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A write up from Next Generation, about the future of racing games. And some additional thoughts of my own.
Submitted by SUFFUR on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 18:27
It does mention Burnout, but does talk about racing games in general.
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9150&Itemid=59&limit=1&limitstart=0
The interview is interesting, but does not seem to say, hey this is what we need for you racers out there, they all seem lost, to see where they will go next. And that's not a negative statement, it just seems that the developers seem to want to add more to a genre, that is just about cars, going fast and competing in racing environments, and of course winning.
IMO: As a Burnout fan
Racing games need players/AI (if the room hold 8's, the host starts the race and if only 4 players are in the room, AI fills in the gaps), to compete against each other. Even when cruising. The taking down of a 'won' car in Paradise was a great idea.
Decent handling, I prefer Burnout type handling, but Sims need to have to option to be Realistic and Arcady, so you can choose how to play, serious or just for fun, and still compete in the same room/environment, just the guys who have it on realistic get more point bonuses.
Decent environments to race in. Race tracks, circuits, point to points, streets etc. Could Burnout use real race tracks with the type of handling that is used in game, yes I think so. Well with the old style yes, the new one needs some tweaks, but still possible as it stands, or maybe I need Tweaking?
Environmental physical effects, like Sega Rally, the ruts stay there for the race. Damage to the area stays for the race.
And the view you see the environment. A car has windows, those windows are glass/plastic (safety type either way), or in the case of other racing games, nets NASCAR. That view needs to be worked on, and be reactive, me saying, it can be broken, shattered, smeared with mud, rain, and other elements from the track and weather. Lighting, day and night etc.
We do have a lot of buttons on a controller, so options of lights, windshield wipers, horn etc, similar to real cars could be implemented. Hi-beam option to blind an oncoming rival could be funny. I mean in this day and age, real cars have those options as automatic, rain sensors, light sensors etc, so if you don't want manual, you could have the option to have it set on automatic too.
Also the use of a real car type of dash board/HUD, Speedo, trip, rev-counter etc. You need to know you are in a car and a driver of that car! Even if you don't use the in car view.
Manual Gears, some people like that option in a game, cool, should be an option.
More types of vehicle to drive, trucks, bikes, cabs, Tuk-Tuks etc. And environments to make them work, dirt tracks for 4x4's etc.
I know people like modding, the cars decals, body work, engine etc, cool option and should be a standard with in a racing game, maybe, if it is, the option for people who don't like it, have an automatic modding button.
Damage, now this is the point of where Arcade and Sim sort of part ways.
With the windshield option not really a problem, some slow down of the car, due to drag if it has been shattered out, but how about tires, blow outs, slow punctures etc. It is assumed that most tires on racing Sims and Arcade for that matter are the best racing tires out there some, so not much damage is applied, Forza 2 uses it, for wear and tear, and new tyres do need to be run in, so they grip the track when they warm up. Damage does affect handling, even in Paradise, but how far should it be taken with a Sim or even Arcade?
Game play, you need it to be fun, but you need some hardcoreness to it too. But where is that line, should there be an option similar to Forza 2, damage effects on etc. Should tracks be all speed demons, or have some braking and slow down to do some nasty turns? And this is where I too get lost.
What is good/great game play, I can play most race games, have tried most money allowing. Some are too simulator, some too arcade, so a balance is needed or a distinction higher than the wording on the box. Project Gotham went that way from 3 to 4, simulator to arcadeish.
If we look at just the Burnout series for racing:
Burnout (1) had some of the hardest check points to get to within a racing circuit/track, so within a single player game that was the sense of competition to beat those check point timers. AI was also good to race against.
Burnout 2 Point of Impact, had some of the best racing circuit/tracks and a definite improvement to the flow of racing, plus the boost chain element was the sense of competition. Again AI was good to race against but you also had a two player mode, which was awesome.
Burnout 3 Takedown, now this game with on-line play, brought a whole new ball game. Single player was great, with tracks/circuits/point to points and the added competition of taking down someone else and getting boost for that. And the best physics for those said takedowns, ever! It had the best online arcade racing bar none. And ranking was important for some, but the game play on-line was perfect bar some little bugs and glitches, some abused but did not bother to many people due to game play.
Burnout (4) Revenge (both incarnations for the Xbox, sorry keeping it Xbox, but the games across the platforms are similar), now this game just looked gorgeous, when compared to BO3 TD. Speed was the element of this game, single player was great, competitive, AI was strong and did their job, takedown physics seemed off, especially when going on-line. So people just raced, and took it to a new level with the Bug, boost jumping, and the sense of competition was getting lap times and ranking. And the tracks/circuits were great. Also Short Cuts were added or alternate routes, and jumps and the Vertical Takedown!
The PSP/PS of Burnout, Dominator and Legends, had great elements taken from the above games plus some new stuff thrown in too. The tracks were great, and the game play elements worked really well, and seem to follow the formula of going fast, and coming first in the races and earning boost. Only played these games on friend's consoles/handhelds, so I can't say too much, but from what I played, great games.
All the above games, were not open world, but did have tracks that crossed each other, or used parts of other tracks, or were used to link a long point to point etc. But definite areas that you raced in then moved to the next area etc. Also most kept stats of what you were doing, takedowns, lap time etc.
Burnout Paradise rebuilt for the next generation consoles. Keeping most of the elements from the last games (takedowns/boosting/stats (though not lap times) etc), but the races are Point to Points, within the open world so a freedom to go what way you want. With the option to make up routes/tracks/circuits within the multiplayer, as well as race most of the routes from the single player, if not all, have not really checked that, so assuming, but probably. The single player does not reflect this area specified racing from the previous games, it's all open, cool, but no area specific racing/circuits/routes, like the others, seems to stray(stray, lol, got lost and eaten by someone more like) from lap orientated game play. (But the added element of Stunt Run and Marked Man, and the open area of Paradise reflect their use.) The AI in the game is fantastic for this type of game, yes they have some situations at times but overall they do their job, racing you, taking you down and each other and trying to win the race too, they also know where to go, most of the time, lol.
Paradise is different, from the old formula, of going really, really fast; to putting in the X button hand brake and using it to almost stop to get around a corner, seems like a natural progression and a new element to game play, but does mean that you do have to slow down! Slowing downing in an Arcade racer and Burnout to boot, seems a very bold move, but does seem to upset quite a few racers. And it does need it for what Paradise City has on offer, with its tight turns etc. We have different types of cars, different types of boost, all new elements, well not new but different or taken from the other games in the cannon.
You can still race similar to the older versions of the game, but due to the racers spread throughout the map, it seems hard to be competitive, until everyone knows the route placed before them. There is no consistency compared to the other games, there can be tight finishes via other routes and we all start together, but after that it's a free for all, fine for a FPS, but racing I just don't know. Being able to see a competitor within your field of view, front, rear or beside you adds to the sense of competition, and it can be that way with most player built races, but some races you see them start, then at the next start of the next round. If tracks can be built to finish within the same area, I think it will improve game play for this game; people can see the route within the map and see competitors around the next corner etc.
Sorry I'm Paradise bashing again!
Yes, Paradise has racing but the bar has been raised compared to the linear racing of the other Burnouts. It is not so easy to just win a race, different types of cars, boost, routes, (drop outs), and trying to get to grips with how the physics work in this game, from car handling, takedowns and being able to see what is really in front of you.
The sense of Competition seems to be the Dailies, ShowTime/Road Rules and Stunt Run (and scores are recorded for these events), the racing seems to be taking second place, even to the point of being nonexistent, unless it's driven by the community, for the community, and made by the community.
There are no real scores for on-line racing except rank, no times are stored, total or lap. It may change with DLC, and I hope it does. Just because I have created a route does not mean I am the best at that route, but the only people to compare against it with are friends or whomever jumps in my room, but only if they win, and not due to how good they are, more due to luck of going the right way and not getting fouled up along the way? The real test is if they got a good time on that route and being able to compare it against others who have raced the same route, and repeating that performance.
Open World is not a new thing, the way Criterion handle it, seems to work for most of the time, and the tech they use seems to be great too, but I think it's killing my DVD drive, I can hear it, trying to keep up, with its whirs and grinds but, I know it going to kill my 360, eventually.
Having a no loading world is all very well, but if they did not go that way, what would we have gotten?
Will the formula "that is just about cars, going fast and competing in racing environments, and of course winning against someone, anyone and having a record of that (times)" will be forgotten? With Burnout the added element of Takedowns and great crash physics!
If the physics for driving works, it looks graphically pretty, its competitive, it has external elements, like lighting, weather, some damage while playing, and crash physics, for the FUBAR crash, all that is needed is more players (how many is too much, 8, 12, 24 more, less not really sure) and more tracks/routes to race on.
And the DLC should be a graphic upgrade (TDU), cars and more tracks/routes etc. And that's it, players would be happy.
That was what people wanted after BO3TD and Revenge, more tracks to play on, and maybe the odd new car. And a graphic upgrade.
With Burnout Paradise the same, but with the other elements within the game expanded, more challenges, Road Rage, Marked Man, multiplayer Stunt Run etc etc.
I had an idea with Drunknnumpty, that with all the information being built/stored from real car GPS's, why can't races for computer games be taken from that information. That people could race in a computer game, but use the street and town/cities that they live in, the road is the most important thing, the buildings and road side stuff, are just window dressing, which just zips by your view, but still looks pretty mind. I know TDU is there, with a whole island from the real world, but why not My Town, Manhattan, the whole of Great Britain, the USA, then the World.
People talk about GTA IV (another open world game type), but will ROCKSTAR use their car handling and driving from the Midnight Club series and use that within this game or will it be less and use the thumb sticks to drive, like the games of yore? I hope not.
To tell the truth when some game has a driving element in the game, but is not a driving game, e.g. a FPS, the controls that do get set up seem very poor, why do they not use what has been establish from other driving games. I sort of agree that the thumb sticks (one for each track) option used for tanks seems to work, I just need another player in there with me, using the turret and firing it, lol.
I think that racing games are not dead, but they do need to sort out what they are going to do in the future; GT is a simulator, driving game, so top of the racing, driving spectrum, while we have an XNA game like Jelly Car, which is a Puzzle racing game at the other end of the spectrum, by the way, the spectrum is not a rule of good and bad, just a look across the racing genre and just going by new driving games out or coming out.
What happens with the genre is up to developers; I know I want Car Wars to come to Next Gen, but that would require, sorry, probably need 20 g of hard drive space just for the customisation part of the game, then even more for the driving areas, and better networking and the internet to be universal for the amount of players per virtual driving space that the game requires, as it is also an MMO with RTS and FPS elements and of course driving, so it would raise the bar for our generation of consoles, maybe to high?
If someone built a Racing game that could let you take it serious with Simulation but tone it down to Arcade if the player wants, play online with many anyone's, looks great and can have more downloadable tracks at regular intervals, and has pretty crash graphics, they will have a great game on their hands.
It is just a racing game after all, what more can be done that has not been done before?
Put it all in, right, and then let the player sort it out?
Mega forum post!
Why was this not a Blog Suf? or did you just want the record for the longest forum post, with the longest title.. to go with the one you have for the longest Blog??!
I Miss Arcade Racers!!!
I mentioned in the Criterion Games forum that I don't consider Paradise an Arcade Racer as its not the kind of game you can play in a coin-op arcade, the argument made back at me is that it is an arcade racer, cos it's not a sim.
But, just because it's not a sim, doesn't make it an arcade racer.
I love Burnout, because it was influenced by AM2 and I love AM2 Arcade Racers. IMO there still has not been an worthy Arcade Racer released on this generation of consoles (revenge doesn't count, it was last gen, and the others just suck!)
I really think there is a huge hole in the market for a really good Arcade Racer, and I don't see one on the horizon anytime soon.
There is also a Platformer hole on the 360. What happened to the games I used to love???
anyhoo... I'm just going for the longest forum reply now!!
Read the article...
kinda depressing that not one of them mentioned speed or racing as priorities??? If the people developing racing games are focused on smoke and dirt effect and having a story what hope does the genre have???
SUFFUR
To make it a discussion,
...most people never really say any think back to me on the blogs, not even good point or bad point, well some do which is cool, but going by the number of reads i do get, i thought i would get more interaction with the community, with comments.
Maybe with the forum we will discuss our racing future? And give the developers the ideas to make that great arcade racer or simulator driving game.
People like Paradise, but why, people hate Paradise but why? And not just trash talk, like it's not Revenge etc, but what we really wanted, what we want in the future.
If developers are talking about it in the article, its time we said something too.
When Paradise was annouced, hopes were high, now after the fall out, we have new players but the old vets have gone, why? Sure I have read a lot of forum posts, some very good, some just pointless, childishness. But where did it go sort of wrong. I like Paradise, but it's not a Burners Paradise is it?
I, from the birth of computer/console gaming, Pong and upwards, i sort of know the history of gaming, it's my generation, true my point of view but i'm going to learn more, what else do I have to do, I'm an unemployable cripple at the mo. But if I can raise input with words, and be joined by others, maybe our gaming future will be better, a reason for this site I thought.
I just want games to be better, more fun, and being able to share that, some of my ideas, may need a better console, or be placed upon the PC platform, but i want a better form of game!
Look at Paradise, there are different locations with in the game that could be used, like the Basket ball court, and we could get out of our cars and play that game within Paradsie, Football, Baseball etc etc. We could get out skate boards, start a gang war with guns, the possibilities are end less.
Maybe EA are the company that can do this, they have all these gaming houses bought and paid for, but they don't seem to bring them together to make a great game, that you can do everything with, and yes i don't mind loading to do it, if its going from one sub game to the next.
When PS started talking about HOME, i was hoping that was going to happen in a way, that people come to my HOME and we can use our Avatars, to go across gaming platforms, with in that space? Jump into our fav cars and drive around a virtual world of racing, set up a game of looking for lost gold, that was user created, etc.
The Governments want to keep us in-doors, then give us the tools to stay home like the vegatables, they want us to be!
See now I'm getting worked up. I want more, I paid for it, from console, live, internet, games, TV, extra everything, and for what, to be pissed off when my dream of an up and coming game, that gets crushed, when it turns out not what you hoped it would be?
Most games are becoming very same old same old, we need a Reader Digest of each genre, then after they are released, some new maps etc, but then while we are busy playing, they are looking for new game to play, not something the same.
We paid our money, enough to line many deep pockets, now the Profits should be put back into looking for new stuff for us to try, then once something works, take that to it highest level, then move the kcuf on, making something else. Also game companies should help each other out, we have lost many great games, due to the companies going bust, due to lack of funds.
Anyway people, we control everything, if we wanted to, from politics, heath, games, the World, you name it, we could do anything. And all I wanted was a great racing game, and now it seems i'm going to have to learn how to do that, and make my own, and i hate having to work that hard! Or maybe like the sheep i am, not do a thing and just shut the kcuf up, and let someone else do the work.
I'm done for today, maybe more tomorrow?
And for kcuf sake people, say something, even if it is I am a moron, and no Kev you need something more original! Or vote, so at least I know i'm going in the right direction, oh shit i just realised, nobody is voting, maybe i was wrong after all.
Anyway Peace to all, and yes i'm smiling as always, but this one is showing teeth.
Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?
kevlar0
Forzaout
Although I am enjoying paradise at the moment, today's best, the odd bit of racing etc, I'm missing time comparisons big time, I just love doing laps and shaving 10th of seconds off, I miss comparing lap times with my friends, I know we have road rules, but with totally random traffic patterns you don't really stand a snowballs chance in Hades of getting two nearly identical runs, especially on the longer roads,
I do disagree with SHUFFER on the environmental physical effects; I couldn't give a hoot if the ruts are there next lap, or if my windscreen has mud on it, and I'm not really arsed about day/night, rain/snow. To me these are just things that get in the way of racing, I wanna see where I'm going, To be able to clearly see an obstruction so I can take evasive action, before I hit it and get sent barrel rolling in yet another crash cut scene.
Basically I want the moon on a stick and I want it now. I want online road rage with good takedown physics (BO3 style). Marked man, track races, lap times, cars that don't get stuck on walls, not having three hour long crash cut scenes, those bloody ridiculous respawns ( the beach, south mountain jump in races, and countless other respawns).
For me the online just isn't deep enough, Jeeze I did over 1500 hours on burnout 3 alone, with paradise as it is now I know I'm not gonna be anywhere near that number, and I don't think I'm gonna be alone.
Anyhoo, good read STUFFER and I wouldn't be so shallow as to call you a moron, when you know you are a stoat gobbling monkey worrier.
my dog ate my disc.
Deeper Longevity Content
So far I still have less then 100 hours on Paradise, so I don't see how I'm going to be reaching the thousands that I have on Takedown and Revenge. But, maybe DLC will deliver and give us a game we can play for a few years yet.... I think Paradise is a good solid base, just needs some icing on the top!
Rofer
Yeah I agree with most of the OP
Yeah Suffur I like most of your ideas about the future of racing games, you have some really good constructive critisism that the burnout team really needs to take advantage of. I know that burnout is just trying to make more appeal to a wider audience whilst attempting to keep their old fans, but that is where they have failed because at least half of the old fans preferred it the way it was before. What I always loved so much about the burnout series is that every game that comes out was always faster, more intense and fulfilling because it kept on keeping that core feel to burnout, plus something extra. Until paradise comes out, and they take away the core feel and the actual feeling of real burnout speed and add on extra stuff so that people won't notice.
I absolutely hate the freeburn challenges more than anything else in paradise. It just doesn't feel like burnout to drive around in circles trying to barrel roll through some random crap. I honestly believe freeburn challenges are a disgrace to burnout.
We really need to have a extreme arcade racer in the future, i am so determined about this that i am studying programming all i can so that i can work on being the developer of the best arcade racer ever!! I am totally serious about this it is my dream, and i am inspired mainly by burnout 2-4. Suffur i see that you might be trying something like this too good luck man we both need it!!
Cheers for the read dude.
I think the challenges are in there, one for something to do while the room fills up, but also to get the feel of the cars, which one's crash quickly etc, but also if in a race, if you hit a jump you know what the car will do, and can compensate for it, by flat spinning it, rather than crashing it.
Also Stunt Run is a very main ingredient, of Paradise, and again with the challenges, the more you can mess with the car, the better your stunt runs will be. But when I'm just hanging awaiting room fill, or just want to natter when driving, I try and break my daily scores, Consecutive air time (22 seconds or so), jump (236 yards maybe more not sure) distance and Flat spinning (not as good as Kev), the other day, did five barrel rolls, and had witnesses (sp?), which was cool, and maybe better than Kev, hehe.
The game is great for what it gives, but those racing elements do need work! Road handling, takedowns, more boost for buck etc. But what i want to know is how an agression car is supposed to earn boost, traffic checking gets you nothing, which I thought was being agressive per say?
So far, using a stunt car for races is justified, as well as some of the race cars, but the boost seems to be earned very slowly for both, and when trying to use an agression car, it just can't get any speed, to keep up, to get takedowns to earn more boost?
The racing with the use of all cars, does not seem to be possible, people will say you are racing, use a race car, stupid! But I though all the cars could compete, and that is just not the case. Though I am not saying, if I was in a B class car I should be able to beat a Burnout Car, I have done, much to my enjoyment, and someones displeasure, lol. But the cars, would be able to compete if with in the same class, and that is just not really possible.
The rankers just stick with, the WTR, PCPD, Solo, or Revenge Racer, true a better spread, compared to the other burnout games, but i thought, it would have more of a spread. And no I'm not talking about Favourite Cars, just ones fast enough to win with in Ranked races or not, as the case maybe at this time!
Or the bottom, or under it...
As Alex could say, lol.


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+ **Speaker at JSFoo, India's biggest JavaScript Conference, 2013**
    + One of **20** speakers (including **5 international speakers**) and the **only student** selected to talk at **JSFoo 2013**
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    + Coded and ran a fantasy league for Euro 2012 with over **400** participants
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The RMT's strikes have caused absolute misery for passengers. For months now the terrible service offered by Southern Rail has meant that people have been late for work, and unable to see their families due to delayed and cancelled trains. But this strike has taken that to a whole new level.
This strike was entirely avoidable and was the result of a vote of just 300 people. That's 300 causing havoc to the lives of thousands of people. Yet both sides seemed determined to see the strike go ahead regardless of the effect on passengers.
The change which the RMT objects to is a change in responsibility where the operation of train doors will move from the conductors to the drivers. Southern trains have the latest technology which allows drivers to safely operate the doors from the cab.
60% of the GTR network already operates 'doors operated by drivers'. The RMT claims the move to 100% 'doors operated by drivers' will cause safety issues. This is simply untrue as 60% of GTR trains already use driver-operated doors and operate safely. 30% of all national UK trains use driver operated doors.
London Underground has 100% driver operated doors with no problems. Moving the conductors from operating the doors frees them up to assist passengers. These changes will also not result in any job losses or any pay reduction, and every train that currently has two staff (driver and conductor) will continue to have two staff. I have recently met with Mick Cash, the General Secretary of the RMT, to urge him to call off this damaging and unnecessary strike.
I strongly urge both sides to use this opportunity to work out a solution that puts passengers first. Even if no solid agreement can be met elsewhere, both sides need to stop using customers as a bludgeon in negotiations and find other solutions to their dispute.
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Where Every Novel Takes Place
Kaulie Lewis July 8, 2014 | 3 books mentioned
Electric Literature has posted a "Map of the City Where Every Novel Takes Place," so now you can know exactly how to get from Middlemarch to The Jungle Book via Jurassic Park.
Kaulie Lewis is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.
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Sex ed for teenagers is a famously knotty subject, which explains why Pavel Astakhov, Russia's children's ombudsman, wants to eschew sex ed classes in favor of literature courses. "It is unacceptable to allow things that could corrupt children," he said in a television interview. "The best sex education that exists is Russian literature." (No word yet on what he thinks of Crime and Punishment.) (h/t The Paris Review)
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Elementary, My Dear Cosplayers
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A Sherlock Holmes-themed pilgrimage.
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Olsson's, a small chain that was an old standby among Washington D.C. independent bookstores, is likely to file for bankruptcy. It was the stores' ample music sections and gentrification that contributed most to its downfall. "'The book business is getting a little soft. It's not selling as much as it used to,' Olsson said. 'Our music sales went from 50 percent of our business to maybe 15. We lost a lot of revenue, and at the same time rents went up and real estate taxes went up. I don't know what we would have done differently. It's a killer.'"The linguistic capabilities of modern world leaders. Well done, Pope, well done.For those whose fantasies involve real estate: Private Islands for SaleAnd a pair of audio items:Nam Le's The Boat is getting rave reviews. Here he visits The Leonard Lopate Show.Garth covered the PEN World Voices Tribute to Robert Walser. Interested readers can now listen to the entire event.
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Peg Plunkett was an 18th-century Dublin courtesan who decided one day to make some money by publishing a series of memoirs. Now, over two hundred years after Plunkett sketched out her life story, Professor Julie Peakman has rewritten all three volumes for a modern audience. In a piece for The New Statesman, Sarah Dunant reviews her edition of Plunkett's oeuvre.
Niche Audience
Thomas Beckwith May 10, 2013 | 3 books mentioned
The Duty of Storytelling
Bruna Dantas Lobato December 16, 2015 | 3 books mentioned
Another Place and Time
Bruna Dantas Lobato September 23, 2015 | 3 books mentioned
Edmund White considers writers' obsession with New York City in the 1970s, with photography by Peter Hujar. As White puts it, that was "a place and a time in which, rich or poor, you were stuck together in the misery (and the freedom) of the place, where not even money could insulate you."
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Reproduction is a Funny Thing
Thomas Beckwith October 19, 2012 | 3 books mentioned
"Motherhood has always been contested terrain, but for the last decade or so it's been a virtual battleground; every year, almost like clockwork, we have another flare-up in the so-called Mommy Wars, with another Tiger Mom or Get-Back-To-Work-er or Can't Have It all-er launching a grenade as prelude to a book tour. And as much as I have an obvious stake in these battles as a mother and a feminist, I've come to find them depressingly repetitive, all sound and fury but offering little in terms of the policies that might actually affect our decisions." At the LARB, Stephanie Bower gives her take on Why Have Kids?, Jessica Valenti's new treatise on parenting.


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Foreign Correspondent Account Recordkeeping, Reporting, and Due Diligence—Overview
Objective. Assess the bank's compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements for correspondent accounts for foreign shell banks, foreign correspondent account recordkeeping, and due diligence programs to detect and report money laundering and suspicious activity. Assess the bank's compliance with the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (CISADA), if applicable. Refer to the expanded sections of the manual for discussions and examination procedures regarding specific money laundering risks associated with foreign correspondent accounts.
One of the central goals of the USA PATRIOT Act was to protect access to the U.S. financial system by requiring certain records, reports, and due diligence programs for foreign correspondent accounts. In addition, the USA PATRIOT Act prohibits accounts with foreign shell banks. Foreign correspondent accounts, as noted in past U.S. Senate investigative reports, 117Correspondent Banking: A Gateway for Money Laundering. Refer to Senate Hearing 107-84. The report appears on page 273 of volume 1 of the hearing records entitled Role of U.S. Correspondent Banking in International Money Laundering, held on March 1, 2, and 6, 2001. are a gateway into the U.S. financial system. This section of the manual covers the regulatory requirements established by sections 312, 313, and 319(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act and by the implementing regulations at 31 CFR 1010.100, 1010.610, 1010.630, and 1010.670. Additional discussions and procedures regarding specific money laundering risks for foreign correspondent banking activities, such as bulk shipments of currency, pouch activity, U.S. dollar drafts, and payable through accounts, are included in the expanded sections.
Foreign Shell Bank Prohibition and Foreign Correspondent Account Recordkeeping
For purposes of 31 CFR 1010.630 and 1010.670, a "correspondent account" is an account established by a bank for a foreign bank to receive deposits from, or to make payments or other disbursements on behalf of the foreign bank, or to handle other financial transactions related to the foreign bank. An "account" means any formal banking or business relationship established to provide regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions. It includes a demand deposit, savings deposit, or other transaction or asset account and a credit account or other extension of credit ( 31 CFR 1010.605(c)). Accounts maintained by foreign banks for financial institutions covered by the rule are not "correspondent accounts" subject to this regulation. 11871 Fed. Reg. 499. FinCEN has issued interpretive guidance, Application of Correspondent Account Rules to the Presentation of Negotiable Instruments Received by a Covered Financial Institution for Payment,FIN-2008-G001, January 30, 2008, which states, "In the ordinary course of business, a covered financial institution may receive negotiable instruments for payment from a foreign financial institution with which it maintains a correspondent relationship. FinCEN does not view the transaction-by-transaction presentation of a negotiable instrument to a foreign paying institution—either directly or through a clearing facility — to be the establishment of a formal banking or business relationship by a covered financial institution for purposes of complying with the correspondent account rule."
Under 31 CFR 1010.630 a bank is prohibited from establishing, maintaining, administering, or managing a correspondent account in the United States for, or on behalf of, a foreign shell bank. A foreign shell bank is defined as a foreign bank without a physical presence in any country. 119 "Physical presence" means a place of business that:
- Is maintained by a foreign bank.
- Is located at a fixed address (other than solely an electronic address or a post office box) in a country in which the foreign financial institution is authorized to conduct banking activities, at which location the foreign financial institution:
- Employs one or more persons on a full-time basis.
- Maintains operating records related to its banking activities.
- Is subject to inspection by the banking authority that licensed the foreign financial institution to conduct banking activities. An exception, however, permits a bank to maintain a correspondent account for a foreign shell bank that is a regulated affiliate. 120A "regulated affiliate" is a shell bank that is affiliated with a depository institution, credit union, or foreign bank that maintains a physical presence in the United States or in another jurisdiction. The regulated affiliate shell bank must also be subject to supervision by the banking authority that regulates the affiliated entity. 31 CFR 1010.6 30 also requires that a bank take reasonable steps to ensure that any correspondent account established, maintained, administered, or managed in the United States for a foreign bank is not being used by that foreign bank to provide banking services indirectly to foreign shell banks.
A bank that maintains a correspondent account in the United States for a foreign bank must maintain records in the United States identifying the owners of each foreign bank. 121To minimize the recordkeeping burdens, ownership information is not required for foreign financial institutions that file a form FR Y-7 (Annual Report of Foreign Banking Organizations) with the Federal Reserve or for those foreign financial institutions that are publicly traded. "Publicly traded" refers to shares that are traded on an exchange or an organized over-the-counter market that is regulated by a foreign securities authority as defined in section 3(a)(50) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. A bank must also record the name and street address of a person who resides in the United States and who is authorized, and has agreed, to be an agent to accept service of legal process. 122"Service of legal process" means that the agent is willing to accept legal documents, such as subpoenas, on behalf of the foreign bank. Under 31 CFR 1010.670, a bank must produce these records within seven days upon receipt of a written request from a federal law enforcement officer.
The U.S. Treasury, working with the industry and federal banking and law enforcement agencies, developed a "certification process" to assist banks in complying with the recordkeeping provisions. This process includes certification and recertification forms. While banks are not required to use these forms, a bank will be "deemed to be in compliance" with the regulation if it obtains a completed certification form from the foreign bank and receives a recertification on or before the three-year anniversary of the execution of the initial or previous certification. 123Refer to Frequently Asked Questions, Foreign Bank Recertifications under 31 CFR 103.177, FIN-2006-G003, February 3, 2006.
The regulation also contains specific provisions as to when banks must obtain the required information or close correspondent accounts. Banks must obtain certifications (or recertifications) or otherwise obtain the required information within 30 calendar days after the date an account is established and at least once every three years thereafter. If the bank is unable to obtain the required information, it must close all correspondent accounts with the foreign bank within a commercially reasonable time.
A bank should review certifications for reasonableness and accuracy. If a bank at any time knows, suspects, or has reason to suspect that any information contained in a certification (or recertification), or that any other information it relied on is no longer correct, the bank must request that the foreign bank verify or correct such information, or the bank must take other appropriate measures to ascertain its accuracy. Therefore, banks should review certifications for potential problems that may warrant further review, such as use of post office boxes or forwarding addresses. If the bank has not obtained the necessary or corrected information within 90 days, it must close the account within a commercially reasonable time. During this time, the bank may not permit the foreign bank to establish any new financial positions or execute any transactions through the account, other than those transactions necessary to close the account. Also, a bank may not establish any other correspondent account for the foreign bank until it obtains the required information.
A bank must also retain the original of any document provided by a foreign bank, and retain the original or a copy of any document otherwise relied on for the purposes of the regulation, for at least five years after the date that the bank no longer maintains any correspondent account for the foreign bank.
Under section 319(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Secretary of the Treasury or the U.S. Attorney General may issue a subpoena or summons to any foreign bank that maintains a correspondent account in the United States to obtain records relating to that account, including records maintained abroad, or to obtain records relating to the deposit of funds into the foreign bank. If the foreign bank fails to comply with the subpoena or fails to initiate proceedings to contest that subpoena, the Secretary of the Treasury or the U.S. Attorney General (after consultations with each other) may, by written notice, direct a bank to terminate its relationship with a foreign correspondent bank. If a bank fails to terminate the correspondent relationship within ten days of receipt of notice, it could be subject to a civil money penalty of up to $10,000 per day until the correspondent relationship is terminated.
Requests for AML Records by Federal Regulator
Also, upon request by its federal regulator, a bank must provide or make available records related to AML compliance of the bank or one of its customers, within 120 hours from the time of the request ( 31 USC 5318(k)(2)).
Special Due Diligence Program for Foreign Correspondent Accounts
Section 312 of the USA PATRIOT Act added subsection (i) to 31 USC 5318 of the BSA. This subsection requires each U.S. financial institution that establishes, maintains, administers, or manages a correspondent account in the United States for a foreign financial institution to take certain AML measures for such accounts. In addition, section 312 of the USA PATRIOT Act specifies additional standards for correspondent accounts maintained for certain foreign banks.
General Due Diligence
31 CFR 1010.610(a) requires banks to establish a due diligence program that includes appropriate, specific, risk-based, and, where necessary, enhanced policies, procedures, and controls that are reasonably designed to enable the bank to detect and report, on an ongoing basis, any known or suspected money laundering activity conducted through or involving any correspondent account established, maintained, administered, or managed by the bank in the United States for a foreign financial institution 124 The term "foreign financial institution" as defined in 31 CFR 1010.605(f) generally includes:
- A foreign bank.
- A foreign branch or office of a U.S. bank, broker/dealer in securities, futures commission merchant, introducing broker, or mutual fund.
- Any other person organized under foreign law that, if located in the United States, would be a broker/dealer in securities, futures commission merchant, introducing broker, or mutual fund.
- Any person organized under foreign law that is engaged in the business of, and is readily identifiable as, a currency dealer or exchanger or a money transmitter. ("foreign correspondent account").
Due diligence policies, procedures, and controls must include each of the following:
Determining whether each such foreign correspondent account is subject to EDD (refer to "Enhanced Due Diligence" below).
Assessing the money laundering risks presented by each such foreign correspondent account.
Applying risk-based procedures and controls to each such foreign correspondent account reasonably designed to detect and report known or suspected money laundering activity, including a periodic review of the correspondent account activity sufficient to determine consistency with information obtained about the type, purpose, and anticipated activity of the account.
Risk assessment of foreign financial institutions. A bank's general due diligence program must include policies, procedures, and processes to assess the risks posed by the bank's foreign financial institution customers. A bank's resources are most appropriately directed at those accounts that pose a more significant money laundering risk. The bank's due diligence program should provide for the risk assessment of foreign correspondent accounts considering all relevant factors, including, as appropriate:
The nature of the foreign financial institution's business and the markets it serves.
The type, purpose, and anticipated activity of the foreign correspondent account.
The nature and duration of the bank's relationship with the foreign financial institution (and, if relevant, with any affiliate of the foreign financial institution).
The AML and supervisory regime of the jurisdiction that issued the charter or license to the foreign financial institution and, to the extent that information regarding such jurisdiction is reasonably available, of the jurisdiction in which any company that is an owner of the foreign financial institution is incorporated or chartered.
Information known or reasonably available to the bank about the foreign financial institution's AML record, including public information in standard industry guides, periodicals, and major publications.
Banks are not required to evaluate all of the above factors for every correspondent account.
Monitoring of foreign correspondent accounts. As part of ongoing due diligence, banks should periodically review their foreign correspondent accounts. Monitoring will not, in the ordinary situation, involve scrutiny of every transaction taking place within the account, but, instead, should involve a review of the account sufficient to ensure that the bank can determine whether the nature and volume of account activity is generally consistent with information regarding the purpose of the account and expected account activity and to ensure that the bank can adequately identify suspicious transactions.
An effective due diligence program will provide for a range of due diligence measures, based upon the bank's risk assessment of each foreign correspondent account. The starting point for an effective due diligence program, therefore, should be a stratification of the money laundering risk of each foreign correspondent account based on the bank's review of relevant risk factors (such as those identified above) to determine which accounts may require increased measures. The due diligence program should identify risk factors that would warrant the institution conducting additional scrutiny or increased monitoring of a particular account. As due diligence is an ongoing process, a bank should take measures to ensure account profiles are current and monitoring should be risk-based. Banks should consider whether risk profiles should be adjusted or suspicious activity reported when the activity is inconsistent with the profile.
31 CFR 1010.610(b) requires banks to establish risk-based EDD policies, procedures, and controls when establishing, maintaining, administering, or managing a correspondent account in the United States for certain foreign banks (as identified in 31 CFR 1010.610(c) operating under any one or more of the following:
An offshore banking license. 125The USA PATRIOT Act (31 USC 5318(i)(4)(A) and 31 CFR 1010.605(i) define an offshore banking license as a license to conduct banking activities that, as a condition of the license, prohibits the licensed entity from conducting banking activities with the citizens, or in the local currency of, the jurisdiction that issued the license.
A banking license issued by a foreign country that has been designated as noncooperative with international AML principles or procedures by an intergovernmental group or organization of which the United States is a member, and with which designation the United States representative to the group or organization concurs. 126The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the only intergovernmental organization of which the United States is a member that has designated countries as noncooperative with international anti-money laundering principles. The United States has concurred with all FATF designations to date.
A banking license issued by a foreign country that has been designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as warranting special measures due to money laundering concerns.
If such an account is established or maintained, 31 CFR 1010.610(b) requires the bank to establish EDD policies, procedures, and controls to ensure that the bank, at a minimum, takes reasonable steps to:
Determine, for any such foreign bank whose shares are not publicly traded, the identity of each of the owners of the foreign bank, and the nature and extent of the ownership interest of each such owner. 127An "owner" is any person who directly or indirectly owns, controls, or has the power to vote 10 percent or more of any class of securities of a foreign bank (31 CFR 1010.610(b)(3). "Publicly traded" means shares that are traded on an exchange or an organized over-the-counter market that is regulated by a foreign securities authority, as defined in section 3(a)(50) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 USC 78c(a)(50)) (1010.610(b)(3). Guidance on Obtaining and Retaining Beneficial Ownership Information, was issued by FinCEN, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Thrift Supervision, and Securities and Exchange Commission, in consultation with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in May 2010, The guidance consolidates existing regulatory expectations for obtaining beneficial ownership information for certain accounts and customer relationships.
Conduct enhanced scrutiny of such account to guard against money laundering and to identify and report any suspicious transactions in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. This enhanced scrutiny is to reflect the risk assessment of the account and shall include, as appropriate:
Obtaining and considering information relating to the foreign bank's anti-money laundering program to assess the risk of money laundering presented by the foreign bank's correspondent account.
Monitoring transactions to, from, or through the correspondent account in a manner reasonably designed to detect money laundering and suspicious activity.
Obtaining information from the foreign bank about the identity of any person with authority to direct transactions through any correspondent account that is a payable through account, and the sources and the beneficial owner of funds or other assets in the payable through account.
Determine whether the foreign bank for which the correspondent account is maintained in turn maintains correspondent accounts for other foreign banks that use the foreign bank's correspondent account and, if so, take reasonable steps to obtain information relevant to assess and mitigate money laundering risks associated with the foreign bank's correspondent accounts for other foreign banks, including, as appropriate, the identity of those foreign banks.
In addition to those categories of foreign banks identified in the regulation as requiring EDD, banks may find it appropriate to conduct additional due diligence measures on foreign financial institutions identified through application of the bank's general due diligence program as posing a higher risk for money laundering. Such measures may include any or all of the elements of EDD set forth in the regulation, as appropriate for the risks posed by the specific foreign correspondent account.
As also noted in the above section on general due diligence, a bank's resources are most appropriately directed at those accounts that pose a more significant money laundering risk. Accordingly, where a bank is required or otherwise determines that it is necessary to conduct EDD in connection with a foreign correspondent account, the bank may consider the risk assessment factors discussed in the section on general due diligence when determining the extent of the EDD that is necessary and appropriate to mitigate the risks presented. In particular, the anti-money laundering and supervisory regime of the jurisdiction that issued a charter or license to the foreign financial institution may be especially relevant in a bank's determination of the nature and extent of the risks posed by a foreign correspondent account and the extent of the EDD to be applied.
A bank's due diligence policies, procedures, and controls established pursuant to 31 CFR 1010.610 must include procedures to be followed in circumstances when appropriate due diligence or EDD cannot be performed with respect to a foreign correspondent account, including when the bank should:
Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 Reporting Requirements
The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (CISADA) was signed into law on July 1, 2010. 128Pub. L. No. 111-195, 124 Stat. 1312 (2010). CISADA authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit or impose strict conditions on the opening or maintaining in the United States of correspondent accounts and payable through accounts for foreign financial institutions that the Secretary determines have knowingly engaged in sanctionable activities.
On October 11, 2011, FinCEN issued a final rule implementing reporting requirements under section 104(e)(1)(B) of CISADA (31 CFR 1060.300). 129Refer to 76 Fed. Reg. 62607 (October 11, 2011). Also available at the FinCEN Web site. It is important to note that FinCEN will invoke CISADA reporting requirements in very limited instances, as necessary, to elicit valuable information. The final rule requires U.S. banks to report the following information upon receiving a written request from FinCEN:
Whether the foreign bank maintains a correspondent account for an Iranian-linked financial institution designated under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ("IEEPA");
Whether the foreign bank has processed one or more transfers of funds within the preceding 90 calendar days for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, an Iranian-linked financial institution designated under IEEPA, other than through a correspondent account; and
Whether the foreign bank has processed one or more transfers of funds within the preceding 90 calendar days for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ("IRGC") or any of its agents or affiliates designated under IEEPA.
The U.S. bank must report to FinCEN within 45 calendar days regardless of the foreign bank's response (e.g. positive response, negative response, incomplete response, or no response). If information is received from a foreign bank after the 45 calendar day deadline, the U.S. bank must report to FinCEN within 10 calendar days after receipt. The rule also requires the U.S. bank to report to FinCEN instances in which it does not maintain a correspondent account for the specified foreign bank.
In addition, the rule requires the U.S. bank to request the foreign bank to agree to notify them if the foreign bank subsequently establishes a new correspondent account for an Iranian-linked financial institution designated under IEEPA at any time within 365 calendar days from the date of the foreign bank's initial response. Reports regarding new correspondent accounts for an Iranian-linked financial institution designated under IEEPA are due within 10 calendar days after receipt.
FinCEN has developed a model certification form for a U.S. bank to provide to the foreign bank when making its inquiry required by the rule. 130 See the document on the FinCEN Web site. The use of the model certification form is optional. However, any alternative form used by a U.S. bank should request the same information as the model certification form.
The rule does not require a bank to take any actions other than those relating to the collection of information regardless of the response received from the foreign bank and the request for information from FinCEN does not relieve the bank of any other regulatory requirement. A bank should assess all of the information it knows about its customer in accordance with its risk-based BSA/AML compliance program to determine whether additional actions should be taken or filing a SAR is warranted.
The bank shall maintain a copy of any report filed with FinCEN and any supporting documentation, including the foreign bank certification, or other responses to an inquiry for a period of five years.
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The Songye reside in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the Lomami River in Central Africa. The political organization of the Songye is structured around the personality of their chief, a holy, benevolent figure endowed with magical-religious power. Secret societies structure social, political and religious life. Fetishes, amulets (boanga or nganga) and power figures (nkishi) are omnipresent among the Songye.


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Making Indigo babies
The Indigo Girls make their debut in Victoria Sept. 21 at the McPherson Playhouse
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Emily Saliers (left) and Amy Ray are the Indigo Girls. The duo brings their guitar- strumming folk music to the McPherson Playhouse Sunday
It's hard to believe the Indigo Girls have never played Victoria before.
The duet of Amy Ray, 49, and Emily Saliers, 50, have gone multiplatinum with their guitar-strumming folk music but only came through Victoria for the first time earlier this summer to play the Vancouver Island Musicfest in Comox.
They'll finally make their Victoria debut on Sept. 22 at the McPherson Playhouse. Though their last album is the 2011 release Beauty Queen Sister, they decided now's the time to do an all-Canadian tour, with 15 stops from Victoria to Halifax.
"We were in Victoria and Tofino for my 50th birthday," Saliers said.
While Atlanta is becoming known as an LGBT community (ranked first in 2010 and ninth in 2012 in the Advocate.com's gayest cities in America) its restaurant scene, apparently, isn't as up to date. Saliers is involved on an ownership level with Atlanta restaurant Watershed, which has a focus on locally sourced food, and is happy to dine on all of its southern cooking, meat included, though she's looking forward to eating vegetarian in Victoria.
"Stunning. Can't wait to go back. And I loved Rebar, I'm looking forward to eating there again. We don't have anything like it (in Atlanta). It blew me away."
Watershed is just another of Saliers' many endeavours as well as her political and environmental advocacy, and successful music career. With a new baby, it's turned the road into a place for reprieve.
It's a time to catch up on sleep.
"Baby is nine months old and she isn't sleeping well at night. I don't really sit down around (Atlanta) anymore."
So if you see Saliers looking sleepy-eyed while dining at Rebar this weekend, you'll know why.
"We're getting a sleep doula. Sleep books, we have those too."
Babies is the Indigo Girls' theme of the year as Saliers' partner Tristin Chipman gave birth back in December and Ray's longtime partner Carrie Schrader is expecting a baby in November. You can just hear the cynical public's response typecasting the children of the folky, left-wing promoters of gay rights and the environment.
Truth is, being a parent is the same for all. Well, almost the same.
"I'm used to life on the road, I think my daughter has been on 20 flights already," Saliers said. "I don't know how I could do it without my wife, she's incredible. I have the greatest partner in the world."
Chipman is part Canadian with family in Alberta, where she and baby will link up with the tour there later this month.
"I can't wait to play more shows in the land of the greats: Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, k.d. lang, and The Tragically Hip. Excellent times await this journey. It also feels like starting anew in small, intimate venues."
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Keewaydin was a 23 acre property. Beatrix Farrand (1872 - 1953) designed the summer garden for financier Gardiner Sherman's shingle-style "cottage" in Bar Harbor, Maine. The garden featured a formal almond-shaped bed planted with roses and summer blooming flowers with a three-tiered fountain in the center. Other flower beds separated by lawn were augmented with decorative columns and other garden ornaments, stone benches and planted containers. The design included a rock garden and woods beyond the sloping lawns. A folly was modeled on the 18th century Temple of the Winds designed by Sir William Chambers. The house and garden were destroyed in 1947 in a fire that devastated Bar Harbor.
The Bar Harbor Keewaydin should not be confused with another property in Seal Harbor, Maine, also called Keewaydin, with a garden designed by Farrand. The Seal Harbor property was owned by Dr. Edward K. Dunham.
Persons associated with the garden include: Gardiner Sherman (former owner from 1898); Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) (landscape architect); and Hugh Lamb (1849 - 1903) & Charles Alonzo Rich (1855 - 1943) (architects); Edward and Lucy (Conger) May (former owner, 1925-1947); Jasper Holbrook (gardener, until 1947).
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Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
This property is featured in: Lost Bar Harbor by G.W. Helfrich and Gladys O'Neil, Down East Books, 1982; and in Bar Harbor (Postcard History) by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Arcadia Publishing.
The folders includes worksheets and photocopies of articles and correspondence.
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Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Keewaydin related holdings consist of 1 folder (5 35 mm. slides; 1 glass lantern slide)
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Gardens -- France
Gardens -- Italy
Gardens -- Japan
Gardens -- Mexico
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Gardens -- United States
Gardens -- Spain
Gardens -- Scotland
This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland. A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.
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The GCA continues to document American gardens and submit images and documentation to the Archives of American Gardens. Further accruals are expected.
The Garden Club of America was established in 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the Garden Club of Philadelphia and eleven other garden clubs met to create a national garden club. Its purpose is to foster the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and gardening and conservation efforts. The GCA was incorporated in Delaware in 1923, with its headquarters established in New York City. Today, local clubs are organized under twelve regional zones. The GCA continues its tradition of hosting flower shows and publishing material related to gardening in the United States. The GCA's glass lantern slides were used by The GCA for presentations and lectures about notable gardens throughout the United States dating back to colonial times. An effort was made in the late 1980s, in preparation of the 75th anniversary of the Garden Club of America's founding, to collect the disbursed slides. These slides were to eventually form the Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens. The informational value of this collection is extensive since a number of images of the more than 4,500 gardens represented show garden designs that have changed over time or no longer exist. While the majority of images document a range of designed upper and upper-middle class gardens throughout the U.S., the scope of the collection is expanding as volunteers photograph and document contemporary gardens including community and vernacular gardens. The gardens illustrate the design work of dozens of landscape architects including Marian Coffin, Beatrix Farrand, Lawrence Halprin, Hare & Hare, Umberto Innocenti, Gertrude Jekyll, Jens Jensen, Warren Manning, the Olmsted Brothers, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele. Because of their proximity to the gardens, works of notable architects and sculptors may also be featured in the images.
37,000 Slides (35mm slides)
33 Linear feet ((garden files))
3,000 Lantern slides
circa 1920-present
Custodial History note
The GCA's Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1992; this became the core collection of the Archives of American Gardens.
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What makes the Irish witness protection scheme stand out is that there is no legislation governing the programme itself, writes Aaron Harte-Hughes, Department of Law.
Most people are generally unaware that an Irish Witness Security Programme even exists. For many, our only knowledge of witness protection stems from watching US crime dramas from the sanctuary of our own homes. Yet, witness protection is not some fanciful, far-removed concept of policing and it is prevalent in almost every jurisdiction, including this one.
However, what makes Ireland stand out is the fact that there is no legislation governing the programme itself. In fact, the only known tangible piece of material governing its operation lies firmly embedded in a confidential Garda circular. This lack of formalisation is due both to the programme's history, as well as to the belief that it is to the apparent benefit of the programme to run in absolute, self-governed incognito.
The birth of witness protection programmes
Modern-day witness protection draws its heritage from the late 1960s and 1970s and America's attempts to combat the powerful Italian Mafia and its inviolable code of 'Omertà' ('honour through silence'). The US Federal WITSEC Protection Programme, considered by many today as the shining example of modern-day witness protection, was originally developed to combat these powerful and tightly knit criminal enterprises.
Fast forward two decades and Ireland found itself similarly besieged with serious crime, emanating both from the Troubles and the booming drug trade. The infamous 1996 murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin provided the catalyst for the hasty inception and informal establishment of Ireland's answer to WITSEC, the Irish Witness Security Programme.
Like the US scheme, the current programme often involves the affordance of State police protection, impunity from prosecution, transport to a new locality, provision of a new identity, and other incentivised perks (e.g. wage subsidies etc.) to any bystander/accomplice willing to testify against the accused(s), someone who is often a former compatriot.
In the aftermath of the Guerin killing, following one of the largest investigations in the history of this state, several prosecutions were brought against alleged members of an organised criminal gang, namely John Gilligan, Paul Ward, Brian Meehan and Patrick Holland. All of these cases contained an intrinsic link, the testimony of the pioneer state-protected witness, Charles Bowden.
Bowden was a self-admitted accomplice to the killing of Guerin. The Special Criminal Court would later acknowledge that Bowden was 'a deeply self-avaricious character', someone who would lie openly under oath without hesitation. Bowden's motivation for testifying was powerful and clearly incentivised by personal gain, including the promise of 'clemency and largesse' to be afforded to him through the Security Scheme.
All four of these judgements (including their subsequent appeals) make specific reference to the worrisome lack of any information regarding the operation and management of the Witness Security Programme. Justice McCracken warned that the programme was badly thought-out and 'one of the most worrying features is that there never seems to have actually been a programme'.
Rather starkly, the trial court refused to accept the testimony of two other state-witnesses during the Gilligan trial, on account of the fact that monies had been inappropriately returned to the family members of these witnesses by investigating Gardaí. These monies which were deemed as being most likely derived from the proceeds of crime. Added to this was the fact that several interviews involving the said witnesses were either missing or unrecorded. Susan Denham, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, even forewarned that the disarray of the Witness Security Programme could inevitably prove fatal to a case, resulting in a dangerous individual benefitting from the fall of a precariously balanced house of cards.
Why is there no legislation governing the scheme?
There have been previous failed attempts to pass legislation formalising the Witness Security Programme here in Ireland. Notably, the major opponent to the bill on these occasions was the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána at the time.
In 2007, Sean Power, the former Minister of State for Equality at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, noted that the government was advised by the Commissioner against the implementation of such a formalised system, citing the importance of maintaining the effectiveness of the programme and its broad importance in preserving national security.
This contrasts with comments made by the former Director of Public Prosecutions, James Hamilton, in 2009, who stated that the current programme was of "limited use". Indeed, it is at best arguable whether the current programme was ever truly effective when tested during the Guerin case, considering that only one alleged participant was ever successfully convicted of involvement in her murder, namely, Brian Meehan.
Hence, when we look at the Witness Security Programme here in Ireland, we are faced with a system almost entirely self-governed by the Gardaí, a system which lacks any statutory formalisation or any form of public accountability. From an accused person's perspective, he/she is faced with the bleak prospect of an often jury-less trial, combined with challenging the evidence of a well-informed and highly motivated former-accomplice, someone who possesses innate knowledge of both the criminal enterprise and the evidence recovered by the State. Moreover, this lack of formality has pronounced adverse effects for the enforcement of participant witnesses' rights.
Ultimately, we have learned on this island through the lessons of history that national security is also of national public interest. No policy should ever be deemed so secretive in an open and democratic society as to avoid some measure of scrutiny and approach.
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This piece originally appeared on RTÉ Brainstorm https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/1102/1257277-ireland-witness-protection-programme-gardai-legislation/
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Located in western Edmonton is the neighborhood of High Park. This family – oriented neighborhood is bordered by 111 Avenue on the north, 107 Avenue on the south, by 156 street on the west and on the east by 149 Street.
The neighborhood is surrounded by a mix of residential neighborhoods and industrial subdivisions. Britannia Youngstown, Grovenor, Canora, , McQueen and Mayfield are the residential neighborhoods. The industrial sub divisions are Huff Bremner(NE), Sheffield Industrial(NW) and High Park Industrial(N).
High Park is a great place to raise a family as most houses are single family dwellings with a significant number of dwellings being owner occupied. Duplex, triplex and fourplex dwellings are a minority and are all rentals. There are also apartment buildings that are fewer than five storeys available for rental. A significant portion of the residences of High Park were constructed between the late 1940s (and 1970.
This coincides with the boom in world population after World War II where the need for housing solutions increased. It was for this reason that High Park became a part of Edmonton when the Town of Jasper Place combined with Edmonton in August 1964 as the municipality could not handle the rapid increase in population. There is only one neighborhood school, High Park Elementary which offers quality education to ones children. Other schools are located in the neighboring communities such as the Youngstown Elementary School and Britannia Junior High School in Britannia; Brightview Elementary School in Canora; Mayfield Elementary School in Mayfield; and the McQueen Public School in McQueen. These are operated by the Edmonton Public School system.
While the Edmonton Catholic School System operates St. Luke Catholic School (Britannia), Holy Cross Elementary Junior High School (Canora), Our Lady Of Peace Catholic Elementary School (Mayfield), Archbishop MacDonald High School and St. Gregory Catholic School (McQueen). Edmonton Christian School and Edmonton Menorah Academy are also operated in McQueen. Close to High Park, in the neighborhood of Mayfield there are several parks which offer recreation for the family. These are Mayfield Park, Otto Leslie Park, Patrick J. Ryan Park, and Phoebe Mccullough Park.
The Mayfield Common shopping centre offers a great place to satisfy one's shopping needs and the Westlawn Cemetery are located at the south west corner of Britannia.


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Russia Is Not the First to Blame Jews for Their Own Holocaust
Why people try to pin the Nazi genocide on the Jews, and why it's so dangerous.
By Yair Rosenberg
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spends most of his time these days obfuscating the reality of his country's assault on Ukraine. But this past week, he took a momentary break from this work to distort the history of a different war: World War II and the Jewish genocide that accompanied it. Asked on Italian television how Russia could claim to be "denazifying" Ukraine when the country is led by a Jewish president, Lavrov retorted, "I believe that Hitler also had Jewish blood." He later added, "Some of the worst anti-Semites are Jews."
Lavrov has one job: to sell Russia's unprovoked war on Ukraine in the public square. Unsurprisingly, his Holocaust revisionism—rooted in a long-standing conspiracy theory—hasn't helped. The Israeli government publicly rebuked Russia over the comments, summoning its ambassador and demanding an apology. As Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid pointedly put it: "Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust." (Lapid's grandfather was murdered by the Nazis, while his grandmother and father ultimately made their way to Israel.)
In a rare joint statement, Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives similarly condemned Lavrov's claims, saying: "Defaulting to antisemitic tropes, including blaming the Jews for the Holocaust and using the Holocaust to cover their own war crimes, reflects the gutless depravity of the Russian regime." In response to this outcry, the Russian foreign ministry doubled down, accusing Lapid and Israel of supporting a "neo-Nazi regime" in Ukraine. As this goes to press, Israeli sources are reporting that Putin has apologized for his foreign minister's remarks, but this has not been confirmed by Russia.
For those familiar with the history of the Holocaust, Lavrov's stance might seem utterly unhinged. But equating Jews with Nazis has long been a staple of Soviet and Russian rhetoric. And beliefs like Lavrov's are far more common than most realize. Over the decades, many people from the Soviet Union to America to the Middle East have blamed the Jews for their own genocide, often for political and ideological purposes. It's important to understand why they do this, because these efforts are not merely intended to obscure depraved acts of the past, but to enable them in the future.
The Popular Pastime of Pinning the Holocaust on the Jews
One of the more chilling polls in U.S. history was taken by Gallup in 1938, on the eve of the Holocaust. As Hitler rose to power and enacted a host of anti-Semitic laws, the survey firm asked Americans for their opinions on the Jewish victims of European anti-Semitism. The results? 54 percent said that "the persecution of Jews in Europe has been partly their own fault." 11 percent said it was "entirely" their fault. In other words, 65 percent of Americans adhered to the soft-core version of Lavrov's position, blaming Europe's Jews for their own abuse. (Even today, many continue to insist that Jews cause anti-Semitism.)
The hard-core version of this worldview, on the other hand, contends that Jews actively collaborated with the Nazis to perpetrate the Holocaust. This is Lavrov's position, but he's not alone. Take David Icke, one of the world's most prominent conspiracy theorists, who claims that wealthy Jews funded the Holocaust, writing, "The Warburgs, part of the Rothschild empire, helped finance Adolf Hitler." (Icke has also claimed elsewhere that "Hitler was a Rothschild.") Like Lavrov's remarks, Icke's claims may seem fringe. But the deeply anti-Semitic book that these words appeared in was fulsomely recommended by author Alice Walker in the pages of the New York Times.
Back in 1984, Mahmoud Abbas—now the president of the Palestinian Authority—published a book based on his doctoral dissertation. The name? The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism. The tract, which is still featured today on Abbas's official government website, alleges that the Zionists were the Third Reich's "basic partner in crime." "The Zionist movement," it falsely claims, "led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule, in order to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to expand the mass extermination." The purpose of this conspiracy, Abbas contends, was to spur more Jewish immigration to Palestine. Among other assertions, Abbas also writes that no Jews were murdered in the Nazi gas chambers, citing noted Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson, and argues that the figure of 6 million Jewish dead is exaggerated many times over.
One might reasonably wonder: Where did Abbas manage to successfully submit this Ph.D. in Holocaust denial? The answer: Lumumba University, in Moscow.
The Attractions of Inverting the Holocaust
Why are people so drawn to explanations that pin the Holocaust on its Jewish victims? To understand the allure of accusing the Jews of genocide—whether their own or of others—one has to understand what the claim accomplishes for those who level it. As I've written previously:
False charges of Jewish genocide continue to proliferate because they offer tantalizing rewards that make them irresistible to a certain brand of bigot.
First, they weaponize the greatest Jewish trauma against Jewish people. As the Marxist political theorist Norm Geras put it, "To say to Jews that what they are doing is just like what the Nazis did to them is to appeal to the comparison that is most hateful." There is no better way to hurt someone than to fashion their most painful experience into a club with which to beat them. It's not hard to imagine how turning the Holocaust on Jewish people, like turning slavery on Black people, provides a delicious transgressive thrill.
This helps explain the immediate appeal for Lavrov in invoking the Holocaust against both Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and Israel's Lapid, both of whom lost family in it.
Second, casting Jews as the perpetrators of a new, fictitious Holocaust [or, in this case, as the fictitious perpetrators of the Holocaust] frees non-Jews from the obligation to learn the lessons of the actual Holocaust …
In a masterful maneuver of moral jujitsu, pinning genocide on the Jews allows the bigot to swipe the "Holocaust card" and play it against them. The victims are transformed into perpetrators, and their judgment is called into question.
For Lavrov, a man tasked with defending a regime that stands accused of crimes against humanity, inverting the Holocaust is simply another iteration of what he has already been doing for his own government: recasting its victims as aggressors and using this to justify further victimization. In other words, Lavrov's comments don't simply distort the past, but attempt to justify similar acts in the future. Seen in this light, it's less surprising that the Russian foreign minister resorted to inverted Holocaust arguments—and more surprising that it took him this long.
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