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B.C government sinks Pedley marina proposal
60-slip marina was planned for joint use by Pedley and Baltac neighbourhoods
Lorene Keitch
May. 29, 2019 11:30 a.m.
The B.C. government has sunk a proposal for a private marina on Lake Windermere.
In 2018, the Pedley Heights Community Association proposed a 90-berth moorage facility on Lake Windermere at Baltac Bay. In a public hearing in July 2018, Mark Voszler, president of the Pedley Heights Community Association, presented the proposal for a joint moorage facility between Pedley and Baltac communities. Representatives from both neighbourhoods made clear the agreement was struck after years of consultation, internal discussion, and compromise. In the 10 days between the public hearing and Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board meeting, the proposal was reduced from 90 to 60 boat slips. The RDEK Board approved the rezoning needed to move the project forward.
Separate from the RDEK bylaw amendment process, the association also approached the Province for a crown land application to address the changes needed in the crown-owned water.
The application was denied last month by the Province, with the ministry giving four reasons for the decision. The first was unmitigated environmental concerns: the marina was proposed in a key habitat area, there was insufficient evidence provided by a qualified environmental professional, and an environmental mitigation strategy or management plan was not provided by the
proponent. The second was impacts to public use, asserting the public would
gain no social or economic benefit from such a structure. The third was First Nations considerations: that the proposed facility would have adverse impacts on Aboriginal interests. Lastly, that a Land Act authorization would not provide authority to remove private buoys, with no evidence indicating that locating a group moorage facility would result in a reduction in the number of private buoys.
Mr. Voszler, who spoke at the public hearing on behalf of the Pedley Heights Community Association and was the president at the time, did not return repeated phone calls from the Pioneer to speak to the application. Gerald Catonio, president of the Baltac Community Association, also did not return phone calls from the Pioneer. Lake Windermere Ambassadors declined to comment for the article either.
Susan Clovechok, Area F director, said she has not heard from any residents about the provincial decision, and furthermore that no discussion on further applications or alternatives have come forward to the RDEK regarding a marina on Lake Windermere.
Ms. Clovechok was not the Area F director when the public hearing or RDEK vote took place, but did attend the public hearing to stay informed on issues in the area.
"We heard at the public hearing in the fall that the issues on the lake are very polarizing. It was clear – regardless of their position – people are very passionate about the lake," Ms. Clovechok said. "The lake can be very busy, and that's where issues arise."
To read the full decision, go to https://arfd.gov.bc.ca and search for file number 4405612.
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The Battle of Wisconsin Heights was the penultimate engagement of the 1832 Black Hawk War, fought between the United States state militia and allies, and the Sauk and Fox tribes, led by Black Hawk. The battle took place in what is now Dane County, near present-day Sauk City, Wisconsin. Despite being vastly outnumbered and sustaining heavy casualties, Black Hawk's warriors managed to delay the combined government forces long enough to allow the majority of the Sauk and Fox civilians in the group to escape across the Wisconsin River. This reprieve was temporary; when the militia finally caught up with the fleeing band it resulted in the Bad Axe massacre at the mouth of the Bad Axe River.

Background
As a consequence of an 1804 treaty between the Governor of Indiana Territory and a group of Sauk and Fox leaders regarding land settlement, the Sauk and Fox tribes vacated their lands in Illinois and moved west of the Mississippi in 1828. However, Sauk Black Hawk and others disputed the treaty, claiming that the full tribal councils had not been consulted, nor did those representing the tribes have authorization to cede lands. Angered by the loss of his birthplace, between 1830–1831 Black Hawk led a number of incursions across the Mississippi River, but was persuaded to return west each time without bloodshed. In April 1832, encouraged by promises of alliance with other tribes and the British, he again moved his so-called "British Band" of around 1000 warriors and non-combatants into Illinois. Finding no allies, he attempted to return to Iowa but events overtook him and led to the Battle of Stillman's Run. A number of other engagements followed, and the militias of Michigan Territory and Illinois were mobilized to hunt down Black Hawk's band.

After an inconclusive skirmish in late June at Kellogg's Grove, Black Hawk and his band fled the approaching militia through Wisconsin. They had passed through what are now Beloit and Janesville, then followed the Rock River toward Horicon Marsh, where they headed west toward the Four Lakes region (near modern-day Madison). The band camped for the night near Pheasant Branch.

Prelude
The U.S. force of 600–750 militia men had picked up Black Hawk's trail following the Battle of Pecatonica. Colonel Henry Dodge and James D. Henry pursued the band up the Rock River, engaging in minor skirmishes along the way. The militia marched  from Four Lakes the day of the battle, discovering the body of a dead Native American along the way, in whose pouch they found the watch of George Force, a lieutenant who was killed in an attack at Fort Blue Mounds on June 20. Ahead of the main party of militia, a small band of U.S. allied Ho-Chunk warriors had been sent ahead to scout the area with Pierre Pauquette, a trader from Portage, Wisconsin. Rumors that Black Hawk's band was at Lake Koshkonong persisted and Dodge and his men attempted to intercept Black Hawk there. Although Black Hawk's band had already moved on by the time the militia arrived at the lake, they found evidence of his presence and picked up his trail again, continuing their pursuit toward the Wisconsin River.

Unable to remain in one place long enough to receive provisions, Black Hawk's group were in poor health and some of them starved to death on the road. Black Hawk stated in his account of the battle that at this point in the war he had every intention of escaping with his people back across the Mississippi River, but on encountering the large U.S. force at Wisconsin Heights he was left with no choice but to fight. His intention was to allow the non-combatants in his band to escape across the Wisconsin River.

Battle
On July 21, 1832, the militia caught up with Black Hawk's band as they attempted to cross the Wisconsin River, near present-day Roxbury, in Dane County, near Sauk City, Wisconsin. As the militia approached the battleground, warriors appeared on the surrounding hillsides, attempting to divert their attention. According to Dodge's account, before the militia met the main body of Black Hawk's band, three U.S. scouts crossed a small band of Sauk or Fox warriors and pursued them to within a mile of their camp. Scouts also killed two Sauk warriors before the real battle began.

The scouts who had pursued the three Sauk back toward their camp returned when warriors from the camp pursued them on horseback. Dodge dismounted his troops and ordered his men to advance to higher ground. The band of warriors, under Black Hawk, moved toward the militia; when they were within  the militia and its allies opened fire. Black Hawk ordered his men to "stand their ground, and never yield it to the enemy." Black Hawk's resolve saved the lives of the bulk of Sauk and Fox present that day at Wisconsin Heights; the warriors fought with the militia while the majority of the civilians escaped, via rafts, across the Wisconsin River.

In the first volley of the battle, one of Black Hawk's warriors was killed instantly and one or two others wounded. Black hawk's warriors returned fire as they withdrew – straight into the charging militia. Dodge and a Major Ewing came upon the battlefield at Wisconsin Heights first and captured an elevated area that later acquired the name "Militia Ridge". The militia occupied a solid position as General Henry arrived, accompanied by three regiments of mounted Illinois Militia. Henry formed his men into a right angle firing line and exchanged gunfire with Black Hawk's men for around 30 minutes. A Dodge-led bayonet charge ended the battle, sending the remaining warriors scattering-to be pursued by militia – several of whom were killed. The troops did not pursue Black Hawk, Dodge stated, "after consulting with Genl. Henry it was agreed to defer a further attack on the enemy until the next morning."

Dodge noted the number of Sauk dead at 40, possibly more; he reported that Ho-Chunk scouts and militia men took at least that number of scalps after the battle. U.S. allied Ho-Chunk, during the night following the battle, scalped another 11 Sauk who had been killed by the militia, and Dodge had seen Sauk wounded being carried from the battlefield during the fighting. Dodge's forces suffered one dead and 8 wounded, of whom one was injured during the march to Wisconsin Heights, before the battle.

Aftermath
The U.S. militia decided to wait until the following day to pursue Black Hawk. To their surprise, when morning arrived, their enemy had disappeared. Shortly before dawn one of the leaders accompanying Black Hawk, a Sauk chieftain named Neapope, had attempted from the knoll on which the band had taken refuge to explain to the militia officers that his group wanted only to end the fighting and go back across the Mississippi River. In a "loud shrill voice" he delivered a conciliatory speech in his native Ho-Chunk language, assuming Pauquette and his band of Ho-Chunk guides were still with the militia. However, the U.S. troops did not understand him, because their Ho-Chunk allies had already departed the battlefield.

The one militia man killed in battle, Thomas Jefferson Short, was later buried somewhere on the site where the battle occurred. The battle was devastating for Black Hawk and his band, despite the fact that much of his band escaped across the Wisconsin River; casualty estimates were as high as 70 dead Sauk and Fox, including those killed in action and those drowned. Even so, at least one source called the battle, along with Stillman's Run, one of Black Hawk's major military triumphs.

The militia regrouped at Blue Mounds Fort and picked up Black Hawk's trail again on July 28 near Spring Green, Wisconsin. When they finally caught up with Black Hawk's "British Band" it would lead to the decisive clash of the war at Bad Axe. At the mouth of the Bad Axe River, hundreds of men, women and children would be killed by pursuing soldiers, their Indian allies, and a U.S. gunboat.

The site of the Battle of Wisconsin Heights is preserved in northwestern Dane County, two miles (3 km) southeast of present-day Sauk City on State Highway 78. It is owned by the Department of Natural Resources, and is open to the public. It is the only intact battle site from the American Indian Wars found in the U.S. Midwest. The Wisconsin Heights Battlefield was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 2002.

The location of the battle is confirmed in the Township (Exterior) Notes of U.S. Deputy Surveyor John H. Mullet. The range line (between Roxbury (Section 19 of T9N, R7E) and Mazomanie (Section 24 of T9N, R6E) was surveyed on October 23, 1832, just three months after the battle. Because of this record, there is contemporary and sworn proof of the battle site's location.

See also
 Sixty Years' War
 Black Hawk Purchase
 Indian removal
 Indian termination policy
 Black Hawk War

Notes

Dane County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Heights
1832 in Michigan Territory
July 1832 events

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One of the thoughts stressed by coach Popovich is give up a good shot for a great shot. This entails a player not taking or passing on an opportunity for a good shot and give the ball to a teammate who is in a position to take a great shot. This brings to mind a comment I once read that says you have to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.
There are opportunities and choices that are good, but are they the best? There is always a limit to the time and resources available but this is more pronounced for small business owners. Small business owners do not have the cash flow or other resources of larger organizations and so being able to do this is more critical to small business owners.
Knowing the difference between good and best means knowing what is needed. What qualities are required, what needs have to be fulfilled? You need a benchmark in your mind to know when opportunities are good and when they are great. You also have to be realistic, while having a vision and a full checklist is good you also need to know that you will only get close to getting everything on that list. You also have to be able to walk away from an opportunity. Having a benchmark or vision of what the best solution or opportunity is will help, but it can still be hard to walk away from opportunities. Remember, as a small business owner you may have to walk away from many good opportunities to be able to accept great ones.
While no one wants to give up a good shot at an opportunity saying no will leave you open for taking a great shot down the road and help you build your own world class organization.


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Notes et références

Alekseï
Naissance en mai 1767
Décès en août 1834
Ministre russe de la Justice
Noblesse russe du XVIIIe siècle
Noblesse russe du XIXe siècle
Décès à 67 ans


Ottawa is and has always been a global tech player. As big businesses continue to expand their operations in the capital, responses to recruitment campaigns have been phenomenal.
There still exists a misconception about Ottawa when it comes to tech. The stigma of Nortel's collapse and the 2001 tech bubble still floats about in peoples' minds, but that was the past.
Clearing up the misconception that Ottawa's tech scene no longer exists or the wildly misinformed conclusion that it never did exist is Ryan Gibson's daily struggle.
Mr. Gibson is part of the marketing team behind Invest Ottawa's Work in Ottawa campaign, and their responsibility now lies in getting the word out to recruit talent to Ottawa in order to meet the overwhelming demand of its global tech operations.
"The challenge right now is when you look at developed countries with clusters of technology capacities, they are all looking for talent. There are just more jobs than people," Gibson explained.
Home to more than 1,750 tech companies that employ more than 68,500 people, and attracting a host of new firms from around the world, Ottawa was also recently crowned the top tech hub in Canada to live and work in.
Heeding the call from the Great White North, interested parties from the US have been responding to Work in Ottawa in numbers far exceeding original expectations.
An article in The Guardian on Sunday mentioned Work in Ottawa as a "recruitment campaign in five US regions," but it didn't go into what those regions were or how Invest Ottawa came to target those areas.
It's hard to give exact numbers on the number of Canadian-born citizens working in tech in the US, but according to some estimates, there are about three or four million, with more than 300,000 Canadians working in tech in California alone.
After testing the waters for recruits at-home in Canada, Work in Ottawa then set its sights on the five regions alluded to in The Guardian. They were Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Texas, and California.
"It was insane! Within two weeks we had about three million people engage. We knew it would be good, but we didn't think it would be that good, and we were really excited," said Gibson.
From the flood of interested candidates, Gibson's team was able to compile a database of some 1,600 – 1,700 potential recruits, but Ottawa's demand for tech talent is even higher, and the city can comfortably accommodate an additional 10,000 candidates should they choose to take advantage of what Canada's capital has to offer.
So, what makes Ottawa such an attractive place to work and why now?
Compared with other Canadian cities, Ottawa's average house price at $278K USD is about half that of Toronto and Vancouver, and is comparable to Montreal.
Ottawa is a stark contrast to the cost of an average home in San Francisco, which is about $1.3 million. And for those who aim to build an exciting life along with career, the region boasts more than 850 parks, 500 miles of biking trails, the world's largest outdoor skating rink, hundreds of freshwater lakes, and 180 festivals year 'round.
The digital transformation that is taking place globally means many young tech workers can work from just about anywhere in the world with a laptop and access to WiFi. As far as big cities go, especially a nation's capital, Ottawa is not only affordable, it is well-established, connected, and a vibrant place to live.
"Multinational brands such as Nokia, Huawei, IBM, Mitel, Amazon, and Apple are continually expanding their operations in Ottawa, while home-grown companies such as QNX, You.i TV, Ross Video and Shopify will collectively hire thousands of people within the next few years," said Michael Tremblay, President and CEO of Invest Ottawa.
Ottawa was once called Silicon Valley North, but even now that label is being thrown around to describe other Canadian cities. While the term is still somewhat accurate in that multinational brands continue to expand operations in the city, its connotation still leads some to believe that Ottawa is trying to copy the Silicon Valley model rather than building something new.
However, with the emergence of a powerful SaaS presence, along with companies working on Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, and 5G, Ottawa is in the midst of a surging tech revival that goes to show how it has stepped out of the shadow from 15 years ago and is making its own way once again.
So, how will recruiting tech talent to Ottawa affect its ecosystem and startups in particular?
If you're a fan of history, you'd appreciate that the now-defunct Nortel, which began in Montreal as the Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1895, had employed some 94,500 people worldwide at its peak before it ceased operations in 2009.
Out of Nortel's talent pool before it went under spun startups such as Mitel Corp. (founded in 1972) and Corel Corp. (founded in 1985) that are still headquartered in Ottawa.
With the Work in Ottawa recruitment campaign, Gibson and team would like to see that talent and money reinvested back into the community, which would also sprout more home-grown startups in a similar fashion.
Canada arguably has three unicorns at present, Shopify, Kik, and Hootsuite, although there has been some debate about the latter.
Ottawa-based Shopify's growth rate is crazy right now, and its COO Harley Finkelstein who had invested in over a dozen startups, was named Canadian Angel Investor of the Year 2016.
With that type of commitment into Ottawa's tech ecosystem, the timing is perfect for tech talent to pack-up and move North.
The Work in Ottawa website is an online hub for talent matchmaking, enabling job seekers and local companies to come together and explore exciting new career opportunities. The campaign also boasts a growing database of North American talent that is available to local employers who participate in the campaign. With a focus on Ottawa's many R&D and business advantages, quality of life and key differentiators, this campaign is helping to address talent gaps, and catalyze the growth and success of companies across the region.
A complimentary article on the tech growth in Canada's Capital. Perhaps it would be better accompanied by a picture of Ottawa rather than Gatineau.


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The chaos, and surprising conclusion, of the 1970 trial of the Seattle 7
FEB. 22, 1972: Five members of the Seattle 7 leave the federal courthouse in Tacoma after pleading no contest to charges of contempt of court. From left are Joe Kelly, Jeff Dowd (side to camera), Susan Stern, Chip Marshall and Michael Abeles. (Peter Liddell/The Seattle Times)
Originally published May 3, 2018 at 7:00 am
The fledging Seattle Liberation Front had taken a leadership role in street demonstrations following contempt citations against the Chicago Seven.
Kit Bakke
Special to The Seattle Times
IN JANUARY 1970, with no end in sight for America's war in Vietnam, an unlikely and accidental band of young Seattleites emerged to lead a newly minted and fast-growing local anti-war organization they called the Seattle Liberation Front. Contempt charges issued to the Chicago Seven during their conspiracy trial sparked "The Day After" street demonstrations Feb. 17 in cities around the country, including Seattle, where the fledgling SLF took a leadership role.
Their energetic but quarrelsome efforts to stop the war and remake their world had hardly gotten off the ground when Michael Abeles, Jeff Dowd, Joe Kelly, Michael Lerner, Roger Lippman, Chip Marshall and Susan Stern were targeted by a federal grand jury and indicted and arrested on conspiracy and riot charges. The trial of the Seattle 7 showcased their naiveté, wit and unexpected savvy as they resisted their government's determination to quash dissent against racism, capitalism and the war.
During their chaotic trial in Tacoma, they received a 12-day crash course in the American judicial system. Spokane lawyer Carl Maxey and nationally known attorney Michael Tigar led the defense team; the U.S. prosecuting attorney was Stan Pitkin, a young and upcoming Nixon appointee. When Pitkin's key witness faltered and the government's case appeared doomed, the presiding judge issued a surprise ruling.
"Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy," by Kit Bakke; 252 pages, $22.95, © 2018 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University, published by Washington State University Press. For more information about the book, or about author events, visit kitbakke.com.
The following is an excerpted version of Chapter 13 from the book "Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy":
THURSDAY, DEC. 10 [1970], the defendants ran out of patience. Strategy and cooperation, what there was of it, went out the window. Justice was nowhere to be found. The skies were spraying freezing rain on the defendants' supporters; Judge George H. Boldt refused to address the issue of so many people out in the rain, even though a perfectly safe and dry vestibule was available. The prosecution appeared to be dillydallying. The defendants had had enough of this legal game.
NOV. 23, 1970: Jeff Dowd, one of the Seattle 7, was the inspiration for The Dude in the Coen brothers movie "The Big Lebowski." Dowd came to Seattle from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where fellow defendants Chip Marshall, Joe Kelly and Michael Abeles had also gone to college. (Peter Liddell/The Seattle Times)
Early in the morning, Jeff Dowd strode out of the defendants' conference room and down the hall to the judge's chambers, determined to convince Boldt to do right by their cold and wet supporters. He pounded, hard, on the judge's outer door, yelling that he wanted to talk with him. Dowd rarely did anything quietly.
Boldt was taken aback by the ferocity of the pounding, saying later it almost broke the door. When he emerged, with help from marshals, he immediately cited Dowd for contempt, noting his belligerent temperament throughout the trial. The judge said he had no intention of letting any of the spectators in.
Dowd returned to the defense room to tell his alleged co-conspirators the news of his contempt citation. About 20 minutes later, the jury was seated. [Stan] Pitkin and his staff were present; the judge was there; but Carl Maxey was the only one at the defense table. In retrospect, the defendants commented that it was unprecedented for Boldt to have seated the jury before checking to see that both defense and prosecution were present and ready to begin the day's proceedings. Suddenly, attorney Michael Tigar hurried in to the courtroom, having come from the defense conference room, where the defendants were still talking about how to convince the judge to allow their supporters to come in out of the rain.
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Addressing Boldt, Tigar attempted to plead the spectators' need to take shelter in the vestibule of the courthouse. The judge would have none of it, and ordered Tigar to bring the defendants into the courtroom. He sent a bailiff along with him to see that it was done. The bailiff returned about five minutes later to say he had notified the defendants to appear, but that Michael Lerner had asked for five more minutes to confer. Lerner was trying to convince his fellow defendants that it was not good timing to demand a discussion about the spectators in the rain, or to object to Dowd's apparent contempt citation. "Let's not hold things up for these two procedural issues," he pleaded. The others disagreed.
Exactly five minutes later, the bailiff was sent to get the defendants. He quickly returned to the courtroom to report that the defendants' room was locked, but that the missing defense attorneys were coming down the hall. Tigar explained that the defendants didn't want to return to the courtroom unless those two matters could be discussed first. Boldt refused, saying, "I personally will go there." He ordered the jury and the spectators to stay seated, and told the defense attorneys to come with him. The attorneys, Boldt and "a large number of marshals" charged down the hallway to the defense conference room. Just as they arrived, the door opened, and the defendants poured out.
Boldt demanded that they all return to the courtroom. [Michael] Abeles interrupted, "We were just on our way." The defendants then raced en masse toward the courtroom. Dowd later said that all the shouting and shoving and running was like participating in a roller derby. The marshals, confused by the sudden motion, chased after them. A newsman in the hallway noticed a marshal hitting and swearing at one of the defendants, who yelled to the judge, "Did you see that?" "The Judge," the newsman wrote, "appeared frightened by the incident."
Reaching his chambers door partway down the hall, Boldt quickly veered off into his room to compose himself. The defendants ran on past and into the courtroom. They noticed, to their surprise, that the jury was seated, listening intently to the commotion in the hallway. Boldt was nowhere in sight. Chip Marshall immediately walked over to talk to the patiently seated jury. Leaning affably against the jury box, he said, "We would like to explain to the jury why we refused to come in at the beginning of this trial. There are a number of people who have been kept outside every day in the rain, people who are getting sick, and all we ask is that the marshals allow these people to come into the lobby, which they have not done."
DEC. 14, 1970: U.S. District Judge George H. Boldt declared a mistrial in the conspiracy case against the Seattle 7 on Dec. 10 and charged six of them (all but Susan Stern, who was not in court that day) with contempt of court. On Dec. 14, Boldt sentenced the six on contempt charges. He added new contempt charges for five of the six, plus Stern, after a wild scene in the courtroom that included a Nazi flag thrown onto Boldt's bench. (Seattle Times archives)
Boldt then emerged from his chambers, and was shocked to find Marshall speaking directly to the jury — highly irregular and forbidden courtroom behavior in the absence of the judge. "Be silent!" he repeated in louder and louder tones, while Marshall concluded his explanation of the defendants' grievances to the jury. Interrupting Marshall, Boldt abruptly dismissed the jury, and began to harangue the defendants as prologue to issuing contempt citations to one and all: "The sum total of all of this is one of the most inexcusable and outrageous incidents of contempt of court that I have ever read about or learned of in any way, certainly far beyond anything that I have seen."
Marshall and [Joe] Kelly shouted back that it was prosecuting attorney Pitkin who was frustrating the orderly progress of the trial, as he hadn't brought in a witness for two days. The defendants had never back-burnered their earlier shock and anger over the skewed jury selection process, either; nothing, they said, about the whole process had seemed fair. Boldt, equally angry, repeated his story of how loudly Dowd had pounded on his door. Although he didn't say he was frightened, observers noted he was shaking and pale.
Boldt then dropped his real thunderbolt:
Boldt: I now have grave doubts that this trial could possibly continue with an unbiased jury by reason of misconduct of the defendants … in these circumstances, I hold it to be my duty in the interests of justice to declare a mistrial of this case, and I do now and hereby declare —
Marshall: The reason you do is you are afraid the jury has seen Mr. Pitkin and his witnesses. We are not afraid of the jury.
Kelly: We think we can get off.
The judge then ordered the courtroom cleared, and repeated, "I now declare a mistrial of this case by reason of misconduct of the defendants and, to some extent, their counsel in failing to assist the court in the matter of procuring an orderly trial and in the matter of bringing the defendants into the court." Amid much shouting from the defendants, Judge Boldt loudly repeated, "Recess! Recess!" as he backed strategically behind a bailiff into his chambers. The defendants assumed they were heading back to jail immediately.
DEC. 14, 1970: Protesters were arrested after the Seattle 7 were sentenced to jail on contempt charges. (Richard S. Heyza/The Seattle Times)
An hour and a half later, the attorneys and the defendants were summoned to Boldt's chambers. Boldt said he couldn't get the contempt citations completed for an afternoon session, so he would deliver them in the courtroom the following Monday morning. Lerner asked whether they were going to be charged with contempt for things that Boldt had previously said he wouldn't charge them for. In his response, Boldt called him Mr. Marshall. Lerner then explained his view of the morning's events — that they weren't trying to ignore Boldt's order to come to the courtroom — and concluded, "I think it would be a tremendous miscarriage of justice now to compound this [misunderstanding] by sending us to jail." He also raised the point, which would come up later, that Boldt had made no effort to establish whether any of the jurors had in fact been prejudiced by witnessing and hearing what they did.
Several newsmen, however, had caught up with most of the jurors as they left the courthouse to ask that question — had the melee of the morning made it no longer possible for them to render a fair judgment? Most said no. The local news director for the NBC affiliate submitted transcripts of his interviews with eight jurors, none of whom felt their opinion was changed by the morning's events, nor were they prejudiced against the defendants. A typical response was from juror Floyd Getchell: "No. I had no prejudice against any of the defendants," and "Yes, quite," when asked, "Were you surprised that you were let go?" Another juror, Robert Owen, said, "The outbursts didn't bother us." A third, Robert McNamee, characterized the case as a "run-of-the-mill TV trial." Many jurors voiced disappointment at not being allowed to finish out the trial. One, though, was reported as saying, "I think after that incident, it would have been hard for us not to be prejudiced. They were sure guilty of one conspiracy. They conspired to stop the trial."
JAN. 13, 1971: From left, Jeff Dowd, Michael Abeles, Susan Stern and Roger Lippman talk after being freed on bail. Their conspiracy case had been declared a mistrial on Dec. 10, 1970, and each of the seven defendants spent time in jail for contempt of court before eventually being released early in 1971. At this news conference, each said time in jail strengthened their revolutionary views. (Peter Liddell/The Seattle Times)
The defendants held a press conference. Marshall compared their situation to a railroad workers' strike that was going on that week. "The railroads are on strike today, and we're on strike from this railroad." Everyone now assumed they would be sent to jail on Monday. They noted that the prosecution had delayed the trial for almost two days, calling no witnesses since [Horace "Red"] Parker, with only a mild reprimand from Boldt, yet when the defendants delayed the trial for five minutes, Boldt went ballistic. Tigar said what was really happening was that the government was playing a double-jeopardy strategy — since the prosecution appeared to be losing the case, the government had decided to end it and start over again.
The newspapers speculated whether and where a second trial might take place. The decision to retry the case rested in the U.S. Attorney's Office; Pitkin equivocated, citing the unprecedented nature of the case. If it were retried, it would have to occur in the same Western Washington federal district, and Boldt could again be the judge assigned to the case. The Washington State Bar Association voted "to examine the trial record to determine whether any attorney in the case is guilty of unprofessional or unethical conduct." The Seattle Times reporters noted, "It is unusual for a judge to order a mistrial because of defendants' conduct. Most mistrials result from actions by the prosecution resulting in charges being dismissed."
Meanwhile, Tigar jump-started his research on declarations of mistrial, instances of double jeopardy and the finer points of contempt citations in excess of six months. Back in the courtroom for a brief session, Boldt again told the attorneys and defendants that he needed some quiet time to collect his thoughts to document the citations and notice of mistrial. "I need some — what did they use to call it, the MRA people, what was their name? What was it, the Moral Re-Armament? A quiet time." For the newspapers, though, he didn't stint — calling the defendants' behavior a "degrading and outrageous" example of contempt.
DEC. 10, 1970: Michael Abeles, one of the Seattle 7 defendants, gives a spectator a lift after leaving the U.S. Courthouse in Tacoma after U.S. District Court Judge George H. Boldt had ordered a mistrial in their conspiracy case. Chip Marshall, another of the Seattle 7, is in the middle. (The Associated Press)
Looking for a compromise, a way to defuse the contentiousness, Lerner asked Boldt, "Is there any way we can unmiss the mistrial?" "No. There is no way. The jury has been discharged," responded Boldt. He explained that his decision "was not done suddenly in the heat of it; it was done after much thought and soul-searching." Lerner then tried again, explaining the cost and time it had taken to prepare for this trial, that their attorneys likely wouldn't be available for another trial and that the mistrial "is an unfair disaster."
Judge Boldt's diary indicates that he spent all day Friday, Dec. 11, and both weekend days, Dec. 12 and 13, in his chambers working on the mistrial and contempt papers. But if he thought declaring a mistrial and invoking contempt charges under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 42(a) meant that he had regained control over his courtroom, he was gravely mistaken.
From Nov. 23, 1971: Four of the Seattle 7 defendants held a news conference after a Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled in their favor on a review of contempt-of-court charges. From left are Jeff Dowd, Joe Kelly, Susan Stern and Michael Abeles. (Peter Liddell/The Seattle Times)
The following Monday, Judge Boldt entered the contempt sentences: a full year each for Marshall, Dowd, Abeles, Kelly and [Roger] Lippman, and six months each for [Susan] Stern and Lerner. Each attorney and defendant was allowed 20 minutes to respond. Before long, the courtroom was a shambles; 10 spectators were arrested, charged with assault and held on $10,000 bail.
When Boldt handed down the contempt-of-court sentences, he declared that he would not order a new trial for the conspiracy changes until the seven had served their entire contempt sentences. In fact, all were out on bail within a month, and their attorneys then went to work appealing the sentences. The prosecution, though, would not quit. Pitkin refiled the contempt charges and set a hearing for February 1972, just over two years after the Seattle demonstration against the jailing of the Chicago Seven.
By then, the defendants were tired and out of money. They hadn't conspired in 1970, and by 1972, there were more dissimilarities than similarities among them. They did agree, however, to stop fighting the contempt citations, and all pleaded no contest. In some ways, the Department of Justice won. Their strategy to interfere with the perfectly legal organizing work of SLF by arresting its leaders on complicated conspiracy charges had succeeded in dismantling the group.
• After the trial, Stern wrote a memoir about her years with the Weatherman group (later known as the Weathermen, then the Weather Underground). She died of heart failure in 1976 at the age of 33.
• Lerner lives in Berkeley, Calif., and remains politically active as a rabbi and leader in the religious left.
• Lippman lives in Seattle, became interested in alternative fuels and works in the solar-energy field.
• Kelly became a fisheries biologist in Eastern Washington and maintains an interest in progressive and environmental politics.
• Abeles stayed in Seattle, worked odd jobs, made friends and did art. Impaired by a brain tumor combined with the effects of heavy drug use during the 1970s, he died in 2016.
• Dowd lives in Los Angeles and works in the entertainment business. His outsize personality made him the inspiration for "The Dude" in the Coen brothers' 1998 film, "The Big Lebowski."
• Marshall twice ran for Seattle City Council, then moved to Asia, where he spent much of his career in land and building development. He now lives in Malta.
• An eighth member of the original group, Michael Justesen, went underground before the trial, joined Weatherman in California and now lives in the Midwest.
NOV. 23, 1970: Demonstrators protested in the rain outside the U.S. Courthouse in Tacoma on the first day of the trial for the Seattle 7. Inside, jury selection had begun for the trial of seven people charged with conspiracy following a Feb. 17 demonstration in Seattle. (George Carkonen/The Seattle Times)
The Seattle 7 believed that a good society holds itself together by recognizing people's common need for food, shelter, safety, personal affection and meaningful activity, now and for future generations. That is, of course, the American dream.
We live today neither in the worst of times or places, nor in the best of times or places. Much is left to be done; our relatively greater freedom to dissent comes with greater responsibilities to exercise that right. The problems out there to be solved today are surely as great as they were in 1970. The tools available today are more numerous, and the opportunities for creative engagement are broader, as well.
Dynamic, thoughtfully focused dissent is even more American than apple pie, and is both the foundation and the scaffolding of a more just and free future.
Kit Bakke was active in Students for a Democratic Society at Bryn Mawr College and later Weatherman, participating in anti-war and anti-capitalism actions around the country. Born and raised in Seattle, she was a pediatric oncology nurse, and now works as an independent writer and consultant, and supports local philanthropic organizations focused on human services and education. To write "Protest on Trial," she conducted dozens of personal interviews with six defendants; their attorneys; FBI agents; journalists; jurors; the U.S. Marshal; and SLF members, supporters and critics. She also accessed the trial transcript, appeals briefs and depositions, newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets and other ephemera of the times, as well as memoirs and books.

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The federal criminal court in Bellinzona. Photo: Swiss Confederation/OFCL
A 31-year-old woman from Winterthur who tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) is standing trial under Swiss anti-terror laws.
The alleged 'jihadi tourist' appeared before Switzerland's federal criminal court in Bellinzona on Friday, the Swiss news agency SDA reported.
In December 2015, the woman, accompanied by her four-year-old child, attempted to travel to Syria via Greece and Turkey in order to join IS, the authorities allege.
Her intended destination was Raqqa, which was at the time an IS stronghold in Syria.
The woman was prevented from continuing her journey by the Greek authorities and was arrested at Zurich airport on her return to Switzerland in January 2016.
The Swiss attorney general's office filed an indictment against the Swiss national for offences under the federal law that bans terror groups including Isis.
According to the indictment, the woman radicalized herself through internet propaganda after converting to Islam in 2009.
It says the Swiss national believed it was the duty of all Muslims to support IS.
She said she rejected western values.
This is only the second case concerning a so-called 'jihadi tourist' to go before Switzerland's federal criminal court.
The first prosecution of its kind took place in 2016, when a 26-year-old man was found guilty of attempting to travel to join Isis and given an 18-month suspended jail sentence.
Islamic State has been banned in Switzerland since 2014.
Lafarge bosses in French court over jihadist funding
New talks in Lausanne to break Syria deadlock
Syrian hostage takers release Swiss aid worker
Swiss banker pleads guilty in US tax case
Humans rights chief decries Syrian torture
UN probe decries Syrian sieges and starvation
UN's Syria mediator should keep open mind
US and Russia bid to unblock Syria talks
Missionary Beatrice Stoeckli named as Swiss Mali victim


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1. Bring up what you want to print in your web browser.
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4. Start up your word processor (Microsoft Word if you've got it).
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The inaugural day of the International Workshop on Diversion through Restorative Justice, held on the 26th of June in Bangkok (Thailand), introduced as well the National Symposium on Ending Violence against Children in Juvenile Justice System, and the Third Meeting of the APCJJ Subcommittee for ASEAN. During this first day of the workshop, participants studied in depth the concept of restorative justice used as a diversionary measure. It started from the basic concepts, through which participants scrutinised the different practices part of the implementation process.
This week of events is organized and supported by the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection (DJOP) and the Office of Justice Affairs under the Ministry of Justice of Thailand, as well as the Thailand Institute of Justice, UNICEF EAPRO, the International Juvenile Justice Observatory through the Asia-Pacific Council for Juvenile Justice, and Thailand's ACWC Representative on Children's Rights.
The event was opened by Mr. Sakarn Pechnarin, deputy Director General acting Director General at the Department of Juvenile Observation and Protection (DJOP) of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Thailand, and Mr. Wanchai Rujanawong, former Director General at the DJOP and representative of the ACWC.
In his speech, Mr. Pechnarin emphasised the importance of this event, which gathered together many officials and practitioners who work in the juvenile justice system in many different Asia-Pacific countries, as a great opportunity for enhancing and promoting best practices on diversion and restorative justice (RJ) and enhancing cooperation and joint reflection on these themes among ASEAN countries.
This was followed by an inaugural speech by Mr. Wanchai Rujanawong who gave an overview of the Thai experience in restorative justice in the form of family group conferencing, a practice introduced in the late 1990s and later on incorporated in the legislation.
He spoke about the effectiveness of this instrument in lowering recidivism among young offenders, above all emphasising the importance of keeping in mind that, in all the phases of a proceeding involving a child offender, "we first need to treat the child as a child, not as an offender. He/she is somebody who has committed a crime but who deserves a second chance".
The Third Meeting of the APCJJ Subcommittee for ASEAN was then formally introduced with remarks by Mr. Cédric Foussard, the IJJO's Director of International Affairs, who presented the trajectory and activities of the IJJO and the APCJJ, specifically with regard to restorative justice, and Ms. Raquel Jimenez, the IJJO's Director of Projects and Research, who – after acknowledging the presence of the institutions, international and national government representatives and all the stakeholders present – presented the main key concepts of restorative justice processes, which led to a fruitful discussion on related best practices.
Following the introductory remarks, the first discussion panel approached the theme of the day, presenting the conceptual and theoretical framework of restorative justice, with an introduction of restorative justice's practices, principles and safeguards, through the presentation of practices from Europe and from Singapore.
The panel featured Dr. Monique Anderson, PhD researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology in Belgium, and Dr. Razwana Begum, from the Probation and Community Rehabilitation Service, Rehabilitation Protection Group, Ministry of Social and Family Development in Singapore. They provided the audience with the theoretical framework and presentation of the main definitions, giving an initial detailed picture about what a restorative justice process looks like.
Dr. Anderson, after clarifying the key concepts and theories, presented the IJJO project she provided her expertise to: the 'European Research on Restorative Juvenile Justice', which outcomes are organized into three volumes (two manuals and a toolkit), and offered an overall European overview of RJ, also through case studies from Belgium and Finland. Dr. Begum then gave other insights about theory and definition about juvenile justice and restorative justice, making reference to the Singapore's experience, which was deepened in the afternoon.
At the closure of the morning session, Ms. Grace Agcaoili from the UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office presented the study 'Diversion not Detention: A study on diversion and other alternative measures for children in conflict with the law', which aims to address bottlenecks in the implementation of diversion and other alternative measures related to juvenile justice.
The study documented promising/good practices as well as enablers and barriers for using alternative measures to detention in line with international standards, in 26 East Asian Countries. It also supported national and local authorities and juvenile justice professionals in their efforts to apply alternative measures, and developed a continuum of promising/good practices that may function as a guide for replicating and scaling-up alternative measures in the EAP region.
The afternoon saw the second panel of discussion taking place, concluding the day with an overview of the restorative process through different national experiences. The panel featured Dr. Begum, who presented the restorative justice practices' experience in Singapore, Martina Jordan, from Consensus NI Restorative Solutions, (Northern Ireland), and Rik Quint, senior advisor and project manager sports and school safety in Utrecht (The Netherlands). Ms. Jordan and Mr. Quint respectively presented the experience of restorative justice in Northern Ireland and the programme Halt in the Netherlands.


DOCTORS have found almost 30 ants living in the ears of a teenage girl who loved snacking in bed.
Fallen crumbs from the 16-year-old's night-time treats tempted the insects into nesting in her ears.
Medics found six in her left ear and more than 20 in her right after she went to a hospital in Taiwan with pain and itching.
The ants were successfully removed and doctors said she was lucky to have no permanent damage. They also told her to stop eating in bed.
Thank goodness she had them removed. I recently read that Kevin Maguire and Jason Battie had the same problem a couple of years ago. Unfortunately they weren't treated in time and the ants ate most of their frontal lobes. They both now write for The Mirror under the Care In The Community Program.
Although in at least one study ants were not in the top six arthropods removed from ears. The 'winners'? Cockroaches.


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Atlasacris is een geslacht van rechtvleugeligen uit de familie sabelsprinkhanen (Tettigoniidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van dit geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1914 door Rehn.

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PST: Exempt
Serial #: SE 7-42-19 W2
Bid Increment: 1,000.00
By Appointment Only, Please Contact the Real Estate Team at 1-306-271-1505
Auction will close on Thursday, January 20, 2021.
1. Highest Bid or Any Bid Not Necessarily Accepted.
2. Legal Fees are the responsibility of the respective party. Transfer Fees will be the responsibility of the Purchaser.
3. Upon agreement to Sell the Purchaser will be required to pay a non - refundable deposit with Certified Funds to McDougall Auctioneers of 10% plus the Buyer's Fee and applicable taxes within 24 hours.
4. Remainder of funds and title transfer to occur within 21 Days of Sale Agreement.
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Our Real Estate Office is available by phone or email, Monday to Friday 8 AM to 4:30 PM. Phone 306-271-1505. Email: realestate@mcdauction.com
Refundable deposit will be returned within 5 business days to unsuccessful bidders.
Welcome to RM of Lake Lenore No. 399, Saskatchewan!
The Property is located between Pleasantdale, SK (located on highway #6) and St. Brieux, SK. Located approximately 8 miles west of highway six and a half mile south of Solberg Lake. This auction lot is for 154 acres of land with partially finished house.
Property Information:
Access to the property is good with well-maintained gravel roads,
Approximately 70 acres suitable for cultivation, the land is described as a Waitville loam, with strong stone factor
House is unoccupied and has been abandoned for several years,
Original House was built in 1998 and was approximately 2208 Square Feet on a single level,
Second structure started 2014 and a full basement was built under the second structure has an area of 2442 Square Feet,
Total Living Space of 4650 Square Feet,
Original Structure is finished,
Second Structure and basement have not been completed,
Half of the land is cultivatable, and the other half is brushland, and is suitable for pleasure use,
Pictures and Video without snow are from October of 2020,
Visible damages to the structure as seen on pictures such as; broken windows, broken tiles and open to elements and wildlife,
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U.S. ski resorts offer hiking, biking and other summer activities
Updated 10:03 pm CDT, Wednesday, June 26, 2019
The Route of the Hiawatha mountain bike or hike trail is 15 miles long with 10 train tunnels and 7 sky-high trestles.
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For many American families, summer isn't about embracing the sweltering heat, but rather heading north to seek refuge and stay active in the mountains. A popular, but perhaps lesser known, option is to visit one of the nations ski resorts for hiking, biking and other outdoor activities. The following are just a small number of the options available throughout the U.S.
Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire
This summer, Cranmore Mountain Resort will accommodate sightseers, hikers and mountain bikers, Cranmore by expanding its lift operations, spinning its scenic chairlift daily starting Memorial Day through Columbus Day. Another new addition this summer is a small-scale version of the resort's popular Aerial Adventure Park ropes course, colored orange and designed for kids starting age three and at least 38 inches tall.
For more information about the resort and its summer activities, visit Cranmore.com.
Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, Hancock, Massachusetts
All summer long, the top attraction at this western Massachusetts resort is its Aerial Adventure Park, a self-guided aerial forest ropes course consisting of six elevated courses consisting of over 70 elements aimed at different ability levels, including rope bridges, ladders, cargo nets, and three zip lines. Additionally, the Jiminy Peak Mountain Adventure Park features a Mountain Coaster, Alpine SuperSlide, Soaring Eagle, Giant Swing, Rock Climbing Wall, Zip Lines, and EuroBungy Trampoline. The All Parks pass is $69 and participants must be at least 48 inches tall.
This summer, the resort is once again offering lift-served mountain biking, allowing visitors to shred some "green powder." The Berkshire Express chairlift provides access to the summit and operates from noon to 5 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, beginning June 30 through mid-October. The trail network, featuring a mix of single track and downhill cruisers, is best suited for experienced riders. The route includes some existing trails, as well as especially dedicated fat tire routes through the woods. Full suspension bikes and body armor are recommended and helmets are required. The single day mountain bike pass is $29. Single ride tickets are also available.
Mountain biking at Jiminy is a BYOB (bring your own bike) activity, as bike rentals are not available on site. To download the mountain biking trail map and for other summer activities, visit jiminypeak.com.
Kelly Canyon Ski Resort, Ririe, Idaho
Kelly Canyon is currently open for its first-ever summer season, with 20 miles of lift-serviced mountain bike trails.
According to resort co-owner Dave Stoddard, most of the terrain has a dirt surface rather than extensive rock surfaces, about half the trails are bi-directional, and the rest are single-track. Lift 4 will haul bikes and riders up the mountain's 1,000 vertical feet and provide access to all 20 miles of trails. Alternatively, riders may explore less steep trails at the foot of the mountain without using the lift.
"The trails flow nicely underneath canopies and across varied terrain, and we constructed them to take advantage of the spectacular views at many points on the mountain," Stoddard said. "We've also installed about 30 features, including rollers, jumps, and banked corners."
However, Kelly Canyon Bike Park should appeal to all levels of riders, Stoddard said.
"We approached the trail design with the thinking that lift-served mountain biking can be a family sport and not just for accomplished extreme riders."
The resort's summer operations will likely continue into October, opening Thursdays through Saturdays. Visit SkiKelly.com for more details.
Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area, Mullan, Idaho
Lookout Pass, located near the historic town of Wallace, reopened the Route of the Hiawatha last month. The 15-mile Route of the Hiawatha's all-downhill ride runs along the Idaho-Montana state line, delves 10 tunnels, crosses seven sky-high train trestles, and provides shuttle service.
The route is accessible daily through Sept. 22 and is offering full-moon rides June 17, July 16, Aug. 15, and Sept. 14 by reservation only. Visit RideTheHiawatha.com for more details.
Silver Mountain Resort, Kellogg, Idaho
Silver Mountain Resort opened over Memorial Day weekend and has daily operations occurring from June 21 to Sept. 2. Weekend operations will continue through Sept. 29, with bonus days including May 27, June 14, and Sept. 20.
Silver Mountain Bike Park maintains almost 40 single-track trails that span 3,300 vertical feet. The resort also offers the state's largest indoor waterpark, scenic rides on North America's longest gondola, trail hiking and running, and a nine-hole Galena Ridge Golf Course tucked away in the mountains of the Silver Valley. Visit SilverMt.com for more details.
Grand Targhee, Driggs, Idaho
Just across the border in Alta, Wyoming, but only accessible via Driggs, Idaho, Grand Targhee has been open for summer biking since June 14.
Grand Targhee offers 2,200 vertical feet of lift-serviced downhill and more than 60 miles of multi-use trails. Other activities include kids' summer camps, bungee trampolines, a climbing wall, gold panning, a nature center, horseback riding, trail hiking and running, scenic chairlift rides, and an 8,000-foot-long, 18-hole disc golf course. Visit GrandTarghee.com for more details.
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