small-town American life — filmed with unprecedented access as he makes perfect renderings of a disturbing, imperfect world. (World Premiere)
Just Like Being There
Director: Scout Shannon
Through the eyes of Daniel Danger, Jay Ryan, and the gig poster community, Just Like Being There focuses on poster artists, the music they commemorate, MONDO film posters, fans, bloggers, galleries, collectors and everything in between. (World Premiere)
Scarlet Road (Australia)
Director: Catherine Scott
The film follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked clientele - people with disability. (North American Premiere)
Trash Dance
Director: Andrew Garrison
A choreographer finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks, and against the odds, rallies reluctant city trash collectors to perform an extraordinary dancespectacle. On an abandoned airport runway, two dozen sanitation workers -- and their trucks -- inspire an audience of thousands. (World Premiere)
Waiting For Lightning
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
From the producers of Step into Liquid, comes the story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way, who jumped China’s Great Wall and created a new movement in sport. (World Premiere)
Wikileaks: Secrets & Lies (UK)
Director: Patrick Forbes
The in-depth story of Wikileaks told by all the key players. Sulphurous, personal and moving, it documents history in the making at the lawless frontier of new technology and mainstream media. (North American Premiere)
WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Director: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
This documentary examines the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman and introduces audiences to a dynamic group of real life superheroes who continue to fight the


good fight both on and off the screen. (World Premiere)
EMERGING VISIONS
Audacious, risk-taking artists in the new cinema landscape that demonstrate raw innovation and creativity in documentary and narrative filmmaking.
Films screening in Emerging Visions are:
Black Pond (UK)
Directors: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Screenwriter: Will Sharpe
An ordinary family is accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Stars BAFTA-winner Chris Langham and British Comedy Award Winner Simon Amstell. Cast: Chris Langham, Simon Amstell, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley, Will Sharpe (North American Premiere)
Dollhouse (Ireland)
Director/Screenwriter: Kirsten Sheridan
Five street teens break into a house in a rich Dublin suburb for a night of partying. But games are twisted into something more emotional and ultimately out of control through a series of surprising revelations. Cast: Seana Kerslake, Johnny Ward, Kate Stanley Brennan,Shane Curry, Ciaran McCabe (North American Premiere)
Eating Alabama
Director: Andrew Beck Grace
A quest to eat locally becomes a meditation on community, the South and sustainability. Eating Alabama is a story about why food matters. (World Premiere)
Electrick Children
Director/Screenwriter: Rebecca Thomas
Rachel, a 15-year-old fundamentalist Mormon, believes she's had an immaculate conception by listening to rock and roll. She flees to Las Vegas to escape an arranged marriage, seeking answers to her mysterious pregnancy.
Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Billy Zane (North American Premiere)
Extracted
Director/Screenwriter: Nir Paniry
A scientist is trapped in the memories of a criminal and must solve a crime in order to get back home to his family.
Cast: Sasha Roiz, Dominic Bogart, Jenny Mollen, Nick Jameson, Brad Culver (World Premiere)
Francine (Canada / USA)
Director/Screenwriter: Brian M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky
Academy-Award-winner, Melissa Leo,


plays Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison.
Cast: Melissa Leo, Keith Leonard, Victoria Charkut (North American Premiere)
Funeral Kings
Director/Screenwriter: Kevin Mcmanus, Matthew Mcmanus
For three 14-year-old boys at St. Mark's Middle School, it's always a good day for a funeral.
Cast: Dylan Hartigan, Alex Maizus, Jordan Puzzo, Charles Odei, Kevin Corrigan (World Premiere)
Hard Labor (Brazil)
Director/Screenwriter: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Helena prepares to open her own business: a neighborhood grocery store. She hires a maid. But when her husband Octavio is suddenly fired from his job, Helena is left to support the family alone.
Cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Naloana Lima, Marina Flores (U.S. Premiere)
La Camioneta - The Journey of One American School Bus
Director: Mark Kendall
On a 3,000-mile adventure across theborders between the Americas, La Camioneta follows the journey of one out-of-service American school bus as it is repaired, repainted and resurrected into a Guatemalan camioneta. (World Premiere)
The Last Fall
Director/Screenwriter: Matthew A. Cherry
An NFL journeyman struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over at age 25.
Cast: Lance Gross, Nicole Beharie, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Harry Lennix, Keith David
(World Premiere)
Leave Me Like You Found Me
Director/Screenwriter: Adele Romanski
Big trees, broken hearts. The story of a lovesick couple’s breakup & makeup while camping in the wilds of California. Cast: Megan Boone, David Nordstrom (World Premiere)
PAVILION
Director/Screenwriter: Tim Sutton
Max, a quietly troubled 15-year-old, leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the sun-blasted fringe of suburban Arizona. What begins in a calm and lush environment ends in a


drastic, frayed confusion. Cast: Max Schaffner, Zach Cali, Cody Hamric, Addie Barlett, Aaron Buyea (World Premiere)
Sun Don't Shine
Director/Screenwriter: Amy Seimetz
Two lovers, on the back roads of Florida, do very bad things.
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley, AJ Bowen, Kit Gwinn, Mark Reeb (World Premiere)
Sunset Stories
Directors: Silas Howard, Ernesto Foronda, Screenwriter: Valerie Stadler
When May returns to LA and runs smack into JP, the man she left behind, past and present collide sending them on a twenty-four hour journey in search of what they lost.
Cast: Monique Curnen, Sung Kang, Joshua Leonard, Mousa Kraish, Michelle Krusiec (World Premiere)
Tchoupitoulas
Director: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Three young brothers' immersive journey into the sensory wonders of the New Orleans night.
(World Premiere)
Thale (Norway)
Director/Screenwriter: Aleksander L. Nordaas
The film revolves around huldra, a mythical, tailed creature, found by twocrime scene cleaners in a concealed cellar. Someone’s been keeping her down here for decades, for reasons soon to surface. Cast: Silje Reinåmo, Jon Sigve Skard, Erlend Nervold, Morten Andresen (North American Premiere)
Wildness
Director/Screenwriter: Wu Tsang
A magical-realist portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in Los Angeles that provides a safe space for Latin/LGBT immigrant and queer art communities to come together in love and conflict.
WOLF
Director/Screenwriter: Ya'ke Smith
A family is shaken to the core when they discover their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse.
Cast: Irma P. Hall, Mikala Gibson, Jordan Cooper, Shelton Jolivette, Eugene Lee (World Premiere)
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Showcasing the sounds, culture and influence of music and musicians, with an emphasis on documentary.
Films


screening in 24 Beats Per Second are:
Amor Cronico (Cuba / USA)
Director: Jorge Perugorria
Weaving footage of singer Cucu Diamantes’ Cuban tour into a fictional love story. The result is an energetic display of her glamorous and infectious performance style and a fascinating portrait of Cuba today.
Cast: Cucu Diamantes, Adela Legra, Liosky Clavero, Andres Levin, Jorge Perugorria (World Premiere)
Bad Brains: Band in DC
Directors: Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan
How four young men from DC changed music forever. (World Premiere)
Charles Bradley: Soul of America
Director: Poull Brien
The incredible late-in-life rise of 62-year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album rocketed him from a hard life in the projects to Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2011.
(World Premiere)
Daylight Savings
Director: Dave Boyle, Screenwriters: Dave Boyle, Michael Lerman, Joel Clark, Goh Nakamura
After a devastating breakup,musician Goh Nakamura hits the road with his irresponsible cousin to pursue a promising rebound with fellow musician Yea-Ming Chen.
Cast: Goh Nakamura, Michael Aki, Yea-Ming Chen, Lynn Chen, Ayako Fujitani (World Premiere)
Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir (Iceland / Denmark)
Director: Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir
At the tender age of 70 she started making music - and then she couldn't stop! A tribute to the Danish/Icelandic artist and late bloomer Sigrídur Níelsdóttir.
Paul Williams Still Alive
Director: Stephen Kessler
A documentary filmmaker tracks down actor/singer/songwriter Paul Williams in an attempt to find out what happened to his idol. (U.S. Premiere)
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen (UK)
Director: Don Letts
Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Billie Joe Armstrong and others discuss the incredible life and work of the world's


foremost rock 'n' roll photographer, Bob Gruen.
(North American Premiere)
Sunset Strip
Director/Screenwriter: Hans Fjellestad
The 100-year history of the loudest street on the planet, The Sunset Strip. (World Premiere)
Under African Skies
Director: Joe Berlinger
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.
Uprising: Hip Hop & The LA Riots
Director: Mark Ford
20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, Uprising documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. (World Premiere)
SX GLOBAL
A diverse panorama of international filmmaking talent, including premieres, interactive documentaries and shorts.
Films screening in SX Global are:
BIJUKA (India)
Director: Ashtar Sayed, Screenwriter: Dr. MahendraIT OR LEAVE IT (Italy / Germany)
Directors: Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Gustav and Luca, two Italians, have to decide: Should they stay in Italy, or leave it? (North American Premiere)
Mustafa's Sweet Dreams (Greece / UK)
Director: Angelos Abazoglou
Mustafa, a 16-year-old pastry shop apprentice dreams of becoming a famous baklava chef in Istanbul. (North American Premiere)
Pompeya (Argentina)
Director: Tamae Garateguy, Screenwriters: Tamae Garateguy, Diego A. Fleischer
When a film director hires two screenwriters to make a gangster movie, a fiction feast starts: femmes fatales, mobs fighting for the same neighborhood and a limitless hero who defies every movie concept. Cast: José Luciano González, Joel Drut, Chang Sung Kim, Vladimir Yuravel, Miguel Forza de Paul
(U.S. Premiere)
¡Vivan las Antipodas! (Germany / The Netherlands / Argentina / Chile)
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Haven’t we all wondered at some point


what was happening just at this moment beneath our very feet at the other side of the planet?
FESTIVAL FAVORITES
Acclaimed standouts and selected previous premieres from festivals around the world.
Films screening in Festival Favorites are:
Beast (Denmark)
Director/Screenwriter: Christoffer Boe
How long will you go, to hold on to the person you love?
Cast: Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
The Comedy
Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Robert Donne, Colm O'Leary
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker), a desensitized, aging Brooklyn hipster, strays into a series of reckless situations that may offer the promise of redemption or the threat of retribution.
Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, James Murphy, Kate Lyn-Sheil, Alexia Rassmusen
Dreams of a Life (UK / Ireland)
Director: Carol Morley
An imaginative quest to go beyond the newspaper reports and solvethe mystery of who thirty-eight year old Joyce Vincent was and why she lay undiscovered for three years after her death in one of the busiest parts of London. (North American Premiere)
God Bless America
Director/Screenwriter: Bobcat Goldthwait
Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. Cast: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr (U.S. Premiere)
The Imposter (UK)
Director: Bart Layton
In 1994 a 13-year-old disappears without trace in Texas. Three years later he resurfaces in Spain with accounts of a horrifying kidnap. His family is overjoyed – but all is not as it seems.
Indie Game: The Movie (Canada)
Directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
With the twenty-first century comes a


new breed of artist: the indie game designer. These innovators design and program their distinctly personal games in the hope that they may find connection and success.
KID-THING
Director/Screenwriter: David Zellner
A fever-dream fable about Annie, a rebellious girl devoid of parental guidance or a moral compass. She roams the countryside looking for adventure, and finds it one day in the form of an abandoned well. Cast: Sydney Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner, David Wingo
Last Call at the Oasis
Director: Jessica Yu
A powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.
Lovely Molly
Director: Eduardo Sanchez, Screenwriters: Eduardo Sanchez, Jamie Nash
Exploring the parallels between psychosis, addiction and demonic possession, Lovely Molly tells the story of what really happens before the exorcist arrives.
Cast: GretchenLodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden (U.S. Premiere)
The Raid (Indonesia)
Director/Screenwriter: Gareth Huw Evans
Rama and his special forces team fight their way through a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord.
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno
WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists
Director: Brian Knappenberger
We Are Legion takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Live Soundtracks, cult re-issues and much more. Our Special Events section offers unusual, unexpected and unique film event one-offs.
Films screening in Special Events are:
An Evening With Sacred Bones Records
Director: Jacqueline Castel
Brooklyn-based record label Sacred Bones presents an evening of original and curated programming of music videos, short films, works in progress,


and a rare screening of their first film production, Twelve Dark Noons. (World Premiere)
Bernie
Director: Richard Linklater, Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Skip Hollandsworth
Based on real-life events, this dark comedy follows Bernie Tiede, his recently deceased friend Marjorie Nugent and District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson who is determined to get to the bottom of the crime. Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaux
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Director: Drew Denicola
A feature-length documentary about the massive critical acclaim, dismal commercial failure, and enduring legacy of pop music’s greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star. (Work in Progress)
Casa de mi Padre
Director: Matt Piedmont, Screenwriter: Andrew Steele
Will Ferrell plays a Mexican rancher who must defend his father's home against the country's most infamous drug lord. Cast: Will Ferrell, Gael García Vernal, DiegoLuna, Genesis Rodriguez, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Nick Offerman
Girl Walk // All Day
Director/Screenwriter: Jacob Krupnick
A feature-length dance music film that combines freestyle dance with the daily chaos of New York City, set to Girl Talk's recent mashup album, All Day. Cast: Anne Marsen, John Doyle, Daisuke Omiya
Re:Generation
Director: Amir Bar Lev
5 DJ's Turn the Table on The History of Music.
Renga (UK)
Directors: Adam Russell, John Sear
A ground breaking feature-length show controlled entirely by the audience using laser pointers. It is the first viable example of a standalone interactive experience capable of running in commercial movie theatres. (North American Premiere)
The Oyster Princess (1919) with original live score by Bee vs. Moth (Germany)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, Screenriters: Hanns Kraly & Ernst Lubitsch
The Oyster Princess is Ernst Lubitsch’s tart 1919 silent comedy that parodies the


Survey of continuing professional education within nursing homes.
This article reports a survey of qualified nurses employed in nursing homes in a large city in the north of England. The aim of the study was to describe nurses' experiences and perceptions of continuing professional education (CPE), and their views on the development of their knowledge and skills through formal and informal education. Findings revealed that nurses in nursing homes perceived the value of educational programmes but had limited opportunities to attend formal education programmes. They faced a number of barriers and challenges in accessing formal education. Various informal ways of learning were used, including reading professional journals, watching videotapes and television programmes and accessing the Internet. However, respondents appeared not to use fully opportunities for sharing knowledge with colleagues.he says he was scared about what sobriety would do to his personality and his creativity.

"The changes can't all be good changes," he says. "There's got to be something that you're losing there, some kind of potency, or humor even, or some sort of attractiveness — not only to the person you're with romantically, but to your family, to your friends."

But his fears have thus far proven unfounded. Shires has since become his wife, and his new solo album, Southeastern — some songs from which he plays for Gross — has been turning heads. In these songs, Isbell, a former member of Drive-By Truckers and current frontman for The 400 Unit, lays himself eloquently and emotionally bare.

While long-recognized as a brilliant songwriter, Isbell credits sobriety with his newfound


got that idea. I imagined a couple of folks who were drinking buddies, nothing more than that, and how their relationship changed when one of them got sick. I've known a lot of people who have gotten cancer and died. I think everybody has at this point in time, but those two folks aren't necessarily people who exist in reality."

On his parents' views on him being a musician

"My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was probably trying to resign himself to fact that I wouldn't live too much longer, just because of the way I was living. ... There was a moment for Dad where he realized it was going to work out as a careerit. We like the album, too, so we invited Isbell to come on our show and perform a few songs from it. I'm happy to say he agreed and is our guest today.

Many of his fans first heard his work with the Southern rock band The Drive-By Truckers. Isbell was a guitarist, singer and songwriter with the band. A few of their best known songs are his, including the title of the Truckers album "Decoration Day" and another song from that album, "Outfit."

Isbell's new solo album is his first since getting sober. Writing about Isbell in the New York Times magazine, Dwight Garner said Isbell's redemption on "Southeastern" is one of the best stories American music has to tell in 2013. Garner described the album as a breakthrough


the bed we ain't leavin' this room 'til someone needs medical help or the magnolias bloom. It's cold in this house and I ain't going out to chop wood. So cover me up and know you're enough to use me for good. Cover me up and know you're enough to use me for good.

GROSS: Oh, that's beautiful. That's Jason Isbell performing a song that's the lead song on his new album, and that song was called "Cover Me Up." Jason Isbell, thank you so much for coming to FRESH AIR. So you wrote that song for your wife, Amanda Shires, who is also a musician and songwriter and singer. So I hope she liked it.

(LAUGHTER)

ISBELL: She did. She liked it a lot. She did. She wasn't my wife,I feel like I should probably go ahead and get it out, you know, and tell it all like it happened.

GROSS: There's a song that's on your new album "Southeastern" that seems to me to be about, in part about giving up alcohol and about making the journey back to being sober. It's called "New South Wales." I'm going to ask you to perform that song for us, but first tell us the story behind the song.

ISBELL: This one, I'd gone over to Australia a few years back with Justin Townes Earle. This is one of the older songs for the record, and actually he was the person going through that kind of struggle at that point. He and I went over just the two of us and


mandolin when we were really little because he felt like our hands were too small to play guitar yet. So if you made it through the mandolin, you could get a guitar when you were eight or nine years old or maybe 10 years old.

GROSS: As you say, you grew up in the Bible Belt. You grew up in Alabama. So religion was a big part of your house. What about the church and church singing?

ISBELL: Yeah, I went to church. My mom's family, they were Church of Christ Southern, Church of Christ, and my dad's family were Pentecostal. My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. And so there were two very, very different styles of church music coming at me. The Pentecostal church had a full band, andcalled "Southeastern." I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross, back with songwriter, singer and guitarist, Jason Isbell. He's brought his guitar and is performing some songs for us from his new album "Southeastern." It's his first album since getting sober. Isbell got his start performing with the Southern rock band The Drive-By Truckers. He grew up in a small town in Alabama.

I want you to do another song from your new album. This is a song about cancer. Not that many people write songs about cancer and I'd love for you to tell the story behind this song before you sing it and if it's about somebody who you know.

ISBELL: I think the original inspiration for this, I


Mac McAnally, who wrote a lot of really great hit songs, some for the band Alabama, a lot of other country artists. He's in Jimmy Buffett's band now.

(SOUNDBITE OF GUITAR STRUMMING)

ISBELL: Incredible musician, really. He's won the Country Music Association's Musician of the Year five or six times in a row, I think or close to it. But his songs are absolutely brilliant and he's one of the best lyricists on earth. And this song, because it wound up being I think a top 10 country hit in the '80s, it gets ignored by people now. I never hear anybody else bring it up. But I think it's as good a cheating song as Willie or Merle or George Jones ever sang. I really do. It's called "AllOak." And before we hear it, I just want to quote a few lines from it. This is kind of a - in some ways it's like an old murder ballad or a crime ballad because it's about somebody who held up a train and killed a couple of people onboard. But he's not that person anymore. And so the chorus goes: There's a man who walks besides me. He is who I used to be. And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me. And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around. Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down?

And so, like, he's changed but she seems to really want to like the criminal...

ISBELL: Right. Yeah.

GROSS:


SONG, "LIVE OAK")

ISBELL: (Singing) There's a man who walks beside me. He is who I used to be. And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me. And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around. Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down? I was rougher than the timber shipping out upon the lathe when I headed south at 17, the sheriff on my back.

(Singing) I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze, so I found another victim every couple days. But the night I fell in love with her I made my weakness known to the fighters and the farmers digging dusty fields alone. The jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted menconfuses him with me. And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around. Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down?

(Singing) Well, I carved a cross from live oak and a box from short leaf pine and buried her so deep she'd touch the water table line. I picked up what I needed and I headed south again. To myself I wondered would I ever find another friend? There's a man who walks beside her. He is who I used to be. And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me.

GROSS: Music from Jason Isbell's new album "Southeastern." Isbell performed a song we didn't have time for in the broadcast, a song, Isbell told me, had a big


on stage in front of a white audience.” (The three men, by the way, were part of The Mills Brothers, one of the most famous bands in the world at the time.)

Anti-Israel protest in South Africa, last week. How rude and ignorant can people be? (Photo: Reuters)

It was the first time I had heard the word “apartheid,” which means “separateness” in Dutch.

Last week, the word made headlines again. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader who has turned himself into a dictator and who dreams of turning his country into a caliphate like it was before the rule of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, referred to Israel last week as an “apartheid state,” repeating things said in the past by other “friends ofdistrict court's decision to grant a conditional writ of habeas corpus to Billy Dewayne Newton. Newton's petition alleges that the state trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the defense of self-protection against multiple aggressors violated his right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. For the reasons that follow, we REVERSE the district court's grant of the writ.

BACKGROUND

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The charges against Newton arose out of an altercation that took place on November 16, 1996. The following facts were presented in the opinion of the Kentucky Supreme Court:

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The victim [William Hutcherson] and Newton had their first confrontation early in the afternoon. Later that day, in a billiard room parking lot, the victim and Newton started fighting after a minor automobile collision


involving vehicles of friends. The victim and Newton scuffled on the ground, and the victim was stabbed several times in the lower left chest, on the right upper abdomen and the fatal wound was on his upper right thigh, near the groin area. A third person tried unsuccessfully to break up the fight. The leg wound was 3 inches deep and it cut both the femoral artery and the vein, severing them completely. The fatal leg wound was discovered by the EMS worker in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The victim was pronounced dead at 11:15 p.m. Newton left the scene but was soon apprehended. Newton was arrested and charged with murder, and the knife used to stab the victim was recovered.

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Newton v. Commonwealth, No.was as follows:
Even though the Defendant might otherwise be guilty of Murder under Instruction No. 5, or Manslaughter in the First Degree under Instruction No. 6, if at the time the Defendant killed William Hutcherson, he believed that William Hutcherson was then and there about to use physical force upon him, he was privileged to use such physical force against William Hutcherson as he believed to be necessary in order to protect himself against it, but including the right to use deadly physical force in so doing only if he believed it to be necessary in order to protect himself from death or serious physical injury at the hands of William Hutcherson.

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 The Kentucky Supreme Court inconsistently characterized Woolums's behavior during the scuffle. At one point in the


July 19, 2011

Eastern Mediterranean marker in Northeast Wales

If anyone knows what marker they're talking about, leave a comment. Here's the address of the event, so if anyone is in Wrexham or can get to it in a few hours and attends the talk, feel free to report back. From the event site:

Focusing on the history of the Wrexham area, the team are particularly keen to meet people with ancestry in north east Wales, Cheshire or Shropshire. There will also be an opportunity to contribute your own DNA sample to the project should you wish.

Experts are asking people from north east Wales to provide a DNA sample to discover why those from the area carry rare genetic make-up.

So far, 500 people have taken part in the study which shows30% of men carry an unusual type of Y chromosome, compared to 1% of men elsewhere the UK.

Common in Mediterranean men, it was initially thought to suggest Bronze Age migrants 4,000 years ago.

...

Dr Grierson is leading the talk at Glyndŵr University on Tuesday and wants to speak to people with ancestry in the region to discover what is known about their family history - and to provide them with an opportunity to contribute a DNA sample to the project.

"The number of people in the north east Wales with this genetic makeup is quite extraordinary," he said.

"This type of genetic makeup is usually found in the eastern Mediterranean which made us think that there might have been strong connections between north east Wales and this part of Europe somewhere


where E-M81 is rare.

This lends credence to the biblical-historical legends. When the volcano Thera violently erupted about 1500BCE, waves of refugees fled the eastern Mediterranean and migrated up the European coast settling as far north as Ireland.

E1b is found in Kerry in the extreme South West of Ireland, especially the McCarthy family, which were the hereditary chieftains of the area. I couldn't tell you what type.

I remember asking Dienekes about this 5 or more years ago, as I speculated an Eastern Med connection. St Patrick when he was converting the Irish to Christianity, never ventured into Kerry. I speculated this was because they were already Christian, from an Eastern Med - possibly Egyptian source. There are stone "Beehive huts" on the coast of Kerry, very similar to theplausible instead.

It has been suggested in previous studies that Wales has higher E1b frequency because the Anglo-Saxon invaders pushed the Romano-British into the Western "Celtic fringes", to form the "E3b hole" (google it) in Central England, where E1b is almost completely absent. It would be interesting to see whether Brittany (in France), a major destination of Romano-British flight, also has higher E1b levels.

"My guess is that mostly M81, because it is the most common in West Iberia, which may have been the source or intermediate station, but unsure."I see. So your looking a variant common in western Iberia even though it was said the variant is common in the eastern Mediterranean.

"Hawkes (ib.) argued that the shape is not that of a currach but that of a Phoenician tub-shaped


increasing scale when the Romans arrived. For example:

"There had been small-scale mining in Wales in the pre-Roman British Iron Age, but it would be undertaken on an industrial scale under the Romans, who completed their conquest of Wales in AD 78. Substantial quantities of gold, copper, and lead were extracted, along with lesser amounts of zinc and silver. Mining would continue until the process was no longer practical or profitable, at which time the mine would be abandoned.[1] The extensive excavations of the Roman operations at Dolaucothi provide a picture of the high level of Roman technology and the expertise of Roman engineering in the ancient era."

"Was it only one town sampled when they found those high rates of E1b?"

Yes; the town was Abergele and the sample sizeit is M81. The frequency of V13 in Portugal and Galicia is about 5% and it has been attributed to "Greek" colonization by Portuguese historians based upon some fragmentry evidence that could easily be confused with Phoenician artifacts. People who live along the coast of Portugal from Viana do Castelo in the north to Lisbon in the south have traditionally believed these ports were established by mariners from the eastern Mediterranean. Vessel construction in the river areas is remarkably similar to that of Mesopotamia. I have a book published a few years ago where that point was made repeatedly. That doesn't make it so but the legend has been around for hundreds of years.

Well, I wonder if this 5% of M81 in Galicia can be traced back to


service near their former camp, a large number of descendents---far larger than any random sampling---would obviously result.

The other possibility would be the Egyptian anchorites who sailed west from their desert monasteries to Ireland in the third c. AD and began to prosyletize into Wales and the rest of the British Isle a few centuries later, after Patrick had converted the northern part of Hibernia.

Finally, whoever built the megaliths all around the Mediterranean and then to parts as far north as Skye Brae [?] are simply a race of unknown origins. This could be a clue as to their starting point.

The thing about the Anchorites is that we at least know that at least one of the "Irish" monks employed in Irish scriptoriums, wrote in the glyphs of apreyed on the rich Muslim South, Spania. Another example on this, an excerpt of a 12th century document from the monastery of Sobrado, in northern Galicia, called GENEALOGIA SARRACENORUM, containing the genealogy of some ten Moor slaves; in my translation: “(...) And this is the house of Mafumet the baker: Master Diego Vasques brought Pedruchi stonecutter, who begot Martin Porra, who before being baptised was known as Lupi, son of a woman known as Cornadessa. This Martin Porra married a Galician free woman, and in her he begot Maria Martin, and Peter, and John, and another little one (...)” This and another ten stories in a single document, with people being captured or bought in the South, later becoming non-free artisans and workers in Christian rural communities, marring


local women, and having Christian sons whose names were indistinguishable from that of the rest of the population. These serfs (who become Christians, married Galician women, and had sons) MUST have had an impact in the local gene pool, and cannot be neglected. This really contrasts with the Aragonese/Catalan case, where Arabs or Moors under Christian control keep being Muslins who lived in Muslim communities, later being finally expelled to Africa in the 16-17th centuries, so having little opportunity to add to the gene pool of those peoples. Although I must recognise that 9% M81 is probably a too high figure for being just produced by slave trade and prisoners captured in war. Thanks, very informative.

"but in the importation and capture of Moor serfs during the next centuries".

Betweenthe 8th and 11th centuries León (Asturias, Galicia) was a lesser state that typically paid tribute to Córdoba, which was a much more powerful state by far. When the "Reconquista" kicked on in the 11th century (because of the collapse of the Caliphate into lesser realms known as taifas), the situation reverted but by then it was not anymore León who set the tone among the Christian kingdoms of the North, but the newborn Kingdom of Castile.

Even if there was the occasional slave, probably from Iberia, not North Africa (well beyond the reach of the Galicians then), the pattern of distribution of E1b-M81 in Iberia is simply inconsistent with the Muslim occupation. Otherwise we'd find a South to North and East to West gradation, as the Muslim influence


was strongest in Andalusia and then in Zaragoza (also Denia, Valencia, Toledo...)

This founder effect must be from an earlier period: either Paleolithic, Neolithic or maybe Bronze Age - when Galicia (incl. North Portugal) became an important mining destination because of their quite unique tin resources.

Hello. Well, Galician and Portuguese 'reconquista' progressed pretty fast to the Douro, and by 878 Coimbra was captured, at at time when Castilian didn't control much beyond Burgos, Aragonese were pinpointed in the Pyrenees, and Catalonia was still what Catalans know today as Catalunya Vella. In fact the first massive expedition into the South in 798, under the direction of Alfonso II of Asturias, was a success, and Alfonso sent to Charlemagne treasure and Moorish slaves (“Hadefonsus rex Galleciae et Asturiae praedata Olisipona ultimaHispaniae civitate insignia victoriae suae loricas, mulos captivosque Mauros domno regi” in the Annales Regni Francorum.) During the 9th century Galicia and Portugal were refuge for several Muslim rebels, together with their families and followers, among them the Berber Mahmud ben Abd al Yabbar in 828, or Abd al-Rahman ben Marwan circa 875. During the first years of the 10th centuries Galician-Leonese-Portuguese armies reached and preyed on Évora in 913 and Mérida in 915, coming back with large number of prisoners. It was later during the Caliphate (929-1030) that the lands South of the Douro were briefly lost again to the Muslims.

On the “occasional slave”, of Moorish/Muslim extraction in Galicia or Portugal, here are just some selected excerpts from local documents, so that anyone can judge:“...I give to


also known as Abderahamam with his wife Maria … (+30 more names)” (King Ordonio II to the bishopric of Santiago de Compostela, document from Compostela, W Galicia, 911)“...I give to you half (of what I have) in silver and in serfs, including those of Moorish origin...” (Count Guttier to his wife Hildware, document from Celanova, S. Galicia, 916);“ Salvador Rudesindez was Moorish and begot five children, Peter Salvadoriz, and Pelagius, and Ero, and Audesinda, and Osorio (...) Fees, a Moorish man from Monte Córdova, begot Santio Fees and Gemund Fees. Santio Fees begot Ferdinand Ardaga and all the sons of Ferdinand Ardaga....” (“Relation of shepherd bishop Rudesind established in Celanova for the service of the monastery”, S. Galicia, 10th century – note the name and patronymic of thefirst Moorish man, surely a converse which used the name of his master as patronymic.) “...We give to you these villages because you rescued our children, and you give for them a Moorish man of those sold at 300 solids each six ones...” (Citello to Lord Gundisalv, document from Northern Portugal, 1023)“ Genealogy of the Saracens of Saint Mary of Sobrado: brother Pelagius Ribeira brought from Portugal Ali stonecutter, and this Moorish man had a wife named Zamoran, and they begot sons and daughters (…) and this John Gateira is born from another Moorish man named Mohammed (…) Thomas prior to his baptism was called Gali, and Peter Gil, Papo, and John Gateira, Mosarichi (…) brother Menendo Vasques bought Ali Monk, weaver, whom after the baptism is called


Lawrence (…) Of Mohammed, who was brought by abbot Martin, is born Peter Perez of Faro, called Negro, and he was known before being baptised as Oleias, and John Perez Ferra, who was known as Galafre, and Matthew, who was known as Zaquti (...)” (Etcetera. This is a very large document, from the monastery of Sobrado, N. Galicia, 12th century)

From the autosomal genetic results of Iberians it is obvious to me that the original North African Muslim invaders had some detectable effect on the genetics of Iberia that is still detectable today (because of the very large scale conversion of the once very large Muslim community of Iberia, who were already genetically predominantly descended from native Iberians BTW, to Christianity during the Reconquista).

"The problem with a founder effectcities in the Nebraska panhandle include:

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Chadron
Kimball
Scottsbluff - Gering
Sidney
Bridgeport
Hemingford

Population shifts
As part of a general trend in migration from rural to metropolitan areas, most counties in the Nebraska panhandle have seen population decreases in recent decades; however, Scotts Bluff, Dawes, and Cheyenne counties increased their populations from the years 1990 to 2000 and again from 2000 to 2010. While emigration from the Panhandle exceeds immigration, a study coordinated by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln surveyed and interviewed a sample of newcomers to the region in order to understand their demographic makeup and reasons for relocation. Results indicated that immigrants to the Nebraska panhandle were on average younger and had higher average incomes and educational levels than other area residents; immigrants cited a "simpler pace of life," reduced congestion, and lower costs


Glendale, [Now closed for several years], on the southwest corner of Greenway Road and 59th Avenue. I've been going there for over thirty years, ever since high school, and whenever I was near my Mom's house, I stop in, usually with her, to have some pizza or spaghetti.

Recently, Ralph died, and the place was sold, so technically it's now Long Wong's Wings and Ralph's Pizza, but that's a real mouthful. Anyway, I only go there for the pizza, which is just as good as ever. I like wings, too, but there are other Long Wong's near my house; there's only one Ralph's. I wasn't going to do anything other than scarf a pizza.

The medium cheese and meatball pizza went down real smooth. When you're in the area, givethe streets at about 1030pm, my very first call took me to Pomeroy's a very nice tavern/bar at the intersection of Missouri Avenue and Camelback Road, where I was to pick up Joe. I later found out that Joe was a friend of the owner of the establishment. He was also clearly highly intoxicated. I escorted him out to my car, helped him in, and took him home. He gave me the old "take me to such-and-such a corner." When we got to that corner, he said to go straight, and he'd point out his house. Well, we got to the next corner without him saying a word. By requiring him to sit up straight, look out the window and point out his house, I was able to


be one of the dirtiest, filthiest people I had ever experienced in my career. His clothes were filthy, and he had quiet an impressive bush of hair growing out of his head. He wasn’t the scariest person I had ever seen, but he was right up there, I’ll tell you!

Anyway, I roll down the window, and ask him if he was the person that called for the cab. He said that he was, so I asked him where it was that he wanted to go. He said that he needed to get to Wenatchee, and wondered if I could give him a good rate. Now, in case you don’t know, a trip from Seattle to Wenatchee takes about four hours, and involves a trip over the mountains eastservice.

"The number's disconnected, sir."

"Well, maybe it isn't AmeriBest, maybe it America's Best."

Well, maybe it is, but 'America's Best' isn't listed in the phone book either, and I tell the guy that. Then I get the bright idea to ask some of the other cabbies if they might have a clue to where the guy wants to go. After consulting one cabbie who actually had what appeared to be a list of Phoenix area hotels, I thought that maybe where to guy wanted to go was 'America's Best Value Inn' in Tempe. The guy said it sounded familiar, he wasn't sure, but he was willing to take a chance. So we drove out to Tempe.

I had a nice conversation with the man, who's name turned out to be Eric.


He had just come up from Benson, in southern Arizona, to start a new job with a trucking company. He would be staying at the hotel overnight, and in the morning, someone from the company would pick him up and take him to the truck yard, where he would pick up the semi-truck that he would be driving. He said he sure hoped that the hotel we were going to was the right one, otherwise, he didn't know what he'd have to do.

"Maybe next time write down the name and address of the hotel before leaving home?", I thought.

"Well, sir, if it's not the right place, there's lots of other places close by. I wouldn't worry about anything," I said.

After a leisurely ten minute drive, we pulled intothe America's Best Value Inn. At this point the meter was at about $18.00. Eric went inside to see if he was in the right place. After a minute, I joined him. It turned out he wasn't in the right place. He did have a reservation at an America's Best Value Inn. But it was clear on the other side of Phoenix, as far west of the Greyhound as the one in Tempe was east of it.

After I jotted down the address of the other place, Eric and I hit the road again. This time we had a leisurely twenty-minute ride, but the conversation was still good. Eric wasn't mad at me for taking him to what turned out to be the wrong place. After all, he said,


remembered someone. I'd reply in the negative, and every once in a while remind him that I wasn't good with names.

And I know the sunuvabitch knew I wasn't good with names. He heard me say it, several times. He even acknowledged that I said it! He just didn't care. He just wanted to me know how important he was, and the only way he had of doing this was dropping the names of other important people. And who were these important people? Regular, habitual drunks who patronized a bar that changed its name almost ten years ago.

Thankfully, the trip finally ended, without me swerving the car into oncoming traffic, or pulling over and beating the living Hell out of Jack. He gave me a twenty for a seventeenE. is the name of my cabbie friend. We used to work for the same cab company in the Phoenix area, but I recently moved on to another company. We keep in regular contact by phone, sharing war stories, and comparing our daily results. I'll let Jeff tell the story his way:

"One day, about a year ago, I went to a house to pick up a lady who's name was Sarah Connor. At least that was the name given to me by the dispatch system. As you probably know, "Sarah Connor" is the name the character played by Linda Hamilton in the "Terminator" movies. In the first movie of the series, the Terminator, as played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, tries to kill Sarah; later on in the series he


place guy also started to leave. I watched him pull up to the parking lot exit, and activate on his turn signal. It was obvious that he was waiting for traffic to clear. Traffic cleared for a few seconds, but he didn't go. Then his backup lights came on. This could only mean that he had a reason to stay... Turning back to the Greyhound entry, I saw people starting to stream out of the door.

I young man, who I later found out was named Steffan, walked over to my cab. Steffan was burdened by a HUGE backpack, and was pushing one of those tricycle, baby strollers, it being overloaded with bags of various types of foodstuffs. He replied in the positive when I asked him if heneeded a cab. Opening my truck, I helped him get his backpack and the food bags secured. The stroller wouldn't fit in the trunk, but luckily, it folded, and we were able to place it on the back seat. I asked Steffan where he wanted to go. He pointed to a map he was holding, indicating the intersection of Main Street and Country Club road in Mesa. Woo Hoo! I had my go home fare!

As we headed east towards Mesa, Steffan and I began to talk. He had a accent similar to German, but otherwise spoke very clear English. I never did get around to asking him where he was from. He told me he was walking across America for cancer. I assume that what he really meant


was that he was walking across America because he was opposed to cancer, and was trying to raise money to help find a cure. It turned out that this was the correct interpretation.

As it turns out, Steffan does not have anyone sponsoring him in his endeavor. He does have a list of people who have pledged to donate to a particular charity if he completes the trip. But no sponsors. Steffan is taking money out of his own pocket to cover all of his costs as he walks across the United Staes, from California to Georgia. Quite dedicated to his cause, Steffan is.

I wondered why it was that I met him at the Greyhound Station, if he was walking across America. As it turns out, about ten daysinto his trip, Steffan ended up in Blythe, California. After spending about a day asking around for various roads or highways to take him further along, he found out that the only road east was Interstate 10. He said he didn't get too far out of town before a Highway Patrol Officer stopped him, saying it was illegal to walk along the side of an interstate highway. The officer then drove him back to Blythe, where he caught the bus to Phoenix. He wanted to use Mesa as his jumping off point.

Steffan told me that he was over four hundred miles east of his starting point, but he had only walked two hundred and ninety of those miles. He told me he was disappointed to have cheated, but


didn't feel like backtracking. Having not walked any distance greater than three miles at any one time during the last decade, I had no opinion to offer on his "cheating." I was just amazed to meet someone doing what he was doing, with no sponsorship, no support.

I dropped Steffan off at a Mesa Fire Station near Mesa Drive and First Street. He said he was going to ask the firemen if he could sleep on the garage floor, or in the yard to the back of the station. He said he had done this before, that fireman were usually glad to accommodate him after they found out what he was doing. I wished him luck in his endeavor.

Just before parting ways, I asked Steffan if there was aseveral long, industrial-type steel tables with bar stool seating. A mannequin dressed up as a nurse was posed in the front window. Clean and simple. Nothing to distract one from one's food, or dining companions.

Except for the waitresses, who as I've said before, were dressed in nurse's garb. Skimpy nurse's garb. Very skimpy... Well, you get the point.

We sat outside on the patio, which was also simple: about nine or ten wrought iron tables, four-place tables with chairs. Again, nothing to distract me from the meal at hand.

Except for the waitresses in their skimpy outfits.

Our waitress, Samantha, looking very fetching in her nurse's uniform, was very friendly. First, she took our drink orders: A Pabst Blue Ribbon for Johnny, and a Coke (in the bottle - so rare!)


I both had ordered The Single Bypass, not wanting to need an actual quadruple bypass later in life.

I love this concept. Because of the uniformity of the orders, the cook can start slapping burgers on the grill as soon as someone walks in. By the time the food order reaches him, the meat is almost done.

"How are your burgers?" Samantha asked us a few minutes later.

"Delicious!," we replied, in unison.

"How about the fries?"

"I love them!," I said.

Johnny, not wanting to be left out of the conversation, grabbed a few fries off my plate, stuffing them into his mouth. He was speechless; and why not? After all, his mouth was full! But, he nodded his head vigorously in agreement.

With two more beers for Johnny, and another Coke for me,she does for a living, but who she is inside, here's want you need to do...

Send me an email describing your proposed date with Danielle. I'll show her the all the emails that I get, and she'll pick her favorites. My recommendation: be creative and romantic!

Send your email to me at Supercabbie@gmail.com, with the subject header, "I Want to Date Danielle."

Today is the 232nd anniversary of the founding of the United States Marine Corps. I just wanted to let you all know this, if you didn't, and relate an amusing anecdote that shows how dedicated my Dad, a former Marine, was to his Beloved Corps.My family moved to Phoenix after my dad retired as a Captain from the United States Marine Corps in 1971. At that time, my


parents bought the first house they ever owned, or, for that matter, lived in for more than two years.

When the phone technician came to install our service, he asked my father if he would like to have a phone number with the last four digits holding special significance. He chose 1775, which was available.

Supposedly the tech said, "Don't you mean 1776, the year the USA became a country?"

"No," my Dad said, "I mean 1775, the year the United States Marine Corps was born!"

In 1979, I was to have entered the USMC through the PLC (Platoon Leader's Class) program. Sadly, I was disqualified by a back injury that occurred just days before I was to have formally started the program. I remain, to this day, disappointed that I couldnot serve.

Friday, November 9, 2007

In the cab world, generally, when you work the really, really late hours, your customer base is radically different from the daytime sort. They tend to be wackier. That's why I prefer to work when the sun is in the sky. It helps preserve my sanity.Last Monday evening I stayed out late to have a little fun at the Lone Butte Casino, south of Chandler on the Gila River Indian Reservation. After being there about an hour and a half, and losing some of my hard earned scratch at the blackjack tables, I figured that it just wasn't my night, and decided to go home. I cashed in my remaining chips, said goodbye to some of the dealers I knew, and headed for the


bit of a short fuse. Trust me, you had to be there. But after a few more seconds of verbal sparring, Peter finally gave me a hundred dollar bill as a surety against the fare. I turned on the meter, and we were off.

As it turned out, Peter, although he was a little drunk, was an okay guy. I say this even after finding out he was a lawyer. His idea of a compliment was to call me the biggest prick he had ever met. I didn't take offense, because coming from a lawyer, it is indeed praiseworthy to be a considered a prick. Plus, he told me up front that he considered being called a prick to be a compliment, so he thought he was being complimentary.

IWashington (CNN) Even by Washington's standards, the sequence of busted negotiations, partisan dysfunction, and blame games that shut down the federal government at midnight on Friday was baffling.

That's because on the major issues that are driving the most tense political moment yet in Donald Trump's presidency, the two parties are broadly in agreement. Most Democrats and Republicans want to find a way to stop the deportation of nearly 700,000 people brought illegally to the US as children. They all agree that a children's health insurance plan should be extended, and to hear them tell it, no one on either side wanted to shutter the government, despite the fact their frantic last-minute talks ended in a huge collective failure.

"Almost everybody on both sides doesn't understand how we ended up


here," Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell said early Saturday morning.

"Most of this stuff we agree on," said the Kentucky Republican.

Yet a combination of long-building distrust between the parties and a President who billed himself as the ultimate dealmaker but who couldn't make a deal took the nation over the cliff and into political jam that is risky for both sides.

In the end, neither party wanted to blink first, and there is a good reason why: Each is prisoner of its base of most committed voters, for whom immigration especially is an existential issue.

As the clock ticked past midnight and the government officially closed down, feverish political calculations were taking place all around the US Senate floor, where the dramatic climax of the shutdown drama played out. The generalimpression was of a political system and a governing class that is simply not up to the task of dealing with the polarizing issues facing the American people.

"I don't think anybody really knows what's going on," GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters on Friday night.

Democrats effectively decided that the time had come to fight, refusing to vote to fund the government until the White House and Republicans acted to protect beneficiaries of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The Democratic leader, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, is taking a gamble that the shutdown will break bad on Trump and the GOP -- since the party controls the entire machinery of government.

"Every American knows the Republican Party controls the White House, the Senate, the House, it


a prisoner of the hardline rhetoric of his 2016 campaign on immigration. It will now take a huge political leap for Trump to make a concession on the issue.

Trump's instinct is always to go on the attack. So a few minutes before midnight, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a vehement statement, branding the imbroglio the "Schumer shutdown," and warning that Trump would no longer discuss the DACA issue until Democrats funded the government. In a nod to Trump's own loyal supporters, who lap up his bombastic rhetoric, she slammed Democrats as "obstructionist losers."

The length of the shutdown and who pays the political price for it will be dictated by how the American people apportion the blame -- and whether Schumer's or Trump's gamble pays off. Thefact that last-minute talks between the parties failed to bridge the gap between them suggests that it may be some time before there is a resolution. For the impasse to end, one side is going to have to back down, and the political consequences are huge for both of them.

The immediate impact of the shutdown will be cushioned by the weekend, but by Monday, when federal workers are furloughed, the political ground may begin to shift. Polling and public perception over who is most to blame for the deadlock may end up deciding which side blinks first.

In his speech after efforts to reach a Senate compromise broke down, Schumer took the White House's spin and reversed it, branding the episode the "Trump shutdown."

The longer the situation goes on,


the stronger that argument might become.

"If it drags on for weeks, it will be Donald Trump's meltdown -- the deal maker who couldn't make a deal," said CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.

One of the mysteries of Friday night's drama was the fact that Trump stayed behind closed doors in the White House, and was not in the center of negotiations. He did host Schumer for talks on Friday afternoon when the Democratic minority leader claimed to have pushed hard for a deal -- even putting the issue of funding for Trump's promised border wall on the table.

But Schumer said the President failed to put any pressure on Republicans in the Senate to play along, effectively accusing Trump of lacking political courage and backing off "at the first signFrom student leader to legislator, Law transformed himself into one of the most popular Legislative Council candidates this year – and one of the youngest ever elected.

With the first electoral victory for an Occupy student leader, Law, 23, has accomplished more than most people his age.

He became secretary general of the Federation of Students following the 79-day pro-democracy movement in the city two years ago. In addition, he was one of five student leaders seated at a negotiating table opposite Hong Kong’s leading officials during the protests, sitting across Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.

The reserved, soft-spoken Law told the Post in June he had never thought of entering politics when he was younger, thinking it “a dirty game with people fighting among one another for self-interest”.

In April,


Council elections.

At first her chances of victory looked slim. In the first public opinion poll released in July, the Polytechnic University lecturer only registered 1.8 per cent backing.

But her prospects changed fast after she appeared on a series of TV and radio election forums in the weeks prior to election day.

A clip of Lau at a forum questioning pro-establishment candidate Priscilla Leung Mei-fun over labour rights issues and a universal pension scheme drew over 1.1 million views on Facebook within seven days. Her popularity rating soared to 11 per cent in the final week.

Lau told the Post in an interview last week that her success was due to the “equal-time rule” requiring broadcasters to offer all candidates the same amount of airtime on forums, affording her plenty ofopportunity to hit out at her rivals.

The scholar became a social activist during the Occupy sit-ins, and became a regular presence in Mong Kok giving lectures on social justice.

Lau subsequently formed a group called Democracy Groundwork. She continued to hold lectures in the community after Occupy and managed to consolidate a core group of supporters.

She is also an advocate for hawkers’ rights, arguing the government should grant them a licence to do their business.

On the night of February 7 this year, the 40-year-old academic was arrested for hawking without a licence on Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po, defying authorities by selling street food.

Sixtus “Baggio” Leung Chung-hang

Leung, 30, is an e-commerce manager who co-founded the localist group Youngspiration after the 2014 Occupy protests.

He shot to fame last November


when he took part in district council elections, challenging Yeung Hoi-wing of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. He lost in Central and Western District, tallying 1,569 votes to Yeung’s 2,491.

Despite that setback, Youngspiration members gained prominence in the city’s political scene. Leung’s Youngspiration colleague Yau Wai-ching in November almost succeeded in unseating pro-establishment heavyweight Priscilla Leung Mei-fun in Yau Tsim Mong.

Shortly before the Legco poll’s nomination period started in July, Leung gave up his plan to run on Hong Kong Island, citing financial concerns.

But after Edward Leung Tin-kei from Hong Kong Indigenous was banned from running in New Territories East because of his pro-independence stance, the Youngspiration leader decided to run in the constituency in his ally’s place. The disqualified candidateeven endorsed him.

According to the newly-elected legislator’s platform, he will push for self-determination regarding Hong Kong’s political future as well as call for the government to hire more local doctors to improve the quality of health services.

Eddie Chu Hoi-dick

A leading social activist who made his name a decade ago in conservation campaigns, Chu, 38, is no stranger to young Hongkongers.

He captured the limelight in 2006 when he joined others in the fight to save historic Star Ferry pier, and then Queens Pier in Central, which would be demolished to make way for new roads. During the campaign, Chu impressed many with his views on the importance of preserving urban public space.

Before that, Chu, an English graduate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, worked as a foreign desk


Yuen Long. Chu emerged to be a “spiritual leader”, winning the trust of the villagers and helping them negotiate with the government over compensation. In the end some villagers were allowed to relocate the village to continue their rural lifestyle, rather than only have the option of taking cash and moving to a high-rise housing estate.

Over the months-long fight for the villagers, Chu also became one of them, moving in with his wife and daughter.

Chu drew support for his Legco bid from activists, including Occupy Central student leader Alex Chow Yong-kang, who said Chu inspired him.

His creative campaign strategies also helped him. He provided updates on his campaign progress through Facebook Live almost daily, toured his constituency on the bike and recycled used banners. He also issued apan-democratic parties.

In 2012, he joined Civic Passion to help Wong Yeung-tat in his Legislative Council election campaign.

Speaking after his Legco victory, Cheng said he would continue his provocative approach in the style of his ousted ally Wong Yuk-man.

“I’ll package my tactics with a touch of pop culture,” he said.

As the only one of the five-men radical alliance that was elected, Cheng said he would still try his best to push forward the alliance’s agenda to “extend” the Basic Law with amendments favouring Hongkongers’ interests.

While the alliance had been highly critical of traditional pan-democrats’ moderate approach to politics, Cheng said he would now seek to collaborate with them on certain issues.

For example, he said he would join pan-democrats in fighting for Hong Kong to retain control in screening one-way


permit applications from the mainland.

“After all, I must stand for Hongkongers, not just for my group,” he said.

Cyd Ho Sau-lan

Ho, defeated in the latest Legco elections, established her reputation by advocating human rights, equal opportunity, gay rights and other equality issues.

In 1991, she got a taste of politics when she helped Emily Lau Wai-hing in her winning election campaign.

Afterwards she worked as an assistant to Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee, who at the time represented the legal constituency in Legco.

In 1998, Ho embarked on her own career in the city’s legislature. She ran for a seat representing New Territories East and won in the first Legco election following Hong Kong’s handover from the UK to the mainland.

Ho steadily became a prominent pan-democrat, exerting pressure on the government for causes shechampioned. She was re-elected in 2000.

But she suffered a major setback in 2004, after the pan-democratic camp decided to place her name second to Civic Party’s Audrey Eu in that year’s Legco elections. She narrowly lost her seat.

In 2006, she quit The Frontier party and chaired the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor as well as became co-convenor of the Civil Referendum Project, a scheme to pilot and promote the idea of holding a referendum in Hong Kong.

She stood for a geographical constituency seat in Hong Kong Island again in 2008 and won the fifth seat.

In 2011, she formed the Labour Party along with Lee Cheuk-yan, Dr Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung and Peter Cheung Kwok-che. She was re-elected to Legco in 2012.

Frederick Fung Kin-kee

Fung’s exit from Legco closes a chapter


in his 30-year career in local politics

He is a veteran pan-democrat who founded the Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood in 1986.

But he dabbled in politics as early as his university days.

He entered the University of Hong Kong in 1974 but was kicked out a year later because he spent too much time organising social movements and failed his exams. He then joined the pressure group Society for Community Organisation.

In 1979, he flew to the UK to study, and in 1982, obtained an undergraduate degree in social policy and public administration at the University of Bradford. Upon returning to Hong Kong, he was elected in 1983 to the now-disbanded Urban Council. In 1991, he became a legislator through direct elections.

One of the more contentious episodes of Fung’s careertook place in 1996, when ADPL decided to allow its members to join the provisional legislature devised by Beijing as a temporary replacement for the Legislative Council formed in 1995 under British rule. Beijing formed the interim body because it was unhappy with the electoral reforms made by the last governor Chris Patten. Other pro-democracy groups boycotted it.

The decision was partly to blame for his losing his Legco seat in 1998, but he staged a comeback in the 2000 election, and expressed hope at the time that his association could gain as many as five seats in the legislature in eight years. He was re-elected in the 2004, 2008, and 2012 elections. But his plan to increase association representation in the legislature never materialised.

In 2012, Fung launched a


bid to run in the chief executive election, but he was defeated by Democrat Albert Ho Chun-yan in the pan-democratic camp’s primary.

Last year, Fung lost his district council seat in Sham Shui Po, where he had served for 12 years, to newcomer Joephy Chan Wing-yan of the pro-Beijing Federation of Trade Unions.

With Fung’s second election defeat in less than a year on Monday, ADPL will no longer be represented in Legco.

Wong Yuk-man

Wong may have lost his seat in Legco this year, but few would argue that he changed the culture of the chamber he served, often controversially, since 2008.

In October 2008, Wong threw a banana at the chairman’s seat and interrupted then Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen’s policy address speech to protest against means-tested Old Age Allowance, markinga shift towards more radical protest tactics in Legco.

Before he entered politics, Wong, 64, was already a household name in Hong Kong, having hosted various popular current affairs programmes on television and radio.

In 2006, he founded the League of Social Democrats with Albert Chan Wai-yip and “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, with the aim of being a clear-cut opposition party.

One of his most notable incidents involved a triggering of a de facto Legco referendum in 2010 as a means to push for universal suffrage in the chief executive election and the abolition of functional constituencies.

In 2011, Wong, joined by Chan, parted ways with the League of Social Democrats to set up People Power. But in 2013, he also quit People Power.

In 2012, Wong was re-elected to Legco, winning 38,578


votes in Kowloon West.

During his second term, Wong maintained his radical antics, launching numerous filibustering efforts against controversial issues, such as the government’s Information Technology Bureau.

Lee Cheuk-yan

Lee was first elected to the legislature in 1995, and his recent defeat is among the highest-profile losses by an incumbent this election cycle.

The founding Labour Party chairman has spent half his life campaigning for labour rights and urging the Communist Party to admit to its crackdown in Tiananmen.

In 1989, Lee attempted to deliver a donation of HK$1 million from Hongkongers to Beijing to support protesters in and around Tiananmen Square. But he was detained by mainland authorities for three days and only allowed to return to Hong Kong after signing a confession letter.

He has since been barred from crossing the mainlandborder.

Watch: big wins for pro-democracy camp

As a core member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, which hosts the annual June 4 candlelight vigil commemorating the Tiananmen crackdown, Lee succeeded Szeto Wah to lead the group after the democracy icon passed away in 2011.


drawn in 1975 by the then-University of Singapore Development Unit, when the hospital was planned at the Kent Ridge area, which actually costs $193 million to build, with an initial projection of 752 beds and a cost of $143 million. Construction began in 1980 and the entire project was completed at the end of 1984. NUH was the first privately run, government-owned hospital under the owner and managed by Temasek Holdings.

NUH received its new staff on 15 January 1985 (on the same day itself, Kent Ridge Hospital was renamed to NUH) and opened to the public and received its first patients on 24 June 1985, with the opening of two departments namely the Department of Medicine and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The hospital was officially opened on 17 Juneat the side of the light guide plate together with a generally U-shaped reflector. Light emitted by the cold cathode tube and reflected by the reflector falls on the light guide plate.
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WASHINGTON -- The National Pinball Museum, where 200 classic flipper games occupy a third-story space in a trendy upscale shopping plaza here in the Georgetown neighborhood, will close in mid-July, five months before the museum's lease expires.

The museum opened seven months ago and has on exhibit some of the 800-plus pinball games collected over 30 years by curator David Silverman.

Silverman received a letter from the landlord, Vornado Realty Trust, informing him that he must vacate his store in The Shops at Georgetown under a 60-day-notice clause in his lease.

Vornado declined to explain its reason for evicting the museum, but Silverman said mall renovations are planned.


Department said.

Sections of Pennsylvania have gotten about 10 inches since the weekend. The onslaught of heavy downpours there is leaving the rainwater, and the residents, with nowhere to go. Floodwaters are washing out huge chunks of roads and flooding others leading to multiple closures.

Search crews are still looking for a 19-year-old woman who was swept away by the rushing floodwaters in the state.

Some parts of the Swatara Creek in Pennsylvania are at flood stage and it's currently at the fourth highest point ever.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, fire crews rescued employees of a business, after the creek behind their building spilled over and filled the parking lot.

The storm is also being blamed for bringing a massive tree crashing down on a house in Virginia, killing a woman inside.

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This study was conducted at Civil Hospital Karachi, one of the largest government tertiary care hospitals of Karachi. The hospital has a Paediatric Emergency Unit (PEU) specialized for the treatment of children presenting with acute medical problems. Patients with transfusion dependent Thalassemia (Thalassemia major) also present to the PEU for the routine followKing John Bart Agami is the exiled ruler of Lado, Africa. He has proclaimed freedom from British colonial rule. He says "One hundred years of occupation is enough. My people have lost patience and want their liberation now. We have never signed any agreement with either the British or the Belgians to hand over Lado as a colony," says King John Bart Agami. "The occupation is therefore illegal, following Article 6
in the Berlin Treaty signed on 26 February 1885. "

There is no Sovereignty under the British Commonwealth, by Queen Sally Agami

Is NATO and UN Military Campaign in Northern Africa a Cover
for Control of Lado, Central Africa, and Other African Nations?

By Britt Bartenbach

Press Officer

Gallant phrases such as ‘Protection of Civilians’ and ‘Support for Democracy’ are used to get popular


support for the heavy-handed Military Force against the Gaddafi Regime in Libya.

But behind the pretty façade hides the truth about the fear of having to share Power and Resources with the fast growing Industrial Nations of the BRIC Block (Brazil, Russia, India and China).

Recent campaigns that led to War for Oil, Gas and Pipelines were Iraq and Afghanistan, and now the oil and gas rich Libya is under attack. Removing Gaddafi is just an excuse to Control the Resources.

In the other Nations on the African Continent people are wondering when they will be next. One of these States in Central Africa is the Occupied Kingdom of Lado or the “Lado Enclave” situated in the Upper Nile Valley in the Nile Valley Basin, and the Great Lakes and theGreat Western Rift Valley, and the Nile-Congo Watershed Region of Africa.

Real Plan is to

Control African Nations

Behind the Shining Armour of the modern day Crusader Knights in their flying bomber machines to ‘Rescue of the Oppressed’ is a Cynical Plan to Control the African Nations and their Natural Resources across the African Continent.

Lado has been a Target for the Western Powers (USA and Western Europe) since 1871 when Lado was Invaded by a US led Coalition of the Willing. However, the Intruders were fought and kept out up until 1947 when Lado was subjected to an Illegal Occupation shared jointly by Britain and Belgium, and this Occupation is still being upheld today.

As Lado is close to getting the Issue of Sovereignty and Independence and Territorial Integrity up for voting


in the UN General Assembly, there is real fear that the present NATO Campaign in Libya will spread to the other States in Africa. Under the covert of such a Campaign there will be plenty of opportunity for Land Grabbing leading to large parts of the Populations driven on the run.

Paris Conference of 1875
on Africa Revisited in 2011

The Head of the Provisional Government of Lado, Central Africa, King John Bart Agami (Onzima II) has warned his People to keep calm whatever happens.

“It is not only a question of Resources, but about Restoring the Balance of Power in the World, and those who hold the leash on Africa has the Upper Hand in World Politics”, says the King.

“It is a bad Omen that the Command Center for the newCampaign against the African Nations is

set up in Paris, France, where the past Takeover of the African Nations was decided during the Paris Conference in 1875. (The Paris Resolution of 3 August 1875).

It is as if time is standing still, because in 2011 we are watching the old Colonial Masters raising their ugly heads once more. They are convinced that they have the God-given right to grab the African Continent that they dubbed “Terra Nullius” (Land belonging to the Africans – therefore it is Land for Grabs) in 1875 and 1885 (Berlin Conference on Africa).”

US Losing the Grip

As World Super Power

“The US and US Allies are Losing the Grip, and therefore they have decided to show their muscles and carry out their long-term Objective: ‘By All Means Necessary’.

People


the subtle Occupation and Oppression done throughout the Colonial Powers’ African Commonwealth Stewards or Patsies (Governor Generals).

If one of their Stewards/Patsies does not obey his Master and starts to speak for a better deal for his People, he is immediately ousted and replaced by a ‘Loyal Dictator’.

That was what happened to Joseph Desire Mobutu (former President of Zaire/DR Congo) after thirty years of loyal service to his US and Allies’ Masters. All his assets were frozen, and his relatives were not even allowed to bury his earthly remains in his Homeland in DR Congo.

It happened to the onetime Darling of the West, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, when he decided to play ball with the Russians instead of the US and allies, and now it is happening to MuammarNile Valley in the
Nile Valley Basin,
and the Great Lakes and the Great Western Rift Valley, and the Nile-Congo Watershed Region of Africa.

Real Plan is to

Control African Nations

Behind the Shining Armour of the modern day Crusader Knights in their flying bomber machines to ‘Rescue of the
Oppressed’ is a Cynical Plan to Control the African Nations and their Natural Resources across the African Continent.

Lado has been a Target for the Western Powers (USA and Western Europe) since 1871 when Lado was
Invaded by a US led Coalition of the Willing. However, the Intruders were fought and kept out up until
1947 when Lado was subjected to an Illegal Occupation shared jointly by Britain and Belgium, and this
Occupation is still being upheld today.

As Lado is close to getting the Issue of Sovereignty and


Independence and Territorial Integrity up for voting
in the UN General Assembly, there is real fear that the present NATO Campaign in Libya will spread to the
other States in Africa. Under the covert of such a Campaign there will be plenty of opportunity for Land
Grabbing leading to large parts of the Populations driven on the run.

Paris Conference of 1875
on Africa Revisited in 2011

The Head of the Provisional Government of Lado, Central Africa, King John Bart Agami (Onzima II)
has warned his People to keep calm whatever happens.

“It is not only a question of Resources, but about Restoring the Balance of Power in the World, and those
who hold the leash on Africa has the Upper Hand in World Politics”, says the King.

“It is a bad Omen that the Command Center forthe new Campaign against the African Nations is

set up in Paris, France, where the past Takeover of the African Nations was decided during the Paris
Conference in 1875. (The Paris Resolution of 3 August 1875).

It is as if time is standing still, because in 2011 we are watching the old Colonial Masters raising their ugly
heads once more. They are convinced that they have the God-given right to grab the African Continent that
they dubbed “Terra Nullius” (Land belonging to the Africans – therefore it is Land for Grabs) in 1875 and
1885 (Berlin Conference on Africa).”

US Losing the Grip

As World Super Power

“The US and US Allies are Losing the Grip, and therefore they have decided to show their muscles and carry
out their long-term Objective: ‘By All Means Necessary’.

People should be aware


a Third World War.

After more bombing raids and land troops on the African Continent, Black Africa will be Ethnically Cleansed,
and Black African Americans will replace the original inhabitants who will have nowhere to go. Refer to the
Objectives of the US Africa Command based in Stuttgart, Germany.

This policy was applied successfully in North America two centuries ago against the Red Indians, the Indigenous
People of the US, who are still in 2011 living in Reservations in their Native Homeland. This is what the People
of Lado fear most today.”

Thousands of Lado People

Living in Camps

“The Illegal Occupation and Oppression of Lado has meant that Lado People’s Land and Homes have been
Grabbed by neighbouring Armies under the Control of US and Allies’ Officers”, says the King.

“Lado People are forced into Concentration Camps whereand its People.”

27 March 2011

END
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Message From King John Bart Agami, Agofe of Lado, Central Africa
____________________________________________________________

US President Barack Obama Signs a
Congress Decision for Military Intervention
in Lado, Central Africa...

By Britt Bartenbach
Press Officer

US President Barack Obama has signed a Decision from Congress to send Troops to South-Western
Lado in the District of Ituri. To confuse matters the Ituri District is mistakenly shown on the map as
part of DR Congo.

The desire to Control and Govern the mineral rich ancient Kingdom of Lado in Central Africa is
not new. In 1871 a US led Invasion Force of US Troops and Coalition Armies from the European
Colonial Powers was sent into Lado by US General and President Ulysses S. Grant.

Decades of fighting to drive out the Insurgents ended in 1947 with a Joint Occupation of Lado by
Britain


who mainly belong to the Sudanic population group.

Lado has been disguised by varying names such as "The Lado Enclave" and "Equatoria Province
of Egypt" (during the Ottoman Empire), and since 1947 all traces of the name "Lado" have disappeared.

The British and Belgian Occupiers split up Lado to be administered by its neighbours: Uganda (Eastern Lado),
Sudan (Northern Lado) and DR Congo (South-Western Lado).

Sudanic Peoples of Lado
the Target of Ethnic Cleansing since 1700
The Lado People consist of 29 Tribes who mainly belong to the Sudanic population group
(Lugbari, Madi and Kakwa), and they have been the Target of Ethnic Cleansing since the
"Sixty Year War" which started in year 1700.

The War was prompted by Insurgents belonging to the Nilotic population group who mainly
populate the countries which are today known as Uganda, Kenya andRwanda.

"The Insurgents from the Nilotic Clans (Acholi, Lango and Luo) had their eyes fixed on Lado
Territories in the West Nile District where the Capital of Lado Arua is located", says the Agofe
of Lado King John Bart Agami (Onzima II).

The King is the Head of the Lado Provisional Government who has been pressing for
Independence and Sovereignty for forty years, and it was the King's great-great grandfather
Onzima I who led the War against the Nilotic Troops.

Rape Used as
a Weapon of War
"The Nilotic soldiers, who mainly belonged to the Luo Tribe, used the age-old weapon of raping
women on their way through Lado. This Weapon of Oppression is very much a specialty today,
and is particularly practised by Army Troops from Uganda and Rwanda in the Ituri area of Lado
with the main city


of Bunia. It is this area which is mistakenly referred to as "DR Congo".

The many hundred Sudanic Rape Victims from the "Sixty Year War" three hundred years ago
had become pregnant with the Luo soldiers. Their babies of mixed race, with both Sudanic and
Nilotic Blood, known as "Alur", had their destiny sealed by the Nilotic leaders who ordered their
soldiers to kill the babies", says the King.

However, the Lado Army managed to save the majority of the children, and a Sanctuary for
the children and their mothers was placed west of Lake Albert with the main city of Mahagi.
The descendents of the Luo (Nilotic) soldiers are still living in this area under special
Protection by the Lado State.

Sinister Plan to
Exterminate Sudanics
In 1760 a Peace Treaty ("River Odrua Agreement") was signed thanks toKing Kabarega
of the Unyoro Kingdom ("Bunyoro" in Western Uganda east of Lake Albert) who acted
as an Intermediary to end the War.

"The bad blood between the Sudanic and Nilotic Peoples did not end with the
"Sixty Year War" because the Luo Desire for more 'Lebensraum' never stilled",
says King John Bart Agami.

"Two hundred years later, in the late 1960's, a Sinister Plan to Exterminate the
Sudanic Peoples of Lado was drawn up. The Objective was to take Lado Land
in the district of the West Nile."

The Secret Plan, known as "The Lango Masterplan" of 1967, was made by the
Ugandan Government under President Milton Obote and was to be carried out with
the backing of Britain and the US.

President Obote, himself a Luo, had given orders to set the Plan in motion in January 1971.
He


had timed the Operation to coincide with his visit to a British Commonwealth
Conference in Singapore so that the outside world and the press could not accuse
him of having blood on his hands.

Phony Coup Backfired
on the Aggressors
"The Phony Coup", as the Purge was later described, was implemented on 24 January 1971
by the Ugandan Army. The Army had Isolated the Sudanic Officers, and the Sudanic
Soldiers had been Disarmed and locked up in their barracks.

"They were Trapped like 'Sitting Ducks' in the Lubiri Barracks outside the Ugandan
Capital Kampala. The job to finish off the soldiers of Sudanic origin was to be a simple
'walk-over', but it ended as a total Fiasco for the Ugandan Army. The Plan backfired thanks
to two brave Sudanic Soldiers, and the Luo Soldiers fell into their own trap",says the King.

While all this was taking place in Uganda, King John Bart Agami was in Paris to complete his
Ph.D. in Law and Economics at the Sorbonne University - unaware of the imminent
Slaughter of his people.

Ugandan Ambassador
Threatened with Killing
Sudanic Soldiers
"My good friend, Mr. John Mpuga, who was the Secretary-General of the Inter-African
Coffee Organisation in Paris, had been approached by the Ugandan Ambassador who asked
him to invite me to a dinner at his home", says the King.

"When I arrived at my friend's home on Sunday 24 January 1971, Uganda's Ambassador
Mr. Barungi wanted me to sign an Agreement to abandon the West Nile District so it would
become a part of Uganda. If I refused, my "miserable, good for nothing people" would be
butchered without mercy.

I refused blankly and left the dinner


party, and when I returned to my lodgings in Paris,
calls came through from my people in Uganda informing me of the situation for our soldiers."

What was to be a Bloody Massacre ('Bloody Sunday') against the Sudanic Soldiers turned
out to be a Disaster for the Ugandan Army. Sergeant Musa Yega, was among the few
Sudanic Soldiers who had avoided being locked up in the barracks. He now took
charge as Commander of the fight against President Obote's National Army.

Tank Driver Rammed
His Tank into Weapons Arsenal
Assistant Sergeant and Tank Driver Jackson Asiki (from the Kakwa Tribe) rammed his tank
into the weapons arsenal, and in a short time they had armed the Sudanics from Kampala
who had been alerted and arrived at the barracks.

"The whole operation was run by a Sergeant, a Tank Driverand a Corporal, Longino Ofuruko,
who was Tank Chief in the Ugandan Army", says the King.

"The Sudanics waited for the Luo Soldiers to come through the gate after which they were
to finish the job of killing the Sudanic Soldiers inside the barracks. They sensed no danger
as the Sudanic Soldiers tricked them by pretending to be Luo and speaking the Luo language.
Once inside the grounds, the Luo Soldiers were Attacked and Defeated, and the Coup
was over in twenty-four hours.

Ugandan Army Tricked
by Ten-Year-Old
"One of the gimmicks which tricked the Luo Soldiers to storm the barrack gate was the
wild shooting from the Command Post on the Kololo Hill. It was Amin's ten-year-old
son who had been placed there with a machine gun, but the Luo Soldiers thought it was
Amin himself", says the King.

"However,


Amin, who was Chief of Staff in the Ugandan Army, was not even at the
barracks. He had left Kampala earlier sensing that something was in the making and not
wanting to be part of it.

When Obote's Forces had been Defeated, the Sudanic Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Obitre Gama
of the Lugbari Tribe was asked to take Power as President of Uganda. He refused, and the next
in rank was Major-General and Chief of Staff Idi Amin Dada from the Kakwa Tribe. Amin could
not refuse, and this is how Amin became President of Uganda on 25 January 1971."

The story of what really happened and what led to the rise of Amin as President of Uganda,
has now been told for the first time.

President Obama Revives
"The Lango Masterplan"
It is thought provoking that exactly thirty-nine years later,in January 2010, US President
Barack Obama (himself of Luo background) signs a Congress Decision for Military
Intervention in DR Congo, i.e. in the Lado Territory Ituri.

By his signature President Obama revives "The Lango Masterplan" of Ethnic Cleansing of
the Sudanic Peoples living in the Lado Territories in Central Africa, the Great Lakes
District and the Nile-Congo Watershed.

Five Million Lado People
Killed in Last Fifteen Years
It is no secret that more than five million Lado People (Sudanic Peoples) have been killed in
the Lado Territories during the past fifteen years, and that hundreds of Sudanic Women
and Children are constantly being Raped by Ravaging Troops from Uganda and Rwanda
under US and British Command under the blind eyes of the UN Peacekeeping Troops.

Adding to this the Lado People are being Killed and Driven from their Land


by Forces
from the SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army) who take Lado Children as
Child Soldiers.

It is no secret that the SPLA are heavily Sponsored by the US, and that the Plan is to
Annex the Northern part of Lado, with the main city Juba, into Sudan - and into a brand
new state which will be known as "South Sudan".

Lado People Refuse
to give up Fight for
Independence and Sovereignty
"President Obama has no Intention of coming to the Rescue of the Lado People or to
Stop the Killing and Raping of Lado People", concludes King John Bart Agami.

"His Objective is for the US to Control Lado, Central Africa, through the neighbouring states. This
will enable the US to get Access to the vast Natural Resources belonging to the Lado People.

But even against the Mightiest Powersof the World, Lado People will stand firm and
Refuse to give up their Fight for Independence and Sovereignty and to end the Illegal
Foreign Occupation of Lado Land.

If President Obama pursues the US Strategy to take over Lado, he will have so much Blood
of Lado People on his Hands that it will never wash off, and he will still not be able to kill us all.

Lado will, at the end, become an Independent Sovereign State of Lado."

Message From King John Bart Agami, Agofe of Lado,
Central Africa:
Seven Degrees Determines Life
or Death for Lado State, Central Africa...

The Ancient Kingdom Ladoland/Lado State (Central Africa) lies in the very Heart of Africa. Exactly Seven Degrees north of Equator is the Borderline between Lado State (Lado Enclave) and Sudan. This Territory has falsely been


portrayed on modern days' maps as the Republic of Sudan.

However, this Border was drawn up in 1906 (13 December) by the European States: France, Italy and Britain.

Borderline is
A Valid and Legal
Document
This Agreement is a Valid Legal Document kept at the International Court of Justice in the Hague and recognised by the United Nations.
Lado has Suffered from Perpetual Attacks to Conquer Ladoland Territory since it was Invaded by European and US Forces in 1871.

Lado has since been fighting to drive out Foreign Invaders and Slave Traders and has till this date Succeeded in remaining - at least formally - Uncolonised.

Conquered
but not Colonised
Since 1947 Lado has been under Illegal Occupation by Belgium and Britain who have Partitioned Lado into Three Parts under the Administration of D.R. Congo/Zaire (Southern Lado), Uganda(Eastern Lado) and Sudan (Northern Lado).

Lado Terrorised
by US Sponsored
SPLA
Since 1983 Lado has been Terrorised by Rebel Forces from among others SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army). This Terror Organisation has turned Northern Lado into a Battlefield, has driven out Lado People and Kidnapped and Enslaved Lado Children to fight as Child Soldiers against their own villages.

"The Aim for the SPLM (the Political Section) is to break loose from Sudan and form an Independent State called "Southern Sudan"", says King John Bart Agami, Onzima II, Agofe of Lado and Head of the Lado Provisional Government.

"However, Sudan will not allow the Rebels to Separate the South Sudanese Territory from the Sudanese Motherland. Therefore the Rebels have set their eyes on Lado Territory south of the Internationally Recognised Borderline at Seven Degrees


North of Equator."

South Sudanese Rebels
Want Lado Town Juba
as their Capital
"The Quest for the SPLM is to gain Control over Northern Lado and Create a South Sudanese State with Juba as its Capital", says King Agami.

"They Pretend that Juba is a Border Town, but Juba is 200 miles south of the Official Seven Degree Borderline from 1906 and is the bona-fide Capital of Northern Lado.

Terrorists Finansed
and Armed by the US
In these times when Europe and the US are keen to place any Independence Movements and Resistance Groups on the Terror List, it seems odd that the SPLM and their Military Wing SPLA remain absent from this list.

The Organisation is never the less Responsible for Atrocities committed on Lado Territory amounting to Millions of Deaths and the Creation of otherevents in Human History, such as the Days of Alexander the Great, the Conqueror Hannibal, the Holy Roman Empire or for that matter Hitler or Stalin.

The Common Denominator is: 'The End Justifies the Means', and whether or not the Means are Barbaric and Inhumane, is of no concern. Especially when it hits People in Black Africa where Lado People have been Targeted as 'Undesirables' for decades."

Lado People and Lado State
in the Way for US and EU
Sattellite States in Africa
Lado People's steadfast Determination to Demand the Abolishment of the Bogus Illegal Occupation and to be Recognised as a Sovereign Nation State, with the Full Territorial Integrity of Lado, is a Hindrance to the Overall Plan by the US and their European Partners. On this King Agami says:

"The US and


- though this is just a Proforma Release - from the Locker of the UN Security Council. The Lado Issue has been Trapped inside the UN Security Council Locker ever since 1947."

From One Deadlock
To Another
"The Final Step to Freedom and Independence for Lado State (C.A.), however, is still Blocked by heavy-handed Interest Groups", the King says.

"They have now managed to Block the Lado Issue from the General Assembly Voting by a 4-year hold-up in the UN Department of Political Affairs. This Department is a UN Body Acting on behalf of the UN Security Council whose Task it is to Prepare the Committee Report on which to Vote.

Deliberate Delay
Used as a
Bureaucratic Weapon
The Deliberate Delay is a Bureaucratic Weapon in Facilitating the Giant Plan to Create a New State calleda number of countries in the Nile-Congo Watershed by the Upper Nile Valley and Great Lakes District deep in the very Heart of Africa.

Truth about Lado
Hidden from the
Outside World
Like among others the People of East Timor, Curdistan and formally Poland in the Heart of Europe, Lado People have been living in the shadows of Oppression, Occupation and Partition for generations.
No means or harsh measures have been spared in order to keep the People of Lado in Ignorance of their History and to hide the Truth from the Outside World.
The Big Lie which has been keeping up the Illusion of a 'never existing' Lado is about to be exposed for all to see.

British Occupiers
Desperate to Hold on
to the Big Lie
In 1871 Lado was invaded by joint forces from Britain,