My husband believes in birds.
I didn't believe him. I didn't say this, of course, but I'm sure my raised eyebrows and slightly condescending Hmmm gave it away. He never really talked about it again until the day after our son died and a bird walked into our house.
We were sitting at the kitchen table, surrounded by platters of uneaten food when we heard a bird chirping in the den. I sat there frozen, while Michael jumped up and grabbed the potholders. After a quick chase, he cornered the bird in the laundry room. He set it out the window and came back to the kitchen.
"I think it was Brendan," he said, his voice filled with wonder. "He's telling us he's okay." I wanted to say no, because I didn't believe in the power of birds, but grief made me desperate. I grabbed hold of his hands. I felt the potholders between us, but we held on tight. "He's okay," we whispered. "He's okay, " we told each other all through the night.
And because we needed new stories, we told the Sparrow Story over and over.
The bird's wing was injured and yet none of us tried to help this bird. Somehow, we felt this tiny sparrow was here to help us. Soon others added their own story.
"He hopped up to me and said hello as I put out your garbage," my father said.
The bird made its way across the street and into our neighbor's garage. "Our dog never barked, never once moved," they told us. "It was your son," and their confidence, their absolute certainty that this bird was my son, filled me with gratitude.
I told my own story the day of the funeral when I heard tapping on the back door. I opened the blinds and there was the sparrow, looking at me, his head tilted, waiting for me to believe. I finally nodded and the bird hopped away.
After a few days, the sparrow disappeared but others came in its place, making a new home within our trees. They tapped on the back door for hours, until I was tempted to let them into the house. Michael went to the store and bought a birdhouse, hanging it on the tree we planted when I was pregnant with Brendan. Within hours, all the seed was gone.
Today, I drink my morning coffee while three birds cling to the window screen. I can hear the rustling of their feathers and their chirps as they sing to each other. Their claws have ripped tiny holes in the mesh. Most of our window screens now have holes in them, and sometimes I move from window to window, poking my finger through the rough openings. I'm not in any hurry to fix the screens.
I'm still not sure what all of these birds mean, but I watch them anyway, grateful that today, I have a new story to tell.


As the eighth volume in Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen's poignant Voice of Witness series, with Valarie as associate editor, Patriot Acts is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories that tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror. In their own words, narrators recount personal experiences of the post-9/11 backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities. Patriot Acts illuminates these experiences in a compelling collection of eighteen oral histories from men and women who have found themselves subject to a wide range of human and civil rights abuses—from rendition and torture, to workplace discrimination, bullying, FBI surveillance and harassment.
This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interrligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of border-crossing, and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings.
The world is in crisis and it seems that many are looking to women to heal the planet and our human family. Before women can step into our full potential as leaders and guides in this moment, we must individually reconnect with our deepest wisdom and with our spiritual roots; collectively heal the many dimensions of separation that keep us fragmented and ineffective as agents of social change; and globally reclaim our rightful place as spiritual leaders in service of a balanced and compassionate new paradigm. This empowering resource engages women in an interactive exploration of the challenges and opportunities on the frontier of women's spiritual leadership.
On September 15, 2001, the murder of a turbaned Sikh family friend launched then-college student Valarie Kaur on a road trip to chronicle hate crimes across the United States. For nearly a decade, she filmed stories in her community—Sikh American men, women, and children whose brown skin and turbans marked them as suspects. Her journey unfolded into a broader exploration of who counts as "one of us" in times of crisis. She now speaks widely to inspire all Americans to recognize that their struggles to live without fear are bound up in one movement for justice.
In the days, months, and now years following the events of September 11th, discrimination against the Sikh community in America has escalated sharply, due in part to a populace that often confuses Sikhs, compelled by their faith to wear turbans, with the Muslim extremists responsible for the devastating terrorist attacks. Although Sikhs have since mobilized to spread awareness and condemn violence against themselves and Muslims, there has been a conspicuous absence of academic literature to aid scholars and commentators in understanding the effect of the backlash on the Sikh community, the group disproportionately impacted by post-9/11 discrimination.
The National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ) was founded in 1991 to advance the fair administration of military justice and to foster improved public understanding of the military justice system. Between 2008 and 2009, observers from the Nation Institute of Military Justice were invited to observe military commissions at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Valarie served as official observer working to ensure that all military commission satisfied the right to a public trial.


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CASE CX350D Excavator Provides Speed, Fuel Efficiency and Power for Family-Owned Business
Gagne Excavation, a family-owned business in Casselman, Ontario, recently purchased the first CASE CX350D excavator in Canada.
By John Bauer, brand marketing manager, CASE Construction Equipment
Claude Gagne, founder of Gagne Excavation, purchased his first CASE backhoe in 1959, and the business has been thriving ever since. Offering a broad range of services, Gagne Excavation has developed relationships with their customers that have lasted for generations. Now operated by his son Marc Gagne and his grandsons, Yannick and Jonathan, the company works on a variety of projects in and around the farmland and municipality of Casselman, Ontario.
"We do snow removal, excavation, septic beds, sewer work, land clearing for farmers, ditch cleaning. We do excavation for barns, houses, almost anything," explains Yannick Gagne, one of Marc's sons, and the third generation of the Gagne family involved in the business.
With the goal of expanding their utility and excavation work, and adding mass excavation power to their three sand and gravel pits, the company added a CX350D excavator to their fleet during the summer of 2015. To date, the machine has helped them be faster and more productive in their work – all while keeping operating costs at a level comparable to their older, considerably smaller excavator.
A Proud Legacy
"My grandfather started in 1959. He started with some cows and he bought a backhoe tractor to start doing excavation for houses and barns. He bought a dozer to move some manure piles and do some excavation. He built the school [in Casselman]. Then, through the years, my uncle got the farm and my dad continued the excavation company."
In addition to snow removal, sewer work, land clearing and excavation, Gagne Excavation also operates three sand pits—approximately 150 acres total—in the Casselman area. "We've got two over here and one in Lemieux. We take out sand for septic beds, we've got some fill, some topsoil. We also screen some sand for the township to put in the road during wintertime."
With as much work as they do, it may come as a surprise to some that Gagne Excavation operates with a lean staff. "Right now we're around seven guys. In the winter we're more. We double the guys in the winter," explains Marc Gagne.
"We've got four loaders, two backhoe tractors, a truck, snow blowers, a truck with a plow on the road—we do all the roads in Casselman, all the schools—everything in Casselman. We have some clients in St. Albert too."
J.R. Brisson Equipment has been supplying construction equipment and farm implements in Ontario for over 111 years. It was there that Claude Gagne purchased his first CASE machine in 1959, and much of the company's equipment is still provided by J.R. Brisson. "My father bought his first dozer from Ernest Brisson. Almost all of our machines come from there," says Marc Gagne.
The company still retains the first payoff letter and customer loyalty card provided by CASE in 1961.
In the summer of 2015, Gagne and Sons purchased the first CASE CX350D excavator in Canada. "Gagne Excavating has been our customer for the past, I'm guessing, sixty years," explains Jonathan Trepanier. sales rep for J.R. Brisson Equipment in Vars, Ontario. "They've had multiple pieces of CASE equipment throughout the years, and recently, we got them to try the CX350D."
"They tried it, I gave them a couple of days to demo it and they wanted to keep it for another month so they turned that into a rental. I think they mainly wanted to see how much productivity they were going to gain with the bigger machine without increasing the amount of people working for them. I think by juggling the number they figured out that it was a very good investment for them to trade the 240 in for the CX350D. They already had the equipment to move it around and the operator was quite excited to go for a bigger machine."
Putting the CX350D to Work
Initially, Gagne and Sons needed a more powerful excavator for working on larger sewer line and septic pit jobs in the area, but they began to test its capabilities in the sand pits where sand is extracted from a pond. The excavator sits on a bench next to the water and digs down to about 20-feet below the water (the company is permitted to dig down 40 feet).
As an operator, Yannick Gagne noticed several things right away.
"The comfort, the smoothness, the fuel economy, and the power. They changed the seat for sure because the comfort is better than the old one. It's got an air seat in it. When you sit twelve hours a day in the cab, you need a good seat. This seat is almost like sitting on your couch at home. It's so comfortable. The heated seat during the wintertime is a good feature too."
In addition to the ergonomic improvements, Gagne and Sons are also impressed with the speed and smoothness of operation in the sand pits. The CX350D features cycle times up to 8 percent faster compared to the previous model.
"I'll say it's twice as fast [as the 240]. At the end of the day, you can see the pile that you took out of the water. I'm pretty sure if you start in the morning and look at noon, you're going to be pretty close to what we were doing in a [whole] day before [with the previous machine]."
The faster cycle times are the result of a new, electronically controlled pump, a larger control valve and multiple sensors. These features combine with the CASE Intelligent Hydraulic System and its four integrated control systems to make the best use of the machine's hydraulic power and momentum, resulting in added speed, strength and fuel efficiency.
"Out of all the excavators that we've dug sand out of the water with, this is the strongest one that we've got. When you curl the bucket and start swinging it's not slowing down. It's way better than the other one."
"We've got another excavator and when you start digging, it's always doing a little dip. With the CASE you can start pulling some grade and never stop and it's never going to give you a little jerk. I can scrape the stockpile out of the grass and not even take the grass out."
Fuel Efficiency = More Production Without Raising Costs
One of the most important improvements to the new excavator is the noteworthy gains in fuel efficiency. While they've gone from a 24-metric-ton machine up to a 35-metric-ton machine, Gagne Excavation notes that they've noticed no increase in total fuel use – counterintuitive, considering they're moving so much more earth.
"We're doing more work with the same fuel the 240 did in a day. Probably didn't change the fuel bill at all, and the excavator is bigger and more powerful," Yannick explains. "The operating cost is important because you've got to compete with the other guys. You cannot sell your sand for $10 more because you used $10 more worth of fuel so you need to stay competitive and, with saving fuel, that's a good way to start."
ProCare Provides Confidence
All CASE D-Series excavators come with CASE ProCare; a suite of product assurances that includes a three-year Advanced CASE SiteWatch™ telematics subscription, a three-year/3,000-hour full-machine factory warranty, and a three-year/3,000-hour planned maintenance contract.
"ProCare is important to us because for three years, 3,000 hours, you don't have to worry about changing the oil, changing the fuel filters, doing any maintenance. You just have to put the fuel in the machine and work and do the payments so you don't have any extra cost of changing the oil or any breakdown should be all covered by warranty so you don't have to worry about extra cost."
The inclusion of the CASE SiteWatch telematics also gives the local dealer visibility into the health and performance of the machine, allowing them to be more proactive in providing service and assisting Gagne Excavation in keeping equipment running at optimal uptime.
"If we've got an employee on it we can check, make sure he's not overheating it or, J.R. Brisson can know if we need an oil change or if it needs service. If it has a problem, then you just call them and they know right away what it is because they have all the information on their computer."
When working on tough applications, it's reassuring to know that your equipment is being properly looked after. "Taking sand out of the water is hard on everything--pins, bushings—you have to grease a lot. We did it for 9,000 hours on the other machine and it was running pretty good when we traded it in. If this one is as good, we're not going to have any problems."
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Jodi Marose
Marketing and Communications Manager Case Construction Equipment North America
jodi.marose@casece.com
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Black Collar Crime: So Much Crime, So Little Time Issue
Bruce Gerencser October 10, 2018 2 Comments
The Black Collar Crime Series relies on public news stories and publicly available information for its content. If any incorrect information is found, please contact Bruce Gerencser. Nothing in this post should be construed as an accusation of guilt. Those accused of crimes are innocent until proven guilty.
Matthew Phelps Pleads Guilty to Murdering His Wife
I previously wrote about Matthew Phelps in posts titled Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor-in-Training Matthew Phelps Accused of Murdering His Wife and Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Preacher Matthew Phelps Stabs His Wife Repeatedly, Blames Cough Medicine.
Last week, Phelps pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the September 2017 death of his wife, Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps. Baptist News reports:
Defense attorney Joe Cheshire said his client suffered from untreated depression, anxiety and low self-esteem his entire life. Born to a 17-year-old unwed mother, he was raised by "deeply conservative Christian" grandparents who were farmers and unable to give him the attention he needed.
In high school he was introduced to Goth music, Satanism and eventually kicked out when he got caught abusing cold medicine. He transferred to a Christian school, where he turned around to become one of the best students and "a wonderful preacher."
"As crazy as this may sound, he was a real Christian," Cheshire said.
Phelps continued to preach and do well in college and "met what he thought was the love of his life."
"Now there is some dispute as to how that marriage broke up or why, but we do know that she went on a mission trip alone after three years of their marriage and came back and told him that she fell in love with another man on her mission trip, and shortly thereafter left Matt and married this man," the lawyer said.
After moving to North Carolina, Cheshire said, Phelps worked at various jobs where he met people "who took him to a bad place" that caused him to squander the family's savings into video gaming. He was obsessed with American Psycho, a 2000 movie starring Christian Bale about an investment banker with a double life as a psychopathic killer, and reportedly told others he wondered what it would feel like to kill someone.
When his double life was discovered and his second wife was about to leave him, Cheshire said, Phelps "snapped, and what happened happened."
At the end of the hearing, Phelps apologized for what he called "a senseless, mindless act."
"I feel like a monster, one of the wretched, a part of the darkness we don't speak of," he said. "That darkness consumed me until I was blind to the path I had taken and deaf to my own cries for help. That darkness caused me to do the unimaginable, to take a life that was not mine to take."
"No length of time will ease my inner sorrow or relieve me of the memory of such a godless act as my hands — which I thought incapable of doing — have committed, and I will have to live with the rest of my life with these hands as a constant reminder," Phelps said.
"I hope my life will be an example of the consequences of those who think that drinking, drugs and carelessness will only affect themselves and no one else," he said. "Be not deceived. God is not mocked, for whatosoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."
Satan, booze, drugs, untreated depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem, and whatever the hell "carelessness" is, are blamed for Phelps' murderous behavior.
Another Cloverdale Church Leader Accused of Sex Crimes
In October 2017, I wrote a post about the alleged sexual assault allegations levied against Samuel Emerson, pastor of Cloverdale Church in Surrey, British Columbia, and his wife Madelaine. The Emersons have since pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
Last week, Brian Batke, a former church elder, was accused of sexual assaulting a minor. News Vancouver reports:
… allegations against Batke date all the way back to 2005. The elder ended his association with the church that same year, according to police.
Surrey RCMP said the allegations against Batke, which were not reported to them until 2017, involve a victim who was underage at the time.
CTV News does not identify victims of sexual assault, and the case is subject to a publication ban that otherwise prevents identifying information from appearing in the media.
Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church did not return calls for comment from CTV News on Thursday, and 72-year-old Batke was not interested in speaking about the case outside court.
"No comment," Batke said.
Apart from Batke's association with the church, authorities revealed he has been a driver for the Coast Mountain Bus Company for about 13 years.
"We are releasing details on his community associations and employment because our investigators feel there may be other victims who have yet to come forward," Cpl. Elenore Sturko said. "They're looking to talk to these people, if they're willing."
TransLink, which runs Coast Mountain Bus Company, told CTV News that Batke has been placed on administrative leave and won't be returning to work pending the outcome of the case.
Evangelical Pastor Mitchell Fields Accused of Rape
Mitchell Richards, pastor of True Grace Fellowship Community Church in Montgomery, Alabama, stands accused of raping a teenager. The Montgomery Advertiser reports:
A Montgomery pastor was charged with rape this month after a grand jury indicted him in connection to an investigation that began in 2017, according to police.
Mitchell Ray Fields, pastor of True Grace Fellowship Community Church, was arrested and released on a $75,000 bond Tuesday, according to court records.
Montgomery police Capt. Regina Duckett said Thursday morning that a sexual assault investigation began against Fields on Jan. 15, 2017. A grand jury returned an indictment against Mitchell on the charge late last month.
The victim, whom Fields is related to, was a teenager at the time of the alleged assault, Duckett said.
In 2014, AL.com featured a story about Fields' "miraculous" conversion and his desire to reach gang-bangers, drug addicts, and prostitutes with the transformative gospel of Christ. Fields told the reporter, "I tell them if God can deliver me then he can deliver you."
Evangelical Pastor Meally Freeman Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Woman During "Deliverance" Session
Monday, Meally Freeman, pastor of Grace Mountaineer Tabernacle Church in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was convicted of two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Earlier this year, WCCO reported:
According to the complaint, a 28-year-old woman reported she was sexually assaulted by her pastor, Freeman, at the Grace Mountaineer Tabernacle Church in Brooklyn Center. The victim told police that she knew Freeman for several years and considered him her spiritual father.
She said she was seeking spiritual guidance on September 20, 2017 and Freeman told her she needed a one-on-one session before bible study.
The complaint says that the practice of the church is to anoint parishioners with oil. At the session, Freeman allegedly gave the victim oil to drink and they began to pray. The victim said she then "fell out" or became unconscious as part of the religious ritual. When she woke up, she had oil on her chest and her clothing was wet. Freeman allegedly told the victim that he anointed all places, but that he didn't see all places.
According to the complaint, Freeman told the victim she needed a second session later that evening after bible study. They were alone again. The victim again "fell out" or became unconscious. When she woke up, she found her pants and underwear – that were ripped — were around her ankles. Her shirt and bra were also pulled up over her chest.
Freeman allegedly was spraying the victim with a water bottle filled with oil and then proceeded to sexually assault the victim. After the session was over, Freeman told the victim to pick her daughter up from the babysitter because he did not want people to know how late she was at the church.
After leaving the church, the victim spoke with a friend who advised her she had not received "deliverance" but was sexually assaulted.
The victim confronted Freeman while secretly recording him and he did not deny touching the victim's genitals. In the recording, Freeman admitted to anointing the victim's chest and said "we insert things into people", according to the complaint.
Freeman allegedly also said that his wife knows he sees women naked and that some things happen during the "deliverance" event and that "you don't ask what happens, you don't go into details and that deliverance can be very tempting."
The victim said both Freeman and his wife tried to convince her not to report the incident to police.
Baptist Youth Pastor Jonathan Jenkins Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen Girl
Jonathan Jenkins, youth pastor at Starlight Baptist Church in Santa Ana, California stands accused of violently sexually assaulting a twelve-year-old girl in the church's restroom. KTLA-5 reports:
He [Jenkins] first targeted the victim, who was 12 years old at the time, in January, prosecutors said. He allegely touched the girl's buttocks while she was at church.
"Sometime in March 2018, the victim was attending service when she went to what she believed to be an empty restroom," Santa Ana police officials said in a statement. "Jenkins was inside the restroom waiting for the victim. The victim attempted to escape, but Jenkins held her against her will. Jenkins threatened the victim with physical violence before (choking) and sexually assaulting the victim."
Jenkins then attempted to commit lewd acts on the girl in April, and committed another molestation in July, district attorney's officials said.
The victim did not report what had happened and continued attending the church, police said.
"On August 5, 2018, Jenkins contacted the victim at church and mocked her about the sexual assault," the police statement said. "Jenkins told the victim if she reported this to the police, he would say she allowed the sexual assault to occur."
The girl ultimately came forward, officials said. Santa Ana police launched an investigation and arrested Jenkins Tuesday.
He has prior felony conviction for robbery in Los Angeles County in 1983 and burglary in Orange County in 1986, prosecutors added.
Evangelical Youth Pastor Joshua Clemons Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Having Sex with Church Teens
Joshua Clemons, youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Parker, Colorado was sentenced last week to seven years in prison for having sexual relations with at least three female church teenagers.
9-News reports:
Joshua Mark Clemons, 35, was sentenced last week to four years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, followed by 10 years of sex offender intensive supervised probation in the Parker case. Clemons' plea agreement calls for three years in a related Denver case.
Clemons lived in Denver when he was employed by the Crossroads Church on Twenty Mile Road in Parker between 2008 and 2015.
During that time, he engaged in sex abuse with at least three of his students and inappropriate behavior with others, a 39-page arrest affidavit says.
One girl, who was 17 at the time, told Parker Police that Clemons used his position as youth pastor to manipulate her and get close to her, the DA's office said. The mother of another girl told police Clemons is "a master manipulator not only of students, but adults, as well."
Clemons pleaded guilty July 23 in the Parker case to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 4 felony and one count of attempted sex assault on a child by one in a position of trust, a Class 5 felony. Other charges were dismissed as part of the plea agreement.
Clemons will be sentenced in the Denver case next month. His 4-year sentence in the Parker case will run consecutively with the three-year sentence he faces in Denver.
I previously wrote about Clemons here and here.
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Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Youth Pastor Joshua Clemons Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
Bruce Gerencser September 24, 2018 1 Comment
Last February, I reported the story of Joshua Clemons, youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Parker, Colorado, and his alleged sexual assault of a church teenager. In July, Clemons pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child. On Friday, Clemons was sentenced to four years in prison for his crime. After his release from prison, Clemons will have to serve ten years of intensive supervised probation.
Clemons also faces an October 19, 2018 sentencing in another case after he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault—strangulation and attempted sexual assault of a child.
ABC-7 reports:
Clemons pleaded guilty in July to one count of sexual exploitation of a child – video/20+ items and one count of attempted sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust – victim age 15-18 in the Douglas County case. Six other counts were dismissed in exchanged for the guilty plea.
Clemons, who worked as a pastor at the Parker church from 2006 through September 2015, had been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl who had long been in his program.
The relationship carried on as the girl went to college at Colorado State University before ending toward the end of 2016, when the alleged victim said Clemons began to show up at her new church and she threatened to get a restraining order, according to police documents.
Clemons also pleaded guilty in late July to second-degree assault—strangulation and attempted sexual assault of a child in the Denver case. He is scheduled to be sentenced for that case on Oct. 19. The sentence is expected to run consecutively to his sentence from the Douglas County case, a spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office said.
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Black Collar Crime: So Many Crimes, So Little Time Issue
Pastor Jeannette Jives-Nealy Convicted of Money Laundering
Jeannette Jives-Nealy, pastor of Kingdom Dominion Worldwide Ministries in Memphis, Tennessee, was accused of stealing $162,000 in government funds meant for feeding poor and hungry children. Last Friday, Jives-Nealy, was convicted of money laundering. According to the Lexington Herald Leader, Jives-Nealy has a checkered past which includes a four-year stint in prison for bilking the State of Florida out of $200,000.
Evangelical Youth Pastor Joshua Clemons Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes
Earlier this year, Joshua Clemons, youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Parker, Colorado was accused of sexually assaulting a teen church girl. You can read my previous post on Clemons here. Monday, Clemons pleaded guilty to "one count of sexual exploitation of a child — video/20+ items and one count of attempted sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust – victim age 15-18."
Denver-7 reports:
The relationship carried on as the girl went to college at Colorado State University before ending toward the end of last year, when the alleged victim said Clemons began to show up at her new church and she threatened to get a restraining order, according to police documents.
Clemons is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. He faces between three and nine years in prison, according to sentencing guidelines for class 4 and 5 felonies.
Baptist Youth Pastor Norman Abernathy Accused of Sexually Assaulting Two Church Girls
Norman Clay Abernathy, former youth pastor at Langston Baptist Church in Conway, South Carolina, is charged with two counts of third degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of second degree assault and battery. According to CB-Sumpter, Abernathy sexually assaulted two church girls at his home. The girls were visiting Abernathy's daughter when the alleged assaults occurred.
According to the church's pastor, Hampton Drum:
He came highly recommended. We do extensive background checks on all those who come to us. He did voluntary work all the way up to June of this year when he resigned for personal reasons. We now know those personal reasons are the accusations that came up.
What is an "extensive" background check? And how would such a check reveal past criminal sexual behavior? As churches are learning, background checks are not a cure-all for clergy and staff sexual misconduct.
Evangelical Pastor Harry Thomas Withdraws Guilty Plea, Fears He Will Die in Prison
Harry Thomas, pastor of Come Alive Church in Medford, New Jersey and the founder of Creation Concerts (Festivals), was accused last year of sexually assaulting four minors over a sixteen-year period. You can read my previous post about Thomas here. In February, Thomas pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting several children.
The National Post reports that Thomas, facing twenty-years in prison, was supposed to be sentenced on Friday. Instead, Thomas withdrew his guilty plea.
Evangelical Youth Pastor Chauncey Walker Pleads Guilty to Having Sex With Church Girl
Earlier this year, Chauncey Walker, youth pastor at Word of Life Ministries in Wichita, Kansas, was accused of having sex with a teen church girl. You can read my previous post on Walker here. Friday, Walker pleaded guilty to having sex with a fifteen-year-old church girl.
The Wichita Eagle reports:
"She was 15 when it started, and it progressed from there," the former youth pastor says on the recording, which was recorded by a relative of the girl without Walker's knowledge. Under Kansas law, only one party needs to consent to recording a conversation.
After he had sex with the girl, she said he made her promise that if anyone asked, she was to say that it was her idea, according to an affidavit filed by a sheriff's detective.
"Things with Walker started right after her 15th birthday," she told a detective working the case. He "took her out for ice cream and flirted with her." About a week later, he came to her parents' house to see her. She said Walker was a close friend of her parents. She said she and Walker ended up in her bedroom and kissed for a while.
They later had sex at Ground Zero, the church's youth building, in Walker's car in the country, at his house and in different hotels, according to the girl's account in the affidavit.
Once the allegations surfaced, Walker conceded, he wasn't honest at first about her age "because, I'll just be honest — I didn't want to go to jail," he said in the recording.
If Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman agrees to the terms of the plea deal, Walker will be sentenced to 95 months, or nearly 8 years.
Evangelical Worship Leader Ronnie Gorton Indicted on Additional Sex Crime Charges
In March 2018, Evangelical worship leader Ronnie Gorton was indicted on numerous sex crime charges. Gorton was employed by Awakening Church in Atoka, Tennessee. On July 10, 2018, Gorton was indicted on forty-four more sex crime charges. The Leader reports:
According to court documents, the new charges allege Gorton abused another teenaged victim from November 2014 until February 2018, when the initial accusation was made.
The 44-count indictment includes: rape of a child, 19 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, 19 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and five counts of violating the Child Protection Act, which is continuous sexual abuse of a child.
Evangelical Pastor Todd Tomko Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes
Last year, Todd "Rhino" Tomko, a disgraced U.S. Marine colonel and pastor of Parkview Church in Quincy, Illinois, was charged with "three counts of indecent liberties with a child, three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of cruelty." You can read my previous post on Tomko here. Tomko later pleaded guilty, and on July 10, 2018, he was sentenced to eighteen-months in prison for his crimes.
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Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Youth Pastor Joshua Clemons Facing Sexual Assault Charges
Bruce Gerencser February 27, 2018 0 Comments
Joshua Clemons, youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church in Parker, Colorado, stands accused of sexually assaulting a minor church girl.
A former youth pastor at Crossroads Community Church faces charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, and authorities are looking for more possible victims.
Joshua Clemons, 35, was arrested Tuesday by the Denver Police Department amid an ongoing investigation into allegations he sexually assaulted at least one member of the youth program he led.
Parker police say 18th Judicial District prosecutors have already filed three charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust against him.
Clemons worked as a youth pastor at the Parker church from 2008 through September 2015, the police department said.
Police said there are three incidents that allegedly occurred involving members of his youth group, and that the church brought the information to the department's attention and was fully cooperating with the investigation.
According to police, the church brought the allegations to police in December 2016, but at the time, Clemons and the girl said they had a consensual relationship and the girl was 18 years old. But after further investigation from the church, it was discovered their relationship started before she was of age.
There were two other girls who were allegedly victims of Clemons', police said.
Crossroads Community Church released the following statement:
Statement from Crossroads Community Church Board and Executive Leadership
Today, a former youth pastor who was employed from 2006 to 2015 at Crossroads Community Church was arrested on charges related to alleged sexual abuse of three then-minor girls during his tenure at our church.
This arrest stems from allegations revealed to Crossroads on February 1, 2018, which we immediately reported to local law enforcement authorities.
Crossroads Community Church takes any inappropriate behavior with our young members very seriously. We are heartbroken and grieve with those who are victims of sexual assault and their families.
The individual facing charges resigned from Crossroads in 2015, citing work-related stress. In December 2016, the Crossroads Leadership Council was made aware that after he left church employment, he had apparently engaged in a relationship with an 18-year-old female who was formerly a member of his youth group.
Crossroads' leadership immediately reported this information to local law enforcement, though no laws were alleged to have been broken.
On February 1, 2018, the mother of the young lady we learned about in 2016 contacted us to express her concern that this former youth pastor was being hired by another church in a position to oversee young people. She further informed us that she had recently learned her daughter's relationship with this man had begun while her daughter was a minor, and that they believed there were other possible victims.
The same day the mother made us aware of these alleged criminal offenses, we immediately reported the new information to local law enforcement authorities and continue to fully cooperate with them during this investigation.
We have been praying for healing and restoration for any victims, known and unknown, and we ask our entire community to do the same.
We encourage anyone with information regarding potential criminal activity, especially any victims, to contact law enforcement immediately. The Parker Police Department may be reached at 303.841.9800, and the Colorado Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline is (844) CO-4-KIDS, or 844.264.5437.
For many years, Crossroads Community Church has had protocols in place—including a national background check that is performed on all employees when they are hired and again every two years—to try to ensure this would not happen. We also have written expectations of employees that include standards of conduct as safeguards for both our employees and those under their care.
In light of this situation, we are conducting a thorough review of our employment procedures and policies to ensure every safeguard is in place to protect anyone, especially young people, from any predatory behavior on our campus or at the hands of any employees or volunteers. We will remain vigilant in our efforts to prevent such behavior, and swift and firm in dealing with any situation known to us.
The affidavit states that Clemons and the alleged victim knew each other since the girl was in fifth grade, but they didn't begin a sexual relationship until September 2014 – when she was 17 years old.
The alleged victim told police that Clemons had admitted to kissing two other girls in the youth group but police didn't provide any further details about those incidents.
The investigation began in February 2018, when the pastor at Crossroads Community Church informed police that the church learned of the relationship between Clemons and the alleged victim in December 2016. But Clemons claimed at the time that the affair didn't begin until October 2015, several months after the girl turned 18.
The pastor reported the case in 2016 because he was concerned that the relationship had actually started when she was a minor, the affidavit states. At the time, police said no crime had been committed.
The pastor then went back to police in February of this year after hearing from the alleged victim's mother, who was concerned that Clemons was being hired as a youth pastor by another church, according to a statement from church leadership.
In an interview with police a few days later, the alleged victim said she and Clemons first had sexual intercourse in June 2015 when she was a 17-year-old senior in high school, but they had kissed and had other sexual contact before then. Clemons was married at the time but told the girl that he wanted to divorce his wife to be with her, the affidavit states.
Clemons knew the girl was underage and even gave her a card with a message along the lines of "We're legal" on her 18th birthday, according to the affidavit.
The relationship continued when the alleged victim graduated from high school and enrolled at Colorado State University, the affidavit states. The alleged victim told police that Clemons visited her almost daily and the two continued to have sex regularly.
At one point, Clemons went to a pharmacy and bought Plan B – the so-called "morning after pill" — and made the alleged victim take the medication.
The relationship ended in late 2017, the affidavit states, at which point the alleged victim said Clemons started "stalking" her and showing up at her new church. The alleged victim threatened Clemons with a restraining order, according to the affidavit.
Clemons' church bio states:
I love the Broncos, ALL other Colorado Sports teams, and Batman. I eat hot cakes from McDonalds every single day, I'm a native of Colorado, and I got my bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Metro (I wanted to be more like Batman), followed by a Master of Divinity degree with a specialization in Youth and Family at Denver Seminary. I love students and want to be more like Jesus everyday! In 2008 I married my lovely wife, Julia, a doctor in Denver hospitals. We have one other member of our family, Tulo (our super dog!). I have been loving on students at Crossroads since 2006.
"Loving on students" has a whole new meaning now that Clemons is facing sexual assault charges. Evidently, his criminal justice classes didn't teach him that having sexual relations with minors and people you have authority over is a crime.
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We value and encourage student opinion and are always welcome to feedback regarding Liberal Studies. Evaluation is necessary in the growth and development of any program. However, it is also our responsibility to correct the inaccuracies in the op-ed.
Washington Square News, as NYU's student newspaper, is a source of information about the university for not only current, but also incoming students. Many accepted high school seniors — including those accepted into LS and GLS — will be visiting campus over the next few months to learn more about their academic programs and to decide if NYU is right for them.
Unfortunately, many other students — international and otherwise — will have no such luxury. Instead, they will turn to the internet and eventually reach the WSN op-ed. Thus, the oversimplified presentation of the LS and GLS programs offered in the op-ed will have real-world implications for impressionable potential incoming students whose perceptions of the programs could easily be impacted by the opinions offered in the writing. Our aim in responding is to correct and clarify these inaccuracies in order to instead offer a more true and nuanced representation of the LS and GLS programs.
Firstly, NYU Liberal Studies consists of two programs; the two-year Core Program and the four-year degree-granting Global Liberal Studies program. We will be primarily discussing the Core Program — also referred to as LS — as that is the focal point of the op-ed.
The college core curriculum is a basic tenet of higher education and one that NYU makes a requirement for their students regardless of major — the number of required classes vary from school to school. In LS, students have the opportunity to complete these required classes in the first two years in seminar-style, largely discussion-based settings with an average of twenty to twenty-five students. These classes are taught entirely by professors and the close interactions that students have with professors is one of the most appreciated and rare features of the program. Depending on the school they choose to transition into for their remaining two years, LS students are required to take other math or science classes. Upon completion, LS students can directly transition to eight other NYU schools — including the College of Arts and Sciences, Steinhardt and Gallatin with the choice of 90 different majors; there is no need for an internal transfer application. LS provides a structure for undeclared students to explore major options while still fulfilling the college core so that they are not inhibited when they become upperclassmen.
The op-ed discussed that the structure of the LS program "immensely limits students." In the first-year, there is one elective per semester, and in the sophomore year, this number increases to three per semester. Electives can be taken in all other schools based entirely on the student's interest. Within Cultural and Social Foundations I, II and III as well as Writing I and II, LS Core classes differ in content depending on the professor's specializations.
Liberal Studies is also the only program at NYU that allows first-years to study away whether it be in London, Florence, Paris or Washington, D.C. — an opportunity that is rare among US colleges.
The value of being well-versed in the foundations of literature and philosophy should not be disregarded, as they are vital in navigating the world in which we, as critically-thinking individuals, live in today. The importance of a liberal arts education is one that scholars are constantly recommending. Harvard Graduate, Rhodes Scholar, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, emphasizes how essential a liberal arts education is. He argues that knowledge of the humanities is beneficial in making wise public policy decisions, especially in the fields of science and technology. Furthermore, there is evidence that literature and the arts lead to a happier mental state and richer emotional intelligence. American journalist and well-decorated scholar, Fareed Zakaria, has also written articles and even a book on why the focus on STEM education and the movement away from liberal arts puts America on a narrow path for the future. These are just a few articles on why a liberal arts education is an important foundation to be a well-rounded contributor to society.
Liberal Studies is a program of unique value: providing its students with a crucial foundation through texts born out of the beginnings of societies around the world, while simultaneously allowing its students to apply and supplement their critical knowledge as global citizens through extensive travels. With this global perspective and after having learned from the best professors in intimate class-settings, NYU LS students are equipped to go into any field and bring a unique perspective to any conversation. Personally, we feel lucky that NYU has provided us with the tools to become the innovative, thoughtful members our society needs so much today.
We have only briefly discussed the many aspects there are to Liberal Studies, and hope this clarifies the Core Program for many students. We encourage future and current LS students to reach out to us at [email protected], to attend one of our General Assemblies to discuss LS matters or to reach out to any of the many LS/GLS students who commented on the original op-ed with their contact info.
Finally, thank you to WSN for giving us the platform to respond.
I'm surprised the GLS program is still even running. I was part of the first group in the program in 2009 (grad 2013), and out of the around 80 people that began in the program, only about 6-8 stayed through to graduate with a degree in Global Liberal Studies.
I'm not sure if they have addressed these poor retention rates or if they continue with the same curriculum, as I left the program in my sophomore year to pursue a degree in Anthropology and Spanish, a program with classes I was much more interested in, with more engaging and concretely defined material. As I've already mentioned, most others left the program as well, so this isn't just the opinion of one person. I notice they barely discuss the 4 year program here. At least in LS, students can go on and study a defined major, other than something people will constantly question. During my year and a half in the program, they had a couple of feedback sessions on the program, but I doubt if any of our comments were implemented.
Instead of simply being defense of the merits of a liberal arts education in general (which I am not refuting), the LS/GLS program needs to actually listen to criticism and change the structure and classes in the program. Clearly, something isn't working.


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Məmmədəli Mehdiyev, también escrito como Mammadali Mehdiyev (Bakú, 9 de abril de 1993), es un deportista azerbaiyano que compite en judo.

En los Juegos Europeos de Minsk 2019 obtuvo una medalla de bronce en la categoría de –90 kg. Ganó tres medallas en el Campeonato Europeo de Judo entre los años 2019 y 2022.

Participó en dos Juegos Olímpicos de Verano, en los años 2016 y 2020, ocupando el sétimo lugar en Río de Janeiro 2016, en la categoría de –90 kg.

Palmarés internacional

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Judokas en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020
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As promised, here are the notes I made in preparation for my Inclusive Mobility Core Conversation at SXSWi 2011. I didn't need to rely on these too much as people actively participated and asked questions!
Talk is about making mobile applications accessible for ALL. Don't want to just talk about people with disabilities because all people want to be able to use mobile devices in all environments. PWD are on the cutting edge and we should listen and learn from them.
Who is aware of accessibility Api for iOS?
Who has tried VoiceOver on iOS device (3GS and above)?
Any PWD here that use an mobile device?
What advice do you want to give developers for making more usable apps?
Where are we with the different devices?
IDEAL Group – makes accessible open source apps for Android.
Speaking Pad – one of most popular applications. Type something in and press a button for phone to speak the text.
Does Android have an advantage with at least some "hard" navigation buttons? Or devices with "real" keyboards?
Edwin speech recognition app- how useful is this? Is there speech reco built into Android, now?
API helps to make apps accessible – what about mobile Web sites?
Voice control – do people use it?
Experience on iOS vs Android?
Google has beta auto-captioning on youTube – but that option is not available on iPad?
auto transcribing could allow you to follow a meeting in a noisy environment – subway, bus, conference, etc.
Self Voicing Apps? What is available how are they used?
What about using the cloud?
Access an assistive technology by sending data to via the network and have spoken text or perhaps a transcript come back?
Need for device independent interactions and events.
Lenovo has eye tracking laptop – do we see that going to mobile devices? Maybe for tablets???


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Ramada Encore by Wyndham Dandenong to Covert to Holiday Inn Brand
IHG Hotels & Resorts announced the signing of Holiday Inn Dandenong with hotel owners, the Pelligra Group.
This will be IHG's fifth hotel with the Pelligra Group, making them one of IHG's largest owners in Australasia.
Formerly the Ramada Encore by Wyndham Dandenong, the hotel will undergo a state-of-the-art $10m refurbishment, before opening as a next-generation Holiday Inn in April 2022. The news continues IHG's rapid growth across Victoria, following the opening of Holiday Inn Werribee and upcoming Holiday Inn openings in Geelong, Ringwood, Richmond, Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall and Ballarat.
Once open, all of the hotel's 108 guestrooms will receive a major refurbishment and an additional 18 new rooms added, and the lobby will be completely transformed, incorporating Holiday Inn's Open Lobby cutting edge concept, designed to bring people together in a convivial setting.
Holiday Inn will add significant value to the property post transformation, taking it from a limited-service hotel to a completely refreshed, full-service upper midscale positioning under the much loved and globally recognised Holiday Inn banner
Located around 30 kilometres from Melbourne, Holiday Inn Dandenong is set to be a central hub for visitors in a growing area, bustling with new infrastructure projects, big business headquarters, universities and potentially a new, $110m 15,00-seat sports stadium and events centre.
In 2006, a 15-year, $290m 'Revitalising Central Dandenong' (RCD) program was announced by the Victorian Government aimed at improving the general amenity of the Dandenong CBD and re-establishing Dandenong city centre as the capital of Melbourne's growing south east region. Holiday Inn Dandenong will be located just a few metres from the centre of the RCD initiative and will be a vibrant and welcomed addition to the precinct.
IHG's Director of Development for Australasia & Pacific, Jael Fischer, said "The Holiday Inn brand has undergone a huge, global transformation over the last 18 months, unveiling a level of next-generation design which is making leisure and business travellers take note, fast tracking the brands growth across the region.
"This will be our fifth hotel with the Pelligra Group and we are honoured to be working with the team again to bring this completely refurbished Holiday Inn to the Dandenong community and build on our network in Victoria."
Ross Pelligra from Pelligra Group, said "There is no question we are passionate about the Holiday Inn brand and we are thrilled to once again be branding our newest acquisition under IHG's fastest growing hotel banner. We love working with the IHG team and we are excited to be building on our partnership with them.
"The location of this hotel is what really drew us to the property; just across the road from the town's main shopping centre and metres from Dandenong's major revitalisation project. Having the internationally recognised Holiday Inn brand attached to our hotel will be of great benefit as domestic and international travel returns and we are proud to be continuing our partnership with IHG."
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If Ram temple is not constructed at Ayodhya now, BJP will lose faith of public:Baba Ramdev in Gujarat
Ahmedabad Faith Gujarat Religious
Ahmedabad: Yog Guru Baba Ramdev today said that if the Ram temple was not constructed in Ayodhya now, then the faith of people in BJP would end and it won't be good for the party.
Talking to newsmen here, Baba Ramdev said that there were only two ways for the construction of the Ram temple. One was that the people start constructing it at their own and the other was that the government through the highest institution in democracy- the parliament brings a legislation for that.
He said that if people start doing so at their own, it would be said that they were defying the court and law . But the matter in the court has already been delayed so much so that there was no hope of any early decision.
'The Modi government at center can bring an ordinance for the construction of the temple,' he said.
He claimed that lord Ram was not a matter of dispute between the minority and majority community as he was the ancestor of both of them.
He said that presently there was BJP government in UP as well as at the center and if the temple was not constructed at such a time then the party would loose the faith of people which obviously won't be a good thing for it.
Baba Ramdev, who was here on the occasion of the opening of the first apparel store of his company Patanjali in Gujarat, said that the Ram temple should be made in Ayodhya.
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Woyane rebellion
1943 rebellion of Tigrayans against Haile Sellassie administration
ቀዳማይ ወያነ
Location of Tigray (1943) in red. Eritrea was under British administration at the time
May – November 1943[2][3]
Tigray Province, Ethiopia
Ethiopian victory
Revolt suppressed
Ethiopian Empire
United Kingdom (supplied Ethiopia with bombers)[1] Woyane rebels
Haile Selassie
Abebe Aregai Yeebio Woldai
Negusse Bezabih
Gugsa Mengesha
Hailemariam Redda
The Woyane rebellion (Tigrinya: ቀዳማይ ወያነ) was an uprising in Tigray Province, Ethiopia against the centralization process from the government of Emperor Haile Selassie which took place in May–November 1943.[4][3] The rebels called themselves the Woyane, a name borrowed from a game played locally between competing groups of young men from different villages, which connoted a spirit of resistance and unity.[5] After nearly succeeding in overrunning the whole province, the rebels were defeated with the support of aircraft from the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force.[6][7] Out of all the rebellions that engulfed Ethiopia during Haile Selassie's rule, this was the most serious internal threat that he faced.[8]
1.1 Goals
1.2 Leadership
2 Rebellion
4 Second and Third Woyane
In an Imperial determination to weaken the power of the regional nobles and elites of Ethiopia, the Haile Selassie government in 1941 introduced a new regional administration. The law or edict provided for fourteen provinces, around 100 counties, and 600 districts.[9] This then enabled Haile Sellasie to centralize his authority and in effect rendered these nobles with their administrations dependent on the central government. Historians agree that "the basic policy of Haile Sellasie was a centralizing one continuing the tradition of the great centralizing Emperors from 1855 onwards."[10] The provision reduced the many provinces of Tigray into eight counties: Raya Azebo, Enderta, Tembien, Kilete Awla'lo, Agame, Adowa, Axum and Shiere along with many districts under each of the counties' jurisdictions. After the liberation of Ethiopia from Italian occupation first by the Ethiopian Patriots and consolidated with the arrival of the emperor and British forces in the East African Campaign in 1941, Ethiopia saw many rebellions break out in different parts of the empire.
The Woyane uprising in Tigray seems to have arisen when administrative corruption and greed ignited a situation of existing instability and insecurity, one awash with weaponry in the wake of the Italian defeat.[11] Tigrayan regional particularism and pride primarily motivated the rebellion. Separatism as such played no part. The Tigrayan rebels considered themselves as good Ethiopians as the Shoans, whose domination they resented. In the rebellion, traditional conservative religious orthodoxy predominated and Muslims joined the Christians.[12] The early history of Tigray is viewed as a source of pride by the Christians and Muslims alike since it embodies the common mythos of their existence beyond religion. It is seen as the force which held them together as a people of one origin long before Christianity or Islam were introduced.[13] The rebellion was local. It drew on no outside inspiration, either material or ideological.[14] It had a much longer-lasting effect than a supposed ethnopolitical movement due to a complex blend of social protest and resentful regionalism. In many ways, Woyane was an aborted class struggle and an aborted attempt at regional autonomy. One can immediately see that these are similar to the roots of the TPLF insurrection of the 1970s, which has at times been rightly called ''a second Woyane.''[15]
Goals[edit]
Their proclamation after liberating Mekelle had five main points.
Autonomous self-administration under Ethiopian flag and unity
Administration by Tigrayan Customary laws
Appointment of one's own leaders free of domination by Shoan Imperial elite
Eradication of thieves and bandits
Objection to payment of excessive taxation and payment to an appointee of the Emperor
Leadership[edit]
H.E. Fitawrari Yeebio Woldai (Wedi Weldai), b. Samre-Enderta, Tigray. Chief leader and commander of the 1943 Woyane rebellion in Tigray
H.E. Dejazamtch Negusse Bezabih, b. Da' Meskel-Mekelle, Enderta, Tigray. Top leader and commander of the 1943 Woyane rebellion in Tigray
H.E. Bashay Gugsa Mengesha, b. Adi-Seleste, Hintalo-Enderta, Tigray. Top leader and commander of the 1943 Woyane rebellion in Tigray.[16]
H.E. Blata Hailemariam Reda, b. Dandera-Enderta, Tigray. Commander of the 1943 Woyane rebellion in Tigray.
Rebellion[edit]
In 1943, open resistance broke out all over southern and eastern Tigray under the slogan, "there is no government; let's organize and govern ourselves."[17] Throughout Enderta districts including, Mekelle, Didibadergiajen, Hintalo, Saharti, Samre and Wajirat, Raya, Kilete-Awlaelo and Tembien, local assemblies, called "gerreb", were immediately formed. The gerreb sent representatives to a central congress, called the "shengo", which elected leadership and established a military command system.
The rebels established their headquarters at Wukro. During the rainy season of 1943, the rebels under the leadership of Fitawrari Yeebio Woldai and Dejazmach Neguise Bezabih, hailing from Enderta,[18] which was the heart of the Woyane rebellion,[19] were busy organizing their forces; and after celebrating the Ethiopian New Year on 12 September, they went on the besieged government garrison at Quiha. The highly equipped government forces were to meet with the poorly equipped but determined rebels' for the first time in the rebel's stronghold district of Didiba Dergiajen, Enderta in the village of Sergien; the rebels under Fitawrari Yeebio Woldai (Wedi Weldai) and Dej. Neguisie Bezabih defeated the government forces decisively; they captured countless modern weapons that helped them attract many peasants to join the rebellion, and many government soldiers deserted and joined the rebellion.[20] In September 1943, on the government's second offensive in the village of Ara, also in Enderta, the Woyane rebels under Wedi Woldai scored yet a second victory over the heavily armed government forces; this time, however, the rebels captured high level feudal chiefs including and killed many prominent Tigray and Amhara warlords that sided with the Emperor Haile Selassie's government. The rebels under Bashay Gugsa Mengesha also captured General Essaias and many of his commanders and imperial soldiers at Quiha. The rebel forces estimated at 20,000, moved eastward from Quiha to Enda Yesus, a fort overlooking the provincial capital, Mekelle.[21] They captured the fort and then took Mekelle. The representatives of Haile Selassie's government fled. The Woyane issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of Mekelle which stated, among other things: "Our governor is Jesus Christ... And our flag that of Ethiopia. Our religion is that of Yohannes IV. People of Tigray, follow the motto of Weyane."[22]
RAF Bristol Blenheims helped to suppress the rebellion
A similar victory was achieved by the rebels under the top leaders of the Woyane movement namely Dejazmach Negussie Bezabih and Bashay Gugsa Mengesha again in the district of Hintalo and Wajerat in Enderta; the rebels defeated the heavily armed government forces numbering in thousands and aided by British airpower, the rebels were able to capture and acquire yet again heavy modern armaments. By 20 September the successful Woyane rebel army was ready to turn south to face an Ethiopian force attempting to advance to Tigray. Haile Selassie had ordered his minister of war Ras Abebe Aregai, to take charge of the campaign against the rebels. The Ras rushed northward and arrived at Korem, south of Maichew, on 17 September but his way was blocked by rebels. During the next three weeks, the Weyane forces fought hard against Ras Abebe's Ethiopian troops, who were bolstered by a small contingent of British officers and specialists.[23] The fighting centered on the great natural fortress of Amba Alaji. Basha Gugusa, one of the first Woyane leaders, led the battle of Amba Alage in September 1943 to victory over the Imperial army which was well equipped and supported by British airpower. The Woyane forces outnumbered those of the government, but their advantage in numbers was offset by artillery and British airpower.
The Woyane leaders precipitated the final decisive battle by launching a three-pronged attack on government positions with perhaps 10,000 men. The war is spread to Alaje in Raya, Wukro in Kilte Awlalo, and Tembien whereby the rebels mostly peasants beat the huge government forces equipped with tanks and modern weapons led by Ras Abebe Aregai, General Abebe Damtew, and aided by British Col. Pluck. The total annihilation of government forces heavily supported by the British army sent a signal to the Emperor, that "the Tigrayans weren't only brave fighters but also astute strategists" said Hailemariam when he gave an interview to Wegahta magazine.[24] Countless British officers[peacock term] were killed, including Col. Pluck, who was killed by a Woyane rebel. The inability to subdue the rebellion prompted the emperor to authorize an aerial bombardment by collaborating with the British Royal Air Force based in Aden which were able to operate a number of Bristol Blenheim's.[25] On 6 October 1943, fourteen bombs and eight days later fifty-four bombs were dropped in the provincial capital Mekelle respectively. On 7 October, sixteen bombs and two days later thirty-two bombs were dropped in Corbetta Raya and Hintalo Enderta respectively as well, though they were devastating mainly to civilians with thousands of people killed, they did not, however, crush the rebellion.[26] Although the rebels scattered and battle formations began to disintegrate on 7 October, uncertainty still affected the Ethiopian government forces and Ras Abebe did not personally move out of Korem until 9 October. He then moved systematically northward and entered Quiha and Mekelle on 14 October, capturing the erstwhile rebel headquarters at Wokro on 17 October.[23]
Aftermath[edit]
Ras Abebe Aregai was appointed as governor of Tigray and was given authority with the pacification of that province. His pacification was brutal. The imperial army wreaked such havoc in Tigray that even the British officers were shocked and complained to their headquarters in Addis Ababa. The nature of the repression was to have a strong impact on future Tigray politics, particularly because it was so slanted socially against the ordinary peasants. Most of the leaders belonging to the nobility (usually from families close to Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa) were pardoned within two to three years. But ordinary peasants were massacred, cattle were stolen, houses were torched, and Blatta Haile Mariam Redda remained in jail for 22 years. This was not to be forgotten in the collective memory of the people of Tigray.[27] The Tigray province and some parts of Wollo were badly hit in subsequent famines, partly as a consequence of the harsh pacification process.[28] The punishment for the uprising severe as it may be with the aerial bombardment, the people were obliged to pay large sums of money, and their land was confiscated and distributed to loyal gentry as a punishment and deterrent to future revolt. New taxation was imposed that 'cost the peasants five times more than they had under the Italians during the occupation.[29] Ten Woyane rebel leaders were captured and sent to prison in Debrebirhan. Including the top leaders, Basha Gugsa Mengesha, Dej. Bezabih Negussie, and Hailemariam Reda.[30] Bashay Gugsa was also not allowed to return to Tigray, because the central government feared his influence.[30] However, the central government tried to make use of his military skills and sent him with a group of soldiers to suppress other rebellions in southern Ethiopia.[30]
Although the Woyane rebellion of 1943 had shortcomings as a prototype revolution, historians however agree that the Woyane rebellion had involved a fairly high level of spontaneity and peasant initiative.[31] It demonstrated considerable popular participation and reflected widely shared grievances. The uprising was unequivocally and specifically directed against the central Shoan Amhara regime of Haile Selassie I, rather than the Tigrayan imperial elite.[32]
Second and Third Woyane[edit]
Second Woyane refers to the Tigray uprising, also known as the TPLF, that fought a 15-year-long war against the Derg regime of 1974–1991.[33][34]
Third Woyane refers to the 2020–present conflict with Ethiopian federal government (Tigray War[35])
In that context, the Woyane rebellion that is the subject of this article is called Old Woyane or First Woyane (ቀዳማይ ወያነ).
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^ Alex De Waal (September 1991). EVIL DAYS 30 YEARS OF WAR AND FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA An Africa Watch Report (PDF). p. 55.
^ a b Omna Tigray. "Info Deck – WOYANE". Omna Tigray.
^ Alex De Waal (September 1991). EVIL DAYS 30 YEARS OF WAR AND FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA, An Africa Watch Report (PDF). Human Rights Watch. p. 55.
^ Gérard Prunier (2010). "The 1943 Woyane Revolt: A Modern Reassessment". The Journal of the Middle East and Africa. 1 (2): 187–195. doi:10.1080/21520844.2010.507456. S2CID 154025316.
^ http://www.jstor.org/stable/181225 Killingray, David. "'A Swift Agent of Government': Air Power in British Colonial Africa, 1916-1939." The Journal of African History, vol. 25, no. 4, 1984, pp. 429–444. Accessed 16 July 2021.
^ https://tand-tesfana.webs.com/The_Origins_Of_TPLF-Aregawi.pdf Aregawi Berhe, 2004. The Origins of the Tigray People's Liberation Front. African Affairs, 103/413, 569—592. Accessed 16 July 2021.
^ Alex De Waal (September 1991). EVIL DAYS 30 YEARS OF WAR AND FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA , An Africa Watch Report (PDF). Human Rights Watch. p. 55.
^ Sarah Vaughan, "Ethnicity and Power in Ethiopia", PhD dissertation, p. 123, 2003
^ Clapham, Christopher, Transformation and continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Cambridge University press, pg. 27, 1988.
^ Sarah Vaughan, "Ethnicity and Power", p. 126.
^ Paul Henze (December 1985). "Rebels and Separatists in Ethiopia, Regional Resistance to a Marxist Regime prepared for the office of the under secretary of defense for policy" (PDF): 42. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Kinfe Abraham, Professor. "WHAT LED TO THE TPLF REBELLION: THE RISE OF WEYANE UPRISING I ─ PART ONE" (PDF). Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD) and HADAD: 2.
^ Mamoka Maki, The wayyane in Tigray and the reconstruction of the Ethiopian government in the 1940s, In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, ed. by Svein Ege, Harald Aspen, Birhanu Teferra and Shiferaw Bekele, Trondheim 2009, p. 5.
^ Household and Society in Ethiopia, African studies center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 1977.
^ Mamoka Maki, The wayyane in Tigray and the reconstruction of the Ethiopia government in the 1940s, In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, ed. by Svein Ege, Harald Aspen, Birhanu Teferra and Shiferaw Bekele, Trondheim 2009, p.5.
^ Kinfe Abraham, Professor. "THE RISE OF WEYANE REBELLION II OR THE TPLF ─ PART TWO" (PDF). Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD) and HADAD.
^ Berhe, Fisseha (2011). "Studies on the biography of Blatta Hayle Mariam Redda (1909-1995)". Ityopis. 1.
^ a b Rebels and Separatists in Ethiopia, Regional Resistance to a Marxist Regime by Paul Henze, Rand corporation-- prepared for the office of the under secretary of defense for policy, p. 42, December 1985.
^ Blata Hailemariam Reda, Wegahta Magazine, Nos. 1, 2, and 4, 1993.
^ Ethiopian register, Volume 5. 1998. p. 27.
^ Gilkes, The dying lion, p. 180.
^ Haggain Erlich "British involvement and Haile Selassie's emerging absolution northern Ethiopia, 1941-1943", Asian and African studies 15, 2 (1981), p. 219.
^ a b c Mamoka Maki, The wayyane in Tigray and the reconstruction of the Ethiopia government in the 1940s, In: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, ed. by Svein Ege, Harald Aspen, Birhanu Teferra and Shiferaw Bekele, Trondheim 2009, p.8.
^ Gebru Tareke, Ethiopia: Power and Protest, p. 121.
^ Kinfe Abraham, Prof. "THE RISE OF WEYANE REBELLION II OR THE TPLF ─ PART TWO" (PDF). President, Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD) and President, HADAD.
^ "Info Deck – WOYANE". Omna Tigray.
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The stock was trading lower for the 12th straight day, down 1% at Rs 2,517, its lowest level since March 1, 2016 on the BSE.
Shares of Hero MotoCorp (HMCL) hit a two-year low of Rs 2,517, down 1 per cent on the BSE in otherwise strong market, on concerns of slowing demand growth. The stock hit its lowest level since March 1, 2016.
The stock has been losing ground for 12 consecutive days and has lost 11 per cent during this period, as compared to 4 per cent rise in S&P BSE Sensex. In the past three months, it has slipped 20 per cent against 7 per cent gain in the benchmark index.
HMCL has faced major headwinds in the last nine months including aggressive price cuts by its nearest competitor Bajaj Auto and five year insurance norm for two wheelers.
During Q3FY19, HMCL's Ebitda (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) margins was contracted by 179bps YoY to 14 per cent on account of gross margin compression of 143bps due to lower operating leverage/ high launch spends.
There have been temporary setbacks in the third quarter of the current fiscal on account of multiple factors, leading to higher than normal inventory levels at dealerships, HMCL said while announcing Q3FY19 results on January 31, 2019.
"Overall inventory level across 2W industry is around two - four week higher than the normal level, which further increased pricing pressure within the industry. Led by Bajaj Auto's aggressive pricing strategy on entry-level motorcycles, HMCL's around 1/3rd of product portfolio got impacted, as it has a stronger presence in entry-level bike segment", analysts at Reliance Securities said in result update.
Analysts at JP Morgan believe the sustained industry shift toward scooters and premium motorbikes is an overhang, given the company's lack of a significant presence in these segments.
"We expect cost push and competitive pressures to remain high over FY19. We assume margin moderation over the next two years. Admittedly, valuations look cheap. Recent regulatory-led insurance cost increase is meaningful for the entry segment (8- 10 per cent) and the impact on volume growth needs to be monitored," the brokerage firm said in report dated February 1, 2019.


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