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Disney's Legacy Collection Swings Back to Life with "Robin Hood" (UPDATED 7/18)
July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments
UPDATE (7/18/2017): Attendees of last weekend's D23 Expo at Anaheim got the opportunity to purchase Robin Hood: The Legacy Collection ahead of its August 4 release date! It includes not only the complete songs and score by George Bruns, Roger Miller, Johnny Mercer and others, but five unreleased demos and a complete 1974 album of Robin Hood songs and new material sung by jazz legend Louis Prima, the voice of King Louie in Disney's 1967 feature The Jungle Book! Full track list and pre-order links are below!
ORIGINAL POST (5/23/2017): Golly, what a day! After a weekend of online teasers by the Disney Music Emporium, it was revealed that the Legacy Collection series--those fan-favorite, affordable multi-disc reissues of classic Disney soundtracks with bonus content and specially-created artwork--will be reactivated with a release of the music to Robin Hood (1973) this summer!
The retelling of the classic English legend turns Robin Hood and his band into a merry menagerie of woodland animals that deftly adapted the story for audiences young and old. The film's voice cast was a wonderful mixed bag of extraordinary British actors (Brian Bedford as the sly fox Robin Hood, Peter Ustinov as the bumbling lion Prince John), Disney regulars (jazz legend Phil Harris bringing his joie de vivre style as the loyal Little John, whose ursine features bear more than a little resemblance to Baloo of The Jungle Book, also voiced by Harris) and even a few surprises (honky-tonk hero Roger Miller of "King of the Road" fame shines as the rooster minstrel Alan-a-Dale, writing and singing "Whistle-Stop," "Ooo de Lally" and "Not in Nottingham"). Better yet, this soundtrack release is the first time Robin Hood will get its due on CD, having previously only been available on an LP that featured songs, some score by George Bruns, plus dialogue and newly-recorded narration by Miller. (One imagines that material may end up on the Legacy Collection release!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAIbElt9iOI
While no details are confirmed outside of the August 4 release date and a new, brilliant cover by Legacy Collection artist Lorelay Bové, Disney fans must surely wonder what this surprise title means for the future of the series, which stopped after 12 volumes released in 2014 and 2015. Those volumes were picked around notable anniversaries of animated classics (i.e.: years that ended in 4s and 9s or 5s and 0s).
Robin Hood doesn't meet that criteria, but a handful of special Disney projects do, namely:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): Walt Disney's first feature-length animated film
Bambi (1942), a stirring, Oscar-nominated score by Frank Churchill
The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (1977), featuring iconic songs from The Sherman Brothers
Aladdin (1992), the Oscar-winning blockbuster featuring a star turn from the late Robin Williams and the Oscar and Grammy-winning No. 1 smash "A Whole New World"
Hercules (1997), a modern classic soundtrack featuring upbeat songs by Alan Menken and lyricist David Zippel (including Michael Bolton's uplifting recording of "Go the Distance")
Lilo & Stitch (2002), which featured a score by Alan Silvestri (Back to the Future), Elvis Presley songs and beautiful original tunes by Hawaiian chanter Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu
Ratatouille (2007), Pixar's captivating chef yarn featuring French-accented music by Michael Giacchino
Enchanted (2007), a smart live-action/animated comedy sending up Disney's long tradition of storybook tales with an appropriately self-referential, Oscar-nominated song score by Menken
Additionally, this year is also the 35th anniversary of the opening of EPCOT, Walt Disney's visionary futuristic theme park, which has its own distinctive musical history. It's also the 30th anniversary of fan favorite animated series DuckTales, which is being revived this summer and recently had a catalogue release of its own with Intrada's release of the score to the 1990 animated film.
But it does seem to be anyone's game during this hoped-for wave of Legacy Collection titles! What Disney classics do you hope to see in this line? Sound off in the comments below!
Robin Hood: The Legacy Collection (Walt Disney Records D0025468-02, 2017 - original film released 1973) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.)
Disc 1: Original soundtrack (previously unreleased except where noted*)
Main Title - George Bruns
Whistle Stop - Roger Miller
Oo-De-Lally - Roger Miller *
Hail John - George Bruns
It's Only a Circus - George Bruns
Fortune Tellers - George Bruns
Enter the Sheriff - George Bruns
Skippy's Birthday Gift - George Bruns
A Lost Arrow - George Bruns
Meeting Maid Marion - George Bruns
To the Winner - George Bruns
The Archery Affair - George Bruns
Fooling Ol' Bushel Britches - George Bruns
Archer's Processional - George Bruns
Sir Hiss Suspects - George Bruns
Well, Well - George Bruns
The Loser - George Bruns
Seize the Fat One - George Bruns
Fight On Wisconsin - George Bruns
There You Are - George Bruns
Love - Nancy Adams *
The Phony King of England - Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas & Pat Buttram
Double the Taxes - George Bruns
Not In Nottingham - Roger Miller
Not Yourself Today - George Bruns
Bird Brain - George Bruns
Lower the Bridge - George Bruns
All's Well That Ends Well - George Bruns
Disc 2: Bonus material (Tracks 1-5, previously unreleased) and Louis Prima with Sam Butera and The Witnesses, Let's "Hear" It for Robin Hood (6-13, released as Buena Vista Records 3339, 1974)
Whistle Stop (Ragtime Demo Instrumental)
Oo-De-Lally (Western Score Demo Instrumental)
Not In Nottingham (Prince John Demo)
Love (Robin Hood Version)
The Phony King of England (Country Version)
King Louie and Robin Hood
Robin and Me
The Phony King of England
Friar Tuck
Merry Men
Categories: Features, News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: George Bruns, Louis Prima
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Rick Greene says
I would dearly LOVE to see a Sword In the Stone release, NEVER out just like Robin Hood, and another vintage George Bruns score. They used a few bits as menu music on the original DVD release, would sure like to see this one happen!
Jose R Acebes says
No love for Mulan? Its twentieth anniversary is just one year away!
I know it was considered pretty much a box office dud, but I'd like to see a release for Atlantis: The Lost Empire. And since the release of Toy Story showed that Pixar films are fair game, how about adding The Incredibles?
Brian Hargett says
Saw Robin Hood in the theater when it was new. Fond memories of the score from a Boston Pops Disney Salute albume originally on Polydor.
Saw Robin Hood in the theater when it was new. Fond memories of an overture from the score from a Boston Pops Disney Salute album originally on Polydor.
This year is also the 40th anniversary of the 1977 "New Mickey Mouse Club" television series. I would love to see a reissue of that cast album along with bonus tracks, but I'm not holding my breath.
Good! I really need the audio of the carnival chase scene for a project.
Joseph Molnar says
Release date on amazon is August 4th!
Thomas Pickles says
I'll buy 'em all, whatever they choose. But I'm a sucker for the classics -- particularly "Peter Pan." I'd also like to see a Legacy treatment of "Song of the South." The film's storyline is dated and controversial, but the music hold up wonderfully...and hopefully free of controversy. Legacy might be the ideal context to recall the movie. Last, while it doesn't quite fit the architecture of the series, it's time for a tribute to Tutti Camarata. He did some brilliant work for Disney. One of his most beautiful recordings was "Mon Amour Perdu." The song was written by the Sherman brothers, originally intended for the score of "Mary Poppins." It didn't fit there, but finally found a home re-positioned as a French-Canadian folk song in "Big Red." It's a wonderful recording that deserves more attention.
Yi Peng Li says
I am keen to know if the Legacy Collection will honour the 80th anniversary of the Snow White film with a reissue. More importantly, I'm hoping they add the other Menken & Ashman scores to the series so it can be a complete trilogy. Since Disney released the live-action version of Beauty and the Beast this year, this might be a fitting occasion for them to include their original "tale as old as time" in the series.
Peregrine Watkins-Field says
Would truly love to see The Jungle Book and Peter Pan get the legacy treatment.
EPCOT, EPCOT, EPCOT
.... and anything Theme Park Related
Pete Hamilton says
I would like to see Disney include a cd that has the soundtrack from the lp. The lp tracks had dialogue interspersed in the songs. For those of us who grew up before video/DVD releases, these albums were how we remembered the movies.
Kenneth Conchin says
Sword in the Stone
OLIVER and company
Disney legacy collection mulan, Aladdin, beauty and the beast
Michael Shawn says
More than anything I want the Legacy Collection to start again and a release of Alice in Wonderland, including Lost Chords demo songs and the Tutti Camarata album which is even better than the soundtrack! Somebody PLEASE make this happen. As of 2019 the Legacy Collection looks deader than a doornail, though and it pisses me off.
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PGD strives to be a good neighbor and requests that aircraft use our noise abatement arrival and departure procedures. Scroll down to learn more, submit a specific question through our noise concern submission form, or call our office at 941-639-4110.
Runway 4-22 will be closed for approximately one year starting in January 2022.
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NOISE CONCERN FAQ
Can Punta Gorda Airport (PGD) change aircraft flight paths?
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sovereign control over all airspace above the United States and its Territories. Neither the Charlotte County Airport Authority Board nor staff has the legal authority to mandate specific flight paths. We are only allowed to ask pilots to abide by recommended and voluntary noise abatement procedures. Any change in departure or arrival flight paths must be approved and implemented by the FAA.
Can PGD impose a nighttime curfew for flights?
No. The Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA) of 1990 enacted by the FAA does not allow airports to limit timing of aircraft operations, however, it did require a substantial reduction in noise by aircraft manufacturers. As such, Charlotte County Airport Authority worked with Allegiant to become the first Airbus A320 base in 2018, a fleet of planes which is much quieter than the previous MD-80 aircraft.
Since the Airport is a landing location for many types of aircraft and it engages in Interstate commerce (commercial transportation between states), it falls into same category as Interstate I-75. The airport is not allowed to put time limits on when that traveling commerce will occur. Only six U.S. airports have pre-1990 curfews grandfathered by ANCA.
What does PGD's Noise Concerns Office do?
We advocate for the community, work with the FAA, and educate pilots who frequently operate out of the airport regarding our noise abatement program.
What noise abatement efforts have been made by the Noise Concerns Office?
Obtained specialized flight tracking software to verify compliance to the recommended noise abatement procedures.
Created mediums to communicate and advocate for the community.
Created spreadsheets and analysis techniques to track filed concerns.
Established "Engine Run" procedures, necessitating management approval if the engine runs are after hours.
Built reflective "NOISE ABATEMENT PROCEDURES IN EFFECT" signage at the runway ends.
Established preferred calm wind runway operations on runway 22 for landings and runway 04 for takeoffs.
Worked with Allegiant Airlines to transition their based fleet from McDonald Douglas MD-80 to quieter Airbus 320. Allegiant has many of their newer A320s with upgraded noise abatement technology based at PGD.
Met with the local general aviation pilots to brief on our noise abatement procedures.
Communicates with flight crews that operate at PGD. Each verified non-compliance is tracked and logged and submitted to management for review.
How are pilots made aware that Punta Gorda is a noise sensitive community?
Abatement maps are posted in the pilot briefing room. To notify pilots of our noise abatement procedures, the signs are erected on the airfield before the entrance to our primary runway. Additionally, notices are published in aviation reference manuals and on our website. The FBO makes available handouts detailing the airports recommend noise abatement procedures to pilots obtaining fuel.
How do the pilots or controllers determine which runway to use?
Wind direction primarily determines which runway will be active. Aircraft will take off and land into the wind for safety purposes and aircraft limitations. Other factors include runway closures due to construction and conflicting aircraft traffic.
What are the rules regarding how low an aircraft can fly?
Aircraft altitude is established by Federal law. Stated in Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations § 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General
"Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes:
(a) Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.
(b) Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open-air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.
(c) Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.
(d) Helicopters, powered parachutes, and weight-shift-control aircraft. If the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface–
(1) A helicopter may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed in paragraph (b) or (c) of this section, provided each person operating the helicopter complies with any routes or altitudes specifically prescribed for helicopters by the FAA; …."
It is important to be aware of three aspects of this regulation. Most aircraft operating in the vicinity of PGD are in the process of landing or taking off, thus this regulation does not apply.
What are engine run-ups and why are they conducted?
Engine run-ups are conducted to verify and adjust the engine and its components for maintenance purposes.
Nighttime maintenance engine run-ups are prohibited from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m. unless prior approval from airport administration is given.
Can't the airplanes fly a few blocks down from me?
Airplane routes are not like driving on the highway. Planes fly in corridors; one aircraft may fly over your home, the next two blocks over. Both aircraft, however, will land on the same runway. Visually, an aircraft corridor is like a cone; the runway being the focus. The closer to the airport, the more consistent the flight paths are.
Why do airplanes fly out of the corridors?
The flight tracks and corridors are recommended voluntary procedures often used by pilots under ideal conditions. Factors such as weather, Air Traffic Control instructions, safety and the presence of other aircraft will often dictate a flight path that is different from the recommended modeled noise abatement flight tracks.
What is a stabilized approach?
The FAA requires pilots to be on a stabilized approach path when landing. To make a stabilized approach the pilot will minimize wing movement and obtain a steady rate of decent. In other words, a plane cannot make a significant turn just before landing, nor can it suddenly lose altitude just before touchdown.
Why do some aircraft seem louder than others?
The noise levels primarily depend on the type of engine used by the aircraft, the size of the aircraft and whether the aircraft is taxiing on the airfield, landing or taking off. Departures tend to be louder than arrivals since the pilot is forcing more power into the engine to achieve lift.
What makes a jet loud?
Airplane noise is comprised of both engine noise and airframe noise. Both noises are caused by rapid displacement of air interacting with calm external air.
Why does the airport seem noisier on some days more than others?
Weather plays an influential role in where aircraft noise travels. As the temperature heats up, the atmosphere becomes less dense. The low density enables sound waves to travel more horizontally through lower pressure air. This means an aircraft operating here in Florida during the winter will be heard further away than an aircraft operating in a much colder area like New York. Clouds and wind will also cause sound waves to be altered. Sound will be reflected from the clouds and back to earth, not allowing it to disperse in the atmosphere. Wind will redirect sound waves downwind from the aircraft it originated from.
Can aircraft engine emissions cause soot on my home?
Aircraft emissions have NOT been found to create soot on homes. There have been various research projects conducted at airports in which the researches collect samples from exhaust plumes behind aircraft. The studies have yet to conclude that the particulate matter emissions from aircraft are significant contributors to the material deposited on surrounding communities (Task 5: Investigating air emission impacts on the community, 2006). The black roof stains are classified as a black algae, called Gloeocapsa magma, a cyanobacteria (Clark, 2013).
The recent prevalence of the black algae may be due to the increased usage of limestone in shingles ("Black or Green Algae Stains on Asphalt Roof Shingles," 2018). Blackened roofs are more common in warm, humid climates and are most often mistaken for dirt, moss, or granule loss (Algae discoloration of shingles, 2017).
Image credit: Clark, 2013
In 2006, the Broward County Aviation Department conducted a study to analyze the air emissions impact on their community from their airport. The researchers were unable to identify any particulate matter that looked representative of known aircraft engine-generated particles. The material that were found did not include any petroleum hydrocarbons or similar compounds. The study noted that there is particle matter being deposited on homes and buildings, however; the particulate matter found is not aviation related (Task 5: Investigating air emission impacts on the community, 2006).
It is important to note that there are multiple sources of particulate matter that could potentially stain roofs in our community. The sources include fungi, pollen, industrial emissions, diesel and gasoline exhaust, dust (including rubber dust from I75 or US41), and ash. The ash is especially notable, as there are regular controlled burnings in our nearby conservation areas to prevent forest fires.
Algae discoloration of shingles (13). (2017). Retrieved from Canadian Asphalt Shingle
Manufacturers' Association website: https://inspectapedia.com/roof/Algae-Discoloration-of-Shingles-CASMA.pdf
Black or Green Algae Stains on Asphalt Roof Shingles. (2018). Retrieved from https://inspectapedia.com/roof/Shingle_Algae_Stains.php#Cause
Clark, P. (2013, June 18). Roof algae: The prehistoric organism that streaks your shingles.
The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/metro/urban-jungle/pages/130618.html
Reid, A. (2015, September 30). Beginning of sugar cane harvest reignites field burning debate.
Sun Sentinel. Retrieved from https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-cane-burning-resumes-20150930-story.html
Task 5: Investigating air emission impacts on the community. (2006). Retrieved from Broward County Aviation Department
Noise Concern Submission Form
Noise Abatement Maps
Noise Contour Maps by Year
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My Daedra was painted the way I had imagined her from the beginning on. Some people who had seen the first version confirmed to me, that black hair and a white blouse would fit her better. I selected the make-up around the eyes and the lipstick more darkly in order to give her this time a really cunning, evil aura. I painted the shadow of the hat onto the face like in the first version, in order to reinforce the effect of the piercing glance.


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This is Funny on So Many Levels
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims that the U.S. is planning to invade his country, and that he has the "documentary" evidence to back it up (I'm assuming that's a typo by CNN for "documented," but who knows? Maybe Michael Moore embarked on another project). The nerve of us, after all the help they gave us after Katrina! We should be ashamed. [/sarcasm]
But Chavez knows how to play hardball too. In the event of an invasion, Chavez warned, American can "just forget" about receiving any more oil from the country (you just can't make this stuff up). And, he added, if they occupy Caracas, he might not send flowers to the States on the 4th of July (okay, that part I made up).
Not that I think there is a whit of evidence we are going to attack Venezuela, but if we did? Call me skeptical, but I really don't think that Chavez will be able to stop us from getting however much oil we want. But maybe I'm wrong, and the unknown and untested Venezuelan military will win the biggest upset since Vietnam (ranking only slightly ahead the Red Sox coming back from down 3 games to beat the Yankees last year).
Set your bets now, ladies and gentlemen.
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Thought over the Weekend (I)
I realize I haven't been blogging as much recently. And I feel badly. All the more so because the reason is that I've been doing some fasicinating non-blog reading and writing which I'm not sharing.
So to at least partially make it up, I figure I'll pluck out some of the more thought-provoking passages from the stuff I've been reading, and hand it off to y'all. Consider this a modified version of my "debater cards" feature. Feel free to discuss, flame, argue, or do whatever with it.
Today's edition comes from Patricia J. Williams's superb book "The Alchemy of Race and Rights" (Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1991)
The tyranny of the majority has survived in liberal political theory as a justification for all manner of legislative restraint, particularly economic restraint. But what [John Stuart] Mill did not anticipate was that the persuasive power of the forum itself would subvert the polis, as well as the law, to the extent that there is today precious little 'public' left, just the tyranny of what we call the private. In this nation there is, it is true, relatively little force in the public domain compared to other nations, relatively little intrusive governmental interference. But we risk instead the life-crushing disenfranchisement of an entirely owned world. Permission must be sought to work upon the face of the earth. Freedom becomes contractual and therefore obligated; freedom is framed by obligation; and obligation is paired not with duty but with debt. (43)
Maybe not earth-shattering, but still interesting. The very tools we used to free ourselves from feudalism and other caste systems (indeed, the very things we conceptualize as "freedom") are in the process of enslaving us.
Look Over There!
In an inversion of my usual practice, I wrote a long post over at TMV and are pointing you to it from here. So, if you want my opinion on the most recent Pledge decision, check it out over here. Since it is a response to a previous post my bloghost Joe, the specific arguments it covers are an abbreviated legal argument, a normative claim as to why "under God" in the pledge is harmful to religious minorities, and a response to the claim that it is only a few agitators making the case and thus they should be ignored as out of step with the vast quantity of mainstream society.
If, for some odd reason, you want the opinion of someone who actually knows what they're talking about, you can try...
Hillel Levin
Ethan Leib (happy birthday Ethan!)
Self-described "fervent atheist" Jim Lindgren with a conservative critique.
And Armen shows us just how much fun lower court judges have in dealing with the Courts crystal-clear Establishment Clause jurisprudence.
And after that--well, you can read me again.
If you haven't noticed, I've been blogging less frequently of late. I hope this is merely a temporary bout of fatigue. To be honest, the major reason for the slowdown is that I'm reading some really interesting books (specifically "The Alchemy of Race and Rights" by Patricia J. Williams and "Jews and Blacks: Let The Healing Begin" by Michael Lerner and Cornell West), am finally making progress again in my (off-blog) writing, all of which, when topped with interesting classes (including Feminist Theory and Philosophy of Law) are taking up all my intellectual energy. Leaving little time for blog posts.
But if, as will inevitably happen, these things lose their novelty, I'll be back. I always come back.
Gather round, boys and girls. It's time for a story from your Uncle David.
I'm considering using the following tale as an introduction for a paper I'm writing. I'm curious therefore to know what people's reactions are to it, what they think the "message" is (if any), whether it seems superficial (or too obtuse), etc etc.. Of course, any comments on grammatical or stylistic matters would also be greatly appreciate.
It's been the end of a long day at the end of a long week. A young, white male rides down the subway escalator, anxious to return home. Today will be the first time he's been home before 9 o'clock since Sunday. It's hot inside the station and hot outside the station--no day to be wearing a suit. As he goes through the turnstiles, he sees a train is already on the platform ahead, picking up passengers. Quickening his pace, he strives to catch it before it leaves the station.
"Metro's been spotty this whole week. Who knows when the next one will arrive?"
As he approaches the car, he sees that it is rapidly filling up. Jammed to the hilt, it seems. Still, there is room for one more...
Just before he reaches the subway, a black woman appears seemingly out of nowhere and slides inside. They connect as he goes by--not quite a collision, but not quite a brush either. The train is full, the doors close. The young white man is left on the outside.
"Hey, what the hell? What are you trying to pull?" The young man screams. The car hasn't left yet, the African-American can still see him through the window. He gesticulates wildly, ranting, yelling, upset even though he doesn't really know why. The woman's eyes widen--she looks afraid, but he doesn't notice. He continues, animal, bestial, consumed.
"Fuck you" he finally says. She can't hear him (the windows block out the sound), but she can see his raised middle finger. He stalks off, to wait for the next car.
He's home now. The rage has worn off. He knows he over-reacted. Why was he so angry? He doesn't really know. "Must have been the heat," he thinks. Stress too.
He remembers the look on the woman's face as he yelled at her. My God, she probably thinks I'm a racist!" The thought weighs heavily upon him. He knows he's not a racist. He votes for progressive candidates. He supports affirmative action. He even attended rallies for racial justice when was in college. He can't be a racist...right?
She, of course, didn't know any of that. Which means that she is probably home right now, thinking about her near miss with the racist white guy in the subway station. For a flash, he's angry at her again. She should know better--it was rush hour, everybody is touchy. How dare she consider him a racist!
"Am I a racist?" The question pops unbidden, jarring, disconcerting. Was this an anomaly, a fluke, an unfortunate byproduct of, as he had justified it before, heat and stress?
He ponders this for a moment. Why was he so upset? Because she had taken the last spot on the train, that's why. He would have been angry no matter who it was. "And," he reminds himself, "I'd be upset afterwards about my reaction. It's not right to treat anyone that way."
In fact, he thinks, there's no reason to think of this in racial terms at all. This was a tense moment between two rushed commuters at rush hour. Happens thousands of times across the country, every day. For that matter, why did he just assume that the woman thought of the incident as race-related? That's not fair to her—that's the very type of race-conscious thinking that does cause racism. Nope--this was just a tragic case of stress. He wasn't racist, she didn't think he was racist--racism was entirely, completely, totally irrelevant.
The man makes a mental note to apologize to the woman if he saw her again, knowing that in the multi-million person metropolis they lived in, the chances were slim to none. He feels bad about that--but what can he do?
He relaxes. All is calm again.
[Sniff] This is the Happiest Moment of My Life...
George W. Bush has taken responsibility for something that went wrong (thanks to John Cole)!
I'm stunned. Seriously, I am. I've never heard Bush take responsibility for anything before--what was supposed to motivate him to start now? I mean, now that "Brownie" resigned I had assumed the GOP would go back on the assault, same as always. But no! He threw a change up at us this time. And boy has it thrown the blogosphere for a loop.
Hostile bloggers like Steve Soto, Josh Marshall, Lean Left, and The Talent Show are all disoriented. They think that it was the right thing to do, but are convinced that it was a completely political calculation designed to dodge true accountability. As TTS puts it:
It will be interesting to see if this kind of "aknowledgement" [sic] of responsibility becomes the basis by which, as always, Bush and Co. manage to skate by without actually being held responsible by anyone. My feeling is, sadly, that we will once again see any serious attempt to reform the system stymied, and the only people to suffer any political punishment will be the people who were most vocally calling for accountability in the first place.
But if anything, it's worse for the right. At least liberals believe that Bush actually did screw up Katrina. Conservatives (or should I say, the more intellectually dishonest of them) are now caught between their pathological desire to attack liberals and their sycophancy to President Bush (or their oh-so-brave "challenges" for him to be yet more conservative). LaShawn Barber, for example, avoids the issue of Katrina entirely--only asking that Democrats apologize for welfare and demanding that Bush apologize for "fail[ing] to harness the power of a conservative government, squandering precious time and resources." Yes, that's really the problem here. A rather neat turnabout, to tell the truth: it attacks Bush for his liberalism and liberals for their liberalism, making this apology just another case of liberals being wrong. Woohoo.
Unsurprisingly, my co-blogger Joe has a characteristically thoughtful and erudite post on the matter.
Federalist Society Inducts Kos Blogger As Newest Member
Jim Lindgren plays a bit with Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' claim that a judge should be an "umpire," rather than one who plays the game himself. Lindgren notes that different umpiring philosophies might translate to different legal philosophies:
First umpire: "Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as they are."
Second umpire: "Some are balls and some are strikes, and I call them as I see 'em."
Third umpire: "Some are balls and some are strikes, but they ain't nothin' 'til I call 'em."
Translating roughly to an essentialist "natural law," traditional liberal, and a realist or CLS model, respectively.
Angus Dwyer of the Yale Federalist Society takes it even a step further though. Noting that there is some dispute as to what rules are the "real rules," he asks:
My point is: it's not enough to say "I will neutrally enforce the rules" without answering the question "which rules are the rules?"
To put it differently, does Judge Roberts believe in the wide strike?
Upon reading that, a memory was aroused. What did Kos blogger Armando say on the subject?
It is an interesting analogy Judge Roberts draws. And it seems to me to be an excellent argument for why Judge Roberts must answer the questions put to him by the Senate. As any baseball fan knows, umpires are not uniform in the delineation of the strike zone. Some are "hitters" umpires. Some are "pitchers" umpires. Some call the high strike. Some call the outside pitch.
And when it comes to the Supreme Court of the United States, it is important that we know what Judge Roberts' "strike zone" is.
Basically the same thing.
Who'd have thought that The Daily Kos and the Federalist Society would see the Roberts nomination so similarly? Satan, get your skates on.
Crescat tipped me off originally. De Novo also opines.
Don't Waste Your Tears on Me
Jazz feels bad for me. I'm under some delusion that I'm a liberal. Apparently, neo-liberal "is code for neo-conservatives who want to sway people toward the hypnochrists." And to think I thought I was Jewish too--apparently, in addition to being a pawn of the Bush administration and "Dean Asmay acolyte" (someone whom I've rarely read--the point of confusion was that Tom Strong read Asmay, and I considered the arguments Strong found persuasive the same I do. My actual influences run closer to Tom Friedman, Peter Beinart, and Jonathan Chait), I'm also an unwitting member of Jews for Jesus. Who knew?
Let's start off with what Jazz got right--that I was indeed a bit ruffled by his first post. This was due to my false assumption that it was an attack on me. Alas, what we have here is a classic case of mistaken identity. Jazz simply refuses to believe my self-described motivations for my policy positions. He isn't making an argument, his post was the intellectual equivalent of covering his ears and going "I can't hear you."
For example, when I disclaim any support for Bush, he responds
Ok. You don't endorse Bush. You endorse his war in Iraq and his attempts to "spread democracy" (as if you believe that) in the Middle East. Fair enough. You don't endorse him. You simply endorse his worst policies. My apologies.
Even a cursory glance at my prior blogging would belie this (see, e.g., here, here, and here). I am appalled by Bush's horrific mismanagement which jeopardizes the democratic principles that caused me to support the war in the first place. Saying "I told you so" may be a valid attack (though it has very little critical bite, since the impact, "don't trust Bush," I've absorbed by myself, thanks). Saying that I'm a consistent shill for the Bush administration is simply facile. I support Bush as deep as the statement "I support the war" goes. In terms of conduct, preparation, justification, success metrics, and virtually any other indicator, we split.
His defense of the WMD statement? Same problem:
Ok. But you then go on to say, "I'm a neo-liberal anti-Bushite who believes in an at least partial WMD disarmament..." Oh, so you believe in PARTIAL WMD disarmament, do you? And since I'm wrong, I assume that you think the USA should give up their WMD's and Turkey, N. Korea, Iran and Russia should keep them, eh? Pull the other one, Senor... it doth have bells on it. You believe in the "bad people" disarming.
Actually, what I meant by disarmament was that both the US and Russia should significantly reduce their WMD stockpiles, and we should aggressively combat the proliferation of WMDs to other nations (it should be noted that one can be anti-proliferation without wanting ANY reduction in current WMD levels--proliferation being the spread of WMDs, not anything to with the status quo. But that's not my position). The "partially" was merely to denote that WMDs still have some deterrent effect on conflict and thus we should preserve SOME nukes--but we don't need as many.
Of course, some of this confusion may be related to my doubts as to whether Jazz even read my piece at all. Certainly, he did this discourse no favors by skipping over all the meat of my analysis (non-intervention as a conscious choice which reifies oppression and murder). Moreover, he completely mangles my characterization of his position. He says that I call him a "liberal" and a "pacifist." I do neither. I actually say that while his argument masquerades as being a pluralist case for non-intervention ("pluralists for tyrannies"), a look beneath the surface reveals a fundamental conservatism. Since the ultimate sticking point between us was whether or not my opinions could be characterized as liberal (as he puts it, to take my arguments and "couch them in a cloak of faux liberalism...borders on insulting"), it is rather integral to show that the counter-argument he makes against intervention cannot under any stretch be called liberal. Indeed, I specifically label it conservative ("...you can see the conservatism in the argument itself."), so it's a bit weird that he thinks me critique was that he was liberal. What we're disputing is what liberal is. My claim is that while the argument draws from leftist theories of pluralism, in effect it is a conservative position which justifies political inaction and marginalization of outsiders. You can even see the conservative influence in his invocation of his armed service--he served in Desert Storm (thanks for that, by the way. I'm totally serious), so his opinions on war are utterly and completely beyond reproach. Geez, where have I heard that type of argument before? As to the pacifism thing--I registered no claim as to what Jazz feels about any given war. I critiqued his objection to foreign policy intervention, but then, these subtleties seem to be escaping him.
The straw men keep coming. Why do I hate the UN? Because of oil-for-food (actually, it's because the UN has consistently refused to stand up to genocide occurring in front of it's very eyes: see, e.g., Rwanda, Darfur, Cambodia, Congo, Iraq (Anfal campaign). And when other people try to pick up the slack, they declare the war illegal, see Kosovo. I have no use for an international organization who ignores its own explicit mandates to stop genocide for the sake of political expediency). Why do I hate Europe? Because they're "old Europe" (I actually don't hate Europe, but given their history of colonization in the middle east, they too have little credibility when it comes to liberation). What's the most important thing in the world to me? Fitting in the Rovian agenda (I hate, hate, Karl Rove). The post is a giant imputation of false motivations that can be disproved simply by reading my archives. What we have here, is a failure of imagination. Jazz cannot argue against anybody who isn't a neo-con. To compensate, he just insists that anybody who disagrees with him is a neo-con, and works from there. Sorry dear, but it just ain't flying.
Amidst all of that straw-bashing, there is a tiny, tiny, bit of substantive clash. It comes in the following two passages. Referring to my defense of democratization as an ideal (as oppose to America) as an ideal, he writes:
Do you honestly think that democracy is the only functional form of government in the world? Dave, ours is barely functional at this point. And there have been many successful ones that have lasted far longer than the gnat's lifespan that ours has been here. Democracies often implode, also. It's a hard form of government to run over the long haul. Others take other choices. Your desire to "democratize" puts the lie to your first statements.
Note, incidentally, that Jazz claims that authoritarianism is a "choice" by citizens in the third world. That's odd: how did they choose? Did they vote for it? The conception of "choice" in government is inextricably bundled with democratization--if you're supporting choice you're supporting democracy. This may seem paradoxical, but it isn't--unlike other forms of government democracy is characterized by its indeterminancy: the citizens of France can vote for one type of government and the citizens of Indonesia can vote for an entirely different one. Two totally different choices, both under the framework of "democracy." In dictatorships, by contrast, the only person choosing is the dictator. This is why Jazz's case is so easily deconstructed, again, it's defending dictatorships from the position of free choice.
Passage two:
David seems to think that when we went in and took out Saddam and his party every other Iraq was waiting to cheer and exclaim, "Finally! Finally, we can have equal rights for our women and for gays and for people of all religions!" Here's a tip, David. The Iraqis who do support us do so because they hate us slightly less than they did Saddam. Why do you think they are quickly moving to form a theocratic bond with Iran?
Societies change from within. Do you really think we can have a trooper standing at the dinner table with every Iraqi Man saying, "Embrace your wife's rights! Embrace your gay son!" Yeah. That will work. Cultures evolve over centuries. You don't do it at gunpoint. But David and the "spread Americanism at the end of a rifle" crowd somehow think you can.
Paired with the passage above, this boils down to a "democracy isn't so hot" argument paired with "democracy can only be home-grown."
I've never been the biggest democracy fan as a theory--I support it pragmatically because I'm Churchillian, I think that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.
Jazz tells me there are other "functioning" governments besides democracy. Alright Jazz, I'll call your bluff: what are they? Obviously this depends a lot on what the definition of "functioning" is. If it's just keeping order, then sure, there have been loads of functioning non-democratic states. The USSR, Nazi Germany, Communist China, to name a few. If "functioning" implies a basic level of rights for citizens, though, then suddenly the list becomes a bit tighter. Indeed, on an empirical level, and even controlling for economic development, democracies have outperformed autocracies on almost every level. Joseph T. Siegle, Michael M. Weinstein, Morton H. Halperin wrote in the September/October 2004 edition of Foreign Affairs that:
People in low-income democracies live, on average, nine years longer than their counterparts in low-income autocracies, have a 40 percent greater chance of attending secondary school, and benefit from agricultural yields that are 25 percent higher. The latter figure is particularly relevant because some 70 percent of the people in poor countries live in the countryside. Higher levels of agricultural productivity mean more employment, capital, and food. Poor democracies also suffer 20 percent fewer infant deaths than poor autocracies. Development practitioners should pay particularly close attention to these figures because infant-mortality rates capture many features of social well-being, such as prenatal health care for women, nutrition, quality of drinking water, and girls' education.
More integral to the point I'm trying to make is the link between authoritarian states and mass death. R.J. Rummell, Professor at the University of Hawaii, compiled the statistics and found that:
While 36 million people have been killed in battle in all foreign and domestic wars in [the 20th] century, at least 119 million more have been killed by government genocide, massacres, and other mass killing. And about 115 million of these were killed by totalitarian governments... There is no case of democracies killing en-masse their own citizens. The inverse relationship between democracy and foreign violence, collective domestic violence, or government genocide is not simply a correlation, but a cause and effect...[T]he more democratic freedom a nation has, the less likely its government will commit foreign or domestic democide...through democratic institutions social conflicts that might become violent are resolved by voting, negotiation, compromise, and mediation. The success of these procedures is enhanced and supported by the restraints on decision makers of competitive elections, the cross-pressures resulting from the natural pluralism of democratic--spontaneous--societies, and the development of a democratic culture and norms that emphasizes rational debate, toleration, negotiation of differences, conciliation, and conflict resolution. Moreover, democratic leaders see others, even political opponents, as within the same moral universe, as equally nonviolent, as disposed to negotiate differences peacefully."
That comparison should be astounding. In the 20th century, totalitarian governments beat democratic governments in terms of democidal deaths by a total of 115 million to 4 million. Given that reality, the argument that Iraqis won't immediately vote for gay rights pales.
As to the argument that democracies can't be established via military force, this is factually inaccurate. Just ask the folks in Germany, Japan, and Kosovo, where we did(/are doing) just that. University of Chicago Political Scientist Daniel Drezner notes that
But what of governments imposed via military occupation? Surely they're the exception to this optimistic rule. Actually, the empirical evidence of the last 50 years is rather evenly split on the question. Postwar Germany, Japan, Bosnia, and Kosovo are all, to varying degrees, democratic success stories; Somalia and Haiti are probably safely considered failures. (Let's be generous and say the jury is still out on Afghanistan.) Still, the more relevant point is that the key difference between the democratic haves and have-nots is not the conditions that prevailed prior to war; it's the occupiers' commitment to the democratization process once the fighting ends. In the words of a compelling new RAND Corporation study, America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq...:
'What principally distinguishes [successes from failures] are not their levels of Western culture, economic development, or cultural homogeneity. Rather, it is the level of effort the United States and the international community have put into their democratic transformations. In Germany and Japan, for example, substantial American aid reduced social, political, and other obstacles to the reconstitution of parliamentary politics and facilitated a transition to democracy.
Military force may not be ideal for creating democracies, but it certainly isn't antithetical to it. And even if it were true that totalitarian states will naturally evolve into democracies (something I'm skeptical of and in any event contradicts Jazz's earlier claim that dictatorship is a deliberate and happy "choice"), I really wouldn't care all that much, because waiting for dictatorships to squeeze every last murder, torture, rape, and robbery they can out of their state before they are overthrown doesn't strike as a particularly moral(/liberal) way to conduct foreign policy. Being a liberal means aiding the oppressed now (or as soon as is reasonably feasible), not letting history take it's whim and hoping for the best.
Not that I expect this post to matter. If it even gets a response, it will be yet another sad attempt to force me inside a neo-conservative box, where I can be slapped around like Rummy and Wolfie and all the other folks who have destroyed the credibility of Wilsonian Foreign Policy for generations to come. Oh well.
Pluralists for Tyranny?
In the midst of a kind of rambling and overall poorly written post on the role of narratives in political discourse, I wrote the brilliant line that "superficially going to war doesn't seem to mesh well with pacifism."
Okay, maybe not my best work, even though it was intended to be ironic. The underlying point was that the if pacifists adopt that position instrumentally in order to pursue "deeper" values (like social justice or avoidance of harm to individuals), then a well-constructed narrative could convince an erstwhile pacifist to support a certain war (say, one to end a genocide) by reinforcing, not refuting, their pre-existing value system. But whatever--it was inartfully worded, and I deserved to be mocked.
And mocked I was, by Jazz Shaw of Running Scared. But then he steps past that and makes me a convenient straw man to bash all sorts of nasty things. Specifically:
A thumbnail description of why people following this particular theory try to call themselves "liberal" while endorsing Bush, preemptive wars and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction as long as it's among "the good countries" could not be crafted in the space available. However, the crux of it is that "we" (and by "we", the theory refers exclusively to America) are essentially perfect. And as perfect beings, we somehow need to "save" the other countries of the world from themselves and their inferior societies, if necessary, by war. Spending our most precious capital -namely the blood of our youth - is somehow seen as "for the greater good" as long as we can bring them to see the light.
I'd write a long argument against this, but let's face it... it falls apart on its own. There are so many religions in the world... so many forms of government... so many opinions. Most all of them are valid for people of good intentions who love their own countries and societies and cultures. The mind reels. I welcome you to read the short but stunning (you fill in exactly why it's stunning) work of... David Schraub.
I can't tell if it's more amusing or frightening. What I do know is that it perfectly sums up the "theory" of the neocons who want to use preemptive war to project American power and "theory" on other cultures. To take those theories, even if you seriously believe them, and couch them in a cloak of faux liberalism, though, borders on insulting.
Somehow, I endorse Bush (I don't), advocate the spread of WMDs (again, I don't), believe that only American ideas/religions/opinions are worthwhile (take a guess), and am a neo-conservative who wishes to project American power (I'm not). In all actuality, I'm a neo-liberal anti-Bushite who believes in an at least partial WMD disarmament and is committed the liberation of those suffering under tyranny and oppression.
Since some folks don't seem to understand the difference between neo-cons and neo-libs, I'll try and spell it out. Neo-cons, as Jazz helpfully points (and rather unhelpfully ascribes to me) believe that America is "perfect" or nearly so, and that a just world is an Ameicanized world--whatever that means. If America is perfect, than anything we do in the pursuit of perfecting the world (torture, indefinite detention, etc) is justified. Neo-liberals, by contrast, are committed to certain ideals, among them democratization, equal rights, and other liberal mainstays. For us, America is instrumentally useful for achieving those goals--but certainly does not inherently embody them. So we'll loudly press for American-led democratization--while at the same time condemning American-caused atrocities like Abu Gharib. Where we join forces with neo-cons is that we do not see an alternative to an American led effort to secure these ends. No other organization or nation is remotely capable of achieving these goals. Ideally, would I prefer a nation or group that has a better track record than America to undertake this project? Sure. But who is out there? The UN? The EU? Don't make me laugh. At the moment, the US is the only choice we have.
Okay, now that we've gotten identity out the of the way, let's look at just who's argument falls apart on it's own terms, eh? Poor word choice aside, it seems quite reasonable for liberals of any stripe to push for the liberation of oppressed peoples. And realists of any stripe recognize that sometimes asking nicely doesn't work. So a liberalism that is in touch with reality has to occasionally sanction the use of force--and it certainly can't indulge in the sort of soft post-modernism Jazz embodies with his fuzzy talk of "so many opinions."
That, of course, is what makes Jazz's argument really ironic. "Pacifists for armed intervention" may be silly, but no more so than his "pluralists for tyrannies" objection. I recognize that Iraqis have many opinions--some of which are different from mine. In fact, I'm so cognizant of the fact that I'd actually like to give them the chance to express them! The right to self-determination, to be free of rape rooms and torture-on-whim, these aren't American rights (we too have violated them before). They're human rights--and at the moment America is the only chance of securing them.
What Jazz doesn't realize is that a "look-the-other-way" foreign policy is a conscious choice--one that dooms millions to rape, mutilation, and death. So when the US refuses to intervene to overthrow dictatorships, it isn't a "neutral" act but a positive affirmation of the current state of affairs. Effectively, Jazz is using pluralism to prop up authoritarianism--a contradiction in terms if I ever saw one. Jazz acts as if the contemporary global situation is natural and inevitable--that American efforts to rectify the situation are an illegitimate imposition on the way things "should be." Such a view is nakedly conservative--it not only asserts the naturality of the wretched state of the third world, but it implies that it is their choice to be that way. If trying to create progressive democracies is pushing an "American" theory or way of life, then the corollary is that the status quo--totalitarianism, oppression, poverty--is "their" way of life. That isn't liberalism. That's rationalization for refusing to rectify the pervasive inequalities that plague the modern world. If that's the new liberalism, then call me a moderate, call me a conservative, call me something else. But I refuse to believe it.
If you look closely, you can see the conservatism in the argument itself. Note what Jazz labels the "capital" being expended here: "the blood of our youth." Presumably also our money, our resources, and our attention. Of course, not a word is said about the capital expended when we do nothing: the blood of their youth (and adults), their money, resources, and attention (in quantities, proportionally, that dwarf what we'd expend). For an argument that purports to critique ethnocentrism, it sure does a damn fine job of marginalizing the Other. What of them? It is highly revealing that the interests of Iraqis or Afghanis or what have you play precisely no role in Jazz's moral calculus. After all, we both claim to be speaking for the best interests of the oppressed. Yet while at least the neo-liberals can provide concrete methodologies to improve the lives of the worst well-off, the leftist stance Jazz postulates consists mostly of looking in the mirror and beating ourselves bloody. We use the poor to whip ourselves, and then say what good persons we are because we're incorporating them into our discourse! Hurray for us! But true liberation isn't a product of making the oppressed our intellectual playthings, it's about seriously and materially working to improve their lives. We can't do that behind a podium in Turtle Bay--and it's willful ignorance to pretend otherwise.
Obviously, liberalism is a contested subject. But at the point where the "liberal" position is one that justifies inequality, shies away from reform, attacks liberators, and defends the status quo even in the face of sickening atrocities--at that point the term becomes distorted beyond recognition. Jazz can believe what he wants--but I'll defend my position as the true heir to liberalism any day of the week.
UPDATE: I go yet further into depth here.
First Thing We Do, Let's Burn Down The Synagogues
So the last Israelis are out of Gaza. How should the newly independent Palestinians celebrate? How about by burning all the synagogues to the ground?
And some people say there isn't anti-Semitism in this conflict (Eric Muller with the link).
PS: By the way, I did see that the Israelis originally promised to tear down the Synagogues themselves, then changed their minds. Big deal. The Gaza pullout already exacted a tremendous emotional toll on the Israeli populace and military--a giant step toward peace which, one might point out, was made with no promise of comparable concessions by the Palestinian side. It is not at all unreasonable to spare these soldiers the further trauma of having to tear down their own holy places. The Palestinian protestation is just another indication of their unapologetically maximalist positions and failure to even consider compromise. And in any event, respecting the holy places of other religions shouldn't be on the negotiating table anyway. Anyway you cut it, even if (like me) you supported the Gaza pullout, this was deplorable.
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Stafford v. Washburn
Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division
EDWARD STAFFORD, Respondent,
MARY R. WASHBURN and JOSEPH WALKER, JR., as Executors, etc., of EMMA JANE RICHARDSON, Deceased, and MARY R. WASHBURN, Individually, Appellants, Impleaded with MARY JANE KERR and Others, Defendants, and THOMAS TURNER and Others, Respondents.
APPEAL by the defendants, Mary R. Washburn and another, as executors, etc., and Mary R. Washburn, individually, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff and certain of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of January, 1911, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
Jacob Halstead, for the executors of estate of Emma J. McLeay, deceased, appellants.
William T. Washburn, for the appellant Mary R. Washburn, individually.
Arthur Garfield Hays, for the plaintiff.
Manfred W. Ehrich, for the respondents Thomas Turner and others.
SCOTT, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment at Special Term requiring the defendants Mary R. Washburn and Joseph Walker, Jr., as executrix and executor of Emma Jane Richardson, deceased, to account to plaintiff and other heirs at law of Thomas W. McLeay, deceased, for the proceeds of the sale by the said Emma Jane Richardson, during her lifetime, of real estate formerly belonging to said Thomas W. McLeay, deceased, and for moneys paid to said Emma Jane Richardson, in her lifetime, by the city of New York for property taken in condemnation proceedings, and which formerly belonged to said Thomas W. McLeay.
There is no dispute as to the facts, and the only legal question involved is as to the construction to be given to the
will of said Thomas W. McLeay, who was the husband of said Emma Jane Richardson (she having contracted a second marriage), and who died in the year 1865, leaving a widow, but no children, father or mother. He also left one brother, four sisters and a number of nieces and nephews. His will, which we are called upon to construe, reads as follows:
'IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.
'I, Thomas W. McLeay of the City of New York, of the age of years and upwards and being of sound mind and memory but aware of the uncertainty of life, do make, publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following, that is to say:
' First. I give, bequeath and devise to my dearly beloved wife Emma Jane McLeay all my personal estate of every nature and kind and wheresoever situated to have and to hold to her own use forever.
'Second. I give, bequeath and devise all my real estate of what nature or kind soever, and wheresoever situated to my said wife, to be used and enjoyed by her during the term of her natural life, and from and immediately after her death one house and lot such as my said wife may choose and have designated in writing to Mary Rosenia Doughty, and to her heirs and assigns to have and to hold to her or their own use forever and all the rest and residue of my real estate or such parts or portions thereof as are not previously sold by my said wife to such of my brothers and sisters as shall be living at the time of her death share and share alike if more than one, and to their heirs and assigns to have and to hold to their own use forever; and I authorize and give my said wife hereinafter appointed executrix of this my last will, full power to sell and dispose of any or all of my real estate, at public or private sale, at such time or times and upon such terms and in such manner as to her shall seem meet and to give good and valid deeds therefor and I also give her as full power and authority to manage said real estate as I myself have, and I also authorize her, at her discretion, to give to any or all of my said brothers and sisters such sum or sums from the principal of my estate, as she shall deem best, or desire and I hereby appoint my said wife Emma Jane McLeay
sole executrix of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made.'
The widow qualified as executrix. She went into possession of the real estate and sold it all during her lifetime, except a parcel which was taken by the city of New York in a condemnation proceeding, and the award for which was paid to her. She never, in form, designated any house and lot to go to Mary Rosenia Doughty under the terms of her husband's will, but some years after she had sold all of the real estate she repurchased one of the houses and lots and then conveyed it, for a nominal consideration, to the said Mary Rosenia Doughty, then Mary Rosenia Washburn. This has been held by the judgment appealed from to have been an ineffectual attempt to exercise the power of appointment given by the will, and the executors are required to account for this house and lot, or its value, and for the rents thereof since the death of Emma Jane Richardson, deceased.
The appellants, executrix and executor of Emma Jane Richardson, deceased, contend that under her husband's will their testatrix took an estate in the real estate in fee simple absolute, subject, however, to the executory devise to the surviving brothers and sisters of so much of the real estate as to which she failed to exercise her power of disposition.
The respondents, on the other hand, contend (and so it was held at Special Term) that the said testatrix took only a life estate under the will, and that as to the proceeds of any real estate sold by her the testator, Thomas W. McLeay, died intestate. It is apparent upon the face of the will that the desire which was uppermost in the mind of the testator was that the whole management and disposition of the real estate should be left to his wife to deal with as she saw fit. To those members of his family who might survive her he left only what she might not see fit to dispose of in her lifetime. The main features of the will, so far as it concerns the real estate (with which alone we are now concerned), are: (1) The gift of a life estate to his wife; (2) the grant to her of ...
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Q: Are there any downsides to using an empty object initializer? I'm doing a code review and found a line where one of our developers is creating an object using an empty object initializer like this:
List<Floorplan> floorplans = new List<Floorplan> { };

I don't know why he would instantiate this way rather than:
List<Floorplan> floorplans = new List<Floorplan>();

Are there any downsides to object instantiation using empty object initializers?  Other than being stylistically inconsistent I want to know if there is a reason avoid this approach.  Something tells me this smells but I want to be sure before I say anything.

A: There are no downsides but favor readability in this case.  If you don't need the extra brackets while instantiating then don't use them plain and simple.
I would even go as far as saying favor productivity.  A lot of the answers here are going deeper in trying to answer this question.  Even if one technique was better than the other we're talking about what's really a micro optimization.

A: The compiled result is the same.
The following C#:
static void Main()
{
    var x = new List<int>();
    var y = new List<int> { };
}

Compiles into the following IL:
.method private hidebysig static
    void Main () cil managed
{
    // Method begins at RVA 0x2050
    // Code size 14 (0xe)
    .maxstack 1
    .entrypoint
    .locals init (
        [0] class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32> x,
        [1] class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32> y
    )

    IL_0000: nop
    IL_0001: newobj instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::.ctor()
    IL_0006: stloc.0
    IL_0007: newobj instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::.ctor()
    IL_000c: stloc.1
    IL_000d: ret
} // end of method Program::Main

If you add a value to the collections:
static void Main()
{
    var x = new List<int>();
    x.Add(1);
    var y = new List<int> { 1 };
}

This is the resulting IL:
.method private hidebysig static
    void Main () cil managed
{
    // Method begins at RVA 0x2050
    // Code size 32 (0x20)
    .maxstack 2
    .entrypoint
    .locals init (
        [0] class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32> x,
        [1] class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32> y,
        [2] class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32> '<>g__initLocal0'
    )

    IL_0000: nop
    IL_0001: newobj instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::.ctor()
    IL_0006: stloc.0
    IL_0007: ldloc.0
    IL_0008: ldc.i4.1
    IL_0009: callvirt instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::Add(!0)
    IL_000e: nop
    IL_000f: newobj instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::.ctor()
    IL_0014: stloc.2
    IL_0015: ldloc.2
    IL_0016: ldc.i4.1
    IL_0017: callvirt instance void class [mscorlib]System.Collections.Generic.List`1<int32>::Add(!0)
    IL_001c: nop
    IL_001d: ldloc.2
    IL_001e: stloc.1
    IL_001f: ret
} // end of method Program::Main

This shows how collection initializers are only syntax sugar.  Because collection initializers were not originally part of C#, I think people are more used to the constructor syntax.  If I came across some code that used an empty collection initializer, I would wonder to myself why, but it certainly doesn't have any severe readability issues.  If one is intelligent enough to understand code at all, then {} vs () shouldn't be so upsetting that it undermines one's ability to comprehend what the code is doing.  It comes down to a matter of opinion.  Do what your team agrees on, and if it's just you, then use it to your hearts content.

A: There is no reason why the { } initialization should be used there so I would say remove it. The dev is using the static collection initializer. The only reason you would is so that you can start the collection off with some items, given there are none it doesn't really make sense. That being said, the result will be an empty collection just like if he called the constructor normally.

A: They are basically the same, but using the default constructor is more readable.

A: There are a lot of comments saying "the default constructor is more readable". There's no good reason to assume that () is more (or less) readable than {}, so you're effectively taking an opinion poll here.
If you're worried about correctness, your colleague's code is fine. If you're worried about coding standards, you should make sure that the code is changed to match your standard (whatever that standard may be).

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CIPE has traditionally worked on curbing the demand for corruption by helping business organizations identify domestic laws, rules, and regulation that are vague, overlapping, or too onerous to comply with. Such complexity leaves excessive room for interpretation by public officials and creates corruption risks – it needs reform. In this project, CIPE has also brought its focus to addressing the supply side of corruption given the growing global movement to make bribery and other forms of corruption unacceptable in international business. Norms such as the United Nations Convention Against Corruption or the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Convention on Combating Bribery, and laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the UK Bribery Act create a strong anti-corruption framework that affects business conduct everywhere.
In today's world, global value chains stretch across borders and continents, anti-corruption compliance provides a vital competitive advantage. Yet, smaller companies in emerging markets often lack sufficient knowledge and resources to comply with these global norms and become reliable partners for multinational enterprises. CIPE's key objective has been to help these local firms understand and apply best practices in order to improve governance and business environment in their countries. To that end, CIPE created Anti-Corruption Compliance: A Guide for Mid-Sized Companies in Emerging Markets and publishes Corporate Compliance Trends blog where authors focus on small and medium-sized enterprises, and the role of business associations and chambers of commerce in raising compliance awareness.
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Q: Showing that a vector isn't in the span of a set So I have the vector
$$\left[\begin{array}{cc|c}
      1        \\[0.55ex]
      2        \\[0.55ex]
      3
\end{array}\right]$$
and I have to show that it is in the span of two other vectors
$$\left[\begin{array}{cc|c}
      1 & 2 & 5         \\[0.55ex]
      2 & 3 & 6        \\[0.55ex]
      3& 4 & 8
\end{array}\right]$$
Is then the other two matrices in an augmented matrix. I do row operation to get
$$\left[\begin{array}{cc|c}
      1 & 0 & 0         \\[0.55ex]
      0 & 1 & 0         \\[0.55ex]
      0 & 0 & 1
\end{array}\right]$$
Which is inconsistent because 0 is not equal to 1. I then can claim that the matrix is not in the span. Is this reasoning correct?


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The Boys From Syracuse
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
Book by George Abbott
The Boys From Syracuse is available to license!
Twins! More twins! Women-chased and chaste! The first musical ever adapted from Shakespeare remains the most madcap musical farce ever to animate the stage. Antipholus and his wily servant, Dromio, travel to Ephesus in search of their respective twins, from whom they were separated in a shipwreck. Naturally, they are immediately taken for their brothers and we're off and running on a riotous chase from marketplace to marital bed. Perplexed wives, disgruntled courtesans, outraged constables and an audience roaring with laughter are left in its wake before this show's tangled web is unraveled, and Rodgers & Hart & Abbott have triumphed once again!
Genre: Farce, Adaptations (Literature), Adaptations (Shakespeare)
Time Period: Greek; Roman & Biblical
Cast Attributes: Ensemble cast, Room for Extras, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
Richard Rodgers' contribution to the musical theatre of his day was extraordinary, and his influence on the musical theatre of today and tomorrow is legendary. His career spanned more than six decades, his hits ranging from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright light ...
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Hart was born in New York City on May 2, 1895, the oldest of two sons of Frieda and Max Hart. Hart graduated from Columbia Grammar School and attended the Columbia School of Journalism. In the late teens a mutual friend introduced Hart to composer Richard Rodgers. Rodg ...
A Broadway actor, director, playwright and producer, George Abbott (1887-1995) wrote and starred in his first comedy, Perfectly Harmless, while attending Harvard. In the 20's/30's, his plays were mostly comedies, including Twentieth Century, Three Men on a Horse and Room Serv ...


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The Soviet War Memorial - Treptower Park
To my great horror, re-reading the section on Berlin in my Christian Travelers Guide to Germany (Grand Rapids. Zondervan, 2001), I discovered that there is no mention of the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park. This is a major oversight because the memorial ought to be one of the top ten sites that anyone visiting Berlin for more than a couple of days visits. Yet, like my own guide, most travel guides to Berlin make no mention of this major site.
Approaching the Soviet War Memorial Treptower Park
Located by the Treptower Park S Bahn station it is set at the side of a major nineteenth century park that was originally intended for members of the working class. The memorial was built between 1946 and 1949 and contains the graves of 5,000 of Soviet soldiers who died in the final assault on Berlin.
The graves of 5,000 Red Army troops.
How many Soviet troops actually died is a matter of speculation. At the very least it was over 81,000 and possibly as high as 150,000 with at around 300,000 Soviet casualties many of whom died of their wounds. At the end of the Battle over 450,000 German troops were dead and 479,298 taken prisoner. Many of these were marched off to Siberia never to return.
Mother Russia mourning the death of her children
German civilian casualties were well over 100,000. After the surrender of German forces the Soviets went on a rampage of looting and rape that was encouraged by Stalin's propaganda. In this situation no woman was safe yet these atrocities are conveniently left out of most accounts of the Second World War.
To their credit the Red Army quickly set up food kitchens and began restoring essential services for the civilian population. A month later, most Berliners were living on less than 1,240 calories a day and over a million were homeless.
No wonder the memorial is forgotten by many Germans. It is, however, an impressive site. Surprisingly, it also has a number of Christian iconic themes woven into it.
More to follow …
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Germany's Forgotten Resistance
Until the film Valkurie (http://valkyrie.unitedartists.com/) came out in 2008 the general impression in North America was that all Germans were Nazis during the 1920's and 1930's. Actually, there were strong resistance movements that are largely overlooked by popular writers and historians. At present the best book on these is Peter Hoffmann's The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 (Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996).
Anyone who spends more than a couple of days in Berlin, during which they see the main sights, ought to visit the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, or German Resistance Museum, which contains a wealth of information about this little known episode in German history. Surprising to many is the prominent role of both Christians and Communists in resisting Hitler and Nazi tyranny. The exhibit also includes a highly detailed record of the ill-fated July 20, 1944, plot to overthrow Hitler. Here again the presence of Christians among those executed is noticeable.
The place of execution in Plötzensee.
After getting an overview of the resistance a visit to the Plötzensee Prison Memorial, on the borders of Charlottenburg and Wedding, which can be reached by going to the Gedenkstätte Plötzensee S Bahn station, is where over 2,500 German political prisoners were executed between January and April 1945. Many of these people were Christians who were literally hung on huge meat hooks where they slowly bled or strangled to death.
The hooks used to execute prisoners.
The nearby Church of Mary Queen of the Martyrs, or Kirche Maria Regina Martyrum, was designed by Hans Scäde as a memorial to victims of Nazi oppression. It is entered through a courtyard representing the parade ground in a concentration camp, which symbolizes pain and suffering. The crypt is deliberately gloomy, but the upper church is illuminated by a gentle, natural light, and contains a large modern fresco by Georg Meistermann depicting the transformation of darkness into light, night to day, evil to goodness, through the redemption of Christ. Note the 14th-century Madonna in the church and the modern sculpture "The Woman of the Apocalypse" by F. König in the courtyard. Overall this church makes a deep impact on its visitors reminding them of the great suffering of Jews and Christians during the Nazi era.
Mary of the Martyrs Church.
After visiting these sites a trip to the notorious Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, at the end of the south S-Bahn line, is appropriate. Here you can see the conditions under which political prisoners lived, including the cell of the famed theologian Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), who was held there "at Hitler's pleasure" for his bold criticisms of Nazism. It is also important to realize that, after 1945, Sachsenhausen became an equally brutal Soviet prison under Communist control. The full story of the Communist use of former concentration camps, where thousands of people died, many of whom were not Nazis at all, has yet to be told.
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Jewish Berlin
I posted thought I had published this blog last week, but somehow it went to the Christian Book Reviews Blog - can I blame Microsoft Gremlins? Anyway here it is where it is supposed to be:
Although to anyone who has never visited Berlin the idea of a "Jewish Berlin," may sound absurd, Judaism is actually an important and vibrant tradition that the Nazis failed to eradicate. Perhaps the best place to start a tour of Jewish Berlin is with a visit to the well designed Jewish Museum opened in September 2001 and designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946). This is a masterpiece of design that captures the tragedy of the Holocaust while preserving a sense of both history and hope. More information can be found on the museum's excellent website at:
http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/homepage-EN.php
Another place to visit is the Neue Synagogue (New Synagogue), Oranienburger Str. 30, near Museuminsel. It can be found on the web at:
http://www.cjudaicum.de/en
Completed in 1866, it was designed by the architects Eduard Knoblauch and Friedrich August Stüler (1800 – 1865) and built as an impressive example of Romantic architecture in Moorish style. Badly damaged in World War II, the church was reconstructed beginning in 1988. Attacked during Kristallnacht in 1938, the Synagogue was saved from destruction by the local police chief. A plaque on its outside wall remembers his courageous act. Today the New Synagogue is now the main center for Berlin's Jewish community.
One of the fascinating things about Berlin is its well preserved cemeteries. The Jüdischer Friedhof (Jewish cemetery), Grosse Hamburger Strasse, founded in 1672 is the oldest in Berlin. It once contained the grave of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), the grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847). Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's conversion to Christianity is commemorated in his great oratorio Paulus (St. Paul).
The graveyard was desecrated by the Gestapo in 1942. Now all you can see is a memorial plaque, a bronze sculpture by Will Lambert dedicated to the 55,000 Berlin Jews who were deported to camps in the East, and a gravestone commemorating Moses Mendelssohn who was on of the greatest Jewish philosophers of all time.
The Jüdischer Friedhof (Jewish Cemetery), Senefelderplatz, Pankow, fared better than most. It contains the graves of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 – 1864), the historian Richard Moritz Meyer (1860-1914), and the painter Max Liebermann (1847-1935).
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Cesarzowice (niem. Zieserwitz) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie dolnośląskim, w powiecie średzkim, w gminie Środa Śląska.

Podział administracyjny
W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa wrocławskiego.

Nazwa
Miejscowość ma metrykę średniowieczną i notowana jest od XII wieku. Po raz pierwszy wieś wymieniona została w 1155 jako Ciceuici. Później także w 1217 Scizerowici, 1253 Cesorauici, 1295 in Scisserowe, 1335-42 Cezarowicz, 1336 Czezarwicz, 1337 Cesrawicz, 1353 Czesarwicz, 1424 Czesirwitz, 1743 Zieserwitz, 1845 Zieserwitz. Nazwa miejscowości pochodzi od słowiańskiej nazwy osobowej Czściżyr z dodanym sufiksem -owice. Wtórnie uległa przekształceniu pod wpływem słowa cesarz.

W łacińskim dokumencie z 1217 roku wydanym przez biskupa wrocławskiego Lorenza miejscowość wymieniona jest w zlatynizowanej, staropolskiej formie Scizerovici.

Zabytki
Do wojewódzkiego rejestru zabytków wpisany jest:
 zespół kościoła filialnego:
 kościół pw. św. Marcina z XIV w., przebudowywany w XVI w. oraz w drugiej połowie XVIII w. Wykonany z kamienia łamanego, orientowany, jednonawowy, z wyższym prostokątnym prezbiterium, z wieżą od zachodu. Wejście w wieży sklepione łukiem koszowym]. Na wieży zegar. We wnętrzu zachowane drewniane gotyckie piaskowcowe sakramentarium z chrzcielnicą i płytą nagrobną, drewniane drzwi oraz rzeźby św. Jadwigi oraz biskupa z monstrancją: barokowy krucyfiks i obrazy: Madonna, Ukrzyżowany i Chrystus w Ogrójcu.
 cmentarz kościelny
 mur obronny cmentarza, z pierwszej połowy XVII w.

Pomniki przyrody
 Cis pospolity (Taxus baccata), ogród przy posesji nr 77.

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 Cesarzowice

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ILS Proton Launch Scheduled in November for SES' SIRIUS 4 Satellite
By SpaceRef Editor
Filed under Commerce, International Launch Services, US
International Launch Services (ILS) has scheduled its next Proton Breeze M commercial mission for November 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the launch of the SIRIUS 4 satellite for SES SIRIUS of Sweden.
The SIRIUS 4 satellite arrived in Baikonur Friday (October 19). The satellite, a Lockheed Martin A2100AX model, will weigh approximately 4600 kg at liftoff, making it the largest in the SIRIUS fleet. SIRIUS 4 is a multi-mission Ku-and Ka-band satellite offering a wide range of communications services across Europe and Northern Africa.
A Russian State Commission concluded that during the September 6 JCSAT-11 mission on Proton, a damaged cable prevented activation of the pyro bolts that were to have separated the first and second stages of the rocket. Proton flights resume this Thursday (October 25) with a Russian federal mission to orbit three Glonass satellites.
ILS' independent Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) reviewed the conclusions and corrective actions in early October and concurred with the commission's findings. ILS has begun a series of briefings for insurers and customers.
"As we have started the launch campaign for SIRIUS 4, we are focused on performance," said ILS President Frank McKenna. "We acknowledge the diligent effort from the people who enabled such a timely return to flight – the Russian State Commission; our partner, Khrunichev; our customer; the satellite manufacturer; the FROB members; and the U.S. Defense Technology Security Administration. "With the launch teams now in Baikonur and the arrival of the satellite, we are proceeding steadily with diligence and determination toward a launch on 18 November," McKenna said.
International Launch Services is the U.S.-Russian joint venture between Space Transport Inc. and Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center with RSC Energia. ILS has the exclusive rights for worldwide commercial sales and mission management of satellite launches on Russia's premier vehicle, the Proton, and the future Angara vehicle. ILS is incorporated in Delaware in the United States, and is headquartered in McLean, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C.
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Beauty and the Beasts/La Belle et la Bête – Kent Monkman at the Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Exhibition from May 18 to September 5, 2018
Kent Monkman: Beauty and the Beasts / La Belle et la Bête launches the programming of the reopened Canadian Cultural Centre, now located at 130, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
The exhibition is the fruit of the encounter between Kent Monkman, an Indigenous artist of Cree origin, born in Manitoba and based in Toronto, a singular and powerful voice in Canadian art, and the musée des Confluences in Lyon. The artist selected, from the museum collections, ten works and artifacts representative of objects and animals now dispossessed of the powers that Indigenous cultures attributed to them. He makes them the heart of an exhibition that examines the relationship between animals and humans, and invites us to think about the concept of cultural appropriation.
This exhibition was produced by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris and organized in partnership with the musée des Confluences in Lyon. It has received the support of Power Corporation of Canada and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Kent Monkman received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts ("New Chapter" programme).
A bilingual publication, co-published by Skira and the Canadian Cultural Centre, accompanies the exhibition.
Curator: Catherine Bédard
To read more about the exhibition, please click here.
Kent Monkman
Miss Chief's Wet Dream, 2018 detail
Collection Donald R. Sobey
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Project Lifesaver to help find lost elderly, children
An elderly man or woman with dementia wanders away from home, wearing just pajamas and a pair of slippers. A caregiver, realizing their loved one is missing, alerts the police to begin a search.
Broome County Sheriff David Harder says scenarios like this can happen several times a year in this area, but a new program adopted by his office has the potential to whittle the searching times from hours to 20 or 30 minutes, and bring a person home safely.
Project Lifesaver equipment, which was obtained through a grant by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, uses special transmitters and receivers that can track a client within a 4-mile radius, Harder announced Monday. The sheriff's office obtained two receivers for $3,800 total and funding for 30 bracelets that cost $350 each — all covered by the grant.
Harder said this program is tailored for clients who require extensive caregiving, such as seniors with Alzheimer's or dementia and people with Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities that could make them more prone to wander away from home.
"Caregivers have no idea where they went to or what's happened to them," Harder said of these scenarios. "It's very relieving to families that we can be finding people that much quicker."
After enrolling in the program, participants wear a special wrist or ankle bracelet equipped with a personalized transmitter. Should the person wander off, caregivers can call the sheriff's office dispatchers at (607) 778-1911, or 911, and a deputy can find the missing person.
The bracelets can be tracked up to 4 miles away, when worn.
During a demonstration Monday, Sheriff's Deputy Robert Stapleton said a person wearing the bracelet can be tracked within a half-hour, once the receiver gets a lock on the bracelet's signal.
Stapleton tested the technology with Harder, who hid in the sheriff's office building with one of the bracelets. Using the tracking device, Stapleton traced Harder within a few minutes to his hiding place in a fitness room closet.
Other tracking methods, such as using a police dog to search or alerting the community to watch for the person, could take hours or longer before the person is located, Stapleton said.
"We have a 30-minute window to respond and we bring the antenna to the last point the person was seen," he said. "It's just a matter of time."
To qualify for assistance under the sheriff's office program, the client must be a Broome County resident, must have a 24-hour caregiver and must be willing to wear the transmitter at all times. Harder said his office also will use the tracking equipment to assist other local police agencies, should a client be reported missing in that jurisdiction.
Project Lifesaver is one of a handful of location devices that are endorsed by Alzheimer's awareness groups. Others include Mindme, GPS Shoe, Safe Link and PocketFinder.
Those services are available for people to purchase themselves; the sheriff's office can provide the limited number of Project Lifesaver bracelets to qualified clients for free through the grant.
Stapleton said sheriff's deputies will assist caregivers of people enrolled in the program to understand how the technology works and offer instruction, including monthly checks on the bracelet's battery.
This program should be considered a "Plan C" for the safety of someone with special needs, Stapleton said.
Officials encourage proper caregiver supervision of the client, proper locks and security at the residence and a prepared plan for if the client wanders off.