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Wild & Free how I work
Wild & Free will always be my purpose. I can’t stress it out enough. This is how I live & this is how I shoot. When I can run free, the best ideas come to me. Being forced doing something that doesn’t fit my pursue, will always limit my work & creativity.
As with photography, most of the time I’m a lucky bitch and the wild & free couples find me.
I’m not into traditions, neither do I care about your decoration.
I’m into people who do things differently. The wild ones, with edges & flaws, who don’t care about the rules, but care about art & creating memories.
I’m into catching the raw moments & the real emotions, like when your mom shares a tear with you.
Natural connections & deep feelings are what I love most. Connecting with couples who are honest & don’t try to play a role, who don’t give a damn about how their hair looks or if they get wet, is what I will always seek for.
I will always get inspired by your love. No matter if you are shy, open, introvert, quirky, sarcastic, genuine or loving
I will always look for the wild ones.


The overarching theme of this good practice is strategic management in the context of long-term decline and stagnation. After local industries closed, the population of Altena (DE) shrank by 43% between 1975 and 2014. Facing diminishing resources and increasingly complex problems, the municipality adjusted its priorities, working more closely with citizens. Actions include: organisational restructuring (such as downsizing and resource-sharing), developing civil society (including the involvement of hundreds of volunteers), economic revitalisation (through tourism, for example), and integration of refugees. In 2015 Altena's population increased for the first time since the 1970s. Municipal finances have improved, there are fewer empty shops, and unemployment has fallen for the first time in 40 years.
Having shifted its strategic objectives to work more closely with citizens and focus on controlling decline rather than focusing on growth, Altena has stabilised its population and improved municipal finances. Altena provides examples where the response to decline is rooted in local resources and expertise. The experience of Altena shows that activating often dormant resources and opportunities requires a frank debate about the future direction of the town. This requires strong visionary leadership combined with the ability to integrate conflicting interests and overcome resistance to change.
Altena provides a case study of two practical interventions which can arrest and ultimately reverse decline: the ‘Stellwerk’ volunteers’ platform, and a ‘Pop-up Shop’ campaign. Fostering the engagement of inhabitants who are not in paid employment but have access to skills and resources to help support those in need, builds the capacity of civil society to engage with often complex social problems in a structured way. Altena founded its NGO platform in 2008 and called it Stellwerk. The Stellwerk started without a budget. The municipality made available premises, paid the energy and cleaning bills, provided a minimum of administrative resources. Currently the Stellwerk has 8 volunteer workers who co-ordinate several hundred volunteers providing disability support, arts and music groups, home visiting and home care services, refugee integration and much more. The Stellwerk provides an essential channel of communication between civil society and municipality. Economic decline and outmigration of economically active populations result in an over-supply of retail premises, especially in town centres. Pop-up shops provide an effective way to populate the town centre with new enterprises. The goal is to support entrepreneurs in testing the viability of their business in that particular location and then facilitate the transition into permanent rental agreement with the property owners. The municipality carries some costs and also risks during this period and needs to be prepared to overcome resistance from existing shops and also the owners of empty premises. Altena established 14 pop-ups of which 5 are now trading as permanent, regular businesses on the high street. The good practices Altena are relevant to all smaller cities that have to rely on their own resources to create opportunities for improving socio-economic and environmental conditions. This includes creating opportunities for meaningful paid and unpaid work, tackling environmental degradation, reducing financial liabilities for public agencies, safeguarding essential services, enhancing economic activity and integrating vulnerable members of society. The practices developed by Altena are locally created sustainable innovations based on the resources that are typically available to smaller cities, including: natural resources, such as landscapes, forests, rivers, man-made physical resources, such as buildings, roads and infrastructure, economic resources, such as existing companies, education and training facilities, and, perhaps most important, social resources, meaning the skills, energy, resources and networks of the people who live and work in the city. To generate effective responses to shrinkage these resources need to be bundled in ways which resonate with local stakeholders because they are the engine that mobilises the skills and energies available locally.
Altena has been identified by national and international experts as a good practice case in responding to urban decline in sustainable and cross-cutting ways. Downsizing and restructuring the municipality resulted in the integration of planning, economic development, transport functions, education and leisure services were combined, housing and adult social care were integrated. But equally important, the civil society forum (Stellwerk) was strengthened and given a voice as well as influence over the strategic decisions the city administration would have made in isolation in the past. These actions were embedded in a strategy framework developed in close collaboration with the local population, which resulted in the Altena 2015 strategy (see below). Hence the good practices promoted here are fully aligned with the URBACT principles of sustainable urban living as well as an integrated and participatory approach to socio-economic and environmental development.
Between 2003 and 2005 Altena received support from the Bertelsmann Foundation to develop participatory initiatives for building an inter-generational town that embraced the needs of an ageing population. Planning consultants, architects and academics facilitated a comprehensive range of workshop to explore the ideas as well as apprehensions local people had about the future of their city. This process was called ‘Altena 2015’ and resulted in a strategic development framework for the city which was governed not by the municipality alone but in conjunction with a newly created partnership of civil society organisations. The strategy went beyond generational matters and identified a large number of priorities for new social, economic and environmental developments – none of the ‘old’ initiatives when the town was still in denial about the reality of shrinkage were included. The strategy was based on the principle that citizens had to contribute in practical ways to the services and any improvements they wanted to see. Given that the municipality was technically bankrupt at the time, the active and extensive input of citizens who live and work in Altena is considered to be the distinctive and decisive element of a strategy that has brought about a reversal in the fortunes of the city.
Through the ‘Altena 2015’ strategy many problems were tackled in an integrated and collaborative way. By working with civil society it was possible to reduce the number of schools, nurseries, leisure centres and vacant housing stock in ways which minimised the impact on people’s lives. Problems were turned into opportunities by:
• Connecting the town with a major visitor attraction on the mountain above Altena through an elevator, the ‘Erlebnisaufzug’.
• Pop-up shops to bring entrepreneurs into the town centre
• Refurbishing the riverfront
• Developing inter-generational projects
• Strengthening voluntary agencies.
In 2011 there were 23 empty shops in the town centre, now there are 18 and essential services are provided to a high standard, often complemented with support from citizens. The local economy has turned a corner and for the first time in 40 years unemployment has fallen and stands at 6.5%. The financial resources of the municipality are now stable, showing a break-even budget 2017/18 instead of projecting a deficit as in previous decades. In 2015 Altena’s population increased for the first time since the 1970s, primarily by inviting more refugees than required by legislation, thus growing its capacity to respond to shrinkage. The exemplary work undertaken to integrate refugees is well known: http://www.dw.com/en/altena-leads-by-example-in-refugee-crisis/av-19098707
After being awarded the URBACT Good Practice title, Altena was able to create the Re-grow City Transfer Network to which seven European cities (Manresa Spain, Idrija Slovenia, Igoumenitsa Greece, Isernia Italy, Melgaço Portugal, Aluksne Latvia, Nyírbátor Hungary) were invited which were similarly facing the challenge of declining population. Equipped by URBACT with a toolkit, the cities could learn from each other.
Re-grow City deliberately focused on small and medium sized towns, because they face distinctive challenges in terms of constrained resources and limited technical capabilities when compared to larger cities. These constraints offer opportunities, however, for example robust social networks with high levels of ‘social capital’ and short decision making routes that speed up the adoption of untested or controversial methods. Taken together with the resources and skills local people have, shrinking cities are places of opportunity and can demonstrate considerable resilience even where they face severe constraints.
As a side-outcome of the Re-Grow City network, in May 2021 the new pan-European network ReGrow Towns has been established. This is aimed for towns below the size of 50 th residents and is an addendum to the already existing networks of Eurocities (cities above 250 th residents) and Eurotowns (cities between 50-250 th residents).


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Marijuana addiction fuels the degradation of youth society rapidly. It is one of the most abused drugs in the world and proved to be dangerous for health. Marijuana basically comes from shredded and dried parts of the cannabis plant and the part which contains drug is found in the buds. It is legal in some states but the human body can’t identify legal or illegal when affected.
Once you have taken this drug, your body won’t respond you positively for not carrying out neurotoxic effects. Marijuana abuse and addiction require proper treatment.
Reasons behind marijuana abuse
Several reasons are there for the rapid growth of marijuana abuse. Following are given to get more ideas about that.
- Mental depression
There are ups and downs in life. Some people find it very difficult to cope with the stressful situation in life. As a result, depression leads an individual to choose addiction even though it is not a permanent solution to get relief. Sometimes the mental illness such as anxiety, panic disorder, and disoriented thoughts of life seems to never end.
Sometimes intense trauma provokes one to adopt the spoiling way marijuana addiction. Even though taking drugs may be considered as an effective way to reduce emotional stress, they can become a monstrous problem over time.
Curiosity often produces on teenaged people mind for unknown things they feel interested. Addiction to marijuana is a dangerous habit. If you have a friend addicted to marijuana, your curious mind will choose to test what your friend is doing. Thus, people attract with this life-threatening addiction that leads to the death at last.
- Pleasure seeking tendency
One of the sole causes of this addiction is pleasure seeking tendency, believed by most of the people. Most addicts seek funs in having marijuana. Slowly they become habituated with this habit. Then a habit may eventually turn into an addiction. Short termed pleasure they gain in restoring this dangerous addiction. Finally, it can damage their life with long-term bad effects.
- Genetic heritage
Genetically we inherit particular characteristics and habit from our parents. Luckily you can achieve good values for your generation. Yet an unlucky individual may also have to suffer their whole life for genetical reasons that run thick in their veins. Marijuana addiction is something that is difficult to treat if the basic source is unknown. That’s why knowing your genetic background is much needed in this case.
Signs and symptoms of marijuana abuse
There are some particular signs and symptoms of marijuana abuse. Several signs are most visible to users. Let’s know about that.
- Forgetful memory
Marijuana and addiction are closely intertwined with each other. Marijuana addicts tend to forget things frequently. It decreases their brain activity and leaves an opposing impact on their brain development. Drugs used to leave a bad impact on fewer neural fibers in certain areas of brains. As a result, their intellectual level reduces apparently. These abnormalities sometimes lead them to schizophrenia.
- Detached from regular activities
Is your relative seemed to be irregular in his or her regular activities such as school going, tuition class, having dinner together? Is he or she is losing interest in friends, family, school or work? If your answer is positive then be sure that he or she is getting addicted. Generally, it is very difficult to give up on addiction because addicts feel more reluctant to leave it.
Addicts often become impatient with small issues. They tell off people without any reason. Their tolerance level goes under zero when they are a hyper mood. They lose control over their tolerance and feel uncomfortable to talk with others. They prefer loneliness and crave for marijuana when they are not using it.
- Lack of regular responsibilities
Another noticeable marijuana addiction symptom includes unwillingness of performing regular activities or taking responsibilities. When addicts smoke pot, they just do their work without caring for anything else. Desperate behaviors are commonly seen in their attitude. When anyone focuses his or her attention on smoking pot, they quit living a normal life.
- Choosing a company based on drug activities
You can definitely have some ideas of an individual by judging his or her company. Moreover, good people tend to associate with the good company. Otherwise bad people surround their life with the destructive company. When an individual is regularly seen with drug addicted folks, he or she has definitely taken a step in this dark way.
Effects of marijuana on body and mind:
Marijuana abusers have to go through some devastating experience on their body and mind. Irritability, sleeplessness, anxiety, lose appetite, nausea including drug taking tendency are majorly seen in physical symptoms. The psychological symptoms associated with marijuana abuse are mostly found in brain abnormalities. Marijuana is neurotoxic and stops proper functioning on the adolescent brain.
Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, in short, named THC, is the major active chemical in marijuana. It acts on particular areas of the brain and passes from the lungs into the bloodstream while taking. Furthermore, rapid heartbeat, red bloodshot eyes, dry mouth, difficulty in problem-solving, losing thinking capability is equally associated with marijuana abusers. Furthermore, it leaves long-term harmful effects on marijuana abusers.
The increased rate of schizophrenia and depression is on the rise. Additionally, it increases an individual’s heart rate for up to three hours. According to the information collected by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), there is a 59% increase in hospital emergency department visits that are connected with marijuana between the years of 2006 to 2010.
Marijuana abusers have to suffer from in the long run because marijuana addiction makes them captivated in a cruel circle. It has spread its dark effect on the number of people in our society, especially in teenaged boys and girls. It’s not that easy to come out from this life-threatening addiction.
Proper treatment is much needed with extra caring concern. Psychologically depressed people are increasing in number rapidly. That’s why meditation, counseling or other therapy associated with psychological courses is very necessary for patients who are suffering from addiction. At last, it will power is mandatory to recover from this addiction.

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Broken Bells' "The Ghost Inside" already had a pretty great video-- with Christina Hendricks in it, even! But that didn't stop filmmaker Matt McCormick from making his own unofficial video for the track, one that hijack's Hall and Oates' iconic ["Private Eyes" video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw ""Private Eyes" video" ) and turns it into something vaguely freaky.
According to Vulture, McCormick was moved to make the video when he realized that the handclaps in "The Ghost Inside" and "Private Eyes" were pretty similar, then later realized that the songs shared a lot in their structure and tempo. So he re-edited the "Private Eyes" video so that it would match the Broken Bells song, then digitally plastered Broken Bells/Shins frontman James Mercer's mouth onto Darryl Hall's face. Amazingly enough, that ridiculously simple concept sustains itself for the entire length of the song. Check it out below, via Vulture.
Also, Broken Bells just released "The Ghost Inside" as a digital single on iTunes, and it features a new B-side called "Meyrin Fields". You can stream that song right now on the band's MySpace.


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Rihanna is seen with her large belly and wearing a red bikini while remaining in the Caribbean with A$AP Roc.
Rihanna and A$AP Hammer are taking advantage of the warm Caribbean weather as they get ready to welcome their first child together. In the picture above, the beautiful (okay, stunning) and also very young singer is seen wearing a red bikini while vacationing with A$AP Ruff on IRI’s island home of Barbados.
After being plagued by accusations of adultery from Fenty shoe director Amina M.i., the couple is on vacation in Barbados. Later, the designers hurried to Instagram to deny that A$AP Rocky had violated and to express their regret for her “careless” behavior.
She was spotted out to dinner with the “L$D” singer while donning a tight black skirt and wrap-around bikini that would make her baby bump obvious in many more photos during the trip. As she caught up with her boyfriend, RiRi had her long blonde hair pulled back into a high bun and sported a pair of enormous dangly earrings.
Rocky looked sharp on the outing in a grey graphic shirt, jeans, and a yellow and white ball cap. The two could not help but laugh throughout their enjoyable time, and they appeared to be at peace with one another. They were enjoying the “baby moon” while they awaited the arrival of a child.
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MORE than 1,600 people have signed our petition to bring justice to a forgotten generation. And we want to say thank-you.
We launched our petition calling on the Government to restore compensation for pleural plaques sufferers back in January.
Payouts for the condition – a scarring of the lungs caused by asbestos – were scrapped after a House of Lords decision in 2007.
The Lords ruled in favour of the insurance industry – ending a decades-old right for workers exposed to asbestos by negligent employers to get compensation.
It saved insurance bosses millions of pounds.
Following pressure from the trade unions, the Government launched a consultation into the issue.
That ended last October - but ministers have still not revealed the results, despite promises from Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Justice Minister Bridget Prentice that an announcement is on the way.
Hundreds of North East former workers, many exposed at a time when employers knew the dangers of asbestos, have been left in limbo waiting for a decision.
The Chronicle stepped in during January. We launched “Give them Justice”, calling on the Government to restore payments to sufferers of this debilitating lung condition. Local MPs and union leaders quickly backed our calls, and readers added force to the campaign by signing the online petition.
Some people gathered hundreds of signatures for us – and we want to thank them for their hard work.
Vicky Johnson, 20, and partner Richard Massingham, 28, of Slatyford, Newcastle, collected over 400 signatures for the petition.
Part-time bookie and student Vicky asked punters to sign up before placing their bets.
Vicky’s dad James Johnson, 71, of Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, was diagnosed with pleural plaques after a routine check-up revealed scarring on his lungs. He lives in constant fear of developing deadly asbestos cancer mesothelioma.
But Vicky was determined to help him and the hundreds of others in the same position by gathering signatures for our campaign.
Sister Jessica Johnson, 17, of Sheriff Hill, also got involved. The Sacred Heart sixth form pupil gathered signatures from her friends.
Meanwhile, hairdresser Susan Reilly gathered hundreds more names while snipping hair. She asked clients to sign the petition while they were being pampered in her salon, Femme Fatale Hairdressers in Bensham, Gateshead.
And Nightingale Coaches bosses Garry and Paula Johnson, of Stanley in County Durham, weren’t taking anyone for a ride – unless they added their names to the petition. The coach drivers signed up and asked passengers to help out as well.
Hundreds more Chronicle readers also signed up online or by returning the petition form – and we appreciate every name.
But the campaign is not over yet.
You can still help us by signing the petition online. Visit www.chroniclelive.co.uk/petition to add your name. Your details will be added to our e-petition.


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For what may be the last time, elderly Holocaust survivors returned to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 70 years after its liberation Tuesday, to urge the world never to forget one of history's worst atrocities. Around 300 survivors, some wearing scarves in the blue-and-white stripes of their death camp uniforms, joined world leaders for an emotional memorial at the epicentre of the Nazi genocide of Jews. The commemoration at the cold and austere camp, which was blanketed in snow, comes amid concern over a resurgence in anti-Semitism in France, Germany and other parts of Europe. "We do not want our past to be our children's future," said survivor Roman Kent, 86, his voice breaking with emotion.

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MV Skorpios III has a capacity of up to 90 passengers berthed in 45 double cabins and distributed in 5 decks; cabins offer twin, queen or king-sized beds. All cabins have private toilet facilities, plasma TV and background music and a safety box.
Above is a deck plan. Images and more cabin details and details of other facilities on the ship are available on this link. Please contact us for availability of specific cabins or other information.
The tour price includes share twin accommodation in a standard two berth inside cabin with private facilities (on the Athens / Atenas lower deck). Cabin upgrades are available at the following supplements (per person).
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Kansas Rural Water has adopted the following policy concerning sharing digital data for the purposes of developing a Geographic Information System or creating maps:
KRWA is not the owner of any GIS data that KRWA staff collects or develops. The data (gps positions, feature locations, line representations, shape files, geo-rectified aerial photography and all GIS layers) are the property of the utility that has contracted with KRWA to conduct mapping services. KRWA will share all GIS data that it possesses only upon written approval from the owner. Any request for data should be directed to the KRWA GIS coordinator or to the utility that is represented by the data. Upon receipt of written approval of any request, the data will be sent to the requestor. Fees associated with copying files to media, and/or postage will be the responsibility of the requestor.
Should you share your data?
Sharing data can be of great benefit to many different county and state agencies. Sharing promotes communication and relations between agencies that allow them to better serve the local communities. By allowing several different agencies to utilize your GIS data, more oversight can occur. If more people see and use your data, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, additions, and corrections can be identified and addressed. Sharing also makes the data available to personnel in critical, decision-making positions during times of planning and emergency. In the event of a natural disaster, data can be accessed by emergency management to possibly save lives.
Sharing is a good way of backing-up your data. By allowing others to acquire copies of your data and utilize/store it in an off-site location, you are ensuring its existence in the event that your copies are lost or destroyed.
Sometimes, there are fees associated with sharing data. Fees vary greatly and could be free or cost several thousand dollars. It is difficult to determine what fee to charge for data because the cost to produce it can vary so much. Only a few hours is spent to produce a new shape file that represents water line locations in a very small community. However, to hire a company for high-resolution aerial photography, the cost may be tens of thousands of dollars. A question for a GIS Department or Appraiser’s office to ask might be; “How many times do the taxpayers need to pay for this data?” If high-resolution aerials were paid for out of a county’s general fund, and a request for those aerials comes from a department, agency or some other entity that resides within the tax-base, any money that is paid for the aerials could be considered a “double charge”. The same could be considered for any data layer.
K.S.A 45-219 addresses the issue of reasonable and allowed fees associated with copying records. It also identifies where any fees will be remitted. In all cases, the money will reimburse the general fund of the taxing subdivision.
If you would like to acquire data that KRWA has collected for a Kansas city or rural water district, you may access the system directory for contact information, or you may contact the KRWA for more information.
Statewide opinions about sharing data
The Kansas Collaborative in partnership with the Kansas GIS Policy Board created a GIS discussion forum in 2006 as part of local GIS outreach efforts. The forum can be accessed by submitting questions to the email address: . Any question submitted to this forum will be viewed by Kansas County Appraisers, GIS department personnel, staff in county sheriffs’ offices, GIS Policy Board members, Data Access and Support Center staff and many other people with positions in GIS. There are over 350 people on the GIS List Serve (forum). Folks can also be added to the GIS List Serve by e-mailing Ken Nelson at
KRWA GIS Coordinator Pete Koenig submitted a question about sharing data, specifically, sharing county-owned, high-resolution aerials in exchange for rural water district infrastructure files. Here is a pdf transcript of that email and responses received. See also the Attorney General's response.

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Share Your Urban Forestry Story
Across America, trees are working every day to improve the environment in our cities and towns. They clean our air and water, reduce energy use in our homes, increase property values and shade our streets. They also offer shelter to local wildlife and provide a sense of pride in our community. But beyond all of this, community trees have meaning to us on a personal level.
So what’s your story? Take a moment to share how you’ve been positively affected by a community tree project.
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Archive for December, 2013
JD sent me this in e mail
And although I’d already seen the Conly book reviewed in NYRB, and posted the review here, I thought I’d put this out for people to see.
I’ve spent the early morning handing in my grades and trying to explain to students that, no, you can’t make up 8 papers on the day after the term ends.
So I’m depressed.
is an article by Cathy Young, one of my favorite writers.
Okay, so I’ve been thinking about it some more. I think I’ve gotten it a little more straightened out in my head.
First, I’d say we’re still talking about luck, at least at base.
The African-America teenager who gets followed around Nordstroms because the security guard automatically suspects him of being a shoplifter would not be so followed around if he was a citizen of, say, Botswana.
That is as much the luck of the draw as being born genetically capable of growing up to look like Gene Tierney at twenty.
But the bigger issue, to me, is that the common usage of the word “privileged” implies that the “privileged” person is part of a small group that gets special treatment not available to the vast majority of his fellow citizens.
But the problem of the Hispanic guy being followed around Nordstoms or the black guy being pulled over by the cops far more often than a white guy is not a matter of some small group of people having a “privilege” that is not available to the rest of us.
Rather, not being so pulled over or followed is the default setting–it’s what most people have most of the time. It is, in other words, normal.
The Hispanic guy and the black teenager aren’t treated the way they are treated because some small group of other people have “privilege.”
If store clerks started following white women around the store and the police started stopping white motorists as often as black ones, no justice would have been achieved for anybody. We would simply have a situation in which everybody was being treated unjustly, and there would be no progress at all toward more justice for the black and Hispanic guys.
Like it or not, framing this issue as a matter of “privilege” implies that you want not to improve the condition of the minorities involved in this equation, but worsen the condition of everybody else. And it is a vast majority of everybody else.
And as soon as the general public gets the idea that that’s what you want to do, your chance of improving the level of justice afforded to the black and Hispanic guys goes out the window.
And this is not because the majority is racist and self-serving. It’s because it’s a moral imperative that every person value and protect his own life and with it his own rights and liberties. He can voluntarily agree to forgo such protection, but it would have to be voluntary.
It is never morally licit for us to demand that other people sacrifice themselves.
And it is certainly never licit for us to sacrifice them against their wills for the benefit of third parties (never mind ourselves).
All justice is individual and the first rule of moral behavior–pace Peter Singer–is that we must always treat fellow human beings as ends in themselves and not as the means to the ends of others.
Because of that, I am not as sanguine as Robert is that the tendency to follow the Hispanic guy around or stop the black guy more often is an acceptable trade off between rights and safety in the world we live in now.
What I do think I know is that fixing that situation–the unusual situation in which blacks and Hispanics find themselves these days vis a vis police and other security forces–will not and cannot be solved by people who are treated normally pretending that such normality is a “privilege” that they have illicitly acquired and behaving like nuns in a Chapter of Faults, scouring their consciences for every minute imperfection.
That’s what that reminds me of, all that “check your privilege” stuff. Nuns sitting in chapter and making a list of all their “imperfections against the Rule,” no matter how minor, out loud and in front of everybody they live with.
The process is very similar to the re education techniques of totalitarian societies. We might want to skip this kind of thing.
The problem with fixing this kind of thing is that it is operating on a level that isn’t really capable of rational fixes.
I was thinking about this during the whole George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin thing.
Now, the actual Florida law is and was such an incompetently framed mess that Zimmerman would practically have had to burst in on Martin while Martin was asleep in bed and fill him full of holes before he could fail to be acquitted.
But it’s possible that even with a law written with some semblance of common sense, Zimmerman might still have been acquitted, under what I think of as the Bernie Goetz paradigm.
In case you don’t remember, Bernie Goetz was the man who shot four black teenagers on a subway train in 1984, alledging that the way in which they approached him was a clear indication of their intent to mug him.
The result was like a replay of a Death Wish movie. The jury refused to convict him on any charge but that of carrying a concealed weapon, and half the city lauded him as a hero.
As far as the New York Times was concerned, this was proof that the entire city of New York was deep-dyed racist, but I doubt that was the problem at all.
The problem was that most of the people watching the Goetz trial and reading about the circumstances of the assault had had personal experiences the kind of behavior Goetz said made him believe the boys were about to mug him–and, in those experiences, lots of people had in fact been mugged.
In other words, when Goetz said he feared for his safety because of the way the boys were behaving, people believed him and believed he was being reasonable. Most people saw that behavior as a credible threat.
(The way it worked was this: you’d be sitting on a mostly empty subway train with the conductor nowhere in sight. A group of adolescent males, usually at least three, would walk up to your seat in the car and surround you. They would crowd in around you and start demanding money. Got five dollars? Give me five dollars? If you took out your wallet to give them five dollars, they took the wallet. If you refused, the whole thing could get very physical very fast.)
Enough of the population of the city of New York at that point had either been the victim of one of these attacks, or had a friend or relative who had, or had witnessed one, that when Goetz described the behavior, it sounded more than credible.
Most of these people–most of the city–believed that if they had themselves been caught in this circumstances (surrounded by a group of young black males on an almost deserted subway car) they would have been perfectly within their rights and within the bounds of reason and common sense to fear for their safety.
Now, justice is individual–not every young black man, or group of young black men, on the NYC subways in the early 1980s was bent on stealing people’s wallets and/or beating them up. And assuming that every such young black male or group of males was so intending is certainly unjust.
It’s also inevitable in a way that cannot be stopped ever, anywhere.
Not a single person who saw Goetz’s defense as credible had to have a racist bone in his body.
All he had to do was live in NYC and ride the subways at a time when these attacks were being carried out virtually exclusively by young black males.
(By the way–nobody who was not shot by Bernie Goetz or not perceived to be a threat for mounting such an attack was “privileged” in any way. In fact, if there was any “privilege” as the word was used in that FB discussion, it belonged to the young black males, who could largely ride the NYC subways without fear. They didn’t have to worry that anybody would attack them. That’s why the Goetz case was so huge. The victims were not supposed to fight back, and no other victim ever did.)
After the Trayvon Martin case had really gotten going, I found myself struck beyond words–okay, I’m never beyond words–by the local news.
During that period of three or four months, there were at least two dozen violent crimes reported in the state of CT (in the news, not just the police blotters).
And of those crimes, all but two were committed by young African American males.
The percentage was similar on the national level.
There was a point where I began to wonder if somebody was doing it on purpose–as if a whole slew of people were determined to prove all the stereotypes right.
I am not saying here that it is at all right or just for people to look at young minority men and automatically assume they’re criminal.
I am saying it might be almost impossible to stop it as long as what we see is what we see.
The assumption does not need to be in any way racist. To be racist, it would have to be based on an inner conviction that young black males are more likely to be criminal because they are black.
What’s more likely to be operating is a sort of collective unconscious built up of image after image in the news.
That’s what I like to think of as the Pit Bull Problem. Most pit bulls are friendly, gentle creatures–just ask my sister in law; she’s trying to rescue every stray one in CT–but most of the viscious dog attacks we hear about on the news involve pit bulls or pit bull mixes.
The result is that, relying on untrue stereotypes or not, several municipalities have tried to or succeeded at banning the breed within their borders.
And yes, I know that human beings are not pit bulls. I’m just trying to point out that the psychology of the two situations is not the same.
I sometimes wonder if this is the unintended consequence of another attempt to eliminate racism as far as it could be eliminated.
When I was growing up, the news–local or national–almost never reported on black-on-black (or minority-on-minority) crime.
They didn’t think such crime was very interesting, and the reason they didn’t think such crime was very interesting was very racist indeed.
It was, they thought, just those people over there–that was the way they behaved, they were barely better than animals, why should anybody care?
Up in my part of the world, this was one of the first discriminatory practices to fall. A little push came to a little shove, and the news outlets, newspapers and television both, started taking minority-on-minority crime seriously, and reporting it.
And there’s where the unintended consequences came in.
Black on white crime is very rare, so in the days of “they don’t matter,” “they” were almost never reported as committing violent crimes.
The image that came through was of a community that was hardworking and decent if maybe a little stupid–racist enough, obviously, but nowhere near as breathtakingly negative as what we have now.
And that image, racist or not, did a lot to secure the support of people in the Northeast for civil rights. Here were these perfectly nice people and they were being harrassed. We had to put a stop to that.
The image that comes through now is not like that, and it is not like that not because the media are reporting on black criminals but not white ones.
At the same time, however, most African American and Hispanic people do not commit violent crimes.
The problem becomes how to present the news in a way that makes that the more likely picture in people’s heads rather than the one we’ve got now.
And on that, the only practical move I can see is to go back to not reporting most minority-on-minority crime.
No, this will not solve racism in or country, or fix racial relations overnight–but it would put young African American and Hispanic males at less risk of stand-your-ground kinds of incidents.
And in time, it might even ease off on the getting your car stopped/getting followed in the store thing.
Perception matters, even if it shouldn’t.
Talking about “privilege,” on the other hand, will do nothing but make most people reject your concerns before they’ve even heard them out–after all, you’re telling them that they’re part of a special small group that’s getting things they have no right to expect, like safety and the presumption of innocence.
My father had a principle of life that he used to hammer into us on a regular basis: if something goes wrong, hope to hell that it was your fault. If it was your fault, you have a chance to fix it. If it wasn’t, you’re screwed.
I bring this up because I was monitoring a discussion on FB last week about “privilege.”
I put the word “privilege” in scare quotes because it’s a very bad word for what the people in that discussion were talking about.
Like it or not, the word “privilege” has connotations in ordinary usage that cannot be wished away.
First and foremost, it implies that whatever you’re talking about is unearned. Second, it implies that what you’re talking about is unjust.
When we encounter “privilege,” therefore, we should work to eradicate it.
There was a lot of convoluted verbiage going on in the discussion, but after awhile it became clear to me that what the participants were mostly talking about was not “privilege” as most of us understand it, but luck.
(The big exception concerned two people, one of whom had the money to go from a nice warm and dry house to a nice warm and dry car to a nice warm and dry office park in unclement weather and the other of whom had no money and had to get wet and cold while taking public transportation. In that case, the circumstances of the two of them might be due to luck (or “privilege”), but they might equally be due to achievement–one of the two might have worked hard and gotten somewhere, the other might have been spending his spare time in casinos.)
It is certainly the case that luck exists, and that it is not “fair.” Some of us are born intelligent and others not. Some of us are born beautiful and others not. Some of us get born in the US and others get born in Chad. There’s a lot of luck out there, and in some cases it’s the beginning and the end of the ball game.
Bill died at forty six of a cancer so rare there are no known risk factors for it. How did he get it? Nobody knows. And unless somebody gets very luck fairly soon, I probably won’t know in my lifetime.
The problem with that conversation, for me, was complicated.
Framing the argument in terms of “privilege” and a consequent determination to make “privilege” cease to exist is an inherently false statement of the problem.
Luck is not the same thing as “privilege” as “privilege” is ordinarly understood as a word. And although we could possibly forsee a day when ACTUAL privilege could be eradicated–unlikely, but not completely impossible–we will never see a day when luck will be eradicated, or even when luck will not play a truly enormous part in the way our lives work out.
Think about the children dying year after year in that central African nation whose leader is convinced that polio vaccine is a plot by the Western powers to render his citizens impotent. Then think of mine, who did not.
The whole convoluted confusion around the idea of ‘privilege” encourages people to focus their time and energy around resentment, to be angry at the world and what’s been “done to” them. It teaches them to frame the events of their lives around an idea that sees them as essentially passive.
And, what’s more, it allows as the only legitimate response by other people an acceptance of and empathy with just that passivity. To respond to complaints of a lack of “privilege” by saying that luck is what it is and cannot be helped, so just get on with your life and get over it, is by definition in such a discussion “blaming the victim.”
But the issue isn’t about blaming the victim, or anybody else. Luck is. There’s no way to end it, and there’s no way around it. It is enormously annoying on almost every level. It is certainly not fair.
Get over it. Get past it. And get done what we need to get done.
Even then, of course, luck may kick your ass. That’s the nature of life. But the only chance any of us ever have is to play the cards we’re dealt and see what we can make of ourselves.
And most of the people who are caught in the miasma of “privilege” talk would live better lives and have better chances if we said just that to them.
This is not “blaming the victim.” It’s just reality.
That’s not to say that we shouldn’t do things to make the world fairer, if we can. It’s not to say that we shouldn’t be sensitive to people’s needs when they tell us what they are (although in that case, there’s going to be some conflict–the rules that so many “feminists” these days want to install to make women “safe” feel to me like a suffocating prissiness that I don’t want and feel hold me back).
It is an illusion that luck doesn’t matter, but it’s a necessary one if we’re ever going to get anything. We need it in the same way every teacher needs to walk into her classroom is fully capable of learning the material. It isn’t always true, but if we don’t convince ourselves of it, we’re in danger of doing a lot of damage.
The “privilege” business does a lot of damage, too, it’s just that the people who engage in it decide not to see it.
I am, at the moment, in a definite funk. I had a student this term who was truly something amazing. Good looking. Intelligent. Charismatic–incredibly charismatic. With the kind of ear for writing narrative prose nobody can teach anybody. With the kind of comic timing nobody could teach anybody, either.
In one way, of course, he lacked “privilege.” He was a young black male from a ghetto family, no father, lots of violence in the neighborhood, and drugs on top of that.
He’d been arrrested before I ever saw him, but I think the judge may have seen what I, and his advisor, and most of his teachers eventually saw. Instead of locking him up, the judge gave him probation and an ankle bracelet. When he broke probation the first couple of times, he got reprieves.
I haven’t seen him for a couple of weeks, and I’m a little afraid that the reprieves ran out.
But–in spite of the “oppression” of being born in a ghetto and young and black and male, he was ALSO born with so much talent and potential he made me dizzy.
Most of his white, middle class classmates don’t have half as much going for them. They’ll plod through school and get some mid-range job somewhere and get by by following orders, and never have much of anything else to look forward to.
But this kid is something else. And there’s only one way he’s ever going to be able to achieve what he’s capable of.
He needs somebody to tell him, “yep, you bet, you got a raw deal on all those counts, grow up, get over it, and stop behaving like an adolescent asshole.”
But nobody will tell him that.
Because it’s all about “privilege.”
And telling him that would be “blaming the victim.”
As I go out to meet the ravening hordes.
Except they’re not ravening. They’re hyperventilating.
Which they wouldn’t be doing if they hadn’t left their term papers to the last minute, and beyond.
I really do read the comments, most of the time. I even follow the links to find out what everybody is doing.
And I have heard the plaintive cry that I should put up something new.
Unfortunately, we have reached one of those times of year when my time is not my own.
Somewhere back there in the house are two folders full of term papers that are virtually all a mess, and of which at least three are almost certainly plagarized.
And, as usual, the plagarizing isn’t even intelligent.
I’m beginning to wonder if we shouldn’t give an assignments that requires students to plagarize in a way that indicates an IQ number in more than double digits. If they’re going to do it anyway, they might as well learn to think it through.
Last night was also our first snowstorm, more or less. There is snow on the ground out there, but not much of it. There’s been a sander by and a plow, but I’m not sure what the plow actually had to plow. When I said “not much of it,” I was serious. My lawn is still mostly green.
I’m also reading a very strange little book, called The Lusiads, an epic poem (I know, I know) written by a man named Camoes about the voyage of Vasco da Gama to India.
It was written in the sixteenth century by a man who desperately wanted to give Portugal a literary monument to match the Homeric epics and, of course–because all these people at the time read Latin, but very few of them read Greek–The Aeneiad.
I don’t read Portuguese, and this is a poem. It’s hard for me to tell whether the sheer awfulness of the poetry is in the original or the result of the translation.
I have learned that there are a lot of things that rhyme with “ocean.”
The work itself is–so far, I’m about halfway through–a conglomeration of things that kind of do and kind of don’t make sense.
There’s a lot that takes place on Mount Olympus and other venues of the Greek gods with Bacchus kind of/sort of identified with the devil.
Then every once in a while Camoes breaks in to explain that of course he doesn’t believe in any of that. He’s a Christian. He knows that the Greek gods were fake and a matter of superstition.
The most interesting part so far, for me, has been the long scene in which da Gama narrates the history of Portugal to the first friendly king he’s encountered on the other side of the horn of Africa.
The king is Muslim–as have been all the other kings he’s encountered on that side of Africa–and I kept wondering if it made much sense for da Gama to spend that much time talking about how thoroughly the Christian Portuguese had vanquished the Moors.
Especially since he desperately needed the help of these people to complete his voyage to Indian.
I’m also willing to bet that the real da Gama did know such thing on his actual voyage.
You’ve got to assume the man had some sense.
The Lusiads is the national poem of Portugal. It’s important to Portugal’s culture and to its national identity.
And Portugal is a place I’ve visited and a place I love. It gave me Jose Saramago and Manoel de Oliveira. It wouldn’t be right for me to make fun of this thing, so I won’t.
It is, however, either as a result of the translation or of the weaknesses of the original, well and truly awful.
It’s also in endless ottavia rima, which is mindboggling in its own way. Although not in the way you might think.
The translator does not seem to have tried to put the lines entirely into the rhyme scheme, but he has insisted on ending each stanza with a couplet.
And the couplets are…
I’m about to go back to that mind boggling thing again.
My gut says you’ve got to work at making something this bad, but from the introduction the translator obvious adores the hell out of this poem.
Since I’m not writing fiction this week, I’m at liberty to try to cut the problem with music, but so far I’ve tried Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn and Charlie Parker and none of it has worked.
One of my sons has suggested I move on to Wagner and Strauss, but I can never handle sturm und drang in the morning.
Right now I’m going to go launch myself into the real world and try to get this correcting done before the hordes descend on special office hours tomorrow.
For that, I may bring tranquilizers.
It is Monday morning, and I will admit that what I thought I was going to be doing here in the cold wet drizzle that is a New England December is writing about how the Obamacare website ran on the first day after its deadline.
As it turns out, I have heard no Obamacare news at all.
Sometime yesterday, a Metro-North train on its way from Poughkeepsie to New York City derailed in the Brox, killing four people and injuring 67 others, including fourteen who ended up in critical condition.
Metro-North is the principle commuter rail system for NYC and its suburbs. If the crash had occurred during the commuter hours on a week day, there would have been a truly impressive body count.
As it is, things are bad enough, and the newspapers and major news outlets–all but one of which is based in NYC–are a bit distracted from the usual political fray.
So let me write about something else, something I sort of darkly alluded to yesterday–the reason why this book I’m reading took me so long to get into.
The book is called Deadly Force, with a subtitle I’m blanking on completely this morning. It’s written by a man named Chris MacNab, who is described in his author bio as “based in the UK.”
The book was also originally published in the UK by Osprey, and later distributed here by Random House.
The UK-ness of all this is important, because it may be the reason I have to excuse the man for his introduction and first half of first chapter.
It’s also important to note that the copy I have is what’s called a “bound galley” or an “uncorrected proof,” which is exactly what it sounds like. These are raw galley pages stuck between covers and sent out as advance copies to reviewers and librarians and people who might blurb so all that can be coordinated with the actual launch date.
Since this is an uncorrected proof, it’s necessary to give this book the benefit of the doubt. It’s always possible that the problem I’m about to outline was caught before publication and fixed.
But I doubt it.
Because this isn’t a matter of a few words misspelled or a few acronyms misidentified. (Although there are plenty of those–it takes him to the last quarter of the book to stop called the ATF the BATF.)
The problem is that Mr. MacNab based his introduction and most of his first chapter on the Belleisle study, including his contention that in talking about gun violence in the US, he doesn’t have to deal with conditions from the colonial period to the Civil War, since in that period most Americans didn’t have guns anyway.
If it seems a little odd to you that a largely frontier society still vulnerable to Indian raids and where most families relied for meat in the winter on game they shot themselves–even most families in cities like Boston and New Haven–well, it seemed odd to a lot of people when the Belleisle study came out, because that is what the Belleisle study claimed to prove.
Michael Belleisle was a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta, and he’d actually been writing quite a few well-received academic papers on this very theme over the course of several years.
He might have spent a long career “proving” a lot of things that weren’t true, except he decided to up the ante. He published his “findings” as a book, called Arming America. The book was published by Knopf, probably the most intellectually prestigious house in the US, in 2002.
And at first, things went just swimmingly. In fact, they went better than swimmingly. The book received almost universal acclaim and turned into a best seller. Belleisle was awarded the Bancroft Prize, as good as it gets in history. He had a lecture schedule that was the envy of academia.
The first complaint to come in came from Charleton Heston, then president of the NRA, and Belleisle and the people who loved his book brushed it off without much thought.
Arming America was a book that threatened to debunk everything gun rights advocates contended about the atmosphere surrounding the adoption of the Second Amendment. Of course such advocates would claim there was something wrong with the research. Heston wasn’t a scholar or an expert, after all.
Belleisle managed to maintain an atmosphere of “nobody objects to this research but gun rights activists with an axe to grind,” and several of the actual scholars who next stepped up to complain about the books research and premises were indeed gun rights supporters as well as actual historians.
But they were actual historians, and the more they complained, the more other historians who had initially supported the book started to get…hinky.
And hinky they should have gotten.
It’s not that Belleisle fudged his research. He did enough of that, taking quotes from people like George Washington out of context and cooking his statistics.
The problem was that he’d also made a lot of it up.
A lot of it.
Whole whacking hunks of it.
He claimed, for instance, that some of his statistic had come from his review of the records of San Francisco in the years before the Civil War. The problem is that no such records exist. What records there were were all destroyed in the great San Francisco fire that followed the earthquake of 1906.
He also claimed to have analyzed the probate records of 150 who had died in Providence, Rhode Island in the last days of the colonies and the first of the new Republic. It turned out most of those didn’t exist, either, as most of the men on the list had died intestate and left no probate records of any kind.
There was more, but you see what I mean. The book wasn’t just a sieve. It was a fairy castle in the air.
And it turns out that real historians, even committed left-liberal ones, don’t have much patience with fairy castles in the air.
It took two years, but in the end Belleisle was forced to resign from Emory. Knopf cancelled his book contract and ceased publishing the book. Columbia University rescinded the Bancroft Prize.
The man’s career was, to all intents and purposes, over. (The book is still published by a small independent press, so you can get it if you want it.)
Now, a few things.
The first is that the writer of Deadly Force, Chris MacNab, lives and works in Britain, and it’s possible he never heard about any of this. Maybe he went to his local library and it hadn’t heard about any of it either, and there was the book, and he read it and found it interesting, and assumed he could trust it.
That’s sloppy, but not criminal. It’s happened before, and it will almost certainly happen again.
But under the circumstances, it would be very sloppy indeed. The episode was not small. It resulted in a major and very public dust up and significant recriminations against the writer, and deserved recriminations at that.
At the very least, MacNab should have done what I’m always telling my students to do: Google the damned thing and make sure you don’t get any surprises.
The same can be said for the editors at Osprey, who had an obligation to vet the thing when they published it.
But then we come to the second thing, which is Random House.
Random House owns Knopf, the very publishing house that had been left with egg on its face and worse when it published Arming America to begin with.
I do understand that in most cases, distribution deals are just that–American House A agrees to use its distribution system to get UK House B into American bookstores, usually for a small consideration. There’s no need for the people at American House A to even read the books they’re getting from UK House B. After all, the book clearly states it’s published by “Osprey House” and not “Random House.”
Even so, the irony here is almost breathtaking.
The parent of the publishing house that had to spend considerable time and effort to rescue its reputation from the mess Belleisle made of it in the first place is issuing yet another book making yet the same claims based on yet the same fabricated “evidence.”
Shouldn’t somebody, somewhere, have been paying attention?
I tried looking up some reviews of the MacNab book, but couldn’t find any that pointed out the problem with the use of the Belleisle study. I have no idea if that means that the Belleisle references were removed before publication, of if none of the reviewers had heard of it either.
And the reason can’t be that MacNab is telling his readers what they want to hear, because in spite of the awed tone of a Brit dealing with American gun stats, MacNab’s books is VERY pro-cop. The pro-cop people don’t want to hear that there’s something wrong with the Second Amendment. They want to hear that there’s something right with it.
The impression I get is not of a bunch of anti-gun ideologues latching on to what they want to hear, but an overall sloppiness that makes me a lot more nervous about the research in the rest of the book than I would have been with actual bias.
I can correct for actual bias. Sloppiness is an invitation to the fate of Sisyphus.
And it’s too bad. Because on many levels, MacNab’s book is very, very interesting.
So, another first of the month, and the November list runs as follows:
64) Mark Levin. The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic.
65) Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Lucifer’s Hammer.
66) Alison Weir. The Life of Elizabeth I.
67) Charlotte MacLeod. Exit the Milkman.
It’s not a terribly exciting list as lists go, but it’s the end of the term and I handed in a book and…well, you know.
I was fairly sure, mid-month, that there would be at least one more book on here, but I ran into the same trouble I had with the Pinker last month.
I had problems with that book itself, and for several days I found myself unable to force myself through more than a couple of pages of the thing.
It was a much shorter book than the Pinker, and normally wouldn’t have taken me more than four or five days of even a very busy week, but here we are.
I’ve started to wonder if this is something new or something I’ve always had and never noticed until recently.
Since the thing about always finishing what I start is not new, I assume I must have had some response to books I either didn’t like or distrusted all along, but I just don’t know what it was.
And maybe it was this.
Anyway, as to the books:
The first thing I want to point out is the Charlotte MacLeod, Exit the Milkman, at the end.
I have a little stack of MacLeod’s Peter Shandy books on my coffee table, and I picked up this one because it was on top of that stack and I was looking for something light.
I have a soft spot in my heart for MacLeod, because her first Peter Shandy mystery, Rest Ye Merry, is probably what propelled me out of graduate school and college teaching and into really making a shot at being a mystery writer.
I stumbled into a bookstore called Jocundry’s in East Lansing, Michigan, after a really harrowing two weeks involving classes who hated me and prelims I couldn’t wrap my mind around and looking desperately for some kind of respite, and what I found was Rest Ye Merry.
It’s definitely a cozy, but the high end of cozy, well done and interesting and with characters you want to live with, and right after I finished it I bought the only other thing by MacLeod the store carried in its mystery section: The Family Vault, the first book of her other series.
And it occurred to me that if this was the kind of thing people were publishing in mysteries, I could be very happy doing something similar, assuming I could do it at all.
And that’s where the Pay McKenna series came from, a couple of years later, after several tries at book that just weren’t going anywhere.
I was, in those days, a much cosier writer than I am now.
That’s the kind of thing watching people die can do to you.
This book is, I think, the last in the series, and it is not one of the best. Too much depends on enormous coincidences, and not enough depends on the mystery.
And the thing is sort of…disorganized. And it bothered me. Charlotte was not normally disorganized. So I started checking around a bit, and found that it was published in 1996.
And there, I think, is where the problem may be.
1996 was the year when Bill was dying, and also desperately attempting to finish a book subtitled “an oral history of the mystery.”
That book required interviewing dozens of mystery writers about their lives, work, experience in publishing, you name it. There was urgency on two fronts. Some of these writers were very old, and there was the need to get them on the record before the time ran out.
And Bill was getting sicker, so there was the need to get the book written in case the time ran out.
Close to the end of everything, Bill called Charlotte to ask her to interview for the book, not expecting any trouble. We’d known Charlotte for years, and it was one of those things. Even people we didn’t know wanted to be in the book, including some extraordinarily authors.
But when Bill called Charlotte, she not only didn’t want to be in the book, she didn’t want to talk at all, and she was highly agitated and upset. Bill went through his spiel and Charlotte said “No!” and hung up.
Bill proceeded to do his usual thing and start worrying that he had said something that upset her.
Then,a while later, we heard from a mutual friend that Charlotte had moved to a nursing home, the victim of a rapidly progressing case of dementia.
And that, I think, may be what is wrong with this book. It may be the book she wrote when the dementia was first coming on. Dementia would explain the kinds of problems it has. The odd driftiness. The lack of cohesion.
If you like cozies, the Peter Shandy series is a good one to read, but don’t read this one until you’ve done the rest.
Charlotte’s best work is very good indeed, and it deserves to be appreciated.
Oddly enough, I’ve beent thinking about Charlotte for a while now. She was one of a trio of mystery writers who were close friends for many years: Charlotte, and Marion Babson, and Barbara Peters.
Charlotte was the first to die. Barbara Peters (Barbara Mertz) died a few months ago. Marion is left, still writing mysteries and, I worry, lonelier than I’d like her to be.
Her publisher tends to reissue The Twelve Deaths of Christmas every year or so. It’s a good one, if you like cozies.
As for the rest of the books up there:
The Liberty Amendments is interesting, although if I wrote my own set, they would be significantly different.
That is, of course, the problem with projects of that kind. Everybody knows the system is broken, but everybody thinks the system is broken in a different way.
There are some interesting things in here that I’d never thought of, especially about the role of the courts. And my two big complaints are a) that he doesn’t want to end rule by regulation absolutely and b) that he only wants oversight of rule by regulation where the result of the regulation is $100 million dollars or more.
But the regulations I am most concerned with–how you reaise your children, what kind of chair you use at the desk in your home office, what kind of food you’re allowed to send with your kid to school, schools that punish or expel children for acts they commit OUTSIDE of school hours and grounds and auspices–are precisely the ones that have little economic impact, but lots of the personal kind.
Niven and Pournelle’s Lucifer’s Hammer is a standard issue disaster novel, and I love disaster novels.
Like most disaster novels, though, this one gives you about the first third of the book concentrating on disaster, and the rest on What Happens Next To Put Civilization Back Together.
My big problem with all that is that I don’t really care what happens next. I want the disaster.
The greatest disaster novel ever written is certainly Stephen King’s The Stand in the originally published version.
King later published the full version as he wrote it, and that one is damned near unreadable.
But even King’s novel is only half the disaster and the rest What Comes After.
Lucifer’s Hammer doesn’t rise to the level of The Stand in either plot or characterization, but I had a good time with it. I tried reading it many years ago and couldn’t even get started, but this time it went down like butter.
Finally, there’s The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir.
Elizabethans are what she does best, and this is very good indeed.
I’m going to go back to the music and the crime book–a nonfiction book about crime.
It’s the last full week of classes.
That’s how that is.


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COLLEGE STATION, TX — A 32-year-old man has been arrested by College Station Police after allegedly causing a crash near Highway 6 Friday and fleeing the scene with a stolen vehicle.
Daniel Tyler Good, a 32 year old resident of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was charged with robbery- 2nd degree felony, possession of a controlled substance, penalty group 1, less than one gram, state jail felony and resisting arrest, search, or transportation- class A misdemeanor.
College Station Police officers responded to a report of a crash at the intersection of William D. Fitch Pkwy and the west feeder road of Highway 6 around 10AM on Friday.
It was reported that the driver of a white Nissan Versa had been southbound on the west feeder road and had failed to stop at a red light at William D. Fitch Pkwy.
The Nissan Versa had struck black Chevrolet Tahoe and white Chevrolet Equinox, causing the Equinox to roll onto its side, according to police.
Witnesses reported to police that the driver of the Nissan Versa, later identified as Daniel Tyler Good, exited his vehicle and approached the driver of a white GMC pickup who had stopped to assist at the crash scene.
It was reported that Good pointed an object that appeared to be a handgun at the victim, and then took the victim's GMC pickup and fled the scene, according to College Station Police.
Officers found that no serious injuries were involved with the crash.
Information about the stolen vehicle was broadcast and other officers began searching for it.
Good was located driving the stolen vehicle northbound on Hwy. 6 near Harvey Rd. and was stopped and arrested, police said.
During a search, Good was found to be in possession of methamphetamine.
He was transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries sustained in the crash.
Once treated, Good resisted efforts to be transported to jail and was additionally charged, police said.
Good also had an outstanding arrest warrant from Williamson County for criminal mischief, according to police.
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) had said that it has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme where African entrepreneurs from 54 countries with business ideas or existing businesses under five years can apply for $5,000 seed capital.
According to a press statement issued by the foundation, the 2022 programme is also offering mentorship and business management trainings.
Since its inauguration in 2015, the TEF Entrepreneurship Programm has been the only African-funded entrepreneurship that has empowered 15,847 African entrepreneurs with a non-returnable seed capital of $5,000 each, 12 weeks of business management training, access to experienced mentors and membership to Africa’s largest entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In 2021, TEF disbursed $24.75 million to 5,000 African entrepreneurs across Africa for its 2021 edition of the programme.
A beneficiary of the programme in 2015 and founder of Afrik Abaya, Hauwa Liman, said, “I am always proud to say that I am from the inaugural cohort of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme”.
“My business is located in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria. I benefited from this programme in 2015, and it opened up lots of doors and opportunities. It is not just about the seed capital, but what really fascinates me about the programme is the knowledge”, she added.
Liman has grown her business and now employs 10 permanent staff and an additional eight staff on a commission basis.
According to the CEO of TEF, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, said “We are constantly blown away by the quality of businesses that come from Africa every year. This motivates us to scale our efforts to empower even more entrepreneurs on the continent.”
Founding Trustee of TEF, Dr Awele V. Elumelu stated that the programme’s hope is that through the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, the foundation would help the next business leaders or captains of industries they intend to be.


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Justice for Some of the Youngest: County Attorney's Newsletter
The Hennepin County Attorney's Office releases its February 2013 newsletter.
Editor's Note: The following is a Hennepin County Attorney's Office press release.
Preventing Gun Violence
This month, we have had partial resolutions in two very difficult cases. In both instances, young people took up guns to solve their problems, killing other children. The crimes are almost incomprehensible, young boys shot while riding their bike or sleeping on the couch. And there are other victims, like Terrell Mayes, whose killer we still hope to bring to justice.
These are some of the hardest cases for our office. It's our job to prosecute these crimes, but we also try to prevent violence from happening in the first place. That's one reason we are proposing some common sense gun violence prevention reforms at the legislature. It's also why, through our be@school program, we try to keep young people in school, because we know that youth who are engaged in school are far less likely to be a part of the criminal justice system, either as a victim or a defendant.
In our next update, we will share some of the office's gun violence prevention initiatives.
Guilty plea in Nizzel George murder
Stephon Shannon, 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in association with a gang. He sentenced to 28 years in prison for the murder of five-year-old Nizzel George.
Shannon, one of two teenagers charged last year with firing shots into a house at 4515 Bryant Ave. N.
Under questioning from his lawyer, Shannon acknowledged that on the morning of June 26, 2012 he and a 15-year-old accomplice went to the house to retaliate against members of another gang that stayed at that house. They were retaliating from being shot at by the opposing gang members.
Shannon told the court that he did not mean to kill George, who was sleeping on the couch, when they started shooting at the house from the sidewalk. He agreed with his lawyer that he intended “to do as much damage as possible, including killing someone,” in that house.
By admitting to the charge of murder in association with a gang, the sentence is automatically two years longer than a regular second-degree murder penalty.
“He admitted to trying to hit people in the home, although he could not actually see people and he did not intend to hit Nizzel George,” said Deputy County Attorney David Brown.
Proceedings against the other defendant, a juvenile, remain ongoing and confidential.
Teenager admits killing 13-year-old in 2011 Minneapolis shooting
Derrick Deangelo Catchings pleaded guilty in the shooting death of 13-year-old Rayjon Gomez two summers ago. He is expected to receive 459 months, or more than 38 years, in prison. Sentencing was set for 1:30 p.m. on May 20.
“We think this is a good resolution to an almost incomprehensible crime,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said. “The victim is 13 years old and riding his bicycle. The person who admits pulling the trigger was just 15 at the time. This gun violence among children must stop.”
Catchings, who will turn 17 in two weeks, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder when the gun he fired killed Gomez and wounded another boy as they walked and bicycled in a North Minneapolis alley on Aug. 24, 2011.
The other person with Gomez recovered from his gunshot wounds. Donquarius Davon Copeland, 18, and Kemen Lavatos Taylor II, 26, also were indicted in the incident and face trial together on April 22. Copeland is accused of being the second shooter. Taylor is alleged to have driven the van. Both teenagers were certified as adults.
Community Impact Statements bring your voice to the courtrom
In Minnesota, anyone who has been affected by a crime, even indirectly, has a right to tell the court what impact the incident had on them.
Impact statements are an opportunity for anyone who has been negatively affected by crime to make sure their voice is heard. Crimes like felon in possession, burglaries and drug offenses undermine the safety and livability of neighborhoods. If you feel unsafe, anxious, or afraid due to a crime in your neighborhood, you are entitled to share that information with the court. This valuable community input helps achieve appropriate outcomes.
Lawsuit challenging the regulation of campaign speech dismissed
US District Judge Ann Montgomery dismissed a lawsuit against the county attorney’s office. The suit claimed a statute that restricts knowingly false campaign speech was unconstitutional.
“This is a huge win for the office,” said Civil Division Managing Attorney Dan Rogan, who argued the case with Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Beth Stack. Had they lost the case, it would have meant that citizens could not complain to anyone about campaign materials because the state would have been prohibited from regulating any campaign speech, even blatantly false statements.


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*** an additional bit of info for NICU pads. After you turn them and press, stitch close to the edge all the way around and then again 1/4″ in from the edge – this gives the pads stability to withstand all the washings in the hospital washers….then proceed from there. Thanks!

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Toneprint versatility in a ludicrously light bass amp head – We take a look in our TC Electronic BH250 Review
The TC Electronic BH250 bass amp head continues the integration of its groundbreaking Toneprint technology into its amp range, the first of these being the BG250 combo. This new model, however, packs the technology into a 250-Watt bass amp head that weighs a mere 1.8kg.
Promising classic TC tone and reliability, combined with Toneprint flexibility, plus 250 Watts of power in such a portable box, this could be a great, do-it-all solution for the bassist. But is it?
We find out in our TC Electronic BH250 Review.
Like the Tardis, it’s big on the inside…
The TC Electronic BH250 measures just 8.7” x 2.5” x 9.1”, and at 1.8kg is small and light enough to fit in a rucksack or even pocket of a gigbag. Despite this, in what seems like another twist of Nordic magic, the Danish company has made the BH250 capable of delivering a whopping 250-Watts of power. This is delivered via a 4-Ohm Speakon output.
If you haven’t seen the Toneprint technology yet, well, this also akin to some sort of Nordic Witchcraft. It allows TC Electronic effects to be ‘beamed’ to the unit via an iPhone or Android phone (or via the USB connection from a host computer). This means that the onboard effects can be switched in seconds via the Toneprint app. The effects compatible with this unit are Chorus, Flanger, Vibrato, Octaver, SpectraComp and BassDrive. In addition, Toneprint settings created by TC artists are available.
A built in bass tuner, for 4, 5 or 6 string basses adds further convenience to the TC Electronic BH250, and it shares the intelligently contoured tone controls of the BG250. These cut and boost to effectively make more harmonic ‘space’ when tweaking tone. In a nutshell, the result is a far more ‘musical’ EQ that allows you to get the tone you want without making things ‘muddy’.
Here are the BH250 ‘s Key Features:
- Ultra compact and light – Weighs just 1.8kg, and small enough to fit in a gig bag
- Toneprint technology – ‘beam’ new effects, and signature tones via an iPhone or Android phone
- Variety of Toneprint effects – Flanger, BassDrive, SpectraComp, Chorus and Octaver
- Built in tuner – for 4, 5, and 6 string basses
- Contoured EQ
You might expect that a unit this small might be exaggerating its credentials somewhat with regard to its power. It is, after all, tiny. The BH250 is no braggart- it pumps out a staggeringly big sound. It doesn’t compromise tone, either.Clear and punchy, with full, rounded bottom end, it’s an amp that fully lives up to TC’s enviable reputation.
The contoured EQ is very useful, too. It’s hard to explain without using it, but it just sort of, well, ‘clears the area’ around it. Very neat.
Much has been written about TC’s Voiceprint technology. To have it included here is a stroke of genius. When used with the Toneprint app, (beaming settings from a smartphone via the pickup of the connected bass) it truly feels like magic.
With specifications and features like this, the TC Electronic BH250 will appeal to a whole range of players. As a main bass amp, it is light, powerful, versatile and incredibly convenient and crucially, it sounds great. However, for rehearsals, it’s easily transportable, and could be the ideal tool for the job. It’s perfect as a backup- it’s affordable (SSP is currently projected as £249– less than a pound per Watt!) and could be slipped into a gigbag. It’s a very versatile little unit, to be sure…


Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is responsible for managing Australia’s overseas aid program. The purpose of the aid program is to promote Australia’s national interests by contributing to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.
Extractives Sector Development Assistance
The Australian Government works with multilateral organisations, other government agencies, non-government organisations, universities and the private sector to assist partner governments to maximise the development potential of their extractives sectors. The activities focus on strengthening the capacity of governments in resource-rich developing countries in the Indo-Pacific region.visit website
The University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is one of Australia’s leading universities and has an international reputation for excellence in teaching, learning and research. UWA’s ambition is to be counted among the world’s top 50 universities by 2050. A dynamic and progressive university, UWA is a member of the prestigious Group of Eight partnership of leading Australian universities. With an international reputation for excellence and enterprise, UWA’s strong research culture sees it attract high levels of competitive research funding and outstanding staff. The University has about 23,000 students including more than 4,500 international students. Its campus is a multi-cultural and multi-faith community which includes students from 90 different countries.
Energy and Minerals Institute
The UWA progresses much of its comprehensive international agenda through the Energy and Minerals Institute (EMI). The EMI is a network institute which draws together the minerals industry related experience and expertise across the University’s 10 Faculties and more than 30 Schools to provide a comprehensive response to complex problems, and a gateway for external engagement to leading researchers on innovative solutions. Through the EMI, UWA is a key stakeholder in Western Australia’s growth as a globally significant minerals and energy destination. UWA partnerships with global corporations support the University’s objective to take education and research to a new level and ensure that Western Australia and Australia are recognised as an international hub of excellence in all disciplines related to the resources sector.visit website
The University of Queensland
The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s premier learning and research institutions, ranked third in Australia. UQ’s Global Strategy and Internationalisation 2011 embeds internationalisation through the University to continue to attract outstanding staff and students to deliver internationally to the state, national and global context. This strategy will build upon UQ’s ability to broaden and deepen international linkages. UQ has linkages with tertiary and government bodies throughout the world including South-East Asia, Asia Pacific and South America. The strong involvement within these communities assists UQ’s students to make international breakthroughs and to influence policy and decision making.
Sustainable Minerals Institute
The Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) is one of UQ’s eight internationally significant research institutes. SMI is an initiative of industry, The University of Queensland and the Queensland Government to boost capacity in research and education in sustainable development in the minerals sector. SMI aims to participate in the transition of global mining and minerals recovery to a new level of performance and societal acceptance by being a world leader in providing knowledge-based solutions to the sustainability challenges of the global minerals industry.visit website
Working with other institutions
The EMI and SMI hosting the IM4DC were just two parts of the very extensive capability network located across a number of Australian institutions, focused on processes which support sustainable mineral and petroleum resource developments.
Many of these institutions were already engaged with Australian Aid mining-related initiatives, as well as other multilateral initiatives with similar aims. IM4DC was able to showcase the full range of this activity in a single place, and to act as a gateway for interested stakeholders and participants to easily find information which might facilitate increased activity across all institutions.


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Nanotech's Next Frontier: Initiative Brings Disciplines Together for Pioneering Discoveries
The word “nanos” is Greek for dwarf, and over time “nano” has come to refer to anything small, like the iPod nano. In science, however, it has a very precise definition: 10-9, or a billionth.
Nanoscience, then, involves working with the tiniest components in nature. Researchers can examine and build materials one atom or molecule at a time, allowing them to probe the fundamental nature of matter and invent materials with startling new characteristics. It has enormous implications for better electronics, new medical devices and the development of alternative energy sources.
“The development of this new technology over the past decade has brought us to the edge of fantastic new discoveries,” said Michael Purdy, the University’s executive vice president of research. “This is revolutionary. That means that Columbia has to be at the lead, just as we have been in nuclear physics and as we are in climate change.”
Nanoscience also involves an interdisciplinary effort on an unprecedented scale.
In chemistry, Professor Colin Nuckolls focuses on designing and synthesizing new types of molecules with interesting electronic properties that often change at the nanoscale. A founding member of Columbia’s Nanoscience Center, he also is a principal investigator for Columbia’s Energy Frontier Research Center, where he collaborates with engineers, physicists and chemists to create technology to increase solar cell efficiency.
“The nanoscale is a special place in the size of things, where unusual properties emerge, and it’s an area that chemistry, materials science, physics, have all converged on,” said Nuckolls. “You often have big science problems that don’t require a single expertise but require multiple expertise.”
An important puzzle Columbia scientists are working on is how to replace silicon, the material used in semiconductors and myriad electronic products. Philip Kim, a professor of physics and applied physics, is one of the first researchers in the world to focus on graphene, a super-strong membrane that is the thickness of a single carbon atom. It has captured the imagination of scientists, who want to develop practical applications for touchscreens, solar cells and sensors.
“Although the things that we are interested in are very small, I would say the impact could certainly be quite big,” Kim said. “When things become small, they behave quite differently than when they are large, so when you utilize this exceptional property, you can develop systems in different ways than we ever imagined before.”
Columbia’s emphasis on nanoscience will extend to, and indeed will increase at the undergraduate level. In December, a new strategic plan for the nine science departments of Arts and Sciences was presented to the Trustees, at the heart of which were three new interdisciplinary themes. One of them is molecular architecture, from atoms to devices.
“Nanotechnology is at the core of our planned molecular architecture initiative, and already we have great strength in this field, including some of the world’s leaders, at Columbia,” said Amber Miller, a professor of physics and dean of science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Indeed, said Nuckolls, who will head the nanoscience initiative, “The potential for lifechanging science and technology emerging from work on the nanoscale at Columbia is enormous.”
Purdy, a marine geophysicist who was director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory before becoming head of Columbia research, believes Columbia is uniquely suited to tackle the challenges of nanoscience.
“There are huge, complex ethical issues that come with some of the advances we make in nanoscience,” said Purdy, in part because the science is so new that no one knows how it might be used. “Those developments need to be made in broad-based universities like Columbia, which has social scientists, law professors and philosophers, among others, who can work alongside scientists to understand and articulate the real consequences of their discoveries.”


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CHEPSTOW AND THE RIVER WYE FROM THE SEVERN TO TINTERN (BRITAIN IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS)
Published by The History Press. 2009
Almost very good condition. From the Collections of Chepstow Museum. Revised Edition. Pictorial cardwraps. 160 pages.
Some light cover corner creasing. Damp staining mark to bottom corners of outer page edges and seeping across margin.
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