester, NY: Deaf Life Press. pp. 118–124.
^ a b c d e f g Lang, Harry; Meath-Lang, Bonnie. Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 188–191.
^ a b c d e f g h i Sonnenstrahl, Deborah M. Deaf Artists in America: Colonical to Contemporary. San Diego, California: Dawn Sign Press. pp. 150–155.
^ a b c d e f g h i Gannon, Jack R. Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America. Gallaudet University Press. pp. 120–122.
^ a b Lang, Harry G. Silence of the Spheres: The Deaf Experience in the History of Science. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey. pp. 101–102.
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Org. Synth. 1957, 37, 58
ISOPHORONE OXIDE
[Cyclohexanone, 2,3-epoxy-3,5,5-trimethyl-]
Submitted by Richard L. Wasson and Herbert O. House1.
Checked by James Cason and Ralph J. Fessenden.
In a 1-l. three-necked flask, equipped with a dropping funnel, a mechanical stirrer, and a thermometer, is placed a solution of 55.2 g. (0.4 mole) of isophorone (Note 1) and 115 ml. (1.2 moles) of 30% aqueous hydrogen peroxide (Caution! avoid contact with skin) in 400 ml. of methanol. After the contents of the flask have been cooled to 15° by means of an ice bath, 33 ml. (0.2 mole) of 6N aqueous sodium hydroxide is added, dropwise and with stirring, over a period of 1 hour. During the addition the temperature of the reaction mixture is maintained at 15–20° with a bath of cold water (Note 2). After the addition is complete, the resulting mixture is stirred for 3 hours as the temperature of the reaction mixture is maintained at 20–25° (Note 3) and (Note 4). The reaction mixture is then poured into 500 ml. of water, and the resulting mixture is extracted with two 400-ml. portions of ether. The combined extracts are washed with water and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. After the bulk of the ether has been removed by distillation (or flash distillation) through a 30-cm. Vigreux column (Note 5) at atmospheric pressure, the residual liquid is distilled through the Vigreux column under reduced pressure. The yield of isophorone oxide (Note 4) is 43–44.5 g. (70–72%), b.p. 70–73°/5 mm., nD25 1.4500–1.4510.
2. Notes
1. A technical grade of isophorone, b.p. 80–84°/9 mm., nD25 1.4755, purchased from Eastman Kodak Company, was employed for this preparation.
2. If the temperature of the reaction mixture is less than 15°, the reaction does not begin. When the resulting mixture is subsequently warmed to room temperature the exothermic reaction which results is difficult to control (Note 3).
3. If the temperature of the reaction mixture is allowed to rise above 30°, the yield of isophorone oxide is diminished.
4. If desired, the course of the reaction may be followed by means of the optical density of the reaction mixture at 235 mμ. The ultraviolet spectrum of isophorone has a maximum at 235 mμ (ε 13,300); the ultraviolet spectrum of isophorone oxide has a maximum at 292 mμ (ε 43). A total reaction time of 4 hours under the conditions specified was found to be ample for the complete conversion of isophorone to its oxide. If the conversion is not complete, the product cannot be separated from the unchanged isophorone without recourse to precise fractional distillation. The absence of isophorone from the final product may be verified by examination of the spectrum at 235 mμ.
5. When the checkers distilled the product through a simple type of Podbielniak column of 65-cm. length, with heated jacket and partial reflux head, the boiling range was 1°, 74–75°/6 mm., but the yields and index of refraction were the same as those reported by the submitters.
Isophorone oxide has been prepared by the epoxidation of isophorone with alkaline hydrogen peroxide.2,3
This preparation is referenced from:
Org. Syn. Coll. Vol. 4, 957
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts.
Treibs, Ber., 66, 1483 (1933).
House and Wasson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 79, 1488 (1957).
Chemical Abstracts Nomenclature (Collective Index Number);
(Registry Number)
methanol (67-56-1)
ether (60-29-7)
sodium hydroxide (1310-73-2)
hydrogen peroxide (7722-84-1)
magnesium sulfate (7487-88-9)
Isophorone oxide,
Cyclohexanone, 2,3-epoxy-3,5,5-trimethyl- (10276-21-8)
isophorone