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Tokenization has been a hot topic in the payments industry for some time, now used by financial institutions in transaction processing all around the world. Companies use tokenization systems to keep sensitive data, like credit card numbers and bank account numbers, safe while still being able to store and use the information.
The hard-to-face reality is that billions of personal records, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and credit card data like the Primary Account Number (PAN), are exposed each year.
Massive data leaks, at this point, are becoming a frequent occurrence – with headlines regularly popping up highlighting cybersecurity disasters that have impacted millions of consumers.
It only seems like a matter of time until the next multi-million-dollar data breach settlement will be announced, and another consumer data-handling organization will have their feet publicly held to the fire.
It’s clear that the use of payment processing and storing of consumer data is far from secure. From the improper configuration of web applications to the massive security risk involved in cloud storage generally, companies – like merchants, service providers, and more – have wisely been seeking alternatives to storing their own user data and opening themselves up to data breach risk.
For many businesses looking to secure their sensitive data and payment process, one method is tokenization.
But even though its usage is growing, many business owners haven’t implemented a tokenization solution yet because they don’t know what it is, its value, or how it works - so they end up missing out on a powerful tool that aids in keeping their data environments more secure.
That’s why we’ve put together this guide on tokenized data. We will outline what this technology does, how organizations can use tokenization services to beef up their own data security efforts, and how to ensure you are making the best decision for your needs.
Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive information with anon-sensitive placeholder called a token, which are randomly generated into data of the same format and have no intrinsic value.
The token has no exploitable meaning and can only be “detokenized” with the original tokenization platform. If a cybercriminal, for example, is able to gain unauthorized access to a database containing tokenized bank account data, it would be a fruitless effort as a token useless to the attacker.
Unlike other security measures like data encryption, where a mathematical equation can “solve” the data replacement and reveal the original documentation, tokenization is not reversible. With no mathematical relationship to the original data point, tokenization is widely considered to be a safe way of transmitting and storing critical information.
By swapping out sensitive material with a token that would be totally useless if intercepted or leaked, tokenization provides a secure way of storing important original data – like a Primary Account Number (PAN) – without the true cardholder information being exposed. While the data is secure at rest, tokenization does not secure sensitive data in transit – like when it’s being collected and exchanged.
To provide end-to-end security for data both at rest and in transit, you must look for a solution like the VGS Platform using aliases and proxies.
The idea of tokenizing high-value data or financial instruments is far from a new concept, though the modern form of data tokenization didn’t take hold until recently.
Ancient currency systems used to replace valuable assets with coin tokens, and – more recently – systems like subway tokens and poker chips have used placeholder techniques to lower risk and increase efficiency.
Beginning in 1976, surrogate key values were used in data processing to isolate data linked to internal mechanisms of databases and their counterparts on the outside. These same isolation techniques have been extended since then, with the modern form of tokenization being the result.
Tokenization as it’s known today was first created in 2001 by an organization called TrustCommerce, who developed their own tokenization system to help a client business – Classmates.com – with a new type of secure billing system.
Maintaining credit card data in their systems was deemed as too risky by Classmates.com, so TrustCommerce developed a system where customers could use a token instead of their actual credit card information to make a purchase. TrustCommerce would then take care of the actual payment processing on the merchant’s behalf.
Since then, tokenization has been refined and mainstreamed – making it one of the most powerful security tools available to protect data of value like credit card numbers.
When a business – whether it’s a merchant or service provider – implements tokenization as part of its data security program, they enjoy a number of benefits:
Minimizing Contact: Tokenization works so that the original payment card information stays safely vaulted in your own data environment, with other parties only receiving the tokens. The real, original sensitive data remains in a secure cloud vault.
Reduced Data Breach Risk: While tokenization systems don’t 100% guarantee the prevention of data breaches, they minimize breach risk by desensitizing the original data with a token while it’s at rest – making it so that there’s nothing of actual value that can be stolen when a security breach happens.
Irreversibility: Unlike data encryption technology, in which encrypted data can be “solved” with a powerful enough computer or a stolen decryption key, tokenized material can only be revealed by end-users that are part of the original tokenization platform – such as the payment processor.
Flexibility: Tokenization works in multiple ways. It can generate both single-use tokens, like for one-off purchases using a credit card, or multi-use tokens, like when customer credit card numbers are stored to enable faster e-commerce checkout experiences for future purchases.
Easier Compliance: Because tokenization reduces how much of your company’s data environment contains material relevant to privacy regulations, achieving compliance certifications (such as PCI DSS, CCPA, SOC2, GDPR, etc.) is easier, however, there still substantial responsibility and liability that you must shoulder. Other alternatives, such as the VGS Platform, descope your business from PCI, shifting the liability to VGS while you retain the original usability.
Not too long ago, much of the world made the transition from swiping payment cards to inserting them into a chip reader to prevent bad actors from duplicating credit card documentation onto a new payment card. Similarly, tokenization is aiming to stop the same type of fraud, but specifically to battle the threat of online or digital breaches.
Especially when compared to similar security techniques, like encryption, tokenization has emerged as a safe and cost-effective way to protect all sorts of digital assets, from bank account numbers to last four digits of Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and other types of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
To understand the advantages of using tokenization, it’s helpful to compare the technique with one of its primary competitors – encryption.
Before tokenization started to gain momentum in the tech or payments processing worlds, encryption had historically been a preferred technique for safeguarding sensitive material.
Encryption is the process of transforming sensitive material into a complex, unreadable format that can only be deciphered with a secret key. Decryption is the reverse process and only users who possess the decryption key are able to “crack” the complicated equation, which still contains the encrypted data encoded within.
The biggest, most important difference between tokenization and encryption is that only encryption is reversible, because an algorithm is used to secure the data – which can be decoded if the key isn’t strong enough or a malicious actor’s computer is sufficiently powerful to solve the algorithm.
Moreover, encrypted sensitive data leaves the organization, while tokenized material stays put in its secure vault and only the non-sensitive placeholder tokens is transferred elsewhere.
Another important distinction between tokenization and encryption is that tokenized data is not actually “real” data - it’s simply a token that serves as a reference to the real data which is safely kept in a secure token vault.
Because of this distinction, tokens for cardholder data are not considered cardholder data under the definitions outlined in PCI DSS, whereas encrypted cardholder data is still cardholder data. A database containing tokens does not have to meet the same PCI requirement around the storage of the data that an encrypted cardholder database must meet.
Due to all these factors, when it comes to tokenization vs. encryption, data tokenization comes with considerable advantages compared to data encryption.
Because of its irreversibility and high level of security, tokenization solutions have become popular for the protection of payment data, like debit and credit card numbers. The reason for this is because the raw, original credit card data is safely kept outside of your organization’s own data environment.
Tokenization solutions have made it safer to process payments and easier for banks, e-commerce retailers, and service providers worldwide, as payment data can be stored in a token vault and referenced for future transactions without being revealed in the process.
This way, even if a bad actor manages to steal the tokens that represent payment details, the stolen material would be worthless and lessen the likelihood of a data breach.
Credit Card Tokenization and Compliance
What tokenization achieves for businesses is incredibly valuable. Besides secure processing of payments, using tokens provides an easier path to obtaining compliance certifications for things like PCI, SOC 2, and a number of other compliance regimes.
However, tokenizing sensitive data does not eliminate the need to achieve and certify PCI DSS compliance – although using tokens can reduce the number of system components to which compliance would apply.
With tokenization, sensitive data is mostly hidden in a token vault. But, there are two points where tokenized data still remain within the scope of compliance: the data vault and the original point of capture.
But what if businesses could offload this data risk fully, and enjoy the benefits of tokenization while keeping all the original data completely off their own systems?
Fortunately, tokenization is a PCI-approved method of protecting payment card industry data and is authorized by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) to use in pursuit of PCI Compliance.
The PCI SSC makes all these requirements clear in their guidelines for tokenization.
Tokenization, however, does not mean that your business has instant compliance with these security standards – it is simply one ingredient of a complete data security program that could qualify you for a PCI DSS Compliance certification.
If you are looking for an end-to-end solution that shifts the risk from your business, then a solution like the VGS platform is what you need.
While tokenizing sensitive information alone does not eliminate the need to achieve and certify compliance, it is possible to completely descope from PCI, a business can partner with a data custodian (VGS) that handles 100% of data capture and vaulting – removing any compliance risk and completely avoiding data leaks.
VGS Token is a PCI-certified tokenization solution offered by Very Good Security – a VISA-backed software solutions provider. Our end-to-end platform uses aliases (a type of token) and proxies to ensure that sensitive data from payment processing doesn’t touch your own systems, while still empowering your business to collect, transfer, and store any type of documentation just like you would normally.
Not only can you go contact-free with VGS aliasing technology, your compliance obligations and liabilities will be shifted from your business to VGS, making compliance significantly easier and faster to achieve. We are talking days compared to months.
When businesses implement VGS solutions to handle their sensitive information, they instantly inherit VGS’s best-in-class security posture, which enables them to fast-track their certifications like PCI, SOC2 and others.
If you are really only looking for a pure tokenization solution for your data protection, then we are offering free tokenization storage through the end of 2020. Right now, business is tough and many are facing significant headwinds, so we are making things easier as the world works to restart by providing value with powerful, unlimited tokenization at no cost until January 1st, 2021.
For a free demo of the VGS Dashboard, and to get started with your free unlimited volume of tokenized records, just reach out to us.


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In 2006 I was asked to be part of the interior book “Styling” by Alexandra Villefrance, Norwegian stylist and author.
She and the photographer Margaret M. de Lange came on a sunny day of June and shot a bunch of photos from my home in Jutland.
It was my first feature in print and I was super happy to be part of it and chuffed with the result. Flipping through it now I feel a slight sting of melancholia. That was 6 years, another life and three homes ago!
About the book by the publisher:
“Become stylist of your own home! Decorator and stylist Alexandra Villefrance and photographer Margaret M. de Lange will show you how your home can be transformed using a few easy tricks. Be inspired by photos that will spark your imagination and make you want to dig in to your own interior projects. Whether you want to transform an entire room or decorate for a special occasion this book is for you”
The book “Styling” is still available here.

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Polly Anthony Dead at 59
Submitted by Drew F on October 1, 2013
Polly Anthony passed away last weekend from pancreatic cancer. Anthony was the president of Epic Records from 1997 to 2003, DreamWorks, and co-president of Geffen Records. Polly Anthony was known for the A-list of music stars she worked with including the likes of the late Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and Macy Gray. Anthony was known for the push she put behind music artists regardless of what the industry considered "hot." Polly Anthony was the rare record executive who recognized an act's momentum and threw her and the label's support behind it. Former Sony Music chairman, Tommy Mottola recalls Polly Anthony's work with Macy Gray,"I never saw her more committed than she was to Macy Gray. We were scratching our heads, but she took charge of it." The music industry certainly took a big blow this weekend. Record company executives and CEO's are becoming more and more conservative as the decades pass by. The music industry needs more people like Polly Anthony, someone who's willing to take risks and not worry about what is currently popular and making a buck. Hears to you Polly Anthony.

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|A New Sheriff in Town: Newly Regulated Broadband ISPs Get a First Look at FCC-Style Privacy Rules|
Thomas F. Allen, Michael B. Hazzard, Bruce A. Olcott, Mauricio F. Paez; Jones Day;
November 16, 2016, previously published on November 2016The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), the nation's regulator of all things telecommunications, has turned its attention to privacy practices at the on-ramp to the internet. In a November 2, 2016, Report and Order, the FCC adopted rules applying the privacy requirements of the...
|Third Circuit Affirms the FTC's Authority to Regulate and Enforce Data Security|
Richard J. (Jay) Johnson, Todd S. McClelland, Daniel J. (Dan) McLoon, Michael G. (Mike) Morgan, Jeff Rabkin; Jones Day;
September 1, 2015, previously published on August 2015In FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp., No 14-3514, -- F.3d-- (3d Cir. Aug. 24, 2015), the Third Circuit issued an important decision affirming a United States District Court of New Jersey ruling that the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade...
|President Obama to Call For National Data Breach Notification Law and Other Cybersecurity Measures|
Joseph J. Lazzarotti; Jackson Lewis P.C.;
March 31, 2015, previously published on January 12, 2015About two years ago, President Obama signed an executive order on the date that he delivered his State of the Union address which directed certain federal agencies to develop voluntary standards for achieving cybersecurity. Preparing for his 2015 State of the Union address, Bloomberg and other news...
|Obama Administration Continues Push for National Privacy Governance|
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March 25, 2015, previously published on February 27, 2015He also announced that he was creating a new federal agency called the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to collect and analyze cyber attacks against U.S. companies and develop and coordinate strategic defenses to those attacks.
|The Duty to Report Data Leaks|
Jacomijn Christ, Hans Urlus; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;
March 19, 2015, previously published on March 5, 2015On Feb. 1, 2015, the Dutch House of Representatives voted in favor of a legislative bill introducing a duty to report data leaks. The bill, titled Duty to Report Data Leaks and the Expansion of the Administrative Penalty Competence of Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA), will amend the...
|President Obama Continues Push on Cybersecurity|
Todd S. McClelland, Michael G. Morgan, Mauricio F. Paez, Katherine S. Ritchey, Gregory P. Silberman; Jones Day;
February 26, 2015, previously published on February 2015On February 13, 2015, President Obama spoke to attendees of the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection held at Stanford University. Calling the digital world a "sort of Wild Wild West," Obama and many corporate representatives announced developments intended to...
|New Telecommunications Privacy Rules for U.S. Broadband Providers|
Bruce A. Olcott, Mauricio F. Paez, Preston N. Thomas; Jones Day;
February 26, 2015, previously published on February 2015Turn-of-the-century common carrier regulation is about to be imposed on providers of broadband internet services in the United States; all that remains to be determined is the details, and there are a lot of them in dispute. On February 4, 2015, Chairman Tom Wheeler of the Federal Communications...
|Cybersecurity and Privacy in State of the Union Address|
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February 19, 2015, previously published on January 21, 2015As expected in his State of the Union address last night, President Obama made it very clear that cybersecurity is on his agenda for 2015. After stating that:
|Beyond the Neon: Emerging Tech Opportunities in Las Vegas|
Colin Seale; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;
February 16, 2015, previously published on December 9, 2014Though tourism and gaming will lead Nevada’s economy for the foreseeable future, businesses and government entities in Nevada, and Las Vegas in particular, have invested deeply into several areas of emerging technology.
|Beware of FCC’s New Rules & Deadlines on Handling Telecommunications Equipment|
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December 8, 2014, previously published on November 24, 2014Our newsletters have often updated you on the changing landscape and new laws that impact how a municipality may handle a request to install wireless telecommunications equipment and facilities ¿ such as a cell tower and related equipment. Our May 2013 newsletter noted that the FCC was going...

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By Gladys Fred Kole
Minister of Interior, Angelina Teny, expressed confidence in South Sudan’s progress and its commitment to ensuring continued peace and citizen safety.
Speaking at the police graduation ceremony on Thursday in Juba, Teny highlighted that there has been progress made so far especially in the police force.
“We have moved on and we are going to continue the cause of peace and ensuring the safety of our citizens,” she said, anticipating a “major difference” in the next three years if the current trajectory continues.
The Minister underlined the importance of ongoing training and transformation within the organized forces stating that this is very important because it’s an indication of the fact that our country has moved on.
The Interior Minister announced plans to receive new cadets as part of the unified forces, following the completion of phase two of the unification process.
“We will receive cadets, graduate cadets, and exit the old people in the unified forces to serve the country in other capacities utilizing their experience,” she explained.
Minister Teny assured the public of the ongoing training efforts, stating, that there are already a lot of trainings going on.
“You can be rest assured that the police will be taking care of you to ensure your safety” she promised.
She further acknowledged the sacrifice made by the graduating cadets.
“They are those who have made a sacrifice when the peace agreement was signed in chapter 2 of the agreement that said there’s no training outside the unification process but they were already cadets in the police college so the sacrifice they made was for peace,” Teny stated.
She commended the police for prioritizing peace and contributing to a safer future for South Sudan.


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Electric utility firm The Southern Company 's SO much delayed Kemper Project in Mississippi suffered a major setback yet again. This has raised questions over the project's future. The company - one of the largest generators of electricity in the nation along with the likes of Exelon Corp. EXC , RWE AG RWEOY and Duke Energy Corp. DUK - has spent years in the construction of the project based on clean coal gasification technology but now might have to run the plant as a natural gas facility.
The Mississippi Public Service Commission recently issued an ultimatum ordering Southern Company to redesign plans and run the Kemper Project solely on natural gas. The commission instructed lawyers to draft the formal order which it plans to issue on Jul 6 and has given the company 45 days to comply with the same. Mississippi regulators have encouraged rate reductions throughout. They wanted to eliminate rate-payers risk for the gasifiers' assets and not to increase the rates for Mississippi Power customers.
The Kemper Project has been facing continuous criticism owing to its poor execution, cost overruns and multiple delays.
The plant is already three years behind schedule and is over $4 billion beyond the stipulated budget. The overall cost of the plant was estimated to total to around $3 billion in 2010. However, with several delays adding to the project's cost, the current price tag of the plant has ballooned over $7.3 billion. In the past 18 months, the company has announced 10 delays due to project management problems. The project found it difficult to get its two gasifiers to operate consistently. Mississippi Power, subsidiary of Southern Company and in charge of the Kemper Project, has been unable to make the project economically viable in the face of natural gas prices .
Earlier this month, the company revealed plans to redesign and replace a key component in its plant - syngas cooler super heater system - in order to establish long-term sustained operations. Sustained operations will also require relocation of ash loading process together and other minor improvements. Further, the company also intends to undertake additional improvement projects over the next few years to fix leaks and other issues relating to the plant's performance, safety and operations which are likely to hike the overall cost of the plant by $186 million.The plant which has run periodically on syngas for about 200 dayshas not been able to integrate the coal gasification process fully over extended periods of time.
What Lies Ahead?
The Mississippi regulators who don't want to pass more of the plants ballooning costs to ratepayers, want them to pay for the $840 million in equipment that has been already approved by the regulators.
The recent development has left the company in a fix. Management is in a dilemma in regard to its investment costs retrievement. The company won't be able to pass the costs to ratepayers now. Mississippi Power which is already grappling with weak financials might have to suffer additional losses. If Southern Company is unable to reach a satisfactory agreement with customers, the company might have to scrap off the costly gasification project.
Kemper project had been central to ex-President Obama's Climate Plan as it is based on clean coal. Notably, the project also received the support of President Trump. Discontinuing the project may be a major setback for the Southern Company.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Lying in bed at Norton Audubon Hospital, Martha Bishop closed her eyes, clapped her hands and tapped her toes as music therapist Kerry Willis strummed a guitar beside her and sang an old country song.
“It takes your mind off the pain,” Bishop, an 87-year-old patient with arthritis who recently had abdominal surgery, said of the song. “It relaxes you.”
Music therapy is on the rise both locally and nationally, as researchers, doctors and hospitals increasingly embrace it as a way to alleviate pain and anxiety, aid rehabilitation and help general healing.
Last week, Norton Healthcare — which already had one of the largest music therapy programs in this part of the United States — opened a $400,000 expansion and renovation of a therapy area at Norton Audubon that includes performance space, a spot for patient classes, a music library, offices, a concert grand piano and storage space for musical instruments.
“They are in the forefront of hospital-wide programs,” said Al Bumanis, spokesman for the American Music Therapy Association. “That’s a good model program others can learn from.”
Nationally, music therapy was offered in more than 26,000 healthcare facilities across the United States in 2011, the latest year for which statistics are available, and nearly a million patients received music therapy sessions.
Darcy Walworth, director of music therapy at the University of Louisville, said the practice is gaining acceptance among the medical community as a growing body of research shows its effectiveness.
At the same time, insurers are increasingly paying for it. Medicare includes music therapy as a covered service in partial-hospitalization programs, and many private insurers cover it on a case-by-case basis. Costs vary, but Bumanis said it can be around $75 per half-hour for a private session.
Dr. Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist from North Carolina who runs a network called Quackwatch, which expresses concerns about health care fads, said music and relaxation can be helpful, but music therapy is “a very expensive way to deliver that,” and he doesn’t think the taxpayers or insurance policyholders should have to pay for it.
Judy Simpson, director of government relations for the national association, acknowledges that some people consider music therapy a costly “extra,” but she points to studies showing it can help shorten hospital stays and relieve nausea, fatigue and pain without drugs.
“In that respect,” she said, “we actually help save money.”
The notion of using music to heal is as old as Aristotle and Plato, but according to the association, the modern profession took shape after World Wars I and II, when musicians played at veterans hospitals to help patients suffering psychiatric and other trauma.
In the early years, Bumanis said, music therapy was largely confined to “the psychiatric realm.” But Walworth said music therapy is now growing fastest in medical care.
Norton officials said theirs was the first music therapy program in Kentucky, beginning as a small pilot project in 2002. It was inspired by longtime Norton Audubon pathologist Dr. Robert Lerman, a musician who sang and played piano.
After he was diagnosed with liver cancer, Lerman received music therapy as part of his treatment in New York and wanted to bring it to Louisville. When he succumbed to cancer, his family provided funding to launch the program in his memory.
Today, Norton’s program includes eight music therapists and two interns. Their expanded headquarters — funded by gifts through the Norton Healthcare Foundation — features a glass wall overlooking a wooded area and a concert grand piano donated by Gist Piano.
Norton’s music therapists get referrals from doctors and other healthcare professionals, and are part of a patient’s healthcare team. Their job is to provide physical, cognitive, emotional and social support to meet individual patients’ needs.
“We’re using music to address non-musical goals,” said Jenny Branson, music therapy supervisor at Norton. Goals include pain management, relaxation and “procedural support,” such as weaning patients off ventilators and supporting them through painful dressing changes.
Much of the care happens at bedside, and music therapists say they match the music to the patient’s interests.
That’s where Willis serenaded Bishop earlier this week, singing “Hey Good Lookin'” and “Walk the Line” in a gentle voice, letting her play along with a tambourine and strum an instrument similar to an autoharp called a “Q chord.” Later, she played guitar and hummed while guiding Bishop through a relaxation exercise.
“Were you thinking about your pain while we were playing?” Willis asked.
“No,” Bishop answered. “I still have it, but it’s not so bad.”

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The Conservative MP for Clacton has resigned and there will be a by-election in his Clacton constituency, at which he will stand for Ukip.
Announcing his move in a press conference, he said that political principles were more important than his personal career as an MP. He said he believed David Cameron and senior Conservatives were not “serious about real change”.
“As someone who has always answered directly to the independent-minded people of Essex, there’s only one honourable thing for me to do – I must seek permission from my boss, the people of Clacton,” he said. “I will now resign from parliament and stand for Ukip in the by-election that must follow.”
The prime minister described Mr Carswell’s move was “deeply regrettable” and “counter-productive”, saying: “If you want a referendum on Britain’s future in the EU, whether we should stay or go, the only way to to get that is to have a Conservative government after the next election.”
Speaking about the prime minister’s plan to renegotiate EU treaties as he stepped down as an MP, he said he believed the current policy was about power, not delivering change.
“It’s not about giving real change to our national interest, it’s about not changing things – it’s about hanging on to office. Once I realised that, my position in the Conservative party became untenable,” he said.
As someone who has always answered to the people of Essex, there’s only one honourable thing for me to do. Douglas Carswell
As Mr Carswell took his seat again at his press conference, Ukip leader Nigel Farage congratulated him on his decision.
“I think what you’ve just done is without doubt the bravest, most honourable and noblest thing I’ve seen in British politics in my lifetime,” he said.


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Senators apparently decide the U.S. Constitution, individual rights, and limits on government are “quaint concepts” in this post-911-opportunity world.
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this presidentâ€”and every future president â€” the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. […]
The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself.
The worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial provision is in S. 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which will be on the Senate floor on Monday. The bill was drafted in secret by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and passed in a closed-door committee meeting, without even a single hearing
Unfortunately, this is attached to a must-pass Defense bill. Senators need to vote for an amendment to strip this passage from the bill.
It’s about the drug war; it’s about the war on terror; it’s about opportunistic authoritarians looking to seize power.
We are in more danger from those who take away our rights in the name of security than we are from terrorists and drug lords.


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Kochi: The government-owned trade promotion body Tea Board, which officially launched the Rs4,761 crore special purpose tea fund (SPTF) in Assam earlier this week to revive the tea industry by replacing old tea bushes with new ones, will use the services of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to track replanting activities, says board development director G. Boriah.
Satellite imaging will be used to keep tabs on replantation and rejuvenation of tea bushes across India, he adds. Studies by the Tea Board show that 38% of all tea bushes have crossed the economic life of 50 years with another 9% in the age group of 40-50 years.
The board is finalizing an agreement with ISRO for satellite imaging of the area to be replanted. The images will present a clear picture of the scene on the ground and reduce the work of the board to physically verify the replantation and growth of tea bushes.
ISRO will shoot satellite images of the area from as close as 0.88 metre at frequent intervals before and after the replanting. The images will be used to build a database of tea belts in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Boriah says. This comprehensive mapping is being done first time for any commodity. It has traditionally been used to track forest cover.
The Tea Board kicked off the project in Assam to tackle the ‘senility’ of bushes through massive replantation covering 1,925 hectares (ha). According to the board, 82 loan agreements worth Rs24 crore and involving 24 tea companies have been signed. In Assam, 59 tea companies have sought Rs66.15 crore loans.
According to minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh, 130 companies running 262 gardens covering 7637ha have applied for loans worth Rs109 crore.
The government wants to cover the entire tea-growing area over the next 15 years in phases. The programme will be launched in West Bengal on Friday. The tea industry had gone through a long recession since mid-1999. After scaling a peak of Rs76 per kg in 1998, national average auction prices fell to as low Rs56 during 2002 and 2003. Though tea prices started recovering since 2006, they are still far below the peak of Rs76 per kg in 1998.
Ramesh blames the ageing of tea bushes for the decline in productivity. A fallout of this is the high cost of production and deterioration in quality. Since the 1970s, the board has been following the replantation and rejuvenation scheme.
Despite providing 25% of replantation cost as subsidy, on an average 1,789ha have been covered every year taking the total area under replantation to 63,000ha. It is against this backdrop that the SPTF has been conceived to cover 2.13 lakh ha. Of this, 46% is in Assam, 28% in West Bengal and the rest is in South India. Of the total estimated cost of Rs4,761 crore, Rs 4,360 crore will be invested in replantation and Rs401 crore in rejuvenation. Money will be borrowed from banks and financial institutions for 15 years at 1% above the comparable maturity government bond rate and passed on to the growers keeping a margin of 0.5%.
According to D.P. Maheswari, chairman of the tea committee of United Planters Association of South India, the programme may not receive an enthusiastic response in South India.
This is because growers in the South do not hold more than two acres of land and in hilly terrains replanting is a difficult exercise.


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USDA casts vision for scientific initiatives through 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Feb. 6, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue applauded the publication of the “USDA Science Blueprint,” which will serve as the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s vision for and continued commitment to scientific research.
“USDA’s agricultural research is vital to helping our farmers, ranchers, producers, and foresters increase efficiency and productivity, and our science agencies play an integral role in setting forth new visions for innovation through their work,” said Secretary Perdue. “As the Department strives to anticipate and meet the future needs of our customers, the ‘USDA Science Blueprint’ will serve as a roadmap to guide our scientific collaboration over the next five years across the Department and with our partnering research organizations.”
“USDA has a long history of putting its scientific discoveries and knowledge into practice,” said Scott Hutchins, who leads USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area. “By prioritizing our research initiatives around these themes, it will enable us to best conduct critical, long-term, broad-scale science and spur innovation throughout our nation’s agricultural enterprise, natural resource base, and food systems. We are committed to putting science to work for the American public. We will always strive for scientific excellence and integrity in support of America’s agriculture.”
Hutchins first announced the publication during remarks to the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) conference on Feb. 5.
The “USDA Science Blueprint” provides a foundation for focused leadership and direction in advancing USDA’s scientific mission through 2025. It lays out five overarching themes for research, education, and economics, each with established objectives, strategies, and evidence-building measures. The five program themes include:
• Sustainable ag intensification.
• Ag climate adaptation.
• Food and nutrition translation.
• Value-added innovations.
• Ag science policy leadership.

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The Glenview Public Library hosted a wonderful Friendship Club event for special needs kids and typical kids seeking friendship (grades 3-8) and their peer volunteer buddies (Friendship Ambassadors grades 4-12). We invited musician and sound healer Preston Klik to conduct a session called Sound, Frequency and Sensory Fun. He brought his large gong, a variety of singing bowls and bells, crystal bowls, drums, rattles, and other instruments from around the world. After explaining and passing around his instruments, he conducted a sound meditation.
The kids reclined on the floor and lights went off. A DVD with kaleidoscopic images played on the large screen while Preston took us on a meditative journey via sound and vibration. Everyone enjoyed this unique and relaxing experience, even a child with autism laid back and settled down for a time. Trying the instruments was neat, and we had sensory boards available for fidgety hands.
This post was written by SNAILS member Silvia Kraft-Walker, Youth Services Early Literacy Coordinator at Glenview (Il.) Public Library. We are always inspired by Silvia's creative programming for kid with disabilities. Silvia can be reached at swalker[at]glenviewpl[dot]org.


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Molding the Hearts and Minds: Education, Communications, and Social Change in Latin America - Jaguar Books on Latin America (Paperback)John A. Britton (editor)
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Publisher: Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 386 g
Dimensions: 227 x 164 x 15 mm
With this imaginatively chosen collection, John Britton has provided a coherent and tantalizing glimpse of the character and development of education in 19th and 20th century Latin America and its relationship to social change. The reader will find this a felicitous working tool, in or out of the classroom, for the study of the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Latin America. -- Charles W. Macune, Jr., California State University, Northridge
Britton has assembled a provocative set of readings on a highly significant topic. Most of the contributions are well written and thoroughly researched . . . a useful book for anyone interested in social change in Latin America. * Hispanic American Historical Review *

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Terrain: Field paths, canal towpaths. Muddy patches in winter. Fairly flat.
Barriers: Steep canal bridge at Red Bull
The name Lawton originates in the Lawton family with its family crest being the head of a bleeding wolf. Local legend talks about a man saving the Earl of Chester from being killed by a wolf. This act of bravery took place in about 1200, and to repay the deed, this man was given an area of land between Congleton and Sandbach. The one thousand acre estate became the Parish of Lauton, (later Church Lawton), and is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086. The family crest can be found in the church.
Lawton Hall, the country seat, of the Lawton family was built in the 17th century, but was almost destroyed by a fire in 1997. During the First World War the hall was used as a hospital, until this time it was still the Lawton family seat. Later it became Lawton Hall school which closed in 1986. Today it has been renovated into private dwellings.
Iron smelting took place in the woods during the late 1600’s early 1700’s. Coal mining took place in nearby Kidsgrove and some of the mines extended into the Church Lawton / Red Bull area.
The Trent and Mersey canal is linked to the Macclesfield canal at the Harding’s Wood Junction. At the junction of the two canals (point 7) it is well worth turning right and walking further along the Trent and Mersey canal to view the Harecastle tunnel entrances. This detour will take about half an hour. The tunnel on the left was built in 1827 by Thomas Telford and the tunnel on the right was built in 1777 by James Brindley. Brindley's Harecastle Tunnel took eleven years to complete as conditions were treacherous. In 1767 the tunnel was described as "the eighth wonder of the world …" as nothing like it had ever been attempted.
The tunnels are without a towpath so the boats had to be moved through the tunnels by men who "legged" the boats along. The men lay on the top of the boat and literally "walking" on the stepped roof and sides of the tunnel to send the boat forward.
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San Luis National Wildlife Refuge: (link)
With its riparian woodland and native grasslands, this refuge has a great variety of birds and a high concentration of ducks, as well as a thriving herd of Tule Elk, a species that was once in grave danger of extinction (link). The complex's Visitor Center is located in this refuge. The refuge has three auto tour routes with associated nature trails (two near the Visitor Center and one in the West Bear Creek Unit).
Near the Visitor's Center, the Waterfowl Auto Tour route (8.5 miles) takes you through seasonal wetlands where you may see large concentrations of waterfowl, shorebirds, and other waterbirds. The Tule Elk Auto Tour route (5 miles) includes interpretive panels to tell the story of this unique subspecies, endemic to California, that nearly went extinct in the late 1800s. Elk are visible throughout the year. There are two nature trails that launch from the Visitor Center: the Upland Trail (.5 mi.) and the Wetland/Riparian Trail (1 mi.).
Three additional trails are situated along the auto tour routes. The Chester Marsh Trail (1 mi.) takes you to a historic ferry crossing on the San Joaquin River. It is open from February 15 through September 15. The Sousa Marsh Trail (1 mi.) includes an elevated observation platform overlooking one of the largest wetlands on the refuge, with spectacular waterbird viewing fall through spring. The Winton Marsh Trail (.5 mi.) meanders around a permanent wetland, and it has an elevated observation platform.
The Kesterson Unit of San Luis NWR:
This unit has vernal pools that start to dry up in March and April as wildflowers bloom on their edges and in the shallows. The unit is home to a unique community of plants and animals adapted to its alkaline soils, and it offers “free-roam” nature hiking throughout. It is only open to the general public from February 15 through September 15.
The West Bear Creek Unit of San Luis NWR:
The West Bear Creek Auto Tour route (2.5 mi.) winds through and around a rich mosaic of riparian woodlands, seasonal wetlands, and native grasslands, where you may see scores of waterfowl and other wildlife. The Raccoon Marsh Trail (1.3 mi.) and the Woody Pond Trail (1.75 mi.) offer opportunities to see waterbirds in fall through spring, and native songbirds and mammals during the dry summer months. This unit also has interesting vernal pools in the spring months (especially March and April).
San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge: (link)
The Pelican Nature Trail (4 mi.) meanders through seasonal wetlands, restored riparian woodlands, and stands of old-growth valley oak trees. The trailhead includes an educational seven-acre native vegetation free-roam exploration area that is home to the rare Riparian brush rabbit. The Beckwith observation platform is open October through March, and overlooks refuge agricultural fields and grasslands that provide forage for thousands of Aleutian cackling geese and lesser Sandhill cranes.
Merced National Wildlife Refuge: (link)
The Merced Auto Tour route (5 mi.): loops around seasonal wetlands and upland grasslands for views of thousands of Ross’ geese and lesser Sandhill cranes during the fall and winter, along with a diverse concentration of dabbling ducks and shorebirds. The Meadowlark Trail (1.5 mi.) is the longest loop in this refuge. The Bittern Marsh Trail (1 mi.) is a serene tree-lined loop around a permanent wetland where you may see and hear marsh birds and the occasional great-horned owl. The Kestrel Trail (.5 mi.) is a short grassland loop, home to many different songbirds that are very vocal during the spring nesting season. Various raptor species are visible in the nearby native cottonwood trees. On the north side of the refuge, the Cottonwood Trail (1.5 mi.) trail meanders through a dense stand of trees and terminates at an elevated observation platform with excellent views of geese and cranes from fall through early spring. Additional vernal pools can be viewed at the Arena Plains and Snobird Units of the Merced NWR.

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Life after Jordan Lynch in DeKalb? Not so bad actually. Second-year coach Rod Carey is making sure of it.
Carey and his staff are doing an underrated job at Northern Illinois in the first season without Lynch at the controls of the offense. The Huskies have now captured back-to-back road games, at Northwestern a week ago and Saturday night in Las Vegas over UNLV. Yeah, the Rebels are having issues so far in 2014, but the level of difficulty of winning far from home can never be overstated.
On a night when the defense crapped out for a change, the offense picked up the slack. More specifically, sophomore QB Drew Hare picked up the slack, accounting for four touchdowns, three through the air and one on the ground. It wasn’t Lynch in terms of the prolific numbers, but it wasn’t a bad impression for a first-year starter.
Northern Illinois has thrived on the road, with another test upcoming next Saturday at Arkansas. Win or lose in Fayetteville, Carey has the Huskies playing like a team that’s going to once again contend this season in the MAC West.
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UNLV tried to come all the way back, but short of winning a defense in one of the nearby casinos, it was for not. This always figured to be an interesting matchup with an NIU team looking to do damage on the ground versus a Rebel team looking to cash in on air miles. It didn’t disappoint as Northern Illinois rushed for 331 yards, and UNLV quarterback Blake Decker threw for 397 through the desert air.
As exciting as all the offense is these days, just how far each of these teams go in their respective conference will depend on being able provide at least a little resistance. Perhaps most alarming if you are a Rebel fan is the defense’s inability to stop the Husky rushing attack time and time again on third downs. NIU converted an alarming 15 out of 19 opportunities on third down and simply wore down the UNLV defenders.
And how about giving credit to a Northern Illinois squad that is navigating a rather formidable non-conference schedule? After the easy, breezy win against Presbyterian at home, the Huskies have been nomads by winning on the road against Northwestern and UNLV and are ready to head to Fayetteville to square off with the big, bad SEC opponent Arkansas.
Win that one and maybe it’s time to start thinking of Northern Illinois as the team to beat in the MAC.
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Minister in the Office of the Vice-President Olipa Phiri says the hunger situation in some parts of the country is a disaster because it falls under the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.
Responding to a question from Mitete UPND member of parliament Misheck Mutelo, who wanted to find out if the hunger situation in the country was a disaster or not, Phiri said it was a disaster because it fell under DMMU, prompting members of parliament to burst out in laughter.
“Because of the drought and the floods which we experienced in 2018\2019 which has made us to be talking today about the shortages of food and that people don’t have food that is why we are calling it a disaster because it is under our Disaster Management Committee,” Phiri responded.
And Chimwemwe member of parliament Elias Mwila noted that 58, out of 116 districts, which translated into about 50 percent of the country, had been affected by hunger.
He wondered how many more districts needed to be hunger stricken for the President to declare an emergency.
In response, Phiri said, “As at now, we are working at 53 districts”, but this prompted Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini to explain the question to the minister.
Phiri then insisted that the situation was manageable.
“As at now, it is still manageable and I remember the Minister of Agriculture on Tuesday he told us that the food which we have….we still have enough food for us to manage the disaster which we are experiencing now,” replied Phiri.
At this point, leader of opposition Jack Mwiimbu rose on a point of order noting that Phiri had not addressed the question raised by his Chimwemwe counterpart.
Speaker Matibini explained the question a second time.
“As at now, tomorrow, I will be giving the in-depth assessment which is going to tell us the threshold after the assessment. The situation as at now it is manageable by government,” Phiri replied.
And in a ministerial statement, Phiri said drought experienced in the 2018\2019 rainy season was a regional problem.
“The drought condition in the country experienced during the 2018\2019 rainy season is a regional problem that has affected as many as seven countries, including Zambia. The drought has mainly affected the southern half with part of Central, Eastern and Lusaka Provinces. I would like to inform the House that a total of 2,330,182 people representing 388,364 households in 53 districts will require relief intervention for them to survive up to the next harvest. My office has distributed a total of 2,339,200 by 12.5 Kg of mealie meal in 58 districts which were assessed by the Zambia Vulnerability Assessment committee. And in addition, 13 districts which were not captured in the assessment. Mr Speaker, this is an ongoing process that will go on up to the next harvest period,” said Phiri.
“We are discussing with line ministries and the cooperating partners for us to also to ensure that selected households of mainly elderly, child headed and terminally ill also receive some emergency cash transfer so that the support goes beyond food. We are also working on modalities of emergency school feeding programe with the Ministry of General Education and the Word Food programe to ensure that we keep the learners in school for communities that were badly hit by drought and floods.”


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New Delhi [India]: The US Army contingent taking part in Ex-YudhAbhyas has a significant number of Indian-Origin personnel.
The exercise is currently underway at Joint Base Lewis, McChord (JBLM), US.
Several of the Indian-Origin personnel in US contingent have done their schooling and graduation from India.
Rahul Dutta, a US Army personnel said, “I was born in New Delhi, Vasant Vihar. I did my schooling from KV, sector-8, RK Puram and then I did my bachelors from Shobhit University in Meerut. After that, I did my training in Air India for some time and then I decided that I need to go for some higher studies.”
Dutta said he joined the US Military after pursuing masters because he felt the need to do something different in life.
“So, the military is the only option that you can do as something different. Then, I joined the US Army in 2017. After completing my training, I came here at JBLM. Since then, I have been working as a mechanic. During this exercise, this is my second term. I am working as an interface between US and Indian Army. I can provide better communication between both the Armies,” said Dutta.
Another soldier named Vivek Jasra who is working as a combat medic in the US Army said he did his schooling in Punjab’s Ludhiana.
“I did my college from Khalsa college. Currently, I am working as the interface between the two forces and taking care of their operations during YudhAbhyas 2019. And I proudly serve for both the nations,” Jasra said.
The exercise will continue till September 18. The 14th edition of the exercise, Yudh Abhyas 2018, was hosted by India in Uttarakhand.


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Chester MP Stephen Mosley has been cleared of using House of Commons prepaid envelopes for party political purposes.
Mr Mosley sent a health service survey to residents of Dodleston and Pulford using House of Commons prepaid envelopes and stationery after learning some constituents registered with GPs in Wales had been prevented from choosing treatment at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
Residents, including complainant Jon Talbot, were asked a series of questions about their experience.
But Mr Talbot told parliamentary commissioner Kathryn Hudson: “...to my mind it is thinly disguised electioneering.
“I think it should be made clear who the material comes from ... and not use the resources of public office to further party ends.”
Mr Mosley responded: “I do not believe it could be construed as a communication conferring or attempting to confer an undue advantage on a party.”
Ms Hudson concluded: “The phrasing of Mr Mosley’s letter reflects his perspective but is not an attempt to confer an advantage on his party.”


Pat Buchanan has veritably lost his mind and it's not clear to me why anyone takes him seriously. In this column, Mr. Buchanan writes that traditional white Americans believe that they are losing their country and they are right to be scared. In a response in the Atlantic Monthly, Andrew Sullivan call's the column stupid. It may be that but it is also extremely perverse.
Responses to Buchanan have focused on educating Buchanan on the contributions to America by non-whites (see for example here) and have argued that non-whites as much claim to the country as Buchanan and other whites do (see here).
I don't think Buchanan is stupid, nor do I think he is unaware of the contributions of people of color or their claim to this country. Buchanan is a perverse and dangerous panderer. If some whites feel that America is no longer their America, that is a serious issue that must be addressed seriously. But is not a justification to promote "Oath Keepers," armed civilians willing to take up arms against their countrywomen and countrymen. That is the type of dangerous perverse pandering that can lead to armed civilians attacking public officials and other citizens. Buchanan is a demagogue and it is unfortunate that he continues to have such a prominent public platform.


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Because of his infatuation with the dance, Pablo began to seek expertise in recognized milongueros, developing his own personal style of dance and teaching. Alberto Dassieu was one of his most influencing teachers and a really close friend until his passing 3 years ago. Share this: Facebook Twitter Print. They run it in such secret, that they even can not advertise it on the Web! I really would like to attend the next one if my boss approves my leave. Zangofestival This festival connects singing and dancing with tango music. Eva Garlezafter starting to learn Tango, was quick develop considerable knowledge and understanding of both roles. All 6 of them.
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A week of world-class workshops, immersion courses, shows and milongas. Welcome to the 19th year of the New Zealand Tango Festival! Registration will open. Eva Garlez & Pablo Rodriguez - Argentine Tango Instructors Albuquerque Tango Festival sinceSan Diego Tango Festival, Burning Tango Festival in the US, New Zealand Tango Festival, Festival of Ferrara-Italy, and many more.
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I dance and teach argentine tango in San Francisco. In their classes, they increase the confidence of their students by giving them the tools they need at all times. Because of his infatuation with the dance, Pablo began to seek expertise in recognized milongueros, developing his own personal style of dance and teaching.
They are not as good for beginners as for intermediate and for advanced dancers, but for beginners they are very inspiring.
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Their classes increase the confidence of their students by giving them the tools they will need at all times.
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They combine an extraordinary ability to explain the basic mechanics of danceable tango and from there to build a very personal dance. Here is her website.
Alberto Dassieu was one of his most influencing teachers and a really close friend until his passing 3 years ago. Contact them, if you have questions. Giros and contragiros.
They previously have taught in the Mini Chicago Tango FestivalBurning Tango FestivalNew Zealand Tango FestivalFestival of. They have taught and participated at the Albuquerque Tango Festival since . Chicago Tango FestivalBurning Tango FestivalNew Zealand. New Zealand — Argentine Tango in New Zealand Auckland — Tango. Small World Tango Festival — a February weekend in Albuquerque, NM YoLaTango.
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Originally from Buenos Aires, they belong to the New Guard of Milongueros and have traveled throughout the world giving seminars and performances. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
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Eva Garlez after starting to learn Tango, was quick develop considerable knowledge and understanding of both roles. The fundamental principles are stepping, elegance, balance, interpretation of music and comfort of women, all with a high technical quality. All 6 of them. The festival atmosphere when everybody are into Tango is rarely happens on regular milongas.
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Survivors and family members of deceased victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting were seen embracing and comforting each other in court as the jury’s verdict was read.
Robert Bowers’ aunt Patricia Fine, who testified for the defense, was also present in court.
The jurors remained straight-faced and stoic the entire proceeding.
For nearly the entire time, Bowers was bent over looking intently at a piece of paper his attorney marked as the judge read through the jury’s lengthy verdict form. He wore a pair of dark glasses when he looked at the paper but took them off when he stood to face the jury as they entered the courtroom
Stifling cries could be heard at one point in the courtroom, but the room was moved to complete silence as the judge moved to the section which ultimately would be read aloud as the death sentence.
Bowers had no noticeable reaction. After the judge read the sentence, there was a sniffle from the crowd.
Bowers continued staring at the paper, then leaned over to a member of his defense team to briefly whisper something in his ear before returning to look at the paper.
As the jury was polled, Bowers again said something to a member of his defense team, and then returned to being hunched over looking at the table. He only briefly looked up at the jurors as they affirmed their votes.
Bowers looked out into the crowd as he was taken away.
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In court, Black was seen wiping her nose with tissues. Wedner was seen crying and dabbing her face with tissues.
Sobbing was heard in the hall outside the courtroom as the family members and victims walked into another room.
All the attorneys were stoic as they left the courtroom.

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COWBOY SONGS and ballads are generally ranked alongside Negro spirituals as being the most important of America's contributions to folk song. As compared with the old English and Scottish ballads, the cowboy and all other ballads of the American frontiers generally sound cheap and shoddy. Since John A. Lomax brought out his collection in 1910, cowboy songs have found their way into scores of songbooks, have been recorded on hundreds of records, and have been popularized, often -- and naturally -- without any semblance to cowboy style, by thousands of radio singers. Two general anthologies are recommended especially for the cowboy songs they contain: American Ballads and Folk Songs, by John A. and Alan Lomax, Macmillan, New York, 1934; The American Songbag, by Carl Sandburg, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1927.
Singing Cowboy (with music), New York, 1931. OP.
LOMAX, JOHN A., and LOMAX, ALAN.
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, Macmillan, New York, 1938. This is a much added-to and revised form of Lomax's 1910 collection, under the same title. It is the most complete of all anthologies. More than any other man, John A. Lomax is responsible for having made cowboy songs a part of the common heritage of America. His autobiographic Adventures of a Ballad Hunter (Macmillan, 1947) is in quality far above the jingles that most cowboy songs are.
Missouri, as no other state, gave to the West and Southwest. Much of Missouri is still more southwestern in character than much of Oklahoma. For a full collection, with full treatment, of the ballads and songs, including bad-man and cowboy songs, sung in the Southwest there is nothing better than Ozark Folksongs, collected and edited by Vance Randolph, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, 1946-50. An unsurpassed work in four handsome volumes.
OWENS, WILLIAM A.
Texas Folk Songs, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 1950. A miscellany of British ballads, American ballads, "songs of doleful love," etc. collected in Texas mostly from country people of Anglo-American stock. Musical scores for all the songs.
The Texas Folklore Society has published many cowboy songs. Its publications Texas and Southwestern Lore (1927) and Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (1928) contain scores, with music and anecdotal interpretations. Other volumes contain other kinds of songs, including Mexican.
THORP, JACK (N. Howard).
Songs of the Cowboys, Boston, 1921. OP. Good, though limited, anthology, without music and with illuminating comments. A pamphlet collection that Thorp privately printed at Estancia, New Mexico, in 1908, was one of the first to be published. Thorp had the perspective of both range and civilization. He was a kind of troubadour himself. The opening chapter, "Banjo in the Cow Camps," of his posthumous reminiscences, Pardner of the Wind, is delicious.
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Tony Gwynn Jr., the son of the Baseball Hall of Famer, played at Poway High, San Diego State and for eight seasons in the major leagues for four teams, including the Padres. He lives in San Diego and works as a broadcaster for the Dodgers. He wrote this essay for the Union-Tribune.
My dad was on the National League All-Star team 15 times. I wasn’t even 2 years old when he made it the first time in 1984, so I was too young to remember many of them.
The one I will never forget was in 1994 in Pittsburgh when I was 11. It’s regarded as one of the greatest games in All-Star Game history. There were five lead changes, the National League won 8-7, and my dad scored the winning run in the 10th inning.
I had gone to the game with him before that, but the one in Pittsburgh is the one that stands out.
When the game was in Toronto in 1991, I was hanging out with Ozzie Smith’s son. I think we stayed up for a 24-hour period. I fell asleep during the game and didn’t see one inning of it.
The next year it was in San Diego. With all the hustle and bustle, I didn’t really get to do any of the activities because my dad was being pulled in all kinds of directions. I didn’t really get to enjoy that one because I was in the stands. I was stuck in terrible seats. But I did have a good view of watching him throw two runners out at second base, which tied an All-Star Game record.
I didn’t go in 1993 when it was in Arlington, Texas. It was the first time I got to be an All-Star in Little League, for Poway American. That was my first All-Star experience, so I wasn’t going to miss that.
Then came 1994. I had been with my dad for Home Run Derby and the workout the day before the game, but ’94 was the first time I got to go on game day and actually go in the clubhouse.
Part of the reason might have been the players were going on strike and my dad knew it was going to happen, so maybe he wanted to make sure he took advantage of that, not knowing what was going to come of it.
My first memory is walking in the clubhouse and seeing Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell. They were the first two guys who seemed like they wanted to have a conversation with me. And then Mike Piazza after that. And Moises Alou.
I was good to go at that point. I was mingling with the guys I see on TV all the time. It was like, “Wow.” As a kid, when you’re around people every day, when you’re 11 years old, you think these guys are your real friends. I was in there hanging out, talking baseball.
It was different than during the season. I would see his teammates all the time. They were like family almost. Whereas, these guys, I was seeing them on “SportsCenter” highlights almost every night. It was a big deal to me. It was the first time I was confident enough to have a conversation with these kind of guys.
Because of an injury to another player, I think my dad knew he was going to play a lot of the game that day. At that point in my life, it seemed like the National League hadn’t won an All-Star Game. They had lost six in a row coming into the game in Pittsburgh. In my memory at that point it seemed like they had been blown out of every All-Star Game I had attended.
In the regular season for a Padres game, I would be in uniform. In Pittsburgh, I had some clothes to wear so I could go shag baseballs in the outfield, but after that I had to get my regular clothes on. I wasn’t allowed to wear a uniform on that particular day because I wasn’t allowed to be a batboy. My dad wasn’t going to let me get to the dugout, so I was confined to the clubhouse during the game.
I sat watching the TV, staying by my dad’s locker. The last thing I wanted to do was get in trouble so I didn’t get to come again.
In the meantime, the players were coming out of the game and coming in. If they approached me, we talked; if not, I just kept to myself.
My dad doubled off the Royals’ David Cone in his second at-bat, driving in two runs to break a 1-1 tie. Then he came around to score. And so I’m already gassed up, pumped up at this point.
In the meantime, all the guys who had been in the game came in the clubhouse. Barry Bonds came in. Mike Piazza came in.
And at this point, while I had the confidence to talk to guys like Bagwell and Biggio and Piazza, more so because they approached me, I wasn’t quite ready to talk to Barry yet. He was on a whole other level. I remember him wearing what must have been a Versace vest. It had all kinds of crazy colors. I remember him going onto the field in his suit when they won the game.
I remember them all leaving the clubhouse and it was just me in there because they all wanted to go celebrate.
I remember having a conversation with Moises Alou in the clubhouse before he went into the game. Little did I know he would be the one to get the game-winning hit. I didn’t have that kind of premonition where I could see that far ahead.
I remember my dad coming up in the 10th inning for his fifth at-bat. Jason Bere from the White Sox was pitching. My dad ends up chopping the ball up over the middle and gets a base hit.
Moises was up next. The Padres had played Montreal right before the All-Star break and Moises was wearing them out. That was when he was just getting on the scene in ’94. I remember my dad saying as he was going through his video, a couple of days before we got out there, ‘Man, you can’t sneak a fastball by this guy. He’s gonna get you.’”
Sure enough, Bere tries to beat him with a fastball and he just buggy-whips it into left-center.
I’m watching and they have the camera on the outfield, they’re flipping it back to my dad running around second and I’m like, “He’s not going to make it.” I thought he was going to be out.
The throw comes in and I could tell that he got under the tag by Ivan Rodriguez and they called him safe. At that point there’s no replay, so it’s a done deal.
My dad jumps up and pumps his fist. That was the first time I had seen my dad emotional on the baseball field. He was pumped. I’m sure he was like that when the Padres were in the playoffs in 1984, but I was 2 so I saw it on video.
I’ll always remember seeing his emotions like that for the first time. It bothers me to this day that I didn’t get to be out there on the field. But I got to be inside the clubhouse and watch them all come in, which you wouldn’t have seen any other place. You got to see why these guys play baseball, and why they enjoy it so much.
Back then it’s just an All-Star Game. It doesn’t mean home-field advantage for the World Series. It’s just a game. But these guys were pumped, like they had won a World Series. It was that kind of excitement — for everybody in the clubhouse.
In the clubhouse, my dad didn’t show the same kind of emotion that he showed when he slid into home plate. When he came in, it was almost like he had another four-hit game. It was like ho-hum.
It took him forever to get to his locker because everybody’s giving him some love as he’s walking in.
Once he got to his locker gave me that, ‘Yeah,’ where he kind of pumps his fist and gives me that look. That’s all we needed. And that’s kind of where it ended.
He was the best of the best that night, but I didn’t look at him like that until much later. He was still just my dad.
We didn’t talk about it much on the drive back to the hotel. My dad never reflected on anything until the season was done. I think that was by design. That’s how he kept his edge of wanting to continually get better. When you have some success and start to look at that success you’re not going to be there much longer. That’s just human nature. It’s hard to look at your accomplishments and stay driven.
I will say this, I never saw him watch a highlight other than when he’s hitting a baseball. But he probably watched that highlight more than I’ve seen him watch any other highlight.
Every year, he would get a highlight tape from the season. It would have music on there. He knew my sister and I loved to watch these highlight tapes.
Highlight tapes for kids are the ultimate. There’s nothing but good stuff coming, you’ve got some music behind it and it kind of gives you that movie feel. My sister and I, even though most of the music was jazz and stuff we didn’t really like, it was cool to us.
When we put in a highlight tape, we’d run that clip multiple times. He would always have a smile on his face, I’m sure partly because of how excited it made me.


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