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John T. Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History
The Saywell Prize is made possible by the generosity of his family and friends, to recognise the outstanding contribution to Canadian political and legal history of Professor Saywell. Among his other work Professor Saywell is the author of The Law Makers: Judicial Power And The Shaping of Canadian Federalism, published by the Osgoode Society in 2002.
The Saywell Prize is given bi-annually to the best new book in Canadian legal history, broadly defined, that makes an important contribution to an understanding of the constitution and/or federalism. In exceptional circumstances, the jury could also consider a seminal article or series of articles, some of the latter not written in the two-year period, to satisfy the objectives of the award.
The Saywell Prize will be awarded in 2022, for a book published in 2020 or 2021. The deadline for nominations is May 31, 2022. Please email nominations to j.phillips@utoronto.ca.
Previous Winners of the Saywell Prize
2020 – Professor Kent McNeil, Flawed Precedent: The St Catherine's Case and Aboriginal Title (UBC Press, 2019).
2018 – Peter H. Russell, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada's Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests (University of Toronto Press, 2017).
2015 – Hakeem Yusuf, Reader in Law, Strathclyde University: Colonial and Post-Colonial Constitutionalism in the Commonwealth: Peace, Order and Good Government (Routledge, 2014).
2013 – Michael S. Cross, Professor Emeritus of History at Dalhousie University, The Morning Star of Memory: A Biography of Robert Baldwin (Oxford University Press, 2012).
2011 – Douglas Harris, Professor, University of British Columbia Law School, Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
(University of British Columbia Press, 2009).
2009 – Janet Ajzenstat, Professor Emerita at McMaster University, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007).
Professor Doug Harris
Saywell Prize Recipient, 2011
R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Legal History
The R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Legal History was created in 2007, on the occasion of the retirement as Chief Justice of Ontario of the Hon. R. Roy McMurtry. It honours the contribution to Canadian legal history of Roy McMurtry, Attorney-General and Chief Justice of Ontario, founder of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and for many years the Society's President.
The fellowship of $16,000 is to support graduate (preferably doctoral) students or those with a recently completed doctorate, to conduct research in Canadian legal history, for one year. Scholars working on any topic in the field of Canadian legal history are eligible. Applicants should be in a graduate programme at an Ontario University or, if they have a completed doctorate, be affiliated with an Ontario University.
The fellowship may be held concurrently with other awards for graduate study. Eligibility is not limited to history and law programmes; persons in cognate disciplines such as criminology or political science may apply, provided the subject of the research they will conduct as a McMurtry fellow is Canadian legal history. The selection committee may take financial need into consideration. Applications will be assessed by a committee appointed by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Those interested in the 2020 fellowship should apply by sending a full c.v. and a statement of the research they would conduct as a McMurtry fellow to Amanda Campbell, McMurtry Fellowship Selection Committee, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, M5H 2N6. Or to amanda.campbell@osgoodesociety.ca. The deadline for applications is May 31, 2021.
Previous Winners of the McMurtry Fellowship
2020 – Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, a doctoral student in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, who is writing an intellectual history of Ētienne Parent, a leading Quebec constitutional thinker in the immediate pre- and post-Confederation period.
2020 – Honourable Mention: Michael Borsk is a Ph.D. student in history at Queen's University. He is researching the history of ideas about private property and sovereignty in Ontario and Michigan in the first half of the nineteenth century.
2020 – Honourable Mention: Krista Barclay received her PhD from the University of Manitoba and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is working on inheritance law in nineteenth-century British North America.
2019 – Anna Jarvis, a PhD student in the History Department at York University, who is working on the life and times of Edward Jarvis, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island from 1828 to 1852.
2019 – Filipo Sposini, PhD student in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, who is working on the law and practice of civil confinement for insanity in nineteenth-century Canada.
2018 – Chandra Murdoch, a PhD student in the History Department at the University of Toronto who is working on the application of the first Indian Act (1876) in Ontario.
2018 – Daniel Murchison, a PhD student in the History Department at York University, who is working on the effects of legal change on land-holding and family structure among the indigenous peoples of the Red River valley.
2017 – Dennis Molinaro , PhD from the University of Toronto, for study of the law of Canadian security measures and proceedings.
2016 – Jacqueline Briggs, a doctoral student in Criminology at the University of Toronto, for work on aboriginal peoples and criminal justice.
2015 – Elizabeth Koester, a doctoral student in history at the University of Toronto, for work on eugenics in twentieth century Ontario.
2014 – Peter Price, completing a doctorate in history at Queen's University, and working on a post-doctoral project on lawyers and legal and constitutional thought in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Canada.
2013 – Edward Cavanagh, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, is working on the history of chartered companies in Canada, with specific reference to their role in land settlement and the development of doctrines related to aboriginal dispossession.
2013 – Joseph Dunlop, who recently obtained his PhD from oxford, will be a fellow and Emanuel College, University of Toronto, working on the role played by Catholic politicians in the various law reforms related to sexuality of the 1960s and 1970s.
2012 – Patrick Connor, a post-doctoral student in history at York University, for work on a history of crime and punishment in Upper Canada.
2011 – Daniel Rueck, a research associate at the University of Western Ontario, for his post-doctoral work on land use and allocation on Mohwak reserves.
2010 – Claire Mumme, a doctoral student in legal history at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, for a project on The History of the Contract of Employment in Twentieth Century Canada.
2010 – Stacey Alexopoulos, a doctoral student in the Department of History, York University, who is writing a thesis on the development of property rules governing housing on aboriginal reserves since 1951.
2009 – Mary Stokes, a doctoral student in legal history at Osgoode Hall Law School, for a study of municipal law in nineteenth-century Ontario.
2008 – Dr. Melanie Brunet, for work on legal education in the twentieth century
2008 – Bradley Miller, a history Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, for work on the history of Canadian extradition.
Roy McMurtry
Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History
The Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History was established by the Society in 2006 in honour of Professor Peter Oliver, the Society's founding editor-in-chief. The prize is awarded annually for published work (journal article, book chapter, book) in Canadian legal history written by a student.
Students in any discipline at any stage of their careers are eligible. The Society takes a broad view of legal history, one that includes work in socio-legal history, legal culture, etc., as well as work on the history of legal institutions, legal personnel, and substantive law.
Students may self-nominate their published work, and faculty members are also encouraged to nominate student work of which they are aware. Those nominating their own work should send a copy of it to the Society.
The deadline for nominations for the 2020 Prize, to be awarded for work published in 2020, is May 31, 2021.
Please send nominations to Professor Jim Phillips, Editor-in-Chief, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 2N6, or by email to j.phillips@utoronto.ca.
Previous Winners of the Peter Oliver Prize
2020 – Jacqueline Briggs, 'Exemplary Punishment: T.R.L. MacInnes, The Department of Indian Affairs, and Indigenous Executions, 1936-1952″, Canadian Historical Review Vol 100, 2019.
2019 – Suzanne Chiodo, The Class Actions Controversy: The Origins and Development of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, (Irwin Law, 2018).
2018 – David Sandomierski, 'Tension and Reconciliation in Canadian Contract Law Casebooks,' Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol 54 , 2017.
2017 – Jason Hall, 'High Freshets and Low-Lying Farms: Property Law and St John River Flooding in Colonial New Brunswick', Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol 39, 2016.
2016 – Dennis Molinaro, 'Section 98: The Trial of Rex v. Buck et al and the 'State of Exception' in Canada, 1919-1936′, in Barry Wright, Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie, eds., Canadian State Trials Volume IV: Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939 (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press, 2015).
2015 – Edward Cavanagh, 'Possession and Dispossession in Corporate New France, 1600-1663: Debunking a "Juridical History" and Revisiting Terra Nullius,' Law and History Review, vol 32, 2014.
2015 – Tyler Wentzell, 'The Court and that Cataracts: The Creation of the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park and the Ontario Court of Appeal,' Ontario History, vol 106, 2014.
2014 – Mary Stokes, 'Grand Juries and 'Proper Authorities": Low Law, Soft Law, and Local Government in Canada West/Ontario, 1850-1880', in G. Blaine Baker and Donald Fyson, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume XI Quebec and the Canadas (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press, 2013).
2013 – Susan McKelvey, 'Creating the Myth of Raceless Justice in the Murder Trial of R. v. Richardson, Sandwich, 1903.'
2013 – David Steeves, 'Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car: The Case of Daniel Perry Samson, 1933-1935.'
Both essays were published as chapters in Barrington Walker, ed., The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Osgoode Society, 2012).
2012 – Edward Cavanaugh, 'A Company with Sovereignty and Subjects of Its Own? The Case of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1763', Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol 26, 2011.
2011 – Jonathon Penney, 'Ivan Rand's Ancient Constitutionalism, 'University of New Brunswick Law Journal , Vol 61, 2010.
2010 – Bradley Miller, " 'A Carnival of Crime on our Border:' International Law, Imperial Power, and Extradition in Canada, 1865-1883," Canadian Historical Review, vol 90, 2009.
2009 – Myles Leslie, "Reforming the Coroner: Death Investigation Manuals in Ontario, 1863-1894,' Ontario History, vol 100, 2008.
2008 – Eric Adams, "Canada's 'Newer Constitutional Law' and the Idea of Constitutional Rights," McGill Law Journal, vol 51, 2006.
Other Student Awards
Student Book Award.
The Society, in co-operation with Canadian law schools, offers an annual book award to a graduating student deemed to have done excellent work in legal history. The Society provides one book from its back list and also a current membership, including the annual publication, to such a student in each participating Canadian Law School.
Law Society Of Upper Canada/Osgoode Society Award Of Excellence.
Since 2000 the Law Society and the Osgoode Society have presented Osgoode Society memberships to the top 15 graduating students in each of Ontario's law schools.


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The Road To Haymarket
By Randell Brantley
Section: Blog
Subjects: Uncategorized
The Road to Haymarket, May Day, and its Relevance Today
Monday 2 May 2011 at 7.30pm for 8.00pm start
Cube Microplex, Dove St South, Bristol BS2 8JD
£4/3/no one turned away through lack of funds
On the 125th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, and hot on the heels of the Bristol May Day Parade, Bristol Indymedia and the Anarchist Bookfair Collective presentan evening of films and discussion looking at the origins of International Workers Day and the relevance of labour movement struggles and trade unions today.
The struggle for a 40 hour week and the murder by cops of striking workers in Chicago in May 1886 led directly to the events of 4 May in Haymarket, of more deaths and the conviction of 8 mainly anarchist workers who became known as the Haymarket Martyrs. May Day became International Workers Day in 1889 in commemoration of the murder of 4 of them by the state, and of the struggles of workers internationally.
Tonights first film is a US Labor Beat 1986 documentary 'The Road to Haymarket' (28mins). It traces the varied struggles of American and migrant workers in the years before 1886, includes archive images, and re-enacts key moments and speeches from the Haymarket events.
The second film is a cut-up of 'Trainwreck of the Ideologies 1 & 2' (20mins approx), also by Labor Beat. This looks at the conflicts which arose at the unveiling of 2 memorials in 1998 and 2004 to the Haymarket Affair. Whilst no anarchists were allowed to speak at these events, speakers included a catholic priest, government reps, and a police spokesman, as once again our radical past was airbrushed away.
An open discussion will follow on the importance of our histories of struggle, and the relevance of May Day and trade unions to struggles today. All welcome.
Some background reading on May Day, with further links at this article: A mayday for May Day?
On the 125th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, and hot on the heels of
the Bristol May Day Parade, Bristol Indymedia and the Anarchist Bookfair
Collective presentan evening of films and discussion looking at the
origins of International Workers Day and the relevance of labour movement
struggles and trade unions today.
The struggle for a 40 hour week and the murder by cops of striking workers
in Chicago in May 1886 led directly to the events of 4 May in Haymarket,
of more deaths and the conviction of 8 mainly anarchist workers who became
known as the Haymarket Martyrs. May Day became International Workers Day
in 1889 in commemoration of the murder of 4 of them by the state, and of
the struggles of workers internationally.
Tonights first film is a US Labor Beat 1986 documentary 'The Road to
Haymarket' (28mins). It traces the varied struggles of American and
migrant workers in the years before 1886, includes archive images, and
re-enacts key moments and speeches from the Haymarket events.
The second film is a cut-up of 'Trainwreck of the Ideologies 1 & 2'
(20mins approx), also by Labor Beat. This looks at the conflicts which
arose at the unveiling of 2 memorials in 1998 and 2004 to the Haymarket
Affair. Whilst no anarchists were allowed to speak at these events,
speakers included a catholic priest, government reps, and a police
spokesman, as once again our radical past was airbrushed away.
An open discussion will follow on the importance of our histories of
struggle, and the relevance of May Day and trade unions to struggles
today. All welcome.
Some background reading on May Day, with further links at this article: A
mayday for May Day? (see http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/?p=1214)
Bristol and the Labour Unrest of 1910-14
Facing up to the Fascists
Poaching in the South West
Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country to 1950
The War after the War
Yesterday's To-morrow
Bristol 1831: The Queens Square Uprising
A Family Who Had Rather Live By Their Wits Than Their Work
Ogden's Cigarette Cards - Smugglers & Smuggling, 1932
Dorothy Hazard And Other Bristol Separatists
Rosemary Green Burial Ground Data
Army of Shadows
Wiltshire's Radical History
The Blood Never Dried
Central Labour College
Manituana
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Водоём — постоянное или временное скопление стоячей или со сниженным стоком воды в естественных или искусственных впадинах (озёра, водохранилища, пруды и т. д.). В широком смысле — также обозначение морей и океанов. Изучением водоёмов занимается наука гидрология.

Водоёмы образуются при наличии на поверхности замкнутых котловин и превышения притока воды в это углубление над потерями её на фильтрацию в грунт и испарение.

Водоёмы могут быть постоянными и временными, возникающими лишь в многоводные периоды года. К таким водоёмам относят старицы и лужи, возникающие весной при разливах крупных рек.

По химическому составу и количеству солей, растворённых в воде, водоёмы разделяются на солёные и пресные.
Физические, химические и биологические процессы в водоёмах протекают различно, в зависимости от того, к какому типу они относятся.

Виды водоёмов

 Океан
 Море
 Озеро
Лиман
 Пруд
 Старица
 Водохранилище

К искусственным водоёмам относятся выработанные карьеры, водохранилища, пруды, запруды, бассейны.

Флора
Растения водоёма разнообразны по форме. В пресных водоёмах растут камыши, рогоз и тростник, роголистник, осока, аир, ряска, пузырчатка, сусак, кубышка и другие. Рис очень любит влагу, и его побеги растут прямо из воды. В солёных водоёмах растут более 30 тысяч видов водорослей.

См. также
 Водотоки (река, канал, арык и т. п.) — водные объекты, характеризуемые постоянным или временным движением воды в русле (в отличие от водоёмов со стоячей водой).

Примечания

Литература
 Чеботарев А. И. Гидрологический словарь. Л.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1978, 308 с.

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Typically, dismemberment claims under Florida's Worker's Compensation laws are treated similarly to amputation claims. The fundamental difference? The time of the loss of the limb or other body part. Dismemberments, if they occur, will typically occur quickly, many times happening at the work. Amputations, on the other hand, occur after the accident, usually in the hospital at the hands of a surgeon. Plainly, the loss of an arm, or a leg can be devastating. Similarly, losing a hand or a foot can be a loss like no other. One knows they are the same person that they were before the workplace accident, yet they feel like less of a person. Evolving and adapting to any amputation is a gradual process. Still, you are no doubt grateful and relieved to be alive if the accident was serious enough. With this, however, reality is not changed: you, and those who care for you, must live with the grief and physical challenge an amputation brings. This is never easy.
In the immediate future after an amputation, your wound needs time to heal. Commonly, amputees will experience phantom pains due to nerve endings and the way they work. Over the long term, you will need to adapt, getting used to moving around or dealing with the fact that you have a permanent disability because you are missing a body part.
Financially, the immediate expenses a hurt worker will incur as a result of their workplace amputation involve ambulance bills and emergency room care, surgery and other follow-up medical services. Further, you will in all likelihood need close monitoring of your injured limb, focusing on prevention of infection. Finally, there is a decent chance you will miss a large amount of work and will need compensation to make up for your missed pay.
Regarding longer term financial costs, medical equipment, prosthetic limbs, and therapy (physical, occupational and psychological) will likely be needed. Also, you may need job retraining. In certain circumstance, people who suffer amputations have such a difficult time recovering well enough to make a living comparable to that that they earned before their workplace related accident. Specifically, occupations such as construction workers, musicians and repairmen may find it hard if not impossible to work as they did previously at similar jobs in the future. If you find yourself in such a situation, call with worker's compensation attorneys at LeavenLaw to discuss your case.


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What capture device and switcher are you using and why?
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Fantastic! The quality looks great on your shows.
Do you use 3 Canon HF G20s on your guests too?
Do you send your audio to your 3.5mm microphone input on your camera?
Logitech C910 and C920. Cheap and easy. Plus, our show is done by a Google Hangout, so the video and audio are not critical.


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Amaya, Laura, Agustin Espinosa, and Laura Vozmediano. "Relaciones entre el miedo al delito y el autoritarismo de derecha en estudiantes universitarios de Lima-Peru." Boletin de Psicologia (2011).
Lewandowski, Laura B, Melissa H Watt, Laura E Schanberg, Nathan M Thielman, and Christiaan Scott. "Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study." Pediatric Rheumatology 15, no. 1 (2017): 14.
MacLehose, Laura, and Martin McKee. Health care systems in transition: Republic of Moldova. 5th ed. Vol. 4. : European Observatory on Health Care Systems, 2002.
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Rossi, Laura, Daniel Verna, and Susie L Villeneuve. "The humanitarian emergency in Burundi: evaluation of the operational strategy for management of nutritional crisis." Public health nutrition 11, no. 07 (2008): 699-705.
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Transformers: War for Cybertron Review
Transformers is one of those long running series that is imbued with some kind of rose smelling superpower. You see, much like other age-old cartoon series like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers has suffered from a myriad of developers and directors shoveling huge mounds of shit on top of the license and yet there still seems to be a large public demand for the product. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed watching the Autobots battle the Decepticons as a child. I remained a fan through the excellent Beast Wars series, but then it started happening.
The Autobot hero of Michael Bay's Transformers 3
Ka-thunk, a steaming pile of Beast Machines lumped onto the franchise. Ka-thunk, shovel in a rank load of Transformers: Armada. Oh, what? Optimus Prime can't breathe under all of this shit? Screw it, he's a robot, he doesn't even have lungs. Let's give the whole thing to Michael Bay. He doesn't kill children's dreams, right? Autobots, transform and roll-gargle gargle, blecht. Oh, Optimus, at least they won't make another terrible cartoon of you while you hiding under all that fecal matter… what? Transformers Animated? Why do they all look like cats? Nooooooo! With the franchise buried so deep under all this crap, you'd think it would take a fleet of Constructicons to dig them out, but can the new Transformers: War for Cybertron give the Transformers the pressure washing they've needed since 1998?
From a gameplay standpoint, War for Cybertron follows a fairly traditional formula. The game is a heavy third-person shooter that feels like the love child of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 2004. Where this may make it sound like the messiah for the series, you have to remember that the baby is still buried under a ton of robo-poo. From Gears of War, the game takes the "shoot a bunch of enemies and then run to the next bunch of enemies" play style, and from Unreal the game takes the "run like a crazy person while shooting without any shred of precision" aspect. Together they make an entertaining, if not generic, scrap fest. You'll often find yourself jumping like a madman hoping that your braindead AI partners block the bullets long enough for you to try to get close enough to one-hit melee the enemies. However, some of the boss battles are so huge and over-the-top, that you can forgive the thousand clone troops running at you aimlessly hoping that you'll kill them before the next movie sequel. Who knew Jazz was the lucky one?
Oh, Optimus Prime, why can't you always look this good?
Still, these aspects do not prevent the single player from being fun, and if a game can overcome being generic,that's a really good sign about its quality. Any time you can find a second to transform, the game's fun level rises dramatically. The transformations are incredibly smooth and can lead to some impressive scenarios. I found myself ramping off a cliff at high-speed, transforming in mid-air and hitting a flying Autobot in the face before grenading the remaining three bots still on the ground below me. Similarly, the banter that occurs between your team of Autobots or Decepticons is often witty and ads a much needed life to the characters. You'll find yourself pressing forward just to reach the next cut-scene or conversational piece and nergasm when someone makes a statement that you remember from your childhood. Sadly, some of the environments suffer from the constant-metallic-hallways syndrome. But the strange rule that everything on Cybertron has to transform in some way livens up some of the dreary repetitive areas.
Speaking of things you remember, the War for Cybertron's story has very little to do with any of the cartoons or movies that have been released, and before you make any judgment, this is a GOOD thing. The story remains fairly interesting and gives some unique background information to the more popular transformers like Starscream and Optimus Prime. It takes place before the Transformers crash-land on earth and follows Megatron's crusade to take over the Transformer's home planet with a powerful weapon known as Dark Energon. The game lets you take the side of both Decepticon and Autobot, but sadly can be finished in a little less than eight hours. The designs for the characters are dramatically different as well. They are developed to be an alternate form of what each of your favorite robots might have looked like before they saw what earth vehicles looked like. In the end, both serve as a major driving force for the games replayability.
Most fights come down to who can melee the fastest.
What really sells the game, however, is the online. It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a shooter's online system, but I felt that War for Cybertron delivers in spades here. The online consists of several versus modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Power Struggle (Zones), Conquest (King of the Hill),Code of Power (Capture the Flag) and Countdown to Extinction (Bomb). The varied array of flyers, tanks, cars and trucks make each battle a hectic and exciting affair. From the stealth scouts to the firepower heavy Soldiers, each battle ends up being an insane war reminiscent of the classic Unreal days. In addition to the versus modes are two co-op campaigns. The two modes are Escalation, which has players fighting against waves of AI- controlled enemies that increase in difficulty as time moves on and a three player Story Co-op. Now would be a good time to say the Story Co-op is ONLINE ONLY. I was very disappointed that, once again, local co-op was overlooked, but if you have no friends nearby, it is a welcome addition.
So, is Transformers: War for Cyberton the divine flood that will wash away the Brown Energon deposits that have buried the series? In a word, no. If you are not already a fan of the Transformers you are going to find very little joy from this game, but if you're turned on by the idea of a transforming boombox you should at least give this game a rent. The voice acting nostalgia alone will make it worth the minimal time you put in. The game may not be the clean wash we were all hoping for, but it is a sick-ass shovel that can transform into a robot and help you begin digging your favorite franchise out of the murk.
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Exp. release 2014, October
110.3g, 6.9mm thickness
Android 4.4.4 (KitKat), upgradable to 6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
16 GB, 1/1.5 GB RAM
8 MP,Photo / Video
1.5 GB RAM
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - all versions
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - A300F, A300FU, A300G, A300HQ, A300M, A300YZ
LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800) - A300F, A300FU
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 17(700) - A300M,LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 40(2300) - A300G,LTE band 3(1800), 7(2600), 8(900), 28(700) - A300YZ
Available. Released 2014, December
Aluminum frame, plastic back
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Q: Как в javaFX запретить ввод в TextArea Решил помучать javaFX, но столкнулся с проблемой вывода информации.
Самым оптимальным выходом я нашел использование класса TextArea и запрета на ввод данных в него.
Но в сети не нашел ни одного ответа на то, как можно реализовать данную идею.

A: Как найти ответ
Посмотрим документацию, первая ссылка по запросу javaFX textarea гуглу

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/control/TextArea.html

пункт

Properties inherited from class javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl
anchor, caretPosition, editable, font, length, promptText, redoable,
selectedText, selection, textFormatter, text, undoable

нажимаем на editable (редактируемый с англ.)
Узнаем что класс имеет поле editable, которое показывает, может ли пользователь редактировать текст.

public final BooleanProperty editableProperty
Indicates whether this TextInputControl can be edited by the user.
See Also: isEditable(), setEditable(boolean)

А главное, находим метод setEditable(boolean) через который можно выставить значение для этого поля

Собственно ответ:
textArea.setEditable(false);

A: Не актуально конечно, но можно зайти в SceneBuilder и там снять галочку с пункта Editable =)

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How do Dutch people think about their online privacy?
Fox-IT's Chief Security Expert Frank Groenewegen and Fox-IT's ethical hacker Sanne Maasakkers in the broadcast of Radio Eenvandaag. How do Dutch people think about their online privacy?


Today I saw a photo from a videographer and it appealed to me. In this instance I asked Geoff (https://www.facebook.com/geoff.gilfeddervideographer?fref=photo), a friend through the wedding industry, if I could use the photo. His response was "Sure you can Julie! I regard anything on FB as anyone's!" I thought that was a realistic response in today's digital world.
So I used the photo on one of my Facebook pages and in doing so gave a plug for Geoff and what he does. Yes a videographer.
When I look at Facebook, I am always stalking photographers and other people in the wedding industry with a view to sharing the lovely work that they do with a wide circle of people.
In the Canterbury Wedding Forum, I share anything that is new and of interest to those people getting married. I often ask questions on behalf of brides and others provide feedback and photos. Often I think I have the answers as being in the industry for 15 years gives me a depth of understanding and knowledge about what goes on. I try not to influence couples to much as I like them to have the day they dream of.
I have other pages in my series of Canterbury Forum pages so always am on the lookout for interesting things to share.
At a wedding the other day a lovely couple was telling me that next year they will be married for 40 years. I really don't think they look old enough to have been married that length of time. Anyway, they said that when they married they had their parents wedding not their own wedding. What do I mean? When they married 40 years ago the parents paid for weddings and invited the people who were their friends and the young couple's friends never got invited.
I like that times have changed. I believe couples these day might have financial contributions from parents or other parties but I believe most couples pay for the wedding themselves and hence they have control over the invitation list.
So where am I going with this blog? Not sure really, other than to say, I always acknowledge the business, I am sharing and hope they share my business, but that doesn't happen very often.
Geoff "Bee Photo Bomb"! It happened on my wedding from the 31.01.2015."
That's so sad about the couple whose parents invited only their friends! Times definitely have changed, and while my parents and inlaws and I shared the costs around, I definitely had everyone there that I wanted. (over 200 and there could have been more as it was somewhat of an open invitation for a couple churches we've been a part of. :) ) We also had a small table on the day with a special cake for my parents as it was the weekend of their 25th anniversary, and it was so precious to honour their beautiful marriage at the start of our own.


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Double Visions and Disappearing Acts: Six Works by Salvador Dalí
Get ready for the opening of the Dalí exhibition with a look at three pairs of paintings by the famed Surrealist.
Baltimore (Object made in)
Mahogany, mahogany veneer, poplar, oak, ebony, ivory, ormolu, and brass
Labeled: "J. Stewart/Baltimore/Hanover Street" Stamped inside at right: "JA## Stewart **1818##"
83.2 × 170.2 × 64.1 cm (32 3/4 × 67 × 25 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Herbert McLaughlin
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Stiles T. Colwill, Expatriated Masterpieces of Maryland's Cabinetmakers, in Maryland Antiques Show and Sale, Museum and Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society, February 14–17, 1985, 71–2 (ill.).
Ruth Davidson, Museum Accessions in The Magazine Antiques, v. CII, no. 3 (Sept, 1972), 361–2, 370 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, 24 (ill.).
Gregory R. Weidman, Furniture in Maryland 1740–1940, Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 1984, 148, note 9.
Milo M. Naeve, Identifying American Furniture, Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local HIstory, 1989, 2nd ed., 19, no. 50 (ill.).
Weidman, Gregory R., Jennifer F. Goldsborough, et al., Classical Maryland 1815–1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age, Maryland Historial Society and the Museum and Library of Maryland History, 1993, 132, 138 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 143–147, no. 62.
James Dwight Brewer (1819-1886), Springfield, MA; to Edward Spaulding Brewer (1846-1911); to Edward Harris Brewer (1874-1964), Connecticut; to Corrine Brewer (Mrs. Herbert) McLaughlin (1911-1989), Lake Forest, IL by 1970; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.
Drawing Room Cabinet, 1871/72
Bruce James Talbert
Hanging Box with Lid, 1891
Box, c. 1850
Sideboard, 1876/80
Herter Brothers
Alexander Roux
Cabinet, 1878/80
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Etagère, 1850/70
Chest of Drawers, 1878/84
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The third 16 have been watched and weighted and whittled down to 8. The previous two quadrants are both going to be represented in the Final Four by 10 bug films in Big Fish and The Nines. The Oxford Quadrant also has that opportunity with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but that doesn't necessarily make it a guarantee. After all, we've already seen the tournament's biggest upset in The Man Who Wasn't There (4) knock off Tower Heist (7) in the first round. Who the heck knows what mood I'll be in on any given minute?
Whether it's indicative of my grading getting harsher as we go on or maybe I'm just watching worse and worse movies, the QBA (Quadrant Bug Average) has been continually going down from 6.31 in the Philadelphia Quadrant to a 5.91 in the Baltimore Quadrant to a less-than-average 4.91 in the Oxford Quadrant. Thankfully, I'm all through with the Planet of the Apes franchise and can get onto the potential Oscar nominees in the DC Quadrant. And then hopefully, I can stop doing this for good. Because this ridiculous endeavor is eating up way too much of my damn website and writing efforts.
But for now, let the games continue.


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Q: How to change the theme of Snap Apps? I am enjoying the new "snap" applications, but apps installed using this method doesn't seem to be using the system gtk theme I have set.
Some use Adwaita or worse, Raleigh.
How can I have them use the standard Ambience theme I'm using across the whole system?

A: Snap now has GTK theming support, however it requires to have the same theme installed as a snap which you have chosen on your system.
The official gtk-common-themes snap contains Adwaita, Adwaita-Dark, Ambiance, Arc, Arc-Dark, Arc-Darker, Breeze, Breeze-Dark, Communitheme, elementary, HighContrast, Radiance, and Yaru.
There is also adapta-theme and adapta-gtk-snap as well as gtk2-common-themes for GTK2 apps.
If you're not using one of these themes, I believe you're currently out of luck.

A: I replaced the snap packages with the apt packages.
snap list
I do the following replacement:
sudo snap remove gnome-calculator gnome-characters gnome-system-monitor gnome-logs
sudo apt install gnome-calculator gnome-characters gnome-system-monitor gnome-logs

Now the theme defined in tweak applied to these apps.

A: In some cases, you can force the snap to start with a theme by using the enviromental variable like this
GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark /snap/bin/libreoffice.writer

A: The issue is being tracked here: themes currently don't work with snaps yet.

A: If your theme is not available as a snap, a quick and easy fix is to automatically mount the whole themes folder on top of your snap after reboot.
So for example if you're trying to theme Shutter, you would
sudo crontab -e

And add the following line:
@reboot mount --bind -o nodev,ro /usr/share/themes /snap/shutter/current/usr/share/themes


When someone suggests you need to hire a personal injury attorney, many people may think personal injury claims are just a remedy for car accidents. The truth is, car accident claims are just one type of personal injury claim. Every day, people are injured due to someone's negligence, defective products, animal bites, etc. If someone else or a business is responsible for your injuries, then you have a personal injury claim.
Products liability cases involve dangerous and defective products. These can cause serious injuries to people and can be in public places, at work, or in your home. Products that lack sufficient warnings or operating instructions can also lead to someone being injured. Products liability cases can involve children's products, food, toxic materials, medical devices, and more.
Premises liability cases involve a defective or dangerous condition on someone else's property. They can happen almost anywhere, from your neighbor's home to a gas station across town. Common locations for premises liability claims are swimming pools, malls, grocery stores, restaurants, sidewalks, etc. Accidents that fall under the category of premises liability include swimming pool-related injuries, dog bites, and slip and falls. Depending on the circumstances, the property owner may owe a different duty of care. For example, the property owner would have a higher duty of care to someone invited onto the property versus someone who was trespassing.
Getting injured on the job is common. If you're injured at your workplace, you can file for workers' compensation benefits. In situations where you are denied benefits or are not compensated what you deserve, it's possible to retain a South Carolina workers' compensation attorney. There are also limited situations where you might be able to file a third-party claim against someone other than your employer if they were negligent and caused you to be injured at work.
Medical malpractice claims typically involve serious injuries and, in many cases, death. These can be very complex cases, especially if there is a wrongful death claim involved. It's important to speak with a South Carolina medical malpractice attorney right away as these claims are very time sensitive. Medical malpractice claims don't have to be as serious as a mistake during surgery; it can also be something like improperly prescribed medication.
Personal injury claims aren't necessarily always physical injuries. In defamation claims, the harm is to your reputation. Libel is written defamation while slander is verbal defamation. In these cases, you need to show that the statement was not true and it caused you harm. For example, if someone said something that caused you to lose your job, you could have a viable defamation claim.
The aforementioned are only some of the injuries that fall under the broad category of personal injury claims. If you suffered injuries and/or a financial loss due to someone else's negligence, contact the Elrod Pope Law Firm at 803-599-3080 to schedule a consultation.


Mr. Johnson, the author of Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire, is now working on the third volume of his trilogy, Nemesis: The Crisis of the American Republic (due out in 2006).
In the months before he ordered the invasion of Iraq, George Bush and his senior officials spoke of preserving Iraq's"patrimony" for the Iraqi people. At a time when talking about Iraqi oil was taboo, what he meant by patrimony was exactly that -- Iraqi oil. In their"joint statement on Iraq's future" of April 8, 2003, George Bush and Tony Blair declared,"We reaffirm our commitment to protect Iraq's natural resources, as the patrimony of the people of Iraq, which should be used only for their benefit." In this they were true to their word. Among the few places American soldiers actually did guard during and in the wake of their invasion were oil fields and the Oil Ministry in Baghdad. But the real Iraqi patrimony, that invaluable human inheritance of thousands of years, was another matter. At a time when American pundits were warning of a future" clash of civilizations," our occupation forces were letting perhaps the greatest of all human patrimonies be looted and smashed.
In archaeological circles, Iraq is known as"the cradle of civilization," with a record of culture going back more than 7,000 years. William R. Polk, the founder of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, says,"It was there, in what the Greeks called Mesopotamia, that life as we know it today began: there people first began to speculate on philosophy and religion, developed concepts of international trade, made ideas of beauty into tangible forms, and, above all developed the skill of writing." No other places in the Bible except for Israel have more history and prophecy associated with them than Babylonia, Shinar (Sumer), and Mesopotamia -- different names for the territory that the British around the time of World War I began to call"Iraq," using the old Arab term for the lands of the former Turkish enclave of Mesopotamia (in Greek:"between the [Tigris and Eurphrates] rivers"). Most of the early books of Genesis are set in Iraq (see, for instance, Genesis 10:10, 11:31; also Daniel 1-4; II Kings 24).
The best-known of the civilizations that make up Iraq's cultural heritage are the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Parthians, Sassanids, and Muslims. On April 10, 2003, in a television address, President Bush acknowledged that the Iraqi people are"the heirs of a great civilization that contributes to all humanity."[4.] Only two days later, under the complacent eyes of the U.S. Army, the Iraqis would begin to lose that heritage in a swirl of looting and burning.
In September 2004, in one of the few self-critical reports to come out of Donald Rumsfeld's Department of Defense, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication wrote:"The larger goals of U.S. strategy depend on separating the vast majority of non-violent Muslims from the radical-militant Islamist-Jihadists. But American efforts have not only failed in this respect: they may also have achieved the opposite of what they intended." Nowhere was this failure more apparent than in the indifference -- even the glee -- shown by Rumsfeld and his generals toward the looting on April 11 and 12, 2003, of the National Museum in Baghdad and the burning on April 14, 2003, of the National Library and Archives as well as the Library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowments. These events were, according to Paul Zimansky, a Boston University archaeologist,"the greatest cultural disaster of the last 500 years." Eleanor Robson of All Souls College, Oxford, said,"You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale." Yet Secretary Rumsfeld compared the looting to the aftermath of a soccer game and shrugged it off with the comment that"Freedom's untidy. . . . Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes."
The Baghdad archaeological museum has long been regarded as perhaps the richest of all such institutions in the Middle East. It is difficult to say with precision what was lost there in those catastrophic April days in 2003 because up-to-date inventories of its holdings, many never even described in archaeological journals, were also destroyed by the looters or were incomplete thanks to conditions in Baghdad after the Gulf War of 1991. One of the best records, however partial, of its holdings is the catalog of items the museum lent in 1988 to an exhibition held in Japan's ancient capital of Nara entitled Silk Road Civilizations. But, as one museum official said to John Burns of the New York Times after the looting,"All gone, all gone. All gone in two days."
The 616 pieces that form the famous collection of"Nimrud gold," excavated by the Iraqis in the late 1980s from the tombs of the Assyrian queens at Nimrud, a few miles southeast of Mosul, were saved, but only because the museum had secretly moved them to the subterranean vaults of the Central Bank of Iraq at the time of the first Gulf War. By the time the Americans got around to protecting the bank in 2003, its building was a burnt-out shell filled with twisted metal beams from the collapse of the roof and all nine floors under it. Nonetheless, the underground compartments and their contents survived undamaged. On July 3, 2003, a small portion of the Nimrud holdings was put on display for a few hours, allowing a handful of Iraqi officials to see them for the first time since 1990.
The torching of books and manuscripts in the Library of Korans and the National Library was in itself a historical disaster of the first order. Most of the Ottoman imperial documents and the old royal archives concerning the creation of Iraq were reduced to ashes. According to Humberto Márquez, the Venezuelan writer and author of Historia Universal de La Destrucción de Los Libros (2004), about a million books and ten million documents were destroyed by the fires of April 14, 2003. Robert Fisk, the veteran Middle East correspondent of the Independent of London, was in Baghdad the day of the fires. He rushed to the offices of the U.S. Marines' Civil Affairs Bureau and gave the officer on duty precise map locations for the two archives and their names in Arabic and English, and pointed out that the smoke could be seen from three miles away. The officer shouted to a colleague,"This guy says some biblical library is on fire," but the Americans did nothing to try to put out the flames.
In January 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, an American delegation of scholars, museum directors, art collectors, and antiquities dealers met with officials at the Pentagon to discuss the forthcoming invasion. They specifically warned that Baghdad's National Museum was the single most important site in the country. McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute said,"I thought I was given assurances that sites and museums would be protected." Gibson went back to the Pentagon twice to discuss the dangers, and he and his colleagues sent several e-mail reminders to military officers in the weeks before the war began. However, a more ominous indicator of things to come was reported in the April 14, 2003, London Guardian: Rich American collectors with connections to the White House were busy"persuading the Pentagon to relax legislation that protects Iraq's heritage by prevention of sales abroad." On January 24, 2003, some sixty New York-based collectors and dealers organized themselves into a new group called the American Council for Cultural Policy and met with Bush administration and Pentagon officials to argue that a post-Saddam Iraq should have relaxed antiquities laws. Opening up private trade in Iraqi artifacts, they suggested, would offer such items better security than they could receive in Iraq.
The main international legal safeguard for historically and humanistically important institutions and sites is the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, signed on May 14, 1954. The U.S. is not a party to that convention, primarily because, during the Cold War, it feared that the treaty might restrict its freedom to engage in nuclear war; but during the 1991 Gulf War the elder Bush's administration accepted the convention's rules and abided by a"no-fire target list" of places where valuable cultural items were known to exist. UNESCO and other guardians of cultural artifacts expected the younger Bush's administration to follow the same procedures in the 2003 war.
Moreover, on March 26, 2003, the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), headed by Lt. Gen. (ret.) Jay Garner -- the civil authority the U.S. had set up for the moment hostilities ceased -- sent to all senior U.S. commanders a list of sixteen institutions that"merit securing as soon as possible to prevent further damage, destruction, and/or pilferage of records and assets." The five-page memo dispatched two weeks before the fall of Baghdad also said,"Coalition forces must secure these facilities in order to prevent looting and the resulting irreparable loss of cultural treasures" and that"looters should be arrested/detained." First on Gen. Garner's list of places to protect was the Iraqi Central Bank, which is now a ruin; second was the Museum of Antiquities. Sixteenth was the Oil Ministry, the only place that U.S. forces occupying Baghdad actually defended. Martin Sullivan, chair of the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for the previous eight years, and Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and a member of the committee, both resigned to protest the failure of CENTCOM to obey orders. Sullivan said it was"inexcusable" that the museum should not have had the same priority as the Oil Ministry.
As we now know, the American forces made no effort to prevent the looting of the great cultural institutions of Iraq, its soldiers simply watched vandals enter and torch the buildings. Said Arjomand, an editor of the journal Studies on Persianate Societies and a professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, wrote,"Our troops, who have been proudly guarding the Oil Ministry, where no window is broken, deliberately condoned these horrendous events." American commanders claim that, to the contrary, they were too busy fighting and had too few troops to protect the museum and libraries. However, this seems to be an unlikely explanation. During the battle for Baghdad, the U.S. military was perfectly willing to dispatch some 2,000 troops to secure northern Iraq's oilfields, and their record on antiquities did not improve when the fighting subsided. At the 6,000-year-old Sumerian city of Ur with its massive ziggurat, or stepped temple-tower (built in the period 2112 - 2095 B.C. and restored by Nebuchadnezzar II in the sixth century B.C.), the Marines spray-painted their motto,"Semper Fi" (semper fidelis, always faithful) onto its walls. The military then made the monument"off limits" to everyone in order to disguise the desecration that had occurred there, including the looting by U.S. soldiers of clay bricks used in the construction of the ancient buildings.
Until April 2003, the area around Ur, in the environs of Nasiriyah, was remote and sacrosanct. However, the U.S. military chose the land immediately adjacent to the ziggurat to build its huge Tallil Air Base with two runways measuring 12,000 and 9,700 feet respectively and four satellite camps. In the process, military engineers moved more than 9,500 truckloads of dirt in order to build 350,000 square feet of hangars and other facilities for aircraft and Predator unmanned drones. They completely ruined the area, the literal heartland of human civilization, for any further archaeological research or future tourism. On October 24, 2003, according to the Global Security Organization, the Army and Air Force built its own modern ziggurat. It"opened its second Burger King at Tallil. The new facility, co-located with [a] . . . Pizza Hut, provides another Burger King restaurant so that more service men and women serving in Iraq can, if only for a moment, forget about the task at hand in the desert and get a whiff of that familiar scent that takes them back home."
The great British archaeologist, Sir Max Mallowan (husband of Agatha Christie), who pioneered the excavations at Ur, Nineveh, and Nimrud, quotes some classical advice that the Americans might have been wise to heed:"There was danger in disturbing ancient monuments. . . . It was both wise and historically important to reverence the legacies of ancient times. Ur was a city infested with ghosts of the past and it was prudent to appease them."
The American record elsewhere in Iraq is no better. At Babylon, American and Polish forces built a military depot, despite objections from archaeologists. John Curtis, the British Museum's authority on Iraq's many archaeological sites, reported on a visit in December 2004 that he saw" cracks and gaps where somebody had tried to gouge out the decorated bricks forming the famous dragons of the Ishtar Gate" and a"2,600-year-old brick pavement crushed by military vehicles." Other observers say that the dust stirred up by U.S. helicopters has sandblasted the fragile brick façade of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon from 605 to 562 B.C. The archaeologist Zainab Bahrani reports,"Between May and August 2004, the wall of the Temple of Nabu and the roof of the Temple of Ninmah, both of the sixth century B.C., collapsed as a result of the movement of helicopters. Nearby, heavy machines and vehicles stand parked on the remains of a Greek theater from the era of Alexander of Macedon [Alexander the Great]."
President Bush's supporters have talked endlessly about his global war on terrorism as a" clash of civilizations." But the civilization we are in the process of destroying in Iraq is part of our own heritage. It is also part of the world's patrimony. Before our invasion of Afghanistan, we condemned the Taliban for their dynamiting of the monumental third century A.D. Buddhist statues at Bamiyan in March, 2001. Those were two gigantic statues of remarkable historical value and the barbarism involved in their destruction blazed in headlines and horrified commentaries in our country. Today, our own government is guilty of far greater crimes when it comes to the destruction of a whole universe of antiquity, and few here, when they consider Iraqi attitudes toward the American occupation, even take that into consideration. But what we do not care to remember, others may recall all too well.
[1.] American Embassy, London," Visit of President Bush to Northern Ireland, April 7-8, 2003."
[2.] William R. Polk,"Introduction," Milbry Polk and Angela M. H. Schuster, eds., The Looting of the Iraq Museum: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005), p. 5. Also see Suzanne Muchnic,"Spotlight on Iraq's Plundered Past," Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2005.
[4.] George Bush's address to the Iraqi people, broadcast on"Towards Freedom TV," April 10, 2003.
[6.] See Frank Rich,"And Now: 'Operation Iraqi Looting,'" New York Times, April 27, 2003.
[7.] Robert Scheer,"It's U.S. Policy that's 'Untidy,'" Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2003; reprinted in Books in Flames, Tomdispatch, April 15, 2003.
[8.] John F. Burns,"Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasures," New York Times, April 13, 2003; Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan), The Ransacking of the Baghdad Museum is a Disgrace, History News Network, April 14, 2003.
[11.] Polk and Schuster, op. cit., pp. 23, 212-13; Louise Jury,"At Least 8,000 Treasures Looted from Iraq Museum Still Untraced," Independent, May 24, 2005; Stephen Fidler,"'The Looters Knew What They Wanted. It Looks Like Vandalism, but Organized Crime May be Behind It,'" Financial Times, May 23, 2003; Rod Liddle, The Day of the Jackals, Spectator, April 19, 2003.
[13.] Robert Fisk,"Library Books, Letters, and Priceless Documents are Set Ablaze in Final Chapter of the Sacking of Baghdad," Independent, April 15, 2003.
[15.] Guy Gugliotta,"Pentagon Was Told of Risk to Museums; U.S. Urged to Save Iraq's Historic Artifacts," Washington Post, April 14, 2003; McGuire Gibson,"Cultural Tragedy In Iraq: A Report On the Looting of Museums, Archives, and Sites," International Foundation for Art Research.
[18.] Paul Martin, Ed Vulliamy, and Gaby Hinsliff, U.S. Army was Told to Protect Looted Museum, Observer, April 20, 2003; Frank Rich, op. cit.; Paul Martin,"Troops Were Told to Guard Treasures," Washington Times, April 20, 2003.
[25.] Zainab Bahrani,"The Fall of Babylon," in Polk and Schuster, op. cit., p. 214.
This essay is extracted from Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis: The Crisis of the American Republic, forthcoming from Metropolitan Books in late 2006, the final volume in the Blowback Trilogy. The first two volumes are Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000) and The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004).
This article first appeared on www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, a long time editor in publishing, the author of The End of Victory Culture, and a fellow of the Nation Institute.
Read Richard Clarke (no relation). His recollection is consistent with the facts, in contrast to Rove's propaganda.
Yes, I remember that episode, when any action on Iraq was sacrificed by Republicans in Congress obsessed with Clinton's private parts.
What happened at Abu Ghraib under the direct policies of Rumsfeld & Co were atrocities ("extremely cruel, brutal, and cruel acts"). Many a solid conservative voice has since called for resignation as a minimum punishment for this horror which would never have been exposed were it not for the guilty small fry photographing themselves.
To deliberate ignore and censor a vast array of intelligent and expert opinion warning against a sudden, hypocritical, half-assed, unplanned deception-ridden, and unilateral invasion of Iraq because Karl Rove thought it would help win the 2004 presidential election was at least arguably the act of traitors (those who "betray trust" and are "false to obligations and duties").
I got these definitions from my dictionary (Webster's). I suggest you use one as well, Mr. Ryan, and you could well begin by looking up and noting the differences between "hysterical" and "blunt" for one, and between "irrational" and "forthright", for another.
The "opinions and conclusions" of W, Rummy, etc, in Iraq were not just "different" than mine, they were different than 200 years of American policy and practice.
American troops were stationed all over Europe for decades after 1945, and, for the most part, welcomed there during that long time. It is doubtful whether this could have happened if America had invaded Germany in 1937 based on a Nazi-like doctrine of "pre-emptive attack" and tried to run it for the benefit of American companies. Nor did FDR "conclude" that he needed to invade Germany in 1939 in order to run as a "war president" in 1940. FDR had a lot of questionable policies, but he was not demonstrably incompetent.
Having an "opinion" that torture and humiliation is a legitimate tactic against prisoners, may be "different" but that does not make it acceptable.
Historical facts, like the failure to secure and guard ammunition respositories in Iraq in 2003 , or the deliberate suppression of intelligence that warned against the difficulties of ruling Iraq post-Saddam, are not matters of "opinion".
Thank God, Karl Rove does not write history books.
"They" or "their" are used approximately eight times in the above comment of Mr. Blake to mean, variously, Iraqis, Iraqi insurgents, Arab governments, citizens of Mideastern countries, Islamic extremists, terrorist groups, Arabs generally, and Moslems generally. This is the sort of shallow, crude, twisted, thoughtless and self-centered thinking that (in, of course, qutie different cultural and psychological contexts) leads to suicide bombings.
And G. W. Bush and his admin thought that the greatest national security requirement of the USA on September 10, 2001, was a multi-billion dollar whizz bang "missile defense system" to protect against intercontinental attack from China. On September 12, 2001 the greatest need was to invade Iraq. Paying attention to facts can yield profound insights.
This article could and probably will be condemned for going too far. For example, I doubt whether very many among even those who consider the Bush administration to be the worse in American history would go so far as to rank its cultural crimes in Iraq as "far worse" than those of Afghanistan's Taliban.
At the same time, however, the article is insufficient when it comes to connecting dots and drawing conclusions. The atrocities of the inept Bush admin. chickenhawks in Iraq go well beyond failing to rein in graffiti-spraying marines or stop looters, beyond even the crass dereliction of duty that led to a largely unplanned, haphazard, undermanned and unprovoked conquest of a country in defiance of American history and principles, and common sense.
The historical record is clear. The great war hero G.W. Bush was stumbling and bumbling around muttering about Iraq right away after 9-11, and the Afghanistan mission was cut back prematurely in order to ramp up for the Iraq fear-mongering BS campaign, plus Baghdad cakewalk fantasizing, plus flight deck landing photo op campaign ad manufacturing. Despite manifest foolishness throughout America's federal government it was, however, not possible to completely ignore the fact that Bin Laden and the Taliban were based in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
foreign affair business of this country; bit more agressive and open, but not completely out of the traditional line.
clear violation of the international laws and UN definitions of the agression, signed by the US goverments, will continue up to the second coming, as continues US presence in Afghanistan.
criminal folks can appreciate and respect.
was (and is) based on even more false premises and involved even more violations of international laws, there is no place for double standards now.
thier arguments on double standards, so I'm doubtful you'll be willing to even consider unbiased, non-partisan position on the issue in question.
First - if you dont yet understand why we went to war, stop reading DNC bumperstickers and use your brains. That aside - we are at war - like it or not folks - I trust that while you are against the war - that you remain respectful to our country and its troops and support your country. You dont have to agree - thats ok and thats American - but the minute you start slamming your troops you become more unamerican then you probably intended to.
of unprovoked agression, based on the falsified or, at the very least, deliberately distorted information, motivated by the imperialistic designs of the right-wing US elite and criminal greed of certain US-UK power interests' groups.
Since we live or want to live under democracy, i.e. the power of majority for majority, the opinions of relatively small minority of "men and women of good will"
lies below the level of statistical significance, to say the least.
I respectfully ask that all citizens read the excellently researched writings of this truly important learned gentleman.
It seems to me that it is hysterical and irrational to resort to excessive hyperbole, name-calling, and condescension to support your arguments. For example, the rhetorical excess you used in calling what happened at Abu Ghraib an "atrocity" and a "horror." There have been some real atrocities and horrors committed in this world and Abu Ghraib is not one of them.
Regarding the whole war in Iraq, some day I hope you'll be able to step back and take a more dispassionate look at the situation. Ideally, you will come to recognize that others--such as the President, Secretary Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove--can come to different conclusions about it than you and that they can do so not because they are evil, corrupt, incompetent, or treasonous, but because reasonable men and women of good will can have differing opinions and conclusions.
Actually the muttering about Iraq started under the Clinton administration -- you remember-- when the democratic Senate declared that regime change in Iraq was an aim of U.S. policy.
Well, your point of view is clear anyway (LOL). I would suggest that you offer some proof about your interesting assertion that, "...G.W. Bush was stumbling and bumbling around muttering about Iraq right away after 9-11"..., and that. "...it was, however, not possible to completely ignore the fact that Bin Laden and the Taliban were based in Afghanistan, not Iraq."
Using words like "atrocity" and "traitor" shows the poster to be both hysterical and irrational, IMO.
What was the speck of hysteria and/or irrationality that you sir found in the 'semper stupid' posting?
On September 12th, huh? And the US went into Afghanistan first, why? Perhaps as some sort of appetizer? As you said, paying attention to facts can yield profound insights. And not paying attention makes you look foolish.
Time to chill out pal. Hysterical phrases and loaded language continue to show you to be just another irrational Bush hater. It is hard to take you seriously, even when you do come up with the odd comment that actually is accurate.
Wow! And I thought it was just a pronoun.
Extremists are always the one's who cancel out all of those bad accusations towards the Bush administration. Keep in mind that I by no means am bashing a religion here. We have extremists in all religions. However, here's something for the record. Islamic extremists, who happen to be mostly Arab, are some of the richest people in the world. Yet their people are some of the poorest. These extremists have killed more of their own people than any occupying force. We have made these governments and extremists filthy rich; therefore paving the way for their total disregard for the betterment of their own people. They expect apologies from us. Well, we have heard no such apologies from these extremists who have killed our own civilians, damaged our holy sites in and around the WTC, yet they expect us to apologize for damaging one of their mosques, when they use it to store weapons and "hide". I have no regrets, nor should our government for trying to liberate these people from tyrant dictators who continue to become crazy wealthy while taking, in brutal fashion, from their own people. History will punish those who are doing wrong for their wrong doings. But I have a hard time finding wrong in our attempted liberation of oppressed people. No, it hasn't been perfect, and it never will be. But the fact we have tried and are resilient is certainly in our favor. Remember this. We never surprise anyone with our presence. We give ample warning of our presence. Extremists do not afford us nor their own people that luxury. Anyone who says this is about oil is totally uneducated about the true situation in Iraq. Oil is only a scapegoat. Thinking outside the box appears to be a forgotten process!!!


Use bleach water to help clean and also help with the staining. Let this dry, then spray well with vinegar to kill the mold/mildew spores. There is a chance it may have gotten behind the silicone and stained back there. If it did, you may be better taking up the silicone and applying new. Keep the area dry and spritz with vinegar to prevent the mold/mildew from returning longer.
Jackie, I'm thinking you mean silicone caulk instead of grout? Using a razor blade, start by cutting the edge loose, then pull it out. Clean surface with bleach. Rinse, allow to dry, then re-caulk.
Soak or spray with vinegar. Vinegar kills mold spores, bleach does not.
Jackie, you would be wise to remove this grout, clean the area good and spray with Clorox. Let it set for 24 hours before you re-grout. It is not an easy job, but you can do it.
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.Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible while the main Greek armies mobilized. For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. In the final hours – their shields broken, swords and spears shattered – they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed. It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism and self-sacrifice: it was Thermopylae. In Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the epic story of those legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods.
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Abstract: This paper explores how peer-to-peer learning is applied to an open education project, Open KU, at Korea University located in South Korea. As the open education movement evolves, the user/learner engagement has become a burgeoning concept influencing open education activities encompassing acquisition, distribution, and utilization of contents. Examples of such successful cases in user participatory projects are OpenStudy and P2PU. In order to reflect this paradigm shift in open education, Korea University has launched Open KU with the mission of being a knowledge sharing and building platform of educational contents, in winter, 2011. It is an evolved form of the Korea University OCW launched in 2008. Open KU serves as a home to Korea University produced lectures (OCWs), open educational resources (OERs), and KUREKA (coined from Korea University + eureka). Open KU encompasses all types of producers including faculty and students, and educational resources such as recorded off-line lectures and related documents, mini-lectures, special seminars, etc. KUREKA—a peer-to-peer learning project—was initiated under the recognition that students are also knowledge generators. Peer learning has been shown to stimulate the motivation to learn and provide low anxiety interaction. KUREKA was designed to consist of three parts—student-generated mini courses for both academic and non-academic subjects, learning strategies, and contents generated by international collaborative projects. KUREKA enables students to upload and study using contents their peers have generated and provides this service on web, mobile, and PC platforms. Although Open KU is nascent, three results are expected to be drawn as the project proceeds. First, KUREKA is expected to impact students' learning since students reconstruct their knowledge in order to share it with others. In the Open KU project dimension, KUREKA is anticipated to activate open education in general by engaging students. Contents provided through the Open KU website can be updated frequently, generate interest among new users, and can encourage proactive participation in open education among faculty. As KUREKA grows, it is likely to, naturally, create a culture of sharing and a sense of community. Open education is not about teachers vs. learners, producers vs. receivers, but about participation, providing resources, and complementing one another to provide a holistic learning experience for everyone.


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Bishop to migrants and refugees: 'You make America the beautiful even more beautiful'
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A hat, a pair of shoes, and a bottle of water. These are a few of the symbolic objects that were offered at the beginning of the Eucharistic Celebration for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees Sept. 29, representing the reality of the people forced to migrate, leaving their home countries behind.
The special Mass that incorporated elements from various Catholic cultures around the world was held at Queen of Vietnamese Martyrs Parish in Wheat Ridge and was celebrated by Bishop Jorge H. Rodriguez.
Bishop Rodríguez started his homily acknowledging the reality of migrants and refugees around the world and the struggles they go through when they arrive in an unknown land.
Bishop Rodriguez urged the faithful to be grateful for the many benefits received from this country and to pray for those fleeing poverty and persecution.
"Men and women have been displaced from their own countries, cultures, and families, by war, poverty, oppression, persecution, and danger so they look for refuge and a new life in more affluent and safe countries," he said. "Most of us here can define ourselves as migrants and refugees… You my brothers and sisters, migrants and refugees, you make America the beautiful even more beautiful."
At the same time, he recognized that the United States is a country of immigrants and asked the migrant community to be grateful and pray for this country that has opened the doors to many migrants and refugees.
"As immigrants and refugees, we owe gratitude to the United States of America, because in one way or another, it has allowed us to prosper and offer a future to our families and our children," Bishop Rodriguez continued. "We have to correspond with loyalty and appreciation to the American people… American people have opened their cities, schools, and homes to receive us, may the Lord bless America, because this is America."
Several communities from different parts of the world were present at this celebration, including the Hispanic, Pakistani, Vietnamese, African, and American communities, among others who also received the bishop's blessing.
Catholics of different ethnic backgrounds united in the Eucharistic celebration for the 105th Annual World Day of Migrants and Refugees at Queen of Vietnamese Martyrs Sept. 29. (Photos by Vladimir Mauricio-Perez)
"The Mass was a tremendous start to what will hopefully become an annual tradition here in Denver," said Hung Pham, Director of the Office of Liturgy. "Having lived and worked in California for most of my life, large multicultural Masses were very common and it's great to see one here in Denver where many cultures got to bring their unique expressions to the celebration. It showcased both the unity and diversity within our church here in Denver."
During the Mass, Bishop Rodriguez quoted and reflected on former President Ronald Reagan's last speech as President: "Thanks to each one of those waves of arrivals to this nation of opportunity, we are a nation that is always young and always full of energy, new ideas, and always renewing. And this quality is vital for the future of our nation… If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would be lost."
"But the church wants us to be aware that there is something going on in a different direction," the bishop said. "Borders are closed, dividing walls are raised, and people fleeing from war, poverty and persecution are kept out. Many have lost their lives looking for a way in. From 2014 to 2018, more than 17,000 people have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross from northern Africa to Europa, and in those same years, 1,476 have died in the Rio Bravo or were dehydrated in the desert while trying to enter to our country."
A cultural celebration in the parish hall following Mass featured different cultural performances by some of the attendees.
One of the most emotional moments of the celebration was experienced when the bishop asked the attendees to pray the Lord's Prayer in each of their native languages, demonstrating that the Catholic Church is universal and that we worship and are loved by the same God.
After the special Mass, guests attended a festival at the church's hall where people from different parts of the world shared their traditions, music, dances, and a variety of dishes from their respective countries.
"Migrants and refugees are a message from God to the world and a gift from God to the United States of America," Bishop Rodriguez concluded.
COMING UP: '¡Viva Cristo Rey!': Auxiliary bishop to celebrate Mass for immigrants and refugees
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'¡Viva Cristo Rey!': Auxiliary bishop to celebrate Mass for immigrants and refugees
Vladimir Mauricio-Perez
The Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, Jorge Rodriguez, will celebrate a Mass in Spanish for all immigrants and refugees at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Nov. 26, on the feast of Christ the King.
The Church walks with the immigrant
Bishop Rodriguez affirmed that the growing attention that the archdiocese has given to immigrants is primarily a response to Jesus' calling in the Gospel.
"Holy Scripture is very clear about the care and hospitality toward the immigrant," he told the Denver Catholic en Español. "'The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt' (Lev. 19:34). Also, Jesus commanded us to do the same when he called us to love our neighbor."
The urgency to walk with the immigrant community is also a response to Pope Francis' invitation. He said in his visit to the United States in 2015, "Now you are facing this stream of Latin immigration which affects many of your dioceses. Not only as the Bishop of Rome, but also as a pastor from the South, I feel the need to thank and encourage you. Perhaps it will not be easy for you to look into their soul; perhaps you will be challenged by their diversity. But know that they also possess resources meant to be shared. So, do not be afraid to welcome them."
"No, we don't have financial or secondary intentions, as someone has said – probably intending to silence the voice of bishops regarding the support for the immigrant community," Bishop Rodriguez explained. Instead, "[this initiative] is born out of our personal love for our immigrant brothers and sisters in our parishes."
On the Feast of Christ the King
The Mass will be celebrated on the feast of Christ the King, highlighting the historical significance this feast carries for many Hispanics. During the religious persecution of last century's "Cristero" War, many Mexicans gave up their lives proclaiming, "¡Viva Cristo Rey!" ("Long live Christ, the King!").
"This chapter in history allows us to recall God, the Father's providential care for each one of us, and the assurance that the final victory belongs to Jesus Christ," said Bishop Rodriguez.
The auxiliary bishop sees the importance of this message of hope to the immigrant community, as it faces many difficulties in legal processes.
He assured that the trials aren't few: "many of our youth see their future dreams threatened… siblings and friends, who came to work honestly, face deportation… [and] parents, couples and families are torn apart."
Amid such difficulties, the Church accompanies the immigrant community.
"We want to lift up the intentions of the immigrant community in this Mass," said Bishop Rodriguez. "For the Psalm says, 'Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act" (37:5).
Bishop Rodriguez calls the faithful to participate
The auxiliary bishop asked all the faithful to "listen, in the depth of their hearts, to the voice of Christ: 'A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you'" (Jn 13: 34).
"The Church doesn't ask the faithful to break the law," he continued. "Rather, it asks for a just law to be passed – a law that serves men and not vice versa."
He requested that Denver Catholics support the U.S. bishops in the fight for a comprehensive immigration reform.
Bishop Rodriguez also persuaded the faithful to seek accurate information regarding these topics, and to find good perspectives on social issues, such as Msgr. Jose Gomez's "Immigration and the Next America: Renewing the Soul of Our Nation."
Finally, he encouraged them "to consider this 'problem' not as a mere social, political or economical issue: we are speaking of men and women with human dignity and fundamental rights," he said. "They are beloved children of God."
Mass for Immigrants and Refugees
Presided by Bishop Jorge Rodriguez
Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
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The 23-6 Jaspers reach for their improbable NCAA East Region dream at 12:15 today against Carmelo Anthony and Big, Bad Syracuse. Frenetic coach Bobby Gonzalez believes his scrappers have a chance.
"I think our team is not gonna go quietly," he said.
At the end of their practice inside a virtually empty FleetCenter, the Jaspers gathered together and chanted "Survive and advance" on three.
"We can't wait 'til the ball goes up tomorrow and try to prove to everybody we are the Cinderella of this tournament and we're for real," junior forward Dave Holmes said.
"We're happy to be here but we're not just happy to be here," Jackette said.
Gonzalez was asked for his most optimistic scenario. "We're taking good shots," he said. "We're not getting caught up in the up-and-down ebb and flow to the point where there's broken plays and they're just dunking it and getting alley oops. We're hanging in.
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Freshman Mike Konovelchick, who goes 6-5, will get a piece of Anthony. Konovelchick held Marcus Hatten to 11 points. Jared Johnson, 6-7, will be ready, too. The Jaspers will need a monster game from scoring machine Luis Flores (24.8 ppg).


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