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Modi government betraying people of Ladakh: Mallikarjun Kharge
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (Photo credit: PTI)
Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that by not agreeing to the demand of the people of Ladakh for statehood and safeguards for the tribal people under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, the government is endangering India's national security in a strategic border region.
Kharge said government has deceitfully betrayed tribal poeple despite making tall promises
He said government wants to exploit the eco-sensitive Himalayan glaciers of Ladakh
Sonam Wangchuk, a social reformist had urged the PM to ensure safety and protection of Ladakh
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday accused the Modi government of betraying the people of Ladakh. He criticised the government for not agreeing to demand by the people of Ladakh for grant of statehood to the Union territory and protecting the eco-sensitive region.
He alleged that by not agreeing to their demand for statehood and safeguards for the tribal people under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, the government is endangering India's national security in a strategic border region.
"Narendra Modi ji, people of Ladakh are unitedly demanding statehood for the Union Territory, and safeguards for the tribal people of the region under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution," Kharge said on Twitter.
"But your government has deceitfully betrayed them, despite making tall promises," he alleged.
In a video shared on YouTube, Sonam Wangchuk, a social reformist from Ladakh whose life story inspired Bollywood film "3 Idiots", urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure safety and protection of Ladakh as studies suggest extinction of 2/3rd of the glaciers in the Union Territory.
"This is an urgent appeal from Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh (in the Indian Himalayas) to the people of India and the world to help protect the environmentally sensitive region of Ladakh," Wanchuk said in his video, while appealing to the Prime Minister to intervene and safeguard the fragile ecosystem under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.
Congress president Kharge alleged that the Modi government's "greed to benefit select crony friends" who want to exploit the eco-sensitive Himalayan glaciers of Ladakh is well-known.
"In denying constitutional protection, you are also endangering India's National Security, in a strategic border region. Listen to Ladakh," he tweeted.
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Better late than never! Here's my reading roundup for January.
It was a month in which I did a lot of travelling, driving from Greece to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and now Croatia (via Romania again and a brief stop in Serbia). So I didn't spend as much time reading and blogging as I wanted to, but I still managed to read some excellent books to start 2019.
This was my contribution to the Japanese Literature Challenge hosted by Dolce Bellezza (which you can still join if you want). The Great Passage is a novel about a bunch of people compiling a dictionary. It's a novel about obsession, about books, about language and the way we are shaped by it. Read my full review.
"Mobility justice" was a new term for me, so it was interesting to read this book and discover what it means. Essentially, it's a way of synthesising a bunch of different social justice struggles into a single framework. In a whole range of scenarios, from transportation justice to the refugee crisis, privilege is often about mobility, while exclusion is about lack of mobility. It's an interesting read, and I plan to write about it more. On a side note, I have no idea why the cover design is so amateur.
I'd never read any poetry by Yeats either, so this was another new one for me. It was a good introduction to his poetry, with extensive notes to explain the many allusions to Celtic mythology. I think it would be easier to read in print, where you can flip back and forth more easily between poem and notes, but I enjoyed by ebook nonetheless.
I discovered this book in one of Karla Strand's excellent monthly "Reads for the Rest of Us" features. It was a sharply written collection of short stories by a German Jewish refugee who lived for many years in India before moving to New York. The stories have a variety of international settings reflecting the author's background, but they have a lot of common themes: characters dominated by stronger, more charismatic spouses, others who are fascinated with gurus and/or geniuses, love triangles and ménages à trois. Some of them felt a bit repetitive, but overall it was a good read. On a side note, what is with the covers this month?
These were four very different books, so it's hard to compare them, but I think The Great Passage by Shion Miura is the one I'd most whole-heartedly recommend.
This month, I plan to travel much more slowly, so I hope to read more, write more, and catch up with other people's blogs. Hope you have a good reading month! Let me know your thoughts and recommendations in the comments below. And you can catch more bloggers' roundups over on Feed Your Fiction Addiction.
A very interesting sounding bunch of books. The Great Passage sounds so very good. I love books about books and libraries. The title is clever.
Mobility Justice seems like an important concept. I never thought of it this way, but the ability to move and travel can make such a difference in terms of things like well being, suffering, Justice snd a whole bunch of other things.
I never thought of it that way either, Brian. The book does tie together a lot of different issues in a convincing way – many more than I covered here. And yes, The Great Passage is a great metaphorical title!
I have to say, The Great Passage is also the one that calls most strongly to me. Sounds very cool.
How wonderful that you've been traveling Europe so much, even if it gives you a bit less time to read. A book about compiling a dictionary sounds really interesting–glad you loved it!
While it took away from your blogging, being able to travel like that must also be pretty great!
Yes, I'm not complaining, Annemieke! It's so fascinating to see new places all the time and learn about different cultures. This month is quieter, so I'm doing much more reading, and hope to put together some more blog posts too. Hope you're having a great month!
Your travels sound amazing! And The Great Passage intrigues me and is new to me. I have many Japanese friends and their culture and food is my favorite to learn more about. Languages have always interested me.


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by Rivers Pearce | Sep 21, 2022 | Press
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 22, 2022) – Milestones (milestones.ai), the all-in-one homeowner portal making it easier for consumers to buy, move, sell, and manage their home, is pleased to announce that the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSⓇ (C.A.R.) will be launching Milestones as a member benefit to its more than 217,000 REALTORSⓇ members. The launch follows a Series A investment C.A.R. made in Milestones, which closed earlier this year.
Milestones is the first technology firm to deliver a homeownership portal similar to consumer offerings for managing healthcare, personal finance, and education. Milestones monitors the value of your home, provides search for homes for sale, and even manages the selling process. Milestones client portals are made available to consumers at no cost through any California REALTORSⓇ.
"This new member benefit is being launched at an opportune time," says C.A.R. President Otto Catrina. "Milestones addresses some key strategic goals of our association, which includes investing in new technologies that enhance a deeper advisory relationship between our members and homeowners," Catrina says.
This partnership is the first of its kind and further solidifies C.A.R.'s position as a leader in providing high-value technology tools and educational content to its members at a pivotal time when the California housing market is experiencing a slowdown in transaction volume. More than ever, it is critical for real estate agents to identify opportunities for engaging their existing and prospective customers in new, creative ways. Through Milestones, members will be able to invite clients into web-based homeownership hubs to manage home maintenance, view home value, monitor home sales in their area, search for property, and even identify mortgage refinance or HELOC options. Never before have REALTORSⓇ had a more comprehensive application to maintain a close customer relationship by supporting every aspect of homeownership including buying, selling, moving, and owning.
C.A.R. is launching this member benefit at its REimagine! Conference & Expo October 11-13, 2022, at the Long Beach Convention Center. After the launch, members will access their Milestones account though the CAR.org website where they will be able to invite clients into hubs.
The most significant benefit to consumers is having the support of their real estate advisors in managing homeownership between transactions.
"Managing a home is complicated," says Dustin Gray, Milestones Founder and CEO. "The average home has more than 150 systems that need to be maintained, and consumers need help keeping it all organized. Gutters need to be cleared, water filters replaced, concrete sealed, dryer vents cleaned and so on. Milestones has checklists for all of it, complete with DIY videos or access to professionals who will do it for you. The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSⓇ is our first launch partner for the Association and MLS channel and is an outstanding industry leader," says Gray.
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I used the Smashbox Eyeshadow Palette from Christmas 2011 almost exclusively for this look.
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1st October 2018 21:25 Link to Post #581
ichingcarpenter
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Re: Trump is NOT the answer
Regulatory Capture of the EPA Trump Administration
Level of EPA industry influence under Trump is unprecedented
https://thinkprogress.org/study-high...-73ac6ca863b6/
Scott Pruitt, Andrew Wheeler, and Regulatory Capture at the EPA Columbia University
https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2018/0...y-capture-epa/
New Study: The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration: Prelude to Regulatory Capture
https://sociology.ucsc.edu/news-even...mate-news.html
In Trump's Government, The 'Regulated Have Become The Regulators' npr
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/54387...the-regulators
I didn't like Obama using Monsanto guys in the EPA but its getting worse.
I care about the food we eat, the air we breath, the water we drink no matter who is in power
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Posted by Flash (here)
Easier to do when we have dynasties of politicians (which is not Trump case here, but Trudeau's case, the Clintons, the Bushes, and more.
... Trump is not part of dynasty ... unless perhaps you're one of those suspecting that JFK Jr is still alive, and working with Trump. In that case, Trump might be seen as a hired hand of the Kennedy dynasty.
Posted by Paul (here)
Biggest nonsense I've ever heard.
Besides Paul......... you are saying he is the answer.
HELLO?.. ...... I really think your position on all the threads are not neutral...
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Posted by ichingcarpenter (here)
NOOOOOOO, I AM SAYING THE CONTRARY, HE IS FAR FROM THE ANSWER. (screaming because I want to be heard and the mistake corrected, not screaming at you personally ichingcarpenter)
i must not have expressed myself correctly, I am going to correct my post.
All I said about dynasties is that they are groomed almost before birth, while a guy like Trump has to be groomed as an adult or young fellow, a little harder to do, but still quite done all over the world.
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2nd October 2018 00:08 Link to Post #585
I really think your position on all the threads are not neutral...
I am not neutral in the topical content of my posts.
I endeavor to be neutral in my administrative actions.
My current, quite non-neutral, position is that Trump is part of answer to some of our problems, but that my instincts warn me that he and the powers behind him will quite likely be the primary creators of a different variety of problems, that I don't yet foresee as well.
Thus ... I try to stay on guard and to pay some attention to those who are and will be more likely to notice such problems first, before I would, given my particular biases.
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''Thus ... I try to stay on guard and to pay some attention to those who are and will be more likely to notice such problems first, before I would, given my particular biases.''
Your biases are apparent
No comment on his corporate capture of the EPA?
Don't you have a thread you can post on..... since you think Trump is the answer.
OH wait there is
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AutumnW
Paul, I feel a bit the same way. I hope for the best but am prepared for the worst. The most dire scenario could turn the U.S into a smokestack Hell, (as Onawah has taken pains to describe. A belated thank you to you, Onawah!) presided over by Christian fundamentalist Orks.
The prison system, partnered with oligopolies and administered by a harsh theocratic state could completely engulf and potentiate industrial expansion.
It could, in effect, become against the law to be poor -- the lives blacks have been enduring for decades could very well be experienced by vast numbers of whites, all under the religious rubric of Christian fascist sentiments. There will be a profit incentive there, acting as a strong motivator.
What should be taken into account by those who are anti Trump, is Trump is responding to an anguish, and purposeless that runs very deep, to the point that it poses an enormous existential threat, through drug addiction, surely a disease of despair.
Have a heart for those living in the rust belt and Southern states. Try to experience through imagination what that must be like.
And those who are pro-Trump, understand that those who are not, are concerned about how this plays out, based partly on historic parallels. And they are not just worried for themselves, most are worried for the world, in general.
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I know that I have not looked into that. I'm sure I don't have any particular insight or information on that.
I presume that sometimes "things are not what they seem", hence that some of what I think I like about Trump, and some of what I think I don't like, is based on my misunderstandings and ignorance.
I don't condemn everything a person or group does because some of what they do or do not do is (or appears to be) antithetical to my principles. Few if any would pass that test.
Just because I support an action A of some person or group does not mean that I consider myself to be a hypocrite because that person has done some other action B that I don't support or would not support if I thought about it.
Figuring out what a major public figure or group is actually doing or not doing, as opposed to how it is presented, is a most difficult and error prone endeavor.
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Yes .
DNA (2nd October 2018), onawah (2nd October 2018)
Masterful passive aggressive behavior...... I mean that in as a compliment............NOW back on topic........ what is the topic Mr. Adm?
... what is the topic Mr. Adm?
As I already just stated, I don't have any particular insight or information on that.
I recommend you ask that question of those whom you do think belong on this thread, or who might have something useful to say here.
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I thought it was if I read this right the topic is
But you can't read? Or are playing a passive aggressive game?
I recommend you stop your posting and get back on topic
IChing, I read all your posts whenever I come across them and feel a kinship with you. But on the matter of who posts here I think it's best to keep it open to all perspectives as long as they aren't hectoring, screaming in caps and or beating a dead horse!
So far we have done pretty well considering the subject matter! With respect...AutumnW
Autumn I don't like bullies who are in position of power like Trump and change the subject for their own agenda...... do YOU?
I don't like bullies and more to the point they are usually scared shirtless of me
This isn't a confrontational question but sincere curiosity. Could you please point me to the post that indicates bullying in a pm? Thanks Dude!
onawah
Thanks Autumn. In my view, all we were given with Trump was the lesser evil, and as I've said before, that isn't really a choice; imho it's all been managed, making it appear as a kind of coup, very cleverly and very much behind the scenes.
I'm not certain what your original intention was in starting this thread, but the purpose I have put it to, when I've had the stomach for it, is to present evidence about things the Trump Admin (not necessarily Trump himself, but those in his Admin), which do not serve us.
Because I have long been an environmental activist, much of what I have posted here has been about that.
Other issues I stay informed on are the rights of indigenous people in the US and the welfare of children and seniors.
There are among the things that really matter which are not receiving enough attention precisely because of the political circus, and if nothing else, someone should be keeping track.
I avoid political arguments, and I hope that this thread will not be shanghaied again by that subterfuge.
Avalon recently fell into a very deep hole for far too long because of political arguments and opinions , which is not constructive and a big waste of time, imho.
Hopefully that doesn't happen again.
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Andrew Saul is Unfit to Lead the Social Security Administration
Contact: Linda Benesch, lbenesch@socialsecurityworks.org
https://www.socialsecurityworks.org/...dministration/
(Washington, DC) — "The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, in anticipation of tomorrow's Senate Finance Committee hearing on Donald Trump's nomination of Andrew M. Saul for Commissioner Of Social Security:
"Like so many of Donald Trump's nominees, Andrew Saul is utterly unqualified for the position to which he has been nominated. He has no background in Social Security whatsoever.
He did, however, serve on the board of the right-wing Manhattan Institute which has consistently been extremely hostile to Social Security, including publishing articles advocating for drastic cuts to benefits.
Furthermore, Saul has a track record of deeply concerning personal conduct. In November 2007, Saul was forced to drop out of the race for a New York Congressional seat due to unethical campaign contributions. In April 2012, Saul tried to lie "his way out of a trespassing rap by falsely identifying himself as a police commissioner."
Saul graduated from The Wharton School in 1968, the same year as Donald Trump. Like Trump and many of Trump's appointees, including Brett Kavanaugh, Saul appears to believe that his wealth and privilege should make him above the law.
This is not a man who should be in charge of Social Security, a program that is an essential lifeline for over 60 million Americans and their families. A vote for Andrew Saul is a vote against Social Security. The Senate Finance Committee must reject this nomination."
Further Reading:https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzS...5c1VoWlBF/view
"September 25, 2018
The Honorable Orrin Hatch, Chairman U.S Senate Committee on Finance Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Ron Wyden, Ranking Member U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Washington, D.C. 20510
Dear Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden,
The Strengthen Social Security Coalition consists of over 350 national and state organizations, representing over 50 million Americans, including seniors, women, people with disabilities, workers, people of color, and veterans. The coalition is strongly opposed to President Trump's nominee, Mr. Andrew M. Saul, of New York, to be the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA). Given our strong objections, the coalition is particularly concerned that the Senate is considering confirming him not just for the remainder of the current term, but for a new six-year term, following that.
The commissioner of the Social Security Administration must have deep knowledge of Social Security, a program which is vitally important but extremely complicated. In addition, the commissioner must have a deep and clear understanding of the challenges facing SSA. Mr. Saul has no previous work experience related to Social Security or SSA. While the experience Mr. Saul gained from his time working on the federal thrift savings plan (TSP) was undoubtedly valuable, it has little value to helping him run the Social Security system, unless he seeks to privatize the program.
The Social Security Administration is facing numerous challenges including long waits at field offices, on the 1-800 number, and, most distressingly, for final determinations for those whose work has been ended as the result of serious and permanent disability. The head of this crucial agency should be someone who is up to speed, not someone who will require on-the-job training. New claims representatives are trained for over a year before they are ready to help the public; a commissioner should have much more experience, training, and expertise before taking control of such a large, vital agency.
Further, the person serving as SSA commissioner, a position of public trust, should be of the highest ethical standing. In November 2007, Mr. Saul was forced to drop out of the race for a New York Congressional seat after the New York Times uncovered questionable contributions to his campaign. At the time of his campaign, Mr. Saul served as a state officer, as the vice chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). He was also a presidential appointee, serving as the chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. New York laws prohibit members of boards, like the MTA, from taking donations from companies or individuals seeking to do business with their agency. Mr. Saul's campaign received donations from heads of Vornado Realty Trust and Tishman Speyer Properties, development companies that submitted bids with the MTA soon after their leadership donations. In addition to a state level violation, Mr. Saul's receipt of donation is a direct violation of the federal Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from soliciting campaign contributions.
Further, in 2012, Mr. Saul was riding his bike in his neighborhood in New York and directly disobeyed the instruction of a law enforcement officer who told him not to enter a restricted area. Instead of obeying the law, he lied about his identity to the police officer. (From) an investigation of the incident by the Bedford Police.
Strengthen Social Security Coalition • 1440 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20005
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Your patience and ability to answer questions asked in an attacking manner is pretty awesome.
I pray to God that I can be imbued with such patience and practical wisdom some day.
As the years roll by Paul I become more and more impressed with you.
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From EPA Watch and Lakota People's Law Project"
EPA Wants Coal Plants to Emit MORE Toxic Mercury
(These articles are all quite recent, apparently demonstrating that it hasn't been a matter of time before Trump corrected his destructive course re the environment, it has been a matter of intention.)
"The Trump administration is proposing to significantly weaken a rule that limits the amount of mercury and other toxic emissions from coal plants, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist and acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has drafted a plan that would undermine the 2011 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and has sent the proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget, according to the Washington Post.
Burning coal releases harmful byproducts such as mercury, which can pollute the environment and harm the nervous systems of children and fetuses.
Senator Tom Carper
@SenatorCarper
Is this really the way @realDonaldTrump's administration intends to celebrate #NationalChildHealthDay?
Scrapping the rule that keeps mercury – a known neurotoxin – from polluting our environment and permanently affecting our young, developing children is a new low
Brady Dennis
@brady_dennis
In rollback of @EPA mercury rule, Trump administration could revamp how the government values human health. w/@eilperin https://wapo.st/2Rf1035
11:02 AM - Oct 1, 2018
The Obama-era standard found between $4 million to $6 million in health benefits from mercury reduction alone, but also justified the regulation for its "co-benefits" of reducing pollution of soot and nitrogen oxide from power plants. In all, the rule's total value was estimated to save between $37 billion to $90 billion each year due to air quality improvements, as well as preventing up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks and 130,000 asthma attacks every year, the previous administration said then.
The regulation has had a contentious and litigious history, but in 2015 the Supreme Court upheld the rule and the utility industry has complied with the standards ever since. However, installing mercury pollution scrubbers has cost the sector $9.6 billion a year, "making it the most expensive clean air regulation ever put forth by the federal government," the New York Times wrote.
Wheeler's proposal, according to the Times, does not eliminate MATS but would direct the EPA to exclude the "co-benefits" when considering the economic impact of a regulation.
EPA spokesman John Konkus explained to the Post that "the MATS Rule was an egregious example of the Obama administration's indifference toward required cost benefit analysis."
But John Walke, Clean Air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council called the move a "sweeping attack on considering the benefits of cutting hazardous pollution from coal plants."
"It's the first legal step toward eliminating mercury, lead and other dangerous pollution standards entirely," he said in a statement received by EcoWatch. "And what the Trump EPA is pursuing—the fraudulent denial of real-world benefits from clean air and climate safeguards—is the unholy grail of the polluting industry and its lobbyists for decades."
The Sierra Club noted that Wheeler's proposal directly benefits one of his former clients, coal company Murray Energy, as well as EPA's assistant administrator William Wehrum, a former coal industry lawyer.
"If finalized, this shameful plan would undermine standards that have already been widely implemented, exposing our kids to more toxic mercury and arsenic just so Andrew Wheeler and Bill Wehrum can appease a handful of their former clients in the coal industry," Mary Anne Hitt, senior director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, said in a press release. "This disgraceful move by Wheeler and Wehrum directly endangers the health of our kids and we will do everything we can to stop it."
Trump Power Plant Plan Will Significantly Increase CO2 Pollution ›
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-power...597454144.html
How Trump's rules on coal-fired power plants differ from Obama's ... ›
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ho...er-from-obamas
Trump's plan for coal plants: key takeaways about the EPA proposal ›
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...al/1052390002/
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"TransCanada has begun construction of the Keystone XL pipeline near the Rosebud Reservation, just a week after the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes) sued the Trump Administration for its illegal approval of the pipeline.
TransCanada has begun construction of the Keystone XL pipeline near the Rosebud Reservation, just a week after the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes) sued the Trump Administration for its illegal approval of the pipeline.
Bulldozers were seen this week grading the land in Tripp County, South Dakota, adjacent to Rosebud lands. Construction has begun despite the fact that there are three lawsuits currently going on. The one filed by Rosebud Sioux last week citDonate Now buttones the fact that the Trump Administration has not undertaken any analysis of: trust obligations, the potential impact on tribal hunting and fishing rights, the potential impacts on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's unique water system, the potential impact of spills on tribal citizens, or the potential impact on cultural sites in the path of the pipeline. This is in violation of federal law.
"The United States is allowing TransCanada to begin construction even though there has been no review of our treaty rights, hunting and fishing rights, or the impacts to our people, our water, or our environment," President Rodney M. Bordeaux of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. "We will fight to ensure that federal law is followed." Read the full letter from President Bordeaux.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community intend to move ahead with their claims against the United States and to demand that the United States honor its legal obligations."
Learn more about the Keystone XL Pipeline and the tribes' opposition.
https://www.narf.org/cases/keystone/
"KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE
Attorney: Natalie A. Landreth, Matthew L. Campbell, Wesley James Furlong, Dan Lewerenz
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes) in coordination with their counsel, the Native American Rights Fund, on September 10, 2018, sued the Trump Administration for numerous violations of the law in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. The Tribes are asking the court to rescind the illegal issuance of the Keystone XL pipeline presidential permit.
Case Updates
Bulldozers were seen this week grading the land in Tripp County, South Dakota, adjacent to Rosebud lands. Construction has begun despite the fact that there are three lawsuits currently going on. The one filed by Rosebud Sioux last week cites the fact that the Trump Administration has not undertaken any analysis of: trust obligations, the potential impact on tribal hunting and fishing rights, the potential impacts on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's unique water system, the potential impact of spills on tribal citizens, or the potential impact on cultural sites in the path of the pipeline. This is in violation of federal law.
Screenshot of first page of Bordeaux Letter, Click to download PDF
"The United States is allowing TransCanada to begin construction even though there has been no review of our treaty rights, hunting and fishing rights, or the impacts to our people, our water, or our environment," President Rodney M. Bordeaux of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. "We will fight to ensure that federal law is followed."
Read the full letter from President Bordeaux:
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community intend to move ahead with their claims against the United States and to demand that the United States honor its legal obligations.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes) in coordination with their counsel, the Native American Rights Fund, on September 10, 2018, sued the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, Great Falls Division, for numerous violations of the law in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. The Tribes are asking the court to declare the review process in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and to rescind the illegal issuance of the Keystone XL pipeline presidential permit.
On March 23, 2017, the U.S. Department of State granted TransCanada's permit application and issued it a presidential permit to construct and operate the Keystone XL Pipeline. This decision reversed two previous administrative decisions and was done without any public comment or environmental analysis. The permitting process was completed only 56 days after TransCanada submitted its application for the third time. The State Department provided no explanation in the 2017 decision for its contradictory factual finding; instead, it simply disregarded its previous factual findings and replaced them with a new one. Stop KXL buttonThe reversal came as no surprise. According to a 2015 personal public financial disclosure report filed with the Federal Election Commission, then-candidate Trump held between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of stock in TransCanada Pipelines, Ltd. NARF Staff Attorney Natalie Landreth explains, "President Trump permitted the Keystone XL pipeline because he wanted to. It was a political step, having nothing to do with what the law actually requires. NARF is honored to represent the Rosebud Sioux and Fort Belknap Tribes to fully enforce the laws and fight this illegal pipeline."
Cowgirl walking horse at sunrise.
Woman and horse at Ft. Belknap. Photo by Todd Klassy. *
Snaking its way from Alberta to Nebraska, the pipeline would cross the United States-Canada border in Philips County, Montana, directly adjacent to Blaine County and the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. The pipeline would cross less than 100 miles from the headquarters of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and run directly through sacred and historic sites as well as the ancestral lands of the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Tribes. In South Dakota, the pipeline would cross through Tripp County, just miles from the boundaries of the Rosebud Indian Reservation and within yards of Rosebud's trust lands and tribal members' allotments. These lands are well within the area of impact for even a small rupture and spill. There are countless historical, cultural, and religious sites in the planned path of the pipeline that are at risk of destruction, both by the pipeline's construction and by the threat of inevitable ruptures and spills if the pipeline becomes operational. Additionally, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe operates its own water delivery system, which is part of the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project. The pipeline would cross the two sources of water for the Mni Wiconi Project.
Despite all of these facts, throughout the permitting process, there was no analysis of trust obligations, no analysis of treaty rights, no analysis of the potential impact on hunting and fishing rights, no analysis of potential impacts on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's unique water system, no analysis of the potential impact of spills on tribal citizens, and no analysis of the potential impact on cultural sites in the path of the pipeline, which is in violation of the NEPA and the NHPA.
November 2017:
President William Kindle of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) promised continued vigilance in light of the Nebraska Public Service Commission's decision today to permit TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline to cross that state's lands. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has retained the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) to represent its interests with regard to the Keystone XL pipeline.
The pipeline's proposed route crosses through traditional Lakota homelands and treaty territories, and will affect not only the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, but also Native Nations in Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska. It also endangers the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies water for Native and non-Native users' residential and agricultural needs on the High Plains in eight states.
"The land, water, tribal sovereignty, and governmental services were not 'given' to us in those treaties," President Kindle said. "They were bargained for with the blood of our ancestors. We will not dishonor our relatives and unnecessarily endanger our health, safety, and wellbeing. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will take any and all necessary steps, up to and including litigation, to protect our people, our land and water, and our cultural and historic resources."
"As we have seen, spills from such projects can be catastrophic," said NARF Staff Attorney Matt Campbell. "The Rosebud Sioux Tribe—just like South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana—has a duty to protect the health and welfare
of its citizens. NARF will help the Tribe make sure it has considered all of its options for ensuring the safety of the Tribe's citizens, territory, and resources."
"This is their land, their water," said NARF Staff Attorney Natalie Landreth. "They have laws protecting their water and those laws must be respected. Keystone XL will need permission from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, so this is not over."
See the open letter from President Kindle for more information on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's position.
https://www.narf.org/wordpress/wp-co...e-keystone.pdf
A History of the Keystone Pipeline
Map of Keystone Pipeline Route
Map by Meclee – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
The Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline is the proposed Phase 4 of the Keystone Pipeline system, which already is online with a capacity to carry more than 500,000 barrels per day. The XL stands for "export limited." If completed, KXL would add another 510,000 barrels of capacity.
Phase 1 of the Keystone Pipeline was permitted in March 2008. Phase 2 and 3 did not require Presidential Permits and were built over several years starting in 2010. Because it crosses the U.S.-Canada border, Phase 4 does require a Presidential Permit; however, it has been met with opposition since its initial proposal. A timeline of the Keystone Pipeline project is below.
Tribes and the United States government sign Treaties of Fort Laramie establishing respective territories.
February: TransCanada Corporation proposes the Keystone Pipeline project.
September: Canada's National Energy Board approves the Canadian section.
January: ConocoPhillips acquires a 50% stake in the project.
March: The U.S. Department of State issues a Presidential Permit authorizing Keystone facilities at the U.S.-Canada border.
September: TransCanada and ConocoPhillips file an application for the Keystone XL Phase 4 extension.
Pipeline representatives start visiting landowners potentially affected by Keystone XL. Opposition emerges in Nebraska.
June: TransCanada announces it will buy ConocoPhillips' stake in Keystone.
March: Canada's National Energy Board approves the Canadian section of the Keystone XL.
June: Phase 1 of the Keystone Pipeline goes online. It runs from Hardisty, Alberta, to Patoka, Illinois.
June-July: Increased opposition to Keystone XL includes legislators and scientists speaking out against the project; the Environmental Protection Agency questions the need for the pipeline extension.
July: The State Department extends its review of Keystone, saying they need more time for review before a final environmental impact assessment can be released.
February : The Keystone-Cushing Phase 2 of the pipeline goes online. It connects Steele City, Nebraska, to Cushing, Oklahoma.
August: The State Department releases its final environmental assessment that the pipeline would have a limited environmental impact.
August-September: Keystone XL protesters organize two weeks of civil disobedience at the White House. Police arrest approximately one thousand people.
December: U.S. legislators pass a bill with a provision saying President Barack Obama must make a decision on the pipeline's future in the next 60 days.
January: Obama rejects the Keystone Pipeline, saying the December bill did not allow enough time to review the new route. Obama says TransCanada is free to submit another application.
February: TransCanada announces it will build Phase 3 of the Keystone Pipeline as a separate project that is not subject to presidential permission, since it does not cross an international border.
April: TransCanada submits a new route to officials in Nebraska for approval.
May: TransCanada files a new application with the State Department for the northern part of Keystone XL.
January: Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman approves the proposed route for Keystone XL, sending the project back to the State Department for review. Pipeline opponents file a lawsuit against the Nebraska government claiming the state law used to review the new route is unconstitutional.
January: The Cushing MarketLink Phase 3a pipeline goes online. It connects Cushing, Oklahoma, to Port Arthur, Texas. Phase 3b is added later, connecting the pipeline from Port Arthur to Houston, Texas.
February: A Nebraska judge rules that the law that allowed the governor to approve Keystone XL over the objections of landowners was unconstitutional. Nebraska appeals.
April: The State Department suspends the regulatory process indefinitely, citing uncertainty about the court case in Nebraska.
November: TransCanada says the costs of Keystone XL have grown to US$8 billion from US$5.4 billion. Elections turn control of the U.S. Congress over to Republicans, who pledge to move forward on Keystone XL.
January: The Nebraska Supreme Court narrowly strikes down the lower-court decision, ruling that the governor's actions were constitutional. The U.S. Senate approves a bill to build Keystone XL.
February: Obama vetoes the bill.
November: The Obama administration rejects TransCanada's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
November: Trump elected president.
January: Trump signs a presidential memorandum inviting TransCanada to resubmit their application for a Presidential Permit and directing the Secretary of State, Department of the Interior, and Department of the Army to fast-track the decision. He also signs an order requiring pipelines in the United States to be built with U.S. steel.
March: The Trump White House exempts the Keystone Pipeline from the requirement to use U.S. steel.
September: The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community, in coordination with their counsel, the Native American Rights Fund, on September 10, 2018, sued the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of MT for numerous violations of the law in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process."
Scott Pruitt and Brett Kavanaugh Have Something in Common
From Environmental Working Group by Scott Faber, Vice President of Government Affairs
( Beginning this post with the following comment from Autumn, which I wholeheartedly echo:
I will add that are A LOT of hyperlinks in this article (I've included just a FEW) offering well-documented proof of all assertions, particularly Pruitt's and Kavanaugh's voting records, as you will see if you go to the links.)
"It's not just that they both believe that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks the power to regulate greenhouse gases. Or that the EPA lacks the power to regulate air pollution that starts in one state and ends in another. Or that EPA can ignore the "co-benefits" of regulating mercury pollution from coal plants. Or even that both think it's just fine to dump mine waste into streams.
It's that they both lied about their environmental records when seeking Senate confirmation.
Pruitt, the infamous former EPA administrator forced in July to resign by multiple scandals, lied over and over again to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He lied about everything from his efforts to weaken Illinois River water quality standards to his role in an Oklahoma egg farm. He even lied about whether or not he had weighed in on mercury pollution regulations. He said he had not, but two filings bore his name. Pruitt's lies were so bold, EWG asked the Department of Justice to investigate. https://cdn.ewg.org/sites/default/fi...206.1485979205
Brett Kavanaugh's lies to the Senate Judiciary Committee, during hearings on his Supreme Court nomination, are even bolder.
Kavanaugh testified that as a federal appeals court judge he ruled for the environment in "many" cases. The truth is that in 16 out of 18 cases he ruled for more air and water pollution, and in 17 out of 18 cases he ruled for less protection for endangered species.
Kavanaugh ruled that it's OK for factory farms to pollute the air of their neighbors and that it's OK to dump hazardous waste. When Pruitt sought to delay rules to reduce methane emissions, Kavanaugh sided with polluters. When the EPA sought to replace fluorinated chemicals known as HFCs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Kavanaugh complained that the proposed rule pulled the rug out from under polluters – even though replacement chemicals are readily available.
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lissa-l...-good-business
In fact, few judges have as consistently ruled for polluters and against public health. But when asked about his environmental record, Kavanaugh told the Judiciary Committee that he had ruled in favor of the environment in a "large number" of cases.
https://www.ewg.org/news-and-analysi...h#.W7LyeWhKgdW
In particular, Kavanaugh cited a case related to air emissions from cement plants. In reality, Kavanaugh ruled against cleaner air in the case.
A lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, who represented environmental groups in that case, said Kavanaugh not only ruled for more air pollution from cement plants. He also set a dangerous precedent by ruling that the federal Clean Air Act did not include an important "anti-backsliding" provision.
https://twitter.com/jwalkenrdc/statu...73563962486789
The other cases Kavanaugh cited were decided on procedural, not substantive, matters. Though he once ruled that a case challenging climate rules was premature, he has since repeatedly ruled that EPA lacks the legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Kavanaugh's penchant for lying before the Senate is not limited to his record on the environment.
It also seems clear that he lied to the Senate about his roles, during his time in the George W. Bush administration, that he played in the judicial nominations of William Pryor and William Pickering, in the warrantless wiretapping program and in the detainee program.
He also misled the Senate about his role in the Starr investigation of President Clinton. His testimony last week was also filled with misleading statements.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/u...act-check.html
An editorial in The Boston Globe put it bluntly: "Brett Kavanaugh's a liar. He lies about little things. He lies about big things. He lies under oath."
That may not matter to President Trump, who The Washington Post says has made "more than 5,000 false or misleading claims." But it matters to the American people, and it should matter to the senators whose vote could put him on the Supreme Court."
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Casa Pallás es un Monumento declarado Bien de Interés Cultural por el Gobierno de Aragón. Se encuentra en Guaso, Sobrarbe, Aragón, España.

Presentación
Antiguamente
era la vivienda familiar de los Broto. Esta construcción se realizó partir del siglo XVI, con sucesivas ampliaciones hasta el siglo XIX, dando fruto a una de las casas fuertes de más solera del Alto Aragón.
En la actualidad se trata de un inmueble de extraordinario interés, que integra en un solo bloque compacto numerosos elementos destacables, aparte de dos originales pajares situados a pocos metros de su fachada principal. Está considerada como una de las más casas torreadas más atrayentes del Alto Aragón y se levanta en Guaso junto a Casa Bara y a Casa Juan Broto.

Descripción
El edificio consta de vivienda, consistente en un gran bloque principal y numerosos añadidos posteriores, capilla
y torre.

Todo el conjunto está construido en mampostería, salvo la capilla, y cubierto por losa, a dos aguas.
La casa es un gran bloque
rectangular, de cuatro plantas, la fachada norte abre diversas ventanas y balcones, todos ellos realizados posteriormente a la construcción inicial de la casa. La fachada Este mira a una plaza o patio abierto, es maciza y ordenada en tres pisos más falsa. Destaca la puerta, descentrada, en arco de medio punto y sobre ella hay un matacán defensivo apoyado en dos ménsulas. También en el conjunto de vanos de esta fachada destacan dos ventanas decoradas. Además debe subrayarse un escudo con la siguiente inscripción: "BROTO FRUSTRATA NON DESINAM". Junto a esta fachada se encuentra la capilla, dedicada a Santa María Magdalena. También  son de gran interés los pajares colindantes.

Historia

La construcción original data del SXVI pero las modificaciones y ampliaciones de la casa han sido muy numerosas.

Enlaces externos

 Comarca de Sobrarbe (http://www.sobrarbe.com/)

 Turismo de Sobrarbe ()

 Geoparque de Sobrarbe (http://www.geoparquepirineos.com/)

 Sistema de información del Patrimonio cultural Aragonés (SIPCA) (http://www.sipca.es/censo/1-INM-HUE-003-907-017/Casa/Pallás.html)

Notas y referencias

Bienes de interés cultural de la provincia de Huesca
Guaso
Casas torreadas del Alto Aragón


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NDP and Conservatives call on Ottawa to end corporate tax loopholes
By Marco Chown OvedInvestigative Reporter
Thu., Jan. 25, 2018timer4 min. read
There are few issues the NDP and the Conservatives agree on, but both parties are calling on Ottawa to overhaul the tax code that allows Canada's biggest corporations to pay some of the lowest taxes in the developed world.
"The system is designed for multinationals and big companies to avoid tax," said NDP tax critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault in an interview. "The system is the problem."
In a joint investigation with Corporate Knights magazine, the Star last month revealed the government has never collected a lower proportion of its taxes from corporations than it does now.
In 2016, Ottawa collected $3.50 in income tax from individuals for every $1 it collected from businesses.
"Corporate tax is getting lower and lower, while individuals have to pay more every year to cover for the companies," said Dusseault. "Even though the percentage of tax that should be paid is around 26 per cent, we know that companies, especially the multinationals, they don't pay this."
"It's not so much because the rate has been lowered, but because of the loopholes," he said
Conservatives are also calling on the Liberal government to live up to its promise of making the tax code fair for everyone.
"Excessive complexity is the enemy of fairness," Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre told the Star. "Those who have the financial means to set up complex arrangements are always better off under regimes that are highly complex."
"The smaller, leaner entrepreneurial businesses can't afford to have large legal and tax accounting departments that allow them to game the system. So they are automatically at an unfair and unjustified disadvantage," Poilievre said.
The Star/Corporate Knights investigation revealed that Canada's 102 largest corporations collectively avoided $62.9 billion in income taxes over the past six years. On average, that's $10.5 billion less per year than if they paid the official corporate tax rate.
It's also an average of $100 million missing from the public purse per company, per year.
Those staggering numbers have prompted more than 27,000 Canadians to sign a petition calling on the government to raise corporate taxes and close tax loopholes.
The petition also asks the government to consider imposing a special levy on banks, which are the country's biggest tax avoiders.
While the Big Five banks are collecting record profits, their income tax rates have dropped to the point where companies in the banking sector paid 1/3 the rate of other large Canadian companies in 2015.
At 16 per cent, the tax rate paid by the biggest Canadian banks is the lowest in the G7.
"There are too many ways for them to make their numbers look like they don't have that much profit," Dusseault said, highlighting the banks' many subsidiaries in tax havens.
"It's unfortunate that Canada is not so good at getting banks to pay tax. I don't know why, maybe it's the (bank) lobby."
Though Finance Minister Bill Morneau was not available for an interview, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a keynote speech at the economic summit in Davos, Switzerland this week highlighting the problems caused by runaway profits and weak corporate taxation.
"Too many corporations have put the pursuit of profit before the well-being of their workers. The gap between the rich and the poor is staggering. All the while, companies avoid taxes and boast record profits with one hand, while slashing benefits with the other," Trudeau told world leaders and CEOs on Monday.
"That approach can't and won't cut it anymore," Trudeau said. "Companies must take seriously their obligations to the workers who serve them, and the towns and cities that support them."
"We are in real danger of leaving to our kids a world that is less fair than the one we inherited from our parents," Trudeau said.
The Liberal government was elected on a promise of tax fairness and has committed $1 billion to the Canada Revenue Agency to help crack down on the types of tax avoidance and evasion that was exposed in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers leaks.
But in the nearly two years since the Panama Papers leak revealed hundreds of Canadians' activities in offshore tax havens, the CRA is unable to say if a single dollar of tax has been recovered.
Of the 78 tax evasion convictions obtained by the government over the last two years, none were related to offshore activity, according to a CBC report.
Last year, the government's first major effort at making the tax code fairer targeted small private corporations used by wealthy individuals to unfairly reduce their tax bills. But the proposed changes, which were expected to bring in $250 million, also affected small businesses and family farms, causing an uproar that forced Morneau to water down some of the changes.
To date, there have been no indications the Liberals want to take on big business, where far more tax revenue is at stake.
The NDP is calling for a top-to-bottom review of the tax code, which was originally written in the 1970s and has since ballooned to more than 2,000 pages.
"With e-commerce and offshore tax havens, the economy has changed a lot," said Dusseault. "Maybe now it's the time to look at this again because now it's so easy for companies to register elsewhere and make money flow from country to country."
In the meantime, NDP MP Murray Rankin has proposed a quick fix through a private members bill that would crack down on offshore tax avoidance by requiring companies to prove cross-border transactions have "economic substance" and aren't simply done to reduce tax.


Barton Russell Humlhanz was born on February 26, 1981, my first child and only son. Bart or BR, as he was nicknamed by his family, evolved into a handsome young man nicknamed Hanz by his fellow Marines. At age 5 ½ Bart became a big brother when his sister Nicole was born August 22, 1986, I mention the dates because when his sister was two years old she told Bart how she could always remember both of their birthdays, Nicole knew that each of them was ½ year older when it was the other one's actual birthday. While he was not always perfect, Bart was the best big brother and son and always loved and protected his mom and little sister.
Bart loved all of his family and he had plenty, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and bonus family too thanks to Don Carey coming into our lives. Bart was 11 when I met Don and while we had some difficult teen years together it was one of our greatest joys when Bart came to Don and told him he was the best Dad he ever had! Bart's first nephew, Isaiah Barton, was born on Bart's birthday and his second nephew was born June. Sadly neither of them actually met their Uncle Bart since he died before they were born but they know Bart well thanks to their mom, Bart's sister, and our family.
As a child, Bart played tee-ball and baseball for a few years. He joined cub scouts and boy scouts for a few years and grew to love music like his mom. At the age of 12 I gave Bart my acoustic guitar and he taught himself how to play and sing without ever learning to read music. Bart was able to play by ear and was quite good, he was so passionate about his guitars that he bought a guitar in Iraq during his second deployment because he missed it so much. Bart had numerous guitars between the ages of 12 and 23 ½ that he traded for or purchased on his own, some acoustic and some electric. Bart even sang and played at a local café near our home in Hellertown, PA and was so excited because they actually paid him to perform.
Bart's favorite teams were the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia Phillies. Bart's favorite sport was hockey though, street hockey, roller hockey or ice hockey, he didn't care which! I have to admit he got that from his mom and it was a huge binding tie to his dad Don and brother Ben who both loved skating and hockey too. Bart had a great sense of humor, which he seems to have gotten from Don because that was not from me! Bart also had a huge heart. One story I heard from a fellow Marine was that Bart had given him the last $2 he had with 2-3 days to go until payday. Many other stories said Bart treated everyone like family; he was kind, generous, funny and helpful.
Bart always admired and had a huge respect for our military, which started at the age of 3 when he went to see his Uncle Steve graduate from Army boot camp. At the age of 17 Bart signed up for delayed entry into the Army. Unfortunately neither his first or second Army contract was able to get him the MOS of Military Police as he was promised, so Bart decided not to enter and got a job instead. Then 9/11 happened and Bart was on a mission to never let anything like that happen again. About 6 weeks later I remember getting a phone call at work from Bart saying "guess what I did today?" I replied I have no idea, what did you do? Bart said "I joined the Marines…and I leave in 3 weeks" at his own insistence with the recruiter. Bart joined the Marines on 15 NOV 2001 with an MOS of Military Police as promised.
Bart received his first meritorious promotion to Private First Class 14 MAY 2002. Bart received Marine of the Quarter at Camp Lejeune 1 OCT 2002 thru 31 JAN 2003 while a Lance Corporal. Bart received his second meritorious promotion to Corporal 2 JUN 2004. Bart told everyone that joining the United States Marine Corps was the best thing he had ever done and he was very proud, as were all of us.
Bart first deployed to Iraq Christmas 2002 where he served until June 2003. Bart's second deployment to Iraq was 4 JUL 2004. Bart was killed 26 AUG 2004 in Babil Provence, Iraq as a result of an IED (improvised explosive device) during security operations.
Personal awards, medals, ribbons include Purple Heart, Navy Marine Corps Achievement, Combat Action, Good Conduct, National Defense, Iraq Campaign, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary, Global War on Terrorism Service, Sea Service Deployment, Expert Rifle and Marksman Pistol.
We miss Bart's smile, laugh, hugs and generosity to family and others. Whenever Bart was home visiting or on the phone we always told him "we love you, we miss you and we are so proud of you!" That is true forever and always.
Bart is survived by his proud parents Michele and Don Carey, his sister Nicole McNally, his brother-in-law Michael McNally, his step-brother Ben Carey and his nephews Isaiah Barton McNally ( who was born on his Uncle Bart's birthday) and Miles McNally.


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Gutenberg Research Award for American Linguist Leonard Talmy
Innovative pioneer of modern linguistics and 'founding father' of Cognitive Linguistics honored in Mainz
The Gutenberg Research College (GRC) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany confers this year's Gutenberg Research Award on the internationally renowned linguist and cognitive scientist Leonard Talmy. Leonard Talmy is one of the most innovative pioneers of modern linguistics, one of the 'founding fathers' of Cognitive Linguistics, a leading language typologist, and a researcher with outstanding accomplishments at the interface of language and cognition. The prize was awarded on May 21, 2012 in a festive ceremony at Mainz University. While continuing the award tradition that was started six years ago by the JGU Graduate of School of Excellence "Materials Science in Mainz" (MAINZ), the Gutenberg Research Award has now been moved under the auspices of the university's Gutenberg Research College, which allows it for the first time to include all research areas at JGU in the nomination process.
Giving this year's Gutenberg Research Award to Leonard Talmy, Professor emeritus of Linguistics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, the Gutenberg Research College of Mainz University honors the achievements of one of the most innovative pioneers of modern linguistics and cognitive science in general. His work has been appreciated across discipline borders, including the so-called hard sciences. Within the linguistic community Talmy counts as one of the leading language typologists and is probably best known as one of the 'founding fathers' of Cognitive Linguistics, which is a more semantically oriented counterbalance to formal cognitive linguistics of the Chomskyan strand. In Cognitive Linguistics Talmy has defined his own outstanding profile by establishing what has become known as Cognitive Semantics.
Talmy's understanding of Cognitive Linguistics is rooted in the conviction that language as a cognitive system shares some of its fundamental design features with other cognitive systems (e.g., the human visual system), but also exhibits characteristics and organizational principles genuine to language alone. Thus, language structures can neither be directly derived from general cognition nor is language to be seen as a completely autonomous model of human cognitive architecture. Talmy's integrative and encompassive "Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization," an independent stance within Cognitive Linguistics, might not be shared by all members of the community, but it may well explain why Leonard Talmy's work has been received and widely appreciated not only by linguists outside the paradigm, but also by developmental psychologists, applied linguists and foreign language teaching experts, and even philosophers.
Among his best known and outstanding accomplishments at the interface of language and cognition are seminal studies on motion typology, cross-linguistic representations of space concepts, lexicalization patterns in the languages of the world, an evolutionary model of compositionality in language that is very much compatible with current neuroscientific binding models of neural synchrony. Beyond the core area of cognitive semantics, Leonard Talmy has published influential articles on the culture system and on narrative structure that testify to his rigorously interdisciplinary stance.
Since the 1980s Leonard Talmy has been opening up new vistas on the concept of attention in language, a dimension long – and in fact still – neglected in linguistics, and on the conceptual system of force dynamics, a full-fledged and coherent structuring system in language, which has earned him noticeable approval beyond linguistics, for example in physics.
Most recently, Leonard Talmy has devoted his analytical skills to disentangling the commonalities, differences, and interrelations of spoken language and gesturing, suggesting that spoken language can not do without support from gestures. A groundbreaking work with the title How Language Aims at Targets: The Cognitive System Underlying Deixis and Anaphora is near completion.
Leonard Talmy was born in Chicago, he received his B.A. in Linguistics from the University of California at Berkley in 1963 and his doctorate in 1972 for his pioneering work on the now extinct Native American language Atsugewi, of which he is the last 'speaker.' Further academic positions followed at Stanford University as a member of Joseph Greenberg's famous typology project and at the University of California in San Diego, where he helped develop the foundations of Connectionism. Back in Berkeley, he became the first coordinator of the then newly established Program in Cognitive Sciences, and from 1990 he was a Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York at Buffalo and director of the newly established Center of Cognitive Science up to his retirement in 2005. Leonard Talmy now lives in Berkeley again and is still an active member of the local academic community.
Leonard Talmy and the Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have established close relations and maintained a fruitful cooperation for quite a few years now. Besides a profound and long-lasting personal contact to individual members of the department, Leonard Talmy has acted as an external reviewer in a postdoctoral lecturing qualification procedure. In 2009 he was a guest lecturer and co-conducted a research seminar on "Language and Attention." He has also been a consultant to one of the component projects within the large-scale research project on "Determinants of Linguistic Variation;" and already in July 2012 he will be a guest in Mainz again: He is one of the keynote speakers at the interdisciplinary symposium on "Attention across Disciplines," which is organized at JGU on the occasion of Leonard Talmy's 70th birthday. Other speakers will include renowned brain researcher and director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Wolf Singer and the acknowledged digital architect Georg Franck from the Vienna University of Technology.
Leonard Talmy's impressive list of achievements in international linguistics and cognitive science is even more remarkable when one learns that he has been completely blind since the mid-1990s. This, however, has never kept him from travelling the world to be a cherished plenary speaker and intriguing discussant at many international conferences. His probably most conspicuous scientific achievement has been his intricate ability to open up new vistas, advance new research agendas, give new impetus to the linguistic community that has stirred discipline-transcending vivid debates and, at the same time, instigated sustainable paradigm changes. In light of this notable impact, it is indeed a characteristic of Leonard Talmy's personal modesty that in the title of his major two-volume work Toward a Cognitive Semantics he uses "toward," which makes him an outstanding honoree of the 2012 Gutenberg Research Award in many respects.
photo: Uwe Feuerbach
Professor Leonard Talmy, recipient of the Gutenberg Research Award 2012
Celebratory evening event presenting the Gutenberg Research Award 2012 and its new fellows
press release "Gutenberg Research College welcomes new fellows and bestows the Gutenberg Research Award" (22 May 2012)
PD Dr. Martina Lampert
English Linguistics
Dept. of English and Linguistics
Johannes Gutenberg University
D 55099 Mainz
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Professor Dr. Günther Lampert
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