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Guatemalan national convicted of kidnapping, murder charged with re-entry
BOSTON – Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Guatemalan national, with convictions for kidnapping and murder, Feb. 17, on charges of illegal reentry after deportation.
Ingrid Corzo-Armas, 49, who had previously been convicted and served a state prison sentence in California on kidnapping and murder charges, was charged with one-count of illegal reentry by the Office of U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew E. Lelling.
According to charging documents, in 1993, Corzo-Armas was convicted in California of kidnapping and murder and sentenced to state prison. After serving her sentence, she was placed into removal proceedings and deported to Guatemala June 15, 1999. Sometime after her deportation, it is alleged that Corzo-Armas illegally reentered the United States and was most recently living in Lynn, Massachusetts under the alias Ingrid Sanchez.
On Feb. 17, 2020, ICE officers encountered Corzo-Armas in Lynn, and through the use of fingerprints established that she was illegally present in the United States. During a subsequent interview with law enforcement, Corzo-Armas admitted her alienage, her prior removal, and that she had illegally reentered the United States.
The charging statute for illegal reentry provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Todd M. Lyons, acting field office director for ERO Boston and United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew E. Lelling made the announcement.
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Practical Tips for a Successful Power BI Deployment – Eric Wozniak, a colleague from BlueGranite, encouraged me to submit a session on setting your business up for a more successful Power BI deployment. This session will be on the New/Business User Track. It will summarize standard guidance and some lessons learned in an area where I've spent a large part of my recent past as a consultant–helping numerous organizations deploy and govern Power BI.
Exploring Maps in Power BI – While mapping posts litter this blog, I spent most of 2018 trying to branch out and shed the "Power BI Maps Guy" label. But I can't stay silent forever… This talk will be a complete re-imagining of the original webinar that I gave for BlueGranite early last year (catch the recording). Rather than provide a survey of all the map types available in Power BI like I did in the webinar and the "10 Ways" blog post, I'm exploring use cases and going into more depth on a few of my "go-to" map visuals.
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The centennial of the transcontinental railroad all but excluded the Chinese workers who helped build it. As Utah marks the 150th anniversary, their stories are being told.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three of the spikes that were used at the ceremonial completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869 are on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three of the spikes that were used at the ceremonial completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869 are on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Paricia LaBounty, curator of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum in Council Bluffs, IA, talks about the photo by Andrew J. Russell, of the East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail during a media tour of the new exhibit, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Paricia LaBounty, curator of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum in Council Bluffs, IA, talks about the new exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Photo courtesy of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum) This image by American photographer Andrew J. Russell is titled East and West Shaking Hands at laying of last rail and shows the celebration of the 1869 completion of the intercontinental railroad. It appears in the new exhibit The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West running Feb. 1–May 26, 2019, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three of the spikes that were used at the ceremonial completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869 are on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. East and West Shaking Hands at Laying Last Rail photo by Andrew J. Russell on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three of the spikes that were used at the ceremonial completion of the trans-continental railroad in 1869 are on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (Photo courtesy Union Pacific Railroad) Alfred A. Hart's 1868 photo "Chinese Camp, at End of Track" is currently on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. (Photo courtesy Union Pacific Railroad) Alfred A. Hart's 1868 photo "Shoshone Indians Looking at Locomotives on Desert" is currently on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. (Photo courtesy Union Pacific Railroad) Alfred A. Hart's photo "Locomotive on Trestle, near American River" is currently on display at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Below the trestle on the left, the wagon carrying Hart's photo developing equipment is visible.
They're extraordinary pieces of history — three gleaming ceremonial spikes that helped celebrate the completion of the transcontinental railroad, now reunited in Utah for the first time in 150 years.
The famous Golden Spike, the silver Nevada Spike and the Arizona Spike of blended iron, silver and gold are the centerpiece of a new exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts on the campus of the University of Utah. "The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West" opened Friday.
The exhibit includes 150 photographs and stereographs by Alfred A. Hart, who photographed construction on the Central Pacific/western side in 1868-69, and Andrew Joseph Russell, who photographed progress from the Union Pacific/eastern side.
Organizers of the exhibit — and of other events planned for the historic anniversary — are aiming to be more representative and inclusive of people involved in and affected by the connection of the railroads at Promontory Summit in Utah.
Making sure the thousands of Chinese workers who were the majority of the Central Pacific's labor force are included in UMFA's exhibit presented a challenge, because photographing laborers was not part of Hart's assignment from the railroad.
The vast majority of the photos don't feature any people at all. In most of those that do — including some that are of Chinese workers — there's not enough detail to make anyone out.
Even Russell's famous "East and West Shaking Hands" photo — two trains almost nose-to-nose, with dozens of railroad employees, executives and other celebrators on or next to locomotives Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119 — has many blurry faces because they didn't hold still long enough for the photo to be exposed.
The "Race to Promontory" is being supplemented by several additional presentations, including a May visit by Chang. He's the author of the books "Chinese Railroad Workers" and "Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad," which will be published in May.
Others will focus on the contributions of American Indians and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"We felt at the UMFA that it was an opportunity to flesh out and tell these stories through our programming," said Leslie Anderson, UMFA's curator of European, American and regional art.
The exhibit puts the spikes at its center. The Golden Spike and the Nevada Spike are usually on display in Palo Alto, Calif., at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; the Arizona Spike has been on loan from the Museum of the City of New York to the Union Pacific Railroad Museum in Omaha, Neb., since 2003. No one knows what became of a fourth spike, made of a lower grade of gold, since the ceremony 150 years ago.
Visitors enter and begin "traveling loosely geographically along the same route that Andrew Joseph Russell followed when he was working for Union Pacific," Anderson said. Displays show his photographs and stereographs from eastern Wyoming to Promontory Summit.
Stereographs are a "very 19th-century way of making photos three-dimensional," as Anderson put it. Two very similar but slightly different photos are placed side by side and viewed through a stereoscope — sort of 19th-century 3D glasses, which are available at UMFA — making the image appear to jump out at the viewer.
The images are not reprints of original photos; they're the original photos created on site during railroad construction, using the early wet-plate or collodion process.
Then after a stop at the three spikes, the exhibit invites guests in the other direction, with Hart's photographs and stereographs that move west from Promontory Summit through Nevada and California.
There's an optional detour into an exhibit of 31 images by Utah photographer Charles Savage in the same era, drawn from the U.'s J. Willard Marriott Special Collections.
The Savage exhibit was not part of the exhibition when it debuted in Omaha in October, and it makes the experience uniquely Utah.
"It shows the power of these images as stereographs or larger-format prints or as illustrations and travel literature — how that would draw people to Salt Lake City and its environs," she said.
Chang applauded efforts being made by the curators of "The Race to Promontory" to try to rebalance the scales.
It's a marked contrast to the centennial celebration in 1969, which all but excluded any mention of the Chinese, said Michael Kwan, president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association. In 2002 and in 2014, New York City photographer Corky Lee enlisted scores of Chinese-Americans for a "flash mob" photo to match the famed locomotive shot — also known as the "champagne photo." In more recent years, the annual event has become a gathering point for celebrating Chinese-American heritage.
The roster of events — including lectures, exhibits, symphony and opera performances, train shows, galas and photo exhibits — will culminate with a May 10 re-enactment of the 1869 event that joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific at Promontory Summit, now the Golden Spike National Historic Site. The list of events includes several devoted to the contributions of the Chinese laborers, a change from the centennial's events.
"We're making up for it this year," said Kwan, a long-serving judge in the Taylorsville Justice Court whose maternal great-great-great-grandfather worked to construct the railroad. Kwan will be part of a panel at UMFA's "Railroad Stories" presentation on March 20.
Tickets • $17.95 adults; $14.95 seniors; $14.95 ages 6-18; free for children under 6, UMFA members, University of Utah students, faculty and staff, students at other Utah public universities, Utah Horizon/EBT cardholder, and active-duty members of the military.
• Free admission to the museum and $5 admission to "The Race to Promontory" exhibit on the first Wednesday and third Saturday of February, March, April and May.
• All other Wednesdays $5 admission after 5 p.m.
• "Discovering History Through a Photograph: One Picture, Eight People, and the Unexpected Stories of American Life," Saturday, Feb. 16, 11 a.m., Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium — Princeton historian Martha A. Sandweiss examines a single photograph made by Alexander Gardner during the Fort Laramie Treaty negotiations of 1868.
• "Third Saturday for Families: Drawing with Photographs," Saturday, Feb. 16, 1–4 p.m., Emma Eccles Jones Education Center Classroom — Imagine what photographers left out of the photos on display in "Race to Promontory" by drawing the rest of the story outside the frame.
• "Promontory Perspectives: A Faculty Conversation," Wednesday, March 6, 7 p.m., Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium — University of Utah faculty members will examine the significance of this historical event. The panel will include Paisley Rekdal, Utah poet laureate and professor of English; Gregory Smoak, director, American West Center, and associate professor of history; and Matthew Basso, associate professor of gender studies and history. A question-and-answer session will follow.
• "Railroad Stories: Community Voices and Regional Perspectives," Saturday, March 20, 6:30 p.m., Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium — The panelists include Katherine Kitterman, historical director, Better Days 2020; Darren Parry, chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation; Michael Kwan, president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association; and Fred E. Woods, professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.
• "Charles Savage: Pioneer(ing) Photographer," Wednesday, April 10, 7 p.m., Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium — Leslie Anderson, UMFA's curator of European, American and regional art, profiles Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909), who documented the construction of the Union Pacific line in Utah.
• "Working on the Railroad: Chinese Workers and America's First Transcontinental Line," Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m. — Drawing on years of research, Gordon Chang — the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities at Stanford University — presents the most documented account of this history.
For a list of events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, go to spike150.org.
Correction: 5 p.m. Feb. 3: This story has been corrected to reflect that the transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Summit.


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Widad Nabi (; * 1985 in Kobane) ist eine kurdisch-syrische Lyrikerin und Schriftstellerin, die in Berlin lebt.

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Widad Nabi studierte Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Aleppo und schloss das Studium mit einem Bachelor ab.

Ihre Gedichte schreibt sie auf arabisch. Texte von ihr wurden ins Französische, ins Englische und ins Deutsche übersetzt. In arabischer Sprache erschien 2013 in Aleppo ein Band, dessen Titel übersetzt Zeit fūr Liebe, Zeit fūr Krieg heißt. Im Jahr 2016 folgte ein weiteres Buch, dessen Titel übersetzt Syrien und die Sinnlosigkeit des Todes heißt. Es wurde in Beirut herausgegeben. In deutscher Sprache gedruckt wurden ihre Gedichte in den Anthologien Weg sein – Hier sein, die im Secession Verlag für Literatur erschienen sind, und Die Flügel meines schweren Herzens. Lyrik arabischer Dichterinnen vom 5. Jahrhundert bis heute, erschienen beim Manesse Verlag.

2019 erschien ihre Anthologie Kurz vor dreißig, küss mich als deutschsprachige Edition, 2020 erschien sie als zweisprachige Edition (Deutsch/Arabisch), jeweils im Sujet Verlag Bremen.

2017 trat Widad Nabi im Rahmen des Poesiefestivals Berlin mit einer Lesung auf dem Lyrikmarkt auf.

Weblinks
 Widad Nabi: Syrer in Deutschland: "Integration ist kein Kleidungsstück, das wir einfach überziehen". In: Spiegel Online, 9. September 2017.
 Kurdische Dichterin im Berliner Exil: "Ich baue mir hier ein Zuhause auf" Widad Nabi im Interview mit Sophie Schmalz, In: www.taz.de, 12. Januar 2019

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This paper examines the topic of distributive justice from the perspective of liberty. It expounds the relationship between liberty and justice, and on basis of that tries to identify the major theories of justice, from that of Rawls to that of Pettit, with different types of liberties. It argues that theories committed to negative and positive liberties, such as left-liberalism, libertarianism, or capability approach, are all found unsatisfying due to the different problems inherent in the two conceptions of liberty they are based on. It then goes on to suggest that, from the viewpoint of liberty at least, Pettit's republican theory of justice seems to be a better alternative, since the republican liberty can avoid all those problems when serving as a justificatory base for the theory.
HAN Rui received her MA in politics from University of Warwick (2004) and her PhD in political philosophy from University of Hong Kong (2010). Her research interests center on contemporary political philosophy, including such topics as distributive justice, liberalism, democracy, and Confucianism. She was a visiting assistant professor at the Philosophy Department and the Politics and Public Administration Department, University of Hong Kong, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. She is now an associate professor and Dean of the Department of Culture and Communication, Faculty of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Han's work has been published in such journals as Journal of East-West Thought, Review of New Political Economy (新政治經濟學評論), Open Times (開放時代). She has also written book chapters and translated books of philosophy from English to Chinese.
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February, 2001, Volume 8 Nr. 6, Issue 90
SEATTLE TO SWITZERLAND
PROTESTING IN THE NEW POLICE STATE
by JeanneE Hand-Boniakowski, RN
On January 20th, Jozef and I joined dozens of others on a midnight bus to Washington, DC. We converged with tens of thousands of others on the streets of the capitol to protest the coronation of George the 2nd, Duh-bya, the president-select.
The "inauguraction" exposed wider issues of the crackdown on democratic speech and actions since Seattle, both in the US and its allies in the (relatively) free world, both on the streets and on the airwaves. This includes official police policies during events, as well as policies and attitudes of corporationist media that lead to internalizing the values of the police state over those of democracy, and to self-censorship on the part of journalists who want to be players in the Washington press game.
The corporate media, in response to direct action by radical leftist activists, has been taking two tactics in the past year: ignoring us completely, or taking miles of footage by thousands of journalists and then, in the way they edit and use it, effectively ignoring us.
There is paradox that we carry pithy signs and chant short slogans in our attempt to speak out about issues that require analysis and context. These demonstrations and direct actions are just a piece of the work, and everyone out in the streets knows that. But they are reported by the big press as the main event, and belittled as the antics of bored and privileged college kids and a few graying hippies caught in a time warp.
The tactic of the Big Lie is simple: repeat it over and over until it becomes the conventional wisdom. The best propaganda is internalized, so that the target audience stops seeing it at all and it becomes part of the national myth. In order to streamline this process, omission is a key component. Contradictory information is ignored. When someone, through dramatic action or luck, manages to break the barrier of this silence, he/she is quickly marginalized, explained away with a chuckle as a kooky radical with no relation to the rest of us, regular Americans. Millions buy this notion without question, as if the mass of folks in our nation, struggling to pay the bills, have more in common with millionaire anchorclones.
Militaristic Police Forces:
Reneging on the Social Contract
From Seattle to Switzerland (where the recent meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos saw historic crackdown on dissent), an ominous new martial response is apparent in the ways that city and national police are greeting popular protest, both legal actions and non-violent civil disobedience. The turning point seems to be the November 30, 1999, mass protests of the WTO, although a closer look reveals that in recent years, unwatched by the major media, there has been a general, gradual erosion of civil rights and of citizen-police relations, evident in police reaction to environmental, anti-racism, anti-poverty and shelter rights activists. Of course, brutal and militaristic police tactics are not news to poor and minority folks, but there has been an expansion of martial attitudes that perceive citizens as enemies. Such local problems do not often receive national coverage.
The World Trade Organization is an international body. Seattle was ready to spend a great deal of money to welcome the WTO, to put the city on the map as a world-class city worthy of the presence of the world ruling class. Therefore the spectre of mass protests presented a dilemma to the city. The choices were made to respond with intimidation beforehand and excessive force later. Non-violent protesters doing civil disobedience by blocking intersections should have been simply arrested and carried away, but they were instead assaulted with tear gas, pepper spray, batons and rubber bullets. Such police action became so pervasive that some citizens uninvolved in protest were gassed and even beaten within their neighborhoods, by police.
Property and Image over People and Imagination: Modern TV "News"
Although even the corporate media covered the Battle in Seattle, they had inordinate emphasis on property damage, which was a very small part of the story. While Teamsters and Turtles marched together, while folks made passionate, informed and creative arguments about issues that affect everyone in the world, issues of labor and environmental justice, the television media (where most Americans get their news) focused on the handful of targeted acts of vandalism on transnational corporate criminals such as Old Navy and Starbucks.
In July of 2000, as we gathered before the march to protest GWBush and the Republican Convention, a television reporter interviewed me. Her question: Was I concerned about prospects of violence such as happened in Seattle? I asked her to clarify: what violence? Breaking windows at Starbucks. My answer was, "Breaking windows is vandalism. The real violence in Seattle was excessive use of force, beating and gassing and shooting peaceful protesters. If you are asking am I concerned about excessive force by police, yes. While targeted property damage is not a tactic I agree with, it is not violent bodily assault."
People, with the exception of the super-rich, are disposable items, an inexhaustible resource to be exploited. Property, real estate, image…these are of far more importance to the Big Market Monster. Thus the newsfood emphasis on property damage. This is ironic in the face of the much wider property damage caused by the corporations themselves. How do you calculate the environmental, social and economic damage of the coffee trade? Compare this to some folks in Seattle trashing a Starbucks, taking care not to injure staff or patrons and encouraging the café quaffers to visit the independent coffee shop across the street. Where are the calls to prosecute the directors of Starbucks for their complicity in a corrupt coffee industry? (On the up side, a campaign led by Global Exchange did convince Starbucks to offer Fair Trade coffee at their shops.)
Freezing Drizzle and Hot Emotions
I used to work in this block, 14th at Pennsylvania Ave, officially named "Freedom Plaza". The only thing that is left of the block is the place I worked a quarter century ago, the National Theater, though it has been completely swallowed, on all sides, by hotels and offices and shops, as one great ugly mass of 1980's utilitarian concrete architecture. All that remains the same is the façade of the National, looking tiny and out of proportion. Again, the notion of art is overwhelmed by the culture of the market.
Thousands gather here, most to protest, a few to support, and an army of police from all branches of city and federal authority. Here in the District of Columbia, where there is no congressional legislative representation, the voices of disenfranchised people ring out. And we are surrogates for those who could not be out here, including the people of color working a coffee stand inside the nearby Marriot, who say, "If I didn't have to work, I'd be out there with you."
Watching the Black Bloc, a chanting solid mass, keeping rhythm with their feet and many plastic bucket drums, I know that many folks - not here - are frightened by these strong children with masks. I find the masks symbolic. It is not a case of being afraid to show their faces, nor of being a flock of sheep. It may be homage to masked liberators of history, fiction and today, from Zorro to the EZLN. It may be a way to say "No!" to a silly media trick of focusing on a photogenic individual to diffuse the effect of the mass. Masks are a way to become anonymous en masse, a mass masque, where they may not be used or branded.
This is, as all movements for civil and human rights, the work of many individuals.
Celebrity, starmaking, is a function of the mythmakers, the ones who control so much of widely available information. As though M.L.King, Jr. was the top billing in a mini-series. The series would end with the August '63 "I Have a Dream" speech, ignoring the last 5 years of his life, and those inconvenient Black Panthers, and the too-complex-for-formula-dramatics Malcolm X. That's the way of the mass media; simple, unchallenging tales that give pseudo-excitement and vicarious experience, encouraging the watcher to feel like he was as noble as those who risked life and liberty in the pursuit of liberation. Leave him with a satisfied, wrapped up story, lest he look out his window and realize the real story, the struggle, is still on. As for the vague desire that remains, the sense that there is something missing, exploit it with stuff to buy.
That, after all, and not art or truth, is the purpose of the big media: the cultivation of consumers, not citizens. Of cynics, who wear an unthinking sarcasm, mistaking it for sophistication, but not skeptics, who may question and analyze the methods and predicates of big media itself. The media-made cynic thinks he is in on the joke. The media deconstructionist, the skeptic, knows that the silly cynic IS the joke.
One of the great annoyances our movement presents to the big media is this lack of celebrities. There are a few individuals who symbolize parts of the struggles, like Jose Bove and Mumia and Subcomandante Marcos and Nader. But this is a movement with no stars, no center, no hierarchy. As such it is flexible and organic. Since the institutions of domination are pyramids and ladders, it is hard for the voices of those institutions to tell stories of webs and circles. Our lives are not a series of simple stories, with a beginning, middle and end, although that is by far the favored narrative form of our culture.
Although there is an enormous amount of money spent on graphic design, and great creativity in making commercial culture, the work is performed within strict parameters. The creation of art for the purpose of selling artifacts no one needs by exploiting emotions everyone has is an ignoble profession. If one depends upon mass media for art, they will only encounter great art occasionally, and it will be secondary to the mission of the medium.
Impounding the Puppets, Intimidating the Protests
Art, like hope, springs eternal in the human. And some of the most moving, useful art comes from the Movement. This is why the police have cracked down on creative direct action and non-exploitive, non-commercial art in particular. In Philadelphia, before the Republican National Convention, and in Washington, before the WTO/IMF protests, police raided and evacuated places where people were planning actions, feeding activists, training in non-violence and making props. Puppets, those marvelous creations that stand high above the crowds, were confiscated, as were sign making materials, chili peppers and personal belongings including vital prescription medicines.
Another popular tactic is to make parts of public streets off-limits to the public, lest the invited power elite - Democrats, Republicans, "Free" Traders - see the disapproving rabble ("The peasants are so revolting, don't you agree?") or even be moved by their arguments ("Maybe we should rethink our Asian labor contracts and get an honest environmental policy…").
By the time of the G.W.Bush inauguration, this squashing of free speech and assembly had developed into a pre-emptive strike on civil rights. A fitting opening to the administration of the man who rode the horse Disenfranchisement into the White House. A lawsuit was filed days before the event because the police planned such neo-fascist things as "No Free Speech" zones. (One day before the event, a U.S.District Court struck down as unconstitutional a regulation that required permits for all speeches.) There were checkpoints, with bag search and body searches, established by the Secret Service and other police agencies, which anyone wanting to be next to Pennsylvania Avenue along the route of the official inaugural parade had to pass through; no other U.S. presidential inaugural has ever had such a thing. Puppets and stilt-walkers were prohibited. A legal counter-inauguration march was disrupted by police, who also beat demonstrators.
Since Seattle, heavy-handed, and often unconstitutional, tactics have increased. Preventive detention arrests, outlandish bail for non-violent activists (arrested in civil disobedience actions, or as suspected domestic terrorists – this is a scary word used for radical environmentalists), infiltration of organizing groups by undercover agents (spying), the chilling affect of checkpoints for bag and body searches, refusing (or delaying till the last minute) parade permits for protest marches, massive police presence with unprecedented military hardware are some of the ways that free speech is discouraged.
With puppets prohibited, many protesters became the puppets: costumed as polar bears and wearing caribou headdresses to bring attention to Bush's threats to the Alaska Wildlife Reserve; others, garbed like ancient imperial Romans, declared "Hail Emperor!" The simplest puppets, proliferated by imitation, were gloves held aloft on sticks, middle finger eloquently raised.
As for media coverage, many activists have stopped courting the national and local commercial organs. With the Internet and portable, affordable camcorders, cell phones and handheld two-way radios and a few notebook computers, protesters become the media, and the coverage is live around the world on the Web, as well as providing records later used in courts to prove illegal police actions. We have been filmed for decades by the FBI, Secret Service and local SWAT teams. It is nice to return the favor. (The presence of so many indy journalists has led to police officers sometimes illegally removing their identification badges; there are lots of photos on-line from April 16th of last year – WTO/IMF protests - with riot police who had removed badges.)
This is not a movement that will go away. No matter that the advertising culture tries to co-opt it, or that intimidation by the powerful keeps ratcheting up. No matter that pundits repeat the tired Thatcherism mantra of globalized exploitation, TINA ("there is no alternative"). This movement is a worldwide call to democracy and human rights, to save the sickened planet and those who cling to her surface, to dignity and interdependence. Perhaps never before have so many acknowledged the interconnectedness of so many injustices: prison, labor, environment, health, speech, gender, food, art… We are not against global analysis, not against global trade, as we have been accused; we are more likely to identify as global citizens than as nationalists, and we want to globalize justice.
© 2001 JeanneE Hand-Boniakowski, RN


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Huguely Trial Blog, Day Eleven: Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again
J. Tobias Beard
Image by Nick Strocchia.
At 6:30pm, after nine hours of deliberation, there was a verdict. Reporters ran outside and held up two fingers in a V.
"Verdict! We've got a verdict!"
The defendant's family filed in, foreheads daubed with ash, one young woman giving George a tiny wave. Judge Hogshire instructed the room that there would be no outbursts, and with barely a pause, announced that George Huguely had been found guilty of second degree murder and grand larceny.
It was over in about 20 seconds. Huguely's young cousins and sister cried silently, but Huguely himself sat still. The court moved quickly to the sentencing phase. The prosecution called Sharon and Lexie Love, the victim's mother and sister, back to the stand, and each one described how Yeardley Love's death had changed their lives. Huguely hung his head, eyes seemingly closed.
"Sometimes you think you can bear it … some days it's just unbearable. … Christmas is a nightmare. … Every year that goes by I'm afraid that I'm forgetting little pieces about her, which worries me. … There's a huge hole that will always be there and nothing can fill it. … The absolute worst thing in the world that could happen, happened."
The defense called no witnesses. Dave Chapman gave his closing statement. In 2008, Huguely was convicted for public drunkenness and resisting arrest, and afterwards, Chapman said, did nothing to change his behavior. In February of 2010, Love and Huguely fought and he tried to choke her, and again, nothing changed. Two months later, someone's little girl never woke up again.
Rhonda Quagliana stood and said that no person is the sum of their worst decisions. People deserve redemption. Nothing you decide, she reminded the jury, will bring Love back, but that does not diminish the impact it will have on George. She sat down, and the jury left. Huguely never looked up, not once. By the end he was crying. His mom sat in the front row next to his sister. There was no sign of his father.
The jury retired at 7:55pm to decide on a sentence. Some time around 9pm it began to rain, on the podium set up on the steps of the courthouse, and on the phalanx of cameras facing it. Pizza arrived for the jury, and then the delivery guy came back and began hawking pizzas to the reporters huddled on the porch reading a statement from the Love family into their phones.
At 9:55 the bell rang. Huguely stood up when the jury walked in and fidgeted with his jacket button. There was no preamble. For the charge of second degree murder the defendant is sentenced to 25 years in prison. For the charge of grand larceny the defendant is sentenced to one year in prison. There is no parole. Huguley's head stayed down.
Was he doing the math? I'm 24. Twenty-four plus 25 equals 49. If the charges are consecutive, that makes 50. I will be 50 years old when I get out of prison. Fifty isn't that old. Fifty isn't dead.
But when you're 24, 50 might as well be dead. Fifty is a number that belongs to someone else.
The jury left and Huguely remained sitting with his head down. He looked like he was slowly collapsing into himself. He looked over at his family. His father wasn't there. He looked down, then back at his family. A sheriff's deputy touched his shoulder and he stood up, turned to his left, was led towards the far door. And when the door closed behind him there was a loud BANG that hung for a second or two in the large, brightly lit courtroom and then faded away.
Look for a final commentary on the entire Huguely Trial in Tuesday's edition of C-VILLE.
Read the Huguely Trial Blog from the beginning here.
Read J. Tobias Beard's recap of the legal arguments here.
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For the Clan OmniMech that was designated the Gladiator by the Inner Sphere, please see Executioner.
The first homegrown BattleMech produced by the Draconis Combine was the Gladiator. The 55-ton 'Mech took seven years to design, as Coordinator Kozo Von Rohrs refused to open up the process to anybody but a select group at New Samarkand Armor Works (the predecessor of Luthien Armor Works) who were under constant surveillance by DEST. 2468 finally saw the GLD-1R Gladiator hit mass-production. Following the Battle of Nox in 2475, the dishonored 'Mech was retired from official production, with NSAW closing down the production lines by 2488.
Merryweather Industries was the first private company to attempt BattleMech production without governmental support. Despite their location in the Terran Hegemony, they acquired the plans to the Gladiator and produced a new run in 2490. They were unable to raise the capital to finish their second run, the 4R, and nearly went bankrupt before moving into IndustrialMechs. The GLD-4R production lines were closed down in 2495.
The 55-ton Gladiator has a top speed of 86 km/h, comparable to many other 'Mechs of the same weight. Nine and a half tons of armor provides a respectable amount of protection. Five jump jets enables the 'Mech to jump up to 150 meters at a time.
A Lord's Light P1 PPC provides long range firepower. Two Argra 1L Medium Lasers is just as powerful up close and adds a Thunderstroke SRM-6 to exploit any holes in an enemy's armor.
The Gladiator (specifically the GLD-3R variant) was featured in Issue 0201 of BattleTechnology. In the article by Dale A. Kemper, additional details are described regarding Merryweather Industries' ill-fated production run of the GLD-3R Gladiator.
As presented in BattleTechnology, the GLD-3R Gladiator mounts a pair of DLC-10 shoulder-mounted LRM-10 launchers, backed up by a single Duodyne Mark II Medium Laser in each arm. A Fujika Multiband communication system and General Systems AV-12 targeting package is used. The GLD-3R is mentioned as using GE-2200 jumpjets, which are noted as allowing for altitude variation during during movement. The top speed and cruising speed is listed as 58.1kph and 84.2kph, slower than what its engine should theoretically provide. Compared to the GLD-3R presented in later sources, the one described in BattleTechnology has one fewer jump jet and mounts an extra half-ton of armor.
No mention is made of the earlier GLD-1R, GLD-2R, or Merryweather's second Gladiator run (the GLD-4R). The artwork presented for the Gladiator is completely different from the art presented for the GLD-4R Gladiator in Technical Readout: 3075. It is unclear whether the artwork presented is meant to be of an original Gladiator, or one of the many "hybrid" Gladiators mentioned by the article author.
A Draconis Combine Gladiator of the Star League era.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Technical Readout: 3075, pp. 206-207, "Gladiator 'Mech Profile"
↑ Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 4, "State of the Industry at a Glance (Dec 3079)"
↑ Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 34, "Sword of the Prophet Enterprises"
This page was last edited on 4 June 2018, at 19:42.


Check under the cushions of your couch and in your car floor then ask yourself "How much can I pawn this stuff for?"
If you don't need it Pawn it buy the amp and bring it home when the new amp is broken in....and introduce them to each other!
I can always depend on you James!!!!
Yea, pawn shops charge 265% interest.
Bring me the Lightstar. I'll give you whatever at only 200% as I believe you are an honest guy.
kingman wrote: I can always depend on you James!!!!
.. but it was only $50.
He could hollow it out, stick in a Bose amp and most of us would be impressed with his system.
OconeeOrange wrote: .. but it was only $50.
That is the Bob father your talking about here!


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Saboteurs in the U.S. intelligence community posing as patriots have been working hard to drive President Donald Trump from the White House.
Former National Security Agency intelligence analyst and former War College professor John R. Schindler bragged on Twitter last week about the spy-led plot his friends are conducting against the president.
In a column Feb. 12, Schindler cited wild, unproven, conspiratorial theories about Trump's ties to Russia to justify his comrades' seditious push to remove Trump from power.
[T]he still-forming Trump administration is already doing serious harm to America's longstanding global intelligence partnerships. In particular, fears that the White House is too friendly to Moscow are causing close allies to curtail some of their espionage relationships with Washington—a development with grave implications for international security, particularly in the all-important realm of counterterrorism.
People like Schindler think they know what's best for America in terms of national security and foreign policy. Allowing an outsider like Donald Trump to do the job Americans elected him to do is unthinkable to them. So Trump must go.
People of Schindler's ilk are using government resources in an effort to overthrow the nation's duly elected government. While smiling on TV and assuring the public his administration was fully cooperating with the Trump transition team, President Obama gave members of the intelligence community permission to wage war against then-incoming President Trump.
Before leaving office President Obama cleared the way for his confederates in the intel world to ramp up their use of dirty tricks to kick the legs out from under the incoming Trump administration by changing intelligence-sharing rules. The goal is to prevent Trump from rolling back Obama's poisonous legacy.
The most famous victim so far of what could be called Obama's shadow government is National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, an anti-Islamofascist hardliner who was forced out of his post Feb. 13 by what appears to be a deep state cabal centered around the sleazy former Obama advisor Ben Rhodes. As Flynn's replacement, Trump has appointed "warrior-scholar" U.S. Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.
Rhodes and other former Obama administration officials were part of an intrigue that led to the downfall of Flynn, investigative journalist Adam Kredo reported at the Washington Free Beacon.
Kredo isn't the only one crying foul.
"You're seeing a guy that is key in the Trump administration being targeted, and they have used the tools that they have available to them to bring this guy down," Boykin said.
Leaks of Trump's telephone conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia have found their way into the media ecosystem. One gossipy news website published the ridiculous, unverified "golden showers" dossier that claims Trump is a urophiliac, of all things, who hired prostitutes in Moscow to inundate his hotel bed. There is also the wholly unsupported blanket claim that Russia somehow "hacked" the election, interfering to help Trump, along with the more specific but unproven assertion that Russia hacked documents from Hillary Clinton's campaign and gave them to WikiLeaks.
In addition to leaking, U.S. intelligence operatives have been engaging in a gross, seditious form of insubordination that may be endangering national security. These people have been withholding sensitive intelligence from the president because they claim to be worried the data could be leaked or compromised if it reaches the White House, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.
Why they think they are allowed to withhold such information from their ultimate overseer, the democratically elected official whom Article II, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution empowers to protect the nation as "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," is unclear.
But these "spooks" who operate in the shadows don't have to bother with excuses because they are unaccountable. They defy our new president's directives and make public whatever policy they disagree with in hopes of undermining it. They are the "deep state," which, according to one website, is "a body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy." The deep state doesn't give up its power when a president leaves office. It stays behind to clandestinely exert its dark influence regardless of which party controls the White House.
These deep-state dwellers leapt into action in the final weeks of Obama's presidency.
As the clock ticked, Obama green-lighted a disturbing relaxation of the rules regulating the National Security Agency's ability to circulate globally intercepted personal communications among the other 16 intelligence agencies, some of which are more politicized than the NSA, before applying important longstanding privacy-protection protocols. Before the policy was altered, the NSA screened out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant personal information before passing intercepted communications along to other agencies like the CIA or the FBI's intelligence units.
"Now intelligence agencies can search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the NSA and then apply such rules as required for minimizing privacy intrusions," Harry G. Hutchison writes at the American Center for Law and Justice website.
Whatever investigation of Flynn took place was tainted from the start: U.S. intelligence operatives appear to have spied on him without any reasonable justification. There was no reason for the FBI to carry out the grilling Flynn reportedly received because it already possessed the intercepted alleged communication. "There appears to have been no foreign-intelligence or criminal-investigative purpose served by the FBI's interrogation of General Flynn," former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy writes.
It's not as if we know what actually happened with Flynn and the Russian or Russians at this point, or if there really was any contact at all. News reports have not quoted any on-the-record sources so it is entirely possible the allegations against Flynn were conjured out of thin air by Obama holdovers determined to undermine the Trump administration.
This is the form that what Michael Walsh calls "a rolling coup attempt" against the Trump administration has taken.
Faceless operatives whose highest loyalty is to their jobs and their twisted realpolitik ideology don't care what American voters think.
This, too, is part of the Obama legacy.


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One Of Your Own
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Aug 20, 2019 17:38:10 GMT jno, daz, and 1 more like this
Post by denzel on Aug 20, 2019 17:38:10 GMT
Another fine episode, not classic Terry years at it's best, but still a bit of a classic nonetheless. Will be remembered mostly for the song featured in it, but also for a few other things, at least for me:
Tony Hoare wrote this. He's done some great episodes throughout Minder's run, to be sure.
Mike Holoway has one of those familiar boats. Off the top of my head, only other place I can recall seeing him was in a show called Pauline's Quirkes, as himself. He has that pop star look to him, so darn well cast in this episode.
Ok, so the white whistle happened to have been years before Smooth Criminal/Moonwalker hit. But come on..."oooow"! Who else thought this might have been channeling/responding to Michael Jackson?
Nice intro to Mellish, who does well here...and Tony Hoare seems to have contrived the naming of him for Rycott's line...this is not exactly the sort of investigation I relish, Mellish.
Hilarious moment when Arthur hurts his hand, and yells, ooooh..to which Terry, perhaps not noticing, replies that the tune is catchy, innit.
Liked how Arthur hides his face from the returning punter at the lot, and a great moment with Rycott, when Daley walks past him...and gets him wondering if it could possibly have been him.
An oddity in this episode, with Arthur calling Sharon, "Share-on". Not sure if this is a legit pronunciation, or another of Daley's dodgy ones, but he does call the other Sharon the same, in Monday Night Fever.
Nobody's perfect, and Hoare's writing in this is poor in parts..particularly, the girlfriend's explanation on how they took advantage of finding what seems to be an exact clone of Zac, not to mention how they thought they'd get away with it, i.e that the actual fellow wouldn't be identified as someone other than Zac..sorry, but simply not believable at all...though that is only an issue if you've actually thought about it.
Great stuff with the "artistes" at the studio...love the first one, "Clarence", and his bizarre English diction..sounds like he's using more posh diction than that posh version of The Firm's Daley tune!
Nothing wrong with Mel Smith's performance at all. Actually, I'd half expected to hear complaints about it, like how people didn't buy Rene from Allo Allo as a fat hard man. But Mel's menacing manner probably made the difference.
And I'd have to say, a somewhat poor ending, to a somewhat different episode than usual..bizarre in places.
Some people notice cars, but I tend to notice the geekier things; there's an Atari 2600 box sitting in Daley's lockup.
Nov 20, 2017 1:47:14 GMT pr1 said:
Yeah, I believe it's "gone", as said earlier. Arthur says gorn from time to time..one instance is in Poetic Justice Innit..it's gorn, it's all gorn!
Alternatively: the Gorn is the creature Captain Kirk famously fought..but that's neither here nor there..
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Oct 13, 2019 14:15:26 GMT jno, denzel, and 1 more like this
Just watching ep3 of 'Widows'.
A girl is auditioning for a job in a strip joint and I'm sure that the track she's strutting her stuff to is Zack's big hit.
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Mar 13, 2020 8:30:41 GMT jno, barrythebook, and 1 more like this
Post by logie on Mar 13, 2020 8:30:41 GMT
Enjoyed this, better than I remembered. S4 started well, for me, with the first 2 episodes, but then plateaued out a bit until this one. Tony Hoare does seem to be the most consistent writer overall. I always forget just how good an actor Mel Smith was, until I watch him in something. Another strong performance here from him and a decent debut from Mellish (I elaborate on this in the Chisholm & Jones thread).
"Maybe we should sing a hymn; keep our spirits up"
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4.7 A Star Is Gorn May 17, 2020 20:42:19 GMT via mobile jjmolloy likes this
Post by nationalpelmet on May 17, 2020 20:42:19 GMT
Poor old Arthur needs help to get off the low sofa at the record company office. Good job Terry is there again !!
4.7 A Star Is Gorn May 30, 2020 14:20:35 GMT jno, barrythebook, and 2 more like this
Post by steve74 on May 30, 2020 14:20:35 GMT
A nice little episode with a good turn by Mel Smith as Cyril Ash. It all revolves around a missing master tape that has come into Arthur's possession which could prove to be a nice little earner (until he ends up demagnetising it). Arthur has some great lines in this episode. I love his outrage when he thinks he has been lumbered with "500 copies of some unknown gurgling degenerate". I like Mel Smith's performance as Zac's manager and his business arrangement for Arthur "You give me the tape or I'll smash your kneecaps". - "Very reasonable, very reasonable indeed" haha love it. Just a quick mention for one of my favourite Rycott lines "This is not the sort of investigation I relish, Melish" - great delivery. 4 out of 5.
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Jun 29, 2020 4:08:56 GMT via mobile jno and barrythebook like this
Post by pr1 on Jun 29, 2020 4:08:56 GMT
I still like Arthur's contempt for pop music until he thinks he can make money from it and I like all the name mangling he does in the episode.
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Jul 28, 2020 15:12:29 GMT nickeccles, jjmolloy, and 1 more like this
Post by c79 on Jul 28, 2020 15:12:29 GMT
When Arthur corrects Terry's "That's the difference between you and me.." to "..between you and I, Terence..", Arthur is grammatically wrong and Terry is correct. Maybe Tony Hoare threw in a little joke for the grammarians! (Taken me until now to spot it, mind!)
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Jul 28, 2020 16:19:24 GMT via mobile jjmolloy, lecoyote, and 1 more like this
Post by pr1 on Jul 28, 2020 16:19:24 GMT
Jul 28, 2020 15:12:29 GMT c79 said:
I think it was an intentional joke because Arthur has previously been shown to mangle the English language and rules of basic grammar at times.
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4.7 A Star Is Gorn Jul 28, 2020 22:11:19 GMT barrythebook likes this
Post by lecoyote on Jul 28, 2020 22:11:19 GMT
Enjoyed this more today than I have in the past, Mel Smith in particular was excellent. Nice debut from Mellish as well.
In case anyone doesn't know, as well as being a comedian and actor, MS was also a very accomplished film director and noted bon viveur. Dropped dead at 60 but packed a lot of life into his years
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Aug 12, 2020 11:38:05 GMT nickeccles and pr1 like this
Post by c79 on Aug 12, 2020 11:38:05 GMT
Jul 28, 2020 16:19:24 GMT pr1 said:
Yes I think you're right pr1.
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4.7 A Star Is Gorn Sept 28, 2020 22:37:32 GMT jno, denzel, and 3 more like this
Post by nickeccles on Sept 28, 2020 22:37:32 GMT
I love the ever so 80's 'Promo Video' of Zolar in the ubiquitous derelict warehouse donning a stupid hat & outrageous costume coupled with the usual video effects of that time! For me, another great episode with Mel Smith & the rest of em - it definitely transports me back to a more innocent time in my life! Minder was always & still is my favourite television program of all time While GC & DW are both true heroes of mine that I always enjoyed watching over the years! I've carried in my head so many of the one liners & used em to death! I still do to this day..............
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4.7 A Star Is Gorn Oct 2, 2020 17:54:26 GMT jno and twin2 like this
Post by joshmel on Oct 2, 2020 17:54:26 GMT
I recognised the street Mel smith drives down straight away. I stayed in a hotel called the pembrigde palace hotel a few years ago on the same street . Love that little pocket of London in Bayswater. Prince Edward pub to the top end.
arthurdaley
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Dec 27, 2020 11:14:36 GMT
Post by arthurdaley on Dec 27, 2020 11:14:36 GMT
Is that George Cole's Winnebago?
Around the 16 minute mark, Arthur leaves the Barbers with Billy. When they cross the road to Arthur's Jag, the front end of a Winnebago can clearly be seen in the background(not the white camper van). I fancy it was used as Arthur's dressing room for the scenes both inside and outside of the B arbers.
4.7 A Star Is Gorn Jan 4, 2021 18:45:16 GMT via mobile
Post by daz on Jan 4, 2021 18:45:16 GMT
Watched this one today, very enjoyable.
Love Mel Smith in this, but overall the plot is a little weak to give it full marks.


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How to get your kid to eat organ meats!
I'm here to tell you exactly how to get your kid to eat organ meats.
Why would anyone want to eat organ meats in the first place – beef liver, heart, and kidney, to be specific?
They're astronomically higher in nutrients critical for healthy development compared to standard fare like ground beef and chicken breast, which basically have protein, some B vitamins, and a few minerals.
They've got unique and varied mixes of amino acids (which comprise dietary proteins as we generally think of them) that provide building blocks to our bodily tissues. We need varied levels of different amino acids in our diet.
NOTE that nutrient assays are dependent on sample, which can vary based on what an animal ate in its daily life – take these with a grain of salt and know they can vary.
1 oz beef liver has 178% of the daily value for vitamin A, a widely misunderstood nutrient that is critical for the function of the immune system. Ground beef has 0% of the DV for vitamin A.
1 oz beef liver has 18% of the DV for folate. 1 oz spinach has 14%. Ground beef has 1%.
1 oz beef liver has 329% of the DV for B12. Beef heart has 50%. Ground beef has 13%.
1 oz beef liver has 119mg choline. Beef heart has 64mg. Beef kidney has a whopping 144mg. Ground beef has a paltry 25mg. Choline is vital for brain development (and can substitute for folate for those with MTHFR).
Beef heart has five times more CoQ10 than regular beef, and eight times more than chicken. Check out this entry on CoQ10 (includes source material), as well as an entry I wrote here.
1 oz beef kidney has a whopping 67% of the DV for selenium, compared to 9% in ground beef.
On top of their amazing nutritional value, eating organ meats also means we show some real gratitude for the animals that become our dinner by eating nose-to-tail.
So how do you get your kids to eat organ meats?
Many of us adults are simply lost causes, and the best we can do is gag 'em down while focusing on the health benefits. Even if the flavor isn't all that different, we've probably got some serious emotional baggage around them. But kids don't have that baggage, so the earlier you start them, the better.
I found that lots of "mmmm, yummy in my tummy!" – type fanfare totally gave my toddler the impression that I was trying to sneak something by her. If she picked up on that, big kids will definitely pick up on it. Just serve it up like it's any other meal.
Remember that sometimes kids need a few "exposures" to something new before they really go for it.
And when they don't want it, be cool about that too. Nobody wants to try something a second time when their first experience was nothing but coercion and pushiness.
3. Make it tasty – or better yet, let someone else make it tasty.
I've made organ meatballs in the past, but finding the time and the motivation is tough. My absolute favorite options – true lifesavers and a HUGE hit in my private parenthood group – are the fully cooked liverwurst, braunschweiger, and head cheese (not actually cheese) from US Wellness Meats. <<discount code at the end of this post!
Head cheese is the mildest and contains a blend of beef, beef liver, beef tongue, and spices.
Braunschweiger is next and contains a blend of beef, beef liver and spices.
Liverwurst is the strongest in flavor (but still isn't too bad) and contains a blend of beef, beef liver, beef heart and beef kidney.
I truly truly TRULY can't sing the praises of these products enough. The fact that they're fully cooked, pre-made, and can be re-frozen is HUGE for busy parents who aren't the best at preparing these sometimes confusing meats.
They're basically a fine-grind, precooked meat loaf, packaged in a convenient cylinder. And they're affordable on a per-serving basis: one cylinder can stretch at least 15-20 servings for a toddler.
We defrost a cylinder (usually liverwurst, sometimes braunschweiger) just to the point where we can cut it in half.
We keep one half in the fridge to use within a week, and we refreeze the other half.
To prepare, we slice off pieces (much like the ones pictured) and fry them lightly in butter to add flavor.
We watch our kiddo devour them (and we do our best to devour them, too)!
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Also, this offer extends to ALL products, not just my favorite organ meats. Try their precooked shredded beef, broths, and snacks!
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My daughter is all grown up now and lives away from home. But I wish I had access to information like this when she was younger.
You talk a lot about beef here but I would suggest for those who aren't keen on offal they opt for lambs and chicken liver as they don't have such a strong flavor. One of the things I love to make is lambs liver and onions, also use chicken livers to make my own pate.
I don't disagree with that! I wish that USWM still made its chicken braunschweiger but it seems to be discontinued. For me, I'll make chicken liver when I have the motivation and opportunity, but these products are amazing when you don't have the foresight to make something yourself.
Liz, how young is too young for liverwurst, etc.?My daughter is almost 8 months and eats fruits, veg, egg yolk, & is breastfed. Can I start her on these meats? I'm worried about the salt content. Also, It doesn't need to be cooked, right?
I personally don't think that's too young. They're really not overly salty like cured meats! And it's already cooked. But if you're concerned, I'd just saute some chicken livers and puree them. When cooled, they're a great texture for baby to grab and eat!
If it makes you feel any better, I actually got way sick the first time I ate liver, too! I don't know why, but it never happened again. I don't know if it was just too powerful for my body or what. Weird. I have to say, the liver "pills" are harder for me to stomach than actual liver, and they're the only stuff that might be comparable. The liverwurst has a strong flavor, so it might put you off. I would try chicken liver, sauteed lightly, just a little maybe as a pate and work your way up. Chicken liver is by far the most mild. I think there's definitely a psychological component for me.
I like to thaw slightly then slice into small chunks and re-freeze. Take out a few and eat while still frozen…the taste isn't as strong. But probably NOT a good idea for little ones.
I had to laugh when I saw this…I'm eating chicken livers as I write this (and it's 9:30 in the morning!) I do take the time to cook chicken livers from time to time. With bacon and plenty of salt and pepper they are actually pretty tasty. I've been taking the Vital Proteins Beef Liver Capsules for some time now (I've written some blog posts about them too) but now I'm thinking I need to get my hands on this liverwurst. Not for a toddler…for me! I can honestly say that I have WAY more energy and vitality when I am eating organ meats regularly. It's for real. I'm 50 and have crazy energy. Totally attribute it to what I put into my body. Thanks for the great tips Liz!
Girl, this is the second time I've used your discount code, third time I've ordered these goodies from USM, and my kiddo LOVES them all! 15 months old and loves the meat warmed up in some butter, he has one of the three at least 6 days out of 7.. and sometimes I get real brave and have some too! The head cheese is of course, my fave. Much love, and thanks for everything lady!
Thank YOU for this feedback!
Thank you so much for this post. I've ordered these products previously and they were too spongy for me (they're already cooked,) BUT, I did not think of sautéing them. When sautéed in ghee, I got my 12 year old to eat the headcheese, although I called it salami (and I had to cut "headcheese" off the label)!! Delicious!!


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Loricariichthys (Lat.: "lorica" = Brustharnisch + Gr.: "ichthys" = Fisch; Syn.: Parahemiodon, Bleeker, 1862) ist eine Gattung aus der Wels-Familie der Harnischwelse (Loricariidae) und der Unterfamilie Loricariinae. Es handelt sich um 18 Arten, die im nördlichen, westlichen und mittleren Südamerika von Guayana, Suriname und Peru bis Paraguay und Uruguay verbreitet sind.

Merkmale
Loricariichthys-Arten sind teilweise relativ große, schlanke und sehr langgestreckte Fische, die Körperlängen von 11 bis 46 cm erreichen. Ihr Bauch wird durch relativ große, vorspringende Knochenplatten geschützt. Charakteristisch für die Gattung sind die kleinen, teilweise nur noch rudimentären Zähne in beiden Kiefern und ein zur Laichzeit ausgeprägter Geschlechtsdimorphismus in der Ausbildung der Unterlippe, die bei Männchen sehr groß und mit wenigen Papillen gleicher Größe besetzt ist, während die Weibchen eine kleinere Unterlippe besitzen, deren Papillen zahlreicher sind und die nach außen hin größer werden. Kopf und Rücken der Fische sind ohne Borsten.

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Bis heute wurden 18 gültige Arten beschrieben:

 Loricariichthys acutus (Valenciennes, 1840)
 Loricariichthys anus (Valenciennes, 1835)
 Loricariichthys brunneus (Hancock, 1828)
 Loricariichthys cashibo (Eigenmann & Allen, 1942)
 Loricariichthys castaneus (Castelnau, 1855)
 Loricariichthys chanjoo (Fowler, 1940)
 Loricariichthys derbyi Fowler, 1915
 Loricariichthys edentatus Reis & Pereira, 2000
 Loricariichthys hauxwelli Fowler, 1915
 Loricariichthys labialis (Boulenger, 1895)
 Loricariichthys maculatus (Bloch, 1794), (Typusart)
 Loricariichthys melanocheilus Reis & Pereira, 2000
 Loricariichthys microdon (Eigenmann, 1909)
 Loricariichthys nudirostris (Kner, 1853)
 Loricariichthys platymetopon Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1979
 Loricariichthys rostratus Reis & Pereira, 2000
 Loricariichthys stuebelii (Steindachner, 1882)
 Loricariichthys ucayalensis Regan, 1913

Literatur
 Hans-Jochim Franke: Handbuch der Welskunde. Urania-Verlag, 1985.
 Günther Sterba: Süsswasserfische der Welt. 2. Auflage. Urania, Leipzig/Jena/Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4.

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A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: REAL ID is about grabbing, storing information in national data bases
By Debi DeSilver Managing Editor on Monday, June 24, 2019
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE:
About seven years ago, Ancestory.com - the popular for-profit genealogy research website - launched a new DNA testing service.
Supposedly, it was innocent enough.
It's "an entirely new way to make amazing discoveries about their family history," said Tim Sullivan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry.com.
"Amazing"ly enough, in 2018, the newspaper USA Today reported that experts confirmed DNA in these genealogy databases can be accessed by law enforcement and third party companies under certain circumstances.
Wow! [tongue in cheek] Who saw that coming?
What's this got to do with REAL ID? My line of thinking goes something along the lines of citizens voluntarily turning over private information which is stored in databases and accessible by "authorities."
Also, back to the DNA sample example, a few months later in 2018, another newspaper posted on their online site "HuffPost" another genetic research company - 23andme that also encourages people to voluntarily send in spit to learn more about ancestry - teamed with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
Wow! [tongue in cheek] That's interesting! Who would have thought that would have ever happened?
And, there's always the spin to sell the new collecting of private information as a service provided or for our own good.
However, in the case of the REAL ID Act, it's not exactly voluntary. There are consequences attached if I decide I don't want a compliant driver's license.
Yes, for now anyway, Oklahoma will allow individuals to choose between a REAL ID driver license/ID card and a non-compliant driver license/ID card.
I could present alternative forms of identification, such as a passport (which requires a lot of personal documents, also), said the Oklahoma Department of Safety website. Some form of ID must be presented that is accepted by TSA, a federal agency.
CHANGES AFTER 9/11
I well remember the surreal day of Sept. 11, 2001. My late husband and I lived in Texas not far from military bases and a large airport in San Antonio. Standing outside in our yard, I remember how quiet it was with no airplanes in the sky. We looked at each other and both agreed that the world, and life as we knew it, would never be the same again.
And, it hasn't been.
Yes, I appreciate our government's effort to keep us safe in our own country. However, I still mourn the loss of what was my once perceived privacy of personal information.
I say perceived because my 26-year-old son reminds me constantly that I never really had any privacy anyway.
He was the one who talked me into finally getting a smart phone several years ago. When I balked at entering information, he said, "Don't worry. Enter it. Everyone already has it anyway."
My sons were seven and nine in 2001. They don't spend too much time thinking about information privacy. Somehow, I think that was the plan.
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Changes are coming to MN Adult and Teen Challenge's Northland campus. The nonprofit has purchased the building located next to their current facility on East 2nd St.
The building, which is a former apartment complex, is being renovated and will be made, partly, into rooms for current and future clients. Center Director Brandon Torgerson says the addition will allow the campus to increase their bed size from 54 to 62.
"It'll be dorm-style living," Torgerson says.
The nonprofit has a new building in Duluth that will be used for dorms for clients. Also, representatives will be at the Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel & RV Show to show what they have to offer.
Lower level rooms will be converted into offices.
Representatives from the organization will once again be at the Duluth Boat, Sports, Travel & RV Show. Those who stop by their booth will be able to see the different recovery programs they have to offer. Attendees will also have the chance to enter into a raffle for a painting made by local artist Stuart Nelson.
The painting depicts a pair of sun fish looking at a fishing line that has an antique bobber, hook and worm attached.
"These two guys (fish) are sizing each other up," Nelson says. "They're both moving towards the worm and usually the one that makes the first move doesn't get it."
Proceeds from the raffle will go toward the nonprofit.


…how would you be? …what would you do?
I had recently been contemplating the message of Trust and Letting things be, when i had the good fortune to visit Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. It is a beautiful park with tree lined avenues, manicured lawns and riots of colour in its flower beds.
In our modern day society's race to be, do and have more, we have constantly moved forward the boundaries of success. Not surprisingly, we have also falsely learnt to equate success with happiness.


Singapore is about to record a huge achievement in Crypto regulation after the Payment Services Bill was taken to parliament. Mr. Ong Ye Kung tabled the new Bill in parliament on behalf of the Minister-in-charge of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam. Among other things, the bill proposes to give MAS the powers to regulate various types of payments in the country, Cryptocurrency included.
Cryptocurrency exchanges in Singapore will soon be regulated like the other payments services if the parliament approves a new Payment System Bill. Mr. Ong Ye Kung has already forwarded the bill to the parliament for first reading on behalf of Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam. The latter is the country's Deputy Prime Minister and the minister-in-charge of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Under the new bill, MAS will be given the role of regulating the seven types of payments already available in the country including Cryptocurrency exchanges. The bill is expected to a larger extent affect technology and cybersecurity risks, limitations of operability and loss of consumer funds through insolvency. The new bill will also touch on money-laundering and terrorism financing ("ML/TF").
MAS will have new roles if the parliament approves the proposed bill. The agency will now be given the responsibility of designating important payment services. It will also be given the role of regulating operators.
To regulate the payment system services in Singapore, the new bill proposes to bring the various services under MAS. These payment services include money-changing, digital payment token, merchant acquisition, cross-border money transfer, domestic money transfer, and account issuance services.
The "digital payment token service" is a special section on the bill that is dedicated to virtual currencies and digital tokens. It is expected that Crypto firms will be referring to this section when providing payment services in the country. This section, according to the proposed bill is designed for those purchasing and selling Cryptocurrencies or those offering a platform that lets the people exchange the Cryptocurrencies in the country.
Under the proposed Payment Services Bill, there will be three classes of licenses for those operating in the sector. However, any service provider will only hold one license at any point in time. Businesses will have the opportunity to apply to be a major payment institution, standard payment institution, or money-changing licensee. The bill gives MAS the role of checking ML/TF risks.
The Bill will also require businesses to meet certain conditions before being licensed. Apart from those applying for a money-changing license, the other two applicants must have at least one Singaporean executive director. Such applicants must also have a registered office in the country and must be a company.
The proposed bill will also see the service providers offer more security to their consumers and merchants. To ensure that consumers and investors don't lose their money in case of insolvency, the law recommends that major payment institutions should either deposit funds in a trust account, get a guarantee by any Singapore-based bank, or the company be liable in case of any losses. The Bill gives MAS the powers to investigate and inspect these companies.


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Question: How Does Montessori Help A Child?
Why is Montessori school so expensive?
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Is Montessori good for gifted?
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It can be expensive "The acquisition of so many durable and high-quality learning materials, as well as the lengthy and in-depth training in the use of such items for young children is an expensive undertaking," Ricks says.
"Which is why most fully implemented Montessori programs are expensive.".
Montessori education offers something for every type of student. The slow learner is not pushed, the average student is challenged, and the child of exceptional abilities is allowed to move at his own speed. Competition is at a minimum and learning is made more enjoyable.
If that's the definition of discipline, as Montessorians we want nothing to do with it! Our goal, in Montessori, is not obedience but self-discipline. That's why we do not use time out chairs, color-coded behavior charts, demerits, treasure chests, or other rewards and punishments to control our students' behaviors.
Montessori identified eleven different sensitive periods occurring from birth through the age of six: order, movement, small objects, grace and courtesy, refinement of the senses, writing, reading, language, spatial relationships, music, and mathematics.
Disadvantages Of Montessori EducationIndependence Can Be A Bad Thing. While the students have independence to learn how they like, the fact is that this independence is not always a good thing long-term. … It's More Expensive Than Regular Schools. … The Curriculum Is Loose, And The Classroom Structure Can Be Intimidating.
Kids with special needs, such as learning or physical disabilities, often thrive in a Montessori setting. 3 Materials used in Montessori settings engage all the senses. Students are free to move about the classroom, which is an advantage for those children who require a lot of physical activity.
Montessori teachers provide the environment, the inspiration, the guidance and the encouragement for children to educate themselves.
Montessori preschools focus on child-centered learning. … By emphasizing the development of the child's intellectual, physical, moral, social and emotional development, Montessori schools help children become independent thinkers with a lifelong love of learning.
The primary disadvantage of the Montessori Method is that it really is more than just an educational emphasis. It is a lifestyle emphasis. Embracing this method, from a family perspective, means making numerous changes to the home environment.
Montessori is the ideal learning environment for gifted children. Research supports that an environment that meets the needs of each child, academically and emotionally, is the most effective. The Montessori approach is effective due to its focus on developing intrinsic motivation.
Kids with ADHD tend to need a lot of redirection in a Montessori classroom, which many folks feel sort of cancels out the benefit of the methodology. Montessori kids aren't expected to sit at desks all day, and built-in movement in the Montessori classroom can be a great benefit for children with ADHD.
The 70 students who went to the Montessori schools advanced more rapidly on math and literacy tests over the next three years. At the end of kindergarten, when this study ended, the Montessori kids had significantly higher achievement. … To be sure, high-income kids outperformed low-income kids regardless of the school.
While I believe Montessori is suitable for all children, Montessori is not for all families. … Montessori schools are most suited to children in families where there is respect for the child, the parent set few but clear limits, and the child learns to respect and follow these limits.
Five criticisms of the Montessori methodCriticism #1: There isn't enough opportunity through group activity for social development and interaction. … Criticism #2: Creativity is quelled and the childhood taken from students due to early use of cognitive thinking – and too much time spent on the practical life.More items…
Montessori parenting is a relaxed parenting approach where toddlers are left to play freely, are not punished for being naughty, and are encouraged to sleep on the floor instead of in cribs, among other things.
Montessori education is a different method of education that focuses on student development rather than learning. In fact, it aims to create mature and socially adept students. … The system was invented by Maria Montessori around 1900 in Italy to educate poor children.
The Best Time to Begin Montessori explains that the period of the absorbent mind is from conception to age 6. Early childhood Montessori education begins between ages 2½ and 3, depending on the child. Many schools only accept children after their third birthday.
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