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Haitians back to Haiti? | Power Line
The Associated Press has reported a long story on the Haitians under the bridge and more on the way. According to the story, the Biden administration is sending them back to Haiti:
The Biden administration plans the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants from a small Texas border city by putting them on flights to Haiti starting Sunday, an official said Friday, representing a swift and dramatic response to thousands who suddenly crossed the border from Mexico and gathered under and around a bridge.
Details are yet to be finalized but will likely involve five to eight flights a day, according to the official with direct knowledge of the plans who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. San Antonio, the nearest major city, may be among the departure cities.
Another administration official speaking on condition of anonymity expected two flights a day at most and said all migrants would be tested for COVID-19.
U.S. authorities closed traffic to vehicles and pedestrians in both directions at the only border crossing in Del Rio, Texas, after chaos unfolded Friday and presented the administration with a new and immediate challenge as it tries to manage large numbers of asylum-seekers who have been reaching U.S. soil.
Summary removal does not sound like a Biden administration thing, but we can hope. I can't quite reconcile it with this in the next paragraph:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was closing the border crossing with Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, "to respond to urgent safety and security needs." Travelers were being directed to Eagle Pass, Texas, 57 miles (91 kilometers) away.
The remedy doesn't sound like the Biden administration, but the scene presents the nightmarish reductio ad absurdum of the administration's — the Democratic Party's — open borders approach. Whole thing here.
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Closing argument of Attorney at Law Thomas Walther – July 7th, 2015
2015-07-07 2015-07-15 / Andrej Umansky
Your Honor!
The prosecution has given an appropriate account of what was established as the facts of the trial.
I will merely add a few remarks to the prosecution's elaboration.
The main focus of my final statement today will be something different. I will speak about the significance of this proceeding for the co-plaintiffs we are representing – the significance of a proceeding that is taking place 71 years after their next of kin were murdered.
71 years ago, in the early morning of 1 July 1944, 18-year-old Eva Pusztai – who is 89 years of age today and a co-plaintiff in this proceeding –, then a naïve girl of sheltered upbringing in Debrecen, was thrust into hell at the ramp of Gröning's place of employment, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
On 16 May the "Hungarian Action" had begun in Birkenau.
The court and all participants to the proceeding have a first-hand impression of what we can accomplish here in this proceeding between 16 May 2015 and today – and in the coming days until 11 July 2015. Within exactly the same time span 71 years ago, 427,000 Hungarian Jews were transported to Auschwitz, of whom 300,000 were murdered immediately upon their arrival.
Among these murder victims were the families of our clients.
Being horrified does not help here. Neither does commiseration.
Together with my colleague Cornelius Nestler I represent 51 co-plaintiffs. With many of them I had long conversations and interviews in the year preceding this trial. Many were unable to travel to Lüneburg due to their age. It is for this reason that I am entitled to say the following in the first-person voice of my clients, and in their words:
We who are survivors of Auschwitz have the right to lament, and for our murdered families, we bear the duty to lament.
We lament suffering and loss, we lament our lonesomeness, we lament the most cruel of killing, we lament the million-fold absence of a kaddish at the deathbeds of our murdered families whose voices were silenced in Auschwitz. We lament time, which does not heal any wounds but instead burns them into our souls ever more deeply. We lament the cries within ourselves that we are suppressing even today to be able to pass for "normal people".
And, day by day, we feel and suffer the recollection of our tears cried and uncried.
Now that decades have passed, we have become experienced in witnessing death, as we are seeing our own generations of survivors cross the threshold into death more and more often. It was only very late in our lives that we had to learn to sit shiwa as a rite of bidding our dead farewell – as the generations preceding us were scattered into all winds, rivers and swamps with the ashes of Auschwitz, entirely lacking the presence of our mourning. Our parents were not able to teach us a Jewish funeral rite.
And once WE are no more, WHO will remember?
Will the world preserve the ability to remember, or will collective forgetting prevail one day?
All our laments live in us. This Auschwitz death is part of our lives.
Only through our lawyers did we learn that in our ever-present lament we can also speak to this German court in the criminal proceeding against Oskar Gröning and that we will be heard with our pain and our laments.
We were thus granted the opportunity to bear witness as co-plaintiffs.
In the many conversations with our lawyers we found out and understood that you, Mr. Gröning, on the one hand were no different from the masses of all the SS men in Auschwitz who perfectly organized and undertook death for us Jews; but that on the other hand you let glimpse a sort of transformation in the decades following the war. We heard about your interviews with BBC and the SPIEGEL, and we registered that you have tried engage critically with your participation in the Holocaust. We know that your family was involved.
We, the survivors and children of victims, we thought that you could be much "better" than all the accused in the earlier Nazi trials. We hoped that you, Mr. Gröning, would comprehend our laments in a way that only one of the perpetrators can. It is you alone who encounters us this closely in our families' hour of death. Speaking with our lawyers, we had raised hopes that in the best case a type of dialogue might unfold between us and you.
As the co-plaintiffs' legal counsel, I, Thomas Walther, am telling you, Mr. Gröning:
The hopes of the co-plaintiffs were nourished by the knowledge that you made public the fact of your presence in Auschwitz as a result of your own decision, without at the time being accused in a criminal proceeding. You spoke publicly about your tasks on the ramp of Birkenau, where you came so close to the co-plaintiffs and their families 71 years ago. You openly addressed how you came to be a compliant and obedient Nazi and SS man. Without any pressure on the part of the justice system – which, until 2 years ago, remained inactive –, you publicly voiced your present-day disapproval and condemnation of what happened in Auschwitz. And at 94 years of age you are facing up to this proceeding in the role of the accused – and are thereby facing up to your responsibility as it will finally be established by this court.
For this, you deserve respect.
And yet, I as well as the co-plaintiffs remain greatly disappointed.
The disappointment begins with an inability on the part of the accused Oskar Gröning – an inability he shares with all of Auschwitz's perpetrators and helpers: He is unable to use the word MURDER for the crimes of Auschwitz – the word MURDER in all of its unambiguousness that rules out any doubt. Instead, he hides behind the SS' structures of command. It was the catastrophic consequence of this unconditional devotion to "the command" that has led to a relinquishment of all and any personal responsibility.
This is more than evident in the additional statement that Gröning had presented by his lawyers. He speaks explicitly of the "convenience of obedience, which did not allow for contradictions", and he says that he did not have anything to do with the murders immediately.
Is the man Gröning not responsible for his own, personal obedience, in any case?
And he has his lawyers present further: He merely contributed to "the camp of Auschwitz operating effectively". What a phrase!
He does not make a connection between himself and the murdering.
But it is exactly these instances of operating effectively in the mutual participation of all the cogs in the wheel, in the machinery of murder, that turns these "participants" into those who make mass murder possible – as prototypes, by way of their "functional aiding and abetting murder".
From the beginning, Gröning transferred his individual GUILT to the area of MORALITY. And along with my co-plaintiffs, I recognize that for Gröning the responsibility for murdering their families is tied to the question of morality, thereby limiting his individual guilt. The result of this is humiliation – the humiliation borne from presenting life as relative. A Jewish human life is not subject to a determination of the right to live by way of moral reasoning.
Such an act of limiting individual guilt regarding the deaths of Jews harbors immense dangers in the present, in our world. Modern justifications for practiced anti-Semitism are mostly of moral nature. The moral values or norms of particular groups are interlaced with indignation, resentment or envy, and they meet in modern anti-Judaism.
In this sense, I wish to emphasize the deep concern on the part of the Jewish co-plaintiffs. For generations, they have all reacted with alarm when guilt regarding the deaths of Jews is to be weighed using the scales of morality.
Behind the complex societal and political deformation that was a trailblazer for the barbaric slaughter of innocent human beings, the individual SELF of Oskar Gröning was able to hide undetected from the start. Now that these deformations are removed, it is unbearable for the co-plaintiffs to denominate participation in murder in Auschwitz as an "immoral act", in the worst case.
On the two days of this trial on which Mr. Gröning chose to speak and in all his interviews of a decade ago, one event is described again and again using similar words. Anyone who has, generally and comprehensively, devoted attention to the murder of the Jews in Eastern Europe after 1941 will agree: It was common practice to grab the small bodies of babies or infants by the feet and smash them to death against a wall, a tree, or a truck's bumper bar.
Mr. Gröning, then, repeatedly describes the murder of this one baby whose little head was smashed in this manner when he was doing service on the ramp for the first time.
In a peculiar way, Gröning describes his own indignation about what he saw, but turns it into his own, morally motivated desire to leave Auschwitz. At the same time, he declares against the backdrop of his attitudes of the time that he generally agreed with the extermination of the Jews – including the children – as "enemies of the people".
The repeated flexibility of "morality" in the life of the accused is apparent. A baby's mere shooting would not have given cause for a desire for relocation. Only the battering did.
Around the end of last year, at an international school in Toronto, I spoke about Auschwitz with students who were but 11 or 12. Their parents are from all over the world. I was surprised. These children had already read Anne Frank's diary in class, and they had had a number of lessons on the Holocaust. When all of the children's questions had been answered, a girl raised her hand once more and hesitatingly asked me a question:
"Do you know" – she asked – "what they did to the children?"
The child was evidently thinking of herself.
Almost all our clients have spoken about their siblings' murder. About the murder of children like Gilike, Eva Pusztai's sister, or Evike, half sister to Judith and Elaine Kalman, or of Gershon and Reuven, the brothers of Irene Weiss.
What does the murder of our clients' defenseless siblings, of these children, signify for those who were sentenced to live?
In one word: Tears. Tears that never run dry. Tears, again and again, even after 71 years. The dead siblings dig themselves into the consciousness of the living. Years and decades freeze. Never again will a leaf fall off a tree in front of these children's eyes. No sunray will be a harbinger of a new morning.
After the end of the war, the surviving siblings who are themselves still children recognize with horror a German society that had legalized the mass murder of children according to an official morality. – Only 11% of Jewish children survived the Holocaust. These few were "old people" already when they were "children", and their most serious of post-traumatic disorders were to accompany them for their whole lives, until today. To put it concretely: To accompany them all the way into this courtroom!
All the children in the world know the fear of being deserted. All the fathers and mothers in the world know the tears and raised arms because the parents are not to part from the children's side. All of the world's cultures in the history of humanity have respected this primal yearning. – And in Auschwitz the reverse side of this yearning, of a child's fear of desertion, was instrumentalized in a diabolic way. Babies, infants, and children remained with their mothers. This was able to prevent panics, and joint transport could be feigned – all the way to waiting together in front of the gas chamber, as we have seen in the photograph of Reuven and Gershon with their mother. From the start, the continued care for the children was certain death for all mothers.
Only a place like Auschwitz, under the attentive eyes of the SS men, could bring to death also the children and babies in an unending stream of those condemned to die – leaving the surviving siblings with absolute emptiness, with an infernal nothing. There were no more children – from one's own world. Those had been lost forever, within minutes on the ramp.
And our clients? – For decades they remain alone with their questions regarding the responsibility of all those without whom Hitler, Himmler, Göring and Heydrich never could have managed the systematic murder of the Jews of Europe.
Now, anyone who wants to believe that terror recedes with old age, that the souls of those who were children in Auschwitz in 1944 can find peace – anyone who wants to believe this is profoundly mistaken. And it is not only survivors who, in the spectrum of the Holocaust, are tormented by their nightmares even more once they reach old age – because the infirmities of age also play a role, and because the past often returns into the souls in an even more tormenting manner. The perpetrators and participants to the crimes fare quite similarly. Oskar Gröning knows this. – States of acute anxiety, during which Auschwitz enters into the present, are by no means rare. They are described by all the guardians, nurses and other persons who care for these people at old age.
And anyone who believes to have recognized stable personalities in these 14 testifying witnesses – persons so psychologically stable that they do not require any external support –, anyone who believes this is again mistaken. They may be perceived as such in the courtroom, because they have carefully tuned themselves to this day and even this hour, and because their legal counsels previously prepared them very cautiously and yet comprehensively for the entire proceeding. – All of them, over and over again, suffer through their incredibly dark hours in the whole gamut whose backdrop can be described in a phrase by Eichmann. The latter described his life's work in the well-known Sassen interview: "I transported them to the slaughter."
Within the year preceding the liberation in May 1945, Jewish children of happy families were transformed into the few survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust. They did not know anything about how to live a normal life. All on their own, without a soul to comfort them, they had to learn to survive survival.
The co-plaintiffs who had the opportunity to testify as witnesses before this court have described all the suffering and the loss. And in a mode of humility that is urgently required I remind myself again and again: Words alone are entirely unfit for filling with life the true experience of the hell of Auschwitz.
The true dimensions of the hell of Auschwitz live but in the hearts and souls of the survivors – of whom, according to the SS' absolute will to dominate, not a single one was to survive Auschwitz.
Gröning has painted an image of duly "taking care" of the arriving transports with the cattle cars spilling over with Hungarian Jews – this image bears no resemblance to what actually happened to the people in these cars.
What concerns me, here, is not so much that the old man relapsed into the jargon of the time of the crime. While he corrects his first statement in this regard, he remains unable to find an appropriate personal word for that which for years he did not only experience first-hand, but which he fostered.
Only by way of example do I want to come back to the oft-invoked image of the baby battered to death, the image with which Gröning seeks to indicate that he himself is affected, a personal involvement cloaked as a humane emotion. Because – as Gröning has stated – this baby could also have been killed another way, for example by gunshot.
How does this isolated image from the initial days of Gröning's service in Auschwitz – an image that he himself has painted –, how does it go with his emotionless account of the transports during the 'Hungarian Action', when 5 to 6 trains arrived every day, each carrying approximately 3,000 Jews? How does it go with his phrase of "duly taking care of" these transports?
I am convinced that with the testimonies of the 14 witnesses we have heard, with the elaborations of expert witness Dr. Hördler on the allegedly so unobstructed "taking care of" the 437,000 Hungarian Jews, it has become very clear what really happened.
Death had long found its way into the cattle cars when their doors were yanked open by the labor squads under the command and supervision of, among others, Unterscharführer Gröning.
This raises one of the many questions that Gröning has thus far avoided answering. What did the dead and the dying from the Hungary transports elicit in the accused himself when they were thrown on the ramp right in front of his feet? Or does he say: "They did not exist"?
Was he already so used to death and annihilation at this time that the only encounter to remain memorable and worth mentioning was this one early encounter with a single infant?
Or – this explanation suggests itself – is the baby nothing more than a metaphor? – A metaphor not so much due to memory, but part of the construct of later justification within his own family and social environment, when he had to present himself to his own sons and others in a way that was to allow for at least a certain amount of respect on their behalf?
These paths towards the self-conceptions of this generation of parents are familiar to anyone who – like me – is old enough to remember these times. In the earliest years, fists were banged on tables – among them Gröning's – and any family member was banned from using the word MURDER for personal actions in Auschwitz. This time was followed by the great silence of the years of the economic miracle.
Had he refrained from banging his own fist on the table, Gröning would have been able to internalize the presumed immunity from punishment only much later. This was possible only once the interrogation by Frankfurt Chief Prosecutor Klein had remained without consequences in 1978.
Long before, in the 1960s, he and his generation were confronted with the past in their own families, when the Auschwitz Trial and the atmosphere of the era forced questions to the father onto the minds of the university-student sons.
Mr. Gröning, you, too, were faced with this problem.
It was of no advantage to you, then, not to have shown an interest in Frankfurt's Auschwitz Trial yourself.
In this situation, the battered infant from your initial days of service was a suitable bridge for a return to a residue of moral principles and for consequently describing a number of alleged requests for relocation to the front line. The facts of the trial as established here will show that there were no such requests for relocation.
This circumstance cannot be altered either by the alleged personnel file that, according to Gröning, disappeared in an unresolved manner when in the custody of the Frankfurt prosecution. And yet, these requests for relocation were of eminent importance for his personal exculpation. Only like this was it possible to somewhat save face in the personal social environment of the 1960s.
Not to mention his promotion to Unterscharführer – i.e. Sergeant – that Gröning himself stylized as an SS criterion for exclusion from service on the ramp. We remember the photographs from the Auschwitz album in which historian Dr. Hördler showed us numerous SS men on the ramp sporting the SS Unterführer badge.
Gröning, with his additional statement, responds to this proof by way of expert witness: What he initially presented as an order – "No Unterführer on the ramp" – he now downgrades to a mere personal conclusion. This correction of course is fatally reminiscent of the idea of the "disappeared personnel file". The latter, too, only surfaced "verbally" when serious doubts of the existence of any requests of relocation were expressed.
The accused felt the breath of death in the stench of thousands of humans burned each day and night during the 'Hungarian Action' in Auschwitz, and he knew: While the war lasts – the war that had cost his brother's life in November 1942 –, this place in the shadow of the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews is the safest place for him, personally.
And yet, from the 1960s until today he has claimed: "I wanted to leave Auschwitz for the front line", where he would have encountered death not as the stench of burned Jews but as the many-thousand-fold death of German soldiers, and where death would have lain in ambush for him, personally.
I want to explain to you, Mr. Gröning, why this "lie about the requests for relocation" is understood by my clients as an especially evident instance of flight from your personal responsibility.
The smashed little head of a Jewish baby serves as a gateway to your "mock indignation" – in order to demonstrate your compassion-slash-grace and your subjective sensation of cruelty.
A mere year and a half after the isolated indignation concerning the one battered baby, you, Mr. Gröning, then regard the 437,000 Jews from Hungary as nothing more than a "large number" within a short period of time with a "heavier workload". You regard them as those Jews who, upon arrival, had to be duly "taken care of" and went from the ramp to death, absolutely clueless and without any complication whatsoever.
In this time of the 'Hungarian Action' you do not notice a single baby to be thrown onto the ramp, already dead from the cattle car ride, or desiccated to a corpse in the arm of a mother, or meeting the last hours of life whimpering and feeble from hunger and thirst. "Duly" is your decisive term for the 'Hungarian Action'.
Your additional statement does not contain anything concrete on the 'Hungarian Action', either, even though you explicitly name the witnesses' testimonies on the 'Hungarian Action' as the reason for your renewed declaration.
In this courtroom, the victims and the perpetrator have come together.
Evidently, our clients who testified as witnesses have not come alone – and in saying this, I do not mean their children that were by their sides. Our clients were here also in the company of their murdered parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and nieces. In many cases, there were 50 or 60 or more that came here, to Lüneburg, with a single witness in the torturous sensation of the forcible loss of entire families.
But neither were you, Mr. Gröning, here on your own.
You were joined here by all those members of your family who have already perished. According to your own words, you encounter them in your dreams. You have told medical examiner Dr. Friedrich about these dreams. But you are also in the spiritual company of the subsequent generations, of the sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Infants and babies like the one on the ramp will also be among them. At times, in a dream, the ramp scenes of which you cannot rid yourself may interlink with the faces of your own family. Reinterpretation as well as erratic changes of identity are part of the "nature of dreaming".
The co-plaintiffs know by now that in late 1943 the accused married his older brother Gerhard's fiancée Irmgard, following Gerhard's death near Stalingrad on 20 November 1942. It is apparent and comprehensible that the accused now wanted to spare his own life – to be able to encounter his first-born son, delivered in August 1944, as more than a "hero killed in action for Führer and fatherland". When my clients met the accused on the ramp, his wife Irmgard in Verden was six months pregnant and was not to be widowed, after her previous fiancé had already been killed in action two years earlier. – The question cannot be ignored: Had Oskar Gröning not also had to promise to his older brother Gerhard "to take care of Irmgard – in case he would not return from the battlefield"?
When you willingly remained in Auschwitz, Mr. Gröning, what was at issue for you was your life, were the lives of your wife and your first-born child – was your family! And yet by way of the baby metaphor you are describing your participation in the murder of all the families of the assembled co-plaintiffs as something that was equally "forced onto you", because the SS allegedly did not let you go to the battlefield. You are embellishing a comprehensible selfish desire to survive with a moral cloak of an alleged state of being personally touched.
The abuse of certain modalities of killing Jews as a protective shield for your alleged state of being touched is one of the cruelties that you, Mr. Gröning, should have renounced in your encounter with the witnesses in this proceeding. It is not enough when you say that "you did not think the suffering of the others through to the end".
You had a chance to do this in this proceeding, but to date you have not used it!
As far as Mr. Gröning, in his additional statement, calls the post of Auschwitz unsuited to realizing his family planning of "having a child fast", identifying front line service as the better alternative to this end – as far as this goes, the facts point to the contrary, looking at the eldest son's date of birth in 1944.
The co-plaintiffs are aware of the real relationship between entirely unconditional devotion to "the command" and its most catastrophic of consequences. It is the relinquishment of all and any personal responsibility.
Mr. Gröning says that this "cannot be comprehended by today's standards". If he means mass murder when he says "monstrosities" and only avoids using this word with reference to his own person, then this was equally incomprehensible already by the standards of "then". It is "incomprehensible" to participate for years in the effectively operating death factory of Auschwitz. By all human standards, it has always been incomprehensible.
"To the outside", Mr. Gröning thus preserves for himself the image of the SS man who on his inside was "decent", who never wanted to stay in Auschwitz, who instead and courageously wanted to be part of the real war, on the front line.
Before I conclude, I need to speak about "fear" and its transformations.
The co-plaintiffs' fears regarding a journey to a trial in Germany were great. Even the most elaborate of information in the preceding conversations was not sufficient to completely eliminate these fears. For many co-plaintiffs who did not make the trip it was therefore not only old age, health issues or frailness that mandated the decision not to travel to Lüneburg. Irene Weiss described her fears by saying that the accused could stir a fear of death in her even today, were he in the uniform of the SS. Comparable fears were so overwhelming in far more than just a few of the co-plaintiffs – so overwhelming that they were able to keep the acute and new nightmares at bay only by their definitive decision not to travel here.
A latent fear accompanied the co-plaintiffs on their way to Lüneburg. Some had initially not wanted to come here at all. But those who were able to build sufficient trust and who embarked on the journey, have undergone a very strong and intense transformation – all of the co-plaintiffs that came, without an exception. In them, an entirely new image of Germany has evolved. Under the impression of this image, the latent fear has disappeared or at least diminished greatly.
The co-plaintiffs noticed the respect with which they were treated. In court, they witnessed the search for justice – contrasting their fear of old German self-righteousness. Officers in German uniforms – those of the police and the judiciary – were recognized by the co-plaintiffs without any hesitation as those who in this proceeding will protect them from any threat. The German public – with its repeated spontaneous and positive attention in public spaces – and representatives of the media, the mayor of Lüneburg: they have all contributed to this strong transformation of latent fear into trust.
To an extent that was never expected, the court has validated and augmented all the positive impressions that the present witnesses had the chance to experience in the context of the proceeding. What I termed a "redeeming and healing effect" in what was initially not more than an optimistic prognosis has become the reality of this proceeding for the co-plaintiffs.
"I am surprised and I am happy … to be alive",
a co-plaintiff wrote to us in a concluding description of her experience in Lüneburg.
Those co-plaintiffs who came for the trial session on 1 July – all of them co-plaintiffs who were here for the second time, with the exception of Andrew Sternberg – took the trip also in the hope that the accused would find the right words for his apology: his second statement had been announced beforehand.
They were disappointed. Mr. Gröning does open by declaring that it is his great concern to express himself once again after the testimonies of the survivors and the victims' next of kin. But then he says very abstractly that the testimonies had made him clearly aware once again that most people had been annihilated. – He knew this beforehand. That is not new. But in this moment he does not say anything that regards the murdered families of the witnesses. And it is only these fates that were new to him.
Instead he says that he "had no idea about the horrendous conditions in the transports" and says verbatim: "That was a great shock to me."
If you will pardon my saying so: Did Mr. Gröning not see very directly and very immediately all that which we have seen in the photographs of the Auschwitz album! "No idea"? – 3,000 Jews in three days and nights from Hungary to Auschwitz; always 80 to 100 to a cattle car. "No idea"? What kinds of travelers were they, those people who were thrown onto the ramp? – "No idea" about the horrendous conditions of the journey?
Mr. Gröning had the chance to comment on this with greater credibility.
But he has preferred to present his first statement mainly as what I want to call – "old wine in new skins". By and large, this was a repetition of the old story of requests for relocation and of only three instances of ramp service during the 'Hungarian Action'. All of this does not become any more convincing by being repeated or annotated.
The additional statement also contains a request to be "excused". When one of our clients heard this word and could not yet clearly understand the context, a feeling of "positive surprise" arose in her. But then she had to learn: This was but an apology for having relapsed into the Auschwitz SS jargon in his first statement – it was not a personal request for forgiveness of his actions. The disappointment was great.
Other co-plaintiffs, in contrast, would not have accepted an "I apologize for my actions", either – as long as this apology did not involve an open and transparent description of the actual participation in the crime. Avowals of humility and regret are little more than hollow words when the speaker does not say clearly what he is avowing.
At least, however, Mr. Gröning has made an attempt to react to the witnesses' testimonies. He has recognized, in any case, that the co-plaintiffs have to suffer from the experiences of Auschwitz to this day.
Mr. Gröning has the privilege of knowledge on the question what really happened. Unlike the survivors, in whose lives the events on the ramp were singular and brief, Mr. Gröning has perennial knowledge of what has occurred. He is still able to speak to this. He continues to have the opportunity and the liberty to describe the unspeakable crimes in concrete terms – if only he steps out of his own dream world of trivialization and of his taciturnity in remembering mass murder. The co-plaintiffs are not giving up hope that the accused will finally liberate his own soul in his "Last Word" and open up about what happened and what he saw on the ramp and in Birkenau during the 'Hungarian Action'. The accused shares responsibility for the co-plaintiffs' lifelong suffering. He cannot absolve them from this suffering, no matter what his words. But he can offer them a bit of help in handling this suffering in the context of this criminal proceeding.
For this, it is not yet too late.

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    if ctx.channel == bot.get_channel(806109172336689162):
        dcUser = ctx.author
        if dcUser.voice is not None:
            if dcUser.voice.channel.category == bot.get_channel(809430391177084969).category:
                await methods.set_lft(dcUser, bot)
            else:
                await bot.get_channel(806112383693094942).send(
                    ctx.author.mention + ", you have to be in a temporary channel to use this command.",
                    delete_after=30)
        else:
            await bot.get_channel(806112383693094942).send(
                ctx.author.mention + ", you have to be in a temporary channel to use this command.", delete_after=30)
    else:
        await bot.get_channel(806112383693094942).send(
            ctx.author.mention + ", you can't use this command here, got to " + bot.get_channel(
                806109172336689162).mention, delete_after=30)

Second method(set_lft):
async def set_lft(executor, bot):
    channel = executor.voice.channel
    lft_channel = bot.get_channel(806109172336689162)
    user_role = await get_rank(executor)

    print("b")

    await channel.set_permissions(get(executor.guild.roles, id=806081402407092295), connect=False)
    print("c")
    await channel.edit(name="Looking for mates", user_limit=5)
    msg = await lft_channel.send(
        content=executor.mention + " is looking for teammates for ranked, he is " + user_role.name + ". Join a channel and react to the message to join the channel. There are currently " + str(
            len(executor.voice.channel.members)) + "/5 player in the channel.",
        delete_after=900)
    await msg.add_reaction('✅')
    lft_data[executor.id] = ["placeholder", msg, channel]
    lft_data[msg.id] = [executor, "placeholder", channel]
    lft_data[channel.id] = [executor, msg, "placeholder"]

If the member who executed the command leaves the voice channel, the voice channel gets changed back to a normal voice channel again:
async def set_casual(channel):
    msg = get_msg(channel)
    executor = get_executor(channel)

    await msg.delete()
    if len(channel.members) != 0:
        await channel.set_permissions(get(executor.guild.roles, id=806081402407092295), connect=True)
        await channel.edit(name=channel.members[0].nick + "'s channel", limit=None)
    [lft_data.pop(x, None) for x in [msg.id, channel.id, executor.id]]

and another user can execute the command, but if the command gets executed, it doesn't get called or takes like 5 minutes to execute. Is there a loop that runs too long, or doesn't stop at all?
Thank you in advance
PS:
Github if you need any more code:

A: You are getting rate limited. The issue, the only way to produce an error is buy adding a global cooldown to your command, or creating a new channel whenever someone uses the command.
@discord.ext.commands.cooldown(rate=2, per=600) #bucketType defaults to global
@bot.command()
async def lft_command(ctx):
   # other stuff here

@lft_command.error()
async def lft_error(ctx, error): #handling cooldown errors
 if isinstance(error, commands.CommandOnCooldown):
     await ctx.send("The command is on cooldown")

References:

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*Cooldowns

*CommandOnCooldown

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By Tony Reed The Trinity Journal
Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in Trinity County as of Monday reached 164, an increase of six over the weekend, but a tally of those infected over Thanksgiving has yet to be realized.
The Trinity County Department of Health and Human Services reported Friday morning, Nov. 27, that 19 additional active COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the county, bringing the total to 158. By Monday, it was 164.
In a video released before Thanksgiving, County Public Health Nursing Director Marci Jo Cudziol warned of how the virus spreads. As of Wednesday, Nov. 25, Trinity County had 40 active cases of COVID-19.
"Since we know that each one positive case can infect two others when protective measures are not followed, these 40 cases will grow to 80 cases in the next two to 14 days," she said, noting that the active cases could double every couple weeks.
"The virus is spreading exponentially and rapidly and is causing more severe illness in Trinity County residents," according to a TCHHS release. "The widespread infection rate in Trinity County and surrounding counties presents a significant threat to our county health care system and other health care systems outside the county that our residents depend on. As cases spread and hospitalization rates begin to exceed capacity, the delay in care due to COVID-19 will be profound and the indirect impact on all aspects of needed emergency care significant."
The impact is also being felt by the public health department, which is asking the state Department of Health for more case investigators and contact tracers to keep up with the increased cases.
Where were you?
TCPHB identified the following sectors as sources of exposure:
► Kelly's Fitness Plus & White Wolf Gym on Nov. 16 and Nov. 18 between the hours of 9 and 10 a.m.
► Burger King in Weaverville on Nov. 15 between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.
► Coast Central Credit Union in Weaverville on Nov. 18 between the hours of 11 a.m. and noon.
► Holiday Market, including Starbucks, on Nov. 20 between the hours of and 2 p.m. / Nov. 22 between the hours of 3 and 4 p.m. / Nov. 25 between the hours of 3 and 4 p.m. / Nov. 26 between the hours of 4 and 5 p.m.
► CVS Pharmacy in Weaverville on Nov. 24, between 10 and 11 a.m.
► Any indoor gatherings without consistent masking and social distancing or more than three households between Nov. 15 and Nov. 26.
Trinity County's infection rate pushed it into the most restrictive tier of state guidelines. Purple Tier Guidance for Trinity County can be found at https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/.
Testing, 1, 2, 3
Drive-through mobile testing can be done from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, 101 Arbuckle Court, Weaverville. On Friday, Dec. 4, testing will be done from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Trinity County Fairgrounds, 6000 Highway 3, Hayfork.
The county's COVID-19 Dashboard is regularly updated to reflect new cases. For local information and statistics or to find additional resources visit www.trinitycounty.org.
State may step in
Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared online Monday to talk about predictions about hospital occupancy and availability going into December.
"Look how quickly we go from 75 percent to 85 percent already in Northern California of [Intensive Care Unit] beds being occupied, to 134 percent just in early December," he said. "That's in a week or two. You can see in mid-December, ICU beds will be at 112 percent capacity, so you get a sense of where we may be." Newsom said the trajectory is a red flag and may lead to further restrictions.
"If these trends continue, we're going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic, action including taking a look at those purple-tiered counties, and they are now 51 of the 58 counties," he said. "We had nine counties move backward over the weekend. Remember, we are not waiting for our weekly cadence to move." He said that if trends continue, the potential for a stay-at-home order for those regions in purple, because of hospitalizations and ICUs, will increase.
For businesses, particularly smaller ones, his office says it will provide billions in immediate tax relief, automatic three-month extensions and interest-free payment agreements for businesses impacted by COVID-19.
"In partnership with the Legislature, California will provide $500 million in new COVID-19 Relief Grant funding for small businesses," the Governor's Office released Monday morning. "As the federal government fails to provide additional financial stimulus support to main street businesses, Gov. Gavin Newsom today announced that California will provide temporary tax relief for eligible businesses impacted by COVID-19 restrictions."
Newsom will direct the Department of Tax and Fee Administration to provide the extensions and expand payment options.
"Funds would be awarded to selected intermediaries with established networks of Community Development Financial Institutions to distribute relief through grants of up to $25,000 to underserved micro and small businesses throughout the state by early 2021," the governor's website states. "Non-profits would also be eligible for these grants."
For more information, visit www.gov.ca.gov/newsroom/ online.
The California Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced the most recent statistics on COVID-19.
► California has 1,225,189 confirmed cases to date. Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.
► There were 12,221 newly recorded confirmed cases Monday. Numbers do not represent true day-over-day change as these results include cases from prior to yesterday.
► The 7-day positivity rate is 7.0 percent and the 14-day positivity rate is 6.5 percent.
► There have been 24,161,313 tests conducted in California. This represents an increase of 136,142 over the prior 24-hour reporting period.
► As case numbers continue to rise in California, the total number of individuals who will have serious outcomes will also increase. There have been 19,211 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
County tier updates
CDPH updated the Blueprint for a Safer Economy county tiers based on data from Nov. 19-25 with a four-day lag. Fifty-two of California's 58 counties are in the Purple Tier.
One county will move to a more restrictive tier, Red (substantial) to Purple (widespread) Tier: Mono
Testing turnaround time
The testing turnaround dashboard reports how long California patients are waiting for COVID-19 test results. California has worked to reduce testing turnaround times in recent weeks to help curb the spread of the virus. During the week of Nov. 15-21, the average time patients waited for test results was 1.4 days. During this same time period, 59 percent of patients received test results in 1 day and 86 percent received them within 2 days. The testing turnaround time dashboard is updated weekly. At this time, all four tiers in the Testing Prioritization Guidance have equal priority for testing.
Health care worker infection rates
As of Nov. 30, local health departments have reported 53,003 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 218 deaths statewide.
Your actions save lives
California is experiencing the fastest increase in cases it has seen yet – faster than what it experienced at the outset of the pandemic and this summer. If COVID-19 continues to spread at this rate, it could quickly overwhelm the health care system and lead to catastrophic outcomes.
Protect yourself, family, friends and community by following these prevention measures:
► Staying home except for essential needs/activities and following local and state public health guidelines when visiting businesses that are open.
► Following the limited Stay at Home Order that requires all non-essential work and activities to stop between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in counties in the purple tier. The order took effect at 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and will remain in effect until 5 a.m. Dec. 21.
► Staying close to home, avoiding non-essential travel, and practicing self-quarantine for 14 days after arrival if you leave the state.
► Keeping gatherings small, short and outdoors and limiting them to those who live in your household.
► Wearing a cloth face mask when out in public.
► Washing hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds.
► Avoiding touching eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
► Covering a cough or sneeze with your sleeve, or disposable tissue. Wash your hands afterward.
► Avoiding close contact with people who are sick.
► Staying away from work, school or other people if you become sick with respiratory symptoms like fever and cough.
► Answer the call if a contact tracer from the CA COVID Team or your local health department tries to connect.
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Mike Morse | Biography
Full Name Mike Morse
Occupation Attorney, Author
Birthplace Michigan, USA
Founder of Mike Morse Law Firm
Mike Morse is the co-author of the book 'Fireproof: A Five-Step Model to Take Your Law Firm from Unpredictable to Wildly Profitable'
Mike Morse founded the Mike Morse Law Firm in September 1995, within three years of graduating from law school. The firm has so far accumulated more than one billion dollars for victims of auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents.
Update : September 15, 2021
Mike Morse is the founder of Michigan's largest personal injury law firm, Mike Morse Law Firm.
Who is Mike Morse?
Mike Morse is an American attorney. He started his career in law by establishing the Mike Morse Law Firm in 1995. The law firm eventually became the largest personal injury law firm in Michigan. Since the establishment of the law firm, it has accumulated more than one billion dollars for victims of auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents.
Morse is also a host of a weekly podcast, Open Mike. He has also co-authored a book titled 'Fireproof: A Five-Step Model to Take Your Law Firm from Unpredictable to Wildly Profitable.'
Michael J. Morse, alias Mike Morse, was born on 11 September 1967 in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Joel Morse, was an attorney who died in 1990 at age 49 from a heart attack. His mother, Susan "Sue" Morse, is a financial planner.
While participating in the Open Mike podcast in November 2019, Morse's mother described an incident that happened when Morse was eight years old. He went to work for a day at a drug store owned by his friend's family. At the end of the day, the friend who brought Morse home appreciated him that he would achieve success in any field he enters in the future. Morse used to go downtown to sell Chipwiches in the park as a child.
Later, Morse graduated with a BBA degree in Business Administration and Management, General in 1989 from the University of Arizona. He then earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1992 from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. During his college years in law school, he worked as a waiter at Meriwether's in Southfield, Michigan.
Morse founded the boutique law firm, Mike Morse Law Firm, at Southfield, Michigan, in September 1995, within three years of graduating from law school. Due to his hard work and dedication, the law firm grew to become Michigan's largest personal injury law firm. It has grown to 150 employees and has served 25,000 clients since its inception. Mike Morse Law Firm has so far accumulated more than one billion dollars for victims of auto, truck, and motorcycle accidents.
Some of the latest cases the law firm solved include winning a $716,000 verdict against Allstate Insurance Company for a car accident victim in July 2021 and obtaining a $4.6 million wrongful death settlement in August 2021 for the family of a man killed in a Michigan car accident in March 2019.
The law firm also specializes in dog bites, and social security disability (SSD) claims.
The attorney became an author when he co-authored a book titled 'Fireproof: A Five-Step Model to Take Your Law Firm from Unpredictable to Wildly Profitable' with John Nachazel, COO of Mike Morse Law Firm. The book was published on 23 June 2020. The official website of Mike Morse Law Firm has mentioned that Morse was named Amazon's #1 best-selling author.
On 18 November 2019, Morse started hosting Open Mike, a weekly podcast focused on providing truthful information about legal topics. The podcast also features attorneys, activists, athletes, experts, entrepreneurs, journalists, motivational speakers, musicians, and many more. Morse has aired more than 115 episodes as of September 2021.
Charity Works
A lawyer, author, and podcaster engages in various charity works. He founded a program, Project Backpack, that provides students with free backpacks, school supplies, and classroom essentials. The program has been running for the eighth consecutive year. As per its website, Project Backpack will provide 200,000 backpacks with school supplies to metro Detroit students by the end of 2021.
Additionally, Morse established the Joel Morse Endowed Scholarship for Wayne State Law students to support diversity and racial equity within the Detroit community and honor his late father.
On 7 December 2020, Morse announced that he would be donating $25,000 for students attending the second or third year of law school, who graduated from a historically black college or university, and who attended Detroit high school.
On 12 September 2021, Mike Morse Law Firm teamed up with animal welfare organization Michigan Humane to host the 'Meet Your Best Friend' adoption event with over a hundred pets.
Due to his professional achievement, Morse was recognized as one of 'America's 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers 2020' by The National Law Journal and The Trial Lawyer magazine. He was also named 'Leader in the Law' by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. Morse was ranked as 'Top Rated Lawyer' by a rating service, Super Lawyer. Furthermore, he was named one of DBusiness magazine's 'Top Lawyers for 2022.'
Morse has also earned multiple 'Golden Gavel Awards' for his award-winning television commercials. He was also featured on NBC's Today show and in publications like Huffington Post and Lawyers Weekly. He also frequently appears as a legal advisor in metro Detroit's local news broadcasts.
As per PR Newswire, he will be featured in the November/December 2021 issue of DBusiness magazine.
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BCA are heading up a dream team of volunteers to construct and deliver 1500 packs of art materials to children in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton, in collaboration with Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council, Bedfordshire Libraries and the University of Bedfordshire.
Funded by Arts Council England and facilitated by The Royal Opera House Bridge, these 'Let's Create' packs contain a range of fun and creative items for families who may not have art resources at home during the pandemic, plus an activity sheet from Arts Council England devised by art teacher Andria Zafirakou (Global Teacher of the Year 2018).
The Bedford and Central Bedfordshire packs also include activity worksheets created by local artist educators Katie Allen and Amanda Silk, commissioned by The Culture Challenge.
"We could not let this generous offer from Arts Council England and The Royal Opera House Bridge pass us by," states Kayte Judge, Cultural Education Producer at BCA. "With many children at home for extended periods we know that art resources will help families provide positive activities as we move into the summer, so we had to make this happen here and we are pleased to have had the partnerships in place to have let us do so".
With COVID-19 causing many organisations to operate on reduced workforce and most venues being closed, the packing operation has become a community affair. Father Paul Messam offered the use of Elstow Abbey as a packing venue and a team of 16 volunteers have come forward to help. With three pallet loads of materials, this is no small task!
The packs will be distributed to families via schools and to charities that serve underprivileged communities who can benefit from these packs: Priory Primary school, Kings Oak School, Livingstone School, Dunstable Ickneild School, Houghton Regis Primary school, Looked After Children Service in Central Bedfordshire, One Housing housing association, The Level Trust and NGYT.
Alongside the 'Let's Create' packs, the volunteer team will be making up a second wave of art packs for BCA's 'Take Part Queens Park' project – these packs are developed by artists Andy Holden, Mira Calix and Caroline Wendling, and are being distributed to schools in Queens Park. With these packs included, the total number of local families supplied with art resources and activities will be over 1800. Find out more about Take Part here: https://bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/projects/take-part-queens-park/


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FOURTH CANDIDATE FOR MINNEAPOLIS PARKS JOB
The following article by Steve Brandt was published in the Star Tribune on September 29, 2010.
Minneapolis park officials announced Tuesday that they've bolstered the field of finalists for park superintendent by adding a fourth candidate.
Jayne Miller, who recently quit her post as head of the Detroit area park system after only six months on the job, will join three other finalists announced this month. The Park Board plans to conduct open interviews of them at 5 p.m. Oct. 6 at its offices at 2117 West River Road.
According to press reports, Miller abruptly quit her job this month as director of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority. It is a five-county regional park system known as Metroparks that has more acreage and a larger budget than Minneapolis parks.
She reportedly resigned shortly after offering to the agency's board an unpopular reorganization plan that was prompted by expected losses in tax revenue. The board voted to accept her resignation.
Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board President John Erwin said that after speaking with Metroparks board members, he's comfortable considering her as a finalist, citing her strong background in parks. Miller's résumé indicates that she has 29 years of park and recreation experience.
Before the Metroparks job, she headed parks, community development and housing for the city of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Also vying for the job are Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher; Stanley Motley, park and recreation director for Fulton County, Ga.; and Steve Rymer, director of recreation and community service for Morgan Hill, Calif.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2010 by Chris.
Minneapolis Park Board could eliminate up to 18 positions
The following report was aired on KARE-TV on September 15, 2010:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=872216
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is rolling out an organizational restructuring plan designed to more effectively support and implement the Board's strategic goals and the Comprehensive Plan with the diminished resources forecast for 2011.
The restructuring will focus on delivery of services through a return to an organizational structure that has assistant superintendents in particular areas of expertise reporting to the superintendent.
The following appointments have been made: Michael Schmidt, Assistant Superintendent Operations; Don Siggelkow, Assistant Superintendent Development; Karen Robinson, Assistant Superintendent Administration; Corky Wiseman, Assistant Superintendent Recreation.
This restructuring is based on a thorough evaluation of the organization's structure and its operating and staffing costs. As part of the restructuring, up to 18 positions are subject to being eliminated and many of the positions are management positions. At Wednesday night's Board meeting, commissioners will consider a severance package and outplacement services for individuals whose positions are being eliminated by the restructuring.
The restructuring is taking effect immediately in order to keep 2010 and 2011 expenditures in line with revenues. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board recognizes that these actions affect people who are colleagues whom the organization cares about.
Layoffs at Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board
The following report was aired on KSTP-TV on September 15, 2010:
http://kstp.com/news/stories/s1746525.shtml [with video]
Updated: 09/15/2010 7:26 PM KSTP.com
By: Colleen Mahoney
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board says up to "18 positions are subject to be eliminated," as part of a restructuring plan. Most of the jobs are management positions.
The restructuring will take place immediately, the board says, to keep "expenditures in line with revenues."
A spokesperson for the board says the cuts were announced late last week, but not everyone has been notified. Commissioners were expected to consider a severance package for them Wednesday night.
The board says the restructuring will involve 4 assistant superintendents with certain areas of expertise answering to the superintendent.
KELLIHER'S BID FOR MPLS PARKS JOB DRAWS PRAISE, CRITICISM
The following article by Steve Brandt was published in the September 17, 2010 issue of the Star Tribune:
KELLIHER'S BID FOR MPLS PARKS JOB DRAWS PRAISE, CRITICISM
News that DFL politician Margaret Anderson Kelliher is a finalist for Minneapolis park superintendent aroused reactions Thursday ranging from praise for her leadership and collaboration to cries of cronyism.
"I know from my conversations with Margaret that she's very interested in our park system and very concerned about it," said Arlene Fried of the oft-critical Park Watch group. "She has leadership skills. She has negotiating skills. And she certainly knows budgets."
But park Commissioner Bob Fine has questions. "We frankly have a candidate that isn't traditional who doesn't have executive management experience," he said. He said the application period should be extended through the meeting here of a national park professionals trade group late next month.
Kelliher is the only finalist who isn't a park professional for a job that was advertised as paying in the "low to mid $100s." The other finalists are Stanley Motley, head of parks in Fulton County, Ga., and Steve Rymer, park director in Morgan Hill, Calif.
The candidacy of House Speaker Kelliher, who lost her party's primary for governor last month, aroused praise and consternation. "It's just very surprising," said former City Council Member Pat Scott, a longtime political supporter of Kelliher.
The local history of nontraditional hires to head government organizations is mixed. The hiring of a consultant firm represented by Peter Hutchinson to run Minneapolis schools ultimately dissolved after mixed results. The Osseo school board bought out the contract of a former Air Force colonel who served as superintendent less than a year.
The most comparable analogy to the move Kelliher is attempting was the Minneapolis school board's aborted hiring of former House Speaker David Jennings as superintendent. But Jennings held several executive positions between those jobs, including chief operating officer of city schools. He ultimately chose not to stay after his surprise hiring provoked charges and a lawsuit arguing that he lacked necessary credentials. He went on to head Chaska schools until June.
Bill English, who questioned the hiring of Jennings, called Kelliher "a politician first and foremost, and a reasonably good candidate for governor." But he added, "We have a history in Minneapolis of taking care of powerful politicians. They land on their feet. They take care of each other."
Some say an advantage of hiring Kelliher, who helped lead the push for the state Legacy Amendment, is that she'll bring close ties to state and national funding sources. But if that's so, English asked, "Why don't we hire her as a lobbyist?"
Kelliher has said that she's not giving interviews on her candidacy. Her résumé lists work at the Legislature dating back to her 1991 hiring as a staff assistant. She said that in her four years as speaker, she managed a $29.1 million House operation, including 253 full-time employees and 75 session jobs. The Park Board has a $57.7 million budget this year with 431 full-time and 219 part-time employees.
She also taught briefly at the University of Minnesota and was a community organizer for three years in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood. She has a bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in political science and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.
The Park Board said when it publicized the job that it would consider "a non-traditional candidate from a non-park-related organization who has executive management experience with public, private or nonprofit employers."
"People felt that she met that criteria," Park Board President John Erwin said. Kelliher evidently applied after a search panel first reviewed résumés in late July. She lost the primary Aug. 10.
Hamline University professor and political analyst David Schultz said her application suggests that her future lies more in city rather than state politics. It could position her to run for mayor. Incumbent R.T. Rybak, whom Kelliher topped for party endorsement, still has his eyes on the governor's chair if DFLer Mark Dayton doesn't win.
"She needs a job, and the city of Minneapolis probably makes more sense for her as a place to go for a job," Schultz said.
L R T COMMITTEE TO MEET THIS MONTH
The following article by Jake Weyer was published in the September 20, 2010 issue of the Southwest Journal:
LRT COMMITTEE TO MEET THIS MONTH
The Park Board's newly appointed Community Advisory Committee for Southwest Light Rail Transit (LRT) will meet for the first time Sept. 23, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Park Board's administrative offices, 2117 W. River Road.
Park Board commissioners, City Council members, neighborhood associations, Mayor R.T. Rybak and County Commissioner Gail Dorfman appointed the 18-member CAC. The group will consider historical, cultural, visual, social and safety issues associated with the 14-mile Southwest LRT line.
The route will start Downtown, travel along the Kenilworth trail between Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, then stretch through St. Louis Park, Hopkins and Minnetonka, ending in Eden Prairie. It will intersect or run adjacent to Bryn Mawr Meadows, Park Siding and parkland around Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles and Lake Calhoun.
The CAC is expected to meet bi-weekly into December. meetings are open to the public.
Park Board Layoffs Expected & Candidates for Superintendent Announced
The following report by Tom Leyden was aired on KMSP-9 on September 15, 2010:
Park Board Layoffs Expected
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/minneapolis-park-board-layoffs-expected-sept-15-2010 [with video]
Minneapolis Park Board Layoffs Expected
Many of the layoffs are management positions
Updated: Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010, 10:41 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010, 4:28 PM CDT
Tom Lyden / FOX 9 News
MINNEAPOLIS – FOX 9 has learned the Minneapolis Park Board is preparing for layoffs in preparation for its 2011 budget cycle.
Up to 18 people are expected to be laid off, mostly management positions. The Minneapolis Park Board is scheduled to vote on a proposed severance agreement with the workers Wednesday night, which would grant the workers six months severance at their current salary, extend their health benefits for six months, and provide job re-training courses. The Park Board is expected to allocate $600,000 for the severance package.
Parks Board spokesperson Dawn Sommers said she did not know if Park Board members would discuss any details about the positions. Sommers said an announcement of the exact number of positions was expected Thursday.
Margaret Anderson-Kelliher is one of three finalists for Park Board Superintendent position.
House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher released a statement Wednesday night.
"As the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board announced earlier today, I am pleased to be among the finalists in the search for a new Superintendent. Our parks system is a national treasure that has always grown to reflect the needs of a changing city. Creating and maintaining unique recreational spaces in one of the Midwest's premiere parks setting is an exciting opportunity to serve our community. I look forward to the next step in the search process."
The Superintendent candidate finalists are:
Steve Rymer is the Director of Recreation for the city of Morgan Hill, California. Morgan Hill is a town of 30,000 people located in Morgan Hill is located approximately 12 miles south of San Jose
Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minneapolis. Speaker of the Minnesota House, a title she has held since 2007. DFL endorsed candidate for Governor, she lost the August 10, gubernatorial primary to former Senator Mark Dayton. She has a BA in history and political science from Gustavus Adolphus College and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard.
Stanley Motley is the Parks and Recreation Director in Fulton County, Georgia, which includes Atlanta. He most recently joined the department in August 2009, after serving from 1995-2000.
Motley has 30 years of service in park services. It includes leadership roles in Illinois (Oak Brook Park District), Missouri (Jackson County), New York (Westchester County), and Florida (Hillsborough County). In Westchester County, New York he left the job of parks commissioner after less than two years. Mr. Motley has an undergraduate degree in Parks and Recreation Administration and a Masters in Public Administration. He is also a Certified Park and Recreation Professional through the National Parks and Recreation Association.
FOX 9 will update additional information on the candidates as it becomes available. The Minneapolis Park Board hopes to select a new superintendent by the end of October.
ANDERSON KELLIHER NAMED MINNEAPOLIS PARKS SUPERINTENDENT FINALIST
Minnesota House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who lost the DFL primary for governor last month and didn't file for re-election to the Legislature, turned up Wednesday on a short list of finalists for the job of Minneapolis parks superintendent. Also named finalists were Stanley Motley, who directs parks in Fulton County, Ga., and Steve Rymer, who holds a similar position in the city of Morgan Hill, Cal. Kelliher lives in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis.
The selection of the three finalists means the nine-member Park Board, which has shown some friction over how to hire a new superintendent, can chose from among two park professionals and a well-connected politician.
Some board members feel that the post isn't drawing the quality field of applicants that a nationally renowned park system should, and they want to further extend taking applications while a national convention of park professionals hits town this fall.
Board President John Erwin disagreed, saying, "We have three people I'm very proud to name." He said another potential finalist took a job elsewhere, and another was eliminated when an issue arose during background checks.
Anderson Kelliher's resume lists no experience comparable to running the park system. She released a statement saying that she was pleased to be a finalist.
"Our parks system is a national treasure that has always grown to reflect the needs of a changing city," she said. "Creating and maintaining unique recreational spaces in one of the Midwest's premiere parks settings is an exciting opportunity to serve our community."
The board hopes to interview the finalists during its first meeting in October.
The announcement came even as interim superintendent David Fisher announced a new administrative structure that the new superintendent will inherit. The system of five associate superintendents is one Fisher used when he headed city parks for 18 years.
Taking the top posts will be Corky Wiseman, recreation; Mike Schmidt, operations; Karen Robinson, administration; and Don Siggelkow, development. An associate for planning has yet to be named.
Among those losing their jobs in the reorganization is Richard Mammen, who headed recreation and is a candidate for school board. Mammen said that he had hoped to stay on the job into next year but can return to a consultant organization he helped lead.
Motley has headed Fulton County parks twice, from 1995 to 2000 and again starting last year. His resume includes 30 years in parks and recreation, including leadership roles in Illinois, Missouri, New York and Florida, according to his biography. Rymer heads parks under a seven-member commission in a city of 33,000 people that has experienced rapid growth as a Silicon Valley bedroom suburb.
The Minneapolis post opened when the board voted 6-3 in February not to renew the contract of Jon Gurban.
PARK BOARD APPROVES LAYOFFS AND ANNOUNCES SUPERINTENDENT FINALISTS
The following story by Jake Weyer appeared in the September 16, 2010 on-line issue of the Southwest Journal:
After more than a century of letting attrition control employee departures from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the organization on Sept. 15 approved severance packages for up to 18 staff members, most of them managers.
The layoffs, the first in Park Board history, are part of a broad restructuring of the organization led by interim superintendent David Fisher. Fisher served as superintendent from 1981-1998 and is filling in until a new superintendent is hired later this fall. His contract is up at the end of October.
Even before he returned in July, Fisher said restructuring the department was a priority. After the Sept. 15 meeting, he said the system's longtime model of turnover through attrition has kept the organization from evaluating what positions are truly needed and what it could do without. With the budget growing tighter each year, he said the Park Board had to be proactive.
"What we need is boots on the ground," he said.
The restructuring will take place immediately to keep the board's budget out of the red through 2011.
Having personally known some of the managers whose positions are slated for elimination, Fisher said the process has been difficult. He said more information on the cut jobs would be forthcoming, after employees were notified.
All of the district manager positions were cut. That includes Lakes District Manager Paul Hokeness, a familiar face in Southwest, and Minnehaha manager Obie Kipper. Richard Mammen, director of community recreation services and a candidate for Minneapolis School Board, also lost his job. Former River District Manager Corky Wiseman was shifted to a new position, assistant superintendent of recreation.
Wiseman was one four existing park employees appointed to five new assistant superintendent positions. Also in those roles are Mike Schmidt, operations; Don Siggelkow, development, and Karen Robinson, administration. Fisher has yet to name the fifth assistant superintendent, who will oversee planning.
Mammen, who started with the Park Board five years ago, said he found out about his layoff a week ago. He'll continue to do special projects with the board through November. He said he didn't expect his tenure to end this way, but he wasn't shocked.
"It wasn't a surprise at all," Mammen said. "The reality is we all know the budget is tight and there have to be some changes made in light of the fiscal reality."
He said he expects Wiseman to carry on the city's youth and recreation programs without trouble. Next to the parks, Mammen said, the staff are the Park Board's biggest asset and they'll work to improve the system regardless of their numbers.
Only one commissioner voted against the staffing changes. At-Large Commissioner Bob Fine said he agreed with the financial need for layoffs, but he was concerned about an interim superintendent making staffing changes that the new superintendent might disagree within a month. Fine also said he thought the existing district management model worked well.
"I just have a problem with what's been happening with the restructuring that we're doing right now, especially as it applies to the changing of the districts and the involvement of the board in making the decision," he said.
Commissioner Liz Wielinski (District 1), said the staffing changes were part of what Fisher was brought on to do.
"We hired a superintendent and we give a superintendent the tools to do what he needs to do to make the system better," she said. Commissioners thanked affected staff for the work they've done and emphasized that the decision to let them go was not taken lightly.
"This 127-year-old organization has never gone through a change like this," said At-Large Commissioner Annie Young. "We've never laid off staff and this has been difficult for all of us, so this is not something we do on a regular basis. We take it very, very seriously."
Also on Sept. 15, Park Board President John Erwin announced three finalists for the superintendent job, one of them Minnesota House Speaker and former DFL gubernatorial candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who lives in Bryn Mawr.
Kelliher, who lost the primary Aug. 10 to Mark Dayton, could not be immediately reached for comment about her decision to apply for the top parks job, but she said in a prepared statement that she was pleased to be a finalist and looking forw ard to the next steps.
"Creating and maintaining unique recreational spaces in one of the Midwest's premiere parks settings is an exciting opportunity to serve our community," the statement said.
Kelliher's competitors are Steve Rymer, director of recreation and community services in Morgan Hill, Calif. and Stanley Motley, director of parks and recreation in Fulton County, Ga. Erwin said a review committee originally selected five finalists, but one took another job and a second was dismissed after a background check.
The board encouraged non-traditional candidates to apply for the position. Erwin said the interview process is expected to start the first week in October.
This entry was posted in Budget on September 16, 2010 by Chris.
LAKE HARRIET CONCESSION CONTRACT NEARS APPROVAL
The following story by Jake Weyer was published in the September 6, 2010 issue of the Southwest Journal:
HARRIET CONCESSION CONTRACT NEARS APPROVAL
The board will decide this month whether to approve local restaurateur Kim Bartmann's concept, Bread & Pickle
After more than a year of community review and a selection process that narrowed a field of nearly a dozen applicants, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is scheduled to vote this month on a new Lake Harriet concession contract.
Staff recommended local restaurateur Kim Bartmann's concept, Bread & Pickle, based on the suggestion of a community group that reviewed and interviewed the applicants. That group was made up of former members of a Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) the Park Board assembled last year after public outcry over a proposed concession change that would have required a new building. The CAC examined concession opportunities and drafted recommendations used to review applicants.
"The CAC was really a lengthy, drawn-out, long process," said Park Board General Manager Don Siggelkow. "But it yielded the information and the understanding that I think brought this conclusion the way it needed to happen."
Several high-quality applications were reviewed, Siggelkow said, but the decision to recommend Bartmann's proposal was unanimous. A Park Board committee planned to vote on the contract Sept. 1, after press time for this issue. If approved, the full board would take up the contract Sept. 15.
Bartmann, who runs Bryant Lake Bowl, Barbette and the Red Stag Supperclub, was thrilled about getting the nod.
"We think it will be a challenge, but we think we're up to it," she said.
Bread & Pickle would serve a variety of sandwiches, salads, frozen treats and snacks (popcorn and ice cream would stay on the menu) made from locally sourced ingredients, Bartmann said. She also wants to open at 7 a.m. to serve breakfast and coffee.
Some of the items on her sample menu (purposefully oversize to show a range of offerings) include egg sandwiches, a burger made with grass-fed beef, a vegetarian-friendly black-bean burger, a rice and veggie wrap with tofu, a "pasta of the day," a chocolate covered frozen banana and numerous beverage options such as coffee, tea and lemonade. Beer and wine are not on the menu.
In an effort to be as eco-friendly as possible, Bartmann said she would not offer bottled water. Instead, she plans to sell Minneapolis tap water in reusable stainless steel containers for the same price. She also hopes to provide compost containers for waste and is working with Linden Hills Power and Light to become a part of the neighborhood's composting program.
Bartmann said she is negotiating the purchase of GiGi's Cafe at 822 W. 36th Street, which she would use along with Barbette, 1600 W. Lake St., for food preparation. Barbette chef Kevin Kathman would oversee all of the food operations.
Speedy service is crucial at Lake Harriet during the busy summer months and Bartmann plans to offer a call-ahead picnic menu to help keep things moving. She'll even provide a blanket for all pre-order customers. Catering and mobile vending around the lakes might also be offered.
Operations would be seasonal, but she's hoping to host some special events that might involve periodic winter appearances.
Her contact would be good for five years, at which time the Park Board would reassess the concession operation. Siggelkow said he was hoping for swift approval and expects Bread & Pickle to be a success.
"I think it offers concert goers and users of Lake Harriet another great opportunity, just like we did with Tin Fish (on Lake Calhoun) and Sea Salt (near Minnehaha Falls) to have an additional amenity to an area that already has all kinds of great things to do," he said.
Lisa McDonald, an East Harriet resident who served on the CAC and the review committee, said Bartmann's track record, financial backing, nearby facilities and vision made her standout among several other solid applicants. Well-known local establishments D'Amico and Sons and Sawatdee were among the contenders.
"Kim is very creative and inventive and she'll keep fine tuning it until she gets it right," McDonald said. "And she was the only person that was willing to do breakfast at the lake, to really do it thoroughly I mean."
McDonald was among those concerned that the Park Board wasn't "casting its net wide enough" in its first search for vendors. She said the CAC had a lot to do with the larger pool of applicants the second time around. Its recommendations for the site also streamlined the selection process, she said.
Among the group's guidelines were more food options, timely service, use of the existing facility, environmental sustainability, respect for the setting and a business plan that included proof of financial strength.
"I think that really did a tremendous service," said former CAC president Matt Perry, who was also on the review committee. "The CAC brought visibility to the fact that there was an interest in having a local firm providing expanded food options. It also gave great marketing information to what a potential vendor would be."
Bartmann said the name of her concept alludes to its sandwich offerings. With the Park Board's blessing, Bread & Pickle could be open as soon as April.
This entry was posted in Park Concessions on September 16, 2010 by Chris.
Park Board September 15, 2010 Meeting
HEADS-UP FOR THE SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 PARK BOARD MEETING
5:00 P.M. REGULAR BOARD MEETING. Committee meetings to follow. The meetings will be held in the boardroom at Park Board headquarters, 2117 West River Road, just north of Broadway Pizza.
5:30 P.M. OPEN TIME. Speakers need to sign up before 3:00 p.m. the day of the meeting.
It's going to be a long meeting with many significant agenda items.
Some highlights of the meetings that will be voted on :
A $149,725 change order for Wirth Beach Improvements.
The concession agreement with Bread & Pickle at Lake Harriet.
The RFP for boat services on the Mississippi River.
The severance terms related to position eliminations.
Amending the 2010 Capital project list for the enterprise fund.
Design & engineering services for Brownie Lake trails plan.
Design & engineering services for BF Nelson/Boom Island.
The Proposal for an RFQ for the Central Mississippi Riverfront Master Plan Design Competition.
The following is the link to the complete agenda, with staff reports, for the MPRB Board of Commissioners' meeting of Wednesday, September 15: http://www.minneapolisparks.org.
MPRB meetings are broadcast live from 5-9 p.m. on the City of Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79 on Comcast cable and online at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/webcasts.
The regular meetings are rebroadcast on Channel 79 at 1 p.m. Saturdays and 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Webcasts for the recent two months are posted two to five business days after the meeting and are available for viewing under "Webcast Archives" at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/webcasts.
The Park Board's website is http://www.minneapolisparks.org.
Arlene Fried, Co-founder of Park Watch
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Biography – LAJOIE, JEANNE – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
LAJOIE, JEANNE (baptized Marie-Jeanne-Alberta), teacher; b. 2 Feb. 1899 in Lefaivre, Ont., one of the 12 children of Damien Lajoie, a joiner, and Alexina Proulx; d. unmarried 2 March 1930 in Montreal.
Marie-Jeanne Lajoie (as she was called until about 1922) did not start attending school until she was eight because of poor health. Illness would later prevent her from writing her high-school entrance examinations. Nonetheless, at 13 she began taking piano lessons and at 15 she obtained a diploma in stenography from an academy in Montreal. In 1919 she became housekeeper for her brother Élias, the parish priest at Vars, Ont. Her objective was to be a teacher and in 1921 she was hired to take over, from February to June, a class with four students in a separate school in the Sudbury district near Warren. She went next to a public school near Azilda, where she had some 60 students, before moving to a school at Naughton in September 1922. She left, however, at the end of October, fatigued and complaining of depression. In March 1923, having recovered from what she called a "breakdown," she took on a class at Blezard Valley. At the English-French summer model school in Ottawa in 1922, she had obtained an English-French district certificate, which qualified her to teach for a year in a dual-language school. In the summer of 1923 she attended a month-long academic course at the English-French model school in Vankleek Hill. That September, shortly before her certificate was renewed, she accepted a position to teach French at St John School, one of two separate schools (neither of them officially designated as bilingual) in Pembroke, an Ottawa valley town with a large francophone population.
St John School, where the majority of students were French-speaking, had been opened in early 1923 as a result of a campaign by the Cercle Lorrain. (Formed in 1916 and named for Narcisse-Zéphirin Lorrain, the first Roman Catholic bishop of Pembroke, this society promoted the interests of local francophones.) Under the provisions of and amendments to the province's Regulation 17 [see Sir James Pliny Whitney*], French could not be used in the school as a language of communication and instruction beyond form 1 except by permission from inspectors. French reading, grammar, and composition could be subjects of study in forms 1 to 4 but for no more than one hour per day. Jeanne was hired to teach a regular class of some 30 French-speaking students and to provide one hour of instruction in French to a rotating group of students, also French-speaking, from other classes. Her arrival was not entirely welcome: the principal of the school, which was supervised by the Sisters of St Joseph, immediately told her it was "foolish" to teach children two languages. A few weeks later the inspector recommended to Pembroke's school board that Jeanne's classes be turned over to another teacher, a more highly qualified anglophone sister who also held an English-French certificate and who, despite lacking a mastery of French, had taught it the previous year. Bowing to pressure, in October 1923 the board decided to dismiss Jeanne. There is little doubt she had fuelled the controversy by seeking to teach in French for periods longer than allowed by Regulation 17.
The decision was not well received among the parents and other francophones in Pembroke. Jeanne's cause was also taken up by the Association Canadienne-Française d'Éducation d'Ontario [see Napoléon-Antoine Belcourt*]; a spokesman commented privately on 10 October to Alfred Longpré, the president of the Cercle Lorrain, that "this provocation cannot be allowed to pass without the French Canadians of Pembroke protesting very strongly." Jeanne had written to the ACFEO on 6 October setting out her version of events and her letter was printed anonymously in the Ottawa newspaper Le Droit. When a petition and other protests did not result in the reversal of the school board's decision, several hundred people decided, at a meeting sponsored by the Cercle Lorrain, to follow the example of Franco-Ontarians in Green Valley (in Glengarry County) in 1916 and establish a "free" school outside government control, with Jeanne as its teacher. On 6 November, after speeches by representatives from the Cercle and the ACFEO, by Montreal editor Omer Héroux*, and by Jeanne herself, the École Jeanne-d'Arc opened with more than 50 students in the dining room of a private home. Jeanne, who according to Héroux "had lifted the courage" of the francophones in Pembroke, had become a symbol of the resistance offered to what was perceived as the persecution of Franco-Ontarians.
The school survived by means of donations received from organizations such as the Association Catholique de la Jeunesse Canadienne-Française and the Union Saint-Joseph du Canada and from individuals, many of them responding to appeals made especially in Le Droit and Heroux's Le Devoir. Later in November a new home was purchased for the school and in February 1924 another teacher was hired. In addition to giving speeches in support of the school, Jeanne raised money while on summer holidays in Montreal. Her reputation as a teacher was recognized when she was offered the principalship of a school in Windsor, Ont., in May 1925. She refused, saying her work was in Pembroke.
The protest by francophones in Pembroke reflected events in many parts of Ontario. A large number of French-instruction schools, especially in Ottawa and the rural areas of Prescott and Russell counties, had openly resisted Regulation 17. The ACFEO continued to oppose the regulation, which would be shelved by the province in 1927, but by then Jeanne was no longer in the front ranks of the resistance.
Her health had taken a turn for the worse. In September 1926 she entered the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur in Cartierville (Montreal), diagnosed with tuberculosis. She never recovered and died on 2 March 1930. The "heroine of Pembroke" was not forgotten. Originally interred in a pauper's grave in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in Montreal, she was reburied and given a new headstone. Abbé Lionel Groulx* said in 1940 that she was of the "spiritual family of Joan of Arc" and that with her name, Jeanne, she "could be called the Maid of Pembroke." Pilgrimages were made to her tomb in the 1940s and she was the subject of allegorical floats in Saint-Jean-Baptiste day parades. In the last half of the 20th century, some French-language schools in Ontario were named in her honour, the story of her struggle was the subject of at least three plays, and her actions were cited as exemplary for those anxious about the survival of the French language in Ontario.
Henri Pilon
There are photographs of Jeanne Lajoie in Dictionnaire de l'Amérique française; francophonie nord-américaine hors Québec, Charles Dufresne et al., édit. (Ottawa, 1988), and in La Patrie, 7 nov. 1923.
AO, RG 2-102-0-3; RG 80-2-0-499, no.32793. Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture (Ottawa), C2 (Fonds Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario), /21/5: corr., rapports, 1922; /21/8: rapports, résolutions, 1926; /101/9: corr., résolution, loi, 1923-24; /183/22: Lajoie, Jeanne; /186/9: Longpré, Alfred; /211/4: corr., juillet–-octobre 1923; /212/1-2: corr., février-décembre 1924; /212/4-5: corr., 1925-26; /212/6: corr. et coupures de presse, 1927; Edmond Clouthier, "Quinze années de lutte! 1910-1925: catéchisme de la question scolaire ontarienne" (texte dactylographié, [1925]). LAC, RG 31, C1, 1901, Alfred Township, Ont., div.4: 2 (mfm. at AO). Le Droit (Ottawa), septembre 1923–decembre 1924, 6 mars 1930. P.-F. Sylvestre, "Naissance de Jeanne Lajoie, la 'pucelle de Pembroke,'" L'Express (Toronto), 3–9 févr. 2004: 3. Robert Choquette, Language and religion: a history of English-French conflict in Ontario (Ottawa, 1975). Alfred Longpré, L'éveil de la race: un épisode de la résistance franco-ontarienne, Pembroke, 1923–27 ([Pembroke, Ont., 1930]). Peter Oliver, Public & private persons: the Ontario political culture, 1914–1934 (Toronto and Vancouver, 1975), 92–124. Frère Urbain-Marie [J. A. Delisle], Jeanne Lajoie: l'héroïne de Pembroke (Laprairie, Qué., [1942?]). F. A. Walker, Catholic education and politics in Ontario . . . (3v., Toronto, 1955–87; vols.1–2 repr. 1976), 2.
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Make no mistake, the alien in Alien: Isolation is lethal. If you try to engage it head on, the way you may have done in previous games that feature the species, you're not going to survive. To commemorate the fragility of human life, Sega and The Creative Assembly have released three videos that show Amanda Ripley making what are in retrospect some fairly poor decisions.
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