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Is This The Year? – update 8
A waterlogged pitch at the Tameside Stadium did for FC United's game today, with the visit of Stourbridge postponed until Tuesday 21 April. The weather also did for Ashton United at home, so this gave the other two challengers a chance to cut into FC's lead. It looked good at half-time, with Ilkeston's game being goalless, and Workington 1-0 down at home to Buxton, but I've been fooled too many times already by juicy half-times scores. Indeed, Ilkeston went on to a 2-0 win to cut the gap to us to only 4 points, but FC are back to having two games in hand over the Derbyshire outfit. Buxton, however, did us proud, scoring again to take all the points in a 2-1 win. Overall, no change, except that five wins from the remaining eight games will now eliminate Workington. No midweek game again for FC United, but Ashton and Ilkeston both play away on Tuesday night, so expect the next update then. Edited to add: Though the fixture isn't on the Northern Premier League web-site, FC United are actually playing on Wednesday night, at Whitby Town (lovely place to visit but perhaps not on a midweek evening), so expect a plethora of updates across the next ten days.
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net March 28, 2015 March 28, 2015 207 WordsLeave a comment
Never Do Anything, Unless It's To Extremes
It seems only fair to record that, after last season's series of posts on the ill-fortunes and preposterously bad form of Droylsden FC in the Evo-Stik League Premier Division, the Bloods have completely reversed things so far this season.
With wins of 7-1 and 6-1 already (admittedly with a one-goal home defeat between), Droyslden are the joint highest scorers in the whole of the Evo-Stik League and have the best goal difference of any of its 72 clubs, being in double figures at +10 after only three games.
Does this mean a complete role-reversal for last year? Too soon to tell, but if it does, fairness demands that I record it.
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net August 24, 2014 August 24, 2014 109 WordsLeave a comment
Squeaky Bum Time: Ah, well…
We did everything we could. It's finished 3-0 to FC United, but it's also finished 2-0 to Chorley. Congratulations to the Champions, and all back to Gigg Lane as we go through the Play-Off dance for the fourth year in a row.Ashton United on Tuesday night and, we hope, Fylde or Witton Albion next Saturday.
Addendum: apparently the Chorley fans have invaded the pitch, which is understandable, but allegedly have been hitting Buxton's players, which is not on. I'm not alone in wondering if there will be consequences of this…
If there are, I'll be back with an update. The Bum is not done yet!
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net April 26, 2014 106 WordsLeave a comment
Squeaky Bum Time: the last half-times
We're doing the business in the first half, Barwell 0 FC United 2, but Chorley scored two minutes before half-time to lead Buxton 1-0. Advantage Chorley.
C'mon Buxton, you owe us.
Bums have never been squeakier.
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net April 26, 2014 April 26, 2014 34 WordsLeave a comment
Squeaky Bum Time: Easter Monday and how!
Oh my goodness, that was squeaky bum time for real! I was at Gigg Lane for what may yet be the last game FC United of Manchester plays there (until they return as the Visitors) and what an experience that was. A goal down inside sixty seconds, a second from an atrocious defensive mix-up, playing with the same disjointedness and ineptness as MUFC yesterday and looking as likely to make a comeback as David Moyes' men.
But Karl Marginson's team have got more to them.First, leading scorer, and Supporter's Player of the Season, Tom Greaves rammed the ball home after 65 minutes, and ten minutes later, Mike Norton (he who scored that winner at Rochdale) punted the ball in to level it, and then would you believe it, virtually on the tick of half-time, sub Greg Daniels rose to head in a corner and 3,056 of us went bananas at the win.
But it's all down to the last weekend, and the last round of games. Needless to say, Chorley (1st) and Fylde (3rd) also won, comfortably, 4-0 and 5-0 respectively, the latter giving Fylde a G-D advantage of two goals over FC.
So it's Chorley 94 points, FC 93 and Fylde 90. FC go away to 14th place Barwell, Fylde entertain 10th place King's Lynn Town and Chorley visit Buxton – the team that put a crimp in our late season run of wins – who are 13th. Well, they owe us, so now's the time to deliver.
Whatever anyone else does next Saturday, FC have got to deliver a win. If that happens, the worst that can happen is 2nd place: a home Play-Off semi-final against Ashon United (again) on Tuesday 29 April and, hopefully, a home Final on Saturday week (when I'm off duty and can go again) against the winners of Fylde or Witton.
If we slip up at Barwell, a draw will still secure 2nd but a defat might let Fylde in to push us down to 3rd. That would mean a home semi-final against Witton, but the Play-Off final would only be at home if Ashton beat Fylde: otherwise its the seasiders who will enjoy home asvantage.
But if Chorley slip up, if they so much as only draw at Buxton, an FC win would take the title, would mean automatic promotion, would mean the Skrill Conference North next season. The dream is still on. I just hope that, next Saturday, I'm not on an inbound call when the results flash up…
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net April 21, 2014 April 21, 2014 413 WordsLeave a comment
Squeaky Bum Time: Easter Saturday update
Yesssss!!!!!!!! Get in there!!!!!!!
It's been a good day for FC United of Manchester. Despite conceding a 3rd minute goal at Stamford, the Reds fought back to a 3-2 win, keeping them well in the hunt on 90 points with two to play. Better yet, leaders Chorley could only manage a 1-1 draw at Whitby Town, cutting the gap at the top to only one point, and third place AFC Fylde – same points, same goal-difference, fewer goals – were beaten 2-1 at home by Grantham Town, to keep them on 87 points. The only other top 4 winners were Worksop Town, who also pulled out a 3-2 win, at home to Blyth Spartans.
So, Chorley 91 points from 44, FC United 90 from 44, Fylde and Worksop 87 from 44, with Fylde the better goal difference (and FC having scored their 100th League goal of the season with the first goal today, and are now the second highest scorers after Witton).
I still can't honestly see Chorley dropping points against Marine on Monday, whilst we'll have a handful with Ashton United (although their win and Skelmersdale's defeat have guaranteed their Play-Off place, unless Skem can turn around a 20 goal GD advantage in their last two games). But, provided we don't blow that game, which, being at Gigg Lane, I plan to attend, that should guarantee 2nd place, and pole position for the Play-Offs.
And then it's all down to what happens seven days from now…
Squeaky squeaky.
Squeaky Bum Time
The disastrous season Manchester United have had has left me in the highly unusual situation of having nothing to care about at the end of the season. The last time this happened was the nearly-forgotten season of 1990/91, the penultimate season of the old Football League, when United, despite improving dramatically from the year before's 13th place and the threat of relegation for most of the season – and you call 7th a disaster? – only finished 6th, a place behind the Bitter Blues for the first time in over a decade, and the last time until their last lick goal-difference miracle in 2012.
Of course, it wasn't a truly bleak season, since the Reds were heading off to Rotterdam, and a rendezvous with Barcelona in the European Cup-Winners Cup Final, and Sparky's two goals, and Sunbed's goal-line clearance in the 89th minute.
This year though, there's nowt to look forward to except my fervent prayer that anyone – and I even include the Bitters in this – win the Premiership except Liverpool.
But let's leave that contentious, and potentially highly painful, topic and remind ourselves that football goes on in other realms than the artificial world of the Premiership.
Every now and then I've been bringing you bulletins about life at the bottom of the Evo Stik Northern Premier League Premier Division and the embarrassing/horrifying/amusing (delete to taste) experiences of Droylsden FC, long since condemned to relegation to First Division North (level 8 of the Pyramid, and the lowest level at which the club has played in its existence). It's been car crash fascination with the Bloods, who are firmly in the Bust cycle of the Boom that peaked with their solitary year in the Conference Premier Division.
But most of the time my eyes have been directed much further up the table, of FC United of Manchester, the team formed by and for fans of Manchester United who found the 2005 takeover of the Old Trafford club one piece of commercialisation too far. FC was created as a Friendly Society, a members club that cannot be sold, and which exists to remind us of the old values of football, the joy of backing your own, and the true place of football at the heart of a community.
Needless to say, FC's existence has always been controversial, but the comparatively massive level of its support enabled the club to get off to a flying start, with three years of unrelieved promotion getting them into the Northern Premier League Premier Division as early as 2008/9. The club has always been competitive at this level, and indeed has been the losing Play-Off Finalist in each of the last three seasons (the cruellest blow coming in 2012, when the Club lost 1-0 to Bradford Park Avenue, the goal coming in the last minute of extra-time).
This year, the club has spent virtually all its ime in the top half of the 24 tean Division, flirting with the fringe of the Play-Off places, until the beginning of February, when FC started a run of 12 consecutive League victories, that took them to the top of the table, in direct competition with Chorley for the League title, and automatic promotion.
Throughout this period, FC had the advantage both of games in hand on Chorley, and a superior goal-difference. And beating Chorley 1-0 away was a massive boost to FC's ambitions. That is, until Droylsden took an unexpected hand in the destination of the title. Their 13-1 crash at Chorley reversed the goal-difference advantage, giving Chorkey a lead that, in practical terms, was unassailable. It was like their having an extra point: even if FC won their remaining game in hand, and drew level on points, Chorley's goal difference would keep them ahead.
Unfortunately, FC's streak ran out. The return game at Gigg Lane was almost a disaster, with Chorley taking a 2-0 lead, until a dramatic two goals in three minutes, very late on, brought FC back to claim a point. Then FC were beaten at home last Saturday by perennial bogies, Buxton, though they bounced back to win their game in hand, trouncing Grantham 3-0.
So: it's Easter weekend. ThePemiership may have forgotten old traditions that favoured the fans, but they're alive in the Evo-Stik League: there are full programmes on Easter Saturday and Easter Monday, and the final round of games is six days later, Saturday 16 April. It'll all be known then: who goes up, who goes into the Play-Offs. It might well be over for FC United by theend of Monday.
Currently, Chorley top the table with 90 points and a G-D of 62. FC are second, on 87 points and a G-D of 51. AFCFylde are also still contenders, also on 87 points with a G-D of 51, but FC are placed above them having scored 9 goals to Fylde's 90. Technically, the title is not beyond fourth place Witton Albion (84 points, G-D 34, and the League's highest tally of goals, 116) but realistically, they should be looked on as a threat to second place.
Tomorrow, Chorley are away to 12th place Whitby Town, and on Monday at home to 20th place Marine, still in danger of filling the last relegation place. FC are at 15th place Stamford tomorrow, and entertain 5th place Ashton United on Monday. Fylde host 16th place Grantham Town on Saturday and visit 6th place Skelmersdale United on Monday, whilst Witton go to 14th place Barwell tomorrow and face 7th place Rushall Olympic at home on Monday.
To be honest, short of miracles, I can't see Chorley dropping points in either of their games, especially not on Easter Monday, which puts the onus on FC to win both games. I mean, they know that anyway, it's got to be three-out-of-three, whatever Chorley do, but if FC drop a point this weekend – and the Ashton game is going to be tough, since they'll be desperate to maintain their Play-Off place – then the title is gone.
Fylde also have one 'easy' and one 'hard' game this weekend, but Skelmersdae are a different propisition to Ashton: they were contesting the title themselves until about six weeks ago, since when a results freefall has left them at risk of missing even the Play-Offs: anything less than matching Fylde's record sees FC drop to third.
And the consequences of dropping out of second are serious. FC are guaranteed a Play-Off place already, but second is imperative as this will ensure home advantage in both semi-final and final, which FC have never had before, usually creeping in in 5th.
I haven't minded FC's years in the Evo-Stik Premier. The club needed to consolidate, to establish itself, rather than skyrocket too far too fast. But three years of PlayOff Final disappointment is at least one too many, and the time is ready to take that next step up in level, especially with FC United on course to start the 2014/15 season in their own grouns, the under-construction Broadhurst Park, in Moston, closer to Manchester United's roots as Newton Heath.
It's squeaky bum time, as a former Manchester United manager once put it. This may all seem remote to you, and of no imprtance whatsoever, but having had years of experience in Non-League football, I can assure you that the passions are the same, the stakes as important, and the disappointments as crushing. Manchester United have nothing left to play for, but FC United of Manchester have everything to play for, even if the reward is 'only' to move to within two levels of the Football League.
'I don't care about Rio/he don't care about me/all we care about/is watching FC'.
By mbc1955in In the Back of the Net April 18, 2014 1,265 WordsLeave a comment


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71ST ASSEMBLY RACE NARROWS TO TWO CANDIDATES AS HAMEL DROPS OUT
71st Assembly Race
Randy Voepel
Tony Teora
April 10, 2016 (San Diego's East County) – The race to fill the 71st Assembly seat being vacated by Brian Jones due to term limits has narrowed to two candidates, both Republicans: Santee Mayor Randy Voepel and business owner Tony Teora.
Jewelry store owner Leo Hamel, also a Republican, announced last week that he is dropping out of the race, though his announcement comes too late to keep his name off the ballot. Registrar Michael Vu has informed ECM that there will be a "top two" run-off race in November even though there are only two names now on the June primary ballot.
Another prominent Republican contender, Michael Harrison, deputy Chief of Staff to Congressman Duncan Hunter, campaigned for months but decided to drop out shortly before the filing deadline to focus on his work in Washington.
Democrat Jerald Larkey had announced his intent to run, but was hospitalized for a medical issue and missed the filing deadline for signatures, leaving Democrats with no candidate in the race.
Bonnie Price with the East County Democratic Club said the top-two primary system discourages parties from running multiple candidates since this dilutes the vote. But relying on a single candidate in a primary raises the risk of having no one on the ballot if anything happens to the sole candidate from a party.
In the past, prior to the voter-approved top-two primary shift, every political party was entitled to hold its own primaries and be assured of having a candidate on the ballot. The new system can result in voters having a choice of candidates from only a single party in the November general elections.
Price suggested the system should be changed to assure fairness for all political parties and voters across the political spectrum.

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Niantic Now at $9B Valuation After Raising $300M | Race to Building the 'Real-World Metaverse'
Urian B., Tech Times 22 November 2021, 06:11 pm
(Photo : Image from Daniele Franchi on Unsplash) Niantic Now at $9B Valuation After Raising $300M | Race to Building the 'Real-World Metaverse'
Niantic has just been able to raise its valuation to $9 billion after recently raising $300 million from Coatue. Aside from Facebook's Meta, Niantic is also another company with its eye on the metaverse.
Niantic Plans to Build 'Real-World Metaverse'
The augmented reality platform mostly popular for developing games like Pokemon Go, Niantic, will be using the raised money to build what they are calling the "real-world metaverse" according to the company's blog post. Niantic is a San Francisco-based startup that had initially spun out of Google.
As of early August, John Hanke, the Founder and CEO of Niantic, referred to the metaverse as a "dystopian nightmare." The type of metaverse being described is the one that renders users bound to using VR headsets just like in the movie "Ready Player One."
Meta vs. Niantic
Facebook, on the other hand, has decided to change its name to Meta in order to signal its investment towards VR technology. Niantic, on the other hand, wants to develop technology that will bring people closer towards the outside world.
In early November, Niantic officially revealed its Lightship AR Developer Kit or ARDK. The ARDK makes tools that can be used to develop AR games publicly available and also for free for anyone who has basic knowledge of designing a game through the Unity game engine.
Niantic to Create Real-World Metaverse
According to the story by TechCrunch, Hanke noted during that time that at Niantic, they believe humans are actually at their happiest when their virtual world would lead them towards a physical one. Hanke said that unlike a sci-fi metaverse, creating a real-world metaverse will utilize technology in order to be able to improve users' experience of the world as they have already known for thousands of years.
The funding is expected to help expand the ARDK, which has already been utilized by companies like Historic Royal Palaces, SoftBank, Universal Pictures, Warner Music Group, the PGA of America, and Coachella in order to create augmented reality experiences. Instead of locking people in through the use of VR headsets, AR projects work by having participants use their smartphones in order to encourage people to explore what's around them.
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Success of Pokemon Go
Niantic shared that tens of millions of people play the popular Pokemon Go game every month walking over 10.9 billion miles ever since the launch of the game. A General Partner at Coatue, Matt Mazzeo, said that Niantic is building a platform for AR based on an actual 3D map of the world that they believe will play quite a critical role when it comes to the next transition in computing.
Mazzeo shared that they are excited to partner with Niantic due to them seeing the infrastructure support the metaverse for the real world and also help to power the next evolution of the internet itself.
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He began composing at the age of 13, and immediately exhibited exceptional talent in that field too. His monumental and massive First String Quartet was composed in 1894 and was submitted for the annual competition for fine arts held by the Royal Academy of Belgium, where it was awarded the top prize by the jury. In 1902, he returned to his native land, and in the following year he was named a professor of harmony and counterpoint at his old Liège college. With the outbreak of World War I, he and his family moved to England, where he founded a piano quartet. When peace returned, he came back to Belgium and was named professor of fugue at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels. From 1925 until 1939, he served as director of that institution; 14 years after leaving the directorship, he died at Sart-lez-Spa, Belgium. From his teens to his seventies Jongen composed a great deal, but today, the only part of his oeuvre performed with any regularity is his output for organ, much of it solo, some of it in combination with other instruments. His monumental Symphonie Concertante of 1926 is a tour de force, considered by many to be among the greatest works ever written for organ and orchestra.


Half of the European forestry machinery is manufactured in Joensuu. The iconic ABLOY locks also come from here. Valamis Learning Experience Platform, in turn, links Joensuu with NASA's Epic Challenge training programme. Photonics, pharmaceutical expertise, and much more – business opportunities and good life.
The Joensuu sub-region includes the city of Joensuu, Kontiolahti, Liperi, Outokumpu, Polvijärvi, Juuka and Ilomantsi. Overall, the sub-region is home to over 124 000 people. North Karelia has a population of approximately 164 000.
The city of Joensuu is a regional centre of North Karelia with a population of approximately 76 000. A third of the residents is under the age of 30. Joensuu is also a city of 20 000 students: every fifth person walking along the street is a student.
Joensuu is an urban and modern city – almost like a mini New York! Beautiful and a bit rough, Karelian culture mixed with high technology, peace and life pulsating to an international beat. Joensuu region has exceptionally much to offer for the development and internationalisation of companies.
Joensuu is a great place to live in, at least according to 96% of the city residents. Everyday luxury is provided by nature, stunning waterways, culture, housing, great accessibility and services. North Karelians are well-known for their hospitality and joyous character – they are creative and crazy in a good way!
It is easy to move about in the city: everything is close by. In Joensuu, you will not get stuck in morning traffic. You can save time for the essentials, as everyday journeys do not take up too much time. It is easy to move about on foot, or by bike, bus or car. By the way, people cycle and walk their daily journeys in Joensuu more than anywhere else in Finland. This is beneficial for nature and health.


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There is the Charismatic Prayer group "The Spirit of Jesus" that meets on Thursday evening at Maroochydore at 7.15 pm.
There is the Divine Mercy prayer group that meets most days to pray in the Stella Maris church.
There are a number of rosary groups in different places in the parish.


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Crawl (2011)
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Crawl (2011) first published by Little White Lies
Young Marilyn Burns (Georgina Haig) is giddy with excitement as she awaits the return of her boyfriend Travis (Andy Barclay) from his parents' house. After all, she is sure that on this, "one of the most important nights of my life," Travis is about to propose to her with the ring that has been in his family for generations.
Yet if Marilyn, in all her wide-eyed innocence, is filled with romantic notions about the future of her relationship, there are clear signs everywhere that her aspirations and optimism may be misplaced. Her middle-aged boss, the sleazy local publican and 'entrepinour' [sic] Slim Walding (Paul Holmes), grimly summarises his own considerable marital experience as "thinner wallet, microwave dinners, sex on your birthday". One of Marilyn's colleagues, single mother Annie (Catherine Miller), complains about her babysitter's fees, and another, Holly (Lauren Dillon), has long since learnt to reduce sex to financial transaction and power play – while Eileen (Lynda Stoner), an aging, unmarried barfly, makes pathetic moves on much younger men. "It's your engagement night," Annie tells Marilyn, before adding ominously, "Enjoy it while it lasts."
Indeed, when a film's heroine shares both her forename and surname with the lead actress from Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), you just know there is trouble coming down the road. It arrives in the form of a tall dark stranger (George Shevtov), and while this unnamed, taciturn Croatian hitman has no erotic designs on Marilyn, he will nonetheless supplant Travis in delivering (perversely) on the ingénue's dream of a wedding band, and give her an evening to remember forever.
The Croatian drifts into town dressed as a cowboy, even using an antiquated 'six shooter' from 1898. The grandiose string stabbings of Christopher Gordon's score evoke both John Williams (Jaws, 1975) and Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, 1960) – and there is a shower sequence that also conjures the latter. The convoluted smalltown double-crossing, and one very prolonged death on the road, suggest the Coen brothers' debut Blood Simple (1984), while the confrontation between an innocent woman and an implacably evil man points to their No Country For Old Men (2007). Which is to say that the debut feature of the China brothers (writer/director Paul, producer Ben) is wedded to the joys of genre, playing all at once as outback oater, neo noir and home invasion thriller, with some kinky sex and black humour thrown in for good measure.
Yet despite Paul China's expert management of tension, Crawl feels more like a series of set-piece gestures towards genre rather than an actual, coherent film. Marilyn's nervousness in her creaky (but empty) house, a gratuitous S&M interlude, the multiple attempts to gloss the film's title, the shadowy (and repetitive) roadside business – these sequences all work well individually, but contribute little to the whole, and the result is a film as flabby in its plotting as it is taut in its direction. As a showcase of China's undoubted filmmaking talents, Crawl is an impressive calling card – but next time round, it is to be hoped that he can work from a much tighter, more focused script.
strap: Paul China's Coen-esque debut is a tautly directed genre mishmash of oater, noir and home invasion, if less than the sum of its parts
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El Abierto Británico fue un torneo profesional de snooker. A partir de 1985 se transformó en una competencia puntuable. El torneo no se ha llevado a cabo desde la temporada 2004/2005. Tuvo varios patrocinadores y escenarios con el paso de los años. Se realizó alrededor de noviembre de cada año. Hasta antes de la edición correspondiente a 1999/2000 se jugó al final de la temporada. Se disputó dos veces en 1999, uno para la temporada 1998/1999 y otro para la temporada 1999/2000.

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The Long Museum(West Bund) is proud to present one of China's most celebrated female artists, Yu Hong, with a large comprehensive survey of her work, "The World of Saha", curated by Jérôme Sans.
More than a retrospective, this exhibition is envisioned as an "introspective" into her unique and wide-ranging vocabulary. Yu Hong is primarily known for several series of paintings that she has developed since the beginning of her artistic practice, and this exhibition will trace her evolution into new realms which encompass her painterly reflection through new approaches. The exhibition unfolds her world as a visual opera developed here into four different acts, revealing several parallel universes that subdivide into distinct periods: "Time of Rebirth", her lifelong commitment to a series of "Portraits", "Half-Hundred Mirrors" and "Witness to Growth".
Yu Hong's creative inspiration is known to be grounded in her personal life and everyday surroundings, building a world that ingeniously fuses different perceptions of time, memories and the evolution of emotional states related to her personal inner world. She explores the mutations of women's everyday lives in China's changing social, political and cultural debates.
Yu Hong was born in Xi'an in 1966. At the age of 14, she began studying oil painting at the attached high school of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, and went on to continue her education at the institution, obtaining a postgraduate degree in 1996. Yu Hong was originally trained in the Social Realist style, itself indebted to traditions of European Realism, but she has developed a unique and intimate visual vocabulary in oil painting that often takes inspiration from her own life and those of her relatives. She witnessed first-hand the development of the contemporary art scene in China after the Reform and Opening-up , as associated with the "New Wave" movement (1985) and the controversial "China/Avant-Garde Exhibition" (1989). Yu Hong's urge to directly paint the social reality around her linked her to an emerging movement known as the "New Generation", a group of young artists who broke away from Socialist Realism, focusing on the realistic representation of the mundane and choosing the people that surrounded them as painting subjects.
Yu Hong often uses existing images as a starting point for her practice, taking photographs and her own point of view to create compositions, rearranging them into new combinations emphasizing the objective connotations of memory. Mixing a larger historical perspective with her own personal history, she investigates how pre-existing images can be reused and rearranged into new compositions. Her unique imaginary is nourished by a constant dialogue with other disparate cultural influences that combine to form an inextricable entity. In addition to drawing from Chinese history and Tang dynasty Buddhist paintings, Yu Hong borrows widely from Western painting traditions, from Medieval Gothic Christian painting to Renaissance frescoes. Classical Chinese poetry, which questions endlessly the nature of the universe, society, human nature and animal species, provides her an inexhaustible source to understand the enigmas of our contemporary world. Yu Hong's use of China's poetic and religious heritage is an attempt to reconcile monolithic binaries such as tradition and modernity, the profane and the sacred. Her true subject is temporality, and how the present encapsulates the past and foreshadows the future. By appropriating history, she furthers her fundamental interest in creating a new temporality wherein historical time becomes synchronous with lived reality — a notion of time that has been reduced with the speed of information and pictures, together with social networks. As Warhol predicted, everyone now has the possibility to be famous for 15 minutes; and in the era of social networks and mobile phones always being connected, Big Brother is watching you wherever people are.
The title of the exhibition refers to "The World of Saha", a Buddhist expression of great importance to Yu Hong's personal reflection, meaning "the world to be endured", the world that is ours, and in which anyone who suffers is the prisoner of their own personal desires. According to traditional Indian cosmology, living beings endure all kinds of difficulties and suffering because of their acts in previous lives, which brought about their birth in this world. The "World of Saha" is also the world of human resilience as an act of resistance, an urge to live in spite of adversity, by surpassing the major wounds of life. In the exhibition, Yu Hong reconstructs personal and socio-historical memories through the device of photography and through the medium of painting, tracing the traumatic history of China's last 30 years.
Inaugurating the exhibition, the tryptic Heaven on Earth (2018) depicts the ascension from the abyss of a glacier to a cloudy sky by a group of unclothed men and women caught in different strange actions as if in search of something. Yu Hong uses realism and the magical to connect concepts of space and scenes of daily life, emphasizing the uncertainty that dramatically fills our lives. Conveying the idea of a "Time of Rebirth", New Age is an ultra-contemporary reinterpretation of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, suspended between a simultaneously realistic and fantastic scene deeply anchored in contemporary society's turbulence. Yu Hong's work is permanently suspended between reality and fiction, a balance established by our contemporary digital world.
Composed of seventeen portraits including ten specially conceived for this exhibition, most of the paintings in the second chapter connect in pairs one old portrait and one recent portrait depicting different characters chosen by the artist from among her friends, relatives and Chinese celebrities. Using family and friends as models, and appropriating additional faces and body gestures from the Internet, the artist paints expressive life-size figures, inspiring a visceral connection in the viewer.
Chapter 3, "Half-Hundred Mirrors", which in Chinese means "50 years old", deploys a piece in Virtual Reality showing the birth and the growth of a girl and simultaneously that of a group of kids from childhood to their mature years, representing the development and changes of Chinese society. This is not the first time that Yu Hong has displayed her paintings in Virtual Reality, shifting her work to another dimension, an immersive universe in which the body plays a primordial role. Brushstrokes give the digital world a physical reality, and create an exchange between both the digital and the real material of the work.
Using her own life – and later, the birth of her daughter in 1994 – as a narrative foundation, Yu Hong has made the ongoing series "Witness to Growth", which acts as a record of her life by drawing upon photos from the news events happening in her world. She illustrates the inherent contingencies of official records and personal experiences by pairing a journalistic photograph culled from official Chinese media outlets such as the People's Daily and China Pictorial with an autobiographical painting of herself and of her daughter Liu Wa, based on photographs taken each year. Filled with allegories about life, birth and the human condition, "Witness to Growth" is for Yu Hong a way to highlight the signification of life.
Yu Hong was born in 1966 in Xi'an, China. In the 1980s she studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing and graduated with a post-graduate degree from the oil painting department in 1996. Since 1988 she has been a teacher in CAFA's oil painting department. From the start, Yu Hong received training in Realist painting, which over time would translate into her own individual aesthetic language. The core subject of Yu Hong's paintings has always been human nature, and how human beings grow and exist in this society, in this world. Those figures, painted down by her brush, express the feelings and self-analysis of people thrown into the reality of society.
Yu Hong's recent solo exhibitions include "Garden of Dreams" (2016) at the CAFA Art Museum (Beijing), "Concurrent Realms" (2015) at the Suzhou Museum (Suzhou), "Golden Horizon" (2011) at the Shanghai Art Museum (Shanghai) and "Golden Sky" (2010) at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing). Her work was also featured in "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World" (2017) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York).
Jérôme Sans, Curator, art critic, artistic director and director of renowned institutions, Jérôme Sans was the co-founder and co-director of the acclaimed Palais de Tokyo in Paris (1999-2006). Then, he assumed the role of director of programs at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle (UK) until 2008. He is the former director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (UCCA) (2008-2012). Jérôme Sans has curated numerous major exhibitions around the world, including the Taipei Biennial (2000), the Lyon Biennial (2005), and the Nuit Blanche in Paris (2006), and is the author of several books, including Au Sujet de/About Daniel Buren (Flammarion, 1998); Araki (Taschen, 2001); China Talks (Timezone 8, 2009) and China: The New Generation (Skira, 2014).
Jérôme Sans is involved as artistic director in several major urban projects, such as the Rives de Saône-River Movie in Lyon and the Grand Paris Express cultural project (2015-17). He was recently appointed as artistic director of the future cultural pole of the Ile Seguin, developed by Emerige, in the greater Paris region.
Tickets: 100RMB/person including all exhibitions.


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I recently read the final volume of Manchester and Reid's biography of Winston Churchill. In it Churchill spoke with passion about the need to defeat Hitler as the only way to save Christian civilization. On Sunday nights I've been watching the PBS series on Churchill that featured a portion of one of his speeches in which he spoke those very words. Was it really Christian civilization he wanted to save, or something else to which he blithely appended the name of Christ because it was the culturally expected thing to do? Churchill was a nominal Christian at best, a man who appreciated the form of Christian religion as expressed by the Church of England not as worship, but as an important mark of the best of European civilization and empire.
Old newsreels make it seem a bit quaint, but it's not dissimilar to contemporary American calls for restoration of prayer in school, the insistence that America was founded mainly on Christian principles, and a conviction that malevolent forces are at work to destroy all that is good and right about America. I don't believe it has much to do with with restoring or following Christ in a Christian America. It has every thing to do with fear that the dominance of Western civilization defined by white, European standards as interpreted and led by the United States cannot be maintained.
For several decades the Cold War provided the reliable boogyman of Communism to support that conviction. There was always some evidence to lend credence. America had a Communist Party. There were a few spies and agents wandering around. The Soviet Union was bellicose toward the U.S. We fought a number of proxy wars by shuffling dictators around the chess board of global politics like so many pawns. It was never enough to warrant the hysterical fear mongering that went on. Then they were gone.
Radical Islam has taken their place, and with the same distribution of evidence to support the conviction that Christian civilization is at stake. Muslims are a rapidly growing segment of our population. Many remember the fiery Black Muslim and Nation of Islam leaders who used violent words to oppose white rule. There are foreign organizations of radical Islamists who have demonstrated that they can and will use any form of violence to disrupt American interests. To them are added a wide variety of domestically grown nuts of whom a few are also radical Islamists. They are all there, and they provide all the fuel needed for people who get their kicks out of stirring up public fear and hysteria, prompting them to save America's Christian civilization.
The idea that Christian civilization is at stake is little more than a thin patina of religiosity to hide the greater fear that white, American (European) culture, under which all else is subsumed, is being eroded away. All the handwringing about God being forced out of public life is not really about saving American Christianity. It's about sustaining an established social and political order. For instance, it isn't just any prayer that some want in our schools and at public gatherings, but a non-denominational, patriotic prayer in Christian dress that combines something like The Lord's Prayer with the Pledge of Allegiance in one indivisible liturgy that defends the established and historically dominant Euro-American culture into which all others are expected to take their appointed place.
Churchill was right about the threat to what he called Christian civilization, by which he meant 19th century English civilization, but it came from another direction. The age of empire was coming to an end, and the old century had passed long ago. Colonies wanted independence. They were not interested in perpetual existence as the white man's burden. Britain's economic domination of the world could not be sustained. Its own population was rapidly changing with the influx of peoples and cultures from throughout the Commonwealth. England of today remains the repository of all that is worthy of English heritage and culture, it always will be. It is learning to share that, not without problems, with other cultures while not losing its essential Englishness. They've been through this before. The Picts had to put up with the Celts. The Celts with the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. The Anglo-Saxons with the Normans, and so on. Good grief, a ruling family of Germans has sat on the throne for two centuries, the Queen's husband is Greek, and the world's best kimchi and curry are in London.
Churchill was wrong about saving his version of English civilization, unchanging in a changing world, and so are we if we think we can impose a romanticized version of early 20th century America on the decades ahead. The most obvious symbol of that is the Christian black man in the White House, a man from mixed parentage, one of whom was a real subsaharan African, and a Muslim at that. The president's not even descended from genuine American slaves. I think that scares some people right down to their toes because whatever they thought their rightful place in society was, is no longer theirs to be had just because that's the way it is.
So where is Christ in all of this? I'm not sure, but it isn't in saving American Christian civilization.
Malcolm+ said...
1. A ruling family of Germans has sat on at throne for three centuries - well, 299 years. Queen Anne died in 1714.
2. Recently read that, ironically, Barack Obama IS actually descended from slaves, and from America's first black slave at that. But the descent is through his white mother, not his black father.
3. All of which is nitpick. As always, a very insightful piece.
Thanks Malcolm,
I stand corrected, almost 300 years of German "rule." As for that descendent thing, I sometimes wonder what might be hiding under the rocks of my own ancestry, which, so I'm told, is 100% British on every side for ever and ever Amen. I wonder?


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By R.T. Fitch on May 2, 2016 • ( 37 Comments )
Alert issued by Carol Walker, Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation
Published on WildHoofBeats.com
Stop the Adobe Town Roundup and Radio Collar Study
A wild horse family in Adobe Town
The Bureau of Land Management has announce plans to roundup and remove wild horses from the Adobe Town Herd Management Area in the Red Desert of Wyoming. This roundup is in addition to the BLM's proposed roundup of 500 wild horses from the Checkerboard portions of the Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin Herd Management Areas.
In the flyover subsidized by the Rock Springs Grazing Association in April 2015, which conveniently did not include photographs because "The survey lead indicated his reluctance to use photography, as it requires additional circling around groups that could cause air sickness" there were reported to be 858 wild horses. Somehow the population in Adobe Town jumped from 519 wild horses in October 2014 after the Checkerboard Roundup to in April 2015, 858 wild horses, no doubt the result of every mare and stallion on the range giving birth. Although the dubious count of 858 is only 58 more wild horses than the 610-800 Appropriate Management Level allows, the BLM is determined to do a roundup because of pressure from the powerful Rock Springs Grazing Association. The members of that organization view the public land in Wyoming as its own private domain. They receive millions of dollars in subsidies from our government for grazing their livestock on our public lands. They would like to see all of the wild horses removed from the area. The BLM has not said how many horses it plans to remove, but the usual practice is to remove down to the low side of AML, so at least 258 wild horses will lose their homes and their freedom.
Scoping Document Details can be found here: http://bit.ly/AdobeTownGather
In addition to this, the BLM is proposing to to a "research study" where they will put radio collars on 15-40 wild mares that have been rounded up and separated from their families. They will return the mares to the range to study: " habitat selection, seasonal use and movement between habitats, and migration patterns with and outside of the HMA. "
The research will be done with the University of Wyoming and "an animal care and use protocol for collaring would be submitted to the University of Wyoming Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for review by a panel of veterinarians and animal welfare officials."
Radio collaring is a very dangerous practice for wild horses. In the past, wild horses have been seriously injured, suffered and died because of collars becoming too tight, and getting hung up on fences and brush. They are not considering doing this to the stallions but apparently it is acceptable to use risky and life-threatening procedures on wild mares. If they really want to study behavior of wild mares, do not round them up and remove them from their families – this will completely disrupt the social bonds of the wild horses as well as their behavior. A real research study would study wild horses as they are now found. Hire some interns to go out and actually observe the horses in the wild. It is possible to do this – I have been observing and documenting and tracking and photographing wild horses in Adobe Town since 2004. If you must use a tracking device, use the tags that you are planning to use with the stallions, not the dangerous and life threatening radio collars. If it is so hard to find and track the horses in this area, then there is no way you will be able to find and help alleviate the suffering of any wild mare who is in trouble with her collar.
This "radio collar research" is clearly a precursor to what the BLM has planned to do with the White Mountain Herd in Wyoming this year – round them up and study them with radio collars for a year, then spay the mares in the field and continue to study them with radio collars the next year. Perhaps the BLM thinks that by not including the part about their ultimate goal being the cruel and dangerous spaying of wild mares in the field that they will have less controversy for this Environmental Assessment.
There is no overpopulation of wild horses in Adobe Town. Stop the BLM from rounding up the Adobe Town wild horses and stop them from conducting dangerous and life-threatening "radio collar research" on wild mares. Tell them to conduct a study with observers in the field without a roundup. And tell them to stop livestock grazing in wild horse herd management areas.
Regarding conflicts between livestock grazing and wild horse use of lands in Wild Horse Management Areas:
4710.5 Closure to livestock grazing.
(a) If necessary to provide habitat for wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros, to implement herd management actions, or to protect wild horses or burros from disease, harassment or injury, the authorized officer may close appropriate areas of the public lands to grazing use by all or a particular kind of livestock.
(b) All public lands inhabited by wild horses or burros shall be closed to grazing under permit or lease by domestic horses and burros.
(c) Closure may be temporary or permanent. After appropriate public consultation, a Notice of Closure shall be issued to affected and interested parties.
Please send your comments by email and by mail by May 6. If you really want to help the horses, please send individual emails and letters using your own words – the form emails are all only counted as 1 by the BLM. Feel free to use any information from this post.
Written comments should be received by May 6, 2016, and should be emailed only to blm_wy_adobetown_hma@blm.gov (Please include "Adobe Town Scoping Statement Comments" in the subject line), mailed or hand-delivered during regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) to: Wild Horse and Burro Specialist, BLM Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North 3rd Street, Rawlins, WY 82301. Fax: 307-324-4224.
Tagged as: Adobe Town, Bureau of Land Management, Equine, Horse, Public land, Wild Horse, Wyoming
BLM Nevada Director John Ruhs urges roundup of 4,000 wild horses in Elko county this summer
Betty jean Herner says:
Stop this insanity
carolyn hobbs says:
Wyoming uses Wild Horses as a draw in all their tourism publications, on televison ads, yet they want to basically wipe them out for the cattle/sheep ranchers. Really, it seems like once again, the only thing Wyoming wants is the almighty dollar. If they would try alittle more truth in their reports it would help. Not sure who's lining the pockets of the BLM people there but someone must be.
Couple of things… Blue Sky Sage in Big Piney, WY offers horseback tours of the wild horses in WY, which books up quickly and brings a substantial income to a small WY business.
Why doesn't their WY business matter to RSGA?
Why are we paying around half the BLM annual budget to subsidize the grazing program and the other half to prop up the wild horse removals?
Why are we subsidizing RSGA with taxpayer dollars, in a state WITH NO INCOME TAX?
Why do wild horses removed often end up in sanctuaries, where those folks have to BEG FOR TAXPAYER FUNDS to keep the doors open?
Can anyone think of a better example of DESPOTIC AND DYSFUNCTIONAL?
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Over the past sixteen years, Blue Sky Sage has led numerous wild mustang rides to see, up close, these beautiful mustang horses roaming wild and free in Wyoming. Without exception, our past guests have found this experience to be one of the most thrilling and unique adventure vacations of their lives, with their perceptions of the wild mustang, and often themselves, changed forever.
Generally, wild mustang horses are spotted everyday we ride the Great Divide. Many individual mustang bands, numbering from a just few head upwards to around a dozen horses each, often total upwards of 200 mares, foals, stallions, and juvenile stallions that are on the fringes of the main bands. As we guide riders into closer proximity to these wild horses, being careful not to disturb or excite them, it is not unusual to get within 50 yards of these truly wild and wary animals and the photo opportunities are exceptional. You can actually hear the nickers of the mares to their foals and the snorts of defiance by the stallions as they stand between their harems and anything that seems out of place.
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If you look sharp-eyed to the far horizon of the Honeycomb Badlands, a whirlwind of desert dust swirls upward, marking the march of the salmon-dun stud as he drives his band into the only waterhole for miles. Watch as this battle-scarred warrior defends his harem from daring, young challengers that try repeatedly try to sneak in and steal mares to start their own bands. His foals practice their buck-jumping games around the outside edge of the herd, always under the watchful eye of the red-roan lead mare. The skill of your trail guide is put to the test as she attempts to get you close to these spooky and suspicious mustangs. Flared nostrils, nervous snorts, rolling eyes, windswept manes and tails, and skittish hoofbeats let you know you've been spotted and that it is only a matter of time before the herd bolts and runs, flying into their favorite game of "catch me if you can."
You watch them run and are in awe of the beauty, grace and power of these "spirit horses" as they disappear. The only other spectator has been the red-tailed hawk that is riding the wind high above the now-silent desert floor. We invite you to track the wild mustangs with Blue Sky Sage and become part of their story.
UPDATE, July 2015: Our most recent season again provided excitement and interaction with a variety of bands of wild horses in the area we trek into. Everything we saw this year were "family bands", with several mares and foals, some of which were newborns. There were some old stallions hanging around the perimeter of a herd of about 3 bands that were running together, and we even saw a little male posturing. The banner at the top of the page was taken this season of a young, brash roan stallion and his growing bandj.
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Kim Duncan says:
If these wild mares MUST be tracked, why not use a subcutaneous device, similar to one for pets (Home Again)? A collar on a horse is completely unwarranted and dangerous.
In addition, these 'radio collars' are essentially the same thing as the gold stars the Nazi's forced the Jews to wear prior to being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. This is the same thing, only with America's wild horses. The BLM is caving in to the wishes of the almighty ranching interests where MONEY speaks and wild horses lose.
Now before anyone says I'm being insensitive to the plight of Jewish people during Hitler's horrible reign, I'm not. I'm simply showing a sinister parallel with the same outcome. Extermination.
Lisa LeBlanc says:
"Air sickness" ??? Are you KIDDING me?!!
You can suck it up, Buttercup. Without those pictures, all we have is your 'word', and honestly, after so many years of population estimate nonsense, no one believes a word that comes out of an aerial survey.
Is it just me or did 2015 give rise to some seriously demented ideas for managing wild horses and burros?
And just a reminder, BLM is charged with management and PROTECTION of wild horses and burros. They seem to have a difficult time remembering that last one…
Exactly, Lisa! Sent my email comment – so next, I guess, contact the University of Wyoming? I don't know if it helped in Oregon, but certainly wouldn't hurt to give this issue some continued publicity. I assume that this university is yet another of the beneficiaries of the BLMs much touted $10 million research "ideas". Wonder how many more colleges are lined up.
Shannon Watt says:
BLM and the state of Wyoming are a disgrace! They actually have the nerve to advertise with wild horses for tourism, as does Colorado, when they are actually rounding them all up and sentencing them to virtual or actual death! Enough is enough! When will you stop your unwarranted and unwanted roundups? The number of outraged people is growing. If you want to keep your jobs, you had better do much better and protect the wild horses and burros, not hunt them!
Destiny Johnson says:
Horses deserve to be free
BLM's Final Solution for the Wild Horses and Burros
http://animallawcoalition.com/blms-final-solution-for-the-wild-horses-and-burros/
BLM knew the aggressive sterilization of mares would mean an increased death rate of at least 10% and admitted that "herd behavior would be out the window". BLM admitted, in effect, these aggressive sterilization plans would not only be potentially dangerous to the wild horses and burros, destructive of their herds and families, but also illegal and ultimately cause their extinction.
WHAT corporate interests are involved in these decisions concerning OUR Wild Horses & Burros and OUR Public Lands?
Review of Proposals to the Bureau of Land Management on Wild Horse and Burro Sterilization or Contraception
GARY F. HARTNELL, MONSANTO Company, St. Louis, Missouri
BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
NORMAN R. SCOTT (Chair), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Emeritus)
PEGGY F. BARLETT, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
HAROLD L. BERGMAN, University of Wyoming, Laramie
SUSAN CAPALBO, Oregon State University, Corvallis
GAIL CZARNECKI-MAULDEN, Nestle Purina PetCare, St. Louis, Missouri
RICHARD A. DIXON, University of North Texas, Denton
GEBISA EJETA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
ROBERT B. GOLDBERG, University of California, Los Angeles
FRED GOULD, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
GENE HUGOSON, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
MOLLY M. JAHN, University of Wisconsin, Madison
ROBBIN S. JOHNSON, Cargill Foundation, Wayzata, Minnesota
JAMES W. JONES, University of Florida, Gainesville
A.G. KAWAMURA, Solutions from the Land, Washington, DC
STEPHEN S. KELLEY, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
JULIA L. KORNEGAY, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
PHILIP E. NELSON, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (Emeritus)
CHARLES W. RICE, Kansas State University, Manhattan
JIM E. RIVIERE, Kansas State University, Manhattan
ROGER A. SEDJO, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
KATHLEEN SEGERSON, University of Connecticut, Storrs
MERCEDES VAZQUEZ-AÑON, Novus International, Inc., St. Charles, Missouriqu
Click to access NAS%20Review%20of%20Proposals.pdf
Here we go AGAIN!! When will the BLM & the government listen to the people of the U.S.A. LET OUR WILD HORSES REMAIN FREE!!!!
No helicopters, No fences, No roundups anywhere!, No killing, No cattle prodding, No bolts 2 their heads, NO SLAUGHTER!!!
When will our voices be heard & not swept under the rug??
STOP THE ROUNDUPS NOW!!!!!!!!!
DECLARATION OF LLOYD EISENHAUER
Katherine A. Meyer
Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
1601 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Timothy Kingston
408 West 23rd Street, Suite 1
(WY Bar No. 6-2720)
Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenors
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF WYOMING
Rock Springs Grazing Association, Case No. 2:11-cv-00263-NDF
Plaintiff,
Ken Salazar, et al.,
Defendants,
I, Lloyd Eisenhauer, declare as follows:
1. I live in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I am a former Bureau of Land Management
("BLM") official with extensive experience in the Rawlins and Rock Springs Districts in Wyoming and intimate familiarity with the public lands under BLM management in those areas. I have reviewed the consent decree proposed by BLM and the Rock Springs Grazing Association ("RSGA") in this case and provide this declaration based on my longstanding knowledge of, and management of, wild horses and livestock grazing in the Rock Springs and Rawlins Districts.
2. I grew up in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming with a livestock and farming background, served in the Marines for four years, and then owned a livestock business from 1952-1958. I enrolled in college in 1958, studying range management. From 1960-1961, BLM hired me to assist with collecting field data for vegetation assessments and carrying capacity surveys related to livestock and wild horses. These surveys were conducted in the Lander, Kemmerer, and Rawlins Districts. When I graduated in 1962, BLM hired me full-time to serve in the Rawlins District in Wyoming, where most of my work focused on grazing management involving sheep, cattle, and wild horses. From 1968-1972, I was Area Manager of the Baggs-Great Divide Resource Area in the Rawlins District. In 1971, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was enacted, and in the spring of 1972, on behalf of BLM, I conducted the first aerial survey of wild horses in Wyoming, recording the number of horses and designating the Herd Management Areas ("HMAs") for the Rawlins District. After a stint as an Area Manager with BLM's Albuquerque, New Mexico office, in 1975 I took over as the Chief of Planning and Environmental Analysis in BLM's Rock Springs District for three years. I was the lead on all planning and environmental assessments. During that time, I also served as the Acting Area Manager of the Salt Wells Resource Area, which is located in the Rock Springs District. In 1979, BLM transferred me to its Denver Service Center to serve as the Team Leader in creating the agency's automated process for data collection. I received an excellence of service award from the Secretary of the Interior commending me for my work as a Team Leader. In 1982, I became the Head of Automation in BLM's Cheyenne office, where I managed and implemented the data collection and processing of various systems related to BLM programs. I retired from BLM in 1986, and have stayed very involved in the issue of wild horse and livestock management on BLM lands in Wyoming, and have written articles about the issue in local and other newspaper outlets. I have won various journalistic awards, including a Presidential award, for my coverage of conservation districts in Wyoming. Along with a partner, I operated a tour business (called Backcountry Tours) for six years, taking various groups into wild places in Wyoming – without a doubt wild horses were the most popular thing to see on a tour, in large part due to their cultural and historical value. I also served six years on the governor's non-point source water quality task force.
3. Based on my longstanding knowledge of wild horse and livestock management in the Rawlins and Rock Springs Districts, and in the Wyoming Checkerboard in particular, I am very concerned about BLM's agreement with RSGA, embodied in the proposed Consent Decree they have filed in this case, under which BLM would remove all wild horses located on RSGA's private lands on the Wyoming Checkerboard.
4. The Checkerboard is governed by an exchange of use agreement between the federal government and private parties such as RSGA. However, due to state laws, property lines, and intermingled lands, it is impossible to fence the lands of the Wyoming Checkerboard, which means that both the wild horses and the livestock that graze there roam freely between public and private lands on the Checkerboard without any physical barriers. For this reason, it is illogical for BLM to commit to removing wild horses that are on the "private" lands RSGA owns or leases because those same horses are likely to be on public BLM lands (for example, the Salt Wells, Adobe Town, Great Divide, and White Mountains HMAs) earlier in that same day or later that same evening. Essentially, in contrast to other areas of the country where wild horses still exist, on the Wyoming Checkerborad there is no way to distinguish between horses on "private" lands and those on public lands, and therefore it would be unprecedented, and indeed impossible for BLM to contend that it is removing all horses on RSGA's "private" lands at any given time of the year, month, or day, considering that those horses would only be on the strictly "private" lands very temporarily and intermittently on any particular day .
5. Another major concern with BLM's agreement to remove all horses from the private lands of the Wyoming Checkerboard is that BLM is undermining the laws that apply to the Checkerboard, and wild horse management in general, which I implemented during my time as a BLM official. Traditionally, BLM officials (myself included) have understood that, pursuant to the Wild Horse Act, wild horses have a right to use BLM lands, so long as their population numbers do not cause unacceptable damage to vegetation or other resources. In stark contrast, however, livestock (sheep and cattle) have no similar right to use BLM lands; rather, livestock owners may be granted the privilege of using BLM lands for livestock grazing pursuant to a grazing permit that is granted by BLM under the Taylor Grazing Act, but that privilege can be revoked, modified, or amended by BLM for various reasons, including for damage to vegetation or other resources caused by livestock, or due to sparse forage available to sustain livestock after wild horses are accounted for. BLM's tentative agreement here does the opposite and instead prioritizes livestock over wild horses, by proposing to remove hundreds of wild horses from the Wyoming Checkerboard without reducing livestock numbers – which, in my view, is contrary to the laws governing BLM's actions as those mandates were explained to me and administered during the decades that I was a BLM official.
6. While I do not agree with every management action taken by BLM over the years in the Rock Springs District, I can attest – based on my longstanding employment with BLM and my active monitoring of the agency's activities during retirement – that BLM has generally proven capable of removing wild horses in the Rock Springs District, including by responding to emergency situations when needed and removing horses when necessary due to resource damage.
7. Considering that wild horses exhibit different foraging patterns and movement patterns than sheep and cattle, and also than big game such as antelope and elk, no sound biological basis exists for permanently removing wild horses from the Wyoming Checkerboard at this time. In particular, wild horses tend to hang out in the uplands at a greater distance from water sources until they come to briefly drink water every day or two, whereas livestock congregate near water sources and riparian habitat causing concentrated damage to vegetation and soil. For this reason, the impacts of wild horses are far less noticeable on the Checkerboard than impacts from livestock.
8. In addition, because livestock tend to eat somewhat different forage than wild horses (horses tend to eat coarser vegetation such as Canadian wild rye and other bunch grasses, whereas cattle and sheep mostly eat softer grasses), there is no justification to remove wild horses on the basis that insufficient forage exists to support the current population of wild horses. Also, because cattle and sheep have no front teeth on the front part of their upper jaws, they tend to pull and tear grasses or other forage out by the root causing some long-term damage to vegetation, whereas wild horses, which have front teeth on both their front upper and lower jaws, act more like a lawnmower and just clip the grass or forage (leaving the root uninjured), allowing the vegetation to quickly grow back. These differences are extremely significant because if there were a need to reduce the use of these BLM lands by animals to preserve these public lands, it might be cattle and sheep – not wild horses – that should be reduced to gain the most benefit for the lands, and which is why BLM, during my time as an agency official, focused on reducing livestock grazing.
9. BLM's agreement with RSGA states that RSGA's conservation plan limited livestock grazing, primarily by sheep, to the winter months to provide sufficient winter forage. This is a good example of "multiple use" management, since wild horses and sheep have very little competition for the forage they consume and the seasons during which they use parts of the Checkerboard. During winter, sheep use the high deserts and horses utilize the uplands and breaks (i.e., different locations) for forage and protection. During the summer, when sheep are not present, wild horses use various landscapes on the Checkerboard. This multiple use should continue for the benefit of the livestock, the wild horses, and the public and private lands involved.
10. I am also very concerned about BLM's agreement with RSGA to permanently zero out the Salt Wells HMA and the Divide Basin HMA, leaving no wild horses in those areas that have long contained wild horses. I have been to fifteen of the sixteen HMAs in Wyoming, and to my knowledge none has ever been zeroed out by BLM. It is my view, based on everything I know about these areas and the way these public lands are used by wild horses and livestock, that BLM has no biological or ecological basis for zeroing out a herd of wild horses in an HMA that existed at the time the wild horse statute was passed in 1971, as is the case with both the Salt Wells and Divide Basin HMAs. And, again, because the wild horses have a statutory right to be there, whereas livestock only have a privilege that can be revoked at any time by BLM, there also is no authority or precedent, to my knowledge, for the agency to zero out these two longstanding wild horse herds simply to appease private livestock grazers.
11. The zeroing out of wild horses in the Salt Wells and Divide Basin HMAs is also concerning because it would mean that, in those two longstanding HMAs, there would no longer be the "multiple use" of these public lands as required by both the Wild Horse Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. Currently, while there are other uses of this public land, such as by wildlife, hunters, and recreational users, the two primary uses in those HMAs are by wild horses and livestock. If BLM proceeds with its agreement with RSGA to zero out wild horses in those HMAs, the only major use remaining would be livestock use, meaning that there would be no multiple use of those BLM lands. Not only will that potentially undermine the laws that BLM officials must implement here, but it has practical adverse effects on the resources – multiple use is very beneficial for the environment, and particularly for sensitive vegetation, because different users (e.g., livestock, wild horses) use the lands and vegetation in different ways. When that is eliminated, the resources are subjected to an unnatural use of the lands which can cause severe long-term damage to the vegetation. As a result, zeroing out these herds would likely bedevastating for the vegetation in these two HMAs, because livestock would be by far the predominant use in this area.
12. Turning the White Mountain HMA into a non-reproducing herd, as the agreement between BLM and RSGA proposes to do, is also a farce, and violates the meaning of a wild and free-roaming animal. This is essentially a slow-motion zeroing out of this HMA, and is inconsistent with any wild horse management approach I am familiar with that BLM has implemented on public lands.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
Lloyd Eisenhauer
Louie, this is great but old, and nothing more recent has been heard from Mr. Eisenhauer. Can you find anything current?
It is old IcySpots, but still a Legal Declaration and still on the books. It bears repeating. I imagine that the Law firm which is handling the lawsuit has remained in contact with him. Who could blame him for wanting to stay under the radar
Thanks, Louie, but he clearly was unafraid when he wrote that declaration, but has disappeared since, which is puzzling.
IcySpots, I don't think he is afraid. He has done as much as he can do at this point.
The rest of us just have to take it from there. He gave us the needed information.
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Debra Arrington says:
No we will stand up and fight for our horses. And all our animals.
Wild horses & burros being removed for Richfield Tar Sands plan
by Grandma Gregg (also known as Wild Horse Granny)
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2016/01/07/wild-horses-burros-being-removed-for-richfield-tar-sands-plan/
In addition to the welfare ranchers, here is another major cause of our wild ones being captured & removed & sterilized … please become aware of the Richfield tar sands plan.
The Richfield tar sands has already effected our wild ones and continues to do so as of TODAY with the BLM proposal to rid the White Mountain and Little Colorado of more/all of the wild ones and the same with the Sinbad wild burro HMA (comments due Monday).
The Richfield tar sands plan has been in progress since about 2010 and if you look at the list below you will see that most of these HMAs (plus West Douglas HA) have been heavily captured/removed in recent years.
The document goes so far as to say, "the management of wild horse and burro herds is not compatible within those portions of commercial tar sands lease areas". How much clearer can it be. They want the wild ones GONE.
Proof: http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/BLM/OSTSdeis/OSTSfinal.pdf
TABLE 3.1.3-1 Wild Horse Herd Management Areas within the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Study Area (page 3-167)
Piceance-East Douglas
Muddy Creek
Range Creek
Sinbad
Little Colorado
Salt Wells
Adobe Town
[PLUS Herd Areas which are not discussed in this report – such as the West Douglas HA]
More Richfield tar sands information:
Click to access UT33-RichfieldFinalPlan.pdf
Sinbad Wild Burro EA information:
Click to access Sinbad%20Draft%20EA.pdf
https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/planAndProjectSite.do?methodName=renderDefaultPlanOrProjectSite&projectId=51041
Renate Nuss says:
Wild horses belong there, cattle don't,
Belinda Daisey says:
Where there is Greed there is always Evil and it's man who carries out the evil for those who will never have enough money, there will never be enough blood spilled to satisfy these men who care nothing for the suffering and deaths they cause. We are charged with the care of God's creatures and the word charged doens't mean monetary it means we are here to care for them and yet these people who bribe and lie and could and would do anything to get what they want, they are Godless men, without conscience or care for these beloved Horses and Burros. These Horses whose ancestors helped settle this land made it possible for the progress to move our Country forward possible, they fought in battles, they carried medicines to save lives and now for no other reason than Greed, these Heartless people who devalue Humanity and show what is the worst in humans will kill them with complete indifference to their suffering, the killing of entire families, destruction of what is one of God's greatest teachers, they believe in family, loyalty love, kindness and they live a life filled with Pride and integrity, none of this fits these who would take their lives for the money it can bring them. I believe in that we receive back what we give to our World so I will take solace in the knowledge that there will be a price for the blood they spill in this world but an even greater price in another. When they stand before their God and he ask why did you kill the beautiful creatures I sent you and your answer is I wanted more money, I have to believe in the Justice of God's wisdom and I can only pray he returns these Souless ones who kill for money back to earth as a Horse who will be hunted down without mercy and killed for no other reason than to put more money into another Souless persons hands. All involved in the back room deals and bribes and lies, each of your hands are covered in the blood of these amazing animals and no amount of money will wash them clean. Shame on you for the selling of your soul for pennies, shame on you for killing the innocent for money and I will not say May God have Mercy on your Soul as you've already sold yours.
Everyone reading this should consider carefully who they will vote for next November, especially for President, as this election will really tell us if our country is for sale or if it still belongs to "we, the people." The jury is still out… so get out and ask the hard questions, and then vote!
All of the House of Representative terms are up this year and many of the Senate seats as well. Now is the time to check up on our elected officials' voting records.
HUMANE SCORECARD
Click to access humane-scorecard-2015-final.pdf
Stop the insanity of this wiping out of the Wild Ones. What happened to the Protection of these animals. Disgusting behavior .
Linda Griffith says:
We need to stop the abuse!
Maybe we should not eat beef, then the grass would not be an issue.
Terri Smith says:
Please don't allow cattle or sheep grazing on federal lands that are set aside fir wold horses. These lands are set aside for the horses and should only support the horses that it was meant to support. Please do nit round up the mares and put radio collars on them. If you want to study them do it from a distance and without collars. The staralization of mares in the field is not a very good idea either and i am opposed to it. If you want to help with the birth rate then use the horse birth control that is widely used in ither areas.
Thsnk you for your attention.
Terri, you need to send your comments to the BLM site – youre "preaching to the choir" on this one. We all agree with you – but we aren't the ones who need to hear this!
The Final Days of the Checkerboard Wild Horse Roundup Part II
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2014/10/11/the-final-days-of-the-checkerboard-wild-horse-roundup-part-ii/
Farewell Wild Horses of Wyoming
ROCK SPRINGS GRAZING ASS
From AWHPC website
RSGA controls the rangeland in the Wyoming checkerboard, an area 40 miles wide by 70 miles long that runs along the historic transcontinental railway corridor. RSGA owns 550,000 acres outright and leases an additional 450,000 acres from the Anadarko Land Company, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. RSGA also holds permits to graze livestock on a large portion of the public lands in the checkerboard. RSGA owns members graze approximately 50,000 to 70,000 sheep and about 5,000 cattle on deeded private lands and leased public lands. By contrast, just 1,100- 1,600 wild horses are allowed to roam the area.
Thanks to taxpayer subsidies, RSGA members graze livestock on public lands for approximately one-twelfth (1/12) of the going market rate. The RSGA complaint, filed on July 27, 2011, seeks a court order that will (a) result in removing all wild horses from private lands in the Wyoming Checkerboard area, and (b) declare that the BLM "must remove all of the wild horses that have strayed onto the RSGA lands and the adjacent public lands within the Wyoming Checkerboard."
JOHN HAY, President
Rock Springs National Bank
Rock Springs, WY 82902
http://treasurer.state.wy.us/advisory.asp
JOHN HAY of the Rock Springs Grazing Association discusses land used for wind farms. He supports Tasco Engineering's Wyoming Wind Energy Project.
Sheri ciavirella says:
To the BLM and who ever else is involved let our wild horses run free stop murdering them u r all very sick ppl
Scottie Ann Ormand says:
I have just one thing to say, please leave our wild horses alone. Karma will come around and when it does it will not be good. These horses harm no one, give them a break. Tell the rich rancher's to buy there own land. I don't pay taxes so that they can get rid of our horses I pay taxes so the horses can stay there….
Crystal Burr says:
Leave the wild horses alone. If you have to do something with them provide them with a large enough habitat for them to thrive normally
Karen Hass says:
No American is above the Laws made to Protect Our Wild Things.
I will not support ANY REMOVAL.
STOP VIOLATING PROTECTIVE LAWS!
I AM A TAXPAYER AND I SAY, NO MORE!!!!
(comments due tomorrow – Friday May 6th)
CONFLICT OF INTEREST INVESTIGATION:
FEDERAL LAW CANNOT BE VIOLATED UNDER A CONSENT DECREE.
I require an investigation into conflict of interest governing discussions and decisions for removals of the Adobe Town wild horses in Wyoming. Federal law cannot be violated under a consent decree. Although the BLM is positioning this devastating plan as the implementation of a court-approved settlement of a lawsuit filed by the Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA), a court settlement cannot trump federal law. The Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2) establishes that the Constitution, federal laws made pursuant to it, and treaties made under its authority, constitute the supreme law of the land. The constitutional principle derived from the Supremacy Clause is Federal preemption. Preemption applies regardless of whether the conflicting laws come from legislatures, courts, administrative agencies, or constitutions. Cornell University Law School. "Supremacy Clause" law.cornell.edu
In April 2013, the U.S. District Court in Wyoming approved a Consent Decree to settle a lawsuit by the Rock Springs Grazing Association (RSGA) against the BLM and the Department of Interior seeking the removal of all wild horses from the Wyoming checkerboard lands. In their opening brief the RSGA wrote: "The Deputy Assistant Secretary advised the RSGA that the DOI policies and priorities made it difficult to offer a solution short of litigation." It then becomes clearly visible that the proposed and recent wild horse removal is a completely politically and monetarily motivated decision. This is not in keeping with the law or the wishes of the American people who own the land and who own the wild horses – it is completely biased and favored toward a special interest group – in this case the RSGA.
This in itself is illegal and often called "Regulatory Capture". Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of government failure; it creates an opening for firms to behave in ways injurious to the public (e.g., producing negative externalities). The agencies are called "captured agencies".
While RGSA is complaining about a few hundred wild horses on two million acres of land – half of which are publicly owned – RGSA is permitted to have the year-round equivalent of tens of thousands of private livestock grazing on these same lands for its own economic benefit at taxpayer expense enough though, despite RGSA's statement to the contrary, this livestock is competing for the same forage that is needed by the wild horses that are statutorily required to be protected. I repeat, "Regulatory Capture" is a form of political corruption that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. Regulatory capture is a form of political corruption.
REVIEW and REPEAT
BLM and Fish & Wildlife Service Experimenting on Wild Horses
https://rtfitchauthor.com/2013/09/03/blm-forest-service-experimenting-on-wild-horses/
by Debbie Coffey – Director of Wild Horse Affairs at Wild Horse Freedom Federation
PART 1 of a series on BLM and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Experimentation on Wild Horses and Burros
(Warning: the photos below may be disturbing to some)
Here is a portion of the presentation showing a vasectomy)
Rebecca Falk says:
Please don't round up the wild horses. They are part of America and should be free