Mesa Sky
Jasper and Calcite Karen Silver Sun Pendant Necklace, 'Mesa Sky'
Jasper and calcite combine in this pendant necklace with the colors of a brilliant blue sky over the earthen ground. Designed by Sareeyakarn of Thailand, the necklace includes a medallion of Karen hill tribe silver stamped with a petite sun. The three strands of beads wrapped in waxed cord are joined together with a sterling silver hook clasp.
950 silver pendant, dyed calcite, jasper, polyester waxed cord, 925 sterling silver clasp
Color(s) may vary slightly
S-hook or hook clasp
Sareeyakarn
"Nature inspires most of my designs. I love the simplicity and colors of nature, whether seen in flowers, leaves, butterflies, birds and the sky at different times."
"My name is Sareeyakarn but my friends call me Fai.
"I was born and raised in Lampang, where my father was a farmer and my mom made clothes. I liked to go to the rice fields with my father. I loved its atmosphere and the beauty of nature. There were all kinds of colors and patterns in the leaves, grass, feathers, butterflies — everything had its own details and was beautiful.
"When I was young, my uncle was my inspiration. He loves art and drawing. He likes to take scrap wood to make into interesting objects. When I was in first grade, he gave me a ballpoint pen to draw anything until the color became darker. Then he took my drawing and pasted it on the back of a jeans jacket, as a background. After that, he used a pen to draw an old movie poster without erasing anything. This was all so amazing for a little girl like me. He inspired me to do the same things that he did. I kept learning and doing by myself.
"Then I started entering art contests. I was excited when I won an award and I was encouraged to continue with my artwork. One of the awards I was most proud of was third prize for the invention of anything from natural materials when I was in primary school. These awards were sponsored by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, the King's second daughter. I created a doll from rice straw.
"My life began to change when I went on to high school. I had to study very hard because there was a lot of competition among the students, so I began to look away from art. When I finished high school, I passed the examination and qualified to study medical technology. The university is in Bangkok, so I had to move there. The workload was intense. I had to study even harder and grew further away from art.
"After graduation, I took a job in a hospital laboratory. During that time, I continued my dream of working with art as a hobby, although I didn't make any income from it. When the economic crisis called 'Bubble Economy' hit Thailand, I had to help support my younger sister financially because she was still a student. I had to earn more income, so I decided to sell my art work from the trunk of my car as a sideline. I made more than 20 pieces to begin with. The result was extremely good and I was able to sell all of them. I was very happy.
"That was the start of my idea to create handmade jewelry. Every time I crafted a collection and people loved it, I felt very glad. This was also the first time I realized I could actually support myself and my family by doing something I love to do. In 2006, I decided to quit my job and work full time crafting handmade jewelry.
"Nature inspires most of my designs. I love the simplicity and colors of nature, whether seen in flowers, leaves, butterflies, birds and the sky at different times. Everything fits perfectly and it always makes us happy.
"Instead of sketching a new design, I simply make it, as I feel that I can visualize it in reality and in all dimensions. If it's not perfect, I do it again.
"I am so lucky that I can do what I love. It brings me a living and will never be boring. I can concentrate on my work every time I touch it.
"I would like to thank my parents who gave me strong artistic genes. They made me to be filled with the energy of an artist and have my own character at its best."
By Sareeyakarn


Homepage News Peer mentorship program creates connections in industrial engineering
Peer mentorship program creates connections in industrial engineering
Written By: Tom Ziemer
Industrial & Systems Engineering
As a first-year industrial engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Tess Vasilakos got an early lesson in the value of having an older student as a mentor. Not only did then-senior Felix Lichter (BSIE '20) answer her questions about courses and faculty members and encourage her to get involved with the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IISE) student organization—he even helped her make sense of the dizzying off-campus housing rental race.
In summer 2022, Vasilakos will intern at Baker Tilly in Chicago, in part because of some helpful information from Lichter, who's a consultant at the firm.
Vasilakos, now a junior, is paying that mentorship forward through ISyE Connections, a program that connects younger students with older ones who can lend their perspectives on coursework, internships, student organizations and life outside of class.
Recent graduate Sofia Noejovich (BSIE '21), now an associate consultant at Microsoft, started ISyE Connections in summer 2020, drawing inspiration from her own experiences learning from mentors like PhD student Rachel Rutkowski (BSIE '18, MSIE '20).
"One thing I learned from engineering school that I know this program reflects is that we all accomplish more when we work together," says Noejovich, who also saw a particularly urgent need for peer connections amid the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. "I think we can always benefit from expanding our networks, getting different ideas and also feedback about what it is that we're doing and what our goals are."
Mentors and mentees sign up through an online form (those interested can fill it out here). They're matched based on their focus area within the industrial engineering major—engineering analytics and operations research; healthcare systems engineering; human factors and ergonomics; or manufacturing and supply chain management—as well as career ambitions, interest in research and more.
"I think just having someone you feel comfortable asking questions to is a really big thing," says program coordinator Molly Hart, a senior industrial engineering major and one of the board members of the IISE student club.
Vasilakos hopes more students follow her lead and take advantage of mentors like Lichter who are eager to help. The two are still in touch, trading periodic texts.
"You get out of it what you put into it," she says. "You can get as much as you want out of it."
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New restrictions deemed 'death sentence' for hospitality sector
| Updated: 17:11, 07 October 2020
The hospitality industry said the measures could lead to redundancies (Peter Morrison/PA)
New coronavirus restrictions imposed in Scotland will "sound the death knell" for some in the hospitality sector, business leaders have warned.
Pubs, restaurants and cafes are being barred from selling alcohol indoors for more than two weeks in an effort to stall a rise in coronavirus cases.
They can open indoors between 6am and 6pm to sell food and soft drinks only but will be able to sell alcohol for outside areas until 10pm.
The changes come into force at 6pm on Friday and are expected to last until October 25.
Hospitality businesses in the central belt face stricter restrictions, with pubs and licenced cafes to shut to all but takeaway customers for the same period.
Liz Cameron, chief executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said: "These measures will sound the death knell for businesses across the hospitality sector, especially pubs and bars.
"We simply cannot continue to keep switching the lights of the economy on & off. Restrictions will severely tamp down any signs of life in our communities. The knock-on impact will mean tough decisions including the risk of potentially more redundancies" https://t.co/zCYBFuIY33 pic.twitter.com/A4t2kf6Co9
— Scottish Chambers (@ScotChambers) October 7, 2020
"Restaurants and hotels, whilst remaining open, will also be constrained on what they can provide and this will place a large dent in their already reduced income."
She said redundancies could rise as a result of the measures, and she criticised a "lack of consultation with business" before the restrictions were announced.
Stephen Montgomery of the Scottish Hospitality Group, which represents several restaurant and bar groups, said: "The First Minister has effectively signed a death sentence for many businesses across the Scottish hospitality industry, while the real problem is socialising at home."
He said the industry is "part of the solution to combat this virus, not part of the problem" and added that the "latest blow from the Scottish Government will create fear and anger across our industry" and have a "catastrophic" economic cost.
The Food and Drink Federation Scotland said it is "extremely disappointed" with the restrictions, while Scotland Food & Drink said the action is a "hammer blow".
These additional restrictions may make it impractical for some to trade at all for this period
David Lonsdale, Scottish Retail Consortium
Andrew McRae, of the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, said: "Without sufficient support from Government, today's moves could mean last orders for many independent pubs and restaurants.
"They'll also cause a significant knock-on impact on our tourism sector, on our hospitality supply chain, and on those that operate in our night-time economy like taxi drivers and takeaways."
David Lonsdale, Scottish Retail Consortium director, said many businesses would be baffled at the request for shops to return to two-metre physical distancing "in the absence of any evidence which shows shops are a source of infection".
He added: "Those operating cafes, coffee shops, and food-to-go restaurants have adopted every measure asked of them by Government, despite the enormous impact on their business models.
"These additional restrictions may make it impractical for some to trade at all for this period, and the Government must urgently provide details of the proposed support for these viable businesses."
Announcing the restrictions in the Scottish Parliament, Nicola Sturgeon said: "I know that the measures we are proposing today, although they are temporary, will have a significant impact on many businesses and I am sorry for that."
She also announced an additional £40 million to support businesses that will be affected by the new temporary measures, and said the Scottish Government will discuss with businesses how to mitigate employers' contributions to the UK Government's job retention scheme.


Medici or The Writing on the Walls
The Slow and Savory Review:
There's not many people who can appreciate a rainy day quite like Bunny and Brandy can. Gloomy days tend to make Our Ladies rather home sick for Old Blighty, you see. "It's days like this," Brandy sighs whenever the clouds roll in, "That make one want to make a cup of tea, light some candles, put on a bit of Mozart, and read a Sherlock Holmes story." But Bunny decided that for once, this rain-induced longing for all things English was not going to get to them, so she suggested they head to Medici on 57th in Hyde Park for a nice homey brunch.
Medici's stone front is at once imposing and heart warming, presenting visitors with a cheerful relief of a gargoyle scarfing down a pastry while being watched by a pope. Once inside, Our Ladies were given the choice of sitting up stairs or down, and despite Brandy whining about her bad knees, Bunny chose the upstairs so that they may have the benefit of a view from above. The upstairs was a warm spot, both visually and literally. The walls which weren't exposed brick were covered in both graffiti and hand painted murals, and the hard wood floors were pleasantly squeaky. Our Ladies were told to sit themselves wherever they liked, so they chose a nice table by a window so that they could gaze out upon the rain. The unfortunate side effect of the seats they chose was that Brandy got squished in between the wall and the table, but otherwise they felt right at home.
First order of business was to obtain some warm beverages. Brandy chose the Mexicana, a Mexican spiced hot chocolate, while Bunny chose the Chocolachino, a more adult version of traditional hot chocolate. The Mexicana tasted of warm cinnamon mostly and was a wonderful compliment to a rainy morning, while the Chocolachino was rich and delicious with just the right amount of coffee flavor to make it sophisticated.
Following that, Our Ladies chose some items from the bakery to start off with. Brandy picked the apple croissant, which was warm, flaky, and fresh tasting with the apples inside still having a nice texture to them. Bunny chose the cinnamon roll, which turned out to be a bit more of sticky bun. The inside was dotted with raisins and all together the confection had just the right amount of sweetness.
When it came time for the main courses, Bunny picked a rather interesting entry from the lunch options, a Strogenoff Burger, which came complete with mushrooms, onions, and a dollop of sour cream. While this combination sounded good on paper, the over all effect of the dish was not as impressive. The burger, while enormous, didn't offer much meaty flavor, and was completely enveloped by the density of the bun. The burger itself was not as warm as it could have been and a little over cooked, The shoe string fries on the side were lovely and crunchy with excellent flavor.
Brandy picked the New York Strip breakfast, which came complete with two eggs, potatoes, and toast. The steak was very over done (Brandy had asked for medium and got a steak with no pink left in it at all) but had a good char on the outside. The eggs were perfectly done with runny yolks aplenty. The potatoes were also very well done; crunchy and flavorful without being greasy.
Hot drink, pastry, and main dish as well as tax and tip came out to just about $20 a person. Along with cheerful and prompt service, Medici provided Our Ladies with the invaluable feeling of being happy to be where they were. All feeling of home sickness having left them, Our Ladies journeyed out into the rain arm in arm, full stomached, and rather content, an emotion the English have yet to fully master.
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Labels: Brunch, Chicago, Hyde Park, Medici
Angelina Ristorante or Luck of the Italians
Americans have this strange relationship with St. Patrick's Day which baffles Bunny and Brandy. Back home in jolly old England, St. Patrick's Day is just a day where one goes to the pub and has a pint (that's pretty much every day in England, though). But here in America, it is apparently legally required that the entire population drink to the point of sickness, dye everything green from their hair to the rivers, and insist on celebrating their Irish "heritage" (which in most people seems to amount to a second cousin who once visited Dublin while back packing across Europe) by asking random strangers to kiss them. Our Ladies thought they could avoid some of these strange rituals by going to Angelina Ristorante, an Italian restaurant, for brunch this week, but sadly the Irish had even invaded that corner of the world.
Angelina's interior mixes old world charm with modern day sophistication. Rare, signed, and ancient wine bottles line the walls just under several retro style black and white photographs of people eating in various joyous and absurd ways. The room was awefully loud, which wasn't helped by blaring music that was forcing people to shout over each other in order to have a conversation. A lovely bar was set into the back corner of the room, hung with dramatic curtains to enhance its intimacy. Upon entering, Our Ladies were greeted by tables of glassy-eyed hung over youths, adorned in green plastic beads. "Surprised they managed to get up this morning to go to brunch even," Bunny huffed when they were informed it would be a little bit of a wait for a table. "My dear Bunny, these children never went to sleep. They came straight from some 6:00 am bar, no doubt," Brandy chuckled. She found the competitive nature of American drinking habits rather amusing.
After about ten minutes of standing in the doorway, a table literally appeared (after a very kind server brought it out from some dark corner) and Our Ladies were sat. Unfortunately, as this was a make shift space, Brandy's chair intruded into the middle isle of the restaurant, and any time a server, patron, or otherwise decided they needed to pass, Brandy would get jostled.
Upon glancing at the menu, Our Ladies discovered brunch to be Cash Only, which hadn't been indicated anywhere else. "Would have been nice to have a warning at least!" Bunny squeaked. Drinks were very reasonably priced (such as $5 for a mimosa or Belini, or $9 for a Bloody Mary with a beer back) and there was also the option of having one brunch entree and unlimited mimosas for a flat $21, which seemed reasonable. Bunny opted for a single mimosa, while Brandy (for once) chose not to drink an alcoholic beverage in protest of the St. Patrick's crowd and ordered an iced tea. For Brandy's entree, she chose a breakfast sandwich, made with smoked mozzarella, Canadian bacon, and scrambled eggs on a croissant. Bunny went with her old stand by, the Benedict, choosing the Florentine option from the three on the menu. After ordering, Brandy made a quick dash to the next door Jewel for some cash and gum.
Bunny's mimosa arrived in a lovely tall glass and was more than a bargain at $5. She reported that it was well balanced with not too much of one or the other ingredient. Brandy's iced tea (which was a surprisingly expensive $4.50, presumably to make up for the cheapness of the alcoholic drinks) had a pleasant fruitiness she wasn't expecting.
Bunny found her long awaited Benedict to be very bright in flavor. The eggs were wonderfully cooked, and the spinach lovely and fresh. The potatoes that accompanied the dish were a tad greasy, decently spiced, but very ordinary.
Brandy's sandwich was dominated by the smokiness of the cheese. She felt a veggie of some sort, as simple as a bit of tomato or lettuce, would have helped liven up the bite. The croissant was good on flavor, but not very flaky, and the eggs were good, but a little greasy as well.
Since portion size was on the small side, Our Ladies decided to split a dessert. They ordered some chocolate bread pudding, which came with vanilla bean ice cream. The texture was wonderful, not too dense, but rich enough to be satisfying, and the chocolate flavor definitely came through. The only improvement would have been, perhaps, a different, more exciting ice cream to accompany it.
Though the portions and plating were a little underwhelming, Angelina did present Our Ladies with drinks, entrees, and a dessert for two for just under $20 a piece. Their advice; come early to get the good tables, bring cash, and in the words of Brandy to a group of young men in green plastic hats standing just outside the door, "Stop pretending to be bloody Irish and celebrate your own heritage, you wankers!"
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Labels: Angelina, Brunch, Chicago, East Lakeview
Uptowner Cafe or Let Down Town-er Cafe
There's not too much Bunny and Brandy expect when going to brunch. A nice variety of menu choices, a cheerful staff, and a comfortable place to sit is all that can make a morning fantastic. But since Our Ladies had their affluent friend, millionaire Barry Black, with them this week, they were hoping to impress. "Nonsense, I don't want you to make any fuss for me," Barry tutted, "I want to slum it for once, so to speak." Unfortunately, Barry's idea of "slumming it" is eating caviar without creme freche. Still, Our Ladies had high hopes for the Uptowner Cafe, having heard buzz about town that this was the place to go for a good breakfast at a low, low price.
The interior of the Uptowner did not bode well. Most of the restaurant is dark and windowless, with the fact that the walls are painted a dreary grey not helping to liven the atmosphere. But local art on the walls helps to add some color and the warm wooden booths that line the walls are a step in the right direction, even if the cushions are un-attached and tend to shift under the movements of a fidgety eater like Brandy. The menu seemed to offer up the average in terms of breakfast choices; eggs, bacon, cheese, potatoes, and the various combinations of said ingredients. Barry decided on the simplest of breakfasts (eggs, hash browns, bacon, and pancakes) in order to blend in with what he referred to as the "Natives." Brandy opted for the Farmer's Breakfast, a combo of scrambled eggs with hash brown, covered in cheese and onions, with a side of ciabatta french toast. Bunny gravitated more towards the lunch side of the menu and ordered a Reuben Sandwich with a cup of Chicken and Wild Rice soup.
While the two waitresses serving Our Ladies and guest were very polite and friendly, they did seem to forget about them for quite a while, also forgetting to bring silverware, fill water glasses, and even forgetting part of Barry's breakfast when the food was finally delivered. Barry took all this in stride, saying "This is good service compared to some 5 star restaurants I could name!"
Brandy's breakfast was just as rustic as its name would imply. The hash browns were nicely shredded and crunchy, but very greasy, leaving behind quite the oil slick on the plate. The French Toast was bland and dry to say the least. A tasty and filling breakfast, yes, but nothing special.
Brandy's Reuben was reportedly nice and melty, with a generous portion of sauerkraut. The corned beef was also nice and not too fatty, but the whole sandwich was a bit greasy as well, and the soup was rather bland.
Poor Barry Black, whose digestion can only handle food served from a mother of pearl spoon, wasn't able to eat much of his breakfast, but from the look of it, it could have fed the entire table by itself. The pancakes were massive, the bacon thickly cut, and the eggs well cooked.
The Uptowner Cafe leaves much to be desired, both in atmosphere, service, and actual food. Middle of the road all the way, and just about average in terms of price (most dishes range from $7 to $9, which is a bit pricey for eggs and potatoes). Barry Black could not have been more pleased with his "rustic" brunch, but Our Ladies know they could have done better.
Labels: Brunch, Chicago, Lincoln Park, Uptowner Cafe
Janik's Cafe or Hipster's Paradise
Bunny and Brandy have encountered many strange things during their journeys through Brunchland; men in women's clothing, blob monsters, and even a donut with bacon on it, but during this week's brunch at Janik's Cafe in Ukrainian Village, Our Ladies encountered a new species of being known as "Hipsters." Apparently, the Hipster is a sort of young person who, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, does nothing and knows everything. They are often spotted wearing thick black framed glasses (whether they are prescribed or not), striped long sleeved shirts under "retro" style screen printed T-shirts sporting names and logos of bands no one has ever heard of, long scarves wrapped thickly around their necks, skin tight trousers, and sporting bushy beards (in the case of the males) and long hair parted in the middle and haphazardly styled (could apply both to the males and females).
Upon entering Janik's Cafe, one is greeted by colorful local art, handwritten signs proclaiming the day's specials, all the free newspapers one could eat, and lots of small tables spaced throughout the room. One will also be greeted by the dull eyed stares of a dozen or so Hipsters. Bunny was quite alarmed by this reaction, but Brandy assured her they meant no harm. "I read an article in National Georgraphic about these types," Brandy whispered, "I think they're appreciating us ironically." "Impossible," Bunny scoffed, "They're Americans. They don't know what irony is." Our Ladies then made their way to the counter to place their orders. For Bunny, a Mixed Berry Smoothie and a Tuna Melt Sandwich with a side of macaroni salad. For Brandy, a Pineapple Smoothie and a Crab Cake Sandwich, accompanied by a bowl of Cheesey Potato Soup. They were given a table number and told their food would be brought out to them in a trice.
Our Ladies tried to ignore the continuing stares of the Hipsters by studying the menus along the walls. All too late, Brandy discovered the sign about $5 cocktails, including bloody mary's, jack and cokes, and mimosas. After about 10 minutes, the dishes started arriving. First, the smoothies, thick and delicious. Bunny's Berry Smoothie was a bit more flavorful, as Brandy's only tasted a little of pineapple and a lot of cream. "More of a milkshake than a smoothie, really," Brandy said, "That'll teach me to try and be healthy. Next time, I'm asking for a Jack and Coke smoothie."
Brandy's Potato Soup proved to be much better than expected. Loaded with perfectly cooked chunks of potato, and laden with delicious cheesy goodness, the soup was surprisingly fresh and satisfying on such a dreary Chicago morn. The sandwich, on the other hand, was a little disappointing. The crab cake was in drastic need of crunchiness. The interior was good on flavor, but just too mushy for Brandy's liking. She did, however, appreciate that the sandwich was completely customizable, from the bread and cheese to the toppings. The tartar sauce the lady at the counter had suggested for the sandwich was definitely needed, as without it, the crab cake would have been even more bland.
Bunny's sandwich, the Tuna Melt, was more of a Tuna Warm. The tuna salad itself was very good, but the cheese was definitely not melted, nor was the sandwich very warm at all. The macaroni salad, however, was quite tasty. Bunny explained that it wasn't too vinegary, a huge pet peeve of hers when it comes to macaroni salad.
At the end of the day, Janik's Cafe provides one with lots of comforting food for a very low price (most dishes don't even graze $10). If one is able to endure the side glances of the dozen or so Hipsters circling around the condiment caddies, a quick, cheap, and filling brunch is to be found. Tip from Bunny and Brandy, if the Hipsters are getting too close for comfort, tell them you used to be in a very obscure band they wouldn't have heard of and they will wander off to look up your band's album on Amazon Marketplace using their iPhones (ironically, of course).
Labels: Brunch, Chicago, Janik's Cafe, Ukranian Village


Venezuela: it's now or never
By Carlos Montaner
The fate of Venezuela is probably in the hands of Juan Guaidó. He is a 35-year old National Assembly deputy, linked to Voluntad Popular, a party founded by Leopoldo López. He was named president of the National Assembly, which is something like winning a tiger in a raffle. As President of the Assembly he has become, de facto, the interim president of the country, since Nicolás Maduro's presidency is totally illegitimate.
Venezuela, then, has two presidents. One legitimate and constitutional, which is Juan Guaidó, and the other absolutely fraudulent: Nicolás Maduro. In any case, the Catholic Church had three popes simultaneously in the fourteenth century. Two were declared antipopes. By that rule, in the future Maduro will be declared antipresident.
Those who know Guaidó tell me that he has the maturity and common sense needed for this task. He projects a good image in television. He is endorsed by Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS, 13 of the 14 countries of the Lima Group (except the Mexico of the ineffable AMLO), María Corina Machado, Antonio Ledezma and the US Department of State. He is well backed.
It is even on the carpet the possibility that the Donald Trump's Administration will continue buying 500,000 barrels of oil daily to Venezuela, the only breath of fresh cash that enters the country, but with the condition that this money is deposited in an escrow account that can only be accessed by the National Assembly through its president. What would be the point of paying an illegitimate government?
But who is this young politician? Guaidó graduated as an industrial engineer from the Andrés Bello Catholic University, with graduate degrees in "public policies" from the George Washington University and IESA, a management school accredited in several countries.
Engineers have an advantage over lawyers: they are accustomed to incorporating the time factor into the jobs they plan. They are usually the best in "management by objectives", something that is urgently needed in a chaotic country like Venezuela.
In short, Guaidó has enough training and information to straighten out his country. After all, Venezuela has been devastated by Chavismo (three hundred billion dollars were stolen) and, lately, by a half idiot guy who talks to birds and does not know where his right hand is (especially the right.)
Guaidó is part of a brilliant group of self-sacrificing former student leaders, among whom are Yon Goicoechea, Juan Requesens–a political prisoner–, Stalin González and Freddy Guevara, who is living as a refugee in the Chilean Embassy in Caracas for six months now. It is the generation of change. In 2017, the National Guard hit his back and neck with pellets. In other words, he has risked his life in the streets, something that is important in a society in which heroic gestures are valued.
Precisely that is Guaidó's immediate work. He must summon the people to the streets. He must assume the role of interim president. Which means that he is also the natural chief of the Armed Forces. Theoretically, General Vladimir Padrino López, Minister of Defense, must salute him and obey his orders. The soldiers and junior officers are desperate for that to happen.
As Vice Admiral Mario Iván Carratú told Venezuelan journalist Carla Angola, the Armed Forces are demoralized, as was the Portuguese army when the Carnation Revolution took place in 1974. The soldiers are hungry and don't have medicines, like the rest of the nation. If Maduro gives the order to attack the demonstrators, Carratú thinks that the soldiers would not comply.
And what would the Cuban government do? It would recommend, of course, resisting any change towards democracy and freedom, but the Havana regime does not have the strength to rescue and sustain the dictatorship. It would take its troops and its personnel, very hated in Venezuela, and they would return to Cuba, perhaps offering asylum to a handful of Venezuelan servants.
Can Guaidó promise the Chavista regime something that unlocks the game? He cannot promise anything that is not approved by the Constitution. Maybe a referendum to let the nation decide on a law that decrees an amnesty for the crimes committed during these years of abuses and vileness. Only that, but not as his or the National Assembly's commitment, but as a commitment of the whole society. [©FIRMAS PRESS]
Originally Published by intdemocratic.org/es/2019
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Stan Cullis. Ted Drake. Wolverhampton Wanderers 2. Wolverhampton Wanderers 3. Harry Potts. Tottenham Hotspur 2. Bill Nicholson. Alf Ramsey. Harry Catterick.
Bill Shankly. Joe Mercer. Don Revie. Bertie Mee. Brian Clough. Liverpool [c] 8. Dave Mackay. Liverpool [c] 9. Queens Park Rangers. Bob Paisley.
Liverpool [d] Nottingham Forest [e]. Ron Saunders. Liverpool [e] Liverpool [d] [e] Joe Fagan. Everton [g] 8. Howard Kendall. Kenny Dalglish. George Graham.
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Man City rediscover scoring form - but do their attacking issues remain? The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until A new rights cycle began in the —20 season, with the domestic package increasing to matches overall; in February , BT were awarded the package of 32 lunchtime fixtures on Saturdays, while Sky was awarded four of the seven packages, covering the majority of weekend fixtures including eight new prime time fixtures on Saturdays , as well as Monday and Friday matches.
Two remaining packages of 20 fixtures each were to be sold at a later date, including three rounds of mid-week fixtures and a bank holiday round.
As Sky already owned the maximum number of matches it could hold without breaching a match cap, it was speculated that at least one of the new packages could go to a new entrant, such as a streaming service.
A large number of these matches were also scheduled for free-to-air broadcasts, with Sky airing 25 on Pick , Amazon streaming its four matches on Twitch , and the BBC — for the first time in league history — carrying four live matches.
As matches would continue to be played without spectators upon the start of the —21 Premier League , its clubs voted on September 8 to continue broadcasting all matches through at least September with the BBC and Amazon each holding one additional match , and "appropriate arrangements" being made for October.
The PPV scheme was poorly-received; the Football Supporters' Federation felt that the price was too high, and there were concerns that it could encourage piracy.
On 13 November, amid the reintroduction of measures across the UK, the Premier League officially announced that the non-televised matches would be assigned to its main broadcast partners, and again including additional matches for the BBC and Amazon.
The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme.
In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the —14 season.
There has been an increasing gulf between the Premier League and the Football League. Since its split with the Football League , many established clubs in the Premier League have managed to distance themselves from their counterparts in lower leagues.
Owing in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues, [] many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League.
In every season except —02 , —12 and —18, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League. In —98 , all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.
The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments".
For some clubs who have failed to win immediate promotion back to the Premier League, financial problems, including in some cases administration or even liquidation have followed.
Further relegations down the footballing ladder have ensued for several clubs unable to cope with the gap. As of the —18 season, Premier League football has been played in 58 stadiums since the formation of the division.
As a result, all stadiums in the Premier League are all-seater. The stadiums for the —18 season show a large disparity in capacity.
For example, Wembley Stadium , the temporary home of Tottenham Hotspur, has a capacity of 90, while Dean Court , the home of Bournemouth , has a capacity of 11, Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for Premier League clubs.
Managers in the Premier League are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection and player acquisition.
Their influence varies from club-to-club and is related to the ownership of the club and the relationship of the manager with fans.
Several caretaker managers have gone on to secure a permanent managerial post after performing well as a caretaker, including Paul Hart at Portsmouth and David Pleat at Tottenham Hotspur.
He broke the record set by Alex Ferguson , who had managed matches with Manchester United from the Premier League's inception to his retirement at the end of the —13 season.
Ferguson was in charge of Manchester United from November until his retirement at the end of the —13 season, meaning he was manager for the last five years of the old Football League First Division and all of the first 21 seasons of the Premier League.
There have been several studies into the reasoning behind, and effects of, managerial sackings. Bas ter Weel of the University of Amsterdam , performed two separate studies which helped to explain the statistics behind managerial sackings.
Bridgewater's study found clubs generally sack their managers upon dropping below an average of one point per match. At the inception of the Premier League in —93 , just 11 players named in the starting line-ups for the first round of matches hailed from outside of the United Kingdom or Ireland.
On 26 December , Chelsea became the first Premier League side to field an entirely foreign starting line-up, [] and on 14 February , Arsenal were the first to name a completely foreign man squad for a match.
In , in response to concerns that clubs were increasingly passing over young English players in favour of foreign players, the Home Office tightened its rules for granting work permits to players from countries outside of the European Union.
If a player does not meet those criteria, the club wishing to sign him may appeal. Players may only be transferred during transfer windows that are set by the Football Association.
The two transfer windows run from the last day of the season to 31 August and from 31 December to 31 January. Player registrations cannot be exchanged outside these windows except under specific licence from the FA, usually on an emergency basis.
There is no team or individual salary cap in the Premier League. For the season the ratio of the wages of the highest-paid team to lowest-paid in the Premier League is 6.
This is much lower than in La Liga Because of the lower differential between team wage bills in the Premier League, it is often regarded as being more competitive than other top European leagues.
The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition. Italics denotes players still playing professional football, Bold denotes players still playing in the Premier League.
The Premier League Golden Boot is awarded each season to the top scorer in the division. Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer hold the record for most goals in a season 34 — for Newcastle and Blackburn respectively.
The Premier League maintains two trophies — the genuine trophy held by the reigning champions and a spare replica.
Two trophies are held for the purpose of making the award within minutes of the title being secured, in the event that on the final day of the season two clubs are still within reach of winning the League.
It consists of a trophy with a golden crown and a malachite plinth base. Its main body is solid sterling silver and silver gilt , while its plinth is made of malachite, a semi-precious stone.
The plinth has a silver band around its circumference, upon which the names of the title-winning clubs are listed. Malachite's green colour is also representative of the green field of play.
Two of the lions are found above the handles on either side of the trophy — the third is symbolised by the captain of the title-winning team as he raises the trophy, and its gold crown, above his head at the end of the season.
In , a special gold version of the trophy was commissioned to commemorate Arsenal winning the title without a single defeat. In addition to the winner's trophy and the individual winner's medals awarded to players who win the title, the Premier League also issues other awards throughout the season.
A man-of-the-match award is awarded to the player who has the greatest impact in an individual match. The Young Player of the Season award is given to the most outstanding U player starting from the —20 season.
The Golden Boot award is given to the top goalscorer of every season, the Playmaker of the Season award is given to the player who makes the most assists of every season, [] and the Golden Glove award is given to the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets at the end of the season.
From the —18 season , players also receive a milestone award for appearances and every century there after and also players who score 50 goals and multiples thereof.
Each player to reach these milestones is to receive a presentation box from the Premier League containing a special medallion and a plaque commemorating their achievement.
In , the Premier League celebrated its second decade by holding the 20 Seasons Awards: []. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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See also: Foundation of the Premier League. See also: List of Premier League seasons. Main article: List of Premier League clubs. See also: List of English football champions.
West Midlands. Leeds United. Leicester City. Manchester City. Man- chester United. Sheffield United. Crystal Palace. West Ham United.
West Bromwich Albion. Wolverhampton Wanderers. See also: List of association football clubs playing in the league of another country. See also: UEFA country coefficients.
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See also: English football on television , List of Premier League broadcasters , and Broadcasting and the foundation of the Premier League.
Main article: List of Premier League stadiums. See also: List of Premier League managers. See also: List of Premier League players. See also: Progression of British football transfer fee record and List of most expensive association football transfers.
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We take for granted that adults are the ones who change our world by inventing new technologies. But what if I told you there were many times in history when the most interesting discoveries were made by smart kids.
Here are some cool inventions made by children.
1. Snowmobile
At the age of 13, Joseph-Armand Bombardier made a toy steam locomotive from a desk clock, then a steam engine from an old sewing machine. When he turned 15, his father decided to distract the young engineer from inventing "useless junk" and gave him an old broken Ford T.
Bombardier humbly accepted the gift and immediately started tinkering with the machine. A few days later, in 1920, he made a mechanical sled with an engine from the car and a propeller at the back.
2. Play-Doh
In 1912, a schoolgirl came up with the idea of using a soot cleaner to sculpt interesting figures. The cleaning chemicals were eventually removed from the pliable substance, and colored dyes were added, creating one of the most fun substances kids can play with — Play-Doh.
3. Braille
A shoemaker's son, Louis Braille, who had been blind since 3, invented a special font for the sightless when he was 15. The young Frenchman took the "night font" used by the artillery captain Charles Barbier to read messages in the dark and improved upon it. Today, Braille is a special volumetric font, where each letter can be recognized by touch.
4. Trampoline
16-year-old George Nissen created something that every gymnast needs to perform, not to mention all those kids having heaps of fun with it. We're, of course, talking about the trampoline. For some reason, people before 1930 didn't think about safety nets.
5. Popsicles
11-year-old Frank Epperson revolutionized frozen treats completely by accident. In 1905, he tried to create a new type of soda with his not-yet patented original syrup. When the experiment failed, Frank left it outside overnight. In the morning, he realized that frozen sweet soda makes for a great and easy-to-eat dessert. A year later, the kid started selling the novelty snack in parks and cinemas before eventually patenting the recipe and becoming rich.
6. Anti-hiccup medicine
Another famous American, Mallory Cuveman, invented a new medicine at the age of 13. Most of all, the scientific community was struck by the simplicity of her recipe: it included sugar, apple cider vinegar, and regular candies. The novelty remedy was named rather succinctly — Hiccupops.
7. New molecule
10-year-old Clara Lazen unintentionally constructed a new molecule in the middle of a chemistry lesson. She combined oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon in a way that no one's thought of before until that day. Her name was later mentioned in a professional, scientific article investigating the "new molecule".
8. Flippers
The first swimming attachments were created by Benjamin Franklin when he was only 11 years old. However, instead of tying those oval pieces of wood to his feet, the future US president put them on his hands like paddles. Let's just say this was only the first of his numerous inventions, including the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove.
9. Anti-DUI technology
Vadym Khomich, a 16-year-old resident of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, invented a device that blocks the car whenever a drunk driver is inside. Before starting the engine, the device takes a sample of exhaled air for analysis. If the system sniffs out any alcohol fumes, the engine will be immediately blocked.
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Medieval and Early Modern Greek Manuscripts : Iephte (Jephthah) by John Christopherson

 This manuscript contains the Greek tragedy  Iephte (Jephthah) by John Christopherson (d. 1558), chaplain and confessor to Queen Mary I of England, Master of Trinity College (1553-1558), Dean of Norwich (1554-1557) and Bishop of Chichester (1557-1558). The composition of this play has to be contextualised within the framework of the sixteenth-century collegiate drama, used by teachers for the behavioral, moral and linguistic instruction of the students, in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. This text is quite unique, because it is an original composition in Greek, instead of an adaptation or translation of a Greek tragedy, which was more common (see Paul D. Streufert, 'Christopherson at Cambridge: Greco-Catholic Ethics in the Protestant University' in  Early Modern Academic Drama, ed. by Paul D. Streufert and Jonathan Walker (London, 2009), pp. 45-63). The tragedy, inspired by Euripides'  Iphigenia in Aulis, has as its protagonist a Biblical character cited in  Judges, Iephte (or Jephthah), a judge of Israel who killed his daughter, having vowed to sacrifice whatever would come out of the door of his house first. The drama was written from 1543-1547, maybe around 1544 (for the date see F.S. Boas,  University drama in the Tudor age (Oxford, 1914), pp. 45-47; C. Upton,  John Christopherson Iephte, William Goldingham Herodes (Zürich; New York, 1988), p. 2; F.H. Fobes [ed.],  Jephthah by John Christopherson (Newark, 1928), pp. 7-8 ).

 The only other known copy of the text in Greek is  Cambridge, St John's College, MS H.19. A translation into Latin is preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 466 (see Upton (1988), where the Latin text is reproduced). In the opinion of the editor of the text, the manuscripts are two different revisions by the author, and therefore they have not been copied one from one another ( Fobes (1928), p. 16).
 In this copy of the Greek text, the tragedy is dedicated to William Parr (1513-1571) when he was Earl of Essex, i.e. after 23 December 1543. Therefore, it must have been copied after this date and, in Upton's view, the composition of the play must also have taken place after this date (see Upton (1988), p. 2).
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The British government said on Friday it has asked its independent medicines regulator to assess AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine as part of the formal approval process for the drug to be rolled out by the end of the year.
More than 1.4 million people have died since the novel coronavirus emerged in China late last year, and three drug developers—Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca/Oxford University—are currently applying for approval for their vaccines to be used as early as December.
AstraZeneca has completed Phase III clinical trials of its vaccine, the last stage before regulatory approval.
But under British rules, the government must also ask the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to green light the drug.
"We have formally asked the regulator to assess the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, to understand the data and determine whether it meets rigorous safety standards," said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
Britain has secured access to 100 million doses of the vaccine produced by the British drug manufacturer in partnership with the University of Oxford.
The department of health has said it expects four million doses of the shot to be ready for Britain by the end of the year and 40 million by the end of March 2021.
Earlier on Thursday, AstraZeneca said further research was needed on the vaccine, but the additional testing was unlikely to affect the approval process.
The AstraZeneca vaccine has shown an average 70-percent effectiveness.
But that rate jumped to 90 percent when an initial half-dose then a full dose was given, similar to that in rival vaccines in development by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna.
US scientists have said the higher rate of effectiveness came during tests in people aged 55 and under, and was discovered by accident during the clinical trials.
"Now that we've found what looks like a better efficacy, we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional study," AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot told Bloomberg.
The UK government has already formally asked the MHRA to assess the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for its suitability.
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Dakota County is the third most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The county is bordered by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers on the north, and the state of Wisconsin on the east. Dakota County comprises the southeast portion of seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul, the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States with about 3.3 million residents. As of the 2020 census, the population was 439,882.[1] The county seat is Hastings.[2]
The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota Territory. The county's history was initially tied to the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, both strategically important for United States expansion and as the convergence of the Dakota and Ojibwe nations who regarded the site as sacred. Influence shifted westward during the post-World War II settlement boom when Interstate 35 connected the western half of the county to Minneapolis and Saint Paul and bedroom communities grew. Today, Dakota County has a population that exceeds Minneapolis's. Most work outside the county but like many metro counties, Dakota continues to absorb industry and jobs from the core cities.[3][4]
Dakota County is named after the Dakota Sioux tribal bands who settled in the area.[3] The name is recorded as "Dahkotah" in U.S. Census records until 1851.[5]
1.1 Hastings and South Saint Paul
1.2 Suburban growth
1.3 Historic sites
2 Law and government
2.1 Politics
3.1 Lakes and rivers
3.4 National protected areas
6 Cities and towns
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7.2 Colleges and universities
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Taoyateduta led the Mendota Mdewakanton in northern Dakota County. He and 121 Sioux leaders ceded much of the present Twin Cities region.[6]
In the 1600s, Mdewakanton Dakota fled their ancestral home of Mille Lacs Lake in northern Minnesota in response to westward expansion of the Ojibway nation.[7] According to Dakota tradition, their ancestors pushed out the Iowa who were found settled at the mouth of the Minnesota River.[8] Later in 1680, the Mdewakanton Dakota were contacted by French explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut and the Mendota (mdo-TE) band of the Mdewakanton south of the Minnesota River were contacted later by Joseph Nicollet in the 18th century.[9] While Taoyateduta (a.k.a. Little Crow) led the Mendota in northern Dakota County, upstream to the southwest, Chief Black Dog established his village of 600 people around 1750 at the isthmus between Black Dog Lake (from which is named after him) and the Minnesota River, near the present site of the Black Dog Power Plant.[7][10]
Saint Peter's Church in Mendota is the state's oldest church
Following the published expeditions of explorers, in 1805, Zebulon Pike negotiated for military territory with the Mendota band which included land in Dakota County at the Mississippi River confluences with the Minnesota and St. Croix Rivers.[11] In 1819, on what is now Picnic Island on the south bank of the Minnesota River, Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called "St. Peter's Cantonment" or "New Hope," where materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling to be built on the bluff on the north bank.[12] Permanent settlement on the island was impossible due to annual flooding. Alexis Bailey built some log buildings nearby to trade in furs in 1826. Henry Hastings Sibley later built the first stone house in Minnesota in 1836, overlooking Fort Snelling. Sibley was a partner in the American Fur Company, and considerable fur trade occurred at Mendota due to the accessibility of the confluence.
On-going United States expansion into the then "Northwest Territory" led to government purchase of land from the Dakota people (the Mdewakanton, Wahpekute, Wahpeton, and Sisseton bands) via the Treaty of St. Peters and the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851.[13][14] and the Treaty of Mendota.[15] After the establishment of the Minnesota Territory in 1849, Dakotah County (later Dakota County) spanned from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River.[16] By the time Minnesota achieved statehood in 1858, power and influence had shifted from Mendota, across the rivers to Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Hastings and South Saint Paul[]
Continuing into the 20th century, the hub of activity in the county was in Hastings, the county seat, and a focal point of transportation, communication, and commerce. St. Peter's, now Mendota, had lost out to Fort Snelling. Hastings is critically located on the Mississippi River at the confluence of the St. Croix River and on the Vermillion River, which provided ample water power. Commercial interests built substantial wealth among the businessmen who dealt in lumber, milling, and railroads as the county residents depended on them to sell their agricultural products and to provide the goods needed for a growing economy and rising standard of living.
During this time, the stockyards and meat-packing plants in South Saint Paul became historically significant as the largest stockyards in the world.[17] Ranchers in the vast countryside to the west brought their livestock for shipping to the hungry populations of St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, downstream.[18] These plants were worked by new immigrants from Romania, Serbia, and other Eastern European countries.[19] The rest of the county remained agricultural during the boom of milling activity north of the Minnesota River due to lack of bridge connections. Rail access came in 1866 via the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railroad which shipped grain to millers.[20] The Minneapolis St. Paul Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction Company line in 1905 (now the Dan Patch Corridor), was primary for passengers going to entertainment parks and resorts in Burnsville and Lakeville.[21]
Suburban growth[]
Beginning in the 1950s, population and household growth shifted to the western portion of the county. This area of Dakota County had been predominantly Irish and Scottish extending southward toward the Scandinavians of Southern Minnesota.[22][23] As population pressures expanded south from Minneapolis and Bloomington, the completion of Interstate 35W and 35E brought about major construction in the post-World War II period, turning villages into cities over the period of 20 years. Burnsville, Apple Valley, Eagan, and Lakeville brought over 200,000 people into the county by the end of the century. The Western and Northern Service Centers were constructed in the early 1990s each with an additional courthouse location. License centers were subsequently setup in Burnsville and Lakeville. Though pressure remained since the postwar boom to move the county seat to one of the larger communities in the county, the Dakota County Board maintained the seat in Hastings, while providing government services across the county.[24]
Historic sites[]
The history of the county is well-illustrated by the Registered Historic Places in the county, including the settlement at Mendota, the homes of well-heeled residents of Hastings, the ethnic gathering places in South Saint Paul, and other sites related to life on the prairie, including religion, education, transportation, commerce, and farm life.
Law and government[]
Dakota County is governed by the Board of Commissioners. The members of the Board as of March 1, 2017 are:
Mike Slavik, District 1
Kathleen Gaylord, District 2
Thomas Egan, District 3
Joe Atkins, District 4
Liz Workman, District 5
Mary Liz Holberg, District 6
Chris Gerlach, District 7
Dakota County has an elected Sheriff (Tim Leslie) and an elected County Attorney (James Backstrom). There are appointed boards for the library system, community development agency, and several advisory boards. Dakota County is served by an elected board of the Soil and Water Conservation District.
Politics[]
Dakota County voters tend to vote Democratic. Since 1960, the county has selected the Democratic Party candidate in 71% of national elections (as of 2020).
United States presidential election results for Dakota County, Minnesota[25]
2020 109,638 41.81% 146,155 55.73% 6,466 2.47%
2016 99,864 43.07% 110,592 47.70% 21,404 9.23%
2000 87,250 47.87% 85,446 46.88% 9,553 5.24%
1996 57,244 37.11% 77,297 50.11% 19,725 12.79%
1984 55,119 52.54% 49,125 46.83% 667 0.64%
1964 13,856 32.73% 28,391 67.07% 81 0.19%
1948 6,819 34.75% 12,487 63.63% 317 1.62%
1944 7,731 47.13% 8,562 52.20% 110 0.67%
1940 8,339 47.00% 9,327 52.57% 77 0.43%
1936 4,043 26.26% 8,890 57.73% 2,465 16.01%
1924 3,931 42.34% 929 10.01% 4,424 47.65%
1912 609 14.20% 1,777 41.42% 1,904 44.38%
1892 1,481 37.95% 1,989 50.97% 432 11.07%
According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of 586.33 square miles (1,518.6 km2), of which 569.58 square miles (1,475.2 km2) (or 97.14%) is land and 16.75 square miles (43.4 km2) (or 2.86%) is water.[26]
Lakes and rivers[]
Vermillion Falls in Hastings
The northern and eastern border of Dakota County is marked by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Management and jurisdiction of the rivers falls into multiple local, State and Federal agencies. Most of the Minnesota River bank is under the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge with fish, wildlife, and parkland managed collectively by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District assists the county's six watershed management organizations (WMO) which include the Black Dog WMO, Gun Club Lake WMO, Lower Minnesota River Watershed District, Lower Mississippi WMO, North Cannon River WMO, and the Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization.[27][28] [29]
Mississippi River: Adjacent to Mendota Heights, Lilydale, South St. Paul, Inver Grove Heights, Rosemount, and Hastings.
Minnesota River: Adjacent to Burnsville, Eagan, Mendota Heights, and Mendota.
Vermillion River: From Farmington through Eureka Township to Hastings.
Blackhawk Lake
Holland Lake
Jensen Lake
Thomas Lake
Eureka Township
Chub Lake
Lake Rebecca
Lake Isabelle
Bullfrog Pond
Lake Marion
Ravenna Township
Mud Hen Lakes
Lake Byllesby
West Saint Paul
Thompson Lake
Keegan Lake
Interstate 35E
Interstate 35W
Interstate 494
U.S. Highway 52
Minnesota State Highway 3
Minnesota State Highway 13
Minnesota State Highway 110
Ramsey County (north)
Washington County (northeast)
Pierce County, Wisconsin (east, across the Mississippi River)
Goodhue County (southeast)
Rice County (southwest)
Scott County (west)
Hennepin County (northwest)
National protected areas[]
Main article: protected area
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (part)
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (part)
Since the county grew as a bedroom community of Minneapolis and St. Paul, just over half of the residents (54%) work outside the county.[4]
1860 9,093 1,457.0%
1970 139,808 78.5%
U.S. Decennial Census
According to the 2010 census, Dakota County had a population of 398,552, of which 195,661 (49.1%) were male and 202,891 (50.9%) were female. In terms of age, 76.7% of the population were 16 years and over, 73.6% were 18 years and over, 70.5% were 21 years and over, 12.8% were 62 years and over, and 10.0% were 65 years and over. The median age was 36.8 years. The median age for males was 35.7; the median age for females was 37.9.
In terms of race and ethnicity, the county was 85.2% White (82.3% Non-Hispanic White Alone), 4.7% Black or African American, 0.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 4.4% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 2.4% from Some Other Race, and 2.9% from Two or More Races. Hispanics and Latinos of any race make up 6.0% of the population.
In terms of households, 69.5% were family households and 30.5% were non-family households. Approximately 55.2% were husband-wife family households; 26% had children under 18 years of age. Approximately 36.6% of households had children under 18 years of age living in them; 18.6% had people over the age of 65 living in them. The average household size is 2.60 and the average family size is 3.12. In terms of housing occupancy, 95.3% of households were occupied and 4.7% were vacant. Of the vacant housing units, 2.0% were for rent, 0.1% were rented but not occupied, 1.2% were for sale only, 0.2% were sold but not occupied, 0.5% were for seasonal, recreational, or occasional use, and 0.8% were all other vacants. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.7% and the rental vacancy rate was 8.1%. Of all occupied housing units, 76.5% were owner-occupied and 23.5% were renter-occupied. The population in owner-occupied units was 314,833; the average household size was 2.71. The population in renter-occupied units was 80,866; the average household size was 2.26. [30]
Cities and towns[]
Street in downtown Apple Valley with signature red lamp posts. In the background is the Western Service Center.
Dakota County is home to sites significant in the state's early history. At Mendota, the Treaty of Mendota was signed, opening much of Southern Minnesota to settlement, and there prominent Saint Paul businessmen built their grand mansions. Though linked with the state's capital for much of history via rail, Dakota County owes much of its current growth to the expansion of Minneapolis' population which accelerated during the post-World War II boom era of the 1960s. This demand for housing along with two major interstate highways linking Minneapolis (I-35W) and St. Paul (I-35E) to the county concentrated major growth and demand along the northern end. Today, the cities of Burnsville, Eagan, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Rosemount, Hastings, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota Heights, West St. Paul, and South St. Paul are synonymous with the Twin Cities, as being part of "the Cities." Both Burnsville and Eagan are nearly developed and have become more like independent cities attracting major development than just residential bedroom suburbs.[31][32]
Lakeville's downtown began in the early 20th century, contrasting its modern suburban development.
In contrast, the southern end of Dakota County reflects the rural past with small towns such as Farmington, Coates, Vermilion, Hampton, Rudolph, and Miesville where street grids and housing dating from the early 20th century can be found. Much of the county is self-contained except for two examples. The City of Hastings, the county seat, lies on both banks of the Mississippi River and was heavily linked historically and physically by rail to the early growing influence of the state's capital, Saint Paul. On the south border, the City of Northfield, technically in Rice County, has slightly expanded north into Dakota however the city itself is allowed into the municipal sewer boundary.
Though all of Dakota County is considered part of the metropolitan area and open to major development, the county government has steadily preserved farmland and continues to acquire new permanent natural lands in the southern townships.[33] This has further defined the boundaries between urbanized and rural which is starkly visible in the outskirts of the developed cities. While the center of population still lies north with more cosmopolitan residents, culturally Dakota County is a rural community and the Dakota County Fair is still a largely agricultural event and held in Farmington.
Most of northern Dakota County is frequently referred to as "South of the River" for its location being south of the Minnesota River.[34][35][36][37]
Unincorporated Communities
Hastings†
Mendota Heights
Miesville
New Trier
Northfield ‡
South St. Paul
Sunfish Lake
West St. Paul
Castle Rock Township
Douglas Township
Empire Township
Greenvale Township
Hampton Township
Marshan Township
Nininger Township
Sciota Township
Vermillion Township
Waterford Township
Eureka Center
Nininger
† Hastings is in Dakota County; a part of the city extends into Washington County.
‡ Northfield is mainly in Rice County; a part of the city extends into Dakota County.
Dakota County is home to the state's largest school districts and some of the highest paid Superintendents.[38] Nationally recognized Independent School District 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan) houses 28,000 and is the fourth largest school district in the state.[39][40] Other districts include Independent School District 191 (Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District), Independent School District 194 (Lakeville-Elko-New Market), Independent School District 197 (West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan) and Independent School District 200 (Hastings).
Schools[]
Burnsville Senior High School (ISD 191)
John Metcalf Junior High School (ISD 191)
Joseph Nicollet Junior High School (ISD 191)
Edward D. Neill Elementary (ISD 191)
Gideon Pond Elementary (ISD 191)
Rahn Elementary (ISD 191)
Sioux Trail Elementary (ISD 191)
Sky Oaks Elementary (ISD 191)
Vista View Elementary (ISD 191)
William Byrne Elementary (ISD 191)
North Trail Elementary (ISD 192)
Meadowview Elementary (ISD 192)
Akin Road Elementary (ISD 192)
Farmington Elementary (ISD 192)
Riverview Elementary (ISD 192)
Robert Boeckman Middle School (ISD 192)
Levi P. Dodge Middle School (ISD 192)
Farmington Senior High School (ISD 192)
Oak Ridge Elementary (ISD 196)
Red Pine Elementary (ISD 196)
Rosemount Elementary (ISD 196)
Thomas Lake Elementary (ISD 196)
Dakota Hills Middle (ISD 196)
Black Hawk Middle School (ISD 196)
Rosemount Middle School (ISD 196)
Scott Highlands Middle School (ISD 196)
Valley Middle School (ISD 196)
Saint Joseph Catholic School
Rosemount High School (ISD 196)
Eagan High School (ISD 196)
Eastview High School (ISD 196)
School of Environmental Studies (ISD 196)
Simley High School (ISD 199)
South Saint Paul High School (SSD 6)
Holy Trinity Catholic School
Colleges and universities[]
Inver Hills Community College
Libraries[]
Dakota County Libraries
Burnhaven Library in Burnsville
Farmington Library in Farmington
Galaxie Library in Apple Valley
Heritage Library in Lakeville
Inver Glen Library in Inver Grove Heights
Pleasant Hill Library in Hastings
Robert Trail Library in Rosemount
City of South St. Paul Library in South St. Paul
Wentworth Library in West St. Paul
Wescott Library in Eagan
Recreation[]
Parks[]
Big Rivers Regional Trail in Mendota Heights
Lake Byllesby Regional Park in Cannon Falls
Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan/Apple Valley
Miesville Ravine Park Reserve in Miesville
Dakota Woods Dog Park in Empire Township
Spring Lake Park Reserve in Hastings/Rosemount
Thompson County Park in West St. Paul
Dakota County Bikeway System
Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court justice
Harold Stassen (R), Former Governor of Minnesota, Aide to Adm. Bull Halsey, Aide to President Dwight Eisenhower, Participant/Drafter of the United Nations Charter
Ignatius Donnelly, Politician
Henry Hastings Sibley, Politician, Indian agent
National Register of Historic Places listings in Dakota County, Minnesota
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^ a b "County Origin". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/origin.asp.
^ a b Kevin Monroe, Dawn Thongsavath, Heidi Welsch (May 2006). "Public Assistance Caseload, Increase Analysis" (PDF). Dakota County Employment and Economic Assistance. http://www.co.dakota.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/00000519/ibzkmqzmkyilpjfjtgytyocqfauykfmo/06PublicAssistCaseGrowthAnalysisFinalReportII.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
^ Charles Dosh (2003-2007). "Dakota County Genealogy". MN Gen Web. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~bluhm002/Dakota/public_html/index.html.
^ (1904) "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties" II (Treaties, 1778-1883). . and "Treaty with the Sioux". 1837-09-29. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0493.htm#mn1. and "Treaty with the Sioux—Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands". 1851-07-23. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0588.htm. and "Treaty With the Sioux—Mdewakanton and Wapahkoota Bands". 1851-08-05. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/sio0591.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
^ a b Mark Morrison (2008). "Dakota Life". City of Bloomington. http://www.ci.bloomington.mn.us/main_top/2_facilities/rec_facility/pond/signs/dakota_life/dakota_life.htm.
^ Handbook of American Indians, 1906 (2008). "Iowa Indian Tribe History". Access Genealogy. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/iowa/iowahist.htm.
^ "Who We Are". Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community. 2007. http://mendotadakota.com/mn/who/.
^ Dakota County Historical Society (2005). "Historic Sites: Burnsville". http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/burnsville.asp.
^ "The Treaty Story". Minnesota History Center. 1999. http://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/exhibits/territory/territory/treaty/treaty4.html.
^ "Historic Sites:Mendota Heights". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/mendotaheights.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
^ Carley, Kenneth (1976). The Sioux Uprising of 1862. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-103-4. OCLC 2225048.
^ Lass, William (1977, 1998). Minnesota: A History. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04628-1. OCLC 37527613.
^ Meyer, Roy Willard (1993). History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy on Trial. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
^ Dosh, Charles. "Welcome To Dakota County, Minnesota - MNGenWeb". MN Genweb. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~bluhm002/Dakota/public_html/index.html. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
^ "South St. Paul Riverfront Trail". Mississippi National River and Recreation area. http://www.nps.gov/archive/miss/tug/segments/seg16.html. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ "County Origin". Dakota County Historical Society. 2005. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/origin.asp. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
^ "Historic Sites:South St. Paul". Dakota County Historical Society. http://www.dakotahistory.org/county/ssp.asp. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ ED Neill (1881). "History of Dakota County 1881". Burnsville Heritage Committee. Archived from the original on 2009-10-25. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/6038/History_of_Dakota_County_1881.html&date=2009-10-25+07:31:26.
^ "The Dan Patch railway". St. Louis Park Historical Society. http://www.slphistory.org/history/danpatch.asp.
^ Kevin Gerahty (2006-03). "Histories of the Dakota County Irish". Friends of the Highland Cemetery. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~friendsofthehighlandcemetery/.
^ Karen Miller (1896). The diary of Karen Miller. s.n.. http://books.google.com/?id=FyL6GgAACAAJ.
^ Dan Gearino (2000-08-11). "County breaks ground on $36.5 million Northern Service Center in West St. Paul". Thisweek Newspapers. http://www.thisweek-online.com/2000/august/11nsc.html. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
^ Leip, David. "Atlas of US Presidential Elections". http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS.
^ "Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Counties". United States Census. http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/county2k.txt. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
^ Home - Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District
^ Mississippi River Critical Area Program - Division of Waters: Minnesota DNR
^ Lower Minnesota River Watershed District
^ http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table
^ Burnsville 'in great shape,' mayor says
^ U.S. Postal Service studies Eagan site for possible relocation of 3 metro post offices
^ Dakota County News and Program Updates
^ South of the River Music
^ South of the River 7 on 7 Passing League
^ South of the River Band
^ Dirk Deyoung (1998-04-24). "South of the river draws big players". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/1998/04/27/focus3.html?q=%20South%20of%20the%20River%20%20Burnsville. Retrieved 2008-06-05.
^ State Auditor Awada says some Minnesota school boards mask superintendent pay
^ School District 196 Public Relations and Communications
^ About School District 196
Dakota County Historical Society
Dakota County government's website
Dakota County Library's website
Park maps
Dakota County Community Development Agency
Dakota County Biographies from 1881
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County seat: Hastings
Apple Valley | Burnsville | Coates | Eagan | Farmington | Hampton | Hastings‡ | Inver Grove Heights | Lakeville | Lilydale | Mendota | Mendota Heights | Miesville | New Trier | Northfield‡ | Randolph | Rosemount | South St. Paul | Sunfish Lake | Vermillion | West St. Paul
Castle Rock | Douglas | Empire | Eureka | Greenvale | Hampton | Marshan | Nininger | Randolph | Ravenna | Sciota | Vermillion | Waterford
Castle Rock | Eureka Center | Waterford
Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court justice | Natalie Darwitz, Olympic Silver Medalist | Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota's 2nd Lt. Governor | Craig Kilborn, comedian | John Kline, U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 2nd congressional district | Paul James Krause, NFL Hall of Famer | Joan Kroc, philanthropist | Laura Osnes, actress | Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota's 39th Governor | Alexander Ramsey, Minnesota's 2nd Governor | Coleen Rowley, former FBI agent | Henry Hastings Sibley, Minnesota's 1st Governor | Harold Stassen, Minnesota's 25th Governor
Mississippi River: Adjacent to South St. Paul, Inver Grove Heights, Rosemount, and Hastings | Minnesota River: Adjacent to Mendota Heights, Mendota, and Burnsville | Vermillion River: From Farmington through Eureka Township to Hastings
Byron Howes House | Church of Saint Mary's-Catholic | Church of the Advent | Dakota County Courthouse | Daniel F. Akin House | District No. 72 School | East Second Street Commercial Historic District | Emil J. Oberhoffer House | Exchange Bank Building | Fasbender Clinic | First Presbyterian Church, Hastings | Fort Snelling | Fort Snelling-Mendota Bridge | George W. Wentworth House | Good Templars Hall | Hastings Foundry-Star Iron Works | Hastings Methodist Episcopal Church | Henry H. Sibley House | Holz Family Farmstead | Ignatius Eckert House | MacDonald-Todd House | Mendota Historic District | Minneapolis Saint Paul Rochester & Dubuque Electric Traction Company Depot | Ramsey Mill and Old Mill Park | Reuben Freeman House | Rudolph Latto House | Serbian Home | St. Stefan's Romanian Orthodox Church | Stockyards Exchange | Thompson-Fasbender House | VanDyke-Libby House | West Second Street Residential Historic District | William G. LeDuc House
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As yogurt's named NY snack, plant lays off workers
Yesterday, Gov.
As yogurt's named NY snack, plant lays off workers Yesterday, Gov. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1sXhVYW
Westchester Published 10:28 a.m. ET Oct. 16, 2014
Yesterday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law to make yogurt the official state snack. At the same time, a Batavia yogurt plant announced 32 layoffs.
Alpina Foods said it would lay off 32 of its workers in Batavia effective Sunday, a decision the company attributed in part to the loss of a contract, Gannett's Albany Bureau reported today.
The company, which had 58 employees at the plant as of January, had promised 50 total jobs for a series of tax breaks and grants when it was originally built.
"Alpina Foods remains committed to Batavia and western New York and views this current workforce reduction as a temporary but necessary approach to address immediate business challenges facing the company in the short term," Gustavo Badino, Alpina Foods' U.S. general manager, said in a statement.
The Genesee County Economic Development Center, which provided some of the tax breaks, said it would help the company to get the jobs back.
"We'll work with them to find any potential customers and anything they may need to bring their employment back where it was," said agency spokeswoman Rachael Tabelski.
Cuomo yesterday signed a bill to designate yogurt as the official New York snack.
The state is the largest producer of yogurt in the nation, with Chobani and Fage based in central New York.
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Anonymous Affiliates Are Unhappy About the 'Robin Hood' Hack
Now that the afterglow of the latest AntiSec assault on the global intelligence firm Stratfor is dulling a bit, some members affiliates of Anonymous are protesting the hacking of a regular old, hard-working American company.
Adam Clark Estes
Now that the afterglow of the latest AntiSec assault on the global intelligence firm Stratfor is dulling a bit, some members affiliates of Anonymous are protesting the hacking of a regular old, hard-working American company. This week, the details of AntiSec hacktivists' latest project, loosely dubbed Anonymous' LulzXmas, is stealing headlines in classic LulzSec fashion. The hack reportedly resulted in over 200 gigabytes of Stratfor's data, including everything from log-ins to credit card numbers, and received coverage in all the big outlets from Fox News to The New York Times (and The Atlantic Wire, too). It was reported that AntiSec stole a bunch of money from the rich Stratfor customers and gave it to charities like The Red Cross. But now, doubts are beginning to surface about whether AntiSec's Robin Hood move might backfire. After all, what happens when the charities are inevitably forced to give that money back to the Startfor customers who unknowingly donated? Further, as details emerge of a two-month-old hack on a small business -- albeit one that potentially supplies pepper-spray to the pepper-spray-loving cops who then spray it all over Occupy protesters -- some wonder whether AntiSec is actually fighting the good fight. Based on rumors that the hackers are preparing to launch a full-on assault against the "some of the most powerful men in the world," however, we're pretty sure Anonymous is not defending the One Percent.
Before we risk our readers getting an eye poked out by all the finger-pointing, we ought to make one thing clear. Anonymous and its offshoots (AntiSec, LulzSec and whatever other ___Sec groups we haven't heard about yet) are loosely organized, at best. So when one self-identified Anon steps forward to protest the work of other Anon-affiliates, it's not at all surprising that he or she would deny that AntiSec's Stratfor attack was condoned by Anonymous. To quote a Pastebin rant uploaded by someone called Self-Identified Anon on Tuesday night: "THE PASTEBIN CLAIMING THAT THE STRATFOR HACK IS NOT THE WORK OF ANONYMOUS IS NOT THE WORK OF ANONYMOUS." The Pastebin we think Self-Identified Anon is talking about is this one from AntiSec, a collaboration between former LulzSec and Anonymous members affiliates. Though that post doesn't actually mention Anonymous once, the story that it helped spawn was widely reported (including by us) as an affiliated attack. Maybe it was; maybe it wasn't. The problem with leaderless organizations like Anonymous is that they're pretty amorphous, sometimes inconsistent and always vague about who did what.
Nevertheless, Self-Identified Anon goes on to raise an interesting point about who AntiSec's attack are really impacting. S/he even raises the issue of Constitutional rights. "#antisec has been purposefully misrepresented by these so-called Anons and portrayed in false light as a collective that hacks the little man, the 99% or even the 89%," the post reads. "Stratfor employees are well versed in counter-intelligence, though they kinda lack intelligence per-se and are nothing more than opportunistic attention whores who are definetly agent provocateurs. As a media source, Stratfor's work is protected by the freedom of press, a principle which Anonymous does not give a fuck any day of the week." This idea gets interesting when you consider the second LulzXmas hack, an attack on the law-enforcement supply shop Special Forces Gear. Apparently the attack actually happened several months ago, and the shop's owner says he's been feeling the sting where it matters most for small businesses these days, the wallet in his back pocket. The Daily Dot's Fruzsina Eördögh spoke to Dave Thomas, owner of Special Forces Gear, as well as a self-identified member of AntiSec:
"I imagine it is coming up again because of the publicity over Stratfor," said Thomas. "That's what they are after. I am not a big company. I am minuscule. They've hurt me financially quite a bit, and I am thinking here we go again." …
In a private message with the Daily Dot, an AntiSec member admitted Special Forces was essentially chump change, but attacking it is part of a "war of attrition" and "guerrilla tactics."
"We go for every weak point," wrote the AntiSec member. "We cut off every resource. We twist the knife in the back of the already untrusted."
Good grief. So now we've got Dave Thomas, the small business owner who sells pepper-spray to cops, invoking the rhetoric of the 99 Percent, while at least one hacktivist-type is arguing that Anonymous isn't standing up for the 99 Percent … or even the 89 Percent! We haven't seen a response from AntiSec, but we doubt they're going to be thrilled about this interpretation of their behavior.
But like we suggested at the start, it certainly looks like Anonymous affiliates are waging war on the One Percent as fiercely as ever. Writing in The Australian, Fran Foo reported on Wednesday that some of those listed as victims of the Stratfor attack represent the ultra elite, including one wealthy member of the Australian Parliament and a "prominent journalist." Meanwhile, the former unofficial spokesperson for Anonymous Barrett Brown is doing some recruiting on Reddit to find folks to help him search through a giant cache of One Percenter email addresses. Also, another hacktivist-type is now warning of an impending "First Bank Release" that's sure to include a few jabs in the direction of the One Percent. As always, we're not sure what will come of these threats, if anything, but it seems pretty clear that a powerful set of Anon-affiliates, including AntiSec, are very much watching out for the 99 Percent.
We guess it all comes down to one question: What did AntiSec actually do with all that money they stole from Stratfor customers? The Red Cross told us yesterday that they were looking into the issue of misplaced donations, potentially stemming from the AntiSec attack, but that the onus was on the credit card companies to determine if the transactions were fraudulent. Mastercard is trying to figure that out right now. "This incident currently is under investigation," a spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire in an email, "therefore MasterCard cannot disclose additional details regarding the incident or otherwise comment at this time." Time will tell whether or not AntiSec actually stole from the rich and gave to the poor, rather than vice versa. As for Thomas's business woes, it could be argued that his financial hurt might have something to do with the collective outrage that's followed the many instances of police brutality against the Occupy protesters. Then again, maybe he sold an extra lot of pepper-spray, too.
We can definitely buy what Thomas says about AntiSec seeking publicity. Whether that was the primary motivation or not, the hactivists have succeeded in making what may be 2011's last big hack another object of the media's fascination. Journalists (like your humble Atlantic Wire Anonymous correspondent) will be digging through the details of this at least until Thursday, when we're pretty sure AntiSec or Anonymous or both will strike again. The suspected target: Go Daddy. Duh.
Adam Clark Estes is a former writer for The Wire. He has also written for The Huffington Post and Vice.