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persecution on account of his affiliation with the Falun Gong movement. 1

       At his hearing before the IJ, Zhang testified that he first became interested in the

movement in May 1997, when the owner of a New Jersey restaurant he worked for gave

him a book about the Falun Gong. In addition, at around the same time, Zhang received a

letter from China written by his father-in-law, a Falun Gong practitioner, inviting Zhang

to learn more about the movement. Zhang further testified, however, that it was notuntil

August 1999, one month after he was arrested by U.S. immigration officials, that he

formally began the Falun Gong practice.

       Zhang also testified that, upon his arrest, he did not mention to immigration

officials that he was affiliated with or had any interest in the movement, nor did he tell

them that he feared persecution by the Chinese government on account of his religious

beliefs – this despite the fact that the officials asked him about his feelings regarding his

possible return to China.

       In her oral opinion, the IJ stated that she was unpersuaded by Zhang’s testimony

and believed that Zhang’s membership in the Falun Gong was insincere, noting “the

motivation that [Zhang] had for joining Falun Gong in August of 1999


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SEIFA

:   Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas

SES

:   Socioeconomic status

SPSS

:   Statistical Package of the Social Sciences

TAFE

:   Technical and Further Education

USA

:   United States of America

The authors wish to acknowledge all staff from the Queensland University of Technology Implementation team and Flinders University Evaluation team who contributed to evaluation and implementation of the PEACH™ Program in Queensland from 2013 to 2016. The authors are grateful to all facilitators, parents, and children for their participation in PEACH™ QLD.

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PEACH™ Queensland was funded by the Queensland Government of Australia (2014 -- 2016). The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those held by the Queensland Health Department or the Queensland Government of Australia. The PEACH™ Queensland Project was originally funded as aDirected by Suvendu Ghosh and based on three different short stories written by Anirban Roychowdhury, the film Shunyota (2017) explores the impact of demonetization on the common man, captured through a microcosm of men and women from different walks of life, financial base, education, ethnic background and so on. It is produced under the banner of UR films by Uday Singh who is into real estate business but came forward to help his friend make this socially significant film.

Objection by CBFC

It is sad to discover that just on the eve of its release in March, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) stopped the release of the film asking the director to delete some ‘sensitive’ dialogues from the film. In a letter to the movie director Suvendu Ghosh


on Friday, March 31, the Kolkata regional office of CBFC asked him to communicate within 15 days his "acceptance or otherwise" of the recommended cuts. The missive said, the cuts were decided as per the directives of the CBFC chairperson and recommendations of the examination committee.

The recommended cuts included deletion of two sequences and muting of four sentences/parts of sentences/words with beeps. One of the recommended deletions was a ten seconds sequence that clearly articulates, ‘A large number of unacceptable death processions in the country revolving around demonetisation’.

Director Suvendu Ghosh. Pic: Shoma Chatterji

“I was also asked to mute a part of a sentence with a beep that says ‘the government has committed the wrong, and while the big fish will survive, the small fish will be trapped’. Earlier,the Kolkata Regional Office of the CBFC had referred the film to the board's Chairman Pahlaj Nihalani for a decision on certification citing differences of opinion among members of the (examining) committee,” says Ghosh.

Why did he not fight the decision of the CBFC to hold back the film?

“We are small people, not some big Bollywood banners that can afford to go to court and have a team of lawyers on their payroll. Where is the money? We managed to put the film together at a meagre Rs 35 lakhs with hardly anything left for marketing and promotion. Besides, had I dragged through a court case or even gone to the tribunal for a review, it would have taken time. Delay would have defeated the very purpose of the


any serious impact on the film or in its message. But this release also would not have been possible unless the entire media – print, television, online, had risen to the occasion to support us wholeheartedly and strongly. Shunyota is devoid of any political colour. I think the subject of the film - demonetization was the real reason why they could not take a decision… They probably did not view short films as a threat. But a feature film with a commercial release is a different scenario.” Finally, Ghosh agreed to the six cuts but “the delay in the release of the film by around one month has been extremely painful for me as director,” he sums up.

Shunyota is a neat film, with minimum melodrama and no sensationalisationhave been avoided but has perhaps been done by design and order to function as the dividing line between and among the stories.

Stories of demonetization

The first story is about Lakshmi (Soma Chakraborty) and her teenage daughter Basi. Lakshmi works as daily labour in a coal field in Raniganj. She is forced to sell of the small plot of land she owns to pay for the dowry for her daughter’s marriage much before the marriage happens. On the very night she pays out the money to Basi’s would-be father-in-law, the currency notes are reduced to bits of paper because demonetization has been announced. The boy’s father breaks the marriage immediately and labels the girl unlucky. A broken-hearted and angry Lakshmi is advised to rush to the nearest bank branch


to get the currency notes changed. She rushes back with the happy news only to find that it is too late.

A still from the film. Pic: Shoma Chatterji

In the second story, a young Bengali couple based in Sikkim arrive in Kolkata for the treatment of their two-and-a-half-year old son, who is suffering from a very rare heart disease called ventricular septal defect. That very night, demonetization happens and the hospital refuses to accept the old currency notes. So, the husband asks his wife to wait till he comes back from Howrah with the cash needed from a contact as the little boy is taken to the operation theatre for an emergency surgery. But something drastic happens in all this haste and the end is disastrous.

The third story isthe most powerful one. Set against the backdrop of Kakdwip, it tells the story of a very affluent man who makes money out of his business in repairing and building fishing trawlers. But he is a pathological miser who keeps his workers waiting for their wages, and his wife and daughter in extremely poor situations. They eat vegetarian food because he will not spend on fish. They live almost without electricity and the man refuses to get the only television set repaired. His wife and daughter break their backs working the day long. At night, he opens the locked door of his room where his wife and daughter are not allowed. The huge trunk under his bed is filled with currency notes of all denominations. He kisses them


and throws them high up in the air and collects them back because he is obsessed with cash. What happens to him, his family and that huge cache of currency notes makes for a powerful yet credible climax.

A still from the film. Pic: Shoma Chatterji

The music composed by Pinaki Ghosh matches the sombre and serious mood of the stories very well. The composer has made aesthetic use of folk instruments from Bengal such as dhana, maadol, khanjani, ektara, the bangla shehnai and so on which are almost fading from the world of music in Bengal. Samar Haldar’s art direction has woven in a good blend of aesthetics and authenticity while Gautam Nag’s sound design is apt. The acting honours should squarely go to Debesh Roy Chowdhury who playsthe pathological miser, followed by Soma Chakraborty as Laksmi, the woman who works in the coal fields. The others offer solid support never mind if they are newcomers.

“I was strongly motivated to make a feature film on demonetization because my last film Chetana (Consciousness, 2016) that tackled the value system released in August last year, won the Best Director and Best Story Award at the Dubai International Film Festival. Demonetization happened in November, soon after we came back from Dubai in August. The time was ripe, I felt as a socially conscious director, to make a film around demonetization. Among some of the important decisions I took while casting for my film were not to take any stars because I felt that the glamour the star brings to


undergraduate studies at the University of South Florida. Each was currently enrolled in a media studies course at the time of the discussion group. Each member of the nine person group provided information. Each was asked as an individual to reflect on specific questions while also adding their own opinion to the larger group discussion.

General themes pulled from the discussion was the creation of an author's personality, textisms use as a way to create tone, and the varying levels of context needed within personal communication. Participants were in agreement that an individual could be characterized by his or her message design, especially through that individual's use of textisms. By establishing the author's personality, textisms created expectations from the audience. They help reinforce the relationship of those engaged. ToneCookie Consent

Monday, April 28, 2014

Genderflecting to Hillary

I introduced a piece of terminology last year that now applies to Hillary Clinton. I said that people genderflected to Ruth Bader Ginsburg because she happens to be a grandmother. Now, the guy who married into the Clinton family (not because he was a social climber, but because he fell in love with a woman who looks like Bill Clinton) seems to have impregnated Chelsea. Now, all of the people who use the maternity of a daughter as proof of their own matronliness encourage us to genderflect to Hellery Clinton. Never mind the fact that Hellery was co-President to the man who, prior to Oh Blah Blah, was the most pro-abortion president in American history. Never mind that she got Ambassador Chris


a series of boss fights broken up by walking segments between each battle. During the walking segments, players are treated to surreal landscapes and pumping trance beats. Throughout these sections of the game, dialogue conveys the plot and amps the player up for the approaching duel. These sections of the game can drag at times (especially on replays), but they do succeed in creating peaks and troughs in intensity by juxtaposing the calm landscapes with the hazardous boss battles.

The meat of the game is its series of 1 on 1 duels with challenging bosses. Battles typically shifts between dodge and counter focused close combat and top down bullet hell-lite segments. Transitions are smooth thanks to consistent controls and rules between each mode of play, meaning both halves beingBlack Clover: Quartet Knights received another character trailer from Bandai Namco, and this time around it's all about the charming drunkard Vanessa Enoteca.

Today Bandai Namco Entertainment released a brand new character trailer for its upcoming anime game Black Clover: Quartet Knights.

The trailer focuses on Vanessa Enoteca, a member of the Black Bull Squad. She is a powerful spellcaster able to control thread. That comes with various utility powers, including mending her companion’s clothes. That being said, she certainly doesn’t seem all that interested in sewing up her generous cleavage.

She covers a support role, but she is definitely able to go on the offensive when necessary. She loves alcoholic drinks so much that she is known as the “Drunken Frenzy Witch,” and her name “Enoteca” actually means “wine shop”


in Italian.

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market.
RPGs (of any nationality) and MMORPGs are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games.
He is also one of the few surviving fans of the flight simulator genre on Earth.University of California scientists think they know why Earth's generally warm and balmy climate over the past billion years has occasionally been interrupted by cold snaps that enshroud the poles with ice and occasionally turn the planet into a snowball.

The key trigger, they say, is mountain formation in the tropics as continental land masses collide with volcanic island arcs, such as the Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska.

Earth's climate is, to a large degree, driven by the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which traps heat and warms the planet. While fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution has driven CO 2 levels to heights not seen in 3 million years, CO 2 levels have been even higher in Earth's past, coinciding with warm periods when no major


ice sheets existed.

In fact, Earth's default climate seems to be warm and balmy. Periods with no glaciers dominated for three-quarters of the past 1 billion years.

Yet, half a dozen ice ages chilled Earth during that time, two of them severe enough to turn the planet into a Snowball Earth with ice covering much of the surface. What caused these frigid interludes?

In a study appearing in this week's edition of the journal Science, the team concludes that when volcanic arcs collide with continents in the tropics -- an inevitable consequence of the planet's constantly moving tectonic plates -- they trigger global cooling, resulting in a glacial climate with extensive ice caps.

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Such a collision is going on now as parts of the Indonesian archipelago are pushed upward into mountains onwas triggered by a collision similar to that occurring today in Indonesia. That collision took place during the first phase of Appalachian mountain-building, when the present-day eastern U.S. was located in the tropics. In the warm and wet tropics, the weathering reactions that ultimately sequester carbon are even more efficient, which resulted in less CO 2 in the atmosphere and a cooler planet for millions of years. The UC researchers' work built on a similar proposal by Macdonald and Oliver Jagoutz of MIT that such processes were important for cooling over the past 90 million years.

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The new study strengthens the link between such tropical collisions and global climate and was conducted by Swanson-Hysell, Macdonald and Jagoutz, along with UC Berkeley graduate student Yuem Park and Lorraine Lisiecki of


Sean Kuraly scored early in the third period as the Boston Bruins rallied to beat the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Bruins lead the best-of-seven series one game to none.

Game 2 will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the TD North Garden.

Brayden Schenn and Vladimir Tarasenko provided goals to give the Blues a two-goal lead before the Bruins rallied to get the victory.

Connor Clifton and Charlie McAvoy scored in the second period to help Boston get back into the game. Tuukka Rask made 18 saves for the Bruins. Brad Marchand scored an empty net goal to seal the deal.

Jordan Binnington stopped 34 shots for St. Louis.

Fast Start for St. Louis

The Blues didn’t look like they were intimidated by the experienced Bruinsas they got off to a fast start with the goal by Schenn. Boston seemed to look rusty from its 11-day layoff after beating the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final.

St. Louis jumped ahead early and it looked like they’d steal the opening game of the series. However, the last 39 minutes were dominated by Boston.

Bruins Flip the Switch

Boston found its feet after Tarasenko’s goal put St. Louis up 2-0. Connor Clifton sored one minute and 16 seconds after the Blues went up two goals. The Bruins picked up the intensity and the hitting to get back in the game.

McAvoy then potted an unassisted power-play goal to even the game at two. Boston got rewarded for its hustle and forechecking with a well-deserved goal. The Bruins reeled


off 18 shots in that second period. Shots pretty much dried up for St. Louis as the Blues only put three shots on the net in the second.

The Bruins put a lot of volume on Jordan Binnington until they finally cracked him. The St. Louis rookie had to scramble to keep his team from giving up more goals.

Sean Kuraly Seals It

Kuraly once again showed a penchant for scoring huge playoff goals with his tally in the third period. His Game 1 goal was his third of the post-season. The Dublin, Ohio native finds a way to score key goals.

Boston’s top line gets a lot of love, but it was the Bruins role players who have come through over the last few games, including Game 1 of the StanleyNeuroscientists have long been banging their heads on their desks over exaggerated reports of brain scanning studies. Media stories illustrated with coloured scans, supposedly showing how the brain works, are now a standard part of the science pages and some people find them so convincing that they are touted as ways of designing education for our children, evaluating the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and testing potential recruits. Recently, to the chagrin of French scientists, politicians called for neuro-imaging to be used in the courts to decide on the guilt of criminals, after the technology made its dubious debut in the legal systems of India, Italy and the US.

This misplaced enthusiasm often stems from a misunderstanding about what brain scans tell us. The interpretation seems straightforward according to the


making a real connection, whereas Before Sunset, which I thought was even better, was all about the pain of missed opportunities and wondering what could have been. On the other hand, Before Midnight (which many have mistaken for a horror film title, by the way), is about the harsh, and often heartbreaking realities of what happens after the happily ever after, and asks us whether the struggles and disagreements and sacrifice are, perhaps, what true love is ultimately all about.

In many ways, Before Midnight is the by far the most cynical of the three, but it is also the most down to earth. As beautiful as their one night in Vienna was 20 years ago, a relationship cannot just be about one night. There are countless forces workingBird by Bird, almost all writers start off with shitty first drafts. All of Fifty Shades is, essentially, is a shitty first draft. It could have been pared back, fixed up and improved significantly with two or three (most probably more) rewrites, but instead, we were given the product in practically raw form. And it’s ghastly.

I had tried to defend the first two books of the series to some degree, but I simply cannot think of one redeeming feature about this one. The first entry, Fifty Shades of Grey, was at least fresh and had some interesting dynamics as our protagonist, Anastasia Steele, is courted by the enigmatic, impossibly handsome and super rich Christian Grey. The second book has the couple reconciling after a brief break up and


is accomplished manually by hand. In this regard, a worker will bag the food product in the tubular expanded mesh covering, gather, or compress, an extended portion at one end, manually loop this extended portion back on itself and then clip the loop, with a conventional clipping apparatus, in order to secure the loop. Conventional clipping machines attach two clips, one to secure the bottom of the next covering to be formed and one to secure the loop handle. The conventional clipping machine then cuts the tubular covering between these two clips. Manual loop formation can limit the rate of production. What is needed is an apparatus for defining a handle in a tubular covering for a food product.
The apparatus of the present invention is a device forcovering a food product in a tubular covering, such as an expanded mesh plastic covering, which has a loop handle defined in one end of the tubular covering. As the food product proceeds through the apparatus, a handle is formed for the covering of the next food product and the open end of the tubular covering containing the food product is clipped, thereby securing the food product within the tubular covering. In the preferred embodiment, as the food product enters the apparatus, it is weighed so that a tag (containing certain information regarding the food product as will be known and appreciated by those skilled in the art) can be printed and secured in the loop handle defined in the portion of the tubular member that will receive


conveys the food product from a production line and into the slide area or chute. An initial conveyor stand and associated scale can be provided for weighing product prior to introducing the product into the slide area. While the conveyors are illustrated as being motor driven, those skilled in the art will recognize that other actuators, such as rotary actuators, could be utilized. It is anticipated that the conveyor would intersect a production line allowing a worker to remove a food product from the production line, weigh the product, if weight information is desired, and feed the food product onto the conveyor of the apparatus. The chute is a substantially tubular member which has the tubular covering expanded on the exterior of the chute, and positioned with respectto the distal end of the chute such that the food product will engage the tubular covering and thereby be covered by the tubular covering as the food product exits the chute. Positioned proximate the distal end of the chute is a voider assembly defined by a stationary set of voider gates and a moveable set of voider gates. Each set of voider gates includes a top voider plate and a bottom voider plate, each voider plate having an opening that is adapted to be positioned so as to substantially register with the opening defined by the diameter of the chute. The stationary set of voider gates is proximate the distal end of the chute. When in the retracted position, the moveable set of voider gates is proximate


the stationary set voider gate. As will be explained in greater detail below, the openings in the top and bottom voider plates include cooperating bites that cooperate, and register, when the voider plates are closed so as to gather the tubular covering into a compressed cord.
Further, the apparatus of the present invention includes a handle formation assembly for engaging the compressed cord of tubular covering and forming the compressed cord into a loop handle. A clipper device, carried by the frame of the apparatus of the present invention rotates into a position to engage the handle formation assembly, and the engaged compressed cord of tubular covering and secures two clips to the cord, one to secure the bottom of the tubular covering for the previously processed food product,and one to secure the loop handle, (and tag), for the tubular covering in preparation of receiving a subsequent food product to be covered. Further a clipping knife severs the compressed cord of tubular covering at a point disposed between the two securing clips. A product restraining assembly is provided to capture and restrain the food product as it passes through the voider gate assembly, position the covered food product for clipping and to release the food product upon completion of the apparatus""s handle formation and clipping cycle.
In an alternate embodiment, the device, absent the handle formation assembly, could be utilized for certain packing plant operations. In this regard, in certain packing plant operations, product is packaged in an expanded mesh covering. However, it is not necessary to


Thursday, July 19, 2007

38 Years Ago Yesterday...

...while Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were hurtling through space toward the moon, Ted Kennedy was also hurtling through space off the Dyke Bridge from Chappaquiddick Island.If I were a congressman I would nominate poor Mary Jo Kopechne for a Congressional Medal of Honor. Her death was not in vain; it kept Ted out of the White House.With three 24 hour cable news networks, Ted would never have survived this incident today. The clan Kennedy was better able to manage a compliant media.hours before he attempted immolation around 12.45 pm on Wednesday.

Rathod’s bid was foiled by the crowd that had gathered, including his family members. The 32-year-old Class VI dropout was one of the 18 Dalit men who tried to commit suicide since Monday to protest the flogging on July 11 of a group of Dalit youths at Una by gau rakshaks for skinning dead cattle.

The Indian Express spoke to six of the 18, with many of them saying that they took the extreme step only for attention to be drawn to the plight of Dalits in Gujarat. While Rathod was How else can we draw attention to Dalit plight: Suicide survivors undergoing treatment in Ahmedabad, the rest were recovering at the civil hospital in Rajkot.

WATCH VIDEO: Una Dalit Attack


before being moved to the primary health centre in Lathiyad and onwards to the Botad civil hospital. Around 1 am Thursday, he was admitted to the Ahmedabad civil hospital’s burns ward.

Having had only a few drops of water since his self-immolation bid, Rathod can barely speak. But his family members say his suicide bid to protest the Una incident was the culmination of “two years of harassment and threats by upper caste people of our village”.

”The Una incident and the delay on the government’s part in taking action against the accused made him lose whatever little hope he had,” said Pravinbhai, Paresh’s elder brother.

His family members said Paresh had previously complained to local police that his family and that of his brother were forced to leave their villageis here an appeal from the judgment of conviction and from an order denying a motion for a new trial as to each defendant.
 The defendant Burwell was the chief clerk of the library in the main prison or so-called "Quentin side" thereof. Burwell's friend, the defendant Rogers, lived in the so-called "Guidance Center side" of the prison awaiting assignment to his place in routine prison life, and his opportunities to visit Burwell were limited. On January 14, 1952, in violation of prison rules, Rogers exchanged clothes, identification cards and cells with Bragg, an inmate quartered in the main prison. Bragg was entitled to leave his cell for certain purposes between the hours of 6 and 8 p. m. On or about 6:30 p. m. of that evening


diagnose Rogers' trouble and to make an entry in his notebook, he was attacked by the defendants using the weapons theretofore concealed, and that in the ensuing struggle Wiget was killed. His death was attributed to multiple injuries, the main causes being a stab wound penetrating the chest and abdomen, and partial asphyxia due to compression from a necktie drawn tightly about his neck following the struggle. During the assault on Wiget, Burwell received a stab wound through his back and into his chest cavity. The wound was dressed by Rogers and external bleeding temporarily ceased.
 Thereafter the defendants bound and gagged inmate Wolfe and placed him in a position not visible from the main library or the scene of the homicide. They dragged Officer Wiget's body intoa small stockroom off the rear reading room. Defendant Burwell went into the corridor outside of the main library where he engaged in conversation with two prison guards, Officers Dascombe and Stewart. He informed these guards that Rogers was ill in the rear reading room and the officers accompanied Burwell to that room. Officer Dascombe left to obtain a hospital gurney to remove the supposedly ailing Rogers. As Officer Stewart bent over Rogers in an effort to make him more comfortable he was struck repeatedly from behind by Burwell using the hand axe. Rogers joined in the assault with a scissors blade. The officer fell to the floor, where he remained for an indeterminate time. During that time Officer Dascombe returned. He could not or did not see


Officer Stewart. The defendant Rogers was lying on a library table when Officer Dascombe reentered and was assisted by the officer in arising. The officer noticed a blade from a separated pair of scissors in Rogers' trousers pocket and relieved him of it. Rogers was ordered to leave the library, but instead Rogers seized a broom and he and Officer Dascombe fought for possession of it. While this struggle was in progress, the defendant Burwell attacked Officer Dascombe from behind again, using the hand axe to beat the officer into unconsciousness. Meanwhile Officer Stewart had arisen and escaped from the library. *24 Both of the officers suffered extensive multiple fractures of their skulls and mangled hands and fingers in attempting to ward off the blows from the axe.They both recovered.
 Leaving the unconscious Dascombe and the body of Wiget in the library, the defendants sought an escape route. They proceeded through a mess hall in which a basketball game was in progress and met Officer Vern A. Mackin, who inquired as to their destination. They stated that they were bound for a projection booth overlooking the mess hall to obtain certain phonograph records for use in the library. Officer Mackin accompanied them to the projection booth, where inmate Gallegos was on duty playing musical recordings during the intermission of the basketball game. Mackin advised Gallegos of Burwell's and Rogers' purported purpose in coming to the booth. Mackin then noticed something amiss in the defendants' appearance and conduct and sought to summon aid by telephone. Rogers


thereupon seized Mackin around the neck from behind. Gallegos attempted to assist Mackin but was unable to break Rogers' hold on Mackin. Rogers drew a knife and Burwell took the hand axe from his clothing and both assaulted Mackin with these weapons in such a manner as to cause his death. Gallegos escaped and gave the alarm that resulted in the apprehension of the defendants. Mackin's death was attributed to multiple injuries, the main cause being a stab wound directly into the heart, fractures of the skull and concussion of the brain.
 Evidence from which the foregoing account of the events which took place relating to the homicides in large part came from statements made by the defendants during preliminary investigations. The account to which they testified duringfair trial by the refusal of the *25 court to continue the trial until after a decision in a collateral mandamus proceeding, hereinafter referred to, involving the right of the defendants to inspect certain records taken from the files of the coroner's office at the direction of the district attorney. The record shows that about a month after the homicides the court-appointed attorneys for Rogers asked the Marin County coroner to permit them to look at his file in the case. The coroner stated that he would have to secure the consent of the district attorney before he would allow them to do so. After two telephone conversations, the district attorney consented to the inspection of the file. It was about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when this


consent was secured, and the attorneys, after thumbing through the file, indicated that they would continue their inspection the following morning in order not to inconvenience the coroner. In their brief inspection the attorneys noticed that the file contained copies of San Quentin inspection reports, psychiatric reports, interrogations of both defendants, autopsy reports, personal property reports, pictures and other data concerning the homicides. When the attorneys returned to the coroner's office the next morning they were informed that the district attorney had directed that all material other than the coroner's report and the personal property report be turned over to his office, and that the coroner had complied with his request. The attorneys for Rogers then sought in the superior court a writ of mandamus to compel theproduction of material taken by the district attorney from the coroner's file on the ground that this material was part of a public record which the defendants were entitled to examine or that if the material was privileged, the privilege had been waived. Burwell later joined in this proceeding.
 A hearing was held in the mandamus proceeding in the superior court. The coroner testified that the material taken by the district attorney in general consisted of San Quentin reports about the defendants and the killings; that he had requested copies of these reports from the warden; that they had been given to him with the understanding that the information contained therein was to be kept confidential until otherwise specified by the warden; and that he, as coroner, had


from the coroner's file.
 While the mandamus proceeding was pending in the District Court of Appeal and a few weeks prior to trial, the defendants moved for a continuance until the appellate court should determine the appeals. The judge who ruled upon this motion considered the record of the mandamus proceeding, which had been introduced in evidence. He stated that unless the district attorney delivered to the defendants the material ordered to be disclosed by the writ of mandamus he would grant the motion for a continuance. The defendants argued that a continuance should be granted until their appeal was ruled upon because the material which would not be turned over to them by the district attorney was necessary to their defense. The district attorney agreed to deliverpublic places and in stores throughout the county; that $8,271.83 was collected, mainly in small contributions, and that a benefit dance was held, the proceeds of which went into the fund. The foregoing in itself does not indicate any prejudice towards the defendants, but rather an expression of sympathy on the part of the people of the community in which the families of the deceased guards were living. Other evidence, consisting mainly of published newspaper articles, was claimed to indicate prejudice.
 In opposition to the motions for change of venue, the People submitted affidavits which contradicted the assertions of the defendants. An affidavit made by the editor of one of the leading newspapers of the county averred that he was generally cognizant of news coverage and public opinion


certain that no other weapons were concealed upon the defendants' persons. The defendants were then marched into and across a prison yard to a captain's office, where the questioning complained of took place. During the journey Burwell lagged behind, and was told to quicken his pace. He replied that he was in "no hurry." Upon a second refusal to respond to an order to move faster, one of the guards twisted his arm behind his back and hurried him along. Another guard struck Burwell across the back and buttocks with a night stick to speed him along.
 During the apprehension and questioning to follow, Burwell was suffering from the wound in his back which had been temporarily treated by Rogers in the library. Following a coughing spell whileBurwell was being questioned in the captain's office, the wound reopened. Questioning ceased at this point and Burwell was given immediate medical attention. He was not questioned further until the following morning.
 [11] It is apparent that some force was used in producing the defendants at the captain's office. There were 250 inmates in the vicinity of the area through which the defendants were marched, a basketball game having been in progress. The officer in charge at the time, who admitted using force to hurry Burwell along, was concerned whether the violence which had resulted in the homicides was an outgrowth of a planned general prison break and he was not certain of the reaction of the other inmates to the apprehension of Burwell and Rogers. It was


by the district attorney. Immediately after questioning in the captain's office the chief medical officer of the prison examined him and later testified that he was in good physical condition; that his pulse and blood pressure were "practically normal"; that he was not suffering from shock, and that his responses to questions were logical and prompt.
 The defendants contend that they were denied a fair trial because of the manner in which they were conducted to and from the courtroom and the circumstances under which their testimony was taken. The defendants were transported from San Quentin Prison to the court each day of the trial in a station wagon. Their hands were handcuffed to their belts and they were restrained by a short length of chain held frombehind by one of the prison guards. These security measures were the usual practice of the Department of Corrections whenever an inmate was brought from the prison to the courthouse. No formal protest to this practice was made by the defendants during the trial. After they entered the courtroom the restraining devices were removed but an armed guard was stationed in an anteroom behind the bench and witness chair. This anteroom led to a doorway from which egress from the courtroom might be made. While the defendants were in the witness chair, the guard removed his gun from its holster but did not make any gestures toward them. This precaution was deemed necessary because of the close proximity of the witness chair to the doorway. The guards were


first person, giving his version thereof. This was not proper, but in all of the instances to which the defendants object, counsel's version varied but slightly from the testimony otherwise developed, and references were made only as to inconsequential events. They consisted of what took place in posing the defendant Rogers for a newspaper photograph in which he was shown pointing to one of the weapons used by the defendants; of why the officer whose tour of duty Officer Wiget had taken on the night of the homicide was not able to work that evening; of minor details relating to a visit to Mrs. Wiget in seeking an exemplar of her husband's handwriting; of why the district attorney interrogated the defendants before trial, and of matters of similarwhat they deserved and that is what you would have expected to happen." Upon objection and before any admonition from the court, the remark was withdrawn by the chief deputy district attorney and the jury asked by him to disregard it. He went on to explain to the jury that he was attempting to help them to better understand the emotional conditions under which the defendants were apprehended.
 The same prosecutor, in commenting on a letter in which the defendant Rogers stated that he was filled with hate for the human race, directed the attention of the jury to Rogers and stated: "If you will look at him now and imagine him with two horns sticking out of his head--you couldn't picture a more malignant person or a


The motion was denied.
 It appears that prior to 1942 the Negro population in Marin County was negligible but had increased during the war years. In 1930 it represented less than seven-tenths of 1 per cent. In 1940 it was almost 1 per cent, and in 1950 it was between 2 and 3 per cent. The county clerk testified that he knew of one Negro who had been on the grand jury list but had exercised a personal privilege and had declined to serve. It is conceded that many Negroes had served on Marin County petit juries and Burwell makes no attack on the ground that members of his race were improperly excluded from the jury that convicted him. In opposition to the motion to quash, the PeopleCounty prior to and at the time of the indictment. Other evidence that during a period of 10 years prior to the trial Negroes had been placed on both petit and grand jury panels was in further support of the trial court's conclusion. *43
 A diligent examination of the voluminous record reveals without exception that the court acted fairly and impartially throughout the trial and at no time abused its discretion in conducting the protracted judicial proceeding. The evidence is overwhelming in support of the verdicts. No error on the part of the trial court has been shown and misconduct on the part of the prosecutors, although subject to criticism, has not resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
 The judgments and the orders denying motions for a new


Independence Day

It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from his government. ~ Thomas Paine

Independence Day is my favorite holiday because it celebrates the Natural Right to secede from political entities. It is also celebrated by getting together with friends to enjoy grilling a variety of meats and vegetables, boating and related water sports, playing with the kids in the pool and tipping a few beers among other activities done just for fun. Don't forget the fireworks. Unlike religious holidays and holidays that celebrate state myths, political debate is socially acceptable at these gatherings on Independence Day. I submit for discussion on this Independence Day the difference between patriotism and nationalism.

The state and its propaganda artists have perverted the meanings of so many words inpigskin frequently and will have next to no competition for the ball.

To be honest, in today's fantasy football, those two qualifications alone make you an automatic top tier running back.

Oh, did I mention his career per-carry average is 5.0 yards? That's, um, pretty good. He's also scored 91 touchdowns in his career. That's also pretty good.

Few running backs have proved as durable as AD (yes, his nickname is AD. Not AP). He's a virtual guarantee to carry the ball at least 250 times. If he's just "average" this season, he's a lock for 1,250 and 13 touchdowns. Once again, that's top tier material. He should be among the first five players taken in your draft.

Greg Jennings's first year in Minnesota ended with 106 targets, 804 yards and four


Just watch.

But more than that, he is dangerous out of the backfield as a ball carrier.

In the first 11 games of the year, Patterson carried the ball just twice for two yards. Only late in the season did former OC Bill Musgrave realize Patterson could be a wicked weapon in the running game.

The result? In the last five contests, Patterson had 10 carries, 156 yards rushing and three touchdowns.

I look for both his receiving and rushing stats to at least double this year. Let other fantasy lemmings follow the crowd and avoid Patterson because he's "a bust in the making." This guy is a second tier, double threat, who may elevate to first tier before September. Grab him if you can.

Kyle Rudolph's 2013 season was derailed by abum foot. Many fantasy owners will overlook him as a viable fantasy starter, but he could be in for a big season.

Rudolph dropped 15 pounds in the off-season to become more of a "move" tight end. He knows he's going to be heavily involved in the passing game; fantasy owners better know it too.

Remember, Rudolph's receiving numbers nearly doubled and his touchdown total tripled from 2011 to 2012. Coming back healthy in 2014, he could go all Jordan Cameron this season (Cameron was in Norv Turner's system last year). He will end up a top ten tight end.

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Likud assaulted Bennett mercilessly. First Netanyahu attacked him personally. Those initial attacks backfired. Bennett's polling numbers went through the roof. After that, the Likud redirected its attacks against the Bayit Yehudi's slate of Knesset candidates. With the active help of the media, Netanyahu and his campaign advisors sought to portray the list as extremist.

As for the Left, Netanyahu completely ignored Lapid, while directing Likud's attacks, such as they were, against the Labor Party and to a lesser degree, against Tzipi Livni and her party.

The impact of Netanyahu's two-stage assault on Bennett and his party is interesting for what it tells us about the electorate, first and foremost. The personal assault on Bennett backfired because it was so over the top that it disgusted the public. No matter howwhich rejects our way of life.

To win over nationalist voters, Lapid made Rabbi Shai Piron, an esteemed and serious national religious educator his number two. For people seeking a party that advances causes of Jewish identity and the transformation of the Israeli rabbinate from the fiefdom of non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox rabbis to an institution led by national religious rabbis who better represent the general population, Piron's placement on Lapid's list was a powerful statement of good will. By putting Piron in as his number two, Lapid was also able to blunt attention to the fact that he has radical leftists on his list. For instance, former Shin Bet director Yaacov Peri who cultivated strong business relations with corrupt PLO leaders after he retired from the Shin Bet in 1994


their campaign are paying for it. As for Netanyahu:

Netanyahu's problem is multifaceted. The headline is that he ran a campaign based on coasting to victory, not on inspiring anyone to vote for him. This is the same campaign Netanyahu ran in 2006 that brought Likud its most stunning defeat. Likud limped to the finish line seven years ago with just 12 mandates. It is the same campaign that won Likud the elections with a paltry 27 Knesset seats in 2009.

This campaign involves doing essentially nothing but negative campaigning. Aside from showing footage of Netanyahu speaking before the US Congress and the UN, and looking at his family album with his wife, the Likud's campaign had almost no positive imagery. It was all about tearing apart its opponents, andparticularly the Right and Bennett.

There is a suspicion, still whispered but becoming more and more strident in Likud circles, that Netanyahu's decision to bring Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beitenu party into Likud owed to Netanyahu's desire to weaken the political Right. The rightist candidates won the Likud primaries. Netanyahu made no effort to hide his distaste for his own list, attacking it the night of the primaries by saying that despite the results, he intended to reappoint his dovish ministers Benny Begin, Dan Meridor and Michael Eitan despite the Likud party membership's utter rejection of their candidacies.

Although Lieberman is characterized, (or caricatured) by the international media as a super-hawk, his record indicates no such thing. In 2006, Lieberman singlehandedly saved Ehud Olmert's government. After the war in


Lebanon, with thousands of angry reservists and citizens marching on Jerusalem demanding Olmert's resignation after his incompetent leadership of the war, Lieberman joined the government, and joined it for nothing. He got a phony ministerial portfolio with no executive powers. If it hadn't been for Lieberman, Olmert would have fallen, new elections would have been called and Likud would have returned to power with a large coalition.

Moreover, Lieberman's policies on one of Israel's central security issues--the fate of Judea and Samaria and relations with the Palestinian terrorist groups--are closer to Israel's Left than its Right. Like the Left, Lieberman exaggerates the threat of demographic changes to Israel, while downplaying the threat of Palestinian terrorist groups controlling territory in Israel's heartland. Like the Left, Lieberman favors surrendering strategically vitaltask, in which they had to ignore various distractions in the house such as a brass band, an estate agent showing potential buyers through the House, tourists walking around the House taking pictures, Marcus Bentley conducting his narrations from within the House, Davina McCall hosting part of the eviction show from in the House, a performance from Jedward and new housemate Sam entering the house. Housemates were allowed 88 fails over the three days of the task and passed the task with 86 fails. On Day 52, Ben became the 6th person to be evicted with 52 percent of the public vote.

Week 8 was focussed on the arrival of Sam. He was not given his proper suitcase and instead had to wear flamboyant clothes provided by Big Brother.


investment out of the Central area, which has the highest CCI in the most likely outcome (historical conditions), and into the other areas. Many of the benefits of diversification come from investment in the Eastern subregion because habitat quality tends to be relatively good there when conditions cause habitat in the Central subregion to be relatively poor. The kink that appears right before point B exists because at that point, further risk reduction optimally entails shifting conservation into the Western subregion that has the lowest expected value of the CCI. Comparing portfolios D and E on the efficient frontier for the uniform distribution, massive risk reduction is accomplished by shifting much of the conservation investment from the Eastern subregion (which has the highest expected value of CCI underknew them from history. They seemed very much a part of the 19th century but not of the privileged world of Julia Margaret Cameron. These are the children whose faces one sees in Thomas Annan’s Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, in John Thomson’s Street Life in London, and similar work from the 19th century. I am not suggesting that Parkin was attempting to evoke a darker past or pull at our heart-strings in these photographs. I am only pointing out that her strange-making art has the power to evoke history in its ability to suggest a truthful and honest portrait of the child, that her art can with the greatest subtlety suggest the child as the child actually was for most of the history of the world—and,


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The world of children in those three portraits is not the sweet, impossible, and perfectidyll that Heinrich Kühn always photographed his children basking in nor is it that tragic world of the children Dr. Bernardo commissioned to be photographed in order to shock the Victorian consciousness into compassion, just as his contemporary humanitarians Charles Dickens, Frederick Engels, and the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury did in their work. Parkin has written that, though not challenging the actual “innocence” of children, she “is challenging the notion of childhood being innocent. We shouldn't sentimentalize childhood, to do this would be a grave disservice to ourNEED
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Philippines' Aquino keeps budget chief amid corruption scandal

July 11, 2014 - 9:13:29 am

MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Friday rejected a resignation offer from his budget secretary after the top court declared the government's discretionary fund illegal in the biggest test yet for its battle against graft.

Aquino, the only son of democracy icon and former president Corazon Aquino, took power in 2010 on the promise of transparency, good governance and battling corruption to lift the Philippines from poverty.

But he has struggled to shed the country's image as one of the most corrupt in Asia as he continues to defend his allies while chasing down politicians, bureaucrats and generals associated with the past administration.

On Thursday, Florencio "Butch" Abad handed his resignation letter to Aquino to save the government fromgrowing criticism over the use of 150 billion pesos ($3.45 billion) in discretionary funds from 2011 to 2013.

"I have decided not to accept his resignation," Aquino told a Cabinet meeting during the annual budget presentation. "To accept his resignation is to assign to him a wrong and I cannot accept the notion that doing right by our people is a wrong."

Aquino has yet to comment on the court's decision, but his spokesmen defended him, saying the president had done nothing wrong and everything was done in good faith. His popularity rating is expected to plunge over this issue.

Aquino faces the toughest political test in his four years in office, throwing into doubt his campaign promise to rid government of corruption.

The resignation came a week after the top court


unanimously declared as unconstitutional Aquino's move to impound executive funds and their distribution to lawmakers. The government says the funds were spent to stimulate the economy.

Abad, the president's campaign manager and closest adviser, was facing corruption charges for setting up the president's discretionary fund, called the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), in 2011 to fund lawmakers' projects.

This week, a former congressman filed a motion to impeach the president before the lower house of Congress, accusing him of betrayal of public trust, bribery and culpable violation of the constitution.

Critics say the government used the fund as a tool to gain control of Congress, accusing lawmakers of misusing some of the money. Three opposition senators have been detained and face plunder charges in the anti-graft court.

On Friday, the court entered aThursday, October 06, 2005

It is only the second Rosh Hashanah for Ikar, a new congregation in Los Angeles, and some 600 people will be attending its services at the Westside Jewish Community Center.

Six-hundred people.

Not bad for this synagogue-less community that was started in April 2004 by Rabbi Sharon Brous, a 2001 graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), the flagship institution of the Conservative movement.

While the congregants will be praying from the Conservative prayerbook, and following the Conservative halacha, such as mixed seating and having prayers led by women and men, don’t call them Conservative. Brous has not affiliated with the Conservative movement.

The same goes for Nashuva, which meets in a Westwood Blvd. church, and Kehillat Hadar on the Upper West Side in New York. Both boast mailing


lists of 2,000 people, many of whom are in the coveted 20s and 30s demographic. Both define themselves as independent, egalitarian communities committed to spirited traditional prayer, study and social action. That sounds like the very definition of Conservative. But instead of calling themselves Conservative, Nashuva and Kehillat Hadar go by the term “non-denominational.”

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A century has now passed since Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and Bukharin’s Imperialism and World Economy (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg’s 1913 Accumulation of Capital, all spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism. It was a time of world war, monopolies, antitrust laws, strikes for pay raises, Ford’s development of the assembly line, the October Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the failed German revolution, and much more. It was a time that saw the spread and deepening of global challenges to capitalism.

This article reviews the role of the international division of labor


and continues to experience major outbreaks of its inherent tendencies toward crisis.13

Labor and Imperialism

Lenin, Bukharin, and Luxemburg all saw the international division of labor as a central feature of imperialism. Lenin uses the notion of the division of labor to mean a division between the industries on which certain banks focus their investment activities.14 He sees the export of capital, in contrast to the export of goods, as a crucial feature of imperialism:

As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilized not for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in profits for the capitalists, but for the purpose of increasing profits by exporting capital abroad to the backward countries.periphery enables the export and appropriation of surplus value by large companies.

The International Division of Digital Labor

Global communications, in the form of the telegraph and international news agencies, already played a role in imperialism by the time of the First World War, helping to organize and coordinate trade, investment, accumulation, exploitation, and war.23 A hundred years later, qualitatively different means of information and communication such as supercomputers, the Internet, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and social media have emerged. But just like the labor of workers in the periphery during earlier stages of imperialism, the production of information and information technology is part of an international division of labor, one that continues to shape modes of production, distribution, and consumption.24

Critical scholars introduced the notion of the new international division


and in particular a plea for presidential leadership," said Doris Meissner, former US immigration commissioner and co-chair of the taskforce.

The report concludes: "Without action the contradictions and pressures will only increase, as the undocumented population grows, more people die at the border, families remain separated, processing backlogs increase, workers are exploited and certain industries decry labour shortages, and potential terrorists try to take advantage of systemic vulnerabilities."

The setting up of the taskforce was prompted by the economic and social tensions caused by rapid immigration into the midwestern states. "Immigration is often discussed as a coastal phenomenon. This mistakenly overlooks the heartland of the country," said the co-chairs of the taskforce, Jim Edgar, a former governor of Illinois, and Alejandro Silva, president of Evans Foods, and Ms Meissner.

They notedthat over the last decade 21 per cent of the Midwest's population growth has been caused by immigrant arrivals.

Nine of 12 Midwest states had foreign-born populations that grew faster than the national average during the 1990s, while several grew at more than double the national average.

It jumped by 164 per cent in Nebraska, 130 per cent in Minnesota, and 114 per cent in Kansas.

This influx is causing significant integration problems for state and local governments.

The report cites Minneapolis/St Paul and its 60,000 Hmong immigrants from Laos, the largest urban concentration of Hmong refugees in the US and the fastest growing segment of Minnesota's population.

"Their numbers are expected to increase, as 15,000 more have been granted refugee status. . . many of the Hmong have faced great difficulty in


Utah is sprawling with timeshare resorts. Whether for winter or summer activities staying in a timeshare is very cost effective way to make sure the whole family is comfortable with the accommodations.

Kanab Center project needs additional $1.25 million

The July 23 Kane County Commission meeting opened with a visit from Michael Herder, the Arizona Strip District Manager. He was joined by Lorraine Christensen, also with Strip management. The discussion centered on the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Kane County and the Arizona Strip District, who are partnering through the MOU in land planning on common interests. The two most important were the possibility of the Lake Powell Pipeline route and permits in the Paria/Vermilion Cliffs Project sites shared by the two entities, such as The Wave. The final MOUthe age of two, was approved. It allows paid leave for three weeks during the first three months of Parent Time. The amendments also addressed retirement benefits, use of county equipment and vehicles, and travel benefits (meals, etc.) in order to bring county policies into agreement with recent Utah State Code. The changes were unanimously approved.

The ongoing progress of “glamping” is problematic. Land Use Authority Director Shannon McBride gave a presentation of problems, most of which are in the Little Ponderosa Subdivision near Zion. Her office noticed complaints on short-term rental websites regarding listings in this area, and the short-term rentals are popping up quickly overnight. Owners of lots in the subdivision are setting up simple tents and other non-compliant structures and renting them out, but the sites


money and often need to borrow money is often related to medical debt."

Americans spend an average of about $5,000 a year on out-of-pocket health care costs, including insurance, prescriptions and medical supplies, according to the latest consumer spending data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's double the amount Americans spent in 1984, according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Consumer Expenditures Survey by data company Clever.

Last year, the cost of medical care rose 4.6% from what consumers were paying in 2018, the largest year-over-year increase since 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Consumer Price Index. Prescription drug prices and the cost of hospital services both rose 3% from 2018 to 2019, while physician services also saw a slight year-over-year increase.

It's not surprising,Brothers Put NFL On Hold for Da'wa, Hajj

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NFL free agents Hamza and Husain Abdullah are putting their football careers on hold -- perhaps permanently -- to pursue a higher calling.

The brothers -- both practicing Muslims -- will sit out the 2012 season to speak at mosques across the country this summer before making a pilgrimage to Mecca. "It has been a blessing to play in the NFL for both Husain and I," Hamza said in a statement, "but we would be remiss if we didn't give thanks to the One who made it all possible."

Added Husain: "I visited Makkah, Saudi Arabia in March and a strong sense of urgency overcame me to attend 'Hajj' in October. I love the game of football but it would directly coincide


with my pilgrimage. So, I'm taking some time off."

Husain has turned down contract offers from the Minnesota Vikings and other teams to pursue religious obligations, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Hamza spent the last three seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.

Husain's playing career was in jeopardy before this decision. The Star Tribune reported Abdullah made 24 starts the past two seasons for the Vikings, suffering concussions in his first, fifth, 22nd and 24th starts. He visited a concussion specialist in Pittsburgh to see if he was endangering his long-term health by playing football.

This isn't the first time the brothers' faith has made headlines. Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer, typically falls during training camp each year. Despite participating in physically draining summer practices, the brothersthe Bolshevik Revolution.

The greatest obstacle to the revival of classical fascism after 1945 was the repugnance it had come to inspire. Hitler aroused nausea as gruesome pictures of the liberated camps were released. Mussolini inspired derision. Devastated landscapes testified to the failure of both of them. Hitler’s charred body in the ruins of his Berlin bunker and Mussolini’s corpse strung up by the heels in a seedy Milan filling station marked the extinction by squalor of their charisma.3

A revival of fascism faced additional obstacles after 1945: the increasing prosperity and seemingly irreversible globalization of the world economy, the triumph of individualistic consumerism,4 the declining availability of war as an instrument of national policy for large nations in the nuclear age, the diminishing credibility of a revolutionary threat. All


these postwar developments have suggested to many that fascism as it flourished in Europe between the two world wars could not exist after 1945, at least not in the same form.5

But the end of fascism was opened to doubt in the 1990s by a series of sobering developments: ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; the sharpening of exclusionary nationalisms in postcommunist Eastern Europe; spreading “skinhead” violence against immigrants in Britain, Germany, Scandinavia, and Italy; the first participation of a neofascist party in a European government in 1994, when the Italian Alleanza Nazionale, direct descendant of the principal Italian neofascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano, or MSI, joined the first government of Silvio Berlusconi;6 the entry of Jörg Haider’s Freiheitspartei, or Freedom Party, with its winks of approval at NaziKlan revived in the 1920s, took on virulent anti-Semitism, and spread to cities and the Middle West. In the 1930s, Father Charles E. Coughlin gathered a radio audience estimated at 40 million around an anticommunist, anti–Wall Street, pro–soft money, and—after 1938—anti-Semitic message broadcast from his church in the outskirts of Detroit. For a moment in early 1936, it looked as if his Union Party and its presidential candidate, North Dakota Rep. William Lemke, might overwhelm Roosevelt.16 Today a “politics of resentment” rooted in authentic American piety and nativism sometimes leads to violence against some of the very same “internal enemies” once targeted by the Nazis, such as homosexuals and defenders of abortion rights.17

Would the United States have to suffer catastrophic setbacks and polarization for these fringe groups to


dominate the mainstream? I half-expected to see emerge after 1968 a movement of national reunification, regeneration, and purification directed against hirsute antiwar protesters, black radicals, and “degenerate” artists. Fortunately, I was wrong, though the question has gained new salience after the 2016 election. On one hand, the Republican project of radical deregulation is quite contrary to fascist social and economic regimentation, with its color-shirted action squads and four-year plans. The term populist plutocracy might more accurately describe American politics today. But Donald Trump’s accusations of decline, which he blamed on internal and external enemies and which he promised to remedy by forceful action without much concern for due process; his dramatic arrivals by plane (Hitler invented this tactic); and his dialogues with excited crowds (“Lock her up!”) allundeniably echo fascism.

Of course, the language and symbols of an authentic American fascism would ultimately have little to do with the original European models. No swastikas in an American fascism but Stars and Stripes (or Stars and Bars) and Christian crosses. No fascist salute but mass recitations of the pledge of allegiance. These symbols contain no whiff of fascism in themselves, of course, but an American fascism would transform them into obligatory litmus tests for detecting the internal enemy. Around such reassuring language and symbols and in the event of some redoubtable setback to national prestige, Americans might support an enterprise of forcible national reunification, regeneration, and purification. Its targets would be the First Amendment, separation of church and state (crèches on the lawns, prayers in schools), efforts


junior official of Mussolini’s republic of Salò in 1943–45, was elected at this point chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian parliament. It is true that some officials of the Federal Republic of Ger- many, including Chancellor Hans-Georg Kiesinger, had been Nazi Party members in their youth, but they had not continued to belong to a neo-Nazi party after the war, and no neo-Nazi party has participated in either local or national government in Germany.

7. See the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice 36:3 (July 2002) on radical right groupuscules, put together by Roger Griffin.

8. Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997).

9. Nolte, Three Faces, pp. 421–23.

10. Diethelm Prowe, “‘Classic’ Fascism and the New Radical Right in Western Europe: Comparisons and Contrasts,” ContemporaryEuropean History 3:3 (1994); Piero Ignazi, L’estrema destra in Europa (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2000).

11. See Chapter 7, p. 191, and Chapter 8, p. 216.

12. The Road to Wigan Pier (New York: Berkeley Books, 1961), p. 176. See also The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), quoted in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, eds., The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, vol. III: My Country Right or Left, 1940–43 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968), p. 93.

13. For bibliography see the bibliographical essay.

14. For Pelley, see Leo P. Ribuffo, The Old Christian Right: The Protestant Far Right From the Great Depression to the Cold War (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983).

15. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (New York: New York University Press,


2002), pp. 7–15, 37–38.

16. Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (New York: Knopf, 1982) (radio figures, pp. 83, 92). Lemke got 800,000 votes.

17. Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right: The “New Right” and the Politics of Resentment (New York: Pantheon, 1980).

18. For the importance of guns in the macho symbolism of both Mussolini and Hitler, see Chapter 8, Note 61.Mentioned in this article Games: Fortnite, League of Legends

Tencent and Riot Games establish a joint venture in Shanghai: TJ Sports, which will initially focus on all League of Legends esports business in China, including tournament organizing, talent management, and venues.

The company also announced the 2019 partnership list for the League of Legends Pro League (LPL), with Mercedes-Benz as the head partner.

The company also named Jin “Bobby” Yibo and Lin “Leo” Song as the co-CEOs of TJ Sports. It was stated that the LPL broke the 15B viewers record in 2018, and that the league will be looking for a title sponsor in 2019.

On Jan. 10, Chinese tech giant Tencent Games and game publisher Riot Games launched a “2019 China League of Legends Leader Summit” in Shanghai, China. Multiple


Shanghai politicians and esports company leaders attended the summit. At the event, Nicolo Laurent, the CEO of Riot Games, and multiple executives from Tencent announced the two companies have established a joint venture called Tengjing Sports (or TJ Sports for short), in Shanghai.

A report from 36Kr said 50% of the shares in the new venture are owned by Tencent, while the other 50% is owned Riot. The Esports Observer was unable to independently verify this part of the story at press time.

[perfectpullquote align=”right” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]TJ Sports will work initially on LoL tournament organizing, talent management, esports venues, and LoL related products.[/perfectpullquote]

According to the announcement by Ma Xiaoyi, the senior vice president of Tencent Group and the board member of TJ Sports, the company will mainlyfocus on League of Legends relevant business in the short and mid-term plan, including tournament organizing, talent management, esports venues, and LoL related products. In addition, the company is also open to working on the future games of Riot and Tencent.

“TJ Sports will build the best tournament organizing team to improve our tournament and users experiences, and make the standardization of the esports industry. In the long term, TJ Sports plans to become an international esports operation company, improving the diversity and sustainability of the esports industry at the global scale.”

Nicolo also said, “LPL is the first competition area that launched a Home/Away mode in the League of Legends tournament system. I believe that TJ Sports can bring League of Legends, as a top esports game, to higher


appointment, Lin was responsible for all of Riot Games’ business in China. He previously worked for P&G, McKinsey, and TripAdvisor. Jin is directly in charge of League of Legends business at Tencent. The two stated that the LPL broke the 15B viewers record in 2018, and the 2018 League of Legends World Champion finals has more than 99.6M individual viewers.

Lin also claimed that the LPL will be looking for title sponsors in 2019. As reported by The Esports Observer last month, Nike is currently negotiating with Tencent over a potential competition sponsorship deal for LPL. Sources said the exclusivity conditions of the deal would prevent LPL teams from seeking other sponsorships.

In 2015, Tencent completed the acquisition of LoL developer Riot Games, gaining 100% of the company’s shares. Incleared, some stripped and piled up along the sides of the expressway like the snow that used to be plowed from the streets back when anyone bothered to plow, and other cars will be towed back to the suburbs and resold, the cars shuffling owners every so often, the abandoned items in the cars gathering in layers that reveal the history of each car to anyone who cares to read them. And even though the traffic jams are inevitable, the commuters always come again because they are fueled by the abundance of the city, and wherever there is abundance, something will be waiting to take some of it for itself. There are tiny green plants now covering the overhead electrical wires, sucking up some of every watt that


suggest, and she picks it up and walks towards the exit ramp, the weight of the table saw making her rock side to side while she does. I watch her until she disappears around the side of a panel truck near the exit ramp, and then get back to work. After an hour or so, I’ve got too much to carry—a hedge-trimmer and a six pack of beer, two brand-new shovels as well as fourteen dollars in loose change weighing down my pockets. I head back to the squat, and when I get upstairs, I can tell right away that something is wrong. The table saw is there, but I can feel other things missing—her bag of sting and braided bracelets, her pillow, the thin dress she wouldthe way that children believe in the wisdom of their parents. I want to believe that the ceiling will never fall down on me in the same way that I somehow still believe in the redemptive power of love.

Manuel Martinez earned his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Florida and is presently an Emerging Writers Fellow at The Center for Fiction in New York. His stories have been appeared in The Sun, Blackbird, The Los Angeles Review, The Quarterly, The Literarian, and others. The true story of how he faked his own murder appeared in Coral Living. He lives in Brooklyn. www.manuelmartinez.com

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nonfiction), and says the speed helps him focus on the material, instead of giving him the space to daydream or wander.

A productivity trap

As publishers see more and more interest, they’re making more and more irresistible audiobooks, and paying big-name celebrities to help draw readers. Eddie Redmayne’s narration of JK Rowling’s fictional textbook, published by Pottermore, came out March 14, and is an Amazon bestseller. On February 14, Random House Audio released the aural version of George Saunders’s debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, with a 166-person cast, including Susan Sarandon, Don Cheadle, David Sedaris, and Lena Dunham. The movie version has since been sold to actors Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, who both play characters in the audiobook.

At a February event in New York City, Saunders admitted itkeepitsurreal/Flickr The picnic sites along the south shore of Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Provincial Park.

A little-known bill that will drastically alter the management of B.C. parks became law this week, creating controversy among the province's most prominent environmental and conservation organizations.

The passage of Bill 4, known as the Park Amendment Act, will make way for industrial incursions into provincial parklands including energy extraction, construction of pipelines and industry-led research.

The bill, quietly introduced in mid-February, has already met significant resistance in B.C. where the environment minister received "thousands of letters" of opposition, according to Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society's Peter Wood. "There has been absolutely zero public consultation, and the pace at which this was pushed through suggests this was never a consideration," he said in a press


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Keep your fingers crossed for no rain today!

Today (July 15th) is St Swithun's Day and according to English folklore if it rains today we'll be stuck with rain for the next 40 days!

As the old proverb says:

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain

For forty days it will remain

St Swithun's Day if thou be fair

For forty days 'twill rain nae mare

So who was St Swithun, and how can his feast day have such a dramatic effect on the British summer?

Born sometime around 800 AD, Swithun was consecrated Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester in October 853 and held the office until his death, probably in 862. Although certainly a Godly man who built many new churches, restored others and was good to the poor, little was written aboutSwithun during his lifetime. He is better known for his reputation for miracle working long after his death.

One thing that is recorded is that on his deathbed he begged to be buried outside the north wall of his cathedral, where passers-by would walk over his grave and the raindrops from the eaves would fall upon it. His wishes were met, but in 971 – more than a century after his death – the decision was made to open his grave and move his remains to a new indoor shrine within the cathedral.

On the day of the move there was a heavy downpour of rain, taken by some as evidence of Saint Swithun expressing his displeasure at those going against his wishes. That could be the origin of the


proverb, though there are other versions, including that it was a pagan tradition only attributed to St Swithun's feast day as Christianity absorbed many of the old ways into the new religion.

There is also a meteorological explanation to the legend of St Swithun's Day. Around the middle of July the jet stream settles into a pattern which, in most years, will hold reasonably steady until around the end of August. If the jet stream settles to the north of Britain, then continental high pressure is able to move in, bringing warm, sunny and largely dry weather. But if it settles to the south of Britain, then Arctic air and low pressure Atlantic weather systems will prevail, bringing colder, wetter weather.

It is easy to see how our ancestors, whoselives were ruled by the weather much more than ours, might begin to recognise these annual weather patterns and link their start with St Swithun's Day, on July 15th.

However, the proverb is by no means always true. In 1924 London enjoyed 13.5 hours of bright sunshine on St Swithun's Day, followed by heavy rain on 30 of the next 40 days. Conversely, in 1913 there was a 15-hour rainstorm on St Swithun's Day, followed by 30 dry days out of the next 40.

As for St Swithun, he is commemorated by many churches dedicated to him in southern England, and Stavanger Cathedral, in Norway. There is also a St Swithin's Lane in the City of London, St Swithun's School for Girls in Winchester and St Swithun's quadrangle in Magdalen


College, Oxford. Finally, fans of the hit 1954 British comedy film "Doctor in the House" and its six sequels might recall that they were set in and around the fictitious St Swithin's Hospital.

The Arthritis Foundation's Ease-of-Use Commendation

We are proud to be the very FIRST stairlift company to earn the Arthritis Foundation's Ease-of-Use Commendation. It is yet another effort that continues to prove that Acorn Stairlifts is a pioneer in the industry, always striving to stay ahead of the game, and to help our customers by providing the absolute best solution for their needs.Arsenal monitor Monaco stars closely

Arsenal have endured another disappointing campaign in the Premier League this season and whether or not Arsene Wenger remains in charge of the club in the coming years, the Gunners will surely have to strengthen their squad during the summer in order to mount a more genuine title bid next season.

Now the North London side already seem to have begun their recruitment plans for the summer as the Daily Mail have revealed that club scout Gilles Grimandi was present at the Stade Louis II during Monaco’s Champions League Round of 16 second leg clash against Manchester City on Wednesday.

The report does not clarify as to which specific player Grimandi had been scouting but it is believed that the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Benjamin Mendy,


as an alternative to the ex-Borussia Monchengladbach star for next season.

In surprise reports from the Sun, revelations have now been made that Arsenal are currently considering a move for Everton man Idrissa Gueye.

Gueye has impressed for Everton this season after joining from Championship side Aston Villa and the report states that Arsenal have identified the 27-year-old as the ideal player to add power to the Gunners’ midfield, which has struggled this season.

Milan keen on signing ‘unhappy’ Perez

Arsenal splashed around £18 million to secure the services of Lucas Perez from Deportivo La Coruna during the summer and it has to be said that the Spaniard has made a good impression whenever he has had the chance to feature for the Gunners.

However, Perez has been limited to only two startsin the Premier League since his arrival and the lack of regular minutes on the pitch is said to have left the 28-year-old frustrated.

There is now a strong possibility that Perez might end up leaving Arsenal at the end of the season after only a solitary year at the club and the Daily Mirror have reported that Italian giants AC Milan are interested in a swoop for the attacker.


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Other authors include: Anna Gillespie, PhD, from UCSF, Seo Yeon Yoon from Gladstone, and Loren Frank, PhD, from UC San Francisco and the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes.

The work was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (grant 1144247), a National Institute on Aging Predoctoral Fellowship (grant F31AG057150), a Genentech Foundation Fellowship, a Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain Fellowship, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institute on Aging (grants RF1AG047655, RF1AG055421, and R01AG055682).

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The Mysterious Forest is a cooperative memory game inspired by Daniel Lieske's graphic novel, The Wormworld Saga.

After going through a magical painting, young Jonas enters a fantasy world. Players help him cross the Mysterious Forest and face the frightening Queen of the Draconia. The game is played in three phases: During the scouting phase, the players look at each of the eight forest cards in play and try to memorize all the equipment they need to cross the forest. Then they prepare Jonas' backpack by rolling the dice and trying to get the right pieces of equipment. Once ready, the players start the expedition by turning the first forest card face up and discarding the required equipment


From second place in the first tournament to first place in the second, Flipsid3 Tactics are your Rocket League season two champions!

The defending runner-ups found themselves in a familiar situation, needing to take the long route to the finals, as they did last season. Flipsid3 started the day facing off with NRG, one of two North American teams left in the competition. Game one was all NRG. Flipsid3 looked awful, missing a ton of balls. It looked as if they hadn’t shaken off whatever bug got in them when they lost to Mockit Saturday.

But then they clicked. It was really more of a kerchunk, as the heavy gears of Markydooda, Kuxir, and Greazymeister all synced together. They were, by far, the best passing team in the whole tournament.react, or couldn’t react fast enough, when their opponents really got it going.

In another dimension, the upper bracket, Northern Gaming took on Mockit Aces. The series went the distance, and the losers may have felt hard done by. One could only say Northern Gaming was outplayed in two of the seven matches, but they lost four of them. NG’s transitions and midfield passing were exceptional, but a bad clear and a kick-off goal cost them game five. Remkoe is indeed REMGOD, but Paschy’s got some godlike powers of his own, and carried his team when they needed it.

That meant Mockit was guaranteed to win at least $25,000. They would face either Flipsid3 or Northern Gaming in the finals, both teams Mockit had already beaten over the two day


have to play again, because Mockit was undefeated. And play again they did. Because Flipsid3 was incredible.

It all came down to one final series, and it looked as if it would be a real barn burner. The first game went seven minutes and 17 seconds into overtime, the longest game of the tournament. Mockit dug deep, doing all they could to stop the onslaught that is Flipsid3. They shut the door in that extra game and a half of Rocket League, keeping the game simple and boring, and taking the play style out of F3’s comfort zone. That was all they could muster, though, as Flip took the next four unanswered.

So Flipsid3 are the undisputed best heading into season three, and North America has some work to do.

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A 2011 shot of the Jersey City skyline. The city is the fastest growing municipality in New Jersey since 2010.

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The fastest growing and declining towns in New Jersey are emblematic of broader shifts going on in the state, according to new Census data, released today.

Jersey City has gained nearly 15,000 residents since 2010, making it the fastest growing municipality in the state and a symbol of the Garden State's reinvigorated urban core. Even Newark, which had been in sharp decline for half a century, has seen significant growth in the last five years, furthering hope of a renaissance in the long-beleaguered city.

On the other side of the Ledger, Vernon, on the far northern corner of the state, has lost more than 1,000 residents. It's representative


of the contraction of the state's once booming outer-ring suburbs, which have contracted in the years since the Great Recession in a reversal of a decades long trend.

The statistics were released today as part of the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Estimates, an annual survey that tracks basic population figures in the years between the decennial Census. The estimates are not as exact as decennial Census figures, but do help reveal broad trends that emerge between the agency's massive 10-year counts.

All told, approximately 187 municipalities lost population from 2010 to 2014, while 387 grew. But it's not by how much these municipalities rose and fell that's revealing, but rather where they are.

Large swaths of the counties that form the outer-ring suburbs around the New York and Philadelphia metropolitanregions have lost population over the last several years, while the municipalities in the closest to the cities, particularly in the northern half of the state, have experienced renewed growth.

It's part of a massive set of demographic shifts going on in New Jersey.

People are leaving the state in droves as Baby Boomers reach retirement age and residents and companies flee the state in search of lower taxes and cost-of-living.

Younger couples are gravitating toward older communities that have the infrastructure in place to support walkable downtowns with accessible mass transit to the city.

Sprawling office parks, once gems of real estate in New Jersey's suburbs, have fallen into decay as technology has outpaced them and the nature of the workforce has shifted.

And the Millennial generation recently became the first in


state history with a majority-minority population, the signal of a shift that could occur statewide by the end of the next decade.

See how your town is doing using our interactive map below

Author's note: Princeton has technically made the largest population gain in New Jersey since 2010. But because this was due to the merger of Princeton Township and Princeton Borough, it was not included in the top five rankings.

Due to a Census data error, West Amwell is currently listed as having lost 1,000+ residents since 2010. The town has lost population, but not nearly that much. A map fix to reflect this is in the works.

Hover or tap on the towns to see more information.

Stephen Stirling may be reached at sstirling@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @sstirling. Find himAn Indian sprinter who made strides for women with excessive amounts of male sex hormones, is making strides in the athletics world over testing she deemed as unfair.

Last year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport agreed with Indian athlete Dutee Chand's contention that hormone testing for females was discriminatory and ineffective.

It suspended the tests, allowing Chand and other "hyperandrogenic" athletes, including South African Caster Semenya, to compete.

Hyperandrogenism is a medical condition characterised by excessive levels of androgens (the male sex hormone) in the body. It is a common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive-age and a majority of patients also have polycystic ovary syndrome.

But not everyone was happy with the court's decision.

The long road to Rio

Dutee Chand has endured a long road to make it to the Rio


Olympics. ( ABC News: James Bennett )

On a monsoonal morning in the city of Hyderabad, diminutive sprinter Chand is running through a series of strength and speed drills.

It is less than two weeks before she will leave for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the 20-year-old's path from rural Odisha in eastern India, to Rio, has been a tale within itself.

"When I started running, I didn't have a tracksuit, I didn't have proper shoes and I used to run barefoot during practice," she told the ABC.

"But the biggest obstacle I faced was in 2014 when I was asked to perform a gender test.

"I didn't know what was happening.

"I thought they were performing tests because maybe I was sick."

The woman who became Chand's Government-appointed advocate, gender expert Dr Payoshni Mitra,for Sport, arguing it was unfair to solely focus on one trait — testosterone production.

The CAS agreed. Its ruling stated: "There is presently insufficient evidence about the degree of the advantage that androgen-sensitive hyperandrogenic females enjoy".

The court shelved the regulations, meaning Chand and others previously suspended or required to undergo treatment are now free to compete without any therapy.

Semenya's resurgence already has people talking

South African athlete Caster Semenya's performance on the track initially suffered after her corrective therapy. ( Reuters: Dylan Martinez )

South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya was one athlete who had been ordered to undergo corrective therapy in 2009.

The details of her treatment remain confidential, but when she resumed competition in 2010, her performances suffered.

However, since Chand's ruling forced the system's shelving, her times have improved


significantly, and she is now widely considered to be within striking distance of the longstanding 800-metre world record.

That does not please some athletes, who argue hormone testing was a reasonable, and ethical, way to level the playing field.

British marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe said last week Semenya's victory in the 800 metres at Rio seems so assured that "it was no longer sport".

"I fear that when we talk about it in terms of 'fully expect no other result than Caster Semenya to win that 800 metres', then its no longer sport and its no longer an open race," Radcliffe told BBC radio.

Chand 'happy to help other women'

Chand said she was ecstatic that her victory would help other women in her situation also compete.

"I am very proud aboutthe judgement," she said.

"So many athletes have had to forgo this sport because of this reason.

"I am happy that not only me, but also other athletes can compete because of this ruling."

Chand will be the first Indian woman to race the 100 metres since 1980.

She was coy about her prospects, but knows she would need to better her qualifying time of 11.24 seconds, if she was to make the final.

Meanwhile, discussion on the issue at the centre of her games appearance has a lot longer to run.

In its ruling last July, the Court of Arbitration for Sport gave the IOC and International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) two years to show why the hyperandrogenism regulations suspended in Chand's case should be reinstated.

If the governing bodies cannot demonstrate enough