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WHO DETERMINES CONSTITUTIONALITY?
by Sharon Rondeau
(Apr. 19, 2014) — On Thursday, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) labeled rancher Cliven Bundy and his supporters "domestic terrorists" for defying an edict from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to observe "First Amendment zones" and allow federal agents to remove Bundy's cattle from alleged "trespass" areas from the Bundy ranch in Bunkerville, NV.
Reid decried those who rallied to the Bundy ranch after BLM's agents began a "cattle gather" the previous week, confiscating several hundred of Bundy's cattle, killing some, and allegedly roughing up several protesters. One of Bundy's sons, Dave, was arrested and released the following day after he said he was filming the activity of BLM agents from a position on the road. Another son was tasered in a confrontation during which a protester repeatedly shouted out, "Who's the aggressor here?" Federal agents refused to answer questions from the protesters and eventually left with their canines and tasers as some protesters continued to shout, "Get outta here!"
Observers of the events leading up to the diffusion of tensions last Saturday when the BLM announced it would cease its operation described having seen snipers positioned on a hill. "Do they have orders to shoot?" one observer asked. Another eyewitness, a military veteran, said, "It's unreal…that's not what I fought for this country for."
Several individuals from the area said they rejected the "First Amendment zones" the BLM imposed as "an inappropriate infringement of free speech." The Las Vegas Review Journal had reported that "The federal land agency said that all other areas in the 1,200-square-mile Gold Butte closure area were off-limits to people for stating their opinions."
Bundy told Sean Hannity that his grandfather arrived in Bunkerville in 1877 "with a wagon and a team of horses" and established the ranch. Bundy was ordered to remove his cattle from the area last summer after a proceeding in the U.S. District Court for Nevada. However, the Bundys believe that the federal government is not recognizing "state sovereignty."
The Obama Department of Homeland Security has been calling veterans, members of Oathkeepers, those standing up to government corruption and against illegal immigration "potential domestic terrorists" since very early in the regime [DHS RIGHTWING EXTREMISM REPORT]. Some individuals have been jailed unjustly, and at least one remains in federal prison serving a four-year sentence for a crime he did not commit. The U.S. attorney who obtained the federal conviction against Darren Wesley Huff, William C. Killian, publicly stood up for the "rights" of Muslims and attempted to criminalize criticism of Islam until a vocal group of more than 2,000 protesters showed up at an event where Killian was to reiterate his position. Killian was appointed by Obama in 2010.
The other U.S. senator from Nevada, Sen. Dean Heller, believes that Bundy supporters are "patriots." The Associated Press reported that BLM agents withdrew their operation after "they were faced with military-style AR-15 and AK-47 weapons trained on them from a picket line of citizen soldiers," but not that the agents were themselves heavily-armed. It reportedly is not the first time during the Obama regime that BLM agents have "used too much force against people accused of nonviolent offenses."
Reid also failed to say that the BLM was armed, although Heller did. Reid said that Bundy has violated "two valid court orders." Of Bundy's supporters, Reid said, "If they're patriots, we're in big trouble."
Harry Reid's son was chairman of the Clark County Commission and afterward, joined a law firm which represented a Chinese solar power company, ENN, which had sought to purchase land offered at far below market value to build a power generation plant near Laughlin, NV. The project did not go forward because of ENN's inability to sell the proposed power to enough customers to make it feasible.
Laughlin is close to the southernmost part of Nevada, while Bunkerville is located near the city of Mesquite to the northeast, a difference of about 114 miles.
The land intended for ENN reportedly belongs to Clark County, in which Bunkerville is also located. James Simpson, writing for The Examiner on Monday, reported that although the Laughlin project fell through, "The effort to bring solar power to the southwest did not end with the ENN project."
Blogger Doug Giles reported that on April 16, as he was gathering evidence from the BLM's website which reportedly demonstrates that the area Bundy's cattle use to graze was intended for solar power projects, a message appeared which said, "The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) website (www.blm.gov) and all associated websites/pages are currently unavailable due to planned maintenance on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 starting at 8:00 PM Mountain Time until approximately Midnight Mountain Time. The total outage time should be no more than 4 hours."
The BLM boasts "management" of "conservation activities" related to preservation of the desert tortoise, although it began euthanizing them last year when funding for the program, centered in Las Vegas, ran dry. It claims that "restriction of activities" carried out in the name of protecting the animal includes "Removal of livestock grazing in most desert tortoise ACECs/DWMAs totaling over 5,000,000 acres."
The U.S. Constitution does not provide for the creation of expansive agencies, departments, bureaus, entitlement programs, or health care. Rather, the Constitution delegated 18 specific powers to the federal government which include coining money, establishing post offices and "post roads," and "to declare war."
A third Bundy son, Ammon, who has appeared on Fox News's "Hannity" show, asserted that "The people have power when they unite." Sean Hannity has arrived at the Bundy ranch for the Easter weekend.
Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo stated that Bundy has not been offered a permit for grazing his cattle and that Bundy believes the BLM's claim to ownership of the Nevada land is unconstitutional. Tancredo claims that Bundy's failure to pay grazing fees to the federal government can be challenged, just as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged "settled laws" which maintained racial segregation in Alabama before the Civil Rights Act was passed.
After the armed standoff ended last weekend, Reid vowed that the matter "is not over." He said that Bundy has "broken the law" but did not cite which law that might have been. A former senior adviser to Reid, Neil Kornze, was just confirmed BLM director on April 8 by the U.S. Senate. Kornze is 37 years old, and the BLM operation on the Bundy ranch is described as "one of his first official acts."
On Friday evening, Fox News's Megyn Kelly questioned a guest, "Why is Harry Reid doing this now that it's basically over?" (9:27 in video)
ABC News reported that Reid used the term "domestic terrorists" because the protesters "used guns," but then said that "no shots were fired" during the final confrontation between BLM agents and the rancher's supporters last Saturday. Veterans, members of the group Oathkeepers, and others came from across the country to defend Bundy's right to use the land which the BLM claims it manages for the U.S. government.
ABC also said that Reid stated that "a federal task force is being formed to resolve the dispute," which has not been widely reported.
Sheriff Richard Mack, who speaks at rallies on constitutional issues and traveled to the Bundy ranch for last weekend's standoff, called the BLM agents "rogue." Mack is president of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), which last spring was presented with comprehensive evidence of forgery and fraud regarding Barack Hussein Obama's long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration form.
Mack does not believe that Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie has handled the situation well. A rumor that Gillespie is a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has not been confirmed or denied by the public information officer for the Clark County Sheriff's office with whom The Post & Email spoke earlier this week.
"The government is destroying the ranching and farming industry in America," Mack said in an interview with Gary Franchi of NextNewsNetwork on Friday. He called out the federal government for "threatening to kill people." "They will shoot at unarmed citizens," Mack warned. He believes that any elected official who "don't keep their word" should be removed from office or "charged criminally."
After BLM agents announced the cessation of their action against the Bundys last Saturday, protesters continued to rally behind the rancher and his family, including a Friday all-day picnic at the "Bundy Ranch Protest Site." On the official website of the Bundy ranch, a statement issued by the Bundy ranch dated the same day titled "Operation Mutual Aid" reads:
Militiamen, Freedom Fighters, Soldiers, Patriots All
A coalition of States Militias, Patriotic civilians, Individual Freedom Fighters, and Media Relations personnel from Patriotic political activism groups, in conjunction with local Law Enforcement if and where applicable.
Defense of public and private property, lives, and liberty to exercise God-given rights, seen plainly in the laws of Nature, and codified in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, at the request of such parties in need of such defense, and the documentation and archiving of all defensive actions taken by the coalition for accurate and prompt reporting to all concerned public venues and media.
Defensive posture shall be taken up in the optimal tactical position in relation to the people or property in need of such defense. All local laws not in violation of the U.S. and subject States Constitution shall be observed. All laws in violation of the U.S. and subject States Constitution are hereby considered null and void, the enforcement of which most likely represents the need for such defense as herein outlined.
As the nature of a Quick Reaction Force is understood, a defensive posture will be taken up in the shortest amount of time possible for the allocation of the necessary defensive resources to the location determined. Minimum force size will be determined by the leadership of the coalition.
As has been the case throughout recorded history, and reasonably assumed throughout unrecorded history, governments instituted amongst men for the protection of private lives and property have always assumed and usurped duties and responsibilities contrary to the purpose of their institution, and, specific to these United States, such governments have done so in complete and utter violation of the documents which established them by the free will of the people, and the union of them via the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Once those governments have ceded their intended purpose to some other end or intent, it can be reasonably and logically ascertained that such entity would become aggressive to its former purpose and the people who established it in pursuit of its own goals.
At such a point as the government intends to use the physical power granted it by those who implemented it against them, it then becomes the responsibility of the people themselves to defend their country from its government, and to generally revert to the process outlined by the Declaration of Independence to absolve such government of its power, or separate from it to be freed from its oppression. As this coalition is intended for the defense of the populace from enemies foreign and domestic, the latter path shall be left to the determination of that populace, and we shall guarantee them the freedom to make that choice in accordance with man's God-given Liberty, the ideas espoused in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutions of the several States, the Constitution of their union, and the Bill of Rights, so help us God.
The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 men on July 4, 1776 in defiance of King George III's reign over the 13 colonies. The united States of America was founded upon the principles of religious freedom, personal responsibility and liberty
A comment beneath the post includes the sentence, "The federal government has declared it can now assassinate its own citizens as long as they are labeled as terrorists." Another comment quotes directly from The Declaration of Independence, which states, in part:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Atty. Larry Klayman, who has challenged Obama's eligibility to hold office and the NSA spying which came to light last year, stated on Friday that "If the events in Nevada over the last week or so are any indication, where brave patriots, exercising their Second Amendment rights, stood down the tyranny of Obama's Bureau of Land Management on behalf of the Bundy family and their cattle ranch, then indeed full-scale revolution is now in full swing in both the courts and through armed men on horseback."
On April 15, Rep. Steve Stockman wrote to "The President," Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell, and Neil Kornze, former Reid adviser and BLM Director, citing federal law which he believes the BLM violated when it demanded that Bundy remove his cattle from the designated area or face their confiscation. Stockman cited 43 USC, passed on January 8, 2008, Section 1733, clause (c)(1), which states:
(c) Contracts for enforcement of Federal laws and regulations by local law enforcement officials; procedure applicable; contract requirements and implementation
(1) When the Secretary determines that assistance is necessary in enforcing Federal laws and regulations relating to the public lands or their resources he shall offer a contract to appropriate local officials having law enforcement authority within their respective jurisdictions with the view of achieving maximum feasible reliance upon local law enforcement officials in enforcing such laws and regulations. The Secretary shall negotiate on reasonable terms with such officials who have authority to enter into such contracts to enforce such Federal laws and regulations. In the performance of their duties under such contracts such officials and their agents are authorized to carry firearms; execute and serve any warrant or other process issued by a court or officer of competent jurisdiction; make arrests without warrant or process for a misdemeanor he has reasonable grounds to believe is being committed in his presence or view, or for a felony if he has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony; search without warrant or process any person, place, or conveyance according to any Federal law or rule of law; and seize without warrant or process any evidentiary item as provided by Federal law.
Cliven Bundy claims that the U.S. government does not own land located in Nevada. He additionally states on his website that his county sheriff, Douglas Gillespie, "works for the people of Clark County and is paid by us to protect our life, liberty and property! Not the Feds!"
The Post & Email will be researching whether or not the BLM acted in accordance with the law cited by Stockman.
On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul raised the issue of states' rights vs. federal claims in ownership and management of state land and said that "the federal government shouldn't violate the law." Paul told the interviewer that his understanding is that the Bundy family had a lease with the Clark County, NV government which the federal government overrode in claiming management rights to the land to purportedly protect the desert tortoise. Paul believes that a solution can be found through the court system.
The Tenth Amendment to the Bill of Rights states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Bill of Rights, which consists of the first ten amendments, was ratified before the U.S. Constitution
According to The Tenth Amendment Center:
The founding fathers had good reason to pen the Tenth Amendment.
The issue of power – and especially the great potential for a power struggle between the federal and the state governments – was extremely important to the America's founders. They deeply distrusted government power, and their goal was to prevent the growth of the type of government that the British has exercised over the colonies.
Adoption of the Constitution of 1787 was opposed by a number of well-known patriots including Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and others. They passionately argued that the Constitution would eventually lead to a strong, centralized state power which would destroy the individual liberty of the People. Many in this movement were given the poorly-named tag "Anti-Federalists."
The Tenth Amendment was added to the Constitution of 1787 largely because of the intellectual influence and personal persistence of the Anti-Federalists and their allies.
It's quite clear that the Tenth Amendment was written to emphasize the limited nature of the powers delegated to the federal government. In delegating just specific powers to the federal government, the states and the people, with some small exceptions, were free to continue exercising their sovereign powers.
On Friday, state legislators from nine Western states met at a summit in Salt Lake City, UT to discuss a "joint goal" of reclaiming control of resource-abundant land in their respective states from "the feds." The meeting was planned before the Bundy situation came to a crisis point last Saturday.
Without mentioning the inclusion of the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights and its meaning, National Journal reported last month that "conservative" states have passed numerous "nullification" resolutions and bills which the writer termed "unconstitutional, prima facie. The Constitution's supremacy clause establishes that federal law trumps state law, and precedent has established the Supreme Court as the ultimate arbiter of a law's constitutionality. Under the supremacy clause, for example, federal drug-enforcement agents could technically arrest marijuana users in Colorado or Washington, even though it is legal under state law. For the same reason, Obamacare is the law of the land, whether states like it or not."
The "Supremacy Clause" in the U.S. Constitution states that "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
Whether or not laws passed by Congress in recent history are done so "in pursuance" of "the Constitution" could be a subject for debate. The Heritage Foundation reports that in regard to the Supremacy Clause, "…to protect states' police powers against federal encroachment, the [Supreme] Court has noted that federal law does not preempt state law unless Congress clearly intends that the federal law do so" (page 29). Heritage Foundation Supremacy Clause
In a television show segment titled "Constitutional Chaos" on November 24, 2011, Judge Andrew Napolitano asked, "What if the Constitution no longer applied?…What if Congress's enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as a justification to extend Congress's authority over every realm of human life?…What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders?…What if the 50 states were no longer sovereign entities, equals to each other, and parents of the federal government they voluntarily constituted? What if the states were mere provinces of a totally nationalized and fully centralized government?…What if you needed a license from the government to speak, to assemble, or to protest against the government?…What if the government was the reason we don't have a constitution anymore? What if the government could take your property whenever it wanted?…What if the government could force you to testify against yourself simply by labeling you a domestic terrorist?…"
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gigclick says:
This was not only another power grab for a $5 billion phony contract for another "Solyndra" Ponzi scheme for Harry Reids son Rory and his cronies. All these DNC Operatives have knowledge of Bari Shabazz's illegal POTUS status as a "dual citizen" which is Article 2 illegal but Pelosi and Biden falsified Bari's DNC Vetting papers in 2008 and the show keeps on running.
richard gorman says:
I watched about 3 hours of Stephen Pratter (constitution expert- especially on the very topic of "federal lands" ). Pratter was training a large group of sheriffs. Bottomline– when any "territory" is granted state status, then ANY PRIOR CLAIMS BY THE FEDS TO LAND ARE EXTINGUISHED, except if the state grants such right for a dock, a ship yard, apost office, etc. And, the constitution is the supreme law of the land, not any hairbrained amendment by some liberal commie, knucklehead judge. All states are required to be admitted to the Republic on equal footing; for many years, most states were treated on equal footing. Then about 9 or 10 of the western states were Not treated properly, when they transitioned from territories to states. InNevada, the feds illegally maintained a high percentage of the land as federal lands. Direct violation of the constitution, which grants sovereignty to each state, upon admittance to the Republic. That is why Mr. Bundy has stated about 5 times on TV, " WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE THINK HAPPENED WHEN NEVADA WAS GRANTED STATE SOVEREIGNTY?". He is correct. All the idiot judges that follow are WRONG.
"Zeb" says:
and more on the supremacy clause . . .
In Scalia's opinion in Prinz v United States, Scalia was very clear that the federal government could not direct the states to enforce federal law. This was brought out in the suit that Sheriff Mack carried to the SCOTUS protesting the BATF directive for county sheriff's to keep firearms records for the federal government.
Why is Prinz not used more in state's rights suits? Why are states brought to suit in district courts when the Constitution is clear that the federal government can only bring suit against states in the SCOTUS?
A lot of these whys can be answered by looking at the spineless, gutless, self serving character of our elected elite.
Another great summary of a very complicated situation by the editor. Congratulations, again, Sharon. . . .
The National Journal misspoke on another aspect of our republican form of government. Judges are bound by the law of the Constitution but Justice Scalia's fourth branch of government are the absolute judges of the law. It is our jury system that has the last word. Laws are created by the officials elected by the citizens and the citizens pass judgement of the laws during trial, or used to. That is why it is written in the Constitution of the State of Georgia that: " . . . the jury shall be the judge of the facts and the law . . ."
We have strayed so far from our founding principles it is hard sometimes to remember what they were.
Mrs. Rondeau replies: Very good point, sir.
slcraig says:
" … in pursuance of …" is the LIMITING LANGUAGE of the Constitutions Supremacy regarding any duly enacted State Law made in pursuance of a States Constitution and the WILL of the States People.
" … in pursuance of …" means "in pursuit of and or furtherance of the purpose of the subject provisions …"
The list of unconstitutional Acts that not only exceed the intent of the "enumerated powers" and or unconstitutionally limit the "enumerated rights" have twisted the Constitution inside out & upside down in the cloward-priven construction of destruction, bottom up-top down-inside out ……..
Justice Marshal is remembered for stating that an Act/Law that is unconstitutional is no Act/Law at all…….
So, ya, it's hard to say that I "recognize the Fed Guv'mnt given that it's hard to recognize the Constitution in the light THEY shine on it…….
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A Love Affair with Space and Time
What kind of Whovian would I be if I don't mention the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who that took place on Saturday 23rd November? Probably the most iconic British Science Fiction show, now watched and even worshipped around the world, I grew up watching the series. I can remember my very first story - The Planet of the Spiders (which I've long since blamed for my arachnophobia) - where Jon Pertwee regenerated into the eccentric Tom Baker. My parents were scifi fans, so Doctor Who and the original Star Trek were regular programs to watch. Then later there was Blake's Seven, The Tomorrow People, and The Tripods. Space 1999, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. More Star Trek spin offs, Red Dwarf, Torchwood, Babylon 5, Farscape, Stargate. We lost Doctor Who for 16 years, only for the next generation to explode back onto our screens to a new generation of fandom. And while Star Wars might have triggered the switch for me from writing fantasy to scifi, it was Doctor Who that shaped my debut novel.
Me, age 18, with the then 7th Doctor Sylvester McCoy, just before the show was cut.
One aspect of The Day of the Doctor that really struck a chord with me was the fact the story revolved around a regeneration of himself that he had deliberately chosen to forget. The regeneration (beautifully portrayed by John Hurt) was responsible for destroying the Doctor's homeworld Gallifrey, along with the whole of the Time Lord race - his own people - in order to utterly destroy the Daleks (something we know ultimately failed as the Doctor has met further incarnations of the Daleks since). But now regenerations ten and eleven (or so we thought) are faced with the regeneration they tried to forget, and forced to relive making the same terrible decision. This time they elect to do it together, because they can't see an alternative. But then they don't. Together with their other selves, they hide Gallifrey instead of destroying it. And the terrible act that has haunted the Doctor for three generations is averted.
Now, I have one issue with this. The Doctor had to make a horrible decision, and while he's always regretted it, that decision has shaped every decision he's made since. In my novels Keir and Gethyon, I also have a time traveller - Quin. When her son Gethyon, and later Keir question why they can't go back and change things, she tells them it's impossible. They travel through time by feel rather than science, and how can you go back to save someone you saw die? It's psychologically impossible. You know they're dead. She makes the point that if they could go back and change such things, they woudn't be the people they are. Here's a snippet of their conversation:
Gethyon: "But you said we can travel in time as well as space. Didn't you ever try to go back and…?"
"We can't go back," Quin snapped, a sudden harshness in her expression that softened at his responding scowl. "And even if we could, if we could put every little mistake right, what would that do to us? We wouldn't be the people we are now. Would we care so much if we hadn't already lost things precious to us? Would we have pity for others if we hadn't suffered ourselves? Everything that we are, everything that we try to do, believing it to be for the best—all of it is born from the life we've had, the decisions we've made, good or bad. There are so many things I want to put right, but knowing that I can't means I try all the harder to make the right choices and be the best person I can."
And that's my issue. For three generations since that forgotten Doctor, he has been shaped by that terrible decision. And now that he's changed what he did, won't that reshape everything he does? Perhaps it won't change the events already passed, the adventures we've seen, but it will inevitably change what he does in the future.We know that Matt Smith is shortly due to regenerate into Peter Capaldi, so the Doctor is going to change anyway, But I'm curious to see what impact the saving of Gallifrey will have on the new Doctor, and whether we'll now see a darker, perhaps more over-confident regeneration who no longer has the death of his own race on his conscience...
In the meantime, I raise a glass to the creators, writers, producers and actors responsible for 50 years of Doctor Who, and who helped to spark my own stories. Here's to another 50 years! *salutes*
Pippa's Journal
Although I haven't hit 50K with my NaNoWriMo story (again!), I've finished the story. It's all there, and waiting for a damn good polish. At 35K, it's certainly exceeded my original 10K expectation, and to date (being my 4th attempt), it's the longest I've managed at NaNoWriMo. So I'm very pleased and proud with that. Even more amazingly, I put five pages and the synopsis into a critique event by Breathless Press...and got a request for the full on completion! Woo hoo! Of course, that's no guarantee of a contract, but since I wasn't even sure this story would even see the light of day as a self published short, it's flattering to know it caught a publisher's eye. Here's my badge of honor!
Donna and Laurie, I think too many of us take all the Moon missions for granted, and all the politics behind them. When the shuttles were decommissioned, I felt that humanity was somehow giving up the idea of space exploration, and after all we'd achieved, that seemed so tragic. I'm still hoping I might live long enough to see someone set foot on Mars. I wasn't born until eight years after the assassination, but I can imagine that it hit home in the same way news of 9/11 hit the schools and TV - something that makes the world stop.
Laurie, great post on promotion and it certainly sparked a lot of discussion. I think different things work for different people, and there's still no one magical thing to it. I agree we need something more. The question is still - what?
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The Man and the Moon: Tribute to JFK
I wanted to continue on the theme of President John F. Kennedy's inspiration of our space program, which Donna started with her excellent blog on Friday, Look Up To See Kennedy's True Legacy.
I remember the day John F. Kennedy died. I remember the grim expression on my teacher's face as she explained to her young charges that the president of our country had been shot and killed earlier that day in Dallas. I remember our teacher and principle running a length of black ribbon around the edges of the American flag that hung on the wall in our classroom. I remember seeing a very solemn Walter Cronkite on the evening news, remove his glasses to announce the death of President John F. Kennedy. But mostly I remember the deep grief and sadness and fear in the eyes of adults, and not grasping the weight that this moment would play in my life, or in our Nation's history.
Before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy had set a goal to reach the Moon before the end of the decade. In just eight short years, and in spite of his death (and maybe even to some degree because of it), our country strived forward and did the impossible...we put footprints on the Moon!
In fact, it was more than just a set of human footprints. It was twelve unique sets. And it happened over the course of three-and-one-half years and seven missions.
For me, President John F. Kennedy's Eternal Flame is not the one that burns by his grave, but the fire of achievement he ignited in the heart of America.
Reaching the Moon was not an easy task, it was a monumental struggle and despite what appears to be a lightning fast timeline in hindsight--the way was fraught with setbacks and tragedies. This is a brief summary of the amazing strides we accomplished in those very few, very short years.
The Mercury Program: All the Right Stuff
When John F. Kennedy made his historic proclamation, the Mercury program was just underway and our nation had managed all of 20 minutes of spaceflight experience. Twenty minutes!
His words were earthshaking. It was the equivalent of creating a toy boat to float in a nearby creek and then declare we could build a modern battleship...and do it in less than a decade!
The Mercury Program involved six missions and lasted about two years, from May 1961 to May 1963, sending six members of the original Mercury Seven astronauts into space. Each mission was successful, but not without hazards, malfunctions and close calls. Alan Shepard's first flight answered critical questions about if humans would be able to breathe or swallow and perform basic tasks in orbit. No one was certain of the answer until he proved it could be done.
To boldy go, indeed!
The Gemini Missions: Partnerships in Space
The development of a newer, bigger rocket for the Gemini missions was not something that breathed confidence into the next band of pioneers into space. The truth is many of the initial tests were disasters, with the rockets exploding shortly after takeoff or while on the launch pad. Despite the setbacks, the space program forged ahead.
On April 8, 1964 we launched the first Gemini mission, and for the first time, American astronauts didn't venture into space alone. Twelve missions, which lasted until the final Gemini launch on November 11, 1966 (with Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin aboard), greatly expanded our capabilities in space.
Gemini saw the first space walk by astronaut Ed White on June 3, 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission. Astronaut White would later perish along with Mercury Seven astronaut Gus Grissom and astronaut Roger Chaffee in a launchpad test of the Apollo 1 capsule. It wouldn't be the last tragedy of our space program, but it would be the last in our bold quest to reach the Moon.
The Dawn of Apollo
As the Gemini program came to a close, the Apollo missions were ready to take center stage. After the fire disaster that killed the three astronauts in the Apollo 1 capsule on January 27, 1967, there were several unmanned Apollo launches before the first manned launch of Apollo 7, which orbited the Earth but did not reach lunar orbit, was launched on October 11, 1968, just a little over a year before the end of the decade goal to reach the Moon.
Apollo 8, 9 and 10 missions, beginning on December 21, 1968 and ending with the launch of Apollo 10--the so-called Moon Landing Dress Rehearsal--from May 18-26, 1969, included two mission to achieve lunar orbit, and even a LM deployment to a height of 50,000 feet over the lunar surface, but no landing.
At the successful close of the Apollo 10 mission, the clock was ticking down to a little less than six months remaining in the decade to achieve the goal set by the late President Kennedy...
Missions to the Moon: Footprints in Time
Photo credit NASA
The first Mission to the Moon was Apollo 11, the journey which gave us Neil Armstrong's historic words, "That's one small step for man..." Like the death of President Kennedy, it was a "Where were you when..." moment in history--a memory which those of us who were alive to experience it, will never forget.
Once again, Walter Cronkite removed his glasses, but this time with an expression not of shock or grief, but unmasked enthusiasm for the event he witnessed. We'd put a man on the Moon! And we'd done it in the timeframe that JFK has proposed, before the decade ended. It was July 1969.
An overview of the seven Moon missions and those who left footprints in time:
Apollo 11 - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing July 21, 1969 at Tranquility Base
Apollo 12 - Pete Conrad and Alan Bean beginning November 19, 1969 landing near Surveyor 3 craft
Apollo 13 - Jim Lovell and his crew's Moon landing was scrubbed due to an oxygen tank explosion
Apollo 14 - Alan Shephard and Edgar Mitchell landed Februrary 5, 1971, Frau Mauro region
Apollo 15 - David Scott and James Irwin landed July 15, 1971 in Hadley Rille area
Apollo 16 - John Young and Charles Duke, April 21-23, 1972 on the lunar highlands
Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt landed December 11, 1972, returning December 19th
Twelve men walked on the Moon, all inspired by one man's vision and foresight.
We have not returned to the Moon in almost 41 years. We don't even have the capability to return to the Moon now, and haven't had the ability for decades. We, as a nation, have made a monumental backslide from that summit of achievement, now to an almost non-existant manned space program.
Though there may be brighter days ahead for space exploration, I don't think we will ever again see the pinnacle of achievement we reached over 40 years ago...
Because of the words of one great man.
Labels: Laurie A. Green, Moon Missions, President John F. Kennedy, Space Program, The Man and the Moon, Tribute to JFK
LOOK UP TO SEE KENNEDY'S TRUE LEGACY
JFK challenges Congress to send a man to the moon.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the day the music died.
No matter how you may have felt about John F. Kennedy as a leader during his short span as the president of this country, no matter how you might feel about him as a man in recent times as we dissect his personal life with the scalpels of modern "journalism", if you were alive and old enough to be aware on November 22, 1963, your life was forever changed by his murder at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
The nation was in shock for days, weeks, even months after that horrific event, waiting, perhaps, for the other shoe to drop. I was only ten, but I distinctly remember worrying that the Russians would take the opportunity to kick us while we were down. We were only a year past the Cuban Missile Crisis, after all, a time when the world came closer to nuclear war than we ever had. Without Kennedy to steer us out of that danger, we might not have survived. I wasn't the only one thinking, "What's coming next?"
It is a tribute to the foresight of the founders of the Constitutional government we so often malign nowadays and the not inconsequential leadership skills of Vice-President/President Lyndon Johnson that things did not fall apart after Kennedy's death. Many of Kennedy's dreams were brought to fruition, largely in his honor, and thrive today. The Peace Corps, for example, which Kennedy established as a way for young people to answer his call for service to their country, boasts more Volunteers serving in more countries around the globe than ever before. (Volunteers even serve in many former republics of the U.S.S.R.!)
Johnson expanded Kennedy's reluctant support of civil rights into the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing discrimination in jobs, education, housing and other areas of public life, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, actively protecting the right to vote throughout the nation. It can be argued, too, that Johnson's eagerness to follow through on Kennedy's vow to "pay any price, bear any burden" to defend democracy around the globe led to a doomed expansion of the war in Vietnam, a war there is evidence Kennedy planned to end.
The most unqualified successes of the Kennedy years, however, have to be the expansion and achievements of the U.S. space program. When Kennedy took office, the U.S. was woefully behind in the "space race" with our avowed enemy, the U.S.S.R. Four years after the Soviets successfully launched the first orbiting satellite, Sputnik, Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961. When Alan Shepherd became the first American in space a month later, he only managed to arc out of the stratosphere briefly and back in, rather than making a complete orbit. We were losing on a very important front, and the young president, smarting from the Bay of Pigs fiasco, needed to light a fire of inspiration under his "troops".
On a speech before a special Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy laid out his plan: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man to the moon and returning him safely to the earth."
In what seems a miracle in this day of childish Congressional bickering, funding was appropriated for this ambitious goal and disbursed across the remainder of NASA's Mercury program and through the Gemini and Apollo programs. Facilities were established. Factories were built. Thousands of scientists worked feverishly with their sliderules (yes, sliderules!) And despite the death of a president (and his brother, Robert, and Martin Luther King, Jr.), the descent of a nation into despair and riot over civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War, and even the discrediting of Johnson, the space program persevered. Until on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and, days later, returned safely home.
It had taken a little over eight years to accomplish Kennedy's goal.
This one example can be held up as the reason why we mourn Kennedy's loss. Where could you find a leader today who would be able to inspire with a few words an endeavor so daunting, so potentially overreaching, yet so fundamental to the human spirit? Yes, there were other needs here on Earth. Kennedy did not ignore them. In fact, his might well have been the last generation of rich Americans raised to believe "to whom much is given, much shall be required."
Like so many of his generation, he gave the last full measure of his devotion to his country on this day, fifty years ago. But those of us who long for the stars can still look up at the moon, imagine the flag proudly planted there, and acknowledge John F. Kennedy's living legacy.
Posted by Donna S. Frelick at 10:42 AM
Labels: John F. Kennedy; NASA; space program; space race; moon landing; 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death
When Ads Annoy, Not Inspire
My blog theme this week is about imaginative thinking and successful promotion...and how it might apply to book promotion, in particular.
Ads have become a constant, in-your-face part of our society. Open AOL, get pummeled with ads. BUY ME! SALE! HURRY, WHILE SUPPLY LASTS! You see an interesting news link, click it, and are taken to a video that starts with--you guessed it--an ad! You find a really cool YouTube video you want to view, but firrrrrst...you have to sit through a boring advertisement. Ads are on Twitter, Facebook, web sites, blogs, reader sites, book sales sites and in your personal email by the hundreds! It's a promotional warp core meltdown!
Recently I made a trip to Disneyland in California. I did the math and realized I hadn't visited the theme park in a couple of decades! While it was still a great experience, I was also a little bit dismayed by the in-your-face giant Disney advertisement the theme park has become.
The Haunted Mansion ride that I experienced just after it had first opened with its amazing holographic images and spooky themes, was now one massive advertisement for The Nightmare Before Christmas. Big thumbs down from me. The whole spooky, spine-tingling feeling of the original attraction was sadly missing. And instead of ending the ride by facing a dark mirror to find a ghost sitting between me and my ride partner, it was now a day-glo Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking? Seriously? Not a leering, hulking evil spirit to haunt us? It was a major letdown.
More disappointment followed.
The once uber cool submarine ride that originally took passengers on an underwater adventure past marine marvels including a giant sea monster--is now one monster promo for Finding Nemo, with clips of the movie shown on underwater screens set among boulders and corral. It even has a flock of seagulls perched on a buoy bursting into their choruses of "Mine! Mine! Minemine!" every few minutes. Somewhat cute, but just didn't pack the punch of the original non-Nemo sea adventure. Instead I felt manipulated and even a little resentful.
The end result of these two "experiences" was no more effective than being pelted with ads in my email.
Now here's the tie-in to the world of publishing. Sadly, authors are contributing to this advertising blight. If I open any of the social media sites on any particular day, I am bombarded with bald-faced promotion.
READ THIS FANTASTIC REVIEW (and BUY MY BOOK!)
MY BOOK IS ON THE BESTSELLERS LIST! (BUY IT!)
FAMOUS REVIEWER SAID THIS ABOUT MY BOOK (SO YOU MUST BUY IT!)
READ THIS BRILLIANT EXCERPT FROM MY BOOK, SO YOU'LL WANT TO BUY IT.
MY BOOK JUST RELEASED. BUY IT NOW!
HELP ME SELL MORE BOOKS BY VOTING FOR IT HERE.
ENTER THIS CONTEST TO WIN MY FREE BOOK (AND LOSE, SO YOU'LL BUY IT INSTEAD).
Wait! There has to be a better way to introduce and promote a fantastic product like SFR? Right?
I think just about anyone will agree that "BUY MY BOOK!" is not effective promotion. We need to convince the customer why they will enjoy reading the book. In other words, using an age-old basis of good storytelling: SHOW the entertainment value contained in the read, don't just TELL the readers to buy it.
Let's go back to Disneyland, because it didn't totally fail in its promotional ploys. In some ways it succeeded brilliantly.
I found my epitome of great promotion in Tomorrowland. Here's where I experienced a whole different type of advertising--promotion that really worked by pulling the customers into the world that was being promoted instead of putting them on a ride and bombarding them with blatant advertisement.
I had a blast on the Star Tours ride, a simulated trip through the Star Wars universe aboard an interactive space shuttle piloted by a protesting and "unqualified" C3PO, complete with jumps to hyperspace (where you could feel the Gs of acceleration as the starfield streaked by), confrontations with Darth Vader and the imperial fleet, and eye-popping space battles.
Star Tours opened the air lock and immersed me in an epic space adventure, letting me experience what it's really like to be part of this world. It built expectation and excitement about the upcoming Star Wars installments coming from Disney. In a word...stupendous! (I rode three times and discovered there are at least two completely different adventures to enjoy.)
Next I was charmed by a very different sort of promotion watching the younger participants of the Jedi Training Academy suit up in their brown paduwan robes and have an honest-to-goodness live action lightsabre battle with a towering Darth Vader under the tutelage of a Jedi master.
Each round included unique, authentic lines spoken by Vader right that perfectly suited the live action. Parents went wild snapping photos and shooting videos, and a whole new generation of future Star Wars fans was inducted into the world of "far, far away..."
But Tomorrowland didn't have the monopoly on fun.
The Indiana Jones adventure was an absolute rush--a wild ride aboard a bumpy, careening old War World II era truck, including the thrill of almost being flattened by a huge boulder and cameo appearances by the man himself, dangling from ropes and shouting warnings or words of advice. It included no movie clips, just let riders experience the thrill of being involved. Fun and effective!
Another fantastic multiple-return ride was the Cars adventure next door in Disney's California Adventure set in a massive, life-size canyon that gave an authentic feel of the remote area of the Southwest US where the animated movie is set.
Here you board a Cars style conveyance and get a crazy tour of Radiator Springs and its many colorful characters, and as a grand finale you get to race fellow riders in another Car over steep hills and around tight turns.
Again, no movie clips. You meet the Cars characters face-to-face, including a warning from the looming Sheriff to watch your speed and a grumbling confrontation between the Hippy van and the military Scout jeep. After this experience, anyone who hadn't yet viewed the movie Cars would be compelled to run out and rent or buy it!
My contrasting experiences got me brainstorming about book promotion and how we might do it better. True, we don't have a mega-blockbuster movie to tap into, but heck...we write SFR! We're imaginative, innovative and far-thinking authors. We know how to color outside the box--way outside the box. So maybe it's time to apply some of that imaginative "force" to our promotion efforts. How do we draw readers in--both into our books and the SFR genre in general?
Here are my questions to the SFR authors and readers community:
How might we better promote our wares--romantic adventures in time and space?
What can we do to excite readers and build expectations about our books?
In what ways can we make our promotion fun and exciting?
How do we give readers a taste of what we have to offer in terms of entertainment?
How can we do things better and more effectively than we're doing them now?
Could we possibly team up with fellow SFR community members to find new, innovative, mind-blowing ways to enthuse the reading public about our work?
Let's brainstorm. Please comment with your thoughts, ideas, experiences or efforts. For readers and fans, explain what works (or has worked) for you in terms of book promotion. And what doesn't.
Labels: dialogue on book promotion, Disneyland and promotion, Effective book promotion, ideas for book promotion, Laurie A. Green, promoting a book experience, When Ads Annoy
THE COLOR OF THE FUTURE: DIVERSITY IN SFR
Our sister blogger Heather Massey at The Galaxy Express touched on a subject dear to my heart with two recent posts on diversity in SFR. Heather herself identifies a list of wildly divergent SFR titles both by and about people of color and/or LGBT orientation in "Revisiting People of Color in Science Fiction Romance."
And Suleika Snyder, author of Bollywood and the Beast, challenges the assumptions of both readers and writers in her post, "Mind the Queue: Privilege,Diversity and Romance".
Suleika's main point is that diversity—as in characters of color or sexual orientation and romance between them—is really nothing new in science fiction romance. Authors of color and LGBT authors have been creating wonderful SFR for some time with these characters. They just haven't gotten the attention they deserve. And it has been difficult for them to break into the "mainstream". (As, I might add, it has been difficult, if not impossible for SFR itself to break into the mainstream.)
Now that mega-authors like Suzanne Brockmann and J.R. Ward have sold blockbusters featuring gay lovers (Ward's Lover at Last, for example), you would think the microphone would be open for more voices to be heard. Suleika argues the danger is even greater that authentic contributions from talented, lesser-known writers will be drowned out by the clamor of acclamation for "trailblazers" who are actually trodding a well-worn path.
Suleika also takes the romance industry to task for an overall lack of diversity, citing the reams of stories set in all-white, all hetero contemporary small towns, in pale and proper Regency England or even in WASPish witches' covens or werewolf dens. She's got a point. The books we read do not reflect the society around us, or historical reality or the scope of our imaginations. They are shaped more by the perception of the market that determines the "rules" of the publishing world.
Which leads me to take one small exception to Suleika's argument. It is undoubtedly true that many authors have bravely blazed the trail that Brockmann and Ward are now following. But it is also true that these two mega-authors took a risk in making gay or lesbian lovers the main characters of their novels. They have built careers (and readerships and fortunes) on alpha male/nurturing female tropes and, even more, on male-bonding-in-groups-tropes (Brockmann with Navy SEALS heroes; Ward with the Black Dagger Brotherhood of vampires). To depart so dramatically from what they are known for could have meant disaster for them. What if their readers refused to follow them? What if new readers failed to find them? Do you think their agents and editors and publishers were behind them 100 percent?
Still, I do agree with Suleika and Heather that it would be nice if the big dogs acknowledged those who went before, or who share the world with them. That seldom happens, however. We can only hope that their readers will now be open to exploring that wider world a little more, both in regard to LGBT characters and, in Brockmann's case, in regard to SFR.
Diversity is of special interest to me as a lifelong supporter of the cause of civil rights. I make a point of including characters of color and differing orientation in my books, as a reflection not only of our society as it exists today, but as a projection of how I envision it will look in the future. (Rayna "Dozen" Carver, a secondary character of African-American descent in books one and two of my Interstellar Rescue series, is the heroine in book three of the series, Fools Rush In.) And yet, as a heterosexual, white woman of Appalachian descent, I recognize the challenges of accurately depicting characters of another culture. I rely on my friends and my reading and any source I can tap to get it right. I try not to make assumptions, and if I don't know, I ask.
We have the advantage in science fiction romance of writing without the strictures of history and immediate environment. We have only the laws of science and our imaginations to rein us in. Why would we imagine a future full of only one kind of people, one kind of culture, of limited ability, of limited talent or even of limited sexuality? The future is open to us, as long as our minds are free.
Best of luck with all the submissions, Pippa! And keep on writing to conquer NaNoWriMo!
Posted by Donna S. Frelick at 12:08 PM
Labels: diversity; SFR; Suzanne Brockmann; J.R. Ward; craft;
Frozen Frogs, Cryoprotectants and Holy Days in Space
I've always struggled to think up holiday themed stories. Maybe because I have a hard time picturing Christmas or Easter in space, or that by the time we develop interstellar travel, that we may no longer celebrate such things. After all, Christmas as we know it is a relatively new invention compared to the pagan holidays that existed long before.
But last month I finally came up with a story based on Halloween, or rather the older holiday of All Hallows Eve. And as I debated whether to try and push the story through for publication for THIS Halloween or hold onto it for a whole nother year, several people suggested writing a collection. My poor muse stared at me with a 'look, it's taken me two years to manage one holiday story, don't get your hopes up' kind of glare. Yeah, we're back to that weird brick wall of just not feeling the whole Christmas in Spaaaaaaace thing, despite the fact that it's a huge festival even marked by non-Christian societies.(I'm not saying no one should write Christmas in Space. Just that I have some issue with doing one myself. I'm weird like that).
So I had a think. Several of the traditional Christian holidays we celebrate now are set on dates originally owned by pagan holidays. It has been suggested that Easter is from the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn, Ēostre. In the UK we still mark the passing of Midsummer, celebrated by modern day pagans, and a popular festival in other European countries. Christmas is tied to the winter solstice. And the idea about the solstices being important stuck in my mind. They're a major astronomical event celebrated by several cultures, when the sun appears to stop in its path before reversing. Working on the principle that most planets we might first attempt to inhabit will be similar to our Earth, the chances are they will also have a summer and winter solstice (of course, with a Universal calendar, all holidays celebrated at this stage could easily still be observed, but it's that whole Christmas in space thing again). It wouldn't matter where in the universe you were, you could probably still observe a solstice holiday set to the individual rotation of the world you were on.
And then I came across this premade cover by the talented Gayle Ramage, and muse perked up. Although I think the man in the image is meant to be stone, the snowy background had me thinking ice planet to tie in with the winter theme, and I already had an idea for a holiday. Now I needed to figure out the rest of the story. (BTW, the title and name on the cover will be changed - Gayle just puts random examples on the premade covers to give buyers an idea of how it might look. You should check out her site--there are some fab scifi ones! I've grabbed three of them so far, and two are for stories I haven't even written yet!).
Which leads me to the frozen frogs. I know what you're thinking! You get the frozen part, but what the heck is the deal with the frogs?! Well, I was trying to think of a way a species could survive living exposed on a planet that is essentially in permanent winter. I remembered a documentary about a frog that could freeze and defrost without any permanent damage to itself. Let me introduce you to the wood frog (Lithobates sylvatica) the most widely distributed frog in Alaska.
Now, taking the fact that Alaska is a strangely chilly place to find a little amphibian like a frog, you might be wondering how it could survive somewhere so cold, where the temperature can drop as low as -60 degrees F. *shivers* This amazing little frog survives the winter by hibernating, but it can actually tolerate its blood and tissues freezing, something that would kill any other animal. How does it do this? What magical properties does it have that allow it to not only freeze, but to defrost without any harmful side effects? Urea and liver glycogen. Both natural organic chemicals that we can find in all living things. But in the wood frog, these act as cryoprotectants, which limits the amount of ice that forms and helps prevent cell shrinkage. They can survive up to 65% of their body becoming frozen. Amazing, huh?
So from holiday themes to cryogenic frogs in one blog post. :P
This week I finally sent off a submission (wish me luck!), managed to stay on track with NaNoWriMo(still surprised), and I'm about to send out my second newsletter! Have you signed up yet? Go here. This month's has the latest giveaways and freebies, so if you miss it be sure to sign up for the next one. There'll be more fun stuff coming in December.
November is anti-bullying month, so I'm donating this month's royalties from my YA scifi novel Gethyon to the UK charity Childline which supports and offers advice to children being bullied and abused. I hope you'll help me support this cause. Go here to find out more.
I'm also taking part in a huge giveaway for the next two weeks - a $100 Amazon gift card is up for grabs, along with a ton of books, swag, and other goodies. Go here for your chance to win.
The very lovely Liana Brooks is at my blog today with an excerpt and blurb for Even Villains go to the Movies, Book Two of the Heroes and Villains series. Stop by here to find out why I love this series so much, with a mini review of the book. Plus Liana is giving away a movie bucket or $25 Amazon gift card. Yummy!
And swing by the SFR Brigade blog here to find out how aspiring SFR author Rachel Leigh Smith came up with the naming system for her aliens.
Finally, I'll be over at Romancing the Genres blog on Friday, talking about how I got around to writing a holiday story at last, and with a recommendation of another holiday themed threesome for you to enjoy!
Laurie - Congrats on your final in the Launching a Star contest! Awesome! Loved the turn of phrase segment too.
Donna - great review of Ender's Game. I do like stories that turn the idea of who the real villains are in a story upsidedown. Reminds me of Liana Brooks' Even Villains fall in Love, and also the film Enemy Mine. Also Neal Asher's Owner trilogy, where the main villain thinks she's the good guy, and the hero could go either way.
Labels: cryoprotectants, Gethyon, holiday themes, Pippa's Journal
Passing the Torch....in Spaaaaace
Mission: Success
Laurie's Journal
A final!
It's been a while since I've done an update to my Mission: Success Journal, but I'm happy to report my second Science Fiction Romance novel has finaled in the Launching A Star contest sponsored by Spacecoast RWA in Florida. (Fitting, yes?)
I haven't been on the contest circuit for almost a year and a half, so it was a great feeling to get the good news. *clicks heels*
And in other random space or writerly related news:
Passing the Torch...in Spaaaaaace!
It's never been done before.
The tradition of carrying the Olympic torch is long and colored. It's passed through many countries, many famous hands, and been in many scenarios, but never before has the torch been passed...in spaaaaace!
On November 8th, a new crew to arrive at the International Space Station brought the red and silver olympic torch along, and just a few months before the 2014 Winter Olympic Games set for Sochi, Russia.
Mikhail Tyurin brought the torch aboard, and the nine occupants of the ISS floated weightless while they passed the torch from one to another, each having a little time to hold it and fly through the various station modules.
This is not the first time an olympic torch has been taken into space, with a previous torch carried by the space shuttle Atlantis in 1996 for the Atlanta summer games. But the torch being carried while in spacewalk is a first.
On Saturday, Ryazanskiy and and Kotov took the torch outside for the spacewalk and posed with Earth as a backdrop for the proud moment.
Now how are they going to top this in the future? Maybe an olympic torch passed on the Moon? Or on Mars? I'd sure love to see that!
The olympic torch was scheduled to return to Earth with a returning crew last night (Sunday).
8,800,000,000 Earths
That's the latest estimate of the number of planets in our own galaxy that might support life -- 8.8 billion potential earth-like worlds! According to a new study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, this is based on calculations that 20% of the 200 billion stars in this galaxy are similar to our own sun, and 22% of those are similar in size to Earth and are in the habitable zone with an atmosphere that's not too hot or too cold to support life.
That's more Earth-like planets than the total population of Earth.
It means you could write a story every day for the next hundred years set on a different Earth-like planet, and you'd only have covered 36,500 planets.
But that's not all. If you also consider red dwarf suns in our galaxy, with potential Earth-like planets, the number may be more in the range of 40 billion Earths.
Yup. That's a whole lot of real estate.
You can read more about the study here: NPR
(Wrong) Turns of Phrase
As writers, we learn that choosing just the right word combinations can convey thoughts, feelings and images more effectively. Here's a collection of headlines that fell a little short, in sometimes hilarious ways, of conveying the meaning intended. Enjoy!
TOILET OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE USE FLOOR BELOW
In a Laundromat:
AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES: PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR CLOTHES WHEN THE LIGHT GOES OUT
In a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS
In an office:
WOULD THE PERSON WHO TOOK THE STEP LADDER YESTERDAY PLEASE BRING IT BACK OR FURTHER STEPS WILL BE TAKEN.
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD.
Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC. WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
Notice in Health Food shop window:
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS.
Spotted in a safari park:
ELEPHANTS PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CAR
Seen during a conference:
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR.
Notice in a farmer's field:
THE FARMER ALLOWS WALKERS TO CROSS THE FIELD FOR FREE, BUT THE BULL CHARGES.
Message on a leaflet:
IF YOU CANNOT READ, THIS LEAFLET WILL TELL YOU HOW TO GET LESSONS.
On a repair shop door:
WE CAN REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR - THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfield Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
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The minimum qualification for appearing for the engineering entrance exams is 50% aggregate marks at 10+2 level or with physics, chemistry, mathematics as compulsory subjects and one optional science subject. Arya Group of Colleges accepts appropriate scores of different entrance exams. The top engineering colleges in Jaipur, provide specializations into various streams of engineering such as Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering etc. which the students can opt as per their aptitude and percentile scored in various exams.
The top 10 engineering colleges in Jaipur keep changing as it is based on various parameters. All the colleges aspire to be in the list by raising their standards in all aspects. Arya Group of Colleges is one such group of colleges which has been successful in acquiring a special place in the academic zone of the state in a very short span of time. Through its constant endeavor of overall development of its students and society AIET is expected to soon touch the pinnacle of excellence in India.
Arya Institute of Engineering & Technology (AIET) is amongst the foremost of Top Institutes in Rajasthan for Engineering in Higher Technical Education & Research. Established in the year 2005, in the State of Rajasthan, Arya Institute of Engineering & Technology has evolved into the most prominent College in the state as well as the Best Engineering Colleges in Jaipur.View More
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It's always cool learning about Easter Eggs and behind-the-scenes information. Maybe it's because I grew up in a family business, but I tend to believe it's more likely because I am just nosy. Our Day 7 prize, Cytosis Cell Biology Game, came with one of those stories. Genius Games wanted it to be thematically accurate as a game, but also scientifically correct. They crowdsourced professionals in science to make sure the details were just right. What they ended up with is a game that is entertaining and educational. That's a total win/win. The only thing that could make it better is to actually WIN a copy!
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My son said a Volcano eruption game! It could be very interesting!
I think the lesson on the human heart should be a game!
I have always been partial to the how does it do that type of experiment. Egg sucked into bottle with air pressure, two forks hanging on the edge of a glass by a burnt match stick.
how the circulatory system works in the body!
It's been a while since I thought about science lessons. I wouldn't mind something that explores the complexity of the brain.
A science project that I wish would be made into a game is dissecting a frog.
A potato battery game would be fun! That was one of my favorite projects when I was a kid!
Something to do with gravity on the various planets.
A game that assists in visualizing the balancing of a chemical equation.
Something about the ways that animal and plant life are categorized.
The water cycle would make a cool game.
How evolution works, actual evolution.
Would love to see a DNA splicing game.
A game about the solar system and the universe.
I would love to see chemistry and/or physics lessons made into a game. I'm not sure which ones, but I think those two are the most exciting forms of scientific study. Physics lends itself well to dexterity games, and chemistry is just fun to watch what happens when you combine things.
I'd love to see a game where you have to build molecules using atoms.
A lesson on climate change.
Maybe something to do with learning the Elements on the Periodic Table would help the kids learn & remember the elements better..
Human Bones should be a new game or Heart.
DNA or animal development such as egg development to chicks or ducks and growing a flock.
The Periodic Table of elements would be cool though I have no suggestion as far as mechanics.
The G-forces that you feel when riding a roller coaster would be awesome, but probably not practical.
I'd like to see a game that incorporates quantum physics. You could start with the basics like Schrodinger's Cat. oooh I could see how that would be fun!
I think the common cold/viruses would be a crazy game!
A game about the heart.
I would like to see a Epidemiology( Study of Diseases)game. I think subject would make for a challenging learning experience.


The purpose of this final class is to investigate another concrete example of a workers' state and how this has developed over time. Comrades will further inquire into how Marx's writings have been distorted by opportunists. In addition to these two tasks, we will summarize our study of The State and Revolution by using it to imagine a revolution in the U.S.
What led to the Cuban revolution?
During the last class we talked about how the class struggle does not end with the overthrow of the bourgeois state. What additional insights does this chapter offer in this regard?
What challenges does underdevelopment pose to the construction of socialism in Cuba? What about in other countries?
What was the significance of the Agrarian Land Reforms and the Literacy Campaign?
How does Cuba function as a workers' democracy?
What role has the Cuban revolution played in the international communist movement?
What is Lenin's problem with Plekhanov's pamphlet?
How did Bernstein distort Marx's insight on the state?
What was Katsky's response to Bernstein here?
Why do you think Lenin was so concernedwith this issue?
What does Lenin mean when he says that opportunists are fearful and anarchists are either impatient or blind? How does Marx teach us to avoid both of these errors?
Read the last paragraph together as a class. Does this ending communicate the urgency of the question of the state? Does this urgency exist today?
Watch the music video for "Work like Chavez" by Rebel Diaz. How does this song relate to today's readings?
This activity can be done individually or in small groups of 2-5.
Reconvene as a class and share what you have imagined.


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An almost untranslatable German word, Betroffenheit, captures the shock, speechlessness, and distress that follow a trauma. And, as you might expect, the new dance-theatre work with that word as its title has been an intense journey of deep trust for its creative team.
In building the piece, Vancouver dance artist Crystal Pite and theatre innovator Jonathon Young travelled into real emotionally fraught territory: the paralyzing grief Young experienced over the loss of his daughter and the posttraumatic stress that followed.
But Pite reveals that their journey was far from depressing.
"I was wondering about working with something so profound and loaded and how that would be to navigate through that progress for what has been two years now," she tells the Straight from Ottawa, where Betroffenheit is showing before heading here for a sold-out DanceHouse run. "But what's been amazing to me is the amount of joy in the process of creating it and just in the act of making it.
The resulting piece is drawing raves wherever it shows, starting with the Panamania festival in Toronto last summer. Staged by Pite's Kidd Pivot company and Young's Electric Company Theatre, Betroffenheit stars Young (who chose not to do interviews for this part of the tour) and a troupe of dancers, re-imagining his downward spiral as the dark, surreal variety act Showtime. Those delirious segments come complete with tap-dancing, salsa, and creepy clowns.
"One of the aspects of the show is addiction, so substance abuse is a coping strategy for our protagonist, because he is dealing with PTSD," Pite explains. "Our stand-in for that substance is Showtime: he gives in to Showtime when he gets to a point where he can't cope. He lets Showtime infiltrate his system and the space of the show. And it had to be seductive and very pleasing and beautiful and powerful and destructive. Each [segment] has to be more sparkly and exotic than the next.
To understand why Young would entrust Pite with such a personal story—one so difficult to articulate—it's important to understand that their relationship goes way back to his early days at Electric Company Theatre, one of the city's most adventurous interdisciplinary stage troupes. Pite collaborated with ETC over the years, helping to choreograph buzzed-about multimedia shows like Studies in Motion. Both have gone on to great success in their careers, with Pite heading for three years with Kidd Pivot to an artistic residency at Frankfurt's Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and gigs across Europe—including work as an associate artist at the cutting-edge Nederlands Dans Theater. Young continued creating shows with ETC, like Palace Grand.
Amid all this, in 2009, tragedy struck: Young and theatre artist Kim Collier lost their young teenage daughter and her two cousins to a cabin fire in B.C.'s Interior.
Pite, who is more used to choreographing alone (albeit always with a creative team in her atmospheric sets and music), welcomed a partner in the studio. "I was with Jonathon every day to share those difficult moments, so even in those moments of extreme doubt and fear, I was not on my own," she says.
It's a relationship that continues. Pite just got back from The Hague, where she created a 19-minute quartet for Nederlands Dans Theater, working with a script she commissioned from Young.
And though the choreographer's star continues to rise, with big new works debuting with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Ballet later this year, she is excited about Betroffenheit touring to places like Seattle, Dublin, and London—and about its run here, where audiences are so familiar with the two artists' work, and with Young's loss.
DanceHouse presents Betroffenheit at the Vancouver Playhouse from Thursday to Saturday (February 25 to 27).


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Q: resizing an uiimage before writing it to documents directory I have a question.I need to resize the image when I take an image using camera and picking the image from the photo library using uiimagepickercontroller and then write that resized image to the documents directory. So please help me with some reference on how to resize an uiimage.

A: Use the following:
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(newSize);
[image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height)];
UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
NSString *path = [[NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"resizedImage.jpg"];
[UIImageJPGRepresentation(newImage, 1.0) writeToFile:path atomically:YES];

A: You can use Trevor's library for more effects, not only resizing - Resize Image the Right Way

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With the presence of TJ Buchholz, Women's Head Coach - University of Toledo, Bobby Renneisen, Women's Head Coach - Cal-State San Marcos, Grace Cooper, Women's Head Coach - Chaffey College, Darrin Lesley, Men's Head Coach - Cal State San Bernardino and Ben Cooper, Men's Head Coach - Chaffey College, IE Surf held its second College Information Night where players and parents received first-hand information from college coaches as to what it takes to get into college and more important, how to remain at that level, both in school and in sports.
Players and parents learned that "character and attitude" have a major part in the recruitment of a player. "Player body language with the players and coaches of a team says a lot of a player and see if it will fit our team," said TJ. "talent and skills are not all that is needed to make it into our team".
Social Media is also something that teams look at. Players were warned about their use of personal messages within their social media that could impact their college careers.
A big thank you to Ted Small for putting this great event and to the mentioned coaches for coming out and give our members great information to use as they move into college.


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Although Rhode Island Connections Academy will be closing in June, we are supporting students through the end of the school year. We are accepting new students through March 1, 2023.
Program Approval
Cara Ducharme
Secondary Math Teacher
Bachelor of Science, Zoo Science, Friends University; Master of Education, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Mrs. Ducharme teaches math in grades 7–12. She began teaching in 2014 and joined Rhode Island Connections Academy this year. Mrs. Ducharme shares more below.
Why I Became a Teacher
During junior/senior year of high school, I started tutoring in math, science, and English. I became a tutor because I had a space in my schedule to fill, and I wanted to help others understand topics that came easily to me but I often saw them struggle with. Since I began tutoring, I haven't stopped; however, my love for teaching has grown beyond just wanting to help others understand the academic content. My focus now is helping others develop their best selves so that they can live the life they want and deserve.
The Online School Experience at Rhode Island Connections Academy
I absolutely LOVE the flexibility that Rhode Island Connections Academy allows its staff and families. We all know that "life happens," and to adhere to a rigid schedule can be extremely difficult to do. Appointments, feeling under the weather, late starts, bathroom breaks, energy breaks, food breaks, etc., can cause missed learning in a regular brick-and-mortar school, unlike our program at Rhode Island Connections Academy. Students do schoolwork at their own pace; several of our students currently work on their schoolwork during the evening and on weekends to keep on target, while others opt to follow the normal brick-and-mortar school hours, as that is when they have access to their teachers.
The other benefits of teaching at an online school versus a brick-and-mortar school are the connections: connections with people across the country that allow for increased best practices in learning, connections with students and families that are much deeper than previous jobs, and connections with coworkers that make our program feel like a family.
I have high hopes for our future, and I feel that the best way to contribute is to educate our youth as they are our future.
— Mrs. Ducharme
My interests include listening to and playing music, reading non-fiction, being outside in nature to marvel at its magical beauty and animals (minus spiders). I enjoy the relaxing, inspiring, and thrilling company of my friends and family.
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