He walks with confidence–after all he drives a Land Cruiser VX, certainly an above average car for a rural folk. In the car, he carries golf equipment, listens to rock n roll and drinks carbonated water! Too much for a typical rural Ugandan farmer. Eric Kaduru is 30 years old. The medium-height young man portrays the image of a new breed of Ugandan young farmers. With a hint of arrogance on his face, he seems to say, "Farming is not just for the old, wretched of the earth.
Even young men like me can do it and still maintain their swag." His farm is called KadAfrica. With five acres of well-kept passion fruits, Eric Kaduru is earning a fortune. "The gross income from harvests is sh8m every week, 60% of which goes into costs of production, " he says with an African-American accent. Quite good money for a 30 year old! Kaduru was born to a Ugandan father and Kenyan mother. He was born in Kenya, but has lived in the UK, Nigeria and South-Africa. He, however, came back to Uganda in 2008 and worked as an advertising agent, before settling for farming in 2011.
Four years ago, Kaduru and his American wife, Rebecca set foot on the undulating slopes of Mountain Rwenzori. He went to Kiburara village, 15km west of Fort Portal where he started practising agriculture on a full-time basis. The 25 acres of fertile land on which Kaduru is farming were bought by his father in the 1990s, but remained un-utilised until 2011 when Kaduru decided to go into farming.
He started by growing vegetables, like tomatoes, red pepper and cabbages, both in a greenhouse and outside. The harvest was good, but the challenge came with the market. "We were competing against smaller farmers so the market price was difficult to control," he says. The other challenge was that vegetables have a short shelf life, which means that you cannot keep them for long in anticipation of better prices.
Other challenges included costly labour, unreliable workers and theft at the farm. "A lot of produce was stolen from the farm," Kaduru says. And, with all these challenges, anybody would have thrown in the towel and run back to the city to do other things, but the Kadurus did not. Agriculture was still their calling and they had to fi nd a way of surviving in there. This is when he thought about growing passion fruit. "We picked it because it is high value, can be produced on a small area and has a longer shelf life," Kaduru says.
The passion fruits were planted in 2012, after a lot of research on the viability of the crop in Uganda. "When we carried out research about passion fruits, we realised that over 70% of the passion fruit in Uganda came from Kenya," he says. And yet, a sample of the Ugandan soils showed us that they could be profitably grown in Uganda. With evidence that passion fruits are a better choice, they set out to organize the farm.
However, they had to look out for financiers. "We had made losses with the vegetables, so we needed a push," he says. Visits to various banks did not yield any tangible results, although the idea was lauded. After several meetings, they got partial funding for the project from a programme called The Mango Fund.
These ones gave them sh45m to modernise the farm. Part of the money was used to set up an irrigation system.
The plants are planted in rows, supported by strong five feet poles and a maze of wires running along the poles. These help support the soft stems in addition to helping the plants to climb.
He decided to plant the KPF-4 and KPF-11, the Kenyan variety that is resistant to most of the diseases in Uganda. Although a dry spell has been sweeping through Fort Portal and most parts of the country, the fruits are green, thanks to an elaborative irrigation system, set up on the entire farm.
The system has drip pipes running across the farm and a 28,000-litre water tank. Kaduru says he spent $12,000 (sh30m) to set up the tank and the entire irrigation system. He also spent money to buy the water pump, putting the entire irrigation system at about sh45m. The plants are green and laden with healthy looking fruits.
The fruits started ripening in June last year. Kaduru employs about six staff to run the farm, including an expert agronomist from Kenya. "They are supposed to come in daily to harvest, prune where necessary and pack the fruits," he says. But this has not been the case.
Kaduru explains that when they had just planted the fruits, they went for their wedding in the US, leaving the entire farm under the care of a Kenyan manager. "Of course we kept calling him and inquiring about the progress and he would update us. However, unknown to them, the manager had left the farm soon after they left for the wedding and in fact, there was nobody taking care of the plants.," Kaduru says.
He started harvesting passion fruits last year. "I started by supplying supermarkets in and around Fort Portal," he says.
As the harvests grew, he reached out to supermarkets in Kampala and started supplying them and now, a big part of his harvest is exported to the UK. To succeed in farming, he says, you must look for a market and strive to sustain it. "That is what I am doing," he says. According to Kaduru, the market is big, no doubt about it.
In order to sustain production, KadAfrica has expanded its activities throughout Kabarole. They now have out-growers all over Kabarole and the neighbouring district of Kyenjojo.
Last year, KadAfrica went into partnership with Catholic Relief Services and Caritas Fort Portal, under which an ambitious rural agricultural project, Girls Agro Investment was established. The project now boasts of over 600 farmers all around Toro region. These are now considered to be outgrowers for the farm. "We train members of the group in good farming practices and seedlings.
We also carry out supervision of the outgrowers farms," he says. Kaduru says there is nothing as beautiful and has inspiring other people around you earning a living.
With increased production, Kaduru hopes to set up a juice processing factory to add value to the crop. "With produce from the out-growers, I am looking at setting up a fruit processing factory," he says. A big plan by any standards, however Kaduru is determined to achieve it.


This week at Hopewell Theater, Hall of Fame drummer and member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Max Weinberg, stops by with his popular Jukebox show on Thursday night. A truly interactive experience, audience members pick the songs Max and his band play in real time.
Summer Stars Theater Camp at HT!
Hopewell Theater is proud to announce our very own Summer Stars theater camp! Kids from 1st through 7th grade are invited to attend afternoons that will be filled with fun, hands-on theater arts activities that explore character, movement, costuming, and backstage jobs. No prior experience in theater or stage is required!
Another exciting week at Hopewell Theater! On our screen this week, we open WOMAN AT WAR on Friday. Halla is a 50-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminum industry in Iceland. As her actions grow bolder, her life changes in the blink of an eye when she's finally granted permission to adopt a girl from the Ukraine.
Hopewell Theater's owners are proud to announce they have purchased the former Brother's Moon restaurant at 7 West Broad Street, Hopewell, New Jersey. The acquisition will give patrons a place to dine before a show, parking and special value-added events related to theater programming.
It's no surprise that all of us here at HT love the art of cinema and it goes without saying that we're big fans of documentary films as well. One documentary that's been causing a ton of buzz recently is APOLLO 11, which we're excited to be presenting March 23rd to March 28th.
This week at Hopewell Theater, learn about Paramahansa Yogananda, the Hindu Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s, during Tuesday night's screening of AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA. Presented in partnership with Princeton Center for Yoga and Health, Rama Ramanathan will introduce the film and lead a post-film discussion after the film.


Work on Gallio v3.0.6 is progressing along after a brief holiday hiatus. Yes, I actually put the computers away for a couple of weeks to spend some quality time with friends, family and books (not to mention on other projects at work).
The plan is to ship v3.0.6 within the next couple of weeks.
Performance: improve start-up time, ReSharper integration, Visual Studio integration.
New features: XmlData, parallel tests, new contract verifiers, mixins (may be deferred).
UI affordances: simplify debugging, improve documentation.
Added [Parallelizable] attribute to run tests in parallel.
Added [XmlData] attribute to specify Xml data sources.
Global test execution timeout setting in Echo, MSBuild, NAnt and PowerShell.
Significant improvements to Contract Verifier syntax and functionality.
New developer content in the book.
Upgraded to Pex v0.9 Academic License.
Preliminary support for ReSharper 4.5 EAP.
Links to test source location from report.
Icarus can start tests with the debugger.
Icarus contains link to online documentation.
Started work to support MSTest 2005.
Added a report XSD file to assist contributors who wish to build report processors.
Started optimizing the reflection wrappers. Should improve ReSharper plugin performance slightly.
Added generic versions of Assert.Is[Not]AssignableFrom and Assert.Is[Not]InstanceOfType.
Started working on new plugin model.
Fixed MbUnit v2 adapter test outcome reporting and tear down glitches.
Fixed XML encoding issues with actual / expected outcomes that caused whitespace differences to be hidden.
Fixed use of [Factory] data source with open generic types.
Fixed missing CCNet add-in documentation in the installer.
Fixed regression downloading report attachments in CCNet.
Fixed issue with Icarus go to source command invoked on non-UI thread.
Fixed inconsistent failure message for Assert.EndsWith.
No more spurious COMExceptions during startup when reading symbols from PDB files.


This recipe - Victor's grandmother's - is one of the most beloved and oldest in my original orange binder. It's written on the back of a Dean's List letter from my college days and shows its pre-binder origins in the large grease stain that covers much of the writing. I'm not sure how many the casserole is supposed to serve, but it disappears with a speed that probably isn't terribly healthy. I did serve it with a green salad, though.


The colour navy means confidence and loyalty. Also, the blue in general has a calming effect. That may be a great fact to consider for a nervous bride-to-be and her wedding party. Calming everyone in the room with the repetition of the colour navy may make the wedding run more smoothly and keep everyone on the same page and enjoying themselves. Dresses in navy have a certain appeal in their colour and embellishment that can't be matched by other hues.
For instance, beaded accents at the high neckline and natural waist of the A-line High-neck Beadings Chiffon Floor-length Zipper Back Bridesmaid Gowns give this seemingly serious and formal dress a fun twist and make it a great choice for a bridesmaid dress.
Meanwhile, the Classy A-Line Square Pleated Lace Zipper Back Chiffon Knee-Length Bridesmaid Dresses provides the wearer with the look of a woman off to enjoy a summer party – which makes this a great dress for warmer climates or that particular season. The colour offsets lighter hues to help accent the bride and give her the spotlight she deserves on her special day. This makes navy a strong choice for bridesmaid's dresses and to have everyone happy with the colour scheme.


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Dale Wickham propels Victor baseball
Kevin Oklobzija
Dale Wickham is batting .487 with 28 RBI and 26 runs scored
The senior has been starting at shortstop since his sophomore year
He needed to convince his coach he should pitch — and has thrived on the mound
VICTOR – Dale Wickham remembers going out into the yard with his baseball glove whenever his older brother, Kevin, was playing catch.
Dale was maybe 5 or 6 at the time. Kevin was seven years older.
"I was so competitive," Wickham said. "I would try to keep up with him.
"I couldn't stand to just be little and be left out of things. They would be playing with a hardball and I wanted to do what they were doing; I wasn't going to use a T-ball. I'd have bumps and bruises all over my face when we were done playing."
A few years later, Wickham found himself glued to the TV whenever WTBS was airing an Atlanta Braves game.
"Chipper Jones was my hero growing up," Wickham said. "I always would imitate his stance."
He'd try to switch-hit too, but soon learned he didn't swing the bat nearly as well from the right side of the plate as he did from the left. He decided he'd better just be himself in the batter's box.
That's worked out very well. Still ultra-competitive, the Victor senior has been the driving force for the Blue Devils' baseball team.
Victor (20-4), fresh off winning a fourth consecutive Section V Class AA championship, will play Section VI champ Lancaster (18-4) in the Far West Regional at 5 p.m. Saturday at Colborn Park in Newark. The winner advances to the state final four in Binghamton on June 14.
Wickham was the Class AA regular season player of the year. He is batting .487 with an on-base percentage of .531 and a slugging percentage of .684.
"He's one of those kids that you rely on at crunch time," Victor coach Sean Rucker said.
Victor won state titles in 2004 (Class A) and 2011 (Class AA) and lost in the title game in 2012. Wickham was promoted from the junior varsity during the 2011 season as a freshman, and while he didn't play in the semifinals or finals, he still cherishes the championship excitement.
"That's the best feeling any high school baseball player can ask for," he said.
Wickham, 18, is a third-year starter at shortstop for the Blue Devils and this spring added pitching to his résumé.
"I was begging coach (Sean) Rucker to let me pitch, just being a pest," he said. "There's no better battle between two people on a field than pitcher and batter."
It's a good thing the coach relented. Wickham has been impressive, especially with his curveball. He is 6-0 with 2 saves and a 0.93 earned-run average.
Dale is headed to Cornell University in September to play baseball and study applied economics and management.
He looked at other schools but always found himself searching — unsuccessfully — for a reason not to attend to Cornell. Besides, the whole family has gone there: his father, Bill; mother, Debbie; brother, Kevin, and sister, Paige.
"It's where I wanted to go all along," he said.
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Cristina Albert has only been snowboarding competitively for three years, but she has quickly risen through the ranks as one of the nation's top snowboarders. At the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, she surprised by earning a career-best fourth place, the second-highest finish for Team USA in the event. Albert was born in Romania with amniotic band syndrome and a clubfoot. She was adopted at three-years-old and underwent several reconstructive surgeries. At 12-years-old, she lost her left foot due to a Staph infection following surgery on her clubfoot. Albert is active off the slopes with a job as a veterinary tech and enjoying activities including hiking, rock climbing, painting and standup comedy.


Right?! And eating an ounce of dark chocolate (70% cocoa) a day has been linked to reduced risks of strokes and heart attacks thanks to its flavonoid antioxidants. Thank you flavonols!! Now if only the health benefits required more than an ounce a day….


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Must See Shows for Broadway Week 2018
Every year, New York has "Broadway Week." This is a great opportunity to see a show that you've been wanting to see, and even better, the tickets are two for the price of one. Which shows are a must see for 2018's Broadway Week? Read on to find out.
Head Over Heels is based off a Renaissance novel that is set in the present day. Music includes The Go-Go's and the story is about a royal family attempting to salvage their kingdom. The main character is played by a trans actor, which is a first for Broadway. Not only that but there is an entirely female band in the show. To find out more information, visit headoverheelsthemusical.com.
Come From Away is an extremely unique show that is a part of this year's Broadway Week. It's a musical based around the story of a village in Newfoundland that took in passengers diverted on September 11th, 2001. This show is almost always sold out, so the fact that they are offering a two for one deal is not something to pass up! 38 planes were ordered to land on this small Newfoundland village and the characters in the show are based on real Gander residents who took in the stranded travelers.
My Fair Lady is a revival of the classic, which typically isn't received well. This is different thought. The New York Times wrote that this version is "better than it ever was." In this revival, Eliza Doolittle takes charge of her life instead of relying on a man to help refine her. Supporting characters have significantly less time on stage than in the original, as do Mr.Butz and Alfred. To find out more or buy tickets, visit myfairladybway.com.
No matter which show you choose to take in during Broadway Week, you will not regret it. The above three are just some of the many offerings during this annual tradition that is running right now through September 18th!


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Q: Small JSP app does not work I wrote a small JSP app, just to test the connection. I use XAMPP. Module Apche, mySql, Tomcat are running. I use Netbeans 7.4. The code is :
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  <title>JDBC test</title>
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        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
                "jdbc:mysql://localhost:8084/book_shop_db", "root", "");
        System.out.println("CONN = " + conn);
        Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
        ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from books");
    %>
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        int nCols = resMetaData.getColumnCount();
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When I run the app, the following error appear :
 HTTP Status 500 - An exception occurred processing JSP page /index.jsp at line 11

where line 11 is :
  11:             Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

In Netbeans, in Tools->Servers->Tomcat I have :
      username: ide
      password : *
Ok. Password can be shown no roblem.
Server port is : 8084. In XAMPP, ports are :
for Apache : 100, 443 (Ok)
for mySql: 3306
for Tomcat: 8005, 8809, 8080.
I really am confused. How can I make the app run ?
Thank you.
EB

A: Download the mysql jdbc driver from here and put it in your WEB-INF/lib directory.

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When a 'GAME' is not a 'GAME!' Thursday, July 21, 2016
When a 'GAME' is not a 'GAME!'
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There are an estimated 1.8 BILLION video game players in the world. In many ways, it is how our kids learn, communicate, and express themselves. Technology is not good or bad. It is how we choose to use it AND how we teach our young people to live in an electronic age to protect themselves from exploitation. Your child's innocence may be at stake! This week's show will explore how pedophiles and predators use apps, chatrooms and games to access, groom, recruit and exploit young people. Gaming requires the player to maneuver between a world of fantasy and a world of reality and not become the prey. We will look at Pokemon Go, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Black Ops, Grand Theft Auto V as we also talk about DIGITAL MORALITY. Join us for a fascinating discussion you won't hear anywhere else!
EXPLOITED: Crimes Against Humanity
This program is designed to educate first responders, civic leaders, social workers, education professionals, faith based leaders and parents about how predators access, groom, recruit and exploit victims into prostitution and sextortion. We analyze real cases from the perspective of Law Enforcement, the victim, and the perpetrator. We look at hard core trafficking cases and how law enforcement is able to intervene. We examine cases of child pornography and the Dark Web. We examine how predators use apps, chatrooms, games and the latest technologies. We discuss the impact of gangs and cartels on human exploitation. We also look at trends in global human trafficking. Our goal is to build a global interactive community of individuals empowered to eradicate human exploitation.
Opal Singleton
Opal Singleton is a global human trafficking and child pornography expert. She has trained tens of thousands of first responders, government and civic leaders, faith based leaders and education administrators about how predators groom and recruit innocent victims into prostitution and exploitation. Opal works with the Riverside County (CA) Anti Human Trafficking Task Force through a Department of Justice grant. Opal sits with parents of missing kids and assists teens in trouble through social media. Opal is the President and CEO of Million Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating child sex trafficking. She has authored a book "Seduced: The Grooming of America's Teenagers" to educate parents and grandparents and educators about how predators use apps, chatrooms, online video gaming and social media to exploit young people. Opal is on the Board of Rapha House serving human trafficking victims in Cambodia, Thailand and Haiti. She is an Instructor for the USC Sol Price Institute for Safe Communities training law enforcement administrators and is an Instructor for the Los Angeles Fire Training Academy. Opal retired in 2000 after a lifelong career in international marketing having accrued nearly three million frequent flyer miles. Opal is passionate about protecting families and youth from predators and is dedicated to providing an in-depth global interactive internet training program to educate leaders around the world to stop human exploitation and trafficking.
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The photograph above shows the current state of the legendary Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. After the hotel, where Elvis stayed many times in the sixties, closed two years ago there were talks about renovating the hotel but still preserving the original building. Well, as the picture shows, those plans are probably off the table. The big neon sign is taken down, the roller coaster is gone and workers have begun their demolishion work.


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About David Price
David is a professional musician and RGT accredited guitar teacher with over thirteen years' experience in the music industry.
Over the years, David has worked as a songwriter, session guitarist and singer, and has also played guitar for groups such as Spengler, Los Chinches and Dai & The Ramblers. He has had records released on Tru Thoughts, Audiopharm, Wagram and Ministry of Sound record labels, and has played at leading UK music venues including Cargo, China White and The Barbican and at numerous music festivals such as Lovebox, Secret Garden Party and Bestival.
David is passionate about the instrument, and has helped many guitarists to become better players with his enthusiastic and friendly approach.
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What's Wrong with Putting a Price on Nature?
The concept of pricing ecosystem services and allowing them to be bought and sold has gained wide acceptance among conservationists in recent years. But does this approach merely obscure nature's true value and put the natural world at even greater risk?
By Richard Conniff • October 18, 2012
Ecosystem services is not exactly a phrase to stir the human imagination. But over the past few years, it has managed to dazzle both diehard conservationists and bottom-line business types as the best answer to global environmental decline.
For proponents, the logic is straightforward: Old-style protection of nature for its own sake has badly failed to stop the destruction of habitats and the dwindling of species. It has failed largely because philosophical and scientific arguments rarely trump profits and the promise of jobs. And conservationists can't usually put enough money on the table to meet commercial interests on their own terms. Pointing out the marketplace value of ecosystem services was initially just a way to remind people what was being lost in the process — benefits like flood control, water filtration, carbon sequestration, and species habitat. Then it dawned on someone that, by making it possible for people to buy and sell these services, we could save the world and turn a profit at the same time.
Skeptics say they're making constructive criticisms of what they see as blind faith in new financial markets.
But the rising tide of enthusiasm for PES (or payment for ecosystem services) is now also eliciting alarm and criticism. The rhetoric is at times heated, particularly in Britain, where a government plan to sell off national forests had to be abandoned in the face of fierce public opposition. (Thegovernment's own expert panel also found that it had "greatly undervalued" what it was proposing to sell.) Writing recently in The Guardian, columnist and land rights activist George Monbiot denounced PES schemes as "another transfer of power to corporations and the very rich." Also writing in The Guardian, Tony Juniper, a conservationist and corporate consultant, replied in effect that Monbiot and other critics should shut up, on the grounds that campaigning against payment for ecosystem services "could inadvertently strengthen the hand of those who believe nature has little or no value, moral, economic or otherwise."
Not all critics reject the PES idea outright. Some say they're merely making constructive criticisms of what they see as blind faith in new financial markets, and in global initiatives like the United Nations' REDD mechanism (for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).
The first mistake, says Kent H. Redford, an environmental consultant, is to assume that old-style conservation methods have failed. "They've worked in certain circumstances, in certain ways, for certain things." They're the reason, for instance, that state-sponsored protected areas now cover 25 percent of the land in Costa Rica, 27 percent in the United States (at the federal level alone), 30 percent in Tanzania and Guatemala, and 50 percent in Belize.
Writing in Conservation Biology, Redford and co-author William M. Adams catalogued some of the ways PES transactions can go wrong, beginning with the whole question of price. Traditional conservationists sought to protect forests and other landscapes primarily for their intrinsic value, says Redford. But those values are likely to carry less weight when even conservationists think first in economic terms. Many ecosystem services are also likely to be hard to price — for instance, the arguably beneficial effects on climate and agriculture (minus the deleterious impacts on health) when atmospheric dust from the African Sahel drifts across the Atlantic. And even if you can put a price on an ecosystem service, Redford and Adams argue, figuring out who has a legitimate right to sell it means picking winners and losers. In developing countries, indigenous communities may lack the documentation or the political clout to assert their ownership.
Making the economic case for ecosystem services often 'has more resonance' with decision makers, one researcher says.
Payment schemes also risk creating perverse incentives, Redford and Adams warn. If the system pays landowners to bank carbon, they may plant non-native species, or genetically "improved" trees, to bank carbon faster. Or they may discourage natural phenomena that happen to be good for biodiversity, but bad for people, including such ecosystem disservices as fire, drought, disease, or flood. Finally, Redford and Adams point out, the effects of climate change, "always the joker in the pack," could toss carefully constructed economic schemes — and natural habitats — into disarray.
Stuart H. M. Butchart, a researcher at BirdLife International, replies that embracing the ecosystem services idea doesn't necessarily mean abandoning the argument that species and habitats have intrinsic value. But making the economic case often "has more resonance" for decision-makers.
A study published last week in Science, co-authored by Butchart, also suggests why the PES idea now seems so urgent. To determine what it would cost to meet current targets set for the year 2020 under the international Convention on Biological Diversity, the study looked at the cost of protecting and down-listing threatened bird species. Then it extrapolated that preventing further loss of species across all plant and animal groups would cost $78 billion a year. That's an order of magnitude above current conservation spending — but the study noted that it was only between 1 and 4 percent of the value of the ecosystem services being lost through habitat destruction every year.
PES proponents can also point to early success stories: Vittel-Nestlé Waters recognized a few years ago that its aquifer in northern France was being polluted by nitrate fertilizers and pesticides from nearby farms. It devised a scheme to pay farmers to change their methods and deliver the ecosystem service of unpolluted water. Beijing undertook a similar scheme in the catchment around one of its reservoirs, ahead of the 2008 Olympics. (It had previously tried anti-growth regulations and resettlements.)
But there isn't always a wealthy corporation or a big city nearby willing to pick up the tab (for Vittel, $31.4 million over the first seven years), and other transactions are more complex. Norway, for instance, pledged $1 billion each to Brazil and Indonesia for forest preservation efforts under the REDD mechanism, partly to compensate for failing to meet its own greenhouse gas emissions targets. But the Norwegian government recently felt compelled to issue a public warning to both countries against backsliding on their forest preservation commitments.
Critics are uncomfortable with viewing nature 'as a service provider fit to be incorporated into the global capital markets.'
Monbiot adds that making nature fungible, so one asset can be substituted for another, guarantees that they will be: "If a quarry company wants to destroy a rare meadow, for example, it can buy absolution by paying someone to create another somewhere else." When governments and PES proponents talk about employing marketplace solutions instead of traditional regulatory approaches, he says, "what they are really talking about is shrinking democracy, shrinking public involvement in decision making, shrinking transparency and accountability. By handing it over to the market you are in effect handing it over to corporations and the very rich," and to "a very plutocratic" decision-making process.
Pavan Sukhdev, a former international banker who has pioneered efforts to highlight the economic importance of biodiversity, says none of these criticisms is especially new. He has raised many of them himself and says the marketplace is working to address them. "It's useful to hear criticisms, but the critics must remember one basic fact. It wasn't Christopher Columbus who discovered America, it was the Native Indians who lived there. So critics should not think that they have invented knowledge. They should be a little more humble in their attitude. And understand that the people on the ground are professionals who have been working on this and thinking about this for quite some time."
But no amount of financial tweaking or social engineering is likely to allay the deeper discomfort voiced by many PES critics with the whole idea of nature, in the words of one recent paper, "as a service provider fit to be incorporated into the global capital markets." Or the notion, expressed by Jean-Christophe Vié, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, that nature is "the largest company on Earth." When you view nature in economic terms, as a provider in a sort of "master-servant" relationship, they suggest, you make a fundamental change not just in the world around us, but in ourselves.
Sian Sullivan, a University of London anthropologist, warns that past revolutions in capital investment, like the enclosure of common lands in eighteenth-century Britain, and the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century, resulted in "the shattering of peoples' relationships with landscapes" and the conversion of rural folk into factory workers and service-providers for capital. In the ecosystem services movement, Sullivan warns, we are seeing "a major new wave of capture and enclosure of Nature by capital." And it will come, she says, at the cost of profound cultural and psychological upheaval.
It may be, as some argue, that we have no better way to save the world. But the danger in the process is that we may lose our souls.
Richard Conniff is a National Magazine Award-winning writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and other publications. His latest book is House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth. He is a frequent contributor to Yale Environment 360. More about Richard Conniff →
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Plank Jack with resistance loop/RL-elbow plank, RL placement in above ankles, jump the feet out and in. Modifications, or prerequisite would be to master plank first, and then if that is good, they could extend one foot at a time out to the side.
Runner's Lunge with a 1/2 curl- RL is placed under right foot, and held in left hand. As back knee drops, client does a 1/2 bicep curl. Modification: choose the proper level of resistance.
Side V-up with a leg lift- RL is placed above knees, client is lying on his/her side with arm outstretched in front. Lift both legs and reach top arm toward feet. On the down, lift top leg to target glute. Modification: choose proper resistance, or eliminate RL.
Tricep Kickback- Client holds RL with right hand at chest to secure it into place. Client gets into a squat position, with elbow tucked neatly at side. With palm facing down, client pushes back to target tricep. Modification: eliminate the squat, and lower RL.
Bear Crawl- Client places RL around wrists, and comes to a quad/ped position. Lift knees and moves the right arm and right leg in synch, and left arm and left leg in synch, going forward and backward. Modification: Eliminate RL.
Lateral Crawl 1/2 Surrender- Client places RL above knees, and goes to a kneeling position. Client leads with outside leg, and moves to the right one kneeling side step, and then comes up to squat position. Come down the same way, and repeat on the other side. Modification: choose proper RL, or eliminate RL.


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At The Farmacy, we collaborate with local farmers, cannabis experts, and community members to provide great products that are created responsibly and then help send resources back into the city and county we love so much. But Santa Barbara isn't the only place where local values are alive and well.
This week, Northern Californians celebrated their third annual Hall of Flowers cannabis trade show in Sonoma County. The event brings together the most innovative brands, retailers, and industry experts to help grow the future of cannabis in a powerful and meaningful way.
Inspired by Hall of Flowers week, we traveled north to Humboldt Apothecary, a women-owned and women-run business in Arcata's cannabis hub. Founded by two herbalists with a passion for the benefits of botanical products, Humboldt Apothecary embodies everything that the Farmacy believes in when it comes to local-based and ethical cannabis practices. They're also inspiring innovators, developing products that combine cannabis with other botanicals to create something wholly original. The Farmacy carries their select line; Deep Sleep, Brain Tonic, Inflammation Soother and Love Potion #7.
We had the chance to tour Humboldt Apothecary and interview Gillian Levy, one of the brand's two co-founders. We discussed local supply chains and the benefits of alcohol-based tinctures, and we even got the chance to create a custom mocktail using one of their products.
Tell us a little bit more about Humboldt Apothecary.
Gillian: Sure! We've been in operation since 2014, and we're really devoted to craft cannabis. All of our batches are small, and all of our cannabis is from small farms in Humboldt County. All of our products contain cannabis oil that contains pure cannabis terpenes as opposed to other plant-based terpenes.
Essentially, we studied a lot of medical texts and found that one of the ways cannabis was once used by doctors was that it was combined with other botanicals. There's a synergy between cannabis and plants that have similar effects. When we founded our business, we wanted to create a more functional product for folks who wanted to get all the benefits of cannabis without experiencing an incapacitating couch-lock feeling. So we created products supported by other botanicals that would support the intended use while maximizing the benefits of the cannabis.
Currently we have a line of botanicals that the Farmacy carries that is the only alcohol-based tincture that we know of in California. The reason we like to work with alcohol is that we're herbalists, and we love to work with a wide range of botanical medicines including cannabis. We really feel that the synergy between different plants and cannabis work to optimize the benefits of the cannabis.
What we think is really cool about the alcohol-based tincture is that if you're into making mocktails, like we are, it dissolves right into the water and doesn't float on top of your drink.
Gillian: It's true! The other great benefit of using alcohol-based tinctures in general is that the onset of effects is much more rapid than in an oil-based tincture or edible. The effects go into place about 15-20 minutes after consumption.
It seems like everyone here is very local and you are very devoted to working with local people in whatever capacity you can. Tell us a little bit more about that.
Gillian: We are located in the marijuana innovation zone of Arcata, which is a part of town that was historically occupied by a lot of different logging companies. It's all become repopulated by cannabis companies, and many of us collaborate and work together— which has been an incredible opportunity to act as a think tank with smart and talented people bouncing ideas off each other and working together to create great products. It's a hub here as far as manufacturing and networking, and I'm really glad to be a part of that. Farmers who come out of the hills bring their biomass right here, so we have an opportunity to have personal relationships with everyone in the chain.
That's really wonderful, and it's a lot like how it is now in Santa Barbara with all of the farms in Carpinteria. It's a hyper-efficient supply chain that also allows you to work with people you actually know.
Gillian: Yes! We love that your team in Santa Barbara seems to have a real commitment to local and regional operations within the state of California that have the same commitment and ethos as you. It seems like the people in Santa Barbara and the people in Humboldt are aligned in their ethos. We all care about where the product comes from, how it's grown, and whether it's an ethical product in general.
We can and should continue to hold each other to standards and recognize other cannabis companies that share similar values as us and support those practices.
After our chat with Gillian, we were able to get our hands on one of their most popular products— Brain Tonic, a one-to-one CBD and THC alcohol-based tincture. We combined it with other local ingredients including 'holy basil' purchased from Terra Farms at the Mckinleyville farmer's market as well as local honey harvested from Blue Lake by beekeeper Missy Bee, who is famous for using cannabis smoke instead of tobacco during the honey harvesting process. What we got was a delicious, simple mocktail that was refreshing and filled with amazing botanical benefits. The best part? It was made with ingredients that are ethically produced, locally grown, and in line with the Farmacy mission to support great people and brands doing great things for the communities they love.
Mocktail Ingredients:
Sturdy sprig of your favorite herb (we used Tulsi)
Lemon (or plain) seltzer
Humboldt Apothecary's Brain Tonic
Teaspoon of Local Honey
Fill glass with ice and seltzer. Top with tincture. Drizzle honey. Stir with herb sprig. Simple and delicious.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 45
Priestley and Weale, 1885
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 68; Volumes 1907-1908
Royal Astronomical Society
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Page 200 - WACKERBARTH (FD) Music and the Anglo-Saxons, being some Account of the Anglo-Saxon Orchestra, with Remarks on the Church Music of the 19th Century. 8vo, 2 plates, sewed.
Appears in 70 books from 1830-2007
Page 194 - The Prize is to be awarded to a Graduate of the University, who is not of more than three years' standing from admission to his first degree when the Essays are sent in, and who shall produce the best English Essay "on some moral or metaphysical subject, on the Existence, Nature, and Attributes of God, or on the Truth and Evidence of the Christian Religion.
Page 126 - September next will be the southern part of the north island and the northern part of the south island of New Zealand, where the eclipse occurs early on the morning of the gth, civil reckoning.
Page 262 - That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180 degrees, east longitude being plus and west longitude minus.
Page 263 - That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours.
Page 263 - That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies designed to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of angular space and of time shall be resumed, so as to permit the extension of this application to all cases in which it presents real advantages.
Page 124 - Amer. Assoc. XXX, p. 1) included a plan for the determination of standards for stars fainter than the tenth magnitude. Twenty-four bright equatorial stars were chosen and the standards were to be selected from the regions following them from two to six minutes of time and not differing in declination from the leading stars by more than five minutes of arc. The observations described below have been made at the Harvard College Observatory unless otherwise stated. The light of each of the leading stars...
Page 279 - In 1841 Doppler showed that since the impression which is received by the eye or the ear does not depend upon the intrinsic strength and period of the waves of light and of sound, but is determined by the interval of time in which they fall upon the organ of the observer, it follows that the colour and intensity of an impression of light, and the pitch and strength of a sound, will be altered by a motion of the source of the light or of the sound, or by a motion of the observer, towards or from each...
Page 279 - PRS, who had made some experiments in an analogous direction. In the spring of last year, at my request, Mr. Maxwell sent to me a statement of his views and of the experiments which he had made.
Page 286 - B and eyepiece 2, the lines appear to be coincident with those of hydrogen. In consequence of the uncertainty of the character of the first line, which is single, while that of nitrogen is double, this determination can now only be made by means of the comparison of the third line with that of hydrogen. This third line becomes very faint from the great loss of light unavoidable in a spectroscope that gives a sufficient dispersive power, and the comparison can only be attempted when the sky is very...
Title Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 45
Publisher Priestley and Weale, 1885


Pancakes continue to be the popular choice for 'special' breakfasts at our place (birthdays, Father's Day, etc.). Bagels are pretty popular, and croissants come and go. But the good ol' Oat Pancakes Recipe reigns supreme when it comes to a filling, satisfying and nourishing brekkie!
You'll find heaps of different recipes for pancakes on our site, but this is one we'll keep coming back to. It's so super-easy. It makes a light and fluffy pancake. And they're very filling.
The combination of the oats and the vanilla extract just make these pancakes seem so much more 'homely' than the store-bought shake and fry kind. Maybe it's something in the process too. But once you've tried these, you probably won't ever buy those pancake mixes again. The ingredients are really straight-forward, and it takes literally just a few minutes to whip it together in a bowl.
Garnish your pancakes with banana, blueberries, strawberries, bacon, and lashings of maple syrup. Or go a-la-natural and just allow some soft whipped butter, and a small drizzle of maple to infuse into your pancake stack.
Don't forget, these pancakes are easy to freeze, and great for lunch and dinner too.
Make a bunch of smaller, pikelet-sized ones and freeze them for a healthy kid's lunchbox snack. Just take them out the night before and thaw them, spread a little butter on in the morning, and they're ready to eat by morning tea time.


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Braque du Bourbonnais (Wyżeł Bourbonnais, Bourbonnais Pointer) – jedna z ras psów należąca do grupy wyżłów i seterów. Podlega próbom pracy.

Rys historyczny
Jak wskazuje jego nazwa, pochodzi z francuskiej Burbonii. Psy bardzo podobne do dzisiejszych wyżłów występują na XVI-wiecznych obrazach. Rozkwit rasy nastąpił we Francji w wieku XIX, ale po I wojnie światowej straciła na ona na znaczeniu. W 1970 roku, pod wpływem Michela Comte, zespół hodowców rozpoczął prace nad przetrwaniem wyżła z Burbonii.

Charakter i usposobienie
Braque du Bourbonnais to odporny, wszechstronny myśliwy o dobrym węchu. Choć nie jest zbyt szybki, dobrze radzi sobie w pracy na każdym terenie. W pracy powinien być czujny, opanowany i dokładny, a w domu zmieniać się w kochającego, delikatnego i oddanego przyjaciela całej rodziny.

Wygląd
Średniej wielkości i proporcji wyżeł krótkowłosy, o muskulaturze dającej wyobrażenie o sile i mocy, z pewną dozą szlachetności; suki nieznacznie mniej krępe i bardziej eleganckie. Maść tego wyżła jest wyraźnie dereszowata z jak najmniejszą liczbą jednobarwnych łat. Szczenięta tego średniej wielkości psa rodzą się albo bez ogona, albo tylko z ogonem szczątkowym. Jego nos ma barwę wątrobową z dobrze rozwiniętymi nozdrzami. Szyja jest muskularna, krótka, z niewielkim podgardlem, kufa mocna, szeroka, oczy koloru ciemnobursztynowego. Głowa ma kształt gruszki, klatka jest pojemna i głęboka.

Zobacz też
 Braque d'Auvergne
 Wyżeł pirenejski

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Rasy psów
Wyżły kontynentalne

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import (
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	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config"
)

// NewNopExtensionCreateSettings returns a new nop settings for Create*Extension functions.
func NewNopExtensionCreateSettings() component.ExtensionCreateSettings {
	return component.ExtensionCreateSettings{
		TelemetrySettings: NewNopTelemetrySettings(),
		BuildInfo:         component.NewDefaultBuildInfo(),
	}
}

type nopExtensionConfig struct {
	config.ExtensionSettings `mapstructure:",squash"` // squash ensures fields are correctly decoded in embedded struct
}

// NewNopExtensionFactory returns a component.ExtensionFactory that constructs nop extensions.
func NewNopExtensionFactory() component.ExtensionFactory {
	return component.NewExtensionFactory(
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			return &nopExtensionConfig{
				ExtensionSettings: config.NewExtensionSettings(component.NewID("nop")),
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We started the month with a look at a lesser known, but up and coming ingredient, Bakuchiol, and talked about how exactly it compares to Retinol and which skin type it is best suited for. Then we took a closer look at a method that has been around for several years now: The Double Cleansing Method. Is it actually good for your skin?
And just in case you are looking for a new cleanser, there is one in the pixi skintreats Rose-Infused Collection Overview that I filmed for you. But even without that, it was a pixi skincare heavy month, with the pixi Rose Tonic, the pixi Rose Ceramide Cream and the pixi Rose Oil Blend getting a full review.
Not as much was going on here in terms of makeup. I published the second tutorial in my "Wearable Makeup Trends 2019" series (see the first one here), this time on Green Graphic Liner. And, only two days ago, my review of the Emile Cordon Miracle Lip Balms , which are, admittedly, more a luxury than a necessity.
Not much to report here other than my Beauty Low Buy Update for February (the one for March will follow next Monday).


You already know that high-quality maintenance tools like this AW Perkins POE Wood Stove Ash Rake can help you keep your stove running efficiently. But did you realize that this effective ash rake can also act as an eye-catching piece of decor? Its unique design and classic style allow this hearth tool to give your stove an aesthetic boost as well as a practical one. Even a gas stove can benefit from the addition of an AW Perkins POE Wood Stove Ash Rake.
How wide is the rake head on the ash rake?
Per the manufacturer, the width of the rake head is approximately 6 inches.
Great addition to fireplace tools!
This rake works great. Allows me to bring the coals to the forward part of the stove where they burn and reduce to ash. This was a great purchase. I highly recommend it.
Great tool to use for moving wood and ash in the fireplace. Nice long handle and made well.
ProsLong handle, rake separates ash from coals.
This is hands down the best purchase we made for our wood stove. It's sturdy and works like a charm.
A must have tool for a wood stove.
At first, I was concerned that the handle length was too long but I'm glad I tried using it before cutting the handle down. I realize now that the extra length keeps me away from my stove while I'm raking the coals which means I don't get nearly so hot. I didn't like the barbs on the sides of the tines so I ground those off. I really like this rake and I'm glad I bought it. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because some of the paint already chipped off of the handle.
Great product well made I like the 36 inch length no hot hands now/ , I burn 24 inch wood.
This was just what we needed to deal with the ash in our wood stove. This design is different than the other ash rakes we saw. The only reason I didn't give it four stars is I wish the handle were shorter.


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Biopharmaceuticals Licensing
Isis Pharmaceuticals Licenses Proprietary Antibiotic Program to Achaogen
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 31 (HSMN NewsFeed) -- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISIS ) has announced today that it has licensed its proprietary aminoglycosides program to Achaogen, a biotechnology company pursuing unique strategies to combat drug-resistant pathogens. Aminoglycosides are a group of antibiotics that inhibit bacterial protein synthesis and are used to treat serious bacterial infections. The Isis program that has been licensed to Achaogen resulted from research conducted in Isis' Ibis division to identify drugs to treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
"This licensing agreement will allow us to benefit from Achaogen's expertise and highly focused research efforts in developing therapies against drug-resistant bacteria, while Achaogen will benefit from our aminoglycoside research and access to our intellectual property," said C. Frank Bennett, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Antisense Research at Isis Pharmaceuticals. "This transaction with Achaogen is another example of our successful satellite company partnering program. Through these relationships, we are expanding the reach and potential of our research programs and participating in the success of multiple companies and products."
In exchange for the exclusive, worldwide license to Isis' aminoglycoside program, Achaogen will issue $1.5 million of Achaogen stock to Isis and make milestone payments for key clinical and regulatory achievements and royalties on product sales. Achaogen will be solely responsible for the continued development of the aminoglycoside program and products.
Isis is exploiting its expertise in RNA to discover and develop novel drugs for its product pipeline and for its partners. The Company has successfully commercialized the world's first antisense drug and has 12 antisense drugs in development to treat metabolic, cardiovascular, ocular and inflammatory diseases, and cancer. In its Ibis division, Isis is developing and commercializing the TIGER biosensor system, a revolutionary system to identify infectious organisms. As an innovator in RNA-based drug discovery and development, Isis is the owner or exclusive licensee of approximately 1,500 issued patents worldwide. Additional information about Isis is available at www.isispharm.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding Isis Pharmaceuticals and Achaogen's licensing agreement and the development and therapeutic potential of aminoglycosides to combat drug-resistant bacteria. Any statement describing Isis' goals, expectations, intentions or beliefs is a forward-looking statement and should be considered an at-risk statement, including those statements that are described as Isis' goals. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, particularly those inherent in the process of discovering, developing, and commercializing drugs that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics, and in the endeavor of building a business around such products. Isis' forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove correct, could cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although Isis' forward-looking statements reflect the good faith judgment of its management, these statements are based only on facts and factors currently known by Isis. As a result, you are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Isis' programs are described in additional detail in Isis' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2005, which are on file with the SEC. Copies of these and other documents are available from the Company.
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Pick up our 30th anniversary special!
30 Years: If there's one constant in Brooklyn over these last 30 years, it's change. A Rip Van Winkle returning waking up in a Brooklyn neighborhood after a three-decade slumber might not be able to recognize the place. From the glistening new towers on the Williamsburg waterfront to Yuppies in Bay Ridge, this borough has been in flux for all of our 30 years of covering it. Here's our look back at how each of the vibrant communities in our coverage area have changed over the years.
30 Years: Brooklyn is certainly not the same as it was in 1978 when the first issue of The Brooklyn Paper rolled off the printing press. Yet our first issues contained coverage of some of the exact same development projects that make headlines today. From Brooklyn Bridge Park to the McCarren Park Pool to Atlantic Yards to the Fulton Mall, the pace of development in this borough has been slow and not always so steady. Find a project below and read all about it!
Dining: Our own Sweet Melissa takes you through a classic holiday meal — one dish at a time.
Astroland owner: I'll be back (maybe)!
Is the state playing lowball with Daniel Goldstein?
What do you hear at a GOP health care rally?
Smartmom wins! She gets her couch!
The tallest building in the borough is NOT the ugliest!
Check out the wheels off this Lexus!
It's a neckdown showdown on Hicks Street!
Finally, Tom Mylan is on our meat hook!


My wife and I spent a considerable amount of money on a higher end kitchenaid fridge and it's just over a year old and it can't get down to the correct temperature. Normally I wouldn't make a big issue if it was resolved but the service we've received from whirlpool is beyond unreasonable. They've sent a repair company out probably a dozen times and continually replace parts that doesn't fix it. The fridge is obviously a lemon but they refuse to admit it and won't simply replace the unit. They've gone so far as to now call in a second repair shop to start replacing more parts and see if the outcome is what they want and say the fridge if fine. It's set for 3 degrees Celsius as a fridge should be but it stays a 7 degrees and our food and milk goes bad way before it should. The last customer representative was trying to say that is in their acceptable temperature range. I'd recommend buyers stay away from kitchenaid as they figure their product is fine if it's 7 degrees and your food spoils early and that is acceptable by their standards. Lousy customer service and poor product quality.


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New Orleans' Tragedy and Triumph on 6-Year Katrina Anniversary
Posted: 8/29/11 10:53 AM ET
(This article was cross-posted on the Huffington Post, where it can be read here)
When five New Orleans police officers were found guilty earlier this month of a series of murders, shootings and a subsequent cover-up in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it seemed a symbolic coda to a catastrophic act of nature that descended upon the Crescent City six years ago today, abetted in its destruction by human failings both at the time and since.
The officers were convicted of killing two people and wounding four others on September 4, 2005 on the Danziger Bridge, an expanse that spans the city's industrial canal, in the chaos of a city largely left to fend for itself after being deluged by a Category 5 hurricane that the entire federal and state government saw coming but did little to prepare for.
Seventeen-year-old James Brissette and forty-year-old Ronald Madison were killed that day, though the conditions that set the stage for their killings had been in place long before and, despite progress in many areas since the storm, a number of them of them remain today.
But despite the city's population having been cut nearly in half since the hurricane, and though large sections of neighborhoods and landmarks such as the former Six Flags amusement part sit eerily abandoned, the heart of the city where jazz was born is still beating.
There is probably no city in the United States that possesses greater physical beauty than New Orleans. From the great mansions of the Garden District, to the latticed-balconies fronting the former pirate haunts of the French Quarter, to the creole cottages in the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods existing in various states of dilapidation, for much of its compact central area New Orleans represents a perfect merging of architectural ideas, similar to the aesthetic wholeness one finds in a place like Paris.
Likewise, its music and cuisine, unique and defiantly redolent of the city's individual flavour and history, make it a fascinating cultural quirk in a national landscape that is increasingly bland and homogenized.
But the revelry and indulgence take place to a backbeat of violence and urban dysfunction so severe that last year the city's homicide rate clocked in at 10 times above the national average, on par with those of violence-racked locales such as Guatemala, where warring street gangs and drug cartels do daily battle.
The prevalence of violent crime in the city would be a challenge for any police force, no matter how well-trained and equipped, but it has proved especially taxing for the 1,395-member New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), whose own struggles have often mirrored the city's larger ills.
An investigation of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) published in March by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded that "basic elements of effective policing--clear policies, training, accountability and confidence of the citizenry--have been absent for years" and that "constitutional violations span the operation of the entire Department."
The city's mayor Mitch Landrieu, the scion of a Louisiana political dynasty that includes a former mayor (Moon Landrieu) and a current United States senator (Mary Landrieu), came into office in May 2010 with a wave of optimism. He promptly appointed as the city's new police chief Ronal Serpas, who had previously served as police chief of Nashville but a sea of crises, some of them rooted in Katrina and beyond, awaited them.
On Sept. 2, 2005, four days after Katrina made landfall. Henry Glover, an African-American resident of the Algiers section of the city, was shot by an NOPD officer.
When bystanders took the grievously wounded Glover to an improvised police station, they were surrounded by policeman who handcuffed them along with Glover, who bled to death. Glover's body was then driven in a car commandeered by a policeman who burned both the vehicle and Glover's body after setting it aflame with a traffic flare.
Serpas' second in command, Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo, retired last month after criticism about his actions in the Glover case grew to a crescendo. A 33 page report from State of Louisiana's Department of Public Safety and Correction concluded that Defillo "repeatedly failed to acknowledge that the circumstances as presented to him were sufficiently suspicious as to require follow up" and that his actions "were neither reasonable or responsible."
This March, two NOPD officers received stiff sentences in connection with the case.
Further complicating matters, wealthy New Orleaneans have institutionalized the peeling off of active-duty police officers into what here are known as "paid details," whereby officers are allowed to work for private companies or individuals while in NOPD uniforms.
The DOJ report called the system an "entrenched and unregulated" phenomenon that facilitated corruption within the department. But the city's elite have been loathe to change it, no matter how much it undermines the capability of law enforcement over the urban landscape as a whole.
To his credit, Serpas in May announced that the NOPD was creating a civilian-administered Office of Police Detail Services that would set restrictions on how many hours officers could work and how they would be paid.
And amid the struggles, there are signs of hope.
The NOPD is currently in the process of negotiating a consent decree with the DOJ, a measure by which a federal judge would mandate and oversee that the report's dozens of recommendations be implemented. A newly invigorated body, the New Orleans Office of the Independent Police Monitor, is also now charged with overseeing the behavior of the NOPD and allegations of police misconduct.
This year, standardized test scores for students in the Recovery School District (RSD), a special state-wide school district administered by the Louisiana Department of Education and which took over most of the city's schools after Katrina, improved for the fourth year in a row.
Students from schools still within the Orleans Parish School Board - whose institutions mostly now fall within the mandate of the RSD - also improved.
This marks a dramatic change in momentum for a city that for decades had failed to provide even the rudiments of a good education to its youth, and one in which early interventions are the key to reducing the appalling homicide rate the now stalks its streets.
For much of its history, the aura of New Orleans has been informed by the interplay of light and shadow, comedy and pathos. A city at least partly built of the legacy of slavery nevertheless helped produced the most ebullient and expressive of African-American idioms, and continues today to hold a mirror up to the country at large of some of its best and worst qualities.
The struggle to rebuild New Orleans - and the debate about what kind of New Orleans that will be - continues six years on, as the winds and rain of a once-mighty storm grow ever more distant, but never fully disappear.
Labels: Danziger Bridge, Henry Glover, Hurricane Katrina, New Orelans, NOLA, NOPD
Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
Posted: 8/23/11 07:00 PM ET
Throughout what has been a dolorous summer in the Haitian capital, the image of the Caribbean nation's new president has gazed out at passersby from billboards and murals affixed to walls that did not topple during the country's apocalyptic January 2010 earthquake.
Depicting a man with a bald pate and broad smile, with messages such as "Nouvelle Haiti" and "Bienvenue au pouvoir" stenciled painstakingly next to them, the murals' optimism belies the intense political struggles of the first three months of the rule of Michel Martelly, a well-known singer who performed under the moniker Sweet Micky.
"I love President Martelly, I voted for President Martelly, so did my mother and my sister," says Carlos Jean Charles, who resides in Camp Toussaint, a 2,800 person collection of fragile tents set up in front of Haiti's once-grand National Palace, which still lies in ruins 18 months after the tremor.
"I think Martelly has a good heart," Charles says, echoing the statements of others in the camp. "But the problem is the parliament. Those people have been doing this shit for 25 years, fighting for power. They don't give him a chance."
A day after he was sworn in this May, Martelly announced that he was submitting the name of Daniel Rouzier, a businessman and devout Catholic, to serve as his Prime Minister, only to have the nomination rejected by parliament a month later.
On July 6th, Martelly announced that his new pick for Prime Minister would be attorney and former Minister of Justice Bernard Gousse, at which point 16 of Haiti's 30 senators announced, before the nomination had even been considered, that Gousse was also to be rejected, which he was earlier this month.
So the country, where an estimated 634,000 survivors of the quake still live in makeshift settlements in and around the capital, remains without a government.
The situation is reminiscent of the the first mandate of the man that Martelly replaced as president, René Préval, in the late 1990s. During that era, following the resignation of Préval's Prime Minister, the post remained vacant for nearly two years as an opposition-dominated parliament rejected successive nominees in an effort to deprive the Préval government of oxygen.
It is a modus operandi that is being repeated today in Haiti, but under much worse conditions and this time with the parliament dominated by members of Préval's own coalition (several of them elected in highly disputed circumstances), though the amount of control the former president still exerts over the disparate group of legislators is a matter of some debate.
"The population who voted for Martelly perceived the change he offered as drastic change, a complete rupture from the way things were done in the past," says Marilyn Allien, the director of La Fondation Héritage pour Haïti, the Haitian chapter of the anti-corruption organization Transparency International.
"But the way things were done in the past was very good for some people. There are people who thrive when corruption and impunity prevail, and it doesn't serve them at all if a new leader comes in and tries to institute the rule of law."
A political novice who ran on an education platform and whose very distance from Haiti's rancid political class was a large part of his appeal, Martelly has relied on a close circle of advisors, some of questionable reputation, to give him counsel when dealing with parliament.
Lurking in the background to all of this are Haiti's two recently-returned former leaders, Jean-Claude Duvalier and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Duvalier, the scion of a family dictatorship started by his father François that ruled Haiti for 29 years, was chased out of the country in 1986 amidst an uprising that has yet to fulfill its promise of democracy, social and economic justice. He returned to Haiti from his long exile in France in January to the outrage of those who suffered at the hands of his regime.
Aristide, a former Catholic priest, was at the forefront of the anti-Duvalier movement and became Haiti's president in 1991, only to be ousted in a military coup seven months later.
Restored to the presidency by a US-led military intervention in 1994, Aristide turned over the reins of government to Préval in 1996. He was returned to power during a violence-wracked ballot in 2000, with his second mandate marked by high levels of official corruption and political violence before he too was overthrown by an armed insurrection after months of large-scale street protests against his rule.
Since his return to Haiti from exile in South Africa in March, Aristide has been largely silent, though some in the camps and elsewhere have darkly suggested they see his hand in the parliamentary maneuvers currently underway.
Further complicating the mix, the 12,000 person United Nations mission in Haiti, in place since June 2004 and known by the acronym MINUSTAH, has probably reached the nadir of its reputation during its time in the country.
Once welcomed as a bulwark against political chaos, the mission has seemed adrift since the earthquake, which killed nearly 100 of its personnel including the head and deputy head of the mission.
A cholera epidemic which has killed more than 5,800 people since last October, has been linked to the mission, with a June report by a group of of epidemiologists and physicians in the journal of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said that evidence "strongly suggests" that the cholera strain had been brought to Haiti by UN peacekeepers.
Often unfairly derided as "turista" (tourists) by Haitians, the mission now appears to be largely living up to the scathing sobriquet, with some of its members a feature in some of the capital's more expensive hotels, getting loudly intoxicated and carousing often only feet away from the meager encampments of those made homeless by January 2010's tremor.
Shortly before I visited Haiti this month, I had made plans to visit with an old friend.
Jean-Claude Bajeux, the co-founder of the Centre Oecuménique des Droits de l'Homme (CEDH), was also a former Minister of Culture, a militant for human rights and democracy and a great Haitian patriot.
Virtually his entire family had been killed by François Duvalier, sending him into a long exile during which he received a PhD from Princeton University in the United States, and lived and taught in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
He fought against both the Duvalier family dictatorship and the military juntas that followed and, in more recent times, against the violent anarcho-populism with which Aristide attempted to rule the country. Well into his twilight years, when most men of his age would be playing with their grandchildren, I would see Bajeux bravely march in demonstrations at times when it was physically dangerous to do. Lately he had provided an important analytical voice to Haiti, critiquing not only Haiti's political machinations but those of outsiders involved in the country, as well.
Bajeux passed away, if not exactly unexpectedly, then rather suddenly, earlier this month at the age of 79, before I had a chance to see him. His goal of an inclusive, transparent and just political system in Haiti is still an unrealized dream.
Shortly before he died, in a conversation with a friend, Bajeux had time enough to deliver a simple charge.
"My generation is passing away," Bajeux said. "We did all we could. Now it is up to you."
There can be a sense of tragic timelessness in Haiti, an impression that one gets when driving northwards from the capital along Route Nationale 1, where tent camps now ring either side of the road, and which meanders along the Côte des Arcadins and into the agricultural heartland of the Artibonite Valley.
As one drives, to the left the Caribbean Sea glitters blue-green, and resorts from when Haiti was once a tourist destination - now largely empty save for Haiti's wealthy and the moneyed foreigners in the country - front the ocean. Skiffs with canvass sails ply the channel between the mainland and the immense, isolated Île de la Gonâve in the bay.
Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter.
Given the long odds he faces, there is something moving about the faith of ordinary Haitians that Martelly is the figure who will transform their immensely difficult lives. And, despite what one may read, the Haitians, even in the wake of the extraordinary amount of suffering that has been foisted on them in recent years, are not a defeated people.
The mood in Haiti today reminds one of the wanly flickering orange glow of the kerosene lamps that Haiti's market women - known as ti machann - use to illuminate their wares as they work late into the night. One can see them by the roadside, hoping for one more customer, one more sale, one more ray of life.
Haiti is like that, too, persevering ever onward as long as the slenderest flicker of hope remains.
Labels: Cholera, Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Jean Claude Duvalier, Michel Martelly, MINUSTAH
What James Craig Anderson's Killing Means to America
Posted: 8/9/11 05:19 PM ET
Where in the world do at least seven people participate in a brutal and fatal sectarian attack against an innocent working man whose only crime is to be part of a targeted minority? And where in the world would only one of those people then be charged with murder, and only one other charged with "simple assault," despite ample evidence that those involved set out to commit extreme violence that evening?
Syria? Libya? The Democratic Republic of Congo?
Welcome to 21st century Mississippi.
According to police, early on the morning of June 26th, James Craig Anderson, a 49 year-old African-American auto plant worker in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, was set upon by a group of white teenagers who beat him while screaming "White Power." Then one of them got behind the wheel of a Ford F250 green pickup and ran Anderson over, killing him.
The teenagers, seven in all, are alleged to have been led by 18 year-old Deryl Dedmon, and, according to police, they had left an all-night party in the neighboring upper-class white enclave of Rankin County with the sole intention of finding an African-American to attack.
The horrifying security camera footage of the murder -- showing Anderson repeatedly attacked by multiple teens before being run down - is matched only by the blithe disregard of the alleged killers themselves. After the attack, police say that Dedmon drove along with his two female passengers to a McDonald's to meet with the rest the group and, according to witnesses, bragged "I ran that nigger over."
Far from being the quiet loner type, it seems there were plenty of signs that Dedmon was a menace.
Brian Richardson, the white pastor at Rankin County's Castlewoods Baptist Church, told reporters after the Anderson slaying that he had told police and school officials that his own son had been the victim of violent bullying by Dedmon for a period of two years, and that Dedmon and his friends frequently targeted people in the community with homophobic and racial slurs.
Most chillingly, Richardson said that he told police that it was "painfully clear that [Dedmon] was going to injure someone severely or possibly kill someone." Richardson also added that if Dedmon was not taken off the streets "it's going to happen again."
The "taken off the streets" part is important because, almost unbelievably, after being freed on a $50,000 dollar bond, Dedmon is now subject to house arrest under an $800,000 bond. In other words, he is not yet in prison despite being accused of taking part in a grotesque and premeditated racial assault that Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith has called a hate crime.
Judge William Barnett, the Mississippi magistrate who decided that Dedmon, despite Brian Richardson's prescient previous warnings, posed no danger if sent back home from prison, also saw fit to reduce the charges against John Aaron Rice, also 18, the only other person charged in the case, from murder to simple assault. Rice is now free on $5,000 bond.
How can this be? How can more than half a dozen teenagers take part in such a fatal racist attack in a region and a nation with a history of racial violence and most of them just be allowed to walk away from it?
For some time now, there has been a dangerous historical amnesia developing in the United States, and nowhere has this appeared to be more concentrated than in the South, where I make my home. In Mississippi, it's a historical revisionism that starts at the top.
Mississippi's current governor, former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, opined as recently as last year that the omission of any mention of slavery from a proclamation on Confederate History Month by Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell was "just a nit...not significant." and, in a memorable turn of phrase, didn't "matter for diddly."
Later that same year, when interviewed by the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, Barbour said that, during his youth, the segregationist White Citizens' Council in his native Yazoo City "was an organization of town leaders" that in his view kept the peace.
[Barbour's statement now seem particularly ill-advised as, on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist and U.S. army veteran Medgar Evers was gunned down in Jackson, Mississippi - the same town where James Craig Anderson was beaten to death - by White Citizens' Council member Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith was tried three times before finally being convicted for Evers' murder in 1994. He would later die in prison. Evers himself is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.]
In November of last year, a "secession ball" in the South Carolina city of Charleston celebrated that state's exit from the union 150 years ago - an exit that heralded the beginning of a civl war in which over 600,000 Americans lost their lives - and was mirrored by similar events in Montgomery, Alabama and elsewhere.
In perhaps a more famous incident from April 2009, Texas governor and likely Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, speaking to a rally of Tea Party supporters in Austin, said
that Texas had entered the United States with the understanding that "we would be able to leave if we decided to do that." Perry forgot, perhaps that, against the advice of its wise founding father, Sam Houston, Texas did leave the Union to join the Confederacy in 1861/ Everyone saw how well that worked out.
The South is not alone in this historical revisionism. Minnesota Congresswoman and Republican Senatorial candidate Michele Bachmann recently signed a pledge from an Iowa-based group called The Family Value which proclaimed that "a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."
All of which is perhaps a roundabout way of saying this: If in this context and all these years later James Craig Anderson's murder counts for so little that his alleged killers -- at least one of whom has been accused of presenting a credible and ongoing threat to the community -- are allowed to savour their freedom even as Anderson's family mourns his loss, then justice in Mississippi doesn't count for much more now than it did in Medgar Evers' time, and the grotesque romanticizing of an era of racial hatred and enslavement still has far deeper roots among some in our country than we are willing to admit.
In some ways, Mississippi remains the most misunderstood of American states. It has proven to be one of the great producers and repositories of American culture, producing writers such as William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright and Eudora Welty (who spent most of her life in the country where the Anderson killing took place), and musicians of the caliber of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Elvis Presley. Indeed, much of what the rest of the world understands as American creativity can be traced back to the delta and hill country of the state.
I write these lines in New Orleans, a city which was at least partially built on slavery and where, in July 1864, a mob opposed to giving African-Americans the vote, aided by New Orleans police, attacked a political meeting in a riot that killed at least 37 people, all but three of them black.
Almost exactly one hundred years later - following the murder of of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner by members of the Ku Klux Klan - the folk singer Phil Ochs (frequently lambasted as a northern interloper though he was in fact born in Texas) wrote one of his best songs, "Here's to the State of Mississippi." In it, Ochs sang that, in Mississippi, "the calender is lying when it reads the present time."
That may or may not still hold true. The course of the trial of those accused of murdering James Craig Anderson will tell us a great deal, though, about how much work we still have to do.
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Labels: Haley Barbour, hate crime, James Craig Anderson, justice system, Michele Bachmann, Mississippi, racism, Rick Perry
On the passing of Jean-Claude Bajeux
I was sitting in my study in New Orleans working on a book about the Democratic Republic of Congo when I heard the news that Jean-Claude Bajeux had passed. Bajeux, co-founder of the Centre Oecuménique des Droits de l'Homme (CEDH), former Minister of Culture, militant for human rights and democracy and great Haitian patriot, was 79.
Since I started visiting Haiti in 1997, I got to know Bajeux and his wife, Sylvie, over the years, both of a generation that fought hard against the 1957-1986 Duvalier family (father François and son Jean-Claude) dictatorship and the military juntas that followed. Subsequently supportive of the candidacy of Jean-Bertrand Aristide at the head of a broad democratic movement, Bajeux endured Haiti's 1991 coup until Aristide's return by a United States-led multinational military force in 1994, at which point he served as Minister of Culture. At one point, like Aristide himself, Bajeux was a priest who later left his role in the church, and he would become among Aristide's foremost critics as the latter veered towards a particular brand of corrupt and violent anarcho-populism that reminded many like Bajeux of the elder Duvalier.
Bajeux, who received a PhD from Princeton University in the United States, lived and taught in both Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in the past, and in recent years, the CEDH did important work in helping to draw attention to the plight of Haitians deported from the United States, often for very minor infractions, back to Haiti.
Well into his later years, I would see Bajeux bravely march in demonstrations at times when it was physically dangerous to do so in cities like Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and Cap-Haïtien in the country's north.
Both the younger Duvalier and Aristide are now back living freely in Haiti, having never been held to account for the terrible suffering that they subjected the Haitian people to. I imagine that it must have been a difficult pill to swallow for someone such as Bajeux, who worked all his life to try and make Haiti's political system more responsive and accountable to its people.
Likewise, the game-playing and politicking of Haiti's political class, which recently rejected the second nominee of Haiti's president, Michel Martelly, for the post of Prime Minister, has never seemed more irresponsible or indifferent to the lives of the country's citizens, who lived in dire poverty and dislocation even before Haiti's devastating January 2010 earthquake.
In Haitian Creole there is an expression upon the passing of a great figure that "a great mapou has fallen." Mapous are the massive, sturdy trees that one finds in the Haitian countryside, and great spiritual signifiers to the country's vodou faithful, as well.
In recent years, the older generation of Haiti's democratic activists that opposed the Duvalier regime, like those they once opposed, have begun to pass away, secure in their energies and convictions but unable to outrun what Andrew Marvell called "time's winged chariot."
One must remain hopeful that a younger generation will now pick up the legacy of collective struggles and personal sacrifices that men like Jean-Claude Bajeux left them and try and forge a more equitable and just future for Bajeux's beloved country. There could be no better tribute.
Domi byen, JC.
New Orleans, August 2011
Michael Deibert is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University and the author of Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti.
Labels: Centre Oecuménique des Droits de l'Homme, Haiti, human rights, Jean-Claude Bajeux
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