Ward 4 Councillor Jack Dennison is trying to swing another real estate deal.
This time, it's with his fellow Council members, and it's all about YOUR property.
While he's hit and missed with them in the past, that may change soon.
To be clear, this is not about Councillor Dennison battling neighbours to capitalize on his own Lakeshore Road property in Ward 4 (as you may recall, the Committee of Adjustments denied him a severance, and he appealed that decision to the OMB).
His focus is now on lands owned by the City in Ward 1. Tyandaga Golf Course.
Ward 1 Councillor Rick Craven's email newsletter today included this commentary….
"Councillor Jack Dennison is continuing his effort to sell land from the golf course to developers.
During recent budget discussions he put forward a motion that Council "review our Tyandaga asset as part of our strategic plan". I objected to the motion as being "out of order" and the Chair ruled in favour of the Point of order.
Craven didn't connect the dots for readers – but his email included another topical item, with potentially huge implications for the golf course and Burlington….
"My office has received a lot of calls about the large open space, recently put up for sale, west of Brant Street and south of Havendale. This land is currently owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese. Developers are also making inquiries.
How do these pieces connect?
Well, a picture tells that story best. Click on this photo to see where the golf course and Brant Street property are located….
Seems a long time ago that Councillor Dennison championed the preservation of local green space, by helping save the General Brock parkland . That cause was certainly worth fighting for in Ward 4 (although the war isn't over yet, but that's for another post).
Of course, a sale of golf course lands will generate a lot of green for the City's coffers, in the short and long term (municipal golf has been a money-draining "asset" for the City over the course – that's the last pun – of its 50+ years).
Beyond the sale price, add an enormous windfall of development charges, plus an expanded residential tax base (e.g. perhaps 150+ homes depending on the property sold and related conditions). And the area would still be covered mostly by gorgeous parkland.
Hopefully, citizens appreciate the need to speak up now about this kind of contentious issue, whether you're fore (couldn't resist) or against it.
In this case, the fate of Tyandaga Golf Course may significantly inform and influence the direction of our new Strategic Plan – if Craven's emailed expectations about Dennison come true. Council's final approval is set for July 2015….
So, if a possible sale of golf course lands is considered as part of a larger context for Burlington's future, here's my question to YOU….


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The Freedom Rides were a tactic employed by civil rights demonstrators in 1961 to place pressure on the federal government and local leaders to end segregation in interstate transportation facilities. Ultimately, the Freedom Rides in Little Rock (Pulaski County) led the local African-American and white communities to address the lingering issue of segregation in the city.
In 1947, the national civil rights organization the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) held its Journey of Reconciliation to test integrated interstate transportation on buses ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1946 Morgan v. Virginia decision. The journey involved an interracial team of bus passengers traveling through upper South states to make sure the law was being implemented. Their journey met with mixed results. In some places, they were allowed to ride interstate buses, while in others they were arrested.
In 1960, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Boynton v. Virginia extended its Morgan ruling on interstate buses to interstate bus terminal facilities. CORE this time tested the ruling with Freedom Rides. In May 1961, two sets of interracial Freedom Riders were attacked on their journey through Alabama. The national headlines the attacks drew forced federal intervention by the John F. Kennedy administration to assist the riders to reach their destination of Jackson, Mississippi.
A Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee (FRCC) was subsequently formed to coordinate further rides across the South in the summer of 1961. As part of this campaign, Freedom Riders arrived in Little Rock on the evening of July 10, 1961, from the CORE branch of St. Louis, Missouri. The riders planned a journey from St. Louis to Little Rock, then on to Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, Louisiana. The riders were led by thirty-year-old Rev. Benjamin Elton Cox, an African-American native of Whiteville, Tennessee, who served as a minister at Pilgrim Congregational Church in High Point, North Carolina, and as a CORE field secretary. Cox was a veteran of the initial Freedom Rides. The other riders were twenty-three-year-old Bliss Anne Malone, an African-American public school teacher from St. Louis; eighteen-year-old Annie Lumpkin, an African-American student from St. Louis; twenty-seven-year-old John Curtis Raines, a white pastor from Setauket Methodist Church in Long Island, New York, and a former Fulbright scholar; and twenty-three-year-old Janet Reinitz, a white artist and homemaker from New York City.
When the riders' bus pulled into the Midwest Trailways station at Markham and Louisiana streets, a crowd of between 300 and 400 whites were there to meet them. The arrangements inside the bus terminal were complicated. The Boynton ruling had ordered desegregation of interstate terminal facilities. Obeying the letter if not the spirit of the law, the bus terminal had an integrated "Inter-State and Colored Intra-State Waiting Room" for white interstate and African-American intrastate passengers and a segregated "White Intra-State Waiting Room" for white intrastate passengers. There was no lunch counter, just a snack bar that opened onto both waiting rooms. The Freedom Riders headed for the white intrastate waiting room.
Little Rock police chief Robert E. (Bob) Glasscock asked the riders to leave the bus terminal. They refused. Glasscock arrested them for a breach of the peace under Arkansas Act 226 passed by the 1959 Arkansas General Assembly. They were taken to the Little Rock City Jail. The following day, two local Little Rock African-American attorneys handling their case, Thaddeus D. Williams and Edward V. Trimble, asked for a delay to prepare for trial. Little Rock Municipal Court judge Quinn Glover granted their request.
Meanwhile, there was much debate in the white community about the Freedom Ride. The Arkansas Gazette did not approve of the ride but denounced police handling of the matter. It was unhappy about headlines of racial strife in a city still recovering from the desegregation of Central High School. The Arkansas Democrat laid all the blame on the Freedom Riders. Leading merchants, bankers, and business leaders in the city formed the ad hoc Civic Progress Association (CPA). They diplomatically backed the actions of the police while expressing "regret that it became necessary to take the riders into custody."
On Wednesday, July 12, the riders appeared in court. Judge Glover found them guilty and gave them a $500 fine and a six-month prison sentence. However, Glover offered to release them if they agreed to "leave the state of Arkansas and proceed to their respective homes." They agreed after consultation with their lawyers and the St. Louis CORE branch. However, later that day when the riders discovered that Glover meant for them literally to return home rather than just to leave Arkansas, they returned to jail.
On Thursday, July 13, under pressure to get the city out of the headlines, Glover admitted he could not legally compel the riders to return home. Instead, he said they could have their fines and sentences revoked if they agreed to leave the state peacefully and not to test any more facilities there. The riders agreed. The same afternoon, they left Little Rock to continue their journey.
The following week, another group of five Freedom Riders arrived. They had already successfully tested bus terminal facilities in Virginia and Tennessee. They had run into difficulties in Stuttgart (Arkansas County), where the workers at the bus terminal had refused them service and the driver of their Greyhound bus had tried to leave without them. Later that day, they arrived at Little Rock's Greyhound Union bus station at West 6th Street and Broadway. They tested terminal facilities without any trouble, an indication that the city had learned its lesson from the week before.
Freedom Rides like the ones in Little Rock had a successful cumulative impact in placing pressure on the federal government to uphold the Boynton ruling. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) issued guidelines to forbid segregation in bus terminals that came into effect November 1, 1961. Little Rock implemented the guidelines peacefully, and segregation in bus terminal facilities came to an end in the city.
There was bizarre coda to the Freedom Rides in Little Rock. In 1962, Amis Guthridge of the Capital Citizens' Council (CCC) embraced the idea of "Reverse Freedom Rides" to send African-American families north. The CCC paid the one-way fares of more Reverse Freedom Riders than any other Citizens' Council branch in the nation, approximately 200 total, sending them to Hyannis, Massachusetts, the summer home of the Kennedy family. The New York Times described the Reverse Freedom Rides as "a cheap trafficking in human misery." As the Citizens' Councils ran out of money for fares, the Reverse Freedom Rides ground to a halt in late summer 1962.
A new local African-American organization, the Council on Community Affairs (COCA), was founded on the same day that the second group of Freedom Riders left Little Rock. These local leaders, together with the help of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), placed sufficient pressure on local white business leaders to end segregation in all of Little Rock's downtown facilities by 1963.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Barnes, Catherine. Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Catsam, Derek Charles. Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
Kirk, John A. "Battle Cry of Freedom: Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Freedom Rides at Fifty." Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 42 (August 2011): 76–103.
———. "A Forgotten Freedom Summer." Arkansas Times. July 6, 2011, pp. 10–15. Online at http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/a-forgotten-freedom-summer/Content?oid=1852445 (accessed February 2, 2022).
———. Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Niven, David. The Politics of Injustice: The Kennedys, the Freedom Rides, and the Electoral Consequences of a Moral Compromise. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.
Raines, John Curtis. "Get on the Bus: Freedom Riders' Work Remains Unfinished." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. July 3, 2011, pp. 1H, 6H.
Webb, Clive. "'A Cheap Trafficking in Human Misery': The Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962." Journal of American Studies 38 (2004): 249–271.
Wofford, Harris. Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980.
Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1965.
John A. Kirk
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Russia, SA lambast hypocrisy over maritime exercise
Published: January 23, 202310:32 pm
Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov with his South African host counterpart, Dr. Naledi Pandor. Photo, AFP
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – BY breaking its silence over criticism around a planned multinational maritime exercise it will host, and reiterating its policy of neutrality in the Russo-Ukrainian war, South Africa has made an emphatic statement that double standards prevalent in global politics will not guide its foreign policy.
This will also not influence its solid bilateral ties the country enjoys with partners.
This in particular is the stable relations the African political powerhouse shares with Russia, whose Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov, was in Pretoria on Monday where he held bilateral talks with local counterpart, Naledi Pandor.
The meeting came on the back of pressure on the South African government to condemn Russia over its conflict with Ukraine. South Africa has incurred criticism in some quarters after opting for neutrality on the war that broke out in early 2022.
Pro-Western media and groups as well as opposition parties have heaped more pressure on the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa over the planned multinational maritime exercise featuring South Africa, China and Russia.
Lavrov and Pandor, as they defended the drills (named Exercise Mosi II) that South Africa will host, condemned the double standards that have preceded the exercise.
"They (United States) believe they only can have exercises all over the world, not only on their more 200 military bases around the world but at any place," Lavrov said.
He pointed out the US and its allies –Canada and Japan- late last year conducted exercises in the South China Sea as part of their Indo-Pacific strategies. That unlike the China, Russia and South Africa exercise, the Russian minister argued, did not provoke criticism.
"I haven't heard mass media asking questions," said Lavrov.
"Our exercises are transparent. We, together with our partners in South Africa and China, have provided all the relevant information."
The multilateral maritime exercise is scheduled for February 17 to 27.
Pandor reiterated remarks she made a few months ago, where she indicated that Africans need to resist is " the impulse of wanting to direct a double standard form of international conduct to orders, 'that what I do is ok for me but you cannot do it because you are a developing country or you are Africa."
She denounced this as an abuse of international practice.
"All countries conduct military exercises with friends worldwide. So there should be no compulsion on any country that it should conduct them with any other partners. It's part of a natural course of relations between countries," Pandor said.
Exercise Mosi II will see over 350 South African National Defence Forces personnel participating alongside their Russian and Chinese counterparts.
The South African Department of Defence and Military Veterans released a strongly-worded statement moments before the bilateral talks.
"We wish to state categorically that South Africa, like any independent and sovereign state, has a right to conduct its foreign relations in line with its diplomatic relations and national interests," the department stated.
It believes the Mosi II as an opportunity to contribute towards further strengthening the strong bonds that exist between South Africa, Russia and China.
These relations predate the formation of the Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa (BRICS) before the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
"Contrary to the assertions by our critics, South Africa is not abandoning its neutral position on the Russian-Ukraine conflict," the defence ministry stated.
"We remain firm in our view that multilateralism and dialogue are keys to unlocking sustainable international peace. We continue to urge both parties to engage in dialogue as a solution to the current conflict."
Pandor concurred. Last year, South Africa abstained from a vote to condemn Russia at the United Nations General Assembly.
"We reiterated, as I have done publicly, South Africa's desire that there be a diplomatic solution and that negotiations are something all of us can work towards, particularly in the context of the United Nations, which is the global institution that we all accept as the premier multilateral institution," she said.
She spoke after meeting Lavrov, who is on a second tour of Africa.
"We reiterate that belief and continue to hold to it," Pandor said.
Lavrov welcomed the stance taken by South Africa over the conflict whose impact has been felt globally.
"I would like to highly appreciate the position of principle of South Africa," the foreign minister said.
"I respect the openness and the responsible approach which South Africa demonstrated on the basis of allegiance to the key national interests of its people," Lavrov added.
He denounced as disinformation that his country was not committed to talks with Ukraine.
"Russia does not abandon talks on Ukraine," Lavrov said.
"…but the longer the West avoids them, the more difficult the situation."
Unlike South Africa and most of the continent, the West has sided with Ukraine, providing weaponry and funding.
Dr Naledi Pandor
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Велика мечеть Герата () або «Джамі Масджид Герата», — мечеть у місті Герат, у провінції Герат на північному заході Афганістану. Вона був побудована Гурідами під правлінням султана Гіят ад-Діна Мухаммада Горі, який заклав його основу в 1200 році. Пізніше її кілька разів розширювали, оскільки Герат протягом століть змінював правителів із Куртів, Тимуридів, Моголів, а потім узбеків, усі вони підтримували мечеть. Фундаментальна структура мечеті часів Гуридів була збережена, але частини були додані та змінені. П'ятнична мечеть у Гераті отримала свій нинішній вигляд у 20 столітті.

Окрім численних невеликих сусідніх мечетей для щоденної молитви, більшість громад в ісламському світі мають більшу, конгрегаційну мечеть для п'ятничних богослужінь із проповіддю. Джамі Масджид Герата не завжди була найбільшою мечеттю в Гераті; набагато більший комплекс, мечеть і медресе Гаухар Шада, також побудований Тимуридами, був розташований у північній частині міста. Однак ці пам'ятники архітектури були підірвані офіцерами британської індійської армії в 1885 році, щоб запобігти використанню їх як фортеці, якщо російська армія спробує вторгнутися в Індію.

Історія
Масджид-і Джамі в Гераті була першою громадською мечеттю міста. Вона був побудована на місці, де протягом багатьох століть розташовувалися релігійні об'єкти. Першою відомою будівлею був зороастрійський храм вогню, перетворений на мечеть у VII столітті. Згодом його розширили тюркські Газневіди. У другій половині XI століття під владою династії Хорезму була заснована Гератська мечеть. Вона мала дерев'яний дах і менші розміри, ніж наступні будівлі. Під час землетрусу 1102 року мечеть була майже повністю зруйнована, але її відновили. Пізніше її знищила пожежа. Згодом Гуріди побудували мечеть на існуючих і прилеглих ділянках.

Гурідське панування
Плануючи розширити свою територію, Гуріди захопили владу в Гераті в 1175 році. Герат є важливим містом завдяки своєму стратегічному положенню поблизу основних комерційних шляхів, що з'єднують Середземне море з Індією чи Китаєм, і процвітав внаслідок цього. Наприкінці 12 століття султан Гіят ад-Дін Мухаммед ібн Сан ініціював відбудову головної мечеті в Гераті.
Для цього він обрав ділянку, на якій стояла мечеть, що згоріла, та додаткову землю навколо неї. Земля була розташована в північно-східній частині міста, переважно в адміністративному кварталі Герата, а не безпосередньо в центрі. Вчені вважають, що ця місцевість була топографічно піднесеною. Крім того, вона мала пряме водопостачання з головного каналу Джой-і-енджил для фонтану мечеті. Побудувавши мечеть на вже відомому місці, Гуріди могли продемонструвати своє архітектурне заступництво, а також політичну владу. Деякі джерела також вважають, що султан наказав побудувати мечеть для імама Фахр-уль-Разі, релігійного лідера.

Після смерті султана в 1203 році він був похований в мавзолеї, гробниці в його мечеті. Його син, султан Гаят-уль-Дін Махмуд, продовжив роботи над мечеттю. До того часу, коли її було завершено в 1210 році, новий султан створив медресе, релігійну школу. Стилістичний аналіз та історичні написи, знайдені під час ремонту в 1964 році, доводять, що будівлю побудували Гуріди.

Панування Куртів
У 1221 році монгольські війська Чингісхана захопили провінцію. Разом з більшою частиною Герата, мечеть була зруйнована.
Лише після 1245 року почалося її відновлення. Це було при владі Шамса ад-Діна Карта. Він був королем династії Куртів, призначений монголами намісником. Нищівний землетрус 1364 року майже зруйнував будівлю. Згодом були зроблені деякі спроби її відновити. Реліквією династії Куртів є бронзовий басейн діаметром 1,74 метра. Він був замовлений в 1375 році останнім правителем Курта спеціально для мечеті. Цей басейн пережив усі наступні знесення, за винятком кількох подряпин, і досі знаходиться в мечеті.

Правління Тимуридів
Після 1397 року правителі Тимуридів перенаправили зростання Герата на північну частину міста. Ця субурбанізація та будівництво нової конгрегаційної мечеті означало тимчасове припинення патронажу конгрегаційної мечеті з боку монархії. У часи Шахруха (1405—1444) мечеть була відновлена. План залишився, але зовнішні сторони були змінені. Фасади внутрішнього двору були прикрашені мозаїкою з глазурованої плитки, в тому числі з іменем Шахруха. Також на захід від мечеті додали мармуровий міхраб. Міхраб — ніша в стіні, яка вказує напрямок молитви до Мекки.

Пізніше, за правління султана Хусейна Байкара, його радник Мір Алі-Шір Навої присвятив себе реконструкції мечеті. Він вніс структурні зміни до пропозицій, наприклад, опустив арку Гурідів у південно-східному куті. Він також додав бічні арки з обох боків на рівні даху. Крім того, він наказав нанести мозаїчну плитку з геометричними візерунками на інші частини мечеті. Мармуровий мінбар з дев'ятьма сходинками замінив старий дерев'яний. Мінбар — кафедра, з якої читаються молитви.

Правління Моголів і Сефевідів
Пізніше за часів Імперії Великих Моголів мечеть була знову відреставрована. У цей період принц Хурам (Шах Джахан) боровся за контроль над регіоном проти узбецьких племен, яких контролювали Сефевіди. У битві за Герат мечеть, як і саме місто Герат, була значно пошкоджена.

Афганське правління
За правління різних королів мечеть неодноразово ремонтували. У 18 столітті фронтальний фасад головного айвана часів Тимуридів обвалився, і його довелося перебудувати. Айван — це склепінчаста кімната або зал, відкритий з одного боку. Крім того, був зроблений ремонт для підтримки існуючого вигляду.

ХХ століття
Після ремонтних робіт у 1913 році мечеть була капітально відреставрована в 1942/1943 роках. Будинки, що безпосередньо прилягають до мечеті, були зруйновані, щоб зробити мечеть окремою будівлею. Серед іншого збудовано новий східний вхід з високою аркою та двома мінаретами. Мінарети — це вежі, з яких закликають людей до молитви. Зовнішні стіни були оздоблені глазурованою плиткою в тимуридському стилі. Для цих робіт ЮНЕСКО створила студію керамічної плитки. Ця студія в мечеті також зберегла всі кахельні прикраси та мозаїку до 1979 року. Написи замінили нинішні каліграфи.

Наступною була більш повна реконструкція з 1951 по 1973 рік із структурними змінами. Квадратний купол мавзолею часів Гурідів був сильно зруйнований. Його замінили восьмикутною конструкцією і інтегрували в північний фронт. Східну стіну також перетворили на айван з мінаретами з обох боків. Крім того, максура айван, огорожа, зарезервована для правителя, була збільшена. Мінарети поруч з нею підняли до 35 метрів у висоту. Ганок оновили. Крім того, було добудовано десять нових мінаретів. Фасади у дворі виклали традиційною мозаїкою семи різних кольорів. Підлога була вимощена світло-коричневою випеченою цеглою. Завдяки всім цим роботам було видно не так багато оригінальної штукатурки Гурідів чи тимуридського декору. Медресе мечеті було перенесено на північний схід і надано окремий вхід. Останньою значною зміною стало створення парку перед мечеттю.

Під час радянсько-афганської війни (1979—1989 рр.) мечеть зазнала пошкоджень. Так сталося завдяки радянським солдатам та величезним танкам, які рухалися територією. У 1986 році один мінарет, вражений ракетою, впав у внутрішній двір. Це спричинило загибель багатьох людей і завдало шкоди східному крилу. Радянська сторона направила фахівців для ремонту, але роботи не були завершені до 1995 року. Портал Гуридів не був серйозно пошкоджений.

У 1992 році розпочалася заміна кам'яної штукатурки у дворі за приватні кошти. Покладено візерунок із широких смуг білого мармуру, що чергуються з вузькими смугами чорного мармуру. Через недостатню кількість пожертвувань його не вдалося завершити до 1998 року. Під час правління Талібану в Гераті з 1996 по 2001 рік вхід до мечеті був заборонений для всіх немусульман, включаючи співробітників ООН.

ХХІ століття
У 2002 році всі дахи мечеті були відремонтовані через проблему надмірної вологості в приміщенні. Під час ремонту фасадів у 2004/05 р. були знайдені частини старого гуридського оздоблення. Ці частини виставлені в рамках в обшивці стін. У 2012 році близько півсотні афганських торговців пообіцяли кошти на ремонт мечеті.

Архітектура

Початковий план мечеті Гурідів
Гуріди побудували всю мечеть з цегли. План є типовим з 4 айванами з внутрішнім двориком і водоймою. Орієнтація кібла на захід була дотримана, хоча вона відхиляється від правильного напрямку до Мекки приблизно на 20°. Головний айван був перекритий склепіннями. Він утворював осьовий хрест з іншими трьома айванами з кожного боку двору. Ці три айвани були призначені як місця зустрічей і навчання для меншої аудиторії.

Мечеть у наш час

Комплекс мечеті має довжину 180 метрів і ширину 120 метрів і займає площу близько 21 600 квадратних метрів. Окрім чотирьох великих айванів, тут є 460 куполів, 444 стовпи та 12 мінаретів (висотою 17–36 метрів). Ці елементи згруповані навколо центрального двору (82 м на 60 м). Глибина айванів забезпечує велику поверхню для орнаменту. Значна частина нинішньої мечеті за тимуридською традицією покрита глазурованою плиткою яскравих кольорів.

Прикраси сучасної мечеті часів Гурідів
В інтер'єрі південного та західного айвана виявлені декоративні елементи періоду Гурідів. Виготовлені з ліпнини, вони тиснені рослинними та геометричними візерунками. Ліпнина — це матеріал для ліплення орнаментів. У південно-східному куті мечеті знаходиться портал Гурідів. По обидва боки арки зображені куфічні написи. Цей стиль арабського письма є типовим для написів періоду Гурідів. Вертикально розміщені смуги написів зроблені з теракоти і внесені в розчин основи, як мозаїка. На лицьовій стороні вони глазуровані блакитним кольором, що контрастує зі світло-червоним цегляним тоном фону. Боки порталу оздоблені геометричною цегляною мозаїкою, вкрапленою синіми глазурованими плиточними пробками.

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Stephen King Horror-Thon: Rose Red (2002)
ReviewsStephen King Horror-thon
2002's Rose Red television miniseries revolves around a haunted mansion that has a mind of its own– rearranging its architecture, adding new rooms as time goes by. Sound familiar? Then you've probably heard of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California– which was also the inspiration of another horror movie, Winchester, one of the most disappointing horror movies of this year.
Stephen King had hefty ambitions when he drafted Rose Red's script– first pitching it to Steven Spielberg in 1996 as a feature film in the same vein as Robert Wise's The Haunting. But after 1999's critically panned adaptation of The Haunting, King revised the script and molded it into a miniseries instead with the newly-revised script more closely borrowing from Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House.
Later, Spielberg departed from the project when he and King began disagreeing about the tone of the miniseries, with Spielberg favoring thrills over horror. The directorial reigns were eventually handed over to Craig R. Baxley (who directed Storm of the Century and later directed Kingdom Hospital).
The three-night television series opens with Dr Joyce Reardon, who believes strongly and controversially that an old mansion in Seattle called Rose Red proves that paranormal phenomena is real and can be recorded in a scientific way. She agrees to lead a team of psychics into the mansion in order to record their experiences and prove that the mansion contains record-able supernatural happenings.
Reardon and her team go into the mansion knowing the mansions history of over 20 people going into the mansion and either dying or disappearing, and they soon find that their presence in the house awakens evil spirits.
STEPHEN KING'S ROSE RED: MINI-SERIES (2002)
Rose Red aired to mixed reviews, with many noting the miniseries lack originality and poorly-realized characters. Rose Red contains a large cast of characters, each with their own (usually dark) backstories. But their motivations for their actions in Rose Red don't hold up well to analysis. In the end, there are no characters who you really feel you can care about.
It's easy to imagine how the miniseries could have been more effective had it remained condensed as a feature-length film. While Rose Red undeniably shows potential to be a thoroughly chilling haunted house thrill ride, it never quite lives up to that potential.
If you're itching for a 4+ hour miniseries about a haunted mansion with long, ghostly history, I'd recommend American Horror Story: Murder House. If you enjoy that and still want more haunted house horror, Rose Red is an sometimes thrilling, often deep, and occasionally coherent ghost story with a few fun twists.
"Stephen King's Rose Red" is available on DVD, blu ray, and digital download here on Amazon. And be sure to check out the other entries in the Stephen King Horror-Thon right here on Horror Theory.
Barry Falls Jr
Barry was the managing editor of his university newspaper before contributing as a freelance content creator for Yahoo News and Esquire. He founded Horror Theory in 2014 to analyze horror films through a sociological lens.
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Why Did Nation Media Group Fire Galava?
Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Mr Galava, who was suspended on January 6th, 2016, was fired today for "not following due process and endangering the group's business."
A significant portion of NMG's "business" includes ad revenue from the Government of Kenya.
On January 2nd the Daily Nation's main editorial page ran an uncharacteristically hard-hitting piece highlighting various shortcomings of President Kenyatta and his Administration. It later emerged that Mr. Denis Galava had solely penned the piece. This tells us a lot about the state of newsroom management at NMG. Who else saw the editorial before it ran? Does NMG want us to believe that they never collectively agree on what runs in their main editorial pages? When they say "we" in these pages, who are the "we"?
Of course, a more plausible explanation is that the editorial team at NMG is actually independent, and on January 2nd sought to channel middle class dissatisfaction with the Kenyatta Administration. It's potentially minuscule political impact notwithstanding, the editorial got significant airplay precisely because its contents resonated with a significant proportion of the Kenyan middle class.
The NMG management then panicked, and in an attempt to protect NMG's "business" dealt a serious blow to hard-earned media freedom in Kenya.
I can't rule out the involvement of busybodies at State House in the firing of Mr. Galava. But I also don't think that this is a decision that came from super high up in government. It was most likely an internal (NMG) foolish reaction to the massive airplay the editorial got (they wanted to protect their "business" and the close relationship between the Aga Khan and the Administration). To this end they may have been nudged by some overeager underlings at State House desperate to show the boss that they've got his back.
But was this really necessary?
Uhuru Kenyatta is the President of the Republic of Kenya. He and his Administration should not need to be protected from journalists who are simply doing their job. As the Galava case will soon demonstrate, such acts will only reinforce the perception that Mr. Kenyatta and his Administration are bent on taking Kenya back to the KANU days (I don't think this is true, see here).
This is a step backwards for media freedom in Kenya. Shame on the NMG management.
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Daily Nation suspends editor for strong criticism of President Uhuru Kenyatta
Posted on January 6, 2016 by Ken Ochieng' Opalo
After a rather hard-hitting editorial appeared in the Daily Nation voicing criticisms of the Kenyatta Administration, the newspaper has suspended the editor behind it. An internal memo cited the reason for the suspension as:
The lack of consultation and review of the editorial on the material day – where one writer takes a strong position on such an important issue single-handedly without broad consultations – is a significant departure from established procedure…
Two quick thoughts:
If we take the CEO at his word, it says a lot about the management of the Nation's newsroom that such a piece could be published without robust internal review and consensus on both content and tone.
What is more likely is that the paper's editorial team wants to do independent journalism, but the NMG business team is worried about losing advertising revenue from the central government (does anyone know what share of the paper's (or NMG's) ad revenue comes from the government?)
This is rather embarrassing coming from one of the Continent's most reputable news establishments. I am sure president Kenyatta has enough thick skin to weather criticism in the editorial pages. The matter could have been handled without making it clear that the government implicitly dictates the tone of the Nation's editorial pages — you know, media independence and all that…
It looks particularly bad as it comes right before Kenya gets into full election mode.
Moving on, it'll be hard to be sympathetic with the NMG when Kampala or Dodoma harasses the The Daily Monitor or The Citizen.
Update: Here's a comment from Macharia Gaitho, a former Managing Editor at NMG:
It's true that at NMG Leaders on a sensitive topic must go through a consultative process. This ensures that they reflect the Group position rather than personal opinion, and that whoever needs to know is in the know. If procedures were flouted and the Group left exposed, it would best have been handled quietly and internally. As it is, action taken against an individual has doubly exposed NMG. For more than a generation the Group has struggled to counter perceptions that it is pro-government. Now it has reinforced those perceptions with action that will be widely interpreted, even if wrongly, as punishing an editor for espousing a view that angered State House. The damage will be almost impossible to undo. And never in the history of the Nation has an individual responsible for a Leader been publicly 'outed'. The remedy here will prove more damaging than the original offense.
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Malezia: Tokony hofoanan'ny sekoly ve ny fanadinana?
Volana vitsy lasa izay, nanambara ny mety hisian'ny fitsapam-pahaizana eny an-tsekoly ny Praiminisitra lefitra sady Minisitry ny Fampianarana ao Malezia, Muhyiddin Yassin, mba hanoloana ny fomba mifantoka amin'ny fanadinana ankehitriny amin'ny alàlan'ny fanafoanana ny UPSR (Fanadinana eny amin'ny Sekoly fanabeazana fototra) sy ny PMR (Sertifikàn'ny fampianarana fototra).
"We reckon that it will take six years for such a major transformation to really work because it involves changes in syllabus and books as well as training for teachers so that they are not so examination-oriented," he said, adding that the pilot project for school-based assessment had been carried out at some 550 schools since 2008.
"Manaiky izahay fa mila enin-taona ny fanovana lehibe toy izany mba tena hahomby satria mitaky fiovana ao amin'ny fandaharam-pianarana sy ny boky ary koa fampiofanana ny mpampianatra mba tsy hifantoka loatra amin'ny fanadinana izy ireo", hoy izy, ary nilaza koa izy fa efa tontosaina eny amin'ny sekoly miisa 550 ny fitsapam-pahaizana eny an-tsekoly hatramin'ny taona 2008.
My personal point of view is that first of all, it is a good news. The students will not be burdened just to study for their exam and pay hundred and hundred of ringgits for their tuition fees every month! Although we may not know the outcome or result of this decision but I hope that this would not decrease the quality of our future generation. Actually, the reason we are studying now is not solely for the examination but it's the purpose of learning. So what for learning the subjects we don't need in future?
Ny fomba fijeriko manokana dia voalohany indrindra, vaovao mahafaly izany. Tsy voatery hianatra fotsiny ho an'ny fanadinana azy ireo sy handoa an'hetsiny ringgits ho an'ny saram-pianarany isam-bolana ny mpianatra! Na dia mety tsy fantatsika aza ny vokatr'izany na ny vokatr'io fanapahan-kevitra io, dia manantena aho fa tsy hampihena ny kalitaon'ny taranaka ho avy izany. Raha ny marina, ny antony hianarantsika dia tsy ho an'ny fandinihana fotsiny ihany fa ho an'ny tanjon'ny fianarana. Koa inona no hianarana taranja tsy ilaintsika amin'ny ho avy?
For your information, by having the examination life of Malaysian student, it could keep them aware with the future challenge. We do not need to seek for majority vote because it is obvious that the exam hold a very big responsibility for our nation.The consequence of scrapping exams for the whole country at one go is a highly risky move.
Ho fampahafantarana anao, amin'ny fananana fiainam-panadinana ho an'ny mpianatra Maleziana, afaka mampahafantatra azy ireo ny fanamby ho avy izany. Tsy mila mikatsaka latsa-bato maro an'isa isika satria miharihary fa manana andraikitra goavana ho an'ny firenentsika ny fanadinana. Tena mampidi-doza ho an'ny firenena iray manontolo ny voka-dratsin'ny fanafoanana fanadinana.
Anonymous said… I believe Malaysian youngters are as potential as their counterparts in our parts of the world. Hence, please don't pamper them by let them studying less. Else, in the future, when they grow up, our students who grown up to be scholars cannot compete with other scholars from advanced countries.
Passionate About Blogging said… Children have different gifts, talents, inclinations. I don't think PMR or UPSR is bad for the children. The problem has always been the stress put on their young shoulders by their parents' expectations. Learning should be fun, it should be a discovery, not a burden or a shame.
Aifa said… The exams shouldn't be abolished instead why don't they just sat and re-modified or upgrade it. What I notice that the children in schools nowadays become more robotic and their purpose of going is not to learn anymore but to get straight A's. I'm not saying that getting A's is a bad thing but they're just kids. Parents, communities and politicians are putting too much expectations on kids to succeed.
Nisy nilaza hoe: … Mino aho fa mahavita azy tahaka ireo namany manerana izao tontolo izao ny tanora Maleziana. Noho izany, aza tsinontsinoavina izy ireo amin'ny famelana azy ireo tsy dia hianatra firy. Raha tsy izany, amin'ny ho avy, rehefa lehibe izy ireo, dia tsy afaka mifaninana amin'ny manam-pahaizana hafa avy amin'ny firenena mandroso ireo mpianatra izay lasa manam-pahaizana ireo.
Passionate About Blogging nilaza hoe … Samy manana fanomezam-pahasoavana, talenta, fironana ny ankizy. Tsy mihevitra aho fa ratsy ny PMR na ny UPSR. Ny olana dia ny adin-tsaina hatrany apetraky ny fanantenan'ny ray aman-dreniny amin'ireo tanora. Tokony ho fahafinaretana ny mianatra, tokony ho fahitana zava-baovao, fa tsy enta-mavesatra na mahamenatra.
@britksy: #nomorepmr? JOKE. Even as a student I would want to sit for PMR. Or else, from UPSR, everyone will slack until SPM year.
@manmohanjit: The gov wants to abolish UPSR and PMR, good decision. It's about time.
@ctaudreylim: Why abolish? REVAMP! Argh!
@Farveen: Hoyehh..less stress for the kids!
@jannahtesl: School Based Assessment VS A Sijil [certificate] I Can Never Use for Work Application?
@britksy: #nomorepmr? VAZIVAZY. Na dia mpianatra (ambony) aza, te hanala ny fanadinana PMR aho. Raha tsy izany, avy amin'ny UPSR, tsy hahomby ny tsirairay mandra-pahatongan'ny taona SPM.
@manmohanjit: Tian'ny governemanta hofoanana ny UPSR sy PMR, fanapahan-kevitra tsara. Fotoana fotsiny sisa.
@ctaudreylim: Nahoana no foanana? HAVAOZINA! Argh!
@Farveen: Oueehh..mihena ny adin-tsaina ho an'ny ankizy!
@jannahtesl: Fitsapam-pahaizana eny an-tsekoly sa Sijil [sertifikà] A tsy azoko ampiasaina hitadiavana asa?


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (May 4, 2015) – Wilmington University standout Sam Goines on Monday was named the 2015 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Baseball Player of the Year, as announced by Commissioner Dan Mara. The announcement of Goines winning the league's top-player honor highlighted the 2015 All-CACC Baseball Teams that were also announced by the conference.
Joining Goines as major year-end award winners were Felician College's Bruce Strickland as the CACC Rookie of the Year, Chestnut Hill College's Dominic Raia as the CACC Pitcher of the Year, Wilmington's Brian August as the BSN Sports CACC Coach of the Year, and the University of the Sciences as the CACC Team Sportsmanship Award winner.
Goines has had a sensational 2015 season to date, as he leads the CACC with a .420 batting average. He also leads the conference in three other categories including runs (46), hits (60) and on-base percentage (.517). Goines has belted one home run on the year, while also driving in 35 runs, which is the fourth highest mark in the league. His 83 total bases are the second most in the CACC and his five triples are the third highest mark. Goines has also been a standout on the base paths, as his 20 stolen bases are the fifth most in the conference.
Goines, a senior outfielder, was also named to the All-CACC First-Team for his offensive heroics and solid defensive play. It marked the second-straight year he earned all-conference status from the CACC, as he picked up second-team accolades in 2014.
Raia took home the CACC's top-hurler honor after posting an 8-1 record with a 1.51 earned run average. He led the league with 94 strikeouts, while walking just 26. He tossed a pair of complete-game performances including one in Saturday's 6-4 win over Felician in the first round of the 2015 CACC Baseball Championship.
Raia also locked up a spot on the All-CACC First-Team, marking the first time in his career he landed on the conference's top unit. However, it was the third-consecutive year he earned all-league status as he made the All-CACC Second-Team in both 2013 and 2014.
Strickland was named the CACC's top rookie following an impressive season that saw him post a .350 batting average with 25 RBI, nine doubles and two triples. He slugged .441 and had a .434 on-base percentage. Strickland totaled 50 hits, which was the seventh highest mark in the league.
August earned the BSN Sports Coach-of-the-Year award after guiding the Wildcats to the 2015 CACC regular season championship with an 18-2 conference record and a 30-12 mark overall.
Goines and Raia were not the only two individuals named to the All-CACC First-Team. Joining the duo on the league's top team were Brennan Price (1B, Felician), Josh Swirchak (2B, Wilmington), Mike Annone (3B, Wilmington), Christian Adorno (SS, Wilmington), Matt Lopes (C, Wilmington), Cristian Fiorito (OF, Concordia College), Erik Poldroo (OF, Concordia College), Mike Costello (P, Post University), Jamie Treml (P, Wilmington), Tyler Fries (Relief P, Wilmington), Frank Samluk (UTIL, Wilmington), and Brendan Looby (DH, Chestnut Hill).
Fourteen (14) student-athletes made the All-CACC Second-Team, including: Carlos Lopez (1B, Dominican College), Alec Craig (2B, Chestnut Hill), Dylan Pastor (3B, Post), Robert Alonso (SS, Dominican), John Brocious (C, Philadelphia University), Jayson Gray (OF, Dominican), Michael McLaughlin (OF, Chestnut Hill), Alex Wright (OF, Post), Robert Humes (P, Caldwell), Peter Martinez (P, Dominican), Francesco Scudiero (Bloomfield College), Corey Pic (Relief P, Dominican), Brian Bilello (UTIL, Concordia College), and Don Walsh (DH, Post).
The announcement of the All-CACC Baseball team comes just days before the finals of the 2015 CACC Baseball Championship will be held at Wilmington University. The finals will be held Thursday through Saturday with the championship final set for Saturday at 11 a.m., with an "if necessary" game to follow at 2 p.m.
The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference is an NCAA Division II Conference composed of 14 institutions in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. The member institutions are Bloomfield College, Caldwell University, Chestnut Hill College, Concordia (N.Y.) College, Dominican (N.Y.) College, Felician College, Georgian Court University, Goldey-Beacom College, Holy Family University, Nyack College, Philadelphia University, Post University of Waterbury, University of the Sciences, and Wilmington University.


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The only way is up as HideOut Youth Zone takes shape
Posted 23rd August 2019
The only way is up for East Manchester's HideOut Youth Zone as work continues on the £6.6million Youth Zone steel superstructure.
Located on Hyde Road in Gorton, HideOut Youth Zone is a brand-new charity which will provide thousands of young Mancunians with somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to.
Developed in partnership with OnSide Youth Zones, Manchester City Council and the local business community, HideOut Youth Zone is set to open for young people aged 8-19, and up to 25 for those with additional needs, in Summer 2020.
Work on the Youth Zone started earlier this year and there has been good process on-site with the steel frame installation, drainage and foundations now complete. In the upcoming weeks, work on-site will see the completion of the ground floor and first-floor concrete floor slabs as well as the continuation of the external and internal masonry walls.
Once open HideOut Youth Zone will host an impressive indoor climbing wall, four-court sports hall, dance and drama studio, fully equipped gym, skate park, enterprise and employability suite, arts and crafts studio, health and wellbeing room, boxing and martial arts studio, training kitchen and much more, all available to young people 7 days a week, for just 50p per visit.
Adam Farricker, Chief Executive at HideOut Youth Zone said:
"As work progresses on site, young people and the wider community can start to see the incredible investment being made here for the city's young people, which has only been made possible with thanks to the generous support from our Patrons.
"As a charity, our aim is to provide Manchester's young people to with a safe and inspiring place to spend their leisure time, where they can develop their skills, discover their talents and achieve their goals. If you would like to give back to Manchester's young people and join us on this exciting journey then please get in touch. "
Councillor Luthfur Rahman, Executive Member for Skills, Culture and Leisure, Manchester City Council, said: "HideOut Youth Zone is going to make a massive difference to young people. It reflects the commitment we have as a city towards all our young people – wanting to help them lead happy fulfilled lives, making friends, and learning new things as they find their way through to adulthood. If there are any other organisations or businesses that share our commitment and want to support our ambition – please get in touch and show us how much you care."
The charity is being developed in partnership with OnSide Youth Zones, Manchester City Council, local philanthropists and the business community.
To find out more or to become a supporter please contact Jonathon Cobbold by calling 01204 362128 or email Jonathan.cobbold@onsideyouthzones.org
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San Andrés kastély (spanyol: Castillo de San Andrés vagy Torre de San Andrés), Kanári-szigetek, Santa Cruz de Tenerifetől 7 kilométerre, San Andrés faluban található.

1769-ben épült, hogy megvédje a szigetet a kalózok támadásaitól. Korábban, valószínűleg már 1697-ben is létezett egy kastély a helyén. A kastélynak fontos szerepe volt a Santa Cruz de Tenerife-i támadásban 1797-ben, Nelson admirális inváziós kísérlete során. 1898-ban a kastélyt részben lebontották egy árvíz miatt. Jelenleg a spanyol történelmi örökség részét képezi.

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
 Historia del Castillo de San Andrés, Gobierno de Canarias.
 Castillo de San Andrés (Tenerife), en Youtube.

Spanyolország kastélyai, palotái
Santa Cruz de Tenerife tartomány
A Kanári-szigetek építményei


New Delhi, Apr. 14 (ANI): Shraddha Kapoor has pulled up her socks to promote her upcoming film. The actress participated in twitter interaction and answered a few questions posed to her by her fans. During the interaction, the actress was asked about her co-star wish list, to which she instantly mentioned the names of Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Apart from that, when one of her fans asked if she will be singing for any of her upcoming movies, the 'ABCD 2' actress revealed that she will be singing every song in her musical drama 'Rock On 2.' The actress also spoke about her favorite game, cuisine, song from Baaghi and so on. The actress described her 'Baaghi' co-star Tiger Shroff as extremely inspiring. The movie releases on April 29. Shraddha will also be seen in 'Ok Jaanu', 'Half Girlfriend' and 'Rock On! 2' this year.


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Week 5 Preview with linebacker DeMarquis Gates
Roughnecks are back home on Saturday
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I sat down with DeMarquis Gates today to get to know him more and preview some of this week's upcoming game. In case you missed it, Gates had the amazing game winning play last week against the Dallas Renegades.
Many players view the XFL as a stepping stone back to the NFL. How has this league helped you?
"It's helped me get exposure, more film and have time to work on my technique, nail down the things I need to work on. Exactly what you said, try to get back into the NFL."
How are you liking the defensive scheme here in Houston?
"It's wonderful. Coach Cottrell and the rest of the defense staff put up a good game plan, a good defensive scheme. We just try to get in and make the plays that we can."
Seattle looked a lot better when they changed QBs. What do you judge them on? The prior three three games or what you saw late against St. Louis?
"You can take all games into account. We feel like they're going to use both quarterbacks. Both QBs have played so we're just going to be ready for both of them."
Preparing to go 5-0 is a big deal. Is there added pressure being the last unbeaten team in the league? Does that add a target?
"It definitely adds a target on our back but I don't think it's any pressure. We just have to take it one day at a time, play by play and come out with the W."
Game at a glance
The Roughnecks' defense had five big turnovers last week. This week they're expected to face both QB's from the Dragons, BJ Daniels and Brandon Silvers. The last time a team switched up QB's on Houston, it caused some confusion. The standards are set high for your Houston Roughnecks this week as they come back home to face the Seattle Dragons Saturday at 1 p.m. Make sure you purchase your tickets here. Let's get TDECU Stadium rockin' to welcome the 4-0 team home!
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Report: Michael Brantley may not be going anywhere
Mark Berman is reporting that Michael Brantley and the Astros have agreed on a 2-year contract worth $32 million. Several reports indicated that Brantley would be signing with the Blue Jays, but apparently the deal wasn't final. We'll continue to update as more information becomes available.


The story of Karl Vogt, civilian internee of war, by members of the Vogt Family, edited and compiled by Ursula Vogt Potter.
The story of Karl Vogt, civilian internee of war, by members of the Vogt Family, edited and compiled by Ursula Vogt Potter. The following are excerpts from the book, The Misplaced American, by Ursula Vogt Potter.
I'm not sure what is real memory and what is second hand memory for me. I was very young when it happened---I was about just over a year old. My brother, Armin, had turned four on October 28, 1941, so his recollection is probably more real than mine. I do think that I remember my mother standing by the big round oak dining table and crying. My brother remembers the scene by the table with the two strangers, by then identified as FBI agents, removing pictures from the family album and taking them, along with my father, off to places unknown to us. This happened late afternoon on December 9, 1941, two days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, one day after the U. S. declared war on Japan and two days before the U. S. declared war on Germany. The next clear memory I have is of my dad coming home sometime during the month of August 1943.
Karl Friedrich Vogt, my father, was born on February 18, 1906, the firstborn of Kasper and Anna Marie at Dunne near Bunde in Westfalen, Germany. He was the oldest of eight children--- three boys and five girls. In 1923, Kasper, Anna Marie and their children decided to immigrate to America. An old uncle had been begging Kasper for years to come to America and take over the uncle's small farm, which was located south of Spokane in the fertile Palouse country of eastern Washington State. They left Germany on April 9, 1923 and arrived in Spokane on May 1. Soon after their arrival on the farm, the family realized that conditions were not as rosy as the uncle had painted them. The farm was run down and debt ridden, making it necessary for Kasper and his two older sons, Karl (my dad) and Wilhelm (Bill), to work at outside jobs until the farm became productive enough to support the family.
My father, Karl, met my mother, Elsie Reifenberger, in 1924 at Zion Lutheran Church in the neighboring community of Fairfield, Washington. Elsie and her siblings were born in America, but her father and mother had emigrated from Germany in the late 1800s. The two families, the Vogts and the Reifenbergers, became good friends. Elsie's mother had died when she was only six years old, so Jenny Gelber, a cousin who was a nurse in Germany, had been persuaded to come to America to help raise Elsie and her sisters. Later, after Elsie graduated from college and had taught school for several years, she and Karl fell in love and became engaged. At this time it was decided that Karl and Bill would remain in America and the rest of the Vogt family would return to Germany. Employment opportunities for the younger Vogt siblings were now better in Germany than here in America. Also, the family had kept their small German landholding, renting it out while here in America, making it easier to resume their lives in Germany. Elsie and Karl were married on October 20, 1935 and a few days later the remaining Vogts (except for Bill) began their journey back to Germany. The next spring, 1936, Elsie and Karl took a delayed honeymoon trip to Germany. Most of the time there was spent visiting relatives, but they also took a short tour with a German-American group from Spokane. One of the people that they met on this tour was the editor of the Washington Post, a German-American newspaper in Spokane. His name was Heinrich Hesse. Karl kept in contact with Mr. Hesse after this trip and it was he who advised Karl and Bill to put the farm into Elsie's name. Hesse told them, "You are not citizens. They'll take the land away from you if war starts with Germany. "Karl and Bill took his advice, hired a lawyer and the farm was sold to Elsie.
When Elsie and Karl took their trip to Germany in 1936, Elsie's cousin, Jenny, went with them. She had decided to return to her former home near Siegen in Northern Germany. The Reifenberger girls were adults now, and no longer needed her, and she had a sister in Germany who was ill and needed Jenny's help. While she was here in America, Jenny had managed to build up savings in the Fidelity Bank in Spokane. During the Depression the account was blocked, but later the bank paid out a certain amount each year. Jenny gave Elsie and Karl Power of Attorney in 1936, so when the Fidelity made these payments, they cashed the checks and sent the money to Jenny by money order. When the war broke out between Britain and Germany, they knew that it would not be safe to send it the regular way any longer. Someone suggested that they should send the money to the German Consulate in San Francisco. There the Consulate would keep the American dollars for its own expenses and pay out the sum in German marks to Jenny in Germany. Karl did just that, and a couple of weeks later received a paper signed by Jenny stating that she had been paid the money. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Consulate was raided and Karl's letter was evidently found. Later, it was revealed that the head of the Consulate from 1939 until July 1941 (Capt. Fritz Wiedemann) had been involved in espionage activities and was expelled from this country late in the summer of 1941.
After Karl was picked up and he had a "so called" hearing, some of the above events were held against him. "Why did your family go back to Germany? Why did you sell the farm to your wife? Why did you take a trip to Germany in 1936? Why did you send money to Hitler? " were some of the questions posed to him over and over. It never occurred to him that the basis for the money question was the money he had sent to Jenny Gelber.
I was held in the county jail until December 21, 1941 when they finally shipped me off to Fort Lincoln, Bismarck, North Dakota. At Fort Lincoln, on January 19, 1942 I had a "so called" hearing. I was not allowed to have an attorney and had to appear before the Enemy Alien Hearing Board of Eastern Washington. I was grilled for hours. Later on February 3, the hearing was completed in Spokane where witnesses and affidavits could be presented. I was not allowed to attend this part of the hearing. Many people testified or sent affidavits in my defense. Later I heard that three people had testified against me. We had land hungry neighbors who couldn't wait to get their hands on the farm. Of course, they didn't know that the farm had been turned over to Elsie. The Board chose to listen to the three and ignore the rest.
From Ft. Lincoln, I was transferred to Camp McCoy, Sparta, Wisconsin and then, finally, to Stringtown, Oklahoma. I arrived there on June 17, 1942.
Although I was never physically tortured or starved, life behind a barbed wire fence, separated from home and family, was an ordeal. Nevertheless, I decided early on to make the best of the situation. I was still alive, my wife and children seemed to be coping and I could only hope that this would all end soon. Soon, I also found out that my internment story was not nearly as tragic as many others in the camps. On the plus side for me, while I was interned I met and became friends with many wonderful and interesting people. These people were not Nazi sympathizers and certainly did not in any way pose a threat to America. They were simply victims of the hysteria of wartime.
Many of the men I met at Fort Lincoln were transferred with me to Camp McCoy and then finally to the permanent camp at Stringtown. They all had interesting stories to tell of their lives and the circumstances of their internments. One of my friends at Ft. Lincoln was Erich Braemer. He and I were both from Washington State and both of us had been "arrested" on December 9, 1941. Erich was a friendly, interesting person whom I liked immediately. He told me that he had a son who was in the U. S. Army Air Corps. One day near the end of February 1942, the head of the camp called Erich to the office and told him he would be going home in a few weeks. Many of us were really excited about this, because we thought there might be some hope for us too. He promised that he would write and tell us why he had been released so soon. Later he sent news clippings from a Seattle, Washington newspaper. These news articles told about the Braemer son who had been part of the Doolittle Raid. General James Doolittle had led sixteen B-25 bombers from the deck of the U. S. S. Hornet (a feat in itself for the usually land based bombers) to a very dangerous surprise attack on Tokyo in April of 1942. Fred Braemer, Erich's son, had been the bombardier on the lead airplane piloted by James Doolittle. [Editor: Visit the Doolittle Crew 1 page for a photograph of this crew.] Needless to say it would not do for the father of one of these brave men to be behind barbed wire in an internment camp!
My other fellow internees were a cosmopolitan group. There were lawyers, engineers, professors, farmers, and sailors. There were a number of Austrian ski champions who happened to be working as instructors at places like Sun Valley and Aspen when the war broke out. There were two Lutheran ministers and several Catholics priests. One priest, Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann, was the head librarian at the Vatican! He was in the U.S. studying our library system. He was one of my best friends in camp. Another good friend was Frank Wiegner, a diesel engine design engineer who, after the war, bought and operated an apple orchard near Chelan, Washington.
Men were interned for many reasons. Most were German nationals who were in the U. S. for a variety of reasons at the outbreak of the war. Some were visiting professors, some were students, and some were on the crews of ships. Some were there because of the ill will of neighbors or business associates. It was easy to accuse someone of being a Nazi! One Lutheran pastor was interned because he had objected to putting the Christian and American flags in the church:"The church is no place for flags. "He was labeled un-American and reported. There was even a small group of men from far away Samoa. Some of the Samoan islands, the eastern ones, belonged to the U. S., but before World War I, the western Samoan islands were a German colony. In 1914, New Zealand was given control of Western Samoa and later administered it under the auspices of The League of Nations and still later as a UN trusteeship until its independence in 1962. The internees from Samoa did not speak a word of German and had never been to Germany. Incredibly too, there were also people from Latin American countries in the internment camps. One of these fellows told me that he was working in the field one day when the authorities came to him, handcuffed him, placed him in a car and took him to a waiting ship bound for America.
We internees ran our own camps under the direction of the camp commander. Group leaders, who were elected by the internees, were responsible for seeing that all of the camp rules were carried out. We did our own cooking, and at Stringtown, Rudy Wolf was the head cook. He had been a chef in one of New York's finest hotel restaurants. I often worked with him when on K.P. duty. One day the colonel came to the kitchen and said,"I'm having a dickens of a time getting sauerkraut for you people every day. "He was very relieved when we assured him that we didn't need sauerkraut all that often.
I never had felt so alone, afraid and desolate as I did on the night of December 9, 1941 after the F.B.I. took Karl away. Our closest neighbor, Mrs. Keevy, came to stay with me and her brother, George Davis, did the chores. Little Ursula had not yet learned to walk and crawled around the house calling for "Da. "She did this for days afterwards. Armin "cussed" those men quite vividly.
The next day, I called my sister, Rose, and she and her husband came to stay with the children while Pastor Reitz took me to Spokane where we found that Karl was housed in the county jail. On the way home we stopped at Sacred Heart Hospital on the off chance that my brother-in-law, Bill, might still be there. He worked as an orderly there during the winter when things slowed down on the farm. We had assumed that all German nationals had been picked up and so were amazed when we found him at work there in the hospital. He immediately gave up his job and came home to the farm.
We were finally allowed to visit Karl just once at the Spokane County jail. Mr. Walter, a white haired gentleman from the Immigration Service, sat in on our meeting. He, at least, was kind and considerate, which was a welcome change from the cold Mr. Keith. Karl and I tried to comfort each other as best as we could, but soon had to say goodbye.
While Karl was at Ft. Lincoln and Camp McCoy, we at least knew where he was and could write censored letters to each other. In April of 1942, Karl wrote that he was to be transferred to a permanent camp but didn't know where. An attempt was made to keep the new place of detention secret from the internees' families. We were given a New York address and all my mail to Karl was sent to this number: ISN-23-46-G-19-CI, Postal Censor, 244 Seventh Ave., N. Y. There was a terrific uproar from the families and the destination leaked out anyway, so thankfully this plan didn't work out. For quite some time, however, mail was routed over New York for censorship and letters were weeks old before they reached their destinations.
The permanent camp that Karl was transferred to from Camp McCoy turned out to be Stringtown Internment Camp, Stringtown, Oklahoma. He arrived there on June 17, 1942. Stringtown was also a prison camp for U. S. soldiers, which was entirely separate from the internment camp.
Toward the last, at Camp McCoy, wives had been visiting their husbands, so Karl was longing for a visit from the children and me. When he was transferred to Stringtown, he found it was possible there too. Two visits a month were allowed, and if scheduled at the end of the month and the beginning of the next, we could have four days in a row. Arrangements were made and we left Spokane by train at the end of July. The first day of our visit was unbelievable! We were evidently the first visitors any internee had had, and they must have been expecting some real gangsters. Karl was brought under guard to a small building where an officer sat throughout our visit. At each door stood a soldier with his bayonet pointed toward us. Armin was highly interested and didn't hesitate to voice a lot of questions: "Why are they pointing those guns at us? Why is Dad wearing such crummy clothes? "Anyway, I ignored the guards who looked embarrassed by this time, and Karl got reacquainted with Ursula, who, of course, was very shy with him at first.
Armin was right at home with his daddy. He hadn't forgotten him and had spent many hours "writing" letters to him decorated with pictures of trucks and airplanes with a few letters sprinkled here and there. These were never given to Karl because censors thought they might be some sort of code! After the first day, there was only one guard who no longer pointed his gun at us and after that only an officer was present at out meetings.
I was almost five years old when we visited Dad at Stringtown. I remember with absolute clarity the high fence and several strands of barbed wire at the top and the gate through which we had to pass inspection before we were allowed to enter. The guards all had rifles and side arms. The officers only carried side arms. An armed guard escorted us to a small one-room building. In the center of the room there was a small square table and four chairs. In the corner of the room was another chair that was occupied by an armed guard. There may have been another guard also, but I particularly remember the one in the corner because, on the first day of our visit, his rifle was held at ready. Literally pointed in our direction---not directly, but over our heads. On the second day of our visit this guard parked his weapon in the corner. I guess my curiosity regarding his weapon on the first day and my many questions regarding his gun were disconcerting to him. Dad did tell us later that the guards were unhappy about the situation. Guarding little kids with a rifle was too much for them. Dad also told us later about a nearly unbelievable incident that happened in the camp. A new guard was randomly assigned to guard an internee whose family was visiting him. This guard turned out to be the son of this internee! This, of course, caused quite a stir among the military personnel assigned to the camp.
Karl went through the trauma of being an enemy internee and I went through the trauma of being the wife of an internee. This was a very bitter pill to swallow, especially considering that I had three nephews and a brother-in-law in the U. S. Armed Services, and knowing that Karl had done nothing to warrant this treatment.
Then too, both Karl and I were worried about relatives on both sides of the war. Besides friends and relatives on the American side, Karl's brother, Henry, and many cousins were fighting on the German side, and his sisters and father were in constant danger from the bombing raids in the cities where they lived. It was like the Civil War for us.
We did have so many loyal friends that it was truly heartwarming. There were instances, of course, that were not heartwarming. Some people looked the other way when they met us on the street. I'm sure our place was monitored for short wave equipment and our phone was tapped. Our church, in Fairfield, was searched from top to bottom. Karl was an elder there when he was picked up. One night some neighbors painted our farm machinery with swastikas.
It is not easy being falsely accused. My health was definitely undermined. I lost weight so quickly that I was left with a floating kidney and constant backaches.
In the late fall of 1942, we went through an especially bad time. Suddenly I was receiving no mail from Karl. I was frantic with worry. I wrote regularly but received no answer. Finally, I sent a telegram. Karl happened to have a small amount of cash (they were issued script) and got one of the guards to send a reply. Just before Christmas I received the telegram saying he was OK. This was the best Christmas present! It was several weeks before mail service was restored. We never did find out what this was all about.
Further harassment awaited us. On January 21, 1942, we suddenly received an order from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco blocking our bank account. We had to obtain a special license to carry on our farming operations. It took months to obtain the license and if hadn't been for relatives who lent us money and business people who gave us credit, we would have been in real financial trouble. We hired Mr. Richard Munter as our attorney and he went all out for us. I spent many hours in his office. When we finally received the license, it was for $2,250.00 for six months. How we were expected to pay our debts, run a farm and live on that amount only Herbert Armstrong of the Federal Reserve Bank knew! Mr. Munter managed to secure us a larger license and we were soon able to operate as usual, except that every cent we spent had to be reported in triplicate to the Federal Reserve Bank. This was done through August of 1944; a year after Karl was released. Why was our bank account blocked? We can only conjecture.
In the winter of 1943, family camps were being established for our families and us internees, some in Texas and elsewhere. I wrote to Elsie and asked if she and the children would join me in Family Camp. She wrote back immediately and said, "Yes, please. "Our letters were all censored, of course, and perhaps someone did not want American wives and children joining their husbands in a family camp setting, because soon after I received Elsie's letter an F. B. I. agent visited me. "Why did you send money to Hitler? "I was asked again. "I've never sent money to Hitler. I've never wanted to send money to Hitler. Why am I being asked this same old question again? "And then, "Did you send money to someone named Jenny Gelber through the German Consulate? "A light went on in my brain as I answered,"Yes, I did and let me tell you why. "Two weeks later he returned, "your story checks out. You should ask for a rehearing. "I answered,"I'm not appearing before that 'kangaroo court' again. "He just laughed and said,"You'd better think it over. Get your wife to work on this. "I wrote to Elsie about what had happened. She was overjoyed and immediately started proceedings to obtain a rehearing for me.
Mr. Edward Connelly was the new U. S. District Attorney in the Spokane, Washington area. He had replaced Lyle Keith who had joined the army. Mr. Connelly was a fair-minded person who was not easily swayed by wartime hysteria. I think his appointment definitely worked in my favor.
My rehearing was held in Spokane on March 23, 1943. Dozens of people----business acquaintances, friends and relatives came to visit me and many were called in to testify. On the day of the hearing, we all met in a big room in the D. A. 's offices and could visit freely. The Board met in a smaller room next door and called witnesses one by one.
The next day I was taken to Fort Missoula in Missoula, Montana to await the results of the hearing. The Board had recommended my release but the final approval had to come from Washington D. C., Fort Missoula was an internment camp for the Japanese and the Italians. I was the only German there. Mr. Connelly sent me to Missoula because it was near home and he expected me to be released soon. As it turned out, it was several months before I was finally allowed to go home. On August 20, 1943, I arrived in Spokane and finally home on the farm late that night. What joyful reunion! We were a family again.
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As for me, I think that I have finally faced the anger that has been a part of me since 1941. I also have worked through the sense of abandonment that has lurked in my subconscious since the day my dad was suddenly taken away. Most of all, I have come to terms with what it means to be a German-American. During my whole life, it seems, the Germans have been the bad guys, and the message has often been, that not just Hitler and his crew, but all Germans are guilty of mass murder. Putting together the story of my family during World War II, learning about the stories of other internees as well as other people who lived through the War in Germany, has convinced me that the majority of Germans was and is just as honorable as the majority of Americans. My German family on both sides of the ocean did what they could to maintain their dignity and humanity amidst impossible circumstances. We can only hope that the world became a better place because of the lessons learned during the years 1941-1945.


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Q: Unity Networked Ready check Trying to create a ready check using PUN2 so that all players will load into the game scene at the same time, but I do not understand how to check another players custom property and keep a count of how many players are currently ready and if all are ready then start the game. I think I have a custom property set up for every player that should be but I am unsure if it working at all.
 public class HeroSelectController : MonoBehaviour
 {
     [HideInInspector]
     public string selectedHero;

     private PhotonView PV;
     private bool PlayerReady = false;
     private ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable _playerCustomProperties = new ExitGames.Client.Photon.Hashtable();

     private void Update()
     {
         Debug.Log("Player Ready = " + _playerCustomProperties["PlayerReady"]);
     }

     private void HeroSelect()
     {
         PlayerReady = true;
         selectedHero = "PlayerTest";
         PhotonNetwork.SetPlayerCustomProperties(_playerCustomProperties);
         _playerCustomProperties["PlayerReady"] = PlayerReady;
     }

     public void OnClickHeroButton()
     {
         HeroSelect();

         if (PhotonNetwork.IsMasterClient)
         {
             foreach (var photonPlayer in PhotonNetwork.PlayerList)
             {
                 photonPlayer.CustomProperties["PlayerReady"] = true;
                 PhotonNetwork.LoadLevel(3);
             }
         }

     }
 }

What is currently happening is that the master client can start the game regardless of everyone else's state. Feel like I might be overthinking all of this and there is a much similar solution as I would expect a function like this to be common place as I would expect something similar to be used in many online games so if I am going about completely the wrong way please point me a more suitable direction

A: Don't know exactly how Photon works but I assume these properties are already synchronized and as far as I understand you simply want some kind of a check like e.g.
private bool AllPlayersReady
{
    get
    {
        foreach (var photonPlayer in PhotonNetwork.PlayerList)
        {
            if(photonPlayer.CustomProperties["PlayerReady"] == false) return false;
        }

        return true;
    }
}

Which you could probably also shorten using Linq like
using System.Linq;

...

private bool AllPlayersReady => PhotonNetwork.PlayerList.All(player => player.CustomProperties["PlayerReady"] == true);

And then use it like
public void OnClickHeroButton()
 {
     HeroSelect();

     if (!PhotonNetwork.IsMasterClient) return;

     if(!AllPlayersReady)
     {
         return;
     }

     PhotonNetwork.LoadLevel(3);
 }

This can still be enhanced since now the master has to press repeatedly until maybe everyone is ready. I would additionally use a Coroutine like
public void OnClickHeroButton()
{
     HeroSelect();

     if (!PhotonNetwork.IsMasterClient) return;

     StartCoroutine (WaitAllReady ());
 }

 private IEnumerator WaitAllReady()
 {
     yield return new WaitUntil (() => AllPlayersReady);

     PhotonNetwork.LoadLevel(3);
 }

Thanks to Iggy:
Instead of a routine which checks every frame you can use OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate in order to check for the ready state
void OnPlayerPropertiesUpdate(Player targetPlayer, Hashtable changedProps)
{
    if (!PhotonNetwork.IsMasterClient) return;

    // you can even limit the check to make it
    // only if "PlayerReady" is among the changed properties
    if(!changedProps.Contains("PlayerReady")) return;

    if(!AllPlayersReady) return;

    PhotonNetwork.LoadLevel(3);
}

Note: Typed on smartphone but I hope the idea gets clear

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