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New Westminster Secondary School, And The Boy In The Basement
New Westminster Secondary School
Most people never connect a public school with a haunting, but there are rare occasions when events change that. The New Westminster Secondary School happens to be one of the rare cases.
In the history of the school, there have been a few accidents. These have altered the fabric of the school and allowed some very odd events to have taken place.
In the early 1970's it is said that a boy drown in the basement pool. Since that time, some security-guards have reported seeing the body of a boy floating in the pool, only to leave and come back or look away—only to find the boy gone. Other guards have reported a man's voice being heard to shout in the archery range. The archery range just happens to be in the basement as well.
Now you may think that would be enough for one school. However, the stories don't end there. Security cameras have also been known to catch the apparition of a boy in the woodworking shop, who died in the late 1980's.
If this is not enough, there are always the orbs that are said to be caught in the music room as well.
The one thing I can say after reading about the events at this school, is to never judge a building by it cover.
Posted by Kayden McLeod on November 19, 2010
Labels: Ghost Stories, New Westminster, New Westminster Secondary School, The Boy In The Basement
Since there has never been a pool at New Westminster Secondary now or ever, it doesn't seem likley that anyone drowned there. Also, it would be interesting to see any newpaper article about a death in the woodworking shop.
Yes, please give the date of the "drowning" so I can go to the public library and look at the newspaper archives. This would have been big news in a small town. (Especially since it happened in a pool that wasn't there.)
Mmk, so my high school's haunted? Cool. The boy's not mean or anything, right?
I went to this school and yes there was a pool on site along time ago and was filled in. there are lots more storys that involve this school and i myself have experenxed random voices and figures that cant be explained. If people want to know more the school and New West Libary have lots of information if you ask.
There is a pool there, or was (it's been filled in). I've seen it and the whole area was creepy. It's under the Gym and there is access near Massey Theatre.
I think the first two comments are funny, there's a lot of strange places in that school and I've been in some. You should have explored more and gone where your weren't supposed to. I'm sure we missed some spots, simply because we didn't know where to look.
The claim about a pool is false. Also, there is no record in the newspaper archives of any drowning.
No record in news archives? I know of so many deaths (all manners) that have never made it to a newspaper/news media.
I have heard about the pool from some historians in the area. I can't confirm or deny its previous existence. But ultimately, this is just a local lore, probably based on some sort of event that happened and possibly changed a bit to make it more "scarier/creepier". We will probably never really know. I plan on talking to more people who lived in the area back in the day, see what they remember.
I lived in New Westminster "back in the day". Between me and my brothers and sisters, we cover the time from when the school was first opened to the late 60's, and I can say for 100 per cent certainty that there has NEVER been a pool in that school, period.
I have been asking my teachers there was a pool under massey.
Right, but it was abducted by a UFO.
Perhaps the hauntings at the high school have to do with the human remains from the cemeteries that occupied the site up to 1920. Don't take my word for it Google the school, or better find engineering reports about the construction of the new middle school and high school, they even plan to build a memorial park for the old cemeteries. As for the pool I have found no record of it. Was it built when the school was, or was it added later?
There never was a pool. There is no pool there now.
I have heard from many sources that there was a pool. Love the people that "know for certain" there was no pool! Do some more research!!
"Hearing from sources", then saying to other people "do your research" is kind of a contradiction, isn't it? It's up to you to prove there ever was a pool, since there certainly isn't one now, is there? The library is not too far from the school, so go on over.
I'm modding this thread.
As I said before, it is a ghost story, and it is that until there is proof EITHER way.
About Us said...
I went to New Westminster Secondary School. I graduated in 2003. There is a Pool and Archery Range in the basement below the Massey Gym. The Pool was filled in shortly after the drowning death but you can see that it was a pool. My friends and I snuck down to the basement a lot. I have seen this with my own eyes and I know this for a fact.
How do you get there where is the entrance?
Does anyone realize the school was built atop a cemetery?
Lying to support a false story is just pathetic.
If you people claim to do investigations you must have found there was no pool at either school in New Westminster. Don't you owe it to the truth if nothing else to just say so?
To the truth to this said...
You should not tell fibs there has never been a pool. And it was a shooting range not a archery range
Marcie DS said...
No pool, no archery range and no shooting range. Never has been. Make up something believable. This is just sad.
Here's a thought. If there was a pool, why is there no swim team in any of the high school annuals? The library has several editions of Kimtah, but there's no swim team.
Finally, some common sense. It just cheapens real research to try to justify falsehoods with more falsehoods.
NewWest secondary is built on native and Chinese burial sites. I remember stories of the tunnels, and pool underground, when I went there 93 - 95. Never took a look though.
Another place that could be haunted,as you say about filling in the pool after the death, is the tennis court in Queens Park across from the stadium. My dad worked for the city and said that back in the day, when they were clearing out the bushes, there was an East Indian man found hanging. When the city looked at the tennis court, which was a reservoir at that time, the decision was made to fill in the reservoir rather than dredge it because they did not want to deal with possible bodies there. Goes to figure why the other NewWest reservoir, in Massey Heights, has never been filled in to this day.
The only way I'll believe in any so-called ghost is if I see it myself. I'm sick of stories about someone who thought someone else saw something. A good way to detect BS is to see if the stories always refer to other stories, never direct evidence. (As is the case here.)
This is insane. There is no pool or shooting range. I know because I attend this school and have asked anyone and everyone about this. I've done my research, explored the place, and the only "secret" area is an underground tunnel leading from Massey theatre to about a block away. This tunnel was used when some famous people performed at the theatre and fans surrounded the theatre, so they had to use the tunnel in order to get out without having to deal with the chaos.
Hi everyone, I am the person who made up these ghost stories. Allow me to explain:
I went to NWSS and in grade 8 I was obsessed with hauntings and ghost stories. I used to frequent a website dedicated to haunted places, and you could submit your own stories without them having to go through any sort of approval or fact checking. I am not sure if the website is still around to this day as this was back in 2003. I made up several ghost stories and hauntings around Greater Vancouver and posted them to that website, the posting about NWSS was based on rumours I heard about the school having a defunct swimming pool and archery in the basement (they were just rumours) and this massive wood planing machine in the woodworking shop that used to exist in the Massey wing, but was torn down to begin demolition of the school (before the asbestos incidents broke out).
Fast forward to 2015, some of my former classmates are sharing articles about the most haunted places in BC, and they're saying NWSS is on the list. I'm sitting in my office and I couldn't believe I was reading these stories that I completely made up just for shits and giggles back in the day. I see it on The Chive, Huffington Post, and all other clickbait news sites. I decided whatever I'll leave it, those who do their research will figure out it's all just a bunch of BS. Well today I see people are still talking about it, so I wanna set the record straight and tell you these ghost stories are completely FALSE made up by ME who was just a kid trying to freak everybody out!
Umm Its 2018... And these rumors have been around since the late 80's. There are tons of underground tunnels that were made in 1910 approx time. They went from the docks to up town, to the rail station down in sapperton and also past woodlands. Under the Massey gym Is blocked off and only has 1 entrance now.. There are windows blocked off and barred around the basement of the gym. The Cafetira back wall shares the wall with the Gym Basement which used to have doors to the area. It might not be a pool, It might not be a range but people have been down there and your not supposed to go there and the teachers dont know whats in there either. As for the person making up the story.. Unless you did it 40 years ago and got it viral then.. its not ur story.
It doesn't matter who made it up or when. It's made up, period. I'm just disappointed that people would knowingly lie to support it.
"Orbs". Puhleeze.
Hey it's me, the one who made up the ghost stories, again. The website where I posted ghost tales about this school is shadowlands.net. Like I said that website is extremely unreliable because it allowed 13 year old me to post whatever I wanted without them doing any fact checking before approval. I did not make up the story about the pool or archery range, you are right those were rumours and I just included them in my shadowlands.net post for more juicyness. The one about the orbs and kid getting mauled by a machine in the wood shop though that all came from my imagination 100%.
tbker said...
ayo bruh how tf you find the basement like there an entrance or something? Like where would I go to find that
Look at the "mission statement". There's no explanation, just a forum for nonsense.
It's easy to tell if a place is haunted. It isn't. Grow up.
Guys the school is haunted bro is swear bro I saw Sasquatch into e basement bro please
I think the explanation about the bogus pool story at NWSS makes sense. A search of Newspapers.com website (where I have a subscription) reveals that there was never any news story in any BC paper about a drowning death of a student at NWSS. If it had happened, it would have been news, and would have been in the paper. These sites should really fact-check their stories before they publish them.
I just searched this as my neighbour who went to the school mentioned yesterday that they went into the basement and saw the pool, which I'd never heard about before, but she said she saw it.
Well, she's wrong.
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It took only a few hours for hope to turn to fresh despair. At lunchtime on Friday, the German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel was freed after more than a year in detention. An image of Yucel embracing his wife – who he had married while he was incarcerated – outside the concrete and razor-wire gates of Istanbul's Silivri prison raced across social media, to widespread jubilation. But by the time the day's evening call-to-prayer sounded, six other journalists had been convicted and jailed, three of them with aggravated life sentences.
All have been accused of supporting terrorist groups, either the Kurdish militants of the PKK or the Gulenists, the Islamic sect that President Erdogan accuses of launching the 2016 coup attempt. No-one is in jail for practising journalism, we are always told – though last year Erdogan himself said in an interview that any writer who publishes the words of terrorists can be considered a terrorist themselves. That doesn't leave much space for publishing anything other than the government's own line.
Mehmet and Ahmet Altan, brothers in their sixties, have been thorns in the Turkish establishment's side for decades – whatever form the establishment happens to be taking. As founding editor of the Taraf newspaper, Ahmet spearheaded investigations into the military and was prosecuted for an article he wrote about the victims of the Armenian genocide. Mehmet was a celebrated economics correspondent. Nazli Ilicak, 73, the third to be given a life sentence, was an MP for the main opposition party before becoming a journalist. All three were arrested soon after the coup, accused of sending subliminal messages for the Gulenists during their appearance on a television show. Unless their cases are overturned, they will die in prison.
So this is Turkey: now the world's biggest jailer of journalists, and a once-democratising nation that has slipped so far, and so quickly, into authoritarianism that all of us who have witnessed it are reeling. There are those who will say that they always knew it would turn out this way – that Erdogan has never had a single strand of democracy in his DNA. But most Turks admit that they once held hope in the man who seemed to start out as a liberaliser. Erdogan once wanted to take Turkey into Europe. He wanted to make peace with the Kurds. Most of all, he wanted to defang the military, which had appointed itself the guarantor of Turkish secularism but had also become the biggest obstacle to real democracy. And he had personal experience of the country's authoritarian leanings.
Back in the late 1990s, a younger Tayyip Erdogan won the backing of Amnesty International when he was jailed for reading an Islamist-tinged poem at a really. The judiciary, dominated at that time by secularists, deemed that he had stoked religious hatred. Erdogan's jailing secured his legend among Turkey's religious conservatives as a rebel against the staid system, and not long after he was released he began his rapid ascent through national politics. As prime minister in the 2000s, he battled back against the generals and began lifting laws against the Kurdish language and the Islamic headscarf. So admired was he in the rest of the world that when the Arab uprisings began in late 2010, Erdogan's Turkey was touted as a model for the rest of the region.
Analysts debate endlessly over where it all fell apart – but none, apart from the blind loyalists, disagree that Erdogan the democratiser is dead. In his place, there is now Erdogan the vindictive, the jingoistic, the paranoid. He travels everywhere in a huge motorcade, surrounded by men in shades and earpieces. Once the scourge of the military, he has now, since the post-coup purge which has seen more than half of the top tier of officers dismissed, recast himself as commander-in-chief. Earlier this month, he appeared in the operations room dressed in a camouflage jacket, peering over tactical maps with his generals. And although officials will insist that it is the judiciary, not Erdogan, that makes the decisions on legal cases, it is now a given that if the president fingers someone in one of his near-daily speeches, they will be immediately detained and put on trial.
Some Turks say it is a curse that afflicts all their leaders – that, once in power, they cannot help succumbing to the authoritarian urge. The adoration of the crowd is too intoxicating, and the country too huge and volatile to allow democracy to take its course. Others believe that Erdogan fears what will happen to him should he lose power, and that is why he is gripping so tight.
Ahmet Altan's latest novel, Endgame, tells the story of an anonymous Turkish town that tears itself apart. There are rumours of great riches buried underneath the hillside and the residents are willing to kill, cheat and betray each other to get their hands on it. In doing so, they destroy themselves and the beauty of the land they have inherited. It is difficult not to draw parallels.


As every year on Girls'Day, several hundred students came to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to gain an insight into the technical and scientific world of work. The purpose of the day is to arouse interest in MINT subjects (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology) and to get to know the relevant job profiles and to discover the "male professions" for themselves. The DLR program is organized by the team of the DLR_School_Labs. Two groups of about 10 students visited our laboratories on Girls'Day 2018.
Within two hours, the students had the opportunity to get to know aerogels and to do some small experiments by themselves. After a brief introduction, they were able to make their own hydrogels, the precursor of an airgel, via a "dump-bulk" experiment by combining dilute acetic acid with water glass.
To identify the volume, the weight of the samples were first determined on a laboratory balance and afterwards the volume was determined both geometrically and with an instrumental method (GeoPyc from Micromeritics). Next, the respective densities were compared with each other. In the chemistry laboratory, pink-colored gel balls based on alginates were produced on the jet cutter. At the end of the day, each student was invited to take home a small sample of colorful airgel balls.
Thanks to the new impressions and practical experience, we have succeeded in bringing natural and engineering sciences closer to the even previously rather skeptical students and arousing their interest in dealing more with them in the future.


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Music et al, Peace Love Art and Activism, Today in history
December 21 Peace Love Art Activism
December 21, 2016 Woodstock Whisperer	2 Comments
Technological Milestone
December 21, 1790: Samuel Slater opened the first cotton mill in the US (Pawtucket, R.I). The Industrial Age in America begins.(see January 9, 1793)
December 21, 1911: a police officer arrested Fremont Weeks at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri where he was employed by an express company. Other officers entered the Weeks' house without a search warrant and took possession of papers and articles which were afterwards turned over to the US Marshal. The officers returned later in the same day with the marshal, still without a warrant, and seized letters and envelopes they found in the drawer of a chiffonier. These papers were used to convict Weeks of transporting lottery tickets through the mail. On February 24, 1914 in Weeks v. United States, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that the warrantless seizure of items from a private residence constituted a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It also prevented local officers from securing evidence by means prohibited under the federal exclusionary rule and giving it to their federal colleagues. (see February 24, 1914)
December 21, 1919, : the ship USAT Buford, labeled the "Red Ark," embarked from New York City on this day, carrying 249 aliens who were deported because of their alleged anarchist or Communist beliefs.
The most famous passenger was the anarchist, birth control advocate and anti-war activist Emma Goldman, who had been arrested June 15, 1917, for opposing the draft. Anarchist Alexander Berkman accompanied her. An estimated 184 of the 249 aliens on the Buford were members of the Union of Russian Workers, which had been one of the principal targets of the first Palmer Raids on November 7, 1919. All of the passengers were shipped to the Soviet Union. (see Emma Goldmanj for expanded chronology)
US Labor History
December 22, 1951: ten days after an Illinois State mine inspector approved coal dust removal techniques at New Orient mine in West Frankfort, the mine exploded, largely because of coal dust accumulations, killing 119 workers. (see April 8, 1952)
December 21, 1956: buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially-integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation. (BH, see Dec 24; see MBB for expanded chronology)
Michael Griffith murder
December 21, 1987: Jon Lester, Scott Kern and Jason Ladone were convicted of the second-degree manslaughter of Michael Griffith (December 20, 1986). Ultimately nine people would be convicted on a variety of charges related to the death of Griffith.
Autherine Lucy Foster
In 1988: two professors invited Autherine Lucy Foster to speak at the University about the events that had occurred in 1956. After her speech, faculty members persuaded the Board of Trustees to overturn her expulsion.
In 1989: Autherine Lucy Foster again enrolled at the University of Alabama. Her daughter Grazia also was a student at the time. (BH, see Jan 8; U of A, see May 9, 1992)
Vietnam & DRAFT CARD BURNING
December 21, 1965: a federal grand jury in NY indicted Thomas Cornell (teacher) Marc Edelman (cabinetmaker), Roy Lisker (novelist and teacher), and James Watson (on staff of Catholic Worker Pacifist Movenet) of burning their draft cards. (Vietnam, see Dec 24; DCB, see February 10, 1966)
December 21 Music et al
December 21 – 27, 1968, Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman is the Billboard #1 album. (see March 8, 1969)
December 21 – 27, 1968: Apollo 8 completes the first manned orbit of the moon. Frank Borman commands the mission, Jim Lovell acts as navigator and William Anders is photographer and geological observer. (see January 16, 1969)
December 21, 1970: in Oregon v Mitchell, the US Supreme Court held that the Congress could set voter age requirements for federal elections but not for state elections. The case also upheld Congress's nationwide prohibition on literacy tests and similar "tests or devices" used as voting qualifications as defined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (see March 23, 1971)
Elvis meets Nixon
December 21, 1971: Elvis Presley met President Nixon. According to notes take at the meeting by Nixon aide Egil "Bud" Krogh "Presley indicated that he thought the Beatles had been a real force for anti-American spirit. The President then indicated that those who use drugs are also those in the vanguard of anti-American protest."
"I'm on your side," Elvis told Nixon, adding that he'd been studying the drug culture and Communist brainwashing. Then he asked the president for a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. "Can we get him a badge?" Nixon asked Krogh.
Krogh said he could and Nixon ordered it done. (Elvis, see August 16, 1977)
In 1973: The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNND) and the Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) are merged to form the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). (see Cannabis for expanded chronology)
Iran–Contra Affair
December 21, 1982: Congress, passed the first Boland Amendment, which prohibited the CIA or the Defense Department from spending any money to assist the anti-Communist Contras in Nicaragua. (Congress passed further Boland Amendments in 1983 and 1984.) The Boland Amendments set the stage for the Iran-Contra scandal that eventually engulfed the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Reagan and his CIA Director William Casey were deeply committed to fighting communism at every opportunity around the world, even if it involved breaking the law — as the Iran-Contra scandal revealed. (see December 7, 1985)
December 21, 1988: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground. Passengers included 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S. military personnel. Libya formally admitted responsibility in August 2003 and offered $2.7 billion compensation to victims' families. (see December 16, 1989)
Iraq War II
December 21, 2004: a suicide bomber attacked the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it was the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War. (photos from NYT)(IWII, see January 12, 2005; Terrorism, see June 14, 2005)
Dissolution of the USSR
December 21, 1989: Romanian leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, spoke to crowd of the Socialist revolution's chievements and Romanian "multi-laterally developed Socialist society." Roughly eight minutes into his speech, several people began jeering, booing and whistling at him and shouting "Timișoara," a reaction that would have been unthinkable for most of the previous quarter-century of his rule. As the speech wore on, more and more people did the same. He tried to silence them by raising his right hand and calling for the crowd's attention before order was temporarily restored, then proceeded to announce social benefit reforms.
The crowd continued to boo and heckle him. (see Dec 22)
December 21, 1993: the Department of Defense issued a directive prohibiting the U.S. Military from barring applicants from service based on their sexual orientation. "Applicants… shall not be asked or required to reveal whether they are homosexual, " states the new policy, which still forbids applicants from engaging in homosexual acts or making a statement that he or she is homosexual. This policy is known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." (see Dec 31)
In the year 2000, Texas led the US in executions with 40 inmates being put to death. Oklahoma followed with 11, Virginia with 8, and Florida with 6 executions. Between 1976 and Mar. 30, 2010, Texas executed 452 inmates. Virginia came in second most with 106 executions and Oklahoma in third with 92 executions.
Between January 17, 1995 and December 21, 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush presided over the execution of 150 men and two women, more than any other governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Governor Bush received a summary from his legal counsel before each execution to determine whether or not to allow the execution to proceed. The first fifty-seven summaries were prepared by Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as US Attorney General under President Bush between Feb. 3, 2005 and Sep. 17, 2007. Governor Bush granted one clemency during his term in office.(see June 11, 2001)
Japanese Internment Camps
December 21, 2006: President George W. Bush signed into law a bill that authorized up to $38 million for the preservation and interpretation of confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. The law directed the National Park Service to administer this grant program, once funds were available.(see JIC for expanded chronology)
Sexual Abuse of Children
December 21, 2012: Pope Benedict XVI named the Rev. Robert W. Oliver as the Vatican's new sex crimes prosecutor. Oliver, a canon law specialist at the Archdiocese of Boston, would be the "promoter of justice" at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal office that reviews all abuse cases. (NYT article) (see Feb 11)
December 21, 2017: Pope Francis and others eulogized Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston who resigned after it was revealed he had protected pedophile priests, with a full cardinal's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
At the last minute, the Vatican cancelled plans to broadcast the funeral.
The Vatican website had posted a link to a live television feed that showed it would broadcast the "Funeral Mass for Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, of the Title of Santa Susanna Altar of the Chair of Saint Peter," but shortly before the funeral started, the video link disappeared from the site, and the Vatican's YouTube channel on showed just the exterior of the plaza surrounding the basilica.
The page posted no explanation for the change, although Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) had criticized the Vatican's plans for an elaborate celebration of Cardinal Law's life. (see January 18, 2018)
December 21, 2017: the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California ruled that an Imperial County, California high school football player must be allowed to kneel during the singing of the national anthem and can't be ordered by his school to stand for the performances.
The decision temporarily struck down rules set by the San Pasqual Valley Unified School District that prohibited "kneeling, sitting or similar forms of political protest" at athletic events and required students and coaches to "stand and remove hats/helmets … during the playing or singing of the National Anthem," according to the ruling by district court.
The school district set the rules after students from a rival high school in neighboring Arizona yelled racial slurs at San Pasqual Valley High School students and threatened to force the football player at the center of the controversy to stand, the ruling said. (FS, see May 23, 2018; SR, see July 19, 2018)
December 21, 2017: despite President Trump's assertion that "Obamacare is imploding" the administration announced that 8.8 million people had signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's federal marketplace. The number surprised many because it was only slightly lower than the total in the last open enrollment period, which was twice as long and heavily advertised suggesting that consumers want and need the coverage and subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act, despite political battles over the law.
Asylum permitted
December 21, 2018: the Supreme Court refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce its new policy of denying asylum to migrants who illegally cross the Mexican border.
The court's ruling thwarted, at least for now, President Trump's proclamation in November that only migrants who arrived in the United States legally or applied at a port of entry would be eligible for asylum. [NYT story]
Trump's Wall
December 21, 2018: President Trump shared a design of a tall fence on Twitter, which he referred to as a "Steel Slat Barrier."
"Totally effective while at the same time beautiful!" he said. (IH & TW, see Dec 22)
December 21, 2018: President Trump signed into law the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act [simply aka, the First Step Act], a prison and sentencing reform bill that had strong bi-partisan support.
The act expanded rehabilitative opportunities, increased "good time"-served credits for most federal prisoners, reduced mandatory minimum sentences for a number of drug-related crimes, and formally banned some correctional practices including the shackling of pregnant women. [Guardian article]
Black history, Today in history
Missouri Hangs Slave Celia
December 21, 2016 Woodstock Whisperer	Leave a comment
After four years of Robert Newsom repeatedly sexually assaulting her, the girl Celia killed Newsom as he was about to rape her again
Missouri hung Celia.
This may be a picture of the slave Celia
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"Spiegel im Spiegel" from Alina by Arvo Pärt
It was 1850 and Robert Newsom owned 800 acres of land in Middle River, Missouri. He also owned five male slaves. During that summer Newsom purchased Celia, a fourteen-year-old girl from a slave owner in neighboring Audrain County.
Newsom immediately began to rape Celia. Between 1851 and 1855 Celia gave birth to two children.
In late 1854 or early 1855, George, one of Newsom's slaves, began a relationship with Celia.
In early March 1855, Celia was again pregnant. George told Celia that she must stop Newsom's abuse. George would later say that "he would have nothing more to do with her if she did not quit the old man."
Celia asked Newsom's adult daughters to intervene. They may or may not have, but if they did, nothing happened. Newsom continued to rape Celia. Celia asked Newsom to stay away while she was pregnant. He refused.
On June 23, 1855 around 10 PM, Newsom entered Celia's cabin. He advanced upon her, but she picked up a large stick and struck him in the head. He collapsed. She hit him again, killing him.
Celia decided to burn Newsom's body. She built a large fire in the cabin's fireplace, dragged Newsom's body into it, and kept the fire burning. Late in the night, with the body mostly ashes, she dispersed them in the outside yard. She buried larger pieces of bone under the hearth.
Noting the absence of Newsom the next morning, the worried family searched for him. Neighbors assisted, one of whom was William Powell. Powell knew of the relationship between George and Cilia (and also likely knew of Newsom's abuse). Powell questioned George suspecting that George may have sought revenge.
George denied any knowledge and at first did not cooperate, but did eventually tell Powell that the last thing he knew Newsom had done was walk toward Celia's cabin. A search of the cabin turned up nothing.
Powell questioned Celia. He threatened to take away her children if she did not cooperate. She did finally admit that Newsom had come to her cabin and that with him still outside she had hit him and that he had left.
Powell continued to question Celia, She finally confessed to the killing, but as self-defense. A more intense search of her cabin and the area revealed Newsom's burnt bone fragments, buttons, a pocketknife, and other personal items. Authorities arrested Celia.
At the June 25 inquest, Celia insisted that she did not mean to kill Newsom. Nonetheless, a six-person panel found probable cause to charge Celia with murder. She was brought to the Callaway County jail in Fulton, nine miles to the north of the Newsom farm.
The trial began in the Callaway County Courthouse. Circuit Court Judge William Hall presided. Hall chose John Jameson as Celia's defense lawyer. Jameson was an experienced lawyer, but a slave owner. Hall also appointed two inexperienced lawyers to assist Jameson.
The twelve jurors were all white males (women were not allowed as jurors at the time), all but one married with children, and several were slave owners.
Celia's defense planned on demonstrating that her actions were in self-defense, but Judge Hall denied many defense requests that would have ameliorated the charge, including the request to instruct the jury that the killing was justifiable if done to prevent a sexual assault.
The jury returned a guilty verdict the same day.
Defense lawyers moved to set aside the jury verdict and grant a new trial. Hall ruled two days later.
Judge Hall denied the defense's motion for a new trial and sentenced Celia to be "hanged by the neck until dead" on November 16. Judge Hall refused to issue an order staying execution until the Missouri Supreme Court could rule on Celia's appeal.
While in jail Celia delivered a stillborn child. By November 11, the Missouri Supreme Court still had not ruled on the appeal. What probably happened next is that the defense team helped Celia escape and kept her hidden until the November 16 execution date passed. In late November, they Celia returned to jail. Hall set a new execution date of December 21.
The Supreme Court ruled against Celia in her appeal on December 14. In part, the state justices said they "thought it proper to refuse the prayer of the petitioner," having found "no probable cause for her appeal."
Celia died on the gallows at 2:30 P.M.
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Addictive to play InTelli-Tick actually leads to learning as playing repeatedly aiming for win makes learning fun. Both academic score and play for row wins to score game points give a distinct feature. Instinct to WIN attracts the child to learn while playing. Different versions or types: 1) Individual game 2) for large audience in a hall or for TV shows. The present version in the net is for individual play.
It's a different Quiz - a different game. Choose the right answer for the Question from one of the five columns with a pointing arrow and highlighted by the same colour of the border around the question box. You will have to click one of the four answers. The question has a unique answer as the other answers are for different questions. Keep watching the count of clicked rows on the right hand side.
Row Claims:
When the count of two adjacent rows ticked are 4 each, click the claim button for the corresponding claim rows like 12 or 23 or 34 or 45. Likewise when count of three adjacent rows ticked are 4 each, Claim for 123 or 234 or 345. Since the row clicks are evaluated only by row wise, even the interchanged clicks are valid for the claims. The possible points are 4, 2 and zero.
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Unlike the Row Claims, here the evaluation is one to one. The Points are 4, 2, 1 and zero for the scores 15, 14, 13 and less than 13.
The combined points give the total points earned for each play. While the first Play is free, the second and third play uses 1 and 2 points. The Net Points earned for a Game with 3 plays will be Row Points + Academic Points - Points used.
Each Player is identified by his/her Registered Mobile Number (RMN). Each Game will be identified by a Unique Number which will have a maximum of 3 chances or plays. After the first play one can change the coupon number (which will have different answer positions), retaining the same shuffling (Question Order) for the second play. For the third play, retaining the same coupon as above and change the shuffling. All the points earned for all the plays are added, less the points used for playing will be taken as the final points obtained for the game.
One has to accumulate 100 points to claim for a gift at the designated place, to be announced after the official launch.
The next Game will be with a Different Question Bank, Coupon and Shuffling uploaded after a fortnight or so.
InTelli-Tick Team will be preparing the question bank. However, a set of four questions and answer are invited from the players as per the format given below. In one of the five columns in the coupon will contain the participants' contents.
You can send in Questions and Answers in sets of 4 as per the given format to include in the Questions Banks for InTelli-Tick.
Questions may be on any subject/topic and the corresponding correct answers should be provided. The answers are unique to each question. However the set of answers should appear as multiple choices arranged in one column of the InTelli-Tick answer coupon. Answers should be short in one or two words as per the sample given below. Though the names of the cities are specific answers for the questions, together they appear as a multiple choice.
Which city did Mahishasura the demon, killed by Durga lend its name? Mysore
Which princely State refused to join the Indian Union? Hyderabad
Which city was captured from the British by local ruler Siraj-ud-Daula in 1756? Kolkata
In 1857 there was a major rebellion against the British. It began in which city? Meerut
The Questions may be portions from School to College, Arts, Technical, Logical, Maths, Language, Grammar, history, geography, G. K. and so on.
InTelli-Tick is a Knowledge game, interactive learning and fun. Initially, a few Trial Games are given to get a feel of the regular games to be uploaded after the launch.
A Trial Game is available for practice. For the same Question/Answer set you may change one of the three shuffling and/or change one of the six coupon numbers for different trials.
Read the 'About Game' and 'Game Rules' at the home page before proceeding.


This is true. What he conveniently neglected to mention is that over the past two years, 61st Precinct crime has skyrocketed.
Yes, kids, that's right. Crime is up 30 percent–one of the highest increases in the city–over this time last year, and 37 percent over two years ago. The increase is driven by sharp spikes in robberies (122 percent up) and grand larceny (47 percent up).
The other uncomfortable question is why. Well, could it be that precinct commanders are getting serious about reporting accurate crime statistics, based on the media coverage of manipulation of crime reports? Or, are things really taking a turn for the worse?


Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by DualSportDad, Aug 9, 2010.
i cannot for the life of me get the hboot driver to install. i have tried before when i wanted to root my phone and now i want to update from .3 to .6 and i need to flash via HBOOT. my computer is a wndows 7 home premium 64 bit. any help would be great. thanks.
extract this zip and remember where you save it on your PC.
plug in your phone to the PC. make sure USB debugging is on.
select HBOOT USB. you should hear your PC make the USB connected sound. When it starts to look for drivers, point it to that extracted zip folder. It will install the driver.
next, boot your phone normally. When windows asks for drivers, do the same thing again.
Once you've installed the driver for these 3 different USB modes, you'll be all set.
when you are in the bootloader, you can navigate the menu with vol-up and vol-down. power button to select.
I got this message when i try to extract the zip file.. can someone please help me?
I just downloaded the driver .zip file and was able to extract it just fine. Maybe your download got corrupted? Try downloading it again.
Oh look, an old thread I posted in from last August! I'm surprised it's still relevant Wow, it's been a year already?


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Q: In JavaScript, what does the notation /\s*;\s*/ mean? In the following example, what does the notation /\s*;\s*/ mean? It is used as the separator in the string.split() command.
var names = 'Harry Trump ;Fred Barney; Helen Rigby ; Bill Abel ;Chris Hand ';

console.log(names);

var re = /\s*;\s*/;

var nameList = names.split(re);

console.log(nameList);

A: /\s*;\s*/ is a regular expression and is often used for pattern matching. Your regex (\s*;\s*) translates to:

*

*\s matches any white space character [\r\n\t\f]

** means apply the previous match between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy]

*; matches the ; character literally

*\s matches any white space character [\r\n\t\f] (same as bullet #1)

** means apply the previous match between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy]  (same as bullet #2)
The reason a regular expression is used here rather than a simple string argument to .split is because the original string has varying separators between the elements - different combations of spaces and a semi-colon.  There isn't a simple string that could be passed that would find them all - you could use just ;, but that would leave spaces at the start and/or end of some elements of the array.  The regular expression ensures we match all the variations.

A: With JavaScript's .split(separator) method, you are making an array from a string. separator is either a simple string or - more complex - regular expression.
In your example, the regular expression provided is /\s*;\s*/. Front and back slashes are just the delimiters saying that it's a regular expression. \s*;\s* is your pattern, meaning: any number of whitespace characters (spaces, tabs), followed by a semicolon, followed by any number of whitespace characters. It's a more fancy version of "my string".split(";"), because it trims the whitespace before and after the semicolon.
Example:
var test1 = "dog;cat;fish".split(";");
// test1 is ["dog", "cat", "fish"]

var test2 = "dog;cat;fish".split(/\s*;\s*/);
// test2 is ["dog", "cat", "fish"]

As long as there are no white characters around the semicolon, those two return exactly the same result. But:
var test3 = "dog ; cat; fish".split(";");
// test3 is ["dog ", " cat", " fish"]

var test4 = "dog ; cat; fish".split(/\s*;\s*/);
// test4 is ["dog", "cat", "fish"]

This time, results of test4 are far more sophisticated, because no spaces are involded.

A: In regular expressions \s meta-character stands for whitespace character.
A whitespace character can be:
A space character
A tab character
A carriage return character
A new line character
A vertical tab character
A form feed character
* stands for all.
; stands for colon.
The expression here \s*;\s* means that any whitespace followed or preceded by ; will be split into an array using spilit() method of JavaScript.

A: Roughly saying, it splits the input string by ; omitting any amount of spaces all around this ;.

var input = "One ;    Two   ;Three   ";
input.split(";")        // returns ["One ", "    Two   ", "Three   "]
input.split(/\s*;\s*/)  // returns ["One", "Two", "Three"]

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Instead of starting a new thread, this might be the place to ask what the "Filler Page" is all about.
Might there not be some explanation offered in the "Transcript For This Page" area?
But I love the visual insight into Sv. Stellina's dreams.
Maybe she's picturing a little "filler" activity of another sort.
sams on May 16, 2011, 03:01:02 pm
Quote from: Tucci78 on May 16, 2011, 09:53:04 am
Remember there are no guaranties in a free market, the only way to get honest media is to have competion and currently Talk radio first, then Bloggosphere have reduced the cost of running a new organization, especially with network.
Newpapers will likely go bust in 10 years and TV will likely be challenged, except for entertainment value + News, which the interwebs can offer more.
Quote from: Tucci78 on May 16, 2011, 01:07:42 pm
Can Sov Guy handle 2 Ladies ... The Frenchy from the IMF seems to run on Viagra, who knows.
I'm surprised there wasn't a post about whatever the problem may be. Certainly, while the schedule has been very regular up to the present, it is unreasonable to expect that small problems and delays won'e happen from time to time.
Given the absence of a post noting the cause of the delay, though, I hope that nothing serious has happened to anyone involved with the comic.
Quote from: sams on May 16, 2011, 03:01:02 pm
Remember there are no guaranties in a free market....
Might could be that this is why the "Liberal" fascist MSM hates the free market so much.
...the only way to get honest media is to have competition and currently Talk radio first, then [the] Bloggosphere have reduced the cost of running a new organization, especially with network.
Newspapers will likely go bust in 10 years and TV will likely be challenged, except for entertainment value + News, which the interwebs can offer more.
I figure that once ready access to wireless nodes becomes widespread, "uninterruptable," and cheap (or free), today's broadcast media monopolies (enforced by government fiat) are doomed except as content providers.
They won't be able to "grab eyeballs" (or "ears") for their advertisers with any kind of exclusivity, and they'll have to contend on the basis of their target audience's perceptions of desirable quality in order to complete.
When you can drive thirty or forty miles in your personal vehicle while listening to the same Webcast (or even interacting with the site by using voice-to-text software translating your spoken words into the equivalent of these comments we're posting online right here), even talk radio will have its hold on audience share substantially broken.
Newspapers might survive, but not on the model of The New York Times "paper of record" bullpuckey.
The "all the news that's fit to print" arrogance of the journalistas - particularly the publishers and editors who have enjoyed the ability to "spike" anything they don't want the sheeple to learn about - will disappear, but the desire for local interest stuff isn't going to go away.
News content generators will have to gather information and write stories about what's happening in accessors' localities, doing their best to anticipate what those browsing folks want to know about. Google News already does this to a considerable extent, relying on the various ways their system "learns" not only the location of your computer but also your Web browsing history.
Local newspapers would seem to continue viable - if quite small-time - for the foreseeable future.
Anybody reading here familiar with the way H. Beam Piper described the Port Sandor Times in his 1961 novel Four-Day Planet (see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19478)? Pardon me for using the "quote" function here:
It wasn't long before I was noticing a few odd things about Murell, too, which confirmed my original suspicions of him. He didn't have the firm name of his alleged publishers right, he didn't know what a literary agent was and, after claiming to have been a newsman, he consistently used the expression "news service." I know, everybody says that - everybody but newsmen. They always call a news service a "paper," especially when talking to other newsmen.
Of course, there isn't any paper connected with it, except the pad the editor doodles on. What gets to the public is photoprint, out of a teleprinter. As small as our circulation is, we have four or five hundred of them in Port Sandor and around among the small settlements in the archipelago, and even on the mainland. Most of them are in bars and cafes and cigar stores and places like that, operated by a coin in a slot and leased by the proprietor, and some of the big hunter-ships like Joe Kivelson's Javelin and Nip Spazoni's Bulldog have them.
But long ago, back in the First Centuries, Pre-Atomic and Atomic Era, they were actually printed on paper, and the copies distributed and sold. They used printing presses as heavy as a spaceship's engines. That's why we still call ourselves the Press. Some of the old papers on Terra, like La Prensa in Buenos Aires, and the Melbourne Times, which used to be the London Times when there was still a London, were printed that way originally.
When I think about how "newspapers" will be serving people when the Internet becomes truly WiFi - and it's getting there, with the third- and fourth-generation cellular telephones - the description Piper provided fifty years ago, of a "news service" that gathers, edits, and presents information to its subscribers' preferences, making its profits by way of readers' paying very small access fees and advertisers eager to get themselves some potential customers' attention....
Well, that sounds like a survivor. No great political power in it (the way those mother bastids at the failing, death-doomed, good-fracking-riddance-to-'em New York Times faunch after), but honest work for honest journalists.
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Quote from: quadibloc on May 16, 2011, 03:12:05 pm
There's a fresh page up on QuantumVibe, so it might be that the delay on Escape From Terra is being caused by a hitch in the artistic git-along. What had been written and drawn for today's page might have been held because there was a last-minute decision to pull the strip that had been ready for the continuation of an existing story arc or the initiation of a new one.
Hey, this is speculative fiction, right?
So let's speculate.
Ah, there! It's fixed, and we are introduced to Gaucho's, where "the chefs and waiters were all from Argentina and steeped in its tradition of dining elegance."
Is this a Martian restaurant chain, and can we expect tunes from Evita over the Muzak system?
I was going to mention this propaganda piece I encountered...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/violent-arctic-storm-a-climate-change-harbinger-study-finds/article2023865/
As it happened, by an odd coincidence, as I read your post, I was listening to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehjghbx3Hp8
As far as today's comic page is concerned, however, the mystery of the delay is now crystal-clear. It just took him time to think of a plot angle that didn't involve another rollercoaster.
Quote from: J Thomas on May 16, 2011, 09:19:24 am
Kayfabe in professional wrestling makes wrestling more entertaining that real life. Kayfabe in the mainstream media makes the news less entertaining that real life.
Recently a Muslim yelling "Allah Akbar" (God is Great) tried to seize the cockpit of a passenger plane. He was subdued by passengers and flight attendants.
Mainstream media somehow overlooked to mention him crying "allah akbar", neglected all the ways that he fitted the profile,
Do you think the customers did not want to know? In the mainstream media version of this event, it sounded like some random passenger urgently needed to go to the toilet, and thought there might be one in the cockpit.
Similarly, are those who read the mainstream media aware that the Washington Snipers were Islamic terrorists - or that any of dozens incidents of random murder in the US were done by Islamic terrorists? Do they know that Major Hasan gave a power point presentation on why he was going to murder his audience? Rather, they still think his motives were mysterious.
These are all things that customers would like to know, and which they get from the blogs, not from the mainstream media.
You say nobody mentioned the banking crisis until all of a sudden they all did? I wonder why.
For the same reason they don't say "Niggers don't read books. Books are like kryptonite to a nigger"
The government was engaged in cover up, and the press complied.
Because the government position was that markets were irrationally panicking, and if the papers mentioned this irrational panic, people might panic even more. All these toxic assets were perfectly good, because raters approved by government regulators said they were good.
Credit default swaps on mortgage backed securities plunged in 2005, signifying that mortgage backed securities were considerably less valuable than claimed, which in 2005 hinted that a lot of major financial institutions were broke.
Official indignation ensued, reflected in the newspapers, that the horribly unregulated credit default swap markets were malfunctioning, and needed government regulation to function correctly - so that they would report politically correct prices for futures, instead of prices forecasting doom.
Yes, it is that terrible lack of regulation that caused the crisis.
Shortly thereafter, early in 2006 the repo market plunged, and was immediately frozen so that there would be no prices for people to notice that prices were horribly low - which low prices implied a market assessment that most AAA rated assets were worthless crap - effectively confirming what the credit default swap market had predicted. So from late 2005, early 2006 onwards, financial markets, in particular the biggest financial market of them all, the repo market, were "illiquid" in that no one wanted to buy financial assets at politically correct prices, and it was horribly politically incorrect to offer them at below politically correct prices.
From late 2005 or early 2006 the government was engaged in massive cover up, and the press went along with that coverup. A few financial bloggers cried doom, but the government successfully muddied the waters, and there are always financial bloggers that cry doom, so not many people paid attention - at least not many ordinary people paid attention though the fact that the repo market was "frozen" shows that one hell of a lot of investors were paying attention.
In this crisis, it was perfectly clear that the mainstream media was taking orders from the government as much as the Soviet press.
So drawing a comic page - er, continuing graphic novel - has its ups and downs?
ContraryGuy on May 16, 2011, 07:37:37 pm
It so much fun reading sams posts, because they are so wild. sams should be a thriller fiction writer; she would only have to keep posting, and such great fiction just happens.
J Thomas on May 16, 2011, 08:08:29 pm
Remember there are no guaranties in a free market, the only way to get honest media is to have competion ....
Sure. And the point of competition is to satisfy customers. Competitive news organizations do not tell their customers (or the audience eyeballs their customers rent) anything they don't want to hear.
One major point of news is to confirm the audience in their preconceptions.
Fox is winning at the moment because there are so many people who want to experience Fox's particular prejudices, and not as many people who prefer the old-style prejudices.
But if the big news blocs get broken up, then there will be room for lots of variants. People can get fundamentalist christian news, that has no mention of evolution unless it's wins against evolutionists or opportunities to rage at evolutionists doing things. There will be communist news that cheers the inevitable collapse of capitalist economies. There will be liberal news that bemoans human suffering. There will be military-oriented news that looks at where the USA should attack next, and bemoans the political will that isn't willing to finish the job wherever they already are, and covers glowing accounts of tomorrow's military technology. Etc etc etc.
And there will be no consensus whatsoever about what actually happens, beyond occasional big events like Katrina (which some people will not hear about) or 9/11 (which almost everybody will hear about, but the marjority will mostly hear conspiracy theories about).
This precise lack of consensus is something the CIA has attempted to create in some foreign nations, as a weapon against them. They think of it as a way to fundamentally weaken foreign nations. Or is that really true? I didn't read it in the mainstream news. Why should anyone believe that when it's a story that the mainstream news did not report?
Quote from: ContraryGuy on May 16, 2011, 07:37:37 pm
Note that this was Sam, not Sams.
Why do you believe these weird rumors when you don't believe the mainstream media? How do you decide what to believe?
Similarly, are those who read the mainstream media aware that the Washington Snipers were Islamic terrorists - or that any of dozens incidents of random murder in the US were done by Islamic terrorists?
It got reported that they were islamic, and that they were black. Neither one got a lot of emphasis. I think a lot of people didn't want to hear it.
Do they know that Major Hasan gave a power point presentation on why he was going to murder his audience? Rather, they still think his motives were mysterious.
I looked that up. I thought, is this another urban legend like so many of the things Sam believes? The top link I found was the Washington Post. I guess they thought it was news.
Two years before he killed people, Hasan gave a presentation arguing that the USA attacks muslim nations and ought to let muslims in US military ranks sit it out because they feel all conflicted about it. In a way this is reasonable. In WWII we did not require or allow US soldiers who had immigrated from Germany participate in the invasion of Germany, or US soldiers of Japanese descent in the invasion of Japan. It's only common sense. If for some godawful reason the USA were to get into a war with the LDS, we wouldn't put Mormon soldiers on the front line or in any position of responsibility.
But on the other hand, we can't very well give muslims a pass. The rule is, everybody goes to Iraq or Afghanistan when their number comes up and nobody gets out. They're unpopular wars and a whole lot of soldiers really don't want to go and would do things to get out of it. So when women soldiers get raped by US soldiers, they don't get to go home, they have to slog through. If women could get out of the war just by claiming they had been raped, they would have an incentive to report rapes and it would look bad to the media. And if muslims didn't have to go fight muslims, there's no telling how many soldiers would convert, and that would look *terrible*.
So they told Hassan he'd have to go fight, and he shot at the wrong side. And it was indeed reported in the MSM.
Maybe because if they did, they'd be supposed to prove it? And they couldn't?
Was it the government or the banks that encouraged them not to report that? Wait, they did report the plunge. They just didn't claim it meant what it now looks in hindsight like it meant. And didn't they report the occasional economist who did say that?
From late 2005 or early 2006 the government was engaged in massive cover up, and the press went along with that coverup.
Well sure the govenrment was doing a massive cover up. It was the Bush administration. They did massive cover up on *everything*. They said if you said mean things about the Bush administration it was because you were a Democrat and you should be shunned. The mass media reported the cover up. They reported that reporters and whole news conpanies who reported things the Bush administration didn't like, got froze out of government news reports.
A few financial bloggers cried doom, but the government successfully muddied the waters, and there are always financial bloggers that cry doom, so not many people paid attention - at least not many ordinary people paid attention though the fact that the repo market was "frozen" shows that one hell of a lot of investors were paying attention.
There you go. Without the MSM, there will be no consensus reality. Investors will have one reality, managers of large businesses will have another, conspiracy theorists will have lots.
Quote from: J Thomas on May 16, 2011, 09:12:22 pm
Two years before he killed people, [Major Nidal Malik] Hasan gave a presentation arguing that the USA attacks muslim nations and ought to let muslims in US military ranks sit it out because they feel all conflicted about it. In a way this is reasonable. In WWII we did not require or allow US soldiers who had immigrated from Germany participate in the invasion of Germany, or US soldiers of Japanese descent in the invasion of Japan. It's only common sense. If for some godawful reason the USA were to get into a war with the LDS, we wouldn't put Mormon soldiers on the front line or in any position of responsibility.
While the 100th Infantry Battalion (composed of Nisei members of the Hawaii Army National Guard) and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (which later absorbed the battalion) served in the European theater of operations (ETO), there were Korean- and Japanese-American military personnel serving in the Pacific theater all through the Second World War, most commonly as linguists in prisoner interrogation and in intelligence analysis (radio intercepts, documents, etc). The decision to keep them out of combat units made sense, as the Imperial Japanese military forces made the conflict in the Pacific a "war to the knife" without reliable regard for the rules of land warfare on which the Western polities based their standards of proper conduct.
Yeah, I know. Those "rules of land warfare" were often and spectacularly violated by the Allies. But the Japanese violated them as a matter of policy. Only the Cold War saved most of their senior military and political people from the hangman's noose. The documentation of those policies was damning.
Had the 100th Infantry Battalion been brought into combat operations in the Southwest Pacific - as the officers and men deeply desired; their unit motto was "Remember Pearl Harbor" - they could not have fought alongside other American or Australian troops without great risk of "friendly fire" incidents. They looked too much like Japanese nationals in U.S. military uniforms, and the Japanese on occasion did dress in enemy uniforms to infiltrate Allied positions.
In the ETO? No problem for the Nisei.
Though there were confusions in the ETO when German-American troops came into contact with the Soldaten of the Third Reich. I recall reading one account of how a patrol of the 28th Infantry Division (Pennsylvania Army National Guard) had inadvertently, unknowingly, walked past a German outpost during the division's time in the Huertgen Forest.
Not speaking German as they'd made their way through the dense woods and then returned along more or less the same path, the National Guardsmen had been overheard talking by enemy troops in a concealed outpost. Though they hadn't been close enough to be understood, the Guardsmen - who were from Lancaster County - were speaking in the typical rhythms of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, and the German soldiers in the outpost (who were later captured and interrogated) said that they'd thought these guys were Plattdeutsch speakers from another unit on their side.
I have no confirming citations to support this, but I have had related to me by people who've been "in the Sandbox" that there are Muslims in the U.S. military who have done multiple tours in both combat and support units there, and have viewed the jobs they were doing as both necessary (for the sake of the country) and career-enhancing (an opportunity to get good marks on their Permanent Records).
In Major Hasan, we've got an Army "lifer" who had been (you should pardon the expression) swilling at the trough since he enlisted in 1988 to have the military pay for him to go to college (whereupon they gave him a commission), and then send him through the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences for his M.D. degree. He then did his residency in psychiatry and a postgraduate program for a Masters in public health (MPH), all of it while drawing an officer's pay and with the perquisites thereof, in plush stateside billets (his residency was at Walter Reed).
Insofar as I've been able to tell, Hasan didn't pull any time at anyplace even remotely resembling a hardship post.
The question I have not seen given the least little bit of mention in the MSM about this guy's history has been "Why the hell was so much expended in DoD funds to create such a goddam worthless P.O.S.?"
I'd think that the case of Major Nidal Malik Hasan ought to open not only an investigation of jihadi Muslim whackjobs in the U.S. military but also a more general assessment of the personnel policies that resulted in this jerk getting to O-4 rank as a medical officer scheduled to pull his first (got that? his first) tour of real duty anywhere.
Why do you believe these weird rumors when you don't believe the mainstream media?
Because I read extensive interviews with crew and passengers on the plane.
People tend to be really interested in why other people are shooting at them. The mainstream media does not tell them. To find out, have to read the blogs.
Two years before he killed people, Hasan gave a presentation arguing that the USA attacks muslim nations and ought to let muslims in US military ranks sit it out because they feel all conflicted about it. In a way this is reasonable.
You have been reading the mainstream media. I, however, have read his power point presentation from beginning to end. The presentation does indeed start off reasonable, but pretty soon works his way to death to all who refuse to submit to Allah.
"We love death", he tells his audience, "more than you love life". Somehow the Washington post did mention that bit, but you have to read rather carefully. They don't exactly lie, but they do give a general impression of bland reasonableness similar to your account.
I knew there was a crisis on. So did lots of other people.. I am sure I could have proven it.
Was it the government or the banks that encouraged them not to report that?
The government abruptly changed the accounting rules to what bloggers sarcastically called "Mark to Myth" so that what was happening would not appear in the balance sheets of financial institutions, so the government was telling the banks not to report that, so presumably also telling the papers not to report that either.
And the rules are still mark to myth.
And when the government bailed out financial institutions, one of the conditions was that they could not sue other financial institutions for fraud, which rules are still in effect.
AIG argued that it sold credit default swaps because the banks lied about the credit worthiness of the borrowers, that it should not have to payout on mortgage defaults because the mortgages were not as represented. Bush wanted all that swept under the carpet, and Obama still wants it swept under the carpet.
So if the papers are sweeping it under the carpet, it is because the government tells them to.


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An artist's rendering of what a Class V planet might look like under Adam Frank's new classification system. (University illustration / Michael Osadciw)
In February NASA astronomers discovered seven Earth-like planets, potentially harboring life, orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, not too far from Earth.
Scientists have yet to discover life, or evidence of civilizations, on these or other planets. But in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, they often categorize hypothetical worlds according to the amount of energy their inhabitants could potentially harness.
They do this using what is known as the Kardashev scale. Named in 1964 for Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, the scale takes energy use as the key indicator of a civilization's advancement, and places those hypothetical civilizations in one of three categories:
A Type 1 civilization–still a distant goal for Earth–utilizes all of the energy that reaches its planet from its parent star (in Earth's case, the Sun).
A Type 2 civilization is capable of using all the energy put out by its star and planetary system.
A super-advanced Type 3 civilization harnesses all the energy of its home galaxy.
The Kardashev scale has been a gold standard classification system for thinking about "exo-civilizations" for decades. It does not, however, take into account how a civilization in turn affects its planet when it gathers and uses energy.
That omission is increasingly significant as, in the half-century since Kardashev proposed his classification scheme, evidence is accumulating that our energy-intensive, industrial civilization is affecting our planet.
Given those effects, can planets and civilizations co-exist for the long haul? And if so, how?
To answer these questions, a team of researchers led by Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Rochester, devised a new classification scheme for the evolution of civilizations based on the idea that it's not just how much energy you use, but how you use it that matters.
With this new scale, the researchers determined that in order to survive long-term, a civilization must learn to "think like a planet"–or risk the civilization's demise.
"The Kardashev scale is concerned with extracting energy," Frank says. "But what we've recognized with our classification scheme is that you can't use energy without causing different kinds of waste. That waste feedbacks on the state of planet."
Adam Frank's new system classifies planets based on their ability to generate free energy. This system is composed of five levels, from a Class I planet (far left) that does not have an atmosphere to a Class V planet (far right) where an energy-intensive species establishes a sustainable version of the biosphere. In this system, Earth is between a Class IV and Class V. Credit: University illustration / Michael Osadciw
In a paper in the journal Anthropocene, the researchers discuss this new classification system as a way of thinking about sustainability on a planetary scale.
"The discovery of seven new exoplanets orbiting the relatively close star TRAPPIST-1 forces us to rethink life on Earth," says Marina Alberti of the University of Washington, a co-author on the paper. "It opens the possibility to broaden our understanding of planetary system dynamics and lays the foundations to explore a path to long-term sustainability."
Earth's biosphere–the global layer where life exists–is unique in that the presence of life has altered the planet's surrounding atmosphere above and lithosphere below. The researchers note that rapid urbanization–including deforestation, air pollution, and increasing energy demand–has had damaging effects on the planet. Currently most of the energy on Earth comes from fossil fuels, a limited resource that puts pressure on the earth's ecosystems.
Humans will need to find new ways of generating work from the energy they harvest in order to sustain civilization, the researchers say.
"You can't just bring a planet to heel, you need to bring it a plan and figure out how to extract energy while also maintaining the health of the planet's biosphere," Frank says. "Human beings are part of the biosphere so they need to work with it in order to take the next steps in planetary evolution."
The new classification system for planetary evolution is composed of five levels:
Class I: Planets without an atmosphere. The ability of the planet to change and evolve is severely limited. (Mercury or Earth's moon)
Class II: Planets with atmospheres but no life forms. The flow of gases and fluids leads to change and evolution in the form of climate and weathering. (Venus and Mars)
Class III: Planets with a "thin" biosphere that might sustain some biological activity, but this does not affect the planet as a whole. There are no current examples of Class III planets. However, Earth 2.5 billion years ago, before life created the oxygen atmosphere, would have been a Class III world. If early Mars hosted life when it had liquid water on its surface then it too might have been a Class III world. Once life appears, new forms of change, evolution, and innovation become possible.
Class IV: Planets with a thick biosphere strongly affecting the flow of energy and work through the rest of the planetary systems. Planets co-evolve with their biospheres as life dominates many of the processes happening between the surface and the upper atmosphere. (Earth today)
Class V: Planets in which an energy-intensive technological species establishes a sustainable form of cooperation with the biosphere that increases the productivity of both. On these planets the civilization enhances the ability of the biosphere to innovate and evolve.
According to the researchers' findings, Earth might reach Class V in the future if humanity successfully advances to harvest energy in forms like solar that do not harm the biosphere.
Although researchers can't conclude that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, previous work by Frank demonstrates that unless the laws of the Universe are highly biased against them, other technologically advanced civilizations are likely to have existed at some point in cosmic history.
"The Universe has created a lot of opportunities for what's happening to us to have happened before," Frank says. "We're starting off by assuming there have been Class V planets."
And what might a Class V planet look like?
Frank lists several ways humans on Earth might form a technological cooperative between biosphere and civilization, including "greening" large desert land masses such as the Sahara by finding ways to plant trees that will absorb carbon and release oxygen; or creating genetically modified trees with photovoltaic leaves that covert the sun's energy into electricity.
"Civilization arose as part of a biosphere," Frank says. "A Type 2 civilization on the Kardashev scale that is super space-baring could live without a biosphere. But a young civilization, like ours, has to see itself as a part of the biosphere. We're not separate from it, we're just the latest experiment the earth is running in the evolution of life. If we're not careful, it will just move on without us."
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art, art fair, Dada, installations	 December 27, 2019
Earlier this month the art world was shaken by news that a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $150,000 at Art Basel Miami. Maurizio Cattelan's installation called Comedian, that included, yes!, a real banana taped to a wall, has become some kind of a sensation with some calling it conceptual art and others calling it a prank (read the background story here). The fact that someone would pay $150,000 for a banana taped to a wall calls into question the value of art and complicates an appraisal's work even further.
Cattelan's created three editions of his installation, two of whom sold for $120,000 to collectors identified by Artsy as Billy and Beatrice Cox of Miami, and Sarah Andelman, founder of Colette concept store in Paris, and part-time Catskills resident. Andelman's vacation home in the Catskills was subject to a feature in Architectural Digest in the summer of 2018.
But is it art? The perishability of a mere banana contrasts significantly with what artists have traditionally sought in art – immortality. And how about artistic skills? Is it really any artistry involved in taping a banana to a wall?
Brands have capitalized on this commotion by creating their own duct-taped "art," anything from a sandwich to a bottle of water, and more. All there is needed is a random object and duct tape, plus of course access to a wall. Read full story in Ad Age magazine.
Artnet has covered the topic and made it easy for readers to access the coverage all in one place: "To document for posterity how this humble piece of produce became a global phenomenon, we have pulled together all of our coverage in one place."
Defining art has always been both challenging and disputed. In the 18th century, philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, grandfather of composer Felix Mendelssohn, argued that art is the carrying forward of the beautiful, obscurely recognized by feeling, until it becomes true and good; the aim of art is moral perfection, he claimed.
In What is Art? published in 1896, Leo Tolstoy argued that art is the transmission of an emotion felt by the artist (joy, exaltation, anger, sadness, etc.) – not all beauty, but all infectious emotion that the common man can experience. Tolstoy's argument was an attack on formalism and the doctrine of art for art's sake, an attack on unintelligibility and exclusiveness. He did not believe in professional artists, who, he thought, perverted art; instead he argued that all men can and should make art, thus proclaiming the universality of art.
In the 20th century, Roy Lichtenstein defiantly declared that organized perception is what art is all about. For Wassily Kandinsky, making art was an internal necessity that impelled the artist to create as a spiritual impulse and the audience to admire art as a spiritual hunger. It was that simple.
Tolstoy didn't think that taste was the final arbiter of what was good and bad art; he defined taste as the capacity of an individual to be aesthetically pleased by certain works and displeased by others. He conceded however that taste can be educated, and artistic activities can be made accessible to all.
We wish you an artful New Year!
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