The Capitol Attack Doesn't Justify Expanding Surveillance
They took our Capitol, stormed the halls, pilfered our documents, and shattered the norms of our democracy. The lasting damage from Wednesday's attack will not come from the mob itself, but from how we respond. Right now, a growing chorus is demanding we use facial recognition, cellphone tower data, and every manner of invasive surveillance to punish the mob. In the days since the attack, the airwaves have been full of former law enforcement officials claiming that surveillance is the answer, such retired FBI special agents Danny Coulson and Doug Kouns. Even many who are normally critical of policing have jumped on the surveillance bandwagon in the desire to find justice. As understandable as it feels to give police even more powers in this crisis, this would be a gigantic mistake.
We don't need a cutting-edge surveillance dragnet to find the perpetrators of this attack: They tracked themselves. They livestreamed their felonies from the halls of Congress, recording each crime in full HD. We don't need facial recognition, geofences, and cell tower data to find those responsible, we need police officers willing to do their job.
It's hard to state just how jarring the images from the Capitol were. Not the violence from the Republican rioters, but the passivity, even complicity, of the police. After a quarter century of activism, I've lost count of how many times I've seen protesters of color and progressives arrested, beaten, and worse.
People speaking out against injustice are met with brutality as a matter of course. But while millions of Americans face violence for protesting legally, white conservatives can break the law with impunity. That's the failure we witnessed: not the angry mob but cooperative cops who were willing to look the other way or even pose for coup selfies.
This is nothing new in American history, but it's rarely been captured so vividly. This is our history, same as the countless officers who turned a blind eye, or even lent a hand, to the racist lynch mobs of the past. This is the same racism that fueled the targeting of BIPOC communities for so many generations. And it should also be a moment of reckoning for American police, not a moment to give them greater deference and power.
This is why it's so infuriating to now hear pundits call for even more powers for the officers who investigate the attack. PBS Newshour anchor Hari Sreenivasan tweeted "Protesters who stormed the Capitol – who don't believe in Covid or mask-wearing… should be easier to identify with facial recognition." But why? Many of those who entered the Capitol gave their name to the press, posted their photos to social media, and continue to brag about their crimes. They broadcast their confessions to the world. Officers should be able to arrest these attackers with nothing more sophisticated than a DVR and a tip line.
If we give into the narrative that we need new invasive measures to solve this case, we will only further accelerate the growth of the national security state that failed to keep us secure from white extremists. Prior to this, there was a growing national movement to ban facial recognition, with cities across the country taking steps to ban the technology. Today, in the wake of this attack, some are seeing a justification for this biased and invasive technology, but we must not reverse course.
There's an old lawyer's saying: "Bad facts give you bad law." And there are possibly no facts worse than what unfolded on January 6. But if we respond by giving police more powerful tracking tools, we know they'll simply turn them on the same BIPOC communities they always target. For the police charged with protecting our Capitol, the concern is not that they had too little power, it is that they lacked the willpower to use it against white conservatives.
Instead, Congress should draw a very different lesson. Rather than responding to these attacks with a new mandate for expanded policing powers, we need to expand our civilian oversight. For years, we've done little to address police discrimination, even as we saw it take the lives of so many Black Americans. Today, we see that the price is even higher: Our unaccountable policing poses a threat to the republic itself.
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Every Aspect Of Our Politics Has Been Corrupted — And The NRA Has Helped Get Us Here
By Thom Hartmann, from The Trial Lawyer Magazine
As the school shooting in Parkland, Florida has shown, what was considered insanely corrupt political behavior 40 years ago is now normal. And you can thank right-wingers on the Supreme Court. Back in 1982, the late novelist Robert B. Parker was hard at work on one of his Spencer novels, titled The Widening Gyre. In the book, a local businessman owns a local politician; the politician then makes tax decisions and real estate zoning decisions that help the businessman. Both the politician and the businessman are working as hard as they can to cover it all up. In 1982 this sort of thing was a major, career-ending scandal for both the politician and the businessman. A wealthy man owning a politician, who, in turn, changed the tax code and altered regulations to increase the businessman's profits, was considered a symptom of intolerable corruption. [penci_related_posts taxonomies="undefined" title="Related Posts" background="" border="" thumbright="no" number="2″ style="grid" align="none" displayby="recent_posts" orderby="random"] But what Parker and most Americans didn't realize was that, in 1982, the die had already been cast and the oligarchs had already begun seizing the levers of power in America; a seizure that would lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. The billionaires doing the seizing of our nation just didn't come out about it until the presidency of Barack Obama, when the Koch Network, Adelson, the Mercers and the Waltons all became openly, and in some cases braggadociously political in their "giving."
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As I noted in my book The Crash of 2016, The American Legislative Exchange Council was founded in 1973, right after Lewis Powell's memo — suggesting a propaganda program to promote the interests of big business and the rich — began circulating through top corporate and high-net-worth circles. That year, too, the Heritage Foundation was created. And in 1977, Charles Koch and friends founded the CATO Institute. While the efforts of these groups have been multifaceted, their most obvious and deadly impact has been on the ongoing proliferation of weapons of war in America, and the denial of healthcare to millions in so-called red states. With the installation of Reagan, big business and billionaires were finally to get the tax breaks and other goodies that they wanted from Congress and the Executive Branch, while waging war on unions and working people. But to Lewis Powell, a lawyer by training and the author of the infamous blueprint for billionaires to take over America (now known as The Powell Memo), nothing was more important than targeting the courts. In his memo, Powell wrote, [penci_blockquote style="style-2″ align="none" author=""]"Under our constitutional system, especially with an activist-minded Supreme Court, the judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic and political change."[/penci_blockquote] He noted, "This is a vast area of opportunity for the Chamber, if it is willing to undertake the role of spokesman for American business and if, in turn, business is willing to provide the funds." Laying out specifics, Powell added, "The Chamber would need a highly competent staff of lawyers. In special situations it should be authorized to engage, to appear as counsel amicus in the Supreme Court, lawyers of national standing and reputation. The greatest care should be exercised in selecting the cases in which to participate, or the suits to institute. But the opportunity merits the necessary effort." In the 1970s, as the US Chamber of Commerce focused on the courts, employing high-priced, savvy lawyers, and flooding the Supreme Court chamber with amicus briefs, a string of explosive decisions throughout the decade gave the #MorbidlyRich what they needed to eventually overthrow FDR's New Deal and to radically reinterpret the 2nd Amendment. In 1976, in Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court (which Nixon appointed Lewis Powell to in 1972, the year after Powell wrote his infamous memo) ruled that political money is constitutionally protected free speech, changing American law so that those who have the most money would have the most "First Amendment free speech" in our political system. And if there was anything that the NRA was getting good at, it was raising money from weapons manufacturers and others. [penci_related_posts taxonomies="undefined" title="Related Posts" background="" border="" thumbright="no" number="2″ style="grid" align="none" displayby="cat" orderby="random"] That same year, in United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co., corporations — as persons — were given Fifth Amendment protections against double jeopardy, limiting the ability of citizens to go after gun manufacturers, among others. And in Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, the Supreme Court ruled that corporate advertising (including promoting M15 weapons of war to our kids) is a protected form of free speech. (Ironically, William Rehnquist was the sole dissenter; he argued that corporate "speech" [advertising] was often deceptive. But the deed was done; Caveat emptor became the new American normal.) A year later, in 1977, in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, the Supreme Court overturned state restrictions on corporate political spending, saying such restrictions violate the First Amendment rights of corporations, and giving the NRA and other interest groups an added lever to use to extract legislation. In their dissents in that case, Justices White, Brennan, and Marshall argued, "The special status of corporations has placed them in a position to control vast amounts of economic power which may, if not regulated, dominate not only our economy but the very heart of our democracy, the electoral process."
But their warnings were ignored.
Then came the Federalist Society, founded in 1982 with millions of dollars in funding by the Koch-connected Bradley Foundation. They built a nationwide network of jurists, attorneys, legal scholars, and politicians to indoctrinate a new generation's legal system with billionaire-friendly interpretations: Corporate personhood is real, money is speech, democracy is not sacred, and organized money should always have privilege over organized people. They also helped lay the case for the Heller decision, which, for the first time in nearly 230 years, found a "right to individual gun ownership" in the 2nd Amendment. In 2010 the Supreme Court wrapped its gift to corporations and gun manufacturers all up in a neat little bundle with their 5–4 Citizen's United ruling. With that decision, America was nearly completely turned over to the wealthy and corporations. Thereafter, oligarchs like Adelson and the Kochs began openly bragging about how much they were spending to buy politicians, legislation, tax breaks, and the deregulation of consumer protections. President Obama called this out in his 2010 State of the Union speech: [penci_blockquote style="style-2″ align="none" author=""]"It's time to require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or with Congress. It's time to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office. With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people."[/penci_blockquote] Hard-right corporatist judge Sam Alito silently (and disrespectfully) mouthed, "Not true!" at Obama, but history shows that Alito was the one in error, not Obama. Right on down to the ability of foreign entities to influence our elections and lawmaking by, for example, the possible laundering of campaign money through the NRA. And so, a few days after Paul Ryan shepherded through Congress a law that confers potentially billions of dollars in tax benefits to them, the Kochs and their friends put a half-million dollars into Ryan's fundraising committee, while the NRA continues to shower him and Mitch McConnell with support. In Robert B. Parker's 1982, this would have been the end of Ryan's career, and the Kochs and the NRA would be vilified as corrupters of the political process. In 1971, only 175 companies had registered lobbyists. By 1982, there were nearly 2,500, and today there are over 12,000 lobbyists just registered in DC. Oligarchs were dumping huge amounts of money lobbying for favorable legislation, although it still isn't really visible to most Americans until tragedies like mass shootings give us an insight into how it all works. As the Reagan administration rolled into power in 1981, so, too, did the morbidly rich oligarchs, who were seeding brand-new right-wing think tanks devoted to espousing the same free-market, Andrew Mellon/Warren Harding ideologies that led to the 1929 Great Crash: massive tax cuts, deregulation, and privatization.
Back during the era of Nixon, Americans understood the power and dangers of corruption.
As Lamar Waldron and I point out in our book Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, when the milk producers association wanted the Nixon administration to increase milk price supports (to increase their profitability by over $3 billion), they hid/laundered their "campaign donations" through local GOP groups and a briefcase with $3 million in cash, which were later determined to be illegal, an event that became a major part of the Watergate-era Nixon scandals.
But that was all so pre-1976, the year when the Supreme Court's Buckley decision ruled that rich people (or rich corporations) owning their own personal politicians wasn't corruption; it was free speech. While it's taken us over 40 years to fully integrate the 1976 Buckley decision and its spawn into our body politic, the corruption of this entirely new interpretation of the First Amendment is systematically taking apart our nation. And has made it easier and easier for maladjusted people among us to stockpile weapons of war. For example, can you imagine Richard Nixon lying about how environmentally destructive some industrial poisons are? Nixon couldn't imagine it; he put into place the Environmental Protection Agency. And he was fine with the fairly strong gun control laws that several states, from California to New York, had in place. But today's Republican Party (with a few very, very rare exceptions) is so in debt to — so owned by — a few petrobillionaires and coal multimillionaires and oil companies that they're perfectly willing to look the world in the face and lie through their teeth about the science of global warming. They're so fully-owned by the gun lobby/NRA that they've made it illegal for the US government to do any meaningful research into gun deaths; they've banned doctors, in a number of states including Florida, from even asking kids if there's a gun in their home; and McConnell and Ryan have successfully prevented any sort of meaningful legislation to restrict guns from getting a vote even when they know it would pass. [penci_related_posts taxonomies="undefined" title="Inline Related Posts" background="" border="" thumbright="no" number="2″ style="grid" align="none" displayby="tag" orderby="random"]As a result, we're the laughingstock of the world, and we lose over 30,000 people a year to guns and another 40,000 a year to a lack of access to health care. That's a lot of blood on GOP hands. Good government was perceived, prior to the Buckley decision and its embrace by the Reagan administration, as the singular hallmark of American democracy. Today it's a joke. In the wake of the most recent Florida school shooting, we find politicians who've taken literally millions of dollars through their careers from groups like the NRA refusing to engage in any meaningful discussion about gun control. Forget legislation; they won't even allow a debate. This echoes the legislators who've taken Koch or ExxonMobil money and refuse to discuss climate change. Or those indebted to Big Pharma who won't talk about reforming Medicare Part D so the government can negotiate discounted drug prices. Or those taking money from agricultural chemical and seed companies who ignore evidence of cancer and other problems with GMOs and the herbicides and pesticides associated with them.
The young people of Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida see this situation with new and clear eyes. They see it for what it is: Corruption.
And they're mad as hell about how that corruption has led to the deaths of 17 of their friends and teachers. Every new assault — be it from an "active shooter" or a corporate raider — shows us how the radical shift in the Supreme Court starting with the 1976 Buckley decision has turned America from a democracy into an oligarchy. Even former President Jimmy Carter came onto my radio/TV program in 2015 to proclaim it: Hartmann: Our Supreme Court has now said, "unlimited money in politics." It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. Your thoughts on that? Carter: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over. The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody's who's already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who's just a challenger. The most effective way to solve this problem is to pass a constitutional amendment that will proclaim, clearly and unambiguously, that corporations are not persons and that money is not "free speech." Groups like MoveToAmend.org and Public Citizen have been working on these campaigns for years, and they're bearing fruit. [penci_related_posts taxonomies="undefined" title="Related Posts" background="" border="" thumbright="no" number="2″ style="grid" align="none" displayby="recent_posts" orderby="random"]Once the power of money is stripped from our political system, the power of gun manufacturers through the NRA will largely evaporate. During the years I lived and worked in DC, several Republican politicians confided in me — off the record — that they would love to be out of the clutches of their wealthy donors. And that they'd quickly vote with Democrats to get free of the need to fundraise for hours every day. This could easily become bipartisan quickly, with the right leadership. The NRA's essentially outright purchase of senators like Richard Burr ($6.3 million in 2016), Marco Rubio ($3.2 million in 2016), Roy Blunt ($3 million), and Rob Portman ($2.2 million) — and Donald Trump ($30 million in the presidential race) — is so obviously corrupt to many of the students in Parkland that they're furious.
We should all share their anger and use it to fight to amend our Constitution to undo the damage these oligarchs and their toadies on the Supreme Court have done to our republic.
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Djupa, kärlek, ingen. Dikter 1992–2015. Poetry collection, Albert Bonniers förlag, 2016.
Djupa kärlek ingen (in English, "Deep love no one") is the result of more than twenty years of poetic study into love and loneliness, bodily sensuality, and the pleasure and pain these bring. In this volume, Ann Jäderlund has brought together twelve suites of poems written between 1992 and 2015 into a subtly cohesive whole that revolves around the inherent negation of deep love – to love deeply is to love no one, to love dearly is to be alone. This poetry is fragile yet strong, mysterious yet inviting, at times brutal yet always exceptionally beautiful. Jäderlund is a poet of the eye –
this collection is no exception and the eye and vision play central roles,as do water, trees, light, colours (white in particular – the colour of life and death). Jäderlund's poetry is deeply rooted in the physical world, and sight is the primary sense through which she filters it. Here, love also serves as a means of contemplation: "You are unknown / but I / see you". A mother and child feature in several of the poems – a sort of violent origin of love that arises at the moment they "stretch each other out" with their eyes. Such is the power of a look – it transforms everything it touches. To see is to move. The same, of course, can be said of language – humankind's sixth sense.
Jäderlund's style and form have been distinctive from the outset, not least with regard to the visual dimensions of the text. She frequently uses text that is italicised or spaced-out, perhaps to emphasise its qualities as text. The reader must not be allowed to forget that text is matter, but matter of a very different kind – the poem is an obscure construction that can never be fully picked apart or demystified. In Jäderlund's case, however, this is a kind of welcoming mysticism. As she puts it: "These are words. Do with them as you will."
The long gestation of Djupa kärlek ingen is evident in the changing form and focus of the twelve suites. The language of Synen (Sight) is dense, containing every possible and every impossible shade of white and painted in weighty chunks with a broad brush. En Narkissosdikt (A Narkissos poem) is rhythmic, hypnotic, and circular, while Ginstfläckar skuren is (Broom-scrubbed ice) is austere yet elegant. Several untitled suites contain pattering, tender poems about nature with a dark edge, while Repulsion Polanski and Kantele till Stina Aronson (Kantele for Stina Aronson) are influenced by film and literature. Common to the entire collection, however, is the tremendous force that vibrates in each of the poems – a force brought about by the collision between despondency and vivacity.
Jäderlund made her debut in 1985 with the fragmentary poetry collection Vimpelstaden (in English, "Pennant City"). Since then she has time and again reaffirmed her stature as one of Sweden's most unique living poets. Besides authoring ten poetry collections and two children's books, she has translated poems by Emily Dickinson, published in the acclaimed volume Gång på gång är skogarna rosa (in English, "Time and again, the forests are pink") (2012). Jäderlund was previously nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2010 for her poetry collection Vad hjälper det en människa om hon häller rent vatten över sig i alla sina dagar (in English, "What good does it do if someone pours clean water over themselves every day of their life"). Djupa kärlek ingen was nominated for the August Prize in 2016.
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The first of the buildings on this site was constructed in 1863 by a prospector, James E. Riley. Mr. Riley built a saloon and bathhouse catering to local miners and ranchers who came here to soak, bathe, and enjoy the amenities.
In 1881, Riley enlarged the hotel at the springs, and the following year began to construct a new hotel that would accommodate fifty people. In September of that same year, Riley died of smallpox.
After Riley's death, Abel C. Quaintance and Cornelius Griswold bought the springs and the hotel was completed.
In 1890, C.K. Kerrick of Minneapolis secured a ten-year lease on the property. He supervised the construction of a large addition to the old hotel structure, resulting in a Victorian hotel with veranda surrounding the building. He renamed the hotel the Hotel May after his daughter.
At the time of the lease, the hotel was two hours by rail from Helena and Butte. The Elkhorn line of the Northern Pacific completed that year brought rail service to the hotel. Kerrick disposed of his interest in the Hotel May that same year to a local businessman. During this time period, the Keeley Cure, a treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, was available at the hotel.
The property changed hands several times, and in 1909, James A. Murray, a Butte millionaire miner and banker, purchased the springs.
In 1910, the hotel underwent a thorough renovation. Murray hired an interior decorator from New York City who redecorated the card room in a Chinese motif and added fancy fresco work in the huge lobby. Murray also hung the lobby's 12-foot ceiling with light globes of exclusive amber glass reportedly made by Tiffany's of New York.
Murray, who frequently visited California, was enamored with the architecture there, and added arches and fountains to the hot springs building plus having it stuccoed. The result was a huge building, resembling a Spanish mission and built in the California Mission Arts & Crafts' style.
During the Murray years, there were many managers of the springs, and it was often closed until someone would lease it. During the early '30's, gambling was legal, and it was also the time of the "Big Bands," so Saturday night in Peace Valley was a big night.
After the death of James A. Murray, his nephew, James E. Murray, later to become United States Senator, became the owner. He operated the hotel, with various managers, until 1940, when he sold it to C.L. "Pappy" Smith. Pappy Smith changed the name to the Diamond S Ranchotel by which it was to be known for the next 35 years or so.
The ranch was operated as a dude ranch, complete with trail rides and cook-outs. In about 1960, Smith's nephew Art Hulbert and his wife Beth, came to work for him and instituted the tradition of Saturday night smorgasbords. These sumptuous meals, featuring baron of beef prepared by Walt Nettick, were enjoyed by as many as 400 or 500 people, with lines extending far out into the lobby.
Mr. And Mrs. Albert Lane purchased the Diamond S from Smith in 1960 and the ranch became a functioning cattle ranch. They also operated the guest hotel, bar and dining room.
A number of other owners were involved with the ranch/hotel over the years from 1965 through 1972, at which time Willard Mack and Robert Ryan from Billings purchased the property and subdivided the ranch.
The next owner, Stuart Lewin, changed the name back to Boulder Hot Springs and had it placed on the National Historic Register. Lewin attempted to make a success of the place for 11 years and was finally forced to close the Hot Springs in 1989.
In his years as owner, Lewin made many improvements to the hotel. Eventually, the property was returned to the former owners, Willard Mack and Robert Ryan.
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HONG KONG — Cooley is continuing its global growth with the announcement of plans to launch in Hong Kong. Leading Hong Kong corporate lawyer Will Cai is joining the firm from Skadden, where he had been a partner since 2014.
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Japan Between Cosmopolitanism and Ritualised Tradition
Viewpoint by Siegfried Knittel
The writer studied German literature and political science. He now works as a freelance journalist and, since 2011, lives in Japan. This article first appeared on the website of International Politics and Society on 5 November 2019.
TOKYO (IDN-INPS) – In Japan, harmony lies at the heart of everything, from politics to society in general. The recent change on the imperial throne, however, has brought to the fore how much Japan searches for its core identity beneath the harmonious surface.
The Japanese government and the governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) were at a loss how to handle Emperor Akihito's wish to abdicate. The Japanese constitution doesn't provide a procedure for an emperor's resignation and there are no corresponding legal regulations.
Therefore, the Emperor's televised announcement came as a complete surprise to the political class, although his desire was long known. He did not want to die as a senile man in office. Instead of being a prisoner of his office, he availed himself of the right to determine his own life.
In Japan's House of Representatives, the national conservative deputies of the LDP opposed the abdication of the emperor. But he had swayed public opinion in his favour, showing a wilfulness quite unusual in Japanese affairs. However, the law then introduced regulating the emperor's resignation is not a general rule. It allowed only the resignation of Emperor Akihito. If someday the new Emperor Naruhito wants to resign, he will need to ask for permission as his father did.
The Emperor's symbolic role
Japan's political class fears every possible change in the institutional system like the devil hates holy water. It's difficult for foreigners to understand the ritualisation of the imperial ceremony, with its constant emphasis on the supposedly ancient traditions of the imperial family – it must be recognised as an attempt at self-reassurance.
The nation as a whole gains assurance through the person of the Emperor. He does not express himself on political issues. Thus everyone can identify with him: in him they can see what they want to see.
Nevertheless, Emperor Hirohito and, above all, his son Akihito, have repeatedly and with subtle gestures expressed that they stand for a shift away from imperialist Japan' policy up to 1945. In 1978, 14 war criminals sentenced to death by the Tokyo military tribunal for the crimes of World War II were taken to Yasukuni Shrine. After this, Emperor Hirohito no longer visited the shrine – without giving a reason. In this way, he avoided a conflict between social groups that would have threatened the unity of the nation.
The new Emperor Naruhito, when he was Crown Prince, showed that he will follow his father's line in dealing with Japan's imperialist past.
His successor, Akihito, has continued this path, even after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine in each year of his term of office, from 2001 to 2006, and even as national conservative circles gained increasing influence with the publication of textbooks that relativised or even denied Japan's war crimes.
The fact that Akihito did not honour the war criminals at the shrine was a clear rejection of their politics. Moreover, Akihito visited most of the countries that Japan had overrun with war and expressed regret over the suffering that it had brought these countries. In Asia, where symbolism plays a much greater role in public discourse than in Western culture, Akihito's gestures were well understood. Any further indication in the direction of an apology would have been construed in Japan as a political statement – which the Emperor is forbidden from making.
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The new Emperor Naruhito, when he was Crown Prince, showed that he will follow his father's line in dealing with Japan's imperialist past. More so than his father, he has the image of a cosmopolitan man. And even more strongly than his father, he sees the need to open up Japan's rigid social structures and to support the diversification of society by standing up for tolerance.
Naruhito is married to Masako Owada, the daughter of a senior diplomat who also served as President of the International Court of Justice. She studied at Harvard, Oxford and Tokyo University. Her path to a top career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seemed clear. When the then Crown Prince Naruhito's desired to marry her, she hesitated for a long time.
It was clear that her knowledge and her skills would not be demanded while at the Emperor's side. Above all, she needed to give birth to a male heir to the throne to ensure the survival of the Japanese imperial family. Masako Owada knew for certain that without a male heir to the throne, without the identification figure of an emperor, Japan's unity as a nation would be at stake. To some extent it was incumbent upon her to ensure the survival of the Japanese nation.
After much hesitation, Masako Owada decided to renounce her prospective brilliant diplomatic career and to marry the crown prince. When she gave birth to a daughter, she promptly experienced a prolonged depression. She has apparently largely overcome this phase by now. The media no longer speak of her depression, but rather of her extraordinary abilities.
However, the high hopes placed in Empress Masako only show that Japan is losing the self-confidence of a country with a great tradition.
She's the former diplomat who meets and greets the statesmen of the world in various languages – without the aid of interpreters – and represents a modern, cosmopolitan Japan. Meanwhile in Japan, her skills are a mixed blessing. Japan's conservatives frown on excessive cosmopolitanism. If it becomes clear that she's more agile than the Emperor in dealing with foreign statesmen, she will draw criticism from those conservatives.
What's identity crisis in Japanese?
However, the high hopes placed in Empress Masako only show that Japan is losing the self-confidence of a country with a great tradition. The repeated emphasis on its status as the world's oldest monarchy doesn't change that. Quite the opposite, the everlasting appeal to tradition and the practice of supposedly ancient rituals are actually an expression of the fragility of national identity. With the Meiji Restoration after 1868, Japan has reinvented itself, but the newly invented identity is still a vulnerable one and must be reiterated in an exaggerated fashion.
Neighbouring countries, which were particularly affected by Japan's imperial policies and fear a resurgence of Japanese imperialism, criticise Japan's Shinto religion as the ideology of Japanese imperialism. Shinto is considered the original Japanese religion. It's the oldest and, next to Buddhism, the most widely practiced religion in Japan.
In the constitution adopted in 1946, religion and state are separated. But there are a number of Shinto rituals performed by the Emperor, for example, during his enthronement. This directly contradicts the Constitution. The rituals include the annual Daijō-sai, or Great Thanksgiving Festival, in which the Emperor makes an offering of sacred rice to his divine mother, the sun goddess Amaterasu. At Emperor Akihito's accession to the throne in 1990, a complaint was lodged before the Supreme Court against state financing the religious ritual. The Supreme Court, Japan's highest court, ruled that the degree of mixing religion and state was acceptable.
Now another such lawsuit is being filed. Most likely, the Supreme Court won't be able to reach a verdict against the conservative forces. Premier Shinzo Abe is a staunch supporter of the interweaving of the state and Shinto religion. The new Emperor Naruhito would hardly dare take a stand against this core piece of conservative politics. And so, Japan's struggle between cosmopolitanism and ideological narrow-mindedness continues even under the new emperor. [IDN-InDepthNews – 08 November 2019]
Photo: Enthronement Ceremony of Emperor Naruhito, the 126th Emperor of Japan. Prime minister Abe made congratulatory speeches on 22 October 2019. CC BY 4.0.
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Rightwing Rag Gonna Make Some Sh*t Up At You About How Hillary And Bernie Are Beefing
'OK, Bern, but I wish you wouldn't call me that'
In a campaign where there's already enough real news to go around, we have to say we're impressed by the ability of some media outlets to find controversy where there isn't any. Last week, the Washington Free Beacon leaked terrible horrible scandalous audio of Hilary Clinton saying back in February that a lot of millennials were supporting Bernie Sanders because the economy was tough for them. This was supposedly scandalous because she said some were living in their parents' basements and unable to find good jobs after graduating during the post-2008 recession. Sunday, Bernie Sanders went on CNN and ABC and said her comments were spot on. On ABC's This Week:
"During the campaign we had our differences, but what she was saying there was absolutely correct," Sanders said during an interview Sunday morning in response to the newly leaked audio of Clinton talking about his supporters during a private fundraiser in February.
"You have millions of young people, many of whom took out loans in order to go to college, hoping to go out and get decent-paying jobs, and they are unable to do that," said Sanders, who endorsed Clinton two months ago. "And yes, they do want a political revolution. They want to transform this society."
On CNN's State of the Union:
"If you listen to the whole discussion that she had, a very important point that she made is that a lot of young people who went into debt, worked very hard to get a good education, can't find a job commensurate to the education that they received," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper[.]
Ah, but Tapper also asked Sanders if Clinton's February remarks about his plan for free college being unrealistic had bothered him, and he replied,
Of course it does, but we are in the middle of a campaign ... If you go to some of the statements I made about Hillary Clinton, we have real differences.
In the ABC interview, Sanders went on to say that on issues like climate change, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay, and campaign finance reform, Clinton is close to his positions, and agreed that voting for a third party candidate would be equivalent to a vote for Donald Trump.
So, hey, what did The Hill do with those interviews Sunday night? They combined them with a fairly routine announcement about changes to Clinton's campaign schedule to suggest DEEP RIFTS between Clinton and Sanders, because now they hate each other SO HARD:
Hillary Clinton's campaign announced Sunday night that it had canceled tentatively planned events with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for Monday.
Instead, her primary rival will now be on the campaign trail Wednesday in Iowa and Wisconsin.
"Wednesday's Des Moines stop was added to make up for appearances tentatively scheduled in Iowa on Monday, October 3," the campaign said in a release [ ...]
Though unclear if it's related, the schedule change comes a few days after audio from a February fundraiser leaked that made public Clinton's take on fans of her then-rival Sanders, whom she suggested were overly idealistic.
The rightwing Washington Examiner took The Hill's speculation and turned it into the lede for their story:
The Hillary Clinton campaign has canceled joint appearances with former primary opponent Bernie Sanders after he admitted that "of course" it bothered him that Clinton seemed to be talking down to his supporters in hacked audio from a fundraiser.
The two were set to have joint appearance together Monday. Instead, Sanders will appear in both Iowa and Wisconsin on Monday to boost her candidacy without her.
Oh noes! Despite Bernie devoting two TV interviews to saying Clinton's February remarks about millennials and the economy were in complete agreement with his own views, they now can't even stand to be onstage together.
There's just one teensy problem with that narrative, according to Esteemed Wonkette Alumnus Dave Weigel:
Oh. Well, that's inconvenient, even if it's factual.
Now, to prove they've patched over their wholly imaginary DEEP RIFTS, Clinton and Sanders are pretty much required to reshuffle their schedules again so they can be onstage together right quick, and everyone will have to examine the video for body language to determine whether Clinton and Sanders are just barely holding back from slugging each other. And if they did, would Clinton's pacemaker, colostomy bag, and catheter all pop out at once????
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Charleston Mayor Is Sold on New Urbanism
By Amos Maki
– The Commercial Appeal –
As Memphis officials continue seeking ways to deal with urban sprawl, Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joe Riley was in town Tuesday preaching the gospel of smart growth and new urbanism.
Riley, in his eighth term, was at Bridges Inc. Downtown touting smart growth to a lunch crowd of about 400 people.
Described by his detractors as a dictator and by his supporters as a visionary, Riley is above all else a lover of cities.
"This isn't a rural country anymore," Riley told the crowd. "Our success, socially and economically, increasingly depends on what kind of cities we have. The city is a place where every citizen's heart should sing."
"He obviously understands everything about city building," said Rusty Bloodworth, executive vice president of Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. and one of the chief local supporters of smart growth. "He's probably as well-credentialed as anyone in the country at the craft of creating great places."
Smart growth, or new urbanism, combines residential and commercial projects while accommodating vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The concept features various-sized and various-priced dwellings built as high-density rates and integrated with a "commercial core" of storefronts and strategically placed gathering spaces – all within walking distance.
Memphis and Shelby County officials are in the midst of developing a "unified development code" for the metropolitan area.
Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton said Riley's approach shows that smart planning can happen anywhere, not just in big cities on the coasts, as long as the public is involved and supportive.
"The biggest thing is that it's doable," Wharton said. "When it comes to our environment and our surroundings, we have to answer to the public."
Charleston, under Riley's leadership, has revitalized its historic downtown area and business district, reduced crime and created new parks.
The city has also transformed its affordable housing complexes from areas where the city's poorest citizens were segregated in dreary public housing to one that was attractive and inclusive. Now, middle-class workers live side by side with the city's elite.
During the past 30 years, the city's tourism industry has surged and retailers and residents began pouring into the downtown area.
When Riley was elected in 1975, Charleston had 1.7 million tourists visit the city. That number now stands at 4.5 million annually.
Today, downtown Charleston is thriving. On King Street, the city's main thoroughfare, Saks Fifth Avenue opened a store. Charleston Place, a major shopping and hotel complex, welcomes visitors from across the country.
Much of the revitalization centered around improving and strengthening the city's "public realm," which to Riley means virtually everything citizens experience away from their homes.
From creation of new parks and the preservation of old ones, to the rejuvenation of downtown, Riley said careful stewardship of the public realm can produce a great city.
"You need a healthy downtown," Riley said. "It's part of the public realm, meaning everybody owns it. When it looks good, then people feel better about it and themselves."
Riley used every tool at his disposal to transform Charleston.
Instead of razing abandoned or dilapidated buildings, Riley ordered them to be restored and redeveloped.
Instead of caving in to the wishes of developers and city planning bureaucrats, Riley simply said no.
Instead of allowing seas of asphalt parking lots across the city, Riley insisted that buildings be built closer to the street and that parking garages be designed to include ground floor retail or resemble anything other than a typical parking garage.
Riley is also a believer in smart planning, the kind that makes money for developers while producing sustainable communities.
"Without it being well planned, you do create a development that is not sustainable," he said. "It's just a matter of good community planning as opposed to letting what will happen happen, which produces an end result that is not sustainable."


Pope Advances One World Religion Agenda: Presents Buddhist Leader with Manifesto
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz December 1, 2019 , 1:36 pm
Thus he said: 'The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.'" Daniel 7:23 (The Israel Bible™)
Pope Francis Meets Thailand's Buddhist Patriarch in Golden Temple (screenshot)
Pope Francis topped off his three-day visit to Thailand last Saturday with a meeting with Thailand's supreme Buddhist patriarch Somdej Phra Maha Muneewong at Bangkok's Ratchabophit Temple. The meeting took place in front of a 150-year-old gold statue of Buddha. The Pope followed Buddhist custom by removing his shoes.
During the meeting, the Pope gave the Buddhist Patriarch the Declaration on Human Brotherhood. The Declaration s a joint statement signed by Pope Francis of the Catholic Church and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, last February in Abu Dhabi. The Pope met with the Imam last month to reinforce the Declaration.
The agreement between the two religious leaders was criticized for its stance on the diversity of religions.
"The fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected," the document read. "As too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept."
Many theologians from both Catholicism and Islam have criticized the agreement as untenable and essentially unacceptable to either religion which both have supersessionism as a basic tenet. While members of other religions may see this as a praiseworthy effort, Catholics and Muslims have expressed concern that this agreement represents a commitment by the leaders to a process that is unacceptable. This is especially problematic for Islam which punishes apostasy with death.
It would seem that bridging the gap between Islam and Buddhism will be an even more insurmountable task for the Pontiff. Islam was founded in the 7th century CE, approximately 600 years after the founding of Christianity and several thousand years after Judaism began. As an aggressive form of replacement theology, Islam appropriated all of the figures in the Christian and Jewish Bible as Muslim prophets. Even though Buddhism was founded in the 6th century BCE, Islam did not appropriate Siddhārtha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, as a Mulsim prophet. This may be because Islam considers Buddhism to be a forbidden form of idolatry.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, noted the irreconcilable differences that make a pact of brotherhood between Islam, Catholicism, and Buddhism unlikely.
"Islam absolutely considers Buddhism to be a form of idolatry," Dr. Kedar told Breaking Israel News. "Islam cannot make a pact with Buddhism. Only fake Islam can sit with Buddhists and sing Kumbaya together."
Dr. Kedar had doubts concerning the possibility of a faith-based pact between Islam and other religions.
"Even though Islam sees Christianity as a religion that they absorbed into Islam, they have a problem with Catholicism which shows Jesus on the actual cross. They cannot tolerate a religion that worships a man."
"The pope is trying to make a global peace, or at least show his followers that he is trying to make world peace. But Islam does not allow a peace with infidels. They can make a tactical retreat or make gestures that look like peace but people who accept these pacts are just fooling themselves"
Rabbi Daniel Asore, a member of the nascent Sanhedrin, noted that the Pope's intentions were precisely as presented, with no subterfuge at all.
"The Pope wants to unify all religions and all governments under one world order," Rabbi Assur said. "What is the big surprise? He is not hiding anything. Just listen to what he says and who he is and his plans are right there for all to see."
The rabbi noted that Pope Francis was unique in several respects; he is the first pope from the southern hemisphere and, most significantly, he is the first Jesuit to be appointed to the position. Though established by papal order in 1540 to stop the spread of Protestantism and convert the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas, the Jesuit order has historically been treated with suspicion by the Catholic Church for being power-hungry.
"You assume that the pope is Catholic but he is certainly not acting like a Catholic," Rabbi Asore said. "These alliances, his actions, are certainly not what a Catholic would do."
"Brotherhood is a wonderful thing but one religion is only good if it is worshipping the true God," Rabbi Asore said. "The pope's vision of brotherhood does not prevent him from sitting in front of a gold idol or uniting with Ishmael. If he wants one religion, we know what God he is not worshipping."
While in Thailand, the Vatican's Press Office released a statement that calling Jewish cities and towns in Judea-Samaria 'legal', "further undermines the Israeli-Palestinian peace process". Although the Pope didn't explicitly refer to Trump's landmark decision, the reference appeared to be obvious as he referred to the "context of recent decisions."
Pope Francis has come under fire before for connecting the Catholic Church with the children of Ishmael. In 2015, 71 elders of the Sanhedrin tried the Pope in absentia for recognizing a "State of Palestine" with an official treaty. By doing so, the Sanhedrin claimed, the Pope was denying the covenant as described in the Bible in which God gives the land of Israel to the descendants of Jacob.
This marked the first visit by a Pope to Thailand in over four decades. Pope Francis was accompanied throughout the visit by his cousin Sister Ana Rosa, who has lived in Thailand for decades and is helping the pontiff as a translator. Thailand is a majority Buddhist country with 388,000 Catholics, representing .59 percent of its population. The Pope held mass in the National Stadium which was attended by over 50,000.
After leaving Thailand, the Pope traveled to Japan. Though he did not meet with any religious leaders, he gave a press conference in which he pursued his vision he euphemistically called "brotherhood." Pope Franci criticized "Christian culture…that speaks of peace and lives on weapons."
Pope Francis has also made displays similar to his sitting barefoot in front of the Golden idol of Budda in Bankok that showed a shocking level of tolerance for idolatry. In October, a video emerged of what appears to be Pope Francis blessing a Pachama Goddess statue.
Pope Francis has also taken on a policy in which homosexuals are welcomed into the church so much so that the American LGBT magazine The Advocate named Pope Francis their Person of the Year for 2013.
Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz is a features writer for Breaking Israel News. He made Aliyah to Israel in 1991 and served in the IDF as a combat medic. Berkowitz studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. He has worked as a freelance writer and two works of fiction, The Hope Merchant and Dolphins on the Moon, are available on Amazon. He lives in the Golan Heights with his wife and their four children.
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New publication: A simulated lagged response of the North Atlantic Oscillation to the solar cycle over the period 1960–2009
M B Andrews, J R Knight and L J Gray (2015) A simulated lagged response of the North Atlantic Oscillation to the solar cycle over the period 1960–2009 Environmental Research Letters doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054022
Numerous studies have suggested an impact of the 11 year solar cycle on the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), with an increased tendency for positive (negative) NAO signals to occur at maxima (minima) of the solar cycle. Climate models have successfully reproduced this solar cycle modulation of the NAO, although the magnitude of the effect is often considerably weaker than implied by observations. A leading candidate for the mechanism of solar influence is via the impact of ultraviolet radiation variability on heating rates in the tropical upper stratosphere, and consequently on the meridional temperature gradient and zonal winds. Model simulations show a zonal mean wind anomaly that migrates polewards and downwards through wave–mean flow interaction. On reaching the troposphere this produces a response similar to the winter NAO. Recent analyses of observations have shown that solar cycle–NAO link becomes clearer approximately three years after solar maximum and minimum. Previous modelling studies have been unable to reproduce a lagged response of the observed magnitude. In this study, the impact of solar cycle on the NAO is investigated using an atmosphere–ocean coupled climate model. Simulations that include climate forcings are performed over the period 1960–2009 for two solar forcing scenarios: constant solar irradiance, and time-varying solar irradiance. We show that the model produces significant NAO responses peaking several years after extrema of the solar cycle, persisting even when the solar forcing becomes neutral. This confirms suggestions of a further component to the solar influence on the NAO beyond direct atmospheric heating and its dynamical response. Analysis of simulated upper ocean temperature anomalies confirms that the North Atlantic Ocean provides the memory of the solar forcing required to produce the lagged NAO response. These results have implications for improving skill in decadal predictions of the European and North American winter climate.
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By Jerry Ewing ( Prog ) published 1 November 21
Celebrated rock author and journalist Malcolm Dome has died, aged 66
Malcolm Dome, the pioneering rock and metal journalist and long-term contributor to Classic Rock, Prog, Metal Hammer and Louder, has died aged 66.
Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981.
His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica, published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988.
In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and has also been a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009.
He was actively involved in Total Rock Radio, which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.
Dome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing.
"Malcolm was a great friend to me from the very first time I met him as a writer just starting out, as he was for many other writers as well," says Ewing. "The word legend gets bandied around far too often these days but Malcolm most certainly was. He had an encyclopaedic knowledge about music and was one of the most genuinely widely loved and respected men I know. I will miss him terribly."
Malcolm Dome at Download Festival, 2014 (Image credit: Brad Merret)
Looking back over his career for Earache record's Wicked World website, Malcolm remembered the era in which he first started writing. "It was a time when there was genuine feeling that we in the UK had the most exciting bands in the world," he said. "These were acts who could take the energy of punk and the class of 70s metal, and take it to another level.
"Suddenly, there were young British metal bands who were confident, powerful and relevant. And it did change the world. The band who best summed it up have to be Iron Maiden – they represented everything that was good about the genre. But what NWOBHM did best of all was bring it back to the roots and to the people. The fans, the bands – we were as one. Such an era has never happened again."
Iron Maiden tweeted: "We are all very much saddened and shocked to hear about the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome. He was fearless, intrepid, passionate and forthright as a journalist and latterly a broadcaster and we respected him immensely."
Tributes have also come from Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich, Slash, Motley Crue, Hawkwind, Foreigner, Bernie Marsden, Mike Portnoy, Black Star Riders, Blackie Lawless, Devin Townsend, Doro Pesch, Motorhead's Phil Campbell, Saxon, Luke Morley of Thunder, Charlie Benante, Derek Sherinian, Dino Cazares, Banger Films, Frankie Kazarian, Metal Allegiance, Sick Of It All and more.
We are all very much saddened and shocked to hear about the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome. He was fearless, intrepid, passionate and forthright as a journalist and latterly a broadcaster and we respected him immensely. pic.twitter.com/NMRWqGT1zVNovember 1, 2021
Malcolm was a lovely guy, he interviewed me many times and was always positive about the music. He was one of the first journalists to totally get metal. We even worked together last year when he helped me sort out my Wikipedia entry. Sadly missed. - Tonyhttps://t.co/Te8hippkxBNovember 1, 2021
So sad to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome, one of rock and metal's great journalists. It was always a pleasure giving interviews and generally having a chat. RIP Malcolm, you will be missed. pic.twitter.com/cmNGQ6bedpNovember 2, 2021
Words cannot express how sorry I feel to hear about the passing of Malcolm Dome. Rest In Peace. God BlessNovember 1, 2021
RIP Rock Journalist & friend #MalcomDomewe'll miss you https://t.co/m8mfEZjj5PNovember 1, 2021
Malcolm Dome: 1955 – 2021. https://t.co/wx03MqSIpR pic.twitter.com/PpPEeFC5M4November 1, 2021
Extremely sad to hear of Malcolm Dome's passing. Not only was he an incredible talent who helped guide my relationship with heavy music, but he was also a great person. Today, I'm thinking of the fun, memorable times we spent together back in the day. https://t.co/9chlIVjSMmNovember 1, 2021
How can we express what Malcolm meant to us.Truly one of the good guys. You didn't only champion us, but the many bands that you listened to & appreciated. A lot of musicians owe a great deal to you. Till we meet again, fly high our friend. Love all at HWhttps://t.co/OddbRv0yQu pic.twitter.com/vRBdkVuE7nNovember 2, 2021
It is with deep regret that we learned yesterday of the passing of our dear friend, Malcolm Dome. Malcolm was a rock journalist and author of great integrity who was a staple in such influential magazines as Kerrang! and Classic Rock.November 2, 2021
So sorry to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome.I knew Malcolm for forty plus years, he loved his music, was an accomplished writer and a fervent football man, so we had a lot in common.I, and all he knew, mourn him. My deepest condolences to his family & many friends. RIP. ❤ pic.twitter.com/i9gw7jnKjkNovember 1, 2021
Saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. I've done countless interviews with him throughout the 30+ years we've known each other and always enjoyed our discussions. RIP Malcolm 🙏 pic.twitter.com/uwJddSPv1ENovember 1, 2021
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. Malcolm was a fine journalist and a fine human being. His passion for rock n roll was clear in abundance and he always told it like it was. Condolences to Malcolm's family. RIP Malcolm you were one of the good guys !November 2, 2021
Malcolm Dome was part of W.A.S.P.'s initial success with Kerrang. He was part of the team that had the courage to put me on the cover when nobody really knew who we were and that cover got banned from all the WH Smith outlets. Rock n roll lost a real champion. — Blackie Lawless pic.twitter.com/IaEmsbP938November 1, 2021
I'm #so #sorry to hear of the #passing of #MalcolmDome. He was one of my best journalist friends. We knew each other since the early 80s. He was always so supportive & kind to me. I will miss you terribly. Keep on rocking in heaven.🖤😢🖤🙏🖤🤘🖤Love, Doro#doropesch#warlock pic.twitter.com/NX41q8Ta6wNovember 1, 2021
Very sorry to here that Malcolm Dome has left us. He was a champion of great rock music and a supporter of @myMotorhead all the way through to @PCATBS. RIP Malcolm. https://t.co/C6v5F2eSqgNovember 1, 2021
We are saddened to hear of the passing of our friend Malcolm Dome.Malcolm was a great supporter of Saxon, and will be missed by all.Our sympathies to his family and friends in this terrible time.Saxon https://t.co/RPHO3v6z0ZNovember 1, 2021
Shit. RIP Malcolm Dome. 💔November 1, 2021
Thank you and goodnight to Malcolm Dome. He was the first journalist to ever write about Thunder and a thoroughly nice bloke who genuinely cared about rock music.November 1, 2021
So sad to see Malcolm Dome has left us. He was an amazing writer, a passionate supporter of UK rock music and a great sport, even after we trashed his desk at the Kerrang! offices. Another very dark day for UK rock music. I will miss him so much. 💔November 1, 2021
Extremely sad to hear about the passing of legendary journalist/writer Malcolm Dome. He was a lovely, gentle man and time spent with him was always time well spent. We'll all miss him, a huge loss to the music world.November 1, 2021
Totally gutted to hear of Malcolm Dome's passing, far too early. He was a supporter of Million Dead from the get-go, always a friendly, charming and kind face, incredibly knowledgeable and a legendary journalist. A sad day for music.https://t.co/TugyUrnaDUNovember 1, 2021
I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Malcolm Dome. I have known Malcolm well over 30 years from the early days of The Almighty right up to the present day. He was a fine journalist and a fine human being. Condolences to Malcolm's family. Rest easy mate.November 1, 2021
Very sad to hear of Malcom's passing . He was a true music aficionado and a damn Great writer. #ripmalcomdome https://t.co/Z2NOGcKSPgNovember 1, 2021
I am very sad to hear of the passing of my friend and legendary journalist Malcolm Dome. He has interviewed me, written my bios, and has been a great guy over the last 30 years. Rest in Peace Malcolm🙏 pic.twitter.com/sBxFz7ThZFNovember 2, 2021
Long time friend and Twisted Sister champion #MalcolmDome has just died. His liner notes are in many TS albums including our new release called #tearitloose. incredible loss of a champion of the metal community. RIP Mr. DomeNovember 1, 2021
Trailblazing metal journalist Malcolm Dome has passed away at the age of 66. Malcolm appeared in "Metal: A Headbangers Journey" and is also credited with coining the term "thrash metal" while referencing Anthrax's "Metal Thrashing Mad" in @KerrangMagazine in 1984.RIP 🖤 pic.twitter.com/BbjANcjRbkNovember 2, 2021
RIP Malcolm Dome. Thank you for spreading the word and waiving the flag of hard rock & heavy metal for over 4 decades. Godspeed sir.🤘🏼November 1, 2021
RIP to the great Malcolm Dome. He helped spread the word on us when MA first started and had this to say about our debut album "...one of the year's best metal albums" in his @ClassicRockMag reivew back in 2015. After all, Malcolm did coin the term "thrash metal" pic.twitter.com/kowVSewtNPNovember 1, 2021
So sad to hear this. R.I.P. Malcolm Dome, Veteran Music Journalist Who Coined the Term "Thrash Metal" Dies at 66 https://t.co/T94CxP2peENovember 2, 2021
Tony Wilson of TotalRock commented: "Malcolm was a key part of Total Rock, joining us before we were even called TotalRock. He was part of our DNA and his absence among us will leave a void that no other can fill."
Orange Goblin's Ben Ward paid tribute on Facebook: "Malcolm was a great friend, a true inspiration and legend of the Heavy Metal world, THE best music journalist ever, someone's whose opinion I always valued and just a lovely, humble, intelligent, kind, generous and very funny man."
Mark Powell of Esoteric records, for whom Dome wrote sleevenotes, commented: "Malcolm was one of life's kind and charming people and his encyclopaedic knowledge of rock music knew no limits. My heartfelt condolences to his friends and family. Will miss you very much Malcolm, so will the world of music journalism."
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Today we lost another legend, Malcolm Dome is a great journalist who's written many stories on Fear Factory since 1992 R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/BsJYFi0xBKNovember 1, 2021
Jerry Ewing
Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock, as well as sleevenotes for many major record labels. He lives in North London and happily indulges a passion for AC/DC Chelsea Football Club and Sydney Roosters.
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Chair's 3 Minutes · National Association of Counties
Historic national leadership opportunity for Maui County
Published in The Maui News July 6, 2014
By GLADYS C. BAISA, for The Maui News
County Council members are headed to New Orleans this week to confer with county officials and policy experts from across the country and celebrate the installation of our colleague Riki Hokama as president of the National Association of Counties.
NACo's annual conference provides a historic opportunity for the County of Maui to provide leadership on the national level as Hokama, who holds the council's Lanai residency seat, takes charge of the organization that represents 3,069 counties.
Hokama announced that transportation will be the theme for his one-year presidency. He will seek reauthorization of the federal transportation bill known as MAP-21 and pursue other initiatives supporting counties' needs for highways, transit and other components of intermodal transportation.
Conference attendees will learn about programs to foster employee wellness, means of becoming more self-reliant through economic diversification and tips on accessing federal funding opportunities.
During the conference, NACo will unveil County Intelligence Connection 2.0, or CIC 2.0, described as "a big-data tool to help counties make informed policy decisions." CIC 2.0, which should complement local open-data initiatives, will include an interactive map featuring all U.S. counties, providing nearly 70 data sets.
Follow the conference by using the hashtag #NACoAnn on social media or visiting naco.org.
Prior to the conference, council members will work through a heavy agenda at a council meeting on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Twelve reports from the council's standing committees will be presented.
The council will consider on first reading a bill to ban the consumption of intoxicating liquor within the boundaries of Kamaole Beach Park II in Kihei. The bill, introduced by Council Member Don Couch and recommended for passage by the Economic Development, Energy, Agriculture and Recreation Committee, follows existing bans at other South Maui beaches.
Representatives from the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Police Department expressed support for the bill to the committee. One MPD officer reported a decrease in complaints since alcohol prohibitions went into effect at other nearby parks.
A resolution will also be considered, as recommended by the committee, to authorize acceptance of a donation of a batting cage for the Wailuku Elementary School Park.
As recommended by the Land Use Committee, the council will consider a resolution to approve the location and boundaries of the Makawao Cemetery on approximately 7 acres, as required by state law.
A change in zoning to accommodate expansion plans for nonprofit Ka Lima O Maui on 2 acres in Wailuku will also be considered by the council. If the zoning is approved, the organization, which provides employment opportunities for adults with disabilities, will construct buildings for office and program purposes.
As part of the county's ongoing effort to improve the zoning code, the council will consider a bill to change how the permitted uses for the B-3 Central Business District are described to make them more easily understood, as recommended by the Planning Committee.
To learn more about these and other the measures passed out of committee, review committee reports at mauicounty.gov/committees. Testimony may be submitted via email at county.clerk@mauicounty.us.
A hui hou.
* Gladys Baisa is chairwoman of the Maui County Council and holds the council's Pukalani-Kula-Ulupalakua area residency seat. "Chair's 3 Minutes" is a weekly column to explain the latest news on county legislative matters.
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Dartboard Standings File for FMON - Faribault Monday League
League: FMON, Faribault Monday League
8 Games 501  4 Games Ckt           |
$6 per player                      |
Boxers               |   168 |  119 |     49 |  70.8 |
4 Leaf Mafia         |   168 |   96 |     72 |  57.1 |
MISFITS              |   168 |   93 |     75 |  55.4 |
Divorce Club         |   168 |   83 |     85 |  49.4 |
SMELLS LIKE BULLSHIT |   168 |   72 |     96 |  42.9 |
We Aim To Misbehave  |   168 |   41 |    127 |  24.4 |
Most Improved Players for week 14, All X01 games:
Player     | Team         | Previous PPD | PPD   | PPD Improvement |
------------+--------------+--------------+-------+-----------------+
Mark Meyer | Divorce Club |        22.93 | 23.22 |            0.29 |
Player            | Team         | Previous MPR | MPR  | MPR Improvement |
-------------------+--------------+--------------+------+-----------------+
Bruce Ebersberger | Divorce Club |         1.81 | 1.88 |            0.07 |
All X01 games, sorted by Team + PPD:
Player                 | PPD   | Gam | Win | LTN | HAT | HTN | 15DO | 14DO | 13DO | 12DO | 11DO | 10DO | SpotDarts |
------------------------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+------+------+-----------+
4 Leaf Mafia           |
Paul Mathern           | 32.64 |   4 |   2 |   5 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         0 |
Jeremy Phillips        | 25.72 |  52 |  19 |  78 |  12 |   3 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
Mike Yantes            | 24.77 |   8 |   5 |  12 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
John Reysack           | 22.98 |  52 |  16 |  61 |  13 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
Tim Balfe              | 22.81 |  56 |  15 |  68 |  14 |   1 |    0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
Chelsie Thistlethwaite | 18.15 |  52 |   5 |  26 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
Team Totals:           | 22.40 | 224 |  62 | 250 |  46 |   6 |    3 |    2 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
Boxers                 |
Rich Moravec           | 29.21 |  56 |  23 |  92 |  34 |   1 |    1 |    4 |    2 |    0 |    1 |    0 |         1 |
Mike Rotta             | 26.42 |  56 |  21 |  97 |  19 |   1 |    3 |    4 |    0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
Matt Hilley            | 24.60 |  56 |  23 |  83 |  16 |   0 |    1 |    0 |    2 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
Rod Sammon             | 20.62 |  52 |  12 |  53 |   8 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |
Nort Johnson           | 17.84 |   4 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |
Divorce Club           |
Jason Olson            | 23.34 |  56 |  13 |  84 |   5 |   5 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
Mark Meyer             | 23.22 |  52 |  17 |  69 |  10 |   1 |    0 |    1 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
TJ Krause              | 22.34 |  52 |  17 |  67 |   3 |   7 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
Bruce Ebersberger      | 18.63 |  52 |   7 |  43 |   3 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
Travis Hollingsworth   | 17.16 |  12 |   0 |   5 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |
Team Totals:           | 21.57 | 224 |  54 | 268 |  21 |  13 |    0 |    1 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |
MISFITS                |
John Jacobson          | 24.55 |  44 |  24 |  71 |  11 |   0 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
Mike McDermott         | 23.49 |  48 |  14 |  63 |  12 |   0 |    1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
Jeff Schmidt           | 22.96 |   8 |   1 |   7 |   2 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         3 |
BRANDON TALLEY         | 21.79 |  56 |  17 |  66 |  10 |   0 |    3 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |
Tobey Masso            | 19.10 |  12 |   1 |   9 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
Doug Masso             | 18.06 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
JORDAN OLSON           | 15.43 |  44 |   4 |  13 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |
Tim Kalm               | 15.11 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |
Kasi Olson             | 15.00 |   4 |   1 |   2 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |
SMELLS LIKE BULLSHIT   |
Sean David             | 26.77 |  56 |  31 |  98 |  20 |   1 |    3 |    2 |    3 |    1 |    0 |    0 |         2 |
Stacy Dimmick          | 20.51 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         4 |
Charlie Headline       | 19.76 |   4 |   1 |   4 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
TOM ROKEH              | 19.66 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
Tom Lester             | 16.08 |  48 |   7 |  17 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |
JENNY LOSEN            | 15.55 |  52 |   3 |  24 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |
JAKE LOSEN             | 15.53 |  52 |   3 |  18 |   2 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |
We Aim To Misbehave    |
George Hemphill        | 18.82 |  48 |   9 |  46 |   2 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         5 |
JAMIE JENSEN           | 17.86 |   4 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         6 |
Jeff Isaacson          | 16.81 |  48 |   7 |  17 |   1 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |
Scott Hoffbeck         | 16.18 |  36 |   4 |  17 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         7 |
Missy Thibodeau        | 15.14 |  56 |   4 |  15 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         8 |
Bob Erickson           | 14.90 |  24 |   4 |   5 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |
MACKENZIE BAUER        | 13.38 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |
Laurie Kagan           | 12.81 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |
Team Totals:           | 16.30 | 224 |  29 | 103 |   3 |   1 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |         9 |
Player                 | MPR  | Gam | Win | AST | HAT | WHS | 5MR | 6MR | 7MR | 8MR | 9MR | SpotDarts |
------------------------+------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----------+
Paul Mathern           | 3.45 |   2 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |
Jeremy Phillips        | 2.81 |  26 |  13 |   8 |   1 |   0 |   8 |   7 |   3 |   0 |   1 |         0 |
John Reysack           | 2.63 |  26 |   9 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   6 |   5 |   1 |   0 |   1 |         0 |
Mike Yantes            | 2.61 |   4 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |
Tim Balfe              | 2.44 |  28 |   8 |  10 |   0 |   0 |  11 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
Chelsie Thistlethwaite | 1.74 |  26 |   3 |   9 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Team Totals:           | 2.41 | 112 |  34 |  34 |   3 |   0 |  31 |  22 |   8 |   0 |   2 |         4 |
Rich Moravec           | 3.31 |  28 |  10 |  11 |   6 |   1 |   5 |  10 |   9 |   0 |   3 |         0 |
Mike Rotta             | 2.70 |  28 |   9 |  10 |   2 |   0 |  15 |   9 |   2 |   0 |   0 |         0 |
Matt Hilley            | 2.28 |  28 |  12 |   8 |   1 |   0 |  11 |   3 |   1 |   0 |   1 |         1 |
Rod Sammon             | 1.79 |  26 |   8 |  11 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   5 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         3 |
Nort Johnson           | 1.64 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Team Totals:           | 2.47 | 112 |  40 |  40 |   9 |   1 |  36 |  27 |  12 |   0 |   4 |         4 |
TJ Krause              | 2.58 |  26 |  10 |   6 |   1 |   0 |  11 |   8 |   2 |   2 |   0 |         0 |
Mark Meyer             | 2.51 |  26 |   9 |   5 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   6 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |
Jason Olson            | 2.14 |  28 |   5 |   7 |   1 |   0 |   9 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         2 |
Bruce Ebersberger      | 1.88 |  26 |   3 |   7 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         3 |
Travis Hollingsworth   | 1.43 |   6 |   1 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
John Jacobson          | 2.47 |  22 |  12 |   3 |   1 |   0 |   7 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
Jeff Schmidt           | 2.39 |   4 |   0 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
BRANDON TALLEY         | 2.31 |  28 |   5 |   6 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   7 |   1 |   2 |   0 |         1 |
Mike McDermott         | 2.29 |  24 |   8 |   8 |   0 |   0 |   9 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
Doug Masso             | 2.25 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
Tobey Masso            | 1.75 |   6 |   0 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         3 |
JORDAN OLSON           | 1.52 |  22 |   4 |   8 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Tim Kalm               | 1.43 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
Kasi Olson             | 1.21 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Sean David             | 2.82 |  28 |  12 |   5 |   4 |   0 |  16 |   7 |   6 |   0 |   1 |         0 |
Charlie Headline       | 2.73 |   2 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         0 |
TOM ROKEH              | 2.33 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         1 |
JAKE LOSEN             | 1.57 |  26 |   3 |  12 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Stacy Dimmick          | 1.54 |   2 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
JENNY LOSEN            | 1.51 |  26 |   5 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Tom Lester             | 1.42 |  24 |   3 |   4 |   0 |   0 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
George Hemphill        | 1.74 |  24 |   8 |   2 |   1 |   0 |  13 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
JAMIE JENSEN           | 1.73 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Jeff Isaacson          | 1.73 |  24 |   2 |   6 |   0 |   0 |   5 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         4 |
Missy Thibodeau        | 1.49 |  28 |   1 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
Scott Hoffbeck         | 1.36 |  18 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   3 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
Bob Erickson           | 1.34 |  12 |   1 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   1 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
Laurie Kagan           | 1.13 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
MACKENZIE BAUER        | 1.00 |   2 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |   0 |         5 |
Team Totals:           | 1.55 | 112 |  12 |  12 |   1 |   0 |  23 |   4 |   1 |   0 |   0 |         5 |


Work Starts on 103-Unit NJ Affordable Project
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley is building the community, Centerton Village, in the township of Mount Laurel. Funded in part by NJHMFA, the project is slated for completion in May 2020.
Greg Isaacson
Centerton Village groundbreaking. Image courtesy of NJHMFA
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley has broken ground on a 103-unit affordable apartment community in Mount Laurel, N.J. The project, Centerton Village, consisting of two four-story buildings, is slated for completion in May 2020.
The affordable property catering to families and veterans will feature apartments ranging in size from one to three bedrooms, including seven units for veterans and two for supportive housing. Amenities will include a community room, onsite laundry and playground.
The project is located on Centerton Road and Marne Highway, with close proximity to food stores, dining options and retailers, and is nearby Interstate 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike. Mount Laurel, a township of Burlington County in southern New Jersey, is less than 15 miles east of Philadelphia.
The development is funded in part by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (NJHMFA), which provided 9 percent Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) that brought in $16.6 million in private equity and $4.4 million in mortgage financing for the project.
Easing post-nursing transitions
NJHMFA also awarded $150,000 for two apartments through its Money Follows the Person Partnership Fund (MFPPF), which supports the construction of apartments for residents that are transitioning out of nursing facilities into community settings. The apartments will also receive Section 811 Project Rental Assistance vouchers, awarded to the agency by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Rents for one-bedroom apartments will range from $423 to $874 for residents earning anywhere from 20 to 57.5 percent of the area median income (AMI). For residents earning between 47.5 and 57.5 percent of AMI, rents for two-bedroom apartments will range from $852 to $1,049, and for three-bedroom units, from $985 to $1,212.
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley will provide onsite social services to residents at the community. The developer broke ground last October on its Brittin Village project, a community in Pennsauken, N.J. that will provide 66 affordable apartments for families and veterans. The development also received NJHMFA financing.
Last December, NJHMFA started construction on Freedom Village at Gibbsboro, a 72-unit affordable community for families in Gibbsboro, N.J., south of Mount Laurel.
Volunteers of America Delaware Valley
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