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Hawaiian Kingdom Blog
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126 Years Ago Today: U.S. Invasion of Hawai'i
Posted on January 16, 2019 by Hawaiian Kingdom
Status of the Hawaiian Kingdom under International Law
In 2001, the Permanent Court of Arbitration's arbitral tribunal, in Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom, declared "in the nineteenth century the Hawaiian Kingdom existed as an independent State recognized as such by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and various other States, including by exchanges of diplomatic or consular representatives and the conclusion of treaties (paragraph 7.4)." The terms State and Country are synonymous.
As an independent State, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into extensive treaty relations with a variety of States establishing diplomatic relations and trade agreements. The Hawaiian Kingdom entered into three treaties with the United States: 1849 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation; 1875 Commercial Treaty of Reciprocity; and 1883 Convention Concerning the Exchange of Money Orders. In 1893 there were only 44 independent and sovereign States, which included the Hawaiian Kingdom, as compared to 197 today.
On January 1, 1882, it joined the Universal Postal Union. Founded in 1874, the UPU was a forerunner of the United Nations as an organization of member States. Today the UPU is presently a specialized agency of the United Nations.
By 1893, the Hawaiian Kingdom maintained over ninety Legations and Consulates throughout the world. In the United States of America, the Hawaiian Kingdom manned a diplomatic post called a legation in Washington, D.C., which served in the same function as an embassy today, and consulates in the cities of New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, Boston, Portland, Port Townsend and Seattle. The United States manned a legation in Honolulu, and consulates in the cities of Honolulu, Hilo, Kahului and Mahukona.
"Traditional international law was based upon a rigid distinction between the state of peace and the state of war (p. 45)," says Judge Greenwood in his article "Scope of Application of Humanitarian Law" in The Handbook of the International Law of Military Occupations (2nd ed., 2008), "Countries were either in a state of peace or a state of war; there was no intermediate state (Id.)." This is also reflected by the fact that the renowned jurist of international law, Professor Lassa Oppenheim, separated his treatise on International Law into two volumes, Vol. I—Peace, and Vol. II—War and Neutrality.
Presidential Investigation of the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Government
On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom without just cause, which led to a conditional surrender by the Hawaiian Kingdom's executive monarch, Her Majesty Queen Lili'uokalani, the following day. Her conditional surrender read:
"I, Liliuokalani, by the grace of God and under the constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Queen, do hereby solemnly protest against any and all acts done against myself and the constitutional Government of the Hawaiian Kingdom by certain persons claiming to have established a provisional government of and for this Kingdom.
That I yield to the superior force of the United States of America, whose minister plenipotentiary, His Excellency John L. Stevens, has caused United States troops to be landed at Honolulu and declared that he would support the said provisional government.
Now, to avoid any collision of armed forces and perhaps the loss of life, I do, under this protest, and impelled by said force, yield my authority until such time as the Government of the United States shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representatives and reinstate me in the authority which I claim as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands."
In response to the Queen's conditional surrender of her authority, President Grover Cleveland initiated an investigation on March 11, 1893, with the appointment of Special Commissioner James Blount whose duty was to "investigate and fully report to the President all the facts [he] can learn respecting the condition of affairs in the Hawaiian Islands, the causes of the revolution by which the Queen's Government was overthrown, the sentiment of the people toward existing authority, and, in general, all that can fully enlighten the President touching the subjects of [his] mission." After arriving in the Hawaiian Islands, he began his investigation on April 1, and by July 17, the fact-finding investigation was complete with a final report. Secretary of State Walter Gresham was receiving periodic reports from Special Commissioner Blount and was preparing a final report to the President.
On October 18, 1893, Secretary of State Gresham reported to the President, the "Provisional Government was established by the action of the American minister and the presence of the troops landed from the Boston, and its continued existence is due to the belief of the Hawaiians that if they made an effort to overthrow it, they would encounter the armed forces of the United States." He further stated that the "Government of Hawaii surrendered its authority under a threat of war, until such time only as the Government of the United States, upon the facts being presented to it, should reinstate the constitutional sovereign, and the Provisional Government was created 'to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon (p. 462).'" Gresham then concluded, "Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate government? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice (p. 463)."
Investigation Concludes United States Committed Acts of War against the Hawaiian Kingdom
One month later, on December 18, 1893, the President proclaimed by manifesto, in a message to the United States Congress, the circumstances for committing acts of war against the Hawaiian Kingdom that transformed a state of peace to a state of war on January 16, 1893. Black's Law Dictionary defines a war manifesto as a "formal declaration, promulgated…by the executive authority of a state or nation, proclaiming its reasons and motives for…war." And according to Professor Oppenheim in his seminal publication, International Law, vol. 2 (1906), a "war manifesto may…follow…the actual commencement of war through a hostile act of force (p. 104)."
Addressing the unauthorized landing of United States troops in the capital city of the Hawaiian Kingdom, President Cleveland stated, "on the 16th day of January, 1893, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon, a detachment of marines from the United States steamer Boston, with two pieces of artillery, landed at Honolulu. The men, upwards of 160 in all, were supplied with double cartridge belts filled with ammunition and with haversacks and canteens, and were accompanied by a hospital corps with stretchers and medical supplies (p. 451)."
President Cleveland ascertained that this "military demonstration upon the soil of Honolulu was of itself an act of war, unless made either with the consent of the Government of Hawaii or for the bona fide purpose of protecting the imperiled lives and property of citizens of the United States. But there is no pretense of any such consent on the part of the Government of the Queen, which at that time was undisputed and was both the de facto and the de jure government. In point of fact the existing government instead of requesting the presence of an armed force protested against it (p. 451)." He then stated, "a candid and thorough examination of the facts will force the conviction that the provisional government owes its existence to an armed invasion by the United States (p. 454)."
"War begins," says Professor Wright in his article "Changes in the Conception of War," American Journal of International Law, vol. 18 (1924), "when any state of the world manifests its intention to make war by some overt act, which may take the form of an act of war (p. 758)." According to Professor Hall in his book International Law (4th ed., 1895), the "date of the commencement of a war can be perfectly defined by the first act of hostility (p. 391)."
The President also determined that when "our Minister recognized the provisional government the only basis upon which it rested was the fact that the Committee of Safety had in the manner above stated declared it to exist. It was neither a government de facto nor de jure (p. 453)." He unequivocally referred to members of the so-called Provisional Government as insurgents, whereby he stated, and "if the Queen could have dealt with the insurgents alone her course would have been plain and the result unmistakable. But the United States had allied itself with her enemies, had recognized them as the true Government of Hawaii, and had put her and her adherents in the position of opposition against lawful authority. She knew that she could not withstand the power of the United States, but she believed that she might safely trust to its justice." He then concluded that by "an act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress, the Government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown (p. 453)."
"Act of hostility unless it be done in the urgency of self-preservation or by way of reprisals," according to Hall, "is in itself a full declaration of intent [to wage war] (p. 391)." According to Professor Wright in his article "When does War Exist," American Journal of International Law, vol. 26(2) (1932), "the moment legal war begins…statutes of limitation cease to operate (p. 363)." He also states that war "in the legal sense means a period of time during which the extraordinary laws of war and neutrality have superseded the normal law of peace in the relations of states (Id.)."
Unbeknownst to the President at the time he delivered his message to the Congress, a settlement, through executive mediation, was reached between the Queen and United States Minister Albert Willis in Honolulu. The agreement of restoration, however, was never implemented. Nevertheless, President Cleveland's manifesto was a political determination under international law of the existence of a state of war, of which there is no treaty of peace. More importantly, the President's manifesto is paramount and serves as actual notice to all States of the conduct and course of action of the United States. These actions led to the unlawful overthrow of the government of an independent and sovereign State. When the United States commits acts of hostilities, the President, says Associate Justice Sutherland in his book Constitutional Power and World Affairs (1919), "possesses sole authority, and is charged with sole responsibility, and Congress is excluded from any direct interference (p. 75)."
According to Representative Marshall, before later became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in his speech in the House of Representatives in 1800, the "president is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations. Of consequence, the demand of a foreign nation can only be made of him (Annals of Congress, vol. 10, p. 613)." Professor Wright in his book The Control of American Foreign Relations (1922), goes further and explains that foreign States "have accepted the President's interpretation of the responsibilities [under international law] as the voice of the nation and the United States has acquiesced (p. 25)."
Despite the unprecedented prolonged nature of the illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States, the Hawaiian State, as a subject of international law, is afforded all the protection that international law provides. "Belligerent occupation," concludes Judge Crawford in his book The Creation of States in International Law (2nd ed., 2006), "does not affect the continuity of the State, even where there exists no government claiming to represent the occupied State (p. 34)." Without a treaty of peace, the laws of war and neutrality would continue to apply.
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8 thoughts on "126 Years Ago Today: U.S. Invasion of Hawai'i"
Isaac Paka Harp on January 16, 2019 at 7:45 pm said:
I always appreciate the clarity and depth of historical facts shared on the Hawaiian Kingdom blog.
Robert Dayton on January 17, 2019 at 8:00 pm said:
its deplorable what we done to hawaii and the native americans. 🙁
Teri Skillman on January 17, 2019 at 7:40 am said:
Please incorporate the digital documents that are now available at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Archive. It includes handwritten notes between Stevens and Dole. The world needs to see this collection that was hidden from the public for 125 years. Start with item #881 and goes through #923.
"Kingdom of Hawaii – 1893.01.16 – By Authority ," Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Archive, accessed January 16, 2019, https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/881.
Cecelia Kupau on January 18, 2019 at 3:11 am said:
126 years of our HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE.."UA MAU KE EA O KA `AINA I KA PONO" Aloha Aunty Ceci and Uncle Francis***
Kanekeawe on January 29, 2019 at 4:18 am said:
After 144 years as a member of UPU the U.S. is withdrawing its membership effective October of 2019. Historical information show that the U.S. joined the UPU seven years before the Hawaiian Kingdom.
"17.10.2018 – The United States of America has informed the Universal Postal Union (UPU) of its decision to withdraw from the treaties of the UPU. In a letter received on 17 October, the USA will withdraw membership to the Union a year from now."
The U.S. already pulled itself out of the UN Human Rights Council back in June of 2018.
kekoa on January 29, 2019 at 4:36 pm said:
Mahalo for the information I was not aware of their withdrawal. Seems like they are trying to remove themselves from institutions and treaties that can hold them accountable. If this trend continues soon they will remove themselves from the United Nations General Assembly. Isolationism is the end result.
SteveLaudig on January 29, 2019 at 4:45 pm said:
yesterday was the first I heard of it. this article gives some context and background… https://www.lawfareblog.com/withdrawal-universal-postal-union-guide-perplexed
Kanekeawe on February 2, 2019 at 10:56 pm said:
Noticed this interesting fact:
After looking a little closer at the September 11, 1883, postal convention between Hawaii and America concerning Money Orders, (link above) I noticed that Walter Q. Gresham was a party to that instrument as the Post Master General of the United States of America.
Gresham broke from the Republican party in 1892, to support then U.S. democratic Precedential candidate Grover Cleveland, later to serve as President Cleveland's Secretary of State. The same individual who conveyed the final-report from a fact-finding investigation conducted by Special Commissioner James Blount to President Cleveland concerning U.S. involvement in the Hawaiian islands surrounding January 16, 1893.
Gresham states from the quote taken above:
"Should not the great wrong done to a feeble but independent State by an abuse of the authority of the United States be undone by restoring the legitimate government? Anything short of that will not, I respectfully submit, satisfy the demands of justice (p. 463)."
W.Q. Gresham died on May 28, 1895.
Pasted below is the top part of the September 11, 1883, convention between the Hawaiian Kingdom and the United States of America. Note here the use of the Kingdom of Hawaii and in other articles as well:
"September1l, 1883. Conrention between the Post- Office Department of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Post-Office Department of the United States of America, concern-ing the exchange of money-orders."
(Did they know 10 years in advance?) Hmmm?
Perhaps before the United States of America is allowed to exit the UPU, it should comply with the last paragraph of Article 7, to the Hawaiian Kingdom as a condition for exit. IMHO anyway.
I am presently without knowledge or information as to whether the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a subsidiary of the Universal Postal Union or tied to it in some way having an affect on global commerce?
Just thinking!
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Ever lose the race level? I wonder what happens if you let another plane beat you....although it would take awhile since they are all so slow!
You just get a White Ribbon. Otherwise it is basically the same.
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Great fun, and as good as you can be in MP some missions are a real B**ch. Like flying a autogyro against 6 Brigands.


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Why Are We Concerned about Seabirds?
Healthy seabird populations are a reflection of a healthy environment - our environment. But they also have a large economic impact on local economies. According to studies conducted by Dr. Charles Colgan from the University of Southern Maine, in Maine alone, 120 companies provided services involving seabird viewing as a recreational activity. An estimated 5,000 to 7,500 trips are made annually primarily for seabird viewing and 350,000 to 450,000 trips with seabird viewing as a secondary activity. The total estimate was $5 million to $10 million in seabird-related tourism, not counting the brisk trade in puffin paraphernalia!
Nesting Islands
Most seabirds spend much of their lives on the ocean, returning to land only once a year to nest. Maine 's coastal islands provide nesting places for a diverse assemblage of seabirds, including terns (arctic, common and the endangered roseate), Atlantic puffins, black guillemots, razorbills, cormorants (double-crested and great), Leach's storm-petrels, and gulls (herring, great black-backed and laughing). A species that is not normally thought of as a seabird, the common eider, a species of duck, is often included when discussing seabirds in Maine because they also nest on the offshore islands and depend upon the ocean for food.
Seabird survival depends on suitable nesting habitat. Of the 4,600 coastal islands in Maine , 294 have been designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as nationally significant seabird nesting islands. Thanks to the hard work of private groups such as the Nature Conservancy and the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and others, conservation-minded individuals, and agencies such as the Fish and Wildlife Service, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Maine Department of Conservation, there is some form of Federal, state or private protection for 169 of these nesting islands. But the remaining 125 are under increasing pressure from coastal development and recreational uses.
By supporting these groups and agencies who work to protect seabird nesting habitat, Friends of Maine Seabird Islands helps ensure the future of healthy seabird populations on the coast of Maine .
Please click on the "Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge" link on the left to learn more about specific nesting island protection and management projects that we support.
Seabird Conservation
Seabirds have relied on Maine 's coastal islands as places for laying eggs and raising their young for thousands of years. Generally, the islands used by seabirds are small, treeless, rocky islands that provide a place free from mammalian predators such as fox, mink and raccoon. Flying distance from the mainland often discourages avian predators such as great horned owls and peregrine falcons. The cold waters surrounding the islands hold an abundant supply of fish and invertebrates for seabirds to eat.
Americans Indians used the coast's natural resources for more than 5,000 years. Both pre-Algonquian cultures ("Red Paint People") and more recent Indian cultures were seafaring people, camping on offshore islands in the summer and fishing the adjacent bountiful ocean waters. Although they hunted seabirds and their eggs, the abundance of seabirds, as well as other food resources (such as fish, shellfish, waterfowl, seals and land mammals such as deer, moose and caribou) meant that no one species was over-harvested. Seabirds thrived on the abundant fish stocks of the cold Atlantic waters.
Europeans began settling the islands in the 1600s. As cities grew, coastal inhabitants turned to the rich fish stocks and bird colonies to feed the city dwellers. Seabirds, shorebirds and waterfowl were taken in any way possible, salted down, and shipped in barrels to market. Fishermen spread fish nets over nesting burrows to capture adults and fledglings; market gunners killed birds by the thousand during migration.
Not all islands were plundered of their nesting seabirds, however. Many of the lighthouse keepers on offshore islands actually protected certain species, especially terns and puffins. Why? They harvested their eggs, too, preserving them in isinglass for the winter. Since they valued the eggs as an annual protein source, they sustainably harvested them, ensuring a constant supply for the following year.
They favored tern and puffins over gulls for one reason: gulls tend to roost on buildings, and the lightkeepers depended on their roofs to collect freshwater for household use. Gulls defecating on the roofs contaminated their freshwater supply, so the gulls were chased away or killed.
We forget that the offshore lightkeepers led a subsistence lifestyle because they couldn't depend on boats to boats to bring food during the winter. Landing on Matinicus Rock, for example, is dangerous more often than not. They were also paid very little. They depended on local food sources to get them through the year. For terns and puffins on lighthouse islands, this was beneficial, considering that many other islands experienced unregulated harvest.
In the late 1800s, the fashion industry posed an additional threat to the birds' existence. High fashion dictated that women's hats be decorated with feathers. Plumes, wings, and even dried bird heads perched atop the large hats. Egrets, herons, and terns were especially popular and, therefore, were the species most harmed by the trend. At the start of the 20th Century, most seabirds in the Gulf of Maine were on the brink of extirpation. Literally, only a few puffins, terns and gulls remained.
Concern for the future of all birds led to passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1918. The Act protects migratory birds, their nests, and their eggs. At about the same time, trains and automobiles replaced boats as preferred forms of transportation. People relocated to the mainland, easing pressure on seabird habitat. Some seabird species, nearly eradicated in Maine by the end of the 19th century, recovered dramatically. Common and arctic tern populations, for example, rebounded, reaching a high of almost 16,000 pairs along the Maine coast in 1931.
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he air inside the darkened gymnasium is heavy with the heat of an uncommonly prolonged North Carolina summer. Smoke from some tin containers placed around the basketball court lends a touch of mystery to the scene.
JORDAN THROUGH THE YEARS
March 29, 1982 As a freshman at North Carolina, hits game-winning basket in the NCAA championship game.
1983-1984 Named college player of the year.
June 20, 1984 Drafted by the Bulls.
Summer 1984 Member of United States gold medal-winning Olympic basketball team.
1984-1985 Named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1984-85 Nike begins selling Air Jordan shoes.
1985-1986 Missed 64 games due to a foot injury.
April 20, 1986 Scores playoff-record 63 points in a first-round game against Boston.
1986-1987 NBA Slam Dunk Champion.
May 9, 1989 Has a triple-double in a playoff game against New York.
March 28, 1990 Scores career-best 69 points and 18 rebounds against Cleveland.
1990-1991 Leads Bulls to NBA championship.
June 20, 1993 Bulls "three-peat" as they defeat Phoenix in six games.
Aug. 3, 1993 Jordan's father, James, is murdered in North Carolina.
Oct. 6, 1993 Jordan stuns the basketball world by retiring.
April 8, 1994 Jordan starts his first pro baseball game for the Birmingham Barons.
Sept. 9, 1994 Jordan scores 52 points in a charity basketball game.
Sept.-Nov. 1994 Jordan plays in the Arizona Fall League.
Nov. 1, 1994 Bulls retire Jordan's No. 23.
March 19, 1995 Wearing No. 45, Jordan returns to the Bulls.
March 28, 1995 In his fifth game back, Jordan scores 55 points against New York.
May 18, 1995 Bulls are knocked out of the playoffs by the Orlando Magic.
June 16, 1996 Jordan leads Chicago over Seattle in the NBA Finals. The Bulls win an NBA season-record 72 games.
June 13, 1997 Jordan and the Bulls win their second straight NBA title.
June 14, 1998 Chicago wins its third straight NBA title and sixth in eight years.
Jan. 13, 1999 Jordan announces his retirement.
The thick smoke rolls into the intense light of floor-level arc lamps, then up against a raft of lights hovering like a Steven Spielberg spaceship.
Out of the dark, a white-clad figure appears, bouncing a basketball. Michael Jordan drives for the basket in one of his many crowd-pleasing moves, ball tucked under his arm, then scooped up and over into the hoop. All the way to the basket, Jordan's tongue sticks out, curled up in an expression of pure joy at his defiance not only of imaginary defenders but of gravity itself.
Three days after this photo session, Jordan went to the Chicago Bulls' training camp, and last week began his third National Basketball Association season, facing the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, where he has been a particular fan favorite. But even before the season began, Nike and its advertising agency, Wieden & Kennedy, launched a new ad campaign, featuring a poster and television spot (both shot in that darkened gymnasium) for the latest entry in the Nike Air Jordan line of shoes and clothing, one of the biggest successes in sports marketing. It is a new basketball shoe, with a pocket of compressed air in its sole to cushion impact, a high-topped, bright white piece of footgear, paneled with "natural iguana," and framed by high-tech accents of black or red. To date, Nike has sold more than two million pairs of Air Jordans, and $100 million worth of the whole shoe and clothing line.
Thanks to the Nike campaign and to ProServ, the firm that manages him, Michael Jordan, age 23, brought up modestly in Wilmington, N.C., this year will earn more than three times his $600,000 salary in endorsements, royalties and appearance fees.
This makes him professional basketball's most successful endorsement and promotion property ever; his deals will earn ProServ an estimated $650,000.
ProServ, whose clients include the tennis stars Jimmy Connors and Pam Shriver, and the Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield, quickly realized that Jor-dan, with his high-flying, exciting style of play, his equally electric personality and his All-American image as the star of the 1984 United States Olympic basketball team, was a rare property.
"Michael Jordan," says Donald Dell, ProServ's chief, "has a charisma that transcends his sport. He belongs in a category with Arnold Palmer or Arthur Ashe."
ProServ also transcends categories. It is as different from the old-time, cigar-chomping sports agent as Jordan's sleek, high-tech shoes are from yesterday's high-top sneakers. By applying to players of team sports techniques - attaching Jordan's name to a clothing line, for instance - once reserved for the packaging of tennis or golf champions, it is making the once-casual marketing of sports figures a fairly sophisticated business. ProServ's deals for Jordan have opened the door for lucrative endorsements for other clients, like the Knicks' Patrick Ewing, and stars yet to come.
ProServ, which now takes in an estimated $100 million annually, began representing basketball players only a few years ago. It was founded in 1969 by Dell, a former tennis star, to handle tennis players. Tennis had just opened its ranks to professionals and for the first time the top stars needed expert representation. The model for ProServ was Mark McCormack's International Management Group. Founded in 1958, I.M.G. is best known for having turned Arnold Palmer into a nationally known figure and, in the process, bringing new popularity to golf as a spectator sport. Today, I.M.G. does $300 million worth of business a year.
Dell's first clients were friends from the Davis Cup team: Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith. Stars from tennis, golf and other individual sports still account for much of ProServ's earnings. The agency has offices in Paris, London, Bologna, Sydney, Tokyo, Dallas, San Francisco and New York, along with some 200 athlete clients. In addition, it has 50 year-round corporate clients for whom it "packages audiences"; for example, it advised Volvo to sponsor grand prix tennis.
An Air Jordan poster hangs in the office of David Falk, a few blocks from the White House. The balding, 36-year-old attorney is senior vice president of ProServ. Across the poster, "Thanks for everything" is scrawled in gold ink. It is signed, "Michael Jordan."
In packaging an athlete, Falk and ProServ's 80 other headquarters employees also serve as his accountant, financial adviser, scheduler and impresario. They cash his checks, invest his money, send him quarterly reports and pay him an undisclosed monthly allowance.
Jordan's marketability, of course, begins on the court. His arrival from the University of North Carolina was an immediate help for the laggard Bulls, whom he turned into a playoff team; Jordan was named N.B.A. rookie of the year in the process. He led the team in blocked shots and rebounds, topping the league in scoring. He also won the appreciation of his teammates, who could have resented the new star, by handing out more assists than any other player. Average home attendance for the Bulls doubled in Jordan's first year.
The whole National Basketball Association benefited. Jordan boosted attendance wherever he played, quickening the fortunes of pro basketball, which had been plagued by dull games, drug scandals and financially ailing franchises. Commissioner David J. Stern, who has helped bring the league back to financial health, says Jordan's impact on the league "was tremendous, more than anyone expected."
A few months ago, Michael Jordan played the most important games of his career. While the rest of the National Basketball Association was completing its schedule, Jordan competed in pickup games in the old Woollen Gym in Chapel Hill, N.C. This marked the beginning of his return from injury.
On Oct. 29 last year, in the Bulls' third game of the season, Jordan broke a bone in his left foot and missed the next 64 games, his first significant absence from the court since high school, and it ate away at him. As his public presence declined, Air Jordans were discounted, sales declined. Jordan couldn't bear to watch his team on television for more than a few minutes.
At first, Jordan was expected to miss six weeks. But the X-rays continued to show the fine line of the fracture. By February, Jordan's foot finally felt better. No one, he believed, knew better than he did about how he felt. So in secrecy from his coach, team management, doctors and agents, he began playing pickup games in Chapel Hill.
Jerry Reinsdorf, a prominent Bulls' owner, and the doctors opposed Jordan's returning to play. The team's record was dismal, the season seemingly beyond saving, and Jordan stood to gain nothing financially by returning to play.
Falk was particularly persistent in urging Jordan not to play. "The doctors," he said, "told me that there was a 5 to 10 percent chance of reinjury. Any chance seemed an unacceptable risk."
Falk's advice was reported in the media. The effect was to show Jordan, standing alone against everyone in his determination to play. It showed him placing love of the game ahead of prudence. And it also made him even more marketable.
Recognizing his determination to play, the Bulls' front office preferred having him perform before paying audiences. Before long, he was back in the groove. He led Chicago to six victories in the final 10 games of the season. In a game against the Washington Bullets, he hit a critical basket, then stole the ball to assure a victory. Suddenly, to their own shock, the Bulls were in the playoffs.
In the first playoff game against the eventual champions, the Boston Celtics, Jordan poured in 49 points. In the second, on April 20, he scored 63 points - an N.B.A. record - prompting the Celtic star Larry Bird to call Jordan the best player in the game.
Jordan's Nike deal is his prime commercial endorsement. "Air Jordan paved the way for all the other deals," Falk says. "Nike spent more than $5 million on advertising. So now we can walk into a designer like Guy Laroche, which is selling the Time Jordan watch, and say, 'You don't have to spend that much because Nike and McDonald's and Coke are constantly putting him on television for you.' " This, in the business, is called "rub-off," or "transference," and it's the ultimate goal of the new sports marketing.
A favorite word of ProServ's David Falk is "synergy," which he defines as "when you add one and one and one and get five." Accordingly, ProServ's various services - negotiating contracts, tax and investment planning - must all fit together. Most often, Falk uses the term to describe the way one endorsement leads to and interacts with another: for instance, a deal like Jordan's with McDonald's will lead neatly into a deal with Coca-Cola, which is the soft drink McDonald's sells.
Falk likes most to talk about his deal with Johnson Products, one of the nation's largest black-owned companies. Johnson has used Jordan to advertise a women's hair treatment, and is launching a whole line of men's cosmetic products bearing his name. While Jordan says he aspires to be seen as "neither black nor white," Falk and others at ProServ want him to be perceived as "giving something back" to the black community.
The black star is often caught in a dilemma. Conventional advertising wisdom holds that it is very hard for a black athlete to be convincing to white middle-class consumers. There are, of course, those who have crossed this boundary, such as the former football star O.J. Simpson and ProServ client Arthur Ashe. They are both charismatic and articulate, and marketing surveys show they are perceived as "beyond race." ProServ is betting that Jordan has this elusive quality also.
On the other hand, ProServ is "sensitive," Falk says, to pressure on black athletes from the black community. The Johnson Products endorsement, he says, "is my response to that sensitivity." ProServ has also steered Jordan to high-exposure charities and public-service campaigns. Jordan is genuinely devoted to this work, but it also burnishes his marketing image.
An All-American aura enveloped Jordan from his first days at Chapel Hill. His star appeal was born when, as a 6-foot-6 freshman at the University of North Carolina, he hit a 16-foot jump shot to give the Tar Heels a victory over Patrick Ewing and Georgetown in the final of the national collegiate championship.
Jordan turned professional after his junior year, his popularity cemented by his co-captaincy of the 1984 United States Olympic team, with which he earned the gold medal he wears in some advertisements.
The press depicted him not only as a stylish player, but as a smiling, charming young man devoted to his family - his two brothers and two sisters, his father, then a plant supervisor for General Electric, and his mother, then a bank officer. "My mother is the one," he says, "who always told me to respect my elders. She told me 'Don't let it go to your head, watch what you do.' "
The family image is attractive to McDonald's. The Olympic glow appeals to Chevrolet and Coca-Cola, trying, as always, to sell themselves as All-American products. And Jordan's modesty appeals to all of them.
The Chicago Chevrolet dealers, for instance, loved it when they offered Jordan his pick of their cars and he chose not a flashy Corvette but a Blazer, their sturdy truck. Jordan claimed that the vehicle would help this North Carolina boy get around in the Chicago snows.
For all the down-to-earth side of Jordan, there is also a flashy side. Back home in North Carolina, he drives a Mercedes. He may spend a lot of time in Air Jordan warmups and shoes, but for business meetings, he dons Italian suits and loafers.
The words "Air Jordan" were first uttered in Falk's office one steamy Washington afternoon a few weeks before Jordan went to his first Chicago Bulls' training camp in 1984. Sitting with Falk was an old friend, Rob Strasser, a vice president of Nike.
Nike needed a hit product. The flattening of the running boom and an ill-fated foray into the apparel market had left it overstocked. Other companies had beaten it to the aerobics and leisure-shoe market. Earnings were falling for the first time since the company was founded in the mid-1960's.
Nike, Strasser said, was interested in expanding its share of the basketball-shoe market (nearly five million pairs sold each year), of which it already held a substantial portion. Most basketball shoes are not just for playing basketball. They are bought by kids to wear to school as well as on the court and, like jeans, they have become schoolyard fashion items.
A few years ago, as Falk and Strasser recalled, makers of competitive shoes had fought it out by weight of numbers: Practically every notable player in the N.B.A. had a contract to wear some maker's shoe. With the market for basketball shoes maturing, the names, logos and products of the leading makers - Converse and Adidas, Pony and Etonic -were well known.
Finally, Falk and Strasser agreed that the same fashion-consciousness that had transformed the running-shoe market could turn the old system of selling basketball shoes into one oriented to signing a few major stars and backing them with advertising dollars - especially television dollars.
Falk knew Jordan could command a good deal with any company. But considering Nike's situation, there was a chance to get something better than good: the best shoe deal ever.
Falk and Strasser talked about Nike's new air-sole shoes and about the company's interest in making another big push into apparel. "Air Jordan," said Falk. Strasser took the idea back to Nike's headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. Soon afterward, Jordan and his parents flew to Beaverton, where they watched quietly while Nike executives played a videotape. It showed Jordan shooting, blocking shots, stealing passes, slamming home dramatic dunks. On the soundtrack was The Pointer Sisters' hit song, "Jump," its refrain synchronized with Jordan's onscreen leaps and slams. For the first time, Michael Jordan heard about something called Air Jordan and about a line of athletic clothing reflecting his own dashing style. It was a recruiting job, and Jordan, although he tried to appear cool, was sold. Falk had to persuade him even to listen to the pitches of other companies. But Jordan was aware that elsewhere he would be only one among a stable of stars.
The final Nike agreement pays Jordan roughly $2.5 million for five years, plus a royalty on items sold and "a long-term security package." It also includes such niceties as a scholarship fund in Jordan's name and a 12-day annual, expense-paid working vacation to promote Nike around the world. An important part of the deal was the clause requiring Nike to spend at least a million dollars in total promoting the products - to make sure the name "Michael Jordan" was widely publicized; so far, Nike has spent five or six times that amount. An elaborate ad campaign was created by Chiat/Day, a hot Los Angeles ad agency.
The first shoes - high-top, spacebootlike creations in black and red - were introduced in a six-city trial, accompanied by billboards, posters and television ads featuring Jordan leaping in slow motion to the accompaniment of whining jet engines. "Who says man was not meant to fly?" was the slogan.
The campaign was an instant hit. Nike worked overtime in manufacturing Air Jordans, shipping the wedges from its Saco, Me., plant to Japan, where they were joined to the soles, then to Korea, where the uppers were attached. Demand was such that some retailers tacked a premium onto the shoe's $64.95 retail price. And a "Baby Jordan" shoe was added to the line.
When Jordan was ready to put on his own bright black and red pair for its professional debut, however, trouble broke out. The Bulls decreed that no player could wear a shoe of a color that did not match the team's red and white uniform. Fines were threatened.
Rod Thorn, the former general manager of the Bulls, called Falk and complained, "Dammit, David, you're turning the guy into a tennis player." "Exactly," said Falk. The league office backed the Bulls. And although all the principals deny that the confrontation was choreographed in advance, the result was a Punch and Judy show in which the team and the league played heavies and everyone - Jordan, Nike, the Bulls and the league - benefited from the publicity.
While Nike quickly supplied Jordan with a pair of red and white Air Jordans, the Chiat/ Day agency just as quickly produced new spots for the original shoe: "On Oct. 15, Nike created a revolutionary new basketball shoe. On Oct. 18, the N.B.A. threw them out of the game. Fortunately, the N.B.A. can't keep you from wearing them. Air Jordans. From Nike."
Martin Farricker, who follows the footware market for the trade publication Sporting Goods Business, believes the controversy insured the success of the line. Kids, he says, got the impression that it was some performance factor that led the N.B.A. to ban Air Jordans, as if they had springs in their soles.
When Michael Jordan speaks of his representatives at ProServ, he refers to them as "my attorneys." Jordan doesn't like the word "agent." David Falk doesn't like it either: "You walk into an athlete's house, say you are an agent, and people look at you like you were a rapist or robber. I don't like to have to say those people are my colleagues."
ProServ represents the upper crust of agentry. While there are a number of outstanding individual agents in the business, the profession has a dubious reputation. It is full of amateurs, relatives and unscrupulous operators. Some agents slip money to athletes before they complete their college eligibility; some fly-by-night operators take their cut of a long-term contract up front and then disappear.
Even ProServ, with its stable of premium clients and its lawyerly trappings, has not been able to avoid the business's ethical complications, and its corporate clients raise the biggest questions. In tennis, for example, ProServ (but not ProServ alone) represents both individual players and the companies who hire them.
Another possible complica-tion arises from the fact that (Continued on Page 58) ProServ's clients compete with one another off the field or court as well as on it: Patrick Ewing's Adidas versus Michael Jordan's Nikes. With each new deal, Falk and his colleagues run the danger of competing with themselves. With more and more players seeking to enter the endorsement field - last year, the Chicago Bears' lineman, William (the Refrigerator) Perry, lent his name almost overnight to 10 products -the public might well grow inured to the commercial appeal of its sports heroes.
Jordan, who could have chosen any agency he wanted, picked ProServ after conferring with his college coach, Dean Smith. Before the professional draft, Jordan presented six or seven potential representatives with a scenario of team and salary and asked each how it would handle him. ProServ didn't just discuss contracts, like some of the agents, but talked about investments and Jordan's career after basketball.
ProServ negotiated Jordan's contract with the Bulls, and for tax purposes incorporated him under the title Jordan Universal Marketing and Promotions - acronym JUMP. ProServ's financial chief, Allen Furst, invests Jordan's money in such things as an apartment complex on the edge of North Carolina's high-tech Research Triangle Park.
ProServ drives a hard deal. The Bulls were under tremendous pressure from long-suffering fans to sign Jordan without a delay or holdout, and ProServ made the most of the situation.
ProServ draws up contracts for its clients that are usually long-term, placing particular emphasis on security provisions, and replete with contingency and incentive clauses. Such contracts, Falk feels, avoid the potential bad publicity of later stalemates or demands from a client for renegotiation. Falk is proud that ProServ has had only one of its players "sit out" training camp or part of a season. When another player wanted to renegotiate a contract that was still in force, ProServ refused to represent him.
For its services, ProServ may charge from 15 to 20 per-cent of endorsements, an hourly charge for negotiations and an overall annual retainer of $10,000 or so.
"It's a kind of fatherlike situation," Jordan says of his relationship with the company. "I'm friendly with the people at ProServ outside of business as well." Too fatherlike? "No, because if I really want something, they have to give it to me. But I do have to talk to them about all the clothes I bought in Europe."
With such financial and personal control, the relationship between player and management is bound to be more than merely professional. Adrian Dantley, a former Utah Jazz basketball star now with the Detroit Pistons, is the godfather of David Falk's daughter. And when one ProServ client, a few years ago, had a drug problem, the company contacted his parents and obtained permission to cut off his credit cards until he sought help.
Down in that smoky North Carolina gymnasium, the director has just one take left. "This time, Michael, you're mad. This time, yell."
Jordan opens his mouth. He howls, and the sound seems to give him the energy to go even higher than before.
Jordan says he often feels nervous making commercials; he says he never feels that way in a game. And when he sees himself blown up to billboard size or acting on television, it feels curious. "It's a little bit like seeing another person," he says. "It's like another part of me I didn't know about before."
The photographers get the whole sequence. They have brought along two ballistic cameras, the same kind that are used to track missiles, that expose 300 frames per second. They turn Jordan's twisting release of the ball into a slow-motion drama. They make a ballet of it. And when the videotapes are played back, the ghostly figure leaping through the smoke does seem to be someone else entirely from the three-dimensional figure, fairly gleaming in his white warm-up suit, who drops the ball, dons a dapper golf cap and walks out of the gymnasium.
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With 2022 now almost in the rear-view mirror, the timing is right to review how the RAN market is unfolding, and more importantly, what is on the horizon for 2023. In this blog, we will review three projections regarding the overall RAN market, 5G, and Open RAN.
1) Total RAN to decline in 2023
In retrospect, the market has evolved over the past year. Going into 2022, we projected that the RAN market would advance at a mid-single digit rate in 2022 in nominal USD terms, supported by strong growth in North America and modest growth in China, Europe, and other parts of the Asia Pacific.
While we don't have the complete picture yet as we only have data for the 1Q22-3Q22 period, it is safe to assume that the high-level projections for both China and North America were reasonable, barring any major 4Q22 surprises. Still, we also need to recognize that RAN investments in Europe and Asia Pacific excluding China are tracking below our projections for the 1Q22-3Q22 period.
This gap in the output acceleration is primarily driven by forex fluctuations and prices – base station volumes and overall 5G activity are mostly in line with expectations, but the revenue per base station was impacted as the USD gained against most major currencies throughout 2022.
As we look into 2023, the regional mix will evolve. India, which is a smaller part of the RAN market in 2022, will be one of the bright spots going forward. Per our recently published 5-year RAN forecast, we are modeling an intense 5G deployment phase over the next 3 years, and this will already show up in the numbers this year and almost be enough to offset more challenging comparisons in North America and China.
2) 5G RAN will grow at a double-digit rate in 2023
As we now know, 5G investments have increased at a remarkable pace since the first NR networks were launched back in 2018, resulting in a 5G ascent that has been much steeper and broader relative to what we experienced with previous technology shifts. The challenge now is that the 5G comparisons are becoming more challenging in the advanced markets. And the implications are that 5G RAN growth rates will subside somewhat going forward.
At the same time, our long-term thesis still holds. We are still in the early days of the broader 4G-to-5G transition and incremental capex will be required beyond the initial coverage layer to support all the frequency flavors and use cases. In other words, the days of exponential 5G RAN growth are clearly in the past, however, 5G RAN revenues are still expected to advance at a double-digit rate in 2023.
3) Open RAN to account for 6% to 10% of RAN Market in 2023
The Open RAN movement has come a long way in just a few years, propelling Open RAN revenues to accelerate at a faster pace than initially expected. Going into 2022, we projected Open RAN would comprise around 3% of the full-year 2022 market. Per our 3Q22 RAN report, our analysis indicates Open RAN revenues surged at a much steeper pace than expected spurring Open RAN to comprise a mid-single digit share of the full-year capex.
Meanwhile, the underlying message that we have communicated now for some time has not changed. The early adopters are embracing the movement, however, there is more uncertainty when it comes to the early majority operator and the impact on the supplier dynamics. Per the 3Q22 RAN report, the rise of Open RAN has so far had limited impact on the broader RAN market concentration—we estimate that the collective RAN share of the top 5 RAN suppliers declined by less than one percentage point between 2021 and 1Q22–3Q22.
Still, our position remains unchanged. Even with the underwhelming progress by the smaller Open RAN focused suppliers and the challenges ahead to cross the chasm, we believe this will not be enough to derail the movement toward openness. Following the surge in 2022, Open RAN radio revenue growth will slow in 2023, reflecting a more challenging comparison with the early adopters.
In short, it will be an interesting year. As with any forecast, there are risks. Please come back as we update the RAN analysis to reflect all the latest developments.
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The #ENDSARS Protest: Beyond Police Brutality In Nigeria
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Abuja, Nigeria, October 29, 2020 – A new snap poll released by Abuja-based opinion research think-tank, Africa Polling Institute (API), on the #EndSARS protest has revealed that 6 in 10 Nigerians (61%) expressed support for the recent protest. The poll which was conducted to elicit the opinions of citizens on the recent #EndSARS Protest in Nigeria, appraised the crux of police brutality as epitomized in the shortcomings of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) whose age-long misgivings recently snowballed into a series of protests across the country. Findings from the poll indicated that the protest gained significant support from citizens, not just as a campaign against police brutality (27%), but it was more of a public outcry for better governance in the country, as expressed by 60% of respondents.
Further findings revealed that protesters initially refused to back down due to public distrust towards government (43%), failure of government to fulfil past promises (28%), massive unemployment in the country (14%), public dissatisfaction with the current administration (12%), and idleness of student protesters resulting from the protracted industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In addition, 77% of Nigerians do not believe that the newly established Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit will put an end to incidence of police brutality. Nigerians therefore urged the authorities to promote good governance and undertake a comprehensive reform of the Nigeria Police Force.
The nationwide poll was conducted in the month of October 2020, with interviews conducted via telephone, between October 21 and 27, using Stratified Random Sampling technique. A total of 1114 completed interviews were captured in the poll out of 3771 calls made, representing a response rate of approximately 30%. The sample consisted of 51% Male and 49% Female respondents, whose ages were 18 years and above. The interviews were conducted in five major languages: English, Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba; and geographic quotas were assigned to ensure the selection of a nationally representative sample, which proportionately covered all senatorial districts and states, including the FCT.
This snap poll asked respondents 7 key questions ranging from whether or not citizens had personally experienced any form(s) of police brutality, the dimensions of police brutality experienced, whether or not citizens supported the recent #EndSARS protest, reasons for supporting or not supporting the protest, whether or not the newly formed SWAT will put an end to police brutality, reasons why the protest lingered, and policy options for the federal government to address the demands of protesters. Accordingly, the findings are briefly highlighted below:
Personal Experience of Police Brutality
Respondents were asked if they had personally experienced any form of police brutality in the last 5 years. From the findings, it was revealed that 18% affirmed that they had personally experienced police brutality, as against 82% who said they had not. Expectedly, more male (26%) than female (10%) respondents experienced police brutality; while more citizens resident in southern Nigeria (24%) experienced police brutality than citizens based in northern Nigeria (13%).
Form(s) of Police Brutality Experienced
Regarding the forms of brutality experienced by citizens, 41% expressed that they were financially extorted. This was followed by 25% who said they were harassed and intimated, while 19% said they were stopped, searched and unlawfully arrested, and 15% said they were physically assaulted.
Support for #EndSARS Protest
Additionally, Nigerians were asked if they were in support of the #EndSARS protest that held in different cities across the country. The findings revealed that at least 6 in 10 Nigerians (61%) said they were in support of the protest. On the other hand, 35% said they did not support the protest, while 4% said they were simply unaware of any protest. The data further showed that there was more support for the protest amongst more educated Nigerians, as citizens with tertiary education and above (70%) expressed more support than those with no formal education (15%). Furthermore, there was more support from citizens resident in southern Nigeria (91%), than from citizens resident in northern Nigeria (35%). Interestingly, the data also revealed significant support from more elderly and adult Nigerians aged 60 years and above (70%) and 36 to 60 years (65%), than youths aged 18 to 35 years (53%). This finding highlights an important point signifying that, even though the protest may have been championed by the youths, they enjoyed significant support from the much older demography, who seem to opine that young people are finally waking up to lend their voice to the call for a better Nigeria.
Reason for Supporting the Protest
Citizens were further probed on why they approved or disapproved of the #EndSARS Protest. From the findings, the 6 in 10 Nigerians who said they supported the protest highlighted the following reasons: it is a public outcry for better governance in Nigeria (60%), it is a fight against police brutality in Nigeria (27%), and a demand for the respect of civil rights (10%). Conversely, the 35% who did not support the #EndSARS protests stated the following reasons: the protest was hijacked by thugs and hoodlums (55%), SARS had been helpful in curbing robbery and violent crimes (21%), and SARS had already been disbanded (15%).
SWAT and Police Brutality?
The poll also sought to capture the views of Nigerians on the newly established Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit which serves as a replacement for the disbanded SARS Unit. Nigerians were asked if they think SWAT will put an end to cases of police brutality in Nigeria. Overwhelmingly, 77% do not believe SWAT will put an end to police brutality in the country. On the contrary, 15% affirmed that SWAT will put an end to police brutality, while 8% reckoned it was too early to determine the performance of SWAT. Further disaggregation of the data revealed that there were more young citizens aged between 18 and 35 years (14%) who were of the opinion that it was too early to tell whether or not SWAT will eschew police brutality in its operations. Again, there were more citizens resident in southern Nigeria (92%) who passed a negative judgement on SWAT, much more than citizens in northern Nigeria (63%)
Reasons why the Protest Lingered
Lastly, the poll sought the opinion of Nigerians as to why the protesters remained adamant to calls for them to back down from protesting since the government began addressing some of their demands. From the findings, 43% of Nigerians highlighted the issue of trust deficit between citizens and the government; stating that the increase in public distrust towards the authorities was mainly responsible for why protesters refused to back down. This was followed by failure of government to fulfil past promises (28%), massive unemployment in the country (14%), public dissatisfaction with the current administration (12%), and idleness of student protesters resulting from the protracted industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Policy Options for the Federal and State Governments
In concluding the poll, Nigerians were asked to proffer policy options that the federal government can undertake to respond to the demands of protesting youths. The findings revealed that Nigerians want the federal government to focus on policies aimed at: promoting good governance for better citizens' welfare (38%), undertaking a comprehensive police reform (36%), involving younger citizens in the governance process (25%), sanctioning erring police and military officers (23%), and enabling state policing (22%).
Poll Summary
The snap poll has clearly articulated that the #EndSARS protest has significant citizens support, which goes beyond grievances against police brutality, but represents a general public dissatisfaction with the current state of the country and a clamour for good governance. However, it is important to state that the abysmal policing system as exemplified in the protest is one amongst plethora of instances of systemic failure on the part of the Nigerian state to provide meaningful governance to her populace. This is principally because, while there were genuine concerns from the protesters who desired a comprehensive overhaul of the police system, logical debates are prevalent that the millions of Nigerians who went to street were apparently either unemployed, unengaged or out of school as a result of the lingering industrial action of ASUU. These are thus, fallouts from ineffective governance that is supposedly expected to attend to the core of people's need especially in the wake of the complex health emergency like the COVID-19. Again, the recent looting of food, agricultural and drug palliatives by 'protesting youths' in some states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory has highlighted the scale and depth of poverty, hunger and social exclusion. Beyond the #ENDSARS protest therefore, this study and its outcomes have undoubtedly accentuated the dimensions of disconnection between the government and the governed, as it relates to the social contract.
Dr. Bell Ihua
Africa Polling Institute (API)
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The International Writers Magazine: The Synergy Effect
• Roy Valenzuela
Terry is a black man that I both recently met and had the privilege of working with for a little under two months. Off point but relevant is the suggestion that according to several recent publications, Chat. town USA is recognized as one of ten cities that are pleasant, favorable, amenable, scenic, tolerant, and a must visit for the indigenous 'folk' of the south .
Sure thing! I live on the banks of the meandering Tennessee river. She's a beaut!... Combinations of historic towering rocks where gruesome battles once raged for the rights of citizenry - to rolling carpets of fescue 'sprankled' with lilies leading into Deep piercing woods of pine, nestled cold springs, and mineral rich streams; all are ensconced in shallow burrows and sprawling valleys throughout.
This, my city, is "beautiful for situation" and in recognition of former struggles to settle her history, Chattanooga has morphed and reinvented herself-to a degree...Her cuisine alone would make our fallen culinary first Lady of the south-well blush.. Terry is black, I know- I looked twice... Chattanooga is pleasing to the eye. Even so, Terry's personal struggles for reinvention are so noted as he attempts to morph right along with Chat. town, his 'digs', and ride her revisionist waves.
At first he was quiet, reserved, cautious, and even suspecting. After all, A sports club, Chat. towns finest, reeks of sordid laundry that breeds gossip of the worst sort. A sea of lily whites, 'white' collar no less, make up her registry and forms the clubs natural contours. It's a bad shape and a bad scene, crappy!... They are affluent and he stands out!
I, a personal trainer and he a house keeping employee took little time in becoming friends/ confidants minus the membranous snares of 'gossip' and its betrayals and entanglements. Even amongst his fellow 'house keepers' there was noticeable separation. Dullards they are.... Terry is of placid demeanor but he is also tall, robust, muscular, inventive, and determined!...It's this last defining quality, his determinedness, that really impresses. It emerged and I watched it unfold. In his struggle to gain sole custody of his eldest daughter he proved himself transcendent..."screw the status quo,"defy prejudice, walk on Chat. Towns green lawns and crush underfoot her lilies, not with indignity mind you, but remind them, with caution, those probing eyes that "I am a BLACK man"....
Entitlements are the 'opiate' of the people!...Once a proud 'culture', African Americans have been reduced to subculture status...A forced resignation with demoralizing harsh terms that cripples them to hell... But Terry would have nothing of it! He's a part timer and runs a more lucrative cleaning business that is contract based....He makes 'Bucks"!... A second opiate would be local government a spawn of a bigger, badder, and haughtier brother ( state government). He spits on it, challenges decisions handed down by local courts through staunch compliance. Yes that's right- he does what they ask of him no matter how many times they ask; nor does he consider the cost...His many lawyers with the exception of the last have deliberately botched his efforts. His caste is that of pariah don't you know, "Damn them Roy....I'll keep paying all of them. I'll get mine. I'll get my daughter to!...Watch, you'll see"...
In the least the courts in Chat. town USA have abused 'authority' by extracting large sums of 'cash', requiring he be present during personal work hours, and making sure he understands to turn a blind eye when they, with concealed composure, repeat such machinations time and time again. Don't ask why or how he got into this predicament. entitlements are an extension of oppression that has no justifiable explanation. These things never work themselves out. The programs are not solution oriented... Nevertheless I saw with eyes wide open Terry creating a legacy. His children have an excellent model and a chance at reversing an acidic destructive cycle. He can watch the damn thing come to its ever loving end... The 'man' works hard at it!..
Back at the SB, the disapproving looks, the reproaches of a demeaning sad supervisor, the absentee Manager, the cliquish staff, the distant membership, all wittingly/unwittingly challenged his resolve. Oh not so directly/intentionally but subversively. Not because of circumstance but more caste related. It's easier to medicate ones ills by making a 'lesser' aware of his station, always!... Not Terry tho. With unrequited reserve, in this also he does what they expect.... It's not a "to Hell with them" attitude but more like; "can I have another please?" approach... I've observed. It's most definitely an 'approach'; a brilliant one that stems from an acquired dignity... he wears that 'metal jacket' well.
He's worked long and hard to get that daughter of his. One evening while working, unexpectedly, up on the mezzanine, Terry suddenly appeared with his brood. Three timid, nappy haired, wide eyed black angels!...yep, they're black too. That he took the time to bring them in and seek me out made my heart skip a beat. Earlier that evening he'd confided that until I came to work there his interaction with club members and staff was at best limited. We have a burgeoning friendship, I'm certain of it!... I didn't have the gumption to tell him that I didn't know any better; that my pie hole opens, vomits, and fights fiercely against 'closure'.
Chat. Town is lovely for situation, just google it, you'll see. Oaks, Maples, Crepe Myrtles, trees of bulk and stout, excepting the 'crepe'. She's more like a river bank plant to provide both beauty with her fragrant lilac blooms and shade as they are clustered almost one on top of the other. And the various hydrangeas, with its dominant prevalent white tufts will bloom in the late summer. These are all complimentary/necessary appendages to the aforementioned geography... It's a brilliant setting in the south of Tennessee.
Terry defiantly loves his daughter just as he loves his three little chicks. At closing that night, again up on the mezzanine, from more than a distance of fifteen feet, over the loud hum of a vacuum, Terry took a deep breath and bellowed; "I would do anything to get her back. If I have to rob a bank I'll get her back...You'll see, you'll see Roy"!... But Terry I never doubted and you did get her back. His deep affection for his 'chillins' overshadowed all and like a rock flying through glass shattered my window looking out at my beaut of a city... He replaced it with a more transfixing view, glass that is slightly tempered and tinted with a darker hue.
The atmosphere of the place wasn't agreeable to me. I blew the joint and won't look back. That Black man is still there...We're going to have lunch together soon..."Hey Terry, what do you prefer to be called, Black or African American?"...."Mannnnnnn, don't ask me a stupid question"!.... Smiles.
© Roy Valenzuela July 2013
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Police think that this shooting was most likely gang related and right now there are no suspects in the case. This was the second homicide in Yakima so far in 2017.


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Forest Service to change sage grouse protections in 5 states
Thu., Aug. 1, 2019
This April 10, 2014 photo shows a male sage grouse trying to impress a group of hens, at left, near the base of the Rattlesnake Range in southwest Natrona County, Wyo. (Alan Rogers / associated press)
By Keith Ridler Associated Press
BOISE – Plans for protecting sage grouse in five Western states are being changed in ways that will conserve habitat while allowing ranchers to maintain their livelihoods, federal officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Forest Service said the changes allow for greater flexibility and local control, but details of the plans involving Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado aren't being made public until Friday.
"The Forest Service continues to promote our multiple use mission while ensuring conservation of greater sage grouse habitat," said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in a statement. "We are sharing the stewardship of the lands with western state governors – their extensive participation throughout this process was the key to landscape-scale conservation that aligns our policies and practices across local, state, and federal jurisdictions."
Environmental groups blasted the plan based on the Forest Service's three-bullet-point summary released Thursday ahead of Friday's final environmental impact statement, which are typically long and complex documents.
Western Watersheds Project said the plan guts protections for sage grouse created under the Obama administration in 2015.
"This is part of a broader pattern of trying to turn over control of public lands and sensitive wildlife resources to state and local governments that are often diametrically opposed to conservation," said Erik Molvar, the group's executive director.
Sage grouse are chicken-sized, ground-dwelling birds considered an indicator species for the health of vast sagebrush landscapes in the U.S. West that support some 350 species of wildlife.
Between 200,000 and 500,000 sage grouse remain in 11 Western states, down from a peak population of about 16 million. Experts generally attribute the decline to road construction, development and oil and gas leasing.
Researchers say sage grouse once occupied about 463,000 square miles, but that's now down to about 260,000 square miles.
The males are known for performing an elaborate ritual that includes making balloon-like sounds with two air sacks on their necks.
A draft of the sage grouse plans released in June covered 9,500 square miles of greater sage grouse habitat in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and Montana. The agency clarified the following month that plans in national forests in Montana wouldn't change.
Federal officials at the time said the objective was for the final plan to have a neutral to positive effect for sage grouse.
Molvar questioned the federal agency touting the plans before actually making them public.
"Under the Trump administration, federal agencies are trying to wage a propaganda war in which they are trying to be the only voice in the conversation," he said.
The Obama administration in 2015 opted not to list sage grouse as needing federal protections under the Endangered Species Act and instead imposed land-use restrictions leading to multiple lawsuits from industry and environmentalists. Several states, including Idaho, also sued.
In one of those lawsuits, a U.S. court agreed with mining companies that the Forest Service created some safeguards in Nevada after failing to give the public enough information to participate in a meaningful way. In response, the Forest Service said those same safeguards existed in other states, so it decided to review plans outside of Nevada as well.
John Freemuth, a Boise State University environmental policy professor and public lands expert, said whatever the final plan released on Friday looks like, monitoring results will be key to understanding if they work.
"It's fine to revise the plans, but we need to have the scientists out there doing the research," he said.
Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 4:34 p.m.
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