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New batch of Arizona votes nets Trump over 10,000 additional votes
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In the key state of Arizona, the latest batch of votes that have been counted have reduced Joe Biden's lead even further, to the point where it has shrunk to less than 47,000 votes.
Arizona has become a hot point of contention in the 2020 race after Fox News called the state on Tuesday night in a move that was hotly contested by the Trump campaign. At the time, President Donald Trump trailed former Vice President Biden by over 100,000 votes, with substantial remaining votes in Maricopa County, which was trending blue.
However, the Trump campaign insisted that the remaining mail-in votes to be counted would break the president's way, and thus far, the numbers have borne that out. Over the last two days, Biden's once-formidable lead in Arizona has frittered away to less than half of what it once was.
The batch that was dropped on Thursday night consisted largely of Maricopa County votes, and President Trump carried those votes by a margin of 42,476 to 31,700 for Biden, meaning that Trump made up over 10,000 votes in a county that was widely expected to break for Biden.
It remains unclear whether the remaining votes will be sufficient to put President Trump over the top in Arizona.
As of this moment, Fox News has stood by its call of Arizona for Biden.
Arizona has become such a critical battleground because of the fact that, in addition to holding on to precarious leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania, Trump would also have to win either Arizona or Nevada in order to prevent Biden from reaching 270 electoral votes. Most election observers believe that Nevada — where the overwhelming bulk of remaining votes are in heavily Democratic Clark County — is already out of Trump's reach.


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Eye-opening Visit – Rigo Chacon, Jr.
She has moderate to severe learning disabilities, anxiety, and emotional distress. I cannot reference the cause of her distress, but suffice it to say, her scumbag father is not allowed near her (and her mother isn't equipped to raise her).
She is now in foster care.
When she walked into the classroom that I was visiting, I didn't know if she was a student, or a class aide. There is nothing to indicate anything other than a normal young girl. Of course, the class assignment — a "spelling" lesson — revealed much more.
She struggled, but participated in every aspect of the assignment. She was engaged, conversed with other students, and even answered the classroom phone (this is one of her responsibilities).
At the end of my visit, her teacher explained that above all, students like Cynthia need daily encouragement and positive reinforcement.
Like most of you, I cannot empathize with parents who are raising, or educators who are teaching, kids like Cynthia. I can only exercise compassion and understanding.
The visit was emotional and eye-opening, and while I didn't leave in great spirits, I found some solace in what the teacher said: Despite Cynthia's disabilities and experiences, she comes to class happy. Every day. Oh … and she loves to dance.


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Have your say on digitalisation: Take part in the new NBS Digital Construction Survey
NBS, the platform for connected construction information, has launched its annual survey with a new direction this year.
For over ten years, NBS has been tracking the adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) via its National BIM Survey. The survey, previously known as NBS BIM Survey, will become the Digital Construction Survey from this year onwards.
The survey, which is the most comprehensive in the sector, allows those working in construction, architecture and engineering among others, to better understand the status quo and developments to make informed decisions, leading to a safer industry.
The construction sector has been implementing BIM widely over the last few years, with adoption standing at 73% in 2020. NBS wants to capture exciting new developments through the new iteration of the BIM survey with the aim of gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the current picture of digital transformation and day-to-day usage of technology.
For example, the survey will monitor offsite construction, collaboration in the cloud and the impact of COVID-19 on the sector's digitalisation.
The 2020 BIM report represented the views of over 1,000 industry professionals showcasing the adoption of BIM has grown substantially across the industry. Where as in comparison, a decade ago, 43% of respondents had not even heard of BIM.
The BIM adoption by many in construction has helped transform how people work. While recognising that there are different views about the process of embedding BIM, NBS also sees other new ways of working and new technologies.
NBS Research Manager David Bain said, "We have been monitoring BIM adoption at NBS for over a decade. Digital transformation is changing the industry, and it will continue to do so. We know an increasing number of construction professionals are beginning to adopt virtual reality and other technologies like modern methods of construction, and the effects of the pandemic have undoubtedly accelerated this. These new digital tools are transforming the construction sector and will likely lead to a better built environment.
"In this year's survey, we are taking a step further and plan to look beyond BIM to some of the new technologies being used in the built environment. We look forward to seeing what progress we have made as an industry and what changes we anticipate in the next year."
The Digital Construction Survey is for designers, specifiers, manufacturers, contractors and others working in the built environment.
You can complete this year's NBS Digital Construction Survey, here www.theNBS.com/digitalsurvey1
For every completed response, NBS will donate £1 to the charity Crash. The survey should only take 10-15 minutes to complete. A pre-release report is sent to all participants, so those taking part will be among the first to access the findings.
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The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the Revolutionary Union, is a revolutionary Maoist organization that was formed in 1975.
It was formed by former members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) after that group fell apart in 1968.
The RCP is a participant in the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM), which is a grouping of revolutionary Maoist parties and organizations around the world, including the Shining Path and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
The party started life within the Revolutionary Communist Group, which had split from the International Socialists in the 1970s.
At the end of the 1980s the RCP had moved away from its roots as a Trotskyist organisation, abandoning the notion of the class struggle and declaring the working class dead as a political force.
This followed after the lost election of 1987, when RCP members stood as the Red Front and talked about the replacement of the Labour Party with the RCP.
Communist Parties in Russia and later China came to power in the course of bloody civil wars fought between the Communists and the remnants of collapsed imperial regimes.
Communists are resolute opponents of imperialist war and must mobilise and lead the masses in the fight against preparations for a third world war which would be the greatest crime committed in the history of mankind.
It is important that the revolutionary elements in both kinds of countries be educated to understand the nature of the strategic alliance between the revolutionary proletarian movement in the advanced countries and the national-democratic revolutions in the oppressed nations.
The desire to spread the revolutionary movement of the 1960s to the proletariat and to merge with the workers, inspired to no small degree by the experience of the revolutionary youth in the Cultural Revolution, was a powerful and correct revolutionary sentiment which, however, became stifled and distorted under the influence of economism.
The Revolutionary Communist Party was founded in late 1975 from a reorganization of the Revolutionary Union.
In a Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) faction fight, the majority supported the so-called Gang of Four while the minority favored Hua Kuofeng.
In January 1979, 17 RCP members were arrested on felony charges in Washington, D.C. where they were protesting the visit of Deng Xiaoping.
In October 1983, the WWIC was founded to facilitate collaboration between the RCP and the European terrorist underground, for the purpose of sabotaging American efforts to deploy Pershing and cruise missiles in Germany.
RCP national spokesman Carl Dix also has a long history of political activism, illegal acts of disobedience, and opposition to American policies and interests.
RCP National Council member C. Clark Kissinger is a former national secretary for SDS, and was the founder of the U.S.-China People's Friendship Association in 1971.
The UK Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) was started by Frank Furedi in 1978 as a faction of the International Socialists (which went on to become the Socialist Workers' Party).
The RCP sold LM to Helene Guldberg at the end of 1996.
The RCP is said to have run a wide number of front organisations during its lifetime.
There is enough disorder and instability to stimulate the emergence and development of revolutionary forces which have to be vigilant against the enemy's capacity to do damage to the masses and the revolutionary forces.
The ground is fertile for Marxist-Leninists to build proletarian parties and international solidarity in order to raise the level of the anti-imperialist and socialist movements to a new and higher level than ever before in the struggle against imperialism, the common enemy of the international proletariat and peoples of the world.
The revisionists deny the Leninist theory of the state and thus the necessity of revolutionary violence and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The Revolutionary Communist Party was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1968 by current RCP-USA chairman Bob Avakian, the son of a retired federal judge, as the Revolutionary Union (RU).
The Revolutionary Communist Party is a "vanguardist" organization; meaning that its leaders and rank and file members see themselves as the "most advanced" politically, and that the rest of us are just here waiting for them to tell us what to do.
The RCP may do well to in fact read the words of Mao Tse Tung, since nothing is more pathetic and sad than members of a psuedo-religious cult who don't even know their own ideology/dogma.
The present revolutionary crisis is characterized by the development of a powerful popular movement in the cities and in the countryside that involves all the popular strata (workers, pupils in primary and secondary schools, university students, employees, women, youth, merchants, artisans and peasants) against impunity, for political liberties, independence and true progress.
The bonds between our parties, which date back to their formation, are being reinforced through the common struggles of our two peoples and parties for the revolution and scientific socialism.
This is of course a particularly rabid Arab communist.
I urge people who don't believe me, to find a communist organisation (there is one in a city near you - no matter where you are), and to get their literature, speak to their people, and talk to them.
In this article, I have drawn attention to the hate which sprouts forth from the mouths of communists in the USA as they try to "liberate" the "oppressed" in the USA and as they try to bedevil US officials who were logically using profiling to try to make air travel safer for innocent people.
The Revolutionary Communist Party is a United States political organisation directed from Paris, France.
The RCP evolved from the Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II) faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the major USA campus force during the 1960s that was capable of mobilising hundreds of thousands of students nationwide for anti-Vietnam war activities.
The RCP is also sponsor of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) established in London in 1984.
They believe that the only way for the oppressed masses to ever liberate themselves is through waging a people's war, and building a new socialist society on the ashes of what they consider to be capitalism.
Such rapid expansion was not without its problems, however, and in 1971 a senior leader of the Revolutionary Union (as BARU had been renamed when it had developed a nationwide structure), H. Bruce Franklin, led a section of the group in a split based on semi-anarchist ideas that were characterised by many as voluntarist.
The new group was named Venceremos, showing the continuing influence of the Cuban Revolution on many New Leftists, and was to last for only a short time before collapsing in 1973.
the rcp used to run a bookshop called 'the edge' in a sidestreet near kings cross in london, and a gallery called 'the angle' in birmingham.
The RCP was a faction that canme out of the International Socialists (who in tern turned into the SWP).
Kissinger is a past secretary general of Students for a Democratic Society and a contributor to the house organ of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Bear in mind that in Communist theory, a "united front" group like NION is defined as a gathering of "reformers" and "revolutionaries" and is to be used or permitted only so long as it is useful for the Communist party.
Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
In 1964, as a student at UC Berkeley, he was active in the FSM and was arrested during the Sproul Hall sit-in.
Long before I became a revolutionary, I had come to feel strongly that Black people had the right to defend themselves against the brutality of the KKK and the police--who, as we know, were and are often literally the same people.
He has guided the RCP since its formation in the 1975 and is a major leader of the international communist movement.
From his life experience and revolutionary perspective comes a profound sense of the struggles and sentiments among the masses of people; and he keeps his finger on the pulse of the movements of opposition in society and more broadly.
The fact is International A.N.S.W.E.R. was established in part by Worker's World Party member, frequent Worker's World Party newspaper columnist and co-director of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark's International Action Center, Brian Becker, according to a November 2001 entry in the IAC's web archive.
If you visit the Revolutionary Communist Party's website, an organization that has supported the Maoist Shining Path guerillas in Peru, Not in Our Name is featured in a prominent place on its website (http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sambo/index.htm).
Some Marxist groups, such as the Trotskyist Socialist Worker's Party are using the anti-war movement to exploit the naiveté and idealism of young Americans to recruit them into their Marxist cabal.
The League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP), based in the United States, is dedicated to the restoration of authentic Marxism and the political independence of the working class everywhere.
While supporting all partial struggles of the workers and oppressed, we fight for classwide demands that point to the need for socialist revolution.
The decisive task today is the building of working-class revolutionary parties in every country to provide the necessary leadership for the mass upheavals ahead.
SOHH.com Global Forum - Who supports the communist revolutionary party?
07-13-03 01:45 PM If you're talking about the Revolutionary Communist Party (www.rwor.org), their a bunch of kooks.
They write an on point article every now and then, but they have some serious delusions when it comes to implementation of their platforms.
If you see in everything that I have said thus far nothing other than "leave me alone", then you clearly have not been listening, and would rather keep to the dull comfort of a world that does not question your ideas -- which does not exist except in your own mind.
"There is a relationship between quantity and quality, not only in terms of building the party but also in terms of the party being able to carry out its overall line (which in one sense can be viewed as a qualitative question, that is, a question of line).
Now there is, of course, the related question of the broad forces that rally around the party to one degree or another and carry out its policies in that kind of way, that is, not being part of the party but still sympathetic with it or supporting it and helping to carry out its policies.
But still there is a qualitative difference between that and people who carry out the party's policies as members of the party and as part of its organization and division of labor, and with that degree of consciousness and therefore that degree of commitment.
Currently a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and a contributing writer for the socialist publication Revolutionary Worker, Kissinger began his public activism in the early 1960s when he was the national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), founded by Tom Hayden.
The leading radical organization of its day, SDS later split into several groups, among which was the militant, revolutionary Weathermen.
MIM frankly declares that it can only achieve its ends "by building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle." Chief among its objectives is to foment "revolution [in] North America, as the [US}military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to maintain world hegemony." Such are the ideals of Mr.
The Revolutionary Communist Party of Volta (P.C.R.V.) is happy to announce to the people that its 2nd Congress was held recently in our country.
It is in this perspective that it assures the proletariat and people of our country of its determination to fight resolutely at their side in the important social struggles that are coming.
All I can say is that the RCP at least hides itself better-- you had to be in the know at the Not in Our Name rally in New York to tell who had organized it, since it seemed very organic and collegial.
The core group of the RCP (I'm not sure the group was more than 10 people) would show up at every demonstration, push to the front, make a lot of noise, carry big placards, and make it seem like they were leaders or organizers or spokespersons.
Yes, and it's their party that is the only one that seems to be doing something about it, either, sad to say.
On Wednesday, September 28, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, delivered a major speech on foreign policy to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, entitled "We are in Iraq to bring about democracy".
It is very much a sign of the times that even at this highly staged-managed conference it was necessary to use the draconian powers of the Terrorism Act to silence and remove an eighty-two-year-old lifelong Labour Party member who accused Jack Straw of talking nonsense.
In 1984, she moved to New York and joined Revolution Books, which she said was founded in 1979 by communist supporters.
She is, by her own measure, as nonconformist as a good communist living in a capitalist land should be.
Despite the efforts of Hirsch and her colleagues, communism remains far from the mainstream of political discourse in the United States.
The 'war on fat' is a witch-hunt masquerading as a public health initiative.
All of the wannabe leaders agree that the party needs to change - but into what, and why?
The author of a new pamphlet on multiculturalism offers his critique of the liberal-left's celebration of difference.


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Scandinavian Tobacco Group Appoints Head of Human Resources – North America from Search by Hanold Associates
Scandinavian Tobacco Group, a global manufacturer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco, has appointed Ian Breslin as Head of HR – North America. Hanold Associates' Ashley Schiele and Kile Hanold led the search for this role based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Scandinavian Tobacco Group owns more than 200 brands, such as Macanudo and Captain Black, and 14 manufacturing sites worldwide. Products are sold in more than 100 countries via supermarkets, drugstores, and wholesalers. In addition, the company has acquired popular online retailers and opened physical locations to reach consumers in new ways. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, the company has more than 11,000 employees globally and had revenues of DKK 8,006 million ($1.28B) in 2020.
Ian was previously a Director of Human Resources for Mergers and Acquisitions at Rentokil North America, creating HR structure and processes for M&A activity. At Scandinavian Tobacco Group, Ian will report to the Global Chief Human Resources Officer and lead a team of HR professionals to oversee all HR operations for this region. Ian will support nearly 800 employees as the company strives to grow rapidly in the US market.


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Americans' Purchasing Habits Altered by COVID-19
Thu., Jul. 30, 2020
By Jon Gingerich
Like virtually every other facet of American life, the global economic crisis brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak has had a remarkable impact on consumer purchasing behaviors and will also undoubtedly affect how brands connect with audiences henceforth.
According to a recent survey released by San Francisco-based tech firm Bospar, 86 percent of Americans report that COVID-19 has changed their consumer buying habits. Specifically, more than a third (35 percent) said the pandemic has influenced them to buy only essential goods. Nearly a third (30 percent) said it had made them more concerned about price (30 percent) and has left them being more selective about purchases (30 percent).
The survey also discovered that, in light of the pandemic, a majority of Americans (81 percent) said they now want companies to do more to earn their personal business. The initiatives respondents are most eager to see companies implement include helping the health workers fighting COVID-19 (49 percent), helping essential workers such as grocery employees (45 percent) and hiring a diverse workforce (34 percent). Nearly a third of respondents (30 percent) additionally said they want companies to make a statement—with accompanying actions— supporting Black Lives Matter and more than a quarter (26 percent) want companies to invest in corporate social responsibility programs.
More than three-quarter of those polled (78 percent) reported that COVID-19 has impacted them, leaving them more fearful (33 percent), working fewer hours (24 percent) or unemployed (16 percent). Five percent of respondents said they lost a family member to COVID-19 and three percent said they contracted the virus personally. Only eight percent said the pandemic has changed how they plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
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The Box of Chocolates
ONE of the most beautiful countries in the world, Mordochka, is Norway. It's so beautiful that people jump out of bed every morning in gratitude. Yes, of course, dogs jump out of bed too!
This story begins 70 years ago in Norway and Denmark, and it's still going on. Did you know that they say the people of Denmark are the happiest people on earth? Maybe it's because they're so kind.
It was 1945 and World War II had just ended. The people of Norway were very hard off because they had been occupied by Germany and were what was called severely "food deprived".
Of course, that was true everywhere in Europe but, even so, the government of Denmark wanted to reach out and help their neighbor country and, through the Red Cross, they took part in
a summer program in which children from Norway went to live with children in Denmark for the summer.
And so, the summer after the war, a child named Marit was sent to live in Denmark for the summer. Marit was just 14-years-old. She went to live with a family who had two daughters, Lise and Grete. Grete was also 14 and Lise was six years younger. For two summers Marit went to live with Grete and Lise, and they became like three forever sisters.
When things got better in Norway, Marit's family invited the sisters' family to come visit. For four years they went back and forth to visit each other, but then Grete and Lise's family moved to America. That was in 1949.
Right before New Year's the next year, in 1950, a box from Norway arrived in the mail to the sisters' family: a big, red, wonderful box of chocolates! Yes, it made them very happy, Mordochka, because just 1 big, red, wonderful box of chocolates made them feel close to their dear Norwegian friends. It's special to feel close to people, Mordochka. But wait until you hear what happened after that.
Grete, Lise, and Marit all grew up and married and started families of their own—but, still, every year Marit's parents sent a big, red, wonderful box of chocolates to Grete and Lise's parents. When the sisters' parents eventually passed away, Marit sent two big, red, wonderful boxes of chocolates: one to Grete's family and one to Lise's family.
And now, even though Marit and Grete have passed away, Marit's son, Jan, still sends the same big, red, wonderful box of chocolates to Lise. Even after 70 years, Mordochka, the box of chocolates is just as special when it arrives in the mail with all its magical stamps, as when it first arrived when Lise was a little girl. Not distance, not time, not borders, not even death or war, Mordochka, can stop, or break, ties of kindness and love.
—Told to us by Lise. The chocolates, unfortunately,
were already gone when she told us or she would have surely shared them with us, for Lise was born in the land of happiness and kindness.


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They cracked the Iron Curtain
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plots to hijack an empty small passenger plane and escape from the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag, with two sentenced to death. Forty-five years later, through a collage of intimate interviews, rare archival footage, and reenactment, the filmmaker reveals the compelling story! Leaders of the group were considered "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in the Soviet Union.
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Director: Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov
Documentary: 62 minutes
Introduction: Barry Rosenberg, Professor of Practice, Washington University, former CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis
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A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions. Image acquired Sept. 29-30, 2013 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA officials dubbed the solar view a 'canyon of fire' on the sun.
When a 200,000-mile (320,000-kilometer) filament of solar material tore through the sun last month, it cut what looks like a "canyon of fire" in our closest star, new NASA observations show.
Researchers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., pieced together a video of the sun's fire "canyon" of the phenomenon based on images collected on Sept. 29 and 30 by the space agency's sun-watching Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The sun is mainly comprised of plasma, which is a soup of charged particles that forms when gas atoms get so hot that their electrons detach. The movement of these charged particles creates intense magnetic fields, which give rise to the wispy loops and violent eruptions on the sun's surface.
NASA officials say the canyon-like feature in the new images show a channel where magnetic fields held a filament of plasma aloft before exploding.
The $850 million Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft, which launched in February 2010, keeps a watchful gaze on the sun's surface from a geosynchronous orbit around Earth. It's equipped to make observations in a variety of wavelengths to help capture different aspects of the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere.
In the video, the red parts of the sun represent plasma heated to temperatures of 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit (about 50,000 degrees Celsius), which NASA officials say is a good range for observing filaments as they form and erupt. The yellow patches show solar material flowing through the sun's magnetic field lines at 1 million degrees F (about 555,000 degrees C).
Much of the canyon in the video appears browner, indicating temperatures of about 1.8 million degrees F (about 1 million degrees C).
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Wasting Love
by Iron Maiden
Album: Fear Of The Dark (1992)
Maybe one day I'll be an honest man
Up 'til now I'm doing the best I can
Long roads, long days, of sunrise, to sunset
Of sunrise to sunset
Dream on brothers, while you can
Dream on sister, I hope you find the one
All of our lives, covered up quickly
By the tides of time
Spend your days full of emptiness
Spend your years full of loneliness
Wasting love, in a desperate caress
Rolling shadows of nights
Dream on sisters, I hope you find the one
Sands are flowing and the lines are in your hand
In your eyes I see the hunger and the desperate cry
That tears the night
Rolling shadows of night
Rolling shadows of night Writer/s: Bruce Dickinson, Janick Gers
Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Summer Serrano from PhilippinesThis is a pretty damn good song. It's not the best. The lyrics cut deep, and the acoustic and electric guitar harmonics blend in a way that emphasises the feeling of the song. But that's just my own personal opinion.
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Dave from Melbourne, AustraliaThis isn't a whimpy Poison ballad. It's deep lyrically and is quite heavy and dark at the same time. It was released as a single in 1992 and played live many times on The Fear Of The Dark Tour so it must be highly regarded by the band. Check out the video, it really matches the lyrics.
Greg from Calgary, AbCaitlin, a band typically gets bland without diversity.
Anyway, this is one of my favorite Maiden songs. I simply love the lyrics.
Caitlin from Colmesneil, TxBy itself it's a good song, but compared to the rest of Maiden's catalogue it's poor. The cover didn't even have Eddie on the front! I mean, this is the type of thing that you expect at a Poison concert, not a Iron Maiden show! If I go to a Maiden show, I don't wanna hear sappy crap...
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by FOYeur | November 4, 2014 · 14:16
The Steve McGarrett Story – No #97
We continue our story from here
There are three more episode to cover until we get to No 100. I presume the show does not take itself too seriously and so I hope they will forgive me for having some "fun" with it (or maybe making some fun of it). We'll be doing this episode a bit differently – going to recap the story fairytale that started three and half years ago. During our count down, when we reach that period, we did not have all the details of what was happening at the time. But it's been revealed to us over the first few episodes of this season and we saw it in the countdown the last few days. This story is not about Steve's personal life, but it reflects upon him and will definitely affect him and his Ohana for the time to come……
BE AWARE:
This story might contain loads of #nitpicking, #sarcasm, #drama,#realism and maybe even #blackhumour.
And if you thought that the ending to this episode was one of the best ever done on Hawaii Five-0 – please don't read further. I don't want to spoil your fun.
Three and a half years ago, Matt Williams came to Hawaii to visit his brother Danny. But it was just a smokescreen, because he was actually on the run from the FBI. The poor guy made some mistakes with hedge funds he was administrating and lost $58 million in one day, then stole money to hide it and then he turned to criminals and by helping them to launder money, trying to get some money to cover his tracks with and replace that which he lost.
I'm not sure exactly when or how Matt got Marco's money. Either he arrived in Hawaii with some bags full of cash (supposedly $18 500 000, that would weigh around 185 kg ), or it was handed to him while he was already on the island. But it does not really matter when and how he got it, it still would have been a bit difficult to manage anything like that, while being under surveillance of the FBI at the time. Also a bit difficult to imagine how he would be transporting cash like that on planes and through customs?
(But that's his problem, not mine or apparently that of the writers 😀 )
Matt really had a busy time while he was on the island for 2 or 3 days. He looked after his niece, Grace Williams for a whole day and then hang with Danny's family and Steve for the whole evening. The next day he was also relaxing on the beach with Rachel and Grace and kept an appointment with some other Colombian drug dealers (Pedro Fuentes, accountant of the third most powerful cartel in Colombia). They negotiated that Matt would launder 10 million dollars for him via Singapore. I deal that apparently fell through – or did it?
When Danny learns about some of Matt's transgressions via the FBI, he confronts Matt, who realises that he will have to flee the country. He needed to find a spot to hide the money…..He somehow evaded the FBI that afternoon and found a remote spot, two hours drive from the city. Then without anybody seeing him, he dug a hole (or two) big enough to bury a number of bags in it. The most amazing thing about this, is that he must have found really magical bags that could keep the money clean, dry and save underground for the 3 ½ years since then. After that he must have taken a shower and boarded a plane in his white suit, while Danny stood helpless watching him leave…
It took Marco all this time to find Matt and try to force him to give his money back. According to him, Matt told him that the money is on Oahu and that his brother Danny knows where to get it. And over the last few days we see how Danny realises where to find the money. (And the moral of the story is, don't throw away old postcards 😀 )
But let's continue with our present story…….
We see Steve rushing over to Danny's house with screeching tires, to find a distraught Danny with the money.
Just for some mindless fun: Hawaii must have the best and quickest guys, that do auto body repairs, anywhere. A perp landed on Steve's truck that afternoon and that evening the repairs are done. (If you don't believe me, go and watch Epi's 503 and 504 again) They worked so quickly they forgot to replace the Chevy sign 😀
Steve: Whoa. You all right?
Danny: Yah, except for the fact that Reyes said that Mattie owed him eighteen and a half million dollars. You see this, it's only thirteen million dollars.
Steve: Are you sure?
Danny: Yes, I am positive. I counted it three times.
Steve: So Mattie must have taken some to help himself disappear.
Danny: Yeah. And now I am Five and a half million dollars short. And I have two days to come up with it all of it or my brother is dead.
I wonder what Steve was doing when Danny called 😛 , because he came rushing over and running in. Did Danny not call him as soon as he found the money. Danny had a 2 hour drive back from the remote spot and he had time to count the money 3 times, before Steve got there 😀
And I am also wondering, how sure Danny can be that he found all the money that was buried there. Maybe the rest was still under the ground around there. Realistically Matt only had that one case with him – hardly enough space for 5½ milion dollars. Did he have enough space to take that much with him?
So first thing next morning Danny rushes off to a loan shark in town. Lucky for him, the guy turns him down. #wiseguy 😀 . Think this guy must have made his calculations properly – give Danny the money and when he can't pay it back, you can hardly go on and break his bones to get it back (because he is Five-0). And a good betting man would also not put that amount of money at risk for somebody that might not get back from visiting a Colombian drug lord. And can you think of the repercussions for the team and their work in future, if a guy like that gave Danny the money and then have a hold on him he can use against them. Not to mention that it would take Danny a lifetime (or more) to give back!
In comes Chin to the rescue……..
Chin: Listen, Steve told me about the money. I figured you'd come here first.
Danny: Ah-ha. Well he turned me down
Chin: Danny, that's a good thing. The last thing you want in this world is to owe a man like Ko.
Danny: Right. Well, if it meant saving my brother, I'd go for it, you know.
Chin: I hear that. But there are other ways.
Danny: Really. I'm short five and a half million dollars. I really don't see any other ways.
Chin: I may have one.
So Chin, who knows he is under IA surveillance, rushes of to see his ex brother-in-law, Gabriel, and ask him for money. But "luckily", Gabriel also turns him down.
I fail to see how this is any different to ask him for the money, than to ask any other criminal for money, which he warned Danny about? Does Chin really want to owe Gabriel anything?!! 😕
But just as luck might have it, someone started knocking Gabriel around in prison and he wants some protection. He offers Chin the five and a half million in exchange for moving him to a more secure facility with a private cell. And even luckier for Chin the local auto bank teller in prison carried enough cash on a Saturday and Gabriel was able to draw him the $ 5 500 000. #sarcasmgalore
And I'm wondering how much of these dealings did IA picked up on and how long will it take them to do anything (maybe another 10 episodes)? And for all his effort, I really think Chin should have asked for a bit more – just so that the team could have enough to throw a nice Christmas party this year. Or maybe for a nice wedding present for Kono & Adam. But that's just me 😀 (IA won't distinguish who it was for, so why not a bit extra?)
And I am starting to feel like I'm watching "The Shield" and its corrupt cops. When will they cross the line and forget how to get their way back?
We must have missed the operation that happened of camera, because somewhere along the line, highly train and decorated Navy SEAL and Task Force leader Steve McGarrett, must have had a lobotomy! That can be the only explanation for what happened next. Together with his best friend and police partner, he flies to a foreign country. With them 18,5 million dollars of illegal money. They have no back-up. They have no fire power. They have no intel of the place they will visit. They walk in to a place, without keeping back any form of insurance or leverage. And they expect to find Matt there without even getting any proof of life. What happened to the SEAL's view of minimizing risk he told Chin about, three years ago?
To get there, Steve and Danny travel the 9000 km to Colombia – of course it is about a 11 hour flight (Most probably by private plane, speed boat or maybe a spaceship 😀 ) I'm not sure about rules on these private planes and how they are checked for what goes on them – but maybe immunity and means makes traveling with that kind of money possible? No nasty hassles by immigration to get it passed them I presume?
They arrive at the address in Colombia, where Reyes is (just as Danny expected) surrounded by a whole "army" of 3 men. 😀 Interesting place to be hanging around in and waiting for that minute, if and when Danny might pitch up with the money (Not very comfortable for such a high roller I would say). And if we ever wondered about it, Danny and Steve are really really very strong dudes, because between the two of them, they carry the 185kg easily. Hardly breaking a sweat (oh sorry, they did look hot and sweaty and sexy 😛 ) , but they hardly looked like they struggle to manage that 92 kg each (46 kg in each hand)
And of course, I could have told them so…… Reyes does not even bother to count the money. They could have easily arrived there without the added 5,5 million dollars Chin got them, and Reyes would have not been the wiser.
(Tip for TV crooks – If you do not want to look like an idiot counting the money, but you still want to be sure your money is all there, weigh the money. Apparently $1 000 000 weighs 10 kg. Therefore the eighteen and a half would have weighed 185 kg – That's what I got when I Googled it, so hopefully it is accurate 😀 )
And Danny asks to see Matt. And they wheel out the barrel with what they say is the remains of Matt. And Danny reacts the opposite of what most normal people would do. Most would want confirmation, get closure and make sure it is true……… But no, he does not even try to open the barrel to see if it is really Matt's remains in there. But then again, maybe he realised that Matt can hardly be identified in there and must have been liquidized, because that would be the only way for him to be inside that barrel. Take a closer look! This is a barrel for liquid. One without a lid! Only a small opening with which you surely would need a funnel to get anything in there and only in liquid form. But hold on………
This week we learned that with a crowbar or pliers, it can be opened and does have a lid. And that must be the reason why Danny did not open it – he was in such a hurry to get there, he forgot to pack the crowbar.
After Danny tries to hit Marco (his go-to reaction over the past few episodes ), the men takes Steve and Danny upstairs and leave only Marco behind. The two of them overpower the "Army of 3" and throw one of the guys downstairs. Seems to me that if you are angry, one also become bulletproof, because without protection, Danny walks down the steps to challenge Marco (In my opinion most crime bosses might have been armed and could easily shoot unprotected Danny – I might have seen to many movies) At least Steve was wise enough to wait a bit to come downstairs. (What happened to going through the door first, oh brave one?) 😀
And then in an #Oscarwinningperformance (#pardonthepun #getawaywithmurder), Danny shoots Reyes……..
According to Steve a coroner examined the body……. and I am asking myself how things could have possibly played out after Danny shot Reyes?
Did they call the Colombian police? And how did they explain their presence there with the illegal money that they had with them. And the dead unarmed real estate businessman lying on the table?
If they did not get the police there, did they maybe smuggle the barrel with the dead Matt back on a plane of to the States? (And I'm imagining how they carry that barrel upstairs, load it in a car, with all their money bags) Wracking my brain to think how they would explain that one to the guys at customs when they arrive back home? – 'This is my fugitive brother that got killed by criminals in Colombia and we are just bringing him home……'
Why did Marco take such a long time to set his ultimatum for Danny? Why did he not just arrive and say to Danny that he's got Matt and that Danny needs to bring him the money of Matt will die.
Why did Marco kill Matt before he told him where the money was? Was it an accident? What kind of dumb criminal kills his only leverage?
What kind of dumb policeman believes him? Sorry Danny, Steve and Chin, but somebody had to ask it! NO matter if they believed him, while they had the money and on home soil, they always had the power.
Without anybody asking the question, I am wondering, what did Matt die off? Was he shot? Did Marco shoot him? Maybe he was already shot /wounded when Marco found him and he couldn't save him to ask where his money was? Maybe Marco did not even kill Matt? In Epi 413, Steve said: "Suspecting and proving murder are two very different things."…….
My personal opinion:
Lots of viewers, including some in my household, doubted if Matt was really dead. For me that is not good storytelling, if a crucial fact like that is not clear to viewers. I really think this story should have taken up a whole episode (and not lasted over several ones, with silly mistakes in it). And by showing some proper investigation and planning, the team could help Danny properly. They could get to the bottom of what happened to Matt and then deal in a properly planned manner, like real cops would.
I really do not like that this storyline made Danny out to be a mindless murdering criminal, who did not think twice to take his two best friends down this hole with him. I do not even want to think about the repercussion this will have for Chin. And did he think for one minute of his daughter and what will happen to her if he dies while he went on this egotistical crusade to "save" his criminal brother? Is this really Danny?
And most of all, I do not like that they took away my image of Steve as a highly trained leader, with savvy and who would protect his people, even from themselves. What would he have told Gracie, if Danny was killed on this unplanned senseless mission? In the movie Troy, Briseis tells Achilles that she thought he was a 'Dumb Brute' – and this is what comes to mind when I see this Steve. He is projected here as someone without any sane training or leadership skills ……… Sorry but that is not the Steve that I have seen for the past 4 years now. He's done some crazy stuff, but never on this level of insanity. Where is real Steve and what have you done with him?!!
I know I might be a bit twisted, but after this one, I have the very nice drinking song Polka, 'Roll out the barrel" in my head – Sorry, but I'll have a drink now. (Maybe not from a barrel 😦 )
– Hawaii Five-0: Episode 504 –
Ka Noeʻau (The Painter)
To be continued here
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My creamy, coconut and raspberry ice-cream recipe ended up on Buzzfeed. I'm stoked!
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These are just a few of the awesome things which has happened this year in relation to Elegantly Vegan. I've "met" a lot of new people online from all around the world for collaborations of all kinds within the vegan realm and world. I'd love for more of these awesome things to happen in 2015 so don't hesitate to get in touch with any fun ideas or request.
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BALTIMORE, MD, June 16, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Progressive Rising Phoenix Press is proud to announce the June 30th release of 50 Hours, by Loree Lough, bestselling author of more than 100 award-winning novels. The book, based on a screen play by Kevin James O'Neill, is bursting with poignant reality, and focuses on two ordinary people who want little more than to find peace in their lives.
The story features Franco Allessi, a broken, lonely man who, since the death of his wife, is merely existing. Arrested for drunk driving, a judge takes his license and sentences him to 50 hours of community service. He chooses Savannah Falls Hospice for no reason other than it's walking distance from his run-down mobile home. While performing chores at the center, he encounters Aubrey Brewer, diagnosed with a brain tumor. The meeting is the start of unlikely relationship that changes them both in meaningful, permanent ways…and provides readers of all ages and backgrounds with lasting hope and a renewed faith in the power of friendship. Lough's talents shine again as she crafts believable, enjoyable, and memorable secondary characters (including a quirky, irksome Blue Jay), in such a way that readers will find themselves drawn into the center's day-to-day goings-on, and a real-life story that promises to leave them feeling optimistic about the future.
Lough, herself diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (incurable bone/marrow cancer) mid-way through the creation of 50 Hours, found it impossible to keep her own story separate from the novel: "To one degree or another, all authors are 'in' their works," she says, "but in this case, my goal was to share the down-deep personal stuff in the hope of helping those coping with the disease–patients, caretakers, family members, friends–better understand the unvoiced fears and thoughts harbored by those whose lives are forever changed by the words 'You have cancer.'"
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Bestselling author LOREE LOUGH once sang for her supper, performing across the U.S. and Canada. Now and then, she blows the dust from her 6-string to croon a tune or two, but mostly, she writes novels that have earned hundreds of industry and "Readers' Choice" awards, 4- and 5-star reviews, and 7 book-to-movie options. Recent releases include several reader-favorite series ("Secrets on Sterling Street [Whitaker]," "A Child to Love," "Those Marshall Boys," and "By Way of the Lighthouse" [Harlequin].) 50 Hours is her 115th book.
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I had not prepared myself for the feeling of loss and desolation his departure has caused. Those of you who have formed a bond with a pet will know how different life is without them.
Enough, or we shall all be in tears!
There is much to celebrate, Easter brought family visits made extra special this year by the addition of our darling grand-daughter Edie Rose.
Spring has sprung here in Cheshire and the garden is bursting with life and colour.
My journey into the world of hand made books continues, this time Secret Belgian Binding was the subject of our latest workshop with Alan Fitch from The Farthing Press. Alan also runs courses from his bindery in Powys with accommodation provided, a lovely way to combine a holiday with learning.
Last but not least, my book samples for "White is the Moon" finally arrived. I was so anxious about them but I am happy to say that they have surpassed my expectations. This is a title that I originally illustrated when our boys were little. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd in the UK and by Macmillan in the USA. Gradually it went out of print and we decided to publish it ourselves as an Acornmoon Books edition. This may prove to be foolhardy given the lack of bookshops and the increased demand for e-books but we are being cautiously optimistic. I have been busy making an on-line shop, which you can see in my sidebar.
In addition to my latest book, I have found a few boxes of older out of print titles. All of these are in an unread, untouched condition. Some have become collectable and can be seen on other book sites for a vast array of prices, I am pleased to say that I have kept to their original price and can offer some real bargains until my stocks run out.
If anyone is interested in these children's picture books or babies board books I am happy to sign them and add a dedication. You can see what is on offer by following this link. All of the books will be posted from the UK by Royal Airmail, and I am happy to post to any far-flung corner of the globe!
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Oliver inspired us by his skill and enthusiasm for his craft and showed us some of his own prints together with the blocks he had used.
Previously I have tried my hand at wood engraving where the image is engraved onto the end grain of a piece of hardwood. In woodcut printing the long-grain is used, this is very different and has a charm all of its own. Unlike wood engraving, this method of printing is capable of showing some of the character of the wood. The wood is softer and the grain more a feature in the final print.
Over the course we had four three-hour sessions, to learn the basics. All our efforts had to be concentrated into creating an image in a short space of time. This meant that a bold, energetic and free style took over from my usual tightly controlled style. This was both liberating and scary in equal measures.
We had the luxury of printing on a beautiful old Columbian Press, the hours flew by and everyone had an enjoyable and productive time.
In the first week we got to try out various tools and learn the kind of marks they made. The wood we used was a Japanese plywood which was easy to cut into along the grain, not so easy cross grain. We all managed to produce a one colour print- here is my first effort.
In week two we introduced colour, using a reduction technique. My print was a disaster and went into the bin. However, they say you learn by your mistakes.
On the third week we used a combination of techniques including paper stencils.
On the final week we pulled everything together and produced our final images.
My penguin was a reduction print using a gradation of blue into white and then a second printing of black on top.(see top).
At the end of four weeks we were all sad to say farewell, everyone enjoyed taking part and I think we will all use our newfound skills in the future.


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Oliver Madox Hueffer
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Chapters include: On A Possible Revival Of Witchcraft; A Sabbath-General; The Origins Of The Witch; The Half-Way Worlds; The Witch's Attributes; Some Representative English Witches; The Witch Of Antiquity; The Witch In Greece And Rome; From Paganism To Christianity; The Witch-Bull And Its Effects; The Later Persecutions In England; Persecutions In Scotland; Other Persecutions; Philtres, Charms And Potions; The Witch In Fiction; and, Some Witches Of To-Day.
This book has 180 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1909.
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Excerpt from 'The Book of Witches'
To the superficial glance it might seem that he who would urge a revival of witchcraft is confronted by a task more Herculean than that of making dry bones live—in that the bones he seeks to revivify have never existed. The educated class—which, be it remembered, includes those who have studied in the elementary schools of whatever nation—is united in declaring that such a person as a witch never did, never could, and never will exist. It is true that there are still those—a waning band—who, preserving implicit faith in the literal exactitude of revealed religion, maintain that witchcraft—along with Gardens of Eden, giants, and Jewish leaders capable of influencing the movements of sun and moon— flourished under the Old Dispensation, even though it has become incredible under the New. Yet, speaking generally, the witch is as extinct in civilised men's minds as is the dodo; so that they who accept as gospel the vaticinations of racecourse tipsters or swallow patent medicines with implicit faith, yet moralise upon the illimitability of human superstition when they read that witch-doctors still command a following in West Africa, or that Sicilian peasants are not yet tired of opening their purses to sham sorcerers.
Were the reality of sorcery dependent upon a referendum of our universities—or, for that matter, of our elementary school mistresses—it were at once proclaimed a clamant imposture. Fortunately for the witch, and incidentally for a picturesque aspect of the human intellect, the Enlightened, even if we include among them those who accept their dogma as the New Gospel, are but a small—a ridiculously small—item of the human race. Compared with the whole population of the world, their numbers are so insignificant as to be for all practical purposes nonexistent. There are villages but a few miles beyond the boundary of the Metropolitan Police District, where the witch is as firmly enthroned in the imaginations of the mobility as in those of their ancestors three centuries ago. There are many British legislators who would refuse to start an electioneering campaign upon a Friday. I myself have known a man—and know him still—a Romney Marsh-lander, who, within the last decade, has suffered grievously—himself and through his children— at the hands of witches whose names and whereabout he can detail. And I have known a woman—she kept a lodging-house in the Kennington Road—who, if not herself a witch, was yet the daughter of one, and of acknowledged power. It is true that, if the daughter's tale— told to me in the small front parlour in intervals between the crashing passage of electric trams and motor-lorries—may be accepted, her mother's gifts were put to no worse use than the curing of her Devonshire neighbours' minor ailments.
There is no need to go fifty, nor five, miles from London to find material for a revival in Black Magic. Scarcely a week passes but some old crone is charged before a Metropolitan police magistrate with having defrauded silly servant-girls on the pretence of telling them their futures. You cannot pass down Bond Street during the season without encountering a row of sandwich-men—themselves preserving very few illusions— earning a meagre wage in the service of this, that, or the other Society crystal-gazer, palmist, or clairvoyant. Who has not seen some such advertisement as the following—quoted from a current journal—proffering information about the future, 'calculated from astrological horoscopes," at the very moderate charge of half-a-crown. The advertiser—in deference to modern convention he is described as a 'Professor 'rather than a sorcerer—further protests his mastery of Phrenology, Graphology, Clairvoyance, and Psycho-metry. And this advertiser is but one of many, all seeking to gain some humble profit by following in the footsteps of Diana and Mother Demdyke of Pendle Forest.
Are there not a hundred and one select Societies, each with its band of earnest adherents—many with official organs, published at more or less regular intervals and commanding circulations of a sort—openly furthering 'arts 'such as would, two centuries ago, have entailed upon their members the charge of Witchcraft? Is not spiritualism exalted into an international cult? The very existence of such a coterie as the 'Thirteen Club,5' with a membership sworn to exhibit, hie et ubique, their contempt of degrading superstitions, is the strongest testimony to their ubiquitous regard. Most curious fact of all, it is in America, the New World, home of all that is most modern and enlightened, that we find superstitions commanding most implicit faith. It is only necessary to glance through the advertisement pages of an American popular magazine to realise how far the New World has outstripped the Old in its blind adherence to this form of faith. Nowhere has the Hypnotic, the Mesmeric, the Psychic Quack such unchallenged empire.
In Lady Charlotte Bury's 'Memoirs of a Lady in Waiting' we find an example of the belief in Witchcraft cherished in the most exalted circle in the nineteenth century. Writing of the unhappy Princess—later Queen— Caroline, wife of George IV., she says as follows:—" After dinner her Royal Highness made a wax figure as usual, and gave it an amiable addition of large horns; then took three pins out of her garment and stuck them through and through, and put the figure to roast and melt at the fire. . . . Lady - says the Princess indulges in this amusement whenever there are no strangers at table, and she thinks her Royal Highness really has a superstitious belief that destroying the effigy of her husband will bring to pass the destruction of his Royal Person." We laugh at this instance of Royal credulity; yet is not the 'mascot 'a commonplace of our conversation? Madame de Montespan, it is recorded, had recourse—not without success—to the Black Mass as a means towards gaining the affections of Louis XIV. It is but a few years since the attention of the police was directed towards the practices of those—Society leaders for the most part—who had revived, in twentieth-century Paris, the cult of Devil worship. The most widely circulated London newspapers of the day gravely discuss in 'special articles 'the respective value of various mascots for motorists, or insert long descriptive reports of the vaticinations of this spiritualist or that wise-woman as to the probable perpetrators of mysterious murders. This is no exaggeration, as he may prove for himself who has patience to search the files of the London daily Press for 1907. And, be it remembered, the self-proclaimed mission of the contemporary Press is to mirror the public mind as the most obvious way of instructing it.
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Iran arrests four journalists; dozens deteriorating in prison
December 7, 2010 5:06 PM ET
New York, December 7, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today's arrest of four Iranian journalists at the daily Sharq. CPJ is also disturbed by recent news reports that indicate the abusive treatment endured by dozens of imprisoned Iranian prisoners has adversely affected the health of many of them--including Issa Saharkhiz, at left, a founding member of the now-defunct Association of Iranian Journalists, who has reportedly undergone surgery for internal hemorrhaging at Rajaee Shahr Prison.
Sharq's offices were stormed twice by plainclothes forces today. During the first raid, officers beat several journalists and arrested Editor-in-Chief Ahmad Gholami, International Desk Editor Farzaneh Roostaei, and Political Desk Editor Kayvan Mehregan. Officers returned a second time and arrested Ali Khodabakhsh, the newspaper's managing director, according to multiple news and human rights websites. The U.S.-government funded Radio Farda quoted an unidentified journalist with Sharq as saying he thinks the paper was raided because of an upcoming issue on Student Day, which commemorates the 1953 day when Iranian students demonstrated against the U.S.-backed coup. Since then, it has become an occasion for Iranians to demonstrate against foreign interference and the government.
Saharkhiz underwent a complex surgery in the prison infirmary because prison authorities reportedly refused to allow him to be transferred to a hospital, multiple news websites reported. No additional news about his condition is available. Saharkhiz, an experienced journalist who worked for 15 years at IRNA, Iran's official news agency, was arrested in July 2009 and was charged with "participation in riots," "encouraging others to participate in riots," and "insulting the supreme leader." He was sentenced to three years in prison. He has been subjected to torture and ill-treatment while in custody, CPJ research shows.
"It is evident the government is going out of its way to physically and mentally harm the dozens of journalists it has behind bars even as it continues to round up more," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator. "Our colleagues are detained unjustly and the least Teheran can do is to ensure that they are treated properly. We hold Iran's political leadership responsible for the well-being of every detained journalist."
On Sunday, veteran journalist and human rights defender Emadeddin Baghi, at left, turned himself in to authorities at Tehran's Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison term, despite serious health complications that occurred during previous stints in custody. Baghi suffers from a variety of ailments, including severe respiratory and back problems, according to news reports.
In 2000 and again in 2007, Baghi was convicted on antistate charges, spending nearly four years in prison, CPJ research shows. Baghi was detained again in December 2009, after the BBC Persian service rebroadcast a two-year old interview he conducted with Ayatollah Montazeri, a prominent cleric who had fallen out of favor with the political leadership. In May, His wife told reporters that his health has since deteriorated in prison, and that he has lost 44 pounds (20 kilograms). He has developed respiratory problems as a result of poor detention conditions, the news website Saham News reported, and has been hospitalized several times. He also suffers from severe back problems, which were aggravated by two months in solitary confinement.
Baghi's seven-year term stems from two cases: He was sentenced to one year in connection to his activism in an organization he established, the Society for the Defense of Prisoners Rights, and to six years for the Montazeri interview.
Mehdi Mahmoudian, a political journalist and a blogger arrested in September 2009, has developed severe respiratory problems in prison his father recently told reporters. Mahmoudian, at right, is serving a five-year term on charges of "mutiny against the regime" for his role in documenting complaints of rape and abuse of detainees at the Kahrizak Detention Center. His health problems developed when he was forced to endure freezing temperatures in the prison yard without any clothes, according to the news website Norooz News. The same tactic was employed against Saharkhiz during the early days of his detention, according to CPJ research. Mahmoudian is also suffering from kidney ailments, according to Deutsche Welle. The authorities have refused to grant him a medical furlough, Norooz News reported.
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, at left, is a journalist and human rights activist who is currently serving his fourth year of a 10-year sentence. Kaboudvand's health has been steadily deteriorating in prison, multiple news websites have reported. Most recently, he suffered from seizures, temporary blindness, fatigue, and mental stress, according to the U.S. government-funded Radio Farda. He was transferred to the prison infirmary to receive treatment but was returned to his cell within 30 minutes, the same source reported.
Emadeddin Baghi
Issa Saharkhiz
Mehdi Mahmoudian
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
Sharq
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