combat; and tons of PC interaction, leading to numerous side-quests in the process.

The revival of the CRPG market in the late 1990s would spawn into multiple genres for both consoles and the PC; we would see an increased number of roguelikes and real-time combat RPGs, the dawn of open-world, sandbox style role-playing games, and even turn-based games in the same vein as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. This was the spark that the Western RPG market needed to avoid poor design and stagnation.

Many of these features above are now often synonymous with Japanese role-playing games, but originally got their start in games like Baldur’s Gate. Other role-playing games developed in the West, such as Anachronox, Shadow Madness, or Septerra Core would faithfully emulate the Final Fantasy series, bothline: demonstrating concern for state voters in flood-prone areas, while not crossing fossil-fuel backers like the Koch brothers, whose Koch Industries has given $20,000 directly to his campaign and whose Americans for Prosperity is supporting him with $2.6 million worth of ads.

Gillespie is a longtime lobbyist and political consultant, having worked for the likes of health insurance giant Anthem and fraudulent energy conglomerate Enron. After hounding from local Virginia press, Gillespie disclosed that he also consulted on behalf of the Koch-backed Institute for Energy Research (IER), as well as its advocacy arm the American Energy Alliance (AEA), in 2016. IER produces research in support of nearly every conservative environmental policy position: questioning the dangers of climate change, opposing government-created green jobs, critiquing cap and trade, arguing against solar


Industries employee, was on the IER board in 2015. Daniel Simmons, vice president of policy at both IER and AEA who now works for the U.S. Department of Energy, was a research fellow at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Scott Beaulier, who was a director at AEA as of 2015, has set up several Koch-funded free-market university centers and is on the board of the Institute for Humane Studies, another Koch-backed free-market center at George Mason, along with Charles Koch and two Koch Foundation officials.

More Koch Cash Boosts Gillespie

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has reported over $2.6 million on TV and digital ads and mailers against Northam, according to data compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project. The group also claims to have done significant phoneincluding AEA itself ($100,000 in 2011), the Charles Koch Foundation and the David Koch Foundation, and corporations such as tobacco giant Reynolds American.

Gillespie got to hobnob with donors in August at the annual AFP summit, where he condemned white nationalism in a speech. However, many have accused him of running a racist campaign, airing ads that stoke fear of Latino gangs and lambast Northam for being “weak” on immigration. In response, the Latino Victory Fund ran a now-retracted ad depicting a pickup truck with a confederate flag and a Gillespie bumper sticker chasing Latino, black, and Muslim children through Virginia streets.

Koch Industries donated $10,000 to the Gillespie campaign on May 5, and another $10,000 on Oct. 18, but the Kochs are also indirectly financing his run. Koch Industries


63 Dead 140 Wounded At Zafaraniyah Us

The Associated Press reports that after 7 pm on Sunday, Sunni Arab guerrillas suddenly attacked the Shiite Zaafaraniyah district of Baghdad. First they set off two car bombs in the neighborhood. Then another team, in the Dora district, fired up to nine rockets at Zafaraniyah. Among other things, the rockets hit three buildings, including a multi-story apartment building that collapsed as a result. The attack left at least 63 dead and 140 wounded, though one suspects those numbers will mount.

US troops have been engaged in a sweep of Dora, so it is possible that this attack was intended as a reprisal, hitting Shiite supporters of the Shiite government that unleashed the Marines on the Sunnis of Dora.

AP says,

‘ Muhanna Yassin, who livesthe PKK of striking at targets inside Turkey from their safe haven in Iraqi Kurdistan.

US troops swept into the ministry of health, a portfolio held by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, and made 7 arrests. The ministry is denying that the captured men are Mahdi Army fighters or are involved in kidnapping other Iraqis for ransom.


Q:

What is the total number of people killed on the 2 Death Stars when they exploded?

The First Death Star exploded during the Battle of Yavin.
The Second Death Star exploded during the Battle of Endor.
What is the total number of people killed on the 2 Death Stars when they exploded?

A:

The Death Star Technical Companion by West End Games lists the first Death Star specs as follows:

The first Death Star is depicted in various sources of having a crew of:

265,675, as well as 52,276 gunners, 607,360 troops, 30,984 stormtroopers, 42,782 ship support staff, and 180,216 pilots and support crew.

Its hangars contain assault shuttles, blastboats, Strike cruisers, land vehicles, support ships, and 7,293 TIE fighters. It is also protected by 10,000 turbolaser batteries, 2,600 ion cannons, and at least 768 tractorbeam projectors.[7]

Wookieepedia gives these as the crew complement of the second Death Star, referenced from Star Wars, Behind the Magic:

Crew (485,560), Gunners (152,275), Troops (1,295,950), Infantry (127,570), Technical personnel (75,860), Pilots (334,432)

A:

According to this link (which cites canon sources): The crew of the second Death Star is 485,560.
This link (which may not be canon) puts the crew of the first DS at 322,951
UPDATE
And if I'm reading this correctly: The Death Star Technical Companion (PDF) states the crew is 265,675 AND puts the passengers at 607,360!
And to complicate matters even more: I believe in one of the books, someone asks Luke how may people he killed on the first DS and he said about 1 million.  Obviously, he felt very guilty about that.
So, the Death Star


condones the terrorist tactics of the Rebel Alliance.”
“Terrorist tactics?”
Casterfo stopped mid-pace; the two of them now stood in the heart of one of the long, dark tunnels, the wind rippling their robes and chilling Leia to the bone. He said, “Destroying the Death Stars, for a death toll of nearly one and a half million people, the vast majority of whom were low-level Imperial officers or even civilian workers?"
  -Star Wars:  Bloodline

This figure comes from an apologist for the Empire, and seems fairly reliable.

In another canon novel, Star Wars: Lost Stars, Thane Kyrell, an actual member of the Imperial Navy gives a slightly higher figure:

Obviously, the Rebel Alliance was no better; it had blown up the Death Star with nearly two million people on board.
at the same school.

She says she was always in trouble at primary school - "That classic, you sort of freak out if there's a room change or timetable change or we got a supply teacher".

She says she often thought: "I can't really remember anything awful happening so I haven't got the right to feel like this," almost wishing there had been "a car accident or something that you can hang your hat on".

In secondary school she was told she had autism and became a weekly boarder at a "really, really good" specialist school.

But by Year 10 she says she was struggling with her mental health and her behaviour.

Sofa-surfing

She was with the foster family at weekends and in the holidays until "they just made the decision they had come


to the end of the work they felt they could do with me", and she was moved to a children's home.

She says the diagnosis of autism helped her, unlocking funding for specialist support and helping her understand why she struggled to cope with the noise and bustle of a typical school.

Her grades were OK but not great. "At the time I was really annoyed with myself but looking back I think it's a miracle I got any GCSEs," she says.

Image copyright Roger Bool Image caption Kerry started fast-track training as a mental health social worker two weeks after graduating

Kerry quit school for a string of low-paid jobs and soon afterwards left the children's home, staying in supported accommodation for care leavers until being "thrown out... after a reallybad incident with one of the other residents", and ending up sofa-surfing.

"I hit a point where I thought, 'I just can't go on like this'."

As a care leaver, she was entitled to council help getting a flat, and she began working with people with learning disabilities.

It was the only job she could get but Kerry loved it.

Being able to help other people struck a chord - even as a young child, she had been the one everyone in class would come to with their problems.

"I would be the one that would sit and talk it through with people."

Back then, she'd had no idea her ability to empathise could lead to a career.

Image copyright Kerry

"Growing up, I didn't know anyone who was in care who had gone to university,"


third year that she heard about mental-health social work. She decided: "That's what I want to be doing."

She graduated in July 2019 and two weeks later started on the Think Ahead fast-track training scheme for mental-health social workers, which includes a masters degree - and a caseload from the outset.

In echoes of her school days, she's moved - this time to Preston, 300 miles from her home town of Ramsgate. But "everyone is really friendly".

People on her caseload are already making progress, and she has started to build a support network, so she's planning to stay.

"I like helping people find their way through things and I like that moment where you can see something's really clicked with someone," she says.

Kerry believes the distress and bewilderment of so muchbelli—imminent genocide, imminent nuclear weapons—was trumped up; the Security Council ignored; international law set aside; and an assault unleashed.

United over Yugoslavia, Europe split over Iraq, where the strategic risks were higher. But the extent of European opposition to the march on Baghdad was always something of an illusion. On the streets, in Italy, Spain, Germany, Britain, huge numbers of people demonstrated against the invasion. Opinion polls showed majorities against it everywhere. But once it had occurred, there was little protest against the occupation, let alone support for the resistance to it. Most European governments—Britain, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal in the West; all in the East—backed the invasion, and sent troops to bulk up the US forces holding the country down. Out of the fifteen member-states of


earn the trust of their neighbours, is not just a misconception. For Europeans do not on the whole fear the ghosts of Bismarck, Hitler or Honecker: neither Wilhelmine Imperialism, nor Nazism, nor Stalinism, are serious threats today. A constant preoccupation with them can easily become a screen for more pressing issues, as in Freudian terms an obsession with imaginary dangers typically functions as a displacement—that is, repression—of quite other, real problems. So it is that Europe has some reason for misgivings about a reunited Germany. But its rational fears relate to contemporary institutions: not the legacies of Ludendorff or Speer, but the overweening reach of the Bundesbank, as the most powerful institution in the country, over the lives and jobs of millions of Europeans—a hegemony now entrenched inthe Hohenzollern gave way to a republic that had to yield up Alsace-Lorraine and suffer occupation of the Rhineland, but no real loss of German territorial integrity. The Ottoman Empire was another matter, its fate far more completely at the mercy of the victors. In late 1918, four powers—Britain, France, Italy and Greece—shared the spoils, the first two dividing its Arab provinces between them, the latter competing for gains in south-west Anatolia. It would be another two years before any formal agreement was reached between them on how the Empire was finally to be dismembered. Meanwhile, they exercised joint supervision in Istanbul, initially quite loose, over an apparently accommodating cabinet under a new sultan, known for disliking the CUP.

Yet though the post-war misery of a defeated society was


Gellner's essay 'The Rubber Cage: Disenchantment with Disenchantment', in his _Culture, Identity, and Politics_ , Cambridge 1987, pp. 152–65.

29. _Les métamorphoses de la question sociale_ , Paris 1995, passim; for his motivation of the term, p. 15.

30. If the trope of diversity has supplied long-standing grounds for European self-congratulation, it is noticeable that less often celebrated has been what might be taken as its corollary—mixture. Ranke, as we have seen, expressly warned against it. Only the occasional _esprit fort_ risked this more explosive terrain. Galiani stands out: 'Inconstancy is a physical law of all animal species. Without it, no fertility, no variety, no perfectibility. The immense variety of the nations which have peopled or intermingled in Europe, has made the perfection of our race. The Chinese have stupefiedSilver Notes Introduction

Silver Notes

Spontaneous poems and observations for the Olympic Sculpture Park

by Michael Dylan Welch

Click the links below to read poems and observations commissioned for my artwalking tour for the Seattle Art Museum’s annual SAM Remix art and dance party at the Olympic Sculpture Park held on 27August 2010. Tour stops also include my sculpture photos.

Silver Notes—Sculptures at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park

SAM Remix - American Sentences Encounter

Artwalking and American Sentences

DJs, live bands, gyrating lights. Electric hula hoops glowing in the dark. And 2,800people dancing in the radiance of a last-of-summer Friday night. Sound like a party? It sure was, at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park on the Elliott Bay waterfront. And it was my pleasure to be part of this event, SAM Remix, an energetic and


popular celebration with a cultural twist—amid new artinstallations, music, crafts, and literature.

My contribution included leading a flashlight tour of the sculpture park to read poems written in response to various sculptures. I don’t have pictures of the tour itself (I was busy leading the tour, and besides, it was dark), so what follows, with the poems, are photos I took a week later, in daylight, of the various places on my tour. Each stop is marked by a number on the map, and most of the poems Iread are included with the photos. For the tour, I had a walking microphone and loudspeaker, essential to be heard among the thousands of revelers in the park—and all the music.

In addition to leading my artwalking tour, I staffed an interactiveon those frustrations too much, as he soon dove into the nuts and bolts of writing a games story, but the situation is understandable. Kodaka and his fellow developers are certainly invested in the handheld, even if the sales are dwindling worldwide. It's tough to maintain a system on niche titles like Danganronpa, even if they do tell some of the best stories in games.

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Swery65 only plays his games on Thursdays

Much like his most famous games, Japanese developer Hidetaka 'Swery65' Suehiro is so quirky and unassuming that you just can't help but love him. While hosting a panel about the development of the Xbox One episodic mystery D4, Swery hinted that a PC port of D4 may be possible. But that's


THE KILLER OF RIVERS

As beautiful as fearsome, with iridescent blue plumage, this bird is actually the killer of rivers. His technique is simple and effective: it alights on a branch and carefully scrutinizes the water surface. Thanks to superfine view, it is able to polarize light without suffering the glare of the water. It locates the victim (a small fish or, more rarely, shellfish) swimming under the surface and with a flurry of wings falls on him. Its prey is then slammed repeatedly against a branch or on a stone until death to avoid the risk of personal injury during the meal. The hunting strategy also changes in relation to the prey: for fish that swim in the middle of the stream, kingfisher rises a few feet andTuesday, July 18, 2006

Real condition of woman in this world

Recently I read a story in the newspaper “The Hindu”, in which a Pakistani Muslim woman given an application to meet her 80 year old Sikh mother living in India. The story goes back to the time of partition when many Indian women remained in Pakistani side and many Pakistani women in Indian side. However many of them were sent back to there respective countries, but all were not fortunate enough. Some got married to the people of other caste and remained in that country. In the above story her mother got married to a Muslim man and gave birth to her. After few years her mother returned to India but she remained on the other side. Nearly after


60 years of partition she has hope to see her mother, thanks to the initiatives of government of Kashmir, India and Pakistan. The newspaper has also given lot of other examples. This is the story of Kashmir where few women are involved, now what about Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Philistine or Afghanistan. There will be enormous number of women who are suffering. Even situations in developing and developed nations are not fine. Every day many women are raped or killed in United States of America, anyway a most secure nation in world. In India, everyday lots of woman are burned alive or raped. Women have become a thing of common use and exploitation. In many parts of the world and even in some religions, women are treated like theMELBOURNE star forward Jesse Hogan is at least a month away from returning to the field after being diagnosed with testicular cancer last month.

In bad news for the Demons, rookie forward Tim Smith will miss the rest of the 2017 season after injuring the navicular bone in his foot in Casey's win over Collingwood on Saturday.

Demons elite performance manager Dave Misson said the club would be patient with Hogan's comeback, after a disjointed season that has seen him play just four matches.

Melbourne has listed Hogan as 4-6 weeks away from playing in its official injury list.

"Jesse ran this morning and had a bit of a kick-around, so he's back at work essentially, but we're not putting a timeframe on when he starts to play again," Misson told the


club's website.

"He'll need at least two or three weeks of running and probably a similar time of training, so we're just glad to have him back at the club."

Smith, who has made two senior appearances this season and suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs against Richmond in round five, will almost certainly be ruled out for the year.

"It was an incident in a marking contest and scans have shown that he's got a stress fracture in his navicular, which is more than likely going to be the season," Misson said.

"He'll see some specialists on Tuesday or Wednesday, as to whether we go down the surgical line or the conservative route, which is really bad luck for him."

A decision on whether ruckman Max Gawn will play against theWestern Bulldogs on Sunday will be made later in the week.

Gawn has not taken to the field since sustaining a serious hamstring injury against Geelong in round three.

"Maxy's been doing some really good training and he's probably got a couple more boxes to tick this week," Misson said.

"We'll make a decision later in the week as to whether he plays this week, next week or the week after."

Melbourne injury list: round 13

Angus Brayshaw (concussion) – indefinite

Lochie Filipovic (hip) – 2 weeks

Colin Garland (knee) – season

Max Gawn (hamstring) – test

Jesse Hogan (testicular cancer) – 4-6 weeks

Pat McKenna (hamstring) – 6-8 weeks

Joel Smith (shoulder) – 2 weeks

Tim Smith (navicular bone) – season

Aaron vandenBerg (heel) – season

Tap here for the full round 13 injury list


St. Anthony Downs Effingham Friday Night at Turkey Tournament

Published on November 24 2017 10:33 pm
Last Updated on November 24 2017 10:33 pm
Written by Greg Sapp

The St. Anthony Bulldogs advanced to the first place game of their own Thanksgiving Tournament with a 65-59 win Friday night over their crosstown rivals, the Effingham Hearts.

The game was heard on 979XFM and www.979xfm.com. We will also have DVD and flash drive copies of the game available next week.

St. Anthony took the early lead and were up by eight after one quarter, 22-14. Alex Deters was the driving force for the Bulldogs, scoring 13 of those 22 first quarter points.

The Bulldogs extended the lead in the second period, 14-8, to lead 36-22 at halftime.

Effingham began a comeback in the third quarter, though, outpointingthe Bulldogs 19-13 in the third quarter to move within 49-41 heading to the final period. The Hearts' Landon Wolfe and Mason Hull combined for 16 of those 19 third quarter points.

The Hearts continued their comeback and erased the rest of the Bulldogs' lead, until St. Anthony proved themselves clutch at the foul line, hitting 8 of 10 to hold on for the six-point win.

The victory left both teams 2-1 in the tournament. Since the tie-breakers had come down to point differential, St. Anthony had to win the game by five, and got it done by six to advance to the championship game, while Effingham will play for third place.

Both teams shot very well, St. Anthony making 22 of 42 for 52% and Effingham making 21 of 41


for 51%. St. Anthony was 6 of 11 on threes, while Effingham was 2 of 8 on threes. Each team made 15 foul shots, the Bulldogs on 19 tries, the Hearts on 23 attempts.

Effingham won the rebound battle, 23-15, but the Bulldogs turned the ball over just 11 times to 14 for Effingham.

Effingham's Landon Wolfe led all scorers with 33 points on 14 of 22 shooting and 5 of 7 from the line, along with 11 rebounds. Mason Hull added 19 for the Hearts, on 5 of 9 shooting and 7 of 7 from the line.

St. Anthony's Alex Deters led the way for the Bulldogs with 27 points on 10 of 16 shooting and 4 of 7 from the line.

Here are the Bulldogs' individual stats: Cade Walsh--3 ofThe last flight out taxied from the sparkling new Harare airport, built to handle the non-existent tourists, lifted over the city and dipped its wings in farewell. With that, at 9am yesterday, British Airways said goodbye to Zimbabwe, amid mutterings from supporters of Robert Mugabe that the pull-out had less to do with the collapse of its economy than a British government plot to unseat the Zimbabwean ruler.

In seat 13H, Cephas Msipa, a lifelong member of Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF, said he thought it probably was all a conspiracy but he was going to miss British Airways anyway, particularly when he reflects on the alternative. "In these difficult times, Air Zimbabwe has developed what you might call a reputation for being unreliable," he said.

What he means is that Zimbabwe's


last plane left behind another government sinking deeper into the delusion that everything is under its control. As the economy contracts amid hyperinflation and collapsing production, Mr Mugabe has created a vast new bureaucracy to oversee price controls on non-existent goods in the shops.

His finance minister maintains an official exchange rate so out of proportion with the hidden market that the central bank governor has to send his staff out to buy dollars on the street.

The regime has declared "the mother of all agricultural seasons" even though there is no bread in the shops because the wheat harvest has fallen short by two-thirds and production of tobacco, once Zimbabwe's biggest money earner, has dropped to one-fifth of what it once was. Cigarettes are in such short supply thatby road from South Africa, and the unreal maths of the Zimbabwean economy.

An Air Zimbabwe economy class ticket to London and back officially costs £7,500 at the government exchange rate but just £225 on the alternative rate, half the price of a BA ticket (which could only be bought in pounds sterling or US dollars), after the Zimbabwe dollar plummeted from $5,100 to the pound at the beginning of the year to close to $2m today.

Mr Msipa is suspicious of the economic claims, as is the Zimbabwean government. He doesn't understand how BA isn't making money. "It's interesting that it's pulling out at the same time Gordon Brown came in and made a more concerted effort to cut ties with Zimbabwe. To us it would seem it's part


of the ratcheting up of sanctions.

Mr Msipa admits there is a crisis though, and that his dad might be part of the problem.

His father, who shares the same name, is a liberation war hero and now the Zanu-PF governor of Midlands province where he has overseen the confiscation of white-owned farms and the collapse of agriculture. Mr Msipa concedes this may have been a mistake.

"Being an old nationalist he would be in the mainstream of this soil-based development, that everything is about the land. Whereas our generation says we should get into computers and call centres. I don't see myself being a horse-drawn plough," he said.

The younger Mr Msipa is a property developer who travels regularly to London. At home he also sells houses. He suspects many ofAP (File) In 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Loving, a black woman, and her white husband, Richard Loving (seen here in a Jan. 26, 1965 photo), went to Washington to get married. After they returned to Central Point, their hometown in rural Caroline County north of Richmond, police raided their home and arrested them. They avoided jail time by agreeing to leave Virginia _ the only home they'd known _ for 25 years. To some people in Virginia, the legal fight over whether same-sex marriages should be allowed has an echo in the state’s old law banning marriage between white and black people. Photo:

AP (File) In 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Loving, a black woman, and her white husband, Richard Loving (seen here in a Jan. 26, 1965


the 1960s represented an interracial couple that successfully challenged Virginia’s ban on “miscegenation,” or mixing of the races.

But opponents of gay marriage reject the comparison.

“It’s a slur and a slander on all those Americans who understand that there is something unique and special about husbands and wives coming together in marriage,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, a Washington-based group that opposes same-sex marriage.

In 1958, two Virginia residents, Mildred Loving, a black woman, and her white husband, Richard Loving, went to Washington, D.C., to get married. After they returned to Virginia, police burst into their bedroom in the middle of the night, and arrested them for violating the Racial Integrity Act of 1924. Their one-year jail sentence was suspended on the condition that theyits worst know what Gillette was trying to portray here.

Gillette blatantly ignored the contributions of men in society in its desperate attempt to shame men into oblivion. Scientific discoveries, life saving drugs, codes that run the world, armed forces that protect countries, and much more- all ignored without a shred of remorse, just to berate men into giving up and engage in self loathing.

And it all makes sense when you look up the past work of the director of this commercial, Kim Gehrig. She has protested against the use of steroid related violence in Australia via a video. The major reasons she gave for the rise of steroids were…. care to guess? Unemployment? Depression? Divorce? Increase in the cost of life in general? Women? Motherhood (single mothers)? Nahhh!


‘The Tolstoys in the 21st Century’ is a series of eighty-two portraits of living descendants and relatives of Leo Tolstoy. Gathered from as far afield as Britain, the Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden and the U.S. for the biennial reunion. It was published as a book in 2015, by Merrell, and launched at Waterstones Piccadilly.

The photographs were taken outside Moscow at Yasnaya Polyana, the birthplace of Tolstoy, where he wrote and is buried. The house, virtually untouched since Tolstoy’s days revealed itself to be a deeply moving atmospheric setting as the 21st century Tolstoys sat for their portraits surrounded by the personal effects of the great writer.The Schengen crisis: a failure

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The Schengen area is a unique construction in the world in terms of border controls and free movement of persons between the different Member States. This zone, which became the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in 1999, operates on the basis of the abolition of controls at internal borders, therefore involving a postponement of controls at its external borders.

This European construction has been affected for several years by various political and geopolitical crisis that compromised the very existence of this free area. Before the Arab Springs in 2011, dictatorial regimes in North Africa had served as external border guards for the Union, substituting a joint action from the European States. Their collapse caused deep concerns around migration – especially for Italy, that has


been the gate to Europe via Lampedusa for a substantial number of migrants. This major crisis revealed the weaknesses of the European construction and the growing needs of the Schengen zone.

Both structural problems of integration within the free area and difficulties in establishing effective border control procedures were compounded by the influx of populations from the Middle East, frequently escaping civil war as well as the terror of organizations like ISIS in Syria. Those who reach Europe are entitled to claim asylum under the provisions of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

The refugee crisis, as it has been called, reflects the deep lack of ability of the European authorities to welcome these individuals with dignity and with respect for fundamental rights. The problem also stems from a clear refusal tooperate according to the principles of international protection, creating a very delicate situation.

The successive migration flow has led to a number of measures, in particular, a series of unilateral and unprecedented re-establishment of border controls by certain Member States, that have substantially weakened the Schengen area. Many politicians took advantage of the tense political climate to push forward processes aimed at obtaining the disappearance of one of the greatest European achievements. Yet, all of the errors made in the crisis management are only and solely due to the Member States, these same who are criticizing Schengen and the EU for the crisis.

Indeed, as can be seen in Article 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Member States have insisted on maintaining absolute control over


security matters – which is an absurd policy within a free, common space. The lack of harmonization in such matters has affected the development of effective cooperation schemes in the fields of intelligence and security, which has consequently undermined progress in implementing efficient mechanisms of crisis management.

I. The mismanagement of the situation

The refugee crisis, which had been announced long before its occurrence by agencies such as Frontex and the United Nations, has been manifestly mismanaged from both single Member States and the European Union.

One of the most controversial measures came about in November 2015. After the crisis triggered and European governments were caught unprepared to deal with it, despite having prior knowledge regarding it, the European Union signed an agreement with Turkey. Such a deal was conceived tohalt the flux coming through the Aegean sea route, establishing a bilateral cooperation mechanism that ultimately resulted in the creation of hotpsots (registration and identification center for migrants) within the Turkish territory.

The original aim was to accommodate these persons during the time that was required to process their asylum application, but the structures soon became centers of detention in deliberate violation of fundamental rights and international law as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has denounced.

The 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, for example, lays down in Articles 32 and 33 a prohibition against the expulsion of asylum seekers from the frontiers «of the territories where his life or freedom would be threatened». In addition, the European Convention of Human


This is permitted when public order or internal security requires by the European legislation under Article 23 of the Schengen Border Code.

However, the re-emergence of internal borders is on the rise: on January 25th, 2017, the European Commission expressed its hope to see the area getting back to its integrity in May 2017 the latest. But States do not seem to agree to such a plan. And then, in May the European commissioner on migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, gave extra time to the States allowing border controls until this November, as the last postponing of the derogation. With no surprise, the European Commission gave another extension a few days ago in violation of the very spirit of Schengen. When will this end?

This predictable national withdrawal was reflected in absurdpropositions such as the Dutch proposal for the creation of a ’mini-Schengen’ to exclude States unable to manage the migratory flows, or the construction of walls within Europe itself. It is a real political paranoia that has seized some heads of state like Viktor Orban, who has already started the construction of a 4-meters-high fence that will extend on the border with Serbia for 175 kilometers – or another one between Croatia and Hungary.

However, these violations of the very principle of the area of freedom, security and justice do not seem to be truly condemned by the Union – and neither by other Member States, probably on the grounds of hidden approval and interest.

III. A prompt treatment needed for the European Union survival

Today, the successful management of the


crisis is a prerequisite for the European Union’s realisation as a whole. In the battle for sovereignty and control, the major difficulty consists in rediscovering an application of the principle of mutual trust between Member States and in allowing such principle to be put at the core of the Schengen project.

Indeed, current difficulties are questioning the founding principle of free movement of persons – and, more broadly, the Schengen agreements. The failures that we have are a deliberate threat to the Union and to the European project. The disintegration of the area of freedom would be the destruction of the core ideals and would have major economic consequences for the continent as well.

The President of the Commission Juncker describes the state of the free space as « partiallyanyone, no matter how expert or elevated they are, tell you any different.

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Thomas Ashley-Farrand was one of the West’s foremost authorities of Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras. He was recognized for his flawless mastery of mantra practice by swamis, pundits, and shastris across India, and gathered more than 8,000 transliterated mantras—the most comprehensive body of these sacred sound syllables in the English language. He received initiations and blessings from a number of prominent spiritual teachers, including H.H. the Dalai Lama. His guru was Sadguru Sant Keshavadas of Bangalore, India, and he also followed Guru Mata, Sant Keshavadas’ widow, to whom he transferred spiritual authority on the banks of the Ganges before his passing. In addition, Thomas Ashley-Farrand was an expert in the practice of Vedic fire and


Dinosaurs, amazing fossil collections, field reports, research news, historical photos and more from the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

03/19/2014

A Bizarre New Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the American West

By Hans-Dieter Sues, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

To date, paleontologists have identified and named well over 1,000 species of dinosaurs (not including birds) from rocks ranging in age from about 230 to about 66 million years before present. Even using conservative estimates, this represents only a fraction of the total number of dinosaur species that ever lived. New dinosaurs are still being discovered around the word on an almost monthly basis. A few countries, especially China, Mongolia, and Argentina, are “hotspots” for finding new species. However, many discoveries of new dinosaurs have been madehere in the United States in recent years.

Today my colleagues and I published the first report on a new species of North American dinosaur, Anzu wyliei, in the open-access scientific periodical PLOS ONE. A quick look reveals our new animal to be amazing in appearance even by dinosaurian standards. Imagine a cassowary, a crested bird that looks like an emu, crossed with a reptile – a head with the toothless beak and surmounted by a tall, thin crest, long feathered arms ending in huge claws, long, powerful hind legs, and a long tail ending in a fan of feathers. The composite skeleton now on display in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History is about 11 feet long and stands about five feet at the hip.

A life


course of more than two decades.

The sedimentary rocks of the Hell Creek Formation in the Dakotas and Montana are from the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68 to 66 million years before present. They are famous for their dinosaurs, including the famous Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. There are also other large-bodied dinosaurs such as the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus and the dinosaurian “dreadnought” Ankylosaurus. In addition, researchers have found bones and teeth of smaller dinosaurs ever since exploration of the Hell Creek fossil beds began in the late nineteenth century.

Starting with a pair of disembodied hands reported by the Smithsonian’s legendary dinosaur expert Charles Whitney Gilmore in 1924, paleontologists kept finding isolated bones or sets of bones of smaller predatory dinosaurs in Cretaceous-age rocks in the West andthe prairie provinces of Canada. In 1940 a Canadian paleontologist described a large toothless mandible from Alberta. He named it Caenagnathus and assigned it to a new group of Mesozoic birds. Former Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, the leading expert on living and fossil birds in his day, questioned that identification but had no evidence to support a different interpretation. In 1976, a Polish dinosaur expert noticed close similarities between the lower jaws of Caenagnathus and those of Oviraptoridae, a group of predatory dinosaurs with strange, parrot-like heads known only from Mongolia and China. Two later discoveries of partial skeletons of Caenagnathus-like dinosaurs from Alberta further confirmed this relationship but did not substantially improve our understanding of these mysterious dinosaurs. One of those skeletons had already been collected in


1923 but I was the first person to identify and report this fossil, which had languished in its plaster jacket at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto since its collection.

The site in Harding County, South Dakota, where two partial skeletons of Anzu were collected in the 1990s. Photo courtesy of Michael Triebold.

In the 1990s private collectors found and excavated two partial skeletons of a rather large, bird-like dinosaur from rocks of the Hell Creek Formation at a site in Harding County, South Dakota. They recognized that these finds represented a species new to science and offered them for sale to museums. Eager for new attractions to spruce up the section on Cretaceous dinosaurs in its dinosaur gallery, Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh) acquired them.

Given my interest inanarchism

What would an anti-capitalist revolution actually look like, if it happened?

That is the question that must be going through many an anarchist’s mind as current events unfold in France.

The Gilets Jaunes or Yellow Vest movement has staged four successive Saturdays of startling and energetic mass mobilisations across France against the neoliberal Macron regime, turning a protest against the cost of living into an attempted insurrection.

On Saturday December 8 there were more than a thousand arrests as crowds occupied central Paris and caused general havoc from Toulouse to Bordeaux, Nantes to Marseilles. The protests even spread to Brussels in Belgium.

Paris, Saturday December 8Gilets Jaunes in Brussels on December 8

Another huge day of action is planned for Saturday December 15, which is being billed as Act V of the show,


more seriously when they warn that a radical political philosophy which is too nature-based inevitably risks carrying us down into a dark underworld of proto-fascist ideology.

While Murray Bookchin was no doubt right to take elements of the American deep ecology movement to task for not fully recognising the social roots behind ecological problems, the rhetoric he deployed, condemning what he regarded as “ecofascism”, has ultimately only increased the perceived Nazi contamination of radical green thinking in general.

Fellow social ecologists Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier carried on his approach with great enthusiasm. In Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, they wrote: “The National Socialist ‘religion of nature,’ as one historian has described it, was a volatile admixture of primeval teutonic nature mysticism, pseudo-scientific ecology, irrationalist anti-humanism, and a mythologycultures and inspires the indigenous spiritualities of North and South America, of Australia and Africa, and, yes, even of Europe.

It was the foundation stone on which were built the metaphysics of Chuang Tsu, Plotinus and Paracelsus. It remains a widely-shared, instinctive, “common sense” view of the world which has never been completely erased from the human spirit.

The coming of the Industrial Revolution sparked a reaction, in which some people actively sought out and revitalised these old ideas. This was not so much an intellectual movement as an instinctive response to cultural, social and environmental danger.

As Vivianne Crowley writes: “From the late eighteenth century onwards, rapid industrialization and the rape of Europe’s natural scenery and resources caused many people to feel that the time was out of joint; that


common sense was being sacrificed to material progress with potentially disastrous results”. (9)

The organic thinking on which we are focusing here is this version, the one that emerged in reaction to the trauma of industrialisation, of Western civilization’s drift away from that original wisdom and towards the cold and mechanical philosophies of the modern era.

In a sense it could be termed Organic Thinking II, because it included a conscious defence of Organic Thinking I in the face of the sterile dogmas of capitalist modernity.
Everywhere affected by industrialisation saw the emergence of anti-industrial currents of thought.

The English-speaking world had the likes of William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Ruskin (1819-1900), William Morris (1834-1896) and Richard Jefferies (1848-1887).

William Morris

Morris spoke for many others when headmitted in 1894, two years before he died: “Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization”. (10)

France had its own tradition, which flowed from the anti-industrialism of the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) into the twentieth-century anti-productivism of Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) and Bernard Charbonneau (1910-1996) as well as the powerful critique of modernity voiced by George Bernanos (1888-1948), who declared: “The Civilization of the Machines is the civilization of quantity opposed to that of quality”. (11)

In her book Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler, Anne Harrington traces the evolution of one thread of this thinking from nineteenth-century scientists who developed holistic approaches in their own specific fields and then,


philosophers’ as Ludwig Klages”. (12)

The Ruhr valley

The starting point of Organic Thinking II was opposition to The Machine and all the damage it was doing to human culture and well-being, as well as to the natural world.

The Machine, which spawned the ugly coke furnaces and iron and steel factories of the Ruhr valley, powered the militarism of Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire between 1871 and 1890.

There was a process of extraordinarily rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century that, notes Harrington, had left many feeling “uprooted and aesthetically revolted”. (13)

And The Machine also reached inside people’s heads, breaking down older ways of thinking and remodelling minds according to the demands of the new industrial civilization.

A fragmentation of understanding was identified by critics ofthe modern age. Like the living communities replaced by urban dormitories for the factory wage-slaves, everything seemed to be broken down and torn apart.

In the sciences, research was increasingly specialist and narrow, geared towards utilitarian pragmatism rather than a quest for knowledge.

The success of individuals or nations was judged in terms of material wealth, of productivity, rather than in terms of inner integrity or happiness.

A sense of belonging to the land, to the past, to a continuum, was rased by the brutal demands of so-called progress.

An individual’s sense of self was swept away by the depersonalised speed and fury of steam-powered living and, at the same time, any sense of belonging to humanity as a whole was denied by the nationalistic fervour of industrial and imperial rivalry with


other Europeans and officially-encouraged contempt for the “inferior” and “backward” peoples of the non-industrialised world.

The realm of offices, factories, newspapers and trains forced people into a state of existence where they seemed to exist purely in their own heads, on the surface of being, and were as cut off from their own bodies, their own physical reality, as they were from the natural world from which they had been separated for the first time in a million years of human history.

Organic Thinking II sought to counter that fragmentation, that separation, on every level, and to reinstate a sense of interconnecting wholeness.

Body and soul were not regarded as separate, but as two aspects of one and the same entity. Likewise with individuals and society – not industrial-capitalist society, ofsomehow magically represented the authentic will of the German people.

This notion of the state as organism had already been developed by the right wing of the organic movement, but in Nazi dogma it took on whole new proportions, because the idea of total power resting in the hands of the state was so central to their ideology.

Zeev Sternhell remarks: “Totalitarianism is the very essence of fascism, and fascism is without question the purest example of a totalitarian ideology. Setting out as it did to create a new civilization, a new type of human being and a totally new way of life, fascism could not conceive of any sphere of human activity remaining immune from intervention by the State”. (19)

Rudolf Rocker

The Nazi obsession with order imposed from above, with


it was the Nazis themselves who were incapable of thinking holistically.

A holistic vision of the world understands the connection between all people, all creatures, all of nature, all of the cosmos and bases its vision on a sense of overall unity.

An organic interpretation of the human species necessarily recognises the human species itself as an organism.

There may be lesser, shifting, “organisms” within that unity – and humanity may form part of larger natural and cosmic organisms – but the human species is undeniably the clearest instance of a biological unity between the individual and the bio-system of Earth as a whole.

A sense of this unity is integral to the organic, holistic world-view, and yet it is entirely absent from racist, anti-semitic, Nazi ideology.

The ideas of universalism and humanismwere anathema to Nazism and regarded as cosmopolitan Jewish inventions designed to undermine the German sense of national and racial identity.

Their stunted sense of human solidarity was limited to those they defined as being their own people. Anyone outside of that Teutonic enclave was simply a non-person, an object.

Like certain postmodern thinkers of a later era, the Nazis denied the very existence of humankind, which, as Johann Chapoutot points out, “makes fraternity, feeling the suffering of the other, impossible as an emotion and invalidates it as a principle”. (25)

This was what lay behind the cold look in the eyes of the Nazi scientist famously described by Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz. He was looking at the Jewish prisoner as if he was observing a sea creature through


thus capable of ‘machine murder’. (29)

Much the same point was made in an article by Gerhard Portele in Gestalt Theory in 1979 when he argued that, despite the Nazis’ use of holistic language, the essence of their ideology lay in their neglect of the whole: “The Nazis with their calculating book-keeping rationality were trained in piecemeal thinking to an extreme degree and viewed people as cogs”. (30)

This fundamental incompatibility between organic, holistic thinking and Nazi ideology became increasingly apparent once their romantic rhetoric collided with the pragmatic realities of running the German industrial-capitalist state.

Hans Driesch

Hans Driesch (1867-1941), a biologist whose organic vision was defiantly internationalist, was among the first non-Jewish German professors to be forcibly retired after Hitler came to power in 1933 and in 1935 all publicspeaking and travel privileges were taken away from him.

After Germany’s defeat in World War II, a number of other organic theorists, such as the philosopher and historian of biology Adolf Meyer-Abich, came forward to report that they too had been actively persecuted by the Third Reich because of the perceived threats their holism posed for Nazi policies.

The Nazi faction which had twisted organic thinking into a racist and anti-semitic theory was itself displaced by an even more hardline group.

Harrington explains: “The second faction was made up of more pragmatic medical technocrats who wanted to use a hard-nosed form of Mendelian genetics, Darwinism, and racial biology as the basis for Nazi social policy and military strategy. This group had found a home for itself under the jurisdiction of Himmler’s


be opposing, at the stage when they were wooing the German population.

From the 1890s onwards, there had been a cultural battle between two German tendencies. On one side stood the tradition of Goethe, of a Romantic desire for life, for soul, for wholeness. On the other side was the new Germany, obsessed with efficiency and Technik, the militarist “machine nation” of 1914.

While Nazism was clearly influenced on one level by the first, Romantic tradition, and happy to use that association to garner support from a German public despairing of capitalist modernity, it proved ultimately to belong firmly to the second.

It incarnated, in an exaggerated form, the thinking of the industrial capitalist Machine, for whom human beings are nothing but fodder. It was not simply a question of racism;be taking the place of the materialism with which, since the seventeenth-century, science has enmeshed philosophy”. (41)

The psychologist Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), took Goethe as a starting point, developing the idea of Gestalt, or underlying form, in a promising direction far removed from the dead-end of racism into which the Nazis tried to divert it.

Born in Prague, he fled central Europe before Hitler came to power and continued his work in the USA, later becoming an American citizen.

Max Wertheimer

While the Nazis claimed piecemeal or fragmented thinking was a Jewish trait, Wertheimer, who was himself Jewish, turned this round against them. He argued that the modern world had cropped humanity’s thinking capacity. Piecemeal thinking – strings of propositions torn from their original living context – was being used by demagogues


current in German-speaking Europe which was not simply non-Nazi, but anti-Nazi, and whose fundamental principles placed it in direct opposition to fascism.

Michael Löwy

The French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher Michael Löwy has explored in depth the intellectual movement, mainly Jewish, which he terms “anti-capitalist Romanticism”.

Löwy writes: “In many respects, the Jewish intellectuals of Mitteleuropa, in the utopian-Romantic movement, grouped around Martin Buber’s review Der Jude, expressionist publications (such as Die Aktion), the Bar-Kokhba circle in Prague, the Frankfurt School or various left-wing parties, set themselves apart from Western or Eastern European Jewish intellectuals, as well as from their peers, the ‘gentile’ intellectuals of German culture, by the kind of culture they produced”. (44)

Their vision, he says, revolved around “a cultural critique of modern capitalist civilization in the name of pre-modernor pre-capitalist values” and they were revolting “against the quantification and mechanisation of life, the reification of social relationships, the dissolution of community (Gemeinschaft) and, above all – to take up the terms used by Max Weber – the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt) resulting from the instrumental rationality (Zweckrationalität) and the corresponding calculating spirit (Rechnenhaftigkeit) which dominated modern culture”. (45)

The Jewish identity of thinkers like Buber or Gershom Scholem did not stop them drawing partly on the heritage of the German Romantic tradition to condemn the emptiness of modern life and search for a meaning to existence in myth, history or religion.

Martin Buber

Buber, for instance, put forward a vision of libertarian socialist society inspired by, but not limited by, communities of the past. He wrote:


“The new organic whole, founded on the regeneration of the ‘cells’ of the social tissue, will be the renaissance (rather than the return) of organic community in the shape of a decentralised federation of small communities”. (46)

His position was echoed in France by that of Bernard Lazare (1865-1903), a Jewish anarchist who rejected the myth of progress and the allure of the modern in favour of a respect for the past, particularly for medieval guilds or rural communities.

There was nothing reactionary in this opposition to the mass-produced solitude of the modern capitalist world and the desire to revive, in a different form, the organic communities which had been steamrollered by The Machine.

Löwy comments that Lazare was “projecting his Romantic nostalgia for the past into a utopian future, bywas almost a traditional way of regarding authentic society as being one rooted in the symbiotic human relationships of small-scale community.

But Tönnies’ own experience was shaped by the mechanisation and commercialisation of the German society in which he lived. His theory was very much a political response to industrial capitalism and therefore part of the ideological wave we have termed Organic Thinking II.

It is clear throughout his best-known work, Community and Society, as well as in Geist der Neuzeit, that Tönnies regarded the Western transition from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft as a social and cultural decline rather than a triumph of progress.

Since the Middle Ages, people had been reduced from participants in a generally harmonious, living entity into atomised victims of a system which imposed its demands and laws


merchants or capitalists”, he writes, “are the natural masters and rulers of the Gesellschaft. The Gesellschaft exists for their sake. It is their tool”. (55)

The move to Gesellschaft “meant the victory of egoism, impudence, falsehood, and cunning, the ascendancy of greed for money, ambition and lust for pleasure”. (56)

The city, for Tönnies, is the epitome of the soulless, artificial, capitalist modern world: “The city is typical of Gesellschaft in general… Its wealth is capital wealth which, in the form of trade, usury, or industrial capital, is used and multiplies. Capital is the means for the appropriation of products of labor or for the exploitation of workers”. (57)

Alongside his critique of how mercantile relationships – capitalist society – destroy authentic communities, comes a scathing condemnation of the modern state.

Thewere big businessmen and capitalists, and so he decided that he himself could not possibly be ‘Jewish’, even if he remained an ‘Israelite’.

He wrote in 1890, at the age of 25: “The Jew (there are many who become Jews, without being destined by their race to do so, but who are rather doomed by their native virtues) is someone who is dominated by the sole preoccupation of making a quick fortune, which he will more easily obtain by fraud, lies and cunning. He despises virtue, poverty, selflessness”. (75)

Bernard Lazare

Lazare was therefore driven into an absurd form of anti-semitism by the social stereotype of the Jew as a capitalist – any anti-capitalist, it appeared even for this young Jew, therefore had to be anti-‘Jewish’.

Wertheimer was later to comment on


link between materialism and Jewishness and pointed out that there were plenty of Christian capitalists around, not least the Roman Catholic Church, which even had its own banking wing. Indeed, he suggested, the influence of Roman civilization was in fact behind many of the social ills blamed on Jews. “The deification of money, capitalist barbarity, ignorance of all human interest other than the financial or commercial interest, are the traits of the Roman soul, but not of the Jewish soul”. (80)

Lazare thus clearly explained the way that anti-semitism was used, by the ruling classes, as a way of deflecting attention away from the fundamental problems and injustices of their hierarchical industrial capitalist society and of shunting opposition into a sordid dead end of racial scapegoating.

He died in 1903,behind its revolutionary pretenses, it buttresses the development of capitalist structures”. (85)

In failing to take up the Romantic struggle against industrial capitalism, building on the rich organic and holistic philosophy which was being developed in German-speaking lands, the Marxists allowed this powerful anti-capitalist current to flow into the stagnant waters of fascism.

Comment Berman and Luke: “The turn of völkisch thought to the right is ultimately not indicative of the quality of such thought, but rather of the self-imposed constraints of the traditional Marxist left, which failed to appropriate the leftist potential of the völkisch movement”. (86)

The Marxist left of that place and period had become sterile and dogmatic and shied away from appealing to those who wanted to fundamentally challenge the assumptions and infrastructures of capitalist society, who


were ready to embark on a total revolt against the Gesellschaft of state and business.

As Sternhell notes: “With their thirst for action for action’s sake and struggle for struggle’s sake, the fascists appeared to be the only authentically revolutionary political organizations, the only movements unconditionally opposed to the established order, the only people whose revolutionary credibility – unlike that of the parties of the left, including the communist parties – had not been damaged by compromise”. (87)

It is ironic that contemporary leftists are being urged to steer clear of emotive anti-capitalism and nature-based organic environmentalism, because of an alleged taint by Nazi associations, when it was actually a previous left-wing generation’s drift in that very same direction – its abandonment of authentic anti-capitalist ideals – which allowed thenew take-over bid by the extreme right by placing at its core the left-wing values of humanity, solidarity, compassion and universality.

It will declare itself an implacable enemy of fascism and present a coherent and self-contained organic political vision that could never be acceptable to fascists – one fuelled by the ideas of anarchists, non-nationalist socialists and Jews, from Morris to Goldstein, from Monakow to Kropotkin, from Tönnies to Wertheimer, from Landauer to Roszak.

It will be unflinching in its complete rejection of this capitalist-fascist system in all respects – its economics, its infrastructures and its ideology.

It will condemn all the new forms being taken by fascism – the sinister techno-totalitarianism of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, surveillance, drone warfare and transhumanism.

It will challenge head-on the productivist obsession with quantity over quality,


of protesters spoiling everything for the law-abiding majority.

Ferocious levels of police violence, during the day and in the evening at Nuit Debout, were such that the Street Medic organisation later described the day as a “bloodbath”.

Fighting back in Paris on May DayParis, May 1

Tens of thousands also took to the streets of Seoul. Similar “reforms” to those being introduced in France are being imposed all over the world by the capitalist slave-masters and South Korea also faces a labour reform bill, pushed by President Park Geun-Hye and her conservative Saenuri Party, which will make it easier for companies to lay off workers.

May Day protests in Seoul

In Manila, there was a massive protest against Philippines president Benigno S. Aquino III and US imperialism. Left-wing demonstrators fought with police whoTaiwan, as a symbolic gesture to “declare war” on the government.

Taiwanese workers during a May Day rally in Taipei

There were protests and parades all across the world, including Berlin and Geneva (below). In Málaga (Spanish state) the march included an animal rights bloc, while in London a May Day Fuck Parade was held in the evening (see video), with the partying going on until 3am.

May Day in Geneva, SwitzerlandMay Day in BerlinMálagaThe May Day Fuck Parade in London

April 28 saw a big day of strikes and protests against the neoliberal Loi Travail “reforms” in France (see Acorn 23 and this update). Feisty protests and brutal police violence broke out all over the country – see, for instance, these videos from Paris and Rennes and this photo report from


they got into their car, it was surrounded by triumphant protesters, cracking the glass in the windows, before the state thugs sped off to safety.

The crowd surged down the road and through a gate leading to the railway sidings and on to the main railway line close to Marseilles St Charles station. Planks, tyres and other objects were dragged on to the rails and set on fire. 400 protesters were on the line. The infrastructure was well and truly blocked.

Street battles in the Mediterranean port

You could tell something was going to happen right from the start. The official meet-up for the demo was at the Vieux Port, but here there were only the uninspiring supporters of the CGT trade union, far too close to the ruling Socialist Partyto be any sort of threat to the system.

Up the road and round the corner, positioned to be at the head of the march, was the real heart of the protest. This was a mainly youthful section – including many secondary school students. They came from diverse backgrounds and notably included a noisy group of football supporters from OM, Olympique Marseille.

The start of the march

There were chants against the bosses, against the PS, about revolution, as the march set off, in stop-start fashion, along Cours Lieutaud.

At the end of the road, the well-established protest route turns right into Castellane, which is supposed to mark the end of proceedings.

But today, people had other ideas and the head of the protest turned left instead, then formed up ready to head


off in an unauthorised direction.

Attempts to persuade the massed ranks of the CGT to join in were not too successful – they preferred a symbolic turn to the right, as ordered by their stewards.

But, thanks partly to a looping protest that led out of the march and back in again, a significant number of protesters were welcomed into the breakaway project and it set off up Boulevard Baille, where the police had set up a blockade.

The tear gas canisters started raining down before the front of the protest was even 100 metres from the cops. Plain clothes BAC cops lurked on the pavements ready to grab anyone trying to escape the gas.

“Tout Marseille déteste la police!” went up the cry from the crowd – a local variation ofstrategy would have been useful to prevent the inevitable dribbling away of protesters though holes in the railside fences as the cops advanced up the line, and the violent arrests of those remaining.

More than 50 people were arrested, many of them school students, and a solidarity campaign was set up to support them.

It is worth noting that this was very much on the agenda of the Nuit Debout gathering that attracted several hundred people back at the Vieux Port that evening. While these gatherings inevitably draw in a mixed crowd, the overall tone here was inseparable from the tone of the protest.

Trumped-up criminal charges and draconian bail conditions are being used by the British state as a weapon against dissidents.

This is the insidious reality behind the “justice” system,


as exposed in a new Corporate Watch interview with anarchist activist Pete Simpson.

Pete was prosecuted and remanded in prison for alleged “violent disorder” and “assault of police officers” after an occupation of HSBC bank, as part of the 2015 Mayday commemoration in Cardiff, Wales.

Pete and fellow activist Josh Howe were found not guilty by a jury in Cardiff in January 2016 after it became clear that the police were telling a pack of lies and it was in fact the cops who had acted violently.

Josh and Peter after the not-guilty verdict

He has no doubts about the political motivation for the prosecution, which put him out of circulation for months.

“They had presented evidence that we were giving out South Wales Anarchists leaflets. They made many references to it. Theand the USA.

Former London Mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone, suspended from the party, pointed out that this line of assault from Blairite right-wingers has been shaping up for a while now: “Frankly, there’s been an attempt to smear Jeremy Corbyn and his associates as antisemitic from the moment he became leader”.

Tony Blair

There has been a related attack on Malia Bouattia, the new president of the UK’s National Union of Students, on the grounds of her anti-Zionism.

On one level these “shifty antisemitism wars” revolve around the legitimacy of support for Palestine and opposition to the brutal apartheid policies of an Israeli state which has long been a close ally of the UK, the USA, France and other Western states.

The success of the international BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) has


after the general strike and day of action on Thursday March 31. There was a call for people not to go home afterwards but to stay on the streets, beginning a wave of overnight “Nuit Debout” occupations that has spread from Paris across France and into the Iberian peninsular, Belgium and Germany.

“Let nobody enter here who is not in revolt”

The March 31 “moment” has also been symbolically extended by the renaming of the following days of the mobilisation as March 32, March 33 and so on.

On Tuesday March 36 (April 5 in the old pre-revolutionary calendar) there was another massive turn-out on the streets all over France, with increased police violence and defiant resistance.

Paris, March 36Paris, March 36

In Paris police fired tear gas and charged the crowds ofEarth and not a cancer in its flesh.

Instead of the corruption and ugly mess of industrial capitalism we will enjoy the natural harmony of anarchy.

Eight activists accused of disrupting one of the world’s largest arms fairs are due to go on trial in London from Monday April 11.

And their defence will include evidence from high-profile expert witnesses Andrew Feinstein, Sayed Ahmed and Oliver Sprague.

The campaigners are accused of having disrupted the set-up of the DSEI arms fair at the ExCel Centre in London last September by blocking the access roads to the site with their bodies, and by locking themselves to the gates.

Defendants, including Angela Ditchfield, Tom Franklin and Isa Al-Aali, were arrested on September 9 and 10 2015, accused of obstructing the entry of tanks and lorries


from around the world, including most of the world’s largest arms companies, displaying arms ranging from rifles to tanks, fighter jets, battleships, missiles, military electronics, surveillance and riot control equipment.

The expert witnesses have supplied written reports and will attend in person to give oral evidence for the defence concerning the nature of the DSEI arms fair:

Andrew Feinstein is a former ANC Member of Parliament in South Africa who resigned in 2001 in protest at the government’s refusal to allow an unfettered investigation into a £5bn arms deal that has been identified as the biggest corruption scandal in South Africa’s history. He went on to author The Shadow World, a book described by the Washington Post as “possibly the most complete account [of the global arms trade] ever written.”He is currently Executive Director of Corruption Watch UK, an NGO which researches the global arms trade and details and exposes weapons violations, bribery, corruption and other malfeasance.

Oliver Sprague is Programme Director of Arms Control and Policing at Amnesty International UK. He has worked on technical aspects of UK arms export controls for over 20 years. Sprague gives regular oral and written evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee working on arms export controls. He has given expert evidence on breaches of export control legislation at DSEI (and other defence exhibitions) on numerous occasions.

Sayed Ahmed is Director of Advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), a London-based NGO which seeks to improve human rights and accountability in Bahrain.

The defendants themselves will also seek to give personal


its elegant simplicity. Because it was an upstart religion and illegal in the Roman empire, Christians needed a secretive way to identify one another. So, when wanting to inquire about someone’s belief, a Christian could draw half the symbol in the dirt with a finger. If the other party involved finished it, they recognized one another as part of the Church. If not, no harm done, the image quickly erased, easypeasy.

After the church was decriminalized, a new symbol was bestowed upon the Romanized religion, the cross.

The ruler of the eastern provinces of the Roman empire, Constantine, supposedly had a vision as he tossed and turned in his sleep, worried about an upcoming battle. Either that, or he was given a sign from heaven on his way there. Moretelling of Jesus’ birth.

The Romans killed every living Magi, and burned or otherwise destroyed their teachings.

I can’t help but think this was done because what the Magi taught was self-directed enlightenment and inner growth. What the Christian Church had decided on as its doctrine – in the council of Nicea Constantine sponsored ten years prior – was batshit crazy by comparison. Constantine was eliminating the competition.

He never made Christianity the official state religion (that would come later), even after his own “conversion.” As mentioned above, the conversion affected the Church more than vice-versa. The emperor has remade it in his own image.

Constantine’s end goal was likely to proclaim himself as the sun god, sol invictus, and Roman coinage, as well as works of art and architecture, portrayed him


as Sol’s companion. He never did get around to announcing his own divinity. He did, however, make Sun day the official Christian day of rest and adulation.

Subsequent emperors burned the library of Antioch, and later banned teaching of science in the entire empire. People of other faiths were prohibited from being officers in the army, and a heretical Christian sect – the Manicheans – were exterminated for providing a sane, believable doctrine for Christians.

And just to rub a little salt in the wounds of a bleeding populace, pope Dumbass I outlawed public baths across the empire. Less than century later, unhygienic conditions contributed to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.

The Church outlawed all forms of date-keeping, navigational charts and equipment, and any reference to the world as beingspherical. No one believed the world was flat and the earth was the center of the universe. People started pretending to believe it when anyone saying otherwise was burned alive in public squares.

The Oronteus Finaeus map, showing Antarctica with ice-free coasts, mountains and rivers. It was based on older maps, lost to His-story

The Church also outlawed all non-Christian schools and ordered the obliteration of all knowledge kept at the great library of Alexandria – perhaps the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled in one place.

Not only did they destroy ancient scrolls, books, and other writings, they massacred everyone who had learned to read. Millions of tradesmen, artisans, and craftsmen were slaughtered.

A holocaust (burnt offering) of millions of people practicing another “heretical” – i.e. non-Roman – form of


even a great novelist such as Leo Tolstoy turned his back on the genre in order to express himself directly to the public through essays.

So it was a little surprising to find that writer Paul Cudenec, who has so far confined himself to non-fiction works such as The Anarchist Revelation and Forms of Freedom, had decided to launch himself into the world of the novel.

Having read The Fakir of Florence (Sussex: Winter Oak, 2016), it becomes clear what attracted him to the idea. Rather than running away from his root message into the distraction of fiction, he has used the form of a novel to present this message in an imaginative and entertaining context.

On the surface, the book revolves around the story of a kind of anarchist mysticas mention the Strasbourg scandal and its crucial influence as a catalyst of May 1968. That struggle, its stakes and its seriousness, find no place in his book. The author also completely ignores the proliferation of Situationist theories and practice. Not a word, for instance, about what was perhaps the first work of street art or guerrilla art, our reinstallation of a statue of Charles Fourier in Place Clichy, Paris, in 1969, the original having been removed by the Nazis.

“Nothing, of course, of the magnificently successful creation of situations by the Yesmen; or by the Russian Voina group and Pussy Riot, who acknowledge their debt to Debord and the Situationists; nothing either of the Czech Stovoven group, or Banksy, or Kommunikationsguerilla, or the hacktivists, or a host of


and governmental Workfare schemes push businesses to choose free labour over paid staff.

The cuts, as predicted, have hit the poorest hardest, with many having to choose between heating or food. Public services like care homes and day centres continue to vanish. The NHS is being ripped apart and sold off, taking away vital services, such as mental health, from those who need it most. Massive school budget cuts lead to unqualified teaching staff. Workers must work longer and harder for less, many with the uncertainty of zero-hour contracts and part-time work, with no hope of a pension.

Floods in England – at Hebden Bridge

At the same time farmers are given false hope through the murder of hundreds of endangered badgers. Global climate change has seen droughts lasting years inneutral observers in the battle between the frackers and the public.

But experience has gradually eroded faith in the “boys in blue”, both in the North of England and now at Horse Hill, near Horley, where Surrey Police have been particularly aggressive, making violent arrests and generally doing their best to conform to the internationally-recognised “ACAB” policing standards.

Linda Foord

“At around 12 noon on Tuesday February 23, grandmother Linda Foord thought she was being a good Samaritan by offering tea and cakes to police officers and protesters outside a proposed drilling site in Surrey”, reports the Talk Fracking site, for instance.

“But rather than a smile and gratitude, Linda was given a verbal warning and told she risked being arrested by the officers for obstructing the highway”.

The truth is, of course,


in the higher echelons of the global arms trade – “37 years in the UK aircraft and defence equipment industry (British Aerospace/BAE Systems and GEC), in which he held senior export management positions at home and overseas”.

Pieter Montyn – from the arms trade to roads

And with that sort of ethical background, it is not surprising that he has been less than transparent regarding his involvement in the push for a new northern bypass.

The Chichester Observer records that the wealthy Tory was an active campaigner for the northern route before the option was originally dropped by the government in 2005, when he was not yet a councillor.

Montyn is claiming that this is all now in the past and told a public meeting in January this year: “That was tenof children, in other words, is more like the history of thalidomide, a prescription medicine given to pregnant women that caused children to be born with limbs missing.

“But the official narrative on all this is pushing a false link with Zika in order to justify more chemical fumigation, more vaccines and more genetically engineered mosquitoes”.

The Zika scare is also being used as a Trojan Horse for megalomaniac biotechnological dreams of “editing nature” and simply wiping out mosquitoes altogether – regardless of the knock-on effects on the food chain and global eco-system.

Bill and Melinda Gates with an unidentified groupie

A leading force behind this insanity is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A propaganda piece in The Guardian on February 27 was jointly authored by Dr Trevor Mundel, president of


of the established administration of property. They are alike hostile to intellectual and moral improvement. The other vices of envy, malice and revenge, are their inseparable companions. In a state of society, where men lived in the midst of plenty, and where all shared alike the bounties of nature, these sentiments would inevitably expire. The narrow principle of selfishness would vanish”.

Police attacked the protest with tear gas, rubber bullets and batonsPolice shields add to the colour in Rennes

The temperature is rising in the massive and long-running struggle against a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes in France.

On Saturday February 6 a thousand people took part in a carnival-style protest in Rennes. Some city centre buildings were redecorated, some bank windows smashed and the demo was attacked by police using teargas, rubber bullets and batons.

The Rennes protest on Saturday February 6

Tear gas was deployed by police

Now preparations are underway for big day of mobilisation on Saturday February 27 against the threatened new industrial capitalist infrastructure and in support of the ZAD protest camp.

An autonomous group of supporters in the UK are among those heading to the west of France to show their solidarity – see below.

On January 25 a judge approved an eviction order against some people on the ZAD site. This came into immediate effect for farmland and there was two months’ grace for their actual homes.

The hundreds of others who have been living on the land since 2007 to defend it from Vinci’s bulldozers could be evicted by force at any time.

The decision as to whether


the ZAD and make way for big business.

This anti-ZAD tirade, which could have been written by Britain’s very own Daily Mail, complains of “attacks on the forces of law and order, threats against journalists and scientists, the stoning of the judge in charge of the Possession Order, the looting of a goods lorry and extortion rackets against residents forced to open their car boots and hand over their shopping”!

The day of mobilisation on February 27 will call for a halt to all eviction threats and for the immediate and permanent axing of the much-hated airport project.

Says the ZAD website: “We invite all committees and supporters to very strongly mobilise from now for this date. We invite everyone from the region, from all corners of France, and beyond, totowns and cities.

There is something of the Medieval communes who managed to drag themselves free of feudal power and defend the commons – the land, tools and resources whose use was shared.

Something, also, of the short-lived commune of Nantes in 1968, during which workers and students occupied the town hall, blockaded the region and organised supplies for the strikers from the landworkers.

Something which has now become both the means and the meaning of our struggle and which we have to continue to deepen.

Some 600 miles away from the ZAD at Nantes, in the French Alps, another battle is taking place against the relentless onslaught of industrial capitalism.

“No THT” is the name of a full-on campaign against a plan to wreck the beauty of the mountain valley of Haute-Durance


quite clear, because it has repercussions: it’s the USA. Out of short-term interest, other actors – some of whom paint themselves as friends of the West – have, out of subservience or by their own will, contributed to its construction and its reinforcement. But those primarily responsible are the United States”. [3]

When Russian forces entered the game against ISIS in Syria, they completely disrupted US and Israeli plans involving their expensive toy, ISIS: France had already taken the initiative a few days before Putin, by independently bombing ISIS in Iraq and (twice) in Syria.

For the real masters of ISIS this was defiance: they had to call France to order and reunite the Western forces under their command.

Through a multi-pronged military commando action in the middle of Paris, againstthe scattering of its armed forces around too many theatres, from Africa to the Middle East, the wavering and hesitancy of its government, political tangles and delirious media conditioning are all condemning its military action to failure and at the same time exposing France to all kinds of retaliation. As we have just seen in Paris.

French political leaders are now in the uncomfortable position of pretending not to know where the blow came from, preferring as usual to lie to the population and come across as witless fools rather than to instead risk incurring the wrath of their treacherous allies. The population is under control thanks to the state of emergency. The Germans and other NATO allies have been warned by means of the same blow.

The masquerade ball,


Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Del Terrorismo e dello Stato, Milan, 1979, 1980. Translated into French as Du Terrorisme et de l’Etat, Paris et Grenoble, 1980, 1981 and into English as On Terrorism and the State by Left Bank Books in 1983. A new translation by Bill Brown was published by Colossal Books in 2014.

According to its own website, DPTRE (the Defence Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportability exhibition) is the “UK’s Premier Defence Procurement Event” and is now being hosted annually at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena.

Their first time hosting the arms fair in Cardiff was in October 2014, with exhibitors including BAE Systems, the world’s third largest arms producer with a very special relationship with the UK government and the Saudi dictatorship.

Say campaigners: “BAE also supplies Israel with the tools to wagewar on the Palestinians and after the horrors seen perpetrated by Israel, from the bombing of a UN school to the killing of children playing on a beach, there is no doubt that BAE systems is complicit in these crime through its arming of the Israeli state.

“BAE is also one of many companies at DPTRE which supplies weapons to Turkey. In 2015, people in towns across Turkey’s Kurdish region have barricaded their city centres and declared autonomy from the state. The Turkish army has responded by attacking residential areas with tanks, combat helicopters and mortars, killing hundreds of people”.

There has been active opposition to DPRTE since 2013. The arms fair had previously been hosted at the UWE campus in Bristol, but was subsequently driven out, hence the move


Mortgage Fraud Crisis, Research in Sex Assault Investigation Among Topics Examined in Forensic Fridays Series

December 16, 2013

The Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law will explore a variety of topics, including fire investigation and computer forensics, during its Spring 2014 Forensic Fridays seminar series at Duquesne University.

The continuing legal education (CLE) and professional education series is geared toward meeting the needs of legal and scientific professionals allied with the practice of forensic science.

"We've chosen this season's topics with an eye toward both diversity and timeliness," explained Program Administrator Ben Wecht. "From new advances in fire and sexual assault investigation to forensic lessons from the mortgage fraud crisis to the law and science of responding to data breaches, this Forensic Fridays series has something to offer a wide rangebreach incident response.

Emerging Topics and Current Research in Sexual Assault Investigation, Friday, April 11, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.In the ongoing struggle to protect would-be victims from sexual predators, great advances are being made in forensic nursing research and practice, from strangulation assessment to the photographic documentation of injuries. Featured presenters at this daylong collaboration with the Duquesne University School of Nursing include UPMC Mercy sexual assault nurse examiner Debra Shane, Duquesne Nursing Professor Kathleen Sekula and other clinical and legal experts.

All Forensic Friday seminars will be held in the Africa Room of the Duquesne Union.

Duquesne University

Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and tradition of academic excellence. Duquesne, a campus of nearly 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students,


Well: here's a start. From the perspective of intent, there does seem to me to be moral clarity between Israel and Hamas. Hamas refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist in peace; Israel refuses to recognize Hamas' right to exist as a legitimate polity in Gaza because Hamas does not recognize Israel's right to exist. Hamas also was the first to break a barely-held ceasefire recently. There seems to me to be no question that Israel has the higher moral ground from the perspective of recent events.

At the same time, Israel's actual resources of military and economic power far exceed Hamas's; and its pulverization of Gaza has led to a huge imbalance between the victims of Hamas's war on Israel and Israel's war on Hamas. The Palestinians arethe experience of attending Utah colleges, with a year as fellow students at the University of Utah before they knew each other. Both came from families that were particularly active in and had long been identified with the Democratic Party and both had the opportunity to meet and thus become personally identified with Franklin D. Roosevelt and other members of his family. In those days the FBI agents were called " G men (government men). When John and Orpha were married, they were both working for the Department of Justice, the FBI being part of it. A news item in the local paper announcing their forthcoming marriage was entitled, "G-Woman Gets Her Man." During the years while John was Assistant U S . Attorney it was permissible to


maintain a private practice in association with a law firm. In 1934, John was associated with Delbert M. Draper, Marion G. Romney, and J. Stuart McMaster; in 1938, Mr. Draper's son Courtney joined the firm. A few years later John officed with a firm in the Boston Building; these men included Ben Rich, Gordon Strong, Shirley Jones and Allen H. Tibbals. The cases John handled involved Navajo as well as Ute Indians, and in the summer of 1938, Orpha and John with John Jr. (born December, 1937 and then six months old) took their first trip to Navajo and Hopi country as a family vacation. As Orpha described the trip: We drove to Shiprock, New Mexico, and Window Rock, Arizona, then across the Navajo Reservation into Hopi country,coming out at Tuba City on the west, then north to Marble Canyon Bridge on our way home, and into Kanab. This was strictly a vacation. We did all the tourist things, bought many

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stated, "because we wanted to feel really good about it when we did." Both of them had been on the move. Orpha had not become attached to a particular ward in Salt Lake, and John had been spending his time between Salt Lake and Coalville. The young couple started their marriage having many experiences in common. Both had grown up as members of Mormon families in small towns where their parents were recognized and respected members of their communities. Both had the experience of attending Utah colleges, with a year


as fellow students at the University of Utah before they knew each other. Both came from families that were particularly active in and had long been identified with the Democratic Party and both had the opportunity to meet and thus become personally identified with Franklin D. Roosevelt and other members of his family. In those days the FBI agents were called " G men (government men). When John and Orpha were married, they were both working for the Department of Justice, the FBI being part of it. A news item in the local paper announcing their forthcoming marriage was entitled, "G-Woman Gets Her Man." During the years while John was Assistant U S . Attorney it was permissible to maintain a private practice in association with a lawfirm. In 1934, John was associated with Delbert M. Draper, Marion G. Romney, and J. Stuart McMaster; in 1938, Mr. Draper's son Courtney joined the firm. A few years later John officed with a firm in the Boston Building; these men included Ben Rich, Gordon Strong, Shirley Jones and Allen H. Tibbals. The cases John handled involved Navajo as well as Ute Indians, and in the summer of 1938, Orpha and John with John Jr. (born December, 1937 and then six months old) took their first trip to Navajo and Hopi country as a family vacation. As Orpha described the trip: We drove to Shiprock, New Mexico, and Window Rock, Arizona, then across the Navajo Reservation into Hopi country, coming out at Tuba City on the west, then


Proper Choice of Donor Site Veins for Patients Undergoing Free Radial Forearm Flap Reconstruction for the Defects of Head and Neck.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the reliability of the deep venous drainage system of the free radial forearm flap. The authors implemented a retrospective cohort study and enrolled patients admitted for the evaluation and management of head and neck tumors with radial forearm flap reconstruction. The primary predictor variables were the donor site veins, including the deep, dual, and superficial venous drainage systems. The primary outcome measurement was the incidence of venous compromise. Potential confounders included patient demographics, history of chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy, defect sites, and the recipient artery and vein. The χ2 test and logistic regression analysis were used for statistical analysis.Lollipop Magazine is being rebuild at LollipopMagazine.com. Lollipop.com is no longer updated, but the archive content will remain until 2018 (more or less).
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The Want

Greatest Hits Volume 5 (Southern Lord)
by Brian Varney

Kingdom Come, move over! Not since that band's "heyday" has any band attempted such a bald-faced Led Zeppelin cop. Well, The Want also throw in some Paul Rodgers-styled vocal phrasings for the occasional change-up, but there's no mistaking whose band logo these guys spent their high school years drawing on their notebooks.

According to the jacket, this stuff was recorded in 1996 and 1997. The fact that this was recorded so long ago and yet remained unknown to everyone I asked led


caused by the negligence of an employee who was the operator of a crane unloading cargo off a ship.  We affirm.

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The ship, Troja, is owned by the partnership Wilh.  Wilhelmsen which is composed of Dampskibsaktieselskabet Den Norske Afrika Og Australieline and other interests (Wilhelmsen).  The Troja was chartered to both a time-charterer and a voyage-charterer.  At the time of this accident, the time-charterer was A/S Kristian Jebsens Rederi (Jebsens).  The voyage-charterer was Aluminum Metal Climax, Inc.  (A.M.C.) whose plant was the destination of the bulk alumina cargo being unloaded at the time of the accident.

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The crane involved in the accident was being leased, along with other dock facilities, by the Intalco Aluminum Corporation (Intalco).  The machine had been manufactured and installedby McDowell-Wellman & Co.  (McDowell). Pursuant to a stevedoring contract with Intalco, Bellingham Stevedoring Company (Bellingham) provided longshoremen crews, including a crane operator, to unload the Troja.

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On December 1, 1966, crane operator Guy Williams was working the Troja on a shift which was scheduled to end at 6:00 p. m. High winds had been blowing all day causing the men to stop operations on at least one occasion in mid-afternoon.

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Due to the high winds, Williams decided to shut down the crane before the end of the shift.  His decision was also based on the fact that a repair crew was fixing the bucket lift, used to unload the bulk alumina.  The longshoremen could not resume work until the bucket was ready.

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At approximately 4:50 p. m.,


The argument runs thus: witnesses testified that it was approximately fifteen minutes from the time Williams left the winch control room until the boom was down; experts agreed that the winch drum would take 7.43 minutes to unwind and rewind; therefore, a different cause, probably the high winds, must have re-activated the motor and caused the winch to begin turning again.

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A review of the record convinces us that this argument must also fail.  The fifteen minute figure was approximate only.  Williams himself stated soon after the accident that he left the winch control room at 4:55 instead of 4:50, as shown in the log book.  The 5:05 time entry in the log book was an observation that the boom was down, not that the boomSearch

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ESR Awards Trueblood Chair

Submitted by Mandy Ford on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 2:37pm

ESR Professor of Peace and Justice Studies Lonnie Valentine has been awarded the Elton Trueblood Chair of Christian Thought. The Chair was established in 1967 and rotates every five years between Earlham College and the School of Religion.

The Trueblood Chair allows the awarded faculty member time to work on research and writing in their area of study and interest. This research typically leads to publication and a symposium at the conclusion of the five-year term, in which the chair holder's research is featured.

During his time as the Trueblood Chair, Valentine will be working on two research and writing projects. The first of these will be furthering his research on Quaker war tax resistance, which will result in


describes a generally tapered nose having a box-like front end with upper and lower transverse surfaces generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of a tooth which located directly thereon. The parallel upper and lower transverse surfaces are contiguous with upper and lower rail surfaces on each side of the nose and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tooth. A pair of rearwardly extending side tongues locate in recesses formed in the outer side faces of the nose, ostensibly to resist rotational moment forces in the tooth. Because the side tongues are recessed to accommodate the side rail portions, the robustness of the side tongues is somewhat compromised.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,233,761 describes a fairly stubby tapered nose having a box-like front portion with upper and lower surfaces generallyby Vikram Zutshi

When Akira Kurosawa passed away in 1998, the tributes poured in endlessly. He had been a major influence on some of the most important directors in the history of cinema. It is not enough to say that Kurosawa was a legend. At the time of his demise, he was a colossus whose myth had inspired a number of artists considered legends in their own right. Roman Polanski, Werner Herzog, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Coppola and George Lucas have all cited Kurosawa as one of their greatest influences.

“Let me say it simply” declared Martin Scorsese, “Akira Kurosawa was my master, and … the master of so many other filmmakers over the years.” Federico Fellini called him “the greatest example of all that an author of cinema


should be” and Steven Spielberg declared “I have learned more from him than from almost any other filmmaker on the face of the earth.”

Born on March 23rd, 1910 to a former samurai family in the Omochi district of Tokyo, Kurosawa’s passion for foreign literature and cinema was ignited by his older brother Heigo who was a big influence in Kurosawa’s life. Heigo tragically took his own life at a young age. Kurosawa initially had plans to become a painter and began working for the left-wing Proletarian Artist’s League. It was a short-lived career. When PCL studios (later known as Toho) advertised for assistant directors, Kurosawa ‘s application was accepted and he was assigned to studio stalwart KajiroYamamoto, who would become his mentor.

After assisting Yamamoto for five years, Kurosawacame into his own as a director in the tumultuous post-war years, starting out with standard fare approved by the US occupation authorities, but finally established himself as an auteur with “Drunken Angel” (1949), considered his first major work. The film also marked the beginning of his long and incredibly productive collaboration with Toshiro Mifune, who would go on to play the lead role in the director’s next 15 films. “Drunken Angel” is the gritty tale of a doctor who battles to save the life of a gangster with tuberculosis. It was the most acclaimed film of the year and enabled Kurosawa to spread his wings and fly.

Soon after, he made “Stray Dog”, about a detective trying to hunt down a destitute war veteran who is using his