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How we shop hurts endangered species

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PARIS: The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods - an expresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago - can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers said Wednesday.
Lynx cubs at the captive breeding center of the Donana National Park, southern Spain. (AFP Photo/Ho Iberian Lynx Conservation Breeding Programme)

Crunching huge amounts of data, they unveiled a global "threat map" detailing the impact on endangered species of exports to the United States, China, Japan and the European Union.

To procure beans for that coffee or tofu, for example, forests have been cleared in Sumatra, Indonesia and in Brazil's Mato Grosso, adding incrementally to the habitat loss driving dozens of animals and plants towards extinction.

The global supply chain of manufactured goods - from iPhones to Ikea furniture - can also contribute to wildlife decline.

Focusing on nearly 7,000 land and marine species classified as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the researchers traced "hotspots" of biodiversity loss to hundreds of commodities and their distant markets.

In earlier work, they concluded that 30 per cent of worldwide species threats are due to international trade.

The new study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, reveals which nations' consumers drive species loss most. It also suggests where conservation efforts should be focused.

Currently, 90 per cent of the more than US$6 billion (€5.75 billion) mobilised each year for species conservation is spent within rich nations where money is raised.

"Yet these countries are rarely where threat hotspots lie," said senior author Keiichiro Kanemoto, a professor at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Japan.

The study provides tools to calculate what percentage of the species threat in one country is due to consumption of goods in another, he told AFP.

About 2 per cent of the total threat to the endangered stub-footed toad in Brazil, for example, can be attributed directly to logging linked to goods exported to the United States.

Timber harvested in Malaysia and exported mainly to the EU and China has similarly robbed the Asian elephant, the greater spotted eagle and the Sun bear of habitat. And forests cleared in southern Brazil's highlands for beef production encroaches on the woolly spider monkey, along with many other species.

"We identified biodiversity threat hotspots that are predominantly driven by just a small number of countries," Kanemoto told AFP. "This should make it easier to initiate direct collaborations between producers and consumers."

Finding new solutions for species loss has become urgent. Earth has entered a "mass extinction event" in which animals and plants are disappearing up to 1,000 times more quickly than just a few centuries ago, according to scientists.

There have only been six such wipeouts in the last half-billion years, some claiming up to 95 percent of all lifeforms.

Trade-related threats to wildlife can be indirect, and occur in unexpected places.

A large and growing demand for olive oil from Spain and Portugal, for example, could help push the endangered Iberian lynx into oblivion due to the construction of dams to control irrigation.

The calculations do not cover illegal trade in wildlife, such as ivory from elephant tusks or rare birds and reptiles sold as pets.

On paper, many threatened animals and plants are protected under the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). But cross-border traffic, worth up to US$150 billion a year, in these species - live or as body parts - remains brisk.

Nor do they take into account other factors such as urban sprawl, local hunting for food, or climate change.

The study found that trade-related threats are highly concentrated geographically, at both ends of trade routes.

For those driven by US consumption, for example, the 5 per cent of land area most affected accounts for nearly a quarter of the country's total impact.

In the oceans, the 5 per cent of area most affected by US appetites includes more than 60 per cent of threatened species habitats.

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23 December 2010

Happy Christmas and all the Best for 2011!

Besides all those nice and friendly elderly Father Christmases and Santa Clauses in the western world, Iceland has a totally different tradition in this regard. So if you are fed up with Coca Cola like Santas, you may alway visit the Icelandic Yule Lads at the National Museum of Iceland  during Christmas season.

The thirteen Yule Lads ("Jolasveinar") and their parents, ogress Gryla and Leppaludi, are very special. Mother Gryla, for example, is known for putting misbehaving children in her sack and taking them with her to the mountains, where the family lives in caves throughout the year. Before christmas the Lads come down from the mountains into civilisation one by one, the first 13 days befor christmas, i.e. on 12 December, so that they are all in the city on 24 December.

They do not behave very well at all and each of them has a certain bad habbit that characterizes him and gives him his name. They do not wear the clean red and white attire of Santa Claus but old-fashioned ugly farmer cloths. Their names and order of appearance is:

Stekkjastaur (Sheep Cot Dolt, disturbes the sheep in the cot, 12 Dec)
Giljagaur (Gully Gawn, gets milk from the cows, 13 Dec)
Stúfur (Stump, snatches eatable things in the kitchen, 14 Dec)
Þvörusleikir (Ladle Licker, licks ladles of well smelling pots, 15 Dec)
Pottasleikir (Pot Cleaner, eats brunt food layers from the pots, 16 Dec)
Askasleikir (Food Bowl Licker, gets food rests left by children, 17 Dec)
Hurðaskellir (Door Slammer, slams doors throughout the night, 18 Dec)
Skyrgámur (Skyr Gobbler, steals skyr from the larders, 19 Dec)
Bjúgnakrækir (Sausage Picker, steals well-tasting sausages, 20 Dec)
Gluggagægir (Peeping Tom, makes faces to scare children, 21 Dec)
Gáttaþefur (Door Sniffer, sniffes for food in the houses, 22 Dec)
Ketkrókur (Meat Hook, hooks smoked lamb from the stove, 23 Dec)
Kertasníkir (Candle Beggar, snatches candles from the children, 24 Dec)

After they have all gathered and entertained people on Christmas eve, they return to the mountains again one by one until 6 January (Epiphany) when the Icelanders celebrate by bonfires and fireworks the end of Christmas and the beginning of that time of the year, when the elves return on horesback.

But if you are into patents even in regard to Christmas, you may consider the Father Christmas innovation story or the Christmas lights innovation history on the PatSnap blog or check out further Christmas patents. If you are more into social media, the "digital story of nativity" on YouTube might be something for you.

Happy Christmas and all the best for 2011!

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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Stonehenge Spring Equinox Access will be on Saturday 21st March 2015

English Heritage will welcome people to Stonehenge to celebrate the Spring Equinox on Saturday 21st March.

The Spring Equinox at Stonehenge, England, United Kingdom is on Friday, 20th March 2015 @ 22:45 GMT, however as the astronomical timing is closer to midnight, managed open access will be on the next day (Saturday 21st March).  This will be from first light (approximately 05:45am) until 08:30am.

What are Equinoxes?As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north to south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the changing orientation of the Earth's tilted rotation axes. The dates of zero tilt of the Earth's equator correspond to the Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox.
Equinoxes occur when the axis of rotation of the earth (i.e. the line form the N to S poles) is exactly parallel to the direction of motion of the earth around the sun. This happens on just two days of the year, the spring and autumn equinoxes. This means that day length is exactly the same (12 hours) at all points on the earth's surface on these days (except right at each pole, where it will be about to change from permanent light to dark, or vice versa).
Where does the name Equinox come from?
The name is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because at the equinox the night and day are nearly equally long.
The Spring Equinox
The Spring Equinox is the first day of spring season and occurs when the sun passes the equator moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again.
Day and night have approximately the same length.
Spring Equinox is near 20th March.

Equinoxes do not always occur on the same day each year, and generally will occur about 6 hours later each year, with a jump of a day (backwards) on leap years.
Why do the equinoxes not always occur on the same day each year?
The reason is due to the time the Earth takes to go around the Sun and our calendar.
The Earth takes approximately 365.25 days to go around the Sun, yet our year is 365 days. Every 4 years, we have a leap year where another day is added to our calendar to make up for the 4 missing quarters. It is important to do this so that there is not a gradual drift of date through the seasons.
For the same reason the precise time of the equinoxes are not the same each year.

Stonehenge Tour Guide

Friday, 13 February 2015

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6 – 21 May 2016

Vivid Projects presents NOISE + NOSTALGIA, a season exploring the Post-Punk aesthetic in moving image and sound. Comprising film exhibition, screenings and live events, the season features key artists working with film between 1979-87 and examines the means by which moving image culture, it’s making and meaning was disrupted after punk.

Provocative and daring work features throughout, and we are delighted to present the Birmingham premiere of the full touring programme ‘This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk’, in partnership with LUX and the BFI National Archive. Screenings will take place each week as part of the gallery exhibition and include rare Super8 and 16mm films – unseen for a generation – digitally remastered by the BFI National Archive.

The ‘Post-Punk’ aesthetic experiment remains a key influence in artist film and music through the use of found footage, sampling, appropriation, industrial ambience, scratch video and provocative thinking about self and the body. The programme features a wide selection of artists including John Maybury, Gorilla Tapes, Richard Heslop, Isaac Julien, Sophie Muller, The Neo-Naturists, George Barber, Grayson Perry, Tim Pope, John Scarlett-Davies, John Smith, Cordelia Swann and Jill Westwood. NOISE + NOSTALGIA demonstrates how the subculture of the eighties emerges; an increasingly confident and critical remaking of the visual and political environment against a backdrop of mainstream complacency and urban despair. The aesthetic impact of television on visual culture permeates throughout, with artists and film-makers plundering mainstream media for samples and bypassing copyright and censorship, using scratch video and bricolage to subvert the material. These tactics resonate sharply today with free culture ethics and the restrictions of copyright.

UK art schools were key players. Enabled by access to U-matic tape, Super8 film and video technologies, experimental moving image flourished. Daniel Landin and Richard Heslop collaborated with groups including Throbbing Gristle and 23 Skidoo, developing a visionary and influential visual style incorporating Super8 and 16mm for live projection. Artists John Scarlett-Davies and George Barber were key exponents of ‘scratch video’, a politically sharp video-collage movement of the early eighties notable for a highly charged visual style, using colour, music and fast editing in a manner that became the mainstay of youth tv. Scarlett-Davies worked with Derek Jarman on films and music videos, as did Richard Heslop and John Maybury who went on to develop singular work in British independent film.

The screenings from the BFI programme take place at Vivid Projects alongside an expanded exhibition of responsive live event-installations and rarely seen works from the Vivid Projects archive. Selections include the remastered Seven Songs: 23 Skidoo (Richard Heslop), works from Birmingham Film and Video Workshop – an example of the socially engaged work from the franchised Film and Video Workshops across the UK commissioned by Channel 4 – and Fat Of The Land, selected British films 1984-1987,  Richard Heslop, Daniel Landin and Joy Perino. Accompanied by weekly archival picks, new films from Ferric Lux and archival research into women musicians in the Post Punk era by artist Cathy Wade.

NOISE + NOSTALGIA is curated by Yasmeen Baig-Clifford.

This is Now: Film and Video After Punk touring programme is presented in partnership with LUX and BFI National Archive.

Please note: On Saturday 21 May, the exhibition closes for the Psychic Antisthesia workshop from 10-5pm. The closing event, including works on continuous loop, will be open to the public between 5-6pm.

6 May, 7-9pm | NOISE + NOSTALGIA Launch for Digbeth First Friday feat. Ferric Lux (7-7.30pm)

Season launch at Vivid Projects and offsite screenings  across three venues at Minerva Works. The event includes Home Taping (7.30pm, Vivid Projects) Performing The Self (6pm, Grand Union) Through A Glass, Darkly (Centrala, 9pm).

We are pleased to announce a live set from filmmaker John Bradburn aka Ferric Lux at the launch, commencing 7pm . Drawing from English magick, dark art and the industrial scene, the performance references the abrasive influences of the industrial post-punk. Bradburn’s recent events include Magickal Revolutions (Flatpack), and support to Blanck Mass, aka Benjamin John Power, half of influential electronic duo Fuck Buttons. Expect propulsive techno cut with hypnotically beautiful high definition images.  John Bradburn’s short films will be included in the ongoing exhibition from 7-21 May.

12 May, 7-9pm  | Noise + Nostalgia, A First Response Salon

Justin Wiggan, Cathy Wade and Nicholas Bullen interrogate narratives of nostalgia in the Post-Punk era. Credits: UNKNWNPLRSRS text by Jamie Holman and film by James Ockelford. Supported by North Brewery Co. and featuring a unique bottled edition of Transmission IPA.

Museums at Night 2016

19 May, 7-9pm | VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR? | Parkside, Birmingham City University

Screening and in conversation with Justin Smith (Fifty Years of British Music 1965-2015) and award winning film and music video director Richard Heslop (The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, Sinead O’Connor, Queen, Pop Will Eat Itself, Happy Mondays) in collaboration with the Birmingham City University, Parkside gallery exhibition ‘Is There Anybody Out There? Documenting Birmingham’s Alternative Music Scene 1986-1990’.

21 May, 10-6pm  | Psychic Antisthesia

Aone-day collaborative workshop culminating in a live AV performance where participants will utilise a wide range of analogue and digital image making equipment. Led by Midlands based artists Sarah Walden, John Bradburn and Ollie Macdonald-Brown.

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RecoveryFix for Windows Version - 11.01 Launched

Lepide Software, a well known name in the realm of software development organizations, has announced the launch of upgraded version of RecoveryFix for Windows 11.01. This powerful and reliable Windows data recovery software is designed to perform flawless partition recovery in cases of partition damage or when MBR, Boot Sector or File allocation table is lost or even when MFT gets corrupt. This tool effectively recovers data from the corrupt windows partitions based on FAT or NTFS operating systems and even from the reformatted partitions.

RecoveryFix for Windows enables the user to scan the damaged hard disk with its three robust scan modes: Quick Scan, Extensive Scan and File Trace. Here Quick Scan recovers the recently deleted or lost data, Extensive Scan allows you to retrieve lost, deleted, formatted and reformatted files/folders and partitions. File Trace is the slowest mode as it performs recovery from each and every sector of the hard disk.

This data recovery software is ideal software for those, who wish to recover their lost data from Windows partitions. Owing to use of this software, user can retrieve almost all the data that was lost due to voltage fluctuation, software faults, hardware failures, virus attacks etc. RecoveryFix for Windows works successfully on computers installed with Windows OS Windows versions 95 / 98 / 2000 / 2003 / 2000 / XP / Vista/ Windows7 and supports recovery of data from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. For details about RecoveryFix for Windows, please visit:

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7. Recovers data in cases of MBR, Boot Sector or File Allocation Table damage or when MFT gets corrupt
8. Supports recovery of data from EIDE, IDE, SCSI and SATA, PAN, ZIP and USB drives

The Windows data recovery software is available with free evaluation version that allows you to scan, repair and recover the data from Windows FAT and NTFS partition. However, it limits you from saving the same. To save the data so recovered, you must purchase the full version of RecoveryFix for Windows.

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Waco Texas Personal Injury Lawyer | Waco Personal Injury Attorneys

If you have a Waco, TX personal injury claim, Waco personal injury lawyers are here to advocate for you. Call one of the Waco personal injury lawyers listed on this site for a free initial consultation.

Accidents and injuries occur in Waco, TX every day. If you or a family member is injured in the Waco area, call a Waco Personal Injury Lawyer today.

Located in west central Texas, the city of Waco boasts a total area of approximately 95.5 square miles.Waco holds a county seat in McLennan County. Waco is connected to surrounding cities via Interstate 35 and Highways 31, 84.  A regional airport and railroad track are also located within the city, making it easy for Waco residents to travel both near and far.

Waco's population of 124,805 (according to the 2010 Census) is employed in both the service and industrial sectors. Higher education makes up a large portion of the Waco economy; Baylor University, McLennan Community College and Texas State Technical College are all located in Waco. Youth accounts for a large portion of Waco's population. There has been a major surge of growth and development of commercial, retail and medical centers to support the students and faculties of these Waco schools and universities. Providence Health Center remains one of the largest employers of Waco residents to this day. Other sectors of the Waco economy include agriculture (crops and livestock), the oil and gas industry, and retail sales.

Such a diverse range of professions Waco with opportunity; however, many of these industries are also, unfortunately, attended by risk of bodily harm and injury. Personal injuries can occur not only in the military, manufacturing and agricultural industries, but also in the retail sector. A bustling economy, easy access to nearby cities and a large college-aged population can certainly expose Waco residents to the risk of bodily harm. Such injuries can range from the minor to the catastrophic. Should you find yourself in one of these unfavorable situations, you need a Waco personal injury attorney to advocate on your behalf. Call one of the Waco personal injury lawyers listed on this site for a free initial consultation.

What is a Personal Injury Attorney and what types of matters does a Waco Personal Injury Attorney’s practice cover?

Waco personal injury attorneys sometimes get the undeserved reputation of being greedy. Many people believe that personal injury lawyers are only interested in cases where they stand to make huge sums of money, and that they care little for their clients. This is simply not the case. McLennan County personal injury attorneys’ practices cover a wide range of practice areas. More importantly, McLennan County accident lawyers and other Waco personal injury attorneys play a crucial role in protecting the financial and legal rights of injury victims and their families, many times against large corporations. Just some of the matters that a Waco Personal Injury lawyer covers throughout the State of Texas are:

Accidents in the trucking industry cause many injuries in the Waco area. If you or a loved one has been injured on the job, call a Waco Personal Injury Attorney today.

An injury can be a catastrophic event for an entire family, potentially ruining quality of life, destroying a person’s livelihood, and preventing them from working. An Waco personal injury attorney will step in and fight to protect your rights if you find yourself in this situation. Although your attorney will not be able to repair the physical damage you have sustained, it is very likely that a Waco personal injury lawyer will be able to get you deserved compensation for your injuries, which can provide for you, your family, and your medical expenses.

Why do you need a Waco Personal Injury Lawyer?

In most cases where someone gets injured due to the negligence of another person or company, there is insurance to cover the personal injury claim. If you have ever dealt with an insurance company in the past, then you will immediately know why you need to hire an experienced and competent personal injury lawyer to represent you in your Waco personal injury claim. An Waco personal injury attorney can help you negotiate an acceptable settlement or, if need be, take your claim to trial to get you the money you deserve in Texas state or federal courts.

Additionally, proving a personal injury claim can be a very complicated task, particularly if you are not familiar with the legal concepts involved. Even for lawyers who are familiar with these concepts, it can often be difficult to prove causation and damages, and the lawyer may need to consult with a number of medical and scientific experts to prove the necessary legal arguments. Your Waco personal injury lawyer will also be able to advise you of the various theories of recovery that might be involved in your claim, including negligence, strict liability, or intentional tort. In a negligence-based case in Texas, you must prove:

  1. The person or party that caused your injury owed you a duty of care, but did not live up to that duty;
  2. There was sufficient causation, or connection, between that person’s action and your injury to constitute a breach of their duty to you; and
  3. You suffered compensable damages as a result.

An experienced Waco defective product lawyer will know the Texas Product Liability Statute and will know what to do to assist you. he analysis only becomes more complicated in a strict liability case, where you seek to hold the defendant responsible for your injuries regardless of fault, or negligence. In these types of strict products liability cases, your Waco personal injury attorney can help you prove the following elements:

  1. The seller was in the business of selling the product that caused your injury;
  2. A defect existing in the product when it was sold made it unreasonably dangerous for consumer use;
  3. The product was intended to reach you without substantial change from the condition it was in when you purchased it;
  4. The product wasn’t fit for its intended use or a reasonably foreseeable use at the time it left the manufacturer’s hands;
  5. The defect in the product caused your injury; and
  6. You suffered damages as a result.

As noted, a variety of medical and scientific experts might be involved in proving these elements, and an experienced Waco personal injury attorney can help arrange these experts and prepare legal arguments based on your medical records.

Thousands of people receive the help of Waco Emergency Medical Services after suffering serious injuries. If you or a loved one has been injured in the Waco area, contact a Waco Personal injury attorney today.

Your Waco personal injury lawyer can also advise on whether claims may be brought on behalf of your family members for negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress, or for loss of consortium. Similarly, there may be other variables involved when more than one party may have contributed to your injury. In these cases, a Waco personal injury lawyer may decide to bring a claim against multiple tortfeasors for joint and several liability.

To illustrate this point, consider the following: If you have been injured by a defective consumer product, the manufacturer may be liable under a theory of strict liability, regardless of any negligence involved. Other people in the chain of distribution, including the retailer or distributor may also be strictly liable for your injuries. In Texas, joint and several liability rules make any party more than 50 percent at fault for your injuries liable for the entire amount of damages, regardless of how much fault is attributable to the other parties involved. Other theories besides strict liability might also be involved, including negligent design and/or manufacture of the product at issue. This is even without introducing the idea of comparative negligence—that is, the idea that your own negligence might, in some cases, reduce your recovery. This might occur in a car accident case, where you were 15% at fault but the other driver involved was primarily responsible for the accident.

Clearly, this analysis varies depending upon the facts of each case, and proving all of these elements can become enormously complicated. A qualified Waco personal injury attorney or McLennan County personal injury lawyer can help you navigate these difficult legal concepts as well as the Texas court system.

Finally, a Waco personal injury attorney or other McLennan County personal injury attorney can help you determine what your claim is worth and the measure of damages you should seek to recover. Under Texas law, the party that caused your injury is liable for:

  • Past, current, and future estimated medical expenses;
  • Time off from work due to injury, including time spent at doctor’s appointments or rehabilitative therapy;
  • Property damage, such as damage to your vehicle during an automobile accident;
  • The cost of hiring help to perform household chores you couldn’t perform due to your injury;
  • Damages for permanent disfigurement or disability;
  • Emotional distress, including anxiety, depression, interference with family relationships, & loss of consortium;
  • Pain & Suffering;
  • Mental Anguish;
  • Any other expenses that are a direct result of your injury

Waco personal injury lawyers represent not only injury victims but their families and spouses in actions throughout Central Texas and the Waco area. If you or a loved one has been injured, you may be able to recover for medical expenses as well as a variety of other damages. You should contact one of the experienced Waco personal injury attorneys to represent you and protect your rights.

How long do you have to file a personal injury claim in Texas?

Back injuries are one of many types of injuries suffered by Waco residents every day. If you have been hurt, contact a Waco, Texas personal injury lawyer today for a free consultation.

In most personal injury claims in Waco, Texas are governed by the Texas Two (2) year Statute of Limitations. Therefore, you must file a personal injury lawsuit against the party or parties that caused your injury. You should consult a Waco accident lawyer or McLennan County personal injury attorney to evaluate your claim and pursue legal action before Texas’s two-year statute of limitations has expired.

Waco Trial Lawyers may File your Lawsuit in:

 McLennan County District Courts

McLennan County 170th District Court
(254) 757-5045

McLennan County 19th District Court
(254) 757-5081

McLennan County 54th District Court
(254) 757-5051

McLennan County 74th District Court
(254) 757-5075

What does a Waco personal injury lawyer charge?

Most Waco injury lawyers charge a contingency fee. Instead of an hourly rate, an experienced Waco personal injury attorney will usually agree to accept a percentage of any monetary recovery they win on behalf of their client as their fee. The specifics of the contingency fee agreement can vary from state to state and even from lawyer to lawyer within a state; but, essentially, a contingency fee agreement means that if the injured person does not recover anything, then they pay their attorney nothing. You can easily see how this benefits Waco personal injury victims: not only do they only pay if they recover money, but their interests are also more closely aligned with those of the attorney representing them, who will not simply seek to rack up billable hours, but to win their case. Please contact a McLennan County personal injury lawyer to discuss your case.

Hospitals in the Greater Waco Area

Hillcrest Clinic-Macarthur
7300 Bosque Boulevard, Waco, TX 76710
(254) 202-2600

VA Medical Center-Waco
4800 Memorial Drive, Waco, TX 76711
(254) 752-6581

Providence Sanger Avenue Clinic
6614 Sanger Avenue, Waco, TX 76710
(254) 752-2300

Heart Hospital
6901 Medical Parkway, Waco, TX 76712
(254) 751-4793

Waco Emergency Services Contact Information

Waco EMS or Waco Fire Department (WFD)
1016 Columbus Avenue, Waco, TX
(254) 750-1740

For more information on Texas personal injury law, see
Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code, Title 4: Liability in Tort.

Personal Injury Attorneys Serve Waco and Surrounding Cities

Serving clients throughout Central Texas, including Axtell, Bellmead, Beverly Hills, Cayote, Chilton, China Spring, Crawford, Elm Mott, Gholson, Golinda, Hallsburg, Hewitt, Lacy – Lakeview, Leroy, Lorena, Lott, Marlin, Mart, McClanahan, McGregor, Moody, Mooreville, Mt. Calm, Ocee, Oglesby, Perry, Prairie Hill, Riesel, Robinson, Ross, Speegleville, Travis, Valley Mills, Waco, West, Woodway and other communities in McLennan County.

Contact a diligent McLennan County personal injury lawyer today!


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Who’s Afraid of the Inevitable?

Well, almost inevitable, there is no guarantee you’ll make it to old age, but the odds are generally in your favor.  And by the way, wouldn’t you rather see old age, than not?  Think about that.  I look at old age as merely the end of the ride, right before it quits and the operator says, “lift up on the seat bar and exit to the left, please watch your step.”  I’d rather just focus on the ride, the end will be here before any of us realize it, but if you’re still afraid of it, lets continue.

The Fear of Old Age…is it something else?

The Fear of Old Age seems to me to be little more than a symptom of the greater fear of death.  Napoleon Hill reinforces this suspicion when he mentions that there are two major causes for the Fear of Old age.  The first cause is poverty, which we have already discussed here, and the second cause is “the approach of another and, perhaps, a more horrible world than this.”  Also known as death, which we’ve discussed here.  If you’ve already defeated those two Specters, then what makes this one different?

If I had Known I was Going to Live this Long, I Would’ve Taken Better Care of Myself

Perhaps the concern with old age really stems from the fear of ill-health, which has also been discussed, but maybe there is something to add.  In addition to a higher rate of disease, old age offers us the chance to witness our own deterioration.  A lifetime of use and abuse leaves many seniors unable to accomplish even basic tasks before they finally pass away.  I know several people who have noted in their advancing years that they wish they had taken better care of their health when they were young and thought they were bulletproof.

If you are fortunate enough to be a young person reading this, I would take note of that wisdom of the ages and make your health a priority now.  If you are already over the hill, it is still not too late to make healthier life decisions; you will still benefit from them.  Once again, this is something that must be approached with the understanding that one can only do so much.  There is no fountain of youth, so don’t become discouraged when your morning walks don’t immediately translate into youthful exuberance.

So Where’s the Upside?

The truth is that action on your part is going to be the best defense against this Specter; a mere shift in your thinking won’t cut it.  If you do not adequately prepare for your retirement, you are most likely going to experience a level of poverty before you pass away.  If you do not take an active roll in managing your own health, you will experience ill-health in old age.  And finally, no matter how much you prepare for old age, or how long you manage to stretch out your life, eventually you will die.  Those are pretty much absolutes.  The only things that aren’t absolutes are what you will do today and beyond.

I’m sure you’ve heard it said that the best defense is a good offense; so go on the attack.  If you are lacking in your preparations for old age, then get to work.  Look up some healthier recipes, clean up your diet, and start working on an exercise regimen.  If you aren’t set for retirement, cut back on your expenses.  People say they “can’t make ends meet and still save money,” but oftentimes there are leaks in their finances that they haven’t examined.  These are things that you can control, so be proactive.

If all else fails, at least you can take some solace in knowing that old age is a poorly defined, entirely subjective period of time.  You may very well be in old age now, but because all of your peers are right there with you, and you are still having a good time, you may not notice it.  Or, you may still be relatively young, but due to a lack of activity you are ruminating on the fact that old age is rapidly approaching.  If you look at life as I try to, as if our approximately 80 year average life span is just a flash in the pan when compared to the whole period of human existence, then you should already be living with a sense of purpose and urgency.  Getting old shouldn’t cause you any trepidation; wasting the time you have available to you right now most definitely should.

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Autumn 2017

Had quite a lot on on here recently with some great bands coming through the Studio!

First up I had Juniper Grave in recording their first demo tracks. We tracked pretty much everything in a day, with Vocals being the only overdub. Really enjoyed working on this and if you’re into Occult blues rock with a slice of doom then check them out!!

Next in were Inverness’ finest, Slioch. Back in to record their second EP with me. Always fun to work with these guys & the new EP turned out Great!

I also had Michael Branagh back in working on a his new song Autmnal!

Lastly, I have had NNGNN back in mixing a live show they had recorded London. Quite intense stuff to work on but it’s sounding pretty good so far… Will update with details when I have them.

Looking forward a couple of weeks & I have Dolour & Black Market Tyrants coming in to the Studio 🙂

Gareeda – The Director’s Half-Cut

This week see’s the official release of the new Gareeda record “The Director’s Half-Cut”.

A selection of older songs the band wanted to re-record along with a few new tracks thrown into the mix. This was recorded here around October time in 2016 but the mixing didn’t get finished until March 2017…. It’s been quite a long road with this one but it turned out pretty good!

Check it out below

Psychotic Depression – Thirty Hours Work Or Less

February 2017 saw Psychotic Depression coming into the studio to record their debut ep ‘Thirty Hours Work Or Less’.

The guys fairly rattled through the recording process and the mixing was completed fairly quickly aswell!

I’m really happy with how it all turned out  & you can check it out below… For fans of The Obsessed & Trouble

A Lake Of Ghosts

Last year I recorded & mixed Of Spire & Throne’s re-working of the My Dying Bride classic “My Wine In Silence”.
It was included on Doom-metal.com’s 2 disc tribute to My Dying Bride which is available now!

This was quite a lot of fun to work on as the whole thing was recorded & mixed very quickly. The guys wanted a very rough & ready sound to counter the usual,over produced sound of MDB.
Check it out & also check out the other fantastic contributions to this compilation!

Somaesthesia – Path Of Least Resistance

Last May I recorded the debut EP for Edinburgh metal band, Somaesthesia. They are a really great band combining elements of post-rock, prog & just straight up heavy metal to great effect.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with the band & hope to do so again in the future!

In the meantime though the EP was mastered by James Plotkin and is now scheduled for a March release through Infinite Hive Music.

The first song has been released and you can check out below or you can check out the video here

Motorhead – Electricity

Towards the end of 2016 Produce Like A Pro teamed up with producer Cameron Webb to put together a mixing course with music by Motorhead. You can check out the course here:

Mixing Motörhead with Cameron Webb

Cameron has produced every Motorhead album since 2004’s Inferno so he know’s what he’s on about. It was great to hear anecdotes & get insights into his techniques on how he recorded & mixed Motorhead.

The last part of the course was the full pro-tools session, including all original files for the song ‘Electricity’, taken from the 2015 album ‘Bad Magic’.

Motorhead are one of my favourite bands & I had a massive amount of fun mixing this… Hope you enjoy listening to it 🙂

Get in touch if you would like any recording or mixing work done.

Of Spire & Throne

Last weekend saw the start of tracking for the new Of Spire & Throne album. 3 days in Edinburgh’s Chamber Studio getting the drums, bass & guitars down.

There is still a massive amount of work to go into this record but it’s shaping up to be an absolute monster!

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WDRB College Basketball Notebook: Cards get rings, Cats champion charity, Forde's new book

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We're three-deep into football season, but basketball is always big in the Bluegrass. The University of Kentucky basketball program gave better than $350,000 to charity in events this weekend, or as The WDRB College Basketball Notebook calculates it -- more than double the amount UK spent on the facelift to its football team's Nutter Center training facility this past summer. Any way UK could classify its football program a charity? Some of that hoops money might go a long way over there. More, by the way, on the actual serious causes the charity will benefit, as the 'Book tips off for another week . . .

The University of Louisville men's basketball team was introduced to the Papa John's Cardinal Stadium crowd during the Cardinals' football victory over North Carolina on Saturday. It was the first time this season that the Final Four team had been honored, and the players had their rings to prove it.

Russ Smith offered a play by play of the new hardware.

"It's got my name right here. Smith, No. 2. Got the Big East (championship) on there, Final Four right there," Smith said. "It's got diamonds, it's got red, it's just immaculate. No other word to describe it. I want a bigger one."

That was a common theme among U of L players Saturday.

"We're really hungry to go out and win a bigger one," Behanan said. "We just have to swallow our pride, stay humble and go to work."

Added Smith: "We all want to get back there again, you get all this, you get rings, you get bling," Smith said. "We all want a bigger ring. We've got the feeling already."

Luke Hancock says he's pain-free after undergoing offseason shoulder surgery. Hancock injured the shoulder at the beginning of the summer playing pick-up basketball, and U of L coach Rick Pitino said he'll take it cautiously when it comes to getting the transfer into the lineup.

"No pain," Hancock said. "Now if I went in and didn't get loose, then I'd have a problem. But everybody has to stretch and get their body right and get themselves together before they go play."

When asked if he's ready to end his long stint on the sideline, including a year out because of NCAA transfer rules, Hancock didn't sound like a guy who wants to take his time about returning to the court, "You have no idea," he said. "I feel like I've been sitting out forever. I cannot wait for this season to start."

University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari told fans at halftime of a star-studded alumni game at Rupp Arena on Saturday that the events surrounding the game -- including an auction and the first-ever John Calipari experience -- had raised upwards of $350,000 for charity.

In his three years in Kentucky, in addition to bringing a national title to the state, Calipari has become one of the state's champions of charity, headlined by the effort to raise more than $1 million in a Hoops 4 Haiti telethon after earthquakes ravaged that island.

Calipari's latest charity blitz will benefit victims of the West Liberty tornado recovery effort, 4 Paws For Ability, the Starkey Hearing Foundation, Everfi Financial Literacy, Samaritan's Feet and the Urban League of Lexington, among other causes. He told the crowd of 10,173 fans at Saturday's event that he hopes to raise more than $1 million with the same event next year.

He also thanked the national champion 1996 team for coming, but said he didn't think it could beat his 2012 champions, and put the issue to a poll of the crowd.

As usual, whatever the result, Calipari's approval rating in Big Blue Nation remains sky high.

The Contract, by Pat Forde

It's a big week for Louisville resident Pat Forde, now a columnist at Yahoo!Sports. For the last year and a half, Forde has been working on a book with former Brigham Young basketball star Jimmer Fredette, the 2011 college basketball player of the year. The book, titled "The Contract," is scheduled for release Monday – and Fredette is doing several signings in Utah.
The book, which is 208 pages and priced at $23.99 on Amazon.com, outlines Fredette's rise from a moderately recruited high school player in central New York to first-round draft pick of the Sacramento Kings.

"I am most proud of Jimmer for making good decisions in his life," Kay Fredette, Jimmer's mother, said in an interview with a Utah newspaper.
"He never forgets the spiritual side and that probably is the most important part of his success. I'm proud of him for not being ashamed to admit that he goes to church every week and tries to live by its standards in a world that has gotten so cynical about that."

Forde, whose popular Forde Yard Dash for Yahoo! Sports is now the most popular sports notebook-type collection in the nation, told the 'Book (WDRB version): "Jimmer was a captivating player, but his relationship with older brother T.J. is the story behind the story. T.J. was Jimmer's guiding force as a young basketball player growing up in very modest upstate New York surroundings, pushing him to excel. Then the tables turned, and as a star at BYU Jimmer became the inspiration T.J. needed to deal with debilitating physical and mental issues. This is their story as much as it is a basketball story."

Another day, another blow to the Xavier basketball team. In fact, make that two more blows.

Half of coach Chris Mack's 2012 recruiting class has been declared academically ineligible to play this season. Myles Davis and Jalen Reynolds can attend Xavier, but must pay their own tuition and are not allowed to practice with the team. According to the school's web site, tuition and fees at Xavier are a mere $15,570 per semester. Gotta love Xavier to bite that bullet.

That means Xavier has lost four players who could have been part of this team. Mark Lyons was dismissed at the end of last season, and forward Dez Wells was expelled by Xavier before he landed at Maryland earlier this month.

Sounds like a great year to schedule the X-men. Mack has only eight scholarship players on his roster.

But the case of Davis is receiving some extra scrutiny. Davis is ineligible because the NCAA is not accepting credits earned at Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts. Sam Cassell Jr., son of the former NBA star and now NBA assistant, is another player caught up in that eligibility issue. And Cassell Sr. is not happy about it. The problem is that eight other students who take the same classes -- the same year -- are still cleared to play. Those eight had already enrolled in colleges before the classes were ruled invalid.

Cassell says his son and Davis had no chance to re-take the courses because they didn't find out they wouldn't be validated until too late.

"The NCAA just wants kids to fail," Cassell told CBS Sports this week. "It's not these kids' fault. The NCAA can't penalize Notre Dame Prep, so they are sqaushing these kids' dreams. What the NCAA has done isn't right."

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim and Jim Calhoun of Connecticut have been the two major gunslingers in the Big East Conference for a long time. Boeheim has one national title, Calhoun three. They're rivals – and friends, going into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame together in 2005.

Well, they're not going to get a chance to say goodbye on the basketball court because Calhoun decided he didn't want to do a victory tour with the Huskies, announcing his retirement last week.
Dozens of people rushed to put Calhoun's career into perspective. But considering how relentlessly Boeheim and Calhoun competed against each other for more than two decades, The 'Book thinks it's important to share what Boeheim had to say about Calhoun when the Syracuse coach appeared on The Dan Patrick Radio Show last week:

"Jim Calhoun retiring probably was more of a surprise (than Notre Dame leaving the Big East) because I thought he would coach until he was probably, maybe 80 at least. I think the thing with Jim Calhoun you have to look at when you take over Duke or Kentucky and you win, that's a good thing. That's a great coaching job.
"When you take over Connecticut and where they were 26 years ago and win three national championships, I think it's … to me it's the best building job in college basketball history. The only one I can compare it to would be Lute Olson at Arizona in terms of taking a program that was not heard of on the national scene and make it a national contender. I think he's an underrated program builder and a coach."
The Notebook thinks the most interesting take delivered on Calhoun's retirement was written by Mike Ozanian of Forbes.com. He wrote that Calhoun's three NCAA titles were a remarkable achievement, but they symbolize a blown opportunity for the Huskies.
Because even though UConn became one of the Top 10 programs on the court, the Huskies did not become one of the nation's Top 20 programs on the financial pages. According to U.S. Department of Education data in the five-year period that ended in 2010, UConn generated an aggregate profit of $4.6 million during that five-year period.
That's miles and miles behind Louisville, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and many other programs.

"From a financial standpoint, Calhoun was a wasted asset," Ozanian wrote. "UConn may have missed a golden opportunity."

Maybe so, but the 'Book would remind you that a lot of those programs would trade a lot of that cash for three of those trophies.

Top Five Frontcourts for 2012-12 (These are from Lindy's Yearbook -- but if you rank them differently, let us hear about it).

1.     UCLA – Pending NCAA clearance of Shabazz Muhammad.
2.     Indiana – With Anthony Davis, Jared Sullinger and Tyler Zeller off to the NBA, Cody Zeller become the nation's best center.
3.     Kentucky – John Calipari is talking to Joe B. Hall about the best way to play two post players.
4.     Louisville – Gorgui Dieng is a triple-double possibility every night.
5.     Pittsburgh – Remember this name: Steven Adams, the mountainous center Jamie Dixon expects to turn the Panthers around.

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(Above: using Pilates principles in a functional surf strength exercise)
My first exposure with Pilates occured after a surf trip to the south coast of NSW, Australia. This area is known for heavy reef breaks and hardcore local rippers. While surfing a ledgy right I took off a little late (and lazy for that matter), was pitched by the lip, slammed on the ocean floor and as a result was left with an unstable lower back. By this stage of my life i had a regular Yoga practice which undoubtedly prevented more severe damage to my back. After the incident I attempted to go back to my yoga practice yet found that i still had ongoing lower back pain. It was not until a friend introduced me to Pilates and 'core strength' that my back pain subsided and I was hooked, immediately training myself and becoming a teacher. Read on to learn what this inspirational form of training is and why it can fix your 'surfers back'.

Pilates was first developed in the 1920’s by Joseph Pilates, a renowned fitness trainer, boxer and gymnast. The key principle in Pilates is developing ‘core’ strength.  This refers to strengthening a specialized group of deep abdominal muscles that support your lower back, pelvis and hip joints. These muscles are usually neglected in most forms of physical fitness training.

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A strong ‘core’ will allow you to transfer weight between your upper and lower body with greater strength, power and speed. This in turn produces greater strength, power and speed through all of your surfing turns with less effort.

The lower back, pelvis and hip joints need to move through extreme ranges of movement during many surfing maneuvers. Stronger ‘core’ muscles gives you greater support and control through these extreme ranges of movement and creates ‘control’ in your surfing.


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David is a great speaker and just draws you into his world and gets you all excited – or at least that’s what he does for me. I listen to him talking about these things that obviously excite him and I want to learn more and share the excitement.

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Ten years ago, the Plymouth Task Force for the Homeless was organized among a multi-denominational group of congregations in response to the death of a homeless individual in America’s Hometown. At Father Bill’s and MainSpring we have worked hand-in-hand with the Taskforce to provide shelter and services to our area’s homeless population. We made progress. Our region saw a significant decline in the number of individuals living on streets or in shelters. Together we created 40 units of permanent housing in Plymouth.

But in the past month, we have been witness to the deaths of three homeless individuals here on the South Shore. These alarming and heartbreaking events are emblematic of an alarming trend. After a 10-year decrease in the number of homeless individuals, we have seen an uptick in suburban communities like Wareham and Plymouth and in cities like Brockton and Quincy. The fastest growing demographic groups are those 18-24 and our veterans.

We made progress fighting individuals’ homelessness over the past decade partly because programs working with this population have operated in a flexible environment that fosters innovation. But our programs have also worked within an environment of increasingly constrained economic resources. Funding from the state’s budget for the 40 programs around Massachusetts that provide services to homeless individuals has declined by 14 percent since 2001, when adjusted for inflation.

To illustrate the challenge, at Father Bill’s and Mainspring we are paid by the state for 126 beds a night, but this year have averaged 255 individuals in need of shelter; and we can’t close our doors when we hit our contract capacity. The average number of homeless in the Task Force’s seasonal shelter is twice what it was just six years ago, despite the permanent housing we created.

This funding deficit has prompted a coalition of agencies to ask the Massachusetts legislature to increase funding by $8.1 million for the network providing basic shelter and services that help move homeless individuals to self-sufficiency. This increase will result in funding levels equal to that which we had in 2001.

Father Bill’s started in 1984, when Father Bill McCarthy saw people in Quincy struggling with homelessness. MainSpring in Brockton began around the same time with a similar mission. The two organizations merged in 2007, and while we continue to provide shelter to both homeless individuals and families, we also offer important services such workforce readiness programs, access to health care, and even 360 units of supportive housing to veterans and other people with severe physical and psychological disabilities. It is these services that allow a homeless veteran to access transitional services or that assist a teenager aging out of foster care to attend job readiness programs.

We are facing a tipping point when it comes to homeless individuals. With adequate resources we can continue to develop the innovative programs that have dramatically reduced the number of people living in shelter, and prevent the emergence of homeless individuals in communities from becoming a crisis. Without additional resources the progress of the last decade will slip away. It seems clear that an additional $8 million is a small price to pay now to prevent a future crisis.


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Coup, Illustrated: Iran, Oil, and the CIA Overthrow of 1953

A panel from Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East
(Verso Books)

In the sweltering late summer heat of 1953, a fifteen-year-old boy who would, a few decades and thousands of miles later, become my father, walked to his older brother’s shop near the center of Tehran, Iran. The streets of the densely-populated capital city were eerily empty. It was a Wednesday.

As he reached the edge of Baharestan Square, facing Iran’s majestic parliament building, and moved to cross the wide boulevard then called Cyrus Street, a convoy of trucks nearly ran him over. Dozens of scantily-clad young women, fists pumping in the air, filled the open cargo areas. In unison, they chanted support for the nation’s king, who had recently fled to Rome.

Three days earlier, a plot to remove the elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, by dubious royal decree had failed spectacularly. But now, new payouts had been made, mobs assembled and deployed, chaos and confusion successfully sowed.

It was August 19th, or 28 Mordad on the Persian calendar. This was the final, desperate phase of Operation Ajax. Iran’s nascent democratic movement wouldn’t last the night.

In most international espionage thrillers, you’re expected to root for the spies. Their clandestine meetings, coded messages, secret plans and covert actions are presented as ingenious and courageous; their dirty deeds are justified for the greater good; their bloodied hands a reminder of what it really takes for patriots to resist tyranny, exact extrajudicial justice, and safeguard democracy and freedom. The spies in the shadows are depicted as our secret saviors, our hidden heroes. They’re drawn in our cultural narratives and national mythologies as the sexy, suave, and surreptitious agents of positive change.

The reality, of course, is quite different. Not only is truth often stranger than fiction, but when it comes to the cloak-and-dagger tales of U.S. foreign policy and spy games, it’s also far uglier, messier, and infinitely more illegal and imperial.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of the U.S.- and British-backed coup d’etat that overthrew Mossadegh in 1953. Considered by many the first successful CIA-led regime change operation and Cold War victory against the advance of Communism in the resource-rich Middle East, the coup toppled an embattled popular democratic movement in Iran, disemboweled constitutionalism and entrenched the absolute monarchy of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East, a graphic novel by author Mike De Seve and artist Daniel Burwen, seeks to illustrate this little-known and oft-forgotten history in highly cinematic fashion. Lines are sharp, shadows dark and stark. Colors are inked in high-contrast, while the panel perspectives are often off-kilter and skewed in Dutch angles, reminiscent not only of legendary cinematographers like Gregg Toland, Robert Burks, and Robert Krasker, but also the violent mid-1980s comic illustration of Marvel’s Mike Zeck and DC’s Dave Gibbons.

The artwork is stylized without being overwrought; accessible and attractive, yet efficient and evocative. Scenery is rendered more strikingly than the huge cast of characters themselves. Cigar smoke wafts off the pages as thickly as the omnipresent dread that lingers in the air and the cynical depravity of officials and operatives at the highest levels of the ascendant American government, the waning British Empire and the unstable Persian monarchy. Sly glances and sideways sneers signal the devious plots to back despotism over democracy, hatched everywhere from the corridors of Whitehall and the White House to the back rooms of Foggy Bottom bars and Tehran safe houses.

A CIA Coup in Graphic Form

Published by Verso Books in 2015, Operation Ajax includes an introduction and epilogue by journalist Stephen Kinzer, and is based on his book, All The Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, a popular history of the 1953 coup. The nearly 250-page paperback is the physical companion to the award-winning interactive iPad app of the same name, released by Cognito Comics to great acclaim in 2011.

Indeed, the backdrop to the Iranian coup was made for a film noir storyboard.

In 1908, two years after Iran’s first ever Constitutional Revolution, English contractor William D’Arcy struck oil under the Khuzestan sand in Western Iran. It was the first time the Middle East’s rich fuel reserves had been tapped and it changed history. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was soon founded and a pipeline laid to a new refinery at the strategic port city of Abadan on the Persian Gulf.

British corporations soon established near-monopolistic control over Persian petroleum. Iranian oil fueled the machinery of the vast British Empire, upon which the sun never set, driving its military and industrial power farther and farther. Shortly before World War I, Great Britain’s Royal Navy was modernized at the behest of and through the business dealings of then-First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, and running on Iranian oil instead of UK coal.

Iranian deference to British interests was extreme. The Iranian government lacked control over its nation’s own oil industry, receiving a mere 16% of net profit from British petroleum companies. Over time, popular opposition to this exploitation grew, and the ever-entitled colonial power fought back. At one point, after being voted out of parliament, Churchill himself was even hired as a lobbyist by British oil companies to press their Middle Eastern interests to the UK government. He was successful: in 1923, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was granted exclusive rights to Iranian oil resources.

By 1925, Iran had a new king – Reza Shah Pahlavi, former commander of the Persian Cossack Brigade. Oil concession and royalty terms were renegotiated, giving Iran 25% of British proceeds. Reza Shah, however, proved increasingly disloyal to Western interests during World War II, when he sought more resource revenue by triangulating between the Allied and Axis powers. The British (and Russians) responded by invading and occupying Iran, forcing his abdication in 1941 and replacing him with his more pliant son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The move paid off in spades. By the end of the decade, the British were reaping at least $100 million a year from Iranian oil – more than what Iran had recouped in total over the past half-century.

The new Shah was the perfect puppet, but ill-equipped to deal with the rising tide of anti-colonialism, nationalism, and democratization in Iran, led by the charismatic – and at times, melodramatic – parliamentarian Mohammad Mossadegh. When Mossadegh was popularly elected by his fellow representatives (and begrudgingly appointed by Pahlavi) as Iran’s new prime minister in 1951, the young Shah and his Western backers realized they were in trouble.

Under Mossadegh’s leadership, the power of the monarch was minimized, natural resources secured, and democratic reforms implemented. In an act of brazen defiance to imperial interests, the Iranian parliament voted to nationalize the now-renamed Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, after the British refused to renegotiate terms to ensure an equitable share of profits that would benefit the Iranian people.

Incredulous at the affront, the British froze Iranian assets and imposed crippling sanctions, banning all trade. The Royal Navy blockaded Iranian ports, threatening outright war if British control over Iranian oil was not restored. London even took its case against AIOC’s nationalization to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. This backfired, with the court finding in Iran’s favor. Meanwhile, English pleas for American support fell on deaf ears, as President Harry Truman refused to participate in crushing the fledgling democratic movement in Iran.

The Coup and Its Aftermath

Then, almost in the blink of an eye, things changed, putting Iran’s burgeoning independence from imperial influence in the crosshairs of one of the world’s emerging superpowers. The early 1950s saw the rise of McCarthyism and the revitalization of the right-wing in both the United States and United Kingdom. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, Churchill was again prime minister, and the Cold War was heating up, thanks in large part to Eisenhower’s appointment of a rabidly anti-Communist duo: John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State and his brother Allen as head of the Central Intelligence Agency.

President Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers (Verso Books)

Together with the British government, the Dulles boys manufactured the notion that the populist Mossadegh government constituted an imminent Soviet threat that required immediate action. CIA operatives Kermit Roosevelt (grandson of celebrated adventurer and American president Theodore) and Don Wilbur, with approval from Eisenhower and his vice president, Richard Nixon, covertly engineered a coup d’etat to oust Mossadegh, preserve the Shah’s authority, and protect Western interests. They bribed army commanders and police captains, planted anti-Mossadegh propaganda in the press and pulpit, and paid prostitutes and pimps by the truckload to shout pro-Shah messages. CIA agents and street gangs pretending to be Communists threatened Muslim clerics, bombed private homes, and rampaged through the city. The mission was codenamed TPAJAX, or Operation Ajax.

Navigating numerous setbacks and surprises, Kermit Roosevelt guided the operation to success in the eleventh hour. Mossadegh was imprisoned and eventually sentenced to lifelong house arrest. The Shah was re-installed as an absolute monarch, backed by the United States and its arms industry. American oil companies – along with French fuel giant CFP (later renamed Total), Royal Dutch Shell and, of course, the AIOC itself (renamed British Petroleum in 1954 and now known simply as BP) – claimed massive shares of Iranian oil.

The graphic novel Operation Ajax covers all this history and more, framed as the regretful, disillusioned recollections of a now-retired CIA spook haunted by his participation in the coup that changed the course of history in so many ways.

The consequences of the coup are legion. Armed with the lessons learned from the coup, the CIA spread its regime change agenda across countless other countries that dared defy American interests and geopolitical strategy, from Guatemala to Laos, Indonesia to Haiti, in the decades that followed.

By 1957, with the help of American and Israeli intelligence agencies, the Shah had established the SAVAK, a secret police force dedicated to brutal suppression of any and all dissent or opposition to his tyrannical reign.

In his Afterword to Operation Ajax, Stephen Kinzer reiterates the main thrust of All The Shah’s Men. As he wrote, after twenty-five years of dictatorship, “the Shah’s increasingly repressive rule ultimately set off the explosive revolution of 1979, which brought to power a militantly anti-Western clique of mullahs.” The coup also laid the groundwork for, among other things, the United States’ support for Saddam Hussein’s eight-year war against Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Kinzer explained:
Years afterward, hostage-takers wrote memoirs explaining why they had stormed the US embassy in 1979. It was all about 1953, they explained. In 1953 Iranians had forced the Shah to flee, but CIA officers working in the embassy staged Operation Ajax to bring him back. A quarter-century later, the same Shah had been forced to flee again, and had been received in the United States. Militants overran the embassy not out of nihilism, but to prevent a repeat of Operation Ajax. Westerners didn’t realize this because we had no idea Operation Ajax had ever happened.

Setting the Record Straight on American Complicity

Despite the tireless (and tedious) efforts of agenda-driven, anti-Iran commentators to rewrite history, there is no question of ultimate responsibility when it comes to the Iranian coup. Reflecting on this episode, Eisenhower noted in his personal journal, “Throughout the crisis the United States government had done everything it possibly could to back up the Shah. Indeed, reports from observers on the spot in Teheran during the critical days sounded more like a dime novel than historical fact.” The president added that upon “the Shah’s triumphant return, I cabled him,” to extend “congratulations.”

“The military coup that overthrew Mosaddeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government,” according to the internal CIA history of the operation, entitled The Battle for Iran, written in the mid-1970s. Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA point man who orchestrated the coup, published a memoir about the operation in 1979.

Despite being one of the worst-kept secrets in the history of covert operations, the full story has yet to be revealed, despite episodic British and U.S. government declassifications of critical documents.

Malcolm Byrne of The George Washington University’s National Security Archive, a nongovernmental transparency project, has reiterated that the State Department is still “declining to publish the relevant volume [regarding the coup] in its venerable series, Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), the ‘official documentary historical record’ of U.S. foreign policy.”

“There is no longer good reason to keep secrets about such a critical episode in our recent past. The basic facts are widely known to every school child in Iran,” Byrne has pointed out. “Suppressing the details only distorts the history, and feeds into myth-making on all sides.”

Nevertheless, based as it is on available open-source evidence, Operation Ajax is a welcome corrective to the mainstream’s ubiquitous ignorance of U.S.-Iranian history, “a blow against that historical amnesia,” as Kinzer has called it.

Dichotomies and Drawbacks

Though colorfully drawn, the story is fairly black and white. It is a veritable hagiography for Mossadegh, who is presented as a nearly superhuman anti-imperial hero. His habit of holding court in pajamas, along with his infamous fits and faints, add flavor to his character. But the graphic novel never depicts Mossadegh as anything but noble and righteous. His opponents, on the other hand, are painted as invariably vainglorious and villainous, and perhaps rightly so. The dichotomy is stark. It’s clear whose side the authors are on. This isn’t necessarily a drawback, however, as it is indeed refreshing and rare to see American and British statesmen and spies so harshly rendered.

Despite this admirable effort to fill gaps in the historical record and illuminate the truth, throughout the book, there is a frustrating crisis of credibility and, perhaps even authority, due to a number of seemingly small, but intellectually egregious, errors.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran – the antagonist of the story, the puppet of Western powers and private interests, the preening playboy, the foil to Mossadegh’s principled pathos and passion – is referred to in the dramatis personae and throughout the book as “Reza Pahlavi.” This is no minor copy-editing oversight; this confuses the Shah with his father, Reza Shah Pahlavi, who is referred to in Operation Ajax only as “Reza Khan.”

Here’s the problem: Khan is not an Iranian surname and it surely wasn’t Reza’s. Rather, it was an honorific often associated with military rank, akin in English to the title “Sir.” In fact, Iranians had no surnames until 1919, when the acquisition of a last name was mandated by the government. (That’s why so many Iranian surnames reflect piety – like Mohammadi – or places of origin – Tehrani, Esfahani, Shirazi, Khomeini.)

When Reza ascended to the throne after leading a military coup that overthrew the 140-year-old Qajar dynasty in 1925, he took the title Shah and aristocratic surname Pahlavi, thus ridding himself of the pedestrian trappings of his lower-class background. So intent was Reza Shah on reinventing himself that, during his reign as monarch, anyone overheard referring to him as “Reza Khan” risked being beaten, arrested, or worse. Indeed, “Khan” was used by his critics (namely the religious working-class ignored by his modernization schemes and disgusted by the rampant corruption), as a derisive epithet along with the dismissive taunt “stable boy.”

Referring to Reza Shah Pahlavi as “Reza Khan” and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi as “Reza Shah” is not merely sloppy (like the book’s misspelling of Mohammad with a very un-Persian “e”), it unfortunately demonstrates a certain lack of mastery of the material and familiarity with its subjects. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, the comic-style storyboard intro to the Oscar-winning film Argo made the same mistake.)

Beyond this, Operation Ajax suffers most when it tries to do too much. The scope of history it recounts is wide, the cast extensive, and the web of context, accomplices, interests, intrigue, and entanglements is unwieldy. While most characters are readily recognizable from chapter to chapter, others are not as deftly drawn – in ink or personality – and mixing them up and losing the thread becomes frustratingly easy to do.

In a way, publishing Operation Ajax in print is a step backwards, as much is lost in translation from the tablet to the coffee table. A triumph of interactive technology, the original 2011 iPad application was beautiful and haunting, rich with meticulous detail drawn not only from Kinzer’s book, but also backed-up by original source material, historical newsreels, period photography, character dossiers, and declassified documents, all readily accessible with the flick of a finger. Sound effects, music, and animation enhanced the storytelling experience, helping history come alive as something not only annotated, but immersive, astonishing and calamitous. On paper, unfortunately, the tale appears confined to the annals of foreign policy, as a historical comic rather than a historic tragedy.

Learning from History

Correcting the historical record, in order to learn from the past and make informed decisions for the future, is more necessary now than ever before. False narratives continue to permeate our politics, while the willfully ignorant and viciously ideological wield more and more power. Bluster and bullying reign; reductive and regressive reactionaries envision and enact reckless policies that will reverberate for generations to come.

And history, even if it doesn’t precisely repeat, still rhymes. Take, for instance, the dangers posed by the new American administration. Mike Pompeo, who is positioned to become CIA director, is a far-right, Islamophobic religious fanatic who opposes any diplomacy with Iran and favors overthrowing the country’s government. As reported by the Huffington Post, this past summer, Pompeo demanded that “Congress must act to change Iranian behavior, and, ultimately, the Iranian regime.” The new national security adviser, General Mike Flynn, is an anti-Iran ideologue who actually told a House subcommittee in 2015 that he supported regime change in Iran because “we, the United States of America, must comprehend that evil doesn’t recognize diplomacy.” Other administration advisers, like John Bolton, have been calling for regime change for decades, encouraging airstrikes and supporting exiled terrorist groups.

On his very first full day in office, Trump addressed three hundred CIA employees at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”There is nobody who feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump,” he told the crowd, adding, “I am so behind you. I am with you one thousand percent.” Opining on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Trump lamented the missed opportunity for imperial plunder. “To the victor belong the spoils,” he declared. “We should have kept the oil.”

“Maybe,” he said, “we’ll have another chance,” suggesting that a re-invasion and full scale theft of Middle Eastern natural resources might yet be on the table.

Trump concluded his remarks by telling the CIA, “I love you. I respect you. We’re going to start winning again, and you’re going to be leading the charge.”

The history and repercussions of the 1953 coup persist today. If the release of Operation Ajax as a print comic will expose a wider audience to this little known but seminal episode, that’s certainly a good thing. Of course, the book probably won’t grace the president’s gilded bedside table any time soon. With Barack Obama out of the Oval Office, U.S.-Iran relations are likely to become fraught again, and whatever minute progress made over the past few years will surely dissipate. And perhaps that is what makes this graphic novel even more important now. It is vital not only to admit the mistakes of our past, as Malcolm Byrne suggests in Politico, “on the basis of historical fact rather than self-serving partisan invention,” but also to correct them. Operation Ajax is a step in the right direction, even if the strokes with which it’s drawn are, at times, a bit too broad.

Originally posted at Muftah.