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We are well aware of the developing healthy trends in food world. We like to participate in that, by developing special produce of seaweed. That's delicious and healthy and doesn't take a lot of the world we live in, like binding agents made of wheat and corn.
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Berlin: N. Simrock, 1891. Plate 9508.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926-27. Plate J.B. 20.
Berlin: N. Simrock, 1891. Plate 9509.
Berlin: N. Simrock, No.796, 1927. Plate 15045.
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Leipzig: Edition Peters, n.d. Plate 10447.
Berlin: N. Simrock, 1891. Plate 9505.
Berlin: N. Simrock, No.V.A. 492, 1920. Plate 13973.


Join in the fun here around 8pm Aukland, NZ time! As Steve reminded us, that's 1am PDT, 4am EDT, 9am BST, 10am CET, 11am MSK.
i will see how things go.... do you have a whatsapp number you can pm me or something?
Woo-hoo. Glad to be back and to try to catch an NZ show. If I were you, psychophysio, I would keep an eye out for Black Riders. Yikes!
(from twitter) Merch looks pretty similar for this leg of the tour as well...with slight addition of long sleeve shirt/hoodie?
Various stuff being tuned at the mo.
Good zapisz you all. I completely forgot we have a show this morning! Niiiiiice!


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August 8, 2014 by Peter T Young Leave a Comment
Kaʻalāwai
Along the coastal area between Lēʻahi (Diamond Head) and Kūpikipikiʻō (Black Point) several small neighborhoods are sometimes identified by the names of the main roads in the area Kaikoo, Papu Circle and Kulamanu. However, the historic name for this area of Oʻahu's is Kaʻalāwai.
Kaʻalāwai literally means 'the water (basalt) rock' and is probably named for the springs on the beach and among the rocks at the east end of the beach.
It is a narrow, white-sand beach with a shallow reef offshore, which generally has poor swimming conditions. There are only a few scattered pockets of sand on the nearshore ocean bottom. Lots go surfing outside.
At the east end of the beach near Black Point is a mansion turned museum, built by Doris Duke, the daughter of James Duke, the founder of the American Tobacco Company, and her husband, James Cromwell. (It's their name that is attributed to the "Cromwell's" Cove and Beach references.)
In the late-1930s, Doris Duke built her Honolulu home, Shangri La, on five acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head. Shangri La incorporates architectural features from the Islamic world and houses Duke's extensive collection of Islamic art, which she assembled for nearly 60 years.
Through an Exchange Deed dated December 8, 1938 between the Territorial Land Board of Hawai'i and Ms Duke, two underwater parcels (totaling approximately 0.6-acres) were added to the Duke property.
At water's edge below the estate, Duke then dynamited a small-boat harbor and a seventy-five-foot salt-water swimming pool into the rock. The harbor was built to protect Duke's fleet of yachts, including Kailani Lahilahi, an ocean-going, 58-foot motor yacht and Kimo, the 26-foot mahogany runabout that Duke sometimes used to commute into Honolulu.
Part of the deal was that the transfer gave the Territory (now State) a perpetual easement of a four-foot right-of-way for a pedestrian causeway along the coastline. It's a popular swimming area (ongoing media reports note the hazards here, so be careful.)
Today, Shangri La is open for guided, small group tours and educational programs. In partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art – which owns and supports Shangri La – the Honolulu Museum of Art serves as the orientation center for Shangri La tours.
Another stretch of beach here had some other interesting ownership/use issues.
In the old days, a Beach Road ran right next to the water at Kaʻalāwai. When some of the private property mauka of the road was subdivided into seven lots and conveyed in 1885, the makai boundaries of these seven lots were specified "along the road".
However, in 1959, folks adjoining the then-abandoned road soon made claims to it – most extended their landscaping (and even put in improvements (patio, walls, etc)) out over the old beach road.
Some of the abutting owners succeeded in their title claims and subsequent legal battles, obtaining declaratory judgments in their favor and they gained title to the road remnant real estate. Subsequently, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court ruled that the State owns the road.
The last property made application to the State to acquire the road remnant, however, after following discussions, they ended up seeking a long-term easement over the old roadway.
Oh, one more Kaʻalāwai story … following the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893, the Committee of Safety established the Provisional Government of Hawaiʻi as a temporary government until an assumed annexation by the United States.
The Provisional Government convened a constitutional convention and established the Republic of Hawaiʻi on July 4, 1894. The Republic continued to govern the Islands.
From January 6 to January 9, 1895, in a "Counter-Revolution," patriots of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and the forces that had overthrown the constitutional Hawaiian monarchy were engaged in a war that consisted of battles on the island of Oʻahu.
It has been called the Second Wilcox Rebellion of 1895 (named after Robert William Wilcox.) In their attempt to return Queen Liliʻuokalani to the throne, it was the last major military operation by royalists who opposed the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Wilcox's headquarters was at Kaʻalāwai. (Daily Bulletin, January 19, 1895) Shortly after the fighting began, losing the element of surprise and seeing no tactical importance in remaining at Diamond Head, Wilcox ordered his men to retreat to Waiʻalae.
Wilcox and his men then escaped to the Koʻolau up a trail on the precipice to the ridge separating Mānoa from Nuʻuanu. On that ridge his men dispersed into the mountain above; Wilcox and a few others crossed Nuʻuanu that night, eluding the guards. They were later captured.
Queen Liliʻuokalani was put under arrest on the 16th, and confined in a chamber of ʻIolani Palace. A tribunal was formed and evidence began to be taken on the 18th. Nowlein, Wilcox, Bertelmann and TB Walker all pleaded guilty, and subsequently gave evidence for the prosecution.
Wilcox was court-martialed and sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to thirty-five years. In January, 1896, he was given a conditional pardon and became a free man; in 1898, President Dole gave him a full pardon. (Wilcox later served as the first delegate and representative of Hawaiʻi in the US Congress.)
Convicted of having knowledge of a royalist plot, Liliʻuokalani was fined $5,000 and sentenced to five-years in prison at hard labor. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of ʻIolani Palace.
She spent 8 months in this room. After her release from ʻIolani Palace, the Queen remained under house arrest for five months at her private home, Washington Place. For another eight months she was forbidden to leave Oʻahu before all restrictions were lifted. Liliʻuokalani died of a stroke on November 11, 1917 in Honolulu at the age of 79.
The image shows Kaʻalāwai and Black Point area prior to development. In addition, I have added others similar images in a folder of like name in the Photos section on my Facebook and Google+ pages.
Filed Under: Ali'i / Chiefs / Governance, Place Names, Prominent People Tagged With: Diamond Head, Doris Duke, Hawaii, Kaalawai, Leahi, Liliuokalani, Oahu, Queen Liliuokalani, Robert Wilcox, Second Wilcox Rebellion, Shangri La
April 29, 2014 by Peter T Young Leave a Comment
Kūpikipikiʻō
An eruption from a vent southeast of Lēʻahi (Diamond Head) poured dense lava into the sea to build a headland. The Hawaiians called it Kūpikipikiʻō (rough (sea) or agitated (wind or storm)) because of its turbulent waters.
The waves attack the headland directly, but the shore on either side of it is protected by a reef. (MacDonald) The black lava that formed there prompted its modern name, Black Point.
When Kamehameha and his warriors made their attack in Oʻahu in 1795, they landed from Waikīkī to Maunalua – right in this area. More than 100-years later, around 1901, one of Black Point's first houses was built by developer Fred Harrison. (Star-Bulletin)
In January 1905, President Teddy Roosevelt instructed Secretary of War William H. Taft to convene the National Coast Defense Board (Taft Board) "to consider and report upon the coast defenses of the United States and the insular possessions (including Hawai'i.)"
Based on recommendation of the Secretary of War, on January 18, 1906, President Teddy Roosevelt signed Executive Order 395-A, setting aside public lands at Kūpikipikiʻo Point for military purposes.
"From Kūpikipikiʻo Point to Waipiʻo Peninsula the line of defense is to be strengthened with field fortifications, batteries and searchlights, and as soon as the money becomes available the dirt will begin to fly and the concrete to take form, under the supervision of the army engineers." (Star-Bulletin, February 4, 1914)
Fort Ruger Military Reservation was established at Lēʻahi in 1906. The Reservation was named in honor of Major General Thomas H Ruger, who served from 1871 to 1876 as the superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
The fort included Battery Harlow (1910-1943); Battery Birkhimer (1916-1943); Battery Granger Adams (1935-1946); Battery Dodge (1915-1925); Battery Mills (1916-1925); Battery 407 (1944); Battery Hulings (1915-1925) and Battery Ruger (1937-1943.)
Battery Mills was built on a 3-acre tract in the Kūpikipikiʻo Point Reservation. Battery Mills was not technically part of Fort Ruger, but was administered by it. The battery was armed with two 5-inch Seacoast guns.
There was a reinforced magazine for munitions, a plotting room/command bunker and an underground power room which had a generator. Those guns were later eliminated from the Army's inventory, so the Battery was decommissioned.
Battery Granger Adams (1933 and 1935) replaced Battery Mills and consisted of two 8-inch railway guns on either side of a protected powder and shell magazine, along with a Commander's Station and power room (it was felt that there was still a need for a gun battery at that location – it was later decommissioned in 1946.)
The conclusion of World War II and the advent of nuclear and missile warfare made the coastal batteries obsolete. Thus, in December 1955 the majority of the land was turned over to the State of Hawai'i.
Nearby Kaʻalāwai Beach lies at the base of Diamond Head's eastern slope, between Kuilei Cliff Beach Park ("lei stringing") to the west and Black Point to the east.
Kaʻalāwai ("the watery rock") is a narrow, white-sand beach with a shallow reef offshore, which makes for generally poor swimming conditions. There are only a few scattered pockets of sand on the nearshore ocean bottom.
Freshwater bubbles up between the rocks of the reef. The beach is mainly used by surfers, who paddle out to the surf spot called Brown's, which is located just behind the reef.
An old Beach Road fronted the Kaʻalāwai oceanfront properties. In 1959, owners of the abutting properties claimed the ownership of the old beach road; after a series of lawsuits, many of them obtained declaratory judgments which allowed them to buy the road right-of-way.
At the east end of the beach near Black Point is Shangri-La, a mansion turned museum, built by Doris Duke, the daughter of James Buchanan Duke, the founder of the American Tobacco Company, and her husband, James Cromwell, in 1937.
Upon her father's death, Doris Duke received large bequests from her father's will when she turned 21, 25, and 30; she was sometimes referred to as the "world's richest girl."
In the late 1930s, Doris Duke built her Honolulu home, Shangri La, on 5-acres overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head. Shangri La incorporates architectural features from the Islamic world and houses Duke's extensive collection of Islamic art, which she assembled for nearly 60 years.
To get to Kaʻalāwai Beach and Cromwell's Cove take Diamond Head Road east and turn right on Kulamanu Street and park curbside. The beach access is at the end of Kulamanu Place.
A later building boom by the wealthy turned Black Point into one of the world's most exclusive and expensive community.
The image shows a 1921 military encampment for a balloon squadron, overlooking Kūpikipikiʻo. In addition, I have included other images in a folder of like name in the Photos section on my Facebook and Google+ pages.
Filed Under: Buildings, Economy, General, Place Names Tagged With: Black Point, Diamond Head, Doris Duke, Fort Ruger, Hawaii, Kaalawai, Kupikipikio, Leahi, Oahu, Shangri La

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Former Arsenal manager reveals how he's trying to improve 'quality' Super Eagles dribbler
by Imhons Erons
in Europa League, La Liga, News, NewsNow, Nigeria, Top
The Nigeria international came in from the bench on Sunday but could not help the Yellow Submarines avoid their first league defeat this term
Villarreal CF manager Unai Emery has reinstated his belief in the abilities of Samuel Chukwueze, despite the Super Eagles winger being at fault for the goal conceded in his side's 1-0 loss at Real Betis.
Emery introduced Chukwueze in the 54th minute of the clash as the visitors sought the game's opening goal.
But the Nigeria international was caught ball-watching as Rodri stole in at the back post to bundle home Betis' winner in the 61st minute.
It was the first goal Villarreal conceded this term and only the second match in which the team failed to score.
Unai Emery is disappointed that Chukwueze could not make a positive difference against the landlords of the Estadio Benito Villamarín.
But the former Arsenal boss insists his coaching crew is working on helping the flying winger improve his defensive awareness.
Speaking to the press after the encounter, Emery said, "Chukwueze has quality, and we are working on improving his defensive performance. He has lacked the two meters necessary to defend from post to post."
The defeat to Real Betis is Villarreal's first of the season and their first loss in all competitions since May 15 (1-2 to Real Sociedad).
The Yellow Submarines sit in the fourth position on the Spanish La Liga table, with three wins and one draw.
Emery's men will look to return to winning ways when they honour their continental commitment away to Hapoel Be'er Sheva on Thursday.
Chukwueze has one assist in five substitute appearances in La Liga.
But the 23-year-old dribbler has started and scored in Villarreal's last two games in the Europa Conference League, including in the 4-3 win over Lech Poznan last week.
Tags: La LigaSamuel ChukwuezeVillarreal
Imhons Erons


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Cardholders of Cebu Pacific GetGo Debit and Credit Cards by UnionBank can enjoy P250 discount on KLOOK when they use their newly-approved cards to book.
"The Philippines is one of our fastest growing travel markets. We are very excited to join forces with GetGo to provide even bigger and better rewards for Filipino travelers all around. With new exciting verticals such as restaurants and wellness coming to Klook, strong partnerships like these put us at the forefront to capitalize on the growing trend of intra-region travel within Asia Pacific," said Klook Travel Co-Founder Eric Gnock Fah.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvZyDgEa-g The game is out on PC and Macs and will be out in June for Xbox One and PS4.
I love, love the Elder Scrolls universe but I'm not very big into MMOs. God, I am so torn! If I do get it it would be for the X1 because I'm inferior console gamer.


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Krásná  est une commune du district de Cheb, dans la région de Karlovy Vary, en Tchéquie. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2020.

Géographie
Limitée à l'ouest par la frontière allemande, Krásná est la commune la plus à l'ouest de la Tchéquie. Elle est située à  au nord-ouest de la ville d'Aš, à  au nord-ouest de Cheb, à  à l'ouest de Karlovy Vary et à  à l'ouest de Prague.

La commune est limitée par l'Allemagne au sud-ouest, à l'ouest et au nord-ouest, par Hranice au nord, par Podhradí à l'est et par Aš au sud-ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite de la localité date de 1331.

Notes et références

Lien externe

  Informations sur le site de l'Office statistique tchèque (Český statistický úřad)

Commune dans le district de Cheb

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Fox Visits North Vietnam
But the truth eventually came out. Leaving his radioman behind, Captain Hartman had taken his company across the Ben Hai into North Vietnam and was poking around over there learning what he could learn.
And finally, before we leave the mystique of the DMZ, we have another totally strange but most valuable event. I have forgotten the day but something tells me that it was a quiet Sunday afternoon. Things like this happen on quiet Sunday afternoons.
For reasons long forgotten, I wanted to talk to Captain Stan Hartman, skipper of Fox Company. All I know is that it was a routine matter that quickly became more than routine. I called him on the battalion tactical net and as usual, his radio operator answered. He told me that the captain was not available. That set off a chain of questions, all of which the radio operator, a fine Marine, had been told how to answer. But the truth eventually came out. Leaving his radioman behind, Captain Hartman had taken his company across the Ben Hai into North Vietnam and was poking around over there learning what he could learn.
The bad news was that, if word of his visit into North Vietnam with his company ever got to Paris, there would be serious hell to pay. On the other hand, the good news was that we now knew that there was nothing across the river opposite us. He and his troops came right back to our side of the river and nothing more was said or written about the touring excursion, an excursion we were pleased that he had taken.
[Click here to see an annotated photo of one of the Company F squads that crossed into North Vietnam.]


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Fela Kuti Lives
Fela Kuti's Chop n' Quench
Re-opening the "Shrine" of Afrobeat
S.D. Green
Bernard Matussiere
With a bio-pic in the works at Focus Features, and Broadway's Fela! getting glowing reviews with the theater crowd, Knitting Factory Records saw an opportunity to re-release Fela Kuti's catalog to a new generation of fans. "The Kuti family had a license with Universal which was expiring. Knitting Factory did a deal directly with the Estate for the next 11 years. It seemed like a great time for the Knitting Factory to re-launch the catalog," Brian Long, Label Manager of Knitting Factory said. "Our goal is to re-release the entire CD catalog this year." A commendable, if highly ambitious task. That's 45 albums, 26 CDs — a huge chunk of West African musical history.
The legacy of Fela Kuti — the creator of afrobeat — stretches back more than 40 years, criss-crossing the globe from his time spent studying music in London to his compound in Lagos, Nigeria, where he fought contentious battles with the Nigerian government while making some of the most kinetic music on the planet. To get the full story, Knitting Factory would definitely have to go back.
Back before 2002's Red Hot + Riot compilation, featuring Fela's musical admirers — from Dead Prez to Taj Mahal. That album brought his ouevre to the attention of the masses in the west, although DJs and musicians (everyone from Brian Eno and the Talking Heads to Ginger Baker, a friend and collaborator) have been playing, sampling, and riffing off his ideas for decades. Back before 1997, when the cantankerous and controversial Kuti succumbed to the complications of AIDS/HIV, an event that made plain the mortality of a man who lived like a demigod or Emperor on his compound, Kalakuta Republic, where his band rehearsed, performed, partied, protested the government, pushed for pan-African unity, and suffered the tyranny of Nigeria's various corrupt governments. Back before adopting the name Anikulapo, which means, "he who carries death in his pouch." Back before his embrace of traditional tribal custom resulted in the 1978 marriage to 27 of his back-up singers. Back before the tragic death of his mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, during a 1977 raid on the compound which ended with Fela brutally beaten and his mother thrown out of a window. Before campaigns for the presidency of Nigeria and his provocative pro-black political messages inspired by a trip to the United States in 1969 where he discovered the philosophies of Malcolm X. You go back to the mid-'60s, to Fela's days playing the popular big band music of Nigeria and West African nightclubs, highlife, and his first bandleader gig with Koola Lobitos.
Chop n' Quench includes The '69 Los Angeles Sessions, London Scene, Shakara, Open & Close, Live! Fela Ransome-Kuti The Africa 70 (with Ginger Baker), Music of Fela – Roforofo Fight, Afrodisiac, Gentleman, and Confusion.
"The L.A. Sessions was actually the first Fela Kuti album released in Nigeria," Long says. It's something of a compilation of Fela's 1960s work with the earliest incarnation of his band Koola Lobitos (the foundation for Nigeria/Africa '70) and diverges the most from the fiery, muscular sound he would hone with Africa '70 and Egypt '80. Jazzier with more major key melodies and a less prominent rhythm section, the music is polished yet unspectacular. Fela's lyrics are mostly repetitive, dancefloor scats — far from the scathing indictments of Nigeria's political leadership, organized religion, and military he would deliver in playful pidgin English and Yoruba sing-speak on tracks like "Zombie" and "Coffin for Head of State," or sly twists on traditional Nigerian sayings like "Water No Get Enemy." Only "My Lady's Frustration" crosses the 7-minute mark into signature Fela-extended-jam territory.
Afrobeat began as a fusion of the uptempo, big-band dance music of highlife infused with traditional African percussion and a distinctly American funky bottom-end that heavily echoes the sound of James Brown and the J.B.'s. Much like the Godfather of Soul, Fela Kuti could be accused of revisiting his signature sounds over and over again. But critics who make this argument miss the point — one that should be considered before delving into a collection of almost 50 songs and multiple hours of music. Unlike other forms of pop music that digest sounds and move on in an insatiable need to be progressive or cutting edge, Fela Kuti is after the intrinsic and fundamental root, a hypnotic pulse that Kuti continually turned inside out with variation after variation of African rhythm and swing. Similar to some of Miles Davis's experiments with funk in the 1970s, Kuti's band often hangs in one mode or chord, exploring the tumultuous depths of drummer Tony Allen's groove more than its breadth — not dissimilar to traditional African musics that don't change rhythms as much as they add layers and dimension.
It's a mistake to be preoccupied with the sameness of the music when it is a much more rewarding experience to let the snaking guitar, thunderous plucked basslines, and shuffling polyrhythmic drum patterns lift you into the call-and-response choruses that spell out a complex life of protest, ego, quest for freedom, and self-expression that only winds itself tighter and tighter with each new track.
That's not to say that the music is all cut from exactly the same cloth. The first album, The Los Angeles Sessions, is definitely the most unlike the others. But the soft and smoldering "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am" (Roforofo Fight) is more inclined to get your lighter in the air than your derriere, while "Gentleman" shows off Fela's chatty saxophone solos (which he'd only recently begun playing in the band at the time of its composition) over an irrepressible Allen beat.
Much of the material here is already available elsewhere. What makes these re-issues unique is the emphasis on a multi-media approach to delivering a complete Fela Kuti experience to the listener. Through the Knitting Factory or Fela Kuti website, you can purchase the Chop n' Quench collection as 320kbps MP3 digital downloads or go all the way up to the "Deluxe Package," which includes 6 digi-pack CDs with the original artwork, the authorized biography of Fela, This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore, and a Best of the Black President album cover screen print. Long points out the mentality behind this strategy and what else is in store: "We are compiling and creating multi-media to help us marketing the catalog. We videotaped interviews with Gharioukwu Lemi who painted many of Fela's album covers and Tunde Adebimpe from TV on The Radio, who is Nigerian. They will be shared later in the spring. We will be doing release parties quarterly at the Knitting Factory. The first was a huge success with lots of dancing in the bar…but that's the magic of Fela, isn't it? Every October there are "Felabrations" to celebrate his birthday set up around the world. A big event is being planned for Lagos this year. We coordinated about 18 of them last year in the States. I'll bet there will be even more in 2010." It's this kind of re-thinking of album releases that give fans customizable options for how they want to consume the music, centered around events that connect them with other fans that may present a new direction for record companies and their artists.
"Our goal is to introduce Fela to a new generation of fans and to make the music generally more available than in the past. Part one of that is showing the connection of Fela and Afrobeat to hip hop. There is a video currently circulating on the web of ?uestlove [drummer for the Roots] discussing this."
And so, Fela lives. Like all legends, the true legacy begins when people come to terms with the fact that there won't be any more music. Into the void come many new artists who will interact with the music in different ways. Ozomatli and Antibalas wouldn't exist without the blueprint of Fela, while Common's entire album Like Water for Chocolate is composed with samples, interpolations, and the influence of the late composer. TV on the Radio is taking the influence in one direction while Zozo Afrobeat go in another, both bands based in NY with Nigerian members. Kuti's progeny carry on his legacy, with Femi Kuti and his Positive Force almost a living tribute to his father, and Seun Kuti bringing a new fire and approach to afrobeat, fronting his father's band and taking it in a contemporary direction.
Knitting Factory's re-release of Fela's albums will no doubt initiate a new wave of inspiration that will bear fruits in the months and years ahead.
The next installment of Knitting Factory's Fela Kuti re-release project is the 14-album collection Na Poi, coming May 11, that highlights the mid-'70s artistic peak of Fela Kuti and Africa '70: Alagbon Close/Why Black Man Dey Suffer; He Miss Road/Expensive Shit; Excuse-O/Monkey Banana; Noise For Vendor Mouth/Everything Scatter; Kalakuta Show/Ikoyi Blindness; Yellow Fever/Na Poi; Unnecessary Begging/Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)
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April 7-13 2019 is designated as National Crime Victims' Rights Week, and Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson wants to thank those who help victims get back on their feet.
The theme of National Crime Victims' Rights Week is "Honoring Our Past. Creating Hope for the Future" and is intended to encourage commemoration, honor, and respect toward the crime victim advocates, allied professionals, and selfless volunteers who work for increased rights for crime victims.
"The Victim/Witness Unit provides an invaluable service to the crime victims of Somerset County. Their professionalism and dedication to assisting victims makes the often complex process of navigating the legal system less stressful," said John W. Fodor, chief of detectives in the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office.
The Victim/Witness Unit is being awarded a proclamation from the Somerset County Freeholders at the board's meeting April 9.
The Victim/Witness staff is led by Erin Rocchietti, coordinator and staffed by bi-lingual secretary Ileana Cosme ; advocate Bobbi Mowery (ret. Police lieutenant) and Alex Wick, advocate. There is an opening for a second advocate.
- The Office of Victim Witness Advocacy, within the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, was established to ensure that the rights of the crime victims are protected and that the criminal justice system treats crime victims and witnesses with fairness, compassion and respect.
- The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office of Victim Witness Advocacy, through its dedicated staff, provides victims with information about the criminal justice process, their rights as crime victims, case status information and support services.
- The goal of victim witness advocates is to empower survivors of crime and the families of crime victims through supportive efforts to ensure that they are treated with dignity, compassion and respect in the aftermath of a crime. For many citizens, the criminal justice system is something they may have previously only heard about on the news or watched on TV shows.
- Victims are thrown into this system that exists to ensure the rights of the accused are upheld and the Victim Advocates are liaisons who step in to explain the process, ensure the victim is informed of their rights, provide realistic expectations, and assist the individual in recovering in the aftermath of the crime. Advocates are contacted by county detective staff during investigations and receive reports of crimes that are investigated by local police.
- Our contact with the victims begins with the report and continues through the prosecution and post-conviction stages. We make outreach to victims to provide information about the criminal justice process, their rights as crime victims and other support services. These services are available to help victims cope with the trauma and the aftermath of the victimization and to lessen the inconveniences often associated with participation in the criminal justice process.
- As the case proceeds, advocates advise victims of the status of their case, answer any questions they may have and act as liaison between the victim and Assistant Prosecutor and the court. We assist victims in applying for reimbursement for monetary expenses related to victimization (example: funeral costs, medical and mental health counseling) through the New Jersey Victims of Crime Compensation Office.
- We accompany victims to court and work in tandem with the courthouse staff to ensure victims are free from intimidation when in attendance. Victims and witnesses of crime are notified of all court proceedings and have the option of receiving these notifications via an online portal. Somerset County will soon be offering victims with notifications and links to services in a downloadable app, so that victims can choose to be updated in a convenient manner.
Call the Office of Victim Witness Advocacy in the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office at 908-575-3359 to learn how you or someone you know can get the help they need.


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Whalley Abbey
History, tourist information, and nearby accommodation
BY DAVID ROSS, EDITOR
HERITAGE RATING: ?
HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS: Remains of the 14th-century abbey church
Whalley Abbey is a ruinous 13th-century Cistercian abbey on the banks of the River Calder in the peaceful Ribble Valley in Lancashire. The abbey site is owned by the Diocese of Blackburn, who operate a conference and retreat centre and offer bed and breakfast accommodation in a setting of outstanding historical significance. Visitors are welcome to explore the abbey ruins.
In 1178 John fitz Richard, constable for the powerful Earls of Chester, founded a Cistercian abbey at Stanlow Point, Cheshire, on the River Mersey. The exposed riverside site left Stanlow Abbey at the mercy of storms and flooding. Life must have been miserable for the monks of Stanlow, for they petitioned the Pope for permission to move to a better location.
In 1296 the Pope granted permission and the monks moved north to the Whalley, Lancashire where they built a new monastery in a sheltered location beside the River Calder. A few monks stayed behind at Stanlow and Stanlow became a cell of Whalley Abbey.
The 14th-century north-east gatehouse
There was already a chapel on the site, erected by Peter of Chester, the rector of Whalley and that 13th-century building was incorporated into the new monastery. The foundation stone for the new abbey church was laid in June 1296 by Henry de Lacy, the 10th Baron of Halton. Stone for the new construction was quarried at Simonstone and Read.
The oldest standing structure is the abbey's north-west gatehouse, begun in 1320. The church was finished in 1380 and the infirmary, abbot's lodging, and cloister were finished by the 1440s.
The abbey layout is odd. Cistercian monasteries always followed the same layout, with the abbey church aligned on an east/west axis. The church formed the northern range of a cloister, with domestic buildings including the abbey kitchens in the south range, the chapter house, abbot's lodgings, and parlour in the east range, and the lay brother's quarters forming the west range.
Huge fireplaces in the abbot's kitchen
Whalley Abbey is different, however. In order to take advantage of the water supply from the River Calder, the church was aligned on a NNW/SSE axis, so that it formed the NNE range. The other ranges were simply rotated to create a square cloister area in the middle of the site.
Most of the monastic buildings were pulled down after the abbey was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1536. The last abbot was John Paslew, who rebelled against the king's plans to dissolve the monasteries and joined the short-lived Pilgrimage of Grace. Paslew paid for his disobedience with his life when he was executed at Lancaster for treason.
Stone from the abbey was used to construct local buildings and the abbot's lodging and infirmary were rebuilt as a manor house by Ralph Assheton (aka Ashton). In 1923 the Church of England bought the manor house and it later passed to the diocese of Blackburn.
The lay brothers' dorter
The abbey church survives only as foundation walls. You can see the remains of the monks' night stairs at the southern end of the south transept and the remains of a doorway leading to the vestry in the south wall. Set into the turf are fragments of three medieval gravestones. One of these marks the burial place of a prior named Thomas Wood, while the other commemorates a monk named John Walton.
The north transept is larger and has three chapels on its east side. There are four fragments of medieval gravestones set into the ground. You can see the foundations of two large piers that supported the crossing tower and eight piers in the nave that supported the north and south arcades.
The south wall of the nave still stands to a height of 3m. At the western end of the nave is the English Martyrs' Catholic Church.
A lily pond and the
lay brothers' dorter
At the eastern end of the chancel are the foundations of a presbytery and semi-circular ambulatory. At the eastern end of the presbytery is a modern high altar on the site of the original medieval altar. In the north ambulatory is a gravestone bearing the arms of the De Lacy family, the abbey founders.
When this area was excavated in the 1930s a skeleton was found under the De Lacy gravestone. This is thought to have been one of the founder's family. The north range is formed by the nave of the parish church of St Mary.
The best-preserved part of the Abbey is the west range, where the lay brothers lived. Lay brothers were not clerics and did not take holy orders. They lived a life of service focussed on work, often at a particular craft or trade. They lived apart from the choir monks, whose main focus was prayer.
The lay brothers' dorter (dormitory) stands to its full two-storey height and is roofed.
On the site of the abbey infirmary stand the remains of the long gallery built by the Assheton family for their Elizabethan manor house.
A medieval wall with later mullioned windows
The Whalley Abbey entrance is on The Sands, off Church Lane and the B6246. The abbey grounds are open daily to visitors. You can also book guided tours, led by resident monks. You enter the abbey grounds through the north-east gateway, which was completed around 1480. A short walk further west along The Sands is the north-west gatehouse, begun around 1320. This is now in the care of English Heritage and is outside the present abbey grounds.
Please take the time to visit the neighbouring parish church of St Mary, which features three Saxon crosses in the churchyard and a 3rd-century Roman altar stone inside the church.
About Whalley Abbey
Address: The Sands, Whalley, Lancashire, England
Attraction Type: Abbey
Location: On The Sands, off Church Lane.
Website: Whalley Abbey
Email: office@whalleyabbey.org
OS: SD730361
Photo Credit: David Ross and Britain Express
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NEARBY HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS
Heritage Rated from 1- 5 (low to exceptional) on historic interest
Whalley Abbey Gatehouse - 0.1 miles (Abbey)
Whalley, St Mary's Church - 0.2 miles (Historic Church)
Old Langho Church - 1.8 miles (Historic Church)
Great Mitton, All Hallow's Church - 2 miles (Historic Church)
Stonyhurst College - 3.1 miles (Historic House)
Clitheroe Castle - 3.5 miles (Castle)
Waddington, St Helen's Church - 4.8 miles (Historic Church)
Gawthorpe Hall - 4.8 miles (Historic House)
Nearest Accommodation to Whalley Abbey:
Self Catering - B&Bs/Guesthouses - Hotels
Nearest Self Catering Cottages
3 Poole End, Whalley - 0.1 miles
Whalley, Lancashire
Stay from: £278.00 - 1219.00
Deer Lodge, Langho - 1.8 miles
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Windmill Cottage, Great Harwood - 2.3 miles
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Nearest Bed and Breakfasts
The Pendle Inn - 6.4 miles
Middle Flass Lodge - 10.3 miles
Clitheroe, Lancashire
The Fountain Inn - 11.3 miles
Barnoldswick, Lancashire
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Evidence Based Education
Determining Measurement
Research to Practice
Standards of Proof
Understanding Research
Why Science is Essential
Education Drivers
External Influences
Quality Teachers
Quality Leadership
Effective Instruction
Roadmap For Success
System Dashboard
Structural Interventions
Societal Outcomes
Education Outcomes
About The Wing Institute
Web Site Overview
Wing Presentations
Summits on Education
- Student Research 2007
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- Summit 2006
The Wing Institute is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating foundation dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based education policies and practices in K-12 education. As a "catalyst" organization, it is designed to bridge the research-to-practice gap by facilitating communication, cooperation and collaboration among individuals and organizations currently engaged in evidence-based education. Its goal is to analyze and disseminate existing knowledge, help create new knowledge, and facilitate the effective application of that knowledge to real world settings in real time parameters.
The Wing Institute was founded in 2004 and named after Ernie Wing, an outstanding educator and child advocate who was an early champion of evidence-based education and quality services for children with special needs.
The Wing Institute's strategies are designed to address specific needs and opportunities in the U.S. K-12 education system:
The field of education is experiencing an information explosion. There is a rapidly growing database of research, data, analyses, models, and policies in virtually all aspects of K-12 education.
This information is extremely complex and nuanced. The K-12 education system is vast in terms of stakeholders, resources, issues, and philosophies. Education programs (classrooms, schools, districts, states, universities, etc.) vary in every way imaginable.
Interpretation and use of this information vary widely. The issues involved in K-12 are extremely complex and most conclusions are driven by special interests, ideologies, and commonly held beliefs rather than scientific evidence.
There is now solid evidence regarding what does and does not work in building a successful education system. There has been a dramatic increase in scientific research over the past few decades that supports evidence-based decision-making.
Effective implementation is an essential, and too often ignored, component of evidence-based interventions. Interventions that have been scientifically validated often fail in the real world due to poor implementation strategies.
The aggregation, analysis and dissemination of this information have been fragmented across the field of education. There have been few efforts to organize this information in a way that makes it easily accessible and useful to stakeholders.
To address these needs, the Wing Institute is actively engaged in implementing the following strategies:
Information Clearinghouse
The Wing Institute web site houses an online information clearinghouse. It is designed with a state-of-the-art, functional web architecture that analyzes, organizes and synthesizes the enormous, complex, nuanced, and rapidly growing database of research, data, analyses, models, and policies. It is organized around three critical components of an evidence-based system: 1) "education drivers" encompassing the critical components of effective education, 2) a "roadmap" to establish a continuous process for decision making, implementation, and monitoring. (3) a system "dashboard" which provides a snapshot of the latest data on what schools are doing and how well they are performing.
The Wing Institute supports, promotes, reviews, and completes research in education policies and practices. It engages in extensive data-mining, tracking, analyzing, and synthesizing the most current data and research from governmental agencies, private organizations, and research / policy institutes in the context of "real time, real world" issues. It also funds new research through its graduate research funding program.
The Wing Institute facilitates and disseminates journal articles, policy analyses, research reviews, books, newsletters, position papers, and tools related to application of evidence-based education to assist education decision makers.
Evidence-based Education Knowledge Network
The Wing Institute continued to operate, refine and expand its interactive Knowledge Network to accelerate communication, collaboration, and cooperation across a wide range of individuals, organizations, professional disciplines, and regions in the promotion of evidence-based education. The goal of the Knowledge Network is to accumulate and disseminate existing knowledge, create new knowledge, and facilitate the effective application of that knowledge to real world settings in the area of evidence-based education.
Professional Forums
The Wing Institute participates in professional summits, seminars, and conferences to encourage dialogue, collaboration, and communication among researchers, decision makers, and educators.
Organizational Networking
The Wing Institute maintains working relationships with selected key organizations engaged in the promotion of evidence-based practice.
The institute's founders — Jack States, Randy Keyworth, and Ronnie Detrich — have over 130 years of cumulative, hands-on experience in research, design, and implementation of evidence-based education policies and practices in public and nonpublic schools, serving students with challenging educational and behavioral needs.
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Jack States - Executive Director, Senior Fellow
Jack States and his colleague Randy Keyworth share the responsibilities of Executive Director and Senior Fellow at the Wing Institute. They have worked together for over forty years in the field of evidence-based education. They have a unique professional background, having experience and expertise with research-to-practice issues in education from both the practice and the research perspective. On the practice side, they built and operated Spectrum Center in 1978, a non-profit organization that embraced evidence-based practices at all levels of operations. Spectrum Center served students with special needs, operating schools, public school consultation services, employment support services, residential programs, adult programs, and a teacher training campus. Its programs gained a national reputation for state-of-the-art performance feedback systems, evidence-based practices, teacher and leadership development, and high student performance. In 2004 they established the Wing Institute, a non-profit research and policy foundation dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based education. The Wing Institute is a "catalyst" organization, designed to bridge the research-to-practice gap by supporting and accelerating collaboration among researchers, educations, policy-makers, and consumers across disciplines.
Randy Keyworth - Executive Director, Senior Fellow
Randy Keyworth and his colleague Jack States share the responsibilities of Executive Director and Senior Fellow at the Wing Institute. They have worked together for over forty years in the field of evidence-based education. They have a unique professional background, having experience and expertise with research-to-practice issues in education from both the practice and the research perspective. On the practice side, they built and operated Spectrum Center in 1978, a non-profit organization that embraced evidence-based practices at all levels of operations. Spectrum Center served students with special needs, operating schools, public school consultation services, employment support services, residential programs, adult programs, and a teacher training campus. Its programs gained a national reputation for state-of-the-art performance feedback systems, evidence-based practices, teacher and leadership development, and high student performance. In 2004 they established the Wing Institute, a non-profit research and policy foundation dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based education. The Wing Institute is a "catalyst" organization, designed to bridge the research-to-practice gap by supporting and accelerating collaboration among researchers, educations, policy-makers, and consumers across disciplines.
Ronnie Detrich - Researcher, Writer, & Editor
Ronnie Detrich has been associated at the Wing Institute since 2004 first as a Senior Fellow and more recently as a researcher, content writer, and an editor. Prior to joining the Wing Institute, he was Clinical Director at Spectrum Center for 20 years. He has been providing services for children and youth since 1967. During that time he has served as a direct service provider as well as director of programs such as a statewide autism program in South Dakota and a residential treatment program for adjudicated adolescents in West Virginia. All of his work has been characterized by implementing evidence informed programs and data-based decision making. Most recently, his work has focused the role of evidence-based practice in education reform, the implications of evidence-based practice as a decision making process, and methods for assuring high levels of treatment integrity at scales of social importance. He is a Trustee of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, the Coordinator of the Association for Behavior Analysis International Practice Board, and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions and Behavior Analysis in Practice.
Samantha Cleaver - Researcher & Writer
Samantha Cleaver earned a PhD in special education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2018. During her doctoral studies she worked to identify and disseminate evidence-based practices in early literacy through Read Charlotte, a Charlotte, NC organization focused on improving 3rd grade literacy. Prior to her doctoral work, she taught special education, worked as a school leader, and instructional coach. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on reading and education topics.
The team has extensive experience bringing "research- to-practice" in educational settings, covering a wide range of content areas (policy, systems, administration, education, behavior); education systems (state, school district, school, and classroom); and "stakeholders" (the public, government agencies, school administrators, education professionals, teachers, para-professionals, parents, and students).
Areas of expertise include implementation of evidence-based practices in:
EDUCATION (general and special): effective teaching strategies; classroom management strategies and systems; curriculum design (individualized and group); teaching plans (individualized and group); classroom environment (social behavior, discipline, academic performance); school-wide interventions (social behavior, discipline, academic performance)
SPECIFIC DISABILITIES & ISSUES: autism; advocacy, conflict resolution; learning disabilities; emotional disturbances; special education models; behavior analysis; data-guided teaching; direct instruction; early intervention; school-wide interventions; school discipline; staff development; full inclusion and mainstreaming
APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: functional analysis; environmental assessments; public policy guidelines; prevention methods; program evaluation; crisis management techniques; class-wide interventions; school wide systems
RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE: consultation guidelines, philosophy, best practices; integration of public policy and services; quality assurance; social influence; problem solving; managing resistance; building consensus
STAFF DEVELOPMENT: curriculum development; development of training materials; instructional design; workshops; coaching
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: school performance improvement systems; staff performance management; continuous improvement model in education; information systems for tracking school effectiveness; quality assurance; program reviews; resource management; safety management (student and staff)
STAFF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: supervision; evaluation; team building; coaching; feedback systems; merit pay
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: financial resources; staff resources; community resources; financial analyses; fiscal accountability
PUBLIC POLICY: student performance standards; school accountability; behavior analysis guidelines and protocols; education outcomes; school safety; school funding; federal and state special education law; No Child Left Behind (NCLB); Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
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"Antic Dispositions?": The Representation of Madness in Modern British Theatre
Dingwall-Jones, Christopher (2014) "Antic Dispositions?": The Representation of Madness in Modern British Theatre. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent,.
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This thesis examines how mental illness has been represented in British theatre from c. 1960 to the present day. It is particularly concerned with the roles played by space and embodiment in these representations, and what emerges as bodies interact in space. It adopts a mixed methodology, drawing on theoretical models from both continental philosophy and contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research, in order to address these questions from the broadest possible range of perspectives. The first part of the thesis draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre to explore the role of institutional space, and in particular its gendered implications, in staging madness. The second part introduces approaches to the body drawn from the cognitive turn in theatre and performance studies. These are connected to the approaches of the first section through phenomenology's concern with lived experience. Dan Zahavi and Shaun Gallagher's work on 'the phenomenological mind' provides important context here. In addition, Emmanuel Levinas's critique of ontology offers a solid basis from which to think about how to act ethically as both a producer of, and an audience member for, representations of mental illness. Through these explorations, this thesis suggests a model of madness, not as something to be bracketed as 'other' and belonging to a deviant individual, but as emerging between bodies in space – there is no madness outside of social, spatial and embodied contexts. This in turn suggests a new approach to understanding the role theatre can play in addressing the lived experience of mental illness. While many productions currently attempt, unilaterally, to reduce the 'stigma' of mental illness, this thesis suggests that that, in fact, discrimination against people experiencing mental illness is more likely to be reduced through the interaction between an ethically minded production and an ethical spectator. Such a model does not claim to be able to reduce the experience of madness to a totalising concept which can be communicated through theatre, but rather insists that it is only through an embodied, empathic interaction that a true concern for the ('mad' or 'sane') Other can emerge.
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Far-right Estonian cabinet minister quits after criticising Biden
By Andrius Sytas
FILE PHOTO: Estonia's Interior Minister Mart Helme of far-right EKRE Party speaks to media after the swearing-in of the incoming coalition government in Tallinn, Estonia April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Estonia's far right Interior Minister Mart Helme quit on Monday, while his son Martin survived a no-confidence vote to remain in government, after both men came under fire from coalition partners for criticising U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.
In a radio interview on Sunday, the elder Helme said he believed Biden and his son Hunter were corrupt. The younger Helme said Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election was rigged.
Estonia, a NATO member bordering Russia, prizes its alliance with the United States as its first line of defence.
Politicians from Prime Minister Juri Ratas's ruling coalition lined up to denounce the remarks of the two Helmes, saying they could jeopardise Estonia's security.
But they appear to have stopped short of expelling the party from the coalition, by withholding support for the no-confidence vote in Martin Helme.
The younger Helme succeeded his father this year as leader of their populist ERKE party. His father still serves as deputy party leader.
"This is but another baseless scandal geared at overthrowing the government," the younger Helme said in parliament on Monday.
Ratas condemned the remarks by both ministers, as did Estonia's president, Kersti Kaljulaid. Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu called the remarks "crazy", while Defence Minister Juri Luik said they were "dangerous to the security of us all".
U.S. President Donald Trump, beaten by Biden in the election last week, has accused Biden and his son Hunter of unethical business practices in China and Ukraine. No evidence has been verified to support those allegations, and Biden has called them false and discredited. Trump has also said Biden's victory was rigged, while providing no evidence of significant fraud.
Reporting by Andrius Sytas; Editing by Simon Johnson, Ed Osmond and Peter Graff


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The US Immigration Battle Intensifies
By David Bacon, Equal Times
In an escalating dispute with President Barack Obama, Republican members of the United States House of Representatives have passed a bill which will cut any funding to the Department of Homeland Security for suspending the deportation of undocumented people.
In December the President ordered the department, beginning this spring, to defer the deportation of undocumented immigrants with US-born children (who are thus US citizens).
A previous Obama order suspended the deportation of young people without documents, brought to the US as children.
The Republican bill would rescind both orders.
A new, Republican-dominated Congress took office in January. Congress must fund the department by 27 February or it could shut down.[...]
http://www.equaltimes.org/the-us-immigration-battle?lang=en#.VMqgZGjF9Fb
Labels: deportation, labor, politics
The Israel-Mexico Border: How Israeli High-Tech Firms Are Up-Armoring the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Todd Miller and Gabriel M. Schivone, NACLA
This article is published in partnership with TomDispatch.
It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country's border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. "We have learned lots from Gaza," he told the audience. "It's a great laboratory."
Elkabetz was speaking at a border technology conference and fair surrounded by a dazzling display of technology—the components of his boundary-building lab. There were surveillance balloons with high-powered cameras floating over a desert-camouflaged armored vehicle made by Lockheed Martin. There were seismic sensor systems used to detect the movement of people and other wonders of the modern border-policing world. Around Elkabetz, you could see vivid examples of where the future of such policing was heading, as imagined not by a dystopian science fiction writer but by some of the top corporate techno-innovators on the planet.
Swimming in a sea of border security, the brigadier general was, however, not surrounded by the Mediterranean but by a parched West Texas landscape. He was in El Paso, a 10-minute walk from the wall that separates the United States from Mexico.[...]
https://nacla.org/news/2015/01/27/israel-mexico-border
Trade, Violence & Migration: Honduras
The U.S. government spent $3.7 billion on deportations last year. The entire Honduran government budget is $4.4 billion.
Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter
Monday, I attended a briefing at the U.S. Capitol by Larry Cohen, President of the Communications Workers of America, and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, both of whom were part of a fact-finding mission to Honduras this past November. It turns out that the Catholic Church and the AFL-CIO are just about the only two organized groups in the U.S. who even discuss the root causes of immigration, and what can be done in both countries to improve the lives of our citizens.
"What I saw continues to shock me," said Cohen, and he has seen a lot of poverty and cruelty over the years. He spoke with evident passion as he described the conditions of violence and impoverishment that the group witnessed. "For working people, it couldn't be more distressing," he said.[...]
http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/trade-violence-migration-honduras
Labels: labor, root causes
No Alternative: Ankle Monitors Expand the Reach of Immigration Detention
ICE's "Alternatives to Detention" program has subjected almost 20,000 immigrants to wearing electronic "shackles" throughout their deportation proceedings.
By Kyle Barron and Cinthya Santos Briones, NACLA
A month after having left her community of Roatán, on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, Adriana Colón arrived to the United States with her seven-year-old son José. She comes from one of the 54 Garífuna Honduran communities of indigenous and African descent living throughout Central America. Like many single mothers from the Garífuna community, she is part of a recent wave of migration that has left, fleeing the devastating sea of violence and marginalization that has swept through her country in recent decades. Presently, many Garífuna communities in Honduras are now facing a territorial crisis some see as the result of "Charter Cities" or tourist development that has come ashore in recent times, displacing people from their ancestral land through political and business pressure.
As soon as she arrived in New York City, Colón had an order to report to the Immigration Enforcement and Customs (ICE) building in downtown Manhattan. Colón walked with uncertainty into the looming 41-story building, past bulking DHS agents with rifles and body armor. "When I reported in, I didn't have any idea what was going to happen to me," explained Colón. Once in front of immigration officials, they placed an electronic monitor around her ankle for the misdemeanor of crossing the U.S. border without inspection. This ankle monitor program is increasingly seen as one that extends the surveillance and restriction of movement already established in immigration detention centers directly to people's homes.[...]
https://nacla.org/news/2015/01/06/no-alternative-ankle-monitors-expand-reach-immigration-detention
Labels: detention, enforcement, refugees, root causes
Republicans Plot an Immigration Fight
With a deadline looming next month, the GOP will find out if its new power is enough to undo President Obama's executive actions.
By Russell Berman, The Atlantic
Republicans won't have to wait long to find out exactly how much power their new Senate majority gives them in Washington.
Keeping a promise they made at the end of last year, party leaders want to use a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security to stop President Obama from carrying out his plans to unilaterally shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. "I said we'd fight it tooth and nail when he had our new majorities in the House and Senate, and I meant it," Speaker John Boehner told reporters on Thursday.
Recall that Boehner and Mitch McConnell, now the Senate majority leader, decided in the fall to put off an immediate clash with the president after he announced his intention to bypass Congress and overhaul parts of the immigration system himself. Rather than risk a government shutdown in December, they shook off complaints from conservatives and passed the $1.1 trillion "cromnibus," funding the entire government with the exception of DHS through September. Money for Homeland Security runs out in late February, offering the GOP majority its first deadline—and what it hopes will be its first leverage point—of the new Congress.
The question now is what Republicans will do and how far they'll get.[...]
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/republicans-plot-an-immigration-fight/384354/
Labels: amnesty, family ties, legal status, politics
Interview: What Do The New Immigration Rules Mean?
By Julia Kann, Labor Notes
Immigrant rights activists are assessing the new presidential executive order and what's next in the fight for immigrant rights. Photo: Light Brigading, CC BY-NC 2.0.
Responding to years of pressure from immigrant activists, President Obama took executive action on November 20 (see box below for details). We interviewed two activists about the executive order and what's next in the fight for immigrant rights.
Arianna Salgado is a Chicago-based immigrant and education activist and member of the Immigrant Youth Justice League.
Guillermo Perez is the President of the Pittsburgh Labor Council on Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), a member activist in the steelworkers union (USW) local 3657, and a member of the Labor Notes policy committee.[...]
Read the full interview:
http://labornotes.org/2014/12/interview-what-do-new-immigration-rules-mean
Viewpoint: Concerns about Obama's Immigration Announcement
By David Bacon, Labor Notes
I think your interview left out important concerns that many immigrant rights and labor activists have about Obama's announcement. I'll attach the Dignity Campaign statement that outlines some of them, and a statement by Maru Mora Villapando, the organizer of the hunger strikes at the Tacoma detention center, that outlines others.
One factual note. Both your question about I-9 audits and the two answers were inadvertently misleading. The vast majority of people (tens of thousands at least) fired as a result of audits are fired at the demand of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), not as a result of employer retaliation. A large percentage, perhaps even a majority, are union members. Getting unions to defend them against government enforcement has been very difficult, as you know.
There will continue to be at least 7 million undocumented workers in the U.S., even if every one of the people qualified for Deferred Action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) applies for and receives it, which is very unlikely. To date, less than half of the people qualified for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), for instance, have applied for and received it.[...]
Read the full response:
http://labornotes.org/blogs/2015/01/viewpoint-concerns-about-obamas-immigration-announcement
Labels: amnesty, deportation, family ties, labor, legal status
CBP Drones are Dubious Achievers: Homeland Security Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 6, 2015
For Information Contact: Public Affairs (202) 254-4100
CBP Drones are Dubious Achievers
After spending eight years and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has yet to prove the value of its Unmanned Aircraft System (drone) program while drastically understating the costs, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG). Based on its findings, OIG recommends that CBP abandon plans to spend $443 million more on additional aircraft and put those funds to better use.
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Unmanned Aircraft System Program Does Not Achieve Intended Results or Recognize All Costs of Operations," the OIG's second audit of the program since 2012, found the effort by CBP's Office of Air and Marine (OAM) still has no reliable method of measuring its performance and that its impact in stemming illegal immigration has been minimal.[...]
http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/pr/2015/oigpr_010615.pdf
'I felt like a piece of trash' – Life inside America's food processing plants
A new book offers a damning insight into conditions for low-paid, non-union, immigrant workers helping to feed our huge appetite for cheap meat
Ted Genoways, The Guardian
Maria Lopez will never forget that day. It was 2004, the middle of an ordinary shift on the line at Hormel Foods – a sprawling brick-and-concrete complex on the southern edge of Fremont, Nebraska. The worker beside her fed pork shoulders one after another into a spinning saw, just as he did every other day of the week, while Lopez gathered and bagged the trimmed fat to go into Spam. The pace of work had always been steady, but the speed of the line had jumped recently – from 1,000 pigs per hour to more than 1,100 – and Lopez was having trouble keeping up.
As her co-worker reached for another shoulder, Lopez rushed to clear the cutting area, and her fingers slipped toward the saw blade. She snatched her hand back but too late. Her index finger dangled by a flap of skin, the bone cut clean through. She screamed as blood spurted and covered her workstation.
When Lopez returned to Hormel two months later, her finger surgically reattached but still splinted, she claims to have discovered a stomach-turning truth: that while she sprinted to the nurse's station and was taken to the local hospital, while she waited, finger wrapped, in the emergency room for the surgeon to drive in from Omaha, the cut line at Hormel continued to run.[...]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/life-inside-america-food-processing-plants-cheap-meat
Labels: economic impact, labor
Migrant Deaths and Displacement Soar in 2014
Celebrated every December 18, International Migrants Day is an occasion to honor the contributions of immigrants across the globe. For 2014, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had sobering news.
According to the Geneva-based organization, nearly 5,000 migrants perished worldwide while attempting to reach their promised lands. The fatal toll was more than double 2013's number, jumping from 2,778 deaths to 4,868 deaths. The OIM identified the Mediterranean Sea, where more than 3,000 migrants perished trying to cross the body of water that separates Europe from Africa and Asia, as the deadliest route.
In second and third place, respectively, were the Bay of Bengal (540 deaths) and the U.S.-Mexico border (307 deaths). The IOM did not specify on which side of the U.S.-Mexico line the reported deaths occurred. Since many migrants remain disappeared, the death toll is likely an undercount.[...]
http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/migrant-deaths-and-displacement-soar-in-2014/
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House and Senate leaders announce COVID/Funding bill
Federal policymakers announced an agreement on an omnibus spending bill Sunday that would fund the federal government through Sept. 30, 2021, and provide long-awaited pandemic relief for consumers and businesses.
Though text of the bill has not yet been made public, several CUNA-sought provisions are anticipated, including language delaying the current expected credit loss (CECL) standard, Troubled Debt Restructuring (TDR) and Central Liquidity Facility (CLF) extensions, Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) forgiveness, and funds to community and minority-focused credit unions.
Topline relief provisions announced Sunday evening include:
$600 economic support payments for those who earned up to $75,000 in 2019. The payments decrease for those earning more than $75,000 and disappear for those earning over $99,000;
A $300 extension in unemployment benefits through at least mid-March 2021;
A one-month extension of the eviction moratorium and $25 billion in emergency assistance to renters.
Credit union-supported policies expected to be in the legislation include:
CUNA/League-supported legislation sponsored by Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) that would simplify PPP loan forgiveness.
Reauthorization of the PPP;
A one-year delay of implementation of the CECL standard;
A one-year extension to TDR and CLF provisions;
Additional funds for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), with a set aside specifically for the Treasury's CDFI Fund; and
Funds for Minority Depository Institutions.
Congress also passed an additional 24-hour continuing resolution to avoid a shutdown as both chambers handle procedural matters. The House is expected to vote on the omnibus legislation Monday with additional procedural accommodations to be made at that time for Senate rules.