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…Mary's story continues…
Map showing predominantly Irish and Germans came during the 1850 to 1940 time period
US Map showing locations of people living in 1890 United States having German ancestry
By 1940 the settlement of European had distributed throughout the US, although it was still concentrated in the farming lands, and the territories nearest to the places of disembarkment along the great lakes. The peak was in 1885-87, the time of Mary's depiction.
Mary's story describes the "jump", or the immigration pattern of the next generation, the ones who came to America as children, were born here, or who moved away from their parents for various reasons. By 1885, you can note a distinct movement of Irish to Montana, the Dakotas, and Wyoming (as well as points far south). This would be Mary's generation.
The 2nd generation of immigrants in about 1885 accounts for a big "jump" in movement from near the Great Lakes where their parents landed, and the far reaching points of the US. It's important to note these are areas that were previously lightly settled by other than indigenous peoples.
It is important to note as shown on the map above, that the areas this 2nd generation of Irish migrated to were largely unpopulated at the time except by indigenous peoples. They are concentrated on points where overland trails and later the railroads converge. Part of this might be the Irish sons were actually building the railroads at the time, and part might be it was an opportunity to start anew completely independently of others.
More likely, it was a result of Abraham Lincoln's Homestead Act which granted acreage to all men and their wives. By 1870, this movement to establish homesteads had become attractive to the next generation of Irish.
Wisconsin – Born a 2nd Generation American
Mary's depiction of a younger daughter of a large family of Irish immigrants, begins near their point of debarkation in the state of Wisconsin. Assuming the parents had arrived in the 1840's, and bringing their vast skills in farming and farm management, the 1st generation Americans would have most likely been farmers. Many of course, would ply their skills as craftsmen and tradesmen, but many of the discriminations of the time would have isolated them within their own cultures, similar to Melissa's depiction of the Illinois farm wife of 1885.
This is the story of a farmer's daughter. Being 7th of a family of 10, and behind 4 older brothers, by the 1880's, Mary would have had little contribution on the farm. Education in America was good, even for girls, so she would have had the basics of a one room school house education.
This one room school near Eau Claire, Wisconsin gave (seasonal) opportunities to boys and girls alike to get basic instruction in history, mathematics, and reading. Mary's character would have attended such a school through the equivalent of today's 6th grade level
With little to do with so many brothers to do the chores, her role would be clearly that to learn the roles of women as wife, mother, cook, housekeeper, laundress, seamstress. While she could most likely do all the chores because she would have done them as a child, her role might be restricted to weeding the garden, gathering produce and eggs, maintaining the chickens, or maintaining the house and growns – very minimal amount of work and investment for the day (a huge amount for our time).
By 1880, with hard working and skilled parents with so many children to help, they would have had a lovely frame house built Victorian style in the 1860's. Well furnished by the mid 1880's, the family would be benefitting with some leisure and profit by now. It might be a dairy farm, or a dairy farm that raised grain to feed their own animals and to produce surplus for profit.
Being near Chicago markets and with trains well established along the lakes, they would have many opportunities to sell goods in exchange for equipment, tools, and knowledge.
By 1870 Wisconsin farmers were well established. This family enjoys the latest technology in music boxes
1872 Dutch farmers in Wisconsin were well established with good profits. Like the Irish, they had made it in the United States due to their smart investments, wise use of land, and just plain hard work. Mary's character would come from such an established household
Mary's character, seeking a life for herself, and having less to do with the Wisconsin farm the older she got, would not be required to prepare for marriage like her grandmothers had in the 1850's and 1860's. The new independent American woman was learning to fend for herself. By 1885, women were running farms and businesses. Many daughters were moving to the city to work in new factories in the textile and technology industries and not marrying.
By 1905 young women were working in the new technologies like these telephone operators in the city of New York
Acceptable types of work for a daughter of 1885 was to be a secretary. By 1895 like this photo, it was commonplace to have women working alongside men in business, and in business "suits"
Other young women were going to "Girls' Schools". They were basically for the Arts or teaching, although some branched out into the sciences and mathematics which would lead young women in the next decades into medicine and invention.
Wisconsin girls attended this advanced school near today's Madison. In 1890 it was a preeminent place to obtain one's teaching certificate.
This school for the deaf in 1893 was located in Wisconsin and as you can see, featured the Arts and eduational careers for women (as opposed to becoming wheelwrights and blacksmiths…)
Mary's character would have achieved her teaching certificate, and found a small school near her home to work. She might have gone to a nearby town, and been housed by local people on a rotating basis. It would have been a well established school of predominantly Irish or German immigrant families since they would be in communities grouped together. The school would have been well appointed with equipment and furnishings for the time, and somewhat of a comfortable arrangement.
A Wisconsin 1 room school of 1885 would be well appointed and cared for by the people who lived in that community
Mary would have been housed by a neighbor, perhaps like this one on the outskirts of town (shown in 1890) and rotated to stay in other neighbor's homes while school was in session. She would go back to her family farm at the end of each session
These lovely stone and frame houses were built in the 1860's by Irish and German immigrant farmers. Most stand today. Mary would have been housed in a neighbor's house like this during the school semester when she was teaching
Change of Status and Venue
Mary would have fallen in love with a local boy. Perhaps he was someone she knew, and more likely it was someone she met at a social or while staying at someone's house. He would be a teacher too, and one with huge dreams and aspirations to become a writer. He would be a researcher; a thoughtful, gentle and quiet man who would be the 5th son of an immigrant farmer, and have come from a similar background and history as Mary.
Mary and her husband would be given a little house on the edge of one of their family farms, and he would take over teaching the school where she was. As typical of the era, as soon as Mary would say "I do", she would not be permitted to socially teach any more. She would become a housewife. She would have the skills of a farmer, the education and experience of a teacher, the will of a newly formed American independent woman (most likely in favor of suffrage and Women's Rights in owning property and businesses) – but with the marriage her singular role would be "wife".
Playing cards on the porch might not be the most interesting way of life, but at least they had a house to go into when night rolled around
There would not have been enough money. They would not have been needed on the farms. Mary would become aggitated and wanting to work. They would hear about the wonderful worlds of the West – Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma. Their friends would have gone there and established themselves already. By 1887, Mary and her husband would have wanted to Homestead.
Wyoming Ho' the Wagons!
In 1887, only 160 acres per husband and another 160 for the wife were offered with Lincoln's Homestead Act of 1862. In 1910 that would double, but Mary and her husband would leave all that they knew, the relative comforts of what was essentially a small town or rural life, and take off for the West.
Coming from the Northeast, there were trains heading west, but not many. They more likely would have taken the train south, visiting family and friends in St. Louise or surrounds, and then caught the transcontinental railroad to Cheyenne.
From there they would have taken the spur (no longer in existence, but thriving at that time because of the Swan Cattle Company) north to Chugwater. By stagecoach it would be a full day (by car about 3 hours). By train about half a day, making them wonder at the innovations.
Travel in Wisconsin was still by wagon, as this Racine, WI ad for the farm wagon show of 1885 attests
Wyoming of the 1880's
Mary and her husband would have brought minimal provisions with them, as they planned to return to Wisconsin in the winter, and figured they would only be doing the minimal to obtain the homestead. They wouldn't have intended to actually farm or ranch, which is a good thing, because when they left Cheyenne on the railroad spur, the high plains desert of southeastern central Wyoming near the Nebraska border would look very dry and brown compared to the green grasses of Wisconsin.
The railroad not quite reaching their destination, they would take a farm wagon or the occasional stage north. Their friends had recommended the thriving ranching community of Chugwater, Wyoming.
The Spearfish to Deadwood stage went through the valleys of eastern Wyoming much like those that ran north and south on what would become today's interstate highways
Chugwater, with the headquarters of the Swan Cattle and Land Company, was a stopping point for many homesteaders. The land company was established there in 1872, and was the reason the train went as far north as it did.
Mary's character arriving in the late 1880's would find the Company flourishing, and the town as well. There was not a store, however, and no services. There were just homes near the roads and railroad that would provide shelter for those like Mary and her husband who would have come ill prepared for Wyoming.
Chugwater in 1910 was booming courtesy of several large ranches that had bought out previous homesteaders and consolidated into ownership of most of the land around. Numbers are the homesteads at the time as they would be along today's highway
Swan Land and Cattle Company kept the town of Chugwater vigorous. Now it is run down and the town is quiet
The first thing the newlyweds would have had to do was buy goods and furniture and a way to build a shack or shelter. They would have brought money, but not realized there wasn't anything to buy. They would have reluctantly stayed in someone's home until goods could arrive via train and wagon.
The Wyoming landscape, while productive for cattle and sheep, would have perplexed Wisconsin farmer/teachers. They would have counted on growing a small garden to feed themselves and keeping chickens and cows for that purpose. They wouldn't have counted on how few homestead acres had access to water.
Wild Horse Ranch southwest of Chugwater in Laramie, WY
Beautiful scenery and still some bison in Chugwater
View from today's interstate I15 highway, the buttes would have looked only like a challenge to the homesteaders
Beauty of Wyoming in the central region where horses provide a good living and transportation
Learning to Adapt
Most of the easily accessible homestead acreage had been taken right away in the 1870's, which left the inland and dry portions to newcomers nearing 1890. Mary and her husband would have consulted with locals to find the best possible spot, but that still meant miles on foot or by horse or wagon just to get to a place. The likelihood of water was scant, so they would have probably worked out a deal with established neighbor to use or to cross the neighbors' land to get to water.
They probably figured since they weren't actually DOING anything, that they could get by providing for their own needs and that of the old nag they would acquire to pull a wagon.
Winters would be difficult, and summers hot, dry, and windy. All of it would be an extreme challenge to people who grew up with lovely established farms and homes under the protection and guidance of their parents. Wyoming would make or break their characters.
Some would build sod homes, some shacks of rough sawn wood. To homestead, you had to have walls, a roof, and personally live on the land. Tents or temporary dwellings didn't count. Because a wife also was entitled to 160 acres, it was mostly couples who came, although groups of men AND groups of women (mostly sisters) homesteaded in the Chugwater region successfully.
The last sections of the stage, and particularly as it headed north towards the Big Horn mountains went through the valleys between buttes and mountains and used what were the old indian trails. Winter and spring were especially tough to travel because these valleys filled with snow and flooded and were dangerous as water levels changed constantly
Homes were used as schools and churches. Typically made of sod at first, they were later used to house livestock when a real home was built
This camp near Deadwood, a bit north and east of Chugwater, shows that even in rough conditions, women maintained their corsets and their dignity in Wyoming
This dugout in Nebraska is much like those found in the Chugwater region. Meant only to be temporary during homesteading, many did say on them for several years beyond. Laura Ingalls "Little House by Plum Creek" was such a sod dugout
Homesteading was make do and hard work for the whole family, alternating with boredom and tedium of really not having an occupation but just biding time. This family is in Nebraska. There were few trees except poplars in Chugwater along creeks and small rivers
Dugouts with stone and found materials were very common in the Chugwater homesteading region
Coaches came infrequently but they came, bringing supplies and food goods and staples from the train and Cheyenne. (This is near Deadwood further north and east)
By 1890 there were enough travelers to merit regular transportation lines
Womens Work is…
On a homestead, there wasn't much to do, as people like Mary's character would have been just doing what it took to survive, and not a lot more. There was not a house to care for really, as one could hardly be expected to maintain social graces in a house made out of mud. Neighbors were in the same situation, and there were not expectations for social structures as would be found in the east.
The challenge would be in getting food on the table, and getting water. It is likely the women spent most of their time hauling water and heating water and watering the animals. That might mean a daily 2 mile trip to the creek. The houses were rough, and it what was already challenging back in established places like Wisconsin to cook on an old stove and heat water in a spot inside it, here it meant cooking outside, preparing raw game, and making do without things like sugar and coffee.
The photos below show women working at homesteads in different parts of the nation. Note the commonality of bonnet, dress, and implements:
Harvesting honey
Making lye soap
Making soap
Mormons in Utah
After snapping the beans
Picking a profession
Mary's character and her husband were teachers, so at the first chance they would have formed a school. At first it might be rotating from homesteads, and later they might build a real building. Most of these, being nicer than the homes the people were living in, were built after 1900 and in central locations so children could walk or ride a horse. School generally did not go year round.
Because life was pretty boring, and they were shut in all winter long, Mary and her husband would find themselves pregnant by the first spring. This would not deter their teaching objectives, but would enhance them and make them feel more a part of the community. Perhaps, they might be thinking, they would stay for good, but only after returning to Wisconsin to have the baby at "home" in the safety of medical care and mother.
Homesteader schools were nicer than some homes as they were used for church, meetings, politics, sales, clubs, and organizations although most women could not leave their homestead chores long enough to be sociable very often
By the 1890's, most homestead regions had real schools and real teachers, not just volunteers. Like Mary's character, teachers would rotate whose home they were living in, and would be paid a little bit by the community so they could pay the homeowner a little bit. Teachers did not last long, as they typically married and moved away. Male teachers were prized
Maintaining and running a one room school house was a full community activity in which everyone took great pride. This shown in about 1895 was very likely hosting a church event such as a wedding
The Mary family would have taken their turn at hosting the teacher. Having gone back to Wisconsin for 3 winters now, they would be approaching the end of their term. Based on a real family called the "Smiths" in Chugwater, they would by this time have built a house out of stone and given the dugout to the cow and horse.
Sod house after 3 years for some
Inside of school houses improved too by 1900
The inside of the summer kitchen of a big and wealthy household looks like the entire homesteader's house in Chugwater, Wyoming
It was a challenge to get a stove across the high plains desert to a homestead, but oh what a treat to have indoor cooking!
These are the actual Smith homestead house a dugout in the beginning, and later a stone house with two levels. The teacher lived downstairs
The Story's End?
The real Smith family on which this story is based came from Iowa, and returned happily and quickly to cash in their profits to buy further education to become university teachers where they stayed.
Mary's character may have stayed, and they may have gone. That is to be interpreted. We do know they would have visited at least the "huge" and thriving metropolis of Deadwood, SD, to learn about Mother Shepard "Featherlegs" and the story of her "Red Pantaloons".
The thriving town of Deadwood in the end of the 1880's
.. became the thriving city of Deadwood in the 1890's…
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Description: A furious fire storm rages around the caster, doing 14.88 fire damage in a radius of 3 each turn for 10 turns.
Description: Turn your body into pure flame, increasing your fire resistance by 3%, burning any creatures attacking you for 1.36 fire damage, and projecting 0 random slow-moving fire bolts per turn at targets in sight, doing 4.27 fire damage with each bolt.
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All creatures caught in the mire will also suffer a 41% slowness effect.
Description: Acid errupts all around your target, dealing 107.2 acid damage.
The acid attack is extremely distracting, and may remove up to 2 physical or mental temporary effects or mental sustains (depending on the Spell Save of the target).
The gem will explode for 55.9 acid blind damage.
You then throw them to a target area, where they explode on impact, dealing 22.62 physical damage and knocking back any creatures in the blast radius.
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This ice provides your golem with 8 additional armour, melee attacks against it deal 4.7 Cold damage to the attacker, and 50% of its damage is converted to Cold.
Description: Invoke a blast of cold all around you with a radius of 5, doing 54.2 Cold damage and freezing creatures to the ground for 8 turns.
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Description: Crush 5 alchemist gems into dust to mark impassable terrain next to you. You immediately enter it and appear on the other side of the obstacle, up to 11 grids away.
Description: Improves your ghoulish body, increasing Strength and Constitution by 3.
Your body also becomes incredibly resilient to damage, you can never take a blow that deals more than 90% of your maximum life.
Lasts 10 turns, and deals 10 blight damage or heals 36 life.
Creatures standing in the retch also have 12% chance to remove a physical effect each turn.
Each turn, Ghoul Rot inflicts 0.74 blight damage. At talent level 2, Ghoul Rot also reduces Strength by 2; at level 3 it reduces Dexterity by 2, and at level 4 it reduces Constitution by 2.
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Description: A protective shield forms around you that lasts for up to 10 turns and negates 128 damage.
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The target is hexed, granting it 35% chance each turn to be dazed for 3 turns.
The target is in a zone of necrotic air, granting -40% healing mod. Undead creatures also get +15% to all resistances.
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The more you use runes, the longer they will take to recharge (+3 cooldowns).
The target is cursed, reducing defence and all saves by 45.
The target's mind has been invaded, increasing all mind damage it receives from Polonn the forest wight by 14%.
The target is hexed, creating an empathic bond with its victims. It takes 11% feedback damage from all damage done.
You failed to protect the lost warrior from death by fire drake.
You failed to protect the lost warrior from death by Dead Inside, Dead Outside.
The fortress's current energy level is: 654.
* You've found the needed orc heart.
It can be used to unleash an elemental blastwave, dealing 12.74 to 15.29 acid damage in a radius 5 around the user, putting all charms on cooldown for 10 turns.
Description: Inflicts 184.43 temporal damage. If your target survives, it will be sent 4 turns into the future.
Description: Invokes a forking beam of lightning doing 17.39 to 52.17 damage and forking to another target.
It can be used to consume the heart.
The heart of the Sandworm Queen, ripped from her dead body.
You could ... consume it, should you feel mad enough or you could try to corrupt it somewhere.
It can be used to recall the user to the worldmap after 40 turns, costing 185 power out of 400/400.
It can be used to map surroundings within range 20, costing 28 power out of 30/30.
The Right thing to do (Insane (Roguelike) difficulty) Did the righteous thing in the ring of blood and disposed of the Blood Master.
Silyth the ghoul hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 82 blight, 16 blight, 66 blight, 16 blight (180 total damage).
Thought-forged warrior hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 29 physical, 4 nature (33 total damage).
Thought-forged warrior receives 5 healing.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside hits Silyth the ghoul for 5 healing, 5 healing (0 total damage) [10 healing].
Moue the daelach casts Phase Door.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside is on fire!
Dead Inside, Dead Outside resists the searing flame!
Moue the daelach's spell attains critical power!
Dead Inside, Dead Outside shrugs off the critical damage!
Moue the daelach hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 59 blight, 6 nature, 6 temporal, 26 darkness, 12 fire, 64 blight, 26 darkness, 12 fire (210 total damage).
Silyth the ghoul's Drain hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 122 blight damage.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside is free from the hex.
Talent Rune: Heat Beam is ready to use.
Talent Refit Golem is ready to use.
Burning from Moue the daelach hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 11 fire damage.
Rotting Disease from Silyth the ghoul hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 24 blight damage.
The shield around thought-forged warrior crumbles.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside damages herself through Martyrdom!
Thought-forged warrior hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 0 blight damage.
Moue the daelach's firestorm hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 49 fire damage.
Moue the daelach hits Dead Inside, Dead Outside for 2 blight damage.
Silyth the ghoul receives 29 healing from Dead Inside, Dead Outside's purging blight area effect.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside receives 52 healing from Dead Inside, Dead Outside's purging blight area effect.
Polonn the forest wight receives 12 healing (27 psi heal) from Dead Inside, Dead Outside's purging blight area effect.
Dead Inside, Dead Outside's purging blight area effect hits Thought-forged warrior for (20 absorbed), 1 blight (1 total damage).
Dead Inside, Dead Outside's purging blight area effect hits Moue the daelach for 24 blight damage.
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As City's Gas Drilling Task Force Crawls to Finish Line, a Q&A With the Woman in Charge
Leslie Minora
Leslie Minora | November 22, 2011 | 12:00pm
The most recent Dallas gas drilling task force meeting ended with mutterings of how to speed up the process of drafting drilling ordinance recommendations. Several task force members voiced concerns that they were crawling toward the finish line -- even after the task force's schedule for deliberation was extended by a month, until late December, with upcoming meetings expected to last later than the scheduled 4:30 p.m. ending.
"We're moving very slowly. We're being deliberate, which is good. I'm just wondering if there's a modification to the process ... just to try to expedite things," task force member Ramone Alvarez politely suggested, adding that perhaps they could find a way to focus more time on items that they don't agree on, rather than slowly working through each issue.
Lengthy conversations with hardly any concrete decisions consumed the past two weeks of task force deliberation, which followed an educational process that began in July.
Task force chair Lois Finkelman said that she personally combed through the document compiled by city staff that compares the ordinances of nearby cities, and checked off items she thought should be included in the Dallas ordinance -- a gesture that made a dense comparative document more digestible.
"You're the chair, and I think the chair has some special powers," Alvarez told her, suggesting that it might expedite the process if Finkelman compiled her own recommendations into a document for the task force to review, accepting the items unanimously agreed upon and debating and voting on others before submitting their final recommendations to city council.
At next week's meeting, the task force will use Finkelman's document as a jumping-off point. In advance of the upcoming recommendations, Unfair Park caught up with Finkelman for a Q&A about the group's charge and the challenges in developing an ordinance governing a complex, tricky and controversial issue.
Do you think another month is long enough to complete the task force recommendations?
I think it's going to be a real challenge. But I also think that this is one of those discussions that, it could take six more months and I'm not sure that that's necessarily advantageous to the city. I tend to think that we need to wrap this as responsibly as we can in a reasonable amount of time, and then ultimately the final decisions will come through the council process.
I have mixed feelings about the task force deciding they want me to put together a draft [to consolidate information and expedite the process]. I kind of wish that we'd come up with something other than that. But I understand everybody's frustration at the volume of materials and items that we were trying to decide on.
It seems like it's been almost paralyzing the last two weeks.
I think last week it was pretty easy. Apparently not everybody did what I had done [went through and marked best parts of other ordinances]. So, having a draft for people to work off of a single [document] probably in the long-run will move us forward more quickly. I think we will end up voting on some things, and if there's a minority opinion, we'll make sure that goes forward, so it's clear to council that there was a difference of opinion.
That was one of my reasons for wanting to do a pretty thorough education process. So that everybody would have heard the same things at the same time ... at least we all had a common background of knowledge when we started the actual conversation.
What's the biggest challenge the task force has faced so far? I think the biggest challenge has always been getting our hands around all of the many issues involved in setting up a process for gas drilling. The task force isn't charged with making the decision as to whether or not to drill in the city or not. That's ultimately a council prerogative. So it's a case of how do you deal with all of these issues, what is the right recommendation to make.
When you say it's a council prerogative whether or not to drill, would that be a recommendation you would make either way? I don't think that's in the task force purview. I think our charge is to come up with a set of recommendations to the ordinance ... if we drill, then this, whereas they decide whether or not to drill. In a sense, by signing leases already, a council has made the decision already that they would potentially allow it in the city. So that decision's kind of been made.
Ultimately, it's going to go through the council process, and it could come out looking very very different, either stronger, or potentially weaker. There just isn't any guarantee. I think the task force has been very responsible in terms of taking the time to learn the issues. I would hope they would put significant weight on the recommendations that come from the task force. But that doesn't mean that they won't make changes, that there won't be somebody on the council who decides there's a better way of doing it or something that they'd like to see that wasn't included. And that's okay, that's the political process.
Have you received phone calls from council members? I've had some brief conversations with a number of council members, most of whom have not indicated support or opposition to things. I've had further involvement from maybe a single council member who has some strong feelings about how the process ought to go. I've tried to do my best to not engage the council.
Who is that council member? That's not relevant because the council's going to have their own shot at it. And the task force process really needs to be separate and uncompromised. That's my perspective. So, influences, either for or against anything from a council member or representatives of a council member, are something that I've tried to kind of not ...
So you hear them out, and ... I don't mind having a conversation with anybody, but it's not going to influence what comes from the task force.
Is it tricky as a former council member to head the independent task force? I think it gives me kind of a better understanding of how the process works. I have great respect for those who sit on the council. It's not an easy job. It's a thankless task most of the time; it's often you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. You can't make everybody happy; so you've got to make somebody unhappy in the process. I think for the most part, council has been pretty respectful of the task force process as a separate process. I think most of the council members kind of respect it.
Do the current leases within the city complicate anything for the task force? In the long run probably not, because we knew there were leases going in, and if [gas companies] applied for a permit under that lease, they were subject to the existing laws. If our recommendations were at the table and the council had accepted them, there might be some ability for some political negotiating ... but I think that would have to have been voluntary.You just can't change the ground-rules once something's started. You can ask people to abide by changes, and in many cases they do.
How do you personally feel about drilling? I think my personal feelings are probably not relevant. I think it's challenging. I think it's very, very challenging. There are certainly examples of cities that have had urban drilling for decades, like Los Angeles, places like UT Arlington that have it on campus and it seems to work. And there are certainly lots of examples of places, not necessarily urban, where there are issues, whether it's noise, or traffic, or water contamination, or any of the other associated issues.
Do you think drilling can be done responsibly in Dallas? I think the task force is going to hopefully figure out whether or not they think it can. I think the answer is probably: that appears to be the case if you look at other examples. Are there things that we can do that maybe some other communities haven't done? Yeah, probably.
Do you live on the Barnett Shale? Does it affect you? No, it doesn't affect me. I think that someone said, "ell, we're not going to have very many wells in the city', which is probably true, because the Barnett Shale doesn't extend very far into the city limits, but if you have even one well, you've got to make sure that you've done whatever you can do to ensure the fact that it is operated in a safe and responsible manner with minimal negative impact on the surrounding neighborhoods.
What do you expect will be the biggest point of contention among task force members? An acceptable set-back from residential uses, I think, will, I don't know that it will be contentious. I think that will certainly be a topic for discussion. I think one of the questions that we haven't spent a lot of time talking about is the potential of either having or not having injection wells for produced water in the city. I think that's a big issue.
What do you think is the best policy for injection wells? I'm not going to jump in front of the task force's recommendations. So I don't want my opinions out there in print at this time. The issue with injection wells is, some would say, the trade-off between all the traffic that bringing in fluid and taking fluid out means in terms of truck traffic as opposed to putting in an injection well so you don't have to truck it in and out of city limits. On the other hand, injection wells certainly have issues ... that are questionable.
When it comes to set-back distances from a well to a protected land use, is there a range that you think set-backs should fall into, if not a definite number? What about the recommendation of 3,000 feet sent to the task force and council by citizen activists? I think the problem with 3,000 feet may well be that it would preclude drilling at some of the sites that have already been identified [by current leases]. I think that would be an issue ... maybe at Hensley Field.
So the task force will keep set-back recommendations within distances determined by prospective drill sites? Not from the standpoint of our recommendation necessarily because that site already has a lease.
You mentioned that those sites are grandfathered in under the old rules, so would that matter at all in the context of recommendations? It's not clear. That's a city attorney question, and that's one of those things that, you know, the city attorney's in an awkward position because they represent the city and the city council. Because we don't have any official standing, they have to be careful about not giving us legal advice, so it's kind of a dance we play ...
Why are city attorneys at the meetings? They've provided some really good support and help, and there are some things they can help us with, but they can't actually tell us, "Well, if you do that, you're going to get sued, and this is how we'd have to respond to it'. Those are discussions that will take place in executive sessions of the council.
So why is it important now whether recommended set-back distances affect the Hensley Field site or other sites? It may well be that the task force says, "Yeah, that makes sense, and if you can't find a spot, you can't find a spot." I think there are discussions about zoning -- do you limit it by zoning category, which the current ordinance does not.
You mean that it has to be in an industrial area ... Is that one way to deal with it that would protect neighborhoods and yet still allow it? I think that that's a possibility; we haven't spent any time talking about it.
What do you think is the biggest environmental issue faced by Dallas? Is this it? I think ... it's air quality. We haven't had a good handle on it. I don't think the state's been as aggressive in addressing air quality issues as they should have been. Certainly, the additional pollution that comes from drilling rigs adds to the issue -- it's not the cause by any stretch of the imagination; we've been in trouble for a long time -- and I don't know that we've got the answers yet as to how best to fix it. And certainly the increased population adds to it.
When it comes to drilling, what are the easiest regulations to put in place to limit the impact on air quality? I think green completion is probably critical. I think the question of whether we allow compressor stations in the city or not is a decision.
Will the task force be giving recommendation about site inspectors as well? We will certainly make recommendations with respect to monitoring and enforcement. I think one of the conversations we had last week was how often does the TCEQ inspector go out? And the answer is when there are complaints. So the question is could the city put itself in the position where it had inspectors that inspected the wells on a regular basis? And could the city give their inspectors the mobile equipment to do so in a way that made it effective? Is there a way to build into the ordinance the financial resources that allow that to happen? Because that's always the issue. If that's going to happen, ideally it would be self-funded through the ordinance and permitting process, so the industry would ultimately be funding that.
Since several nearby cities have updated their ordinances over the years, would you recommend that the Dallas ordinance remain flexible? Absolutely. I anticipate that there will be unanimity with that. This needs to be a flexible document, and the council needs to review it on a regular basis for any changes in the industry. I think the technology continues to change. There are any number of studies going on out there that the result of some of those studies may give us some definitive scientific information, and if so, you want to be able to incorporate that into the ordinance. Somehow it needs to get written into the ordinance so it's very clear that the city has the ability to go back and amend.
Is there any thing else you think people should know about? I think one of the issues that you didn't ask me about ... is the economics, whether it's an economic benefit to the city or whether or not a given well is economically viable -- whether companies are inflating the amount of gas in the well or not.
And on a personal level, I think that's a dangerous thing from the standpoint of, when a council zones a property or allows a grocery store or an apartment complex to be built, they don't typically look at the demographics of the market, determine whether or not it's economically viable -- if Walmart says, "I want that corner for a Wal-Mart," the council will decide whether or not they want a Walmart, not whether the Wal-Mart's going to be successful or not. That's the private sector's responsibility, not the public sector's responsibility ... It's another balance. Isn't life interesting?
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Hyundai Motor Teases Bold Sonata N Line in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
2021.07.08 09:00:00 No. 16683
· A stylish and sporty Hyundai Sonata N Line makes an exciting appearance in the franchise reboot; Hyundai Elantra and Santa Fe also appear
· Special edition models commemorating Sonata N Line's appearance in the film will be available for sale in the U.S. and Korea later this year
SEOUL, July 8, 2021 — If you thought you knew Hyundai Sonata, you're about to 'do a 180'. Hyundai Motor Company's Sonata N Line sport sedan revs up the new Paramount Pictures' action film Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, which makes its global debut on July 23, 2021.
Sonata N Line sees plenty of action in the movie, which stars Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) as "Snake Eyes," who is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir apparent. In the movie, "Snake Eyes" is seen in a high-octane car chase sequence in a Sonata N Line on a Tokyo highway, during which the car performs a pulse pounding 180-degree drift.
Hyundai Sonata N Line is one of three Hyundai Motor's vehicles in the movie, along with Hyundai Elantra, which is driven by Scarlett, representing the Joe's in this origin story, in a Tokyo castle scene, and Hyundai Santa Fe, which makes a brief appearance.
"We are thrilled to partner with Hyundai Motor on Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins and bring our journey to life with exhilarating action sequences using stylish and sporty cars," said Irene Trachtenberg, Senior Vice President International Marketing Partnerships at Paramount Pictures.
Hyundai Motor will also introduce special edition Sonata N Line models commemorating its appearance in the film. Starting in the third quarter of 2021, the "Night Edition" will be available in the U.S. and "The Black" edition in the Korean market. More details will be revealed at a later date.
"'Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins' offers a thrilling opportunity to watch and feel the sportiness and agility of the Hyundai Sonata N Line in action, prior to the launch of the limited edition," said Thomas Schemera, Global Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Customer Experience Division at Hyundai Motor Company.
N Line is a trim upgrade for Hyundai Motor's base models, given a dynamic and sporty design. Such characteristics of the N Line make fun driving much more accessible to a wider audience.
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Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC; VIACA), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. Paramount controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, and Paramount Players. PPC operations also include Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., and Paramount Studio Group.
About Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes, a tenacious loner who is welcomed into an ancient Japanese clan called the Arashikage after saving the life of their heir apparent. Upon arrival in Japan, the Arashikage teach Snake Eyes the ways of the ninja warrior while also providing something he's been longing for: a home. But, when secrets from his past are revealed, Snake Eyes' honor and allegiance will be tested – even if that means losing the trust of those closest to him. Based on the iconic G.I. Joe character, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins also stars Andrew Koji as Storm Shadow, Úrsula Corberó as Baroness, Samara Weaving as Scarlett, Haruka Abe as Akiko, Takehiro Hira as Kenta and Iko Uwais as Hard Master. Paramount Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Skydance present, in association with Hasbro, a di Bonaventura Pictures production, a Robert Schwentke film, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. Directed by Robert Schwentke, story by Evan Spiliotopoulos, screenplay by Evan Spiliotopoulos and Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse, based on Hasbro's G.I. JOE® Characters. Producers are Brian Goldner, Erik Howsam, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Executive producers are David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, Jeff G. Waxman and Greg Mooradian.
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'Escape Velocity V' by Zai Tang
21 Jan to 14 Mar 2021
City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Concourse Gallery, National Gallery Singapore
Free for Singaporeans and Permanent Residents
What does it mean to listen to nature in a time of ecological crisis? Artist Zai Tang poses this question in Escape Velocity V, an immersive sound installation that evokes places in Singapore where wildlife is threatened by hyper-development. Building on his field recordings of birdsong and animal sounds, Tang has produced a soundscape of creaturely voices set to an accelerated tempo that mimics the harried pace of the city. Here, in the artificial night of the gallery, you are invited to adjust your senses to dwell in sound and darkness, and imagine how our relationship with nature can change.
Escape Velocity V is a 16-minute presentation intended to be experienced in its entirety.
The presentation begins every 20 minutes from 10am, with the last presentation at 6.40pm.
Please be advised that there will loud sounds, moving lights, and prolonged darkness in an enclosed space.
Please refrain from using your mobile phone during the experience.
Zai Tang (b. 1984, United Kingdom) is an artist whose practice spans sound, drawing, animation, and performance. He creates immersive affecting experiences that explore notions of awareness and connectivity between human and nonhuman worlds. His process begins with field recordings from wildlife-rich habitats under threat, which are then abstracted and visualised using both analogue and digital techniques. His recent works have been presented at the Busan Biennale (2020), NTT InterCommunication Centre (2020), London International Animation Festival (2020), Singapore Biennale (2019), SGIFF (2019), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (2018), National Gallery Singapore (2017-present) and Singapore International Festival of Arts – The O.P.E.N (2017).
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University of Nottingham > Blogs > The Bardathon > Book review > William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells
UoN Blogs / The Bardathon
April 5, 2015, by Peter Kirwan
William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Stanley Wells
This month, Oxford University Press publishes William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by one of the most esteemed living authors on Shakespeare, Stanley Wells. Wells, in addition to being one of our finest textual scholars, has devoted much of the last decade to a series of books aimed at a popular market, expanding his role as Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to produce volumes through which a wider audience might be introduced to Shakespeare. At times, this comes across as somewhat evangelical ('On the other hand there are many good reasons why it is worth allowing him into your life', xv), or even a little patronising (as his preface imagines what people who don't have an everyday encounter with Shakespeare do do with their lives), but this is Wells doing what no-one else does better – introducing Shakespeare with wit and intelligence to a non-specialist audience. The fact that a third of the 'Further Reading' section is books written or edited by Wells could be hubristic, but in fact fairly points to the fact that no other scholar has dedicated themselves in such a way to producing Shakespeare books for the general reader.
Wells's book replaces the previous Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Germaine Greer, even taking over that volume's series number (60). Presumably Greer's book will be quietly withdrawn, which seems a shame; while it is right and proper that a new volume be written specifically for the VSI series (Greer's book is a repackaging of her 1986 volume for the Past Masters series, and therefore never sat entirely comfortably within the VSI project), Greer's book has much to recommend it. Her comments on the inscrutability of Shakespeare's own opinions remain pertinent; her eloquent readings of the plays continue to yield interesting interpretive fruit; her literary situation of Shakespeare's work within classical and philosophical precedent is of its time, yet learned and erudite. Her breakdown of her exploration of Shakespeare into such intellectual categories as 'Ethics', 'Politics', 'Teleology' and 'Sociology' allows for fluid readings that bring several plays into conversation with one another, and I hope that her book remains available in some modest form, if not in this series.
Wells offers what I take to be a more intuitive (and therefore more appropriate to the series) approach. His first chapter, perhaps inevitably, covers much of same ground as Greer's, surveying what is known of the life, with a particular emphasis (unsurprising, given Wells's professional responsibilities) on Stratford-upon-Avon. What is more immediately valuable is Well's emphasis on the theatre, barely discussed in Greer's volume (in fact Greer is unhelpfully dismissive of modern production, while Wells shows a much more modern, and clearly informed, grasp of the central significance of the theatre). There are many other advantages to an approach informed by modern scholarship, including an understanding of collaboration and mentions of plays less traditionally discussed such as Edward III.
The bulk of Wells's volume is taken up by five chapters which introduce each of the plays in turn, and it is here that I feel Wells's sense of his audience may be a little off. For the person unfamiliar with these plays, the summaries of what their contents actually are is very cursory (the brief section on The Merry Wives of Windsor, for instance, mentions the anecdote of the occasion of the play's writing, and the comedy of several episodes, but assumes independent knowledge of the play), and seems to me to imagine an audience who knows the plays and wants to know a little more the achievement of each, rather than the audience who is perhaps coming almost fresh to Shakespeare as implied in the preface. But, for the former kind of audience, Wells's readings are unsurpassed. He parses the key elements of the plays effectively, drawing together selected quotations, shared ideas and literary judgements to offer a guide through the canon that is never less than lively, incisive and entertaining.
To pick out highlights rather spoils the effect of the whole, but I was struck especially by Wells's take on the biting satire of Troilus and Timon – with particular attention to the latter play's potential for ascension to tragic status – and the emphasis on the importance of Henry VI in his own plays (on a personal note, for a popular book I'd have recommended sticking with the far neater and more popularly known titles of Henry VI Parts 2 and 3 rather than the lengthy Contention titles, but I can't fault Wells's integrity in retaining the Oxford preferences). Even though there is little space to develop readings, Wells makes space for every play, and his chapter structure (grouping plays linked by genre or setting) maps the broad arcs of Shakespeare's career, even suggesting that his career may have ended with a sacking rather than retirement.
There are a couple of scattered errors which I note here in the hope they will be corrected in future editions – it is Sir Andrew Aguecheek, not Sir Antony (p.79) who woos Olivia, and Hamnet died in 1596, not 1586 (p.88). But mostly this is a fair, judicious and readable introduction to Shakespeare, best read alongside the ambitious newcomer's attempt to make their way through the dramatic canon. A very cursory epilogue settles for listing some of the response texts which will allow readers to find their way through the vast field of appropriations, but this little book commendably concerns itself with author and works, offering repeated insight and a thorough survey of the texts that began it.
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EFFector - Volume 25, Issue 22 - Keep the NSA out of your inbox
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In our 617th issue:
MINILINKS
Keep the NSA Out of Your Inbox
The Senate is voting this week on the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which would let companies like Facebook and Google monitor our online communications and then pass that data to the government without a warrant. We need to amend the bill to put in stronger safeguards for privacy and stop attempts to remove privacy protections while maintaining opposition to the bill.
Use the American Library Association's tool to automatically call your U.S. senators' offices. You will be given talking points to help inform your Senators about the importance of privacy.
Use EFF's interactive tool to tweet at your U.S. senators using #DefendPrivacy. Show them all the unnecessary personal info this cyber spying bill will collect on everyday Internet users.
Judge Blocks Enforcement of Washington State Statute
A federal district court judge granted a motion by the Internet Archive to block enforcement of an overbroad Washington state anti-sex trafficking statute. The law could make online service providers criminally liable for providing access to third parties' offensive materials and likely violates the First Amendment and the Federal Communications Decency Act. EFF is representing Internet Archive in the case.
EFF Updates
Why the NSA Can't Be Trusted to Run U.S. Cybersecurity Programs
Senators John McCain and Kay Bailey Hutchison have proposed several amendments to the latest cybersecurity bill that would hand the reins of the U.S.'s cybersecurity systems to the National Security Agency (NSA), which has proven it can't be trusted with protecting Americans' privacy.
Washington State 'Cyberstalking' Case Based on Unconstitutional Law
EFF is urging a Washington State judge to dismiss "cyberstalking" charges stemming from rude comments left on a blog. In an amicus brief, EFF argued that the case is based on an unconstitutional law that criminalizes free speech.
Congress Must Act After U.S. Government Admits To Unconstitutional Warrantless Wiretapping For the First Time
As Congress and the president rush to re-authorize the dangerous FISA Amendments Act (FAA), Americans' communications are still being unconstitutionally collected by the government without a warrant. On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) begrudgingly agreed, acknowledging that, "on at least one occasion" the secret FISA court "held that some collection... used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment."
Why the WikiLeaks Grand Jury is So Dangerous: Members of Congress Now Want to Prosecute New York Times Journalists Too
For more than a year now, EFF has encouraged mainstream press publications like the New York Times to aggressively defend WikiLeaks' First Amendment right to publish classified information in the public interest and denounce the ongoing grand jury investigating WikiLeaks as a threat to press freedom. At a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on July 11th, some members of Congress made it clear they also want New York Times journalists charged under the Espionage Act for their recent stories on President Obama's 'Kill List' and secret U.S. cyberattacks against Iran.
YouTube's Face-Blurring Technology Enables Anonymity
YouTube recently unveiled a new face blurring tool that lets users choose to conceal every face in a video they have uploaded. This is a commendable step towards fostering anonymous speech on the Internet.
EFF Joins EPIC in Calling for TSA to Follow the Law
EFF has joined a diverse collection groups signing on to a brief prepared by the Competitive Enterprise Institute to support the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in its call for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct a legally required notice-and-comment rulemaking for its "advanced imaging" scanners.
As Secrecy System Veers Into Absurdity, Politicians Argue For More
The U.S. classification system is "dysfunctional" and "clearly lacks the ability to differentiate between trivial information and that which can truly damage our nation's well-being." Those are not the words of EFF, nor any other government transparency advocate, but instead came from the former classification czar himself.
Temporary Copies: A TPP Provision Absurdly Disconnected from the Reality of the Modern Computer
EFF has been among several groups following the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the huge ramifications it would have for the future of the open Internet, access to knowledge, and innovation. One of the most problematic aspects of the TPP's intellectual property chapter as leaked is its proposed language regulating temporary copies. As currently drafted, the related provision creates chilling effects not just on how we behave online, but on the basic ability for people and companies to use and create on the Web.
Red Flag On Biometrics: Iris Scanners Can Be Tricked
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas last week, Javier Galbally revealed that it's possible to spoof a biometric iris scanning system using synthetic images derived from real irises. The Madrid-based security researcher's talk is timely, coming on the heels of a July 23 Israeli Supreme Court hearing where the potential vulnerabilities of a proposed governmental biometric database drove the debate.
Mexicans Need Transparency on Secret Surveillance Contracts
The Mexican government shelled out $4.6 billion pesos ($355 million USD) to expand Mexican domestic surveillance equipment over the past year, a set of newly leaked documents has revealed. According to a July 16 press report, the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) -- the body that oversees Mexico's Army and Air Force -- awarded five surveillance contracts that were for the procurement of devices capable of intercepting mobile phone and online communications.
Israel's Biometric Database Deemed "Harmful" by High Court Justices
A heated debate is underway about whether Israel's Interior Ministry will move ahead with the creation of a governmental biometric database containing digital fingerprints and facial photographs, which would be linked to "smart" national ID cards. At the heart of the issue is a major concern about privacy: Aggregated personal information invites security breaches, and large databases of biometric information can be honeypots of sensitive data vulnerable to exploitation.
UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Internet and Human Rights a Step in the Right Direction
Earlier this month, the 47 member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) passed a landmark Resolution (A/HRC/20/L.13) to include the "promotion, protection, and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet." The Resolution, which was presented by Sweden, was backed by more than 70 countries in all, both members and non-members of the HRC.
What privacy challenges lie ahead for Facebook?
EFF's Jennifer Lynch explains how facial recognition may create problems for the social network.
Survey on patent demands
Professor Colleen Chien of Santa Clara University School of Law launched a survey on the impact of patent demands, especially on small businesses and entrepreneurs. Help her study the true effects of the patent system.
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Again and again, copyright is being used to silence political campaign speech. One of the most recent culprits? The Olympics.
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Ukraine war: Russia using 'banned anti-personnel landmines,' campaign group says
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Russian forces fighting in Ukraine have been accused of using anti-personnel mines designed to detect approaching footsteps and kill or "maim" people within a 16-meter radius.
A report by Human Rights Watch said POM-3 landmines, which are banned under international treaties, were discovered in the besieged northern city of Kharkiv on Monday by Ukrainian ordnance disposal technicians.
The US-based campaign group added the devices, known as "Medallion" mines, had failed to deploy.
POM-3s are designed to be fired into enemy territory and descend by parachute before burying themselves into the ground, if the earth is soft enough. They are equipped with a "seismic sensor", according to the report, which registers when someone is approaching before launching a bomb.
The subsequent blast and shrapnel it projects can cause death and injury, Human Rights Watch said.
If they do not trigger, the mines are also reportedly able to self-destruct after a certain amount of time – which could be hours or days after deployment.
The 1997 international Mine Ban Treaty bans the production, stockpiling and transferring of antipersonnel mines, but Russia is not among the 164 countries that have joined it. Ukraine is, though, having signed up to the agreement in 1999.
According to Human Rights Watch, Russia's use of the mines in Ukraine "marks a rare occurrence" in which a country not signed up to the treaty uses such weapons on the territory of one that is.
Footage circulated online reportedly shows armored vehicles firing dozens of the mines into Kharkiv from specially designed ground launchers some nine miles away, two days before they were found on 28 March.
These launchers are capable of deploying mines from as far as 15km away, and first appeared during annual Russian military exercises in 2021, according to the Landmine Monitor 2021 report.
Depending on the terrain it lands on – soft or hard – a mine is intended to bury itself to become hard to spot, or use spring-loaded feet to stay upright until triggered.
The minefield is then visible only to Russian forces via an electronic map and can be remotely deactivated if necessary.
A building burns in Irpin, Ukraine, as Russia continues to bombard its neighbor
"Countries around the world should forcefully condemn Russia's use of banned antipersonnel landmines in Ukraine," Steve Goose, arms director of Human Rights Watch, said of the discovery. "These weapons do not differentiate between combatants and civilians and leave a deadly legacy for years to come."
And he added: "Russia's use of antipersonnel mines in Ukraine deliberately flouts the international norm against use of these horrid weapons."
Russia told the UN General Assembly in 2020 that it "shares the goals of the treaty and supports a world free of mines," but stressed it viewed antipersonnel mines "as an effective way of ensuring the security of Russia's borders".
This map shows the extent of Russian invasion of Ukraine
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It came after the use of Russian-origin anti-personnel mines was documented in more than 30 countries, including in Syria, Ukraine and Libya, by Human Rights Watch.
The discoveries "often coincide with Russian military presence as a party in those conflicts", the group said in its report.
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Generations separate us, but by knowing them closely we have recognized the spirit of our Middle-East, made of wounds but also of openness and joy of life, and above all, made of this fierce will to resist contrary winds and to create the beautiful in art and in mutual aid.
Yara's art is abstract, given that her pre-objectivity has to be seen as a Gnostic quest, an aspiration to the actual knowledge of existence as opposed to the standard perception or opinion. However, let us disregard the inflexibility of the definition and let us explore the dense palette of pigments in which alternate greys, greens, browns, and the various shades of sand, ochre, red, purple and blue, each pigment bearing the life of the gesture from which it proceeded, scratches, writing, tear drops… Colours are completed by remnants, pieces of journals and newspapers, charcoal, ink, objects and various substances which the painting seems to absorb or exude. We can see the play of shadows, the ongoing transformation of the pictorial matter, the masses emerging with lights and nocturnal splendours, the actual fruit of the artist's sincere feelings as well as the locus of a psychic experience, the remit where thought and non-thought fight for space.
Yara's work is not the mere result of a definite and determined intention, but the fruit of a complex interaction between emotional stimuli and consciousness, leading to a principle of indeterminacy of the world: it is through her emotional intelligence, far from any partiality, that the artist tries to lift the veil of appearances to conquer this deeper being that is hidden from her. Colour is used not as the tool of plausibility, but as an element which, beyond the figurative and the pictorial, generates a place where we are neither closer nor more distant, but only scattered. Yara moves towards liberation, liberation from all that is stable and established, highlighting what is unimaginable for most, and the eternal infinity that does not slip into inadequate external forms. An art unburdened from communication to manifest the absolutism of spontaneous being and the value of intuition as a direct experience of nature and the world. Her paintings solicit our gaze not to identify but to yield to the pulsating rhythms of creation coming forth. Brimming over with the presence that cannot be assimilated by form, playing on the relationship between transparency and opacity, the artist's painting modulates presences and absences and in the images, only saves the evanescence drained by the fire of time.
The abstract nature of Yara's work cannot be considered autotelic, it does not fail to remain in touch with the vicissitudes of the human condition that would make painting a 'flat surface' its only purpose. In her work, however, a process is initiated that opens up to the infinite objectification of the form, constantly questioning it, and at the same time absorbing it and metabolizing it until it dissolves. At times nocturnal atmospheres prevail: the night is not the opposite of the day but the state in which the day is lost, stifled by a loss that silences it and forgets it. And paradoxically, is it not the war, given its dualistic nature, this organic force that rises up against reality as an entity, satisfied with its own objectivity, which makes disaster and completion coincide? Likewise death and survival, silence and noise, the visible and the invisible, proximity and distance, the real and the imaginary, the private and the public, the inside and the outside, all the dialectical polarities, all fused into a single mass where difference is erased in the same disorder?
Yara's realism tells us this epic of the entropy and the laceration of the world amid the rubble, dust and lights, corrupting all that is solid: destruction worse than death because it goes beyond everything it meets in the name of endless cruelty. In her work, a fractal world of perennial tensions, meaning is not contained as an overt idea or cause, but moves and rushes to shake the presence. An art that does not mimic nature but is the hypostasis of its immanence, a means through which humans question themselves as defined beings and also query their actual role in the world. Yara's painting is not mystique, it does not refer to the direct experience of a sacred dimension, it seems rather to be related to certain subconscious impulses, like a force coming from within. The painter is the subject through which the deep proceeds and acts, she is the one who is immersed in the hidden, the invisible, in the depths of the body and the psyche. The canvas is a support, the being on the surface, the skin of what is inside and spiritual.
Such a painting gives neither spatial references nor generically figurative references: the viewer is confronted with the direct impossibility of reconciling interpretation and recognition. But the unintelligible is in itself part of the meaning we are trying to discover in a work of art. The illegible which is what eludes meaning, is not only a cluster of the unintelligible but also the representation of the original meaning to question the meaning of things. This is the heart of Yara Saïd's art, a painting that speaks of the silence of the word: bared of any appearance the cup of the unimaginable overflows.
Je ne crois ni à ce que je touche, ni à ce que je vois.
We could define this painting as metaphysical in the sense that metaphysics may seem to be a dramatisation of reality, an inexhaustible machine that multiplies the burning and resonant poetic ghosts, pushing them beyond their own limits. Each image develops a paradoxical relationship with the other, each represented on the same plane of consciousness, fluctuating on the same evocative space, like an isotopy where variables, sequences, correspondences and disjunctions are all connected to each others. Noor's painting does not depict a recognizable identity, but disharmonious relations and the cohabitation of discontinuities that are articulated in social reality. Therefore, our need for landmarks remains disappointed by the artist's compositions: the figures live woven on the same level of an artificial synchronicity, without leaving space that can be traversed by the gaze in the sense of the depth. They are, on the other hand, positioned on horizontal and vertical planes, transcending traditional spatial relations to simultaneously experience the unilaterality and the reciprocity of their symbolism: there is no longer the world, but only the organisms of a language of silence and infinite murmur.
Noor's creations seem to be the dark and mysterious setback of visible reality, a kind of elusive place where all these biological combinations of the imaginary that stay in the background remain the founding entities of what is transmitted to us. The artist paints with the assumption that symbols can reveal a mode of reality and a structure of the world that are not obvious at the level of immediate experience, developing a phantasmal vision that is in a relation of direct emanation with them: Noor paints in a non-space establishing a symbolic order which shines in/onto reality, awakening it and speaking to it.
The anxiety that the compositions echo derives precisely from this impossibility of identifying the original source of the images. They bundle up so plentifully that they become an un-done, losing their specific identity without acquiring a new one while being pieced together. These collages then become an iconoclastic process through which the destruction of images is no longer exercised, but an overproduction in which nothing remains to be seen. They reveal the unlimited nature of the representation at the intrinsic boundaries of reality, its infinite possibilities exhibited by the accumulation and the outcome of meaning, sacrificed to such abundance. In this day and age we all produce images, mostly of ourselves. We hide, we cover what remains of our lives, the rest being unutterable.


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Westborough – Barbara Mary (Baker) DeCarolis, 91, a longtime resident of Westborough since 1950, passed away peacefully after a short period of declining health, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018 at the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late Anthony J. DeCarolis.
Born in Southborough, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Cronin) Baker. She was educated in Southborough schools and was a graduate of Peter's High School. She also attended the Boston School of Dental Nursing.
In her early years, Barbara worked as a dental hygienist, then she worked at Westborough State Hospital before becoming a Licensed Occupational Therapist working at the Cushing Hospital in Framingham for over 20 years prior to her retirement.
Barbara was an accomplished artist and seamstress. She enjoyed the outdoors, bird watching and was an avid reader. She was a congregant of St Stephen's Church Westborough. She was dedicated to her home and family and was a very kind and caring person.
She is survived by five children, Adrianne Ferragamo of York, Maine, Karen Chapdelaine of Northborough, John DeCarolis of Worcester, Jennifer DeCarolis of Grafton, and Peter DeCarolis of Westborough. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Michelle Healy, Troy Ferragamo, Annie and Hillary Keller and Zachary Forsberg. In addition, she is also survived by four great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Brandon, Tatum and Cooper. She was predeceased by a grandson, Sean Chapdelaine and three brothers, John, Lawrence and Adrian Baker.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Barbara's memory may be made to the University of Massachusetts Anatomical Gift Program, 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester, MA 01655.


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A Psychic is a person with the ability of ESP (Extra-Sensory-Perception) The word 'Psychic' originates from the Greek word 'psychikos' (Pertaining to the Soul) and refers to the 'psyche' (The Human Mind).
The word psychic was coined by the renowned chemist William Crookes to describe Spiritualist medium Daniel Dunglas Home – a man who could levitate off the floor! Today Spiritualists would refer to a man like Home as a 'medium' because he had the ability to communicate with the dead. Psychics are not considered to be mediums by modern Spiritualists.
A psychic is a person with ESP or Extra Sensory Perception or what people more commonly refer to as 'the sixth sense'. The term ESP was first used in 1870 by Sir Richard Burton but brought into wider public usage through the work of Society for Psychical Research and the experiments of the researcher J. B. Rhine at Duke University in 1930.
When a psychic gives a psychic reading or a consultation this would include intuitively perceiving information about the sitter using clairvoyance (seership) and telepathy (mind to mind communication). In some cases, this can include information that is already in your mind but also extraordinary information about your situation. Many people visit a psychic because they want to know about the future – a gift known as precognition.
It is debatable that the future is set and I personally believe that because we have free will the future can be changed. What precognition foresees can be changed by the decisions we make and our own free will. Psychics get a feel for the future and the map ahead but the choice of the path is yours.
A psychic is able to access a person's auric field (the life force that surrounds living things) and will be able to ascertain information about the sitter. This could include memories and information about the persons feelings, fears and thoughts. Their insights are however limited to the material world but not spirit communication. A psychic reading can be very helpful as a mirror to your self and throw light onto your unconscious. I advise that psychic insights need to be treated as guidance rather than fact.
Sceptics argue that there is no such thing as a psychic and that the sitters are simple gullible people who make what the psychic says fit what they want to hear. They call this the Barnum effect – a cynical reference to the Barnum Circus that had 'something for everyone'. Of course we believe otherwise and on this site you will find many examples and videos that show starting proofs that could not be achieved by guesswork or subjective validation. (When a sitter finds personal meaning in statements that could apply to just about anyone).
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Institute of Noetic Sciences Parapsychology research body.
Rhine Research Center The original parapsychological research center.
Society for Psychical Research Founded in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research continues to do scholarly research into parapsychology.
The Division of Perceptual Studies Research into the paranormal based at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Organization formed in 1976 to debunk parapsychology.
Of human mind: relating to the human mind. Outside scientific knowledge: outside the sphere of scientific knowledge. Sensitive to supernatural forces: claiming, or believed to have, extraordinary sensitivity to nonphysical or paranormal forces. From the Greek ψυχικός psychikos—"of the mind, mental".
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