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Venue Screenshots

Beitragvon Jagwire » Montag 28. Januar 2013, 20:28

Hi Everybody,

I remember when I played CB a long time ago that somebody posted VENUE SCREENSHOTS so that you could print it out and see the whole map of the venue. Is that kind of info out there anywhere?

There are so many venues here now that I spend most of my time trying to figure out where all the balls are. :?: :?

Maybe the best way is to play and learn but it would be nice for new people to be able to get an idea of where eveything is so they have half a chance when playing a game.

I'll understand if these don't exist and I'll just have to practice more and learn the venues.

Over and out,

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Re: Venue Screenshots

Beitragvon submaniac » Montag 28. Januar 2013, 23:24

Hi John,

thx for your kind report! It was also a pleasure for us to join such a nice guy as you are! Furthermore we are glad, that you've found back the way to CB. Hope, we can continue these nice fights outthere in the virtual skies of CB with a lot of fun... :wink:

Here you will find the topshots of all maps/venues: See the menue-bar at the top of the HP of CB => choose "Service => Downloads". Look for the second item "Download - XDGN Top Shots - Edition 2010". There you will find a link to a "" - file. Download it and you are ready to rumble... :-D

cu at the skies

PS: Btw, if you like to make a snapshot during a game, just hit your "roll/print" - key on your keyboard. CB will make a copy into your CB-folder
"Restart your system, let the engines take control, of the body, of the soul. Restart!"

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Re: Venue Screenshots

Beitragvon Sc4rlite » Montag 28. Januar 2013, 23:36

Follow the path as sub told or simply use this link:)

On this Page is a topshot of Greengarden V2:

And here for Egal:

I don't think you will have any problems to find a route on Hangar Ball. I should have the Top Shots of VP4 somewhere but didn't find them yet.

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Re: Venue Screenshots

Beitragvon Jagwire » Dienstag 29. Januar 2013, 01:39

Hi Klaus & Melli,

Thank you both very much for the info about the screenshots :-D

I have them in my computer now and I am looking them over. I tried to print them out but my printer is out of coloured ink so I will have to look at them on my screen for now.

Hey Klaus, it was MY pleasure to fly with you guys the other night. YOU and your friends in Germany were the ones staying up really late to fly with me! :lol: It was greatly appreciated. :-D

And Melli, we have to get you into the sky as well. You have been so supportive in the forum. I hope to be able to have a game or two with you soon :wink:

Thank Again

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Winner: 11-year-old Sebastien De La Cruz, "El Charro de Oro" (the golden horseman) who became a national story after he sang the national anthem at Game 3 of the NBA playoff series between the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat and showed a lot of a talent, heart and class.
Losers: The haters and racists who -- displaying a lot of ignorance -- hid behind the anonymity of Twitter to spew venom and attack the little guy because they thought that no one dressed in a mariachi outfit was certified American enough to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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Later, he discussed the backlash with reporters.
"To be honest," he said, "It's just the people how they were raised. My father and my mother told me that you should never judge people by how they look. You should judge them on the inside. And the saying that I go by is never judge a book by its cover."
I don't have that kind of self-restraint. When I hear stories like this, I get sad. Then, I get enraged.
I mean, enough is enough!
De La Cruz is a Mexican-American born in San Antonio.
That means he is part of a community that has -- since Manifest Destiny, the U.S.-Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 -- put up with more than 100 years of discrimination and mistreatment at the hands of those who consider themselves superior.
Even if, as the racist tweets show, they don't always act in ways that convey this alleged sense of superiority.
The part about De La Cruz being Mexican-American, as opposed to a Mexican immigrant, is essential to the story. It's a complicated road.
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When De La Cruz did an interview with Univision, the Spanish-language network, he did it in English.
And this is what the nativists were worried about -- that Mexican-Americans are not assimilating?
The next chapter will be where some Mexican-Americans actually turn on De La Cruz for appearing to distance himself from Mexico. If they do, they'll look as silly as the nativists. The "distance" is already there. He's not a Mexican. He's a Mexican-American. There is a difference.
Finally, thanks to the San Antonio Spurs -- and especially some good people in the front office -- a story that had many Latinos, and other Americans, seething had a Hollywood ending.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Was Attack On Milwaukee County District Attorney A Campaign Stunt?

A couple of weeks ago, just as the Federal Appellate Court was about to rule on the lawsuit filed by Scott Walker's collaborators - the Wisconsin Club for Growth - a vile hit piece against Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm was published by a right wing propaganda group.

This smear job tried to portray Chisholm as being motivated to enforce the law by the virtue that his wife was a union steward and understandably upset by Act 10.  (Never mind that any rational person who loves Wisconsin was upset about this.)  The author of the tabloid column, Stuart Taylor, also tried to portray the District Attorney's Office as some sort of union hall, although no one could or would support these wild accusations.

At the time, I questioned the legitimacy of the article:
Given the all of the story's inconsistencies, conjectures and fallacies, it's hard to give it any credence.

It smacks more of an act of political desperation.  Considering that Walker is trailing in just about every poll, is receiving bad economic and/or job creation news on what seems like a daily basis and could very well face the continuation of the Walkergate investigation, it is very believable that Walker and his supporters are scared to death.

This story appears to have all the reliability of Kyle Wood's accusationsagainst US Representative Mark Pocan's partner.

And just as in the Wood's allegations, it's particularly disgusting that they have to drag Chisholm's wife into it.   Then again, if they had any sort of decency, there wouldn't have even been a need for the investigation in the first place.
Sure enough, a couple of days later, it came out that the source for this smear was a former cop named Michael Lutz who has struggled with life after being shot in the line of duty. He supposedly suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Instead of coping with this in a healthy fashion, Lutz apparently had decided to self-medicate with alcohol and making death threats to Chisholm and his family.

Now it is being reported that the CEO of the propaganda group is using these false accusations as a launching pad to promote Walker's presidential aspirations in order to further his anti-union, pro-plantation economics agenda:
"If he survives re-election, he might well become the number one Republican candidate," Richard Miniter, chief executive officer of American Media Institute, in a Tuesday article on the evangelical Christian website One News Now. The piece is entitled, "A union nightmare: Scott Walker in the White House."

Miniter's group commissioned two stories by Stuart Taylor Jr. that accuse Milwaukee's Democratic district attorney of conducting secret investigations of Walker and his staff because of  Chisholm's wife's pro-union agenda. The source for Taylor's stories was Michael Lutz, a controversial ex-Milwaukee cop who spent less than six months as an unpaid aide in Chisholm's office in 2011.

Miniter told the conservative website that the first-term Republican governor is under attack in the current gubernatorial contest because he took on labor unions in the state. Recent polls suggest Walker is in a statistical dead heat with his opponent, Democratic candidate Mary Burke.

"Unions donate a tremendous amount of money to the Democratic Party," he notes. "So calling for any kind of reform is a threat to the lifeblood of the Democratic Party."
Sadly, Dan Bice, who wrote the article about Miniter, failed to mention a few facts about Miniter, such as that he had been caught blatantly lying about President Barack Obama's record, claiming that several items on Obama's agenda failed when in reality they were successful.  Or that Miniter was such a goof that he was fired from the New York Times.

Another key omission by Bice is that Miniter worked hand in hand with Marc Thiessen, the author of Walker's "autobiography."

Once all the information is presented, it becomes obvious that this whole thing was just another scheme to further their fascist agenda.  They have no more credibility than Brian Sikma, James Wigderson or Charlie Sykes.  And like the local mugs, they have no qualms about ruining the reputations of a good man and his innocent wife, just to advance the agenda of their dark money masters..

I would call on Scott Walker to condemn these people and their underhanded tactics but something tells me that a future investigation will reveal that Walker was actually in on this stunt.

  1. Absolutely first class reporting capper.

    Nothing better to butter one's right-wing looney-bun credentials with, than to be fired from the NYT.

  2. The lack of desire of the Journal-Sentinel to connect the dots on these propagandists is one if their biggest derelictions of duty. Of course, a lot of it has to do with them also being invested in Walker's career, just like Miniter is.

    Good work, capper

  3. It would be hard to seperate the American Media Institute story from being a campaign stunt, given the circumstances. Walker has big-time backing from unsavory elements of the higher ranks of the national Republican Party behind this whole effort to promote his political career, as well as stopping the John Doe proceedings. These people just love his anti-labor politics and there is obviously a lot invested in him.

    How was Marc Thiessen set up to write SKW's campaign book? He previously worked as a speechwriter for George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, making his name by defending their war on terror and use of torture with interrogation.
    Richard Miniter, after previously working with Thiessen, went on to write about the war on terror as well, pushing disinformation and propaganda that attacked President Obama and his Administration.
    Strangely enough, American Media Institute's board includes the infamous Richard Perle along with Miniter. Most of AMI's stories have had to do with defending the war on terror and foreign policy. That policy was created through neo-conservative organizations like the Project For the New American Century (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Karl Rove on its board), the Hudson Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute, all receivers of major funding by the Bradley Foundation. The Foundation's basis of wealth is from the Allen-Bradley sale in the mid '80s to defense contractor Rockwell International. Michael Grebe has served as general counsel for the Republican National Committee and was the long-time Republican National Committeeman for Wisconsin.

    Miniter worked at Hudson with Perle just prior to forming AMI. Thiessen works for AEI with Perle, as well as another player in all this.

    Eric O'Keefe lead defense attorney David Rivkin, Jr., works for AEI and also represented former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a suit by terrorism suspect José Padilla, who claimed being tortured while in custody. Rivkin previously was noted for his appearance in the late '80s Iran-Contra hearings, then going on to being part of George H.W. Bush's Administration.

    How was Wisconsinite Michael Lutz hooked up with DC-based American Media Institute? I don't think Lutz found them in the Milwaukee Yellow Pages. Let's look into Scott Walker and his protectors, maybe you could win a Pulitzer Prize.


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Sep 24, 2014

National Lift Share Week 6-10 October

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Loveurcarcolchester –  Share our quirky film featuring Baz and Purdy’s journey to regular car sharing to illustrate the benefits of car sharing in a different way. The web page also includes advice about car sharing on subjects such as insurance and charging.

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Standing Together Walk 27 September

The Safer Colchester Partnership has organised a community walk on the 27th September to reclaim the pathway of the two recent murder scenes in Colchester.  The walk will take a route from one murder scene to the other in remembrance and to demonstrate the local community Standing Together. This is the route where you can see where the walk will start and finish along with various check points on route.

This is an open invitation for anyone to join the walk on the 27th September. So please feel free to pass it on to colleagues, friends and family members who you feel would like to join the walk.

If you need further information please contact Joanne Wood, Community Initiatives Project Assistant, Colchester Borough Council & Safer Colchester Partnership. Tel No: 01206 506943

Sep 8, 2014

Cycle to Work Day Glory!

Thursday 4 September was national Cycle to Work day, and CTPC members helped make up the 17,000 plus cyclists who pledged to Cycle to Work.  Members also took part in Britain’s Biggest Bike Breakfast…

DSG, Colchester Borough Council and the NHS NEE CCG at Turner Road shared their photos and stories with us, see below…

If anyone else celebrated the day and has stories or pictures, please share them with us.

Sep 8, 2014

DSG’s Biggest Bacon Butty stop!

Defence Support Group had a full bike shed.  Shift patterns didn’t cater for offering a bike breakfast, but ever creative, the Biggest Bacon Butty stop was part of a lunch time ride with ”Smoking Phil Puxley” on the tongs.

‘An excellent BBQ pit stop’ quoted Neil, DSG’s CTPC rep. He also added that he was very pleased that some staff who hadn’t come along to previous lunchtime rides had joined them, using DSG’s pool bikes.  ‘We ran out of pool bikes, had we had more, even more colleagues would have joined us.’

In total 20% of DSG’s Colchester workforce turned out for the ride!

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Sep 8, 2014

NHS North East Essex CCG’s Big Bike Breakfast

10 staff from the Clinical Commissioning Group based at the Primary Care Centre on Turner Road, cycles in to work. Some were regular cyclists and other made a special effort to cycle in on Cycle To Work Day.

Judith, our CTPC rep said ‘One colleague cycled in from South Woodham Ferrars! Worthy of a medal!’

Coffee and croissants were enjoyed on their arrival.

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Sep 8, 2014

CBC’s Big Bike Breakfast

Colchester Borough Council celebrated Cycle to Work day with over 50 staff cycling in to enjoy a continental breakfast at Rowan House and Shrub End depot.

Cakes were offered to the service with the  most staff cycling in, and Shrub End won, with 32 staff cycling to work, representing a big proportion of their work force!

Michelle, our CTPC rep said, ‘It was lovely to see so many people cycling in, some for the first time and the bike racks full at Rowan House and Shrub End. A particularly special thank you to two ladies who decided to leave their car at home for the first time, enjoy the dry weather and cycle in together. Both said how much they enjoyed it and that they would try it again in the future!’

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CBC Bus Leaflet-04.02.09-75

We have just launched a bus users survey for members of the Travel Plan Club.

We want to hear back from bus users about your journey to work or to where you study. The survey covers all aspects of your bus experience including your satisfaction with:

  • Reliability
  • Bus drivers and quality of driving
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  • The vehicle

Why are we doing the survey? Well in 2013 we want to do more to encourage members to use the bus particularly for their journey to work and studies. However before we do this, we feel we need a better understanding of how existing bus users find local services.

The survey will give us some insight into what is good and not so good about local services and facilities for bus users. We can then use this data for a number of purposes to:

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  • Tell others what is good about travelling by bus and to break down some of the barriers that may stop more people from using the bus

The survey is open until the 13 May and takes 5 – 15 minutes to complete depending on whether you regularly use one or more bus operators.

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May 8, 2012
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Active Travel – Walking in May, Cycling in June

With a special summer of sport on its way, with the European Nations’ football tournament, the Olympics, and the Paralympics, plus the regular Wimbledon and Tour de France, we could spend the whole summer on the sofa, watching all this activity? Fortunately there’s lots going on locally to encourage and support us, if we want to get active ourselves; stepping out with walking in May, and cycling in June.

We’re now into National Walking Month, and Colchester Travel Plan Club is booting-up for WALK TO WORK WEEK, 14-18 MAY. Some Colchester Travel Plan Club member organisations have signed up for this, and office teams have been invited to take part in a little friendly competition.

Here’s the link for the national event Over the next few days your CTPC workplace co-ordinator should sign up your company. If you’re not in the CTPC you can still join in the fun, by registering your company yourself. And for individuals where the company has chosen not to take part, you can still join in by signing -up as an individual. We believe there are already some small businesses and individuals in Colchester that have done that, but we won’t know for sure until the Walk to Work Week’s starting gates open on the 14th May.

“WALK TO WORK” (no, it’s not just about the walk to work) was one of the topics discussed at the CTPC Active Travel event, held on 25 April 2012 at Colchester General Hospital. The other main topic for ACTIVE TRAVEL was CYCLING.

Caroline Bates, fundraiser for Colchester Hospital Charity (CoHoC), spoke about their BIKE TO WORK CHALLENGE at the Hospital, and CTPC members agreed to join in. Caroline’s great idea is that all Colchester workplaces join in with the Bike to Work Challenge, and the individuals donate their bus fares or petrol money to the hospital charity. Bike Week will be 16-24 June, with more information about Caroline’s event at

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Holland not coming our way any day soon……..

“There are two possibilities – either to change the way we build our cities, which is a very far-reaching kind of project, or else we make up for their deficiencies by looking at them in a different way.”

August Endell was a painter and architect, who wrote “The Beauty of the Big City”, about Berlin in the 1920s. And here we are, Colchester a cycle town from 2008, and planning for Colchester 2020. Cycle Colchester project is a partnership between the local authorities and the voluntary sector, and the Colchester project continues even though the current government decided not to continue their financial support for the cycle town concept.

There have recently been some observations that we have not yet created Dutch infrastructure in Colchester. Ah yes, Holland, that heaven on earth where people can cycle from everywhere to everywhere else, in complete safety, happy and smiling all the time. Here’s an inspirational link from Copenhagen showing it is entirely possible to create places where many people choose to cycle.

There are some people in Colchester who will say that Colchester is too hilly, too wet or too cold for cycling, despite there being plenty of places that have much more adverse conditions, and much more cycling.  There are others who say “it’s too dangerous, and I won’t cycle until I can get from my home to —– (insert your destination here), until there is a dedicated off-road cyclepath from door to door”. Well the path ain’t going to happen sometime soon, and probably never will.

It’s back to Wendell, and how we respond to our city as it is; lovely but imperfect. I suggest that very many journeys in Colchester can NOW be made by bike, with relatively good ease and safety, if we are prepared to give it a go. If people want to make that change from HABITUAL car use, and use their bike for SOME of the journeys, for many of us, we CAN do it. There is plenty of information out there about equipment and training, and lots of information about cycle routes.

When we look at the Danes in the video link, remember that the Danes have HIGHER car ownership than we do, it’s just that they don’t choose to use the car for ALL trips. (I have cycled in their smaller, Colchester scale, cities – Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense – and it’s not just a Copenhagen thing.)

OK, we don’t have a full network in Colchester of dedicated cycle routes for all possible trips, but we do have hundreds of miles of quiet roads that are safe to use by bike, and some very useful links through green spaces. We can wait until the perfect path is provided, but I suggest we, as a community, should be getting the benefits of cycling now.

We need more people, using bikes for more kinds of journeys, more of the time. Cycle Colchester isn’t just about “them”, the authorities; it’s also about “us”, the members of our community, and what WE do.

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NORMAN, Okla. – Third-seeded Texas (17-10) claimed the doubles point and added singles wins from Lana Groenvynck, Breaunna Addison and Aeriel Ellis, as the Longhorns defeated fifth-seeded Oklahoma State (15-7) by a 4-0 count Sunday to capture their second consecutive Big 12 Championship.
UT secures its ninth Big 12 Championship and second for eighth-year head coach Patty Fendick-McCain. Freshman Breaunna Addison was selected as the tournament’s Most Outstanding Performer after totaling a perfect 3-0 mark at No. 2 singles.
Texas led off by winning matches at the third and second doubles slots to claim the doubles point. At third doubles, UT’s Annat Rabinovich and Lina Padegimaite broke OSU’s Maria Alvarez and C.C. Sardinha for a 6-4 lead. The Texas tandem held serve and broke once more to emerge with an 8-4 win.
At second doubles, UT’s Ellis and Elizabeth Begley broke for a 6-5 lead over OSU’s Lorena Gheorghe and Meghan Blevins. Ellis served for the match with Texas leading 7-6, and at match point, Ellis ripped a crosscourt forehand winner to nail down the 8-6 win and clinch the doubles point for Texas. The remaining match at first doubles, which was tied at six, was suspended.
Groenvynck improved to 3-0 on the weekend with her 6-1, 6-1 win over OSU’s Karyn Guttormsen at sixth singles. Addison broke OSU’s Blevins early in the first set at second singles, and Addison went on to claim the set, 6-2. Addison cruised through the second set, 6-0 to push the Texas lead to 3-0.
Texas’ Ellis and OSU’s Rose engaged in a tight battle at first singles, where Ellis would prevail to clinch the match. Rose broke Ellis in the match’s first game, but, trailing 4-3, Ellis broke Rose, held serve and broke Rose once again to take the set, 6-4.
Rose broke Ellis again in the next set, but Ellis broke back and held serve for a 2-1 second-set lead. Ellis later broke for a 4-2 lead, and two games later, an errant Rose return on match point gave Ellis the match and the Big 12 Championship to the Longhorns. Texas led the remaining three matches, but all three were suspended, given that the Longhorns had clinched the victory.
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Headington Family Tennis Center – Norman, Okla.
(3) Texas 4, (5) Oklahoma State 0
Doubles – Order of Finish: 3, 2
1 Breaunna Addison/Noel Scott (UT) vs. Malika Rose/Kanyapat Narratana (OSU) – 6-6, susp.
2 Elizabeth Begley/Aeriel Ellis (UT) def. Meghan Blevins/Lorena Gheorghe (OSU) – 8-6
3 Annat Rabinovich/Lina Padegimaite (UT) def. Maria Alvarez/C.C. Sardinha (OSU) – 8-4
Singles – Order of Finish: 6, 2, 1
1 No. 39 Aeriel Ellis (UT) def. Malika Rose (OSU) – 6-4, 6-2
2 Breaunna Addison (UT) def. Meghan Blevins (OSU) – 6-2, 6-0
3 Elizabeth Begley (UT) vs. C.C. Sardinha (OSU) – 7-5, 3-2, susp.
4 Noel Scott (UT) vs. Kanyapat Narratana (OSU) – 6-2, 4-3, susp.
5 Lina Padegimaite (UT) vs. Maria Alvarez (OSU) - 6-3, 5-3, susp.
6 Lana Groenvynck (UT) def. Karyn Guttormsen (OSU) - 6-1, 6-1


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Several of my Comic Book Bin frères had bad-mouthed Nightwing before I took it over as regular reviewer. Mostly, I’ve regarded the book as consistently uneven, without being particularly bad – until now.

Nightwing and his girl, minor super-vandal turned super-hero Defacer are on the trail of Robin’s kidnapper. Following the trail through the desert of the Middle East, they pick up a lead, thanks to DeFacer’s willingness to use her boot jets on a lackey’s face as encouragement to tell what he knows.

Yet, later, when faced with the nasty dollotron who kidnapped her and dragged her half-way around the world, Defacer is unbelievably sympathetic, as though the dollotron is some sort of lost puppy. WTF? I would expect her to be all too happy to see Nightwing kick his pre-programmed ass.

Toward the end of the issue, a reference is made to “Robin Dies at Dawn,” a story from Batman #156 (1963). And this seems to be a common cheat among many comic book writers these days. They dig deep into a publisher’s archives in search of an obscure title or one-time villain that never caught on. Then they build their own story on someone else's foundation.

I can appreciate the challenge of creating new stories month after month, but at least pick a different franchise, or better yet a different publisher.

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When is it sensitivity and when is it censorship?

That’s the question I’ve been asking myself for the last couple of weeks. Ever since the horrible tragedy that struck this nation on September 11th, 2001… the world has reacted unpredictably, as expected. Left-wingers and right-wingers working together, thousands buying gas masks and avoiding mass transportation out of fear, George Bush Jr. impressing people with his speech… it’s been weird, that’s for sure. But throughout all of this, there has been a reaction on the entertainment front, also as expected. Can you show terrorism? Should you show terrorism? What kind of terrorism? And many more variants of these questions based on violence, devastation and even the World Trade Center. But where does it end? That’s my question.

I was very fortunate in my youth. Raised through the early eighties by a very liberal household, liberal television and surrounded by a variety of races and religions (myself a Jew) for friends and family… I admittedly grew up with a very open sense of the world. I’ve seen fear and hate in the faces of schoolmates and neighbors, but I’ve always believed that through perseverance and understanding that these elements would eventually melt away. I believed this because my sensibilities were created through people taking the time to explain the differences of the world to me and also being able to see the truth, whether through my own living environment or entertainment. It’s no surprise that the most open-minded people I’ve met in my life come from comic reading backgrounds, because this industry has always tackled the horrible injustices of man through stories and character depictions that allow us, as youth, to relate and learn. Hell, I read X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills when I was 10… and I learned more about the motivations of hate through that than I had through years and years of World War 2 popcorn films. Why, you might ask? Because the understandable fears and anxiety of our nation’s outlook during the early 80’s motivated comic creators to speak through their works, to show the youth why our thinking can cause others harm. It’s not that Chris Claremont, Alan Moore, and Frank Miller just decided one day to make something really grim and terrifying for the heck of it. No, they saw how dreary our future was beginning to look and took the opportunity to say something and make everyone the better for it.

Over the last decade, I’ve seen some truly shocking actions taken in the name of sensitivity. Go back about 15 years and people didn’t use the terms “P.C.” as much as we do now... if at all. In a culture largely influenced by the media, which had taken extremely large steps in the last several decades, it wouldn’t be long before we had to take a look at what we say and do and how it affects the rest of us. Subjects like discrimination, racism, bigotry, and prejudice are all dangers to the stabilization of society and the impressions made on youth. But how far do you go to stop it? I am the man I am today, because quite frankly, no one was afraid to show me the truth. My grandfather’s entire family, along with most of my grandmother’s, was murdered by the Nazi’s during the Holocaust. No matter how many times they explained it to me, or I saw some semblance of it on television, I never truly understood even a portion of what happened until I was 12. Do you know why? Because my parents told me to read Maus. That’s right, a comic book. I took my folks’ copies off the shelf and spent the entire night, from evening until morning, reading both volumes. I just wish my grandfather had lived long enough for me to ask him the questions I had afterwards.

How does this relate to what is going on today, you might ask. I don’t know how many of you have been paying attention to the last several weeks of news, but there have been some decisions made by DC Comics that are currently raising a lot of questions and controversy. After the events of 9-11, DC took a good, hard look at their publishing content and schedules, and made some very difficult decisions. All the solicitations for The Authority, The Authority: Widescreen, Goddess (trade) and JSA: Darkness Falls (trade) were cancelled until further notice. While the futures of the trade collections were left unclear, DC began to ask the creative teams of the Authority to edit their content in an effort to properly accommodate the tragedy. While some creators have decided to go with the program and make the necessary changes, others have declined due to various conflicts. Due to this inability to conform to DC’s editorial wishes, these stories may never see the light of day. Simply put, this news horrifies me. Not because of their refusal to publish the comic, but why this has only become an issue now and what this action means in relation to content from this day forth.

Do not let DC’s publishing edicts fool you. They are doing this to protect their company from criticism and litigation, not because it clashes with their moral code. Of course I’m not saying that absolutely none of them are troubled by the similarities or subjects of these books due to the crisis in New York. But if anyone expects me to believe that DC editorial is now more caring than ever about its readership and the impact of their stories… they can sell their bull manure elsewhere. Do not get me wrong. I loathe The Authority. I despise the kind of “stories” it passes as entertainment. Not because I’m some nutcase about violence, but because I’ve never felt they’ve offered more than low-grade fluff in the form of ultra-violence and explosions, much like the rest of Hollywood these days. But if DC wants to publish material like that, and especially through a Mature Readers label, I’m all for it. If there’s an adult audience for it, let them have it. We know who reads it and there’s no reason to kid ourselves. However, I don’t want them piddling a pitiful excuse for censorship in the name of sensitivity in an attempt to cover their own unmentionables. DC, I don’t know if any of you out there are actually reading this… but if you are, at least have the guts to back what your creators and content. If it’s going to be shocking violence, then so be it. Otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time. I can already guarantee you that you’ve lost a number of regular consumers due to your amazingly intuitive decision to edit/cancel those titles.

In the last two years, The Authority has depicted a Captain America clone raping innocent men and women. It has depicted children being suffocated underwater, or raped by their doctors. Entire worlds of females being raped on schedules in order to breed males. All of this, published and placed on convenient comic store racks and book store shelves without mature labels… and not one DC editor or press release has said a word, until now. This, my friends, is hypocrisy in its purest form. Basically, what DC has said, is that molestation is not a sensitive enough issue to be handled until it’s affected us on a scale that demands nation-wide coverage. Perhaps if JonBenet Ramsey had been raped and killed during that period of two years, DC would be more “sensitive.” Lord knows a giant redneck killer with a “harem of under twelve’s” hasn’t seemed to be an issue as there hasn’t been a widely covered media frenzy about such an event in recent history. No, despite children being molested in the hundreds year after year in REAL LIFE, it’s never been a problem making light of the subject in the pages of everyone’s favorite friendly The Authority comic. But now DC has a problem. You see… a lot of people died very recently, and very publicly, in a terrorist attack on an American landmark. DC wouldn’t want to draw attention to their content during a time like this… they’ll just wait it out. Hypocrisy I tell you, and it disgusts me more than anything I have seen in this industry to date.

Now, I can’t blame people for trying to make the world a better place. After all, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. No, what bothers me is a complete lack of interest in what or why a publisher prints something, unless it endangers them externally. Take JSA: Darkness Falls, for instance. Here’s a storyline where the terrorists seize control of a plane and crash it to show their incredible power to the world. Frightfully similar to real life, correct? Well, here’s where the importance of the story comes in. One of the members of the JSA happened to lose his mother on that plane. Of course he joins the rest of the team to find and battle the terrorists, and at the end of the story it comes down to the hero and the villain who murdered all those people. What does he do? He restrains himself from crossing the line and killing the man. Despite the hate, the grief and the torture… the hero was able to move past it all to prove himself better and turn the villain over to the proper authorities. God forbid we should show anyone that story, right DC? After all, depicting our heroes as those who wouldn’t just kill our enemies in revenge due to terrorist attacks isn’t very topical, right? What has happened to comic publishers? When did they become these corporate slaves that bow for no man but their masters? All I know is this. If this collection, Goddess and any other previously published material goes without a re-solicitation or is edited in any sort of manner, I will lose any respect I ever had for that company. They can also expect my confidence in their product to act accordingly.

Where does this kind of editorial behavior leave us? What does it mean for creators and their work, henceforth? These are the kinds of questions I ask myself. I know a horrible tragedy has occurred and that there are many, many individuals across the world still struggling to grasp the seemingly impossible. I know all this, and yet there is still the part of me that understands the real world, the corporate world, and how some actions are made out of economic smarts and not emotional sensitivity or responsibility. I know how far reaching even the smallest bit of conformity and reactionary “political correctness” can plague our culture for years and years to come. Is it so necessary for corporate America to remain safe that we must hide the products of our past and stop challenging the future? Does anyone remember Song of the South? I think about all of these things and then look upon my youth and weep for the children of today, with their lovable, harmless and meaningless Digimon… remembering what it was like when G.I. Joe taught me “knowing is half the battle.” I just… weep.

Born and raised in Tampa, FL, Drew Reiber is a part-time student with aspirations of someday writing those comics he so loves to rant about. Currently he awaits the negation of “towers” from the title of Lord of the Rings 2 and eventually the dictionary, and swears he’ll have the right to whine when it all comes to pass. You can find his other column at (http://hometown.aol.com/nolansnewsstand/), which has a similar name, but different content.

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By Clare Jerrom, Nicola Barry and Alex

Climbie social workers sacked

Two social workers who gave evidence in Lord Laming’s
inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie have been dismissed for
gross misconduct.

Haringey council in north London dismissed both Lisa
Arthurworrey and Angella Mairs. Arthurworrey, who told the public
inquiry the council had made her a scapegoat for eight-year-old
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Victoria died in February 2000. Her great aunt Marie Therese
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Tough anti-crime line not viable, says probation

The home secretary and prime minister have been warned that the
new anti-crime strategy at the heart of today’s Queen Speech
is in danger of fuelling the ever more punitive trend in the
courts, and is failing to provide an alternative to the prison

Chief inspector of probation Rod Morgan said that the government
strategy is unsuitable, and warns that “something will have to
give”. He claims the probation service is facing the same
over-loading as the jails.

The introduction of tougher community penalties has not led to
fewer non-violent offenders being sent to prison. Instead it has
become an alternative to fines.

Tens of thousands of low level, low risk offenders including
motorists who in the past have been fined, have been placed under
probation supervision, he said.

He urges the home secretary to adopt an alternative strategy for
dealing with low risk offenders by reviving the use of fines by
courts, making much greater use of stand alone electronic orders
and contracting out their supervision to private firms.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 13 November page 6

Tories and Lib Dems home in on civil rights

The government is to be confronted today by the Tory and Liberal
Democrat peers over legislation in the Queen’s Speech, which
they regard as an unjustified attack on civil liberties.

It is expected Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesperson Lord
McNally will work in league with the shadow chancellor Lord
Kingsland to demand radical change to the criminal justice

The two opposition peers will target plans to abolish double
jeopardy, restrictions on the right to opt for trial by jury, and
the suggestion that previous convictions can be put to the jury
before it considers allegations.

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 13 November page 12

We want to go to Sangatte or die, warn asylum seekers
sheltering in Calais church

Up to 100 asylum seekers sheltering in a Calais church
threatened to set themselves on fire yesterday if they were refused
entry to the Sangatte refugee camp.

French authorities insisted no newcomers will be allowed into
the Red Cross camp, but refugees are still continuing to head for
the camp regarding it as a first step to reaching Britain.

One asylum seeker in the Church doused himself with lighter
fluid and tried to set himself alight before police officers beat
out the flames.

The asylum seekers have rejected an offer allowing them to claim
asylum in France. Inside the church one man shouted: “We want to go
to Sangatte or die. We want to go to England or die.”

Source:- The Guardian Wednesday 13 November page 10

Campaign to guard internet children

A government-backed campaign is urging parents to learn more
about the internet to enable their children to use it safely.

While almost all home computers have internet safety built in,
80 per cent of parents do not know how to switch it on, the Safe
Surfing campaign claims.

A booklet and CD-Rom has been produced for parents to explain
how to ensure their children use the internet safely as part of the
campaign by the department for education and skills and computer
retailer PC World.

The campaign follows a number of high profile cases where
paedophiles have contacted children through internet chat-rooms
before going on to assault them.

Source:- Daily Telegraph Wednesday 13 November page

Guardian Society

Core concerns

Overhead threat to charity funding

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 13 November page

Out of sight

Releasing people with psychiatric illness into the community has
been heavily criticised, but this extract from a new book by Jeremy
Laurance on changes in mental health care in Britain reminds us of
the harsh reality of life inside the asylums.

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 13 November page

Act of omission

Mike George on calls to plug a loophole that leaves young
offenders without the protection given to other children

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 13 November page

Fares unfairness

Travel pass ‘lottery’ restricts lives of learning
disabled people

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 13 November page

Open to advice

Charities demand more home visits in support of parents

Source:- Guardian Society Wednesday 13 November page

Scottish newspapers

Breast cancer risk rises with each drink

Every alcoholic drink a woman has increases her risk of
developing breast cancer, according to the world’s largest
study of women’s tobacco and alcohol use.

Women are drinking more, and if the trend continues it will
affect cancer rates in this country.

Source:- The Herald Wednesday 13 November page 3

Pledge over gay bullying in schools

The Scottish executive has pledged to put an end to homophobic
bullying in schools.

Source:- The Herald Wednesday 13 November page 6

Lottery winner has tag reactivated

A lottery winner who had been electronically tagged is to have
it reactivated and his curfew re-imposed.

Michael Carroll, aged 19, had his tag temporarily deactivated
because media interest made it impossible for him to go about his

Source:- The Herald Wednesday 13 November page 8

Grilling by boss caused collapse, hearing

A union leader accused of sexual harassment was allowed to
interrogate his accuser at an internal grievance hearing, a
tribunal heard yesterday.

Margaret McAvoy was so distressed at being questioned by Robert
Parker, Scottish Regional Secretary of the GMB, that she collapsed
and had to be taken to hospital, it was claimed.

Source:- The Herald Wednesday 13 November page 8

Prison should be a last resort for the

Prisons should be a last resort for offenders who pose a risk to
the public, a consortium of charities has told the Scottish
Parliament. The charities want greater use made of alternatives to

Source:- The Scotsman Wednesday 13 November page 2

Welsh newspapers

Is This The Way To Treat A Young Family?

A family of six from Cardiff are being housed in a Travelodge at
a M4 service station 15 miles outside the city. The four children
have to take a 45-minute taxi journey to school each day at an
estimated cost of £400 each week.

The Murphy family have all been living in one room at the
service station for the past four months while Cardiff council try
to re-house them. The family were found the temporary accommodation
by social services when they were made homeless for the third

A spokesperson for the council said that they would pay for
taxis to take children to school for short periods in extreme
social welfare situations.

Source:- South Wales Echo Tuesday 12 November page

Disabled face election day access problems

Disabled voters in Wales could face difficulties accessing
polling stations in next year’s Welsh Assembly elections.

Disability Wales has warned of a “postcode lottery” on
accessibility, and they say that not being able to vote in this
way, amounts to discrimination.

But tomorrow a meeting of the assembly’s equal
opportunities committee will be told that councils are taking the
matter seriously, and a report from the Welsh Local Government
Association says that steps are being taken to ensure that disabled
people can cast their vote in person in May next year.

Source:- South Wales Echo Tuesday 12 November page

‘Scapegoat’ was poor manger, tribunal

A social worker, who claimed that he was made a scapegoat for
the failings of a social services department, was sacked for gross
incompetence a tribunal was told yesterday.

Charles Faber was a senior social worker in Cardiff says that he
was dismissed after highlighting his fears that vulnerable children
in the city were being put at risk.

The council claim that he was dismissed because of a “lack of
effective control of the emergency duty team”.

The tribunal continues.

Source:- Western Mail  Wednesday 13 November page 5

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer hired by Spain to reach Asia in 1491; instead he discovered a continent, and in four voyages explored the West Indies from 1492 to 1502. His discovery resulted in Europeans exploring and settling the Americas, and Columbus became both a symbol of the new world and an iconic hero for the age of exploration.

As conservative historian Wilcomb Washburn explains, if Columbus had not discovered the New World, the process of European discovery might have been very different. Rather than standing as a symbol of inexorable forces, Columbus is better seen as a representative of the spirit of inquiry, Christian religious zeal, and the notable achievements of Western Civilization.[1]

Early career

Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian; Cristobal Colon in Spanish) was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. His father was a weaver, tavern keeper, and political appointee. Christopher was uneducated; he learned to read and write as an adult. Then he read widely. Genoa was a great seaport for the Mediterranean. He became a sailor and traveled widely in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Sometime in the mid-1470s, he settled in Portugal, joining the colony of Italian merchants in Lisbon, a cosmopolitan city at the center of Portuguese maritime activity in the Atlantic. He married into a prominent family in Lisbon, but his wife died soon after their son, Diego, was born in 1480. Columbus was a master mariner and adventurer, and a devout Catholic who saw religious goals in converting the Asians. He now had connections to the Portuguese court, important ties to Madeira and Porto Santo islands, and at least some wealth.

For centuries, Asia's lucrative commodities, such as spices, had brought European traders overland. That route was now closed and by the 1480s Portugal took the lead in opening ocean routes to Asia, sailing south around Africa into the Indian Ocean, using superb navigational aids they had invented, maps they kept secret, and excellent ships. products directly.

Hearing many tales of legendary Atlantic voyages and rumors of land to the west of Madeira and the Azores, he studied books and maps. Columbus became convinced that Asia could be reached by sailing due west from Europe. Columbus's ideas about the size of the world and a westward route to Asia probably evolved piecemeal. His conjectures were based on discoveries of islands in the Atlantic (the Canaries, the Azores, the Cape Verdes, the Madeiras), rumors of additional islands, findings of unusual plant material and even human bodies drifting in from the western ocean, and by wide reading in academic geography, including Imago mundi (Image of the World) by the French theologian Pierre d' Ailly and the Geographia the ancient scientist Ptolemy.[2]

Port of Palos in Spain; painting by Evaristo Domínguez.

He accepted Marco Polo's erroneous location for Japan—as 1,500 miles east of China—and Ptolemy's underestimation of the circumference of the Earth. Therefore, he concluded, Japan was about 3,000 miles to the west of Portugal—which was barely within the extreme range of existing ships. In 1484, Columbus sought support for an exploratory voyage from King John II of Portugal, but he was rejected. The Portuguese believed it was too far for their ships.

In 1485 Columbus went to Spain, where he spent seven years trying to get support from Queen Isabella I of Castile. She favored his cause and provided a salary. Once Spain was unified in 1492, Isabella and her husband King Ferdinand of Aragon were ready to fund a major voyage. The moderate cost would be offset by spectacular returns, they figured. They promised to grant Columbus noble status and the titles of admiral, viceroy, and governor-general for any islands or mainland areas he discovered. The office of admiral would give Columbus the right to judge disputes that arose in commercial matters, that of viceroy would make him the personal representative of the monarch, and that of governor-general would enable him to act as supreme civil and military authority.

First Voyage

Isabella furnished him with three ships (The Niña, The Pinta and The Santa Maria). Leaving August 3, 1492, from the port of Palos, he sailed for months without sight of land while his crew was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the voyage believing themselves to be sailing towards their deaths; they began plotting mutiny.

October 12, 1492

Finally they came to land in the West Indies (October 12, 1492). When they explored a little they found the native Arawaks to be friendly and wrote such in his diary: "They offered to share with anyone, and when you ask for something, they never say no."

They found many new things that no European had ever seen before. Columbus thought he had landed in India, so he called the native people "Indians" - a designation which remains common to this very day. As they prepared to return to Spain the Santa Maria ran aground on a coral reef and could not be repaired. Further establishing the kindness of the Arawaks, Columbus noted that the they were so kind, that after the shipwreck, the Arawaks labored for hours to save his cargo, and were so honest that not one thing was missing. Columbus saw the shipwreck as a sign from God and established a trading outpost he called Navidad (after the Christmas holiday).

However he still had the Nina and Pinta, and so he took most of his crew up the Windward Passage and onward to Spain. The king and queen were amazed by the colorful birds and strange foods that Columbus brought with him. Columbus was then called Admiral.

News of Columbus' discovery spread across Europe with the republication of his Letter of March, 1493

Second Voyage

When Columbus sailed back to the new world in 1493, he found no sign of Navidad or of his crew. It is unknown what became of the crew, but one widely believed theory is the local Indian population grew tired of being harassed for gold and killed the sailors. Columbus then built a new settlement called Isabella (after the queen), then left it in the charge of his brother Diego and went exploring. He was puzzled that his maps of the east did not match with what he had seen. When he reached modern day Cuba he believed that this was the mainland and forced his crew to swear that it was. He also discovered Jamaica shortly afterwards. On his second voyage Columbus was able to sail back exactly to the same place as on his first voyage, despite poor navigating techniques of the time period. Some attribute this fact to divine providence.

Third Voyage

Modern replica of the Santa Maria

In 1498, Columbus left Spain with 17 ships carrying 1,200 colonists. He explored Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada and the coast of Venezuela.

When he returned to Isabella he found it in a state of confusion that he was unable to control. Because there was no gold he sent 500 Indians to Spain as slaves against the will of the king and queen. This brought much ridicule on Columbus. He sailed back to Spain to defend himself and the king and queen refused to furnish him with the necessary ships for continued exploration for three years.

Fourth Voyage

When rumors of the confusion in Isabella reached Spain the king and queen sent Francisco de Bobadilla to investigate. Bobadilla arrested Columbus and his brother in the name of the crown, took charge of Isabella forcefully and sent them back to Spain. Columbus begged for one more chance to explore “Asia”. The monarchs gave him four broken down ships. His fleet was beaten with storms and he was forced to give up his last journey. He started back for Spain, but his ships were on the verge of collapse and he was forced to stay at Jamaica. He sent one of his crew to Isabella in a canoe to get rescue ships. Seven months later the ships came and took him back to Spain.

Santa María de la Rábida, Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain.

Columbus died in Spain at the age of 55. He still believed he had reached Asia at the time. The notion that Columbus died in poverty and relative anonymity is a myth. Although not wealthy, he was living comfortably (economically speaking). Physically, he was in pain from severe arthritis.

It is also a myth that Columbus proved that the world was round. Europeans had known for centuries that the world was round. Columbus's disagreement with the experts was that he thought that the Earth was much smaller, and that he had enough supplies to sail to India.

The Memory of Columbus

Columbus has remained since the quest for independence a malleable and durable American symbol. Although ignored during most of the colonial period, he was, during the 1760s-1890s, interpreted and reinterpreted to fit our national character and used to mold a collective identity. This progress can be traced over three periods: as Columbia (an allegorical figure symbolizing liberty); as Columbus (an individual masculine explorer who sanctioned Manifest Destiny); and as Columbianism, a late-19th century patriotic symbol involving cultural and political hegemony and various ethnic and religious identities. During this evolution of "discovering" Columbus, a significant amount of material culture surfaced in American art, monuments, coinage, and in various civic events. This led to a multiple set of uses of Columbus as a model or official icon by various organizations to help shape their identities. The discovery of Columbus also grew as new methods of communication and the development of various media in the visual arts replaced the oral tradition and elementary school prose of the 18th century. This adaption of Columbus as a national symbol created conflicting contexts for many, such as Protestants ignoring Columbus's Catholicism. All three periods signify steps in the nation's search for self-identity.[3]

Christopher Columbus at the court of the Spanish Catholic Kings by Juan Cordero.

In the 19th century the works of historians Washington Irving, George Bancroft, and William Prescott created the scholarly foundations for American celebration of Columbus's achievements. Irving created a highly romantic description of Columbus's landing in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828). 19th century American painters and graphic artists conjured up romantic images to match those found in the book. The image portrayed in Irving's book and by the artists shows Columbus finding a sparsely populated virgin land inhabited by lightly clothed "savages" to whom he introduced a "superior" culture and the blessings of Christianity. The mythical image also claims that Columbus planted the seeds of future American economic prosperity.

Americans celebrated Columbus's discovery of the New World and built numerous monuments to him in the late 19th century. The city of Columbus, Ohio was established in 1812. In addition, cities and towns, streets and health facilities, libraries, universities, schools, and in modern times sport teams bearing his name are symbols of his American stature. Columbus Day, is a national holiday in the United States, proclaimed so in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primarily at the behest of Catholics and the fast growing Italian immigrant community who wanted a national holiday of celebration.

By the quincentenary celebration of his discovery in 1992, Columbus stood accused of genocide and ecocide. Columbus Day became controversial in the 1970s, as a matter of white guilt regarding the mistreatment of Native Americans. The main accuser was Colorado professor Ward Churchill (who was fired in 2007 for academic misconduct and falsifying history); he compared Columbus to Nazi Holocaust sponsor Heinrich Himmler, pointing to the genocidal outcome of Columbus's brutal practices in the Caribbean.

Columbus did return to Spain with a number of Indian slaves, and that slave labor was used in his quest for gold. Native populations died out primarily because of exposure to new Old World diseases.[4]

Leftist protesters of the 1992 quincentennial celebrations of frequently used the term "genocide" to describe European treatment of the Indians, but they never defined genocide or provided sound evidence that Europeans practiced genocide. Historians should recognize the legitimate emotional source of these complaints, but counsel against the use of moral blackmail by groups who have something to gain from characterizing European treatment of Indians as genocidal. Historians should work to destroy "maleficent myths" about the past and expose complex origins of "current fortunes and misfortunes" without holding the descendants of those who wronged other peoples accountable for the deeds of their ancestors.[5]

Besides the District of Columbia, and the province of British Columbia (Canada), numerous cities are named after Columbus, notably in Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Ohio.

Legacy of Columbus

Columbus was a devout Christian, according to the teachings of Spanish church at the time. A fact that is often downplayed and ignored is that he was rumored to never have sworn—something unusual for a sailor at that time. On his ship his shipmates would frequently engage in religious worship. After his death it was thought he should have been named a saint for bringing the Christian faith to half the known world while Spain sent thousands of missionaries to the America's. It is because of Columbus that Latin American has the highest number of professing Christians.[6]

Thanks to the left-wing history book A People's History of the United States by communist Howard Zinn, however, Columbus had been falsely demonized by anti-American scholars as being a slave-trader, a mass-murderer against Native Americans, and a man who, were he alive in the current age, would have been tried for crimes against humanity.

Further reading

  • Bedini Silvio A., ed. Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia (1991); 787pp articles by 350 scholars; a major resource
    • Bedini Silvio A. Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration (1998); 824pp encyclopedia
  • Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible (2nd ed. 2001), 128pp; good, short, scholarly
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (1942), 691pp; the best biography; written by an eminent conservative historian excerpt and text search
  • Phillips, Carla Rahn. The Worlds of Christopher Columbus (1993) 340 pages, excellent popular biography
  • online books about Columbus
  • Taviani, Paolo Emilio. Columbus, The Great Adventure: His Life, His Times, and His Voyages (1991), by the leading Italian expert
  • Watts, Pauline Moffitt. "Prophecy and Discovery: On the Spiritual Origins of Christopher Columbus's 'Enterprise of the Indies'". American Historical Review, Vol. 90, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 73–102; emphasizes complex religious motivations in JSTOR
  • Wilford, John Noble. The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy (1991), the best popular biography; very well written

  • Axtell, James. "Columbian Encounters: 1992-1995." William And Mary Quarterly 1995 52(4): 649-696. online edition; also in JSTOR, leading scholar reviews the major publications
  • Axtell, James. "The Moral Dimensions of 1492," Historian 1993 56(1): 17-28. 0018-2370
  • Bushman, Claudia L. America Discovers Columbus: How an Italian Explorer Became an American Hero. (1992). 217 pp.
  • Davidson, Miles H. Columbus Then and Now: A Life Reexamined. (1997). 609 pp.
  • Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. (1990). 453 pp. nasty attack from the Left
  • Schlereth, Thomas J. "Columbia, Columbus, And Columbianism." Journal of American History 1992 79(3): 937-968. in JSTOR
  • Summerhill, Stephen J. and John Alexander Williams. Sinking Columbus: Contested History, Cultural Politics, and Mythmaking during the Quincentenary. (2000). 219 pp.
  • additional bibliography

See also

External links

  1. Wilcomb E. Washburn, "Columbus: Agent Of The Inevitable?" Continuity 1992 (16): 57-63. 0277-1446
  2. The people Columbus dealt with all knew the earth was round.
  3. Thomas J. Schlereth, "Columbia, Columbus, And Columbianism." Journal of American History 1992 79(3): 937-968. in JSTOR
  4. History of Columbus Day
  5. James Axtell, "The Moral Dimensions of 1492," Historian 1993 56(1): 17-28. 0018-2370


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In Defenders of Wildlife v. Chertoff, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92648 (D.D.C. Dec. 18, 2007), the federal district court for the District of Columbia considered and rejected a challenge to the jurisdiction-stripping provision of the REAL ID Act, by which the Secretary of Homeland Security can execute a waiver of the applicability of all federal laws to a security project. In this case the waiver applied to a border-security project in Arizona, which included building a fence.[1]

Plaintiffs Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club initially brought this lawsuit to challenge defendants' compliance with several environmental statutes with respect to the construction of physical barriers and roads along the U.S.-Mexico Border within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area ("SPRNCA") in Arizona. Plaintiffs then amended their complaint to allege that the Secretary of Homeland Security's waiver of numerous federal environmental laws under section 102 of the REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-13, 119 Stat. 231, 306, 8 U.S.C. § 1103 note, is unconstitutional.

The Court held that the waiver does not offend the principles of separation of powers or the Nondelegation doctrine, rejected plaintiffs' constitutional attack, and granted defendants' motion to dismiss.


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Misery index

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The misery index is an economic indicator that adds the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. Created by economist Arthur Okun, the index is based on the assumption that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country. A combination of rising inflation and more people of out of work implies a deterioration in economic performance and a rise in the misery index.

During the Presidential campaign of 1976, Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter, made frequent references to the misery index, which by the summer of 1976 was at 13.57%. Carter stated that no man responsible for giving a country a misery index that high, had a right to even ask to be President of the United States. He won the 1976 election. However, by 1980, when President Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. Carter lost the election to Reagan in a landslide.

  • The lowest recorded value for the American misery index was 2.97% (July, 1957). The highest value for the misery index was 21.98% (June, 1980).
  • The misery index during the first term of the administration of President George W. Bush was better than it had been in most years since World War II. By the end of 2004 it was 7.4, which is lower than it had been in every one of President Bill Clinton's first four years. It was at 8.4 when Clinton won another term in 1996.

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Healthier School Dinners Linked To Improved Results

Delegates at a recent London conference celebrated the success of a project that has demonstrated the link between healthy school dinners, improved behaviour and academic achievement.

The Food For Life Partnership (FFLP) project was established to help promote healthier food for schoolchildren and also to connect them with the environment and the source of that food. So far the project has helped to transform almost 4,000 schools that have taken part.

One of the project’s greatest supporters is celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. He has been really encouraged by its success and believes that the evidence demonstrates what the best teachers already knew – that school meals and food education don’t just influence children’s health, it also aids concentrated and success at school.

The conference, which was jointly hosted by the Faculty of Public Health and the FFLP, heard evidence from an impartial evaluation by Cardiff University and the University of the West of England.

This demonstrated that;

  • The number of primary schools receiving an outstanding Ofsted rating more than doubled following their participation in the FFLP project. Head teachers also reported a beneficial impact on the attention, attainment and behaviour of pupils.
  • The proportion of children eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day increased following participation in the project. In addition, almost fifty percent of parents reported that family was eating more sustainable and healthier food.
  • The take-up of free school meals increased by thirteen percent in participating schools.
  • Almost seventy percent of school inspectors felt that the project had helped to support pupil’s wellbeing and personal development.

A spokeswoman for the FFLP explained that these findings prove that the project is not only helping to improve the diet of schoolchildren but it is also having a positive effect on attainment and behaviour.

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