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Guardian Lays Out Details of How Petraeus Organized Death Squads in Iraq
March 7, 2013 /22 Comments/in Torture, War /by Jim White
Petraeus salutes the death squads that advanced his career
Yesterday, the Guardian published an article detailing how the US turned to the use of death squads in Iraq to quell the rise of Sunni militias. The article provides convincing evidence that this was an intentional policy and was in fact a central tenet of David Petraeus' often-praised counterinsurgency, or COIN, strategy. The key person in the Guardian's reporting is James Steele, who was a veteran in organizing Central American death squads on behalf of the US during the Reagan years.
In reading the material from the Guardian, however, it should be kept in mind that Petraeus did not institute his COIN strategy only in Iraq. He put it into place in Afghanistan as well, and the fact that it lead to widespread allegations of torture and murder there demonstrates that the atrocities committed by these militias is a feature of the funding and training provided to them and not an unfortunate outgrowth, because this practice has now produced death squads in Central America, Iraq and Afghanistan. Recall that less than two weeks ago, Hamid Karzai called for the expulsion of US Special Operations forces from Maidan Wardak province due to allegations of abuse by the Afghan Local Police there. The Afghan Local Police are in reality groups of local militias trained and funded by US Special Operations forces and operating separately from the Karzai government. The ALP became one of the primary features of Petraeus' COIN strategy when he moved it to Afghanistan.
Here's the opening of the Guardian article:
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated the country's descent into full-scale civil war.
Colonel James Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic shows.
Via email, my friend Kirk pointed out this report from Newsweek back in early 2005 where the concept of the Salvador option was floated openly by the Bush administration:
What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon's latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"–and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. "What everyone agrees is that we can't just go on as we are," one senior military officer told NEWSWEEK. "We have to find a way to take the offensive against the insurgents. Right now, we are playing defense. And we are losing." Last November's operation in Fallujah, most analysts agree, succeeded less in breaking "the back" of the insurgency–as Marine Gen. John Sattler optimistically declared at the time–than in spreading it out.
Now, NEWSWEEK has learned, the Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration's battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported "nationalist" forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success–despite the deaths of innocent civilians and the subsequent Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages scandal. (Among the current administration officials who dealt with Central America back then is John Negroponte, who is today the U.S. ambassador to Iraq. Under Reagan, he was ambassador to Honduras. There is no evidence, however, that Negroponte knew anything about the Salvadoran death squads or the Iran-Contra scandal at the time. The Iraq ambassador, in a phone call to NEWSWEEK on Jan. 10, said he was not involved in military strategy in Iraq. He called the insertion of his name into this report "utterly gratuitous.")
The most disgusting aspect of this apparent "trial balloon" floated by the Bush administration is that the program quite possibly was already underway when the Newsweek article came out. The Guardian article reminds us that Petraeus, the architect of this program, was sent to Iraq in June of 2004 (this was his second deployment to Iraq) to begin training Iraqis, and the Newsweek article wasn't published until January of 2005. Steele, who was reporting directly to Rumsfeld, first went to Iraq in 2003 (Rumsfeld delighted in running his own people separately from the chain of command; he did this at times with McChrystal as well).
More evidence that the program was entirely intentional comes from the role of torture in the program and the moves the US made to ignore torture just as the program was put into place. A little over two years ago, the Guardian analyzed a number of documents from Wikileaks and assembled a huge number of reports of torture carried out by the militias the US trained and supported under this program. Most devastating within this cache of information, however, is that the US issued an order to ignore reports of torture carried out by these Iraqi groups. From a 2010 report by the Guardian:
This is the impact of Frago 242. A frago is a "fragmentary order" which summarises a complex requirement. This one, issued in June 2004, about a year after the invasion of Iraq, orders coalition troops not to investigate any breach of the laws of armed conflict, such as the abuse of detainees, unless it directly involves members of the coalition. Where the alleged abuse is committed by Iraqi on Iraqi, "only an initial report will be made … No further investigation will be required unless directed by HQ".
Did you notice that date? Yes, Frago 242, ordering US forces to ignore torture by Iraqi militias, was issued the same month as when Petraeus was sent to Iraq to institute his training program. Hardly a coincidence, if you ask me.
Here's a video the Guardian put together in 2010 based on what they found in the Wikileaks documents and other investigations:
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In conjunction with yesterday's article, the Guardian also released a video documentary that is nearly an hour long. It can be viewed here.
Oh, and just in case you try to say that Petraeus' COIN strategy exited the US government with Petraeus' resignation after it was learned he was boinking his biographer, think again. Yes, his primary aide in instituting the policy (and overseeing US torture), Stanley McChrystal, also has resigned in disgrace, but key aides William McRaven and Michael Flynn have advanced their careers an the basis of these war crimes. McRaven now heads Special Operations Command, and so he would be in charge of training the death squads in the next country where the US decides to institute them. Where will it be? Libya? Syria? Mali? And Michael Flynn heads the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn was responsible for turning the "intelligence" gained by torture, whether it was carried out by the US or Iraq, into actions such as night raids, thereby producing more insurgents and fueling the cycle of violence.
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phred says:
Thanks Jim. I read the Guardian article yesterday with interest, but not with surprise. Since the torture regime was instituted at the behest of the President, one has to assume that those who remained in the chain of command were on board with that policy and worked to implement it.
One other detail on this timing: May 2004 is when the CIA IG report and Taguba reports came out.
So I imagine there was a great deal of attention paid to staying in the torture business while gaining some kind of plausible deniability.
@emptywheel: Thanks. That does fit well with deciding to outsource the torture to the militias once the heat was on regarding the US role in torture. The attempts deniability are key and continue to this day.
klynn says:
Does Gen. Allen's resignation on 2/19 fall into this?
@klynn: Off the top of my head, I don't think so. He doesn't seem to have been involved in the Cheney-Rumsfeld-Petraeus-McChrystal-McRaven-Flynn cabal. I don't think he interacted with any of them until he served at MacDill for CENTCOM while Petraeus was also there as head of CENTCOM in 2008.
On Twitter, Joshua Foust linked to a HuffPo post where it is pointed out that there is an Iranian IRGC link to the Badr Brigade, which is the primary militia discussed in the Guardian article. Very interesting.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tirman/petraeus-torture-iraq_b_2825857.html
Jeff Kaye says:
Jim, in a Aug. 2011 article I linked Petraeus coming to Iraq to train police milita with the original Frago-242 order. I emphasized same under the subheading "Training the Torturers and the Implementation of FRAGO-242".
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/07/31/the-forgotten-history-of-david-petraeus/
I'm very pleased that the Guardian has stuck with this story, and happy to see you make the necessary points re the extension of the same policy to Afghanistan.
But really, as I've pointed out before, this has generally been the way the US and its allies have conducted COIN for over 100 years now (going back to the US in the Philippines War).
The leopard does not change its spots.
@Jeff Kaye: Thanks for that link to your story. And yes, this has been the US strategy for a very long time. It's sad how new "heroes" can just come along and dust it off again and again for use, even though it produces enemies far faster than it can "neutralize" them.
America's world view of itself as a benign superpower depends entirely on not knowing these things. The rest of the world recoils in horror at our actions but we look forward not backward.
It's interesting that Colonel Steele and Iran were strange bedfellows in Iraq though their Badr Brigade connection but don't they have a history of covert cooperation that goes back to Iran/Contra ?
@marc: Very good point. Yes, the Iran connection does come out in the Central American death squads, so that does give Steele and earlier Iran connection.
@Jim White: I was just wondering if the Iran connection was pure coincidence, a death squad is a death death squad is a death squad, or might the connection actually have been a consideration when Cheney and Rumsfeld selected him for the assignment in Iraq.
Great post, Jim, thanks.
At the U.S. embassy in May 1986, Jim Steele spoke to a visiting delegation of activists of which I was a part. He was making a big effort to intimidate, standing up close and leaning over us in a wide stance with his hands behind his back, but it succeeded only in making him outlandish. When some of us laughed out loud at what he was saying, a vein in his neck began to throb; he was a Terry Southern character come to life. No one there was in the slightest doubt that the U.S. military "advisors" were directing torture squads; in fact, we'd met just a day before with women in Mariona prison who were tortured by Salvadorans while men speaking U.S. English were in the room.
It was also an open secret that Ilopango airport was being used for flights to supply the contras, though we didn't know at the time how personally involved Steele was with that little project. He was one of the most memorable figures from that trip, but he'd left El Salvador by the next time I visited, and I didn't think much about him as the years wore on.
Then one day, shortly after the Abu Ghraib pictures hit the front pages, I was in a cafe reading a Jon Lee Anderson story in the New Yorker about the April 2004 uprising in Iraq — and who should pop up in the story, sitting beside Anderson in a bar, but our old friend Jim Steele. The hair rose on the back of my neck, literally. He could only be there for one reason, and sure enough, he showed up in Peter Maass' NYT Magazine story the next year in a way that made his role unmistakeable.
I told this anecdote in a comment thread at Billmon's old blog. Guardian staffers came across it while researching for the documentary, talked to me about it on the phone, and raised the possibility of my discussing it on camera, which blessedly never happened. It's deeply satisfying to see Steele being dragged from the shadows (to some extent), and Petraeus pinned with his role in torture. But I have low, low expectations for the U.S. media doing much with this story — and of course, even lower expectations for anything like justice for their crimes.
@Nell: Thanks, Nell, and thanks so much for your actions, especially standing up to Steele and then exposing him later. That was a true act of courage.
joanneleon says:
@Nell: Nell, that is a fascinating account.
I'm way behind all of you, but I've lately been spending a lot of time going back and reading and watching interviews and documentary pieces about Iran-Contra and also Vietnam. The picture that emerges, when blended with our wars today… I don't really have a word for it.
Nell, if you write more about this on a blog or publication somewhere, I hope that you'll post a link to it here so that we can read it. I would be so interested in hearing more.
I really do wonder if McChrystal was on the same page as the rest of the cabal, particularly Petraeus. I have a couple of reasons for wondering about that, one of which includes the opinion of a member of a group of people with decades of service who have kept in touch for years — people not inclined to endorse things like torture.
But I do remember how the myth of the vaunted Petraeus, the brilliance, ugh, dominated Washington, the media, etc. If you were a peer of his and had different ideas of how things should be done, I don't think you would have stood much of a chance. It's such a shame that someone didn't pop that myth a long time ago.
I do remember before the invasion of Iraq and in the early years, talk of a group of influential retired military brass who went to great lengths to try to stop it. I never knew who was involved. It seems like there are two (at least) camps among those in power in the military, and the relative good guys have finished last in recent years.
seedeevee says:
How come nobody mentions Amb. Negroponte in all of this? His fingers were in all of these messes.
@joanneleon: Can't say that I buy that. McChrystal is very clearly identified as the primary person keeping ICRC away from Camp NAMA and was front and center in the Pat Tillman coverup. He also is who Flynn reported to for much of the worst of the "intelligence collection". As far as I'm concerned, he's as dirty as the rest of them.
@seedeevee: But, but, right up there in the Newsweek blockquote he denies any involvement entirely and says such accusations are "utterly gratuitous".
Like you, I'd like to see a bit more on just what he's been up to lately.
joanneleon: :: reading and watching interviews and documentary pieces about Iran-Contra and also Vietnam. The picture that emerges, when blended with our wars today… I don't really have a word for it. ::
I'm right there with you in not having a word for it. The closest I can come is David Swanson's "war is a crime".
At the time I was in the same room as Jim Steele, I was a committed supporter of armed struggle as a route to change; I'm not now.
But I'm still willing to call bullshit on the passage in the Newsweek excerpt in Jim's post that says Eventually the insurgency was quelled, and many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success. From 1986 to the end of 1989, the FMLN grew steadily stronger, launching an offensive in November '89 that took over large sections of the capital city and the countryside. They were forced to withdraw from San Salvador only when the Salvadoran Air Force bombed the densely populated neighborhoods in which they were dug in. This savage aerial bombing, that killed and injured thousands of civilians, was ordered by the U.S. military "advisers"; by that time, the U.S. was funding 90% of the Salvadoran national budget. The scale of the offensive exposed the complete failure of U.S. policy in El Salvador, and forced negotiations that eventually ended the war. Jim Steele and the whole rotten "low intensity conflict" doctrine contributed absolutely nothing to that. Which is why the U.S. military likes to pretend they've just discovered counterinsurgency every decade or so, as if no one would remember the events of the previous dirty war. In fact, as the Newsweek article demonstrates, most journalists helpfully play along and fail to remember accurately.
Jim, I get no credit for courage; laughter's the only alternative to screams of rage, sometimes. Also, I did nothing to expose Steele that I know of; it's almost certain that his role in El Salvador was clear to the Guardian team by the time they encountered my comment. After reading that Jon Lee Anderson article I did have the impulse to alert a few of my companions on that long-ago delegation; they remembered Steele as vividly as I did. We all assumed Iraq was an even dirtier war than the ones we'd tried to end in the '80s.
please says:
@joanneleon @nell – reading and exploring this topic and how it stretches back to Vietnam interests me as well. could i kindly get in touch with either of you? i would appreciate pointers on where to start and some sources to check out. whereisthehalo [at] tormail [dot] org
@please:
I'm not much help at pointing to good reading sources, because most of my understanding of the topic has come from participants and journalists as the events were unfolding. Some Viet Nam vets did pre-Winter Soldier testimonies that got a hearing in the Quaker-heavy area where I went to school. In the '70s I lived in DC, where Chilean and Latin American exiles put on events that detailed the U.S. role in their ongoing horrors — which came home even to those who didn't attend such events when one of those exiles and a colleague were murdered with a car bomb right in leafy northwest Washington. In the mid-'80s, the Salvadoran human rights groups that sent solidarity committees alerts when men and women were taken by the military also documented the different tortures used against them.
There was one book that was very important, though, in tying these experiences together: Noam Chomsky's The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism. 1978? 1979? It detailed the many ways in which the U.S. government transmitted torture and other repressive techniques to other countries' "security forces" — the School of the Americas, police assistance funds, special forces deployments, joint exercises, and on and on. Haven't looked at it in thirty years, so can't say how useful it would be today, but no reason it shouldn't be; it's full of reliable, referenced information.
In the 1990s, families of U.S. military members demanded and got recognition for their combat service in El Salvador. In the decade before, when the U.S. was funding and directing the war, the government denied strenuously that U.S. service members did anything but advise. I didn't believe that for a minute, but the revelations about the extent of U.S. combat surprised even me.
The best history of U.S. torture is probably Alfred McCoy's A Question of Torture, which covers the Phoenix program in Viet Nam as part of a long continuum of CIA and military research into and implementation of torture. Jeff Kaye, who posts at FireDogLake, would be an excellent person to ask about other overviews and histories.
What I've been reflecting on recently are the number of lethal 'services', the increasingly thin distinctions among them, plus the growth of private militaries. From the very beginning of special forces in the U.S. military (e.g., Green Berets), members were assigned to the CIA for short- and long-term duty. Over the last forty years, increasingly so over the last ten, special forces have multiplied. There's been more and more melding of CIA-contractor ("civilian") and military operations.
Over the same period local and state police have become militarized; the 'war on drugs' beefed up the federal agencies and began the fusion process that's greatly speeded up since late 2001. Torture devices (tasers) are now almost standard police equipment, making every cop shop a potential replica of John Burge's racist torture regime in South Side Chicago (crimes that are still being covered up by Daley, Rahm Emanuel, & co.; see Liliana Segura's July 2012 report).
The other book I'd recommended on the general subject is Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali.
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Judge Leon Signs-Off On IBM Action
As highlighted in this prior post, in March 2011 the SEC announced an FCPA enforcement action against IBM concerning alleged conduct in South Korea and China. The settlement terms contained a permanent injunction as to future FCPA violations and thus required judicial approval. Similar to the Tyco FCPA enforcement action, the case sat on Judge Leon's docket. Last month, Judge Leon approved the Tyco settlement (see here) and yesterday Judge Leon approved the IBM settlement.
The common thread between the two enforcement actions would seem to be that both companies were repeat FCPA offenders.
Like Judge Leon's final order in Tyco, the final order in IBM action states:
"[For a two year period IBM is required to submit annual reports] to the Commission and this Court describing its efforts to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA"), and to report to the Commission and this Court immediately upon learning it is reasonably likely that IBM has violated the FCPA in connection with either improper payments to foreign officials to obtain or retain business or any fraudulent books and records entries …""
For additional coverage of yesterday's hearing, see here from Bloomberg. The article quotes Judge Leon as follows. IBM "has learned its lesson and is moving in the right direction to ensure this never happens again." If there's another violation over the next two years, "it won't be a happy day."
However, as noted in this previous post, IBM recently disclosed additional FCPA scrutiny.
This recent post highlighted the 9th Circuit's restitution ruling in the Green FCPA enforcement action and was titled "Green Restitution Order Stands … For Now." As noted in the prior post, the decision practically invited the Greens to petition for an en banc hearing.
No surprise, the Greens did just that earlier this week – see here for the petition.
Scrutiny Alert
This February 2012 post detailed how Wynn Resorts $135 million donation to the University of Macau became the subject of an SEC inquiry.
Earlier this month, Wynn disclosed in an SEC filing as follows:
"On February 13, 2012, Wynn Resorts, Limited (the "Company") filed a Report on Form 8-K disclosing that it had received a letter from the Salt Lake Regional Office (the "Office") of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") advising the Company that the Office had commenced an informal inquiry with respect to certain matters, including a donation by Wynn Macau, Limited, an affiliate of the Company, to the University of Macau Development Foundation. On July 2, 2013, the Company received a letter from the Office stating that the investigation had been completed with the Office not intending to recommend any enforcement action against the Company by the SEC."
According to this report:
"Speaking to The Associated Press from his boat on the Spanish island of Ibiza … CEO Steve Wynn said he never had any doubt federal investigators would clear the company. 'We were so sanguine that we never paid any attention to it; we had no exposure. It was a nonevent except for the damn newspapers.'"
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The always informative Gibson Dunn Mid-Year FCPA Update and Mid-Year DPA and NPA Update (through July 8th, approximately 30% of all DPAs/NPAs have been used to resolve FCPA enforcement actions).
Sound insight from Robertson Park and Timothy Peterson in this Inside Counsel column:
"Without putting too fine a spin on the matter, the discussion of the potential consequences faced by a company with potential anti-bribery exposure was fundamentally U.S.-centric. The dispositive question was often whether or not the potential misconduct was likely to fall under the umbrella of FCPA enforcement. Would U.S. authorities be interested in pursuing this matter? Would they find out about this matter? There were not many other concerns that mattered. Whether the site of the potential misconduct was in the European, Asian, South American or African sector, the substantial likelihood was that home authorities would have little interest in the matter, and even if they did it was likely an interest that would often frustrate and impede efforts by the Department of Justice or the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the matter. Cooperative enforcement was unlikely. This has changed. […] For companies that learn of a potential international corruption issue, the impact of this emerging global enforcement market means that the headache associated with scoping an internal investigation is now a migraine with diverse and complex symptoms. Companies investigating potential bribery have always faced the question of how, if at all, they plan to disclose any subsequent findings to government authorities. Now, initial assessments of investigative plans in anti-bribery matters must consider a broader array of potentially interested enforcement authorities. Companies must design their anti-bribery investigations at the outset to consider not only the FCPA enforcement regime in the U.S., but also a newly energized U.K. anti-bribery law, along with a growing list of ant-bribery measures in almost all of the important jurisdictions with business growth opportunities."
Six ways to improve in-house compliance training from Ryan McConnell and Gérard Sonnier.
The reality of facilitation payments from Matt Kelly.
"… Facilitation payments are a fact of life in global business. Nobody likes them, and no compliance officer wants to pay a bribe disguised as a facilitation payment. But when the transaction truly fits the definition of a facilitation payment—money paid to a government official, to speed up some job duty he would normally perform anyway—there shouldn't be any ethical or legal crisis in paying it. After all, we have facilitation payments domestically in the United States. If you want a passport from the State Department, you pay $165 in fees. If you want an expedited passport, you pay an extra $60 fee and get your passport in half the usual time. That's a facilitation payment, pure and simple. Other countries have all sorts of facilitation payments as well, say, to get a visa processed quickly or to clear goods through customs rather than let them rot on the docks. Urgent needs happen in business, and facilitation payments get you through them. That's life."
The language of corruption from the BBC.
Regardless of what you think of former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, he is spot-on with his observation that the so-called Arthur Anderson effect (i.e. if a business organization is criminally charged it will go out of business) is "overrated." As noted in this Corporate Crime Reporter piece, in a new book titled "Protecting Capitalism Case by Case" Spitzer writes:
"Almost all entities have the capacity to regenerate — even if under a new name, with new ownership and new leadership — and forcing them to do so will have the deterrent effect we desire."
"Most companies would have no trouble continuing in operation once charged. They might suffer reputational harm, perhaps lose contracts, have certain loans be declared to be in default, and lose some personnel and public support. But that would probably be the proper price to be paid in the context of the violations of the law they committed."
As noted in previous posts, the Arthur Anderson effect was effectively debunked (see here) and even Denis McInerney (DOJ, Deputy Assistant Attorney General) recently acknowledged (see here) that there is a very small chance that a company would be put out of business as a result of actual DOJ criminal charges.
In his new book Spitzer also writes as follows concerning the SEC's neither admit nor deny settlement policy.
"I hope that the new leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission will mandate that an admission of guilt is a necessary part of future settlements in cases of this stature or magnitude. The law and justice require such an acknowledgement — or else nothing has been accomplished."
Speaking of neither admit nor deny, part of the SEC's talking points defense of this policy is that the SEC is not the only federal agency that makes use of such a settlement policy.
On this score, it is notable – as detailed in this Law360 article – that Bart Chilton, a top official at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, "said the commission should rethink its policy of allowing defendants to settle claims without admitting or denying the allegations." According to the article, Chilton stated:
"I understand there are certain circumstances where we might not want to require [admissions], but I think we at the CFTC should change our modus operandi. The default position should be that people who violate the law should admit wrongdoing."
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Continuing with neither admit nor deny, one of the defenders of this settlement policy was Robert Khuzami while he was at the SEC as the Director of Enforcement. As noted in this Kirkland & Ellis release, Khuzami joined the firm as a partner in the global Government, Regulatory and Internal Investigations Practice Group. According to this New York Times article, Khuzami's new position "pays more than $5 million per year" and is guaranteed for two years. In joining Kirkland, the New York Times stated that Khuzami "is following quintessential Washington script: an influential government insider becoming a paid advocate for industries he once policed."
Khuzami and former Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer were the voice and face of the SEC and DOJ last November upon release of the FCPA Guidance. As detailed in this prior post, Breuer is currently at Covington & Burling making approximately $4 million per year.
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Responses and Impressions on Scott Parkin's Ordeal
February 20, 2018 My BlogMelvin Murray
"We proudly stood with Scott as he strove to take this vision overseas and work tirelessly for a more just and peaceful world. We stand by him today fully believing the allegations of the Australian government are without merit. We find it ironic that he was detained as a national security threat while Halliburton's shameless corporate war profiteering continues to go unchecked."— Houston Global Awareness Collective
"I am well acquainted with Scott's belief system as it is one I and many others share. We have figured out what the rulers of Australia and the United States have not– the violent cycles of war, oppression and terror cannot be solved with more violence and destruction. It will come to a halt when the global justice movement engages in mass non-violent resistance and creates a socially just community that transcends borders. Scott sharing this belief system and building international solidarity was
not a threat to national security but a challenge to a corrupt system of power that perpetuates violence."
— Maureen Haver, friend and member of Houston Global Awareness
"The ordeal that the Australian government put Scott through is an outrageous example of retaliation by proxy against a global justice activist whose objections to the epidemic of war profiteering by Bush and Cheney's corporate cronies is shared by most U.S. citizens and taxpayers."
— Charlie Cray,HalliburtonWatch.org.
"Is the Australian government afraid of peace activists? Or did they deport him because Scott Parkin was speaking up against their secret deals with Halliburton, 150 military contracts in 2004 alone, that include covert deals in Iraq? Or was it the kickbacks that Halliburton executives requested from Australian businesses? Might it be their profiteering out Australian bilateral aid projects in India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam? If John Howard or AISO have any evidence as to why Scott Parkin should be considered a security threat, they should present it to the public or apologize for their behavior."
— Pratap Chatterjee, executive director of CorpWatch, Oakland, California
"Parkin is a grassroots community activist, plain and simple, and is being detained because of his political activism and views. It seems that the government of Australia didn¹t like what Scott was saying about the Iraq war, the Bush administration, and corporations like Halliburton that have close ties to Bush and Cheney,"
— Andrea Buffa, friend and employee of the human rights organization, Global Exchange.
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Kate Jarman lives in Perth with her husband and two children. The granddaughter of a nurseryman and daughter of a veterinarian and horse trainer, she grew up surrounded by plants and animals and spent her childhood riding horses, making cubbies in the bush and swimming in the Serpentine River. She lived in Minnesota for a while during primary school and travelled though eleven states on a road trip that included the Arizonian desert. Kate also lived in Sydney and London and has spent time travelling around various other parts of the world.
She studied Painting and Curating at The Byam Shaw School of Art and Central Saint Martins College in London, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University with a Dean's Commendation in 2010.
Her work is an homage to the 'Jungalow', a synonym for treehouse derived from words 'jungle' and 'bungalow'. She is interested in how we instinctually choose to surround ourselves with indoor plants, botanical and nature inspired textiles and artworks. Kate's lyrical paintings are a celebration of that joyful connection and sense of wonder we have with nature.


I understand that Instagram is simply going to degrade my image quality no matter what. However, that is the easiest place to display my photos to all my friends and family. I can't figure out an effective way to get pictures from my d7100 to instagram without them looking like total crap. At this point I feel like I've looked everywhere and tried everything. I know it is possible because I've seen other people upload fairly high quality pictures with the same camera. Any help is extremely appreciated.
Just incase it helps, I've tried e-mailing the pictures to my phone and using dropbox. I have also tried different sized Jpegs ranging from 500px all the way to full size.
I highly recommend using Flickr vs. Instagram. The ability to share your images is quite easy and far more flexible.
@Gofl007sd I understand that Flickr is far superior for sharing photos, but a significant amount of my friends aren't going to make a Flickr account just so they can see my pictures. Instagram allows me to share my photos to a higher volume of people. I'd really like to post to both and anyone who cared to see the higher resolution images could simply go to my Flickr. With that being said, I still want my Instagram pictures to look as good as possible.
Since Instagram is optimized for mobile, the imported file size for upload is currently very small, just 612x612 pixels (which is an unusual size). Anything larger than this gets re-sized and compressed, probably with an algorithm designed for speed, not quality.
So you might get better results by manually re-sizing your images to 612x612 on your computer before placing them on Dropbox for the upload.
@Ade I've tried this and my results are identical to just uploading the regular sized image. Also after re-sizing the image I still have to crop it on my phone in order to fit Instagram (unless I use an app that fits the whole image and adds borders) and I don't understand why.
Go to the settings wheel. There should be option about high quality for camera on phone and disable it.
On my iphone I dont have thay problem or option so I would suggest doing a google search as that helped me in the past.
Elopez, nobody needs a Flickr account to view your images on Flickr. Just go to the PAD thread and see for yourself. The image quality is startlingly better. Instagram is crap, no self respecting photog would use it. I'd use Facebook before instacrap.
Instagram is crap, no self respecting photog would use it. I'd use Facebook before instacrap.
@Vipmediastar_JZ I am using android (galaxy note 2) and I believe your method may have solved the problem. Thank you!
I just take screen captures while viewing the image full screen with my phone and upload those to instagram. Works great.


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Exo-terrestrial planetary systems
Evolved planetary systems
One of the most basic questions that scientists can ask about rocky and potentially Earth-like exoplanets is "What is their chemical composition?"
Small, solid exoplanet detection has become a scientific reality with state of the art facilities such as the Kepler mission, yet the empirical characterisation of these most intriguing planets is extremely challenging. Transit plus radial velocity information can yield planet mass and radius, and hence planet density, but the bulk composition remains degenerate and model−dependent.
Fortunately, as demonstrated by the Spitzer Space Telescope and complementary ground−based observations, debris−polluted white dwarfs can yield accurate information on the chemical structure of rocky minor planets (i.e. extrasolar asteroids); these are the building blocks of terrestrial exoplanets. The white dwarf distills the planetary fragments, and provides powerful insight into the mass and chemical structure of the parent body.
Heavy elements sink rapidly from the outer layers of cool white dwarfs due to their high surface gravities, resulting in pure hydrogen (or helium) atmospheres. However, those stars with planetary system remnants can become contaminated by small, but spectroscopically detectable, amounts of metal-rich material as have been observed (but not understood) for decades. In recent years, infrared observations have firmly linked these atmospheric metals to tidally destroyed planetary bodies analogous to the asteroids of the Solar System. At least one such system exhibits deep and irregular transiting events, strongly confirming the presence of a planetary system.
Image (from left to right): 1. Tidally disrupted, rocky minor planets at white dwarfs. 2. The orbit of a large asteroid is highly perturbed (by a planet, analogous to the Kirkwood gaps in the Main Belt created by Jupiter) so that it passes within the Roche limit of the star, where it is destroyed by tidal forces. 3. The material forms a disk that gradually rains down heavy elements onto the surface of the white dwarf, where its elemental composition can be observed. 4. The disks may be geometrically and physically similar to the rings of Saturn.
This archaeological method provides empirical data on the assembly and chemistry of terrestrial exoplanets that is unavailable for any planetary system orbiting a main sequence star. In the Solar System, the asteroids (or minor planets) are leftover building blocks of the terrestrial planets, and we obtain their compositions, and hence that of the terrestrial planets, by studying meteorites. Similarly, one can infer the composition of terrestrial exoplanets by studying tidally destroyed and accreted asteroids at polluted white dwarfs.
Image: The abundance of many metals detected in asteroid-polluted white dwarf GD 362. The relative pattern of heavy elements is best matched by a combination of the Earth and Moon, demonstrating the debris is refractory-rich, volatile-poor, and terrestrial in nature.
Image: The minimum mass of planetary debris accreted by numerous polluted white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. On average, these stars have consumed at least a 150 km diameter asteroid (e.g. Minerva), but several contain metal masses similar to the two largest asteroids in the Solar System, 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres. These latter two minor planets are sufficiently large as to be differentiated (i.e. with cores, mantles, and crust) and are considered to be planetary embryos.
UCL is one of the few places in the world where this research is being led, and there are currently opportunities to study exo-terrestrial planetary system composition, frequency and architecture.
Research contacts:
Jay Farihi


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We have put together a tour to the Isle of Man for 28th - 30th September 2018. This will be our third tour to the Isle of Man, and as always will be going all out with the routes. Driving some of the best roads in Wales such as the Elan valley and even as far north as the Peak District before catching the ferry to the IOM. We also have the added bonus of a private track session whilst on the Isle of Man. This trip, will be our best yet and most importantly it will be run at cost price.
To register for this event please email. Further details can also be found on the website. Please note the event has limited numbers and will be on a first come, first served basis.


You don't necessarily have to have a concrete sidewalk outside of your retail store, restaurant or other business. However, having one poured is a good move to make if you're a business owner. These are some of the benefits that business owners can enjoy if they have commercial concrete sidewalks Thornton CO installed outside of their businesses.
Gravel or dirt walkways outside of your business just don't look as nice and professional as concrete. Even if your business already has a lot of curb appeal, such as if you take good care of the parking lot and the outside of the building and if you have added a little bit of landscaping, it probably doesn't look its best if you don't have a concrete sidewalk in place. If you're looking for a way to instantly make your property look more professional and to instantly add curb appeal, having a concrete sidewalk poured is a good way to do so almost instantly and without spending a lot of money.
Keeping the sidewalk neat and clean is important. A fresh concrete sidewalk is sure to be easier to keep clean. On a daily basis, you or one of your employees can go outside and sweep the sidewalk to keep it looking neat. On a weekly basis, you can use a water hose to spray it off. Then, every now and then, you might want to use a professional pressure washing service to get it nice and clean. Overall, care should be pretty easy.
It isn't just day-to-day cleaning and care that will be easier once you have a concrete sidewalk installed, either. During the fall, if there are a lot of leaves and limbs on the sidewalk, you're sure to find that sweeping or blowing them away with a leaf blower will be a breeze. Additionally, during the winter, shoveling and scraping away snow and ice is sure to be easier with a concrete sidewalk, too.
There is always the possibility of someone tripping and falling on your sidewalk. If it's made out of concrete, then you can help ensure that there is a nice, smooth surface for people to walk on. This helps prevent people from tripping and falling. It also makes it easy for those with mobility issues, such as those who use a wheelchair or a walker, to use your sidewalk safely. Just make sure that you keep the sidewalk in good condition so that you can keep it as safe as possible.
Outside of your business, it's a good idea to make use of concrete sidewalks and walkways. You might have gotten by with gravel and dirt so far, but it's a good idea to take things up a notch with the help of a commercial concrete company. Someone from one of these companies can tell you even more about the benefits of concrete sidewalks and walkways.


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È un cantautore molto impegnato dal punto di vista sociale; tali tematiche si riflettono spesso nelle sue canzoni.

Inizia la sua carriera di cantautore negli anni novanta: nel 1996 viene pubblicato il suo primo cd Atrapados en el Azul. Al suo interno trovano posto canzoni come Papa cuentame otra vez o Vertigo.

Nel 1998 esce il suo secondo disco, La memoria de los peces, che conferma il suo successo e lo porta ai primi posti delle classifiche spagnole, argentine, messicane e uruguayane.

Los paraisos desiertos (2000), terzo album del cantautore, porta con sé notevoli variazioni dal punto di vista musicale: gli arrangiamenti dei brani si aprono, ad esempio, al jazz. A partire da tale anno aumentano le sue collaborazioni con numerosi artisti spagnoli e latino-americani.

Nel 2002 viene pubblicato il suo quarto album, La traicion de Wendy, in cui si amplia il ventaglio di riferimenti a generi musicali di varie parti del mondo.

Nel 2003 esce Principio de incertidumbre, un doppio album registrato in diretta nel teatro di Madrid "Lope de Vega" (situato nella Gran Via, sede dei principali teatri di musical madrileni): l'album raccoglie i principali successi del cantautore cantati dal vivo.

Nel 2005 è la volta di Naves ardiendo más allá de Orión, il suo sesto album, . A questo album seguono 18 mesi di tour, con quasi 200 date fra Spagna, Stati Uniti, Canada e America Latina.

Nel 2007 esce Sueños de un hombre despierto che raggiunge, in Spagna, la vetta della classifiche la settimana successiva alla sua uscita.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni


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«Щ-207» — советская дизель-электрическая торпедная подводная лодка времён Второй мировой войны, принадлежит к серии V-бис-2 проекта Щ — «Щука». До 1934 года носила имя «Касатка».

История корабля
Лодка была заложена 5 января 1934 года на заводе № 200 «имени 61 коммунара» в Николаеве, заводской номер 1029, спущена на воду 25 марта 1935 года, 14 августа 1936 года вступила в строй, 1 октября 1936 года вошла в состав Черноморского флота.

Командиры
 С февраля 1938 года по март 1939 года командиром лодки был И.Ф. Фартушный.
 С октября 1939 года по 27 марта 1944 года командиром лодки был старший лейтенант, впоследствии капитан 3-го ранга, Николай Алексеевич Панов.
 С 12 апреля 1944 года командиром был капитан-лейтенант Василий Васильевич Стеценко.

Служба
На 22 июня 1941 года «Касатка» проходила средний ремонт на «Севморзаводе». 10 августа 1941 года лодка вышла в район мыса Зейтин-бурун на своё первое боевое дежурство. 30 августа Щ-207 вернулась на базу, так и не встретив противника. В первую торпедную атаку лодка вышла только в восьмом походе. За всё время успехов не достигла. 21 мая 1943 года Щ-207 встала на капитальный ремонт и участия в войне больше не принимала.
 16 июня 1949 года переименована в С-207.
 11 сентября 1954 года исключена из состава флота, разоружена, начато переоборудование в плавучий кабинет боевой подготовки.
 6 октября 1956 года переименована в КБП-43.
 12 января 1957 года переформирована в учебно-тренировочную станцию, переименована в УТС-36.
 16 июля 1957 года исключена из списка судов ВМФ и передана на полигон ВВС на Каспийском море для использования в боевых упражнениях в качестве мишени.

Боевые походы
 22 октября-9 ноября 1941
 3-11 декабря 1941
 24 декабря 1941 - 12 января 1942
 14 февраля-5 марта 1942
 3-22 мая 1942
 16 июля-4 августа 1942
 29 августа-19 сентября 1942
 21 октября-5 ноября 1942
 31 декабря 1942 - 20 января 1943
 31 марта-20 апреля 1943

Ссылки
 www.deepstorm.ru// Щ-207
 Великая Отечественная под водой// Щ-207
 flot.sevastopol.info// Щ-207

Литература

Военные корабли и суда завода им. 61 коммунара
Подводные лодки серии V-бис-2


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Can someone explain why there are state park signs above the hwy 72 bridge on Stouts Creek? What state park?
I wanted some pnp action a few weeks ago and decided to run the middle section of Stouts, but found no trespassing signs below the bridge and would like to know where the best/correct access points are. Any info will be greatly appreciated.
The "state park" signs are real and probably the smallest SP in the state. You can park there, and a rudimentary trail leads to creek upstream. The no trespassing signs belong to Penuel. It is fairly easy to walk down the fred'town side of 72 bridge and get to the creek also. Leave car parked in one of the pull offs. Take out at Penuel and you can park in their lot just off 72. Donations are made so MWA only can use this lot.
Please be aware that Penuel is a church camp and they expect you to act accordingly.
For whatever value it may be to anyone: last year, the idea was floated by the state to remove that old bridge and run the new bridge from where the current parking area is (the one Chuck mentioned) towards where the old bridge connects on the other side. From what I was told by some folks during a phone conference regarding the new bridge, there are two reasons why the state park signs are there: the first one is that there is evidence of Native Americans using the rocks in that area to manufacture tools. They hinted it was no small operation. The second reason is that on the other side of the creek opposite the parking spot are remnants of a Civil War area road (look for the stone wall formation. I am not referring to the one that runs along the highway along the lake, ect). During the conference, I advised the board members that the creek is a whitewater hotspot for the MWA and asked for them to consider leaving some form of parking area/entrance for us. If I recall, the project should have already began and completed by now, but obviously it has not. Another cool feature about the spot is that the large concrete fixtures near the parking area are what remains of an old mining furnace. This bit of info has been contested, but as far as I can tell and have read it is fact. A lot of history on the small section of land.
LOL! You can't do anything around the area with out running into an archeological site. When I was on the city council we couldn't lay a straight line of pipe.
Maybe the MWA should register as a Native American tribe?


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Q: How can I boot from a usb key when all I can get is a Ubuntu grub rescue prompt? My Acer Aspire One D270-1596 boots to a grub rescue prompt.
I've been able to set root and prefix to get to the Ubuntu 18.04 grub (?) page and memory test menu, but running Ubuntu or a restore version fails to find /root/dev and says target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
Typing "ls" at grub rescue> gives me HD0 partitions called hd0,msdos6, 5, 3, 2 and 1.
Typing "set" from grub rescue> tells me:
cmdpath=(hd0)
prefix=(hd0,msdos7)/boot/grub
root=(hd0,msdos7)
Typing ls (hd0,msdos7) tells me "error: no such partition"
Typing ls (hd0,msdos5 or 6) tells me both Filesystems 5 and 6 are ext2.
All other partitions say "Filesystem is unknown"
Setting the prefix=(hd0,msdos5)/boot/grub and root=(hd0,msdos5) then insmod normal and normal get me to the Ubuntu grub menu.
Doing this for (hd0,msdos6) tells me "error: /boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found".
Doing it for (hd0,msdos7) says there is no such partition, even though (hd0,msdos7) is presented using the "set" command.
Choosing "Ubuntu" or other versions in the GRUB menu on (hd0,msdos5) says "mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory" and takes me to BusyBox v1.21.1 and a prompt (initramfs) where "help" gives me a long list of commands that mean nothing to me.
I have a bootable USB key for Ubuntu 18.04 which I used to install Unbuntu on another computer. (The one I'm using now to try to recover my Acer.)
It shows up as (hd1) at "ls" at grub rescue> if plugged into the Acer, with one partition, (hd1,msdos2)
The (hd1,msdos2) partition shows as an unknown file system.
Pressing F2 (or F12 or F10) while booting the Acer does not take me to the BIOS menu so I could boot from the USB key.
This seems to me to be the most straightforward way to resolve this problem. Can anyone recommend a way to get to the BIOS menu since the built in prssing of F2 doesn't work?
This is (was!) a perfectly good computer with 2 GB of RAM and a 360 GB hard drive that I would like to recover even if I might lose what's on the hard drive already.
Can anyone help me?
Bob Thomson
Ottawa Canada

A: Just powered my AA1 up.
F2 - press rapidly as power button pressed brings me to BIOS.
Might be worth ensuring you have the latest BIOS - downloads and instructions on ACER site. Had to do that for my Z1 rebuild (SSD variant). I have 2 HD versions such as yours too so can provide a little experience.
BIOS upgrade is possible without having access to it and may help or at least allow access to the BIOS.
Might be worth taking the HD out and putting in a caddy attached to another machine to pull all your data off and/or check partitions and formats are as you expect.This is straight forward and many teardown guides are available - it's a couple of screws on the back.
I am assuming you cannot find /root/dev on any of your ls of your mountable partitions.
If you have an external CD-ROM you may be able to run a recovery linux.
DVD-rom may or may not be recognised depending on bios. This assumes you previously set boot order to these before HD for just this scenario..
This applies to a USB key too if you had previously set boot from this prior to HD. My paranoia means I usually leave this sort of thing set, recognising it allows for access if you don't keep physical control.
Sorry can't use comments yet so it is an answer...
also helpful would be : Grub rescue - error: unknown filesystem

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Central City Park
Charles H. Jones Gateway Park
Riverside Cemetery
Amerson River Park contains 180 acres of pristine forests, meadows, and wetlands surrounded by a river oxbow. However, Amerson River Park is more than just a beautiful place to admire nature. The Park's natural beauty is complimented by a state-of-the-art playground, a canoe launch and takeout, miles of trail, and pavilions overlooking the river. The Park offers exciting amenities that appeal to families, adventurous outdoorsmen, and nature lovers to all enjoy.
Playground Amerson River Park features a handicap accessible playground where all children, regardless of physical ability, can enjoy swings, slides, and other playground equipment. The Bibb County Medical Society and the Junior League of Macon built the playground.
Atlanta Gas Light Pavilion The Atlanta Gas Light Pavilion, next to the playground, has 12 picnic tables that can be rented for events such as birthday parties, family reunions, and corporate picnics.
Porter Pavilion The Porter Pavilion—named in honor of the late Ben G. Porter, one of the founders and original planners for the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail—is a permanent tent-like structure that offers a quiet setting overlooking the Ocmulgee River. The Porter Pavilion is a great venue for wedding receptions, concerts, or other special events.
Jay Hall Memorial Canoe and Tube Launch One of the most popular areas of the park is the canoe and tube launch at the northern end. Visitors can launch canoes, tubes and kayaks at the northern end of the park then float to Bragg Jam Canoe Take Out or Spring Street Boat Ramp.
Bragg Jam Canoe and Tube Take Out Guests can take off from the Jay Hall Memorial Canoe and Tube Launch and float for about one mile to the Bragg Jam Take-Out. Parking is an easy walk to both the entry and exit points. For a shorter trip, floaters may launch at Bragg Jam Canoe Take Out and exit at Spring Street Boat Ramp.
Overlook Overlook deck and picnic shelters from the high bluff overlooking the Ocmulgee River at Amerson River Park.
Formerly the Macon Water Authority's water treatment plant, the facility was destroyed in the flood of 1994. Under the leadership of the late Mr. Frank Amerson as Chairman of Macon Water Authority, the water treatment plant was relocated and the former property was donated to create a public park for passive recreational opportunities. Amerson River Park is named to honor Mr. Amerson's legacy of leadership at the Water Authority.
This neighborhood park was honorably named after General Andrew Jackson, as he was known to often camp in this area with his fellow troops, the Tennessee Volunteers.
A nature lover's paradise, this park is filled with majestic stone bridges, magnificent stone benches, a mossy brook, and beautiful perennials and evergreens. Shirley Hills' residents may also plant trees in memorial of loved ones in the park.
The months of January and February are a great time to catch the old-fashioned camellias in bloom underneath the hundred-year-old hardwood trees.
The late Dr. William G. Lee was a founder of the American Camellia Society in the 1930s, and his estate in Shirley Hills boasted numerous, beautiful camellia plants. The City of Macon acquired the land in 2008 and began restoring the property for a public park. The Gardens feature over 200 varieties of camellias, including many rare plants. The public can access the William G. Lee Camellia Gardens through Jackson Springs Park and through Glenridge Drive. Open to the public, this is a great outdoor retreat for your pet or a place to have a relaxing picnic lunch.
Spring Street Landing is often thought of as where the Trail begins. Right off of the Spring Street Bridge, just before you get to the interstate ramp, Spring Street Landing is on your right. Here you will find a playground, public art, and a boat ramp where canoes, kayaks and tubes can take out. This is the southernmost public take-out before you reach Hawkinsville.
Otis Redding Memorial Bridge, which connects Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Coliseum Drive, was named in memory of The King of Soul™ who changed the face of music with his song writing and songs. A statue of his likeness is placed in Gateway Park where he is "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay."
The Ocmulgee National Monument is a memorial to the relationship of people and natural resources. Part of the National Park Service, the Ocmulgee National Monument records 17,000 years of continuous human habitation in Central Georgia.
Home to Macon's historic Luther Williams Field, the heart of Cherry Blossom Festival events, Central City Park was Macon's first public park. Still Macon's largest park, stretching along the levee at the southernmost end of Ocmulgee Heritage Trail, the level terrain makes Central City Park ideal for hosting tournaments, festivals and special events. The beautiful natural setting features playground areas for children, picnic areas large enough to accommodate group outings, and a gazebo for perfect "photo ops."
Charles H. Jones Gateway Park is at the corner of Riverside Dr. and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd on the site of the former Washburn Moving and Storage facility. Initially referred to as Gateway Park because of its location along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, a primary "gateway" to historic downtown Macon, the park was renamed for the late philanthropist and local businessman, Charles H. Jones.
Completed in 2005 to commemorate Rotary International's Centennial, Rotary Park contains a beautiful, formal fountain, a quiet pergola, benches, and power. It is a wonderful venue for many events including wedding ceremonies, receptions, or special announcements. The park is located on Riverside Drive, near First Street.
The Ocmulgee Heritage Trail has a presence at Riverside Cemetery! Starting at the historic Gate House, located on the corner of Riverside Drive and Madison Street, the Trail continues along Riverside Drive and ends with a scenic boardwalk over the Vineville Branch stream.
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Three Wheelers A–Z
The Definitive Encyclopaedia of Three-Wheeled Vehicles from 1940 to Date
by Chris Rees
Author Chris Rees has chosen to go into detail on 1,122 makes of three-wheelers from 57 different countries from 1940 to virtually the present day. The author says "only production vehicles are included, which means the car should have been offered for sale to the public, or at least there has to be evidence of a credible intention to market the vehicle." Each entry gives the country of origin, dates between which it was made, wheel layout, and the number built. Perhaps it would have been helpful if the full address were listed as well as the country of origin. Each make has at least one photograph, some are rather small but in most cases this is because few pictures survive.
I am really not knowledgeable enough to comment on accuracy, but I am amazed at the variety. There were hundreds of makes I had never heard of, some of which never got beyond the making of a single prototype.
Did you know that Mercedes-Benz made a three-wheeler? This was the F300 Life Jet that was shown at the 1997 Frankfurt Motor Show. It could tilt and was powered by an A160 1.6L engine and was said to have a top speed of 160 mph! The NAO Design Aphaenogaster made in the USA is thought to be the smallest built at 40 inches long x 22 inches wide. One of the quickest was the single-seat TriSport Scorpion made in the UK with a top speed of 145 mph, built as a racing car. There were even plans for a road-going kit with cycle fenders and a single headlamp. Built as a two-seater was the American Tritan A2. It was tried out by the president of Domino's Pizza and some were ordered for use by the chain, a pizza box taking the place of the passenger.
There are a number of versions that are designed to fly such as the Dutch Pal-V One (Personal Air and Land Vehicle). Sealegs built in New Zealand was an all-terrain vehicle that transformed into a high-speed ocean going boat, approximately 500 were built in the 1980s. Designed in the UK but built in South Africa was the C-Donkey (Sea Donkey) a three-wheeled boat that could be transformed into a buggy for buzzing around on land.
Peel from the Isle of Man have a couple of pages devoted to them, but I had not realized their first car was called the Manxman or Manxcar with an enclosed fiberglass body on which the circular door pivoted at the rear base swinging upwards and backwards. Of course the Sinclair C5 is included, being described as "an unmitigated disaster." I just think it was a vehicle designed to be a museum piece.
I hope I have given you a flavor of the content; it's not all oddities I can assure you. I enjoyed delving into this book. At £25 it must be very good value for money. Quiller Print was set up in 2013 to publish motoring books with an emphasis on the strange, the wonderful, and the rare. This was their first book and it fits that bill perfectly.
Copyright 2014, Michael E. Ware (speedreaders.info).
Quiller Print, 2013
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With a rich academic history spanning across many centuries, the United Kingdom (UK) has been known as an educational hotspot since time immemorial. Many great personalities have started their endeavours from the kingdom, and established modern culture and education in other countries. Needless to say, even during the pandemic, the UK has been vigilant in providing relief services to its citizens and foreign students, while ensuring the smooth running of Visa application and admission process. The UK followed a policy of open borders throughout the span of the pandemic, with a restricted international allowance. Here is the latest information about the country's student Immigration and academic policies that make the UK the best country to study abroad:
The students who will be returning to the university after the 'Student Traceky Window' period will be staggered over 5 weeks in order to minimise the chances of transmission
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From 4th January to 18 January 2021, students who are a part of practical courses will be allowed to return to the campus as per their scheduled dates. Other courses will remain to be delivered online.
Since the UK has become the first country in the world to approve the covid-19 vaccine Pfizer/ BioNTech, the process of immunization will begin in December 2020. All the students including the international ones have equal access and can get vaccinated in the country
All the international students who intend to leave the UK but are not being able to do so and their visa or leave extension will expire between 1st December 2020 and 31st January 2021, such candidates must apply for the 'exceptional assurance' through cihassuranceteam@homeoffice.gov.uk
University QS University Ranking 2021
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University of Cambridge 7
Imperial College London 8
University College London 10
The University of Edinburgh 20
The University of Manchester 27
King's College London 31
London School of Economics and Political Sciences 49
University of Bristol 58
University of Warwick 62
Canada has always been the choicest study destination owing to its flexible immigration policies, diverse culture, renowned universities to name a few. The country's academic institutions have been consistently ranked at the top of international rankings. Moreover, the academic institutions have partnerships with top universities across the globe thus leading to many study exchange programs and opportunities you can be a part of.
Even though it is experiencing the effects of the pandemic, it nevertheless retains its spot among the best countries to study abroad. Agile operational work can be attributed to this as the government has been proactive in meeting the needs of international students, while ensuring proper preparations for the current pandemic. Here are some of the main measures taken by IRCC to support international students and the status of the admission process:
Majority of the Disintegrated Learning Institutions (DLI) in Canada have been approved by their province or territory for reopening their borders for international students.
For the international students who are entering Canada after 20th October, 2020 must be a part of DLI that is mentioned in the list of DLIs approved for COVID-19 readiness plan
On May 14 2020, Canada announced a major reform that will allow students to begin their programs online and remain eligible for a Post-Graduation Work Permit. This program would help foreign students gain Canadian work experience after completing their program which they can go on to use to support their eligibility for a Canadian immigration program
Given the coronavirus-related travel interruptions around the world, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is now allowing international students to study online while overseas and still be eligible to apply for the work permit after graduation.
New international students will be able to begin their programs at a Canadian DLI online in Fall 2020 and complete up to 50 per cent of the program while abroad, and then still be able to obtain the PGWP to work in Canada after completing their studies.
Given that IRCC has said it will continue to process study permits to the best of its ability, new international students should expect to be allowed to enter Canada later in 2020. Currently, Canadian colleges and universities are issuing letters of acceptance to international students.
International students must have a valid and approved study permit
Being an international student if you want to stay longer in Canada and your study permit is going to expire soon, you will be having three options such as extend your study permit, apply for a post-graduation work permit or apply to change your status to a visitor.
Those who do not possess post-graduation work permit but are eligible for it, they can also seek a post-graduation work permit if- your in-person classes in Canada have been moved to an online-only format and you had to begin or will continue your classes online because of COVID-19, or you had to put your studies on hold or study part-time during the winter, spring or summer 2020 semesters because of COVID-19
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University of Montreal 118
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Studying in Australia has been one of the top countries to study abroad and boasts of some of the best educational institutes in the world, quality lifestyle and cultural diversity for all-round comprehensive development of students. Advanced healthcare infrastructure has also made it easier for Australia to control the swift-spreading pandemic. Here are some key developments that the country has made in recent times relating to foreign students' education and immigration policies:
Certain ace Australian Universities like The Australian Technical Management College are providing a wonderful opportunity through its International COVID-19 Financial Scholarships for the academic session 2020-21. These scholarships draw in talented students who were otherwise unable to enrol themselves in these Universities.
On May 7th 2020, having successfully curbed the spread of Covid 19, the Government of Australia rolled out a 3-step plan to reduce their public restrictions. These include a prospective plan to open international travel for students, which was first stalled on March 19th.
Step 3 of the above-said plan would deal with considering opening international borders for students, giving them options to interact in the University and also work with local companies part-time, while maintaining safe practices in the country.
Recently, the Government of Australia has imposed a strict lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, which is dubbed by the media as the 'world's toughest' COVID-19 lockdown.
The Government is also considering opening international borders for students, giving them options to interact in the University and also work with local companies part-time, while maintaining safe practices in the country.
On 20th July 2020 Australian government has announced certain changes with respect to student visa for the international students. Let us take a quick look at them
The process of granting a student visa for international students will start again. Now the students will have visas already before the borders reopen
Eligibility requirements for the post-study work visa will now be relaxed for those who are enrolled in Australian education provider and have been impacted by covid-19
An additional time slot will be given to the candidates so that they can provide their English language results due to the destruction caused by the covid-19
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University QS 2021 World University Rankings
Australian National University 31
The University of Sydney 40
The University of Melbourne 41
University of New South Wales 44
The University of Queensland 46
Monash University 55
The University of Western Australia 92
The University of Adelaide 106
University of Technology Sydney 133
University of Wollongong 196
After becoming corona-free in June, New Zealand recorded only a handful of cases afterwards in the following months and the country also allowed a batch of international students to return to New Zealand, mainly those who hold or held a student visa in 2020. It has been ranked 2nd in the list of most peaceful countries in the world by the Global Peace Index 2020 and is known for its top-ranked universities and an acclaimed education system which attracts numerous foreign students from around the world to study in New Zealand. There are a plethora of courses on offer plus the cost of living will fit quite in your budget. From a progressive education system to have a striking combination of nature, culture and adventure on offer, it can be an ideal destination for you to study abroad!
In the latest developments relating to COVID 19, the country is at level 1 alert, the lowest in the 4-tier system. New Zealand is being praised all over the world for its success in combating the pandemic. On June 8 2020, New Zealand officially claimed the number of active cases to be zero, thus implying total control in domestic cases. By the country's size and global position, this feat is really commendable. They have rolled out a series of relief policies and guidelines for aspiring students who wish to study in New Zealand post the pandemic. Here are some of them:
The New Zealand government has graciously allotted a relief fund of $1 Million to help foreign students who were in an urgent need of cash due to the lack of part-time jobs post lockdown.
Although New Zealand is not offering student Visas currently, the students who are pursuing online courses from New Zealand can mention the same in their application letter when the borders reopen. These courses would greatly help the students in getting their Visa.
New Zealand offers free healthcare facilities to foreign students. In case students experience any symptoms that resemble the onset of COVID 19, they can talk to the authorities through free contact lines.
International students can sign up to NauMai NZ to receive regular email updates about border restrictions and Visa allotment.
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University QS University Rankings 2021
University of Auckland 81
University of Otago 184
Victoria University of Wellington 223
University of Canterbury 270
University of Waikato 375
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The USA is named as the land of opportunities and one of the greatest mentions in the list of best countries to study abroad. Recognized as a paradise for seeking education in stem courses, USA stands out as an ideal destination for pursuing your dream education in the fields of your choice. Having a leading education system, the interface of education in the USA is constantly evolving making it a favourable option for seeking the right dose of trending and latest education. With a decent score in English language proficiency tests and after completing simple steps of visa application, you can fulfil your dream of attaining education in the USA. Recently, the borders for the USA have been re-opened for international students. Listed below are some important points related to academic policies, important announcements and immigration with respect to covid-19-
The major news for the students looking forward to study in USA is that the country has approved the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID 19 vaccine and within a few coming months all the citizens of the country can access it.
The COVID 19 vaccine will be given two doses to all.
Majority of top universities in the USA have started to proceed with the application of prospective students without considering the scores of competitive exams like GRE, GMAT, SAT and ACT.
The US government has recently announced that if the universities move to provide classes through entirely online medium, then, international students may be asked to leave the country.
On the other hand, those who are attending Institutions were normal teaching methodology is adopted are allowed to take only one class or not more than 3 credit hours online.
All the students who return back to India during the peak period will not be permitted to enter the country if their institution is offering online classes.
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Students must know that this exemption is not applicable to students having F1 or M1 visa.
Top Universities QS Rankings 2020
Harvard University 1
Stanford University 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3
University of California, Berkeley 4
Columbia University 5
University of California Los Angeles =6
Yale University =6
University of Pennsylvania 8
Princeton University 9
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It is believed that Poland is the country you must explore if you want to experience the very soul of Europe. Amongst other prominent countries that have been less affected by the pandemic, Poland is situated in Central Europe with bordering countries like the Czech Republic, Belarus, Germany and the Baltic Sea. What is worth noting is that recent revisions in international student laws have made the country immensely popular among international students as an up-and-coming study destination. Let's take a look at some of the reasons as to why it has made its place in our list of one of the best countries to study abroad in the present scenario:
On 12th June 2020, Poland opened its borders for international flights within the European Union. Looking to reinstate normal functioning in the country, Poland has made several relaxations in public practices as well as organisational activities.
As of 1st July 2020, Poland has officially begun with its admission process for the academic year 2020-21, while giving access to foreign students to all academic resources and Universities. The admissions will begin through online portals for all students. Students who wish to avail the scholarship opportunities as well as the excellent lifestyle that Poland offers, it is best to prepare for the offer beforehand.
Lower Cost of Studying and Living: It's cheaper to study in Poland than its neighbouring European countries like Germany, France and the UK. Fees rarely go higher than 5000 Euros a year. However, the real economic benefit of student life in Poland comes because of the low living cost. One can get a room in a student dormitory for around 100 Euros or even share a flat for 200 Euros, even for travelling, one can get free bikes in warm temperature.
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Top Universities in Poland
Jagiellonian University 338
University of Warsaw 349
Warsaw University of Technology 521-530
Adam Mickiewicz University 801-1000
AGH University of Science and Technology 801-1000
Cracow University of Technology 801-1000
Gdansk University of Technology 801-1000
Nicolaus Copernicus University 801-1000
Lodz University of Technology 801-1000
Warsaw University of Life Sciences 801-1000
University of Gdansk 801-1000
Amongst the happiest countries to study abroad, Denmark is also a great option to consider for pursuing higher education. Having incorporated a modern education system, Denmark believes in the importance of practical and industrial exposure in academic curriculums. It is nestled amidst an incredible combination of bustling metropolises with stunning countryside.
You may have read that Denmark is the happiest of them all, and that this accolade is credited to its positive growth and economic performance. It creates a vibrant and friendly environment for international students to pursue their career aspirations. Let us sum up the key reasons why Denmark is on the list of the best countries to study abroad:
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Denmark also offers a higher standard of living at affordable costs. Mainly, living costs add up to around 700 – 900 EUR monthly in smaller towns while in metropolises like Copenhagen, living costs could reach up to only 1200 EUR a month. The food availability is also at the cheaper area of the spectrum and overall it is considered quite economical.
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University of Copenhagen 76
Technical University of Denmark 103
Aarhus University 147
Aalborg University 305
University of Southern Denmark 353
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È considerato come uno dei più importanti biblisti americani. Il cardinale Roger Mahony disse di lui che era "il più eminente e rinomato biblista cattolico mai apparso in questo paese", la cui morte è stata "una grande perdita per la Chiesa".

Brown fu insignito di 24 lauree honoris causa da università americane ed europee, molte da istituzioni protestanti, e ricevette i seguenti riconoscimenti: Catholic Press Book Award, Edgar J. Godspeed Award, BAS Publ. Award, Best NT Comm.. È stato inoltre presidente della Catholic Biblical Association, della Society of Biblical Literature (1976-77) e della Society of New Testament Studies (1986-87).

Come religioso apparteneva alla Compagnia dei Sacerdoti di San Sulpizio, e lavorò principalmente nell'arcidiocesi di Baltimora, nel Maryland.

L'approccio di Brown alle Scritture si basa sulla premessa che esse possono contenere errori in materie non pertinenti alla salvezza: si tratta di un'istanza relativamente moderna, tuttavia Brown insiste egualmente sui limiti del metodo della critica biblica scientifica per risolvere le problematiche inerenti alla Chiesa o nell'affrontare le più importanti questioni della fede. Il superamento di questo approccio è alla base della conclusione, fatta da alcuni, che il suo metodo sia aperto e misurato. Esso appare più possibilistico e pertanto riscuote l'interesse anche dei più scettici, oltre che dei cristiani; i suoi libri hanno avuto un'ampia diffusione.

L'approccio tradizionale alle Scritture è che esse non contengano alcun errore (inerranza), e che ogni loro aspetto sia in qualche modo collegato alla salvezza; tale approccio era stato quasi unanimemente utilizzato nell'esegesi cattolica nel corso della storia della Chiesa ed era stato ribadito da Papa Pio X nella enciclica Pascendi Dominici gregis del 1907, che aveva bollato come eretica l'esegesi basata sul metodo storico-critico. Tale visione venne superata dopo l'emanazione dell'enciclica papale Divinu Afflante Spiritu da parte di Papa Pio XII nel 1942.

Brown ha approfondito in modo particolare lo studio dell'ipotetica "Comunità giovannea", e ha scritto i volumi relativi al Vangelo secondo Giovanni nella serie di pubblicazioni del New Anchor Bible Commentary.

La divinità di Gesù nel Nuovo Testamento
Brown ha scritto l'articolo Does the New Testament call Jesus God? ('Gesù è chiamato Dio nel Nuovo Testamento?'), Theological Studies,  26, 1965, p. 545-73, nel quale affronta la questione se a Gesù sia stato applicato nel Nuovo Testamento, il titolo di "Dio". Brown non discute del fatto se Gesù sia effettivamente Dio ("la questione", egli dice, "è stata definita a Nicea dalla Chiesa"), ma solo se nel Nuovo Testamento tale titolo venga direttamente attribuito a Gesù. L'articolo può essere sintetizzato come segue:

La conclusione di Brown è che Gesù è chiamato Dio nel Nuovo Testamento, ma lo sviluppo è stato graduale e non è emerso fino a un'epoca tarda nella tradizione neotestamentaria.

Trent'anni più tardi, Brown cambiò parzialmente la sua opinione. Nel suo libro Introduzione alla cristologia del Nuovo Testamento, egli scrisse:

Traduzioni italiane
Tra i 25 titoli di libri di soggetto biblico, i seguenti sono stati pubblicati in Italia:
 Il prete e il vescovo, Esperienze, Fossano 1971
(con Joseph Fitzmyer e Roland Murphy) Grande Commentario Biblico, Queriniana, Brescia, 1973, ISBN 97-888-399-0054-8
La concezione verginale e la risurrezione corporea di Gesù, Queriniana, Brescia 1977, ISBN 88-399-0599-4
Giovanni. Commento al Vangelo spirituale, Cittadella, Assisi 1979, ISBN 88-308-0170-4
La nascita del Messia secondo Matteo e Luca, Cittadella, Assisi 1981, ISBN 88-308-0252-2
The Critical Meaning of the Bible, Paulist Press, New York 1981, ISBN 08-091-2406-8
La comunità del discepolo prediletto, Cittadella, Assisi 1982, ISBN 88-308-0064-3
 Pietro nel Nuovo Testamento. Un'indagine ricognitiva fatta in collaborazione da studiosi protestanti e cattolici, Edizioni Borla, 1988, ISBN 88-263-0446-7
Racconti biblici natalizi, Queriniana, Brescia 1988, ISBN 88-399-1479-8
La passione nei vangeli, Queriniana, Brescia 1988, ISBN 88-399-1472-9
Avvento: il Cristo che viene, Queriniana, Brescia 1989, ISBN 88-399-1483-5
Risposte a 101 domande sulla Bibbia, Queriniana, Brescia 1991, ISBN 88-399-1232-0
I racconti evangelici della risurrezione, Queriniana, Brescia 1992, ISBN 88-399-1500-9
 Il vangelo e le lettere di Giovanni. Breve commentario, Queriniana, Brescia 1994 ISBN 88-399-2014-5
Introduzione alla cristologia del Nuovo Testamento, Queriniana, Brescia 1995, ISBN 88-399-2019-6
Leggere i vangeli con la Chiesa, Queriniana, Brescia 1997, ISBN 88-399-1532-0
(con Joseph Fitzmyer e Roland Murphy) Nuovo Grande Commentario Biblico, Queriniana, Brescia, 1997, ISBN 88-399-0054-8
La morte del messia. Dal Getsemani al sepolcro. Un commentario ai racconti della passione nei quattro vangeli, Queriniana, Brescia, 1999, ISBN 88-399-0408-5
Un ritiro spirituale con l'evangelista Giovanni: «Perché abbiate la vita», Queriniana, Brescia, 2000, ISBN 88-399-2231-1
Cristo nei vangeli domenicali del tempo ordinario, Queriniana, Brescia, 2000, ISBN 88-399-1550-4
 Introduzione al Nuovo Testamento, Queriniana, Brescia 2001, ISBN 88-399-0105-1
(con Joseph Fitzmyer e Roland Murphy) Nuovo Grande Commentario Biblico, Queriniana, Brescia

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Voci attinenti
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 Esegesi biblica

Collegamenti esterni
 Biblical Theology Bulletin : necrologio

 Henry V. King, Traditional Catholic Scholars Long Opposed Fr Brown's Theories (1998).

 Matt, Dei Verbum – Analysis of the Gospel's historicity (paragraphs 18-19) (1998) discussing also Brown's interpretation of Vatican II's "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Dei Verbum) concerning the apostolicity and historicity of the four canonical Gospel accounts.

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