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This Week In Real Estate
Investors Own 33% Of Toronto Condos + Home Sales Surge
By Move Smartly Team
In Toronto: Home sales and condo prices increase, one in three condos are investor owned, and why first-time buyers should think twice about buying cottages to get on the housing ladder.Elsewhere: Canada's 'Golden Girls' solution to retirement living, Charlottetown has a lower rental vacancy rate than Toronto and will space-age Houston survive into the future?
One in three Toronto condos are investor-owned (The Globe and Mail)
The analysis fits with the findings of John Pasalis, president of Toronto's Realosophy Realty Brokerage and analyst of the Greater Toronto Area. Mr. Pasalis believes most Toronto condo investors buy pre-construction and hang onto them for rental income or flip them after completion.
Toronto home sales surge 10% while condo prices climb 7.5% (Financial Post)
Toronto home sales have bounced back in recent months after slumping amid tighter mortgage-lending rules and higher interest rates in the past year. Despite the rebound, the housing board continues to ask policy makers to provide more flexibility on mortgage qualifications and to take measures to boost supply.
Why there's no help on the horizon for Toronto's housing crisis (TVO)
Those prescribing treatments for Toronto's sickness fall into two main camps. The right sees the city as obstructing the private market and preventing developers from delivering middle-income housing to people earning middle incomes. The left, meanwhile, sees the broken housing market as an indictment of the market itself and says that only social housing will address the problem. Either side can make decent arguments depending on the day, but the critical thing to understand about Toronto in 2019 is that, whatever you believe, nobody's actually doing anything commensurate with the problem.
Anti-poverty group wants vacant downtown properties turned into affordable housing (CBC)
Among the properties is one 1900s-era building long home to rooming houses, now largely empty. The group says the properties' owners put the buildings up for sale in 2018, but later took them off the market after city council considered purchasing them. The city hasn't moved on expropriating the properties since, it says.
3,200 more affordable housing subsidies to be funded in Toronto (City News)
Around $160 million in federal and provincial funding will be earmarked for the project under the Canada-Ontario Community Housing Strategy Initiative (COCHI) and the Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative (OPHI).
First-time buyers should think twice about recreational properties (Toronto Star)
John Pasalis, president of the Toronto-based firm Realosophy Realty Inc., says the cost of housing in Greater Toronto is prompting buyers who feel they need to be in the real estate market to buy what they can, which is a cottage. "I think buyers need to be cautious and really understand that cottages do not move at the same rate as the city of Toronto housing market. So if they're expecting really, really big gains in capital they might be surprised in five or 10 years to see what their cottages are worth."
We need to come clean with millennials on big-city home ownership dreams (The Globe)
Here's how hopeless home ownership is getting in these cities, according to RBC. Twenty-one per cent of families in Victoria have the income to afford an average-priced home, compared with 20 per cent in Toronto and 12 per cent in Vancouver. Saint John was the most accessible for home ownership of the cities tracked by RBC, with 56 per cent of families able to afford the average-priced home.
One of the most severe housing crises in Canada is currently unfolding in an unexpected place: Charlottetown, P.E.I. (National Post)
Gallant, however, does not register the province's growth this way. He cannot find a place to live for himself and his two children, as he has been evicted twice in four months. This situation is unremarkable at the moment on the Island, where landlords are doing renovations and raising their rents. P.E.I.'s aggressive growth has resulted in a housing shortage so acute that Charlottetown has, as of November, a lower vacancy rate than does Toronto.
Key to a happy retirement? Fun housemates (BBC)
The four of them - Bardswich, 67, Martha Casson, 70, Beverly Brown, 68, and Sandy McCully, 74 - have become evangelists for this kind of housing, and have been dubbed the "Golden Girls" by Canadian media.
While it's not unusual for relatives or close friends to move in with each other as they age, they believe their situation - the four women were all relative strangers - is the start of a new trend.
Will Space-Age Houston Survive Into the Future? (NY Times)
Midcentury architecture is being torn down and replaced by bigger and newer homes across the country, and the trend has accelerated in the Houston area since Hurricane Harvey's destruction. Near the Johnson Space Center, this architecture is entwined with the rise of the American space program, which put the first man on the moon 50 years ago, on July 20, 1969.
Oregon's Single-Family Zoning Ban Was a 'Long Time Coming' (City Lab)
On Sunday, Oregon lawmakers gave their final approval to House Bill 2001, which would eliminate single-family zoning around the state. In cities with more than 25,000 residents, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, and "cottage clusters" would be allowed on parcels that are currently reserved for single-family houses; in cities of least 10,000, duplexes would be allowed in single-family zones.
One reason for the high cost of housing in California may surprise you — overregulation (LA Times)
Shocking almost no one, nine of the 15 most expensive metropolitan areas in the United States are in California, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. But one major reason for this may surprise you: The state has an overregulation problem that's contributing to the housing affordability crisis.
A tale of two cities' housing crises: Dublin and Berlin (DW)
Yet if renters in Berlin think they have it tough, they should look a little further west, to the Irish capital, Dublin. The city, and to a slightly lesser extent the entire country, is in the middle of a housing crisis that makes the problems in Berlin look almost quaint.
European Cities Fear They'll Lose Power to Regulate Airbnb (City Lab)
The main concern for the cities is access to Airbnb's host data. According to their letter, allowing Airbnb to shield its data could have catastrophic effects on cities' attempts to enforce local laws.
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Q: Dataflow TextIO.write issues with scaling I created a simple dataflow pipeline that reads byte arrays from pubsub, windows them, and writes to a text file in GCS. I found that with lower traffic topics this worked perfectly, however I ran it on a topic that does about 2.4GB per minute and some problems started to arise.
When kicking off the pipeline I hadn't set the number of workers (as I'd imagined that it would auto-scale as necessary). When ingesting this volume of data the number of workers stayed at 1, but the TextIO.write() was taking 15+ minutes to write a 2 minute window. This would continue to be backed up till it ran out of memory. Is there a good reason why Dataflow doesn't auto scale when this step gets so backed up?
When I increased the the number of workers to 6, the time to write the files started at around 4 mins for a 5 minute window, then moved down to as little as 20 seconds.
Also, when using 6 workers, it seems like there might be an issue for calculating wall time? Mine never seems to go down even when the dataflow has caught up and after running for 4 hours my summary for the write step looked like this:
Step summary
Step name: Write to output
System lag: 3 min 30 sec
Data watermark: Max watermark
Wall time: 1 day 6 hr 26 min 22 sec
Input collections: PT5M Windows/Window.Assign.out0
Elements added: 860,893
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Is there a good reason why Dataflow doesn't auto scale when this step gets so backed up?

Streaming autoscaling is a beta feature, and must be explicitly enabled for it to work per the documentation here.

When using 6 workers, it seems like there might be an issue for calculating wall time?

My guess would be you ran your 6 worker pipeline for about 5 hours and 4 minutes, thus the "Wall time" presented is Workers*Hours.

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A tribute with love to Kristin Linklater
Submitted by Holly Arsenault on July 7, 2020 - 4:06pm
Kristin Linklater in the 1970s handwriting "Freeing the Natural Voice"
By Judith Shahn, Senior Lecturer Emerita
Kristin Linklater, internationally renowned creator of the voice method known as "Freeing the natural voice," died June 5th at age 84 in her home in Orkney, Scotland where she had founded the Linklater Voice Centre.
Her voice method has been an integral part of the actor training at the University of Washington School of Drama for the last 30 years. When I first arrived at the SoD in 1990, I was in the process of becoming a Designated Linklater teacher (DLT). Jack Clay, may he rest in peace knowing how many students he influenced, recognized the Linklater method as seminal in actor training. He hired me as a temporary hire and I continued for 26 years. Some of the tenets of the Linklater work are:
- We don't want to hear your voice, we want to hear YOU, through your voice.
- The voice is not just an instrument, it's a human instrument capable of expressing a three- to four-octave range of whatever gamut of emotion, complexity of mood, and subtlety of thought one experiences.
- The natural voice is transparent. It reveals, not describes, inner impulses of emotion and thought, directly and spontaneously.
I asked some PATP (Professional Actor Training Program—MFA, Acting) alums to put into one sentence what the Linklater voice training meant to them. Here's what they said:
As a constant in my career, Kristin Linklater's work never simply 'Freed my natural voice,' but endowed my mind and body with a sense of unlimited potential in performance." - Joseph Ngo, MFA 2015
"Going deep into the Linklater work gave me a sense of my own voice's capacity and power. It also unlocked emotional blocks and habits, clearing the way for more freedom, expression, and possibility. I have done the warm-up for decades. Once when I was warming up before a show, a much younger actor came up to me and said, 'Can you show me how to do that?' It was so dear. And it shows that the work transcends time and place." - Molly Hall, MFA 2000
"What Linklater work means to me is that power comes through ease and connection." - Maythinee Washington, MFA 2007
"Becoming conscious of the fact that my breath was connected to all of me helped me fully embody the sounds I was capable of making and step more confidently into the power of my voice." - Khatt Taylor, MFA 2008
"The Linklater work, especially with Shakespeare, helps me to reach my students and impact their voices towards growth changing their sound into swords of empathy." - Amanda Zarr, MFA 2008
"Freedom. Transparency. Awakening. Intimacy. Self-Discovery. A gift that has given tremendously and continues to do so." - Lisa Strum, MFA 2000
"When I learned to free my natural voice through the work, I began a work within myself not only the craft." - Tré Cotten, MFA 2017
"'I'm letting go.' Whatever is tense will not resonate and cannot carry, cannot create impact - this is as true in the mind and heart as in the body." - Marianna de Fazio, MFA 2010
"Linklater's work will forever serve as sheet music for the symphony of the natural voice." - Carl Kennedy, MFA 2010
"I'm thinking of how her work has probably changed me more than any other type of training I've received... both as a performer and a human ... Here is the most succinct phrase I can come up with: 'Fear can be dislodged with breath and vibration.'" - Amy Frear, MFA 2011
"I gained greater understanding of the range and power of my voice, and learned how to use it more articulately as an instrument of my own expression." - Adam Noble, MFA 2005
"From the rehearsal room to the delivery room, Kristin's work taught me freedom and release. This work changed me forever. It empowers me every day." - Jenny Mercein, MFA 2003
"The Linklater work taught me that my breath is the language of my soul. When I am in need of courage; when I am need of an anchor to my most deepest truths...I can tap in to give to breath. Give it sound. My voice is my power." - Robyne Walker, MFA 2000
"The method continually teaches me that freeing my voice frees the locked up truths inside me." - Jim Anzide, MFA 1994
"I've carried this work with me throughout my life to connect me to a full powerful resonate open voice that is all mine and to reach others." - Gina Panzeca, MFA 1992
"Linklater's technique is a touchstone that grounds me before every live performance." - Aaron Blakely, MFA 2009, BA 2001
"Whenever I'm feeling off-voice I stop, hang over, tune into my breathing, and begin with the simple yet revelatory 'huh-huh' - connecting sound to breath - the transformation begins almost immediately. As I move through the Linklater progression, eventually making my way to energizing and toning my lazy soft palate, the sound starts to pour forth and I'm beyond grateful to know this work. If I'm not physically connected to my voice I'm not at my full creative power or capacity. The Linklater work is essential." - Marc Kenison, MFA 2004
"The Linklater training I had at the School of Drama connected me to my voice, mind, heart and body in playful, communal, soulful ways that I continue to draw on in my acting, directing and teaching work in Boston 23 years later." - Doug Lockwood, MFA 1997
"Authenticity is everything in my work and life. Linklater's technique has helped free my voice from the obligation of making sound and into the joy of allowing it." - Samantha Rund, MFA 2006
"The Linklater work, for me, is a search for the freedom of self-expression through sound and movement. Huh-huh." - Jason L. Treviño, current MFA acting student (class of 2021)
"The Linklater work--not only in my art but also personally--means absolute freedom. The freedom to use my true voice and let it be heard without fear and/or shame." - Antonio D. Mitchell, current MFA acting student (class of 2022)
"What Linklater means to me: The freedom to take a generous sigh of relief at any moment - particularly when I find myself 'pushing'." - Alyssa Franks, MFA 2020.
"In my training at UW, Bridget Connors steeped myself and my colleagues in the beautiful words, images, and exercises created and developed by Kristin Linklater. This is how I know that Linklater lives on through the many vessels of brilliant voice teachers that teach students everywhere how to free their natural voices. 'To free the voice is to free the person.' May Kristin continue to breathe through each of us whom she has touched. I send her a sigh of relief filled with gratitude, respect and a deep appreciation for her lasting contribution to voice work. Hu Hummmm Muh!!" - Hailey Henderson, MFA 2020
Kristin's path as a voice teacher began in London in the 1950s with the legendary Iris Warren, whose interest in the voice as an expression of the whole person began to revolutionize British theatre. Her protégé for seven years, Kristin followed Iris at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), until she made a brave decision to move to New York in 1963 to open her own voice studio. She arrived right in the middle of profound changes and protests in American life as well as a growth spurt in American theatre. Joining the faculty of NYU School of Theatre, with Peter Kass as head, she delved into what was considered new and daring in actor training at the time: Truth with a capital T. When I first worked with Kristin, I understood that inner truth could be extraverted, must be heard through the voice.
Kristin found herself suddenly and unexpectedly in demand and began coaching for the Negro Ensemble Company, Joe Chaikin's The Open Theatre, and the newly formed Lincoln Center Repertory Company, among others. While new kinds of theatre were emerging in New York City, regional theatres were cropping up around the continent: The Guthrie, The Arena Stage, and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. Actor training at the time often sacrificed vocal training for psychological truth and therefore people could not be heard in those big theatre spaces. Enter Kristin Linklater. She received grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA as well as a Guggenheim fellowship to train teachers to answer the growing need for voice in theatre schools and to act as vocal coach in the newly expanding American theatre. Ah, the days of foundations that supported the arts!
Kristin's training of teachers has continued since the 1960s and was in mid-process when she suddenly died a few weeks ago. David Morden, a member of the UW School of Drama MFA class of 1993, was in the 2019 group, the last that Linklater designated. He has this to say:
"When I began a serious study of the human voice in graduate school, I started to connect my voice to my thoughts and intentions. Through three years of study, I owned my voice as an instrument of dramatic impact. Twenty years later, when I began teaching voice, it became about the technical and physiological aspects of voice, but I also learned how to connect my voice to impulse. Five years after that, it was in the studio with Kristin (surrounded by the fantastic Orkney landscape) that I finally got that 'Freeing the natural voice' was just that – figuring out what I had to say and allowing my breath and my vibration to express my true self, directly and without ornamentation. Kristin helped me to know myself and to share my voice with the world by starting with the room I am in."
In 1976, Kristin wrote her book, Freeing the Natural Voice, which has been translated into many languages and is used as one of the essential texts in actor training around the world. At the same time, she gave birth to her son Hamish, now a regular mainstay in theatre, film, and television in the US. Two years earlier, Kristin met Tina Packer, an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company who came to the United States to investigate creating a new Shakespeare company where language would come through the body, voice, intellect, and emotions–the quartet. They founded Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires, MA which still exists to this day. Kristin stayed there for 15 years, coaching productions, directing and training actors in their month-long intensives.
It was around this time that I first encountered Kristin. I was hired to teach the Linklater work at Cornish College of the Arts. Other than a semester at Carnegie-Mellon, my alma mater, where I worked with David Smuckler, I was not trained for this task. I wrote to Kristin asking how I could get training and just at that time, I heard she was coming to the Seattle area to do a weekend workshop. It was on voice and imagery in Shakespeare's language. This workshop was a lightbulb moment for me. I'm sure you have had those. The lightbulb was not only in my brain (like the cartoons depict), but it was as if electricity went through my whole being. I felt I was home and I understood what my mission would be in life! I asked her how I could get training and she replied, "Come to Shakespeare & Company." I followed this advice and began the path to becoming a Designated Linklater teacher or "DLT." Kristin was writing her second book, Freeing Shakespeare's Voice and using our designation group to practice new exercises.. We are honored to be acknowledged in the preface of the book.
Becoming a Linklater teacher is a multi-pronged approach. You must have 50 individual hours with a master teacher to work on your own voice so that you are embodying what you teach others. Then you must observe a senior teacher or teachers and watch them lead the progression (or sequence) of exercises. Next is practice teaching and then finally six weeks of "boot camp" teacher training with Kristin, herself. This training is undertaken by people at various stages of their careers and is somehow juggled between working full time, parenthood and life. Each person figures it out for themselves. I became a DLT in 1991. Kristin, along with master teacher Andrea Haring, has trained over 250 teachers in 23 countries. I was honored to join their ranks.
When Kristin left Shakespeare & Co., her next chapter was teaching undergraduates at Emerson College in Boston. She learned a lot from being in the room with newly independent youth. She formed the Company of Women in collaboration with Carol Gilligan, where the format of River Stories was born. These moments in the river of one's life were spoken in order to empower women and girls in finding and owning their own voices. Then she left for Columbia University's graduate actor training program where she remained for 16 years.
Through the years, I stayed in contact with Kristin, following and assisting her in conferences for VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainer's Association) and her own teacher development trainings. Kristin was always discovering new things. The work was never static. We were always delighted to discover the latest explorations (neuroscience, gravity, poetry) and new exercises which I hungrily brought back to the students in the PATP.
When Kristin decided to retire from Columbia University in 2013, she had been in the United States for exactly 50 years and had already purchased a home on the remote and starkly beautiful Orkney Islands in Scotland, her childhood home, where she was raised by her mother, Marjorie Linklater, and her father, well-known author Eric Linklater.. Her vision was to create an international voice center on her property where people could come as a retreat and work on their voices and imaginations. I remember the party where she rolled out the blueprints for the Centre and I said, "Kristin – who is going to come all the way to Orkney?" Build it and they will come. They did come. For the last six years, the Linklater Voice Centre had been a success. With a beautiful studio, dormitory, and common space for 12, the Centre has taught classes in voice, Shakespeare, sound and movement, River Stories, improvisation, movement, and more to people from over 35 countries around the world.
Judith Shahn with Kristin Linklater in Orkney, 2019
I first went to Orkney the year of my retirement from the School of Drama, 2016. As David Morden briefly described, the landscape itself with the sea, the horizon, the sky and farmland allowed me to internalize the outside space and feel space inside me. It is peaceful one moment and tempestuously windy, the next. When Kristin asked me to come and assist her because she knew she needed and wanted to pass the teaching at the Centre to her teachers, I was honored and thrilled. As a mentor, Kristin could be formidable. She was honest, direct, compassionate and demanding. I went back to Orkney two more times to assist her. I would have been there this year, but for COVID. When Kristin introduced me as her co-teacher, something inside me dropped. It was almost that same feeling of when I first met her. I knew I was home again.
When I retired, it was so important to me that the school hire another Linklater teacher. I wanted her legacy to continue and the School of Drama was very lucky to hire Bridget Connors to continue the training in her own right, bringing her own rich background. Words from Bridget:
"I consider myself blessed to carry on Kristin's work with the wonderful students in the School of Drama. First in the floors and rafters of Hutchinson Hall and now on Zoom. Kristin was, and will remain, an indelible force and source of inspiration for me. Undoubtedly her vibrations will continue to move through us and out into the world as she listens with her mind's eye and ear in her belly to our collective huh-hummmmuh's! And so, the journey continues....Thank you Kristin" - Bridget Connors, DLT 2003
Kristin Linklater on Orkney Island, Scotland
Kristin Linklater Obituary - NY Times
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I read Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher last week.
In it, he says something surprising, that the phrase "the wine-dark sea" from Homer's epic is not poetic license (it certainly looks like poetic license to me!) but straight description. And not even description of the color of the sea – the Ancient Greeks apparently had no word for the color blue – but a description of the darkness of the sea.
And not just sheep, but oxen, too: the wine-dark oxen.
Also, Homer also apparently uses violet to describe the sea, sheep and iron.
I was really quite astonished. The idea of describing how dark a color is instead of the specific color strikes me as odd.
But if you have no word for blue – blue things being rare in nature; the color of the sky and ocean are vastly different from each other and change based on the time of day anyway and weather. With such few blue things around you, maybe you don't need a word for blue. And how would you then describe the sea or the sky?
I find his choice of the word wine dark unusual unless of course they only made wine from red grapes and not white….. I think it would be a difficult thing to convey the colour of the sky without the words for the various shades of blue, the sea could also have been green,viridian etc. I assume they had a word for green?
Yeah, they did, but according to the book, and the word means green in modern Greek. But they used the word to describe lightness. Faces pale with fear and honey and so on.
I guess it makes sense. Languages evolve in different ways. Throughout history in Japanese colors have faded in and out of the lexicon. Some colors were only used based on the object that was being described. Some colors were combined to mean two colors. If everyone agrees on the mechanics of the language, then it's doing it's job, but looking back on things from today, it seems confusing, because we don't share those same mechanics.
I don't know anything about Japanese, but, yeah, without knowing the history, it can feel very, very strange.
It was more sensible in Homer's time and culture when they didn't identify things so much by color. He didn't mean that the sea or oxen were the color of wine, but that they had a luster comparable to it. Mountains are also bronze in some of his poetry for the same reason.
Describing the luster of something sense makes actually! Especially if you got no words to describe the color. Have you read it?
LOL I know! Sometimes I wonder if a color that looks bright to me looks dark to someone else.
On another note, I was looking for your Teaser Tuesday post since you visited mine 🙂 Do you have one up?
I actually don't! Started something new too late for a teaser! But I like reading the teaser Tuesdays. Thanks for visiting!
Wow, really? No word for blue? I can't imagine that, or what other colours or words it might apply to. Thanks for sharing this!


What if Tim Krumrie hadn't broke his leg in Super Bowl XXIII?
What if Kenyon Martin hadn't broke his leg before the 2000 NCAA tourney?
What if Carson Palmer had lasted more than two downs in the Bengals' 2006 playoff game?
FYI, all will be forgotten if we can get a Lombardi trophy in the next five years.


All well and good. I've long had my eye on the Windows detachables market, stuck as I am with a hefty Kobo that doesn't really work for me as a portable workstation (which increasingly gets left at home in favour of my Kindle – much lighter, just as useful but fiddlier). And we freelancers know we are a growing breed and the competition is heating up. How can Lenovo and the Miix 320 get us ahead of the game?
Weight: The Lenovo Miix 320 (with Wi-Fi only) weighs 1.02kg with keyboard and 550g without keyboard. The Lenovo Miix 320 (with LTE) weighs 1.03kg with keyboard and 560g without keyboard.
"The Miix 320 offers true mobility and productivity," claims Lenovo.
Battery Life: "The Miix 320 has up to 10 hours of battery life," says Lenovo, with the usual caveats about product configuration and usage, software, operating conditions, wireless functionality, power management and screen brightness settings, plus expected depreciation with time and use.
Of course, this versatile 2-devices-in-one technology is now far from new; quite literally, everyone's doing it. As a freelancer with a good business head, you're not going to rush out and buy one of these without comparing it to other similar devices, particularly with the UK retail as yet unconfirmed.
As a rough guide, the Miix 320 (keyboard included, Wi-Fi only without LTE) starts at €269, and the Miix 320 (keyboard included, with LTE) starts at €399 and are available beginning in April 2017.


The traditional home care market is continually developing from a mainly geriatric or chronic disease management sector to a secondary care option.
MRSA as well as hospital bed rationalization due to cost and inefficiencies has put the home as option for treatment firmly on the agenda.
This means that solutions offering integrated services ranging from remote patient monitoring to regular nursing care are becoming increasingly important. This represents new revenue opportunities for companies that are able to gage the needs and dynamics of this market.
Our second area of expertise concerns those markets where homecare and support is a prerequisite of the ability of providing healthcare due to geography and demographics.
Examples are the BRIC countries where there is huge investment in healthcare but innovative solutions need to be found to deliver it to a population that is spread often thinly over a huge geographic area. Here telemedicine and e-healthcare in many different applications play a key role.
HBS has worked extensively in both these business areas and has guided its clients to market focused solutions. This is especially important as industry has in the past often outpaced market need with solely best in class technology driven products. This in turn has led to companies not realizing the expected ROI.


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Het Rhenense veer is een veerverbinding tussen Rhenen en Lienden over de Nederrijn bij kilometerraai 910. De geschiedenis van de Rhenense (auto)veerpont over de Rijn gaat terug tot ongeveer 1350. Sindsdien is er achtereenvolgend telkens in perioden van vier tot twaalf jaar pacht betaald voor het veerrecht. De veerverbinding werd eerst onderhouden door een vrijvarend bootje. Waarschijnlijk vanaf eind zestiende eeuw werd er een gierpont met kabels ingezet. Na de aanleg van de autobrug bij Rhenen is het veer in 1957 opgeheven. Sinds 2013 vaart er een fietspont.

Voetveer vanaf 2013
In 2012 werden er plannen gemaakt om de pont weer in de vaart te brengen. Op 30 april 2012 voer er een veerpont vanwege het bezoek van koningin Beatrix aan Rhenen op die dag. In september dat jaar werd er met een gehuurde veerpont een week lang een proef uitgevoerd. In een week werden er ruim 700 passagiers overgezet. In 2013 is er vervolgens een veerpontje voor fietsers en voetgangers in de vaart gebracht. Het maximale aantal passagiers bedraagt 12, inclusief hun fietsen. Het veer vaart alleen gedurende de maanden mei tot en met september. De bemensing van de pont bestaat uit vrijwilligers.

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A new analysis of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea level around the coast of Antarctica to rise by 2 centimeters more than the global average of 6 centimeters.
Researchers at the University of Southampton detected the rapid rise in sea-level by studying satellite scans of a region that spans more than a million square kilometers.
The melting of the Antarctic ice sheet and the thinning of floating ice shelves has contributed an excess of around 350 giga-tons of freshwater to the surrounding ocean, they say, and this has led to a reduction in the salinity of the surrounding oceans that has been corroborated by ship-based studies of the water. Freshwater is less dense than salt water and so researchers say that in regions where an excess of freshwater has accumulated, a localized rise in sea level is expected.
In addition to satellite observations, the researchers also conducted computer simulations of the effect of melting glaciers on the Antarctic Ocean.
"The computer model supports our theory that the sea-level rise we see in our satellite data is almost entirely caused by freshening (a reduction in the salinity of the water) from the melting of the ice sheet and its fringing ice shelves," says Craig Rye, lead author of the paper that has been published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
"The interaction between air, sea and ice in these seas is central to the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and global sea levels, as well as other environmental processes, such as the generation of Antarctic bottom water, which cools and ventilates much of the global ocean abyss."
The research was carried out with researchers at the National Oceanography Centre and the British Antarctic Survey.


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spill the beans and tell us how you manage to do this??
now youve started a new club. first it was the 1000 club now theres the 2000 club. lets see who'll be first to join you, hope you dont get too lonely there!! hehe lol.
oh, forgot to say, well done though!!
Can you imagine how many posts she'll be on after saturday night?!!!
Maybe you should get out more tasha!!!!!! Ha ha ha!
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You'll be on 3000 when we reach 2000!
That's a nice thought Dawn....it looks great.
Was feelin a bit fancy this morning!!!!
Well done tasha! roll on 3000!
Hi Girls sorry i haven't replied sooner! Thanks for my own post caroline!!
Emma i think i may be the 'champion' (hehe) but you never know i think theforums been going for a while so there may have been someone else!! You can only win WUOTM once so at least the rest of you still have the chance to win!!!
Jo you know first hand that my kids, well Ethan (!) aren't perfectly bahaved but my computer is by the sofa in the living room so i'm able to just leave it on usually logged onto pp all day and just pop on and off (thats how i do it Samiha)!!
Dawn thanks for the glitter it was lovely!!
Sure many of you will be joining me at 2000 soon!!!!
Caroline and Boo, i'm booking myself into PP anonymous very soon!!!!
Oh and Boo for a long time you were ahead of me!!!!


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Sitawa: Exiting solitary confinement – and the games CDCr plays
Posted on 29 December 2016 by Prisoner Human Rights Movement
Published in the SF Bayview, December 29, 2016
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa
It is very important that you all clearly understand the depth of human torture to which I was subjected for 30-plus years by CDCr and CCPOA.* The torture was directed at me and similarly situated women and men prisoners held in California's solitary confinement locations throughout CDCr, with the approval and sanctioning of California governors, CDCr secretaries and directors, attorneys general, along with the California Legislature for the past 40 years.
Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa hugs his sister, Marie Levin, for the first time in 31 years. For 31 years, he never felt a friendly touch. He says that as he hugged his sister, he thought of the 16 close family members he had lost during those years, including his mother, in 2014.
They have allowed for their own citizens – prisoners – to suffer horrible crimes with their systematic process of physically and mentally killing prisoners for decades, with no regard for human life.
I was placed in solitary confinement – the SHU – on May 15, 1985, on trumped-up, illegal and fabricated state documents by two leading CDCr lieutenants, Criminal Activity Coordinator (CAC) Lt. L.O. Thomas and Lt. Suzan Hubbard of North Block Housing (NBH) at San Quentin State Prison. Yes, these two leading lieutenants removed me from San Quentin general population, not for alleged criminal acts or rule violations, but for the politics of the revolutionary New Afrikan political organization and the beliefs and cultural views of the New Afrikan revolutionary leftist organization titled the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF).
I was targeted by CDCr prison officials at San Quentin during 1983 on up until I was removed from the general population (GP) and housed in San Quentin's Control Units within their solitary confinement housing building, North Housing Unit (NHU). The sole reason for my housing there was that I was educating all New Afrikan prisoners on San Quentin's GP about our rich New Afrikan history behind California prison walls and across the United States.
I was teaching them that we as a people shall not be forced to deny ourselves the rights in the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution. Yes, I personally believe that every New Afrikan woman and man has the right to protest any CDCr Jim Crow or Black Code-type rules or laws which violate our human rights as a person or prisoner.
And so I was educating my people to our civil rights and human rights in the California prison system during the 1980s while I was within the GP. I continued to educate my people, the New Afrikan nation, when I was placed in solitary confinement from 1983 to Oct. 11, 2015. It was a tragedy for three decades – yes, 30-plus years I was forced to suffer all forms of torture and witness killings of human life at the hands of CDCr officials and staff for decades, aided and abetted by governors, stakeholders, the Legislature, CDCr directors and secretaries etc.
The New Afrikan Prisoner Government (NAPG) has suffered and endured the violent attacks upon our prisoner community for decades on all levels and functions at the hands of CDCr employees. We have a U.S. constitutional right to resist any form of torture, repression and violations of both our human and civil rights.
I was placed in the SHU, not for alleged criminal acts or rule violations, but for the politics of the revolutionary New Afrikan political organization and the beliefs and cultural views of the New Afrikan revolutionary leftist organization titled the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF).
I shall not be found among the broken men and women! I shall live and die a warrior for our New Afrikan Nation and humanity!
After being transferred from CDCr's solitary confinement at the Pelican Bay SHU to its Tehachipi SHU during the period of July 10-17, 2014, including a layover in the hellish Ad Seg (Administrative Segregation) unit at Deuel Vocational Institution (DVI), it would not take long before the CDCr officials at CCI (Tehachapi) would show their collective scheme to have me assassinated as the New Afrikan principal negotiator plaintiff in the Ashker v. Brown class action lawsuit.
During our peaceful protest by the solitary confinement prisoner class (SCPC) against Steps 3 and 4 of the CDCr-CCI Step Down Program (SDP), we collectively stopped participating in the dysfunctional SDP at CCI-Tehachapi Prison on May 11, 2015. This was because the SDP has been violating our SCPC liberty interest arising from the Due Process Clause itself, and CDCr had to stop its SDP from imposing stigmatizing classifications and concomitant behavior modification. I realize now that the SDP between 2012 and 2015 violated our constitutional rights, and it still does.
In an obviously sinister campaign to undermine the collective solidarity of our historic Agreement to End Hostilities, these officials tried to manipulate the other racial groups supporting the AEH to turn against me.
First, SHU Counselor Vanessa Ybarra went to one of our 16 Prisoner Human Rights Movement representatives, Gabriel Huerta, and tried to get him and other reps to turn against me, asking Huerta, "Why do you all let that Black inmate speak for you all during this boycott of the Step Down Program? My supervisors want to know." Correctional Counselor II B. Snider, Capt. P. Matzen, Associate Warden J. Gutierrez, Chief Deputy Warden W. Sullivan, Chief Deputy Warden Grove and Warden Kim Holland are the supervisors she was referring to.
However, things did not go as planned because Brother Gabriel saw right through what this counselor and her supervisors were trying to do in creating a hostile, antagonistic atmosphere and consensus against me by my peers. First, Gabriel asked the counselor, "Who are you talking about?" Then the counselor replied, "Dewberry." Dewberry is my given last name.
And Gabriel told that counselor, "Dewberry is one of the four principal negotiators who represent the Prisoner Human Rights Movement's prisoner SHU class. And he is one of the main plaintiffs in the Ashker v. Brown class action lawsuit against CDCr, and he has been speaking on behalf of prisoners from 2010 to right now and he speaks for our best interests as our principal prisoner negotiator!" The counselor turned around and walked out of the sallyport area.
Next, the second attempt was by another SHU counselor from 4B building named Vaca, who approached the PHRM representative and other prisoners, then said, "You prisoners should go back to participating in the Step Down Program or all of you who are boycotting the SDP will not be released to the general population this year (2015) or next year (2016), all because you are listening to that Black prisoner."
When Gabriel Huerta asked Vaca, "What Black prisoner are you referring to?" the counselor responded, "I'm talking about Dewberry. By the way, Huerta, since when do you Mexicans follow what this Black prisoner says?" The Rep refused to play into that old CDCr manipulation game and terminated the conversation by telling the counselor, "You can take me back to my cell," and left.
This collage for an article in support of the hunger strike leaders shows Sitawa in 2012 and in 1988, when he was known as Ronnie Dewberry. – Photo: Adithya Sambamurthy, CIR
So neither of the attempts worked, because Brother Gabriel recognized what time it was. He summed it up in these words: "CDCr had been manipulating and playing us against each other in the past. They can't do that any longer."
This life-threatening CDCr campaign leading up to my release out of SHU in October 2015 would be followed by the unprofessional, illegal attitudes and actions by CDCr employees awaiting me as I entered the general population. It was necessary to understand their motives in their dealings with and around me.
Upon my preparing to allegedly be released to general population, I was notified on Aug. 11, 2015, that I would be attending my first Institutional Classification Committee (ICC) hearing in over 30 years which had any meaning. Let's put this "ICC" into perspective as to why these ICC hearings now have merit for the solitary confinement prisoner class (SCPC).
We the SCPC had to take our struggle to the streets of this world by participating in three non-violent peaceful protests. In the first, commencing July 1, 2011, a total of 6,600 woman and men participated. And when CDCr failed to honor the agreements made to end it, we the SCPC were compelled to enter our second non-violent peaceful protest on Sept. 26, 2011, in which a total of 12,600 men and women participated across this state.
CDCr begged for us to discontinue our protest and allow for them to make the necessary interdepartmental major changes which would release the longest held SCPC first. The four principal negotiators – Brutha Sitawa, Arturo Castellanos, Todd Ashker and George Franco – along with our 16 Prisoner Human Rights Movement (PHRM) representatives decided to suspend our protest in mid-October 2011 and allow for CDCr to show their good faith efforts to reform their illegal solitary confinement policies, laws and rules and place all 10,000 SCPC women and men onto a fully functional general population by Feb. 1, 2013.
We vowed to resume our protest to death or until CDCr negotiates with us in a real way. Yes, on Feb. 1, 2013, the four principal negotiators announced to our tormentors – CDCr, the governor, the Legislature, the attorney general and stakeholders – that we would resume our protest on July 8, 2013, being that CDCr wants to wage their war of attrition against me and similarly situated SCPC.
We the SCPC had to take our struggle to the streets of this world by participating in three non-violent peaceful protests.
On July 8, 2013, we entered into the largest hunger strike in prison history. Some 30,000 prisoners participated and our just cause forced Gov. Brown, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, all CDCr secretaries between 2010 and 2016 and their stakeholders, who all had the current data, to recognize the torturous conditions we SCPC had to endure for decades. I was one of thousands held at Pelican Bay, and I don't want another woman, man or child to be forced to suffer what I went through. We SCPC observed and suffered the cruel and devastating harm caused by CDCr.
On Aug. 11, 2015, I was approached by Building 8 Correctional Counselor I Vaca at approximately 8:25 a.m. at my cell door for the sole purpose of preparing my central files for possible release to a general population. Vaca informed me that I am the first solitary confinement prisoner class member whose case files he is currently reviewing and that I am scheduled to appear before a full ICC on Aug. 19, 2015.
Now, within a two-hour time period, this same counselor, Vaca, appeared at my cell door with a sinister smirk on his face suggesting that I could now appear before this ICC hearing "tomorrow," Aug. 12, 2015.
Counselor Vaca was too enthusiastic for me to attend the earlier hearing, so I told Vaca, "I'll stick to the original schedule date of Aug. 19, 2015," instead of his suggested new schedule. This counselor was upset at me for sticking with the original ICC hearing date, which was very strange to me and it warranted me to reflect upon his previous misconduct of trying to manipulate and influence other California racial groups – Southern Mexican, White and Northern Mexican – to breach our Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH).
I was one of thousands held at Pelican Bay, and I don't want another woman, man or child to be forced to suffer what I went through. We SCPC observed and suffered the cruel and devastating harm caused by CDCr.
Vaca had personally tried to have a leading prisoner of each racial group to silence – assassinate – my voice of prisoner activism directed at CDCr and CCI (Tehachapi) officials. These veteran prisoners did not fall for Vaca's tactics of divide and conquer; they stayed true to our Agreement to End Hostilities.
Now, on Aug. 12, 2015, Hugo Pinell was set up by CDCr officials at New Folsom Prison and killed [by white prisoners]. CDCr delayed my scheduled hearing for over a month and during said time period, three special agents came to interview me about the murder of Mr. Pinell. These three special agents pulled me out of my Tehachapi Prison cage for an interview on Aug. 14, 2016, two days after the murder of Mr. Pinell.
These agents were dispatched by CDCr Secretary Jeffrey Beard and then Undersecretary Scott Kernan [now Secretary Kernan] to come and interview me and two other New Afrikan prisoners and others. The concern that was expressed to me was, how do I feel about the death of Mr. Pinell and would there be an all-out war between the two racial groups?
These are my thoughts in relation to Mr. Pinell's assassination and my release to a general population: I had expressed to these three special agents, first and foremost, "Why did you all travel from another part of California to speak with me about a death that I have no facts on other than listening to the radio?" I told said agents, "I shall be engaging myself in pushing the Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH). Mr. Pinell would not want for us to enter into a war conflict, especially after we signed the AEH back on Aug. 12, 2012.
[Photo in original article: Over the three years of hunger strikes, as the prisoners were making the ultimate sacrifice, risking their lives for freedom from the tortures of indefinite solitary confinement, supporters outside held an astounding variety of demonstrations to win the world's support. One of the most successful and dramatic was Occupy 4 Prisoners that brought hundreds to the San Quentin gate on Feb. 2, 2012. CHP tried to prevent anyone from attending by prohibiting parking within a mile and harassing the demonstrators marching to the rally. Marie Levin, as usual, was a major speaker; her husband Randy is at her side. – Photo: Bill Hackwell]
"And we, the PHRM, must see that our historical document, the Agreement to End Hostilities, remains firm to our cause and objectives, which are to radically change CDCr's behavior directed at the Solitary Confinement Prisoner Class, and those of us who have been released to the general population are responsible for enforcing our AEH here behind the walls of California prisons and jails and to curb all community violence across this state outside of prison.
"You agents wasted a trip to come and speak with me. So, when you go back to report on my pro-AEH comments concerning Mr. Pinell's murder, let your superiors – that is, Gov. Brown, CDCr Secretary Beard, Undersecretary Kernan and the chief of the Office of Correctional Safety (OCS) – know I shall request that you, CDCr, allow for us to be released to the general population forthwith. For we have been held illegally for the past one to 40 years."
These three special agents never did answer my question as to why did they travel from the state capital to the mountain of Tehachapi Prison to speak with me prior to my being released to the general population. It became a concern to me, because I know that CDCr did not condone our AEH historical collective solidarity document and its objectives. This raised some serious questions in my mind as to why these government officials would direct these agents to interview me. A question they refused to answer.
As you all can imagine, I was suspicious at best about whether I could expect any good faith from CDCr supervisors, officials or staffers upon my release from Tehachapi Prison solitary confinement housing, heading toward Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP).
On Oct. 13, 2015, I arrived at SVSP receiving and release (R&R), and upon my exiting the CDCr transportation bus and entering the R&R, I was met by three Institution Gang Investigators (IGI), the welcoming crew awaiting me. I was then escorted into a property storage room where it was only the four of us.
Now, these three IGI officers wanted to know my state of mind as it related to the assassination of Mr. Hugo "Yogi" Pinell. I simply informed them that I will be pushing the AEH when I'm allowed to be released to the yard with all racial groups and especially with all of my New Afrikan Prisoner Government (NAPG) and explain to all people the importance of the AEH and that I personally signed off on that historical document. Yes, the IGI made their usual threats.
Now, within the next 10 days, I was allowed to attend the exercising yard, where all of the Afrikan tribes embraced me as their own Big Brutha! As in all situations, I went into my political prisoner activism mode in changing this modified general population prison into an actual functional general population.
There is minimal change. The CCPOA (prison guards) have been doing everything in their power to stop, delay or hinder and obstruct prisoners from being afforded work assignments and real educational opportunity. We are denied full exercising yard hours, vocational trades, the same dayroom time as other 180-design prisoners.
Correctional officers and sergeants continue verbal harassment with their Green Wall attitudes. It is clear that the above-mentioned CDCr employees have an ingrained dislike for all prisoners who are being released from California solitary confinement (SHU) chambers to CDCr modified general populations.
There is minimal change. The CCPOA (prison guards) have been doing everything in their power to stop, delay or hinder and obstruct prisoners from being afforded work assignments and real educational opportunity.
Now, just consider having to be faced with the above matters being denied to me and similarly situated prisoners, while preparing to have my first contact visit with my family in 30 years. Yes, I was compelled to close the lid on the jar and withhold all of this corruption and wrongdoing from my family.
Sitawa received his first contact visit from his sister Marie and her husband Randy, here on another visit, 2016
Upon my first visit to see my Queen, my sister, Marie A. Levin, and her husband, Randy Levin, my sister Marie left home in such a rush to come see me that she left her California ID at home, and I was unable to see her that Saturday, but I did have the opportunity to have a conversation with my brother-in-law. It was a great time for the two of us. Now, the following day, Sunday, I was able to see Marie and Randy together, without that thick shield of plexiglas between us.
Now, for the first time in my imprisonment, I was somewhat shaken to the inner core of this New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist man by a simple hug from my younger sister, Queen Marie, during our October 2015 visit. A hug should be a natural form of affection between a brother and sister. However, while my sister was squeezing me so tightly, all I could think about during those moments was of the family members who died, and I will never be able to hug or speak with them again.
1) Stella, my cousin, who died in 1989;
2) Leon, my big brother, who died in 1991;
3) Steven, my nephew, 1994;
4) Morris, my uncle, 1994;
5) Tanner Birk, my uncle, 1995;
6) Tutter, my aunt, 1995;
7) Lonnie, my uncle, 1995;
8) Hillard Jr., my uncle, 1997;
9) Ardis, my cousin, 1997;
10) Ardis Sr., my uncle, 2002;
11) Bobbie Dean, my cousin, 2004;
12) Clifton, my uncle, 2009;
13) James "Ba-ba," my cousin, 2009;
14) Carol, my big sister, 2010;
15) Nathan, my cousin, 2010; and
16) Queen Mama, lost April 28, 2014.
Another rally that not only garnered support from outside but raised spirits inside was at Corcoran Prison in the Central Valley on July 13, 2013, during the last hunger strike, where the prisoners were suffering the summertime heat combined with gnawing hunger. On a "solidarity fence," notes composed of quotes from some of the leading strikers were pinned to a fence to inspire the demonstrators. This is a quote from Sitawa.
Each one of them was denied the right and opportunity to physically touch me for over 30 years illegally, due to my political and cultural beliefs – three decades for a "thought crime," which did not exist. Yet, my family members who have died never having had the opportunity to sit and touch me for decades, because CDC and CDCr chose to make attempts at destroying me physically and psychologically for no other purpose than to break my mind and spirit and those of similarly situated prisoners held within CDCr's solitary confinement – Ad Seg, SHU etc.!
This is just a window into what we prisoners had to suffer for decades by order of our tormentors – CDCr – and it continues to this day within the realm of CDCr modified general population. Our struggle for justice, equality and human rights continues.
We need the support of all people in California and the world to stop the injustice we suffer at the hands of CDCr officials and especially by the CCPOA and their ilk.
I would be extremely irresponsible if I didn't seek the support of my New Afrikan people – for example, Marie "FREE" Wright, Erykah Badu, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Hansen, John Legend, Beyonce Knowles Carter, Dominique DiPrima, Shauntae "DaBrat" Harris, Azadeh Zohrabi, Common, Gabrielle Union, Chrissy Teigen, Alicia Keyes, Lupita Nyong'o, Sanaa Hamri, Kellita Smith, Snoop Dogg, Serena Williams, Jamie Foxx, Janelle Nonee', Sanaa Lathan, Dana "Queen Latifa" Owens, Keisha Cole, Danny Glover, Yolanda "YoYo" Whitaker, Maya Harrison, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Belafonte, Tatyana Ali, Tyress Gibson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Bassett, Bryan "Baby" Williams, Shaun "Jay Z" Carter, and all sista and brutha entertainers across Oakland, the Bay Area and the country.
Yes, our New Afrikan Lives Matter here behind the enemy lines of California's unjust prison system. On behalf of our New Afrikan prisoner community, I pray that you will show your support for our freedom campaigns and whatever you all can donate shall be greatly appreciated. Please send your donations to FREEDOM OUTREACH, P.O. Box 7359, Oakland, CA 94601-3023 or contact Maria Levin at levin1marie@gmail.com.
Send our brother some love and light: Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, s/n R.N. Dewberry, C-35671, Salinas Valley State Prison C1-118, P.O. Box 1050, Soledad, CA 93960-1050, www.Sitawa.org.
*CDCr stands for the California Department of Corrections and rehabilitation – the last word uncapitalized by many prisoners to signify how little rehab exists. CCPOA – California Correctional Peace Officers Association – is the guards' union, which exerts great influence within CDCr and on state policy and legislation.
Posted in Geen categorie	| Tagged 2016, Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH), Arturo Castellanos, California, CCI Tehachapi, CCPOA, CDCr, exiting solitary confinement, Gabriel Huerta, George Franco, Hugo Pinell, Marie Levin, New Afrikan nation, New Afrikan Prisoner Government (NAPG), Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP), Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP), Secure Housing Unit (SHU), Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (s/n R. N. Dewberry), Todd Ashker, torture
Prisoner Human Rights Movement: Agreement to End Hostilities has changed the face of race relations without any help from CDCr
Posted on 28 January 2015 by Prisoner Human Rights Movement
Published in the SF Bay View, January 28, 2015
It is incumbent upon all men prisoners across the state of California and globally to embrace the struggle of women prisoners as a whole. We, the four principle negotiators of our Prisoner Human Rights Movement – George Franco, Arturo Castellanos, Todd Ashker and Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry) – recognize the women prisoner struggles and the PHRM supports them. These other prisoner activists do as well: D. Troxell, L. Powell, A. Guillen, G. Huerta, P. Redd, R. Yandell, J.M. Perez, J. Baridi Williamson, A. Sandoval, P. Fortman, Y. Iyapo-I (Alexander), A. Yrigollen, F. Bermudez, F. Clement and R. Chavo Perez.
These representatives, whom CDCr leading officials recognize as prisoner activists, are changing the face of race relationships within CDCr first, without any assistance from CDCr. Isn't that amazing! The above named prisoner activists, along with the thousands of other prisoner activists throughout the California prison system, have changed the way prisoners should be treated as human beings.
I encourage all men and women prisoners to continue to press onward with our Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH) through all corridors of state and county facilities.
Prisoners' era of retrospective study and constructive struggle
We are beacons of collective building while clearly understanding that we the beacons must take a protracted internal and external retrospective of our present day prisons' concrete conditions to forge our PHRM onward into the next stage of development, thereby exposing CDCr's racial discrimination and racist animus tactics against our prisoner class. This is why our lives must be embedded in determined human rights laws, based on our constructive development of our scientific methods and laws. Therefore, through our concrete conditions in each prison, our struggle shall be constructed through our Prisoner Human Rights Movement representatives and negotiators.
The PHRM has realized that CDCr has been setting up prisoners and creating racial tension among all racial groups, from various geographical locations up and down the state of California. It has become abundantly clear to the PHRM that Gov. Jerry Brown is an outspoken racist and overseer who has clearly shown that his discriminatory practices are directed at minorities and people of color: New Afrikan (Afrikan Amerikan), Mexicans (Latinos) and White working poor, who have all been suffering blatant discrimination in county jails and state prisons.
Gov. Brown went out and hired the most blatant racist prison superintendent in the U.S. as his secretary of corrections. Yes, CDCr Secretary Jeffrey Beard is continuing to torture, isolate, maim, racially assault, and racially, religiously and culturally discriminate against prisoners.
Gov. Brown and Secretary Beard are continuing their practices of long term solitary confinement. Now, it is a known fact that Gov. Brown and his personally appointed CDCr Secretary J. Beard do not want to STOP racial tension within the CDCr or the state of California as a whole, because if they did, the historical document, the Agreement to End Hostilities, would have been distributed by the CDCr to all women and men state prisoners, county jail prisoners, youth authority prisoners, juveniles, probationers and parolees throughout this state.
Since Oct. 10, 2012, when the Agreement to End Hostilities took effect, to the present day, California women and men prisoners' racial and cultural hostilities have decreased, without any assistance from Gov. Brown or his subordinate, Secretary of CDCr Jeffrey Beard. It is important that all citizens here in California and throughout the United States realize that Gov. Brown and Secretary Beard do not care about reducing the violence among prisoners, nor do they care about the safety and security of Californians who are not incarcerated.
Our civil rights are violated daily. We citizens realize that the safety and security of California prisoners and our neighborhoods throughout California will only come from the people, not from corrupt law enforcement agencies! Because we know that the majority of California law enforcement policies have been brutal to our inner city citizens – killing and maiming our family members – and that the brutality has been sanctioned by Gov. Brown and carried out by CDCr Secretary Beard et al behind California prison walls against all prisoners and especially Level 3 and 4 prisoners.
CEASE the human torture! CEASE the racial profiling, Gov. Brown and Secretary Beard!
I want everyone to know that I agree with my co-principle negotiators' articles in the October 2014 SF Bay View newspaper:
1) "California prisoner representatives: All people have the right to humane treatment with dignity" on page 5 and
2) "Unresolved hunger strike issues" on page 16. I want to encourage everyone to subscribe to this newspaper. It is the voice of all people!
To all U.S. citizens and the world community, support our Prisoner Human Rights Movement!
We are fighting for human justice. We are upholding the U.S. Constitution and California Constitution and the liberties therein, while establishing the freedoms that our ancestors struggled for over the past hundred years in California.
Determined to preserve our human lives and those of all prisoners within the state of California, we, the Prisoner Human Rights Movement, call on all citizens to get involved with social change now. In the course of our work, PHRM realizes that it is natural that we should meet opposition from CDCr, because of their ignorance and lack of knowledge manifested whenever CDCr ruthlessly deceives and deprives prisoners of our human rights and civil rights daily.
With the dawn of this new prison era, the Prisoners' Era of Retrospect and Construct, know what its essentials are; know its principles and strive to attain our goals and objectives in the truest sense of our Agreement to End Hostilities. We know what forced solitude causes: psychological and physical warfare, for prisoners and their outside family members as well.
Politically speaking, the world has changed and so have prisoners. Human progress means change, and today we need to prepare for a higher life, for tomorrow's liberty – educationally, socially and politically.
No one wants to be tortured, dehumanized, racially profiled, religiously profiled and viciously targeted by acts of sensory deprivation by Gov. Jerry Brown's state government and his California prison officials to implement the New Jim Crow, i.e., the Security Threat Group/Step Down Program (STG/SDP), which is actually criminal acts of torture by way of low intensity warfare. This is an act against all California citizens and humanity itself.
Our PHRM was threatened by CDCr officials and employees as we championed the cause of the Agreement to End Hostilities, and we thank God that our prisoner class did not fall prey to CDCr's threats to destroy our AEH across this state. Prisoners hold their destiny in the palm of their hands and we shall not allow any prison correctional officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, associate wardens, chief deputy wardens, wardens, the director of adult institutions, the undersecretary or the secretary or even Gov. Brown to destroy our faith in humanity. The Prisoner Human Rights Movement shall stand as ONE clenched fist in solidarity against CDCr oppression.
I want to make it clear that Gov. Brown and Secretary Beard operate with the mentality of Donald Tokowitz Sterling, the former Los Angeles Clipper's owner. Just review their policies, rules, laws and practices directed at all prisoners and their family members, relatives, friends and all citizens within this state.
We shall not allow even Gov. Brown to destroy our faith in humanity. The Prisoner Human Rights Movement shall stand as ONE clenched fist in solidarity against CDCr oppression.
Stand up against injustice. Stand up against racism. Stand up against sensory deprivation.
People, get involved in struggle!
Revolutionary love and respect!
Brutha Sitawa
Send our brother some love and light: Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, s/n R.N. Dewberry, C-35671, 4B-7C-209, P.O. Box 1906, Tehachapi CA 93581.
Posted in 2015, Agreement to End Hostilities, CDCr, hunger strikes, New Afrikan, Prisoner Human Rights Movement (PHRM), racism, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (s/n R. N. Dewberry), solitary confinement, torture	| Tagged 2015, Agreement to End Hostilities (AEH), Arturo Castellanos, California, CDCr creating racial tension, George Franco, Jeffrey Beard, Jerry Brown, New Afrikan, Prisoner Human Rights Movement (PHRM), racism, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (s/n R. N. Dewberry), solitary confinement, Todd Ashker, torture
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Sitawa during a visit on Feb 27 2016
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PHRM: Our Fifth Year to the Agreement To End Hostilities
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Please visit: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sitawa-and-his-family
Sitawa on a visit with his sister Marie, Feb 27 2016
Brother Sitawa is a community leader who has helped initiate positive change to the deadly and destructive policy of indefinite solitary confinement in California.
Since november of last year, Sitawa suffered a stroke near his spine. His sister Marie and her husband, and friends of Sitawa have been helping him during the short visits allowed, by communicating with him while he lost the ability to speak, and making sure his recovery has been positive.
Because Sitawa is housed far away from his sister Marie, she has had to travel a lot at her own expenses. Without these travels for necessary visits, Sitawa would not have been able to communicate his needs, and he would be in a lot more stress.
Therefore we are fundraising for Sitawa's family to be able to keep visiting him as much as possible under the rules of CDCr. Plus, if Sitawa is granted release because of his situation (as he is basically paralysed), he will need a lot of special care. Sitawa's parole date will be in the summer of 2020.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sitawa-and-his-family
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Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California)
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California Prison Focus
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
CURB Prison Spending (Californians United for a Responsible Budget)
Free Speech Society
Insurrectionists Art Collective (I.A.C.)
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC)
Lifers with Optimistic Progress (LWOP)
NARN Collective Think Tank (NCTT)
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Video: New York Times/Colin Archdeacon/CCR: Effects of Solitary Confinement (August 2015)
Handwritten text of Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa's Our New Afrikan Origins
Sign on the gate at Corcoran during the hunger sitrke of 2013 with text of SitawaBe mindful that our success will depend on our collective resolve and determination to put an end to this system of human torture – Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa
Rare photo of Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa during solitary confinement
Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa before going to solitary confinement
Two picturs showing Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa before (right) and during solitary confinement
Sitawa and his sister Marie during their first contact visit since 31+ years (Nov 2nd, 2015)
Marie Levin holding one of the few pictures of her brother Sitawa – by Malaika
Sitawa and his brother-in-law Randy during their first contact visit since many years
Sitawa on a visit with his family, Feb 27, 2016
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Bacon wrapped little smokies with brown sugar sprinkled on top, and baked to perfection. These bacon wrapped weenies are the ultimate appetizer for any party, and always the first to disappear!
When I first tried this appetizer recipe years ago, I remember thinking that it was beyond delicious… And I may or may not have had about 10 of these babies. They're just that good! Since then, we have made these Bacon Wrapped Smokies (aka Brown Sugar Smokies) for almost every big family get together.
Each weenie is wrapped in a piece of bacon, sprinkled with brown sugar, and slowly baked to a perfectly caramelized, savory bite of heaven. Not only are these little smokies wrapped in bacon delicious, but they're simple! Just THREE ingredients are needed – smokies, brown sugar, and bacon (all yummy!). Usually where there are appetizers, there are parties. So it's nice to have an easy appetizer that is quick and perfect for these get togethers!
What is it about the flavor combo of brown sugar and bacon that is so incredibly delicious? I don't know, but what I do know is that this one of the easiest brown sugar and bacon recipes you will ever find. Only three ingredients (talk about simple!) plus only 5 minutes of prep time and a few steps!
So simple and perfect for any party or get together.
Wrap smokies in bacon as usual and place half of them in the bottom of your crock pot. Cover with about 1/2 cup of brown sugar, add another layer of smokies, and cover with another 1/2 cup of brown sugar. Cook on low for 3-4 hours.
Can bacon wrapped smokies be made ahead?
This weenie recipe is actually a great make-ahead appetizer. Depending on how early you want to make them, you can do all of the steps prior to baking, and either put them in the fridge up to 3 days, or you can freeze them for a month or two.
Can bacon wrapped smokies be frozen?
Yep! You can freeze them pre-baking, or afterwards (assuming there are any leftovers to freeze) 😉 Either way, put them on a cookie sheet and freeze for a couple hours, then transfer them to a freezer bag (this prevents them from sticking together in the bag).
How to reheat bacon wrapped smokies?
If you're reheating unbaked frozen smokies, bake as usual, adding 10 minutes to the cooking time. If you're reheating leftovers, you can put them in the oven for 20 minutes at 325°, or for smaller amounts, you can microwave them for 20 seconds at a time until they're heated through.
Add 1/4 tsp (more or less depending on your taste preferences) of cayenne pepper to the brown sugar for a sweet and spicy kick.
Baste with BBQ sauce after baking, and broil for an additional 3-4 minutes until the weenies are sticky.
Add a small slice of pineapple or jalapeño pepper to each weenie before sprinkling the brown sugar.
Well I'm convinced I need to try these! We always have snack night for dinner around the holidays and being the bacon loving family that we are, I suspect these we be the first thing to get eaten!
You will have to let me know how you like them. They are seriously SO good!
I think I would love these more than the crescent roll wrapped ones! YUM!
We call these Pig Candy! Easy and delicious.
A winter holiday gathering is not the same without these little meat candy pops. They are a labor of love.
I bake them on a disposable broiler pan at 375 for 25 minutes. Using a baster to remove the fat and melted sugar, I then reapply the melted sugar and bake again for another 25 minutes. Repeat this process a few times until most of the fat is rendered off and you are left with a deliciously gooey meat candy.
They definitely taste better warm. You could keep them in a crock pot on the warm setting, so they don't get cold or a low setting. Hope that helps!! They'll be a hit!
Thank you for sharing the recipe! I'll have a small party this weekend, these Smokies will be a great dish.
You are so welcome! They will be a hit! Have fun!
I had these at a party a couple of years ago and yes they are just that good. I have not been able to get them out of mind since. I have bought everything and will be making them for Christmas! I am so excited.
One of the best recipe. I really want to try this in my kitchen.It will be the very delicious snacks.
Yes, you need to! It's the best appetizer or snack! So yummy!!
these are the best! late comer to trying them and now this Christmas day will be the 3rd time in December 2018. used them as appetizers twice and once as a treat to go along with a potato bar. delicious!!! if you have not tried them go for it and you will be the hit of the gathering. they a definitely best warm or hot.
Thanks for sharing that!! I know what you mean..we make them quite a bit!
New Years Eve is my favorite because we get to eat all the yummy appetizer's! These bacon wrapped smokies were amazing!!
We love these for New Year's!! Thank you!
These are the tastiest little appetizers! Anything wrapped in bacon is the bomb! We made these for New Year's & they were gone so fast!
My husband's favorite thing ever!
These are a classic and i also come Back to your recipe when making these. So good!
Made these for christmas eve and they were a huge hit. Not one was left on the plate after the party.
We can never make enough of these! There always The first to go and have the best taSte ever. You can make these ahead of time too. An added plus in my opionion.
These little appetizers never last in our house! They are so good!!!
I first has these about 15 years ago at a Bridal brunch. Ive always wanted to make them but wasnt sure on the cook time. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
These are the best tasty appetizer EVER!
My boys are so excited about these!! LIl smokies and BACon together= YUMMY. thanks for the recipe!


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Aerie Faerie Nonsense is The Enid's second album. It was released in 1977 by EMI and later re-released by The Enid in 1983 following its deletion from the EMI catalogue.

Release
Aerie Faerie Nonsense was recorded at Morgan Studios between August and September 1977 and released that year on EMI Records. EMI deleted it from their catalogue soon after.

In 1983, frustrated by the unavailability of the album, The Enid reconstructed it so that they could re-release it by themselves. They re-recorded all the tracks except Ondine. It was released on Vinyl LP with slightly altered track names and the poem "To Sleep" by John Keats featured on the album cover.
In 1985 Robert John Godfrey and Stephen Stewart recorded an extended version of Fand that was released for the fan club. This extended version appears on CD releases of the reconstructed Aerie Farie Nonsense.

In June 2010, following the Inner Sanctum releases, EMI agreed to grant an Exclusive Worldwide License for the original EMI release of the album to Operation Seraphim. The album was subsequently transferred from the original 30IPS 1/4 inch Dolby A tapes to 96 kHz 24 bit digital by Christian Curtis at Abbey Road. The tracks were mastered for CD by Max Read at The Lodge Recording Studio. The CD Artwork was taken from the original releases and incorporated into an eight-page booklet. The album was released on 15 July 2010 and made available from The Enid's online shop.

Track listing

Original 1977 Version

Side one
 "Prelude" (Godfrey) – (1:20)
 "Mayday Galliard" (Godfrey) – (6:09)
 "Ondine" (Godfrey, Lickerish) – (4:01)
 "Childe Roland" (Godfrey, Lickerish) – (7:09)

Side two
 "Fand I" (Godfrey, Lickerish) – (11:46)
 "Fand II" (Godfrey) – (5:41)

1983 Re-Issue

Side one
 A Heroe's Life "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (Godfrey, Lickerish, Steward) – (7:09)
 Ondine "Dear sweet thing of wonderful beauty, Roland's childe" (Godfrey) – (3:47)
 Interlude (Godfrey) – (1:00)
 Bridal Dance "Mayday Galliard" (Godfrey) – (6:39)

Side two
 Fand
 1st Movement
 Isle Of Brooding Solitude (Godfrey) – (2:51)
 The Silver Ship – Landfall (Godfrey, Lickerish, Stewart) – (5:02)
 The Grand Loving (Robert John Godfrey, Lickerish, Stewart) – (9:37)
 2nd Movement
 Love/Death...The Immolation of Fand (Godfrey) – (12:09)

Personnel
 Robert John Godfrey - keyboards
 Stephen Stewart - guitars, bass
 Francis Lickerish - guitars
 Charlie Elston - keyboards
 Terry "Thunderbags" Pack - bass
 Dave Storey - drums, percussion
 Dave Hancock - trumpet

1983 version
 Glen Tollet - bass
 Chris North - drums, percussion

Additional personnel
 Angus Boucher - executive producer
 John Sinclair - producer
 Gary Lyons - engineer
 Dean Pywell - sleeve design
 Colin Dunbar - original concept

References

1977 albums
The Enid albums
EMI Records albums