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And when they commit crimes and get sentenced, immigrants are sometimes subjected to snide remarks by judges. The Seventh Circuit recently vacated a sentence and remanded for resentencing by a different judge, after trial judge Rudolph Randa (E.D. Wis.) made some unfortunate comments in sentencing defendant Jose Figueroa. From the Seventh Circuit opinion, by the fabulous Judge Diane Wood:
During the hearing, the district court digressed to discuss Figueroa’s native Mexico, the immigration status of Figueroa and his sisters, and the conditions and laws in half a dozen other countries—not to mention unnecessary references to Hugo Chávez, Iranian terrorists, and Adolf Hitler’s dog.
Chávez, Iranian terrorists, and Hitler’s dog. Those are all § 3553(a) factors, right?
So how exactly did Judge Randa achieve the impressive feat of working all of these topics into a routine sentencing?
Earlier today, on the Senate floor, debate took place on whether to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th Supreme Court justice. The Kagan nomination is not very controversial, due to the nominee’s impeccable credentials and the Democrats’ 59 votes in the Senate.
In the legal blogosphere, a far more divisive debate is raging, over a subject just as important as confirming the fourth woman ever to the Supreme Court: Are peep-toe shoes appropriate professional footwear? Can female attorneys wear them to the office? What about to court?
The debate was ignited over at The Careerist, by Vivia Chen (no style slouch herself — not many legal journalists own floor-length mink coats). Chen recounted this anecdote:
Waiting in line in the ladies room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel recently, I heard this discussion: “In my day, I always wore pumps to court,” said in a woman in her fifties. “Can you believe this associate went to court with open-toe shoes?” Her companion shook her head, then asked: “How did she do?” The first woman replied, “Her work was good, but her shoes weren’t right.”
Chen then surveyed a number of lawyers, from around the country, and they could not reach a consensus on the appropriateness of peep-toe shoes. The debate continued over at the ABA Journal, where a post by Debra Cassens Weiss generated a flurry of comments.
Given that so many law firms are business casual nowadays, it is probably safe to wear peep-toe shoes to the office. The fashion guidelines issued by the New York office of Weil Gotshal, for example, officially bless “open toe or open heel shoes.” (Still unacceptable: “Athletic shoes, clogs, beach shoes, flip flops, beach shoes.”)
But what about wearing peep-toe shoes to court? On this subject, we decided to turn to the experts: namely, a panel of fabulous female federal judges….
Now that President Obama has interviewed the four finalists for the U.S. Supreme Court seat he has to fill — Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.), Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Judge Sidney Thomas (9th Cir.), and Judge Diane Wood (7th Cir) — the nominee could be announced any day now. Who will it be?
We realize that the betting men (and women) favor Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Kagan is also the pick of Tom Goldstein, the veteran Supreme Court litigator and founder of SCOTUSblog, who correctly forecast the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor (a nomination that the White House sought his counsel on).
But we’re going to go out on a limb and make a crazy prediction: President Obama is going to nominate Judge Diane Wood, of the Seventh Circuit, to the Supreme Court. He’ll announce the nomination on Monday, May 10 — the Monday after Mother’s Day. (That’s significant, for reasons we’ll get to later.)
For Article III groupies, the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago was the place to be last night. The annual meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit attracted a bevy of judicial superstars, who mixed and mingled at the conference’s grand banquet.
The most notable luminary was Justice John Paul Stevens, the Circuit Justice for the Seventh Circuit (and a former judge of the Seventh Circuit himself). The 90-year-old Justice Stevens, who is stepping down from the Supreme Court at the end of this Term, was joined at the dinner by several of his possible successors.
Justice Stevens actually had the job of introducing one of them, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who delivered the keynote address. In the audience were several other short-listers, including Judges Diane Wood and Ann Claire Williams, of the Seventh Circuit, and Judge Ruben Castillo, of the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago).
Who will replace Justice John Paul Stevens? While pundits, savants, and oracles across the SCOTUSphere pontificate and read Article III tea leaves, FantasySCOTUS.net conducted extensive and detailed polling to predict the next Justice. We have invited our nearly 5,000 members – who represent some of the closest and most ardent Court watchers – to weigh in on the vacancy, rank the candidates on the short list, and give their views on the potential nominees. We are still collecting data.
This is the third in a series of posts breaking down this data, as we attempt to add some certainty to the vast amounts of uncertainty emanating from the penumbras of the upcoming vacancy.
This week, we pit Elena Kagan, Diane Wood, and Merrick Garland in a head-to-head-to-head confirmation death match…
For weeks, the media laundry machine has been circulating news of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s impending retirement. Now that the buzzer has gone off on that, it’s time to switch to the next cycle: speculation as to who President Barack Obama will nominate to replace him.
President Obama has been dragging his feet in his appointment of federal judges. We are relieved to hear that he is going to pick up the pace for announcing his Supreme Court pick. ABC News reports that the White House is prepared — thanks to Stevens’s public pondering — and that the announcement will come “within weeks.” Which isn’t really very helpful at all. Two weeks? Four weeks? Twelve weeks?
BLT reports on Obama’s speech from the Rose Garden today:
“While we cannot replace Justice Stevens’ experience or wisdom, I will seek someone in the coming weeks with similar qualities — an independent mind, a record of excellence and integrity, a fierce dedication to the rule of law, and a keen understanding of how the law affects the daily lives of the American people,” Obama said. “It will also be someone who, like Justice Stevens, knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.”
Please make it fast, Obama. We’re ready to move on to the confirmation hearing cycle!
OmniVere’s delivery of end-to-end technology & data consulting to position the company as a true differentiator in the global legal technology and compliance space.
CHICAGO, IL, September 29, 2014 – OmniVere today announced the creation of the company’s technology & data consulting arm and the addition of several industry-renown experts, including the former co-chairs of Berkeley Research Group’s (BRG’s) Technology Services practice, Liam Ferguson, Rich Finkelman and Courtney Fletcher.
This new consulting practice will provide and expand existing OmniVere eDiscovery consulting services to corporations, law firms and government agencies with a special focus on compliance, information governance and eDiscovery. This addition of this top talent now positions OmniVere as a true industry leader in the technology and data consulting space offering best-in-class end-to-end services.
Ferguson, Finkelman & Fletcher are nationally recognized experts and seasoned veterans in the areas of overall technology, electronic discovery, and structured data. At OmniVere, the team will be focused on all global consulting activities with respect to legal compliance, complex data analytics, business intelligence design and analysis, and electronic discovery service offerings.
The Trust Women conference is an influential gathering that brings together global corporations, lawyers and pioneers in the field of women’s rights. Unlike many other events, Trust Women delegates take action and forge tangible commitments to empower women to know and defend their rights.
This year, the Trust Women conference will take place 18-19 November in London. From women’s economic empowerment to slavery in the supply chain and child labour, this year’s agenda is strong and powerful. Speakers include Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women; Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking and many other influential leaders. Find out more about Trust Women here.


The highly requested paper clip installment of Will It Antenna. Where I try and make ham radio antennas out of common household items. Today, the worst example of an antenna I have ever made.
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The idea of poems crossing borders into different art forms has always excited me, and the BBC’s Contains Strong Language festival offered a chance for multiple crossings between dance, music and poetry.
My poem This Tide of Humber, commissioned by the BBC for Contains Strong Language and inspired by the city of Hull and the River Humber, has been interpreted by the JoinedUp Dance Company in a contemporary dance piece, which will be premiered on Saturday 30 September in Hull.
This is the first time I have worked so closely with dancers, and over these past months I have come to see how the movement of a line can become a body in motion, or a phrase of music; the poem’s white space, the human breath, the choice to be still, or silent.
Most of my work is solitary, and I like it that way, but there is a different joy in opening gateways into another person’s mind, being introduced to a new language.
I was lucky to be put together with the JoinedUp Dance Company, the composer Joe Roper and creative producer Jackie Goodman. Another collaborator in all this was Hull itself, and the first thing Jackie and Joe did was to walk me around their city, taking me to places with a particular meaning for them.
In her first note to me, Jackie said, ’I’m really interested in Calvino’s concept of the city as a palimpsest, made from layer on layer of the buildings and lives that have existed at different times’. I identified with that right away, because so much of my writing is to do with veils, layers put on and stripped away. It also fitted with the lasting image I carried away, of constantly shifting water and mud, ‘intricate lovers’ at the edge of the world.
I came to Hull as a stranger and decided to make that the truthful, and quite personal, starting-point of the poem. I wanted strong images that would give the dancers a way in, but also allow them the freedom to interpret and carry the poem forward. Mark Pearce and Chloe Sweeting have captured not just the images but also the emotional climate of the poem. They have skillfully turned phrases of poetry into phrases of movement. ’We really felt the sense of isolation at the beginning of the poem,’ they say, ‘and its mood shifts helped us to develop dynamic contrasts in the choreography. Certain words and phrases stood out and the flow and wash of the river is evident throughout. This contrasts with hanging lifts and moments of still balance, the feeling of water meeting land’.
It astonishes me how the poem can lift off the page and take on new life in the dancers’ breath and bodies. With Joe, I listened to the city, and the sound of the water found its way into the rhythm of the poem, then back into his music. He composed section by section as he watched Mark and Chloe develop the choreography, so the whole process has been a kind of tide coming and going between us all.
The poem has its own space, and so do the dance and music, but as they breathe into each other they have all become more expansive than any of us expected.
with Jackie Goodman, Mark Pearce, Chloe Sweeting and Joe Roper.
Pakistan-born Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary-maker. She was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, is a recipient of the Cholmondeley Award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
This Tide of Humber (broadcast on BBC Radio 4)
Saturday 30 September, 15:15-15:45 and 16:30-17:00 at Hull College Free admission (ticketed) Book here.
JoinedUp Dance Company present a new piece of contemporary dance inspired by Imtiaz Dharker’s specially commissioned poem This Tide of Humber. This Tide of Humber captures the inexplicable pull of a city where dislocation and separation mix with images of water and sky to create a unique sense of place. Imtiaz Dharker’s wonderful evocation of the city of Hull and the River Humber is interpreted by JoinedUp Dance Company to create a wistful, enigmatic performance piece with an original score by composer Joe Roper.


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As you work your way through your latest draft, among the numerous questions to keep in mind is “Is my main character the one driving things forward?”
It’s a common complaint: a protagonist who is too passive. How do you make sure they aren’t?
Start with this: Do they make things happen or just react to them?
Your story is about this character going through some ordeal as they try to achieve their goal. Are they taking the steps needed and doing what they have to in order to do that?
Their normal routine has most likely been drastically altered. How are they reacting to all these changes while trying to get things back to normal?
How does the character factor into each scene? Are they having some kind of impact? Does the outcome of each scene depend on them? Does what they do here get them closer to reaching their goal?
A scene can be about them even if they’re not part of it. Maybe it’s the other characters’ reactions or the ramifications of what they’ve done.
You don’t want a main character who just sits around, waiting for things to happen. Get them out there and throw them right into the thick of it.

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By Madison Fisler Lewis
Oct. 22, 2014. Submissions are now being accepted for the 12th annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition, which provides photographers the opportunity to showcase their own interpretation of the character, people and places that make the southern Appalachian mountains unique and special.
“We have all types of people who enter this competition,” said Rich Campbell, associate director of outdoor programs at Appalachian State University.
“Amateurs, professionals, teenagers, students. People from all walks of life and from all over the place. You don’t have to be from here to enter, the images just have to be of something in Southern Appalachia. This is a homegrown competition, so many of the submissions are from local photographers, but we have had entries from a lot of different places over the years.”
The competition strives to find images that are real, authentic depictions of Southern Appalachia.
“It is important to have people out there taking pictures,” Campbell said. “You can look at a familiar landscape, like Grandfather Mountain or Linville Gorge, in a unique way and if you can capture that and share it will people, it makes people re-examine that place and maybe fall in love with it all over again. It is a great way to challenge people to look at something familiar in a new way.”
The competition has several categories, and all categories are open to amateur and professional photographers.
Categories include Adventure, Blue Ridge Parkway-Beyond the Blacktop, Culture, Our Ecological Footprint, Flora/Fauna and landscape. Once the submission deadline approaches, jurors will begin the judging process for all of the submitted photographs.
“We have three jurors, they all have a photographic background,” said Campbell. “Once submission are finished, we get the jurors together and we look at the images digitally on an online platform. We look at the images and go through one by one in each category and we try to come up with anywhere from six to ten per category. Then we have a list of anywhere from 45-50 images overall which makes for a really great show.”
Once the jurying process is completed, the selected images are showcased at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University. The exhibition begins on March 6 and runs through June 6. The official winners of the competition are chosen from those in the exhibition.
“We officially announce all of the winners on March 28, and from that point on the winning images in the exhibition are labeled,” said Campbell.
The winning photographs win various cash prizes which are sponsored by the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, Footsloggers Outdoor and Travel Outfitters and Appalachian Voices. The prizes include the following:
- Best in Show – $1,000
- Category Winners – $250
- Blue Ridge Parkway Ecological Footprint Award – $500
- People’s Choice Award – $350
The submission limit is 3 images per photographer per category. Cost for submission is $6 per image.
A portion of the proceeds from the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition are used to support the Outdoor Programs Student Outdoor Learning Expeditions at ASU.
“It is a very competitive competition, but we have had a lot of people that do very well in their first photo competition,” Campbell said. “We really encourage people to try, even if they aren’t professional. We really want to get the word out there to those who might be interested in shooting images and might be on the fence.”
Those wishing to participate are encouraged to start taking photos as early as possible. Submissions can be made online here.
For more information about the competition, click here.
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2019 Florida Statutes
Responsibilities of the midwife.
Responsibilities of the midwife.
467.015 Responsibilities of the midwife.—
(1) A midwife shall accept and provide care for only those mothers who are expected to have a normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery and shall ensure that the following conditions are met:
(a) The patient has signed an informed consent form approved by the department pursuant to s. 467.016.
(b) If the patient is delivering at home, the home is safe and hygienic and meets standards set forth by the department.
(2) A midwife may provide collaborative prenatal and postpartal care to pregnant women not at low risk in their pregnancy, labor, and delivery, within a written protocol of a physician currently licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459, which physician shall maintain supervision for directing the specific course of medical treatment. The department shall by rule develop guidelines for the identification of high-risk pregnancies.
(3) A midwife licensed under this chapter may administer prophylactic ophthalmic medication, oxygen, postpartum oxytocin, vitamin K, rho immune globulin (human), and local anesthetic pursuant to a prescription issued by a practitioner licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459, and may administer such other medicinal drugs as prescribed by such practitioner. Any such prescription for medicinal drugs shall be in a form that complies with chapter 499 and shall be dispensed in a pharmacy permitted under chapter 465 by a pharmacist licensed under chapter 465.
(4) The care of mothers and infants throughout the prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods shall be in conformity with rules adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter and the public health laws of this state.
(5) The midwife shall:
(a) Prepare a written plan of action with the family to ensure continuity of medical care throughout labor and delivery and to provide for immediate medical care if an emergency arises. The family should have specific plans for medical care throughout the prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods.
(b) Instruct the patient and family regarding the preparation of the environment and ensure availability of equipment and supplies needed for delivery and infant care, if a home birth is planned.
(c) Instruct the patient in the hygiene of pregnancy and nutrition as it relates to prenatal care.
(d) Maintain equipment and supplies in conformity with the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(6) The midwife shall determine the progress of labor and, when birth is imminent, shall be immediately available until delivery is accomplished. During labor and delivery, the midwife shall comply with rules adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter, which shall include rules that govern:
(a) Maintaining a safe and hygienic environment;
(b) Monitoring the progress of labor and the status of the fetus;
(c) Recognizing early signs of distress or complications; and
(d) Enacting the written emergency plan when indicated.
(7)(a) The midwife shall remain with the postpartal mother until the conditions of the mother and the neonate are stabilized.
(b) The midwife shall instill into each eye of the newborn infant a prophylactic in accordance with s. 383.04.
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Books I recently finished
The Lake House by Kate Morton
It is the eve of summer solstice in 1933 and the Edevane family has gathered their friends at the beautiful estate of Loeanneth for celebration. The gardens are magically decorated and everyone is caught up in the festivities. Yet amidst the fireworks and champagne there are plans afoot and the next morning the Edevane family discovers that their youngest child Theo, has disappeared. The family is devastated and Theo is never found, dead or alive. Seventy years later, Sadie Sparrow is forced to take leave from her work as a police investigator. She decides to visit her grandfather Bertie in Cornwall and during her stay she stumbles upon an old desolate estate of Loeanneth. Sadie sets out to discover the secrets of Loeanneth and what exactly happened the night that Theo Edevane went missing.
Kate Morton spins a magical web of stories through the perspective of her characters spanning from 1911 to 2003. With her various twists and turns Morton keeps the reader in suspense making it very difficult to put her book down.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
Marie Kondo has been passionate about tidying from a young age. After much trial and error she has discovered a method of tidying that she claims works for all and has no rebound effect. Her aptly named KonMarie method of tidying is uniquely presented in an easy to read book that has peeked the interests of people worldwide. The premise of the KonMarie method is that everything in the home should bring you joy. If an item does not spark joy it does not belong in the home. I was often amused by the descriptions and personifications she attached to various household items. At heart Marie Kondo shares a message of appreciation and minimalism. Truly, a very enjoyable book to read for both people that love tidying and those that despise it.
Marie Kondo will be releasing a second book Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up in January 2016.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
When Isabelle and Vianne were young their father went to fight the Great War. He returned a changed man and after the death of their mother the sisters are cast aside. Now it is 1995 and one of the sisters receives an invitation to travel to Paris for a commemoration of the Nightingale. The sisters’ experiences of loss and heartache that were the result by living in occupied France in the second world war come hurling back. It is finally time for these stories, so carefully hidden, to be told. Throughout the book the telling of survival and rebellion alternates between the perspective of Isabelle and Vianne. A heart-wrenching story or pain, loss, love and hope. A must read.
Books I am currently reading
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Narrated by Death itself this book follows Liesel Meminger, the Book Thief, a ten year old girl living in Nazi Germany. The story begins with Death and its shadow embraces and lingers over everyone as world war two plummets Europe into fear and loss. I am truly captivated.
Books I am planning to read
Winter by Marissa Meyer
Back in June I read the first three books or the Lunar Chronicles: Cinder, Scarlet and Cress. I found these futuristic fairy-tale stories rather addictive and have been patiently waiting for the fourth installment to be released.
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life by James Martin
After reading A Year of Living Prayerfully and God Finds Us I have found myself being drawn to the spiritual practices of St. Ignatius of Loyola. I recently ordered this book and plan to start reading it soon.
This post is linked to Modern Mrs. Darcy’s Quick Lit.
I read The Nightingale a few months ago and didn't love it as much as Kristin Hannah's other books. My book club is reading it as our December book, so I'm going to give it a second read; perhaps it will be better this time through! I love the Lunar Chronicles and am also looking forward to reading Winter.
I actually haven't read any other books by Kristin Hannah. Which ones have you read and enjoyed? I'm curious now 🙂
I have Winter sitting on my kindle just waiting for me to finish up my book club pick – so impatient! lol
I know the feeling! I've committed to finishing The Book Thief before starting Winter 🙂

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In the years to come under her direction, Kingsley House became a New Orleans institution and she herself would gain fame as a social activist and one of the preeminent social workers in the.S. In fact, she helped establish the Tulane School of Social Work, which was formally instituted at the Kingsley House campus in 1921 and is the fifth-oldest school of social work in the country.She also visited Hull House in Chicago custom written term papers and worked closely with Jane Addams to develop effective methods in meeting the needs of the residents and the surrounding community. Her vision and legacy continues to shape the mission of Kingsley House to this day by need help with essay writing providing services the community needs most. In the early days, Kingsley House actively identified problems facing the community and worked together with key stakeholders in the community to develop solutions. For example, staff and members gathered facts about tuberculosis and formed the Anti-Tuberculosis League, where doctors provided free health clinical visits and checkups.
Warner, a graduate of Princeton and native of New Jersey, came to New Orleans in 1893 to Trinity Church and saw a need for action in the nearby neighborhood. In addition to being a clergyman, he was an author who advocated the use of wealth to help the poor to improve their livelihood while maintaining self respect, as exemplified in his novel Troubled Waters. He eventually realized the fruition of his ideals when he established Kingsley House to help immigrants overcome language, cultural, social and family displacement barriers as they settled in New Orleans.Legacy of Eleanor McMain, eleanor McMain was instrumental in shaping Kingsley House into a model of excellence in the field of social work. After taking over day-to-day operations as head resident in 1901, she ensured the settlement house offered programs comparable to any in the country.
'I applied for four jobs, have already had interviews for three and was offered one (the position I really wanted). . I am absolutely amazed.' 'opened more doors than expected' 'high quality, excellent service' 'polished and professional' 'gave me confidence' 'dedicated to help you succeed'.A Beacon of Hope in our Community. At Kingsley House, we are proud of our rich history in helping to improve the lives of families in the community. During our many years of service, we have served a vast array of people; we helped Irish and German immigrants settle in New Orleans during the end of the 19th century, provided neighborhood children and families with educational and recreational opportunities throughout the 20th century.While the needs of the community have changed over the years, Kingsley House has retained its fundamental mission to educate children, strengthen families and build community. Established in 1896, kingsley House was founded in 1896 by the Reverend Beverley Warner of Trinity Episcopal essay writing god helps those who help themselves Church and is the oldest settlement house in the South.

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A Boeing 767 has caught fire in Chicago's O'Hare Airport, prompting officials to close the airport.
Iran urges Saudi Arabia and the UAE to stop exploiting Islamic sanctities to advance their own trivial goals.
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has rejected Saudis’ claim that the recent missile attack was aimed at the holy city of Mecca.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will visit Iran and Saudi Arabia this weekend for talks on the Syrian crisis.
Iran says comprehensive international resolve is necessary to uproot terrorism in the Middle East, particularly in Syria.
The Russian defense minister says Moscow is ready to help Iraq stop Takfiri Daesh militants from fleeing the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to neighboring Syria.
A recent report has revealed that 780 Palestinian-owned structures have been destroyed by Israel in Area C of the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year.
The World Health Organization says the number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has ballooned to 1,410 within three weeks
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The agreement comes after years of diplomatic wrangling and high-level talks between the US and Russia, which have rejected the idea in the past.
The world's nuclear powers vote against a United Nations resolution to launch talks on banning nukes.
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Jeanine Canty, Devon G. Peña, and Stephen Polk will speak about and sign her new book, Globalism and Localization: Emergent Solutions to Ecological and Social Crises, on Thursday, October 3rd at 7:30pm.
About the Book:
There is an increasing movement towards localization in order to counteract the destruction wreaked by globalization, yet our world is deeply and integrally immersed within a globalized reality. Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, Globalism and Localization takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between these two perspectives. Contributors expound upon the connection between local and global phenomenon within their respective fields including social ecology, climate justice, ecopsychology, indigenous rights, food justice, liberatory politics, and more.
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How is the impaired driving problem the same or different in rural jurisdictions compared to urban jurisdictions?
A closer examination of impaired driving laws, programs and policies in the United States reveals urban centers tend to be better equipped to implement proven strategies to reduce impaired driving as compared to their rural counterparts for a whole host of reasons.
What is a rural jurisdiction?
A main challenge inhibiting the discussion of impaired driving in rural jurisdictions has been the inability to adequately define the term “rural jurisdiction.” According to the American Community Survey, approximately 75 million Americans, or almost 25% of the population in the US, reside in rural areas (American Community Survey: 2016). In this instance, “urban” is defined as urban areas and/or groups of urbanized areas having 50,000 or more people and urban clusters having at least 2,500 people but less than 50,000 people. Moreover, both areas should have a core area with a density of at least 1,000 people per square mile. Areas that do not fulfill these requirements are defined as rural. Urban and rural jurisdictions can be modified by states or counties based on their local alignments. Thus, boundaries can be determined by state and local officials in cooperation with each other and approved by the Federal Highway Administration, leading to potential inconsistencies in how rural areas are defined by different states.
What are demographic characteristics of rural versus urban populations?
Residents of rural areas are more likely to:
own multiple vehicles,
retain their driving license as they age,
possess an advanced degree, although a smaller proportion has a bachelor’s degree, and
live below the poverty line (American Community Survey 2011-2015).
How do DWI fatalities differ between rural and urban areas?
According to NHTSA’s 2019 publication on the 2018 fatality data, 44% of all fatal crashes occurred in rural areas (NHTSA 2019). However, though rural jurisdictions account for nearly half of all fatal crashes, they often receive less funding and input than urban areas when states design and implement their countermeasures.
What are the challenges of implementing impaired driving strategies in rural jurisdictions?
Lower public awareness and/or concern regarding impaired driving that is manifested in social norms and traditions while reinforcing the acceptability of and misperceptions about the risks associated with driving after drinking.
Drinking and driving campaign messages are primarily tailored for urban areas.
There is limited to no public or alternate transportation options in rural areas.
It is difficult to organize and sustain rural advocacy groups with limited resources and dispersed populations.
Lack of political or agency leadership to support implementation. Agency staff are faced with many competing priorities in the face of lower staffing levels, longer distances and fewer resources. Impaired driving receives less attention because of other pressing issues like health care, education or other types of crime. Also, familiarity with constituents creates a reluctance on the part of elected officials to impose penalties.
Inconsistent consideration and/or lack of representation of rural jurisdictions during the creation of laws, programs and policies. Rural jurisdictions have limited ability to deliver statewide strategies of targeted enforcement, intensive supervision probation, ignition interlock programs, DWI courts, and specific treatment services for impaired driving offenders.
Rural jurisdictions also have limited treatment providers and, thus, treatment options due to limited numbers of clients for desired appropriate approaches. Often this leads to a one size fits all dilemma.
Fragmented authority across agencies and varying levels of independence creates a structure and authority of agencies within rural jurisdictions making it difficult to coordinate activities, share information, and form partnerships. Agencies may be responsible to state, county or city governments.
Staff workload and staff safety in rural areas are affected by large geographical areas and more distance to travel impedes response times and home visits. Agency staff are often responsible for responding to incidents posing all levels of risk and back-up may be several miles away.
Native and Tribal Lands authority can be confusing, making it difficult to determine who can perform what functions in these jurisdictions. There may be gaps in technological and reporting capabilities.
What are the lessons learned to improve the delivery of programs and services in rural jurisdictions?
State policymakers should consult with officials and advocates in rural jurisdictions to identify priority issues.
Emphasize proactive/preventive activities. Prevention, education, and advocacy efforts are often the most easily achievable and affordable for rural jurisdictions. Prevention and education activities more frequently generate a higher level of buy-in and support from a broad cross-section of the community and are thereby perceived as less threatening or controversial. Programs in schools provide an important opportunity for prevention messaging, since schools are often at the center of communities and an important contact point for both youth and parents. Engage media to raise the visibility of impaired driving issues and to promote prevention strategies. To help media with messaging, provide scripted materials and resources that can be easily tailored to the local community.
Transition from local to regional approaches and build partnerships. Establish regional task forces where the influence of regional leaders may help to generate greater buy-in and cooperation from local agencies.
Create a continuum of messages and services that uses a systematic approach that considers the audience and uses several points of contact in messaging drivers.
Make sure to engage agencies in strategy and program development. Include agency staff to help ensure programs and policies achieve goals and benefit from support from practitioners.
Provide practitioners with data to demonstrate intervention effectiveness to motivate and get commitment from staff.
Cross-train professionals. Provide staff with opportunities to learn different types of tasks that are outside of their immediate areas of responsibility can serve three important functions. Provide line staff with a broader and different perspective of their role.
Bring services to communities and offenders. A decentralized approach to the delivery of programs and services can increase their accessibility and reduce the need for offenders to drive long distances.
Increase the use of technologies and pharmacotherapies to overcome staffing, resource, and service delivery issues.
Foster partnerships with local organizations and/or transportation companies for assistance in developing alternative transportation resources.


Lenses project a virtual image that has a defined minimum spatial frequency. It does not matter what you use to capture the image the lens is projecting, it can be film, a low res digital sensor, a high res digital sensor, or something that far outresolves the lens itself...that doesn't change how sharp an image the LENS produces, though. This is a bit simplistic, however.
Any real-world system's quality is a factor of its components. A lens has an intrinsic quality in the abstract, as does the sensor, and any other components that may be involved in the process of capturing a photograph (say an extender.) The resolution of the final photograph is a product of ALL the components of the system together, and the lowest common denominator is going to affect the IQ of that image. If the lens outresolves the sensor, the the sensor is probably going to determine the quality of the image. If the sensor outresolves the lens, then the lens is probably going to determine the quality of the image. Of the two are capable of resolving about the same detail, then both factors probably affect quality just as much as the other.
Now, its important to understand the quality of all components individually rather than as a combined whole. Why? Because a single lens may be used on multiple cameras, or a single camera may be used with multiple lenses. The quality of a lens is constant regardless of what camera body it is used on, even if one body has a higher resolution sensor than the other. Similarly, the quality of a camera sensor is the same regardless of what lens its used with. If you only knew the quality of a lens when used on the D7000, you would never know how it might fare when used with a D90, or a D3x. However, knowing the quality of the lens itself without context, you can compute how it might fare on any one of those three cameras.
A key factor in determining the quality of a system is its MTF, or modulation transfer function. An MTF is a way of computing the contrast of a lens or an imaging medium when imaging pairs of white and black lines of a specific thickness, or of progressively finer spacing. The MTF of a lens tells you how much resolution can be resolved starting at its center and progressing through the edge of the lens (most lenses do not resolve perfect detail, and resolve more detail in the center than at the edges.) A useful article that explains resolution, lenses, and sensors can be found at Luminous Landscapes Resolution article. Its rather technical, but explains the situation pretty well. If you are not afraid of math and want to know exactly how MTF describes resolution, you can read Norman Koren's Understanding Image Sharpness (beware, very technical.)


The switch has broken on my camera (without provocation) and, rather than trying to jam it closed with a bit of wood, I'd rather open up the camera and solder the contacts closed. Has anybody deactivated their camera in this way? Instructions/potential pitfalls welcome.
I had the same problem after a little plastic trigger thing fell out of
the hole above where it says push to eject. After poking around for a
while I took the
camera apart (remove 7 screws) which made it much easier to see, with a
magnifying glass and lamp, what the problem was. A damaged wire that
needed to be connected to something. Only the very end of the wire was
visible, inside a small white plastic box thing. The plastic box thing
eventually fell apart with my attempts to put in bits of wire of
varying shapes. When it came loose I was left with a short stiff bit of
wire. I took a strand of copper wire (from an old piece of electrical
wire), twisted it so I had a small loop at one end, looped it over the
end of the stiff bit of wire, and then curved the rest of the wire
(about 3 - 4 cm long) so it was resting on a silver piece of metal just
below where the white plastic box had been. Put the cover back on and
the camera worked. Needless to say, it won't let me know if I've left
the cover off, but then it won't work unless the cover is on, so it
doesn't seem to matter. Saved about $100.
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Sorry. It is broken. The lens was most likely jammed on start up when trying to open or close when shutting down. The really bad news is that the cost to repair it is close to the cost of a new camera. (I have had several like this, casio, sony canon, nikon and olympus.)
Your lens mechanism is most likely broken. The tiny plastic gears in these things break or strip out easily with impact. On rare occasion you can jockey the lens back into place without damage, which at this point is worth a try, but don't cross your fingers! One solution is to find a donor camera on auction that has a broken lcd screen... use one or the other as a donor and transplant the lcd or the lens mechanism (whichever is easier to get at) into the other. I've done this for less than $30, but takes a fair bit of work. If it's a popular camera, you may have to get competitive on your bidding even on the broken cams. :) Good luck!
take a small piece of wood 1"x 3" x about 4" long and place inside door jam at hinge , slowly close door until it puts pressure on wood,... push door shut gently and remove wood and try shutting door , this is what they call redneck auto body. to do it right you will need to remove hinge and add washers to back side of hinge plate so it moves hinge out thus pushing door alignment back if hinge is welded on add washers to door side where hinges attach to door.
There is a switch that is activated/deactivated by the opening/closing of the trunk deck, it works the same way the door jam switch works when you open/close one of the cabin doors. The switch in the trunk compartment is bad and you will need to replace it.
Ours did the same thing. There is a switch that malfunctions - if you open up the back you'll see a connector with 4 metal springloaded pins on the removable back section, that matches up to a little plate with four metal bits in the back of the printer.
The bit of circuit board with the pins on gets loose in its moorings I unscrewed the removable back section and used some bits of business card type cardboard between the circuit board bit and the plastic casing to wedge it more securely in place. Now it works - good luck with yours!
Unfortunately, you have to force the battery door (very carefully) to open it, and find what is wrong with it.
It is more likely that when closed the battery door, it was forced and it slided out of one guide channels.
You need to practice a little bit before to try it with force (genlty but with firm force), but the only way to do it is slide the button to open it, and at the same time slide to the side and pull the battery door, everything at the same time. Try it until you are able to open it.
Using any kind of tool (such a plastic pry tool, a small screwdriver, etc) to force will leave marks in the housing, and it's very possible that the plastic locking tabs will break, causing that you will open it, but unable to close properly again.
The switch is a micro switch that is depressed(and not sad :)) by a plastic tag moulded on the battery cover. Once the cover is moved into position and closed, the tag presses on the micro switch closing the switch and thus removing the error message. As with any switch, a switch is simply open or closed, Open = high resistance or O/L, while closed = 0 ohms reistance. You can use a small wire to overcome the switch by soldering the wire to both tags of the switch so it is permenantly 0 ohms. This will send a message to the microprocessor that cover is closed and camera ready for use. Hope this helps.
What door or cover is the display showing that it is opened? I would look to see if there is any thing that looks broken on any one of the doors. They have on them little tabs that act as a inter lock device to close a switch. Also, look to see if all the doors close easy without forceing it. try to cheat the doors with a pen or a piece of paper to see which door is not closing. Most of the time a switch or sensor is behind a **** on the inside covers. I would start with retracing the last time you removed a paper jam.
Look for the switch on the memory card door of your camera. Usually a small piece of plastic on the door closes the switch when the door is closed. Check to make sure that the plastic piece is not worn down and is making contact with the switch. You can confirm that this is the problem by powering on the camera while closing the switch manually with a toothpick. Make sure you keep your fingers clear of the extending lens while doing this. If the plastic is worn down or broken off, try attaching a small piece of scrap plastic with super glue.
First, try shutting off, and unplugging the printer to do a reset on the micro & logic circuitry.
If you actually have broken switch or lever which actuates the switch, then an obvious solution is to replace said broken part. Or, if indeed a switch, you could possible bypass & defeat the switch so it doesn't sense the door open.
If this is an actual mechanical switch bypass is fairly simple. You will need to find out if the non-fault (normal operation) condition is either an Open or closed switch and either short across the switch contacts (closed) or pull a wire off (open).
If desperate to get the printer running, bypass the switch, use the printer, and get a replacement part ordered in the meantime, then install the new part to restore proper operation.


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In Part One I presented an overview of our current knowledge of the early years of Ned Kellys life.
The important message from Part one was that Red Kellys family was known as a poor but law abiding family, and they were not troubled in any way by police from the time Red was granted his freedom in 1848 until very near the end of his life. The old debunked version was that for all of his life Red Kelly and his family were victims of police harassment and persecution, but that’s not what happened – there’s no evidence of that in the records. The record shows that many members of their extended family were in constant trouble with the law, were in and out of courts and prison for stock theft, and violent assaults but of Red Kelly there is nothing until the very end. In fact, the thing that brought Red undone was his alcoholism, which caused the farm to fail and the family to sink deeper and deeper into poverty. In 1865 in despair Red stole a neighbours’ calf and ended up in prison for four months, and a few months after, in his second and only other brush with the law during Neds lifetime, he was fined for being drunk and disorderly. Finally, only one year later, just after Xmas in 1866 Red died of complications of his alcoholism, and at that point, everything changed for the worse: Mrs Kelly moved her family into the orbit of the criminal relations Red had been trying to avoid, and Neds formal education stopped.
At the conclusion of Part One I asked “What chance did Ned have?” and I suspect almost everyone would have thought ‘Not much’. What chance would any 12-year-old have, after just losing the guiding hand of his father, of resisting the negative influences of drunkenness, violence and criminality that now became his world, let alone of escaping desperate poverty, or of overcoming an incomplete education?
In the next part of the actual true story, I look at what became of Ned Kelly after his father died in 1866, and analyse what happened to the once good kid as he entered adolescence and grew up. In summary, what happened as anyone might have been able to predict, was a steady decline from acts of petty teenage delinquency to narrow escapes from criminal convictions, to actual convictions and gaol time for increasingly serious crimes. This led eventually to Ned Kellys self-confessed abandonment of any pretence at living a law-abiding life and the adoption of what he referred to as full time ‘wholesale and retail’ stock theft, with Ned Kelly the leader of a syndicate of professional large scale interstate horse thieves.
After Ned Kellys father died, Neds influences became the lawless relations, and whoever else dropped into his mother’s ‘shanty’, where ‘sly grog’, accommodation and rumours of other services were available. One of the people who dropped in early on, in 1868, was his fathers brother, Uncle James, a convicted stock thief not long out of gaol who was also a drunk. He demanded sex from Ellen Kelly but was kicked out of the house she was living in with her two sisters and their combined total of 13 children – he returned at 1am and set fire to the house and within an hour it was burned to the ground. In court, Ellen Kellys sister said that if a neighbour hadn’t bought some water “they would not have got the children out alive”. Ned Kellys family’s poverty was now absolute – brought about not by Police harassment but by Reds alcoholism and Jims drunken arson.
In 1869, aged 14 or 15 Ned Kellys first brush with the law followed a complaint by a Chinese traveller, Ah Fook that he had been beaten and robbed at the shanty by Ned Kelly. In Court there were no witnesses for Ah Fook and the witnesses for Ned were his sister, a future brother-in-law, and an employee of his mother – and so, unsurprisingly, the charges were dismissed. The newspapers reported Ned got off because of ‘the cunning of himself and his mates’, but there was never any doubt that Ned had quite viciously assaulted the man. The Court couldn’t decide whose fault it all was.
Another person who dropped into Mrs Kellys shanty was bushranger Harry Power, in 1870. He was on the run from Pentridge gaol, where before his escape he had met the husbands of Mrs Kellys sisters, serving time themselves for horse stealing. Before long, as the old story correctly records, Ned Kelly was Powers ‘apprentice’, learning the violent methods of highway robbery, using a gun to threaten innocent travellers at the age of 15, sadly with his mother’s approval. Inevitably perhaps, Ned was soon arrested for the second time and charged with two counts of highway robbery – people robbed by Harry Power at gunpoint had seen Ned Kelly, or someone very like him lurking in the background. Again, the charges were dropped – an eyewitness couldn’t swear it was Ned Kelly – but also its thought some sort of deal was reached in which Ned provided Police with information about Harry Powers whereabouts. Police also unsuccessfully tried to persuade Ned to take up honest regular work as a shearer in NSW, the papers lamenting that ‘the opportunity to save him from the career of crime upon which he subsequently entered was lost’. Eventually, Neds’ uncles Jimmy Quinn and Jack Lloyd betrayed Harry Power for the massive £500 reward. So much for clan solidarity against the police.
A few months later Ned Kellys luck in the courts finally ran out and he went to prison for three months for assault and indecency, after involving himself in a dispute between a couple of rival hawkers, Gould and McCormick. Ned Kelly denied he had misused McCormicks horse – though later, his friend Gould said that indeed he had – and Kelly also claimed the reason his fist came into contact with the victims face was because Mrs McCormick flicked Neds horse on the rump and it lunged forward! The Court didn’t believe him.
So, three years into his adolescence what we have seen is Ned Kelly getting mixed up in a fight with a Chinaman and in another fight with a hawker, a lucky acquittal on charges relating to armed highway robbery, and a three-month sentence for something Peter Fitzsimons says was a ‘grubby adolescent lark’. The old story, and the one told by Ned Kelly himself was that he was a ‘police made’ criminal, that the police drove good men mad by their bad treatment, but nothing about any of these incidents suggest police involvement was any sort of harassment or corruption. In fact, if police had been as corrupt as the old Kelly story made out, and were intent on persecuting him, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to find a ‘witness’ to corruptly swear it was Ned assaulting the Chinaman, or that it was definitely Ned in the company of Harry Power, and so put him away. Its quite clear that at least to this point , Ned Kellys decline was nothing to do with police harassment or persecution as he later claimed – in both those cases, not only was ‘evidence’ NOT manufactured, but in his second appearance, police went out of their way to provide him with an opportunity to make a better and law abiding future for himself, a chance that he chose not to take. It is evident from a careful look at the facts that because of the choices he made himself, Ned Kelly was drifting deeper and deeper into increasingly serious criminality.

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It is a busy week this week as we tidy up a number of changes ready for our workshops next Tuesday and Thursday. We'll be switching medical insurance ratings on just before the workshop, but these changes will be in the database this week:
Fidelity - the tweak to malignant melanomas under 1.5mm has been considered. We have updated the policy wording, but our advice is that our score should not change.
AIA updates - these have all been made and will be live this week
Waiver of Premium fix - an eagle-eyed adviser spotted that when premium income protection options were combined with a self-employed client the waiver score was absent for all companies - and has now been fixed.
That will do for now, better save some other news for the workshops. Things to do with income protection rating, variable rating with sum insured changes, and expiry ages for items, probably, but shush, okay.

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UM Rosenstiel scientists studied how fertilization of region could trigger carbonate formation
A new study suggests that Saharan dust played a major role in the formation of the Bahamas islands. Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science showed that iron-rich Saharan dust provides the nutrients necessary for specialized bacteria to produce the island chain's carbonate-based foundation.
Distribution of insoluble material in the sediments and collection sites are shown. The insoluble material is derived from atmospheric dust.
Credit: Peter Swart, Ph.D., UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
UM Rosenstiel School Lewis G. Weeks Professor Peter Swart and colleagues analyzed the concentrations of two trace elements characteristic of atmospheric dust – iron and manganese – in 270 seafloor samples collected along the Great Bahama Bank over a three-year period. The team found that the highest concentrations of these trace elements occurred to the west of Andros Island, an area which has the largest concentration of whitings, white sediment-laden bodies of water produced by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.
"Cyanobacteria need 10 times more iron than other photosynthesizers because they fix atmospheric nitrogen," said Swart, lead author of the study. "This process draws down the carbon dioxide and induces the precipitation of calcium carbonate, thus causing the whiting. The signature of atmospheric nitrogen, its isotopic ratio is left in the sediments."
Swart's team suggests that high concentrations of iron-rich dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara is responsible for the existence of the Great Bahama Bank, which has been built up over the last 100 million years from sedimentation of calcium carbonate. The dust particles blown into the Bahamas' waters and directly onto the islands provide the nutrients necessary to fuel cyanobacteria blooms, which in turn, produce carbonate whitings in the surrounding waters.
Persistent winds across Africa's 3.5-million square mile Sahara Desert lifts mineral-rich sand into the atmosphere where it travels the nearly 5,000-mile northwest journey towards the U.S. and Caribbean. The paper, titled "The fertilization of the Bahamas by Saharan dust: A trigger for carbonate precipitation?" was published in the early online edition of the journal Geology. The paper's authors include Swart, Amanda Oehlert, Greta Mackenzie, Gregor Eberli from the UM Rosenstiel School's Department of Marine Geosciences and John Reijmer of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
About the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School
The University of Miami is one of the largest private research institutions in the southeastern United States. The University's mission is to provide quality education, attract and retain outstanding students, support the faculty and their research, and build an endowment for University initiatives. Founded in the 1940's, the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has grown into one of the world's premier marine and atmospheric research institutions. Offering dynamic interdisciplinary academics, the Rosenstiel School is dedicated to helping communities to better understand the planet, participating in the establishment of environmental policies, and aiding in the improvement of society and quality of life. For more information, visit: http://www.rsmas.miami.edu.
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THE RUSSIA DESK | GAITHER STEWART
NOVOROSSIYA, UKRAINE AND CRIMEA
[I]t has been said that a nation is simply the spiritual body that a people acquires during the course of its history.
Novorossiya or New Russia, so absent in mainstream media and so present in alternative news sources today, is popularly believed to be a fleeting matter, simply a new name created ex-novo for effect by the local militias of southeastern Ukrainians today fighting and defeating the Ukrainian regular army troops invading their territories. In doing so the people of Novorossiya are also shattering the dream of American President Obama. The truth is the people of this region are closely linked to the history of their lands.
According to Alexander Zakharenko, field commander and Prime Minister of the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic (DPR) in southeastern Ukraine speaking at a recent press conference, invaders from West Ukraine run or surrender at the first shot. The American-financed troops, conscripted by force by the puppet state in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, simply don’t measure up to the warriors of the southeast Ukraine who are defending their lands, their cities and villages, and their families. The point is that the regular army troops are demotivated and scared and want to return to their homes in West Ukraine. Besides, many Ukrainian soldiers do not want to shoot at their fellow countrymen. Therefore they either desert to the so-called Separatists of the DPR, or flee.
People following the US-instigated attack on the now adequately armed and experienced militias of the Donetsk and Lugansk peoples’ republics by troops of the American puppet regime installed in Ukraine after the illegal overthrow of the legal government and “regime change” in Kiev will be surprised to learn that Novorossiya has been the name of the territory north of the Black Sea for over 200 years, long before the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Since Tsarist Russia annexed the area following the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War in 1774, the area has been known as Novorossiya. Already in the late 18th century Russians, Ukrainians, Germans, even some Italians, and a mishmash of other peoples colonized the region and established major cities such as beautiful Odessa and Donetsk, now the capital of the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic.
Time passed. Situations altered. Much happened in this area between the Crimean War (1853-55) and today: western interventions in Russia, Nazi Germany’s invasion and defeat in WWII, Cold War, sanctions against Russia in these days, and the West’s unconcealed envy of Russia’s space, one-sixth of the Earth’s surface and its natural resources.
In the historian’s eyes the history of Western relations with Russia has continuously repeated itself since the 1800s into the 1900s and the 2000s. These repetitions, for example the tradition of Allied interventions in Russia, are not the most inspiring aspect of what has happened time and again in our world. A Russian cultural historian, Vladimir Weidlé, whom I once interviewed in Rome, said that the “Slavic-Orthodox world would never be that of Roman-Germanic Europe” because their respective heritages at the outset were so different. He claimed there was not just one Europe, but two Europes, disunited but as strange one to the other as the Arabian world from the world of China.
This division between USA/West Europe and Russia amounts to an absolute schism. That schism has apparently fostered, on the one hand, jealousies and envies one for the other. On the other hand the schism has strangely created a sense of superiority in West Europeans and Americans vis-à-vis Russia. A missionary kind of zeal infects the USA to stamp out the heresy of Socialism in the neocon view still alive in Russia, which, in turn, is the “infection” that has prompted some of the western military interventions in Russia.
For three centuries the West has assaulted Russia with regularity, in almost 50 year intervals, always seeking to contain her, conquer her, occupy her, exploit her and above all destroy her.
However, the reality is that Russia is not Oriental, but also part of Europe, in this case however, a Europe of the East. Despite Arab influences in Europe, Cervantes, Weidlé noted as an example, was not a Moor, nor Pushkin a Mongol. In the same manner the centuries of Tartar occupation of Russia, likewise Lenin with his face of Mongolian cast was not a Tartar. Nonetheless, today Russia’s eyes have turned eastwards because of pressures from the West.
Still, the geographical situation of Russia has pointed the path of its expansion and the very shape of the empire, but not the direction its cultural development has taken. Weidlé believed that the invasion of Russia by Asian Tartars changed the very roots of Russia, yet such non-European elements do not really belong to her history but to the raw materials of her nature. The Russian language shows certain analogies to the languages of Turco-Tartary; but Russian developed from Greek, to which was added the influence of the literary languages of Western Europe. The Asiatic influences that appear from time to time in Russia have thus far been fleeting. Here, again, its geographical position on the map assumes important historical importance.
When Tsardom finally collapsed in the early 20th century, it had crushed one revolutionary movement after the other during most of the 19th century. Trotsky wrote in his autobiography, My Life, that “the best elements of that generation went up in the blaze of dynamite warfare” (that is, in the blaze of revolutionary terrorism). Tsardom fell to continuing revolutionary fever spread throughout Russia and to the pressures of WWI and the huge losses Russia suffered. In fact, it was the very force of the history of European capitalism and the Russian Revolution that changed everything in Russia.
In 1918, the region of Novorossiya—where battles between local militias and regular Ukrainian army troops have raged since last May—was incorporated by the new Soviet government into Russia, which eventually transferred the territory to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It was a purely administrative move, for it changed nothing since the Ukraine then was an integral part of the USSR. Then following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the term Novorossiya began to be used again in calls for the independence of the region, including the rich Donbass with its great Russian majority corresponding to the historical area of Novorossiya in today’s southeastern Ukraine. (The map accompanying this piece shows clearly the Novorossiya borders on Russia and the Crimean peninsula recently annexed by Russia.)
It must be kept in mind that the borders of the Russian world extend significantly farther than the borders of the Russian Federation. There is Russia and there is also “Greater Russia” in the same manner as our big cities today consist of the city proper and the surrounding metropolitan areas. For example there is Paris—the city proper—and Greater Paris, including regions extending in all directions far from the Place de la Concorde.
As an example of Greater Russia, in a 1994 interview, the head of the separatist state of Socialist/Communist, Russian-speaking Transnistria, a breakaway state from Moldova, also bordering on Novorossiya, said that that state was “an inalienable part of the Russian state’s southern regions”, including also the city of Odessa, the Crimea, and other Ukrainian oblasts, all of which were collectively part of the historical Novorossiya region. Dmitry Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Center wrote that in 2003 some Russian academics had again discussed the idea of a pro-Russia Novorossiya state being formed out of southeastern Ukraine as a response to the US Drang Nach Osten—including its desire to bring Ukraine into NATO and the occupation of areas bordering Russia.
The former Russian Empire was ultimately vanquished by history. Then also the USSR collapsed because of the economic pressures from the capitalist West during the Cold War, especially the intentional dislocations brought about by the constant arms race.
Today, the self-declared Federal State of Novorossiya is a confederation of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. Though internationally unrecognized, both are breakaway states claiming independence from Ukraine. The envisaged extent of the state will most likely one day encompass not only the Ukrainian administrative areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, (in Russian, Lugansk), but also the present Ukrainian cities and surrounding areas of Kharkov, Kherson, Odessa, Zaporrizhi and Dniepropetrovsk as well as the Russian-speaking Transnistria Republic. All of these areas which the USA/NATO threatens border with Novorossiya.
The Cold War, and its consequent bloated defense spending due to the US-imposed arms race, was an extraordinary burden on the Soviet economy. It stunted its ability to “deliver the goods”, the fruits of revolution to the ordinary citizen, thereby “proving”, as the Americans claimed, that socialism was inferior. It eventually contributed greatly to the USSR’s implosion.
The Novorossiya territory is internationally considered as sovereign territory of the Ukrainian state. Western media write of a southeastern Ukraine run by “terrorists” and moreover backed by the great “Satan” of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Despite Washington’s frustration because of the failure to bring Ukraine into NATO, its neocons remain intent on intervening in Ukraine against Russia, subduing the Novorossiya independence movement, and placing US/NATO Lily Pad-style military bases along Russia’s borders.
On a trip backwards through the events of over 150 years we arrive at the Crimea recently annexed by Russia and the Crimean War fought by Russia against the intervention of the first major coalition of Western powers in alliance with the Ottoman Empire to attack Russia. No one should believe easy accusations of Russian guilt in the Ukraine crisis. Western intervention against Russia is an old story. A tradition that has continued until today.
Russians had inhabited the territory of southeastern Ukraine between the state of Ukraine and Crimea in the 19th century, shortly after the Crimean War (1853-55) which, by the way, some historians call the real World War I. Also those Russians of the 19th century referred to their home territory as Novorossiya, New Russia.
The descendants of those first colonists in Novorossiya in today’s southeastern Ukraine have declared their independence from the Ukraine of the West and its capital of Kiev and established the “Donetsk Peoples’ Republic”. Last May it joined with the “Lugansk Peoples’ Republic” to form a new Novorossiya as a confederal “Union of Peoples’ Republics”. The lands of Novorossiya are rich in natural resources—light and heavy industry, minerals and agriculture—and borders on both Russia and on the once again Russian Crimean peninsula and other Russian lands such as Transnistria quite near Odessa.
Who today knows much about the almost forgotten Crimean War? In fact that war is often confused with the second Allied Intervention in Russia against the new Communist regime, just the memory of which triggers knee-jerk reactions in Western capitals, especially in Washington where many people and their leaders tend to think of Russians as Communists who fall outside the New World Order. The very idea of Novorossiya constitutes a menace to US strategy for world hegemony. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 while the new regime was struggling for its very survival, the Russian Civil War broke out which pitted the reactionary and privileged Whites—who in general favored the ancien regime of the Tsars—against the Bolshevik-led Reds. The already difficult situation of the revolutionary forces was then further complicated by the second Allied intervention in Russia within a century.
So here a few words about the Crimean War are in order. The Crimean War began as another of the series of 19th century wars between the crumbling Ottoman Empire on the one hand and an expansive Russia seeking an exit from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean on the other. The key part of that war began in September 1854 when the coalition of Britain, France, the Ottomans and later the small Kingdom of Sardinia, the core state of the future Italy, landed troops in Russian Crimea located on the north shore of the Black Sea.
As the historical name indicates, most of the war was fought in Crimea. The Allies began a year-long siege of the Russian fortress of Sevastopol. However, besides Sevastopol, the Anglo-French fleet attacked areas on the adjoining Azov Sea and in the Caucasus. In a forgotten part of the forgotten war, the Allied fleet, obsessed with the destruction of the Russian navy, sailed also to the Baltic Sea to attack the proudest bastion of the Russian Bolshevik, the seaport of Kronstadt near St. Petersburg and to destroy the Russian fleet stationed there. Three British warships then left the Baltic for the White Sea where they spread destruction. Naval skirmishes also occurred in the parts of the Far East where the Anglo-French naval force besieged Russian forces and attempted a land invasion around the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The major Crimean battle fought at Balaclava in the Crimea was commemorated by the great English poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, in his The Charge of the Light Brigade which, by the way, school children in Great Britain often learn by heart. Tennyson’s poem, published in December of 1854 in The Examiner first praises the bravery of the Brigade:
“When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made.”
At the same time the poet then mourns the futility of the charge, the futility of war in general:
“Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d.
Finally, on September 11, 1855, the Russians blew up their forts and sank their ships and evacuated Sevastopol, defeated by western armies. They had won the battle of Balaclava but lost the war.
Concerning the causes of the Crimean War, British historian A.J.P Taylor notes that there were deeper causes than blocking Russia’s historical need for an exit from the Black Sea through control of the strait Dardanelles strait near Istanbul:
“The Crimean war was predestined and had deep-seated causes. Neither Nicholas of Russia nor Napoleon III of France nor the British government could retreat in the conflict for prestige once it was launched. Nicholas needed a subservient Turkey for the sake of Russian security; Napoleon III needed success for the sake of his domestic position; the British government needed an independent Turkey for the security of the Eastern Mediterranean….Mutual fear, not mutual aggression, caused the Crimean war.”
In the eyes of some historians the major point is that the Allies fought the Crimean war not in favor of the Ottoman Empire, “the sick man of Europe”, but against Russia. Britain feared Russia would modernize its navy and threaten British naval supremacy in the world and was intent on giving Tsarist Russia a lesson. The war might have ended earlier but war fever had been whipped up by the press in Britain and France so that politicians were afraid to propose ending the war.
But with the passage of time public sentiment in Britain changed to anti-war, and France which had suffered major casualties wanted peace. The signing of the Treaty of Paris brought an end to the war but not to Western hostility to Russia. The Black Sea was demilitarized, which weakened Russia, no longer a naval threat to Britain. Sevastopol and other occupied cities were returned to Russia which however had to give up some of its Danubian principalities and its aspirations to unite with its Slavic cousins in Bulgaria and Serbia still under the yoke of the Ottomans.
Meanwhile in Russia great events, world-shaking events, were taking place. Yet for Russia the two preceding centuries of her history were more tragic than glorious. The history of the now more than two centuries was marked by the mingling of Russia and the West, above all by the drive of the West into Russia which ended in the many Western interventions in Russia several of which, as we have seen, were armed interventions that in the long run aimed at the total conquest of that new world. Weidlé notes that though Russia’s history had been full of movement, rich in events and achievements, it had never solved the problem of the integration of the various social groups into a common life. This integration, by the way, was also lacking in ancient Russia, in the new Soviet Russia and again today in a new Russia. Yet Russia attained a blend of order and disorder that fostered the normal development of a nation. In Russia that blend led directly to the Great Russian Revolution, perhaps because of the degree of those old separations of the masses from the hierarchy of the elite. Western observers have noted how in Russia the governing class and the people seem quite distinct. In fact, there have traditionally been two cultures in Russia: that of a very small elite and that of the masses, which lasted until the revolution and the enormous changes it wrought. When thinking of the Russian revolution, you should keep in mind that, desirable or not it eliminated the old elite and formed a new one.
In the decades following the Crimean War revolutionary fever was growing in Russia. Finally Russian Socialists and Social Revolutionaries led the 1905 revolution that forced Tsar Nicolas to grant the establishment of the Duma, a legislative assembly, which marked the start of a kind of Constitutional Democracy and weakened the total power of the Tsarist regime. It seemed that Russia was truly destined to be part of Europe. Trotsky notes that despite the counter-revolution, an industrial boom came in 1910 and with it the strikes. The shooting of workers in 1912 gave rise to protests all over the country and by 1914 beautiful St. Petersburg had become an arena of workers’ barricades. It has been said that governments come and go but the police (soldiers too) remain. Moreover, policemen are conservatives because of the nature of their work. Trotsky knew that new ideas (he was referring to Socialism) always come early.
In reference to the 1917 revolution Trotsky wrote a paragraph that reminds me of Giordano Bruno four centuries earlier, which, I believe, is well worth quoting. I made a very few cuts for purposes of brevity:
Marxism considers itself the conscious expression of the unconscious historical process. But the unconscious historical process, in the historico-philosophical sense of the term, coincides with its conscious expression only at its highest point, when the masses break through the social routine and give victorious expression to the deeper needs of historical development. At such moments the highest theoretical consciousness of the epoch merges with the immediate action of the oppressed masses that are furthest away from theory. The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration’. Revolution is the inspired frenzy of history.
In fact, as Trotsky had predicted there began a series of mutinies in the navy and the army. During the revolution, every fresh wave of strikes and of the peasant movement was accompanied by mutinies in all parts of Russia. Already during the revolution some Western Ukrainians became aware of the dangers to the central government in Kiev of the movement for Donetsk separatism from the Ukrainian state. The Novorossiya idea had never died.
UKRAINE – A People but No Nation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny “Yat” Yatsenyuk announced to a conference of European politicians meeting in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev that “Putin wants to destroy Ukraine as an independent nation and restore the Soviet Union.” He added that his country is in a state of war and that Putin is the aggressor. “Putin’s aim is not just to take Donetsk and Lugansk. His goal is to take the entire Ukraine. Putin is a threat to the global order and to the security of Europe.” Yat does not want Russian to become the second state language. He wants European Union membership for Ukraine and opposes Ukrainian membership in the new Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, which Yatsenyuk believes would mean the restoration of the Soviet Union, albeit in a slightly different form and name. He accuses Russia of wanting to construct a new Berlin Wall, this time on the western border of Ukraine and the European Union. Before Russia annexed the Crimea, Yatsenyuk said the decision of Ukrainian membership in the European Union should be decided by referendum.
Ukraine watchers were taken by surprise when Russian President Vladimir Putin used the term “Novorossiya” to refer to some regions in southeastern Ukraine: Kharkiv, Luhansk Donetsk and Odessa. “They were not part of Ukraine in Tsarist times, they were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows.” His idea could have been to ready Ukraine for absorption of those territories into Russia. At the same time “Novorossiya” is also the slogan of pro-Russia activists in southeastern Ukraine where people are chanting the Novorossiya theme. Such an event today would devastate the already shaky economy in Kiev with no money in its coffers. After all irredentism is the effort to reunify lost territories inhabited by ethnic kin with territories also inhabited by ethnic kin. Most certainly the USA, the EU and the IMF would not consider bailing out a country much, much worse off than was Greece. And if came down to the wire, sanctions and resolutions would not stop the unification of areas of ethnic Russians in Novorossiya, or the Transnistria republic and most likely also the whole of Moldova.
As efficacious and unifying as the word “Novorossiya” and its very conception are for ethnic Russians in southeastern Ukraine today, it is a foul and loathsome term for the phantasmal and already disintegrating puppet government and its adherents in Kiev—as well as for Washington, the EU in Brussels and the morally corrupt International Monetary Fund. But only a minority of Americans as well as most of Asia and Africa are even aware of what has happened here: that the USA instigated and organized a coup against the legally elected President of Ukraine and then sent Ukrainian troops to the southeastern part of the nation, where the local militias have beaten the shit out of the regular troops from Kiev. Few people even know the name of Novorossiya and its significance as explained here. As Pope Francis said in a recent sermon, that war in general is pure madness. Yet, he added, the world is unfortunately infected with what he called “the globalization of indifference”.
Senior Editor Gaither Stewart serves as European Correspondent for The Greanville Post and Cyrano’s Journal Today. He is also TGP’s director of the Russia Desk.